Op-ed:

Air Bursts and Blackmail

By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots / Right Side Patriots Radio 

 

...And I guarantee that Vladimir Putin knows these facts well, so the question that needs to be asked is, is Putin's narcissistic driven quest for both personal glory and a new all-powerful Russian Empire worth his going down in history as the man who with a simple push of a button made 20th century mass murderers Hitler, Stalin, and Pol Pot look like mere amateurs by comparison? Or has just the threat of nuclear war made NATO so afraid that they don't see this truth hidden behind Putin's, what I still consider to be, empty nuclear threats? Only time will tell but know that time is running out, for when someone's hate consumes their very being, as does Putin's, decisions are made not by logic and clear thinking but by emotions teetering on the precipice of insanity. And this is especially true when one becomes a cornered rat with no way to escape.**...

 

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Op-ed:

Air Bursts and Blackmail

By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots / Right Side Patriots Radio

As Ukraine stands strong in its defiance against Putin's Russia, certain realities seem to have escaped the public discourse so much so that certain tangibles have been ignored...tangibles that now weeks into the war must be brought to the forefront. And why...because Vladimir Putin is not the madman he's now perceived by many to be, but is a man who sees himself as the ultimate hero of the Communist Revolution...a man he hopes history will show as being the one who succeeded in returning Russia to her former glory after all others failed...failed to bring Russia's satellites back into both “Mother Russia” herself and into the lock-step in unison communist fold.

To a man like Vladimir Putin, and those who have sworn allegiance to him...or at least are pretending to...Ukraine is Russia and Russia is Ukraine. A product of communist indoctrination and harboring a deep seated need to “save Russia's face,” Russia in losing the Cold War, in Putin's mind, is something that he alone has taken upon himself to see undone. Using the old true Cold War mentality of Russia vs. the West has now become Putin's battle plan, for what the breakaway satellite states gained via the fall of the old Soviet Union he now sees as his history making Holy Grail moment...a moment where the day's of the old Russian Empire are reborn even if reborn means talk of possibly using nuclear weapons to help expand and secure Russian borders.

And while said talk is directed at NATO, and most especially at the U.S., what Putin forgets is that Russia has as much to lose as do the NATO nations if nuclear war were to break out, after all, between all the NATO nations combined they and Russia possess enough nuclear weapons that each could wipe the other out. In fact, the Ukraine city of Kharkiv is but five minutes strike time from Moscow...something that goes both ways if need be.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    

And though Putin might present to the world an evil and villainous must be feared face, the fact is that Vladimir Putin remains a smart and cleverly calculating man, yet he's a man so full of his narcissistic self that he thinks he can manipulate reality. Simply, Putin cannot, but he can and has succeeded in seeing the West cowering in fear of what he will or won't do next...nuclear wise that is...while we forget that Vladimir Putin also has both chemical and bio-weapons at his disposal if he deems need and circumstances be. 

But for now, remember that just a few short weeks ago Putin let it be known that a nuclear strike on Ukraine was not off the table nor was a strike against NATO if NATO dared to get involved in a fight that he said was not their own. Putin then gambled on the fact that while NATO does have a duty to come to the aid of any of its member nations, NATO isn't required to aid a non-member nation, such as Ukraine. And yet NATO made promises to help Ukraine...help them with both military and humanitarian aid...for while Ukraine is not yet an official member, Ukraine has, for many years, been a western ally. But even so there's Putin's pesky little nuclear threat still looming over NATO's head, a tactic that Putin has successfully used to keep our attention focused on him while promised military equipment (especially aircraft) is not reaching Ukrainian hands.

And still, I believe, Putin's nuclear threats are just talk...a scare tactic he's using to his advantage. And why...simply because Vladimir Putin knows well that Russia would be as much a victim of such a war as would NATO and the world's other nations as well. How so? We all know that the nuclear weapons today are not the nuclear weapons of Hiroshima's or Nagasaki's day* for today's nuclear weapons are not only hundreds of times more powerful, but have a much farther reach fallout wise than nuclear weapons of the past. Set off a nuclear bomb...or even a neutron bomb which maximizes direct radiation while minimizing other destructive effects...in or over Ukraine or anywhere in Europe for that matter, and radioactive fallout would also reach Russia in a relatively short period of time.

