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Friday, 21 March 2014
News....................
Merkel declares G8 defunct; Europe scrambles to replace Russian gas
Obama Needs Israel to Rattle Its Saber
Federal judge: Yes, Arizona and Kansas can require voters to prove their citizenship
Missing Malaysia Airlines plane: US satellite the unspoken source that sparked search for MH370
How Democratic donors benefit financially from climate policy
Abbas: I Am a Hero. I Said No to Obama
Iran: Woman Sentenced to Stoning, Pardoned
Standing Up for Human Rights and Democracy in Venezuela
Barack Fighting Vlad on land, but paying him $424 million for space travel
Putin Now Threatens Nuclear Attack
US-Russian tit-for-tat sanctions potentially bite into global banking sector, including Israel’s
'Biggest Gaza terror tunnel yet' uncovered by IDF
Saskatchewan considers ban on Russian booze ban in wake of Crimea invasion
Up in arms: Poland accelerates missile defense plan amid Ukraine crisis
China’s National Priorities in Hunt for MH370
Twitter is blocked in Turkey as Erdogan vows to 'wipe out' the social network
More Obama Ukraine Fail Posters (Humor)...from TPC
When it comes to inept foreign policy that seems destined to always fail, the United States, our allies around the world and most certainly our enemies can unfortunately always count on Barack Obama and the rest of his administration for consistency if nothing else.
At The Political Commentator here.
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Welcome Home Troops!
Members of the Canadian Armed Forces reunite with their families and friends after returning from Afghanistan.
Reds Pitcher Hit in Face by Line Drive
Brutal.
Watch: "Reds Closer Aroldis Chapman Drilled by Line Drive, Hospitalized (VIDEO)."
The line drive was probably traveling 120 mph. And they say football's a barbarian sport!
Belle Knox, Duke University Porn Star, Returns to School Amid Death Threats
Well, if you're not up on this story where have you been?
See, "Duke Univeristy Porn Star Belle Knox Returns to Campus Despite Threats."
PREVIOUSLY: "Piers Morgan Interviews Porn Actress and Duke Student 'Belle Knox'."
Hey, it's all about "empowerment" these days.
Topless All-Star Lucy Pinder Poses for Nuts March 2014
She's often called the "perfect" gal.
Well, her honkers are perfect, that's for sure.
Here: "Lucy Pinder for Nuts March 2014."
A beautiful lady with a perfect rack.
Yeah, I think that's what folks are talking about. The lads never tire of those tits.
Thursday, 20 March 2014
Late News................
New British Identity - Bestowed Upon Them By An Anti-British European
Try Not To Cry II
How the West was fooled by Iran
The Failure of the Mideast 'Peace Process'
Mississippi Bloodbath: Open Warfare Breaks Out In Tea Party Vs. Barbour, Cochran
Older women want their wine
Hiring the Enemy, Killing Americans
NRA Takes Aim at Obama's Anti-Gun Surgeon General Nominee Vivek Murthy
Obama ladies touch down in China amid taxpayer uproar
Taliban Militants Storm Police Station in Eastern Afghanistan
Devious Secret of Obamacare
Cardinal Raymond Burke: "We Need Catholics Without Compromise"
Thad Cochran: I Still Have No Idea What the Tea Party Is
Qualcomm's geolocation technology a 'game changer'
$33 million Faberge Egg discovered by scrap metal dealer
CNN: Heads Exploding in the VP’s Office
US to Test Hypersonic Missile in August
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Solar and Wind Energy Losing Worldwide Support
By Alan Caruba
In his state of the union speech in January President Obama claimed that the U.S. was closer to “energy independence” than ever. He was referring to solar energy while ignoring that his administration has been the most anti-fossil fuel energy than any previous one.
The U.S. has the greatest energy reserves, coal, oil and natural gas, of any nation in the world, but Obama has been waging a “war on coal”, delaying the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline from Canada, and slow to issue permits to explore for new sources of energy reserves on federal lands. The impact on the economy is incalculable, but it is driving up the cost of energy for everyone and every industry.
