Mr. Big Fat Backroom Deal, Mayor Bloomberg

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Mike Bloomberg makes the scene in Copenhagen. He'll make any backroom deal to cut the voter off at the knees. The NY mayor jumps in the sewer with the rest of the rats. photo berlingske

Billionaires behind climate fraud double down

Tweet Now the UK Met office wants anyone's signature defending the Met's scruples, so they can say we've got thousands of signatures, we must be right. The Met office publishes and is financially invested in work of the East Anglia CRU, so now they're going to say they made the whole thing up?

• 2 paragraphs--almost at the end of the article:

12/9: "Met Office reports on temperature changes draw on the work of the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit, from which the e-mails were hacked. Phil Jones, unit director, has agreed to stand down while an investigation takes place into claims that he manipulated data to exaggerate the warming trend and tried to block publication of alternative views....

One scientist told The Times of London he felt pressure to sign.

• "The Met Office is a major employer of scientists

• and has long had a policy of only appointing and working with those

• who subscribe to their views on man-made global warming," he said."...

from FoxNews.com, "Scientist pressured to defend climate research"

Jane Russell--Hollywood was Republican

Tweet On Jane Russell: "Asked why modern Hollywood is so liberal: "I think the Sixties have happened between when I was there and now. A lot of the actors and actresses, their parents were Sixties people and they just have a Democratic left wing - they flipped."

• I have always been a Republican, and when I was in Hollywood long ago, most of the people there were Republican.
  

The studio heads were all Republican, my boss Howard Hughes was a raving Republican, and we had a motion picture code in those days so they couldn't do all this naughty stuff. We had John Wayne, we had Charlton Heston, we had man named Ronald Reagan, we had Robert Mitchum, James Stewart, Clark Gable."...from IMDB

Twenty-two Muslim terror attacks 1972-2002

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"Munich Olympic Massacre, September 5, 1972: Eight Palestinian "Black September" terrorists seized eleven Israeli athletes in the Olympic Village in Munich, West Germany. In a bungled rescue attempt by West German authorities, nine of the hostages and five terrorists were killed.

Ambassador to Sudan Assassinated, March 2, 1973: U.S. Ambassador to Sudan Cleo A. Noel and other diplomats were assassinated at the Saudi Arabian Embassy in Khartoum by members of the Black September organization.

