Chemtrails in the sky..

This is what Las Vegas woke up to this morning.

Wow.. They REALLY went all out today. For those that don’t know, our Government sprays chemicals over our skies. Now I don’t know exactly what is in the concoction, nor am I saying it is necessarily harmful (although I do think breathing in that air would have some effects).. But for those that think these are normal con trails from a plane, I’m sorry they’re not.

These chemtrails linger in the sky for at least 20-40 mins or longer depending on wind and weather. Con trails, on the other hand, dissipate after 15 seconds or so.. They follow the plane only a few plane lengths and then disappear.

This is clearly a different phenomenon. The green picture is kind of cool; it was affected by the direct sunlight, but it really paints a decent picture of our situation here.

Our Govt has recently been unable to deny this anymore and have spun the story as doing something “environmental.” They admit to spraying in order to combat global warming. They have named SOME of the chemicals that they spray, but I think we all know how much the Govt DOES keep things from the public-no doubt they’re not telling us about ALL of the chemicals.

Thoughts anyone? For more info: Bing chemtrails. There ARE a lot of conspiracy theories out there, but be a bit selective yet open-minded.. These sorts of things challenge a lot of beliefs we may have, but we can’t ignore them any longer.

If this type of FRAUD doesn’t infuriate you a little, then you’re deaf, dumb and blind.

The SEC filed a lawsuit against Goldman Sachs for INTENTIONALLY making FAULTY loans to sell to Pension Fund managers and average joes AND THEN taking out insurance BETTING AGAINST the loans.  Why is this a big deal?  Imagine a car company INTENTIONALLY making FAULTY cars with the brakes cut AND THEN taking out insurance BETTING that the car will crash..

ON TOP OF ALL THIS, we the TAXPAYER ended up footing the bill for this fraud.

Courtesy of: http://www.msnbc.msn.com

Watch the video..

OH! And BY THE WAY…. “Conspiracy” Theorists have been SHOUTING this kind of fraud FOR YEARS!!!

Good read… America: The Grim Truth

Courtesy of: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25166.htm

America: The Grim Truth

By Lance Freeman

April 08, 2010 “Information Clearing House” —  Americans, I have some bad news for you:

You have the worst quality of life in the developed world – by a wide margin.

If you had any idea of how people really lived in Western Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and many parts of Asia, you’d be rioting in the streets calling for a better life. In fact, the average Australian or Singaporean taxi driver has a much better standard of living than the typical American white-collar worker.

I know this because I am an American, and I escaped from the prison you call home.

I have lived all around the world, in wealthy countries and poor ones, and there is only one country I would never consider living in again: The United States of America. The mere thought of it fills me with dread.

Consider this: you are the only people in the developed world without a single-payer health system. Everyone in Western Europe, Japan, Canada, Australia, Singapore and New Zealand has a single-payer system. If they get sick, they can devote all their energies to getting well. If you get sick, you have to battle two things at once: your illness and the fear of financial ruin. Millions of Americans go bankrupt every year due to medical bills, and tens of thousands die each year because they have no insurance or insufficient insurance. And don’t believe for a second that rot about America having the world’s best medical care or the shortest waiting lists: I’ve been to hospitals in Australia, New Zealand, Europe, Singapore, and Thailand, and every one was better than the “good” hospital I used to go to back home. The waits were shorter, the facilities more comfortable, and the doctors just as good.

This is ironic, because you need a good health system more than anyone else in the world. Why? Because your lifestyle is almost designed to make you sick.

Let’s start with your diet: Much of the beef you eat has been exposed to fecal matter in processing. Your chicken is contaminated with salmonella. Your stock animals and poultry are pumped full of growth hormones and antibiotics. In most other countries, the government would act to protect consumers from this sort of thing; in the United States, the government is bought off by industry to prevent any effective regulations or inspections. In a few years, the majority of all the produce for sale in the United States will be from genetically modified crops, thanks to the cozy relationship between Monsanto Corporation and the United States government. Worse still, due to the vast quantities of high-fructose corn syrup Americans consume, fully one-third of children born in the United States today will be diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes at some point in their lives.

