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One year after her first false denials, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is still trying to pretend that she doesn't want to ban airplanes and cows
By Daniel Alman (aka Dan from Squirrel Hill)
February 29, 2020
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez just stated the following:
"… as we've discussed the Green New Deal, I've noticed that there's been an awful lot of misinformation about what is inside this resolution – a tremendous amount of wild claims – everything from saying we're seeking to ban airplanes to ending ice cream…"
You can see and hear her saying those words in this video. Skip to 1:00
While it's true that the specific resolution that she is referring to does not say anything about banning airplanes and cows, Ocasio-Cortez herself does support such a ban.
A year ago, Ocasio-Cortez put a document on her official Congressional website which said she wanted to get rid of airplanes and cows.
After a huge number of people criticized her for this, she took the document down.
Fortunately, the internet archive has a copy of that same webpage from Ocasio-Cortez's official Congressional website at this link: https://web.archive.org/web/20190207191119/https://ocasio-cortez.house.gov/media/blog-posts/green-new-deal-faq
The original link (which no longer works) to the page at Ocasio-Cortez's official Congressional website is https://ocasio-cortez.house.gov/media/blog-posts/green-new-deal-faq
In addition, NPR (a highly reliable source, which liberals love) published a copy of the same document at this link: https://apps.npr.org/documents/document.html?id=5729035-Green-New-Deal-FAQ
And in case NPR ever takes that page down, here is the internet archive of that NPR page: https://web.archive.org/web/20190207164217/https://apps.npr.org/documents/document.html?id=5729035-Green-New-Deal-FAQ
Here are Ocasio-Cortez's exact words, as reported by NPR:
"Yes, we are calling for a full transition off fossil fuels and zero greenhouse gases. Anyone who has read the resolution sees that we spell this out through a plan that calls for eliminating greenhouse gas emissions from every sector of the economy. Simply banning fossil fuels immediately won't build the new economy to replace it – this is the plan to build that new economy and spells out how to do it technically. We do this through a huge mobilization to create the renewable energy economy as fast as possible. We set a goal to get to net-zero, rather than zero emissions, in 10 years because we aren't sure that we'll be able to fully get rid of farting cows and airplanes that fast, but we think we can ramp up renewable manufacturing and power production, retrofit every building in America, build the smart grid, overhaul transportation and agriculture, plant lots of trees and restore our ecosystem to get to net-zero."
The version from Ocasio-Cortez's official Congressional website is slightly different, as it replaces the phrase "farting cows" with "emissions from cows." Since the version that she gave NPR is funnier, that's the version that I quoted.
Anyway, that's proof and more proof that Ocasio-Cortez really does want to ban airplanes and cows.
So her recent statement that she does not want to ban airplanes and cows is a lie.
And this is not the first time that she tried to pretend that she never said she wanted to ban airplanes and cows.
Her earlier denial from a year ago, as reported in this article by the Washington Post, was that Saikat Chakrabarti, Ocasio-Cortez's chief of staff, blamed "typos" for the fact that Ocasio-Cortez's official Congressional website said that Ocasio-Cortez wanted to ban airplanes and cows.
The Washington Post reported that Chakrabarti said:
"People are trying to take the focus away from the big picture to these little typos."
I'm not buying that.
A "typo" is when you type "pwn" instead of "own."
There is no way that the following text from Ocasio-Cortez's official Congressional website is a "typo"
"The Green New Deal sets a goal to get to net-zero, rather than zero emissions, at the end of this 10-year plan because we aren't sure that we will be able to fully get rid of, for example, emissions from cows or air travel before then."
There's no way that those words are a "typo."
Someone deliberately typed those words into the document.
And who might that someone be?
Well, as I explained in this previous post, the document's metadata proves that the document was created by Saikat Chakrabarti, Ocasio-Cortez's chief of staff.
That's the same Saikat Chakrabarti who blamed "typos" for the fact that Ocasio-Cortez's official Congressional website said that Ocasio-Cortez wanted to get rid of airplanes and cows.
Chakrabarti's lie about "typos" is just as unbelievable as the other lie that I mentioned in my previous post, where Ocasio-Cortez advisor and Cornell Law School professor Robert Hockett blamed "Republicans" for starting a rumor about the document being on Ocasio-Cortez's official Congressional website. Here's the video of that again. Skip to 1:06
At the end of that previous post, I wrote:
"Hockett is a Professor of Law at Cornell Law School. So I'm 100% certain that he is familiar with the laws against defamation. I hope that he will apologize to the "Republicans" that he falsely accused of lying about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's positions on the above issues."
Hockett must have read my post, because he later admitted that he had been wrong.
So first they blamed this on "Republicans."
And then later, they're blamed it on "typos."
And now, with Ocasio-Cortez's most recent statement, she's still trying to pretend that she does not want to ban airplanes and cows.
Again, to be clear, Ocasio-Cortez was telling the truth when she said that the current resolution does not say anything about banning airplanes and cows.
Her lie is when she said that it's a "wild claim" that she wants to ban airplanes and cows.
It's not a "wild claim," because she said it on her own Congressional website, as well as in a document that she gave to NPR.
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Yes, AOC, we can 'capitalism our way out of poverty'
Yes, AOC, we can 'capitalism our way out of poverty'
January 22, 2020
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez studied economics, but she isn't exactly known for fluency. But even considering the New York Democrat's track record of economic illiteracy, her latest comments about capitalism are still a doozy.
Ocasio-Cortez made headlines this week for claiming that the Democratic Party is actually moderate and centrist. It was a silly claim to make, but people largely ignored another part of her comment. She asserted, as a way of dismissing centrist Democrats, that they are fools for believing that we can "capitalism our way out of poverty."
Actually, congresswoman, we can. Literally billions of people have done so in the very recent past.
The last several centuries of human history demonstrate that capitalism and free trade can work wonders when it comes to expanding global prosperity and reducing poverty.
I don't know what they taught Ocasio-Cortez in the economics department at Boston University — she might want to demand a refund — but I, along with most undergraduates in the field, learned in my very first year of studying economics the basic fact that capitalism has radically reduced poverty. Students are often taught about the "hockey stick of human history." Incomes and economic growth were stagnant for centuries and centuries, and then came the advent of market capitalism and the spread of trade. As society shifted away from mercantilism and feudalism toward this new way of operating, economic growth instantly skyrocketed.
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Economic history resembles a hockey stick. For thousands of years, economic growth was negligible. At the end of the 18th century, however, economic growth and the standard of living started to accelerate in Great Britain and then in the rest of the world
— HumanProgress.org (@HumanProgress) June 4, 2018
It can be hard to visualize all of this progress when we're just talking about abstract economic growth figures at the country level. But as Bill Gates has famously noted, raw poverty data show radical reductions due to capitalism, too.
