People of earth...
WASHINGTON -- An Internet campaign spearheaded by former US vice president Al Gore to raise awareness about climate change began airing its day-long broadcast around the world on Thursday.
The project, called "24 Hours of Reality,"
So true for a very specific definition of reality...
features a multimedia presentation viewable online that showcases how extreme weather events like floods, fires and storms are linked to climate change. I can almost hear "Flight of the Valkyries" in the background...
All in triple forte. Much more appropriate than "O Fortuna" from Carmina Burana, which starts so quietly, building inexorably to overwhelming staccato sound. The possibility of anything other than shouting at the top of his lungs wouldn't suit The Goracle at all, poor man.
By 1300 GMT, the live-streamed broadcasts delivered in 13 languages, viewable at climaterealityproject.org, had drawn more than three million views, organizers said.
Wow. Three million out of a planetary population of six billion is a really, really small percentage. Perhaps they're going for the reverse snobbery demographic?
The hourly broadcasts are scheduled in various locations around the world, including Beijing, New Delhi, Jakarta, London, Dubai, Istanbul, Seoul and Rio de Janeiro. Ah, the "Bludgeon The World Into Submission" strategy...
They might stop to watch in London, but for the rest of the list it's work, starve, or watch soap operas.
They also aim to reveal how money motivates those who deny that human-driven pollution is contributing to climate change.. As Joe would say...COUGH...COUGH...COUGH...
The accusation flung meets the accusation answered here. A bit wordier than Joe's elegant sufficiency, but the ability to compress so very many layers of meaning into a few personal abbreviations is rare beyond avarice.
"Around the world, we are still subjected to polluter-financed misinformation and propaganda designed to mislead people about the dangers we face from the unfolding climate crisis," Gore said in a statement. The campaign ends with the final presentation by Gore starting at 7:00 pm (2300 GMT) in New York. ...and you'll nev-er freeze aaaaaaalone! Good night, everybody!
Gore won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. Which I believe is now sponsored by Cracker Jack...
A slideshow presented by Gore about the dangers of climate change was the basis of the popular 2006 documentary "An Inconvenient Truth," which grossed 49 million dollars worldwide. ...click...and here's my big house in Montecito...click...and the big one in Nashville...click...and here's my big houseboat...click...
How much did it net, by the by? I'm trying to figure out if it was actually a success or a failure, beyond that British judge laying out exactly why it was school inappropriate for school classrooms.
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The more people get exposed to "climate" science the more they think it stinks.
IF they kept real quiet and kept the money quiet they'd have gotten away with it. However Narcisism is a core part of the radical-leftist illness that makes up those pushing most and they just ruined it for their fellow scammers.
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In a nutshell, Gore will announce that "ManBearPig" now has an evil henchman he calls "CrazedSexPoodle", who is none other than Al Gore's evil twin brother.
You can tell because CrazedSexPoodle has a goatee, and he's a Republican!
The global warming theory left him out in the cold.
Dr. Ivar Giaever, a former professor with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the 1973 winner of the Nobel Prize in physics, abruptly announced his resignation Tuesday, Sept. 13, from the premier physics society in disgust over its officially stated policy that "global warming is occurring."
The official position of the American Physical Society (APS) supports the theory that man's actions have inexorably led to the warming of the planet, through increased emissions of carbon dioxide.
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I watched randomly through the last few hours, and noted that much of what had been offered as "settled science" was repeated in following hours. In fact, I didn't hear any new or ear/eye-popping rhetoric at all.
You must believe because we believe. (Oh, and you must pass this bill.)
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Celebrity White House gate crasher husband Tareq Salahi is glad his wife, Michaele, is OK but heartbroken that she's left home to be with another man, reported to be lead guitarist for the rock band Journey, the couple's attorney said Thursday. Looks like it's time to grab a bottle, put on the Sinatra, and sit alone in the dark, Tareq...
Tareq Salahi had reported his wife missing Tuesday night, telling authorities in Virginia he feared she had been kidnapped.Authorities, however, said ex-reality TV personality Michaele Salahi told them she was fine and didn't want to return home. The good news, honey? You don't have to pay the ransom! The bad news? We have to talk...
