‘We’re Setting Up A Global Warming Gestapo’

The green police are coming for your houses…

“The proposal creates a new authority for the federal government to police building codes, holds developers and owners of buildings, including homeowners, liable for not reaching federal energy efficiency mandates even if the buildings are presumably in compliance with applicable local building codes and establishes a civil penalty for violators of this section of the bill. This measure would have a chilling effect on development and property transfer across the spectrum of real properties.”

“Now we’re in housing slump right now. Why would we want to create a piece of legislation that creates a federal building code with civil penalties and tells people living in their houses that they’re unlawfully occupying that house if they don’t meet this new federal building code when they’re in compliance with their own state’s federal building code?”

Details of the ‘cap and tax’ bill H.R. 2454: American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009.

Banksters Love Cap-and-Trade
The well-placed and well-connected are set to make trillions off new climate bill; economic collapse about to accelerate

Groups Positioned to Make Big Money Off of Carbon Credits

Al Gore and companies like Goldman Sachs have long-since bought large stakes in the carbon trading markets like the CCX (Chicago Climate Exchange) and are poised to make money on the buying and selling of the carbon credits.

Ron Paul: Several Democrats Voted For Bill But Hoped It Wouldn’t Pass

Michael Jackson Death Provides Cover For Passage of Historic ‘Job-Killing Energy Tax’

When the news of Michael Jackson’s death hit the news yesterday people were instantly mesmerized, like some kind of hypnotic trance had come over the entire populace. Business workers’ productivity ground to a halt and people worked themselves into a reminiscing frenzy, Michael Jackson products quickly sold out worldwide, and anything unrelated to Michael Jackson became unimportant.

Effectively the news of the “moonwalker’s” death created a media blackout of everything else. So was it just a mere coincidence that at 3AM this morning 300 additional pages (on top of the already existing 1201 pages) were slipped into the Waxman-Markey climate bill that was to be voted on today?

If this is really “one of the most important votes of our time,” as the Sierra Club pronounced then why the rush to push the vote through the House, especially at a time when the citizenry were completely preoccupied. Why the almost complete absence of any debate both in Congress and in the media? (NY Times)

This is all too similar to the recent “stimulus” bill that was hammered through Congress before anyone had a chance to even obtain a copy of the bill.

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Lobbying Frenzy Begins as House Climate Bill Heads for Floor

Climate Bill to Cost Average Consumer $175 a Year: CBO

Lobbying Cash Paved Climate Bill’s Road to House Floor

“It’s influence peddling. What you’re doing is trying to purchase influence,” said Tyson Slocum, director of the energy program at Public Citizen, a watchdog group. “Most of the time there’s a positive return on your investment.”

“In the midst of the worst recession in a generation, this administration and this majority in Congress are prepared to pass a national energy tax that will raise the cost of energy on every American family.” — Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind.

Climate bill targets hot tubs and light bulbs

“This is a jobs bill,” Mr. Obama said Thursday, in his second public endorsement of the bill this week.

Republicans, dismissing official congressional estimates that showed an average cost to American families of $175 a year, argued that the measure would significantly increase energy costs on individuals and companies. They said the bill is really a thinly disguised energy tax that would impose excessive government intervention and reduce economic growth.

House Republican Leader John A. Boehner, Ohio Republican, said the bill will cost the economy up to 2.7 million jobs.

“When it comes to energy, Washington Democrats, I think, are poised to make matters worse by imposing a job-killing energy tax, courtesy of Speaker Pelosi. This is going to force small businesses and their workers and families to pay more for electricity, gasoline, and other products that are made in America that have a high energy content,” he said.

House Passes the 1,200-page Climate Bill that Congress was Not Allowed to Read

Shockingly, co-sponsor Henry Waxman objected to [Rep] Boehner’s reading the bill on the House floor, and tried to prevent it on procedural grounds so that is contents would remain unknown and no one would shift support or delay the bill’s passage. Passing “laws” in secret is not law at all– it is tyranny, and it is shameful

Oil Producers To Avoid Carbon Taxes By Increasing Dependence on Foreign Oil

“June 26 (Bloomberg) — America’s biggest oil companies will probably cope with U.S. carbon legislation by closing fuel plants, cutting capital spending and increasing imports.

Under the Waxman-Markey climate bill that may be voted on today by the U.S. House, refiners would have to buy allowances for carbon dioxide spewed from their plants and from vehicles when motorists burn their fuel. Imports would need permits only for the latter, which ConocoPhillips Chief Executive Officer Jim Mulva said would create a competitive imbalance.

“It will lead to the opportunity for foreign sources to bring in transportation fuels at a lower cost, which will have an adverse impact to our industry, potential shutdown of refineries and investment and, ultimately, employment,” Mulva said in a June 16 interview in Detroit. Houston-based ConocoPhillips has the second-largest U.S. refining capacity.

The same amount of gasoline that would have $1 in carbon costs imposed if it were domestic would have 10 cents less added if it were imported, according to energy consulting firm Wood Mackenzie in Houston. Contrary to President Barack Obama’s goal of reducing dependence on overseas energy suppliers, the bill would incent U.S. refiners to import more fuel, said Clayton Mahaffey, an analyst at RedChip Cos. in Maitland, Florida.

“They’ll be searching the globe for refined products that don’t carry the same level of carbon costs,” said Mahaffey, a former Exxon Corp. refinery manager.”

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House passes Unread Climate ‘Cap and Tax’ Bill

“Politico reports that Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX) raised questions about whether “there was even a copy of the current version of the bill anywhere in the House chamber.”

