CEO Maggie Fox’s Statement on EPA’s Endangerment Ruling Announcement

source:www.climateprotect.org Washington, DC – Maggie L. Fox, President and CEO of The Alliance for Climate Protection issued the following statement on today’s announcement from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act:

“Americans can breathe a bit easier in the wake of today’s historic announcement from the EPA declaring greenhouse gas pollution a danger to the public’s health and welfare. The U.S. Congress first passed the Clean Air Act in 1970 to protect the public’s health, and the EPA’s use of the Act’s authority to regulate the gases causing the climate crisis means that not only is the time for science denial over, but the federal government will also be complying with the law of the land. As the world convenes for the next two weeks in Copenhagen to negotiate an international climate agreement, President Obama and all of America will have our greatest opportunity yet to show the world that we are fully committed to building a global clean energy economy and solving the climate crisis.”

About the Alliance for Climate Protection:
The Alliance for Climate Protection was founded in 2006 by Nobel laureate and former Vice President Al Gore. With more than two million members worldwide, the Alliance is a unique non-profit, non-partisan organization that is committed to educating the global community about the urgency of implementing comprehensive solutions to the climate crisis.

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This is such a catastrophe. If the EPA gets in control of the “climate change” facade, all Americans will suffer.

The EPA has used it’s muscle for years to seize property and extort massive fines from ordinary people because these ordinary people were “caught” breaking some hidden EPA regulation.

The EPA has been ruthless in their quest to level huge fines for such things as filling in a low lying piece of ground with dirt because said piece of ground has standing water on it. But, because the low lying area has water standing on it for “X” months per year, it is deemed by the EPA as a wetland.

Although I do not have the source of this accusation in front of me, it is but one of many stories I have read over the years concerning the EPA’s strongarm tactics.

If Obama gives the EPA control of our energy usage and our “carbon footprint”, we will all get the shaft. And, Mr. Obama has stated that is one option he may persue, by decree no less.

I was raised under the impression that our ancestors left England to get away from the king’s rule. Yet, that is where Mr. Obama has placed himself, as supreme ruler of the United States.

And by decree, he will throw this country under the bus. And, the vast majority of Americans have become so complacent and, for lack of a better word, stupid, that he has been able to carry the insanity this far.

I have already seen one article out of the the Telegraph, which in a nutshell says that Americans lack the anatomy to stand up and resist the Obama/Global agenda.

We have to continue to speak out. So many do speak out, but get discouraged that their words seem to fall on deaf ears. This is not true. When you speak to anyone, regardless of who they are, you are palnting a seed. And, one day they will see, and they will remember that someone warned them of this or that.

Pick up a phone and call congressmen and senators and let them know how you feel and impress on them that they work for the people, not the other way around.

Make it a point to ride their backsides often. And when it comes time to vote, either vote for them if they have done their best to preserve freedom, or vote them out.

Southern Patriot

How Will We React

Hello all,

I watched a great film the other night, “Ghandi”. I mention this only because we have a reached a point in history which far surpasses what Ghandi saw when he began his quest. But, we to are at a point where non-compliance may be our only avenue in order to regain control over our rogue government. We might as well face it, it is not going to get any easier.

Pastor David Manning of the ATLAH Church in Harlem, New York was visited recently by the CIA and NYPD detectives and questioned about his programs, attacking as Rev. Manning likes to refer to him as, “The Long Legged Mack Daddy Barack Hussein Obama”. The reverend has spoken out about the birther issue and stated that white people have had enough and are going to rise up, and that he would join them. The concern lies with the allegations that Rev. Manning might be trying to incite violence.

This could not be farther from the truth. If you are not familiar with Rev. Manning, watch the video at the link below, where he speaks about this recent visit:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EgrTq3zqfE

This man is doing one thing and one thing only, exercising his first amendment right to free speech. That is the real issue with the CIA’s visit. And since Manning is a small fish in a big pond of talk show hosts who speak out against Obama, and the whole system in Washington, he is an easy target. So to arrest him and imprison him could be the biggest mistake these Gestapo goons could make.

