The  Saturday, July 17, 2010 publication of the Marin Independent Journal headlined its “TOP STORY”  on page one:  “Coping with doom, gloom”,  written by Richard Halstead,  the IJ writer for business, health care and politics.  Mr. Halstead’s writing is about   Andre Angelantoni who has a company called “Post Peak Living” who “sees a future where”:

• “global warming”
• “dwindling oil supplies”

will result in:

• “spiraling unemployment”
• “food shortages” and
• “rising poverty”
• the beginning of the decline of our civilization
• our national unhealthiness, as medical accessibility declines, will create a huge humanitarian crisis. 
• People having to have to get used to people dying of things they used to die of in the past”
• decline in  oil production  re-arranging our society much faster than climate change, while I (Angelantoni) was focused for years on global warming.
• All the oil that can be extracted from tar sands and oil shale, at a higher price, will not be ramped up fast enough to compensate
• unemployment reaching depression levels and continue past that
• oil price shocks and climate change which will result in less  food production worldwide in a big way this decade
• “fewer people seeking higher education because there will be no jobs”. “Once this contraction begins, you don’t need all these educated people.”

Another crisis monger is Raven Gray, President of  TRANSITION  US, who is based in Sebastopol, just up the road from Angelantoni.

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I would like to educate them as to the basic foundation of their beliefs:

• GLOBAL WARMING:  The worlds leading scientists have told the worlds public the science of global warming has been affirmed by the scientific community.  This is simply not true.  Scientific data was manipulated by scientists at the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research  Unit in Norwich, England to make sure the final conclusion was to prove that global warming was a fact. 
• The reality is that The “global warming’”    hoax  has  been perpetrated by the progressives as a means to purposely cause a shortage of energy and oil supplies.
•  http://america-wake-up.com/2009/12/22/climategate-science-is-dying/
• The “dwindling    oil   supplies“  you refer to is false.  The progressive liberal energy programs (or lack of a program) are causing dwindling energy supplies in the US.   A current example is Obama shutting down 100% of all new drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.  All 33 rigs will shortly be moved elsewhere, tens of thousands of permanent jobs and tens of  millions of barrels of oil  production will be lost;   caused by OBAMA,  ON PURPOSE!!    Within the domestic United States  there are  more than 10  times the oil and natural gas supplies than  in the middle east alone.  These facts are documented and are not debateable. 

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Thus, because the PREMISE is false and has no basis in reality;  all the future projections (ABOVE)  of Mr. Angelantoni and Gray are scare tactics that they hope will provide them an audience so they can make a living off this nonsense.

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Angelantoni, Gray & Halstead, & Halstead’s employer, the Marin Independent  Journal,  are obviously big supporters of    the environmental movement.  The environmentalists and the progressives don’t give a hoot about the environment and  are destroying capitalism in America.  

http://america-wake-up.com/2010/06/16/environmentalists-politicians-do-not-care-about-the-environment-but-about-power-here-is-the-proof/          

  http://america-wake-up.com/2009/10/30/environmentals-are-destroying-america/

I will say that if the progressives, liberals, left and environmentalists are successful in their efforts to:

1. Continue spreading the false myth of global warming
2. curtail drilling for oil and natural gas on and off shore
3. curtail coal  & nuclear sources as the best  low-cost sources of electricity
4. prevent a continuation of the Bush tax cuts
5. violate the US Constitution every day
6. increase government spending programs
7. increase taxes
8. pass a cap and trade tax bill
9. prevent a 100% reversal of the Obama 2300 page health care bill
10. prevent a 100% reversal of the Obama 2300 pg financial reform bill
11. keep control of the House of Representatives & Senate in November
12. divert water resources to the fish rather than the farmers

Many of Mr. Angelantoni’s will in fact happen and the US will quickly be on the road to total disaster. 