Rep. Michele Bachmann stated plainly that the bill was “a choice between liberty and tyranny,” claiming that the bill institute “control over nearly every aspect in the lives of the American people” and advocating the Forbes amendment.

Remarkably, Ed Markey, one of the bill’s co-sponsors, rose to report that a copy was only available at the speaker’s desk or online, which Politico reports, would require members “to leave the floor to access.” (Infowars)

Economic Realities, Rumors and Reminders

• Top Communist Party research chief said Thursday that China should buy gold and U.S. real estate rather than Treasurys —Marketwatch, Calls for new world reserve currency (Bloomberg).

• Late-August/early September bank holiday potentially leading to formal dollar devaluation — HSL

• U.S. embassies worldwide being advised to purchase enough of their local currencies to last a year — HSL

• “Section 25C of the Federal Reserve Act (adapted in 1994) explicitly says that the USA does not have to repay debts to a country if the two countries are engaged in a war.” —”Prudent Investor”

Truth is Whatever Big Brother Says It Is

From the article Ignorance is Strength, by Paul Craig Roberts:

“The American media’s one-sided and propagandistic coverage of the Iranian election has made an American hero out of the defeated candidate, Mousavi.

This leaves one wondering if anyone anywhere in the US media or US government knows that Mir-Hossein Mousavi, who served as prime minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran from 1981 to 1989, the decade following the overthrow of the American puppet government by Khomeini, has been fingered as the Butcher of Beirut, responsible for the bloody attacks on the US embassy and Marine Corps barracks in Beirut during the Reagan administration that blew to pieces 241 US Marines, sailors, and Army troops.

…According to Jeff Stein writing in the June 22, 2009, CQ Politics, Mousavi personally selected his point man for the Beirut terror campaign, Ali Akbar Mohtashemi-pur, who presided over the terror cell responsible for the attacks.

Stein reports that Lyons also fingered Mousavi for the 1988 truck bombing of the US Navys Fleet Center in Naples, Italy.”

…Newspeak handles effortlessly the morphing and transforming of meaning. New generations born into the new system know no difference and, thus, do not need to be silenced. Once the older generations are brought to heel, truth is whatever Big Brother says.”

‘A Gangster Government’

“No business is safe, when you see the administration appoint Czars. Car Czars, wage Czars. There’s over 20 Czars that have been appointed, and what do those Czars do? They bypass the Congress. We’re the people’s elected Representatives. We’ve been bypassed. We now have an imperial presidency where the President has appointed various Czars reporting directly to him. And now he’s reaching into the confines of private businesses and overnight rendering them virtually worthless, unless, unless they have a special tug, a political tie to a local democrat congressman.”

Paul: ‘This is allowing the fox to protect the henhouse’

Gerald Celente: Washington is Wall St. and Wall St. is Washington

Kucinich: War Soon to Be the Only Thing Made In America

From Raw Story, Dennis Kucinich addresses Congress:

…“We are destroying our nation’s moral and fiscal integrity with this war supplemental,” Kucinich argued on the House floor Tuesday. “Instead of ending wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan now by appropriating only enough money to bring our troops home, Congress abdicates its constitutional authority, defers to the president, and asks for a report. That’s right, all we are asking for is a report on when the president will end the war.”

Kucinich continued, “There is also money for the IMF, presumably to bail out private European banks. Billions for the IMF so they can force low and middle income nations to cut jobs, wages, health care and retirement security, just like corporate America does to our constituents. And there’s money to incentivize the purchase of more cars, not necessarily from U.S. manufacturers because a ‘Buy America’ mandate was not allowed.”

“Another $106 billion dollars and all we get is a lousy war,” Kucinich said. “Pretty soon that is going to be about the only thing made in America – war.”

Kucinich: Who Are These People?

“Who are these people who keep coming up with these innovative ideas to keep wars going and to move jobs out of America?”

http://kucinich.us/

Audit the Fed Bill To Reach the House Floor

With reports of a House majority sponsoring HR 1207, it looks like the Audit the Fed bill will reach the House Floor.

Fed Would Be Shut Down If It Were Audited, Expert Says
Yahoo Finance/CNBC, 6.10.09
The Federal Reserve’s balance sheet is so out of whack that the central bank would be shut down if subjected to a conventional audit, Jim Grant, editor of Grant’s Interest Rate Observer, told CNBC.

With $45 billion in capital and $2.1 trillion in assets, the central bank would not withstand the scrutiny normally afforded other institutions, Grant said in a live interview.

“If the Fed examiners were set upon the Fed’s own documents-unlabeled documents-to pass judgment on the Fed’s capacity to survive the difficulties it faces in credit, it would shut this institution down,” he said. “The Fed is undercapitalized in a way that Citicorp is undercapitalized.”

Jake Towne reporting at Goldseek.com provided a status report along with Q and A about HR 1207:

“…A win in the House now appears likely, so I would say the gravest threat is that the bill will die in the Senate.”

Town recommends using “DownsizeDC’s “Audit the FED” Campaign to thank or urge your representative and Senators to co-sign this bill. However, writing directly to your Senator’s office and placing a phone call are also recommended.”

Update from Ron Paul on 1207, June 12th, 2009:

Ron Paul Discusses Fascism, Auto Industry on Montel Williams Show

Bob Chapman: Real Unemployment Figure at 20.2%

Bob Chapman speaking on the Alex Jones show, breaks down the unemployment numbers pointing out that according to the 1980s formula for figuring unemployment, we’re currently at 20.2%. (Luckily we figure it differently now.)