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This is one of my favorite infographics. A lot of people underestimate just how much life has improved over the last two centuries:
— Bill Gates (@BillGates) January 19, 2019
In recent decades, state-run economies such as the Soviet Union collapsed, while markets globally, including in formerly communist nations such as China, liberalized and trade expanded globally. This has resulted in outstanding progress. According to HumanProgress.org:
The World Bank has just released its latest numbers, and according to them, the proportion of the world population in extreme poverty, i.e. who consume less than $1.90 a day, adjusted for local prices, declined from 36 percent in 1990 to 10 percent in 2015.
Even though world population increased by more than two billion people, the number of extremely poor was reduced by almost 1.2 billion. It means that in the now much-despised era of globalization, almost 130,000 people rose out of poverty every day.
This is no coincidence. A report from the Fraser Institute concluded after comprehensive study that "nations that are economically free outperform non-free nations in indicators of well-being."
No one is saying that capitalism is perfect, or that further progress doesn't need to be made. But Ocasio-Cortez gets it exactly wrong when she asserts that we can't "capitalism our way out of poverty." It is a historically and economically ignorant thing to say, and it really highlights the mentality that would allow someone, even in this day and age, to embrace an outdated and backward ideology such as socialism.
Law abiding political candidate Marie Newman returns illegal campaign contribution that criminal Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez had illegally given to her
Marie Newman is a law abiding political candidate who is running for office in Illinois.
The largest campaign contribution that anyone is allowed to legally give to her campaign is $2,000.
However, this report from the Federal Election Commission shows that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez donated $5,000 to Newman's campaign.
Here's a screenshot which proves that Ocasio-Cortez broke federal campaign finance law. Source: https://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/forms/C00639591/1357189/sb/21
Fortunately, Newman is a law abiding citizen, and returned the excess $3,000.
On the other hand, Ocasio-Cortez is a criminal who violated federal campaign finance law.
Democrats are always going on and on and on about how much we need to reform the current campaign finance laws. Well, here's a chance for those very same Democrats to publicly speak out in favor of prosecuting one of their own for breaking the campaign finance laws which are already on the books.
Environmental hypocrite Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez flies to Denmark to tell everyone else to reduce their use of fossil fuels
AOC takes first international trip as lawmaker
October 8, 2019
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is taking the Green New Deal global.
The New York Democrat posted an Instagram story Tuesday afternoon showing herself walking through the airport as she headed for her first trip abroad as a freshman lawmaker.
She's off to Copenhagen, Denmark, for the C40 World Mayors Summit.
"After a very busy week in district, I'm headed to Copenhagen for a global C40 conference where mayors and a lot of other public servants are going to be convening to discuss what we'll be – what actions we need to take for the climate crisis," she told her followers.
Mayors from Los Angeles, Boston and Philadelphia, among others, will all be in attendance. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio will not attend, The Post confirmed.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is raising money to support Antifa members who threw urine at police officers. DNC Chairman Tom Perez said she "represents the future of our party."
In July 2018, DNC Chairman Tom Perez said that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
"represents the future of our party"
You can see him saying those words in this video:
Given Perez's statement, I think that it's important that we pay attention to the many ridiculous and absurd things that Ocasio-Cortez says and does.
You can read about many of them here and here.
And now on to the newest example.
Ocasio-Cortez is raising money to support Antifa members who threw urine at police officers.
I'd be curious to hear what each of the current Democratic presidential candidates thinks of this.
Ilhan Omar and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez refuse to answer reporter's questions regarding whether or not they condemn the recent Antifa terrorist attack on an ICE facility in Tacoma, Washington
The Rebel reporter Keean Bexte repeatedly asked Ilhan Omar whether or not she condemned the recent Antifa terrorist attack on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Tacoma, Washington.
Omar repeatedly refused to answer Bexte's questions.
These are the questions that Bexte asked Omar, and which Omar refused to answer:
"Will you condemn the Antifa attack in Washington over the weekend?"
"It's easy to condemn terrorism. Will you condemn it?"
"Antifa firebombed a facility in Tacoma over the weekend – it's an ICE facility – will you condemn them for that?"
You can see it in this video:
Bexte also repeatedly asked Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez if she condemned the attack.
And just like Omar, Ocasio-Cortez repeatedly refused to answer Bexte's questions.
These are the questions that Bexte asked Ocasio-Cortez, and which Ocasio-Cortez refused to answer:
"Will you condemn Antifa for the attack in Washington?"
"It's easy to condemn a terrorist attack. Will you be condemning Antifa?"
"They firebombed an American facility. Will you condemn them?"
"Will you be condemning them?"
You can see it in this video. Skip to 2:02
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's chief of staff Saikat Chakrabarti: "The interesting thing about the Green New Deal is it wasn't originally a climate thing at all… we really think of it as a how-do-you-change-the-entire-economy thing"
Saikat Chakrabarti is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's chief of staff.
On July 10, 2019, the Washington Post published the following: (the bolding is mine)
Chakrabarti had an unexpected disclosure. "The interesting thing about the Green New Deal," he said, "is it wasn't originally a climate thing at all." Ricketts greeted this startling notion with an attentive poker face. "Do you guys think of it as a climate thing?" Chakrabarti continued. "Because we really think of it as a how-do-you-change-the-entire-economy thing."
It's been said before by libertarians and conservatives that the environmental doomsayer movement is like a watermelon – green on the outside and red on the inside. Chakrabarti's statement verifies this claim.
In the 1970s, environmental doomsayers referred to their alleged upcoming environmental apocalypse as "overpopulation." In the 1990s, they called it "global warming." And now in the 2010s, they are calling it "climate change." In all three of these cases, the environmental doomsayers have claimed that the only way to prevent these alleged environmental disasters from happening is to have the government take control over properly, resources, energy, the economy, jobs, and the means of production.
Chakrabarti's statement proves what many of us libertarians and conservatives have known all along: for many of its participants, the environmental doomsayer movement is just an excuse to massively increase the size and power of government control over everyone and everything.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez criticizes Wayfair for providing beds to the children of illegal immigrants. Would she prefer that these children sleep on the floor?
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently criticized Wayfair for providing beds to the children of illegal immigrants.
This is a screenshot of her tweet: (original, archive)
The text of her tweet states:
"Wayfair workers couldn't stomach they were making beds to cage children."
"They asked the company to stop. CEO said no."
"Tomorrow, they're walking out."
