UN 'peacekeepers' hurl pepper spray at Haitians and call them 'animals'

• The Times of London reports:

"Machete fights have been reported as families argue over who should have access to the desperately limited supply of tents. Yesterday UN peacekeepers were forced to

• use pepper spray and rubber bullets as a food hand-out at one of the biggest homeless encampments in the centre of Port-au-Prince was over-run by thousands of starving people.

"Whatever we do, it doesn't matter - they are animals," said one of the 18 Uruguayan peacekeepers in front of the collapsed National Palace, struggling to hold back the 4,000-strong crowd with a plastic shield.

• As some of the troops fired pepper spray, others standing on top of a UN tank fired rubber bullets into the air, all but ignored by the people striving to get at the food supplies."...

1/26/10, TimesOnlineUK, "Desperate Haitians over-run UN food hand out," photo getty, UN peacekeepers arrest Haitian man. The UN as usual is completely useless at best.

Obama endorsed UN Climate Report used student and climbing magazine, Obama accepted as basis to punish and tax US

• This is not about the environment. It is obviously about organized crime. When will Obama apologize to the American people and renounce any plan to regulate carbon? And drop the joke that it's about 'national security'? If he wants to publicly scold and threaten the Supreme Court about something, why not their 5-4 decision on CO2?
  

"In its (the UN IPCC's) most recent report, it stated that observed reductions in mountain ice in

• the Andes, Alps and Africa was being caused by global warming, citing two papers as the source of the information.

However, it can be revealed that one of the sources quoted was a feature article published in a popular magazine for climbers which was based on anecdotal evidence from mountaineers about the changes they were witnessing on the mountainsides around them.

• The other was a dissertation written by a geography student, studying for the equivalent of a master's degree, at the University of Berne in Switzerland that quoted interviews with mountain guides in the Alps.

The revelations, uncovered by The Sunday Telegraph, have raised fresh questions about the quality of the information contained in the report, which was published in 2007."...

• "UN Climate Change Panel based claims on student dissertation and magazine article," UK Telegraph, 1/30/10, by Richard Gray. via Tom Nelson
  

Obama terror trials threaten entire city of New York--NYC Police Commissioner

SICK: NY Times says NYC Mayor Bloomberg desire trials be elsewhere "a political blow" to Obama.

• "“We were not consulted,”

(NY City Police Commissioner Ray) Kelly said tersely of the decision. He stated that the trial

• “will raise the threat level of this city,” a threat that “will not fade any time soon.”

• 

And it affects more than lower Manhattan, we learned. “We will have to look at the entire city as a potential target.”"...

• from Loud Citizen, 1/23/10, via Lucianne.com

photos of September 11, 2001 in New York City, ap or falling man

The battle of our time: the public sector is overwhelming the private sector-Henninger

• 1/21: "The central battle in our time is over political primacy.

It is a competition between the public sector and the private sector over who defines the work and the institutions

• that make a nation thrive and grow.

In 1962, President John F. Kennedy planted the seeds that grew the modern Democratic Party. That year, JFK signed executive order 10988 allowing the unionization of the federal work force.

• This changed everything in the American political system. Kennedy's order swung open the door for the inexorable rise of a unionized public work force in many states and cities.

This in turn led to the fantastic growth in membership of the public employee unions—The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and the teachers' National Education Association.

• They broke the public's bank. More than that,
  

they entrenched a system of taking money from members' dues and spending it on political campaigns. Over time, this transformed the Democratic Party into a public-sector dependency.

• They became different than the party of FDR, Truman, Meany and Reuther. That party was allied with the fading industrial unions, which in turn
  
• were tethered to a real world of profit and loss.

The states in the North and on the coasts turned blue because blue is the color of the public-sector unions. This tax-and-spend milieu became the training ground for their politicians.

• Until the Obama exception, the only recent Democrats electable into the presidency had to be centrist Southerners little known to the country. Every post-Kennedy liberal who tried, failed, including Teddy.

What an irony it is that in the same week the Kennedy labor legacy hit the wall in Massachusetts, the NEA approved a $1 million donation from the union's contingency fund to the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate.

• It is this Kennedy legacy, the public union tax and spend machine, that drove blue
  
• Massachusetts into revolt Tuesday.
  

