He Said That? 3/21/15

Posted: March 22, 2015 by gamegetterII in Uncategorized
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Dr. Patrick Moore is an international economist, co-founder of Greenpeace, co-founder, chair, and chief scientist of Greenspirit Strategies, a Vancouver-based consulting firm that provides paid public relations efforts, lectures, lobbying, opinions, and committee participation to government and industry on a wide range of environmental and sustainability issues. He is a frequent public speaker at meetings of industry associations, universities, and policy groups. From an article entitled “Why I am a Climate Change Skeptic,” at news.heartland.org:

I am skeptical humans are the main cause of climate change and that it will be catastrophic in the near future. There is no scientific proof of this hypothesis, yet we are told “the debate is over” and “the science is settled.”

My skepticism begins with the believers’ certainty they can predict the global climate with a computer model. The entire basis for the doomsday climate change scenario is the hypothesis increased atmospheric carbon dioxide…

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French gov preparing to outlaw ‘conspiracy theories’

Posted: March 21, 2015 by gamegetterII in Uncategorized
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Coming soon to the USSA once FCC has full control of the ,net.

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By Brandon Martinez | Non-Aligned Media | March 20, 2015

In addition to its new law against ‘condoning terrorism,’ the French regime also plans to outlaw ‘conspiracy theories’ and prevent French citizens from accessing websites deemed conspiratorial.

On Jan. 27 France’s President Francois Hollande told a Jewish-Zionist audience at a Holocaust Memorial ceremony:

“We need to act [against the dissemination of conspiracy theories] at the European level, and even internationally, so that a legal framework can be defined, and so that Internet platforms that manage social networks are held to account and that sanctions be imposed for failure to enforce [censorship].”

As a first step in the crackdown on theories not consonant with government propaganda and lies, the French regime banned five websites.

Non-Aligned Media holds that the Ottawa shooting, the Sydney Siege, the Charlie Hebdo attack and the recent assault in Copenhagen were all staged-managed PR events designed to validate a…

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Two From SLL

Posted: March 21, 2015 by gamegetterII in Uncategorized
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America Fans the Flames While Europe Puts Out the Fire, by Ted Snider

Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité – French Government Begins Blocking Websites it Doesn’t Like, by Michael Krieger

Read.

Learn.

Train.

Do More PT !

A new scientific paper has driven yet another nail into the coffin of Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming theory.

Posted: March 21, 2015 by gamegetterII in Uncategorized
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The paper – Rethinking the lower bound on aerosol radiative forcing by Bjorn Stevens of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg, Germany, published in the American Meteorological Society journal – finds that the effects of aerosols on climate are much smaller than those in almost all the computer models used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Aerosols are the minute particles added to the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels (as well as by non-anthropogenic sources, like volcanoes). The reason they are important is that they are so often cited by alarmists to excuse the awkward fact that the world has stubbornly failed to warm at the disastrous rate they predicted it would.

Apparently – or so the excuse goes – these aerosols are masking the true extent of runaway climate change by cancelling out the effects of man-made CO2.

Here, for example, is a NASA expert in 2009:

Using climate models, we estimate that aerosols have masked about 50 percent of the warming that would otherwise have been caused by greenhouse gases trapping heat near the surface of the Earth

Here is a report on a study from another institution – NOAA – with a long track record of ramping up the alarmist cause.

A new study led by the U.S, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) shows that tiny particles that make their way all the way up into the stratosphere may be offsetting a global rise in temperatures due to carbon emissions.

Aerosols are often used to explain the lack of “global warming” in the cooling period between 1940 and 1970 (when the growth in industrialisation and all that extra man-made CO2 ought to have begun taking effect).

They have also been used in this 2011 paper – whose co-authors include one Michael Mann, which gives you an idea of its quality and reliability – for the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA (PNAS). It claims that the reason there has been a “hiatus” in global warming since 1998 is because of the effect of aerosol emissions. This got one of the BBC’s resident alarmists Richard Black very excited. He wrote it up in an article entitled Global warming lull down to China’s coal growth. (Oddly he forgot to surround it with scare quotes, or finish it with a question mark.)

The new Stevens paper has been described as a “game-changer” by one expert in the field, Nic Lewis.

According to the IPCC’s models, the effect of aerosols on climate could be as much as 4.5 degrees C. But Stevens paper suggests that this is a considerable overestimate and that the reduction they effect on temperature cannot be more than 1.8 degrees C.

This pretty much kills the alarmists’ “the aerosols ate my homework” excuse stone dead. If the cooling effects of aerosols turn out to be much smaller than the IPCC thinks, then what this means is that the rise in global temperatures attributable to man-made CO2 is also much smaller than the alarmists’ computer models acknowledge.