Here now are the two factors that most folks forget in regards to Putin's threats...the map of Europe itself and what's called the “jet stream”...the so-called “ribbon of air” that steers the weather systems over the entirety of the globe. Now look at the map below and you will see just how close key Russian cities are to Ukraine, in fact Moscow itself is but a mere 500 miles away from Ukraine's border. And while 500 miles might seem a long way away it's not when said “jet stream” comes into play, especially if Putin were to launch an “air burst” nuclear bomb. 

Let me explain. First, remember that it’s usually not the blast itself that kills the most people when a nuclear bomb is set off but the radioactive fallout that does, and said fallout can and will spread around the globe when it enters the “jet stream.” And second, while the “jet stream” is somewhat fluid, meaning it might or might not dip lower at times, the fact is that it always...yes always...flows from west to east and Russia's main cities are all east of Europe, and thus weather wise are affected by the “jet stream.” Set off an “air burst” nuke...one detonated before it hits the ground as opposed to a standard ground detonated fission bomb anywhere in Europe and you will see enhanced global fallout as the blast's radioactivity rises into the stratosphere where it's picked up by the “jet stream.” This means the ensuing fallout will be carried across Russia, including into Moscow itself, probably within but a few hours and work its way eastward over Russia from there.

And while the intensity of radioactive fallout generally does dissipate within a few days to a few weeks time after a ground detonated fission bomb has been set off, while at the same time locally producing significant fallout (depending of course on the size in kilotons of said bomb or bombs), radiation fallout from an “air burst” bomb where the telltale “fireball” never touches the ground, travels world wide on the “jet stream” and for much longer periods of time. And this fact alone allows for many more to become sick and/or die for many weeks, if not months, to come.

Simply, a ground detonated nuclear blast while more contained in scope damage wise has fallout that dissipates rather quickly, an “air burst's” fallout travels on the “jet stream” circling the globe many times over before it eventually dissipates. However, after a ground detonated fission bomb has been set off, the explosion itself forges a huge crater thus forcing tons of soil, rock, and other pulverized material into its rising cloud, with the highly radioactive materials now clinging to these heavier particles which then drop back to the ground. And while rain itself will also wash down particularly large amounts of radioactive material, helping to produce local “hot spots” of intense radioactivity at first, it's the radiation fallout from an “air burst” that is of most concern. And why...because with an “air burst's” radioactive fallout being able to travel world wide on the “jet stream” for much longer periods of time before it eventually dissipates, also comes the fact that the ground...the soil itself...would harbor longer lasting radioactive fallout as well, thus turning once populated areas into “no go zones” for decades to come.

And I guarantee that Vladimir Putin knows these facts well, so the question that needs to be asked is, is Putin's narcissistic driven quest for both personal glory and a new all-powerful Russian Empire worth his going down in history as the man who with a simple push of a button made 20th century mass murderers Hitler, Stalin, and Pol Pot look like mere amateurs by comparison? Or has just the threat of nuclear war made NATO so afraid that they don't see this truth hidden behind Putin's, what I still consider to be, empty nuclear threats? Only time will tell but know that time is running out, for when someone's hate consumes their very being, as does Putin's, decisions are made not by logic and clear thinking but by emotions teetering on the precipice of insanity. And this is especially true when one becomes a cornered rat with no way to escape.**

So as Vladimir Putin's rage continues unabated towards Ukraine and NATO, we in the U.S. continue to be led by a man so out maneuvered that he, I believe, has become a true danger to not only our beloved America but to the countries of the free world as well. Simply, Joe Biden in but one year has destroyed much that we as Americans hold dear.

And while pressure from both sides of the political aisle finally forced Joe Biden to ban Russian oil imports into the U.S., thus broadening sanctions already imposed on Russia, we now find his administration begging, if you will, for oil to be imported from communist Venezuela, as well as from Saudi Arabia. And word has it that Biden's even trying to secure an oil deal with Iran in exchange for our rejoining Obama's very bad nuclear deal.

So while Joe Biden tried to pat himself on the back when announcing said Russian oil ban with his words that, “The American people will deal yet another powerful blow to Putin’s war machine,” nothing is farther from the truth for what we no longer secure from Putin's Russia oil wise will now monetarily be picked up by China. And with Biden's then adding that, “Americans have rallied to support the Ukrainian people and made it clear we will not be part in subsidizing Putin’s war,” he becomes laughable at best for the past twelve days or so has seen our previous oil purchases having done just that.

