10/15/09

In 1957 Kwame Nkruma became the first black leader of a modern nation state in history.  The country, renamed Ghana, at the time was one of the richest countries in the tropical world, not to mention Africa.  In his own country he was heralded as “a new Moses who would lead his people towards the cherished land of Independence.”  Others labeled him as the “man of destiny, star of Africa.”  Not only was he a hero in his own country, though, he was an inspiration across Africa.  He even went so far as to lay the groundwork for the founding of the United Sates of Africa.  He was visited by world leaders, including the President of the United States at the time, as well as being the Queen of England’s personal guest on more than one occasion.

Yet Nkruma never won the Nobel Peace Prize.  In fact, as far as I know, he was never even nominated for it.   Was it because he didn’t try to use dialogue to solve complex world issues, as President Obama was just given the Nobel Prize for?  Nkruma certainly did.  He even founded an annual conference for African leaders across the continent, even hosting and serving as an inspiration to a previously unknown individual by the name of Nelson Mandela.  His pan-African movement was some of the greatest hope against a continent more war torn than any other in modern history.  Perhaps it was because he didn’t break new ground.  After all, he was only the first black head of a modern state.  It’s not like he was President of the US.

No.  Nkruma didn’t win the Nobel because at the time good intentions didn’t count in the real world.  Why?  Because they don’t correlate with results.  Talk is cheap.  The Nobel committee claimed Gorbachev as the precedent for choosing President Obama, claiming President Obama deserved it for providing hope to the world and ushering in a new era of dialogue and statesmanship.  He was nominated twelve days after he took office.  How is that comparable to Gorbachev?  Gorbachev started his motion towards reform in 1986, but did not receive the prize until Dec of 1990.  By then he had already completely amended the USSR’s constitution, transforming it from an authoritarian dictatorship to a parliamentary system.  He didn’t get it for coining the term Perestroika, he got it for action.  Which is exactly why men like Nkruma never were awarded it in the past.

 I should mention, for those unfamiliar with the history of Ghana, that Nkruma used his vast popularity and cult of personality to institute sweepings socialist reforms.  He wanted to industrialize Ghana, increase education, expand public healthcare, raise the standard of living, etc.  The reason you might not have heard of him before now, though, is because his socialist policies took what was once the richest country in Africa and bankrupted it.  By the end of his reign the country was so far in debt the economy began to collapse.  He was forced to keep order through secret police and the suspension of civil liberties.  His story ends with him exiled by a military coup which was forced to step in to restore order.  Nkruma was out of the country at the time trying to bring about a peaceful resolution to the conflict in Vietnam.

Now I could have chosen a lot of leaders who twelve days to eight months into their terms were icons of hope across the globe, major pushers of civil dialogue, but that ended up being ruthless despots and murderers.  I chose Nkruma because all sources agree Nkruma, unlike Mobutu or a number of other African leaders who parallel this same story, always had good intentions.

 Now I’m not saying President Obama doesn’t deserve the Nobel Prize for the example he’s setting in foreign relations.  I’m not one of those President Obama bashers that screamed patriotism when things were going their way and now have forgotten what it means, though that’s not why I’m refraining from such statements.  I’m not going to say it because it’s not for me to say.  The only authority on the topic is the Nobel committee, and they have already weighed in on the issue.  It’s an organic organization.   If they want to break from tradition that’s their choice, and I have no authority to criticize them.  What I can say is how prestigious or valuable is an award handed out based on good intentions?

This is the oath of office that Barack Hussein Obama took last January 29th:

“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God.”

Do you think he has lived up to that oath? I don’t! Obama even had the gall to say the Constitution is outdated and needs to be revised. Revised for what; to allow Barack Hussein Obama to be King of the United States? He forgets, that title was held by Garfield Goose!
He talks a good case but he does nothing. He even gets awards for doing absolutely nothing. What awards are those you ask; Well, the Nobel Peace Prize is a great example. He did nothing to get that award. His being the one who would receive the award was decided eight days after he was sworn in as President. The award was for his accomplishments as President of the United States. What accomplishments, maybe getting the White House cleared of any of the Hollywood Liberal hangers on after the Inauguration parties. What could he have done in the first eight days? He didn’t even know where the bathroom was. This man is an embarrassment.
He stated during his campaign the GWB “took his eye of the Ball” numerous times. He said he would go into Afghanistan and clean out Bin Laden and the Taliban no matter what it took. He blasted GWB for his handling of the Iraq/Afghanistan wars and now he will not allow the term “War on Terror” to be used. He delays months after General McChrystal requests 40,000 troops in deciding whether or not to send the troops while we waste more lives and more money. He said getting Bin Laden was his number one priority but he has not mentioned Bin Laden more than four times since being elected. Obama has had HIS eyes closed to what is REALLY going on.
I could go on and on but this President, President Barack Hussein Obama, does not know what he is doing, his advisors don’t know what they are doing. All he is looking for is getting social programs passed ie. government controlled healthcare, card check, gay marriage, open abortion, Cap and Trade etc so he will have his so called legacy! If all goes according to Obama’s plan, his real legacy will be the socialization of America along with making America a third rate world power. He is not following the mandate the oath gave him to follow the Constitution, he is making up his own rules as he goes along! He is on his way and he and his crew of yes men must be stopped.
2010 brings mid-term elections and the best way to stop Obama’s plan is to throw out as many Demoocrats and republicans in Congress who vote with his programs and regain control of Congress as we did when Clinton was President and then in 2012 vote Obama out of office and the rest of the Democrats who are ruining this country.

RWD

1. And every new message will add value, somewhere
By creating a Mantra, you’ve discovered what makes you unique. Now use online or offline forums, meetings, blogs and start leveraging that uniqueness. Make greater contributions every time you participate by bringing new value to every discussion, where you work or on the Web. Whether you’re on the Web or working with people who use it, ideas with real merit will help you define a new culture and attract the followers you’ll need to make a difference.

2. And add new value to every contribution
You are already a leader or an acknowledged expert; by raising the “flag” of your Mantra you can begin to attract followers and supporters. As they follow and support you, the sum of their individual contributions will add even more value to the discussions or projects that matter the most. Al Gore got the Nobel Prize not as a former VP, but because all of his followers’ contributions added (real or perceived) value to their communal cause.

3. And watch your leadership gain impact and real relevance
Leadership is no longer bestowed by an institution, or artificially grown in the hothouse of a hierarchy. Whoever brings the most value to their “tribe,” community, group or team will naturally command the respect and attention it takes to attract more followers–because the evolving leader can help every other group member grow and prosper. A hierarchy will promote the myth that benefits “trickle down”; but in our new world, authority trickles up to the person who deserves it the most.

4. So your passion and humanity becomes an added benefit to every follower
A great butler shares many acquired skills and talents. He brings them to life by adding his passion for detail, and his (or her) humanity. A leader shares innate and acquired skills and talents  as extra value for every follower or team member.  Having a Mantra makes it unnecessary to try and command or control anyone. Now you attract them with  content that’s clear, concise and compelling. Every new message will be rich with relevance, proof and real value. Just become more useful and generous, and your followers will become more loyal to you and to each other.

