tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2803406674108553872024-03-13T15:42:57.101-07:00The National Anxiety CenterFounded in 1990 by Alan Caruba, a business and science writer, the Center is a clearinghouse for information about "scare campaigns" designed to influence public opinion and policies. Read Caruba's daily commentaries at "Warning Signs" (see favorite sites)
Email acaruba@aol.com or acaruba1321@gmail.com.Alan Carubahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10901162110385985193noreply@blogger.comBlogger220125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-280340667410855387.post-31545921170918173822015-05-27T05:42:00.004-07:002015-05-27T05:42:49.224-07:00Leaving the Church of Environmentalism<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">In March 2009 while the Environmental
Protection Agency was rushing to fulfill a presidential campaign pledge to
document that carbon dioxide (CO2) and five other greenhouse gases endangered
public health and the environment, a longtime employee, Alan Carlin, put out a
93-page report challenging the science being cited and the drift of the agency
from its initial role to one captured by fanatical activists and alarmists,
treating environmentalism more as a religion than based in science.
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">At the time Carlin was a 72-year-old
analyst and economist who, as The New York Times put it, “had labored in
obscurity in a little-known office at the Environmental Protection Agency since
the Nixon administration.” His EPA career would span 38 years.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The website for his new book, <a href="http://environmentalismgonemad.com/"><span style="color: #378add;">“Environmentalism Gone Mad”</span></a> says,
“Dr. Alan Carlin is an economist and physical scientist with degrees from
Caltech and MIT and publications in both economics and climate/energy, who
became actively involved in the Sierra Club in the 1960s as an activist and
Chapter Chairman. This led to a career as a manager and senior analyst at the
Environmental Protection Agency.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">As he says in the preface “The purpose
of this book is to explain why I changed from my lifelong support of the
environmental movement to extreme skepticism concern their current primary
objective of reducing emissions of carbon dioxide.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Although I and the many other
climate skeptics are now referred to as ‘deniers’ by the climate alarmists, that
does not change the science—and there is no valid scientific basis for the
alarmists’ catastrophic climate predictions—or justify their fantastically
expensive and useless ‘solution.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">’”<o:p></o:p></span><br /><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Carlin went from being a dedicated
environmentalist, based on its initial philosophy of conservation, to an
observer of the movement that was taken over and distorted to advocate
falsehoods about global warming and a transition from fossil-fuels to “clean
energy” meaning wind, solar and bio-fuels. As an economist he understood how
absurd it was to suggest rejecting fossil-fuels, the key element of modern
industry and society.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“The climate alarmists,” says Carlin,
“have now been making their apocalyptic predictions for almost thirty years and
it is now possible to compare their predictions with actual physical
observations.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Suffice to say all the
predictions of a significantly higher temperature—the warming—have been wrong.
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">In fact, the Earth has been in a
natural cooling cycle since 1998 and shows no indication of
warming<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Predictions about the North and South
Poles melting, a major rise in ocean levels, increased hurricanes and other
climate events have been wrong along with countless other climate-related
apocalyptic predictions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Having observed how the EPA has
functioned for more than three decades, Carlin warns that its current
“environmental policy has been hijacked by radicals intent on imposing their
ideology by government fiat on the rest of us whether we like it or not…If
environmental policy is based on government fiat or ‘green’ policy prescriptions
the results have been and are very likely to continue to be
disastrous.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">At 625 pages, Carlin’s book takes the
reader from his early days as a Sierra Club activist and chapter leader to being
an EPA outcast, denounced for telling the truth about the false claims of global
warming, climate change, and what is now being called extreme weather.
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">As an economist, Carlin is
particularly upset that “the Obama Administration’s climate/energy policy is
wasting very large sums on non-solutions to minor or non-problems.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The book has come along as President Obama
has been flogging “climate change” as the greatest threat to the nation and the
world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“It has been long recognized that
weather is chaotic," says Carlin. While we operate within the four seasons, the
weather that occurs can only be predicted in the most general terms. Suggesting
that humans actually have any effect on the weather is
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">That is why the predictions made by
the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and all the others based on
computer models are, by definition, worthless. Computer models cannot predict
anything about the vast chaotic global climate system. Even today,
meteorologists are mystified by the actions of clouds which can form and
disappear in minutes. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">It’s useful to keep in mind that
climate is measured in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">centuries</i>,
while the weather is reported as what is occurring today and forecast, at best,
for no more than a week. Weather records are maintained for purposes of
comparison and within the larger context of determining the Earth’s climate
cycles. Like those in the past, the present cooling cycle is based on a
comparable one of the Sun that is producing lower levels of radiation. You don’t
need a Ph.D. in meteorology to understand this.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Carlin does not hesitate to excoriate
the blather put forth by the alarmists; particularly their claims that the
weather is affected in any significant fashion by human activity and development
in particular. “There is simply no evidence thus far that the normal activities
of man have or will result in catastrophic outcomes for either man or
nature.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The actions the alarmists call for do
nothing to enhance and benefit our lives. They drive up the cost of energy and
food. They ignore how dependent modern life is on the use of fossil fuels.
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“Despite all the lavish funding by
liberal foundations and the federal government on their global warming
doctrine-inspired programs, the radical environmental movement has long since
gone so far beyond rationality that it is counter-productive in achieving its
own ends.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">So long as it remains heavily funded
and backed by the federal government, we must, like Carlin, speak out against
environmental extremism. We must elect new people to govern in a more realistic,
science-based fashion. We must urge our current legislators to rein in the rogue
Environmental Protection Agency.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Alan Carubahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10901162110385985193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-280340667410855387.post-87220695932118669502015-05-26T05:14:00.003-07:002015-05-26T05:14:30.294-07:00Barack "Climate Change: Obama<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">By Alan Caruba</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“Woe to the land that’s governed by a
child.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>- Shakespeare, Richard
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I have been wrestling for some kind of
explanation why the President of the United States, Barack Obama, would continue
to talk about climate change and urge the global transition from fossil fuels to
wind, solar and bio-energy. I have concluded that he thinks everyone, not just
Americans, are idiots. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">We know he lies about everything, but
these two topics are clearly near and dear to his
heart.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">My friend, Paul Driessen, is a policy
analyst for the <a href="http://www.cfact.org/"><span style="color: #378add;">Committee for a Constructive
Tomorrow</span></a>, a free market think tank. Among the pundit class he’s ranked very
high by his colleagues. Here’s what he has to say about climate
change:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“Earth climate always has changed, is
always changing, and always will change—but not from fossil-fuel use. Solar
fluctuations, deep ocean circulation patterns, and other <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">powerful natural forces</i> have driven
climate change and weather events throughout Earth’s history and will continue
to do so.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“President Obama’s hubris is
breathtaking. He now thinks an army of regulators can control our planet’s
temperature and climate by tweaking emissions of plant-fertilizing carbon
dioxide, a mere 0.04% of the atmosphere.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“America’s communities do not need to
be protected from climate change. They need to be protected from the excesses of
authoritarian presidents and bureaucrats.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Driessen and I look at and listen to
Obama and wonder if others too see and hear someone uttering some of the most
absurd claims about the climate. Then we worry that this someone is the
President of the United States with the power to turn his ignorance into
national policy. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">At this point we have suffered his
initial failure to respond to the recession he inherited from the 2008 financial
crisis. More than six years later the economy has barely moved toward a normal
rate of growth. Then we were gifted with ObamaCare and the disruption of what
was widely regarded as the best health system in the world. And, for good
measure, he imposed Common Core on an already weakened educational system. It is
being repealed and opposed in many states. For good measure, his foreign policy,
if he has one, is widely regarded as a total
failure.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">How is it a former “community
organizer” possesses a seemingly vast understanding of meteorology? Did they
also teach that at the Harvard Law School? “Climate change,” said Obama,
addressing a graduating class of the Coast Guard Academy, “constitutes a serious
threat to global security, an immediate risk to our national security, and make
no mistake; it will impact how our military defends our country.”
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“Our military and our combatant
commanders,” the President told the Academy graduates, “our services—including
the Coast Guard—will need to factor climate change into plans and operations,
because you need to be ready.” For what? For a rainstorm? For snow?
Wind?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">This is the same President who sees no
threat to our national security from Iran whose leaders shout “Death to America”
every day when they aren’t also shouting “Death to Israel.” He has zealously
been pursuing a deal that would enable Iran, the leading supporter of terrorism,
to have nuclear weapons. Meanwhile Islamic State (ISIS) is taking over more
territory in northern Iraq and into Syria. Obama might as well be dropping bags
of marshmallows on them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">He blamed climate change in the form
of “severe droughts” for the rise of Islamism in the Middle East and Africa.
Someone needs to tell Obama that there have<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> always</i> been severe droughts somewhere
on the planet, and floods, and forest fires, and blizzards, and hurricanes. Even
so, in the last eighteen years, there have actually been LESS of these natural
events, along with the flatlining of the planet’s overall or average
temperature—there has been no warming!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Not content to blame climate change
for the rise of terrorism, the White House issued a report that was described as
“a doomsday scenario of health, security, economic and political issues.” The
thing about climate is that it measured in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">centuries</i>, not years. As for the
weather, while records are maintained, it is usually reported as today’s news
with a forecast of the coming week. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">So you shouldn’t be surprised that the
report blamed “asthma attacks” on climate change!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Suffice to say there isn’t a glimmer
of hard evidence to support anything the President is saying these days about
climate change.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">And this is the same President that
wants the U.S. and the rest of the world t<a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-p-jeffrey/obama-we-have-transition-fossil-fuels-prevent-climate-change"><span style="color: #378add;">o
give up the use of fossil fuels</span></a>—coal, oil and natural gas—to “stop climate
change.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">IF Obama’s climate change idiocy is
just a way to distract Americans from the real problems we have encountered
thanks to his failure to address them, then it is purely cynical and political.
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">IF Obama really believes this stuff,
he is unfit to be President. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Alan Carubahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10901162110385985193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-280340667410855387.post-32136496761484025492015-05-19T13:31:00.004-07:002015-05-19T13:31:54.133-07:00Stupefying Generations of Americans<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I used the verb “stupefying” to
describe a long process in our nation’s schools that has produced several
generations of Americans, dumbed down and resulting in more than half who are
functionally illiterate, nor can do math, and, as a recent headline reported
“Student’s Results in Social Studies Stagnate.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“U.S. middle-school students’
performance on social studies didn’t improve much between 2010 and 2014, federal
test scores released Wednesday (April 29) show, underscoring concerns about the
uniformed citizenry and workforce.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When
it comes to U.S. history, the share of students scoring at or above proficiency
last year was 18%, up one percentage point from 2010. In other words, over 80%
failed to have a grasp on the subject, critical to every citizen’s understanding
of U.S. history, its Constitution, and governance.</span></div>
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extraordinary new book by Samuel Blumenfeld and Alex Newman, “Crimes of the
Educators: How Utopians are Using Government Schools to Destroy America’s
Children” ($26.95, WND Books) should be the center of conversation for a
nation’s media, but I suspect this may be among the few places you would learn
about it. Blumenfeld has written ten books on education and Newman is an
international journalist, educator and consultant. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">What history does teach us is that
progressives, also known as communists, have slaughtered millions in their quest
to create the perfect society where everybody earns the same amount, thus
abandoning them to equal poverty. To achieve this, it was necessary to exercise
complete control over what the children learned and what the media shared as
news.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Blumenfeld notes that “In the United
States the socialist utopians adopted a new and unique method of conquering a
nation; by dumbing down its people, by destroying the brainpower of millions of
its citizens.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">This was launched in 1898 by John
Dewey, a socialist, and outlined in his essay titled ‘The Primary-Education
Fetich.’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“In it he showed his fellow
progressives how to transform America into a collectivist utopia by taking over
the public schools and destroying the literacy of millions of
Americans.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“The plan has been so successfully
implemented that it is now a fact that half of America’s adult population are
functionally illiterate. They can’t read their nation’s Constitution or its
Declaration of Independence. They can’t even read their high school
diploma.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">This was achieved by changing how
children are taught to read in our government schools. Previously the method was
phonetics in which children learned the alphabet, the sounds the letters
represented, and how in combination they composed words. The present method is
called “whole word” in which the child must recognize the whole word without
identifying its alphabetical elements. “That forces children to read English as
if it were Chinese,” says Blumenfeld.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">He notes that most teachers are
unaware of what they are doing and most parents trust the public schools that
are supposed to represent the cherished values of our democratic republic. “But
the unhappy truth is that today’s public schools have rejected the values of the
Founding Fathers and adopted values from nineteenth-century European social
utopian plans that completely contradict our own concepts of individual
freedom.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Blumenfeld also identifies a fact that
is hidden in the growing numbers of people who having passed through our schools
or attending experience dyslexia and learning disabilities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Brain scans have demonstrated this. Our
schools are places where the answer to the normal child’s energy and curiosity
is deemed being “over-active” and our schools “push various psychiatric drugs on
millions of children by requiring them to take such powerful, mid-altering
stimulants as Ritalin or Adderal to alleviate such school-induced disorders as
attention deficit disorder (ADD) and attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder
(ADHD). These drugs are as potent as cocaine and have even caused sudden death
among teen athletes.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />“The long-term utopian plan
required destroying America’s political, social, and moral culture of religious
freedom, individual rights, unobtrusive government, and high literacy for
all.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">That is a virtual definition of what
has occurred in America today. We see it in the attack on religion, particularly
Christianity, in America. We see it in the attack on traditional marriage in the
name of the homosexual objective of “same-sex marriage.” We see individual
businesses attacked for not wanting to give up their spiritual values and
beliefs when challenged by homosexuals. We see it in the vast growth in the
numbers of single mothers, often never married. And, of late, we see it in the
obscene hatred being directed against our nation’s police
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The statistics cited in “Crimes of the
Educators” have been published by Jeb Bush’s Foundation for Excellence in
Education and they include:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Eighty-one percent of American 18 year
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">More than 25 percent of students fail
to graduate from high school in four years; for African-American and Hispanic
students, this number is approaching 40 percent.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Seventy percent of those in prison and
70 percent of those on welfare read at the lowest literacy levels according to
the 1992 National Adult Literacy Survey.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">According to tests in 2012 given to
15-year-olds by the Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development,
U.S. students were at 17<sup><span style="font-size: xx-small;">th</span></sup>
place in the world on reading, 29<sup><span style="font-size: xx-small;">th</span></sup> in math, and 20<sup><span style="font-size: xx-small;">th</span></sup> in
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“These failures,” says Blumenfeld, “
are not the result of an accident. They are the result of programs created by
the best-organized and best-paid educators on the planet. All of these programs
that create failure were conceived to produce precisely the results we are
getting.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">This explains, too, why many concerned
parents have decided to teach their children at home while others spend their
money to have their children tutored to overcome the damage of our public
schools.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">If you have looked around and thought
to yourself that too many of the people who see, hear, work with, and who vote
are dumb, you now know why.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are many things I do not like
about the Environmental Protection Agency, but what angers me most are the lies
that stream forth from it to justify programs that have no basis in fact or
science and which threaten the economy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Currently, its “Clean Power” plan is
generating its latest and most duplicitous Administer, Gina McCarthy, to go
around saying that it will not be costly, nor cost jobs. “Clean Power” is the
name given to the EPA policy to reduce overall U.S. carbon dioxide (CO2)
emissions by 30% from 2005 levels by 2030. It is requiring each state to cut its
emissions by varying amounts using a baseline established by the
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Simply said, there is no need whatever
to reduce CO2 emissions. Carbon dioxide is not “a pollutant” as the EPA claims.
