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Energy: a Core Issue Now and Through to the 2012 Election.

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A report Thursday from the Congressional Research Service (CRS) establishes that we have the largest endowment of combined technically recoverable natural gas, oil and coal on Earth right here in the United States. The report estimates that the U.S. has 163 billion barrels of recoverable oil. That’s is about 8 times more than President Obama admits.

Russia comes in second with recoverable fossil fuel reserves, followed by Saudi Arabia, China, Iran and Canada.

The CRS report is being made public at a time when oil and gas prices are skyrocketing and the Department of Interior is embroiled in a battle with oil companies over offshore drilling. Last week, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and Michael Bromwich, Director of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement, appealed a court decision that ordered them to act on five pending drilling permits.

 President Obama’s press conference Friday naturally dealt with energy. The CRS Report was not mentioned. Instead Obama intentionally misled (lied) the American people. Here, in part, is what he said:

All these actions can increase domestic oil production in the short and medium term. But let’s be clear: It is not a long-term solution. Even if we started drilling new wells tomorrow, that oil isn’t coming on-line overnight. And even if we tap every single reserve available to us, we can’t escape the fact that we only control 2 percent of the world’s oil, but we consume over a quarter of the world’s oil.

“Proven reserves” is a widely used term that never informs and always misleads. In countries like Saudi Arabia “proven reserves” is whatever the government ministry says they are. But in the United States, “proven reserves” is a “term of art,” defined by the Securities and Exchange Commission. Find the U.S. definition of “proven reserves:” in this a 2010 CRS report:

Proved reserves. The quantities of hydrocarbons estimated with reasonable certainty to be commercially recoverable from known accumulations under current economic conditions, operating methods, and government regulations. Current economic conditions include prices and costs prevailing at the time of the estimate. Estimates of proved reserves do not include reserves appreciation.

We must learn to always use the legal term, “technically recoverable oil” as was reported Thursday. Remember the number is 163 barrels. In addition, we have 1,162.7 trillion cubic feet of undiscovered technically recoverable natural gas and 261 billion short tons of technically recoverable coal. (This should be plenty of comfort for you Prius fans.) We indeed have a magnificent “Energy Endowment.” It fits right with “life, Liberty and the Pursuit of happiness.”

. . . Have Decided That They Need to Go Somewhere Else to Realize Their Hopes and Dreams. That’s a Terrible Situation.                              —Ohio Governor John Kasich

The citizens of Wisconsin and their representatives courageously took the first step. Governor Walker signed the landmark legislation into law Friday. That there are miles to go for them doesn’t matter. They are on their way. The “Ship Wisconsin” is under the firm hand and clear mind of Governor Scott Walker.

Right along with Wisconsin is Ohio. Ohio has been offered a plan to, not just balance the State budget but to return to economic competitiveness. Kasich’s job may be tougher than Walkers. If it is easier, it is only because Wisconsin was first.

Governor Kasich gave his State of the State address this past week. Read these portions of his remarks to get your mind around the size of Ohio’s challenge:

Before we begin to talk about what we need to do, I need to spend a little bit of time and talk about the problems we have in this state. We have to recognize the difficulty we have before we understand the challenge and why we need to meet the challenge of our difficulties.

Folks, we’ve lost 600,000 jobs in the last 10 years. Let’s think about this: Only California, which has completely lost its way, and Michigan, which has been devastated by the auto industry, have lost more jobs. Only California and Michigan have fared worse than our beloved Buckeye State. And, of course, we’ve lost more than 400,000 jobs over these last four years. Things have been accelerating. As a result, we have experienced unacceptable levels of poverty and homelessness.

I can remember during the campaign going to Ashtabula County and having a young girl walk up to me and say, Mister, please don’t tax my eggs. I go door to door and this is how I make a living. Please, Mister, don’t break my business. You don’t forget that.

