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I can only scan the original article quickly tonight, but my first reading did not find anything about the failure of US job growth over the last ten years and the stagnation (or falling) personal/family income with respect to the real cost of living. Unless that improves, no other measure of economic recovery matters.
I did like the idea of a skills-based immigration policy. First condition of these immigrants would be for them to buy a house in the US for cash & live in it for a period of time, kind of like homesteading.
President Obama thinks he deserves a "good, solid B-plus" for his first year effort as leader of the free world. No doubt, Democratic congressional leaders would offer themselves the same wild grade inflation for their stewardship of the people's business.
Mostly, however, last year's Congress will be remembered for two efforts that will damage the economy for years to come: government health care "reform" and the $787 billion stimulus plan.
The twin disasters of government health care "reform" and the "stimulus" tend to blot out some of the other sins of last year's congressional session, but here are 11 more reasons to remember this Congress less than fondly:
Failing to protect the public from terrorism by punting the reauthorization of the Patriot Act until next year. Gee...did that send a message, I wonder?
Boosting funds for international "family planning" (i.e. lots of abortions) by $100 million after President Obama rescinded the Mexico City Policy.
Hurting D.C. children by suffocating the District's Voucher program, which is slowly dying as no more students are allowed to join. and so on
This Congress will go down in history for the damage it has done to America with wild deficit spending and the takeover of one seventh of the U.S. economy. Unless and until the Democratic majority is overthrown, these disastrous policies will prove to be only the beginning of the perfidy on Capitol Hill. The Washington Times has another devoted to The One.
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I just realized why Barry gave himself a B+. That was, probably, the lowest possible grade he could have gotten at Ha'va'd.
As I said yesterday, one of our jobs this year is to wipe the complacent smiles off the smug faces of the lobbyists, "experts", "scientists", politicians and activists pushing AGW.
This is why I am so glad to report that Michael Mann -- creator of the incredible Hockey Stick curve and one of the scientists most heavily implicated in the Climategate scandal -- is about to get a very nasty shock. When he turns up to work on Monday, he'll find that all 27 of his colleagues at the Earth System Science Center at Penn State University have received a rather tempting email inviting them to blow the whistle on anyone they know who may have been fraudulently misusing federal grant funds for climate research.
Under US law, regardless of whether or not a prosecution results, the whistleblower stands to make very large sums of money: it is based on a percentage of the total government funds which have been misused, in this case perhaps as much as $50 million. (Hat tip: John O'Sullivan of the wonderful new campaigning site www.climategate.com)
Here's that email in full:
Hi,
Greetings and best wishes for a prosperous New Year.
National Search
After the recent whistleblower revelations of emails between climate researchers and data from the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit, there are on-going investigations into potential fraudulent use of grant funds in Climate Research in the US. I am assisting interested parties who may have details of fraud in climate research to make contact with the proper authorities, and to share in the rewards paid when the funds are recovered.
Whistleblower Rewards Program
The federal government has established vigorous programs to identify and prosecute fraudulent grant applications and administration. The US Department of Justice (DOJ) administers the False Claims Act. It allows rewards for those who come forward with details of grant fraud to share in the recovery of federal funds. This reward can be as much as 30% of the total amount reclaimed. The program is almost completely reliant on insiders to report their knowledge of the fraud in their institutions.
Attorney Literally "Wrote the Book" on Fraud Recovery Lawsuits
Joel Hesch, Esq., of Hesch and Associates, literally wrote the book on how to report federal fraud. He has an extensive background in representing whistleblowers in all types of federal funding fraud cases, including Educational/ Research Grant Fraud. According to Mr Hesch: "Many institutions receive grants, whether for research or educational purposes. When they lie to get the grant or keep the grant or if they use the funds for purposes outside the grant, they are liable under the DOJ program. There have been many grant cases brought by whistleblowers. "
If you know of anyone who might have details about fraudulent statements or actions by recipients of federal grant funds for climate research, please have them contact me immediately at the below email or cell phone. Alternatively, they may also contact Mr Hersch directly, and let him know that they were referred by me. All communications are completely confidential. They may want to consider using a third party email service (Yahoo, Hotmail, or other) instead of work email to communicate.
