Hurricanes and Global warming...

[mnealtx 0]

twin 350s???

Mike
I love you, Shannon and Jim.
POPS 9708 , SCR 14706

[Amazon 7]

Hey its a 32' Cruiser.... 1959 Century... all African Mahogany..carvel planked with 1" thick planks....I need the twins to make it "git up and Go"

[narcimund 0]

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Is anyone (in the US) having a warmer than average Spring?

Quite the opposite. In fact news like what I'm about to reveal is soon going to break the global warming conspiracy WIDE OPEN!

Yesterday here in Vancouver the high temperature was 55 degrees F. But today the forecast is for only 48 degrees F. FORTY EIGHT!

That's COOLING folks! As we're getting closer to summer which everyone knows means temperatures should be going UP it's getting colder instead. 48 is colder than 55 -- that's for any so-called-scientists who can't do the math (except to count the wealth they get for their lies about climate change.)

More and more evidence like this convinces me the whole "Global Warming" thing is a great big hoax.

First Class Citizen Twice Over

[billvon 3,116]

Be careful there Narci - a few more posts like that and you'll become a "top scientist!" Exxon will be wanting to fund your research, and RushMC will be quoting your articles on Newsmax!

[NCclimber 0]

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Is anyone (in the US) having a warmer than average Spring?

Quite the opposite. In fact news like what I'm about to reveal is soon going to break the global warming conspiracy WIDE OPEN!

Yesterday here in Vancouver the high temperature was 55 degrees F. But today the forecast is for only 48 degrees F. FORTY EIGHT!

That's COOLING folks! As we're getting closer to summer which everyone knows means temperatures should be going UP it's getting colder instead. 48 is colder than 55 -- that's for any so-called-scientists who can't do the math (except to count the wealth they get for their lies about climate change.)

More and more evidence like this convinces me the whole "Global Warming" thing is a great big hoax.

Lovely - a (seemingly) hysterical report of a one day temperature change outside the US. Good job.

My question was more about fruit crops throughout the eastern half of the US being destroyed by record lows, ususally strong, late season snowstorms in the northeast and April record lows throughout the country.

Sorry I wasn't clear enough for you to grasp my point the first time.

[mnealtx 0]

Sounds beautiful

Mike
I love you, Shannon and Jim.
POPS 9708 , SCR 14706

[narcimund 0]

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Sorry I wasn't clear enough for you to grasp my point the first time.

Due to the somewhat difficult nature of this issue, there's going to have to be a lot of science and math education for the general population. Let's begin here:

Difficult math concept #1

First Class Citizen Twice Over

[kallend 2,148]

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Sorry I wasn't clear enough for you to grasp my point the first time.

Due to the somewhat difficult nature of this issue, there's going to have to be a lot of science and math education for the general population. Let's begin here:

Difficult math concept #1

Could you give us "extrema" next, please

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The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.

[NCclimber 0]

Here's a little gem I just came across:

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If only a small fraction of the heat currently stored in the oceans were released, it would significantly warm the atmosphere and melt the world's glaciers. For a hypothetical example, if the average temperature of the world's oceans increased by 0.18 degree Fahrenheit (0.1 degree Celsius) and this heat was transferred instantly to the atmosphere, the air temperature would increase by about 180 degrees Fahrenheit (100 degrees Celsius).

WOW

[billvon 3,116]

Another little tidbit -

Only about half the increase in sea levels we will see will be caused by melting glaciers. The other half will come from simple thermal expansion of the ocean as it gets warmer. It's a tiny effect, but multiply it by the 330 million cubic miles of water in the ocean, and it's not so small.

[kallend 2,148]

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Here's a little gem I just came across:

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If only a small fraction of the heat currently stored in the oceans were released, it would significantly warm the atmosphere and melt the world's glaciers. For a hypothetical example, if the average temperature of the world's oceans increased by 0.18 degree Fahrenheit (0.1 degree Celsius) and this heat was transferred instantly to the atmosphere, the air temperature would increase by about 180 degrees Fahrenheit (100 degrees Celsius).