"This is what solidarity looks like – a reminder that everyday people have real power, as long as we're brave enough to use it."
Would Ocasio-Cortez prefer that these children sleep on the floor?
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez falsely accuses border patrol agents of forcing illegal immigrants to drink from the toilet
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently said that border patrol agents were forcing illegal immigrants to drink form the toilet. These are her exact words:
"There's abuse in these facilities. There's abuse. This was them on their best behavior, and they put them in a room with no running water, and these women were being told by CBP officers to drink out of the toilet – they were drinking water out of the toilet. And that was them knowing that a congressional visit was coming. This is CBP on their best behavior, telling people to drink out of the toilet."
You can hear her saying these words in this video: (skip to 0:20)
Ocasio-Cortez also tweeted the following: (original, archive)
"Officers were keeping women in cells w/ no water & had told them to drink out of the toilets."
However, in the real world, no one was drinking from the toilet. Instead, the facilities had the standard plumbing systems which are commonly found in prisons, where there is a sink above the toilet. The sinks provide clean, safe drinking water.
Reverend Samuel Rodriguez, a Hispanic pastor who had advised Presidents Trump, Obama, and George W. Bush on immigration reform, said:
"I read the reports, saw the news clips. I just wanted to see what was actually happening in order to better enable our efforts to find a fair and a just solution to our broken immigration system…"
"To my surprise, I saw something drastically different from the stories I've been hearing in our national discourse. Even as a veteran of immigration advocacy in the U.S., I was shocked at the misinformation of the crisis at the border…"
"We found no soiled diapers, no deplorable conditions and no lack of basic necessities…"
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez cries at empty parking lot, but falsely implies it's a detention camp for illegal aliens
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently made this tweet: (original, archive)
The tweet includes these four photographs:
The text of the tweet states:
"I'll never forget this, because it was the moment I saw with my own eyes that the America I love was becoming a nation that steals refugee children from their parents,& caged them."
"More kids died after this."
"To date, no one has been held accountable. We need to save these kids."
However, it was later reported that these photographs had actually been taken at a parking lot.
AOC and Bernie Sanders Don't Understand Math
Senator Bernie Sanders' and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Plan to Stop Big Banks and Payday Lenders from Ripping Off Americans
By Bernie Sanders
May 9, 2019
If you get a credit card from a store like Macy's, Kohl's, or Lowe's, interest rates are even higher. Stores like these are charging customers an average interest rate of more than 27 percent. And many of the stores rely on these high-interest-rate cards for more than a third of their revenue. Incredibly, Macy's earned almost 40 percent of its revenue from these cards and Kohl's recently made 35 percent of its total profit from high-interest-rate cards.
What this means is that if you buy a $500 refrigerator from Lowe's or Home Depot on one of their credit cards, you will likely owe an additional $136 in interest.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez supports boycotting the New York Post because it published a photograph of the September 11 terrorist attacks after Ilhan Omar described the attacks as "some people did something"
Ilhan Omar recently said the following: (the bolding is mine)
"CAIR was founded after 9/11, because they recognized that some people did something and that all of us were starting to lose access to our civil liberties"
In response, the New York Post published the following on its cover:
The cover shows a photograph of the World Trade Center on fire after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
The top of the cover says:
Rep. Ilhan Omar: 9/11 was 'some people did something'
The bottom of the cover says:
Here's your something
2,977 people dead by terrorism
In response to this cover, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez supported a boycott of the New York Post. She made the following tweet: (original, archive)
The text of Ocasio-Cortez's tweet states:
"Two years ago, Bodega owners across NYC (& cheered by neighbors) shut their shops citywide to protest Trump's #MuslimBan."
"Today, that same community is banding together to reject sales of the NY Post at bodegas citywide."
"This is what real unity (& NYC solidarity) looks like"
Ocasio-Cortez made her tweet in response to a tweet by Dr. Debbie Almontaser, which said:
"Yemeni Americans held a 1,000 bodega strike against the #MuslimBan, tonight we just declared a boycott of the racist NY Post! Starting tomorrow morning Yemeni American merchants will be rejecting the sale of the NY Post! NY Post take your papers back! #BoycottNYPost"
All the New York Post did was tell the truth.
And now a member of the U.S. Congress supports boycotting it for telling the truth.
And two members of Congress are grossly downplaying the severity of the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil in the entire history of our country's existence.
That's really despicable.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio: "We are going to ban the classic glass and steel skyscrapers"
De Blasio's Green New Deal will ban 'classic glass and steel skyscrapers'
April 22, 2019
Mayor Bill de Blasio's so-called Green New Deal will ban "classic glass and steel skyscrapers," he said Monday.
"We are going to ban the classic glass and steel skyscrapers which are incredibly inefficient," Hizzoner said on MSNBC's "Morning Joe."
"If someone wants to build one of those things, they can take a whole lot of steps to make it energy efficient, but we're not going to allow what we've seen in the past."
De Blasio's new scheme to slash carbon emissions by 30 percent by 2030 includes a ban on new buildings with all-glass facades "unless they meet strict performance guidelines," City Hall said in a release Monday.
Little girl does awesome impersonation of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez blames banks for the fact that Obama forced them to give mortgages to people who were unable to pay them back
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently blamed banks for the fact that Barack Obama forced them to give mortgages to people who were unable to pay them back.
When Obama was working as a "community organizer," he filed lawsuits which forced banks to give mortgages to people with bad credit and low incomes. As a result, many of these people ended up defaulting on their mortgages. As their attorney, Obama collected $23,000 in legal fees for himself.
Then in April 2013, during Obama's second term as President, the Washington Post reported that Obama was still pressuring banks
"to make home loans to people with weaker credit"
But Ocasio-Cortez didn't blame Obama for the fact that Obama forced these banks to give mortgages to people who were unable to pay them back.
Instead, she blamed the banks for the fact that Obama forced the banks to give mortgages to people who were unable to pay them back.
Here are her exact words:
"In my district, I represent Rikers Island. I represent kids that go to jail for jumping a turnstile because they can't afford a Metro card. Do you think that more folks should have gone to jail for their role in a financial crisis that led to 7.8 million foreclosures in the ten years between 2007 and 2016, Mr. Dimon?"
You can see her saying those words in this video: (Skip to 2:47)
Economically illiterate New York Times writer Michelle Goldberg, who supports the Green New Deal, said she didn't notice when thieves charged more than $11,000 to her credit card
Michelle Goldberg is an opinion writer for the New York Times. She is in favor of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal. In a recent column, Goldberg wrote:
"Warren, of course, will also be good on climate, and she has endorsed the idea of a Green New Deal put forward by Democrats like Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez."
