Gulf birds soar again/Mariacat.worldpress.com

BP Officials say the Deepwater Horizon well is close to being permanently capped. When this actually happens it will be despite the counterproductive roles played in the spill crisis by a plodding federal government and the Obama administration. Cleanup efforts all along the way were stymied by bureaucratic turf battles, organizational infighting, unnecessary federal permitting delays, and massive paper work. Operations had to be coordinated through five layers of approval and command before responders could be dispatched to the scene.

By Bill Rife

ASPEN, COLORADO/nyportraits.blogspot.com

ASPEN THINKERS UNEASY: At the 2009 Aspen Institute’s Conferences, an annual gathering of the country's brightest lights, President Obama was the toast of the town. The mood has soured considerably in the last 12 months. Lloyd Grove, one of the president's supporters, has written on the Daily Beast that among the intelligentsia Obama’s support has run dry. “You’d think the well-heeled and enlightened eggheads at the Aspen meetings in this fashionable resort town with heady panel discussions and earnest disquisitions involving all manner of deep thinkers and do-gooders—would be receptive to an intellectually ambitious president with big ideas of his own."

 "In a way, the folks attending this cerebral conclave by the Aspen Institute think tank would be seen as President Obama’s natural base. Apparently not so much.” Mort Zuckerman, owner of the NY Daily News, and Boston Properties and one of the most successful businessmen in the country said: “The hostility (by Obama) to the very kind of business culture that has made this the great country is now doing great damage to this country with a public policy that could ruin everything.”

netizennewsbrief,blogspot.com

EDITOR’S CHOICE: “Energy Pipedreams” by Robert Samuelson appeared recently in Realclearpolitics.com. He writes “Just once, it would be nice if a president would level with Americans on energy. Barack Obama isn't that president. His speech the other night was about political damage control -- his own.”

A CREATIVE BORDER CROSSING

The catastrophic Gulf Oil Spill has deservedly eclipsed Immigration in the headlines. But environmental wreckage wrought upon U.S. Soil by the Border Crashers may be no less a Long Term Disaster. And what does the Sierra Club say?

By Bill Rife

Jeffersonrebels

CLIMATE SHOWDOWN: Democrat leaders are scrambling to prevent the Senate from delivering a stinging slap to President Obama on climate change. They have offered a vote on a bill they dislike in the hopes of avoiding a loss on legislation Obama hates. The president is threatening to veto a resolution from Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) that would ban the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from regulating carbon emissions. Imagine having useless bureaucrats telling you what you can and cannot drive, and how much you will pay for power.  It is the latest attempt to grab endless governmental power under the guise of needless "reforms."

Stormfront.org/By Metwar

EDITOR’S CHOICE: Amid the hysteria over man-made global warming, there is real concern that the world may be entering a new “Little Ice Age.” Even as Obama and the Democrats want the world economy shut down to protect the environment, many scientists now believe that solar cycles may be dictating a new period of global cooling. Some contrarians are looking at financial moves that could help cash in on the changes -- that may end up freezing us all to death.

Mountaintop Coal Mine/Getty Images

ENERGY SNAPSHOTS: The coal wars are coming, That is where the carbon issue comes to the forefront, and the U.S. has a quarter of the world’s reserves that make up 90 percent of all of its fossil fuels. Natural gas reserves are much greater than anyone thought. The wind issue is growing in importance;

Chilean Earthquake Damage/freakygossip.com

EDITOR’S CHOICE: The February 27 earthquake in Chile cracked bedrock, unleashed a lethal tsunami and killed over 800 people. At 8.8 on the Richter scale, it was the seventh largest on record But even more unsettlingly, one NASA Geophysicist believes that massive jolt moved our planet’s axis by at least 3 inches thus shortening the days’ time by a 1.26 millionth of second. A recent Businessweek article by Alex Morales “Chilean Quake Likely Shifted Earth’s Axis, NASA Scientist Says” provides details.

Methane as Environment Destroyer

ENVIRONMENT: Most everybody has written off December's Copenhagen global warming summit as a joke – having produced more flatulent bureaucratic gasses than any herd of bovines anywhere. And while Obama tries to spin it as a great world-changing event, it’s becoming increasingly clear that he probably won’t even be able to pass his own cap-and-trade environmental pact this year. Coming off the bruising health care debate, Democrats don’t want to go into the 2010 elections with two bank-breaking monkeys on their backs. That’s why sentiment is building to back off of this fight. And there are environmental fights aplenty ahead.

By Dennis Mullin

RT.COM

EDITOR’S CHOICE: Amid the hysteria over man-made global warming, there is real concern that the world may be entering a new “Little Ice Age.” Even as Obama and the Democrats want the world economy shut down to protect the environment, many scientists now believe that solar cycles may be dictating a new period of global cooling. Some contrarians are looking at financial moves that could help cash in on the changes -- that may end up freezing us all to death.