John Bolton
January 2010
Where is Barack Obama’s foreign policy headed? In answering, one must accept a measure of humility. Predicting American policy makes more fools than sages. That goes double for foreign policy, as analysts must anticipate not only the actions of the United States but of foreign provocateurs as well.
In the case of Barack Obama, there is an additional caveat: the high-profile concerns that have monopolized his efforts abroad are seen by the president himself as little more than Bush-era loose ends, not the defining transactions of his own foreign policy. All new presidents encounter irritating constraints on their aspirations, but Obama is more irritated than most at having to endure any sense of continuity with his predecessor. His criticism of Bush continues unabated even as he fares no better in the same stubborn terrain.
Obama is not looking to build his foreign-policy legacy on top of disputes that predate his arrival. He is working to move past these, toward the day when he can implement his own foreign policy and national-security agendas. Accordingly, the best way to predict Obama’s foreign policy in the next three years lies not in examining how he deals with the accumulated baggage of Iraq, Afghanistan, Middle East peace, and the Iranian and North Korean nuclear programs. Important as those are, they constitute what Obama has had to confront. We should ask instead what he will attempt to establish once he has become less encumbered by the inherited issues. Here, the record shows three critical characteristics.
Commentarymagazine.com
dinsdag 12 januari 2010
donderdag 7 januari 2010
Het eeuwige slachtoffer
O. DELECRUZE - 06 JANUARI 2010
"Er is geen twijfel over mogelijk dat de islamitische cultuur in het algemeen ongezond is om in op te groeien. (…) Immigranten die niet willen assimileren — dus niet onze cultuur ter harte willen nemen en westerlingen worden — zouden hier helemaal niet moeten zijn."
Vorig jaar heeft het Amerikaanse blog Gates of Vienna een artikel gewijd aan de Deense psycholoog Nicolai Sennels, die tot 2008 verbonden was aan de gesloten jeugdinrichting Sønderbro in Kopenhagen. In de tussentijd heeft hij een boek geschreven, Blandt Kriminelle Muslimer ("Tussen Criminele Moslims"), over zijn ervaringen in het omgaan met jonge moslimcriminelen in het Deense justitiële systeem.
Volgens de wetenschapper Sennels blijkt dat "appeasement" naar moslims toe — ofwel het alsmaar verder toegeven, inschikken en ook het debat de kop indrukken (met bijvoorbeeld de vervolging van islam-critici) zoals dat tot nu toe het motto is in de Nederlandse politiek (op een enkele uitzondering na) — de criminaliteit van moslimjongeren juist steeds verder versterkt. Onlangs werd Nicolai Sennels geïnterviewd door het Finse Homma Forum over "culturele verrijking" en "kansenjongeren" in Denemarken en andere delen van Europa. Hieronder een vertaling van dat interview:
Archief Het Vrije Volk
"Er is geen twijfel over mogelijk dat de islamitische cultuur in het algemeen ongezond is om in op te groeien. (…) Immigranten die niet willen assimileren — dus niet onze cultuur ter harte willen nemen en westerlingen worden — zouden hier helemaal niet moeten zijn."
Vorig jaar heeft het Amerikaanse blog Gates of Vienna een artikel gewijd aan de Deense psycholoog Nicolai Sennels, die tot 2008 verbonden was aan de gesloten jeugdinrichting Sønderbro in Kopenhagen. In de tussentijd heeft hij een boek geschreven, Blandt Kriminelle Muslimer ("Tussen Criminele Moslims"), over zijn ervaringen in het omgaan met jonge moslimcriminelen in het Deense justitiële systeem.
