Monday, July 7, 2008

It's Time To Start Bad-Mouthing Islam...more importantly, IT'S TIME TO START BAD-MOUTHING THE UNITED NATIONS




The United Nations serves no useful purpose and is the most corrupt organization in the history of mankind...try and prove me wrong ! Just try !

Monday, July 7, 2008
Well the way it's looking now, the O.I.C. (Organization of the islamic Conference) is pushing forward in that travesty called the United Nations, a referendum for "Religious Defamation." In other words, trying to make it an international crime to speak badly about Islam. The thing is, they are also trying to make it an international crime for anyone to convert FROM islam.

Add to that, they are trying to amend the International Human Rights Treaty to be subject to Sharia Law. Essentially, to make it worldly acceptable to start executing infidels. That being you and me. Is anyone else besides me seeing something wrong with this picture?

The OIC which is comprised of about 56+ nations around the globe, on every continent, is trying to make it perfectly legal to kill anyone who;

A: Defames islam in any way. (No more Fitna, Obsessed or mohammed cartoons.)
B: Leaves islam, (especially if they convert to Christianity.)
C: Refuses to submit to Sharia Law. (Dhimmitude isn't even an option in this push.)

Or better understood as, Convert to islam or die. Sucks to be us it would seem.

So, in the spirit of good ol' American sportsmanship, and the pure "will to survive," the ACLJ (Click here for petition form: American Center for Law and Justice,) has started a petition today, calling on the U.N. to deny the amendment, whilst also detailing the parameters of the latest jihadi march there in the U.N.

Here is the text of their petition page;

End Anti-Christian Bigotry!

Around the world, Christians are being increasingly targeted, and even persecuted, for their religious beliefs. Now, one of the largest organizations in the United Nations is pushing to make a bad situation even worse by promoting anti-Christian bigotry wrapped in the guise of a U.N. resolution called “Combating Defamation of Religions.” We must put an immediate end to this most recent, dangerous attack on faith. Please read the form below carefully and declare your membership with the ACLJ by adding your name to our PETITION OPPOSING THE ORGANIZATION OF THE ISLAMIC CONFERENCE.

PETITION OPPOSING THE ORGANIZATION OF THE ISLAMIC CONFERENCE

To: The United Nations’ High Commissioner of Human Rights

I stand with the American Center for Law and Justice and Chief Counsel Jay Sekulow in grave opposition to the Organization of the Islamic Conference’s resolution entitled “Combating Defamation of Religions.” I recognize this measure as anti-Christian in nature and fully believe it stands in stark contrast to the concept of religious freedom outlined in the International Bill of Human Rights.

As a person of faith, I respectfully call on you to exercise keen judgment and act in swift opposition to this resolution. Our focus should remain on improving existing international law to protect the religious rights and free practice thereof for all individuals.

Feel free to circulate this to anyone you like, the more the merrier.


Something is wrong with this picture

Normally I wouldn't bother cross-posting this

article but they refused to publish my comments

so therefor this:

What struck me initially was the photograph depicting and Iranian missile site and of course the the subject in the title 'Satellite Photos'. Heck if you can get ground level photos like this who needs a satellite!

Now my comments included the fact that I am retired from the United States Air Force and more importantly, the Air Force Base that I retired from looks a lot like that in the picture. Now a careful eye would agree that definetly looks like the Pacific Ocean along the California coastline. And if you were to examine the coastline of Iran you might not see those nice green hills...you can actually follow the entire coastline of Iran with Google Maps. So if someone were to ask me, "Where was that photograph taken?" I would say, "Most definetly at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California."

My second comment was in reply to a previous comment about WMD's (see 1. Johann Botha below). I simply asked, "What about the 1.77 metric tons removed from Iraq by the IAEA in conjunction with the US Army and the US Department of Energy who released a press release on that very same subject in June or July of 2004. The mainstream media did not report on this and now this dbtechno.com refuses to publicize the matter (After I posted my comments I got the message that comments are moderated and will be published within 24 hours. The 24 hours have gone by and my comments were removed. Looks very suspicious at dbtechno...they seem to have a fear of the facts.)

Storm'n Norm'n

Satellite Photos Reveals

Iran’s Secret Missile Launch Site

April 14, 2008

According to reports, new satellite photos have revealed Iran's secret long-range ballistic missile launch site.  It has been suspected for quite some time that Iran has been developing these missiles, which will be able to hit far-reaching targets throughout Europe.Washington (dbTechno) - According to reports, new satellite photos have revealed Iran’s secret long-range ballistic missile launch site. It has been suspected for quite some time that Iran has been developing these missiles, which will be able to hit far-reaching targets throughout Europe.

The photos were taken by the Digital Globe QuickBird satellite on February 8, and were compared to information from a launch four days earlier.

Many have been analyzing the photos after realizing this is the same location Iran used to launch their Kavoshgar 1 rocket back on February 4. Iran stated this rocket launch was a part of their space program.

Analysis has found that the site is a possible location for their long-range missile program. The facility is very similar to that of which has been seen in Taepodong, North Korea.

It has been stated that space center technology is very similar to that needed for long-range ballistic missiles.

The site could be where Iran is trying to achieve that capability though. This builds on concerns from the U.S. and Israel that North Korea is helping Iran as well as Syria develop these missile capabilities. The long-range ballistic missiles can hit targets 4,000 miles away.

Comments

7 Responses to “Satellite Photos Reveals Iran’s Secret Missile Launch Site”

  1. Johann Botha on April 14th, 2008 7:57 am

    Are they like the photos of the “Weapons of mass destruction” seen in IRAQ before the invasion 5 years ago?

  2. payam jaan on April 14th, 2008 8:32 am

    pathetic array of scary buzz words, not journalism.

  3. Siramoni on April 14th, 2008 8:42 am

    What’s wrong if Iran makes long distance ballistic missiles? when Iran’s enemies are always threatening it with many different threat it should have the deterrent abilities including nuclear arsenal. personally I am against any nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles. but at the same time we cannot have a world in which certain powers would dominate the world with their military superiority. In order for an equilibrium we need Iran and other nations to have the capabilities to successfully defend themselves from continuos foreign threat.

  4. corky on April 14th, 2008 9:50 am

    Siramoni, you aparently are an iranian.

    nuclear weapons aren’t tactical, they aren’t used to defend, they are only for attacking large areas. large areas typically occupied by civilians. if your going to attack a military establishment a nuclear missile is overkill. the surrounding area would be decimated. this move isn’t a move to provide self protection, this is a scare tactic.

    this is a move to scare people into trusting them. kinda like hitler and the appeasement plan. allowing them to continue developing nuclear power (the easiest and most cost effective, main source of weapons grade nuclear material.
    this is in no way in the best interests of anyone.

  5. JohnDoe on April 14th, 2008 10:25 am

    First of all. If it was acknowledged before as being the location of a previous missile launch, the how is it a secret?

    Secondly. What is to say there is actually a long-range ballistic missile program and not just a space program as the Iranians say? Is there any concrete evidence to support this speculation(as that is all it is)?