As Andrew Montford comments here:

Jim Hansen, Bob Ward, Kevin Trenberth, Michael Mann and Gavin Schmidt, your climate alarmism just took one helluva beating.

http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/03/20/new-climate-paper-gives-global-warming-alarmists-one-helluva-beating/

From USA To NSA In A Few Steps, from the Lonely Libertarian

Posted: March 21, 2015 by gamegetterII in Uncategorized
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From SLL- From the Lonely Libertarian, via theburningplatform.com:

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From the Lonely Libertarian, via theburningplatform.com:

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Water in California: Too Scarce, or Just Underpriced? by Brian Doherty

Posted: March 20, 2015 by gamegetterII in Uncategorized
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Get the politicians out of it,and the water market will work itself out.
There is enough,just not enough for all the people living in what’s basically a desert to waste close to a hundred gallons per person,per day,or for the farmers to get really cheap water,and grow water intensive crops like rice and alfalfa. raise the price of water to the farmers to actual market price-and no one’s going to be growing rice and alfalfa in the desert any more.

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Compound interest may be, as Albert Einstein reportedly said, the most powerful  force in the universe, but the price mechanism runs a close second. Prices send signals to producers and consumers, adjusting demand and supply  24/7, and nobody is in charge! No bureaucrats, no committees, no rationing, nothing, it just works, all on its own. That, to SLL and its many other fans, is its primary virtue, and to statists and its other enemies, its primary flaw. Water in California and throughout much of the west is currently in short supply. The government’s fingerprints are usually all over any but temporary shortages and surpluses, and they certainly are in the case of water. It’s price is a political issue, and surprise, surprise, it is dramatically underpriced! And surprise, surprise, there’s not enough to go around! From Brian Doherty, at reason.com, a welcome dose of non-rationing rationality:

When it comes to…

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Serb order to secure corrupt monopoly of violence creates garbage hazard

Posted: March 20, 2015 by gamegetterII in anti-gun asshattery
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Via David Codrea

Memorial for Bosnian Serbs: If there is one thing all sides should have learned, you don't give those who lust for it a monopoly of violence.
Memorial for Bosnian Serbs: If there is one thing all sides should have learned, you don’t give those who lust for it a monopoly of violence.
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The Serbian parliament passed laws last month requiring “strict conditions for owning firearms, including medical and psychiatric checks,” Reuters reported Tuesday. Citizens who have not proven a “genuine reason” to persuade the state to grant them a license have been ordered to turn in their arms to a police amnesty program by June 4 or face up to five years in prison.

In addition to over one million registered weapons, it is believed hundreds of thousands of unregistered guns, holdovers from the Yugoslav Wars, have been secreted away by participants and their survivors, who know better than to leave themselves defenseless after having experienced widespread violence and instability firsthand. And government, as usual, in its zeal to control all, has responded to crime by holding everyone accountable, and created unintended consequences where the “cure” can be more deadly than the disease.

Anticipating people might not want to turn themselves into a police force that fully half the citizenry sees as corrupt and violent — and with good reason – the government is now worried that, rather than identify themselves and surrender to officials they fear, and not wanting to be caught and imprisoned for violating disarmament edicts, some may opt to just throw ordnance away. To that end, those in charge have put out an appeal asking that hand grenades not be disposed of in the trash, a potentiality that if it does happen, will be purely of the government’s making.

The thing is, Serbia already had restrictive gun laws, and those did absolutely no good at stopping a mass shooting in 2013. And it’s not exactly like recent history shows Serbs possessing a monopoly of violence haven’t taken full advantage of the genocide powers a disparity in capabilities ensures.

That “progressive” policies invariably produce Opposite Day results should come as no surprise to anyone who has kept a critical eye on the way “gun control” plays out time and again, from “background checks” that depend on de facto registration (a necessary prelude to confiscation), to “gun free zones,” that give predators the assurance they will succeed in stacking up bodies before a bullet, or the threat of one, ends their rampage. Serbs contemplating whether or not to comply with the amnesty need to ask themselves who they fear more –random freelance thugs, or the official kind that wear badges.

http://www.examiner.com/article/serb-order-to-secure-corrupt-monopoly-of-violence-creates-garbage-hazard?CID=examiner_alerts_article

ATF, DOJ, media confirm Jones stepping down as director

Posted: March 20, 2015 by gamegetterII in anti-gun asshattery
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Via David Codrea

Confirming claims made by the regulatory and legal compliance firm FFLGuard, and reported Thursday exclusively in this column, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives announced the resignation of B. Todd Jones as director Friday. His resignation will become effective March 31.