It is, along with oxygen for all living creatures, vital to the growth of all
vegetation. The more CO2 the better crops yields will occur, healthier forests,
and greener lawns. From a purely scientific point of view, it is absurd to
reduce emissions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Writing in The Wall Street Journal on
April 22, </span><a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/why-states-should-boycott-the-federal-clean-power-plan-1429659225"><span style="color: #378add; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kenneth
C. Hil</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">l, Director of the Tennessee Regulatory Authority, said “Senate
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) set off a firestorm when he advised
states not to comply with the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power
Plan. Yet that advice isn’t as radical as his detractors make it sound. As a
state public utilities commissioner who deals with the effects of federal
regulations on a regular basis, I also recommend that states not
comply.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Noting its final due date in June,
that refusal would impose a Federal Implementation Plan on states “that risks
even greater harm,” said Hill. “But the problem for the EPA is that the federal
government lacks the legal authority under either the Constitution or the Clean
Air Act to enforce most of the regulation’s ‘building blocks’ without states’
acquiescence.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As this is being written there is are
two joined cases before the DC Circuit Court of Appeals, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">State of West Virginia v EPA </i>and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Murray Energy v EPA.</i> They are a
challenge to President Obama’s “War on Coal” and the EPA efforts to regulate its
use. Fifteen states, along with select coal companies, have sued for an
“extraordinary whit” to prevent the EPA from promulgating the new carbon
regulations found it the Clean Power plan. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Writing in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Hill</i>, Richard O. Faulk, an attorney
and senior director for Energy Natural Resources and the Environment for the Law
and Economics Center at George Mason University, noted that “The EPA’s argument
confidently hinges on convincing the courts that the Clean Air Act doesn’t mean
what it says. By its plain language, the bill <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">prohibits</i> the EPA from regulating the
power plants from which these emissions derive. Moreover, coal plants are
already addressed under an entirely different section of the bill than the one
EPA insists justifies its powers.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The latest news as
reported by Myron Ebell, the director for energy and environment of the
Competitive Enterprise Institute, is that “Senator
Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) this week </span><a href="http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=11495124&msgid=101374&act=O2V9&c=1468182&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.capito.senate.gov%2Fcontent%2Fcapito-and-bipartisan-group-senators-introduce-legislation-roll-back-%25E2%2580%259Cclean-power-plan%25E2%2580%259D" title="http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=11495124&msgid=101374&act=O2V9&c=1468182&destination=http://www.capito.senate.gov/content/capito-and-bipartisan-group-senators-introduce-legislation-roll-back-%E2%80%9Cclean-power-plan%E2%80%9D"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">introduced a bill</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> to
block the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed rules to regulate
greenhouse gas emissions from new and existing power plants. </span><a href="http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=11495124&msgid=101374&act=O2V9&c=1468182&destination=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.congress.gov%2Fbill%2F114th-congress%2Fsenate-bill%2F1324%3Fq%3D%257b%2522search%2522%253A%255b%2522s.1324%2522%255d%257d" title="http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=11495124&msgid=101374&act=O2V9&c=1468182&destination=https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/1324?q=%7b%22search%22%3A%5b%22s.1324%22%5d%7d"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">S. 1324,
the Affordable Reliable Energy Now Act,</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> has 26
original co-sponsors, including Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Senate
Environmental and Public Works Committee Chairman James M. Inhofe (R-Okla.), and
Democrat Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.).”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Both
Majority Leader McConnell and Chairman Inhofe have said that they are determined
to stop EPA’s greenhouse gas rules, so I expect quick action to move Capito’s
bill. In the House, a bill to block the rules, </span><a href="http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=11495124&msgid=101374&act=O2V9&c=1468182&destination=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.congress.gov%2Fbill%2F114th-congress%2Fhouse-bill%2F2042%3Fq%3D%257b%2522search%2522%253A%255b%2522hr%2B2042%2522%255d%257d" title="http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=11495124&msgid=101374&act=O2V9&c=1468182&destination=https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/2042?q=%7b%22search%22%3A%5b%22hr+2042%22%5d%7d"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">H. R. 2042, the Ratepayer Protection
Act,</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> was
voted out of the House Energy and Commerce Committee on 29th April and is
awaiting floor action.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It’s worth noting that, when Obama
took office, fifty percent of America’s electrical energy was supplied by
coal-fired plants and, just six years later, that has been reduced by ten
percent. What kind of President would deliberately reduce American’s access to
affordable power? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It’s the same kind of President that
believes—or says he does—the pronouncements of the U.N.’s Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change. The IPCC’s “Climate Change 2014 Synthesis Report”
claims that world will face “severe, pervasive and irreversible damage” if
coal-fired and other carbon-based—coal, oil, and natural gas—energy sources
aren’t replaced with “renewable energy sources”—wind and solar—by 2050. It wants
fossil-fueled power generation “phased out almost entirely by 2100.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now this is just insanity, unless your agenda
is to destroy the world’s economic system and kill millions. That would be the
only outcome of the IPCC recommendations.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The columnist </span><a href="http://www.newsmax.com/LarryBell/Clean-Power-Plan-Climate-Change-EPA-IPCC/2015/04/06/id/636688/"><span style="color: #378add; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Larry
Bell</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, a professor at the University of Houston, points out that “As for
expecting renewables to fill in the power curve, European Union experiences
offer a painful reality check. Approximately 7.8 percent of Germany’s
electricity comes from wind, 4.5 percent from solar. Large as a result, German
households already fork out for the second highest power costs in Europe—often
as much as 30 percent above the levels seen in other European countries. Power
interruptions add to buyer’s remorse.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As reported in The Heartland
Institute’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="http://news.heartland.org/energy-and-environment"><span style="color: #378add;">Environment &
Climate News</span></a> </i>“European governments, once at the vanguard of renewable
energy mandates, appear to be having second thoughts about their reliance on
giant wind farms…” There has been a sharp drop in such projects with
installations plunging 90% in Denmark, 75% in Italy, and 84% in Spain.
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What the EPA is attempting to impose
on America is a drain on our production of electricity coupled with an increase
in its price. It is an obscene attack on our
economy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Alan Carubahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10901162110385985193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-280340667410855387.post-35478944596914743262015-05-11T06:28:00.002-07:002015-05-11T06:28:13.738-07:00You're on the Front Line of the Islamic War<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">By Alan
Caruba<o:p></o:p></span><br /><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Does anyone remember what happened on
September 11, 2001? Or is it just “ancient history” at this point? Some three
thousand totally innocent Americans were murdered by a sneak attack on the Twin
Towers in New York and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. Who did it? The same
murderous Islamists who attacked an event in Garland, Texas to focus attention
on the insanity that passes for one of the world’s great
“religions.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Islam is not a religion. It is a cult
around the so-called prophet Mohammad and his assertion that the Koran was the
word of Allah. The name Islam means “submission” and the purpose of Islam is the
tyrannical control over the entire world’s population. Within this alleged holy
faith, two sects, Shiites and Sunnis, have been at war almost from its
inception, never failing to kill one another.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The turmoil in the Middle East is the
direct result of this murderous cult and those Muslims who oppose the killing
that flows from Islam must keep their silence or become its victims. Jews and
Christians can speak out and debate about aspects of their faiths, but Muslim
risk death when they do so. For those Jews in Christians living in Middle
Eastern nations, death is always a prospect for no other reason than not being
Muslim.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Americans have not yet fully embraced
the fact that they are on the front lines along with other Western nations in a
global war with Islam. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Will it take another 9/11? Surely the
recent attack by two Islamists on May 3<sup><span style="font-size: xx-small;">rd</span></sup> in Garland, Texas, was another wake
up call. They arrived intent on killing as many of those attending the American
Freedom Defense Initiative event. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A
Garland police officer killed both before anyone <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>had to die in the name of the Bill of Rights.
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">But why Garland, Texas? Because, as my
friend <a href="http://www.amilimani.com/terrorist-attack-at-free-speech-event-in-texas-an-eyewitness-account/#more-2045"><span style="color: #378add;">Amil
Imani</span></a> noted in a recent commentary, “The venue was chosen as a defiant
response to a Muslim group that had held a conference entitled ‘Stand With the
Prophet Against Terror and Hate.”’ Ironic, eh?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Their response to the event that invited cartoons of Muhammed as to want
to kill the participants. If that is not war, I do not know what
is.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">If Muslims feel hatred, they have
earned it here in the United States and elsewhere they have attacked any
criticism or defiance, from Charlie Hebdo in France to the countless attacks
around the world from Mumbai, India to Bali. A website, the Religion of Peace,
com, posts news of the daily assaults by Muslim on both other Muslims and those
they call “infidels”, unbelievers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Pamela Geller who leads the American
Freedom Defense Initiative has been widely assailed for her event that was
intended to respond to the earlier one in Garland that Amil Amani noted “was
convened to eliminate free speech or any expression, verbal and/or artwork
depicting the Islamic prophet Mohammad in a negative
light.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“As a life-long expert on the subject
of Islam, I felt that this event—more than anything else Pamela could have
done—would be the target of a violence terrorist attack in the name of the
religion of peace, either real and explosive or on social media at the very
least.” It was real. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The Garland police were taking it
seriously. Amani said “I was astonished at the large police presence already
there. Some of the cops were dressed in tactical gear and carrying AR-15s. The
security was ubiquitous, almost as if something untoward had already
happened.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Speaking in an interview with Sean
Hannity on May 6, Geller noted that neither the FBI nor the Department of
Homeland Security has yet to have contacted her about the thwarted attack. “This
is a serious threat” said Hannity. “Basically a Fatwah, a death threat, has now
been issued.” Geller noted the lack of interest or concern expressed by those in
our government one might expect to at the least make an inquiry, adding that “I
have a team now, private security, and NYPD counterterror has been in touch with
me.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Now I call that a level of courage for
which Pamela Geller should be praised, but I heard too many criticisms that she
was being “provocative.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“Provocative”?????<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">When are Americans going to realize
that the Islamists do not need any provocation? When are we going to start
acting like we are at war? A good first step would be to stop inviting Muslims
to immigrate to America. The Obama administration has been importing as many as
possible. The next step is to understand that it is Obama and his administration
that are part of the Islamic war.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">It is the Pamela Geller’s that are
crying out to us. We need to listen. We need to support them. We need to arm
ourselves if we have not done so already. Then we need to secure “concealed
carry” laws in every State of the Union. We are at
war.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Alan Carubahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10901162110385985193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-280340667410855387.post-66711159551497263102015-05-10T05:48:00.004-07:002015-05-10T12:55:16.743-07:00How Can So Many World Leaders Be So Wrong?<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">In a recent Daily Caller article,
Michael Bastach took note of “25 Years of predicting The Global Warming <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2015/05/04/25-years-of-predicting-the-global-warming-tipping-point/#pq=LjWkop"><span style="color: #378add;">‘Tipping
Point’.”</span></a> This is the message that the Earth is warming rapidly and, if we
don’t abandon the use of fossil fuels for power, it will arrive to wreak
destruction on the human race and all life on the
planet.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">It is astounding how many past and
present world leaders are telling everyone this despite the total lack of any
real science, nor any actual warming—the Earth has been in a natural cooling
cycle since 1997!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">At the heart of the global warming—now
called climate change—“crisis” has been the United Nations Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that has been issuing apocalyptic </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">predictions since its inception in
1988. None of its predictions have come true. How could they, based as they are
on the false science of computer models, not that based on observable climate
events and trends? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">To this day our own government through
its meteorological agencies has been caught manipulating the data gathered over
the years to conform with the “warming” scenario. The worst has been the
Environmental Protection Agency which is engaged in an effort to shut down
coal-fired utilities and access to every other energy source on which we depend
to power the nation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Despite this national and
international effort, mostly likely based on the liberal ideology that there are
too many humans on the plant and dramatic ways must be found to reduce that
number. In the past these anti-humanity advocates could depend on famine,
disease and wars to kill off millions, but in the modern world that has become
less of a threat.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">One libertarian think tank, the
Heartland Institute, has been leading the battle against the global
warming/climate change hoax for a decade. As a Heartland policy advisor I have
had a front row seat. In June, Heartland will sponsor the Tenth International
Conference on Climate Change bringing together some of the world’s leading
scientists to recommend that it is time for Congress to “take a fresh look at
climate science”, “explore better science-based policies for energy and the
environment”, and, bluntly stated, to “start over on the question of global
warming?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">It did not surprise me to learn that
Heartland had dispatched staff to Rome when the Pope announced he too was
joining the “climate change” advocates despite its lack of any basis in science.
The group garnered tons of international media coverage by simply presenting the
truth. You can find out more about them<a href="https://www.heartland.org/Vatican-Environment-Workshop"><span style="color: #378add;">
here</span></a>,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It didn’t take long for
Jeffrey Sachs, a Columbia University professor and ‘special advisor” to United
Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, to write a commentary condemning global
warming “deniers” that appeared on a Catholic website called
Pewsitter.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Sachs took particular aim at The
Heartland Institute and, despite not attending its Rome press conference or any
of the presentations the experts provided, did not hesitate to identify
Heartland as having been supported for years by the Koch brothers, known for the
support of conservative groups and causes. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><a href="http://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/05/07/heartland-replies-to-jeffrey-sachs/"><span style="color: #378add;">Joseph
Bast, Heartland president</span></a>, does not let such cheap shots pass by. “The
Heartland Instituter has received just $25,000 from a single organization, a
charitable foundation affiliated with the Koch brothers during the past 15
years. Our annual budget is approximately $7 million. Even that small gift was
earmarked for our work on health care reform, not global warming. Why does Sachs
mention the ‘Koch brothers’ unless his intention is to smear an independent
organization by falsely implying a much larger or somehow Improper<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>level of support from some singularly
unpopular billionaires?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Bast got to the heart of the war being
perpetrated by the either misinformed or deliberately lying world leaders of the
climate change hoax. “The dishonesty of Sachs’ reference to The Heartland
Institute would be startling, coming from a person of Sachs’ stature, if this
sort of misrepresentation of facts weren’t so common in the debate over climate
change. President Obama sets the tone. Comparing global warming realists to
members of the ‘flat earth society’ and rather ominously calling on his
supporters to ‘hold climate change denier’s feet to the
fire.’”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“Sachs has had a long and
distinguished career as an academic and in various government agencies,” said
Bast, “but on this issue he is letting his liberal ideology cloud his judgement.
His short essay reveals a disturbing lack of knowledge about climate science and
compassion toward the billions of people in the world who will be harmed by the
UN’s plans to make energy more expensive and less
reliable.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“Sachs ends his essay with a call on
people of all faiths to ‘fulfill our moral responsibilities to humanity and the
future of Earth.’ That responsibility starts with truth-telling. Sachs and his
colleagues on the left haven’t reach the starting line
yet.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">It doesn’t matter if it is the Pope,
the President of the United States, or the UN Secretary General if the assertion
that the Earth is warming when it is not or that coal, oil and natural gas must
be abandoned to “save the Earth.” Whether from ignorance or a dark hidden
agenda, the whole of the global warming/climate change is aimed at harming
billions, many of whom need the power that this hoax would deny to
everyone.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Alan Carubahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10901162110385985193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-280340667410855387.post-8961528235192056402015-05-06T06:25:00.003-07:002015-05-06T06:25:33.090-07:00Obama's Economic Disaster<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">By Alan
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Commenting on the rioting in
Baltimore, the Wall Street Journal’s Daniel Henniger was almost to the end of
his April 30 text when he said “On Wednesday morning, the year’s first-quarter
GDP growth rate came in—0.02%. Next to nothing. For the length of the Obama
presidency, with growth significantly below norm, unemployment for blacks aged
24 and younger has hovered between 30% and 40%. That’s the real powder key, not
the police.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Most Americans do not put <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2014/08/11/the-obama-economic-record-the-worst-five-years-since-world-war-ii/"><span style="color: #378add;">the
state of the economy</span></a> at the heart of everything else is occurring. Instead
they listen to politicians apply the blame to everything other than themselves.
President Obama spent his entire first term blaming George W. Bush for the bad
state of the economy he inherited, but instead of addressing it, he increased it
by imposing ObamaCare, radically altering how many would be hired while others
were cut to a part-time status. The bill added a number of taxes as
well.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">When 2015 arrived in January CNS News
reported that “A record 92,898,000 Americans 16 and older did not participate in
the labor force in December, as the labor force participation rate dropped once
again to 62.7 percent, a level it has not seen in 36 years,” according to the
Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Remember those unemployed young
blacks? In March the BLS noted that a record of 12,202,000 black people were not
in the labor force. The unemployment rate for black people in March was 10.1
percent, which is nearly double the overall unemployment rate of 5.5
percent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For black teens, age 16 to 19,
the unemployment rate was even higher at 25.0 percent, meaning that one in four
black teens who were actively seeking a job did not have one.
