Feb. 7, 2009 -- COLOMBIA -- Poder
Intelligence Report Classifies Venezuela as “Anti-U.S. Leader”
The National Director of Intelligence, in his annual threat assessment before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, said Venezuela continues to fund Colombian insurgents
Admiral Dennis Blair¹s report details the principle threats to the interests and security of the U.S. worldwide. In addition to mentioning the usual security concerns ­ Iran, North Korea, Afghanistan, Al Qaida and Iraq the report dedicates significant space to Venezuela. In his statement Blair said Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez "continued his covert support to the terrorist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC)." Blair also called Chavez one of the U.S.'s foremost international detractors and a potential destabilizing actor in the region - highlighting Chavez's purchases of Russian weapons, close ties to Iran, and his increasingly belligerent opposition to Colombia¹s defense cooperation agreement with the U.S., which Chavez has called a declaration of war. source

Feb. 4, 2009 -- COLOMBIA -- Poder
Ecopetrol and Knoc Create Savia Peru
Ecopetrol and Knoc Create Savia Peru
State oil firm Ecopetrol and South Korea's Knoc confirmed this Thurs. that they concluded the process of transforming the Petro Tech Peru company, in order to convert it into a firm called Savia Peru. The firm plans to invest over $2.5 billion in the next eight years and hopes to become the top crude and gas producer in the country. The project aims to produce 18,000 barrels of oil daily, reaching 50,000 in 2016. Ecopetrol has a 50% share of Savia Peru. source

Feb. 2, 2009 -- Lisi, NY Post
Bin Laden: Global warming is US' fault
Osama bin Laden has raised the terror warning level to green. In a message that would make Al Gore proud, the man behind the Sept. 11 attacks called for the world to boycott American products and the US dollar -- blaming this country for global warming, according to an audiotape released today. In the tape, the terror lord rants of the dangers of climate change and said the only way to stop it is to bring "the wheels of the American economy" to a grinding halt. He called for "drastic solutions" to global warming -- "not solutions that partially reduce the effect of climate change," according to the taped message. The message was played today by the Qatar-based Arab satellite TV channel Al Jazeera. source

Feb. 2, 2009 -- Poder
White House to Push Biofuels
As the president tries to garner GOP support for his climate-change bill, he is broadening his support of energy sources seen as less polluting
President Obama is expanding his repertoire of energy sources to include biofuels, as he seeks to attract GOP support for his legislation to reduce greenhouse gases. source

Feb. 2, 2009
Dear Senator,
Anyone familiar with the 2011 budget and recent regulations would have to be insane to hire employees or start a business. The budget includes 86.7 billion in tax increases plus 39.0 billion in "Climate revenues". With increased taxes and "skyrocketing" energy costs we see more layoffs and bankruptcies, not employment. The most to suffer will be the middle class.
Recent news would send any company running to a friendlier country.

Feb. 1, 2009 -- Mason and Timothy Gardner
Obama budget drops revenue outlook for carbon trade
WASHINGTON, Feb 1 (Reuters) - The White House on Monday dropped prospects for revenue from a climate cap-and-trade system opposed by many lawmakers, but its proposed budget still called for a "market-based" policy to fight climate change. source

January 28, 2010 -- Reuters
The United States on Thursday formally notified the United Nations that it has embraced the Copenhagen Accord setting nonbinding goals for reducing greenhouse gas emissions that was negotiated last month.
Todd Stern, the top U.S. climate negotiator for the Obama administration, also gave notice that, as expected, it will aim for a 17 percent reduction in emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases blamed for global warming by 2020, with 2005 as the base year.
A final emissions reduction target will be submitted, the U.S. said, once the U.S. Congress enacts domestic legislation requiring carbon pollution cuts. But such legislation has an uncertain fate in the Senate.
CUBA - Wrote to U.N. Secretariat expressing opposition to the accord. source
After projecting a record deficit the White House promises to cut carbon emmission to fight a fabricated "Global Warming" danger. As the President said, "fuel prices will skyrocket.
Fidel makes more sense.

