http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/watermelons/ en-us Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:22:09 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412227/posts The Great Debate Oddly Is Not OverWe are still in a great public debate between capitalism and socialism, and individual freedom versus statism — odd since hundreds of millions worldwide have escaped poverty the last 30 years due to the spread of Western-inspired free markets.Many choose sides in the debate based on their own predicaments. Sometimes the more independent and secure who have thrived under capitalism promote it, the more dependent who have not - detest it.At other times the realist mind is opposed to the idealist.  And we can also envision the split as an age-old dichotomy between the... pajamasmedia.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412227/posts#comment Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:22:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411933/posts It was the slap heard 'round the coalfields: Cordelia Ruth Tucker, wearing the fluorescent-striped shirt of a miner, strode past West Virginia state troopers and into a stream of marchers protesting mountaintop removal mining to deliver an audible smack. (snip) There have been nearly 100 arrests in 20 protests, most involving trespassing. Led by a new group called Climate Ground Zero, the activists have chained themselves to giant dump trucks, scaled 80-foot trees to stop blasting and paddled into a 9 million-gallon sludge pond. They've blocked roads, hung banners and staged sit-ins. Virginia-based Massey Energy claims a single 3 1/2-hour... AP via Yahoo! http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411933/posts#comment Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:51:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411462/posts I take it all back. Copenhagen was worth it, after all – if only for the sphincter-bursting rage its supposed failure has caused among our libtard watermelon chums. (That’s watermelon, as in: green on the outside, red on the inside). As Damian reports, on Twitter they’re all planning to cleanse Mother Gaia of their polluting presence Jonestown-style. The Great Moonbat is sounding more unhinged than ever: "Goodbye Africa, goodbye south Asia; goodbye glaciers and sea ice, coral reefs and rainforest. It was nice knowing you. Not that we really cared. The governments which moved so swiftly to save the banks... Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411462/posts#comment Sun, 20 Dec 2009 02:07:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410048/posts In a related development, secret documents were leaked today indicating that the United Nations has been plotting to form an international environmental governing body which almost certainly would infringe on U.S. sovereignty. theFinancialSkinny http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410048/posts#comment Fri, 18 Dec 2009 01:35:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405257/posts WASHINGTON -- In the 1970s and early '80s, having seized control of the U.N. apparatus (by power of numbers), Third World countries decided to cash in. OPEC was pulling off the greatest wealth transfer from rich to poor in history. Why not them? So in grand U.N. declarations and conferences, they began calling for a "New International Economic Order." The NIEO's essential demand was simple: to transfer fantastic chunks of wealth from the industrialized West to the Third World. On what grounds? In the name of equality -- wealth redistribution via global socialism -- with a dose of post-colonial reparations... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405257/posts#comment Fri, 11 Dec 2009 12:07:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402643/posts Return to the Article December 08, 2009Watermelon MarxistsBy John Griffing Global warming as a science is defunct. Evidence of scientific dishonesty abounds, and the recent e-mail revelations may be the nail in the coffin. When all is said and done, temperatures are falling. But as a tool for watermelon Marxists -- green on the outside and red on the inside -- climate change orthodoxy represents an opportunity to achieve age-old dreams of Communist wealth redistribution.  Don't take my word for it.  Listen to Cass Sunstein, Obama's new regulatory czar and perhaps the most powerful bureaucrat in America: It is... American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402643/posts#comment Tue, 8 Dec 2009 06:33:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2399218/posts Colossal spending and regulatory programs impend, based on the Al Gore conventional hysteria that unreduced carbon emissions will destroy the earth. This will eventually be seen as one of the modern world’s most inexplicable descents into public-policy madness. The basic relevant facts are that carbon emissions are not the principal, nor even a measurable, factor in global warming, and despite dire forecasts and ever-increasing carbon emissions in the world — especially as the economies of China and India, representing 40 percent of the world’s population, expand by 6 to 10 percent each year — the world has not grown... National Review Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2399218/posts#comment Thu, 3 Dec 2009 13:18:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2350694/posts In the early 1800s, when railroads first began to spread across Great Britain, the Duke of Wellington reportedly sneered that this innovation would "only encourage the common people to move about needlessly." For last week's World Car-Free Day, Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales, channeled the Duke of Wellington, complaining about the "domination of the car" and called for a new type of society "in which we are not dependent on it to such a great extent for our daily needs." Washington Examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2350694/posts#comment Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:10:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2343056/posts