Then celebrity website TMZ reported that a representative for Journey said she was safe and with guitarist Neal Schon. What would we do without TMZ...
"Tareq is devastated but he is relieved to know that Michaele is safe," Salahi attorney David Silek told ABC's "Good Morning America. "That was his first concern." Should I stop the presses, boss?
No, Johnson. That won't be necessary...
Silek said it's premature to say if the couple would get a divorce. Well, let's see. Balding, overweight, aging, bankrupt winemaker vs. rock star guitarist. Magic Eight Ball sez..."Entirely Possible".
Diane Dimond, who wrote the book "Cirque du Salahi" about the couple, told the morning show that Michaele had been frustrated with her husband and that she had a previous relationship with Schon. Look soon for Diane's new autobiography, "Maybe I Should Get A Fucking Life"...
"She told me, in effect, that he was one of the loves of her life," Dimond told the show. Neal, buddy, hear that? You're one of the loves of her life... Hmmmmmm...sounds like maybe he should get tested.
The Salahis burst onto the scene in 2009 when they crashed a White House state dinner. Michaele Salahi was a cast member of the reality show "Real Housewives of D.C." last year, but the show was canceled after one season. Damn! And I missed it!
The couple posted a picture on Twitter of themselves with Schon and other band members last week. TMZ posted video of the couple partying with Schon at their embattled winery last year. Hey, baby. Why don't you ditch the stiff and I'll show you how rock stars party.
Hee Hee...okay!
Aside from the couple's gate crashing troubles and failed reality television attempt, they also have experienced business problems. The winery filed for bankruptcy, and its assets are scheduled to be auctioned off on Sunday. Michaele Salahi also released a single entitled "Bump It" that was not successful and was thrown off the reality show "Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew" when it became apparent she wasn't addicted to anything. ...as Attention Whoredom has yet to be classified as an addiction.
Economy: What's a six-letter word that describes what you get when you combine spiking jobless claims and rising inflation? Answer: M-I-S-E-R-Y. And as new reports show, Obama is dishing out heaping portions of it.
The two reports out of the Labor Department are troubling enough on their own. Jobless claims hit 428,000 last week, up 11,000 from the week before, the highest level in months and, naturally, unexpected. And inflation in August was up 3.8% over last year, also higher than forecast.
These reports also point to a more worrisome trend. With unemployment stuck at a stratospheric 9.1% -- and giving no signs of coming down soon -- inflation is now climbing. The current annual rate is more than twice where it stood in January. Combine the two, and you have a Misery Index of 12.9 -- up 21% this year and a stunning 64% since Obama took office.
To put the current index in some historical context: (1) it's higher than any time in the past 28 years, (2) it's 36% higher than the post-World War II average of 9.5 and (3) there have been only nine years in the past 63 when the annual Misery Index topped 12.9 -- all in the inflationary 1970s.
The only thing surprising about today's miserable economic picture is that so many economists continue to be surprised by it. Don't they remember what happened the last time we indulged in rampant government spending, regulatory hyperactivity and endless federal meddling in the economy back in the '70s?
The only problem now is that Obama steadfastly refuses to learn from his mistakes. His "jobs" spending bill merely repeats his failed stimulus plan. His proposed tax hikes would only further choke off growth. And his regulatory "reform" amounts to trimming the branches while his agencies plant forests of new rules.
Rising prices and a stagnant economy probably aren't the "hope and change" voters were expecting when they elected Obama. But that's precisely what they're getting from his '70s-style economic policies. Everyone at the 'burg! Who saw this coming when teh 0ne was elected? Wow... everyone? We must be psychic!
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If we're going to use the Carter era misery index, then use the comparable inflation measure from that time. ~11.5% inflation
for a misery index of ~20.6.
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Alternate Unemployment Charts: 23%. The seasonally-adjusted SGS Alternate Unemployment Rate reflects current unemployment reporting methodology adjusted for SGS-estimated long-term discouraged workers, who were defined out of official existence in 1994. That estimate is added to the BLS estimate of U-6 unemployment, which includes short-term discouraged workers.
The Bank of England joined the US Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank, the Swiss National Bank and the Bank of Japan on Thursday to announce that they would flood money markets with dollars over the coming months.