WOW

The second law of thermodynamics would have something to say about THAT!

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The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.

[rushmc 23]

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Be careful there Narci - a few more posts like that and you'll become a "top scientist!" Exxon will be wanting to fund your research, and RushMC will be quoting your articles on Newsmax!

This one is underhanded even for you

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

[speedy 0]

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Here's a little gem I just came across:

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If only a small fraction of the heat currently stored in the oceans were released, it would significantly warm the atmosphere and melt the world's glaciers. For a hypothetical example, if the average temperature of the world's oceans increased by 0.18 degree Fahrenheit (0.1 degree Celsius) and this heat was transferred instantly to the atmosphere, the air temperature would increase by about 180 degrees Fahrenheit (100 degrees Celsius).

WOW

The second law of thermodynamics would have something to say about THAT!

Yeah, but that's only dotting the i's and crossing the t's

Dave

Fallschirmsport Marl

[billvon 3,116]

Good summary on Exxon denier support from the UCS:

In an effort to deceive the public about the reality
of global warming, ExxonMobil has underwritten
the most sophisticated and most successful
disinformation campaign since the tobacco industry
misled the public about the scientific evidence
linking smoking to lung cancer and heart disease.
As this report documents, the two disinformation
campaigns are strikingly similar. ExxonMobil has
drawn upon the tactics and even some of the
organizations and actors involved in the callous
disinformation campaign the tobacco industry
waged for 40 years. Like the tobacco industry,
ExxonMobil has:

• Manufactured uncertainty by raising doubts
about even the most indisputable scientific
evidence.

• Adopted a strategy of information laundering
by using seemingly independent front organizations
to publicly further its desired message
and thereby confuse the public.

• Promoted scientific spokespeople who misrepresent
peer-reviewed scientific findings or
cherry-pick facts in their attempts to persuade
the media and the public that there is still
serious debate among scientists that burning
fossil fuels has contributed to global warming
and that human-caused warming will have
serious consequences.

• Attempted to shift the focus away from meaningful
action on global warming with misleading
charges about the need for “sound science.”

• Used its extraordinary access to the Bush
administration to block federal policies and
shape government communications on global
warming.

The report documents that, despite the scientific
consensus about the fundamental understanding
that global warming is caused by carbon
dioxide and other heat-trapping emissions, Exxon-
Mobil has funneled about $16 million between
1998 and 2005 to a network of ideological and
advocacy organizations that manufacture uncertainty
on the issue. Many of these organizations
have an overlapping—sometimes identical—
collection of spokespeople serving as staff, board
members, and scientific advisors. By publishing
and republishing the non-peer-reviewed works of
a small group of scientific spokespeople, Exxon-
Mobil-funded organizations have propped up
and amplified work that has been discredited
by reputable climate scientists.

ExxonMobil’s funding of established research
institutions that seek to better understand science,
policies, and technologies to address global warming
has given the corporation “cover,” while its funding
of ideological and advocacy organizations to
conduct a disinformation campaign works to confuse
that understanding. This seemingly inconsistent
activity makes sense when looked at through
a broader lens. Like the tobacco companies in
previous decades, this strategy provides a positive
“pro-science” public stance for ExxonMobil that
masks their activity to delay meaningful action on
global warming and helps keep the public debate
stalled on the science rather than focused on
policy options to address the problem.

In addition, like Big Tobacco before it,
ExxonMobil has been enormously successful at
influencing the current administration and key
members of Congress. Documents highlighted
in this report, coupled with subsequent events,
provide evidence of ExxonMobil’s cozy relationship
with government officials, which enables
the corporation to work behind the scenes to gain
access to key decision makers. In some cases, the
company’s proxies have directly shaped the global
warming message put forth by federal agencies.

