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Senator Rand Paul is acting like a U.S. President should act. Paul’s bill, S. 3576, would end foreign aid to three Arabic countries unless Pakistan releases Dr. Shakil Afridi, a medical doctor who helped the CIA locate Osama bin Laden. While Obama takes credit for killing Osama, Dr. Afridi is in jail in Pakistan. Paul’s bill also calls on Egyptian and Libyan officials release to U.S. authorities the Islamists who attacked the U.S. embassy in Cairo and the U.S. consulate in Benghazi. Why isn’t Obama doing this?

Instead, President Obama and Secretary Clinton are spending millions of taxpayer dollars to run TV ads in every market in Pakistan to APOLOGIZE for the trailer for a satirical movie about Muhammad. Further, President Obama is considering the demand of Egypt’s new President Morsi to release the Blind Sheik, who is in federal prison for masterminding the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center in New York.

The “Blind Sheik” is Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman. Osama bin Laden used the Blind Sheik’s fatwa against America as justification for the attacks on 9-11. Morsi’s first official speech contained a promise to fight for the Blind Sheik’s release. Morsi is U.S. educated. Both Morsi and Rahman are Muslim Brothers. The Brotherhood was founded in Egypt in 1928 … 20 years before Israel became a nation… before the so-called occupation of Palestine by Israel. The ‘occupation’ is another Islamist canard, just like the movie, a cover for radical behavior.

“…the President’s indefensible scapegoating of the film and filmmaker to draw attention and blame away from U.S. security failures apparently knows no bounds.”

According to National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor, next week, Obama will denounce the film in a speech before the United Nations General Assembly: “As he has in recent days, the President will make it clear that we reject the views in this video, while also underscoring that violence is never acceptable.”

Recently, Obama used a drone to kill Al Qaeda’s #2 guy. He was a Libyan. Common sense would tell an American President and Secretary of State to protect American embassies, businesses and people in the region after killing Al Qaeda’s top people.

As Lou Dobbs said, what is required from President Obama is an apology to the American people.

WEAKNESS IS PROVOCATIVE.

We are being set up for more terrorist acts against America and war. Obama wants more attacks on Americans. Submission to Islam comes from terror. Allah, the god of Islam is a god of wrath. The word Islam itself means submission.

A Muslim Brotherhood document recovered from an FBI raid explains the Muslim Brotherhood’s mission for North America:

4- Understanding the role of the Muslim Brother in North America:

The process of settlement is a “Civilization-Jihadist Process” with all the word means. The Ikhwan [Brothers] must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and “sabotaging” its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God’s religion is made victorious over all other religions. Without this level of understanding, we are not up to this challenge and have not prepared ourselves for Jihad yet. It is a Muslim’s destiny to perform Jihad and work wherever he is and wherever he lands until the final hour comes, and there is no escape from that destiny except for those who chose to slack. But, would the slackers and the Mujahedeen be equal.

The document contains a list of Muslim Brotherhood front groups in America as of 1991, when it was recovered by an FBI raid. Missing from this list is the most important Muslim organization in the world, The Muslim World League. It is the organization that funds all the rest of them. One of the richest organizations in the world, it is an arm of the Saudi government. It funds and owns all of the Mosques in America and determines the imams who preach there. The overall number of mosques in America quietly rose from 1,209 in 2000 to 2,106 in 2010…74% growth.

The Obama administration appointed two Muslim Brothers as high level, security cleared, directors of Homeland Security. Hillary Clinton’s deputy assistant secretary of state – also security cleared – is the daughter of a Muslim Brother.

President Morsi believes he is in a position to dictate to America, despite the fact that his country is heavily in debt to America.  Bill Clinton is hosting Mr. Morsi in New York.   

Morsi: U.S. Should Show Respect for Arab Values, Today, 3:22 AM

Egypt‘s President: If Washington asks Egypt to honor its treaty with Israel, it should live up to its commitment to Palestinian self-rule.

