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In the main article
published in The Daily Texan about Governor
Perry suing the EPA, at the very bottom is
printed the comments of an obvious idiot
that is not yet aware that Global Warming
is a scam.
This idiot Luke Metzger, director of
Environment Texas a statewide advocacy
group that has aimed to promote clean
renewable energy in Texas since 2006, is
now a rebel without a cause since
regardless of what any of these Global
Warmers are stating, we are currently
feeling Global cooling on a massive scale
with record cold in most parts of the
world.
Great job Governor Perry for sticking up
for Texas against this
insanity.
The state of Texas filed a petition with
the U.S. Court of Appeals on Tuesday,
challenging the Environmental Protection
Agency’s findings that greenhouse gases
in the state are a threat to public
health.
In the agency’s endangerment findings,
published Dec. 7, EPA Administrator Lisa
P. Jackson concluded that “the current
and projected concentrations of the six
key well-mixed greenhouse gases — carbon
dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide,
hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons and
sulfur hexafluoride — in the atmosphere
threaten the public health and welfare of
current and future
generations.”
Gov. Rick Perry filed the suit with the
help of Attorney General Greg Abbott and
Texas Agricultural Commissioner Todd
Staples. Perry said the EPA is making
generalizations and scaring the
public.
“Today, the state of Texas is taking its
challenge to the EPA,” Perry said in a
press conference held Tuesday. “This
misguided plan paints a big target on the
backs of Texas energy producers and the
nearly 200,000 Texans that they
employ.”
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From Zero
Hedge:
"Royal Navy warships were on standby on
Thursday to protect commercial shipping to
the Falkland Islands as Gordon Brown said
Britain would take a robust stand against
Argentine encroachment on the resource rich
South Atlantic territory."
One would guess that a war between Britain
and Argentina is simply the latest thing
that would bring the market to an
uncontrolled, frenzied melt up (on give or
take 3 shares). And while the US market
responds to no external stimuli any more,
this latest development reported by
Telegraph, will likely not help the Gilt's
recent concerns...
HMS York, a type 42-destroyer, was on a
"tight leash" patrolling the seas around
the islands in response to rising
tensions over British firms oil
explorations activities near the
Falklands. Argentina has demanded a halt
to "illegal" oil drilling around the
Falkands and on Wednesday imposed a
permit system on ships passed from its
ports to the island.
HMS York, a type 42-destroyer, was on a
"tight leash" patrolling the seas around
the islands in response to rising
tensions over British firms oil
explorations activities near the
Falklands. Argentina has demanded a halt
to "illegal" oil drilling around the
Falklands and on Wednesday imposed a
permit system on ships passed from its
ports to the island.
Gordon
Brown, the prime minister, issued an
explicit warning to the Argentinean
government that the South Atlantic show
of force – which also included a survey
vessel backed up by a 1,000-strong
military detachment on land – would
respond to any disruption of the
Falklands links to the
outside.
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Rolling Stone
writer Matt Taibbi became a
household name last year when
his harsh article called Goldman
Sachs "a great vampire squid wrapped around
the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming
its blood funnel into anything that smells
like money."
Now he's back
with a new must-read piece on how Wall
Street used the TARP bailouts to rob
American taxpayers blind.
Wall Street's Bailout
Hustle
Goldman Sachs and other big banks aren't
just pocketing the trillions we gave them
to rescue the economy - they're
re-creating the conditions for another
crash.
On January 21st, Lloyd Blankfein
left a peculiar voicemail message on the
work phones of his employees at Goldman
Sachs. Fast becoming America's
pre-eminent Marvel Comics supervillain,
the CEO used the call to deploy his
secret weapon: a pair of giant,
nuclear-powered testicles. In his
message, Blankfein addressed his plan to
pay out gigantic year-end bonuses amid
widespread controversy over Goldman's
role in precipitating the global
financial crisis.
The bank
had already set aside a tidy $16.2
billion for salaries and bonuses —
meaning that Goldman employees were each
set to take home an average of $498,246,
a number roughly commensurate with what
they received during the bubble years.
Still, the troops were worried: There
were rumors that Dr. Ballsachs, bowing to
political pressure, might be forced to
scale the number back. After all, the
country was broke, 14.8 million Americans
were stranded on the unemployment line,
and Barack Obama and the Democrats were
trying to recover the populist high
ground after their bitch-whipping in
Massachusetts by calling for a "bailout
tax" on banks. Maybe this wasn't the
right time for Goldman to be throwing its
annual Roman bonus orgy .....
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WASHINGTON—The U.S.
economy ceased to function this week after
unexpected existential remarks by Federal
Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke shocked
Americans into realizing that money is, in
fact, just a meaningless and intangible
social construct.
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Calling it "basically
no more than five rectangular strips of
paper," Fed chairman Ben Bernanke
illustrates how much "$200" is actually
worth.
What began as a
routine report before the Senate
Finance Committee Tuesday ended with
Bernanke passionately disavowing the
entire concept of currency, and
negating in an instant the very
foundation of the world's largest
economy.
"Though raising
interest rates is unlikely at the moment,
the Fed will of course act appropriately
if we…if we…" said Bernanke, who then
paused for a moment, looked down at his
prepared statement, and shook his head in
utter disbelief. "You know what? It
doesn't matter. None of this—this
so-called 'money'—really matters at
all."
"It's just an
illusion," a wide-eyed Bernanke added as
he removed bills from his wallet and
slowly spread them out before him. "Just
look at it: Meaningless pieces of paper
with numbers printed on them.
Worthless."
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