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Climate ChangeEnvironment/EnergyGovernmentPoliticsRegulation
Blame Oil for the World Populating to 8 Billion
by Ronald Stein June 21, 2021Just a few hundred years ago, before oil, the world was unspoiled and dominated by mother nature and the wild animal kingdom.
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Climate ChangeConstitutionEnvironment/EnergyGovernmentPolitics
America Pursues Expensive Electricity While Much of the World Lives in Energy Poverty
by Ronald Stein April 6, 2021Energy poverty is among the most crippling but least talked-about crises of the 21st century. We should not take energy for granted…
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On the same day FBI Director James Comey was exposing Mrs. Clinton as a serial liar for her actions related to the infamous State Department email scandal, she was buttering up the NEA — the largest teachers union — by telling members they are the cat’s meow of American education.
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Environment/Energy
Book Review: Technology Rising – The Trojan Horse of Global Transformation
by Jay Lehr July 26, 2016This is a book about conspiracy, partially before our eyes and partially hidden from view. It is an attempt by hundreds of the world’s most elite power brokers to place the world beneath a single government which they pompously believe would make for a better life though one with little freedom or choice. He is of course speaking broadly of the infamous Trilateral Commission, a subject he covered in far greater detail in two previous books.
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In 2009, there was a massive email leak from the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia. Supporters of global warming claimed the disclosures were out of context while opponents claimed they showed efforts to manipulate data. One of the quoted emails, Professor Phil Jones, while discussing paleo-data used to reconstruct past temperatures, says, “I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) and from 1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline.” (Emphasis added.) The House of Commons investigated and concluded, “insofar as we have been able to consider accusations of dishonesty—for example, Professor Jones’s alleged attempt to ‘hide the decline’—we consider that there is no case to answer.”
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Environment/EnergyFeatured
Climate Symbolism Carries High Costs
by H. Sterling Burnett April 12, 2016During March 22 hearings before the House Energy and Commerce Committee, under questioning by West Virginia Rep. David McKinley (R), EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy admitted (once again) the Obama administration’s climate efforts will do nothing to protect public or environmental health. McCarthy instead acknowledged the efforts are merely a symbolic attempt to get other countries’ leaders to join the Paris climate agreement.
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Environment/EnergyFeatured
The Developing World Wants Natural Gas and Electricity, Hillary Clinton Sends Cookstoves
by Marita Noon March 30, 2016Hillary Clinton’s “trustworthiness” problem is fed by a long history of “varying credibility,” as a recent Politico story delineated, including cattle-futures trading, law firm billing records, muddled sniper fire recollections and e-mail use.
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EducationFeatured
Homeschooling Parents Finding Extra Help in Cooperatives
by Robert Holland March 21, 2016Judging from numerous reports in print and online, a home-school co-op consists of parents bringing kids together and sharing their strongest academic specialties once a week. Field trips, clubs or other social activities for the kids sometimes follow the classes.
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Few outside of Alphabet-Google understand the immense market, economic, and technological power of an unaccountable monopoly over the underlying software that controls most all mobile devices in the world. Fortunately EU antitrust enforcers are some of the few who understand it.
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Environment/EnergyFeatured
Mr. President, You Owe America an Apology. We Did Drill Our Way to $2 Gas
by Marita Noon February 26, 2016“We can’t just drill our way to lower gas prices,” President Obama told an audience four years ago at the University of Miami. Like this year, it was an election year and Obama was running for re-election. Later in his speech, he added: “anybody who tells you that we can drill our way out of this problem doesn’t know what they’re talking about, or just isn’t telling you the truth.”
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Environment/EnergyFeatured
Don’t Fence Us in: Western States Seek Return of Land From D.C.
by Timothy Benson February 11, 2016According to the United States Geological Survey, nearly half the land in the Western United States is owned by the federal government. This includes 84.9 percent of land in Nevada (hiding UFOs requires lots of space), 64.9 percent of Utah, 61.6 percent of Idaho, 61.2 percent of Alaska, 52.9 percent of Oregon, 48.1 percent of Wyoming, and 45.8 percent in California. Meanwhile, the federal government owns only about 5 percent of the land in states east of the Mississippi River. Altogether, Uncle Sam owns roughly 640 million acres of land.
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Environment/EnergyFeatured
“Keep it in the Ground” at Work in the Real World
by Marita Noon February 8, 2016The campaign is about all fossil fuels: oil, gas, and coal. Instead of an “all of the above” energy policy, when it comes to fossil fuels, they want “none of the above.” A big part of the effort is focused on preventing the extraction of fossil fuels on public lands—which is supported by presidential candidates Senator Bernie Sanders and Secretary Hillary Clinton. The recent moratorium of leasing federal lands for coal mining, announced by Secretary of Interior Sally Jewell, is considered a great victory for “keep it in the ground.”