Kent Clizbe--Intelligence and Foreign Affairs Commentary

Warmist Guru Dr Field--Sucking up Big Bucks from Big Oil

2011-02-22T14:51:00.000-08:00

Chris Field, the co-chair of an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) working group told a St. Louis paper that American money spent on the IPCC "is a very good deal for the governments and for the world."

Field, echoed the recent warming alarmist party line of communicating better. He said he and the other smart people like him need to explain the science better to those less fortunate.

And he said "the scientific community" should be more nurturing and help "people understand" both the importance of the IPCC, and "how science works."

Field may be hiding a bit of information that might help us "understand how his science" is paid for.

Field is burrowed into something at Stanford called the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI). At FSI he is working on an "FSE Project." It's not clear what FSE is, but...the project "is a thorough assessment of the climate consequences of converting landscapes from their previous uses to biofuels."

An initial review of Field's background and snout in the trough seems identical to any number of "climate scientists" (Field's scientific background is Biological Sciences. His PhD research was on Leaf Aging in a California Shrub) sucking off the National Academy of Sciences, NASA, NOAA, and other government teats.

Their use of government grant money allows them to maintain their ideological purity. Their purity allows them to criticize any critics as "shills for Big Oil," the standard warmist put-down.

Well, Dr Field has got some 'splaining to do, Ricky.

The FSE project is funded by the Global Climate Energy Program (or Project, they use both on different websites).

And where does GCEP get its money? "About Us" reveals "The Sponsors" are : ExxonMobil, General Electric, Schlumberger, and Toyota!

In fact, "The Project's sponsors will invest a total of $225 million" in this Green boondoggle. Sort of like hush money--pay off the IPCC chairs and they'll leave you alone?

While General Electric is a Global Warming shill, the other three must certainly be in the man-made global warming hall of shame.

The enviro-whackos' constant refrain when criticized is: "You are a paid tool of Big Oil."

As Field said in his interview with the St Louis paper, "I don't get any salary from the IPCC."

No, Dr. Field but you do get a salary from Big Oil!

Cairo Meddler--Czar Brennan Needs to Go

2011-02-18T15:01:00.000-08:00

BigPeace.com article: Fire John Brennan

What Ronald Reagan Means to me

2011-02-18T15:00:00.000-08:00

BigPeace.com article: Ronald Reagan--Shining President on a Hill

Maghreb Mutinies Template--Russia 1917

2011-02-18T14:59:00.000-08:00

BigPeace.com article: Qutb Meet Lenin; El-Baradei Meet Kerensky

SOTUS 2011--WTF?

2011-02-18T14:58:00.000-08:00

BigPeace article: Obama 2012--WTF?

Assange the Anarchist

2011-02-18T14:57:00.000-08:00

BigPeace.com article: Wik-Anarki

Obama's Extra-judicial Killings

2011-02-18T14:52:00.000-08:00

After decrying President Bush's tactics in the Global War on Terror, Obama prepared to prosecute CIA officers for harsh interrogations. He also condemned President Bush's use of Guantanamo Bay as a holding prison for terrorist combatants, and promised to close Gitmo, going so far as to provide a date certain for closure. It's still open.

Obama's evident concern for the civil rights of captured terrorists would seem to not extend to suspects in the field. Since taking office, Obama has ordered the extra-judicial killings of dozens of terrorist suspects.

BigPeace.com article--Selective Progressive Outrage? Water-boarding or Extra-judicial Killings? Take your pick.

BigPeace.com Article on Don't Ask, Don't Tell

2011-02-18T14:51:00.000-08:00

Don't Ask, Don't Tell: Tilting at Lavender Windmills

BigPeace.com article on North Korea's artillery attack.

2010-11-24T16:29:00.000-08:00

BigPeace.com article on North Korea's artillery attack.

Negotiate with the Taliban? How Many Eggheads Make an Omelette?

2010-10-25T16:15:00.000-07:00

Originally appeared in Breitbart's BigPeace.com.

