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While driving my hideously fuel-inefficient SUV earlier this week, I noticed the warning light on my instrument cluster alerting me that my gas tank was perilously close to “MSNBC’s primetime ratings.” Since I have access to neither the private jet nor the chauffer-driven limousine Al Gore uses when he leaves one of his multimillion dollar mansions, I pulled into the next gas station.
That’s when I noted the price of a gallon of gasoline starts with a “3.” The last time gas prices were this high, Democrats assured us it was a direct result of George W. Bush’s cozy relationship with “Big and/or Foreign Oil.”
“Since George Bush and Dick Cheney took over as president and vice president, gas prices have doubled… (because) They are too cozy with the oil industry”
California’s senior Senator Barbara Boxer offered that clever canard back in April of 2006. At the time, gas prices at the Exxon station from which she staged her shriekfest were $3.10/gallon, just over 8 cents above where they are right now. And Boxer wasn’t the only Democrat assailing Bush over the plight of the people who pay her fuel bills. According to then-junior Senator from New York Hillary Clinton:
“We are one accident or one terrorist attack away from oil at $100 a barrel!”
Actually, if the terrorists are planning this sort of petroleum-based ploy, it may already be too late. As of Tuesday, the price of a barrel of crude is just under $90, nearly $25 higher than it was while Senators Boxer and Clinton were blaming rising gas prices on the former president. Industry experts predict the price will eclipse $100 within a year.
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Posted Nov 27th 2010 at 10:23 am
In my Big Journalism piece, “How an Enviro-Advocacy Group Propped Up Global Warming in the MSM – A Nov 2 Election Connection” I described how the “reposition global warming as theory rather than fact” phrase is a viral accusation against global warming skeptic scientists. The beauty of the phrase is its simplicity and powerful influence, even when people misstate organizations associated with it. Al Gore disciples say global warming is a proven fact, all scientists know this, but a minority received massive energy industry funding to say the science isn’t settled.
The phrase is prominently seen in Gore’s movie, full screen in red letters for six seconds, followed by a slide of a very old cigarette advertisement as a setup for the next slide where Gore quoted a supposedly leaked tobacco industry memo, “Doubt is our product, since it is the best means of creating a controversy in the public’s mind.”
Gore didn’t identify the origins of the “reposition” phrase in the movie, so errors occurring when it was repeated it are understandable. I’ve seen offbeat errors where blog writers say the phrase came from “a surgeon general”, that it was “a leaked government memo”, that it is part of “a movement by politicians to reposition global warming”, or that it was “memos circulated by some of today’s oil companies.”
But Gore himself said this, in a 2008 YouTube video, starting at the 29:10 point,
Exxon Mobil has funded 40 different front groups that have all been a part of a strategic persuasion campaign to, in their own words ‘reposition global warming as theory rather than fact’
This is inexplicably contradictory to the book version of his movie – although it takes one additional step to understand why - when he says in reference to:
…a relatively small but extremely well-funded cadre of special interests, including Exxon Mobil and a few other oil, coal, and utilities companies…. One of the internal memos prepared by this group to guide the employees they hired to run their disinformation campaign was discovered by the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Ross Gelbspan. Here was the group’s stated objective: to “reposition global warming as theory, rather than fact.
As I pointed out in my July American Thinker article, Gelbspan is neither the discoverer nor a Pulitzer winner, and a careful examination of his 1997 book The Heat is On reveals he specifically said the “reposition” phrase came exclusively from the 1991 Information Council on the Environment (ICE) public relations campaign, created by group of utility and coal industries.
Utility and coal, not oil – or oil industry associations.
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While not even a month has passed since the last national election, Democrats are already worrying that 2012 may prove to be a tougher environment for the party – and one that could spark major turnover.
See, Senate Democrats have a lot to lose come 2012, because of the 33 seats in play next election, 23 are currently held by Democrats – or the Independents who caucus with them.