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">By the beginning of April, the BLS
reported that “a record 93,175,000 Americans 16 and older did not participate in
the labor force in March, as the labor force participation rate dropped to 62.7
percent, the lowest level seen in 37 years.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Also in April, the BLS reported that
“a record 56,131,000 women, age 16 years and over, were not in the labor force
the previous month, as the participation rate for this group dropped to 56.6
percent—a 27 year low.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">It was no surprise that the Department
of Agriculture reported that “The number of beneficiaries who receive
compensation from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP),
otherwise known as food stamps, has topped 46,000,000 for 37 straight
months.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The U.S. Census Bureau started 2015
with news that one out of five young adults—white, black, Hispanic—and ages 18
to 34, currently live in poverty!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s
13.5 million people, “up from one in seven (8.4 million people) in 1980.”
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">If all this strikes you as very bad
news, it gets worse. In February, the Daily Caller’s White House Correspondence,
Neil Monro, reported that “President Barack Obama has quietly handed out an
extra 5.46 million work permits for non-immigrant foreigners who arrived as
tourists, students, illegal immigrants or other types of migrants since
2009.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“’The executive branch is operating a
high parallel work-authorization system outside the bounds of the (immigration)
laws and limits written by Congress (and which) inevitably reduces job
opportunities for Americans,’ said Jessica Vaughan, the policy director at the
Center for Immigration Studies” which filed the FOIA request the revealed this
travesty.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">So it didn’t matter to <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Barack Obama that millions of Americans were
out of work while the White House masterminded a secretive program to provide
non-Americans access to the jobs that were
available.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">We are living in the midst of an
economic disaster and despite the often rosy headlines the reality is one that
Stephen Moore, the chief economist at the Heritage Foundation, took note of in
January in The Washington Times. He identified “hidden indicators” of the true
state of the economy as 2015 began:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“The $1 trillion growth gap. This
economic recovery is the lowest in 50 years”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“The restless recovery. It’s been 10
years since Americans in the middle class got a pay raise that kept pace with
inflation.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“Inequality is worse. The Gini
coefficient (as measured by the Census Bureau), the left’s favorite measure of
income inequality, rose each of Mr. Obama’s first four years in office, breaking
all-time highs in both 2011 and 2012, and it remains
high.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“The debt has grown by $7.3 trillion.
When Mr. Obama entered office the national debt was under $11 trillion. Now it’s
more than $18 trillion…it will be $19 trillion when he leaves
office.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The record speaks for itself.
Americans are worse off today than when Obama took office in 2009. In the years
since then he has totally failed to take the best understood steps to push back
against a recession and unemployment. He has expanded the federal government. He
has failed to initiate a reform of the nation’s tax code to stimulate investment
and expansion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The nation’s first black President has
so poorly served the interests of the African-American population that they are
worse off today. He has practiced “equal inequality” by afflicting our other
demographic groups, younger workers, woman, and everyone else who has been left
unable to afford college and unable to purchase a home and start a family. These
years will be seen in retrospect as a desert of opportunity.
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">© Alan Caruba, 2015</span></div>
Alan Carubahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10901162110385985193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-280340667410855387.post-21883104823234354372015-04-27T07:55:00.000-07:002015-04-27T07:55:08.021-07:00Global Warming? The Pope is Wrong<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: center;">
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Caruba<o:p></o:p></span><br /><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I have devoted the better part of more
than two and a half decades speaking out against the charlatans that have
created and maintained the greatest hoax ever imposed on modern man. At the
heart of this hoax has been the United Nations environmental program and at the
heart of that program is an agenda to initiate a massive redistribution of
wealth from industrialized, successful nations to those who have suffered, as
often as not, from being ruled by despots of one description or another.
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">It is with profound sorrow and
disappointment that I must now speak out against Pope Francis, the leader of 1.2
billion Catholics, whom observers have noted has “a green agenda.” He has become
an outspoken advocate on environmental issues, saying that taking action is
“essential to faith” and calling the destruction of nature a modern sin.
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Before proceeding, let me note that I
am not Catholic. My thoughts regarding the Pope are rooted in my knowledge of
the long record of lies, false predictions, and claims by various
environmentalists over the years. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">When the Vatican announced it would
hold a conference on April 28 called “Protect the Earth, Dignify Humanity: The
Moral Dimensions of Climate Change and Sustainable Development”, I wondered why
the Vatican is not holding a conference to organize the protection of
Christians—particularly in the Middle East—against the wholesale genocide that
is occurring. The Pope is not alone in this. There appears to be little urgency
in addressing a threat comparable to the Holocaust of the last century that
consigned six million Jews to death for being Jews.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I frankly do not know what is meant by
“the moral dimensions of climate change.” Climate change is something that was
occurring long before there was a human population on planet Earth. It is the
measurement of the previous global cycles through which the Earth has passed for
billions of years. It is profoundly natural. Applying a moral dimension to it
makes no sense whatever. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">As for “sustainable development”, that
is a term that environmentalists use to deny any development that benefits the
human population. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Environmentalism is deeply opposed to
the use of any energy resource, coal, oil, natural gas, as well as other
elements of the Earth we use to enhance and improve our lives with habitat of
every description from a hut to a skyscraper. Over the last five thousand years
we have gone from being largely dependent on wood to the use of fossil fuel
energy that keeps us safe against nature—blizzards, floods, hurricanes, forest
fires, et cetera.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">At the heart of environmentalism,
however, is a deep disdain and antagonism to the human race. From its earliest
advocates, one can find allusions to humanity as “a cancer” on the Earth. The
Catholic Church has been an advocate for the human race, most notably opposing
abortion that kills humans in the womb. Its charitable work is
legendary.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">To grasp how far the forthcoming
conference is from the most basic beliefs of Catholicism, one need only take
note of the persons scheduled to speak. They include the UN Secretary General,
Ban Ki Moon, the leader of the institution in which the hoax of global warming
was created and advanced. Another is Jeffrey Sachs, the director of the United
Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network, another voice for global
warming, but neither is going to tell those attending the conference that there
is no warming and that the Earth has been a natural cooling cycle for the past
eighteen years, tied entirely to a comparable cycle of the Sun.
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The Green’s response to the voices of
those scientists who courageously spoke out to debunk their lies has been to
denounce and try to silence them. There is no science to support the global
warming hoax.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The one-day summit will include
participants from major world religions. The Pope will issue an encyclical on
the environment later this year. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Is there a religious or spiritual
aspect to opposing the forthcoming conference and encyclical? One need look no
further than Genesis. In a Wall Street Journal commentary, <a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-pope-the-poor-and-climate-change-1429572692"><span style="color: #378add;">William
McGurn</span></a> drew the lesson that it offers “a reminder that God’s creation is
meant to serve man—not man the environment. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Quoting Genesis 2:15: “The Lord God
took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it”
concluding that “the Earth is to be worked and that this work and the fruit it
bears are also blessed.” The spiritual truth to be drawn from this is that man
is the steward of the Earth. That does not mean its resources should be
abandoned because of bogus claims that the Earth is doomed.
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">McGurn reminds us that “it is the
have-nots who pay the highest price for the statist interventions so beloved the
Church of St. Green.” There are more than a billion on Earth who do not have any
access to electricity which, in addition to hydropower, is generated by coal,
oil and natural gas. Lacking the means to deter the impact of insects and weeds
on agriculture, much of the Earth’s annual crops are lost. Lacking access to the
beneficial chemicals that protect humans from the diseases transmitted by
insects, millions die needlessly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><a href="https://www.heartland.org/press-releases/2015/04/24/heartland-institute-heads-rome-advise-pope-francis-climate-policy"><span style="color: #378add;">The
Heartland Institute</span></a>, a free market think tank is leading the effort to alert
people to the dangerous message of the Vatican conference because “many people
of faith who are familiar with the science and economics of climate change are
worried this event will become a platform for alarmism over a controversial
scientific issue” noting that “there is no scientific ‘consensus’ on whether
there is any need to reduce mankind’s use of fossil fuels.”
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The conference agenda is “profoundly
anti-poor and anti-life” says the Institute. Plainly said, the Vatican
conference incomprehensively would advocate policies whose only result would be
the reduction of human life in order to “sustain” the Earth.
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“These unnecessary policies would
cause the suffering and even death of billions of people. All people of faith
should rise up in opposition to such policies.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The Heartland Institute is sending a
team of scientists and climate policy experts to Rome where they will be joined
by Marc Morano of the think tank, <a href="http://www.cfact.org/"><span style="color: #378add;">CFACT</span></a>.
Says Morano,<span style="border-color: windowtext; border-width: 1pt; color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><strong>
</strong>'Instead of entering into an invalid marriage with climate fear
promoters—a marriage that is destined for an annulment—Pope Francis should
administer last rites to the promotion of man-made climate fears and their
so-called solutions. This unholy alliance must be prevented.”</span>
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Alan Carubahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10901162110385985193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-280340667410855387.post-39298344305782077962015-04-22T06:15:00.002-07:002015-04-22T06:15:45.216-07:00The White House is Lying About Climate Change and Health<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">By Alan
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Let us begin with the understanding
that there is no connection between the climate and health. The climate is
something measured in decades and centuries, so what happened in the last
century has nothing to do with whether you are sneezing today.
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The weather surely can help generate
health problems. For example in the northeastern states, the Lyme disease season
is beginning. Between 1992 and 2010 reported cases of Lyme disease doubled to
nearly 23,000 according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, but
CDC officials believe the actual number of those infected may have been three
times that number. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Lyme disease is transmitted by deer
ticks and since these tiny insects will hitch a ride on birds, squirrels, mice
and small animals as well, even if you live in an area without deer, the
possibility of being bitten by a deer tick is just as likely. This increases for
people who love gardening or outdoor recreational activities such as hiking and
camping. Children, too, are particularly susceptible.
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The fact that Lyme disease shows up in
the Spring simply tells you that the warm weather facilitates the tick
population. The weather has always been tied the mating habits and activities of
various species, but that does not mean that is constitutes a massive threat to
everyone’s health. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">That’s not the way the White House
sees it. On April 7 the administration made it official. It announced that it is
“committed to combating the health impacts of climate change and protecting the
health of future generations.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Since the climate changes over
extended periods of time, not just month to month, one has to wonder what
“health impacts” the White House has in mind. The last Little Ice Age lasted
from around 1300 to 1850. It was cold all over Europe and North America. Does
the White House propose that it can “protect” us from a new one? If so, that’s
absurd.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Let us understand, too, that there has
always been what the White House announcement calls “extreme weather
events.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Notice the change from
“climate” to “weather”? Among the events identified are “severe droughts and
wildfires to more powerful hurricanes and record heat waves…” Has there been a
time when such weather-related events have not occurred? In fact, there are
times when they don’t. For example, there hasn’t been a single Category 3-5
hurricane hit the U.S. mainland since 2005!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The White House has launched a massive
brainwashing effort using many elements of the federal government to frighten
Americans using the “climate” and the “weather.” How deceptive is it?
</span><br /><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span><br /><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">One example is sufficient. The
President has claimed that climate change was the cause of one of his daughter’s
asthma. In its announcement, it claimed that “In the past three decades, the
percentage of Americans with asthma has more than doubled and climate change is
putting these individuals and many other vulnerable populations at greater risk
of landing in the hospital.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Here’s what the <a href="http://www.aafa.org/display.cfm?id=8&cont=6"><span style="color: #378add;">Asthma and Allergy
Foundation of America</span></a> has to say about the various causes of asthma.
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“Since asthma has a genetic origin and
is a disease you are born with, passed down from generation to generation, the
question isn’t really ‘what causes asthma’, but rather ‘what causes asthma
symptoms to appear?’ People with asthma have inflamed airways which are
super-sensitive to thinks which do not bother other
people.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">What the Asthma and Allergy Foundation
of America is telling us is that there is no direct connection between either
the climate or the weather and the illness called asthma.
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Those who suffer this disease however
can be affected by a range of triggers such as irritants in the air, pollens,
molds, and even cockroach droppings. Infections such as colds, flu, and sore
throats are among the leading triggers for asthma attacks in
children.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The facts, the truth, were no
deterrent to the April 7 White House twelve-page announcement of all the things
it intends to do to brainwash Americans into believing that there is a
connection between the “climate” and health. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Here’s just a few of the dozens of
events and programs it will initiate so that the media will report on them and
thus convey the message that climate change is the greatest threat to Americans
today:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“The Administration is expanding its
Climate Data Initiative to include more than 150 health-relevant datasets…this
is intended to help communities and businesses reduce the health impacts of
climate change.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Only there are no such
impacts.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The Administration is announcing a
coalition of Deans from 30 medical, public health, and nursing schools around
the country, who are committing to ensure that the next generation of health
professionals is trained to address the health impacts of climate change.” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Only there are no such
impacts.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“Announcing the White House Climate
Change and Health Summit.” It will feature the Surgeon General who will lead
discussions to “the public health impacts of climate change and identify
opportunities to minimize these impacts.” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Only there are no impacts and nothing that
could be done if there were.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">From the Department of Homeland
Security to the Department of the Interior and the Environmental Protection
Agency, many elements of the federal government will be integrated into this
massive brainwashing effort.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">What can be done to ignore a
government determined to lie to everyone about a “threat” that does not exist?
Not much.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Alan Carubahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10901162110385985193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-280340667410855387.post-35941194722518981352015-04-21T04:02:00.003-07:002015-04-21T04:03:47.595-07:00The Environmental Insane Asylum<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Earth Day was declared in 1970 and for
the past 45 years we have all been living in the Environmental Insane Asylum,
being told over and over again to believe things that are the equivalent of
Green hallucinations. Now the entire month of April has been declared Earth
Month, but in truth not a day goes by when we are not assailed with the
bold-faced lies that comprise environmentalism.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Around the globe, the worst part of
this is that we are being victimized by people we are told to respect from the
President of the United States to the Pope of the Catholic Church. Their
environmentalism is pure socialism.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Organizations whom we expect to tell
the truth keep telling us that “climate change is one of the biggest global
security threats of the 21<sup><span style="font-size: xx-small;">st</span></sup>
century.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was a recent statement by
“world leaders” like the G7, a group of finance ministers and central bank
governors of seven advanced economies, the International Monetary Fund, Canada,
France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and the United States. On April 17 they adopted a
report about the “threat” put together by think tanks that included the European
Union Institute for Security Studies and the Wilson Center in Washington,
D.C.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">When I speak of “climate” I am
referring to data gathered not just about decades, but centuries of the Earth’s
cycles of warming and cooling. When I speak of “weather”, the closest any of us
get to it other than today’s, are local predictions no longer than a few days’
time at best. The weather is in a constant state of
flux.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Climate change is not a threat and
most certainly there is no global warming. As Prof. Bob Carter, a geologist at
James Cook College in Queensland, Australia, has written, “For many years now,
human-caused climate change has been viewed as a large and urgent problem. In
truth, however, the biggest part of the problem is neither environmental nor
scientific, but a self-created political fiasco.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The fact that the Earth is now into
the nineteenth year of a natural planetary cooling cycle seems to never be
acknowledged or reported. “The problem here,” says Prof. Carter, “is not that of
climate change per se, but rather that of the sophisticated scientific
brainwashing that has been inflicted on the public, bureaucrats and politicians
alike.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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book I recommend to everyone, “Climate for the Layman” by Anthony Bright-Paul,
he draws on the best well-known science about the Earth noting that “Since there
is no such thing as a temperature of the whole Earth all talk of global warming
is simply illogical, ill thought out, and needs to be discarded for the sake of
clarity. The globe is warming and cooling in different locations concurrently
every minute of the day and night.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“Since it is abundantly clear that
there is no one temperature of the atmosphere all talk of Anthropogenic Global
Warming (AGW) is simply an exercise in futility.” A look at the globe from
either of its two poles to its equator and everything in between tells us with
simple logic that being able to determine its “temperature” is impossible. The
Earth, however, has gone through numerous warming and cooling cycles, all of
which were the result of more or less solar
radiation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The Sun was and is the determining
factor. The assertion that humans have any influence or impact that can
determine whether the Earth is warmer or cooler is absurd.
