Showing posts with label Cap and Trade. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cap and Trade. Show all posts

Friday, February 12, 2010

Can Somebody Say Global Warming?? Gore MIA During Blizzards~

AMBER ALERT: Al Gore MIA during blizzards
Glenn is very concerned because Al Gore has suddenly vanished from the public scene. It's almost like he's trying to lay low as the country is pounded with massive snowstorms, BUT he could have also been abducted by some deranged psycho. Speaking of deranged, check out this clip from MSNBC where a reporter explains that all the snow doesn't mean less global warming - it is proof of global warming. ( Transcript, Insider Audio) Washington DC Mall Feb 09 2010 Ironically, President Obama picked this week to announce the formation of a new global warming bureaucracy within the Department of Commerce. The news conference announcing this new “climate service" had to be canceled due to our D.C. area blizzard.

How out of touch is the radical environmental movement that, sadly, has a deep hold on the Obama Administration?

The Department of Commerce news release announcing the new “climate service" actually said the following, "More and more Americans are witnessing the impacts of climate change in their own backyards..."

There's more. The release, paid for with your tax dollars, goes on to say that "People are searching for relevant and timely information about these changes to inform decision making about VIRTUALLY ALL ASPECTS OF THEIR LIVE)." (emphasis added)

This kind of out-of-touch left-wing extremism inspired us here at Americans for Prosperity to create a new video I think you'll find interesting CLICK HERE

But even worse, the Obama Administration, in pursuit of their radical environmental goals, is still pursuing a cap-and-trade agenda that will kill jobs, raise utility bills and gas prices and infringe on our freedoms.

For the last two years, we've fought their radical agenda tooth-and-nail with the help of folks like you. We've held over 80 “Hot Air Tour" balloon rallies from Bozeman, Montana to Jacksonville, Florida and from Little Rock, Arkansas to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to raise awareness of the Left's cap-and-trade energy tax and to get activists to call and email their Senators and Congressmen to vote against it. CLICK HERE FOR MORE ON THESE RALLIES AND OUR EFFORT

Despite the fact that a Pew Foundation poll showed Americans rank "combating global warming" dead last on their list of priorities, President Obama used his recent State of the Union speech to once again demand passage of his cap-and-trade legislation. They even wrote a blank line in the federal budget labeled "allowance for climate policy" to keep secret how much they plan to tax and spend via cap-and-trade. So, the cap-and-trade fight is not over.

Even worse, Obama is not waiting for Congress. The president is now intent on using the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to bypass Congress and move full steam ahead to enforce the Left's global warming agenda.

Soon after President Obama's election, this un-elected bureaucracy issued a "finding" that greenhouse gas emissions endanger human health and welfare and therefore should be regulated by the EPA. Now, the EPA is moving to impose job-killing, freedom-encroaching regulations and mandates on American businesses - at a time when our economy is desperately struggling to create jobs and rebuild prosperity. Over 40,000 AFP activists put official comments in at the EPA on this issue. But to win, we will have to convince Congress to step in and stop the EPA.

Fortunately, there are now serious bipartisan efforts underway in both the House and Senate to do just that - block the EPA's outrageous global warming power grab and return the power to make our country's laws to Congress. At Americans for Prosperity, we're going to be announcing in the near future an intensive effort to combat this job killing EPA power grab. So stay tuned! In the meantime, please take a moment to click here and let your members of Congress know that if they fail to stop the EPA, you will hold them responsible for the consequences.

I hope you’re safe and sound at home if you live in the path of this storm. And you can just look out in your "backyard" for the devastating "impacts" of climate change (that’s what global warming is apparently called during blizzards!).

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Tim Phillips – Americans for Prosperity

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Related Posts on Global Warming… Get out the hot cocoa and sit in front of the fire, in most of the US, this is the right week so wade through all these links…

EPA’s Greenhouse Gases Declaration

Global Warming Hoax Part II

Climategate: the final nail in the coffin of ‘Anthropogenic Global Warming’?

Charles Krauthammer Video… on the Blackmail RE: Carbon Dioxide and the EPA!

Climategate – Hide the Decline

But have no fear… even though they are missing in action as the US is buried in snow… Kerry and Gore plow forward

Snow Job? Gore & Kerry Pushing Climate Change Bill Despite Blizzard

Kerry: 'Dead Wrong' to Write Obit on Climate Change Bill

D.C. Blizzard: More Proof of Global Warming!

Gore Due in Phillippines for Climate Change Talk

Climate Change Legislation Buried Under Record Snowfall

TIME: Global Warming Makes Blizzards Worse

Conservatives Use 'Snowmageddon' to Mock Global Warming

NBC Blames Snowpocalyse on Global Warming – Video

Sen. Inhofe's Family Builds Igloo for Gore

Senator Inhofe’s Family Built an Igloo for Al Gore

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

No Green Jobs and WH Lies…

Drillgate: Internal Emails Shows Obama Team Lying to Public

If you’re the President of the United States or one of his political appointees and you’re ideologically opposed to new oil and natural gas development offshore, what do you do when the public registers its overwhelming support for new drilling in public opinion polls?

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You dance, delay, and deceive. You speak melodious words about seeking the wisdom of the public in making these decisions and then ignore evidence of the public will when you get it, or worse, you hide it.

First came the dance. In August 2008, after soaring gas prices and a dramatic shift in public opinion caused President Bush, Florida Governor Charlie Crist, and Republican presidential candidate John McCain to reverse their positions on offshore drilling, then-Senator Obama also changed. The Democratic presidential nominee reversed his own position and that of his party, saying he was open to offshore drilling as part of an overall energy plan. The Democratic Congress followed a month later by quietly dropping the 25-year Congressional ban on offshore drilling.

Then came the delay. In January 2009, President Obama inherited a draft five year offshore drilling plan prepared by the outgoing Bush administration. The plan was already receiving public comment as part of the elaborate rule making process followed by federal agencies. Ken Salazar, Obama’s new Secretary of Interior, determined the decision about new offshore drilling was so important that he ordered a six-month extension to the comment period.

Third comes the dishonesty.

In April of 2009, during a discussion about offshore exploration in San Francisco, Salazar said that President Obama directed him to “to make sure that we have an open and transparent government” and that “these are not decisions that are going to be made behind closed doors.” Salazar went on to say that President Obama wanted to make sure that DOI was “maximizing the opportunity for the public to give us guidance on what it is that they want to do.”

Yet, more than four months after the comment period ended, the Department of the Interior has failed to make any public announcement about the results, even though sources have told American Solutions for months the comments show a 2-1 advantage in support of offshore drilling.

It took American Solutions almost four months and the power of the Freedom of Information Act to finally uncover indirect confirmation that, out of over 530,000 comments submitted, pro-drilling comments outnumbered anti-drilling comments by a 2-1 margin.

In an email dated October 27, 2009, Liz Birnbaum, director of the Minerals Management Service, informs other Interior officials that a preliminary tabulation of the results of the comment period had not yet gone to Secretary Salazar, adding “[s]o the Secretary can honestly say in response to any questions that he’s [SIC] has not yet seen the analysis of the comments – staff is still working on it. I did, however, confirm to him the 2-1 split that these guys [at American Solutions] are emphasizing.”

