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Saturday, July 05, 2008

World Bank Secret Study: Biofuels Cause 75% Increase In Food Costs

NICE GOING, GORE.

His stupid notions on how to save the planet have punctured the American corpus and left us pouring our life into the ether.

Al Gore believes that man's pollution is the greatest threat the Earth faces. I think Al Gore is among the greatest threats we face.

From the Guardian, via Sigmund, Carl, and Alfred:
Biofuels have forced global food prices up by 75% - far more than previously estimated - according to a confidential World Bank report obtained by the Guardian. The damning unpublished assessment is based on the most detailed analysis of the crisis so far, carried out by an internationally-respected economist at global financial body.

The figure emphatically contradicts the US government’s claims that plant-derived fuels contribute less than 3% to food-price rises. It will add to pressure on governments in Washington and across Europe, which have turned to plant-derived fuels to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases and reduce their dependence on imported oil.

Senior development sources believe the report, completed in April, has not been published to avoid embarrassing President George Bush. “It would put the World Bank in a political hot-spot with the White House,” said one yesterday. The news comes at a critical point in the world’s negotiations on biofuels policy. Leaders of the G8 industrialised countries meet next week in Hokkaido, Japan, where they will discuss the food crisis and come under intense lobbying from campaigners calling for a moratorium on the use of plant-derived fuels.

It will also put pressure on the British government, which is due to release its own report on the impact of biofuels, the Gallagher Report. The Guardian has previously reported that the British study will state that plant fuels have played a “significant” part in pushing up food prices to record levels. Although it was expected last week, the report has still not been released.

“Political leaders seem intent on suppressing and ignoring the strong evidence that biofuels are a major factor in recent food price rises,” said Robert Bailey, policy adviser at Oxfam. “It is imperative that we have the full picture. While politicians concentrate on keeping industry lobbies happy, people in poor countries cannot afford enough to eat.”

Rising food prices have pushed 100m people worldwide below the poverty line, estimates the World Bank, and have sparked riots from Bangladesh to Egypt. Government ministers here have described higher food and fuel prices as “the first real economic crisis of globalisation”.
At one point, Al Gore was campaigning for a switch-over to an 15% Gasoline/85% Ethanol mixture.


So, if you choose to use Ethanol, you're actually making your gasoline work harder.

Could we ever plumb the depths of Al Gore's environmental idiocy?

And, why does Al Gore pursue such a disastrous environmental policy? Is it because he is a pure being, a lightworker, an elevated soul like freaking Mahatma Gandhi or Jimmy Carter?

Could be.

Or, it could be because he is heavily invested in Ethanol?

IS BEN LABOLT CONNECTED TO THE OBAMA BIRTH CERTIFICATE FORGERY?

WHO IS BEN LABOLT?

OBAMA'S PRESS SECRETARY.

WHAT' S HE EVER DONE TO MERIT SUSPICION?

THIS (CHICAGO SUN-TIMES):
Last year, Obama's Senate press secretary, Ben LaBolt, was the spokesman for the Brown campaign and roomed with de Vellis in an Ohio apartment. LaBolt only would echo the statement released by the Obama team: "The Obama campaign and its employees had no knowledge and had nothing to do with the creation of the ad."

De Vellis bragged about contributing to the official Obama Web site in a February e-mail: "I designed the MyBarackObama toolbox that is on the front page and all the sidebar pages." He even offered to take suggestions for improving the tools because he "can pass it along to the team."

Blue State Digital managing director Thomas Gensemer said de Vellis was writing about a software package, "MyBarackObama," that is part of its product line. "These are our assets," he said. He explained de Vellis' bragging as "we are a small company excited about having a new sexy client."
  • DE VELLIS MADE THE INFAMOUS HILLARY/1984 AD. A CLEVER VIDEO MASH-UP.
  • SUBSEQUENTLY THE OBAMA CAMPAIGN DENIED ANY KNOWLEDGE OR AFFILIATION WITH THE AD.
  • BUT, LABOLT AND DEVELLIS WERE "ROOMIES".
  • MAYBE, JUST MAYBE, LABOLT IS A LOOSE CANNON WHO HAD SOMETHING TO DO WITH BOTH THE 1984 AD AND THE FORGED BIRTH CERTIFICATE?
  • OR MAYBE THE OBAMA CAMPAIGN WAS DEEPLY INVOLVED IN BOTH AND JUST USED DE VELLIS AS A SCAPEGOAT?
  • IN A WAY, THE FORGED BIRTH CERTIFICATE IS A "MASH UP" LIKE THE 1984 AD.
AND - TAKE NOTE - LABOLT WAS THE PERSON IN THE OBAMA CAMPAIGN WHO SAID THAT THE FORGED CERTIFICATE WAS THE REAL THING AND FINAL PROOF:
"I can confirm that that is Sen. Obama's birth certificate."
Ben LaBolt, an Obama campaign spokesman, to the Los Angeles Times.
WELL, THAT STATEMENT IS NOW ER ... UM, INOPERATIVE.
  • WHO AUTHORIZED LABOLT TO MAKE IT?
  • WAS HE A DUPE?
  • OR WAS HE PART OF THE FRAUD?
BOTTOM-LINE:
  • LABOLT SEEMS TO BE THE FULCRUM OF BOTH "FORGERIES".
  • I THINK THIS NEEDS TO THOROUGHLY EXAMINED.
  • HE MIGHT BE THE CULPRIT... OR BECOME ONE OF THE FALL GUYS.
STAY TUNED.

Islam in Europe Weekly Overview

Sadly, this week was marked by several stories of (alleged) 'honor' crimes.

* Tahira Bibi, a Danish-Pakistani woman living in Pakistan, was shot dead by her brother in law.  The woman's family accuses the husband, who lives in Denmark, of instigating the murder.  A close friend, however, says the couple had a good relationship and spoke several times a day.  She also says Tahira kept up with Danish news on the net  The police in Pakistan concur and say that they don't believe the brother in law's 'excuse' of honor murder.  They would like to interrogate the father, but he is currently not planning to travel there. 

Tahira had taken her two daughters to Pakistan in order to get to know their family there.  They will now be returned to the father. (see more here in Danish: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)

Danish right-wingers as well as the Muslim Council of Denmark want the government to research the problem of 'honor' murders and see what can be done.

'Honor' murders were discusses extensively on the news.  Though this was not the case here, there are apparently  Danish women being held abroad against their will.

* In Norway a father and son are charged with killing Vian Bakir Fatah (31), ex-wife and mother.  Vian Bakir Fatah, who had converted to Christianity and had a Norwegian boyfriend, had shown up for a reconciliation meeting with her ex-husband after which he killed her.

* In Norway, a father and his brother in law were sentenced for the abduction and forced marriage of a daughter, who was 14 at the time.  In Italy a 15 year old jumped out of her parent's balcony to escape a forced marriage.  The girl survived and told interviewers she wanted to be Italian.  This story followed that of last week, where a girl from Liege was killed in the same circumstances.  In both cases, the question is: were they trying to commit suicide, or were they trying to run away and couldn't leave through the door? 