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The Earth had passed through warming
and cooling cycles for billions of years before humans even existed, yet we are
told that the generation of carbon dioxide through the use of machinery in
manufacturing, transportation or any other use is causing the build-up of
“greenhouse gases” in the atmosphere. We are told to give up the use of coal,
oil and natural gas. That is a definition of
insanity!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Here’s the simple truth that most
people are not told: The Sun warms the Earth and the Earth warms the atmosphere.
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">As for carbon dioxide, the amount
generated by human activity represents a miniscule percentage of the 0.04% in
the Earth’s atmosphere. There has been more carbon dioxide in the Earth’s
atmosphere—well before humans existed—contributing to the growth of all manner
of vegetation which in turn generated oxygen. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Without carbon dioxide there would be
no life on Earth. It feeds the vegetation on which animal life depends directly
and indirectly. As Anthony Bright-Paul says, “A slight increase in atmosphere of
carbon dioxide will not and cannot produce any warming, but can be hugely
beneficial to a green planet.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The Earth’s atmosphere is
approximately 78% Nitrogen, 21% Oxygen, 0.9% Argon, 0.04% Carbon Dioxide, and
the rest is water vapor and trace gases in very small amounts. They interact to
provide an environment in which life, animal and vegetable, exists on
Earth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">When you live in a Global
Environmental Insane Asylum, you are not likely to hear or read the truth, but
you can arrive at it using simple logic. We know instinctively that humans do
not control the waves of our huge oceans, nor the vast tectonic plates beneath
our feet, the eruptions of volcanoes, the Jetstream, cloud formation, or any of
the elements of the weather we experience, such as thunder, lightning, and other
acts of Nature.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Why would we blindly assume or agree
to the torrent of lies that humans are “causing” climate change? The answer is
that on Earth Day, Wednesday, April 22, we will be deluged with the propaganda
of countless organizations worldwide that we are, in fact, endangering a
“fragile” planet Earth. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We hear and read
that every other day of the year as well.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The achievement of the human race and
the last 5,000 years of so-called civilization is the way we have learned to
adapt to Nature by creating habitats from villages to cities in which to survive
and because we have devised a vast global agricultural and ranching system to
feed seven billion of us. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">As for the weather, John Christy, the
director of the Earth System Science Center at the University of Alabama, says
he cringes “when I hear overstated confidence from those who describe the
projected evolution of global weather patterns over the next one hundred years,
especially when I consider how difficult it is to accurately predict that
system’s behavior over the next five days.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“Mother Nature,” says Christy, “simply
operates at a level of complexity that is, at this point, behind the mastery of
mere mortals—such as scientists—and the tools available to
us.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Whether it is the President or the
Pope, or the countless politicians and bureaucrats, along with multitudes of
“environmental” organizations, as well as self-serving “scientists”, all aided
by the media, a virtual Green Army has been deliberately deceiving and
misleading the citizens of planet Earth for four and a half decades. It won’t
stop any time soon, but it must before the charade of environmentalism leaves us
all enslaved by the quest for political control over our lives that hides behind
it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">We must escape the Environmental
Insane Asylum in which they want us to live.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Alan Carubahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10901162110385985193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-280340667410855387.post-34402256880802951162015-04-15T07:13:00.003-07:002015-04-15T07:15:44.350-07:00The Climate Change War Heats Up<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">By Alan Caruba</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">There is so much at stake for the
charlatans that have foisted the failed “global warming” hoax, followed by the
equally dubious claims and predictions regarding “climate change”, that it
should come as no surprise that they have begun to wage a propaganda war on the
courageous scientists who led the struggle to educate the public about the truth
and the organizations who supported their efforts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Along the way, many groups and
publications claiming scientific credentials abandoned those standards to pump
out global warming and climate change propaganda. Scientists discovered they
could secure grant money for “research” so long as it supported claims that the
North and South Poles, as well as all the world’s glaciers were melting.
“Research” that predicted vast hurricane activity or a massive rise in ocean
levels became routine headlines. None of it occurred. <a href="http://news.heartland.org/newspaper-article/2015/04/02/big-government-foundations-undermine-scientific-integrity"><span style="color: #378add;">Both
the government and liberal foundations provided millions to maintain the
hoax.</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Now we have a President claiming that
his daughter’s asthma was due to “climate change.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is obscene nonsense. If this was just a
disagreement between scientists, we could look on as the facts determine the
outcome, but there are vast agendas as stake so we have to keep in mind that
billions have been wasted on “renewable energy” alternatives to replace fossil
fuels; the oil, coal, and natural gas that are the heart’s blood of modern
nations and our lives. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">We have to ask why the United Nations
Framework on Climate Change takes such a dim view of the world’s population that
it cites its use of energy and other resources as a reason to reduce it instead
of celebrating it. Hard-core environmentalists do not like humans because they
build houses, start businesses, need roads, and generally consume a lot and then
create trash. Climate change is also the platform the U.N. is using to <a href="http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/un-climate-chief-were-intentionally-transforming-world-economy"><span style="color: #378add;">"transform"</span></a>
the world's economy.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">We have to ask why our government is
engaged in shutting down the coal-fired plants that provide the bulk of the
electricity we use. This isn’t just a war on coal. It is a war on our entire
economic system, capitalism. It is a war on Americans by their own
government.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Lately, politicians at the federal
level have declared war on those scientists whose research and findings have
helped the public conclude, along with <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">eighteen years of a natural cooling
cycle</i>, that “global warming” is no threat and that we have far greater
threats to address than the vague notion that “climate change” is a problem we
humans can affect in any way. We can’t and we don’t.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">A recent example has been letters sent
to seven university presidents by Arizona Rep. Raul Grijalva, the ranking
Democrat on the House Natural Resources Committee asking for information on
scientists and professors who had given congressional testimony that raised
questions about “climate change.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Grijalva had no legal authority to request such information, but his
intention was intimidation. In 2013, when asked about his legislative agenda by
These Times, he replied “I’m a Saul Alinsky guy” referring to the activist whose
book, “Rules for Radicals”, spells out ways to attack one’s political enemies.
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Pete Peterson, the executive director
of the Davenport Institute for Public Engagement at Pepperdine’s School of
Public Policy, identified Grijalva’s letters as “scare tactics” concluding that
we have come to a time when “The inability of politicians to confront another’s
argument much less to attempt to persuade the other side, has become standard
operating procedure. Now this toxic approach is extending to the broader world
of policy—including scientific research.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Around the same time, Sen. Sheldon
Whitehouse, Sen. Barbara Boxer, and Sen. Ed Markey sent a letter to a hundred
companies, grade groups and other organizations “affiliated with the fossil fuel
industry asking whether they spent money to support climate research.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The message was simple: do not sponsor
research that would reveal inaccuracies or falsehoods regarding claims that
“climate change” was a threat. The inference was that scientific research
receiving such funding would betray scientific standards in ways that government
or foundation funding would not. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Suffice to say the letters evoked
outrage. As a policy advisor to the free market think tank, <a href="http://www.heartland.org/"><span style="color: #378add;">The Heartland Institute</span></a>, I was aware of the
response of its president, Joe Bast who called the letters something that
“fascists do.” He was not alone. The Washington Times called the Senators
“climate change Toquemadas” and The Wall Street Journal said the letters were
nothing more than an effort to silence science. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">When Sen. Whitehouse aired his
unhappiness in an April 14 blog post the Huffington Post, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sen-sheldon-whitehouse/right-wing-groups-get-ove_b_7054956.html"><span style="color: #378add;">“Right-Wing
Groups Get Overheated on Climate Questions”</span></a>, Bast responded asking, “If the
Senator’s letter wasn’t intended as harassment of individuals who disagree with
his extremist views on the climate, why the overly broad demand, the ridiculous
deadline, the implied threat of action, and the news release saying it was
intended to expose a diabolical conspiracy of ‘right-win
groups’?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">When “climate change” reaches the
political heights of Congress and the White House, it should come as no surprise
that the charlatans who want to use this hoax for their own benefit and agendas
are going to unleash efforts to smear and intimidate those scientists who have
put true facts before the public. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">In late March, Michael Bastash of The
Daily Caller reported that “A new Gallup poll shows that Americans’ concern
about warming has fallen to the same level it was in 1989. In fact, global
warming ranked at the bottom of a list of Americans’ environmental concerns,
with only 32 percent saying they were worried about it a ‘great deal.’”
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">That’s what has the politicians and
U.N. officers on the offensive to silence scientists and defame think tanks and
other organizations that have helped Americans come to the sensible conclusion
that a “warming” isn’t happening and the planet’s climate is something over
which they have no control.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Alan Carubahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10901162110385985193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-280340667410855387.post-50857016098391954382015-04-10T06:21:00.002-07:002015-04-10T06:21:08.986-07:00Obama Keeps Telling Renewable Energy Lies<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">By Alan
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Imagine you wanted to get in your
electric car and drive a considerable distance. It wouldn’t take long for your
car to run out of power, so you would have to have another car, one using
gasoline, to drive behind you to make sure you reached your destination.
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">That’s a description of “renewable
energy”, wind and solar, in America today because they both require backup from
traditional energy sources such as coal, oil, natural gas, and nuclear. And
“renewable energy” based on “free” sun and wind power costs more to produce and
purchase. Need it be said that the sun does not always shine consistently
everywhere or at night and that the wind does not always
blow?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Within twenty-four hours of one
another I received a news release from the Governor’s Wind Energy Coalition
celebrating the election of a new chairman and vice chairman, and read a <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/03/politics/white-house-solar-energy-veteran-training/"><span style="color: #378add;">CNN
news article</span></a> saying that “The White House wants to put more returning
servicemen and women to work manufacturing and installing solar panels” as part
of “his growing list of climate actions meant to combat global warming.”
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">That list was a twelve-page long,
single-spaced White House fact sheet. The White House seems to think that the
states can do something about “climate change”, but the climate is measured in
decades and centuries, not whether it is going to rain next Monday which is
something we call “the weather.” And just as you can do nothing about the rain,
neither can you do anything to affect the climate decades from
now.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The White House has a problem. There
is no “global warming.” Even if you change the name to “climate change”, the
Earth has been in a natural cooling cycle for the last eighteen years.
<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">For the past 5,000 years humans have,
as often as not, “done something” about the climate by moving <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">somewhere else</i> it was less of a bother
and threat or found ways to adapt. Other than prayer, there was and is<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> nothing</i> humans can do about Mother
Nature. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Most surely, getting veterans to
manufacture solar panels is about as lame and stupid an idea as the President
has proposed in the last 24 hours. Does the name “Solyndra” ring a bell? It was
one of several solar farms that, along with wind farms went belly-up, leaving
investors and consumers with nothing but the sunlight and passing
breezes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Indeed, the best news of late has been
that the U.S. Senate has rejected a proposal to extend the <a href="http://news.heartland.org/newspaper-article/2015/03/11/senate-rejects-wind-ptc-extension"><span style="color: #378add;">federal
wind Production Tax Credit</span></a> (PCT) for another five years. The wind producers
have benefitted from it for three decades. The federal subsidy to wind-energy
producers expired along with other tax breaks at the end of 2013, but was
retroactively extended through 2014 as part of the Cromnibus budget bill passed
last December.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The PCT was intended to provide what
was a then-new energy industry a helping hand, but it kept being extended and
the industry benefitted as well from renewable energy mandates (REM) in 29
states and the District of Columbia. They <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">require</i> that a specific amount of
electricity be purchased from renewable energy, wind or solar, producers. All
that managed to do was drive up the cost of electricity to consumers. This is
what happens when politicians get involved. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">That’s a good reason to wonder why
there is a Governors Wind Power Coalition in the first place. It consists of 23
Democratic and Republican governors from every region of the nation “working
together to develop the nation’s wind energy resources”, but the nation doesn’t
need wind energy which produces an unpredictable amount as opposed to
traditional resources such as coal. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">At the same time the President is
talking about solar and wind power, his administration is pursuing a relentless
“war” on coal that is forcing the primary source of electricity in America,
coal-fired plants, to shut down. If that doesn’t sound like treason, then
consider too that the U.S. is the greatest producer of oil and natural gas in
the world and we have at least two century’s worth of known coal reserves. We
have absolutely no need for wind or solar energy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">When Obama gave his State of the Union
speech in 2014, solar power represented a pathetic 0.2 percent of the U.S.
electricity supply according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
According to the Energy Research Institute, in 2013 wind power provided 1.6% of
all the energy consumed in the U.S. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">There isn’t a single good reason for
either wind or solar power in an energy powerhouse like the United States. They
are both costly, unpredictable, and a threat to a number of animal species.
Neither the science, the cost, nor the recent history of “renewable energy”
provides a single good reason to force Americans to pay for this “green”
failure. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Alan Carubahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10901162110385985193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-280340667410855387.post-73306003419611644042015-04-08T07:44:00.000-07:002015-04-08T07:44:13.602-07:00Using the Global Warming Hoax to Destroy America<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">When President Obama announced on
March 31 that he intends to ensure that the U.S. will slash its “greenhouse gas
emissions” 26% below 2005 emissions levels by 2025 in order to keep pledges made
to fulfill the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, he failed to mention
that such levels would be comparable to what they were in our Civil War era, 150
years ago.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">He also failed to mention that the
U.S. has made no such pledges as regards the 1992 “Kyoto Treaty” which was
resoundingly rejected by the U.S. Senate when then Vice President Al Gore
brought it back from the U.N. conference. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">There is no need, globally or
nationally, to reduce such emissions. It would be a crime against humanity,
especially for the millions that would be denied electrical power or would see
its cost rise exponentially. “The President has no credible evidence to back up
his claims,” said H. Sterling Burnett, a Research Fellow with the free market
think tank, <a href="http://www.heartland.org/"><span style="color: #378add;">The Heartland Institute</span></a>.
“Obama’s climate actions are likely to cause far more harm to people, especially
the poor, than any purported threats from global
warming.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“Global warming” and “climate
change” are attributed to the use of fossil fuels to manufacture and transport
ourselves and our goods, and to create electrical energy, despite the fact that
the Earth, its oceans and land areas naturally <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">generate</i> such
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">There are, for example, more than 1500
potentially active volcanoes and countless others under the oceans. They produce
billions of tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other gases that are identified as
“greenhouse gas emissions.” The human contribution pales in comparison to
natural sources such as the warming ocean surface which releases CO2.
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Even so, CO2 constitutes a mere 0.04%
of the atmosphere. There is no evidence CO2 plays any role in the Earth’s global
temperature. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Do these “greenhouse gas emissions”
trap heat? Apparently not because the Earth has been in a natural cooling cycle
for the past eighteen years breaking and making records for snow and ice. In the
1970s scientists were predicting a new Ice Age. Ten years later they were
predicting “global warming.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Why then is the President intent on
slashing “greenhouse gas emissions” when (1) the Earth is not a greenhouse and
(2) doing so would harm our economy for decades to come?
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The answer lies in his promise to
“fundamentally transform” a nation that does not need transformation except for
the reduction of the size and scope of the federal government. Its economic
system is the best in the world. Its military is the strongest. Its agriculture
feeds Americans and is exported to other nations. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">As David Rothbard, the president and
co-founder of the<a href="http://www.cfact.org/"><span style="color: #378add;"> Committee for a Constructive
Tomorrow</span></a> (CFACT), a free market think tank, noted in the wake of Obama’s
announcement, “The President will have to bypass the law-making process and use
executive orders and regulations” to achieve his goal of slashing emissions. “To
do so requires tortured readings of the Clean Air Act and other current
laws.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Significantly, “the President offers
no suitable replacement for the lost generating capacity beyond pointing toward
wind and solar which is not up to the task.” When Obama took office, coal-fired
plants provided 50% of U.S. electricity. It is now down to 40% and headed lower
if Obama has his way.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Rothbard warns that “Global warming
campaigners see this presidency and the Paris U.N. Summit as the best chance
they are likely to see to take control of American energy. The ramifications are
disastrous for American freedom and prosperity.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">This brings us to the what John L.