Of course, it’s not just the food that’s killing you, it’s the drugs. If you show any sign of life when you’re young, they’ll put you on Ritalin. Then, when you get old enough to take a good look around, you’ll get depressed, so they’ll give you Prozac. If you’re a man, this will render you chemically impotent, so you’ll need Viagra to get it up. Meanwhile, your steady diet of trans-fat-laden food is guaranteed to give you high cholesterol, so you’ll get a prescription for Lipitor. Finally, at the end of the day, you’ll lay awake at night worrying about losing your health plan, so you’ll need Lunesta to go to sleep.

With a diet guaranteed to make you sick and a health system designed to make sure you stay that way, what you really need is a long vacation somewhere. Unfortunately, you probably can’t take one. I’ll let you in on little secret: if you go to the beaches of Thailand, the mountains of Nepal, or the coral reefs of Australia, you’ll probably be the only American in sight. And you’ll be surrounded crowds of happy Germans, French, Italians, Israelis, Scandinavians and wealthy Asians. Why? Because they’re paid well enough to afford to visit these places AND they can take vacations long enough to do so. Even if you could scrape together enough money to go to one of these incredible places, by the time you recovered from your jetlag, it would time to get on a plane and rush back to your job.

If you think I’m making this up, check the stats on average annual vacation days by country:

Finland: 44
Italy: 42
France: 39
Germany: 35
UK: 25
Japan: 18
USA: 12

The fact is, they work you like dogs in the United States. This should come as no surprise: the United States never got away from the plantation/sweat shop labor model and any real labor movement was brutally suppressed. Unless you happen to be a member of the ownership class, your options are pretty much limited to barely surviving on service-sector wages or playing musical chairs for a spot in a cubicle (a spot that will be outsourced to India next week anyway). The very best you can hope for is to get a professional degree and then milk the system for a slice of the middle-class pie. And even those who claw their way into the middle class are but one illness or job loss away from poverty. Your jobs aren’t secure. Your company has no loyalty to you. They’ll play you off against your coworkers for as long as it suits them, then they’ll get rid of you.

Of course, you don’t have any choice in the matter: the system is designed this way. In most countries in the developed world, higher education is either free or heavily subsidized; in the United States, a university degree can set you back over US$100,000. Thus, you enter the working world with a crushing debt. Forget about taking a year off to travel the world and find yourself – you’ve got to start working or watch your credit rating plummet.

If you’re “lucky,” you might even land a job good enough to qualify you for a home loan. And then you’ll spend half your working life just paying the interest on the loan – welcome to the world of American debt slavery. America has the illusion of great wealth because there’s a lot of “stuff” around, but who really owns it? In real terms, the average American is poorer than the poorest ghetto dweller in Manila, because at least they have no debts. If they want to pack up and leave, they can; if you want to leave, you can’t, because you’ve got debts to pay.

All this begs the question: Why would anyone put up with this? Ask any American and you’ll get the same answer: because America is the freest country on earth. If you believe this, I’ve got some more bad news for you: America is actually among the least free countries on earth. Your piss is tested, your emails and phone calls are monitored, your medical records are gathered, and you are never more than one stray comment away from writhing on the ground with two Taser prongs in your ass.

And that’s just physical freedom. Mentally, you are truly imprisoned. You don’t even know the degree to which you are tormented by fears of medical bankruptcy, job loss, homelessness and violent crime because you’ve never lived in a country where there is no need to worry about such things.

But it goes much deeper than mere surveillance and anxiety. The fact is, you are not free because your country has been taken over and occupied by another government. Fully 70% of your tax dollars go to the Pentagon, and the Pentagon is the real government of the United States. You are required under pain of death to pay taxes to this occupying government. If you’re from the less fortunate classes, you are also required to serve and die in their endless wars, or send your sons and daughters to do so. You have no choice in the matter: there is a socio-economic draft system in the United States that provides a steady stream of cannon fodder for the military.

