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Quote of the Day:
The worst part is that, with the economy on the brink of a double-dip and consumer confidence falling off a cliff, this guy’s mind is still so preoccupied with the campaign that he can’t muster a moment of presidential leadership without counterprogramming it against a Republican primary event. He could have given this speech at any point. Six months ago, the day after the debt-ceiling deal was struck, last week, yesterday, today, tomorrow, the day before the Republican debate, the day after. Any of those would have been fine — the earlier the better, of course, given the magnitude of the problem — but that doesn’t occur to him because his own reelection is ever foremost in his imagination. We’ve known that for months, ever since he rolled out his horrendous budget that punted on entitlements so that he’d have a freer hand to demagogue the GOP, but in case you forgot, let this refresh your memory. If you could somehow promise him right now that he’ll get a second term no matter what happens with jobs, he’d tear the speech up and watch the Packers/Saints game himself. Pathetic. -Allahpundit
Japan and the softly glowing world…
- BBC
- NHK in English (Live feed in upper right corner)
- Telegraph of London
- Kyodo Wire
- Japan Times
- Asahi Shimbun
- The Daily Yomuri
- Japan Today
- ImTranslator – Online Translator, Dictionary, TTS add on for Firefox (It comes in handy)
- Japanese government list of nationwide radioactivity concentration
- Japan Geigermap
- Ibaraki Prefecture Geiger Counter Readings
- US National Radiation Map (updated every minute)
- Via Soylent Green: Radiation Exposure in Daily Life
- Radiation Dose Chart
- Radiation Converter
- ZeroHedge commenter Max2205′s excellent post about radioactivity including a list of radioactive elements and their half lives.
- Donations to the American Red Cross that are being designated to Japanese Earthquake relief are already getting to the folks in Japan and are most helpful.
If you have been following this situation on this blog and others you would have already known this… Map of Cesium-137 Deposition Across the Pacific by CEREA Shows the US More Contaminated Than Western Japan
France’s CEREA has the simulation map of ground deposition of cesium-137 from the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant accident on its “Fukushima” page. It not only shows Japan but also the entire northern Pacific Rim, from Russian Siberia to Alaska to the West Coast of the US to the entire US.
According to the map, the US, particularly the West Coast and particularly California, may be more contaminated with radioactive cesium than the western half of Japan or Hokkaido. It looks more contaminated than South Korea or China. Canada doesn’t look too well either, particularly along the border with US on the western half.
Fukushima I Nuke Plant: Water Entombment Is Back on the Table
My questions:
Step No.1: How? By whom?
Step No.2: How? By whom?
Step No.3: What’s the point again?
Step No.4: What melted fuel?And no one knows, or rather, no one cares or wants to know, where exactly these melted blobs of fuel rods, control rods, instruments, metals, etc., are right now. TEPCO and the government will proceed as if they remain at the bottom of the Containment Vessel of each Reactor, if not still within the RPV.
Inside the reactor buildings there are at least several spots as identified by TEPCO where the radiation levels are measured in sieverts/hour. Who is going to do the cleanup work, not to mention repairing the CVs and the building (I suppose they are thinking about the concrete foundations)?
Fukushima workers showered with highly radioactive water
Something’s Rotten in Yokohama City
My friend’s daughter is 6 years old. She had a lot of nosebleed in August,so my friend took her to a hospital. She turned out to have thyroid disorder.
Fukushima Children vs Government Bureaucrats on Aug 17, 2011 (Video)
The showdown of some sort happened on August 17 in a meeting set up by the Fukushima Network for Saving Children from Radiation, between the 4 children from Fukushima Prefecture and the junior bureaucrats from the national government.
It was widely disseminated in Japan and abroad when that happened, and many people were rightly appalled at the pathetically bureaucratic answers of these bureaucrats (what else could you expect?) to the children.
World News:
Global manufacturing grinds to a halt
Some Observations On Bob Pisani’s Visit To GLD’s Vault
While the 4 minute PR campaign is enjoyable and we invite readers to watch it, what is amusing is that it is sure to set off another set of conspiracy theories. Here’s the reason: amusingly the very gold bar that Pisani demonstrates so eagerly for the camera, Rand Refineries ZJ6752, is somehow, at last check, missing from the full barlist as posted daily by the GLD.Whose is it? Where did it go? When was this clip shot? Inquiring minds want to know…
25 Signs That The Financial World Is About To Hit The Big Red Panic Button
Greece Itself Now Openly Ridicules Europe’s Lies Of Greek “Stability”
ECB Scrambles To Prevent Another Market Rout Following Abysmal Spanish Auction, Disappointing PMIs
Per Bloomberg: “Belarus’s supermarkets are running out of meat as Russians take advantage of a currency crisis that a devaluation and the world’s highest borrowing costs have failed to stem. “All meat has gone to Russia,” Alexander Andreyevich, an 82-year-old former tractor-plant worker, said Aug. 25 in Minsk, the capital. “My relatives near the Russian border called me a few days ago and said the shops are empty.”…”Private stall owners simply go and buy meat from state- owned vendors and sell it a couple of steps away for a hefty profit,”Deputy Agriculture and Food Minister Vasily Pavlovsky told reporters in Minsk Aug. 24. The government banned individuals in June from taking basic consumer goods such as home appliances, food and gasoline out of the country. Russians, buoyed by the removal of border checkpoints July 1 as part of a customs union, have circumvented the restrictions.” Funny- if the locals had preserved their purchasing power by holding their money in gold, they would not find themselves in a position where those who still have a stable fiat exchange rate (for the time being) can literally steal products from under their noses for a paltry sum as sellers scramble to converts products into some currency before it is devalued even more tomorrow.
More bad news for Rice: Floods threaten Vietnam’s Mekong Delta rice basket
While Americans in the Northeast stripped the shelves bare thinking that grocery stores magically reproduce fresh stock at will, the future crisis building up worldwide regarding a potential rice shortage continues. With China experiencing major problems due to weather, Japanese rice contaminated with radiation from Fukushima, and South Korea reporting a sharp decline in production the other day, now flooding is threatening the Mekong Delta region of Vietnam where a record crop was projected.
Russia and China’s Energy Dispute and the Struggle for Eurasian Dominance
The rivalry is evident in Moscow and Beijing’s contrasting visions of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, which Russia sees primarily as a military structure, while Beijing favors increased economic integration. Both nations are engaged in an ongoing “Great Game” for the hearts, minds and economies of the former Soviet Central Asian states, with their rich energy assets. Beijing is making serious inroads there, not least of because of their deep pockets and the locals’ bitter memories of seven decades of Soviet domination.
