It is now mid November here in central Canada, and the temperatures are plunging… It has been a cold November, but this one is becoming one of many cold records across Canada and especially across the continental United States…. I have said for quite some time that this extreme cold is due to the fact that Sol has gone quiet and its solar output is diminished. This is a natural solar cycle and has absolutely nothing to do with the laughable fraud known as "Global Warming"….I have long wondered how anybody, especially those in the Global Warming scam community can put up with the patron saint of the "Global Warming" swindle, Saint Al Gore, these days…. The man has not made many public appearances over the last while and no wonder… Many people would love to tar and feather that criminal for lying and deceiving the public all these years!The big question that everyone should be asking about Al Gore and others in this scam is HOW so many of them have suddenly become Billionaires?…. Well, to help answer that question, I want to turn to an interesting article that was released recently by the Lew Rockwell website, at www.lewrockwell.com. The article is entitled: "Crony Environmentalism" and explains in some detail how that down and out former Vice President made billions off of the "Global Warming" con, as well as how others in the fraud "Global Warming" scam are also making out like bandits from the gullible public…. I have that article right here for everyone to read in disgust, and of course my own thoughts and comments to follow:
Crony Environmentalism
By Thomas DiLorenzoNovember 13, 2014Al Gore, a career “public servant,” reportedly became a billionaire just a few years after leaving his last government job as vice president of the United States. He achieved this miracle, according to news reports, through various “green” business deals. Such deals are always proprietary and few details about them ever become public. They usually involve the ancient mercantilist practice of bribing politicians for a special favor or subsidy. The bribe-giver becomes wealthy, and the politicians granting the favor/subsidy have the funds to finance the next campaign. Let’s call it crony environmentalism.A rare glimpse of how crony environmentalism works was recently revealed in a November 12 article in the Baltimore Sun entitled “$1 could lease state’s $2.8 million farm.” The article was about an “agreement” to be presented to the State Board of Public Works between one Cleo Braver, an “environmental lawyer-turned-organic farmer” and the state government. Ms. Braver is also described as having donated “more than $40,000” to various Democratic Party campaigns in recent years, including $6,000 in the most recent governor’s race. The same politicians she gave all this money to sit on the State Board of Public Works that is being asked to grant her this massive subsidy.The “agreement” that was reportedly reached between Braver and the administration of Maryland’s Democratic Governor, Martin O’Malley, was to lease to her a 255 acre farm in Kent County, Maryland that is worth almost $3 million for $1/year. In addition, she will be given $500,000 in state tax money and her proposed “food hub” for the distribution of agricultural produce will be nonprofit, which is to say, it will not pay taxes.The ostensible purpose of all this is to establish a “food hub” on the Eastern Shore of Maryland that can “distribute organic and sustainably produced food.” Ah yes, there are the magic words: organic and sustainable. That makes everything kosher in the eyes of Cleo Braver, an “advocate for green farming techniques.” She claims there are “food deserts” in the region that lack “healthy food.” What nonsense. When pressed by a committee of the state assembly, Braver even admitted that “organic farming would not be required” for her hugely-subsidized “food hub” but would only be encouraged. There are of course many food distribution hubs on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. They are privately-owned, capitalistic, and unsubsidized. And they distribute “organic” as well as non-organic food as consumer demand dictates. There is no need at all, in other words, for a government-subsidized food hub there. It will only allow Cleo Braver become wealthy by unfairly competing with the already-existing businesses. The Baltimore Sun quoted Ed Bush, the general manager of one of the existing food hubs, who said: “She would have a substantial advantage over the regular taxpaying Joe who – if we want to build our business – we have to pay for it in cash.” Exactly right, Ed.Ms. Braver also owns an organic farm in Kent County, Maryland. This means that she can sell her goods to the food hub that she also owns, thanks to the massive government subsidy, and “pay herself what she thinks is fair value,” said Mr. Bush. “Prices should be set by the market” instead, he told the Baltimore Sun. Amen, Brother Bush.Corruption, cronyism, and socialistic central planning of agricultural markets, hidden by the rhetoric of “green farming,” is what Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley calls “smart growth” policy. Crony environmentalism would be more descriptive. So-called smart growth is a very dumb, and very corrupt idea.Thomas J. DiLorenzo [send him mail] is professor of economics at Loyola College in Maryland and the author of The Real Lincoln; ;Lincoln Unmasked: What You’re Not Supposed To Know about Dishonest Abe, How Capitalism Saved America, Hamilton’s Curse: How Jefferson’s Archenemy Betrayed the American Revolution – And What It Means for America Today. His latest book is Organized Crime: The Unvarnished Truth About Government.NTS Notes: It is so amazing to read this and understand how criminals are indeed making out like bandits under the guise of "saving the environment"… Crony Environmentalism is putting it lightly...I wish that people would have gotten the message by now… Global Warming is indeed a massive fraud and swindle and it was created for the use of psychological fear in people to accept criminal measures including the introduction of "carbon taxation" which is nothing more than a fleecing of the general public! Basically, there are now a multitude of criminals out there who are using this psychology of "saving the planet from ourselves" to line their own pockets through scams such as "sustainable growth". As PT Barnum once said, there indeed are "Suckers born every minute".As far as I am concerned.. This article barely touched on the crimes of the major fraud artist in this entire movement, Al Gore…. The man should have been arrested a long time ago for his crimes against humanity… The man is such a soulless snake in the grass and has been behind the Global Warming scam to definitely line his own pockets…And we can see the result by him now being a multi billionaire!One thing that I must reiterate to readers is the FACT that Saint Al of the Gore could also make extra billions of dollars from his ownership in shares of the only two companies in America that are capable of counting "carbon credits" if and when the criminal US President ever brings in that fraud Carbon Tax on the American people that most certainly will be used to replace that other fraud called "Obamacare"… Greed is definitely the rule of the day here….One other note… Al Gore is supposedly out there promoting another scam, which is the "We funding" festivals and concerts where young children are right now being brainwashed and suckered by the thousands across the United States and Canada… People must be made aware of this latest swindle and protect their children from that scam at all cost as well…More to comeNTS