Republicans are only tasked with defending 10 seats, and GOP leaders feel confident they’ll actually net at least four additional seats and win back control of the Senate.
Some analysts, who have already begun digging in to the 2012 races, give Republicans the advantage. Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics says, “There are 13 Democrats who are vulnerable to very vulnerable, while there are just six Republicans who are vulnerable to very vulnerable.”
Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) admits she’s feeling the heat. When asked about her 2012 re-election bid she replied, “I’d be less than honest if I didn’t say that I was worried.”
McCaskill is likely to be among the GOP’s top targets, which will probably also include: Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), Ben Nelson (D-Neb.), Jon Tester (D-Mont.) and Jim Webb (D-Va.).
And McCaskill acknowledges that Democrats have an uphill battle, “The voters obviously spoke very loudly a few weeks ago, and I heard them.” Other Democrats facing re-election, like Senator Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) are publicly floating the idea of retiring altogether.
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FoxNews.com | Associated Press
Published November 22, 2010
WASHINGTON — Government agents hired to drive nuclear weapons and components in trucks sometimes got drunk while on convoy missions, including an incident last year when two agents were detained by police at a local bar during one assignment, according to a report Monday by the U.S. Energy Department’s watchdog.
The department’s assistant inspector general, Sandra D. Bruce, said her office reviewed 16 alcohol-related incidents involving agents, candidate-agents and others from the government’s Office of Secure Transportation between 2007 through 2009. There are nearly 600 federal agents who ship nuclear weapons, weapon components and special nuclear material across the U.S.
The report said that two incidents in particular raised red flags because they happened during secure transportation missions while agents checked into local hotels during extended missions. In these cases, the vehicles were placed in “safe harbor,” meaning they were moved to safe and secure locations.
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By Ed Barnes
Published November 09, 2010
The closing this week of the Chicago Climate Exchange, which was envisioned to be the key player in the trillion-dollar “cap and trade” market, was the final nail in the coffin of the Obama administration’s effort to pass the controversial program meant to combat global warming.
“It is dead for the foreseeable future,” said Myron Ebell, director of the Center for Energy and the Environment with the Competitive Energy Institute, which had fought the measure.
That assessment was echoed by environmentalists as well.
“Economy-wide cap and trade died of what amounts to natural causes in Washington,” said Fred Krupp, president of the Environmental Defense Fund, which had supported the plan.
The CCX was set up in 2000 in anticipation of the United States joining Europe and other countries around the world to create a market that would reduce the emission of greenhouse gases. Under the system, factories, utilities and other businesses would be given an emissions target. Those that emitted less fewer regulated gases than their target could sell the “excess” to someone who was above target. Each year, the target figures would be reset lower.
The Exchange was the brainchild of Richard Sandor, an economist and professor at Northwestern University, and it was modeled after a successful program that was launched in 1990 and helped control acid rain in the Midwest. It was initially funded by a $1.1 million grant from the Joyce Foundation of Chicago, and President Obama was a board member at the time.
After the Democrats won the White House, the House and the Senate in 2008, businesses and investors flocked to the exchange, believing Congress would quickly approve the program. And it almost happened.
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Posted by: Curt @ 1:19 pm, November 4, 2010 RE: 11-09-2010
The aftermath of Nov 2nd is even bigger than thought:
Republicans picked up 680 seats in state legislatures, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures — an all time high. To put that number in perspective: In the 1994 GOP wave, Republicans picked up 472 seats. The previous record was in the post-Watergate election of 1974, when Democrats picked up 628 seats.
The GOP gained majorities in at least 14 state house chambers. They now have unified control — meaning both chambers — of 26 state legislatures.
That control is a particularly bad sign for Democrats as they go into the redistricting process. If the GOP is effective in gerrymandering districts in many of these states, it could eventually lead to the GOP actually expanding its majority in 2012.
