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At the turn of the 21st century, biofuels appeared to be a solution to mounting concerns over greenhouse gas emissions, climate change, skyrocketing fuel prices and dependence on foreign energy. When Congress passed the Energy Policy Act (EP Act) in 2005 with a renewable fuel standard (RFS) provision mandating that producers add ethanol to gasoline, it is unlikely that lawmakers thought the act would increase hunger and social unrest in the world’s poorest countries. However, unintended consequences frequently accompany even the most well-intentioned policies, says Sherzod Abdukadirov, a research fellow with the Mercatus Center.

The EP Act simply ramped up the already increasing use of ethanol as a fuel additive with the hope of reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
The law’s proponents expected higher ethanol use to offset rising oil prices by filling at least some of the domestic demand for fuel.
Further, because most ethanol in the United States comes from domestically produced corn, policy advocates hoped the act would make the country less dependent on imported oil. As an added bonus, the policy would benefit U.S. farmers.

At the time, the policy seemed perfect. As the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) implemented the policy and further increased its production in 2007, scholars and environmentalists began to question its environmental and energy benefits. Beyond ethanol’s questionable viability as a fuel, the negative environmental impacts of corn production undermine ethanol’s benefits. Scholars and environmentalists claim that ethanol production leads to air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, offsetting some of the environmental gains from its use as a fuel.

FROM AN E-PAL…..STEVE STEIN I know that many of you are not football fans or rather familiar with the game played with a pointy ball and men in suits of armour.  But the UEFA football championships are of immense interest to much of the world. That Israel hosts the Under 21competition is a great success […]

American patriot and intellectual Michael Chandler fills in for Jamie Glazov as host of the best talk show in America and produces a stellar episode!

A Must See! Don’t miss it!!

U.S. Sovereignty Under Siege — on The Chandler Gang
Larry Greenfield, Dwight Schultz and Lloyd Romeo unveil the forces waging war on American freedom and autonomy.
http://frontpagemag.com/2013/jamie-glazov/u-s-sovereignty-under-siege-on-the-chandler-gang/

http://frontpagemag.com/2013/steven-plaut/the-killer-in-the-tel-aviv-gay-lounge-was/ It is now almost exactly four years since the murderous attack on the homosexual recreational center in Tel Aviv.   In August of 2009, a man with a gun entered the “Bar Ha-Noar” (the “Youth Bar”), a Tel Aviv gay lounge, murdered two and wounded others.  Then he escaped. The reaction of the media and […]

http://www.prudenpolitics.com/newsletter?utm_source=P&P%20Auto%201&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=7481 Trust us. Would your government – and the private contractors your government hires to do the work – do anything bad? Snooping into the intimate details of the lives of everyone is not nice. Besides, it could be worse, and that’s all the proof anyone needs to see that it’s not really bad at […]

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3757/missile-defense-new-york-times Recent news is that both North Korea and Pakistan have sought help in developing EMP weapons; Iran has launched its missile tests in an EMP mode. The U.S. could, for a small additional expense, protect the country from EMP and nuclear threats through the production of short and medium defense radars and interceptors, now […]

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/350622/power-and-power-wielders-andrew-c-mccarthy In the latest NSA surveillance controversies, there are two major, inseparable issues: (a) Is the awesome power to collect information essential for national security in light of our current threat environment, and (b) even if it is, should we trust the government to wield this power both lawfully and prudently? The problem national security […]

http://spectator.org/archives/2013/06/10/are-we-being-imprismed Is there anyone in government we can trust? It seemed as if we’d be able to focus on the Eric Holder subset of the Obama scandal parade for at least a few days. But we were interrupted by revelations about Obama’s telephone and email snooping published in the Guardian, a Brit newspaper not known […]

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As I noted in my last column, “The Stinking Badges of Our Federales” (June 2nd), the Department of Justice is again on the attack against freedom of speech. The occasion for this guerilla attack is a talk to be given by United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Tennessee Bill Killian during an event sponsored by the American Muslim Advisory Council of Tennessee.

His talk will be about civil rights restrictions on speech in the “social media” as it applies to Muslims – that is, speech that criticizes Muslims and Islam, not speech by Muslims that could be defined as “bigoted” or “hateful” – and there is far, far more of that than there is of the occasional nose-thumbing of Muslims and Islam). It will be about “inflammatory speech,” which could mean anything, even a scholarly disquisition on the origins and practice of Islam. Judicial Watch reports that the event, called “Public Disclosure in a Diverse Society,” will

feature the region’s top DOJ official, who serves as U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Tennessee, and an FBI representative. The goal is to increase awareness and understanding that American Muslims are not the terrorists some have made them out to be in social media and other circles, according to a local newspaper report. The June 4 powwow is sponsored by the American Muslim Advisory Council of Tennessee.

The area’s top federal prosecutor, Bill Killian, will address a topic that most Americans are likely unfamiliar with, even those well versed on the Constitution; that federal civil rights laws can actually be violated by those who post inflammatory documents aimed at Muslims on social media. “This is an educational effort with civil rights laws as they play into freedom of religion and exercising freedom of religion,” Killian says in the local news story. “This is also to inform the public what federal laws are in effect and what the consequences are.”

So, civil rights laws will be “interpreted” to identify “harmful” statements made on Face Book and other social media and help the DOJ and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) to lodge suits against anyone expressing his freedom of speech if it offends Muslims and Islam.

Pamela Geller of Atlas Shrugs is on the warpath and is urging readers near and far to assemble in Manchester, Tennessee to vigorously demonstrate opposition to Killian’s trial balloon of selective censorship in favor of Muslims and Islam.

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Three high level Muslim Brotherhood operatives will be teaching a 6-week course titled “Muslim World Affairs” at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis.

Collectively, they are members of two Muslim Brotherhood organizations – IIIT and ISNA – named as “unindicted co-conspirators” in the Holy Land Foundation – Hamas funding trial, the largest terrorist funding trial in U.S. history.

The International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) is a Saudi-Wahhabi organization that promotes Islam and shariah. It receives most of its funding from an organization that finances Al Qaeda (SAAR or SAFA Trust). IIIT and ISNA are listed in the Muslim Brotherhood’s plan for America (The Explanatory Memorandum for the General Strategic Goals for the Group in North America written in 1987) as organizations that share the common goal of “eliminating and destroying Western civilization from within” in order to make Islam “victorious over all other religions.”

The Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), which finances terrorism, is the largest Islamic organization in North America and is charged with enforcing strict Wahhabism in America’s mosques. (A 2005 Freedom House study found that over 80% of America’s mosque taught Saudi Wahhabist hate ideology).

The U.S. Department of Justice, the FBI and the U.S. mililtary work closely with ISNA, which was one of 57 organizations that demanded that ALL federal government training materials deemed biased against Islam be purged and a mandatory re-training program for FBI agents, U.S. Army officers and all federal, state and local law enforcement be instituted. The “purge” was completed in six weeks and the retraining has begun.

Janet Levy,

Los Angeles

http://www.jihadwatch.org/

Every day brings new confirmation of how compromised the U.S. government, military, and intelligence apparatus really is. After the Obama Administration purged counterterror training materials of all truth about Islam and jihad, this is what they replaced it with.

“FEATURED STORY: US Naval Academy Instructor Teaching On Behalf Of US Muslim Brotherhood,” from the Global Muslim Brotherhood Watch, May 14 (thanks to Jeff):