And Biden's sudden Russian oil switch brings to mind the phrase, “correlation is not causation” for what we now see unfolding is Biden's fear showing through. Fear that he's been pushed into a corner as his so-called “green policies” are being forced to a sudden halt, for the fact is that America needs and demands the use of energy that's derived from fossil fuels. And while the Ukraine War and corresponding hikes in oil per barrel and at the pump might have a correlation to Biden's sudden switch, in no way is it the cause. The cause is simply his fear of what's in store for both him and his party come November's mid-term election if he didn't acquiesce to the bi-partisan call to ban Russian oil.

And in his acquiescing Biden must now face Putin's anger over his “pen to paper” being the cause of Russia's losing much needed American oil dollars. And don't think that Putin won't retaliate, he will, but it might be in ways Biden doesn't see coming. In fact, I believe, Putin has all the dirt on Biden and son's dirty dealings with Ukraine and might use that as leverage to stop Biden from getting us directly involved in the Ukraine War, keeping us out even if other NATO countries go in. Blackmail if you will, by a chess master playing against a cowardly fool who thinks that our buying foreign oil is okay, but that it's not okay to provide our own oil for our own energy needs.

Increasing our domestic oil production means we will not need to rely on foreign oil ever again, or is it that Biden wants things to get so bad here in the U.S. that people will be begging for his puppet master Barack HUSSEIN Obama's “fundamental change of America”...socialism 101...to be implemented as our country's new economic norm. It just might be.

Simply, it's time to demand that the Keystone Pipeline be reopened and that it's adjunct section be completed, while at the same time fracking continues and new oil wells are drilled, even if it's on government owned lands. Remember, a county that's energy independent controls their own destiny, a country that does not remains at the mercy of others. “Drill Baby Drill”...and Biden be damned. Yet another case closed.

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* The Hiroshima bomb, was an "air burst" detonated 550 to 610 m (1,800 to 2,000 ft) above the ground was chosen "to achieve maximum blast effects, and to minimize residual radiation on the ground" as it was hoped U.S. troops would soon occupy the city. The Nagasaki "air burst" bomb was detonated a1,650 feet at an altitude of 1,650 feet, and was later estimated at 21 kilotons, 40 percent greater than that of the Hiroshima bomb. Today's "air burst" bombs yield an average of 300 megatons. 

** Worth a read: Factbox: The chain of command for potential Russian nuclear strikes 

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Op-ed:

As Gas Prices Rise Democrats See Possibilities

By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots on American Political Radio

 
"Politicians can say whatever they want about how much control they think they have on oil and gas prices, but they are just little swarms of market mosquitoes in the context of the massiveness of the overall set of oil markets."
- Paul Sullivan, economics professor at National Defense University and adjunct at Georgetown University

Let's start by saying our economy is booming; unemployment is at 3.8% the lowest level since early 2000 and the dot.com boom; the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 has workers seeing more monies in their weekly paychecks; the much-hated 'individual mandate' of ObamaCare is history; border security is now a top priority with ICE making more arrests then we've seen in years; and an important summit with North Korea happens next week...a summit that if successful could help set the doomsday clock back a bit....with a possible U.S.-Russia summit also on the horizon.

Simply, Donald Trump's first 500+ days in office has proven to be a success, and anyone who says otherwise never will give Trump credit for anything positive he's done.

However, with the important midterm elections looming ever larger there is one issue that must be addressed yet it seems to be swept under the rug, and it's the very thing Democrats are starting to latch onto that could well turn the expected red wave....blue. And if that happens...if Republicans lose control of the House...it will just about guarantee a Trump impeachment vote.

So what is this issue and why is it so critical? It's the nationwide rise in gas prices...a rise in some areas of the country that is high enough to almost negate the extra monies folks have been seeing in their paychecks thanks to Trump's tax cut plan. In other words the middle class...the working class...are getting hit hard in their pocketbooks yet again. And with the current $62 per barrel of oil...with that number being projected to possibly increase to $68 per barrel (with some experts saying it could go as high as $80 per barrel) by summer's end...our reality at the pumps through at least the end of 2018 is not a pretty one...meaning this issue must be addressed post-haste or it will come back to haunt at the midterm election.

