Russians drop another Climategate bombshell Clarice Feldman- American Thinker Icecap drops this bombshell from Russia's Rionovosta: On Tuesday, the Moscow-based Institute of Economic Analysis (IEA) issued a report claiming that the Hadley Center for Climate Change based at the headquarters of the British Meteorological Office in Exeter (Devon, England) had probably tampered with Russian-climate data. The IEA believes that Russian meteorological-station data did not substantiate the anthropogenic global-warming theory. Analysts say Russian meteorological stations cover most of the country's territory, and that the Hadley Center had used data submitted by only 25% of such stations in its reports. Over 40% of Russian territory was not included in global-temperature calculations for some other reasons, rather than the lack of meteorological stations and observations. The data of stations located in areas not listed in the Hadley Climate Research Unit Temperature UK (HadCRUT) survey often does not show any substantial warming in the late 20th century and the early 21st century. The HadCRUT database includes specific stations providing incomplete data and highlighting the global-warming process, rather than stations facilitating uninterrupted observations. h/t:: UK Telegraph

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President Obama, surrounded by Senate Democratic leaders, said today "we are on the precipice" of major health care changes, though "there are still some differences that have to be worked on." "They are waiting for us to act," Obama said. "They are counting on us to show leadership. ... There's too much at stake for families who can't pay their medical bills or see a doctor when they need to or get the treatment they need."     Senate Democrats are struggling to find the 60 votes they...

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Karl Marx invented such a model that purported to explain all of history. It was a cruel sham and an excuse for the most breathtaking cruelty in the history of the human race. Now largely abandoned, except on the campuses of universities, it promised salvation and delivered death and suffering. Adolf Hitler, borrowing largely from the vicious racist doctrines of the superiority of the Nordic races, promised a beautiful super race and a super future. He delivered mass murder and war.

"I do not support proposals that would replace the public option in the bill with a purely private approach." (Source: IBD 12/10, 2009, No Option)

• Limited government
• Strong Defense
• Lower Taxes
• Pro-Life
• Free Market
• Entitlement/Spending Reform (ban earmarks!)

     Well, that's enough for now. There are others that are far more qualified to comment on this "deal." I just keep praying that, in the end, conservatism takes the day.

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama outlined new multibillion-dollar stimulus and jobs proposals Tuesday, saying the nation must continue to "spend our way out of this recession" until more Americans are back at work. Without giving a price tag, Obama proposed a package of new spending for highway, bridge and other infrastructure projects, deeper tax breaks for small businesses and tax incentives to encourage people to make their homes more energy efficient. "We avoided the depression many feared," Obama said in a speech at the Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank. But, he added, "Our work is far from done."

Nearly $6 million in stimulus money was paid to two firms run by Mark Penn, Hillary Clinton’s pollster in 2008. Federal records show that $5.97 million from the $787 billion stimulus helped preserve three jobs at Burson-Marsteller, the global public-relations and communications firm headed by Penn.