On the eve of his first trip to the United States as Egypt”s new Islamist president, Mohammed Morsi said the United States needed to fundamentally change its approach to the Arab world, showing greater respect for its values and helping build a Palestinian state, if it hoped to overcome decades of pent-up anger.

In a 90-minute interview with The New York Times on Saturday, Morsi said it was up to Washington to repair relations with the Arab world and to revitalize the alliance with Egypt, long a cornerstone of regional stability.

If Washington is asking Egypt to honor its treaty with Israel, he said, Washington should also live up to its own Camp David commitment to Palestinian self-rule. He said the United States must respect the Arab world’s history and culture, even when that conflicts with Western values.

Morsi dismissed criticism from the White House that he did not move fast enough to condemn protesters who recently climbed over the United States Embassy wall in Cairo and burned the American flag in anger over a video that mocked the prophet Mohammed.

“We took our time” in responding to avoid an explosive backlash, he said, but then dealt “decisively” with the small, violent element among the demonstrators.

“We can never condone this kind of violence, but we need to deal with the situation wisely,” he said, noting that the embassy employees were never in danger.
Morsi, who will travel to New York on Sunday for a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly, told The New York Times that the United States should not expect Egypt to live by its rules.

“If you want to judge the performance of the Egyptian people by the standards of German or Chinese or American culture, then there is no room for judgment,” he said.

“When the Egyptians decide something, probably it is not appropriate for the U.S. When the Americans decide something, this, of course, is not appropriate for Egypt.”
He suggested that Egypt would not be hostile to the West, but would not be as compliant as former President Hosni Mubarak was either.

“Successive American administrations essentially purchased with American taxpayer money the dislike, if not the hatred, of the peoples of the region,” he said, by backing dictatorial governments over popular opposition and supporting Israel over Palestinian Authority Arabs.

When asked if he considered the United States an ally in the wake of recent comments by President Barack Obama who said he did not consider Egypt an ally but did not consider it an enemy,. Morsi answered in English, “That depends on your definition of ally.”

He said he envisioned the two nations as “real friends.”

Morsi praised Obama for moving “decisively and quickly” to support the Arab Spring revolutions, and he said he believed that Americans supported “the right of the people of the region to enjoy the same freedoms that Americans have.”

Arabs and Americans have “a shared objective, each to live free in their own land, according to their customs and values, in a fair and democratic fashion,” he said, adding that he hoped for “a harmonious, peaceful coexistence.”

At the same, he also argued that Americans “have a special responsibility” for PA Arabs because the United States had signed the 1978 Camp David accord which called for the withdrawal of Israeli troops from Judea and Samaria and Gaza to make way for full Palestinian self-rule.

“As long as peace and justice are not fulfilled for the Palestinians, then the treaty remains unfulfilled,” he said.

Morsi made no apologies for his roots in the Muslim Brotherhood, saying, “I grew up with the Muslim Brotherhood. I learned my principles in the Muslim Brotherhood. I learned how to love my country with the Muslim Brotherhood. I learned politics with the Brotherhood. I was a leader of the Muslim Brotherhood.”

He left the group when he took office but remains a member of its political party. But he said he sees “absolutely no conflict” between his loyalty to the Brotherhood and his vows to govern on behalf of all, including members of the Christian minority or those with more secular views.

“I prove my independence by taking the correct acts for my country,” he said. “If I see something good from the Muslim Brotherhood, I will take it. If I see something better in the Wafd” &mdash Egypt”s oldest liberal party &mdash “I will take it.”

He repeatedly vowed to uphold equal citizenship rights of all Egyptians, regardless of religion, sex or class, while standing by the religious arguments he once made as a Brotherhood leader that neither a woman nor a Christian would be a suitable president.

Written on Thursday, September 20, 2012 by Tad Cronn

http://patriotupdate.com/articles/stories-you-wont-hear-about-global-warming

The United Nations Agenda 21 Agreement was signed by President Bill Clinton in 1992 and 14 years later, people are still in the dark.  In 1976 President G.H.W. Bush signed the predecessor agreement after the UN conference in Rio. 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.