It is apparent that these guys didn’t really do their homework. This man has a large following who will stir up a ruckus if he is arrested. And then there is the other side of the coin. As Rev. Manning explained on the Alex Jones show on Thursday, this will bring the whole birther issue to the table once again. But, instead of just the issue over the existence of a piece of paper, a human being will be the defendant. This could be a lot harder for the courts to sweep under the rug.

If the film “Ghandi” is historically correct, then we all will have our own battles as we quest for the restoration of our beloved republic. It may be a confrontation with one person, or a crowd, or a smart aleck cop who’s having a bad day. How we react to “them” will dictate their reaction to us. I’m not suggesting anyone get themselves arrested or beaten, or both. But, exercise your right to free speech and your rights as a sovereign individual.

“If you are but a minority of one, the truth is still the truth.” Ghandi

Scary When You Think About It

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Stay On Point, Stay Focused

I was recently contacted by a friend in the Ron Paul Meetup I was a member of. I say was because this friend relayed to me that I had been asked to leave the group. Apparently I didn’t receive the e-mail informing me of such. The reason I was asked to leave? Because some members of the group didn’t like me sending e-mails through to the group which were linked to infowars.com.

I joined this group, which is 50 miles away from my home, because at the time it was the nearest meetup. I have been a member since before Ron Paul dropped out of the presidential race. I wanted to be in contact with local, like minded people. At the time, I thought I was amongst friends who valued The freedoms that so many of us hold dear, especially the 1st amendment.

People who know me I’m sure would vouch for my being a patriot and a defender of people’s rights. I have spent hundreds, if not thousands of hours getting active and trying to inspire others to do the same. Although I am losing no sleep over this, it is a bit disheartening to be ostracized by the very group I thought shared the same values I do.

We, and I mean all those who have stepped up to the plate to get active in their own way, did so because we truly believe in freedom. We don’t cast out those whose point of view we disagree with. We don’t resort to infighting, we support and educate each other. Because in the end, we all win when we pull together.

We must not lose our focus of the ultimate goal which is stop the ever encroaching tyranny that is closing in on us everyday. We have to agree to disagree. After all, isn’t that what it is really all about when you really examine it? It isn’t about race, religion, gender or any of the numerous other barriers that so many have allowed themselves to fall victim to. Not to say that there isn’t a fair share of scoundrels out there who want to be the top dog, and will do anything to achieve that goal. But in the end, these types will be the ultimate loser. A leader is only as good as his or her troops.

Southern Patriot

Justice Dept. Asked For News Site’s Visitor Lists

In a case that raises questions about online journalism and privacy rights, the U.S. Department of Justice sent a formal request to an independent news site ordering it to provide details of all reader visits on a certain day.

The grand jury subpoena also required the Philadelphia-based Indymedia.us Web site “not to disclose the existence of this request” unless authorized by the Justice Department, a gag order that presents an unusual quandary for any news organization.

Kristina Clair, a 34-year old Linux administrator living in Philadelphia who provides free server space for Indymedia.us, said she was shocked to receive the Justice Department’s subpoena. (The Independent Media Center is a left-of-center amalgamation of journalists and advocates that – according to their principles of unity and mission statement – work toward “promoting social and economic justice” and “social change.”)

The subpoena (PDF) from U.S. Attorney Tim Morrison in Indianapolis demanded “all IP traffic to and from http://www.indymedia.us” on June 25, 2008. It instructed Clair to “include IP addresses, times, and any other identifying information,” including e-mail addresses, physical addresses, registered accounts, and Indymedia readers’ Social Security Numbers, bank account numbers, credit card numbers, and so on.

“I didn’t think anything we were doing was worthy of any (federal) attention,” Clair said in a telephone interview with CBSNews.com on Monday. After talking to other Indymedia volunteers, Clair ended up calling the Electronic Frontier Foundation in San Francisco, which represented her at no cost.

Under long-standing Justice Department guidelines, subpoenas to members of the news media are supposed to receive special treatment. One portion of the guidelines, for instance, says that “no subpoena may be issued to any member of the news media” without “the express authorization of the attorney general” – that would be current attorney general Eric Holder – and subpoenas should be “directed at material information regarding a limited subject matter.”

