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The Unintended Consequences of Biofuel
News Item: An appeal to slow down on biofuel
Last Friday an advisory panel to the European Environment Agency issued an extraordinary scientific opinion: The European Union should suspend its goal of having 10 percent of transportation fuel made from biofuel by 2020.
The European Union’s biofuel targets were increased and extended from 5.75 percent by 2010 to 10 percent by 2020 just last year. Still, Europe’s well-meaning rush to biofuels, the scientists concluded, had produced a slew of harmful ripple effects – from deforestation in Southeast Asia to higher prices for grains.
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- But the rush to meet biofuels targets has put our “need” to drive a car to the mall in direct competition with the need to eat in some of the poorest countries in the world.
- A global analysis performed by forestry experts at the Australian International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, a scientific study group, found that biofuels were “in conflict with the reduction of deforestation” and also had negative effects on farming intensity and food security.
- It also concluded that the rush to make biofuels from crops like corn, soy and rapeseed did not do much to reduce global greenhouse gasses anyway, producing an “ambiguous effect on greenhouse gas emissions.” This is partly because of land use changes like the clearing of forests and partly because the process of converting plants into fuel takes a lot of energy itself.
The law of unintended consequences.
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Does Barack Obama Condone SEIU’s Violent and Stalking Tactics?
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The SEIU jumps in again on Obama’s behalf, with an ad that shows mostly white, working- and middle-class Pennsylvanians complaining about their gas prices and then declaring their faith in Obama.
The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) has been using violent and stalking tactics to win a union fight with the California Nurses Association. In fact, a restraining order has been issued by a California judge against them.
The California Nurses Assn. on Wednesday secured a temporary restraining order against the Service Employees International Union, accusing it of harassing the board members of the Oakland-based group.
The two influential nationwide unions have a long, acrimonious rivalry that reached a new height in March after they publicly battled over whether the SEIU should represent more than 8,000 nurses and other healthcare workers in Ohio.
The dispute flared again at a labor conference in Dearborn, Mich., on Saturday, when SEIU protesters attempted to gain access to a ballroom where Rose Ann DeMoro, executive director of the nurses association, had been expected to speak. Several people were injured in a scuffle, including a 68-year-old woman who fell after being pushed.
DeMoro accused SEIU members and staff last week of stalking nurses association board members at their homes, looking through windows and shouting.
SEIU spokeswoman Lynda Tran said union organizers have been driving a nurse and respiratory therapist to board members’ homes to express their disapproval of the association’s tactics in Ohio last month.
Here is the video of two SEIU stalkers:
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Sue Allen, RN and Michaela Silver, respiratory therapist visit CNA Board member Margaret Keenan, RN to protest CNA’s interference in their efforts to form a union.So, Barack Obama takes money for his Presidential campaign from an organization who uses violence and intimidation to get their way. Flap calls on Obama to either reject the SEIU’s thug-like tactics and violence or to refuse their ads and money.
What is it going to be Barry?
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ABC’s George Stephanopoulos Defends
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Georgie gets the in memoriam treatment for his career after making a complete fool out of himself while hosting the latest Democratic primary debate.
ABC’s George Stephanopoulos defends from last night’s Democrat debate.
“We asked tough but appropriate questions,†Stephanopoulos told me by phone this afternoon.
When I asked whether questions about flag pins or Bosnia are actually relevant to voters, he replied: “Absolutely.â€
“The vote for the president,†Stephanopoulos said, “is one of the most personal†decisions that someone makes.
“When people make that choice, they take into account how candidates stand on the issues,†he said, but also are concerned with “experience, character [and] credibility.â€
“You can’t find a presidential election where those issues didn’t come into play,†he said.
Stephanopoulos explained that since the candidates are not far apart policy-wise, the “core of the nomination fight†has been about these issues.
“They’ve been fighting it out on this turf,†he said, adding that these are things that “came up between this debate and the last one.â€
Since GS was a once former staffer for Bill Clinton, he is NOT pure enough for the radical nutroot left that supports Obama. So, Obama’s poor performance last night is Stephanopoulos’ fault.
Right……
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Barack Obama Watch: Comparing Bill Ayers and Tom Coburn
Bill Ayers, Tom Coburn and Barack Obama
Did Barack Obama REALLY compare Weather Underground bomber Bill Ayers and Oklahoma United States Senator Tom Coburn?
Yes, he did……..
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Brigitte Bardot on Trial Watch: Freedom of Speech in France?
Brigitte Bardot in earlier and better times
Yeah, Flap knows that is a dated photo of Brigitte Bardot but Flap couldn’t resist – especially a free speech issue.Brigitte Bardot is back on trial in France, facing charges of fanning discrimination and racial hatred against Muslims.
In a Paris court hearing Tuesday, prosecutors said they are seeking a two-month suspended prison sentence and a $23,900 fine against the former screen siren and animal rights campaigner.
Bardot, 73, was not present for the hearing. A verdict is expected June 3.
A leading French anti-racism group known as MRAP filed suit last year over a letter that Bardot sent to then-Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, and which was published in her foundation’s quarterly journal.
In the letter to Sarkozy, now the president, Bardot accused France’s Muslim population of destroying France, and complained about the Muslim feast of Eid al-Adha.
French anti-racism laws prevent inciting hatred and discrimination on racial or religious or racial grounds. Bardot has been convicted four times for inciting racial hatred.
Now you know what the Founding Fathers wrote the first amendment to the United States Constitution. To think that Flap’s ass would be in court for his publication of the Mohammed Cartoons.
France has taken political correctness to the extreme of abrogating the inalienable right to speak your own mind.
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The Nutroots Go Ballistic Over ABC Democrat Debate Coverage Last Night
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Georgie gets the in memoriam treatment for his career after making a complete fool out of himself while hosting the latest Democratic primary debate.
Wow! A boring, uneventful debate where Barack Obama, the Messiah of the Democrat Party, does not do appreciably well and the NUTROOTS are going NUTS over a biased MSM – a conservative BIAS.
How could ABC News do it? Behold the teeth-gnashing. And hair-pulling. And foot-stomping.
How dare the ABC moderators ask questions about topics that are, you know, topical?
How dare they ask questions that–gasp!–conservatives are asking.
This is HOW out of touch the LEFT is.
If the LEFT does not obtain the result THEY want then shoot the messenger NOT the message. And, how do you DARE question the MESSIAH of the Democrat Party – even if you are Hillary Clinton?
McCain and the GOP will have Obama and Howard Dean for lunch.
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Day By Day by Chris Muir April 17, 2008
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links for 2008-04-17
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Want to bet that Team Obama restricts bloggers from their fundraising events?
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Bill Bradley’s inside story on how Bitter-Gate made its way into the Huffington Post
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Mayhill Fowler and Bitter-Gate
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Influential GOPers ‘CRAFT’ new group
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Hillary’s VP = Evan Bayh; Barack Obama’s VP= Bill Richardson
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Forty-five Minutes of Pummeling Before a Wonky Cooldown
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Well, certainly Bill has……
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