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1/4/13, "Dick Armey Sticks His FreedomWorks Payback to Glenn Beck," Atlantic Wire, E. Reeve
"After the liberal magazine Mother Jones posted a copy of a FreedomWorks document about its fundraising, Armey reached out to Media Matters to explain how the group wastes money by trying to raise money through radio hosts Beck and Rush Limbaugh."...
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Ed. note: The entire Beltway GOP has to be tear-gassed out of town, their offices and apartments fumigated and sterilized. Fox News should sign off for a year. What a sickening mass of humanity.
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Saturday, January 5, 2013
In India a rape is reported every 21 minutes-BBC
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1/4/13, "The rapes that India forgot," BBC
"Violence against women is deeply entrenched in the feudal, patriarchal Indian society, where for the rapist, every woman is fair game....But in a country where a rape is reported every 21 minutes, even these most horrific of crimes soon get forgotten - except by the victims and their families."...
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UN Climate boss Rajendra Pachauri's sex novel 'Return to Almora' debuted amid fanfare early in 2010:
1/30/10, "Revealed: the racy novel written by the world's most powerful climate scientist," UK Telegraph,
"In breathless prose that risks making Dr Pachauri, who will be 70 this year, a laughing stock among the serious, high-minded scientists and world leaders with whom he mixes, he details
sexual encounter after sexual encounter.
The book, which makes reference to the Kama Sutra, starts promisingly enough."...
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1/4/13, "The rapes that India forgot," BBC
"Violence against women is deeply entrenched in the feudal, patriarchal Indian society, where for the rapist, every woman is fair game....But in a country where a rape is reported every 21 minutes, even these most horrific of crimes soon get forgotten - except by the victims and their families."...
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UN Climate boss Rajendra Pachauri's sex novel 'Return to Almora' debuted amid fanfare early in 2010:1/30/10, "Revealed: the racy novel written by the world's most powerful climate scientist," UK Telegraph,
"In breathless prose that risks making Dr Pachauri, who will be 70 this year, a laughing stock among the serious, high-minded scientists and world leaders with whom he mixes, he details
sexual encounter after sexual encounter.
The book, which makes reference to the Kama Sutra, starts promisingly enough."...
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GOP says primaries yield too many conservatives, Rove already on job to stop that. Club for Growth seen as enemy, GOP getting more RINO PACs like LaTourettes's to help more RINOs win
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The GOP seeks to avoid another pesky landslide victory like the Tea Party gave them in 2010. With help of Karl Rove and Fox News, Beltway GOP is getting more involved in primaries under the pretense of protecting us from "democrat influence:"
1/4/13, "GOP scrambles to fix its primary problem," Politico, Jonathan Martin
"The disastrous 2012 election and embarrassing fiscal cliff standoff has brought forth one principal conclusion from establishment Republicans: They have a primary problem.
The intra-party contests, or threat thereof, have become the original sin that explains many of the party’s woes in the minds of GOP leaders. It’s the primaries that push their presidential nominees far to the right (see “self-deportation” and “47 percent”); produce lackluster Senate candidates (Todd Akin has almost become a one-word shorthand); and, as seen most vividly in the last two weeks, dissuade scores of gerrymandered House members from face-saving compromise while politically emasculating their speaker.
What to do about the primaries has become Topic A in many a post-election Republican soul-searching session, and now the first steps are being taken to address the issue. For Senate Republicans, that means a modified return to their 2010 posture of openly playing in primaries. A retiring House Republican is starting a super PAC to help House members challenged from the right. And an RNC commission is mulling over changes to the party’s presidential primary.
In the Senate, where at least five GOP losses in the past two election cycles could be attributed to primaries, Republican leaders are planning to intervene in selected 2014 races to ensure preferred candidates win the nomination.
High-profile Senate Republicans are going to try to pre-empt ***bloody*** primaries with aggressive, early recruitment and support — effectively trying to clear fields.
“Instead of worrying about resolving a contested primary and upsetting a lot of folks on both sides … you recruit the best candidate on the front end,” explained Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio.), a newly named NRSC vice chairman and close ally of Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell.
Further, expect Senate Republicans to insert themselves in those 2014 primaries when Democrats attempt to influence the GOP nominating process as they did in the 2012 Missouri Republican contest that produced Akin."...
[Ed. note: Not what happened in this case. First, Akin was a sitting member of congress not some guy who just walked off a corn field. The primary had many candidates several of whom did well. The results were necessarily splintered and Akin happened to edge out others. It wasn't "democrats'" fault. If anything, establishment GOP prefer democrats.]
(continuing):"“If you catch wind of (Democrats playing in Republican primaries), it’s a tough decision but you’ve got to have the ability and flexibility to say, ‘OK guys, we’re headed down a track here, so is there a better candidate who has more appeal, can raise more money, is more representative of the state they’re in?’” said Portman."...
[Ed. note: Portman, you mean like when a GOP establishment PAC spent money encouraging Indiana democrats to come out and defeat Tea Party candidate Richard Mourdock in 2012?]
(continuing):"Added Sen. Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire: “When they are up to those things, then I think that the committee has to say there are
some primaries that we will get involved in because
we’re not going to let the Democrats pick our nominees.”"...
[Ed. note: What a phony you are Ayotte.]
(continuing): "Further, top Senate Republicans have made clear to outside groups that they’d like the third parties to not exist simply as entities that air attack ads against Democrats in general elections but to play a more hands-on role in GOP primaries.
