The Front Page Cover
2016 The truth will set you free
Featuring:
Destroying America’s Energy Industry
with Phony Methane Issues
by Marita Noon
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30,000 From Terror Hot Spots Crossed Border Last Year
In March, liar-Hillary Clinton assured us, "I think we've done a really good job securing the border. I think that those who say we haven't are not paying attention to everything that was done the last 15 years under President Bush and President nObama." That same month, Barack nObama declared the Islamic State is "not an existential threat to us." Joe loose lips-Biden echoed that statement this week, telling The Atlantic, "Terrorism is a real threat, but it's not an existential threat to the existence of the United States of America." Democrats keep telling us we have nothing to worry about. But the facts tell us otherwise.
Army Col. Lisa A. Garcia, a representative of the U.S. Southern Command, just revealed, "Networks that specialize in smuggling individuals from regions of terrorist concern, mainly from the Afghanistan-Pakistan region, the Middle East, and East Africa, are indeed a concern for SOUTHCOM and other interagency security partners who support our country's national security." Alarmingly, she added, "In 2015, we saw a total of 331,000 migrants enter the southwestern border between the U.S. and Mexico, [and] of that we estimate more than 30,000 of those were from countries of terrorist concern [emphasis added]."
To give this perspective, consider that a remarkable 11% of last year's border-crossers are reasonably suspected by counterterrorism officials of being affiliated with militant groups. The fact that some 30,000 individuals — those who the nObama administration would deceptively call "lone wolves" — entered the country last year to possibly plot attacks is concrete evidence that we are not doing "a really good job securing the border." ~The Patriot Post
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Those Chemical Weapons Assad Destroyed? He Used Them
In August 2012, Barack nObama warned Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, "A red line for us is we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical weapons moving around or being utilized." By September 2013, nObama was denying he set a red line, saying, "The world set a red line." Translation: The line was gone. After reports that Assad had crossed that line, nObama simply didn't want to enforce it. Yesterday, we reported why: Iran was ready to nuke the nuclear deal if nObama messed with mullah-buddy Assad.
Recall also that Secretary of State John hanoi-Kerry made an offhand remark in September 2013 about how Assad "could turn over every single bit of his chemical weapons to the international community in the next week" in order to avoid a U.S. strike. Assad's other enforcer, Vladimir Putin, happily took hanoi-Kerry up on the foolish comment, offering a deal to oversee the destruction of all of Syria's chemical weapons.
Predictably, that didn't work out as nObama and hanoi-Kerry might have hoped. Yesterday, a UN investigation concluded that the Syrian military conducted chemical weapons attacks on at least two occasions — after those weapons were supposedly destroyed. There were other attacks as well, but the UN couldn't conclusively determine the perpetrators. Now Syria faces possible sanctions from the UN Security Council, though Russia has veto power. "It is essential that the members of the Security Council come together to ensure consequences for those who have used chemical weapons in Syria," U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power said in a statement. "We strongly urge all states to support strong and swift action by the Security Council." Assad should stay tuned for a strongly worded letter of rebuke. ~The Patriot Post
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Chaffetz – liar-Clinton Gave Techs, Attys With
No Security Clearances Top US Secrets
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Congressman Jason Chaffetz joins John Dickerson on Face the Nation for a discussion of the Security Breaches of liar-Hillary Clinton and the ongoing cover-up by the nObama regime and political elite... Dickerson points to an earlier interview with the lying Democrat Committee chairwoman Donna Brazile, who said the ongoing liar-Clinton scandal has no basis. Chaffetz disagrees, noting that most everything that liar-Clinton has said about the issue has turned out to be a lie. It’s clear that the Democrats are anxious to provide cover for their criminal operation to continue in order to complete their hostile takeover of the American government. To that end they will say and do anything to protect their anti-American candidate... http://rickwells.us/clinton-gave-techs-attys-secrets/
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ISIS Terrorists Infiltrating Canada,
Suspected of Plotting Attacks
by Adam Kredo
{freebeacon.com} ~ The Canadian government is warning its citizens that it knows of at least 180 people who have traveled abroad to join terror groups and is tracking another 60 “extremist travelers who had returned to Canada,”... according to a new government report that provides further evidence of the Islamic State’s migration to North America. Terrorists returning to Canada after fighting abroad in hotspots such as Syria “raise serious security concerns,” says the report, which warns that “a violent act of terrorism could occur in Canada.” Canadian authorities, like those in the United States, have continued to monitor a number of Western individuals who have traveled abroad to join terror groups. A number of these individuals have made their way back to North America, raising concerns that ISIS and its affiliates are planning attacks on the continent... http://freebeacon.com/national-security/isis-terrorists-infiltrating-canada-suspected-plotting-attacks/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=348793e6d8-WFB_Morning_Beacon_08_29_168_28_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-348793e6d8-45611665
