National Security vs. Energy Security

The United States military has found a new threat hiding in the vast emptiness of the Mojave Desert in California: wind turbines.

According to a NY Times article, wind turbines can be indistinguishable from airplanes on many radar systems, and they can even cause blackout zones where planes literally disappear from radar. With heights reaching 400 feet, wind turbines look very similar to storm activity on weather radar which makes it harder for air traffic controllers to give accurate weather information to pilots.

No serious incidents have yet to be reported however, Dr. Dorothy Robyn, deputy under secretary of defense told a House Armed Services subcommittee that wind turbines pose an unacceptable risk to training, testing and national security in certain regions.

Because of this concern, the Defense Department has now emerged as a formidable opponent of wind projects in direct conflict with the Energy Department which has spent billions of dollars as part of President Obama’s broader effort to promote renewable energy.

According to Gary Seifert, researcher at the Idaho National Laboratory, this is “…the train wreck of the 2000s”. “The train wreck is the competing resources for two national needs: energy security and national security.”

In 2009, about 9000 megawatts of proposed wind projects were abandoned or delayed because of radar concerns raised by the military and the FAA.

Collisions between the Energy Industry and the military have also occurred in Columbia River Gorge and Great Lakes region.

Mr. Debenham, a former naval officer, said he understood the concerns but that the military was overstating them. A similar turbine just went up on a nearby Marine base. “It’s standing proof that these single turbines are not an unmitigatable threat to national security,” he said.

The Energy Department says the problem should be solvable through new technologies. Upgrading many of the radar systems still in use in the United States which date back to the 1950s is the first step that needs to be taken by the Defense Department.

Washington is currently reviewing the militaries concerns. In the meantime, millions of dollars in financing and renewable energy incentives are simply blowing in the wind.

Obama Poised to Cede US Sovereignty, Claims British Lord

Story by Walter Scott Hudson
Originally from the blog Fightin’ Words

The Minnesota Free Market Institute hosted an event at Bethel University in St. Paul on Wednesday evening. Keynote speaker Lord Christopher Monckton, former science adviser to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, gave a scathing and lengthy presentation, complete with detailed charts, graphs, facts, and figures which culminated in the utter decimation of both the pop culture concept of global warming and the credible threat of any significant anthropomorphic climate change.

A detailed summary of Monckton’s presentation will be available here once compiled. However, a segment of his remarks justify immediate publication. If credible, the concern Monckton speaks to may well prove the single most important issue facing the American nation, bigger than health care, bigger than cap and trade, and worth every citizen’s focused attention.

Here were Monckton’s closing remarks, as dictated from my audio recording:

At [the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference in] Copenhagen, this December, weeks away, a treaty will be signed. Your president will sign it. Most of the third world countries will sign it, because they think they’re going to get money out of it. Most of the left-wing regime from the European Union will rubber stamp it. Virtually nobody won’t sign it.

I read that treaty. And what it says is this, that a world government is going to be created. The word “government” actually appears as the first of three purposes of the new entity. The second purpose is the transfer of wealth from the countries of the West to third world countries, in satisfication of what is called, coyly, “climate debt” – because we’ve been burning CO2 and they haven’t. We’ve been screwing up the climate and they haven’t. And the third purpose of this new entity, this government, is enforcement.

How many of you think that the word “election” or “democracy” or “vote” or “ballot” occurs anywhere in the 200 pages of that treaty? Quite right, it doesn’t appear once. So, at last, the communists who piled out of the Berlin Wall and into the environmental movement, who took over Greenpeace so that my friends who funded it left within a year, because [the communists] captured it – Now the apotheosis as at hand. They are about to impose a communist world government on the world. You have a president who has very strong sympathies with that point of view. He’s going to sign it. He’ll sign anything. He’s a Nobel Peace Prize [winner]; of course he’ll sign it.

[laughter]

And the trouble is this; if that treaty is signed, if your Constitution says that it takes precedence over your Constitution (sic), and you can’t resign from that treaty unless you get agreement from all the other state parties – And because you’ll be the biggest paying country, they’re not going to let you out of it.