Still unclear is what criminal investigation U.S. Attorney Morrison was pursuing. Last Friday, a spokeswoman initially promised a response, but Morrison sent e-mail on Monday evening saying: “We have no comment.” The Justice Department in Washington, D.C. also declined to respond.

Kevin Bankston, a senior staff attorney at the San Francisco-based Electronic Frontier Foundation, replied to the Justice Department on behalf of his client in a February 2009 letter (PDF) outlining what he described as a series of problems with the subpoena, including that it was not personally served, that a judge-issued court order would be required for the full logs, and that Indymedia did not store logs in the first place.

Morrison replied in a one-sentence letter saying the subpoena had been withdrawn. Around the same time, according to the EFF, the group had a series of discussions with assistant U.S. attorneys in Morrison’s office who threatened Clair with possible prosecution for obstruction of justice if she disclosed the existence of the already-withdrawn subpoena — claiming it “may endanger someone’s health” and would have a “human cost.”

Lucy Dalglish, the executive director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of The Press, said a gag order to a news organization wouldn’t stand up in court: “If you get a subpoena and you’re a journalist, they can’t gag you.”

Dalglish said that a subpoena being issued and withdrawn is not unprecedented. “I have seen any number of these things withdrawn when counsel for someone who is claiming a reporter’s privilege says, ‘Can you tell me the date you got approval from the attorney general’s office’… I’m willing to chalk this up to bad lawyering on the part of the DOJ, or just not thinking.”

Making this investigation more mysterious is that Indymedia.us is an aggregation site, meaning articles that appear on it were published somewhere else first, and there’s no hint about what sparked the criminal probe. Clair, the system administrator, says that no IP (Internet Protocol) addresses are recorded for Indymedia.us, and non-IP address logs are kept for a few weeks and then discarded.

EFF’s Bankston wrote a second letter to the government saying that, if it needed to muzzle Indymedia, it should apply for a gag order under the section of federal law that clearly permits such an order to be issued. Bankston’s plan: To challenge that law on First Amendment grounds.

But the Justice Department never replied. “This is the first time we’ve seen them try to get the IP address of everyone who visited a particular site,” Bankston said. “That it was a news organization was an additional troubling fact that implicates First Amendment rights.”

This is not, however, the first time that the Feds have focused on Indymedia — a Web site whose authors sometimes blur the line between journalism, advocacy, and on-the-streets activism. In 2004, the Justice Department sent a grand jury subpoena asking for information about who posted lists of Republican delegates while urging they be given an unwelcome reception at the party’s convention in New York City that year. A Indymedia hosting service in Texas once received a subpoena asking for server logs in relation to an investigation of an attempted murder in Italy.

Bankston has written a longer description of the exchange of letters with the Justice Department, which he hopes will raise awareness of how others should respond to similar legal demands for Web logs, customer records, and compulsory silence. “Our fear is that this kind of bogus gag order is much more common than one would hope, considering they’re legally baseless,” Bankston says. “We’re telling this story in hopes that more providers will press back and go public when the government demands their silence.”

Update 1:59pm E.T.: A Justice Department official familiar with this subpoena just told me that the attorney general’s office never saw it and that it had not been submitted to the department’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. for review. If that’s correct, it suggests that U.S. Attorney Tim Morrison and Assistant U.S. Attorney Doris Pryor did not follow department regulations requiring the “express authorization of the attorney general” for media subpoenas — and it means that neither Attorney General Eric Holder nor Acting Attorney General Mark Filip were involved. I wouldn’t be surprised to see an internal investigation by the Office of Professional Responsibility; my source would not confirm or deny that.

Declan McCullagh

Who voted FOR the Health Care Bill?

From endgamenow.com

Confirmed: Buy insurance or go to jail

‘This is ultimate example of Dems command-and-control government’

See who voted FOR the Health Care Bill for yourself:

HR 3962 Affordable Health Care for America Act
Final Vote Results for Roll Call 887
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2009/roll887.xml

A Michigan congressman has released a report from the non-partisan Joint Committee on Taxation confirming that the House Democrats’ health-care bill could impose penalties of up to $250,000 in fines and five years in jail for failing to buy the proper insurance coverage.

