Doomed Planet

“Today’s debate about global warming is essentially a debate about freedom. The environmentalists would like to mastermind each and every possible (and impossible) aspect of our lives.”
Vaclav Klaus
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Delingpole the Destroyer

by Tony Thomas

April 30, 2012

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James Delingpole didn’t talk long at the Institute of Public Affairs in Melbourne on April 26 but kept us amused, enlightened and sometimes appalled.

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Who he? Top blogger at The Telegraph (UK), attracting one or two thousand comments per column. A rival columnist explained this by saying that Delingpole “really is batshit mad”. (To put those comment threads into perspective, they’re actually, per capita, below our Andrew Bolt’s rate of about 1000 a day).
Delingpole’s new book on the green movement, Watermelons (UK) or Killing the Earth to Save It (Australia), is a best-seller, combining wit, analysis and effrontery. Other titles include Welcome to Obamaland: I Have Seen Your Future and It Doesn't Work, and 365 Ways to Drive a {soft-left} Liberal Crazy.
His mainland capital tour is a hat-trick for the IPA, which show-cased Canadian Mark Steyn and the UK’s Dan Hannan in recent months.
Delingpole had arrived from Adelaide, “A pretty town of churches and nice pubs. Even as you drink, you know someone there is praying for your soul.” He sees Melbourne as full of “gardens, greenies and luvvies”.
Amid Delingpole’s general attacks in Melbourne on political correctness and the nanny state, his special target was the warmists: “No-one gives a toss about baby polar babies any more”, he summed up.
He called for no half-measures in the campaign against warmists and "eco-loons":

They are not just wrong but evil. Don’t give them the benefit of the doubt; they don’t give us such benefit.

People say we should find the middle ground between (sceptic geologist) Ian Plimer and Al Gore. Some people, who like carbon taxes and economic destruction, also enjoy dogshit in their yoghurt. I like my yoghurt with blueberries and passionfruit. Maybe the middle ground is to add the fruit and also a bit of the dogshit. But I want a world where there is not even one iota of dogshit in my yoghurt.

We are fighting asymmetric warfare with them. They have the BBC, the ABC, the Royal Society, CSIRO, unis, schoolteachers, Greenpeace, WWF, Fairfax (less Gina Reinhart’s share), pretty much the entire world. The bastards have even got David Attenborough, who’s touring Australia soon. David believes in an optimum population strategy, ‘We must have a cull’. Who are you going to kill, David? Not my kids. Just go away. BBC, stop making out that David is a good guy. He’s not nice.

He predicts the Australian Greens will split between their Reds and their complete eco-loons:

The party’s a busted flush. Your government is looking like Berlin in that movie Downfall, with the equivalent of the Russian army coming to wipe them out next year, like in Queensland. We shouldn’t gloat; our real task is to make sure that when the Libs get in they don’t just behave like our Conservative Party and act like we’re green and left. You need to totally dismantle all the build-up of green lunacy. (Applause). You need to replace that $180,000 man Tim Flannery with Ian Plimer or Bob Carter as Climate De-Commissioner. I bet they would do the job for fun.

Son of a factory owner, Delingpole hobnobbed during literature studies at Oxford with current Prime Minister David Cameron. But the way he put it in Melbourne was that he and David had been ‘smoking buddies’: “I have inhaled with him”. He urged that drug use be legalized: “But I don’t go around smacked out on heroin and killing people. I try to use drugs sensibly and keep my children away when I shoot up,” Delingpole said, joking. Remarkably, he is in the same camp on drug-legalisation as our local leftist Phillip Adams.
Delingpole said he did not want to get into a Monckton/Hitler furore (Monckton, to his later regret, a year ago likened Garnaut Report author Ross Garnaut’s style to Hitler’s). However Delingpole led with his chin with plenty of “eco-nazi” taunts. These included a claim that Rachel Carson, author of Silent Spring, was in the same league as Hitler and Pol Pot because of the million per annum malaria deaths attributable to the DDT ban she engendered with her “junk science”:

She’s the heroine of the environmental movement, but how many kids at school are taught about Norman Borlaug whose ‘green-revolution’ wheat doubled yields in India? This is partly why today we’re not all dead of starvation, as another green hero Paul Ehrlich predicted.

The Climategate emails demonstrated that the warmist scientists are the wrong-uns, he said.

They cheat, they do bad things, they use the Hitler style of the big lie, so big that no-one could believe you have the chutzpah to tell it. I kept waiting to stumble across an email that said, ‘Heh heh, I wonder how long we can get away with this evil conspiracy.’ But those scientists actually believe their own rubbish, they have a moral duty to fiddle with the data to save the world from catastrophe. There is no killer piece of evidence that will win us the battle forever, because they always have an answer, like extreme weather is proof of warming, or they move back to a Siegfried line of ocean acidification or sustainability. You must have the appetite for the fight, we are the good guys with right and truth on our side. What more can you ask?

Delingpole is baffled that rugged Australians who can deal with snakes and spiders and great white sharks, have succumbed to such political correctness that they can’t even light a barbie without federal permit. He has a particular fear of Agenda 21, where a handful of green activists can get a local council to sign up to an insidious UN agenda about sustainability and recycling and windfarms.