Casey, founder of the <span style="color: black;"><a href="http://www.spaceandscience.net/"><span style="color: #378add;">Space and Science Research
Corporation</span></a>, (SSRC), an independent scientific research organization in
Orlando, says about the forthcoming November 30 to December 15 U.N. climate
conference in Paris which he describes as “doomed” and that’s the good news.
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="color: black;">Its
announced goal of imposing global limits on greenhouse gas emissions will not be
mandatory and “President Obama has effectively gutted any meaningful agreement
among the major industrialized nations, by having granted to the planet’s
largest CO2 producer, China, free license to build as many coal power plants as
they wish, and emit as many gigatons of greenhouse gases as they wish until
2030.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">This is, in fact, a
global trend as many developing nations such as India do the same thing. Nor
will they suddenly shut down electricity production fifteen years from
now.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">This huge, international
farce formerly known as the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, began
as an international treaty created in 1992. The U.S. Senate refused to ratify
the Kyoto Treaty, but pledges to reduce greenhouse gases were made by 33 out of
195 countries, called their “Intended National Determined Contribution” are the
main feature at the forthcoming Paris conference. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">For all the media
attention the President will try to generate for this idiocy, Ken Haapala,
president of the <a href="http://www.sepp.org/"><span style="color: #378add;">Science and Environmental Policy
Project</span></a>, says “It is unlikely that the current Senate would approve a
binding agreement.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Haapala notes that
lawmakers that include the Senate Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Sen.
James Inhofe (R-OK)m and Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX), “have all insisted that the
international agreement the U.N. is working on is a treaty and cannot be
enforced without Senate approval.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Sen. McConnell warned,
“Considering that two-thirds of the U.S. Federal government hasn’t even signed
off on the Clean Power Plan and 13 states have already pledged to fight it, our
international partners should proceed with caution before entering into a
binding, unattainable deal.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">While most Americans
have concluded that “global warming” or “climate change” are low on their list
of fears President Obama has elevated this hoax to the top of his agenda for his
last two years in office, along with the deal that would give Iran the
opportunity to build a nuclear arsenal of weapons.<o:p></o:p></span><br /><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">He doesn’t want to
“transform” America. He wants to destroy it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“The American people have spent 30
years and $15 billion to determine whether Yucca Mountain would be a safe
repository for our nation’s civilian and defense-related nuclear waste.” That’s
a quote of Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK) reported in the April issue of The Heartland
Institute’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="http://news.heartland.org/energy-and-environment"><span style="color: #378add;">Environment &
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Compare that with the one year and 45
days it took to build the Empire State Building or the five years it took to
build the Hoover Dam in the depths of the Great Depression. In the first half of
the last century, Americans knew how to get things done, but the rise of
environmentalism in the latter half, starting around the 1970s, has increased
the cost and time of any construction anywhere in the U.S. In the case of Yucca
Mountain it has raised issues about nuclear waste that is currently stored is
less secure conditions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">As reported by <a href="http://cnsnews.com/news/article/barbara-hollingsworth/nuclear-regulatory-commission-yucca-mountain-safe-store-nuclear"><span style="color: #378add;">CNS
News</span></a> in January, “The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has released the
final two volumes of a five-volume safety report<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>that concludes that Nevada’s Yucca
Mountain meets all of its technical and safety requirements for the disposal of
highly radioactive nuclear waste.” Five volumes! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">So why the delay?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The NRC says the Department of Energy “‘has
not met certain land and water rights requirements’ and that other environmental
and regulatory hurdles remain.”</span><br /><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span> </div>
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Wall Street Journal editorial on March 30 asserted that It is not about
environmental and regulatory hurdles. It is about a deal that Nevada Senator
Harry Reid, the former Senate Majority Leader, cut with President Obama to keep
Yucca Mountain from ever opening for use. In return, Reid blocked nearly all
amendments to legislation to shield Obama from having to veto bills. He
virtually nullified the Senate as a functioning element of our
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“Since there is no permanent disposal
facility, spent fuel from the nation’s nuclear reactors—‘enough to fill a
football field 17 meters deep’ according to a 2012 Government Accountability
Office report—is currently being stored at dozens of above-ground sites. The GAO
expects the amount of radioactive waste to double to 140,000 by 2055 when all of
the currently operating nuclear reactors are
retired.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The United States where the
development of nuclear fission and its use to generate electrical energy
occurred is now well behind other nations that have built nuclear facilities and
are adding new ones. As <a href="http://dddusmma.wordpress.com/2014/08/05/destruction-of-americas-nuclear-industry/#respond"><span style="color: #378add;">Donn
Dear</span></a>, an energy expert with Power For USA, points out “there are only four
new nuclear power plants under construction, all by Toshiba-Westinghouse LLC.
One other plant, Watts Bar 2, whose construction was held up for several years,
is being completed by TVA.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Meanwhile, as Dear notes, “South Korea
is building four nuclear reactors in the United Arab Emirates. The Russian
company, Rosatom, is building power plants in Turkey, Belarus, Vietnam, and
elsewhere. The China National Nuclear Corporation is scheduled to build over
twenty nuclear power plants.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">These represent jobs and orders for
equipment that are not occurring in the United States, along with the failure to
utilize nuclear energy to provide the growing need for electricity here. The
same environmental organizations opposing construction here are the same ones
supporting the Environmental Protection Agency’s attack on coal-fired electrical
plants. The irony is, of course, that nuclear plants do not produce carbon
dioxide emissions that the Greens blame for the non-existent “global warming”,
not called “climate change.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">A cynical and false propaganda
campaign has been waged against nuclear energy in the U.S., mostly notably with
the Hollywood film, “The China Syndrome” about a reactor meltdown. If you want
to worry about radiation, worry about the Sun. It is a major source. Three
incidents, Three Mile Island in 1979 and Chernobyl in 1986, added to the fears,
but no one was harmed by the Three Mile Island event and Chernobyl was an
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">More recent was the March 11, 2011
shutdown of the Fukushima reactor in Japan as the result of an earthquake and
subsequent tsunami. Three of its cores melted in the first three days, but there
have been no deaths or radiation sickness attributed to this event. That’s the
part you’re not told about.</span><br /><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">In the end, all it takes is one
ignorant President to set progress back for decades. In this case it was
President Jimmy Carter for not allowing reprocessing of nuclear waste, a
standard practice in France where only one-fifth of spent fuel requires storage.
In the 1980s there were three U.S. corporations leading the way on the
introduction and use of nuclear energy to produce electrical power; General
Electric, Westinghouse Electric, and Babcock & Wilcox. Today only
Babcock-Wilcox continues as a fully owned American
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Thanks to President Obama, we have
lost another six years on the Yucca Mountain project. That fits with his refusal
to permit the Keystone XL pipeline. No energy project that might actually
benefit America will ever see his signature.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Some are arguing that America is a
nation in decline and they can surely point to the near destruction of our
nuclear energy industry as one example. That decline can begin to end in 2017
with the inauguration of a new President.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The annual calendar is filled with
days and months designated for the purpose of calling attention to some event,
personality, or cause. The U.S. celebrates the birthdays of Lincoln and
Washington that fall close together. There’s Mother’s and Father’s Day, Labor
Day and Veteran’s Day, Valentine’s, Independence Day, Thanksgiving, Easter and
Christmas. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">But who decided that April was “Earth
Month” or that April 22 is “Earth Day”?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><strong>Why are we expected to worship
the planet that was here billions of years before we showed up and will likely
be here long after we manage to destroy ourselves with cataclysmic wars. And it
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">is</i> worship that is at the heart of
these two events. That alone should tell you how essentially <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">pagan</i> they
are.<o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
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45<sup><span style="font-size: xx-small;">th</span></sup> anniversary, having
begun in 1970 and, not surprisingly, its theme is “Our planet in peril.” Our
planet is <em>not</em> in peril. It’s been around for 4.5 billion years and
short of a rogue asteroid or our getting sucked into a black hole, the planet
will be around several billions of years more. The galaxy in which we live is
relatively predictable and stable, so the notion that the Earth is in peril
borders on idiocy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Well, idiocy, if you think that it is
in peril from us, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">the human species</i>.
This is at the core of the environmental mindset. It appears that merely using
the Earth as a place to live is reason enough to hold us responsible for
everything that <em>naturally</em> occurs to it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Environmentalists do not like the
human race and will not hesitate to tell you there are too many of us. They do
what they can to reduce the population through disease by, for example, banning
DDT and any other chemicals that protect us from insect and rodent pests that
are major vectors for the transmission of disease.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">According to the 2015 Earth Month
Network, Inc. announcement “There are literally hundreds of problems and issues
plaguing our global environment, i.e., climate change, global warming and their
effects; and the continuation of polluting our delicate ecosystem just to
mention a few.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Which is it? Climate change or global
warming? There hasn’t been any dramatic global warming in the past 19 years
during which the planet has been in a natural cooling cycle, along with the Sun
which we depend upon to warm us. So anyone claiming the Earth is warming is
blowing smoke up your skirt. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">As for climate change, that has
<em>always</em> been occurring. Short term it’s called the four seasons. Long
term it takes the form of ice ages, major glaciations that have occurred every
140 million years, and other eras such as the Great Permian Extinction, the
largest in Earth’s history that wiped out an estimated 95% of every kind of
life-form on Earth. It was one of four mass extinctions over the course of the
3.5 billion years that life has existed on Earth. Remember the mammoths? They
died a mere 11,500 years ago.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Last year, the Earth Month theme was
“Returning to Nature.” Do you really want to return to nature? No electricity.
No shelter other than a nice cave. No food except for the animals or fish you
would have to catch for dinner. No vegetables or fruits except those you could
find wherever you lived. That’s right, no supermarkets! And, if you want to go
anywhere, you will have to walk. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Yes, nature sounds wonderful and, in
its own way,<em> is</em> wonderful, but the human species has devoted a great
deal of time to finding ways to survive it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I was reminded that April was Earth
Month when I received an email from the Saybrook Point Inn & Spa which said
this Connecticut site was “excited to offer a special package to honor Earth
Day.” It is “a Certified Green Hotel” and you will be treated to a “unique
Ecotourism Getaway” that provides an “environmentally friendly stay without
sacrificing comfort.” Why would you want to pay them for their special package
if it didn’t include comfort and lots of it? Mostly what Saybrook Point wants is
your money, just like any other perfectly ordinary inn and spa that isn’t
“certified.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">One can be confident that we are going
to be regaled with all manner of “environmental” messages and events throughout
April, all of which have the same theme: the Earth is in danger from
YOU!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Do yourself a favor. Ignore them. Get
in your car and go where you want. Go to the supermarket and don’t worry about
the plastic packaging or the plastic bags. Set the temperature in your home or
apartment to a level of comfort that you like. It’s your life and you pay good
money to benefit from all the conveniences of modern life.
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><strong>Let’s appreciate the Earth,
not worship it.<o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Environmentalism is one of the great
scams of the modern era. Its emphasis on “renewable energy” has been a huge,
expensive failure. Its claims of disappearing forests are bogus and its demands
for the reduction of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions will only harm all
vegetation everywhere. The Earth needs CO2 in the same way you and all other
living creatures need oxygen. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Let’s celebrate mankind’s mastery of
the Earth in the form of agriculture, ranching, sophisticated shelters from the
log cabin to the skyscraper, the channeling of rivers to produce energy and the
technology that provides clean water for us. And, yes, manufacturing. You can’t
even imagine what the world was like before the discovery of coal, oil, and
natural gas. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The Earth is not in peril, only the
truth and common sense are.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Alan Carubahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10901162110385985193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-280340667410855387.post-4174713268324036182015-03-19T07:45:00.003-07:002015-03-19T07:45:28.094-07:00It's Not "Global Warming." It's "Springtime."<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name">
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">By Alan
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After decades of environmental
claims that “global warming” would plunge the planet into catastrophic harm to
its human and other inhabitants—at the same time blaming humans for causing
it—the sheer arrogance and ignorance of these claims always ignores the real
power that is represented by the Earth itself and the beginning of Spring should
be proof enough for anyone paying any
attention.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This year, Spring begins in
the northern hemisphere on Friday, March 20 at 6:45 PM EDT. In the southern
hemisphere it marks the beginning of Autumn.
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Spring manifests itself in
ways we take for granted yet it is a combination of many events that should make
us marvel if we gave them any thought. For example, where does all the snow go?
The U.S. and the rest of the world set records of snowfall levels throughout
Winter. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As noted by the </span><a href="http://water.usgs.gov/edu/watercyclesnowmelt.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #378add;">U.S. Geological
Service</span></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, “in
the world-wide scheme of the water cycle, runoff from snowmelt is a major
component of the global movement of water.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Mountain snow fields act as
natural reservoirs for many western United States water-supply systems, storing
precipitation from the cool season, when most precipitation falls and forms
snowpacks…As much as 75 percent of water supplies in the western states are
derived from snowmelt.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Snowmelt ensures
sufficient water for all of us and for the Earth that depends upon it for the
growth of all vegetation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How do the flowers know it is
Spring? In a 2011 article for the Inside Science News Service, Katherine Gammon
noted that “Just in time for the birds and bees to start buzzing, the flowers
and the trees somehow know when to open their buds to start flowering. But the
exact way that plants get their wake-up call has been something of a
mystery.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A molecular biologist at the
University of Texas, Sibum Sung, has been trying to solve that mystery and has
discovered “a special molecule in plants that gives them the remarkable ability
to recall Winter and to bloom on schedule in the
Spring.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nothing on Earth happens by
accident. It is a remarkable inter-related system to which we give little
thought. The sheer power of all those blooming flowers and trees should tell us
something about the power of Nature that dwarfs all the claims that humans have
any influence whatever on the events of Spring or any other time of the
year.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then think about the role of
the animals with whom we share the planet. In the Spring many come out of
hibernation in their dens, while others such as birds make lengthy migrations
from the warmer climes to those in the north. The huge migration of Monarch
Butterflies should leave us speechless. Spring is a time when many animals give
birth to their young. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A sign of the Spring that
leaves us breathless is the way it is the season for the aurora borealis. Dr.
Tony Phillips of NASA notes that “For reasons not fully understood by
scientists, the weeks around the vernal equinox are prone to Northern Lights.
From Canada to Scandinavia they provide a great show.
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Such outbursts are called
auroral substorms and they have long puzzled physicists,” says UCLA space
physicist Vassilis Angelopoulos. They represent “a potent geomagnetic storm.”
The equinox in Spring and Autumn is a time when magnetic connections between the
Sun and Earth are most favorable.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One book, “Silent Spring”, by
Rachel Carson, first published in September 1962, started the environmental
campaign against pesticide use for any reason, leading most famously to the ban
on DDT in the U.S. What Carson neglected to tell readers was how they were
supposed to cope with the trillions of insects that come with the advent of warm
weather. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No pesticide use does not mean
less mosquitoes, less termites, less flies, less ants, or less of any other
insect species and the diseases they spread, property damage, and the damage
they cause to crops of all descriptions. And, of course, the much of
the pollination of crops and other vegetation depends on insect
species.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Carson’s claims of a silent
spring bereft of bird species was a blatant lie. </span><a href="http://paradigmsanddemographics.blogspot.com/2014/11/repealing-ban-on-ddt-is-bigger-than-bed.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #378add;">Rich Kozlovich</span></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, an authority on pest
management, noted that “Bird populations were never so high in North America”
despite the use of DDT and other pesticides. “Carson’s claim about how the poor
robin was going to disappear was not only wrong, she was deliberately
lying.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Carson was a science writer
for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and absolutely had to know that in 1960
there were 12 times more robins, 21 times more cowbirds, 38 times more
blackbirds, 131 times more grackles, etc., compared to 1941
numbers.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Spring is a time of renewal in
the northern hemisphere and it occurs with enormous levels of natural power.
Most people, however, are oblivious to that power as they enjoy the sight of
flowers and trees blooming. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I could almost guarantee that
you will read or hear about “global warming” or “climate change” being
attributed to the arrival of Spring. Do yourself a favor. Keep in mind that
those claims, like Rachel Carson’s, represent an anti-humanity, anti-energy, and
anti-capitalism agenda of the environmental movement.
