Government Zero : No Borders, No Language, No Culture (9781455563517)

by Savage, Michael

  18. Elizabeth Dias. “Pope Francis Speaks Out on Charlie Hebdo: ‘One Cannot Make Fun of Faith.’” Time, January 15, 2015.

  19. Thomas Jefferson. “Notes on Virginia, Query XVII.” In Jefferson: Writings. Literary Classics of the United States, New York, 1984, p. 285.

  20. “Pope’s Address to Popular Movements” (Vatican City, October 29, 2014). Zenit.org. http://www.zenit.org/en/articles/pope-s-address-to-popular-movements.

  21. Thomas Reese. “Does Pope Francis Have a Master’s Degree in Chemistry?” National Catholic Reporter, June 3, 2015. http://ncronline.org/blogs/ncr-today/does-pope-francis-have-masters-degree-chemistry.

  22. Associated Press. “Pope on Climate Change: Man Has ‘Slapped Nature in the Face.’” New York Times, January 15, 2015. http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2015/01/15/world/asia/ap-as-rel-pope-asia-climate-.html?_r=0.

  23. Arthur B. Robinson, Noah E. Robinson, and Willie Soon. “Environmental Effects of Increased Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide.” Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine. http://www.oism.org/pproject/s33p36.htm.

  24. Jared Diamond. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. Penguin, New York, 2005, p. 266.

  25. Robinson, Robinson, and Soon. “Environmental Effects of Increased Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide.”

  26. Manfred Mudelsee. “The Phase Relations Among Atmospheric CO2 Content, Temperature and Global Ice Volume over the Past 420 ka.” Quaternary Science Reviews 20 (2001):583–589.

  27. P. W. Adams. “*Ugh* Catholic Cardinal Pushes ‘Sustainable Development’; Says Gov’s Role to Reduce Gap Between Privileged and Majority.” Progressives Today, May 22, 2015. http://www.progressivestoday.com/ugh-catholic-cardinal-pushes-sustainable-development-says-govs-role-to-reduce-gap-between-privileged-and-majority/.

  28. Ryan Mac. “Richer Than Romney: Al Gore Scores on Sale of Current TV.” Forbes, January 4, 2013. http://www.forbes.com/sites/ryanmac/2013/01/04/richer-than-romney-al-gore-scores-on-sale-of-current-tv/.

  29. Jake Tapper. “Al Gore’s ‘Inconvenient Truth’?—A $30,000 Utility Bill.” ABC News, February 26, 2007. http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/GlobalWarming/story?id=2906888.

  30. Ben Wyatt. “Paranoia, Parquet Floors and Pool Tables: Welcome to the Sochi Home of Stalin.” CNN, June 3, 2014. http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/12/world/sochi-olympics-joseph-stalin-dacha/.

  31. David McCullough. John Adams. Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, New York, 2008, p. 441.

  32. Pope Francis. Laudato Si: On Care for Our Common Home. Libereria Editrice Vaticana, Rome, May 24, 2015. http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/encyclicals/documents/papa-francesco_20150524_enciclica-laudato-si.html.

  33. Ibid.

  34. Ibid.

  35. William M. Briggs. “The Scientific Pantheist Who Advises Pope Francis.” The Stream, June 22, 2015. https://stream.org/scientific-pantheist-who-advises-pope-francis/.

  36. Ibid.

  37. Laudato Si, paragraph 60.

  38. Ibid., paragraph 233.

  39. Ibid., paragraph 50.

  40. Ibid., paragraph 189.

  41. Ibid., paragraph 193.

  Chapter 9: Zero Science

  1. Bjorn Stevens. “Rethinking the Lower Bound on Aerosol Radiative Forcing.” Journal of Climate 28 (June 2015):4794–4819. http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00656.1.

  2. Michael Bastasch. “Scientists Say New Study Is a ‘Death Blow’ to Global Warming Hysteria.” Daily Caller, March 31, 2015. http://dailycaller.com/2015/03/31/scientists-say-new-study-is-a-death-blow-to-global-warming-hysteria/.