January 27, 2010 -- Media Digest -- Gyan Varma / DNA
Finding on Himalayas 'poorly substantiated': Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Geneva: The United Nations-led Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) admitted on Wednesday that "clear and well-established standards of evidence were not applied properly" and expressed regret within days of allegations that the Nobel-winning agency had got it wrong that Himalayan glaciers would vanish by 2035. source

January 27, 2010 -- Media Digest
Signs Of The Apocalypse: The 182 Page CBO 2010 Deficit Analysis
A review of the Congressional Budget Office forecast of the 2010 to 2020 fiscal P&L and balance sheets for the US government leaves the impression that the government is caught in a financial vice from which it cannot free itself—at least not in the next ten years.
Every newspaper, newscast, and online information site gave front page billing to the CBO report that the 2010 federal budget deficit will be $1.35 trillion, assuming current laws and policies remain unchanged. ‘The agency worried in its report that if Congress does not cut spending or raise revenue via taxes that the numbers could be even worse than they were in 2009 when the deficit was $1.4 trillion. The part of the analysis that should startle people the most is the CBO assumption that unemployment will remain above 10% for at least the first half of next year. This information must have caused everyone in The White House to blanch. The Administration has pushed the idea that its stimulus package would rescue the U.S. from severe joblessness early this year. source
Does anyone care? Washington has no serious plans for new jobs and no real budget cuts only incredibly wasteful "health" and "global warming" scams. They don’t care. It’s easier to print money and raise taxes.

US Debt 54,802,863,650,000
Population 306,597,870
Your portion 178,745

Budget cut 17,000,000,000
Per cent cut 0.48%

Oil Import barrels 4,219,560,000
Price per barrel 74
Cost of foreign oil 312,247,440,000

January 27, 2010
State of the Union speech, President Obama,
"And no area is more ripe for such innovation than energy. You can see the results of last year's investments in clean energy in the North Carolina company that will create 1,200 jobs nationwide, helping to make advanced batteries, or in the California business that will put 1,000 people to work making solar panels.
But to create more of these clean-energy jobs, we need more production, more efficiency, more incentives, and that means building a new generation of safe, clean nuclear power plants in this country.
It means making tough decisions about opening new off-shore areas for oil and gas development.
It means continued investment in advanced biofuels and clean-coal technologies.
And, yes, it means passing a comprehensive energy and climate bill with incentives that will finally make clean energy the profitable kind of energy in America.
I'm grateful to the House for passing such a bill last year."
Transcript of speech

1. 2400 jobs created is hardly significant when our loses are in the millions.
2. President Obama's election platform noted the importance of nuclear energy. He later deleted it.
3. The House bill allows drilling 12 miles off shore and places where there is no oil.
4. The House bill removed long standing drilling incentives from States.
5. Adding the EPA as another layer of regulation assured that no new nuclear plants will be built. No off-shore wells will be drilled.
6. President Obama listens to only one climate lobbyist, Al Gore.
7. President Obama will find it very difficult to advance energy with Nancy Pelosi and lobbyists obstructing all real energy proposals.
8. Until the President stops bashing companies, including banks and those listed on Wall Street, we will not have real job growth.

Most Insane Regulation of the Century
SEC to require disclosure of climate change risks
January 28, 2010 -- The Washington Post
A politically divided Securities and Exchange Commission voted on Wednesday to make clear when companies must provide information to investors about the business risks associated with climate change.
The commission, in a 3 to 2 vote, decided to require that companies disclose in their public filings the impact of climate change on their businesses -- from new regulations or legislation they may face domestically or abroad to potential changes in economic trends or physical risks to a company. more
This administration refuses to defend us from terrorists but insists on defending us from the global warming they invented.

January 28, 2010 -- News on the Net -- Ben Webster
Scientists in stolen e-mail scandal hid climate data
The university at the centre of the climate change row over stolen e-mails broke the law by refusing to hand over its raw data for public scrutiny.
The University of East Anglia breached the Freedom of Information Act by refusing to comply with requests for data concerning claims by its scientists that man-made emissions were causing global warming. more

January 27, 2010 -- Anthea Pitt
UK hopes rise as bid offerings unveiled
The UK put a record 2818 licences up for grabs in the country's 26th round today, as industry hopes rose on expectations that Chancellor Alistair Darling will go public with incentives aimed at boosting the upstream sector later in the day.
Energy & Climate Change Minister Lord Hunt made the announcement during a visit to a fabrication yard in Fife, Scotland, this morning.
The round includes acreage in all areas of the UK offshore, including the much-touted West of Shetland frontier play, Cardigan Bay off Wales, and tracts in the English Channel and the UK's westerly approach waters off Cornwall. more

January 19, 2010
The voters of Massachusetts have spoken for us.
We don’t want a corrupt "health care" bill or an economy and job killing "cap and trade" bill.
Scott Brown cleared the way for all of us to speak out. We must demand reduced health care costs and full coverage. Demand real energy and real jobs.