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Russia muscles U.S. aside in Mideast
by Peter Brookes
{aim.org} ~ People seem plenty panicked about recent reports of Russian war planes using an Iranian air base for bombing runs into Syria as part of its ongoing support for the beleaguered regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad.... It’s not at all unreasonable to be concerned. On the other hand, we really shouldn’t be surprised by the expansion of Russian involvement in the Middle East, resulting in this latest setback for U.S. policy and strategic interests in the troubled region. Think of this as phase two of Moscow’s moves in the Middle East. Just about a year ago, in what I’ll call phase one, Moscow intervened militarily in the Syrian civil war to rescue its longtime ally in Damascus from its then-imminent demise, including conducting a game-changing bombing campaign... http://www.aim.org/guest-column/russia-muscles-u-s-aside-in-mideast/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email082916&utm_medium=email
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No Funds Available for Naval Strike Missile
Test on USS Freedom, Demo Stalled
by Sam LaGrone
{usni.org} ~ The planned demonstration installation of an over-the-horizon missile on a Littoral Combat Ship is stalled due to lack of funds, U.S. Navy officials confirmed to USNI News on Friday... The Navy intended to install a Kongsberg Naval Strike Missile battery on USS Freedom (LCS-1) ahead of the ship’s next scheduled Western Pacific deployment but those plans are on hold due to a lack of funds, Lt. Rebecca Haggard, with Naval Surface Force, U.S. Pacific Fleet, told USNI News on Friday. The service had budgeted $101.4 million in fiscal year 2016 for over-the-horizon missile testing on Freedom and the Independence-class USS Coronado (LCS-4)...
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Muslim now? Kaepernick entered
NFL as 'Christian' celeb
by wnd.com
{wnd.com} ~ With rumors afire that San Francisco 49ers quarterback has not only embraced “Black Lives Matter” activism but Islam, it’s worth reflecting on the way he came into the NFL – as a “Christian” celebrity, with most of the controversy in his life concerning his tattoos... “The first one I got was Psalm 18:39, a scroll on my right shoulder,” Colin Kaepernick told Hollywood Gossip in 2013. He chose the New Living Translation, which reads: “You arm me with strength for battle. You make my adversaries bow at my feet.”...
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America’s Twenty Immigration Winks
by PETER HUESSY
by PETER HUESSY
{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ America seems unable to have an intelligent conversation about immigration. In 1986 after over a decade of work, we finally passed immigration law reform... Senator Al Simpson of Wyoming, the Senate leader that got the legislation passed, told me he hoped we understood the enforcement part of the law is more important than the forgiving (amnesty) part of the law. No such luck. We still remain stuck in a nation with virtual open borders pushing diversity and multiculturalism in an age of terrorist jihad absolutely oblivious to what is now happening to Europe. And our media brethren remain congenitally unable to be honest about the issues we face. Ironically, forty years ago we almost got it right. The New York Times wrote about the then forthcoming immigration commission report and the hope for reform: "How can one seriously argue whether to increase legal immigration by 80,000 or 250,000 when maybe 6 million illegal aliens are already here and thousands more are coming daily? There can be no sensible policy without the means to enforce it." They continued: our overall immigration policy amounted to a great "big wink"-or the big pretend-a combination of minimally protecting the borders but largely doing nothing once people got into the country... http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/americas-twenty-immigration-winks?f=must_reads
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nObamaCare: State Officials Pressured
to Approve Massive Price Hikes
by Alice Greene
{punchingbagpost.com} ~ President nObama assured us that the Affordable Care Act would make health insurance better and more affordable for American citizens. But the controversial healthcare overhaul has done the exact opposite – and it’s getting worse... “There were a lot of stories in the newspaper, just like there are this year, about, oh premiums are skyrocketing and this is going to be terrible and all that,” said President nObama about the 2014 process. “When all the dust is settled and the commissioners who were empowered to review these rates forced insurance companies to justify what they were seeking, what you discovered was, is that the rates actually didn’t go up as much as people thought.” But the dust hasn’t settled, and premiums are still rising... http://punchingbagpost.com/obamacare-state-officials-pressured-to-approve-massive-price-hikes
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Iran deploys long-range missiles
to defend Fordo nuclear site
{timesofisrael.com} ~ Tehran has deployed a recently delivered Russian-made long-range missile system to central Iran to protect its Fordo nuclear facility, state television said Sunday... Protecting nuclear facilities is paramount “in all circumstances” General Farzad Esmaili, the commander of Iran’s air defenses, told the IRIB channel. “Today, Iran’s sky is one of the most secure in the region,” he added. A video showed an S-300 carrier truck in Fordo, raising its missile launchers toward the sky, next to other counter-strike weaponry...