    Where and when did North Korea come into the equation? Besides ‘chatter’ is there any evidence to support this?

    A poor attempt at journalism, no backing up of any claims, just spreading the same rumours of others.

    Who wrote this anyway?

  6. JohnDoe on April 14th, 2008 10:26 am

    cork, dont be simple.

    America has many many nuclear weapons. Should we take this as a sign they will attack us all tomorrow?

    Same can be said for many other nations.

  7. Doe John on April 14th, 2008 11:24 am

    I agree with JohnDoe. This is probably just another atempt of the US government to make Iran look like the bad guy.

    Iraq was done the same way. The weapons of mass destruction were never found, but gave the govenment a reason to invade.

    This is all it is. The US Government is looking for a reason to enter Iran.

Sunday, July 6, 2008

War Stories

It never ceases to amaze me how others take so long to figure these things out. If my memory serves me right, this was the item of discussion by that little unknown guy down there in Alabama...almost two years ago! Aaahh, would that be little ole me by chance? You betcha! Oh there's others in the various groups that brought it up; that's because...to use a Bill Clinton expression...some of us are just a little bit smarter. At least smarter than the mainstream media (careful now, that's not saying much).
So meanwhile pay attention to Mr. Dieckmann, he's got a lot of it figured out and his predictions are what I would call, "fairly accurate".
For more comments on the upcoming war check here: http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/256579

ps: Don't forget to note that so often mentioned and yet unheeded "Bilderberg Group"...see now, you're getting smarter already.

From Oil To Armageddon
by JR Dieckmann

What if oil prices continue to rise with no end in sight? Even now with gas at $4.50 a gallon on the west coast, it’s becoming difficult for many people to fill up their gas tanks. What’s going to happen when it goes to $5.00, $6.00, $7.00 a gallon, or even higher? This will have an effect on all levels of society - from the poor, all the way to the White House. The entire economy of the country and the free world may be at stake. It could lead to war.

I’m not saying this is going to happen, but it could. It is just as likely that gas prices will start to decline by the end of the year. We are already seeing a small drop in consumption and demand, but no drop in prices as the price of a barrel of oil continues to climb. Some investment professionals are calling it an “oil bubble” that is soon to burst. I don’t see it that way at all.

Let’s explore the consequences of continued gas price hikes and what it will mean for our country. People who are now having trouble paying for gas are going to get angry. Their anger will soon turn to rage and they’ll be looking for someone to blame.

It will start on a small scale with people stealing gas from SUVs. That much has already begun. When gas goes over $5 a gallon, they will start angrily, and mistakenly, attacking gas stations with vandalism and possibly fire bombings.

These are the people who believe that gas stations and American oil companies are responsible for the high price of gas because that is what they‘ve been told by most everyone on the left. It must be difficult living in the world of liberal illusions.

They’ve heard politicians talk about the “windfall profits” of “Big Oil,” and think this means that the oil company that is providing gas to their local station is screwing them while getting rich in the process. They have no idea that the profits are going to millions of people across the country to pay dividends on their retirement investments. They don’t understand that most of the real culprits are not even Americans. They just pick the easiest explanation and the easiest target for their frustration.

They don’t realize that Shell, Exxon-Mobil, Conoco Phillips, and other American oil companies are just small oil companies with only 3% of the oil market. They have no influence on world oil prices when competing against the real “Big Oil” - the national oil companies of OPEC. Still, the media has convinced them that American oil companies are responsible for the price at the pump and need to be targeted.

As gas reaches $6 a gallon and food prices rise accordingly, riots will break out. People will be screaming “I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore.” They will attack any business that has been forced to raise their prices as a direct result of the rising oil prices and our misguided attempts to process our food into fuel. Yet these are the same people who support making ethanol from corn, and believe the high prices are the result of a vast right wing conspiracy against the poor and middle class.

As gas reaches $7 a gallon, people will be killed fighting over gas that only the wealthy can now comfortably afford. Word of civil unrest will eventually reach the government through the media, and Congress will debate for the rest of the year about what to do about it. Nothing will get done as usual, because Congress can’t control the price of oil on the world market any more than Shell, Conoco-Philips, or Exxon-Mobile can.

If there is any intelligent life left in Washington, they will defy the special interests of the greenfreaks and pass legislation to allow for oil drilling in ANWR and offshore. If Congress won’t do it, then the president should do it with an executive order. It won’t be quite that simple, he will still need some cooperation from Congress to enforce it.

As gas goes to $8 a gallon, the president may have to declare martial law to try to contain the rioting and looting that continues to break out across the country. By now, he is beginning to realize that things are getting serious and he has a big problem to deal with. His economic advisors are briefing him on the inevitable collapse of the economy if something isn’t done soon. He knows from recent history that federal price controls will only result in gas shortages and long lines at the gas pump, and that domestic oil companies and gas suppliers will be forced to try to operate at a negative income level. It could shut down the domestic oil industry altogether.

The State Dept. will begin to talk in stronger and stronger terms with the leaders of OPEC countries. They will try to convince them of the damage they are doing to the U.S. economy and the need to lower oil prices. There will be little response or cooperation. If India and China are willing to pay it, then why not the U.S.? Anyway, damage to America seems to be what some people, including some Americans, want.

In his

lecture

, Lindsey Williams places the blame directly on the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (ie; the Bilderberg group), who supply the money to pay OPEC for their oil. Williams contends that it is the World Bank and the IMF who, on a daily basis, tell OPEC how much to charge for their oil. If the World Bank and the IMF are willing to pay it on behalf of oil speculators, OPEC is willing to take it.

Unable to influence OPEC and the World Bank, our government will begin to realize that this has become a threat to our economy and national security. The government will turn to sanctions against OPEC countries. This will also fail, as sanctions usually do, because the rest of the world needs their oil as much as we do. Their primary source of income and trade will continue to be available. Sanctions will have no effect and embargos would be impossible if they are to continue providing oil.

With gas at $9 a gallon, the U.S. could then fight fire with fire as a last resort, and offer Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries a bushel of grain for a barrel of oil or threaten to cut off their food supplies from the U.S. altogether if they don’t significantly lower their oil prices.

The Arabs will likely respond by turning to other countries for grain and food stuffs, if they can find them, and retaliate by raising oil prices even more. Our “good friends” in the Mideast will cease being our “good friends,” as we realize that they are holding America hostage at the gas pump. To prevent our economy and country from completely collapsing, the president will have to take stronger action.

When gas is breaking $10 a gallon, and depending on who the president is at that time, he will have just two courses of action. If he’s a Democrat, he will raise taxes on the American people to attempt an increase in production of ethanol and biofuels, adding to the financial burden already being imposed on the people. This, of course, will have no effect on the price of gas for decades to come. It will only exacerbate the problem but will be consistent with the Democrats’ solution to everything - raise taxes.

If he’s a Republican, then he may address the American people and explain that our country has been attacked economically and this attack has done more damage to our country than the attacks of 911. He will be right. We were willing to pay a fair price for Mideastern oil but we can no longer allow the American people to be held hostage to unreasonably inflated oil prices. He will explain that he has no other choice but to send military forces into Saudi Arabia and elsewhere in the Mideast to secure the oil fields that we discovered and developed. But it's more likely that he will promote other reasons to launch an attack that doesn't mention oil.

