Brazil's president said Thursday that "gringos" The casual racism of our southern neighbors is amazing. You get what you tolerate.
should pay Amazon nations to prevent deforestation, insisting rich Western nations have caused much more past environmental destruction than the loggers and farmers who cut and burn trees in the world's largest tropical rain forest. It's his rain forest. He can cut it down if he wants to. When he doesn't have it that'll be tough spit.
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva made the comments just before an Amazon summit in which delegates signed a declaration calling for financial help from the industrial world to halt the deforestation that causes global warming.
Norway is making payments to give Brazil $1 billion by 2015 to preserve the Amazon rain forest, as long as Latin America's largest nation keeps trying to stop deforestation.
The nation was the first to supply cash to an Amazon preservation fund Brazilian officials hope will raise US$21 billion to protect nature reserves, to persuade loggers and farmers to stop destroying trees and to finance scientific and technological projects.
Brazilian Environment Minister Carlos Minc has said Japan, Lula doesn't discriminate when it comes to green.
Sweden, Germany, South Korea and Switzerland are considering donating to the fund. Here's my contribution: a match. Go wild LBFM.
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Protection money racket for trees, ya say? That's a new one.
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While the big gun media and American Secret Service are out there investigating "party crashers" Tareq and Michaele Salahi, no one's telling the truth: Obama knew the Salahis when he was still an Illinois senator. Go to the article for the photo from 2005. A diversion by Rahm and Axlerod from all the serious stuff going on right now?
Party crasher Salahi reportedly also has ties to the Arab American Action Network, or AAAN through Obama pal and campaign fund raiser Rashid Khalidi. Khalidi's wife Mona is an AAAN co-founder.
Columbia University professor Rashid Khalidi, also has held a fundraiser for Obama. Khalidi is a harsh critic of Israel, has made statements supportive of Palestinian terror and reportedly has worked on behalf of the Palestine Liberation Organization while it was involved in anti-Western terrorism and was labeled by the State Department as a terror group.
Time to look into Barry's campaign funding I'd say.
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Paranoid thought: right before 9/11, the Taliban killed a Northern Alliance leader with a bomb built into a camera carried by a fake reporter.
Was this a dry run?
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I thought it was quite interesting that the Secret Service had admitted it was totally their fault, almost before the Salahi's had made it back to Middleburg that evening.
Yep, its us again, we blew it. We feel strongly it was Agent-99. No need to speak with any of the social secretary pogs...we did it! The boss agrees. No further press statements will be forthcoming.
Are storm clouds brewing on the horizon for Democrats?
That's the bad news for Dems from a source that usually prefers news that makes Republicans look bad. When voters were asked if they will "definitely vote" or not in next year's congressional elections, the latest weekly tracking poll commissioned by the decidedly liberal Daily Kos shows a growing enthusiasm gap in favor of Republicans.
It breaks down like this. The first number is certain or likely to vote; the second is unlikely or certain not to vote.
That means 81 percent of self-described Republicans say they are certain or likely to vote, compared to 65 percent of independent voters and only 56 percent of Democrats.
And note that Democrats are three times more likely to say they won't vote in 2010 than Republicans are and almost twice as likely as independents.
Where has all the enthusiasm gone? We know conservatives and Republicans were getting fired up even before Sarah Palin's book tour began. Independents also have been drifting measurably to the right in recent polls — not to mention the recent off-year gubernatorial races in Virginia and New Jersey—partly because of misgivings about a spendthrift Washington run by Democrats.
At the same time, progressives are demoralized or burned out by Washington's political compromising on issues like health care, Afghanistan and Guantanamo. Young voters, their Obama fever flamed out, have retreated to study for finals or look for work amid growing unemployment.
Kos thinks these numbers, which are enough to make any liberal nervous, "make passing legitimate health care reform an absolute political necessity for Democrats." Unless the conservative Democrats panic, forget to dance with the ones that brung 'em and run even farther to the right, further extinguishing whatever fire is left beneath their base.
That's just my theory. I'd like to hear yours.
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You hear people complaining about negative campaigning, But, people are more inspired to get out and vote against something than for something.
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1. It's early.
2. The Donks have yet to expand their rolls by the ?Million of amnestied illegals.
3. If Holder, etal, have their way, the reborn ACORN will be just as, if not stronger, than before....
Some prominent climate scientists are calling for changes in the way research on global warming is conducted after a British university said thousands of private e-mail messages and documents had been stolen from its climate center.
The scientists say that the e-mail messages, which have circulated on the Internet and which disclose the inner workings of a small network of climatologists who chart the planet's temperature, have damaged the public's trust in the evidence that humans are dangerously warming the planet, just as many countries are poised to start reining in greenhouse gas emissions. "This whole concept of, 'We're the experts, trust us,' has clearly gone by the wayside with these e-mails," said Judith Curry, a climate scientist at Georgia Institute of Technology. "E pur si move," the man responded.
She and other scientists are seeking more transparency in the way climate data is handled and in the methods used to analyze it. And they argue that scientists should re-evaluate the selection procedures used by some scientific journals and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the panel that in 2007 concluded that humans were the dominant force driving warming and whose findings underpin international discussions over a new climate treaty.
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How about 10 years moratorium on Climate research?
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Until ALL the raw data and source code for the climate models are released and independently verified, we should assume that all the conclusions of the researchers are invalid.
Since the data was dumped in the 1980s "a life's work" there is nothing solid to talk about, this fraud runs decades !
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Also, lets not assume anything was "hacked". It is more likely that a folder of information that was collected for use in FOI requests was stored in such a way that it was accessible by people who were not intended to have that access. It is more likely that nothing was "hacked" at all and someone simply grabbed a copy of it without any circumventing of security measures.
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This keeps getting funnier by the day. To ensure no questions can be asked they throw out the scientific data? I think we used to call these people snake oil salesmen, huckters, or just plain crooks.
Well yes and no. There is a lot of frustration out in the real world by plain folks who, despite the media embargo, are realizing they have been lied to, misled, and ignored.
Many of the "green" programs driven by the global warming hysteria are now starting to emerge at the local community level.
My rural community is faced with the expedited installation of large wind turbines. All the municipal planning reviews, and voice have been replaced with fast track environmental reviews designed by the turbine developers and approved by the energy ministry. We are expected to embrace the opportunity to do our part, health and property values be damned.
The policies that drive these projects are beyond climategate at this point. Yet these revelations are fueling a groundswell of community opposition to government arrogance, and not just frustration and anger, but a whisper to whisper undercurrent of violence.
If you take away peoples' right to be heard, hide the decline, they may take matters into their own hands, and that is not so funny any more.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Some prominent climate scientists are calling for changes in the way research on global warming is conducted after a British university said thousands of private e-mail messages and documents had been stolen from its climate center.