Last but not least are Russian atavistic fears of the “yellow peril” and its threat to eastern Siberia, still largely devoid of population, large swathes which Russia acquired by the 1858 Aigun Treaty, which ceded the left bank of the Amur River to Russia and the 1860 Convention of Beijing, under which Russia gained control of Outer Mongolia. Both the Chinese Empire and subsequently the People’s Republic of China referred to them as “unequal treaties” until Prime Minister Zhou Enlai acknowledged them in 1969 in an effort to improve Soviet-Chinese relations in the wake of a series of violent frontier clashes along the Amur River earlier that year.
The struggle between the two nations is a fascinating study in opacity. Russia, the energy superpower versus China, the economic superpower. Amidst the energy pricing squabbles and ongoing covert struggle for influence in Eurasia, Beijing and Moscow nevertheless find common ground on one topic – limiting the influence of the United States. If 42 years ago Soviet and Communist Chinese politicians could hammer out a border agreement, what’s a mere $85 million among friends?
China confronts Indian navy vessel
The unidentified Chinese warship demanded that India’s INS Airavat, an amphibious assault vessel, identify itself and explain its presence in what it said were Chinese waters, shortly after it completed a scheduled port call in Vietnam.
Indian officials said the ship was 45 nautical miles off the Vietnamese coast, considered to be within Vietnam’s economic zone, when it was hailed by the Chinese vessel on July 22. It was travelling from the southern Vietnamese port of Nha Trang to the northern city of Hai Phong.
Vishnu Prakash, the top foreign ministry spokesman, on Thursday said the Indian ship had been “contacted on open radio channel by a caller identifying himself as the ‘Chinese Navy’ stating that ‘you are entering Chinese waters’”.
Africa might ditch the Dollar for the Yuan in Trade with China
New reports emerge on ransacking of U.S. Embassy in Tripoli
Iranian nuclear bid could provoke attack: Sarkozy
Iran Accuses China of Selling Typo-Ridden Tainted Korans…
Death fatwa in 3 . . . 2 . . . 1.
Uzbek Mufti Asks Pakistani Clerics To Condone Teenage Suicide Bombers…
Walter Russell Mead: Corruption In India: Not Finished Yet
India’s problem is that its mores and culture remain feudal and clientelist from top to bottom. There are some pockets of modernity, but they float uneasily in a feudal sea. The enduring power of the Gandhi dynasty is more the symptom of wider problems than the leading cause of India’s governance crisis. And by providing the country with a unifying focus (and by being civilian and committed to civilian rule) the Nehru-Gandhi family has done much to create a modern civilian nationalism in India — an achievement buttressed by their support for economic reform in recent years.
Modern capitalism and feudalism inevitably clash; ultimately successful capitalism demands more transparency and meritocracy than traditional family oriented hierarchical societies can comfortably live with. This is what India is trying to deal with today, and it isn’t easy.
Brazil Central Bank Unexpectedly Cuts Its Overnight Rate To 12.0% From 12.5% Following Observations Of “Substantial Economic Deterioration”
This is most likely the first of many rate cuts by Brazil which is obviously anticipating a major growth contraction in China, and as a result we expect the the other BRICs will very soon reevaluate their stance vis-a-vis being the remaining target of global capital flows. Ironically, up until now it was mostly the developed (read bankrupt) world that was devaluing its currencies… Well, make way for the new kids on the block because this is about to get interesting.
Barclays On Brazil Rate Cut: “Unexpected…Unprecedented”
Feeling like one of the 62 sellside analysts tonight, all of whom had no idea Brazil would cut its overnight rate by 50 bps? Wondering what this “unexpected, unprecedented” move means for Brazil? Curious what the implications of this shocking announcement are? Here is Barclays which while still shellshocked, is the first to try to put lipstick on the pig that the BRIC economy suddenly has become.
US News:
Hurricane Katia: 9/1 0500 Update, winds steady at 75 mph
3 Hospitalized at Scott Air Force Base – Hazmat Crews Called In (Video)
How serious is the left about disrupting America?
These are the Unions, Progressives, Communists, Marxists, Socialists, Anarchists – they bring the rage. They will organize and use the youth to rally. You are fodder to them and your life means nothing. They want to foment chaos and violence so the government has an excuse to clamp down on Americans.
The thing that none of these people have apparently figured out is that Al Qaeda never does the same thing twice, but it does give the TSA thugs an excuse to grope up little kids and grannies while they let Islamists and drug smugglers walk right on by… Security on rise nationwide for 9/11 anniversary
Americans can expect more security at airports, mass transit stations, U.S. borders, government buildings and major athletic events over the next month, said an intelligence official who spoke anonymously to discuss sensitive security matters.
Can You Observe 9/11 Without Government Guidelines?
The White House in recent days has quietly disseminated two sets of documents. One is framed for overseas allies and their citizens and was sent to American embassies and consulates around the globe. The other includes themes for Americans here and underscores the importance of national service and what the government has done to prevent another major attack in the United States. That single-page document was issued to all federal agencies, officials said.
After weeks of internal debate, White House officials adopted the communications documents to shape public events and official statements, and they sought to strike a delicate balance between messages designed for these two very important but very different audiences on a day when the world’s attention will be focused on President Obama, his leadership team and his nation.
Pay special attention to that last part. Everything is always all about him.
Marking 9/11: Obama Aides Defend ‘Talking Points’
The same document reminded readers: “A chief goal of our communications is to present a positive, forward-looking narrative.”
“I think the fact that you would actually instruct government officials to speak differently about 9/11 simply based on where they’re standing is not just insulting to American audiences and foreign audiences, but again, I think it’s a little bit of a window into how they look at national security issues,” said Jennifer Millerwise Dyck, a former press aide to Vice President Cheney and director of public affairs at the Central Intelligence Agency.
“This is a government that is not entirely comfortable with the role that it has to play in some cases to keep America safe….[Not] to talk about how this government plans to keep us safe in the wake of the current threats that we face, I think, is really a missed opportunity.”
Obama would like you to forget stuff like this… The phones kept ringing but nobody picked up: Haunting 9/11 artefacts from FBI terror trials revealed for the first time
A battered but intact wallet belonging to Ruth McCourt, of Connecticut, is on show.
She was with her four-year-old daughter, Juliana, visiting Disneyland, on board the second plane that hit the World Trade Centre, reported CNN.
A picture of the mother and daughter on the beach can also be seen.
