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The EUReferendum blog is steadily dismantling the head of the UN climate change panel, Rajendra Pachauri. Revkin of the New York Times and Black of the BBC, as well as hundreds of other ‘environment’ journalists either knew, knew of, or failed to investigate the facts that Richard North at EUReferendum and other ‘citizen journalists’ are reporting.  I urge you to bookmark the site and follow developments. I do despise to refer to my own musings, but must. Carbongate is better than the oil for food crime syndicate – no messy oil, no verifiable food deliveries, no evil and unpredictable dictator – just pure profits.

Saturday’s Toronto Star story about the three-day Islamic gathering there ends like this:

For Janan Arafa, a 17-year-old high school student from Ottawa, the prospect of learning more about her religion brought her back to the convention for a second year. “Your faith increases by one thousand notches – no, one million notches,” she said. “You learn so much and you meet so many people. Islam means finding peace within yourself. We, with this conference, learn how to spread the word about what our religion is really about.”
Also see:
Lineups ease slightly at Pearson
Cold weather alert for GTA tonight
Security fears jam Pearson airport

Early reports relating to an incident on the Northwest flight from Amsterdam to Detroit, indicate that a Muslim man from Nigeria attempted to set off an explosive device on the flight.

The man said he was directed by al Qaeda to explode a small device in flight, over U.S. soil, ABC News has learned. Authorities have no corroboration of that information, and the credibility of the suspect’s statements are being questioned, officials said.

The suspect was identified as Abdul Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23, who according to federal documents is an engineering student at University College of London.

He was flying from Nigeria to the United States for a religious ceremony, according to his entry visa, which was issued June 16, 2008 and was good until June 12, 2010.

It is indeed fortunate that the attempt was thwarted because of incompetence, but weren’t all these terrorist attacks by Muslims suppose to be history after Obama’s World Apology Tour which included “A New Beginning” speech, aka “The Islam mythologies in the Cairo Speech“, and a statement that the US “is not at war with Islam” in Turkey?  Wasn’t Obama bowing to the Saudi king enough?

Update – Mission Accomplished?

On Dec 22nd Murtha stated the following.

U.S. Rep. John Murtha told reporters Tuesday that he isn’t convinced al-Qaida is still a threat to national security.

Murtha said he visited Kuwait and Afghanistan during Thanksgiving and approves of the military’s strategy, but expressed a need to measure progress in Afghanistan.

“I don’t agree there is a threat to national security,” Murtha said, while not ruling out the possibility that he could be wrong about al-Qaida’s influence. “They keep saying they’ve defeated al-Qaida.”

It seems Murtha is competing with Biden for the title of the resident idiot within the Democratic party.

CBS news reports the following from New Jersey.

Police said as many as 11 students beat up an eighth-grader honor student in an apparent case of revenge. The victim, who is Hispanic, suffered severe injuries, and it was possible he may lose sight in one eye. It is not believed, however, that he was the victim of a hate crime. Police said the student who threw the first punch was also Hispanic, and the other students all come from diverse backgrounds.

It is good to know that that the crime was driven, not by hate, but rather by love.

… A continuing series on Obama’s efforts.

Obama and Copenhagen

December 18, 2009. Obama Calls Global Warming Agreement an “Unprecedented Breakthrough”

President Obama touted that “for the first time in history, all major economies have come together to accept their responsibility to take action to confront the threat of climate change,” calling the late-hour agreement struck in Copenhagen, Denmark an “unprecedented breakthrough.”

December 23, 2009. Obama says disappointment at Copenhagen justified

“I think that people are justified in being disappointed about the outcome in Copenhagen,” he said in an interview with PBS Newshour.

“What I said was essentially that rather than see a complete collapse in Copenhagen, in which nothing at all got done and would have been a huge backward step, at least we kind of held ground and there wasn’t too much backsliding from where we were.”

Returning home empty-handed – yet again!

Study shows: greens are pious hypocrites.

The more you assign yourself moral superiority because you shop “green”, the more inclined you are to cheat in a number of different ways.
“Co-authors Nina Mazar and Chen-Bo Zhong, professors at the university’s Rotman School of Business, set up tests for a sample of university students, which asked them to purchase a basket of goods at either a hypothetical organic shop or a typical grocery store. Those who bought more green items were found in separate tests to be significantly less likely than their conventional counterparts to share money with an anonymous recipient and more likely to cheat on and lie about the results of a simple quiz.”