5. And key tasks or decisions will always be on the front burner–where they belong
When you use the Mantra process to complete a project or reach a decision, as a by-product you will have more buy-in, credibility and long-term support. You also empower the group to prioritize what they’ve been working on together. Everyone else will perceive the project or decision’s extra value that your community members have helped make extra valuable. and everyone will see the value of making sure it receives the attention, and gets the credit, that it deserves.

6. And ensure your followers’ commitment to defining and organizing
Forget the silos. On the Web or during the Mantra process, your followers and supporters can come from any background to choose you, or the culture you’re creating around your new Mantra “flag.” Everyone will link up to or  ignore what you’ve done, depending on how much value they see in their interactions with you and each other. Working through the process together will give them get many chances to choose. They will do it constantly so what you’re doing will have an organic and healthy ebb and flow.

7. And make “pushing” (or “pulling”) a thing of the past
In brick-and-mortar organizations, resources were allocated up and down through silos, with little concern for their function, applicability or long-term relevance. More recently, “push and pull” advocates thought they could manipulate our behavior through negative or positive influence. Sharing time and attention is just one way people show who’s the rea boss in every transaction. Get them actively involved in defining and spreading value and build a real community to make a real difference.

8. And lose your fear of sharing your best ideas
The most effective way to copyright your good ideas? Turn that “your” into a plural pronoun. Develop all your ideas as a team. Then you’ll never worry about being beaten to the punch, or who gets the ecredit. No individual can make an idea as good as what a focused team will come up with. And by the time anyone learns of the idea, it will already be at least partially be documented and put into practice.

9. And take on the online (or offline) world with ideas born whole to a group
See number 8–then move into the future with it.

10. And you’ll watch your followers and supporters carry you forward
It’s not just online users who are loyal when they have a substantial say in key decisions, or how a project is being planned and implemented. You may think you’ve built the community you lead; but once the users get involved they are its creators. They truly own it, along with any culture that grows up around it.

11. And give everyone involved a very personal stake in your success
Is the web a testament to the power of intrinsic rewards and the commitment of all the people who grow online communities? Of course it is. And a nation is testament to the sacrifices and vision of all who’ve contributed to its growth. People have always given generously of themselves when they actively contributed to something; they will remain actively engaged with the leader and group that made it happen. Take this to heart and start leading.

12. And find a legitimate, meaningful way to acknowledge those who bring us the most value
Finding a group of millions of individuals with a dream, and giving them an eloquent voice and renewed sense of purpose, is what got Barack Obama elected president. They were ready to overturn the status quo; he gave them a way to do it–by electing him. His problems and loss of popular support started when he didn’t acknowledge their contributions. When he stopped valuing them, their sense of ownership over where the country is heading under his administration disappeared. Avoid making the same mistake, and you can achieve greater success.

Iran has confiscated the Nobel Peace Medal of Shirin Ebadi, the human rights lawyer, according to the Times newspaper.

I have never seen the prize so I hope it is more than a tiny figurine presented to a Sunday league football time, or a photocopied flyer given to a child who has done well in a spelling test.

But then when a country, such as Iran, confiscates it (on pretext of owed tax payments), I also hope that it really is just a scrap of paper. The prize itself is $1.4 million dollars, but was is more painful to dictator or religious nut case societies is that the Nobel Prize is about individual achievement, thought or just the sheer audacity for standing up for something you believe in.

Miss Ebadi is a woman with a mission and travels the World telling, whoever will listen, about the human rights travesties which go on in Iran every day. Their answer is to not listen, but to take a away a prize like a child in the playground taking away another child’s toy as it never got it’s own way.

What i love most about this is that the Nobel committee could summon the Iranian Embassy Ambassador for a meeting to tell him off. Does the Nobel Committee really have that much power? I thought it was a nice ‘to-have’ but it seems that it is the one prize that holds more sway than any other – a real status symbol that even governments, war lords and dangerous god botherers fear.

My son believes that the ‘tiger-monkey’, his imaginary scary monster, is out to get him. Do you think men like Hitler, who also banned anyone getting a Nobel prize, believe that the horrors of free speech hide in cupboards. Or that under your bed are answers to medical science that may go against your religious doctrines and, therefore, your own way of controlling the people?

So if Nobel stands for Noble, or I prefer to think of it as a WMD (Words Make Difference) then lets start firing long range versions at anyone who stops free speech.

It’s not just Black Friday, it’s also Buy Nothing Day.

In Iran, Shirin Ebadi’s Nobel Prize has been confiscated.

Thanksgiving was not a good day to work in the Emergency Room.

What the hell am I doing walking in LA?

Hotness makes for weird politics.

Iranian leaders are so insecure that the peace efforts of one of its own are a threat to their masculinity.  Robbing Shirin Ebadi of her internationally recognized Nobel Peace Prize, is really tacky.  This is not the first time Amadinejad, and the counsel that controls him, have acted out like the control freak bullies they are.  They are totally blind to the power of Iran’s next generation of leaders, growing up educated and exposed to sneak previews of what a little freedom can offer.  The new generation wants it.  The stuffy old men, controlling Amadinejad, cannot kill them all.  Their childish behavior only fans the flames for Iran’s future.  Government can only suppress its population for so long before it backfires.  Using religion as a weapon to suppress free thought, in the age of mass communication, spells downfall.  Will Shirin Ebadi, an icon in the international peace movement, end up like Aung San Suu Kyi?  Will the economically distracted world stand by and write her off as “such a shame” and send weak diplomatic protests to the oppressors?  Is peace just not economical anymore?  It seems that today’s global repositioning and asset grabbing encourages civil strife, to reduce populations that political bullies expect to deal with in the future.  World peace is challenged every day, seeds of defiance are being sown with every casualty tallied in the name of democracy or in the name of any religion, control is the name of the game. Collateral damage changes mindset, the most dangerous byproduct is revenge at any cost. Revenge grows exponentially.  “Peace mongers” are derided and looked upon as a threat to government control.  Suppression becomes more blatant when governments feel threatened by efforts for democracy and human rights. Extraordinary individuals who protect and empower the world’s most vulnerable populations. Dr. Shirin Ebadi exemplifies these attributes, especially in her efforts to confront challenges faced by women around the world.

Iranian authorities confiscate medal from 2003 Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi

By Ian Macdougall (CP)  TEHRAN, Iran — Iranian authorities have confiscated Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi’s medal, her lawyer and Norway’s government said Thursday, in a sign of the increasingly drastic steps they are taking against any dissent.

In Norway, where the peace prize is awarded, the government said the confiscation was a shocking first in the history of the 108-year-old prize.

Ebadi, a human rights lawyer, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003 for her efforts in promoting democracy. She has long faced harassment from Iranian authorities for her activities – including a raid on her office last year in which files were confiscated.

The seizure of her prize is an expression of the Iranian government’s harsh approach to anyone it considers an opponent – particularly since the massive street protests triggered by hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s disputed June 12 re-election.

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During the past months, hundreds of pro-reform activists have been arrested, and a mass trial has sentenced dozens to prison terms.

