Tuesday, January 24, 2012

NBC's Brian Williams orders Tampa debate audience to 'stay quiet,' giving media and GOP establishment control of the narrative

The Tampa debate crowd submits to NBC's Brian Williams' order to 'stay quiet.' The narrative is taken away from the people. The GOP wants primaries to be over so they can get back to selling this country out. As Rush Limbaugh said Monday, "Newt is a vessel" for long silenced and scorned ordinary Americans.

1/23/12, "Gingrich Lost His Crowd-Pleasing Groove in Tampa," National Journal, Tim Alberta

"NBC's Brian Williams asked the audience to stay quiet." (parag. 3)

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The audience was told to shut up so the media and establishment can create the narrative that Newt was 'a dud.' This is not to say Gingrich can or will win just based on cheering audiences.



via Drudge

Friday, December 9, 2011

UN and others won't give up deadly climate scam easily, trillions have been made, trillions more at stake

12/9/2011, "Doomed UN Climate Summit in Durban Ridiculed as “Science” Crumbles," New American, Alex Newman

"But even as many scientists say the climate “scam” is unraveling, analysts noted that the vested interests would not be disappearing without a long and hard fight. Researchers on the taxpayer dole, dictators seeking handouts, Western governments looking for new revenue streams, global bureaucrats after more power, and many others all

  • depend on the perpetuation of alarmism.

There are literally trillions of dollars at stake. And if the global-warming crusade publicly implodes, it will all come crashing down. Plus, the next UN scheme will be much harder to market."


via Tom Nelson

Monday, December 5, 2011

At least 7 Occupy members found dead in tents, latest in Denton, Texas

Occupy members found dead in tents so far in at least 7 sites: Vancouver, New Orleans, Burlington, Vt., Oklahoma City, Bloomington, Ind., Salt Lake City, and Denton, Tx., below.

12/4/11, "Man Found Dead at Texas 'Occupy' Camp," Newscore

"A man was found dead Saturday afternoon in a tent at the "Occupy Denton" campsite on the grounds of the University of North Texas, KNTU-Radio reported.

University and city police found the body at the eight-tent encampment after someone contacted authorities between 5:00pm and 5:30pm local time, UNT spokesman Buddy Price told the station.

Price said crime scene tape had been put up to block off the campsite and that protesters would not be allowed back in to the area until investigations into the death had been finalized.

A statement published on the university's Facebook page said police had not yet identified how the as-yet unidentified man had died, but believed he was a participant in the "Occupy" protest.

"According to the UNT Police Department, the time and cause of death is unknown ... The area has been secured while the UNT Police conduct an investigation," the statement said.

The body was taken from the camp by a Denton County coroner about 8:30pm, the North Texas Daily reported, adding it was not believed the man was a student at the university.

Garrett Graham, a spokesman for "Occupy Denton," told the university's student newspaper the dead man "is a friend of ours who had found a family here. We're dealing with it like a family.""

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11/5/11, "Woman dies at Occupy Vancouver site," Vancouver Sun, by Mike Hager

"Tensions are high at the Occupy Vancouver site after a female, who is believed to be in her 20s, died late Saturday afternoon in what Vancouver Fire and Rescue Services are calling a "medical emergency."...

VFRS spokesman Capt. Gabe Roder confirmed the woman who died was in a tent...Shaw said he didn't know if it was an overdose or not, but they don't know how long she was unresponsive because the woman had been in the tent alone....

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11/08/11, "Man found dead in Occupy New Orleans encampment," New Orleans Times-Picayune, L. Williams

"A 53-year-old man was found dead Tuesday inside a tent pitched at the Occupy New Orleans encampment at Duncan Plaza across from City Hall. He appears to have been living in the tent inside the occupation zone, said John Gagliano, chief investigator for the Orleans Parish Coroner's Office.

The man appears to have been dead for at least two days, Gagliano said."...

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11/16/11, "Occupy Burlington shooting victim had gun all week," Burlington Free Press, Sam Hemingway

"Burlington police say the man who died last week of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at the Occupy Burlington encampment at City Hall Park had been carrying the gun with him for the previous week.

Joshua Pfenning, a 35-year-old transient, shot himself in the head with a handgun shortly after 2 p.m. Thursday. He was pronounced dead three hours later at Fletcher Allen Health Care in Burlington.

