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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (9689)	2/18/2012 12:52:53 PM
From: Brumar89	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 85487

Let me know when someone touches a shovel. No, make that turns a spade of dirt.

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (9689)	2/18/2012 12:53:28 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 85487

New secrets from the Protocols of the Elders of Heartland Take a gander at #3 The Protocols of the Elders of Heartland My hat is off to the commenter at Watts Up With That who first dubbed the faked Heartland memo "The Protocols of the Elders of Heartland." That quip says it all, really. The second-best quip about the phony memo come from Megan McArdle at the Atlantic: "Basically, it reads like it was written from the secret villain lair in a Batman comic. By an intern." But, thinking of secret protocols and secret villain lairs made me wonder, what could this mysterious and elusive "institute" be doing with their anonymous funding? So I'm pleased to leak my very own Heartland strategy memo: Top Ten Things Heartland Institute Will Do With $6.4 Million in Funding 10. Build a secret oil-powered nuclear-powered coal-powered lair on a South Pacific Island. 9. Arrange Arctic polar-bear hunting expeditions for wealthy contributors. With bazookas for top donors. 8. Train an armada of millions of kamikaze pigeons to fly into wind turbines, gumming up the works. 7. Replace Mitt Romney with a remote-controlled animatronic robot. Oh wait, that's been done. 6. Exploit our Microsoft connection to install mind-controlling stroboscopic subliminal video messages in Windows Phone 7. People do use Windows Phone 7, don't they? 5. Create the "Happy Children Fund" to provide subsidized tobacco products to pre-teens. Better yet, put it in their school lunches. 4. Genetically engineer a breed of SuperFlatulenttm cattle to emit a Gaia-destroying flood of methane into the atmosphere. 3. Re-train the armada of pigeons to defecate on solar panels. Maybe do this before #8. 2. Hijack a nuclear warhead and hold the world to ransom for one million dollars! 1. Send an obviously faked-up memo to DeSmogBlog to make them look ridiculous. Oh wait... http://www.wendymcelroy.com/news.php?extend.4518

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (9689)	2/18/2012 12:56:08 PM
From: Brumar89	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 85487

Big Oil Funding The Global Warming Scam With Big Dollars Posted on February 18, 2012 by Steven Goddard Heartland got $25,000 from Koch, while Stanford got almost 10,000 times as much from big oil. Exxon-Led Group Is Giving A Climate Grant to Stanford By ANDREW C. REVKIN Published: November 21, 2002 Four big international companies, including the oil giant Exxon Mobil, said yesterday that they would give Stanford University $225 million over 10 years for research on ways to meet growing energy needs without worsening global warming. Exxon-Led Group Is Giving A Climate Grant to Stanford BP Deal at UC Berkeley: Corporate Research, Profits and Global Warming On February 1, Robert Birgeneau, Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, announced an agreement between BP (formerly British Petroleum) and the University of California at Berkeley to establish an Energy Biosciences Institute (EBI) on the Berkeley campus. Under the agreement BP will provide the university with $500 million over 10 years. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, this is “by far the largest alliance ever between industry and academia.” BP Deal at UC Berkeley Alarmists see Koch’s minuscule funding to skeptics as being evidence of corruption, while Exxon and BP’s huge contributions to alarmists are all good. http://www.real-science.com/big-oil-funding-global-warming-scam-big