Those greenies love committees and council meetings. Normal people just want to get on with their lives and thereby they allow all this stuff to creep in on them. Sustainability is actually a Comintern word for wealth-redistribution.

In Britain we understand that going back to the Romans, one lot has taken over from another, no big deal. In Australia there’s a uni module: ‘Feeling guilty about traditional owners.’

He said any greenie in his audience always asked, “Who are you to question the world’s greatest climate scientists?” He replies,

I have read the Climategate emails. I am not a good enough liar to ignore facts and I don’t believe in destroying the careers of those who disagree with me. I need my trolls (would-be saboteurs) on my blog: when you are taking flak you know you are over the target. I enjoy the four-letter emailed insults giving me cheery greeting each morning.

Though often credited with first use of the neologism “Climategate” Delingpole confessed that a West Australian with the user-name Bulldust used it first in a comment he noticed in Watts Up With That?.
He took a swipe at the meme about 97% of climate scientists being warmists, trotted out by Prof. Stephen Lewandowsky in The Age that same morning. Delingpole said the original survey from a University of Illinois study sent a poll to 10,000 scientists.

Less than a third replied but didn’t give the sought-for answers. The pollsters were finally reduced to polling 77, of whom 75 gave the right answer. That was all the ‘consensus’ was about. It was like sending out a questionnaire asking, ‘Do bears defecate in the outdoors?’ The questions included, Do you believe the planet is warming? Well, derr. Yes we all believe. Do humans make a significant contribution? Derr again. Obviously, if only via the urban-heat-island effect. Any sane sentient person would say ‘yes’, but even then they didn’t get 100%.

Fact-checked, Delingpole’s claims are correct. The original survey was t0 10,257 scientists and the final group tested was indeed 77.
Like his UK author colleague Matt Ridley, Delingpole is virulently opposed to wind farms, and had even gone out to Waterloo, near Burra, to see their impact. A couple of years ago a government-endorsed corporate rep had told the citizens they would hear nothing but a gentle swoosh of blades creating clean energy and saving the planet, he said. The reality was a hum below the hearing threshold, like an approaching tsunami or a semi-trailer rolling towards you. People were getting insomnia, headaches, forgetfulness. Some lost the ability to do arithmetic and formerly placid types were getting into violent arguments with neighbours. A woman racehorse trainer lost her sense of balance and kept falling off. The town was in shock. Some residents skedaddled, some places had boarded-up windows. Advocates thought the windfarms looked majestic; he preferred the look of a 20m phallus-shaped column in stained glass, which at least wouldn’t drive people mad with infrasonic humming.
Ian Plimer, thanking Delingpole, said the battle would be won because people resented the rising costs from carbon taxes: “The punters are on our side, they understand when their pay cheque doesn’t go far enough.”
Tony Thomas is a retired journalist.

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Define Ironic: Gov’t $15.6T in Debt Funds 16 Programs to Teach Citizens “Financial Literacy”

Worthless.

(CNSNews.com) — A federal government that is $15.6 trillion in debt is currently using its “bully pulpit” to run 16 different programs to teach citizens “financial literacy,” according to the Government Accountability Office, the accounting agency of the U.S. Congress.
Previously, relying on a study by the RAND Corporation, the GAO had reported that the federal government operated 56 programs to teach citizens “financial literacy.” However, it subsequently determined that 16 was a better count of what it called the government’s “significant financial literacy programs.”
Even among these 16 federal programs that teach citizens “financial literacy,” the GAO found that there is some duplication of efforts and no definitive way to measure the programs’ effectiveness.
The GAO said it held a forum last year where people concluded that the federal government enjoyed a unique “bully pulpit” from which it could preach to citizens about handling their money.
“At our forum last year on financial literacy, many participants said that the federal government had a unique role to play in promoting greater financial capability,” Alicia Puente Cackley, the GAO’s director of financial markets and community investment’ told a subcommittee of the Senate Homeland Security Committee in written testimony submitted Thursday. “They noted that the federal government has a built-in ‘bully pulpit’ that can be used to draw attention to this issue.”
At the close of business the day before the GAO submitted this testimony, the federal debt stood at $15,623,285,528,454.41, according to the U.S. Treasury. In its latest Monthly Budget Report, released on April 6, the Congressional Budget Office said the federal government ran a deficit of $777 billion in just the first six months of fiscal 2012 (October 2011–March 2012).
“In prior work, we cited a 2009 report that had identified 56 federal financial literacy programs among 20 agencies,” the GAO told the subcommittee. “That report, conducted by the RAND Corporation, was based on a survey that had asked federal agencies to self-identify their financial literacy efforts. However, our subsequent analysis of these 56 programs found that there was a high degree of inconsistency in how different agencies defined financial literacy programs or efforts and whether they counted related efforts as one or multiple programs. We believe that our count of 16 significant federal financial literacy programs or activities and 4 housing counseling programs is based on a more consistent set of criteria.”

