A wary German central bank said on Tuesday it had set aside billions more euros against what it deems risky European Central Bank moves, and criticized France directly for "floundering" in its reform drives.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/12/us-ecb-crisis-weidmann-idUSBRE92B0BD20130312
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/greek-cyprus-bailout-looms-over-eu-summit.aspx?pageID=238&nID=42938&NewsCatID=344
As a voice of fairness and free trade, Britain can help to remodel the future of Europe
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/9927357/The-EUs-insidious-war-on-the-nation-state-must-be-halted.html
The EU- Mali mission is a threat to the European security. This apparent paradox is preoccupying security officials in Brussels along with the identification of potential "lone" terrorists.
Few details are known but those that have emerged are already causing alarm. The EU mission to Mali is a "direct threat" to Europe itself, according to a report by the EU anti-terrorism coordinator Gilles de Kerchove
http://www.dw.de/eu-mission-to-mali-seen-as-a-threat-to-europe/a-16670355
Peter Foster: Deranged science, perverse policy
The book should profoundly embarrass virtually the entire global scientific community, either for actively supporting the political corruption of science, or for standing silently by while it happened — although the consequences of speaking out shouldn’t be underestimated. As Mr. Darwall observes, skeptics “needed to be crushed and dissent de-legitimized. They were stooges of oil companies and fossil fuel interests, free market ideologues, or climate change deniers.”
Nobody foresaw the technocratic danger than emerged with the climate issue better than U.S. president Dwight Eisenhower. Most people are aware of Ike’s warning in 1961 about the military-industrial complex. Less quoted is his observation that “In holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.”
Mr. Darwall’s book, which is replete with such insightful references, dates the rise of the modern environmental movement to Rachel Carson’s wildly alarmist book, Silent Spring. Ms. Carson is one of three prominent women in Mr. Darwall’s story. The second is the British intellectual Barbara Ward, who essentially invented “sustainable development” to stitch together Western environmentalism with the development aspirations of poor nations. Sustainable development was an “ideology looking for a science.” It found it in global warming.
The book’s third, and most surprising, female protagonist is British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, who was important in putting global warming on the international agenda and setting Britain on the path to becoming —— at considerable cost — a “champion” of draconian policy. It is profoundly ironic that the woman who helped bring down the Soviet empire should have then supported what amounted to the reincarnation of bureaucratic socialism via the environment.
http://opinion.financialpost.com/2013/03/13/peter-foster-deranged-science-peverse-policy/
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Climategate: FOIA – The Man Who Saved The World
Rings true to me. It's certainly why I'm in this game – the cause, not (laughs bitterly) the money – and it gels with everything I argued in Watermelons. Many terrible things have resulted from the great climate scam – the debasement of the scientific method, the corruption, the rent-seeking, the greed, the lies, the blighted careers, the malfeasance, the dissemination of ignorance, the waste, the environmental damage – but the worst thing by far is the human misery it has engendered.
I hope one day that FOIA's true identity can be revealed so that he can be properly applauded and rewarded for his signal service to mankind. He is a true hero, who deserves to go on the same roll of honour as Norman Borlaug, Julian Simon and Steve McIntyre: people who put truth, integrity and the human race first and ideology second. Unlike the misanthropic greenies who do exactly the opposite.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100206888/climategate-foia-the-man-who-saved-the-world/
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