  3. The White House. “Climate Change.” https://www.whitehouse.gov/energy/climate-change.

  4. Quoted in Jonathan Pearlman. “Australia PM Adviser Says Climate Change Is ‘UN-Led Ruse to Establish New World Order.’” Telegraph (UK), May 8, 2015. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/11591193/Australia-PM-advisor-says-climate-change-a-UN-led-ruse.html.

  5. “Lysenkoism.” Rational Wiki. http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Lysenkoism#cite_note-0.

  6. David Joravsky. The Lysenko Affair. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1970, pp. 308–309.

  7. Michael Asher. “Princeton Physicist Calls Global Warming Science ‘Mistaken.’” Daily Tech, December 23, 2008. http://www.dailytech.com/Princeton+Physicist+Calls+Global+Warming+Science+Mistaken/article13773.htm.

  8. Adam Weinstein. “Arrest Climate-Change Deniers.” Gawker, March 28, 2014. http://gawker.com/arrest-climate-change-deniers-1553719888.

  9. Paul Homewood. “Massive Tampering with Temperatures in South America.” Not a Lot of People Know That (blog), January 20, 2015. https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2015/01/20/massive-tampering-with-temperatures-in-south-america/.

  10. Maxim Lott. “Distorted Data? Feds Close 600 Weather Stations Amid Criticism They’re Situated To Report Warming.” Fox News, August 13, 2013. http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/08/13/weather-station-closures-flaws-in-temperature-record/.

  11. Ibid.

  12. “Cretaceous Period: Life.” University of California Museum of Paleontology. http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/mesozoic/cretaceous/cretlife.html.

  13. Dave Hoopman. “The Faithful Heretic.” Wisconsin Energy Cooperative News, May 2007. http://www.wecnmagazine.com/2007issues/may/may07.html.

  14. Ibid.

  15. Global Warming Petition Project (official website). http://www.petitionproject.org/.

  16. Manfred Mudelsee. “The Phase Relations Among Atmospheric CO2 Content, Temperature and Global Ice Volume over the Past 420 ka.” Quaternary Science Reviews 20 (2001):583–589.

  17. Joe Martino. “420,000 Years of Data Suggests Global Warming Is Not Entirely Manmade.” Collective Evolution (CE). http://www.collective-evolution.com/2013/02/08/420000-years-of-data-suggestss-global-warming-is-not-man-made/.

  18. Michael Bastasch. “Antarctic Sea Ice Did the Exact Opposite of What Models Predicted.” Daily Caller, March 2, 2015. http://dailycaller.com/2015/03/02/antarctic-sea-ice-did-the-exact-opposite-of-what-models-predicted/.

  19. Christopher Booker. “The Fiddling with Temperature Data Is the Biggest Science Scandal Ever.” Telegraph (UK), February 7, 2015. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/environment/globalwarming/11395516/The-fiddling-with-temperature-data-is-the-biggest-science-scandal-ever.html.

  20. Ibid.

  21. Homewood. “Massive Tampering with Temperatures in South America.”

  22. Joseph D’Aleo and Anthony Watts. “Surface Temperature Records: Policy Drive Deception?” SPPI Original Paper, August 27, 2010. Science and Public Policy Institute. http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/images/stories/papers/originals/surface_temp.pdf.

  23. Ibid., pp. 24–25.

  24. Quoted in John Hinderaker. “NOAA Caught Rewriting US Temperature History (Again).” Powerline, May 5, 2015. http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2015/05/noaa-caught-rewriting-us-temperature-history-again.php.

  25. “Record Antarctic Sea Ice a Logistic Problem for Scientists.” Yahoo! News, May 12, 2015. http://news.yahoo.com/record-antarctic-sea-ice-logistic-problem-scientists-071717226.html.

  26. James Taylor. “Updated NASA Data: Global Warming Not Causing Any Polar Ice Retreat.” Forbes, May 19, 2015. http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2015/05/19/updated-nasa-data-polar-ice-not-receding-after-all/.

  27. Ibid.

  28. Ezra Klein. “Obama: The Vox Conversation, Part 1: Domestic Policy.” Vox, January 2015. http://www.vox.com/a/barack-obama-interview-vox-conversation/obama-domestic-policy-transcript.