* Police in the UK say that women fleeing forced marriage and 'honor'-related are betrayed by doctors, public servants and police.  This can sometimes happen unwittingly, when people are not aware of the grave dangers these girls face, but in some case, the girls are betrayed by people who know exactly what they're doing.


Mosques

* In the Czech Republic the Muslim community is celebrating the 10th anniversary of its first mosque.  Meanwhile, the plans for the Grand Mosque of Marseilles were unveiled this week. 

* In Rotterdam, a dispute between mosque members and the administration over building financing has led to an appeal to the municipality to intervene.  A protest outside the mosque on Friday developed into scuffles and disturbances (NL), as well as an attack on the car of the person responsible for the building.  The protest ended with a prayer outside.

* Ahmed Marcouch, mayor of Slotervaart (Amsterdam), says that mosque 'Sunday schools' practice corporal punishment and teach their students to hate the West.  To combat the problem he wants to investigate the mosque schools, and to make bring Islam teaching into public schools. 


Terrorism

* The war against terrorism was hit twice this week: The American group Human Rights Watch accused French anti-terrorism measures of being illegal.  In Sweden an acquitted terrorism rendition deportee was awarded millions in damages.

* In Switzerland terrorist attacks by Islamic extremists are the greatest security threat.

* Members of Italy's Muslim community met in Rome to discuss ways of combating Islamic extremism.


Sharia

* The public prosecution in Amsterdam decided not to prosecute Geert Wilders while the Jordanian court accepted the lawsuit against him, leaving Wilders with a possible international arrest warrant.  His troubles in the Netherlands are not over either.

* The British Lord Chief Justice said in a lecture at London Muslim Centre in Whitechapel that he supports Sharia arbitration, though he rejects Sharia courts.  His comments came in support of the Archbishop of Canterbury, who had earlier this year that adoption of some aspects of Sharia law in Britain was 'unavoidable'.


Miscellaneous

* In Lancashire a Muslim female councillor says she's been subjected to a hate campaign by Muslim men.  In Oslo a local politician who looks like an immigrant also attracts unwanted attention from Muslim men, who in the best case, feel they can tell her what to do.

* Muslims participated in Oslo's gay parade for the first time.

* The application of an asylum seeker who had converted to Christianity in Norway was rejected.  Authorities strongly suggest he convert back to Islam.

* The father who removed a crucifix at a French Catholic clinic came to apologize, after his imam and community leaders did so.

* A local Muslim politician in Scotland complained about a police ad featuring a black puppy, leading the police to apologize.  The dog, Rebel, had been used by the police for a few months in order to encourage contact with the public.  Scottish Muslim groups denied the ad caused any offense.  Meanwhile, British police are to take extra precautions when using search dogs in Muslim houses.


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This article was cross-posted to Islam in Europe and to THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS

DEMOCRAT CONVENTION LOOKING LIKE DEMOCRAT ADMINISTRATION: TOO MANY REGULATIONS; OVERBUDGET; BEHIND SCHEDULE

THEY'RE AS BAD AT RUNNING THEIR CONVENTION AS THEY HAVE BEEN AT RUNNING THE COUNTRY - AT LEAST THEY'RE CONSISTENT.

SERIOUSLY: THIS IS HOW THEY'LL RUN THE COUNTRY - GIVEN THE CHANCE.

RUN... DID I SAY RUN? I MEANT RUIN, R-U-I-N.

VOTE ACCORDINGLY.

NEW SLOGAN FOR OBAMA CAMPAIGN: "SHIFTS HAPPEN"

Instead of "CHANGE YOU CAN BELIEVE IN" the Obama campaign slogan ought to be "SHIFTS HAPPEN", cuz he has shifted positions so often lefties are getting whiplash!

He has done a few 180's and sometimes follows a 180 with another 180 the next dasy.

WHEW!

SO: Here's an idea for a new poster:

SEE SOME SHIFTS HERE.
MORE HERE.
AND HERE.
PARTIAL LIST WITH LINKS HERE.

REMEMBER: Kerry called his hypocrisy and inconsistency NUANCE.

Obama calls his flip-flops and policy shifts "clarifications".

And he or his campaign issues a "clarification" every other day, it seems.

So much so, I'm beginning to think he should change his middle name from Hussein to "Clarification".

BARACK CLARIFICATION OBAMA.

VOTE ACCORDINGLY.

IF YOU HAD TO PICK ONE WORD TO DESCRIBE OBAMA, WHAT WOULD IT BE?



ME: DECEIVER.

He's deceived a lot of people.

In his memoirs, he made a major point of how well he did it and how important the skill was:

HE VALORIZED HIS ABILITY TO BE PHONY IS IN HIS MEMOIRS:
As he wrote in his memoir, Dreams of My Father, Obama discovered a technique for allaying the suspicions of the white people with whom he came into contact:
It was usually an effective tactic, another one of those tricks I had learned: People were satisfied so long as you were courteous and smiled and made no sudden moves.

They were more than satisfied; they were relieved - such a pleasant surprise to find a well-mannered young black man who didn’t seem angry all the time. (Pages 94-95).
What would be the one word you'd use to describe Barack Hussein Obama Junior?

"KNIFE CONTROL": WHAT'S AT POWER LINE TODAY WAS HERE AT THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS... ER, UM... THREE YEARS AGO

KNIFE CONTROL.
SPREAD THE WORD.

BLOGROLL US.

FLAGRANT FLIPFLOPPIN' FLAG-WAVING ON THE FOURTH FOR OBAMA

WHY IS OBAMA WAVING THE FLAG?

SHOULDN'T OBAMA HAVE MADE A DISSENT-FILLED SPEECH ON THE FOURTH,



AFTER ALL... DISSENT IS TRUE PATRIOTISM TO THE LEFT - ISN'T IT?!

"OBAMA CLARIFIES..."


WHEN YOU GOOGLE NEWS-SEARCH "OBAMA CLARIFIES: YOU GET 259 NEWS ITEMS... SO FAR.

SAMPLE:
ON THE ISSUE IN GENERAL: Is his campaign dishonest or disorganized?

HERE ARE A FEW LINKS USING THE TERMS "OBAMA SHIFTS":
FLIP-FLOPPING:
AND SO ON.

AND THIS ONLY GOES BACK A WEEK OR SO.

AND WE HAVE A FEW MORE MONTHS TO GO.

BETWEEN NOW AND THEN OBAMA WILL EXPOSE HIMSELF FOR WHAT HE IS: INEXPERIENCED; UNPRINCIPLED; AND NOT READY TO BE COMMANDER IN CHIEF.

VOTE ACCORDINGLY.