This will not be ignored by other Islamic countries which will join forces with the Saudis in retaliation against America. Iran and Syria will find reason to become involved if they aren't already. This will be real war with Islam over oil, and yes, winner takes all. Our survival as a nation will depend on it.

There is just one problem - we don’t have a big enough army. What we lack in manpower, we will have to make up for with technology and advanced weaponry. No war was ever won by overwhelming the enemy with compassion. Wars are only won with overwhelming force. Israel will be attacked by Iran, Syria, Hamas and Hezbollah, and the march to Armageddon will have begun.

Russia will side with Iran and Syria as war spreads throughout the Mideast. China will also be dragged into it. Nuclear weapons may be involved, although I don’t believe they would be exchanged between the U.S., Russia and China, assuring mutual destruction. Bible prophesies may predict otherwise.

This scenario is, of course, highly speculative, but entirely possible if we don’t take action now to avoid it. We have two choices. We can find some way of bringing down the price of oil on the world market (unlikely), or we can begin to end our dependence on foreign oil by using all of the domestic resources we have available. This alone will encourage foreign oil producers to lower their prices.

We will have to reduce our consumption of oil until such time that America is able to produce all of the oil we require. Petroleum products must be reserved exclusively for transportation fuel and synthetic products such as plastics and rubber. All factories now using oil should convert to natural gas, electric, or other sources of energy.

All production of electricity must be expanded by any and all means available. This includes wind, solar, nuclear, geothermal, hydroelectric, and new technologies in nuclear fusion currently being developed. Clean coal technology should be expanded and used extensively, even if it does make Harry Reid and the Democrats sick. Yucca Mountain in Nevada should be impounded by the federal government under “eminent domain laws” and declared the official nuclear waste depository over the objections of Reid.

But we cannot sacrifice our food supplies for energy. We need affordable food as much as we need affordable energy. Ethanol production must be ended and the greenfreaks must be defeated if we are to save our country. Ethanol works in Brazil because they have the climate for growing vast quantities of sugar cane; we don’t. Sugar cane makes for practical and efficient ethanol without disrupting food sources; corn doesn’t. As Raymond S. Kraft points out in his recent article,

Ending Our Oil Addiction: Reality Check

, compliance with recent ethanol mandates by Congress would be disastrous and impractical for the country.

As the world's largest consumer of foreign oil, just beginning a “moon shot” program toward oil independence will scare OPEC enough to begin lowering the price of oil in an attempt to persuade us to give it up. We played that game before and it worked, OPEC dropped their price so low that our efforts were cancelled. This time there must be no stopping, no matter how much oil prices drop.

I don’t expect the scenario I have described actually to happen, but it could. I suspect we will find more peaceful ways of dealing with the problem in time. Gas is already selling for $10 a gallon in Europe. In Europe, cars are smaller, less powerful, and use less gas. Much of the European lifestyle revolves around bicycles and motor scooters. Some are suggesting that we should be more like the Europeans.

We are Americans, not Europeans. We have our own American lifestyle and we don’t want to exchange it for a European lifestyle, no matter how much a tank of gas costs. $10 a gallon gas is going to hit us a lot harder than it hits Europeans because we depend on oil more than they do. Much of Europe is still living in the dark ages. That's fine for Europe, it's not fine for America.

The problem of our transportation costs are not going to be solved with “green” energy. Even if effective alternative fuels were developed and available today, the cars being sold today will still need gasoline for the next 20 years. Trucks, ships, and trains will need diesel fuel; aircraft will need aviation fuel, and homes will need home heating oil.

The only solution is to get serious about providing our own supply of oil to meet our national needs. This must be our first priority next to national security, before it becomes a national security issue.

A terrorist attack may destroy a city. This economic attack through oil and energy will destroy the country if it isn’t stopped. We have the ability to stop it if we do it now. Congress must be made to listen to the American people - their bosses. If they won’t listen, then we must fire those who are standing in the way when their terms expire. The consequences of not doing so could lead to the collapse of our country, or to Armageddon over oil if the present trend continues.

Another Warning Repeated, ho hum, who cares, ho hum...

Just a reminder...Bill Clinton's plan is still a going concern...
Re-read these words and mark my word, Barrack Husein Obama, Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi and the Democratic Congress will destroy our sovereignty with their Globalist/Socialist Agenda.

Speech prepared for delivery to Christian Coalition's Road to Victory
Washington, D.C. — September 18, 1998
Some people think that President Bill Clinton is only interested in power and women. That's not true. He has a very definite and specific global agenda.

Bill Clinton made a major address to the United Nations General Assembly in September 1997. He spoke with gusto about what he called "this new global era" and "the emerging international system." Then he used an amazing metaphor: he said he is taking America into a "web of institutions and arrangements" to set "the international ground rules for the 21st century." He identified the treaties that will take us into this web: the World Trade Organization, the Chemical Weapons Convention, the NATO Expansion Treaty, and the Global Warming Treaty.

Clinton said that "the forces of global integration are a great tide, inexorably wearing away the established order of things." Then he described our troops lost in a crash of a UN helicopter in Bosnia as "citizens of the world." Those men signed up to serve in the American armed forces. Who made them "citizens of the world"?

The following month, Bill Clinton went to Argentina, where he said: I'm trying to promote a "reorganization of the world" into a "global system." He said he wants "to build a global system" by merging "integrated economies and integrated democracies."

The American people do not want our economy integrated with corrupt, bankrupt regimes where people work for wages of 25 or 50 cents an hour. We do not want to integrate our U.S. democracy with countries built on totalitarianism and terror, without any constitutional rights. Americans absolutely do not want to be integrated into a global system.

When Bill Clinton became President, he surrounded himself with people who seek to reorganize America into a global system. His chief foreign policy adviser is Strobe Talbott, who was Clinton's Rhodes scholar roommate and fellow draft dodger. Talbott wrote in Time Magazine that "national sovereignty wasn't such a great idea." He rejoiced in the coming "birth of the Global Nation" where "nationhood as we know it will be obsolete, all states will recognize a single, global authority."

Bill Clinton knows that, if he proposed world government, the American people would reject it out of hand. So he is trying to tie us into world government incrementally, one step at a time. It's like the story about the frog. If you drop him in boiling water, he will jump right out. But if you put him in cold water and then bring the pot to a boil, you will have cooked frog.

Bill Clinton, Strobe Talbott, and Madeleine Albright are moving us incrementally into a network of global organizations, each of which will exercise control over Americans in a different area: (1) human behavior, (2) our economic life, (3) our private property, and (4) our armed services. The mechanisms to accomplish this global network are treaties, international conferences, executive orders, executive-branch power over federal agencies, and assignment of our armed services.

Two treaties that were written to regulate human behavior were rejected by Presidents Reagan and Bush, but have become pet projects of Bill and Hillary Clinton and Madeleine Albright.