Finally, this report provides a set of steps elected
officials, investors, and citizens can take to neutralize
ExxonMobil’s disinformation campaign
and remove this roadblock to sensible action for
reducing global warming emissions.

[speedy 0]

You are just like the people who believe the Jews blew up the WTC. Conspiracy theories everywhere.

adited fur spilling.

Dave

Fallschirmsport Marl

[speedy 0]

More denier stuff from Exxon funded scientists

Global warming will reduce hurricane activity!

Did Al Gore not say it would increase hurricane activity? More likely he said "storm activity" and did not refer to hurricanes specifically.

Dave

Fallschirmsport Marl

[rushmc 23]

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Good summary on Exxon denier support from the UCS:

In an effort to deceive the public about the reality
of global warming, ExxonMobil has underwritten
the most sophisticated and most successful
disinformation campaign since the tobacco industry
misled the public about the scientific evidence
linking smoking to lung cancer and heart disease.
As this report documents, the two disinformation
campaigns are strikingly similar. ExxonMobil has
drawn upon the tactics and even some of the
organizations and actors involved in the callous
disinformation campaign the tobacco industry
waged for 40 years. Like the tobacco industry,
ExxonMobil has:

• Manufactured uncertainty by raising doubts
about even the most indisputable scientific
evidence.

• Adopted a strategy of information laundering
by using seemingly independent front organizations
to publicly further its desired message
and thereby confuse the public.

• Promoted scientific spokespeople who misrepresent
peer-reviewed scientific findings or
cherry-pick facts in their attempts to persuade
the media and the public that there is still
serious debate among scientists that burning
fossil fuels has contributed to global warming
and that human-caused warming will have
serious consequences.

• Attempted to shift the focus away from meaningful
action on global warming with misleading
charges about the need for “sound science.”

• Used its extraordinary access to the Bush
administration to block federal policies and
shape government communications on global
warming.

The report documents that, despite the scientific
consensus about the fundamental understanding
that global warming is caused by carbon
dioxide and other heat-trapping emissions, Exxon-
Mobil has funneled about $16 million between
1998 and 2005 to a network of ideological and
advocacy organizations that manufacture uncertainty
on the issue. Many of these organizations
have an overlapping—sometimes identical—
collection of spokespeople serving as staff, board
members, and scientific advisors. By publishing
and republishing the non-peer-reviewed works of
a small group of scientific spokespeople, Exxon-
Mobil-funded organizations have propped up
and amplified work that has been discredited
by reputable climate scientists.

ExxonMobil’s funding of established research
institutions that seek to better understand science,
policies, and technologies to address global warming
has given the corporation “cover,” while its funding
of ideological and advocacy organizations to
conduct a disinformation campaign works to confuse
that understanding. This seemingly inconsistent
activity makes sense when looked at through
a broader lens. Like the tobacco companies in
previous decades, this strategy provides a positive
“pro-science” public stance for ExxonMobil that
masks their activity to delay meaningful action on
global warming and helps keep the public debate
stalled on the science rather than focused on
policy options to address the problem.

In addition, like Big Tobacco before it,
ExxonMobil has been enormously successful at
influencing the current administration and key
members of Congress. Documents highlighted
in this report, coupled with subsequent events,
provide evidence of ExxonMobil’s cozy relationship
with government officials, which enables
the corporation to work behind the scenes to gain
access to key decision makers. In some cases, the
company’s proxies have directly shaped the global
warming message put forth by federal agencies.

Finally, this report provides a set of steps elected
officials, investors, and citizens can take to neutralize
ExxonMobil’s disinformation campaign
and remove this roadblock to sensible action for
reducing global warming emissions.

And who wrote this billvon? Who is UCS Oh ya, UCS is a nonpartisen, pure as the wind driven snow group of scientists that don't care about money and research grants. Now I get it

You say it is disinformation. Just because you don't believe it (the reports Exon funds) makes your statement true??