OBAMA'S TRUSTWORTHINESS WILL SOON BECOME A MAJOR ISSUE FOR THE LEFT



SOME DAY SOON, THIS WILL HAPPEN:
  • DAILY KOS ON OBAMA: "THIS IS NOT THE OBAMA I KNEW".
AND IT WILL SOONER THAN YOU THINK!
  • BUYER'S REMORSE IS INEVITABLE FOR THE LEFT, AS OBAMA TACKS TO THE CENTER.
  • IT'S ONLY JULY AND HE'S ALREADY FLIP-FLOPPED ON FISA, NAFTA, IRAQ, IRAN, CAMPAIGN FINANCING, THE FLAG-PIN, ABORTION, AND GUN RIGHTS.
  • BECAUSE HE HAS NO RECORD, AND NO EXPERIENCE, THEY HAVE NO REASON TO STAND BY HIM.
  • SO, THEY WILL STAY HOME.
SURE: MCCAIN HAS ISSUES WITH THE RIGHT-WING BASE OF THE GOP, BUT WE KNOW WHERE HE STANDS.

OBAMA HAS ZERO INTEGRITY, ZERO COURAGE AND ZERO PRINCIPLES.

THIS MAKES HIM AN UNKNOWN QUANTITY NOBODY SHOULD TRUST.

Canadian goons seize children because of mother's political beliefs

We read:
"Manitoba Child and Family services was in court Monday to argue for permanent guardianship of a girl and boy, after the girl was sent to school sporting a swastika -- a symbol typically associated with racially-motivated hate groups.

The children's mother denies she has done anything wrong. "I think I'm a pretty good mother. I've raised my children to have pride in themselves. That's all I've ever done." she told CTV News, as she sat beneath a banner with the slogan "White Pride Worldwide."

Child services was called to a city elementary school in March after the girl, 7, arrived at school with a Swastika, the words "Hail Victory" and "Aryan Pride" written on her arms and one leg in permanent maker. The number "14/88," a reference to Hitler, was also written on the little girl. The 14 refers to the number of words in the slogan: "We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children." The 88 stands for HH and means "Heil Hitler."

Police and officials from the department went to the family's Winnipeg home and seized the girl's two-year-old brother, and in the process discovered what they said was evidence of the parents' neo-Nazi beliefs.

The mother of the children has maintained she is not a neo-Nazi, but is simply proud of her northern European background and describes herself as a "white nationalist." She said her daughter drew the swastika on her own arm after taking part in a "white pride" racist march in Calgary. When the girl's teacher washed the symbol off, the mother and daughter drew it on again with a marker.

The mother said drawing the swastika was stupid, but insisted the act harmed no one and her beliefs are a family matter. "It's OK to be proud to be a native, it's OK to preach black power," she said, before adding, "But when you're white and you're proud, it's wrong."

Source

Black pride is fine but white pride is to be severely punished? Where does the criminalization of political beliefs end? Speaking ill of homosexuals could cause you to lose your kids next? In Canada it would be no surprise. In the USA even the ACLU has on occasions defended the rights of neo-Nazis to express their beliefs.


Posted by John Ray. For a daily critique of Leftist activities, see DISSECTING LEFTISM. For a daily survey of Australian politics, see AUSTRALIAN POLITICS Also, don't forget your roundup of Obama news and commentary at OBAMA WATCH

The good old ocean acidity scare gets another outing in Australia

The writers below DO NOT believe in global warming. They only say they do. Why? Because warmer oceans are capable of holding LESS CO2. Open a bottle of Coke when it is warm and see how the gas surges out if you doubt it. And if the oceans have less CO2 in them, they contain less of the carbonic acid that the CO2 becomes while in solution! So the oceans would have a REDUCED tendency towards acidity under warming. The fact that corals etc. have survived much warmer periods in the earth's past is also conveniently not mentioned.

Now that Ross Garnaut's draft report has been released, most of the climate change debate in Australia will focus on the economic effects of any emissions trading scheme. However, there's another carbon problem, which will profoundly affect our oceans, that has received scant attention beyond a small band of marine scientists and is largely independent of global warming. The public, aware of the role of carbon dioxide in climate change, doesn't know of its function in acidifying the oceans and the hundreds of years that would be required for recovery.

Ocean acidification refers to the natural process whereby carbon dioxide dissolves in the sea, forming a weak carbonic acid. The ocean is a major sink for atmospheric carbon dioxide and has absorbed about 48 per cent of the CO2 emitted by human activities since the pre-industrial age. A recent report from the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Co-operative Research Centre claimed that carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is at its highest level in 650,000 years, and possibly 23 million years, and half has been dissolved in the oceans, making them more acidic.

Australia has a direct stake in the ocean acidification problem: it will affect every part of our marine environment. And our offshore estate has just become a lot bigger. Three months ago the UN Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf, while not accepting all bids, recognised Australia's claim to the continental shelf where it extends beyond our exclusive 200 nautical mile economic zone. This is a vast oceanic area: 2.5 million square kilometres, or 10 times the size of New Zealand and 20 times the size of Britain.

Rising levels of acidity in the oceans surrounding Australia could have a profound impact on marine industries and dire consequences for many Pacific Island communities, presenting strategic and humanitarian challenges.

Mounting levels of CO2 in the Southern Ocean has caused deep concern among scientists studying the long-term productivity of the world's oceans. Under conditions of increasing acidification, parts of the oceans will deteriorate and progressively become uninhabitable for certain types of plankton, central to the ocean food chain, and coral structures. The Southern Ocean is particularly important because it is very efficient at absorbing CO2 from the atmosphere: it's here where the first effects are being felt.

Ocean acidification is likely to have a cascading effect, reaching parts of the food chain such as fish and shellfish. Marine researchers are saying that a business-as-usual scenario of CO2 production will ultimately result in destruction of marine life on an enormous scale. Some shell-forming species will struggle to maintain or reproduce their vital shell structures and skeletons, which will have a direct effect on the ocean food web. Some species will decline, others will be displaced or will disappear, and patterns of fisheries will change, potentially threatening the food security of millions in the Asia-Pacific and damaging Australian fisheries economically.

Another study identified ocean acidification as a primary causal factor in common reef fish getting lost at sea during a crucial stage of their development. And rising acidification could also interfere with the respiration of fish, the larval development of marine organisms and the ability of oceans to absorb nutrients and toxins.

Coral reefs such as the Great Barrier Reef, which are hot spots of biodiversity, will suffer. Acidification will weaken coral structures and stunt coral growth, leading to a significant decline by the middle of this century. This will deprive parts of the Australian coastline of a natural protective barrier against the ocean, leading to greater threats from storm activity and cyclones.....

As the debate about who wins and who loses in the future Australian emissions trading regime intensifies, we should remember that with ocean acidification there will only be losers. Discovering the ecological effects of our souring oceans requires urgent action.

The authors above: Anthony Bergin is director of research programs at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute. Ross Allen is a research analyst at ASPI. The above are their personal views. It looks like both of them reply on others for a knowledge of chemistry and physics

More here


Posted by John Ray. For a daily critique of Leftist activities, see DISSECTING LEFTISM. For a daily survey of Australian politics, see AUSTRALIAN POLITICS Also, don't forget your roundup of Obama news and commentary at OBAMA WATCH

PRO-IRAN BIAS ON DISPLAY ON FRONT PAGE OF NYTIMES

NYTIMES VERSION: Iran Responds Obliquely to Nuclear Plan
By ELAINE SCIOLINO
Published: July 5, 2008

PARIS — Iran formally responded Friday to an international proposal of incentives aimed at resolving the impasse over the country’s nuclear program, but failed to address the central issue of whether it would halt its uranium enrichment activities, according to officials involved in the diplomatic effort.

