[GUARDIAN.CO.UK] Al Gore has called on Barack Obama to veto the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, describing it as "an atrocity".
The former vice-president said in an interview on Friday that he hoped Obama would follow the example of British Columbia, which last week rejected a similar pipeline project, and shut down the Keystone XL.
"I certainly hope that he will veto that now that the Canadians have publicly concluded that it is not safe to take a pipeline across British Columbia to ports on the Pacific," he told the Guardian. "I really can't imagine that our country would say: 'Oh well. Take it right over parts of the Ogallala aquifer', our largest and most important source of ground water in the US. It's really a losing proposition."
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Yeah, but the Ogallala aquifer is under South Dakota, Nebraska, Wyoming, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas. Red states. He seems to be saying that the risk of contaminated water in Jesusland would be a bad thing. Next week: Al Gore gets audited by the IRS.
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Pipelines are the safest and most cost effective method of moving materials. In the absence of honest work or political successes, Gore has been taken ecological fear mongering to entirely new levels. Too bad we cannot seem to focus his obvious money making abilities on lowering the national debt or creating jobs.
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Keystone is useful in that it helps seperate out the true 'honest' environmentalists from the partisan and communist shills using environmentalism as a cudgal against the West.
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They think South Dakota has a Canadian Border don't they?
Never know what North Dakota's plans are........
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So don't approve the pipeline, the BNSF is happy to rail the oil wherever desired. Better prices where the pipelines don't go; supply and demand. Wait till a tank car leaks derails etc; pipelines are safer.
[MEDIAITE] South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham ... the endangered South Carolina RINO... joined the growing chorus of Sunday show pundits harshly criticizing President B.O.'s Syria strategy, telling Meet the Press' David Gregory that he was having difficulty even locating Obama's foreign policy.
"It seems to me 'not being Bush' is our foreign policy," Graham said. "The goal should be to basically make sure Assad leaves. Last year, Assad was isolated, he had very few friends, he was hanging by a thread. This year he's entrenched with Hezbollah, Iran, and Russia, stronger behind him than ever. I think our goal should be, in the short term, to balance the military power, and providing small arms won't do it. So we need to create a no-fly zone to neutralize Assad's airpower."
"Syria has become a powder keg for the region," Graham said. "Our policies are not working, and AK-47s will not neutralize the advantage Assad has over the rebels."
"I say a political solution is the only way you solve this and Assad must go to get a political solution," Graham said. "No rebel group's going to partition Syria with Assad still in power. So, yes, he has to go. Then you find a political solution. But if the war lasts six more months, Jordan's going to go and Israel's going to be surrounded by Syria on fire...The whole region's about to blow up and our foreign policy, to me, I don't understand it. Whatever it is, it's not working."
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"It Seems Not Being Bush Is Our Foreign Policy" Not so much anymore Grahamsy. "It Seems Incompetence and Corruption Is Our Foreign Policy>"
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Graham and McCain are both tools. They are very cavalier in their commitment of US blood and treasure to adventures that have no positive outcome for the US. Both should be thrown out of the Senate.
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Agree with that. There is no good end to the Syrian conflict. The rebels include many AQ--an enemy. Assad is supported by Russia, Iran, and China. There is a danger of our military getting drawn into a third war in this part of the world. Our military has been at war for more than 10 years.
[POLITICKER] Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano weighed in on the NSA intelligence leaks on Friday, telling NY1 that fears over government surveillance were overblown. "Tut tut. Nothing to worry about. Trust me on that."
"I think people have gotten the idea that there's an Orwellian state out there that somehow we're operating in. That's far from the case," she told Errol Louis during an appearance on Road to City Hall. "And tut. We don't have the technology for true Orwellianism."
Despite civil liberties advocates' fears that monitoring efforts have gone too far, "there are lots of protections built into the system," Ms. Napolitano said, pointing to a privacy office embedded in her own department that is "constantly reviewing our policies and procedures." She further stressed the court review system. "No one should believe that we are simply going willy-nilly and using any kind of data that we can gather."