I believe those that wrote what you posted (who ever they are) are the ones speading misinformation.

Is what is posted true? Probably. Just because it is Exon you post in a context to "get the evil big oil" and hope you can use emotion to make a case.

Fun to watch....

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

[rushmc 23]

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More denier stuff from Exxon funded scientists

Global warming will reduce hurricane activity!

Did Al Gore not say it would increase hurricane activity? More likely he said "storm activity" and did not refer to hurricanes specifically.

They have to keep changing the story. As more info surfaces that shows the deciept of the GWing alarmists they loose momentum to push the eco morals on the rest of us.

In the 70's we were all going to freeze to death. Last year the huricanes were going to be incredible. This year GWing will inhibit huricanes. Next year it will be so hot the pimples on my ass will be so be and sore I will not be able to sit.

What next?

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

[NCclimber 0]

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Good summary on Exxon denier support from the UCS:

In an effort to deceive the public about the reality
of global warming, ExxonMobil has underwritten
the most sophisticated and most successful
disinformation campaign since the tobacco industry
misled the public about the scientific evidence
linking smoking to lung cancer and heart disease.
As this report documents, the two disinformation
campaigns are strikingly similar. ExxonMobil has
drawn upon the tactics and even some of the
organizations and actors involved in the callous
disinformation campaign the tobacco industry
waged for 40 years. Like the tobacco industry,
ExxonMobil has:

• Manufactured uncertainty by raising doubts
about even the most indisputable scientific
evidence.

• Adopted a strategy of information laundering
by using seemingly independent front organizations
to publicly further its desired message
and thereby confuse the public.

• Promoted scientific spokespeople who misrepresent
peer-reviewed scientific findings or
cherry-pick facts in their attempts to persuade
the media and the public that there is still
serious debate among scientists that burning
fossil fuels has contributed to global warming
and that human-caused warming will have
serious consequences.

• Attempted to shift the focus away from meaningful
action on global warming with misleading
charges about the need for “sound science.”

• Used its extraordinary access to the Bush
administration to block federal policies and
shape government communications on global
warming.

The report documents that, despite the scientific
consensus about the fundamental understanding
that global warming is caused by carbon
dioxide and other heat-trapping emissions, Exxon-
Mobil has funneled about $16 million between
1998 and 2005 to a network of ideological and
advocacy organizations that manufacture uncertainty
on the issue. Many of these organizations
have an overlapping—sometimes identical—
collection of spokespeople serving as staff, board
members, and scientific advisors. By publishing
and republishing the non-peer-reviewed works of
a small group of scientific spokespeople, Exxon-
Mobil-funded organizations have propped up
and amplified work that has been discredited
by reputable climate scientists.

ExxonMobil’s funding of established research
institutions that seek to better understand science,
policies, and technologies to address global warming
has given the corporation “cover,” while its funding
of ideological and advocacy organizations to
conduct a disinformation campaign works to confuse
that understanding. This seemingly inconsistent
activity makes sense when looked at through
a broader lens. Like the tobacco companies in
previous decades, this strategy provides a positive
“pro-science” public stance for ExxonMobil that
masks their activity to delay meaningful action on
global warming and helps keep the public debate
stalled on the science rather than focused on
policy options to address the problem.

In addition, like Big Tobacco before it,
ExxonMobil has been enormously successful at
influencing the current administration and key
members of Congress. Documents highlighted
in this report, coupled with subsequent events,
provide evidence of ExxonMobil’s cozy relationship
with government officials, which enables
the corporation to work behind the scenes to gain
access to key decision makers. In some cases, the
company’s proxies have directly shaped the global
warming message put forth by federal agencies.

Finally, this report provides a set of steps elected
officials, investors, and citizens can take to neutralize
ExxonMobil’s disinformation campaign
and remove this roadblock to sensible action for
reducing global warming emissions.

Deja Vu

http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=2596795#2596795

Oh yeah. The UCS website was the source of my previous post (#34).