Instead, the response, in a letter by Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki, said Iran would be willing to open a comprehensive negotiation with Javier Solana, the European Union foreign policy chief, and the six world powers involved in confronting Iran’s nuclear ambitions.

It did not specifically address any of the proposals they presented to it last month.
SHE GIVES THE IRANIAN RESPONSE THE BEST POSSIBLE SPIN. AS IF FAILING TO RESPOND TO THE CENTRAL ISSUE WAS... OKAY. AS IF FAILING TO RESPOND TO IT AFTER YEARS OF DIPLOMATIC EFFORT WAS OKAY.

REUTERS STORY (REPUBLISHED BY THE TIMES, BUT APPARENTLY NOT YET READ BY THEIR SENIOR FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT - OR FRONT PAGE EDITOR!):
Iran vowed on Saturday to pursue its uranium enrichment program, a day after delivering its response to an incentives package by world powers trying to curb its nuclear ambitions.

No details were released of Iran's formal reply on Friday -- submitted to EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana -- to the offer of talks on benefits if Tehran halts enrichment the West suspects is for nuclear bombs. Iran says its plans are peaceful.

In its first public statement after giving the response, government spokesman Gholamhossein Elham said that Iran had no intention of discussing its "right to enriching uranium."

  • LIKE GOOD LITTLE LEFTIES AND TODAY'S DEMOCRATS (AND THE DIPLOMATS OIF THE EUSSR), THE NYTIMES CONSISTENTLY GIVES THE BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT TO AMERICA'S ENEMIES.
  • EVEN THE IRANIANS.
  • NYTIMES/LEFT = EVIL-APPEASING SCUM.
  • THEY'RE LIKE CHAMBERLAIN TRUSTING HITLER. BUT A NUCLEAR HITLER.

THE SOONER WE PREEMPTIVELY ATTACK IRAN THE BETTER.

THE SOONER THE NYTIMES SHUTS IT'S DOOR FOR THE LAST TIME THE BETTER.

DESPITE IRISH REJECTION, THE EUSSR IS PUSHING AHEAD

BBC:
French President Nicolas Sarkozy says he has received reassurances from Poland that the country will not block the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty.

Poland's President Lech Kaczynski had said it would be "pointless" to sign the EU reform treaty.

The agreement, defeated in an Irish referendum last month, must be ratified by all 27 states to come into force.

The two leaders discussed the treaty during a telephone call on Friday, the president's office said.

"The President of the Republic had a discussion with the President of Poland, Lech Kaczynski," the statement from the Elysee Palace said.

Mr Sarkozy, it added, "reminded him that the treaty was negotiated by President Kaczynski himself and Poland had pledged to ratify it".

The statement said the Polish president confirmed that Poland would not be an obstacle to the treaty's ratification. There was no immediate comment from the Polish presidency on the decision.

On Wednesday, Mr Kaczynski - a conservative who has long opposed the reform treaty - had said it would not be worth Poland signing it, even though Poland's parliament has ratified it.
  • I'M DISGUSTED BY THIS SUPPOSED FLIP-FLOP.
  • BUT IT SHOULDN'T MATTER: THE IRISH REJECTION SHOULD HAVE KILLED IT.
  • IT'S OUTRAGEOUS THAT THE NATIONS WHICH RATIFIED IT ARE CARRYING ON AS IF IT'S ALIVE.
  • THE EU CHARTER REQUIRES UNANIMITY.
  • BY BARRELING AHEAD WITH THE TREATY ANYHOW, THEY ONLY FURTHER PROVE THEIR DISTASTE FOR DEMOCRACY - AND PENCHANT FOR TYRANNY.
AND THEY PROVE WHY IT'S ONLY SLIGHTLY HYPERBOLIC TO CALL THEM THE USSR - FOR NOW.

HITLER WAX FIGURE DESTROYED IN PROTEST ON OPENING DAY

NYTIMES:
BERLIN: A man tore the head from a controversial waxwork figure of Adolf Hitler on the opening day of Berlin's Madame Tussauds museum on Saturday, police said.

The 41-year-old man was arrested, the police added in a statement. A police spokesman said that the man ripped off the head in protest at the exhibit.
GOOD. FOLKS LIKE HITLER AREN'T SUITABLE FOR MENAGERIE ENTERTAINMENT.

MAYBE THEY SHOULD KEEP THE DISPLAY UP WITH HITLER "DISFIGURED" - THAT WAY THE OUTRAGEOUSNESS WILL BE ON DISPLAY.

MORE FROM THE BEEB.

CNN POLL SHOWS OBAMA IS GETTING LESS POPULAR WITH DEMS!












CNN:
In a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey completed in early June before the New York senator ended her White House bid, 60 percent of Clinton backers polled said they planned on voting for Obama.

In the latest poll, that number has dropped to 54 percent.

In early June, 22 percent of Clinton supporters polled said they would not vote at all if Obama were the party's nominee, now close to a third say they will stay home.

In another sign the wounds of the heated primary race have yet to heal, 43 percent of registered Democrats polled still say they would prefer Clinton to be the party's presidential nominee.
AWESOME!

Bush won more Dems than Kerry won Republicans; this was one key reason Bush won.

McCain - who is more of a centrist than Bush - will win MORE DEMS than Bush, and it looks like Obama will win fewer than Kerry.

THIS SPELLS LANDSLIDE.

McCain by 150 electoral votes.

UPDATE: WELCOME GATEWAY READERS!

NOTE: INSTAPUNDIT AND HOT AIR NOW HAVE A LINK TO THE NEWS - A HALF DAY AFTER US.

VIDEOS: A FEW OBAMA FLIP-FLOPS, REVERSALS AND LIES











Friday, July 04, 2008

AL QAEDA TAKE NOTE: FARC HOSTAGES FREED VIA INFILTRATION...

The astounding rescue of the long held FARC hostages was accomplished via INFILTRATION AT THE HIGHEST LEVELS:
Mr Santos also said the FARC's seven-member secretariat had been infiltrated, but gave no further details.
It probably took YEARS, but the Colombian Army was patient and waited for the right moment to act.

Don't think for a second that we haven't done the same with al Qaeda. At increasingly higher and higher levels.
Perhaps with Arabs and Algerians and Bosnians and Chechnyans and Afghans and Pakis - and even Uighurs - and so forth and so on etc etc etc.

If I was an al Qaeda biggie, then this FARC operation would make me very worried...

Unable to trust anyone.

VIDEO OF THE ANTI-FARC RESCUE HERE.

OFFICIAL REPORT: TOWER SEVEN BROUGHT DOWN BY SEVERAL FIRES

THIS WILL STOP THE CONSPIRACY THEORISTS.

NOT.

