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Well, this certainly is something that would appeal to the Obama camp. Apparently an energy outfit is recruiting your kid to be a little nazi, a brown shirt for the green regime. I am sure their training will help prepare them for membership in Obama’s soon to be introduced Hitler’s youth.

Can I be the only one more than a little disturbed by the latest campaign to be fronted by energy company npower?

Launched today with large colour ads in the Sundays, it appeals directly to children, urging them to enlist as “climate cops”, to root out “climate crimes”, and thus “save the planet”.
In a luridly-designed website, mimicking the style of “yoof” cartoons, it offers a bundle of downloads, including a pack of “climate crime cards”, urging its recruits to spy on families, friends and relatives, inviting each of them to build up a “climate crime case file” in order to help them ensure their putative criminals do not “commit those crimes again (or else)!”

Quite what the “or else!” should be is not specified, but since the “climate cops” are being encouraged to keep detailed written records (for those who can read and write), there is nothing to stop these being submitted to the “Climate Cops HQ” for further sanctions, the repeat offenders being sent to re-education camps. And for those “climate cops” that successfully perform the “missions” set (or turn in their own parents), there is the reward of “training” in the “Climate Cop Academy”.
Continue reading…. Climate Nazis On the Move in a Neighborhood Near You!

While Americans continue to be suckered into AL Gore’s monstrous lies, the rest of the world is diligently pursung drilling, coal and nuclear power. Aren’t you tired of being suckered America?

The rest of the world knows that green sources of energy are inadequate to keep their people out of poverty. That is why around the world, from Europe to South America to Asia, countries are building coal and nuclear power plants at a dizzying pace while also drilling for oil wherever they can find it. Meanwhile, the United States, crippled by an out-of-control environmental movement, is refusing to develop needed energy sources.
Continue reading… The World Is Powering Up While America Powers Down

Gore the Climate Whore

Sane Americans have long recognized that Al Gore and his league of climate whores have little concern about the environment, but a great deal of interest in castrating America’s economy and each citizen’s freedom and mobility. Further proof is offered in the green weenie’s rejection of Columbia University’s recent development of a carbon scrubbing technology that will make those big bad carbon footprints rather irrelevant.

Great the crisis is solved we won’t be eating each other as Ted Turner suggested earlier this summer right? Not so fast. First it is my opinion that the belief of man made global warming is a hoax designed to take freedoms away from people and their money as well.

And proof of this is a quote by a member of Green Peace: “There’s no magic bullet to save us from the problem of global warming,” said Kert Davies, a so called energy expert for Greenpeace USA in Washington, D.C. “Removing greenhouse gases so readily will not encourage people to develop alternate, renewable technologies, he said, and strive for energy efficiency.”
The Carbon Scrubber?

No indeed. Green Peace and their tribe of climate lackey’s idea of a magic bullet is one lodged right into the heart of capitalism, free markets and a free America.

Though no one expects Reprogressives to be anything but hypocrites, this video from Americans for Prosperity does an excellent job spotlighting green weenie Al Gore’s particular brand of it. This takes a few seconds to load.

All across the globe cowering elites in every nation huddle behind their many byzantine obfuscations, like over educated crack heads they fervently cook equations and theories on which to hang their nightmare climate visions, calculating, with dour glee, the deconstruction of the civilized world.

Barack Obama intones sonorous chords of doom, a black magician summoning the tribal spirits of Mother Earth, demanding that Americans not look towards the stars but, instead, bow their heads in servitude, paint their faces in ash and pay penance for having created the most vital, free and prosperous nation on earth.

For a political ideolgy rooted in humanism and secularism, far too many on the left have a terrifying tendency to devolve into evangelical snake handlers, speaking in tongues, babbling insanities.
From The Religion of Environmentalism

There is a certain type of person in the Western world. Well meaning people who think that they hold the fate of the world in their hands and who think that they can save the world…and who think that you have to help.

These are the people who live by the three R’s. They want to drive a Prius but can’t quite afford one yet. They casually talk about Global Warming like it’s a fact but who have never even bothered to investigate the science behind “Climate Change”. These people are members of the new religion - the religion of environmentalism. And guess what? They are just as passionate and just as illogical as adherents of any other religion. And guess who is a member of the New Church? Obama…

The blogger above goes on to introduce Orson Scott Card’s treatise on “Obama’s New Religion”. I excerpt some below, but highly recommend that you read it all.