Republicans now hold the redistricting “trifecta” — both chambers of the state legislature and the governorship — in 15 states. They also control the Nebraska governorship and the unicameral legislature, taking the number up to 16. And in North Carolina — probably the state most gerrymandered to benefit Democrats — Republicans hold both chambers of the state legislature and the Democratic governor does not have veto power over redistricting proposals.
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By James Rowley – Nov 3, 2010 10:36 AM MT Wed Nov 03 17:36:52 GMT 2010
Republican leaders in Congress challenged President Barack Obama and Democrats to “pivot in a different direction” to reduce government spending and create jobs after Republicans captured the House and gained at least six Senate seats.
House Republican leader John Boehner, who will become speaker in January, and Senate Minority leader Mitch McConnell said at a news conference today they hope Obama and Democrats in Congress will heed the voters’ desire that they change course and find bipartisan solutions to growing government debt and persistent high unemployment.
Boehner, of Ohio, said that during a telephone call last night he and Obama “discussed working together on the people’s priorities: cutting spending, creating jobs, and we hope that he will continue to be willing to work with us on those priorities.”
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New York Times
Published: November 3, 2010
SAN FRANCISCO — California voters yesterday upheld the state’s global warming law on two fronts, rejecting a Republican candidate for governor who wanted to delay it while turning aside a referendum funded by oil companies that would have dismantled the measure for years to come.
With roughly half of all precincts reporting at press time this morning, national and state news organizations had proclaimed victory for Democrat Jerry Brown over Republican Meg Whitman in the gubernatorial race and a sizable defeat for Proposition 23, which would have delayed California’s climate change law until unemployment in the state dropped to 5.5 percent for a full year.
Prop 23 lost behind a coalition of environmental groups, clean-tech companies, Silicon Valley venture capitalists and hedge fund managers who all had a stake in seeing the statewide climate law, A.B. 32, continue its march toward implementation in 2012. The same coalition helped to elect Brown over Whitman, a former CEO of eBay Inc. who promised on the campaign trail to delay A.B. 32 for one year if elected.
Fred Krupp, president of Environmental Defense Fund, said the Prop 23 defeat sends “a big signal” to the rest of the country and the world that Californians stand firmly behind the law, which would cut greenhouse gas emissions in the state to 1990 levels by 2020. He called the level of cooperation between the fledgling clean-tech sector and environmental groups unprecedented, giving the “No on 23″ campaign the street muscle and the money it needed to prevail.
“This is the largest referendum anywhere on the planet where people have directly voted on clean energy and climate policy,” Krupp said in an interview. “It’s the largest state in the country sending a clear message that they want a clean energy economy and clean energy jobs.”
The crucial flaw for “Yes on 23″ appeared to have been its direct connection to two Texas-based refining companies, Valero Energy Corp. and Tesoro Corp., which spearheaded the effort and easily led in contributions with multimillion-dollar donations. The “No on 23″ campaign strategy from the outset sought to paint the measure as the product of “dirty energy companies” from Texas, and the message appeared to stick with voters.
Ann Notthoff, California advocacy director for the Natural Resources Defense Council, said that in her 30 years of work as an environmental advocate she had never seen a coalition come together so forcefully. The message appeared to be so resonant that bigger oil companies — including San Ramon, Calif.-based Chevron Corp., one of the biggest polluters in the state — stayed out of the fight and never came to the financial defense of the Texas refiners.
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Monday, 18 Oct 2010 10:12 AM
Pollster Scott Rasmussen predicts that Republicans will gain 55 seats in races for the U.S. House of Representatives November 2. This is significantly more than the 39 needed for a Republican majority in that chamber, according to a
humanevents.com report.
“Republicans should have 48 seats [after the November midterm elections], Democrats 47, and five seats could slide either way,” Rasmussen opined in a recent speech.
Those races he finds still too close to call: California, Illinois, Washington, West Virginia, and Nevada.
