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Brits Warn America of Obama’s Green Tyranny

Ben — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 07:04:00 +0000

Sharon Sebastian, FloydReports.com

Obama’s duplicity is renowned. Obama’s long-hyped “shovel ready jobs” to rebuild America’s infrastructure turned out to be a joke that elicited an on-camera chuckle from Obama. Obama’s latest ploy is to play “nice Boehner vs. bad Republicans,” as if John Boehner is a doofus. After publicly sweet talking Speaker Boehner for “doing his best,” he derides Boehner’s Republican caucus for adhering to the will of a 76 percent majority of Americans who do not want the debt ceiling raised. Obama ignores voters’ demands for major spending cuts – especially on bloated agencies like the EPA, DOE, and endless other government bureaucracies with costly overlapping functions. Obama talks “jobs” while implementing socialist policies that undercut job creation and damage people of all ages and colors. Obama prefers to call taxes “revenue.” He condescends, hoping Americans “don’t get” that in order to stimulate job growth, incentives through less taxes must be given to job creators. With all of his save America talk, Obama is quietly and quickly implementing policies that are catastrophic to this nation.

In a stealth move to bypass Congress, President Obama is resurrecting his Cap-and-Trade “green” agenda through harsh EPA regulations and fines that will be budget-busting for homes and businesses. Keenly aware of this egregious power grab and political corruption, presidential candidate Michele Bachmann is calling for the dissolution of the EPA.

Heed the British warning.

An ocean apart, Obama is hoping that the “green” devastation being faced by the British will escape notice. As Barack Obama makes claims of a better life and future for Americans, his administration is surreptitiously mounting mountains of regulations via executive order and the EPA that will kill jobs, crush the economy and impose fines on families failing to comply. As Obama presses hard-and-fast for his socialist, global-warming “green” initiatives to be forced on Americans, the Brits are bailing. Their economy is being savaged by their “politically correct” green policies based on fraudulent science. Brits are already making the choice between food or fuel as U.K. families face “fuel poverty.” The Brits are now speaking out and rebelling….

Obama’s “Pro-Business” Commerce Secretary is an Environmentalist, Supports Cap-and-Trade

Ben — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 12:47:06 +0000

Matt Cover, CNSNews.com

John Bryson, nominated by President Barack Obama today to head the Department of Commerce, once said it was “incredibly important” that the United States pass cap and trade legislation and that America needed to become a global leader in combating man-made global warming.

“I regard it as incredibly important that the United States comes forth in this year with federal climate change legislation as a foundation for moving ahead,” Bryson told the UN International Energy Conference in late August 2009. “I think we in the U.S. have an obligation to assist in significant ways in providing leadership in this community of nations that you represent and addressing energy and climate change.”

…Bryson, a co-founder of the liberal environmentalist group Natural Resources Defense Council, was most recently a member of the United Nations’ Advisory Group on Energy and Climate Change, a panel of scientific and industry experts tasked with providing advice on combating global warming.

(H/T: Doug Powers at MichelleMalkin.com.)

Obama Pushes for $8-a-Gallon Gas

Ben — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 11:38:21 +0000

The Washington Times

With oil prices surging above $100 a barrel yesterday, consumers are realizing they will be paying a heavy price at the pump for the unrest in the Middle East. A perfect storm of foreign and domestic policy choices by the Obama administration has paved the way for European-style energy prices to arrive on these shores. Far from being alarmed, President Obama sees the prospect of $8 a gallon gas as an opportunity.