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.”

“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.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agenda_21

What you should know is that UN Agenda 21 has already been adopted in the U.S. and worldwide. This treaty was done without ratification by the U.S. Senate. It is subtext at city council, city, state and national planning and community meetings.  You can read about all about it on the UN website. But, to understand it, you need a translator, intense skepticism and cynicism or the ability to read between the lines of coded words.

http://www.un.org/esa/agenda21/natlinfo/countr/usa/natur.htm

Communities, fisheries, industries, resources, governance, police, environment, money, population control, property control, a tax on all financial transactions to permanently funds the UN (or its successor), and global taxation and regulation of carbon dioxide (i.e. your breath and energy), all planned at the global level – that’s Agenda 21. Its basis is communitarianism. By now, most Americans have heard of sustainable development but are largely unaware that it is a code word for Agenda 21.

Agenda 21 calls for governments to take control of all land use and offshore resources and not leave any of the decision making in the hands of private citizens or property owners. It is assumed that people are not good stewards of their land and environment and the government will do a better job if they are in control. Individual rights in general are to give way to the needs of communities as determined by the governing body. Moreover, people should be incented to move off their suburban land and packed into human settlements, or islands of human habitation, close to employment centers and transportation. Another program, called the Wildlands Project spells out how most of the land is to be set aside for non-humans.

U.N. Agenda 21 cites the affluence of Americans as being a major problem which needs to be corrected. It calls for lowering the standard of living for Americans so that the people in poorer countries will have more, a redistribution of wealth. Although people around the world aspire to achieve the levels of prosperity we have in our country, and will risk their lives to get here, Americans are cast in a very negative light and need to be taken down to a condition closer to average in the world. Only then, they say, will there be social justice which is a cornerstone of the U.N. Agenda 21 plan.

Agenda 21 dovetails with the UN Law of the Sea Treaty, the UN Millennium Program, and the UN Kyoto Treaty on climate change.

I went to a meeting with the fishermen and their wives in Gloucester, MA. The catch in Gloucester is about 90 million pounds per year, down 50%.  Next year they will only be allowed 10%-20% of their 2012 catch (varies by fish species.) Most of Gloucester’s fishing industry will be gone, replaced by giant corporate fishing factory ships offshore run by Walmart, Cosco, Whole Foods and their international equivalents. It’s already happening.  Whole Foods and Gortons no longer buy seafood from Gloucester’s fishermen.  You will get processed and frozen fish instead of fresh fish.

Imagine the cost to all small fishing boats.  They are now required to take an official government minder aboard every morning they go out to sea, who verifies the weight, size species of each catch.  Meanwhile, a multimillion dollar NOAA research ship speeds by staffed by PhD’s and their computers attempting to sample and count fish on the fishing banks, but they can’t find the fish.  But the local fishermen are bringing in by millions of pounds of fish.  The PhD’s report the fishing banks are being depleted without asking the fishermen or looking at the catch reports of the government-required minders.  NOAA reduces the allowed catch for the fishermen, which wipes them out of business.  Twelve miles offshore sits a fleet of factory ships which will be paying a fee to the UN office in Jamaica.  Your Senators and Representatives tell the fishermen and their wives that they cannot stop, they have hit a brick wall.

Study Agenda 21 carefully.  It is a plan to strip you of sovereignty, liberty and wealth…unless you happen to be one of the protected global elites.  The sole piece of legislation authored by Senator Barack Obama supported the UN’s program, the lofty sounding Millennium Program, to transfer wealth to third world countries.

Ron Paul was unelectable from the get go in this and the last election.  So far, I have never found an electable Libertarian.  I voted for Paul in the primary.  But the problem is not Paul’s, in my opinion.