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by Wendell Goler | October 04, 2010
Even though the president’s aides believe Democrats will retain control of the House and Senate, they’re prepared for a scaled down legislative agenda after next month’s elections. But officials say it’s not because Republicans will be calling more of the shots.
Robert Gibbs at the press briefing October 4, 2010 (Fox News Photo)
Part of the reason is that the largest items on Mr. Obama’s agenda, including the Recovery Act, health care reform and financial regulatory reform, have already been passed by Congress. Another part of the reason is that few here expect Republicans to follow their likely gains in the House and Senate, with a change in their strategy of opposing the Democrats’ initiatives.
Asked at a briefing about unfinished legislative business, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs ticked off a number of items for a potential lame duck session: extending the Bush administration tax cuts, ratifying the START treaty with Russia, reauthorizing the Children’s Nutrition program and confirming Austan Goolsbee as the president’s new budget director as well as confirming a number of federal judicial nominees.
While the debate over extending the tax cuts is likely to be resolved in the lame duck session, either by temporarily extending all the cuts or permanently extending just those for the middle class, some of the other issues are likely to spill over into the next legislative session. And they are “small ball” compared with what Democrats managed to pass this year, largely over the objections of Republicans.
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A new poll from Politico has bad news for the White House as Barack Obama prepares for the grueling task of re-election. Despite a long history of American voters choosing to re-elect its Chief Executive, Obama only gets 38% of likely voters to agree that he deserves re-election, while 44% say they will definitely vote against him — and another 13% say they’re considering doing the same:
A significant majority of voters are considering voting against President Barack Obama in the 2012 election, expressing sour views of his new health care law and deep skepticism about his ability to create jobs and grow the sluggish economy, according to the latest POLITICO / George Washington University Battleground Poll.
Only 38 percent of respondents said Obama deserves to be reelected, even though a majority of voters hold a favorable view of him on a personal level. Forty-four percent said they will vote to oust him, and 13 percent said they will consider voting for someone else.
What’s the problem? ObamaCare and a lack of job creation have completely undermined Obama’s image as a moderate, pragmatic President:
It’s Obama’s policies that are hurting him right now. By a 13-point margin, voters are down on the health care law. In an especially troubling sign, more than half of self-identified independents — 54 percent — have an unfavorable opinion of the law, compared with just 38 percent who have a favorable opinion.
And by an 11-point margin, voters trust congressional Republicans to create jobs more than Obama. His approval rating stands at 46 percent, according to the poll of 1,000 likely voters, conducted Sept. 19 to Sept. 22.
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In an otherwise serious poll from Politico and George Washington University, the survey also asks respondents which cable-news network they access most for political news. The results aren’t terribly surprising, as they more or less mirror the ratings, but are still noteworthy for one network’s almost-total marginalization. While Fox News Channel sailed to an impressive 42% and CNN got a substantial if unimpressive 30%, MSNBC got …
More people are getting their news about the upcoming election from cable television than any other source, and from Fox News more than any other cable channel, according to a POLITICO/George Washington University Battleground Poll released Monday.
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Posted Sep 18th 2010 at 10:01 am
by Kristina Rasmussen
John Tillman, CEO of the Illinois Policy Institute, offers his thoughts on the GOP spat over Christine O’Donnell’s victory in Delaware. It’s a refreshing read.
Tuesday night, I happened to be watching live when Karl Rove fulminated on the Christine O’Donnell win in the Delaware GOP Senate primary. You can see the full video here but I’ve provided a transcript (from Fox News) of some of the key passages below. Among the things Rove said:
- “This is the inexplicable (emphasis added) one because Christine O’Donnell has come on here at the — very end of the campaign. There’s a huge turnout tonight in Delaware. The total was estimated to be 30,000 people going into the primary and has come out 56,000. She has dealt a defeat to one of the state’s longest, best-known, thought to be most-beloved political figures, a former governor and nine-term Republican Congressman in Mike Castle.”
