Showing posts with label executive order. Show all posts
Showing posts with label executive order. Show all posts

Thursday, March 6, 2014

March, 2014 - I Am A Global Warming Doubter And A Believer In Science, Part 1

On a regular basis we revisit a recurring theme in this blog, “I am a global warming doubter and a believer in science.” The genesis for this series was that I just got tired of people like Al Gore screaming and insulting people who may have a different take than theirs when it comes to global warming. That led to in-depth reviews and searches of scientific efforts and analyses to see if Al was right, namely that ALL scientists supported his theory of man made global warming.

Well, it did not take long to find that not ALL scientists believed in global warming., In fact, we found numerous SCIENTIFIC papers and analyses that were the polar opposite of Gore’s obnoxious rantings and proceeded to compile and discuss them on a regular basis. The last five part review started at the following link:


Also at that post you can directly access all of the previous posts where we show quite convincingly that Al may not even be close to being right on global warming, or its rebranded marketing name, climate change.

General findings from those previous discussion include the following facts and analyses:
  • The average temperatures around the world, according to government tracking, has been flat for about fifteen years now.
  • The ice caps have been growing in size over the past few years.
  • All of the climate change forecasting models that global warming advocates have produced have severely overestimated the anticipated increase in temperatures over the years, indicating that their models and assumptions are seriously flawed.
  • Different groups of global warming believing scientists were caught secretly discussing how to manipulate and hide their raw experimental data in their studies since it was not supporting their hypotheses and models of global warming.
  • Some scientists are actually forecasting a global cooling period in the near future, the exact opposite of what Al Gore is yelling about.
  • Depending on what and how carbon emissions are measured, the U.S. has reduced its carbon footprint over the past decade or so by anywhere from 10-20%, without massive government intervention, a reduction that dwarfs the reduction in carbon emissions of the rest of the world.
  • Even if the U.S. was to take drastic steps to reduce its carbon footprint, it would have virtually no impact on global warming, assuming it exists, since the carbon footprint of China, India, and other parts of the world is growing at a much faster rate, making any domestic only global warming action a hardship on Americans which would have minimal impact on the global environment.
  • The preeminent physic establishment in the world, the CERN Institute, showed a number of years ago via lab experiments that solar activity was the major factor in global warming historically, not man made activities.
  • In case global warming is actually a reality, we provided a strategy that could be deployed to keep everyone happy with a minimal cost and disruption to Americans’ lives and financial well being.
Since we published that last post, additional global warming news has occurred, news that we will review below:

1) We have pointed out this presentation before but every discussion about global warming should start out with this excellent analysis by physicist Gordon Fulks. Mr. Fulks meticulously goes through a mountain of data to prove that global warming, based on scientific research, is most likely be a myth. He uses real data and cites quotes from other scientists who are in agreement with his conclusions. A video of him presenting his findings and conclusions and an associated slide show of his presentation can be accessed at:


2) Early December, 2013 marked the five year anniversary of Al Gore making the following statement: 

“Some of the models suggest that there is a 75 percent chance that the entire north polar ice cap, during some of the summer months, could be completely ice-free within the next five to seven years.” 

Five years later, December 2013, we are faced with the following realities:
  • Both ice caps have been growing, not shrinking over the past few years.
  • A global warming advocate Chris Turney, a professor of climate change at Australia’s University of New South Wales, and his expedition that went up to South Pole late last year and got stuck when their ship was caught in ice, requiring extension rescue efforts to save the people from their iced in ship.
  • According to the Gateway Pundit website, which was discussing the Al Gore disappearing North Pole ice cap forecast on the five year anniversary, it snowed in Cairo exactly on the five year anniversary day, the first time that had happened it 100 years.
  • Shortly after the anniversary of his disappearing North Pole ice cap forecast, the northern part of the United States was launched into a prolonged and record setting wave of frigid temperatures nicknamed the Polar Vortex which had swung down form the still ice laden North Pole.
The video of Al Gore making what turns out to be a tremendously incorrect forecast can be viewed at:

Another global warming forecast that turned to to be so wrong.

