Founder of the Weather Channel John Coleman calls Global Warming the "Greatest Scam in History"
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"It is the greatest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it. Global Warming; It is a SCAM. Some dastardly scientists with environmental and political motives manipulated long term scientific data to create an allusion of rapid global warming. Other scientists of the same environmental whacko type jumped into the circle to support and broaden the “research” to further enhance the totally slanted, bogus global warming claims. Their friends in government steered huge research grants their way to keep the movement going. Soon they claimed to be a consensus.
Environmental extremists, notable politicians among them, then teamed up with movie, media and other liberal, environmentalist journalists to create this wild “scientific” scenario of the civilization threatening environmental consequences from Global Warming unless we adhere to their radical agenda. Now their ridiculous manipulated science has been accepted as fact and become a cornerstone issue for CNN, CBS, NBC, the Democratic Political Party, the Governor of California, school teachers and, in many cases, well informed but very gullible environmentally conscientious citizens. Only one reporter at ABC has been allowed to counter the Global Warming frenzy with one 15 minute documentary segment.
I do not oppose environmentalism. I do not oppose the political positions of either party. However, Global Warming, i.e. Climate Change, is not about environmentalism or politics. It is not a religion. It is not something you “believe in.” It is science; the science of meteorology. This is my field of life-long expertise. And I am telling you Global Warming is a non-event, a manufactured crisis and a total scam. I say this knowing you probably won’t believe a me, a mere TV weatherman, challenging a Nobel Prize, Academy Award and Emmy Award winning former Vice President of United States. So be it.
I have read dozens of scientific papers. I have talked with numerous scientists. I have studied. I have thought about it. I know I am correct. There is no run away climate change. The impact of humans on climate is not catastrophic. Our planet is not in peril. I am incensed by the incredible media glamour, the politically correct silliness and rude dismissal of counter arguments by the high priest of Global Warming.
In time, a decade or two, the outrageous scam will be obvious. As the temperature rises, polar ice cap melting, coastal flooding and super storm pattern all fail to occur as predicted everyone will come to realize we have been duped. The sky is not falling. And, natural cycles and drifts in climate are as much if not more responsible for any climate changes underway. I strongly believe that the next twenty years are equally as likely to see a cooling trend as they are to see a warming trend. "
Christopher Walken as Max Zorin. An inspiration to "Social Darwinists" everywhere...The character portrayed in the bond film "A View to a Kill" was born in Dresden, Zorin became a leading French businessman, operating on the microchip market. However, it is revealed later in the movie that he was the product of Nazimedical experimentation during World War II, in which pregnant women were injected with massive quantities of steroids in an attempt to create "super-children." Most of the pregnancies failed. The few surviving babies grew to become extraordinarily intelligent—but also psychopathic.
An 18 year old "Social Darwinist" from Finland hoping to spark a revolution against the system (hmmm, which system is he upset with?), walked into his High School and went on a shooting spree killing 8 plus himself bringing the total to 9.
The U.S.'s largest Nuclear Power Plant (located 50 miles West of Phoenix) is on lockdown after an employee was stopped with a "suspicious" device in the back of his truck (described as a possible pipebomb).
The site, located in Palo Verde was also in the news back in April when an engineer had attempted to transport access codes and plant details to Iran...or so they'd like us to think so?
The year was 1979, a small punk band from San Francisco, California released a single "California Uber Alles"...I was 10. The song and the band would find me only a few years later in 1983. Long since then Jello Biafra (former lead singer) and the Dead Kennedys had parted ways, sued one another, and had multiple incarnations. My understanding is that the more current Dead Kennedys (the surviving members won the name from Biafra in a lawsuit) are pro-war in Iraq, and I could give a shit about them...but Jello trudged on with "California Uber Alles" as his anthem. It's been almost 30 years since that single was released, and nothing has changed...
"On their EP In God We Trust, Inc., they recorded an updated version of the song, titled "We've Got a Bigger Problem Now," about then-President Ronald Reagan, including a lounge-jazz introduction, different lyrics, and several verses set at a much slower pace. A live version of the song was also recorded, this time with the instrumentals of the original version of the song." "Another updated version of this song about Governor Schwarzenegger, called "Kalifornia Über Alles, 21st Century", was performed live (among a few other Dead Kennedys classics) when Biafra toured with The Melvins to support their collaboration album in 2004. A live recording of this new version appears on their second collaborative effort, Sieg Howdy (2005)."
Jello Biafra has frequently made satirical references to the song in his political advocacy. A speech of his appears on the spoken word album Mob Action Against the State that is entitled "We've Got a Bigger Problem Now: War, Terrorism & Beyond." After the election of Arnold Schwarzenegger as governor of California, Biafra commented, "California Über Alles indeed."
Jello if you're out there...we sure could use you now!
