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Vote Polis, Proud to Be a Boulderite By Scott Hatfield
0October 31, 2012
by Boulder Channel 1
in News
Vote Polis, Proud to Be a Boulderite
By Scott Hatfield
For too long, our Rep in CD 2 has downplayed their connections to Boulder even though Boulder County might make up 55% of the voters. We now have a Congressman who is proud to be from Boulder and to represent our values. Folks here should appreciate being embraced rather than shrugged and support Polis at the polls. Jared Polis grew up in the City of Boulder and was extremely well known in town personally even before running for Congress.
Jared Polis formed his core values protesting Rocky Flats with his parents while growing up. Given his stated priority for the morality of stopping an ever escalating nuclear arms race, there is a reasonable expectation that he cares about the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty (NPT) more than most Democratic Reps. The NPT has been the cornerstone of foreign policy for many nations, not just the USA and Russia. The NPT obliges its signatories to work in good faith toward a nuclear weapon free world as well as guaranteeing the right to nuclear energy and uranium enrichment. As the President has stated, that includes Iran. While knowing and publicly stating that Iran is not attempting to produce a nuclear weapon and simultaneously beating the drums of war over the guaranteed right to enrich uranium for peaceful purposes, elements in the USA and Israel could be more interested in undermining the NPT. The nuclear weapons industrial complex is very powerful and wants its profits back. We need a Congressman who can stand up to these entrenched interests. A strong NPT makes the world a safer place for all nations.
Education has been a cornerstone of Jared’s priorities for a long time as well. He was on the Colorado School Board for 6 years and founded five schools. His work to get more kids headed to college should serve the University of Colorado and its role in Boulder well. He believes that education is the single most meaningful investment America can make in its economic future and in its people. Having the University here in town puts the role of the educational system into great prominence locally.
Jared Polis also prides himself on being a champion for environmental issues which has been a CD 2 legacy.
Scott Hatfield has been a member of the Central Committee of the Colorado Democratic Party and the Executive Committee of the Boulder Democratic Party since 1996.
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City of Boulder Backs CU in shutting down 420 pot fest : the whole story
0April 18, 2012
The Boulder city council voted 7-2 to back the University of Colorado in it’s move to keep a bunch of pot smoking hippie outsiders off their campus on Friday April 20th 2012. The day, which lives in infamy in Colorado history is the day when Klebold and Harris gun down 13 high school students in Denver. It is also Hitlers birthday.
2012 Boulder City council
The city of Boulder is under fire by the US attorney for allowing ”pot shops” near schools. They have closed ten MMJ drug dealing operations this past month.
The city is also under fire from the DEA for it’s lax attitude toward illegal drug sales. The DEA has promised to target Boulder in the same way it id certain cities in California for massive busts under the Federal controlled drugs acts.
The council was almost reluctant in its 7-2 vote, but had to support the university if for political reasons. The two notoriously don’t get along and the city has tried to extend an olive branch over the past decade. Not supporting the 420 shutdown would have been a huge blunder.
Health professionals see the city council as largely responsible for Boulders burgeoning drug addiction problems when it allowed 100s of pot selling operations to open in the past 10 years.
Boulder also has so called Pain Clinics where class two narcotics can be purchased in the same way marijuana is sold. A phony diagnosis by a corrupt doctor and a prescription. The city too has enormous number of liquor outlets and more coming this year.
Boulder is know world wide as the biggest party school in the USA. Boulder has an extremely high drug addiction rate and alcoholism rate. It has since the feds started doing studies in the 1950′s The University has to be trying to put a stop to that notion.
A lot of drug addicts spoke at council last night in support of more drugs on campus, but their pleas fell on deaf yet sympathetic ears. The council has long been known to be a bunch of pot smoking elder hippies.
But in the end this years 420 pot binge is expected to be a nice party for CU students only on campus with music food and fun. No one else is invited.
University of Colorado closed to unauthorized visitors, non-affiliates on April 20
The University of Colorado Boulder announced today it will be open to students, faculty and staff on April 20, but closed to unauthorized non-affiliates due to the disruption caused by the 4/20 gathering.
“The gathering disrupts teaching and research right in the heart of the campus,” said CU-Boulder Chancellor Philip P. DiStefano. “The size of the crowd has become unmanageable, and limits our faculty, staff and students from getting to class, entering buildings and doing their basic work. It needs to end.”
Further the event is attended mostly by CU freshman from campus. The outsiders come from all over the state. It has been their premier rally for legalizing marijuana in the USA. Pot lobbyists and activists use the event to promote drug use. With nice weather crowds could exceed 50,000. The university does not want to be know as the hippie pot smoking capital of the universe. With larger crowds expected, rampant illegal drug dealing, the university has finally had enough.
The ACLU has taken up the pot smokers cause, but legal experts say it is a lost cause: The university has a right to shut down in the face of massive criminal activity .
Law enforcement officials say they are prepared for 1000′s of arrests if need be. Over 1000 police are expected. 300 swat officers will be held in reserve and over 5000 National Guard will be held in ready reserve able to deploy in 1 hours notice. One legal official told us the fines are so steep for everything that it won’t be worth it to even attempt to come to Boulder. DUIs cost an estimated $20,000. State patrol will be targeting hippies driving in from Denver.
