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2.2

Legislature

xi

Bush 41 administration had strong support to limit action on climate

change in the House. <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Oklahoma

Senator James Inhofe <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">came

in during the 1994 Gingrich Revolution and was chair of the

Environment and Public Works Committee. He embodies the dovetailing

ideologies: perfect score on conservatism and from religious groups,

as well as voting in favor of oil companies (he was the largest

recipient of their largesse), but a 0-5% score from the League of

Conservation Voters (in fact the only one against Everglades

restoration). As chair, he had a great deal of power in writing

legislation, in determining when or if a bill will come to a vote,

but even who will be heard, what they will be asked, and how long

they get to speak. He limited testimony by legitimate climate

scientists but invited science fiction novelist Michael Crichton to

testify and meet with the President. In a July 28 2003 two hour

diatribe against global warming, he called it "the greatest hoax

ever perpetrated on mankind.” Inhofe draws on The Acton Institute

for the Study of Religion and Liberty, a Christian-right and

free-market economics think tank, which sees environmentalism as a

last gasp Socialist plot to limit our freedom (Scherer). He

promulgates the Oregon Petition (see Section 4.2.4) and other works

by energy industry paid "experts" Soon, Singer, Baliunas

etc (3.4.2). Moreover, Inhofe has used the judiciary power of the

Congress in lawsuits to try to suppress the peer-reviewed science of

the National Assessment on Climate Change (as did the CEQ). As

effectual he has been in the US, his "Truth squad" at the

Copenhagen conference was met with such derision it was abandoned

after only three hours.

–

Inhofe

was born November 17, 1934 in Des Moines, Iowa and moved with his

family to Tulsa when he was a child. He served in the United States

Army from 1955 to 1956 (though some sources claim he served from 1957

to 1958) never rising above private and never leaving American shores

BA,

Economics, University of Tulsa,1973

Okla

state senate, lost 2, mayor Tulsa till 1984

[“

This time he won, and he served there from 1987 until 1994, being

handily reelected every two years in what rapidly became a strongly

Republican district. He first came to national attention in 1993,

when he led the effort to reform the House's "discharge

provision" rule, which the House leadership had long used to

bottle up bills in committee. …

Inhofe

outraged federal employees on the day of the Oklahoma City bombing of

the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building by stating on National

television that there probably weren't very many casualties because

federal employees wouldn't be at their desks at 9:00 instead they

would be off having coffee somewhere …

a member of the Armed Services Committee, he was among the panelists

questioning witnesses about the <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Abu

Ghraib<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">

abuse. There he made news by claiming he was "outraged by the

outrage" over the revelations of abuse, suggesting that shock at

the crimes was more offensive than the crimes themselves. He has also

criticized the <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Red

Cross<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">

a "bleeding heart."  ]

Inhofe

ctr brady bill, fam leave, nafta, assault weapons ban etc etc (121

going dirty)

–

XIAN:

Longtime

member of C Street Family, calls itself Christian Mafia (likes to

keep itself secret, but made the news when three affairs in quick

succession; last one was Hiking the Appalachian Trail; another told

the woman (of a friend) it was over and paid her 1.3 million); many

trips to Africa to do the “Jesus thing” special project to

develop leadership, along with John Ashcroft, another member

including Uganda (going back to at least 2004; $180K taxpayers?). To

be fair, involved with Carter (Begin/Sadat) and helped with

Congo-Rwanda peace talks, but Sharet points out exception to rule:

Suharto, el salvador, Honduras (kids flee now). Two newspapers in

Uganda have published the names and pictures of gays, one with

headline “Kill Them!” A bill by David Bahati has gotten a second

reading, calls for killing or life imprisonment for certain acts. He

comes to the US for Prayer Breakfasts, got plugged into incubator;

Family Research Council (And Leadership Institute. He sees his policy

as in line with those of his American friends and mentors (inhofe,

who has boasted there are no gays in his family, but tried to

distance himself from Uganda situation), but feels political climate

here keeps them from implementation.

“If

sexual license was all the Family offered the C Street men, however,

that would merely be seedy and self-serving. But Family men are more

than hypocritical. They're followers of a political religion that

embraces elitism, disdains democracy, and pursues power for its

members the better to "advance the Kingdom." They say

they're working for Jesus, but their Christ is a power-hungry,

inside-the-Beltway savior not many churchgoers would recognize.

Sexual peccadilloes aside, the Family acts today like the most

powerful lobby in America that isn't registered as a lobby -- and is

thus immune from the scrutiny attending the other powerful

organizations like Big Pharma and Big Insurance that exert pressure

on public policy.

Family likes to call itself a "Christian Mafia," but it

began 74 years ago as an anti-New Deal coalition of businessmen

convinced that organized labor was under the sway of Satan. The Great

Depression, they believed, was a punishment from God for what they

viewed as FDR's socialism.”

{{<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Onward

Christian Senators

James

Inhofe might be an environmentalist's worst nightmare. The Oklahoma

senator makes major policy decisions based on heavy corporate and

theological influences, flawed science, and probably an apocalyptic

worldview -- and he chairs the Senate Environment and Public Works

Committee.

That

committee's links to corporate funders are both easier to trace and

more infamous than its ties to religious fundamentalism, and it's

true that the influence of money can scarcely be overstated. From

1999 to 2004, Inhofe received more than $588,000 from the fossil-fuel

industry, electric utilities, mining, and other natural-resource

interests, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Eight of

the nine other Republican members of Inhofe's committee received an

average of $408,000 per senator from the energy and natural resource

sector over the same period. By contrast, the eight committee

Democrats and one Independent came away with an average of just

$132,000 per senator from that same sector since 1999.

the influence of theology, although less discussed, is no less

significant. <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Inhofe,

like DeLay, is a Christian Zionist.<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">

the senator has not overtly expressed his religious views in his

environmental committee, he has when speaking on other issues. In a

Senate foreign-policy speech, Inhofe argued that the U.S. should ally

itself unconditionally with Israel "because God said so."Quoting

the Bible as the divine Word of God, Inhofe cited Genesis 13:14-17 --

"for all the land which you see, to you will I give it, and to

your seed forever" -- as justification for permanent Israeli

occupation of the West Bank and for escalating aggression against the

Palestinians.

also openly supports <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">dispensationalist

Pat Robertson,<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">

touts every tornado, hurricane, plague, and suicide bombing as a sure

sign of God's return; who accused both Jimmy Carter and George Bush

Sr. of being followers of Lucifer; and who makes no secret of the

efforts of his Christian Coalition to control the Republican Party,

according to Theocracy Watch.

<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">A

good fundamentalist, Inhofe scored a perfect 100 percent rating in

2003 from all three major Christian-right advocacy groups, while

earning a 5 percent from the League of Conservation Voters (and a

string of zeroes from 1997 to 2002<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">).

Likewise, eight of the nine other Republicans on the Environment and

Public Works Committee earned an average 94 percent approval rating

in 2003 from the Christian right, while scoring a dismal 4 percent

average environmental approval rating. The one exception proves the

rule: Moderate Lincoln Chafee (R.-R.I.) last year earned a 79 percent

LCV rating and just 41 percent from the religious right.<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">}}

2012

hoax book:

books: <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Founded

in 2002 by <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">WND’s<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">

<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Joseph

and Elizabeth Farah, WND Books made an immediate impact with its

first No. 1<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">

York Times bestseller, Michael Savage’s<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">

<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">The

Savage Nation<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">.

seems that for the senator, religion is very much part a huge part of

climate science, so much so that during a recent <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">interview<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">

<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Inhofe

pronounced that his beliefs on global warming are "biblically

inspired," and he quoted from Genesis 8:22, where God made his

covenant with Noah -- "As long as the earth remains, there will

be springtime, harvest, cold and heat, winter and summer, day and

night" --<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">

point being, I suppose, that catastrophic global warming cannot

happen because it would violate God's covenant, and that to even

consider or register such a thought is sheer arrogance. ]]

==

wrecking

crew shows he was in on savimbi jamba woodstock front of S africa mil

intel) : Frank also shows how ideology gave way to being ideological

or more properly political or economic hit man, since that's where

all the money is (show staggering ROI)

Abramoff

got his start early, going to Hawthorne prep school in Beverly Hills

(Monica Lewinsky also an alum) ;he was tossed out of student

government when he violated campaign finance laws when his mom handed

out hot dogs; his dad an executive for Diner's Club who later

represented Arnold palmer. He later converted to orthodox jew, based

in part on Fiddler on the Roof (he did not however attend the MGM

synagogue created by set designers with graven images).

South

Africa declared it illegal to be a Communist (which Mandela once was,

after Sharpsville massacre of unarmed protesters drove him to

despair). Mandela was still on the terrorist watch list when he came

to US? 1990? [UC?]

“The

African National Congress leader’s freedom was demanded by millions

at the time, with the exception of then Congressman Dick Cheney who

voted against a Congressional resolution calling for his release from

prison. (Cheney also opposed overturning Ronald Reagan’s ban on

sanctions against South Africa, a ban Jack Abramoff worked to

support.) “

Reagan

could not stop the Congress from passing anti-apartheid sanctions, so

South Africa upped the ante, military intelligence funded right-wing

thinktank in DC.

was run by South African spy Craig Williamson, who betrayed people he

seemed to befriend, and participated in killings? Including wife of

an ANC leader. “The real, confessed éminence grise behind the IFF

was South Africa’s infamous “superspy” Craig Williamson, a man

whose bloody escapades deserve an entire volume in the annals of Cold

War espionage. Williamson infiltrated South Africa’s main leftist

student group in the Seventies and rose to its leadership; he used

the connections thus made to assist in the imprisonment and murder of

the movement’s other leaders. A respected South African historian,

asked for his opinion of the man, said simply, “Craig Williamson

was the scum of the twentieth century. He murdered friends of mine. I

spit on the ground he walks on.”<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">

frank).

funded lavish trips /junkets for conservative students and

politicians, including B1 Bob Dornan,hmmn maybe just on the board;

<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">inhofe<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">,

j helms,  D'Souza (1983, College Republicans). To counter Soviet

gatherings, they decided to have a mirror in Jamba, Angola, hosted by

warlord/Freedom Fighter Jonah Savimbi ( his UNITA was backed by South

Africa, the CIA, and oddly, the Chinese). Attendees of the rightwing

Woodstock included Nicaraguan Contra death squads, the Afghan

Mujahedeen (fighting the Soviets, history does not record whether Bin

ladin partied with Norquist). The College Republicans enjoyed

photo-ops with assault rifles Norquist also liked sporting a UNITA

uniform, which he reportedly quickly stripped off when actual

fighting came near).[“ J. Michael Waller, the editor of the

Sequent, a student paper at George Washington University, actually

took breaks from red-baiting professors in order to zip down to

Central America and hang out with the Nicaraguan Contras and the

death-squad faction in El Salvador.<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">

“<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">]

Jamba ran out of food, so Abramoff auctioned off his canned tuna

hoard to press stuck there when he left.