When a public employee is on record condoning purposeful deception of the American people, the taxpayer should no longer have to fund his or her job. Secretary Salazar should immediately fire Liz Birnbaum for purposefully deceiving him, and in turn, the American people. It’s not possible for the Secretary to honor pledges of openness, honestly, and transparency in government if his staff is going to deliberately undermine such pledges.

Public opinion polls already measure near 70% support for offshore drilling, so the results from a public comment period that reflect the same public sentiment should not be surprising. But after all this talk of wanting the public’s input, Secretary Salazar and his team must find it a real stumbling block to have to explain all their anti-energy development actions in light of the comment period results to which they previously attached such great importance.

This newly gained insight into the anti-energy exploration mindset within the Department of the Interior allows a new perspective of President Obama’s mention of offshore development in his recent State of the Union address. Here is the one paragraph in which the President described offshore development:

But to create more of these clean energy jobs, we need more production, more efficiency, more incentives. And that means building a new generation of safe, clean nuclear power plants in this country. It means making tough decisions about opening new offshore areas for oil and gas development. It means continued investment in advanced biofuels and clean coal technologies. And, yes, it means passing a comprehensive energy and climate bill with incentives that will finally make clean energy the profitable kind of energy in America.

To the passive listener, it sounded like President Obama expressed at least rhetorical support for offshore drilling.

But the President only says we must make “tough decisions” on offshore drilling, deliberately refusing to apply that standard to other decisions on energy.

But tough for whom? Certainly not for the public that overwhelmingly supports more offshore drilling.

Indeed, the only person facing a tough decision is the President since an important part of his political base is opposed to new American energy development.

Bucking public opinion would indeed be a tough decision for this President, but he has shown himself quite comfortable with bucking public opinion to pursue stunningly unpopular policies on health care and cap and trade.

In short, it’s a fair conclusion that the tough decisions the President identified in his State of the Union was his intended decision not to pursue any new offshore oil and gas development. The actions by Salazar and his team are entirely consistent with that conclusion.

What makes all of this dispiriting, especially this month, is that with 15 million Americans out of work and with the President’s recently submitted budget projecting trillion dollar annual deficits for the next ten years and a near tripling of the national debt by 2020, the President is throwing away a golden opportunity over the next three decades to create millions of new jobs and generate more than $270 billion in annual economic growth from new oil and gas development, including $54 billion annually in federal tax receipts that could help lower the federal deficit and the national debt.

These extraordinary benefits of job creation and economic growth – all without requiring any federal spending – are, sadly, not on President Obama’s agenda, notwithstanding all the phony rhetoric to the contrary.

Indeed, we can look forward to the President’s continued strategy of dance, delay, and deceive.

by Vince Haley

New (Green) Wind Farms Bring No New Jobs

Despite all the talk of green jobs, the overwhelming majority of stimulus money spent on wind power has gone to foreign companies, according to a new report by the Investigative Reporting Workshop at the American University's School of Communication in Washington, D.C.

PHOTO  The American Wind Energy Association came out with a report last week that showed a drop in wind manufacturing jobs in the U.S. for last year.

Wind turbines are powered by strong prevailing winds in Palm Springs, Calif. The American Wind...

(David McNew/Getty Images)

Nearly $2 billion in money from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act has been spent on wind power, funding the creation of enough new wind farms to power 2.4 million homes over the past year. But the study found that nearly 80 percent of that money has gone to foreign manufacturers of wind turbines.

So Where Are the Jobs?

"Most of the jobs are going overseas," said Russ Choma at the Investigative Reporting Workshop. He analyzed which foreign firms had accepted the most stimulus money. "According to our estimates, about 6,000 jobs have been created overseas, and maybe a couple hundred have been created in the U.S."

Friday, January 1, 2010

HAPPY TAX YEAR!

Before we kiss 2009 a fond farewell, with all its horrors, keep in mind what other goodies we leave behind -- tax breaks. We are now entering the tax part of Obama's 'Tax and Spend' plan. You know how he loves to say "My Plan'- we are going to feel the squeeze of the vice he has put our country in. Not that we haven't suffered that pinch already. Now it really starts.

Not extending the exclusion of tax on unemployment compensation benefits will hit hard, with 7 million people (officially) unemployed, along with not reducing estimated tax payments for small businesses. (I guess there is some positive, the other 7 to 11 million no longer employed but out of the system at least won’t have to pay the taxes.)

Whatever happens, we must keep up the momentum. Eleven months in politics is a long time, and the 2010 elections will be critical. Keeping a watchful eye on the machinations in Congress is like keeping the wheels oiled, and letting them know we are now watching how they do their job will also keep the pressure on them.

They are cleaning our clock, and it must be stopped.

The Heritage Foundation writes about these tax hits:

Happy Tax Year!
January 1, 2010
While millions of Americans are more than ready to put 2009 behind them, they should know that Congress failed to reauthorize dozens of tax breaks for individuals and businesses before the Members scurried home for the Holidays. These “expiring provisions” affect every American in one way or another as individuals or businesses. By allowing them to lapse, Congress has enacted tax increases at time when these taxpayers can least afford it.

The House has passed legislation (H.R. 4213) that would have extended 63 current tax provisions, but the Senate failed to bring this bill to a vote. Thus, all of these provisions expired at midnight last night. Notable provisions as reported today by Tax Notes include:

  • Deduction of state and local general sales taxes (section 164) (Personal Tax Incentives)
  • Additional standard deduction, up to $500 for individuals and $1,000 for couples, for state and local property taxes (section 63) (Personal Tax Incentives)
  • Research tax credit and alternative simplified credit (section 41) (General Business Tax Incentives)
  • New markets tax credit (section 45D) (Community Assistance Provisions)
  • Empowerment zone incentives (sections 1391 and 1202) (Community Assistance Provisions)
  • Renewal community tax incentives (sections 1400E, 1400F, 1400I, and 1400J) (Community Assistance Provisions)
  • District of Columbia Investment Incentives (sections 1400, 1400A, 1400B, and 1400C) (Community Assistance Provisions)
  • Net disaster loss designation and $500 limit per casualty for personal casualty losses attributed to federally declared natural disasters (section 165) (General Disaster Relief Provisions)
  • Expensing for qualified disaster expenses (section 198A) (General Disaster Relief Provisions)
  • Biodiesel and renewable diesel incentives (section 40A) (Energy Incentives)
  • Alternative motor vehicle credit for heavy hybrids (section 30B) (Energy Incentives)

Although the House has acted and passed its version of the Tax Extenders Act of 2009, the Senate failed to act on similar legislation, as a result the following additional key tax provisions will expire:
  • Increased exemption levels for the individual alternative minimum tax (section 55) and personal tax credits allowed against the AMT (section 26)
  • Exclusion of unemployment compensation benefits from gross income (section 85)
  • Alternative fuel mixture tax credit (section 6426(e))
  • Reduced estimated tax payments for small businesses (section 6654(d)(1)(D))


The Senate has had a lot on its plate this year. But it is still unacceptable that they have stalled on the chance to extend these tax provisions that affect every American. By allowing these tax provisions to expire, taxes will rise on many individuals and businesses, and for some of these groups, a punitively steep tax hike.