The problem is that “we the people” have been conditioned to expect our politicians to lead us.  We elect charismatic orators.  But it is ideas that built this nation and ideas should lead us forward.  The people are supposed to run this country.  The words “lead” and “leader” do not appear in the Constitution.  The President’s job is to execute the Office of President of the United States, and to the best of his ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.   President Obama and Democrats want to change the Constitution, not preserve, protect and defend it.  The conditioning has gone on so long now that our politicians believe they are our leaders, and they believe they are supposed to be leaders.  But they are supposed to be preservers, protectors and defenders.

Our political process has been warped into a process where a politician is someone who can identify a constituency and speak to that constituency with oratory and rhetoric that rev up that constituency.  Honesty, truth, integrity, character are gone.   It has become an incredibly selfish, narcissistic process.  We and Romney should NOT be asking “are you better off now than you were 4 years ago.”  The correct question is: is the country better off now than it was 4 years ago?  As JFK said, “And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country.”

A populist leader is a dangerous thing for a democracy.  That is how dictators get elected.  The founders of this country knew that.  They had studied their history.  Thus they established checks and balances and separations of powers, which power hungry populist politicians have progressively weakened.  We should be electing executives and legislators, not charismatic orators and power hungry, greedy career politicians.

Did you read the small book from the 1950’s by Eric Hoffer titled, “The True Believer.”  If you haven’t, it will be enlightening.

The populist leader shifts positions based on polls and surveys of his constituents.  And so we see Romney and Obama evolving…and believing they are leaders.  Instead of Bain Capital being about Romney and the successes of a rich man, he should turn that around and explain how Bain Capital’s activities were good for the country.

Ron Paul is not in the mold of the populist leader.  He is a principled citizen, a politician come lately … as were John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and so forth.  They didn’t study and identify constituencies.  They studied and identified ideas.

I was very concerned about Paul’s apparently isolationist foreign policy positions in the runnup to the 2004 election.  But my friend and colleague Doug Forsyth, a career PR professional, clued me in on Paul.  Paul does not communicate in the sound bytes that the media, and now, the public expects.  His position on Manning and 9/11 are examples of that.  You have to read his entire position on a particular subject.  Even when asked, Paul does not and apparently cannot explain himself in the sound byte oratorical style that we and the media have come to expect.  Paul’s principles are based in the Constitution, peace through strength and maintaining a strong defense.  We have over-extended our power and outlasted our welcome for many decades by building overseas military bases.  The U.S. is acting like an empire.  Imagine having drones overhead and knowing that those drones are carrying missiles and bombs, and someone thousands of miles away has their finger on the trigger.  It’s straight out of Orwell’s book “1984″…constant wars…we are there.  We built that!

Thirty thousand, 30,000! unmanned drones are scheduled to be flying in the U.S. skies soon…looking at you.  We won’t find out if they are armed until one crashes.  Americans can now be held (as a result of the 2011 and 2012 NDAA passed by Congress and signed by Obama) by the U.S. military for an indefinite period without trial, or legal due course, for the SUSPICION of association with terrorist activity.  A federal judge has placed an injunction to prevent that clause in NDAA from being implemented.  But our current President is already defying another federal court order regarding off-shore oil leases and is protecting his Attorney General who has been charged with contempt of Congress- for the first time ever.  The President can order us killed by drone without trial, as has happened to at least one American so far.  Be careful which web sites you visit.  It’s not just a problem with Obama.  Congressman Allen West of Florida signed it and supports it; he is as anti-Obama as one finds.  As President Bill Clinton said after impeachment about his perjury in the Monica Lewinsky, “I did it because I could.”

There is no question that radical Islam is out to conquer the world for Allah.  That has not changed since Muhammad’s Muslim forces from Medina invaded Mecca in 630 AD.  That was the second battle between Medina and Mecca within two years after signing a 10 year truce between them.  Leave them alone and they will fight forever among themselves.  Meanwhile, we retreat, circle the wagons, maintain secrecy (profile and expel radical  Muslims), build a strong defense, and build the capability and the undoubted will to strike back with force that would set the attacker back at least a generation.  Our country today is unable to tolerate the common sense task of profiling Muslims, and therefore peaceful Muslims don’t trust that we would protect them if they stood up against their radical brothers.  And they are absolutely right about that. 

