The EPA Changed the Way it Makes Scientific Decisions to "Sustainable" 

In January 2012, the EPA announced it was "realigning its entire research enterprise around the concept of sustainability."  The new initiative is titled, "The Path Forward." Agency scientists and managers agreed to base their process on "the widely used definition of sustainability as outlined by the Brundtland Commission in 1987..." 

The 1987 Brundtland Commission report, also known as "Our Common Future," stated that the earth was in danger, there was too much poverty and industrialized nations like the US were the cause. According to Brundtland, the only way to protect earth was for powerful central authorites to control all of society, the economy and the environment in an initiative it coined as "sustainable development."

 

Union Founder's Words on Socialism

"Socialism has no place in the hearts of those who would secure the fight for freedom and secure democracy."  Samuel Gompers 1918

Samuel Gompers was the founder and longest serving president of the American Federation of Labor. (AFL)

"Deja vu All Over Again?"

FDR won his first two terms by attacking the wealthy and pitting them against poor Americans.  In 1932 he promised to "cut government operations by 25% and lower taxes", but did neither. 

In 1936, he overwhelmingly won by raising taxes on the rich then redistributing the money to larger voting blocks in swing states using the WPA, Silver Purchase Act and the Agricultural Act. 

By 1940, needing businesspeople to win the war, he called for unity among the same people he divided and won another decisive victory. 

In 1944, FDR sidestepped laws prohibiting union money in elections by forming the nation's first Political Action Committee.  This provided urban labor support. Fearing a backlash by Japanese prisoners if released from internment camps, he created an executive order to keep them imprisoned until 3 days after the elections.  To gain the Polish American vote, FDR promised special treatment for Poland after the war.  He won nearly 90% of their vote, and then betrayed the group by failing to offer the promised "self-determination" for Poland at the Yalta conference.  Still, he won a fourth slim victory. 

Upon his death, the NYT wrote, "Men will thank God on their knees 100 years from now FDR was in the White House."!

Between budget battles and elections, politicians and media supporters spin wildly to advance their own positions, leaving the public misinformed. In this column we will attempt to unravel some of the worst spins.

Worst Economy, I think!

In 2008, now Pres. Obama said "we are in the worst economy since the Great Depression."

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Presidential  Whoppers!

During the Healthcare Summit and his 2010 State of the Union message, Pres. Obama declared the healthcare bill would cut the federal deficit. 

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EU Pays People to Cut Down Trees to Reduce CO2!

Remember when people rallied to "save our forests?"  In attempts to cut carbon emissions in the EU, the new version is "cut 'er down."

The EU's emissions reduction target for 2020 could be facing an unlikely but grave obstacle, according to a growing number of scientists, EU officials and NGOs: the contribution of biomass to the EU's renewable energy objectives for 2020.

On 29 March, a call was launched at the European Parliament for Brussels to reconsider its carbon accounting rules for biomass emissions, and EurActiv has learned that the issue is provoking widespread alarm in policy-making circles.

"We're paying people to cut their forests down in the name of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and yet we are actually increasing them. No-one is apparently bothering to do any analysis about this," one Brussels insider told EurActiv.

"They're just sleepwalking into this insanity," he added.

Around half of the EU's target for providing 20% of energy from renewable sources by 2020 will be made up by biomass energy from sources such as wood, waste and agricultural crops and residues, according to EU member states' national action plans.

Wood makes up the bulk of this target and is counted by the EU as 'carbon neutral', giving it access to subsidies, feed-in tariffs and electricity premiums at national level.  Read more.




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