So, thank you, America. You were the beacon of freedom to the world. It is a privilege merely to stand on this soil of freedom while it is still free. But, in the next few weeks, unless you stop it, your president will sign your freedom, your democracy, and your prosperity away forever. And neither you nor any subsequent government you may elect will have any power whatsoever to take it back. That is how serious it is. I’ve read the treaty. I’ve seen this stuff about [world] government and climate debt and enforcement. They are going to do this to you whether you like it or not.

But I think it is here, here in your great nation, which I so love and I so admire – it is here that perhaps, at this eleventh hour, at the fifty-ninth minute and fifty-ninth second, you will rise up and you will stop your president from signing that dreadful treaty, that purposeless treaty. For there is no problem with climate and, even if there were, an economic treaty does nothing to [help] it.

So I end by saying to you the words that Winston Churchill addressed to your president in the darkest hour before the dawn of freedom in the Second World War. He quoted from your great poet Longfellow:

Sail on, O Ship of State!
Sail on, O Union, strong and great!
Humanity with all its fears,
With all the hopes of future years,
Is hanging breathless on thy fate!

Lord Monckton received a standing ovation and took a series of questions from members of the audience. Among those questions were these relevant to the forthcoming Copenhagen treaty:

Question: The current administration and the Democratic majority in Congress has shown little regard for the will of the people. They’re trying to pass a serious government agenda, and serious taxation and burdens on future generations. And there seems to be little to stop them. How do you propose we stop Obama from doing this, because I see no way to stop him from signing anything in Copenhagen. I believe that’s his agenda and he’ll do it.

I don’t minimize the difficulty. But on this subject – I don’t really do politics, because it’s not right. In the end, your politics is for you. The correct procedure is for you to get onto your representatives, both in the US Senate where the bill has yet to go through (you can try and stop that) and in [the House], and get them to demand their right of audience (which they all have) with the president and tell him about this treaty. There are many very powerful people in this room, wealthy people, influential people. Get onto the media, tell them about this treaty. If they go to www.wattsupwiththat.com, they will find (if they look carefully enough) a copy of that treaty, because I arranged for it to be posted there not so long ago. Let them read it, and let the press tell the people that their democracy is about to be taken away for no good purpose, at least [with] no scientific basis [in reference to climate change]. Tell the press to say this. Tell the press to say that, even if there is a problem [with climate change], you don’t want your democracy taken away. It really is as simple as that.

Question: Is it really irrevocable if that treaty is signed? Suppose it’s signed by someone who does not have the authority, as I – I have some, a high degree of skepticism that we do have a valid president there because I -

I know at least one judge who shares your opinion, sir, yes.

I don’t believe it until I see it. … Would [Obama's potential illegitimacy as president] give us a reasonable cause to nullify whatever treaty that he does sign as president?

I would be very careful not to rely on things like that. Although there is a certain amount of doubt whether or not he was born in Hawaii, my fear is it would be very difficult to prove he wasn’t born in Hawaii and therefore we might not be able to get anywhere with that. Besides, once he’s signed that treaty, whether or not he signed it validly, once he’s signed it and ratified it – your Senate ratifies it – you’re bound by it. But I will say one thing; they know, in the White House, that they won’t be able to get the 67 votes in the Senate, the two-thirds majority that your Constitution has stipulated must be achieved in order to ratify a treaty of this kind. However, what they’ve worked out is this – and they actually let it slip during the election campaign, which is how I know about it. They plan to enact that Copenhagen treaty into legislation by a simple majority of both houses. That they can do. But the virtue of that – and here you have a point – is that is, thank God, reversible. So I want you to pray tonight, and pray hard for your Senate that they utterly refuse to ratify the [new] Treaty of Copenhagen, because if they refuse to ratify it and [Obama] has to push it through as domestic legislation, you can repeal it.

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Regardless of whether global warming is taking place or caused to any degree by prosperity activity, we do not want a global government empowered to tax Americans without elected representation or anything analogous to constitutional protections. The Founding Fathers would roll over in their graves if they knew their progeny allowed a foreign power such authority, effectively undoing their every effort in an act of Anti-American Revolution. If that is our imminent course, we need to put all else on hold and focus on stopping it. If American sovereignty is ceded, all other debate is irrelevant.

