Posted on 11/17/2010 9:56:59 PM PST by bronxville
Money for Scientific Research May Be Scarce With a Republican-Led House KENNETH CHANG Published: November 3, 2010
...Federal financing of science research, which has risen quickly since the Obama administration came to power, could fall back to pre-Obama levels if the incoming Republican leadership in the House of Representatives follows through on its list of campaign promises.
Obama to Face New Foes in Global Warming Fight (November 4, 2010) In the Republican platform, Pledge to America, the party vows to cut discretionary nonmilitary spending to 2008 levels. Under that plan, research and development at nonmilitary agencies — including those that sponsor science and health research — would fall 12.3 percent, to $57.8 billion, from the Mr. Obama’s request of $65.9 billion for fiscal year 2011...
...The National Institutes of Health would lose $2.9 billion, or 9 percent, of its research money (stem cells). The National Science Foundation would lose more than $1 billion, or almost 19 percent, of its budget, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration would lose $324 million, or 34 percent.
“These agencies would be more severely impacted by a rollback to 2008,” said Patrick Clemins, who directs budget programs at the association. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/04/business/04research.html?ref=national_science_foundation
This story smacks of collusion unless these writers don't read each others stories because they posted a story, just one month prior, about a $700 mil taxpaying grant for a CLIMATE CHANGE play. One would think the writer would have mentioned it (but why ruin a good partisan whine) unless they actually don't read the NYT's themselves - even each others departmental columns.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Published: October 3, 2010
The National Science Foundation has awarded a $700,000 grant to the Civilians, a New York theater company, to finance the production of a show about climate change. “The Great Immensity,” with a book by Steven Cosson (“This Beautiful City”) and music and lyrics by Michael Friedman (“Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson”), tells the story of Polly, a photojournalist who disappears while working in the rain forests of Panama.
The grant is a rare gift to an arts organization from the foundation, a federal agency that pays for science, engineering and mathematics research and education. The company says it plans to spend the money on the development and evaluation of the show, as well as on a tour and educational programs, including post-show panel discussions with experts in related scientific fields. No performance dates have been announced. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/04/theater/04arts-SCIENCEFOUND_BRF.html?ref=national_science_foundation
The grant is a "rare gift"...this whole thing stinks!!!
I'd like to know why these people are getting this huge grant promoting leftie causes. We're suffering out here and these bubble encased idiots are acting like we're too dumb to spot their scheming!!! In the past we saw but tolerated, today we just don't have the money to indulge their whimsical silly notions. I believe this is PURE PORK and perhaps even a kickback!
We need a FULL CONGRESSIONAL investigation. Whose behind this huge grant on our dime? If you agree please get it out there...call your congress person. This is the type of thing we need to expose.
Oops - just noticed it’s $700,000 - forget the congressional hearing. :) It’s still a large grant...
I’ve got news for the author: It doesn’t really matter who leads the House, MONEY IS SCARCE! The Dems already spent it!
We’d have more money for science if your stupid friends didn’t blow it on obamacare, bike paths and welfare handouts.
“You made your bed.....”
..Federal financing of science research, which has risen quickly since the Obama administration came to power
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Oh dear me! Does this mean we won’t be getting reports on pig farts, cow burps and the sex life of gay sheep?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ8nldHeyU4 (caution few nasty words)
It’s interesting to see how they work isn’t it. Patrick Clemins (director of R&D taxpaying foundation) calls the NYT’s just after the election and tells them to write a story on the Repubs cutting their budget...even though it hadn’t even happened...then the story is picked up by the vast leftie media...pisses me off especially since the NYSlimes writer didn’t include the $700,000 his dept gave to a leftie group who’ll use it to promote their leftist agenda...the climate change scam. Imagine if the right got the same grant to promote that it was a total lie?
Clemins bio with a picture -
http://www.aaas.org/ScienceTalk/clemins.shtml
lol
Money for good science and research will be available. But after crap science like the global warming fabrication, some reductions are apt punishment.
The trickle of FUD will soon be a torrent. Just wait. R&D needs some serious pruning. Just don’t be surprised if the so-called “researchers” who tend to spend more time distributing government largesse somehow manage to survive cuts while the more productive experts get shown the door. That’s how bureaucracies work.
“science” : one of the 4 corners of deceit.
“Science” in the present context should more aptly be called “political science” although it would mean something completely different, because science outside of private research labs, is all about politics.
Translation: Funding for AGW research and other junk science may get cut.
So, tell me. If Obama’s administration is so pro-science, why does he want to cut NASA’s budget?
Money for Scientific Research = fabricating “global warming” doom and gloom.
Screw them all. This GOP Congress BETTER cut the scum off at the knees.
Unfortunately, from my experience as well, you’re right.