Boulder County will have out door jail space for 10,000 ready to go. One university official said: We aren’t fooling around.
On Friday, April 20, CU-Boulder’s normal academic activity will continue as scheduled, but the following measures will be in place:
- Students, faculty, staff and all CU-Boulder affiliates will need their Buff OneCard IDs to get on, and around, the campus. Those not affiliated with CU-Boulder will not be permitted on campus and face tickets for trespassing. Those cited for trespassing face punishment of up to six months in jail and a $750 fine. District Attorney Stan Garnett has discussed April 20 enforcement operations with CU Police officials. His office will handle the prosecution of those who receive tickets. “As always, the District Attorney’s Office will work to support the efforts of the CU Police Department,” Garnett said.
- For those visitors who have tickets for CU events on April 20 from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., or who are participants in academic meetings, symposia, conferences or other officially sanctioned activities, limited access to campus will be provided via a special registration program. Visitors will check in at the CU-Boulder East Campus Administrative and Research Center at 3100 Marine St. Please register for this service by going online to http://www.colorado.edu/april20 beginning Monday, April 16 at 8 a.m. or call the CU information line at 303-492-4636. After 6 p.m., no special access to the campus is required, though visitors should be advised that traffic getting into and out of the campus is likely to be heavy.
- Police will be checking for Buff OneCard IDs, and have checkpoints set up at all major campus entrances.
- Norlin Quad lawn areas will be closed to all people. Anyone, regardless of campus affiliation, who enters these areas may face a ticket for trespassing. Closure signage will be clearly displayed in this area. All areas of the campus – including other fields – will be closed to non-affiliates.
- Visitors will not be allowed to park on campus. Attendants will check those traveling to campus for BuffOne IDs and parking permits.
- CU Police issued tickets for marijuana possession last year. Officers will do the same this year. However, this year people will see a larger presence of officers.
- Those who smoke marijuana can face a ticket, which can result in a $100 fine, revocation of a person’s medical marijuana registry card upon conviction, and sanctions against students who receive tickets by CU’s Office of Student Conduct.
- A large presence of police officers from CU-Boulder and regional agencies will be present. The Colorado State Patrol will conduct enhanced patrols on U.S. 36, Colo. 93, the Diagonal Highway and other highways throughout the day, looking for drivers under the influence of drugs and/or alcohol.
- The Colorado Department of Revenue’s Medical Marijuana Enforcement Division will have a team of officers deployed on campus and throughout Boulder to monitor medical marijuana centers and ensure compliance with licensing regulations.
- CU organizations and academic units have been advised to move non-essential meetings and gatherings that require visitors, partners and stakeholders to more convenient times later in the spring semester.
- Regent Drive will be closed to through traffic from approximately 1:30 to 6 p.m. Buses will be allowed to use Regent Drive, but drivers should plan alternate routes.
- The Buff Bus and RTD Stampede, 209, and J routes will be impacted between the hours of 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. Please seehttp://www.colorado.edu/pts/news/index.html for details on how these routes will be altered and/or delayed.
The university announced on April 3 that a concert with the performer Wyclef Jean, sponsored by the CU Student Government in partnership with CU-Boulder’s Program Council, will be hosted at the Coors Events Center. Doors open at 2 p.m. and all CU students with BuffOne cards are invited to attend. The show is expected to end at 7 p.m. No non-CU students will be admitted.
The city of Boulder shut down the Halloween Mall Crawl in 1990 after crowds of over 50,000 became wild, a media circus and put huge financial strains on the city. It is hoped with this new shut down that CU students who want to celebrate 420 will do it quietly and not turn it into a national sensation embarrassing the entire University of Colorado. Parents who see this will be less likely to send their kids to CU and this event sends the wrong message. Which is if you are a doper CU is the place to come.
Drug addiction has been a problem on the CU campus since the late 1960s. Shutting down 420 will help to solve this health issue too.
by BC1 staff
CU News services contributed to this story
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University of Colorado Boulder shuts down annual 420 Pot Bash
0April 14, 2012
University of Colorado closed to unauthorized visitors, non-affiliates on April 20
The University of Colorado Boulder announced today it will be open to students, faculty and staff on April 20, but closed to unauthorized non-affiliates due to the disruption caused by the 4/20 gathering.
“The gathering disrupts teaching and research right in the heart of the campus,” said CU-Boulder Chancellor Philip P. DiStefano. “The size of the crowd has become unmanageable, and limits our faculty, staff and students from getting to class, entering buildings and doing their basic work. It needs to end.”
Further the event is attended mostly by CU freshman from campus. The outsiders come from all over the state. It has been their premier rally for legalizing marijuana in the USA. Pot lobbyists and activists use the event to promote drug use. With nice weather crowds could exceed 50,000. The university does not want to be know as the hippie pot smoking capital of the universe. With larger crowds expected, rampant illegal drug dealing, the university has finally had enough.