Volgens de wetenschapper Sennels blijkt dat "appeasement" naar moslims toe — ofwel het alsmaar verder toegeven, inschikken en ook het debat de kop indrukken (met bijvoorbeeld de vervolging van islam-critici) zoals dat tot nu toe het motto is in de Nederlandse politiek (op een enkele uitzondering na) — de criminaliteit van moslimjongeren juist steeds verder versterkt. Onlangs werd Nicolai Sennels geïnterviewd door het Finse Homma Forum over "culturele verrijking" en "kansenjongeren" in Denemarken en andere delen van Europa. Hieronder een vertaling van dat interview:
Archief Het Vrije Volk
woensdag 6 januari 2010
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maandag 4 januari 2010
Popping the Obama Balloon
After a year in office, the enigmatic president seems less like a messiah and more like the "balloon boy."January 3, 2010 - by David Solway
The adjectival palette has been much in use this last year or so in the stanchless commentary respecting Barack Obama and his meteoric rise to prominence. He is eulogized by many as America’s bel canto president, supposedly the most eloquent occupant of the Oval Office in living memory. Not only is he mellifluous; he is energetic, determined, and far-seeing. He is young and handsome. He is “smart.” He is a noble advocate of “social justice.” He is “the One.” He is “sort of god.” The fake classical columns flanking Obama during his acceptance speech at Invesco Stadium may have been a mistake but they were not an accident. An acquaintance of mine, in the midst of a discussion concerning the president’s bona fides, clinched the argument by pointing to the sky and exclaiming: “It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No, it’s Obamaman.” Obama’s own campaign has not been shy to hype the Superman comparison.
Pajamas Media
Iran en onze vakantie vierende leiders
Dec 29th, 2009 | By D. G. Neree | Category: Aktueel
Op dit moment woeden er hevige rellen in de belangrijkste steden van Iran. De protesten van de bevolking worden met wrede hand neergeslagen door de basiij, de knokploegen van de Iraanse Revolutionaire Garde.
Er is een grote kans, dat het boeventuig, dat nu zo wanhopig probeert haar macht te herstellen, zijn langste tijd gehad heeft. Dit zal een overwinning zijn van de krachten van democratie en moderniteit op de versteende en sadistische theocratie in Iran en wellicht het begin kunnen zijn van een totale omslag in het midden-Oosten. Er wordt hier een historische strijd gevoerd.
Amsterdam Post
Op dit moment woeden er hevige rellen in de belangrijkste steden van Iran. De protesten van de bevolking worden met wrede hand neergeslagen door de basiij, de knokploegen van de Iraanse Revolutionaire Garde.
Er is een grote kans, dat het boeventuig, dat nu zo wanhopig probeert haar macht te herstellen, zijn langste tijd gehad heeft. Dit zal een overwinning zijn van de krachten van democratie en moderniteit op de versteende en sadistische theocratie in Iran en wellicht het begin kunnen zijn van een totale omslag in het midden-Oosten. Er wordt hier een historische strijd gevoerd.
Amsterdam Post
zondag 3 januari 2010
The Joke’s on Us
The Pantybomber wasn’t the big joke. We are.
By Mark Steyn
On Christmas Day, a gentleman from Nigeria succeeded (effortlessly) in boarding a flight to Detroit with a bomb in his underwear. Pretty funny, huh?
But the Pantybomber wasn’t the big joke. The real laugh was the United States government. The global hyperpower spent the next week making itself a laughingstock to the entire planet. First, the bureaucrats at the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) swung into action with a whole new range of restrictions.
Against radical Yemen-trained Muslims wearing weaponized briefs? Of course not. That would be too obvious. So instead they imposed a slew of constraints against you. At Heathrow last week, they were permitting only one item of carry-on on U.S. flights. In Toronto, no large purses.
National Review Online
By Mark Steyn
On Christmas Day, a gentleman from Nigeria succeeded (effortlessly) in boarding a flight to Detroit with a bomb in his underwear. Pretty funny, huh?
But the Pantybomber wasn’t the big joke. The real laugh was the United States government. The global hyperpower spent the next week making itself a laughingstock to the entire planet. First, the bureaucrats at the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) swung into action with a whole new range of restrictions.
Against radical Yemen-trained Muslims wearing weaponized briefs? Of course not. That would be too obvious. So instead they imposed a slew of constraints against you. At Heathrow last week, they were permitting only one item of carry-on on U.S. flights. In Toronto, no large purses.
National Review Online
Moslim Sheikh: 'Joden hebben recht op heel Israël'
Leider Italiaanse Moslims zegt dat Palestijnse volk niet bestaat
Afgelopen maand waren er in Israël veel protesten tegen de door de regering Netanyahu afgekondigde bouwstop in de Joodse nederzettingen in Judea en Samaria.
