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meow2u3

(24,759 posts)
Wed Mar 12, 2014, 10:39 PM Mar 2014

Climate Change Denying Koch Brothers Are Deemed a Threat to National Security

It is generally expected and hoped that a country’s national security is not threatened by domestic traitors who deliberately jeopardize their homeland for monetary rewards. It hardly matters how powerful and efficient a nation’s military is when its mandate to defend the country is undermined from within the government due to the machinations of the country’s domestic enemies. One of the greatest assets protecting America’s national security is its intelligence community and military that spends a great deal of their time identifying and assessing threats to national security and evaluating terrorism threats at home and abroad. Recently, the Department of Defense identified a major threat to America’s national security and in doing so exposed domestic enemies intent on reinforcing the threat with millions of dollars for propaganda, blatant lies, and diversion.

The nation’s enemies are a familiar cult led by the Koch brothers who, with their foot soldiers in the Republican Party, teabagger movement, and evangelical Christians, are working in concert to enable terrorism and threaten America’s national security in the pursuit of power and money. Last week the Department of Defense and Pentagon identified global climate change as a threat to national security and warned it will increase terrorist activities that will certainly affect America. One might think an ominous national security threat warning from the Pentagon would engender a response and call to arms to confront the threat and minimize its danger, but there has been as little reaction to the DOD’s warning today as there was in 2006 when the Central Intelligence Agency and Pentagon first alerted the nation to the real and present danger climate change poses to national security.

The only politicians acknowledging the Pentagon and intelligence community warnings are President Obama and Senate Democrats who spent more than 14 hours around the clock Monday night to draw attention to the incredible dangers posed by climate change, and to compel congressional Republicans to stop ignoring the national security threat before it is too late. However, Democrats and the President are up against a formidable foe in the Koch brothers’ John Birch acolytes that could not possibly care less about climate change or the threat it poses to national security.

http://www.politicususa.com/2014/03/12/climate-change-denying-koch-brothers-deemed-threat-national-security.html

Even the Pentagon is calling the Koch Bros. traitors!

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Climate Change Denying Koch Brothers Are Deemed a Threat to National Security (Original Post) meow2u3 Mar 2014 OP
The Pentagon knew and published about climate and what will happen globally decades ago. freshwest Mar 2014 #1

freshwest

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1. The Pentagon knew and published about climate and what will happen globally decades ago.
Thu Mar 13, 2014, 12:00 AM
Mar 2014

Unfortunately, the Koches and their ilk own the lying media. So we think this is news now. Guess we have to haul back to the 60s and 70s again because half of the citizens lost their memory from watching useless shit on television.

Government: The View from Washington, DC

Following the Second World War, the United States Federal government funded many kinds of research, much of it connected to Cold War concerns, and some of this happened to relate to climate change. During the 1960s, the government created major agencies for space, atmospheric, and ocean science, and in the 1970s, as public concern for the environment mounted, the agencies increasingly supported research targeted directly at climate change. But climate scientists were too few and disorganized to push through a unified national research program. Their budgets, divided among different agencies, would rise for a few years and then stagnate. During the 1980s, the funding and the science itself came under attack. The technical question of whether climate change might be a threat got caught up in political battles between pro-regulation environmentalists and anti-government conservatives. Demands for policies to mitigate global warming found little support among American politicians, who thought the ideas were politically unfeasible if not downright pernicious. (This essay describes relations between government and science, touching only briefly on arguments over specific policies. It covers only the United States government; other countries were certainly important, but I have not researched them. For international developments, see the essay on International Cooperation ).

Go to link to at the bottom to find each of these and links to download more:

Subsections: Cold War Organizations and Climate Research (1950s) - New Research Organizations (1957-1970) - Rising Concern about Climate Change - A Federal Program for Climate Change Research? (Early 1970s) - Attempts at Coordination - NASA and Other Funders - Global Warming Becomes a Political Issue (1980-1983) - Research Organization in the1980s - The Summer of 1988 - Resistance and Stasis (1989-2001) - Research Organization in the 1990s - The George W. Bush Administration - The Obama Administration

http://www.aip.org/history/climate/Govt.htm

The one I'm most familiar with are the ones from the 1970s before the Great Leap Back Asswards. This was common knowledge and discussed at one time. The Pentagon, no matter how much we may hate it in theory, is not just about dropping bombs. That's just the stuff the news loves to talk about.

The USA government is being starved of resources to do its job for the American people by Koch lackeys, who are also destroying the knowledge base of the entire nation to create permanent castes in the population to use as little more than robots.

Right now, they provide the flesh and blood hands pulling the ballot levels for traitorous groups but later, they'll have something more sinister to do with them. JMHO.


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