Someone

asked Abramoff for funding for a documentary about Savimbi, but that

genre he found boring , action movies better, so he wrote a

screenplay about a KGB agent sent to kill a freedom fighter.

Red

Scorpion: The plot: “A Russian KGB agent is sent to Africa to kill

an anti-Communist black revolutionary.” The tagline: “He’s a

human killing machine. Taught to stalk. Trained to kill. Programmed

to destroy. He’s played by their rules… Until now.”

He

got tossed out of Swaziland, investors pulled out “They had one ace

in the hole, though. Dolph Lundgren [Ivan Drago in Rocky iV] was

still attached to star and, as improbable as it sounds today, was

still a bankable name in the action-film heyday of the 1980s. So

Abramoff mocked up a poster of Red Scorpion with Lundgren's picture

on it and took off for the Venice film festival. In an impressive

feat of salesmanship, he returned to Africa with $16 million in

funding from various distributors.

were now filming in <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Namibia,

<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">but

things hadn't gotten any easier. They had star trouble. Lundgren was

wildly erratic on the set. Abramoff and the other producers felt

physically intimidated by the onetime karate champ. Lundgren spent

his downtime carousing up a storm in Johannesburg, and he did not

want his girlfriend back home to find out. It became the producers'

responsibility to keep him out of the South African tabloids. (For

bonus points, Abramoff casually let it drop that the girl back home

whose delicate sensibilities Lundgren sought to protect was none

other than Paula Barbieri, the Playboy Playmate who moved on to

dating O.J. Simpson, only to break up with him the day Nicole Brown

was murdered.)” frank Wr Crew

Sample

dialogue: on shooting up a bar for no apparent reason: “Are you out

of your mind?: no, just out of bullets”. Filmed in Namibia

(occupied by South Africa) which supplied soldiers as extras and a

WWII era Soviet T34 tank for the final action sequence. There was

even a sequel.

[matt:

Argenziano, whom history will likely absolve for being, with

Lundgren, one half of the film's only memorable scene, which also

perhaps represents the apex of Jack Abramoff's literary career

(Argenziano: "Are you out of your mind?" Lundgren: "No.

Just out of bullets"), laughs almost nonstop as he recalls his

Namibia experiences.

<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">"We

were all staying in this hotel called the Kalahari Sands in Windhoek,

the capital," he says. "There was this huge new escalator

in the hotel. I guess it was the only one in the country, because

little African kids kept coming in to stare at it. But the South

Africans we had on the shoot [Abramoff was reportedly provided free

labor by the South African army] kept shooing them away, literally

pushing kids off the escalator, shouting these <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">racist

at them. Wasn't exactly good for morale."

]

Abramoff's

“ fascination with Africa would lead to a lobbying contract for the

Congo’s Mobutu Seso Seko, a Savimbi supporter and then the richest

and most corrupt dictator on the continent. Mobutu, critics, charged,

ran a “kleptocracy” based on the violent suppression of human

rights. “

th

frank: wrecking crew “In truth, Savimbi’s main achievement was to

keep going, for nearly thirty years, a civil war that made Angola one

of the worst places on earth—its population impoverished, its

railroads and highways and dams in ruins, its countryside strewn with

landmines by the millions, even its elephant herds wiped out, their

tusks hacked off to raise funds for his army.”

Roger

Stone and Manafort were Savimbi's PR guys. Heritage was big backer,

Reagan had him to the White House and ignored Gorby's attempt to wind

it down, Bush 41 continued support. Peace deal not wanted by Savimbi,

so sabotaged by Helms, supported by Bush and BKSH. When peace was

brokered, Savimbi ran for president, lost and started fighting again;

a nre peace in 1194, but Savimbi refused VP and started fighting

again in 1998. After a dozen assassination attempts, he was killed in

2002 (one account says by South African private military/intel

company that formerly supported him, but he had outlived usefulness).

The

International Freedom Foundation [co-chair Abramoff and NSF Rusel sic

Crystal, founded in 1986 seemingly as a conservative think tank, was

in fact part of an elaborate intelligence gathering operation, and

was designed to be against apartheid’s an instrument for “political

warfare” against apartheid’s foes, according to former senior

South African spy Craig Williamson. The South Africans spent up to

$1.5 million a year through 1992 to underwrite “Operation

Babushka,” as the IFF project was known....

Abramoff

convinced Lehrman that this put the “good guys” at a comparative

disadvantage–the Nicaraguan contras, the Afghan mujahedeen,

Savimbi’s rebels in Angola, and other freedom fighters needed a

meeting of their own.

Jamba,

Angola, the home base of Savimbi’s UNITA movement (National Union

of Total Independence for Angola), which was fighting the Cuban

troops that propped up the Soviet-backed Angolan government...

Details

of South Africa’s intelligence operations in the last years of

apartheid have begun to rapidly emerge with the imminent

establishment of a Truth Commission by the Mandela government.

Williamson, for instance, recently revealed that he was involved in

the assassination of Ruth First, wife of the ANC and South African

Communist Party leader Joe Slovo, and other anti-apartheid

activists....

Starting

in 1986, when Reagan failed to override comprehensive U.S. economic

sanctions, the South African government began casting about for ways

to survive in an international environment more hostile to apartheid

than ever. A very senior official in South African military

intelligence, to whom IFF handlers reported at the time, said the

operation cost his unit between $l million and $1.5 million a year.

Helms,

Burton b1 bob Dornan, Abramoff, Norquist

Ollie

North crowd, Kissinger did a talk;

The

final insult in Jamba was running out of food. Abramoff, who keeps

kosher, had packed all his own provisions into the African jungle.

Upon leaving the event early, he stood on the stairs of the plane

auctioning off his remaining cans of tuna for as much as $20 to

ravenous members of the press who had yet to leave. The jamboree

itself ended up being largely ceremonial. Everyone pledged to share

intelligence, and Lehrman read a letter Rohrabacher had drafted on

Reagan’s behalf, expressing solidarity with those struggling

against the Soviet empire.

Nomad:

[[ “UNITA and the USA had an on-off affair throughout the 1970s and

80s. In 1975, President Ford had warmed up to UNITA. Henry Kissinger,

the Secretary of State, supported the intervention into Angola by

South African troops in support of UNITA.. President Carter on the

other hand cut off ties with Savimbi and during that time, the US

State Department considered UNITA a terrorist organization. As we

have said, Reagan renewed the American relationship.

was plenty of red flags about UNITA- all of which American

conservatives ignored.. It was described by <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">one

human rights organization<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">

<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">“a

rebel group led by Jonas Savimbi, [that] killed, abducted, and

terrorized civilians with impunity.”

organization, <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">the

United States Institute for Peace<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">,

said of the former Marxist turned freedom fighter:

is indeed responsible for a litany of crimes against humanity.”

his previous incarnation, the guerilla leader had been schooled in

classic <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Maoist<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">

to warfare before rejecting all things Communist. Human Rights

campaigners charged that UNITA used child soldiers during the Angolan

Civil War. This was the same time that Norquist was a registered

lobbyist for the organization.

Director of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Josh

Horwitz, writing for the Huffington Post<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">

Norquist’s early activities like this:

the 1980s, he supported anti-Communist movements even when "Freedom

Fighters" were perpetrating human rights abuses against the very

countrymen they were "liberating." Two of the organizations

Norquist backed were <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">UNITA<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">

<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">RENAMO<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">.

RENAMO has been accused of <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">killing

over one million civilians in Mozambique<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">.

UNITA employed child soldiers throughout the Angolan Civil War,

during the time that Norquist was a registered lobbyist for the

organization<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">.

But

Norquist didn’t limit his lobbying coverage just to Angola and

Mozambique.

also lobbied for the interests of a number of African dictators in

the United States, including <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Omar

Bongo<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">

Gabon, <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Pascal

Lissouba<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">

the Republic of Congo, Mobutu Sese Seko of (then) Zaire, and

René<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">

Seychelles.

Norquist

also worked with Hamas and Hezbollah. (Talk about paling around with

terrorists)

firm also represented <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">a

Hamas and Hezbollah supporter<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">

serving a 23-year prison sentence for his role in a terrorist plot.

Norquist was candid about the anti-democratic character of these

tyrants, even describing René as "<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">a

guy who preferred not to have elections for a number of years<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">."

Clearly

Norquist doesn’t put a lot of faith in the beauty of democracy.

After all, for a man who has never held any elected office, Norquist

certainly wholeheartedly enjoys the trappings of power. The entire

Republican party seems afraid to cross him.”]]

-

See more at:

http://nomadicpolitics.blogspot.com/2013/02/inside-grover-norquist-jonas-savimbi.html#sthash.YwIqUASo.dpuf

Norquist,

Delay and Abramoff would go on to found the K Street project, which

essentially made bribery and money-laundering legal, gave rise to a

generation of GOP House leadership that gave us polarysis, and fuse

corporate and party PR arms.

Inhofe was a co-plaintiff in a lawsuit filed by the <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Competitive

Enterprise Institute<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">

2000, trying to bar the distribution or use of the National

Assessment, which analyzed potential impacts of climate change on the

U.S. The Bush administration settled the lawsuit with a statement

saying that the report didn't represent official government policy.

skies: B2 claimed impressive # but BS; <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">clear

skies upped mercury level <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">(inhofe

more, 26 to 34 tons/yr  1/03 epa admitted 8% of childbear yrs

women had potentially toxic level lead (p86 strategic ignorance)

July

28, 2003

a floor speech titled "<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">The

Science of Climate Change<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">."

Inhofe <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">was

later criticized<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">

misrepresenting the views of climatologist Stephen Schneider and

meteorologist Tom Wigley in his speech.

April

28, 2004

was honored for his "work in promoting science-based public

policy" <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">by

the Annapolis Center for Science-Based Public Policy<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">,

a think-tank that disputes man-made global warming. The Annapolis

center has <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">received

$1,048,500 from ExxonMobil<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">

1998.

October

4, 2004

made a floor Speech, titled "<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Partisan

Environmental Groups<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">"

where he accused environmental groups of having "more interest

in hyping apocalyptic environmental scenarios to raise money for raw

political purposes rather than working together to improve our

environment for the benefit of all Americans. "

January

4, 2005

Change Update<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">."

He critiqued the Mann hockey stick graph, saying how it had "severely

underestimated past climate variability … . In other words, in

obliterating the Medieval Warming Period and the Little Ice Age,

Mann's hockey stick just doesn't pass muster."

Inhofe

also notes how "Oregon State University climatologist George

Taylor has shown, Arctic temperatures are actually slightly cooler

today than they were in the 1930s."

