Climategate: Five Aussie MPs Lead the Way by Resigning in Disgust Over Carbon Tax 'Australia is leading the revolt against Al Gore’s great big AGW conspiracy – just as the Aussie geologist and AGW sceptic Professor Ian Plimer predicted it would. ABC news reports that five frontbenchers from Australia’s opposition Liberal party have resigned their portfolios rather than follow their leader Malcolm Turnbull in voting with Kevin Rudd’s Government on a new Emissions Trading Scheme.' Obama Illegally Names Himself As UN Security Council Chairman 'Some unprecedented news today, folks. Never in the history of the United Nations has a U.S. President taken the chairmanship of the powerful UN Security Council. Perhaps it is because of what could arguably be a Constitutional prohibition against doing so.' From Their Own Mouths: Global Warming is a Fraud ' "We've got to ride this global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic and environmental policy." - Timothy Wirth, President of the UN Foundation.' University Outlines 'Re-Education' For Those Who Hold 'Wrong' Views ' "The university's general counsel should be asked to comment as soon as possible," said the letter from Adam Kissel, an officer with The FIRE. "If the Race, Culture, Class, and Gender Task Group achieves its stated goals, the result will be political and ideological screening of applicants, remedial re-education for those with the 'wrong' views and values, [and] withholding of degrees from those upon whom the university's political reeducation efforts proved ineffective." ' Police Get 'Pre-emptive' Arrest Powers Ahead Of Copenhagen 'The Danish parliament today passed legislation which will give police sweeping powers of “pre-emptive” arrest and extend custodial sentences for acts of civil disobedience. The “deeply worrying” law comes ahead of the UN climate talks which start on 7 December and are expected to attract thousands of activists from next week. Under the new powers, Danish police will be able to detain people for up to 12 hours whom they suspect might break the law in the near future. Protesters could also be jailed for 40 days under the hurriedly drafted legislation dubbed by activists as the “turmoil and riot” law. The law was first announced on 18 October. The Danish ministry of justice said that the new powers of “pre-emptive” detention would increase from 6 to 12 hours and apply to international activists. If protesters are charged with hindering the police, the penalty will increase from a fine to 40 days in prison. Protesters can also be fined an increased amount of 5,000 krona (671 Euros) for breach of the peace, disorderly behaviour and remaining after the police have broken up a demonstration.' Climategate Spreads to Australia 'Here are 11 examples where Jones et al systematically truncated pre-1951 data or ignored more rural data around many small town Australian stations.' CLIMATEGATE - Just How Much of the "Greenhouse Effect" is Caused by Human Activity? 'It is about 0.28%, if water vapor is taken into account-- about 5.53%, if not. This point is so crucial to the debate over global warming that how water vapor is or isn't factored into an analysis of Earth's greenhouse gases makes the difference between describing a significant human contribution to the greenhouse effect, or a negligible one.' Police Spying On Protesters Stirs Outrage in Britain 'Britain has long been famous for its surveillance state. There are security cameras everywhere you go. The country has the largest DNA database in the world. And a national identity card program is well underway. But new revelations that British police have been spying on domestic protesters have infuriated citizens all along the political spectrum. The spying came to light in a series of stories in The Guardian over the past month. In late October, the newspaper revealed that photographs of and personal details about thousands of activists who attend demonstrations, rallies and political meetings were being stored in secret national databases.' EU Bureaucrats to Receive 'Recession Proof' Pay Rise 'European Union bureaucrats are to get an inflation busting and recession proof pay rise that is over three times the average rate for British workers hit by the economic slump.' UK Scientist: 'Case for Climate Fears is Blown to Smithereens...Whole Theory Should be Destroyed and Discarded and UN Conference Should be Closed' 'UK astrophysicist Piers Corbyn, of the long range solar forecast group Weather Action, declared that the ClimateGate revelations have rendered man-made global warming fears “false.” “The case is blown to smithereens and this whole theory should be destroyed and discarded and Copenhagen conference should be closed,” Corbyn said in a contentious on air television exchange with an environmental activist with Russia's WWF.' Ex-British Diplomat: Iraq War Was Illegitimate 'The former UK ambassador to the UN, Sir Jeremy Greenstock says that the 2003 invasion of Iraq was "of questionable legitimacy". Greenstock was speaking on day four of public hearings at a wide-ranging inquiry into the US-led, British-backed Iraq war covering the period from 2001 to 2009.'
Saturday, 28 November 2009
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