At the very least, we hope for a New Year’s Resolution from Congress that it acts swiftly in 2010 on passing legislation to amend and extend tax laws that assist every American individual and business which will lead to a stronger, robust economy.

Even better, would be if Congress reformed the entire tax code and brought us a tax system based on one rate, applied once to all income, and in a form every taxpayer can understand. However, that may be asking too much in one New Year’s Resolution.

Source: HAPPY TAX YEAR!

Some things we can be thankful for is that God answered our prayers and stopped Obama (at least for now) from signing the Copenhagen Treaty and thereby ceding away our sovereignty through ClimateGate and then emphasizing the cooling trend to those slow learners by creating record snow storms in both Copenhagen and Washington DC on either end of the conference.

And thus far we have avoided the passing of Obamacare… and it can still be avoided. So rest up over the weekend and ready yourself for the continuation of the fight. Many have pressured their representatives and threatened them with loss of their offices, as they returned home for the holidays. So this fight is not over.

Cap and Trade … uh Tax and Gov’t Controlled healthcare will be the largest taxes and loss of freedoms this country has ever seen, making the other taxes listed above look like chump change and make us, the American people, look like the chumps!

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Do Not Let Them Get Away With This… Climategate is our Warning– C & T Price Tag: $145 Trillion and Your Way of Life…

Fat Albert Visits the Windy City and Is Confronted On His Lies

The snake Al Gore and his inconvenient lies on display. Note the Mercedes SUV at the end. GM is struggling, the least he could do is buy the new Cadillac or GMC hybrid SUV as an American. Oh wait...never mind...he is a traitor.

Can you believe it?? The UK signed away its sovereignty today to the EU (Obama’s Goal is to sign away our sovereignty as well through the Copenhagen Treaty) and even with all the evidence coming out of Climategate… the lame stream media is still not covering it and Sen Inhofe assigned Gore worshipper … Boxer to investigate Climategate for the Senate… Hello??

The good news… yes there is some is that Australia’s Parliament voted down their version of Cap and Trade, after the liberals thought they had it in the bag.

Obama’s Goal is to sign away our sovereignty as well through the Copenhagen Treaty

Keep praying and pressuring Congress my friends, the tide is turning.

Earth to Senator Inhofe - Chooses cheerleader numero uno for manmade global warming guru Al Gore, Boxer, to Investigate

No wonder Washington is destroying this Country and has lost all confidence with the American people!! I mean come on… in the midst of all this scandal, Boxer and Kerry are still trying to get their Cap and Trade Bill passed.

By Judi McLeod Wednesday, December 2, 2009 – CFP Canada Free Press

imageSurely Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Environmental and Public Works, jests by calling on Committee Chair (“Call me Senator”) Barbara Boxer to conduct hearings into the possible conspiracy known as ClimateGate.

According to CNS News, Sen. Inhofe is calling on Sen. Boxer (D-Calif.) “to conduct hearings on a possible conspiracy between some of the world’s most prominent climatologists to, among other things, manipulate data on so-called global warming.”

Sen. Boxer is cheerleader numero uno for man-made global warming guru Al Gore, and no one knows that better than Sen. Inhofe.

“Inhofe said the recent disclosure of emails between several prominent climatologists reveal “possible deceitful manipulation of important data and research used by the US Global Change Research Program” and the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.” (CNSNews.com, Dec. 1, 2009).

You don’t have to cross the pond to find conspiracies on man made global warming, Sen. Inhofe.

The clock is fast ticking towards UN-inspired worldwide Cap and Trade legislation in Copenhagen.

Going back in time, Sen. Inhofe should have indelible memories about manipulation on the homefront when Gore was brought in by Boxer to testify before the House Committee on Environment and Public works.

“Gore drew mostly praise and softball—if not sycophantic—questions from congressional Democrats and even many Republicans,” Steve Milloy of JunkScience.com reported at the time.

Texas Rep. Joe Barton and Inhofe, who tried to grill Gore were savaged by their colleagues.

The pair was operating at quite a disadvantage, given that they were no longer the chairmen of their committees and now had had little if any control over the hearing process.

“In the Senate, Committee Chair Barbara Boxer ran interference for Gore by disrupting Inhofe’s questioning, and then added insult to injury by mocking the senator—to audience applause—for no longer heading up the committee.” (Steve Milloy,canadafreepress.com, March 27, 2007).

“On the Senate side, Inhofe confronted Gore with the hypocrisy of his preaching to the rest of us about the need to use less energy—by taking colder showers, hanging laundry outside to dry and keeping our homes colder in the winter and warmer in the summer, among other things—while his own personal electric bill for his Nashville mansion is 20 times the national average.”

And time would prove that Milloy, was right on in his predictions back in 2007: “Based on how the Democrats managed the hearings, Gore’s warning that we have about 10 years to address global warming before “it’s too late”, his call for an immediate freeze on greenhouse gas emissions and Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s announced desire to have legislation drawn up by July 4, you might think a global warming bill is imminent.

“But Inhofe intimated to a group of bloggers this week that Boxer doesn’t want legislation this year, preferring instead to have global warming as a campaign issue in 2008.”

Barbara Boxer should now conduct hearings on a possible conspiracy between some of the world’s most prominent climatologists to, among other things, manipulate date on so-called global warming?

Earth to Sen. Inhofe: You’re knocking on a locked concrete door.

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Nothing Nobel: Time To Terminate The IPCC
Scandals in Scandinavia: Time to Cancel IPCC and Withdraw Nobel Prizes From Them and Gore

By Dr. Tim Ball

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Al Gore is the only Nobel Prize winner, whose work was ruled politically biased and containing nine major scientific errors by a court (UK) a week before it was awarded. The Nobel Committee should have known. They could argue they’d already made their decision. Problem is there was considerable evidence about the errors easily available long before. Clearly they didn’t do their homework, so their decision was purely political. The Prize should be revoked.

More...

Please Call, Fax and Email Senator Inhofe and tell him that after he has his head examined to replace Boxer, and not with Kerry, to do a real investigation. They should have to recues themselves, like trial lawyers with conflicts, since they were in on the scam!

Boxer and Kerry must go in their next elections, if not before, and every day there seems to be more sense in just getting rid of all of the except maybe 5 to 10 out of both house.

Senator Inhofe James R Oklahoma 202-224-4721 (Ph) 202-228-0380 (Fax)

Senator Boxer Barbara D California 202-224-3553 (Ph) - 202-224-0454 (Fax) – and while you are at it, blast her with no on ObamaCare, dump Cap and Trade, no more stimulus and no more spending!!

Find Senators from your State. and other’s info

Related:

Australia’s Parliament defeats global warming bill

Are You Willing to Pay $145 Trillion for a Program Shrouded in Lies?

UK Climate Secretary to Temporarily Step Down

Scientist: Leak of climate e-mails appalling

GOP opens probe into climate science e-mails

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The Climate Scandal Has Diverted Attention From the Climate Scandal

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

New Age Agenda, Agenda 21, End of Times… or All – Pick Your Ending

Perhaps this is why Oprah declared she was going to retire.