The United Nations Treaty on the Rights of the Child would set up a broad array of children's rights against their parents. The treaty would give children the right to "rest and leisure." Does that mean that, when you tell Billy to clean up his room and carry out the garbage, he can say, "I have my UN right to rest and leisure"? Does this treaty mean that, when you tell Sally to turn off the television and do her homework, she can say, "Oh, no, I have my UN right to get information from the media of my choice"? Article 43 sets up a Committee on the Rights of the Child consisting of ten "experts" to monitor compliance. Do you want UN "experts" monitoring the way you raise your children?

The United Nations Treaty on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women purports to govern political, economic, social, cultural, and civil areas, plus "customs and practices," "social and cultural patterns of conduct of men and women." This treaty would require us to follow UN dictates about "family education" and feminist dictates about revision of textbooks.

Clinton called a news conference to announce that he is "embarrassed" that the U.S. has never ratified this UN treaty. This is the same man who is not embarrassed by Paula or Monica.

However, the Clinton Administration is trying to implement this unratified treaty anyway through the UN World Conference on Women held in Beijing in 1995. Hillary Clinton was the star speaker and Madeleine Albright was the chairman of the U.S. delegation. Soon after the feminists returned from China in 1995, Madeleine Albright spelled out the goals in a document called "Bring Beijing Home." That is a plan to implement the pro-abortion feminist agenda through a federal entity composed of high-level representatives from 30 federal agencies, writing on White House letterhead.

A third treaty to regulate human behavior is the International Criminal Court Treaty adopted this year in Rome. This court will have power to try individuals, including Americans, in foreign courts where there is no due process or trial by jury. Even though the United States didn't sign or ratify this treaty, it's a direct threat to all our service personnel stationed overseas.

The most important of the Clinton's treaties designed to regulate our nation's economic life is the Global Warming Treaty agreed to by Al Gore in Kyoto, Japan, in December 1997. This treaty would bind the United States to reduce our energy emissions to 7% below our 1990 levels.

Energy is the basis of our high standard of living. Such a reduction would cost us a million jobs and massive disruptions in the American economy. These drastic cutbacks would be enforced by big tax increases on gasoline, home fuel, and electricity.

Meanwhile, China, India, Mexico, and 100 other developing nations would have no limitations at all. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see that U.S. fossil-fuel-burning plants would move out of the United States to countries where there are no such restrictions. And, of course, that's the purpose: to distribute our wealth to the Third World.

This devastating reduction in our standard of living would take place on the basis of "global warming" predictions that are no more reliable than the weatherman's guess of how much snow will fall in the next 30 years. The only warming that is taking place comes out of the mouths of the politicians, such as Clinton's State of the Union Message, which is why we call this the Hot Air Treaty.

Another treaty designed to control our economic life, the Law of the Sea Treaty was emphatically rejected by President Reagan in the 1980s. This is a scheme to force American businesses to sink billions of investment dollars down on the ocean floor, and then turn the seabed's riches over to a global commission. All decisions would be made by Third World countries, which contributed nothing to the tremendous investment necessary to bring those riches to the surface.

The treaties designed to take over the management of large areas of American land and drastically reduce our property rights usually masquerade under the pretense of protecting the environment. The 1992 Earth Summit in Rio produced the Biodiversity Treaty, which planned to set aside buffer zones and corridors connecting habitat areas where human use by Americans would be severely restricted. It would subject U.S. property owners to international review and regulation.

President Bush refused to sign the Biodiversity Treaty. However, Al Gore persuaded Bill Clinton to sign it, and they tried to ram it through the Senate in 1994. The good news is that, due to the action of alert patriots, the Senate rejected it. The bad news is that the Clinton Administration is implementing it anyway in three ways, claiming that we must "fulfill existing international obligations." But we don't have any international obligations because the Senate never ratified.

First, the Clinton Administration has already put 47 large areas of land, called "Biosphere Reserves," under control of the UN and prohibited development in these areas. The area involved is larger than the state of Colorado.

Second, Clinton issued an Executive Order called the American Heritage Rivers Initiative under which he took over 10 rivers this year, putting hundreds of thousands of acres along the banks of the rivers under control of federal regulators with full authority. This Rivers project is a direct threat to our private property rights guaranteed in the 3rd, 4th, 5th and 7th Amendments.

Third, Clinton is also trying to implement the unratified Biodiversity Treaty through the President's Council on Sustainable Development. It is busy developing curriculum for the schools.

The World Heritage Treaty of 1972 granted special powers to the corrupt UN agency called UNESCO to designate selected American treasures as World Heritage sites and develop regulations and policies concerning their use. The United States doesn't even belong to UNESCO because Ronald Reagan pulled us out of it. Nevertheless, 20 World Heritage Sites have already been claimed and marked by UNESCO, including Yosemite National Park, Yellowstone National Park, the Grand Canyon, and even the Statue of Liberty and Independence Hall. I visited Independence Hall and saw the big bronze UNESCO plaque impudently asserting that this sacred site -- where the Declaration of Independence was signed and our Constitution was written -- belongs to "the common inheritance of all mankind."

Other UN conferences have been thinking up other ways to coopt American wealth for global purposes. The 1995 UN World Summit for Social Development, held in Copenhagen, Denmark, discussed imposing a global tax to give the UN its own flow of money independent of Congressional appropriations. The UN wants a global tax on all international financial transactions, international airline tickets, aviation freight, cruises, aviation fuel, communications satellites, and international postal items.

Clinton is planning on submitting an ABM Expansion Treaty, which would lock us forever into the policy of never building the Strategic Defense Initiative that Ronald Reagan advocated and which is so necessary to protect our people from missile attacks. Communist China has 13 ICBMs targeted on U.S. cities today, and who knows what North Korea, Iraq and Iran will do.

The Clinton Administration is also pursuing its global goals by putting our national security, including our armed services, under global control so that the United States will be locked into a perpetual interventionist policy under which American servicemen and women will be sent to faraway places to fight never-ending foreign wars disguised as "peacekeeping" operations.

In May 1994, Clinton signed Presidential Decision Directive, PDD 25, the most unconstitutional transfer of power in American history. In PDD 25, Clinton asserted his authority "to place U.S. forces under the operational control of a foreign commander" and under the United Nations rules of engagement.

In 1995, the Clinton Administration ordered American troops to go on a so-called "peacekeeping" expedition to Macedonia wearing the United Nations uniform. When Army Specialist Michael New protested that this order was illegal because it conflicted with his oath to the U.S. Constitution, he was court-martialed. His conviction was a watershed event on the way to transferring control over our armed services to global command.

When American soldiers were killed over Iraq, Vice President Al Gore told their widows and orphans that "they died in the service of the United Nations." That wasn't a slip of the tongue; his words reveal the Clinton Administration's plan to use our armed forces as UN mercenaries all over the world at the whim of UN bureaucrats. We do not want American service personnel serving in UN uniforms under UN or NATO commanders.

The Ronald Reagan vision of military strategy was firmly grounded in the principle of "peace through strength," that is, America should have more weapons than any possible enemy so that no bad guys would dare to attack us. It worked -- Reagan ended the Cold War without firing a shot!

