Whatever you think about the leaked emails showing that “tricks” were used to “hide the decline” in the climate data, and the fact that the original source data showing historical climate information was destroyed, you should agree on two things.

The Carbon Footprint of War

First, as Harvey Wasserman notes, continuing the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq will more than wipe out any reduction in carbon from the government’s proposed climate measures. Writing about the escalation in the Afghanistan war, Wasserman says:

The war would also come with a carbon burst. How will the massive emissions created by 100,000-plus soldiers in wartime be counted in the 17% reduction rubric? Will the HumVees be converted to hybrids? What is the carbon impact of Predator bombs that destroy Afghan families and villages?

The continuance of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars completely and thoroughly undermines the government’s claims that there is a global warming emergency and that reducing carbon output through cap and trade is needed to save the planet.

I can’t take anything the government says about carbon footprints seriously until the government ends the unnecessary wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. For evidence that the Iraq war is unnecessary, see this. Read this for evidence that the U.S. could have taken Bin Laden out years ago and avoided a decades long war in Afghanistan. And for proof that the entire war on Muslim extremists is unnecessary for our national security, see this.

War is also very harmful to the economy. See this, this and this.

Carbon Trading

Second, the proposed solution to global warming – cap and trade – is a scam. Specifically:

• The economists who invented cap-and-trade say that it won’t work for global warming

• Many environmentalists say that carbon trading won’t effectively reduce carbon emissions

• Our bailout buddies over at Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley, Citigroup and the other Wall Street behemoths are buying heavily into carbon trading (see this, this, this, this, this and this). As University of Maryland professor economics professor and former Chief Economist at the U.S. International Trade Commission Peter Morici writes:
  

  Obama must ensure that the banks use the trillions of dollars in federal bailout assistance to renegotiate mortgages and make new loans to worthy homebuyers and businesses. Obama must make certain that banks do not continue to squander federal largess bypadding executive bonuses, acquiring other banks and pursuing new high-return, high-risk lines of businesses in merger activity, carbon trading and complex derivatives. Industry leaders like Citigroup have announced plans to move in those directions. Many of these bankers enjoyed influence in and contributed generously to the Obama campaign. Now it remains to be seen if a President Obama can stand up to these same bankers and persuade or compel them to act responsibly.

  In other words, the same companies that made billions off of derivatives and other scams and are now getting bailed out on your dime are going to make billions from carbon trading.

Consensus

Everyone should read the leaked emails and rationally think through what they mean. But whatever one believes about climategate (the leaked emails showing that “tricks” were used to “hide the decline” in the climate data and the destruction of the original source data), we should all be able to agree that:

(1) We should end the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq; and

(2) We should not let the financial giants who caused the financial crisis to profit off of cap and trade schemes.

Source: Washington’s Blog

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In a recent and unusual action, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke wrote a column in a newspaper, in this case the online version of the Washington Post, which attempted to undermine the legislation initiated by Ron Paul to at minimum require that the Federal Reserve be fully audited by the Government Accountability Office (GAO).

Some of Bernanke’s thoughts are actually very disturbing, and confirm more than ever why the Fed needs to be audited. Let’s look at several comments he made in the column.

In reference to auditing the Fed and taking away its regulatory powers, Bernanke said this:

“These measures are very much out of step with the global consensus on the appropriate role of central banks, and they would seriously impair the prospects for economic and financial stability in the United States.”

What Bernanke subtly attempts to do here is take the issue out of the authority of the United States in the minds of the readers and place it in the authority of “global consensus.” Who cares about global consensus, and what he also calls the “appropriate role of central banks?”

With the fact that Bernanke continually refers to this in a variety of ways when attempting to defend the Federal Reserve in its ‘doing business as usual,’ it seems to strike at the core of what Ron Paul and many of us are concerned about, and that is what types of entangling alliances and agreements are being made with foreign governments and foreign central banks without lawmakers or the American people knowing what they are. This, probably more than anything else, is what Bernanke wants to keep hidden.