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Under the terms of the deal, banks will be able to bid for unlimited amounts of US dollars at fixed interest rates in three separate auctions. The first of these will be on 12 October.
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Karl Denninger had this to say:The Fed previously (like more than a year ago) announced these swap lines and more-recently announced their extension. So not only is this not new, it's not news!
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Spengler's alter ego had this to say: My view is different: the market is starting to understand that Europes problems are NOT a crisis, just a negotiation over who will own what of Europe when the dust settles. The Chinese made clear that if Europe wants to sell its best assets, they will be happy to buy some government bonds as well. The sort of deadbeats who live off the government payroll in southern Europe will emigrate, or die, or something like that. And the impact on the world economy will be trivial. Quite different from what the others are saying.
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A little over 200 years ago, French revolutionary forces invade and occupied Switzerland. Other than the intervening civil war, they've had peaceful international relations.
You know what the fellow said in Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.
Harry Lime [Orson Welles] The Third Man
Not quite accurate, but....
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the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love,
Heh. At the time the Swiss exported their manpower as mercenaries which were considered among the more professional [least likely to revolt or desert] and efficient killers of their time. The Swiss seldom gave quarter. The last vestige are to be found in the Swiss guard of the Vatican.
#5
Peace has its price. The Swiss have become immoral in their neutrality. Unwilling to help defend the West and yet basically hiding behind the defensive shield provided. Unwilling to fight the Nazi's yet profiting by selling and hiding Nazi gold. Pretty questionable stuff, I wouldn't hold them up as an example to anybody.
#6
Switzerland is neutral and armed, not pacifistic.
When they did the right thing by not tolerating Gaddafi's hellspawn's crimes on their own territory they got zero help from the 'West.'
Switzerland's Schengen 'partners' applied heavy pressure on Switzerland to make them lift the ban on visas for Gaddafi regime elements.
The US government did nothing when Gaddafi regime threatened to storm the Swiss embassy in Tripoli. In fact a US State Department spokesman apologized to Gaddafi for having ridiculed Gaddafi's call for jihad on Switzerland.
Switzerland is representing the US in Iran so a threat to a Swiss embassy should be a concern of the US.
The 'West' has been unwilling to make minimal efforts to defend Switzerland even when under an implicit treaty obligation to do so.
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During WW II the Swiss government repeatedly and pointedly told the Germans that they would not surrender --unlike the rest of the Western European countries-- and that they would fight all the way back to the Alps and leave nothing usable in the country, whether factories or fields. They basically told them that they'd rather destroy their own country than be conquered.
But sure, continue to promote your ignorant hatred of Switzerland, a tiny country that was surrounded by the Axis on all sides, and HAD TO F*** TRADE with both sides at war in order to maintain neutrality. Unlike America, Switzerland has for centuries been determined to not get involved in foreign wars; part of that determination is the requirement by other countries that you don't SIDE with either party.
You may want to consider living at peace instead of running a militaristic empire and p**** on all other countries in the world. Destroying the Taliban regime in Afghanistan and Saddam's Baathist regime in Iraq was plenty sufficient; Iran should have been next. Get out of these hellholes, stop sacrificing the young and spirited, just bomb enemies back to the stone age when they commit acts of war, tell them it will be worse next time, and be done with it. After more than 60 years, get out of Japan, Italy, Germany, etc. and let them protect their own peace and freedom. Learn some history. Don't be a self-destructive empire. And understand that America is --today-- in some respect far from being the best in the world.
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And understand that America is --today-- in some respect far from being the best in the world.
And soon the world will find out what happens when America, as imperfect as it may be, is not around to bail it out at its expense.
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Mr. History, were you aware that the Nazis put a big, fat, red J on the passports of their Jewish citizens because the Swiss demanded it? That way they could stop such undesireables at the border and send them back. According to family lore a few of my relatives made it in before the cut-off. Others did not.
The other price of Swiss "independence" was the German military trains taking a shortcut through your country from one side of the Nazi empire to the other. My German tutor, who grew up in St. Gallen -- a cousin of mine had been her family doctor there, oddly enough, before she moved to America in disgust at the rest of you -- remembers them keeping her awake many nights...and she resented deeply that none of the grownups ever talked about it.
