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I bet you have forgotten this, if you ever knew of Ron Brown’s death, the Secretary of Commerce in the Clinton regime. 

 If you take the time to read this, the story of Ron Brown’s death aboard a US Air Force VIP transport  in 1996, you cannot fail to be disturbed. It seems to come out of the darkest imaginings of leftie Hollywood script writers, only this time the villain is not right-wing but possibly Bubba Bill. I have always wondered how a jet the size and capabilities of Air Force 2, which had carried Hillary Clinton weeks before, could crash, how stories could circulate that the only observed survivor was delivered to a hospital in a helicopter with her neck broken, how Ron Brown, Bill’s Secretary of Commerce,  might have had a bullet in his head, how no autopsies were performed, how the Air Force skipped its usual procedures to conclude it was an accident, and how the whole story disappeared into the oubliette. Forgotten. Not the object of compulsive, pursuing, avenging journalists dragging this out for years, as would have occurred if it had been a right-wing assassination conspiracy and cover-up. Gone. It makes me wonder whether there are some stories so ugly in their implications, that national security and public confidence in our institutions requires people not to discuss them.

 http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/CRASH/BROWN/brown.html

I confess this story has persistently nagged me since I first came upon it.

There are thousands of useful sites that go for and against the notion that man is principally responsible for global warming. Some of us at Barrelstrength have written elsewhere about this phenomenon. Chiefly the consensus among us crusty reactionaries is that:

1) Global warming and cooling are principally natural phenomena related to solar output, albedo (earth’s reflectivity), ocean current heat transfers to arctic zones, influenced by the shape of continents, and many other attributes of the earth’s wobble, tilt, magnetic fields, as well as cosmic rays and possibly even the location in the local galaxy as the sun circles around it and goes through the galactic plane.

2) Opinion differs on rational grounds as to how much of the post-1970 global warming trend has been caused or increased by man, but the range of difference in this group would probably be from zero (no human influence) to some, in the 5-10% of increase, which are themselves trivial compared to fluctuations which have been recorded in human-recorded and in pre-human history.

3) Global warming as it is currently understood by most people is religious and not scientific, insofar as its function is to provide the sin for which humans must atone. The deity is Gaia, the religion is ecology, and the sin is ours, for breathing, heating, and all forms of energetic transformations, whose inevitable output is carbion dioxide and water. (That is the chemical truth, and cannot be avoided). 

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