In the same column, Goldberg displayed her own economic illiteracy when she explained that she never looks over her monthly credit card statement, and that it was only when her husband looked at it that she found out that a corrupt and fraudulent bank had been charging her hundreds of dollars per month, for years, for a total of more than $11,000. She wrote:
"A few years ago, when I was self-employed and had recently had my second child, my husband went combing through my credit card statements, looking for tax deductions that I'd missed. I'm financially disorganized at the best of times, and with a baby and a toddler, I was barely even trying to keep track of my business expenses. So it's not surprising that I hadn't noticed the hundreds of dollars of weird recurring bank charges that my husband discovered."
"It turned out I'd been signed up for a dubious program that purported to protect users' credit in certain emergency situations. My bank had been accused of fraudulent practices in connection with it and fined $700 million by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the government agency that was Senator Elizabeth Warren's brainchild. I tried, maddeningly, to seek redress from the bank — cycling through phone trees, screaming at automated operators. No one could tell me how I'd been enrolled in the program, or for how long."
"Eventually, I turned to the C.F.P.B. itself, filling out a simple form on its website. A few weeks later, I was notified that the bank had been deducting money from my account for years, and I was being refunded more than $11,000. Having financed my own maternity leave, I badly needed the money."
The fact that Goldberg never looked over her monthly credit card statements, and that she hadn't noticed this theft and fraud, proves that she is economically illiterate.
And it's that same economic illiteracy that causes Goldberg to support the Green New Deal.
Even the supporters of the Green New Deal admit that they don't know where the money to pay for it is going to come from.
In September 2018, CNN published this transcript of a conversation between Ocasio-Cortez and CNN correspondent Jake Tapper, where Ocasio-Cortez repeatedly refused to answer Tapper's questions about where the funding for the Green New Deal would come from. Here are their exact words:
TAPPER: Your platform has called for various new programs, including Medicare for all, housing as a federal right, a federal jobs guarantee, tuition-free public college, canceling all student loan debt.
According to nonpartisan and left-leaning studies friendly to your cause, including the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities or the Tax Policy Center, the overall price tag is more than $40 trillion in the next decade.
You recently said in an interview that increasing taxes on the very wealthy, plus an increased corporate tax rate, would make $2 trillion over the next 10 years.
So, where is the other $38 trillion going to come from?
OCASIO-CORTEZ: Well, one of the things that we need to realize when we look at something like Medicare for all, Medicare for all would save the American people a very large amount of money.
And what we see as well is that these systems are not just pie in the sky. They are — many of them are accomplished by every modern, civilized democracy in the Western world. The United — the United Kingdom has a form of single-payer health care, Canada, France, Germany.
What we need to realize is that these investments are better and they are good for our future. These are generational investments, so that not just — they're not short-term Band-Aids, but they are really profound decisions about who we want to be as a nation and as — and how we want to act, as the wealthiest nation in the history of the world.
TAPPER: Right. Now, I get that, but the price tag for everything that you have laid out in your campaign is $40 trillion over the next 10 years.
I understand that Medicare for all would cost more to some wealthier people and to the government and to taxpayers, while also reducing individual health care expenditures.
But I'm talking about the overall package. You say it's not pie in the sky, but $40 trillion is quite a bit of money. And the taxes that you talked about raising to pay for this, to pay for your agenda, only count for two.
And I — we're going by left-leaning analysts.
OCASIO-CORTEZ: Right.
Well, when you look again at, again, how our health care works, currently, we pay — much of these costs go into the private sector. So what we see is, for example, a year ago, I was working downtown in a restaurant.
I went around and I asked, how many of you folks have health insurance? Not a single person did, because these — they were paying — they would have had to pay $200 a month for — for a payment for insurance that had an $8,000 deductible.
TAPPER: Yes.
OCASIO-CORTEZ: What these represent are lower costs overall for these programs.
And, additionally, what this is, is a broader agenda. We do know and we acknowledge that there are political realities. They don't always happen with just the wave of a wand. But we can work to make these things happen.
And, in fact, when we — when you look at the economic activity that it spurs, for example, if you look at my generation, millennials, the amount of economic activity that we do not engage, the fact that we delay purchasing homes, that we don't participate in the economy and purchasing cars, et cetera, as fully as possible, is a cost.
It is an externality, if you will, of unprecedented — unprecedented amount of student loan debt.
TAPPER: So, I'm assuming I'm not going to get an answer for the other $38 trillion.
So that's the relevant part of the conversation between Ocasio-Cortez and CNN correspondent Jake Tapper.
You can see their conversation here:
Supporters of the $40 trillion Green New Deal have already said where $2 trillion of its price will come from. But when Tapper repeatedly asked Ocasio-Cortez where the other $38 trillion was gong to come from, she repeatedly refused to answer him.
Perhaps Ocasio-Cortez could charge that $38 trillion to Michelle Goldberg's credit card.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez falsely says, "They had to amend the Constitution of the United States to make sure Roosevelt did not get reelected"
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently said that the 22nd amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed in order to prevent U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt from getting reelected. You can see her saying it in this video:
Here are her exact words:
"They had to amend the Constitution of the United States to make sure Roosevelt did not get reelected."
Here are two reasons why Ocasio-Cortez's statement is wrong.
First of all, Roosevelt died two years before the 22nd amendment was approved by the U.S. Congress. Roosevelt died in 1945. The U.S. Congress approved the 22nd amendment in 1947.
Secondly, the 22nd amendment contains a clause which gives an exemption to whoever is President at the time the amendment is passed. This is the text of the 22nd amendment: (The bolding mine.)
Section 1. No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once. But this Article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President when this Article was proposed by the Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term within which this Article becomes operative from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term.
Section 2. This Article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several states within seven years from the date of its submission to the states by the Congress.
So that"s two different reasons why Ocasio-Cortez's statement is wrong.
Where exactly does Ocasio-Cortez get her information?
U.S. Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) talks about the Green New Deal
Idiots who support bans on fracking and restrictions on new pipelines say it's "unexpected" that New York has a shortage of natural gas
One of the most simple and basic signs of intelligence is the understanding that actions lead to consequences.
In New York, some people are showing a basic lack of understanding of this concept.
In New York state, fracking is banned, and new pipelines have been prohibited in certain locations. The natural and logical outcome of these policies is that the state has a shortage of natural gas. Developers who had been planning to build new housing will not be allowed to hook up the new housing to receive natural gas.
Despite this obvious action-reaction event, the New York Times just reported that this inability to hook up these proposed new homes for natural gas is "unexpected."
