Anti Oligarch's Blog – December 2009 Archive (70)

Meet Stephen McIntyre: Amateur Runs Rings Around Climate ‘Professionals’

Canada’s Macleans has a profile of the skeptic at the center of the ClimateGate e-mails (what, you expected an American newspaper to cover this story?):

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The private emails and logs leaked last month from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia can’t tell us whether industrial activity is really… Continue

Added by Anti Oligarch on December 13, 2009 at 2:00pm — No Comments

Afghanistan: Withdraw Rapidly and Completely

Statement of Congressman Ron Paul United States House of Representatives Statement Before Foreign Affairs Committee

December 10, 2009

Mr. Speaker thank you for holding these important hearings on US policy in Afghanistan. I would like to welcome the witnesses, Ambassador Karl W. Eikenberry and General Stanley A. McChrystal, and thank them for appearing before this Committee.

I have serious concerns, however, about the president's decision to add… Continue

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U.K. Government Wants New Powers To Block Wikileaks and Squeeze Web TV

Just over a week ago I wrote a fairly dry legal analysis of the Digital Economy Bill. I spotted an extremely serious provision — clause 11 — in the version being discussed in the House… Continue

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Increase Your Carbon Footprint

There are today on the plains of India and China men and women, plague-ridden and hungry, living lives little better, to outward appearance, than those of the cattle that toil with them by day and share their places of sleep at night. Such Asiatic standards, and such unmechanized horrors, are the lot of those who increase their numbers without passing through an industrial revolution.

- T.S. Ashton,… Continue

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Inventor of economy-crashing Credit Default Swaps is an architect of Cap and Trade’s carbon derivatives

The other day, I wrote about how carbon credits will be the new bubble machine in town.

Companies will need to have carbon credits in order to pollute, but the new carbon credit market is virtually identical to the under-regulated, over-leveraged market that allowed Goldman Sachs to rake in record profits, while taxpayers bailed out the financial… Continue

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The Growing Movement to Nullify National Health Care

Using the revolt against Real ID as a model, can states rights activists stop Obamacare?

In response to what some opponents see as a Congress that doesn't represent their interests, State Legislators are looking to the nearly forgotten American political tradition of nullification as a way to reject any potential national health care program that may be coming from… Continue

Added by Anti Oligarch on December 10, 2009 at 1:10pm — 1 Comment

Who'll Stand Up Against the New Global Climate Tyranny?

This week, President Obama and the leaders of the world are to meet to determine the fate of humanity. This meeting, to be held in Copenhagen, has as its mission to bind the nations of the world under a climatocracy, or rather a climate regulatory scheme devised and operated by bureaucrats and elitists. The members of this climatocracy will profit while the rest of humanity will sink into darkness. There will be nowhere to hide; no oasis to be found in the desert. Indeed, after the discussions… Continue

Added by Anti Oligarch on December 9, 2009 at 5:46pm — 2 Comments

Does Public Opinion Matter? World Attitudes on Global Governance

Council on Foreign Relations December 4, 2009, Washington D.C. Transcript

Speakers:

Stewart M. Patrick, Senior Fellow And Director, International Institutions On Global Governance Program, Council On Foreign Relations

Steven G. Kull, Director, Program On International Policy Attitudes, Worldpublicopinion.org

Download audio in… Continue

Added by Anti Oligarch on December 8, 2009 at 11:30pm — 1 Comment

From 1944 to Nineteen Eighty-Four Hayek and Orwell.

I’m inclined to think of George Orwell and F. A. Hayek at the same time. Both showed great courage in writing the truth, undaunted by the consequences awaiting them. Both valued freedom, though they understood it differently.

Orwell, a man of the “left,” could not remain silent in the face of the horrors of Stalinism. Twice — during the Spanish Civil War and again at the dawn of the Cold War — he refused to permit his comrades to blind themselves to where their collectivism… Continue

Added by Anti Oligarch on December 8, 2009 at 3:07pm — 1 Comment

Free For All. Invent Your Own Personal Disfunction / Syndrome / Disease

You can be a psychiatrist, too!

Check out the

Free Disease Mongering Engine

where you can instantly generate your own fictitious diseases and disorders!