  Chapter 10: Zero Business Sense

  1. “Thank you, Janet Yellen! Stocks Surge After Fed.” CNN Money, March 18, 2015. http://money.cnn.com/2015/03/18/investing/stocks-markets-surge-federal-reserve-statement/.

  2. National Archives. Federal Register. “Executive Order 12631—Working Group on Financial Markets.” March 18, 1988. http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/codification/executive-order/12631.html.

  3. Jim Clifton. “The Big Lie: 5.6% Unemployment.” Gallup, Februar
y 3, 2015. http://www.gallup.com/opinion/chairman/181469/big-lie-unemployment.aspx.

  4. “Alternate Unemployment Charts.” May 8, 2015. John Williams’ Shadow Government Statistics. http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/unemployment-charts.

  5. Perianne Boring. “If You Want to Know the Real Rate of Inflation, Don’t Bother with the CPI.” Forbes, February 3, 2014. http://www.forbes.com/sites/perianneboring/2014/02/03/if-you-want-to-know-the-real-rate-of-inflation-dont-bother-with-the-cpi/.

  6. Peter J. Wallison and Edward J. Pinto. “A Government-Mandated Housing Bubble.” Forbes, February 16, 2009. http://www.forbes.com/2009/02/13/housing-bubble-subprime-opinions-contributors_0216_peter_wallison_edward_pinto.html.

  7. The White House. “Setting the Record Straight: Six Years of Unheeded Warnings for GSE Reform.” October 9, 2008. http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2008/10/20081009-10.html.

  8. Ed Morrissey. “Harvard study: Dodd-Frank Actually Made ‘Too Big to Fail’ Even Bigger.” Hot Air, February 12, 2015. http://hotair.com/archives/2015/02/12/harvard-study-dodd-frank-actually-made-too-big-to-fail-even-bigger/.

  9. Max Ehrenfreund. “Remember Solyndra? Those Loans Are Making Money.” Wonkblog (blog), Washington Post, November 13, 2014. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/11/13/wonkbook-remember-solyndra-those-loans-are-making-money/.

  10. Michael Bastasch. “GAO: DOE’s Green Energy Loans Won’t Make a Profit.” Daily Caller, April 28, 2015. http://dailycaller.com/2015/04/27/gao-does-green-energy-loans-wont-make-a-profit/.

  11. Jack Ewing. “European Central Bank Expands Mandate As It Struggles to Keep Zone Intact.” New York Times, May 24, 2015. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/25/business/international/european-central-bank-expands-mandate-as-it-struggles-to-keep-zone-intact.html?_r=0.

  12. Peter Morici. “The Poverty of Obama’s Foreign Policy.” Newsmax, May 18, 2015. http://www.newsmax.com/PeterMorici/obama-foreign-policy-history/2015/05/18/id/645172/.

  13. Kitco. “24-Hour Spot Chart—Gold.” http://www.kitco.com/charts/livegold.html.

  14. Lawrence Kudlow. “Waxing Dollar Lifts Hopes for a Boom, Despite Gloomsayers.” New York Sun, March 13, 2015. http://www.nysun.com/national/waxing-dollar-emerges-as-hope-for-an-economic/89090/.

  15. Kara Rowland and the Associated Press. “Reid Throws Brakes on Obama Trade Push.”Fox News Politics, May 5, 2015. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/05/05/reid-throws-brakes-on-obama-trade-push/.

  16. Edward-Isaac Dovere. “Extreme Secrecy Eroding Support for Obama’s Trade Pact.” Politico in Europe, May 4, 2015. http://www.politico.com/story/2015/05/secrecy-eroding-support-for-trade-pact-critics-say-117581.html.

  17. Rowland and the Associated Press. “Reid Throws Brakes on Obama Trade Push.”

  18. Lisa Mascaro and Don Lee. “Obama Suffers Big Loss As Trade Bill Is Defeated at Hands of Democrats.” Los Angeles Times, June 12, 2015. http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-house-vote-fast-track-20150612-story.html#page=1.