When it comes to energy, the White House has sought to augment government controls to prevent the “long-term threat of climate change, which if left unchecked could result in violent conflict, terrible storms, shrinking coastlines and irreversible catastrophe,” in Mr. Obama‘s words. Making energy more expensive is exactly what the administration’s “cap and trade” scheme is meant to do. The theory is that pricier power will be used more frugally, which in turn will appease Mother Earth into blessing us with cooler weather. Mr. Obama expressed the same outlook in May when – with oil at $61 a barrel – he signed a memorandum dictating to automakers the kinds of cars they will be allowed to sell. At the time, Mr. Obama noted with trepidation, “The impetus for action would fade when gas prices started to go back down”…

It’s not possible for domestic production to relieve the pressure from international uncertainty. Mr. Obama and congressional Democrats have blocked drilling in places like Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, in millions of acres of federal lands and in offshore locations. Mr. Obama even took advantage of the BP oil disaster to shut down operations in the Gulf of Mexico. Mr. Obama points to the small amount of oil currently produced at home to conclude, “We can’t drill our way out of the problem.” That’s only a true statement as long as the current policies place 67 percent of America’s reserves off-limits.

Is Immelt Appointment Obama’s Pay-Off to Red China?

Ben — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 16:05:36 +0000

Kevin “Coach” Collins, CoachIsRight.com

On Friday Obama announced Jeffery Immelt the CEO of General Electric will head some kind of mumbo jumbo “board” that will magically create private sector jobs.

Obama’s steno pool (the media) dutifully reported this as a “gesture by the White House toward strengthening ties to business,” as if GE actually were “business” and not a coconspirator.

Why Immelt? Why GE?

During 2008/2009 GEPAC “donated” $2.4 million to Democrats greasing every greedy Democrat hand they could find to pass Cap and Trade. In August 2009 a leaked GE executive’s Email gleefully spouted: “On climate change we were able to work closely with key authors of the Waxman-Markey climate and energy bill, recently passed by the House of Representatives. If this bill is enacted into law it would benefit many GE businesses”…

Problems arise: problems solved

The failed Cap and Trade bill would have required the EPA to set new standards for greenhouse gas emissions for all engines used in new aircraft by December 12, 2012. And surprise, surprise GE is the ONLY company in America equipped to produce these engines in any meaningful quantities!

More than this, GE was handed a contract to sell 110,000 “smart meters” that will remotely “regulate” our use of electricity to American Electric Power. GE is building these “smart meters” with $75 million of our money.

Now with Cap and Trade dead Obama can use Executive Orders to see that General Electric can still build the EPA mandated engines, but do so in China. That way he can pay his “interest” to the Chinese and add a few jobs in America.

More Stealth Reparations: Obama Passes Van Jones' Indian Energy Plan

Ben — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 23:59:25 +0000

Ben Johnson, FloydReports.com

The Obama administration’s actions last week proved, although Green Jobs Czar Van Jones is gone, his ideology continues to guide the White House. Barack Obama called the leaders of American Indian tribes to Washington to witness him sign a UN treaty that, if followed literally, would return the entire continental United States to tribal control. He is not prepared to go that far, but he has made a down payment on the pledge by offering stealth reparations to the tribes in exactly the manner advocated by Van Jones.

Last Thursday, Obama held a summit with the tribal elders of 565 federally recognized American Indian tribes to sign the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People. The treaty stipulates, “Indigenous peoples have the right to the lands, territories and resources which they have traditionally owned, occupied or otherwise used or acquired.” In essence, the president signed away the entire country.

Even the few conservatives who paid attention to the treaty’s dangerous language missed a significant element of the pow wow. The Energy Department’s website announced “the establishment of an Office of Indian Energy Policy and Programs in order to more effectively engage tribal governments in our national energy priorities and promote tribal energy development.” Specifically, the office will fund “projects to improve energy efficiency and develop geothermal, solar, bio-mass and wind energy on tribal lands.”

Compare that with Van Jones’….

Video of the Day: Van Jones Admits Left is "Pretending" Need for Green Regulations

Ben — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 15:43:58 +0000

California: Disaster on (Almost) Every Front

Ben — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 19:29:54 +0000

Michael Reagan, Floyd Reports

California is broke — flat broke. Two of the reasons for the state’s desperate financial crisis are seeking yet another chance to completely wreck the state’s economy.

Jerry Brown, the aging boy-wonder of California politics, wants another chance to mess around with taxpayer money, much of which is seeking refuge in China, that new haven of fiscal freedom for all not currently locked in the nation’s concentration camps.

