"So, I've been thinking about how this new EPA power plant rule will play out.
First of all, after an obligatory EPA 1-year comment period and then even more time for the states to decide how they might want to achieve the goals of the rule, it's going to be after the next presidential election before we actually see substantial changes in coal-fired generation resulting from the rule.
How convenient. Old plants are already being shuttered in favor of gas-fired plants, which are currently cheaper. So what's the point of the new regulations?
Well, what might well happen is this. Ten years down the road, "global warming" will turn out to be (surprise!) much weaker than predicted. Since we know the climate models that predicted much greater warming can't be wrong, it must be those new EPA regulations back in 2014 that solved the problem!
We really can control the climate system! We did something...and it worked...retroactively!
It doesn't really matter which came first, or what-caused-what. It didn't matter for the ice core record of temperature changes coming before CO2 changes, and it won't matter for this, either." As of today, because of fracking and the existing converted coal-2-gas power plants, the US has exceed the CO2 reduction targets set forth in the never signed Kyoto Protocol. CO2 is a trace gas and by itself has marginal greenhouse effects.
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Few coal miners are his people or members of the urban entitlement crowd. They are generally rural, hardscrabble, Appalachian folk. He has absolutely nothing in common with these people or they way of life. The Champ could care less about them or their families.
Pretty much says it. The rules are going to be hard on the coal mining industry here in Tennessee, Kentucky, and West Virginia. It's not like we are flush in jobs here or in the country, but this guy never really gave a damn about jobs anyway--it's always been about his damned leftist agenda.
#3
Didn't ValJar say something to the effect that those who did not support them (ValJar+Bammer) were going to 'get theirs' when the election was over?
Here's the first helping. Plenty more to come I'm sure...
#6
Aren't the mines selling an increasing amount of coal to Europe for their power plants?
"Exports are projected to total nearly 100 MMst in 2014. Coal exports totaled more than 100 MMst per year between 2011 and 2013. Before that, coal exports had not reached 100 MMst since 1992. In 2015, projected exports fall back to 91 MMst, primarily because of continuing economic weakness in Europe (the largest regional importer of U.S. coal), slowing Asian demand growth, and increasing coal output in other coal-exporting countries." US Energy Information Administration
#2
Coverup is already in process. Rice, the liar of Benghazi (it was the movie!), is already out there pumping herself out fro Obam's lies, characterizing Bergdahls service as "dissection and honor". Makes me want to puke, such an obvious lie - yet will any in the press call her out on it?
#3
One thing that cannot be denied is that he was, at a minimum, AWOL. If there was justice served, at a minimum, he would be getting kicked to the curb with an admin Art15 + OTH discharge. Better would be no bennies, forfeiting back pay, and a reduction in rank as well to get rid of that "captivity" promotion.
#4
All we can hope for a convening authority (that is willing to retire in their permanent grade) who will charge this guy. It is the least that can be done now that there is a price tag on every American Soldier, Sailor and Airman world wide.
#7
Let me get this right. The 'brass' has been repeatedly hammered for not prosecuting every case of accused sexual harassment or alleged act. The Donks have even gone forward to alter the laws to remove 'discretion' from the command chain on such issues. Now the same political agents want the command to use discretion on a matter of 'desertion on the field of battle' which goes to the heart of good order and discipline of an army.
Yes. All part of the process to demoralize and cripple our military. I do believe however, that once they are out of office their lives will become very interesting.
#9
..what would be interesting (but not likely to ever happen) is for the Joint Chiefs and a dozen plus GOs resign one week before the November election saying they can not fulfill their oath to defend the Constitution under the current leadership. We don't do coups, but we will not send young men and women into harms way for political posturing for a few poll points on someone's accounting paper.
#12
There is talk on the networks this a.m. about Obama breaking the law with regards to Bergdahl's trade for the "worst of the worst". Obama has a history of law-breaking but it is doubtful that Congress will act.
#14
The military has a long term problem if they fail to handle this by the book. I expect the wheels of military justice to inexorably grind after he is subbussed by ValJar and Barry.
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Hard to define the reasons for what Obama does. He said he was going to close Gitmo. Seems that is what he is doing--putting enemies back into the main stream. These guys will be in the wind as soon as they hit foreign shores. Who are these guys? The Long War Journal has a piece on them. LWJ
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I am willing to bet good money that the results of a good solid Article 32 investigation are sitting on the desk of a "flag" officer somewhere in the Pentagon.
And I am convinced the Army, once unleashed will release the hounds of hell upon him.
Does he plan to return to active duty after his release? He is still technically on active duty and should receive orders to report. I just can't wait to see what happens then...
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What I love is the military stopped attempts to recapture him because they didn't feel losing a life was worth it to recapture a deserter (left his post at night to walk the Earth and join the Taliban).