Obama's Anti-American Agenda and Its Effects

2009-09-18T05:22:00.000-07:00

Prime Minister Putin today expressed his admiration for President Obama's "brave" decision to expose Eastern Europe's flank to missile attacks. Evidently, the Obama administration's desire to make foreigners "like us" is bearing fruit.

Symbolism is more important than technical details. Poland and the Czech Republic were 'under our wing' before. Now they are thrown to the wolves. Russia and/or Tehran have inched closer to regional control.

Neville Chamberlain's appeasement was a good-faith attempt to serve his country, wimpy and idiotic as it was. The Obama clique's appeasement is wanton and depraved. Their apparent goal is to destroy the status the US built in the 2oth century. They are well on their way.

A smug appeaser strolls with his tormentor

Very much like Chamberlain's idiotic claim of "peace in our time," Obama's anti-American abandonment of our mutual protection agreements with Poland and the Czech Republic will almost surely lead to conflict. The only question is: Will it be World War III, or a regional war? The former is much more likely, with Russia's interest in regaining its lost stature as a world power.

Obama instinctively abhors America's special role as the global police force, with good will towards all and a solid billy-club for transgressors.

Obama's crown?

Obama's "Progressives," now firmly in control of all the levers of America's power: diplomatic, military, and economic, are bound and determined to put America in its place. Since the 1920s, the Obama clique of elites and their ancestors have taught the politically correct lessons in academia and education, the media and Hollywood. The essence of their view: America is a land of unbridled racism, xenophobia, hatred, imperialism and injustice. In contrast, they set up the Progressive mission: to level the playing field for their comrades.

Obama's craven Secretary of Defense, a RINO former CIA analyst with pretensions of grandeur, was traditional America's last hope to fend off the Progressive attack on the Pax Americana. It would appear that he has capitulated to the Progressives. Our flank is wide open to the Progressive attack. The only remaining voice of reason at high levels of the administration would appear to be--Hillary Clinton.

How ironic is it that we must now now look to the Hillary as the one remaining potential beacon of sanity in Obama's inmate-run asylum? During her last adminstration, we were able to repulse several attacks on normal America. Her husband, the first black president, attuned to the political winds, shifted his policies back toward the center when his Progressive intention became known (gays in the military, health care reform). Clinton's initial forays into Progressive anti-Americanism were met with tea-party-like outrage.

Focused on his own political future, and guided by his savvy triangulation strategy, Clinton tacked back to the political center, and garnered grudging support and respect. In retrospect, the Clintons' reign appears nearly conservative. Our second black president has nothing but contempt for his opponents. His goal is not to co-opt them and their positions, but rather to mock and destroy them.

Is Obama less mindful of his political future than Bill Clinton was? Or does he have another plan to maintain power? Possibly a plan that does not require the winning of elections? His hope to replicate the shenanigans of the 2008 election were dealt a blow this month, as his minions in ACORN revealed their plans to spend federal funds to import illegal alien child sex slaves for Obama-brothels.

The ancient media has collapsed under the weight of its impossible burden, the covert influence operation that tries to hide the real face of the Obama Progressives. The next election will mobilize and deploy the 9/12 tea-party Normal Americans and demolish the Progressive power structure. The new media is finally coalescing as the voice of the no-longer-silent-majority. A giant Rip van Winkle shook the accumulated leaves from his clothing, stood and roared on Sept 12, 2009. The Obama machine's response of studied contempt is like the Lost in Space Robot spluttering, "Does not compute, Will Robinson! Does not compute!"

For the last hundred years, Normal Americans have been beaten down by the triple threat of the media, education/academia, and the entertainment industry. Our every attempt to celebrate and defend American exceptionalism, values, and ideals has been mocked, attacked, and derided. We have been beaten down and branded as haters, racists, sexists, homophobes. 9/12 marked a turning point. No more will normals ignore egregious anti-American agendas. Not in the government, not on ABC/CBS/NBC/CNN, not at Columbia University, and not from Castro-loving Oliver Stone and his ilk.