April

8, 2005

a floor speech, titled  "<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">First

'Four Pillars'<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">."

Inhofe describes the four pillars as:

"1)

the 2001 National Academy of Sciences NAS report summarizing the

latest science of climate change, requested by the Bush

Administration; 2) the scientific work of the United Nations

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, most especially its Third

Assessment Report, released in 2001; 3) the recent report of the

international Arctic Climate Impact Assessment; and 4) the data

produced by climate models."

Inhofe

claims that he will prove that "none of these pillars support

the consensus view."

Eco-Terror:

Not only did the right manage to roll back environmental law and to

stymie the enforcement of what they could not undo, they created laws

to attack defenders of the environment. Spiking trees became a

federal offense in the United States when it was added to the Drug

Act in 1988.<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">

can be seen as reasonable, since human fatality is possible (though

nearly always the damage is to property).

“Under the <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Animal

Enterprise Protection Act<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">

1992 it became a federal crime to “cause more than $10,000 in

damage while engaged in “physical disruption to the functioning of

an animal enterprise by intentionally stealing, damaging, or causing

the loss of any property…used by the animal enterprise.”<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[13]<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">

2006, this was updated and renamed the <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Animal

Enterprise Terrorism Act<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">

the 109th congress.<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[34]<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">

updated act included causing personal harm and the losses incurred on

“secondary targets” as well as adding to the penalties for these

crimes.<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[35]

---

testimony: Inhofe refers to mainstream environmentalists as

"environmental extremists," "elitist organizations,"

"alarmists," and "fear-monger[ers]."<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[181]<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">He

has stated that nonprofit environmental organizations "demonstrate

more interest in hyping apocalyptic environmental scenarios to raise

money for raw political purposes" than in conserving the

environment. ...At the hearing, Senator Inhofe asserted that ELF and

ALF are the number one domestic terror threat in the United States

"over the likes of white supremacists, militias, and

anti-abortion groups."<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[184]<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Although

he compares ELF and ALF to Al Qaeda, Senator Inhofe admits that not a

single person has died as a result of direct action taken by ELF and

ALF activists.<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[185]

–

Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) introduced the <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Animal

stiffen penalties and expand the original law. It would include

“tertiary targets,” with the goal of “prohibiting intentional

damage of property belonging to a person or organization with ties to

an animal enterprise.” ...[The <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Animal

Enterprise Terrorism Act <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">became

law on November 27, 2006 upon receiving President<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">

<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Bush<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">’<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">s

signature. Its stated purpose is “to provide the <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Department

of Justice<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">

necessary authority to apprehend, prosecute, and convict individuals

committing animal enterprise terror.”  ]

2003, a conservative Texas legislative reform group, the <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">American

Legislative Exchange Council<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">

proposed the "Animal and Ecological Terrorism Act" which

defined an "animal rights or ecological terrorist organization"

as "two or more persons organized for the purpose of supporting

any politically motivated activity intended to obstruct or deter any

person from participating in an activity involving animals or an

activity involving natural resources."<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[36]<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">

legislation was not enacted.]]

{{Daniel

McGowan may have been the first person thrown in solitary confinement

for writing a HuffPost blog. Now he’ll be the first person to sue

the Bureau of Prisons over it.

environmental activist and former prisoner filed <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">a

lawsuit<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">

Wednesday against the prison system over an April 2013 incident in

which U.S. Marshals threw him in a Brooklyn federal jail —

ironically, for criticizing earlier violations of his free

speech....Three days after writing that post, the marshals threw him

in the Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center. He was placed in

solitary and told that he would be soon taken back to one of the

CMUs. Inmates call them “Little Guantanamo.”

“I

had just served over five years in prison and was acclimating to life

on the outside only to be yanked back to prison,” McGowan said. “It

was terrifying.”

his lawyers interceded, McGowan was released the next day back to the

halfway house. But in a separate, multi-plaintiff lawsuit against the

Bureau of Prisons for how it creates and runs CMUs, McGowan’s

lawyers argued that the entire incident was <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">a

startling example of their larger claim<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">

the special units are used to punish political speech. Even the

federal government later admitted in that case that McGowan was

jailed <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">contrary

to the established law<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">

inmates may write articles under their own bylines.

}}

rod

coronado broke parole by facebook friending

A Tennessee state official reportedly told residents who were

concerned about dirty drinking water that <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">complaining

about water quality could be considered "an act of terrorism."

[[==

<ul>

Keystone

XL Activists Labeled Possible Eco-Terrorists in Internal TransCanada

Documents</h1>

</li></ul>

By

Steve Horn

<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Documents

recently obtained by Bold Nebraska<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">

that TransCanada - owner of the hotly-contested <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Keystone

XL (KXL)<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">

sands pipeline - has <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">colluded

with an FBI/DHS Fusion Center in Nebraska<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">,

labeling non-violent activists as possible candidates for "terrorism"

charges and other serious criminal charges.

Further,

the language in some of the documents is so vague that it could also

ensnare journalists, researchers and academics, as well.

TransCanada

also built a roster of names and photos of specific individuals

involved in organizing against the pipeline, including 350.org's Rae

Breaux, Rainforest Action Network's Scott Parkin and Tar Sands

Blockade's Ron Seifert. Further, every activist ever arrested

protesting the pipeline's southern half is listed by name with their

respective photo shown, along with the date of arrest.

It's

PSYOPs-gate

and

"fracktivists" as "an insurgency"

all

over again, but this time it's another central battleground that's in

play: the northern half of KXL, a proposed border-crossing pipeline

whose final fate lies in the hands of President Barack Obama.

The

southern half of the pipeline was approved

by the Obama Admin. via a March 2013 Executive Order.

Together, the two pipeline halves would pump diluted

bitumen ("dilbit")

south

from the Alberta tar sands toward Port Arthur, TX, where it will be

refined and shipped

to the global export market.

Activists

across North America have put up a formidable fight against both

halves of the pipeline, ranging from the summer 2011 Tar

Sands Action

to

the ongoing Tar

Sands Blockade.

Apparently, TransCanada has followed the action closely, given the

level of detail in the documents.

]]

==

bill: <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Inhofe<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">

to repeal the nutrition entitlement programs and establish a

nutrition assistance block grant program.<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">

2006 <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Inhofe

attacks press: Brokaw on climate (Borenstein at AP<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">

one hundred scientists about <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">An

Inconvenient Truth<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">;

Inhofe criticized him for not including skeptical scientists).[“.

Inhofe's release challenging the <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Associated

Press <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">included

a demand for a list of the skeptics who the news service contacted to

review Gore's film. “] revkin writes for NYT, and he has written a

climate book, thus media is a shill/corrupt.

–

Unfortunately, I am a little less optimistic today than I was a

couple of weeks ago, before testifying at the Senate Committee on

Environment and Public Works. It was Senator<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">

Inhofe's last hearing as chair of the committee, and the focus was on

media coverage of global warming. I was invited by the Democratic

staff to counter arguments that global warming is a hoax perpetrated

on the American people by scientists like me.

Inhofe

is a climate skeptic. But I still hoped I could help educate our

lawmakers -- maybe not Inhofe, but perhaps some of the others. In my

opening statement, I explained that global warming is not a partisan

issue. America should lead the world and capitalize on an

extraordinary business opportunity as we invest in new energy

technologies, I said.

<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Then

I watched in horror as Inhofe's witnesses spouted outrageous claims

intended to deceive and distort. Two were scientists associated with

industry-funded think tanks. They described global warming as a "mass

delusion" among the scientific community, sowing confusion by

misrepresenting the ... data... <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">They

even recommended burning as much fossil fuel as possible to prevent

another ice age. ...

–

Open letter to Ban Ki-Moon <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Over

100 Prominent International Scientists Warn UN Against 'Futile'

Climate Control Efforts in a December 13, 2007 open letter.<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">

to 400 list, counter to Gore Inc Truth (Nobel?) also 400 list

Minority Report?

2009?

minority report 650 scientists oppose gw:

2009 Inhofe appeared at the International Climate Conference in

Copenhagen to <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">spread

the message<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">

"Global warming is a hoax, and there’s no way the Senate is

going to pass a cap-and-trade bill." barasso and wicker dropped

out; 3 hrs on gd, no mtgs (one press

March

2010 The Republican James Inhofe during the Senate Environment and

Public Works hearing on global climate change.  Goldenberg

guardian:

US Congress's most ardent global warming sceptic is being <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">accused

of turning the row over climate science into a McCarthyite witch-hunt<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">

calling for a criminal investigation of scientists.

scientists say Senator <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">James

Inhofe's call for a criminal investigation into American as well as

British scientists<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">

worked on the UN climate body's report or had communications with

East Anglia's climate research unit represents an attempt to silence

debate on the eve of new proposals for a <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">climate

change<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">

Inhofe's

document ends by naming 17 "key players" in the controversy

about CRU's stolen emails, including the Britons Phil Jones and Keith

Briffa.}}

professional deniers are seizing on a <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">report<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">

from the Environmental Protection Agency's inspector general (IG). 3

steps, 300K$ for bs

[The

Energy Tax Prevention Act of 2011 is proposed by Sen. Jim Inhofe

(R-OK), Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), and House Energy and Commerce

Committee Chairman Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), who describe the bill as

"a sensible, narrowly crafted 'fix' to clarify that the Clean

Air Act was never intended to be used to impose cap-and-trade by

regulation." The bill seeks to prevent the EPA from regulating

greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to climate change.[1]

The

House Energy and Commerce Committee, under Republican control, is

holding a hearing on Feb. 9, 2011 to discuss the bill, chaired by

Whitfield, who has received $9,000 from Koch Industries since 2008.

Koch operatives reportedly met with Rep. Upton on the first day of

the 112th Congress to discuss such a bill. Upton received $20,000

from Koch employees in 2010, making them among his top 10 donors.

Nine of the 12 new Republicans on the panel signed the Koch-funded

Americans for Prosperity ??No Climate Tax” pledge that opposed any

government action to reduce carbon dioxide pollution.[1]

Among

those the committee will reportedly hear testimony from include:[2]

National

Black Chamber of Commerce president Harry Alford, who has received

$425,000 from ExxonMobil since 1998.

Margo

Thorning, vice president and chief economist for the American Council

for Capital Formation, or ACCF. ACCF has received $215,000 from Koch

foundations and nearly $1.7 million from ExxonMobil.

Texas

Attorney General Greg Abbott, a large recipient of oil and gas money

who has sued the Obama administration to end an offshore oil-drilling

moratorium following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and has taken

the EPA to court three times in the past year.

Lonnie

Carter, president of Santee Cooper, the largest single mercury

polluter in South Carolina and the top consumer of mountaintop

removal coal..