Our military in Afghanistan is not even allowed by their senior officers to profile their supposedly friendly Afghan military trainees for fear of offending them.  We paint our Medivac copters and vehicles differently, clearly mark them with Red Crosses, and send them out unarmed to rescue our wounded.  Taliban and Al Qaida shoot them down.  There is major dissension in our own ranks between military stationed in the field and their superior officers and politicians, and that is just starting to come out.  We are on a fool’s errand, led by a bunch of arrogant fools.  We are in grave danger.

The founders of this country knew without doubt that the federal government MUST BE limited and tightly controlled by competitive offsetting factors, and they knew it should NOT be directly involved in commerce or welfare…such as a king and his lords were in Europe and elsewhere.  For example, the founders refused to use government money for schools, but they built them themselves with their own money.

Article 1 Section 8 Clause 1 of the Constitution: “To lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States.” Definition of General Welfare: “Exemption from any unusual evil or calamity; the enjoyment of peace and prosperity, or the ordinary blessings of society and civil government.” (Webster’s American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828).  The Constitution does NOT authorize the gov’t to write a welfare check to a citizen, nor find a job for a citizen, nor create commerce. Democrat FDR redefined the general welfare clause by dominating the Supreme Court in 1937.

The iron law of bureaucracy guarantees (1) that all government agencies will grow until they become inefficient and unable to accomplish their original intent, and (2) that the mission of the politicians and bureaucratic administrators running those government agencies will become sustaining and growing their budget and their agency, so that their own power and prestige increases and (3) they will not be working for the original legislated intent of the agency, but instead, they will be found to be working against the original intent or causing damage which the legislation sought to prevent.

To wit: the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 which created the Federal Reserve Bank was intended to protect the value of the dollar, maintain stable prices, and prevent the so-called “money trust,” (that is, prevent control of financial wealth and political power by a powerful few.) Yet today, in 2012 the dollar has already lost nearly 100% of its value (prices of everything are many multiples of 1913 prices) and a powerful few banks and bankers have been bailed out by the government, are considered too big to fail, and they carry financial derivatives risk 20 times the annual GDP of the entire U.S. economy, a level of risk that has doubled since a Democrat controlled Congress and Obama passed the Dodd Frank Financial Reform Act.

The progressives’ version of the Federal Reserve Act passed Congress on December 19, and President Wilson (Democrat) signed it December 23, 1913. Democrats controlled both houses of Congress and the White House. Wilson later said it was his worst mistake. “A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated governments in the world–no longer a government of free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and duress of small groups of dominant men.” –President Woodrow Wilson

The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently completed the first audit of the Federal Reserve in 100 years.  The audit revealed $16 trillion in secret loans. The Federal Reserve refers to these secret bailouts as an all-inclusive loan program, but virtually none of the money has been returned and it was loaned out at 0% interest.  This $16 trillion dollars is on top of the $16 trillion U.S. federal debt.

The federal government has lost billions of dollars each year trying to run AMTRAK and the U.S. Post Office.

Even with all of this evidence, some people still believe that the federal government can “reduce the cost and improve the quality of healthcare” through Obamacare.  But those true believers are not in the government.  Those inside the government understand the Iron Law of Bureaucracy.  http://www.jerrypournelle.com/reports/jerryp/iron.html

Even worse, some people believe that evolving sovereign control of government by citizens into a supranational bureaucracy for world government, exemplified by the European Union, is the path to the future.  The UN’s Agenda 21 and Law of the Sea is already being implemented all around us from zoning in local communities to international laws.  NOAA and other agencies are already implementing and preparing to implement several treaties and agreements through the President’s several Executive Orders to harmonize and standardize the U.S. with international rules.