3) Here is another video clip of interest from someone who obviously believes in the scientific method but who also is a global warming doubter:


This interview of a gentleman named John Coleman touches on many of the topics we have already discussed. The thing that makes Mr. Coleman important is that he is the founder of the Weather Channel so it is probably a safe assumption that he knows something about the weather and climate. The topics he touches on include the following:
  • The North Pole is reversing its shrinkage and has grown considerably over the past few years.
  • The average earth temperature has not increased in sixteen years.
  • He cites scientific, peer reviewed research showing that we may be on the cusp of a new ice age.
  • Global warming hysteria may actually be causing the loss of life around the world as government’s try to reduce carbon emissions by diluting gas with corn based ethanol, a move that raises the price of food around the world and causes the level and intensity of starvation to rise without having much of a net effect, if any, on the environment.
Mr. Coleman presents a rational, well presented anti-global warming case based on science and facts.

4) The Personal Liberty Digest on January 7, 2014 had an interesting picture that was reputedly taken in January, 1912, long before anyone on any side of the global warming argument state that temps were rising do to mankind’s behavior.













The picture was of Commonwealth Bay, Antarctica. It was taken in 1912 and as you can see, the bay is free of ice and you actually can see some non-snow covered terrain in the background.

This is apparently the same area where the recent global warming expedition’s ship that we discussed above, the Akademik Shokalskiy, and where it got stuck, dead in the water, where it got ensnared by ice. The article containing this picture contends that the whole continent’s ice has increased to its highest level in 35 years.

5) In late 2013, the Obama administration issued an executive order to better prepare the country for global warming impacts, including issuing the following warning:

“The impacts of climate change — including an increase in prolonged periods of excessively high temperatures, more heavy downpours, an increase in wildfires, more severe droughts, permafrost thawing, ocean acidification, and sea-level rise — are already affecting communities, natural resources, ecosystems, economies, and public health across the Nation. These impacts are often most significant for communities that already face economic or health-related challenges, and for species and habitats that are already facing other pressures…. Managing these risks requires deliberate preparation, close cooperation, and coordinated planning by the Federal Government, as well as by stakeholders, to facilitate Federal, State, local, tribal, private-sector, and nonprofit-sector efforts to improve climate preparedness and resilience; help safeguard our economy, infrastructure, environment, and natural resources; and provide for the continuity of executive department and agency operations, services, and programs.”

However, just like many other President Obama assertions, e.g. “if you like your insurance plan you can keep your insurance plan, “if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor,” and many other deceptions or lies, this executive order relies on a false premise: we are not witnessing “an increase in prolonged periods of excessively high temperatures.” Earth temperatures have not increased at all for at least the past fifteen years. 

This makes the premise and basis for this executive order totally bogus. But bogus is something we have learned to accept from this administration.

That will do it for today. We will finish our global warming doubter update series over the next few days. Our strategy and plan that should be implemented that makes humankind a winner whether or not global warming is a myth or reality can be accessed at:

http://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2012/06/retro-20-united-states-of-purple.html

In other words, there is a plan to cover all of the bases with minimal impacts on Americans, even if it does come from global warming doubters.

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It is also available online at Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Please pass our message of freedom onward. Let your friends and family know about our websites and blogs, ask your library to carry the book, and respect freedom for both yourselves and others everyday.

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Monday, December 31, 2012

Update: You Are Not Living In A Free Country... - The Desruction of Freedom and Liberty In the United States And How To Repair The Damage

As we start the new year, one would hope that we could look forward to better times and better lives. However, in the U.S. democracy, that might be a tall order, given the obscene growth and reach of the Federal government in this country and the politicians that operate it. We have previously discussed this erosion of freedom and the perverting of liberty principles in the following popular post:

http://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2012/11/the-freedom-pyramid-where-it-is-and.html

Given this review of how a democracy should work, read the following and then you decide if you think you are still living in a free country:

- You are not living in a free country if your retirement medical care, via Medicare, is dependent on the actions and whims of Federal government politicians.

- You are not living in a free country if a large percentage of your retirement cash flow, via Social Security, is dependent on the actions and whims of Federal government politicians.

- You are not living in a free country if your pre-retirement medical care, via the ramifications of Obama Care, is dependent on the actions and whims of Federal government politicians.

- You are not living in a free country if your ability to go to college, via student loans, is dependent on the actions and whims of Federal government politicians.

- You are not living in a free country if your ability to get a home mortgage, via Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, is dependent on the actions and whims of Federal government politicians.

