It is called THE ASSAULT on Conservation, when so called Green Energy causes Environmental Damage.

Green Energy is NOT green when it compromises long standing standards of Conservation, Biodiversity and Preservation. Species preservation on a warming Earth is vital to every positive outcome to return Earth's capacity back to 'norms' rather than 'shifting baselines.'

(click title to entry - thank you) ...“We particularly value the administration’s recognition that renewable energy technologies, if not properly planned and sited, could have a disastrous impact on California’s exceedingly fragile deserts, and we look forward to working with the governor’s staff during this process,” Shaw said. “We have to do this quickly, but we have to do this right.”...

Chlorophyll and the ecotones and ecosystems that primary producers support are JUST as valuable if not more so as the alternative energies that seek to destroy them. Destroying conservation and its values along the way to alternative energy sources will make the CO2 content over the USA higher, not lower !

If protections of California's deserts can be appreciated, so can the other sensitive areas of the state.


Mill Creek drainage, San Bernardino National Forest

Apr 09,2007
Environmentalists fight 'green' plan (click here)
by UPI
LOS ANGELES - A push to bring "green energy" to Los Angeles would destroy wildlife preserves and mar scenic vistas, say California environmental activists.
The proposed 85-mile "Green Path" corridor would put power lines and transmission towers through the San Bernardino National Forest and the Big Morongo Wildlife Preserve north of Palm Springs.
The plan to import nonpolluting power is supported by Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, but opposed by more than a dozen preservation and community groups, the Los Angeles Times said.
"Not only is such energy consumption not 'green,' it is unacceptable under any name," said Justin Augustine of the Center for Biological Diversity.
Los Angeles faces strict new state laws to replace polluting coal-fired power with renewable energy.
The Green Path project reflects the complications many communities nationwide face in determining how to bring wind, sun and steam power from remote rural areas to cities, the Times reported.




20 months ago: MORONGO VALLEY, CA - APRIL 11: The San Jacinto Mountains are seen in the distance behind new green growth at a honey mesquite grove as recovery from a 2005 wildfire continues at Big Morongo Wildlife Preserve on April 11, 2007 in Morongo Valley, California. The preserve, faces the prospect of being affected by a proposed plan to build power lines and transmission towers to deliver "green" energy to Los Angeles from geothermal, solar, and nuclear sources in southeastern California near the Salton Sea, and Arizona. The 85-mile-long "Green Path" energy corridor being pushed by Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa to bring nonpolluting power to Los Angeles would cut through two desert wildlife preserves, a national forest, and Pioneertown, a set used in the filming of countless westerns. The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (DWP) and the mayor have been condemned by more than a dozen preservation and community groups for the project that threatens to destroy wildlife corridors, natural areas, and vistas. Big Morongo Canyon, west of Joshua Tree National Park, is designated by the Bureau of Land Management as an Area of Critical Environmental Concern and is one of the 10 largest cottonwood and willow riparian, or stream, habitats in California. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)

Rick Warren is a DIVIDER, not a uniter. Don't throw 'Mind Speak' at people to well attuned to POLITICS.

The NEOCON Empire Magnets will play the 'touchy, feely, gee ain't we all great routine' until there are no more women's rights including reproductive rights and no more gay/lesbian rights and marriage.

"SLICK."

Warren hosted an AIDS conference because it was a political agenda of the Bush White House. Those seeking 'attention' from the Evangelicals attended. It was controversial for Democrats to be involved with this movement then and it remains so today. It underminds all the 'civil rights' movements today, including gay and women's rights.

Not many women preach there either ! I will never change my mind regarding this issue. Never. Warren is a political icon and he likes it that way. It made him millions if not billions. There are countless others that can perform the invocation without the political razzle-dazzle that Warren demands. It is tasteless power playing and excludes realistic options of those that SHOULD perform the invocation !


The Saddleback Empire (click here) started in 1980 taking on international recognition after the NEOCON media discovered exploiting "A Purpose Driven Life" served their political purposes. Warren's 'spot light' is more than an assault against the line between church and state, it is an assault against civil rights !

