Is Copenhagen a Ruse for One World Government?
In a column by Jerome Corsi, posted on WorldNetDaily October 17, 2009, he asks the question is global warming' to be used as a 'pretext' for 'change' ?
A former science adviser to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher says the real purpose of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen on Dec. 7-18 is to use global warming hype as a pretext to lay the foundation for a one-world government.
"At [the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference in] Copenhagen this December, weeks away, a treaty will be signed," Monkton told a Minnesota Free Market Institute audience at Bethel University in St. Paul.
Your president will sign it. Most of the Third World countries will sign it, because they think they're going to get money out of it. Most of the left-wing regimes from the European Union will rubber stamp it. Virtually nobody won't sign it," he told the audience of some 700 attendees.
"I read that treaty and what it says is this: that a world government is going to be created. The word 'government' actually appears as the first of three purposes of the new entity. The second purpose is the transfer of wealth from the countries of the West to Third World countries, in satisfaction of what is called, coyly, 'climate debt' -- because we've been burning CO2 and they haven't. We've been screwing up the climate and they haven't. And the third purpose of this new entity, this government is enforcement."
In an hour and a half lecture illustrated by slides featuring scientific data on a wide range of climate issues, Monkton refuted claims made by former Vice President Al Gore in his movie and book titled "An Inconvenient Truth," as well as scientific arguments made by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Monkton argued that President Obama will sign the Copenhagen treaty at the December meeting, without seeking a two-thirds ratification of the treaty by the Senate, or any other type of Congressional approval.
"So, thank you, America. You are the beacon of freedom to the world. It is a privilege to stand on this soil of freedom while it is still free," he continued. "But, in the next few weeks, unless you stop it, your president will sign your freedom, your democracy, and your humanity away forever.
"But I think it is here, here in your great nation, which I so love and I so admire -- it is here that perhaps, at this eleventh hour, at the fifty-ninth minute and fifty-ninth second, you will rise up and you will stop your president from signing that dreadful treaty, that purposeless treaty. For there is no problem with the climate and, even if there were, an economic treaty does nothing to [help] it."
Monkton is a well-known critic of the theory of anthropogenic causes for global warming who has argued repeatedly that global warming hysteria is an ideological position of the political Left advanced in the interest of imposing global taxes on the United States in the pursuit of international control of the U.S. economy under a one-world government to be administered by the U.N.
Where's the global warming?
As evidence mounts that the United States is headed toward a cooling cycle that may last decades, global alarmists within the Obama administration remain resolved to push cap-and-trade legislation through Congress on the increasingly dubious theory that man-made carbon emissions are creating global warming.
In what has to be seen as increasingly bad news for global warming alarmists, scientific evidence is mounting that temperatures in the United States have cooled at a rate that would be projected to lower temperatures 7.3 degrees Fahrenheit over the next century.
Audit The Fed – The Attacks to dilute HR1207 has begun and it is time to REACT!
Today, October 20, 2009, Senators Jeff Merkley (D-OR) and Bob Corker (R-TN) introduced the Federal Reserve Accountability Act, an attempted compromise on the issue of transparency for America's secretive central bank.
The bill would permit an audit of the Fed's actions in the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) and similar high profile bailouts, but would not allow Congress to review the Fed's inflation of the money supply or the its agreements with foreign central banks.
Legislation that would bring a full audit of the Fed, Congressman Ron Paul's H.R. 1207 and its Senate companion S. 604, has gained strong grassroots support and built tremendous pressure on banking special interests.
Opponents of Fed Transparency argue that a full audit of the Federal Reserve would damage the central bank's "independence" and allow Congress to dictate monetary policy.
"Claims that transparency at the Federal Reserve would leave Congress in charge of monetary policy are simply bogus," said Jesse Benton, Senior Vice President of Campaign for Liberty. "There is absolutely no reason why The American People should not be able to review the minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee after a reasonable amount of time has passed."
"The Federal Reserve Accountability Act does not audit the monetary policy functions which have been responsible for our deteriorating dollar and so many of our current economic problems, and it is not an acceptable piece of legislation. Campaign for Liberty will continue to push for a full audit of the Fed."
The announcement of the new legislation comes after the number of cosponsors in the House of Representatives for H.R. 1207 recently climbed to 303, and S. 604 gained 30 senate cosponsors.
Campaign for Liberty has been leading the grassroots effort on H.R.1207, getting it to its current point with 75% of Americans showing support for a thorough audit of the Federal Reserve.