In Tehran, Ebadi’s lawyer, Nasrin Sotoudeh, confirmed the medal was confiscated and said it was seized on a September order from a judge at Tehran’s Revolutionary Court. The lawyer said she was not aware of the content of the order because the court has not allowed her to study it yet.

“Ebadi’s husband found out some 20 days ago that all medals, including the Nobel one, were confiscated from their safe deposit box,” Sotoudeh said.

Calls to Iranian judiciary officials were not returned Thursday.

Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere called the move “shocking” and said it was “the first time a Nobel Peace Prize has been confiscated by national authorities.”

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Ebadi said in an interview published Nov. 17 in the Italian daily Corriere della Sera that her apartment, pension and her bank account and those of her relatives had been seized, along with her Nobel and Legion of Honor.

“I live in an effective state of exile,” she was quoted as saying from a hotel in New York, where she had been attending U.N. meetings. “They say I owe them $410,000 in back taxes because of the Nobel; it’s a complete lie, given that the Iranian fiscal law says that prizes are excluded.”

She nevertheless said she plans to return to Iran when she can be more useful in the country than outside it.

“Nothing frightens me anymore, even if they threaten to arrest me for fiscal evasion upon my return,” she said.

Iran seizes Nobel winner Shirin Edabi’s medal

Iranian Militiamen Try to Cow Opposition Figure

Norway protests against confiscation of Shirin Ebadi’s Nobel Peace Prize

Norway has reacted strongly to the news that the Iranian authorities have confiscated the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Shirin Ebadi in 2003. The Iranian Chargé d’affaires Has been summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

“This is the first time a Nobel Peace Prize has been confiscated by national authorities. The medal and the diploma have been removed from Dr Ebadi’s bank box, together with other personal items. Such an act leaves us feeling shock and disbelief,” said Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre.    (NRK/Press release)   Rolleiv Solholm

The White House announced today that President Obama will travel to Copenhagen, Denmark to deliver a speech on December 9 to the United Nations’ meeting on climate change.  They indicated that the President will then pledge to cut the United States’ greenhouse gas emissions “in the range of 17% below 2005 levels by 2020“.

Given that the neither President or anyone else could possibly understand the implications of such a pledge to the Untied States, this is but one more commitment made by knuckleheads in Washington without concern for the unintended consequences.

OK, let’s start with a few simple questions.  What will the President’s pledge do to the cost of energy in this country?  What will the pledge mean for jobs in the United States?  What will the pledge do to the production of food in this country?  Who and how will we pay for the pledge?  The questions are endless; however the politicians who make such promises with other-peoples’-money will not be around to pay the price.

To add insult to injury, no one has informed the American people what a 17% reduction in our emissions will do to total CO2 total levels in the atmosphere or how it will affect global warming.  Given that the majority of growth of CO2 emissions is coming from China, India and the third world, such details just might get in the way of logical thinking.

It is ironic that the President travels to Copenhagen in the largest private jet in the world, spewing out tons of CO2 and then lectures the rest of us about curbing carbon output.  When you consider that during the same trip the President will collect an award, the Nobel Prize for Peace, when no peace has been made, helps put the logic of all this into perspective.

The Politically Incorrect News for Politically Incorrect Readers

Some things you may or may not have read…

Item #1- Obama’s White House scrambling to justify firing IG Gerald Walpin. The scandal is growing with little coverage by the alphabet-media. After all, they have to protect Obama at all costs.

Item #2- Five reasons why voters who voted for Obama will not vote for Obama again. We can only HOPE people CHANGE.

Item#3- Inhofe will call for investigation into “ClimateGate.” Wonder if Al Gore gets a call to testify? After all, he won a Nobel Prize for his global warming myth. Hey, Obama got his for a myth too. How (in) convenient.

Item #4- Obama to pay back Hollywood elites. Rewards big Hollywood donors with tickets to first White House dinner. I thought jobs was going to be his number one concern…laughable.

Item #5- Whose your daddy? California man finds out his father is a famous serial killer.

Tibetan Resistance fighters pose with weapons following CIA arms drop.

In December 1989 the Fourteenth Dalai Lama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Having been awarded to terrorists and war makers before, the Nobel Peace Prize is no stranger to controversy – even Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin are among previous nominees for the prize! In his presentation speech to the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, Egil Aarvik said:

‘This year’s Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded … first and foremost for his consistent resistance to the use of violence in his people’s struggle to regain their liberty. …

This is by no means the first community of exiles in the world, but it is assuredly the first and only one that has not set up any militant liberation movement.’

Was he unaware that the Dalai Lama had spoken since 1961 of the Tibetan guerrillas that were waging war on the People’s Liberation Army? Had he not read any of the accounts of the Tibetan guerilla war that were in wide circulation, such as Jamyang Norbu’s Warriors of Tibet – a book commissioned by the Tibetan government in exile itself?

Given that Tibetan ‘non-violence’ is merely a facade, why was the Dalai Lama awarded the prize? Tom Grunfeld says:

‘Everything having to do with Tibet is subject to mythologizing. That the Dalai Lama was awared the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts on behalf of Tibetan independence is one of these myths.’

According to the New York Times, the prize was awarded to the Dalai Lama ‘largely because of the brutal suppression of the democracy movement in China and the international outrage that followed.’ A source close to the Norwegian Nobel Committee revealed:

‘the choice of the Dalai Lama, was an attempt both to influence events in China and to recognize the efforts of student leaders of the [Chinese] democracy movement, which was crushed by Chinese troops in June.’

In addition to criticizing the Chinese by implication, awarding the prize to the Dalai Lama was an explicit attempt by the committee to atone for what is widely considered to be its greatest embarrassment: failing to award Mahatma Gandhi the Nobel Peace Prize, despite his having been nominated five times! As Egil Aarvik said in the presentation speech:

‘The Dalai Lama likes to consider himself one of Gandhi’s successors. People have occasionally wondered why Gandhi himself was never awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, and the present Nobel Committee can with impunity share this surprise, while regarding this year’s award of the prize as in part a tribute to the memory of Mahatma Gandhi.’

The Nobel Peace Prize is considered by some to be the easiest Nobel Prize to win because no actual achievement needs to be demonstrated. What the Dalai Lama has clearly achieved, though, is to deceive the world utterly as to his real nature and intentions. By awarding him the Peace Prize the Nobel Committee has helped him to continue to dupe the world.

The government wants you to think of Uncle Sam this year for the Christmas Season and donate some money to them. It seems that Washington cannot print enough monopoly money to keep up with the party of the progressives spending habits. So, how about it, do you think you can spare a little extra to help out Barack, Harry and Nancy with their needs?

Every man ,woman and child in the country already has a $40,000 debt as their share of this year’s national spending. So, if you are the head of household in a family of four, and you want to do your part to help Barack, the head of the American household, put together the  national budget, you should immediately make out a check for $160,000 and mail it to Timothy Geithner. Only a small portion of the money will go to ACORN, the SEIU and the various pork projects of the beltway elite.