Was there ever a doubt

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Obama Regime: On Second Thought, Maybe We Won’t Ban Children From Doing Chores On Family Farms…

Update to this story.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Under heavy pressure from farm groups, the Obama administration is dropping an effort to prevent children from doing hazardous work on farms owned by anyone other than their parents.
The Labor Department says it is withdrawing proposed rules that would ban children younger than 16 from using most power-driven equipment. The rules also would prevent those younger than 18 from working in feed lots, grain bins and stockyards.
The agency says thousands of comments have expressed concern about the impact of the changes on small family-owned farms. Many farm groups have complained that the rules would upset traditions in which children often work alongside relatives other than parents to learn how a farm operates.

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ANGRY EU VOTERS WANT MORE TROUGH, LESS BELT CINCHING REALITY……..

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I’ve been saying this for what seems forever, once a populace becomes hooked on state largess, it will refuse to give it up, just like a junkie hooked on crack cocaine. Entitlement programs are the opium of the masses.

For an example, nothing will get the Finns up in arms and into the streets than a mere mention of cutting into programs like monthly state allotments to families with children, being anywhere between 104-170 euros a month, per child, according to the number of children in the family. Then there’s ‘free’ education in higher learning etc. etc. and the list goes on and on.

Contrary to common belief that’s held by people enamored with the welfare entitlement state, utopia does indeed come at a cost, nothing is for free, and when it collapses, as it must, politicians who not only buy into the failed scheme, but have actively pursued it at all cost, are left with little to offer except more of the same. For them, to do otherwise, is to sell out on their utopian promises, even if it bankrupts future generations for generations.

That is what we are witnessing here right now, collective denial, a mass frenzy to safeguard statist utopianism coupled with the refusal to look backwards, even a couple of decades, to learn from the implosion of the now defunct USSR. As Mark Levin has said, (paraphrasing) “Utopians never benefit from experience because to do so, would be to reject the statist’s utopian schemes, hence their need to always cast society’s gaze to next big project all the while their present plans crash around them.”

Angry EU voters, citizens rebel against austerity

BRUSSELS – For more than a year, European Union officials have called for austerity, austerity and more austerity as a means to solve Europe’s debt crisis. Now people who don’t want to pay the price are taking their fight from the streets to the ballot box.

Governments have fallen, more are at risk and in some places, a stark streak of nationalism is on the rise that could swing Europe ever deeper into a fortress mentality.

At stake is the future of the continent, where countries rich and poor are struggling with mountains of debt and moribund economies — a toxic combination that often seems to require contradictory remedies of belt-tightening and economic stimulus.

Increasingly, the long focus on austerity is convincing Europeans that the German-led mantra of fiscal responsibility is creating a vicious circle of more misery leading to lower growth — leading to even greater debt distress.

“What is happening in Europe is the austerity drive is actually slowing down the necessary rebalancing of European economies,” said Simon Tilford, chief economist at the Center for European Reform.

Austerity measures aimed at balancing national budgets have led to drastic spending cuts by governments across the continent, including layoffs and pay cuts for government workers, slashing of key services including welfare and development programs, as well as tax hikes to boost government revenues.

Many in Europe have had enough of this harsh medicine.

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Who is 'racist'?

by Thomas Sowell

04/24/2012

Whatever the ultimate outcome of the case against George Zimmerman for his shooting of Trayvon Martin, what has happened already is enough to turn the stomach of anyone who believes in either truth or justice.

An amazing proportion of the media has given us a painful demonstration of the thinking -- and lack of thinking -- that prevailed back in the days of the old Jim Crow South, where complexion counted more than facts in determining how people were treated.

One of the first things presented in the media was a transcript of a conversation between George Zimmerman and a police dispatcher. The last line in most of the transcripts shown on TV was that of the police dispatcher telling Zimmerman not to continue following Trayvon Martin.

That became the basis of many media criticisms of Zimmerman for continuing to follow him. Only later did I see a transcript of that conversation on the Sean Hannity program that included Zimmerman's reply to the police dispatcher: "O.K."

That reply removed the only basis for assuming that Zimmerman did in fact continue to follow Trayvon Martin. At this point, neither I nor the people who assumed that he continued to follow the teenager have any basis in fact for believing that he did or didn't.

Why was that reply edited out by so many in the media? Because too many people in the media see their role as filtering and slanting the news to fit their own vision of the world. The issue is not one of being "fair" to "both sides" but, more fundamentally, of being honest with their audience.

NBC News carried the editing even further, removing one of the police dispatcher's questions, to which Zimmerman was responding, in order to feed the vision of Zimmerman as a racist.

In the same vein were the repeated references to Zimmerman as a "white Hispanic." Zimmerman is half-white. So is Barack Obama. But does anyone refer to Obama as a "white African"?

All these verbal games grow out of the notion that complexion tells you who is to be blamed and who is not. It is a dangerous game because race is no game. If the tragic history of the old Jim Crow South in this country is not enough to show that, the history of racial and ethnic tragedies is written in blood in countries around the world. Millions have lost their lives because they looked different, talked differently or belonged to a different religion.