Yes, health care was ground zero, but Massachusetts—like New Jersey, like California, like New York—has been building toward this explosion for years....

• But here's the party's self-destroying kicker: Feeding the public unions' wage demands starved other government responsibilities.
  
• It ruined our ability to have a useful debate about any other public functions.

Massachusetts' spending fell for mental health, the environment, housing and higher education.

• The physical infrastructure in blue states is literally falling apart.
  

• But look at those public wage and pension-related outlays. Ever upward.

Enter the Obama administration, the first one born and raised inside this public bubble, with zero private-sector Cabinet members.

• Act one: a $787 billion stimulus bill, which they brag mainly saved state and local jobs. Then came the six-month odyssey for Obama's $1 trillion health-care bill,
  
• dripping with taxes.
  
• Independent voters felt like everything was being sucked into a public-sector vortex.

This is why New Jersey's Chris Christie won running on nothing.

• It's why in California Carly Fiorina is within three points of Sen. Barbara Boxer. It's why the party JFK enabled, "the machine," is hitting the wall.
  

There's no way out for these Democrats. They made a Faustian bargain 40 years ago with the public unions. For the outlays alone, they'll get some version of the Obama health-care bill. They'll also go to the same old "populist anger" well.

• Scott Brown's victory has given the GOP a rare, narrow chance to align itself with an electorate that understands its anger.
  

Now the GOP has to find a way to disconnect from a political legacy that smothered governments at all levels

• and is now smothering the Democratic Party."

FromWall St Journal article by Daniel Henninger, "The Fall of the House of Kennedy," 1/21/10

Now Bernanke...WSJ notes "populist surge on the hill"

• Bernanke, keyholder of private slush fund of stolen taxpayer money, the Federal Reserve, may be subject to what they are calling
  
• 'populism' ...
  
• Well, actually, it's what happened in Massachusetts, they say...
  

"Until this week, Mr. Bernanke was expected to be bloodied, but get the needed votes.

• Then at a closed-door caucus of Democratic senators on Wednesday,

the day after Democrat Martha Coakley lost to Republican Scott Brown

• in Massachusetts,

• a show of hands revealed significant opposition."...

from Wall St. Journal, "Populist Surge on Hill eases the support for Bernanke," 1/22/10

• It's funny that elected republicans think Scott Brown's victory had anything to do with them. It was very much in spite of them that Scott Brown was elected.
  
• If democrats want to make correct decisions for any reason and use Scott Brown as an excuse for doing so, even subconsciously,
  
• that's fine. ed.
  

"Obama Loses Kennedy's Seat" Sydney Morning Herald

"'Tsunami' in US politics: Obama Loses Kennedy's Seat,"
Sydney Morning Herald (Australia) 1/20/10, photo from
Sydney Morning Herald

• P.S. Despite Mitt Romney taking bows last night, giving the appearance he had much to do with Scott Brown's victory, local reporters say he had next to nothing to do with it.

They say credit belongs to Tea Partiers who came from near and far. From listening to WRKO radio the past few days, I learned Scott Brown is also a talk radio fan, has called into Howie Carr's show for a few years. Carr's show is heard on stations around Massachusetts. Many people obviously got to know Brown through his exchanges with Carr and listeners. I heard many callers to Carr's show who have followed Brown, and

• not one mentioned Romney's name.

I listened to another Boston talk show on Sunday, and Romney never came up except in one instance. Which was to say ugh, and change the subject. I mention all this because the national GOP apparently has decided Romney is their next presidential candidate. Whatever Romney once was or was thought to be, that person is gone.

• The people in Massachusetts who know him best consider his case well closed.

Note to the GOP-Brown's win was only possible because the republican party does not exist in Massachusetts. Half the voters there identify as independent.


photo from Globe & Mail

JFK pushed for income tax cuts to spur economy.

via mention of Massachusetts caller to Michael Savage radio show, 1/19/10

'David vs Goliath' Boston Herald

Boston Herald front page, 1/19/10, via Gateway Pundit via Legal Insurrection

Scott Brown-Tax dollars to defend us against terrorists, not to enrich terrorist defense lawyers

"As an attorney, I believe that our Constitution and laws exist to protect this nation – they

• do not grant rights and privileges to enemies in wartime. In dealing with terrorists,

• our tax dollars should pay for weapons to stop them,

not lawyers to defend them."...Scott Brown for Massachusetts Senator, 1/17/10

NY Times, 'Some terrorists are bound to get through,' just be mature and accept what Obama's doing

"Indeed, the big liberal newspapers saw any criticism of Obama’s performance as evidence of the

• stupidity of the public.