Attack and Hijacking at the Rome Airport, December 17, 1973: Five terrorists pulled weapons from their luggage in the terminal lounge at the Rome airport, killing two persons. They then attacked a Pan American 707 bound for Beirut and Tehran, destroying it with incendiary grenades and killing 29 persons, including 4 senior Moroccan officials and 14 American employees of ARAMCO. They then herded 5 Italian hostages into a Lufthansa airliner and killed an Italian customs agent as he tried to escape, after which they forced the pilot to fly to Beirut. After Lebanese authorities refused to let the plane land, it landed in Athens, where the terrorists demanded the release of 2 Arab terrorists. In order to make Greek authorities comply with their demands, the terrorists killed a hostage and threw his body onto the tarmac. The plane then flew to Damascus, where it stopped for two hours to obtain fuel and food. It then flew to Kuwait, where the terrorists released their hostages in return for passage to an unknown destination. The Palestine Liberation Organization disavowed the attack, and no group claimed responsibility for it.
Ambassador to Afghanistan Assassinated, February 14, 1979: Four Afghans kidnapped U.S. Ambassador Adolph Dubs in Kabul and demanded the release of various "religious figures." Dubs was killed, along with four alleged terrorists, when Afghan police stormed the hotel room where he was being held.
Iran Hostage Crisis, November 4, 1979: After President Carter agreed to admit the Shah of Iran into the US, Iranian radicals seized the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and took 66 American diplomats hostage. Thirteen hostages were soon released, but the remaining 53 were held until their release on January 20, 1981.
Grand Mosque Seizure, November 20, 1979: 200 Islamic terrorists seized the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, taking hundreds of pilgrims hostage. Saudi and French security forces retook the shrine after an intense battle in which some 250 people were killed and 600 wounded.
Assassination of Egyptian President, October 6, 1981: Soldiers who were secretly members of the Takfir Wal-Hajira sect attacked and killed Egyptian President Anwar Sadat during a troop review.
Bombing of U.S. Embassy in Beirut, April 18, 1983: Sixty-three people, including the CIA's Middle East director, were killed and 120 were injured in a 400-pound suicide truck-bomb attack on the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility.
Bombing of Marine Barracks, Beirut, October 23, 1983: Simultaneous suicide truck-bomb attacks were made on American and French compounds in Beirut, Lebanon. A 12,000-pound bomb destroyed the U.S. compound, killing 242 Americans, while 58 French troops were killed when a 400-pound device destroyed a French base. Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility.
Kidnapping of Embassy Official, March 16, 1984: The Islamic Jihad kidnapped and later murdered Political Officer William Buckley in Beirut, Lebanon. Other U.S. citizens not connected to the U.S. government were seized over a succeeding two-year period.
TWA Hijacking, June 14, 1985: A Trans-World Airlines flight was hijacked en route to Rome from Athens by two Lebanese Hizballah terrorists and forced to fly to Beirut. The eight crew members and 145 passengers were held for seventeen days, during which one American hostage, a U.S. Navy sailor, was murdered. After being flown twice to Algiers, the aircraft was returned to Beirut after Israel released 435 Lebanese and Palestinian prisoners.
Achille Lauro Hijacking, October 7, 1985: Four Palestinian Liberation Front terrorists seized the Italian cruise liner in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, taking more than 700 hostages. One U.S. passenger was murdered before the Egyptian government offered the terrorists safe haven in return for the hostages' freedom.
Egyptian Airliner Hijacking, November 23, 1985: An EgyptAir airplane bound from Athens to Malta and carrying several U.S. citizens was hijacked by the Abu Nidal Group.
Airport Attacks in Rome and Vienna, December 27, 1985: Four gunmen belonging to the Abu Nidal Organization attacked the El Al and Trans World Airlines ticket counters at Rome's Leonardo da Vinci Airport with grenades and automatic rifles. Thirteen persons were killed and 75 were wounded before Italian police and Israeli security guards killed three of the gunmen and captured the fourth. Three more Abu Nidal gunmen attacked the El Al ticket counter at Vienna's Schwechat Airport, killing three persons and wounding 30. Austrian police killed one of the gunmen and captured the others.
Aircraft Bombing in Greece, March 30, 1986: A Palestinian splinter group detonated a bomb as TWA Flight 840 approached Athens airport, killing four U.S. citizens.
Kidnapping of William Higgins, February 17, 1988: U.S. Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel W. Higgins was kidnapped and murdered by the Iranian-backed Hizballah group while serving with the United Nations Truce Supervisory Organization (UNTSO) in southern Lebanon.
Pan Am 103 Bombing, December 21, 1988: Pan American Airlines Flight 103 was blown up over Lockerbie, Scotland, by a bomb believed to have been placed on the aircraft by Libyan terrorists in Frankfurt, West Germany. All 259 people on board were killed.
Bombing of UTA Flight 772, September 19, 1989: A bomb explosion destroyed UTA Flight 772 over the Sahara Desert in southern Niger during a flight from Brazzaville to Paris. All 170 persons aboard were killed. Six Libyans were later found guilty in absentia and sentenced to life imprisonment.
Bombing of the Israeli Embassy in Argentina, March 17, 1992: Hizballah claimed responsibility for a blast that leveled the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina, causing the deaths of 29 and wounding 242.
World Trade Center Bombing, February 26, 1993: The World Trade Center in New York City was badly damaged when a car bomb planted by Islamic terrorists exploded in an underground garage. The bomb left 6 people dead and 1,000 injured. The men carrying out the attack were followers of Umar Abd al-Rahman, an Egyptian cleric who preached in the New York City area.
Air France Hijacking, December 24, 1994: Members of the Armed Islamic Group seized an Air France Flight to Algeria. The four terrorists were killed during a rescue effort.
Jerusalem Bus Attack, August 21, 1995: HAMAS claimed responsibility for the detonation of a bomb that killed 6 and injured over 100 persons, including several U.S. citizens.
Saudi Military Installation Attack, November 13, 1995: The Islamic Movement of Change planted a bomb in a Riyadh military compound that killed one U.S. citizen, several foreign national employees of the U.S. government, and over 40 others.
Terrorist Attacks on U.S. Homeland, September 11, 2001: Two hijacked airliners crashed into the twin towers of the World Trade Center. Soon thereafter, the Pentagon was struck by a third hijacked plane. A fourth hijacked plane, suspected to be bound for a high-profile target in Washington, crashed into a field in southern Pennsylvania. The attacks killed 3,025 U.S. citizens and other nationals. President Bush and Cabinet officials indicated that Usama Bin Laden was the prime suspect and that they considered the United States in a state of war with international terrorism. In the aftermath of the attacks, the United States formed the Global Coalition Against Terrorism.
Kidnapping of Daniel Pearl, January 23, 2002: Armed militants kidnapped Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in Karachi, Pakistan. Pakistani authorities received a videotape on February 20 depicting Pearl's murder. His grave was found near Karachi on May 16. Pakistani authorities arrested four suspects. Ringleader Ahmad Omar Saeed Sheikh claimed to have organized Pearl's kidnapping to protest Pakistan's subservience to the United States, and had belonged to Jaish-e-Muhammad, an Islamic separatist group in Kashmir. All four suspects were convicted on July 15. Saeed Sheikh was sentenced to death, the others to life imprisonment."
from MichaelSavage.com, 11/14/09 (link goes in current website)