While wishing the President and his administration well, for the sake of our country, we must maintain vigilance to ensure that our sacred institutions, values, and interests are not permanently damaged beyond repair. Look at the United Kingdom after Chamberlain sold its soul. Is that where we want to be in 20 years?

Crisis Hints--Obama's Friends Provide Details

2008-11-10T07:34:00.000-08:00

Things are moving pretty quickly in the race to provide Obama with cover and excuses for the coming crackdown.

The Prophet of Global Doom has spoken: Al Gore urges "the inspiring and transformative" Obama to take action, and take action quickly.

Gore's vision of global doom requires harsh, nation-wide, and immediate action.

Although neither Gore or Obama admit the consequences of their visions, it does not take much imagination to read between the lines and envision what implementation of Gore's plan to "put a price on carbon here at home."

What that means is massive taxes on energy as we know it.

What it means is transformation of our economy to the horse and buggy days.

What Gore means is that the vast swathes of Red American will be transformed into 19th century farmsteads. The farmsteads will be viewed by the Prophets and their followers from 30,000 feet as they fly from coast to coast in jetliners, attending their Global Warming Doom and Gloom conferences.

Meanwhile, we experience the coldest year in decades. Record cold blankets the country. North pole ice expands to a record amount.

Ignore reality.

Just listen to the Prophets.

Submit.

Sacrifice for the system.

Give it up.

And enjoy it.

Welcome to Change.

More to come.

Obama the Jacobin

2008-11-06T06:32:00.000-08:00

Obama, the American Jacobin--Robespierre, Stalin, and Dzerzhinsky

Obama has been successful in his quest for power.

His political techniques were classic, directly from the pages of revolutionary manuals.

And I don't mean the American Revolution.

His political handlers, his political career, his political rhetoric, are models of socialist/communist methods.

True Believers March to the Front

The key, the communists learned, is to never tell the truth.

All communist rhetoric was calculated to appeal to the specific circumstances of the current situation.

They never revealed their true intentions to the uninitiated, the fellow travelers, the useful idiots.

Their appeals to the unitiated were full of generalized platitudes. No mention of specific policies or plans of action after they achieve power.

Obama's generalized platitudes?

"Change."

"Hope."

"Believe."
American Jacobins March to the Front

Well, Obama has now achieved power.

What could be behind his platitudes?

Let's look at some historical precedents that called for Change, Hope, or Belief.

Before we do, though, let's look back at how others have solidified their power, especially when faced with an unruly, uncooperative legislative body, or uncooperative citizens.

The best example of uncooperative legislatures, and how the "Changers" deal with them, occurred in November 1917. Nationwide elections resulted in the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) finishing second in the legislative elections. The Communists, within days, "dissolved" the legislature. Thus began several years of bloody civil war. This civil war, and the Communists' techniques of mass arrests, summary executions, internments, and repression set the template for Communist rule in Russia for the next 70 years. The founder of the KGB, Felix Dzerzhinsky, perfected his techniques during this Crisis.

Comrade Dzerzhinsky, Change Strategist

A good example of uncooperative citizens, and how they are handled by "Changers" was post-Revolutionary France. After the Revolution, led by the Jacobins, severed the heads of aristocrats, its energies turned inwards.

A series of Crises brought about counter-revolutionary purges against the revolutionaries that were even bloodier than the original anti-elite blood-letting. Robespierre, architect of Change, lost his head.

Care for Some Change Citizen Robespierre? The Changer Loses His Head

The Jacobins, intellectuals who knew what was best for other citizens, used the street fighting Sans Culottes, to bring about Change. But in the end, the Sans Culottes had their own way. Once they had a taste of it, their lust for blood knew no bounds.

Robespierre's Sans Culottes

Obama's Sans Culottes

Although there are many real-world examples in history, these two are good for our purposes.