The ACLU has taken up the pot smokers cause, but legal experts say it is a lost cause: The university has a right to shut down in the face of massive criminal activity .
Law enforcement officials say they are prepared for 1000′s of arrests if need be. Over 1000 police are expected. 300 swat officers will be held in reserve and over 5000 National Guard will be held in ready reserve able to deploy in 1 hours notice. One legal official told us the fines are so steep for everything that it won’t be worth it to even attempt to come to Boulder. DUIs cost an estimated $20,000. State patrol will be targeting hippies driving in from Denver.
Boulder County will have out door jail space for 10,000 ready to go. One university official said: We aren’t fooling around.
On Friday, April 20, CU-Boulder’s normal academic activity will continue as scheduled, but the following measures will be in place:
- Students, faculty, staff and all CU-Boulder affiliates will need their Buff OneCard IDs to get on, and around, the campus. Those not affiliated with CU-Boulder will not be permitted on campus and face tickets for trespassing. Those cited for trespassing face punishment of up to six months in jail and a $750 fine. District Attorney Stan Garnett has discussed April 20 enforcement operations with CU Police officials. His office will handle the prosecution of those who receive tickets. “As always, the District Attorney’s Office will work to support the efforts of the CU Police Department,” Garnett said.
- For those visitors who have tickets for CU events on April 20 from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., or who are participants in academic meetings, symposia, conferences or other officially sanctioned activities, limited access to campus will be provided via a special registration program. Visitors will check in at the CU-Boulder East Campus Administrative and Research Center at 3100 Marine St. Please register for this service by going online to http://www.colorado.edu/april20 beginning Monday, April 16 at 8 a.m. or call the CU information line at 303-492-4636. After 6 p.m., no special access to the campus is required, though visitors should be advised that traffic getting into and out of the campus is likely to be heavy.
- Police will be checking for Buff OneCard IDs, and have checkpoints set up at all major campus entrances.
- Norlin Quad lawn areas will be closed to all people. Anyone, regardless of campus affiliation, who enters these areas may face a ticket for trespassing. Closure signage will be clearly displayed in this area. All areas of the campus – including other fields – will be closed to non-affiliates.
- Visitors will not be allowed to park on campus. Attendants will check those traveling to campus for BuffOne IDs and parking permits.
- CU Police issued tickets for marijuana possession last year. Officers will do the same this year. However, this year people will see a larger presence of officers.
- Those who smoke marijuana can face a ticket, which can result in a $100 fine, revocation of a person’s medical marijuana registry card upon conviction, and sanctions against students who receive tickets by CU’s Office of Student Conduct.
- A large presence of police officers from CU-Boulder and regional agencies will be present. The Colorado State Patrol will conduct enhanced patrols on U.S. 36, Colo. 93, the Diagonal Highway and other highways throughout the day, looking for drivers under the influence of drugs and/or alcohol.
- The Colorado Department of Revenue’s Medical Marijuana Enforcement Division will have a team of officers deployed on campus and throughout Boulder to monitor medical marijuana centers and ensure compliance with licensing regulations.
- CU organizations and academic units have been advised to move non-essential meetings and gatherings that require visitors, partners and stakeholders to more convenient times later in the spring semester.
- Regent Drive will be closed to through traffic from approximately 1:30 to 6 p.m. Buses will be allowed to use Regent Drive, but drivers should plan alternate routes.
- The Buff Bus and RTD Stampede, 209, and J routes will be impacted between the hours of 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. Please seehttp://www.colorado.edu/pts/news/index.html for details on how these routes will be altered and/or delayed.
The university announced on April 3 that a concert with the performer Wyclef Jean, sponsored by the CU Student Government in partnership with CU-Boulder’s Program Council, will be hosted at the Coors Events Center. Doors open at 2 p.m. and all CU students with BuffOne cards are invited to attend. The show is expected to end at 7 p.m. No non-CU students will be admitted.
The city of Boulder shut down the Halloween Mall Crawl in 1990 after crowds of over 50,000 became wild, a media circus and put huge financial strains on the city. It is hoped with this new shut down that CU students who want to celebrate 420 will do it quietly and not turn it into a national sensation embarrassing the entire University of Colorado. Parents who see this will be less likely to send their kids to CU and this event sends the wrong message. Which is if you are a doper CU is the place to come.
Drug addiction has been a problem on the CU campus since the late 1960s. Shutting down 420 will help to solve this health issue too.
by BC1 staff
CU News services contributed to this story
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US issues WW travel alert; more security plans for possible reprisals Osama Bin Laden
0May 2, 2011
by Boulder Channel 1
in News
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WIKILEAKS: Al Qaeda to unleash 'nuclear hellstorm' if Osama killed... |
SHOT IN HEAD; BIN LADEN IS DEAD.....
Mission was to kill, not capture...
Crowds gather at White House, Ground Zero to celebrate...
Obama: U.S. Carried Out Operation 'At My Direction'...
W: 'No Matter How Long It Takes, Justice Will Be Done'...
Killing brings anger, relief in Arab world...
Heat on Pakistan...