‘A lot of family members want to make sure there are public displays because they don’t want people to forget what they lost that day,’ Newseum senior vice president Susan Bennett told CNN.
The mobile phones are particularly poignant because rescue workers could hear them ringing as desperate relatives and friends called in the hope that people on the other end might still be alive.
Perhaps they are going to use that money to buy guns, bombs, flak jackets and night vision equipment from the ATF/DOJ/DHS via Gunwalker… Well That Makes Sense: Park51 Group Requests $5 Million In Federal Taxpayer Money For Their Victory Mosque
Officially, the federal funds would not go to religious activities, but to “fund social service programs for all the residents of Lower Manhattan such as domestic violence prevention, Arabic and other foreign language classes, programs and services for homeless veterans, two multi-cultural art exhibits and immigration services,” according to its grant application.
Uh-huh.
None of it goes to religious activities. In a mosque.
Watch what people do, not what they say. The internal polls must be even worse than I thought they were (and that was pretty bad to begin with) if he is pulling this kind of crap….
Here comes the Grandstand of all Grandstanding–
Obama Requests Joint Session of Congress For His Jobs Speech on September 7.It’s the same night as the GOP Primary Debate at Reagan Library.
“The president should pick another night. I’m planning to watch the Republican primary debate … and the president should watch it, too,”The iconic South Carolina conservative said. “If he has a jobs proposal, put it in writing, give us a cost estimate, and send it over. I want to read the bill, not listen to talking points off a TelePrompter. If he insists on playing politics by picking the night of the GOP debate, I will object to the session.”
A lone determined senator can tie the chamber in knots for days, and the House and Senate must both pass a concurrent resolution to allow for the president to speak to a joint session.
Mark Levin says he hears Obama may just do an Oval Office address if Congress balks. This could work for him. It was speculated the whole point of calling a Joint Session was to force networks to cover him. And they are getting tired of giving him very pricey prime-time slots to speak in. But a Joint Session is fairly rare and networks wouldn’t balk for that kind of speech.
However, now that he’s raised the stakes for this, it could be that a simple White House address would get covered by everyone.
All Obama really needs is a chair, a desk, a camera, and a pair of teleprompters (plus a back-up emergency teleprompter, of course).
It was when we wanted it, you see . . . because . . . well . . . it just was.
It had nothing to do with wanting to screw up a Republican debate featuring the debate debut of Rick Perry.
Because when Obama visits an employer to tout them as success stories due to his economic policies those companies have a tendency towards ending up in the red and turning the page to Chapter 11. Today, California-based Solyndra announced it was closing its doors and laying off 1,100 employees despite general federal subsidies. Allentown Metal Works suffered the same fate a year ago. Heck, all Obama need do is mention a business by name and he puts a hex on it as was the case with a restaurant in Toledo he claimed was an indirect beneficiary of the auto bailout.
I am sure that every CEO in the country is praying that Obama sees fit not to mention their company in his speech next week.
On paper, it all seemed so smart. Give the liberal base the huge expansion in government they craved. Give out the big “green” payouts to the environmentalists. Complete the merger of DC with Wall Street. Prop up the unions. Break big business to the saddle while suffocating the entrepreneurs who might prove a threat — all to keep the money flowing into DC to buy off the poor proles crushed by the new system.
In reality, it hasn’t worked so well. As it turned out, there aren’t enough liberals in this country to make bigger government any more popular than it ever was. “Green” jobs went bust too soon before the election. The fugly DC/Wall Street hybrid is sucking the life out of finance. The unions can’t deliver the votes anymore. And the private sector might be saddled — but it can’t run fast enough to make the economy grow that way.
And the proles aren’t bought off — we’re pissed off.
Which helps to explain why, according to Gallup, a new poll shows “Government’s Image at All-Time Low.” As Peter Wehner writes at Commentary, “Liberals assume office because of their enormous confidence in government to do good – and they often leave office having convinced much of the public of just the opposite. Which is why Barack Obama may be among the best things to happen to conservatism since Ronald Wilson Reagan. Having felt the effects of liberalism up close and personal, the alternative looks mighty fine right about now.”
Incidentally, while this summer was nothing but reruns from the White House, one way or another, next summer’s viewing should be especially interesting….
SSDD out of Obama and the Democrats:
Obama surely sees his “damaged image” as simply because people are too stupid, racist, not organized enough, etc, in other words, not his fault.
He needs a villain and fast.
Enter Congress, the villain set to return to work next week. It clocks in with a 13 percent approval rating, having suffered more from the July brawl over the debt ceiling than even Obama.
When GOP lawmakers return, the president and his team are ready to deliver a flurry of attacks, castigating Congress for inaction on jobs, being on the wrong side of taxes and eager to destroy social safety net programs. If Obama and his team have their way, Americans will come to see every Republican as a Tea Party extremist.
Basically the same old same old. The GOP is offering jobs plans, ones that are forward looking and have been show to work. Obama is going with income redistribution, demonizing the rich, repaving roads and painting bridges (already repaved and repainted due to the wasteful Stimulus), pushing high speed rail (of which tons of money have been already allocated in the Stimulus yet not even started), and….well, that’s about it. Handouts to unions and creation of temporary jobs. He pretty much said this during his Rose Garden
speechwhine-a-athon this morning, pushing the transportation bill passage. Which is weird, because cars are supposed to be bad for globull warming, and cars need roads. He also mentioned building new airports. Aren’t private jet owners now evil?
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says he is “sure” President Obama will offer specific proposals for boosting energy-related jobs in next week’s big speech on job creation.
The Nevada Democrat, speaking to reporters at his annual Clean Energy Summit in Las Vegas, said he is urging Obama to make the green jobs push as big as possible, and will continue to make the case in meetings with the president before the speech. John Podesta, president of the liberal group Center for American Progress, which has close ties to the White House, said he also is urging Obama to announce new green jobs initiatives.
Reid and Podesta met on Tuesday with Vice President Joe Biden, the event’s keynote speaker, in part to press the administration for a renewable energy jobs agenda.
- If Nancy read this blog and others she would have known about the GOP job plan… Nancy Pelosi: “After 239 days, the Republicans who are running the House have yet to offer any serious jobs legislation, while opposing every Democratic effort to create jobs”
Skanky hag.
Another union boondoggle from the Corruptocrat-in-Chief.
Exclusive: Obama Announces Listening Tour of Flood-Ravaged Northeast
Oh, wait. I got things mixed up. He’s announced a series of glitzy Silicon Valley and Hollywood fundraisers. Let those folks flooded by Hurricane Irene fend for themselves.