The Clinton policy is just the opposite; Clinton wants to be involved in foreign conflicts. Time Magazine described Madeleine Albright as having a "passion for American activism." Colin Powell wrote in his autobiography that, when he was chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Madeleine Albright told him, "What's the point of having this superb military you're always talking about if we can't use it?"

Clinton persuaded the Senate this year to ratify the NATO Expansion Treaty. It commits America to defend borders in Eastern Europe that people have been fighting over for hundreds of years.

Bosnia is the perfect example of the future the Clinton globalists have in store for us. Clinton has no exit strategy for Bosnia because he has no plans ever to exit. Clinton's goal is permanent intervention in foreign conflicts, using Bosnia as the model and NATO as the mechanism to preempt Congress. Why? Because Clinton and his advisers all believe in U.S. interventionism in foreign, particularly European, conflicts as a permanent feature of U.S. policy.

If you want to know more about Clinton's global goals, you should see Eagle Forum's remarkable new video called "Global Governance: The Quiet War Against American Independence." I hope this video will help us to find leaders who will stand up for the independence and sovereignty of the United States of America.

Global treaties and conferences are a direct threat to every American citizen. They are an assault on our right to raise and educate our children as we see fit. They are an attack on our energy consumption, our private property, and our national treasures. They are an attack on our pocketbooks because, if the UN ever gets taxing power, there is no limit to how much power and money it can grab. They are an attack on our standard of living because their goal is to steal American wealth and transfer it to the rest of the world.

Global treaties and conferences are an assault on the soul and sovereignty of America because they mean that young American men and women will be sent around the world, again and again, on phony "peacekeeping" expeditions. Clinton is determined to keep America on an interventionist course despite the opposition of the American people. It's called "global leadership," which means that our armed services will serve as global policemen and global social workers, while the U.S. taxpayers will play global sugar daddy.

The Senate should reject all UN treaties out of hand. Every single one would reduce our rights, freedom and sovereignty. That goes for treaties on the child, women, an international court, the sea, trade, biodiversity, global warming, and heritage sites. Americans are not willing to be ruled by Bill Clinton's global web, or by Strobe Talbott's "global nation," or by any United Nations treaties or conferences.

We all know that the Kingdom of God will prevail some day. But there is no evidence that, when the Lord says "seek first the Kingdom of God," he's really telling us to look for it in the United Nations.

Our Declaration of Independence and United States Constitution are the fountainhead of the freedom and prosperity Americans enjoy. We Americans have a constitutional republic so unique, so precious, so successful that it would be total folly to put our necks in a yoke with any other nation. St. Paul warns us (II Cor 6.14): "Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers, for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? And what communion hath light with darkness?" The principles of life, liberty and property must not be joined with the principles of genocide, totalitarianism, socialism, and religious persecution. We cannot trust agreements or treaties with infidels.

The remarkable group of men who founded the United States of America talked about our Constitution as a miracle. They believed that God's hand was on us, leading us to victory in the war that established our independence and helping them to set up a framework of government under which freedom, religion and prosperity could flourish. God's people must not allow ourselves to become yoked with unbelievers. This rule applies to nations as well as individuals. Our great American principles of life, liberty and property must not be compromised by being put under foreign bureaucracies where the majority of nations reject God, self-government, and commit the most grievous persecution of all religions.

George Washington warned us in his Farewell Address: "It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world." It's time to heed his warning and to adopt his words at the original Constitutional Convention: "Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the event is in the hands of God."


A note to all you globalist enthuiasts: Hitler tried it, look where it got him!

Saturday, July 5, 2008

Thursday, July 3, 2008

Big Brother Is Now Firmly Entrenched - Watch What You Watch

Judge Orders

YouTube to Give All User Histories to Viacom

By Ryan Singel EmailJuly 02, 2008 7:16:54 PMCategories: Copyrights and Patents

Youtubelogo2 Google will have to turn over every record of every video watched by YouTube users, including users' names and IP addresses, to Viacom, which is suing Google for allowing clips of its copyright videos to appear on YouTube, a judge ruled Wednesday.

Viacom wants the data to prove that infringing material is more popular than user-created videos, which could be used to increase Google's liability if it is found guilty of contributory infringement.

Viacom filed suit against Google in March 2007, seeking more than $1 billion in damages for allowing users to upload clips of Viacom's copyright material. Google argues that the law provides a safe harbor for online services so long as they comply with copyright takedown requests.

Although Google argued that turning over the data would invade its users' privacy, the judge's ruling (.pdf) described that argument as "speculative" and ordered Google to turn over the logs on a set of four tera-byte hard drives.

The judge also turned Google's own defense of its data retention policies -- that IP addresses of computers aren't personally revealing in and of themselves, against it to justify the log dump.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has already reacted, calling the order a violation of the Video Privacy Protection act that "threatens to expose deeply private information."

The order also requires Google to turn over copies of all videos that it has taken down for any reason.

Viacom also requested YouTube's source code, the code for identifying repeat copyright infringement uploads, copies of all videos marked private, and Google's advertising database schema.

Those requests were denied in whole, except that Google will have to turn over data about how often each private video has been watched and by how many persons.

Your New World Order Is Taking Shape

Welcome to your Brave New World
To all who continue to vote for their favorite political party it's time to take a stand and vote for INDEPENDENT candidates who are not beholden to the the political bosses of both major parties...for it is they (Democrats and Republicans) that have got us into this mess.
Storm'n Norm'n



Free-Trade Chaos: Adios to U.S. Manufacturing


By Richard McCormack
Manufacturing & Technology News

Politicians Don't Understand: Textile Maker Copland Industries Says Multinationals Are Killing The U.S. Economy

The federal government no longer represents the interest of U.S. manufacturing companies and their workers, instead siding with the Communist Chinese government that is putting hundreds of thousands of Americans out of good paying jobs, according to James Copland, chairman of Copland Industries/Copland Fabrics of Burlington, N.C. "The U.S. government's policy is creating millions of jobs all right, but it is creating them in the People's Republic of China and Vietnam at the expense of hardworking Americans here at home," Copland told a congressional hearing. "Our country should be ashamed -- totally ashamed - of what our government has done to working people in America."

The U.S. government recognized problems with the communist Soviet Union, "but for some reason it fails to see it with China," Copland told a hearing of the House Science Committee's subcommittee on oversight and investigations on May 22. U.S. government free trade and manufacturing policies are the reason for the current economic slump and the gloomy attitude Americans have about their economic prospects. U.S. manufacturing "is in the midst of a crisis unprecedented since the Great Depression," Copland said.

"Deeply flawed U.S. trade policy toward domestic manufacturing is the single most important root cause of the illness. Every American deserves the right to provide for his family, to own a home and to educate his kids, but our flawed manufacturing and trade policies are taking this away," Copland told members of Congress. "Our Constitutional preamble says 'a government of the people, by the people and for the people.' We have forgotten about the words 'for the people.' "

Copland's company is competing against Chinese companies that don't have to pay workman's comp or provide workers with unemployment insurance; that don't have to deal with EPA or OSHA regulations; that pay no overtime, provide few benefits and abide by no child labor laws; and that receive untold government subsidies and benefit from a currency that is at least 30 percent undervalued. "This is an impossible task," said Copland. "No manufacturer can compete when your competition is a foreign government determined to spend whatever it takes to force you out of the market, and the U.S. government does nothing about it."