Steve

Cousins, vice president of Lion Oil, which ranks 27 on the list of

top 100 facilities releasing chemicals such as nitrous oxides, sulfur

dioxide, particulate matter, carbon monoxide, and benzene into the

environment.

Peter

Glaser of Troutman Sanders LLP, which works with the Washington Legal

Foundation, which has received $325,000 from ExxonMobil since 1998].

6/11

bails from heartland conf during OK record breaking heat wave/

drought

12/11

Climategate 2 at Durban

The study was <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">published<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">

the journal <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Environmental

Research Letters<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">.

<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">researchers

attribute this to the prominence of  Sen. James Inhofe

(R-Okla.), the most outspoken climate denier in Congress, who often

appears in news stories).<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">

2012:

Inhofe staffer worked with CB Gray to knife Lamar Alexander of Tenn

because he supports EPA efforts to clean the air (Koch TP money), has

three million in 2014 war chest.

6/12

INHOFE

GOES AFTER ANOTHER EPA OFFICIAL curt spalding, another resigned; He

wants to require Senate confirmation for all of EPA’s 10 regional

administrators.

11/2012

OMG hu experiment:

Senator

Inhofe, the ranking member of the Senate Committee on Environment and

Public Works, is now calling for investigatory hearings on the

matter.

a letter to committee chair Senator Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) Inhofe

wrote: “It is extremely disturbing that EPA may have conducted

illegal human experiments, exposing people with conditions such as

asthma and metabolic syndrome to concentrated high levels of

substances like fine particulate matter and diesel exhaust.” He

then charged that: <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">“<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">EPA

has repeatedly said that these substances can cause cancer and lead

to death, so if these allegations of human experiments are true, it

just validates the problem that the Obama-EPA’s mission is not

about public health.”

2013

heart attack, son killed

7/13

War on Coal/EPA

was reacting to President Barack Obama's recent speech detailing his

administration's intention to restrict <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">emissions

from coal-powered power plants<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">.

Inhofe pointed the language that officials were using as evidence

they're trying to hide their true intentions, noting that

environmental advocates and the administration are using the phrase

"carbon pollution" rather than manmade global warming,

which Inhofe said he doesn't believe in.

"Their

goal is not to protect the American people, it is to control them,"

Inhofe said. "They want top-down control, and carbon dioxide

regulations will give this to them."

Inhofe

argued that the administration is furthering its ends by giving

talking points to "alarmists" who, he explained, are

"people who believe the world is coming to an end, and it's all

man's fault."]”

new clean air rules will create jobs building clean energy resources

and updating power plants, and Senator Inhofe's attacks will only

cause economic uncertainty. Please stand strong in favor of clean air

and a healthy environment, and against this shutdown of the Clean Air

Act.Please vote "no" on Amendment No. 2615 to Senate Bill

<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Emergency

Unemployment Compensation Extension Act

Inhofe seeks to force the EPA to report the costs of its rules<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">

May

16, 2014: GOP Senator Attacks Retired Military Brass for Saying

Climate Change Threatens Security

7/14

House sues Obama for overstepping authority (by not enforcing the

health reform they

had

voted to repeal 140x?]: “This week Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK) blocked a

Senate resolution simply stating that climate change is real before

receiving a highly informative rebuttal from Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse

(D-RI). Earlier this summer another potential Republican presidential

candidate, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), said he doesn’t agree with the

notion that “there are actions we can take today that would

actually have an impact on what’s happening in our climate.”

This

climate defeatist tact is a part of the Republican’s overall

strategy this year — yesterday the House voted to sue President

Obama for overstepping his legal authority, i.e. trying to get stuff

done. The strategy also runs counter to international efforts to

mitigate and adapt to climate change. Investment in clean energy

globally is at its highest point in several years and major economies

like India and China are looking ramp up even further in the near

term. China is also setting up pilot carbon reduction plans and

Mexico recently hinted at possibly considering a carbon scheme of

their own. End “

-----

staffer apparently dedicated fulltime to global warming was<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">

Morano<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">.

Esquire;

at eleen he worked with his brother selling/placing? radio spots on

reagan campaign; he tried making prepackaged news (VNR?) but no one

wanted them; he then sneaked? into GOP convention and asked people

about the new Rush Limbaugh show; he sold the positive ones to

Limbaugh, then eventually worked this into a gig on the show where he

basically pretended to be thrown out of places he actually arranged

to be in.

joined the Inhofe's staff with a $134,000 a year salary, twice the

average in 2000 for communications director (Kaufman 2009). Such a

salary is somewhat puzzling, given his lack of staff experience.

Initially motivated to counter the musician Sting's rainforest

advocacy, Morano was "previously known as Rush Limbaugh's 'Man

in Washington,' as reporter and producer for the Rush Limbaugh

Television Show, as well as a former correspondent and producer for

<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">American

Investigator<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">,

newsmagazine (perhaps an attempt to “mirror” <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">60

Minutes, <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">an

incarnation of muckraker journalism long important to political

reform). The show was probably best known for its “expose” on how

Hollywood celebrities like the musician Sting are deluded about the

Amazon being in trouble, as it is 90 intact (featuring prominent

sellout patrick Moore, who later teamed up with CT Whitman). The show

attacks Chevy Chase walking to a 2000 Earth Day event (a staple of

the original for, say, someone perpetrating fraud who had declined

interview on the original show; later common technique on WWW) for

saying something positive about Cuba (socialism works, similarly in

their attack on organic food, Cuba is boogeyman), Clinton

administration sold military secrets to China, the Free Willy

foundation, Legal Services... and

“Green

Racism

Is

the new color of racism green? National activists are trying to

prevent a chemical plant from locating in a poor, mostly black

Louisiana community in the name of "Environmental Justice.".

But the plant could mean tremendous economic opportunity for local

residents. Find out why the fight against "Environmental Racism"

may be hurting minorities the most.”

and

“Animal Posse

Exclusive!

Never before broadcast raid footage shows the U.S. Fish and Wildlife

Service out of control! Watch as eyewitnesses recount the SWAT-style

tactics used against them by armed federal agents-all in the name of

protecting endangered species. Plus, evidence that the Endangered

Species Act may actually be harming animals.”

is a former journalist with <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Cybercast

News Service <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">(CNS,

again perhaps a “mirror’ of venerable AP newswire), which is

owned by the conservative Media Research Center (a mirror/faux

watchdog). Founded in 1998 by Brent Bozell to offset the “liberal

bias' of mainstream media (Owned by military contractors like General

Electric and Westinghouse).

“<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Media

Transparency<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">

<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">describes<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[5]<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">

Brent Bozell III as "a zealot of impeccable <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">right-wing<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">

He is the nephew of columnist <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">William

F. Buckley<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">

the son of L. Brent Bozell, Jr., who assisted <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Barry

Goldwater<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">

the writing of <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Conscience

of a Conservative<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">.

He was the chief fundraiser behind <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Pat

Buchanan<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">'s

unsuccessful bid for the Republican Presidential nomination in 1992."<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">

“ <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">also

behind NCPAC, pioneered Pac for hits?

Malkin

and Pat Buchanan columnists. Misinformation on Saddam ties to

Al-Qaeda, and of course Morano launched the Swift Boat attack on

climatehawk John Kerry, and even more probably similar attacks on

John Murtha for criticizing Gulf War 2 (recall also general was fired

for suggesting we would need many more troops than Rumsfeld was

claiming, which turned to be true/low). Morano also covered the bogus

CORE/Innis Driessen pro-GMO eco-imperialism BS. WND/Newsmax/CNS Talon

WT all cross-post. Dan Gainor claimed the Muppet Movie was

indoctrination children, leading to outrages like Occupy (Teletubbies

also make them gay). Recall that Powell called for media critique in

the infamous memo; actually a couple years before Reed Irvine had set

up Accuracy in Media, which actually got NY Times reporter Raymond

Bonner pulled from covering the El Mozote massacre in which over 8oo

civilians were killed In fact set up a bogus watchdog for NYT).

later called for <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">napalm<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">

be used against FMLN guerrillas in El Salvador. (<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">AIM

Report<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">,

March 1990). During the <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Gulf

War<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">,

he encouraged a nuclear strike against <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Iraq<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">.

[<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Seattle

Times<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">,

January 16, 1991]

the end of the <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Cold

AIM now assails <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">environmentalists<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">

the "infiltrators" of the media establishment. Critical

reports about industries that fund AIM--such as <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">chemical<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">

a frequent target of AIM critiques.

the <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Clinton<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">

alleged conspiracies related to the Democratic president were a

frequent topic in AIM's work--particularly the notion that <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Vince

Foster<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">

not a suicide but a victim of foul play. AIM charged that

<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Republicans<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">,

including independent counsel <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Kenneth

Starr<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">,

were somehow complicit in covering up Clinton's plots}

gets lavish funding from the Four Sisters including Scaife, but also

DeVos, Chevron Exxon, and Coors. 1985 Accuracy in Academia (taken

over by Horowitz? CampusWatch). Irvine died 2004. “In recent years,

the most prominent public voice of AIM has been <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Cliff

Kincaid<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">,

editor of the "AIM Report." Kincaid first came to

prominence <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">working

for<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">

right-wing Citizens United under notorious smearmonger Floyd Brown. <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">“

CNS

puts out conservative spin, and sometimes attacks as we have seen,

but MRC also has Newsbusters blog for this (perhaps a mirror of

adbusters, which deconstructs and makes fun of media portrayals of

women and people of color and corporate shills). Newsbusters was

heavily involved in “Rathergate” attacks on the report of Bush

43's draft dodging (Gannon.Talon?). Features Shepard bros and Noyes.

NewsBusters also hosts a webcast called "NewsBusted," which

it calls "the freshest comedy on the Web making fun of liberals

and the media." (two trend perhaps, video better for

semi-literate, plus Coulter now doing standup/manbear pig?]

“<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Extra!<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">,

the magazine of the progressive media watch group <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Fairness

& Accuracy In Reporting<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">,

has criticized the MRC for selective use of evidence--the MRC had

complained, for example, that there was more coverage of government

death squads in right-wing <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">El

Salvador<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">

in left-wing Nicaragua, without mentioning that there were roughly a

thousand times more extra-judicial killings in El Salvador. <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">“

CNS

and Morano were the first source in May 2004 of the Swift Boat

Veterans for Truth claims against John Kerry in the 2004 presidential

election (and in January 2006 of similar smears against Vietnam War

veteran John Murtha when he opposed the war in Iraq). However, his

primary influence has been on climate.

Supporters

see Mr. Morano as a crucial organizing force who has taken diffuse

pieces of scientific research and fused them into a political

battering ram. 'Before Marc, efforts to debunk global warming were

scattered and disorganized,' said John Coleman, a weather broadcaster

who helped found the Weather Channel and who has called global

warming 'a scam.'” (Kaufman 2010) (See Section 4.1.2). Kert Davies,

the research director of Greenpeace, said he would like to dismiss

Mr. Morano as irrelevant, but could not. “He is relentless pushing

out misinformation,” Mr. Davies said. “In denying the urgency of

the problem, he definitely slows things down on the regulatory front.