And yes, it is the Iron Law of Bureaucracy that is damaging the fishing industry in Gloucester and allowing the mismanagement of wildlife, environment, natural resources, the general welfare and commerce.

Reference:

http://www.jerrypournelle.com/reports/jerryp/iron.html

GAO Report: http://www.scribd.com/doc/60553686/GAO-Fed-Investigation#outer_page_144

Senator Barney Sanders’ statement regarding the GAO Report: http://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/news/?id=9e2a4ea8-6e73-4be2-a753-62060dcbb3c3

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A BBC article (link below) summarizes new research appearing in the journal Nature about methane (natural gas) in the Antarctic.  The Antarctic could be developed as a methane energy resource.

It is not surprising that there are immense reserves of methane beneath the ice and oceans on and around Antarctica.  More than 170 million years ago, it was part of the super continent Gondwona.  At several points in its history, Antarctica has been covered with forests and inhabited by life forms.  It was much warmer then than now and the continents have moved.  But, it is the continuous degradation of life forms that continuously forms methane and petroleum almost everywhere on the planet.  Today, this planet is creating gas and oil as it always has done and in quantities that dwarf human use of it.  After water, oil is the second most common liquid on this planet.  Only human contrivance keeps oil, gas and energy prices high.

Temperatures in Antarctica have been as low as -89 degrees C in our lifetime.  Most of that continent is 3 kilometers above sea level, which makes it very different and much colder than the Arctic North Pole where there is no continental land mass.  The Arctic north is essentially at sea level.  Temperature decreases rapidly with altitude.  This means there is almost zero chance of Antarctica warming enough to produce a methane-caused climate catastrophes there… except for the unlikely event of a major asteroid strike on earth or a major tectonic event.  BBC fails to point out that Antarctica is gaining sea ice and ice depth on most of its land mass.

Southern Hemisphere sea ice is slowly increasing:

http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/IMAGES/seaice.anomaly.antarctic.png

When a long spell of significant global warming occurs again, long before Antarctic ice sheets would melt, the methane hydrates on the continental shelf and Gulf of Mexico offshore the U.S. would warm first and methane would bubble to the surface.  That methane would immediately turn to CO2 when it contacts O2 in the air and we would see a steeper increase in the CO2 trend.  But, during the last ten years of so, satellite measurements are showing no increase in global temperatures, and satellites produce the most reliable measurement.  Some reports show a rising trend in temperatures on land surfaces, but land comprises only about 30% of the planet’s surface and many scientists fault these land-based measurements for location problems and cherry picking of data.

It is very unfortunate BBC chose to use this scientific article to continue the hysterical misinformation that global warming could release this Antarctic methane to cause a climate catastrophe.  The scientists only mention the climate warming aspect in the very last phrase of the very last sentence of the abstract in the journal Nature, “with the potential to act as a positive feedback on climate warming during ice-sheet wastage.”  Climate was not the focus of their scientific article, but no doubt the mention of the potential climate connection still helps get them published in the UK in the very pro-global warming Nature publications.

It is very unfortunate that BBC chose to publish a negative story instead of a positive story.  These sorts of things depress markets and readers.  The positive story is that the earth has naturally sustaining reserves of gas and oil which could be developed to stimulate a new renaissance in the macro economics on this planet.  Instead, BBC chose to promote the self-fulfilling continuing negative narrative built on global warming.  That neo-Malthusian narrative has been proven false, but so-called progressives and liberals continue to repeat that lie because it maintains their status quo and their control of governments and economies, by keeping gas and oil prices high, which in turn inflates the prices of everything else.  There is nothing progressive or liberal about sustaining a lie.

It is dishonest that BBC seems to seek out claims that humans are the cause of global warming and that humans could reverse global warming.  A limited amount of global warming has not been determined to be a negative for either humanity or the planet.  The contrary is true.  Even if all of the Arctic sea ice disappeared each summer, that would have many benefits, and that in fact has happened in the past.