Translation into non-Senate speak: The big-money establishment Republican super PACs like American Crossroads need to serve as a counterbalance in primaries to conservative outfits such as Club for Growth and former Sen. Jim DeMint’s Senate Conservatives Fund.
Crossroads, at least, is already preparing to do just that.
While they won’t become entirely invested in the business of incumbent protection — something McConnell has signaled he’d like them to do — they are moving toward a more robust presence in GOP primaries.
That means a thorough and cold-eyed assessment of which Republicans will have the best chance to win general elections
“To be effective, you have to go well before the primary and identify well-qualified candidates using a number of criteria,” said one source familiar with Crossroads’s thinking. “It’s not who’s more or less conservative, but putting together a more discriminating evaluation of candidates.”
In an interview in the Capitol, Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), the NRSC chairman in the past two elections and now the Senate’s second-ranking Republican, said, “I think you’re going to see more people involved in primaries,” right as he rounded a corner and nearly ran into Crossroads CEO Steven Law.
The GOP seeks to avoid another pesky landslide victory like the Tea Party gave them in 2010. With help of Karl Rove and Fox News, Beltway GOP is getting more involved in primaries under the pretense of protecting us from "democrat influence:"
1/4/13, "GOP scrambles to fix its primary problem," Politico, Jonathan Martin
"The disastrous 2012 election and embarrassing fiscal cliff standoff has brought forth one principal conclusion from establishment Republicans: They have a primary problem.
The intra-party contests, or threat thereof, have become the original sin that explains many of the party’s woes in the minds of GOP leaders. It’s the primaries that push their presidential nominees far to the right (see “self-deportation” and “47 percent”); produce lackluster Senate candidates (Todd Akin has almost become a one-word shorthand); and, as seen most vividly in the last two weeks, dissuade scores of gerrymandered House members from face-saving compromise while politically emasculating their speaker.
What to do about the primaries has become Topic A in many a post-election Republican soul-searching session, and now the first steps are being taken to address the issue. For Senate Republicans, that means a modified return to their 2010 posture of openly playing in primaries. A retiring House Republican is starting a super PAC to help House members challenged from the right. And an RNC commission is mulling over changes to the party’s presidential primary.
In the Senate, where at least five GOP losses in the past two election cycles could be attributed to primaries, Republican leaders are planning to intervene in selected 2014 races to ensure preferred candidates win the nomination.
High-profile Senate Republicans are going to try to pre-empt ***bloody*** primaries with aggressive, early recruitment and support — effectively trying to clear fields.
“Instead of worrying about resolving a contested primary and upsetting a lot of folks on both sides … you recruit the best candidate on the front end,” explained Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio.), a newly named NRSC vice chairman and close ally of Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell.
Further, expect Senate Republicans to insert themselves in those 2014 primaries when Democrats attempt to influence the GOP nominating process as they did in the 2012 Missouri Republican contest that produced Akin."...
[Ed. note: Not what happened in this case. First, Akin was a sitting member of congress not some guy who just walked off a corn field. The primary had many candidates several of whom did well. The results were necessarily splintered and Akin happened to edge out others. It wasn't "democrats'" fault. If anything, establishment GOP prefer democrats.]
(continuing):"“If you catch wind of (Democrats playing in Republican primaries), it’s a tough decision but you’ve got to have the ability and flexibility to say, ‘OK guys, we’re headed down a track here, so is there a better candidate who has more appeal, can raise more money, is more representative of the state they’re in?’” said Portman."...
[Ed. note: Portman, you mean like when a GOP establishment PAC spent money encouraging Indiana democrats to come out and defeat Tea Party candidate Richard Mourdock in 2012?]
(continuing):"Added Sen. Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire: “When they are up to those things, then I think that the committee has to say there are
some primaries that we will get involved in because
we’re not going to let the Democrats pick our nominees.”"...
[Ed. note: What a phony you are Ayotte.]
(continuing): "Further, top Senate Republicans have made clear to outside groups that they’d like the third parties to not exist simply as entities that air attack ads against Democrats in general elections but to play a more hands-on role in GOP primaries.
“It’s important for the groups that have been sitting
on the sidelines in primaries and ceding the field to groups to be more
involved,” said Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.). “You’ve got certain groups
that are very active in primaries, in many cases behind candidates that
have had, as we’ve experienced in the last couple of cycles, trouble
winning general elections. We’ve got to have support for candidates that
can win.”
Translation into non-Senate speak: The big-money establishment Republican super PACs like American Crossroads need to serve as a counterbalance in primaries to conservative outfits such as Club for Growth and former Sen. Jim DeMint’s Senate Conservatives Fund.
Crossroads, at least, is already preparing to do just that.
While they won’t become entirely invested in the business of incumbent protection — something McConnell has signaled he’d like them to do — they are moving toward a more robust presence in GOP primaries.
That means a thorough and cold-eyed assessment of which Republicans will have the best chance to win general elections
“To be effective, you have to go well before the primary and identify well-qualified candidates using a number of criteria,” said one source familiar with Crossroads’s thinking. “It’s not who’s more or less conservative, but putting together a more discriminating evaluation of candidates.”
In an interview in the Capitol, Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), the NRSC chairman in the past two elections and now the Senate’s second-ranking Republican, said, “I think you’re going to see more people involved in primaries,” right as he rounded a corner and nearly ran into Crossroads CEO Steven Law.