Young people, you know, our kids and our grandkids are leaving this state for better opportunities. One-third of Ohio college graduates are leaving this state within three years of graduating. Our best and our brightest, our seed corn, have decided that they need to go somewhere else to realize their hopes and dreams. That’s a terrible situation.

Too many of our successful entrepreneurs flee the state to escape high taxation. And what I would say to all of you, Republicans and Democrats alike, you talk to those folks that have moved to Naples and you ask them why they have left. And they will tell you because they get a better deal. They get to keep more of what they have earned in their lifetime. And when they leave, we lose their money.  

You know, that’s one thing. We lose the jobs, we lose their entrepreneurial spirit, we lose their ingenuity. See, they’re the ones that can see the future. They’re the ones that can take ideas from the back of their head and translate it into something that can change Ohio, change America and change the world, and they’ve been leaving. And now they take their charitable giving and they give it to a faraway place to maybe build an opera house in Naples, Florida, rather than helping to rebuild the opera house in our small communities across Ohio. . . .

. . .To my friends here, we cannot tax our way to prosperity. We’re one of the highest taxed states in America, and we’re not competitive. You get these calls from — from companies saying we’re thinking about going, we can’t make a profit here, we can’t make the numbers work. Well, Ohio has been under siege and not just from India and China. And, oh, yes, we live in a global world, and they’re looking every day to take our simple products and move them overseas. And I want all of you to know that I have told one Chinese delegation after another that we don’t like the fact that you manipulate your currency, we do not like the fact that you don’t play on a level playing field when you trade with us, and it will stop. And we will be a strong voice in Ohio to make sure we get our fair share, India and China – they have us under.

But, you know, we’re also under siege from Indiana, Kentucky, Georgia. Those from Dayton, NCR, gone. An empty building. We’re under siege from North Carolina, from Florida, from Texas. They all come inside the boundaries of Ohio and they try to lure away our best and brightest. They take our jobs, sometimes they take our job creators out of our beloved Buckeye State. We’re not going to let that continue. We cannot afford to let that continue. But I must also tell my colleagues here today that while I believe we can’t tax our way to prosperity, we can’t cut our way there either.

If you examine any successful business, it’s absolutely critical that that business controls its costs. Ohio is going to have to control its costs only to set the stage for the creation of new products just like businesses. You see, they control their costs, they create new products, they find new customers, and they develop innovative solutions. And this is what allows the great companies to flourish, whether it is Google or whether it is Yahoo, whether it’s Oracle. Every day they think about controlling costs and devising new and exciting ways to solve problems. Google is in the dictionary.

I met those guys when they drove in a Volkswagen with their inline skates tied to roof, and they’ve changed the world. They have changed the world. And the same formula that allows businesses to flourish, it’s the same formula that can allow us to build a strong Ohio. Yes, control our costs and begin to innovate. We are putting a budget together that can transform our state.

If you’ve seen a lot of change in these first seven weeks, you ain’t seen nothing yet. We are going to transform this state. READ IT ALL HERE.

It seems reasonable that Ohio Democrats could work with that vision and that tone. But remember Wisconsin was the national focus because President Obama knew, if the people of Wisconsin fix their public union costs, he will lose Wisconsin in 2012. By his calculation, if he loses Wisconsin, he loses reelection. Obama also considers Ohio and Michigan are essential as well. There is no doubt he is right.

SEIU and other union thugs were in Wisconsin at Obama’s direction. This is the major reason national media attention remained focused there. Be alert. The Thugocracy will focus on Ohio in the next days. Watch —the opportunity for Ohio Democrats to be constructive will vanish.

MARCH 10, 2010 IS A HISTORIC DAY

The vote in the Assembly was announced at 3:53 central time. But the day was ushered in at the Capitol Building in Madison by college students who spent the night in the building.

Students from the nearby University of Wisconsin at Madison have always been a significant percentage of the demonstrators. But the muscle in Madison has been supplied by uniion thugs. Things have now become nasty, dangerous and potentially deadly for those determined to do the job the Wisconsin voters asked them to do.