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U.S. SENATE – 2010 Elections
Listed below are members who are up for reelection. Also listed are the American Conservative Union ratings of members based on their 2008 voting record. A score of 100 is a perfect conservative voting record. If their grade is below 70, they fail as a conservative, and that is a pretty good indicator that they need to be replaced.
Open Seats:
Christopher (Kit) Bond (R-MO) Retiring. ACU Rating 88.
Edward M. Kennedy (D-MA) Deceased. Special election scheduled for January 2010. ACU Rating 4.
George Voinovich (R-OH) Retiring. ACU Rating 83.
It is of immediate and particular importance that a more conservative candidate be found to fill the former seat of Sen. Kennedy.
CONTESTED SEATS:
REPUBLICANS:
Lisa Murkowski - Alaska. ACU Rating 58.
Richard Shelby - Alabama. ACU Rating 100.
John McCain - Arizona. ACU Rating 63.
George LeMieux- Florida. Not Rated.
Johnny Isakson - Georgia. ACU Rating 88.
Chuck Grassley - Iowa. ACU Rating 92.
Mike Crapo - Idaho. ACU Rating 92.
Sam Brownback - Kansas. ACU Rating 96.
Jim Bunning - Kentucky. ACU Rating 100.
David Vitter - Louisiana. ACU Rating 100.
Richard Burr - North Carolina. ACU Rating 88.
Judd Gregg - New Hampshire. ACU Rating 88.
Tom Coburn - Oklahoma. ACU Rating 100.
Jim DeMint - South Carolina. ACU Rating 100.
John Thune - South Dakota. ACU Rating 80.
Robert Bennett - Utah. ACU Rating 100.
DEMOCRATS:
Blanche Lincoln - Arkansas. ACU Rating 28.
Barbara Boxer - California. ACU Rating 0
Ken Salazar - Colorado. No Rating.
Christopher Dodd - Connecticut. ACU Rating 16.
Daniel Inouye - Hawaii. ACU Rating 9.
Roland Burris - Illinois. Not Rated.
Evan Bayh - Indiana. ACU Rating 32.
Barbara Mikulski - Maryland. ACU Rating 12.
Byron Dorgan - North Dakota. ACU Rating 36.
Harry Reid - Nevada. ACU Rating 20.
Charles Schumer - New York. ACU Rating 16.
Arlen Specter - Pennsylvania. ACU Rating 56.
Ron Wyden - Oregon. ACU Rating 8.
Patrick Leahy - Vermont. ACU Rating 8.
Patty Murray - Washington. ACU RATING 4.
Russel Feingold - Wisconsin. ACU Rating 20.
According to the ACU ratings above, Republicans Lisa Murkowski - Alaska, John McCain - Arizona, and all Democrats need to be replaced.
Particularly vulnerable are Murkowski-Alaska, Dodd-Connecticut, LeMeiux-Florida, Burris-Illinois, Reid-Nevada, and Specter-Pennsylvania. If only these six are defeated and replaced with conservatives, it will break the fillibuster-proof majority in the Senate, enabling most of the liberal spending and social engineering programs to be stopped.
Arne Duncan – Secretary of Education
Arne Duncan and Undersecretary Martha Kanter were the keynote speakers at a convention on education reform for the Renaissance Group, which describes itself as "a proactive force for the improvement and reform of education, locally, regionally and nationally." Duncan and Kanter were there to discuss their education initiatives.
The unrepentant domestic terrorist William Ayers was a major speaker and participant at this event.
In an interview with WorlNetDaily, Michael J. Giovannetti, executive director of Renaissance said that "both Duncan and Kanter were fully aware of all conference speakers, including Ayers, and that the two diplomats had no problem speaking at the conference at which the unrepentant radical also was a presenter." "They had no problem whatsoever," said Giovannetti. "Everyone had the agenda and knew who was on the agenda. No issue came up with regard to Ayers speaking."
Giovannetti praised Ayers as "one of the most outstanding professionals in education. He is a model of what every teacher should be."
Giovannetti said Ayers spoke about reforming the education system, while Kanter and Duncan talked about bringing professionalism back to the U.S. school system and the need to re-establish American schools as the best in the world.
The Southern Poverty Law Center and Immigration Reform
The Media Department at the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) has just published a "Guide to Understanding the Tactics of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) in the Immigration Debate."