As an additional method of raising money the White House is thinking of auctioning off, “A Weekend at the White House with Barack” vacation to the highest bidder. The winner will spend the weekend with Barack practicing in front of a TV prompter, and be allowed to sleep in the Lincoln Bedroom provided that Barack can persuade Andy Stern to sleep on the couch for the weekend. The package includes a dinner with Barney Frank at a restaurant of the winner’s choice. To make things even more authentic the House of Representatives Ethics Committee will investigate your winning bid and then make the investigation disappear. To cap the vacation you will receive instructions on how to evade your taxes for at least a decade. A lap dance from Nancy, or Barney, will be at an additional charge.

Another idea to raise money is being considered at the highest level. This would be a “Global Warming Expedition” with Al Gore as your guide. The expedition will include a tour of a Canadian polar bear’s territory, first class seats aboard Al’s personal jet, and a certificate from Gore allowing you to use the internet he invented for a period of five years.

So, seriously, send your check to Washington and trust that the money will go to a worthy cause. As the Democratic Party majority would say, “It’s only money!” Try to think of all those jobs you will save in the 5,118 District of Puerto Rico. Barack will thank you. Nancy will thank you. Harry will thank you. Bill and Hilary will thank you. Khalid will thank you. Sean Penn will thank you. The Nobel Committee will thank you.

Well, Harry bought Louisiana and we are off to see the wizard. The health care will now go to the senate floor for debate. Harry hugged and kissed all his progressive brothers and sisters on the cheek in celebration. The Republicans were not invited to the orgy because they refused to wear togas and laurel leaf wreaths.

The gay blogs continue to bash Sarah Palin and Carrie Prejean. The words “slut”, “bitch” and “whore” have now become the most used words in the English Language. Shakespeare was right when he said, “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.”

Obama visited all the major countries of Southeast Asia and bowed to everyone including the doorman at the Forbidden City. Obama is rumored to have said that the Chinese Forbidden City was much more beautiful than the American version (Washington, DC). Obama asked the Chinese if he could buy the Great Wall so that he could put it between himself and Fox News. He offered one trillion for the wall but the Chinese refused to sell citing the credit rating of the United States.

Eric Holder was asked by a congressional committee if Osama bin Laden was captured in Pakistan would it be necessary to read Osama his Miranda Rights?  The Attorney General seemed frustrated and said that he could not answer until he consulted his attorney. Khalid Sheikh Mohammod is rumored to have sent Holder a letter in which he says that he prefers Chicago’s Deep Dish Pizza to the thin crust served in New York City. He also requested to have Jerry Seinfield autograph his indictment.

The young apparatchiks that listened to Obama speak in China are disappointed the they did not receive copies of the Progressive Manifesto before the speech and that Anita Dunn and Ron Bloom were not at the event to recite quotations from the venerable Chairman Mao. The communist party leadership calmed the young party faithful by promising to have Van Jones and Andy Stern at next year’s gathering.

Nancy Pelosi has asked the National Organization for Women to help Bart Stupak rewrite his amendment for the health care bill. They expect the rewrite to outsell Palin’s “Going Rogue” on the bestseller list.

Timothy Geithner is receiving a lot of heat in Washington because the Stimulus Bill doesn’t seem to be working. The “saved jobs” from the districts that do not exist and the monies that have not been distributed yet are challenging even the Democrats ability to suspend disbelief. However they do think that the arithmetic used by Geithner was useful when it came to figuring the cost of the health care bill.

Al Gore has informed the scientific community that the center of the Earth has a temperature of 1,000,000 degrees not the 5,000 degrees that was previously claimed by the scientists. Mr. Gore says that he is willing to receive his next Nobel Prize over the internet which as he points out, he invented.

I will see you all in my next post with updates.

I completely give up on my Day: system. Its too boring to try and find a post EVERY day, and I just can’t keep up with it. I still should be posting a few every week, but I just can’t do one every day.

Anyways, I got a wave invite from a friend the other day, and so have been using wave a lot lately. In total, my friends and I have posted 1125 posts to waves that I have been a part of. 758 of those have been in waves back and forth between one friend and I. Wave is like an instant messenger conversation, but so much more useful.

The ability to send image and files, as well as to be able to read someone’s post as they type makes it incredibly efficient. It also makes it easy to poke fun at their mistakes as they correct them.

My friends and I have started working on getting a D&D game going within wave, partially to test out wave, and partially to actually play a game of D&D.

We found a dice “app” for wave, which actually is a bot that you add to the conversation, which takes someone’s typing of XdY and calculates it out, then places the result right after the XdY. It then colours the result in yellow, and the roll in grey, and if you edit either of them afterwards, it highlights it all in red, to show that it has been tampered with.

Example, 2d6 (9)

Dorman’s Interlude

Mr Dorman says:
Whoever invented rice krispy treats deserves a nobel prize

Semper Verus, Semper Nefas

Semperverus: update with something about ramens, wave, and a dorman’s interlude next to a Semper Verus, Semper Nefas.

Anyways, Ramen is actually good when not overcooked. I was always used to slimy ramen at home, so i never ate it. Now, making it with water heated in the microwave, it tastes pretty good.

I didn’t have a fork or spoon or anything, so I ate my first ramen thing here with a pair of needle-nose pliers. Since, I managed to get my hand on a set of chopsticks from the dining hall, and have been eating it with that.

Lewis Wallace at Wired (http://www.wired.com/underwire/author/lewis_wallace/) writes an article reporting Wired decision to start a campaign for candidating Internet (means each one of us being behind a PC) for Peace Nobel prize 2010 (full article at http://www.wired.com/underwire/2009/11/internet-for-peace-nobel/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Findex+%28Wired%3A+Index+3+%28Top+Stories+2%29%29, candidate site at http://www.internetforpeace.it/manifesto.cfm).

I have contrasting feelings on this action.

Why I’m for.

• Because Internet is THE revolution of the last two centuries, having shortened distances, freed people and developed a common conscience
• Because Internet is a media of peace and of peace keeping, permitting people to share thoughts, frustrations, dreams, ideas, hopes
• Because the Nobel Prize for Peace can, finally, promote internet to a sort of new status of overnational media

Why I’m against.

• Internet is immaterial and, for itself, doesn’t deserve any merit, because are people underlying that make it a “good” or “bad” media
• Internet is not only peace.  It has inside bad feelings and habits, like everyone of us.
• Because there are a lot of people more real than internet that deserve an help both as a prize and as money and associated visibility

At the very end, I decided to support the campaign because I hope, like Obama’s prize was this year, that this candidation will be a signal of hope for our world.

This post as a comment also at http://www.wired.com/underwire/2009/11/internet-for-peace-nobel/comment-page-1/#comment-41599

The city of Stockholm is built on fourteen islands connected by 53 bridges.  In the 2 1/2 days I was there, I managed to hit eight islands and nine bridges, which I think is quite respectable.

After a two hour flight, I arrived at the airport in Stockholm about 9 am Friday morning (and yes, that did mean that I had to get up painfully early).  I took the train into the city and just managed to catch the 10 am guided tour of City Hall.  The City Hall was finished in 1923, and is really surprisingly beautiful.  It is the location of the Nobel Prize awards dinner every December, so watch for Obama there in a few weeks.  It was one of the most interesting tours I’ve ever been on, with tons of great tidbits about the building and the things it is used for.  But it’s already taken me too long to get this post up, so I will not relay any of them now.

