Interesting Items
Alex Gimarc
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Monday, June 14, 2010
Howdy all, a few Interesting Items for your information. Enjoy –
In this issue:
1. Murkowski
2. Salazar
3. Wolves
4. Grizzlies
5. Coal
6. Mexicans
7. Wikileaks
8. Israelis
1. Murkowski. Senator Murkowski’s attempt to stop the EPA from regulating
carbon dioxide failed in the senate by a vote of 47 – 53. Alaska’s Boy
Senator, Mark Begich voted against the resolution. It will be up to the next
congress to defund the EPA next year to keep this from happening. Also expect
the game to move to the state, local and civil levels with massive lawsuits all
challenging the rationale behind the EPA’s finding that carbon dioxide is a
pollutant. Note that this is all based on the flawed and fraudulent UN IPCC
process which can be demonstrated as fraudulent in a court of law. Expect the
EPA to get tied up in court for decades on this action.
2. Salazar. Interior Secretary Salazar announced his moratorium on offshore
drilling based on the recommendations of a panel of experts. The moratorium
was bundled along with several safety recommendations. The only thing is that
none of the experts recommended a moratorium in offshore drilling. And unlike
government-paid experts, they started speaking up when Salazar and the Obama
administration tried to hide behind them. A New Orleans Times-Picayune article
from last Weds via Hot Air has the following quote:
“We broadly agree with the detailed recommendations in the report and
compliment the Department of Interior for its efforts,” a joint letter from the
panelists to various politicians says. “However, we do not agree with the six
month blanket moratorium on floating drilling. A moratorium was added after the
final review and was never agreed to by the contributors.” …
The panel of experts goes on to point out that the moratorium simply makes
things more dangerous. And like all economic activity, shut it down too long,
and the drilling and exploration businesses all end up going overseas. When
that happens, it will be a very long time before they come back to the Gulf.
3. Wolves. US Federal Judge H. Russel Holland blocked the State of Alaska’s
request to kill wolves on Unimak Island last Monday. He ordered the State and
the US Fish & Wildlife Service to work out a solution. He said that it was too
late in calving season for his order to kill wolves to have any positive
effect. He also wondered why the feds weren’t willing to work more closely
with the State on this issue. Hint to Judge Holland: The feds don’t work more
closely with the State of Alaska because they don’t have to. By Thursday, the
local fishwrapper ran a story about False Pass residents being concerned about
hungry wolves around town. This is the same town that lost a jogging teacher
to a wolf attack in March. Wolves are pretty aggressive these days, regularly
coming into town and showing no fear of people. Time to start killing the
wolves before they kill more people, caribou and other living things on
Umniak.
4. Grizzlies. Anti-development greens in Alberta, Canada finally got their
wish when the Province declared grizzly (brown) bears as a threatened species.
Current population in the Province is estimated at 700 animals. In contrast,
neighboring British Columbia has 16,000; the Lower 48 has 1,500, and Alaska has
over 30,000. This listing is an example of the environmentalist game of
drawing lines on a map and discovering that plants and animals that don’t know
about those lines don’t have sufficient populations within those boundaries.
If you draw the boundaries tight enough, literally everything is an endangered
species. It is very clear that the grizzly bears like mountainous terrain more
than they like flat, as most of BC and Alaska are mountainous. And most
American grizzly bears are found in the Rocky Mountain States. This listing is
the first of many steps by Canadian environmentalists to stop development and
production of
petroleum from the Alberta tar sands. It is one of the primary petroleum
resources on this continent, and a target for greens worldwide. Watch this one
closely.
5. Coal. The latest target for anti-development NIMBYs and greens is a coal
mine prospect in the Wishbone Hill area north of Palmer, Alaska. The mining
company, Usibelli, has a prospect they believe holds 12-20 years of coal,
capable of employing 75-125 people over that time. Their problem is that
access to the prospect is leased from the MatSu Borough, which is today
controlled by the local Green group, Friends of the MatSu. Usibelli is
requesting an extension on the lease so that they can improve the road to the
point where they can remove coal and load it onto rail for export. The local
tribe had a mine on native land 100 years ago that wasn’t all that friendly to
the environment. They believe that there have been no advances in mining or
remediation over the course of the last century and trotted out all the
expected terms in opposition to the mine: oppression, depression, genocide.
The environmentalist-friendly borough Planning
Commission recommended against approving the lease extension so that the
mining corporation can access their prospect. As the prospect sits on state
land, should the borough refuse to approve the lease extension, I would expect
the state to get involved in the discussion. There has to be somewhere in this
state that we can mine something. And the obstructionism by greens and NIMBYs
must stop eventually. This would be a good place to stop it.
6. Mexicans. Things are heating up on the border with Mexico with a couple
Mexican deaths due to Border Patrol action over the last few weeks. The first
was a guy who had been living on both sides of the border for nearly 30 years,
passing back and forth at will. He tried to escape arrest, was tasered, and
died on the spot. Note to self: NEVER play with tasers. The second incident
happened a week ago, when a 14-year old was apprehended crossing the Rio
Grande. He escaped, crossed to the Mexican side of the river and started
chucking rocks at the Border Patrol on the American side. As there were many
people chucking rocks, and rocks are a deadly weapon, the kid got shot. Note
to self: NEVER chuck rocks at people with loaded guns. Of course, Mexican
government officials got self-righteous over the events and sent Mexican
military and police to the border to protect their people who are breaking
American war. They demanded all the
normal apologies and restitution. Perhaps the Mexican government ought to be
the ones apologizing for launching and encouraging an invasion of this nation
with over 20 million of its citizens. Mexico is fast approaching failed state
status and may become a military concern before too long.
7. Wikileaks. A couple months ago, WIkileaks presented video of a 2007
helicopter attack on a group of RPG-wielding terrorists in Baghdad. The
terrorists had a couple imbedded Reuters journalists. The results of the
attack were about what you’d expect, with everyone being dead after the smoke
cleared. There was a minor outbreak of “I’m shocked; simply shocked” from the
anti-war media at the notion that warfare against the Islamists would actually
result in dead people. A hacked outed the guy that leaked the video to
Wikileaks. The leaker ended up being an Army Specialist who took the video and
tens to hundreds of thousands of classified documents from his duty station.
He is now being prosecuted.
8. Israelis. A couple pushback stories out of Israel in the aftermath of the
flotilla to Hamas. The first was an Israeli YouTube video about the event
entitled “We Con the World.” It had over 3 million views before the Islamists
forced YouTube to pull it down. The song was modeled after the “We Are the
World” from 1985. The second was a plan by a group of Israeli university
students to put together a humanitarian flotilla of aid to launch from Israel
and go to Turkey to give aid to the Kurds. Don’t think the Turks will like
this a whole lot, but it is funny as all get out to contemplate.
More later -
- AG
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than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not
your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your
chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our
countrymen."
- Samuel Adams, speech at the Philadelphia
State House, August 1, 1776.
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