The goal here is to look at how "Changers" deal with the reality they find once they are in power. They come to power mouthing vague platitudes that mean all things to all people.

Once in power, it is impossible to make all their followers happy. One or another faction will be dissappointed. Their dissappointment causes them to turn against the "Changers." The Changers then turn on their ex-followers. Their revenge is nasty, bloody, and violent.

In both of the examples above, the Changers were able to use a "Crisis" to rationalize their crackdowns.

Is there a parallel here to Obama and his movement?

The parallel is striking.

How will this play out?

What is the crisis that the American Jacobins will declare requires action?

Joe Biden already provided a hint when he said, "Mark my words, within 6 months, we will face a major international crisis, testing this young President."

Gird your loins, friends.

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A few quotations equating Change with Revolution:

Social revolution is nothing more than a change in the way we live our lives.

This article is about revolution in the sense of a drastic change.

Also, from the early days of New Democracy, our first flyer calling for revolution: We Can Change The World.

Real change requires that we abolish a system based on wealth and power for the few and create society based on real democracy and hope for the many.

As we near the end of the twentieth century, many people have lost hope in the future. The reason for this loss of hope is that there seems to be no alternative to the capitalist system. Communism and socialism have failed. The idea of fundamental change--the idea of revolution--has been defeated by the reality of it.
HOPE AND REVOLUTION: A New Democracy Flyer[newdemocracyworld.org]

Hope in the future and belief in the possibility of fundamental change "belief in the possibility of revolution" are inextricably linked. The defeat of the idea of revolution has led to an end to the belief that human beings have the capacity to create a human world.
My purpose in this book is to show that we can triumph over the system to create a truly democratic society.

It is by and because of the direct acts of the forerunners of social change, whether they be of peaceful or warlike nature, that the Human Conscience, the conscience of the mass, becomes aroused to the need for change.

All Russian Extraordinary Commission, subsequently known by its Russian initials, Cheka. This organization was responsible for enforcing obedience to party and state decisions during the early days of the Revolution.

Terror is an absolute necessity during times of revolution.

The immediate cause of the February Revolution of 1917 was the collapse of the czarist regime under the gigantic strain of World War I. The underlying cause was the backward economic condition of the country, which made it unable to sustain the war effort against powerful, industrialized Germany.

the government's policy of postponing for future determination by a constituent assembly the solution of such pressing problems as economic disorganization, the continued food crisis, industrial reforms, redistribution of land to peasants, and the growth of counterrevolutionary forces.

Lenin then appealed over the head of the assembly to the people, claiming the workers' councils (the soviets) represented "a higher form of democratic principle." By January 1918 the assembly was completely demoralized, and it ceased to function.

Karl Marx's call for a dictatorship of the proletariat at the outset of any socialist regime in order to solve problems of social change from capitalism to socialism, was realized with considerable strength after Lenin sent troops to the Constituent Assembly in January 1918 to intimidate representatives.

The closure of the Constituent Assembly by Red Army units under Bolshevik command meant the end of the enduring dream of the Russian opposition that a Constituent Assembly might settle Russia's future.

Robespierre took the lead and the Terror was installed to defeat the insurrection and to repel opportunistic foreign invaders, since this was in every sense a national emergency.

Fullbright Scholar--Ratting Out America on Our Dime

2008-02-20T06:26:00.000-08:00

The Fulbright scholarship program is a US taxpayer funded academic exchange program. US citizens who accept money from the Fulbright program, travel to foreign countries to undertake research.

These US citizens are provided full support from the local United States government representatives, namely the staff of the US embassy in the country in which they are working.

These Fulbright scholars are accorded special privileges, which are not provided to ordinary US citizens abroad. They enjoy the support of the US embassy, and the special aura that surrounds an American affiliated with the US embassy in a third world country.

US Citizen Fulbright scholars do not carry some sort of United Nations passport, nor are they "citizens of the world." They are US citizens, with the full rights and responsibilities of any other US citizen.

