County in Washington Ditches Sustainable Development

THE NEW AMERICAN - Activists in Clallam County, Washington are celebrating their government's decision to pull the plug on membership in the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI), a worldwide association of more than 1,200 local governments dedicated to promoting the United Nations' sovereignty-eroding sustainable development program known as Agenda 21. The county will save $1,200 in annual membership dues, but ICLEI critics say they've salvaged much more than that. Read more at The New American... Read More......

Our Audience

Interesting fact: The traffic on the BCRW News, Etc. page for the month breaks down as follows:

US 70%, Russia 9%, Netherlands 7%, Latvia 3%, Canada 2¼%, Germany 2¼%, France 2%, Malaysia 2%, India 1%, China less than 1%, and all others less than 1%.

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ABC: Obama: If We Lose in 2012, Government Will Tell People ‘You’re on Your Own’

At a million-dollar San Francisco fundraiser today, President Obama warned his recession-battered supporters that if he loses the 2012 election it could herald a new, painful era of self-reliance in America. ✧ “The one thing that we absolutely know for sure is that if we don’t work even harder than we did in 2008, then we’re going to have a government that tells the American people, ‘you are on your own,’” Obama told a crowd of 200 donors over lunch at the W Hotel. Read more at ABC News...

Via email (Hat tip: Stella/Juanita)
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Obama Science Czar Led UN Effort to Hide Proceedings, Subvert FOIA, Records Indicate

10/17/2011 - CEI Files FOIA Request Seeking Public Records on Climate Change Policies

Washington, D.C., October 17, 2011 - The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request today with the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), run by controversial White House Science Adviser (and former Mitt Romney climate adviser) John Holdren. The FOIA request seeks records involving an apparently co-ordinated effort between OSTP and the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to subvert and circumvent U.S. law. ✧ Specifically, CEI's FOIA request seeks details of the Obama Administration's involvement in a UN IPCC plan to hide official online correspondence in non-governmental accounts. The express purpose of creating a non-government web-site "cloud" communications system was to avoid national transparency laws, such as the U. S. FOIA. However, with OSTP having taken over the lead U.S. role in the IPCC in 2009, this also implicates the Presidential Records Act of 1978 (PRA). Read more at CEI...

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White House Refuses to Turn Over Internal Solyndra Documents

10/17/2011 - As investigation reveals those closest to President Obama were warned about the Solyndra loan, White House violates own transparency pledge

WASHINGTON, DC – Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Cliff Stearns (R-FL) responded to the recent letter from White House Counsel Kathryn Ruemmler that the White House would not provide internal White House communications related to Solyndra. On October 5, 2011, the committee leaders requested the internal communications after recently produced documents revealed the President’s closest confidantes monitored the Solyndra loan. Read more at House Energy & Commerce Committee...

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Taxes: Republicans Unveil Their own ‘Buffett Rule’

Republican lawmakers have introduced their own “Buffett Rule” that would allow billionaire investors like Warren Buffett who say they’re not paying enough taxes to voluntarily give more money to the federal government. ✧ Under the legislation, authored by Sen. John Thune of South Dakota and Rep. John Scalise of Louisiana, taxpayers can donate at least a $1 to the Treasury fund for deficit reduction when they file their federal income tax returns starting next year. Read more at Fox News... Read More......

Glenn Beck's 'Liberty Treehouse' for Children

Liberty Treehouse Drive-Thru History: Monday marked the first episode of Liberty Treehouse, the GBTV Plus program designed specifically for kids. Check out this free segment from the first episode [shown below]. The new program airs weekdays from 4-5pm ET and is also available on demand only on GBTV.

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Lane County accepts planning agreement

Portland Conservative Examiner, 9/30/2011 by David Mcnabb - Lane County Commissioners voted 3-2 to enter an agreement between Lane County, Eugene, Springfield, and the Lane Council of Governments to accept $1.45M in grant funding for the proposed Lane Livability Consortium. According to a staff report sent to the commissioners, the agreement establishes management authority to the general purpose governments, creates an accountability framework, and improves the budgetary and work product outcomes for Lane County. In English, it is an agreement to ensure more bureaucratic red tape at every level of the lives of local residents and businesses. It may not contain any new regulations as is, but it is a framework for future regulatory capacity. Reading through the agreement was similar to reading the email from the guy in Nigeria who has your inheritance, all he needs is your bank account number. Continue reading at Examiner.com

David Mcnabb is a conservative/libertarian activist. He has worked with grassroots organizations who share his goal of combating the progressive stronghold in local and national political institutions. Read More......

The Left Right Paradigm is Over: Its You vs. Corporations

Interesting...
THE BIG PICTURE, 9/27/2010 (a year ago) by Barry Ritholtz - Every generation or so, a major secular shift takes place that shakes up the existing paradigm. It happens in industry, finance, literature, sports, manufacturing, technology, entertainment, travel, communication, etc. ✧ I would like to discuss the paradigm shift that is occurring in politics.

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Word from Rev. Perryman - feel free to share

(Via email/hat tip: Deborah)
Dear Friends-- My interview and debate on the issue of Race - today on Sean Hannity's radio show. It will air today [9/30/3011] at 5:00 PM Eastern time. The black professor who debated with me agreed that the Democrats owe blacks an apology. It got pretty heated when I defended the Tea Party. --Rev. Wayne Perryman, Seattle, WA

Rev. Perryman's most recent book: Blacks, Whites & Racist Democrats: The Untold History of Race and Politics within the Democratic Party from 1792-2009 Read More......