In the midst of the Florida tragedy, there was a book published with the unwieldy title, "No Matter What ... They'll Call This Book Racist." Obviously it was written well before the shooting in Florida, but its message -- that there is rampant hypocrisy and irrationality in public discussions of race -- could not have been better timed.

Author Harry Stein, a self-described "reformed white liberal," raised by parents who were even further left, exposes the illogic and outright fraudulence that lies behind so much of what is said about race in the media, in politics and in our educational institutions.

He asks a very fundamental question: "Why, even after the Duke University rape fiasco, does the media continue to give credence to every charge of racism?"

Harry Stein credits Shelby Steele's book "White Guilt" with opening his eyes to one of the sources of many counterproductive things said and done about race today -- namely, guilt about what was done to blacks and other minorities in the past.

Let us talk sense, like adults. Nothing that is done to George Zimmerman -- justly or unjustly -- will unlynch a single black man who was tortured and killed in the Jim Crow South for a crime he didn't commit.

Letting hoodlums get away with hoodlumism today does not undo a single injustice of the past. It is not even a favor to the hoodlums, for many of whom hoodlumism is just the first step on a path that leads to the penitentiary, and maybe to the execution chamber.

Winston Churchill said, "If the past sits in judgment on the present, the future will be lost." He wasn't talking about racial issues, but what he said applies especially where race is involved.

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Dr. Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and author of "Applied Economics" and "Black Rednecks and White Liberals."

The History of Alberta and Saskatchewan
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The Decline And Fall Of The American Empire

The Congressional Budget Office said Thursday that 45 million people in 2011 received Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits, a 70% increase from 2007. It said the number of people receiving the benefits, commonly known as food stamps, would continue growing until 2014.Spending for the program, not including administrative costs, rose to $72 billion in 2011, up from $30 billion four years earlier. The CBO projected that one in seven U.S. residents received food stamps last year.

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Dershowitz: If Prosecutor Had Access To Photo Of Zimmerman’s Bloody Head Prior To Affidavit It’s a “Grave Ethical Violation – Borders On Perjury”…

Zimmerman’s lawyers should have a field day ripping this case to shreds, not only did the affidavit fail to mention the photo but it also omitted the wounds on Zimmerman.
Via Big Government:

With ABC News’ release of the George Zimmerman photo showing blood flowing freely from his head, the question becomes whether Angela Corey, the prosecutor in the case, had access to the photo before charging Zimmerman with second-degree murder.
The arrest affidavit did not mention the photograph, or the bleeding, gashes, and bruises on Zimmermans’ head. Professor Alan Dershowitz of Harvard Law School stated upon release of the arrest affidavit that it was “so thin that it won’t make it past a judge on a second degree murder charge … everything in the affidavit is completely consistent with a defense of self-defense.”
After the release of the photo, however, Dershowitz went much further, telling Breitbart News that if the prosecutors did have the photo and didn’t mention it in the affidavit, that would constitute a “grave ethical violation,” since affidavits are supposed to contain “all relevant information.”
Dershowitz continued, “An affidavit that willfully misstates undisputed evidence known to the prosecution is not only unethical but borders on perjury because an affiant swears to tell not only the truth, but the whole truth, and suppressing an important part of the whole truth is a lie.”
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NEGROES WITH GUNS

April 18, 2012

Liberals have leapt on the shooting death of Trayvon Martin in Florida to push for the repeal of "stand your ground" laws and to demand tighter gun control. (MSNBC'S Karen Finney blamed "the same people who stymied gun regulation at every point.")

This would be like demanding more funding for the General Services Administration after seeing how its employees blew taxpayer money on a party weekend in Las Vegas.

We don't know the facts yet, but let's assume the conclusion MSNBC is leaping to is accurate: George Zimmerman stalked a small black child and murdered him in cold blood, just because he was black.

If that were true, every black person in America should get a gun and join the National Rifle Association, America's oldest and most august civil rights organization.

Apparently this has occurred to no one because our excellent public education system ensures that no American under the age of 60 has the slightest notion of this country's history.

Gun control laws were originally promulgated by Democrats to keep guns out of the hands of blacks. This allowed the Democratic policy of slavery to proceed with fewer bumps and, after the Civil War, allowed the Democratic Ku Klux Klan to menace and murder black Americans with little resistance.

(Contrary to what illiterates believe, the KKK was an outgrowth of the Democratic Party, with overlapping membership rolls. The Klan was to the Democrats what the American Civil Liberties Union is today: Not every Democrat is an ACLU'er, but every ACLU'er is a Democrat. Same with the Klan.)

In 1640, the very first gun control law ever enacted on these shores was passed in Virginia. It provided that blacks -- even freemen -- could not own guns.

Chief Justice Roger Taney's infamous opinion in Dred Scott v. Sandford circularly argued that blacks could not be citizens because if they were citizens, they would have the right to own guns: "[I]t would give them the full liberty," he said, "to keep and carry arms wherever they went."

With logic like that, Republicans eventually had to fight a Civil War to get the Democrats to give up slavery.

Alas, they were Democrats, so they cheated.

After the war, Democratic legislatures enacted "Black Codes," denying black Americans the rights of citizenship -- such as the rather crucial one of bearing arms -- while other Democrats (sometimes the same Democrats) founded the Ku Klux Klan.