[rushmc 23]

Here is your UCS

(sorry, meant for billvon not NClimber)



Has consistently denounced American military campaigns
Opposes U.S. development of missile defense system



The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) is a nonprofit environmental advocacy organization with more than 100,000 members. Seeing its mission as building a "cleaner, healthier environment and a safer world," UCS takes public stands, purportedly based on scientific research, regarding a variety of political and health-related issues. It opposes genetically engineered foods, condemns SUV vehicles, and proposes measures aimed at combating what it deems the imminent dangers of global warming. It also opposes the vast majority of American foreign policy decisions, and calls for a unilateral reduction in U.S. nuclear weapons stockpiles. UCS disseminates to lawmakers and news outlets its opinions about each of these matters, with the intent of ultimately influencing public policy.

Students and faculty members at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology founded UCS in 1969. "Through its actions in Vietnam, our government has shaken our confidence in its ability to make wise and humane decisions," reads the UCS founding document. That sentiment continues to this day, with UCS condemning American efforts in the War on Terror and the 2003 War in Iraq.

UCS typically minimizes threats posed by foreign rogue regimes, and challenges U.S. assertions about the intentions and military capacities of those governments. In 1998, for instance, UCS assured the public that American analysts had exaggerated North Korea's ability to produce nuclear weapons, and that the Pyongyang regime was still many years away from being able to develop such an arsenal.

UCS vigorously opposes America's development of a missile defense system. It also calls for the "adoption of a U.S. nuclear no-first-use policy"; "a U.S. rejection of rapid-launch options, and a change in deployment practices to provide for the launch of U.S. nuclear forces in hours or days rather than minutes"; "the elimination of all U.S. 'tactical' nuclear weapons, intended for use on the battlefield"; "verified unilateral reductions to a total of 1,000 strategic warheads (including deployed and stored), accompanied by warhead dismantlement"; and "a commitment to further reductions in the number of nuclear weapons, on a negotiated and verified multilateral basis."

UCS admonishes American corporations such as McDonald's and Burger King, asserting that the presence of antibiotics in meat used by fast-food companies contributes to large-scale antibiotic resistance. In 2003, bills based on UCS research aimed at prohibiting the use of eight classes of antibiotics in livestock used by fast-food producers were introduced in both the U.S. House and Senate. Soon after, UCS admitted that the majority of its claims were speculative. UCS has also warned of the alleged dangers of genetically modified food.

Another issue of concern to UCS is that of global warming. The organization circulated a petition that drew the signatures of some 1,600 scientific experts demanding that the United States ratify the Kyoto Protocol.

A Union of Concerned Scientists declaration, entitled "Restoring Scientific Integrity in Policy Making," charges that the Bush administration "has continued to distort and suppress science in pursuit of its political goals — despite a plea from top U.S. scientists to restore scientific integrity to the policy-making process." According to UCS President Kevin Knobloch, "We found a serious pattern of undermining science by the Bush administration, and it crosses disciplines, whether it's global climate change or reproductive health or mercury in the food chain or forestry -- the list goes on and on." The signers of this document portrayed themselves as objective scientists with no political agenda. But in truth, over half of them were financial contributors to the Democratic Party, Democratic candidates, or a variety of leftist causes. The UCS website offers visitors an online opportunity to register to vote; this service is sponsored by Working Assets.

UCS is a member of the Save Our Environment Action Center, a leftist coalition that describes itself as "a collaborative effort of the nation's most influential environmental advocacy organizations harnessing the power of the internet to increase public awareness and activism on today's most important environmental issues."

UCS has received funding from the Beldon Fund, the Compton Foundation, the Educational Foundation of America, the J.M. Kaplan Fund, the Scherman Foundation, the Blue Moon Fund, the Ford Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Energy Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Joyce Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the Turner Foundation, and Pew Charitable Trusts.

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

[rushmc 23]

How about the president of UCS??

