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Art Robinson, Global Warming Skeptic, Elected Oregon GOP Chairman
Art Robinson, a vocal skeptic of man-made climate change who unsuccessfully ran against Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) in 2010 and 2012, was elected Saturday as the Oregon Republican Party's new chairman.
The Oregonian reports:
Chairwoman Suzanne Gallagher stepped down late Friday, just ahead of a recall vote brought by party officials accusing her of mismanaging the party and its finances since her February election.Party leaders worked quickly to switch the recall effort into an election for a new chair which Robinson ultimately won on the third ballot in a 55-52 vote over party vice-chair Bill Currier. A third candidate, Larry Martin, was eliminated in the first round of balloting.
"The events in the last couple of months are a testimony to why Republicans are not seen in a good light," Gallagher said in a statement regarding her resignation. "The actions of some members have demonstrated the character flaws perceived by the public as uncaring, angry and antagonistic."
Robinson, a biochemist who gained support from libertarians like former Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) as well as tea party activists during his unsuccessful congressional bids, has been outspoken in his belief that humans are not the root cause of global warming. Robinson is behind the Global Warming Petition Project, which claims to have the support of 31,487 American scientists opposed to climate change theories.
He is also the author of a long-running newsletter titled "Access to Energy," which drew scrutiny during his campaigns. In a 1994 newsletter on AIDS, he appeared to question whether HIV is the cause of AIDS, and alleged that the epidemic was exaggerated to create a "crisis."
"The arguments presented against the HIV hypothesis are sound, although they are difficult to independently evaluate. In part, they cite lack of evidence," he wrote. "AIDS is conveniently serving as an excuse for all sorts of social engineering, especially in the public schools, that could not be sustained without a 'crisis.'"
Robinson was also criticized for his 1997 suggestion that nuclear waste should be diluted and "sprinkle[d] over the ocean," as well as his characterization of public school as a form of child abuse.
During his 2010 challenge to DeFazio, Robinson appeared on MSNBC's "The Rachel Maddow Show" to defend his controversial views. Maddow pressed Robinson on his AIDS writings.
"There was still a debate over the cause of AIDS and I was writing about that," Robinson said in response. "I wrote about all the other hypotheses, too. Fifteen years ago, the scientific debate was different than it is today."
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Dana Rohrabacher, GOP House Science Committee Member: 'Global Warming Is A Total Fraud'
The Huffington Post | By Nick Wing Posted: 08/12/2013 10:56 am EDT | Updated: 08/12/2013 12:58 pm EDT
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.), a longtime member of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, recently brushed aside concern that the wildfires currently scorching across his state and causing millions of dollars of damage have anything to do with climate change. In fact, he told constituents at a town hall that "global warming is a total fraud," employed by liberals to "create global government."
In a video captured by Lee Fang of The Nation, Rohrabacher laughed off a claim made last week by Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) that the unusual intensity of this year's wildfire season should give rise to a more serious debate about how climate change is affecting the temperature and length of the dry season.
"Just so you'll know, global warming is a total fraud and it's being designed because what you’ve got is you’ve got liberals who get elected at the local level want state government to do the work and let them make the decisions," Rohrabacher said. "Then, at the state level, they want the federal government to do it. And at the federal government, they want to create global government to control all of our lives."
The friendly town hall audience seemed to agree with Rohrabacher's contention that humans were incapable of changing earth's climate, giving a collective chuckle. The congressman then appeared to make an offhand reference to Agenda 21, a set of UN-created sustainable development recommendations that the tea party and other Republicans have put forth as an example of how the government will use the threat of climate change to seize property and control the lives of its citizens.
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Rand Paul's Pick for the Fed
August 12, 2013Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has kicked up quite a storm with an interview he did with me for Bloomberg Businessweek’s “Interview Issue” (on sale at newsstands now!). At issue are Paul’s views on—and grasp of—monetary policy, based on this exchange:
Who would your ideal Fed chairman be?
[Friedrich] Hayek would be good, but he’s deceased.Nondead Fed chairman.
[Milton] Friedman would probably be pretty good, too, and he’s not an Austrian, but he would be better than what we have.Dead, too.
Yeah. Let’s just go with dead, because then you probably really wouldn’t have much of a functioning Federal Reserve.What’s the problem? In a nutshell, Paul is an avowed devotee of the Austrian School of economics and objects to the Federal Reserve’s printing money to help the economy recover from recession. (In this 2010 profile of Ron Paul, Rand’s dad, I lay out the Austrian response—nonresponse, actually—to the 2008 financial crisis and explain how the views of hard-money types like the Pauls differ from those of most mainstream economists.)
