The Obama Civil Defense Force: the eco vets (D)

FEATURE - Democratic Vets for climate change as a security threat:

- Operation Free: "Mission: Secure America With Clean Energy"
- Veterans Conservation Corps: "Any Country that is worth defending is worth preserving"

Nov. 21, 2009
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Meet the model:

IBD Editorials: "Michelle's Boot Camps For Radicals"

Barack Obama was a founding member of the board of Public Allies in 1992, resigning before his wife became executive director of the Chicago chapter of Public Allies in 1993. Obama plans to use the nonprofit group, which he features on his campaign Web site, as the model for a national service corps. He calls his Orwellian program, "Universal Voluntary Public Service."

Big Brother had nothing on the Obamas. They plan to herd American youth into government-funded reeducation camps where they'll be brainwashed into thinking America is a racist, oppressive place in need of "social change."

The pitch Public Allies makes on its Web site doesn't seem all that radical. It promises to place young adults (18-30) in paid one-year "community leadership" positions with nonprofit or government agencies. They'll also be required to attend weekly training workshops and three retreats.

In exchange, they'll get a monthly stipend of up to $1,800, plus paid health and child care. They also get a post-service education award of $4,725 that can be used to pay off past student loans or fund future education.

But its real mission is to radicalize American youth and use them to bring about "social change" through threats, pressure, tension and confrontation — the tactics used by the father of community organizing, Saul "The Red" Alinsky.

"Our alumni are more than twice as likely as 18-34 year olds to . . . engage in protest activities," Public Allies boasts in a document found with its tax filings. It has already deployed an army of 2,200 community organizers like Obama to agitate for "justice" and "equality" (...) >>>

Aug 23, 2009
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Glenn Beck and Michelle Malkin on the G.I.V.E. Act



Traditional Values: "$6 Billion To Train People To Volunteer? - Obama wants a civilian security force as powerful as the Department of Defense", by Andrea Lafferty

When President Barack Hussein Obama campaigned for the White House, he promised he would establish a civilian security force that would be as fully-funded as the Department of Defense. (...) Obama wants a civilian security force as powerful and as well-funded as the Department of Defense? Would that include giving this security force weapons – like rifles, helicopters, and missile launchers? (...) The groundwork for this civilian army controlled by Obama was accomplished in the Senate on March 25. The Obama-compliant U.S. Senate passed the Serve America Act (S. 3487), which is being portrayed as a way of encouraging volunteerism in America. It is sponsored by extreme liberal Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA).

This bill creates a National Service Reserve Corps that allegedly is only for aiding in national disasters and other emergencies. It will use colleges and universities as bases of operation for training students to “serve” their communities. S. 3487 will use these volunteers to assist non-profits, faith-based groups and other civic organizations to improve “the capacity of such organizations.” In other words, to help liberal nonprofits to promote Obama’s social agenda. Obama supporters in Alabama are campaigning throughout Birmingham for passage of Obama’s $9.3 trillion dollar spending binge. The organizers are part of Organizing for America. A leader of this group is Chris DeHaven. He told his volunteers: “We’re looking for supporters. We’re not looking for a fight. That will come later, when we have an army.” (...) >>>

Mar 27, 2009

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Porter County Politics: "More Change You'll Hope Doesn't Happened: 'Mandatory Volunteerism' Bill Passes House"

And it's not just for kids anymore, either. Here's the link to the bill's text. Some highlights: (...) *Requires states to develop comprehensive plans for volunteer and paid service by Baby Boomers and older adults. *Authorizes the Corporation to treat September 11th annually as a National Day of Service and Remembrance. *Establishes within the Investment for Quality and Innovation program (...) >>>

Mar 20, 2009
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Michael Savage has an idea: Van Jones as Obama's Green Czar Appointee (video)

Mar 15, 2009
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Free Republic: "The Movement"

(...) since 1993, he's been organizing the cadre of his personal, civilian national security force -- his "shadow army" -- at fifteen fully-staffed and populated indoctrination centers. Public Allies, modeled after Alinsky's "people’s organizations," is operating under the watchful eye of Michelle Obama and it has a ton of money -- more than $75 million per year -- and an impressive list of donors. Naturally, it also receives grants from federal, state and municipal sources. Its mission has been, and is, to produce "community organizers" -- baby Obamas -- and its process is replicable and repeatable -- continually producing more apparatchiks in "the community," where these people are perceived of as leaders. They answer to only one person -- Obama. During the campaign, Obama also ran, at the state level, a "national program for social change," called "Camp Obama" -- here is their sign-up page -- you too can be a "Deputy Field Organizer."

The Obama Campaign's website promised that "you'll get the kind of experience that Barack got as a community organizer on the South Side of Chicago," and "Camp Obama is your chance to step up and become a leader in 'this movement'." These community organizers have constituencies that can be mobilized, at the touch of a button, into political actions -- mobs in the streets -- to influence public opinion and the political process -- real visual stuff that Obama's water-carriers in the media will broadcast 24/7.

In addition to these shock troops, Obama has a reserve of 13 million-plus in his personal database that he is actively expanding. This pool of Internet-savvy people can be used to promote or attack any issue. Obama can direct tens of thousands of emotional emails, phone calls and letters on any target. Remember, in September, when Chicago radio station WGN-AM twice came under attack from the Obama Campaign for offering airtime to an author who was politically opposed to Obama. As the result of an "Obama Action Wire" alert to supporters, the Tribune-owned station was flooded with phone calls and e-mails about an hour before an Aug. 27 interview with Stanley Kurtz, a conservative writer who examined Obama’s ties to former 1960's radical William Ayers. The phone calls effectively shut the station down.

This Svengali recently released this video, in which he calls for MORE "volunteers" to help him "change America" -- and he makes it sound like a noble cause. In the video, at the end, he even places "The Movement" before "our country" -- the United States of America." Never before has such a massive, organized political action force -- independent from the federal government --existed. Obama sardonically calls it, "Organizing for America." (...) >>>

Jan 22, 2009
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Facebook: "I REFUSE to Serve in Obama and Rahm's "Civilian Service" Program"

(...) The government does not own your body or your time, and if you haven't committed a crime, the government has NO RIGHT WHATSOEVER to mandate that you labor on its behalf.
Stand up for the right to control your own life and your personal liberty. Sign the pact now and REFUSE to serve in any "Civil Service" plans Obama and Emanuel might have in store for us. Join this group if you are willing to take a stand against this gross overstepping of government power, the likes of which we haven't seen since the institution of the draft. (...) >>>

Join the Facebook group here

Jan 14, 2008
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PJM: "Obama’s Corrosive Communitarian ‘Service’ for Students"

The president-elect has backpedaled on his longstanding campaign promise to have government mandate community service by students. Seemingly more innocuously, he now plans to “call on” and “encourage” them to serve by “setting a goal” for all middle school and high school students to perform 50 hours of service a year, and for all college students who perform 100 hours of service to receive a tax credit guaranteeing that the first $4,000 of their college education is entirely free.

Some, such as Michele Catalano writing at Pajamas Media, seem incredulous that anyone could “frown upon” such an “altruistic,” “sharing,” “caring,” “helping,” “selfless” program. She waxes indignant that some critics have associated it with socialism and Marxism, which hold that society should be dealt with as a collective and that only workers’ labor, not free exchanges of goods and services, should determine our communal life. (...) >>>

Dec 4, 2008
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... it's already going on ... the pragmatists go roughshod over standing laws ... (no excerpt, as AFP is notoriously edgy when it comes to copyright) ...

AFP: "Pentagon to deploy 20,000 troops for domestic emergencies"

Dec 2, 2008
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The Foundry: "Rahm’s Plan for Mandatory Service"

There has been a small uproar around Obama’s call for a “civilian national security force” especially one “that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded” as the military. (...) now there is new evidence that the critics are right. He does favor mandatory service and it might be worse than we thought. (...) Rahm Emanuel wrote a book called The Plan in 2006. On page 60-65 of the book Rahm calls for universal conscription of 18-24 year olds for civilian service in order to prepare for a potential terrorist attack.

All Americans between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five will be asked to serve their country by going through three months of basic training, civil defense preparation and community service.

In a 2006 radio interview Rahm explains more about the program. He speaks about the dangers of a chemical attack and about the wonderful common experience that all Americans could have by being drafted for 3 months into a civilian national security force training program. He seems to be using the fear of attack to justify drafting all youth into a militaristic civilian security force – something more reminiscent of a dictatorship than a democracy. And all of his calls to unity and common experience only confirm his preference for nationalism or collectivism over individualism and freedom. That Obama has chosen this man as his chief of staff should give anyone pause. This man has a “Plan” for the country that involves training our youth like soldiers, and calls upon “a new patriotism that brings us together again in a common mission” for his plan which will “unite us in a higher national purpose.” >>>

Nov 24, 2008
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... here's Pat Dollard making minced meat of the plan which has been figured out two years ago by Rahm Emanuel, as can be read in his book, "The Plan" (peek inside on Amazon) ... Dollard has this to say of the first appointment of the O Presidency, Rahm Emanuel ...

Pat Dollard: "Obama Taps Slime, Barely Passing For Human, To Be His Chief Of Staff"

... I fear he's right - you'd have to have had a Obamalobotomy not to see the implications of this corps (shudder) ...

Pat Dollard: "Updated Audio Shocker: Obama’s Gestapo Plan Created Over Two Years Ago With Jew Emanuel In Chicago"

15th Nov 2008
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... this civil defense force is wrong on a very basic level ... let's put it this way: this general draft idea is alien to American culture for a good reason ... it stands for the state as a symbol of the collective ... in other words, it's Nationalistic ... Americans do philosophical patriotism, which is far removed from Nationalism, where every individual has a duty to subordinate to the collective ...

Ace of Spades: "How Exactly Do We Fight Compulsory the "Civil Defense" Army?"

This vid is must watch. Obama really does seem to have in mind a paramilitary domestic security force. Among many other problems, such a force is, frankly, creepy and dangerous. But it's difficult to express a fear of a large domestic paramilitary devoted largely to a Cult of Personality without bringing up the H-word. Maybe the H-word is appropriate-- but it sounds nuts. It Can't Happen Here and all that. So the difficulty is formulating a response which doesn't sound crazy. (...) We should press Obama to explain why such a thing is necessary -- and get him to be more specific (...) Why does Obama wish to divert recruits from the military? (...) What is Obama's goal here if not to undermine one of the main attractors of military service? (...) Getting to the creepy point: Let us concede that Obama is not Hitler the H-word and has no H-word-like designs. Even so, the idea of a permanent paramilitary for, um, "responding to emergencies" is worrisome. (...) Does Obama intend to impose military-style discipline and justice on his Obama Youth? Obama's devoted cultists have already been caught abusing their jobs in the civil service -- digging dirt on political enemies, bullying a girl whose dad serves in Iraq. Why would we wish to swell the ranks of such hyperpartisan civil servants? (...) the serious chance of small political mischief, and the small chance of serious political mischief, weight against this, um, audacious plan. Finally, the cost. (..) >>>

13th Nov 2008
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... the official website of President-Elect Barack Obama, Change.gov, originally announced that Obama would "require" all middle school through college students to participate in community service programs; but after a flurry of blogs protested children being drafted into Obama's proposed youth corps, the website's wording was softened (here's the cache) ...

WND: "Web faux pas: Plan leaked for 'civilian security force'? - Before blogs caught it, Obama site told of requiring students to serve"
Originally, under the tab "America Serves" Change.gov read, "President-Elect Obama will expand national service programs like AmeriCorps and Peace Corps and will create a new Classroom Corps to help teachers in under served schools, as well as a new Health Corps, Clean Energy Corps, and Veterans Corps.(...) The language of requiring students to serve and the creation of a "Classroom Corps" sparked a surge of criticism from bloggers for bringing back memories of the much-publicized video of marching Obama youth and Obama's "civilian national security force," which the candidate said in July would be just as powerful and well-funded as the U.S. military. (...) The new wording is consistent with Obama's campaign website, which also described the college tuition tax credit and detailed "enabling" Americans to serve, rather than "requiring" them to serve. (...) >>>


9th Nov 2008
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Related:

- Excerpt of the speech, the footage in which the plan was first presented
- Rahm Emanuel radio interview on the plan

Related dossiers:

- "The Pomo Presidency"
- "Stop The Obama Constitutional Crisis"
- "Obama's Radical Connections"
- "Americana"
- "The Pomo White House" (the Obama Presidential campaign)

Economy: blowing bubbles all the time

Following up on the well-received series by Thomas Sowell on The Economics of Medical Care, IBD posts excerpts from Sowell’s latest book, The Housing Boom and Bust, a chronicle of the biggest economic disaster of our time.

The causes of that debacle still aren’t understood and many of the same mistakes are being made now — in some cases by the same politicians — in efforts to overhaul America’s medical and financial systems.

The series starts below and will run in five Monday installments. "How Little Law From '70s Brought The Financial System To Its Knees", a Monday series excerpting the chapter on political implications from Thomas Sowell's latest book, "The Housing Boom and Bust."

Part I - Part II - Part III - Part IV - Part V

November, 2009
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Telegraph: "Société Générale tells clients how to prepare for 'global collapse'"

Société Générale has advised clients to be ready for a possible "global economic collapse" over the next two years, mapping a strategy of defensive investments to avoid wealth destruction. (...) Overall debt is still far too high in almost all rich economies as a share of GDP (350pc in the US), whether public or private. It must be reduced by the hard slog of "deleveraging", for years. "As yet, nobody can say with any certainty whether we have in fact escaped the prospect of a global economic collapse," said the 68-page report, headed by asset chief Daniel Fermon. It is an exploration of the dangers, not a forecast. (...) >>>

Nov. 19, 2009
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Enter Stage Right: "A man-made financial disaster", by Alan Caruba

You will recall that, shortly before the end of the 2008 political campaign, the White House announced a threat to the entire financial system and called on Congress to enact emergency spending powers. The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 was enacted on October 3, 2008.

Just eighteen days earlier an event occurred that slid under the radar screen of virtually the entire mainstream media. On Thursday, September 15, 2008, at approximately 11 A.M., the Federal Reserve noticed a tremendous draw down of money market accounts in the nation, amounting to $550 billion dollars. It occurred within an hour or two. The money was removed electronically.

