http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/followthemoney/ en-us Sun, 3 Jan 2010 01:41:39 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419777/posts As you start to read all this, you'll laugh at how incestuous it all gets. Let's start with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, which as I've noted in the past is tied in with the Soros foundation. Together, the two worked on something called The Project on Death in America.(PDIA) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2341083/posts And speaking of Mr Soros, he himself(his foundations) have given directly to NPR. Compared to some of the other numbers I'm seeing, it's a small amount of $250,000. But it doesn't matter. Soros money is soros money in my book. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2396058/posts Additional information about RWJF can be found here.... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419777/posts#comment Sun, 3 Jan 2010 01:41:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2412435/posts It's Time: Read NDCIC. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2412435/posts#comment Mon, 21 Dec 2009 20:01:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410536/posts I cannot condone some things that colleagues of mine wrote or requested in the e-mails recently stolen from a climate research unit at a British university. But the messages do not undermine the scientific case that human-caused climate change is real. The hacked e-mails have been mined for words and phrases that can be distorted to misrepresent what the scientists were discussing. In a Dec. 9 op-ed, former Alaska governor Sarah Palin argued that "The e-mails reveal that leading climate 'experts' . . . manipulated data to 'hide the decline' in global temperatures." Yet the e-mail she cites was written... Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410536/posts#comment Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:46:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2398017/posts U.N. Undersecretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, Sha Zukang, back to camera, talks to Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, right, as Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed, left, and Indian Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh, second from left, look on at an international conference on technology and climate change in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup) (CNSNews.com) – Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, is calling on Chairman Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) to conduct hearings on a possible conspiracy between some of the world’s most prominent climatologists to, among other things,... cnsnews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2398017/posts#comment Wed, 2 Dec 2009 00:10:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2395568/posts Obama's Justice Department really knows how to take care of the President's buddies especially the criminal enterprise ACORN. According to the NY Times, the Justice department has directed the Administration to continue to pay ACORN for any services whose contracts were signed before congress cut off funds. Section 163 of Division B (“Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2010”) of Public Law 111-68 does not direct or authorize the Department of Housing and Urban Development to breach a pre-existing binding contractual obligation to make payments to the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now or its affiliates, subsidiaries, or allied organizations where doing... NY TIMES/THE LID http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2395568/posts#comment Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:11:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2395578/posts No commentary (laughing too hard??)... just a link and the summary below for those of you interested in the Copenhagen talking points, conveniently titled The Copenhagen Diagnosis, brought to you by: Citation: The Copenhagen Diagnosis, 2009: Updating the world on the Latest Climate Science. I. Allison, N. L. Bindoff, R.A. Bindoff, R.A. Bindschadler, P.M. Cox, N. de Noblet, M.H. England, J.E. Francis, N. Gruber, A.M. Haywood, D.J. Karoly, G. Kaser, C. Le Quéré, T.M. Lenton, M.E. Mann, B.I. McNeil, A.J. Pitman, S. Rahmstorf, E. Rignot, H.J. Schellnhuber, S.H. Schneider, S.C. Sherwood, R.C.J. Somerville, K.Steffen, E.J. Steig, M. Visbeck, A.J. Weaver.... Flopping Aces http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2395578/posts#comment Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:33:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2381661/posts Yesterday, 13 of our own troops were killed and 30 others were injured in Fort Hood, Texas at a secure U.S. Army base and the president is nowhere to be seen. This doesn't even surprise us, but for the people who still support Obama, you now further understand why we call you 'idiots.' Signs of Trinity church, Black Liberation Theology, Bill Ayers and Marxist professors? Hmmm.... After all, President Obama seemed to make it to Manhattan last month when Goldman Sachs, his number one Wall Street campaign contributor along with several other shadow banking firms attended an expensive DNC fundraiser... idiots4obama.