Friday, January 4, 2013
Norquist being flown to Kansas by Kansas Chamber of Commerce for Jan. 16 breakfast to talk up illegal immigration
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1/3/13, "Norquist coming to Kansas to talk about immigration," The Lawrence Journal-World, by Scott Rothschild
"Anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist is coming to Kansas at the behest of the Kansas Chamber of Commerce to oppose "restrictionist" policies on immigration reform.
"We are bringing Mr. Norquist to Kansas so legislators can hear what real immigration reform should look like," said Mike O'Neal, president and chief executive officer of the Kansas Chamber....
Norquist, who is better known nationally as the president of Americans for Tax Reform, will speak at a breakfast for legislators at 8 a.m. Jan. 16 at the Maner Conference Center Shawnee Ballroom in Topeka.
The breakfast will be hosted by the Kansas Chamber and the Kansas Business Coalition for Immigration Reform. In the past, the Kansas Chamber and Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach have been at odds on the subject of illegal immigration."...
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I wonder if those at the breakfast know about slime Norquist's background:
11/28/12, "Grover Norquist is the problem with Washington DC, not the solution," PJ Media, Patrick Poole
"In Sept 2003, Norquist was the main cheerleader and defender of the increases in government spending under President Bush and the GOP-controlled US House and Senate, claiming that these spending increases were to “make government more effective.“...
His record also shows that he has no real regard for the conservative movement he tries to wrap himself up in, as demonstrated following the investigation, arrest and conviction of his pal Jack Abramoff, where the investigation showed that Norquist whored out the conservative movement to a wide variety of interests, including Indian casinos, Marianas Island sweat shops and nefarious foreign governments.
Let’s also not forget Norquist’s lobbying on behalf of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to continue the homeownership tax credit, which as Erick Erickson noted directly contributed to the housing bubble and collapse at the expense of billions to the American taxpayers....
Nor were there any apologies, but rather a cover-up, when one of his lobbying firm’s clients, Abdurahman Alamoudi, came under fire for his terrorist associations. In response to those news reports, Norquist’s firm altered their lobbying disclosure forms naming Alamoudi as their client to try to conceal the relationship....
The Treasury Department later identified Alamoudi as one of Al-Qaeda’s top North American fundraisers.
One of the organizations that Alamoudi funded was Norquist’s Islamic Free Market Institute, which was also funded by the Saudis and the governments of Qatar and Kuwait....
And yet Norquist continued to push Alamoudi, even arranging for the Al-Qaeda financier (who was funneling money for Osama bin Laden since as early as 1993) to appear with President Bush just days after the 9/11 attacks.
And when other Norquist lobbying clients (and donors to Norquist’s organizations) were raided by the US Customs Service in the Operation Greenquest terror finance investigation, Norquist immediately sprung into action, arranging a meeting for his clients with then-Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill. With considerable money being directed to a number of GOP candidates, the investigation was quietly shut down by the Bush administration over the strong objections of the federal investigators on the case....
Norquist’s record is that he will cheer unfunded government spending increases when it suits his own interests, and will shift his interpretation of the ATR no-tax pledge depending on who is lobbying clients are or what special interests he is protecting."...
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Norquist ran his own lobbying company, Janus-Merritt from 1997-2002. Prior to that he was a registered foreign agent for the government of Angola.
11/24/11, "Grover Norquist: The Billionaires' Best Friend," Rolling Stone, Tim Dickenson, "How the anti-tax activist hijacked the GOP on behalf of the rich."
Ed. note: I included this link because it incorrectly connects Norquist to the Tea Party. Any apparent connection on Norquist's part was to neuter and preempt the TP. Lobbyist Norquist's survival in the Beltway depended on the TP's destruction. Norquist hooked up with a fake Tea Party establishment front group to burnish his TP bona fides. Had Norquist and the GOP not defeated the Tea Party, they would have been gone. Rolling Stone quotes some establishment guy from the Reagan admin. claiming the Tea Party takes orders from Norquist which of course is false but getting the media to print or say things like this is how you co-opt and diffuse. The Tea Party takes orders from no one least of all a longtime, Beltway swamp, lobbyist, establishment hack. The point of the Tea Party is to save this country which cannot be accomplished until the entire failed GOP establishment is replaced including Norquist. The slight hitch is these guys love the money they're making, have no intention of leaving, and couldn't care less about the country. The GOP knew it had to silence the Tea Party which it accomplished by several methods. One as mentioned was to co-opt them, chat them up, bring them in, diffuse them. This has been Norquist's specialty. He's done this with the help of a group claiming to be a national Tea Party recruiting group called TheTeaParty.net. The group's website says it contributes to CPAC. CPAC is Norquist's power base. Other self-proclaimed Tea Party groups have turned out to be fakes as well such as Tea Party Nation. Another method the GOP used was to spend a lot of money trying to defeat Tea Party candidates in primaries. Sometimes they went and got candidates themselves to run against Tea Party supported candidates in primaries. In at least one case in a general election the establishment actively supported a democrat running against a Tea Party candidate. In another case they redistricted a new, strong Tea Party congressman out of his district so he'd have greatly reduced chances of re-election. The GOP needed to break the spirit and power the Tea Party had built in the area. The GOP still wasn't done. They tried to primary the Tea Party guy in his new district. When the GOP plant lost the primary, he endorsed the democrat running against the Tea Party candidate. Still not done, the head of the GOP crime family Jeb Bush went all over saying the new people in the GOP were "dangerous." There are more details but I wanted to give you a rough idea of why it's impossible for actual Tea Party people to "take orders" from heinous slime such as Norquist.