Net zoals er een klein groepje Joden is dat zich verzet tegen Israël, zijn er -veelal geletterde- Moslims die juist pro-Israël zijn. Sheikh professor Adbul Hadi Palazzi is de leider van de Italiaanse Moslimgemeenschap en verklaarde deze week tijdens zijn bezoek aan Jeruzalem dat de Joden recht hebben op héél Israël, en de Palestijnen er niet alleen niets te zoeken hebben, maar als volk zelfs niet eens bestaan.
Xander nieuws
Afgelopen maand waren er in Israël veel protesten tegen de door de regering Netanyahu afgekondigde bouwstop in de Joodse nederzettingen in Judea en Samaria.
Net zoals er een klein groepje Joden is dat zich verzet tegen Israël, zijn er -veelal geletterde- Moslims die juist pro-Israël zijn. Sheikh professor Adbul Hadi Palazzi is de leider van de Italiaanse Moslimgemeenschap en verklaarde deze week tijdens zijn bezoek aan Jeruzalem dat de Joden recht hebben op héél Israël, en de Palestijnen er niet alleen niets te zoeken hebben, maar als volk zelfs niet eens bestaan.
Xander nieuws
vrijdag 1 januari 2010
Obama's Only Real Accomplishment
Let's get it straight, behind all the hubbub and noise, the international trips and summits, the TV specials and constant addresses to the nation and any other nation that would let him in, the huge spending plans and the photoshoots-- Barack Hussein Obama has accomplished only one thing in his first year in office.
Obama's only real accomplishment is that he took hundreds of billions of dollars in taxpayer money, and directed them to his donors on Wall Street, in the unions and the insurance industry. Barry Hussein took in nearly 15 million dollars in donations from securities and investments companies, and his first priority was to pay it back with a massive bailout that has exploded the deficit.
As the number one recipient of funds from securities and investments companies, Obama made sure they were paid off first. In exchange for a mere 14 million dollars, the industry received as much as a hundred thousand times that much from the government. And we aren't done yet. And that is even without counting Cap and Trade, a plan set to enrich certain key Wall Street backers of Obama and the Democratic party, at the expense of the last remaining shreds of America's manufacturing sector.
Sultan Knish
Obama's only real accomplishment is that he took hundreds of billions of dollars in taxpayer money, and directed them to his donors on Wall Street, in the unions and the insurance industry. Barry Hussein took in nearly 15 million dollars in donations from securities and investments companies, and his first priority was to pay it back with a massive bailout that has exploded the deficit.
As the number one recipient of funds from securities and investments companies, Obama made sure they were paid off first. In exchange for a mere 14 million dollars, the industry received as much as a hundred thousand times that much from the government. And we aren't done yet. And that is even without counting Cap and Trade, a plan set to enrich certain key Wall Street backers of Obama and the Democratic party, at the expense of the last remaining shreds of America's manufacturing sector.
Sultan Knish
dinsdag 29 december 2009
De leugen over de religieuze tolerantie van de NAVO-partner en het EU-kandidaat-lid Turkije
Terwijl moslims in christelijke landen een maximum aan godsdienstvrijheid bezitten, heerst er in de islamitische landen een ongeëvenaarde onderdrukking van alle niet-islamitische geloofsrichtingen. Het onderstaande essay is het antwoord van Michael Mannheimer op de ongehoorde beschuldigingen van Erdoğan tegen Europa i.v.m. het Zwitserse minaretreferendum.
Door: Michael Mannheimer
Duitsland, 23.12.2009
In acht van de tien landen met de scherpste christenvervolging, evenals in 40 van de 50 door de wereldwijd opererende mensenrechtenorganisatie ”OpenDoors” geregistreerde landen, heerst de islam. Ook Turkije behoort – nog voor Marokko, Palestina, Bangladesh en Bahrein – tot de landen die christenen massief onderdrukken en vervolgen. Van de meer dan 2 miljoen christenen aan het einde van het Ottomaanse Rijk – die altijd nog 30 % van de bevolking uitmaakten – zijn tegenwoordig nog maar ruim 100.000 christenen overgebleven, die daarmee nog slechts 0,2 % van het voor 99,8 % uit islamieten bestaande Turkije uitmaken.