- “One thing that Christine O’Donnell is now going to have to answer in the general election that she didn’t have to answer in the primary is her own checkered background….I’ve met her. I got to tell you, I wasn’t frankly impressed as her abilities as a candidate.”
- “And again, these serious questions about how does she make her living? Why did she mislead voters about her college education? How come it took nearly two decades to pay her college bills so she could get her college degree? How did she make a living? Why did she sue a well-known and well thought of conservative think tank?”
Here’s what Rove should have said:
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Published September 14, 2010
Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell talks to voters in Wilmington, Del., Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2010. O’Donnell is in a Republican primary battle with Rep. Mike Castle for a U.S. Senate seat. (AP)
Christine O’Donnell wins the primary, the gloves are off in Tuesday’s marquee race in Delaware, where Tea Party activists and establishment Republicans are locked in a battle that could define the future of the GOP.
A victory for Tea Party favorite Christine O’Donnell, a perennial candidate who has drawn big-name endorsements from Sarah Palin and South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint, would further shift the party to the right and alienate moderate Republicans who support her opponent, Rep. Mike Castle.
A lengthy list of Republican contenders have fallen to Tea Party-backed challengers this year despite having the backing of party officials eager to maximize their gains in November. The latest was Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, who lost last month to Joe Miller in a stunning upset.
Overall this year, seven incumbent members of Congress — four Republicans and three Democrats — have tasted defeat.
Six other states and Washington, D.C., are the other battlegrounds Tuesday night. Primaries in New York and Wisconsin have also emerged as must-see races, with embattled congressman Charlie Rangel, D-N.Y., facing his toughest challenge in years and Republican candidates in Wisconsin wrestling for a chance to take on vulnerable Democratic Sen. Russ Feingold in November.
Other notable races include Rep. Steven Lynch in Massachusetts facing a dog fight, New Hampshire GOP Senate candidate Kelly Ayotte emerging from a crowded pack and Washington Mayor Adrian Fenty fending off a formidable challenge from D.C. Council chairman Vincent Gray.
But all eyes are on Delaware, where Castle, a nine-term congressman, best described the race as a measure of the Tea Party’s strength against the GOP establishment, which is backing him.
“This particular campaign has become a bit of a test,” Castle said Tuesday morning after voting. “Can the conservative elements of the Republican Party take out an incumbent with whom they don’t always agree? That’s part of what we are dealing with here, to look beyond just Delaware.”
While O’Donnell’s campaign is enjoying a $250,000 injection from the Tea Party Express, some Tea Party groups don’t support her. The state GOP and even some of O’Donnell’s former staffers have hammered her for calling herself a fiscal conservative when she has had personal financial problems.
“It’s a shame that the Republican Party has had to resort to Republican cannibalism because we have winning principles, limited government, the right solution to get the economy back on track,” she said.
Polls suggest O’Donnell would lose but Castle would win against Democrat Chris Coons in November. The seat could be critical for Republicans hoping to gain control of the Senate.
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Published September 04, 2010
AP
In this image taken from video provided by BP PLC at 12:23 a.m. EDT, Saturday Sept. 4, 2010 Aug. 3, 2010 shows the blowout preventer that failed to stop oil from spewing into the Gulf of Mexico being raised to the surface. The blowout preventer wasn’t expected to reach the surface until Saturday, at which point government investigators will take possession of it.
ON THE GULF OF MEXICO – A crane hoisted a key piece of oil spill evidence to the surface of the Gulf of Mexico on Saturday, giving investigators their first chance to personally scrutinize the blowout preventer, the massive piece of equipment that failed to stop the gusher four months ago.
It took 29½ hours to lift the 50-foot, 300-ton blowout preventer from a mile beneath the sea to the surface. The five-story high device breached the water’s surface at 6:54 p.m. CDT, and looked largely intact with black stains on the yellow metal.
FBI agents were among the 137 people aboard the Helix Q4000 vessel, taking photos and video of the device. They will escort it back to a NASA facility in Louisiana for analysis.