Eventually, he will be held accountable, but it may be too late.”

(Kaufman)

obstructionist as the Senate Republicans were, the 2010 GOP/ Tea

Party House takeover eliminated any possibility of a climate bill;

several had failed even when Democrats had a majority, presumably in

no small part because polls showed Americans’ concern about and

even belief in AGW was declining even as the science became more

certain and urgent, as a result of the misinformation propagated

through the network by Inhofe and others (see Tea Party Section

5.5.1). Tea Party candidates have a uniform and rather extreme

climate denialism, and have forced the party to the right (e.g., John

McCain was once a stalwart supporter on climate was forced to

renounce it after a primary challenge by Tea Party radio

personality). Similarly, Fred Upton nearly lost the Energy and

Commerce committee chair with responsibility for climate because he

had endorsed efficient light bulbs (he covered his error by the BULB

bill with well-oiled climate skeptic Texas <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Senator

Joe “You Lie” Barton,<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">

one with Inhofe to prevent the EPA from regulating C02, despite a

Supreme Court ruling).

The

behavior of Inhofe and Barton illustrate another important thwarting

of moderating influence. Congress has the ability to investigate

(subpoena) and punish, so it in some ways functions as a judiciary.

This requires a majority in order to control chairmanships and thus

agenda. Kaiser states that in the period 2001-7, Congress virtually

abdicated oversight. After the 2010 House takeover, the GOP stated

they would investigate the EPA decision to regulate CO2 (e.g., Issa,

Sensenbrenner and Upton). They also pledged to investigate climate

scientists, even though multiple investigations have found no

wrongdoing. Their “Scopes trial” had only one scientist, who

ended up reneging on previous attacks on climate science, even though

the research was paid for by Koch, who also funded extensive

promotion of Climategate through their front groups, Americans For

Prosperity, Heritage, Heartland and Cato, as well as more than a

dozen others, as we will see below in Section 5).

Another

troubling disabling of moderation is seen in attacks on academia and

science....

4.2.4

Petitions

we saw with lobbying above, petitions are central to democracy, and

have deep historical roots as far back as ancient China. More

recently, they were used in British House of Commons in the 18th and

19th centuries, and the First Amendment guarantees the right to

petition <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">“<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">for

a redress of grievances.” Moreover, scientists have been writing

petitions and open letters to the president since at least Einstein

et al. in the 1930’s. Climate skeptics have, however, misused this

important tool. The first such ploy, the Heidelberg Petition, came

out of a tobacco industry sponsored conference and was aimed to

counter the 1992 Rio Earth Summit. Actually a "motherhood"

document that science should be politically neutral, it was spun by

SEPP/Singer and CTT's that climate change was in doubt by science

(Sourcewatch).

Later

there was an even more specific climate-denial/attacking document

called the Leipzig Petition. "The Leipzig Declaration emerged

from a November 1995 conference, ‘The Greenhouse Controversy,’

cosponsored by S. Fred Singer's Science and Environmental Policy

Project and the European Academy for Environmental Affairs [OPEC

funded] in Leipzig, Germany. Probably a counter to IPCC Second

Assessment. The Leipzig Declaration has been widely touted by

conservative voices in the "sound science" movement and is

regarded in some circles as the gold standard of scientific expertise

on the issue. " But 25 were TV weathermen, (4.1.3) many had no

science background, and some that did had ties to fossil fuel

industry" (Sourcewatch).

also spawned additional scientific appeals -- especially an infamous

direct mail effort promoted by Fred Seitz (former president of

National Academy of Science, consultant to R.J. Reynolds, and a board

member of SEPP), the so-called the <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Oregon

Petition (1998)<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">,

which was “far more specific in its climate denial. This petition

was so non-selective in its choice of ‘scientists’ that it

carried the signatures of Donald Duck, a Spice Girl, and Elvis

Presley more than once (perhaps added by radical environmentalists),

and thousands of people who's [sic] only link with climate science

was watching TV weather reports” (“Heidelberg Appeal”

Sourcewatch). The Oregon Petition by Oregon Institute of Science and

Medicine (founder A. Robinson, Cold Warrior, Christian home school

businessman) had some signers with a science background but none in

climatology, including skeptic stalwarts Soon and Baliunas.

Rick Perelstein points out, homeschooling surged when schools were

integrated, especially among evangelicals. When Robinson's wife

passed away, he found himself homeschooling his own children, and so

put some quite dated materials such as a 1911 encyclopedia and the

best-selling 19<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">th<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">

McGuffey Reader on cd-rom and sold them as home school in a box. He

also published two books on surviving nuclear war (one with a

foreword by H Bomb father Edward Teller (big promoter of Star Wars

and even using atomic bombs to dig canals to bring water south to

California).

<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">2<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Nd<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">:

Robinson also co-authored another civil defense book titled <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Fighting

Chance: Ten Feet to Survival,<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">

collaboration with Gary North, who like Robinson is a conservative

Christian. North is also a prolific author of doomsday books with

titles such as <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">None

Dare Call It Witchcraft; Conspiracy: A Biblical View; Rapture Fever;

and How You Can Profit From the Coming Price Controls.<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">,

who had a similar book on how to profit from Y2K. [ironically, AGW

will cause calamities, but more profitable in the short run to deny

it; sadly/scarily/evilly, some corporations are positioning

themselves to profit from the suffering ...]

He

also worked with Pauling on Vitamin C (as did Entine), but was fired

then sued.

OISM has no students and only a handful of faculty (some deceased)

but it did include GMI stalwarts and pioneering hacks Soon and

Baliunas, who along with one of Robinson's sons who also had no

climate credentials, wrote a paper that was mailed out (direct mail).

This was a large direct mail effort with fellow GMI/cold warrior Fred

Seitz’s name, a article formatted to look like a National Academy

of Sciences publication, and a <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Wall

Street Journal<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">

1997, Wall Street Journal editorial, "Science Has Spoken: Global

Warming Is a Myth", by Arthur and Zachary Robinson. A cover note

signed "Frederick Seitz/Past President, National Academy of

Sciences, U.S.A./President Emeritus, Rockefeller University" <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">…

The

NAS issued an unusually blunt formal response to the petition drive.

"The NAS Council would like to make it clear that this petition

has nothing to do with the National Academy of Sciences and that the

manuscript was not published in the Proceedings of the National

Academy of Sciences or in any other peer-reviewed journal," it

stated in a news release. "The petition does not reflect the

conclusions of expert reports of the Academy." In fact, it

pointed out, its own prior published study had shown that "even

given the considerable uncertainties in our knowledge of the relevant

phenomena, greenhouse warming poses a potential threat sufficient to

merit prompt responses. Investment in mitigation measures acts as

insurance protection against the great uncertainties and the

possibility of dramatic surprises."

Notwithstanding

this rebuke, the Oregon Petition managed to garner 15,000 signatures

within a month's time. S. Fred Singer called the petition "the

latest and largest effort by rank-and-file scientists to express

their opposition to schemes that subvert science for the sake of a

political agenda."

senator <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Chuck

Hagel <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">called

it an "extraordinary response" and cited it as his basis

for continuing to oppose a global warming treaty. "Nearly all of

these 15,000 scientists have technical training suitable for

evaluating climate research data," Hagel said. Columns citing

the Seitz petition and the Robinson paper as credible sources of

scientific expertise on the global warming issue have appeared in

publications ranging from Newsday', the Los Angeles Times and

Washington Post to the Austin-American Statesman, Denver Post, and

Wyoming Tribune-Eagle.

]]

As

a result of criticism of obviously bogus signatories, several

incarnations of the petition were promulgated. However, explicit

requests by people to have their names removed are routinely ignored.

Coleman and others widely cited it in the media, as did Inhofe in

Congressional hearings. Recently signers were given free access to

the industry-sponsored Heartland climate conference.

<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Analysis:<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">

petition appears to be a tactical response to a global warming

conference or other important climate initiative. Note that these

petitions require almost no resources, and when one becomes

discredited (as we observed with front groups above), they just roll

out another version or a different petition (some of the more

credible reliable names--dead people being the most reliable-- get

recycled, such as climatologist Richard Lindzen at MIT). It is

interesting that two have German names, trading on its historical

scientific prestige or perhaps to counter the idea that scientific

doubt was an American political invention. And it may be just another

instance of the mirror strategy: if legitimate science has

international conferences, so do skeptics. The strategy also allows

skeptics to cherry-pick people as well as facts (also perhaps trading

on the prestige of Einstein and NAS/Union of Concerned Scientists and

other groups that have used the strategy). Note that in their putting

out new versions and in their unwillingness to remove names, they are

in keeping with the overall tactic of never admitting fraud or even

error, while constantly peddling doubt and exaggerating even minor

errors in science (for example, the rate of Himalayan glacier melt in

the most recent IPCC report). These petitions are what Neil Postman

calls pseudo-events, a fiction created solely for the purpose of

publicity. They also play a role in boot-strapping disinformation

into the mainstream press, say by referencing a petition in an

editorial. John Coleman on the Glenn Beck show claimed that the

Oregon Petition stimulated his "research" into global

warming and his subsequent efforts to debunk climate science, and to

continue the farce that the science is in doubt.

Paul

Driessen

with Wise Use wackos like Arnold, and hacks Soon and Singer; but also

with evil sellout CORE. Wise Use was in some ways Tea Party 1.0,

cowboy division, fuelled by extractive resource corporations who want

to get natural resources for free then not clean up the mess. What is

new /Evil coopting of environmental justice: that is, the people who

have birth defects in Kettleman City because of hazardous waste being

trucked in, whose water is contaminated by landfills and fracking,

etc etc. For a while there was a legitimate complaint that the

environmental movement became too White and suburban, worried about

beautiful alpine forests the way the first wave conservationists had

been, or polar bears and pandas. These rifts are being healed, but

the right takes its old notion of statistical murder, mixes it with

the anti-Carson pro-DDT nonsense, then adds a dollop of anti-Commie

Agenda 21 lunacy so Driessen ally Roy Innis claims the green movement

is “killing black babies.” :murder by denying DDT. Roy tends to

stay out of the spotlight since his ruse is easily and has been

repeatedly exposed over the years which hurts his credibility thus

usefulness thus profits. He runs a telemarketing boiler-room

operation which basically uses threat of exposing an organization as

racists (again, a spinoff/niche protection racket): His son Niger is

more attracted to the limelight and has largely inherited the

franchise, and openly uses the terms <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">“<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Eco-imperialism”,

parroted from Driessen, and even <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">“<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">eco-slaughter”

( ).