De alledaagse terreur tegen de christenen in Turkije
Hoeiboei
Door: Michael Mannheimer
Duitsland, 23.12.2009
In acht van de tien landen met de scherpste christenvervolging, evenals in 40 van de 50 door de wereldwijd opererende mensenrechtenorganisatie ”OpenDoors” geregistreerde landen, heerst de islam. Ook Turkije behoort – nog voor Marokko, Palestina, Bangladesh en Bahrein – tot de landen die christenen massief onderdrukken en vervolgen. Van de meer dan 2 miljoen christenen aan het einde van het Ottomaanse Rijk – die altijd nog 30 % van de bevolking uitmaakten – zijn tegenwoordig nog maar ruim 100.000 christenen overgebleven, die daarmee nog slechts 0,2 % van het voor 99,8 % uit islamieten bestaande Turkije uitmaken.
De alledaagse terreur tegen de christenen in Turkije
Hoeiboei
maandag 28 december 2009
Obama's image: What a difference a year makes
December 28, 2009
By Ed Lasky
Almost a year has passed since January 20, 2009 -- when the waters of the ocean no longer rose and America began to heal from the depredations of Republicans. Barack Obama has been our president for that long, and the people have started to wise up.
The light that has shined on Barack Obama as president has reflected back an image that bears very little similarity to the iconic visage that floated above us all during 2008. Why has Barack Obama betrayed so many allies, broken so many promises, thrown so many pledges and people under the bus?
One simple aphorism (paraphrasing Winston Churchill) can explain it all. Barack Obama is no longer a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma. Much about his past remains murky, but faced with the need to govern, he has given the American people plenty of evidence of his nature, if only they will look.
American Thinker
Obama is a cynic, wrapped in hypocrisy, inside a bully.
By Ed Lasky
Almost a year has passed since January 20, 2009 -- when the waters of the ocean no longer rose and America began to heal from the depredations of Republicans. Barack Obama has been our president for that long, and the people have started to wise up.
The light that has shined on Barack Obama as president has reflected back an image that bears very little similarity to the iconic visage that floated above us all during 2008. Why has Barack Obama betrayed so many allies, broken so many promises, thrown so many pledges and people under the bus?
One simple aphorism (paraphrasing Winston Churchill) can explain it all. Barack Obama is no longer a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma. Much about his past remains murky, but faced with the need to govern, he has given the American people plenty of evidence of his nature, if only they will look.
American Thinker
Obama is a cynic, wrapped in hypocrisy, inside a bully.
donderdag 24 december 2009
Climategate: How To Follow the Money
It appears that most of the Copenhagen participants saw the money they spent as an investment. Here's how they get paid.
December 23, 2009 - by Charlie Martin
There’s big money in climate.
That became strikingly obvious in Copenhagen. The conference itself cost in the neighborhood of $30 million, but that was only the visible tip of the melting iceberg. Add to that the celebrities, the demonstrators, the congressional delegations, and the corporate displays, and you can bet something closer to $60 million was really spent on the conference — along with, of course, a carbon footprint the size of Morocco’s. The one significant outcome of the Copenhagen conference was an agreement to continue the international market in carbon offset trading that would otherwise have expired in 2012 and to prevent a crash in the carbon credits market.
It appears that most of the participants saw the money spent as an investment.
To see why, we need to look at the way Kyoto has turned into cash for many of the biggest names in the climate change world, and to do that we need to understand how the whole carbon trading scheme works.
Read: Pajamas Media
Cash for carbon: the new Oil for Food...
December 23, 2009 - by Charlie Martin
There’s big money in climate.
That became strikingly obvious in Copenhagen. The conference itself cost in the neighborhood of $30 million, but that was only the visible tip of the melting iceberg. Add to that the celebrities, the demonstrators, the congressional delegations, and the corporate displays, and you can bet something closer to $60 million was really spent on the conference — along with, of course, a carbon footprint the size of Morocco’s. The one significant outcome of the Copenhagen conference was an agreement to continue the international market in carbon offset trading that would otherwise have expired in 2012 and to prevent a crash in the carbon credits market.