If you call a life of surveillance, anxiety and ceaseless toil in the service of a government you didn’t elect “freedom,” then you and I have a very different idea of what that word means.

If there was some chance that the country could be changed, there might be reason for hope. But can you honestly look around and conclude that anything is going to change? Where would the change come from? The people? Take a good look at your compatriots: the working class in the United States has been brutally propagandized by jackals like Rush Limbaugh, Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity. Members of the working class have been taught to lick the boots of their masters and then bend over for another kick in the ass. They’ve got these people so well trained that they’ll take up arms against the other half of the working class as soon as their masters give the word.

If the people cannot make a change, how about the media? Not a chance. From Fox News to the New York Times, the mass media in the United States is nothing but the public relations wing of the corporatocracy, primarily the military industrial complex. At least the citizens of the former Soviet Union knew that their news was bullshit. In America, you grow up thinking you’ve got a free media, which makes the propaganda doubly effective. If you don’t think American media is mere corporate propaganda, ask yourself the following question: have you ever heard a major American news outlet suggest that the country could fund a single-payer health system by cutting military spending?

If change can’t come from the people or the media, the only other potential source of change would be the politicians. Unfortunately, the American political process is among the most corrupt in the world. In every country on earth, one expects politicians to take bribes from the rich. But this generally happens in secret, behind the closed doors of their elite clubs. In the United States, this sort of political corruption is done in broad daylight, as part of legal, accepted, standard operating procedure. In the United States, they merely call these bribes campaign donations, political action committees and lobbyists. One can no more expect the politicians to change this system than one can expect a man to take an axe and chop his own legs out from underneath him.

No, the United States of America is not going to change for the better. The only change will be for the worse. And when I say worse, I mean much worse. As we speak, the economic system that sustained the country during the post-war years is collapsing. The United States maxed out its “credit card” sometime in 2008 and now its lenders, starting with China, are in the process of laying the foundations for a new monetary system to replace the Anglo-American “petro-dollar” system. As soon as there is a viable alternative to the US dollar, the greenback will sink like a stone.

While the United States was running up crushing levels of debt, it was also busy shipping its manufacturing jobs and white-collar jobs overseas, and letting its infrastructure fall to pieces. Meanwhile, Asian and European countries were investing in education, infrastructure and raw materials. Even if the United States tried to rebuild a real economy (as opposed to a service/financial economy) do think American workers would ever be able to compete with the workers of China or Europe? Have you ever seen a Japanese or German factory? Have you ever met a Singaporean or Chinese worker?

There are only two possible futures facing the United States, and neither one is pretty. The best case is a slow but orderly decline – essentially a continuation of what’s been happening for the last two decades. Wages will drop, unemployment will rise, Medicare and Social Security benefits will be slashed, the currency will decline in value, and the disparity of wealth will spiral out of control until the United States starts to resemble Mexico or the Philippines – tiny islands of wealth surrounded by great poverty (the country is already halfway there).

Equally likely is a sudden collapse, perhaps brought about by a rapid flight from the US dollar by creditor nations like China, Japan, Korea and the OPEC nations. A related possibility would be a default by the United States government on its vast debt. One look at the financial balance sheet of the US government should convince you how likely this is: governmental spending is skyrocketing and tax receipts are plummeting – something has to give. If either of these scenarios plays out, the resulting depression will make the present recession look like a walk in the park.

Whether the collapse is gradual or gut-wrenchingly sudden, the results will be chaos, civil strife and fascism. Let’s face it: the United States is like the former Yugoslavia – a collection of mutually antagonistic cultures united in name only. You’ve got your own version of the Taliban: right-wing Christian fundamentalists who actively loathe the idea of secular Constitutional government. You’ve got a vast intellectual underclass that has spent the last few decades soaking up Fox News and talk radio propaganda, eager to blame the collapse on Democrats, gays and immigrants. You’ve got a ruthless ownership class that will use all the means at its disposal to protect its wealth from the starving masses.

On top of all that you’ve got vast factory farms, sprawling suburbs and a truck-based shipping system, all of it entirely dependent on oil that is about to become completely unaffordable. And you’ve got guns. Lots of guns. In short: the United States is about to become a very unwholesome place to be.

