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Cpl. David Thibodeaux , U.S. Marines
Found this excellent blogger who does a weekly Moonbat Award….this one is from March 6, 2008. It goes to a liberal, activist judge who denied a 17 year old the opportunity to pre-enlist in the Marines because ’she did not agree with this war and does not like recruiters.
From The Independent – London
The first international conference designed to question the scientific consensus on climate change is being sponsored by a right-wing American think-tank which receives money from the oil industry. Read more
And the global alarmist are financed by left-wing communist elitist……, that doesn’t make them right or should I say ‘correct’.
Excerpt from WorldNetDaily Whistleblower Magazine describing a story titled ‘Hysteria’ on March 1, 2007.
Today, to cover all their bases, much of the press is changing its terminology from “global warming” to “climate change” or “climate catastrophe.” That way they’re covered either way: If the world gets colder, global warming is still at fault. Scientists and climatologists who dare to question the rigid orthodoxy of man-made catastrophic global warming are openly ridiculed and threatened with decertification, the movement for global governance, complete with global taxation, is moving into the fast lane.
Global problems, real or conjured up, require global governmental solutions. As Whistleblower explains, environmentalism is nothing less than the global elitists’ replacement ideology for communism/socialism. With communism largely discredited today ? after all, 100-150 million people died at the hands of communist “visionaries” during the last century ? elitists who desire to rule other people’s lives have gravitated to an even more powerful ideology. More powerful because it seems to trump all other considerations, as it claims the very survival of life on earth is dependent on implementing its agenda.
It’s not global warming any more…now it’s Climate Change….Good Grief!!!!!
What a bunch of Communist Elitist…and they are getting away with all their lies with the help of the Main Stream Media reporting the lies as if they are gospel and refusing to even acknowledge that there are opposing views. Scary thing is… this is a worldwide hoax and no one is safe from these socialistic, communistic, PSYCOPATHS.
EU warns of climate change threat
| Alix Kroeger BBC News, Brussels |
An EU report says climate change will have a growing impact on global security, multiplying existing threats such as shortages of food and water. It warns that climate change could cause millions of people to migrate towards Europe as other parts of the world suffer environmental degradation.
States that are “already fragile and conflict prone” could be over-burdened, the report says.
EU proposals to tackle climate change will be discussed by leaders this week.
| It may lead to… more forced migration, and even possibly radicalisation and state failure EU External Relations Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner |
The stark warning from the report – drawn up by the EU’s foreign affairs chief Javier Solana and the European Commission – is that climate change is not just a threat in itself – it is “a threat multiplier”.It says shortages of food and water – even radicalisation and state failure – are likely to get worse if no action is taken.Africa is likely to be especially at risk, which means migration could intensify, both within Africa itself and towards Europe.EU External Relations Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner told the BBC: “If the weakest countries cannot adapt, it may lead to, for instance, more forced migration, and even possibly radicalisation and state failure, causing internal and external security risks.”
Polar icecaps
The report also highlights the Arctic as a possible area of future conflict. With the melting of the polar icecaps, new waterways and trade routes are opening up.
The region is rich in untapped oil and gas resources, and last year Russia staked its claim by planting a flag on the seabed beneath the North Pole.
There is, it says, “an increasing need to address the growing debate over territorial claims and access to new trade routes”.
But the report does not offer much in the way of specific solutions. It recommends more dialogue, international co-operation and further research.
The EU prides itself on being a world leader on climate change, but turning talk into action is not easy.
On the one hand, the EU scheme for carbon emissions trading is being expanded to take in aviation for the first time.
But plans to limit car emissions and switch to renewable energy are being hampered by objections from industries and some member states, which say they are being unfairly penalised.
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/europe/7287168.stm
Published: 2008/03/10 17:16:50 GMT
EU agrees climate plan deadline
EU leaders have agreed to finish talks by the end of the year on an ambitious plan to fight climate change. After a two-day summit in Brussels, leaders for the 27 nations said they hoped new legislation would be enacted in early 2009.