Essentially how I read it, is Bernanke is attempting to make it look like this isn’t an American issue but some type of global issue. Bernanke is wrong! If this isn’t an American issue than what is? It already unveils that Bernanke has something to hide in this regard, and global governance through these financial alliances seems to be a big part of it. All Americans should be concerned about that.

The other major attempt at manipulation Bernanke attempted to persuade people with the column was to make it seem like all of this is just a result of the public being angry with the Federal Reserve for not handling the current economic crisis in a way that it would largely be avoided.

“The Federal Reserve, like other regulators around the world, did not do all that it could have to constrain excessive risk-taking in the financial sector in the period leading up to the crisis,” Bernanke said.

Bernanke goes on to say that once they got hold of things they then came to the rescue and made things much better for us (laughter in the background).

The problem with Bernanke’s idea that lawmakers are simply responding to the anger of the public over the situation is completely false, at least in how it relates to Ron Paul and auditing the Fed. It could possibly true with Chris Dodd’s proposal to create a super agency to regulate monetary policy, as he’s behind in the polls in his bid for reelection, and has been perceived as a friend of the big banks for a long time.

But with Ron Paul, he has been on the record for decades concerning not only reining in the Federal Reserve, but ending it altogether. So to make it look like this is something new, is completely dishonest on the part of Bernanke, who knows full well the beliefs and thoughts of Ron Paul on the matter over the decades.

Finally, Bernanke plays the old card of political independence, which it seems he is the only one concerned with. Bernanke writes that if the public perceives Congress is influencing interest rate decisions, it “would undermine the confidence the public and the markets have in the Fed to act in the long-term economic interest of the nation.”

There’s no other way to say it, that is just a bunch of hot air. The vast majority of the public has no idea how all of this works, and to say they’re walking around thinking with dread that Congress could be influencing interest rates, is bizarre to say the least.

For the markets, they just try to figure out what the near-term interest rates will be to make base their decisions on. Those rates don’t always match the expectations of the markets, and so aren’t that important or as valuable for market confidence as Bernanke is attempting to make us think.

The bottom line to me is Bernanke knows the proposal by Christopher Dodd probably will have little if any possibility of passing into law. What he fears is the bringing to light of the activities of the Fed, which the full audit from the Government Accountability Office would do, through the legislation presented by Ron Paul, which has unprecedented support. This is why he’s attempting to confuse and distort the issue, in order to take our focus away from what needs to be done.

Source: American Banking News

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Uncle Sam was created as a symbol of the United States representing the ideals of freedom, equality, and justice. Although this symbol has been a patriotic representation for over 150 years, Uncle Sam cannot stand as a fair symbol of our nation any longer. With recent attacks to the Constitution and Bill of Rights, citizens’ rights have been eroded.  If this long time representative of our nation could speak to us today perhaps he would remind us that our constitution gives us unalienable rights from the creator to the individual and can not under any circumstance be surrendered or taken.

Contrary to the common misconception, the United States is a constitutional republic and not a democracy. In a republic, the sovereignty resides with the people themselves and one may act on his own or through his representatives when he chooses to confront a problem. The people have no obligation to the government; instead, the government is a servant of the people. Since September 11, 2001 we have been witnessing the destruction of our republic. Congress is gradually dismantling the Bill of Rights and the Constitution with the strong influence of the two most recent presidents. The public is distracted by a left/right paradigm that is controlled by the establishment. While the public is busy criticizing those on the other side of the paradigm, the establishment’s power grab goes unchecked and our constitutional rights are further eroded. In this way national sovereignty and the freedom of individuals is being destroyed.

On October 26, 2001, American citizens’ right to privacy ended with the passage of the Patriot Act. Of the 435 US Representatives, the Patriot Act was read by no one before it was voted on and passed, a violation of the Representatives’ oath of office.  The 342 paged bill allows for violations to citizens’ rights including the search of home and property without knowledge or consent of the citizen, known as “sneak and peek” spying. Also permitted by the bill is the indefinite imprisonment of any citizen without due process, access to the courts, or the counsel of a lawyer. The Federal Bureau of Investigation is now able to obtain records from businesses, hospitals, bookstores, and libraries for any reason and can search phone, email, and financial records without a court order.

