WELT ONLINE; (Google translate)
(updated translation courtesy Tom Paine)The US president BO had hardly arrived when he let it be known, "the time for talk is over." From now on, he would take over the leadership of the negotiations.
Together with German Chancellor Merkel, the heads of Russia, Brazil, Japan, the EU and other prominent countries, Obama went to work. But things didn't go like the Nobel prize winner had imagined. Only German Environment minister Norber Roettgen remained optimistic. Despite the tough negotiation, he opined, there could be a resulting compromise. "Today we throw the dice."
Instead, it turned into a fiasco. [...]
According to rumors from the Bella Center, President BO is said to have asked for a conversation with Wen jibao to bring up the matters. But O had to wait. Wen, according to the rumors, almost never left his hotel room and could not be found. Finally the US Delegation succeeded in finding the chinese premier in a conference room. An obviously angry Obama is said to have stormed into the room. "Are you ready yet to talk with me Mr Premier?" he is said to have shouted. "Are you ready now? Mr Prmier, are you ready to talk with me?" What a stage entrance for a US President.
However, Wen was not alone in the room, as Obama literally burst in, according to members of the congress. The Chinese (premier) was in the middle of talks with India's head of state Mammohan Singh and the South African president Jacob Zuma. Suddenly the group found itself forced into a conversation with the US president.
Welt.de (original)
h/t Joe B.
Update: A translation of full text in the extended entry.
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US President Obama Falls from the Climate Summit
(Article introduction and summary)
The collapse of the climate negotiations in Copenhagen is a serious defeat for US President Barack Obama at the international level. He and Chancellor Angela Merkel left before achieving a serious result. Worse, he let the Chinese make him look like a fool.
(Article)
His arrival was immediately followed by a pithy presentation. Right after his arrival at the conference center, he let it be known to those present: "The time for [mere] talk is over." He would assume leadership of the negotiations.
Together with Chancellor Angela Merkel, the leaders of Russia, Brazil, Japan, the European Union and of other important countries, Obama went to work. But it did not go quite as the Nobel Peace Prize-winner had imagined. Only Norbert Röttgen, Minister for Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety remained optimistic. In spite of the tough negotiations, a compromise can be found, he said. "Today the die will be cast."
Instead a fiasco had begun making itself visible and felt. It began during the night of Friday and Saturday. A small group of negotiators assembled from among the 30 important and representative countries, among them Germany, were still discussing the main features and principles to be included in a twelve-point document. It was titled "The Copenhagen Accord" and consisted of a three-page collection of vague aims, without specific legally-binding goals that were to be achieved.
Although China is among the worst climate polluters and has had a long ascent in becoming an industrial power deserving of respect and recognition, Premier Wen Jiabao was not among the participants in the talks-not that his participation was not desired. To the contrary!
According to rumors in the Bella Center, US President Barack Obama at about 11 PM, had impatiently asked to speak with Wen Jiabao in order to advance the discussion. But Obama had to wait. Wen, who, it was rumored, had rarely left his hotel room, could not be found. Finally, the US delegation located him in a room set aside for negotiations. A visibly furious Obama, according to reports, stormed into the room. "Are you now ready to talk with me, Premier Wen?" he was reported to have shouted. "Are you now ready? Premier Wen, are you now ready to talk with me?" What a scene for a US president.
Wen was not alone in the room at the time when Obama quite literally burst into the room, according to participants. At the time, the Premier was in a conversation with India's head of state, Mammohan Singh and South Africa's President Jacob Zuma. Suddenly the group saw itself forced into a conversation with the US president.
At the insistence of the impatient Obama, this unplanned and coincidentally-assembled negotiating round and participants, agreed on a minimal compromise.
Obama should have discussed, coordinated with and agreed to this compromise with his closest partners: the European Union or the G77 Developing Nations. Instead, at about 10:25 PM, he called together a number of American journalists for an impromptu press conference. There he announced, the "Copenhagen Accord" as the conclusion and product of the two-week long conference. He was aware, that many countries would consider the result as insufficient and unsatisfactory. More, however, was not achievable.
He thought it a significant achievement and milestone that large developing countries like India and China had, for the first time, recognized the necessity of reducing emissions and accepted to limit warming to less than 2 degrees Celsius.
With that, he packed his bags and flew home. Chancellor Angela Merkel also left and went back to Berlin. Both left Copenhagen without having achieved a clear result. And, what is even more serious, without having bothered about a follow-on to what had been announced as an historic conference. Dealing with climate was left to others. It was a serious mistake that would soon make itself manifest.
Even while Obama and Merkel were on their way home, late during the night, the EU Commission, even as they gnashed their teeth, declared themselves prepared to accept Obama's minimum compromise. Unlike the Europeans, many African nations were not prepared to follow. At the plenary session, Sudan's head, Lumumba Di-Aping was beside himself. No one is entitled to destroy Africa said the Sudanese who was the spokesman for the G77 Developing Nations. He said the document would mean the death of millions. Finally, Di-Aping aroused outrage in the main meeting hall by comparing the accord to the Holocaust.