New York Times columnist David Brooks, whose views towards Obama verge on worship, said in a January 1 column that

• “In a mature nation, President Obama could go on TV and say, ‘Listen, we’re doing the best we can, but
  

• some terrorists are bound to get through’.”...1/17/10, UK Telegraph, James Corum
  

Vote Scott Brown

photo via Gateway Pundit via Glenn Reynolds, 1/17/10

Obama Transporation favorite Southers says "most of the domestic groups"...

That concern him are everything but Islamic radicals. Erroll Southers should be EXCLUDED FROM ANY PUBLIC POSITION. Obama was supposed to be so much better and smarter than the others...

• Another plane was disrupted in the past week--it's practically an everyday happening under Obama--who was supposed to be so special this would never happen again. One of the 'alleged:'

SF Gate, 1/11: "An allegedly drunken, belligerent passenger who authorities say locked himself in a bathroom on a San Francisco-bound plane - prompting the military to scramble fighter jets - was charged Monday in federal court with disrupting the flight

• and forcing an unscheduled landing.

• Muhammad Abu Tahir, 47, of Glen Allen, Va., was arrested Friday after the AirTran Airways flight landed in Colorado Springs."...***

"The bipartisan 9/11 Commission unanimously recommended in its report that

• officials go beyond using the term “terrorism” and

• used the term “Islamic terrorism.”

Using the term “terrorism” without the essential modifier “Islamic” confuses the strategy necessary for an effective response, the commission said.

• The threat America faces is not from “some generic evil” labeled “terrorism.” The threat, the panel emphasized, is
  
• “posed by Islamic terrorism.”"*****

Less than a week after the Christmas Day bomber, a group of 4 Saudis disrupted a flight from Amsterdam to New York. No one talks about it. reported 1/12/10, Fox2 Detroit, "Unruly passengers disrupt Northwest flight 243"

Sarah Palin signs multi year deal with Fox News

"Palin will appear on Fox on a regular basis as a part of a multi-year deal. (Fox, like MarketWatch, is owned by News Corp).

• Palin will not be getting her own show, the Times said, citing a person familiar with the deal, but could wind up hosting an occasional series."...

Government and media seek another sub prime scandal. More 'overwhelm the system'--we haven't even survived the first sub prime crime

• 
  
• A reason the completely avoidable sub prime scandal happened the first time and why it's happening again.Classic: Dress everything up to look like it's only a matter of tolerance and compassion.
  

"Religious organizations’ foreclosure activism may be built on a moral foundation, but it is buoyed by a federal government that appears receptive to taking their opinions seriously, said Richard L. Wood, a sociology professor and former director of religious studies at the University of New Mexico.

• “The Obama administration has signaled they want to work with these kinds of groups,’’ Wood said. “The faith-based organizing world has gotten more and more sophisticated.’’"...

"Putting their faith into the foreclosure fight," from the Boston Globe, 1/11/10, photo from Boston Globe

• A five year old child could tell you-If you can't afford something, don't buy it. In all cases, have at least a year's living expenses saved before you buy a house. Today, government and media are joined against the people, twisting the home buyer issue into something it is not.
  

TO CONTINUE TO SELL THIS IDEA AFTER WE HAVE ALREADY LOST UP TO 60% OF OUR HOME VALUES AND SAVINGS BECAUSE OF IT IS CRIMINAL. Of course, not all of us have lost. Billionaires like Soros have gotten even richer.

• OVERWHELM THE SYSTEM-Cloward-Piven
  

12 year cooling trend now -11.03 F.

• 
  
• As of 12/31/09: "Source here (NOAA). Overall decade-long global cooling trend has not abated.

Both the U.S. and the world are definitely not experiencing global warming, in any sense of the concept.

• The case for AGW is without merit as temperatures have done

• exactly the opposite of what IPCC experts and climate models
  
• predicted a decade ago."...