"Kalifornia Uber Alles, 21st Century" (the updated version)
i am governor schwarzenneger pretty soon i'll be dictator when they make me president democracy is going away hasta la vista, bay-bay i will command all of you kindergarten cop in every school or i vill terminate you
enron will control you like they staged the recall coup steroids for the master race so you all can haff my face close your eyes, can't happen here bush and cheney are already here! third reich will come back, you say soon as fox news has their way can i grope your titties today?
mandate: two thousand und four knock knock at your bedroom door it's the homeland security police you're a terrorist and so is your neice drag you secretly to a camp where we keep all zee girly man! don't you worry it's for a cause feeding halliburton's claws die on your feet of uranium gas north korea or iraq run you over with my hummer, baby when you mess with schwarzenneger and all the money that's making him bigger!
It seems a project that has been in the works for nearly five years will finally be "getting off" the ground.
"Details of the U2 Tower, which will be the tallest building in Ireland, emerged as it was announced that a consortium led by the band has been selected as the preferred bidder to design, finance and construct the £140 million project.
Bono, the Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen will team up with Lord Foster, who built the "Gherkin" tower in London.
The Geranger Ltd consortium consisting of Ballymore Properties, Patrick McKillen and August Partners (U2 members and management) beat off designs submitted by four other tenders: Treasury Holdings/Sisk; Mountbrook Homes, controlled by the developer Sean Dunne; the Dutch-based Royal BAM Group and the Riverside II Partnership.
All had been challenging for the contract to build the tower, regarded as the jewel in the crown of the band’s property portfolio in Dublin.
In keeping with Bono’s reputation as the rock star with a conscience, the accommodation will include 34 social and affordable flats. The remainder will be luxury apartments, while a five-star hotel will be built in an adjoining building.
advertisementThe tilted triangular design, at the confluence of the Liffey, Dodder and Grand Canal, will include a public viewing platform."
Hotels, penises, tax shelters, stardom...it's really all the same isn't it?
"Is there anything this man hasn't accomplished? Bono celebrates his latest award -- an Honorary Knighthood -- for his services to the music industry & his humanitarian work. The U2 frontman, who was surrounded by family, joked that his son thought he was becoming a Jedi." - from iVillage photo gallery
Jedi/Templar Knight/Freemason...same, same...just remember your station Paul David Hewson...you're Irish lad, and you'll always be NOTHING but Honorary no matter how big your Tower.
The "Original" U2 (aka Dragon Lady), which had VERY little to do with Peace and Good Works...
Thanks to Vapo for this find (from Dec. 2005)...the caption reads "The Good Samaritans" Bill Gates, Bono, Melinda Gates...more on BonoGate soon
Sci-fi writer and physician Alan E. Nourse wrote "The Bladerunner" back in 1974...
the plot of Nourse's novel: The novel's protagonist, a man with a club foot, lives in a society where free comprehensive medical treatment is available for anyone who has been sterilized, and no medical care whatsoever is available for anyone else (including children).
In 1979 William S. Burroughs writes a treatment for a proposed film adaptation of the novel. Burroughs' treatment is set in early 21st century and involves mutated viruses and what the back cover of the 1990 edition describes as "a medical-care apocalypse". The term "blade runner" referred to a smuggler of medical supplies, e.g. scalpels. [see also PKD's "The Imposter" (quite a bit of "bladerunning" going on there or the real-life "imposter" Wilhelm Voigt (least we forget the Voigt-Kampf test of Bladerunner].
No film is ever made, and in 1982 film director Ridley Scott buys the rights to the name "Bladerunner" which will become the title for his adaptation of Phillip K. Dick's 1968 novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?"
One of the features of "Bladerunner" is the role of The Bradbury Building (which serves as home to Toymaker/Replicant designer J.F. Sebastien), and eerily acts as a character in the film...directly across the street in downtown Los Angeles is the Million Dollar Theater which is also featured prominently in the film.
And now, we take a detour down "The Street With No Name" or 5th and Main St. downtown Los Angeles to be precise...just around the corner from "Bladerunner" central we find the curious Rosslyn "Million Dollar" Hotel. Those of you up on your Templar lore will surely be tempted by the significance of Rosslyn (or Rose Line).
Although the exact location of the video was Republic Liquor Store, The Rosslyn Hotel sign is clearly visible behind Bono and the Band throughout...so intrigued was Bono that he dubbed the Rosslyn "The Million Dollar Hotel"??
The story is recounted on The International Cinematographers Guild website: "The Million Dollar Hotel took a rather circuitous route to the screen, one spanning more than a decade. In the late Eighties, mega rock band U2, while prepping to shoot a music video for "Where the Streets Have No Name," selected the roof of an ancient hotel as its location. Built four-score and some-odd years ago, the hotel, now known as the Rosslyn (located in downtown Los Angeles at 5th and Main Street) was once among the tallest edifices in Southern California, and played host to several visiting U.S. presidents before falling into disrepair. The U2 video was shot during the Reagan era, when many social programs had been cut-to-the-bone or eliminated. To the socially conscious band members, the results were quite visible in this area, with its mainly disenfranchised inhabitants, and the whole area overflowing with citizens attempting to carry on in spite of NO HEALTHCARE. Fascinated by the rooftop sign, U2 lead vocalist Bono declared this edifice to be 'The Million Dollar Hotel,' (the edifice's longest-lasting and best known moniker) and began developing a notion for a script to take place there."