EXCERPT:

The final mystery of 9/11 will soon be solved, according to US experts investigating the collapse of the third tower at the World Trade Center.

The 47-storey third tower, known as Tower Seven, collapsed seven hours after the twin towers.

Investigators are expected to say ordinary fires on several different floors caused the collapse.

Conspiracy theorists have argued that the third tower was brought down in a controlled demolition.

Unlike the twin towers, Tower Seven was not hit by a plane.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology, based near Washington DC, is expected to conclude in its long-awaited report this month that ordinary fires caused the building to collapse.

IMPOSSIBLE. BUSHITLERMCCHIMPYBURTON DID IT.

HOW THE POSTMODERN LEFT FEELS ABOUT THE FOURTH



VIA AMERICAN POWER [CLICK IMAGE], BUT It's from the "People's Cube" site...

REAL BIRTH CERTIFICATE MIGHT PROVE OBAMA NOT PERMITTED TO SERVE AS PRESIDENT

HERE'S THE ONLY PLAUSIBLE REASON WHY OBAMA WON'T RELEASE HIS BIRTH CERTIFICATE:

VIA ATLAS:
Barack Obama is not a legal U.S. natural-born citizen according to the law on the books at the time of his birth, which falls between December 24, 1952, to November 13, 1986.

Federal Law requires that the office of President requires a natural-born citizen if the child was not born to two U.S. Citizen parents.

This is what exempts John McCain, though he was born in the US Panama Canal Zone.


US Law very clearly states: '. . . If only one parent is a U.S. Citizen at the time of one's birth, that parent must have resided in the United States for minimum ten years, five of which must be after the age of 16.' Barack Obama's father was not a U.S. Citizen is a fact.

Obama's mother was only 18 when Obama was born. This means even though she had been a U.S. Citizen for 10 years, (or citizen of Hawaii being a territory), his mother fails the test for at-least-5-years- prior-to Barack Obama's birth, but-after-age-16.
THEREFORE, IF OBAMA IS NOT A NATURAL CITIZEN, THEN HE CANNOT BE PRESIDENT.

THIS IS BLACK AND WHITE FOLKS. (NO PUN INTENDED!)
  • AND IT HAS EVERYTHING TO DO WITH HIS REAL BIRTH CERTIFICATE.
  • IF OBAMA CAN'T PROVE HE WAS BORN HERE, THEN OBAMA CANNOT CONSTITUTIONALLY SERVE AS POTUS.
  • THEREFORE, HE CANNOT BE LEGALLY NOMINATED.
  • WILL NO ONE CHALLENGE THE RIGHT OF THE DEMOCRAT PARTY TO PUT HIS NAME ON THE BALLOT WITHOUT THIS PROOF!?

STARTLING NEW EVIDENCE THAT THE OBAMA "BIRTH CERTFICATE" WAS FAKED

START HERE AND FOLLOW ALL THE LINKS.

As I've maintained from the start, until Obama releases his actual birth certificate - AND NOT A JPEG OF A" STATE OF HAWAII CERTIFICATION OF LIVE BIRTH" - I will believe he's hiding something.

PROOF AGW IS BS: ARCTIC ICE BIGGER THAN LAST YEAR!

CONTRARY TO WHAT THE AGW ALARMISTS HAVE BEEN TELLING YOU, THE ARCTIC ICE SHEET IS DOING JUST FINE.

DON'T TAKE MY WORD FOR IT; SEEING IS BELIEVING; PHOTOS
HERE.

WHAT WILL THE AGW CULTISTS SAY IN RESPONSE?

SIMPLE: "WHO YA GONNA BELIEVE, ME OR YOUR LYIN' EYES!?"

OBAMA: AN UNTRUSTWORTHY EGOMANIACAL CONMAN NOT READY FOR PRIME TIME













Just remember this: at 45 years of age, he has written not one but TWO freakin' memoirs.

And not one accomplishment in either.

No core philosophy EXCEPT for this:

HE EVEN FEATURED HIS VALORIZATION OF HIS OWN PHONINESS IN HIS MEMOIRS:
As he wrote in his memoir, Dreams of My Father, Obama discovered a technique for allaying the suspicions of the white people with whom he came into contact:
It was usually an effective tactic, another one of those tricks I had learned:

People were satisfied so long as you were courteous and smiled and made no sudden moves.

They were more than satisfied; they were relieved - such a pleasant surprise to find a well-mannered young black man who didn’t seem angry all the time. (Pages 94-95).
THESE TRICKS ARE WHY OBAMA IS DOING WELL: BY HIS OWN ADMISSION, HE'S AN ADEPT ACTOR, A CHARLATAN, AND PHONY. AND A DISSEMBLER.

OBAMA: AN ACCOMPLISHED CONMAN WHO LIKE MOST CONMEN DOES IT WITH A LIKEABLE PERSONALITY.

AND MAKE NO MISTAKE ABOUT IT, PERSONALITY IS KEY HERE - AND NOT BECAUSE I SAY SO -- BECAUSE AXELROD SAYS SO:
Axelrod’s is a less grand, postideological approach, and his campaigns are rooted less in issues than in the particulars of his candidate’s life. For him, running campaigns hitched to personality rather than ideology is a way of reclaiming fleeting authenticity. It is also, more and more, the way of the Democratic Party.
BOTTOM-LINE REASON NOBODY - NOT A SINGLE LIB NOT A SINGLE CONSERVATIVE NOT A SINGLE MODERATE - SHOULD TRUST OBAMA --- FROM MITT ROMNEY:
"I do not believe Washington can be transformed by someone who has never tried doing such a thing before, in any setting, by someone who has never even managed a corner store, let alone the largest enterprise in the world..."
OBAMA: NOT READY FOR PRIME TIME.

VOTE ACCORDINGLY.

JESSE HELMS DEAD

VIA HOT AIR: On the Fourth - like TJ, another great American.

How fitting.

He was a great defender of the USA and a staunch skeptic of the UN.

He's been missed in the Senate for a long time.

We need more like him in the Senate.

A real conservative.

RIP, Senator!

UPDATE: More here.

OBAMA'S "PRETTY PIVOTS" - OR - WHEN IS A "A PIVOT" A PIVOT AND WHEN IS IT LYING?

Glenn, his blog-consort Althouse, and others refer to Obama's shifting positions as "pivots".

This is WAY too generous.

They are lies.

A pivot is something you do when you really change direction.

But when you merely try to play both sides at once and talk out of both sides of your mouth and your ass at the same time, then you're just lying.

Obama lies all the time.

He hasn't gone a day without a lie since he declared.

He hasn't staked out a single position based on a principle which transcend the politics of the moment.

This goes well beyond what Kerry did - and tried to call "NUANCED".

Obama does it for two reasons: he's a naive, ignorant, inexperienced pol' and this makes him prone to gaffes.

And deep down he's a committed dove and a hardcore leftist who knows he can't show who he really is and win.

ANYBODY AND EVERYBODY WHO SUPPORTS HIM IS A DUPE.

Why?

