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06/16/09 Ron's Page What's Happening To US? What Socialist Country is this?

05/18/09 Your Contributions
Maine's tax agency out of control New limits on power sorely needed to stop renegade agents from bullying citizens. Land grab motive seen behind Maine Revenue Service police-state tactics. A plea for a return to lawful behavior, written by Erich Veyhl, a property owner on the too-beautiful Maine coast.

05/16/09 Washington
Thugs in the White House
John Lott, senior research scientist at the University of Maryland and the author of Freedomnomics.has some harsh things to say about the dictatorial style of the Obama administration.

05/04/09 THE ECONOMY
Soviet America? A thought-provoking look at the USSR, 1920 - and finding that it's really what's happening all around us today, by Henry Lamb, chairman of Sovereignty
International.

04/23/09 PROPERTY RIGHTS
Canadian premier punishes mill closure with Stalinist confiscation! In a totally unprecedented move, Canada's Newfoundland and Labrador premier, Danny William
s, is expropriating the  resource rights and hydro assets of forestry company AbitibiBowater without compensation in revenge for the closing of a century-old mill with the loss of nearly 800 jobs. AbitibiBowater, a Delaware corporation with operations in the United States, Canada, and other countries, is suffering the same economic problems as the rest of the recession-wracked world. Williams and his government, quickly tagged "Stalinist" by free market defenders, have transferred AbitibiBowater's property to a recently created government corporation, Nalcor, evidently in the belief that their bureaucrats can do better than private enterprise. The Center is calling on President Barack Obama to impose sanctions on the provincial government because its seizure is in direct violation of NAFTA. "If NAFTA means anything to this administration," said Center Executive Vice President Ron Arnold, "President Obama can prove it by taking swift action to maintain the integrity of the trade agreement in the face of a renegade province in a traditionally lawful and benevolent nation." Arnold recommended measures that would affect only the government and not the citizens of Newfoundland and Labrador, such as revoking the U.S. entry visas of all government officials from the province, leaving ordinary citizens free to come and go. However, the Center has also issued an alert warning global businesses of the provincial government's potential for hostile action against any investments they may have or be considering in Newfoundland and Labrador.

04/15/09 MEDIA Ron Arnold radio talk show interview.
Wide-ranging discussion from "who is Ron Arnold?" to how to track the leftwing extremists who want to bring America's economy
down. Talk show host Scott Jorgensen brings Ron to Oregon listeners on station KAJO AM. 
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04/15/09 WASHINGTON
Ron Arnold to President Obama: Withdraw that Report and Apologize to the American People
. An open letter to President Barack Obama in protest of the Department of Homeland Security's provocative report, "Rightwing Extremism" that targets millions of law-abiding Americans as a terrorist threat for their political beliefs. A heartfelt message urging the President to reject this divisive "Us versus Them" report that strikes fear into abortion opponents, gun owners, returning Iraq veterans, supporters of limited government, and many others who feel their rights are bring threatened by the irresponsible government report. Read the Department of Homeland Security Report, "Rightwing Extremism" - click here.

04/07/09 THE ECONOMY
How every "green job" kills 2.2 other jobs
.. Stunning study from Spain reveals how deadly the subsidized shift to "low carbon" jobs has been to the nation's economy. If U.S. subsidies to renewable producers achieve the same result -- and President Obama has held Spain up as a model for how to subsidize renewables -- the U.S. could lose 6.6 million to 11 million jobs while it creates three million largely temporary “green jobs," the study predicts.



03/31/09 WASHINGTON
Never let a serious crisis g
o to waste.. Use it to impose Obama's huge socialist agenda on America. Watch the Wall Street Journal video and believe it.

03/25/09 THE ECONOMY 
U.N. 'Climate Change' Plan Would Likely Shift Trillions to Form New World Economy
A United Nations document on "climate change" that will be distributed to a major environmental conclave next week envisions a huge reordering of the world economy, likely involving trillions of dollars in wealth transfer, millions of job losses and gains, new taxes, industrial relocations, new tariffs and subsidies, and complicated payments for greenhouse gas abatement schemes and carbon taxes - all under the supervision of the world body.

03/25/09 THE ECONOMY
Let Congress repay taxpayers for bonuses by Bob Barr, former Member of Congress from Georgia and Libertarian Presidential candidate.

02/12/09 YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS
Will these ‘stars’ shine as brightly in the future? by John C. Street. Is traditional hunting and fishing doomed by green groups co-opting our youth?.