DEATH THREATS TO WISCONSIN LAWMAKERS: YOU WILL DIE!!!!

Read this report filed today from Jon Byman, WTJM RADIO

Capitol Chaos: Lawmakers Get Death Threats

MADISON – The State Department of Justice confirms that it is investigating several death threats against a number of lawmakers in response to the legislature’s move to strip employees of many collective bargaining rights.

Among the threats the Justice Department is investigating is one that was emailed to Republican Senators Wednesday night.  Newsradio 620 WTMJ has obtained that email.

The following is the unedited email:

Please put your things in order because you will be killed and your familes
will also be killed due to your actions in the last 8 weeks. Please explain
to them that this is because if we get rid of you and your families then it
will save the rights of 300,000 people and also be able to close the deficit
that you have created. I hope you have a good time in hell. Read below for
more information on possible scenarios in which you will die.

WE want to make this perfectly clear. Because of your actions today and in
the past couple of weeks I and the group of people that are working with me
have decided that we’ve had enough. We feel that you and the people that
support the dictator have to die. We have tried many other ways of dealing
with your corruption but you have taken things too far and we will not stand
for it any longer. So, this is how it’s going to happen: I as well as many
others know where you and your family live, it’s a matter of public records.
We have all planned to assult you by arriving at your house and putting a
nice little bullet in your head. However, we decided that we wouldn’t leave
it there. We also have decided that this may not be enough to send the
message to you since you are so “high” on Koch and have decided that you are now going to single handedly make this a dictatorship instead of a demorcratic process. So we have also built several bombs that we have placed in various locations around the areas in which we know that you frequent.

This includes, your house, your car, the state capitol, and well I won’t
tell you all of them because that’s just no fun. Since we know that you are
not smart enough to figure out why this is happening to you we have decided
to make it perfectly clear to you. If you and your goonies feel that it’s
necessary to strip the rights of 300,000 people and ruin their lives, making
them unable to feed, clothe, and provide the necessities to their families
and themselves then We Will “get rid of” (in which I mean kill) you. Please
understand that this does not include the heroic Rep. Senator that risked
everything to go aganist what you and your goonies wanted him to do. We feel that it’s worth our lives to do this, because we would be saving the lives
of 300,000 people. Please make your peace with God as soon as possible and
say goodbye to your loved ones we will not wait any longer. YOU WILL DIE!!!!

What a clear view of the hard left. But folks were on hand from the Wisconsin majority in support of the Republican legislators and Governor Walker:

Great to see Packers gear among these clean-cut citizens.

Real Wisconsin Citizens

(Journal Sentinal photos)

I do not believe Governor Walker found time to appear with these patriots but here is a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel summary from his news conference this morning:

Republicans checked with nonpartisan legislative agencies to make sure the action was legal, Walker said during a Thursday morning press conference.

Walker said the Republicans are acting on behalf of Wisconsin residents who support balancing the budget. “The public overwhelmingly supports asking our public employees to pay more for their pensions and health care,” Walker said.

He noted that he introduced his budget repair bill nearly four weeks ago and repeated his statement that state senate Democratic leader Mark Miller has blocked any possible negotiations on the budget repair bill.

“In the end, at some point, the public wants us to move forward,” Walker said.

“The public overwhelmingly supports asking our public employees to pay more for their pensions and health care,” Walker said.

He noted that he introduced his budget repair bill nearly four weeks ago and repeated his statement that state senate Democratic leader Mark Miller has blocked any possible negotiations on the budget repair bill.

“In the end, at some point, the public wants us to move forward,” Walker said.

