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Environmental Hoax Proof

The lamestream media told you:

The environment is on the verge of collapse, the human race could be wiped out, species will go extinct, we must prepare ourselves for drastic changes to our lifestyles and global government controls and taxes, like the wonderful cap-and-trade plan that just squeaked through the House, to avert imminent disaster. There's no time to waste, the situation is completely desperate. Please expect the same message tomorrow.

The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:

The Obama cap-and-trade plan is a clever tax on EVERYTHING, which will force all Americans to live up to government standards instead of to a free choice of their own. It has gained support of the thoroughly corrupted media under the guise of saving the world. Unmentioned in the plan is that America represents only 3% of the world's population. The other 97% is not under the plan. Hmmmm.

The experts in this field have been slightly less than forthright in the matter:

"We've got to ride this global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic and environmental policy." - Timothy Wirth, President of the UN Foundation

Two Sources: http://www.globalwarming.nottinghamshiretimes.co.uk/, http://www.campaignforliberty.com/blog.php?view=7183

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"No matter if the science of global warming is all phony, climate change provides the greatest opportunity to bring about justice and equality in the world." - Christine Stewart, former Canadian Minister of the Environment

Two Sources:
http://www.globalwarming.nottinghamshiretimes.co.uk/, http://www.hudson.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=publication_details&id=3007

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"The only way to get our society to truly change is to frighten people with the possibility of a catastrophe." - emeritus professor Daniel Botkin

Two Sources: http://www.peopleforwesternheritage.com/PFWHRMAdditionalQuotes.htm, http://www.informationliberation.com/

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"We need to get some broad based support, to capture the public's imagination. So we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements and make little mention of any doubts. Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest." - Stephen Schneider, Stanford Professor of Climatology, lead author of many IPCC reports

Two Sources: http://climatesight.wordpress.com/2009/04/12/the-schneider-quote/, http://www.green-agenda.com/gaia.html

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"It doesn't matter what is true, it only matters what people believe is true." - Paul Watson, co-founder of Greenpeace

Two Sources: http://www.the-thinking-man.com/environmentalism.html, http://www.prisonplanet.com/cnns-climate-change-dishonesty.html

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"Childbearing should be a punishable crime against society, unless the parents hold a government license. All potential parents should be required to use contraceptive chemicals, the government issuing antidotes to citizens chosen for childbearing." - David Brower, first Executive Director of the Sierra Club

Two Sources: http://www.activistcash.com/biography_quotes.cfm/bid/3507, http://www.aim.org/wls/category/control/

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"Global Sustainability requires the deliberate quest of poverty, reduced resource consumption and set levels of mortality control." -Professor Maurice King

Two Sources: http://www.alanwattsentientsentinel.eu/english/transcripts/Alan_Watt_CTTM_LIVEonRBN_253_Depopulation__the_Opiate_of_the_Intelligentsia_Feb102009.html, http://autarchic.tripod.com/files/quotations2.html

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"Giving society cheap, abundant energy would be the equivalent of giving an idiot child a machine gun." - Prof Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University

Two Sources: http://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/climate-change/climate-change-overview/2/, http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Future-of-Energy-by-George-Washington-090308-140.html

 

cap-and-trade, Timothy Wirth, Christine Stewart, childbearing, global sustainability

Swallowing Industries Whole

The lamestream media told you:

Tom Krisher, writing for the AP reports: "Obama's Rules Will Make Small Efficient Cars the Norm"

"Higher mileage and emissions standards set by the Obama administration on Tuesday, which begin to take effect in 2012 and are to be achieved by 2016, will transform the American car and truck fleet. http://tinyurl.com/obrz3l

"Nearly everybody will drive smaller cars, and more of them will run on electricity."

The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:

Tom Krisher of the Associated Press, writing with no independent thought apparent in his "report" of a government edict, effectively sanctified another government power grab over independent business in the United States. He carefully detailed the government proclamation, abandoning the skepticism that is critical to a reporter's code of ethics.

Missing is the fact that, with no apparent constitutional authority, the current president is dictating manufacturing standards to an entire industry. The media covered the government proclamation unchallenged.

The president cannot legitimately decree what sort of cars Americans can buy, but this has had little effect on the current administration or its complicit "news" media admirers. The media denies such claims.

"Smaller cars, lighter cars, cars with less impact resistance, this equates directly to more dead Americans, but the Obama administration could care less," says one observer who was not quoted by the press. Radio talk-show hosts have made the point repeatedly, though lamestream reports have failed to make the point at all.

