Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 01/01/2010 7:24:19 AM PST by marktwain
Climate change was a hot issue in 2009 throughout all 12 months of the year. From the inauguration of a new U.S. president in January to an international climate change summit in December, climate and man’s possible impact on it was big news. No single event however could compare to the incident that rocked climate change science and spanned the globe on November 19th - the Climategate email scandal.
News first broke on blog site “The Air Vent” that thousands of emails and documents from Britain’s Climate Research Unit, University of East Anglia, had been leaked onto the Internet. From there word spread at light speed to other sites including Watts Up With That, Climate Audit, Climate Change Fraud, Climate Depot, and of course Examiner.com.
The contents contained messages to and from a veritable who’s who in climate change science. Michael Mann, Phil Jones, Kevin Trenberth, Ben Santer and many others saw their private correspondence exposed. The words the group spoke amongst each other proved to be shocking and led to charges of collusion, deception, destruction of data, modification of climate data, attempts to foil the release of public information and more.
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Should have been TIME’s “Man of the Year.”
6. Van Jones Resignation
Appointed the Green Jobs Czar by Obama, Van Jones came under attack (mostly by Glen Beck) for being an advocate for Marxism and signing a petition that suggested the US government was involved in the 9-11 terrorist’s attacks. After several weeks and numerous controversial tapes, Van Jones resigned at midnight on a Saturday. The mainstream media barely touched the story, which was only a blip on some of the Sunday news shows after his resignation.
5. ACORN Tapes
James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles, investigative journalists, posed as a pimp and a prostitute to see how ACORN will react. Even when explaining the prostitution will involve underage girls, ACORN staffers across the country don’t raise an eyebrow. Instead ACORN workers offered advice on what they can and can not say in order to obtain loans and skirt tax laws. Even as Congress was outraged and removed all funding for ACORN, it was not even on the mainstream media radar. The day after the vote in Congress, Charlie Gibson when asked about the tapes stated he hadn't heard about them. The mainstream media only starts to report on the story months later when ACORN is 'cleared' of engaging in illegal activity by a Congressional report headed by the ultra-liberal Congressman John Conyers.
4. Walpin Firing
After uncovering misuse of funds by former NBA star and Obama friend Kevin Johnson, AmeriCorps inspector general Gerald Walpin was fired by the White House before his final report could be made. The inspector general is a position that is supposed to be immune from political influence. A 2008 law that was co-sponsored by then Senator Obama prohibits such firing of an IG without giving a 30 day notice to Congress, but Walpin was fired on the spot. Obama’s explanation for violating his own law is that Walpin was ‘confused’ and ‘disorientated’ and questioned ‘his capacity to serve’. However the law is clear that such loss of confidence is insufficient justification for such firing, and in interviews Walpin clearly demonstrated the charges were baseless.
3. Climategate
Leaked emails from Climatic Research Unit revealed an apparent conspiracy to keep skeptics from getting published, keeping data and computer code secret, and manipulating the data to suit the global warming agenda. These embarrassing emails were released just weeks prior to the huge summit in Copenhagen in which a major international agreement on carbon caps was supposed to occur. Despite climate change being a major news topic, mainstream media in the US ignored the climategate story. Copenhagen ended up being a huge disappointment with only some non-binding caps on carbon emissions.
2. Obama’s Broken Promises Health Care.
Usually when a president breaks campaign promises, it is front-page newsworthy such as the read my lips promise made by G.H.W. Bush. But Obama has broken numerous campaign promises concerning health care and it is goes unreported by the lapdog media. Obama made campaign promises to call for open debates televised on C-Span, ending the influence of Big Pharma, having everyone at the table, rejecting the need for mandates, not raising taxes on anyone earning less than $250K (‘not one dime’), wanting a public option, and allowing the reimportation of prescription drugs.
Instead we have a bill which was debated behind closed doors with no republicans input. We have special interests like Big Pharma protected from cuts. We have individual mandates complete with fines and penalties. We have numerous fees and taxes everywhere, including silly things like a tanning tax affecting those at all income levels. The Senate bill contains no public option. Reimportation of drugs is not allowed. And millions of Americans will still not be covered. And somehow Obama can look straight in the camera and proclaim he got 95% of what he wanted in health care reform. This must be the same math he used in figuring he earned a B+ in his first year.
1. Tea-party Protests
First there was the town hall meeting where congressmen across the country received a much bigger earful than expected as the masses became upset over the runaway expansion of federal deficits and increasing reach of the federal government. Several congressmen even tried to bus in supporters in an unsuccessful attempt to shut down the voice of the people. Soon town hall meeting became a thing of the past and Congressmen bunkered up and became largely inaccessible to the general public. Ordinary citizens took the streets and the Tea Party movement was born. Millions of people across the country protested as the media did their best to belittle the movement by under estimating crowd sizes and highlighting only the most extreme aspect of the movement. The media even stooped to using derogatory language calling them tea-baggers and suggesting the movement was largely motivated by racism.
Holdover from last year....Obama's Birth Cerificate. The media still is covering for Obama here. The media still acts ignorant of the difference between a Certification and the actual Certificate. Did grandma record a birth certificate in Hawaii to cover for a foreign birth? We may never know until Obama is out of office.
When they should be busy cleaning up their own kitchens..
and scooping the dog poop in their own back yards..
Instead of lolly gagging about things they know nothing about..
And couldnt do anything about it if they did know..
I like that.
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When scientists are shown as manipulating data and the peer review process
in order to effect a political takeover of the world economy...
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But, but, the ends justify the means!
All the nice scientists wanted to do was to keep Canada from melting
(from the John Stossel “global-warming” expose)...
(/SARC)
thanks
If not the greatest, one of the greatest frauds ever perpetrated on humanity. Indict, investigate, incarcerate the frontman, Al “No Controlling Legal Authority” Gore.
They are no more scientists than the folks running Fannie and Freddie are bankers.
"But those are from winter! Its the summer where the real problem is! Why not show us some from July when all the ice is gone!"
"Ummmm...ughhhhh....Bastard"
"Hadley CRU has apparently been hacked –[epic fraud?]"
Click the picture:
And yes, it is a swindle- a fraud and a cheat and a scam-- a deliberately designed construct intended to con you out of things you hold dear-- money, and prosperity, and freedom... and a few other things, as well.
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