$81 million taken from US taxpayers for IRS decoration, reflecting pool, art gallery, gardens, no permanent jobs

5/30/10: "The $92 million renovations at the IRS compound in Andover (Mass.) will include a

• reflecting pool, an art gallery, indoor gardens, a 7,000-square-foot cafeteria and an amphitheater, but it remains
  
• unclear what new permanent jobs, if any, will come to the center.

The Herald reported last month that the IRS received $80.5 million in stimulus funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act for

• “green upgrades” to the 400,000-square-foot complex.

The IRS already had $11.4 million on hand for the work. During a tour of the 50-year-old federal complex Thursday, the architect called the project “visionary”..."...

• "Frills, not jobs, filling posh IRS digs," from Boston Herald via American Thinker

The sick mind of global warmists- man warns UK may need larger Navy to deal with global warming

• After decades and trillions of dollars spent weaving the lie of global warming into the culture, much of the UK would be jobless if they admitted it was made up. Money robbed from taxpayers would no longer be enriching hedge fund thugs, UN grifters, and related "non-profits".

5/30/10: "BRITAIN may be forced to boost its navy to protect itself from mass immigration triggered by global warming, it was warned yesterday.

• Grandfather of the green movement James Lovelock enthralled and inspired fear in equal measure as he spoke at the Hay Festival.

The venerable 90-year-old made a series of chilling predictions about climate change and the effects it will have on Britain.

• He warned that as world population rises climate change would trigger
  
• mass immigration north – Italy was already seeing it.

In such a scenario Britain, which would fare quite well, would be seen as a “liferaft” on to which the dispossessed would want to scramble.

• He said that Britain, with a population of around 60 million people, may already be at about its optimum size.

“So what are we going to do? The people who are going to come here are going to starve and so are we –

• a larger navy may be the answer.”"

"Millions heading for liferaft Britain" WalesOnline.co.uk, 5/30, via Tom Nelson

• Update, 5/31, James Lovelock says he might be wrong about global warming. via Tom Nelson
  

Pamela Geller explains media steno pool mistakes describing her bus ads about Islam

5/29: "It's no surprise that most mainstream media outlets that have covered the story have just repeated talking points from the unindicted co-conspirator, Hamas-linked Muslim Brotherhood front, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). AP said: “some Muslims are calling the ads a smoke screen for an anti-Muslim agenda.” Which Muslims are saying that?...

• While we hear that “some Muslims” believe this, we don’t hear in this AP story about any Muslims who think otherwise. So is AP saying that the unindicted co-conspirator, Hamas-linked CAIR is the best representative of Muslims in America? Is AP actually saying that Muslims in the U.S. are haters, extremists, and terror-tied?

Islamic Sharia law is very clear: apostasy is punishable by death. Why does CAIR equate being pro-freedom with being anti-Muslim? Is AP saying that Muslims in America don’t support religious freedom? Wow."...

Muslim groups, ACLU dictate White House and Justice Dept. policy, immigration-US Rep. King

• One elected official puts the heinous acts we've seen into words (and thanks again to John McCain for making sure Obama won):

5/28/10: "Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) claimed in a statement on Friday that Muslims and unions had effectively

• infiltrated the Justice Department and were steering its decision to prepare a
  
• challenge to the Arizona immigration law.

From King's statement:

• ""The ACLU, SEIU and the Muslim American Society are calling the shots at the Justice Department. The 'draft complaint' DOJ has prepared to challenge the Arizona law is a 'cut & paste' version of the class-action lawsuit the ACLU filed in United States District Court on May 17th." [...]
  
• No other conclusion could be reached unless Holder releases the Department's 'draft complaint.' But when it becomes public,
  
• all of America will know what I know today.
  
• The ACLU and their radical affiliates are dictating the policy of the White House and the Department of Justice."

King criticized Mexican President Felipe Calderon for his outright criticism of Arizona's immigration law in front of a joint session of Congress last week, saying that "when the President of Mexico speaks out against Arizona law...he's speaking out against

• American immigration law, federal law in its entirety, because
  
• the Arizona law reflects federal immigration law."...

from Huffington Post, 5/28, "Steve King: Muslim groups, unions, 'Calling the shots at the Justice Department'"

• (Who will call for Obama's impeachment? ed.)

US growth revised downward-experts of course 'surprised'

5/27, BBC: "The US economy grew less than initially estimated in the first three months of 2010,

• revised figures have shown.