It has never been made public which accounts were affected, nor where the withdrawn funds were sent. If we knew those facts, we would know who launched an attack on the United States that has been more devastating than any in our history.

Had the Federal Reserve not closed down the accounts involved it is estimated that by 2 P.M. $5.5 trillion would have been withdrawn and the entire economy of the nation would have collapsed. It would have been followed within a day with the collapse of the world's economy. (...) >>>

Nov. 16, 2009
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Cato: "Hu versus Sarkozy", by Steve H. Hanke

There is no more reliable rule than the 95% rule: 95% of what you read about economics and finance is either wrong or irrelevant. Just reflect for a moment on the most frequently repeated lessons drawn from the Great Depression (1929-33). According to most accounts, the stock market crash of October 1929 was the spark that sent the economy spiraling downward. How could this be? (...) >>>

Oct. 26, 2009
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Robert Fisk is further clarifying his revelation in this video:

The Independent: "The demise of the dollar", by Robert Fisk

In a graphic illustration of the new world order, Arab states have launched secret moves with China, Russia and France to stop using the US currency for oil trading>

In the most profound financial change in recent Middle East history, Gulf Arabs are planning – along with China, Russia, Japan and France – to end dollar dealings for oil, moving instead to a basket of currencies including the Japanese yen and Chinese yuan, the euro, gold and a new, unified currency planned for nations in the Gulf Co-operation Council, including Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi, Kuwait and Qatar.

Secret meetings have already been held by finance ministers and central bank governors in Russia, China, Japan and Brazil to work on the scheme, which will mean that oil will no longer be priced in dollars. (...) >>>

Oct. 8, 2009
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IBD: "Today's Crisis Is Rooted In 1930s Policies"

A year after the financial bubble burst, recovery still struggles against the political meddling that caused the recession in the first place. But the G-20 meeting of government leaders in Pittsburgh offers more of the contradictory promises made in April, offering bailouts and subsidies while condemning protectionism.

We would all be better off if the Western economic powers had simply let the recession work itself out. The financial crisis was not caused by bankers. Bankers have been doing their business for centuries. (...) >>>

Sept. 27, 2009
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Obama's nationalization drive ...

Cato@Liberty: "Taking Over Everything"

“My critics say that I’m taking over every sector of the economy,” President Obama sighed to George Stephanopoulos during his Sunday media blitz. Not every sector. Just health care - energy - local schools - banks - insurance companies - automobile companies - compensation at financial firms - newspapers - the internet. This president and his Ivy League advisers believe that they know how an economy should develop better than hundreds of millions of market participants spending their own money every day. That is what F. A. Hayek called the “fatal conceit,” the idea that smart people can design a real economy on the basis of their abstract ideas. (...) >>>

Sept. 24, 2009
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Telegraph: "Barack Obama accused of making 'Depression' mistakes"

Barack Obama is committing the same mistakes made by policymakers during the Great Depression, according to a new study endorsed by Nobel laureate James Buchanan. (...) >>>

Sept. 7, 2009
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These Leftist ninconpoops are too clever by half! Here's one who has devised a scheme to limit a country's "rights to produce" (guess which those will be!), essentially a new tool for the global redistribution of wealth: "(...) all humans have equal rights to the atmosphere. This is a basic right." But ... "industrialized nations have already exceeded their quotas if you take into account past emissions."

Spiegel Online: "'Industrialized Nations Are Facing CO2 Insolvency'"

In a SPIEGEL ONLINE interview, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, the German government's climate protection adviser, argues that drastic measures must be taken in order to prevent a catastrophe. He is proposing the creation of a CO2 budget for every person on the planet, regardless whether they live in Berlin or Beijing. (...) >>>

Sep 4, 2009
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- FEATURE -

PJM: "Defending the Free Market: An Interview with Guy Sorman", by Bernard Chapin

Which economic policies can defeat recessions? And which are doomed to prolong them?

Addressing events across five continents, former professor at the Paris Institute of Economics Guy Sorman has published over twenty books in the course of his career. Currently he is a contributing editor for City Journal and a writer for the Wall Street Journal and Le Figaro. His latest book is most topical and entitled Economics Does Not Lie: A Defense of the Free Market in a Time of Crisis. (...) >>>

July 25, 2009
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July 19, 2009
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At last, here it is ... fuel poverty! Here put to the table by a UK source is a serious problem at the root of which is the combined effort of environmentalism and greedy government: overtaxation of fuel is making it increasingly hard for families to make ends meet. It's got to stop! Stop using fuel is a milchcow!!!

ITN: "Government 'must do more on fuel poverty'"

The Government's Fuel Poverty Advisory Group said more households will be pushed into fuel poverty by the Government because of higher energy prices and growing unemployment unless the Government acts.(...) >>>

July 13, 2009
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Dr Sanity: "GREEN JOBLESSNESS"

(...) The Spanish professor is puzzled. Why, Gabriel Calzada wonders, is the U.S. president recommending that America emulate the Spanish model for creating "green jobs" in "alternative energy" even though Spain's unemployment rate is 18.1 percent -- more than double the European Union average -- partly because of spending on such jobs? Calzada, 36, an economics professor at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, has produced a report which, if true, is inconvenient for the Obama administration's green agenda, and for some budget assumptions that are dependent upon it.

Calzada says Spain's torrential spending -- no other nation has so aggressively supported production of electricity from renewable sources -- on wind farms and other forms of alternative energy has indeed created jobs. But Calzada's report concludes that they often are temporary and have received $752,000 to $800,000 each in subsidies -- wind industry jobs cost even more, $1.4 million each. And each new job entails the loss of 2.2 other jobs that are either lost or not created in other industries because of the political allocation -- sub-optimum in terms of economic efficiency -- of capital. (European media regularly report "eco-corruption" leaving a "footprint of sleaze" -- gaming the subsidy systems, profiteering from land sales for wind farms, etc.) Calzada says the creation of jobs in alternative energy has subtracted about 110,000 jobs from elsewhere in Spain's economy. (...) >>>

June 29, 2009
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Go, go, go help defeat immoral smoking bans that kill off small businesses without compensation!

Update: Two small cafes have been cleared of breaking the ban - it's for the wrong reasons, but the verdict opens the way for small cafes to claim millions from the state in compensation.

DutchNews: "Tobacco lobby helps bars fight smoking ban"

The tobacco industry is helping small cafes and bars fight the ban on smoking introduced last July, according to research by the NRC newspaper. The treasurer of the small cafe owners lobby group told the paper his organisation has received some €50,000 from tobacco companies. Ton Wurtz also said that he regular meets with the chairman of the tobacco industry federation SSI for strategy talks. "Red de kleine horecaondernemer" (save the small cafe owner) has 1,200 members. (...) >>>

June 22, 2009
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FT: "Obama unveils regulatory reforms"

Financial companies were faced with a fundamental change in their balance sheets and profitability on Wednesday as President Barack Obama laid out the biggest regulatory reform since the 1930s.Stringent new capital requirements lie at the heart of a raft of proposals that require the Federal Reserve to watch for systemic dangers emanating from the biggest banks, insurers and, potentially, private equity firms. Remuneration and profits at Wall Street and beyond could be hit by the reforms, which will see the administration attempt to tighten capital and leverage rules at global banks in negotiation with the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision.The administration sees the new rules as a rejection of the light-touch approach that held sway under Alan Greenspan, former Fed chairman, and previous governments, which Mr Obama and his advisors blame for sparking a debt-fuelled financial crisis. (...) >>>

June 17, 2009
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CNSNews: "Treasury Secretary's Secret Talking Points Reveal That Banks Were Forced to Surrender Ownership Stakes to Government"

Last October, then-Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson ordered nine banks that the Treasury Department described as "healthy" financial institutions to surrender ownership interests to the government or else face regulatory action that would force them to surrender ownership interests to the government, according to an internal Treasury Department document. Paulson's extraordinary threat culminated in one of the most sweeping government intrusions into the free-enterprise system in the history of the United States. (...) >>>

June 3, 2009
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Lew Rockwell: "Who, Me? Yes You!", by Peter Schiff

(...) Yet in a speech this Tuesday before the National Association of Realtors, Sir Alan “the-bubble-blower”[ed. Greenspan] claimed that his low interest rate policies in the early and middle years of this decade had no effect on mortgage rates or real estate prices. As a result, he claims no responsibility for the subprime mortgage crisis. But even current Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, who shared interest rate policy responsibility as governor of the New York Fed during the Greenspan regime, recently admitted that overly accommodative policy helped inflate the bubble. So what does Greenspan know that everyone else doesn’t? (..) >>>

May 17, 2009
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Politeia: "The Coup of State on the Economy in Perspective"

In America the organizations who are helping us getting our human heads around the unprecedented, astronomical figures involving the various economic stimuli, are the Tea Party Movement (sites here and here) and Stop Spending our Future. The latter has published following information in helping us reducing it all to a more or less human scale: fasten seat belts for this one! (video) >>>

May 9, 2009
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The Foundry: "The Outlines of the G-20 Deal Emerge, And They’re Not Good"

In the run-up to the G-20 summit in London on April 2, a curious division has emerged. On one side stand the U.S. and Britain, both sounding like continental Europeans in their enthusiasm for deficit spending. On the other stand France and Germany, rejecting stimulus packages but eager to impose a new system of “global governance” on the world’s markets and nations. (...) Barroso demanded that “Europe must speak with one voice in London.” But his comments later in the interview were more interesting. In an obvious effort to bridge the divide between the two sides, he urged all concerned to:avoid the false choice between fiscal stimulus or improved regulation. The reality is that we need both and I believe we are seeing convergence within Europe and with our international partners on this.

And there you have the outline of the deal. Like all deals, it pretends to offer something for everyone: the U.S. and Britain will get a reference to their right to pass stimulus measures, and a vague statement that such measures may in some cases be appropriate for some states. And France and Germany will get the regulatory framework they desire. The Obama administration could then trumpet its protection of U.S. fiscal sovereignty and the vague endorsement of fiscal stimulus, while France and Germany got down to the serious business of not going deeper into debt and imposing new restrictions on Britain and the U.S. (...) Let’s hope that the unelected Barroso is as out of touch with the realities of international politics as he is with the publics of Europe. (...) >>>

Apr 1, 2009

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Greenism: Copenhagen according to a scientist-true believer

Report from recent radio interview with a MEP Green scientist-true believer:

The gist is as follows: if concrete targets are laid down in an addendum to the Copenhagen agreement instead of in the text of the treaty itself, Copenhagen must be considered a failure (apparently the targets then become so soft they aren't worth the paper they're written on). It's also important that the text of the agreement leaves the option to upgrade demands (basically moving the goalposts midplay).

Obama for his part apparently, has been "adjusting expectations" over the last couple of weeks. These had climbed too high to be realistically met. Speculations that the Obama Nobel Peace Prize was meant as a bribe for Copenhagen, may be laid to rest. This is the case.

Lucifer to Obama's Messiah is the leading Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, Sen. James Inhofe, the evil climate denier. Read also on IBD, "The Day Global Warming Stood Still".

Our climate debts are the following: US 30%, EU 25% (by comparison China's is 5%).

Costs involved: 100 billion. So that you know ...

Nov. 21, 2009
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Update on ClimateGate: BBC confirms that a hack did indeed occur. Is this smoking-gun evidence of global warming data being fabricated?

PJM: "Hacker Releases Data Implicating CRU in Global Warming Fraud (Updated)", by Charlie Martin

This is beginning to get some attention. Ace notices the same paragraph, and notes: “Keep in mind that when Jones wrote that in 1999 we hadn’t had a decade of global cooling yet. So perhaps he was obscuring a decline in the warming trend?”

It’s been picked up by Rush Limbaugh via American Thinker, and I’m hearing rumors that CNBC may be next. (...) >>>
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The climate hoax appears to be finally unraveling! We know for a fact the MsM has been willfully exaggerating the case because they have been told that if they report "the truth" the public won't take glowball warming seriously! Well, perhaps some of them have been honestly misled; others may have been simply in the tank.

Three reports so far - Hat Tip: Tony Sharp

What happened? Britain’s Climate Research Unit at University of East Anglia suffered a data breach in recent days when a hacker broke into the computer system. The stolen data was posted on a Russian site. The documents show how the books were cooked. The hacking has been confirmed by the director of the research unit, Professor Phil Jones.

- Telegraph.co.uk: "Climategate: the final nail in the coffin of 'Anthropogenic Global Warming'?", by James Delingpole

- Examinor.com: "ClimateGate - Climate center's server hacked revealing documents and emails", by Tony Hake

- HeraldSun.com.au: "Hadley hacked: warmist conspiracy exposed?", Andrew Bolt

Nov. 20, 2009
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!ALERT! It's the EU's own Apollo Project (scroll down for more info), an cooptation of corporate, ideological and political entities (and it has an American component: New America Foundation). Watch the vid here ... their message to COP15: Go Left, Hand over the money! Start digging!

The Lisbon Council for Economic Competitiveness and Social Renewal - Who Are We?: "A Think Tank for the 21st Century"

Europe is faced with a modernisation imperative: Our continent is rapidly moving from the industrial age to a global, networked knowledge-based economy. At the same time, we are set to experience a profound, deep-seated demographic shift with an ageing and declining population. Against this backdrop, The Lisbon Council for Economic Competitiveness and Social Renewal is a think tank and policy network committed to defining and articulating a mature strategy for managing current and future challenges. Above all, we are seeking strategies based on inclusion, opportunity and sustainability that will make the benefits of modernisation available to all our citizens. (...) >>>

Nov. 8, 2009
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Reminds of that nice, 'ethical' pop figure who wanted to save humanity by removing its free will ... the fascist mindset:

The Foundry: "Quote of the Day: Nobel Prize Winning Economist Thomas Schelling"

In an interview with the Atlantic in July, Nobel Prize winning economist Thomas Schelling was quoted:

I sometimes wish that we could have, over the next five or ten years, a lot of horrid things happening — you know, like tornadoes in the Midwest and so forth — that would get people very concerned about climate change.

