Venezuela rearming for war with Columbia?

Venezuela has recently acquired thousands of new missiles, Russian made, presumably for an attack on Columbia. According to the Washington Post, these are being accompanied by increasing rhetoric from Hugo Chavez about how the Columbian imperialists are preparing for aggressive war, etcetera. Somewhat typical of a left-wing dictator, perhaps, but a two pronged assault by the Venezuelan-financed FARC and the Venezuelan military could have a fallen Columbia if the West does nothing to intervene on Columbia’s side. My personal opinion is that this is probably a bluff to wring some concessions of one sort or another out of the Columbians, or to distract Columbian troops from the FARC conflict. The problem, of course, is if the bluff is called it may well get out of hand.

The World’s Greatest Farce

One might think that, given the extent to which politicians and celebrities, especially those who are pent on European integration (wonder why) are firm believers in anthropogenic global warming, they might do something to cut back on energy emissions and pollution. Certainly they are content to vilify those in other countries, including Canada for the Albertan oil sands. They introduce fancy “clean energy” projects and spend millions, if not billions, on “green” projects that were doing just fine in the private sector. Their vocal calls against carbon dioxide emissions encourage us to tighten our belts and do everything in the state-mandated green way.

They are nothing but hypocrites. Numbers that were published in the Daily Telegraph today indicate that 1200 limousines and 400 private planes will be used for the Copenhagen conference. In fact, that is more limousines than are available in the entire nation of Denmark – they had to bring in more from Sweden and Germany. France alone ordered 42 additional ones last Thursday, on top of the ones they were already planning on using.  How can anyone possibly believe in anthropogenic global warming when the very people pushing it don’t seem to care? When Al Gore’s house uses many times more energy than that of the average person? I can’t.

I believed the global warming idea when I saw An Inconvenient Truth, but events since then have eroded my faith in that movement. The scandal that took the mainstream media over two weeks to even begin reporting – and I still haven’t seen it on the front page of many papers – has shaken the very foundations of the science behind global warming.

This story should uproot and destroy those foundations, as well as any public confidence in those promoting AGW. But it won’t, because most of the media won’t report it. The Star won’t. The Globe won’t. The Post hasn’t. None of the three major Canadian papers are reporting on the issue. The front page of the Star website at the time of this post doesn’t even acknowledge the issue as taking place. I’m sure we’ve all seen by now Adrian McNair’s argument on the CBC that the media has an agenda. He’s right, of course he is. That’s just common sense. But they don’t just have a bias now – they are actually ignoring news that is factual and relevant until the citizenry gets so upset that they have to write a little piece on it, buried deep in the paper. Please, please, please vote with your dollars and tell the news media that this is an unacceptable course of action for them to be taking. Get them to start talking about the World’s Greatest Farce – AGW.

Hamas Fires New Rocket at Israel

From the Jerusalem Post:

“Palestinian terrorists in the Gaza Strip have begun launching Russian-made S-5K rockets at southern Israel, Army Radio reported on Sunday.

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A defense official told Army Radio that the use of a new rocket type proves that the weapons smuggling into the Gaza Strip is continuing at full speed.

“Iran is constantly trying to arm Hamas, and in addition to this rocket, arms such as anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles are constantly entering the Strip,” the senior official was quoted as saying.”

When are we in the West finally going to allow Israel to proceed to eliminate the threat to their borders, without our constant whining telling them to stop? When are people going to realize that Hamas are not innocent freedom fighters, but terrorists that harm Palestinians as much as they harm Israelis? Not soon enough. Mr Harper’s past record of support for Israel has been good, but he needs to push the issue in the international community. For the sake of innocent Israelis – and Palestinians – we need to allow Israel to act to remove these pawns of Iran, who are nothing but a threat to regional stability and our own national interests in the Middle East.  

Climategate Spreads to NASA

A prominent American climate skeptic, Christopher Horner, is suing NASA for the release of similar documents to those recently uncovered by those who hacked into the British Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia. According to him, NASA has refused to release the documents under the Freedom of Information Act for two years. If this is true, it seems somewhat telling that scientists are refusing to share their raw data. I can almost hear their shredders working overtime.