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Miami Primary Opponents Courted
by Radical Muslim Group
by Joe Karfman
{frontpagemag.com} ~ Emerge USA is a radical Muslim group which works to further its Islamist agenda via political advocacy. Like most political advocates, the group attempts to infiltrate political circles by sponsoring candidate forums and by raising funds for politicians, from whom it thinks it can buy influence... Unlike most advocates, the forums Emerge puts on are many times held at extremist mosques associated with terrorism. Two of the politicians Emerge has targeted with support, Democrats Joe Garcia and Annette Taddeo, are now running in a primary against each other for US Congress. Regardless of the victor, Emerge will have its candidate for the general election. The main individual behind Emerge is Khurrum Wahid, a South Florida attorney who has built his name on representing high profile terrorists. His past clients include: Rafiq Sabir, who received a 25-year prison sentence for conspiring to provide material support to al-Qaeda; al-Qaeda operative Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, who received a life sentence for plotting to assassinate President George W. Bush; Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) co-founder Sami al-Arian; and Miami imam Hafiz Khan, who sent $50,000 to the Taliban to kill American troops overseas. According to the Miami New Times, Wahid himself was placed on a federal terrorist watch list in 2011... http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/263995/miami-primary-opponents-courted-radical-muslim-joe-kaufman
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Leaked FBI Alert, Admits Hackers
Penetrated US Election Systems
by Matt Agorist
{activistpost.com} ~ On Monday, an official FBI alert from August 18 was leaked to Yahoo News. The alert stated the FBI had uncovered evidence showing that at least two state election systems were penetrated by hackers in recent weeks... The FBI quickly issued warnings to election officials across the country to ramp up security on their systems. It appears from the Flash Alert that the public was not supposed to know about it. This FLASH has been released TLP: AMBER: The information in this product is only for members of their own organization and those with DIRECT NEED TO KNOW. This information is NOT to be forwarded on beyond NEED TO KNOW recipients. The FBI then goes on to describe the nature of the attack and lists the IP addresses associated with the intrusion... http://www.activistpost.com/2016/08/leaked-fbi-alert-admits-hackers-penetrated-us-election-systems.html?utm_source=Activist+Post+Subscribers&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=3aca5d97f7-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_term=0_b0c7fb76bd-3aca5d97f7-387888649
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Destroying America’s Energy Industry
with Phony Methane Issues
by Marita Noon
{townhall.com} ~ What is the “biggest unfinished business for the nObama administration?” According to a report from Bill McKibben, the outspoken climate alarmist who calls for all fossil fuels to be kept in the ground, it is “to establish tight rules on methane emissions”—emissions that he blames on the “rapid spread of fracking.”
McKibben calls methane emissions a “disaster.” He claims “methane is much more efficient at trapping heat than carbon dioxide” and that it does more damage to the climate than coal. Methane, CH4, is the primary component of natural gas.
To buttress his anti-fracking argument, McKibben is selective on which studies he cites. He starts with a paper from “Harvard researchers” that shows increased methane emissions between 2002 and 2014 but doesn’t pinpoint the source of the methane. He, then, relies heavily on “a series of papers” from known fracking opponents: Cornell Scientists Robert Howarth and Anthony Ingraffea. Within his report, McKibben mentions Howarth’s bias, but, I believe, intentionally never mentions Ingraffea’s. Earlier this year, in sworn testimony, Ingraffea admitted he’d be lying if he said that every one of his papers on shale gas was “entirely objective.”
