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I'm not a big fan of boycotts, but if you can avoid buying Nike, Best Buy, Levi Strauss and Target stuff, you might help stop their support of the global warming scam.

Crony capitalism is a stepping-stone to socialism. The term is used to describe the unholy, anti-citizen alliances between corporations and big government. These kinds of companies generally engage in massive lobbying efforts (read: backscratching) to coerce government into various taxpayer-funded schemes:

• by paying them directly through government purchases...
• by carving out market segments for them through regulation...
• and otherwise increasing profit margins by suppressing the free market.

With this as our context, let's examine The American Spectator's article entitled "What Do Nike, Best Buy, Levi Strauss and Target Have in Common?".

They all support EPA efforts to regulate greenhouse gases, even though that circumvents the citizens' right to have their elected representatives make U.S. laws. More on the Obama Administration overreach and his crony corporatists support at the National Legal and Policy Center blog today.

Heading over to the NLPC, we can discover the sordid details.

Earlier this month corporate climateers including Nike and 3M were given awards -- supposedly "the equivalent of an Oscar for the climate change mitigation world" -- for their efforts to reduce their carbon emissions... Nike also co-signed a letter to President Obama that called for U.S. leadership in an initiative to create and finance the Global Climate Fund, which was established at the UN climate talks in Cancun in early December.

Other members of [this group include] Levi Strauss & Co., Starbucks, Timberland, Best Buy, Ben & Jerry's, eBay, Gap Inc., The North Face, and Target Corporation. Mark them down as corporations who favor the circumvention of the peoples' right to have their elected representatives make U.S. laws.

Carbon dioxide is plant food. It can no more be a pollutant than water vapor or oxygen. The Marxist Left progressives believe, or want us to think they believe, that capping CO2 emissions can act as a thermostat on the climate.

The reality is quite different. Trying to control carbon dioxide is a money-making scam and it has been since the original IPCC reports that were issued by folks poised to make millions through inherent conflicts-of-interest.

Companies that feed this government-run monstrosity should be treated as the anti-free market pariahs they are.

Image: Fox News.

Try a different mobile OS

If you are due to renew your mobile contract this year then why not give some thought to switching OS? Android, iOS and Symbian have all seen big shifts in usablity and technical features in 2010 and 2011 might be a ideal time to see how the other third lives or to try something new and go with Windows Phone 7. Who knows, maybe by the time your contract is due, BlackBerry will surprise us too?

Listen up and listen good

Last year you probably gave Spotify a try and maybe even subscribed. This year you should give a few other music streaming services a go. Try out the web-based mflow so super simple track sharing and purchasing and keep your eyes peeled for Google Music and Apple’s take on cloud music storage.

Make an app

If you run Android you can now knock up an app using Google App Inventor without too much in the way of coding savvy. Symbian users can make newsreader apps with the Ovi App Wizard and iPhone owners can use AppBreeder to create promotional apps that can be published to the App Store (for a fee).

Back that stuff up

Listen carefully – your data is important. If you lose your hard drive or your PC gets nicked you will be in trouble, so the time to start doing proper backups is YESTERDAY. Luckily there are plenty of ways to back up your stuff that mean you won’t have to give it any thought bar a bit of initial set-up. Try online solutions like Carbonite or Dropbox or go for a local WiFi gadget like Q-Waves Wireless USB Data Kit.

Reuse and recycle

Getting rid of some of your old gadgets and gizmos has never been easier. eBay now offer green.ebay.com to instantly trade decent old electronics for cash or recycle duffers at no charge. There are other specialised services for mobile phones such as SellMyMobile that will pay you cash money for your old blower. Go 3D

If you want to watch the undoubtedly amazing new David Attenborough 3D doc via Sky you will have to bite the bullet and get yourself a 3D TV at last. Come on, you know you want one really. Just think of all those times you can watch Avatar! If 3D video still isn’t floating your boat then this could be the year of 3D Radio.

Kill your television

Well not the telly itself maybe (especially if you just spent a fortune on a new 3D one) but why not see if you can live without your satellite or cable subscription and embrace Internet TV? Google TV, Apple TV and the Boxee Box all offer low-cost ways to change the way you suckle from the glass teat. TV catchup services like iPlayer and 4OD mean you can still watch shows you like from the terrestrial channels even if all you have is an old laptop – just dont forget you still need a licence.

Make something amazing in Minecraft

There are loads of incredible games launching this year but the amazing creations of Minecraft players keep wowing us with their sheer inventiveness. Now that Minecraft guru Notch has decided to release the first proper beta of the indie mining and making game it seems like the ideal time to start digging for minerals and build something out of this world. We’d love to see what you can come up with.

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