Since the passing of the Patriot Act, a number of bills have been initiated and passed by Congress, which further violate citizens’ liberties. The Military Commissions Act of October 17, 2006 assigns dictatorial powers to the president while stripping citizens of the right to habeas corpus. The John Warner National Defense Act empowers military troops to police within US cities during emergency situations to suppress public disorder and dissent, a violation of the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878. The US has also engaged in torture, initiated undeclared wars, built FEMA camps that closely resemble concentration camps, encouraged the public to spy on each other, and committed several other acts that allow the government to have increased control over the lives of its citizens.

A number of groups and individuals constitute the establishment or ruling class elite and weld enormous influence over our country’s policy makers. Our government servants are constantly changing laws to favor and protect global banks. While the Constitution is being destroyed, these global bankers are committing financial terrorism. The private banking cartel of the Federal Reserve has been all but openly permitted to bankrupt our country and destroy our wealth, setting up the need for a global currency. The multinational corporations as well as the technocrats of large foundations and other non-governmental organizations lobby congress with a large degree of influence as well. Seldom is it the voice of ordinary citizens the shapes the actions and opinions of our representatives in congress.

From the influence of the global powers and ruling establishment a new world order is emerging. Once only recognized by the media as mere conspiracy, it is now considered a reality as hundreds of articles across the world address this issue on a weekly basis. The standardization of one system of government throughout the world is steadily being introduced as we come into the Age of World Managers. If you look at the charter and mandate of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Royal Institute of International Affairs, you will see that the future they envision is a world of service.  According to these documents, every individual’s only purpose will be to serve the world state. We are living through a cultural revolution right now that is transitioning us into a world system.

The major media plays a significant role in forming social opinion as it relates to global and national events. Many people’s thoughts and opinions are chiefly shaped by what they view on television.  These individuals have been trained not to look at the obvious but only at what is presented to them. This country has fallen victim to a form of psychic tyranny, where we have become mind slaves of major media mainly through the use of television. If you study Stalin you will see how those in power know that the masses can be strongly influenced by repetition. The media bombards the public with repetition of certain thoughts or opinions and individuals slowly start to adopt these thoughts and opinions as their own.  Lenin once said, “We shall conquer the world by the use of slogans.”  President Obama was elected on an array of slogans one of which was taken from a children’s cartoon, “Yes We Can.”

Our culture, created mainly by the mass media, has trained the public to be docile and apathetic. The people of the US have become conditioned to accept what is presented to them; they are kept in a state of ignorance as to the true on goings of our government. Rather than trust themselves, many people will only shape their opinions from those who are presented as experts or authority figures in the mass media. In this way the US resembles the beginnings of a scientific dictatorship- a managed society ruled by the intellectual elite. It will be through the use of slogans and scientific experts that the new world order will be ushered in; the establishment is ensuring a smooth transition to a global system without significant opposition from the people.

Public relations pioneer Edward Bernays wrote in his 1928 book, “Propaganda”, “The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country…” Everyday it grows more evident that we do not control the government; the government is controlled by the global elite who are increasingly managing the people. Our nation is becoming something that we have long fought against. A repressive society has been created within this once great nation and “we the people” are unwittingly becoming serfs to our own public servants. Their objective to rule rests in the annihilation of our consciousness as they create a state of learned helplessness among the masses. If we don’t wake up and become conscious of where our country is heading, we may soon find ourselves in a world resembling a prison planet of total centralized control where all our freedoms are taken away for our supposed security. It’s time for people to start being individuals and to create independent thought.  Since 2001, government officials have repeatedly said, “Terrorists hate us for our freedom.”  Now it is clear that the true terrorists are the ruling establishment working through those who are elected to represent and serve the people.

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