The bloc aims to implement a 20% cut in greenhouse gases by 2020, compared with 1990 levels.
More of the BS about Computer Models from last year.
Models ‘key to climate forecasts’
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By Dr Vicky Pope
UK Met Office’s Hadley Centre |
The state of the Earth’s atmosphere is influenced by many factors
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The only way to predict the day-to-day weather and changes to the climate over longer timescales is to use computer models.
These models solve complex mathematical equations that are based on well established physical laws that define the behaviour of the weather and climate.
However, it is not possible to represent all the detail in the real world in a computer model, so approximations have to be made. The models are tried and tested in a number of ways:
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From Yahoo News-AP
1 hour, 1 minute ago
The pilot of an F-16C fighter jet that crashed in a rugged area of western Arizona was killed when his plane went down, Air Force officials confirmed Saturday.
The student pilot was practicing air-to-air combat with another F-16 from Luke Air Force Base about noon Friday when his plane crashed, base spokeswoman Mary Jo May said.
Aircraft from the Air Force, Marines, Civil Air Patrol and Arizona Department of Public Safety spent hours trying to find the wreckage, which was spotted late Friday in a remote area about 80 miles northwest of Phoenix.
Rescuers could only reach the site by helicopter and arrived at daybreak Saturday, May said. They found the pilot’s parachute and some of his gear about 150 feet from an impact crater. It took several hours for the Air Force to confirm that he had died in the crash.
The pilot, whose identity hasn’t been released pending notification of relatives, was part of the 62nd Fighter Squadron, one of eight squadrons at the base. The base is in the Phoenix suburb of Glendale and is the world’s largest F-16 training base with about 185 F-16s.
There have been 17 other crashes of Luke-based F-16s since 1998, and only one of those resulted in a fatality, May said. That crash happened in May 2004, when a pilot with the Singapore air force died after his jet went down during a training mission at an Air Force bombing range in southwest Arizona.
The most recent crashes came in 2006. A pilot ejected safely from an F-16 in April 2006 after the lone engine on the jet exploded just after takeoff from the base. The aircraft came down in a cornfield.
Nearly nine months later, a two-seat F-16 crashed during a training mission at the same range where the Singapore pilot died. The pilot and instructor bailed out safely.
AN UTMOST INTERESTING ARTICLE BY THE GREAT ARNAUD DE BORCHGRAVE: “PLAYING WITH FIRE”
by Arnaud de Borchgrave
Benador Associates
February 8, 2008
SINGAPORE, Feb. 8 (UPI) — NATO’s future is at stake in Afghanistan, warned Asia’s senior statesman, and unless America’s European allies abandon appeasement and the United States realizes Afghanistan cannot succeed as a democracy, the world balance of power will shift in favor of Russia and China.
In an exclusive interview with United Press International, Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew, long known as the Kissinger of the orient, took the Europeans to task for balking at casualties in Afghanistan. He blamed “short memories” that have forgotten that “America came to rescue them in two world wars,” which has rekindled the “appeasement” of the 1930s.
The United States, said this key player in every major Asian event for almost half a century, “should realize Afghanistan cannot succeed as a democracy. You attempted too much. Let the warlords sort it out in such a way you don’t try to build a new state. The British tried and failed. Just make clear if they commit aggression again and offer safe haven to Taliban, they will be punished.”
Now known as the “minister mentor” of Singapore, who turned a malarial island into a city of skyscrapers that thinks like a great power and is more important to the global economy than most big countries, Lee fears failure in Afghanistan will alter the world balance of power in favor of China and Russia. These two powers “would be faced with a much weakened West in the ongoing global contest.”