Like buzzards gathering around a corpse, the far left has its predators—Michael Moore, for example. Here is a fun Milwaukee Journal Sentinel video interview with Jesse Jackson:

Jackson, “These people here are losing their jobs, their homes etc. and cain’t pay ­_ _ _ their children. These peoples backs against the wall. Where do they go? . . . These people here —democracy at its best is liberty; not something rammed through. And people are reacting to it because the idea they’re using it—the budget deficit—as a pretext ah ah because ah ah he gave a huge tax cut and job cut. So people do not believe what they’re hearing.”

MSJ interviewer, “But they control the House [Assembly], the Senate and they have the Governor’s office and that’s what happened with health care, some would suggest, and there’s a parallel there.”

Jackson, “Well it is democratic tyranny when people real needs are not taken into account. What does this mean, in Milwaukee for example, when they get $900 million cut in education? What does it mean you try to privatize the rest of Wisconsin at Madison? What does it mean when you use this kind of power to privatize State assets and then sell them off to people without deliberative process? There’s something here that, even collective bargaining, the content is as important as collective bargaining.”

The vote is just in!!!  From CNN:

The Wisconsin state Assembly on Thursday afternoon passed a controversial bill that curtails most state workers’ collective bargaining rights. The Assembly passed the measure 53-42.

The bill will reach Gov. Scott Walker’s desk for final approval. The bill would, among other things, allow public workers to collectively negotiate wages only, prohibit public-worker raises beyond inflation, and bar unions from taking dues from public workers’ checks. Walker has argued the bill is necessary to help the state correct its deficits and avoid massive layoffs and property tax hikes.

Let’s Decide in 2012 —Make America Number 1 in Oil Production again

The second most important decision we must make as Americans in the next 17 months is to open the throttle on crude oil. That means more exploration, more drilling and more needed infrastructure —especially new refining capacity. There is no reason, if we will it, America cannot be producing as much oil as we consume by 2021.

There is only one reason we are not drilling and producing now. That reason is the American government. The government has stood between a petroleum free market and We the People for 45 years. Federal restrictions on petroleum go back to the 1970’s. Only Ronald Reagan and G.W. Bush, in his second term, have taken action to loosen restrictions on American oil production.

 President Obama is even more destructive than Jimmy Carter. He hates petroleum in general and American petroleum leadership in particular. In 2009, the Obama Administration placed almost all reserves on Federal land off limits. The “BP spill” was a perfect opportunity to choke back America’s hope for a robust world leading petroleum industry even further. The Regime promptly canceled Gulf Coast deep-water drilling permits.

As early as May 2^nd, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar told CNN: “Our job basically is to keep the boot on the neck of British Petroleum.” I know. None of us are shills for BP but, like you, it makes my blood boil. You may not know this, the last 48 days of that spill was caused directly by the Regime. Meanwhile Obama fed the image of his sweet young daughter asking, “Daddy, did you plug the hole today?” This is a perfect example of why the accurate word for this crowd is “Regime.”

We can promptly turn an eager domestic industry loose in January 2013 if we do our duty and our work in the 2012 election. We must give Republican candidates for the House, the Senate and President marching orders in the campaign and then elect them. We can—must—see $60 to $65 per barrel again and pump prices for gasoline at $2.40 to $2.50. Let’s go for it! Let us begin!

TROTSKYITES AND UNION RIGHTS

Trotskyites are radicals who support Trotsky’s belief that socialism must be established throughout the world by continuing revolution. That has not been the American experience until now. It was Fabian Socialists, labeling themselves Progressives, who moved the country from the American Idea brick by brick for a century. They avoided talk of “fundamental transformation.”

Look at The American Idea —as understood by Abraham Lincoln:

For Lincoln, this central idea was the Declaration of Independence and its notion of equality as the basis for republican government—the simple idea that no one has the right by nature to rule over another without the latter’s consent:

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.”

Lincoln remarked in 1859: “All honor to Jefferson—to the man who, in the concrete pressure of a struggle for national independence by a single people, had the coolness, forecast, and capacity to introduce into a merely revolutionary document, an abstract truth, applicable to all men and all times, and so embalm it there, that to-day, and in all coming days, it shall be a rebuke and a stumbling-block to the very harbingers of re-appearing tyranny and oppression.” (Emphasis mine) Lincoln’s most famous single declaration (at Gettysburg):

“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. . . . .