Edited to add @ 8:31 am:

Skimming through the treaty, I came across verification of Monckton’s assessment of the new entity’s purpose:

38. The scheme for the new institutional arrangement under the Convention will be based on three basic pillars: government; facilitative mechanism; and financial mechanism, and the basic organization of which will include the following:

World Government (heading added)
(a) The government will be ruled by the COP with the support of a new subsidiary body on adaptation, and of an Executive Board responsible for the management of the new funds and the related facilitative processes and bodies. The current Convention secretariat will operate as such, as appropriate.

To Redistribute Wealth (heading added)
b) The Convention’s financial mechanism will include a multilateral climate change fund including five windows: (a) an Adaptation window, (b) a Compensation window, to address loss and damage from climate change impacts [read: the "climate debt" Monckton refers to], including insurance, rehabilitation and compensatory components, © a Technology window; (d) a Mitigation window; and (e) a REDD window, to support a multi-phases process for positive forest incentives relating to REDD actions.

With Enforcement Authority (heading added)
© The Convention’s facilitative mechanism will include: (a) work programmes for adaptation and mitigation; (b) a long-term REDD process; © a short-term technology action plan; (d) an expert group on adaptation established by the subsidiary body on adaptation, and expert groups on mitigation, technologies and on monitoring, reporting and verification; and (e) an international registry for the monitoring, reporting and verification of compliance of emission reduction commitments, and the transfer of technical and financial resources from developed countries to developing countries. The secretariat will provide technical and administrative support, including a new centre for information exchange [read; enforcement].

Edited to add @ 2:30am October 18, 2009:

Commenter “Ralph” provides another link to a copy of the New Copenhagen Treaty which Monckton referenced and wattsupwiththat.com posted. This time it comes from an official United Nations website. There is no doubt now. This document is authentic.

District 9 - WARNING: Spoiler Alert!

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THIS SYNOPSIS CONTAINS FULL DETAILS OF THE FILM -

The film opens with a documentary-style series of interviews that introduce the situation. Twenty years before, an alien ship is seen coming towards Earth and arrives above Johannesburg, South Africa. It hovers above the city for three months without any contact; eventually humans take the initiative and cut into the ship. They discover a large group of aliens who are malnourished and sick. The aliens are later assessed as apparently being all "workers", with their leadership mysteriously missing (it is hypothesized that a plague may have wiped out all of the leadership-caste). Grainy footage shows part of the ship (supposed to be a command module) falling to Earth, but nobody has been able to find it, leaving the ship inoperable.

The creatures, called "prawns" as a derogatory reference to the sea creature which they resemble, are housed in a government camp. The alien race's true name is never learned they are primarily referred to as "prawns" or, more rarely, "non-humans". Overcrowding and militarization eventually turn the area into a slum known as District 9. A massive black market is set up between the aliens and a group of Nigerians primarily led by Mumbo, a paralyzed warlord. In addition to inter-species prostitution, the Nigerians exchange canned cat food for alien weapons, of which the cat food has a similar effect to catnip on the aliens.

The movie takes place in 2010. Patience over the alien situation has run out and control over them has been contracted to Multi-National United (MNU), a private company that shows little regard for the aliens' welfare. MNU is interested in using the aliens' advanced weaponry, but its integration with alien biology makes it useless for humans.

An MNU field operative named Wikus van der Merwe (Sharlto Copley), is set with a task to move 1.8 million aliens to a new District 10 camp located 240 km from Johannesburg, with help from private security forces working for MNU. While inspecting a suspicious alien residence, Wikus handles an alien device which squirts a dark liquid into his face. He becomes very sick and collects the device as evidence.