Guide Link: http://www.fairus.org/site/DocServer/SPLC_Jounalists_Guide.pdf?docID=3541
The guide was designed to help journalists better understand the unscrupulous methods used by the SPLC to discredit organizations, like FAIR, and to attack the American people who support enforcing the immigration laws already on the books and oppose efforts to pass a mass-amnesty for illegal aliens.
As FAIR's Press Release highlighted, the key conclusions of the report were:
1. The SPLC has no self-avowed immigration policy expertise yet they exploit the current national debate to increase fund-raising. Their inflammatory charges against FAIR and others are politically driven, factually distorted, and widely exaggerated for the purpose of making their mission more urgent in order to raise vast sums of money.
2. Third party analysis by The Nation, Harpers, and even the SPLC's hometown newspaper, the Montgomery Advertiser, all came to the same conclusion; the SPLC is a self-propagating fund-raising machine with little regard for the truth.
3. SPLC offers no objective criteria for their "hate group" designations nor is there any basis in fact to their claim that hate crimes are rising due to the immigration debate.
4. When writing about the immigration issue, journalists have an obligation to test the accuracy of the SPLC's information, question their motives, seek out responses to their allegations, and clearly distinguish between advocacy and news reporting.
Feds Sued to Keep Out of State’s Gun Affairs
From WorldNetDaily by Bob Unruh:
Complaint filed seeking affirmation of Montana Firearms Freedom Act
In the second major front in the war over gun rights that has just developed in just days, a lawsuit has been filed against U.S, Attorney General Eric Holder seeking a court order that the federal government stay out of the way of Montana's management of its own firearms.
The action was filed by the Second Amendment Foundation and the Montana Shooting Sports Association in U.S. District Court in Missoula, Mont., to validate the principles and terms of the Montana Firearms Freedom Act, which took effect today. (October 3, 2009).
WND previously reported on the precedent-setting move taken over the course of recent months when the 2009 Montana Legislature approved the bill and the plan was signed into law by Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer.
The law provides guns and ammo made, sold and used in Montana would not require any federal forms; silencers made and sold in Montana would be fully legal and not registered; and there would be no firearm registration, serial numbers, criminal record check, waiting periods or paperwork required.
The idea is spreading quickly. Tennessee already has a similar law, and similar plans have been introduced in many other states.
An organization called the Firearms Freedom Act has created a map of such activity nationwide:
The move comes at a time the nation has a president who has placed anti-gun activists in several influential positions, including an attorney general who supported a complete handgun ban in the District of Columbia before the U.S. Supreme Court threw it out.
Montana's plan is called "An Act exempting from federal regulation under the Commerce Clause of the Constitution of the United States a firearm, a firearm accessory, or ammunition manufactured and retained in Montana."
The law cites the 10th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that guarantees to the states and their people all powers not granted to the federal government elsewhere in the Constitution and reserves to the state and people of Montana certain powers as they were understood at the time it was admitted to statehood in 1889.
"The guaranty of those powers is a matter of contract between the state and people of Montana and the United States as of the time that the compact with the United States was agreed upon and adopted by Montana and the United States in 1889," the law states.
The lead attorney for the plaintiffs' litigation team is Quintin Rhodes of the Missoula firm of Sullivan, Tabaracci & Rhoads, PC. The team includes other attorneys working in Montana, New York, Florida, Arizona and Washington.
"We're happy to join this lawsuit," said Alan Gottlieb, founder of SAF, "because we believe this issue should be decided by the courts."
"We feel very strongly that the federal government has gone way too far in attempting to regulate a lot of activity that occurs only in-state," added MSSA President Gary Marbut. "The Montana Legislature and governor agreed with us by enacting the MFFA. We welcome the support of many other states that are stepping up to the plate with their own firearms freedom acts."
David Codrea, a Gun Rights Examiner writer, noted the federal government already has started attacking the move.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, he wrote, previously had written to Federal Firearms Licensees, warning that they could be prosecuted for following the state laws in Montana and Tennessee.
"What if an FFL was not acting in his capacity as a federal licensee to manufacture for personal use, or to transfer firearms strictly within the state? Or what if a person so engaged was not a federal licensee at all?" Codrea asked.
Then he answered: "ATF's determined intent to hold all accountable under federal law has not wavered. In a letter to MSSA president Gary Marbut, Richard Chase, Special Agent in Charge, Denver Field Division, states: 'The Manufacture of firearms or ammunition for sale to others within Montana requires licensure by ATF.' "
In a statement the SAF said, "The primary purpose of the MFFA is to set up a legal challenge to federal power under the commerce clause."