Hamas condemns killing of 'holy warrior'...
(Reuters) – The State Department on Sunday warned Americans worldwide of “enhanced potential for anti-American violence” following the killing of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.
“Given the uncertainty and volatility of the current situation, U.S. citizens in areas where events could cause anti-American violence are strongly urged to limit their travel outside of their homes and hotels and avoid mass gatherings and demonstrations,” the State Department said in a statement.
(Reporting by Andrew Quinn, Editing by Will Dunham)
from US govt
Current Travel Warnings
Travel Warnings are issued when long-term, protracted conditions that make a country dangerous or unstable lead the State Department to recommend that Americans avoid or consider the risk of travel to that country. A Travel Warning is also issued when the U.S. Government’s ability to assist American citizens is constrained due to the closure of an embassy or consulate or because of a drawdown of its staff. The countries listed below meet those criteria.
Syria
Uzbekistan
Mexico
Burkina Faso
Nigeria
Cote d’Ivoire
Iraq
Bahrain
Lebanon
Algeria
Mauritania
Afghanistan
Yemen
Mali
Eritrea
Libya
Pakistan
Haiti
Central African Republic
Niger
Nepal
Sudan
Kenya
Somalia
Saudi Arabia
Chad
Guinea
Congo, Democratic Republic of the
Colombia
Burundi
Philippines
Iran
Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of
Israel, the West Bank and Gaza
| FEAR: Security Tightened at NY Airports, World Trade Center Site... U.S. issues worldwide travel alert... Chemical Biological Response Team Recalled from Japan... Islamists: Death will not mute Jihad call... USA 'Faces Broad Terror Threat'... REPORT: Pakistani intelligence agents on site during raid; unclear who fired fatal shot... WH OFFICIAL: Bin Laden 'did resist'; Was asked to surrender... 4 others killed, including son... Woman used as 'shield'... Obama spoke with Bush, Clinton before TV statement... Detainees captured after 9-11 gave crucial information... Bin Laden, Adolf Hitler both declared dead on May 1... |
| REPORT: Obama Canceled March Compound Bombing, Wanted Proof of Death... Flowers, Flags Left Outside Bush's Dallas Home... BIN LADEN ANNOUNCEMENT CAME IN MIDDLE OF TRUMP'S 'CELEBRITY APPRENTICE'... Egypt's al-Zawahri likely to succeed... Muslim bro'hood: USA should now leave Afghanistan, Iraq... |
| REPORT: Bin Laden already buried at sea...
OFFICIAL: U.S. didn't want to 'create shrine'... DNA tests won't be complete for days... WHITE HOUSE: BODY HANDLED IN 'ACCORDANCE WITH ISLAMIC PRACTICE'... Raid captured on TWITTER... |
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Is Donald Trump going to be the next president of the United states? Good chance . Here’s Why.
3April 27, 2011
by Boulder Channel 1
in News
Will Donald Trump be the Obama spoiler? Is he already too big too powerful and too much of a Juggernaut to be stopped? Does he resonate with working people ? He’s a worker himself. Will republicans and Democrats alike abandon the feel good politics of Barrack Obama?? It’s starting to look that way .
Donald Trump wants to bring jobs back to American from India, Mexico and China and he says he has a plan. The plan is to stop the Chinese from jiggling it’s currency, making billions at our loss. He wants the yen to be in line or he will tax them 25% on all exports to the USA.
He’ll do the same with India and Mexico if they don’t immediately get their wages in line with ours. Can he do that?? Yes he can. The problem with NAFTA is that the past three administrations were looking out for the world economy and not ours. NAFTA did not worked and it has put us into a 14 Trillion dollar deficit. China made a 1/2 trillion dollar profit last year from us .
You may think Donald Trump is a joke but a lot of people trust his business sense and they are willing to trade Barack Obama in on that point alone.
Donald Trump wants a payoff to go to war in the Middle East. He unabashedly says ….If we go into Libya to free them, we want their oil. Right now China gets all of their oil and we are paying for the war in Libya, while China pays nothing. The Arab league wants the USA to pay for the Libyan war but they have paid nothing and have not given us any oil in trade. In fact they raised oil prices to $4.00 a gallon in Vail today. What Trump says is “screw that”. No more Mamby pambying around. No more America pays for everything.
He is saying what a lot of Americans want to hear. Which is, screw the pansies on the left, He’s going to make other countries pay to do business with us. As an example Iraq has trillions of dollars of oil and they should be paying us back right now. Trump believes in conquering any country we go to war with similar to what we did during WWII, not go in lose American lives, trillions of dollars and then leave with nothing.
Donald Trump is shaking up the political world in New Hampshire and the Democrats are in big trouble. He could very well be the American maverick who caught Barrack Obama flat footed on this day and storm his way to the white house. We give him a 60-40 chance.
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Just like Boulder city Council US House Votes to End Money for NPR, and Senate Passes Spending Bill
0March 18, 2011
by Boulder Channel 1
in News
In a stunning development, the US government has cut spending to NPR floowing a trend all across the USA. In 2007 The Boulder city council mis used COMCAST public access fees, then lined their own pockets with the money. No criminal charges were ever made. However, Seth Brigham a victim of the councils discrimination won a settlement for their free speech violations..