January 16, 2010 -- By Tom Grace -- Cooperstown News
Arcuri to DEC: Gas regs need work
More than 100 people turned out Friday at the Otesaga Hotel as U.S. Rep. Michael Arcuri, D-Utica, called on the DEC to rewrite regulations for natural gas drilling.
more

Health and Energy - A taxing agenda
While the networks are busily reporting on the "Health Care" bill and the earthquake in Haiti it is clear that in the background the administration is working hard to finalize the "Global Warming" or "Cap and Trade" bill.
It is extremely important for the administration that this bill passes. Spending is out of control and Americans are tired of rising taxes. The only way the administration can raise more money for pet projects and special interest groups is by hiding them. The "Health Care" bill is a huge reward for the insurance and drug industries. The proceeds of the "Cap and Trade" bill, an immense energy tax scheme can be used for virtually any project.
We have a remarkable chance to slow down the Obama-Pelosi-Reid machine and their two TAX bills. Martha Coakley, a Democrat is running in the special Massachusetts U.S. Senate race. If she wins she would be a rubber stamp for the administration. Her opponent, Scott Brown, is against taxes, for real energy and real jobs. The special election is on Tuesday January 19.
You can make a difference.
Please watch the powerful TV ad our friend Dick Morris has crafted Go Here Now.

Jan. 13, 2010 -- World Oil
ExxonMobil, Petrobras and TPAO sign agreement to explore deep water offshore Turkey
Exxon Mobil Corporation and Petrobras have announced that an ExxonMobil affiliate signed an agreement with a Petrobras affiliate and the Turkish National Oil Company (TPAO) to explore for hydrocarbons in the deepwater Black Sea offshore Turkey.
Under the terms of the farm-in agreement, ExxonMobil Exploration and Production Turkey B.V. will acquire a 25 percent interest in the Sinop, Ayancik and Çars,amba sub-blocks of the AR/TPO/3922 exploration license. Petrobras will retain a 25% equity interest in the block and will remain the operator. TPAO holds the remaining 50% interest. Source
Oil related jobs available: Brazil, China, Cuba, India, Turkey and many other countries

Jan. 13, 2010 -- Upstream
US passes Russia as top gas producer
The US overtook Russia as the world’s largest natural-gas producer last year as operators tapped unconventional resources while demand in Russia plunged amid the country’s worst economic decline on record.
US output advanced 3.9%t in January through October to 18.3 trillion feet (519 billion cubic metres), according to the latest Department of Energy data.
Russian output, about four-fifths of which comes from state-run Gazprom, plunged 17% in the period to 462 billion cubic metres. Source

Jan. 12, 2010 -- World Oil
Egypt reveals $3 billion drilling plans for 2010
Egypt’s Minister of Petroleum, Sameh Fahmy, has revealed that the North African state plans to drill 520 exploratory and development wells for oil and 36 for natural gas in 2010.
The drilling costs for the oil wells will be around $2 billion with the gas wells costing $1 billion due to them being in the Nile Delta and the Mediterranean.
The Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation awarded the concessions where the drilling will take place. Egypt has also said that no export contracts for gas will be signed for the foreseeable future due to rising domestic demand. Source

January 12, 2010 -- Christian Science Monitor
Chavez vows to punish "bourgeoisie speculation" after devaluing currency
The move by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to steeply devalue the nation's currency has generated anxiety among citizens, who rushed to stores over the weekend to purchase goods they expect will rise in price. But for economists and analysts, it also underlies the dire economic straits of the oil-rich nation, which already suffers the highest inflation rate in the region and will face a tough recovery ahead. more: Source
Socialist economic system failed so you punish the goose that laid the golden egg:
punish "bourgeoisie speculation" in America we punish Wall Street

10th January 2010 -- By David Rose -- Daily Mail
The mini ice age starts here
The bitter winter afflicting much of the Northern Hemisphere is only the start of a global trend towards cooler weather that is likely to last for 20 or 30 years, say some of the world’s most eminent climate scientists.
Their predictions based on an analysis of natural cycles in water temperatures in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans – challenge some of the global warming orthodoxy’s most deeply cherished beliefs, such as the claim that the North Pole will be free of ice in summer by 2013.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1242011/DAVID-ROSE-The-mini-ice-age-starts-here.html#ixzz0cYVnEEaW

Jan. 10, 2010 -- By jim_robbins on
An Inconvenient Truth: The Ice Cap Is Growing
A report from the US National Snow and Ice Data Center in Colorado finds that Arctic summer sea ice has increased by 409,000 square miles, or 26 per cent, since 2007. But didn't we hear from the same Center that the North Pole was set to disappear by now? We all deserve apologies from the global warming fanatics who wanted to reshape the world in their image and called those who objected to their wild theories ignorant deniers. Source
Note: This is the opposite of what Gore reported in Copenhagen.

