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March 9, 2010
Posted by Muhammad Cohen in: Business, Cap and Trade, Current Events, Energy, Environment, Environmental Issues, Foreign Affairs, Global Warming
 Leave a comment February 24, 2010
Posted by Prentiss Gray in: Environment, Environmental Issues, Geopolitical Events, Global Warming, Habit Change
3 comments Despite shrinking ice sheets, melting glaciers and Island nations disappearing under water, many sensible people still find climate change totally unbelievable. We’re not talking about some incomprehensible 3000 page theory here, we’re talking the disappearance of the North polar ice pack. You know, where Santa lives? January 8, 2010
China Cleaning their Environment The evidence shows that China is waking up sooner than Western countries did after their industrial revolutions. China now leads the world in hydroelectric power providing 20% of the country’s power. China has made it a priority to use hydroelectric power to reduce pollution in the future. Chine also plans to [...] January 8, 2010
Not by Fire but by Ice By Alan Caruba Some say the world will end in fire; – Robert Frost, American Poet Considering the [...] January 7, 2010
An Unhappy Pest-Filled 2010 By Alan Caruba From its inception on December 2, 1970, the Environmental Protection Agency has done everything in its power to deprive Americans of the protection against insect and rodent pests that is afforded by the proper use of pesticides. I know this from personal experience because in the 1980s I worked with a [...] January 6, 2010
Posted by Muhammad Cohen in: Cap and Trade, China, Commentary, Current Events, Environment, Environmental Issues, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Relations, Geopolitical Events, Global Warming
Leave a comment China and US have taken the lead in saving earth away from the UN and fellow travelers that were bungling the [...] December 10, 2009
Posted by Alan Caruba in: Commentary, Current Events, Environment, Environmental Issues, Global Warming, Opinion
3 comments Baby, It’s Cold Outside By Alan Caruba One of the great ironies of the Climate Change Conference taking place in Copenhagen is that its focus is on “global warming” at a time when Planet Earth has been in a cooling cycle for the passed decade. That fact alone is testimony to another one; the United Nations conference has [...] December 9, 2009
Save the planet for the [...] November 23, 2009
Posted by Alan Caruba in: Commentary, Current Events, Environment, Environmental Issues, Global Warming, Opinion
5 comments Global Warming Meltdown: Climategate! By Alan Caruba For those of us “skeptics” and “deniers” who have been jumping up and down, pointing at the Sun, and saying, “See, it’s the Sun that determines how warm or cool the Earth is. See it? Up there in the sky?” The truth about some of the scientists behind the global [...] November 22, 2009
Posted by Alan Caruba in: Commentary, Current Events, Environment, Environmental Issues, Global Warming, Opinion
Leave a comment The Global Carbon Footprint Scam By Alan Caruba I never cease to marvel at the environmental alarmists who create one “crisis” after another using wretchedly bad “science” to support their scams. On Tuesday, November 24, the Global Footprint Network is going to “release new data on the Ecological Footprint of 100 nations and humanity as a whole, [...] November 14, 2009
Posted by Alan Caruba in: Commentary, Current Events, Energy, Environment, Environmental Issues, Global Warming, Opinion
Leave a comment Solar Powered Lies By Alan Caruba I lived in Florida for some five years between attending the University of Miami and returning after service in the Army for a job I left on news of JFK’s assassination. Some five years ago my older brother, a resident of Boynton Beach, urged me to relocate. As the exit doors of [...] November 12, 2009
Posted by Alan Caruba in: Accountability, Commentary, Current Events, Energy, Environment, Environmental Issues, Global Warming, Opinion, The Pundit's Corner
2 comments Polar Bear Balderdash By Alan Caruba I received an email from the Sierra Club urging me to sign a petition to declare the polar bear an endangered species. The Department of the Interior is considering this and it would cover much of the Arctic, including the sea ice of the Arctic Ocean. The Sierra Club is worried because [...] November 8, 2009
Posted by Alan Caruba in: Cap and Trade, Commentary, Current Events, Energy, Environment, Environmental Issues, Opinion
Leave a comment Energy ABCs: Playing Americans for Fools By Alan Caruba I have long harbored strong doubts about the knowledge that most Americans possess regarding the sources of energy they largely take for granted. We flip a switch and the lights go on. We pull up to the gas pump and drive away. We use machines that are totally [...] October 30, 2009
Posted by Peggy Noonan in: Commentary, Current Events, Economic Crisis, Energy, Environmental Issues, Freelance Author, Healthcare, Journalism, Opinion, Politics
Leave a comment We’re Governed by Callous Children