*snip*
Meanwhile, I’ve yet to see any plans for benefit concerts to help aid those suffering in the aftermath of Irene. In fact, there hasn’t even been a comment from those heroes of the middle class and New Jersey residents Bruce Springsteen and Jon Bon Jovi. Maybe they’ve lost power and are unable to update their websites.
Obama’s Drunken Alien Uncle First Came to USA in 1963
It’s not clear that this criminal has been here the entire time since 1963, but we do know for sure he was ordered deported in 1992 and for some odd reason is still in this country. If the president, who is sworn to uphold our laws, actually enforced our laws, his “long lost” Uncle Omar would be on the next flight back to Nairobi.
Forget the debate over illegal immigration for a moment and just ask yourself this:
If you were a multi-millionaire and the leader of the free world, would you let your family languish in taxpayer funded housing while you partied with celebrities at the White House? Would you?
Maya Angelou says King memorial inscription makes him look ‘arrogant’
Your ‘surprisingly unexpected’ economic news of the day:
QE3 Levitation Day 3… Brings the DJIA To Positive For The Year, In Comic Contrast With The Rest Of The World
The important thing: unlike every other relevant market in the world (Belarus may be a notable exception), the DJIA is now green for the year. In the meantime bonds continue to ignore the whole move in stocks. Of course, if this is just a career protection rally for the end of the month, the reconnection of stocks with gravity tomorrow will be painful. Alternatively, gravity will be even more painful if the Fed does end up disappointing on September 21, which it may have no choice but to do if stocks price all of it in by then.
Feeling stimulated yet?
Annual Inflation Hits 4%
There is the CPI… and then there is the MIT’s billion price project which, as the name implies, tracks the prices of a billion products in real time. And according to the latter, annual inflation has hit a multi year high of about 4%. Perhaps someone can advise the talented Mr Evans that the 3% inflation he would so love to achieve… has in fact been eclipsed. At least, according to the real world. So take 4% inflation, add $2.5 trillion in “much more” easing, and what you get is only an economic Ph.D.’s guess. Alas, we are unqualified to have an opinion on the matter
Unexpected: Private Sector Job Creation Slows
Consensus estimates are that the government will show the economy created about 80,000 jobs overall in August—including the public sector—though some economists say the report actually could show a loss of jobs.
Actually, according to that last link, it could well show an overall job loss for August, which Obama will just blame on Hurricane Irene, Libya, the Arab Spring, the Japan tsunami and the pending deportation of his Uncle Omar.
Speaking of job loss, June’s unexpectedly bad numbers were unexpectedly revised downward.The ADP report showed that June’s estimate of 114,000 jobs created was revised down to 109,000.
Study: Half Of “Jobs Created” By Stimulus Bill Were From Workers Already Employed…
Reason-Rupe Poll: 57 Percent of Americans Say Spending Cuts Will Help the Economy
There is no way to sugarcoat this. The expectation of rotten times ahead colors purchasing and hiring decisions, leading to a further contraction of the economy. Low confidence begets low growth which in turn begets low confidence.
The president and the Democrats keep promising more spending and taxing. But that’s not a recipe to improve the outlook of investors, consumers and employers. Obama’s half-hearted regulatory reform and the threat of even more regulations as well as tax hikes may serve some agenda that pleases a segment of the electorate, but it does not promote growth.
You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy (except for the UN, of course):
He would love to raise the tax if he could get away with it and get reelected. if he does get reelected you will definitely see the federal gas tax go up by $1-$3/gallon. Don’t believe me? Hide and watch… Obama Calls for Extension of Gas Tax to Fund Highway Construction, Repair
Alcoholism is classified as a disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act, the suit maintains, and therefore employees cannot be prohibited even from driving 18 wheelers due to their histories of abuse.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which filed the suit against the Old Dominion Freight Line trucking company on August 16, noted that while “an employer’s concern regarding safety on our highways is a legitimate issue, an employer can both ensure safety and comply with the ADA.”
The way I figure it, the federal government wants to combine swarms of drunk truck drivers on the same roads that are teeming with 54 MPG micro-cars. Now that would minimize Obamacare spending!
But maybe I’m just a cynic.
US Labor Secretary Buys American, in an ‘Obama’s Jobs Tour Bus’ Kind of Way
But here’s the real “prestige” of the joke. After being informed that the the “buy American” Secretary’s SUV wasn’t made in the United States, the Labor Department pinched off a serious “six degrees of economic separation” pile of Pelosi:
When Whispers notified her office that her “American-made” car was actually Canadian, Labor spokesman Carl Fillichio said, “Modern automobile manufacturing is a global industry and General Motors is a company whose reach extends far beyond the boundaries of the United States.”
Eh, at least it sounds better than “we don’t back up our BS talking points by actually researching where the stuff we buy with American taxpayers’ money is made.”
So by that line of reasoning we can buy something made in any country and we’re still “supporting American workers”? I’ll bet the US union leaders would have a different opinion, provided this administration didn’t have them firmly in their pockets (and ours) already.
NLRB agrees to new rules that will harm workers, job creation
As might be expected, all three decisions were made along party lines. The three Democrats on the board voted in favor, while the lone Republican voted against. They also came at a particularly interesting time: NLRB Chairman Wilma Leibman’s term expires this Saturday. President Obama has already named as the new chair another Democrat already on the board — Mark Pearce. With Leibman’s departure, the board consists of just three members — concentrating power in the hands of an even smaller number of unelected bureaucrats.
DoJ Gets to Pick Corporate Winners and Losers Too
Someone remind me again why businesses are unwilling to invest capital to expand right now? Why they want to punish Obama by sitting on their capital and adopting a wait and see attitude?
What could it be, what could it be?
Government Destroying Free Markets With Public-Private Partnerships
One disturbing characteristic of PPPs is the government’s ability to seize private property through eminent domain and transfer it to another private entity. Government can pick and choose favorites, giving its preferred private partner privileges over other private entities, even eliminating competition entirely by granting monopolies. Furthermore, it is no secret that government can tailor bid specifications in such a way that only one private entity qualifies.
With government as a partner, private companies lose some of their decision-making authority. Their actions are less likely to be based upon free market considerations. Another problem with PPPs is the lack of transparency. Private companies are not subject to public records laws. PPPs provide a way for government to hide its actions.