A rapid transformation begins to occur, and shortly after exposure to the liquid, Wikus's left arm mutates into a claw exactly like that of a prawn. After collapsing at a surprise party in his house, and a doctor at a local hospital discovers his alien left arm, Wikus is taken into custody and a series of tests and experiments are performed on him; these reveal that his alien DNA allows him to operate alien weapons. The scientists discover that his DNA is currently "in balance" with the alien DNA, which is gradually taking over. They decide to harvest his body for biological material at this critical point, to have the greatest chance of replicating his ability to use alien technology in other humans later. To reduce any side-effects, no anesthetic was used. However, during the attempted vivisection Wikus escapes after overpowering his captors, and flees from MNU.

Wikus seeks refuge in the run-down shack of an alien called Christopher Johnson, the same alien who Wikus attempted to evict earlier, who created the alien device that infected Wikus. The device contains fuel that Christopher scavenged from various alien parts scattered around District 9. It is hinted that Christopher might be a surviving member of the prawn leadership caste, as he shows much more knowledge of how alien technology works, possesses or at least found the command module, and interacts with MNU officials more articulately than other aliens. Although initially hostile towards Wikus, Christopher eventually agrees to help him reverse the transformation if Wikus will retrieve the fuel from MNU labs. Christopher promises to undo the mutation by getting Wikus aboard the mother ship hovering over Johannesburg, and shows Wikus the ship's command module, which has been hidden under his shack.

Wikus steals some alien weaponry from Mumbo and his gang, with Mumbo vowing to capture Wikus and eat his mutated arm (his witch doctor believes this will give him the power to operate the alien weaponry). With Christopher's help they launch an assault on MNU and successfully retrieve the fuel sample. While there, Christopher discovers that MNU has been experimenting on his people. Wikus and Christopher fight their way back to District 9 and Christopher begins preparations to leave. He tells Wikus that he must first return to his home world to seek help for his people before he can cure Wikus. Furious, Wikus knocks Christopher unconscious and powers up the ship himself. The MNU mercenaries target Wikus and destroy one of the command module's engines, causing it to crash land inside District 9.

After Wikus is captured by MNU, a battle between the MNU mercenaries and Mumbo's gang breaks out. After a protracted firefight, the Nigerians capture Wikus. Just before Wikus' arm is chopped off, Christopher's son activates several systems in the mothership, including the autopilot routine of a mechanized battle suit; it slaughters Mumbo and his men after they fire on it. Wikus enters the alien walker battle suit, and after initially attempting to flee, returns and rescues Christopher. Armed with a lightning cannon, tracking missiles, and a high-powered machine gun, Wikus begins to fight the MNU men. After being knocked over by a anti-tank sniper round, he convinces Christopher to return to the shuttle without him, over Christopher's objections. Christopher promises Wikus that he will return in three years to repair his body. Christopher then boards the shuttle and activates a tractor beam which returns the command module to the mother ship.

Wikus is shot in the back and the walker suit ejects him. Wikus, heavily wounded, begins dragging himself away from the leader (and sole survivor) of an MNU squad, but is quickly caught. As Wikus prepares to die, aliens burst out of the surrounding slums and dismember the mercenary.

The film concludes with another series of interviews and news broadcasts, providing human opinions on the events that unfolded. The aliens are successfully moved to District 10, which now has a population of 2.5 million and is growing. One of Wikus' coworkers hacks MNU's database and publicly exposes their illegal genetic experiments. There are many differing theories on Wikus' fate. Some people believe that he either left on the mother ship, is in hiding, was captured by MNU or a government agency. Some interviewees hypothesize that the aliens are planning to return with a full army and declare war on humanity. An interview with Wikus' wife reveals a small metal rose was left on her doorstep (Wikus has earlier demonstrated his affection with handmade gifts). Her friends have told her that it could not have possibly been Wikus, but she appears unsure. In the final scene, an alien with a bandaged left arm is shown in a junk yard fashioning a rose out of scrap metal.

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Eric Dane, Rebecca Gayheart Sex Tape with little Kari Ann Peniche

Mc what?