Because of bias, McKibben claims to reach out to an “impeccably moderate referee”: Dan Lashof. Mckibben then goes on to report on Lashof as having been “in the inner circles of climate policy almost since it began.” In addition to writing reports for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and crafting nObama’s plan to cut “coal plant pollution,” Lashof now serves as COO for billionaire Tom Steyer’s NextGen Climate America. Lashof is hardly an “impeccably moderate referee.”
Because McKibben goes to great lengths trying to appear balanced in his conclusions, a casual reader of his report might think the research cited is all there is and, therefore, agree with his cataclysmic views. Fortunately, as a just-released paper makes clear, much more research needs to be considered before cementing public policy, such as the Environmental Protection Agency’s “tight rules on methane emissions.”
In the 28 peer-reviewed pages with nearly 70 footnotes of Bill McKibben’s terrifying disregard for fracking facts, Isaac Orr, research fellow for energy and environment policy at The Heartland Institute, states: “Although McKibben—a journalist, not a scientist—accurately identifies methane as being exceptionally good at capturing heat in Earth’s atmosphere, his ‘the-sky-is-falling’ analysis is based on cherry-picking data useful to his cause, selectively interpreting the results of other studies, ignoring contradicting data, and failing to acknowledge the real uncertainties in our understanding of how much methane is entering the atmosphere. In the end, methane emissions aren’t nearly as terrifying as McKibben claims.”
In the Heartland Institute Policy Brief, Orr explains why it has been difficult to achieve consistent readings on methane emissions: “Tools have been developed only recently to measure accurately methane emissions, with new and better equipment progressively replacing less perfect methods.”
Throughout the section on methodology, Orr draws attention to the results of the various techniques—which he says shows “great uncertainty about how much methane is entering the atmosphere, how much is produced by oil-and-natural gas production, and how emissions can be managed in the future.” He also points out that more than 75 studies examining methane emissions from oil and gas systems have been done, yet “McKibben chose an outdated study [Howarth/Ingraffea] that used unrealistic assumptions and reached inaccurate conclusions.”
Orr calls McKibben’s assertions that methane emissions are from the oil-and-gas sector: “simplistic” and “inappropriate.” Regarding the Harvard study, he explains: “Estimating the contributions from different source types and regions is difficult because there are many different sources of methane, and those sources overlap in the same spatial area. For example, methane is produced naturally in wetlands. Methane also is produced by agriculture through growing rice and raising livestock, fast-growing activities in developing countries. This makes it difficult to calculate exactly where methane is coming from and what sources should be controlled.”
Based on McKibben’s approach, other sections of the Heartland report include: Methane and Global Warming, Repeating Gasland Falsehoods, and What’s the Fracking Alternative?
A careful read of McKibben’s statements reveals that he is aware that his plan will take away one of the few economic bright spots; that due to higher priced electricity, manufacturing jobs will leave our shores; and coal regulations will be unpalatable.
I am often asked why the anti-fossil fuel crowd has so recently turned against the decades-old technology of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, that has provided such economic and environmental benefits and has become even safer due to ever-increasing advances. In his report, McKibben states what is essentially the answer I often give: “One of the nastiest side effects of the fracking boom, in fact, is that the expansion of natural gas has undercut the market for renewables.” It has upset the entire world-view of people like McKibben who’d banked on oil and natural gas being scarce—and therefore expensive. In that paradigm, wind and solar power would be the saviors. Now they are an expensive redundancy.
Worrying about whether methane emissions come from oil-and-gas activities, from agriculture, such as cow flatulence or rice farming, or from naturally occurring seeps may seem irrelevant to the average energy consumer’s day. However, when you consider that long-term, expensive public policy is being based on this topic, it is important to be informed fairly and accurately—and to communicate with your elected officials accordingly.
McKibben calls methane emissions a “disaster.” He claims “methane is much more efficient at trapping heat than carbon dioxide” and that it does more damage to the climate than coal. Methane, CH4, is the primary component of natural gas.