The EPA is looking to change the landscape of America, quite literally with its "water conservation program," reports Wendy Bounds, The Wall Street Journal. {video at link after a brief ad} CNBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2343056/posts#comment Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:08:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2324342/posts REMEMBER “peak oil”? It’s the theory that geological scarcity will at some point make it impossible for global petroleum production to avoid falling, heralding the end of the oil age and, potentially, economic catastrophe. Well, just when we thought that the collapse in oil prices since last summer had put an end to such talk, along comes Fatih Birol, the top economist at the International Energy Agency, to insist that we’ll reach the peak moment in 10 years, a decade sooner than most previous predictions (although a few ardent pessimists believe the moment of no return has already come and... NY Slimes http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2324342/posts#comment Tue, 25 Aug 2009 21:41:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2316584/posts n 1931, a severe drought began that within a few years engulfed the Oklahoma panhandle and a third of the Great Plains in a "Dust Bowl." Tens of thousands of people fled the region—many traveling to California along Route 66, which John Steinbeck called "the mother road, the road of flight" in "The Grapes of Wrath." A lot of the "Okies" settled in the San Joaquin Valley. In the decades that followed, state and federal officials built dams and other irrigation projects that helped turn the valley into some of the world's richest farmland. Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2316584/posts#comment Sat, 15 Aug 2009 11:19:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2310241/posts The Green Nazis: Environmentalism in the Third ReichBy Elmer June 19, 2009 2:14 PM Jurriaan Maessen, Infowars The Nazis created nature preserves, championed sustainable forestry, curbed air pollution, and designed the autobahn highway network as a way of bringing Germans closer to nature. It has been elaborately pointed out how the device of environmentalism is especially favoured by tyrants as a means of controlling their subjects. The current 'green' movement, as we know, is no exception. It has been nurtured from its very conception as a systematic eugenics operation by the deep pockets of the Rockefeller- and Ford Foundations. Throughout... Minnesotans for global warming.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2310241/posts#comment Fri, 7 Aug 2009 04:01:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2300812/posts Once the lure of communism seduced the idealistic. Today’s environmental ideologues risk becoming just as dangerous Anthony Blunt’s memoirs, published this week, reveal a different age, one in which fascism and communism were locked in a seemingly definitive battle for souls. Blunt talks of “the religious quality” of the enthusiasm for the Left among the students of Cambridge. There is only one ideology in today’s developed world that exercises a similar grip. If Blunt were young today, he would not be red; he would be green. His band of angry young men would find Gore where once they found Marx.... Times Online (London) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2300812/posts#comment Sat, 25 Jul 2009 13:27:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2292167/posts This is really frightening. We warned Americans Barack Obama is a Marxist who would govern through dangerous people. Obama’s new Czar, for “Green Jobs” Anthony “Van” Jones freely admits he’s a proud San Francisco Communist with an arrest record. Because the media has no integrity and works against us, except for Fox News, we have heard little or nothing about this. The amount of damage this confirmed member of Obama’s secret “cabinet” will do as “Green Czar” is frightening to the core. With his signature this radical unelected party apparatchik will be able to crush America’s economy to help Obama’s... The Collins Report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2292167/posts#comment Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:08:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2290192/posts Forced abortions. Mass sterilization. A "Planetary Regime" with the power of life and death over American citizens. The tyrannical fantasies of a madman? Or merely the opinions of the person now in control of science policy in the United States? These ideas (among many other equally horrifying recommendations) were put forth by John Holdren, whom Barack Obama has recently appointed Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology, and Co-Chair of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology -- informally known as the United States' Science Czar.... zombietime blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2290192/posts#comment Sat, 11 Jul 2009 04:34:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2289994/posts The administration’s “Green Jobs” czar, Van Jones, has a “very checkered past” deep-rooted in radical politics, including black nationalism, anarchism, and communism. The broadcast network newscasts have mostly failed to report on Mr. Jones’s past political affiliations which are lock-step with the network’s downplay of coverage regarding President Obama’s associations with the former radical and terrorist William Ayers during the election. Newsbusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2289994/posts#comment Fri, 10 Jul 2009 22:33:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2289424/posts Green Left, an eco-socialist current within the Green Party of England and Wales, held its annual general meeting on June 20 in London. It discussed the work of the network over the past year in struggles against war, racism and environmental decay and in winning support for eco-socialism as a solution to the economic and climate crises. The Green Left