And what better way is there to get people excited about global warming than to hope they perish in Katrina-like natural disasters? Al Gore, Paul Krugman, Thomas Schelling…maybe this Nobel Prize thing isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Bravo Mr. Schelling, bravo. >>>

Oct 29, 2009
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PJM/Trifecta: "Climate Change Shenanigans & Why You May Have To Send A Check To A Family In Paraguay Every Month"

Oct. 26, 2009
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Oops! climate just disappeared into black hole

BBC: "What happened to global warming?"

This headline may come as a bit of a surprise, so too might that fact that the warmest year recorded globally was not in 2008 or 2007, but in 1998. But it is true. For the last 11 years we have not observed any increase in global temperatures. And our climate models did not forecast it, even though man-made carbon dioxide, the gas thought to be responsible for warming our planet, has continued to rise.

So what on Earth is going on? Climate change sceptics, who passionately and consistently argue that man's influence on our climate is overstated, say they saw it coming. They argue that there are natural cycles, over which we have no control, that dictate how warm the planet is. But what is the evidence for this? (...) >>>

Oct. 12, 2009
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Turning the US bread basket into Zimbabwe:

Hot Air: "Video: The valley hope forgot"

That would be the San Joaquin Valley in California, one of the most prolific agricultural areas in the country — or at least it was, until environmentalists turned off the water. Did they need it for people in response to the drought? No, because the water that would normally flow to the SJV is getting directed out to sea instead. Environmentalists have chosen to bankrupt an entire ecosystem of farms in favor of protecting the Delta smelt, a three-inch fish that neither feeds people nor eliminates pests from the water system. (...) >>>

Sept. 18, 2009
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The Washington Times: "EDITORIAL: The humanitarian the greens hated - Enabling life isn't on the environmentalist agenda"

Norman Borlaug valued humanity and had confidence in the capabilities and aspirations of human beings. He applied his intellect and energy in ways that allowed millions of people to live longer, better lives. He truly was a great humanitarian, in every sense of the word. No wonder the environmentalists hate him so (...)

When Mr. Borlaug passed away Sept. 12, most commentaries hailed him as great humanitarian and agricultural genius who brought modern farming methods to the developing world. As Dr. Henry I. Miller explains in detail on the facing page, this enabled many previously hungry countries to achieve food self-sufficiency. (...) >>>

Sept. 16, 2009
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Now sit down for this revelation:



Sept. 13, 2009
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American Spectator: "Scientific fraud"

(...) I say this because it was a month ago today that I began broadcasting in those fora that the UN's IPCC -- the "scientific body" to which Obama's EPA outsourced its decision as to whether Man-made carbon dioxide (plant food) poses an "endangerment" to the planet (really) -- has openly admitted for more than a decade that it "does not conduct any research nor does it monitor climate related data or parameters" (cached here).

Apparently someone finally decided that keeping this admission out there wasn't going to help the agenda (is there another possible reading?). So, they lied. Sometime in the past three weeks, someone at the UN IPCC reinvented the group. Now, its web page states instead of the long-acknowledged truth, the falsehood that "The IPCC is a scientific body."

Well, no, it isn't, and changing a website can't change that fact. (Hint: its "chief scientist" and "chief climatologist", depending on which profile of him you read, is actually an economist and longtime UN functionary. Close enough for supragovernmental work). But, possibly this group funded in great part with U.S. taxpayer dollars might tell us when and how did this mission creep occur? (...)>>>
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RBO: "The Apollo Alliance Continued" (Part II)

Today we add another layer to the continuing Apollo Alliance saga — the founders and original national board members, Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus. (...) >>>
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RBO: "The New Apollo Project" (Part I)

During a week-long series of programs, The New Republic: America’s Future, on his early evening Fox News Channel show, Glenn Beck has focused to varying degrees daily on POTUS’s “Green Jobs Czar”, Van Jones, an avowed communist and radical STORM leader, as well as Jones’s connections to the Apollo Alliance.

Beck directed attention to the Alliance’s self-admitted role in February 2009 of having influenced “specific content of many of the [stimulus] bill’s provisions.” The Alliance also claims “policy proposals” originated last year in its The New Apollo Program and the Apollo Economic Recovery Act.

In the same Alliance news item, Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid, is quoted as saying “We’ve talked about moving forward on these ideas for decades. The Apollo Alliance has been an important factor in helping us develop and execute a strategy that makes great progress on these goals and in motivating the public to support them.”

What neither the Alliance or Reid makes clear is who the “we” is who has talked about “moving forward on these ideas for decades.” (...) >>>

Aug. 31, 2009
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Key ... here's the blueprint of the great transnational heist! Ever frantically wondered where the speudo religion of environmentalism is for. Well, it's the good old dialectic that never fails to give: a justification to spread ..... (fill: wealth, power, rights) around. Given that it's usually done in a setting hosted by the "international" (read transnational) community, means that it's under the radar of national democratic checks and balances (talk of a coup!):

NewsReal: "Hide Your Money, the Africans are Coming!"

This December, as Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! tells us, a Climate Summit will be held in Copenhagen, Denmark. The purpose of this summit will be to renew the Kyoto Climate Treaty Against Global Warming (Kyoto Protocol), which went into effect in 2005 (the United States was not a signatory to that treaty). At the Copenhagen Summit, a group of African nations, led by Ethiopia, will make an extraordinary demand of the West.

The Africans, Goodman reports, are going to demand $67 billion per year from Western developed nations (read: “the United States”) as reparations for the “devastating effects of climate change on the African continent.”

Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi frames the situation as follows:

Africa is going to need development assistance perhaps more so than in the past given the more hostile global economic environment that appears to be emerged. The international community needs to take urgent steps to limit global warming to about 2 degrees Celsius, which is going to hit Africa first and hit it hard. The most effective means of adapting to climate change is growth and transformation of Africa’s economy that needs funds from the international community. (...) >>>

Aug. 29, 2009
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The American Spectator: "The Oil Shortage Hoax", by Ben Stein FEATURE

There was a staggeringly important article on the front page of the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday. Briefly, it said that the immense run up in oil prices in 2008, from roughly $33 a barrel to roughly $150 per barrel was not caused by an oil shortage, was not caused by an immense upsurge in demand from China and India and Brazil, not caused by bandits in Nigeria. This finding was from President Obama's Commodity Futures Trading Commission, hardly a mouthpiece of Big Oil. The staggering 2008 run up in price, which beggared hundreds of millions of people throughout the world, was caused by the sinister machinations of a few dozen oil traders and speculators in the commodity pits and lush offices of hedge funds and investment banks. (Think Goldman, Sachs at its worst.)

The shortage, which terrified innocent people and literally killed the U.S. automotive industry, made a few dozen or maybe a few hundred people very rich. It also made the nation believe we actually faced a major oil shortage. (I was briefly taken in before I realized that nothing in the supply demand situation had changed even remotely enough to justify the kind of price moon shot we had been through. When I wrote that the spike was the work of some oil speculators and I knew their names, one of them sent me threatening e-mails.)

This belief -- that we faced an impending end of the supply of oil -- was a huge part of the motivation to turn to "green power" sources like wind and solar, to look for ways, even quite radical ways, to control energy use. This totally fraudulent "fact" of rapidly depleting oil resources helped Mr. Barack Obama get elected and is now helping him get his radical cap and trade and energy control bill through Congress. This bill, largely turning U.S. energy production and use upside down and saddling the nation with innumerable regulations -- down to small details like having federal regulators mark up or down every home up for resale based on every usage -- was based upon a fraud. (...) >>>

July 30, 2009
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CNSNews: "White House Science Adviser Advocated 'De-Development' of the United States", by Christopher Neefus - Hat Tip: Michael O'Flaherty

President Obama’s top science adviser, John P. Holdren, advocated the "de-development" of the United States in books he published in the 1970s. "A massive campaign must be launched to restore a high-quality environment in North America and to de-develop the United States," Holdren wrote in a 1973 book he co-authored with Paul R. Ehrlch and Anne H. Ehrlich. "De-development means bringing our economic system (especially patterns of consumption) into line with the realities of ecology and the global resource situation."

In the vision expressed by Holdren and his co-authors, the Ehrlichs, the need for "de-development" of the United States demanded a redistribtuion of wealth. (...) Holdren, who is director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, made these comments in the 1973 book "Human Ecology," which he co-authored with the Ehrlichs, long-time advocates of curtailing population growth. Over the years, Holdren has co-authored or co-edited a number of books and articles with Paul Ehrlich.

In the 1977 science textbook, "Ecoscience: Population, Resources, Environment," which Holdren also co-authored with the Ehrlichs, the authors again presented their idea for "de-development." (...) “It is therefore apparent,” they said, “that one key to saving world society lies in a measured and orderly retreat from overdevelopment in today’s ODCs (overdeveloped countries)--a process we will label, for want of a better word, de-development.” (...) the authors lamented that some scientists and engineers, who they labeled “technologists,” would reject their idea of de-developing countries like the United States:

“Angry opposition to de-development can be expected from some technologists who are used to having their schemes for progress accepted without question by a dazzled public," the authors wrote. "SSTs (solid state technologies), space colonies, thermonuclear weapons and delivery systems, geodesic domes over cities, fission power, giant automobiles, plastic wrappings, genetic engineering, disposable packages and containers, synthetic pesticides, and the like are supposed to be accepted as self-evidently desirable.” (...)

In addition to being director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), Holdren is also President Obama’s top science adviser. He is a major voice in the administration on both climate-change policy and health care reform. According to the 1976 bill that created the OSTP, it is meant to “serve as a source of scientific and technological analysis and judgment for the President with respect to any major policies, plans, and programs of the Federal government.”

Before joining the Obama administration, Holdren was a professor at Harvard and the director of the Woods Hole Research Center in Falmouth, Mass. He holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University and an M.S. from MIT, where he also received his undergraduate degree. The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy did not comment on questions from CNSNews.com about Holdren’s stance on de-development or whether it has changed since the 1970s. >>>

July 29, 2009
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Climate Depot: "Gore: U.S. Climate Bill Will Help Bring About 'Global Governance'"

Former Vice President Al Gore declared that the Congressional climate bill will help bring about “global governance.” “I bring you good news from the U.S., “Gore said on July 7, 2009 in Oxford at the Smith School World Forum on Enterprise and the Environment, sponsored by UK Times.
“Just two weeks ago, the House of Representatives passed the Waxman-Markey climate bill,” Gore said, noting it was “very much a step in the right direction.” President Obama has pushed for the passage of the bill in the Senate and attended a G8 summit this week where he agreed to attempt to keep the Earth's temperatures from rising more than 2 degrees C.

Gore touted the Congressional climate bill, claiming it “will dramatically increase the prospects for success” in combating what he sees as the “crisis” of man-made global warming.
“But it is the awareness itself that will drive the change and one of the ways it will drive the change is through global governance and global agreements.” (Editor's Note: Gore makes the “global governance” comment at the 1min. 10 sec. mark in this UK Times video.) (...) >>>

July 11, 2009
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Mark Musser over on AIM has done a great job in reducing the roots of environmentalism back to Nazism. But we can retrace the source even further than that: back to the anti modernist roots of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, whose anti civilization, anti capitalist and anti human ideas form the basis of all Postmodern thought, a branch of anti philosophy to which Socialism, Nazism and environmentalism (and multiculturalism) all belong (the school of subjective relativism, to be precise).

Accuracy in Media: "The Green Nazi Hell and America’s Future?"

Some 100 years before the Nazis rose to power, German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) ominously wrote that "we owe the animals not mercy but justice, and the debt often remains unpaid in Europe, the continent that is permeated with Foeter Judaicus ... it is obviously high time in Europe that Jewish views on nature were brought to an end ... the unconscionable treatment of the animal world must, on account of its immorality, be expelled from Europe." (...) >>>

July 3, 2009
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AIM has more today on the ongoing story of the U.N. Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis, underway in New York. It reveals what the discerning pundits had already concluded: environmentalism is the new Leftist pantheistic creed, and the ticket to global taxation and Socialist world government ... you've got to read this, to believe it. There are links and more related stories on the files of "The Case for Neo Communism" and "Transnationalism".

June 26 2009
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American Thinker: "After Global Warming"

Science and ideology don't mix. They never have and they never will. The house of cards that is the science behind "climate change" is collapsing at exactly the same time it is being imposed by the Obama administration and as an ideological "truth." America is facing the perfect storm of an imploding scientific theory that will be enforced by the rule of law. (...) Make no mistake: the big bad wolf of truth is about to blow the straw house of global warming to bits. This is why there was a sudden shift in the last nine months, from the use of "man made global warming" to "climate change" by the proponents of the theory. (...) >>>

June 24, 2009
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Glenn Beck: "Gore to 12 year olds: 'you know things older people don't know'" (includes audio material)

(...) GORE: There are some things about our world that you know that older people don't know.

GLENN: Stop. "There are some things that..." you're 12! "There are some things that you know that older people don't know." That is -- and I'm just getting started. That is one of the most incredible things I have ever heard. "There are some things that you know that older people don't know." He is pitting the youth of this nation against their parents. We have a former vice president of the United States, a man who claims to have been President of the United States saying to the best and the brightest 12-year-olds that "You know better than your parents," that "You don't have to listen to your parents on things because they just don't know."

I'm trying to think where else this has been done. Soviet Russia, Nazi, Germany, Mussolini's Italy. In fact, the Nazis took an extra step. Not only did they indoctrinate the kids and tell them you're probably right, you know but your parents don't; in fact, here's the next step: Why don't you tell us what your parents are telling you. Are we having the new Hitler youth? Is that what this is? The new Hitler youth? I'm sorry, that's so politically incorrect. The new green guard. Man your station, 12-year-olds, your parents just don't know. (...) >>>

Feb 5, 2009 - Digg It
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The biggest trough of corporate welfare through oppressive regulations and generous taxpayer subsidies ...

National Summary: "Green Businesses - Corporations Milking Global Warming", by Daniel Muniz

(...) for some companies, if there is a chance to make life as miserable as possible for the competition by exploiting bad press and getting the government to implement outrageously unfair regulations, then so be it.