The lawsuit seeks a "declaratory judgement" and is "brought for the purpose of determining a question of actual controversy between the parties."
"Passage of the MFFA was an express exercise by the State of Montana of powers reserved to the states and to the people under the 10th Amendment of the United States Constitution," the lawsuit said.
"The MFFA is also authorized under the conditions of the compact with the United States that Montana entered upon admission to the union. The United States Congress therefore has no authority, under the limited powers granted to it by the United States Constitution, to preempt the MFFA."
The arguments continued, "Under the 10th Amendment, all regulatory authority of all such activities within Montana's political borders is left to the sole discretion of Montana. Federal law therefore does not preempt the MFFA and cannot be invoked to regulate or prosecute Montana citizens acting in compliance with the MFFA, so long as they do so solely within the political borders of Montana."
WND also reported this week on a second front in the battle over guns when the Supreme Court agreed to hear a landmark Second Amendment case challenging Chicago's ban on handguns and onerous registration proceedures on other firearms.
The Illinois State Rifle Association and the Second Amendment Foundation filed a lawsuit against the city of Chicago claiming the city enforces a handgun ban identical to the one struck down by the Supreme Court in the case District of Columbia v. Heller and that the ban violates residents' Second Amendment rights.
In Heller, the court rejected a lower court position that claimed the Second Amendment applied only to state "militia," such as National Guard. However, the 5-4 ruling referenced the federal jurisdiction of Washington, D.C., and not states and localities.
This case, McDonald v. Chicago, challenges a 7th Circuit court ruling that said the Second Amendment applies only to federal regulation of an individual's right to guns and not in cases of restrictions by states and municipalities like Chicago and Oak Park, Ill.
The Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution states: "A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
Furthermore, Section 1 of the 14th Amendment, or the Privileges or Immunities Clause, states:
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
The plaintiffs argue that "the right of the people to keep and bear arms" in the Second Amendment is "incorporated" into the 14th Amendment and applies to both states and localities.
John Holdren – Obama’s Radical Science Czar
Obama's science czar John Holdren has advocated the ideas of forced abortions, compulsory sterilization, population control, and control of all the earth's natural resources.
In a 1977 textbook, "Ecoscience: Population, Resources, Environment," he co-authored with environmental activists Paul and Anne Ehrlich the three authors summarize their guiding principle: "To provide a high quality of life for all, there must be fewer people."
FrontPage Magazine first reported the discussion in the book of possible government programs that could be used to lower birth rates. The plans include forcing single women to abort their babies or put them up for adoption, implanting sterilizing capsules in people when they reach puberty, and spiking water reserves and staple foods with a chemical that would make people sterile.
To achieve these ends, they formulate a world government scheme they called the "Planetary Regime," which would administer the world's resources and human growth. The propose the development of an "armed international organization, a global analogue of a police force" to which nations would surrender part of their sovereignty.
Holdren won the unanimous approval of the Senate as the president's chief science adviser. He was confirmed on March 19, 2009, as director of the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy, advising the president on scientific affairs and focusing on energy independence and global warming.
In spite of his written record, not one senator asked him about any of these controversial views during the confirmation process. I suppose they were too busy trying to read the stimulus bill they had already passed within hours of its publication.
Chai Feldblum – Nominee, Commissioner for Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
WorldNetDaily reports Obama's nominee to become commissioner for the EEOC signed a manifesto praising polygamy and arguing traditional marriage should not be privileged above other forms of union.
Chai Feldblum, an outspoken homosexual rights activist and Georgetown University law professor, is a signatory to an online petition entitled "Beyond Same-Sex Marriage: A New Strategic Vision For All Our Families and Relationships. The organization defines itself as "a diverse group of nearly twenty LGBT and queer activists who came together to discuss marriage and family politics as they exist in the United States today."
The manifesto, first noticed by the Catholic News Agency, calls for a "new vision" for securing governmental and private institutional recognition of "diverse kinds of partnerships." Among the stated "partnerships" the petition seeks to protect is "households in which there is more than one conjugal partner."
Obama announced his intent to nominate Feldblum for Commissioner of the EEOC. She previously served as legislative counsel to the AIDS Project of the American Civil Liberties Union and clerked for Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackburn, who authored the Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion.