Readers of the Daily Camera overwhelmingly supported the end of free speech in Boulder. It is now coming to an end in the US house and Senate. this is a sad day for boulder and America
from NY Times: WASHINGTON — The House voted Thursday to cut off financing for National Public Radio, with Democrats and Republican fiercely divided over both the content of the bill and how it was brought to the floor.
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Senator Jon Kyl of Arizona, the No. 2 Republican in the Senate, praised the spending measure and said that over 10 years, $10 billion in cuts over all would amount to $140 billion in savings.
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Across the Rotunda, the Senate approved a short-term spending measure passed earlier in the week by the House that would keep the government financed through April 8. Members of both parties and chambers said the move, which once again averted a government shutdown, should be the last of its kind. The measure, which cut spending by $6 billion for this fiscal year, passed the Senate 87 to 13, with nine Republicans, three Democrats and an independent voting in dissent.
As in the House, some of the Senate’s more conservative members voted against the spending measure, known as a continuing resolution, arguing that its cuts were insufficient. Senator Rand Paul, Republican of Kentucky, offered his own plan, which he said would balance the federal budget in five years by eliminating the departments of education and energy, among other measures.
Senate Republican leaders backed the stopgap measure, praising the $6 billion in cuts that came on top of $4 billion in reductions contained in the current budget bill, which expires Friday. Jon Kyl of Arizona, the No. 2 Republican in the Senate, said that over 10 years, the $10 billion in cuts would amount to $140 billion in savings. “All in all, a good day’s work,” he said.
But Senator Daniel K. Inouye, the Hawaii Democrat who is chairman of the Appropriations Committee, said the continued cutting was bound to harm federal agencies. “How much more can we cut before we have no funds to pay employees to monitor our borders and ports?” he asked. “How much more before we have to cancel the construction of dams, bridges, highways, levees, sewers and transit projects and throw thousands of private sector workers onto the street?”
The NPR bill, sponsored by Representative Doug Lamborn, Republican of Colorado, would mean that stations could not buy programming from NPR or any other source using the $22 million they get from the federal government.
“The time has come for us to claw back this money,” said Representative Marsha Blackburn, Republican of Tennessee.
This was the second time that the House has moved to defund NPR; a rider was attached to a short-term spending bill passed last month by the House but rejected by the Senate. Thursday’s measure, which House Republicans rushed to the floor before a one-week recess begins, passed 228 to 192 ; all the Democrats who were there and seven Republicans voted against it and one Republican, Representative Justin Amash, voted present.
The bill, should the Senate even bring it to the floor, is almost certain to fail in that chamber. Democrats control the Senate, where members of both parties have expressed skepticism about cutting off NPR because it remains popular among many of their constituents.
The organization, in the crosshairs of Republican lawmakers for years, came under intense fire recently with the release of a video that showed one of its fund-raising executives criticizing members of the Tea Party, and the hasty firing of the commentator Juan Williams for remarks he made on Fox News about Muslims.
Representative Eric Cantor of Virginia, the Republican majority leader, said recently that the revelations of the video, made by a conservative advocate who posed as a potential donor to the entity “makes clear that taxpayer dollars should no longer be appropriated to NPR.”
Democrats said it was politics, not fiscal austerity, that drove the bill. “Why are we wasting valuable floor time on an ideological battle?” said Representative Louise Slaughter of New York.
The House debated the bill, and the procedure by which it was brought to the floor, for several hours Thursday. Republicans argued that NPR should be able to sustain itself through private donations, and Democrats countered that the cut would have negligible impact on debt reduction or the nation’s fiscal problems. They also accused Republicans of ignoring joblessness in lieu of attacking “Car Talk” and picking on Elmo.
Mr. Lamborn said that while he personally enjoyed NPR, “I have long believed it can stand on its own.” He added in a speech on the floor, “I want NPR to grow on its own, I want to see it thrive. Just remove taxpayers from the equation.”
Democrats objected to how the bill was brought to the floor. On Wednesday, the House Rules Committee held an emergency hearing to expedite the bill, and it went to the floor under a so-called closed rule, which does not allow for amendments, counter to the promise of more openness made by Speaker John A. Boehner. Republicans pointed out that the content of the seven-page bill had already been debated when it was part of the larger spending bill.
NPR expressed grave concern in a statement today about the impact of the bill on the entire public radio system, saying it was a direct effort to weaken it that would ultimately choke local stations’ ability to serve their audiences.
“At a time when other news organizations are cutting back and the voices of pundits are drowning out fact-based reporting and thoughtful analysis, NPR and public radio stations are delivering in-depth news and information respectfully and with civility,” Joyce Slocum, interim chief executive officer of NPR, said. “It would be a tragedy for America to lose this national treasure.”
Carl Hulse contributed reporting.
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BVSD launches strongest Anti Drug campaign in USA; CONGRATULATIONS!!