Even when a PPP is set up so more of the risk is allocated to the private entity, if the entity fails leaving private investors in the lurch, government often ends up buying back the service or infrastructure. In England, government is taking over more of the risk in PPPs as the debt markets dry up for private companies.
125,000 brand new foreign workers with work permits each month
The whole thing stinks of “The Chicago Way™”… The Gibson Guitar Saga Gets Steadily Curiouser
It has come out that Juszkiewicz is a Republican donor, while the CEO of one of his principal competitors, C.F. Martin & Company, is a Democratic donor. Martin reportedly uses the same wood, but DOJ hasn’t raided them, leading to speculation that the Obama administration is sending a warning to Republican businessmen that they had better not oppose his re-election, lest they face criminal investigations. Normally such speculation would not be credible, but Eric Holder has politicized the Department of Justice to a point where such questions must be taken seriously.
Oh, one more thing: if Gibson has violated the Lacey Act, so, perhaps, has Michelle Obama, who gave French First Lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy a Gibson Hummingbird acoustic guitar with a rosewood fret. Maybe, when the time comes, she can share a cell with Mr. Juszkiewicz.
If nothing else, this incident illustrates the misguided priorities of the Obama administration. Harassing American businesses on frivolous grounds is not exactly what our economy needs at the moment. But the anti-business Obama administration just can’t help itself.
Hillary Clinton Anxious to Give $1.5 Billion in Gaddafi Regime’s Frozen Assets to Libyan Islamist Rebels…
Enemies of freedom infest the White House and State Department.
Your tax dollars at work… Solyndra to Declare Bankruptcy
Solyndra was touted by the Obama administration as a prime example of how green technology could deliver jobs. The President visited the facility in May of last year and said “it is just a testament to American ingenuity and dynamism and the fact that we continue to have the best universities in the world, the best technology in the world, and most importantly the best workers in the world. And you guys all represent that. ”
The federal government offered $535 million in low cost loan guarantees from the Department of Energy. NBC Bay Area has contacted the White House asking for a statement.
Epic Failure: Obama-Backed Solar Firm Collapses, 1100 Jobs Not Saved or Created
The government loan guarantee was supposed to spur 1,000 fulltime jobs once Solyndra’s solar plant was fully operating. Instead, as the company announced Chapter 11 bankruptcy Wednesday, reports surfaced that 1,100 would lose their jobs.
Yet the company’s collapse is sure to rekindle questions about how well the Department of Energy vetted the company before putting taxpayer dollars on the table.
Indeed, it would be nice if there was some oversight on this corrupt administration. But that would obviously be racist.
What do you call it when everything someone touches turns to excrement?
2012: The Fork in the Road…
For whom the bell tolls… Little things like this are one of those ‘whispers’ that can tell you more then any major poll can. ‘Obama Clock’ climbs iPhone reference app chart
Incivility: Obama Targets GOP for Fall Offensive
In this new age of civility and decorum, isn’t such military jargon sending the wrong message to the children? Well, I guess all that goes out the window when your approval rating is 38% and fading fast.
If you have been reading Ulsterman’s “White House Insider” series this kind of crap will come as no surprise. For the MSM propaganda inciting a class/race war see below under the “MSM circus” section. What none of the people who are pushing this crap realize is that the blowback from their actions, words and deeds will be tremendous… Video: Dems accuse Tea Party of wanting minorities “hanging on a tree,” “at war” with a black President
It’s not the first time the “Jim Crow” accusation has flown this year. Earlier it was the chair of the DNC, Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, who tossed out that smear, only to shamefacedly retract it when it made national news. Why? Because it was reprehensible demagoguery of the worst kind, a fact that was obvious to everyone — or at least obvious to everyone outside the CBC.
Via the Right Scoop, Allen West is now reconsidering his CBC membership (see video at link)
And for good reason. The civil-rights movement was not a political effort aimed primarily at deficit spending and massive government growth. It was a movement intended to eliminate real and official racial discrimination. Carson’s words are not just evil, they are entirely ignorant and as damaging to the cause of equality as they are to rational political debate. Not only should Carson be reprimanded for his words, he should really be shunned, and hopefully replaced in the next election by voters in his district.
GOP Rep. Dennis Ross To Congressional Black Caucus: “I’m a Tea Party Member. I Am Not a Racist. Get a Grip”…
Ditto that.
Green vs. Tea, Round 1: Party Battle Napa
The Affirmative Action President
We have witnessed the media assault Republican candidates viciously and repeatedly. Politico has declared war on Sarah Palin. Politico, the journolistas who would never question Barack Obama’s brain creds have no qualms about opening speculating about Rick Perry’s intelligence.
Enough.
Now we know why the media struggles so mightily to demean opposing candidates. Barack Obama is the product of affirmative action.
How Obama lost his presidency in August 2009
When the history of Barack Obama’s one-term presidency is written, August 2009 will be remembered as the turning point.
It was then that thousands of ordinary citizens began to rise up against a health care bill being forced through Congress. And it was then that the Obama administration declared war, through its union proxies, against the American people.
Gallup: Obama’s Approval Among Women Voters Hits New Low…
Heartache.
If demographics are destiny, 2012 could be big
With Texas Gov. Rick Perry now the front-runner in several national polls for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, others in the mainstream media are just now beginning to report on and assess the facts about how Texas compares with other states, including California.
Here is an example of that… What If Obama Were Governor of the State of Texas?
Perry’s 4-point economic agenda is the total opposite of Obama’s. Perry recently described it to the Republican Leadership Conference as, “Don’t spend all the money; keep the taxes low and under control; have regulations that are fair and predictable so that business owners know what to expect from one quarter to the next; and reform the legal system so that frivolous lawsuits don’t paralyze employers that are trying to create real wealth.”
Perry told The Wall Street Journal that if he were elected president and if Republicans regained a Senate majority, President Perry’s priorities for his first 100 days in office would include repealing ObamaCare, cutting spending, and reforming corporate income taxes to give U.S. firms an incentive to repatriate more than $1 trillion held in offshore subsidiaries. Perry said this would,”give people an incentive to start investing in America again.”
So, there’s Obama and Perry, side-by-side: Obamanomics versus Perrynomics. Imagine if the two men switched jobs. Would that put Texas in better shape—or America?
Rasmussen: Generic Republican Beats President Obama by Eight Points
GOP frontrunner Rick Perry currently has a lead in Iowa and a big lead in South Carolina. The latter is from PPP, the lefties who recently had Perry behind, to Obama, in Texas, where Obama is about as popular as the plague. So take that for what it’s worth. It tells me that Perry may have an even bigger lead in SC than PPP has picked up. Whoever wins South Carolina tends to win the GOP nomination.