We have all noticed this about lefties and fundamentalists: their self-attribution of a vast reservoir of moral superiority, so that they can be ruder, nastier, more arrogant, less tolerant, than their sinning conservative or less fundamentalist neighbours.

“Grant us, mother Gaia, the grace to be more ecologically conscious and concerned, and to pardon us our sins against our fellow humans, for thy Name’s sake”.

The tendency to assign oneself moral superiority is universal. The greens are only the latest manifestation.

While fusspot Grit MP Dr.™ Carolyn Bennett yearns to get the government into the regulation of sex toys, entrepreneurs figure out how to go sustainable sexily in the free market.

Time to recap.  Massive extortion attempt just barely slowed by revelations of purchased science. As Christopher Booker points out, this is no victory – this Copenhagen farce, which we might construe as a win, does nothing to roll back the criminal economics set loose by Kyoto – in fact, it validates it.  There can be no rest until this elaborate criminal enterprise of ‘carbon credits’ and ‘emissions trading’ is abolished.  These people have invented a currency based on guilt. Think about that – the worse a fourteen year old girl feels about her lack of popularity, the closer the ruler of a third world shithole comes to his next helicopter gunship. ‘Traders’ acquire more money to acquire more vacation homes at which they can entertain more politicians who can rip you off some more. We did not win at Copenhagen, we just lost a little slower.

More money for the rich, through invisble taxation.

Christopher Booker is a fierce opponent of the whole scheme.

“This is the new global industry based on buying and selling the right to emit CO2, estimated soon to be worth trillions of dollars a year, which through schemes such as the UN’s Clean Development Mechanism and the EU’s Emissions Trading System is making a small minority of people, including Al Gore, extremely rich.

“The only really concrete achievement of Copenhagen was to win agreement to the perpetuating of those Kyoto rules that have created this vast industry, which has two main beneficiaries. On one hand are that small number of people in China and India who have learnt how to work this system to their huge advantage. On the other are all those Western entrepreneurs who have piled into what has become the fastest‑growing commodity market in the world.

“The part played at Copenhagen by all the tree-huggers, abetted by the BBC and their media allies, was to keep hysteria over warming at fever pitch while the politicians haggled over the real prize, to keep the Kyoto system in place.”

The comments on Michael Mann’s Washington Post self-exculpation and Unterautobuswerfen (under-bussing) of his erstwhile friends and colleagues are all entertaining and instructive.  Post after post digs the toe of the boot into this man.  Hundreds of them.  Scientists, lawyers and decent men and women like you and me.  Mainstream newspaper, overwhelming response from the forces of good and right.  We must not stop here.  I look forward to the first criminal prosecutions and repeal of legislation.  Elsewhere today I read something like, ‘China saved world at Copenhagen’.  Whatever you think about that statement, I am not sure it would have been possible a month ago.

During the presidential campaign Obama stated the following.

If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun

It seems that there hasn’t been any change in the behaviour of the first black president.  Today in a closed-door meeting of the House Democratic Caucus, he stated the following.

Don’t think we’re not keeping score, brother

What happened to the calm demeanour and temperament that his believers boasted about?   While on the topic of Obama, will he come back once again from Copenhagen climate conference empty-handed, just as he did after the Olympic bid?  The stars are certainly aligning that way if these headlines are to be believed.

Copenhagen summit veering towards farce, warns Ed Miliband

Barack Obama’s speech disappoints and fuels frustration at Copenhagen

Copenhagen climate summit: World leaders work into small hours to forge face-saving text

What is it with him always coming home empty handed?

I am not a climate warning alarmist. As readers will know, I am an Islamic jihad alarmist. Our very occasional correspondent Oban and I dined last night.  The outline of the conversation goes as follows. I will leave it to Oban to correct the record.

It all started with listening to Iris Dement singing confessional protestant hymns. Her religion is a deeply personal encounter with Jesus. She sings in an accent so hillbilly it seems unchanged from when her ancestors left the lowlands of Scotland in the 1730s. She is an artist of surpassing power, and ranks with the best female artists we listen to, not excepting opera stars. This led us to a discussion of religion,and the difference between this highly personal encounter with Jesus religion and what Oban calls “state atheism”, namely, the Anglican Church.

