Message to Copenhagen

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Our Constitution Begins, "We the People..."

These are the opening lines of a message to the American delegates in Copenhagen and the rest of the world sent on behalf of the American people by American Solutions. They are meant as a reminder to both Obama Administration officials and international climate activists that under our constitutional system, the American people, not government bureaucrats, are sovereign.


And if you have any doubt that the delegates at Copenhagen need to hear this message, take a look at this:

This is a reference guide being handed out by one of the non-governmental organizations at Copenhagen to keep track of all the proposals to reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation. It's purposefully modeled after the Chinese mass murderer Mao Tse-Tung's "Little Red Book of Communism."

Can the profoundly undemocratic nature of this conference be any clearer?



Radical Environmentalism Is "The New Socialism"

Charles Krauthammer calls the shake down occurring in Copenhagen and the EPA's domestic power grab "the new socialism"

"Following the death of the old socialism with the Soviet empire, the cultural elites went straight from the memorial service for socialism to the altar of the environment. The objective is the same: highly centralized power given to the best and the brightest, the new class of experts and technocrats. This time, however, the alleged justification is saving the planet."

Substituting the Advice and Consent of the Senate with the Bureaucratic Power of the EPA

When he travels to Copenhagen this week, President Obama is reportedly going to pledge to reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by 17 percent by 2020.

The Obama Administration's various threats to act unilaterally - both in Copenhagen and at home via the EPA - to achieve this goal occur against the backdrop of this inescapable fact: The Senate, reflecting the will of the American people, refuses to pass the administration's job killing cap and trade legislation.

The result is that the administration is preparing to bypass the Senate with its announcement last week that the EPA will regulate carbon dioxide as a dangerous pollutant .

This would be a breathtakingly anti-democratic and unconstitutional arrogation of power on the part of the President.



And if the question is, "Will the new socialism succeed?" the answer is, "Not if the American people have anything to do with it." Today, the 236th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party, American Solutions is issuing a rallying cry to the American people.

Our message is that no imperial presidency, no totalitarian bureaucracy, and no global international elite can or will usurp the power of We the People.

The full text of our ad, which will appear in the daily newspaper of the Copenhagen conference tomorrow:

MESSAGE FROM AMERICA
TO THE AMERICAN DELEGATES IN COPENHAGEN
AND THE REST OF THE WORLD

In America, We Have a Constitution.
It Begins: "We the People"

Our Constitution Requires International Agreements to
Be Agreed Upon By our Senate

Our President Does Not Have Support in our Senate for
Binding Carbon Emissions Limits

Our Environmental Protection Agency Recently Asserted It Has the
Power to Impose Carbon Emissions Limits

Such Action would be Tantamount to our Executive Branch Taxing the American People without
Approval from the Elected Representatives in our Legislative Branch

That's Called "Taxation without Representation" and
We Will Not Stand for it

The American Revolution and a Famous Tea Party in
Boston in 1773 Was About Rejecting Taxation without Representation

We Reject Taxation without Representation even if it
is attempted by our President through an international "political" agreement like the Copenhagen 15

Through Our Election Process, our Presidents, Representatives, and Administrators Are
Accountable to the American People

Unlike Other Countries, We Do Not Have a Democracy Deficit

In America, Mesdames and Messieurs, We the People Govern

You can view a picture of the ad here .

Learn more at www.AmericanSolutions.com.

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[The character is Michael Mann, creator {in every sense of the word} of the now infamous hockey-stick global warming graph, and 'star' of M4GW's "Hide The Decline" video I posted in November...]

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Gore Refuses ClimateGate Questions, UN Official Disconnects Mic [again]

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United Nations security officials have once again prevented a journalist from asking attendees at the climate change conference in Copenhagen questions about the growing ClimateGate scandal.

This time, the person on the receiving end of the apparently forbidden queries was Nobel Laureate Al Gore.