President of the Union of Concerned Scientists


Kevin Knobloch is the president of the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), an ostensibly independent, nonprofit environmental and national security advocacy organization comprised of more than 100,000 members whose stated purpose is to build a "cleaner, healthier environment and a safer world." The UCS takes public stands, purportedly buttressed by scientific research, regarding a variety of political and health-related issues. For example, it opposes genetically engineered foods, condemns SUV vehicles, and proposes measures aimed at combating what it deems the imminent dangers of global warming. It also opposes the vast majority of American foreign policy decisions, calls for a unilateral reduction in U.S. nuclear weapons stockpiles, and derides American efforts to develop a National Missile Defense (NMD) system. The UCS disseminates to lawmakers and news outlets its opinions about each of these matters, with the intent of ultimately influencing public policy.

Knobloch and the UCS have been extremely critical of Republican political leaders, particularly President Bush. Knobloch began his tenure as UCS president by stating, "The Union of Concerned Scientists was founded on the belief that science has an essential role in informing and driving public policy, and advancing that principle has never been more needed. The Bush administration and some in Congress have, increasingly, undercut the role of science and scientists in national policymaking. UCS will be a leader in countering this trend, helping scientists turn their frustration into action."

Knobloch has also served on the board of directors for the Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies and the Environmental League of Massachusetts, both of which have leftwing agendas. In addition, he was once the legislative director for former Senator Timothy Wirth (D-Colorado), who is currently the president of the United Nations Foundation. Knobloch was also the legislative assistant and press secretary for the late Representative Ted Weiss (D-New York). During his term in office, Weiss sought to impeach President Reagan for overthrowing the Marxist regime in Grenada.

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

[rushmc 23]

How about a company called Working Assest? A main supporter??




WORKING ASSETS
101 Market Street
Suite 700
San Francisco, CA
94105

Phone :1-800-668-9253
URL :http://www.WorkingAssets.com





Provides more than 300,000 customers across the United States with long-distance telephone services, wireless telephone services, and credit cards
Gives a percentage of its revenues to leftist groups and causes
Has raised more than $50 million for what it terms “progressive causes” since 1985
Opposes oil exploration in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
Opposes America’s involvement in Iraq War
Opposes the Patriot Act




Established in 1985, Working Assets is a company that provides more than 300,000 customers across the United States with long-distance telephone services, wireless telephone services, and credit cards. Working Assets gives a percentage of its profits to leftist groups and causes.

The groups Working Assets funds fall under five categories: Peace & International Freedom; Education & Freedom of Expression; Environment; Economic & Social Justice; and Civil Rights.

In 2004 its aggregate donations totaled $7 million. From its 1985 inception through 2005, the company has raised more than $47 million for what it terms "progressive causes." The process of deciding who will receive these funds is initiated by Working Assets' customers, who nominate groups they deem worthy of financial support. Once the nominations have been made, the company's employees and board members narrow the field of recipients to fifty groups. In turn, the customers vote to determine how the available money will be apportioned among those fifty.

Recent recipients of Working Assets funding include: Global Fund for Children; Global Fund for Women; Human Rights Watch; International Medical Corps; Ipas -- Global Reproductive Health & Rights; the Ploughshares Fund; the Union of Concerned Scientists; Women for Women International; the American Progress Action Fund; Democracy Now!; Free Press; the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN); Independent Press Association; Media Matters for America; the Public Education Network; the Coral Reef Alliance; Earthjustice; ForestEthics; the Global Greengrants Fund; Greenpeace International; the International Rivers Network; the Natural Resources Defense Council; the Oil & Gas Accountability Project; the Organic Consumers Association; the Rainforest Action Network; ACORN; the Center for Policy Alternatives; the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities; the Drug Policy Alliance; the National Coalition for the Homeless; the National Employment Law Project; Oxfam America; the Project on Government Oversight; Wellstone Action; the American Civil Liberties Union; the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy; Americans United for Separation of Church and State; the Center for Constitutional Rights (a pro-Castro organization); the Children's Defense Fund; the Feminist Majority Foundation; Human Rights Campaign; the NARAL Pro-Choice America Foundation; People for the American Way; the Planned Parenthood Federation of America; and Project Vote.