<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Instead, celebrate the
seasonal renewal of life on Earth and give thanks for the energy that permits
you to control the environment of the structures where you live and work, that
provides you the means to get in your car and go anywhere, and that powers every
device you use. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Alan Carubahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10901162110385985193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-280340667410855387.post-82802688573207322512015-03-16T07:49:00.002-07:002015-03-16T07:49:24.808-07:00Is John Kerry a Moron?<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">By Alan
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I can recall John Kerry, Obama’s
Secretary of State, from the days he testified to a congressional committee and
slandered his fellow soldiers as the spokesman for Veterans Against the Vietnam
War in 1971. I was appalled then and my opinion of the man has not changed since
those days. I opposed the war, too, but I did not blame it on the men who were
conscripted to fight it, nor did I believe the charges he leveled against some
of them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">These days Kerry is engaged in
securing an agreement with the Iranians, if not to stop their program to make
their own nuclear weapons than to slow it to a later date. Never mind that the
Iranian government is listed by our own government as a leading sponsor of
terrorism worldwide or that they have signed such agreements in the past and
then tossed out the inspectors. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Kerry is convinced that the Obama
administration can get an agreement that is, in his own words, “not legally
binding”, nor is it a treaty that the U.S. Senate would have to vote for or
against. In point of fact, President Obama can make the deal—sign the
agreement—just as Presidents have done for over two hundred years. It can then
be abrogated by whoever the next President will be. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Why Obama and Kerry are doing this
defies my understanding. It gives the Iranians more time to reach nuclear
capability. It is opposed by every nation in the Middle East. It puts every
nation within reach of Iran’s missiles at risk and it virtually guarantees the
destruction of Israel, a goal of Iran’s Islamic Revolution from the day it was
born. Kerry is negotiating with people who took our diplomats hostage in 1979
and have played a role in the deaths of many Americans since then.
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Is John Kerry a moron? I think
so.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I asked myself this question in regard
to another area of U.S. policy which the Secretary of State is also championing
even if millions around the world have concluded
otherwise.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">On March 2<sup><span style="font-size: xx-small;">nd</span></sup>, Kerry addressed the Atlantic Council
in Washington, D.C, telling them what he has been saying in many forums. Let us
understand that “climate change” is the name being used to replace “global
warming”, because the Earth has been in a cooling cycle for the past 18 years or
so. And let us understand that “climate change” has been happening for 4.5
billion years. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Kerry said, “So when science tells us
that our climate is changing and human beings are largely causing that change,
by what right do people stand up and just say, ‘Well, I dispute that’ or ‘I deny
that elementary truth’?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>The problem with this is that human beings are
not causing the planet’s climate change. Forces far greater than humans are
involved, not the least of which is the Sun. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">As for science, its most fundamental
methodology is to constantly challenge the various ‘truths’ put forward as
theories until they can be proved to be true by being independently reproduced.
Nothing about the “global warming” theories has been true. All of the computer
models on which it was based have been proven inaccurate. In some cases, they
were deliberately rigged.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">On television meteorologists remind us
that every day, indeed, from morning to night, the temperatures of the area
about which they are reporting are in a constant state of change. They show us
satellite photography and mapping that demonstrates how dynamic the weather is
on any spot on Earth. The climate, however, is measured in decades and
centuries. Every one of the doomsday predictions of the global warming
“scientists” and propagandists have been wrong. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The enemies of the use of energy to
enhance and improve the lives of the residents of Earth began to claim in the
1970s and 80s that carbon dioxide (CO2) was threatening the climate.
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">At best, CO2 is a very minor element
of the Earth’s atmosphere, about 0.04%, which gets it rated as “a trace gas.” As
such, it plays no role with regard to the climate.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Kerry asserted that climate change is
“one of the biggest threats facing our planet today” and should be ranked with
terrorism, epidemics, poverty and nuclear proliferation…” Oh, wait! Isn’t this
the same Secretary of State negotiating with Iran to allow it to <em>become
a</em> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">nuclear power</i>?
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">And what “solution” does he offer to
reduce the “threat” of climate change? Kerry urged that the U.S. transition away
from “dirty sources of energy” such as coal, oil and natural gas.
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Writing in a recent issue of <a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/fossil-fuels-will-save-the-world-really-1426282420?KEYWORDS=matt+ridley+articles"><span style="color: #378add;">The
Wall Street Journal</span></a>, Matt Ridley noted that “In 2015, about 87% of the
energy that the world consumed came from fossil fuels, a figure
that—remarkably—was unchanged from 10 years before. This roughly divides into
three categories of fuel and three categories of use: oil used mainly for
transport, gas used mainly for heating, and coal used mainly for
electricity.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Fossil fuels have made the difference
between modern life and burning cow dung to cook dinner. A billion people on
Earth still do not have electricity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Less obvious, but significantly more
threatening is the White House effort to get the U.S. signed up for the United
Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and its <a href="http://beforeitsnews.com/environment/2015/03/will-bo-force-us-to-submit-to-climate-justice-tribunal-these-jurists-will-not-be-those-who-have-our-best-interests-at-heart-2523166.html"><span style="color: #378add;">International
Climate Justice tribunal</span></a>. This is a follow-up to the 1977 Kyoto Protocol
that was unanimously rejected by the U.S. Senate. Why? Because such treaties
threaten the sovereignty of the U.S. and, just as importantly, because the
entire United Nation’s climate program is a huge
fraud.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">This is what John Kerry wants the U.S.
to agree to, just like the Iran deal, and just to be sure the U.S. Senate, as
mandated by the U.S. Constitution, doesn’t have a say in it, he and the
President are calling these deals anything other than a
treaty.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Is John Kerry a moron? Maybe not as
dumb as he seems to be, but surely cynical and devious.
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Unfortunately, he is the Secretary of
State. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Alan Carubahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10901162110385985193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-280340667410855387.post-85233199404695351812015-03-11T08:36:00.003-07:002015-03-11T08:36:45.737-07:00The EPA Thinks You're Stupid<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">By Alan
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The folks at the Environmental
Protection Agency, starting with a long line of its administrators that now
includes Gina McCarthy, think you and the Congress of the United States are
stupid. They have been telling lies for so long they can’t imagine that their
chokehold on the American economy will ever end.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">It is, however, coming to an end and
the reason is a Republican-controlled Congress responding to the countless
businesses and individuals being ravaged by a ruthless bureaucracy driven by an
environmental agenda determined to deprive America of the energy sources vital
to our lives and the nation’s existence.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">This was on display in early March
when Gina McCarthy testified to the Senate Environmental and Public Works
Committee, asking for a nearly $500 million increase in its 2016 budget. The
total discretionary budget request would have topped out at $8.6 billion and
would reward states nearly $4 billion to go along with the EPA’s Clean Power
Plan.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The problem is that the Clean Power
Plan is really about no power or far more costly power in those states where the
EPA has been shutting down coal-fired plants that not long ago provided fifty
percent of all the electricity in the nation. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">In February 2014, the <a href="http://instituteforenergyresearch.org/topics/policy/power-plant-closures/"><span style="color: #378add;">Institute
for Energy Research</span></a> reported:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“More than 72 gigawatts (GW) of
electrical generating capacity have already, or are now set to retire because of
the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) regulations. The regulations causing
these closures include the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (colloquially called
MATS, or Utility MACT), proposed Cross State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR), and the
proposed regulation of carbon dioxide emissions from existing power
plants.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><strong>To put 72 GW in perspective,
that is enough electrical generation capacity to reliably power 44.7 million
homes—or every home in every state west of the Mississippi River, excluding
Texas. In other words, EPA is shutting down enough generating capacity to power
every home in Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho, Nevada, Arizona, Utah,
Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, North and South Dakota, Nebraska,
Kansas, Oklahoma, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, and
Louisiana.<o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Over 94 percent these retirements will
come from generating units at coal-fired power plants, shuttering over one-fifth
of the U.S.’s coal-fired generating capacity. While some of the effected units
will be converted to use new fuels, American families and businesses will pay
the price with higher utility bills and less reliability for their
electricity.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">What nation would knowingly reduce its
capacity to produce the electricity that everyone depends upon? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Answer: The United States of America.
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Why? Because the EPA has been telling
us that coal-fired plants produce carbon dioxide (CO2) and it is causing ours
and the world’s temperature to increase to a point that threatens our lives.
</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">They have been claiming
that everything from blizzards to droughts, hurricanes to forest fires, are the
result of the CO2 that coal-fired plants produce. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">That is a huge, stupendous lie.
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">In the Senate Committee meeting,
McCarthy said, “Climate change is real. It is happening. It is a threat. Humans
are causing the majority of that threat...the impacts are being felt. Climate
change is not a religion. It is not a belief system. It’s a scientific fact. And
our challenge is to move forward with the actions we need to protect future
generations.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><strong>Climate change <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">is</i> real. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">It’s been real for 4.5 billion years</i> and
it has absolutely nothing to do with anything that humans do, least of all
heating, cooling and lighting their homes, running their businesses, and
everything else that requires electricity.</strong> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">McCarthy said that the EPA’s overall
goal was to save the planet from rising sea levels, massive storms, and other
climate events that impact our lives. No, that’s <em>not</em> why the EPA was
created in 1970. Its job was to clean the water and the air. It has done a
relatively good job, but its mandate had nothing to do with the climate, nor
does the provision of energy have any impact on the climate. </span><br /><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span><br /><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The reverse is true. The climate has a
lot of impact on us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Regarding the “science” McCarthy
referred to, according to a 2013 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change, there were record low tornadoes, record low hurricanes, record
<em>gain</em> in Arctic and Antarctic ice, no change in the rate of sea levels,
and there had been NO WARMING at that point for 17—now
19—years.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">When Sen. Jeff Sessions asked <a href="http://www.newsmax.com/LarryBell/climate-global-warming-epa-pielke/2015/03/09/id/628970/"><span style="color: #378add;">McCarthy</span></a>
a number of questions about droughts and hurricanes, she either dodged providing
a specific answer or claimed, as with hurricanes, that “I cannot answer that
question. It’s a very complicated issue.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Asked about the computer models on
which the EPA makes its regulatory decisions, McCarthy replied, “I do not know
what the models actually are predicting that you are referring to.” Sen.
Sessions said that it was incredible that the Administrator of the EPA “doesn’t
know whether their predictions have been right or
wrong.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">As for any “science” the EPA may be
using, much of it is SECRET. </span></div>
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Sterling Burnett, the managing editor of the Heartland Institute’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="http://news.heartland.org/energy-and-environment"><span style="color: #378add;">Environment &
Climate News</span></a></i>, reported on The Secret Science Reform Act (HR 4012)
introduced by the House Science Committee late last year. The bill would
“prohibit the Environmental Protection Agency from proposing, finalizing, or
disseminating regulations or assessments based on science that is not
transparent or reproducible.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The House passed the Act on November
20, 2014 and it has been received in the Senate, read twice, and referred to the
Committee on Environment and Public Works. If it passes the Senate, that will be
a giant leap forward in gaining oversight and control of the
EPA.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Until then, the EPA’s administrator
and staff will continue to work their mischief in the belief that both Congress
and the rest of us are stupid. We’re not.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">By Alan
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“Eliminating the terrorists of today
with force will not guarantee protection from the terrorists of tomorrow. We
have to transform the environments that give birth to these movements…It may be
training young people so they can get jobs…it may be working to eliminate
corruption and promote the rule of law…”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The Obama administration proposal that
a jobs program be created for the militants in the Middle East was met with
appropriate derision because what the jihadists need is killing. That’s what
they are doing to Christians, Jews and others in the Middle East and elsewhere.
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The quote above is by John Kerry, the
Secretary of State, and to be fair, his February 18 <a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/john-kerry-our-plan-for-countering-violent-extremism-1424305659"><span style="color: #378add;">Wall
Street Journal commentary</span></a> began by saying “The rise of violent extremism
represents the pre-eminent challenge of the young 21<sup><span style="font-size: xx-small;">st</span></sup> Century. Military force is a rational
and often necessary response to the wanton slaughters of children, mass
kidnappings of schoolgirls, and beheading of innocents. But military force along
won’t achieve victory.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Kerry is wrong. History as recent as
the mid-20<sup><span style="font-size: xx-small;">th</span></sup> century is proof
enough that the military defeat of Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan was the
only thing that ended the threat they represented. He was also wrong when he
told a congressional committee that the world is a safer place these days when
it is clear to anyone it is not. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">We are being led by people who live in
some alternative universe where pixie dust and unicorns
exist.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The real question the Obama
administration has to answer is why, since he took office in 2009, has he been
systematically reducing the military power of the United States? By pulling our
troops out of Iraq he created a vacuum filled by the Islamic State (ISIS) that
now threatens the entire Middle East and parts of North Africa. He has since
curtailed plans to pull most of our troops out of Afghanistan.
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Out of sight of Americans, however,
the key personnel, the leaders on which our military depends, have been subject
to a purge. <a href="http://www.thesleuthjournal.com/dozens-high-ranking-officers-purged-u-s-military/"><span style="color: #378add;">General
Paul Vallely (Ret) </span></a>has warned that “Since Barack Obama has been in the White
House, high ranking military officers have been removed from their positions at
a rate that is absolutely unprecedented,” adding that “He’s intentionally
weakening and gutting our military and reducing us as a superpower, and anyone
in the ranks who disagrees or speaks out is being
purged.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">In late February, 84 former U.S.
government officials, retired U.S. military leaders, and national security
experts sent an open letter to the House and Senate leadership asking them to
work together to end the harm that the Budget Control Act and sequestration is
inflicting on our Armed Forces.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">They deemed the trillion dollars of
required defense spending cuts “a grave and growing danger to our national
security…as threats intensify across the globe.” The cuts “are undermining the
readiness of our forces today and investment in the critical capabilities they
will need tomorrow.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“In the last three years, the Army’s
strength has been cut by nearly 100,000 soldiers. The Navy’s contingency
response force is at one-third the level of what it should be. Less than half of
the Air Force’s combat squadrons are fully ready. Approximately half of the
Marine Corps non-deployed units lack sufficient personnel, equipment, and
training.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">These were facts set forth in the
National Defense Panel’s July 2014 report. It warned that if sequestration takes
effect in fiscal year 2016, the U.S. would be facing an “immediate readiness
crisis.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">This lack of readiness was the subject
of a Wall Street Journal commentary,<a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/ian-birrell-europes-defense-wanes-as-the-putin-threat-grows-1425427717"><span style="color: #378add;">
“Europe’s Defense Wanes as the Putin Threat Grows”</span></a> by Ian Birrell, so it is
not just the United States that lacks sufficient troops and weapons in the event
of a war. Birrell noted that “With fewer than 100,000 full-time troops, Great
Britain now has a smaller army than during the mid-19<sup><span style="font-size: xx-small;">th</span></sup>-century Crimean War.” Other members
of NATO have cut their defense budgets in recent years. He warned that “As we
fight this new Cold War, Western leaders need to relearn the old lessons of
crisis management and deterrence that defeated Mr. Putin’s Soviet
predecessors—and relearn them quickly.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Recall that Secretary Kerry has gone
on record saying that “climate change” is the greatest threat the U.S. and the
world faces. Little wonder that Chuck Hegel resigned as the former Secretary of
Defense given the pressure he was under from a White House indifferent to the
real problems and threats the U.S. faces.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">In 2014 the Pentagon released a
“Climate Change Adaptation Forecast” and any defense funds diverted to this plan
were just that much less than needed for our troops in the field and the real
needs of the U.S. military. Are they supposed to be fighting melting ice bergs
or staying ready for potential military threats from China or
Russia?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">An example of the idiotic political
correctness, scarce Pentagon resources are being diverted to a plan to generate
50% of the Navy’s energy needs from “alternative sources” by 2020, including
$3.5 billion for <em>biofuels</em>. You cannot fight a global war if the Navy
cannot swiftly and easily acquire oil to run its ships that are not
nuclear-powered and fly its aircraft.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">At the same time, the U.S. has been
reducing its stockpile of nuclear arms. The State Department’s Rose
Gottemoeller, under-secretary for arms control and international security,
recently told a group “The U.S. commitment to achieving the peace and security
of a world without nuclear weapons is unassailable.” She noted that the nation’s
stockpile of active weapons is down 85% from maximum cold war levels, falling to
4,804 in 2013 from a high of 31,255, adding that “We still have more work to
do.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">This completely ignores nuclear
nations like North Korea who have bad intentions toward the U.S. and their
neighbors and it runs completely contrary to the U.S. negotiations with Iran
that would permit it to become a nuclear armed nation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br /><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span><br /><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">This is worse than diplomatic
schizophrenia; it is a plan for national suicide.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Vincent Stewart,
director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, recently told Congress that Russia
and China have placed their highest priority on building up and maintaining
strategic nuclear forces. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">If you want to know what is wrong
about the entire approach to our nation’s military needs, consider that since
2009 when Obama took office, the Pentagon’s civilian workforce has grown about
7% to almost 750,000, while active-duty military personnel have been cut by
approximately 8%. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">At the same time, dozens of
military-equipment and weapons programs have been canceled, including a new Navy
cruiser, a new search-and-rescue helicopter, the F-22 first-generation fighter,
the C-17 transport aircraft, missile defense and the Marine Corps’ Expeditionary
Fighting Vehicle.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">We are not prepared to fight a war and
now you know why.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Alan Carubahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10901162110385985193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-280340667410855387.post-67394483906609038152015-03-01T05:54:00.002-08:002015-03-01T05:54:28.226-08:00Green Slander<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name">
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">It is a sure sign that the advocates
of the “global warming” and “climate change” hoaxes know that the public no
longer believes that the former is occurring or that the latter represents an
immediate, global threat.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Even though the “climate skeptics”,
scientists who have produced research proving false methodology and
the conclusions based on it are quite few in number, an effort to silence them
by smearing their reputations and denying funding for their work has been
launched and it is based entirely on a lie. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Scientists are supposed to be
skeptical, not only of other scientist’s findings, but their own. Good science
must be able to reproduce the results of published research. In the case of the
many computer models cited as proof that global warming was occurring or would,
the passing years have demonstrated that <em>none</em> were accurate.