While Congress and the Bush administration rattle on about the importance of free trade agreements and refuse to adopt anything resembling a pro-American manufacturing policy, millions of Americans' lives are in economic turmoil. "Their jobs are being moved overseas and they can't get other jobs," said Copland. "Don't think there are high-tech jobs available for those folks, because there aren't. They are being shipped to China and India too. If those who were laid off are lucky, they have landed jobs flipping hamburgers or as a greeter at some retail store. People are angry now, and when they connect the dots -- and they are going to connect them -- they are going to know where to focus their anger."

Copland Industries/Copland Fabrics makes man-made fiber curtains, draperies and blinds. Since 2001, U.S. imports of these products from China have increased by 6,912 percent, from 845,000 kilograms to 59 million kilograms in 2007. This surge of Chinese imports "has been like a nightmare [that] we have had to face," said Copland.

China accounted for almost 107 percent of the total U.S. growth in imports for curtains and draperies between 2001 and 2007, "meaning the rest of the world actually lost U.S. import market share," Copland noted. China now holds 90 percent of the U.S. market for man-made curtains compared to 7.8 percent market share in 2001. "The total market today is 98 percent offshore goods," Copland said. "A flood of imports from China in products like the ones for which we used to make fabric is one of the main reasons why my home town of Burlington has lost nearly 40 percent of its manufacturing jobs since 2001." Chinese finished curtain prices sold in the United States are less than Copland Industries' cost of materials.

Copland Industries has stayed in business by "picking up the pieces when our competition goes out of business," said Copland. "We pick up a piece and, believe you me, just as soon as you get into it, here come the Chinese again. We look constantly for something that the Chinese are not doing, that they haven't focused on yet. We are looking constantly for something that may have some natural barrier to them coming over here, but remember, everybody in our industry is doing the same thing, everybody. There have been 550,000 jobs lost in my industry since 2001 alone." Copland Industries has reduced employment from 1,000 to less than 300.

Hundreds of mills have been closed in the Carolinas due to the surge of imports from China. "There are small towns where stores are closed with weeds growing up around them," said Copland. "But you know it is really bad when you see the churches closing. Someone needs to think about the hard working people and what is happening to them. The big multinational companies, the importers and big retailers have exactly what they want. They couldn't have written a book and had it more perfect for their world: buy at the China price, sell at the U.S. price and don't worry about whether the average American has a job or he or she can make ends meet. Their world is not what is good for America.

"I will tell you that if this thing doesn't stop there will be no survivors. We will not have any manufacturing in the United States. When these plants are closed down, they are closed. If you don't run the equipment and keep it up, it deteriorates to nothing, but the equipment is being sold. Pakistan is buying the equipment. People are selling it for five cents on the dollar. Nobody wants it. And let me tell you what is happening to the buildings themselves. I was just down in Joanna, South Carolina, a huge mill down there has been closed for five years. They are tearing down the mills. Why? Because they are going to sell the bricks, guys. They are going to sell the beams. So don't think that you are going to be able to say, 'Oh, boy, as soon as this thing is over, here we come back, it is going to be regeneration.' "

Copland told the politicians that they don't understand how profoundly the economy is being impacted by Chinese imports. Politicians talk about the sagging U.S. economy and home foreclosures, "but what they haven't realized yet is that people don't have any money," said Copland. "The reason they don't have any money is because they have lost their jobs or they now have jobs making a fraction of what their pay was before their jobs were exported. If people had their manufacturing jobs, they wouldn't have the economic problems and financial problems we now have."

Fifty million Americans are without health insurance because so many good jobs that provide health care have been exported due to "our flawed trade agreements," Copland told the subcommittee. As long as the federal government refuses to adopt a manufacturing policy, "the United States will have much more difficulty ameliorating the pain an economic recession will inflict on its citizenry in a timely manner."

U.S. government officials talk glowingly about the Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), but CAFTA is causing the loss of thousands of U.S. jobs, Copland told the Congress. "It sounded like a good idea, everybody is going to be okay, but they left a loophole -- and it's the loopholes that get us so many times. The negotiators don't even know that the loopholes are there because they are some political appointee that hasn't done it but for about three or six months or they have been out of college for about a year, and they don't even know the loopholes are there. If they do know, woe be to them. Let me tell you something" Copland said: "They had a deal in [CAFTA] to where they could take the pocketing for trousers -- that doesn't sound like much. But pocketing is a 180-million-yard business in the United States. They had it in the agreement and then said, 'Well, you know, we are going to make an exception on pocketing and we are going to let these Central American countries make this stuff out of Chinese cloth.' The Dominican Republic wanted that. They gave it to them. We pointed it out and said, 'Look, you are going to destroy the industry.' 'Oh, no, don't worry, we are going to fix it, we are going to fix it.' That was three-plus years ago, folks. It hasn't been fixed. There has been nothing done. Let me tell you the end result of that thing. Eighty percent of the market is gone, and it is gone folks. Haines Finishing Company in Winston-Salem closed down 75 percent of its business. Allis Manufacturing Company closed down four plants in South Carolina. Mount Vernon lost 70 million yards worth of business and closed plants in Rome, Georgia, and in Texas.

"We have got to start paying attention to what we are doing with these trade agreements. We have to get some people who know what they are doing with these trade agreements. We are being out negotiated. We better start paying attention to what we are doing because let me tell you something, we are exporting the wealth of this country as fast as we can export it. It is going offshore. We are going to pay one tremendous price in this country."

Wednesday, July 2, 2008

Cap'n Bob, MSgt Norm'n salutes you SIR !

Faux Brass - Redux


In light of General Wesley Clark’s incredible weekend faux pas regarding the war record of Senator McCain, I’m going to re-post an old article from two years ago - Faux Brass:






Faux Brass: a class of former military officers who have shed the honor and pride of their commissions in favor of retreatist and defeatist policies.


In recent times, a few former military officers have rendered negative opinions on the War on Terror which includes ongoing skirmishes in Iraq and the current trouble in Gaza and Southern Lebanon. Now, let’s be clear that most current and former military “brass” support efforts worldwide in the certain-to-be-lengthy War on Terror. The major media, however, fail to show the overwhelming support for the effort among military brass.


Jack Murtha comes to mind as a former military-turned-politician who gets it wrong — redeploy, he says, to Okinawa(?!). Murtha also shamefully convicts our military prior to any charges being made.


It’s the same with John Kerry who offers that he could have done better if he were president — the trouble is, he offers no ideas, but only the same retreat and concede policy that has been his lifelong pursuit. Thank God that America caused him to concede the last election.


Another ex-military general-turned-presidential-candidate-turned-pundit, Wesley Clark, always portrays the administration in the anti-internationalization light. This from a former NATO Commander — not actually a U.S. Military function. Clark will always defer to the “international community” for policy answers.