Added by Anti Oligarch on December 8, 2009 at 2:30pm — 4 Comments

Kill the Insurance Mandate

If Congress manages to pass a health-insurance bill in the next few weeks, it will undoubtedly require every person to have medical coverage or pay a fine. If someone's employer doesn't offer a policy, he will be obligated to buy one for himself no matter how expensive. (Subsidies will be available to lower- and middle-income people.)

Coverage is not likely to be cheap because the bill that President Obama signs will also undoubtedly mandate that "basic" coverage contain far more… Continue

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Austin Citizens Battle Water Fluoridation

This video is from citizens communication in front of the Austin Environmental Board dealing with city water fluoridation on December 2nd 2009.

The full unedited video

on Blip.tv

Austin Fluoridation Report…

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Researcher: NASA hiding climate data

The fight over global warming science is about to cross the Atlantic with a U.S. researcher poised to sue NASA, demanding release of the same kind of climate data that has landed a leading British center in hot water over charges it skewed its data.

Chris Horner, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, said NASA has refused for two years to provide information under the Freedom of Information Act that would show how the agency has shaped its climate data… Continue

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President Obama's Secret: Only 100 Al Qaeda Now in Afghanistan

With New Surge, One Thousand U.S. Soldiers and $300 Million for Every One al Qaeda Fighter

As he justified sending 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan at a cost of $30 billion a year, President Barack Obama's description Tuesday of the al Qaeda "cancer" in that country left out one key fact: U.S. intelligence officials have concluded there are only about 100 al Qaeda fighters in the entire country.

A senior U.S. intelligence official told ABCNews.com the approximate… Continue

Added by Anti Oligarch on December 7, 2009 at 5:52pm — No Comments

Diapers must be changed often

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Source: KTAO.com

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The Global Oil Scam: 50 Times Bigger than Madoff

$2.5 Trillion - That’s the size of the global oil scam.

It’s a number so large that, to put it in perspective, we will now begin measuring the damage done to the global economy in "Madoff Units" ($50Bn rip-offs). $2.5Tn is 50 times the amount of money that Bernie Madoff scammed from investors in his lifetime, but it is less than the monthly excess price the global population is being manipulated into paying for a barrel of… Continue

Added by Anti Oligarch on December 7, 2009 at 4:00am — 1 Comment

No You Can't ...... Miss This Rally 12/12 D.C

12/12 in DC: The No You Can't Rally

“No You Can’t!” Rally at White House December 12.

Unity Among Peace Movement Groups against Obama War Escalation - Warning of Reprisals to Troop Surge.

Please remember

No Violence

No Agro

No Fighting

The elites are begging for a reason to set the troops loose on…

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Added by Anti Oligarch on December 7, 2009 at 2:30am — 2 Comments

Banksters made sure: The American Dream Is More Of A Dream Than Ever Before!

Quotes of the day

"They promised us transparency and they kept their promise. We can see right through them!" ~ Carole Bending

"The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink." ~ George Orwell

Ah! . . . the dream. The American Dream. Sadly it's much more of a… Continue

Added by Anti Oligarch on December 5, 2009 at 11:50pm — No Comments

Massive Permanent Fraud: Taibbi - Obama’s sellout to Wall Street creates ‘permanent bailout’

wall Taibbi: Obamas sellout to Wall Street creates permanent bailout

If passed as it is, the financial reform bill winding its way through Congress will create a "permanent bailout mechanism," and will give complete control over future bailouts to the White House, says columnist Matt Taibbi.

In a video preview of an upcoming Rolling Stone article, Taibbi explained how the Obama administration started selling out to Wall Street interests almost as soon as the 2008 election was over.

This video is from Rolling Stone,… Continue

Added by Anti Oligarch on December 5, 2009 at 2:28am — No Comments

Montgomery Bus Boycott

The Montgomery Bus Boycott a year-long protest in Montgomery, Alabama, that galvanized the American Civil Rights Movement and led to a 1956 decision by the Supreme Court of the United States declaring segregated seating on buses unconstitutional.

In December 1955, 42,000 black residents of Montgomery began a year-long boycott of city buses ( Montgomery Bus Boycott ) to protest racially segregated seating. After 381 days of taking taxis, carpooling, and walking the… Continue

Added by Anti Oligarch on December 4, 2009 at 5:44pm — No Comments