Oprah's new online class covering Eckhart Tolle's A New Earth. They conducted the first mass trance. Over 2 Million participated in this new age class.

Of those people who are awake to the knowledge that something is wrong and the shxx is going to hit the fan, a significant percent think the new age philosophy is what will happen. Oprah promotes it, Alex Jones promotes it, Dr Wayne Dyer also. Even my 8th grade child comes home with this stuff so it will be important for us to understand so we can stand against this false doctrine. In case you are not interested in the "new age religion" you may still want to watch as there will be a mass of people going to be tricked, so says the Bible. I don't want to be one of them nor do I want to be without answers for the confused.

What is the New Age Agenda?

1. Merge God and Nature (ecology)
2. Eradicate male-female distinction (androgyny) dissolve the family
3. World peace and nuclear disarmament
4. One world government
5. One world religion

The feature film 2012 just came out. This lecture is a credible source and commentary on this topic. The last 2 segments (15 minutes total) really tie things up well if you just can't stand it to listen to the BS.
Why is 2012 a lie? video series here

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There IS a connection between New Age Religion and New World Order: UFO's. There's also a connection between those "lucky" people who make contact with UFOs, or receive messages from them and the occult. Of course, there is a connection between the occult and the New Age. It really is ONE big "blissful" family.
video by youTube's nodoubt257:

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Bill Gates
WASHINGTON - Some of the richest men and women in the world met secretly recently in New York to conspire on using their vast wealth to bring the world's population growth under control.

The meeting included some of the biggest names in the "billionaires club," according to the London Times - Bill Gates, David Rockefeller, Ted Turner, Oprah Winfrey, Warren Buffett, George Soros and Michael Bloomberg.

The meeting at the home of Sir Paul Nurse, a British Nobel Prize-winning biochemist and president of Rockefeller University, was the inspiration of Gates and took place three weeks ago.
"The informal afternoon session was so discreet that some of the billionaires' aides were told they were at 'security briefings,'" the Times reported today.

Stacy Palmer, editor of the Chronicle of Philanthropy, speculated that the secrecy surrounding the meeting may have been due to concern that "they don't want to be seen as a global cabal."

Get the inside story on the globalist insiders who have been meeting for decades in highly guarded secret. Learn from author who penetrated Bilderbergers… - The True Story of the Bilderberg Group...

According to the Times, the billionaires were each given 15 minutes to present their favorite cause. Over dinner they discussed how they might settle on an "umbrella cause" that could harness their interests. Taking their cue from Gates, the report said, they agreed population control was the No. 1 issue.

(Story continues below)

In February, Gates, 53, outlined an ambitious plan to cap global
population at 8.3 billion - about one billion fewer than currently
projected.

Patricia Stonesifer, former chief executive of the Bill and Melinda
Gates Foundation, said the billionaires would continue to meet over the next few months.

A guest at the meeting told the Times population growth would be
addressed as a potentially disastrous environmental, social and industrial threat.

"This is something so nightmarish that everyone in this group agreed it needs big-brain answers," said the guest. "They need to be independent of government agencies, which are unable to head off the disaster we all see looming."

As to secrecy, the guest said, "They wanted to speak rich to rich
without worrying anything they said would end up in the newspapers, painting them as an alternative world government."

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"We are going to end up with world government. It's inevitable...

There's going to be CONFLICT, COERCION AND CONCENSUS.

That's all part of what will be required as we give birth to the global civilization."

Dennis Laurence Cuddy, "Ruling Elite Working Towards World Govt.," The Daily Record (10-17-1995), p.4.
UNITING the NATIONS click here

Alice Ann Bailey, often known as AAB, writer and lecturer on Neo-Theosophy, was born in England in 1880 as Alice LaTrobe Bateman. She moved to America in 1907 where she spent the rest of her life. She was the High Priestess and prophetess of the New Age movement. She was a prolific author on occultism and founded an international esoteric movement. Sir John Sinclair [32 Degree Mason], Bt., gives a commentary on the seminal influence of Alice Bailey, which he says underlies the consciousness growth movement in the 20th century.

* Alice founded the publishing company. Lucifer Trust - later changed to Lucis Trust

* Foster and Alice Bailey: They started a group called 'World Goodwill'-an official Non-Government Organization within the United Nations. The stated aim of this group is "to cooperate in the world of preparation for the reappearance of the Christ"
One Earth, the magazine of the findhorn Foundation, October/November 1986, Vol. 6, Issue 6, p. 24.

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, founder of the Theosophical Society"... Madame Blavatsky ... stands out as the fountainhead of modern occult thought, and was either the originator and/or popularizer of many of the ideas and terms which have a century later been assembled within the New Age Movement. The Theosophical Society, which she cofounded, has been the major advocate of occult philosophy in the West and the single most important avenue of Eastern teaching to the West." http://www.redmoonrising.com/maitreya.htm - http://www.shareintl.org/

Comments:

1. Thanks denise for posting this. For anyone who is a Christian there is a Dr Scott Johnson that has a website www.contendingfortruth.com That has been giving the truth about current events and health issues. It is mostly stuff you will not hear on mainstrem media. A lot about one world order and one world religion etc. He has been trying to spread the word about what is happening for about 3 years. He is also on www.sermonaudio.com/drscottjohnson.

2. I stopped watching Oprah when she had O on and wouldn't allow Palin. I've hrard the same things about being involved with Bilderbergs. Not a good thing. Mr Gates is funding the Vaccine program in Africa that is injecting AIDS into Children. My next Computer will be an Apple. God Bless Ladiies. Listen to www.infowars.com and www.prisonplanet.tv you will get ALL the info there.

3. The power hungry wealth consuming elite among us have been waging war on us "folks" for generations. It is a crazy sick concept to understand but they truly want to reduce the number of people alive on our planet and restrict our number to 500,000,000 permanently. Those of us allowed to survive will be tagged and managed by those believing themselves superior. The below article talks about this and draws your attention to an unusual stone monument put in place in the state of Georgia. It is inscribed with “their” version of the Ten Commandments in many different languages! This of course has not been covered by the press.

Many are starting to recognize the H1N1 crisis to be man made, are we under attack?

The Georgia "Guide"- Stones: Signposts to World Tyranny http://dawnoftribulation.wordpress.com

4. Former Catholic Priest, Richard Bennett, explains the Pope's edicts concerning the coming new world order and it's "forced" religion in his article " The Pope's Plans on Organizing Political, Economic and Religious Activities Worldwide" over on the Berean Beacon website. In essence, this backs up some of the afore-mentioned research in Denise's post.

This material is a must read for anyone trying to understand the what, who or why behind the draconian changes taking place in America today. This IS NOT a progressive movement. The progressives are tools in the New World Order arsenal...they have been used to bring in the communist agenda little by little since the assassination of Abraham Lincoln!!! The United Nations (UN AGENDA 21 Documemts) is the front organization for the New World Order. As a matter of fact, we, here in the States, are already under the judicial system of this organization... it's just been hidden from us. There have NOT been any Constitutional Courts in America since Roosevelt's New Deal: The Administrative State.

