http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/coverup/ en-us Wed, 23 Dec 2009 14:03:04 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413682/posts During a routine test on its Sienna minivan in April 2003, Toyota Motor Corp. engineers discovered that a plastic panel could come loose and cause the gas pedal to stick, potentially making the vehicle accelerate out of control. The automaker redesigned the part and by that June every 2004 model year Sienna off the assembly line came with the new panel. Toyota did not notify tens of thousands of people who had already bought vans with the old panel, however. It wasn't until U.S. safety officials opened an investigation last year that Toyota acknowledged in a letter to regulators that... LA Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413682/posts#comment Wed, 23 Dec 2009 14:03:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413294/posts White House Blocks Testimony by First Lady's Ex-Top Aide in Walpin Case Republican efforts to interview a former top aide to Michelle Obama in the controversial case of a fired inspector general have been stymied by the White House, the the top Republican looking into the case said Tuesday Republican efforts to interview a former top aide to Michelle Obama in the controversial case of a fired inspector general have been stymied by the White House, the top Republican looking into the case said Tuesday. The White House counsel's office has blocked Republican investigators from interviewing Jackie Norris, former chief... FOX http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413294/posts#comment Tue, 22 Dec 2009 21:44:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410835/posts Global Warming: Russian analysts accuse Britain's Meteorological Office of cherry-picking Russian temperature data to "hide the decline" in global temperatures. Is Copenhagen rooted in a single tree in Siberia? Michael Mann, a Penn State meteorologist, wrote in Friday's Washington Post that "stolen" e-mails from the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit still don't alter the evidence for climate change. Mann, a creator of the discredited hockey-stick graph used in reports from the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to show man-made warming, attacks climate skeptics, including former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, saying they "confuse the public." Chutzpah has been... Investors Business Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410835/posts#comment Sat, 19 Dec 2009 00:32:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408834/posts The Justice Department has told the federal attorneys who filed a civil complaint against the New Black Panther Party for disrupting a Philadelphia polling place last year not to cooperate with an investigation of the incident by the US Commission on Civil Rights. The commission last week subpoenaed at least two Justice Department lawyers and sought documents from the department to explain why the complaint was dismissed just as a federal judge was about to punish the New Black Panther Party and three of its members for intimidating voters. Joseph H. Hunt, director of the Justice Department's Federal Programs Branch,... The New Media Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408834/posts#comment Wed, 16 Dec 2009 17:32:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408226/posts Rumors have been circulating for several days through Charlotte’s Eastover neighborhood that former U.S. Sen. John Edwards bought a home here for his admitted former mistress, Rielle Hunter. And now the National Enquirer is reporting in its Dec. 21 issue that Edwards has, in fact, bought a house here that the Charlotte Business Journal has identified as a residence on Providence Road. Edwards, the vice presidential nominee on the 2004 Democratic ticket and a presidential candidate last year, saw his political career derail after details of the affair emerged. In late 2007, the Enquirer first reported claims from an... Charlotte Business Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408226/posts#comment Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:56:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407170/posts Odd things are going on at the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia. Widely available data, existing in the public view for years, is now disappearing from public view. For example this link to Keith Briffa’s Yamal data: Keith Briffa’s Yamal data wattsupwiththat.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407170/posts#comment Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:37:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407174/posts ClimateGate Research Unit Disables Its Website By Noel Sheppard Created 2009-12-14 10:03 The Climatic Research Unit at the heart of the ClimateGate [0] scandal has taken down most of the information previously available at its website. Prior to November's release of controversial e-mail messages and documents from Britain's University of East Anglea, there was a separate website for the institution's CRU that allowed readers to review articles and studies created by and for the Unit. Now, no matter what link one tries to access via a Google search, it directs you to a page that reads: "Due to the present... Newsbusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407174/posts#comment Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:47:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405228/posts The evidence clearly shows that the congressional investigation of the White House Gatecrashers is being controlled and limited. Homeland Security Committee chairman Bennie Thompson (D-MS), now the subject of an Ethics Committee investigation, has made it clear that he wants to limit the investigation. Is he trying to protect White House officials with something to hide? Ignoring evidence of White House connections to the alleged gatecrashers, Tareq and Michaele Salahi, Thompson will not subpoena Desirée Rogers, the White House social secretary who is a very close friend of Barack and Michelle Obama. As a result of the stonewalling and cover-up,... Accuracy In Media http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405228/posts#comment Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:28:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404157/posts