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Former CBS News president Richard Salant (1961 - 64 and 1966 - 79) explained the major media's role: "Our job is to give people not what they want, but what we decide they ought to have." ...and to this very day most Americans haven't noticed they're being brained washed! ~ N. Hooben
Saturday, July 5, 2008
Thursday, July 3, 2008
Big Brother Is Now Firmly Entrenched - Watch What You Watch
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
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 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 ( "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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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
More about Why Solar fusion activity is the primary
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:
- The Earth has generally been getting warmer
- 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:
- The sunspot count per year has been getting generally larger
- 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:
- The media will print or broadcast sensationalized headlines to sell copy regardless of scientific value
- The media will print or broadcast manipulated science with half-truths and invalid conclusions to damage politicians with whom they do not agree
- Politicians seize on these unverified claims in order to blame their opponents
- Uneducated/uninformed people are as gullible as ever
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References
- Western hemisphere climate animation courtesy NASA — adapted from NASA Visible Earth
- Sunspot number graphic courtesy of PAGES
- Animated presentation “Correlation Between Solar Activity and Global Temperature” created by Cap’n Bob
- Ultimate Global Warming - SPF 2 Million Won’t Be Enough
Update: Read about how cosmic rays interact with solar flux to alter Earth’s climate in a subsequent article.
19 Comments
TheLandlord said,
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.Cap'n Bob said,
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.
Retired Geezer said,
Hi Bob,
I linked your post on my moron blog but I don’t have the trackback thingy figured out.
RGmikeslag said,
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.
Cap'n Bob said,
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.
mikeslag said,
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.
sisu said,
“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…
PerStrand said,
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.mpano66 said,
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!
bob12smith said,
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.
Cap'n Bob said,
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.
bob12smith said,
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.
Cap'n Bob said,
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.
bob12smith said,
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.
Cap'n Bob said,
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 radiationAs 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.
bob12smith said,
The University of East Anglia is the same source Bob Carter referenced.
Cap'n Bob said,
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.
Olivia S. said,
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.
Cap'n Bob said,
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/.
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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!
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.
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