Here are the exact words as reported by the New York Times: (the bolding is mine)
YONKERS – Across the suburbs north of New York City, clusters of luxury towers are rising around commuter rail stations, designed to lure young workers seeking easy access to Manhattan. In all, 16,000 apartments and condominiums are in the works in more than a dozen towns, along with spaces for restaurants and shops.
But the boom unfolding in Westchester County is under threat — not from any not-in-my-backyard opposition or a slumping real estate market.
Instead, it is coming from something unexpected: a lack of natural gas.
Con Edison, the region's main utility, says its existing network of pipelines cannot satisfy an increasing demand for the fuel.
As a result, the utility has taken the extreme step of imposing a moratorium on new gas hookups in a large swath of Westchester, including for residential buildings planned in Yonkers, White Plains and New Rochelle.
But is this shortage really "unexpected"?
Not for anyone who understands that actions have consequences.
The same article states:
There is an ample supply of natural gas in the United States, but opposition to building or expanding interstate pipelines has caused delivery challenges in the Northeast, according to industry officials.
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo lives in Mount Kisco, a town included in Con Edison's moratorium, and wants the state to move away from fossil fuels toward cleaner energy, like wind. He has banned fracking, a process to extract gas from shale rock, and two years ago his administration rejected a major interstate pipeline project, saying its construction would endanger wetlands.
A person would have to be a complete idiot to support these bans and restrictions, while simultaneously being surprised that there's a shortage of natural gas.
All of this reminds me of this scene from the movie Casablanca:
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wants to end the use of fossil fuels over the next 10 years. I'd be curious to hear whether she supports or opposes letting the developers of this proposed new housing in New York hook up the housing to receive natural gas.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says she doesn't recycle her plastic bags because her city's recycling program is too "tough" for her to understand
On February 24, 2019, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez posted a live video on her Instagram account where she was talking about different political issues while peeling and cutting sweet potatoes.
A guy named Gob Abierto posted several different excerpts from that video in a string of tweets at this link, which has since been deleted. I watched a bunch of those excerpts before the tweet string was deleted. The internet archive has a copy of the same tweet string at this link, but it doesn't include the videos.
One thing that I remember from watching the excerpts is that Ocasio-Cortez tosses her plastic grocery bags and her sweet potato peelings into the same garbage can, which means that she didn't recycle the plastic bags, and she didn't compost the sweet potato peelings.
She also complained that they give her 10 plastic bags every time she goes to the grocery store.
She also said of plastic bags:
"I wish they didn't exist."
But no one forced Ocasio-Cortez to accept those plastic bags at the grocery store.
Millions of other Americas use reusable grocery bags that are made of materials other than plastic.
I'd be curios to hear Ocasio-Cortez explain why – if she hates plastic bags so much that she "wishes they didn't exist" – she brings home 10 additional plastic bags every time she goes to the grocery store, instead of using the reusable, non-plastic bags that millions of other Americans use.
Here is a different video where Ocasio-Cortez says a similar thing. She states: (skip to 0:20)
"I can be upset that I get 10 plastic bags at the grocery store, and then have to toss out my plastic bags because the recycling program in the area is tough."
I think it's incredibly hilarious and extremely hypocritical that someone who wants to hugely inconvenience everyone else by having the government embark on endeavors as gargantuan as banning fossil fuels, banning nuclear power, getting rid or airplanes, stopping cows from farting, and retrofitting every building in the country, is herself too lazy to do something as small and easy as buying reusable non-plastic bags, or to recycle the plastic bags that she does use.
For the record, I myself happen to believe that government mandated recycling of post-consumer garbage actually wastes more resources than it saves. My evidence for this belief is this New York Times article, which is called "Recycling Is Garbage." It's a great article, and I recommend that everyone read it.
Kat Timpf recently gave a great explanation of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal. Here's the video and a transcript.
In this recent video, Kat Timpf gives a great explanation of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal:
Here's a transcript of what she said:
I just think AOC has completely lost her marbles.
I think she's living in Bananaland.
Earlier this week, she called herself "the boss" for coming up with the Green New Deal.
How are you "the boss" for coming up with a plan that doesn't work?
Are you sure that the Green New Deal is not like what you're putting in your pipe and smoking every day?
I don't understand.
I can come up with plenty of plans that don't work.
How about we fly around on unicorns instead of airplanes?
How about instead of gasoline we use fairy dust we get from Tinker Bell?
How about we get Harry Potter to come over and wizard away all the emissions from the cow farts she's so concerned about?
See, I just came up with three plans that don't work.
Does that make me "the triple boss"?
Does she want us to just completely do away with all modern technology?
I don't want to live like Laura Ingalls Wilder.
I don't want to do my laundry in a basin.
I don't want to only eat lettuce and carrots like some kind of [censored] bunny.
I don't want to relive the Donner Party in the modern day because I had to take a horse and buggy to see my grandparents instead of a plane.
I don't want to eat people, and I don't want people to eat me.
AOC, do you want people to eat you?
Then stop proposing [censored].
Ocasio-Cortez's mom moved to Florida to escape NYC's property taxes
Ocasio-Cortez's mom moved to Florida to escape NYC's property taxes
March 4, 2019
The mother of soak-the-rich Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said she was forced to flee the Big Apple and move to Florida because the property taxes were so high.
"I was paying $10,000 a year in real estate taxes up north. I'm paying $600 a year in Florida. It's stress-free down here," Blanca Ocasio-Cortez told the Daily Mail from her home in Eustis, a town of less than 20,000 in central Florida north of Orlando.
The mother of two — who calls herself BOC — said she picked Eustis because a relative already lived there, and right before Christmas 2016, she paid $87,000 for an 860-square-foot home on a quiet street that dead-ends at a cemetery.
Her daughter raised eyebrows with her pitch to hike the top marginal tax rate on income earned above $10 million to 70 percent.
She has also gotten behind the so-called Green New Deal, which would see a massive and costly government effort to address climate change the way Franklin D. Roosevelt launched the New Deal to rescue the US economy during the Depression.
Greenpeace co-founder Patrick Moore says Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal would cause people in cities to starve to death
Patrick Moore is a co-founder of Greenpeace.
He just made this tweet regarding Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal: (original, archive)
The text states:
Pompous little twit. You don't have a plan to grow food for 8 billion people without fossil fuels, or get the food into the cities. Horses? If fossil fuels were banned every tree in the world would be cut down for fuel for cooking and heating. You would bring about mass death.
I think Moore's comment would have been more effective without those first three words.
I do agree with everything else that he said.
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Google has officially announced that it will continue selling Nexus 5 smartphones through Play Store and select retailers after a report was published quoting a Google spokesperson who said the production of this device was ending right away.