The new economic statistics put growth at a healthy 3.5% for the third quarter. We should be dancing in the streets. No one is, because no one has any faith in these numbers. Waves of money are sloshing through the system, creating [...] October 24, 2009
Posted by Alan Caruba in: Cap and Trade, Commentary, Congress, Democrat, Energy, Environment, Environmental Issues, Global Warming, Opinion, Politics
Leave a comment Taking Away Your Choice I am always amazed at the variety of choice that exists in my local supermarket. There are other supermarkets in the area, but the one I frequent most has lower prices on most items and almost anything you want to purchase allows one to select among several brands available. We Americans [...] October 22, 2009
Posted by Alan Caruba in: Cap and Trade, Commentary, Current Events, Environment, Environmental Issues, Global Warming, Opinion
Leave a comment Using “Global Warming” to Steal your Rights By now, anyone paying any attention whatever to the weather has begun to notice that it is getting colder earlier in the U.S. and that this is occurring around the world. On www.iceagenow.com, Robert W. Felix, the author of “Not by Fire, but by Ice” and “Magnetic Reversals [...] October 20, 2009
Posted by Alan Caruba in: Business, Cap and Trade, Commentary, Current Events, Economics, Energy, Environment, Environmental Issues, Global Warming, Opinion, Politics
Leave a comment The “Rent Seekers” – Green Corporations In economics, “rent seeking” is a term that describes the process by which corporations, unions, trade groups, and individuals try to gain unfair advantages through politics and lobbying rather than via competitive trade in the free marketplace. Going “Green” has proven to be one of the favorite ways by [...] October 8, 2009
Posted by Alan Caruba in: Accountability, Comments & Discussion, Congress, Current Events, Democrat, Environmental Issues, Opinion, Politics
One comment Every Drop of Water in America For sixty years I lived on a little street called Brookside Road. The name came from a real brook, a Depression-era project lined with smooth rocks that was serene and beautiful, bounded by trees on both sides. Some in the federal government want to exert control over that brook [...] October 6, 2009
Posted by Alan Caruba in: Comments & Discussion, Current Events, Economic Crisis, Energy, Environmental Issues, Opinion
6 comments California, Watch Us Leave! By Alan Caruba A popular Al Jolson song when your grandparents were young began, “California here we come, right back where we started from.” For many of that generation, California was a land of golden opportunity, a destination for the “Okies” whose farms had succumbed to a long drought in the 1930s, and [...] October 3, 2009
Posted by Alan Caruba in: Accountability, Comments & Discussion, Congress, Current Events, Energy, Environmental Issues, Global Warming, Opinion
4 comments EPA: The Blob that Ate America No single government agency has grown so big and so fast as the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and no single agency threatens constitutionally guaranteed property rights and nationwide economic growth than the EPA. It is the Blob that ate America. Signed into law by Richard M. Nixon in 1970, [...] October 1, 2009
Posted by Bill Hazelgrove in: Democracy, Environment, Environmental Issues, Geopolitical Events, Global Warming, History, Sociology, Television, The Pundit's Corner
One comment Ken Burns newest film is amazing. The parks are amazing. We watch and watch and I have been at it eight hours now after four episodes. At times it is like a marathon with the people and parks running by you in a mind stream of sequences of people and events that you struggle to [...] September 23, 2009
Posted by Muhammad Cohen in: Current Events, Environment, Environmental Issues, Faith, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Relations, Geopolitical Events, Global Warming, Islam, Opinion, The Economy, The Pundit's Corner
Leave a comment The spirit of this holy season for Muslims and Jews, rather than the angry rhetoric of religious zealots on both sides, could help bring peace to the Middle [...] September 18, 2009
Posted by Muhammad Cohen in: Current Events, Environment, Environmental Issues, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Relations, Global Warming, Nature/Wildlife
Leave a comment The UN and green groups are sabotaging meaningful progress to combat climate change. [...] September 16, 2009
Posted by Alan Caruba in: Accountability, African-American, Business, Cap and Trade, Congress, Current Events, Democracy, Economic Crisis, Energy, Environmental Issues, Global Warming, Governance, Healthcare, Opinion, The Economy
2 comments “Technically” We’re Out of a Recession I cannot tell you how relieved I was to hear Ben Bernake, the Chairman of the Federal Reserve, announce that the United States is “technically” out of the recession. I spent much of the day waiting for my phone to ring with offers of work. Chairman Bernake did add [...] September 15, 2009
Posted by psuedowriter in: Accountability, Current Events, Democracy, Economic Crisis, Economics, Education, Environmental Issues, Family, Finance, Geopolitical Events, Latino & Hispanic, Opinion, Recovery, Social Aspects, The Economy