Barack Obama’s comments…reveal him to be in the religious-faith category. The Environmental Puritans believe that any opposition to their dogmas is heresy, and that anything that doesn’t match their vision of how humans should live is a sin.

Since their vision of how humans should live is “without making any difference in how the world would be without humans,” we are all, alas, sinners. However, some are more sinful than others, and the United States is the most sinful of all.

No, not China, because the Environmental Puritans, like the rest of the world, expect America to live by a higher standard than other nations. Fair enough — we claim to be a special nation, and so we should meet a higher standard.

Still, the Environmental Puritans agree with the ayatollahs on this one point: America is the Great Satan. And Obama echoes that view when he refers to our gasoline consumption, our eating, and our air-conditioning and heating as if they were sins for which we are accountable to the rest of the world.
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When Obama says we eat too much — we, whose surpluses feed so many nations that when we cut back a little on food production in order to make ethanol it causes near famine elsewhere — what is he suggesting?

Is he saying that, as president, he would put us all on a diet?

Is he going to wave his hand and make people whose genes predispose them to gain weight suddenly have the metabolism of naturally skinny people? Can’t wait for that change!

Or is he simply going to ration food, so we don’t eat so much? What, exactly, is his solution to the problem of environmentally sinful America?
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The correct solution to the oil problem, according to the Puritans, is to have fewer humans. Now, I haven’t noticed them volunteering to lessen the population starting with themselves; nor have I seen their heroes bicycling everywhere (environmental ayatollah Al Gore’s plane being a legendary instance).But they do systematically resist every solution that doesn’t involve wrecking the American economy and destroying the American way of life.

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It’s so Calvinist, so Jonathan Edwards. To the environmentalists, the only reason we aren’t a spider suspended by God’s will over the fires of hell is that spiders are natural and don’t deserve to be punished.
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...you finally begin to suspect that the goal of the purest of the puritans is gotterdammerung, apocalypse, the environmental armageddon: The collapse of the world economic order, the abandonment of advanced technology, and the death of nine-tenths of the human race.

Only when we are reduced to half a billion people, or less, will we finally have a chance of being saved — in the view of the Puritan Environmentalists.

That is the religion whose doctrine Obama is quoting when he says, “We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times … and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK.”

[ed:all emphasis mine]

Vaudevillian PT Barnum made famous the phrase, “A sucker is born every minute.” My guess is he wasn’t imagining that America would one day mass produce them. Al Gore did. His fraudulent carbon credit scams, however, are a bit more serious than vaudeville huckstering.

If Americans allow this global warming farce to be foisted upon them, history will one day mock and scorn a people who so blithely marched a wealthy and thriving nation into the abyss. Indeed, I have no doubt that future historians will render Al Gore in the ignominy he so richly deserves and hail PT Barnum a wiser man by far.

A year and a half ago, James Spann questioned the money and the so-called scientific consensus pushing the idea that mankind is causing global warming. Today, he says it’s losing steam. Two imminent surveys of meteorologists may further complicate the climate debate. […] “[Y]ou know, there was some great power in that movement back in January of 2007,” Spann said. “It’s pretty rapidly running out of gas and it just seems like every day more and more people are coming out with the fact that that’s pretty much a hoax. And these are Ph.D climatologists that are pretty much saying what I said all along.”

In January 2007, Spann received national attention when he wrote a post on his blog challenging a post by The Weather Channel climate expert Dr. Heidi Cullen. Cullen had argued that meteorologists should have the American Meteorological Society (AMS) credentials taken away if they doubt the validity of manmade climate change. “If a meteorologist can’t speak to the fundamental science of climate change, then maybe the AMS shouldn’t give them a Seal of Approval,” Cullen wrote for Weather.com on Dec. 21, 2006. Spann fired back on Jan. 18, 2007: “Well, well,” Spann wrote. “Some ‘climate expert’ on ‘The Weather Channel’ wants to take away AMS certification from those of us who believe the recent “global warming” is a natural process. So much for ‘tolerance’, huh?” Spann claimed at the time he didn’t know any broadcast meteorologists who were sold on the theory touted by global warming alarmists.