For more than a hundred years, Republicans have aggressively supported arming blacks, so they could defend themselves against Democrats.

The original draft of the Anti-Klan Act of 1871 -- passed at the urging of Republican president Ulysses S. Grant -- made it a federal felony to "deprive any citizen of the United States of any arms or weapons he may have in his house or possession for the defense of his person, family, or property." This section was deleted from the final bill only because it was deemed both beyond Congress' authority and superfluous, inasmuch as the rights of citizenship included the right to bear arms.

Under authority of the Anti-Klan Act, President Grant deployed the U.S. military to destroy the Klan, and pretty nearly completed the job.

But the Klan had a few resurgences in the early and mid-20th century. Curiously, wherever the Klan became a political force, gun control laws would suddenly appear on the books.

This will give you an idea of how gun control laws worked. Following the firebombing of his house in 1956, Dr. Martin Luther King, who was, among other things, a Christian minister, applied for a gun permit, but the Alabama authorities found him unsuitable. A decade later, he won a Nobel Peace Prize.

How's that "may issue" gun permit policy working for you?

The NRA opposed these discretionary gun permit laws and proceeded to grant NRA charters to blacks who sought to defend themselves from Klan violence -- including the great civil rights hero Robert F. Williams.

A World War II Marine veteran, Williams returned home to Monroe, N.C., to find the Klan riding high -- beating, lynching and murdering blacks at will. No one would join the NAACP for fear of Klan reprisals. Williams became president of the local chapter and increased membership from six to more than 200.

But it was not until he got a charter from the NRA in 1957 and founded the Black Armed Guard that the Klan got their comeuppance in Monroe.

Williams' repeated thwarting of violent Klan attacks is described in his stirring book, "Negroes With Guns." In one crucial battle, the Klan sieged the home of a black physician and his wife, but Williams and his Black Armed Guard stood sentry and repelled the larger, cowardly force. And that was the end of it.

As the Klan found out, it's not so much fun when the rabbit's got the gun.

The NRA's proud history of fighting the Klan has been airbrushed out of the record by those who were complicit with the KKK, Jim Crow and racial terror, to wit: the Democrats.

In the preface to "Negroes With Guns," Williams writes: "I have asserted the right of Negroes to meet the violence of the Ku Klux Klan by armed self-defense -- and have acted on it. It has always been an accepted right of Americans, as the history of our Western states proves, that where the law is unable, or unwilling, to enforce order, the citizens can, and must act in self-defense against lawless violence."

Contrary to MSNBC hosts, I do not believe the shooting in Florida is evidence of a resurgent KKK. But wherever the truth lies in that case, gun control is always a scheme of the powerful to deprive the powerless of the right to self-defense.

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Six-year-old girl handcuffed and arrested for throwing tantrum at Georgia elementary school

Creekside Elementary, where 6-year-old Salecia Johnson was arrested for throwing a tantrum.

(Credit: CBS/WMAZ)

(CBS/WMAZ) MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. - A 6-year-old elementary school student was handcuffed and arrested Friday after she allegedly threw a tantrum in class.
CBS affiliate WMAZ reports that according to the police report, the girl tore items off the walls and threw furniture. The report also says the girl knocked over a shelf that injured the school principal.
The girl was crying in the principal's office at Creekside Elementary before police arrived. When the officer tried to calm the child, she resisted and was handcuffed.
"Our policy is that any detainee transported to our station in a patrol vehicle is to be handcuffed in the back. There is no age discrimination on that rule," said Milledgeville Chief of Police Dray Swicord.
Police took the young girl to the police station where she was charged with simple assault and damage to property. As she is only 6-years-old, she will not have to go to court.
The girl was also suspended until August.

A Second Holocaust

By Manfred Gerstenfeld

A second Holocaust may or may not ensue. The debate about it has already become common in recent years. Since Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was first elected as President of Iran in 2005 he has frequently called for the elimination of Israel. In practice, this can only be achieved by mass murder. Developments in the nuclear field in Iran have however, turned his rhetoric of the past years into a serious actual threat.

At the turn of the century, the second Holocaust issue came up only infrequently in public debate. In 2000, Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told Muslim worshippers in Teheran while referring to Israel: “We have repeatedly said that the cancerous tumor of a state should be removed from the region.”1 Then-Iranian President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said in 2002: “If one day…the world of Islam comes to possess the weapons currently in Israel’s possession [i.e., nuclear weapons]—on that day this method of global arrogance would come to a dead end. This…is because the use of a nuclear bomb in Israel will leave nothing on the ground, whereas it will only damage the world of Islam.”2

Remarks made by Iranian leaders were not the only reasons for incidental debates on this issue. As anti-Semitism increased, in 2002 American columnist Ron Rosenbaum stated that the “second Holocaust” was a phrase coined by Philip Roth in his 1993 novel Operation Shylock. Rosenbaum claimed it was realistic—rather than novelistic—that sooner or later a nuclear weapon would be detonated by Arab fundamentalists in Tel Aviv.3

Writer Leon Wieseltier reacted to this and similar pessimistic articles by stating that the Jews had achieved both safety and strength. He concluded: “The Jewish genius for worry has served the Jews well, but Hitler is dead.”4 Rosenbaum countered by claiming Wieseltier was fleeing into denial, as there were many Hitler-like examples of demonization of Jews in the Arab world. He referred to Palestinian justification of the Holocaust, the denial of the Holocaust by an Egyptian government paper while supporting Hitler if he had “indeed” exterminated the Jews, and a Saudi government broadcast of a cleric calling for the annihilation of the Jews.5

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Liberals To Ann Romney: Happy Birthday, Bitch. Hope You Die…

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My surprise meeting with David Suzuki and the issue that's far more important than his short fuse: Accountability

"The price of greatness is responsibility."