2 comments In the greater scheme of global brotherhood and advancement, all of the aims of these “special schools” are wonderful things. In the meanwhile, the taxpayers of today are suffering, and I don’t think most of us like [...] August 26, 2009
Posted by Tantra in: Diet, Environmental Issues, Habit Change, Health & Fitness, Lifestyle
2 comments How often do people do things thinking they are doing something good, healthy, useful, and end up with just the opposite effect? Often, the effect is opposite to what we want because mainstream media has not been very forthcoming, for the sake of the corporations supporting it, who would prefer to keep the truth silent. “Opposites [...] August 22, 2009
Posted by Alan Caruba in: Current Events, Environment, Environmental Issues, Global Warming, Healthcare, Opinion, Politics
Leave a comment Saturday’s Random Thoughts By Alan Caruba Nine Trillion Dollars. That is what the Obama administration now says will be the national budget deficit in ten years. Our current GDP, give or take a trillion, is fourteen trillion a year so you do the math. In seven months President Obama and his Democrat minions in Congress have plunged [...] August 16, 2009
Posted by Alan Caruba in: Cap and Trade, Current Events, Energy, Environmental Issues, Opinion, Politics
One comment The New Dark Ages of Britain & The U.S. I have long believed that the environmental movement, particularly in America, is quite literally an internal enemy, no less insidious that the efforts of the former Soviet Union to infiltrate spies and agents of influence our government to affect policy, I know that sounds harsh, but [...] August 8, 2009
Posted by Alan Caruba in: Accountability, Congress, Current Events, Energy, Environmental Issues, Global Warming, Opinion, Politics, The Economy
Leave a comment I Accuse! In 1898, an article by the great French novelist, Emile Zola was published in L’Aurore. It was addressed to the President of France. Zola accused the military of having wrongly convicted Capt. Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish artillery officer, of treason, incarcerating him for years on Devil’s Island. The title of the article [...] August 5, 2009
Posted by Alan Caruba in: Current Events, Environment, Environmental Issues, Opinion
Leave a comment Killing Pesticides, Not Pests We are going to go from cotton fields to bedrooms in order to connect the dots on the many ways the Environmental Protection Agency and environmental groups have conspired to deprive Americans of beneficial chemicals that protect crops and humans from insect pests. Only a scant two percent of the U.S. [...] July 28, 2009
Posted by Alan Caruba in: Congress, Current Events, Energy, Environmental Issues, Global Warming, Opinion, Politics
Leave a comment It’s Getting Colder Everywhere There’s an ancient Scandinavian legend that says, “A long time ago, the universe was made of ice. Then one day the ice began to melt and a mist rose into the sky. Out of the mist came a giant made of frost and the earth and the heavens were made [...] July 18, 2009
Posted by Alan Caruba in: Accountability, Congress, Current Events, Democrat, Environment, Environmental Issues, Opinion
Leave a comment Of Mice and Men (and Pest Control) Among the many books in my office is the “Handbook of Pest Control”, seventh edition, edited by Arnold Mallis. Its contributing editors are a who’s who of the leading authorities on pest control and its encyclopedic text includes thousands of references to the diseases that insect and [...] July 14, 2009
Posted by Alan Caruba in: Accountability, Cap and Trade, Current Events, Energy, Environmental Issues, Opinion, Politics
Leave a comment The Horrid Dr. Holdren England had “Mad King George” who was probably bipolar and eventually went completely insane around 1810. It would take another ten years before his suffering ended and he passed away, but his powers had passed to the Prince of Wales by then. In those days they knew when people were [...] July 13, 2009
Posted by Alan Caruba in: Current Events, Energy, Environment, Environmental Issues, Global Warming, Opinion
Leave a comment Greening Our Schools and Nation If those of you who have doubts that the Earth is dramatically warming and that the planet is about to be plunged into the kind of heat that will likely destroy all life, then it must be puzzling that so many people continue to believe that “global warming” is [...] July 12, 2009
Posted by Alan Caruba in: Current Events, Democracy, Economic Crisis, Energy, Environmental Issues, Governance, Healthcare, Homeland Security, Opinion, Politics
Leave a comment A “Crisis” of Governors If you can have a pride of lions and a gaggle of geese, then I suggest that the forthcoming July 17-20 meeting of the National Governors Association can be described as a “crisis” of Governors. July 9, 2009
Posted by Alan Caruba in: Accountability, Current Events, Energy, Environmental Issues, Global Warming, Opinion
Leave a comment The Sierra Club versus Electricity In early July the Sierra Club celebrated the fact that, “Today, 100 of those planned coal plants have been defeated or abandoned.” They crowed over the fact that a year ago there were plans for 150 new plants and that they had successfully thwarted the provision of electrical power around [...] June 25, 2009