The irony here is that all these progressive policies which will cause all these terrible things to happen are promoted by Angelantoni, Gray,  most at The Independent Journal, the democratic congress  and the Obama administration.  These people are ideologues and are economic illiterates. 

ALL THAT HAS TO BE DONE TO QUICKLY  TURN AROUND THE ECONOMY, INCREASE JOBS AND BECOME 100% ENERGY INDEPENDENT IS TO DO THE EXACT OPPOSITE  OF ITEMS 1 THROUGH 12 ABOVE.   The defeat of the progressives in the House and Senate on November 2, 2010 should be the first step to reverse all this Angelantoni & Gray doom and gloom.   the permanent solution can then occur in November 2012.

So, Mr Angelantoni and Gray,  if you want the nightmare you say is coming to really happen, continue voting for the progressives.  If you want energy independence, prosperity for America, jobs for everyone who wants one, less poverty, no food shortages,  a resurgence of America (“not the beginning of our decline”),  vote the progressives out,  encourage conservative values  and put sanity back in Washington DC.

Our Comments to this writing appear at the end of the article. 

Marin Voice: Is the progressive base eroding?

By Norman Solomon

Posted: 02/02/2010 09:37:06 AM PST

WHEN A LARGE crowd gathered at the Sausalito Cruising Club to watch the inauguration of Barack Obama, euphoria was in the air.  Many of us there had worked hard to make the historic moment possible. On that bright winter morning, we were proud, excited and hopeful. Fifty-four weeks later, the mood is very different.  

Last week’s State of the Union speech added to growing worries about a grim pattern: White House concessions go to hard-right Republican leaders who rarely give the slightest ground.    I want to remind progressives that Barack Obama never promised us a rose garden. While his oratory could soar, his inclinations as a politician have always been centrist.

Years ago, Obama gave us ample warning in his book “The Audacity of Hope,” which included this blunt caveat: “I serve as a blank screen on which people of vastly different political stripes project their own views.”

A week before he won the presidential election, I noted: “Progressives are mostly on board with the Obama campaign, even though – on paper, with his name removed – few of his positions deserve the ‘progressive’ label. We shouldn’t deceive ourselves into seeing Obama as someone he’s not.   ”Yet an Obama presidency offers the possibilities that persistent organizing and coalition-building at the grassroots could be effective at moving national policy in a progressive direction.”

Those possibilities remain. There’s little point in blaming President Obama. It’s up to progressive-minded people to push back against ominous trends of the administration’s first year.

White House policies are nowhere near what’s needed to overcome corporate power, drastically reduce carbon emissions, lower unemployment through federal jobs programs, massively repair the nation’s crumbling infrastructure, fully support public education – preschool through college – and devote major resources to ensuring health care as a human right.

Such programs would require a reduction in military spending. Yet the Obama administration – while proposing a freeze on the discretionary domestic budget – has gone on a Pentagon shopping spree and is swiftly escalating U.S. troop levels in Afghanistan.

This approach is exactly what Martin Luther King Jr. challenged in his speeches about “the madness of militarism.” He warned: “A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.”

Close to home, such skewed priorities are hitting us hard. Since 2001, the latest figures show, taxpayers in Marin County have sent the IRS a total of $1.5 billion to directly pay for war in Iraq and Afghanistan – enough money to provide complete health care to more than half a million people for an entire year.

If progressives in Marin and around the country sometimes erred in placing candidate Obama on an overly elevated pedestal, a few are now going to the opposite extreme. In reality, he is not now – nor has he ever been – a savior or a demon.  It’s up to those of us who have a progressive vision to move it forward.

Erosion of the Democratic Party’s progressive base could lead to electoral catastrophe in November and beyond. We can’t let that happen.   Along with vocal pressure from grassroots progressives, what’s needed is bold Democratic leadership – now in short supply from Washington to Sacramento. Democrats in elected positions should be willing and able to challenge the party’s hierarchy over its tepid appease-the-right policies.