C3, via Tom Nelson

Broke NY City says Sept. 11 trials will cost over $200 million a year

• The idea is to 'overwhelm the system.' It is already essentially bankrupt with worse to come. The Cloward-Piven followers in the White House find this the easiest work they've ever done. The messy part was done before they got there by Bush, Clinton and congress. So they sit and wait, spending lavishly on themselves...
  

(Reuters) – 1/6: "New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Wednesday said the costs of hosting the federal trials of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other suspected September 11 plotters would top $200 million annually and formally requested that Washington cover the costs.

• "New York's financial resources are in short supply, and we have been forced to reduce our Police Department's headcount," Bloomberg wrote in a letter to White House Budget Director Peter Orszag dated January 5 and released to media on Wednesday.

"Securing the trial will require us to pull existing personnel from crime prevention efforts around the city and require significant overtime expenses," the mayor wrote.

• "As 9/11 was an attack on the entire nation, we need the federal government to shoulder the significant costs we will incur and ease this burden."

Bloomberg estimated the cost for security would be $216 million for the first year and $206 million annually thereafter."...

• "New York Seeks $200 million yearly for Sept. 11 trial," by Basil Katz******

"...The "Cloward-Piven Strategy" seeks to hasten the fall of capitalism by

• overloading the government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands,

• thus pushing society into crisis and economic collapse."...

"I decided to wreck it because it's wreckable." Gordon Gecko. Yahoo report via Lucianne.com

Shake-down: Al Gore wins select private 'climate' industry access to CIA reports

CIA Director Panetta meets with climate guys, agrees weather changes "crucial" to national security-NY Times

• The CIA finally to be used against our greatest national threat: the American citizen and natural weather variations (via the trillion dollar man-made global warming fraud). Selected members of private industry will be invited to see taxpayer funded research...Tea and crumpets, Soros? Billions of dollars in profit are expected to be realized per the NY Times).
  

1/5/10, NY Times: "The Obama administration has said little about the effort publicly but has backed it internally, officials said. In November, the scientists met with Leon E. Panetta, the C.I.A. director.

• “Director Panetta believes it is crucial to examine the potential national security implications of phenomena such as desertification, rising sea levels and population shifts,” Paula Weiss, an agency spokeswoman, said....

"The trove of images is “really useful,” said Norbert Untersteiner, a professor at the University of Washington who specializes in polar ice and

• is a member of the team of spies and scientists behind the effort. ...

“That will be very important economically and logistically,” Dr. Untersteiner said, arguing that Arctic thaws will open new fisheries and sea lanes for shipping and spur the hunt for

• undersea oil and gas worth hundreds of billions of dollars."...

According to Obama's behavior to date in oil and gas, the rights for any discoveries will never be given to US citizens. They will directly or indirectly go to Soros. (ed.)

• (NY Times, continuing: "About 60 scientists — mainly from academia but including some from
  
• 
  
• industry and federal agencies — run the effort’s
• 
  
• scientific side."...

The NY Times does not wonder at all about whom in private industry has been award such a lucrative opportunity via US taxpayers.

• NY Times continuing: "Officials said the effort to restart the program originated on Capitol Hill in 2008

• after former Vice President Al Gore argued for its importance."...

Of course a so-called "climate scientist" may not be trained in climate science at all. Famous recipients of the label include NRDC's Allen Hershkowitz (poli sci and econ degrees), and millionaire UN hustler Pachauri (advanced degrees in econ and industrial engineering).

• Reference: NY Times article by William J. Broad, "CIA revives data-sharing program with environmental scientists"

CIA suicide slaughter: Worst Security Lapse in US History-Taliban working on video

• AGENTS WORKING OUT IN GYM WHEN BLOWN UP--multiple sources

Al Qaeda: CIA MURDERS WERE RETALIATION FOR RECENT OBAMA DRONE ATTACKS. AFP: "AFP) – 5 hours ago KABUL — Al-Qaeda said the suicide bombing of a CIA base in Afghanistan that killed seven agents last week was

• "revenge" for the deaths of top militants in US drone strikes in Pakistan, the US monitoring group SITE said on Thursday." via Drudge Report
  

12/31/09: "The victims were working out Wednesday evening when the bomber stepped into the outpost’s gym and triggered his explosive vest, the Taliban and U.S. military officials said Thursday....

Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said in a statement that an Afghan National Army officer wearing a suicide vest entered the base and blew himself up inside the gym. A U.S. official briefed on the blast also said it took place in the gym."...
Star-Telegram, wire reports, "CIA had hoped to use suicide bomber as an informant, former officials say"

• Even Newsweek is heading for the exits. "A Huge Screw Up"

• TALIBAN WORKING ON VIDEO AS PROOF THEY FOOLED OBAMA.
  

• (It was Bush's fault of course even though in 1993 when Al Qaeda first bombed the World Trade Center he was in the baseball business).

Newsweek:"The suicide bomber who penetrated a CIA base in Afghanistan last week and killed seven officers was not just any Al Qaeda double agent: He may have been a well known Al Qaeda blogger who boasted of his

• “love of jihad and martyrdom” in a Taliban web magazine just a few months ago.

The new details emerging Monday about the Al Qaeda background of the attacker have stunned former agency officials and intelligence experts and raised the possibility of a major security lapse that permitted the bomber access to the base.

• It’s a huge screw-up,” said one former senior CIA official who had worked with some of the CIA officers killed in the attack.
  
• “The question is, why did they think they could trust this guy? What was the level of confidence that would allow somebody like this access to a place
  
• where there were this many officers?”

Initial reports last week identified the suicide bomber who blew up the CIA team based in Khost, Afghanistan as a member of the Afghan National Army. That appeared to explain how the attacker was able to get inside the base without being closely searched.

• But NBC News and other outlets on Monday identified the bomber as a Jordanian physician who was working for Jordanian intelligence while secretly serving as an Al Qaeda double agent. After being arrested by the Jordanians over a year ago, the physician, identified as Human Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi,
  
• had reportedly promised Jordanian intelligence and the CIA that he would help U.S. officers find Ayman Al Zawahiri, Al Qaeda’s number two. (Among those killed in last week’s attack was a senior Jordanian intelligence officer who is a cousin of Jordan's King Abdullah.

Al Jazeera’s Arabic language website, citing unidentified sources as well as a Taliban spokesman, added what may be the most surprising wrinkle of all to the story: the Jordanian doctor is the same person known as “Abu Dujanah al-Khurasani”—a frequent contributor to jihadi websites who once served as the administrator for the Al Hesbah Forum, a major Al Qaeda website.

• The al Jazeera story quotes the Taliban spokesman as saying that the blogger was able to “mislead U.S. and Jordanian intelligence for a whole year,” adding that
  

• the Taliban plans to release a video soon to confirm its account.

There is no way to independently confirm that Balawi and “Abu Dujinah” is the same person. But Evan Kohlmann, a U.S. government consultant who monitors jihadi web forums, said that many of the details emerging about Balawi – including his age and background — seem to match comments that Abu Dujinah has made on various web postings....

The former CIA official – who requested anonymity because of the ongoing probe into the attack—said that even if some people at the CIA believed that the Jordanian jihadi could lead them to Zawahiri,

• it was puzzling that he would have had access to a base with multiple officers.

• “You never trust a person like that,” the former official said.

“This is something that is unprecedented,” said Ali Al-Ahmed, president of the Institute of Gulf Affairs, a Washington think tank that monitors Persian Gulf developments. “This is the first time a terrorist has managed to infiltrate the CIA and carry out an attack.”" by Isakoff and Hosenball

***********

UK Telegraph: "The bomber, Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi, was a 36-year old doctor from Zarqa, Jordan, the home town of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the late head of al-Qaeda in Iraq, accordign to a report on NBC News.

• Balawi was arrested over a year ago by Jordanian intelligence for suspected terror activities, but was thought to have been turned to support US and Jordanian efforts against al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

He detonated a suicide bomb that killed the seven CIA employees - four officers and three contracted security guards - and a Jordanian intelligence officer, Ali bin Zaid, who was a member of the country's royal family.

• Some of the officers had flown in to Camp Chapman near Khost from Kabul for what was billed as an important meeting that could yield information on the whereabouts of Ayman al-Zawahiri, deputy to Osama bin Laden.

The base coordinates CIA operations and intelligence gathering in Khost, a hotbed of insurgent activity that borders Pakistan's lawless tribal areas, former CIA officials said.

• NBC said the head of the CIA operation in Khost was among the dead. It was one of the darkest days in the agency's 62-year history. In April 1983, eight CIA personnel were killed when the US embassy in Beirut was hit by a Hizbollah suicide bomb."******

Above all via Gateway Pundit

Obama pledges to take poorest most diseased immigrants into his personal home with his family!

