Conservative politicians are beginning to take this religion seriously. President Bush has spoken about our addiction to oil and British Conservative Party leader David Cameron has installed a wind turbine on his London home.
The conservative media is also taking the religion of global warming seriously. The London Times and Daily Telegraph both ran opinion pieces April 1 on the religious nature of the global warming movement. As of old, its prophets warn us of the dangers of our luxurious times. They tell us, writes Matthew Parris, that
"Our age is not living as it should. The pursuit of riches has distracted us. Lives have been corrupted by lust, vanity, wastefulness and greed. We have become lazy and selfish. Our spirits are sick. And count upon it we shall be punished. One way or another we shall have to pay."
These new Jeremiahs, prophesying that we are all doomed unless we repent, are the prophets of climate change, and they are calling us to sacrifice.
Being slightly dyslexic, I first thought it read "Sucker Factor."
Which in this case works too. ;-p
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This from Reason. "The trend I get using the 85S-85N (latitude) values is +0.032 degrees Celsius per decade for January 1998 to February 2006. This is not significantly different from zero at all," replied Christy.
But we're all gonna die soon from Global Warming.
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I believe the new operative phrase is "Climate Change". That way, the experts are covered if we have a new Ice Age or if Greenland becomes the new Aruba. The most important thing here is that the experts can say they were right no matter what happens. Which is why they're experts...
50% chance of rain today and tommorow, but the local news said today that despite record rains next year we might have a *drought* 'cause of the dreaded *GLOBAL WARMING* trend!!
I had vowed not to think about, write about or otherwise spend valuable time ruminating over the bizarre and obnoxious antics of London Mayor Red Ken Livingstone, but a comment from a Canadian friend who is a neutral observer made me break my vow of silence. Please note that the Red tag does not connote ginger hair but a past career cultivating the extreme Left that so enraged Margaret Thatcher that she abolished the Greater London Council just to be rid of him.
So it will have gone virtually unreported that on 18 March the London Mayor got up at an anti-Iraq war, anti-Apartheid Israel rally in Trafalgar Square to announce that the Hugo Chavez government of Venezuela had agreed to participate in an upcoming summer peoples rally. Mayor Livingstone said we would celebrate the revolution sweeping South America and particularly Venezuela, whose aim it was to cut off its oil supply to the USA. Livingstone then said he hoped this would be an inspiration to the Arab peoples of the world to cut off the oil taps to George Bush.
There I stood, next to a demonstrator with an upside-down USA flag on which he had daubed F^** Bush, thinking of my large family in the United States who, if one were to take the London Mayor literally, would starve and freeze to death sometime soon along with the rest of America if his vision became reality. When I told my Canadian friend about this, she, with no axe to grind, made an astute observation: If Mayor Bloomberg of New York got up in Times Square and said he hoped the oil supply to Britain would be cut off, he would cause such an outcry that he would have to resign. Indeed, he would be taken away in a straitjacket.
Now we have a new wave of madness that has emanated from Red Ken. A few weeks ago I noticed a tiny item in the newspaper about his appearance in Cannes at an Olympic 2012 planning junket. The article said Livingstone had got up at the Riviera event and made a verbal aassault on property tycoons Simon and David Reuben that others in the planning group had found startling and out of place. This is the Mayor who was suspended so recently for insulting a Jewish reporter with a concentration camp guard slur. I said to myself, No, no, no, it isnt anti-Semitism again!
Lo and behold, a week later came his outburst in London in which he said the Reuben Brothers could go back to Iran and live under the ayatollahs. Go back! -- an expression that strikes a chill in every immigrant, but for our champion of multiculturalism, Ken Livingstone, to utter this epithet was an egregious act, made worse by his next jibe. When asked about his outburst by reporters Livingstone said he was not aware that the Indian-Jewish Reubens were not, after all, Iranians, and that he apologised unreservedly to all of the Iranian people for suggesting he would have inflicted the Reuben brothers on them. Then, to top it all, the Mayor said he thought the Reubens might perhaps be Muslims.
But, as the expression goes, it isnt over until it is over, so as this article goes to press we have the Mayor of London, the international envoy of goodwill of our ancient city, calling the United States Ambassador a chiselling little crook on nationwide television. Americans making British boys die in Iraq but not paying the London Congestion Charge, for which some fifty-five embassies are reported to be in arrears, is the cause of his ire. The Evening Standard has pointed out that Mayor Ken did not go after the Communist Cuban embassy, whom it reports also owe back charges.