Right now, the government is building fences and walls along its northern and southern borders. Right now, the government is working on a national ID system (soon to be fitted with biometric features). Right now, the government is building a surveillance state so extensive that they will be able to follow your every move, online, in the street and across borders. If you think this is just to protect you from “terrorists,” then you’re sadly mistaken. Once the shit really hits the fan, do you really think you’ll just be able to jump into the old station wagon, drive across the Canadian border and spend the rest of your days fishing and drinking Molson? No, the government is going to lock the place down. They don’t want their tax base escaping. They don’t want their “recruits” escaping. They don’t want YOU escaping.

I am not writing this to scare you. I write this to you as a friend. If you are able to read and understand what I’ve written here, then you are a member of a small minority in the United States. You are a minority in a country that has no place for you.

So what should you do?

You should leave the United States of America.

If you’re young, you’ve got plenty of choices: you can teach English in the Middle East, Asia or Europe. Or you can go to university or graduate school abroad and start building skills that will qualify you for a work visa. If you’ve already got some real work skills, you can apply to emigrate to any number of countries as a skilled immigrant. If you are older and you’ve got some savings, you can retire to a place like Costa Rica or the Philippines. If you can’t qualify for a work, student or retirement visa, don’t let that stop you – travel on a tourist visa to a country that appeals to you and talk to the expats you meet there. Whatever you do, go speak to an immigration lawyer as soon as you can. Find out exactly how to get on a path that will lead to permanent residence and eventually citizenship in the country of your choice.

You will not be alone. There are millions of Americans just like me living outside the United States. Living lives much more fulfilling, peaceful, free and abundant than we ever could have attained back home. Some of us happened upon these lives by accident – we tried a year abroad and found that we liked it – others made a conscious decision to pack up and leave for good. You’ll find us in Canada, all over Europe, in many parts of Asia, in Australia and New Zealand, and in most other countries of the globe. Do we miss our friends and family? Yes. Do we occasionally miss aspects of our former country? Yes. Do we plan on ever living again in the United States? Never. And those of us with permanent residence or citizenship can sponsor family members from back home for long-term visas in our adopted countries.

In closing, I want to remind you of something: unless you are an American Indian or a descendant of slaves, at some point your ancestors chose to leave their homeland in search of a better life. They weren’t traitors and they weren’t bad people, they just wanted a better life for themselves and their families. Isn’t it time that you continue their journey?

IF nothing else, I hope it made you think a little.

iPad Tortured to Death

Courtesy of: http://www.infowars.com/ipad-tortured-to-death-in-psychological-experiment/

iPad Tortured to Death in Mass Social Experiment

Aaron Dykes & Alex Jones
Infowars.com
April 15, 2010

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Alex Jones undertakes a psychological experiment that proves dangerous in more than one sense. While the public is caught up in the hype and promotion of the new iPad, it is clear once again that technology has captured our humanity– our worth has been caught up in baubles, and we are dangerously close to caring more about our gadgets than our family and neighbors.

With this in mind, Alex daringly “tortures” the new toy being pushed by corporate elite to control the masses. He attempts to find out– or at least raise the question– as to whether humanity will concern itself with more with the senseless destruction of a computer than it does with the torture and senseless killing of more than a million Iraqis (to put forward one example) along with countless others across the globe.

Yes, the climate has changed since before recorded history.

Our planet is a REALLY tough rock.. and it’s gone through A LOT of change within its existence. I mean, at one point in time our separate continents were connected as one. Pangaea? Rodinia? Ur? Those were the super-continents hundreds of millions of years ago. Even more reason why our countries’ fighting on this planet is so pointless and desructive. We were once together.. but MONEY and greed have torn us apart. But I digress.. My point is that even our climate goes through natural changes that are pretty drastic. This article goes through some, but I encourage anyone to go search the internet and see for yourself.