Because you're supporting a person whose "pivots"/lies prove he's not worthy of your trust - and whose inexperience proves he is not ready for the power that comes with the job he seeks.

Believing he deserves your trust and the powers of the POTUS requires a WILLFUL SUSPENSION OF DISBELIEF:

IF YOU ARE A CENTRIST/MODERATE/INDEPENDENT: Then you must believe he's not a really a leftist - that he's leftist campaign was just to win over the base.

IF YOU ARE A LEFTIST/LIB: Then you must believe he's not a post-partisan moderate and that he's moving to the center just to win the White House, and that then, once he's POTUS, he'll govern from the left.

Either way: you have to give Obama the benefit of the doubt.

Something he hasn't earned.

WHY AM I SO SURE THAT OBAMA IS A LYING LEFTIST, UNQUALIFIED TO LEAD THE NATION?

His motto.

It's "change you can believe in".

He's BEGGING us to be gullible.

And that requires that we ignore what he did and with whom he's been associated with the last twenty years.

Based on his DEEP AND LONG-TERM associations we should conclude only this: he's corrupt; he's a leftist; he's a dove; he's pro-Arab/anti-Israel; anti-military; and anti-supply side/pro-redistribution.

PROVE ME WRONG!

Name ONE centrist or Zionist or Republican or Evangelical or Hawk he's been close to over the last twenty years.

Name one time he took on the Democrat-Leftist-MSM-Academy Complex.

You can't.

Because he never has.

BOTTOM-LINE:

Kucinich is more qualified than Obama. Carter was when he ran. Even Kerry was. Ditto Mondale and Dukakis.

A vote for Obama is a vote for a naive and inexperienced Kucinich.

Who talks pretty.

And "pivots".

IOW: Tells pretty lies.

BJ Clinton's theme was Fleetwood Mac's DON'T STOP THINKING ABOUT TOMORROW.

Here's the theme for Obama's fans:

America's Days Aren't Numbered

Excerpt:
I have a simple request. As we celebrate the birth of the American Republic, can we all stop predicting its death? It's getting depressing. The last time I strolled through the local Barnes & Noble, there were so many books announcing the end of American power, wealth, influence, or just America itself, that I began to wonder whether my dollars would be worth anything by the time I hit the checkout counter....

As a historian, I find this trend fascinating. After all, since humans climbed out of the trees and began surveying the lion-infested Savannah, none have ever lived in a period more prosperous, secure and stable than Americans do today. The U.S. is not only the wealthiest and most powerful country on earth now, but in all of history. There's never been a better time and place to be alive than America in the 21st century.

So why all the decline theorists? Here's my theory: Prosperity and security are boring. Nobody wants to read about them. The same phenomenon occurred in ancient Rome, the last state to acquire such a firm hegemony. By the second century B.C., Roman citizens were affluent and their empire no longer had any serious rivals. With the dangers past and the money rolling in, they developed a taste for jeremiads. If you had a stylus, ink and scroll you could hardly go broke telling the Romans their empire, culture and way of life were yesterday's news.

Polybius blamed pandering politicians, who, he predicted, would transform the noble Republic into mob rule. Sallust claimed that Rome's vicious political parties had "torn the Republic asunder." Livy wrote his entire "History of Rome" just so that his fellow citizens could "follow the decay of the national character . . . until it reaches these days in which we can bear neither our diseases nor their remedies." The Romans may have been unquestioned masters of their world, but they sure didn't like reading about it. And when the empire actually did start its decline in the third century A.D., criticisms and predictions of collapse became noticeably thinner on the ground.

The military dictators who seized power in Rome and led the empire on its downward spiral did not much like reading about their own shortcomings, and they had ways of making sure that they didn't have to. These were the days of the panegyric - an obsequious form of literature that praised the emperor and empire to the skies. When you start seeing those, it's time to worry.

Of course America could be falling, but I have my doubts. For one thing, the book market is too strong. So, on this Fourth of July, I am going to watch the fireworks and be grateful for the place and time in which I live. When Polybius, Sallust and Livy wrote their books the Roman state still had more than a millennium of life in it. Perhaps ours does too.
Source

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New Study Finds Greenland Ice Melt 'not changing' and may be dropping

This peer reviewed new study in the journal Science puts yet another fork into the man-made global warming fear machine. See also July 2007 U.S. Senate Report: Latest Scientific Studies Refute Fears of Greenland Melt

I have a story coming tonight in print on a new paper tracking the impact over time of those iconic drainpipes for meltwater forming each summer on the warming flanks of the vast Greenland ice sheet. Here's the nub, with varied reactions coming from glaciologists later:

One of the most vivid symbols of global warming used by scientists and campaigners to spur society to curb climate-warming emissions is photography of gushing rivers of meltwater plunging from the surface of Greenland's ice sheet into the depths.

Recent studies have shown these natural drainpipes, called moulins, can speed up the slow seaward march of the grinding ice by lubricating the interface with bedrock below. The faster that ice flows, the faster seas rise. Now, though, a new Dutch study of 17 years of satellite measurements of ice movement in western Greenland concludes that the speedup of the ice is a transient summertime phenomenon, with the overall yearly movement of the grinding glaciers not changing, and actually dropping slightly in some places, when measured over longer time spans.

The work, the authors and other experts caution, does not mean that more widespread surface melting could not eventually destabilize vast areas of the world's second-largest ice storehouse. But for the moment, the study, which is being published in Friday's edition of the journal Science, throws into question the notion that abrupt ice losses in Greenland are nigh. "The positive-feedback mechanism between melt rate and ice velocity appears to be a seasonal process that may have only a limited effect on the response of the ice sheet to climate warming over the next decades," said the paper.

The study was led by Roderik S.W. van de Wal of the Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research of the University of Utrecht.

Source

Journal abstract follows:

Large and Rapid Melt-Induced Velocity Changes in the Ablation Zone of the Greenland Ice Sheet

By R. S. W. van de Wal et al.

Continuous Global Positioning System observations reveal rapid and large ice velocity fluctuations in the western ablation zone of the Greenland Ice Sheet. Within days, ice velocity reacts to increased meltwater production and increases by a factor of 4. Such a response is much stronger and much faster than previously reported. Over a longer period of 17 years, annual ice velocities have decreased slightly, which suggests that the englacial hydraulic system adjusts constantly to the variable meltwater input, which results in a more or less constant ice flux over the years. The positive-feedback mechanism between melt rate and ice velocity appears to be a seasonal process that may have only a limited effect on the response of the ice sheet to climate warming over the next decades.

Science 4 July 2008: Vol. 321. no. 5885, pp. 111 - 113



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Happy Fourth of July!

Thomas Sowell asks "How relevant is patriotism?"

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, AMERICA!



Long may she wave!

HAPPY FOURTH!











I WAS THERE FOR THESE FIREWORKS!

Thursday, July 03, 2008

OBAMA WILL DO FOR AMERICA WHAT HE DID FOR GROVE PARC

DUKAKIS HAD BOSTON HARBOR:





OBAMA HAS THE GROVE PARC PROJECT.


