Once it's gone, it's gone.. that was the gist of what Google's spokesperson had implied. But Google saying that it will continue selling the device until the first quarter of 2015 brings in another question: what happens next?
It's very likely and safe to say that Google will officially end the production of this previous generation smartphone now that Nexus 6 has hit the shelves. It's not just the price point of Nexus 6, which is justified by the powerful processor and GPU under the hood, that makes some people not love Nexus 6, it's the size. Some people just loves the comfort of holding a not-so-big smartphone like Nexus 4 and Nexus 5, which is the reason many people are still commenting on internet forums and blogs that Nexus 5 should not be phased out.
Google definitely knows that there is adequate market demand for its Nexus 5 smartphone despite the recent launch of Nexus 6, which is why it isn't stopping production of Nexus 5 just yet. But it has given us a timeline as to when the device may stop shipping. And that timeline ends in a little over three months.
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''Desperate Housewives'': The women lose their way
On ''Desperate Housewives,'' Lynette comes close to cheating with her chef while Susan gets lost in the woods
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Wait, aren't mini backpacks so '90s? Doesn't look like Susan cared, gang, as she dragged a pink knapsack all over some random mountain in search of Mike, only to find him and give him the shortest long-awaited kiss ever seen on screen. I'd like to say that Delfino and Mayer's clinch was the emotional high point of this episode, but our two favorite ships in the night were bested by the emotional bathroom breakdown of a bored, emotionally straying housewife named Lynette Scavo (or, as she'd probably like to be known, Mrs. Chef).
We began the night with violence, which seemed at first like Marc Cherry's attempt to get this show back to its dark roots. But when bad things happen to Lynette, she ends up locked in a storage freezer with a hot guy to, um, keep her warm. Her "oh, crap" when she realized she was being robbed was classic Lyn; on the other hand, would she have been as upset if she'd known she'd be forced to spend the night in Rick's arms? Nope, and certainly not as upset as Tom was when he found her all rumpled the next morning. I know it's a little Gilmore Girls season 7, but I would've loved an all-out, wild-punches brawl between Tom and Rick. Between Ian's throwing in the towel with Susan and Lang's whimpering at Gabrielle's feet, it's about time the men of Fairview showed a little backbone.
Over in Victory Lane, Gabrielle borrowed Charlotte York's whole gay-shopping-friend idea and went looking for a pricey gown to celebrate Lang's big win, yet all she could find was that tacky blue cocktail dress. And are cops allowed to call women "spoiled bitches," even if they deserve it? I know Gaby's supposed to be a materialistic brat, but tonight she resembled a catty seventh grader who's just been told that someone's wearing the same jeans as her. Upon learning that the new Mayor Lang had sway over parking tickets and, well, the law, she went on a binge through downtown Fairview, harassing the bumbling traffic cop and rashly declaring it Free Parking Day. Then Lang lectured her like he was a father and she'd just missed curfew on prom night. Gabrielle's scenes in this episode cast her like such a child that I was actually embarrassed for Eva Longoria.
Speaking of childish, Carlos hit a new level of awkward with his "bros over ho's" line. And Travers got a noogie! The whole Edie-Carlos-Travers love-triangle plotline was disjointed tonight, and it was a little too Jerry Maguire for my taste. Just when I thought Edie had become a somewhat loving parent, she rescued a pound puppy (she wouldn't even spend money to keep her son) as a tool to help persuade Travers to ask Doc Borderless for joint custody. This was all to get Carlos to remain in the picture. Carlos is still in love with his ex, but he knows she's getting married. He's also been having some pretty hot sex with Edie, and he likes her as a person. So wouldn't it make sense for Carlos to want to stay in the relationship? Not according to the Housewives writers, who convinced us that he was only there for Travers. And though Edie has been showing signs of deep commitment, there haven't been previous signs that her passion for Carlos took priority over the love of her son. In the end, after no thought process whatsoever, Carlos decided he really wanted to be a full-time boyfriend to Edie, with or without access to her kid, and Edie put her son's needs before hers. Exactly the result we wanted for these two people, despite the choppy writing.
At Susan's house, Ms. Mayer decided she really loved Mike and was gonna go get her man, even though he was, in true clichéd fashion, vacationing near some hot spring in the mountains. Julie, sporting the worst blond dye job I've seen in ages, sent Mom on her merry way, which would involve hiring a trail guide who was one step away from coaching women's softball. The unlikely love doctor read Susie Q the riot act, saying, "You sleep with your ex-husband, you cheat on a coma victim," and telling her she's a drama junkie. Um, duh. But Annie Oakley won my heart by voicing what we've all been thinking ever since Susan started dating Ian while Mike was still comatose: "I would've waited for him." (With those pecs? I would've waited for Delfino forever.) And at long last, we got the Mike-Susan kiss we'd been waiting for, and James and Teri had as much chemistry as we could hope for. Except why was the reunion cut so short? After months of waiting, it felt sadly anticlimactic (especially since I'm sure we'll get another breakup next sweeps).
Despite arrests (Gaby), mountaintop makeouts (Sue), and cute spawn (Edie), the night belonged to Lynette. After her dinner date with Chef was interrupted by those pesky thieves (and have surveillance cameras been bad to these housewives, or what?), she saw her emotional affair come to an end after Rick declared his feelings. But even though I'm someone who would've ditched the increasingly pale Doug Savant and hopped back into the freezer, I admired Lynette's decision to put a stop to things right then and there. By not walking out on her family ("I have nothing to offer! I am taken!"), she proved Tom's earlier defense of her was dead-on (and it showed he still knew his wife, despite the growing distance between them). I've been a little angry at Lynette this season; I thought it was way out of character for her to spend nights with the hunk cook while her devoted husband lay at home with a back injury. Yet she rose spectacularly to the occasion tonight, putting her need to feel sexy and free behind the needs of her hubby and family. Felicity Huffman's disposal of Rick — and her subsequent breakdown in the bathroom at Scavo Manor — was the best acting this show has seen in a while.
All in all, a decent episode, improved slightly by Susan's brilliantly ditzy (but also seriously heartfelt, so kudos to Hatcher) "I've always loved you"/"I don't want any more drama" call, which she made, miraculously, on a cell phone from deep in the woods. (Hello, I can barely get service near the Central Park boat pond.) "Unless I get eaten by a mountain lion," she snuffled, "and, you know, that'll be dramatic, but it won't be my fault." (She said this after trying to use tree moss as a compass and getting her skinny butt lost.) This was a nicer moment, than, say, Lang dramatically turning from Gaby to stare meaningfully into the fireplace, or Carlos making Edie be a better mom. But damn, Fenway was cute.