02/11/09
COMMENTARY:
Mike Roselle - I don't agree with him, but he's no terrorist. CDFE executive vice president Ron Arnold angrily condemned a WCHS-TV8 report suggesting Roselle is an "eco-terrorist." Arnold said, "I've covered Roselle since 1995 and even devoted dozens of pages to his protest activities in my 1997 book EcoTerror: The Violent Agenda to Save Nature.

02/10/09
Greenie Lobbies Dad For Big Bucks National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA) lobbyist Craig Obey Hits up Committee Chairman Dad for $2 billion for pet project. Congressman wants this pure pork Obey Family project reduced by half - get $1 billion back. Report, Documents Show that Chairman’s Son Lobbied Panel on Stimulus Earmark. Whew! This one stinks!

02/07/09 Obama's Stimulus Package Ron Arnold talks about the Congressional Budget Office and its expose of the harm that the much-hyped stimulus proposals will do to our economy.

01/29/09 Take a look at this video about your national parks: it's called BIG PARK. It opens the question of whether PBS and its forthcoming documentary series by Ken Burns on America's parks is a coverup. A coverup of what? Of horror stories about thousands of innocent people dispossessed of their property and whole towns and cultures eradicated by the federal government to make way for playgrounds. BIG PARK is humorous, but it poses a serious question: IS KEN BURNS A BIG FAT LIAR? and IS PBS DEFRAUDING THE PUBLIC OF THE TRUE HISTORY OF "OUR" NATIONAL PARKS? You decide.

01/19/09
Just say NO to oil revenues. How dumb can you get with an economic stimulus package? Turn off the energy, of course! The Dumb, Dumber, Dumbest prizes go to Obama, the House, the Senate. Are they Democrats? Totally, Dude!

01/18/09
China smiles at our stupidity. Having fun watching the West commit economic suicide trying to control the weather and other human artifacts.

01/17/09
Welcome to the Age of Obama. Kiss your property rights goodbye. If you're so full of hopeyness and changeyness you could barf, this'll do it for you.

01/05/09 Team Obama pushes out Richardson as new Secretary of Commerce - That didn't take long.

12/20/08
Team Obama introduces our new Secretary of Commerce - Marita Noon of Citizens Alliance for Responsible Energy says "Let’s hope he doesn’t do for the United States what he’s done for New Mexico."

12/18/08 Economic Bloodletting Some proposed energy and environmental policies are akin to eighteenth century medicine. Commentary by the Center's Senior Advisor Paul Driessen. 


12/10/08 GREEN GENOCIDE - Three takes on the destroyers of the modern world
President-elect Barack Obama proposes economic suicide for US
- The UK Guardian points out a few little fatal flaws in Big Green's plans to eradicate human caused everything.
How Obama and the Democrats will Destroy the U.S. Economy - CDFE Adjunct Scholar Alan Caruba
"How I will bankrupt the coal industry" Obama explains how easy it is for him to destroy half the electricity in America. Video.


11/26/08 WASHINGTON Green Roadmap to Economic Destruction  How would you like to suffer a green-caused total economic collapse? You may get the chance. Click on the link to the 391-page monstrosity, "TRANSITION TO GREEN - Leading the way to a healthy environment, a green economy and a sustainable future - ENVIRONMENTAL TRANSITION RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION" written by 29 big green groups and paid for by wealthy green foundations. If they get their way, you'll grovel at the altar of Al Gore's global warming, beg alms from the "sustainable" tyranny of the Sierra Club, and be ground into starvation under the heel of green zealots who think everything is important except for you. Kiss liberty - and survival - goodbye.

11/20/08 WASHINGTON Center comments on proposed EPA rules  Center Executive Director Ron Arnold has forwaded the Center's comments in response to the Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR) on Regulating Greenhouse Gases under the Clean Air Act (CAA), to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Air and Radiation Docket and Information Center. The Center urges EPA not to make a finding of endangerment, since such an action would have disproportionate impacts on minorities and would violate civil rights and accepted standards of science, economics and environmental justice. The Center attached a full analysis of the EPA proposal to its comments.

11/05/08 WASHINGTON
The Will of the People  Ron Arnold essay: Change has come and the fate of American free enterprise will soon be in the hands of President Barack Obama and his Cabinet officers - as well as the large Democratic majority in both the House and the Senate. The voice of free enterprise needs to be at the table when big decisions are made, and the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise intends to be there with a well-thought-out transpartisan program designed to face reality: to agree wholeheartedly where possible, and, when necessary, to disagree strongly without being disagreeable. In politics, it's never over.


09/29/08 ENERGY
The Ethanol Racket  Subsidized ethanol doesn't raise food prices, claims trade group. A Fortune video says otherwise. You decide.