Oceanside voters last night overwhelmingly rejected a unionbacked attempt to recall Councilman Jerry Kern. "I feel pretty good," Kern said during early returns. "I think the citizens of Oceanside realized what the issues were and voted the right way." The absentee ballot count was 10,832 -- 63.2 percent -- to reject the recall and 6,299 -- 36.8 -- to support it. Those percentages held throughout the night as votes from precincts were tallied. This was the third council recall election in Oceanside since 1981. That year, Bill Bell and Ray Burgess were recalled. In 1991, Melba Bishop remained on the council. Since 1981, the only other city council recall elections in the county occurred in San Marcos in 1981, when three council members retained their seats, and in San Diego in 1991, when 5th District Councilwoman Linda Bernhardt was ousted. Kern, 57, is a first-term councilman who is up for re-election in November. "With this mandate of the electorate I will continue to work on behalf of the Oceanside taxpayers to contain our costs while providing the maximum services during these challenging economic times," Kern said in a statement last night. "Part of this balancing act includes containment of our employee benefits so that the UNOFFICIAL RESULTS (60 of 60 precincts reporting) Should Council- If he was reman Jerry Kern called, who be recalled should replace from office? him? Yes -- 8,611 Rick Kratcoski (36.8 percent) -- 1,698 No -- 14,803 Chuck Lowery (63.2 percent) -- 9,107 Rex Martin -- 4,261 taxpayer doesn't end up footing the bill. ..." Kern was targeted by a coalition of residents and public-safety employees who view him as favoring development over neighborhood interests. The Oceanside Firefighters Association sponsored a political action committee, Citizens to Recall Kern for Fair & Balanced Government, which raised more than $200,000 as of yesterday. Their effort was funded by the firefighter and police unions, a union representing hotel and restaurant workers, and the San Diego-Imperial Counties Labor Council. GroupssupportingKernraised $180,000 on his behalf, according to documents filed with the city. The firefighters union complained that Kern voted with council colleagues Jack Feller and Rocky Chavez to cut the Fire Department's budget, slashing the department by two captains and a battalion chief. They also said he and Chavez met with a private firm to explore outsourcing the city's ambulance service, and that could endanger the public. Kern countered that the union money spent on ousting him showed that employee benefits, not public safety, were the issue. He characterized the recall as a "union power grab." Kern said his and Chavez's meeting with a private ambulance was informational and nothing came of it. He defended his votes to slash the public safety budgets, saying the council had to cut $7 million from the budget, reducing it to $116 million, and it was impossible to spare the police and fire departments in that deep a cut. Residents said his actions jeopardized rent control in the city's mobile-home parks, and his support of a concrete plant to be built near Loma Alta Creek showed he didn't care about neighborhoods. Kern, Feller and Chavez voted to approve the concrete plant, but the developer never built it, apparently because of the weakening economy. Kern said the concrete plant would have had adequate environmental protections. Yesterday's vote culminated three months of campaigning that began July 24, when the registrar verified that groups had gathered 11,389 signatures of Oceanside voters, qualifying the recall for the ballot. The recall vote cost Oceanside about $500,000. Oceanside City Clerk Barbara Riegel Wayne said turnout at Oceanside's polling places was light early in the day, but noted that 17,300 of 34,000 mail-in absentee ballots were turned in, including some turned in yesterday, which she said was a good response. After polls closed at 8 p.m. ballots were taken to the Oceanside council chambers to be counted. Rick Kratcoski, 54, Chuck Lowery, 58, and Rex Martin, 58, were on the ballot to replace Kern if residents had approved the recall.

"Launched hastily under the last administration, the TARP program was flawed, and we have worked hard to correct those flaws and manage it properly," Obama said.

"[T]hese budget busting tax cuts and spending programs were approved by many of the same people who are now waxing political about fiscal responsibility while opposing our efforts to reduce deficits by getting health care costs under control," Obama said.

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Climategate: it's all unravelling now

 By James Delingpole Politics Last updated: December 2nd, 2009

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So many new developments: which story do we pick? Maybe best to summarise, instead. After all, it’s not like you’re going to find much of this reported in the MSM.

1. Australia’s Senate rejects Emissions Trading Scheme for a second time. Or: so turkeys don’t vote Christmas. Expect to see a lot more of this: politicians starting to become aware their party’s position on AGW is completely out of kilter with the public mood and economic reality. Kevin Rudd’s Emissions Trading Scheme – what Andrew Bolt calls “a $114 billion green tax on everything” – would have wreaked havoc on the coal-dependent Australian economy. That’s why several opposition Liberal frontbenchers resigned rather than vote with the Government on ETS; why Liberal leader Malcolm Turnbull lost his job; and why the Senate voted down the ETS.

2. Danes caught fiddling their carbon credits. (Hat tip: Philip Stott) Carbon trading is the Emperor’s New Clothes of international finance. It was invented by none other than Ken Lay, whose Enron would currently be one of the prime beneficiaries in the global alternative energy market, if it hadn’t been shown to be (nearly) as fraudulent as the current AGW scam. It is a licence to fleece, cheat and rob. Still, jolly embarrassing for the Danes to get caught red handed, what with their hosting a conference shortly in which the world’s leaders will try, straight-faced, to persuade us that carbon emissions trading is the only viable way of defeating ManBearPig.