. . . “It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they have, thus far, so nobly carried on. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us – that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion – that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation shall have a new birth of freedom; and that this government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”

The Preamble to the Constitution of the United States of America clearly addresses the American Idea:

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan, speaking on the floor of the house chamber last year before the Obamacare vote, is among our fine leaders standing with the American Idea:

“It’s unconscionable what we are leaving the next generation. This moment may mark a temporary conclusion of the health care debate. But its place in history has not been decided. If this passes, the quest to reclaim the American idea is not over. The fight to reapply our founding principles is not finished it is just a steeper hill to climb and it is a climb we will make.

Yes indeed, it is a climb we will make!

The Threat

There is no doubt Islam is the greatest global threat in history. Yet, the fight here for the life or death of the American Idea is more critical and it is now. If we lose the fight with the Secular Fundamentalists, the Islamists will prevail in the end.

If the fight were called today, the secular progressives would win. They control our universities, the media, a majority of Federal and States courts, the United States Senate, the Presidency, 22 governors, several State legislatures and the Federal and State bureaucracies.

The New Trotskyites

The textbook for these Secular Fundamentalist hard leftists, such as Code Pink, is Rules for Radicals, 1971, by Saul Alinsky. Alinsky’s first bestselling (1945) handbook for fundamental transformation is Reveille for Radicals. Whenever you hear the “activity” organizing, think Saul Alinsky. Saul Alinsky was a Communist/Marxist fellow-traveler who helped establish the tactics of infiltration –coupled with a measure of confrontation—that have been central to revolutionary political movements in the United States in recent decades. He never joined the Communist Party but instead, as David Horowitz puts it, became an avatar of the post-modern left.

Link: http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2314

As a teenager, Hillary Rodham was introduced to Alinsky’s work by her Methodist Youth Pastor. She became a devotee. We do not know if she ever renounced Alinsky. The path she eventually chose was to hitch her star to Bill Clinton.

On the other hand, Barak Obama, has been into “community Organizing” since he enrolled as a student at Occidental.

Richard Andrew Cloward and his wife Frances Fox Piven: wrote the “Cloward-Piven Strategy.” This handbook details the need to destroy the old system before you build the new on the ashes. Let me say again, the old system must be destroyed.

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7522

This is exactly Barak Obama’s plan and commitment. This is “organizing.” This is “Fundamentally Transforming.” He has loaded the White House with fellow Trotskyites. The unsustainable size and growth of government is purposeful and intended to destroy the institutions of the American Idea.

President Obama quoted in 2001 when he was an Illinois State Senator:

October 27, 2008 RUSH segment Barack Obama, ladies and gentlemen, calls himself a “constitutional professor” or a “constitutional scholar.”  In truth, Barack Obama was an anti-constitutionalist professor.  He studied the Constitution and he flatly rejected it.  He doesn’t like the Constitution. He thinks it is flawed. Now I understand why he was so reluctant to wear the American flag lapel pin.  Why would he?  He says, “And to the extent as radical I think as people tried to characterize the Warren Court, it wasn’t that radical.  It didn’t break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the Founding Fathers in the Constitution, at least as it’s been interpreted.  The Warren Court interpreted it in the same way that generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties.  It says what the states can’t do to you. It says what the federal government can’t do to you, but it doesn’t say what the federal government or the state government must do on your behalf.” 

Michelle Obama speaking at the 2008 DNC:

 “Barack stood up that day,’ talking about a visit to Chicago neighborhoods, ‘and spoke words that have stayed with me ever since. He talked about ‘The world as it is’ and ‘The world as it should be…”

The phrases are from Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals”, Chapter 2.

What about the National Education Association, the NEA?

