Come visit us at our new web site: www.interestingitems.org Leave your thoughts, comments and opinions. We look forward to hearing from you. Interesting Items Alex Gimarc [email protected] Monday Nov 28, 2011 Howdy all, a few Interesting Items for your information. Enjoy – In this issue: 1. Climategate 2.0 2. Day Care 3. Stevens 4. Sole Source 5. NLRB 6. Belugas 1. Climategate 2.0. The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) insider at the University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit (CRU) released another 5,200 e-mails from the Hockey Stick Team last week. The e-mails document the inside baseball operations of the Team; document collusion between government paid climate scientists and the politicians that give them their grant funding, all intended to produce the correct results for the politicians. The e-mails document the collusion between the government funded climate scientists and friendly media. They even document attempts to use friendly media to publicly destroy skeptics. Along with the 5,200 e-mails is a 173 megabyte zip file with other 220,000 internal e-mails. This file is zipped with what appears to be 256-byte encryption, making it all but uncrackable with current computers. The releaser (now being referred to as FOIA) clearly has the key to unlock the archive and is retaining it for future use. Releasing the zip file to multiple servers makes its contents instantly available worldwide as soon as the key is made public. The Hockey Stick Team acknowledges in the e-mails that any set of random data fed into Michael Mann’s Hockey Stick algorithm will produce a graph that looks like Mann’s infamous Hockey Stick. Yet they never acknowledge that fact in public. The Team actively tries to remove editors of scientific journals who publish papers authored by skeptics. This batch of insider e-mails all date from around the same time frame as the initial release two years ago. They provide a more complete view of insider collusion and conspiracy to commit fraud upon the taxpaying public by this group of government funded liars. The entire manmade global warming operation is a fraud. It is orchestrated to provide governments the scientific underpinning so that they can use manmade global warming due to carbon dioxide emissions as an excuse to pass taxes, rules, regulations, and a thousand other ways to further the fascist aims of an overbearing, over large, national government. The best coverage of this is once again at Watts Up With That. Comments are over 1,200 at the time of this writing. Read and enjoy: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/11/22/climategate-2-0/#more-51549 2. Day Care. While newly elected Republican governors and legislatures nationwide have been fighting hard to roll back the ravages of public employee unions at the state level, newly elected democrats are busily pushing the other direction. One particularly pernicious technique has been to go after parents of handicappers and day care providers by forcing recipients of Medicare and Medicaid to be union members in order to receive the public moneys. This awful technique was first pioneered by former Michigan governor Jennifer Granholm (D). Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton (D) issued an executive order that calls for a vote by Minnesota day care workers to decide whether or not to unionize. The obvious kicker is that the only day care workers that are allowed to vote are those that are currently state licensed and subsidized. There are thousands of other day care people who are neither state licensed or subsidized. They will all be disenfranchised, not unlike military absentee ballots during presidential voting in recent elections. Expect this vote to ultimately benefit the SEIU, which will end up with yet another double lip lock into a stream of public money intended to take care of children, diverting it instead to union dues which then can be laundered into campaign donations to elect more democrats. Cool, huh? 3. Stevens. The (In)Justice Department “Public Integrity” prosecution team that convicted former Alaska Senator Ted Stevens has been investigated for prosecutorial misconduct for over two years. The prosecution withheld exculpatory evidence from the defense during the trial, denying Stevens the ability to defend himself. The (In)Justice special prosecutor investigating the corruption found that it did not rise to the level necessary to file criminal charges against members of the team. Apparently team members thought otherwise, as at least one member committed suicide rather than face the investigation. Most egregious was the government’s handling of former VECO head Bill Allen, whom Stevens was convicted of making false statements to prosecutors about gifts from Allen over the years. (Note to self: NEVER say ANYTHING to a federal prosecutor. Look up the names Ted Stevens, Scooter Libby and Martha Stewart for more information.) Allen was presented as the paragon of virtue. Yet he has allegations of underage sex and telling the young woman to lie about the activities to investigators. Allen also famously said that he would say anything in court to protect family members from federal prosecution (the feds routinely threaten family members with prosecution if the target does not cooperate. He did.) This would have undermined Allen’s credibility as an unbiased and responsible witness, so the feds hid the information from the defense team. Stevens did screw up on the stand, denying gifts that were received and was convicted largely on that point. The investigator found that the prosecutorial misconduct did not rise to the level of criminal contempt because it did not violate any specific judicial order during the trial. Apparently lying and cheating are just fine in federal court these days as long as the feds are doing it. This is incredibly corrupt and ought to be fixed before these self-appointed defenders of righteousness completely destroy the very thing they are claiming to defend. 4. Sole Source. The Obama administration continued to chase high paying American jobs overseas last week. The Air Force made a decision to disqualify Hawker-Beechcraft from bidding on a new light attack aircraft. The only other company bidding for the contract is Embraer, from Brazil (the Brazilian connection again), which very well may end up with a nearly one billion dollar sole source contract going overseas. No word yet about why Hawker-Beechcraft was bounced out of the competition. Congress is questioning the decision. There will be more on this later. 5. NLRB. The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is currently operating with three of five seats filled. Due to a court opinion last year, its quorum must include all three existing members to issue any new rules. Its members are currently one remaining Bush appointee and two Obama appointees, one of which is a recess appointee, whose term ends December 31. The Obama appointees are both union lawyers and have been spearheading the NLRB’s assault on small businesses, most recently with support for snap elections and micro unions. The snap elections, which specifically do not allow employers to present a case against unionizing to employees, are the next rule being fast tracked through the approval process. The senate has been unable and unwilling to approve appointees for the remaining two positions on the NLRB. Last week, the lone Republican appointee threatened to resign in protest, leaving the NLRB without its legal quorum. The union lawyers Obama appointed responded with one of the nastier letters back, blasting the lone Republican nine ways from Sunday. They also are making plans for handing off all their authority to the legal staff once they lose their quorum, creating a zombie, whirling on down the road to union peace without any input from anyone. The NLRB is badly broken. Legislation creating it should be repealed and it shut down. This assault on small and not so small businesses (Boeing) by the NLRB must stop. 6. Belugas. A federal judge tossed out a State of Alaska lawsuit aimed at overturning the federal listing of beluga whales in Cook Inlet as an endangered species. Judge Royce Lamberth’s ruling specifically noted that the overfishing of Cook Inlet belugas between 1994 – 1998 cut numbers of whales in half. He blasted native whalers for overfishing. He apparently missed that all subsistence whaling was conducted under the auspices and regulated by the National Marine Fisheries Service / US Fish and Wildlife Service – the very people who were shocked, simply shocked at finding the number of whales cut in half. The State of Alaska plans to appeal the ruling. More later - - AG "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams, speech at the Philadelphia State House, August 1, 1776. 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