Because of its candidly partisan nature, Working Assets takes a stand on many contemporary political and social issues. It is a member organization of the United For Peace and Justice antiwar coalition and the Win Without War antiwar coalition. Working Assets has also produced a letter (for which it had collected some 30,000 signatures as of November 2005) titled "Congress: Admit You Regret Voting for Iraq War."

Just as Working Assets, which is a member organization of the Peace and Security Funders Group, condemns the Iraq War, so does it stand in strong opposition to numerous aspects of the Patriot Act anti-terrorism legislation, which it views as an assault on the civil liberties of Americans. A piece contributed to the Working Assets website by Sojourners -- an evangelical Christian ministry that preaches radical leftist politics, embraces liberation theology, and championed Communist revolution in Central America -- asserts the following: "A few short years ago, almost no one in America had heard of places called Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib. Now, those names have become infamous worldwide - for repeated instances of torture, inflicted by Americans on prisoners we continue to hold there as part of the so-called 'war on terror.'"

In April 2004, thousands of Working Assets customers represented their company by participating in the "March for Women's Lives" in Washington, DC, a historic pro-abortion rights event advocating that women be granted unrestricted access to taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand. For its members who were among the one million people in attendance that day, Working Assets provided what it described as "provocative signs on recyclable paper ... to send a message of solidarity to the White House for a woman's right to choose."

To strengthen its political leverage, Working Assets has set up a pair of vehicles by which its likeminded customers can also make their voices and opinions heard by House and Senate legislators. One of these vehicles is the Working Assets Citizen Action program, established in 1991 "to provide customers with timely information and easy ways to speak out on important issues." With each monthly phone bill, the company includes action alerts highlighting two crucial national issues and five state issues that are the subjects of contemporary debate; these action alerts explain what is (in Working Assets' estimation) at stake, and tell customers which political leaders they should contact in an effort to influence policy in a manner consistent with what Working Assets prescribes. In 2004 alone, Working Assets action alerts resulted in more than four million telephone calls, letters, and e-mails to Congress, the White House, and corporate leaders.

Four years after establishing Citizen Action, Working Assets created the Flash Activist Network (FAN), which it describes as "a rapid response program designed to give customers a chance to speak out on fast-moving issues before all is said and done." "Throughout the year," Working Assets explains, "FAN monitors critical events as they unfold and notifies members by phone, fax or e-mail when it's time for action. Members can call a toll-free number for details on the issues at hand, then be transferred directly to the targeted decision-maker, or send a personalized fax. . . . For a low monthly fee, FAN members can influence public policy before it's too late."

Working Assets’ founder, President, and Chief Executive Officer is Michael Kieschnick. Prior to assuming his current position, Kieschnick served as Working Assets' Chairman of the Board while he helped to start a series of investment funds. He has written several books on capital markets and development, including Credit Where It's Due (which he co-authored with Julia Parzen). For a number of years, he was a visiting lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley, teaching a graduate seminar on financial innovation.

All this is available on discoverthenetworks.org

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

[NCclimber 0]

Kind of like People For The American Way.

[rushmc 23]

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Kind of like People For The American Way.

I really get frustrated over those who claim their sources and orgs have no agenda. Every source and org has an agenda no matter which side of a debate they might be on. The big difference is one side thinks, no, KNOWS they are smarter than everyone else because..................

Anyway, I like the eco morality. That is the agenda being pushed. But like Rosie on guns and Al Gore on his carbon foot print, it is only the "other people" that need to make the changes

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

[billvon 3,116]

>And who wrote this billvon?

All you've got is an attack on the source? Not even a crazy emoticon?