Posted on 06/04/2006 5:26:04 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
Sunday, June 4th, 2006
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice; Sens. Jack Reed, D-R.I., and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del.; former U.N. chief weapons inspector Hans Blix.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Former Vice President Al Gore; author John Updike.
LATE EDITION (CNN) : Rice; Blix; Sens. George Allen, R-Va., and Carl Levin, D-Mich.
On January 1, 1991, Sweden enacted a carbon tax, placing a tax of .25 SEK/kg ($100 per ton) on the use of oil, coal, natural gas, liquefied petroleum gas, petrol, and aviation fuel used in domestic travel. Industrial users paid half the rate (between 1993 and 1997, 25% of the rate), and certain high-energy industries such as commercial horticulture, mining, manufacturing and the pulp and paper industry were fully exempted from these new taxes. In 1997 the rate was raised to .365 SEK/kg ($150 per ton) of CO2 released. Finland, the Netherlands, and Norway also introduced carbon taxes in the 1990s.
In 2005 New Zealand proposed a carbon tax, setting an emissions price of NZ$15 per tonne of CO2-equivalent. The planned tax was scheduled to take effect from April 2007, and applied across most economic sectors but allowed a standing exemption for methane emissions from farming and provisions for special exemptions from carbon intensive businesses if they agree to adopt world's-best-practice standards of emissions. After the 2005 election, the minor parties supporting the Government opposed the proposed tax, and it was abandoned in December 2005. The Government said the tax would not be effective at reducing carbon emissions.
As President of the United States, Bill Clinton proposed a BTU tax that was not adopted. In April 2005, Paul Anderson, CEO and Chairman of Duke Energy, called for the introduction of a carbon tax.
Oh, malia - I'd forgotten about Rockefeller going to Syria before the war. What a good memory and an excellent question. I hope someone is following up on that trip Rockefeller made to Syria and other countries before the war and warning them that our troops were coming.
Amazing we never hear Russert even MENTION that little tidbit.
Did they ask him why his data only goes back fourteen years and since that was the start of the Clinton/Gore administration -- what did they do during that time if global warming was such an emergency?
Wait til she 'moderates' a presidential debate...
#649, very thoughtful and thought provoking.
Can you imagine this carbon tax passing as long as Republicans control the House of Representatives?
Kyoto by another name remains a bad idea.....
Then there is the Kaparowits plateau that Clinton took out of the equation... not without a purpose. We are not paying high prices at the pump because of lack of resources, we are paying for stupid decisions from the left.
It's one of those things that makes me smile every day.
According to quick transcripts I've seen of your interview with Hans Blix you asked him "Did the WMDs go to surrounding countries." You then (according to these transcripts) accepted his comment "They were destroyed in 1991, that is what Saddams son-in-law has said, and I believe that is the truth." My question to you is are you aware of the following allegations from credible sources?
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When Hans Blix and others start talking about how the administration lied and there were no WMD in Iraq, remember this:
Last month Moshe Yaalon, who was Israel's top general at the time, said Iraq transported WMD to Syria six weeks before Operation Iraqi Freedom began.
Last March, John A. Shaw, a former U.S. deputy undersecretary of defense for international technology security, said Russian Spetsnaz units moved WMD to Syria and Lebanon's Bekaa Valley.
"While in Iraq I received information from several sources naming the exact Russian units, what they took and where they took both WMD materials and conventional explosives," Mr. Shaw told NewsMax reporter Charles Smith.
Retired Marine Lt. Gen. Michael DeLong was deputy commander of Central Command during Operation Iraqi Freedom. In September 2004, he told WABC radio that "I do know for a fact that some of those weapons went into Syria, Lebanon and Iran."
In January 2004, David Kay, the first head of the Iraq Survey Group which conducted the search for Saddam's WMD, told a British newspaper there was evidence unspecified materials had been moved to Syria from Iraq shortly before the war.
"We know from some of the interrogations of former Iraqi officials that a lot of material went to Syria before the war, including some components of Saddam's WMD program," Mr. Kay told the Sunday Telegraph.
Also that month, Nizar Nayuf, a Syrian journalist who defected to an undisclosed European country, told a Dutch newspaper he knew of three sites where Iraq's WMD was being kept. They were the town of al Baida near the city of Hama in northern Syria; the Syrian air force base near the village of Tal Snan, and the city of Sjinsar on the border with Lebanon.
In an addendum to his final report last April, Charles Duelfer, who succeeded David Kay as head of the Iraq Survey Group, said he couldn't rule out a transfer of WMD from Iraq to Syria.
"There was evidence of a discussion of possible WMD collaboration initiated by a Syrian security officer, and ISG received information about movement of material out of Iraq, including the possibility that WMD was involved. In the judgment of the working group, these reports were sufficiently credible to merit further investigation," Mr. Duelfer said.
In a briefing for reporters in October 2003, retired Air Force Lt. Gen. James Clapper Jr., who was head of the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency when the Iraq war began, said satellite imagery showed a heavy flow of traffic from Iraq into Syria just before the American invasion.
"I think the people below Saddam Hussein and his sons' level saw what was coming and decided the best thing to do was to destroy and disperse," Lt. Gen. Clapper said.
You haven't heard much about these reports, because they contradict the meme that Saddam either had no WMD, or destroyed it well before the Iraq war began.
A man who had been deputy chief of Saddam Hussein's air force claimed Iraq moved weapons of mass destruction into Syria before the war began.
Special Republican Guard brigades loaded yellow barrels with the skull and crossbones sign on each barrel onto two airliners from which the seats had been removed, Georges Sada said. There were 56 flights in all.
The captured files of the Iraqi intelligence service, still mostly untranslated, could shed light on what did happen to Saddam's WMD.
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These accounts may be "dismissable," but you don't have the right to dismiss them without examining them in the open and presenting your evidence that they are not correct. I give you credit for raising the question to Hans Blix. I question your impartiatiality and, in fact, your honesty, in that you didn't present any of this evidence when you allowed Blix to dismiss all of these claims so casually. That is not journalism, sir, that is propoganda.
Please prove me wrong. I'd really (really) enjoy it if you proved me wrong
No inclusion of your screen name (though the link provides that). We'll see if we get a response (I doubt it). And my invitation to "prove me wrong" is intended to get him to show me that he is not a left wing propogandist, not to discredit this post. I realized after sending the comment that it could be taken that way. Sorry.
There's a really good environmental story/link on the Corner right now....near the top. re: Skeptics society, with Michael Cricton, John Stossel and a bunch of oil and environment experts. Check it out. Discussions about oil and shale, etc.
It worked for them twice, why change playbooks??? If Perot hadn't run the second time, there is a good chance Dole would have won and Clinton would have been a one-term mistake.
Is the Karopowitz plateau the same as the Escalante Mounument?
I felt the same when I heard it, tx.
WADR (LOL), I don't think Dole had a chance. It was "his turn" so he was given the shot without any real feeling by GOP that he would be successful. I think the term is cannon fodder.
Okay, I have to admit to not reading about the California election law you are referring to...
Can you let me know what it is?
He may, indeed, run 3rd party because he is doing too much to tick off the GOP base to win the nomination.
Thank you....I was wondering if I was being too emotional about it or not.
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