It appears that most of the participants saw the money spent as an investment.
To see why, we need to look at the way Kyoto has turned into cash for many of the biggest names in the climate change world, and to do that we need to understand how the whole carbon trading scheme works.
Read: Pajamas Media
Cash for carbon: the new Oil for Food...
woensdag 23 december 2009
How the Auschwitz Sign Claiming that `Work Makes Free’ Embodies Current Western Thinking and Policy
By Barry Rubin
The theft and then recovery of the famous sign at the entrance of Auschwitz—Arbeit macht frei, work will make you free—has brought that artifact of the Holocaust to international attention once again. Merely dismissing the sign as, “cynical,” few understand the meaning of the sign in context and its underlying implications for Jewish thought and Israel today.
At the time--and this was very clear in Eastern European towns like that of my grandparents in Poland-- Jews were used by the Germans for forced labor. While many were involved in road repair (an extremely important task during the war when highways were heavily used by the Nazis for military purposes), tree cutting, or other manual labor, others labored in their usual professions.
The Germans, of course, wanted to win the war, which they were waging, despite their victories, against difficult odds. Even after the French were defeated and the British retreated across the Channel, the combat was ferocious against the Soviets and the United Kingdom fought on. In pragmatic terms, the Germans needed Jewish labor. After all, too, they could hardly be receiving it under better circumstances. The Jews were not paid for the work, they were denied consumer goods, and their food rations were minimal.
Rubin Reports
Post Copenhagen: Is Man-Made Global Warming a Dead Issue?
Roger L. Simon
December 22nd, 2009 1:46 pm
I know this sounds premature, but the failure of UN Climate Conference in Copenhagen has in all likelihood made anthropogenic global warming a dead issue.
Another nail in its coffin appeared on the site of insciences organization yesterday:
Cosmic rays and chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), both already implicated in depleting the Earth’s ozone layer, are also responsible for changes in the global climate, a University of Waterloo scientist reports in a new peer-reviewed paper.
Pajamas Media
December 22nd, 2009 1:46 pm
I know this sounds premature, but the failure of UN Climate Conference in Copenhagen has in all likelihood made anthropogenic global warming a dead issue.
Another nail in its coffin appeared on the site of insciences organization yesterday:
Cosmic rays and chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), both already implicated in depleting the Earth’s ozone layer, are also responsible for changes in the global climate, a University of Waterloo scientist reports in a new peer-reviewed paper.
Pajamas Media
maandag 21 december 2009
Copenhagen Wrap-up: “I have seen the future and it stinks!”
December 20th, 2009 12:25 pm
I am only just back last night from the Copenhagen UN climate change conference, yet am convinced of the accuracy of my headline – an obvious parody of Lincoln Steffens’ famous 1921 declaration about the Soviet Union, “I have seen the future and it works. ” In this case, however, the future concerns (supposedly democratic) “global governance” and not the workers’ state. For make no mistake about it, Kenneth Andersen is correct. COP15 was only peripherally about “climate change” and almost entirely about UN hegemony.
Roger L. Simon
I am only just back last night from the Copenhagen UN climate change conference, yet am convinced of the accuracy of my headline – an obvious parody of Lincoln Steffens’ famous 1921 declaration about the Soviet Union, “I have seen the future and it works. ” In this case, however, the future concerns (supposedly democratic) “global governance” and not the workers’ state. For make no mistake about it, Kenneth Andersen is correct. COP15 was only peripherally about “climate change” and almost entirely about UN hegemony.
Roger L. Simon
zondag 20 december 2009
"Ik ben qua denken een vrije vogel’
vrijdag 18 december 2009
Hij is de meest besproken politicus van Nederland, evenzeer verketterd als vereerd. Maar - wie is Geert Wilders, de politieke leider van de PVV die zoveel losmaakt bij voor en tegenstanders eigenlijk? ‘Ik leid een leven dat ik mijn ergste vijand niet toewens.’