  19. Cristina Marcos and Vicki Needham. “House Approves Fast-Track 218–208, Sending Bill to Senate.” Hill, June 18, 2015. http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/245417-house-approves-fast-track-218-208-sending-bill-to-senate.

  20. Alexander Bolton. “Senate Approves Fast-Track, Sending Trade Bill to White House.” Hill, June 24, 2015. http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/246035-senate-approves-fast-track-sending-trade-bill-to-white-house.

  21. U.S. Department of Commerce. Bureau of Economic Analysis. “March 2015 Trade Gap is $51.4 Billion.” May 5, 2015. http://blog.bea.gov/category/trade-deficit/.

  22. Jim Acosta. “Obama’s Cars Claim in Trade Deal Running on Empty?” CNN Politics, May 6, 2015. http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/06/politics/obama-tpp-trans-pacific-partnership-cars-japan/.

  23. Paul Bedard. “New Trade Warning: International ‘Tribunal’ Could Junk U.S. Laws to Help Foreign Firms.” Washington Examiner, May 7, 2015. http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/new-trade-warning-international-tribunal-could-junk-u.s.-laws-to-help-foreign-firms/article/2564133.

  24. Alex Swoyer. “Revealed: The Secret Immigration Chapter in Obama’s Trade Agreement.” Breitbart News, June 10, 2015. http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/06/10/revealed-the-secret-immigration-chapter-in-obamas-trade-agreement/.

  25. Ibid.

  26. Paul Kane. “Obama Wins Trade Victory in the Senate.” Washington Post, May 22, 2015. http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obama-wins-trade-victory-in-the-senate/2015/05/22/1cb6958e-00c7-11e5-8b6c-0dcce21e223d_story.html.

  27. Shan Li and Matt Morrison. “Edison’s Plans to Cut Jobs, Hire Foreign Workers Is Assailed.” Los Angeles Times, February 10, 2015. http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-edison-layoffs-20150211-story.html.

  28. Ibid.

  29. Lily-Hayes Kaufman. “In Defense of the H-1B Visa.” Forbes, March 22, 2009. http://www.forbes.com/2009/03/22/H-1b-visa-mba-america-tarp-opinions-contributors-universities.html.

  30. Adelle Nazarian. “Exclusive: Union Official Says ‘Corporate Greed’ Behind Push for H-1B Visas.” Breitbart News, March 16, 2015. http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/03/16/exclusive-union-official-says-corporate-greed-behind-push-for-h-1b-visas/.

  31. Robert N. Charette. “The STEM Crisis Is a Myth.” IEEE Spectrum, August 30, 2013. http://spectrum.ieee.org/at-work/education/the-stem-crisis-is-a-myth.

  Chapter 11: Zero Liberty

  1. Chuck Ross. “Breaking: Shooting in Texas Outside of Muslim Cartoon Event Attended by Geert Wilders.” Daily Caller, May 3, 2015. http://dailycaller.com/2015/05/03/breaking-shooting-in-texas-outside-of-muslim-cartoon-event-attended-by-geert-wilders/.

  2. “O’Reilly on Pamela Geller Mohammed Drawing Contest: ‘Insulting The Entire Muslim World Is Stupid’” (video). Real Clear Politics Video, May 6, 2015. http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2015/05/06/oreilly_on_pamela_geller_mohammed_drawing_contest_insulting_the_entire_muslim_world_is_stupid.html.

  3. Josh Feldman. “O’Reilly Tackles Texas Shooting: ‘Insulting the Entire Muslim World Is Stupid.’” Mediaite, May 5, 2015. http://www.mediaite.com/tv/oreilly-tackles-texas-shooting-insulting-the-entire-muslim-world-is-stupid/.

  4. Penny Starr. “Domestic Terror Attack on Family Research Council in New Exhibit at National Crime Museum.” CNS News, March 20, 2015. http://cnsnews.com/news/article/penny-starr/domestic-terror-attack-family-research-council-new-exhibit-national-crime.

