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Mark Levin mentioned today if he had another son he would look like Border Patrol agent Brian Terry who was murdered with guns from Obama's 'Fast and Furious' gun sales program.
2/2/12, "Slain border agent's family files $25M claim against U.S.," USA Today, Dennis Wagner
"The family of slain Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry filed a $25 million wrongful death claim Wednesday against the federal government, saying he was killed because U.S. investigators allowed murder weapons into the hands of criminals.
Terry died Dec. 14, 2010, when his special-operations unit got into a shootout with border bandits in a remote canyon area near Rio Rico. At the scene, investigators found two AK-47s that were traced back to a gun-smuggling probe by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives."...
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Friday, March 30, 2012
Thursday, March 29, 2012
Florida teen convicted of murdering 2 young UK students, parents publicly rebuke Obama for ignoring their pleas
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3/29/12, "Parents of murdered British students criticise Barack Obama," UK Telegraph, Paul Thompson in Sarasota
"The parents of two British students murdered in Florida have criticised President Barack Obama for his lack of compassion over their son's deaths.
His failure to respond to three letters sent to the White House was because there was no "political value" and not worthy of a few minutes of his time.
3/29/12, "Parents of murdered British students criticise Barack Obama," UK Telegraph, Paul Thompson in Sarasota
"The parents of two British students murdered in Florida have criticised President Barack Obama for his lack of compassion over their son's deaths.
His failure to respond to three letters sent to the White House was because there was no "political value" and not worthy of a few minutes of his time.
They spoke out as teenager Shawn Tyson began a life sentence after being found guilty of the murder of James Cooper and James Kouzaris last April.
The 17 year old, who shot the men as they begged for their lives, will die in prison.
His conviction of first degree murder carries an mandatory life sentence without the chance of parole.
The powerfully built teen even looked bored as emotional DVD presentations about the dead men prepared by their grieving parents were shown in court....
Davies said:"We would like to publicly express our dissatisfaction at the lack of any public or private message of support or condolence from any American governing body or indeed, President Obama himself.
"Mr Kouzaris has written to President Obama on three separate occasions and is yet to even receive the courtesy of a reply.
"It would perhaps appear that Mr Obama sees no political value in facilitating such a request or that the lives of two British tourists are not worthy of ten minutes of his time."
The rebuke follows Mr Obama's personal intervention into the shooting in Florida of a young black teenager by a white-Hispanic neighbourhood watch captain....
Mr Obama entered the controversy last week by saying if he had a son he would have looked like Martin.
The alleged assailant in Martin's death has not been charged with any crime having claimed he was attacked first and used Florida's 'stand your ground' law to shoot in self defence.
The criticism of the US President was made on behalf of the Cooper's parents Stanley and Sandy, from Warwicks, and Peter and Hazel Kouzaris, from Northampton by Davies
- in a statement read outside the courtroom."...via Drudge
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Occupy Wall St. chained subway gates open at 20 NYC stations as prelude to general strike in April
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3/29/12, "OWS takes rail action," NY Post, by Jamie Schram and Jennifer Fermino
"Members of Occupy Wall Street chained open the subway gates at some 20 stations yesterday, in an apparent attempt to give straphangers a free ride and draw attention to their plans for a general workers’ strike next month.
3/29/12, "OWS takes rail action," NY Post, by Jamie Schram and Jennifer Fermino
"Members of Occupy Wall Street chained open the subway gates at some 20 stations yesterday, in an apparent attempt to give straphangers a free ride and draw attention to their plans for a general workers’ strike next month.
The protesters claimed they had help executing their scheme from “rank- and-file” subway workers in the Transport Workers Union and Amalgamated Transit Union
Both of those unions represent MTA employees.
A spokesman for the TWU — which is locked in contract talks with the MTA — said the union would never sanction that type of action because workers caught could lose their job."