De plaats van handeling druipt van de symboliek. Socialistenvreter Geert Wilders betreedt de Den Uylzaal aan Het Binnenhof, vernoemd naar de progressieve partijleider en premier Joop den Uyl (1919-1987). In de kamer, waarin de aanpalende VVD-fractie regelmatig overlegt, slingert een stapeltje wervende aanmeldingskaarten van de partij van Mark Rutte. Die evenmin zijn besteed aan de afvallige liberaal. Hij oogt ontspannen in het statige vertrek - uiterlijk hecht Geert Wilders aan een vast patroon. Donker pak, altijd een smetteloos witte hemd, een felgekleurde zijden das, traditionele zwarte schoenen en - opvallend contrast - het onmiskenbare geblondeerde haar. Hoe meer mensen over zijn kapsel beginnen, hoe opstandiger hij wordt. ,,Toen ik kamerlid voor de VVD was, zeiden Hans Dijkstal en Gerrit Zalm dat er, als ik me meer zou aanpassen en ik mijn haar op orde zou brengen, wellicht een kabinetspost inzat. Ik heb het geen seconde overwogen."
Forum voor de Vrijheid
Hij is de meest besproken politicus van Nederland, evenzeer verketterd als vereerd. Maar - wie is Geert Wilders, de politieke leider van de PVV die zoveel losmaakt bij voor en tegenstanders eigenlijk? ‘Ik leid een leven dat ik mijn ergste vijand niet toewens.’
De plaats van handeling druipt van de symboliek. Socialistenvreter Geert Wilders betreedt de Den Uylzaal aan Het Binnenhof, vernoemd naar de progressieve partijleider en premier Joop den Uyl (1919-1987). In de kamer, waarin de aanpalende VVD-fractie regelmatig overlegt, slingert een stapeltje wervende aanmeldingskaarten van de partij van Mark Rutte. Die evenmin zijn besteed aan de afvallige liberaal. Hij oogt ontspannen in het statige vertrek - uiterlijk hecht Geert Wilders aan een vast patroon. Donker pak, altijd een smetteloos witte hemd, een felgekleurde zijden das, traditionele zwarte schoenen en - opvallend contrast - het onmiskenbare geblondeerde haar. Hoe meer mensen over zijn kapsel beginnen, hoe opstandiger hij wordt. ,,Toen ik kamerlid voor de VVD was, zeiden Hans Dijkstal en Gerrit Zalm dat er, als ik me meer zou aanpassen en ik mijn haar op orde zou brengen, wellicht een kabinetspost inzat. Ik heb het geen seconde overwogen."
Forum voor de Vrijheid
Mark Steyn: It's settled; climate circus was a fairy tale
By MARK STEYN
Syndicated columnist
The best summation of the UN climate circus in Denmark comes from Andrew Bolt of Australia's Herald Sun: "Nothing is real in Copenhagen – not the temperature record, not the predictions, not the agenda, not the 'solution'."
Just so. Reuters, for example, carried a moving account of the speech by Ian Fry, lead negotiator for Tuvalu, the beleaguered Pacific island nation soon to be under water because of a planet-devastating combination of your SUV and unsustainable bovine flatulence from Vermont farms. "The fate of my country rests in your hands," Fry told the meeting. "I make this as a strong and impassioned plea ... I woke this morning and I was crying and that was not easy for a grown man to admit," he continued, "his voice choking with emotion," in the Reuters reporter's words. Who could fail to be moved?
The Orange County Register
Syndicated columnist
The best summation of the UN climate circus in Denmark comes from Andrew Bolt of Australia's Herald Sun: "Nothing is real in Copenhagen – not the temperature record, not the predictions, not the agenda, not the 'solution'."
Just so. Reuters, for example, carried a moving account of the speech by Ian Fry, lead negotiator for Tuvalu, the beleaguered Pacific island nation soon to be under water because of a planet-devastating combination of your SUV and unsustainable bovine flatulence from Vermont farms. "The fate of my country rests in your hands," Fry told the meeting. "I make this as a strong and impassioned plea ... I woke this morning and I was crying and that was not easy for a grown man to admit," he continued, "his voice choking with emotion," in the Reuters reporter's words. Who could fail to be moved?