09/29/08 YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS
Don’t let the door hit you by John C. Street An old-line hunting and fishing organization decays into anti-industry zealotry. National Wildlife Federation kicks out Pennsylvania affiliate for failure to believe that people are the sole cause of global warming.

09-26-08 YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS
Obama Threatens New National Park Service Takeovers Erich Veyhl reveals that Barack Obama is threatening to "dramatically expand" Federal spending on land acquisition and to take over entire ecosystems in eastern forests where land is currently mostly privately owned. 

09/22/08 THE ECONOMY
Kill the bailout: Will the real fiscal conservatives please stand up? Columnist Michelle Malkin beats up the $700 Billion Bailout. The Rightroots (mostly] balk, and many conservative bloggers are also opposed to the Bush Administration's bailout plan.

09/22/08 THE ECONOMY How the Democrats Created the Financial Crisis by Kevin Hassett, director of economic policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute. If a serious 2005 Fannie and Freddie reform bill passed by the Senate Banking Committee had become law, then the world today would be different. The bill would have created a "world class regulator" to oversee the pair more like banks, strictly limiting their ability to take the excessive risks that brought them down. But the bill didn't become law for a simple reason: Democrats opposed it in party-line ranks and the Senate never got to vote on the matter. 

09/17/08 TAX AND SPEND
New ATI-News/Zogby Poll: Majority of American Voters Think Obama's Tax Plan Would Make Them Worse Off. As American Economy Struggles, Many Fear Obama's Tax Increases Would Only Cause More Pain.

09/16/08 ENERGY Who's Killing America? Congressman report
s on Gang Green's energy killer lawsuits to stop American energy. Time to shut their doors.

09/15/08 ENERGY Who are you calling stupid? CDFE adjunct scholar Alan Caruba storms anti-fossil-fuel zealot Thomas Friedman for urging America to use imaginary energy instead of the real stuff.


09/11/08 ECOTERRORISM
British Jury decides that threat of global warming justifies breaking the law. A United Kingdom verdict invites Greenpeace to blow up every coal-fired power plant in America — to stop global warming, not to mention your electricity. Maybe they should try it in China next.


09/11/08 WASHINGTON Remaking America - in whose image? If you wondered what Barak Obama has in mind for your future, take a look at the "clean energy" agenda of the Apollo Alliance - most of his ideas come from that source. When you look at the graphic, remember that all those wonderful changes are supposed to replace fossil fuels, which now give us 85% of our energy, with solar and wind, which combined now supply less than one percent (1%) of America's energy.

09/10/08 Democrats pandering to extremist environmentalists Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-CO) makes the case against Gang Green, the energy killers of America.

09/06/08 YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS A general essay on individualism submitted by Ron Ewart, president of the National Association of Rural Landowners,
"The Awesome Power of the Individual, Under Freedom!"


09/06/08 PROPERTY RIGHTS Small landscaping business being brutalized by county bureaucrats. Carlos Cerna, 63,  has been in the landscaping business in the Pacific Northwest for 41 years, but now his small firm is threatened with destruction by an out-of-control agency acting against a court ruling against illegal government intrusion in land use.

09/03/08 ENERGY KEEPERS NETWORK
Congratulations, Roy Innis! Your book Energy Keepers Energy Killers: The New Civil Rights Battle has landed in the top ten on the Washington Post Best Seller List!

09/02/08 IT'S THE ENERGY, STUPID!
Energy Crisis Apparently Shifts Attitudes Of Americans Fad fades: When it comes to environmental concerns, more Americans are starting to think less about global warming and more about energy, according to a recent survey. Global warming has been a top environmental issue for many since the release of Al Gore's film "An Inconvenient Truth." However, with a lagging economy, many Americans priorities have shifted towards pushing energy issues to the forefront, the survey showed. Americans are also shifting the blame for environmental woes. The survey found that many used to blame private industry but more now blame the government.

08/26/08 RON ARNOLD BOOK REVIEW ON CNS NEWS

   Freezing in the Dark:
   Money, Power, Politics
   and
   The Vast Left Wing Conspiracy

reviewed by
Alan Caruba

On sale at Amazon.com

08/25/08 ENERGY KEEPERS NETWORK
CORE's Niger Innis debates Sierra Club leader Carl Pope  Innis nails Pope
at the Democratic National Convention for carrying on a War Against the Poor by opposing more oil and gas production. Al Jazeera Network carries the debate in a two part video posted on YouTube.


08/18/08 ENERGY
RUSSIA CRUSHES EUROPE'S ENERGY STRATEGY  There are things more stupid than Europe's energy strategy, but we can't think what, unless it's the U.S. no-energy policy. Canada's Globe and Mail tells all.