John Alexander van Schaick (above), a Fulbright scholar in Bolivia, recently ratted out a US Embassy Security Officer to the Bolivian government. The Assistant Regional Security Officer (ARSO) in Bolivia provided a security briefing to Fulbright scholars and Peace Corps volunteers.

During this briefing, the ARSO mentioned to the scholars and volunteers that the US embassy was interested in the whereabouts and activities of third country citizens in Bolivia, specifically Cubans and Venezuelans.

Clearly a patriotic internationalist, van Schaick ran crying to ABC News to reveal the US Embassy's interest in Cubans and Venezuelans in Bolivia. ABC broke the story with screaming headlines and a full network news story, now ricocheting around the internet.

Bolivia responded by closing a police training academy funded by the US embassy. In addition, it appears that they canceled other security and intelligence cooperation programs with the US.

The simpering hero of this story, van Schaick, was quoted as saying "I was in shock. My immediate thought was 'oh my God!Somebody from the U.S. Embassy just asked me to basically spy for the U.S.Embassy.'"

According to news reports, "Van Schaick, 23, said he reported the incident Thursday to Bolivian Foreign Minister David Choquehuanca."

Clearly, the callow van Schaick, skipped his civics lessons throughout elementary and high school. Or, more likely, he never had any civics lessons. He is an American. He is not a citizen of the United Nations. He is not in Bolivia to serve the interests of Cuba, Venezuela or Bolivia. The taxpayers of the United States have provided him with a privileged position in order to advance the interests of the United States.

What the ARSO asked van Schaick to do was not espionage. It was not spying. The ARSO has a very difficult job, being responsible for the safety and security of all US citizens in his country, including twits like van Schaick. The ARSO's responsibility is a daunting and difficult assignment. It is not made any easier by having unwilling, ignorant, misguided charges.

Now if this silly young boy had been working within the Bolivian government, and had enjoyed access to some sort of secret information, and the ARSO had requested that he deliver this information to the US embassy, that would have been espionage. If this starry eyed internationalist had been asked to courier secret payments to rebels in the jungles of Bolivia, that would have been espionage. If this ungrateful recipient of American taxpayer largesse had been asked to secretly contact Bolivian government officials, that would have been espionage.

His reporting of an internal conversation within the US embassy to the Bolivian government borders on espionage, against the United States. It also borders on treason. At the very least, it is ungrateful. His reporting to the Bolivian government is a slap in the face to each and every US citizen taxpayer that provided him funds to travel to Bolivia to pursue his studies.

The privileges and responsibilities accorded the taxpayer-funded "scholar," van Schaick, should be immediately withdrawn from this ignorant researcher of "land use issues among largely indigenous farmers in Bolivia's eastern lowlands."

In the future, if the US government provides services to Fulbright scholars, such as security briefings, the Fulbrighters should be required to sign nondisclosure agreements. They should also be advised of their right to leave the country immediately and to cancel their scholarships, grants, and other funding, if they disagree with what they hear from US officials.

We deserve no less than full cooperation from all taxpayer-funded individuals anywhere in the world. If the van Schaicks of the world believe that their allegiance is owed to some higher power, or to another country, then let them answer to that higher power or the other country. And let the higher power, or the other country, fund their activities. For now, we need to immediately recall van Schaick, strip him of all US government funding,and explore options for dealing with his treasonous actions. In the meantime, the ARSO should be rewarded for doing his job.

PS: Here is the financial deal that the ungrateful rat is receiving from US taxpayers (source: IIE Website, http://www.iie.org/cies/download/2007_08AWARDS_CATALOG.pdf) :

$1,870-$2,860 monthly base stipend.

Allowance of $1,000 for books and
educational materials.

Travel/relocation: $2,450-$5,200, based on the
number of accompanying dependents.

Maintenance: $1,100-$1,650, based on the
number of accompanying dependents.