Like many American expatriates in England I have never forgotten that Ken Livingstone boycotted the State Dinner for President and Mrs. Bush or forgiven him for insulting Her Majesty the Queen by this petulant act.
In recent weeks Holocaust survivors have told me how deeply hurt they were by his concentration camp guard slur. Liberals rushed to Livingstones defense, most notably The Guardian newspaper, which filled up with even more hurtful articles by non-Jewish writers suggesting the small Anglo-Jewish community was engaging in some form of intellectual blackmail. Having seen how devastated my elderly Holocaust-era friends have been since Livingstone berated the Jewish reporter and then refused to apologise (this resulted in his suspension) my inclination was for Livingstone to be removed for the Nazi slur. Now, to defame an ambassador to the Court of St James in a public forum is a further act worthy of removal from office.
Many argue that Livingstones trusted deputy Mayor is Nicky Gavron, who is Jewish, and that his top-level Transport executives, Bob Kiley and Tim OToole are Americans. Perhaps his regular attacks on Jews and Americans can be attributed to a mental quirk or what British journalist Melanie Phillips calls Londons Tourette Attraction.
This week Roger McGough has pulled out of a Liverpool Philharmonic concert because Condoleezza Rice will be in attendance. This is churlish behaviour, but he is not the Mayor of one of the worlds most important and economically influential cities. Ken Livingstone is an embarrassment; his refusal to apologise to a Jewish reporter is hideous, and in light of his slur against the American ambassador he should leave office.
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Londonstan's call. They deserve him and I hope he spends freely from the city's coffers for lots of moronic rallies and parades.
New Yawk has Bloomy who thinks profiling is the End of the World. Londy has Red who thinks failed ideologies are the cat's meow. Atlanta has Cynthia (and a host of other racist fools), etc.
You get exactly what you deserve coming out of the voting booth. Except in Russia, China, Iran, Belarus, and all the Arab shitholes. Include Iraq in that compost heap, since the Mullahs succeeded in stealing the first parliamentary election there.
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The decision by the Blackburn mosque to cancel the planned visit by Condoleezza Rice is utterly unacceptable and deeply troubling. A mosque spokesman has said that it was cancelled not through dislike of Dr Rice but because of the threat by Muslim anti-war protesters to invade the mosque, thus compromising the safety of the visiting dignitaries.
What an appalling state of affairs where the safety of the Foreign Secretary and a distinguished overseas visitor cannot be guaranteed against the threat of violent disorder. Aren't we all supposed to be engaged in a war against this kind of menace to life and liberty?
If there are disagreements, however profound, the British way is to voice them in a civilised manner and never to resort to violence. It is essential that fanatics should not be allowed to disrupt our British way of life like this -- which, let it not be overlooked, is also pitching Muslim against Muslim -- and that we should not cave into this kind of inntimidation.
But the response of both the mosque and the authorities has been worse than pusillanimous. If neither mainstream Muslims nor the British state has the courage nor the means to face down such a threat within the Foreign Secretary's very own constituency, how can either the Muslim community or the British government purport to be fighting to defeat the violent extremism that threatens us all?
Even worse, Inayat Bunglawala of the Muslim Council of Britain has suggested that it was right for the visit to be cancelled because of the widespread opposition in the Muslim community to U.S. foreign policy. What insolent presumption. America is Britain's most crucial and important ally. It has played an essential part in our defence against tyranny in the past, and continues to do so.
However strongly feelings may be running against the Iraq war, the fact is that British Muslims are British and should afford Dr Rice — a principal member of the government of our major ally — an elementary degree of courtesy. After all, if the US government is to be treated in this way over the Iraq war, logic dictates that these British Muslims would regard the British government with identical hostility over its own part in that war. And that is a very troubling thought indeed. It implies that some of them do not identify themselves as British but adhere to a hostile set of values.
It is, however, richly ironic that this should have happened in the Foreign Secretary's constituency. For our man of straw has led the field in grovelling before religious intimidation. Only this week, in a speech at the Muslim News awards, he effectively blamed the west for Islamist violence around the world. Now the chickens of of appeasement have come home to roost in Blackburn -- their home town.
When I left my hometown of Hilliard, Ohio eleven years ago, it was still a small suburban city outside of Columbus. By the time I returned a few months ago to help care for my aging parents, little did I realize that during the time I was gone that my hometown about as whitebread, conservative red-state America as you can get had become one of the many battlegrounds in the Global War on Terror.
