End Our Dependence on Fossil Fuels: It is Killing Us in Every Way Imagineable

Dear Administrator Johnson and EPA staff:

It is the mandate of the American people to the administrators of the nation to declare a clear break from the use of fossils fuels.

The mentality and dependence of using fossil fuel must be broken. Fossil fuels must be declared as extinct, as the dinosaurs.

Administrators must recognize how counter productive dependence on fossil fuels is to producing new energy technologies.

The existence and progress of mankind hinges on a clear break from fossil fuels, and it must start with you Mr. Johnson, the EPA, and your staff.

A clear message must be sent to every industry and every business that the nation will no longer rely on fossil fuels.

If you don't take drastic steps to shift our dependence on fossil fuels we will suffer both economically and personally in the very near future.

I urge you to take immediate action and rule that carbon dioxide and other global warming pollutants clearly "endanger the public’s security, health, welfare, and economic well being" and thus should be regulated and eliminated under the Clean Air Act, but more importantly you must declare that the nation cannot continue to exist with the use of fossil fuels period.

Carbon dioxide (CO2) pollution and the use of fossil fuels is the primary cause of the energy crisis, the climate crisis, and health crisis we face today.

We're already seeing dramatic and dangerous climate effects today, and the climate crisis threatens the very livability of our planet for our children. We must reduce CO2 pollution now by eliminating our dependence on fossil fuels.

Rather than continue to rely on polluting fossil fuels, we can "Repower America" by developing new energy, and using existing energy sources that don't emit CO2.

We must make the switch to 100% clean electricity, and we must lead the world with the developing of a new energy technology. But first you must declare fossil fuels extinct. It is our mandate to you.

Submit your public comment to the EPA here:
http://www.repoweramerica.org/epa/

Hillary’s New Hurdle for Secretary of State: Our Constitution

Sen. Hillary Clinton on the Hill. (Melina Mara/The Washington Post)

Hillary really wants to be Secretary of State, and she would be an excellent choice from the current selection of candidates.

After intense purposeful, scrutiny, and deliberations with President Bill Clinton’s counsel and the Podesta transition team.

Just when Bill Clinton, tells the Nation and the Obama folks, “I’ll do whatever they want,” to eliminate any barriers, and disclose any all of his dealings with the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) and stop any extra curricular activities with foreign dignitaries, and stop any benevolent activities that may be viewed as a conflict of interest, to rid any obstacles to Hillary’s nomination to Secretary of State, another hurdle arises.

Two hundred and thirty two years later our beloved Constitution and founding fathers have something to say about President Elect Obama’s pick for Secretary of State. Our founding fathers are speaking to us through the Emoluments Clause, of the Constitution. Al Kamen, of The Washington Posts writes,

“… specifically, Article One, Section Six, also known as the emoluments clause. ("Emoluments" means things like salaries.) It says that no member of Congress, during the term for which he was elected, shall be named to any office "the emoluments whereof shall have been increased during his term."

The aim of the constitution and founding fathers is to make sure that members of Congress do not reward themselves by providing for raises and then taking possession of those lucrative higher paying spots. The objective is avoiding the appearance of conflict of interest or shall we say greed.

But there is precedent, and Hillary has a possible fix, read the rest of the story here, at the Washington Post.

Obama Taps Intelligence Transition Team supporting WMD and Rendition Reports

Democracy Now
The War and Peace Report
website link
November 17, 2008
Reports the following story:

Ex-CIA Officials Tied to Rendition Program and Faulty Iraq Intel Tapped to Head Obama’s Intelligence Transition Team

John Brennan and Jami Miscik, both former intelligence officials under George Tenet, are leading Barack Obama’s review of intelligence agencies and helping make recommendations to the new administration. Brennan has supported warrantless wiretapping and extraordinary rendition, and Miscik was involved with the politicized intelligence alleging weapons of mass destruction in the lead-up to the war on Iraq. We speak with former CIA analyst Melvin Goodman and Michael Ratner of the Center for Constitutional Rights. (link)

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FOR DISCUSSION:

"Doesn't it make some sense for Obama to hire some guys who have actual
KNOWLEDGE of what has gone on for the past 8 years, rather than come in
clueless?

I mean... these guys are on the "transition" team, not being appointed to be
in charge of future operations." - Michael Martinson

BUT doesn't their past automatically bias their suggestions for transition?

"I'm not going to second-guess Obama or try to read his mind, but he seems
like a pretty sophisticated guy. If you had to cross a mine field,
wouldn't it be advantageous to have the person who had laid down the mines
be on your team, at least until you were safely across?" Abigail Marshall

Or are we being naive here? What are your thoughts?