As Paul Krugman gleefully noted over the weekend, and again in today’s New York Times, and then again on his blog just now, there is a pretty glaring inconsistency in invoking Hayek, an Austrian, as one’s ideal Fed chairman, and then, in the next breath, invoking Friedman. That’s because Friedman favored the kind of easy-money policies the Pauls abhor and in fact explicitly advocated that the government buy bonds (“quantitative easing”) to respond to the type of recession that the U.S. has been contending with for the past five years.
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lemme see now...you're buying up all the guns and ammo you can get like all the other doomsday believers out there and then you think there's a conspiracy cause there's a "shortage" of guns and ammo.....duhhhhhh
Apocalypse Now: This Family Built a Castle to Survive Doomsday
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The family behind the National Geographic Channel's "Doomsday Castle." From left to right: Brent II, …Atop one large foothill here deep in the Carolina woods lies a most unlikely site: a castle, replete with a drawbridge, portcullis — and an underground bunker.
The castle is the handiwork of a family aiming to protect itself from an electromagnetic pulse (EMP), which they think could take out electricity grids. So they're going medieval, training to use crossbows and building a catapult to defend themselves against marauders that might come in a doomsday scenario.
The family is the subject of a new show on the National Geographic Channel called "Doomsday Castle," which premiers at 10 p.m. ET on Tuesday, Aug. 13. Family members aren't disclosing their last name or location for fear of curious and/or hostile fans showing up on their castle step.
The father, Brent Sr., is the ringleader and a retired Army officer, and hatched a plan for the castle before Y2K, when people worried a computer glitch would unleash mass havoc beginning Jan. 1, 2000. While on a press trip to visit the family and their castle, LiveScience got a chance to sit down with Brent Sr. and with some of his 10 children, including Brent II, age 41, as well as younger son Michael and daughter Dawn-Marie. (Brent II is often at odds with the rest of his family and prefers to use the suffix "II" instead of "Jr.")
LiveScience: When did you first get into doomsday prepping?
Brent Sr.: It was before Y2K. I was worried the computers that control everything, from natural gas to electricity, would go down. When they didn't, I cooled off for a couple years because I didn't want people to think I was crazy, but then got back into it. [Photos: Inside the Doomsday Castle]
LiveScience: What motivated you to build a castle?
Brent Sr.: A man with 10 kids has a godly obligation to take care of his children, and I've set up a 100-year trust so the castle can't be sold. Each kid will get the castle for five weeks every year.
LiveScience: What makes you think there will be an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) that could knock out the electrical grid?
Brent Sr.: It's a real possibility. Nuclear explosions can create EMPs — if one was detonated in the high atmosphere, it could knock out power to one-fourth of the United States by destroying computers that run everything. Solar flares are also a risk for EMPs.
Brent II: I think the idea is completely outrageous. But I'm not here for that — I'm here to connect with my family. I'm very anti-violence.
LiveScience: But why build a castle?
Brent Sr.: Most people have enough food for about 10 days. If there are no trucks to replenish the food supply, though, that's a major problem. If the government isn't there to help them out, fighting and looting will eventually start — like you saw during Hurricane Katrina — and could eventually reach the countryside.
The calmest person in the world will turn into a savage if he sees his baby crying and his children go hungry. I built the castle to defend against marauders and to have a place that could function without electricity.
LiveScience: What makes you think that the end is nigh or that disaster is looming?
Brent II: I don't. I think it's a very pessimistic view. But I do think it's a good idea to have a place to wait out hurricanes.
Brent Sr.: When immorality gets to the point where we are at in our society, if God doesn't bring wrath, he removes his hand and [lets bad things happen]. But there will be a time, I do believe, when the wrath will come and the end will come, and the Book of Revelation will come true.
I don't think God talks directly to people, but I do believe that he "whispers" to people, giving them a sense of fear or caution, and gives warnings, like earthquakes and things.
In my circle, we all feel the same thing — that the end of times may be near. But we can't put our finger on why, exactly, we feel this way.
A lot of weird stuff is happening that doesn't make a lot of sense. For example, it's hard to get hunting and military rifles, and many types of ammunition are being bought up in bulk, especially military rounds. MREs [meals, ready to eat — long-lasting food used, for example, in the military] are being bought up. Even materials for making your own bullets, like brass casings, are being bought up. [The Gear You Need to Survive Doomsday]
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Crazy. Just f'n crazy.
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I wonder how many doomsday predictions I have heard in my lifetime. I sure don't have a count, but they seem to grow like weeds. Many people just seem to have too much time on their hands. I suppose they provide some level of entertainment but, honestly, I would much rather go to a zoo. Ignorance runs rampant. It's not that these people are going to do a lot of harm; I just wish their time, money and effort would be directed toward beneficial ends.
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The Huffington Post | By Mollie Reilly Posted: 08/11/2013 8:28 pm EDT