Top 50 Most Influential Churches (click here)
The 2005 survey was sent to 2,000 church leaders
Number 1 - Rick Warren - Saddleback, Lake Forest, California
The 2005 survey was sent to 2,000 church leaders with the goal of ranking the nation’s fastest growing churches and churches with more than 2,000 weekend attendance. The 127 churches nominated for the 50 Most Influential Churches survey were located in 32 states and represented 27 affiliation groups and/or denominations. The term affiliation is used to include networks of unaffiliated, independent churches.

"Forty Days of Purpose" - The message of Warren's AGENDA. Video at link below. He currently has something like four or five churches now. How many MINORITY preachers attend to 'The Message' there? This is in CALIFORNIA ! Cal-if-or-knee-ah. Okay? What is the NEOCONS greatest hope? To divide and conquer California. Where was Proposition 8 passed? Yep, California. Don't talk to me about this.

At the core of it all is the fact that God has made all of us to live purpose driven lives. (click here)

33 Days until Inauguration - ...also Chairman of the FINRA Investor Education Foundation

Obama chooses 3 more to take on financial reforms (click here)

Dec. 18, 2008, 11:20AM
By NEDRA PICKLER

Associated Press Writer © 2008 The Associated Press

CHICAGO — President-elect Barack Obama on Thursday named three veteran regulators to help clean up financial debacles that he said occurred because government overseers "dropped the ball."...

'Death Map' Study: Heat Waves Kill More Than Any Other Natural Disaster

..."It's the everyday hazards, such as severe weather (click title to entry - thank you) -- both in the winter and the summer -- and heat that account for the majority of natural hazard fatalities; it's not the big wham-o event like an earthquake or a Katrina that contribute to the long-term pattern," said lead researcher Susan Cutter, director of the university's Hazards & Vulnerability Research Institute....


...Heat/drought (click here) ranked highest among the hazard categories, causing 19.6 percent of total deaths, closely followed by severe summer weather (18.8 percent) and winter weather (18.1 percent). Geophysical events such as earthquakes, wildfires and hurricanes were responsible for less than 5 percent of total hazard deaths combined....


12.18.2008
8:18 AM
2007 U.S. Weather Extremes
Drought, Flood, Wildfires, Hurricanes... (click here)
...The contiguous United States is on pace to reach its 8th hottest year on record in 2007. Here are some of the weather extremes and their impacts recorded this year:
-$1 billion in crop damage was sustained when exceptional late March warmth led to early maturation of plants that were killed when a record April cold snap hit a large portion of the country, from the central Plains to the Southeast.
-More than 2,500 new daily record high temperature records were set in August across the central and southeastern United States.
-Severe to exceptional drought affected most of the Southeast that has continued from midsummer to date, affecting crops, leading to water sharing tension and ongoing water use restrictions. Drought also affected the West, parts of the upper Midwest and parts of the Northeast. Five southeastern states, two Western states and three mid-Atlantic and New England states declared states of emergency due to drought....

This was a mistake? It is definately a political move. "No cone of uncertainty about it."

Warren is NOT the person for the job. He is alienating too many citizens as a return to EVANGELICAL roots. The "PURPOSE DRIVEN MINISTER" is to survive Bush's decline.

I don't appreciate it. He manipulated a question and answer session between Obama and McCain. It isn't right. There needs to be a broader representation of faiths at the Inauguration. I find this choice offensive.

This choice makes little sense if one is to believe Barak Obama believes in Civil Rights for all !

The Warren invocation (click title to entry - thank you)
Evangelical pastor Rick Warren will deliver the invocation at Obama's inauguration. Postpartisanship, or capitulation?