Deputy Burlington Police Chief Andi Higbee said Tuesday that Pfenning told the three people in the tent with him just before the shooting about having the gun with him

  • at the camp for the past seven days.

“There was no discussion at the camp about him having a gun before it was produced by him in the tent,” Higbee said. “The only time it was present or seen was at the event just minutes before the (shooting) happened.”

Higbee said police still are trying to determine whether the shooting was accidental or an act of suicide. Police have said Pfenning pointed the gun in a threatening manner toward another person in the tent before Pfenning suffered the fatal gunshot wound.

Police have spoken to all three people who were in the tent when the shooting occurred. Two were interviewed shortly after the incident, but police were unable to locate the third person immediately. The three told essentially the same story about the events that led to the shooting, Higbee said.

The shooting prompted police to declare the encampment a crime scene. Thursday night, protesters angry about being barred from returning to their tents engaged in a confrontation with police after a woman was arrested. A potential riot was averted when Mayor Bob Kiss persuaded police to release the woman.

Police on Friday said that because of the shooting and evidence of excessive alcohol consumption and drug use at the encampment, all tents would have to be removed."...

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10/31/11, "
Occupy OKC participant found dead in tent at Kerr Park," newsok.com, Matt Dinger

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11/7/11, "City Still Supports Occupy Bloomington After Man’s Death," IndianaPublicMedia.org

Man found dead in tent was said to be homeless, needed place to stay.

11/11/11, "Man found dead in Pioneer Park, Occupy SLC ordered to leave both camps," KSL, Pat Reavy

Man found dead in tent.

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11/10/11, "Man fatally shot near Occupy Oakland camp," CBS News


via Drudge

ActivistCash.com great website to check out who's funding what, foundations, etc.

ActivistCash.com

via commenter to Watts Up With That

Sunday, November 20, 2011

UN IPCC announces new definition of 'climate change,' no longer tied to human behavior, includes natural means, land use, & decades or longer duration

Citing "progress in science," UN global climate change policy announces a change in the definition of "climate change" from prior UN reports. The term is no longer tied to human behavior, now includes change via "natural processes" and "land use," and must persist for "decades or longer" or is not "climate change." (p.2)

11/19/11, "IPCC Introduces New 'Climate Change' Definition," GWPF

11/18/11, "First Joint Session of Working Groups I and II, IPCC SREX Summary for Policymakers"

"Definitions central to SREX

Core concepts defined in the SREX glossary (1) and used throughout the report include:

[Insert footnote 1 here: Reflecting the diversity of the communities involved in this assessment and in
  • progress in science,
several of the definitions used in this Special Report differ in breadth or focus from those used in the AR4 and other IPCC reports].

Climate Change:

Climate change may be due to natural internal processes or external forcings, or to persistent anthropogenic changes in the composition of the atmosphere

  • or in land use. ...
A change in the state of the climate that can be identified (e.g., by using statistical tests) by
changes in the mean and/or the variability of its properties and that
  • persists for an extended period, typically
  • decades or longer.

[Insert footnote 2: This definition differs from that in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), where climate change is defined as, "a change of climate which is attributed directly or indirectly to human activity that alters the composition of the global atmosphere and which is in addition to natural climate variability observed over comparable time periods."

  • The UNFCCC thus makes a distinction

between climate change attributable to human activities altering the atmospheric composition,

  • and climate variability attributable to natural causes.]

Climate Extreme (extreme weather or climate event):

...For simplicity, both extreme weather events and extreme climate events are

  • referred to collectively as "climate extremes."..."

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11/18/11, "Climate Change Weather Effects Unknown: IPCC Report," The Australian, via GWPF

"Great uncertainty remains about how much of an impact climate change will have on future extreme weather events, the world's leading climate scientists have found."...

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Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Mexico's Calderon allows prisons to buy plasma tv's for inmates, inmates run prisons, also engage in abusive cock fighting

11/7/11, "Prostitutes found in Mexico jail," BBC

"A surprise inspection in a prison in Mexico has revealed the presence of 19 prostitutes, 100 plasma televisions, two sacks of marijuana,

  • and 100 cockerels for cock fighting.

The discovery in the prison in Acapulco came as police prepared to transfer the inmates to a maximum security jail.