Then there’s Barbara Boxer, who lectured a combat veteran and top general on the niceties of discourse between a chairwoman and witness by instructing him to cease calling her “Ma’am” because she had labored mightily to reach her exalted state as a U.S. Senator. Now she wants a shot at continuing to be one for another six years.

Obama Rewards Companies Pushing His Energy Policy

Ben — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 10:10:36 +0000

National Center for Public Policy Research

On Thursday, policy experts from the National Center for Public Policy Research are calling attention to corporate special interest groups receiving stimulus money that also are lobbying for Obama’s energy policy.

“It’s alarming that many of the remaining corporate members of the United States Climate Action Partnership – a cap-and-trade lobbying group – such as General Electric, Duke Energy, NextEra Energy, Exelon, and Honeywell all received economic stimulus funds. It seems pushing Obama’s agenda has financial rewards. The coordinated effort between big government and big business threatens our free enterprise system,” said Tom Borelli, Ph.D., director of the National Center’s Free Enterprise Project.

General Electric seems to be a chief beneficiary of stimulus funds, with federal money being given to many of its businesses. As noted in a 2009 Wall Street Journal story, ‘General Electric Pursues Pot of Stimulus Gold,’ GE CEO Jeff Immelt geared up his lobbying army to exploit President Obama’s economic stimulus package.

Oil Spill: The Video Obama Doesn’t Want you to See

NewsEditor — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 17:47:15 +0000

By the Impeach Obama Campaign

The Obama administration has something to hide.

The Administration has now made it a felony crime for any reporter or photographer to get within view of any oil cleanup operations. Anyone caught is subject to “arrest, a 40,000 dollar fine, and prosecution for a federal felony crime.” In addition, the FAA has declared a no-fly zone over most of the Gulf, under the excuse of protecting oil workers.

This is the video that Obama doesn’t want you to see…

The video shows one of the last views of the Gulf Oil Spill before the FAA shut down the airspace.

Why is Obama trying to cover up this incredible devastation in the gulf?

Because Obama knows that his response to the spill has been nothing short of catastrophic.

Early on when Alabama wanted to buy snare booms to catch oil as it came up on the beaches, what did the Obama administration do?

They vetoed the plan saying it would endanger sea turtles that nest on the beaches.

When oil-sucking barges were being sent out to suck up oil, what did the Obama administration do?

They stopped the barges in order to make sure there were “fire extinguishers and life vests” on board.

Even more than two whole month after the spill, only 20 of the 2000 oil skimmers in the United States had been sent to the Gulf, even as the oil well was pumping out as much oil in two in a half days as the entire Exxon Valdez oil spill.

What has Obama been doing the whole time that this devastation has been growing and growing?

Instead of confronting the spill, Obama has focused on his golf game.

Even though he told us he would not rest until the spill was plugged, he has golfed more than 7 times since the spill began.

The administration’s explanation? It does “us all good”

No Mr. Obama.

Your golfing does not “do us all good.”

Your Orwellian attempts to cover up the devastation of this spill and your own incompetence does not “do us all good.”

Your attempts to use this spill as a means to gain greater control over our economic lives does not “do us all good.”

When you get off your own “ass” and do what you can to actually fight this spill, then…you will have finally done us all good.

Video: No Crisis left Wasted.Salazar says Oil Spill Disaster is the Catalyst for Change

NewsEditor — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 16:06:57 +0000

Rahm Emanuel once said that you should never let a crisis go wasted. Evidently Interior Secretary Salazar learned that lesson well. Here Salazar is talking about how the Oil Spill should be a catalyst for change. That change includes Higher Taxes, Cap and Trade and even Obama’s personal enrichment.
We cannot let Obama use this terrible disaster to scare us into giving up our rights as Americans. Get the word out, tell your friends, read the articles of impeachment, and sign the petition to stop Barack Obama.

Here is Michelle Malkin ripping Salazar on Fox News for his use of the Gulf Oil Spill to push the Obama agenda.