Meanwhile, Obama keeps talking about “green jobs” and doubling the nation’s supply of renewable energy in the next three years.” This another fantasy to which he clings.
As Taylor Smith, a senior policy analyst for The Heartland Institute, points out “Despite years of favorable public policy, including renewable power mandates and billions in subsidies, solar power still produces only about 0.2 percent of the nation’s electricity. The National Conference of State Legislatures says power from most large, utility-scaled solar installations still costs about 35 percent more than electricity from natural gas plants; many other experts estimate the levelized cost is even higher.”
U.S. Energy Information Administration reports that the United States is producing less electricity now than it did when Obama took office even with the inclusion of wind energy.
From 2008 to 2012, U.S. electricity production declined by 1.7 percent. That’s what happens when Environmental Protection Agency regulations force coal mines to close along with coal-fired plants that previously produced 50 percent of the nation’s electricity.
Suffice to say, Obama is the enemy of fossil fuel production and the energy it provides for electricity production and our transportation needs. That makes him the enemy of the American people.
In February, the National Review had an article, “Europe’s Green Collapse”, by Stephen Moore in which he noted that “Not long ago nearly all the nations of Europe bought into this same dream of a green energy free lunch as they legislated tens of billions of dollars in subsidies for solar and wind power while directly and indirectly taxing and capping carbon-based energy.”
That policy was set in motion by the United Nations Kyoto treaty in 1997. It was based on the global warming hoax that called for a reduction in so-called “greenhouse gas” emissions. The U.S. did not sign onto the treaty and Canada withdrew from it in 2012.
The Earth, however, has been in a natural cooling cycle for going on seventeen years, the result not of any manmade gases, but because of the Sun has been producing lower levels of solar radiation. The hoax is based largely on the utterly false claim that carbon dioxide warms the Earth when, in fact, it plays virtually no role whatever in the Earth’s climate. The Earth is likely to remain cooler for decades.
That fact has been brutally clear in Europe where the cold has been comparable to the temperatures the U.S. has been encountering. Moore reported that “In January Brussels announced with little media fanfare that the European Union is ditching their renewable-energy standards.” It is a matter of economic survival for Europe.
What is astonishing is the way both the U.S. and Europe adopted renewable energy production because it is unpredictable and mindlessly expensive. A major factor why the global warming hoax is collapsing, it has cost everyone here and in Europe billions in loans and subsidies. Both solar and wind require a backup from traditional power sources that utilize coal, oil and natural gas.
“Thanks to about $33 billion a year in government subsidies, Germany currently gets 25 percent of its electricity from wind and solar power, and that is scheduled to rise 40 to 45 percent by 2025.” Watch Germany abandon its plans. “The EU admits that the cost of electric power in member nations is often 50 to 100 percent higher than in the U.S,” noted Moore. “Manufacturers are starting to move plants out of the EU and even to, of all places, the U.S.”
“Here is a textbook case of how centralized industrial planning—or ‘government investment’ as we now say—usually leads to catastrophically wrong bets.” In the U.S. it began in the 1970s when President Carter spent billions on renewable energy and projects like the Synthetic Fuels Corporation, a predecessor of Solyndra and other companies that went bankrupt shortly after receiving loans during the Obama administration’s first term in office.
Under Obama’s “stimulus” program, 83 percent of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Acts Section 1705 loans went to solar energy projects with wind receiving 11 percent of the funds.
“What saved the U.S. economy from replicating the Euro-industrial malaise was the entirely spontaneous oil-and-gas boom driven by technology and billions in investment by wildcat entrepreneurs…” That’s called capitalism. The sooner we get the U.S. government out of “investing” in such nonsense, the better.
As with everything else Obama has to say, his advocacy of renewable energy, like Carter’s, has proven to be a massive, costly failure.
