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Barack Obama’s Priority: Global Poverty Act $845Billion Carbon Tax

Thu, 15 May 2008 01:26:01 GMT

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clipper's remarks: If that wasn’t enough to enlighten most of us to Barack Obama’s real agenda, let’s take a look at another part of the United Nations Millennium declaration,this time in reference to gun control.

It seems to me, his first priority is not the people of America, what we need is a President of the United States, one who will stand for the rights of our citizens, even if it is against the global interests of the United Nations.

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I am all for fighting poverty, but what I have found suggests they are willing to go beyond fighting poverty.

Senator Barack Obama is the main sponsor of Senate Bill S.2433, commonly called the Global Poverty Act. Sounds good, doesn’t it. Like I said, I am all for fighting poverty and I am sure most everyone else is, as well. What I am not for is putting the interests of the United States in second place in the fight on poverty. Let’s look at some of the provisions of this bill. The following statements come from Barack Obama’s Senate website.

The Global Poverty Act:

On the surface, this all sounds good. However, when you look at what the bill actually requires the United States to do to meet these requirements, it starts to smell like there is something rotten in Denmark

If you read the United Nations Millennium Declaration, you will find what they really want the United States to do. Again, from the Accuracy In Media article:

Tags: global poverty act, s.2433, obama, $845 billion global tax, united nations, kyoto, gun control

Radical Islam over-running the streets of London

Wed, 14 May 2008 10:20:09 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Shocking.Scary. Insane.

Watch the British Police be surrounded by a fundie-mental mob.

From comments:

In 2006, the UN issued Security Briefing #4776 in which it named Islam as the greatest obstacle to a global peace accord. In the report, they noted that "Islam seems incapable of separating itself from the severe abuse of women" and that Muslims "harbor an innate predisposition to extreme violence and close-minded prejudice.

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Tags: islam, insanity, britainistan in the making

Who Will Pay For The Politicians Promises?

Wed, 14 May 2008 09:48:30 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Because of onerous regulations, it has been 30-plus years since a new refinery has been built.

Similar regulations also explain why the U.S. nuclear energy production is a fraction of what it might be.

Congress' solution to our energy supply problems is not to relax supply restrictions, but to enact the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 that mandates that oil companies increase the amount of ethanol mixed with gasoline.

Anyone with an ounce of brains would have realized that diverting crops from food to fuel use would raise the prices of a host of corn-related foods, such as corn-fed meat and dairy products. Wheat and soybeans prices have also risen as a result of fewer acres being planted in favor of corn.

Congress' proposed "solutions" to the energy and food mess it has created include a windfall profits tax on oil companies, food stamps, etc. These measures will not solve the problem, but will create new problems.

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Most of the great problems we face are caused by politicians creating solutions to problems they created in the first place.

The Community Reinvestment Act encouraged banks and thrifts to make so-called "no doc" and "liar" loans to customers who had no realistic ability to pay them back. A decade of monetary expansion by the Federal Reserve Bank, contributing to the housing bubble, encouraged lending institutions to take risks they otherwise would not have taken.

Government actions created the subprime crisis, and now government-proposed "solutions," such as foreclosure holidays, bailouts and further regulation of financial institutions, to the problems they created will create more problems.

Congress, doing the bidding of environmental extremists, created our energy supply problem.

The Pacific and Atlantic Oceans and eastern Gulf of Mexico offshore areas have enormous reserves of oil and natural gas. These energy sources of oil have also been placed off-limits by Congress.

Tags: congress, sub-prime crisis, bailouts, regulation, financial institutions, energy, food costs

Too "Complex"?: Part II: Thomas Sowell

Wed, 14 May 2008 07:48:36 GMT

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clipper's remarks: --all the while lamenting the lack of affordable housing.

So long as politicians can get some people's votes by publicly feeling their pain when it comes to housing costs, and other people's votes by restricting the building of housing, they can have a winning coalition at election time, which is their bottom line.

Moral melodrama is where it's at, politically.

Too "Complex"? [Part I]
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2008/05/13/too_complex

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Supply and demand will never replace "need" and "greed" in political discussions of economic issues.

Voters don't want to hear about impersonal things like supply and demand. They want to hear about how their political heroes will stop the villains from "gouging" them or "exploiting" them with high prices.

A politician with good rhetorical skills can create a new Garden of Eden in people's minds, though only in their minds. However, that is sufficient, if that vision or illusion can be kept alive until election day, and its failure to materialize afterwards can be explained away by the obstruction of villains.

One of the many ironies of politics is that those politicians who do the most to reduce supply often express the greatest outrage about high prices.