...Warren campaigned for Prop 8 in California and said: "There are about 2% of Americans are homosexual, gay, lesbian people. We should not let 2% of the population...change a definition of marriage that has been supported by every single culture and every single religion for 5,000 years." He doubts evolution and suggests that man and dinosaur cohabited the planet.
He has said that evangelicals could not support a candidate who was a "Holocaust denier" -- by which he meant, pro-choice.
Warren occupies a unique place in American society. He's probably sold more than 20 million books ("The Purpose-Driven Life" is his big hit). He doesn't look like those frothing lunatic preachers who have been so ubiquitous on American television for 40 years. He looks like the guy who works at the bank, or the guy who lives next door. He doesn't have a southern accent.
And he has said – and this is what has turned him into a "moderate" in lazy journalistic shorthand – that evangelicals should care about more things than abortion and gay people. Yippee. For all these reasons, he goes down easier than your average Dixie tub-thumper....

A Faith Bigot through and through. Under-educated in any of the sciences, bigoted because of it and willing to fight for any cause that 'in innuendo' will sell his prophecy enhancing his personal wealth is the ONLY purpose Rick Warren has. He is a 'popularist' choice and demeans the definition of democracy and civil rights.

Warren (click here), a creationist, believes that homosexuality disproves evolution; he told CNN's Larry King in 2005, "If Darwin was right, which is survival of the fittest then homosexuality would be a recessive gene because it doesn't reproduce and you would think that over thousands of years that homosexuality would work itself out of the gene pool."

Sadddleback Church is the fourth largest in the country with weekly attendance of over 23,000. Just imagine where his membership will go now !

The Middle East has a members of every political and religious organization throughout the region.

Is this another Return of the Taliban? Sunny Insurgency? Or election fervor corruption?


23 months ago: A young man signs the condolences book at the Jordanian Baath Party offices in Amman where party officials were receiving condolences following the execution of Iraq's ousted leader Saddam Hussien (portrait) 30 December 2006. Saddam's execution today drew mixed reactions across the Middle East, with some saying he got what he deserved and others hailing him as a martyr. AFP PHOTO/KHALIL MAZRAAWI (Photo credit should read KHALIL MAZRAAWI/AFP/Getty Images)

Iraq Passes Bill on Baathists (click title to entry - thank you)
Plan Would Ease Limits on Former Hussein Followers
By Joshua Partlow and Michael Abramowitz

Washington Post Foreign Service

Sunday, January 13, 2008; Page A01

...The legislation seeks to redress the first order issued by the Coalition Provisional Authority in 2003, the controversial decision that drove thousands of Baath Party members from their jobs and alienated them from Iraq's political process. That decision, along with a move to disband the Iraqi army, is widely believed to have fueled the Sunni insurgency that proved so deadly in the following years....

Now what is the deal? Either the Baathists can organize and participate in politics or they can't and where it the PROOF of a coup besides 'one faciliated by elections?'

Iraqi politicians accused of 'coup' (click here)
More than twenty members of the Iraqi interior ministry, including at least one general, were arrested yesterday allegedly in connection with a plot to revive Saddam Hussein's banned Ba'ath party.

By Tim Butcher, Middle East Correspondent

Last Updated: 2:01PM GMT 18 Dec 2008

The arrests raised fears of a possible coup attempt against Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, the leader whose election was only made possible by the US-led ousting of Saddam's regime five years ago.
News of the arrests added to the already febrile atmosphere in Iraq in the run-up to next month's provincial elections.
One senior parliamentarian sought to defuse public concern over the arrests by describing suggestions of a coup as an "exaggeration''.
Nevertheless the arrests raised questions about the durability of Mr Maliki's government after Robert Gates, US defence secretary, confirmed the US-led occupation of Iraq had entered its "endgame''....

Conspiracy? (click here)
35 Iraqi officials arrested, some for links to Al Awda
18.December 2008, 08:48
35 officials were arrested for allegedly working secretly to restore Suddam Hussein's outlawed Baath Party in Iraq. Anonymous inside sources told the New York Times the arrests were politically motivated and ordered by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in the lead up to provincial elections. The Times reported four of the arrested officials were generals....