Bergdahl himself claimed on some video that he was grabbed because he lagged behind on patrol.
Then Rice comes up with some 'grabbed during a firefight' nonsense. Really? Don't think folks know how to Google at this point in the game?
#20
Ace says she's like Ron Burgundy. Put in on a talking points card or teleprompter and she'll read it - verbatim
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#21
I think the correct term for Susan Rice is "sock puppet" She says whatever the hand stuck up her butt tells her to say...and this intellectual free thinker is his National Security Advisor?
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#22
As usual, this looks like it's blowing up in President Clusterfuck's face, so I think he will be courtmartialed to allow Barry to try and save what little face he has left.
I really doubt that this is what they had in mind when they thought this up.
clearly they didn't understand the mindset of his fellow servicemen, several of whom died in the search for this POS. Other's had to sign non-disclosure agreements til he was freed and are now venting, not quiet as O and his fellow travelers thought. Corpsemen, indeed
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#24
A court martial is a trial. It is possible to be acquitted at a court martial. Personally, I don't think Bergdahl is innocent, but he could get acquitted (due to high command influence.) Obama could then say "See - we tried him and the court found him innocent."
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#25
When I see stuff like this and I recall an interview by Christiane Amanpour of British Islamic Imam Anjem Choudary who said at the time: "The flag of Islam will fly atop the Whitehouse." At the time, I thought the statement over-the-top and outlandish; however, when Obama does makes some anti-American, boneheaded, unilateral decision I think maybe that day has already arrived. John O. Brennan does not give much comfort to these thoughts either.
#27
An Army Regulation 15-6 [AR 15-6] was conducted when he went missing. An AR 15-6 is an investigation which contains sworn statements, findings, and recommendations with regard to follow-on actions or dismissal. A review of the AR 15-6 conducted on SPC Bergdahl would be most interesting.
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: Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer confirms on the Jerry Doyle Show that the decision to trade for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl was made by the administration in December of 2013. The plan was for the exchange to be executed at a time that would provide the maximum political advantage.
Col David Hunt: Bowe Bergdahl was a deserter. Bergdahl on June 20, 2009 crawled underneath a wire at his fire base with water, food, a change of clothes, a knife and a cell phone. He called his unit the day after he deserted to tell his unit he deserted Bill, we lost 14 soldiers, killed, searching for a deserter. He left his unit in combat. Its non-arguable We dont know yet if he joined the Taliban or not. But, theres no question he deserted.
#29
Even if there is no courts martial,, I fully expect this POS to spend the rest of his life constantly looking over his shoulder whenever he is out in public.
The ceremony in Astana last Thursday (May 29) on signing the Eurasian Economic Union between Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan was a surprisingly business-like affair. The lack of fanfare reflected the mood of Kazakhstani President Nursultan Nazarbaev, who was not altogether pleased with how his old Eurasian idea has ultimately been implemented. Russia's annexation of Crimea and harsh pressure on Ukraine increased his worries about sovereignty, so he made sure that the key political issues about common citizenship, coordinated foreign policy and joint border protection were excluded from the final text.
Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka added his reservation to the idea of a common currency, but he secured a hefty package of Russian subsidies while lashing out against the liberal critics of the "alliance of dictators".
Economists express doubt as to the value the integration project actually brings, pointing out that the volume of trade between the three states decreased by 14.5 percent in the first quarter of this year and that a financial union among them has been postponed beyond 2020.
These omissions from the initially ambitious draft apparently did not upset President Vladimir Putin, however, who praised the "historic importance" of the newly-agreed Union and promised everybody a spectacular rise in prosperity. For him, the significance of the long-promised deal was that his Eurasian project remained on track despite the heavy fall-out from the Ukrainian debacle. Moreover, coming just a week after Putin's visit to Shanghai, the trilateral pact also proved that Russia did not accept the role of being a "raw material appendage" to China, but would continue to consolidate its own zone of economic dominance. Putin keeps trying to pull other states into this zone, though Armenia's President Serzh Sargsyan was dismayed to hear in Astana that Azerbaijan's breakaway territory of Karabakh would have to remain out of the common economic space.
#1
Compare wid DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > SOUTH ASIA ON CUSP OF STRATEGIC REALIGNMENT.
Russia-Pakistan-China alliance to offset pro-US India.
Herein lies a major problem for Moscow, i.e. iff Radical Islam = Taliban, etal. succeed in LEGITIMATELY taking over the RussFed's new BFF Pakistan's Govt-Army + espec its NUKES.
Lest we fergit, besides Chechens many fighters or wannabes from ex-Soviet Stans in Central Asia have also been learning + waging jihad in Syria [Lebanon-Syria-Iraq] + bringing their lessons back home.