The Orange County Register
vrijdag 18 december 2009
Groene buitenkant, rode binnenkant
Wie stemmen er over onze toekomst in Kopenhagen?President Chavez:
Hugo Chavez kreeg een daverend applaus nadat hij zei dat het proces in Kopenhagen "niet democratisch, niet alomvattend is, maar is dat niet de realiteit van onze wereld, de wereld is in werkelijkheid een imperiale dictatuur...weg met de imperiale dictaturen".Massa-moordenaar en dictator Robert Mugabe:
Toen hij zei dat "er een stil en verschrikkelijk spook in de zaal" was, en dat dit spook het kapitalisme was, kreeg hij een oorverdovend applaus.
En toen hij afrondde met "onze revolutie streeft ernaar alle mensen te helpen... socialisme, dat andere spook dat waarschijnlijk door deze zaal waart, dat is de manier om de planeet te redden, kapitalisme is de weg naar de hel... laten we strijden tegen het kapitalisme en ervoor zorgen dat het ons gehoorzaamt", toen kreeg hij een staande ovatie.
"Wanneer deze kapitalistische goden van koolstof boeren en hun gevaarlijke emissies uitbraken dan zijn wij, de mindere stervelingen van de ontwikkelingswereld degenen die naar adem snakken en zinken en uiteindelijk sterven."Hoofdonderhandelaar van het kleine eilandstaatje Tuvalu, Ian Fry:
"Ik werd vanmorgen huilend wakker, het is voor een volwassen man niet eenvoudig dat toe te geven," zei Mr. Fry op zaterdag, terwijl de tranen in zijn ogen sprongen.Wat ontroerend.
"Het lot van mijn land rust in uw handen," besloot hij, terwijl de toehoorders in luid applaus uitbarstten.
Alleen jammer dat Mr. Fry niet echt bang hoeft te zijn voor de stijgende oceanen, omdat hij niet op de eiland-atol woont, maar in Queanbeyan, Australië, op 144 km afstand van het dichtsbijzijnde strand. Toen zijn vrouw werd gevraagd of hij ooit op Tuvalo had gewoond wilde ze "liever geen commentaar geven".
Volgens zijn buurvrouw woont hij al langer dan tien jaar in Queanbeyan waar hij zich opwerkte "naar een toppositie in de klimaatverandering".
heraldsun.com.au
Hot Air
De klimaatleugen is niets meer of minder dan een middel om een doel te bereiken. Het gaat in Kopenhagen in werkelijkheid maar om één ding: zoveel mogelijk geld lospeuteren van de "haves" en het verdelen onder de "have-nots". Oftewel "de rijkdom verdelen" zoals de verkapte marxist Obama zich tijdens zijn verkiezingscampagne liet ontglippen.
Groen aan de buitenkant, rood aan de binnenkant.
Climategate: Faster and Faster, the Dominos Fall
With the revelation about the cherrypicked Russian stations (plus six other freshly, independently discovered problems), the real story of how we got here just took a shape.
December 17, 2009 - by Charlie Martin
The Climategate files were made public just a month ago, and the email messages that were revealed have already had real impact. The emails show us scientists being petty and political, even corrupt. Suppressing dissenting science and perhaps even violating the law to prevent data from being shared with the rest of the world. They show us people with failings, egos against egos. But the emails themselves aren’t enough to call the overall science of CO2-driven, human-caused climate change into question.
The Climategate emails, however, make up only five percent of the Climategate files. The other 95 percent, the programs and data and documents, are where the real story is hiding. That story has begun to come out, in several independent analyses of the data we have, using hints from the emails and from other files and raw data that is available from other sources.
A story is beginning to take shape. This story broke into the world media Wednesday. An article in RIA Novosti, the Russian state-owned news service, states:
Pajamas Media
December 17, 2009 - by Charlie Martin
The Climategate files were made public just a month ago, and the email messages that were revealed have already had real impact. The emails show us scientists being petty and political, even corrupt. Suppressing dissenting science and perhaps even violating the law to prevent data from being shared with the rest of the world. They show us people with failings, egos against egos. But the emails themselves aren’t enough to call the overall science of CO2-driven, human-caused climate change into question.