Courtesy of: http://www.infowars.com/anthropogenic-mud-season-or-is-it-the-sun/

JTCoyoté
Infowars.com
April 7, 2010

Real soon here in the Colorado high country, the winter white will give way to ‘green’ as the days get longer. We’re all casting up our pick of date and time when the Dillon Reservoir will officially begin it’s annual thaw. Heck, the melt and mud season will be upon us before you know it.  With all this, just like clockwork, springtime also signals the beginning of the annual  “Human Caused Climate Change Debate” here in Summit Daily News-land. I figured I’d get a head start this year with a factual scientific perspective before the debate tumbles into the left/right, Big-oil/Greenpeace, political fracas it usually becomes.

Here goes…

Fact: In 1998 a huge group of scientists began a concerted effort to challenge the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the UN-IPCC, scientifically. You see, the IPCC in a political/quasi-scientific way, seeks to tax the people of the Earth for CO2 emissions, and blame Earth’s natural long cycle climate changes on humanity as well.

Because of this challenge the group of concerned scientists has gone virtually unreported in the mainstream media – they are the Global Warming Petition Project, the GWPP. All signers onto the project must be scientists with at least a Bachelor of Science degree from an accredited school.  There are over 31,500 signatories so far, 9000 or so with PhD and over 12,000 work directly in climate related fields.

Now to the meat…

Fact: The IPCC and proponents of man made climate change, prattle on about polar bears drowning because of humanities evil CO2. They also go on about island nations like Tuvalu being flooded as result of ”humanity’s deadly emissions.” Yet the data shows that the sea level world wide was actually much higher as were CO2 levels, during the Medieval Climate Optimum from 750AD to 1500AD. During this time the average ocean temperature reached a maximum 24.2 degrees C in 1200AD. Then a long term solar cooling spawned the Little Ice Age which at it’s coldest around 1750AD, dropped the ocean temperatures to 21.8 degrees C. This is the period when the Thames, the Delaware, and Hudson rivers froze over completely every winter.

The Earth’s climate has always cycled with the Sun being the primary driving factor. We are now in a solar warming trend and the data predicts a long cycle trend. With the advent of interdisciplinary communication, the sciences have opened much of the climate change complexity to the light of reason and out of the realm of superstition and  fear.  Yet fear is exactly what the UN-IPCC politicians, and their pseudo-scientific ”minions” have chosen to foist up. A snake god style operation, with the name “anthropogenic climate change” replete with the scary special effects of melting polar ice caps, giant tidal waves, and flash-frozen cities.

The IPCC has now been unmasked by the GWPP as the political organization it is — complete with it’s world carbon tax agenda/money making scam. We have REAL environmental problems facing us. Issues that  need to be addressed. However, this anthropogenic climate change “thing” into which the Environmental Movement has been hijacked/kidnapped, is obfuscating them. The Movement is plummeting into a black hole of non-issue/pseudoscience, a political quagmire created and orchestrated by the UN-IPCC,

Today as the Sun continues its long cycle warming, the ocean temperature average is slowly rising. It is slightly under the 3,000 year average of  22.92 degrees C, so essentially we are still coming out of the Little Ice Age today. 1000 years ago the Island Tuvalu was almost under water, and will be again as the natural long term warming continues – but just like mud season, it won’t be a result of human causes.

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Here is the summery of the 12 page letter that is circulated with the Global Warming Petition Project petition.

http://www.petitionproject.org/review_article.php

For those who wish to peruse the actual letter, here is a link

http://www.petitionproject.org/gw_article/Review_Article_HTML.php

Just say NO to Cap-and-Trade!

Why is it that our leaders insist on raping our pockets until we’re more dryer than a Kenmore? Although Climate science took a HUGE hit this past year with the Climategate fiasco bringing into serious question the credibility of the research supporting man-made global warming… our leaders STILL try to pass the dirty scheme that is Cap-and-Trade… A system that allows companies to pollute even more. It’s already shown to be a failure in Europe.