“This is the ultimate example of the Democrats’ command-and-control style of governing – buy what we tell you or go to jail,” said U.S. Rep. Dave Camp, R-Mich.

The letter of confirmation from the Joint Committee on Taxation was signed by Chief of Staff Thomas Barthold. His analysis confirmed individuals who fail to follow the rules actually could be penalized both with civil and criminal punishments.

read full article here

Health Care Reform Bill Passes House Of Representatives

The House floor erupted in one of the loudest cheers the chamber has heard in years when Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), an hour before midnight, cast the 218th and deciding vote on landmark health care reform.

There were still six minutes and fifty-two seconds on the clock and the chair made a move to gavel the vote closed.

Democrats waived their opposition, keeping the vote open.

Almost every eye in the chamber darted to the far end of the GOP side, where the last possibility for a bipartisan bill sat wedged between Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.) and Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska), both of whom were leaning on him, both literally and figuratively.

The White House, two sources told HuffPost, had been working hard to win the vote of Rep. Joseph Cao (R-La.), a freshman in a strongly Democratic district. The pro-life Cao’s vote came into play when an amendment from Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) passed overwhelmingly, greatly restricting reproductive rights.

After several minutes, Cao cast a yes vote from his seat, making the bill bipartisan. Reps. Jim Oberstar (D-Minn.) and Mike Honda (D-Calif.) waded into the Republican side of the aisle to get to Cao, rub his shoulders and slap him on the back.

Cantor stormed out as the Democrats applauded their defector.

The majority party had seen plenty of defections earlier. A stunning sixty-four Democrats joined with the GOP to pass Stupak’s amendment, 240-194.

Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/08/health-care-passes-the-sc_n_349783.html&cp

Elderly Woman Left to Die Under Britain’s Death Care System

(Andrew Hasson) Hazel Fenton and her daughter Christine Ball

Sarah-Kate Templeton
The Times Online
October 11, 2009

Editor’s note: Big mouth Ed Schultz and other so-called progressives say the “public option” is the only way to save health care. Some of them say the “death panels” were invented by rightwing conspiracy theorists. They often cite England’s health care system as an example of what we’ll get here in the states if Obamacare is passed.

Well, here is a story about Britain’s health care system. An elderly woman left to die because doctors determined she didn’t have long to live. Nine months later she is alive and her family is outraged.

AN 80-year-old grandmother who doctors identified as terminally ill and left to starve to death has recovered after her outraged daughter intervened.

Hazel Fenton, from East Sussex, is alive nine months after medics ruled she had only days to live, withdrew her antibiotics and denied her artificial feeding. The former school matron had been placed on a controversial care plan intended to ease the last days of dying patients.

Doctors say Fenton is an example of patients who have been condemned to death on the Liverpool care pathway plan. They argue that while it is suitable for patients who do have only days to live, it is being used more widely in the NHS, denying treatment to elderly patients who are not dying.

Fenton’s daughter, Christine Ball, who had been looking after her mother before she was admitted to the Conquest hospital in Hastings, East Sussex, on January 11, says she had to fight hospital staff for weeks before her mother was taken off the plan and given artificial feeding.

Ball, 42, from Robertsbridge, East Sussex, said: “My mother was going to be left to starve and dehydrate to death. It really is a subterfuge for legalised euthanasia of the elderly on the NHS. ”

Fenton was admitted to hospital suffering from pneumonia. Although Ball acknowledged that her mother was very ill she was astonished when a junior doctor told her she was going to be placed on the plan to “make her more comfortable” in her last days.

Ball insisted that her mother was not dying but her objections were ignored. A nurse even approached her to say: “What do you want done with your mother’s body?”

On January 19, Fenton’s 80th birthday, Ball says her mother was feeling better and chatting to her family, but it took another four days to persuade doctors to give her artificial feeding.

Fenton is now being looked after in a nursing home five minutes from where her daughter lives.

Peter Hargreaves, a consultant in palliative medicine, is concerned that other patients who could recover are left to die. He said: “As they are spreading out across the country, the training is getting probably more and more diluted.”

A spokesman for East Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust, said: “Patients’ needs are assessed before they are placed on the [plan]. Daily reviews are undertaken by clinicians whenever possible.”