Still, she acknowledged the federal government hasn't done the best job of keeping the public informed about how it is treating the enormous amounts of personal information that could potentially be used in intelligence gathering.
"I think we need to do a better job of explaining to the American people exactly what is kept, what are the real restrictions on how--I'm just talking now for DHS, Department of Homeland Security--how we use it, how long we can keep it, how we share it, all those thing," she explained.
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This from the Department Head that recently:
The Department of Homeland Security approved two more $450 million contracts for more weapons and ammo recently.
the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) posted details of a no bid contract with weapons manufacturer Sig Sauer, worth $4.5 million over the next five years.
The contract is identical to the one DHS announced last week with Heckler & Koch.
Both contracts are for $900,000 worth of replacement parts a year, for weapons used by DHS agents.
While it is hard to imagine how or why a domestic agency could anticipate firing their weapons enough over the next five years to need $1.8 million annually in replacement parts, the DHS documents clearly state their need to stock sufficient quantities of parts needed to fulfill the quantities of parts anticipated to be ordered.
In April 2012, DHS purchased $143,000 worth of submachine guns from Heckler & Koch.
Exactly what plans does the department of Homeland Security have for all this military stuff? Just look at their recent purchases:
2,717 Heavy-weapon configured armored vehicles
7,000 Real assault weapons
1.6 Billion rounds of ammunition
Me thinks the lady is into disinformation campaign.
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By my rough calculations, $4.5m would buy about 10,000 Sigs. An Operations and Maintenance [O&M] funding line of $900k per year for 10k Sigs is roughly $90.00 per weapon. I've never seen the pistol that needed $90.00 in repairs per year.
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I've never seen the pistol that needed $90.00 in repairs per year.
That's cause you've never worked contracts before. At least half of that is allowed for overhead and administration (0&A). Got to comply with all those Fed regulations and required filings. Those, in turn, limit or dictate the sources that the contractor can use to provide parts, lub, etc and distribution and storage. It's not like the contractor can simply go on line to find the lowest cost provider. No, no, Fed regs require compliance to a limited number of 'qualified' providers. The profit margin is in knowing who has greased the system the most efficient way.
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Range certification time is required and a weapon worthiness inspection by a qualified armorer is required before each event. If the inspections are quarterly, that's the $90/yr.
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Let's see if IRS sent any 501 applications to DHS of conservatives groups. Then if that's established ask Janet how many Muslim charities were sent to them. you know full well if it were the targeting of Muslims, Holder would instruct the FBI to conduct a vial rights investigation...and if Mueller was asked how many agents and who's the lead agent, he'd have it on the tip of his tongue.
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If anywhere needs Gun control and disarmament it's the state.
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"We are not an Orwellian state, and we'll hunt down and 'disappear' anyone who disagrees."
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Me thinks the lady is into disinformation campaign.
Yep. Her willingness to spin these types of yarns is her primary qualification for the job she holds today. She can sit and spout this kind of nonsense without batting an eye. They love her for that.
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Actually we aren't an Orwellian state as detailed in 1984 because if memory serves the state was very punishing towards the political class and pretty much left the prols alone to fornicate and do whatever.
We have the opposite of that and it is a damn site worse.
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Super computing is now a fact of life, world. Single core, dual core, quad core, forget it. Processors are now 12-core. Thats 12 high speed processors in one chip. Combined with fast memory and terrabyte hardrives, computers can tap into the worlds backbones and store or listen to the world chatter.
The new frontier. Its the new NASA of Micro-Space. The NSA geeks got drunk on super computer processing power and the Rulers got drunk on the potential of knowing everything about anyone of their subjects with one mouse click of the GUI.
The world will have to learn from this technological threat and adapt all thins accordingly.
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11 years after 9/11 the NSA geeks evolved computing power snooping in leaps and bounds. It speaks of American ingenuity coupled with out of control leftist shinanigans that the world is trying to get its mind around.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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[GUARDIAN.CO.UK] Al Gore has called on Barack Obama to veto the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, describing it as "an atrocity".
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[POLITICKER] Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano weighed in on the NSA intelligence leaks on Friday, telling NY1 that fears over government surveillance were overblown.