Fort Hood Allah Akbar killer warned US on having Islamists in military--US in death march ignored him

Tweet Washington Post: "The Army psychiatrist believed to have killed 13 people at Fort Hood warned a roomful of senior Army physicians a year and a half ago that

• to avoid "adverse events," the military should allow Muslim soldiers to be released as conscientious objectors instead of fighting in wars against other Muslims.

As a senior-year psychiatric resident at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Maj. Nidal M. Hasan was supposed to make a presentation on a medical topic of his choosing as a culminating exercise of the residency program.

• Instead, in late June 2007, he stood before his supervisors and about 25 other mental health staff members and lectured on Islam, suicide bombers and threats the military could encounter from Muslims conflicted about fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, both Muslim countries, according to a copy of the presentation obtained by The Washington Post.

"It's getting harder and harder for Muslims in the service to morally justify being in a military that seems constantly engaged against fellow Muslims," he said in the presentation.

"It was really strange," said one staff member who attended the presentation and requested anonymity because of the investigation of Hasan. "The senior doctors looked really upset" at the end. "...

• THAT WAS IT? Some doctors looked upset?
  

(Wash. Post, con't): "These medical presentations occurred each Wednesday afternoon, and other students had lectured on new medications and treatment of specific mental illnesses.

• An Army spokesman said Monday night he was unaware of the presentation, and a Walter Reed spokesman declined comment.
  

• It is unclear
  

whether anyone in attendance reported the briefing to counterintelligence or law enforcement authorities whose job it is to identify threats from within the military ranks."...11/9/09,

• by Dana Priest, "Fort Hood Suspect Warned of Threats Within the Ranks"
  

Billions Wasted on UN Carbon Offsets programs--Stanford experts

Tweet Guardian UK, 5/26/08: "Billions of pounds are being wasted in paying industries in developing countries to reduce climate change emissions, according to two analyses of the UN's carbon offsetting programme.

Leading academics and watchdog groups allege that the UN's main offset fund is being routinely abused by

• chemical, wind, gas and hydro companies who are claiming emission reduction credits for
  

• projects that should not qualify.
  

The result is that no genuine pollution cuts are being made,

• undermining assurances by the UK government and others that carbon markets are dramatically reducing greenhouse gases, the researchers say.

The criticism centres on the UN's clean development mechanism (CDM),

• an international system established by the Kyoto process that allows "rich countries"* to meet emissions targets by
  
• funding clean energy projects in developing nations.

Credits from the project are being bought by European companies and governments who are unable to meet their carbon reduction targets.

• The market for CDM credits is growing fast.
  

At present it is worth nearly $20bn a year, but this is expected to grow to over $100bn within four years.

• More than 1,000 projects have so far been approved, and
  
• 2,000 more are making their way through the process.

A working paper from two senior Stanford University academics examined more than 3,000 projects applying for or already granted up to $10bn of credits from the UN's CDM funds over the next four years,

• and concluded that the majority
  
• should not be considered for assistance.
  

"They would be built anyway," says David Victor, law professor at the Californian university. "It looks like between one and

• two thirds of all the total CDM offsets do not represent actual emission cuts."
  

Governments consider that CDM is vital to reducing global emissions under the terms of the Kyoto treaty."

• (WHY NOT? THE US GOVERNMENT simply ROBS ITS OWN TAXPAYERS TO THROW CASH INTO SLUSH FUNDS OF THE GLOBAL MAFIA). ed.
  