DO NOT DOUBT THAT ONCE ASIA OR EURASIA IS EFFEC DESTABILIZED, THERE WILL NOTHING TO KEEP THE HARD BOYZ FROM ATTACKING CONUS-NORAM = AMERICAS.
NO AMOUNT OF BRIBERY, ECON CONCESSIONS, ANDOR DIPLOMACY, ETC. WILL PREVENT THE ISLAMIC FINAL CONQUEST.
#2
Once the formal power-sharing begins, the Taliban + aligned will all become legitimate Politicians, Diplomats, + assorted Apparatchiks.
They're already excited about the propect of taking over both the main AKPAK Govts. + espec Pak's Nukes.
#3
We lost because we're fighting the wrong war the wrong way. The enemies are Pakistan and Soddy Arabia, always were. And there was never any need to "build nations". Those nations, such as they are, need to be destroyed.
[Daily Caller] Washington Post writer Bob Woodward said Sunday that he doesn't believe Hillary Clinton when she says the Benghazi investigation is all about politics, claiming there are still "serious, unanswered questions about this."
Woodward spoke on a "Fox News Sunday" panel about a leaked chapter from former Secretary of State Clinton's new book, "Hard Choices," which addresses the September 11, 2012 attacks on State Department personnel in Benghazi, Libya.
While many assert that Clinton and the broader Obama administration were involved in a political cover-up of the attack's details, the book declares that everything there is to know about Benghazi and the administration response has already been revealed, with Republicans merely playing politics by continuing to investigate.
But the well-known scandal hound disagreed with that interpretation. "The issue is, is there new information out there?" Woodward explained. "And one of the questions I have -- and I think there are serious, unanswered questions about this -- did she keep a diary?"
"When I talked to President Obama, he confirmed that he keeps a diary," he continued. "I asked for some of it for some of the work I was doing and he said, 'No, it wouldn't be relevant.' But are there diaries?"
"Remember, go back to the 1980s and Iran-Contra," Woodward noted. "Ronald Reagan kept a very detailed diary, and he finally turned it over." Of course there are diaries or duty logs. They're kept, for no other reason, out of historical reference and legal necessity. Anyone who writes two books about himself before he turns 45 years of age is keeping notes, believe me.
#1
That is a safe opinion for Woodward--you'd have to be a total idiot to buy anything she says. Hillary's got a new book "Hard Decisions." What the hell hard decisions had she ever made. For that matter, what has she ever done?
#5
Oh the great Bob Woodward still living off his early 70's success.
Bob has access to the democrat backdoor and behind the scene insights but we won't hear the truth until it is safe. I am sure he will be running around Cable TV well after the election with all the nitty gritty details.
#6
I think Hilly will be unpleasantly surprised to find that the 'see no evil' approach the press has to the Big 'O' won't transfer over. (At least I hope...)
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Lubo" Motl is a Czech physicist that writes about serious topics in physics (e.g. the recent BICEP2 report on primordial gravitational waves). He has an excellent perspective on how the communist handled science and centralized planning.
#1
All in keeping with the GDR, East German model of totalitarian control. As journalist Frans Cronje writes in reference to the African National Congress, "Die rooi gevaar is terug, of was hy ooit weg?"
#2
In reality, they talk about CO2 which is no pollution in any sense Obama is using the EPA to inflict his leftist/statist agenda on the country. What is this other than a communist or fascist approach? For crying out loud, we all exhale CO2. Trees love this stuff.
Before Edward Snowden's interview with NBC's Brian Williams, body-language expert Dr. Nick Morgan considered Snowden a young guy who got a hold of a bunch of classified documents and was just telling his story about exposing intrusive American surveillance.
"I came away [from the NBC interview] with a very different impression," Morgan, a top U.S. communication theorist and best-selling author, told Business Insider. "As a body-language expert, I'd say this is a disingenuous performance, which surprised me." Details in the article.
In Morgan's opinion, Snowden's body language during the NBC interview suggests a "willed performance" by a 30-year-old under immense pressure.
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#1
What he is hiding is that he probably initially started out to whistle blow, but the Russians got him to perform actual espionage that severely damaged the US. Basically he became and active hostile agent managed by handlers, not just a whistleblower.
#3
A very easy recruitment for the Russians. The regime does not want Snowden back. Snowden knows they don't want him back, and the Russians know it as well. Not defending the little monster, but Snowden has no other recourse. He's now firmly in the Russian camp. A brilliant move by the Russians.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
"So, I've been thinking about how this new EPA power plant rule will play out.
Replace 'SA Communist Party' with White House shadow gov't.
Before Edward Snowden's interview with NBC's Brian Williams, body-language expert Dr. Nick Morgan considered Snowden a young guy who got a hold of a bunch of classified documents and was just telling his story about exposing intrusive American surveillance.