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March 22 1st time jobless claims revised much higher, 3/29/12 claims 'unexpectedly' higher, 78K fall off EUC as more drop out of work force
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3/29/12, "Q4 GDP Comes As Expected, Claims Miss Big Two Weeks In A Row," Zero Hedge, Tyler Durden
"Sure enough, last week's 348K beat of [first time jobless claims] 350K expectations has been revised wildly higher, to 364K, meaning the initial beat was not only a miss, it was wide by a mile relative to the 350K preliminary expectation. But robots do not care - all they care is the current print, which however this time also missed, printing at 359K on expectations of a 350K number. This is the first 4 week increase in the 4 week SMA since September as the weather impact of the record warm winter starts to fade away, as explained yesterday. Same
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3/29/12, "Q4 GDP Comes As Expected, Claims Miss Big Two Weeks In A Row," Zero Hedge, Tyler Durden
"Sure enough, last week's 348K beat of [first time jobless claims] 350K expectations has been revised wildly higher, to 364K, meaning the initial beat was not only a miss, it was wide by a mile relative to the 350K preliminary expectation. But robots do not care - all they care is the current print, which however this time also missed, printing at 359K on expectations of a 350K number. This is the first 4 week increase in the 4 week SMA since September as the weather impact of the record warm winter starts to fade away, as explained yesterday. Same
- gimmicks in the continuing claims number too which like
- everything out of the BLS
- the unemployment rate just dropped courtesy of
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4thQ 2011 GDP misses estimates, 4thQ corporate profits fall, final entire 2011 GDP 1.7
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3/29/12, "US 4Q GDP Up 3.0% Unrevised, Misses Views," NASDAQ, Dow Jones Newswires
"Gross domestic product, the broadest measure of all the goods and services produced in an economy, grew at an inflation-adjusted annual rate of 1.7% during all of 2011, the Commerce Department said Thursday in its third and final estimate for the quarter. The 2011 figure, also unrevised, marked a slowdown from the 3.0% rate of expansion in 2010.
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3/29/12, "US 4Q GDP Up 3.0% Unrevised, Misses Views," NASDAQ, Dow Jones Newswires
"Gross domestic product, the broadest measure of all the goods and services produced in an economy, grew at an inflation-adjusted annual rate of 1.7% during all of 2011, the Commerce Department said Thursday in its third and final estimate for the quarter. The 2011 figure, also unrevised, marked a slowdown from the 3.0% rate of expansion in 2010.
The quarterly gain, while the strongest gain since the second quarter of 2008, came in below expectations. Economists surveyed by Dow Jones Newswires had forecast fourth-quarter GDP would be revised up to a 3.2% growth rate.
Company profits, which had remained strong amid a sluggish recovery in the overall economy, fell on a quarterly basis. Corporate profits--after tax and unadjusted for inventories or capital consumption--declined at a 0.5% annual rate from the previous quarter.".
EPA provided the means to wreck the US and Obama is thrilled to play Gordon Gekko and do the wrecking
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"No coal, no power, no gas," Texas 2011 rolling blackouts, New Mexico state of emergency, called in National Guard. Environmental groups, hedge funds and politicians wrecking America because it's wreckable.
3/28/12, "The EPA Wrecking Ball," Alan Caruba, FactsNotFantasy
"The Environmental Protection Agency was created to clean the nation’s air and water where it was deemed that a hazard existed. Like most noble ideas and most Congressional mandates, the initial language was vague enough to be interpreted to mean anything those in charge wanted it to mean. Add in the global warming hoax and you have the means to destroy the nation.
Now it means that the source of fifty percent of all the electricity generated in the United States is being systematically put out of business and please do not act surprised; that’s exactly what Barack Obama said he intended to do if elected President.
This is evil writ large.
Shutting down utilities that use coal, an energy source the U.S. has in such abundance that it could provide electricity for the next hundreds of years, and ensuring that no new ones are built fits in perfectly with all the Green pipedreams about "renewable" energy. Solar and wind presently provide about two percent of the nation’s electricity and, without government subsidies and mandates requiring their use, they would not exist at all.
How stupid is it to not build more nuclear power plants when this form of power doesn’t emit anything but energy?