08/15/08 ENERGY
INVESTORS BUSINESS DAILY - EDITORIAL: THE AXIS OF OIL  

Oil's dominance is gradually ebbing and will eventually end. But eventually is a long time, and our energy economy can't totally retool in a decade. Down the road, there's a future powered by solar, wind, nuclear, biofuels and maybe hydrogen. In the meantime, the fastest way to boost energy security as well as slow the flow of wealth to terrorists, tinpots and would-be tsars is to drill, drill, drill wherever oil in U.S. territory may be found.

08/15/08 ENERGY
Idle leases – or addled minds?

Political grandstanding won’t help companies find oil on federal leases, say Newt Gingrich and Roy Innis.

08/14/08 THE CLIMATE LOBBY
The American Psychological Association wants to brainwash you GREEN. Look at this appalling report
from Paul Chesser of Climate Strategies Watch on psychological warfare against anyone who doesn't fall for global warming scares.

08/12/08 THE CLIMATE LOBBY
Washington Post editors slam Natural Resources Defense Council for lying in a Washington Post ad! You don't see the Washington Post calling enviro "truths" Snake Oil very often. And their editorial headlines don't usually read, "Debunking three 'truths' about offshore drilling" when the "truths" came from a paying advertiser. Read it quick before they cave in to the vast financial empire behind NRDC.

08/12/08 THE CLIMATE LOBBY
ABC News/Planet Green/Stanford University poll. Results show propaganda is swaying people to believe global warming is caused by human beings, but the public doesn't trust climate scientists. Read it and prepare for the political suicide of America.

08/11/08 ENERGY
How NOT to have electricity Center Adjunct Scholar Alan Caruba notes some inconvenient truths about that light switch and why the lights go on when you flip it.

08/08/08 PROPERTY RIGHTS
Family wins eminent domain battle After nine years, Army Corps, ports reverse course on using farmland to replace lost habitat, thanks to citizen action against the feds.

08/08/08 WASHINGTON
Black Conservatives Push for Expanded Energy Production
CDFE allies in the Energy Keepers Network are fighting to get American oil from American soil and tell the terrorists to get lost.

08/07/08 WASHINGTON
EPA rejects Texas governor's plea to stop suicidal corn ethanol production Texas Gov. Rick Perry petitioned the EPA in April to cut their corn ethanol production for summer gasoline additives by 50% because the diversion of food to fuel is raising food prices and starving our livestock. When Perry requested the waiver, corn was $5 a bushel. When the EPA rejected his petition 3 months later, it was more than $7 a bushel and climbing. Time to shut down corn ethanol plants permanently.

08/01/08 CONGRESSIONAL EFFORT FOR ENERGY JUSTICE!
Senator James Inhofe offers Energy Justice Resolution. Bill urged by the Alliance to Stop the War on the Poor is the first congressional effort to open all public lands to energy production to fulfill their purpose of serving the public. Democrats defeated the measure, which went down on a party-line vote. This is only the beginning of the struggle to disempower Big Green and its congressional lackeys.

08/01/08 ENERGY
Blowing hot air up our shorts. Paul Driessen dissects the T. Boone Pickens plan to get America's electricity from wind  and use the natural gas that now generates electricity to fuel cars.

08/01/08 THE CLIMATE LOBBY
The Greens are going crazy. Center Adjunct Scholar Alan Caruba probes the international backlash against global warming zealotry.

07/31/08 ENERGY REALITY
Just a reminder to Democrat believers: America's real energy situation. No Hype. Just the facts in 51 frames. Energy Reality. (pdf)

07/31/08 PRESIDENTIAL POLITICS
Is Obama running for President or Messiah? With all the talk about "hope" and "faith in politics" it's hard to tell. But German Chancellor Andrea Merkel seemed to think he was running for Arrogant S.O.B. last week when he wanted to hold his foreign policy rally at Berlin's revered Brandenburg Gate, the main symbol of both Berlin and Germany. She angrily refused. "It's unusual to hold election rallies abroad. No German candidate for high office would even think of using the National Mall [in Washington] for a rally because it would not be seen as appropriate," said her spokesman Thomas Steg. Obama had to settle for a winged victory column a few blocks away. Cameras could still frame him with the Gates from the proper angle. A real foreign policy coup for Barack the Proud. But he got 76% of the German vote.

07/31/08 FAITH AND FREE ENTERPRISE
Acton Institute to offer faith-based materials on environmental, financial stewardship. A book of essays and a 5 DVD curriculum on Effective Stewardship for religious congregations will be released for sale August 30 by the respected Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty. The 5 DVDs address 5 kinds of stewardship, one each for talents, environment, church & family, fellow man, and finances.

