- Mitt Romney laughing in 2006, signs Massachusetts so-called health bill. Looking on thrilled are Ted Kennedy and ecstatic convicted felon Sal DiMasi, then House Speaker, now in prison. photo via Free Republic, via Howie Carr.
- Man made global warming is a fake drama disguising the most heinous crime against humanity in history. Romney supports it. Thinking he'll fool the average person, he says he doesn't favor a carbon tax. Big deal, that's just another brick in the wall.
- What is needed is someone to rip up all the green taxes and scams already built into every facet of our lives and stop the whole thing dead. This crime has been growing unfettered for 30 years. Romney was one of many in a position to stop this crime and did not do so.
"I believe that climate change is occurring — the reduction in the size of global ice caps is hard to ignore. I also believe that human activity is a contributing factor.""...
from Washington Independent, 3/5/10 by David Weigel, "Climate Change is Occurring" via Tom Nelson **************
Lawrence Solomon, 5/30/09: "The climate-change industry — the scientists, lawyers, consultants, lobbyists and, most importantly, the multinationals that work behind the scenes to cash in on the riches at stake — has emerged as the world’s largest industry.
- Virtually every resident in the developed world feels the bite of this industry, often unknowingly, through the hidden surcharges on their food bills, their gas and electricity rates, their gasoline purchases, their automobiles, their garbage collection,
- their insurance, their computers purchases, their hotels, their purchases of just about every good and service, in fact, and finally, their taxes to governments at all levels.
These extractions do not happen by accident. Every penny that leaves the hands of consumers does so by design, the final step
- in elaborate and often brilliant orchestrations of public policy, all the more brilliant because the public, for the most part, does not know who is profiteering on climate change,
- or who is aiding and abetting the profiteers.
Some of the climate-change profiteers are relatively unknown corporations; others are household names with only their behind-the-scenes role in the climate-change industry unknown. ...This series begins with Enron, a pioneer in the climate-change industry.
Almost two decades before President Barack Obama made “cap-and-trade” for carbon dioxide emissions a household term, an obscure company called Enron — a natural-gas pipeline company that had become a big-time trader in energy commodities —
- had figured out how to make millions in a cap-and-trade program for sulphur dioxide emissions,
thanks to changes in the U.S. government’s Clean Air Act. To the delight of shareholders, Enron’s stock price rose rapidly as it became the major trader in the
- U.S. government’s $20-billion a year emissions commodity market.
Enron Chairman Kenneth Lay, keen to engineer an encore, saw his opportunity when Bill Clinton andEnron immediately embarked on a massive lobbying effort to develop a trading system for carbon dioxide, working both the Clinton administration and Congress.
- Al Gore were inaugurated as president and vice-president in 1993. To capitalize on Al Gore’s interest in global warming,
To magnify the leverage of their political lobbying, Enron also worked the environmental groups.
- Political contributions and Enron-funded analyses flowed freely, all geared to demonstrating a looming global catastrophe if carbon dioxide emissions weren’t curbed.
- An Enron-funded study that dismissed the notion that calamity could come of global warming, meanwhile, was quietly buried.
environmental groups seeking international controls on carbon dioxide.
- Between 1994 and 1996, the Enron Foundation donated $1-million to the Nature Conservancy and its Climate Change Project, a leading force for global warming reform, while Lay and other individuals associated with Enron donated $1.5-million to
The intense lobbying paid off. Lay became a member of president Clinton’s Council on Sustainable Development, as well as his friend and advisor. In the summer of 1997, prior to global warming meetings in Kyoto, Japan, Clinton sought Lay’s advice in White House discussions.RGGI shakedown group letter to Romney references 2001 climate agreement by New England governors. Romney could have stopped this ages ago.
- The fruits of Enron’s efforts came soon after, with the signing of the Kyoto Protocol."...
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