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As an ACU board member, Norquist knows about neutralizing conservatives. ACU runs CPAC, the yearly so-called conservative convention.
2/9/12, "The American Conservative Union: now neutralizing the conservative movement," by James Lampe, exclusive to Atlas Shrugs, "Corruption at the ACU" (American Conservative Union)
"While Norquist likes to ply his lobbying efforts in a fairly stealthy mode, his ACU BFF, Suhail Khan is not so shy. Khan lobbied Congress to soften up their opposition to the developer of the Ground Zero Mosque, and addressed the Muslim Brotherhood front group, the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) and proclaimed: “The early Muslims loved death, dying for the sake of almighty Allah, more than the oppressors loved life,” said an impassioned Khan, who wiped away tears throughout his speech. “This must be the case when we are fighting. What are our oppressors going to do with a people like us? We are prepared to give our lives for the cause of Islam.” (Video)
While there are conservatives at the ACU, it’s painfully clear there has been a power shift to the left, and in fact, the ACU’s actions appear to be neutralizing conservative progress.
Ask yourself if the ACU’s certification of counterfeit conservatives (FL Sen. Latvala), their support for Islamic extremists, and the usurpation of our sovereignty by implementing Agenda 21, are conservative or socialist policies? Would William F Buckley, Jr., be happy with the operations of the ACU, or the lobbying causes of their Chairman?"
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1/3/13, "Norquist coming to Kansas to talk about immigration," The Lawrence Journal-World, by Scott Rothschild
"Anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist is coming to Kansas at the behest of the Kansas Chamber of Commerce to oppose "restrictionist" policies on immigration reform.
"We are bringing Mr. Norquist to Kansas so legislators can hear what real immigration reform should look like," said Mike O'Neal, president and chief executive officer of the Kansas Chamber....
Norquist, who is better known nationally as the president of Americans for Tax Reform, will speak at a breakfast for legislators at 8 a.m. Jan. 16 at the Maner Conference Center Shawnee Ballroom in Topeka.
The breakfast will be hosted by the Kansas Chamber and the Kansas Business Coalition for Immigration Reform. In the past, the Kansas Chamber and Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach have been at odds on the subject of illegal immigration."...
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I wonder if those at the breakfast know about slime Norquist's background:
11/28/12, "Grover Norquist is the problem with Washington DC, not the solution," PJ Media, Patrick Poole
"In Sept 2003, Norquist was the main cheerleader and defender of the increases in government spending under President Bush and the GOP-controlled US House and Senate, claiming that these spending increases were to “make government more effective.“...
His record also shows that he has no real regard for the conservative movement he tries to wrap himself up in, as demonstrated following the investigation, arrest and conviction of his pal Jack Abramoff, where the investigation showed that Norquist whored out the conservative movement to a wide variety of interests, including Indian casinos, Marianas Island sweat shops and nefarious foreign governments.
Let’s also not forget Norquist’s lobbying on behalf of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to continue the homeownership tax credit, which as Erick Erickson noted directly contributed to the housing bubble and collapse at the expense of billions to the American taxpayers....
Nor were there any apologies, but rather a cover-up, when one of his lobbying firm’s clients, Abdurahman Alamoudi, came under fire for his terrorist associations. In response to those news reports, Norquist’s firm altered their lobbying disclosure forms naming Alamoudi as their client to try to conceal the relationship....
The Treasury Department later identified Alamoudi as one of Al-Qaeda’s top North American fundraisers.
One of the organizations that Alamoudi funded was Norquist’s Islamic Free Market Institute, which was also funded by the Saudis and the governments of Qatar and Kuwait....
And yet Norquist continued to push Alamoudi, even arranging for the Al-Qaeda financier (who was funneling money for Osama bin Laden since as early as 1993) to appear with President Bush just days after the 9/11 attacks.
And when other Norquist lobbying clients (and donors to Norquist’s organizations) were raided by the US Customs Service in the Operation Greenquest terror finance investigation, Norquist immediately sprung into action, arranging a meeting for his clients with then-Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill. With considerable money being directed to a number of GOP candidates, the investigation was quietly shut down by the Bush administration over the strong objections of the federal investigators on the case....
Norquist’s record is that he will cheer unfunded government spending increases when it suits his own interests, and will shift his interpretation of the ATR no-tax pledge depending on who is lobbying clients are or what special interests he is protecting."...
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Norquist ran his own lobbying company, Janus-Merritt from 1997-2002. Prior to that he was a registered foreign agent for the government of Angola.
11/24/11, "Grover Norquist: The Billionaires' Best Friend," Rolling Stone, Tim Dickenson, "How the anti-tax activist hijacked the GOP on behalf of the rich."