The Commerce Department now calculates that the economy expanded at an annualised rate of 3% during the quarter, rather than the 3.2% that had initially been announced.

• Its latest figure surprised analysts.....

• who had been expecting the data to be revised upward to 3.4%."...

NJ Governor-NJ debt worst in America

5/26 "As you all know, we have a fiscal crisis in New Jersey: a $10.9 billion deficit on a $29.3 billion budget. At 37 percent, it's the worst budget deficit percentage in America-worse than California, worse than New York, worse than Illinois-and we need to take bold steps to deal with it."...

• Obama stated again today his 2 main concerns- he wants millions of illegal aliens added to the health system; and he wants crippling cap and trade, both done by the fall. If you needed any more proof, what would it have to be? He has huge majorities in congress and doesn't need republican help anyway. ed.

Middle class decimated by vicious Soros-lead global warming scam, home gardens cemented over

• Working classes are treated with disdain in global warming scam. Social disaster will result (as planned).
  

Having nothing to do with climate, innocent citizens have been forced into spartan living standards. Middle class British gardens have been cemented over.

• 5/25, Telegraph UK: "Strict planning controls in the suburbs were ruining people's quality of life, forcing them to concrete over their gardens, or live in cramped homes."...

"Joel Kotkin, an American expert in social trends, said environmental policies were being used as an excuse to restrict the expansion of the suburbs on the edge of towns and cities.

• The result was "a direct assault on the quality of life for millions of
  
• working and middle class families". ...

Mr Kotkin said: “Long-term aesthetic arguments against suburbia have now evolved into a new emphasis on ‘sustainability’, largely in terms of greenhouse gas emissions.”...

• Mr Kotkin said: “Progress made in the last century of returning the garden to British life has been largely sacrificed by … a policy of cramming, that is forcing ever denser housing on both suburban and urban dwellers.”

Requiring developers to build flats rather than homes in suburban areas threatened the very identity of these areas, Mr Kotkin said in the report.

• “Britain has the smallest size new homes of any advanced country in the world today, and climate change logic seems to suggest
  

• that these will become smaller, not larger, over time.”

Mr Kotkin said in the report – ‘The Broken Ladder’ – that the high cost of living in

• cities like London was squeezing out the working and middle classes.

He said that London was “in danger of becoming dominated by a neo-feudal structure of

• civil servants (public sector) and inherited wealth, with a shrinking private sector middle class”.

He said: “Suburbs are part of a great metropolitan system such as London, the primary locale for middle and working class residents.

• They need to be treated with respect, not disdain.

“Great cities need a middle class and an aspirational working class. But they are becoming too expensive and offer limited avenues for all but a few well-educated, often well-born people.

• This is a recipe for social disaster.”

Mr Kotkin argued that plans to build a new “green economy” in the UK were a myth

• that would never replace the economic and social benefits of
  
• traditional manufacturing."

5/25, TelegraphUK, "Middle classes in suburbs 'bearing brunt of liberal elite's obsession with climate change,'" Christopher Hope, via Tom Nelson

• The UK of course is global warming, carbon trading fraud HQ, with the UK Met Office, the University of East Anglia, Nature Magazine, WWF, Gordon Brown's stating that the financial survival of London depends on the carbon market, and of course George Soros sitting at the right hand of kings, queens, and common drunks. Global warming is a suicidal philosophy. ed.
  

EPA's CO2 endangerment finding must be overturned

5/24: "To restore the constitutional separation of powers and democratic accountability, Congress must overturn EPA‘s endangerment finding. S. J. Res. 26, a resolution of disapproval, introduced by Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), under the Congressional Review Act (CRA), provides an appropriate vehicle to accomplish that." from SPPI blog

• 8/18: "The EPA's shocking power grab," Forbes, opinion by George Allen and Marlo Lewis

NY Times Tom Friedman's side controls all 3 branches of gov. but still he whines for dictatorship

• Multi-millionaire Tom Friedman controls all 3 branches of government and the mass media with staggering majorities. There is nothing to stop him and his interests, as has been shown. Yet still he whines.
  

Meet the Press, 5/23: "MR. FRIEDMAN: Well, David, it's been decimated. It's been decimated by everything from the gerrymandering of political districts to cable television to an a digital lynch mob against you from the left or right if I don't like where you're going...--really our Congress is a forum for legalized bribery. You know, that's really what, what it's come down to. So I don't--I, I--I'm worried about this, it's why I have fantasized--don't get me wrong--but that

• what if we could just be China for a day? I mean, just, just, just one day. You know, I mean, where

• we could actually, you know, authorize the right solutions, and I do think there is a sense of that, on, on

• everything from the economy to environment.