How stupid is it not to use coal when the U.S. is the Saudi Arabia of coal?
How stupid is it to begin to find reasons to regulate and thwart fracking, the technology to access trillions of cubic feet of natural gas that has been in use for decades?
How stupid is it to cover miles of land, far from any urban center, with hundreds of solar panels or huge, ugly wind turbines that kill thousands of birds every year?
The sun does not shine all the time, nor does the wind blow all the time. In the event of overcast skies or a day without wind, traditional plants—those using coal, gas, nuclear or generating hydroelectric power—have to be maintained as a backup. Take away the coal-fired plants and there were be huge gap in the national grid.
Darkness will descend and Americans will begin to live with blackouts and brownouts that will undermine every aspect of our lives. It’s bad enough when a town or even a city briefly loses power because of a storm, but imagine that occurring on a regular basis because there just aren’t enough utilities generating power!
What kind of people stand by idly while its own government conspires to take away the primary source of energy that everything else depends upon? The answer? You. The answer is the many elected politicians that have done little to rein in a rogue government agency intent on undermining the nation by denying it the ability to generate power with the least expensive source of electricity, coal.
The EPA, an unelected bureaucracy, has just ensured that all Americans, industries, small businesses, and individuals will begin pay far more for electrical power....
In a triumph of crony capitalism, Trzupek notes that “The big winner will be Obama’s good friend, GE Chairman Jeff Immelt. Since solar and wind cannot fill a 50,000 megawatt baseload gap, the only way to ensure continued reliability of the grid is to build a lot of natural gas-fired plants quickly. And who is the biggest supplier of natural gas-fired combustion engines? GE of course.”
If you think that environmental organizations like the Sierra Club and Friends of the Earth, among many others, are seeking to “protect” the Earth, you are seriously mistaken. They have been among the leading opponents of coal and they have had allies in Congress such as the Majority Leader of the Senate, Harry Reid, (D-NV) who has said “Coal makes us sick. Oil makes us sick.”
NO! Coal provides the engine of our nation’s electrical power and oil provides the energy that fuels our transportation and is the basis for countless products that enhance and improve our lives every day.
We are witnessing the destruction of the nation by the environmental movement and the EPA has just provided you with the most dramatic example of that plan." via Climate Depot
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2/2/11, "Mexico supplies electricity to wintry Texas," AFP
"Mexico's state electricity company on Wednesday started supplying electricity to the US state of Texas, where demand shot up amid unusually cold temperatures and caused power outages."...
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2/7/11, "Texas to Probe Rolling Blackouts," Wall St. Journal, Rebecca Smith
"Texas produces about a third of the nation's gas, so its problems led to disruptions last week—to California, Arizona and New Mexico, where the governor declared a state of emergency
2/11/11, "No coal, no power, no gas," American Thinker, Jeffrey Folks
"During the early February cold spell in the southern plains, when wind chills in Dallas dipped to minus twenty degrees, Texans were going without power to heat their homes and businesses even as the state was sitting on massive surpluses of natural gas. Even hospitals were having to switch to emergency generating systems. And this in the state with the largest energy production capacity in the continental US.
The answer may be quite simple. It seems that a great deal of natural gas got "stuck in the pipes" because there was not enough electricity to operate the pumps to move it along. And there was not enough electricity to operate the pumps because
"No coal, no power, no gas," Texas 2011 rolling blackouts, New Mexico state of emergency, called in National Guard. Environmental groups, hedge funds and politicians wrecking America because it's wreckable.
3/28/12, "The EPA Wrecking Ball," Alan Caruba, FactsNotFantasy
"The Environmental Protection Agency was created to clean the nation’s air and water where it was deemed that a hazard existed. Like most noble ideas and most Congressional mandates, the initial language was vague enough to be interpreted to mean anything those in charge wanted it to mean. Add in the global warming hoax and you have the means to destroy the nation.