Friday, June 18, 2010 - Last night, my daughter graduated from Handsworth Secondary School. Not only I am very proud of her, I am also extremely grateful that she had the privilege of a Handsworth education. If all Canadian children could have an education that is as good as the students get at Handsworth, we would have a better Canada.
On our way downtown for the ceremonies, we stopped at Stanley Park and then at the VAG to take some pictures. We had a little extra time and the girls were a bit hungry so we decided to stop for a quick crepe before heading to the Orpheum for the big event. Cafe Crepe on Granville Street is just around the corner from the entrance to the Orpheum.
As we walked in to Cafe Crepe, I happened to notice Dr. David Suzuki sitting alone, having a bite to eat. For three years, I have been writing letters to him, and trying unsuccessfully to communicate with Dr. Suzuki so I thought that perhaps I could just briefly introduce myself and give him a friendly handshake to go along with my name. As politely and as respectfully as I know how, I approached Dr. Suzuki to take the liberty of introducing myself. Actually, we have met before but that was years ago at the opening ceremonies of the Kitasoo/Xais-Xais cultural center in Klemtu.
"Dr. Suzuki, I wonder if I might introduce myself," I said, or something like that. "I'm Vivian, Vivian Krause," I said. He kindly stood up to shake my hand, I believe, but my name didn't seem to ring a bell so I added, "I've been trying to write you letters." Still, he didn't seem to place my name so I added, "I have a web-site, 'Fair Questions,' " I mentioned, adding that I would really appreciate it if I could speak with him or meet with him.
Then, he placed me, or so it seemed. "You're the fish farmer," he said. I had barely begun to explain that yes, I used to work in fish farming - seven years ago - but before I could say much Dr. Suzuki looked me straight in the eye and started telling me to f**k off. Not just once. Then, suddenly, he seemed to catch himself, and quickly sat down.
I was so stunned, I was speechless (which doesn't happen very often).
Dr. Suzuki went back to eating his crepe, or whatever he was eating.
I was rather offended. For three years, I have been writing Dr. Suzuki letters - fully referenced, in an academic and respectful manner. I don't feel that I deserved to be told to f**k off. What's more, Dr. Suzuki was quite happy to get up and speak with me - until he realized who I am .
My camera happened to be hanging around my neck as just minutes earlier, I had been taking photos of my daughter and her girlfriends. As it turned out, I picked up my camera and took a few photos. When I got the film developed, I found out that, in fact, I'd taken two photos.
At that point, Dr. Suzuki stood up again and came towards me. He seemed very angry, maybe even furious. "Look," he said, "What do you want? " he asked me, twice, I believe. He was yelling at me by this time - or so it felt. He seemed so angry that I was afraid that he was going to hit me so I started to back up - which is not very easy to do at Cafe Crepe on Granville. I told him that what I want to know is how much American money his foundation has received, how many millions, or perhaps tens of millions. U.S. tax returns that I have seen show that U.S. foundations have paid about $US 10 Million to the David Suzuki Foundation.
"Why?" he asked me, adding, "What do you care?"
I answered Dr. Suzuki's question by saying that the reason that I care is because hundreds of people have lost their jobs because of his crusade against salmon farming. That isn't the only reason that I care but it is the reason that I happened to mention. (Another reason that I care is that with his false claims about PCBs in farmed salmon, and sea lice, it seems to me that Dr. Suzuki has sold our country up the river on the safety and sustainability of salmon farming, but I didn't get into that).
The reason that I care so much about jobs is because not all of us have a house on the water in Point Grey, another property in Toronto, another one in Australia, and another one on Quadra Island, like David Suzuki. Some of us have to struggle just to pay for one home that we don't even own - let alone a university education for our kids. When I worked in salmon farming in 2002 and 2003, a woman at the Englewood fish processing plant in Beaver Cove told me, "If I don't earn it, my son doesn't play hockey." That plant has since been closed. I just can't forget about her and her son.
Dr. Suzuki then told me, "Look, I'm just here for my granddaughter's graduation." That didn't surprise me. His granddaughter has been at our home on more than one occasion. Dr. Suzuki's granddaughter and my daughter are classmates. I had no intention of upsetting his evening or ours so I asked him if perhaps I could call him next week, or if he would prefer to call me. "No," he said, sitting down, looking into his plate again as his wife arrived at the table.
The issue here isn't David Suzuki's short fuse or that he told repeatedly told me to "f**k off." The real issue here is accountability. The David Suzuki Foundation has obviously received at least $US 10 Million from U.S. foundations but this hasn't exactly been out in the open. For years, David Suzuki and his foundation have refused to answer any questions about their foreign funding - and they've gotten away with it because no one has been willing to call them on the carpet. Confronted with clear evidence that he has falsely reported some of his foundation's research findings about both PCBs in farmed salmon, and sea lice, so far David Suzuki has refused to admit it.