All it has is “theoretical” credibility, but in the real world GREEDY people will do GREEDY things and find loopholes.. ESPECIALLY when the Cap and Trade makes that loophole GINORMOUS. That’s just for the companies tho.. (and personally, I believe it should STAY with JUST the companies)

The average car-driving Joe will also take some BIG hits in the pocket. Besides the “skyrocketing costs” that will affect every form of energy we have, they also wanna punish us for driving gasoline-powered vehicles. But where are the electric cars?? We had a decent one in the 90s and then *poof* it just vanished off the road. FINALLY though, we are starting to see a very select few electric cars that the average consumer can afford. But do you think BIG OIL wants us buying ELECTRIC?? Hells no.. That’s why I’m sure they’ve made good with car companies to keep producing Hybrids.. Anything they can do to FORCE the consumer to buy their product: oil. But my point is there is NO evidence to show any SIGNIFICANT contribution by the AVERAGE car driving Joe.

There is a video called “The Story of Cap and Trade..” and while I like a good portion of that video, it DOES have a pretty liberal stance. To give you a little contrast, here is a bit more conservative view that acts as a “critique.”

Because our leaders want to “solve” climate change with a tax on the people, this will have DRASTIC effects on the economy. Gerald Celente gives a grave picture of the future if this so-called “pollutant” that plants breathe is able to be taxed and regulated by the EPA to meet ABSURD and UNREASONABLE standards.

Oops! EPA has implemented Cap and Trade for the auto-sector. Grrreeeeeaaaaatttt…..

Courtesy of: http://evmeme.com/2010/04/epa-institutes-cap-and-trade-for-the-auto-industry/

EPA Institutes Cap-and-Trade For the Auto Industry

April 7, 2010

The buzz so far this week has been about the new EPA (Ever Pretending Aristocrats)  and NHTSA  (The Roadblockers) standards, which were signed into being Monday.  The new rules set emissions standards for both vehicle engine emissions and for the emissions of a manufacturer’s entire fleet (called the CAFE standard).  The new rules also set up a cap and trade scheme for CO2 credits within the total fleet of each manufacturer in the U.S.

The new CAFE (Corporate Average Fuel Economy) standard will be raised, in stages, to 35.5mpg by 2016.  With one big change.  Instead of measuring this in miles per gallon, as has been the norm, the EPA will instead be measuring this new standard in the miles per gallon “equivalent” of carbon dioxide emissions.

That’s right, instead of just measuring each vehicle in an automaker’s fleet by the usual MPG standard and then averaging that over the entire company’s fleet to get the CAFE number, the EPA will now be measuring CO2 emissions from the vehicles and using that.  35.5mpg works out to 250g CO2/mile, which will be required as the CAFE standard for light passenger vehicles by model year 2016.

Usually, here on EVMeme, I just make fun of things that are, well, generally laughable in the electric vehicle and automotive industry.  This, however, isn’t all that funny.  When I began writing this piece, I was going to just have my way with the EPA (hey, that rhymes!) and come up with some jokes about bureaucrats and scientists who can’t get a real job (so they work for the government).  That kind of fell apart after I’d read through much of the 800-odd pages of this new standards setup the EPA has signed into bureaucratic, regulatory being.

The Cap and Trade Style Scheme – The Cap

The new cap-and-trade style scheme is being called ABT for “Averaging, Banking, and Trading” of credits based on fleet average CO2 numbers.  OK, so it’s not a cap-and-trade “style” scheme, it’s just a CnT scheme outright.

The program is footprint-based, meaning the CO2 emissions compliance number for a vehicle is based on its total overall size and weight.  The size of the vehicle fits into a scale so that passenger cars will have a sliding scale of CO2 requirements starting with MY 2012 and getting stricter up to MY 2016.  Light trucks have a different scale along the same timeline and combined fleet vehicles are on a third scale, also on a timeline.  The combined economy is basically the halfway point between the passenger and light truck scales, so the 2016 CO2 allowance for a small car is 225g/mile while for a light truck it’s 298g/mile with the combined being 250g/mile.

That defines the “cap” in this scheme.

The “trade” bit comes later.  Before that, let me explain the points system.