The Rosslyn (built in and owned by the Hart Brothers) was once the largest building in downtown L.A., and had a rather odd feature...it actually consisted of two buildings joined only by an underground tunnel which connected the two.
Enter Wim Wenders, the German film director of the 1987 poetic masterpiece "Wings of Desire", a story of Angels observing mankind in Berlin while one longs to become mortal and live among human beings. [In 1998, Hollywood in it's infantile wisdom would remake it as "City of Angels" starring our old pal Nicolas Cage] Bono and Wim Wenders would team up to co-write an interesting little gem called "Million Dollar Hotel" in 2000. The film stars...Mel Gibson (who co-produced via his I-CON Pictures), and Milla Jovovich (Synchromystic sirens are popping off everywhere) two names that have been bantered about much of late. I will return to them later.
Here is a passage from Wim Wender's [see also 2004's "Land of Plenty" and 1991's "Until the End of the World"] website which I found interesting:
Once upon a time there was an enchanted hotel...
... built many, many years ago, at the beginning of the last century on the corner of 5th Street and Main, in the heart of downtown Los Angeles. For a while it was the tallest and most splendid building in the city. And it carried the euphemistic name The Rosslyn Million Dollar Hotel.
On the other side of the street stood its sister building, the Rosslyn. The two hotels were linked by corridors underground. Each portal mirrored the other. Round about, business was brisk. The Million Dollar Theater and the Million Dollar Pharmacy were both just round the corner. The area was certainly worth a few millions. This was the headquarters of the American entertainment industry; Griffith and Chaplin had their offices here...
That was once upon a time. When the movie industry moved to Hollywood and Burbank, the decline of downtown Los Angeles began.
Today the two sisters still stare at each other in silence.
But no more wild, flamboyant parties are celebrated here. Millionaires no longer cross the doorsteps. The huge iron scaffolding on the roofs still carries the same signs, But the light bulbs in those letters went out seventy years ago,
The Million Dollar Hotel is now called the Frontier Hotel, It's a flop-house where you can get a place to sleep for eight dollars a night; that is if you don't have to spend the night on the streets, like the throngs of homeless people who stake out their cardboard huts in the streets round about night after night, only to lose their homes the next morning to the garbage collectors.
By day, a different kind of popularion hurried past the hotel: bankers clutching briefcases, yuppies wielding mobile phones, tourists carrying digital cameras. At dusk they all seem to vanish into thin air, leaving the field once again to the outcasts.
In this other America, the Million Dollar Hotel stands as a fortress, the last bastion of the hopeless, but also a stronghold, of drug-dealing and of prostitution.
This is where our film had its beginning more than ten years ago, when Bono, in search of a location for the U2 video Where the Streets Have no Name, stumbled upon the hotel. No song came about from his discovery, for once,
but a story, from that story came a script, and from the script a film - which never wanted to conceal that it might just as well have become a song: a song about a different America beyond that great big Dream, where truly everyone is equal.
The story is a quirky whodunit which see's Gibson (in full neck brace) playing a hard-ass FBI agent named Skinner (Similar to Bladerunner's "Skin-Job" or B.F. Skinner) investigating the death of the son of a billionaire media magnate. The suicide/murder takes place at the Million Dollar Hotel (actor Tim Roth's character takes a dive from the location just behind U2 in the video) which is occupied by a motley collection of outcasts and misfits. The inhabitants and hotel resemble patients/Mental Institution and all become the focus of a police investigation. Some of the interesting asides from the movie are: The media magnate and his son are portrayed as Jewish which presents some interesting flux given Mel's antisemitism, Mel's character is revealed to have been born with a third arm that was surgically removed from his back, and actor Jeremy Davies' character spends much of the film wearing a WWII German Officer's jacket...
from "The Bladerunner" to Bono's epiphany on the rooftop of The Rosslyn Hotel...we see a an odd blend of medical apocalypse/good genetics bad genetics strung throughout this truly dystopian thread.
Milla's exchange with a reporter at the Berlin Film Festival for the screening of "Million Dollar Hotel: "Are you an alien?" "That's what they say. The people that know me best say I am."
BELIEVE becomes BE-LIE-VE...if you take out the LIE see how easy it becomes BE-E HI-VE...
Also of note, U2's "The Fly" from the album "Achtung Baby" [as well as a few other U2 songs frequently references stars falling from the sky] when released as a single had the following title as it's flip or BEE-side: "Alex Descends into Hell for a Bottle of Milk / Korova 1" a DIRECT reference to "A Clockwork ORANGE". And accroding to wikipedia the song: "is a music piece by Bono and The Edge, taken from the score for the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of "A Clockwork Orange" [2]. This was the only part of the score which was officially released. The author of the original book, Anthony Burgess was reportedly very unsatisfied with the soundtrack.[citation needed] This song was also featured on the soundtrack to the Johnny Mnemonic movie.
"The Fly" was track number 7 from the album, and if you slide down a couple more tracks to track 10 what do we find but? "Ultraviolet:Light My Way"
Our old pal Chicken Little as Meteorologist for "The Feather Channel"
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