And that is precisely what is happening with the Climate Action Partnership. This group is a coalition of 10 major corporations who are noisily clamoring for the federal government to establish a limit on carbon dioxide emissions and a number of other excessive measures to combat global warming. Of course, this group created a media sensation. (...) >>>

Feb 3, 2009 - Digg It
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CNN: "Gore warns of damage from climate change"

Suggesting that the planet will soon reach an irreversible "tipping point" of damage to the climate, former Vice President Al Gore told members of Congress on Wednesday that the United States needs to join international talks on a treaty. (...) Committee Chairman John Kerry of Massachusetts said public policy must change and respond to warnings from scientists who fear that a buildup of greenhouse gas emissions may prove permanent. "Frankly, the science is screaming at us," he said. (...) >>>

Jan 29, 209
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Yid with Lid: "Global Warming Guru's Former Boss Says Warming Claims Are BOGUS"

(...) James Hansen of NASA's GISS has been the single-most influential scientist in the world in promoting the view that global warming represents a catastrophic risk to the planet. His former supervisor at NASA, Dr. John S. Theon, now publicly disagrees with Hansen's work. In the correspondence below from earlier this month, Theon dismisses the validity of Hansen's work, charges that some scientists manipulated climate change data, and formally joined the ranks of the deniers. He expressed his views to the Minority Office at the U.S. Environment and Public Works Committee. (...) >>>

Jan 28, 2009
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Anyone analyzing the habits and knee-jerks of the Left is entitled now to a yawn ... right, it's such a bore: who once takes the trouble of understanding the dialectic can predict their every move ... the same template is applied everywhere ...

All American Blogger: "Obama’s New Climate Czar Beloved by Socialists"

From the beginning of this blog, I have been saying the global warming hoax is nothing more than a socialist scam to hurt the rich, industrialized nations. This isn’t about saving the planet, it’s about redistributing the wealth and collapsing the industrialized nations. A few of my personal favorites (...) If you only read one, read this one: Maurice Strong and the Collapse of Industrialized Civilizations, That is really the origin of the modern global warming cult. With that in mind, take a look at the person Barry nominated as his climate czar (...) Until last week, Carol M. Browner, President-elect Barack Obama’s pick as global warming czar, was listed as one of 14 leaders of a socialist group’s Commission for a Sustainable World Society, which calls for "global governance" and says rich countries must shrink their economies to address climate change. (...)

At a July meeting in St. Petersburg, the commission said developed countries "should think of decreasing current consumption levels" - which would mean shrinking their economies - in order to help the environment. Great. Super. Fantastic. Just what we need right now. Still think this is about saving the planet from a fiery death? Read the words of EU Environment Commissioner Margot Wallstroem and former French President Jacques Chirac: Many global warming advocates see Kyoto and other treaties as instruments of international power politics. Ultimately, they seek to give activists and centralized government entities more say over fossil fuel use, economic growth, lifestyles, housing and transportation. EU Environment Commissioner Margot Wallstroem says Kyoto "is not a simple environmental issue, where you can say scientists are not unanimous. This is about international relations, this is about the economy, about trying to create a level playing field for big businesses throughout the world. You have to understand what is at stake and that is why it is serious," she declaimed. And French President Jacques Chirac has termed the Kyoto Protocol "the first component of authentic global governance." (...) >>>

Jan 13, 2008
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You may be excused for not having noticed, but 2008 was the year man-made global warming was disproved. This is of utmost importance as man's culpability in the 'destruction of the planet' is the main lever in the devaluation of mankind ...

Daily Telegraph: "2008 was the year man-made global warming was disproved"

Looking back over my columns of the past 12 months, one of their major themes was neatly encapsulated by two recent items from The Daily Telegraph. The first, on May 21, headed "Climate change threat to Alpine ski resorts" , reported that the entire Alpine "winter sports industry" could soon "grind to a halt for lack of snow". The second, on December 19, headed "The Alps have best snow conditions in a generation" , reported that this winter's Alpine snowfalls "look set to beat all records by New Year's Day".

Easily one of the most important stories of 2008 has been all the evidence suggesting that this may be looked back on as the year when there was a turning point in the great worldwide panic over man-made global warming. (...) First, all over the world, temperatures have been dropping in a way wholly unpredicted by all those computer models which have been used as the main drivers of the scare. (...) Secondly, 2008 was the year when any pretence that there was a "scientific consensus" in favour of man-made global warming collapsed. (...) Thirdly, as banks collapsed and the global economy plunged into its worst recession for decades, harsh reality at last began to break in on those self-deluding dreams which have for so long possessed almost every politician in the western world.

As we saw in this month's Poznan conference, when 10,000 politicians, officials and "environmentalists" gathered to plan next year's "son of Kyoto" treaty in Copenhagen, panicking politicians are waking up to the fact that the world can no longer afford all those quixotic schemes for "combating climate change" with which they were so happy to indulge themselves in more comfortable times. (...) After years of infantile displacement activity, it is high time our politicians – along with those of the EU and President Obama's US – were brought back with a mighty jolt into contact with the real world. (...) >>>

Dec 29, 2008
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Daily Telegraph: "Facts melted by 'global warming'"

Something very odd had happened to the daily updated graph on the official Nansen website last weekend, writes Christopher Booker. Last weekend, that heroically diligent US meteorologist Anthony Watts noticed that something very odd had happened to the daily updated graph on the official Nansen website that shows how much sea-ice there is in the Arctic. Without explanation, as he reported on his Watts Up With That website, half a million square kilometres of ice simply vanished overnight. (...) >>>

Dec 21, 2008
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Related:

- "The Controversial Dossier" (the crazier side of environmentalism)

To archive >>>

Pomo Lingo: Orwell, again

American Thinker: "Masters of the Language", by John Dietrich

In the prophetic 1984, George Orwell described the purpose of Newspeak, the language of Ingsoc, or English Socialism. Newspeak was designed not only as a medium of expression for the Ingsoc worldview, but also "to make all other modes of thought impossible." Once Newspeak was fully adopted, "a heretical thought ... should be literally unthinkable, at least so far as thought is dependent of words."

The ability to control the political vocabulary bestows enormous power on the possessor. For decades, progressives have had a monopoly in this sphere. It is unlikely that they will be able to make "heretical thought" unthinkable, but their ability to control the terminology gives them a tremendous advantage in any political debate. Even conservative commentators have adopted the progressive terminology. (...) >>>

Nov. 20, 2009
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Politeia: "The O Team: Mental Babies With Razors"

Their skewed philosophy rests on the error that universals are but a figment of man's imagination. From this fallacy follows that concepts and essences - being universals - also do not exist.

As a result, some arbitrary attribute may be attached to - for instance man - and mistakingly serve the purpose of an essence: what to think of systems that take decisions (no parenthesis, and taken quite literally) or an angry mob. Can someone please explain what is 'an angry mob' in the order of things? (Dutch speakers may visualize the concept 'lurf' here: it is a non-existent body part. )

It borders baby-talk uttered by grown men in charge of the black suitcase, the red telephone, the nuclear button - in other words, the world's highest office has become the playpen of human entities with the mental makeup of infants: in effect, babies with razors.

Concepts, essences and universals are replaced by fleeting thought and linguistic constructs: fact and reality swapped for personal opinion and meaningless rhetoric.

Words having become just that (bla bla) and thought having been reduced to mere synapses, these tend to seen as ends in themselves and used as labeling devizes: changing the label is then confused with altering the 'meaning' of the (conceptless) word. (The question aside why you would want to do that in the first place ... but that's a subject for "The Left's Default Position: Coercion".) (...) >>>

Oct. 24, 2009
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About the dossier (permanent):

Rather than excerpts this file contains key words. Although the series also touches other aspects of Neo Communism, (Cultural) Marxism and its derivatives, it primarily focuses on attitudes, speech and rhetoric. It can best be summed up as follows: As far as the tactics in the language and attitude department are concerned we have identified: fibs and lies (technically don't exist for Subjectivists: no truth, no lie), gross exaggeration and hyperbole, posturing, genuine or faked hatred and hysterics (rage, rage, rage), emotional blackmail, incitement to violence, sentimental whining, false analogy and equivalence, (reversed) sophistry, manipulation, inverse morality, in your face tactics and ad hominem attacks, para-exegese (deliberate misinterpretation and overexplanation: anger is being unreasonable, doubt is denial, aversion is hatred, phobia is hatred, etc.) - another fallacy as a result of massive imprecision, the lack of orthologics, and the unremitting (and sometimes deliberate) confusion of terms: very often the tactical mixing of facts and opinion, and last but not least the time honored trick of equivocation (wiki: a syllogism (a logical chain of reasoning) of a term several times, but giving the term a different meaning each time. For example:

A feather is light.

What is light cannot be dark.

Therefore, a feather cannot be dark.

In this use of equivocation, the word "light" is first used as the opposite of "heavy", but then used as a synonym of "bright" (the fallacy usually becomes obvious as soon as one tries to translate this argument into another language).

Here are the instalments and their key words:

- The Marxist Revival (9): Why the Mayor of Brussels Gags Free Speech (31st Aug. 2007)
Double standards through the Marxist Dialectic, positive action (positive discrimination, direct action), handicaps, accusations of repressive tolerance (tolerance only of the tolerable, but it would only be an accomplishment if we tolerate the intolerable, much like pomo tolerate terrorists and child molesters (matter of personal preference and only 'natural')

- The Marxist Revival (8): Hysterically Moving the Goal Posts (12th August)
Handicaps, levelling the playing field, redistribution of power and speech rights, moving the goal posts, lumping and collating, equivalence and false analogy, subjectivism, hysteria, fake outrage, psychological dissociation, delusion, subjectivism, new media

- The Marxist Revival (7): Of Reversed Sophistry & Mythical Creatures (9th Aug. 2007)
Sophistry, paradoxymora (paradoxes, contradictions, oxymora), Marxist dialectic, redistribution of power and speech rights, moving the goal posts, end justifies the means

- The Marxist Revival (6): the Queen of Rage & Ludicrous Equation (5th Aug. 2007)
Equivalence, fake outrage, Virginia Woolf, false analogy, feminism, Marxist dialectic, hysterics

- The Marxist Revival (5): Political Justification to Violence (4th Aug. 2007)
Words hurt!, literalism, revolutionary theory, incitement to violence, fake outrage, justification to violence, radicalization, violence (the struggle) generating change and growth, Marx' Manifesto, The Straight Red Line

- The Marxist Revival (4): the Assault on Free Speech (2nd Aug. 2007)
Stephen Hicks' lecture at The Objectivist Center during the 2002 (!) Summer Seminar: "Pomo's Declaration of War on free speech", aspects and attitudes to speech, positive action (positive discrimination, direct action), redistribution of speech and rights, Marxist dialectic, equivalence, Pomo art, Emerging Church

- The Marxist Revival (3): All Purpose Invective (13th July 2007)
Pomo speech, rhetoric, posturing, faked outrage, deconstructionism, sophistry, propaganda demagoguery, manipulation, ad hominem attacks, Koukl's Passive-Aggressive Tolerance Trick

- The Marxist Revival (2): the Epic Narrative (9th July 2007)
The Unholy Alliance with Islam, revolutionary theory, equivalence, environmentalism, Noble Savagery, collectivism, control

- The Marxist Revival (1): the Lie at the Bottom (7th July 2007)
De-Marxification, remembering the victims, the double standard of Right and Left Socialism, demoralization of Western students by the KGB (the Bezmenev interviews), Critical Theory, Primacy and Consciousness vs. Existance, Ayn Rand, Objectivism, atheism, subjective minorities, Marxist dialectic, victimhood, self-loathing, The Straight Red Line

Socialist Utopia Redux: #Honduras prepares for elections

... and I said once and I'll say it again: why are undemocratic parties allowed to run in elections, thus providing a chance for democracy in effect to commit suicide? Here we are again, in Honduras!

La Gringa's Blogicito: "Micheletti will temporarily step aside"

In a national television and radio broadcast tonight, Honduran President Roberto Micheletti encouraged all Hondurans, without exception, to vote on November 29. He said that the elections signify "peace and our future." He again promised that citizens will be safe and secure.

In a surprise move, Micheletti offered to absent himself from power temporarily from Wednesday, November 25 until December 2 to guaranty tranquility for the elections and assure that the focus is on the elections instead of the political crisis. He promised that during his absence, the government will operate completely normally with his council of ministers (cabinet) in charge. (...) >>>

Nov. 20, 2009
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BREAKING NEWS - Ortega charges coup plot: The continuing story of El Ortega, the gift that keeps on giving ... Van Baalen, while in Nicaragua talked to the military which is largely made up of Sandinistas. He wanted to ensure the army would remain in baracks in the dispute with the opposition Liberal parties. Today El Ortega accuses Van Baalen of having organized a coup, discrediting the opposition in the process. Classic! Well, Mel tried it and got away with it!

Nov. 16, 2009
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Just keeping you updated on this diplomatic undertaking, which appears to have a few interesting aspects. Van Baalen as President of the Liberal International, here in the pic with Mel, has parleyed with both parties. Dear Mel has stated he'll respect the November 29 election results (presumably like he did the Constitution). Micheletti will join the board of the Liberal International as Vice President in January.

Van Baalen has acknowledged Zelaya has violated the Honduran Constitution and that the OAS is biased on the side of 'bolivarian' Zelaya. Now, would that be an implied charge against the Obama admin and the UN, who also came out in defense of the power-grabbing Mel? Both Mel Zelaya and Micheletti are members of the same Liberal party, but I dare say Mel should prepare for a bout of black-balling come election time ...

November 15, 2009
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As more information becomes available about this incident, the plot is thickening. Van Baalen was acting in Nicaragua on behalf of the opposition Liberal parties against El Ortega's self appointment as President-with-an-unspecified-number-of terms. In this video it is evident that Van Baalen's call to action was limited to peaceful means.

Noteworthy is also, he was booted out by the commies when he'd already left the country for Costa Rica. Now he's on to Honduras to mediate in a similar "conflict" between Mel Zelaya and the Honduran defenders of the Constitution. Common denominator: don't try to make democrats out of commies - they have no talents in that respect.