http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2289424/posts#comment Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:55:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2280753/posts What is Man Made Global Warming (MMGW)? Why nothing more than the latest manufactured crisis by the Watermelons (Green on the outside, Marxist Red on the inside) to control humanity and not just in a few Western nations but world wide. With little or no real science but with a world class fear mongering PR machine, the Watermelons have scared the average sheeple (citizen) of most major nations, into willingly sticking his and or her neck into the noose of totalitarian control, all in the name of saving the world from a crisis that does not exist. Outside the fact... Mat Rodina blogspot http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2280753/posts#comment Sat, 27 Jun 2009 18:01:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2269413/posts Scratch a global warming fanatic these days and you may find a wannabe executioner. The way I figure it, wish death upon your political opponents once and it can be ignored as just a warped jest. Do it twice and it looks like evidence of mounting frustration with your neighbors’ inability to see your cause’s crystalline righteousness. Do it three times and folks around you should start reaching for their hog legs (Don’t know the meaning of that firearms industry technical term? Google it, then read the entry in the Urban Dictionary). San Francisco Examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2269413/posts#comment Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:03:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2253218/posts Much has been written about the Insight, Honda’s new low-priced hybrid. We’ve been told how much carbon dioxide it produces, how its dashboard encourages frugal driving by glowing green when you’re easy on the throttle and how it is the dawn of all things. The beginning of days. So far, though, you have not been told what it’s like as a car; as a tool for moving you, your friends and your things from place to place. So here goes. It’s terrible. Biblically terrible. Possibly the worst new car money can buy. It’s the first car I’ve ever considered crashing... Times Online UK http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2253218/posts#comment Mon, 18 May 2009 15:22:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2236485/posts As we all now, the infamous Earth Day Was yesterday April 22, at 9:00 PM. Apparently we were all supposed to turn of all of our lights for 1 minute, or that is what I heard. If you actually did this, All I can say is wow… Because If you participated in this useless “symbolic” minute of darkness, you probably did it so wouldn’t have to feel bad about all of the “bad” things you are doing to send this world into the apocalypse, because you know that just because you drive your car to work everyday, like 99% of... Clapter.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2236485/posts#comment Fri, 24 Apr 2009 00:03:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2232138/posts In 1955, then Soviet Premier, Nikita Krushchev ordered April 22nd be designated a day to celebrate Communism. In 1970, it was chosen to be Earth Day by Gaylord Nelson, one of the founders of the event. Those founders had 365 days from which to choose. They chose Lenin's birthday. When Communism was imposed on Russia in 1917, the first thing it did was to outlaw the ownership of private property. Under Communism, the State owns all property and all natural resources. In recent years in the United States, the Clinton-Gore Administration has declared millions of acres of mineral and oil-rich... Ether Zone http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2232138/posts#comment Sat, 18 Apr 2009 12:05:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2230116/posts Recession: The administration tells the country it can revive the economy with a "green" stimulus. But, like government-provided universal health care, where it's been tried in another nation, it hasn't worked.Washington has been in a lather about restoring the economy by greening it through an ambitious renewable energy program since before Barack Obama took office. The fever has only become hotter since his inauguration. Obama's 2010 budget includes roughly $20 billion in tax incentives to stimulate clean-energy programs. He has promised to create 5 million green-collar jobs over the next decade. Four days before taking office, while conditioning the country... IBD Editorials http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2230116/posts#comment Thu, 16 Apr 2009 00:52:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2217303/posts Environmental nuts in California want to ban your big screen TVEnvironmental nuts in California want to ban your big screen TV and they are in control of the California Energy Commission. The CEC plan proposes to ban about 200 television models. The plan was outline in a a dry-sounding reported entitled, “December 2008 Draft Efficiency Standards for Televisions”. I wonder if they will ban Obama's teleprompter on his next visit to California? Bluegrass Pundit http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2217303/posts#comment Sun, 29 Mar 2009 10:24:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2204024/posts This is the winter of environmentalists’ discontent. They desperately want the earth to be warming to prove Al Gore’s truth inviolate and they are going to make you pay thousands of dollars for it no matter whether it’s true or not. But the weather has been inconveniently cold. Thirty-two states have experienced record or near-record lows this winter –- poking holes in the predictions of imminent fiery doom. Just ask the die-hard global warming activists who showed up in Washington last week to protest the nation’s use of coal. Their event was hampered by nearly a foot of snow in... Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2204024/posts#comment Wed, 11 Mar 2009 08:53:18 GMT