In a separate case, the family of an 87-year-old woman say the plan is being used as a way of giving minimum care to dying patients.

Susan Budden, whose mother, Iris Griffin, from Norwich, died in a nursing home in July 2008 from a brain tumour, said: “When she was started on the [plan] her medication was withdrawn. As a result she became agitated and distressed.

“It would appear that the [plan] is . . . used purely as a protocol which can be ticked off to justify the management of a patient.”

Deborah Murphy, the national lead nurse for the care pathway, said: “If the education and training is not in place, the [plan] should not be used.” She said 3% of patients placed on the plan recovered.

Disobey Call for Forced Vaccinations

By Mark Anderson
Re-printed with permission of the American Free Press

A number of “stop the vax” efforts are taking place across America amid persistent warnings of a possible mandated “swine flu” mass vaccination of the populace, with alternative and mainstream news reports ranging from ominous scenarios of a deliberately created pandemic and planned large-scale crippling and killing of the population on the one extreme, to casual “the shots are available if you want them” reports on the other extreme.

Military exercises are even cited as possible dress rehearsals for gunpoint vaccinations and quarantines.

Yet, other sources suggest a lot more normalcy: one Midwestern daily newspaper noted that those catching the “swine flu” should just stay home at least 24 hours “after fever breaks,” implying that it’s unlikely this flu will kill anyone. Precautions for those who are still well are simply to wash your hands often with soap or sanitizer for “at least 20 seconds.”

In this age of hard-hitting news on the Internet that feeble mainstream sources will not report—but with the potential for falsehoods, exaggerations and deliberately planted urban legends also present on the Internet—it’s no easy task to say with certainty just how hard county, state, U.S. and global H1N1/swine flu shot advocates will push to vaccinate the greater population in the coming weeks. Yet, the bottom line is that more and more people will not take the shot.

Considering the known dangers of adjuvants and other highly suspect ingredients in modern vaccines, refusing the shot itself and avoiding any kind of nasal vaccine in spray form seem to be the only sensible course—no matter what plot is brewing. The best vaccination is no vaccination.

News reports appeared October 6 showing health care workers in Indiana, Illinois and Tennessee taking the nasal vaccine, FluMist, like willing sheep. Indeed, what is just as disturbing as government medical tyranny is the servility of Americans, particularly health care workers, to blindly accept the H1N1 nasal spray vaccine, amid troubling allegations that the spray—which is heavy with live viruses—could enable the viruses to incubate in the nasal tissue and then be released into the air by sneezing. This spreads the virus, possibly starting the very pandemic that thus far has not materialized, contrary to World Health Organization claims.

No matter what, Americans must refuse the H1N1 vaccine in needle and nasal form. But Americans must go beyond that and change every law in every state and at the national level that requires vaccinations.

Americans can force authorities at all levels and the profit-seeking drug companies that make these vaccinations to back down in a major way, and to “clean house” regarding any current or future attempts by megalomaniacs and mindless believers in all aspects of modern medicine to imperil the fabric of society with sordid medical schemes.

There are a number of good signs of much-needed resistance out there. New York healthcare workers held a morning rally at the state capitol in Albany September 29 “to protest the new regulations mandating that all healthcare workers with patient contact receive all CDC ‘recommended’ flu vaccines… including the just licensed, un-safety-tested ‘swine flu’ 2009 ‘H1N1-A.’

Members of [Ron Paul’s] Campaign for Liberty are taking an active role in this rally,” as noted in a news bulletin posted at HealthFreedomUSA.org.

So, in the short term we must greet “the shot” and “the spray” with bald-faced refusal and press on to expose the vast medical fraud that is our current system.

Remember, the clamor for national healthcare is about giving Big Medicine even more money and covering only conventional medical treatments.

Call and write your local and state health departments, local media and state representatives, contact the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Disease Control, and annoy your member of Congress and your U.S. senators about this H1N1 “swine flu” situation. Make it known that the vaccine is not needed and is unacceptable in any form under any pretense.

Hands Up For Healthcare

Just as in the time of Hitler, the youth are singing the praises of Furher. If only they realized that this joy and celebration is ushering in their own enslavement.