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All right, time for feedback. Is Edie the worst mom ever? Will Gabrielle dump the goon-hiring Lang and get back with Carlos? And are Mike and Susan finally on?
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You know what it feels like when you socialize again with people you haven't really seen since your illness began. You're a little bit nervous about seeing everyone because you're still not perfectly healed, but you've made a lot of progress.
Have you noticed that there appears to be a stigma, an unspoken concern, an "elephant in the room" kind of thing that happens when you show up at a gathering at church or at someone's home? If you had two strokes like I did, the first thing you notice is that some people seem to feel it's important to talk louder, just in case something is wrong with your hearing. Others will talk to you more slowly, like you may not be able to grasp what they are saying. Some might even come right out and ask if you have suffered any brain damage? Everyone seems to make assumptions about what you can or cannot do. It's both embarrassing and frustrating.
These things happened to me and I can tell you I was a bit surprised to realize that having an illness also gave me a stigma, a sense that maybe I had done something wrong, something I should be ashamed or humiliated about. I mention this to you because if it happens to you, don't let it bother you. Most of the time, your friends are just trying to be helpful. Some may not be as thoughtful as you'd like, but usually they mean well. You know what you've been through and by the grace of God you've gotten quite a bit better.
Your job is not to keep pace with those around you. Your job is to celebrate all that God has done and continues to do to make you whole again. Don't worry about what anyone else thinks or says. You're doing just fine!
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The NHS has been criticised for apparently allowing Google and Facebook to track the behaviour of individuals on its Choices website.
According to Mischa Tuffield, who calls himself a 'semantic web hacker' and an interested party in personal information and digital trails left by people on the internet, the NHS is allowing the likes of Google and Facebook and other sites to track users' NHS browsing habits, regardless of the fact that people use the page to seek medical advice.
He said: "It was recently pointed out to me that the NHS Choices website's social features include the Facebook Like button. Due to the fact that the standard method of Facebook Like button deployment is intrusive to say the least, I thought I would look into identifying which third party companies have been given permission to track users on NHS Choices, and my results are rather disconcerting.
"In short there are four third-party advertising/tracking companies which are informed every time a user visits one of the 'conditions pages' on the NHS Choices website. These all get to make a call from the user's browser, in turn allowing the four companies to access their cookies, tracking the users. This means that if one has ever logged into a Google account, or a Facebook account and then visits one of the pages on the NHS site, the company will then know that their user X was just looking at a page about condition Y on the NHS website."
Two of the four third-party sites (Facebook and addthiscdn.com) are contacted in order to provide the 'social functionality'. Tuffield said that this 'intrusive opt-out method of adding social features to the NHS website, in my opinion is not acceptable'. He said that he would only deem this to be acceptable if NHS has written declarations from the two aforementioned services stating that they wouldn't be tracking peoples' browsing habits.
The other two sites contacted (webtrendslive.com and google-analytics.com) seemed to be used for analytics purposes. He also said that in his view, this task should not be outsourced to a third party, as if this was a website about pub reviews these third-party services would be acceptable, but due to the nature of the information on the Choices website, he felt the NHS should be hosting their own analytics code.
"Okay, I understand that the NHS needs to gather statistics about their website usage, but their user's privacy should be of utmost importance, there do exist a high number of open sourced analytics software which the NHS should run themselves," he said.
He said his next step would be to post a Freedom Of Information request asking the NHS to supply the minutes of all policy and technical meetings involved in the decision to deploy iFrames referencing non-NHS sites and to use third-party analytics software on NHS Choices pages. Further to this he planned to submit an official complaint via the official NHS Choices feedback form. Based on that response, he would decide whether or not to submit a complaint to the Information Commissioner's Office.
Tuffield's employers Garlik commented on the independent research. It said: "Without sounding too inflammatory, this episode just shows how the privacy of every one of us is being compromised by the ill-judged or ill-informed actions of those in real positions of trust. In this specific case the individuals who designed and built NHS Choices."
The research led Tom Watson, MP for West Bromwich East, to write a letter to health secretary Andrew Lansley MP, expressing his concern over the incident. In the letter he said: "The NHS Choices website is used by members of the public in order to find out facts about ailments they may be suffering from and these illnesses could cause an individual embarrassment if the information was leaked.
"We've seen how newspapers like the News of the World have used the digital age to hack into the phones of UK citizens. It would be very embarrassing if people less scrupulous than Sergei and Larry of Google were to know the individual health fears of the nation.
"I understand the demands to offer government service online but this should not be achieved at the price of privacy. I urge you to take steps to ensure that third-party websites should not have access to such information. This could be simply achieved by ensuring all third-party interaction is run on an opt-in system, rather than the current opt-out model."


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In some ways, it's hard to take Northpoint Technology seriously. The startup's vision of a sprawling wireless TV network combining the advantages of cable and direct broadcast satellite is a grand one. But Northpoint is controlled by neophytes in the television business, and their service, if rolled out nationally, would cost at least $1.5 billion. Moreover, it would be, at best, the fourth multichannel video competitor in every market it enters.
But dismissing Northpoint would be much easier if so many giant companies weren't trying to keep the fledgling company out of the business. DirecTV, EchoStar, Pegasus, Boeing and Alcatel are attacking Northpoint, all weighing in to keep regulators from approving even its first step toward developing a potentially powerful rival to cable and DBS.
More important, the company has been well-received among key legislators and regulators lured by Northpoint's pitch of creating another formidable competitor to cable.
Northpoint is looking to launch DBS without the "S": Instead of satellites, Northpoint would use transmitters on the ground. Half the capacity would be devoted to offering 96 channels of ESPN, MTV, HBO and the like for $20 a month. The other half would be used for high-speed Internet access. The system would use the same 12 GHz microwave band as DBS but in a way, Northpoint executives contend, that would not materially interfere with DBS services.
The DBS companies—DirecTV and EchoStar—harshly disagree, warning that the Northpoint system could leave their 15 million customers plagued by frequent outages. Boeing and Alcatel-backed Skybridge want the spectrum for themselves, primarily for high-speed data. Pegasus, a major rural reseller of DirecTV service, also wants a shot at it.
After six years of review, the FCC faces a Nov. 29 deadline to determine whether Northpoint should get the licenses for the spectrum. Both sides have tested the system; they disagree on what the tests show.
It's a multibillion-dollar showdown. Northpoint could get a slice of valuable spectrum and compete directly with DirecTV and EchoStar. A loss of even a million subscribers would cut $3 billion to $5 billion in value from cable or DBS companies.
FCC insiders say Northpoint—which is not related to DSL telephone provider Northpoint Communications—has a fair shot at approval.