Where does the NEA fit into the scheme? They are as radical as others we have mentioned. This should be a book but we’ll let two examples suffice.

Bob Chanin, General Counsel to the National Education Association until retirement 2009:

Despite what some among us would like to believe it is not because of our creative ideas; it is not because of the merit of our positions; it is not because we care about children; and it is not because we have a vision of a great public school for every child.

The NEA and its affiliates are effective advocates because we have power. And we have power because there are more than 3.2 million people who are willing to pay us hundreds of million of dollars in dues each year because they believe that we are the unions that can most effectively represent them; the union that can protect their rights and advance their interests as education employees.

This is not to say that the concern of NEA and its affiliates with closing achievement gaps, reducing drop rate rates, improving teacher quality, and the like are unimportant or inappropriate. . . . But they need not and must not be achieved at the expense of due process, employee rights, or collective bargaining.

That is simply too high a price to pay.

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The NEA has a “Recommended Reading page on its Web Site. The feature? Saul Alinsky “The American Organizer”

Here are parts of the above recommendation:

“Alinsky’s writings have been called the ‘mother’s milk of the left.’”

Alinsky, the master political agitator, tactical planner and social organizer didn’t mince words…

“Liberals in their meetings utter bold works;

“The Radical does not sit frozen by cold objectivity.

“Society has good reason to fear the Radical.

“Radicals precipitate the social crisis by action – by using power. Liberals may then timidly follow along or else, as in most cases, be swept forward along the course set by Radicals, but all because of forces unloosed by Radical action. They are forced to positive action only in spite of their desires …

• “The American Radical will fight privilege and power whether it be inherited or acquired by any small group, whether it be political or financial or organized creed.
• “He curses a caste system which he recognizes despite all patriotic denials.
• “He will fight conservatives whether they are business or labor leaders.
• “He will fight any concentration of power hostile to a broad, popular democracy, whether he finds it in financial circles or in politics.
• “The Radical recognizes that constant dissension and conflict is and has been the fire under the boiler of democracy. He firmly believes in that brave saying of a brave people, “Better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!”
• “The Radical may resort to the sword but when he does he is not filled with hatred against those individuals whom he attacks. He hates these individuals not as persons but as symbols representing ideas or interests which he believes to be inimical to the welfare of the people.
• “That is the reason why Radicals, although frequently embarking upon revolutions, have rarely resorted to personal terrorism.”

Alinsky practiced what he preached. He said, “Tactics means doing what you can with what you have … tactics is the art of how to take and how to give.”

He uses eyes, ears and nose for examples…

Eyes
“If you have a vast organization, parade it before the enemy, openly show your power.”

Ears
“If your organization is small, do what Gideon did: conceal the members in the dark but raise a clamor that will make the listener believe that your organization numbers many more that it does.”

Nose
“If your organization is too tiny even for noise, stink up the place.”

Alinsky devised and proved thirteen tactical rules for use against opponents vastly superior in power and wealth.

   1. “Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.
   2. “Never go outside the experience of your people.
   3. “Wherever possible go outside of the experience of the enemy.
   4. “Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules.
   5. “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.
   6. “A good tactic is one that your people enjoy.
   7. “A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.
   8. “Keep the pressure on.
   9. “The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.
  10. “Major premise for tactics is development of operations that will maintain constant pressure upon the opposition.
  11. “If you push a negative hard and deep enough it will break through into its counterside.
  12. “The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.
  13. “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.

“The real action is in the enemy’s reaction. The enemy properly goaded and guided in his reaction will be your major strength. Tactics, like life, require that you move with the action.”

Alinsky was hated and defamed by powerful enemies, proof that his tactics worked. His simple formula for success…

“Agitate + Aggravate + Educate + Organize”

Wisconsin is at the center of the 2011 action. Today is decision time. Will the Wisconsin Senate Democrats join Governor Walker and prevent the layoff of hundreds of teachers or will they kneel before the “we have the power” Alinskyites?