The Cap and Trade Style Scheme – The “and”

Auto manufacturers are allowed to earn credits that can be applied towards fleet-wide average CO2 standards.  These can come from improved A/C systems – by lowering their HFC (hydrofluorocarbon) refrigerant losses.  They can also come from lowering indirect CO2 emissions from things like electric power steering (which reduces engine load), advanced transmissions, start-stop technology, and so forth.

Of course, if a brand new innovation comes along that isn’t included in the EPA’s list, it won’t qualify.  Thus giving automakers less incentive to use the new tech – a byproduct of nearly all regulation, come to think of it.

These points are added up and applied to the CAFE number to lower the overall emissions (and its equivalent MPG).  Automakers can “bank” these points to use them on their own numbers or sell/trade them to other automakers.

The Cap and Trade Style Scheme – The Trade

The ABT system allows for the banking (read: hoarding) and trading of these CO2 credits between auto manufacturers or between vehicles in the fleet.  So if Company A has a surplus of credits and has met CAFE standards for CO2, but has one vehicle struggling to keep on target, then those extra credits can be applied to that vehicle.

Like with previous CAFE standards, total sales or manufacturing volume of any one vehicle is not counted, so if Company A is making 2,000,000 of the SUV that can’t quite cut the mustard with CO2 emissions, but makes 500 of a compact city car that has extra CO2 credits in spades, then it all evens out.  According to the EPA, anyway.

Likewise, if Company A has a surplus and needs some bargaining chips when dealing with Company B, they could throw in some CO2 credits as extra incentive.  If Company B is having a rough time with one of their vehicles or the entire fleet-wide standard.. Bingo!  Problem solved.

Cap and Trade Scheme Finalized, and It Will Spread

Now that the EPA has put this in place for auto manufacturers, expect the idea to spread.  The auto industry is their easiest target, so it follows that they would aim this at them first.  Most of the American automotive sector is struggling and already under the EPA and NHTSA’s thumbs, so forcing this now will be easy.  In fact, so far there’s been little outcry from anyone in the business.

Now you can expect that over the next couple of years, similar schemes will be cooked up for other industries under the EPA’s watchful gaze.

Some Thoughts

Without getting too political, I just want to say that I’ve noticed that people generally mistrust their government.  At the same time, most Americans will still put their faith in bureaucrats in some “untouchable” agencies like the EPA.  People seem to assume that the Environmental Protection Agency (like the FDA and others) is incapable of doing wrong and only exists for our benefit.  This amazes me and baffles logic.

Having been writing about some of the new, up-and-coming and truly innovative new technologies in the automotive industry, I have a different perspective, I guess.  These regulatory agencies are nothing but roadblocks (and pretty costly, serious ones at that) to clean fuel and alternative technologies.

Do you wonder why we don’t have more electric vehicles and alt-fuel cars on the road?  Look no further than the EPA and the NHTSA.  It takes years and millions of dollars to get approval from these Kings of the Road to put your car or truck onto our nation’s highways.  That’s why most “new” cars aren’t so new – they’re just remakes of other models.

Welcome to the real problem.. Government. Again.

Here’s a fun fact about 9/11 you probably haven’t heard..

..or you might have, who knows?

In the World Trade Center complex, the third building that fell at FREE-FALL SPEED (yes, ALL THREE fell at FREE-FALL SPEED) had only minor fire damage on MAYBE one-sixth of one side of the building.  If you look at pictures, SOME windows are blown out, but NOT NEARLY enough damage to fall at FREE-FALL SPEED.  Free-fall speed automatically dictates that there was ZERO RESISTANCE in the building while it was falling.  This is LITERALLY impossible without some help from explosives.

I will let the expert describe this.. (his voice is pretty boring, but PAY ATTENTION towards the end!)

“Buildings cannot fall at free-fall through themselves because even a weakened building requires energy to break up the pieces, crush the concrete and push things around. When the falling building pushes things, the fall is not “free,” the “things” push back. And the reaction forces will measurably slow the decent of the building. … In short, the evidence is clear. We are witnessing not the collapse of a building, but its demolition. And we’ve received not a report from an independent scientific investigation, but a cover-up by a Government agency.”