3. Hats off to The Daily Express – the first British newspaper to make the AGW scam its front page story.

The piece was inspired by another bravura performance by Professor Ian Plimer, the Aussie geologist who argues that climate change has been going on quite naturally, oblivious of human activity, for the last 4,567 million years.

4. BBC finally gets round to reporting – sort of – that Climatic Research Unit at University of East Anglia may have been up to no good. It’s true that this report on their website is so hedged with special pleading for the temporarily suspended director Phil Jones the man might have written it himself. But on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme this morning, I did hear the newsreader reporting it as more than just a routine theft story. Which is a start.

5. Legal actions ahoy! Over the next few weeks, one thing we can be absolutely certain of is concerted efforts by the rich, powerful and influential AGW lobby to squash the Climategate story. We’ve seen this already in the “nothing to see here” response of Dr Rajendra Pachauri, the jet-setting, troll-impersonating railway engineer who runs the IPCC and wants to stop ice being served with water in restaurants. This is why those of us who oppose his scheme to carbon-tax the global economy back to the dark ages must do everything in our power to bring the scandal to a wider audience. One way to do this is law suits.

At Ian Plimer’s lunch talk yesterday, Viscount Monckton talked of at least two in the offing – both by scientists, one British, one Canadian, who intend to pursue the CRU for criminal fraud. Their case, quite simply, is that the scientists implicated in Climategate have gained funding and career advancement by twisting data, hiding evidence, and shutting out dissenters by corrupting the peer-review process. More news on this, as I hear it.

Lord Monckton has written an indispensible summary of the Climategate revelations so far.

6. Watch out Green Dave! The Independent reports on the growing backlash within the party to Cameron’s libtard-wooing greenery. Turning to the Independent for a balanced report on environmental matters is a bit like consulting Der Sturmer for a sensible, insightful view on the Jewish question. Still, for once, the house journal of eco-loonery seems to have got it right and the point made by Tory backbencher David Davis is well made:

“The ferocious determination to impose hair-shirt policies on the public – taxes on holiday flights, or covering our beautiful countryside with wind turbines that look like props from War of the Worlds – is bound to cause a reaction in any democratic country.”

George Washington's 1789 Thanksgiving Proclamation Whereas it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favor; and Whereas both Houses of Congress have, by their joint committee, requested me to "recommend to the people of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer, to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many and signal favors of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness:" Now, therefore, I do recommend and assign Thursday, the 26th day of November next, to be devoted by the people of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being who is the beneficent author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be; that we may then all unite in rendering unto Him our sincere and humble thanks for His kind care and protection of the people of this country previous to their becoming a nation; for the signal and manifold mercies and the favorable interpositions of His providence in the course and conclusion of the late war; for the great degree of tranquility, union, and plenty which we have since enjoyed; for the peaceable and rational manner in which we have been enable to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national one now lately instituted for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed, and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge; and, in general, for all the great and various favors which He has been pleased to confer upon us. And also that we may then unite in most humbly offering our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations and beseech Him to pardon our national and other transgressions; to enable us all, whether in public or private stations, to perform our several and relative duties properly and punctually; to render our National Government a blessing to all the people by constantly being a Government of wise, just, and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed; to protect and guide all sovereigns and nations (especially such as have shown kindness to us), and to bless them with good governments, peace, and concord; to promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the increase of science among them and us; and, generally to grant unto all mankind such a degree of temporal prosperity as He alone knows to be best. Given under my hand, at the city of New York, the 3d day of October, A.D. 1789. You have received this email because you are subscribed to Founder's Quote Daily, a service of The Patriot Post, the conservative journal of record. To subscribe, link to http://patriotpost.us/subscribe/. To manage your subscription or to unsubscribe, link to http://patriotpost.us/manage/ and log in with your email address.