Getting “Climategate” In The News

Since nobody else will, one brave soul stands behind a CBC reporter with a very apt sign – “Climategate: It won’t go away. Report it CBC.” It’s good to see that citizens are taking an active interest in what the media appears to have shushed as best they can. The video is in the link.

A Shoe for a Shoe

The Iraqi man who caused quite a stir not terribly long ago by throwing a shoe at George W. Bush received a taste of his own medicine today in Paris, where a shoe was thrown at him from the crowd. The identity of this thrower is as of yet unknown.

You can see the video in full here.

European Union Associates Climate Doubt With Extreme Right

The European Union made the choice to send Nick Griffin, the racist and quasi-fascist leader of the British National Party, to Copenhagen as the sole global warming skeptic on their delegation. While Griffin is undoubtedly sincere and eager to present his side of the case, even his remarkably thick skull should have realized that he will hurt the skeptic movement rather than help. Why? Well, the answer is obvious – the European Union is trying to associate skeptics  with extremists like Mr. Griffin, automatically discrediting them. It is somewhat like a carnivore like myself sending Hitler (or PETA) to defend vegetarianism, the anti-smoking lobby sending Castro to discuss cigars, or a spokesman for Gillette asking Stalin to provide the voice of the elegantly moustached individuals of the world. In short, it is a painfully transparent exercise in the manipulation of public opinion, and just one more reason why the European Union has to be removed as a political organization. If they take Nick Griffin with them when they are thrown into the obscurity of the footnotes of history, so much the better.

Disgusting Example of Political Correctness

I’ve wanted to write a post on this for a few days, but this article in the National Post sums up the patently ridiculous situation much more eloquently than I could. Here are some of the important bits from the article:

 

The disparity was never more obvious that at the trial On Thursday in Hamilton. There, the court was shown two videos, one of a non-native march through the small Southwestern Ontario town last May, and another of a march by the Mohawk Warrior Society and it supporters down the same street a few months later.

Police stopped the first protest cold. When a non-aboriginal marcher attempted to defy officers and stride ahead anyway, he was arrested. The non-native marchers said they merely wanted to wave the Canadian flag along main street. After three years of a land-claims siege on the town outskirts, they were tired of seeing only the flags of the Six Nations Mohawk reserve or the grandiosely self-styled “Warrior” Society. They merely wanted to be fly the Maple Leaf, and thereby disabuse locals of the (not unnatural) conclusion that their area had been turned over de jure to the local native thugs. No matter: The OPP refused to let their demonstration proceed.

Nigel Farage Reveals More EU Problems

Sure, he gets a bit emotional, but it says a lot about the state of EU “democracy”. I personally prefer Daniel Hannan to Nigel Farage, but he gets the point across, and I like that.

Anti-Semites Get Jewish Film Showing Canceled

According to this article in the Jerusalem Post, a few far-left radicals probably affiliated with Germany’s Die Linke – the successor party to the SED and the most extreme party with representation in the Bundestag, mostly from the eastern states – managed to get a screening of a Jewish film canceled in the city of Hamburg. They did so through threats of violence against the cinema in question, which is unfortunately somewhat typical of the extremist left in Germany.

From what I’m hearing, this isn’t too dissimilar to the boycott of Israeli films at the Toronto International Film Festival by Canadian left-wingers (minus the threats of violence, but with precisely the same level of hypocrisy) who happen to include Naomi Klein (see the right toolbar on the main page for a response to her role in the boycott).

I have to shake my head at how the supposedly “tolerant” left suddenly seems more and more like the neo-Nazi parties such as the NPD on issues of anti-Semitism. I suppose they’re only tolerant to specific minorities, ones that they like. Much like Nazis. What a coincidence. The sad part is that the German media didn’t even pick up on this. News to them – anti-Semitism is just as evil coming from the left as it is coming from the far-right.

Stand firm with Israel and Jews against anti-Semitism. With both sides turning against them, they need all the support from us that they can get. I encourage all readers to join the BUYcott movement, supporting Israel through the purchase of Israeli products, something that can make a real difference beyond simple words.