Now it means that the source of fifty percent of all the electricity generated in the United States is being systematically put out of business and please do not act surprised; that’s exactly what Barack Obama said he intended to do if elected President.
This is evil writ large.
Shutting down utilities that use coal, an energy source the U.S. has in such abundance that it could provide electricity for the next hundreds of years, and ensuring that no new ones are built fits in perfectly with all the Green pipedreams about "renewable" energy. Solar and wind presently provide about two percent of the nation’s electricity and, without government subsidies and mandates requiring their use, they would not exist at all.
How stupid is it to not build more nuclear power plants when this form of power doesn’t emit anything but energy?
How stupid is it not to use coal when the U.S. is the Saudi Arabia of coal?
How stupid is it to begin to find reasons to regulate and thwart fracking, the technology to access trillions of cubic feet of natural gas that has been in use for decades?
How stupid is it to cover miles of land, far from any urban center, with hundreds of solar panels or huge, ugly wind turbines that kill thousands of birds every year?
The sun does not shine all the time, nor does the wind blow all the time. In the event of overcast skies or a day without wind, traditional plants—those using coal, gas, nuclear or generating hydroelectric power—have to be maintained as a backup. Take away the coal-fired plants and there were be huge gap in the national grid.
Darkness will descend and Americans will begin to live with blackouts and brownouts that will undermine every aspect of our lives. It’s bad enough when a town or even a city briefly loses power because of a storm, but imagine that occurring on a regular basis because there just aren’t enough utilities generating power!
What kind of people stand by idly while its own government conspires to take away the primary source of energy that everything else depends upon? The answer? You. The answer is the many elected politicians that have done little to rein in a rogue government agency intent on undermining the nation by denying it the ability to generate power with the least expensive source of electricity, coal.
The EPA, an unelected bureaucracy, has just ensured that all Americans, industries, small businesses, and individuals will begin pay far more for electrical power....
In a triumph of crony capitalism, Trzupek notes that “The big winner will be Obama’s good friend, GE Chairman Jeff Immelt. Since solar and wind cannot fill a 50,000 megawatt baseload gap, the only way to ensure continued reliability of the grid is to build a lot of natural gas-fired plants quickly. And who is the biggest supplier of natural gas-fired combustion engines? GE of course.”
If you think that environmental organizations like the Sierra Club and Friends of the Earth, among many others, are seeking to “protect” the Earth, you are seriously mistaken. They have been among the leading opponents of coal and they have had allies in Congress such as the Majority Leader of the Senate, Harry Reid, (D-NV) who has said “Coal makes us sick. Oil makes us sick.”
NO! Coal provides the engine of our nation’s electrical power and oil provides the energy that fuels our transportation and is the basis for countless products that enhance and improve our lives every day.
We are witnessing the destruction of the nation by the environmental movement and the EPA has just provided you with the most dramatic example of that plan." via Climate Depot
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2/2/11, "Mexico supplies electricity to wintry Texas," AFP
"Mexico's state electricity company on Wednesday started supplying electricity to the US state of Texas, where demand shot up amid unusually cold temperatures and caused power outages."...
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2/7/11, "Texas to Probe Rolling Blackouts," Wall St. Journal, Rebecca Smith
"Texas produces about a third of the nation's gas, so its problems led to disruptions last week—to California, Arizona and New Mexico, where the governor declared a state of emergency
- and ordered National Guard troops to help gas crews restore service."...
2/11/11, "No coal, no power, no gas," American Thinker, Jeffrey Folks
"During the early February cold spell in the southern plains, when wind chills in Dallas dipped to minus twenty degrees, Texans were going without power to heat their homes and businesses even as the state was sitting on massive surpluses of natural gas. Even hospitals were having to switch to emergency generating systems. And this in the state with the largest energy production capacity in the continental US.
- How was it that Texas suffered an extended period of rolling blackouts at a time
- when there's a glut of coal and natural gas waiting to be used?
- environmentalists had seen to it that plans for new coal-powered generating plants had been shuttered back in 2007.
- there was no electricity,
- and without the electricity,
- there was no natural gas.