BARACK HUSSEIN DUKAKIS.

CAROLINE KENNEDY IS AS QUALIFIED TO HELP PICK OBAMA'S VEEP AS OBAMA IS TO BE POTUS

DRUDGE:

Caroline steps into spotlight as Obama's VP guru...
SHE IS THE DAUGHTER OF AN ASSASSINATED POTUS.
  • BESIDES HER IDENTITY, WHAT EXPERIENCE DOES SHE HAVE THAT MAKES HER QUALIFIED TO SAY ANYTHING ABOUT WHO OBAMA'S VEEP SHOULD BE!?
  • ZERO.
  • LIKE OBAMA.
  • BIRDS OF A FEATHER.
VOTE ACCORDINGLY.

OBAMA, CREEPING SHARIA/DHIMMITUDE AND INCREMENTAL SOCIALISM

Our Founding Fathers fought off tyranny and established a democracy with liberty and the rule of law.

Besides the HOT WAR with jihadists, our democracy and liberty are now under twin threats which are less violent but just as dangerous to the free world:
  1. Islamification: creeping sharia in the Muslim world and creeping dhimmitude in the West
  2. And creeping Socialism.
With increased urgency, we must battle these two enemies by fighting three specific fronts: (1) Overseas by containing creeping sharia within our key Muslim allies in Egypt, Pakistan, Turkey, and on the border of our best ally Israel - in Lebanon and the so-called West Bank, and (2) creeping dhimmitude within the EU.

Our ability to defeat jihadism will be severely limited if we lose on any of these fronts.

The incrementalistic socialists of the Democrat Party - (the only socialist party in the world without the guts to call themselves what they really are!) - would not only put us back on the road to serfdom at home, (and thereby damage the world economy), they would also appease the "creepers" abroad.

That's why this election is so damn important.

We've made extraordinary progress the last 7 years.

But it can all be undone. Heck: the Reagan Revolution will be undone by a (GOD FORBID!) Obama Administration.


Voting for Obama now would be like voting for McClellan in 1864, or Neil Kinnock in 1987, or Adlai Stevenson in 1956. It would be like tossing out Churchill and bringing back Chamberlain!

THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM IS OF COURSE IRAN:

Even if we defeat sharia and dhimmitude and socialism. it will all come to naught of Iran gets the bomb.

That's why JOB #1 is preemptively at tackling them and neutralizing their military and nuclear assets.






WHO IS MORE LIKELY TO DO THAT SHOULD IT COME TO THAT... OBAMA OR MCCAIN?

Obama is more likely to go to Tehran and declare PEACE FOR OUR TIME.

VOTE ACCORDINGLY.

MEMO TO WESLEY CLARK AND ALL OF OBAMA'S OTHER ATTACK DOGS

McCain spent 15 times more time in solitary confinement as a Prisoner of War

than Obama spent working in the U.S. Senate,

before declaring he was running for President of the United States (143 days by some counts).

THE POINTLESS RUSH FOR A CARBON EMISSIONS PLAN

Excerpt:

Assuming - however briefly - that Canada must impose carbon taxes, when would be the best time to do it? Stephane Dion says now. Right now. Yale University economist William Nordhaus says, well, slow down, friend. We have time. Let's do this thing properly.

Dr. Nordhaus takes global warming seriously, anticipating that it may well "cast a shadow over the globe for decades, perhaps centuries, to come." When he says centuries, he means centuries. In his highly sophisticated computer analysis of global warming strategies, he includes the option of doing nothing at all for 250 years - and found that it delivered the same result (measured in global emissions of carbon dioxide one century hence) as the Kyoto Protocol with or without the United States.

He includes, as well, a 50-year delay and got an intriguing assessment. Implement the right climate change strategy in 2055 and you still get - by 2105 - precisely the same reduction in CO2 that you get with the computer-designed "optimal strategy," a go-slow, go-frugal approach that begins modestly in the next decade and expands incrementally through the rest of the century.

In a brilliant analysis of carbon strategies - The Challenge of Global Warming: Economic Models and Environmental Policy, published last year - Dr. Nordhaus observes that the complexity of global warming rules out absolute certainty of any kind, whether academic or ideological. "Whatever goal we set will probably be incorrect." Given this caution, it is essential to adopt a strategy that can be quickly adapted to changing circumstances and changing technologies, he says.

Dr. Nordhaus notes that a single technological advance in 2050, or in 2100, could render redundant trillions of prematurely invested dollars. This is one of the reasons why the most aggressive climate change strategies - the celebrated Stern Review proposals, the controversial dictums espoused by Al Gore - badly flunk the Nordhaus computer analysis test.

More here

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Pictures of puppies now banned?



Muslims in Scotland are demanding it:

"A postcard featuring a cute puppy sitting in a policeman's hat advertising a Scottish police force's new telephone number has sparked outrage from Muslims.

Tayside Police's new non-emergency phone number has prompted complaints from members of the Islamic community.

The choice of image on the Tayside Police cards - a black dog sitting in a police officer's hat - has now been raised with Chief Constable John Vine.

The advert has upset Muslims because dogs are considered ritually unclean and has sparked such anger that some shopkeepers in Dundee have refused to display the advert....

A spokesman for Tayside Police said: 'Trainee police dog Rebel has proved extremely popular with children and adults since being introduced to the public, aged six weeks old, as Tayside Police's newest canine recruit. 'His incredible world-wide popularity - he has attracted record visitor numbers to our website - led us to believe Rebel could play a starring role in the promotion of our non-emergency number.

'We did not seek advice from the force's diversity adviser prior to publishing and distributing the postcards. That was an oversight and we apologise for any offence caused.'

Source
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ECB makes exactly the wrong move at the wrong time

NYTIMES:
The European Central Bank, spooked by soaring prices for food and fuel, raised interest rates on Thursday, joining several other central banks in battling a global eruption of inflation.

With the quarter-point increase, the central bank followed those in Sweden and Norway that raised rates this week, citing inflation. The Federal Reserve in the United States, where short-term interest rates are only half of those in Europe, has so far declined to join them.

The European Central Bank’s decision deepens a recent divergence in monetary policy on either side of the Atlantic, ending a long period when it tended to follow the course set by the Fed.
"A LONG PERIOD" WHEN THINGS WERE BETTER THAN THEY ARE NOW!

This moves will weaken the dollar and send dollars into the crude market and drive crude even higher which will make Euro-inflation worse.

Therefore this move is exactly the wrong move.

The ECB should be lowering rates. Sarkozy knows this.

But the ECB bureaucrats don't get it. IDIOTS.

THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS SCOOPS THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

AT 12:34 AM on Wednesday, we posted on the fiasco at the construction site of the new WTC; we blamed the fiasco on ONE THING: GOVERNMENT.

Today, the WSJ agrees.

TAB scoops the biggies all the time with original stuff because we don't follow the pack.

Regular readers know this.

Spread the word.

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HAPPY FOURTH!

After getting The Commandments at Mt. Sinai, July Fourth is probably one of the greatest days in human history.

Thank God.

And, God Bless America.