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2381661/posts#comment Sun, 8 Nov 2009 20:09:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2377155/posts More than half the 14,000 jobs created or saved by the federal economic stimulus in Minnesota are in public schools. Federal and state officials are reporting about 7,400 full-time teaching and school support staff jobs linked to the stimulus through the end of September. The U.S. Department of Education issued a report Monday detailing 7,421 stimulus jobs in the state's education system. Minnesota Management and Budget officials counted 7,380 K-12 school jobs created or saved by stimulus spending of $634 million. StarTribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2377155/posts#comment Tue, 3 Nov 2009 04:36:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2363669/posts Will PETA be the next ACORN? Conservative blogs and websites have been working to uncover a scandal at PETA which has the potential to destroy the credibility of the radical animal-rights organization. For example, at BigGovernment.com, Mary Grabar has written an expose on the organization. As she notes, (PETA's) strategies come "straight out of Saul Alinksky's Rules for Radicals." Alinsky's strategies, adopted by various "social justice" groups, (most notoriously ACORN) include public ridicule, loud and shocking protests, the undermining of reform efforts already underway, and "behind-the-scenes" pressures. Consecutively, PETA employs more subtle methods by providing consumers alternatives on its web... American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2363669/posts#comment Fri, 16 Oct 2009 04:48:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2352570/posts Earmarks are special instructions in spending bills directing money to projects in representatives' states and districts. Below the list of annual spending bills that follows is a map of earmarks. Select from the pull-down menus to review earmarks by state, by representative, and by status. Click on link for info, statistics and more... WashingtonWatch.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2352570/posts#comment Thu, 1 Oct 2009 16:26:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2342364/posts Glenn Beck responds to DNC ad targeted at him. Beck also talked with Byron York about ACORN and said "don't miss tomorrow's show because there's more." (Video) Freedom's Lighthouse http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2342364/posts#comment Thu, 17 Sep 2009 22:44:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2288691/posts Prince Charles: next generation faces 'living hell' unless climate change tackled The Prince of Wales has warned the next generation face a "living hell" unless governments tackle climate change urgently. By Urmee Khan, Digital and Media Correspondent Published: 7:00AM BST 09 Jul 2009 Delivering this year's Richard Dimbleby Lecture, the Prince said: "In failing the Earth, we are failing humanity." Drawing parallels with the global financial crisis, he said Nature was the "biggest bank of all", warning the Earth is on ethe bring of environmental disaster. "Just as our banking sector is struggling with its debts... so Nature's life-support systems... Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2288691/posts#comment Thu, 9 Jul 2009 08:13:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2279012/posts The House of Representatives will vote Friday(Today) on the so-called “American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009” -- a.k.a the “Waxman-Markey” global warming bill. But whatever you want to call this legislative atrocity, if enacted into law, it will go down in history as the death knell of the American standard of living and way of life. If you hate America, this bill is for you. After decades of fierce battling between rabid greens -- that is, left-wingers masquerading as “environmentalists” -- and the global warming skeptics, few Americans seem to have bought into the bill’s premise ­ that... Human Events http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2279012/posts#comment Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:18:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2279013/posts It appears that years of debate about climate change and energy may now come down to a vote on an actual bill, the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 (ACES). As I write this, the vote is scheduled for Friday. If it occurs, you will be asked to vote to implement carbon rationing in the United States.   Without regard to party or ideology, I believe that the evidence is clear that this law would be contrary to the public interest. Here is why, in a nutshell: 1.  It would be a terrible deal for American taxpayers. According to the... National Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2279013/posts#comment Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:26:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2278721/posts Last week, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released their analysis of the Waxman-Markey climate change bill that had proponents of the bill claiming Americans could save the planet for just $175 per household. That was the figure CBO estimated cap and trade would cost households in 2020 alone.[1]Both the CBO's analysis and the subsequent legislation are troubled: The analysis grossly underestimates economic costs while the legislation will have virtually no impact on climate. Overall, there are a number of basic problems with CBO's analysis: Their allowance cost numbers do not add up; They ignore economic costs such as the decrease... The Heritage Foundation http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2278721/posts#comment Wed, 24 Jun 2009 22:48:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2278161/posts WASHINGTON – America’s third largest party urged the U.S. House Tuesday to defeat plans for a $1.9 trillion energy tax hike over eight years. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is attempting to rush H.R. 2454, the Waxman-Markey energy tax bill, to a vote this week. “With unemployment rising above and beyond what President Obama said it would be with the multi-hundred billion dollar stimulus bill, now is not the time to dismantle our economy with a multi-hundred billion dollar energy tax hike,” said William Redpath, Libertarian National Committee Chairman. “Libertarians urge House members to defeat this job-killing tax hike on Americans,”... Small Government Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2278161/posts#comment Wed, 24 Jun 2009 08:30:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2278132/posts ABSTRACT: Democratic leaders in the House have scheduled a Friday vote on a climate change bill that would establish a complex cap-and-trade system to limit the nation's greenhouse gas emissions, a priority for President Obama. The House Rules Committee unveiled the latest version of the bill, which weighs in at 1,201 pages. It features new items such as $7.5 billion in "green bonds" for a new federal financing agency called the Clean Energy Deployment Administration, extra emission allowances for politically powerful rural electric cooperatives, greater flexibility for states that want to use free allowances for mass transit, and tweaks benefiting... Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2278132/posts#comment Wed, 24 Jun 2009 05:24:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2277837/posts Is an imperfect climate bill (Waxman-Markey) better than no bill at all? Al Gore says yes.To bring environment supporters together, Gore will host a nationwide conference call on June 23 at 8 p.m. ET. The purpose, according to his Repower America e-mail sent to a selected audience, is “to build urgency around this bill and make sure it passes. We have to go to the grassroots – we have to continue building support in communities across the nation.”“As this climate legislation moves before the full Congress this summer, we have an opportunity unlike anything we’ve seen yet,” the e-mail concludes.Gore... The Examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2277837/posts#comment Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:43:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2275308/posts (CNSNews.com) - Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two government-run mortgage giants, are absent from the Obama administration’s sweeping new financial regulations, despite the fundamental role played by both organizations in the financial system’s collapse. Testifying before the Senate Banking Committee on Thursday, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner said that the administration’s new regulations were only meant to address the most fundamental issues of the recession. “We considered a full range of options and decided that now is the time to pursue the essential reforms,” Geithner said. “Those that address the core causes of the current crisis, and that will help... CNSNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2275308/posts#comment Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:29:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2246831/posts Now that we're more than 100 days into the Obama presidency, the handwriting is on the wall regarding our new leader's game plan for America. Spend other people's money like a drunken sailor. Let every enemy on the planet know there's a wimp in the White House. Let every ally know the wimp in the White House will do nothing to help them when push comes to shove. Let the 50 states know there's a power coup in play that strips them of constitutionally guaranteed liberties. Let every company know that neither they nor their non-union employees are safe from... american thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2246831/posts#comment Fri, 8 May 2009 12:26:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2235462/posts Over the years I’ve read copiously on the subject of origins. I’ve noticed the media pronouncements on the subject of new fossils and evolutionary theory form a startlingly repetitive pattern. To save the over-worked and increasingly bankrupt news media I’ve undertaken to serve them with a generic news story that can be copy-and-pasted with few modifications and reused as frequently as desired. New Fossil Discovery Is Transition Form, Provides Proof of Evolution! University of ________ Scientists say they’ve found a “missing link” in the early evolution of ______ - the skeleton of a ______ that was evolving away from ______... Vanity http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2235462/posts#comment Wed, 22 Apr 2009 20:11:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2207373/posts When easy money is waved in front of people, many partake. It looks like Enterprise rent-a-car lobbied for TARP funds and may have laid off people to give the look of a struggling company. However, the literature on their website proves contrary. Did they dupe the U.S. Government? Full Story: http://www.butasforme.com/2009/02/25/alert-enterprise-rent-a-car-may-have-fired-employees-as-fake-evidence-when-lobbing-for-bailout-money/ butasforme.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2207373/posts#comment Mon, 16 Mar 2009 07:36:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2192835/posts The State of the Catholic Church in America, Diocese by Diocese Feb/March, 2007 | Rev. Rodger Hunter-Hull and Steven Wagner WSJ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2192835/posts#comment Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:00:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2168386/posts Elite Obama Donors Receive Early Gifts and Privileges from Obama While Under Senate Investigation and After Accepting Millions in Taxpayer Paid Bailout So many of the Elite Obama Donors arrived at Dulles International Airport in their personal private jets that an active runway at Dulles International Airport had to be shut down and then converted into a make-do parking lot. * * * * * Surprisingly no PETA, Global Warming, nor Code Pink protesters are seen as the Elite Obama Donors arrive in chauffeur driven stretch limousines dressed in their finest furs. * * * * * Their gilded... ABC News Video; Washington Post; BizJournal; WSJ; SF Chronicle... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2168386/posts#comment Tue, 20 Jan 2009 23:10:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2165511/posts It’s been a brutal year for Wall Street, but the high rollers apparently still love a big, expensive party. People who work in the finance industry have given at least $4.8 million to underwrite Barack Obama’s inauguration party, more than any other business sector, according to an analysis by the watchdog Center for Responsive Politics. Obama’s team appears to have reached the $40 million goal it set to pay for the festivities. Roughly $6.8 million has come from those giving less than $200, according to the committee. But large donors have given at least $35 million. While U.S. citizens can... al Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2165511/posts#comment Fri, 16 Jan 2009 03:07:10 GMT