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“Of course, the root of this whole thing is money,” Spann said. “And, there is a vast amount of wealth being generated by this whole issue. And I always recommend to folks – if anyone speaks on the subject, get a disclosure and find out their financial interests in it.”

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“I’m not a politician, don’t understand it – I honestly don’t know,” Spann said. “But, I will tell you that there’s a lot of people who have gotten very, very wealthy – filthy rich off this subject. I think former Vice President [Al Gore] collects a minimum of $200,000 per speech on this and all of this money – it can corrupt anybody, and I just think it’s all about money.”

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IPCC Scientist calls Global Warming Fears the Worst scientific scandal in history

It’s not often that a denizen of Hollywood is so crass as to admit that they enjoyed using their film work as a bludgeon with which to beat up a living person, but Reuters is reporting that the folks that made the upcoming HBO film “Recount” — and actress Laura Dern in particular — really relished making at least one person look like an idiot. Apparently Dern really enjoyed skewering Katherine Harris, the former Florida Secretary of State responsible for certifying the 2000 general election results.
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Just as unsurprisingly, this film was written and acted without those involved in the movie actually talking to Katherine Harris herself.This movie is shaping up to be just another example of BDS and hatred for conservatives and Republicans. Will the left and Hollywood ever just get over it?
Actress Dern: ‘Loved’ Making Katherine Harris Look ‘Clueless’ in HBO Film

It would behoove the aging and irrelevant Miss Dern (Billy Bob Thornton couldn’t run away fast enough) to not to be so prideful about how little integrity she invests into her “work”. Research might have given her some actual insight, not only into her “character”, but into a history unrevised by script writers bending reality to conform with their hatred of this country.

Sparks from the Anvil offers some of the facts that the myopic and self-indulgent Miss Dern chose to ignore.

“Our sort of motto has been, get the story right, get the facts right, tell it honestly and tell the truth.”
-Kevin Spacey, actor portraying Ron Klain (campaign aide to Al Gore and former V.P. chief of staff), commenting about the HBO movie, “Recount”

How convenient, then, that the HBO movie, which debuted last Sunday, has this disclaimer: “based on certain facts”. Like the fact that this movie is written by, for, and about Gore-supporting Democrats? No revisionist partisan parsing of the facts present, right? Wrong.

The movie is passing itself off as a docudrama that is supposedly even-handed in its account.

One of the movie’s consultants is ABC’s Jack Tapper who admits to Washington Post’s Howard Kurtz:

the film is “a fictional version of what happened” and “tilts to the left because it’s generally told from the point of view of the Democrats.”

Entertainment Weekly’s Gillian Flynn (by way of NewsBusters):

Recount may not be downright blue, but it’s not as purply as it wants to appear. Despite its ”equal time” approach, Recount is an underdog story, and thus a Democrat story.

A good number of Americans are not aware of the political propaganda and partisan dishonesty that goes into a “docudrama” like this. It has the effect of indoctrinating more and more Americans to the liberal mindset and beliefs, that 2000 was a stolen election and Bush heir to an illegitimate presidency that was handed over to him by the Supreme Court. But as Richard Baehr writes, “the U.S. Supreme Court action probably prevented the theft of the election in Florida from occurring.”
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But of course, releasing this movie in the middle of a presidential election year is about the future, isn’t it? Thanks. It’s good to be reminded that if it isn’t close, Democrats can’t cheat.

In the end, as Republican lawyer, Ben Ginsberg, puts it: “Republicans won the recount. Democrats won the movie.”