The hypothesis that humans cause global warming has been de-bunked by the work of thousands of scientists around the globe.  Many of the scientists who still support this failed hypothesis have been caught distorting data,  hiding data, and blackballing scientists who speak out against the scientific fraud.  One of those nefarious scientists is Dr. Michael Mann, the inventor of the so-called hockey stick sudden rise in temperatures which Al Gore made infamous in his movie and speaking tours.  Dr. Mann’s invention has been debunked.  Mann is part of the sad episode known as “ClimateGate.”

Dr. Mann works at Penn State which has become notorious for its neglect of its responsibilities in its sports programs.  Penn State investigated Mann’s work for 4 months in 2010 and “cleared him of any wrongdoing” in a whitewash report.  Most scientists have blasted Mann.  Yet Mann’s invention lives on in Gore’s movie, Obama’s speeches, UN-sponsored conferences at posh resorts for thousands of people from hundreds of countries … most on government paychecks and expense accounts…and CNN, PBS, BBC and Nature literature.  The elitist, pro-global warming UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) included Mann’s hockey stick graph in its Third Assessment Report in 2001 but then removed it from their 2007 Report.  Two Canadian statisticians, Steven McIntyre and Ross McKitrick, discovered serious statistical errors in Mann’s hockey stick analysis; they even showed that random data fed into Mann’s algorithm would produce hockey sticks graphs.

Canadian climatologist Tim Ball jokingly wrote that “Mann should not be at Penn State but in a State Pen[itentiary].”  Mann sued Ball for libel, which leaves Mann open for pre-trial discovery of his hidden data and deposition under oath by Ball and his attorneys.  Mann has been hiding his data for years from many legal “Freedom of Information Requests.”  Of course, open access to original data is required for another scientists to reproduce the data,   but Mann has never allowed full access and Penn State has protected Mann even though Mann’s work was funded by government grants.  According to the rules of science, Mann is not doing science.  It would be fitting if Mann’s data are used to destroy the EPA’s and UN IPCC’s case for human-caused global warming and Mann went to jail for fraud for taking grant money from the public under false pretenses.

The article in Nature:

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v488/n7413/full/nature11374.html

Read more on the Mann’s scam:  http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/04/climategate_heads_to_court.html

The BBC story:  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19410444

I know this is not what the mass media and Democrat politicians tell you.  But this is the history of Social Security (FICA) according to the Social Security Administration.

President Lyndon Johnson (LBJ) was the first to use the Social Security Trust Fund surpluses to finance increased spending on Great Society programs and the Vietnam War. Technically speaking, Johnson moved the SS Trust Funds from “Off Budget” to “On Budget.” He sent legislation labeled Unified Budget Act to Congress.

LBJ’s spending was so large that even the Social Security trust funds didn’t cover his deficit. Johnson began to use SS trust funds for general budget items.

“This change took effect for the first time in the President’s budget proposal for fiscal year 1969, which President Johnson presented to Congress in January 1968. This change in accounting practices did not initially put the President’s budget proposal into surplus–it was still projecting an $8 billion deficit. However, it is clear that the budget deficit would have been somewhat larger without this change (it is difficult to say how much larger because this change was mixed-in with the other legislative, budgetary and fiscal policies the President was urging Congress to adopt).”

…” In the 1983 Social Security Amendments a provision was included mandating that Social Security be taken “off-budget” starting in FY 1993. This was a recommendation from the National Commission on Social Security Reform (aka the Greenspan Commission). The Commission’s report argued: “The National Commission believes that changes in the Social Security program should be made only for programmatic reasons, and not for purposes of balancing the budget. Those who support the removal of the operations of the trust funds from the budget believe that this policy of making changes only for programmatic reasons would be more likely to be carried out if the Social Security program were not in the unified budget.” (Note that this was a majority recommendation of the Commission, not the unanimous view of all members.) This change was in fact enacted into statute in the Social Security Amendments of 1983, signed into law by President Reagan on April 20, 1983.”