Ed. note: I included this link because it incorrectly connects Norquist to the Tea Party. Any apparent connection on Norquist's part was to neuter and preempt the TP. Lobbyist Norquist's survival in the Beltway depended on the TP's destruction. Norquist hooked up with a fake Tea Party establishment front group to burnish his TP bona fides. Had Norquist and the GOP not defeated the Tea Party, they would have been gone. Rolling Stone quotes some establishment guy from the Reagan admin. claiming the Tea Party takes orders from Norquist which of course is false but getting the media to print or say things like this is how you co-opt and diffuse. The Tea Party takes orders from no one least of all a longtime, Beltway swamp, lobbyist, establishment hack. The point of the Tea Party is to save this country which cannot be accomplished until the entire failed GOP establishment is replaced including Norquist. The slight hitch is these guys love the money they're making, have no intention of leaving, and couldn't care less about the country. The GOP knew it had to silence the Tea Party which it accomplished by several methods. One as mentioned was to co-opt them, chat them up, bring them in, diffuse them. This has been Norquist's specialty. He's done this with the help of a group claiming to be a national Tea Party recruiting group called TheTeaParty.net. The group's website says it contributes to CPAC. CPAC is Norquist's power base. Other self-proclaimed Tea Party groups have turned out to be fakes as well such as Tea Party Nation. Another method the GOP used was to spend a lot of money trying to defeat Tea Party candidates in primaries. Sometimes they went and got candidates themselves to run against Tea Party supported candidates in primaries. In at least one case in a general election the establishment actively supported a democrat running against a Tea Party candidate. In another case they redistricted a new, strong Tea Party congressman out of his district so he'd have greatly reduced chances of re-election. The GOP needed to break the spirit and power the Tea Party had built in the area. The GOP still wasn't done. They tried to primary the Tea Party guy in his new district. When the GOP plant lost the primary, he endorsed the democrat running against the Tea Party candidate. Still not done, the head of the GOP crime family Jeb Bush went all over saying the new people in the GOP were "dangerous." There are more details but I wanted to give you a rough idea of why it's impossible for actual Tea Party people to "take orders" from heinous slime such as Norquist.
======================================
As an ACU board member, Norquist knows about neutralizing conservatives. ACU runs CPAC, the yearly so-called conservative convention.
2/9/12, "The American Conservative Union: now neutralizing the conservative movement," by James Lampe, exclusive to Atlas Shrugs, "Corruption at the ACU" (American Conservative Union)
"While Norquist likes to ply his lobbying efforts in a fairly stealthy mode, his ACU BFF, Suhail Khan is not so shy. Khan lobbied Congress to soften up their opposition to the developer of the Ground Zero Mosque, and addressed the Muslim Brotherhood front group, the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) and proclaimed: “The early Muslims loved death, dying for the sake of almighty Allah, more than the oppressors loved life,” said an impassioned Khan, who wiped away tears throughout his speech. “This must be the case when we are fighting. What are our oppressors going to do with a people like us? We are prepared to give our lives for the cause of Islam.” (Video)
While there are conservatives at the ACU, it’s painfully clear there has been a power shift to the left, and in fact, the ACU’s actions appear to be neutralizing conservative progress.
Ask yourself if the ACU’s certification of counterfeit conservatives (FL Sen. Latvala), their support for Islamic extremists, and the usurpation of our sovereignty by implementing Agenda 21, are conservative or socialist policies? Would William F Buckley, Jr., be happy with the operations of the ACU, or the lobbying causes of their Chairman?"
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Suing Blazing Cat Fur for half a million exemplifies 'hate industry' bullies and cowards who can't win on the merits so seek to impoverish those who have views--or even link to views--different from their own-Steyn
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1/3/13, "Slapping the Cat," Mark Steyn, NRO, The Corner
"Thank you for your kind donations to our legal defense fund against a nuisance suit from self-endowed Nobel laureate Michael Mann. We can always use a little more — we’re in court in D.C. later this month, and the framed copy of my online legal diploma (valid most jurisdictions except the Northern Mariana Islands and Abkhazia) from a website in Tajikistan has apparently been delayed in the Christmas mail.
But here’s the thing. South of the border, National Review is being sued for defamation for publishing a piece by me. North of the border, they’ve gone to the next stage: one of Canada’s top bloggers is being sued for defamation merely for linking to me – or, as the plaintiff puts it, to “far-right website SteynOnline“.
He’s seeking half-a-million bucks in damages, which even in Canada seems a high price for an Internet link to lil’ ol’ me.
This is what you might call a bit of mopping-up after my free-speech battles in Canada. We won, and we got the law in question, Section 13, repealed last summer. But along the way we pointed out that the plaintiff on all but one of those Section 13 “hate speech” cases since the turn of the century had been the same man — a civil servant called Richard Warman, who appointed himself Canada’s Hatefinder-General and brought highly lucrative “hate” complaints against anyone who crossed him. Since the repeal of his own personal revenge law, he can’t file “hate” complaints anymore, so instead he’s filing nuisance law suits
I’ve been involved in cases like these from Copenhagen to Melbourne, and I’m mighty sick of people who find it easier to sue you into silence than argue their case on the merits. Free speech is beleaguered in Britain, Australia, Europe — and also the United States, where, to his discredit, the president recently lent credence to the notion hitherto unknown to American law that it’s possible to “slander” a bloke who died in the 7th century.
So I’d like to keep Blazing Cat Fur in business. Instapundit and other American bloggers agree. He’s having a big fundraiser in Toronto on Monday. If you don’t fancy the scenic drive from Buffalo up the Queen Elizabeth Way, I hope you’ll consider helping out in other ways." via Legal Insurrection
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1/3/13, "Slapping the Cat," Mark Steyn, NRO, The Corner
"Thank you for your kind donations to our legal defense fund against a nuisance suit from self-endowed Nobel laureate Michael Mann. We can always use a little more — we’re in court in D.C. later this month, and the framed copy of my online legal diploma (valid most jurisdictions except the Northern Mariana Islands and Abkhazia) from a website in Tajikistan has apparently been delayed in the Christmas mail.