First a few facts: it's being projected that gas prices will average $2.90 per gallon for regular gas...with the price of high test being much higher something the media seems to ignore...through at least the end of September if not longer...with even higher prices in certain areas of the country. And $2.90 per gallon of regular is indeed a large price increase considering that in 2017 the average price of regular gasoline was $2.41 per gallon, which has led the Energy Information Administration to project that the price could jump even higher...maybe even inching upward of $4 per gallon by year's end. Blaming it on President Trump pulling us out of the Iranian nuclear deal, these folks are projecting that the glut of Iranian crude oil that flooded the overseas markets when sanctions were lifted will now be cut back as new sanctions settle into place, thus seeing Iran's oil exports diminishing by between 200,000 and 600,000 barrels per day.

Remember, a spike in gas prices usually happens as refiners work off stocks of fuel blended for winter months and start to blend specially formulated, cleaner burning, but more expensive fuels for the summer months...the peak driving time. And it's not just the ingredients in the summer blends that cost more, but thanks to the E.P.A. refiners must produce more than 20 different summer blends, which must then be transported to specific regions in specific volumes at specific times, adding higher costs to distribution on top of the higher costs of production. And with crude oil prices rising at the same time, it costs refiners more to buy the crude needed to make the summer formulated gasoline blends...a vicious cycle where the consumer...as always...must pay the price in the end.

And with everything boiling down to high crude oil prices...OPEC literally holds us over the gas barrel...as oil itself accounts for a whopping 72 percent of the price of gasoline with the remaining 28 percent coming from increasing distribution costs, refining costs, and plant maintenance fees. And the later translates into higher taxes being tacked on to help cover said costs...meaning that whenever crude oil prices rise so does gas taxes which together raises the price at the pump.

So our dependency on Arab oil...our dependency on OPEC...screws us yet again...as does but to a much lesser degree Venezuela's drastic cutback on its oil exports due to its own internal economic problems.

And while we sadly remain dependent on Arab oil...a dependency they use to their advantage when setting per barrel prices...know there are other entities at work as well that are causing this latest price increase at the pump. Enter center stage the commodities traders who buy oil and gasoline at the commodities futures markets...markets where company buyers speculate what the price of gas or oil will be in the future allowing them to buy gasoline contracts for future delivery at a set agreed-upon price. But the fact is that most of these buyers have little to no interest in taking ownership of said gasoline, instead choosing to sell their purchased contract for a profit, which in turn raises the price at the pump...and we get screwed again.

And let's not forget that gas prices and oil contracts are decided in dollars which allows gas prices to rise when the value of the dollar declines. Remember, between 2012 and 2014 oil prices rose when the dollar lost 40 percent of its value, but oil prices fell in 2015 and 2016 because a strong U.S. dollar allowed OPEC members to make more money while keeping supply constant. And right now, unfortunately, the U.S. dollar decreased 0.1400 or 0.15% to 93.8800 on Tuesday June 5th from the previous released number of 94.0200, and while it's a small decrease it's enough of a decrease to directly affect prices at the pump.

So where does rising gas prices leave us in regards to the midterm election...with the blame game of course. And we all know Democrats relish in saying...with the media reporting of course...that gas prices surged 50-cents-per-gallon since Trump took office. But what they both willingly forget is that it was Obama's and his cohorts misguided policies that set the stage for the now being seen increase at the pumps.

Refusing to admit that it's Democrats who have for years tried to permanently enforce a number of gasoline price increases through the initiating of various tax hikes...like Obama's Carbon Tax, Nancy Pelosi's wanting to double the federal gasoline tax, and with California Democrats successfully pushing through a 12-cent-per-gallon hike in the state's gas tax...now sees the Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer actually saying it's, “President Trump’s reckless decision to pull out of the Iran deal (that) has led to higher oil prices,” and that, “These higher oil prices are translating directly to soaring gas prices, something we know hurts middle-and lower-income people.”

NO...Chuckie...it's you and your fellow Democratic ilk who have caused the problems we are seeing today at the pump.