I don't want to be China for a second, OK, I want my democracy to work with the same authority, focus and stick-to-itiveness.

• But right now we have a system that can only produce suboptimal solutions.

MS. MITCHELL: And, in fact, Tom, you're absolutely right. One case in point, the Financial Regulation Bill, which we can get to..."...

Totalitarian socialism seeks to combine the separate ideas of government and society

• Crooks, academics, lifelong public sector bureaucrats, and career union members have chosen to bypass life's biggest risks and dangers. Which is fine. But it is a weakness. It means such people are unqualified to tell the rest of us how things are going to be. (ed).

"Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction

• between government and society.

As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the

• socialists conclude

• that we object to
  
• 
  
• its being done at all."
  

Frederic Bastiat, via poster at RedState.com

Best ClimateGate emails list link

Tidy ClimateGate emails link. via Climate Audit

Right on schedule, 32 states appear near bankruptcy, borrowing US tax funds to pay state unemployment

"EconomicPolicyJournal.com has learned that 32 states have run out (of) funds to make unemployment benefit payments and that the federal governmant has been supplying these states with funds so that they can make their payments to the unemployed. In some cases, states have borrowed billions. As of May 20, the total balance outstanding by 32 states (and the Virgin Islands) is $37.8 billion.

• The state of California has borrowed $6.9 billion. Michigan has borrowed $3.9 billion, Illinois $2.2 billion.

Below is the full list of the 32 states (and the Virgin Islands) that have borrowed from the Fed to make unemployment payments, and the amounts that remain borrowed as of May 20 . (Numbers in red are billions)." via FreeRepublic

Eco-terrorism thrives in a world without one sane voice

5/18: Purely by accident a massive terrorist bombing was intercepted. The terrorists were doing it on behalf of the planet. from Independent UK, via Andrew Bolt, via Tom Nelson

• "Eco-Anarchists: a new breed of terrorist?"

New Jersey wealth and taxes flee state, $70 billion in recent years

2/4/10: "More than $70 billion in wealth left New Jersey between 2004 and 2008 as affluent residents moved elsewhere, according to a report released Wednesday that marks a swift reversal of fortune for a state once considered the nation’s wealthiest....

• In New Jersey, the top 1 percent of taxpayers pay more than 40 percent of the state’s income tax, he said.

• “That’s probably why we have these massive income shortfalls in the state budget, especially this year,” he said.

Until the tax structure is improved, he said, “we’ll probably see a continuation of the trend, until there are no more high-wealth individuals left.”"...

• from NJ.com, The Star-Ledger, by Leslie Kwoh, via The Save Jersey blog

UK to impose new 'environmental taxes' on taxpayers, pressure bankrupt EU to do more

• All for a giant fraud, man made global warming.

5/20, BBC: "The (UK) government would also seek to set a "floor price" for carbon, and permit no new runways at Heathrow, Stansted or Gatwick airports; and there is confirmation on the establishment of a bank to stimulate "green" investment.

• "It's critical that the green investment bank is appropriately capitalised so that it can make a positive and lasting difference to our country," commented Ben Caldecott, head of UK and EU policy at specialist investment managers Climate Change Capital....

The government has given no details of the move it indicates towards adopting environmental taxes, which was a Conservative manifesto commitment."

Time to end the hijack of American culture by Harvard elites, including Mexico's pathetic Pres. Calderon

Another Supreme Court Justice from Harvard would be anything but an expression of the real America. It is time the culture of out-of-touch Harvard elites is recognized for what it is. Current pompous kleptocrats include Mexico's president and the UN Secretary General:

BBC: "HARVARD UNIVERSITY

• Based in Cambridge, Massachusetts
• Notable alumni include seven US presidents, five US Supreme Court justices, Mexican President Felipe Calderon and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon
• $37bn endowment is greater than the GDP
  
• of more than 100 countries"

(I went to college. It is a fantasy world). ed.

Der Spiegel-global warming science compromised. Hockey stick discussion

• Der Spiegel acknowledges climate guys were wrong, having been very much on the Soros fueled climate scam at one point. Spiegel probably thinks, gee it was a great idea, let's not get mad at the climate guys who were just unlucky. (Carbon trading existed long before anyone ever heard of climate guys and will go on after):

#4 Commenter Kenspy, 5/14:

• "They whitewashed the most important point!