Irwin Baxter at endtime.com has a Bible study I went thru last year that implicates the Roman Catholic Church in biblical prophecy.

It struck me as odd when the media reported earlier this year that Newt Gingrich had switched his religion to Catholic. He also did a global warming scare commercial with Nancy Pelosi a while back. Not quite sure why this comes to mind now, I guess to show we must be careful who we trust?!

I know this is a lot of information being thrown at you, but YOU must understand what's behind this Democratic push for control....

5. This puts some pieces of the Oprah puzzle together.
THE NEW WORLD DISORDER - Secret billionaire club seeks population control Gates, Rockefeller, Turner, Oprah, Buffett, Soros, Bloomberg attend meeting

6. Alex Jones is right with Jesus Christ. He just goes along with some of this stuff to get the info.

7. Let us not forget the Agenda 21 plan and its place is all this.

8. It is bad and we indeed stand at the crossroads, but there are many more of us than them and the can be stopped if we are willing to organize and fight!! See: Slavery or Freedom

9. I believe we are the last generation, different than all past generations, that God spoke of when He said that generation would not pass away until all things were accomplished. I offer the following ten reasons to base that conclusion on. They are in two groups right now: the first five are historical fact, the last five are presently before us. -- http://www.escapeallthesethings.com/last-generation.htm

  1. Israel became a nation in 1948.
  2. Jerusalem was captured by Israel in 1967.
  3. We are in the midst of the seven year Peace and Security Agreement.
  4. The European Union was formed in 1993.
  5. We are on the edge of the seventh millennium.
  6. Our generation is the largest, smartest, and most traveled in history.
  7. Israel is on the brink of a world changing conflict.
  8. The temple mount in Jerusalem is the center of attention for the world.
  9. A European Prince whose name numbers 666 is implementing his agenda.
  10. There are two types of saints today: tribulation and apostate.

Are We the Last Generation??

Pick your ending… Can we stop this? According to History can, yes: if just 3% of the population stands up, we can. Even the End of Times can be delayed with prayer and if we change our hearts and go back to focusing on the Bible, Honoring God and fighting for what is right in His name !!

Source: Compilation of As a Mom posts and other sources

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

AGENDA 21 Videos and Why Are Americans IGNORANT of 'AGENDA 21'?

The United Nations Agenda 21 was signed by the United States in 1992 and 17 years later, people are still in the dark. If you were to ask at random the question, "Have you heard of Agenda 21?" the answer would be an over-whelming "No," although it is being implemented in every local community. (Although with the threat of Cap and Trade being crammed down our throats and the threat of Obama signing the Climate Change Bill in Copenhagen in about a month if we don’t stop him… a few people are finally paying attention and doing some research as to the real meaning.  There is also the threat of the United Nations Rights of the Child treaty being signed… which will take your parental rights and shift them to the U.N.).

Agenda 21 is a 40 chapter document listing goals to be achieved globally. It is the global plan to change the way we "live, eat, learn and communicate" because we must "save the earth."  It is the game plan to get to a NWO.

"Its regulation would severely limit water, electricity, and transportation - even deny human access to our most treasured wilderness areas, it would monitor all lands and people. No one would be free from the watchful eye of the new global tracking and information system," according to Berit Kjos, author of Brave New Schools, which will be hard to find a copy of… one of the books the powers that be has tried to pull off the shelves.

Maurice Strong, Secretary-general of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro said, "...[C]urrent lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class - involving high meat consumption and large amounts of frozen and convenience foods, use of fossil fuels, appliances, home and workplace air-conditioning, and suburban housing are not sustainable. A shift is necessary which will require a vast strengthening of the multilateral system, including the United Nations.

In other words, the Global plan is for us to live on the level of third world nations. That means no box mixes or microwave meals, limited use of fuel of any kind, no air-conditioning and very little meat. When the cost of freon skyrocketed, when mad cow disease hit, the National Animal Identification System introduced, the price of fuel soared, it has become apparent that given time, these sustainable controls will be put into place - one way or another - and the Global Governance is powerful.

In 1992, Agenda 21 began to change our lives. In that same year, Al Gore wrote his book, Earth in the Balance. To advance his cause, he has now written another piece of fiction entitled, An Inconvenient Truth about global warming…..he even starred in the movie. He also thinks he invented the internet.

Although groundwork had been laid, it took a Bill Clinton to actually introduce something so invasive to our nation and get by with it without the public becoming aware. President Clinton appointed his "President’s Council on Sustainable Development" and he literally gave away the rights and freedoms the framers of the Constitution had provided (and we weren’t paying attention).

People in the United States may not know about Agenda 21 and the President’s Council on Sustainable Development, but people around the world do. They know that Chicago has one of the greatest numbers of activities existing at the local, neighborhood and/or microregional level. They also know that the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) monitors and promotes activities in this field through their Office for Sustainable Ecosystem and Communities.

Found on a Slovakian website: "To the leading countries in the field of development but especially of practical using of sustainable development indicators belong to the U.S.A. At the top level these activities are promoted by the President’s Council on Sustainable Development (1996), which defined a set of ten national goals toward sustainable development. These goals express in concrete terms the elements of sustainability. Alongside the goals are suggested indicators that can be used to help measure progress toward achieving them.”

Agenda 21 is certainly not a secret. The internet is full of how Agenda 21 has been fulfilled through Smart Growth planning, land use, sustainable development and extreme environmentalism. The so-called agenda is grant driven to your city council or county board in terms of sustainable, visioning, partners, tourism and stakeholders, along with consensus and other terms with the intent to make you believe we are running out of all our resources and we must do our part and "save for tomorrow. [See Agenda 21's Table of Contents.]

It has nothing to do about “saving anything” – it has everything to do with “control.” (Just like ObamaCare has nothing to do with Healthcare reform – has to do with power or 1/6 of US economy that will be used for things other than your healthcare.)  Sadly, very few congressmen even know Agenda 21 is actually running our country when they are voting to send grant money back home. Agenda 21 is incentive driven as the planners know that greed in the heart of man will be his downfall.

The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, better known as ANWR, has oil we need to be drilling for the security of our nation.

Environmentalists don’t seem to understand we are dependent on foreign oil from nations who do not like us and our nation’s defense is at stake. The area where drilling would occur is just a dot in this vast land, yet they would gamble the strength of our nation in behalf of their favorite word --"pristine." (Obama is on board with allowing China and Brazil to drill in the waters offshore of Florida… but we cannot.  We also promote nuclear energy plants for Africa but we are not allowed to build anymore.  And we have enough oil shale to be independent until we develop in increase our other source, but the government keeps turning the oil shale areas into parks that would allow it to be touched in the name of conservation).

At the same time, technology is advancing and we may not need the oil later. But we do need it now.

Henry Lamb of Eco-logic, Restructuring the U.N.,

The world changed on 9-11. No longer can the world tilt at the windmills of a fantasized "global village." No longer can visions of "sustainable development" be justified in a world where "sustainable freedom" is the only possible solution to the economic and power vacuum that foments acts of terrorism.

There is a better way.