Junk Science: The Environmental Protection Agency's sneak attack on the U.S. economy and our freedoms, curiously timed for the opening day of the Copenhagen climate charade, won't go unchallenged. Nor should it. (snip) EPA administrator Lisa Jackson, in a conversation with Sen. James Inhofe, ranking Republican on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, has in effect admitted the finding was based on the junk science and data manipulation practiced at Britain's East Anglia Climate Research Unit (CRU). "She told me that EPA accepted those findings without any serious independent analysis to see whether they were true," Inhofe said. Dr.... Investor's Business Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404157/posts#comment Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:26:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2402550/posts CNN’s Rick Sanchez misspeaks on CNN’s behalf . ATLAH http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2402550/posts#comment Tue, 8 Dec 2009 02:53:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402177/posts An outside review of the beleaguered community group ACORN has found “serious management challenges,” but no pattern of illegal activity. The review, commissioned by ACORN in the wake of a hidden video expose that showed a few of its employees appearing to offer tips on how to break the law, also largely absolved the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now’s current management, laying much of the blame on founder Wade Rathke for lax oversight and dangerously rapid growth. Scott Harshbarger, the former Massachusetts attorney who led the inquiry for the Proskauer Rose law firm, found that ACORN is not... Politico http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402177/posts#comment Mon, 7 Dec 2009 18:39:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402085/posts In the age of balloon boys and party crashers, regular people just don't know what to believe any more. Last week, I spent more than my share of hours trying to track down the truth about an incident on an AirTran flight out of Atlanta on Nov. 17. Flight 297 to Houston, with about 70 passengers onboard, departed gate C-16 at 4:43 p.m. Until something happened that caused the pilot to turn around and come back. Two and a half weeks later, the incident is in high dispute, thanks to some passengers who have spoken out on the Internet about... Marietta Daily Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402085/posts#comment Mon, 7 Dec 2009 16:44:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402007/posts What's become known as "Climategate" may be about to explode on this side of the pond as well. Chris Horner, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, has threatened a lawsuit against NASA if by year-end the agency doesn't honor his Freedom of Information (FOI) requests for information on how and why its climate numbers have been consistently adjusted for errors. "I assume that what is there is highly damaging," says Horner, who suspects, based on the public record, the same type of data fudging, manipulation and suppression that has occurred at Britain's East Anglia Climate Research Unit (CRU).... National Center For Policy Analysis http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402007/posts#comment Mon, 7 Dec 2009 14:55:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2401021/posts If you've used Google, you've probably noticed the "autosuggest" feature. Type a few letters, and a drop-down box appears of phrases which might complete your search term. For example, if you type "tekt" you'll get several suggestions, including "tektronix" and "tektronix oscilloscope." Now try typing "climategat" (without the final "e"). All you get is "climate guatemala" (4,180,000 results) and "climate guatemala city" (1,120,000 results), even though g-a-t doesn't spell "guatemala." And yet if you search for "climategate" in full, you'll see over 20 million results (as of this writing). I've found no subset of "climategate" which actually causes Google to... WendyMcElroy.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2401021/posts#comment Sat, 5 Dec 2009 17:08:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2400667/posts Science: For two years, our space agency has refused Freedom of Information requests on why it has repeatedly corrected its climate figures. A leading researcher threatens to sue to find more inconvenient truths. What's become known as "Climate-Gate" may be about to explode on this side of the pond as well. Chris Horner, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, has threatened a lawsuit against NASA if by year-end the agency doesn't honor his FOI requests for information on how and why its climate numbers have been consistently adjusted for errors. "I assume that what is there is highly... Investors.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2400667/posts#comment Sat, 5 Dec 2009 01:28:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2400232/posts LONDON (AFP) – A top UN panel is to probe claims that British scientists sought to suppress data backing climate change sceptics' views, its head said on Friday ahead of the landmark Copenhagen summit. Rajendra Pachauri, head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, said the claims -- which led a top expert to leave his post temporarily this week -- were serious and needed to be investigated. Professor Phil Jones has stood aside as head of the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia, after emails allegedly calling into question the scientific basis for climate change... AFP on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2400232/posts#comment Fri, 4 Dec 2009 15:59:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2399835/posts Warming Scandal: Despite the incriminating e-mails, administration science adviser John Holdren still thinks man causes global warming. And Sen. Barbara Boxer thinks it's the whistle-blowers who should be arrested. Time was when Barbara Boxer thought it was just fine for the New York Times and Washington Post to spill national military secrets and war plans on their front pages. The people had a right to know where and how they were being led. But we are not dealing here with the Pentagon Papers, the location of terrorist prisons or the surveillance of al-Qaida and its operatives. Boxer, top Democrat on... Investors.