Much as when Ireland's Phelim McAleer tried to ask Stanford professor Stephen Schneider questions Thursday about the controversial e-mail messages obtained from the British Climatic Research Unit last month, McAleer was similarly rebuffed by Gore and his entourage Monday.

Not only did the former Vice President completely refuse to answer questions about his blatant misrepresentations of the age of the most recent e-mail message obtained from Britain's CRU, a U.N. security official actually disconnected McAleer's microphone to make sure any answers would be unrecorded (video embedded below the fold, h/t Climate Depot):

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WH 'Command and Control' EPA Threat Confirms C of C Head's Prediction, Gets Almost No Establishment Media Coverage

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Has anyone else noticed how chilling it has been during the past few days? Not chilly (though it's been that too). Chilling.

On Monday, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency declared, in the Associated Press's words, that "greenhouse gas emissions are a danger and must be regulated."

The AP, in the item just linked, and many other news outlets carried U.S. Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Thomas J. Donahue's warning that regulations based on EPA's declaration could lead to

"a top-down command-and-control regime that will choke off growth by adding new mandates to virtually every major construction and renovation project."

Two days later, in an item carried at FoxNews.com that says it was the result of contributions by Fox's Major Garrett and the AP, a White House official confirmed the legitimacy of Donahue's stated fear (bolds are mine):

"The Obama administration is warning Congress that if it doesn't move to regulate greenhouse gases, the Environmental Protection Agency will take a "command-and-control" role over the process in a way that could hurt business."

It seems to me that an administration threatening "command and control," with its echoes of authoritarian regimes throughout history -- an approach that an opponent predicted would occur, and which has now been promised -- might be, well, I don't know, news at establishment media outlets other than Fox.

But, with rare exceptions, it's not.


Oh, and I almost forgot to note that an APB has gone out on the far left for any and all information that might discredit the Chamber's Donahue.

It's going to take more than adding another sweater to do something about this government-driven, media-complicit chill.

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We are in big trouble

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Our country is in big trouble ... huge trouble. It is time that Americans took a hard look at our values, our conception of justice, and our standards for truth. This piece is intended as a first step in that direction.

The story of Tiger Woods and his (now admitted) "infidelity" is everywhere. The Woods' story has piqued the prurient interests of America and the world. The story has dominated the mainstream media for days while the injustice being committed against our Navy Seals and the revelation of the computer code from the CRU (exposing the biggest hoax in the history of the world) have gotten scant attention... [snip]

The mainstream media has downplayed the significance of the CRU documents. The headline of a recent AP story proclaims that the science from the CRU was not faked. Really? As (among others) Marc Sheppard, Lord Monckton, and I have proven the CRU findings most certainly were doctored. The raw date was manipulated to "prove" that the world is exponentially warming. There is no doubt about this.

And still, the mainstream media has not challenged Al Gore on the blatant absurdity of his claim that the documents were at least ten years old and have no real impact on the AGW debate. CNN did ask him to recite his new poem on the impending doom of mother earth. See that video here. (But not if you have recently eaten a meal. You could lose it.)

John 8:32 states the following:

Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.

The corollary of this brilliant piece of scripture should also be written. It would go something like this:

If you ignore the lies, the lies will imprison you.

Wake up America. The time for the truth to set us free is growing very, very short

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EPA CAUSES COAL COMPANY TO LAY OFF NEARLY 500 MINERS

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A Pittsburgh-based coal company, CONSOL Energy, will lay off nearly 500 of its West Virginia workers next year. CONSOL Energy's political problems are not unique to the mining industry, which has suffered under the Obama Administration:

• The Environmental Protection Agency is already holding 79 surface mining permits in West Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio and Tennessee.
• The EPA says these permits could violate the Clean Water Act and warrant "enhanced" review.
• The agency went even further in October, announcing plans to revoke a permit for the Spruce No. 1 Mine in West Virginia.