So, you can look at the trashed economy, the president’s total lack of ideas and leadership, the polls and how they’re trending, how the mood in the country just keeps getting more and more sour, how about one in for Democrats want Obama off their party’s ballot, the new stuff about Hillary Clinton primarying The One…or you can buy whatever Alan Lichtman is selling, since he says Obama can’t lose.
Consider the source when reading this… Rick Perry panic fires up the left
In his two weeks as a presidential candidate, Rick Perry has done something that neither Barack Obama nor Mitt Romney could do: wake up the left.
Perry panic has spread from the conference rooms of Washington, D.C., to the coffee shops of Brooklyn, with the realization that the conservative Texan could conceivably become the 45th president of the United States, a wave of alarm centering around Perry’s drawling, small-town affect and stands on core cultural issues such as women’s rights, gun control, the death penalty, and the separation of church and state.
Perry: Obama’s jobs policies are ‘dumb’
“They are intellectually very, very smart. But he does not have wise men and women around him,” Perry said. “He has listened to all the academics around him, plenty of smart people, but nobody who has wisdom.”
Giuliani still mulling a presidential run
Assuming he runs, the obvious target is New Hampshire, with or without Giuliani’s acknowledgment. He tried waiting until Florida in 2008 when he had more support in the national polls and it turned into a disaster. Giuliani’s moderate social positions won’t allow him a chance to win in Iowa or in South Carolina, so neighboring New Hampshire is his only path to competitiveness. That puts him on a collision course with Romney, though, who also needs the state to stay in the running. Until now, Romney has had the advantage of having all of his credible competition to his right in New Hampshire and selling himself as a reasonable alternative. If Giuliani jumps into the race, the two candidates will have to fight for the same subset of voters — and that could allow a surging Perry to steal the Granite State from both East Coasters and seal up the nomination very early in the cycle, especially with South Carolina on the horizon.
Career politician Mitt Romney, son of career politician George Romney, swaggers into Texas to slam “career politicians”
Self-awareness minus zero.
Gunwalker/Fast & Furious/Castaway
Screw up, move up, cover up: Fast and Furious edition
My column today keys off yesterday’s post on the “reassignment” of acting ATF director Kenneth Melson and the re-shuffling of several other Fast and Furious-entangled bureaucrats. The White House hopes the moves will quell spreading outrage over the deadly scandal.
David Codrea, one of the bloggers who led breakthrough reporting on Fast and Furious, reports today on continued obstruction of his FOIA request. Sipsey Street Irregulars, another of the leading F&F bloggers, dubs yesterday’s “The Night of the Short Knives.” As always, check CleanUpATF.org for the word from the ground. Related NRANews interviews on F&F here, here, and here.
While clueless leftists smugly ask “Where are the Obama scandals?”, the screw-ups, move-ups, and cover-ups of this administration flourish unabated.
Sunlight, as always, is the best disinfectant. Help spread the word.
LEVERAGE: Melson Out at ATF, Moves to Main Justice. The Gunwalker Cover-Up Continues
Thousands of weapons were smuggled to the Sinaloa cartel with U.S. government protection provided by the Department of Homeland Security, Department of Justice, elements of other agencies and the probable involvement if not direction of the Obama White House, and not a soul involved has so much as been fired.
The perps have all be transferred to main Justice, where their silence is all but assured.
This is a blatant cover-up of a RICO-investigation worthy crime perpetrated by the highest levels of government, and it is increasingly obvious that the Obama Administration has every intention of getting away with this without any accountability whatsoever, regardless of the number of lives this operation cost.
Gunwalker Cover-Up Accelerates: Ken Melson Reassigned
The move is suspect at best, given that Melson gave secret testimony about who knew what and when within DOJ, and included Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer.
ATF Special Agent Vince Cefalu, one of the original whistleblowers on the case, believes it’s motivated by a “cover your ass” attitude on the part of Holder. Cefalu notes Melson is a “lab rat” and believes he should never have been put in charge of ATF in the first place:
I think everything we said all along has been proven to be true. It’s no secret that they’re cleaning house.
Cefalu thinks Holder asked Melson what job he wanted in return for his silence:
You don’t think they gave him that for his stellar performance at ATF, do you?
New warning bells in Operation Fast and Furious probe
A bruised and battered veteran of the U.S. Civil Service explained how the government silences whistleblowers and other uncooperative employees: “They give you a big promotion, a fancy title and a new office, but no staff and nothing to do. Then they tell you to watch the flagpole in front of headquarters and, if that flag moves, you come tell us immediately. After that, you’re never heard from again.” Whistleblowers in the Washington bureaucracy come in all ideological stripes, but the one thing they almost invariably have in common is being subjected to this treatment. Some stick to their guns and alert the public to a problem in government, but most are bored into submission.
Kenneth Melson, the now former acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives at the center of the Operation Fast and Furious scandal, appears to be getting the treatment now.
According to Senator Charles Grassley’s June 15, 2011 congressional testimony attachment 4, the chair of AGAC (Jones) was a member of the Southwest Border Strategy Group and attended at least one briefing on Fast and Furious in October 2009.
He appears to be complicit in the coverup, just like Melson.
ATF Death Watch 66: Obama Fires Acting ATF Director Melson
Rumor has it the Obama administration will stick with Chicago ATF Bureau Chief Andrew Traver as their choice for Melson’s full-time replacement. Provided, of course, the ATF EVER gets a full-time director. And Traver never heard a word about Operation Fast and Furious before the illegal government-sponsored gun running program came to light. And Holder lasts long enough to put Traver in the ATF hot seat.
According to Fox News, it’s all change at the ATF and the U.S. Attorney’s Office, as Big O’s Boyz struggle to keep a lid on the festering Gunwalker Scandal, in which drug thugs used ATF-enabled guns to murder U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry.
In Phoenix, Assistant U.S. Attorney Emory Hurley, who oversaw Fast and Furious on a day-to-day basis, was reassigned from the criminal to civil division. His boss, U.S. Attorney for Arizona Dennis Burke, was on the hot seat last week and spoke to congressional investigators. According to multiple sources, he got physically sick during questioning and could not finish his session.
Look for the Union Label/Whackademia/The Badger Rebellion:
Labor leaders must pay for parade if GOP banned, mayor says
The mayor of a Wisconsin town said on Tuesday a local labor council would have to reimburse the city up to $2,000 for a Labor Day parade if organizers exclude Republican lawmakers from attending.