"Green" advocates are reportedly thrilled at the news, effortlessly trading human lives for protection of something called "the environment," a fantastical representation of the place where all of us live, or die, in small, cheap, lightweight cars, designed to comply with the undocumented president's unconstitutional wishes.

Government Confiscates Funding

The lamestream media told you:

"Ozone season starts today amid new concerns about the health effects of the pollutant and stepped-up efforts to comply with stricter federal regulations.

"The new limits, imposed last year, pushed regions out of compliance and will force state and county air-quality agencies to seek further reductions in ozone levels or face sanctions, including the potential loss of federal money."  http://tinyurl.com/cjnetw

The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:

The new limits, imposed last year, pushed regions out of compliance and will force state and county air-quality agencies to seek further reductions in ozone levels or face sanctions, including the confiscation of money state taxpayers sent to the federal government, which the federal government will not return as punishment.

The federal government has not revealed what they would do with the confiscated funds, but then they haven't revealed what they did with hundreds of billions of dollars they gave away under a hastily drafted bill that virtually no one read before signing, so this surprises no one. Critics charged the whole thing is fraudulent and corrupt. No arrests have been made.

Baloney From Stem-Cells

The lamestream media told you:

"President Barack Obama made his most forceful break yet from his predecessor's scientific agenda Monday, opening the door to a major expansion of government-funded research on embryonic stem cells and ordering federal agencies to strengthen the role of science in their decision-making," according to the  Chicago Tribune.

He, "urged researchers to follow science and not ideology as he abolished contentious Bush-era restraints on stem-cell research," according to the AP. "Our government has forced what I believe is a false choice between sound science and moral values," Obama declared as he signed documents changing U.S. science policy.

The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:

Companies nationwide braced for an onslaught of unfair competition as the U.S. government, although deeply in debt, plans to pour money into stem-cell research, undercutting enormous strides being made by the private sector which uses its own money for its work.

"News reports have led people to think stem-cell research has been banned, but that's completely false," said one unidentified scientist doing work on stem cells for a firm listed on the New York Stock Exchange. "Hundreds of scientists are racing for new cures with this technology, and now we'll face competition from the government, which does its work by forcing people to pony up taxes. This will hurt private-sector research and bring more socialism to the sciences." If anything should be left up to personal creativity and not government management and control, it is science, he said.

"News" outlets have framed the controversy as being between right-wing moralist Bible-thumping retromingent cretins, and desperately needed cures for the incurably ill, when it is really about who is "free" to do scientific research, and who picks up the tab.

Reporters failed to question how a president could authorize massive spending and fundamental shifts in national policy without an act of Congress. Executive Orders, used for this action, were originally intended to be used for managing executive staff, and buying supplies like pencils and paper. Firms are expected to scramble and fight each other to scoop up Obama's cash handouts of taxpayers' money.

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Planet's Cooling Again

The lamestream media told you:

President-elect Obama plans to lead the charge against climate change, and implement a "cap-and-trade" program to control industrial output.

The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:

"Turn up the heat, somebody. The globe is freezing. Even Al Gore is looking for an extra blanket... The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reports 63 record snowfalls in the United States, and 115 lowest-ever temperatures for the month. Only 44 Octobers over the past 114 years have been cooler than this last one.

"The polar ice is accumulating faster than usual, and some of the experts now concede that the globe hasn't warmed since 1995. You may have noticed, in fact, that Al and his pals, having given up on the sun, no longer even warn of global warming. Now it's 'climate change.'" http://tinyurl.com/6pt2xd

Climate changes because that's what climate does. The idea that government will tax us for this is beyond absurd.

Love Ain't Science

The lamestream media told you:

"USA Today -- New brain scans of people who say they are still in love after decades of marriage are similar to scans of those who have just fallen in love, leading researchers to conclude that long-term relationships can be just as passionate and romantic as new love. 'We're confident it's real,' says psychologist Arthur Aron of the State University of New York-Stony Brook, one of the researchers involved in the study. 'That's what the brain scans are telling us. People can't fake that.'"

The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:

Of all the unmitigated nonsense passing for science today, a study of how long love lasts sets a new low, since science can't even prove love exists at all. "Many things are outside what science can do, like 'measuring' politics or guaranteeing tomorrow, and proving or measuring love is at the top of the list," said a knowledgeable non-scientist on condition of anonymity.

How the "scientists" got approval to conduct such a study and who approved it was not revealed, and it is not known if they obtained federal or other public money to squander on their quack-like observations. The alleged sages studied ten women and seven men to draw their highly publicized conclusion. "Any publicist capable of getting such minor tripe into USA Today must be one hot mouthpiece," according to leading experts.

