Waiting for control

You have to imagine
a waiting that is not impatient
because it is timeless.

R. S. THOMAS, The Echoes Return Slow

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User interface

You sir will be speaking to your computer.  Will you allow your computer to set up how your life is run?

Or, when software is installed, will you be in control?

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The end of EPA’s regulation of CO2

PETITION FOR RULEMAKING ON THE ISSUE OF GREENHOUSE GASES AND PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE

“Petitioners Competitive Enterprise Institute, the Science and Environmental Policy Project, and four individual members of the latter’s Board of Directors hereby petition EPA to initiate a rulemaking proceeding on the subject of greenhouse gases and their impact on public health and welfare.”

“EPA addressed this matter in 2009 in its “Endangerment Finding.” EPA, Final Rule, Endangerment and Cause or Contribute Findings for Greenhouse Gases Under Section 202(a) of the Clean Air Act, 74 FR 66,496 (Dec. 15, 2009). However, as explained below, since that finding was issued, evidence has continued to mount that directly contradicts it. For these reasons, we request that EPA commence a new proceeding on this matter.”

http://www.sepp.org/key_issues/CEI_Petition_Endangerment_2017.pdf

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Defiance for science?

“A total of seven shots were fired into our National Space Science and Technology Center (NSSTC) building here at UAH over the weekend.”
 
“All bullets hit the 4th floor, which is where John Christy’s office is (my office is in another part of the building).”
 
“Given that this was Earth Day weekend, with a March for Science passing right past our building on Saturday afternoon, I think this is more than coincidence.”…”Local news reports that UAH police have classified this as a “random shooting”. So, the seven Belgian 5.7 millimeter bullets which hit windows and bricks around John Christy’s office from 70 yards away were apparently deemed to be “random” occurrence. (Despite my personal defense training, I probably would have struggled to get that tight a “random” cluster with a semi-automatic pistol.) Nothing to see here, move along.”
defiance-for-science
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How to think about Putin

“Let me stress at the outset that this is not going to be a talk about what to think about Putin, which is something you are all capable of making up your minds on, but rather how to think about him. And on this, there is one basic truth to remember, although it is often forgotten. Our globalist leaders may have deprecated sovereignty since the end of the Cold War, but that does not mean it has ceased for an instant to be the primary subject of politics.”

https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/think-vladimir-putin/

At this link above, there is an excellent perspective by Christopher Caldwell, who  is a senior editor at The Weekly Standard. A graduate of Harvard College, his essays, columns, and reviews appear in the Claremont Review of Books, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times Book Review, the Spectator (London), Financial Times, and numerous other publications. He is the author of Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam, and the West, and is at work on a book about post-1960s America.

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End of Global Warming Debate By the most qualified real climatologists. It really is as easy as 1-2-3.

http://columbia-phd.org/RealClimatologists/

 

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Plant growth is increasing

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Disarming Minorities (repost)

And this will be my last post tonight, honest.

The only objection consistently raised to the seemingly modest and sensible sounding idea of requiring that voters present a photographic id is that it is discriminatory toward minorities. In fact, while I think that’s both a little silly and a lot condescending, it’s actually the only specific objection I’ve *ever* heard.

I would encourage anyone who believes that this criticism is valid to consider the extensive identification requirements associated with gun purchases. Because I think it is logically inescapable that, if the requirement of a photographic id from a voter is discriminatory against minorities, then so must be the requirement of a photographic id from a gun purchaser.

Which begs the obvious question, my dear pro-gun-control friends: why are you comfortable with differentially disarming black people?

~ Hank Racette

 

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Fraud by Congress and Government

Please send a letter or email to your congressman and senators like mine below to Tulsi Gabbard in response to her attempted fraud message (below). Raising money and alarm under false pretenses is fraud. The climate warming fraud being promoted by our government must stop.

Dear Congresswoman;

While I and my family and friends agree and fully support your resistance to further regime change actions in Syria and elsewhere, we must protest about your positions on global warming.

Your positions on climate and global warming have no scientific merit. Your recent support via email and your newsletters of the totally bogus claim…a lie really…that there is no debate about climate change are embarrassing. These messages reveal that you and your staff concerned with the environment, the EPA, energy and interior are playing at crony politics.