CEO Nicholas J. DeIuliis said the poor economy compounded by legal challenges by environmental activists forced CONSOL to slash jobs:

• It is challenging enough to operate CONSOL'S coal and gas assets in the current economic downturn without having to contend with a constant stream of activism in rehashing and reinterpreting permit applications that have already been approved or in the inequitable oversight of our operations.
• Customers will grow reluctant to deal with energy producers they perceive are unable to guarantee a reliable supply due to regulatory uncertainty; this inhibits the ability to remain competitive.

[The real agenda > ]

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[I.e., the increasing reliance on foreign real* energy on the left continues to grow despite assuming our increased use of coal on the right. But Obama and company want to drive any/all coal production into bankruptcy {his words, not mine}.

What then our 'independence' ?]
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Not So Private Property?: Clean Water Restoration Act Raises Fears of Land Grab

[OR: The next step...]

Upwards of 40 percent of all land in the United States is already under some form of government control or ownership -- 800 million to 900 million acres out of America's total 2.2 billion acres.

The government now appears poised to wield greater control over private property on a number of fronts...

[It's "clean air act", under which we're to be subjected to the regulation of CO2 as a pollutant, all over again.

Will we never learn.]

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Obama’s Assault on Economic Freedom

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Yesterday, President Obama’s two principal economic advisors -- National Economic Council Director Larry Summers and Council of Economic Advisors chair Christina Roemer -- gave us a glimpse into the continued tumult in the White House’s over how to restart America’s economic engines.

Announcing its newest economic intervention, EPA administrator Lisa Jackson threatened Congress that if it didn’t pass the “cap and trade” global warming tax, “... the EPA is going to have to regulate in this area." She said EPA “…is not going to be able to regulate on a market-based way, so it's going to have to regulate in a command-and-control way, which will probably generate even more uncertainty." And infringe even more on economic freedom.

Last week, in his “jobs” speech, Obama said, “There are those who claim we have to choose between paying down our deficits on the one hand, and investing in job creation and economic growth on the other -- but this is a false choice."

He is precisely wrong.

The more the government grabs and spends, the less chance there is that jobs will be created....

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POLL: 76% Prefer Free Market Economy

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Support for a free market economy remains strong despite the extended recession and last fall’s Wall Street meltdown.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 76% of voters now say a free market economy is better than one managed by the government. Only 10% prefer an economy managed by the government.

And those figures are virtually identical to the numbers from a year ago.

Seventy-four percent (74%) of Republicans and a plurality (45%) voters not affiliated with either major party, think there are too many market restrictions.

Fifty-four (54%) of Democratic voters take the opposite view and say there feel there are not enough restrictions on the free market.

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POLL: Plurality Rate Obama’s Economic Performance As Poor

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Forty-five percent (45%) of U.S. voters now give President Obama poor marks for his handling of the economy, the highest level of disapproval this year.

Only once all year have fewer people said the president was doing a good or an excellent job. That came in late September when just 38% offered such positive reviews.

The latest survey was taken Monday and Tuesday nights. On Tuesday, officials from the Federal Reserve Board publicly forecast that the U.S. unemployment rate could remain at these high levels even beyond next year.

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[It's the policies, stupid.]

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Reality Check...

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"I think George W. Bush has a warm, engaging personality. But, you know, the presidency is more than just a popularity contest." Al Gore

Source: The Wall Street Journal, June 2008.



President Obama's job approval rating his first day in office, January 21, 2009: 65%.

On December 11, 2009: 47%.

Number of those polled who strongly disapproved of Obama his first day in office: 16%.

On December 11, 2009: 39%.

Source: Rasmussen Reports.

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Comic Relief...

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The NY Times Laments Media Bias -- at the Wall Street Journal

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WSJ editor swings back at NYT; Keller responds

Robert Thomson, editor-in-chief of the Wall Street Journal, responded to David Carr's column today that described how he and deputy Gerard Baker are pushing Washington coverage to the right.

The news column by a Mr David Carr today is yet more evidence that The New York Times is uncomfortable about the rise of an increasingly successful rival while its own circulation and credibility are in retreat...

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