Ignoring the all-important fact that while U.S. presidents have little if any power to set global oil prices...prices that are for the most part driven either up or down by the simple economic principal of supply and demand...the taxes Democrat leaders and their party so love to impose on 'We the People' do help jack the price at the pump up. And with OPEC now cutting oil production they're able to raise the per barrel price as countries like China are demanding more and more oil...the above stated supply and demand as well as price manipulation in action.

In other words, the rising prices have absolutely nothing to do with President Trump or his pulling us out of the nuclear deal from hell. And Chuck Schumer also forgets that as per my previously stated change in the gasoline formulas required for summer driving...required thanks to the Democrats and their wacko environmentalist cohorts initiating even more totally useless E.P.A. air quality regulations...that gas prices indeed do go up every year at this time but do tend to settle back down come the fall.

And if truth be told, if it wasn't for the huge increase in U.S. oil production thanks to the so-called “fracking revolution” and Trump's support and encouragement of fracking, the prices would be going up even higher than they already are...something Democrats dare not say. And also something they dare not say is that last year under President Trump we became the world's largest producer of oil and natural gas, and we're on track to become the world's top oil producer this year as well...if only we could keep all that oil of ours here...oil exporting be damned.

So knowing all this what is Chuck Schumer's solution to the 'supposed' but so untrue Trump caused rise in gas prices? In a letter written in conjunction with three fellow Democrat senators, Schumer asked President Trump to “pressure OPEC” into increasing the world's oil supplies. Saying that, “The current run up in world oil prices is effectively a tax on every American family’s discretionary budget...” what Schumer and the Democrats forget is that 'We the People' do not want to pressure OPEC into increasing anything...what we want and need is to increase “drill baby drill” right here in the U.S. along with increasing fracking to completely cut our dependency on Arab oil...something the islamic-condoning Democrats absolutely do not want to do.

But as for the current price increase possibly affected the November midterms to such an extent that it could turn the 'red' wave 'blue'...what Trump needs to do is “cut them off at the pass”...so to speak...by getting those pump prices down. And while the price at the pump is but one issue that's on voter's minds, it's an important issue as it can wipe out all the monetary gains garnered from last year’s tax cuts...a possibility the Democrats will surely use against all Republican candidates running.

So how can President Trump get the price at the pump down in the short run? With most fixes even “drill baby drill” and fracking being long term fixes...the only way to get the price down now is by tapping into the Strategic Petroleum Reserve...an emergency stockpile of more than 700 million barrels of crude oil stored along the U.S. Gulf Coast. And while most experts agree that these emergency reserves should only be used for emergencies and not as temporary relief to what is a market-driven problem, releasing even small amounts does lower pump prices. One case in point, President George W. Bush tapped into the reserves to a tune of a mere 21 million barrels (out of the above stated 700 million barrels) in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, which helped to lower gas prices 10 to 15 percent across the board...a big help to the average consumer.

So if President Bush can do it so can President Trump while still having more than enough petroleum in reserve to handle any and all emergencies that might arise. And besides, if Democrats get to successfully use the rise in gas prices that have occurred on Trump's watch as the reason the middle class lost any monetary gains garnered from the Trump tax cuts, it will surely make it harder if not impossible for congressional Republicans to place their reelection chances on touting the tax breaks.

And if Democrats have even a remote chance of taking back the House that's reason enough to release some reserves to get and keep gas prices down, especially since Democrat experts are claiming that gas prices are expected to come down early next year after this critical election...how convenient is that.

But whether President Trump acts on this or not, what must never be forgotten is that only when we control both our own oil destiny and energy needs...can we really control the price at the pumps no matter whom the president might be.

Copyright @ 2018 Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / All Rights Reserved.

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Op-ed:
Prosecuting a Lie 
By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots on http://americanpbn.com/

“This matter has been discussed. We have received information about it and have referred it to the FBI to consider whether or not it meets the criteria for which we could take action on.” 
- Attorney General Loretta Lynch on bringing charges against ExxonMobil who denies climate change exists

Well here we go again folks as the ridiculous meets the sublime as Barack HUSSEIN Obama now wants Attorney General Loretta Lynch and the Department of Justice to bring charges against the energy industry for denying the farce called 'climate change'...you know...the weather. And now with what was originally called 'global warming' being renamed 'climate change' because the fabrication called 'global warming' was debunked...as there was and is no discernible rise in the Earth's overall temperature...by changing the name allows the farce to continue to be perpetrated upon the public for fear value, control, and dollars earned off something that does not and has not ever existed.