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">As Joseph L. Bast, president of The
Heartland Institute and Joseph A. Morris, an attorney who has fought in several
countries to defend free speech, wrote in a February 24 commentary, <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/02/24/the-crucifixion-of-dr-willie-soon/"><span style="color: #378add;">“The
Crucifixion of Dr. Wei-Hock Soon”, </span></a>of an article co-authored with
Christopher Monckton, Matt Briggs, and David Legates, and published in the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Science Bulletin</i>, a publication of the
Chinese Academy of Sciences “The article reveals what appears to be an error in
the computer models used to predict global warming that leads models to
over-estimate future warming <em>by a factor of three.</em>” (Emphasis
added) Their commentary has been downloaded more than 10,000
times!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“If the work of Soon <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">et al </i>is confirmed by other scientists,
the ‘global warming crisis’ may need to be cancelled and we can all enjoy lower
taxes, fewer regulations, and more personal freedom.” However, “having failed to
refute the article, environmentalists turned to smearing the
authors.”</span><br /><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Little wonder the “Warmists” are
worried; the Earth has been in a cooling cycle since 1996. People are noticing
just how cold this record-breaking and record-setting winter
is. <o:p></o:p></span><br /><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The attack on Dr. Soon began with a
Greenpeace news release that was republished on the front page of The New York
Times on February 22<sup><span style="font-size: xx-small;">nd</span></sup>.
Despite its august reputation, The Times' coverage of climate issues has been an
utter disgrace for decades. As public interest waned, it eliminated its staff of
reporters exclusively devoted to writing about the “environment.”
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Myron Ebell, a climate change skeptic
and director of Global Warming and International Environmental Policy at the
Competitive Enterprise Institute, noted on February 27<sup><span style="font-size: xx-small;">th</span></sup> that the Greenpeace attack on Dr.
Soon of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics claimed they had secured
$1.2 million in funding for his research over the past decade and that it came
from energy corporations, electric utilities, and charitable foundations related
to those companies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The truth, however,
is “that the grants were made not to Dr. Soon but to the Smithsonian, which
never complained while taking its sizable cut off the top.”
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Columnist <a href="http://www.newsmax.com/LarryBell/FOIA-New-York-Times-CFA-NSF/2015/02/26/id/627005/"><span style="color: #378add;">Larry
Bell</span></a> who is also an endowed professor at the University of Houston, disputed
the Greenpeace claim, saying, “First, let’s recognize that the supporting FOIA
documents referred to an agreement between the Smithsonian (not Dr. Soon) and
Southern Company Services, Inc., whereby 40 percent of that more than $1.2
million went directly to the Smithsonian” leaving “an average funding of $71,000
a year for the past eleven years to support the actual research activities.”
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Focusing on Greenpeace and its Climate
Investigations Center which describes itself as “a group funded by foundations
seeking to limit the risks of climate change”, Bell asked “Do these activist
organizations make their estimated $360,000,000 annual funding publicly
available?” Bell said “Ad hominem assaults disparaging the integrity of this
leading authority on relationships between solar phenomena and global climate
are unconscionable.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">In his article<a href="http://www.cfact.org/2015/02/12/vilifying-realist-science-and-scientists/"><span style="color: #378add;">,
“Vilifying realist science—and scientists”,</span></a> Paul Driessen, a policy advisor
to the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT), noted that in 2012
Greenpeace USA was the recipient of $32,791,149 and that this is true of other
environmental pressure groups that in 2012 secured $111,915.138 for the
Environmental Defense Fund, $98,701,707 for the Natural Resources Defense
Council, $97,757,678 for the Sierra Club, and, for Al Gore’s Alliance for
Climate Protection, $19,150,215. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“All told,” noted Driessen, “more than
16,000 American environmental groups collect(ed) total annual revenues of over
$13.4 billion (2009 figures). Only a small part of that comes from membership
dues and individual contributions.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With
that kind of money you can do a lot of damage to scientist’s
reputation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">They fear that the public may actually
learn the truth about “global warming” and the fear-mongering claims about
“climate change” does not stop with just the environmental organizations. At the
same time The New York Times was printing the Greenpeace lies, U.S. Senators Ed
Market (D-Mass), Barbara Boxer (D-CA), and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) joined
together on February 25<sup><span style="font-size: xx-small;">th</span></sup> to
send letters to 107 companies, trade associations, and non-profit groups
demanding comprehensive information about all funding of research on climate or
related issues. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Among the groups receiving the letter
were two for whom I am a policy advisor, <a href="http://www.heartland.org/"><span style="color: #378add;">The
Heartland Institute</span></a> and <a href="http://www.cfact.org/"><span style="color: #378add;">CFACT</span></a>, but
others include the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the George C. Marshall
Institute, the American Legislative Exchange Council, and the American Energy
Alliance. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Following The New York Times article,
Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-AZ), the ranking Democrat on the House Natural Resources
Committee, sent letters to the presidents of seven universities asking them to
provide details about seven professors who are either prominent global warming
skeptics.</span><br /><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span><br /><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">As Rich Lowrey, editor of the <a href="http://www.climatechangedispatch.com/a-shameful-climate-witch-hunt.html"><span style="color: #378add;">National
Review</span></a>, pointed out on February 27th, that "Science as an enterprise usually
doesn't need political enforcers. But proponents of a climate alarmism that
demands immediate action to avert worldwide catastrophe won't and can't simply
let the science speak for itself."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">This is not fact-finding. It is an act
of intimidation. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">And it looks like a carefully
organized effort to quash any research that might dispute “global warming” or
“climate change” as defined by the Greens and by both the President and the
Secretary of State as the greatest threat we and the rest of the world
faces.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The greatest threat is the scores of
environmental organizations that have been exaggerating and distorting their
alleged “science” in order to thwart development here and around the world that
would enhance everyone’s life. Now they are attacking real scientists, those who
are skeptical of their claims, to silence them. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Alan Carubahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10901162110385985193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-280340667410855387.post-49414129436030828612015-02-25T06:11:00.002-08:002015-02-25T06:11:13.885-08:00The End of Freedom in America<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The America that has existed from the
days of the Declaration of Independence in 1776, when its sovereignty was
acknowledged by a treaty with England 1783, and its founding in 1788 with the
ratification of the Constitution is no more. The America for which thousands
fought and gave their lives is no more. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">That America ends on February 26 when
the Federal Communications Commission, under intense pressure from the Obama
White House and with the votes of its Democratic Party commissioners asserts
government control over the Internet with a 332-page set of regulations, dubbed
“Net Neutrality.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Writing in the Feb 22<sup><span style="font-size: xx-small;">nd</span></sup> <a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/l-gordon-crovitz-from-internet-to-obamanet-1424644324?KEYWORDS=From+Internet+to+Obamanet"><span style="color: #378add;">Wall
Street Journal</span></a>, columnist L. Gordon Crovitz summed up what will occur saying
“Obamanet promises to fix an Internet that isn’t broken…The permissionless
Internet which allows anyone to introduce a website, app, or device without
government review, ends this week.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“The big politicization came when
President Obama in November demanded that the supposedly independent FCC apply
agency’s most extreme regulation to the Internet.” Of course Obama wants the
Internet regulated and of course the Democratic Party will support this move to
control who gets to put up a website or blog and, more importantly, who gets to
say anything critical of the President.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The Democratic Party has been in
everything but name the Communist Party in the United States for several
decades. Obama was raised and mentored to be a Marxist. What we are witnessing
is nothing less than tyranny replacing
democracy.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Crovitz warned that “This week Mr.
Obama’s bureaucrats will give him the regulated Internet he demands. Unless
Congress or the courts block Obamanet, it will be the end of the Internet as we
know it.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Earlier this week, as reported by
Giuseppe Macri in <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2015/02/23/republican-fcc-commissioners-ask-wheeler-to-delay-net-neutrality-vote-release-proposal/"><span style="color: #378add;">The
Daily Caller</span></a> the FCC’s two Republican commissioners, Ajit Pai and Michael
O’Rielly, asked Chairman Tom Wheeler “to delay the vote and release his proposal
to the public. ‘We respectfully request that FCC leadership immediately release
the 332-page Internet regulation plan publicly and allow the American people a
reasonable period of not less than 30 days to carefully study
it.’”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">There is some evil at work here
because, as the Republican commissioners point out, “the plan in front of us
right now is so drastically different than the proposal the FCC adopted and put
out for public comment last May.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Shades of ObamaCare! Even the
Democrats who voted that monstrosity into law had not read it. Now neither
Congress, nor the rest of America is being permitted to see regulations that
will determine what can and cannot be posted to the Internet, the greatest
instrument of free speech ever invented since the printing press.
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Commissioner Pai says that the FCC is
“adopting a solution that won’t work to a problem that doesn’t exist using legal
authority we don’t have.” He estimates that the regulations will add up to $11
billion in new taxes on Internet access. </span><br /><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">In a commentary, “Neutralize Obama’s
Hijacking of the Internet”, <a href="http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/69974"><span style="color: #378add;">Judi McLeod</span></a>, the
editor of CanadaFreePress.com, said “Forget NSA, the FBI, the CIA, and all
warnings sent by Edward Snowden. They’ve got nothing on how Net Neutrality will
silence you.”<o:p></o:p></span><br /><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“Someday in the near future when you
type in the words “Islamic terrorists” in an Internet post, you will be knocked
off the Net and find it all but impossible to climb back on again.”
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Do I think the Congress will exercise
its oversight responsibilities and stop this tyrannical power grab? No. Do I
think our court system will do anything other than bow to precedent set by
earlier FCC regulations? Yes. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">As a nation founded on and devoted to
freedom of speech, I think February 26, 2015 will go down in the history books
as the day when that freedom came to an end in America.
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Thanks to a National Security Agency
we no longer have any privacy regarding anything we say using telephones, the
Internet or any other form of communication.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">If the Democrat-controlled FCC has its
way, the Internet will slow your access and could eliminate access countless
sites that provide news and express opinions the federal government finds
offensive. That's what tyrannies do.</span></div>
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Alan Carubahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10901162110385985193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-280340667410855387.post-8481810840670333162015-02-23T13:44:00.002-08:002015-02-23T13:44:12.630-08:00It's An Ice Age for Sure<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: center;">
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<br /><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">By Alan Caruba</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some say the world will end in
fire,</span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Some say in ice.
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">From what I've tasted
of desire. <o:p></o:p></span><br /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I hold with those who
favor fire. <o:p></o:p></span><br /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">But if it had to
perish twice, I think I know enough of hate. <o:p></o:p></span><br /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">To say that for
destruction ice Is also great. <o:p></o:p></span><br /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">And would
suffice.<o:p></o:p></span><br /><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">-- Robert Frost,
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Robert W. Felix
borrowed from the poet Robert Frost for the title of his book, “Not by Fire, But
by Ice”, first published in 1997 and devoted to the science of magnetic
reversals and the Earth’s ice ages. I read it first in 2010 and was absolutely
floored because Felix makes a very strong case for a reversal that would lead to
a widespread extinction of life at some point in the future. In the near, more
predictable future, he said the Earth was heading into <a href="http://iceagenow.info/2014/06/global-cooling-imminent/"><span style="color: #378add;">a new ice
age</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“What would happen if
a magnetic reversal occurred right here?” asked Felix. “The same things that
happened in the past. Earthquakes, floods, volcanoes, giant snowstorms, rising
land, plummeting sea levels—you name it—tectonic activity would go bonkers.”
Don’t believe him? Think about the disappearance of the dinosaurs some 65.5
million years ago.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The Earth had been in
a cooling cycle that began in 1996 when the sun entered a cycle of reduced
radiation. Such cycles were well known and most dramatically tied to the
mini-ice age that occurred between 1300 and 1850. Solar observers had noticed
many centuries ago that when there were few sunspots—magnetic storms—on the
surface of the Sun, the Earth got colder.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">This has become
especially dramatic because, on February 17 a post on </span><a href="http://thesiweather.com/category/climate-info/"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="color: blue;">http://thesiweather.com/category/climate-info/</span></span></a><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> called for a
discussion of the fact that “The Sun has gone quiet again during the weakest
solar cycle in more than a century.” The post says, “If history is a guide, it
is safe to say that weak solar activity for a prolonged period of time can have
a negative impact on global temperatures in the troposphere which is the
bottom-most layer of Earth’s atmosphere—and where we all
live.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“There have been two
notable historical periods with decades-long episodes of low solar activity. The
first is known as the ‘Maunder Minimum’, named after solar astronomer Edward
Maunder, and it lasted from 1645 to 1715. The second one is referred to as the
‘Dalton Minimum’, named for the English meteorologist John Dalton and it lasted
from 1780 to 1830.” Together they are referred to as the “Little Ice
Age.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">There are quite a few
scientists forecasting a new ice age. The last ice age began approximately 1.6
million years ago in the Pleistocene epoch. We are currently in the Holocene
epoch that began about 11,000 years ago and is regarded as an interglacial
period of general warmth. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">In his book, “Dark
Winter: How the Sun is Causing a 30-Year Cold Spell”, <a href="http://www.spaceandscience.net/"><span style="color: #378add;">John L. Casey</span></a>, a former White House
national space policy advisor, says that whatever warming has occurred has ended
as the result of “solar hibernation”, a term he applies to the reduction of
energy output of the Sun. The “climate change” that is occurring is a long-term
reduction in the Earth’s temperatures with, says Casey, “a high probability of
increased earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">In “Cold Sun”, another
book by Casey, his says that “The most likely outcome from this ‘solar
hibernation’ will be widespread global loss of life and social, economic, and
political disruption. You must prepare for this life-altering event
now!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">In January 2012, Matt
Ridley, a columnist for The Wall Street Journal, noted that “The entire
10,000-year history of civilization has happened in an unusually warm interlude
in the Earth’s recent history. Over the past million years, it has been as warm
as this or warmer for less than 10% of the time, during 11 brief episodes known
as interglacial periods.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Those who kept warning
of a “global warming” with dire results misinterpreted the climate. Ridley noted
that “It’s striking that most inter-glacials begin with an abrupt warming, peak
sharply, (and) then begin a gradual descent into cooler conditions.” That is
what is occurring now. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">None of this has
anything to do with carbon dioxide, ozone, or any other element of the Earth’s
atmosphere. It is entirely the result of the lower solar radiation of heat.