Hans van Baalen: "ALDE group leader Guy Verhofstadt: 'Totally unacceptable"

The new President of Liberal International, VVD Member of the European Parliament, Hans van Baalen has been expelled from Nicaragua by the Sandinista President Daniel Ortega. Van Baalen heard of this action against him shortly after leaving the country by airplane to Costa Rica.

Following weeks of negotiations behind the scenes Van Baalen had reached a cooperation agreement with the leaders of the Liberal opposition parties in Nicaragua (Bancada Democratica Nicaraguense, Partido Liberal Constitucionalista, Alianza Liberal Nicaraguense). This pact of Managua is a breakthrough because the liberal parties have agreed to present one common Liberal candidate for the upcoming general election. The Liberal opposition has a majority in the parliament but was divided until now. Van Baalen called upon President Ortega to respect the constitution of Nicaragua, which prohibits two successive terms in office. (...) >>>

Nov. 13, 2009
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Hello regime of Nicaragua! How's the war on reality going for you so far? It will catch up with you eventually, as it invariably does! Bravo Hans van Baalen for taking a stand for liberty!

NRC: "Dutch MEP thrown out of Nicaragua"

European parliamentarian Hans van Baalen, from the Netherlands, was expelled from Nicaragua on Wednesday after the right-wing liberal politician had called on liberal parties there to unite in opposition against left-wing president Daniel Ortega. In a statement Nicaragua said the MEP came "as an envoy of interventionist foreign powers, forgetting that the new forms of interference and oppression are rejected by the people, especially in Africa, Asia and Latin America."

Van Baalen is on a tour of three Latin American countries in his new position as president of the International Liberals, an umbrella organisation of almost 100 liberal parties worldwide. Nicaragua was his first stop, "a country where democracy is threatened by the unconstitutional and totalitarian tendencies of Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega," Van Baalen wrote on his website before his departure. (...) >>>

Nov. 12, 2009
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PJM: "U.S. (Belatedly) Changes Course on Zelaya, Chávez Stays Quiet"

The U.S. drops its support for Honduran former president Manuel Zelaya. Hugo Chávez says nothing, a development in itself.

The October 30 Tegucigalpa-San Jose Accord (translated here), under which the United States and other nations are to recognize the results of the November 29 Honduran elections, was hailed by the U.S. government and by the Organization of American States (OAS) as “as bringing an end to a months-long political crisis.”

It seems to have fizzled because former President Manuel Zelaya insisted that he be reinstated before the unity government took office. Under the accord, the unity government took office, as scheduled, on November 5. Zelaya refused to submit his list of participants since he had not been reinstated, and it appears that his partisans will try to disrupt the elections. (...) >>>

Nov. 10, 2009
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It just got worse ... but there's a twist ...

Pat Dollard: "Soros Behind Zelaya’s Return To Power", by Nicole M. Ferrand (research analyst and editor of “The Americas Report” of the Menges Hemispheric Security Project)

(...) Why is this administration siding with Zelaya and his main supporter, Venezuelan President, Hugo Chavez? Chavez is known to be hostile towards the U.S while working closely with Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who is on the brink of obtaining a nuclear weapon and has established a bank in Venezuela with Chavez to avoid the sanctions already imposed against Iranian financial institutions responsible for transferring funds to Tehran’s nuclear program. Actually, the Obama Administration and the Chavez regime sponsored a UN resolution that condemned the government of Honduras for legally removing Chavez’s puppet “Mel” Zelaya.

What is even worse, the State Department has suspended $30 million in aid to Honduras for standing by their constitution and has stripped current President Roberto Micheletti and fourteen members of the Supreme Court who ruled against Zelaya of their U.S. visas.

Since people are often policy, who are the individuals on the Obama team responsible for shaping our Latin American policy and specifically for the misguided decisions made regarding Honduras. The Obama Latin America Team is composed of (...) >>>

Oct. 31, 2009
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Well, the tranzies have managed it! The Left's narrative is unchanged, beating the drum of the "coup of state" and ignoring Mel's conspiracy to help himself to the title 'dear leader for life'. The rule of law in Honduras is now dog's breakfast and Mel is back in the saddle contemplating more mischief. Who's going to hold the tranzies responsible for the consequences? The UN? whahahaha ha ...

Power Line: "Zelaya returns"

Today's news brings word that Manuel Zelaya will return as the president of Honduras thanks to American diplomatic pressure. It is perfectly fitting that the signal diplomatic triumph of President Obama's first year in office is the restoration to power of the lawfully deposed Honduran thug and friend of Fidel Castro, Daniel Ortega and Hugh Chavez. It is inimical to the national interest of the United States. It is a setback for the supporters of democracy in the beleaguered country of Honduras. And it is a defeat for those who believe in the rule of law. It is, in other words, a triumph of "smart diplomacy." (...) >>>

Oct. 30, 2009
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The seamless integration of Fascism and Communism ...

Canada Free Press: "Zelaya’s Chief Propagandist Endorses Hitler and the Holocaust"

Not long after ousted wannabe Marxist dictator Manuel Zelaya issued a bizarre rant about Israelis attacking him with high frequency radiation and toxic gases, his chief propagandist, David Romero Ellner, who heads up Honduras’ Radio Globo went on the air to suggest that Hitler had been right and that it was unfortunate that he had not gotten the chance to finish off the Holocaust.

David Romero Ellner and Radio Globo are significant because the media aims to make them into the newest martyrs of the Honduran government’s “crackdown” on civil rights. Reuters and other media outlets are already carrying touching narratives of the police raid on Radio Globo and David Romero Ellner continuing to carry on broadcasting over the web. And this was what the tragic martyr, David Romero Ellner said on Radio Globo (...) >>>

Oct. 1, 2009
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LeUrticant's Blog: "HUNGER STRIKE in VENEZUELA get more protesters including POLITICAL PRISONERS themselves"

More than 34 university students initiated Friday a hunger strike to call attention about the persecution of political opponents by President Hugo Chavez's government. The students sprawled on cots in front of the offices of the Organization of American States in Caracas as they urged the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights (IACHR) to investigate. Some began going without food early Thursday, while others traveled overnight from eastern Sucre state to take part. The OAS has simply ignored the petition the very same way they ignore the Political Prisoners from Communist regime in CUBA. (...) >>>

Sept. 29, 2009
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Hot Air: "CRS: Zelaya arrest lawful"

(...) But was Zelaya’s removal actually illegal? The Congressional Research Service analyzed it, and concluded that Honduras’ parliament and Supreme Court, while lacking an impeachment mechanism in the country’s constitution, had the authority to issue an arrest warrant for Zelaya and remove him from office (via Fausta Wertz) (...) The Hondurans made a blunder by exiling Zelaya. Had they kept him in custody, very little of what followed would have occurred. Hugo Chavez and Daniel Ortega would have screamed about it, but the US and most of the rest of the OAS — including Costa Rica, where Honduras dumped Zelaya — would have probably remained on the sidelines. (...) >>>

Sept. 27, 2009
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Pajamas TV: "Surprise, Surprise: Obama Sides with Leftist Dictator and Shuns Democracy in Honduras" (video)

Sept. 9, 2009
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The shame of making the Left proud ...

Astute Bloggers: "10,000 Protestors March Against Socialist Indoctrination in Schools - in Venezuela"

It is no coincidence that Chavez is seeking to indoctrinate schoolchildren and Obama arranged a TV speech to schoolchildren this very week.

Chavez and Obama use the same playbook. (...) >>>

Sept. 6, 2009
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Hot Air: "Honduran court rejects Zelaya return"

(...) Unfortunately for Obama, the court has rejected the proposed deal that would return Zelaya to Honduras by restating that they would order his arrest for crimes committed in office:

Honduras’s supreme court has rejected a Costa Rica-brokered deal to restore ousted President Manuel Zelaya to power and ordered his arrest if he returns. The ruling also affirmed the legitimacy of the government of interim leader Roberto Micheletti. … The court reminded Mr Zelaya that he faces several charges - including crimes against the government, treason, and abuse of power - and would be subject to trial if he re-entered the country. It said Mr Micheletti’s government had been installed as part of a lawful “constitutional succession”. Correspondents say Mr Micheletti is increasingly confident that he will be able to remain in power until elections at the end of November.

Costa Rica had proposed that Zelaya return as president until the November elections, with his power curtailed considerably, while Micheletti returned to his previous position as speaker of the Honduran parliament. The court’s statement flatly rejects this compromise and any other. (...) >>>

Aug. 29, 2009
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Note the Chavez brand of National Socialism: "Bolivarism" ...

Times Online: "Protests fail to halt passage of Chavez's 'socialist indoctrination law'"

Officers fired tear gas into crowds who were protesting in Caracas against President Chávez's plans to broaden state control over the education system. Scuffles broke out as clouds of caustic, white gas wafted through the air outside the predominantly pro-Chávez National Assembly. (...) >>>

Aug. 14, 2009
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Here below is a link to PJTV's Honduras collection. Very worth while watching, every last one of those reports. It is still an enigma how the 'international community' could support - and could continue to support - a President who clearly had been violating the Constitution of his country. Have we no diplomatic representation in Honduras (one that happens to be awake, that is)? I guess it's still too early to draw the conclusion that we ourselves have been usurped by the forces of darkness?

PJTV: "Honduras/Political - National Crisis"

July 25, 2009
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Here Supreme Court documents that Zelaya violated Article 239 ...

The Washington Times: "EXCLUSIVE: Ousted Honduran leader accused of theft" (includes video material)

Honduran officials are investigating allegations that President Manuel Zelaya and his chief of staff stole millions of dollars from the central bank before the military ousted Mr. Zelaya last month, according to a senior Honduran official, government documents and other evidence.

A security video from the Central Bank of Honduras made available to The Washington Times shows officials entering the bank June 24 and withdrawing large amounts of Honduran currency. The money was driven to the office of Mr. Zelaya's chief of staff, Enrique Flores Lanza, according to depositions by three witnesses to Honduran prosecutors. (...) >>>

July 22, 2009
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The American Spectator: "Honduran Archbishop Blasts Zelaya and Chavez", by John Rosenthal

An article published by the Catholic news agency Zenit quotes Cardinal Óscar Rodríguez Maradiaga, the archbishop of Tegucigalpa, as saying that the Catholic Church is "not taking sides" in the current conflict in Honduras. But this is hardly the impression one gets from a lengthy interview with Cardinal Rodriguez published today in the German daily Die Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ). In the FAZ interview, Cardinal Rodríguez accuses Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez of fomenting unrest in Honduras in the interest of bringing about a "Bolivarian" revolution in the country and he rejects outright the return to power of ousted President Manuel Zelaya.

"You must know," Cardinal Rodríguez tells the FAZ, that we are struggling against a very powerful, because very well-financed, campaign, which is being directed by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez -- to the extent that agents of the Venezuelan secret services are active in the country and are organizing the supposed popular protests against the removal of President Manuel Zelaya. Weapons have also been brought into the country. Thank God that up to now more blood has not been shed. But not a day goes by without my receiving a death threat.

Asked why he was being threatened, the Cardinal continued: (...) Rodríguez said that it was "absurd" to qualify Zelaya's removal as a military coup, noting that "there is not a single military official that in any way belongs to the [current "de facto"] government." (...) Asked by FAZ reporter Daniel Deckers why the American government has publicly supported Zelaya -- "in perfect harmony with Chavez and his followers" -- Cardinal Rodríguez replied: "A lot of Hondurans would like to know that. But nobody can explain it to us." >>>
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Newsbusters: "Blogosphere Roars, MSM Snores: Zelaya Attempted Honduran Referendum Vote Fraud", by P.J. Gladnick

Stories reported almost exclusively by the Blogosphere which are mostly ignored by the mainstream media have become such a recurring theme recently that it deserves to be filed under the category of "Blogosphere Roars, MSM Snores." And the latest entry in this category is the report from the Catalan Europa Press in Spain relayed via the Babalu Blog about an attempt by former Honduran president Manuel (Mel) Zelaya to fix the results of a planned referendum via programmed computers on the very day he was ousted. Here is the translation of the story which has yet to appear in the English language press here in North America:

Several computers containing the results of the referendum Zelaya wanted to conduct are seized at the Presidential Palace. Are you taking notes, ACORN? And now for the rest of the story:

The National Directors of Criminal Investigation seized various computers from the Presidential Palace that had recorded the supposed results of the referendum to reform the constitution that the deposed leader, Manuel Zelaya, was planning to conduct on June 28, the day he was removed from office. Or, as the Babalu Blog put it, taking a page out of the Hugo Chavez playbook: (...) >>> Read it all!

July 20, 2009
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On the occasion of Mel's imminent return home, a feature story capturing the essence of the Idealistic Narcissist ... the perpetual preparedness to sacrifice nearest and dearest to the Collective ...


FEATURE - IBD: "Behind Hugo's Harassment Of Honduras"

The recent actions of Venezuela's Hugo Chavez say a lot about what's really at stake in the Honduras debacle (...) At issue is whether Zelaya broke the Honduran constitution by trying to hold an illegal referendum and, if not, whether he deserves to be returned to power. (...) Complicating matters is Chavez, the Marxist tyrant who's been at the center of the Honduran problem from day one. He has provided encouragement and material support for the unconstitutional referendum that Zelaya tried to push through. Now with peace talks on, Chavez is interfering further. (...)

By Thursday, Chavez really lost it, making a bizarre, out-of-protocol 11:15 p.m. phone call to U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Thomas Shannon urging the U.S. to "do something," suggesting a military invasion. Seems Chavez was losing sleep at night over Honduras. Then, on his weekly variety show Sunday, Chavez made a long speech about his call to Shannon, hurling insults at the very country he wanted go to war for him. He blamed the U.S. for instigating the "coup" (...) "Zelaya will return to his country. The government of Honduras will decide whether to kill him or not. He is willing to die," Chavez said, gladly giving up his pal's life for "the struggle." As of Tuesday, Zelaya, acting on cue from his sponsor, was calling for violence and disruption of trade with strikes and roadblocks. "The Honduran people have the right to insurrection," he said.