Instead of publicly clarifying the whole truth about its research findings with regards to PCBs in farmed salmon, and sea lice, the David Suzuki Foundation seems to have simply and QUIETLY REMOVED at least 23 press releases and web-pages against farmed salmon.
As it appears to me David Suzuki, Canada's leading environmentalist, is refusing to tell the whole truth about his foundation's own research findings and funding sources with regards to a major environmental controversy that as far as I can tell, has been manufactured in order to serve the purposes of foreign funders. This tells us something about David Suzuki and his foundation but more importantly, this tells us something about us, the public. The deeper question that we need to be asking is what can we change about ourselves and our society so that we don't get fooled again.
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THE WEST NEEDS TO DROP KICK A FEW POLICIES

The idea that the West can somehow produce its own moderate brand of Islam or will be rescued by tiny groups of doctrinally moderate Muslims should be dropped.

I fully agree. Understanding Islam in its entirety, and building effective counter measures to marginalize the Islamic fundamentalists from gaining power, is the only coherent strategy to follow. Resting one’s entire foreign policy vis-a-vis the ME upon either ‘moderates’ coming to power, or fundamentalists who are seeking, and/or already in power, being moderated through Western appeasement, is a fools game.

MUSLIM UK LORD CONVICTED OF MANSLAUGHTER ISSUES BOUNTY FOR BUSH AND OBAMA……..

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Please do take note that this is the same piece of crap that ran over Martyn Gombar, 28, a Slovakian man living in Leigh, Lancashire, with his car while texting on his phone. He only ended up receiving a 12 week sentence, of which he served only 16 days.

H/T: Esther at Islam in Europe

UK: Lord offers bounty for capture of Obama, Bush

A controversial British parliamentarian of Kashmiri origin, Lord Nazir Ahmed, has announced a bounty for the capture of U.S. President Barack Obama and former President George W. Bush according to a report in Pakistan’s Express Tribune newspaper Sunday.

Ahmed, who became the first Muslim life peer in 1998, made these comments in Haripur on Friday to express his solidarity with chief of Laskhar e Tayyiba, Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, upon whom the United States placed a $10 million bounty last month.
Ahmed described the bounty on Saeed as “an insult to all Muslims and by doing so President Obama has challenged the dignity of the Muslim Ummah,” Express Tribune quoted him as saying.

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Edumacation

The alternate title of this post is, “Future Obama Voters.”

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Classy: Liberals Attack Ann Romney As A “Cunt,” “Bitch,” “Whore”…

The left is consumed with hatred.
Via Twitchy:


This is just a sample, there’s more…

Confidence in Sask. breeds jobs, investment

 By Alan Thomarat, Regina Leader PostApril 9, 2012

 

 

Well now we've had time to digest a couple of budgets, two down and many municipal budgets to come before we can understand how much is left in our wallets. Just listening to the rumblings, maybe grumbling, to the east and the west of us has been interesting, too.

Hey, Saskatchewan, I think you're being watched. Premier McGuinty, from mighty Ontario, upon learning that many of us are descending upon the centre of the universe to tell the story about the new land of jobs and growth that's been leading the nation in so many ways, remarked that Saskatchewan is not competition for Ontario. Rather, he's more concerned about New York, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois - Well, I'm more inclined to feel that in the war for talent, that is easily going to last for 15 to 20 years, the most effective war-room strategy will pay attention to all threats, the obvious traditional competing jurisdictions and the up-andcomers that understand it is a war.

And Tuesday past, the Calgary Chamber of Commerce drew a line in the sand in the middle of their current provincial election campaign. The message to Wildrose and Progressive Conservative candidates alike was to catch up to Saskatchewan, stop giving up competitive advantage and lower the small business tax rate to match the actions of the Saskatchewan government. Yes, competitive tax environments can move labour and capital. Cash knows no boundaries and investors are taking our province seriously.

So let's go east again to friendly Manitoba. Only days after Minister Ken Krawetz tabled his government's 2012-13 budget document, Winnipeg Sun columnist Tom Brodbeck, clearly expressing frustration, pointed out to his readers that the "Saskatchewan budget is kicking Manitoba butt."

On so many levels, the two governments' differing ideologies are taking their respective provinces in opposite directions. One approach involves intervention in industries, rent control, spend and tax and spend again, while the counterculture says step back, give back, identify where government should be, know the issues, determine the priorities and deal with them accordingly. It seems as time moves on, the momentum in economic activity and investment is clearly favouring the latter approach.

Brodbeck scans the budgets like this:

. "For example, Saskatchewan once had the highest income taxes in Western Canada - Not anymore."