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t is not at all uncommon for land to cost more than the housing that is built on it, in those places where politicians have made housing unaffordable with land use restrictions under pretty names--

Tags: economics, supply, demand, politicians, voters, "greed"

McCain's Hot Air: Chris Horner

Wed, 14 May 2008 07:19:37 GMT

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clipper's remarks: situation — and that his EPA will implement something faster than anything the EPA has ever done before. Which is another way of describing his vow today to give the economy up to two years to bring emissions back down to 2005 levels.

He says that the free-ride granted to most of the world proved the undoing of these “Protocols”. The fact that none of the parties which promised emission reductions have any clue how to actually reduce emissions, and therefore are not doing so, would seem to me to be a more central feature in Kyoto’s failure.

First, McCain’s conceit in this speech and in his global-warming views generally are impervious to changing evidence: the problem of man-made climate change is real, bad, and here now.

Second, McCain’s ultimate goal for “doing something” is, at best, unclear. He says “The goal in all of this is to assure an energy supply that is safe, secure, diverse, and domestic.”

It has failed in Europe. He tries to elide this fact, but fails.

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John McCain’s delivered a major global-warming speech this afternoon at a windmill factory in Oregon.[Amazingly, he goes to a windmill factory to say that “When we debate energy bills in Washington, it should be more than a competition among industries for special favors, subsidies, and tax breaks.” Is this remarkable cognitive dissonance, or is he saying we don’t need to have these poor windmill folks competing for their pork anymore? Weird.] Being neither in Oregon nor near a TV, I offer the following observations based on the speech’s prepared text, which I had the painful opportunity to read.

The problem is that the premise of McCain’s entire speech is that the rise in earthly temperatures is accelerating, as Al Gore and IPCC head R. K. Pachauri have both recently, if outrageously, repeated — which flies smack in the face of recorded observations.

McCain says he will begin legislating in what would be record time — particularly for energy taxes in the face of a teetering economic

Tags: mccain, global warming, speech, windmill factory, subsidies, tax breaks

Going After OPEC

Wed, 14 May 2008 06:52:10 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The real energy problem, in other words, isn't Big Oil; it's Big Government.

As with so many other things, President Reagan got it right when, not even a week after taking office in 1981, he signed Executive Order 12287 decontrolling the price of oil and gas. He then ordered his secretary of energy to focus on encouraging U.S. companies to find and produce more.

It worked like a charm, bringing oil prices down sharply and OPEC to its knees. By 1986, after a 74% drop in the price of oil, some even doubted OPEC could survive.

Such would-be monopolies look invincible when demand rises and prices follow. But when supply increases, prices fall and members start cheating, they look pathetic. This pretty much describes the history of OPEC.

Reagan's strategy of energy decontrol would work again today. But this time it's supplies, not prices, that need to be untethered.

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If Hillary is really serious about breaking OPEC, she should push something very un-Hillary-like: boosting energy supply by unleashing the very oil companies she now vilifies. They're America's secret weapon against the cartel.

That will hurt OPEC by breaking the back of higher oil prices through added supply. Flooding the market with cheaper oil is the only way to make OPEC squeal — not senseless lawsuits and WTO actions that would take years, if not decades, to get through our legal system.

As we've noted repeatedly, U.S. oil reserves offshore, in Alaska and locked up on federal lands in the Midwest are a potential bonanza. If President Bill Clinton in 1995 had approved drilling in Alaska's ANWR, instead of vetoing it, we'd have millions of barrels more of oil today. And, by the way, Hillary still opposes this.

Around the world, governments control about 80% of all energy reserves — that includes the U.S. And 12 of the 15 largest oil companies are government-owned.

Tags: opec, supply, market, offshore, alaska, federal lands

McCain’s Assault On Reason: Dr. Roy W. Spencer

Wed, 14 May 2008 05:36:52 GMT

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clipper's remarks: So, here we are with bad science ready to support bad policy decisions that will lead to bad economic times ahead, and no presidential candidate who is willing to ask the hard questions. While we hate to be pandered to by politicians, in this case I can only hope that they really are pandering — that this is hot air and not prospective policy.

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McCain has made it clear that the science really does not matter anyway because, even if humans are not to blame for global warming, stopping carbon-dioxide emissions is the right thing to do

But carbon dioxide is necessary for life on Earth, and I have a difficult time calling something so fundamentally important a “pollutant.” Maybe the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere is higher now than it has been in hundreds of thousands of years. So what? I am increasingly convinced that its influence on climate pales in comparison to the influence that natural climate events like El Niño and the Pacific Decadal Oscillation have on regional climate. Indeed, most of the warming we’ve seen in the last century might well be due to these natural modes of climate variability alone.

The trouble is that no one has been funded by the government to investigate such a possibility, and the mandate for the U.N.

(IPCC) is to address manmade climate change — not natural climate change.

Tags: mccain, co2, "pollutant", el nino, pacific decadal oscillation, natural cllimate change