The move in Wausau, Wisconsin, came after a county labor official said last week that Republican politicians were not welcome at the event due to their party’s stance against collective bargaining when state lawmakers voted to curtail it earlier this year.
Wausau Mayor Jim Tipple told Reuters on Tuesday that the decision to exclude elected Republicans “flies in the face of public policy.”
“This is not a political rally, it’s a parade, for God’s sake,” Tipple said, noting that taxpayer money is used by the city to pay for staging the event. Tipple’s office is nonpartisan, and he claims no affiliation with either political party.
How Gracious of Them: Wisconsin Labor Goons Will ‘Allow’ Republicans to March in Labor Day Parade
Fascists really hate it when they don’t get their way.
As the labor movement becomes increasingly desperate, this kind of appalling behavior is only going to get worse. Activists are determined to mount a recall effort against Walker as soon as he becomes eligible next year, but if his budget reforms continue to yield results, they’re likely to find themselves in a losing battle. If that’s the case, let’s hope things don’t get even uglier.
Having botched the three R’s, many American schools are now making do with a fourth instead—recycling. The following extracts come from a Saturday New York Times story about efforts to bring recycling to school lunch…
In Other News…
‘Sixty to 90 percent of jobs are found informally—mainly through friends, relatives, and direct contacts’
I used to think it was unfair that people had to get others to like them or had to know someone to get a job but I realize that this analysis was unfair itself. Why would someone want to hire someone or do business with someone who is not recommended by a person that you think highly of? Is a complete stranger with no known background a better bet? I doubt it.
‘I Have Women Who Come in With Photos With the Face Cut Out Sometimes’
Bachmann’s style “is safe, but not soccer mom. It’s sexy,” said Alma Qeraxhiu at her AlmaG Salon and Spa on E. 21st. St.
“I have found it a little bit amazing how many women have been coming in asking for her hair style, even though they don’t agree with her politics.”
They might agree more with Hillary Clinton, who has always been criticized about her hair.
Indeed, I never notice many women looking like Hillary or, say, Janet Napolitano. Still, some may want to look like Bachmann yet are still trembling in fear over her.
I am sure this bit of news has some LLP’s panties in a bunch… NM governor gets perfect score on renewal of her concealed-carry permit
In Wisconsin you need a ‘castle law’ with the Democrat/Union/Leftard Zombie Apocalypse going on there… “Break into my house in the middle of the night and it’s nightie night.”
Judging from the debate in the comments, the people favor the pending bill, which “would extend a presumption of reasonableness to anyone using deadly force against people unlawfully in their residence, whether they were armed or threatening or not.”
I favor the bill myself, because people who are considering breaking into a house shouldn’t have a complicated set of risk/benefit factors to weigh. It should be really clear.
About That Morning Cup of Coffee: None For You, California
Proposition 65 requires businesses to notify Californians about significant amounts of chemicals in the products they purchase, in their homes or workplaces, or that are released into the environment. By providing this information, Proposition 65 enables Californians to make informed decisions about protecting themselves from exposure to these chemicals. Proposition 65 also prohibits California businesses from knowingly discharging significant amounts of listed chemicals into sources of drinking water.
That list is currently now 22 pages long and basically includes everything you come into contact with by doing such things as breathing. Among some of the dangerous substances listed are aspirin, caffeic acid, cocaine, various food colorings, marijuana smoke, oral contraceptives, testosterone and the list goes on and on.
I find it highly ironic that the state which has legalized marijuana sold on every street corner also lists marijuana smoke on their list of dangerous chemicals. Too bad they don’t treat dope smokers the same way they treat tobacco smokers. The fact that testosterone is on the list really isn’t surprising given the general population in the state. Just sayin’ and not that there is anything wrong with that.
So California, instead of getting your morning started with a cup of hot coffee, enjoy your tofu colada or whatever the hell you are allowed to drink while you try to figure out just why businesses are leaving your pathetic little fascist state faster then a NASCAR driver on a qualifying run.
California: Glendale family arrested in alleged shoplifting incident at Sears
A Glendale family of four –including two teenage sisters — were arrested over the weekend after they attempted to steal about $550 worth of shoes and cologne from a Sears store in Burbank, police said.
Christian Gonzalez, 31, and his wife, Norma Gonzalez, 32, along with their 13- and 14-year-old daughters were arrested outside the store on Magnolia Boulevard after employees stopped them and said they were placing shoes and boxes of cologne into bags from another store, Burbank Sgt. Travis Irving said Monday.
Another California City Joins Red Light Camera Revolt
“The city of Laguna Niguel does ordain as follows,” the proposed ordinance states. “Red light automated traffic enforcement systems primary accomplishment has been to increase revenues, not traffic safety. The city council finds that the installation of red light automated traffic enforcement systems do not serve a significant public purpose and specifically not the stated public purpose… Automated traffic enforcement systems as that term is used in California Vehicle Code Section 25145.5 shall not be installed on any city street or highway that is within the jurisdiction of the city.”
UC Berkeley Offering College Credits To “Fight The New Jim Crow”…
Moonbat training camp.
I am surprised the Democrats in California didn’t unionize them like they did in Michigan, too… Babysitting bill in Calif. Legislature
Under AB 889, household “employers” (aka “parents”) who hire a babysitter on a Friday night will be legally obligated to pay at least minimum wage to any sitter over the age of 18 (unless it is a family member), provide a substitute caregiver every two hours to cover rest and meal breaks, in addition to workers’ compensation coverage, overtime pay, and a meticulously calculated timecard/paycheck.
Failure to abide by any of these provisions may result in a legal cause of action against the employer including cumulative penalties, attorneys’ fees, legal costs and expenses associated with hiring expert witnesses, an unprecedented measure of legal recourse provided no other class of workers – from agricultural laborers to garment manufacturers. (On the bright side, language requiring an hour of paid vacation time for every 30 hours worked was amended out of the bill in the Senate.)
Bullying Law Puts New Jersey Schools on Spot
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania is bankrupt and has been for years. Instead of recognizing that simple fact, the mayor and most of the city council have been looking for miracles.
There are no miracles and there will be no miracles. Fortunately, and at long-last, the city council rejected Mayor Linda Thompson’s scheme of selling city assets to deal with debt issues.
Harrisburg now faces a state takeover.