07/30/08 THE CLIMATE LOBBY
Insulting environmentalist leader calls CORE's Niger Innis "insane" for supporting increased energy drilling. James Burling Chase, communications director of Sustainable South Bronx, a group funded by a dozen Big Green anti-energy foundations ranging from George Soros' Open Society Institute to the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, called the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and its national spokesman Niger Innis "insane" for supporting energy drilling and called Innis' poverty-fighting energy plan "a nightmare" in a ClimateWire report. ClimateWire is a Washington DC news service of E&E Publishing, LLC.

07/30/08 ENERGY KEEPERS NETWORK
Pro-energy coalition outs liberal energy killers in Washington news conference. The Center's long-time colleague, Niger Innis, co-chairman of the
"Stop The War On The Poor" campaign and national spokesman for the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), has called for exposing 50 environmental extremist groups and 100 liberal politicians who do their bidding. Powerful story from Canada's National Post.

07/23/08 TAX AND SPEND
Why cap and trade could backfire: Credits remove stigma – and may increase pollution
. Justin Danhof of the National Center for Public Policy Research points out that pollution will become just another commodity that you can pay for. Sinners can fork over the money and keep on sinning without guilt. Sounds so smart some bureaucrat must have thought it up.

07/22/08 ENERGY KEEPERS NETWORK
Stop the War on the Poor Leaders from the civil rights, African American, evangelical, agriculture and consumer advocacy communities have launched a national campaign to publicly unmask more than 100 politicians and 50 environmental extremist groups that are waging an immoral  “war on the poor” by pushing policies that limit America’s ability to produce more America energy and drive energy prices skyward. Roy Innis and his book Energy Keepers - Energy Killers: The New Civil Rights Battle are at the heart of this righteous campaign.

07/18/08 THE ECONOMY - GERMANY
Killing Jobs to Save the Climate By Karsten Stumm of Der Spiegel Online. The price of European emission permits is rising so rapidly that German companies are threatening to leave the country. Thousands of jobs could be lost. And the environment may, in the end, be no better off.    

07/18/08 THE CLIMATE LOBBY
Gore says ditch oil America says ditch Gore. Climate profiteer Al Gore promises higher gas prices. America responds "Stop the War on the Poor"

07/17/08 ECOTERRORISM
Book Reviews of The Animal Research War by Dr. Michael Conn and James Parker, documenting the most serious crimes to save nature

07/17/08 THE CLIMATE LOBBY
What is it about global warming that turns sane men into ranting alarmists?  Neil Collins of the United Kingdom's Spectator says if Barack Obama becomes president and gives Al Gore a prominent position, we're all doomed. And the UK's ruling Labor Party is already trying to commit suicide by wrecking the economy with more climate taxes.

07/17/08 THE CLIMATE LOBBY
Some finding Gore’s timing inconvenient  Alexander Bolton of The Hill wonders if multi-millionaire climate profiteer Al Gore's speech on sacrificing our lives for the environment is such a good idea now that his dream of $5-a-gallon gas is America's nightmare.

07/16/08 CENTER FOR CONSUMER FREEDOM
Put Helmsley's billions to use in animal shelters Op-ed by David Martosko, research director at the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Consumer Freedom, respected colleague of the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise

07/16/08 THE CLIMATE LOBBY
European Union in turmoil over global warming control  EU Observer reporter Leigh Phillips: The German Economy Ministry has attacked EU proposals to tackle climate change as "pointless" if other major contributors to greenhouse gas emissions are not also committed to significant reductions

07/15/08 ENERGY KEEPERS NETWORK
Controversial rally to "Stop the War on the Poor" launches today - More than two dozen leaders from the African American, civil rights, agriculture, Christian, senior citizen and consumer rights communities will join in a Capitol Hill rally and press conference today to demand that the federal government stop the “War On The Poor” being waged through policies that restrict energy supply and raise energy costs. Roy Innis' book, Energy Keepers - Energy Killers  was the trigger for this fierce political campaign.

07/14/08 ENERGY
President Bush lifts offshore drilling ban - Democrats remain roadblock to lower prices

07/14/08 THE CLIMATE LOBBY
Poverty stricken don't "give a damn" about global warming - Left-wing conference hears that without prosperity people won't try to fix climate  by Julia A. Seymour, Business and Media Institute

07/11/08 RECOGNITION
The Center's Ron Arnold is prominently featured in the journal Environmental Law as adding the word "ecoterrorism" to the English language and fostering its present worldwide usage. The Student Comment by Rebecca K. Smith is titled, "Ecoterrorism"? A Critical Analysis of the Vilification of Radical Environmental Activists as Terrorists.

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