• It's not as if the AIDs racket hasn't already made foreign dictators even wealthier, courtesy of the US taxpayer. Little to none of our money was spent doing what needs to be about the disease.

Now we are even more subservient to millionaire brutal dictators by Obama welcoming in all AIDs and HIV people from the entire world. Right on schedule for Soros Obama.

• And, of course Soros Obama's personal favorite--FREE LEGAL HELP to the immigrants via Soros funded Immigration Equality. Overwhelm the system, at the point of a gun, order the same strained support staff with no money, broke, in debt, to take in people Obama himself would never take care of nor pay legal expenses for--millions of chronically ill AIDS patients. The banks are bankrupt and will be given much more taxpayer money. Obama orders all HIV AIDs patients free housing and healthcare in the US now.

Will he invite them into his home with his wife, mother in law and daughters, will he pay their bills? Does he even pay the bills of his own Aunt living on the backs of Boston taxpayers? Via compassionate Soros funded Immigration Equality, the goal is to overwhelm the system. Right now, before even one more immigrant crosses what used to be our border, every town and city in this country has filthy, insect and disease covered people laying in the streets, subway stations, and the like.

• We are Bengladesh--exactly as Soros and the bankers running Obama planned.
  
• With a big assist by the worthless wimps in the Republican Party. Thanks again.

Obama championed coal industry in 2004, coal gave $540,000 to Obama-USA Today

7/18/2008, Obama as a state senator in Illinois

• voted with the coal industry. Against the idea of CO2 emissions controls.

WASHINGTON — "In May 1998, at the urging of the state's coal industry, the Illinois Legislature passed a bill condemning the Kyoto global warming treaty and

forbidding state efforts to regulate greenhouse gases.

Barack Obama voted "aye."...

From USA Today 7/18/08 during Obama's presidential campaign:

"The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee now calls climate change "one of the greatest moral challenges of our generation," and proposes cutting carbon emissions 80% by 2050. But as a state senator, from 1997 to 2004, he usually supported bills sought by coal interests, according to legislative records and interviews....

Obama, who touts his independence from special interests, made a point of embracing the coal industry as part of his quest for statewide office. When he ran for U.S. Senate in 2004, he was flanked by mine workers to proclaim that "there's always going to be a role for coal" in Illinois.

"He understands how important coal is to the state of Illinois and to the Midwest," said Illinois state Rep. Dan Reitz, a Democrat and former coal miner who sponsored the anti-Kyoto language and campaigned for Obama during the West Virginia primary.

Employees of coal companies and electric utilities have contributed $539,597 to Obama's U.S. Senate and presidential campaign, according to the non-partisan Center for Responsive Politics....

"The Obama campaign did not respond to questions about his support for the coal industry, except to address his 1998 Kyoto vote. The campaign said in a statement that the Kyoto treaty did not have "meaningful and achievable emissions targets," and that Obama "did not believe that state agencies in Illinois should unilaterally take steps to implement a global policy on their own …"

The statement said Obama supports investing in technology to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from coal burning.

Meg Boyle, global warming policy specialist for Greenpeace, called those technologies risky and expensive. She said they can't "deliver in time to avoid the most dangerous impacts of climate change."

"He's definitely trying to straddle two politically irreconcilable objectives: taking decisive action against global warming while keeping a healthy coal industry," said Frank O'Donnell, president of the non-partisan Clean Air Watch. "Obama's record certainly suggests that environmentalists aren't going to be calling the shots in his administration without input from industry."

Obama's other votes on coal in the state Senate included:

• In 1997, he voted to divert sales taxes to a fund for grants to help reopening closed coal mines and "incentives to attract new businesses that use coal."

• In 2001, Obama voted for legislation that offered $3.5 billion in loan guarantees to build coal-fired power plants with no ability to control carbon emissions.

• In 2003, he voted to allow $300 million in taxpayer-backed bonds to build or expand coal-fired power plants.

"You know, I am a strong supporter, I think, of downstate coal interests and our need to prop up and improve the outputs downstate," Obama said on the Senate floor before voting on the 2001 bill....