Europe’s NATO allies have turned a deaf ear to Bush administration requests to send additional troops to bolster the 21,000 U.S. and 20,000 NATO soldiers now in Afghanistan. Canada warned last month it would pull its 2,500 troops out early next year unless NATO agrees to send reinforcements. In Afghanistan last month, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates took the European allies to task for contributing to this rising violence in the fight against the Taliban as some of them “don’t know how to do counterinsurgency operations.” Hoping to show the example, Gates committed an additional 3,200 troops — all Marines — to the Afghan war.
The Europeans have cut defense budgets back to a stage where they cannot afford to send additional helicopters, aircraft for evacuating wounded, or troops to the Afghan theater where only British, Canadian, Dutch and U.S. troops conduct offensive operations. Responding to criticism at home, even these have been sharply curtailed in recent months. The other 22 NATO members have placed caveats on the use of their troops designed to keep them out of harm’s way.
The Taliban uses privileged sanctuaries in Pakistan’s tribal areas where President Pervez Musharraf has warned the United States it cannot conduct military operations. Most European terrorist trails also track back to what is known as Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Areas.
Asked about the “Pakistan-terrorist nexus,” Lee Kuan Yew — “Harry” to his close friends — replied, “We should learn to live with it for a long time. My fear is Pakistan may well get worse. What is the choice? Musharraf is the only general I know (there) who is totally secular in his approach. But he’s got to maneuver between his extremists who are sympathetic to Taliban and al-Qaida and moderate elements with a Western outlook. … There is an interesting study of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence agency that says 20 percent of the Pakistani army’s officer corps is fundamentalist (and therefore pro-Taliban, an organization that was originally organized and subsequently controlled by ISI until Sept. 11).”
And what happens to al-Qaida in this hands-off Pakistan approach?
“Any U.S. interference in Pakistan would result in its four provinces becoming four failed states. And then what happens to Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal? It’s a horrendous festering problem,” he said.
Iraq was a mistake, Lee said. Saddam Hussein had nothing to do with al-Qaida or Sept. 11. It was a costly diversion from the war on al-Qaida. “I cannot see them winning, and by that I mean able to impose their extremist system … even if we can’t win, we mustn’t lose or tire. We cannot allow them to believe they have a winning strategy and that more suicide bombers and WMD will advance their cause and give them a chance to take over.”
The “Islamist” bomb, said Kuan Yew (“the light that shines far and wide,” in Chinese), has already traveled from Pakistan to Iran “and the U.S., the Europeans, even the Russians, will (now) have to make up their minds whether to allow Iran to go nuclear.” He took Russian President Vladimir Putin to task “for playing a game, posing as the nice guys with Iran, supplying nuclear fuel, and making it look as if America is causing all this trouble. But if I were Russia today, I would be very worried about Iran acquiring the bomb, because Russia is more at risk than America. The risk Israel runs is another dimension.
“Russia is at risk,” he explained, “because whether it’s the Chechens or Central Asian Muslim states that were former Soviet Republics, none are friendly to Moscow. Next time there’s an explosion in Moscow, it may be a suicide bomber who isn’t wearing an explosive jacket, but something a lot bigger. It would certainly be in Russia’s interest to say … to Iran, ‘this far and no further.’”
But Lee said, “It could also be that Russia no longer knows how to stop it, in which case the Russians will be opening the door to a very dangerous world of nuclear proliferation. You can also be quite sure that … when Iran gets the bomb, the Middle East will go nuclear.”
When this reporter last interviewed Lee Kuan Yew in Singapore in May 2001, he said his biggest concern about the future “is an Islamist bomb and mark my words it will travel.” It now has done just that courtesy of Pakistan’s A. Q. Khan, the anti-American father of Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal. When asked this week about the advisability of the United States or Israel bombing Iran’s nuclear facilities, Lee fell silent. He was about to express an opinion, then changed his mind. “I can express no views on that,” he said lowering his voice.
Lee’s second-biggest concern eight years ago was China’s challenge to the global status quo. No longer. “Will China be to the 21st century what America was to the 20th?” we asked.