The EPA endangerment finding was an effort to use hollow science, science not supported by empirical evidence, against humanity. There are thousands of scientists and companies who protest this fraudulent EPA finding, a finding which the director of the EPA refused to substantiate with real evidence or even produce for Congress the methodologies that EPA used; that alone means defines EPA’s action as non-science. But now for YOU to declare that there is no debate is just a stupid lie. I can give you several lists of thousands of scientists who know EPA is wrong about human-produced CO2 and who know the climate models are wrong.

Congresswoman, it is past time to stop wasting billions of taxpayer dollars on this climate fraud. In the years ahead, these fraudsters will be going to trial and jail for their crimes. Do you want to be among them?

Using fossil fuels producing carbon dioxide has pulled billions of people out of dire poverty, saving millions of lives. Yet, some Washington politicians and the UN are demanding international controls over fossil fuels, regardless of the harm to humanity.

They claim carbon dioxide is causing dangerous global warming. The laboratory science shows that adding carbon dioxide (CO2) to the atmosphere will cause a slight warming, possibly not measurable globally. But some scientists speculate this slight warming will be greatly amplified by additional water vapor. After over 35 years of searching, the speculated amplification has not been found. But you and your fellow congressmen have allowed billions of taxpayer dollars to be wasted, and the waste continues on your watch.

Physical science gives no physical evidence or proof that recent warming is beyond what the earth experienced in the past. Poorly tested computer models are not physical evidence. Indeed, the models greatly overestimate observed measurements of the atmosphere, where any greenhouse gas (CO2) effect occurs.

The claimed science of climate alarmists has been thoroughly refuted by nature. A computer model of the climate is only a hypothesis. None of those computer models is able to produce a reasonably accurate forecast. Furthermore, scientists including chemists like me know that higher concentrations of CO2 are doing more good than harm. Higher CO2 is good for the planet and all life. Lower CO2 is harmful to plants. The ONLY WAY carbon gets into the food chain and finally into our bodies is from atmospheric CO2 feeding plants. Your actions and our government’s actions to reduce CO2 are harming life. I must protest.

It is past time for you to wake up and get on the scientifically correct side of this debate, instead of your promotion of the outright lie that there is no debate. Already in 2017 more than 100 scientific papers which are skeptical or refuting global warming claims have been published in peer reviewed journals.

Are you going to continue to ask for money and accept money based on scientifically unprovable claims about human-caused global warming? I am one of your constituents. I demand redress. Stop this fraud.

As I have told you before, I will be happy to introduce you to real scientists who will debate global warming with you and anyone you wish.

Clare Bromley
Holualoa


Tulsi

 

Bud,

For all of us in Hawai’i, climate change is a reality we’re already experiencing, as our fragile island ecosystem is impacted by rising temperatures and sea levels. Maybe Jeff Sessions would be OK if Hawai’i disappeared into the ocean, but we are not.

Change is coming, and it’s up to us whether that change will be transformative or catastrophic. We don’t have time to fight amongst each other. We don’t have time to engage in partisan rhetoric and bickering. We must be the change we want to see in the world. The future of the human race depends on it.

Will you join the People’s Climate March on April 29?

There are powerful people who refuse to acknowledge the reality of climate change – and one of them is sitting in the White House. Climate change is not a hoax as President Trump has said in the past, and we must not ignore the rising tide.

In addition to climate change, we are dealing with threats to clean water — whether on Oahu, at Red Hill and Kalihi, or in Flint, Michigan, or at Standing Rock, we must always remember that water is life. We must fight to protect the right of all people to clean water.

The scope of the problem and of the opposition can feel overwhelming, but in every crisis, there is also immense opportunity. We must meet ignorance with truth, fear with love and greed with a fullness of heart.

We can create transformative change by coming together in solidarity, getting inspired and inspiring others to live in a new way – a way of love, peace, respect and harmony.

Ready for the first step? Join the People’s Climate March, meet new friends, and get ready to organize together for a better world.

As always, thank you for everything that you do.

Aloha,

Tulsi

DONATE 

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MOAB justice


Those mujahedeen tunnel networks we’re bombing in Afghanistan? We paid for them. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/11/magazine/lost-at-tora-bora.html …

The bomb dropped today in the middle of nowhere, Afghanistan, cost $314,000,000. http://articles.latimes.com/2011/nov/16/business/la-fi-bunker-buster-bomb-20111117

 

Hat tip:  Edward Snowden and http://theduran.com/snowden-afghan-bunker-moab-bomb/

 

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