To buttress his anti-fracking argument, McKibben is selective on which studies he cites. He starts with a paper from “Harvard researchers” that shows increased methane emissions between 2002 and 2014 but doesn’t pinpoint the source of the methane. He, then, relies heavily on “a series of papers” from known fracking opponents: Cornell Scientists Robert Howarth and Anthony Ingraffea. Within his report, McKibben mentions Howarth’s bias, but, I believe, intentionally never mentions Ingraffea’s. Earlier this year, in sworn testimony, Ingraffea admitted he’d be lying if he said that every one of his papers on shale gas was “entirely objective.”
Because of bias, McKibben claims to reach out to an “impeccably moderate referee”: Dan Lashof. Mckibben then goes on to report on Lashof as having been “in the inner circles of climate policy almost since it began.” In addition to writing reports for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and crafting nObama’s plan to cut “coal plant pollution,” Lashof now serves as COO for billionaire Tom Steyer’s NextGen Climate America. Lashof is hardly an “impeccably moderate referee.”
Because McKibben goes to great lengths trying to appear balanced in his conclusions, a casual reader of his report might think the research cited is all there is and, therefore, agree with his cataclysmic views. Fortunately, as a just-released paper makes clear, much more research needs to be considered before cementing public policy, such as the Environmental Protection Agency’s “tight rules on methane emissions.”
In the 28 peer-reviewed pages with nearly 70 footnotes of Bill McKibben’s terrifying disregard for fracking facts, Isaac Orr, research fellow for energy and environment policy at The Heartland Institute, states: “Although McKibben—a journalist, not a scientist—accurately identifies methane as being exceptionally good at capturing heat in Earth’s atmosphere, his ‘the-sky-is-falling’ analysis is based on cherry-picking data useful to his cause, selectively interpreting the results of other studies, ignoring contradicting data, and failing to acknowledge the real uncertainties in our understanding of how much methane is entering the atmosphere. In the end, methane emissions aren’t nearly as terrifying as McKibben claims.”
In the Heartland Institute Policy Brief, Orr explains why it has been difficult to achieve consistent readings on methane emissions: “Tools have been developed only recently to measure accurately methane emissions, with new and better equipment progressively replacing less perfect methods.”
Throughout the section on methodology, Orr draws attention to the results of the various techniques—which he says shows “great uncertainty about how much methane is entering the atmosphere, how much is produced by oil-and-natural gas production, and how emissions can be managed in the future.” He also points out that more than 75 studies examining methane emissions from oil and gas systems have been done, yet “McKibben chose an outdated study [Howarth/Ingraffea] that used unrealistic assumptions and reached inaccurate conclusions.”
Orr calls McKibben’s assertions that methane emissions are from the oil-and-gas sector: “simplistic” and “inappropriate.” Regarding the Harvard study, he explains: “Estimating the contributions from different source types and regions is difficult because there are many different sources of methane, and those sources overlap in the same spatial area. For example, methane is produced naturally in wetlands. Methane also is produced by agriculture through growing rice and raising livestock, fast-growing activities in developing countries. This makes it difficult to calculate exactly where methane is coming from and what sources should be controlled.”
Based on McKibben’s approach, other sections of the Heartland report include: Methane and Global Warming, Repeating Gasland Falsehoods, and What’s the Fracking Alternative?
A careful read of McKibben’s statements reveals that he is aware that his plan will take away one of the few economic bright spots; that due to higher priced electricity, manufacturing jobs will leave our shores; and coal regulations will be unpalatable.
I am often asked why the anti-fossil fuel crowd has so recently turned against the decades-old technology of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, that has provided such economic and environmental benefits and has become even safer due to ever-increasing advances. In his report, McKibben states what is essentially the answer I often give: “One of the nastiest side effects of the fracking boom, in fact, is that the expansion of natural gas has undercut the market for renewables.” It has upset the entire world-view of people like McKibben who’d banked on oil and natural gas being scarce—and therefore expensive. In that paradigm, wind and solar power would be the saviors. Now they are an expensive redundancy.
Worrying about whether methane emissions come from oil-and-gas activities, from agriculture, such as cow flatulence or rice farming, or from naturally occurring seeps may seem irrelevant to the average energy consumer’s day. However, when you consider that long-term, expensive public policy is being based on this topic, it is important to be informed fairly and accurately—and to communicate with your elected officials accordingly.
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