I don't know if I care less about this tape or the naked pics of Jasmine Fiore BUT the fact that ole' Eric Dane's sextape is one of Google's HOTTEST searched terms is something that I think we need to SERIOUSLY address! ANYWAY
For those of you that do have the interest here's the story in all it's glory:

Eric Dane Sextape: Video w/ Rebecca Gayheart & Kari Ann PenicheShare: by Jon Azpiri

Another day, another celebrity sextape scandal. The latest video shows Grey's Anatomy's Eric Dane involved in a McSteamy menage a trois with actress Rebecca Gayheart and former Miss Teen USA Kari Ann Peniche.

The Eric Dane 'McSteamy' sextape video, which was uncovered by the fine folks at Gawker, shows Eric Dane with wife Rebecca Gayheart enjoying a bathtub romp with Kari Ann Peniche.

The trio appears to be drunk throughout the video and at one point Gayheart says she has to lay down because she is so high.

This isn't the first time Rebecca Gayheart has had a bathtub escapade made public. In 2003, a photo of Gayheart ran in the National Enquirer showing her sharing a bathtub with an unidentified woman and a crack pipe.

Gayheart also earned notoriety after being convicted of vehicular manslaughter in 2001. The Rebecca Gayheart car accident took the life of nine-year-old Jorge Cruz, Jr. Cruz Jr. had been jaywalking and Gayheart struck the boy after swerving around cars that had stopped to let him cross in the middle of the street. Gayheart admitted that she was on her cel phone during the accident and served three years probation.

So who is Kari Ann Peniche? Peniche is a former Miss Teen USA who lost her title after posing for Playboy in 2002. Earlier this year she was kicked off of Dr. Drew Pinksy's Celebrity Rehab: Sex Addiction for throwing vases at cast and crew members.

Jasmine Fiore Playboy Pictures: Search No More!

Searching in Vain for Something that Never Existed --

Jasmine Fiore Playboy Pics Talking about the nonexistent, such as Jasmine Fiore Playboy pictures, is sometimes problematic. And the reason is simple: There is just enough truth or allusion to the truth for the persistence of rumor to drive the perpetuation of that same rumor. For instance, Jasmine Fiore, the Jasmine Fiore Playboy Pictures: Search No More!

Date: August 20, 2009 Los Angeles, CA United States of America stunning 28-year-old former swimsuit model who was found murdered -- strangled -- and folded into a suitcase left in a dumpster in southern California this past weekend, is the subject of such a persistent rumor -- the existence of Jasmine Fiore in Playboy pictures.

No such Playboy pictures exist. And the reason is quite simple: Jasmine Fiore never posed for a Playboy photo shoot; therefore, no pictures. But the rumor persists and the internet has been afire with search engines burning up the ether trying to find Jasmine Fiore articles ("PLAYBOY PICTURES! PHOTOS!") and picture layouts of the deceased swimsuit model.

So how did the rumor get started that swimsuit model Jasmine Fiore had Playboy pictures ("PHOTOS!" or "PICS!")? It is simple: She worked for Playboy. Jasmine Fiore worked for Playboy at one time, even worked on the video "Girls in Golf." That would have been enough for some to run with the supposition that beautiful blonde with the eye-popping physique had been in a Playboy picture spread. But then there is the added nudger -- swimsuit model. Those that read that she had worked for Playboy and had also been a swimsuit model -- doing commercial ads for Las Vegas hotels -- might be inclined to also take the assumptive risk of inferring that Jasmine Fiore had posed for Playboy. And that is exactly how an rumors get started. Assumption, supposition, extrapolation without corroboration. Although it is true that Jasmine Fiore at one time worked for Playboy, she was not a Playboy model and did not pose for Playboy pictures. (... and the two guys reading this hoping to find Jasmine Fiore's naked body online just started cursing...) It is not known, however, if she might have done some audition photos for the magazine or website, but no official Playboy pictures of Jasmine Fiore exist.

Special Guest Hillary Clinton as "The Joker"

Mrs. Clinton showed us her "evil" ways recently when a reporter who's question got lost in translation was misquoted as asking her "And what was your husbands view or opinion on this matter?"



This picture is a tribute to her less than lady like reply.



Thanks Hilary we all needed a good laugh from a seemingly powerful yet incredibly insecure and threatened person.





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Putin and Bush "Puppet Master"

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