Mindful Missives: December 2009

Friday, December 18, 2009

Congressional Candidate Lieutenant Colonel Allen West

Wow. Near tears. (okay, actual tears.)

Key phrase ... PROMOTE, not provide.

Thursday, December 17, 2009

Iron Man 2 Trailer (OFFICIAL)

Climate-Gate E-Mails Released by Whistleblower, Not Hacker | CEI

Chris Horner: Climate-Gate E-Mails Released by Whistleblower, Not Hacker | CEI

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Soros Wants IMF To Subsidize His Green Investments

Soros Wants IMF To Subsidize His Green Investments: "

Leftist troublemaker George Soros has already made it explicitly clear he wishes to destroy capitalism.

Maybe the Third World will help the hedge fund manager and currency manipulator do it.

The preeminent funder of the left in America wants the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to become a kind of globetrotting Bernard Madoff, offering low-interest loans to poor countries so they can invest in the doomed global warming industry.

George Soros, owner, Democratic Party

According to Soros, the loans would allow developing countries to “jump-start forestry, land use, and agricultural projects – areas that offer the greatest scope for reducing or mitigating carbon emissions, and that could produce substantial returns from carbon markets.”

Soros, who personally wants to invest $1 billion in “clean” technology, wants the IMF to help stimulate demand for the technology he plans to underwrite.

Specifically, Soros proposes using the IMF’s special drawing rights (SDRs) to make loans to developing countries. The SDRs, which he describes as “arcane financial instruments that essentially constitute additional foreign exchange” can be converted into one of four currencies and lent out at a low interest rate. The loans would be backed by the IMF’s gold reserves.

Of course carbon markets exist only because governments say they do. Governments artificially create demand for carbon indulgences. When the demand for carbon offsets dies off as market participants finally realize anthropogenic global warming is a fraud, it’s going to get ugly.

As the Ponzi scheme finally unwinds, the governments of the developing world will be left holding the bag. When the bubble bursts, they’re going to get angry, maybe as angry as Albanians got when they were duped in pyramid schemes after the Iron Curtain collapsed.

The victims aren’t likely to be enthusiastic about markets either"

Obama’s War on America

Obama’s War on America: "Guest Commentary by Edward Cline:

Search through any of President Barack Obama‘s speeches, and buried under the glittering, worthless excelsior of opaque platitudes, silicic bromides and anemic banalities, one will find a pair or more of statements that mean something. They will mean something if one parses the statements armed with a knowledge of the man and of the power of words.