After City Hall, I headed across a bridge to Gamla Stan, the oldest part of the city.  I stopped in at the cathedral to see George slaying the Dragon (look closely… the dragon is made out of antlers… created in 1489 in Lübeck, Germany – I’ve been there!) before going on to the Royal Palace complex which, inexplicably, is open only from 12-3.  I stood around in the cold long enough to watch the changing of the guard at 12:15 and then went inside.  The changing of the guard was billed as a fun and exciting sight, but on this particular Friday there were no horses or music or anything except some extremely young looking Swedes from the infantry division of a pilot training school (?) hopping around in the courtyard with some flags and guns.  The highlight for me was actually about 10 minutes before the ceremony started, when two of the guys in their uniform came out of the palaces carrying trash bags the dumpster.  Even royal guard duty isn’t such glamourous work.

The Royal Palace has a number of things to see, all with separate entrance fees of course.  I started downstairs in the Tre Kroner Museum.  The current palace (an enormous, squarish monstrosity built in the Italian style which just doesn’t work very well in Scandinavia) was built on the smoking ruins of Stockholm’s medieval castle (called Tre Kroner, or Three Crowns), which burned to the ground in 1697.  The cellars of the old castle have been excavated and turned into a museum.  My favorite part of the museum was the shards of Siegburg pottery.  I knew Siegburg was famous for its pottery, but I had no idea it traveled all the way to Stockholm.

Next I hit the Royal apartments.  The palace is the official residence of the Swedish Royal Family, but they actually live in a somewhat more private palace about an hour west of the city by boat.  Also, this may be a good time to mention that Sweden has possibly the world’s best looking prince, His Royal Highness Prince Carl Philip, who is about a year older than I am.  He was Crown Prince Carl for the first seven months of his life until they changed the succession rules and his older sister became first in line for the throne.  He recently broke up with his very long term girlfriend, according to rumors possibly because he’s gay, so he may be available, depending on your gender and preferences.

Anyway.  I looked through the incredibly lavish state rooms in the palace (where, of course, you aren’t allowed to take photos) and then joined the tour at 2pm.  I learned a lot about the royal history of Sweden, which is far tawdrier than you’d think, including an assassination at a masked ball.  The current royal family is from the House of Bernadotte.  If you’re thinking that sounds more French than Swedish, you’re right.  After the war where Sweden lost the eastern half of their country (aka Finland) to the Russians, tensions were running high and the old king got himself deposed.  Napoleon volunteered one of his French generals as the new king of Sweden and because he was Napoleon, the Swedish parliament said, “Hey, why not?”  So the original Bernadotte moved to Sweden and became king.  Apparently he never actually learned to speak Swedish.

The most useful thing I learned from my tour guide in the palace was that it happened to be the 377th anniversary of the death of Gustavus Adolphus, Sweden’s greatest king, who I’d only known previously from his namesake college in Minnesota, where I very nearly attended.  But in honor of his death, the Royal Armory, in the basement of the castle, was open free to the public for just that one day.  I hadn’t planned to visit the armory, but I’m sure glad I did.  It was one of the highlights of the trip.  Besides armor, there was also a lot of clothes and royal costumes, right up through the little sailor suit worn by the current king when he was a little boy (the collection of children’s clothes and toys was particularly interesting).  Swedes seem to love to save stuff, and a lot of very weird stuff is on display in the armory.  There were the outfits worn by at least three different kings when they were killed, complete with bullet holes and 300-year-old blood stains.  Gustavus Adolphus (or just Gustav II Adolph in the Swedish form) does not have the outfit from his death there, because he got kind of lost in a battle and when they recovered his body the next morning, it was stripped of everything except the three linen undershirts he was wearing and a pair of socks.  But oh, the undershirts and the socks are there, as is the cloth in which they wrapped his heart when he was embalmed.  They do have some of his other outfits though, and he was either very pear-shaped or pear-shaped garments were all the rage back then.  But it really was a good display.  And there was a fabulous royal carriage collection in the basement of the basement to round off the visit.

By the time I was finished with the armory, it was dark and I was ready to find my hotel (although it got dark at 4 pm so that’s not saying much).  The hotel was in Södermalm, the large residential island just south of Gamla Stan.  The huge neon sign on top made it conveniently easy to find.  I was staying at Hotel Anno 1647, and yes, the building is really more than 360 years old.  I stayed in one of the “economy” rooms with a bathroom on the hall, which made it reasonably priced, and the breakfast was delicious, so I recommend it.  For dinner, I got herring from a snack cart near the waterfront.  It was two pieces of fried, battered fish on top of a piece of Wasa cracker, topped with pickles and red onions and parsley (see photo below).  It was delicious, although not really a good night for eating outside at a picnic table.  It never rained or snowed while I was there, but the temperatures were only marginally above freezing.

On Saturday, I very nearly took a lunch cruise out through the Stockholm Archipelago (30,000 islands east of the city in the Baltic Sea) but the weather was so cold and foggy that I opted for indoor activities instead.  My first stop was the Museum of Modern Art, which had a great special exhibit on Salvador Dali.  Next I hit up more traditional art in the National Museum, after taking a stroll around another small island, just for fun.  The collection was good, but the most stunning thing was the building itself, which has an incredible interior staircase made out of marble with pillars and statues and a fancy ceiling.  Again, sadly no photos.  You’re just going to have to go to Stockholm and see if for yourself.

I left the museum with just enough time to get to the Food Hall, a big open building that used to house meat and produce sellers, and now houses meat and produce sellers next to twee coffee stands and souvenir cheeses.  I love food markets, and am very sad that they are so uncommon in America.  I admired the bounty of seafood before sitting down with a hot chocolate and a piece of carrot cake.

My next stop was Centralbadet, a public bath house in Stockholm from 1904.  It’s a really pretty Art Nouveau building, with a big pool (cold), a small “thermal pool” (lukewarm) and a jacuzzi, plus a variety of saunas.  I figured, what better way to spend a dark, cold Swedish night than in a sauna, and based on the hour wait to get in, a lot of other people felt the same way.  Luckily, I was also treating myself to a genuine Swedish massage from a real live Swedish masseur, so I didn’t have to wait.  The only other public bath complex I’ve been to like this was the on in Budapest.  The trouble with going to the best public baths in Europe first is that it kind of spoils you for everything else.  But I still had a nice time, and the saunas were wonderful.  The massage wasn’t bad either.  I learned from the guy giving it to me that smorgasbord is a Swedish word.

On Sunday, I took the ferry to the big park island of Djurgården which houses, among other amusements, Skansen, the world’s first open air museum, consisting of historical buildings carted in from around the country.  It also has a small zoo which is home to Nordic species like reindeer and brown bears, as well as traditional domesticated breeds from the area (I especially like the cold weather chickens… extra fluffy).  It’s a nice place to walk around, and the buildings are very interesting. It would have been nicer in summer, when the buildings were actually open but what can you do.  I got there shortly after it opened at 10 am, and by the time I left at 1 pm a few of the buildings had been opened by costumed interpreters, but most were shut for the season.  A real highlight was the old bakery, where you could see, smell and purchase the wares.