The AP was the only news outlet with a print reporter and photographer on board the ship.
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Remember in December when the White House said it would make a “hard pivot” from health care to jobs? That “hard pivot” didn’t materialize until months later, and in a completely different form than one might have assumed. The Wall Street Journal reports that the Obama administration’s moratorium on drilling in the Gulf cost Americans 23,000 jobs — and that Barack Obama knew it when he ordered it:
Senior Obama administration officials concluded the federal moratorium on deepwater oil drilling would cost roughly 23,000 jobs, but went ahead with the ban because they didn’t trust the industry’s safety equipment and the government’s own inspection process, according to previously undisclosed documents.
Critics of the moratorium, including Gulf Coast political figures and oil-industry leaders, have said it is crippling the region’s economy, and some have called on the administration to make public its economic analysis. A federal judge who in June threw out an earlier six-month moratorium faulted the administration for playing down the economic effects. …
They show the new top regulator or offshore oil exploration, Michael Bromwich, told Interior Secretary Ken Salazar that a six-month deepwater-drilling halt would result in “lost direct employment” affecting approximately 9,450 workers and “lost jobs from indirect and induced effects” affecting about 13,797 more. The July 10 memo cited an analysis by Mr. Bromwich’s agency that assumed direct employment on affected rigs would “resume normally once the rigs resume operations.”
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Published August 25, 2010
Shown here are Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, left, and challenger Joe Miller. (AP Photos)
A decorated Gulf War veteran was holding a narrow lead over Sen. Lisa Murkowski in the Alaska Republican Senate primary, as ballots ARE FINSHED and counted Wednesday in what could shape up to be a stunning political upset.
Polls taken before primary day had shown Murkowski, a two-term senator from an Alaska political dynasty was ahead at first. But challenger Joe Miller insisted all along that the state’s polling was unreliable.
Murkowski as conceded.
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Posted Aug 12th 2010 at 3:11 pm
by Robert Bluey
As businesses along the Gulf Coast await the expiration of President Obama’s offshore drilling moratorium, they’re faced with a new hardship: Neither BP nor the Gulf Coast Claims Facility appear willing to pay for lost income resulting from the ban.
Last week BP announced it was deferring all moratorium-related claims to Ken Feinberg, the Obama-appointed administrator of the $20 billion claims fund. That news came as a surprise to Feinberg, however. He maintains the moratorium claims are BP’s responsibility.
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Chad Pergram | August 04, 2019
The Obama Administration is tinkering with pulling the plug on its temporarily moratorium on deepwater drilling in light of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
But for some in Congress and energy advocacy groups, that might not be soon enough.
“I believe the Obama Administration is choking the American economy,” said former-Rep. John Peterson (R-PA), who used to represent one of the richest oil patches in the Keystone State. “If we don’t produce (oil), OPEC will.”
Peterson joined Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) at a Capitol Hill rally held by the American Energy Alliance (AEA). AEA argues that the six-month moratorium could cost the country $2.7 billion in lost commerce and puts thousands of jobs at risk.
“If that oil exploration does not occur in the Gulf of Mexico, those companies will move to other parts of the world that are far-less rigorous (when it comes to environmental protection),” Cornyn said.
The government moratorium idled 33 deepwater wells. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is scheduled to lift the moratorium at the end of November. But the Interior Department’s Minerals Management Service (MMS) is exploring whether there’s a way to lit the ban early. Salazar imposed the moratorium so investigators can determine what triggered the catastrophic Deepwater Horizon spill in April.
“That’s the equivalent of saying after a plane crash that there will never be an airline allowed to fly ever again,” said Cornyn.