(Guardian, continuing): "To earn credits under the mechanism, emission reductions must be in addition to those that would have taken place without the project. But critics argue

• this "additionality" is impossible to prove and open to abuse.
  

The Stanford paper, by Victor and his colleague Michael Wara, found that nearly every new hydro, wind and natural gas-fired plant expected to be

• built in China in the next four years is applying for CDM credits,
  

• even though it is Chinese policy to encourage these industries.

"Traders are finding ways of gaining credits that they would never have had before. You will never know accurately,

• but rich countries are clearly overpaying by a massive amount," said Victor.

A separate study published this week by US watchdog group International Rivers argues that nearly three quarters of all registered CDM projects were complete at the time of approval, suggesting that CDM money was not needed to finance them.

"It would seem clear that a project that is already built cannot need extra income in order to be built," said Patrick McCully, director of the thinktank in California. "Judging additionality has turned out to be unknowable and unworkable.

• It can never be proved definitively that if a developer or factory owner did not get offset income they would not build their project.""

by John Vidal, "Billions Wasted on UN Climate Programme"

Soros-like web of Acorn wealth in NY city

Tweet 9/21/09: "Acorn has quietly become one of the Big Apple's biggest owners of low- and moderate-income housing, amassing a real estate empire

• worth at least $50 million, The Post has learned.

New York ACORN and a tangled web of affiliates own or manage nearly 1,500 housing units across three boroughs and draw in an estimated $5.7 million in rents, fees and profits from sales.

• The properties are controlled by an opaque collection of nonprofits, holding companies and development funds.
  

Many have generic names, like the 385 Palmetto Street Housing Development Fund or the Mutual Housing Association of New York, leaving

• no clue of their ties to the national ACORN conglomerate."...

"Nut-House Empire," by Brendan Scott, NY Post, via Free Republic

Democrats thought opponent would be Republicans. Wrong. It turned out to be the People.

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• It certainly isn't "the Republicans."

"Obama is falling and contrary to what anyone might have expected, it was not the marginalized Republican party

• under the inept leadership of Michael Steele or its stable of Congressional Republicans

• providing nothing but token opposition, who gave him that big push.

While the official Republican leadership sat in the corner,

• information flew back and forth between bloggers, activists and talk show hosts and the result was an authentic grass roots movement.

“The Mobs” that panicked Democratic politicians and their media press corps decry represent the one thing that a phony grass roots movement like the Obama campaign fear the most… being confronted with an authentic grass roots movement. Their campaigns against radio and TV hosts like Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck reveal that

• they cannot understand
  
• what is going on
  
• as anything but some top down operation.
  

After all they are supposed to represent “The People”,

but the only people they could find to represent them at the Town Halls were

• the SEIU goons they packed the halls with. And there’s nothing like a “grass roots movement” that you have to bus in, which consists purely of people who are set to profit from your legislation.

The Republican leadership is almost as nervous, torn between seizing the moment or standing aside

• to avoid being accused of “extremism”.

The same folks who thought the best way to run a Presidential campaign was by

• being as inoffensive as possible, who think
  
• Meghan McCain represents the future of the Republican Party

and that public opinion is determined by the op ed page of the New York Times and the Washington Post, naturally have no clue how to respond to the situation.

• The Republican leadership has become detached from its base and increasingly has no idea how to connect to the concerns of ordinary Americans.

By stepping back from the fight,

• they lost the chance to set the agenda, and now the agenda is being set for them.

But as appealing as populist rhetoric about fiscal conservatism may be, the whole power of being a congressman rests in handing out pork.

• Even Ron Paul who tried to brand himself as a leader in fiscal conservatism turned out to have his share of earmarks and family members on the payroll.
  

And that unfortunately is the default standard for politicians, and though some may hide it better than others, a politician is a man who works on your payroll to spend your money on behalf of his supporters, which is why expecting fiscal conservatism from congress is like expecting a lion to go vegetarian.

Politicians listen to their constituents when they say they want lower taxes, less regulation, less immigration and no NAFTA. Sometimes they even mimic the rhetoric or even get out front to lead the parade, but when they’re in the Senate cloakroom, it quickly becomes a whole different ballgame. But politicians can’t do anything except on behalf of the people—and rarely has there been such a showing of the people coming out to denounce a policy supposedly being enacted on their behalf.

• The Town Hall protests tore away the philanthropic facade behind ObamaCare.
  