Chavez's series of actions have nothing to do with restoring democratic order or constitutionality in Honduras. Which begs the question: Why is he involved at all? Venezuela has no dog in this fight, no vital interests (...) Fact is, Chavez can't afford to lose a single pawn in the collection of vassal states known as ALBA, which include Bolivia, Ecuador, Nicaragua and Cuba. If Honduras goes, the message to the others is that membership in the group is reversible. Chavez's actions in the Honduras debacle show the ends to which he will go to maintain what's effectively an empire. (...) >>>

July 17, 2009
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"President of the Poor" was funnelling aid by the wheelbarrow

Hunter Smith has resurfaced: he's attended a multi religious church service, and today explains his motivations.
Chris Burgard - director of "Border" - reporting on behalf of Pajamas TV, has had an interview with the Honduran Congressional Minority Leader, Antonio Rivera. Conclusions:
- Mel - the President of the poor - has been funnelling aid meant for the self-same poor, towards his unconstitutional referendum fund, by the wheelbarrow.
- As a measure of what the 'international community' has become, Sr Rivera gives us the example of the OAS who kicked out Castro some 50 years ago because of human rights violations. Now the OAS is inviting him back. Cuba hasn't changed, neither has Castro: it's the polylogism that is the result of relativist philosophy: refusing to pass ethical judgment, instead pushes the fallacy that every idea is right from its own perspective (Corporal Hitler would have been proud!). Watch the interview here:

PJTV: "Communism and Consequences in Central America & The Chavez News Network"

July 14, 2009
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Other than WSJ posting the interesting but unrelated article on the history of the Latin American caudillo, the media and the "international community", perhaps having understood by now its mistake in labeling the Hondurans protecting their shaky democracy a 'coup', have gone mute on the subject. Even our "feet on the ground", gringo Hunter Smith is in a protracted meeting since Friday 10th, merely refering us to Pajamas TV's new case reporter, Chris Burgard, director of "Border".

Chris Burgard can be viewed here. These are his main points:

- There are still rumors of troop movements near the Nicaraguan border, which Nicaragua is denying.
- Hondurans dubbed CNN the Chavez News Network.
- CNN Espanol's gets its info from their correspondent, daughter of a well known local family of communists/Sandinistas.
- Last Sunday's violence near the airport may have been provoked to form an excuse for Chavez to bring in troops in aid of deposed Mel Zelaya. This is also the reason Mel was transfered abroad.
- A senior officer has detected a battle plan in the Chavez background when the latter delivered a televized speech.
- The MSM and the "international community" are mistaken in their judgment; reality on the ground is precisely the other way around.
- Hondurans simply did what their own Constitution bade them to do.

May well be continued (or not).

July 12, 2009
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Politeia: "Honduras: No Second Chile"

(...) The latest, since yesterday's post:

- An "officer claims that protesters [on Sunday besieging the airport] had wire cutters (I did see protesters with wire cutters) and began cutting the chain link fence and ripping it down. The crowd convened onto the fence, ready to rush onto the tarmac at the airport. Shots were fired from the military, however as of right now it is uncertain whether the casualties were the result of a military issued weapon."
- The national commissioner for Human Rights, Ramón Custodio, said it wasn't the soldiers that shot the young man who died yesterday.
- As the rally came to a close, the police arrested 20 Nicaraguans from the crowd, who were armed with .357 pistols.
- A total of 96 Nicaraguan citizens have been detained.
- Commissioner Hector Ivan Mejia said they have identified in the demonstrations supporting Manuel Zelaya foreign nationals from Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua. (...) >>>

July 8, 2009
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Politeia: "Eyewitness to History in Honduras"

Now's the opportunity to follow history in the making, or - to put it in another way - the narrative as it is being manufactured.

As the people of Iran fight for liberty and to rid themselves finally of the murderous regime of vile, old potentates, on the other side of the world a fight for freedom of a different nature is taking place, as an ally of the Iranian regime is being ousted in conformity with the Honduran Constitution.

The Left isn't having any of this: the mullah regime is supported by the majority of the people in Iran, and Mel Zelaya is the elected "champion of the poor" immorally deposed through "a military coup" against the wishes of the majority of the Honduran people - capiche? The blood in the streets of Tehran is markedly less red than the spills on the streets of Tegucigalpa. (...) >>>

July 6, 2009
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Kirk Florida Blog is coordinating support for Honduras

Great pictures!

Check out this example of citizen journalism at its best! Hunter Smith felt that there was minimal news coverage coming from the region, and was intrigued when this little democratic country from Central America stood by its actions despite condemnation from the UN and the United States. So he picked up a camera, notepad, and plane ticket to Tegucigalpa, Honduras and there he is keeping us abreast of developments in the plucky nation. We'll be looking forward to his reports. Great guy! - Hat Tip: Fausta

Fausta's Blog: "Honduras leaves the OAS: “There is no room in the OAS for freedom-loving countries”"

Vice-chancellor Marta Lorena Alvarado read the letter addressed to Insulza, which stated the government’s decision “the OAS believes that it no longer has room for Honduras, for the states that love their freedom and defend their sovereignty,” … “in spite of Honduras having taken part in the inter-American systen since its first stages in 1889.” (...) >>>

July 4, 2009
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More than most governments, the MSM, or even the EU and the UN have done, Tim Mak has taken the trouble to work out the legal niceties:

New Majority: "THE COUP THAT ISN'T"

(...) Smells like your typical Latin American coup, and this is certainly how many mainstream media outlets have been reporting it. Most governments have reacted much the same way, with President Obama asserting that “the coup was not legal.” Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez reacted fiercely to the news, asserting that he would “bring… down” any new government. But wait – when is a coup d’etat… not really a coup d’etat? Beyond the superficial details of Zelaya’s ouster, the situation in Honduras is far more complicated than it seems. The Honduran Constitution states in Article 239 that no President can be elected to more than one term. It also states that any citizen who seeks to change the article needs to resign his or her public office. Moreover (...) >>>

July 2, 2009
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The Daily Beast: "New Honduras Leader Stands Firm"

The standoff between Roberto Micheletti, Honduras' interim leader, and ousted president Manuel Zelaya continues. Micheletti must have nerves of steel. The Associated Press reports that the Honduran has defied the Obama administration, the Organization of American States, and the United Nations--all of whom disapprove of the military coup that put him in power. "No one can make me resign," he said, adding, "If there is any invasion against our country, 7.5 million Hondurans will be ready to defend our territory and our laws." (...) >>>
July 1, 2009
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Cliff Kincaid at Accuracy in Media has worked out the legal niceties ... "What has gone underreported, or not reported at all in the media or recognized by the Obama Administration, is that the democratically-elected Congress unanimously approved the change in leadership and impeached the President. If this was a constitutionally correct action why has the Obama Administration been so quick to judge and condemn?" (..) >>>
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WSJ: "Honduras Defends Its Democracy - Fidel Castro and Hillary Clinton object"

Hugo Chávez's coalition-building efforts suffered a setback yesterday when the Honduran military sent its president packing for abusing the nation's constitution. It seems that President Mel Zelaya miscalculated when he tried to emulate the success of his good friend Hugo in reshaping the Honduran Constitution to his liking. But Honduras is not out of the Venezuelan woods yet. Yesterday the Central American country was being pressured to restore the authoritarian Mr. Zelaya by the likes of Fidel Castro, Daniel Ortega, Hillary Clinton and, of course, Hugo himself.

The Organization of American States, having ignored Mr. Zelaya's abuses, also wants him back in power. It will be a miracle if Honduran patriots can hold their ground. (...) The attorney general had already made clear that the referendum was illegal, and he further announced that he would prosecute anyone involved in carrying it out. Yesterday, Mr. Zelaya was arrested by the military and is now in exile in Costa Rica. (...) Honduras is fighting back by strictly following the constitution. (...) >>>

June 29, 2009
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Update:

Fausta's Blog: "Coup in Honduras - Correction: This is NOT a coup"

(...) The Honduran Supreme Court of Justice has confirmed that Honduran president Manuel Zelaya was detained this morning by the military in compliance with an order of the courts of law. Honduran troops have arrested president Manuel Zelaya, who then was taken to an air base outside of Tegucigalpa. (...) Zelaya was arrested right before the voting on the referendum was scheduled to start. The referendum had been declared unlawful by the country’s courts (...)

1:40PM
CNN en español mentioned that Zelaya was arrested by court order. This signals that all the Honduran institutions were behind this move, in which case the president was overthrown, but it would not be a coup d’etat. (...) >>>

Surprise ... Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez warned that he and other leftist government would do "whatever it takes" to defend their ally, and the President of Power also once again lives up to the expectation:

WSJ Update: "Obama Worked To Prevent Ouster of Honduras President" ...
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The news from Honduras in the latest round of Chavist retrogression.

RealClearWorld: "Honduras in Turmoil"

(...) [Honduran President] Zelaya wants a referendum to be held this Sunday that would allow voters in the upcoming presidential elections in November to also vote on rewriting the constitution. Zelaya's term is scheduled to end in January. Most recently, rewriting the Constitution is one of the trademarks of Chavista-style regimes like Ecuador and Bolivia, but the maneuver is not limited to them. There is strong opposition to the referendum (...) >>>

June 28, 2009
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Serial voting till the right result ... the Western press are a stable full of idiots with just over half a brain cell between them spreading the meme that whatever Chavez does must be okay because "he's doing it for the poor" (where do they go to recruit these morons?) ...

CNN: "Venezuela's Chavez declares victory in term-limits referendum"

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez declared victory Sunday night in a constitutional referendum that will allow him to run for a third six-year term in 2012. (...) >>>

Feb 16, 2009
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Building the state of Europe: the post democratic era

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... yes, get used to it. Call it what you want: mob rule, dictatorship of the majority ... it's based at least on one man, one vote. Not so post democratic power-sharing based on minority groups, quota if you want, the new collectivism.

And the winners are ... two complete non-entities .... Belgium's Herman van Rompuy and UK's Baroness Cathy Ashton (note how these career Socialists never forsake a title, nor refrain from handing them out! NB she rose through the Labor ranks from an anti nuclear armament platform, i.e. she would have handed Europe to the Soviets on a silver platter!).

The Foundry: "Herman and the Hermits"

European leaders will meet for dinner tomorrow for a special summit to decide who will become the first permanent EU president and the new EU foreign minister. With the ink barely dry on the illegitimate Lisbon Treaty, EU elites are rushing with indecent haste to anoint the next leaders of Europe. And in typical EU fashion, negotiations over who will become the formal ‘faces of Europe’ will be conducted behind closed doors with zero public input. (...) >>>

Nov. 19, 2009
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Here we go again ... someone detecting a pattern here yet? If we don't do this and do it fast, we're doomed! Leftist solution: add another bureaucratic tier!

NRC: "Own diplomats should give the European Union a face"

Government leaders argue in Brussels about a diplomatic service for the EU. "If this fails, the influence of the union will be done for."

(...) It is a constant annoyance for politicians who feel European cooperation is important: the fact that the great economic power of the EU has not been converted into political authority and influence in the world. This should change as a result of the Lisbon Treaty. When it comes into effect, a new 'High Representative for Foreign Affairs’, a sort of foreign minister, will take office. This representative will have more powers than Solana and a diplomatic service of five to eight thousand people. (...) >>>

Oct. 30, 2009
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The moral indignation at opposition proves Klaus' point ...

Prague Daily Monitor: "Klaus compares EU to Soviet Union"

The Czech Republic's leader has long been one of the most strident critics of the European Union, blasting the bloc with withering attacks at every opportunity. Now he has inherited the ideal pulpit to air his views: the EU presidency itself. In a startling diatribe before EU legislators Thursday, Czech President Václav Klaus branded the club an undemocratic and elitist project comparable to Soviet-era dictatorships that forbade free thought. (...)

"Not so long ago," Klaus thundered, "in our part of Europe we lived in a political system that permitted no alternatives and therefore also no parliamentary opposition. We learned the bitter lesson that with no opposition, there is no freedom." His speech provoked boos from many lawmakers, some of whom walked out, but applause from a minority of nationalists and other anti-EU legislators. While deeply unpopular in EU circles, Klaus strikes a deep chord in some member states where citizens fear European plans to share more powers come at the cost of national sovereignty (...) >>>

Read also: The Foundry: "EU Legitimacy Disintegrating"

Feb 20, 2009
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These people are indeed thugs (see also "Ruled by the Mob") - emotional blackmail (if that is the word) elevated to official policy ...

Prague Daily Monitor: "Poettering in Prague: No further EU enlargement without Lisbon"

The European Union would not be further enlarged if the Lisbon treaty is not ratified, EP President Hans-Gert Poettering said in Prague on Friday. Speaking to journalists during a meeting with representatives of the parliaments of France, the Czech Republic, Sweden and Spain, the four countries that consecutively hold the EU rotating presidency in 2008-2010, Poettering said that no further EU enlargement would take place, perhaps with the exception of Croatia's admission, if the Lisbon treaty were not ratified. The EU country which would fail to ratify the treaty would be responsible for preventing the EU accession of the states that seek EU membership, Poettering said. (...) >>>

Feb 2, 2009
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Prague Daily Monitor today have a curious article vis a vis Europe and Israel. The Czechs have a pro Israel stance and have been planning for some time to hold the first Europe-Israel summit since the World War II. What to think of: "The Czechs have spent the past months trying to break the resistance of the countries that did not approve of the idea of an Israeli summit. There is no great hope of success after the Israeli bombing in Gaza. "I'm afraid this is collapsing." No further details mentioned, but just so we are aware of the European position in a time of moral crisis. What are we dealing with? Whom, and whether it's a matter of moral fence-dwelling (diplomatic neutrality or agnosticism), or of some countries just being in the enemy camp? Anyone who knows, please leave a comment. Read it all:

Prague Daily Monitor: "Czechs face a difficult task: dealing with Gaza"

also

- Daily Telegraph: "Relations with Moscow could be strained by Czech assumption of EU presidency"
- Prague Daily Monitor: "Historian: Czech EU presidency may initiate new approach to Balkans"

Dec 31, 2008
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... the neotots are unstoppable ... overheard on Dutch television ... "Is it dangerous to criticize the EU? [during this time of financial crisis] - according the Dutch Finance Minister Bos (Lab.) the Netherlands thanks its very survival to the EU: "We would have become a second Iceland". Regarding Turkey, the narrative is 'when Turkey joins, residence and labour rights are out of the question due to Turkey's sheer size' ... and then, there's this ...