Enjoy your HBO fantasy movie, and dream on, Democrats!
continue reading… “How Al Gore Almost Stole an Election”

There is pending in the United States Senate a monstrosity that gives some serious meaning to the facetious wisecrack that Americans are safer when Congress is out of session. As usual, Senator James Inhofe (R-Okla.), Ranking Member and former Chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW), is doing much of the heavy lifting in the name of down-to-earth sanity in citing the monstrosity’s many flaws.
S-2191, the Lieberman-Warner “cap and trade” bill (scheduled for Senate debate shortly after Memorial Day) would require companies to cut greenhouse gas emissions to 2005 levels by the year 2012. By 2020, those emissions are mandated to return to 1990 levels. And industrial America is expected to reduce emissions to 65% below 1990 levels by the year 2050. This is all in the name of the hoax known as “man-made global warming.” That’s the “cap.”
Gore’s mansion sets the example
The theory behind “cap and trade” is that companies cutting their emissions below their legal limit can sell their excess emissions rights to other parties. That’s the “trade.” Every time Al Gore’s environmental hypocrisy is nailed, he replies he purchases emissions “credits” from other parties in order to operate his huge energy-hog mansion in Nashville. That’s the model for this bill
The small print: the cap and trade “problem”
For starters, just by its very nature, Warner-Lieberman supplies more weight to the already horrific pressures to make your personal wallet or purse considerably lighter. The congressional Budget Office (CBO) says the bill would create $1.2 trillion in government spending over the next 10 years alone.
But while government spending goes up, household income will go down, possibly by nearly $3,000 in 2020 and more than double that amount by 2030. Senator Inhofe figures families in his state of Oklahoma will be stuck with paying $3,298 for the increased cost of gasoline and energy.
Poor families would get the worst of it. Liberal politicians — who claim their hearts bleed for the poor — apparently figure they, themselves, won’t be adversely affected by the higher energy bills that will hit low income families, who already pay 5 times as much of their monthly budgets on energy (19%) as do wealthier families (4%).
And don’t forget the pain at the pump. A study by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) projects that gasoline prices will soar by 53 cents a gallon by the time the full effects of Lieberman-Warner kick in.

Jobs? Forget it. You will be lucky just to keep the one you have because if you lose it, you’ll have a harder time getting another one. Senator Inhofe cites an Independent Energy Information Administration (IEIA) study as forecasting a 9.5% drop in manufacturing and higher energy costs under L/W, and that it will be worse unless we build 350 nuclear plants by 2030. (Note: This column has advocated building nuclear plants as a substitute for begging on our hind legs from the oil-rich countries that hate us.)
Under Lieberman/Warner, America stands to lose jobs in the millions.

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Senator Boxer is sure to put on a great show of fighting mightily for the measure in Senate debate, she is really not interested in passing Lieberman-Warner (S-2191) in 2008. She has been quoted as saying the media and UN climate alarmists are doing such a great job of burying the public with the myth of man-made “global warming” that she would actually rather let the issue simmer out there for a couple of election cycles — hopefully to knock off members of Congress who are willing to break up the charade by pointing out that the Goebbels-like “climate change” propagandists are the proverbial emperors with no clothes. Recall that Joseph Goebbels was the Nazi propagandist whose motto was that a lie repeated often enough becomes “truth.” Such is the methodology of the “global warming” potentates.(ed:all bold mine)

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The Plot to Throw You Out of Work and Stick You With Higher Taxes

RIA Novosti - World - Estonian farmers face flatulence tax on cattle
TALLINN, May 8 (RIA Novosti) - Estonian farmers have received tax notices for methane emissions from their cattle, the country’s opposition party, the People’s Union of Estonia, said on Thursday.Ruminants produce large quantities of methane gas through belching and flatulence when they digest grass, which accounts for about 15-25% of overall gas emissions, according to different estimates.A single cow produces on average 350 liters of methane and 1,500 liters of carbon dioxide per day.

“For Copa-Cogeca, an organization that unites farmers of the European Union, the information received from Estonian farmers came as a huge surprise, and they could not recall a similar precedent in any EU country,” said the party’s spokesman, Jaanus Marrandi.

No other EU country imposes a flatulence tax on farmers.

A year after joining the Kyoto protocol, authorities in New Zealand proposed introducing a flatulence tax saying that New Zealand cattle are responsible for 90% of the country’s methane emissions and 43% of greenhouse gas emissions.

