Ding Dong Global Warming Treaty is Dead

Breaking News 11/20/09 - Scroll to end.

China, India Cancel Out Copenhagen

Excerpt via IBD Editorials

Climate Change: With less than two months to go before the big Copenhagen Conference on global warming, two major nations have said "no thanks" to the no-growth agenda. For that reason alone, so should we.

Following a deal signed late Thursday between China and India, anything we might agree to do in Copenhagen is likely moot anyway. The two mega-nations — which together account for nearly a third of the world's population — said they won't go along with a new climate treaty being drafted in Copenhagen to replace the Kyoto Protocol that expires in 2012.

They're basically saying no to anything that forces them to impose mandatory limits on their output of greenhouse gas emissions. Other developing nations, including Mexico, Brazil and South Africa, will likely reject any proposals as well.

The deal was already in trouble. Three weeks ago, the Group of 77 developing nations met in Thailand to discuss what they wanted to do about global warming. Their answer: nothing.

So, thanks to China and India, Copenhagen is dead — just as Kyoto was when it was signed in 1992, though no one knew it at the time. Without them, no global treaty on climate change will be workable.

Al Gore could not be reached for a comment.

Related: Al Gore Sued by Over 30,000 Scientists for Global Warming Fraud

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Physicist Howard Hayden's one-letter disproof of global warming claims

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The Wizard of Oz - Munchkin Land Song

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UPDATE 11/20/09: "Global Warming" SCAM - Hack/Leak FLASH

Apparently a "Global Climate Center" was hacked and the contents have been posted to the Internet. A ZIP file exceeding 60MB and containing a huge number of emails and other documents has been posted worldwide.

Original speculation as to whether the files posted were legitimate or some sort of spoof appears to now be confirmed as legitimate:

“It was a hacker. We were aware of this about three or four days ago that someone had hacked into our system and taken and copied loads of data files and emails.”

I have not had time to read all of the material yet (there are over a thousand files involved!) but what I have skimmed looks VERY damning. Contained within the documents are what appear to be admissions of intentional tampering with data as well as intentional falsification of results to "show" man-made global warming. -- Read more of this updating story at The Market Ticker.

Al Gore still can't be reached for a comment.

"Don't worry Al, I'm sure you'll have a very nice cellmate."

The Social Security Shipwreck

Title: The Shipwreck, 1805
Artist: Joseph Mallord William Turner (English 1775-1851)
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Permanent Collection: Tate, London, Bequeathed by Artist, 1856
Image Courtesy: National Gallery of Art, Washington

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The Social Security Trust Fund wracked up another monthly deficit for October. The shortfall was $4.2 billion. This is the 5th consecutive month of red ink for the Fund. The total for the period comes to $15 billion. Blame the economy and the boomers for this problem. Some basic measures of the Fund's performance are rapidly deteriorating.

A critical measure is the ratio of Payroll Tax receipts to Benefits paid. The following chart looks at that ratio over time. That ratio will fall below 1.0 for the full year 2009. As of today we are living off of the interest.

Click chart to enlarge.

Health care is small beer compared to SS. My estimate on the current imbalance of the fund is close to $7 trillion on a NPV [net present value] basis. We are on a ship traveling at high speed toward a rocky shoal. And it is foggy and no one has a clue.

SS is too hot a potato to come up for a resolution prior to next year’s elections. That would imply it comes up for discussion sometime in 2011. The Fund can’t wait that long. I just keep wondering when the MSM will wake up to this. -- More at Zero Hedge.

Off With Their Heads?

Guillotine by excontemporain.

These Are DEAD Bankers

By reland1

The following are bankers, financiers, hedgefund managers and a congressman who have died under suspicious circumstances since the market took a dive:

Andrei Kozlov, http://tw5.us/LK Central Banker

Seth Tobias, http://tw5.us/LJ CNBC Contributer, Hedge Fund Manager

Paul Gillmore, http://tw5.us/LI US Congressman

Oleg Zhukovsky http://tw5.us/LL Hedge Fund Manager

Rene-Thierry Magon de la Villehuchet, http://tw5.us/LM Hedge Fund Manager

Michael Klein, http://tw5.us/LN Hedge Fund Manager

Peter Wuffli http://tw5.us/LO Hedge Fund Manager

Kirk Wright http://tw5.us/LP Hedge Fund Manager

Alex Widmer http://tw5.us/LQ CEO Bank of Switzerland

Adolph Merckle http://tw5.us/LR German Financier

Kirk Stephenson http://tw5.us/LS Wall Street Banker

David Kellerman http://tw5.us/L8 FreddieMac CFO

William Parente http://tw5.us/Pf New York Tax Attorney (+wife and 2 children)

Richard Egan http://bit.ly/rD1zb Co-founder EMC

Anjool Malde http://bit.ly/6nboj Deutsche Bank Equity Sales

Finn Casperson http://bit.ly/wY84B Former Head of Beneficial

Danny Pang http://bit.ly/RYTxK Newport Beach financier

James MacDonald http://bit.ly/voiwm Rockefeller CEO

Chris Kelly http://bit.ly/gq6uG Blagojevich fundraiser

James Vellanti http://bit.ly/12CvAv JNF Asset Management, LLC

Building a Discount Bushcraft Kit

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Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb

Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb

Hello?
Is there anybody in there?
Just nod if you can hear me.
Is there anyone home?
Come on, Come on, Come on, now,
I hear you're feeling down.
Well, I can ease your pain
Get you on your feet again.
Relax.
I'll need some information first.
Just the basic facts.
Can you show me where it hurts?