The Climategate emails, however, make up only five percent of the Climategate files. The other 95 percent, the programs and data and documents, are where the real story is hiding. That story has begun to come out, in several independent analyses of the data we have, using hints from the emails and from other files and raw data that is available from other sources.
A story is beginning to take shape. This story broke into the world media Wednesday. An article in RIA Novosti, the Russian state-owned news service, states:
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Climategate: … And Just Like That, the Warming’s Gone (PJM Exclusive)
The Russian paint-by-numbers data. The CRU data matching NOAA and NASA. What's left?
December 17, 2009 - by Joseph D'Aleo
As James Delingpole, in the Telegraph, noted Wednesday:
Climategate just got much, much bigger. And all thanks to the Russians who, with perfect timing, dropped this bombshell just as the world’s leaders are gathering in Copenhagen to discuss ways of carbon-taxing us all back to the dark ages.
On Tuesday, we heard via the Ria Novosti agency that the Moscow-based Institute of Economic Analysis (IEA) issued a report claiming that the Hadley Center for Climate Change had probably tampered with Russian-climate data:
The IEA believes that Russian meteorological-station data did not substantiate the anthropogenic global-warming theory. Analysts say Russian meteorological stations cover most of the country’s territory, and that the Hadley Center had used data submitted by only 25% of such stations in its reports. Over 40% of Russian territory was not included in global-temperature calculations for some other reasons, rather than the lack of meteorological stations and observations.
The data of stations located in areas not listed in the Hadley Climate Research Unit Temperature UK (HadCRUT) survey often does not show any substantial warming in the late 20th century and the early 21st century.
The HadCRUT database includes specific stations providing incomplete data and highlighting the global-warming process, rather than stations facilitating uninterrupted observations. They concluded climatologists use the incomplete findings of meteorological stations far more often than those providing complete observations and data from stations located in large populated centers that are influenced by the urban-warming effect more frequently than the correct data of remote stations.
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December 17, 2009 - by Joseph D'Aleo
As James Delingpole, in the Telegraph, noted Wednesday:
Climategate just got much, much bigger. And all thanks to the Russians who, with perfect timing, dropped this bombshell just as the world’s leaders are gathering in Copenhagen to discuss ways of carbon-taxing us all back to the dark ages.
On Tuesday, we heard via the Ria Novosti agency that the Moscow-based Institute of Economic Analysis (IEA) issued a report claiming that the Hadley Center for Climate Change had probably tampered with Russian-climate data:
The IEA believes that Russian meteorological-station data did not substantiate the anthropogenic global-warming theory. Analysts say Russian meteorological stations cover most of the country’s territory, and that the Hadley Center had used data submitted by only 25% of such stations in its reports. Over 40% of Russian territory was not included in global-temperature calculations for some other reasons, rather than the lack of meteorological stations and observations.
The data of stations located in areas not listed in the Hadley Climate Research Unit Temperature UK (HadCRUT) survey often does not show any substantial warming in the late 20th century and the early 21st century.
The HadCRUT database includes specific stations providing incomplete data and highlighting the global-warming process, rather than stations facilitating uninterrupted observations. They concluded climatologists use the incomplete findings of meteorological stations far more often than those providing complete observations and data from stations located in large populated centers that are influenced by the urban-warming effect more frequently than the correct data of remote stations.
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donderdag 17 december 2009
Obama the America denier
By Bruce Walker
Most people involved in public affairs fall into two grand schools: Some believe that America is a unique nation, a nation built upon extraordinary and good moral values, and a country which is a microcosm of what the world should be. These people need not be Americans. Churchill, for example, was an unabashed admirer of America.
Other people believe that America is simply a very arrogant country, a nation inhabited with bumpkins who believe too much in God, and because of its religious faith and confidence, the antithesis of what the world should be. This animus flourishes outside America, but it also has a strong camp following in America.
Barack Obama is decidedly in the second camp. He is an "America Denier."
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