Wednesday, 14 October 2009


Wednesday, 14th October 2009

The contempt of Iran for America

12:30am


This is what Ayatollah Ahmad Khatamisaid at last Friday’s prayer meeting in Tehran about the Geneva talks between Iran and the UN Security council big five plus Germany:

‘The meeting was a great victory for the Islamic Republic of Iran to such an extent that even the Western and Zionist media had to admit defeat....Prior to the talks, they (Westerners) used to speak of suspension and sanctions against Iran, but after the talks, there has not been any word of suspension or sanctions, rather, Iran's package of proposals was the axis.’

Ayatollah Khatami is correct. As a result of this grovelling, America and the west are now so weakened that the Ayatollah also felt emboldened to threaten Israel once again with extinction, this time with a ‘third intifada’ over the spurious claim that Israel has attacked the al Aqsa mosque (an incitement which so far has failed to ignite the Palestinians) -- even as Iran moves serenely onwards towards finally checkmating America with its nuclear weapon.

This is the outcome of Obama’s hand of friendship. This is why Obama received the Nobel Appeasement Prize.

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A good day for freedom of speech

11:57pm

Two good things have happened today.

A legal injunction preventing the Guardian not only from reporting a question that had been put down in Parliament, relating to the oil trading firm Trafigura and Ivory Coast toxic waste, but also from reporting that it had been injuncted or the company that had obtained the injunction, was liftedafter details were published on Twitter and the internet. This was a double victory for freedom of speech, since not only can we now read about this story but the law firm of Carter-Ruck, which does so much to prevent journalists from exposing dubious activities, has been forced into an ignominious climbdown.

The second good thing was the fact that Geert Wilders, the Dutch MP who campaigns against Islamic violence and oppression, has won his appeal against the government’s ban on his entering Britain --which had thus excluded a man who campaigns against extremism on the grounds that extremists would turn violent if he entered the country. At least some of our judges still have their wigs on straight.

Freedom of speech lives to fight another day.

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Tuesday, 13th October 2009

Warmists feel the heat

11:28pm


At American Thinker, Thomas Lifson observes that the heat is now being turned up on the proponents of anthropogenic global warming theory:

Warmist hysteria is starting to become brittle in the face of freezing cold weather, and 11 years of falling global temperatures. Even the BBC is asking awkward questions. Al Gore and the Society of Environmental Journalists cuts off the mic when Gore can't deal with the weakness of his drowning polar bear thesis under questioning [here].

It’s getting downright embarrassing to be a warmist. Thus Stanford University's Stephen Schneider, a leading warmism advocate must be doubly humiliated to find his 1978 appearance on the television show ‘In Search of...’ appearing on YouTube.  Back then the good professor was alarmed about the coming ice age.

And doubtless will be again ere long...

You’d have to have a heart of Arctic ice not to laugh.

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