But here’s the thing. South of the border, National Review is being sued for defamation for publishing a piece by me. North of the border, they’ve gone to the next stage: one of Canada’s top bloggers is being sued for defamation merely for linking to me – or, as the plaintiff puts it, to “far-right website SteynOnline“.
He’s seeking half-a-million bucks in damages, which even in Canada seems a high price for an Internet link to lil’ ol’ me.
This is what you might call a bit of mopping-up after my free-speech battles in Canada. We won, and we got the law in question, Section 13, repealed last summer. But along the way we pointed out that the plaintiff on all but one of those Section 13 “hate speech” cases since the turn of the century had been the same man — a civil servant called Richard Warman, who appointed himself Canada’s Hatefinder-General and brought highly lucrative “hate” complaints against anyone who crossed him. Since the repeal of his own personal revenge law, he can’t file “hate” complaints anymore, so instead he’s filing nuisance law suits
- against the bloggers who exposed him.
I’ve been involved in cases like these from Copenhagen to Melbourne, and I’m mighty sick of people who find it easier to sue you into silence than argue their case on the merits. Free speech is beleaguered in Britain, Australia, Europe — and also the United States, where, to his discredit, the president recently lent credence to the notion hitherto unknown to American law that it’s possible to “slander” a bloke who died in the 7th century.
So I’d like to keep Blazing Cat Fur in business. Instapundit and other American bloggers agree. He’s having a big fundraiser in Toronto on Monday. If you don’t fancy the scenic drive from Buffalo up the Queen Elizabeth Way, I hope you’ll consider helping out in other ways." via Legal Insurrection
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Unelected Ford Foundation joins with ICLEI and other unelected UN groups obsessed with forcing Americans out of suburbs in the name of fairness and equity. 'We need to permanently live closer together' says temporary hack Calif. Gov. Jerry Brown
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6/8/12, “Ford Foundation leads discussion on Sustainable Cities at Rio+20,” worldwatch.org
“From New York to Kuala Lumpur, cities are sites of rapid economic growth and mass consumption. Despite this, governments and NGOs around the world are increasingly concerned about whether cities, by their sheer size
and the economic and social relations they foster,
and urban growth are sustainable.
The Ford Foundation, a private New York-based foundation that supports programs encouraging democratic values, education, and economic and social progress, is working to promote a vision of
inclusive, equitable, and sustainable
development in cities. On June 17 and 18 it will host side
events, entitled
‘The Just City’, at the Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development
where leaders and innovators such as Luis Ubiñas,
President of the Ford Foundation, Joan Clos, Director of
UN-Habitat, and Jeb Brugmann, founder of
ICLEI Local Governments for Sustainability,
will gather to discuss the opportunities and challenges afforded by
sustainable and inclusive urban development.
Discussions will focus on individuals, areas, or programs contributing to equality and integration in cities, such as
public transport or participatory urban planning, and will also identify some of the common barriers they face when trying to expand, or scale up, such initiatives.
Click here to read more about the Ford Foundation’s work on sustainable cities.”
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2/26/12, “Rio+20 meets Agenda 21,“ WUWT, Willis Eschenbach
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“Have you wondered where these terms ‘sustainability’ and ‘smart growth’ and ‘high density urban mixed use development’ came from? Doesn’t it seem like about 10 years
ago you’d never heard of them and now everything seems to include these concepts? “…DemocratsAgainstUNAgenda21
===============================
Unelected, unaccountable Ford Foundation with its $10 billion in assets jet sets around the world attending endless meetings about how to coerce sovereign human beings to live in crates
if they must live at all-
in the name of fairness. Almost none of the Americans in their sites have any idea these elitist groups are well along in forcing us to move out of the suburbs, surrender our cars, and live in crates. If you dare mention this is happening you’ll be ridiculed.
==============================
“”We are going to have to live closer together” and accommodate growth in more environmentally sustainable
ways, (Calif. Gov. Jerry) Brown said in a recent interview. “The high-speed rail will be built in that vein.”
Ford Foundation has same goals as ICLEI, UN-Habitat, UN Agenda 21, and others. They see
suburbs and rural areas as unfair and not “smart.”
———————————————-
Ford Foundation and sustainable cities: Jobs and services were unfairly moved from cities to suburbs:
“Why it matters:
“Jobs and services had moved to the suburbs and beyond….
The focus of our work:
“Our work promotes smarter public policy and planning, and links regional efforts to build economic growth and competitiveness over the long term with emerging national efforts
to coordinate funding streams among cabinet agencies. We believe this approach advances a new vision of
smart, regional development that integrates key elements of
metropolitan life to build strong and
sustainable communities.”
=====================================
2/23/11, “Agenda 21 Part III: Maryland County abolishes Agenda 21 – now it’s your turn,” Examiner.com, James Simpson
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But California’s projected population growth was overstated. “The state Department of Finance is now revising official population projections downward.”...