. "A two-income family of five in Manitoba with a household income of $75,000 paid $4,165 in income taxes. That same family in Saskatchewan paid only $1,470."

. "Saskatchewan cut its provincial sales tax to five per cent from seven per cent - resisted the urge to bring in lopsided, pro-union legislation like - here a decade ago. And Saskatchewan doesn't have outdated regulatory schemes like rent control (like in Manitoba)."

. "And no, the feds didn't help them out. Saskatchewan generates 86 per cent of its own revenue ... In Manitoba ... we rely on Ottawa to pay 40 per cent of our provincial government bills."

So the story about kicking Manitoba butt closes ironically with a quip first coined by a Bomber kicker, Troy something or other. As Brodbeck posits: "I'd say we could learn a lot from our banjo-pickin' cousins to the west. At least when it comes to managing taxpayer dollars."

As we find the new confidence is becoming more and more entrenched, investors are more determined to make new commitments, more construction builds more homes, new communities and creates more lasting jobs, we must still be mindful of how hard it is to climb to the top, we must watch our backs as much as others are watching us now and now is not the time to take our foot off the gas.

So where did all this come from? As I write this for you this week, I'm boarding a plane with Team Saskatchewan for the National Job Fair in Toronto. We are all truly committed to an agenda with ministers and the premier that drives growth and addresses the labour needs in Saskatchewan. We will build the homes and the communities that foster the environment that helps drive the mining sector, research and development and the many thriving parts of this economy.

Oh by the way, in Toronto, they can't miss us. We're the Green Team. Go Saskatchewan.

We don't just drive tractors, we drive growth!

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Ex-Girlfriend Busted For Brutal Scrotum Attack

Cops: Assault left Indiana man bloody, swollen 

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APRIL 5--An Indiana man had his scrotum severely torn when his “on-agaioff-again” girlfriend entered his home and pummeled him in an attack that resulted in the woman’s arrest on several criminal charges, including two felonies.
Christina Reber, 43, was freed from jail yesterday after posting $10,000 bond in connection with her bust for the alleged attack last Friday at the Muncie house of her ex-beau (who told cops he had ended the couple’s eight-month relationship days before the assault).
The victim, 57, told police that he was working at his computer when Reber, pictured in the adjacent mug shot, “walked into his house uninvited,” according to a Muncie Police Department report that will make every guy wince. The man said Reber screamed at him to “call the fucking police” before launching her assault.
Reber, the victim told cops, first struck him repeatedly in the head before latching onto his scrotum and “squeezing as hard as she could.” The man, interviewed by police at a hospital emergency room, said that he “was in incredible pain when Reber grabbed his scrotum and began digging in her fingers.”
The victim recalled that Reber “refused to let go of his scrotum,” but that he was “finally able to pry his scrotum from Reber’s hand” after they fell to the ground during the scuffle. The man then called an ambulance, which transported him to Ball Memorial Hospital.
A cop reported that the man had blood on his shirt and “a long wide tear on his scrotum,” which had been “completely torn loose from his body.”
In a follow-up interview two days after the incident, the victim told police that his scrotum was “so swollen he is unable to walk and is missing work.” The man added that his scrotum “is still bleeding and doctors are not sure if there is permanent damage to his groin or not.”
Reber was charged with aggravated battery and illegally entering the victim’s home, both felonies. She was also charged with a misdemeanor domestic battery, according to an affidavit. Reber is

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Remembering Vimy Ridge

If you think it wont happen here Guess again

Captian zero tells supreme court to get bent

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The Harper government missed the chance to make meaningful cuts

By Ezra Levant on April 1, 2012 12:22 PM | Permalink | Comments

Seriously: Out of a $276-billion budget, the Conservatives found only $5 billion in cuts? And only over three years?

That’s like someone who weighs 276 pounds saying they’re going to lose five pounds. Over three years.

Except even that’s not true. Because three years from now, the government’s own budget document says it’s going to be spending

$297 billion.

That’s not cutting. That’s expanding. That’s not leaner. That’s 7.4% fatter.

But Aliyah’s story received very little coverage, despite the event being more recent than the Martin tragedy, and despite the fact that it happened in President Barack Obama’s very own Chicago on a weekend when 49 people were shot and 10 others were killed.

No mention of Aliyah from the president. No public outpouring for a young mother who sat untangling her daughter’s hair as shots rang out. Nothing. And yet…

“If I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon.”

Why? Why would the president weigh in on this specific case at this specific time?

It’s not about wrong or right. It’s not about justice. It’s not about Trayvon Martin.

“The despair is there; now it’s up to us to go in and rub raw the sores of discontent, galvanize them for radical social change.”- Saul Alinsky

An interesting quote to consider, from the man who shaped the minds of those who shaped President Obama.

Finally somebody says it.
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Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors

Big Journalism;

NBC News is said to have launched an internal investigation into why it posted an edited version of George Zimmerman's call to a 911 dispatcher made prior to a shooting incident resulting in the death of 17 year-old Trayvon Martin. The altered version made it appear as though Martin's race was an important factor that night for Zimmerman, when, in fact, he was only answering a question posed by a 911 dispatcher.