White Americans have long resisted the idea of reparations to the descendants of slaves.We examine the psychological basis of such resistance, primarily testing the possibility that resistance may be a function of Whites’ perception of the ongoing cost of being Black. White participants (n = 958) across twelve independent samples (varying in age, student status, and geographic location) were asked variations of the question: How much should you be paid to continue to live the remainder of your life as a Black person? Participants generally required low median amounts, less than $10,000, to make the race change, whereas they requested high amounts, $1,000,000, to give up television.
In today's cameos [summary attached below] on the Sunday talk show circuit, Defense Secretary Gates (no doubt the Surge's wily deus ex machina) and Secretary of State Clinton (Gates' transparent accomplice) stated again that there is no deadline for a withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan. This proves again, as if any more proof were needed after their appearances before Congress last week, the whole Surge-and-Withdrawal Strategy enunciated by President Obama in his West Point speech last Tuesday was a Bait-and-Switch Strategy to sucker the anti-war base of the Democratic Party, while locking in the long-term budgetary benefits of the Long War on Terror for the cash-bloated MICC. Which begs the question: Is Mr. Obama the real decision maker or an empty suit carrying the water for an emergent National Security Regency chaired by Secretary Gates, with Secretary, CJCS Admiral Mullen, and General McChrystal as the senior voting members? Unfortunately, the postmortem purporting to analyze Obama's “decision” process in today's New York Times does little to clarify this important question.
Phi Beta Iota: To be good at intelligence (decision-support) it is important to have a sense of balance between secret and open sources; between collection and processing; and between unilateral and multinational anaysis. The welcome acknowledgement by the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) that we spend $75 billion a year on secret intelligence and covert action, combined with the recent release of most of the U.S. telecommunications spy manuals now posted at Cryptome, suggest that we are out of balance. We still don't balance between secret and open source collection; we still don't have all-source processing; we still don't do multinational engagement with any depth or breadth; and we still don't provide decision-support to 95% of the federal, state, and local government clients and customers with serious needs.
Phi Beta Iota: The media is being deliberately stupid. IPCC is not “the UN.” The UN Secretary General has opened an investigation and is accutely aware of both the crisis this fraud represents, and the opportunity for revisiting the Brahimi Report recommendations.
Written by Christopher Monckton of Brenchley. Cold facts about the hot topic of global temperature change after the climategate scandal. The table of contents from the SPPI Report:
The Whistle Blows For Truth
Revealed: The Abject Corruption Of Climate Science
The Nature ‘trick' To ‘hide The Decline' In Temperatures
Breaking The Broken Code: Dissecting The Dodgy Data
Mainstream Media Are Silent, But The Internet Roars
Freedom Of Information? What Freedom?
Why The Truth About Temperature Matters
Terrestrial Vs. Satellite Temperature Records
More Official Dishonesty About Global Temperature
A Nation Tampers With Its Temperature Record
Lying Even To Children
Al Gore's Temperature-Related Falsehoods
What Is To Be Done?
Essential Readings
The Trick is Still a Trick
Sects, lies and climate-gate – Facts will not alter Obama policy
In the wake of the release of evidence proving that global warming studies have been falsified, and investigations into other global warming researchers believed to have also altered data, President Obama is still determined to commit the USA to regulations that will drastically increase the cost of doing business.
Letter from Senator Jim Webb (D-VA) to President Obama: Although details have not been made available, recent statements by Special Envoy on Climate Change Todd Stern indicate that negotiators may be intending to commit the United States to a nationwide emission reduction program. As you well know from your time in the Senate, only specific legislation agreed upon in the Congress, or a treaty ratified by the Senate, could actually create such a commitment on behalf of our country.
Of course ClimateGate matters politically, and the damage has only begun. This won't help their electoral prospects. It also has ramifications for health care: If you can't trust them on global warming, can you trust them on cancer screenings?
The White House is shrugging off the Climate-gate e-mails. “I think there's no real scientific basis for the dispute of (global warming),” White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said this week. And Obama's top science adviser, John Holdren, downplayed the e-mails Friday, telling Congress that the controversy involves a small group of scientists and how they have interpreted and shared global warming data.
Suddenly, though, on Monday December 1, Google stopped offering “climategate” as a choice to those who typed c-l-i and even to those who typed c-l-i-m-a-t-e-g-a-t. Strange.
What's become known as “Climate-Gate” may be about to explode on this side of the pond as well. Chris Horner, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, has threatened a lawsuit against NASA if by year-end the agency doesn't honor his FOI requests for information on how and why its climate numbers have been consistently adjusted for error
ClimateGate: The 6 Most Dubious Claims About The Supposed “Global Warming Hoax”
Phi Beta Iota: For those who do not read, the six “myths” discussed in Arianna Huffington's blog will be just as credible as the documented lies and fraudulent misrepresentations of the International Committee on Climate Change (IPCC), which in our view should be abolished. The UN System needs a brain that serves all elements of the UN System, not a carbon ponzi scheme scam that only serves a few hucksters and their lobbyists pals. Intellectually, the six myth dismissals below are beneath contempt. We challenge Arianna to a debate–anywhere, anytime, just send us an e-ticket and we will engage in “a conversation that matters.” Respectfully. It's time we all got smart again.