Writes

for TownHall.com

Innis <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">took

over CORE, (founded in the Forties CORE was one of the big three,

along with NAACP and --------), in 1968 organized the Freedom Rides

and the March on Washington where MLK made the immortal Dream speech,

and opposed Third World colonialism, but its founder Farmer says it's

been defunct for years. It's storied history explains its bankable

rep, but makes the evil perversion all the more tragic. Now Innis

basically rents out the name, thus praises GMO's, coal , oil and

natural gas (fracking?), supports the eco-genocide scam; his wife

Ugandan, but that country WHO uses bednets, sprays houses treats

patients and drains breeding habitat, just does not use DDT (in

bednets). Study recommended using DDT, but also said DDT helped

reduce cancer.

Pulling

PR stunts for Exxon and then Monsanto: vandana shiva

2003, CORE has received a total of <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">$275,000

from oil-giant ExxonMobil<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">

unspecified work as well as activities described as "climate

change outreach" and "change regulation/legislation."

...

the 2004 ExxonMobil shareholder meeting, CORE mounted a

counter-campaign against environmentalists staging a protest. <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">At

the meeting, CORE spokesperson Niger Innis stated that “we must

stop trying to protect it [the planet] from minor or illusory

threats—and doing it on the backs, and the graves, of the world’s

most powerless and impoverished people.” }}

GMO:

Summit Jo Burg 2002<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">:

Was

billed as Rio plus ten. Bush 43 boycotted (whearts his dad had

reluctantly attended Rio), which earned him a congratulatory letter

from Norquist, AEI and CEI. Colin Powell did make some closing

remarks, but the effect was somewhat undermined by the fact his jet

was idling on the runway for a quick exit. Without the US, the

conference was hamstrung/stillborn.

“For

all that, there were some real farmers present as well. Mackinnon

says he spotted some wearing anti-environmentalist T-shirts, with

slogans like "Stop Global Whining." This aroused his

curiosity, since small-scale African farmers are not normally to be

found among those jeering the "bogus science" of climate

change. Yet here they were, with slogans on placards and T-shirts:

"Save the Planet from Sustainable Development", "Say

No To Eco-Imperialism", "Greens: Stop Hurting the Poor"

and "Biotechnology for Africa". On approaching the

protesters, however, Mackinnon discovered that all of the props had

been made available to the marchers by the organizers. When he tried

to converse with some of the farmers about their pro-GM T-shirts,

"They smiled shyly; none of them could speak or read English."

January 2005, <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Monsanto's<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">

and CEO, Hugh Grant, chaired CORE's celebratory reception in honor of

Martin Luther King Jr. A screenshot of the <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Monsanto

photo is archived here.

in January 2005, CORE organized what it called the "<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">UN

World Conference on Biotechnology<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">."

The closing address for the conference was made by Gerald Steiner,

Monsanto's Executive Vice President.

Innis has penned articles <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">promoting

the use of DDT<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">

Africa as a means of saving lives. CORE also opened an office in

Uganda and <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">organized

pro-DDT rallies.

2004, <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">CORE

held an awards ceremony<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">

a World Trade Organization meeting in Cancun, where they announced

Greenpeace as a recipient of their "Green Power-Black Death"

award. At the ceremony Niger Innis stated: “And the winner

is--Greenpeace! For leading million-dollar campaigns against energy,

pesticides, biotechnology, trade, and economic development that could

improve or save millions of lives."

Of

course Roy Innis spoke at Heartland 2009.

Seat

on the board at Hudson (Bork, DeVos, Charles Black, Scooter Libby,

neo-cons Feith, Haig)

Niger

Innis:

BS

from Georgetown, cranks out pro-GMO quotes for Morano at CNS.

Apparently got 700 ppl at UN HQ on MLK Day 2005. the night before the

reception at the Hilton honored Karl Rove, who disenfranchised black

voters in Florida and Ohio;

<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">“<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">The

night before CORE's UN biotech conference this January, the

organisation hosted a reception at the New York Hilton to honor,

amongst others, Karl <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Rove

<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">-

the Bush election strategist widely credited with having overseen

black voter disenfranchisement in Florida and Ohio. <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">This

might seem a curious way of marking the MLK holiday, particularly for

an organisation that features on its website images of murdered

freedom riders killed during the drive for black voter registration

in the Civil Rights Summer of 1964. Recently, however, those images

were joined by Monsanto's logo. The organisation now styles Monsanto,

which also sponsored its film "Voices from Africa", "CORE's

corporate partner".

CORE

took its "first step in bringing justice to the Third World"

on May 8 2003. Just under a fortnight later George W. Bush accused

Europe of undercutting efforts to feed starving Africans by blocking

genetically modified crops because of "unfounded, unscientific

fears." Bush also called on European governments to "join -

not hinder - the great cause of ending hunger in Africa". The

following day, the Bush administration announced plans to sue the

European Union at the World Trade Organisation unless it opened up

its markets to American GM products.

WTO case was filed by the US in the name of Africa, although Egypt -

the only African country which could be persuaded to sign up in

support - promptly disassociated itself from the US action<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">.

Egypt's defection prompted American retaliation: the US withdrew from

planned bilateral trade talks. At the press conference at which the

WTO case was announced, the <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">US

Trade Representative, Robert B. Zoellick, introduced a number of

people of color who expressed their support for the lawsuit. One was

a South African farmer, TJ Buthelezi, who is exceptionally well

travelled. In the last couple of years Buthelezi has been brought not

just to Washington but to Brussels, Pretoria, St Louis, Philadelphia

and London for GM promotionals. He was also at the World Summit on

Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, where he took part in the

fake parade....

Chengal Reddy, Buthelezi is a real farmer -- just not the kind of

farmer he is made out to be. Buthelezi is exhibited as a "small

farmer" leading a "hand-to-mouth existence", or a

"small farmer struggling just at the subsistence level," as

the head of USAID put it when introducing him to US congressmen. In

fact, with <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">two

wives and more than 66 acres, Buthelezi is one of the largest and

wealthiest farmers in his area, and Aaron deGrassi of the Institute

of Development Studies suggests Buthelezi's accounts of his

experiences with GM cotton might be embellished, since they are

suspiciously similar to Monsanto press releases<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">.”

VP] Grant and Rove were far from the only controversial invitees to

CORE's King Day celebrations. Others have included the Austrian

politician and Nazi-sympathizer Jorg Haider, and the right-wing radio

host Bob Grant, who once called Martin Luther King a "scumbag".

But CORE itself has become increasingly controversial--and in some

ways downright strange--since Roy Innis took its helm. Innis once

branded opponents of racial segregation in the US as "house

niggers", and dismissed the struggle against Apartheid as "a

vicarious, romantic adventure" with "no honest base".

When asked in 1973 why CORE supported Idi Amin despite the Ugandan

president's hatred of Jewish people and praise of Hitler, Innis is

reported to have said, "we have no records to prove if Hitler

was a friend or an enemy of black people."<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">

Not

only does Innis rent out CORE to oil and GMO, Innis fronts for

<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">National

Center for Public Policy Research<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">'s

in-house rent-a-tom, Project 21:

“<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Project

21 is an initiative of The National Center for Public Policy Research

to promote the views of<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">

<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">whose

entrepreneurial spirit, dedication to family and commitment to

individual responsibility has not traditionally been echoed by the

nation's civil rights establishment<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">.”

Project

21 has a large roster, mostly unknown (but that could be an advantage

in terms of stealth) who will provide cover for issues that are

tricky in terms of race, for example Voter ID, Black unemployment,

Stand Your Ground,

21 participants have been interviewed by hundreds of media outlets<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">,

including the O'Reilly Factor, Hannity and Colmes, the CNN Morning

News, <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Black

Entertainment Television's Lead Story<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">,

America's Black Forum, the McLaughlin Group, C-SPAN's Morning Journal

and the Rush Limbaugh, Michael Reagan, Sean Hannity, G. Gordon Liddy

and Larry King shows, as well as in newspapers such as The New York

Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Washington

Times and many others.

“]

executive director, <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">David

Almasi, coordinates Project 21’s strategy,<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">

out its press releases and even provides its spokespeople with

talking points before they appear on air. But as Project 21’s only

white associate, he tries to keep behind the curtain while his cadres

bash everyone from black basketball players to civil rights veterans.

cover was blown in July 2004, when he decided to fill in for a

Project 21 spokesman who had gotten a flat tire on his way to an

appearance on C-SPAN.

As

Joshua Holland reported in the Internet magazine The Gadflyer, while

introducing Almasi, the show’s bemused host turned to him and

stuttered, “Um…Project 21…a program for conservative African

Americans…you’re not African American.”

“I’m

an employee of Project 21, my bosses are the members of Project 21,

the volunteers…. I take my marching orders from them, not from

anybody else,” Almasi blurted.

Despite

Almasi’s bungle, Project 21 remains a crucial gear in the right’s

propaganda factory. Most recently, the group dutifully attempted to

stifle Democratic opposition to Condoleezza Rice’s nomination as

Secretary of State. On November 19, two days after Rush Limbaugh went

on air to condemn a series of political cartoons mocking Rice,

including a Doonesbury strip depicting Bush calling her “brown

sugar,” Almasi sent out a press release blaring, “President

Bush’s nomination of Condoleezza Rice as secretary of state has

resulted in harsh liberal criticism that members of the black

leadership network Project 21 consider racist.”

Like

clockwork, the right cranked up its Mighty Wurlitzer. While Peterson

took to Hannity & Colmes to blast Democratic critics of Rice like

Barbara Boxer and John Kerry as sworn “enemies to black people,”

Talon News’s now-infamous former White House correspondent, Jeff

Gannon, lifted a quote verbatim from Almasi’s press release: “The

recent racist attacks and mimicry of Condoleezza Rice are infuriating

and despicable.” Meanwhile, Project 21 member LaShawn Barber

distilled news of the mock controversy on her blog, LaShawn Barber’s

Corner. With Rice under fire from Democrats for hyping bogus

intelligence to build the case for invading Iraq, Project 21 managed

to shift the discussion from the content of her character to the

color of her skin.

also saw an awkward moment last year when one of the members of the

group's conservative African American branch Project 21 failed to

show up for a C-SPAN interview. <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Executive

Director David Almasi, who is the only paid staff member for Project

21 and is white<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">,

filled in. From there, one editor went on to expose the group as a

whole, finding that not a single director or board member of the

group was black. “...

Background:

“In

1992, while race rioting engulfed Los Angeles in the wake of the

Rodney King beating, civil rights leaders and black Democratic

politicians took to the airwaves to criticize the draconian policies

of the Los Angeles police department as the riot’s root cause. In

the absence of a coordinated right-wing response, NCPPR enlisted a

coterie of black conservatives, including Peterson, to denounce the

rioters as wanton criminals while hailing the LAPD’s ham-handed

response. Out of the campaign grew Project 21, a group providing

cable news programs with a reliable stable of black talking heads

willing and able to say what white conservatives can’t.