If so, it would be a product of Northpoint's surprising political clout. Controlled by two women—a "socially responsible" money manager and an heir of a renowned, wealthy Texas ranch family—Northpoint and its operating affiliate Broadwave USA have had a warm reception in Congress and at the FCC.
That reception is fueled in part by Northpoint's ownership structure, which would essentially franchise markets to individual operators. So most of the first 66 proposed systems would be owned by 48 "affiliates," mostly local businesspeople and professionals, who generally are also politically connected and many of whom are minorities or women.
It is those affiliates—in a 51%-49% partnership with Northpoint's Broadwave—that are applying for the licenses. A few—such as Don Barden, former owner of Detroit's cable system—have experience in cable or broadcasting. What stands out more are those with obvious political credentials: an ex-aide from Bill Clinton's Arkansas days; the son and sister-in-law of a Democratic senator; and a sizable cadre of lawyers, lobbyists and other political consultants.
That's bolstered by the recent hiring of Toni Cook Bush as executive vice president. A communications lawyer, Bush was formerly senior counsel to the Senate Communications Subcommittee and is stepdaughter of Democratic political heavyweight Vernon Jordan.
Collier contends that Northpoint's political progress comes from the power of its argument for cheap, superior service that would be another competitive check against cable operators—and DBS. "We have gotten unrelenting opposition from the satellite industry," said Collier, who is chairman of both Northpoint and mutual-fund company Citizens Fund.
DBS executives counter that they're worried not about the competition but about the interference. "It's disingenuous for them to tout that this a viable business and get the FCC to look the other way," said DirecTV Chairman Eddy Hartenstein. He's worried that Northpoint's political prowess has the issue being "railroaded" through.
"This is basically a bunch of people who want to get spectrum for free, wrap it in a business plan, and sell it," Hartenstein said. He compared Northpoint's plan to that of wireless cable operators' microwave multipoint distribution systems in the early '90s, which made similar promises and ended in financial free-fall. "This is the son of MMDS. We all know how successful that was."
He and EchoStar Chairman Charlie Ergen are calling for independent testing.
Northpoint says the tests have been conducted to the FCC's satisfaction and point out that DirecTV parent Hughes Electronics also has two applications to secure the part of the spectrum—for free—for high-speed data.
There's some elegance in Northpoint's plan. Signals sent in the 12 GHz spectrum allocated to DBS are highly directional, more like a laser than a flashlight. DirecTV and EchoStar customers dishes must be precisely aligned to just the right spot in the southern sky to get the service. A dish misaligned by just a few inches won't catch a signal.
That allows the spectrum to be "reused." For decades, the FCC has intended that the 12 GHz slot be shared between DBS and ground-based systems, likely for narrowly targeted point-to-point microwave traffic. What a husband-and-wife of broadcast engineers realized in the early 1990s is that there is way to use the frequency for video. Carmen and Saleem Tawil determined that the frequencies could be used to essentially replicate the program slate offered by cable TV and DBS services without dramatically interfering with signals bouncing off DirecTV's and EchoStar's satellites hovering over the equator.
"They came up with the very simple but non-obvious realization that all satellite dishes point south, so the spectrum could be used by pointing north," Collier said. Hence: Northpoint, although it works from the east and west as well.
The Tawils approached Katherine "Chula" Reynolds, a member of the family behind King Ranch, the fabled South Texas ranching, oil and agriculture empire. It was she who roped in Collier, who as chairman of Citizens Funds invests only in "socially responsible" companies: no arms manufacturers or tobacco companies.
Collier and Reynolds teamed up to fund the project because they see two primary advantages. First, unlike DBS, Northpoint would be local and could carry all nearby broadcast stations and tailor program lineups to local tastes. Second, unlike cable, the service would be cheap to transmit and cheap to receive.
The low-powered Northpoint would require one small antenna mounted on a tall building or mast. Because buildings, trees and hills would keep many homes from having a direct line of sight to the antenna, Northpoint would need a series of small repeaters serving parts of a city, much like a cellular phone system.
Collier estimates that the gear to cover a relatively flat, 2 million-home market like Dallas, for example, would cost around $10 million. That excludes operating and marketing costs, but, even so, starting up would be far less than the $1.5 billion it would take to overbuild the Dallas market with a new cable system. Collier says it would take that for Northpoint to blanket the entire country.
Certainly, Northpoint won't achieve the 65% penetration that cable systems average, but, with costs that low, it won't have to. Collier says Northpoint can make money with less than 2% of a market.
The receivers would be relatively inexpensive, using largely the same components as those in DirecTV receivers already stocked on the shelves of Circuit City. Collier and Reynolds believe that consumers are conditioned to buy the receivers, though with heavy subsidies, rather than lease them as cable subscribers do. However, a national system will not be cheaper than DBS.
Analysts say the $1.5 billion Collier says it will take to build out nationwide is roughly triple what it would cost to launch two DBS satellites. In addition, Broadwave would likely face the same $500-per-subscriber marketing cost DirecTV and EchoStar face.
The big game here is getting the real estate. Northpoint and its affiliates must persuade the FCC to give them the spectrum—for free.
The idea of sharing the 12 GHz band dates back almost 20 years, when the FCC initially began licensing it out to abortive DBS services. Northpoint has been pitching the commission since 1994; the current proceeding started in 1998.
That's where affiliates help. The plan calls for affiliates to raise 75% of the money for their local operations. Broadwave would contribute 25%. The locals would own 51% of their system's equity. Broadwave gets an outsized stake for piecing the operation together, establishing a national customer service center, packaging cable networks, and advertising nationally
By structuring itself like a franchise operation, Northpoint presents itself not as single company but as a group of small businesses scattered around the country. That lets Northpoint bring to Congress groups of constituents—often active political donors—to push Northpoint's cause. "It gives them a bigger voice in the process than if it were just one little company," said one satellite executive.
All sides in the Northpoint debate have heavily lobbied the FCC. A central issue is whether Northpoint would be harmful to DBS services and a set of planned satellite data providers.
With broadcast TV, interference generates ghosts or snow. With DBS, too much interference of digital signals means TV screens go black; subscribers already suffer outages during heavy rain storms, about 15 hours a year on average.
No one charges that the Northpoint would have the kind of catastrophic effect as, say, two nearby FM radio stations transmitting on the same frequency. But DBS companies charge that it makes their customers' receivers more susceptible to rain fade.
Collier counters that, in live tests of the system around Washington, D.C., and Austin, Texas, DirecTV and EchoStar can't point to a single customer who lost service.
—Bill McConnell contributed
to this article.
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