The officers also found six female inmates living in the male section of the prison

  • and two peacocks.

Mexican jails are notorious for overcrowding, corruption and rioting.

It is not the first time luxury items and weapons have been found in a Mexican jail.

In July, prisoners in a jail in Sonora state were found to be running a lottery to raffle off a luxury cell they'd equipped with a fridge, DVD player and air conditioning.

An inspector from the State Commission for the Defence of Human Rights, Hipolito Lugo Cortes, recently denounced conditions in five prisons in Guerrero state, among them the one in Acapulco.

He said inmates were running affairs at these penitentiaries according to their own laws and customs, with little or no control by prison authorities."

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Philadelphia trio chained 4 mentally disabled persons in basement, cashed in their disability payments


Above are 3 suspects responsible for chaining disabled people in a basement with dogs and buckets of excrement. This was at least the 4th location where the group had resided. The woman above already did jail time for starving a man to death.

10/17/11, "Philadelphia charges as four found chained in basement," BBC

"Three suspects have been
charged with chaining four mentally disabled adults in a basement in Philadelphia and collecting their disability benefits.

Police found the victims after investigating reports of squatters.

The room was too short to stand up in, one victim was chained to a boiler, and the only food in the room was a container of orange juice, police said.

One suspect, Linda Ann Weston, previously served eight years in prison for starving a man to death 1981.

Police officially charged Weston, 51, Gregory Thomas, 47, and Eddie Wright, 50 with multiple charges, including criminal conspiracy, kidnapping and aggravated assault.

Authorities are looking into additional federal charges, a spokesman told the The Philadelphia Inquirer....

The adults found in the basement have the mental capacity of 10-year-olds, police said.

They ranged in age from 29 to 41. Once found, they were taken to hospital and listed as being in a stable condition.

Turgut Gozleveli, the owner of the Philadelphia building, told the Philadelphia Inquirer he checked out the basement after neighbours complained of suspicious people.

When he failed to find anyone in the basement, he followed the sound of a barking dog to a room under the basement, where a chain was wrapped around a door handle.

Inside he saw two small dogs and blankets, and then people's faces.

"It was terrible," he said. "Something I never expected to see in my life."

He then called police, who found the adults in the 15ft by 15ft (4.5m), room, surrounded by buckets of their own excrement.

According to police interviews with the captives , they had been brought to Philadelphia about 10 days before they were found, having been in West Palm Beach, Florida, and Texas.

Linda Ann Weston and Eddie Wright recently lived for about two months at a home in West Palm Beach, stripping it of wire and plumbing and smearing faeces on the walls, according to a report by the Palm Beach Post.

Previously she served eight years in prison for starving to death 25-year-old Bernardo Ramos. Ramos had refused to support her sister's unborn child.

She held him in the closet of their Philadelphia apartment in 1981 for two months, feeding him only three times, according to reports."




Friday, October 7, 2011

Like US, UK has been starving small and medium sized businesses

"Given evidence of continued impairment in the flow of credit to some parts of the real economy, notably small and medium-sized businesses"...

10/7/11, "Bank of England governor fears crisis is 'worst ever'," BBC

"Bank of England governor Mervyn King has said this financial crisis could be the worst the UK has ever seen.

His comments came after the Bank authorised the injection of a further £75bn into the economy through quantitative easing (QE).

Explaining the move Sir Mervyn told Sky News: "This is the most serious financial crisis we've seen at least since the 1930s, if not ever."...

"Mervyn King wrote to the chancellor earlier on Thursday, setting out the MPC's case for expanding the asset purchasing programme.

In his letter of response, in which he authorised the move, Chancellor George Osborne said: "I agree that an increase in the ceiling would provide the MPC with scope to vary the stance of monetary policy to meet the inflation target."

In his speech to the Conservative Party conference earlier in the week, Mr Osborne said that the Treasury would look into "credit easing" - a way to underwrite loans to small businesses who are struggling to get credit now.

He confirmed this in his letter to Mr King: "Given evidence of continued impairment in the flow of credit to some parts of the real economy, notably small and medium-sized businesses, the Treasury is exploring further policy actions. Such interventions should complement the MPC's asset purchases.""...

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All of this was predictable, preventable, and in the private sector would often result in jail time. Government is the best place to be today if you like white collar crime. ed.


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