Nations can and, ultimately, must learn to live as neighbors, free from the web of "international laws" that dictate which activities are "sustainable" and which are xenophobic and unacceptable. Nation-to-nation relationships, just like neighbor-to-neighbor relationships, should be fashioned voluntarily, driven by mutual benefit. For the first time in a century, the United States may be exploring this possibility.

Henry Lamb is right. We can live as neighbors with other nations but we do not need to live under a "web of international law." There are dedicated citizens in the United States who are wise enough to set our nation’s guidelines without following Agenda 21 and Sustainable Development as set forth by the United Nations.
[See DVD: Liberty or Sustainable Development?]

One of the main goals of Agenda 21 is to redistribute the wealth to third world countries and to bring our great nation to its knees in the name of socialism, fascism, communism or some other “ism.” (Ding ding ding… one of Obama’s cries: Redistribute the Wealth).

Our founding fathers founded this nation on the belief of a Sovereign God and we have been blessed. Do you know the Gods of the nations to which we would become equal? (see Videos Below)

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Joyce Morrison attempts to educate the public regarding the dangers coming to their local communities through Sustainable Development and Agenda 21 programs which are designed to gradually take control of all private property through undue regulations.

Morrison writes for Eco-logic Powerhouse, NewsWithViews.com, Range Magazine, SOWER magazine as well as numerous other publications. She is a weekly participant on the teleconference of the Illinois Policy Institute, a conservative think tank and is a pro-life, pro-family activist.

She is a chapter leader for Concerned Women for America as well as Secretary to the Board of Directors of Rural Restoration/ADOPT Mission, a national farm ministry located in Sikeston, MO.  FarmersRuralRestoration.com. Her most enjoyable time is spent teaching a senior adult Sunday School class which is a focus on hope and encouragement.

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Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Graham's endorsement boosts climate bill - Beware the Cap ‘n’ Trade Republicans

The surprise endorsement of climate-change legislation by a leading Senate Republican has jump-started the languishing proposal but also has raised the prospect that it will include two major items that environmentalists dislike: more nuclear power and more offshore oil drilling.

In an op-ed published Sunday, Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina joined with Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts, the chamber's leading Democratic advocate of climate legislation, to promote a bipartisan plan to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions.

They proposed a compromise that reduces U.S. carbon-dioxide emissions - which are widely considered to contribute to climate change - through a market-based "cap and trade" system, combined with a "clean energy" program providing incentives for nuclear power, offshore oil and gas drilling, and coal emissions controls.

Analysts from the political left and right expressed optimism that the unexpected alliance will improve the bill's chances of passage. The House narrowly passed its version this summer, but the Senate has long been considered a much tougher sell.

"If Sen. Graham supports action, it's a very important step forward," said Daniel J. Weiss, climate strategy director at the liberal Center for American Progress. "Sen. Graham has good standing on both sides of the aisle and it will help with undecided members of both parties."

Scott Segal, a lawyer at the law firm Bracewell & Giuliani who represents energy companies and manufacturers, said by e-mail that the Kerry-Graham plan faces significant opposition but addresses some of the most vexing issues impeding the bill's progress in the Senate.

"The senators' position is a definite step forward," Mr. Segal said. "They have outlined many of the key issues that need to be resolved in order to achieve political consensus behind a bill, and that's very useful."

Many obstacles remain. Democrats and Republicans from coal-producing states and the Midwest continue to resist the legislation over fears that it would cause huge increases in the cost of energy that would hurt their constituents and businesses.

Sen. Sherrod Brown, Ohio Democrat, has been adamant that a bill will not pass the Senate unless it includes measures to tax imports from countries that do not limit their carbon-dioxide emissions. President Obama has expressed doubts about the provision, saying it appears to be protectionist. Other Democratic senators, including Sen. Evan Bayh of Indiana, say they cannot support a bill that drives coal-fired energy prices higher.

Environmental groups tend to oppose nuclear power generation and prefer "green" sources such as wind, solar and geothermal energy. They also routinely oppose offshore oil and gas drilling, saying it threatens the environment without increasing U.S. energy security.

Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairman Barbara Boxer, California Democrat, plans to issue a revised version of the bill soon, which she recently introduced with Mr. Kerry late last month. The bill does little for nuclear power beyond new training programs and is silent about offshore drilling.

Mr. Kerry and Mr. Graham were unavailable for comment Monday.

A spokeswoman for Mr. Kerry could not say whether their plan would be the basis for the committee's legislation. She said by e-mail that the joint op-ed "signals Sen. Kerry's and Sen. Graham's commitment to getting 60 votes in the Senate for climate change legislation." She added that the two want to make "substantial, bipartisan" progress leading up to the major U.N. climate summit in Copenhagen starting Dec. 7.

Mr. Obama and environmental groups have called on the Senate to act quickly to strengthen his negotiating position in advance of the summit, where developed and developing nations, including China, will meet to draft a new agreement intended to mitigate the effects of climate change.

Reuters news agency reported Monday that Mrs. Boxer, after meeting with U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, said she wants to pass a bill through her committee before the Copenhagen summit. Separately, Energy Secretary Steven Chu told reporters in London that he remains optimistic that Mr. Obama could sign a bill into law by the time the summit opens, though few observers expect the Senate to act that swiftly.

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What did I tell ya? Lindsey Graham signs on to cap-and-tax

Ugh: McCain & Company melting on cap-and-tax

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Beware the Climate Change Republicans

The Great Man-Made Global Warming Swindle

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Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Boxer and Kerry Reintroduce Cap and Trade…

Cap and Trade Rears Its Ugly Head Again…

Senate climate bill tougher than House version

Kerry: "I Don't Know What 'Cap And Trade' Means"

Kerry: "I Don't Know What 'Cap And Trade' Means" Somebody need to tell both Senators John Kerry, whose if a major player in the Corrupt Tide Foundation and Barbara Boxer who is busy selling American parent’s right to ‘parent their own’ children to the United Nations that “We don’t know what ‘Re-Election people who ignore their constituents and work for their own ideals and gains means!”

Time to turn up the heat again against Cap and Trade, but these two (Senators Boxer and Kerry) really have to go!

Inhofe: Boxer using 'corporate prostitutes' to sell climate bill

By Jordan Fabian - 10/07/09 03:15 PM ET

Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) is using "corporate prostitutes" to "intimidate" Congress into passing climate change legislation, a key Republican senator said Wednesday.

Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), who is the ranking member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, chided committee chairwoman Boxer's claim that her climate bill would bring billions of dollars in private investments to the economy.

"You can find a few corporate prostitutes out there that stand to make a whole lot of money on this thing," Inhofe told conservative radio host Steve Malzberg today. "What they're trying to do is to intimidate congress into passing it."

The conservative senator argued that Boxer and bill co-sponsor Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) are so intent on passing the bill in order to relieve the inevitable pressure on the White House from people angry about tax increases included in the bill.

"And so the president, Obama, doesn't want people to say 'hey, why did you do this regulation?

You're responsible.' Well, he wants to intimidate us so at that point he can say 'no Congress did it,'" Inhofe said.
Inhofe predicted, however that the bill would not pass Congress.

"It's not going to pass, they don't have the votes," he said, adding that Democratic leaders would unlikely use controversial budget reconciliation tactics to pass cap-and-trade.