Posted by Alan Caruba in: Cap and Trade, Current Events, Environment, Environmental Issues, Global Warming, Opinion, Politics
Leave a comment Save the Earth! Get Rid of Your Refrigerator! On June 22, Greenpeace USA put out the word that “A new study published today in the Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences shows that refrigerant chemicals, so called F-gases, are a more dangerous global warming threat than previously predicted.” Apparently, in order to save the [...] June 20, 2009
Posted by Alan Caruba in: Congress, Current Events, Energy, Environmental Issues, Global Warming, Governance, Opinion, Politics
Leave a comment Am I Boring You? Years ago, beginning around 1984, I became “famous” as the creator of The Boring Institute, a media spoof that literally garnered international attention for its annual list of “The Most Boring Celebrities of the Year.” Until around 2002 I averaged a thousand radio shows and television appearances as the result [...] June 16, 2009
There was a time when a shopping bag determined one’s status. Women took their lunches, extra shoes, whatever they needed that didn’t fit into their often enourmous purses, and placed it in a bag from a popular store. They didn’t know it but it was a way to recycle while looking important. You may have [...] June 2, 2009
Posted by Alan Caruba in: Accountability, Business, Business Management, Current Events, Democrat, Economic Crisis, Energy, Environmental Issues, Governance, Opinion, Politics
2 comments The US is Committing National Suicide Growing up as a teenager in the 1950s, I could not wait to get my license to drive and I liked the sporty look of the British MG. These days I drive a Volkswagen. In that short tale can be found the seeds of the end of the [...] May 21, 2009
Posted by Alan Caruba in: Current Events, Democrat, Environmental Issues, Opinion, Politics
2 comments USA on the Precipice of Destruction Watching the debate of the Waxman-Markey “Cap-and-Trade” bill that would impose limits on “greenhouse gas” emissions, allegedly to deter “global warming” one Congressman, reading from the script in front of him, said that there is no further debate on whether “global warming” is real and that “a consensus” [...] May 21, 2009
Posted by Congressman Billybob in: Current Events, Energy, Environmental Issues, Opinion
Leave a comment That Coal-Fired Furnace in the Sky by John Armor Did anybody else notice that the phrase “global warming” has largely disappeared from public discourse? All but the slowest enviromentalists have dropped that phrase because for the last three years the globe as been cooling off. So, the new phrase is “climate change.” As a public service, [...] May 19, 2009
Posted by Alan Caruba in: Accountability, Business, Business Management, Current Events, Democrat, Energy, Environmental Issues, Governance, Opinion, Politics, The Pundit's Corner
Leave a comment Government is Bad for Business Why would the leaders of U.S. auto companies, two of whom are facing bankruptcy, gather around the President as he signed legislation requiring higher mileage per gallon when surely each knew that there is a finite amount of energy to be secured from a single gallon of gasoline? They knew, [...] May 17, 2009
Posted by Alan Caruba in: China, Current Events, Economics, Environmental Issues, Foreign Affairs, Opinion, The Pundit's Corner
Leave a comment Our Nobel Prize Moron I know you’re thinking the title refers to Al Gore, but no, it belongs to Paul Krugman, an economist best known as a New York Times columnist, and winner in 2008 of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science. He is widely regarded as an expert in international economics and [...] May 14, 2009
Posted by Alan Caruba in: Accountability, Current Events, Democrat, Environmental Issues, Geopolitical Events, Governance, Healthcare, Opinion, Politics, The Pundit's Corner
Leave a comment What’s the Rush, Obama? At first I thought it was just my imagination, but three prime time press conferences in three months, several overseas events, and the seemingly daily announcement that new billions would be spent on stimulus packages, bailouts and new programs has become a dizzying onslaught. The Obama administration is, in so many [...] May 13, 2009
Posted by Alan Caruba in: Accountability, Current Events, Environmental Issues, Opinion, Politics
Leave a comment A New Threat: Federal Control of All U.S. Water It is little wonder that Americans increasingly distrust their government. Contrary to the fundamental conservative principle that the federal government is limited by the U.S. Constitution and should, as a matter of course, not intrude on those rights allocated to the States, the federal government has [...] May 12, 2009
Posted by Alan Caruba in: Current Events, Energy, Environmental Issues, Opinion, Politics, The Pundit's Corner
Leave a comment Slippery Green Words Every so often The New York Times slips up and lets some truth appear on its hallowed and vastly over-rated pages. Such was the case on May 2nd when reporter John M. Broder wrote “Seeking to Save the Planet, With a Thesaurus.” As he put it in the first sentence, “The problem [...] May 8, 2009