More

than a decade after its formation, however, Project 21 is still

hamstrung by its dearth of publicly recognized members. “ ]]

For

all the damage he has done, James O'Keefe has not paid a price; one

time he was in danger of it happening it was for: max Blumenthal

attacked at CPAC 2010 for a Salon article that outed:

O'Keefe's attendance of and assistance with a white nationalist event

featuring open racialists Jared Taylor and John Derbyshire as well as

Kevin Martin of the right-wing front group Project 21. Project 21, by

the way, is a <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">black

front group <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">created

and operated by white conservative operatives to provide cover to

figures like Taylor.

O'Keefe plan the event with his friend, the white nationalist Marcus

Epstein, the Tancredo aide who <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">pled

guilty<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">

randomly attacking a black woman and calling her the n-word?<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">

role in helping out with and freely attending the event, along with

his palling around with characters like Epstein and Taylor

highlighted a career filled with racist pranks, from his ACORN pimp

costume minstrel show (see <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Bradblog<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">

the deceptive means Breitbart used to push the pimp costume myth) to

his <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">"affirmative

action bake sale,"<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">

which he and his friends charged white students extra for baked goods

while minorities ate for little or nothing. Then there are his

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the hell of living in a multicultural university environment. James

O'Keefe, the apparent hero of the conservative movement's youth wing,

is what racism looks like today.”]

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voters increase, but perhaps more importantly in the short term, the

widening contrast between rich and poor is most evident when looking

at Black unemployment, Detroit bankruptcy etc. Moreover,

globalization, GMO's and climate change hits people of color first

and hardest, so the right will need more more and more. Even better

if they can trash their opponents as wanting to block progress and

hurt poor dark people.

CFACT

(from hacksinger)

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in darkside:

Desmog:

[“The Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) was founded in

1985 to pursue a free-market approach to environmental issues. They

describe their role as "relentlessly infusing the environmental

debate with a balanced perspective on environmental stewardship."

According

to Media Matters, CFACT's main focus is promoting what it describes

as "destructive environmental policies," and it has "waged

a decades-long war on environmental activism." [1]

is darkside/crypto on the offensive because it is trying to destroy

PIRGs (Public Interest Research Groups, named specifically as a

problem in the Powell Memo, as was its inspiration Ralph Nader (aside

from Marxist Marcuse the only enemy to be called by name?). Nader of

course was dangerous because he was successfully challenging the

nonsense that seat belts and windshields that didn't breaking into

bayonet would bankrupt the automobile industry. Such a threat was the

car companies paid private investigators to follow him and

prostitutes to try to blackmail him; when he won several hundred

thousand dollars in damages for this behavior, he promptly used the

money to fund the PIRGs, which of course leveraged it to get even

more information about corporate malfeasance. So successful and

valuable were these, that universities and colleges all over the

country started their own, some even getting funding from the student

body. Even worse, students were getting the inspiration and skills to

move into politics and activism (e.g., U.S. Representative Jan

Schakowsky (D-IL), Sierra Club Executive Director Carl Pope, and

Randy Hayes of the Rainforest Action Network). The right's reaction

was to crank up the incubator, often taking the form of funding

rightwing newspapers, but also trying to choke off funding the PIRGs

as political (as if the Federalist Society was not). [Cautionary

ironic tale: CFACT have an award to <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Helen

P. Chenoweth-Hage, <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">who

managed to get elected to Congress from Idaho in the 1994 Gingrich

takeover by beating up on her opponent for raising the top tax rate

from 34 to 36%, (which led to the first balanced budget in decades

and the longest economic expansion in US history); LCV in single

digits. She attacked Clinton for his affair, despite the fact she had

had her own for six years, but she was a lobbyist, and God had

forgiven her.

wiki:

“During her tenure, she was referred to by her most outspoken

critics as a "poster-child for the militias," and in

February 1995 she voiced the suspicion that armed federal agents were

landing black helicopters on Idaho ranchers' property to enforce the

Endangered Species Act, in line with a longstanding conspiracy

theory. "I have never seen them," Chenoweth said in an

interview in The New York Times. "But enough people in my

district have become concerned that I can't just ignore it. We do

have some proof."[6] The Los Angeles Times editorialized that

during the campaign she gained national attention by "holding

'endangered salmon bakes' during fundraisers, serving canned salmon

to ridicule the listing of Idaho salmon as an endangered species."

She was quoted as saying in response, "It's the white,

Anglo-Saxon male that's endangered today."[7] “ She did honor

her promise not to run for a third term, but after retiring she

rented a car and drove 300 miles rather than undergo a secondary

airport search. Sadly (ironic part:) she died in an SUV when she was

thrown out; those in seatbelts had only minor injuries]

In

2009, CFACT hired Marc Morano, a former spokesman for Sen. James

Inhofe, to run ClimateDepot.com. $150,000/year According to Morano,

the site was designed to offer research and environmental news that

questions the theory of man-made global warming.”end ] Koch, Exxon,

Scaife funders. Morano: Hansen will inspire eco-terrorism (equals

torching SUV's). CFACT sponsors Climate Depot.

–

[“

In late 2005, evangelical leaders like Rick Warren joined a drive to

back a major initiative to fight global warming, saying “millions

of people could die in this century because of climate change, most

of them our poorest global neighbors." To counter this historic

shift in the evangelical community, a group called the “Interfaith

Stewardship Alliance” (ISA) was launched to oppose action on carbon

emissions and to deny the existence of climate change. One of the men

guiding this group was Paul Driessen, a consultant for ExxonMobil,

the mining industry, and for CFACT.”]

Analysis:

Rove learning how to shepherd the evangelicals was crucial to getting

W elected in Texas and then as president. Moreover, we have seen

Christianity as one of the four dovetailing ideologies that keep the

right in power. So the Christian stewardship movement is a threat in

several respects. God promised not to destroy the word again after

The Flood, so clearly AGW is not a threat (puny man does not have the

power to alter His creation). The stewards, on the other hand, say

the way to glorify God is to preserve his creation (an interesting

bridge also built regarding mercury: it harms the unborn). Thus the

Cornwall Alliance to kill stewardship matters. Green Dragon (serpent

is satan).

Ridenour

NCPPR done? Pjt 21 Borelli

Inhofedoc813

7/31/13

Paleo-history

Barry

Goldwater's father fled draft from Czar's army, learned haute couture

in Paris, opened up a department store in Arizona, married a

descendent of Puritan Roger Williams who had come because of TB

Before the Storm, Perlstein. Something of hellion when younger, brief

success with antsy pants boxer shorts fad. Opposed New Deal,

(privatize the TVA, make Social Security optional) unions, USSR. As

senator, boosted military spending, urged Nixon to resign after

Watergate. Although along with Reagan as icons of the right, often

noted that he could not get elected in GOP today, many differences

with religious right (you don't need to be straight to be in the

military, just shoot straight. Rehnquist talked him into the Civil

Rights Movement, and although he lost in a landslide to LBJ (knew and

respected JFK), he carried five southern states. (LBJ noted that

signing the Voting Rights Act would lose the South for a generation,

led to Southern Strategy, used by Nixon).

William

F Buckley (farther in oil?) Went to Yale, came to some notoriety

taking it to task for its secularism, with Bozell wrote biography

lauding Tailgunner Joe McCarthy. Served in the Army (pallbearer for

FDR) and CIA in Mexico. Opposed Civil Rights, which he later

regretted (also favored legalization of marijuana, as did Goldwater,

and served for a while with Amnesty International). Reagan sent him

to UN (offered to make him ambassador to Afghanistan, to which he,

perhaps having a strong grasp of history, agreed to if he could have

“ten divisions of bodyguards”). When running for mayor of NYC,

favored a congestion fee and bike paths, although no one has yet

gotten loopy enough to ull him into the tinfoil hat Agenda 21

conspiracy theory). Also took Bush 43 to task on Gulf War for being

out of touch with reality). He helped found YAF, shock troops for

Goldwater, later for “Reagan Revolution” and with College/Young

Republicans an important part of the incubator. He the National

Review, which gave conservatism respectability, and for years had a

show on (gasp!) PBS, Firing Line. (so did Friedman).

Buckley

also attempted to boot the wingnuts (clashed with Ayn Rand, though

her ideas did force some rethinking) as well as Welch of the John

Birch Society: manion (radio

Thomas

Frank's Wrecking Crew brilliantly traces the ascent, starting

in the Seventies when conservative cliques took over the Southern

baptists and the NRA, and 1978's Propostion 13 kicked off “tax-payer

rebellions” [cf Norquist name org?]. The “Reagan Revolution” is

really a mirror, a co-opting of Sixties tactics in which Young

Republicans etc cast themselves as gutsy rebels. Or more correctly,

these social/contry clubs where frast boys went to party, pad their

resume and find girls from good families were taken over by

entrepreurial ideologues like Jack Abramoff (legend has it a showing

of Patton led to a spontaneous chant of “First Strike Now!” on

Iran for holding the hostages [we installed the Shah and turned a

blind eye to his torture and death squads, as we did with others of

“our somuvabitch”es]. Later it became a ritua to chant the patton

monolgue inserting “liberals” for “Nazis.” War terminology

reigns, they want to permantly remove the left, abd College

Repubicans are the “swaord and shield” of the Reagan revoluation.

The JBS said Abramoff so innovative that he almost by himself gave

Reagan a win in Massachusetts, the heart of Kennedy country. Abramoff

is a bullying weight lifter from Beverly Hills. Abramoff installs

Grover Norquist, and they rework not only the mission but the funding

model. Traditionally the CR would go hat in hand to the RNC. The new

crew basically became a spinoff, doing its own direct mail campaigns,

and hitting up small businessmen (e.g., anti-union charities, and

then fake anti-union charities). Pissed off the RNC to the point they

threw them out of the building, but no matter as their income had

quintupled. The next innovation was to turn provacatuer posing into

rent-a-mobs (for example, protesting unionization of migrant

farmerworkers on behalf of Campbell's soup company)?). USA Foundation

and its spinoff variants went after Ralph Nader and his campus PIRGs,

as they claimed it was “sinful and tyrannical” to force students

to fund political activity (deposits on Coke bottles, clean air and

elections, fair utility rates?) they did not agree with, though

opting out required only checking a box on a form. They pimped these

services by boasting huge returns on investment (one wonders how

these compare to lobbying today, with ROI measured in four digit

percentages).