Murtha, Kerry and Clark fail to put America first. American interests must first be served before worrying how the “international community” views things. After all, has the UN ever succeeded with anything they attempt, other than stealing from children’s programs and Iraqi oil profits? Nope.


These three examples of Faux Brass, Murtha, Kerry and Clark, each remind me of a certain loudmouth cartoon chicken trying to look like an eagle.


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  1. DirtCrashr said,


    July 1, 2008 @ 16:06:56 PDT


    Among those who served but poorly and ignobly in civilian life, don’t forget that asanine imbecile terrorist-hugger worst-ever President and former-President, Jimmah Carter!



  2. Cap'n Bob said,


    July 1, 2008 @ 17:16:26 PDT


    We agree - and it scares the hell out of me to think that Obama is in a position to displace Carter as the worst President - ever.



  3. Norm said,


    July 2, 2008 @ 19:22:28 PDT


    Greaty post !!!
    A bit old, but it will divulge my thoughts about John Kerry http://patriotfiles.org/TroopStories&Articles_Page7.htm#kerry

This Global Warming Thing...I'm getting hot under the collar!

Crossed posted from:http://capnbob.us/blog/2006/08/23/correlating-sunspots-to-global-climate/

Also...For more on the subject go here:http://www.worldviewtube.com/video.php/3702

Correlating Sunspots to Global Climate

Unfamiliar with Solar phenomena? Read what the Sun is and how it does what it does:

More about Why Solar fusion activity is the primary
mechanism for climate change on Earth
not people!

This is a study in two observations made over the last 400 years: observed annual sunspot numbers and derived global temperatures. The sunspot numbers were recorded by various solar observers since Galileo’s time. Temperatures have been derived from scientific evidence such as ice and earth cores, and several other valid methods. These were collected by various climate studies and were compiled by NASA scientists to produce an animation of Earth’s climate changes over 399 years between 1599 and 1998.

Climate Change

First look at the NASA video that chronicles global temperature since 1599 AD:

Red indicates warmer surface temperature while blue indicates cooler. The little year clock, although difficult to read, ticks off the years in rapid succession from 1599 through 1998.

You should notice two things as you watch the animation:

  1. The Earth has generally been getting warmer
  2. Extended periods of cooler temperatures have occurred

Annual Sunspot Count

Next, look at this graphic depicting solar cycles and the number of sunspots counted each year:

You should notice two things as you observe this graphic:

  1. The sunspot count per year has been getting generally larger
  2. Extended periods of low sunspot numbers have occurred

Correlating The Two Phenomena Together

And finally, look at this two-minute presentation that ties both observations together:



A few additional conclusions:

  1. The media will print or broadcast sensationalized headlines to sell copy regardless of scientific value
  2. The media will print or broadcast manipulated science with half-truths and invalid conclusions to damage politicians with whom they do not agree
  3. Politicians seize on these unverified claims in order to blame their opponents
  4. Uneducated/uninformed people are as gullible as ever

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References

Update: Read about how cosmic rays interact with solar flux to alter Earth’s climate in a subsequent article.

19 Comments

  1. TheLandlord said,

    August 31, 2006 @ 19:29:53 PDT

    I’ve been reading the global warming junk science/politics for years.
    Your presentation here is solid science, and very convincing.
    I hope this theory gets out, but I won’t hold my breath given the state of the media.
    Keep up the good work.
    Mike.

  2. Cap'n Bob said,

    September 1, 2006 @ 06:48:01 PDT

    Mike,

    Thanks for the comment and your remarks on our Global Warming article. It’s a topic that anyone with a scientific background will realize that the left not only has it wrong, but will try and use it’s popularity among the uneducated minions to handicap business in America and blame the administration. It’s already started in California!

    To see a listing of all articles at our site that touch on the topic, click the “Climate and Global Warming” link under the information heading in the right sidebar.

  3. Retired Geezer said,

    September 2, 2006 @ 14:37:13 PDT

    Hi Bob,
    I linked your post on my moron blog but I don’t have the trackback thingy figured out.
    RG

  4. mikeslag said,

    December 7, 2006 @ 07:22:11 PST

    Outstanding Post Bob, I just found your site and this is simply great. Do you know of anything further that I could look up, webpages, books to read, etc, where I can find further information debunking the People Cause Global Warming Scare?

    Have you read Michael Crichton’s State of Fear? It’s written like a research paper (with footnotes, bibliography, etc) showing how it’s all crap and hysteria, but in the form of a novel. Truly awesome.

    Where this is concerned I live by the geological motto:

    Civilization is here by geological consent, subject to change without notice.

  5. Cap'n Bob said,

    December 7, 2006 @ 07:41:18 PST

    Thanks Mike — I have a work-in-progress Climate and Global Warming reference page where a number of resources are linked. It has a listing of all our GW articles as well.

    I like to visit World Climate Report and CO2 Science blogs, both of which are updated regularly. I also like to use John Daly’s Still Waiting for Greenhouse as a reference. John is passed on, but his mates in Australia keep the site going.

    Michael Crichton — what a guy — love his Aliens Cause Global Warming (PDF) speech he delivered to various audiences on the subject. A great read. I’ll have to make it a point to read “State of Fear.”

    And thanks for signing up for the Never Forget Flash. That’s a message that needs perpetuation these days.

  6. mikeslag said,

    December 7, 2006 @ 10:29:18 PST

    I’m going to read that pdf shortly, definitely good stuff. Crichton is a genius. Yeah definitely read State of Fear, the bibliography has something like 100 (or more, I don’t have it in front of me) different books, essays, papers, and websites all with facts and figures on global warming. Amazing stuff.

  7. sisu said,

    January 6, 2007 @ 12:45:44 PST

    “For every one that doeth evil hateth the light”…

    The dandelion in winter. Even as cherries blossom inside the Beltway during these El Nino-induced days of faux spring in the Northeast, in Chelsea-by-the-Sea a dandelion — cum opportunistic ant — shows its colors on the twelfth day of Christmas…

  8. PerStrand said,

    March 2, 2007 @ 16:00:01 PST

    Actually I started to look at the cause for global warming by looking at the data. Here are my result. The leading climate scientists use misleading and deceptive methods when they analyze climate data.
    Amazingly there are no repository and comprehensive information to be found at any location on the Internet over the existing two theories for global warming.
    People should be able to make informative and objective judgment for themselves.
    Therefore I collected this information here on my website http://www.global-warming-and-the-climate.com On it I have collected information and graphs covering both the greenhouse gas and the cosmic ray cloud cover theory and made analysis from the data.

  9. mpano66 said,

    April 12, 2007 @ 11:24:50 PDT

    I can find several dozen more if you like. And again, let me state this: its all pointless. The solution to the hypothesized threat man faces from global warming is what? Reduction in fossil fuel use, yes? I’m all for that. Anyone with a shred of braincell is for that, because dependance of a civilization on a resource that will be depleted within a century and causes brown, unbreathable air is silly. Dont buy into this Global Warming canard. DENY funding for warming research, and spend the money how it should be spent: finding alternative fuels!