MSNBC’s Unbelievably Lets the Truth Out About Bankster Scam

Courtesy of: http://www.msnbc.msn.com

“In America today we are getting closer to exposing the greatest con and cover-up in the history of this country.  It involves our banks, the Federal Reserve, the Congress and our course you and me.  First though think of the FED as the “Godfather” in this con.  The role of the Godfather, played by former FED chief Alan Greenspan, [denied] that he ever knew what he helped perpetrate. … Now he may not have favored among the banks because Greenspan was working for ALL the banks against YOU.”

“The bankers of course.. the unrepentant con men being supported by the Federal Reserve. … So good getting that money for free.  Getting away with it.  Here’s how the con went down…”

What do your IRS taxes really pay for?

Courtesy of: http://www.infowars.com

JT Coyoté
Infowars.com
April 9, 2010

Most taxpayers have no idea what their federal income taxes actually provide. When I ask folks if they know where their IRS check goes I get answers from, “…it pays for the operation of the Federal Government.” to, “… hummm, I really don’t know.”  Actually both answers are partially true. Why were the IRS and the Federal Reserve created by the same act of Congress — what is their relationship to the Federal Government?

About a year ago, I made the assertion that the Federal Reserve through the IRS has the power to tax directly by congressional action and indirectly by inflation. It is very easy to see when you understand the “not quite governmental, not quite private” structure of the Federal Reserve System and its taxing arm the IRS.

Here is how it works. Congress passes a law, the House appropriates the funds. The Federal Treasury Department prints the notes for the appropriation. Then the Federal Reserve purchases these notes/paper at the cost of printing, about 4 cents note. A $1bill, $100 bill, or $1000 bond, costs the same 4 cents. The Federal Reserve then loans this money back to the Federal Government at interest based on face value. This interest rate may fluctuate. The cash is then distributed to the regional Federal Reserve banks from which the appropriations are disseminated as per the Congressional mandate.

Now, as the interest climbs with each appropriation, this debt requires payment your taxes – and occasionally the taxes must be increased to keep up with the “can never be paid off by design, debt”. The Federal Reserve profits greatly on this value created out of thin air paid by IRS collected taxes, and OUR REAL ASSET collateral on loans that go into foreclosure/confiscation.

Periodically, the Federal Reserve will ask Congress for an increase in money supply. This indirectly taxes folks by pumping cash into the economy which decreases the buying power of the dollar. This makes it seem as though prices have risen – not the case, the money added causes the value of the dollar to drop. This is the inflation tax. A tax that causes big problems for people with savings or on fixed incomes. The frightening thing is, the FED-IRS has NEVER had it’s books opened to Congressional scrutiny.

On 2/26/09, Representative Ron Paul rose before the House to introduce his “Federal Reserve Transparency Act” HR-1207. In his speech, he said…

“…Throughout its nearly 100-year history, the Federal Reserve has presided over the near-complete destruction of the United States dollar. Since 1913 the dollar has lost over 95% of its purchasing power, aided and abetted by the Federal Reserve’s loose monetary policy. How long will we as a Congress stand idly by while hard-working Americans see their savings eaten away by inflation? […] Whenever you question the Fed about the strength of the dollar, they will refer you to the Treasury, and vice versa. The Federal Reserve has, on the one hand, many of the privileges of government agencies, while retaining benefits of private organizations, such as being insulated from Freedom of Information Act requests. […] The Federal Reserve can enter into agreements with foreign central banks and foreign governments, and the GAO is prohibited from auditing or even seeing these agreements. Why should a government-established agency, whose police force has federal law enforcement powers, and whose notes have legal tender status in this country, be allowed to enter into agreements with foreign powers and foreign banking institutions with no oversight?”

In this unique Federal Reserve/Federal Government relationship the IRS works as the “Taxing Arm For The FED” – NOT the Federal Government which is prohibited from direct taxing at Article 1 section 9 clause 4 of the Constitution!  Now you know.  Those sneaky-rascal bankers anyway.

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