Congressional Democratic leaders have threatened to use reconciliation to pass healthcare legislation.

Inhofe predicted that the climate bill would only get 30 votes in the Senate based on his vote count of last year's Warner-Lieberman climate change legislation.

The Hill

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John Kerry: Awesome recession is helping the environment

Democrats’ environmental proposals are an attack on capitalism. That is a fact. But don’t take my word for it. Ask John Kerry.

As often happens when disingenuous people let slip the truth, Kerry admitted in no uncertain terms the other day that he sees economic prosperity as the enemy of the environment, and left no mystery as to which side he takes.

I was for the recession before I was against it.

I was for the recession before I was against it.

Kerry and Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-California) have proposed a new draft for a cap-and-trade bill with exceedingly stringent restrictions on carbon emissions. During a hearing on the bill , Kerry made the astounding statement that the recession has been the environment’s best friend, and he couldn’t be happier about it:

Let me emphasize something very strongly as we begin this discussion. The United States has already this year alone achieved a 6 percent reduction in emissions simply because of the downturn in the economy, so we are effectively saying we need to go another 14 percent.

What did Kerry just unwittingly admit? He admitted that cap-and-trade advocates and like-minded global warming believers see economic prosperity as a huge source of the supposed problem. That’s why they’re proposing the perfect solution – from their perspective – in the form of a massive tax increase directly on industry.

Nothing discourages productive economic activity like confiscatory taxes on said activity. The same people who lament the loss of manufacturing jobs in the United States now seek to multiply these losses many times over by making it economically impossible for manufacturers to operate.

The taxes aren’t designed to encourage manufacturers to run cleaner shops. Taxes don’t do that. Technology does that. If the technology was sufficiently mature and affordable, they would have it now. All things being equal, no onewants to pump dirty emissions into the air if given a reasonable alternative.

So when Democrats propose to pressure them into cleaning up their emissions with crippling taxes, it makes about as much sense as when they suggested the Iraqi government was sitting around eating bon-bons while the U.S. did all the heavy lifting, but would surely get serious if the U.S. threatened to leave.

People want to do things that are in their own best interests. You don’t hammer them into doing these things with taxes. Quite the contrary, you try to remove economic barriers that may be preventing them from doing these things.

But that’s not the goal of cap-and-trade supporters. Kerry has given away the game. The goal is less productive economic activity, because the fact of the matter is that productive economic activity produces carbon, and no arrogant member of Congress or anyone else can change that fact.

But the recession, hey, that’s working like a dream. Carbon emissions are down 6 percent. Damn. How many more big industrial conglomerates do we have to put out of business to get to 20 percent?

If they didn’t know full well they were going to kill jobs, they wouldn’t be peddling this “green jobs” nonsense – a notion thoroughly dismantled on Sunday by Bloomberg’s Kevin Hassett.

Cap and trade means a less productive economy, and that’s by design, because a growing private sector economy is the enemy of the Democrats’ political agenda. Their hope, of course, is that all the taxes they can collect will allow them to bestow more largesse on their constituencies with jobs either in the public sector or publicly funded.

This completely ignores, of course, the fact that you can’t keep taxing companies that you put out of business, but Sen. Kerry has never quite closed the logic loop on that one. You need to generate revenue to pay taxes, and you can only do that by running a company profitably. Where does Sen. Kerry think all these rich industrialists got their money? Does he think they either inherited it or married some rich widow?

Maybe someone needs to tell him those avenues aren’t available to everyone.

But if Sen. Kerry doesn’t have the slightest idea how economic value is created, he certainly seems to know how to destroy it, and as he has just acknowledged, he apparently can’t wait to get right to it.

Update: John Holdren, President Obama’s top advisor on science issues, agrees. Or at least he did in 1977, when he wrote a textbook with fellow traveler Paul Ehrlich titled “Ecoscience,” in which he explicitly called for zero economic growth. CNS News dug this up back in July.

People can change their minds about things in 32 years, of course. Maybe someone should ask Holdren if he’s changed his. If so, perhaps he could go have a talk with John Kerry.

Dan Calabrese – the Northstar

For more news on energy and the environment, visit www.climatewire.net.

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(Obama) Kerry and Boxer Despair and and Negative Transformation that you can believe in. These radicals need to go!!

The Kerrys are largely involved with the notoriously radical Tides Foundation

Kerry, Boxer and Obama are all pushing the global warming hoax and and Cap and Trade… a huge power grab and tax on America.

Barbara Boxer and Secy Hillary Clinton are leading the charge to pass the global children’s rights treaty, which will help the United Nations Usurp American Parent’s Rights… On Parental Rights

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Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Cap and Trade Rears Its Ugly Head Again…

Senate climate bill tougher than House version

Boxer, Kerry Set to Introduce Climate Bill in Senate


Kerry: "I Don't Know What 'Cap And Trade' Means"

Kerry: "I Don't Know What 'Cap And Trade' Means"  Somebody need to tell both Senators John Kerry, whose if a major player in the Corrupt Tide Foundation and Barbara Boxer who is busy selling American parent’s right to ‘parent their own’ children to the United Nations that “We don’t know what ‘Re-Election people who ignore their constituents and work for their own ideals and gains means!”

Time to turn up the heat again against Cap and Trade, but these two really have to go!!

Ending some nine months of closed-door deliberations, Sens. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and John Kerry (D-Mass.) will release global warming legislation Wednesday that they hope will be the vehicle for broader Senate negotiations and an eventual conference with the House.

The bill's authors said last week that they expect to start hearings early next month on the bill, with a markup in Boxer's Environment and Public Works Committee to follow soon thereafter. They also acknowledged that their legislation is just a "starting point" in a bid to win over moderate and conservative Democrats, as well as Republicans.

"I hope what we've done is constructive and well-received," Kerry, the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, said Thursday. "I have no pretensions, and neither does Barbara, that this will be the final product. It is a starting point, a commitment, full-fledged, across party lines to do what we need to do to protect the planet for the next century."

The Boxer-Kerry bill will build in large part off H.R. 2454(pdf), legislation approved in June by the House following several marathon months of negotiations that involved lawmakers representing coastal and industry-heavy districts. Exactly what is the same in the two bills remains to be seen. As for differences, Senate Democratic aides say they expect the legislation to divert from the House bill's 17 percent emissions target for 2020 and go with an even more aggressive 20 percent limit. The bill also will stay silent on exactly how the Senate should divide up emission allowances.

At least five other Senate committees are also expected to contribute to the climate debate. The Foreign Relations and Agriculture committees are preparing language without convening a markup.

Commerce Chairman Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) said he will hold votes on his pieces of the global warming bill. And the same goes for Finance Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.), who last week told reporters that provisions on international trade and the allocation of emission allowances would be marked up provided Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) says the bill is "clearly moving."

Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.) has already approved legislation (S. 1462 (pdf)) out of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee that includes a nationwide renewable electricity standard and a raft of other energy incentives, including a provision that could bring oil and gas rigs closer to Florida's Gulf Coast. Bingaman is also planning a hearing Thursday on several competing cost estimates associated with the House-passed climate bill. The session, which was postponed once earlier this month, now gives senators an early public forum to sound off on the Boxer-Kerry bill.