Feldblum is co-director of Workplace Flexibility 2010, which she described at a 2001 UCLA symposium as a homosexual rights group that aimed to change "the American workplace and revolutionize social mores."
Kevin Jennings – Safe Schools Chief
Jennings, the administrations 'safe schools' chief in the Department of Education, praised Harry Hay in a speech in 1997. Hay, one of the nation's first homosexual activists, founded the Mattachine Society in 1948, founded the Radical Faeries, and was an advocate for the North American Man-Boy Love Association (NAMBLA).
"One of the people that's always inspired me is Harry Hay who started the first ongoing gay rights groups in America. Well in 1993, Harry Hay marched with a million people in Washington, who thought he had a good idea 40 years before," said Jennings.
In a speech Jennings gave in 1995, he described how he was concerned about being described as promoting homosexuality, so he chose to campaign on the idea of "safety" instead.
"If the radical right can succeed in portraying us as preying on children, we will lose. Their language -- 'promoting homosexuality' is one example -- is laced with subtle and not-so-subtle innuendo that we are 'after their kids'. In Massachusetts the effective re-framing of this issue was the key to the success of the Governor's Commission on Gay and Lesbian Youth. We immediately seized upon the opponent's calling card --safety -- and explained how homophobia represents a threat to students' safety by creating a climate where violence, name-calling, health problems, and suicide are common. Titling our report 'Making Schools Safe for Gay and Lesbian Youth,' we automatically threw our opponents onto the defensive and stole their best line of attack. This framing short-circuited their arguments and left them back-pedaling from day one," said Jennings in a New York speech in 2000.
Jennings also wrote the forward for a book called "Queering Elementary Education: Advancing the Dialogue about Sexualities and Schooling."
Jennings founded the "Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network," which advocates homosexuality in public schools. He admitted that he should have reacted differently 20 years ago when he was a teacher and was approached by a 15-year-old student who admitted he had a sexual relationship with an older man. Jennings response was the suggestion that the student use a condom, though the student's statement revealed statutory rape at the least.
This is just one of several instances in which Jennings has advocated for egregious behaviors. His organization led discussions at a seminar where "young teens were guided on how to perform dangerous homosexual perversions, including 'fisting' " according to the Americans for Truth website.
In an address in a New York City church March 20, 2000, Jennings said: "Twenty percent of people are hard-core fair-minded [pro-homosexual] people. Twenty percent are hard-core [anti-homosexual bigots. We need to ignore the hard-core bigots, get more of the hard-core fair-minded people to speak up, and we'll pull that 60 percent [of people in the middle] over to our side. That's really what I think our strategy has to be. We have to quit being afraid of the religious right. We also have to quit -- I'm trying to find a way to say this. I'm trying not to say, '{F---} 'em!' which is what I want to say, because I don't care what they think! Drop dead!"
Is this the type person we should depend on to keep our children safe at school? I think not!
The ‘War’ In Afghanistan
No matter what your opinion is on the 'war' in Afghanistan, we can most likely all agree on one thing, it is not going well.
It appears that the war has been reduced to another Vietnam; a war by committee. Congressional leaders are meeting with Obama today to discuss strategy. Now there is a real panel of experts! Most members of Congress have no concept of military strategy or tactics for they have no experience in the military, especially at the high levels of command.
Obama sent General McChrystal to implement a strategy of counter-insurgency to defeat the Taliban and win the support of the population. When the general told him what he needs to accomplish his assigned mission, Obama has decided to check with the far-left, Congress, and probably the guy flipping hamburgers in a Chicago McDonalds.
Obama is undecisive and appears to be lead around by the nose by those on the far-left. I am beginning to consider that he may be nothing more than a puppet of the progressive movement and their radical organizations, ACORN, SEIU, the Chicago thugs, MoveOn.org, and the other radical groups funded by Soros and the far-left. I am now forced to consider whether he has a will or a mind of his own.
If the goal of the war effort is victory, Obama and the left called it the 'right' war, then get out of the way and let the military do its job. If victory is not the goal, get out now and stop wasting American lives. What he is doing now will cost the American military dearly in lives lost.
The Democrats and Progressives never learn from history. They are trying to micro-manage a war thousands of miles away with no knowledge or experience. Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon led us down this same path in Vietnam. How did that work out?
Mr. President, its time to fish or cut bait. Which are you going to do, let the military do what they can, with the men and equipment they ask for, or are you going to continue to dilly-dally around with the lives of our Soldiers and Marines and show our enemies and the rest of the world how weak you really are?