Oban – Whenever you go into a real church, you see plaques listing the war dead on the wall. I don’t look at the cross. I look at the plaques commemorating the war dead. That is my religion. Real religion teaches you that you may be called upon to die in the defence of your country, for the maintenance of civilization.

Dalwhinnie – (accompanied by table pounding) – Oban, that is the most Tory thing I have heard in my life! Bravo! But clearly that is what religion is for those of us raised in institutional and establishment religion. But how are we going to deal with the Islamic thing, in that case, because according to them, any ten guys who haven’t been laid in six months have a right to wage war against the surrounding society? Not just go out and get drunk and puke in the streets, but to plant bombs on buses and kill lots of people.

Oban – I agree that this war-making tendency is a fact of Islamic life. But if they make war without the authority of the state, the result will be so disorganized that it is a recipe for societal failure. And indeed, their propensity to wage ceaseless war on all concerned is why they are so backward.

Dalwhinnie – Agreed. But, what if societal failure were a self-reinforcing state? What if a society could function at the Islamic dysfunctional level forever? I see no sign that Islamic societies are reforming out of their dysfunctionality after a thousand years of Islam. In fact the dysfunctionality seems to be intensifying.

Oban – The overwhelming attraction of Western society is that it gives vastly greater pleasure to its participants. At the basic level of sex, western men have more orgasms with better partners. Islam cannot offer this. All it can offer is repression.

Dalwhinnie – The attraction seems to be highly resistible. Children of Islamic immigrants tend to wall themselves off from the outer society more than their parents.

Oban – I think you are underestimating the huge and overwhelming attractiveness of Western society for all people. It is so much better than anything Islamic societies have developed for themselves. And if the young jihadists do become a problem, I think we can roll over and crush them.

Dalwhinnie – Nothing I have read about the invasion of Europe by Muslims, the increasing presence of no-go zones for police and firemen, the use of human rights law to prevent any free expression of distaste for Muslim social practices, the supine passivity of European political leadership, the use of welfare to support a stagnant population of slackers, the sexual self-isolation, the attacks upon European Christian women, suggest that there has been any change in Islamic behaviour. Any tens guys who feel pissed off have the right and duty to wage war against the surrounding infidels, and they do.

Oban – I think you underestimate the assimilating powers of western civilization. It is a much better offer.

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And that, folks, was what I can recall to tell you. Debate continued until it was time to go home. An excellent exchange was had.

Anthony Watts has just confirmed that the US Department of Energy has sent out a ‘hold your documents’ notice to employees and contractors, with reference to the East Anglia Climatic Research Unit.  I feel a cheery glow, as if I had just tossed another snail darter on the fire.

As the science behind global warming evaporates, it becomes necessary to increase the vilification of opposition, while changing the subject. Pull back from any concrete assertions of fact, and sling shit at your opponents from the high ground of self-declared moral superiority.

George Mobiot’s vapourings in this week’s Groniad are a case in point. Observe how he eliminates any middle ground:

“‘Humanity is no longer split between conservatives and liberals, reactionaries and progressives, though both sides are informed by the older politics. Today the battle lines are drawn between expanders and restrainers; those who believe that there should be no impedimentsand those who believe that we must live within limits. The vicious battles we have seen so far between greens and climate change deniers, road safety campaigners and speed freaks, real grassroots groups and corporate-sponsored astroturfers are just the beginning. This war will become much uglier as people kick against the limits that decency demands.”

Notice two distortions by which Monbiot frames the debate. First, those who oppose are inherently unreasonable: Read the rest…

What the hell’s wrong with you? Two major stories have not only been ignored by the mainstream media, they have been missed by the previously boisterous blogosphere. First off, the egregious selection of one single weather station in the Antarctic to represent all the data from all of them. Guess what? It shows a warming trend. Second, Christopher Booker’s story of how a British steel mill got moved to India – and you are paying for it with carbon credits – your money, you idiot! I don’t mind honest competition, who would be so mean spirited as to deny a person an honest job, but these were stolen!  Look them up yourselves. These are the bite marks of the rapist, but the victim isn’t important. Are you?