Columbia Journalism Review noted on 11/14/08 that science reporting "is more and more the direct product of PR shops." Polished spoon-fed "news" has "become a powerful subversive tool eroding the chance that reporters will craft their own stories." It seems most labs now have sophisticated flacks to do reporters' jobs, infused with spin that gets into Reuters, AP, networks and the other usual suspects, who could not be reached for comment.

Fact in the SPiTLIGHT

"America has 3% of the world's population but uses 25% of the world's energy."

Everyone's heard that. The "news" promotes it routinely. But is it true? Is it even possible? Who of all those factoid users actually did the research? No one knows. 25% measured how? Who uses the whopping 75% and is the real "villain" in energy use? Does the real villain use 85%? No one knows. Does Europe have only N% of the world's population, but use NN% of the world's energy? Should Communist China's billion farmers without power in the countryside be counted? Of all the people in the world who actually have power, the U.S. has only N% of the pie? Why so little? The popular highly dubious 25% stat is great for attacking America's greatness and denigrating all we have accomplished, but it doesn't do much for knowledge. Maybe that's why the media likes it so much and uses it without a disclaimer.

Global Whining Blame

The lamestream media told you:

According to AP reporter Dina Cappiello, "Former vice president Al Gore called Thursday for a 'man on the moon' effort to switch all of the nation's electricity production to wind, solar and other carbon-free sources within 10 years, a goal that he said would solve global warming as well as economic and natural security crises caused by dependence on fossil fuels."

The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:

Appearing to have lost his sense of balance, Al Gore, speaking in front of eight American flags at a packed auditorium, said in a prepared speech that if the United States cuts its CO2 output, the entire global warming theory will come to an end and the problem will be solved. Many readers read the story without connecting those dots, just like the "news" editors that ran the self-evidently absurd statement.

"Surely Gore knows that the U.S. is only a tiny part of the world's land mass, population and energy use," said one expert who read about the speech. "The conclusion from his proposal is that the entire 'problem' is caused only by us, and we can fix it all by ourselves. Maybe he misspoke. Maybe the reporter got it wrong. Maybe he forgot about Communist China and India, and, like, the other continents."

It was unclear how much of the cost of the lunar program Gore would pocket through his Alliance for Climate Protection, the bipartisan group he leads, but the cost to the nation was estimated at up to $3 trillion dollars. Reports didn't make clear who would get the money, only that it would be spent, following standard editorial policy.

Reporters failed to ask what, if anything, the other 97% of the world's population would be doing, while the 3% who live here would end fossil fuel use and save the planet. The report included the mandatory lines about Gore winning the Nobel prize and an Oscar.

Tags: Al Gore, Dina Cappiello, Alliance for Climate Protection

Boring Earthquake Glorified

The lamestream media told you:

Too much.

The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:

Los Angeles experienced a 5.4 magnitude earthquake, no major damage was apparent, no one was seriously hurt, the power didn't go out, traffic continued to flow, and every major news outlet stayed with the story for hours after the event had ended. With nothing significant to report, reporters took phone calls from people who felt the shaking.

The non-event preempted every other news story for hours, preventing news consumers eating lunch (like me) from getting any news about anything, on regular TV (C-SPAN aired the usual abuse from Congress uninterrupted). The breathless, monotonous hand wringing over nothing happening was abysmal, but just a step below the usual broadcasts.

Tags: media coverage, earthquakes, Los Angeles

Smokers Cost Less

The lamestream media told you:

Smoking is so bad it should be outlawed everywhere, and a private establishment should not be allowed to allow smoking even within its own private walls.

The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:

The American Academy of Physicians and Surgeons has released a report that indicates nonsmoking persons of normal weight have the highest lifetime medical costs.

Politicians and others usually list the funding of prevention and chronic disease management programs as a key method of achieving cost containment. Smoking and obesity are most frequently mentioned as risk factors to target. In the long run, however, removing these risk factors would probably increase medical costs -- even assuming that preventive interventions cost nothing.

Using a simulation model, researchers found that never-smokers of normal weight actually incurred higher lifetime medical costs than obese nonsmokers. Smokers of normal weight had the lowest costs. Life years gained through prevention are not lived in full health. Reduction of risky behavior resulted in substituting expensive, chronic diseases of aging for cheap, lethal ones.

In other news, Japan passed a law to outlaw flabbiness, but the belief that it will reduce medical costs may lead to overmedication and increased medical costs. Read (and comment on) the story here.

Tags: smoking, The American Academy of Physicians and Surgeons