THE DECLARATION:



THE SIGNERS:



PATRICK HENRY:



JFK:



PATTON:



OUR ANTHEM:



GOD BLESS THE TROOPS AND THEIR FAMILIES.

GOD BLESS AMERICA.

Have a Happy Fourth!

TRACTOR TERRORIST ATTACKS BUS IN JERUSALEM

An atrocious case of a Muslim terrorist who may have been a construction worker who ploughed into cars and a bus:
(IsraelNN.com) A very large Arab-driven tractor rammed into a bus - and other vehicles - and turned it completely on its side on Jaffa Street in downtown Jerusalem. Two policemen were able to climb the tractor; they struggled with the terrorist-driver, but only after a short time did they shoot and kill him. "This is because the open-fire orders are stupid," said eyewitness and veteran journalist Yitzchak Noi.

The shots ended the tractor-terrorist's destructive spree. Some 20 injuries have been reported, including three dead and six in moderate or serious condition. Most of the bus passengers are reported to have suffered only light injuries, though at least one - an infant - is in serious condition.

Magen David Adom sources confirm that the incident, which began at the intersection of Jaffa and Sarei Yisrael Streets, was a terror attack. The Arab attacker also damaged at least three cars and two buses. One Toyota car, for instance, is totally crushed; the woman driver was killed.
I think this abomination shows exactly why Israelis are going to have to start working in construction themselves and not hire potential Islamofascists to do the work.

Wednesday, July 02, 2008

SEEING OBAMA AS A POTENTIALLY COMPETENT COMMANDER IN CHIEF REQUIRES A WILLING SUSPENSION OF DISBELIEF

The Democrats were all wrong about The Surge.

Especially Obama and Hillary.

Hillary Clinton - from her own website:
.. today you are testifying about the current status of our policy in Iraq and the prospects of that policy. It is a policy that you have been ordered to implement by the president. And you have been made the de facto spokesmen for what many of us believe to be a failed policy.

Despite what I view as your rather extraordinary efforts in your testimony both yesterday and today, I think that the reports that you provide to us really require the willing suspension of disbelief.

In any of the metrics that have been referenced in your many hours of testimony, any fair reading of the advantages and disadvantages accruing post-surge, in my view, end up on the downside.


HERE'S THE VIDEO - FROM HER OWN YOU TUBE PAGE:


Based on this glaring error alone, I believe that seeing Obama as qualified to become POTUS and Commander in Chief, and an Obama victory in November requires a WILLING SUSPENSION OF DISBELIEF.

FLASH::: THE FUTURES MARKETS ARE COMPLETELY MISREADING US INVENTORIES!

NYTIMES:
HOUSTON — A sharp increase in oil prices on Wednesday sent shudders through anxious financial markets already worried about the prospect of a global economic slowdown.

Crude oil climbed above $144 a barrel before settling at $143.57, up $2.60 for the day. The Energy Department reported an unexpected decline in inventories, sending oil prices to a record. And now oil slowly is closing in on $150 a barrel, the next psychological milestone to be crossed.

[...]

The crude oil inventory figure was 54 million barrels below a year ago, and nearly 22 million barrels below the five-year average, according to tabulations by Barclays Capital.

There was also some modestly good news in the report. Gasoline inventories rose 2.1 million barrels to 210.9 million barrels, an indication that gasoline demand is slackening a bit as drivers car-pool, buy more efficient cars, and use more mass transit when it is available.
LISTEN UP:

The decline in distillates PROVES actual demand by USERS of oil products is being SEVERELY hampered by the high price. EVERYONE IS USING LESS GASOLINE.

The decline in CRUDE OIL INVENTORIES IS NOT COUNTER-PROOF OF CONTINUED DEMAND OR LACK OF SUPPLY. (Though the increase in the price of a barrel in the futures markets would indicate that this is how the speculators are interpreting these data.)

REDUCTIONS IN US CRUDE INVENTORIES IS A RESULT OF THE FACT THAT ACTUAL PURCHASERS OF CRUDE ARE SLOWING DOWN THEIR PURCHASES BECAUSE THEY EXPECT THE DEMAND TO CONTINUE TO DECLINE - AND THEY EXPECT THE PRICE OF OIL TO DECLINE, TOO.

The fact that both distillate and crude inventories have declined is proof that the speculative futures market is causing the price increase and not natural, ACTUAL demand.

IOW:

There is ample supply of REAL OIL to REAL USERS OF OIL. AND THE REAL USERS DON'T WANT TO TAKE MORE DELIVERY,

THEY ARE SELLING LESS, AND WANT TO BUY LESS AS A RESULT. Their lower inventories are in line with their expectations for sales (lower) and their expectation that prices will decline going forward.

MEANWHILE THE OIL PRODUCERS CAN PRODUCE MORE - AND ARE!

THERE IS NO SHORTAGE OF OIL.

BUT THERE IS A SHORTAGE IN A RELATED AREA:

THERE IS NOT AMPLE SUPPLY OF FUTURES FOR THE SPECULATIVE MARKET.

The amount of dollars available for speculative "hedge" purchases of oil is VAST compared to the amount of dollars available to actually buy and use the oil.

This HUGE POOL of speculative hedge money is causing the oil price inflation.

There's too much HEDGE money chasing too little oil, not too much oil user money chasing too little oil.

This is why only users of oil should be permitted to buy futures of oil.

Or why margins have to be sharply increased.

UPDATE: THURSDAY IN ASIA: REUTERS:
Oil hit fresh records on Thursday for the fifth time in six sessions, as the dollar fell on gloomy U.S. jobs data and a broad equity sell-off, and a higher than expected fall in U.S. crude stocks raised supply concerns.

U.S. crude rose as much as 87 cents to $144.44 a barrel, before easing back to $144.25 by 0155 GMT. The contract touched a previous peak of $144.32 on Wednesday.
I'VE ALREADY PROVEN WHY THE INTERPRETATION OF US INVENTORIES IS FAULTY.

I'M NOW GONNA DESTROY ANOTHER MYTH: THAT "THE WEAKENING DOLLAR IS CAUSING THE INCREASE IN PRICE OF OIL":
  • THE DOLLAR IS BASICALLY FLAT AGAINST THE EURO SINCE MARCH 1ST.
  • BUT THE PRICE OF A BARREL OF CRUDE IS UP NEARLY 50%.
  • THEREFORE, THE VALUE OF THE DOLLAR IS NOT A CAUSE.
  • THE CAUSE IS SIMPLE: TOO MANY DOLLARS CHASING TOO LITTLE OIL. THIS CAUSES OIL PRICE INFLATION.
  • THE HUGE INCREASE IN THE NUMBER OF DOLLARS CHASING THE FINITE AMOUNT OF CRUDE IS DRIVING THE PRICE UP.
  • THE INCREASE IN DOLLARS CHASING CRUDE IS NOT FROM OIL USERS BUT OIL SPECULATORS.
IF WE GET THE SPECULATORS OUT OF THE CRUDE OIL MARKET THEN OIL WILL DROP TO $80.