Unless that happens, many activists who propelled Obama into the Oval Office will become demoralized instead of energized. ____________________________________________________

Our comments to this writing are as follows:

Mr. Solomon, you will always have your Democratic Party progressive base; and yes, the Democratic Party is facing, and will experience “electorial catastrophe in November and beyond”, and there is very little you or anyone else can do about it.   Thank God the majority of Americans have realized that Obama and the progressive policies are not in the best interests of America & are taking measures to get rid of him and his followers, beginning with the democratic Governors of Virginia & New Jersey and the  Senator from Massachusetts.  The reasons for the demise of Obama and the ‘progressive left statists’ are many and some are described below:

1.      Obama has asked us to: “Judge him by the people he surrounds himself with.”  Obama’s mentors and those he surrounds himself with are Marxists.  Thus, Obama is a Marxist.  The majority of Americas are not in favor of Marxist principles

A.    Tax the Producers and Re-Distribute the Cash to the Non Producers = Re-distribution of wealth  =  (“social justice”)

B.     Massive Government Growth to promote “social justice”

C.    Government Run Health Care System  = “social justice”

D.    Community Organization promoting Revolution for change (Acorn)  =  “social justice”

E.     Radical Change in the Structure of our Society and Institutions  to promote “social justice”.    

F.     Whatever Will Achieve the Desired “social justice”  Results is Acceptable

G.    Foment a Complete Collapse followed by Installation of a Completely New System  that promotes “social justice”

H.    Government Ownership of Private Enterprise Companies

I.       Massive Government  regulation  (in process)

J.      Take over US Energy Companies (Obama’s next agenda)

K.    Open-Door Immigration Policy, especially illegal immigrants which Obama now calls “undocumented immigrants”

L.     For documentation & proof of the above click on the link below

http://america-wake-up.com/2009/11/29/obama-is-destroying-america-by-following-his-mentors-radical-rules-for-change-proof-is-below/

2.      Obama and the left do not understand economics 101.  They think profits are evil

3.      Obama & the statists fail to see that when you spread the wealth around, you destroy the incentive to create wealth, employment and jobs.

4.      Every President & congress person takes an oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.  Obama and a majority of congress violate this oath on a daily basis. 

5.      Failure to understand that “Muslim terrorists want us all “dead” and think that, when captured, they should be given their “Miranda Rights” on the battlefield and tried in civilian courts.

6.      Obama has put down most of us; financiers, energy producers, banks, insurance companies, police officers, doctors, nurses, hospitals, post office workers and just about everyone else who has a non green job including  “AMERICA” itself to foreign & domesic audiences.

7.      Promotion of national health care which is opposed by 60%  of the US population

8.      Openly “bribing” healthcare votes of congress in January 2010

9.      Open lack of support for the US military and  Israel

10.  Complete lack of concern for Iranian efforts to obtain nuclear weapons & a delivery system

11.  Department of Justice potential prosecution of CIA agents (who interrogate terrorists) & Navy Seals (who capture them) while reading Muslim terrorists their Miranda rights and providing them with an attorney.

12.  Total Lack of Character, common sense & ability to determine what is right & wrong

13.  Proposal to reduce senior medicare benefits by $500 billion over 10 years

14.  No energy policy to eliminate need for foreign imports (no drilling, no nuclear)

15.  Blaming corporate greed for the meltdown when the real cause was federal government law that forced banks to make loans to those who could not afford to repay the loans

16.  Massive government spending – on course to further bankrupt the country . (no, this was not caused by Bush – in 12 months the budget deficit went from $800 billion under Bush in 2008 to $1.4 trillion in 2009 and a projected $1.6 trillion in 2010 under Obama)

17.   Absolutely NO TRANSPARENCY   on  health care legislation or any thing else.  (total secrecy)

18.    Absolutely  no bi-partisan attempt to work with republicans for the last 12 months. (we control everything here – go away)