Thursday, October 16, 2008
United Against Nuclear Iran
And the Winner is ...
... Joe the Plumber (aka Joe Wurzelbacher). He emerged from the last Presidential debate as America's most famous small business owner.
And good for him. Hopefully, a publisher will sign him to a book deal ... and a TV network will give him his own series.
Only in America....
A Silver Lining in the Financial Crisis
A silver lining. The global financial crisis will slow down the transfer of wealth from advanced industrial nations to Third World crooks and tyrants. With the world on the edge of a depression, governments and their constituencies are in no mood to be mau-maued and mauled into crippling industry to "save the planet."
Could this be the beginning of the end of the manmade global warming hoax?
One can only hope....
AP reports from the Hague:The global financial crisis could hardly come at a worse time for nations seeking a new agreement on climate change that — on top of everything else — will cost tens of billions more dollars.
As Western governments muster more than a trillion dollars to bail out ailing financial institutions, poor countries wonder if there will be any money to rescue them from the predicted ravages of global warming.
Signs of stress on climate issues emerged at a European Union summit in Brussels on Wednesday. Even as the bloc's leaders agreed to stick to ambitious plans to cut greenhouse gases by 20 percent by 2020, but there were deep divisions over how to share the reductions.
Eight eastern European countries said they already made great cuts in carbon emissions since emerging from communism in the late 1980s and that "should be recognized" now. Italy and Germany also sought exemptions for key industries from pollution restrictions, saying they cannot accept new burdens.
And a prominent business lobby said Europe can ill afford to lose any competitive edge because of carbon issues.
Click here to continue.Wednesday, October 15, 2008
German Diplomat Attended Anti-Israel Parade
Foreign Confidential....
Amid reports of German neo-Nazis forging close ties to Muslim extremists, a spokeswoman for the German Foreign Ministry's Iran section says German Ambassador to Iran Herbert Honsowitz violated EU guidelines by allowing a military attaché to attend an anti-Israel military parade in Tehran late last month.
"Israel must be wiped off the map" was one of the slogans painted on Shihab-3 missiles featured at the event, which commemorated the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq War.
The presence of a German defense attaché at the military parade is clearly a source of enormous embarrassment for the ministry in Berlin.
In uncharacteristically strong language and disciplinary action, Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier ordered Honsowitz to return to Berlin on September 29.
Thursday, 16 October 2008
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