The Civilians Receive $700,000 Grant from National Science Foundation
Civilians, the New York-based theatre company known for projects investigating real-life topics - including the upcoming IN THE FOOTPRINT about the controversy surrounding the development of the Atlantic Yards in Brooklyn - has been awarded a three-year grant in the amount of $700,000 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for THE GREAT IMMENSITY, a new production about climate change, it has been announced by Steve Cosson, founding Artistic Director of The Civilians.
This grant from NSF - the federal agency that funds science, engineering and mathematics research and education nationwide - is the largest award ever given to The Civilians, and is one of only a few such awards that the agency has given to a theater company.
Now celebrating its 10th anniversary season, The Civilians will use the funds for development, production, evaluation and touring of THE GREAT IMMENSITY, a new play with music about the environment, climate change and Earth’s future. The award will also support educational and public programming to accompany THE GREAT IMMENSITY, which will include post-show and panel discussions with the creative artists and experts in the related scientific fields.
THE GREAT IMMENSITY, with book by Steve Cosson (THIS BEAUTIFUL CITY, GONE MISSING) and music and lyrics by Michael Friedman (BLOODY BLOODY ANDREW JACKSON, THIS BEAUTIFUL CITY) tells the story of Polly, a photojournalist, who disappears while working in the rainforests of Barro Colorado Island in the Panama Canal. Phyllis, Polly’s twin, embarks on an international search for her sister that spans the North American continent, from the tropics of Central America to arctic Canada. The play weaves actual interviews with top scientists and locals from the regions into the sisters’ fictional tale as they struggle to survive polar bears, tundra buggies, snakes, and a Chinese pimp — all while grappling with the harsh and seemingly hopeless realities of climate change.
The play is based on research conducted by Messrs. Cosson and Friedman in Panama and Canada, where they interviewed trappers, shippers, indigenous community leaders, Polar Bear Tour guides, scientists, local politicians, and many others. They continued research during The Civilians’ 2009-2010 residency at Princeton University in the Princeton Environmental Institute and Lewis Center for the Arts. In the spring of 2010, THE GREAT IMMENSITY received a work-in-progress showing at the Berlind Theatre at Princeton and a reading in The Public Theater’s New Work Now! Festival.
Founded in 2001 by Steven Cosson, The Civilians has created 12 original works that have been produced Off Broadway and in over 40 cities nationally and internationally, at theaters such as The Public Theater, Center Theatre Group, La Jolla Playhouse, A.R.T., HBO’s US Comedy Festival, Actors Theatre of Louisville’s Humana Festival, London’s Soho Theatre, and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe (Fringe First Award, 2006). The company’s recent work, THIS BEAUTIFUL CITY enjoyed a critically-acclaimed Off-Broadway run at the Vineyard Theater in 2009, receiving Lucille Lortel, Drama League and Drama Desk nominations. GONE MISSING ran for seven months at Off-Broadway’s Barrow Street Theater and was cited by The New York Times as one of the “10 Best Plays of 2007.” The Civilians received an Obie in 2004.
The Civilians’ 10th anniversary season kicks off with the world premiere of IN THE FOOTPRINT: THE BATTLE OVER ATLANTIC YARDS at the Irondale Center (85 South Oxford St.) in Brooklyn from November 12 through December 11, 2010.
For more information, visit www.thecivilians.org.
http://broadwayworld.com/article/The_Civilians_Receive_700000_Grant_from_National_Science_Foundation_20101004
I think I remember ACORN being involved in the Brooklyn Atlantic Yards.
Article from Forbes (in his opinion the company is a partisan group) -
http://blogs.forbes.com/larryreibstein/2010/11/15/names-you-need-to-know-in-2011-the-civilians/
I still believe it was disengenuous, to say the least, that this guy Patrick Clemin called the NYSlimes (how else would they know) on possible funding cuts for stem cells etc, when he had just handed out $700,000 to a NYC playwright for a promotion on climate change the month before and to top if off the NYSlimes writer didn’t even question it. The article he wrote was picked up by all and it’s slanted. Their bias isn’t news to us but it continues to piss me off that they smother the truth and get away with it. Is it collusion or are they just inept at what they do - all education with no common sense.
I would have said good question on anyone else but this guy is one for the story books. He lives in a vale of warped confused deceit and lies. I almost feel sorry for him.
Your tax dollars at work: National Science Foundation gives $700K grant to theater company
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2602711/posts
“With ZeroCare - they is no research - it’s not about health - it’s about control.”
It’s definitely about control and also about redistribution - everyone must be equal - population control is a major target for them. They’ve robbed us blind spreading their “democracy” all over the world. Soros has contracts with USAID etc for spreading “democracy” globally. The policies his NGO’s write for Sierra Leone or Armenia will be the same for us. It’s why this healthcare was shoved down our throat. It’s the same with education, business’, finance-microfinance, and so on... Soon the textbooks our kids read here will be the same as anywhere in the world except in a different language. We will endure this in the metro-cities w/ no cars they’re preparing. One has to know how they think...they have no God...animals have as many rights as us...
Sorry about your friend...we’ll all have to hang on together until we can get rid of these vermin.
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