30% of $50 million is more than $12 million. Ask your friends to do the right thing, and be rewarded for doing it.
Our country, and in fact, the entire world is counting on someone to stand up and tell the truth about climate research. The effects of moving forward with taxes and policies based on fraudulent science could potentially cripple the US economy and cost lives and jobs for generations.
Look forward to hearing from you.
All the best
Kent Clizbe
Happy New Year, Climategaters.
Posted by: Steve White ||
01/04/2010 00:00 ||
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How much of the 30% does the lawyer get? Come on, he's not sending this email out of altruism, he's doing it to get money, just like any attorney.
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It's not going to help. It's just some ambulance chaser trying to make a buck. Calling this "bad news" for the bad guys is just wishful thinking. Anyone who blew the whistle on warmist fraud wouldn't do it for the money...what's a lawyer's motivation?
The same as the lawyers who advertise constantly on television trolling for participants that have used some drug or product that has been recalled or those that do Social Security disability claims for those denied. They get to add their 'costs' to the final bill. Sic a dog on a dog. Works for me. Time to feed a new breed of lawyer that follows grant monies.
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If it is like the IRS whistleblower program, the reward is based on the amount the govt recovers, not on the total fraud.
Given that federally funded research is mostly a reimbursement program (that is, you do work, submit a voucher and, it the voucher is approved you get a payment) I don't see how the reward will be much at all.
The lawyer may doing this for the publicity.
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Whatever the lawyer's reasons, it is funny as hell.
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Personally, I think the man peaked with Miami Vice and Last of the Mohicans; it's been all downhill since then.
Oh, wait, not that Michael Mann.
Never mind....
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This will certainly bring home to Professor Mann's colleagues that theirs is no longer a privileged and protected position. Even if nobody responds to the lawyer directly, they are certainly going to be checking their files and lab notebooks to see how badly they exposed to similar letters about their own work.
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Wehell, IMO the top Two most realistic or pragmatic events which can occur under OWG-NWO
"CATASTROPHISM/APOLCALYPTISM" are,
To wit,
* [1990's RUSSIAN-discovered] VARIOUS SPACE ROCKS
versus
* SOLAR EXPANSION, as due to MSM-NET + XPert- verified LACK OF SUNSPOTS, i.e. REDUCED OR FAILED LT ABILITY OF THE SUN AS A "NATURAL ENGINEEERING/PHYSIC SYSTEM" TO SAFELY RELEASE VARIOUS INTERNAL ENERGIES.
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Global Warming (or Global Cooling) or any other trendy "man caused" disaster is simply a way to expedite moving vast sums of money from rich nations to poorer nations. This is one big re-distribution scheme bent on creating a one world socialistic state. (e.g. all the adulation at Hugo " ration electricity" Chavez's comments on socialism during Hopenhagen.
No one really believes this hype but are religious zealots when it comes to socialism.
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A Third would be US-World Nations = desired future OWG-NWO making serious scientific
"miscalculation" in efforts to deflect COMET APOPHIS, induc same to slam into the MOON which in turn causes same or large fragments therefrom to strike the Earth.
EARLY TEST FOR DESIRED OWG-NWO = "GLOBALISM" WHICH NO AMERICAN = AMERIKAN, USSA = USR, HAS YET TO VOTE ON, and AS REAL + DANGEROUS AS ANY SPACE-BASED, NATURAL OR HUMAN EVENT CAN BE!
PAN-HUMAN GLOBAT EVENT-TESTS FOR [alleged]DESIRED GLOBAL GOVT.!
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Mostly, however, last year's Congress will be remembered for two efforts that will damage the economy for years to come: government health care "reform" and the $787 billion stimulus plan.
As I said yesterday, one of our jobs this year is to wipe the complacent smiles off the smug faces of the lobbyists, "experts", "scientists", politicians and activists pushing AGW.