Jan 6, 2010
Florida Freeze Continues To Threaten Agriculture
Governor Charlie Crist is declaring a state of emergency to help farmers save their crops from freezing temperatures. Crist issued an executive order lifting weight and height restrictions for trucks hauling produce......
The last time Florida felt a freeze that stayed more than a week this far down the peninsula, was 1985. The freeze killed crops and decimated orange groves. Terry McElroy of the Department of Agriculture says the damage forced farmers to replant farther south. Source

Jan. 2010 -- Himalayan glaciers are not melting.
Dec. 2009 -- Gore: (email) "was from 10 years ago"
2009 -- Carbon Markets are a Sham
2009 -- The Infamous HARRY_READ_ME file
March 2009 -- EPA supresses CEI critique
2009 -- East Anglia's Climatic Research fraud
2007 -- NASA's Goddard calculation errors
2003 -- The Mann/NOA IPCC Hockey Stick Hoax

Basics of Global Control through Climate Control:
Global Governance: Agenda 21
UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs
Division for Sustainable Development
Rio de Janerio, Brazil, 3 to 14 June 1992.
Agenda 21 - text
Global Energy: Kyoto Protocol
UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
adopted in New York on 9 May 1992.
Kyoto Protocol - text

Britain Goes Berserk
November 25, 2009 -- Telegraph.co.uk
Climate change poses a "real and present danger" to the immediate health of millions of people, Andy Burnham, the Health Secretary, has warned.
His comments came as a series of reports suggested that tens of thousands of lives a year could be saved in Britain alone by cutting greenhouse gas emissions.
The warning comes less than a fortnight before international leaders are due to meet in Copenhagen for crunch climate change talks.
Cutting animal farming by a third could significantly reduce emissions and save around 18,000 lives a year in Britain because of the resultant drop in cases of heart disease if people eat less red meat, scientists estimate.
Another 5,000 early deaths from lung problems and other conditions could be prevented by better home insulation and reducing the use of carbon based fuels.
Reducing our dependence on cars could improve also health, as well as lower emissions, the studies found.
Switching to walking instead of driving for many journeys could also cut deaths from heart disease by up to 4,200 cases a year.
The move could also save around 200 deaths a year each from dementia and breast cancer.
source
Good advice but it has nothing to do with greenhouse gas emissions. Also, add:
Ban alcohol. Making ethanol instead would save thousands of accidents and lives.
Water vapor is a greenhouse gas. Ban hot or warm showers.


November 10, 2009 -- Chelsea Schilling -- WorldNetDaily

Waxman-Markey Bill:
Sen. Maria Cantwell confirmed that the Cap & Trade bill would send $1.4 trillion overseas in so-called "international offsets."
We have to ration health care for seniors, leave 25 million uninsured but can borrow and send $1.4 trillion overseas.
Is this insanity or treason?

World will 'cool for the next decade'
09 September 2009 by Fred Pearce
FORECASTS of climate change are about to go seriously out of kilter. We could be about to enter one or even two decades of cooler temperatures, according to one of the world's top climate modellers.
"People will say this is global warming disappearing," Mojib Latif told more than 1500 climate scientists gathered at the UN's World Climate Conference in Geneva, Switzerland, last week. "I am not one of the sceptics. However, we have to ask the nasty questions ourselves or other people will do it."
Few climate scientists go as far as Latif, an author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and a climate physicist at the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences at the University of Kiel, Germany. Yet many now agree that the short-term prognosis for climate change is less certain than once thought. more


October 06, 2009
U.S. Blocks Oil Drilling at 60 Sites in Utah
The Department of the Interior has frozen oil and gas development on 60 of 77 contested drilling sites in Utah,
Reasons included possible damage to the habitat of sage grouse, which is being considered for endangered species protection, and to avoid dust and noise pollution associated with drilling operations.
Jobs killed:
Engineering - determining hole locations
Construction - Access roads Onsite offices & storage
Manufacturing - Drill rigs Pipes & fittings Drill bits
Office - On-site & headquarters
Government - Site inspectors
Food service - On-site meals
Housing - Housing for new employees
Trucking -- Crude to refinery
Retail - Sales to new employees
Taxes & royalties lost
Lease income
Corporate income taxes
Employee income taxes
Employee sales taxes
Sales taxes on petroleum products
Thousands of potential jobs are killed through government regulations and restrictions.
Many existing jobs will be lost through the coming health care and cap & trade bills.
Be ready when the next energy & economic crisis strikes.