Posted by Alan Caruba in: Accountability, Current Events, Economic Crisis, Environmental Issues, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Relations, Geopolitical Events, Governance, Homeland Security, Opinion, Politics, The Pundit's Corner
Leave a comment I Did Not Vote for Barack Obama Whenever I am feeling a bit despondent and need to shake off the mood, I remind myself that I did not vote for Barack Hussein Obama. The other day, feeling buyer’s remorse, I returned an item I had purchased and requested credit. It looked so good in the [...] May 6, 2009
Posted by Alan Caruba in: Accountability, Current Events, Environmental Issues, Opinion, Politics, The Pundit's Corner
Leave a comment Die, Global Warming, Die! By Alan Caruba Ever since the “global warming” lie began, for at least two decades or more, I have been writing about what a huge hoax it was and is. For all that time I believed that if the truth got out and reached enough people, they would conclude it was a lie. The [...] April 30, 2009
Vancouver, BC Canada – The importance of this time of year is that the bald eagle activity increases greatly; the chicks have just hatched and the [...] April 28, 2009
Posted by Alan Caruba in: Accountability, Current Events, Energy, Environmental Issues, Foreign Relations, Governance, Opinion, Politics
Leave a comment By Alan Caruba If some found fault in George W. Bush’s muscular approach to foreign affairs which included the belief that the entire West had a stake in fighting al Qaeda and the general threat of resurgent Islamic fundamentalism, the policy pendulum has now swung to the view that the United States of America is to [...] April 28, 2009
Posted by Antonio de la Vega in: Education, Environmental Issues, Family, Habit Change, Healthcare, Latino & Hispanic, Mexico
Leave a comment Recientemente recibí el correo de un familiar acerca de la epidemia de INFLUENZA en México. Anoto y añado algunas precisiones que bien cabe aclarar. Sirva este texto a modo de [...] April 26, 2009
Last night, my wife and I went to the movies and saw Earth. My interest in nature documentaries is usually fairly tepid, but we’d seen the previews and we thought the cinematography might be worth the ticket price. It was. Having said that, the movie was somewhat disappointing in a number of ways. For one, [...] March 24, 2009
Posted by James BlueWolf in: Children, Current Events, Education, Environmental Issues, Family, General Topics, Inspiration & Motivation, Lifestyle, Native American, Nature/Wildlife, Non-Fiction, Philosophical Genres, Politics, Relationships, Religion, Social Aspects, Social Classes, Social Issues, Sociology, Spirituality, Uncategorized
3 comments Of all the words that Traditional People favor, Respect is the one used the most. It implies many things: values, morality, character, compassion, commitment, relationship, and more that is unspoken, but understood. We think it is the foundation of Traditional Life. February 19, 2009
Posted by James BlueWolf in: Business, Economics, Education, Environmental Issues, General Topics, Geopolitical Events, Governance, Inspiration & Motivation, Native American, Philosophical Genres, Politics, Social Aspects, Social Classes, Social Issues, Sociology, The Economy, Uncategorized
3 comments I do a lot of criticizing modern western civilization and its time that I began to write a little bit beyond the doom and gloom. Yes, I believe the civilization is headed for crisis beyond our present comprehension, and yes, I also believe that the suicidal adherents to nationalism will eventually cause the US to [...] February 12, 2009
Posted by Minnette Coleman in: Children, Economics, Education, Environmental Issues, Finance, Inspiration & Motivation, Uncategorized
Leave a comment You tell yourself you don’t have a dime to spare. You wish the man in the ragged coat would withdraw his hand and not ask for your help. You are tired of seeing the homesless person with the dog sleeping outside on the cold ground. You wish the agencies to assist the needy would loose [...] February 3, 2009
Posted by James BlueWolf in: Current Events, Economics, Education, Environmental Issues, General Topics, Geopolitical Events, Governance, Native American, Philosophical Genres, Politics, Social Issues, Sociology, Spirituality, Uncategorized
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In the summer of O8, after numerous years of discussion over Mascot issues and general problems between Native and non-Native communities locally, I wrote this article. Reading it now, it seems a little disjointed, but it is a way I can familiarize readers with my general philosophies so I don’t have to rely on repetition in [...] |
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The Great Green Land Grab
The Great Green Land Grab
By Alan Caruba
All across America, various environmental organizations have been engaged in schemes to deter development such as housing, new energy plants, or the horror of a manufacturing facility that might actually employ people. In some states, the attack has been on farms and ranches, finding ways to punish their owners [...]