"But what appeared at first glance to be fraud ["hide the decline"] was actually merely a face-saving fudge: Tree-ring data indicates no global warming since the mid-20th century, and therefore contradicts the temperature measurements. The clearly erroneous tree data was thus corrected by the so-called "trick" with the temperature graphs."

• Clearly erroneous???

It's not like it's an outlier, virtually ALL dendro reconstructions diverge significantly in the latter half of the 20th century. Which brings to mind the incredibly pertinent question of whether this is even a reliable proxy for temperature.

• Secondly, what they did was plain and simple fraud. You can't just lop on temperature to a proxy graph and then say "look the proxy matches the temperature." Obviously the temperature will match the temperature!
  
• How can you label it as anything other than fraud>?

I stopped reading the article at that point; don't care to see what is in the McIntyre section. Shoddy journalism."...via Climate Depot. Der Spiegel, "How the science of global warming was compromised" 5/14

European Union upcoming vote to regulate hedge funds

BBC, 5/16: "European finance ministers are preparing to meet to vote on a controversial new directive regulating hedge funds and venture capitalists.

• London-based fund managers have said the proposals will make it impossible for funds based outside the EU to raise money within Europe.

The US government has argued the plans are protectionist.

• Britain's new government wanted to delay Tuesday's vote, but a report suggests efforts failed....

They are more important to the UK than almost anywhere else in Europe. It is estimated that 80% of Europe's hedge funds are based in London, and about

• a quarter of the world's such businesses....

The French president Nicolas Sarkozy and German chancellor Angela Merkel have been keen for some time to introduce greater regulation for the private equity and hedge fund sectors - which many say

• played a part in the global financial collapse.

Spain currently holds the EU presidency, and its finance minister Elena Salgado told the FT that other finance ministers would not agree to a delay."...

NJ Governor Chris Christie answers a whiny, braindead Soros-Daddy newspaper reporter

Gov Christie calls S-L columnist thin-skinned for inquiring about his 'confrontational tone'

70 percent of single women in the US voted for Obama. Ladies, if you're looking for an actual man this time, listen to Governor Chris Christie. To me he's quite soft spoken and even-tempered. To the left, anyone who doesn't roll over for Daddy George Soros is just a meany. The whiny 'reporter' alluded to by the Governor is from a far left NJ newspaper, the Star-Ledger, which endorsed Christie's opponent, an independent, in the election. They did so to help re-elect Goldman Sachs alumnus Corzine. They failed, and Christie won. via RedState

Kagan, Obama, & Saudi Arabia. (I know we're supposed to forget about 9-11).

"In the month following Barack Obama's infamous bow to Saudi King Abdullah, Supreme Court appointee

• Elena Kagan followed suit when

• she agreed with the Obama Administration's position that the Saudi royal family

• could not be held liable by the families of 9/11 victims in an

American court over allegations that it provided financial resources for Al-Qaeda."...

• In opposition to Obama, Kagan, and Saudi Arabia, American victims subsequently provided extensive documentation for their case against Saudi terror supporters.

from American Thinker, by JC Pearce, 5/13/10, "Kagan: Yes-Woman"

• Brilliant in their detachment from America and its citizens. ed.

New Yorker Magazine profile of Michael Savage, 2009

Podcast of New Yorker Magazine author of Michael Savage profile, 7/27/09, written by Kelefe Sanneh.

US housing repossessions reach all time high

BBC 5/11: "The number of US homes being repossessed hit an all-time high last month,...A total of 333,837 new repossession filings were made in April, one for every 387 homes in the US.

• The picture differs across the US, with California, Florida, Michigan, Illinois and Nevada being the worst affected....The next five most impacted states were Arizona, Georgia, Texas, Ohio and Virginia."...Las Vegas is the worst hit urban area with one out of 60 homes repo'ed.
  

Obama lies about green jobs for desperate Americans--80% of taxpayer funded wind power jobs awarded OUTSIDE the US

ABC News: "Nearly $2 billion in money from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (money from US taxpayers) has been spent on wind power...but nearly 80 percent of that money has gone to foreign manufacturers of wind turbines.

• "Most of the jobs are going overseas," said Russ Choma at the Investigative Reporting Workshop. He analyzed which foreign firms had accepted the most stimulus money. "According to our estimates, about 6,000 jobs have been created overseas, and maybe a couple hundred have been created in the U.S."... by Jonathan Karl, ABC News
  

Bernanke, why did you give New Zealand $9 billion? Americans desperately needed that money.