Obama also drew criticism for sponsoring a bill in January 2007 to devote $8 billion in subsidies to a technology to convert coal to liquid fuel. The Sierra Club says liquid coal "releases almost double the global warming emissions per gallon as regular gasoline."

As the presidential campaign was well underway in June 2007, the Obama campaign issued a clarification: He would not support liquid coal processes unless they emit a fifth less carbon than conventional fuels.

"When you're running for president and you've got environmentalists biting your head off every day, that's to be expected," said Phil Gonet, head of the Illinois Coal Association. "We're still

optimistic" (you mean you have HOPE....right)

..."that he may be helpful at some point in the future.""

from USA Today article, 7/18/08, "Obama Shifts Stance on Environmental Issues," by Ken Dilanian

********

Bill Clinton never submitted the Kyoto Agreement to the US Senate contrary to recent impressions:

12/10/05: "Kyoto's Dead Hand":"The U.S. has also consistently rejected Kyoto. This has been true throughout the Bush years, but it was

equally so during the Clinton ones.

In 1997, the U.S. Senate adopted the Byrd-Hagel Resolution by 95-0, urging the Clinton Administration not to sign any climate-change protocol that "would result in serious harm to the economy." In 1998 Al Gore signed the Protocol.

The U.S. has also consistently rejected Kyoto. This has been true throughout the Bush years, but it was equally so during the Clinton ones. In 1997, the U.S. Senate adopted the Byrd-Hagel Resolution by 95-0, urging the Clinton Administration not to sign any climate-change protocol that "would result in serious harm to the economy." In 1998 Al Gore signed the Protocol. Yet President Clinton, who was in Montreal yesterday to scold the Bush Administration for its inaction, never submitted it to the Senate." Yet President Clinton, who was in Montreal yesterday to scold the Bush Administration for its inaction,

never submitted it to the Senate."...Wall Street Journal Online

*************

12/22/09, Editorial on the climate conference, following appeared in the Phil Inquirer:

"Cold Comfort

"The climate-change talks in Copenhagen provided another frank lesson to the rest of the world on the limits to a U.S. president's power.

Of course, it wasn't the first time they had been read to from that book. The Clinton administration 12 years ago boldly spoke about cutting emissions only to see the Senate vote down U.S. participation in the Kyoto accords."...

Actions of Obama and his CIA pick Leon Panetta continue our slow, horrible death

• 
  
• CIA operations were 'OPEN SECRET'--everyone including Taliban knew what went on there. Obama's CIA paid US taxpayer dollars to thugs in Afghanistan dreaming that would get the bad guys to like us. This is a strategy for only one thing, of course. Death. And not a kind, quick one. A slow, horrible one.
  
• 
  
• Americans will continue to die, be enslaved and held in complete disdain by the Obama group. This humiliating CIA bombing-in addition to its human losses-shows a bumbling operation inviting to be brutally harmed. Death doesn't seem to bother them.
  

WASHINGTON—"Wednesday's attack on a U.S. compound in Afghanistan devastated what has been

• a hub of counter terrorism and intelligence operations for the spy agency.

Seven Central Intelligence Agency officers and contractors were killed and six more wounded in the suicide bomb attack at Forward Operating Base Chapman, CIA Director Leon Panetta said Thursday,

• the second-largest single-day loss for the spy agency in its history.

Among the casualties was the agency's base chief, former intelligence officials said. There had been only four publicly acknowledged CIA fatalities in Afghanistan prior to this attack.

• The Taliban claimed responsibility Thursday for the bombing, which was carried out by suicide bomber wearing an Afghan National Army uniform. Some senior officials think the bomber may have been given access to the base because he was believed to be an informant, said two former intelligence officials.

Several former intelligence officials described the attack in Afghanistan as "devastating" to the agency. A number of the officers killed had been counter terrorism operatives since before the 9/11 attacks....

• Its (the unit's) primary role has been to run informant networks in Afghanistan and over the border, said one former agency official.
  

"That was one of the bases where they were paying people and running people and sending them into Pakistan," he said.

• The CIA's activities on the base were an open secret locally, he added, "al Qaeda knows it and the townspeople know it and the Taliban know it.""...

Wall Street Journal, 12/31/09, "Suicide Bombing in Afghanistan Devastates Critical Hub for CIA Activities," by Siobhan Gorman. via Free Republic