There is no pain you are receding
A distant ship's smoke on the horizon.
You are only coming through in waves.
Your lips move but I can't hear what you're saying.
When I was a child I had a FEVER My hands felt just like two balloons.
Now I've got that feeling once again
I can't explain, you would not understand
This is not how I am.

I have become comfortably numb.
(solo)
I have become comfortably numb.

O.K.
Just a little pin prick.
There'll be no more aaaaaaaaah!
But you may feel a little sick.
Can you stand up?
I do believe it's working, good.
That'll keep you going through the show
Come on it's time to go.

There is no pain you are receding
A distant ship's smoke on the horizon.
You are only coming through in waves.
Your lips move but I can't hear what you're saying.
When I was a child
I caught a fleeting glimpse
Out of the corner of my eye.
I turned to look but it was gone
I cannot put my finger on it now
The child is grown,
The dream is gone.
But I have become comfortably numb.

Audit the FED Amendment Passes

Rep. Alan Grayson on the Paul/Grayson Amendment

Rep. Alan Grayson argues in support of the Paul/Grayson amendment, which would subject the Federal Reserve to a complete audit.

Ron Paul argued:

"This is the bill that would allow the American people to win."

"Who's benefiting and where are the trillions of dollars going?"

"We live in an age where the American people are sick and tired of secret government and government out of control, and Congress passing TARP funds...and now that the people have found out that this is going on at the Federal Reserve, they're demanding to know details!"

The amendment passed the House Financial Services Committee 43-26 as part of the underlying financial reform package.

The committee is now poised to pass the entire bill (H.R. 3996) and has scheduled its final vote on the legislation for December 1.

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Courtesy of The Market Ticker (who writes a great piece on this - you should read it), here's a handy list of nays to send pink slips to: [PDF]

NAY - Rep. Barney Frank, MA
NAY - Rep. Paul E. Kanjorski, PA
NAY - Rep. Maxine Waters, CA
NAY - Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, NY
NAY - Rep. Luis V. Gutierrez, IL
NAY - Rep. Nydia M. Velázquez, NY
NAY - Rep. Melvin L. Watt, NC
NAY - Rep. Gary L. Ackerman, NY
NAY - Rep. Gregory W. Meeks, NY
NAY - Rep. Dennis Moore, KS
NAY - Rep. Michael E. Capuano, MA
NAY - Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, NY
NAY - Rep. Joe Baca, CA
NAY - Rep. Stephen F. Lynch, MA
NAY - Rep. Brad Miller, NC
NAY - Rep. Al Green, TX
NAY - Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, MO
NAY - Rep. Melissa L. Bean, IL
NAY - Rep. Gwen Moore, WI
NAY - Rep. Keith Ellison, MN
NAY - Rep. Ron Klein, FL
NAY - Rep. Charles Wilson, OH
NAY - Rep. Joe Donnelly, IN
NAY - Rep. Bill Foster, IL
NAY - Rep. Andre Carson, IN
NAY - Rep. Mary Jo Kilroy, OH
NAY - Rep. Jim Himes, CT

Why don't you give 'em a call and tell 'em what you think of 'em?

I'm sure they'd love to hear from you - you can find their phone and fax numbers at http://www.house.gov.

Add to the traitorous bunch above Former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan and Paul Volcker who wrote the House Financial Services Committee early this month that they opposed the provision, backed by Paul and Grayson. Read the letter from Greenspan and Volcker.

“We can assure you that this protection of internal deliberations in reaching decisions that will affect market conditions and could expose sensitive information about particular institutions is indispensible in the Federal Reserve’s conduct of monetary policy,” Greenspan and Volcker said. -- WSJ

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Click chart to enlarge.

Prepare yourselves for one hell of a stock market crash when this financial reform package passes and the FED is forced to unwind its illegal positions.

Related: FED Controls Stock Market: Sell! Sell!

Moraine Lake, Banff National Park, Canada

Moraine Lake, Banff National Park, Canada. Photo 1024x768. December 27rd, 2006. Via wallpapers-s.org.

Poison Ivy, Poison Oak: A Mountain Cure

Poison Ivy, Poison Oak: A Mountain Cure

Here's Shawn with a helpful hint for countering the effects of poison ivy, poison oak, stinging nettles and eczema: jewel weed.

"Grab a piece of it... split that stem... all of that lovely salve inside... just rub it on the spot."

Advice from this old redneck is not intended to replace advice from a doctor, RN, Grandma, or other health professionals.

Touch-Me-Not Or Jewel-Weed. (Impatiens biflora.) Via Chest of Books.

Preferred Habitat - Beside streams, ponds, ditches; moist ground.

Flowering Season - July - October.

Distribution - Nova Scotia to Oregon, south to Missouri and Florida.

how to split wood

how to split wood

1. Place your feet shoulder width apart.

2. Place the head of the axe on the wood to be split, and while comfortably holding the end of the axe with one hand, step back as far as you can with your arm fully extended.

3. With right hand up near the head of the axe and left hand down at the base of the handle (reverse if left-handed) raise the axe in front of you and bring it down on the wood to be split, shifting the right hand towards the base of the handle as the axe falls.

It's that easy. Now, go make yourself useful and split some wood!

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Ronald Reagan chopping wood. Via University of Texas.

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“The nation needs to return to the colonial way of life, when a wife was judged by the amount of wood she could split.” -- W. C. Fields

“People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.” -- Albert Einstein

“Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water.” -- Zen Proverb