Frank

points out that their other great iconic hero, aside from the

Entrepreneur was the Freedom Fighter, and their hawkish rhetoric

morphed into a kind of reality in their embrace of Angola's Jonas

Savimbi, one of the last countries to escape colonialism. The Angolan

rebels gave the CR macho street cred, also supported by apartheid

South Africa. Norquist followed him around, [had pictures taken with

AK-47] and Abramoff made a movie (with the cooperation of ___army).

Even more surreal was a kind of mirror of Woodstock with “freedom

fighters such as Nicaraguan Contras and Afghan Mujahedeen (who did

throw the USSR out, but became Taliban and Al-Qaeda]. However, Frank

describes Savimbi's group as an armed cult, and for his own interest

only he perpetuated at thirty year civil war that led to land mines,

devastation of the infrastructure and slaughter of elephants for

tusks to fund the war.

Abramof

visited South Africa in 1983 to meet his counterparts, presumably

including Russel sic Crystal, who organized a followup to Jamba

“rumble in the jungle (including a former U-Boat captain). Field

trip was to a military base to watch a riot control demonstration.

Accommodations were lavish, squad of interpreters and video crew

documenting the proceedings, but expenses were paid by businessmen,

it was claimed. This evolved into the International Freedom

Foundation, which supported savimbi and opposed anti-apartheid trade

sanctions, its HW was in Washington DC and Abramoff its executive

director, though it was actually run out of South Africa by Crystall

(satellites in London and West Germany). It sponsored more

conferences, magazines and many newsletters peddling “ Liberty ,

Security and Prosperity.” Jesse Helms and James Inhofe were its

advisors. All this was funded by South Africa (mil inel?); Abramoff

asked for $450,000 for a plane for presidential candidate Jack Kemp,

which he assured them would get his people into his “kitchen

cabinet.” Casino Jack continued his hitman role by accusing the ANC

of atrocities against children in a House Republican Study Committee

hearing, and later disparaged Mandela and Ted Kennedy (leader of

sanctions). The scam was exposed in 1995.

But

the biggest scandal, according to Frank, was the confluence of the

Entrepreneur and freedom Fighter in the Iran-Contra debacle. In 1983

the Congress voted to cut off funding for the Contras, as we were not

at war with Nicaragua, and news of atrocities was filtering in (Tip

O'Neil's aunt was a Maryknoll nuns, four of whom would be executed by

death squad. Abramoff met with Ollie North to try and reinstate aid

by lobbying Congress in 1985. GOP fundraiser was working widows with

a scary slideshow, raising 12 million dollars, but only about $2.7

was actually delivered to the Contras. To raise more money, North

sold arms to Iran. We might never have known, but a CIA contractor

refused to go down with the plane as he was supposed to, parachuted

abs was captured alive. North put on his freshly pressed dress

uniform, was filmed at what Spielberg called a flattering

“God-angle,”

setting

off Ollie-mania and accompanying merch, including a series of

videotapes derived from the scary slideshow. In his 1994 race for a

Senate seat he was the leading fundraiser in the country at twenty

million, although he lost. This was all no doubt enabled by the

Iran-Contra hearings being shortened and softened by Dick Cheney on

the judiciary committee, as well as William casey dying of a brain

tumor before he could be compelled to testify. Reagan denied knowing,

then forgot knowing, then admitted he's done it, and that he knew it

was wrong, though he still believed in his heart he was

right/innocent (setting a convenient precedent for any number of

conservatives caught in inconvenient truths; Rove would take it

further by asserting that perception is more important than reality,

but Bush 43 would take it even further dismissing a reporter as

sadly, or at least quaintly “reality-based”).

This

gets us to the 1994 Newt takeover, which prefigures the 2010 Tea

Party.

But

back in Inhofe :

served

a couple years in Army, never outside US and never rising above

private. Became president of an insurance company, statehouse 67-77m

last four as minority leader. Ran for governor and senate and lost,

but elected mayor of Tulsa 1978-84, then won House seat. First got

attention for trying to reform a rule that had long been used to

block bills in committee . Came to Senate in 94 wave. Outraged people

when saying the Murrah Building bombing would have few casualties

because employees too lazy to be at their desk by nine (in fact 646

inside, 168 killed, 163 in the Murrah building, 99 worked for the

government, eight were law enforcement, 19 were kids (or perhaps 169,

as one leg has not been matched), almost 700 hurt, three were

pregnant women).

But

the big problem is the confluence of good old fashioned graft (he is

among top recipient of oil and coal money, including Kochs; voted

100% their way 2005-7 according to Oil Change International) ,

ideological conservation and fundamentalist Christianity (100% rating

from all three major groups). 5% LCV (zero 1997-2002, only vote

against Everglades. “I trust God with my legislative goals” and

all problems can be solved via Scripture, although he declined to

state which apply to global warming ; For a while he was a bit cagey

on how his faith affected his votes in terms of environment (although

one of his cohort did say sea level rise is impossible because God

promised not to flood the world after Noah). However, he not only

attacks climate scientists, but Christians who have a Stewardship

idea that the  best way to honor God's creation is not so much

to destroy it, or even have “dominion” or it, so much as take

care of it. Like Delay Inhofe is a Christian Zionist, although it's

not know if he approves of texas ranchers helping Israelis to breed a

pure red heifer to be sacrificed to bring on End Times.

He

was upset that Rolling Stone had listed him as number two climate

villain behind warren Buffet (his railroad carries a lot of coal),

though he admitted he did not know what Rolling Stone was.

Inhofe

has also been a huge player in climate doubt because he controlled

the Energy and Public Works Committee that had jurisdiction in the

Senate for year, at the same time Bush-Cheney. He lost control

in December 2006 to Pelosi.

2000

w/ CEI sued to stop the circulation or use of National Assessment

Oct

2004 apocalyptic for $; Anapolis award for “work in promoting

science-based public policy”

April

2005 four pillars all wrong

2005

Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act

2007

400 scientists dispute (as with Oregon Petition, this gets

periodically debunked and then updated, the numbers going up, but the

more embarrassing fakery purged).

Dec

2009 Truth Squad

Energy

Tax Prevention Act 2011

Hoax

Book 2012?

C

Street:

The

Family likes to call itself the “Christian Mafia,” according to

Jeff Sharlet, who literally wrote the book on them. They were

established by Abraham Vereide and some businessmen during the Great

Depression, which they considered God's punishment for FDR's

socialism; the group arose to oppose the New Deal, especially because

they thought that the labor unions were under control of Satan. Early

members included Pat Robertson's father (Absalom, who refused to meet

Ladybird Johnson on her whistlestop tour), Strom Thurmond, and Herman

Talmadge , all segregationists. More recently,the group's DC

townhouse as enabling marital infidelity (including Pickering,

literally sleeping with the Telecomm industry, Mark

Hiking-the-Appalachian- Trail Sanford and John Ensign (Nevada casino

heir, which is in a way appropriate because the fellowship is to help

“politicians struggle with their personal demons” (Shatlet).

Ex-watergate felon Chuck Colson was born again in prison through C

Street. However, their effect is much more than covering the asses

(perhaps literally) of members. Tom Coburn (who suggested 1.2 million

dollars was the proper amount to pay Pickering's mistress, who was

also the wife of C Street staffer) went on junkets to Beirut and the

British Virgin Islands (Doyle went to Aruba). They espouse “Biblical

capitalism” They are perhaps best know for prayer breakfast,

although they tend to have an abundance of defense ministers (had

arranged some truces, but much more often support murderous dictators

such as Suharto and latin American generals with death squads).

76%

of Republicans state that they believe in End Times, and thus it

would “be heretical the curb our destructive appetites under the

delusion that we can do anything about pushing back God's ordained

date” (“End Times Theology”). This is part of a more

generalized idea that only God can affect the planet, and that He

favors the US, providing a bounty of resources for us to use as we

please. A NAS peer reviewed study shows that “energy efficient”

on the label will make it less likely conservatives will buy them,

since “dirty energy is patriotic and even 'blessed'” (Huffpo?).

James Watt famously stated End Times as the reason he was giving away

public resources.

Hagee

son says gay marriage bad idea because only traditional marriage can

“produce consumers” the basis of the economy, and thus essential

for existence. Megachurch, Gov perry (pray to end drought?), back and

forth with McCain). DeLay endorsed Hagee's support of the Iraq war,

as it will make the end of the world sooner.

In

2005 evangelicals mobilized to stop climate change because they knew

it was going to kill millions of poor people; to counter this, the

Interfaith Stewardship Alliance arose, and then was absorbed by the

Cornwall Alliance, a front for CFACT. [stewardship” is evil

co-opting of the term] Becky Dunlop. CFACT is crypto organization to

attack PIRGs, did alternative COP15 conference (Exxon, Koch, Scaife,

Chevron etc).

About

half of Congress gets 80-100% from the three Christian ratings, but

many of those get less than 10% from the League of Conservation

Voters. Some are quite senior and thus influential: McConnell, Frist,

Santorum, Kyl, Hastert, Blunt, Ashcroft (anointed with Crisco,

moon?), not to mention Bush 43. 100 million evangelicals, but only

half believe in End Time theology (a quarter believe the rapture will

happen before 2050).

Two

main strands, differing mainly in what role humans have in bringing

on the end: Reconstructionists/Dominionists (Katherine Harris, Sec of

State Ohio Ken Blackwell, Bachmann see Obama and the Democrats

as”demonic forces.” The Apocalypse must be prepared for by

replacing democracy with theocracy (hence most Christian organization

have a legal arm for breaking down church-state separation,

especially in schools, may also espouse creationism /intelligent

design, and provide cover for teachers to teach climate denialism.)

Sarah Palin is in a branch rooted in tent revivals of 50-60's in

which certain believers will be given supernatural powers to take

over, the younger ones forming Joel's Army to conquer the earth.

Dispensationalists

(aka Christian Zionists?): Pat Robertson; literal interpretation of

the Bible which provides a detailed timeline for End Times, and

social and environmental chaos are harbingers. Hagee: sinners will go

to hell, Jesus will re-green the planet and rule for a thousand

years. Cut all social programs and regulatory agencies because they

distract from fundamental tasks. Delay and Inhofe.

Summary;

Evangelicals

have been crucial ever since Rove figured out how to use them,

because they are excellent in the “ground war” of get out the

vote electoral politics, and perhaps to a lesser degree for

astroturfing (but note they have an air war contingent as well,

Christian radio and TV). [Black churches are important in Democratic

politics to a smaller degree, but the GOP is trying to neutralize

this by Voter ID in general and restricting early voting, especially

on Sunday]. Very conservative voters turn up in primaries (which

presumably have a high ratio of evangelicals), so incumbents are

terrified of compromising on anything, much less proactively working

for climate legislation. Quite a lot overlap between Christians and

Tea Party, the source of many rightwing flanking attacks, produced

the 2010 takeover of the house by climate “zombies.” end 813

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