TBJ: "For the EU, Sarkozy and the UN, Turkey Is Already in Europe"

During the ceremony honoring the 70th anniversary of the death of Ataturk (d. Nov. 10, 1938), organized at the Turkish Embassy in Brussels, the Turkish Defense Minister, Vecdi Gönül, launched into an atrocious denial, praising the policy of what he termed the “deportation” of the Armenians, because it allowed the construction of the Turkish nation.

“Would it be possible today to maintain the same national State if the existence of Greeks in the Aegean region and of Armenians in several regions of Turkey had continued as before?” Vecdi Gönül asked. “Remember, before the republic, Ankara was composed of four sectors: Jewish, Muslim, Armenian, and Greek... When I was governor at Izmir I realized that the Izmir Chamber of Commerce had been founded only by non-Muslims. There was not a Turk among them.” (...) >>>
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... the new Machiavelli of Postmodern Europolitics has quietly concocted this little piece of Napoleontic statesmanship ... read it all, the proposals extend to Statism in the field of economics ... “Self-regulation to solve all problems, it’s finished,” Sarkozy says. “Laissez-faire, it’s finished. The all-powerful market that is always right, it’s finished…. It is necessary then for the state to intervene” ...

TBJ: "Europe Is Obama’s First ‘Global Test’"

President-elect Barack Obama is already facing his first global test. And it’s not coming from the usual suspects like Iran or North Korea, but from America’s “allies” in Europe. European leaders have congratulated Obama on his election victory by sending him a six-page letter in which they benevolently “offer” the United States a “partnership of equals” in order to address global problems in the post-Bush era. That’s right: Europeans are calling on Obama to “accept” Europe as America’s equal on the global stage. The idea behind this new man-to-man relationship with Washington was hatched by (surprise, surprise) France, which currently holds the EU’s six-month rotating presidency. French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner says the reason for establishing an equal transatlantic partnership is that “the world has changed.” Europe has suddenly realized that the United States “is not the only one concerned by the world’s problems. The European Union has become more resolute…. We don’t want to play a secondary role any more,” says Kouchner. (...) >>>

16th Nov 2008
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Related:
- "Ruled by the Mob"
- "The Treaty of Lisbon"
- "The Post-Democratic Preferences of the Neotots"
- "Hegel's Legacy"

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In Defence of Liberty: Wilders heads East

Prague Daily Monitor: "Islam critic Wilders heading to Czech Republic"

Dutch critic of Islamism Geert Wilders, leader of the Party for Freedom (PVV), will deliver a speech at the Czech Senate to which he was invited by senator Jiri Oberfalzer (the Civic Democratic Party, ODS), Oberfalzer told CTK Wednesday. Wilders' speech will be followed by the projection of his anti-Islamist film Fitna and the unveiling of the portal euRABIA.cz, said Oberfalzer, a critic of the Lisbon treaty. Oberfalzer said he had invited Wilders because he had been denied a speech in the British House of Lords in February. The British Home Office denied entry to Britain to Wilders as national security could be jeopardised. "The step was challenged in court that has decided against it," Oberfalzer said. "The event has revealed a deep crisis in the freedom of speech in Western civilisation," Oberfalzer said in a press release. (...) >>>

Nov. 19, 2009
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This is what happens when you rock the boat in conformity driven Netherlands: the entire "polder" comes down on you like a ton of bricks. After artists, party leaders and Government Ministers it is now the turn of the corporate world to turn on Wilders. No limits barred.

Elsevier: "Employers against Freedom Party Government"

A Government coalition with the Freedom Party will lead to instability. It is not in our interest to discriminate on grounds of skin color or religion, VNO-NCW director says. Topping farce with ridicule he states: an independent judiciary, transparent taxation and stable politics are the pillars of a stable country. Wilders may be a danger to those institutions. The corporate interlocator of the labor unions is also against Government participation of what's deemed Wilders' political antithesis, the Maoist Socialist party.

Wilders retorted with disgust over the skin color allegations: incorrect, distasteful, mean and demonizing. He called his the corporate club "fake employers" of the Netherlands style "concensus economy, who have never seen the interior of a single factory". >>>

Nov. 12,2009
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Wilders tosses the gauntlet:

Dutch News: "Wilders Wants Debate in House of Lords with Radical UK Muslims"

Geert Wilders wants to organise a debate on Islam with radical British Muslims in the House of Lords in London, he said Friday after succeeding in entering the UK.

The Party for Freedom (PVV) leader said at a press conference in London that he wants to discuss Islam with the British. His preference would be to hold a debate in the House of Lords, to which both proponents and opponents should be welcome, including some 40 demonstrators who awaited Wilders after his landing with pro-Sharia and anti-Western slogans on banners. (...) >>>

Oct. 26, 2009
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You know who's the enemy when they're attacking the good with irrational charges (do you remember Befehl ist Befehl?)

Review Journal: "READY TO REVOLT: Oath Keepers pledges to prevent dictatorship in United States"

Depending on your perspective, the Oath Keepers are either strident defenders of liberty or dangerous peddlers of paranoia. In the age of town halls, talk radio and tea parties, middle ground of opinion is hard to find. Launched in March by Las Vegan Stewart Rhodes, Oath Keepers bills itself as a nonpartisan group of current and retired law enforcement and military personnel who vow to fulfill their oaths to the Constitution. (...)

"The whole point of Oath Keepers is to stop a dictatorship from ever happening here," Rhodes, a former Army paratrooper and Yale-trained lawyer, said in an interview with the Review-Journal. "My focus is on the guys with the guns, because they can't do it without them. "We say if the American people decide it's time for a revolution, we'll fight with you."

That type of rhetoric has caught the attention of groups that track extremist activity in the United States. In a July report titled "Return of the Militias," the Alabama-based Southern Poverty Law Center singled out Oath Keepers as "a particularly worrisome example of the Patriot revival." (...) "I'm not accusing Stewart Rhodes or any member of his group of being Timothy McVeigh or a future Timothy McVeigh," law center spokesman Mark Potok said. (...) Potok's group now monitors Oath Keepers on its Web site blog "Hatewatch." (...) >>>

Oct. 22, 2009
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Prior to the event NewsReal posted that "Anti-Wilders Activists do not like Speakers Who Challenge “the Way People Feel on this Campus”" ...

FoxNews: "Anti-Islamic Dutch Lawmaker Event at University Cut Short as Crowd Turns Nasty"

Amid tight security and a large turnout of protesters, Dutch right-wing lawmaker Geert Wilders told an assembly of Temple University students that Europe and America must fight an ongoing "stealth jihad" that threatens democracy and free speech.

"Where Islam sets roots, freedom dies," Geert Wilders told the students during his 30-minute address organized by a new student group called Temple University Purpose and funded by the California-based David Horowitz Freedom Center, a foundation that promotes conservative scholarship. (...) Wilders is scheduled to speak at Columbia University in New York on Wednesday. (...) >>>

Oct. 21, 2009
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Another right verdict for the wrong reasons ... note that they keep designating the defenders of democratic values as "far right":

BBC: "Dutch MP overturns UK entry ban"

Far-right Dutch MP Geert Wilders has won an appeal against a Home Office decision barring his entry to the UK. The Asylum and Immigration Tribunal ruling overturns a government decision that led to Mr Wilder being turned back at Heathrow in February. The Freedom Party leader, who has been accused of Islamophobia, planned a UK visit next week, his solicitor said.

The Home Office said it was disappointed, and would decide in "due course" whether to fight the ruling. A spokesman said: "We are disappointed by the court's decision. The government opposes extremism in all its forms. "The decision to refuse Wilders admission was taken on the basis that his presence could have inflamed tensions between our communities and have led to inter-faith violence. We still maintain this view."

BBC home affairs correspondent Danny Shaw said that a further appeal by the Home Office or a new ban on different grounds were possible. The Home Office will need Court of Appeal permission to keep the travel ban in place pending any appeal. (...) >>>

Oct. 13, 2009
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Breitbart TV: "Michael Savage Blasts Brits for Canceling Cambridge Debate"

Oct. 8, 2009
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I hope they make them pay out of pocket (well, one can dream, can't one?) ...

WND: "Realpolitik: Savage on ban list to 'balance' Muslim extremists"

Official correspondence, released under the United Kingdom's Freedom of Information law, reveals that U.S. radio talk-show host Michael Savage's name was placed on a list of people banned from Britain in order to provide "balance" to a "least wanted" list dominated by Muslim extremists, and the decision was made "at the highest level of government," the London Daily Mail reported today.

"We will want to ensure that the names disclosed reflect the broad range of cases and are not all Islamic extremists," reads a draft recommendation, marked "Restricted," that was obtained as part of Savage's libel lawsuit against the government and former Home Secretary Jacqui Smith. (...) Another e-mail, released under FOI, points to complicity by other agencies and even Prime Minister Gordon Brown. (...)

The internal e-mail communications include a message from an unnamed civil servant whose cautions were ignored. "I think we could be accused of duplicity in naming him," he wrote without explaining the reason. But, noting a possible mitigating factor that could quell any controversy, he added, "The fact that he is homophobic does help."

Smith's successor, Johnson, called the move a terrible blunder [see below] and told the Daily Mail he would scrap the policy of maintaining such enemies lists. But Savage told WND two days later that according to his attorney, Johnson's announcement did not mean his name had been removed from the list. "It ain't over till it's over," Savage said on his broadcast that day. >>>

July 26, 2009
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Developments in the Banned From Britain saga ... Jackboot's replacement is readmitting US talk show host Michael Savage to Britain - reverting in the case of Geert Wilders ...

In the meantime you're not going to believe Smith's comments! The job was over and above her paygrade; she is blaming the blunder on the Government that was stupid enough to give her the job!

WND: "Michael Savage: Pack your bags for England! - Britain's incoming home secretary says ban on radio talker's travel to be lifted"

Radio talker Michael Savage told WND he was "stunned" by the quick decision by incoming United Kingdom Home Secretary Alan Johnson to scrap his predecessor's list of people banned from Britain – a list that included Savage along with Islamic hate preachers and terrorists.

Savage had sued outgoing Home Secretary Jacqui Smith for libel for listing him, along with 15 others, as "least wanted" visitors in the country. Meanwhile, Smith's successor, Alan Johnson, called the move a terrible blunder and told the London Daily Mail he would scrap the policy of maintaining such enemies lists. (...)

Last week, Jacqui Smith admitted she was not up to being home secretary, saying she should have been given some training for the job before being named. "When I became home secretary I'd never run a major organization," she told Total Politics magazine. "I hope I did a good job but if I did it was more by luck than by any kind of development of skills. I think we should have been better trained. I think there should have been more induction." (...) >>>

July 19, 2009
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PJM: "PJM Political 05/16/09: Visit Caracas On The Potomac, And Canuckistan Up North" - FEATURE

Ed Driscoll interviews Mark Steyn on the state of free speech, the Tea Parties and his new book "Lights Out"

May 16, 2009
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* Politeia: "Banned From Britain"

The policies of Britain's Labour Government Home Secretary Jacqui 'Jackboot' Smith, decreeing who's welcome into the country and who's banned from it, are getting more erratic and haphazard by the day. (...) Dutch Islam critic Geert Wilders MP - and therefore judged a rabble rousing racist by the politically correct cohorts - just recently found himself barred from entering Britain and showing his short film “Fitna” on the invitation of the House of Lords. Yesterday he's announced he is planning to travel to London for the Court hearing of his appeal on July 9.

(...) witness this week's published index of “less than welcome individuals” they may be embarrassed, but remain unrepentant on principle. While the list does not contain any Europeans (let alone MPs or MEPs), what to make of the Jackboot's decision to put the US radio talk show host Michael Savage on Britain's index of nefarious hate mongers? (...) >>>

May 9, 2009
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Views of the "Fitna" presentation with introductions by Robert Spencer and David Horowitz ...

David Horowitz TV: "Geert Wilders - Free Speech"
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Pamela is coordinating news and links ...

Atlas Shrugs: "FREEDOM LOVERS COME OUT FOR WILDERS"

Robert Spencer tells me there was a large turnout of freedom lovers at Chapman Law School in Orange, CA, where Geert Wilders spoke. They were there to stage a counter protest against a Muslim protest that didn't materialize. A lot of counter protesters showed up. Oorah! Thank you so much (...) >>>

Apr 5, 2009
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Front Page Magazine: "Geert Wilders Comes to America"

(...) It is not everyday Americans have the opportunity to meet someone charged with thoughtcrime, but they will have just that opportunity this weekend, as the David Horowitz Freedom Center and the International Free Press Society (IFPS) welcome the man London turned away. DHFC and IFPS will bring Wilders, one of the most outspoken defenders of free speech, for his first visit to the West Coast this weekend, April 4-5. On Saturday, April 4, he will speak at Chapman University.