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The United States
should be taking steps to ensure a sufficient supply of electricity to cope with
the lower temperatures, but has been wasting billions to support “renewable”
energy, wind and solar, that is costly and ineffective. The U.S. Energy
Department projects that solar power will make up 0.6 percent of total U.S.
electricity generation in 2015. Wind power which is funded in part by taxpayer
subsidies to stay in business has received $7.3 billion over the past seven
years, but produces a minimal amount of electricity to justify its cost.
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">At the same time, the
Environmental Protection Agency’s “war on coal” has forced many plants providing
electricity to close. A significant disruption of electricity over an extended
period of time will cause many deaths due to the cold weather. It is
inevitable.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">At the same time,
instead of providing a source of food, tons of corn are being turned into
ethanol in the name of reducing carbon dioxide even though CO2 plays no role
whatever in a “global warming” that is not
happening.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">It’s not just another
typical winter. The U.S. and much of the northern hemisphere is experiencing
increased cooling that is seen in record-breaking and record-setting new amounts
of snow and ice. This is a trend tied to the Sun’s and the Earth’s cooling
cycle. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">That is of no concern
to those who are using “global warming” and “climate change” in order to bring
about a transformation in the global economic system from capitalism, the most
effective creator of growth and wealth, to socialism, a pathetic, failed system
of income redistribution controlled by a central government. Directed out of the
United Nations, their absurd claims are supported by the media and many deluded
politicians.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Is the U.S. government
responding in a sensible way? No. When President Obama speaks of “climate
change” he means “global warming.” The result over the past three decades has
been the waste of billions for “research” and other schemes tied to this huge
hoax.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Real climatologists,
meteorologists, and scientists paying attention to both the past and to present
events are forecasting more intense and longer winters—for now a Little Ice Age.
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Alan Carubahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10901162110385985193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-280340667410855387.post-63560637186021262982015-02-22T08:16:00.001-08:002015-02-22T08:16:13.087-08:00There Will Always Be War<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name">
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">By Alan Caruba</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">We begin with the reality that the
United States and many other nations are at war with militant Islamists. They
are a growing army of religious zealots murdering Christians, Jews, others who
are not Muslim, and even other Muslims. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">In my youth America knew how to win
wars. In Europe it bombed Germany into submission, leading its allies in an
invasion that left Germany divided for decades until the Soviet Union collapsed.
In Asia Truman dropped two atomic bombs on Japan because they didn’t get the
message when Hiroshima was destroyed on August 6, 1945. It took a second bomb on
Nagasaki on August 9 to bring about Japan’s surrender.
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Millions died in World War II but the
alternative would have been the loss of freedom for millions
worldwide.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">If one spends any time learning
history, the primary lesson is that war has been a constant factor from the
beginning of what we call civilization about five thousand years ago.
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The Bronze Age introduced new weapons
that gave the residents of the Fertile Crescent in the Middle East a distinct
advantage over invading nomadic people, but the invaders introduced chariots and
it took the Egyptians and Babylonians a while to catch up. War has always been
about new, more lethal weaponry.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Why would we be surprised to learn
that the Assyrians who originated in what is now northern Iraq or the Islamic
State (ISIS) were the most violent and bloodthirsty of the ancient world’s
peoples? Known to all their neighbors by 1300 B.C.E., their army become a source
of terror for the Middle East during the ninth century. They destroyed the
Kingdom of Israel around 732 B.C.E., but the southern part of the Kingdom of
Judah survived. In time the Babylonians would defeat the
Assyrians.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Not all wars involved religion. The
Greeks fought each other and then fought the Persians. Alexander the Great, a
Macedonian, loved waging war and was very successful. The constant factor,
however, was war and, of course, Rome would become the greatest empire of its
time, beginning around 509 B.C.E., fighting three Punic wars with Carthage, but
losing an estimated 400,000 in the first war and 150,000 in the second.
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Eventually, Rome was so powerful it
imposed a “Pax Romana” on the entire Mediterranean area it controlled. In time,
Rome would be destroyed by the “barbarians”, Visigoths, Vandals, Ostrogoth’s,
and Burgundians. By 476 C.E., the Roman Empire was history.
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">After establishing a group of
followers in the Arabian Peninsula as the “last prophet”, proclaiming Islam as
the one, true faith, Muhammad died in 632 C.E. Within ten years, the Arabs had
conquered Jerusalem and were taking aim at Damascus and Cairo. Baghdad and the
Libyan Desert were the next to be conquered. They moved on to Spain and Central
Asia. </span></div>
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his lifetime, Ali, Mohammad’s son-in-law, was the leader of the Arab forces. As
noted in Samuel Willard Crompton’s ‘The Handy Military History Answer Book’, by
the time the Arabs fought the Byzantines and the Persians they had also
initiated the great split that remains today between the Sunnis and the
Shiites.” Shiite means “follower of Ali.” The Sunnis wanted to elect their own
caliph. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">After taking the southern half of
Spain, the Muslim army was poised to take all of Europe, but their 732 C.E.
defeat in the Battle of Tours put an end to further expansion. Their momentum in
Asia was stopped in 751 C.E. with a defeat in the Battle of Talas. As Crompton
notes, “in the century that followed the Prophet’s death, the Arabs took over
ninety percent of all the urban centers in the Western world, and their
conquests equaled those of ancient Rome.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The
Crusades<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Which brings us to the first Crusade;
it began when Pope Urban II in 1095 told a gathering of 10,000, mostly French
and German knights, that a “new accursed group”, the Muslims, had taken control
of the holy land were preventing pilgrims from visiting holy sites. The knights
responded to his call to liberate Jerusalem by chanting “Deus Volt! Deus
Volt!”—God wills it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">They were joined by a “Peasants
Crusade” between 1095 and 1096. By June 1099 the knights arrived outside
Jerusalem and what followed was a wholesale murder of everyone there. In 1185,
Saladin, the emir of Cairo and Lord of Damascus, proclaimed a jihad—a holy
war—against the Christians in the Kingdom of Jerusalem. The knights defending it
were defeated. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">A Second Crusade followed in 1147 C.E.
but accomplished little and the Third Crusade had the same result. A Fourth
Crusade resulted in the Europeans taking control of Constantinople in August
1204 C.E. They would rule it for the next fifty years. Years later, in 1489, a
war drove the Muslims from Spain.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The spokeswoman from our Department of
State who said that the present generation of Muslim holy warriors can’t all be
killed doesn’t know that this is the way wars are won. You kill the enemy until
the enemy decides that dying for their cause is not worth it.
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">If ISIS is insane enough to bring the
war to our homeland (and even if it doesn’t), a war of total destruction will be
the only way to end the present conflict. Currently, the Jordanians and the
Egyptians are doing what they can to resist ISIS, but recent polls confirm that
Americans are beginning to conclude that our active boots-on-the-ground
participation is the only way this will end. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Obama is merely going through the
motions of conducting a war against ISIS, but retired generals and diplomats
have told Congress that only full-scale war will end the threat they represent.
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Meanwhile, ISIS is committing genocide
against the Christians of the Middle East while Boko Haram is doing the same in
Africa. Hezbollah would do the same against Israel if it could. Given nuclear
arms, Iran will assert control over all of the Muslim warriors, threatening both
Israel and the U.S. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Our next President will have to commit
to destroying ISIS. There is no alternative. That is history’s primary
lesson.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><em>Editor’s Note:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Handy Military History Answer Book is
published by Visible Ink, $21.95, softcover.</em> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Alan Carubahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10901162110385985193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-280340667410855387.post-74686150047657107662015-02-18T10:06:00.003-08:002015-02-18T10:06:53.045-08:00The EPA's Ozone Nightmare<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Putting aside its insane attack on
carbon dioxide, declaring the most essential gas on Earth, other than oxygen, a
“pollutant”, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is currently engaged in
trying to further regulate ozone for no apparent reason other than its incessant
attack on the economy.</span><br /> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">In late January on behalf of the
Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (<a href="http://www.cfact.org/2015/02/04/cfact-to-epa-drop-job-killing-ozone-rules/"><span style="color: #378add;">CFACT</span></a>),
Dr. Bonner R. Cohen, Ph.D, filed his testimony on the proposed national ambient
air quality standard for ozone. The EPA wants to lower the current ozone
standard of 75 parts per billion (ppb) to a range of 70 to 65 ppb, and even as
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ozone standards in 2008,” Dr. Cohen noted, “EPA two years later called a
temporary halt to the nationwide implementation of the standard in response to
the severe recession prevailing at the time.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">In other words, it was deemed bad for
the economy. “Now, EPA is proposing a new, more stringent standard even before
the current standard has been fully implemented and even though, according to
the EPA’s own data, ozone concentrations have declined by 33 percent since
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">According to Wikipedia: </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Ozone is a
powerful oxidant (far more so than dioxygen) and has many industrial and
consumer applications related to oxidation. This same high oxidizing potential,
however, causes ozone to damage mucous and respiratory tissues in animals, and
also tissues in plants, above concentrations of about <span class="nowrap1">100 ppb</span>. This makes ozone a potent respiratory hazard and
pollutant near ground level. However, the so-called ozone layer (a portion of
the stratosphere with a higher concentration of ozone, from two to eight ppm) is
beneficial, preventing damaging ultraviolet light from reaching the Earth’s
surface, to the benefit of both plants and
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ground level atmosphere does have health benefits, but the EPA doesn't
just enforce the Clean Air Act, it also seeks to reinterpret and use it in every
way possible to harm the economy. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As Dr. Cohen pointed out, “the
Clean Air Act requires EPA’s Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee to produce
an evaluation of the adverse effects, including economic impact, of obtaining
and maintaining a tighter standard. Despite repeated requests from Congress,
(the Committee) has not produced the legally required evaluation. By ignoring
this statutory mandate, and moving ahead with its ozone rulemaking, EPA is
showing contempt for the rule of law and for the taxpayers who provide the
agency’s funding.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Since President Obama took
office in 2009 he has used the EPA as one of his primary tools to harm the U.S.
economy. In a Feb 2 Daily Caller article, </span><a href="http://dailycaller.com/2015/02/06/coal-industry-sheds-tens-of-thousands-of-jobs-under-obama/"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #378add;">Michael
Bastasch</span></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
reported that “Tens of thousands of coal mine and power plant workers have lost
their jobs under President Obama, and more layoffs could be on the way as the
administration continues to pile on tens of billions of dollars in regulatory
costs.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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CEO Betsy Monseu also testified regarding the proposed ozone standards, noting
that the increased reductions would affect power plants, industrial plants,
auto, agriculture, commercial and residential buildings, and more.
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the National Association of Manufacturers, “a 60 ppb ozone standard would result
in a GDP reduction of $270 billion per year, a loss of up to 2.9 million jobs
equivalents annually, and a reduction of $1,570 in average annual household
consumption. Electricity costs could increase up to 23% and natural gas cost by
up to 52% over the period to 2040.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In a rational society,
imposing such job losses and increased costs when the problem is already being
solved would make no sense, but we all live in Obama’s society these days and
that means increasing ozone standards only make sense if you want to harm the
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Alan Carubahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10901162110385985193noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-280340667410855387.post-31183411292802236602015-02-15T05:53:00.003-08:002015-02-15T05:53:20.454-08:00Are We Seeing History Repeat Itself?<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: center;">
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Those who do not remember the
past are condemned to repeat it” is the famed quote of George Santayana, a
Spanish philosopher (1863-1952).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am
beginning to think that the world is making its way toward a future that repeats
the horrors of the last century’s wars and earlier times when Europeans battled
Islam to free Jerusalem, to protect their homelands in Europe, and to eject
Muslims from Spain.</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjge4FqO0EbbdcFEdc4OHCQLrUEniB-VR2TLlRl-KaUMMwV_ZqCF9NSg0ioFrUPd2BBVrW9OThEpzcH00MRxcQHtOfkEpG4GJTVg5QNcJpv63JPkhkmC6qt5J_I2KjZxKOfOsVEtA_ruGU/s1600/Islam+as+Dominate.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjge4FqO0EbbdcFEdc4OHCQLrUEniB-VR2TLlRl-KaUMMwV_ZqCF9NSg0ioFrUPd2BBVrW9OThEpzcH00MRxcQHtOfkEpG4GJTVg5QNcJpv63JPkhkmC6qt5J_I2KjZxKOfOsVEtA_ruGU/s1600/Islam+as+Dominate.jpg" width="166" /></a><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In his book, “Jihad in the
West: Muslim Conquests from the 7<sup><span style="font-size: xx-small;">th</span></sup> to the 21<sup><span style="font-size: xx-small;">st</span></sup> Centuries” historian Paul Fregosi
documented the history of Islam and its attacks on European nations,
characterizing jihad as “essentially a permanent state of hostility that Islam
maintains against the rest of the world.” It is a Muslim sacrament, a duty they
must perform. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Occurring at the same time is
the agenda of the global environmental movement and on February 4 Christina
Figueres, the executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on
Climate Change, said “This is probably the most difficult task we have ever
given ourselves; which is to intentionally transform the economic development
model, for the first time in human history." </span></span><br /><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></span><br /><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"This is the first time in the
history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally,
within a defined period of time, <em>to</em> <em>change the economic development
model</em> that has been reigning for the, at least, 150 years, since the
industrial revolution.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> (Italics
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objective of the 1917 Communist revolution that began in Russia and Mao’s “Great
Leap Forward” (1958-1961) was the same that is now being openly embraced by the
United Nations in 2015. The result of both was the death of
millions.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Humanity is under attack from
an Islam that intends to impose its barbaric seventh century Sharia law and from
the environmental movement’s intention to end capitalism and replace it with the
income distribution central to Communism. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Both spell a terrible future
for the people of the world. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The President of the United
States is devoted to pursuing both of these goals as the defender of Islam and
the opponent of “income inequality.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
have twenty-two months to survive Barack Obama’s remaining time in office.
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Obama was first elected on the
promise to end the U.S. engagement in conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. After
many years Americans welcomed the prospect of ceasing the loss of lives and
billions those wars represented. With the rise of the Islamic State (ISIS) they
are now seeing the true price of that policy. Just because we don’t want to
fight a war doesn’t mean our enemy will cease to pursue
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We are at a critical moment in
time because it is evident that Obama wants to provide Iran the opportunity to
build its own nuclear weapons arsenal. It is a time as well when the military
capability of the U.S. has been diminished to what existed before the beginning
of World War II. All of Europe and much of Asia would have fallen under the
control of Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan if the U.S. had not stepped up
to the task of defeating them. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Relentlessly, Obama has done
everything he can to reduce the size of our military fighting force and the
ships, planes and other weapons needed to protect our security or support that
of our allies. He has withdrawn the U.S. from its position of global leadership
and left behind allies that no longer trust us and enemies who no longer fear
us.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span><a href="http://www.meforum.org/5023/muslim-and-non-muslim-persecution-of-christians"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #378add;">Middle East
Forum</span></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> wrote
on February 5 that “approximately 100 million Christians around the world are
experiencing the persecution by Muslims of all races, nationalities, and
socio-political circumstances.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At the same time, we are
witnessing a new exodus of Jews from Europe, mindful of the Holocaust in the
1940s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>According to the Pew Research
Center, as of 2013 the Jewish population worldwide was approximately 14 million.
Just over 6 million reside in Israel, another 6 million are U.S. citizens, and
the rest are in Europe and elsewhere around the world. What has not changed from
the last century, however, is the level of anti-Semitism and it appears to be on
the rise. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What we are witnessing is a
full-scale attack on the West—Christianity and Judaism—and upon Western values
of morality, democracy, and freedom. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Whether it will erupt in a new
world war is unknown, but if history is a guide, we are moving in that
direction. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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