The Hilliard I grew up in was sleepy cowtown. As the son of one the local police officers (and my older brother would later follow him on the force), it was impossible to do anything serious without word quickly making its way back to my home, so I didnt even try. No one else did for that matter. The city was safe and relatively crime-free, except for the obligatory fight at the local bar every Friday night and the annual confiscation of the slot machines at the Moose Lodge. Back then, virtually every area of town was within a half-an-hour walk. While I was in high school, after classes I would walk across the street to the local library at the entrance to the City Park to study and to pass the time.
Today, that former library building is now a full-time Islamic school (K-8), Sunrise Academy, funded and operated by the local-area branch of the Muslim American Society (MAS), the Islamic Society of Greater Columbus (ISGC) MAS has been identified by researchers and many media outlets (such as these recent articles in the Chicago Tribune and The Weekly Standard) as one of the U.S. front groups for the jihadist Muslim Brotherhood and funded by the extremist Saudi Wahhabi lobby. Hasan al-Banna, the Egyptian founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, stated this as the organizations credo: Allah is our objective. The Prophet is our leader. Quran is our law. Jihad is our way. Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope.
But the local Islamic schools connection to the international Muslim Brotherhood terror network is far from the only manifestation of the hometown jihad. Among the regular speakers at the school is Hilliard resident, Dr. Salah Sultan, who gives monthly lectures on a number of Islam-related topics. Sultan was the founding president of the Islamic American University in Dearborn, Michigan, and still serves on the European Council for Fatwa and Research . He has self-published a number of Islamic titles available through his own publishing company. On his online resume, Sultan lists as his personal vision: To live happily. To die as a martyr. To meet the beloved ones in the Paradise of the Lord of Heaven and the earth.
But Sultans desire for martyrdom isnt just a personal ambition; in a speech he delivered to the annual conference of the Islamic Association for Palestine (the primary U.S.-based front group for the Palestinian terrorist organization, HAMAS) in 1999, he expressed his hope that all Muslim children would dream of martyrdom for the Palestinian cause: I want every child to sleep on the wound of Palestine and the actions of martyrdom, just like that mother in the country whose son wrote to her that they are to meet in Paradise.
In that same speech, Sultan clearly identifies who he thinks is perpetrating the martyrdom of Palestinians in a tirade that could be taken straight from the pages of the anti-Semitic book, Protocols of the Elders of Zion:
What does "the Cause" mean to you? And what does it mean to your children?... How much do they know about these tragedies? Did we mention to them that the Children of Zion over there cut open the wombs of mothers. As Khalid M. Khalid mentioned in 1992 when he visited Shamir and saw on his desk a strange ashtray. He asked him, "What strange ashtray is this?" Shamir told him that this was the skull of an embryo. The skull of an embryo? An Israeli soldier opened the womb of a Palestinian mother, took out the embryo, cut off his head, and gave it to him as a present. He gave it to him as a present! This is the method of the Jews. Killing a Muslim or any other non-Jew does not matter to them. Because their motto is, "The gentiles mean nothing to us." This is what the text of the Talmud says: "If you come across a non-Jew kill him!" Rest at link.
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"Whether or not any such structure exists or can be forged, the fact is that the fuel of Islamic imperialism remains as volatile as ever, and is very far from having burned itself out. To deny its force is the height of folly, and to imagine that it can be appeased or deflected is to play into its hands. Only when it is defeated, and when the faith of Islam is no longer a tool of Islamic political ambition, will the inhabitants of Muslim lands, and the rest of the world, be able to look forward to a future less burdened by Saladins and their gory dreams. "
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"Muslim political ambitions aren't a reaction to Western encroachments." Interesting, since this argument is what the media buys into (i.e., It's all our fault . . . )
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An interesting article which points out with considerable historical conviction that Islam is proactive, not reactive. Islam is not a religion of emasculated victims reacting to imperialist Western civilization. Islam is a virile, competing imperialist civilization angry with the West for outpacing it, and eager to overtake its perceived competitor as quickly as possible.
This is a hard concept for our liberal intellectuals to grasp as they wallow in the depths of their cognitive dissidence. Maybe when pork, Marxism, and lesbian sex become illegal, theyll catch on.
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Great article but it really doesn't raise my hopes that Islam can save itself from nuclear annihilation. Their lust for violence drives them to possess and deploy weapons of such magnitude that they instantly become a threat to their own continued existence.
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Conservative politicians are beginning to take this religion seriously. President Bush has spoken about our addiction to oil and British Conservative Party leader David Cameron has installed a wind turbine on his London home.