  10. bob12smith said,

    April 15, 2007 @ 08:50:42 PDT

    The NASA video used here is not recorded global temperature of earth between 1500-1998. It’s the output of a climate model which was driven only by solar trends durign that time period, with no greenhouse gas forcings [url]http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/stories/iceage_20011207/index.html[/url]

    The video shows significant warming between 1900 and 1950, but no significant warming since about 1950. That’s in contrast with recorded global temperature trends which show just as much warming in the past 30 years as occured in the early 20th century [url]http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/[/url]

    In other words the video shows that solar trends do not correlate with recent global warming in the past few decades.

  11. Cap'n Bob said,

    April 15, 2007 @ 09:33:49 PDT

    Regarding “solar trends do not correlate with recent global warming in the past few decades.” Keep in mind that the view in the NASA video is trained on the Western Hemisphere only. The temperature reference that bob12smith invokes is shown below:

    I clearly see a strong correlation between the original sunspot chart and this graph. The run up in the first half of the 20th century is clearly evident while the cooling trend that sparked global cooling angst in the 70’s is also clearly seen. In addition, the recently discovered relationship between solar flux and the intensity of cosmic radiation supports the 1500 year theory of global warming and cooling cycles (Svensmark, et al).

    Rather than focusing on a narrow segment of history (decades), one should focus on the long-term relationship between solar activity and climate. There is far more evidence that the Earth’s climate is influenced by natural phenomena globally than there is to support anthropogenic causes.

  12. bob12smith said,

    April 15, 2007 @ 10:31:51 PDT

    I agree that the original sunspot graph correlates with global temperature trends, but only up to about 1970. After that the temperature starts rising again while sunspot trends show no accompanying upward trend as they did during the 1900-1950 warming period.

    According to anthropogenic global warming theory the anthropogenic signal has only broken through the natural variation in the last few decades. Prior temperature trends across geological time and in the early 20th century would therefore be expected to be explained mainly by natural phenomenon like solar variation and not any anthropogenic causes. So the sticking point for whether anthropogenic global warming is correct or not are the main causes of the warming in the last few decades which may differ from the main causes of temperature changes over geological time.

    There is a NASA movie for the entire globe, not just the western hemisphere:
    [url]http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a002300/a002319/a002319.mpg[/url]

    This also doesn’t contain the warming trend in the last 3 decades because neither video is showing the actual temperature of earth over time. They are the output of a climate model fed solar trends. That the video doesn’t show the warming recorded in the last 3 decades is because the solar trend fed into the model didn’t produce one, despite the good correlation before this point.

  13. Cap'n Bob said,

    April 16, 2007 @ 08:14:35 PDT

    Regarding the temperature increases from 1970 onward being the “anthropogenic signal,” let me quote from a September, 2006 article by Bob Carter in the London Telegraph (emphasis mine):

    “For many years now, human-caused climate change has been viewed as a large and urgent problem. In truth, however, the biggest part of the problem is neither environmental nor scientific, but a self-created political fiasco. Consider the simple fact, drawn from the official temperature records of the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, that for the years 1998-2005 global average temperature did not increase (there was actually a slight decrease, though not at a rate that differs significantly from zero).

    Yes, you did read that right. And also, yes, this eight-year period of temperature stasis did coincide with society’s continued power station and SUV-inspired pumping of yet more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

    In response to these facts, a global warming devotee will chuckle and say “how silly to judge climate change over such a short period”. Yet in the next breath, the same person will assure you that the 28-year-long period of warming which occurred between 1970 and 1998 constitutes a dangerous (and man-made) warming. Tosh. Our devotee will also pass by the curious additional facts that a period of similar warming occurred between 1918 and 1940, well prior to the greatest phase of world industrialisation, and that cooling occurred between 1940 and 1965, at precisely the time that human emissions were increasing at their greatest rate.

    Visit the site above for references that back up Mr. Carter’s comments and to view the entire editorial.

  14. bob12smith said,

    April 16, 2007 @ 13:38:05 PDT

    The CRU temperature record that Mr Carter references shows that the rising temprature trend (the black trendline) has not stopped at or since 1998. http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/temperature/nhshgl.gif

    1998 was an anomolously warm year because of a strong el nino. Two consequetive years can differ a lot like this, so the multi-year average has to be used to work out any trend. It’s that average trend which is relevant to whether the climate is warming or cooling. The CRU record shows the last few years have been creeping as high as 1998 without such a strong el nino for example.

  15. Cap'n Bob said,

    April 16, 2007 @ 19:28:29 PDT

    I question the graphic in the last comment. It’s from the University of East Anglia whose research turns up occasionally in pro-alarmist claims of man-made warming on a global scale. Their data resembles the tail-end of the now debunked “Hockey Stick” graphic touted by the IPCC and the UN.

    Bringing El Niño into the discussion, however, brings us full-circle back to the Sun. El Niño is one phenomenon related to cyclic weather patterns dependent on insolation.

    Consider that 1998 was just before the peak of solar cycle 23. This little video from SOHO EIT x-ray imagery compares the year 1996 on the left and 1999 on the right. The increase in x-ray activity can be easily seen. Note that x-ray fluctuations occur in proportion to other solar spectra.



    Solar emissions across the spectrum are the primary cause of climate phenomena on Earth including:

    1. Triple-cell global atmospheric circulation (modified by Earth’s rotation and Coriolis)
    2. World-wide submarine ocean current circulation ( the so-called “conveyor belt”)
    3. Ionization of atmospheric molecules including ozone, which deflects ultraviolet radiation
    4. Solar particle emissions and magnetic flux which deflect cosmic radiation

    As solar activity ebbs and flows, the above phenomena respond accordingly.

    The net effects of anthropogenic contribution to warming in terms of energy must certainly be many, many orders of magnitude below the gigajoules of energy emitted by the Sun.

  16. bob12smith said,

    April 18, 2007 @ 12:56:44 PDT

    The University of East Anglia is the same source Bob Carter referenced.

  17. Cap'n Bob said,

    April 19, 2007 @ 20:19:53 PDT

    It’s interesting that Bob Carter and Bob Smith can look at the same data and come to different conclusions. I guess I have to lean toward Mr. Carter’s interpretation of the data since he doesn’t appear to have any political bias as is the case with climate alarmists.

  18. Olivia S. said,

    January 24, 2008 @ 07:30:20 PST

    I just read your article you posted called “Correlating Sunspots To Global Climate.” And I just wanted to tell you how much I loved it! I cannot tell you how Refreshing it was to hear that side of the “global warming issue”. I completely agree with the ideas in the article. It disgusts me that people buy into whatever the media says about global warming! i completely believe that there are factors out there that impact the climate So much more than just humans. Thank you for an article that was not full of the usual crap I hear about global warming.

  19. Cap'n Bob said,

    January 24, 2008 @ 07:37:00 PST

    Thanks, Olivia - I am glad that you enjoyed reading this article.

    I have a reference page that includes many links to resources on the topic:

    http://capnbob.us/blog/features/climate-and-global-warming/.