- You are not living in a free country if almost a third of your annual earnings go to taxes to support all levels of wasteful inefficient, and criminally infested government programs and entities.

- You are not living in a free country if the Federal government’s executive branch can commit U.S. military resources and taxpayer wealth to foreign military actions (e.g. Libya, Yemen, Syria) without Congressional or Constitutional approval.

- You are not living in a free country if the Federal government’s executive branch can independently and arbitrarily designate any American for assassination and then actually commit that assassination without due process of law (e.g. Anwar al-Awlaki).

- You are not living in free country when the Federal government can hold a U.S. citizen in prison for an indefinite period of time without due process of law if that government arbitrarily defines that citizen as a potential threat to national security (National Defense Authorization Act - NDAA)

- You are not living in a free country when a President can seize control of all forms of communications when he alone decides it is in the national interest (Executive Order - Assignment of National Security and Emergency Preparedness Communications Functions)

- You are not living in a free country when the Federal government can collect and store every electronic communication any citizen makes (e.g. email, text messages) in massive data storage centers (e.g. Bluffdale, Utah) without due process, a warrant, or privacy protection.

- You are not living in a free country when the Federal government executive branch thinks it can affix a GPS tracking device to any citizen’s car without a warrant (see U.S. Vs. Jones decision).

- You are not living in a free country when the executive branch thinks it has the power to arbitrarily ignore judicial rulings and existing laws (e.g. Gulf Of Mexico drilling moratorium and DOMA).

- You are not living in a free country when government agents, via TSA, are allowed to grope and grab U.S. citizen’s body parts in the name of national security.

- You are not living in a free country if government and political class spending has rung up trillions of dollars of national debt that will eventually have to be paid by you, your children, and your grandchildren.

- You are not living in a free country if you privacy rights can be almost arbitrarily be violated by the Patriot Act.

- You are not living in a free country when crony capitalism wastes billions of taxpayer dollars every year without any redeeming societal benefits (e.g. Solyndra, Fisker, Telsa).

- You are not living in a free country if your political leaders hold you and your opinions in contempt:
  • House Speaker Nancy Pelosi - those Americans that opposed Obama's health care reform effort are un-American.
  • Congressman Charles Rangel - those Americans that opposed Obama's health care reform effort are like the racists that opposed the civil rights movements in the 1960s.
  • Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid - American tourists that come to D.C. in the summer physically smell.
  • Congressman Dick Grayson - those Americans with a different opinions from him are knuckle dragging Neanderthals.
  • House Speaker Nancy Pelosi - those Americans against the building of a mosque close to Ground Zero in New York City needed to be investigated.
  • Congresswoman Shelia Jackson Lee - Tea Party members used to wear Ku Klux Klan white sheets.
  • Congresswoman Maxine Walters - Tea Party advocates “can go to hell."
  • Czar Van Jones - those opposed to the President's policies are a_ _ h_ _ _ s.
- You are not living in a free country if the executive branch can circumvent Constitutionally mandated government appointment reviews via a "czar" politburo.

- You are not living in a free country when politicians can use billions of taxpayer dollars, via earmarks, to finance their perpetual re-election campaigns.

- You are not living in a free country where politicians decide what private companies live (e.g. Citigroup) and what private companies die (e.g. Lehman Brothers.)

- You are not living in a free country when those in office can maximize their re-election chances with favorable gerrymandering of Congressional districts.

- You are not living in a free country if your selection of a Presidential candidate for the Democratic Party via the primary and caucus system can be overturned by a small cadre of insiders in the upper echelon of the party called "super delegates."

- You are not living in a free country when sitting politicians can automatically grant themselves annual pay increases regardless of how poorly they led the nation during the past year.

- You are not living in a free country when sitting politicians cannot be removed from Congressional committee posts regardless of how poorly they performed their jobs on those committees (e.g. Intelligence committee members who did not foresee the 9-11 attacks, Finance committee members who did not foresee the coming of the "Great Recession", Interior Department committee members that did not properly oversee the BP oil rig inspection process, etc.)

- You are not living in a free country when any level of government can seize your property for a supposedly fair price and turn it over to developers for a private sector development project.

- You are not living in a free country when perceived and actual voter fraud casts significant doubt on whether or not your vote was counted fairly and if the true winner prevailed.