WTF!?!?!?! I rode my bike farther then that to school when I was a kid, and even farther with my friends to a nearby lake to go swimming and fishing during the summer. I am so glad that I was a child when I was, to be a kid nowadays sucks… Arrested for Riding Bike to School
Could you be arrested for allowing your 5′th grade child to ride her bike one mile to school? That certainly seems crazy as we try to encourage active life styles for our kids. That certainly seems crazy as we try to promote safe routes to school programs. That certainly seems crazy as we talk of an obesity epidemic amongst our children. But that is what police in Elizabethton Tennessee are threatening.
Thousands Leave Indiana Public Schools When Given A Choice
We’re constantly told that the Democrats are the party of choice so it’s funny how angry liberals get when people don’t choose them. It’s what we just witnessed in Wisconsin. It’s why teacher unions overwhelmingly support Democrats and Obama. It has nothing to do with children, choices or education. It’s about moneymoneymoneymoneymoney.
This is exactly why Obama is against school vouchers for poor kids in Washington, DC.
“Android is easily dominating all other competitors in the mobile space”
Poll: Majority Of Americans Say Abortion Is “Morally Wrong”…
MSM Circus and Celebutard Side Show:
NO! Say it ain’t so! Mr. Pot meet Ms. Kettle… NYT Shocker: ‘MSNBC Is Less a News Provider Than a Carousel of Liberal Opinion’
MSNBC Moonbat Lawrence O’Donnell Blames Rudy Giuliani for 9/11 Deaths
Some people think outside the box. Others think outside the galaxy. While the rest of the country takes pride to this day in Rudy Giuliani’s resolute leadership in the aftermath of 9/11, avowed socialist Lawrence O’Donnell sees fit to blame him for the loss of life (see video at link)
How tragic that so many heroes were silenced forever on that day, whereas screeching insects like O’Donnell live on to exploit their demise by laying the blame for it where it most obviously does not belong.
Assploding Hypocrisy: MSNBC Token RINO Joe Scarborough On Rick Perry, “He’s Not a Real Conservative”…
MSNBC’s Bumbling Buffoon Al Sharpton: Republican Candidates Like Pre-1960s Racist Segregationists…
MSNBC Anchor Was Sitting At Same Table As Rep. Carson When He Said Tea Partiers Want To Lynch Blacks. Never Reported It.
Hmmm, what could her motivations possibly be?
Our local weekly ‘shopper’ has a greater circulation then Newsweak… Is Controversy Selling for Tina Brown?
The most recent example of Brown’s attention-grabbing covers, the Aug. 15 issue featuring a glassy-eyed Michele Bachmann and the headline “The Queen of Rage,” generated a high degree of media interest, including much fulminating from the right, which saw the portrayal as an example of media bias against conservative women. After all the attention, 47,225 copies of the issue moved off the rack, according to Newsweek‘s own figures. (Three other industry sources with access to Newsweek’s numbers gave figures ranging from as few as 35,000 up to 48,000 copies.)
Stacy McCain, whose video was used for the above smear job is appropriately livid. Clicking on Stacy’s video, and it’s obvious that what Bachmann is saying to her drenched summer audience is “who likes wet people?” Clicking on the video at Wonkette (no link, but you can click through Stacy’s page if you’d like to see it) results in the video being marked “private,” and a blank screen. I wonder how long it will remain up? (Answer: until the letter from Stacy’s lawyer arrived, apparently.)
Kudos to Yahoo for being able to see through this hatchet job:
Bachmann made a campaign stop at the Midwest Spirit Christian Music Festival on Aug. 5 in West Des Moines to give a speech about her Christian faith. It was raining during her the appearance, so when Bachmann took the stage, she asked, “Who likes wet people?” referring to the still-damp masses who stuck around for her talk.
“Yeah, that’s right. Because we have the God of the winds and the rain don’t we?” she said immediately after–a key phrasing that was edited out of the shorter clip. “We serve a mighty God.”
And of course, this isn’t the first time that Layne attacked a prominent conservative woman, and in the process made a mockery of his 2001-era slogan, a frequent rallying cry for the Blogosphere in its then-nascent days. As I wrote in February of 2007, when Layne published a Photoshopped hit on Michelle Malkin…
Go get ‘em, Stacy! The only thing they are sorry about is that they got caught… Lowlife Who Pirated My Video Apologizes for Smearing Michele Bachmann
My attorney is considering what further action will be necessary, and I have contacted the Bachmann campaign. There are two injured parties, you see. This “On Knees” blogger’s claim that his misleading distortion of Bachmann’s speech was retaliation for her having signed the Iowa marriage pledge is rather interesting in terms of demonstrating malice. But Bachmann’s potential claim for libelous defamation is irrelevant to my potential claim of copyright infringement in having my video pirated for such a purpose.
Hollywood Lib George Clooney Gushes Over Obama: “He’s Smarter Than Almost Anyone You Know”…
Then again, Clooney rolls with the brain-dead lefty Hollywood crowd so pretty much anyone with an IQ over 50 is considered “smarter” than the people he knows.
Global Warmening:
Parts of Britain suffer coldest summer for nearly two decades
Has the AGW argument imploded?
Scientific concepts require reproducibility for credibility, although it’s certainly true that AGW has been a glaring exception to the scientific method. The first results of this research explain a lot of the failures of the AGW models, which relied on CO2 as a trigger for temperature increases with no correlation ever proven and no AGW climate model ever producing an accurate prediction. Let’s stick to actual science rather than blind devotion to faith, which is all that AGW advocates have now to keep going.
Climate Alarmists Attempted To Shut Down CERN Sun Science
The global warming establishment sprang into action, pressured the Western governments that control CERN, and almost immediately succeeded in suspending CLOUD. It took Mr. Kirkby almost a decade of negotiation with his superiors, and who knows how many compromises and unspoken commitments, to convince the CERN bureaucracy to allow the project to proceed. And years more to create the cloud chamber and convincingly validate the Danes’ groundbreaking theory.
So, when someone wanted to do actual hard scientific experiments, the alarmists did all they could to stop it. Furthermore, as the article points out, the big wigs at CERN want the scientists to keep all politics out of the findings, and censored much of the findings and muzzled the scientists.
Funny how the True Believers (who want Everyone Else to be forced to practice what they preach) who always say the Realists are “anti-science” are scared to allow actual science to be performed and published. And unable to offer cogent and coherent scientific rebuttals.
The Sock Drawer:
Archaeologists uncover amphitheatre used to train gladiators near Vienna
The ruins are a ‘sensational discovery’ with a structure to rival the Colosseum in Rome, archaeologists say
Naked bodypainted model is hauled to jail after Times Square spectacle
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