Nanci Pelosi's Cap & Trade Bill:
"I'm trying to save the planet" -- Nancy: July 29, 2009
Nancy: Read the bill!
It sells licenses to pollute. It is terrible for the environment!
It is just another special interest pork bill!
Creates jobs? Yes government jobs paid for by taxpayers!
Experts: Carbon Tax needed and NOT Cap-and-Trade Emission Trading Scheme (ETS)
Scientists, economists and writers variously argue strongly FOR a global Carbon Tax that will directly put a price on greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution and enable urgently required rapid transformation to a non-carbon economy.
They argue AGAINST carbon pricing based on a Kyoto Protocol-based Cap-and Trade Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS)
Among the people who prefer carbon-based taxes over cap-and-trade are:
Al Gore - Former US Vice President and Nobel Laureate
James Hansen - Professor; Head, NASA Goddard Institute
Jonathan Leake - editor of the UK Sunday Times.
William Nordhaus - Professor; Economics, Yale University.
Jacqueline McGlade - Professor; European Environment Agency,
Daniel M. Kammen, - Professor; University of California.
Barry Brook - Professor; University of Adelaide, Australia.
Dr Robert J. Shapiro - Chair, U.S. Climate Task Force
Joseph Stiglitz - Professor; 2001 Economics Nobel Laureate
Greenpeace - leading global environment protection organization
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Chris Williams -- Socialist Worker
Worse than no bill at all
"the climate bill making its way through Congress is more focused on preserving corporate profits than the environment."
While much has been made of the bill's promise to cut 17 percent of CO2 emissions by 2020, the baseline has been changed from 1990 (when the baseline for Kyoto began) to 2005. Therefore, in the best-case scenario--i.e., if the system actually works like it's supposed to--this represents just a 4 percent reduction of U.S. emissions from 1990.   more

July 8, 2009
The G8 meeting:
Rich nations sought to persuade China and India to cut greenhouse gas emissions
Al Gore: "If the United States leads, China will follow"
Obviously the Chinese are smarter and more honest than Al Gore.

Real Clear Government.
Where is the transparency we were promised?
In March of 2009 The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) drafted a 98-page report that warned against making hasty "decisions based on a scientific hypothesis that does not appear to explain most of the available data."
March 17, 2009. Al McGartland, an EPA official, sent an e-mail message to the authors stating "The administrator and the administration has decided to move forward... and your comments do not help the legal or policy case for this decision."
April 17, 2009. The EPA issued an endangerment finding, saying that global warming poses a serious threat to public health and safety. Much of the findings were based on information gathered by other agencies as well as on the IPCC Plenary reports written in 2007.
June 26, 2009. The Competitive Enterprise Institute released the draft of the "internal study on climate science which was suppressed by the Environmental Protection Agency."
Write or call your representatives. Demand that they read the report before the cap and trade bill is adopted.
    draft copy of report     CEI transmittal Energy Tax Facts
The Markey-Waxman "Cap-and-trade" Energy Tax bill, in the current form being considered by the House Energy and Commerce committee, would have the following catastrophic effects by 2035:
1. Reduce aggregate gross domestic product (GDP) by $9.6 trillion annually;
2. Destroy 1,105,000 American jobs per year on average, with peak years seeing unemployment rise by over 2,479,000 jobs;
3. Raise electricity rates 90 percent after adjusting for inflation;
4. Raise inflation-adjusted gasoline prices by 74 percent;
5. Raise residential natural gas prices by 55 percent;
6. Raise an average family's annual energy bill by $1,500 annually; and
7. Increase inflation-adjusted federal debt by 26 percent, or $29,150 additional federal debt per person, again after adjusting for inflation.
Source: Heritage Foundation
May 5, 2009
Please tax us!
According to the latest energy bill (H.R.2454) the government intends to set up a system to control carbon emission through "Cap and trade".
Each year the government would issue your company (you) a permit to emit a fixed amount of carbon. You will not be allowed to exceed your permitted amount. If you reduce the amount of carbon you emit you will be allowed to sell the excess allowance you have received. If exceed your allowance, you will be able to buy an additional allowance from the companies who have cut down their emission. You will also be able to buy allowances from companies that specialize in carbon reduction.
A government department will measure and track your carbon emission as well as control your allowances all trades.
An alternative to "cap and trade" is the carbon tax. You are taxed on the amount of carbon you emit. The government would still have to measure the pollution produced and tax accordingly.
Please make it simple and clear! Tax all fossil fuels. If we use more fuel we emit more carbon and pay more. If we become more efficient we use less fuel and pay less, The system is already in place. You (The government) can start collecting the additional tax almost immediately and we (the taxpayers) will see where the money is spent.





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