So let's review. Politicians control our pocketbooks, our health care, our retirement funding, who we vote for, invade our privacy, read our electronic communications, pontentially manipulate our voting results, violate our property rights, and control our ability to get a mortgage or student loan while calling us names if we dare to disagree with them. Hardly sounds like the traditional definition of a democracy to me.

The beauty of this system, that the political class has worked out for themselves, is that they are able to keep us fighting among ourselves. This diverts our attention to the fact that our freedom and liberty have slowly been stripped away. We have reached a point in this country that a great portion of our lives is no longer controlled by our brains, our energy, our freedom, and our initiative but by about 600 people sitting in Congress and the executive branch of the Federal government.

We vehemently, and fruitlessly, fight among ourselves over relatively trivial issues while the political class strips us of our wealth and our liberty without ever solving a major issue:
  • We are no closer to a rational drug policy in this country since Nixon declared War On Drugs in the 1960s, with this void allowing a narco state to develop just south of our border with Mexico.
  • We are no closer to a rational and coherent national energy policy despite the oil crises from the 1970s.
  • We are no closer to having world class public schools despite the warning of failing public schools from early in the Reagan administration and the expenditure of trillions of dollars since then.
  • We are no closer to having a coherent and effective immigration plan and strategy.
  • We are no closer to having an effective strategy for containing escalating health care costs.
  • We are no closer to having a sane, balanced budget process for the Federal government with the political class spending trillions of dollars more than they bring in in revenue.
We no longer live in a free country and we have allowed the politicians to do it to us. That is why it is so important to begin the cleansing process and the restoration of freedom with the implementation of the following steps, some of which were laid out in "Love My Country, Loathe My Government:"
  1. Step 1 - reduce Federal spending by 10% a year for five years in order to tame our out of control political class spending.
  2. Step 14 - implement specific and fair processes to eliminate the current gerrymandering process for Congressional districts.
  3. Step 17 - eliminate the "Super Delegate" process
  4. Step 19 - strengthen eminent domain laws to prevent the arbitrary confiscation of private property.
  5. Steps 20, 21, 22 - Make the following changes to the Patriot Act to protect the privacy of citizens: review every section of the Act to see if each part is still really needed for national security, make it illegal to intercept any form of communications of a citizen without a judge-approved warrant, notify any citizen if they have been investigated and cleared by any government agency investigation, and finally appoint the members to the oversight committee of the Act, a committee that has never been staffed.
  6. Step 28 - repeal Obama Care, an atrocity that imposes thousands of rules and dozens of taxes on the nation without solving the root causes of our escalating health care costs and replace it with a the process described in Step 28.
  7. Step 34 - implement a citizen approval process that would remove politicians from Congressional committees for gross dereliction of duty.
  8. Step 37 - eliminate the Congressional process that automatically grants an annual pay increase to Congressional members, replacing it with a citizen satisfaction based pay system.
  9. Step 39 - implement term limits for all Federal politicians in order to get some fresh thinking and problem solvers involved with the myriad issues facing America, "one and done."
  10. Disband the czar process and restore the Constitutionally mandated checks and balances of our government processes.
Time is running out to fix what the political class has destroyed in this country from a liberty, privacy, freedom, budget, economic, and Constitution perspective. We have allowed this situation to arise and we are the ones that need to fix it. Otherwise, some morning we will wake up and realize that fifty years ago, Nikita Khrushchev got it right when he said:

"You Americans are so gullible. No, you won't accept communism outright; but we'll keep feeding you small doses of Socialism until you will finally wake up and find that you already have communism. We won't have to fight you; we will so weaken your economy until you fall like overripe fruit into our hands." Nikita Khrushchev, 1962
Our book, "Love My Country, Loathe My Government - Fifty First Steps To Restoring Our Freedom And Destroying The American Political Class" is now available at:

www.loathemygovernment.com

It is also available online at Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Please pass our message of freedom onward. Let your friends and family know about our websites and blogs, ask your library to carry the book, and respect freedom for both yourselves and others everyday.

Please visit the following sites for freedom:

http://www.reason.com/
http://www.cato.org/
http://www.robertringer.com/
http://realpolichick.blogspot.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08j0sYUOb5w