New UN official George Soros redoubles campaign to destroy US middle class via global warming scam

• Convicted stock swindler Soros in his official capacity with the United Nations aims to transfer $100 billion per year mainly from evil US middle class taxpayers to brutal equatorial dictators, UN grifters, and billionaire hedge fund thugs. Not a word of protest from US elected officials.

5/10/10, Jakarta Globe, "(President of Indonesia) talks climate change with Soros"

"President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (met) with George Soros at the Presidential Office in Jakarta on Monday.

• Soros was in Indonesia in his role as a member of a UN advisory group that aims to mobilize

• funding promised at last year’s Copenhagen climate change talks.

Indonesia’s ambitious carbon emissions reduction target of 26 percent by 2020 could be expanded to 41 percent

• with expected funding from the United Nations, an official said on Monday.

Dino Patti Djalal, a presidential adviser for international affairs, said President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono had reiterated the country’s commitment to cut carbon emissions during a meeting on Monday

• with billionaire investor and philanthropist George Soros, acting

• in his new role as a UN special envoy.

Soros has been named to the High-Level Advisory Group on

• Climate Change Financing,

• formed recently by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.

“The president stressed Indonesia’s commitment to reducing emissions by 26 percent by 2020, and up to 41 percent

• if international support is forthcoming,”" (TRANSLATION: American workers are slaves of Soros and US politicians and don't know it. ed.)
  

(continuing): "Dino said at the Presidential Office....

• The UN advisory group, which brings together presidents, prime ministers and experts, is working to mobilize the funding promised for climate change mitigation during a UN conference in Copenhagen in December.

The Copenhagen Accord focuses on developed countries’ commitments to put together a green fund — $30 billion from 2010 to 2012, and

• up to $100 billion a year by 2020 — for environmental projects in developing countries.

The funding mechanism is expected to be finalized at a climate change summit in Cancun, Mexico, in November this year.

• “The president and Soros had a very constructive conversation on post-Copenhagen progress,” Dino said....

“I think Indonesia can make a really big contribution to

• keeping global temperatures steady,” he said." "I’m very optimistic that we will be able to make substantial headway in that direction."...
  

• “I think there is therefore a very strong case for providing international support

• both in the form of loans, but more in the form of grants,” he said."

TRANSLATION: GRANTS, the result of work, discipline and sacrifice by American workers without their approval. Which is of course slavery. ed.

• (continuing): "Soros said Indonesia’s initiative would encourage greater political will to provide support, though he added developed countries were slow off the mark.
  

“I got involved, became active, exactly because I was dissatisfied with what has been achieved,” he said.

• “I think every country has to make a contribution." ...(It is none of his business what we do. ed.)
  

(continuing): "“The contributions made by many other countries, including my own [the United States], is I think inadequate, and I’m working...in every country including my own to step up the effort.”"

• from 5/10/10, Jakarta Globe, "(President of Indonesia) talks climate change with Soros" via Tom Nelson

Violent racists yelling "Whites go Home" on May 1-Washington Post ignores

Pro Illegal Immigration Protesters in San Francisco overwhelmed a small group of Pro Legal Immigration protesters in San Francisco on May 1. About a minute in you will hear the larger group yelling, "Whites go home! Whites go home! whites go home!" At the end of the video it shows police arresting some of the violent anti-white racists. The Washington Post will never report this, and if it did, would dismiss it. We all know the big money is behind breaking up the US. That is accomplished by continuing to encourage chaos, anarchy and racism-it's no secret, in all the textbooks. The Washington Post and others I believe understand this, but do not care that they will be swept aside with everyone else. They all are just very invested in balkanization. I would like to know how the media justifies suicidal behavior.
video via Lucianne.com

Mexican protest sign threatens to shoot more Arizona police

Sign forwarded to me from an American group in Florida. No surprise.

Government media would rather die than acknowledge criminal culture of Pakistan and countries like it

• "Pakistan, there's a prospect:
  
• 
  
• "Half the country is illiterate

• three-quarters of it subsists on
  
• less than $2 a day, according to the World Bank....

• Very poor and ignorant young men, especially if their only education has been in

• Salafi madrassas, are very easy to enlist in military adventures. " 12/16/08, Spengler

Media will go to their grave saying the world's problems are the fault of white middle class Americans. ed.

Sign calling for death at NYC May Day protest--MEDIA DEADLY SILENCE

photographs by Berman Post via Gateway Pundit