  5. “NBC Terrorism Analyst: Mohammed Drawing Event Attackers Were ‘Nutcases’; Plenty of Christians ‘Have Done the Exact Same Thing’” (video and transcript). Real Clear Politics Video, May 4, 2015. http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2015/05/04/nbc_terrorism_analyst_evan_kohlmann_mohammed_drawing_event_attackers_were_nutcases_christians_jews_exact_same_thing.html.

  6. Ibid.

  7. Todd Starnes. “WH Silent over Demands to Denounce ‘Piss Christ’ Artwork.” Fox News Radio. September 21, 2012. http://radio.foxnews.com/toddstarnes/top-stories/wh-silent-over-demands-to-denounce-piss-christ-artwork.html.

  8. Patrick Poole. “Kansas City Mosque That Wanted to Ban Free Speech Will Hold Funeral for TX Jihadist Nadir Soofi.” PJ Tatler, PJ Media, May 6, 2015. http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2015/05/06/kansas-city-mosque-that-wanted-to-ban-free-speech-will-hold-funeral-for-texas-jihadist-shooter-nadir-soofi/.

  9. Ibid.

  10. Ibid.

  11. Ibid.

  12. Randy DeSoto. “ISIS Makes Terrifying Threat to US, Names These States, Gives Time Frame.” Western Journalism, May 7, 2015. http://www.westernjournalism.com/isis-claims-to-have-71-trained-soldiers-in-targeted-u-s-states/.

  13. Todd J. Gillman. “White House on Garland Attack: No Act of Expression Justifies Violence, Even If It’s Offensive.” The Dallas Morning News, May 4, 2015. http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2015/05/white-house-on-garland-attack-no-act-of-expression-justifies-violence-even-if-its-offensive.html/

  14. The White House. Office of the Press Secretary. “Press Briefing by Press Secretary Josh Earnest, 5/5/2015.” May 5, 20
15. https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2015/05/05/press-briefing-press-secretary-josh-earnest-552015.

  15. Ayaan Hirsi Ali. “Why Islam Needs a Reformation.” Wall Street Journal, March 20, 2015. http://www.wsj.com/articles/a-reformation-for-islam-1426859626.

  16. Carla Power. “What Ayaan Hirsi Ali Doesn’t Get About Islam.” Time, April 17, 2015. http://time.com/3825345/what-ayaan-hirsi-ali-doesnt-get-about-islam/.

  17. Haroon Moghul. “Ayaan Hirsi Ali Is Hurting Islam: Why Her Radical Reformation Is in Desperate Need of Reform.” Salon, April 21, 2015. http://www.salon.com/2015/04/21/ayaan_hirsi_ali_is_hurting_islam_why_her_radical_reformation_is_in_desperate_need_of_reform_partner/.

  18. “Exclusive—Ayaan Hirsi Ali Extended Interview” (video). The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Comedy Central, March 23, 2015. http://thedailyshow.cc.com/extended-interviews/gndgo0/exclusive-ayaan-hirsi-ali-extended-interview.

  19. Josh Gerstein, Tarini Parti, Hadas Gold, and Dylan Byers. “Clinton Foundation Donors Include Dozens of Media Organizations, Individuals.” Politico, May 15, 2015. http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2015/05/clinton-foundation-donors-include-dozens-of-media-207228.html.

  20. Peter Schweizer. “Stephanopoulos, ABC Have Not Fully Disclosed Clinton Ties: Schweizer.” USA Today, May 18, 2015. http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2015/05/16/stephanopoulos-abc-clinton-schweizer-foundation-hillary-column/27436475/.

  21. John Nolte. “Obama Rips Fox: ‘We’re Going to Have to Change How the Media Reports.’” Breitbart News, May 12, 2015. http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2015/05/12/obama-rips-fox-were-going-to-have-to-change-how-the-media-reports/.

  22. “Not How They Roll: Pentagon Asks Media to Scrap Old Footage of ISIS Columns.” Fox News, May 15, 2015. http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/05/15/pentagon-asks-media-to-can-old-footage-isis-columns/.

  23. U.S. Army Special Operations Command. “Request to Conduct Realistic Military Training (RMT) Jade Helm 15.” Available at https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B3axduuybL0jdjZQUjhsSmJsZTA/edit.