I was running short on time, and really wanted to get to the royal treasury before I left since I had already paid for it with my palace combo ticket.  Luckily, just as I left Skansen, one of the old-fashioned trolleys came trundling by towards the city.  I hoped on.  I think I read somewhere that Stockholm was the first city after San Francisco to have an electric street car system.  They recently reopened one of the original lines with beautiful original cars (all shiny wood inside) and operate them as a sort of moving museum.  Street cars don’t go very fast, but it was enough faster than walking that I had plenty of time to see the crown jewels of Stockholm.  It was only three rooms worth, but I have to give the Swedes credit for having the most beautiful crowns I had yet seen.  Pity they don’t actually wear them anymore.

After I’d had my fill of sparkle, I picked up a few more post cards and headed back to the airport.  The tourist write-ups about Stockholm call it one of the most beautiful capitals in the world, and it is surprisingly lovely, even in November.  Plus people kept telling me that I needed to come back and see it in spring or summer.  And there is plenty more to see there.  I would love to get in a boat trip out through the archipelago, or west across Lake Mälaren to Drottningholm Palace, the actual home of the royal family.  I didn’t get to visit the Vasa Museum, dedicated to a magnificent 17th century ship that sunk in the Stockholm harbor on its maiden voyage and was just recently dredged up, or Junibacken, an interactive museum of Astrid Lindgren characters, or get inside Riddarholmen Church, a medieval abbey where the great royalty of the country are buried.  I also was left with almost 35 Euros worth of Swedish currency and didn’t bring home a single stuffed moose.  I guess I have to go back to Stockholm too.

At last.. minister, legislator admitted that India can win Nobel for filth..
Look at calcutta – highly polluted and one of the dirtiest cities.
Gurgaon, patna, lucknow, bangalore, mumbai, hyderabad, chennai infact most of india.. If this is the “hall” of metros we should not even go to rural areas..
poor sanitation facilities and waste disposal.. ZERO recycling facilities.. high pollution..
No wonder social activists found lot of work in india..

The Department of Liberal Arts, Faculty of Humanities and Education, University of the West Indies-St. Augustine will host a conference honoring Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott under the theme “Interlocking Basins of a Globe” on January 12-15, 2010, in St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago.

Paper topics will originate from a range of standpoints to approach Walcott’s work, such as the politics of exile and belonging; literary ghosts and confreres; the visual imagination; rethinking the sublime; time, landscape, and myth; Caribbean contestation; and Walcott as critic, commentator, and journalist.

The organizers describe the conference focus:

Poet, playwright, essayist, critic, dramatist and painter, Derek Walcott, is recognized as one of the world’s greatest living writers. Among his many awards and honors is the Nobel Prize for Literature which he won in 1992. The conference “Interlocking Basins of a Globe” will explore the multifaceted nature of Walcott’s work. It invites reflections on his evolving thought and analyses of Caribbean civilization – his beloved Antilles, and the cartography of its origins. His far-ranging poetic imagination gives metaphoric expression to the creative possibilities of the ambivalences that exist within the New World psyche.  Its axes of loss and plenitude form the ground of unprecedented possibility, facilitating unique intersections between cultures that enable a leap into the new. Walcott theorizes the world of the Americas.

Walcott’s vision evolves from a desire to inhabit and be nourished by multiple worlds simultaneously. On the one hand, this response to New World history and sensibility has been, in some measure, shaped by his lifelong dialogue with the work and theories of other Caribbean creators and thinkers; and, on the other, from his acknowledged apprenticeship to literary ancestors and his collaboration with writers from across the globe. These streams have fed debates about the nature of his relationship to the Caribbean, and to Europe, Africa and Asia.  His many essays and commentaries often respond to such concerns and the politics of that relation contribute to the complex tapestry of his drama and poetry. 

For more information, see http://sta.uwi.edu/news/ecalendar/event.asp?id=728 or contact Jean.Antoine@sta.uwi.edu, Paula.Morgan@sta.uwi.edu, or Barbara.Lalla@sta.uwi.edu

Material for the Stout-Hearted Reader to Ruminate

♦ Essays, Lectures & Speeches ♦

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Seán MacBride (1904 –1988) was an Irish statesman and head of various international agencies, including Chairman of Amnesty International, President of the International Peace Bureau, Geneva, Switzerland and President of the Commission of Namibia, United Nations, New York. He shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 1974 with Eisaku Sato, the Prime Minister of Japan.

This week’s text is his Nobel Peace lecture, “The Imperatives of Survival”, delivered on December 12, 1974. MacBride’s lecture speaks of the consequences of some of the technological advancements made in the twentieth century.

“This stupendous scientific and material revolution has changed practically every factor in our ecology and society…

Peace then has to be the DESPERATE IMPERATIVE of humanity. Many imperatives flow from this only too obvious conclusion. These imperatives would be comparatively easier of achievement if those in authority throughout the world were imbued with an ethic that made world peace the primary objective and if they were inspired by a moral sense of social responsibility. It should be the primary role of the Churches to build this new morality.

The practical imperatives for peace are many and far-reaching. But there is no shortcut and each must be tackled energetically. They are: 

1. General and Complete Disarmament – including nuclear weapons.
2. The glorification of peace and not of war.
3. The effective protection of human rights and minorities at national and international levels.
4. Automatic and de-politicized mechanism for the settlement of international and non-international disputes that may endanger peace or that are causing injustices.
5. An international order that will ensure a fair distribution of all essential products.
6. An International Court of Justice and legal system with full automatic jurisdiction to rectify injustice or abuse of power.
7. An international peace-keeping force and police force with limited function.
8. Ultimately, a world parliament and government.”

Join others from around the world in this weekly reading event! You can find MacBride’s text at this website:

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1974/macbride-lecture.html

This is embarrassing, even for Fix Noise.

And in response, I give you the reality-based point of view here (and that’s only as far as the end of April and doesn’t include this).

There is room for intelligent discussion about how Obama is proceeding in Afghanistan and Iraq, among other places, but of course “Clusterfox” will never be interested in intelligent discussion.

The Strange and freaky Obama has gone nuts before he bows out to the japanese and then to the chinese across the border. He even could not resist dragging Indo -Pak in to his chinese Bowing spree and invites china (as if he knows is competent enough. ! look at his Israel-palestine issue handling).

He almost became a hated figure in Israel in his haste to stand up to his well orated speaches and fell flat at the same time the man that won a Nobel for I do not know what? has almost pushed the poor Mahmood abbas to resignation in peace fervour.

Barack Obama seems to have failed dismally in his first sustained attempt to show he is serious about making peace between Israel and the Palestinians. Obituaries for the hope generated by his election, peaking in his Cairo speech in June, are being written in Arabic, Hebrew, and English. For those who never believed that even Obama could succeed where Bill Clinton failed in the final days of his presidency, this was a death foretold.