0March 16, 2011
by Boulder Channel 1
in News
BVSD not so quietly launches one of the stRongest Anti Drug campaigns in USA on Educational Access Channel 22
The city of Boulder may be all hopped up on opening Marijuana Drug stores for kids, but the Boulder Valley School board is fighting back by playing 100s of hours of Drug Free World anti drug videos aimed at school children. And these videos are powerful too, So while, Congressman Jared Polis is out there in Washington trying to get pot legalized, your local school district is telling kids “Jesus H Christ! don’t listen to these idiots who tell you pot is harmless”
As far as we at Boulder Channel 1 are concerned BVSD deserves a meritorious award from the white house foir their programs which tell kids to stand up to City and congressional peer pressure to take drugs.
NEWS FROM A “DRUG FREE WORLD”
There is a lot of talk about drugs in the world—on the streets, at school, on the Internet and TV. Some of it is true, some not.
Much of what you hear about drugs actually comes from those selling them.
Reformed drug dealers have confessed they would have said anything to get others to buy drugs.
Don’t be fooled. You need facts to avoid becoming hooked on drugs and to help your friends stay off them.
Sooner or later—if it hasn’t already happened—you, or someone close to you, will be offered drugs. The decision of whether or not to use them could drastically affect your life. Any addict will tell you they never expected a drug to take control of their life or maybe that they started with “just pot” and that it was “just something to do” with their friends. They thought they could handle it and when they found out they couldn’t, it was too late.
You have a right to know the FACTS about drugs—not opinions, hype or scare tactics. So how do you tell fact from fiction? That is why we have created this website—for you.
WHO WE ARE
The Foundation for a Drug-Free World is a nonprofit public benefit corporation that empowers youth and adults with factual information about drugs so they can make informed decisions and live drug free.
No one, especially a young person, likes to be lectured about what he or she can or cannot do. Thus, we provide the facts that empower youth to choose not to take drugs in the first place. Additionally our Truth About Drugs campaign consists of activities that they can join which popularize drug-free living. These activities are simple, effective and can involve people of all ages.
EDUCATORS
As an educator you want to help youth stay clear of drugs and you know you need to reach them before the dealers do. While time and resources for effective drug education are sometimes lacking, and the materials used are often outdated, not to mention that they don’t factually speak to the kids, we can help.
This Truth About Drugs Education Package fills the growing demand for practical tools to help you and other teachers, instructors or directors communicate the truth about drugs swiftly and effectively. It provides lessons, assignments and classroom activities that elicit student participation and captures and retains young people’s attention. Students willingly read, view and, most importantly, use the information to make right choices about drug use.
LIBRARY EDUCATES KYRGYZ CHILDREN TO HALT DRUG ABUSE
The Health Ministry of Kyrgyzstan, reports a sharp increase in registration at the state drug addiction treatment center. The rise includes opiate abusers and the accompanying threat of disease spread through shared needles.
Contributing to this drug proliferation and most troubling to those in the…
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Bear Country U.S.A.
0February 3, 2011
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Boulder Channel 1 takes you through the grizzly expierence at: Bear Country U.S.A.
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Scientists Boulder IMPROVED MEASUREMENTS OF SUN TO ADVANCE UNDERSTANDING OF CLIMATE CHANGE
0January 15, 2011
WASHINGTON—Scientists have taken a major step toward accurately determining the amount of energy that the sun provides to Earth, and how variations in that energy may contribute to climate change.
In a new study of laboratory and satellite data, researchers report a lower value of that energy, known as total solar irradiance, than previously measured and demonstrate that the satellite instrument that made the measurement—which has a new optical design and was calibrated in a new way—has significantly improved the accuracy and consistency of such measurements.
The new findings give confidence, the researchers say, that other, newer satellites expected to launch starting early this year will measure total solar irradiance with adequate repeatability – and with little enough uncertainty – to help resolve the long-standing question of how significant a contributor solar fluctuations are to the rising average global temperature of the planet.
“Improved accuracies and stabilities in the long-term total solar irradiance record mean improved estimates of the sun’s influence on Earth’s climate,” said Greg Kopp
of the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) of the University of Colorado Boulder.
Kopp, who led the study, and Judith Lean of the Naval Research Laboratory, in Washington, D.C., published their findings today in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union.
The new work will help advance scientists’ ability to understand the contribution of natural versus anthropogenic causes of climate change, the scientists said. That’s because the research improves the accuracy of the continuous, 32-year record of total solar irradiance, or TSI. Energy from the sun is the primary energy input driving Earth’s climate, which scientific consensus indicates has been warming since the Industrial Revolution.
Lean specializes in the effects of the sun on climate and space weather. She said, “Scientists estimating Earth’s climate sensitivities need accurate and stable solar irradiance records to know exactly how much warming to attribute to changes in the sun’s output, versus anthropogenic or other natural forcings.”
The new, lower TSI value was measured by the LASP-built Total Irradiance Monitor (TIM) instrument on the NASA Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE) spacecraft. Tests at a new calibration facility at LASP verify the lower TSI value. The ground-based calibration facility enables scientists to validate their instruments under on-orbit conditions against a reference standard calibrated by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Before the development of the calibration facility, solar irradiance instruments would frequently return different measurements from each other, depending on their calibration. To maintain a long-term record of the sun’s output through time, scientists had to rely on overlapping measurements that allowed them to intercalibrate among instruments.