Read more: http://politics.blogs.foxnews.com/2010/08/04/activists-lawmakers-push-end-drilling-moratorium#ixzz0vgg3FfX7
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Another blessed Friday! Alhamdulillah! Don’t forget to.make for to be executed, insha’Allah. May Allah accept our dua! about 4 hours ago via Twitter for Android
UPDATED 9:53 am: Ibn Ali al-Turki (TWITTER name “islamic jihadi”) has tweeted the call for my execution. Here’s the devout muslim’s account: https://twitter.com/IslamicJihadi. If any Atlas readers can track this islamobarbarian down, do it and pass along the info.
There they go again………..devout Muslims making my point for me, yet again. Report this would-be murderer to the authorities, please. I am so sure the Obama administration is working hard to keep folks like me safe. (/sarc tag off.)
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Posted by: DrJohn @ 9:52 am, July 15, 2010
It was going to happen sooner or later.
Woman injured when box explodes outside home
A Houston woman was injured on Friday after a device that appeared to be a homemade bomb exploded when she opened a package in her back yard, authorities said.
The woman, who authorities said was in her 60s, was taken to Memorial Hermann Northwest Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, officials said.
Between 6:30 and 7 p.m., she opened a shoebox-sized box that had been dropped off at her home in the 2100 block of Seamist Court in northwest Houston.
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Published July 07, 2010
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
A new federal cyber security program reportedly aims to protect nuclear power plants, like this one in Ogle County, Ill., and other critical infrastructure.
The U.S. government is launching an expansive program dubbed “Perfect Citizen” to detect cyber assaults on private companies and government agencies running critical infrastructure such as the electricity grid and nuclear-power plants, The Wall Street Journal reported late Wednesday.
U.S. intelligence officials have grown increasingly alarmed about what they believe to be Chinese and Russian surveillance of computer systems that control the electric grid and other U.S. infrastructure.
Officials are unable to describe the full scope of the problem, however, because they have had limited ability to pull together all the private data.
Perfect Citizen will look at large, typically older computer control systems that were often designed without Internet connectivity or security in mind.
Many of those systems — which run everything from subway systems to air-traffic control networks — have since been linked to the Internet, making them more efficient but also exposing them to cyber attack.
The surveillance by the National Security Agency, the government’s chief eavesdropping agency, would rely on a set of sensors deployed in computer networks for critical infrastructure that would be triggered by unusual activity suggesting an impending cyber attack, though it wouldn’t persistently monitor the whole system, according to people familiar with the program.
Defense contractor Raytheon Corp. recently won a classified contract for the initial phase of the surveillance effort valued at up to US$100 million, said a person familiar with the project.
A spokeswoman for the NSA said the agency had no information to provide on the program. A Raytheon spokesman declined to comment.
Some industry and government officials familiar with the program see Perfect Citizen as an intrusion by the NSA into domestic affairs, while others say it is an important program to combat an emerging security threat that only the NSA is equipped to provide.
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July 6, 2010 – 4:45 PM | by: Michael Tobin
The Obama administration just announced a handout of $2 Billion to build solar panels. The development of this type of energy is politically sexy. Jobs are created to build and maintain the panels, which scream eco-friendly every time they appear on camera.
No one is criticizing the initiative, but it overlooks a power source boasting far greater reliability and intensity than both solar and wind power. Arguably, it produces NO carbon footprint. You could even say it creates a negative carbon footprint.
The source is recycled energy. Instead of burning a fuel to create energy, it takes energy that we are otherwise throwing away and converting that into something useable. It captures heat that otherwise disappears into thin air and turns the heat into power.
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A new study shows that the so-called American Power Act would cost the economy 5.1 million jobs and an average of more than $1,000 in extra energy costs per family.
President Obama has repeatedly told Americans he has three main policy priorities — rewriting health care, overhauling the financial system, and imposing a cap-and-trade system to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. He met his first goal and he’s closer than ever on the second; time is running out if he wants to meet the trifecta by the end of 2010. But make no mistake, the president and his allies in Congress are working hard to pass cap-and-trade before this year is up. The problem is that cap-and-trade bills are expensive, they inevitably cost jobs, and the American people know it.
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