© Alan Caruba, 2014
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News..................
Mh370 .... some more war and logic .... israel and an iranian bomb ....
Facebook Knows Your Face Better Than You Do
Islamist Terror Challenge Continues in Britain
Florida: Another Trayvon, another shooting death but this time...
Endemic Corruption: The Ukraine Is Ex-Soviet, But What Excuse Do Black American Politicians Have?
Sick Bastards: Abortion Group Offers Coat Hanger Pendant for $10 Donation
Notre Dame to host pro-abortion Catholic mayor for event on ‘civic engagement’
Who's being unreasonable? Opposing view
Chinese Police University Trains Beijing Hackers
Rieder: Team Obama needs to let the sunshine in
HEY PEEDRO, EL FAST LANE NO ES PARA YOUSTED!
Florida (Yes, Florida) DOT Purchases Snow Plows, Salt, Spreaders
Michelle China Tour Heavy on Sightseeing
Don’t Give Away the Net
Internet Control in an Anti-Free Speech World
Al Qaeda-Iraq infiltrates Golan as well as Sinai, plots twin attacks
Report: 88 Aircraft Have Disappeared Worldwide Since 1948
Is Obama Putin's Bitch?...from TPC
Liberals wanted to elect a man President who had no foreign policy experience (together with all of his other leadership shortcomings) and whatever it was that he thought he knew about it was 100% wrong!
The result is a Russian takeover of Crimea and whatever else it is that Putin decides to do next!
The Weapon BHO is Aiming at Israel is Not Loaded........................from Dan Friedman
[The next time you see Obama or Kerry tell them thanks, but no thanks, the Jews will manage our country just fine without you. df]
Commentary, 03.19.2014
Wednesday, 19 March 2014
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370: A Certain Hijacking or a Riddle for the Ages?
Trifecta looks at the mysterious disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. Bill Whittle lends his unique perspective as a pilot, and concludes that this Boeing 777 mystery was a certain hijacking. Is Whittle correct, or is Flight 370 a puzzle that will never be solved?
Late News.................
Hump Day
Clarissa Dickson-Wright, Tony Benn And Bob Crow - A Rose Between Two Thorns
What Vladimir Putin is Up To
Green groups pressure Obama to reject LNG export expansion
Maine Man's 'Gun' Turns Out to Be a Tattoo
EagleSpeak: A Panel to Examine the Littoral Combat Ship
CDR Salamander: 3rd Order Effects from Crimea Start to Form ... Your Silver Lining
The Big Story — the Global War — Goes Mostly Unreported
Ann Coulter: “We Lose Everything If We Lose Immigration”
TEA PARTY CANDIDATE Wins Write-In Race for PA Senate Seat
3 Men Told Of Obama’s Manchurian Presidency In Advance, Part 3
Video || Barack Obama, Pied Piper No More
Fact Checking Vladimir Putin’s speech on Crimea
Pub Bans Guns, Refers to Those Who Carry as 'Douchebags'
The Not-So-Mysterious Disappearance of News about Malaysian Flight 370
Putin and Obama Singing from the same Choir Book
Is Taiwan’s Military Becoming Too Small to Fight?
Kenyan police park car bomb outside offices after missing explosives
Patriot buys only made-in-France products for 10 months
Cops seek for serial urinator; sneaks up on women and pees on them
What I Learned on My First Trip to Israel..........................from Dan Friedman
[Sick. But not unusual. df]
"Israel Trek is made possible by the generous contributions of a number of family foundations and Boston’s Combined Jewish Philanthropies."
Ben Yellen: Blather from the Ivory Tower...from TPC
Janet Yellen spoke to the economy and the Fed's decision-making process.
Our opinion is that she is merely throwing s--t against the wall hoping that it sticks!
Read more at The Political Commentator here.