Also confirmed from yesterday’s Gun Rights Examiner report is the announcement that Jones will be succeeded in an acting capacity by Deputy Director Thomas E. Brandon. Revealing that “Jones will depart to pursue opportunities in the private sector,” the announcement makes no mention of where he will go, although yesterday’s report noted information alleging he will be joining the National Football League’s legal team.

Read the rest @ http://www.examiner.com/article/atf-doj-media-confirm-jones-stepping-down-as-director?CID=examiner_alerts_article

Legal compliance firm for gun dealers says B. Todd Jones leaving ATF for NFL

Posted: March 19, 2015 by gamegetterII in anti-gun asshattery
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Via David Codrea

B. Todd Jones will be resigning from his position as Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and accepting private sector employment with the National Football League, gun dealer compliance and legal protection firm FFLGuard claimed in a Thursday advisory. The report, while as yet not corroborated, is consistent with information Gun Rights Examiner has been investigating, including by attempting earlier today to obtain confirmation from ATF.

Read the rest @ http://www.examiner.com/article/legal-compliance-firm-for-gun-dealers-says-b-todd-jones-leaving-atf-for-nfl?CID=examiner_alerts_article

Ebola-hit Sierra Leone to lock down 2.5 million people

Posted: March 19, 2015 by gamegetterII in ebola
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Freetown (AFP) – Sierra Leone said Thursday it will confine around 2.5 million people to their homes across the capital and in the north in a three-day shutdown aimed at stemming the Ebola epidemic.

The worst-ever outbreak of the virus has claimed almost 3,700 lives in the impoverished west African nation, one of three countries that have seen their economies wrecked and healthcare systems obliterated in the crisis.

“The lockdown will be conducted from March 27 to March 29 and will be like the one we conducted in September last year,” said Palo Conteh, head of the National Ebola Response Centre.

“The government and partners are hopeful that latent cases that are now not being reported or recorded will come out.”

The action, which follows a nationwide lockdown in September, was announced after the World Health Organization (WHO) said Wednesday that the death toll from Ebola stood at almost 10,200.

One of the deadliest viruses known to man, Ebola is spread only through direct contact with the bodily fluids of the recently deceased or an infected person showing symptoms such as fever or vomiting.

Authorities will use the 72-hour window to search out patients in the Western Area, which includes Freetown, as well as the northern districts of Bombali and Port Loko.

– ‘People have become complacent’ –

Teams of experts will go door-to-door reminding households of the dangers of traditional burials, a key factor in the spread of the virus, and investigating deaths not reported to the government.

Authorities hope the lockdown will set the country back on course for a mid-April deadline for eradicating Ebola announced by the leaders of Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone in February.

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“People have become complacent and are still touching corpses, washing bodies and taking sick people to traditional healers,” Conteh told reporters in Freetown.

“We are determined to bring Ebola to an end and meet the deadline set by the… presidents for April 15. This is what we are working towards.”

The lockdown follows a two-week door-to-door operation February in Port Loko, a coastal district immediately north and east of the Western Area, to find out if families were harbouring patients or concealing bodies.

On Wednesday the WHO reported 150 new confirmed cases in the week to Sunday, compared with 116 the previous week.

There were 95 new confirmed infections in Guinea — the highest weekly total for the country in 2015 — but Sierra Leone is faring better, according the WHO.

The country reported 55 new confirmed cases, the lowest weekly total since late June 2014, and WHO chief Margaret Chan said on Wednesday it had made “tremendous progress” in combating Ebola.

– 300 quarantined –

Freetown reported 29 of the infections, while 17 were registered in Bombali and Port Loko.

Authorities say the spike in transmission in the capital is centred in the east-end and has emerged from just one case.

“The outbreak about two weeks ago started with one death and in a couple of days led to over 300 people quarantined to bring the situation under control,” Ebola transmission investigator Sule Kamara told AFP.

The government says the northern district of Kambia has also become a concern, with 10 new confirmed cases last week, most of whom had crossed the officially closed border from southern Guinea, where the outbreak began in December 2013.

There was also bad news for Moyamba district, which borders Port Loko and the Western Area, after one new confirmed case broke a 42-day run with no infections.

A country or region is considered to have eradicated Ebola after 42 days — double the maximum incubation period for the virus.

More than 300 healthcare workers have been infected with Ebola in Sierra Leone, and almost three-quarters have died.

An American healthcare worker who contracted Ebola in Sierra Leone is critical and 10 colleagues are being monitored for signs of illness in the US.

The regional success story remains Liberia, which has reported no new confirmed cases for the third consecutive week.

Sunday was the 12th day since the final patient received their second negative test.

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