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2399835/posts#comment Fri, 4 Dec 2009 01:31:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2399374/posts The climate-gate revelations have exposed an unprecedented coordinated attempt by academics to distort research for political ends. Anyone interested in accurate science should be appalled at the manipulation of data "to hide the decline [in temperature]" and deletion of e-mail exchanges and data so as not to reveal information that would support global-warming skeptics. These hacks are not just guilty of bad science. In the United Kingdom, deleting e-mail messages to prevent their disclosure from a Freedom of Information Act request is a crime. The story has gotten worse since the global-cooling cover-up was exposed through a treasure trove of... The Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2399374/posts#comment Thu, 3 Dec 2009 16:06:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2399187/posts A reader called me, then sent me an email Wednesday morning about an incident that occurred Nov. 17 on an AirTran Airways flight. According to an Atlanta Journal Constitution story, the flight was delayed two and a half hours after a confrontation between some passengers and the flight crew. The AJC story quoted a passenger sitting toward the back of the airplane who recounted what she saw. That passenger thought it was just a problem with miscommunication. But there's an email circulating, apparently going viral, from a Texan on the flight, who describes what appeared to him to be a... DallasMorningNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2399187/posts#comment Thu, 3 Dec 2009 12:38:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2399326/posts This squib appeared on the KHOU website on November 18 but is seems to be only a fraction of the story. Read the comments below the story please. ATLANTA -- AirTran Airways says a flight from Atlanta to Houston with more than 70 passengers on board was delayed when a passenger refused to end a cell phone call. ... Flight 297, a Boeing 717, was taxiing on the runway in Atlanta Tuesday afternoon when a crew member asked a passenger to turn off his phone. ... after several failed attempts by the crew member to end the conversation, the captain... KHOU News Houston http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2399326/posts#comment Thu, 3 Dec 2009 15:15:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2398867/posts Warming Scandal: The architect of climate fraud steps down, the creator of the infamous "hockey stick" is investigated, and Australia's parliament defeats cap-and-trade. We love the smell of truth in the morning. As the high priests of what Czech President Vaclav Klaus has called a "religion" prepare their pilgrimage to worship the earth goddess Gaia in Copenhagen, complete with humanity being sacrificed, the heresy of climate truth is finally being heard. The gospel of climate change, once expressed with the messianic fervor of an Elmer Gantry by Al Gore, is now expressed with the stammering incoherence of an Elmer Fudd... Investor's Business Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2398867/posts#comment Thu, 3 Dec 2009 00:42:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2398832/posts WASHINGTON -- Top White House science officials defended the validity of global warming research against repeated Republican attacks Wednesday that cited leaked e-mails from some climate researchers. The e-mails from a British university's climate center, were obtained by computer hackers and released last month. Climate change skeptics contend the messages reveal that researchers manipulated and suppressed data and stifled dissent. In the first Capitol Hill airing of the issue, House Republicans read excerpts from at least eight of the e-mails, saying they showed the world needs to re-examine experts' claims that the science is settled. One e-mail from 2003 was... Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2398832/posts#comment Wed, 2 Dec 2009 23:48:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2397377/posts Dear Eldrick: First, sorry to hear about the second most famous “crash” last week. (I’m sure in retrospect, you wish you were with those other “crashers” at the White House, rather than being eased out of your Escalade at 2 in the morning.) Second, I know you and the lovely Elin have been ducking the local fuzz in terms of elaborating on what happened and you tried to extinguish the fire with yesterday’s half-baked statement but... Third, as much as you don’t want to hear it, your only choice now is to take the “penalty stroke” and fess up about... FoxNews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2397377/posts#comment Tue, 1 Dec 2009 04:05:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2397321/posts ClimateGate: Britain's Climate Research Unit now says it will release all its data. Does that include the data that have been shredded, deleted and denied publication? In a statement released Saturday by the University of East Anglia, where the CRU is located, it was announced that all unit data, including data that had been denied climate skeptics, would soon be released to prove this is much ado about nothing. Unimpressed by the news is David Holland of Northampton, a grandfather with a background in electrical engineering, who is seeking prosecution of the CRU scientists involved in suppressing and even destroying... Investors.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2397321/posts#comment Tue, 1 Dec 2009 02:10:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2396731/posts The BBC received copies of some of the CRU emails more than a month ago, but did nothing about them, sitting on explosive evidence of fraud. The UK Daily Mail reports: .. The sequence of events strongly suggests that an insider leaked some emails to the BBC (and for all we know, others), hoping that they would be incriminating enough to intrigue anyone. When faced with a media stonewall, the insider then chose to post the complete files where they could not quickly be extinguished. American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2396731/posts#comment Mon, 30 Nov 2009 09:36:17 GMT