The Path to War
By Alan Caruba
Having lived through the long Cold War with the former Soviet Union, including the Cuban Missile crisis, my thoughts over those years were that their leaders would not risk war because the outcome would be disastrous for Russia. When it collapsed in 1991, its Eastern Europe satellite states broke free to establish their independence.
Now Vladimir Putin wants them back. The West can be forgiven for abandoning Crimea to the Russians because it was a part of their nation for hundreds of years and they have good reason to want to retain its only warm water ports there. That does not, however, give them a claim on the rest of the Ukraine. It is massing troops along its borders.
Historically, the path to war is often strewn with a failure to respond to aggression or with an over-response.
In the last century, the U.S. resisted involvement in European wars until it was under attack in some fashion. We entered World War Two that had been occurring since 1938 when Germany attacked Poland when we were attacked by the Japanese Empire and we resisted getting into World War One for most of it until the very end. Begun in 1914, the U.S. did not enter until 1917 in response to submarine attacks and diplomatic efforts to encourage Mexico to reclaim its former territories. It was concluded in 1918, mostly because Germany had exhausted its resources by then. Barely twenty years later Hitler began World War Two.
Obama keeps talking about the 19th century and international laws, but Russia and other enemies only understand the use of power to secure their expansionist ambitions. Vladimir Putin, now enjoying a renewed popularity at home may conclude he can seize the Ukraine with minimum effort and resistance.
He has reason to believe this given the feeble response of the U.S. and Europe to date. Some relatively minor sanctions have been announced and others are being considered. At this writing those sanctions involve seven Russians and four Ukrainians. There has been no U.S. military aid to Ukraine and only some minor transfers to military assets to Poland.
For Putin, the judgment rests on Obama’s weakness and whether he and Congress would respond more forcefully. He has little reason to believe this given Obama’s withdrawal from Iraq and the U.S. withdrawal occurring in Afghanistan. Add Obama’s continued reduction of the U.S. military budget and its level of power and you have the kind of calculations that can lead to more aggressive action by Russia.
World War One saw the end of several empires such as the Austrian-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire. It launched modern warfare with the introduction of new, more lethal weapons and innovations such as aerial warfare. It began on June 28, 1914 with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Serbia. By August, Germany declared war on Russia, France, and Belgium on August 2-4 and on August 19th the U.S. announced its neutrality.
Neither the U.S., nor Europe wants to engage Russia militarily, but neither has either to date demonstrated any intention to protect the Ukraine or other nations that border Russia. That failure has enormous implications and must be reversed with action that includes the transfer of NATO troops and other actions demonstrating the will to resist.
Obama keeps referring to the “international community” but in the real world all nations act to protect themselves despite organizations such as the United Nations, NATO and treaties that promise mutual aid and protection.
Putin knows this even if Obama and his advisors do not. Obama’s actions at home have weakened the U.S. by virtue of our enormous, historic debt and, as noted, his constant reductions to our military strength.
Strong financial sanctions against Russia may give Putin cause to reconsider, but we cannot wait much longer for their implementation. This is complicated by Europe’s and our own financial investments in what was seen as a new Russia.
Europe’s dependence on energy provided by Russia adds to its reluctance. Craig Rucker, the executive director of the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) notes that “The radical eco-left has gained such powerful sway across Europe that they have cut their nations off from their most reliable domestic sources of energy.”
“The feel-good cover story is laden with pictures of windmills and solar panels, but the hard facts remain that these expensive and inefficient sources of energy are not up to the task of powering a continent. That leaves much of Europe dependent on Gasprom, Russia’s natural gas export company and pipelines through the Ukraine.”
Overall, however, Russia is regarded to have a weak economy and a reliance on Western capital markets. That might be sufficient to forestall any action regarding the Ukraine.
With Putin in charge, we are looking at a former Russia, the Soviet model.
So the world watches as the U.S., its European allies, and Russia close in on a repeat of the last century’s history with the added threat of nuclear arms capable of destroying entire nations.
© Alan Caruba, 2014
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