“Actuaries say that thanks to the Reagan reforms of 1983, Social Security is fully funded for 75 years.  Medicare is much harder to gauge, because no one knows the future rate of growth of medical costs, which have been quite high in recent decades.”

You might find this interesting.  http://www.ssa.gov/history/BudgetTreatment.html

President Clinton reversed Reagan’s reform and put your Social Security and Medicare payroll contributions (as well as your employer’s contributions on your behalf) back into the general budget, i.e. back “on budget.”  Since Clinton administration the federal government has been spending your money on anything.  The government takes your money, replaces it with a non-marketable, interest bearing U.S. government IOU.  But you the taxpayer are paying the interest on that IOU.  You are paying interest on your contributed money which the government borrowed from the trust funds.

“In 1999 President Clinton proposed investing the Social Security Trust Fund in what some might consider “risky” assets in the stock market and bonds.  The stock market then was in the late stages of a bull market cycle with stock prices and indexes overvalued. Clinton told a joint meeting of  the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate:

In 1993 President Clinton sought to increase taxes on Social Security benefits of the elderly and disabled. The final version of the bill passed by the Democrat controlled Congress increased taxes on beneficiaries from the first 50% to 85% of benefits (or “annuity payments” as they were originally called). Vice President Al Gore cast the deciding tie-breaker vote in the Senate to make the tax increase law. The Clinton-Gore tax increase on Social Security benefits imposed a 70% income tax rate on a retired couple making as little as $22,000 per year.

“Meyerson of the Democratic Socialists of America, writing in the Washington Post  proposed eliminating the payroll tax altogether, for both employers and employees, claiming it would increase by $2,100 the take-home pay, and buying power, of workers making $50,000 annually.”

http://www.conservapedia.com/Social_security

Obama is not a nice guy and he is not a moderate. Obama was elected to the Illinois legislature and to the Senate by smearing his opponents through proxy newspaper stories.  He was supported by felons, ex-terrorists, socialists and other questionable characters.  His policies are not helping but hurting the lower income constituencies that elected him. Nice guys don’t have kill lists for assassination by unmanned drones. Nice guys don’t let hundreds of guns walk into Mexico and kill 300+ people and then cover it up. Does Obama’s statement about Americans clinging to their guns and Bibles sound nice or moderate?  Does taking the legal contract rights of GM’s bondholders sound nice to you? How about shutting out Chrysler’s creditors and dealers in Obama’s deal with United Auto Workers?  In 2008, Obama openly bragged that his campaign strategy is: “If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun.” Nice? He called critics of his amnesty policies “enemies” who needed to be “punished” by Latino voters because they were not “the kinds of folks who represent our core American values.” Teamsters president Jimmy Hoffa introduced Obama at a Detroit Labor Day rally by urging union members to work against Republicans and “take these son of a bitches out.” Obama was silent. Obama told entrepreneurs, “You didn’t build that business…” Translated into Chicagoese: Nice little company you got there. Too bad if something happened to it.

“Chicago, Obama’s chosen political venue, helps to explain this behavior. The mayor of Chicago — the job he once aspired to before greater opportunity beckoned — is an utterly dominant figure.

Chicago pols assume they can endlessly plunder the local private sector without penalty. And business leaders quickly catch on that it’s a good thing to be known as a personal friend of the mayor. Campaign money flows accordingly.

The local rule is “don’t back no losers.” Those who do are well advised to do business somewhere else. You never know when the assessor is going to raise your assessment. And don’t appeal in court unless you hire the lawyer with the right connections.

The mayor is also the one who gets all the credit for all good things that happen on his watch, as Obama is attempting to do on the killing of Osama bin Laden. Even though he opposed the interrogation methods that produced the information that led our special forces to Abbottabad.” ~ Michael Barone

Reference and thanks to: Michelle Malkin

Also be sure to see this:  http://www.audacityofhypocrisy.com/obamacrimescom/