And while Obama's puppet Loretta Lynch recently admitted that she and her department have 'explored' ways to “take action” on making climate-change denial a federal crime, and to do so because she felt something had be done about the so-called “mischief” of the energy industry and the “climate-denial apparatus” it created, Lynch also admitted that the FBI is currently considering if the fossil fuels industry information her office has received...most notably in regards to ExxonMobil...meets the threshold necessary to prompt legal action.

And though Lynch falsely equates the energy industry to the tobacco industry which for years tried to deny the correlation between cigarette smoking and lung cancer, it has been reported that Lynch will not go after members of the American public who don’t buy into the Obama climate change agenda, but that she will go after the energy industry itself and all the jobs such companies represent.

And with Lynch probably intending to prosecute said energy companies along the lines of RICO...the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act...a 1970 federal law enacted as a crime-fighting tool against the Mafia with RICO charges including prison sentences of up to 20 years and seizure of financial assets for those found guilty of such racketeering...Lynch's hand in all this aligns her directly with Obama's trying to shut down or at least cripple our oil and coal industries to allow for his brethren to keep their dominance over our energy needs...especially concerning our oil industry...and that is the true crime that should be prosecuted.

But with this sitting Congress that will not happen, so the question remains how can Obama turn denial of something that does not exist...as in climate change...into a crime. First, he hopes that Congress will not take notice of any bill to this affect that he tries to push through or second, he'll legislate it in with yet another infamous 'pen and phone' executive order. And Obama will surely do this as he hopes that the EPA's Gina McCarthy's recent admission that the EPA doesn’t understand how the oil and gas industry works especially when it comes to emissions never goes public...ooops... it just did.

And know that Lynch's words in regards to bringing charges against the energy industry comes on the heels of the Supreme Court's 5-4 (party line) ruling stopping Obama’s nonsensical regulations...regulations that strive to cut carbon emissions from electrical plants by 32% by the year 2030...that is until lawsuits were brought by 27 states who claim Obama’s EPA regulations were tantamount to “an unprecedented power grab” are resolved.

And Obama laid the groundwork for this newest action against America's energy industry back in February when he said during a DNC fundraiser in the land of liberals known as California, “There are going to be people constantly pushing back and making sure we keep clinging to old dirty fuels and a carbon-emitting economic strategy that we need to be moving away from. We need to be investing in the future, not the past. Instead of subsidizing...the oil industry, we should be investing in solar and wind and battery technology.”

Hate to tell Obama...no actually I love to tell Obama...but solar and wind power were never designed to be prime sources of energy but to be adjuncts to our main power supplies of coal and oil...adjuncts which now have proven to be almost absolutely useless. What Obama should be doing instead of focusing on 'the weather' is instituting policies to help develop even more American produced oil and gas...as in “Drill Baby Drill”...instituting policies to allow more carbon footprint clean nuclear power plants to come online...as well as helping to support the American coal industry in his last year in office. But we know Obama will do none of that as he must pander to the wacko environmentalists and their 'bought-and-paid-for' lobbyists, as well as keeping his aforementioned brethren happy.

So it seems that once again we must now revisit ground zero of this made-for-profit nonsense called 'climate change' and do so with facts, the first being that pollution is a vastly different animal than climate change as man can control the amount of pollutants and garbage he puts into the air, water, and landfills, but man cannot in any way control the weather let alone deny the weather.

Now for the five key lies that have Obama and Lynch screaming to make 'climate-change' denial a crime. But seriously...how can something scientifically proven to be a lie be a crime...simply it cannot for as per leading climatologist Dr. Rosa Compagnucci, “Humans have only contributed a few tenths of a degree to any warming on Earth. Solar activity [not man] is a key driver of climate.”

Lie one: the polar ice caps are shrinking. Absolutely not true as the the polar ice caps are increasing in size not decreasing. In fact, from 2014 through today, there is record sea ice in both Antarctica and in the Arctic. In Antarctica, the five-day average of Antarctic sea ice extent exceeded 20 million square kilometers (7.72 million square miles) for the first time since 1979, and in the Arctic, while the first three weeks of February saw little ice growth...meaning the polar ice spread stayed status quo...during the last week of the February the ice started to grow and will continue to do so until the Arctic sea ice reaches its maximum growth extent for any given year in mid-to-late March.