3/8/12, “A collision of visions on bullet train,” LA Times, by Ralph Vartabedian
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Ford Foundation sees lack of climate “justice:”
2/20/2009, “Dartmouth receives Ford Foundation grant to examine climate justice,” Dartmouth.edu
“The funding will allow Dorsey and his research team, made up of undergraduate and graduate students and post-doctoral fellows, to generate policy information that is informed by comparative data about the effect of climate change on the livelihoods of low income people in the U.S. and abroad. The research will include an analysis of the current social, political, and economic capacity to change and adapt to with regard to climate change policy.
“An important component of the Climate Justice Research Program is finding ways to build bridges between the
scientists, the policy makers, and
the people in low-income communities,” says Dorsey. “All stakeholders need to be part of the debate and the solutions.””
.
.
6/8/12, “Ford Foundation leads discussion on Sustainable Cities at Rio+20,” worldwatch.org
“From New York to Kuala Lumpur, cities are sites of rapid economic growth and mass consumption. Despite this, governments and NGOs around the world are increasingly concerned about whether cities, by their sheer size
and the economic and social relations they foster,
and urban growth are sustainable.
The Ford Foundation, a private New York-based foundation that supports programs encouraging democratic values, education, and economic and social progress, is working to promote a vision of
inclusive, equitable, and sustainable
development in cities. On June 17 and 18 it will host side
events, entitled
‘The Just City’, at the Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development
where leaders and innovators such as Luis Ubiñas,
President of the Ford Foundation, Joan Clos, Director of
UN-Habitat, and Jeb Brugmann, founder of
ICLEI Local Governments for Sustainability,
will gather to discuss the opportunities and challenges afforded by
sustainable and inclusive urban development.
Discussions will focus on individuals, areas, or programs contributing to equality and integration in cities, such as
public transport or participatory urban planning, and will also identify some of the common barriers they face when trying to expand, or scale up, such initiatives.
Click here to read more about the Ford Foundation’s work on sustainable cities.”
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2/26/12, “Rio+20 meets Agenda 21,“ WUWT, Willis Eschenbach
================================
“Have you wondered where these terms ‘sustainability’ and ‘smart growth’ and ‘high density urban mixed use development’ came from? Doesn’t it seem like about 10 years
ago you’d never heard of them and now everything seems to include these concepts? “…DemocratsAgainstUNAgenda21
===============================
Unelected, unaccountable Ford Foundation with its $10 billion in assets jet sets around the world attending endless meetings about how to coerce sovereign human beings to live in crates
if they must live at all-
in the name of fairness. Almost none of the Americans in their sites have any idea these elitist groups are well along in forcing us to move out of the suburbs, surrender our cars, and live in crates. If you dare mention this is happening you’ll be ridiculed.
==============================
“”We are going to have to live closer together” and accommodate growth in more environmentally sustainable
ways, (Calif. Gov. Jerry) Brown said in a recent interview. “The high-speed rail will be built in that vein.”
Ford Foundation has same goals as ICLEI, UN-Habitat, UN Agenda 21, and others. They see
suburbs and rural areas as unfair and not “smart.”
———————————————-
Ford Foundation and sustainable cities: Jobs and services were unfairly moved from cities to suburbs:
“Why it matters:
“Jobs and services had moved to the suburbs and beyond….
The focus of our work:
“Our work promotes smarter public policy and planning, and links regional efforts to build economic growth and competitiveness over the long term with emerging national efforts
to coordinate funding streams among cabinet agencies. We believe this approach advances a new vision of
smart, regional development that integrates key elements of
metropolitan life to build strong and
sustainable communities.”
=====================================
2/23/11, “Agenda 21 Part III: Maryland County abolishes Agenda 21 – now it’s your turn,” Examiner.com, James Simpson
=====================================
But California’s projected population growth was overstated. “The state Department of Finance is now revising official population projections downward.”...
3/8/12, “A collision of visions on bullet train,” LA Times, by Ralph Vartabedian
“The bullet trains that would someday streak through California at 220 mph are, in the vision of their most ardent supporters, more than just a transportation system. They are also a means to alter the state’s social, residential and economic fabric.”…
Ford Foundation sees lack of climate “justice:”
2/20/2009, “Dartmouth receives Ford Foundation grant to examine climate justice,” Dartmouth.edu
“The funding will allow Dorsey and his research team, made up of undergraduate and graduate students and post-doctoral fellows, to generate policy information that is informed by comparative data about the effect of climate change on the livelihoods of low income people in the U.S. and abroad. The research will include an analysis of the current social, political, and economic capacity to change and adapt to with regard to climate change policy.
“An important component of the Climate Justice Research Program is finding ways to build bridges between the
scientists, the policy makers, and
the people in low-income communities,” says Dorsey. “All stakeholders need to be part of the debate and the solutions.””
.
.
Munich Re: Huge drop in 2012 global natural catastrophes, without Sandy would’ve been ‘very low’
.
1/3/13, “Global Natural Catastrophe Losses Fell in 2012, Munich Re Says,” Bloomberg, Nicholas Comfort
“Munich Re, the world’s largest reinsurer, said global losses from natural catastrophes were cut in half in 2012, with Hurricane Sandy causing the highest costs.
Natural catastrophes caused $160 billion in losses and $65 billion in global insured losses
down from $400 billion and $119 billion respectively in 2011,
the Munich-based company said in a statement on its website today. Sandy accounted for about $50 billion in overall losses, with estimates still “subject to considerable uncertainty,” the reinsurer said.