- even less electricity to supply the pumps and everything else.
The Texas power blackouts affected millions of homeowners and businesses, as well as vital services such as hospitals, schools, and police and fire services.
- An extended loss of power during periods of extreme temperatures endangers everyone.
Unfortunately, environmentalists in Texas who blocked the construction of coal-powered plants and shut down others during the last decade
As it happened, plans for construction of eight large coal-powered plants were scrapped in 2007 in a private equity deal crafted by the environmental action group, - did not consider these consequences.
- might well have been avoided.
- Environmental Defense.
- reduce its carbon footprint to 1990 levels,
- by private equity group KKR (Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts).
It is ironic, considering the freezing temperatures that Texans endured during the first week of February, that an agreement to discontinue construction of coal-powered plants was predicated on the
- now discredited theory of man-made global warming. In order
- to lower global temperatures, as they imagined,
- Texas to heat their homes.
Can there be any doubt that the agreement to discontinue eight large power plants was a contributing factor in the rolling blackouts of February 2011? The generating capacity supplied by these plants would not have been dependent on the pumping of natural gas. It would have continued to heat homes and businesses, and to power emergency services, throughout the storm. Instead, the state was left depending on an
As in Texas, plans for new coal power plants have been scrubbed. They have been replaced by plants powered by natural gas, and by heavily subsidized wind and solar generation. The problem is that natural gas plants have not come on line quickly enough to replace the coal generation that has been lost, and wind and solar, which make up only 1% of power generation anyway,
- inherently less reliable mix of power sources.
As in Texas, plans for new coal power plants have been scrubbed. They have been replaced by plants powered by natural gas, and by heavily subsidized wind and solar generation. The problem is that natural gas plants have not come on line quickly enough to replace the coal generation that has been lost, and wind and solar, which make up only 1% of power generation anyway,
- are inherently unreliable.
- much of the country is in danger of experiencing outages similar to those in Texas.
Ironically, the US is in danger of power blackouts at a time when it is exporting greater and greater amount of coal to China and other countries.
- Already, America
- is sending 80 million tons of coal overseas,
- China and India are building one new coal generating plant every week.
- out in the cold."
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Justices Kagan and Sotomayor try the ObamaCare 'John Gotti defense', we're 'giving you a boatload of money'
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If it was just about "poor peoples health care" it would have been 3 pages not 3000.
3/28/12, "ObamaCare gets the John Gotti Defense," Tea Party Tribune, by mrcurmudgeon
"U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan characterized ObamaCare as the federal government’s way of saying, “We’re giving you [the states] a boat-load of money, there are no matching funds requirement, there are no extraneous conditions attached to it, it’s just a boat-load of federal money for you to take and spend on poor people’s health care. It doesn’t sound coercive to me,” insisted Kagan to [former] Solicitor General Paul Clement, who spoke for the 26 states challenging the constitutionality of ObamaCare on Wednesday.
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If it was just about "poor peoples health care" it would have been 3 pages not 3000.
3/28/12, "ObamaCare gets the John Gotti Defense," Tea Party Tribune, by mrcurmudgeon
"U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan characterized ObamaCare as the federal government’s way of saying, “We’re giving you [the states] a boat-load of money, there are no matching funds requirement, there are no extraneous conditions attached to it, it’s just a boat-load of federal money for you to take and spend on poor people’s health care. It doesn’t sound coercive to me,” insisted Kagan to [former] Solicitor General Paul Clement, who spoke for the 26 states challenging the constitutionality of ObamaCare on Wednesday.
“Let me give you a hypothetical, Mr. Clement,” added Justice Sonia Sotomayor, “Now, suppose I’m an employer and I see somebody I really like and I want to hire that person and I say, ‘I’m going to give you 10 million dollars a year to come work for me,’ and the person says, ‘Well, I … you know … I’ve never been offered anywhere approaching 10 million dollars a year …’ of course I’m going to say yes to that.
- Now, we would both agree that that’s not coercive, right?”