Lie two: snow fall levels are decreasing. Again, not true for as per the 2014 reports...the latest reports available...in the 46 years that records have been kept, more snow covered the Northern Hemisphere in the fall of 2014 than at any other time. In fact, data from 'Rutgers University Global Snow Lab' showed that the Northern Hemisphere snow cover extent exceeded 22 million square kilometers, more than the 1976 previous greatest fall extent recorded. And guess what...it has to be cold for snow to fall not warm.

Lie three: the winters are getting much warmer. Not true as earlier this year cold records were broken as a polar vortex took hold with the coldest temperatures in over a decade hitting our nation's mid-West region hard. In fact, the Weather Channel's Lead Forecaster Michael Palmer stated that, "This will be the coldest air for more than a decade for much of the Northeast." Global warming...I don't think so for the truth is that there has been no global warming for over 18 years.

Lie four: the oceans will rise 20' in the next decade. Lie, as the oceans have not been rising to the levels climate alarmists...like Al Gore...have predicted. In fact, 80% of all tide gauges show no rise in sea levels at all, and almost none show any acceleration over the past 20 years. And leading climatologist Dr. Robert Balling states that, The IPCC (the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) notes that “No significant acceleration in the rate of sea level rise during the 20th century has been detected.”

Lie five: CO2 levels have increased worldwide because of the man-made effects of industrialization. Again not proven to be true because in 2014, NASA launched a satellite to measure CO2 levels around the globe. Assuming that most of the CO2 would be coming from the industrialized northern hemisphere, indisputable findings actually found that most CO2 was coming from the rain forests in South America, Africa, and China, through the natural process of decay of plant and animal matter. In fact, Dr. Lucka Bogataj upon seeing these findings stated that, “Rising levels of airborne carbon dioxide don’t cause global temperatures to rise…temperature changed first (as it does as naturally occurring 'little ice ages' end) and some 700 years later (today) a natural change in aerial content of carbon dioxide followed.”

So while Obama tries to move forward with this absurdity that 'climate change' is caused by both the energy industries and energy consumption of greedy industrialized nations, more than 31,000 of our country's top scientists have signed a petition saying they do not believe in Obama's screaming that climate change is man-made...hence...the energy industry...most notably the oil industry...has not a thing to do with his lie.

But still choosing to ignore all scientific fact, the DOJ has now chosen as its test case the federal investigation into ExxonMobil‘s 'supposed' decades-long (rightful) denial of climate change. Claiming that ExxonMobil covered up the role of fossil fuels in climate change and interfered in government efforts to take action on global warming because it would cut into the company's profits, Naomi Ages, a 'climate liability' campaigner with Greenpeace...a well-known wacko environmentalist group...said that, “Exxon has already cost us decades of meaningful climate action and policy thanks to its colossal climate denial operation. This development is a step in the right direction to holding it legally accountable.” But Ages, just like Obama, ignores the fact that so many Americans aren't buying into the climate change farce.

And a farce it is as one in five Americans...as per the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication...adamantly do not believe 'climate change' or its predecessor 'global warming' to be real let alone a threat to their personal or to our country's survival, as they are smart enough to know that temperature goes up a little, and goes down a little, due to natural causes and weather cycles. In fact, climate scientist Dr. John Daniel states, “If you make a big deal about every time it (temperature) goes up, it seems like you should make a big deal about every time it goes down.”

But that is not profitable for the climate change profiteers so the farce continues on as does Obama's wanting to make something a crime which clearly isn't a crime. And if truth be told, I believe the entire climate change nonsense to be nothing but a scam because have you noticed that all the key players either live lifestyles that are in direct contrast to the words they spew, while others like Al Gore actually profit from carbon taxes and other (useless) green energy laws.

So while the Earth will continue to go through naturally occurring warming and cooling cycles every 300 hundred years or so, Obama and crew will try to make a political inquisition into a crime when it clearly isn't a crime, and will continue to do so to appease both his islamic brethren and to try once again for some (I believe) personal pocket lining and legacy building...and hopefully he will fail on all accounts.