Ya gotta have friends.

Even though they be scumbags......

I found an article last week at What do I know Grit, and followed the linky...Kinda wish I hadn't but as we all know, I'm nosy. Anyhoo.

The story: Liberals question Conservative link to anti-Kyoto group

This outlines how the Exxon funded Flat Earth Society errrrrrrrr Freinds of science (oops) is being looked at a lot more closely because of ads they ran during the last election, and how the Calgary school is deeply involved and....aw hell. Ill paste it.

Under income tax laws, donations to a registered charity cannot be used for partisan purposes, while elections regulations require third parties to register with the chief electoral officer before spending $500 or more in an election campaign.

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More than half a million dollars flowed through the university accounts to pay a major public relations firm, APCO Worldwide and well-connected lobbyists such as Paulsen who contributed to producing and promoting a sophisticated video on the climate change debate, as well as the radio ad campaign, according to the audit.

Baird is doing the denial thing, but it looks like the evidence is all there to support it however. Would be kinda neat to hear more on the Newz. The conservatives playing fast and loose on the rulez, and completely obliterating the lines of truth and honesty. But then I got to the end of the article, and was......vexed at this little bit at the end....Not surprising at all that the newz story missed a real doozy. But they mostly do stenography over at ol'cannedwest there.

So, the story says that The Calgary school has severed all ties with the fla....Freinds of Science, and is now funneling the money....

The money is now going through an independent think tank, the Frontier Centre for Public Policy in Winnipeg, which has received at least $50,000 since last fall, according to a document released by the Calgary Foundation. The Frontier Centre has indicated that it wants to produce a climate change video for children in schools.

Independent think tank....Independent? Ok. Sorry. I fell off my chair here.......

I went there. Just to have a peek. If that's independent, I will eat my fuzzy slippers. Sans ketchup.

The Frontier Centre for Public Policy is an independent public policy think tank whose mission is "to broaden the debate on our future through public policy research and education and to explore positive changes within our public institutions that support economic growth and opportunity."

 

Oh but the ties that bind.....They are like a web created by a psychotic spider. They reach all the way to big tobacco, and further back into Exxon territory. This independent public policy think tank, is being run by mostly Americans. Let's look at the healthcare plans developed by the Frontier centre for public (that's us) policy.

The Frontier Centre for Public Policy has established a program of research and commentaries that focuses on health policy called the Healthcare Frontiers Project (HFP). Its objective is to examine and communicate policy changes within our healthcare system that will make it more sensitive to the needs of its clients and liberate its tightly suppressed economic development potential.

Ah. That's cool. Healthcare as an economic development potential.

Isn't that how the US nightmare began? The one that now boasts 18,000 deaths per year, a bankruptcy every 30 seconds, and children dying of simple tooth infections?

Lets look at the Frontier Centre's environmental policy ideas?

Modern environmentalists insist that collective actions produce real results, not just good feelings. A key element in the new approach is a healthy appreciation for the environmental benefits of wealth creation. Here are 7 Smart Green principles . 1. Rely on unbiased science; 2. Focus on measurable results; 3. Recognize wealth creation as the wellspring for environmental improvement 4. Substitute risk and cost benefit analysis for the precautionary principle; 5. Focus on incentives via property rights; 6. Embrace environmentally friendly technology; 7. Eliminate public sector conflicts of interest by separating resource ownership from regulation.

OY. There is so much wrong with that paragraph. Where to start? Rely on Unbiased science, from the organization that has Tim Ball on its board of "advisers? Whoops. fell off my chair again! Just one more.

10 “Smart Green” Ideas for Reducing Greenhouse Gases - Forget top-down regulatory programs that expand government’s bureaucratic whimsy and make our environmental programs more intrusive, but no more effective. Here are some creative ways to increase our energy efficiency and reduce so-called “greenhouse gases,” that help both the environment and the economy without expanding government or reducing human freedom: 1) Promote telecommuting. 2) Remove hidden subsidies that depress energy prices. 3) Cut federal equalization subsidies for cheap electricity in Québec and Manitoba. 4)Improve traffic flows by eliminating traffic lights. 5) Expand car srappage programs. 6) Institute cabotage rights for truckers. 7) Do smarter bio-energy. 8) Pay farmers to conserve the land. 9) Help end global farm subsidies. 10) Consider nuclear power.

All of this. Nothing to do with the big corporate greenhouse gas emitters. ITS ALL YOUR FAULT!

Thats what the cons have been trying to do since they got their minority government. Blame us, make us take all the responsibility, and do nothing.

So. Welcome to our several part series on the Independent think tank *cough*bullshit*cough* The The Frontier Centre for Public Policy. The new receiver of all that Calgary school money. Prole is going to introduce you to the list of right wing hacks errrrr Independent advisers.

If you want to go to their site? Try teh Google. I don't want to link there.