Then, from 6:30-10 p.m., the Freedom Center will bring in the fearless MP for a dinner, the California premier ofFitna, and a keynote speech in Beverly Hills. His tour will commence from 10 a.m.-noon on Sunday, April 5, in Los Angeles. Tickets are available from Stephanie Knudson: Stephanie@horowitzfreedomcenter.org, or by calling (818) 849-3470, extension 209. Due to security, advanced registration and pre-payment are required. (...) >>>

Apr 1, 2009

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Writers keep noticing the parallels with Germany in the interbellum: the Weimar Republic. Reminding the readers of Dr Sam Holliday's brilliant essay, "Red Flags". This article dates back to December last year:

Unfiltered News: "Something of Historic Proportions is Happening", by Tim Wood

Mar 30, 2009

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PJM: "Exiling Islamic Terrorists, Leaving Islam Behind: Two Solutions and Counting", by Phillis Chesler

It might be the midnight hour but all is not yet lost, the British government has, amazingly, just done the right thing: They have denied a visa to radical terrorist, Ibrahim el-Moussawi, Hizbollah’s and Iran’s representative on earth, stationed in Lebanon. This is the man whom Douglas Murray, the Director of the Centre for Social Cohesion, had vowed to have deported were he to have been allowed to speak at the London School of Economics and Appeasement, a venue from which Murray himself had once been banned. According to today’s Daily Mail, Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary, finally concluded that el-Moussawi’s presence would not be “conducive to the public good.” I’ll say. Credit goes to Douglas Murray for having threatened the lawsuit which has, clearly, been successful. (Hat tip to Barry Rubin for asking me to confirm this). You may read Murray’s press release HERE

Of course, if the British also keep denying visas to or, more shamefully, deporting, men like Dutch parliamentarian, Geert Wilders, little will be gained by such false equality. Wilders is sounding the alarm, el-Moussawi is the problem. (...) There is virtually no chance of reasoning with the brain-dead jihadists whose eyes are fixed on the promised lush paradise of Allah. It isn’t that they love death, just for the sake of death itself as Muslim leaders such as Hasan Nasrullah, the head of Lebanon’s Hizbollah proclaimed. They love death and happily embrace it because of what they have been brainwashed to believe is awaiting them as a reward.”
Ah, yes, the same Hizbollah that Moussawi represents. Imani ultimately implores the moderate or cultural Muslims to stop enabling the jihadists—by leaving Islam. (...) >>>

Mar 14, 2009
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Dossiers:

- "The Unholy Alliance"
- "The Jihad Project"
- "Legal Jihad"
- "The Balkan Caliphate"
- "Stop Islamization of Europe"
- "Eurabia"
- "Islamization=Apartheid"
- "Apostating Islam"

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Transnationalism: the ecofascist coalition thinks big

Those aware of the Apollo Alliance (scroll down) won't be too surprised of the corporatist coalition that is driving the climate cabal ...

Spiegel: "How the UN's Climate Advocate Wants to Save the World"

Achim Steiner heads up the UN Environment Program, a traditionally weak agency with an annual budget of just 200 million dollars. But Steiner is doing his best to transform the position into a soapbox for the environment -- and is having some success. (...) Steiner talked himself into a rage. "They are still thinking in linear fashion," he said. "For them, the primacy of CO2 reduction is still nothing but a nuisance."

- Caption: Image by mgrenner57 via Flickr: Achim Steiner (left) and Juan Somavia, Director-General of the International Labor Organization (ILO) (right) -

Steiner is one of the leaders of a new current in the global environmental movement that is no longer willing to be fobbed off with small-scale conservation projects, green showpiece projects and lip service to sustainability. He wants to rebuild the system, force the perpetrators to discharge their duties and finally see action. "We must penetrate into the heart of the financial world," he said. "Things will be looking grim for mankind if it doesn't become green." (...) >>>

Nov. 18, 2009
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Der Spiegel: "Obama Has Failed the World on Climate Change"

US President Barack Obama came to office promising hope and change. But on climate change, he has followed in the footsteps of his predecessor, George W. Bush. Now, should the climate summit in Copenhagen fail, the blame will lie squarely with Obama. (...) "Forget the climate" seems to have been Bush's unofficial motto. (...) few people expected that Barack Obama, of all people, would continue his predecessor's climate change plan. When he took office at the beginning of 2009, it was clear that the success of the UN Climate Change Summit in Copenhagen in December depended almost entirely on the US -- that America needed to take a clear leadership role on a problem that could shake civilization to its very core. (...) >>>

Nov. 17, 2009
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EUX: "Climate Finance Talks in Brussels Failed, MEP Says" (video)

more ... "Climate: EU Leaders Present Failure as Success"

Oct 31, 2009
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The wonderful world of Eco Newspeak: "COP15" or the "Treaty of Copenhagen" or "Hope": Today at noon Eastern time panel discussion with Lord Monckton regarding surrender of US sovereignty -

It's almost a concerted effort! Was the appeasement prize also not called "Hope" or something? Related also ...

- "The Transnational Progressivism Virus Goes on Steroids"
- "Push Back Day 1: "Not Evil Just Wrong"

Examiner: "Obama to surrender US sovereignty at UN global warming conference"

Not content with his humiliation at Copenhagen, Denmark this past September, President Obama will be traveling there again in December to attend the UN COP15 Climate Change Conference. This agreement would commit the United States to punitive and expensive greenhouse gas regulations dictated by the United Nations without recourse.

COP stands for "Conference of the Parties" and the December Copenhagen conference will be the 15th under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), hence COP15. According to their website, it will be one of the largest conferences ever held outside the New York or Geneva headquarters, with an anticipated attendance of over 10,000 people, including governmental representatives from 189 countries, industry groups, and other non-governmental organizations.

The theme of the December 7 - 18 conference is "Hope," so perhaps Mr. Obama will have more luck this time. (...) >>>

Oct. 22, 2009
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Reuters: "Global banking body may be needed-FSA"

A global body with legal powers may be needed over time to enforce the world's new financial rules, the Financial Services Authority (FSA) said on Wednesday. The FSA's newly appointed and first director of international affairs, Verena Ross, said the Financial Stability Board (FSB) was key to ensuring all gaps in regulation between securities, insurance and banking sectors were plugged.

Formerly known as the Financial Stability Forum, the FSB was expanded in April to include central bankers and finance ministry and regulatory officials from all Group of 20 (G20) countries. The G20 has asked the body, chaired by Bank of Italy Governor Mario Draghi, to coordinate global efforts to introduce new financial rules in light of the sector's worst crisis in 70 years. (...) >>>

Oct. 17, 2009
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North America merger re-emerges ...

WND: "PREMEDITATED MERGER - Obama 'clones' Bush in killing sovereignty - You thought plan was dead, but Democrat brings it back"

President Obama is continuing President George W. Bush's effort to advance North American integration with a public-relations makeover calculated to place the program under the radar of public opinion and to deflect concerns about border security and national sovereignty.

The Obama administration has "rebranded" and "refocused" the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America, or SPP, to advance the Bush administration's agenda of North American integration under the rubric of the "North American Leaders Summit," a less controversial banner, according to confidential sources in the U.S. Department of Commerce and State Department who agreed to speak with WND only if their comments were kept off the record. (...) >>>

Sep. 14, 2009
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An instance of serious corporatism is highlighted today in a post on Facebook by a group monitoring the genocide of the Armenians, perpetrated and denied by the Ottomans, and the Turkish state after that:

"It has come to light that, contrary to their public statements of being good corporate citizens and champions of human rights, six American and British mega-corporations have been secretly lobbying the United States Congress not to recognize the Armenian Genocide. In the American system, it is customary for corporations to lobby Congress only on taxes and trade rules related to their specific businesses. It is however highly unusual and downright shameful for corporations to do the bidding of their foreign clients. BAE Systems Inc., Goodrich Corp., Northrop Grumman Corp., Raytheon Co., United Technologies Corp. and energy producer Chevron Corp are spending over a million dollars a week to lobby Congress. The world-wide Armenian community cannot match this level of expenditure. We can however raise our righteous voice by signing the petition below. The collected signatures will be hand delivered and emailed to the corporate heads and key stockholders of these companies.

Please visit and sign the petition.

July 16, 2009
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AIM has more today on the ongoing story of the U.N. Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis underway in New York. It reveals what the discerning pundits already concluded: environmentalism is the new Leftist pantheistic creed, and the ticket to global taxation and Socialist world government ... the UN to raise global taxes:

June 26 2009
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Cliff Kincaid today has more on the preceding entry, describing in outline the tranzie conspiracy to invest the UN with a taxation base of its own. Obviously it's a developing story which is largely ignored by the MSM. It will mark the transition from the UN from an international club and diplomatic talking shop, to a world government invested with the trappings of state:

Accuracy in Media: "U.N. to Emerge as Global IRS"

(...) The Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis and its Impact on Development that begins on Wednesday will consider adoption of a document calling for "new voluntary and innovative sources of financing initiatives to provide additional stable sources of development finance..." This is U.N.-speak for global taxes. They are anything but "voluntary" for the people forced to pay them.

The most "popular" proposals, which could generate tens of billions of dollars in revenue for global purposes, involve taxes on greenhouse gas emissions and financial transactions such as stock trades.

The document was agreed to at an informal meeting of expert "facilitators" and was made available on Monday afternoon at 3 p.m. It is doubtful that any changes will be made to it.

The conference was postponed from June 1-3 and will now take place June 24-26 at the U.N. in New York. While the "outcome document" has been watered down somewhat from the previous version, it still reaffirms attainment of the U.N.'s Millennium Development Goals, which would require the payment of $845 billion from U.S. taxpayers (...) >>>

June 24, 2009
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Accuracy in Media: "U.N. Red and U.S. “Progressives” Plan Socialist World Government", by Clinn Kincaid

While meaningless United Nations hand-wringing over the North Korean nuclear weapons program garners the headlines, the world body is moving ahead with a global conference to lay the groundwork for world government financed by global taxes. The communist head of the U.N. General Assembly is leading the effort, but he is getting crucial support from "progressive" economists who advise the Obama Administration and the Democratic Party.

The United Nations Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis and Its Impact on Development, previously scheduled for June 1-3, will now take place on June 24-26. U.N. General Assembly President Miguel D'Escoto is the U.N. point man on these "global governance" issues. We noted his role at the United Nations in a column last October. Now, even the New York Times is paying attention to what this crackpot has been up to.

D'Escoto, the Times said, believes the way out of the global financial crisis "should be lined with all manner of new global institutions, authorities and advisory boards," including the Global Stimulus Fund, the Global Public Goods Authority, the Global Tax Authority, the Global Financial Products Safety Commission, the Global Financial Regulatory Authority, the Global Competition Authority, the Global Council of Financial and Economic Advisers, the Global Economic Coordination Council, and the World Monetary Board.

D'Escoto is the former foreign minister of Communist Sandinista Nicaragua and Catholic Priest of the Maryknoll Order who advocates Marxist-oriented liberation theology and won the Lenin Peace Prize from the old Soviet Union. D'Escoto also claims a Master's of Science from Columbia University's School of Journalism. The Times interviewed Paul Oquist, D'Escoto's senior adviser for the conference, who sat beneath portraits of Fidel Castro of Cuba, Hugo Chavez of Venezuela and Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua, among others. (...) >>>

May 27, 2009
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New York Post: "OBAMA'S MOST PERILOUS LEGAL PICK"

JUDGES should interpret the Constitution according to other nations' legal "norms." Sharia law could apply to disputes in US courts. The United States constitutes an "axis of disobedience" along with North Korea and Saddam-era Iraq. Those are the views of the man on track to become one of the US government's top lawyers: Harold Koh.

President Obama has nominated Koh -- until last week the dean of Yale Law School -- to be the State Department's legal adviser. In that job, Koh would forge a wide range of international agreements on issues from trade to arms control, and help represent our country in such places as the United Nations and the International Court of Justice.

It's a job where you want a strong defender of America's sovereignty. But that's not Koh. He's a fan of "transnational legal process," arguing that the distinctions between US and international law should vanish.(...) >>>

Mar 31, 2009

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There's no way this very important article can be excerpted without compromising the integrated weight of the message - so please , here's just the opening salvo - then read it all ...!

New American: ""Supersizing" the IMF", by William F. Jasper - FEATURE - Hat Tip: SpitFire

Is the International Monetary Fund headed toward becoming the Federal Reserve of the world? Although one-world elitists in political and banking circles have been promoting the idea for many years, it has taken the current global economic crisis to provide the appearance of urgency and legitimacy needed to make the Global Fed scheme sellable to the public. On January 31, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, the IMF's First Deputy Managing Director John Lipsky announced that the IMF is moving forward with plans to double the amount of money it has available to loan to governments, raising its current stock of $250 billion to a total of $500 billion. This was a huge announcement (...) >>>

Mar 7, 2009
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... Times' Christopher Meyer has an interesting piece on Postmodern vs Real diplomacy that would condemn the 'near abroad' to forever be under Russia's heal through the 1815 Vienna doctrine of spheres of influence ... whatever happened to good old Westphalia? ...

Times Online: "Putin tells Britain: relations can only improve when you remove dissidents"

Vladimir Putin served notice yesterday that his country’s relations with Britain would never recover while London remained a base for anti-Russian dissent. Speaking to Western journalists and academics (...) the Russian Prime Minister covered a wide range of foreign policy issues in typically blunt and confident style. His central message was that Russia did not want to engage the West in a new Cold War but that it would react if provoked, as it feels it was last month in the Caucasus, where it judged that its interests were being threatened. (...) >>>
Updated: 12th Sep 2008
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... wherever the opportunity arises a country is lumbered with 'power sharing' ... one of the major components of postmodern tranzism--the new ' democracy' ...

CNN: "Mugabe rival upbeat on power share talks"

Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai appeared cheerful as he emerged from a half-hour meeting with South African President Thabo Mbeki aimed at striking a power sharing deal to end months of political unrest. (...) >>>

Updated: 10th Aug. 2008
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Politeia: "Belgium: Ground Zero of Transnational Politics"

The Brussels Journal ventures another interesting observation: "Belgium can continue to flourish without a national government for the simple reason that the cabinet doesn’t have to decide much anyway. Most authority has devolved to the regions […] The central government is left to deal with foreign policy, defense and finance policy – all issues that are increasingly taken care of at the EU level." This accurately describes the transnationalist plan of operation: (...)

The hypothesis is taking shape, that this project was started decades ago on a micro level, when villages, municipalities and town councils were stripped of their historical identity and began a process of re-structuring into administrative clusters under fantasy names that had no root in local history. An example would be three villages - Oakborough, Bridgewick and Weathertown, administered by the new council of Goodchange (motto: "Change for Progress"). It is preferably well infiltrated by tranzies, professional key posts being manned by fifth columnists trained by the Common Purpose school of progressive thought. IngSoc exists ... (...) >>>

Updated: 17th July 2008
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Sources:

- John Fonte's page on the site of the Hudson Institute, includes a biography and keeps a list of published articles
- The Ideological War Within the West, by John Fonte
- Liberal Democracy vs. Transnational Progressivism, by John Fonte
- The Transnational Left and Transnational Right, by John Fonte
- Global Governance vs. Liberal Democracy? We are going to have to choose (on patriotic loyalty and dual citizenship)

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