So Is Obama rushing if yes where ? May be his week long holiday every couple of months or I really do not know what  d —–?

Lookat the statements he is been making right from the day he started campaigning. They are no more than speaches. I was one of the first to jump on to the Obamania and shout at the top of my voice to give him a chance. But ridiculous does it sound now.

I was watching the Discussion last night on the TIMES NOW news Television but could not figure out what the three politicians were shouting ” ofcourse it was at each other. The Sitaram yechury was on the wall trying not to say anything against china and Ravishankar prasad shouting at both manish tiwari of the congress and Sitaram Yechury. While the Host was shouting (actually knownfor this Mr Go Sawamy) to keep in pace. Manish tiwari trying to push both Sitaram & Ravishankar prasad tpo the corner. God hell of a show for a mid night bored freak.

WELL WE REALLY ….. DONT CARE IF YOU BOW OR WOW

And here is what was India’s response according to NEW INDIAN EXPRESS

India on Wednesday trashed a reference to South Asia in a US-China joint statement that seemed to suggest a role for China in resolving disputes between Delhi and Islamabad. “A third-country role cannot be envisaged nor is it necessary,” External Affairs Ministry spokesman Vishnu Prakash said. He made it clear that bilateral dialogue – and that too only when Pakistan stopped terror attacks being launched from its territory – was the only way forward with Pakistan.

Look at it this way Mr obama TOI

But strategic experts think the US-China joint statement was indicative of an increasing convergence of interests between the US and China.

“The interests of US and China have converged. There is a new cooperation between the US and China on Pakistan and Afghanistan. They encourage China to be the cop,” said strategic affairs expert Brahma Chellaney. He further maintained that India came very low in the Obama administration’s list of priority. “He doesn’t have India in his policy. India is only marginally present.”

And if the writing on the wall is not clear look at the gallup polls in Pakistan Mr Oba Mao

According to Gallup Pakistan’s poll, 59% of more than 2,700 people surveyed across the country consider the US a threat. “Eighteen percent believe India is the threat while 11% say the Taliban are a threat,” said Gallup Pakistan chairman Ijaz Shafi Gillani. He said the survey findings show that some of the most vocal anti-Taliban groups were equally opposed to the US.

Douglass North, 1993 recipient of the Nobel prize in economics, talks about the 2009’s laureates, Elinor Ostrom and Oliver Williamson.

[via Gary M C Shiu]

Blatant scientific fraud and global warming alarmism have been best buddies for quite some time.

But hundreds of emails pilfered from a major British university climate change center are stunning even to those who know what a whopping load of crap global warming is.

The emails are available in an easy-to-digest format HERE.  There are somewhere in the vicinity of a thousand-plus, along with some 72 documents.

A UK Telegraph article slams the whole industry as bogus.  And we learn that some of the “scientists” who took part in these emails were huge names in the bogus industry they created:

Climategate: the final nail in the coffin of ‘Anthropogenic Global Warming’?
By James Delingpole Politics Last updated: November 20th, 2009

If you own any shares in alternative energy companies I should start dumping them NOW. The conspiracy behind the Anthropogenic Global Warming myth (aka AGW; aka ManBearPig) has been suddenly, brutally and quite deliciously exposed after a hacker broke into the computers at the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit (aka Hadley CRU) and released 61 megabites of confidential files onto the internet. (Hat tip: Watts Up With That)

When you read some of those files – including 1079 emails and 72 documents – you realise just why the boffins at Hadley CRU might have preferred to keep them confidential. As Andrew Bolt puts it, this scandal could well be “the greatest in modern science”. These alleged emails – supposedly exchanged by some of the most prominent scientists pushing AGW theory – suggest:

Conspiracy, collusion in exaggerating warming data, possibly illegal destruction of embarrassing information, organised resistance to disclosure, manipulation of data, private admissions of flaws in their public claims and much more.

One of the alleged emails has a gentle gloat over the death in 2004 of John L Daly (one of the first climate change sceptics, founder of the Still Waiting For Greenhouse site), commenting:

“In an odd way this is cheering news.”

But perhaps the most damaging revelations  – the scientific equivalent of the Telegraph’s MPs’ expenses scandal – are those concerning the way Warmist scientists may variously have manipulated or suppressed evidence in order to support their cause.

Here are a few tasters. (So far, we can only refer to them as alleged emails because – though Hadley CRU’s director Phil Jones has confirmed the break-in to Ian Wishart at the Briefing Room – he has yet to fess up to any specific contents.) But if genuine, they suggest dubious practices such as:

Manipulation of evidence:

I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) amd from 1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline.

Private doubts about whether the world really is heating up:

The fact is that we can’t account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can’t. The CERES data published in the August BAMS 09 supplement on 2008 shows there should be even more warming: but the data are surely wrong. Our observing system is inadequate.

Suppression of evidence:

Can you delete any emails you may have had with Keith re AR4?

Keith will do likewise. He’s not in at the moment – minor family crisis.

Can you also email Gene and get him to do the same? I don’t have his new email address.

We will be getting Caspar to do likewise.

Fantasies of violence against prominent Climate Sceptic scientists:

Next
time I see Pat Michaels at a scientific meeting, I’ll be tempted to beat
the crap out of him. Very tempted.

Attempts to disguise the inconvenient truth of the Medieval Warm Period (MWP):

……Phil and I have recently submitted a paper using about a dozen NH records that fit this category, and many of which are available nearly 2K back–I think that trying to adopt a timeframe of 2K, rather than the usual 1K, addresses a good earlier point that Peck made w/ regard to the memo, that it would be nice to try to “contain” the putative “MWP”, even if we don’t yet have a hemispheric mean reconstruction available that far back….

And, perhaps most reprehensibly, a long series of communications discussing how best to squeeze dissenting scientists out of the peer review process. How, in other words, to create a scientific climate in which anyone who disagrees with AGW can be written off as a crank, whose views do not have a scrap of authority.

“This was the danger of always criticising the skeptics for not publishing in the “peer-reviewed literature”. Obviously, they found a solution to that–take over a journal! So what do we do about this? I think we have to stop considering “Climate Research” as a legitimate peer-reviewed journal. Perhaps we should encourage our colleagues in the climate research community to no longer submit to, or cite papers in, this journal. We would also need to consider what we tell or request of our more reasonable colleagues who currently sit on the editorial board…What do others think?”

“I will be emailing the journal to tell them I’m having nothing more to do with it until they rid themselves of this troublesome editor.”“It results from this journal having a number of editors. The responsible one for this is a well-known skeptic in NZ. He has let a few papers through by Michaels and Gray in the past. I’ve had words with Hans von Storch about this, but got nowhere. Another thing to discuss in Nice !”

Hadley CRU has form in this regard. In September – I wrote the story up here as “How the global warming industry is based on a massive lie” – Hadley CRU’s researchers were exposed as having “cherry-picked” data in order to support their untrue claim that global temperatures had risen higher at the end of the 20th century than at any time in the last millenium. Hadley CRU was also the organisation which – in contravention of all acceptable behaviour in the international scientific community – spent years withholding data from researchers it deemed unhelpful to its cause. This matters because Hadley CRU, established in 1990 by the Met Office, is a government-funded body which is supposed to be a model of rectitude. Its HadCrut record is one of the four official sources of global temperature data used by the IPCC.

