I don't like the path that this appointment could take considering the track record of the appointee.



Carol Browner a Socialist? American Spectator‏

Sent: January 13, 2009 2:59:50 AM


NETWATCH PREAMBLE: It is widely reported that Carol Browner, President Elect Obama's choice for coordinator of climate and energy policies (a "Climate Change Czar"), is a socialist. (A "socialist" society is one with "a centrally planned economy in which the government controls all means of production"; http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/Socialism.html)

A Washington Times article refers to Browner's membership in Socialist International (SI), and reports her bio was removed last week from the SI site, just before Obama's announcement. (http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jan/12/obama-climate-czar-has-socialist-ties)

Browner's bio is now stored at http://www.greentrackinglibrary.org/carol_browner_1.htm
The Socialists International's "Commission for a Sustainable World Society," of which Browner was/is a member, states: "The SI Commission for a Sustainable World Society was established by the Socialist International to articulate from the world of progressive politics a way forward to address global environmental concerns, climate change and the issues of governance required to deal with these common challenges. The Commission brings together leading personalities, among them serving and former heads of state and government ministers from different continents, to set out recommendations to tackle these fundamental issues, with a particular focus currently on supporting and contributing to the United Nations Climate Change Conferences and the global effort to reduce global warming." (http://www.socialistinternational.org/about.cfm)
As an aside, the Eco-socialists' 2007 annual conference formed an Eco-socialist Network with a focus on the climate change campaign. (http://www.greenleft.org.au/2008/737/38165) The Eco-socialists' Links section includes only one organization in the U.S., the Institute for Social Ecology, where ALF/ELF's Craig Rosebraugh wrote his thesis on the "Logic of Political Violence." (http://www.ecosocialistnetwork.org/Links.htm) This Links section includes periodicals which, not surprisingly, attack capitalism for being in conflict with Earth salvation, a regular theme in eco-terrorist communiqués.

On the current Browner controversy, we include the following:
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Carol Browner a Socialist?

By Doug Bandow, The American Spectator, Jan. 12, 2009

http://spectator.org/blog/2009/01/12/carol-browner-a-socialist
There's a tendency of conservatives to carelessly toss about the "S" word. Like John McCain, who opposed the Bush tax cuts while spouting left-wing rhetoric, then accusing Barack Obama of being a socialist because the latter proposed to increase taxes on the rich. It was bad liberal redistributionist policy, but McCain - for every bail-out as well as cap-and-trade - was in no position to call his opponent a socialist for advocating the same dumb liberal redistributionist policies.

However, as the Washington Examiner pointed out last week (and the Washington Times mentioned today), Carol Browner really is a socialist. Or at least, she belonged to the Commission for a Sustainable World Society, which is part of the Socialist International. Granted, these are pretty wimpy socialists, rather than serious guys with guns intent on seizing everyone's property. But still. Reports the Examiner:

Conservatives are often accused of scaremongering when they claim left-wing environmentalists are actually socialists hiding behind green disguises. But with Carol Browner, incoming President Barack Obama's freshly appointed Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change - the so-called White House "Climate Czar" - there is no question about the socialism. Browner is a member of the Commission for a Sustainable World Society (CSWS), which is a formal organ of the Socialist International. Oddly enough, the group's web site was recently scrubbed to remove Browner's picture and biography, but her name is still listed next to the photo-biographies of her 14 colleagues on the commission. The Socialist International is no group of woolly-headed idealists. It is an influential assembly of officials from across the international community whose official Statement of Principles describes an agenda of gaining and exercising government power based on socialist concepts.


Browner's CSWS is similarly open about the economic costs it is willing to impose, across national borders to achieve its environmental utopia. On Sept. 5-6, 2008, the commission noted that the costs of its proposals would "rang[e] in the hundreds of billions of dollars over the next two decades," and it called for a "redesign of the international rules on intellectual property." That is international bureaucratese for compelling an inventor to surrender property rights in order to "share" technologies with less-developed countries.


At the Congress of the Socialist International held last June 30-July2, the CSWS officially resolved that "market solutions alone are insufficient and will not provide the financial support and resources necessary to achieve the required combination of deep emission reduction, adaptation to already changing climate conditions, energy security and equitable and environmentally sound economic development." Again, that's bureaucratese. It means that international taxes should be imposed to provide the "resources necessary" to impose what the CSWS repeatedly refers to as a 'regime" against "global warming." By appointing Browner to a White House post, Obama has at the least implicitly endorsed an utterly radical socialist agenda for his administration's environmental policy. The incoming chief executive thus strengthens critics who contend environmental policies aren't really about protecting endangered species or preserving virgin lands, but rather expanding government power and limiting individual freedom.


The best part is that Browner obviously is embarrassed by the connection, since someone has engaged in a bit of Stalinist air-brushing of history by eliminating her picture and bio from the socialist website.

Alas, she's headed to the White House - ironically, to be "Czar" of the Climate. (Didn't socialists revolt against the last real Czar?). That means there will be no Senate confirmation process, with an opportunity to ask appropriate questions.

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Kinda reminds me of this story that I received yesterday on how records are changed to suit agenda of white washing a candidates History. Craig Rosebraugh is a extreme supporter of ALF/ELF. He created a lot of their hatred for animal welfare & sustainable use of animals and the earth's storehouse which keeps us alive. He also despises capitalism so his links to Browner are very much against the system that feeds the world.Got this White Wash story yesterday and it seems to fit in with Browner's .






Thought you might enjoy this.





Judy Wallman, a professional genealogy researcher in southern California , was doing some personal work on her own family tree. She discovered that Harry Reid's great-great uncle, Remus Reid, was hanged for horse stealing and train robbery in Montana in 1889.
Both Judy and Harry Reid share this common ancestor.




Harry Reid




The only known photograph of Remus shows him standing on the gallows in Montana territory.



On the back of the picture Judy obtained during her research is this inscription: 'Remus Reid, horse thief, sent to Montana Territorial Prison 1885, escaped 1887, robbed the Montana Flyer six times. Caught by Pinkerton detectives, convicted and hanged in 1889.'



So Judy recently e-mailed Congressman Harry Reid for information about their great-great uncle.


Believe it or not, Harry Reid's staff sent back the following biographical sketch for her genealogy research:
'Remus Reid was a famous cowboy in the Montana Territory . His business empire grew to include acquisition of valuable equestrian assets and intimate dealings with the Montana railroad. Beginning in 1883, he devoted several years of his life to government service, finally taking leave to resume his dealings with the railroad. In 1887, he was a key player in a vital investigation run by the renowned Pinkerton Detective Agency. In 1889, Remus passed away during an important civic function held in his honor when the platform upon which he was standing collapsed.'
NOW THAT is how it's done folks! That's real SPIN.


THIS MAKES ME WONDER WHAT COULD BE FOUND IN NANCY PELOSI'S ANCESTRY.

Mira, was it in the jeans they wore or the genes they passed on. Now that's scary. Thanks for posting.

I love the spin. You use the right words and you can even make Buzzard sound good, and his originally for Ms.

I heard we are heading for a new Ice Age.

Now that is really spinning the truth.

THIS MAKES ME WONDER WHAT COULD BE FOUND IN NANCY PELOSI'S ANCESTRY.

this would probably involve yotes
david johnson