Already last week, several Democratic senators working outside of the Boxer-Kerry camp said their ideas would be melded into the legislation at a later date. "It's going to need a lot of work," said Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio).

Brown said he did not expect the Boxer-Kerry bill to include language adopted in the House that tries to assist energy-intensive manufacturing industries, including steel, pulp and paper and cement.

"My understanding is they did not include the House language on manufacturing," Brown added. "But I've been talking to them about it. They are very open to it. They are in no way dismissive."

Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) said she also does not think her concerns will be addressed in the initial draft from Boxer and Kerry. That means further efforts on issues related to agriculture, offsets and energy intensive industries.

"We will have to take a look at the language and then determine it from there," Stabenow said.

Kerry last week sought to change the vernacular surrounding the climate bill and sell its concepts more broadly, insisting it is not a "cap and trade" proposal but a "pollution reduction" bill. "I don't know what 'cap and trade' means. I don't think the average American does," Kerry said. "This is not a cap-and-trade bill, it's a pollution reduction bill" (E&E Daily, Sept. 25).

But a leading GOP opponent to the Senate climate effort quickly pushed back on the Democrat's strategy.

"No matter the semantic games employed, or the extent to which Democrats wish to hide the truth from the American people, cap and trade will mean more job losses, more pain at the pump, and higher food and electricity prices for consumers," said EPW Committee ranking member James Inhofe (R-Okla.)."

Both Brown and Stabenow said they would welcome the release of the Senate bill even though it will give critics something tangible to target.

"It always does," Brown said. "There is always something to shoot at. But I think it is the right step, and then we start working to improve it."

Senate Democratic leaders, including Reid and Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), have said that they do not know if there will be enough time to get to the climate bill on the floor this year. But Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), one of the lead authors of the House bill, said that he is not giving up yet.

"At this stage in the House no one was predicting we could be successful," Markey told reporters. The lawmaker said he expected the Senate to closely follow the House bill's outlines, especially "once people sit down and begin to understand we have dealt with the major interests in the country.

Schedule: The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing is Thursday, Oct. 1, at 9:45 a.m. in 366 Dirksen.

Witnesses: Douglas Elmendorf, director, CBO; Richard Newell, administrator, EIA; Larry Parker, specialist in energy and environmental policy, Congressional Research Service; and Reid Harvey, chief, climate economics branch, climate change division, U.S. EPA.

Reporters Allison Winter and Katherine Ling contributed.

By DARREN SAMUELSOHN of ClimateWire

Published: September 28, 2009

Copyright 2009 E&E Publishing. All Rights Reserved.

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Sunday, September 27, 2009

Harry Reid Blocks ACORN Investigation Despite Evidence… Why?

This Photo Pretty Much Says It All… F__k You to the American People

The Las Vegas Review Journal reports that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is blocking an investigation into ACORN despite the mountain of evidence of wide spread wrong doing.

…ACORN’s 2008 Las Vegas field director, Christopher Edwards, pleaded guilty last spring to two gross misdemeanor counts of conspiracy to commit compensation for registration of voters, in a deal that saw him agree to testify against fellow defendants.

Fox News’ Eric Shawn reported there were at least 11 investigations across the country involving thousands of potentially fraudulent ACORN forms. Yet none of this was sufficient to block President Obama and his congressional minions from upping federal subsidies to outfits such as Mr. Obama’s former associates at ACORN from the mere millions to the billions of dollars in their “economic stimulus” bill last winter.

Only when presented with the undeniable evidence of the “pimp and ho” videotape did the IRS last week announce it would terminate ACORN’s participation in the agency’s Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program — shortly after the Census Bureau advised ACORN it could forget about helping with its decennial head count.

Smoke? Fire? Washington Democratic leaders have opted to just lay low and not smell nothin’.

Despite all this evidence and a request in writing by 28 GOP senators — and despite the fact the U.S. Senate voted 83-7 on Sept. 14 to block ACORN from bidding for any more federal grant money — “Senate Democrat Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., is refusing to hold a Senate hearing on ACORN’s activities,” the National Republican Senatorial Committee complained Wednesday.

Mr. Reid replied additional investigations might distract lawmakers from addressing more important matters, including health care and economic recovery.

“It’s become increasingly clear that ACORN may have manipulated tens of thousands of ballots in last year’s federal election — an area where Congress has clear oversight responsibilities — yet Harry Reid won’t lift a finger,” said NRSC spokesman Brian Walsh. “It’s hard to see his latest roadblock as anything but another example of Harry Reid protecting his liberal allies in Washington while remaining out of touch with his constituents in Nevada.”

That’s a politically motivated shot, of course. Stripped of the gratuitous elbowing, however, the question does remain: Do Sen. Reid and congressional Democrats really believe that if they just ignore the big mess their pet bear has dumped in the middle of the room, it’ll somehow stop stinking?

Please read the entire article here:
Reid blocks ACORN probe - Las Vegas Review-Journal

Mind you, Harry Reid in very involved with the Apollo Alliance in helping to motivate people and companies toward clean air jobs. Apollo Alliance Board Chair Phil Angelides was appointed by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to serve as the Chair of the newly created Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission.

Majority Leader Harry Reid rebuffed a Republican request that he call Senate hearings and an investigation into recent allegations against the scandal-tainted community organizing group ACORN.
Reid, D-Nev., said Tuesday that he would not ask the Senate committee chairmen or Congress “to do anything that would distract from efforts to address” health care, climate change, an overhaul of the nation’s financial regulatory system and oversight of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. (More like he doesn’t want his connections made public and wants to be re-elected!)

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Fall of the House of ACORN

The disintegration of ACORN continues, with new allegations that the group was using donor money to enrich itself in a “reverse Robin Hood” scheme. This follows the astonishing undercover work of Andrew Breitbart’s Big Government and its intrepid young reporters, James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles, who videotaped some legally flexible “community organizing” from the group. Before Big Government nailed them on video, the group was infamous for pushing the legislation, and irresponsible lending, that caused the subprime crisis, and widespread vote fraud operations. ACORN is one of the few enemies of the American taxpayer that wasn’t invited to speak before the United Nations on Wednesday.

ACORN has decided to silence its critics by suing them. Hannah Giles has opened a legal defense fund. The Big Government web site reports a fund for O’Keefe is coming soon. If you’re a U.S. taxpayer, you’ve already donated to ACORN’s legal defense fund. ACORN has received at least $58 million of your tax dollars since 1994, and congressional Democrats tried to stuff billions in “stimulus” dollars into their pockets.

Direct tax funding is not the only way you’ve paid for ACORN, either. They generate a great deal of their income by shaking down businesses in political protection rackets, and the businesses naturally pass those costs along to their consumers. And, of course, ACORN was a big player in the subprime mortgage collapse, which left you on the hook for billions of dollars in bad mortgages. If you add all this up, you probably spent more on ACORN last year than you spent going to the movies. (Full Article)

Hopefully you’re enjoying the show.

Let us not forget that ACORN and SEIU have the President’s ear. And Harry Reid thinks we should not bother to invest ACORN?!?