Homeowners and businesses are seeking payouts on policies to help cover losses from Hurricane Sandy, which lashed the densely populated U.S. Northeast coast on Oct. 29, ravaging beach front communities and leaving more than 8 million homes and businesses without power for days. Munich Re said that the drought that hit parts of the U.S. last year caused the second- highest costs, with crop losses of about $20 billion.
“Greater loss-prevention efforts are needed,” Torsten Jeworrek, a Munich Re board member, said in the statement. “It would certainly be possible to protect conurbations like New York better from the effects of storm surges. Such action would make economic sense and insurers could also reflect the reduced exposure in their pricing.”
Munich Re said that the losses related to Sandy are extremely difficult to assess.’’
Without that impact, they “would have been very low” in 2012, it said.” via Tom Nelson, via Climate Depot
.
1/3/13, “Global Natural Catastrophe Losses Fell in 2012, Munich Re Says,” Bloomberg, Nicholas Comfort
“Munich Re, the world’s largest reinsurer, said global losses from natural catastrophes were cut in half in 2012, with Hurricane Sandy causing the highest costs.
Natural catastrophes caused $160 billion in losses and $65 billion in global insured losses
down from $400 billion and $119 billion respectively in 2011,
the Munich-based company said in a statement on its website today. Sandy accounted for about $50 billion in overall losses, with estimates still “subject to considerable uncertainty,” the reinsurer said.
Homeowners and businesses are seeking payouts on policies to help cover losses from Hurricane Sandy, which lashed the densely populated U.S. Northeast coast on Oct. 29, ravaging beach front communities and leaving more than 8 million homes and businesses without power for days. Munich Re said that the drought that hit parts of the U.S. last year caused the second- highest costs, with crop losses of about $20 billion.
“Greater loss-prevention efforts are needed,” Torsten Jeworrek, a Munich Re board member, said in the statement. “It would certainly be possible to protect conurbations like New York better from the effects of storm surges. Such action would make economic sense and insurers could also reflect the reduced exposure in their pricing.”
Munich Re said that the losses related to Sandy are extremely difficult to assess.’’
Without that impact, they “would have been very low” in 2012, it said.” via Tom Nelson, via Climate Depot
.
The 'poverty lobby' uses the poor as a weapon in its war against free market economies, a 'permanent moral affront' used to flog civil society-Daley, UK Telegraph
.
1/3/13, "Does the Left really want to end poverty?" UK Telegraph, Janet Daley
"The poverty lobby – as opposed to those who actually want to put an end to poverty – uses the "poor" as a political weapon in its ideological war against the market economy. That argument, which many of us have made over the years, is forcefully reiterated in an excellent post by Philip Booth of the IEA. As Professor Booth points out, the official campaigning groups which make use of the poor as fodder for their anti-capitalist rhetoric never seem to address the critical issue of the cost of living in their accounts of relative poverty, even though excessive charges for home energy, child care and housing
(which are heavily inflated by taxation and government regulation)
are among the chief drivers of household hardship.
Where, he says, is the argument for less regulation and more market competition which would really help poorer households by bringing down their costs? Nowhere in the prospectus of the poverty groupies do these get a mention. The campaigners prefer to preserve the poor as a permanent moral affront with which to castigate our callous capitalist society, instead of contributing to a useful discussion on the factors that are keeping people poor....
Nor can I recall them campaigning for tax cuts on the low paid: instead of allowing people to keep more of their earnings which would relieve their hardship and give them more independence, they clamour for the continuation of tax credits which subsidise (and perpetuate) low wages, and foster dependence on the state.
The statistical evidence of the past twenty years has become overwhelming: that getting a job is by far the best route out of poverty, that benefit dependency tends to turn temporary hardship into permanent poverty, and that free markets can deliver mass prosperity more effectively than any other form of economic system. It is time for the debate to move on. The old fashioned socialist dogma – that
only the state can "lift people out of poverty" – is not just wrong.
It is pernicious." via Lucianne
.
1/3/13, "Does the Left really want to end poverty?" UK Telegraph, Janet Daley
"The poverty lobby – as opposed to those who actually want to put an end to poverty – uses the "poor" as a political weapon in its ideological war against the market economy. That argument, which many of us have made over the years, is forcefully reiterated in an excellent post by Philip Booth of the IEA. As Professor Booth points out, the official campaigning groups which make use of the poor as fodder for their anti-capitalist rhetoric never seem to address the critical issue of the cost of living in their accounts of relative poverty, even though excessive charges for home energy, child care and housing
(which are heavily inflated by taxation and government regulation)
are among the chief drivers of household hardship.
Where, he says, is the argument for less regulation and more market competition which would really help poorer households by bringing down their costs? Nowhere in the prospectus of the poverty groupies do these get a mention. The campaigners prefer to preserve the poor as a permanent moral affront with which to castigate our callous capitalist society, instead of contributing to a useful discussion on the factors that are keeping people poor....
Nor can I recall them campaigning for tax cuts on the low paid: instead of allowing people to keep more of their earnings which would relieve their hardship and give them more independence, they clamour for the continuation of tax credits which subsidise (and perpetuate) low wages, and foster dependence on the state.
The statistical evidence of the past twenty years has become overwhelming: that getting a job is by far the best route out of poverty, that benefit dependency tends to turn temporary hardship into permanent poverty, and that free markets can deliver mass prosperity more effectively than any other form of economic system. It is time for the debate to move on. The old fashioned socialist dogma – that
only the state can "lift people out of poverty" – is not just wrong.
It is pernicious." via Lucianne
.
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