When your banks give back what they refused to return to the Jews after the war, insted of getting caught over and over again shredding documents, then you might be entitled to own a high horse, let alone climb into the saddle and sneer down your nose from such a great height.
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Keep repeating your lies, miss tw. And for your education, I'm not Swiss, as you seem to believe. Swiss banks are so not "my" banks in any meaningful sense. I'm not going to spend time arguing with your misrepresentations, I've seen your anti-Swiss game previously.
While you believe the Swiss people had a happy and pleased life in cahoots with the Nazis and their extermination of Jews EVERYWHERE ELSE in EUROPE, you are watching the True America go down the drain. You're busy hating Switzerland? the only country in Europe that adopted a constitution and form of government actually based on the American Revolution?
As Procopius rightly hints, the end of America will lead to another Dark Age. Think about it. Your hatred of Switzerland is so important to you? You think your false accusations, and your bankrupt government who has extracted MULTIPLE TIMES OVER DECADES gold and money from Swiss companies and their central bank as "reparation" for being neutral during WW II, you think that government somehow still occupies a moral high ground? you think your anti-Swiss creeds do?
I hate what started in the middle of Europe 70+ years ago, and in Russia almost 100 years ago. I know and appreciate that you're at neither point, but I'm sorry to have to despise your obsession with trying to present Switzerland as some sort of Nazi stooge. I love the ideals and achievements of the American Revolution. We should all try to live up to those ideals, and one aspect of it is to practice the virtue of justice -- praise the good, don't propagate lies and hatred of the good.
I guess what I say won't change your mind, but maybe I'll motivate others to study history and focus on praising the good instead of claiming that the good are somehow evil. Meanwhile, let's be clear that your hatred of Switzerland is deeply and entirely unjust.
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God damn swiss, stealing our chocolates
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the only country in Europe that adopted a constitution and form of government actually based on the American Revolution?
I must have erred, trusting in America, truth, justice, and Rantburg.
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No, they are an example. An example of what happens when you make safety your priority. It causes you to compromise all of your Christian values. And should you do so, what is left of your soul when you die a safe death?
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I don't hate Switzerland, Mr. History, any more than I hate Germany, where I lived quite happily for a number of years. The war was a long time ago, after all, and most of those still alive were children But I don't put the Swiss up on a pedestal, either, not when I have information from eyewitnesses of their fine earthenware feet. Whence your own passion, pray tell, if you have no personal connection? And where did you get your information: reading the Heidi books, fondue dinners with friends, a ski trip? Or are you the child of Swiss emigrants, perhaps, loyal to the old sod, as it were?
Interesting site on the history of SwItzerland here, put up by a gentleman in Lucerne. According to him, my accusations are not so far off.
As for America, we here at Rantburg are doing our various bits to keep it all from sliding into the sea, taking the rest of the world with us.
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I abide by facts and history, not anecdotes or invectives. You don't seem to believe that one can seek the former without foul motive or recourse to the latter. That's less than admirable.
And why would my present location matter -- does this piece of information give you a sense of superiority? is it relevant in any way?
Do stay the course, keep denouncing Switzerland and the Swiss people for remaining free from Nazi occupation. Surely all neighbouring people were so superior during WW II. I'll tell that to my relations in Switzerland, none of whom were sent to concentration camps, despite being Jewish. NOT ONE. Should I then try to reach their relatives from Germany, France, Austria, and Italy? how about the ones in the Netherlands? Poland? the rest of Europe? I've not witnessed your kind of anti-Swiss vitriol poured onto such other European nationalities. Is that significant?
Some day you may want to reflect on the consequences of denouncing the good while being immersed in growing evil. I don't quite understand why p**** on Switzerland is a badge of honour for some Americans. It rather reminds me of anti-Americanism in France.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Celebrity White House gate crasher husband Tareq Salahi is glad his wife, Michaele, is OK but heartbroken that she's left home to be with another man, reported to be lead guitarist for the rock band Journey, the couple's attorney said Thursday.
Economy: What's a six-letter word that describes what you get when you combine spiking jobless claims and rising inflation? Answer: M-I-S-E-R-Y. And as new reports show, Obama is dishing out heaping portions of it.