• It was not some imaginary wealthy “Brooks Brothers Brigade” that went into the Town Halls,
  

but ordinary working class Americans who firmly and vocally said, “No Thanks” to the ObamaCare boondoggle. And that has become a major gamechanger.

• Obama and his cronies were counting on fighting the Republican party.
  

They were counting on taking swipes at Limbaugh or Beck. They were not counting on serious public opposition. Denouncing the health care protesters as right wing extremists did not help. Trying to claim that the Obama socialist photoshop was racist was a desperate move that jumped the race card shark. By their very presence, the protests made ObamaCare controversial, and simply denouncing them was not going to be able to reverse that.

• The more the media denounced them and the more SEIU thugs attacked them; the more the general public came to see ObamaCare as a controversial program.

While the Republican party may have been neutered for now, Obama finds himself in the very uncomfortable position of playing, “Obama vs the People”. The Obama Administration was counting on being able to run up the tab by the trillions with no serious congressional opposition. But while that worked long enough to subsidize UAW auto companies and bailout Obama’s Wall Street buddies, after two thirds of a year in which the economic situation kept sliding downward, the American people began grumbling about his lack of results.

Like most politicians, Obama did not understand that the voters did not put him into office so that he could run up a deficit of trillions of dollars composed of pork, giveaways

• and senseless centralization.
  

Obama ran for office promising hope and change. The only things he delivered were payoffs to Wall Street donors and UAW union featherbedders. And just as he was about to deliver a whopping payoff to his SEIU union Marxist buddies, the whole thing collapsed because the American people reached the point where they had enough....

• The State Senate assigned him credit for other people’s legislation. In the United States Senate, he ran for higher office after only a 100 days in the chamber.
  

Like a precocious third grader who suddenly finds himself in college, Obama had no idea how to work with congress to get legislation passed.

• And the same media which sneered at McCain’s claims that he had the experience that Obama didn’t, was now forced to admit that the lack of focus and credibility at the White House level was a serious problem.

While Obama was still coasting on his “historic election”, a lot of congressmen were getting ready for their nerve-racking midterm elections. The Republicans were still shellshocked, and liberal Democrats were arrogant, but the conservative Democrats who had given their party the majority in 06 and 08, felt vulnerable. Cut out of the loop by an increasingly radicalized White House and congressional leadership, and threatened by midterm elections that traditionally cut down seats belonging to the ruling party, they became the legislative weak point in ObamaCare. And once the Town Hall protests made it safer to do nothing, than to do something, ObamaCare hit an invisible brick wall.

• Using the media, Obama squashed most opposition by established politicians,
  

but he has now come face to face with a vocal popular revolt at the Town Hall protests and a quieter but vaster sense of dissatisfaction by the American electorate. Republican and Independent approval is peeling away, followed by that of many Democrats, leaving the naked emperor cloaked only in his own base and without a national mandate for change. And even his own supporters are beginning to suspect that

• Obama may have nothing more to offer beyond magazine covers and high minded rhetoric.

The White House has tried to fight back by targeting first Limbaugh and then Beck, demonstrating a profound contempt for the views of the grass roots opposition, which they imagine will go away if a few talk show hosts will just stop “inciting it.”

• But what the left fails to understand is that if Limbaugh and Beck went off the air tomorrow, the situation would not change in any significant way.
  

Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck are not some sort of aberrant phenomenon,

• they are a reflection of the views, fears and concerns of their listeners.
  

And those views and concerns are not going away.

• The battle is a battle of ideas,
  

and while the Democrats occupy the executive and legislative castles, they are finding that those positions may give them power, but also invest them with responsibilities in the middle of a crisis that they are simply not capable of living up to.

Throughout it all Obama has relied on his media manufactured charisma to shield a multitude of sins. But incompetence is one sin that cannot be covered by magazine covers. In the Senate, Obama could have gotten by easily enough. As a Vice President, he could have posed endlessly for magazine covers while accomplishing nothing. But in the Oval Office, he had to deliver, and the only thing he delivered was the hijacking of America at the hands of his radical legion of czars. Now is the moment of truth where Obama faces the people, and begins to deal with the consequences of the disaster he has created, the deficit, the lost jobs and the economic crisis he tried to exploit for political gain. The case of Obama vs the People has just begun." Canada Free Press, "Obama vs the People," by Daniel Greenfield, 9/7/09, via Lucianne.com