H/T: Latterdays

…from the archives of the Club of Rome:“It would seem that men and women need a common motivation, namely a common adversary, to organize and act together in the vacuum such as motivation seemed to have ceased to exist or have yet to be found. The need for enemies seems to be acommon historical factor…Bring the divided nation together to face an outside enemy, either a real one or else one INVENTED for the purpose…Democracy will be made to seem responsible for the lagging economy, the scarcity and uncertainties. The very concept of democracy could then be brought into question and allow for the seizure of power by extremists of one brand or the other…

In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill. The real enemy [of the elites and their minions] then is humanity itself.”

- “The First Global Revolution” (1991) published by the Club of Rome. Members of the Club of Rome include: Al Gore, Jimmy Carter, Bill Gates, George Soros and author of the Kyoto Protocols Maurice Strong. (Source)

I wonder how long we will reap the poisoned harvest from Al Gore’s farcical global warming hysteria. Pretentious, self-aggrandizing green weenies prance about celebrating “Earth Day”, allaying their guilt, salving their continuously suppurating psychic wounds, meanwhile, the collateral damage from their war on capitalism takes it’s toll on all of those “little folks” that they purport to care so much about.

Oh well, if they continue ripening the potential for famine and food riots, they’ll be able to hold another one of their ever popular We-Are-the-World star studded concerts, record a new album of harmonized platitudes and all will be well.

Oh, I forgot to acknowledge Earth week, so here is my greeting to all the Green folks out there …

Concern is mounting because the new generation of biodegradable plastics ends up on landfill sites, where they degrade without oxygen, releasing methane, a greenhouse gas 23 times more powerful than carbon dioxide. This week the US national oceanic and atmospheric administration reported a sharp increase in global methane emissions last year.

“It is just not possible to capture all the methane from landfill sites,” said Michael Warhurt, resources campaigner at Friends of the Earth. “A significant percentage leaks to the atmosphere.”

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…this from Noel Sheppard at Newsbusters:

As the international disaster of ethanol begins taking its toll on the planet — and, maybe more important, as press outlet after press outlet finally begins recognizing it — will media remember that Vice President Al Gore cast the tie-breaking vote in the Senate requiring this oxygenate be added to gasoline?

After all, regardless of recent reports blaming ethanol for world hunger problems, rising food costs, and increased greenhouse gases, it seems highly unlikely green media will want to tie any of these problems to Nobel Laureate Gore.

From American Thinker

Are you tired yet of NBC’s extension of “Earth Day” into “Earth Week”? Washington Examiner columnist Timothy Carney exposes the very convenient truth behind parent company General Electric’s environmentalist cheerleading:

NBC Universal is owned by General Electric, which plays a regular role in this column because of how aggressively the company has hitched its profits to its lobbying successes. GE spends more than any other corporation in America on lobbying the federal government — more than $20 million annually over the past three years — and Green Week and Earth Week probably should be disclosed as lobbying efforts.

In many of GE’s businesses, the profit model appears to be: (1) invest in something for which there isn’t much demand; (2) then lobby to mandate or subsidize it …

GE’s coal gasification, solar power generation, electric cars and biodiesel businesses are the same: Consumers and investors acting with their own money would not patronize these technologies, but Congress, acting with your money, will. GE’s $20 million annual lobbying budget sees to it.

GE has also launched a venture dealing in “greenhouse gas credits,” which are literally worthless until Congress starts limiting greenhouse gas emissions. Throw in the expensive but unattractive light bulbs they’ve convinced Congress to mandate, and the pattern is clear.

Gore’s Favorite Net Strikes Again

Laughing my ass off…

SAN DIEGO—It seems solar energy takes more green.

The San Diego Unified School District has suspended its solar energy efforts because power bills soared after the green initiative.

The district says it’s paying up to $20,000 a year more on electricity after installing solar energy systems at 28 schools. Plans for solar installations at 22 other schools have now been put on hold.

School district energy management coordinator J. William Naish says spiking energy bills are the result of how San Diego Gas and Electric calculates charges to large power users.

Naish says it’s almost like the district is being penalized for going solar.

The formula used to calculate electricity rates in California is expected to change next month. Naish says he wants to see a few bills under the new rate system before reviving solar energy use.

San Diego school district suspend solar energy efforts - San Jose Mercury News