Kopp said, “The calibration facility indicates that the TIM is producing the most accurate total solar irradiance results to date, providing a baseline value that allows us to make the entire 32-year record more accurate. This baseline value will also help ensure that we can maintain this important climate data record for years into the future, reducing the risks from a potential gap in spacecraft measurements.”
Lean said, “We are eager to see how this lower irradiance value affects global climate models, which use various parameters to reproduce current climate: incoming solar radiation is a decisive factor. An improved and extended solar data record will make it easier for us to understand how fluctuations in the sun’s energy output over time affect temperatures, and how Earth’s climate responds to radiative forcing.”
Lean’s model, which is now adjusted to the new lower absolute TSI values, reproduces with high fidelity the TSI variations that TIM observes and indicates that solar irradiance levels during the recent prolonged solar minimum period were likely comparable to levels in past solar minima. Using this model, Lean estimates that solar variability produces about 0.1o Celsius (0.18o Fahrenheit) global warming during the 11-year solar cycle, but is likely not the main cause of global warming in the past three decades.
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Notes for Journalists
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Title:
“A new, lower value of total solar irradiance: Evidence and climate significance”
Authors:
Greg Kopp: Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder,
Colorado, USA;
Judith L. Lean: Space Science Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D. C., USA.
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Social Media shocking failure: scam con shows fickleness of 20-somethings #boulder
0November 8, 2010
by Boulder Channel 1
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#Boulder #Twitter #socialmedia FAIL Democrats bitch over Republicans
Young social media types completely failed the country on November 2 by failing to vote. It was a terrible blow to the USA and show what a fraud the entire social media phenomena truely is. Young voters have said little about the recent election, but political analysts now blame social media marketiing young professionaals as the main cause of the devastating loss to democrats.
Boulder Social media hotshots such as Brett Greene and his cadre of children soldiers comepletely turned their back on America and sold the country down the river. Just a terrible injustice.
Social media and young voters failed to vote in the last election. Boulder’s over indulgence with Twitter and social media marketing experts completely failed the Democrat party. This demonstrates that social media is just another American flash in the pan and cannot be depended upon for consistent marketing
Analysis of the recent mid term elections now show that 20 somethings on twitter failed to vote, handing the election to Republicans. Social media failed to get out the vote for Democrats . Locally, Boulder twitter was mostly devoid of get out the vote activity. social media gurus spent election periods in idle chit chat, gossip and bitching over their lives.
On Friday many of them now complained about Republicans control of congress failing to see that their field of work is an untennable solution for elections.
Twitter in Boulder by daily social media proponents complain about republicans but seemed oblivious to their own failing in getting out the vote nationwide.
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US under attack! Al Qaeda begins Holiday bombing campaign to USA #boulder
0November 1, 2010
by Boulder Channel 1
in News
USA misses bullet!!
Sophisticated bomb techniques show Engineering types seem to be involved
Al Qaeda has sent multiple bombs on passenger planes from Yemen. Some were shipped to Chicago synagogs but were interdicted by the FBI. More importantly the White House says “there may still be bombs out there.” US stops shipments from Yemen.
Al Qaeda picked Chicago because president Obama is from there. Osama bin Laden appears to be behind this round of attacks as america’s election season is under way. It also marks the beginning of Al Qaeda Holiday terror campaign. This sophisticated bomb designer has been identyfied and is the same as last Xmas underwear bomber.
This Halloween event shows once again that the USA is still under attack and at war with radical Muslim Islamics from the middle east. These were religeous in nature since it is aimed at Jews and Christians. Iraqi security forces stormed a Catholic church Sunday where gunmen suspected of having ties to al Qaeda were holding worshippers hostages. The US usually down plays the religeous connect.
The Obama administration has stepped up special forces operations consistent with Bush Doctine. Radical Islamic cells exist in over 125 countries where Muslim wars continue according to Boulder’s Soldier of Fortune magazine which recruites soldiers for private armies.
Though the US mainland misssed the bullet on Halloween day it is clear the US was attacked and the war goes on. boulder leftists often blame the USA for Muslim attacks on our homeland.
Just yesterday the Colorado Democrat party has asked for a Grand jury Investigation into the causes of 911. Promoted by 911 conspirasistsl which believe president GW Bush and Osama bin Ladin organized the bombings of the World trade centers in New York. This theory is considered in extremely bad taste by the Obama administration.
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TV NEWS China chicken, North Korea CU grad jobs
0September 29, 2010
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North Korea president names 20 something son and daughter “4 star Generals”. China smacks USA with a chicken. Boulder CU grads can get a few jobs.
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Boulder News from Boulder Channel 1
0June 15, 2010
Welcome to Boulder News One!