I asked in my title whether this will be the final nail in the coffin of Anthropenic Global Warming. This was wishful thinking, of course. In the run up to Copenhagen, we will see more and more hysterical (and grotesquely exaggerated) stories such as this in the Mainstream Media. And we will see ever-more-virulent campaigns conducted by eco-fascist activists, such as this risible new advertising campaign by Plane Stupid showing CGI polar bears falling from the sky and exploding because kind of, like, man, that’s sort of what happens whenever you take another trip on an aeroplane.

The world is currently cooling; electorates are increasingly reluctant to support eco-policies leading to more oppressive regulation, higher taxes and higher utility bills; the tide is turning against Al Gore’s Anthropogenic Global Warming theory. The so-called “sceptical” view is now also the majority view.

Unfortunately, we’ve a long, long way to go before the public mood (and scientific truth) is reflected by our policy makers. There are too many vested interests in AGW, with far too much to lose either in terms of reputation or money, for this to end without a bitter fight.

But if the Hadley CRU scandal is true,it’s a blow to the AGW lobby’s credibility which is never likely to recover.

You can’t even begin to imagine what a pure scientific fraud all this global warming crap is.

Let’s take a moment to contemplate the “science” of chief global warming propagandist Al Gore when he appeared on Conan O’Brien’s program [youtube available here]:

CONAN O’BRIEN, HOST: Now, what about … you talk in the book about geothermal energy…

AL GORE: Yeah, yeah.

O’BRIEN: ...to create energy, and it sounds to me like an evil plan by Lex Luthor to defeat Superman. Can you, can you tell me, is this a viable solution, geothermal energy?

GORE: Yeah.

O’BRIEN: …and that is, as I understand it, using the heat that’s generated from the core of the earth …

GORE: It definitely is, and it’s a relatively new one. People think about geothermal energy – when they think about it at all – in terms of the hot water bubbling up in some places, but two kilometers or so down in most places there are these incredibly hot rocks, ‘cause the interior of the earth is extremely hot, several million degrees, and the crust of the earth is hot …

The problem is that even the earth’s core is only around 2,000-7,000 degrees Celsius (we can’t get to it to measure it precisely).  The whole “several million degree” thing is the blathering idiocy of a blathering idiot.

A blathering idiot who received a Nobel Prize for Science.

This is on top of the fact that Al Gore’s new book pimping global warming relied on photoshopping to artificially “show” the effects of global warming.

And THAT’S on top of the fact that the propaganda film that Al Gore won his Nobel Prize for science in the first place was based on documented exaggerations and lies.

From the Times Online Business section:

An Inconvenient Truth won plaudits from the environmental lobby and an Oscar from the film industry but was found wanting when it was scrutinised in the High Court in London.

Mr Justice Burton identified nine significant errors within the former presidential candidate’s documentary as he assessed whether it should be shown to school children. He agreed that Mr Gore’s film was “broadly accurate” in its presentation of the causes and likely effects of climate change but said that some of the claims were wrong and had arisen in “the context of alarmism and exaggeration”.

In what is a rare judicial ruling on what children can see in the class-room, Mr Justice Barton was at pains to point out that the “apocalyptic vision” presented in the film was politically partisan and not an impartial analysis of the science of climate change.

There were at least nine significant bogus claims contradicted by science in Gore’s Inconvenient Truth.

But that didn’t stop him from receiving a Nobel Prize for it.

The Nobel Prize for Leftwing Propaganda.

When you include the Nobel Prize for Accomplishing Nothing that Barack Obama “won,” you begin to see what an empty suit our chief institutions of leftwing credibility truly are.

But it’s worse than making the Nobel committee or the Nobel Peace Prize a mockery.  What has happened with global warming has made science itself a mockery.

I wrote a couple of articles that expose a lot of these frauds and present the actual legitimate science some time back:

What the Science REALLY Says About Global Warming

What You Never Hear About Global Warming

There are a few truly good scientists out there.  But there are way too many partisan ideologues who are willing to go to any lengths to pass of ideology as science.  And the new “Galileos” are those who stand in the way of liberal secular humanists academics for whom ideological political power and science are one.

The “scientists” who support global warming theory are not scientists, regardless of their degrees or positions.  They are propagandists.  They are political ideologues who seek to exploit their positions to impose economic redistributionism on people who can scarcely afford to make ends meet as it is.

It doesn’t seem to matter how many times these pseudo-scientific fascist frauds are caught lying, fabricating data, making bogus claims, or generally defecating on the principles, methodologies, and ethics of science.  They just keep rolling merrily along as an equally dishonest, ideological, and propagandistic media covers up for them.

And if I may make one more comment: the people who are trying to impose ObamaCare on us are the same sort of people who are using the same sort of deceit.

[Update, November 22] From “IPCC Researchers Admit Global Warming Fraud,” by Rebecca Terrell and Ed Hiserodt:

[In reference to a] New York Times article [which] opined, “The evidence pointing to a growing human contribution to global warming is so widely accepted that the hacked material is unlikely to erode the overall argument.”Climatologist Patrick J. Michaels challenged that position. “This is not a smoking gun, this is a mushroom cloud.” The e-mails implicate scores of researchers, most of whom are associated with the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), an organization many skeptics believe was created exclusively to provide evidence of anthropogenic global warming (AGW).

Among the IPCC elite embarrassingly, if not criminally, compromised is Phillip D. Jones, a Ph.D. climatologist at the University of East Anglia whose work figured prominently in the IPCC Third Assessment Report of 2001. Jones also contributed significantly to the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report in 2007 (AR4), but he failed to follow through when skeptical investigators asked to review raw data associated with that report. They announced intent to use UK Freedom of Information laws to obtain the data, so Jones sent the following e-mail to one of his collaborators: “Mike, Can you delete any e-mails you may have had with Keith re AR4? Keith will do likewise…. Can you also e-mail Gene and get him to do the same?… Will be getting Caspar to do likewise.” The Mike in this message is Michael Mann, professor of meteorology at Pennsylvania State University, whose influential “hockey stick” graph warning of pending global warming eco-catastrophe was found by a congressional investigation to be fraudulent. In another correspondence about AR4 labeled HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL, Jones contacted Mann regarding research critical of their global warming platform. “I can’t see either of these papers being in the next IPCC report,” wrote Jones. “Kevin and I will keep them out somehow — even if we have to redefine what the peer-review literature is!”

Mann received another incriminating e-mail from Dr. Kevin Trenberth, a New Zealander now with the University of Colorado and Head of the Climate Analysis Section at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. “The fact is we can’t account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can’t.” An incredulous Trenberth simply blamed “our [inadequate] observing system.”  Yet he and his colleagues are now dodging the “Climategate” bullet, indignant that global warming skeptics are supposedly taking their comments out of context. One wonders if they might be referring to a message from Jones who wrote about a statistical “trick” he used to “hide” data. Or perhaps they mean Mann’s reference to climate change skeptics as “idiots.”

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