“Well,” responded Clement, “I guess I would want to know where the money came from.” With that, the courtroom gasped and then erupted with laughter.
“Wow, wow!” said a surprised Sotomayor, “I’m offering you 10 million dollars a year to come work for me and you’re saying that this is anything but a great choice?”
Sotomayor’s analogy was faulty, Clement explained, because the money in question “actually … came from my own bank account. And that’s what’s really going on here …”
What Kagan referred to as a free “boat-load of money” and Sotomayor called “a great choice” results from what the fictional mob character Vito Corleone called
- an “offer you can’t refuse.”
“He donated a lot of money to the local churches and supported whole neighborhoods,” said a man in a post to a website dedicated to an infamous neighbor, “Was he a nice guy? No, since he had folks killed and he was selling dope to kids … He did, however, make some positive impacts on the down-and-out neighborhoods … If he wasn’t such a public mafia figure, he would’ve been elected governor of New York or New Jersey years ago.” The neighbor in question was the late Gambino crime family boss John Joseph Gotti, known as the “Dapper Don” and the “Teflon Don.”
Gotti’s neighbor didn’t question where the Dapper Don got his boat-load of money. It was enough that all that cash had “positive impacts on the down-and-out neighborhoods.” To wonder from where and from whom that cash came was, well, as funny a question to Gotti’s neighbor as were councilor Clement’s moral qualms concerning ObamaCare’s extortion to Justice Kagan, Justice Sotomayor and the packed courtroom gallery of media and Washington movers and shakers.
“Because power corrupts,” observed John Adams, “society’s demands for moral authority and character
- increase as the importance of the position increases.”
- Not in John Gotti’s America."
John Gotti mugshot via Tea Party Tribune
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3/28/12, "The ObamaCare Argument – The Third and Final Day," Hans A. von Spakovsky
3/29/12, "Judicial activists in the Supreme Court," Washington Post, E.J. Dionne, Jr., opinion
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Obama EPA rep. jets to Eurabia for talks on 'environment and governance' challenges. When did congress vote to put the US under global governance?
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3/28/12, "EPA’s Jackson jets to Paris for Agenda 21 planning," Junk Science, Steve Milloy
"EPA has a long history of international collaboration on a wide range of global environmental issues. In recent years, EPA’s bilateral and multilateral partnerships have increased efforts to address environmental and governance challenges. In collaboration with other nations through the OECD, EPA is furthering its mission to protect the environment by ensuring national security, facilitating commerce, addressing climate change, and promoting sustainable development."...
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March 22, 2012, "Lisa P. Jackson, EPA Administrator: fulfilling the UN Mission," Dennis Ambler, Science and Public Policy Institute
"The EPA is effectively no longer under the control of the US Congress; its allegiance is to the UN and implementation of the policies of Sustainable Development via Agenda 21. It has considerable involvement in the IPCC reports and claims the UN body as a peer reviewed authority, in pursuing ever more rigorous controls of “CO2 pollution”, to bring about the realisation
3/28/12, "EPA’s Jackson jets to Paris for Agenda 21 planning," Junk Science, Steve Milloy
"EPA has a long history of international collaboration on a wide range of global environmental issues. In recent years, EPA’s bilateral and multilateral partnerships have increased efforts to address environmental and governance challenges. In collaboration with other nations through the OECD, EPA is furthering its mission to protect the environment by ensuring national security, facilitating commerce, addressing climate change, and promoting sustainable development."...
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March 22, 2012, "Lisa P. Jackson, EPA Administrator: fulfilling the UN Mission," Dennis Ambler, Science and Public Policy Institute
"The EPA is effectively no longer under the control of the US Congress; its allegiance is to the UN and implementation of the policies of Sustainable Development via Agenda 21. It has considerable involvement in the IPCC reports and claims the UN body as a peer reviewed authority, in pursuing ever more rigorous controls of “CO2 pollution”, to bring about the realisation
- of “environmental governance”."
via Tom Nelson, Climate Depot
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