Boulder. Studies on the homeless show that 70% are adult males in a dominate addiction primarily to alcoholism. 10% are women alcoholics. 10% are chronically mentally ill with no addiction. Only 10% are homeless because of loss of job or financial difficulties. The 2000 homeless in boulder account for much of the jail population, emergency calls by fire and police, admittance to Addiction recovery center and visits to the emergency room. Total cost to the tax payer approximately 10 million dollars a year. The 80% alcoholism amongst homeless is to blame. The city is as of yet without a plan to treat chronic street addiction in the city.
In medical news; Recent reports show that Autism is not caused by vaccination shots as many activists claim. Autism and other birth defects are primarily caused by adults above the age of 25 who breed. Spirm and egg break down after that age causing birth defects. Other contributing factors are alcohol and drug use. The best way to prevent autism is to not have children after age 25.
The Gulf coast USA; The continuing story of the BP oil spill shows that the oil field at the point of blowout is as large as the Kuait oil field. This is the largest find since Beaumont Texas in 1903. It is the largest oil gusher in recent US history. There may well be even larger oil fields further out in the Gulf. The oil industry has never had to deal with an oil gusher this large on land or at sea.
The Arts; The dairy Center for performing arts has transformed the ½ million dollar public access tv facility in to a private film studio, The public access facility was paid for by cable subscribers for citizens to produce community television. It will now be used for private Dairy Center productions. Critics say this is a misuse of public funds and censors free speech. The Dairy center had no comment.
In Boulder Crime News. 2010 show a whopping 7% increase in robberies and burglaries caused by the 160 so called medical marijuana outlets opened this year. Drug addicts are breaking into city of Boulder homes in record numbers. Co incidentally, Boulder gun sales are up 10% locally. Boulders gun of choice: the Glock 30 and the Mossberg pump 12 gauge shotgun. Look for more home invasions and shooting deaths this year.
From our hippie dippy head quarters in boulder Colorado
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Boulder police and Media conspire to hide asperger’s as cause for triple homicide
0May 20, 2010
Internet,
One of the problems with the media coverage of the Boulder Store and flooring murders the other day is the that the media took the police report but never ran their own investigation. So the press left out some key information that led Robert Montgomery to murder his employers. The police knowingly omitted certain information and in essence lied about one key factor. They did this to be politically correct…… and the idiot media followed suit. What was it.? What did they all conspire to withhold from the public which was a critical factor that led Montgomery to commit murder?
He had Asberger Syndrome a serious anti-social form of Autism. The police nor media never mentioned it. Mark Beckner said there were no signs that led to the murders. That is not true. Robert Montgomery had been a problem employee all along. He had advanced Asbergers which caused him to act irrationally and to shuffle his feet like the truly disabled person he was. He was mentally and physically disabled. He was nuts.
But no one wants to bring Asbergers Syndrome into the equation . Why not? Because it is autism and we are supposed to be sympathetic to people with autism. They can’t help it. They are victims so why bring it up and give autism a bad name. Maybe people won’t hire other people with Asperger’s so we can’t discriminate. Really? Look at this definition for Asperger’s. I wouldn’t hire someone like this for my sales department. Fuck the people with disabilities act. read this:
Asperger syndrome or Asperger’s syndrome is an autism spectrum disorder, and people with it therefore show significant difficulties in social interaction, along with restricted and repetitive patterns of behavior and interests. It differs from other autism spectrum disorders by its relative preservation of linguistic and cognitive development. Although not required for diagnosis, physical clumsiness and atypical use of language are frequently reported.[1][2]
Asperger syndrome is named for the Austrian pediatrician Hans Asperger who, in 1944, described children in his practice who lacked nonverbal communication skills, demonstrated limited empathy with their peers, and were physically clumsy.[3] Fifty years later, it was standardized as a diagnosis, but many questions remain about aspects of the disorder.[4] For example, there is doubt about whether it is distinct from high-functioning autism (HFA);[5] partly because of this, its prevalence is not firmly established.[1] The diagnosis of Asperger’s has been proposed to be eliminated, replaced by a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder on a severity scale.[6]
The exact cause is unknown, although research supports the likelihood of a genetic basis; brain imaging techniques have not identified a clear common pathology.[1] There is no single treatment, and the effectiveness of particular interventions is supported by only limited data.[1] Intervention is aimed at improving symptoms and function. The mainstay of management is behavioral therapy, focusing on specific deficits to address poor communication skills, obsessive or repetitive routines, and physical clumsiness.[7] Most individuals improve over time, but difficulties with communication, social adjustment and independent living continue into adulthood.[4] Some researchers and people with Asperger’s have advocated a shift in attitudes toward the view that it is a difference, rather than a disability that must be treated or cured.[8]
Robert Montgomery was a time bomb ready to go off. His employers and co workers knew it, but since they lived in Boulder where crazy disabled people are given jobs with out forethought, they paid the ultimate price. The police also did not mention that his employers seriously screwed Montgomery on his commission checks. He was supposed to receive $800 last Friday, but they only gave him $200. This is the third time his employers jacked him around on his commissions. Hey people get killed in the USA every day over this kind of bullshit. This is the number one cause for murder in the united states. It makes people snap. So there is a lot the police nor media talked about in this case.