If the Chinese leaders stay on their present course, Lee answered, “The peaceful rise of China’s power will prevail. They are determined not to challenge any existing power, meaning America, EU, Russia, but just make friends with everybody. Given the rules of the game now that China is in WTO, they can only grow stronger year by year, and within three or four decades, China’s GDP will equal America’s, their technology will be equal to what was long regarded as the world’s only superpower, and their GDP will be larger than America’s.
“And all that stems from what they have long studied in details in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore. … They are sending 250,000 students abroad every year, and even though they may lose 60 percent to 70 percent of them to other countries, they don’t care because they know many of them will come back eventually. … They want to avoid building a pre-World War II Japan or Germany. Territorial conquest is not necessary as it once was.
“You don’t have to be a genius to know that they are producing five times as many engineers and scientists as the Americans. … They are everywhere (in the world) today. Can you be everywhere while focused on Iraq? In the Caribbean you have one Embassy in Barbados that serves six other tiny island countries. The Chinese have an embassy in each place. And that’s what you call your front yard.”
Taiwan?
“They won’t invade,” Lee responded, “and try to take over militarily. That would be far too costly for them all over the world. … Can the Chinese land troops in Taiwan and establish and hold and widen a beachhead? The answer is no. Can they conquer Taiwan militarily? Again, no. They can only inflict damage.” Today, Lee added, “Taiwan goes to America to get its technology, which then transits to China. If they take back Taiwan, it becomes Chinese without the same freedom of access to U.S. technology and research labs. So why kill the goose that lays the golden eggs?”
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Copyright 2008 by United Press International.
All rights reserved.
Don’t know who to give credit to for this post. It came in an email that did not provide the author.
Rule 1 : Life is not fair – get used to it!
Rule 2 : The world won’t care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.
Rule 3 : You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won’t be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.
Rule 4 : If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.
Rule 5 : Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping: they called it opportunity.
Rule 6 : If you mess up, it’s not your parents’ fault, so don’t whine about your mistakes, learn from them.
Rule 7 : Before you were born, your parents weren’t as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent’s generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.
Rule 8 : Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools, they have abolished failing grades and they’ll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn’t bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.
Rule 9 : Life is not divided into semesters. You don’t get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time.
Rule 10 : Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
Rule 11 : Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.
Breaking from Newsmax.com
Gore to Rake in IPO Millions
Former Vice President and global warming crusader Al Gore stands to make close to $50 million when the TV channel he co-founded goes public with an Initial Public Offering.
Current TV, which debuted in August 2005, has been billed as “television for the Internet generation” of tech-savvy 18-to-34-year-olds, and allows viewers to contribute much of its content.
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But it currently is available in only about 19 million U.S. homes, and has lost $31.5 million over the last three years, Ron Grover discloses in BusinessWeek.
Current Media, Current TV’s parent company, hopes to raise $100 million in a public offering it filed on Jan. 28. Some of the money raised will go to lenders, who include a few major Democratic Party fundraisers.
“Something about this deal just doesn’t sit right with me,” Grover observes.
He notes that Gore and co-founder Joel Hyatt not only will take “piles of cash,” but they also collect “hefty salaries for a company that hasn’t shown a profit in three years — taking down $491,677 apiece last year in cash.”
Gore and Hyatt also collected $550,000 bonuses for, in Gore’s case, helping get the company new affiliate agreements and putting together a management team. The two currently receive $600,000 a year in salary and can collect additional bonuses.
“What really sticks out to me,” Grover writes, is that Gore and Hyatt, “who jumpstarted the company with a broken-down Newsworld International channel they bought for $70.9 million, will have the kind of hammer-lock control over the company decried by shareholder rights activists and many of the same unions that supported Gore for years.”
Gore and Hyatt will control all of the company’s B shares, which give them 10 votes for every vote of a common shareholder with a Class A share, according to the filing.
The company hasn’t yet set a price per share for its IPO, but Grover cites one estimate of between $13 and $15 per share, making Gore’s 3.7 million shares worth more than $48 million.
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