The Pacific island-states also declined to agree to the Obama document. With an eye toward the promised $30 billion in aid mentioned in the final document, the president of the Maldives declared he was not prepared to sell-out his islands for "30 pieces of silver."
The erratic and unfocused-appearing Danish president, Lars Løkke Rasmussen, at 8 AM declared that he, as president of the 193 nation-conference, could not agree to the Copenhagen Accord.
One final last-minute attempt was made to avert the total failure of the climate conference. For that reason, a negotiating session was announced. After hectic bilateral talks, at 10:30 AM, the conference agreed to "recognize the existence of" the Obama Document. With this lowest-level of diplomatic recognition, the outright rejection of the compromise by the United Nations was narrowly avoided. But no more.
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Thanks to reader "Minuteman".
Old Chinese proverb say: "Man who bow too much get no re-spect except from ass-kissers."
Related???
......As they returned home on Air Force One, White House officials gave a detailed briefing on how Obama worked his way around a Chinese protocol officer who he thought was getting in the way of his meeting with Wen Jiabao. They also suggested the president had walked uninvited into a meeting of China, India, Brazil, and South Africa. The White House had previously thought the meeting would be a one-on-one between Wen and Obama......
....When Obama said China's stand on accountability would consign any deal to "empty words on a page", Wen walked out of the conference centre and went back to his hotel.
He later delivered an additional snub by sending a protocol officer to talk to Obama.....
Rough few days for the President. I think it was the low bow that gave away his weakness
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/dec/20/copenhagen-obama-brown-climate
Sudan's Lumumba Stanislas Dia-ping comparing the agreement to the Holocaust. The pact, he said, was "a solution based on values, the very same values in our opinion that funnelled six million people in Europe into furnaces". It "asked Africa to sign a suicide pact, an incineration pact, in order to maintain the economic dominance of a few countries".
Yup, we are preventing Sudan from becoming a world powerhouse nation with our recalcitrant attitude toward AGW.
Yup, we are all that stands between Sudan and economic dominance.
Yup. Goes for Zimbabwe too. We are evil.
"On this return visit, the president did rather better. He flew home into a winter snowstorm in Washington able to claim that – after two years of negotiations had ended in deadlock – he had persuaded the world's biggest producers of greenhouse gases to act on global warming."
Depending, of course, on the various possible definitions of the word, "act".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_theater
What we're seeing here (and have been seeing for a looong time) is Climate* Change Disaster Prevention Theatre. It's great, because the looming end-of-the-world drop-dead goalposts are always pushed into the future.
Continuance of funding is the key motivator and sustaining MSM compliance/non-questioning MUST BE MAINTAINED or else WE WILL ALL DIE (sometime in the uncertain future).
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*One definition of 'climate' is (and perhaps another reason why 'global warming' as a definition was replaced):
"A prevailing condition or set of attitudes in human affairs: a climate of unrest."
It is stunning to see what an idiot Obama is. P*ssing off the Chinese isn't smart, not when you depend on them to finance your deficits.
It just keeps getting better and better. What a fool!
Why on earth did the American people vote the Empty Suit into the POTUS? No experience, a poor performance as a Senator, hidden records and a variety of unanswered questions, and he was voted in. Very bloody strange.
Insulting comments to China, treating it like a disobedient child? Good God, the man is a complete moron without his teleprompter and handlers.
Why the fuss? Accoring to the UN Sec'y Gen some time last Fall, Dec 11 was the last day to "Save the Planet". Since that date has passed, the planet cannot be saved. Part on dudes!
Here's my quick translation of the quoted parts of the article. It's at least better than a computer could do, but not as good as a professional translator could do.
The US president BO had hardly arrived when he let it be known, "the time for talk is over." From now on, he would take over the leadership of the negotiations.
Together with German Chancellor Merkel, the heads of Russia, Brazil, Japan, the EU and other prominent countries, Obama went to work. But things didn't go like the Nobel prize winner had imagined. Only German Environment minister Norber Roettgen remained optimistic. Despite the tough negotiation, he opined, there could be a resulting compromise. "Today we throw the dice."
Instead, it turned into a fiasco.
According to rumors from the Bella Center, President BO is said to have asked for a conversation with Wen jibao to bring up the matters. But O had to wait. Wen, according to the rumors, almost never left his hotel room and could not be found. Finally the US Delegation succeeded in finding the chinese premier in a conference room. An obviously angry Obama is said to have stormed into the room. "Are you ready yet to talk with me Mr Premier?" he is said to have shouted. "Are you ready now? Mr Prmier, are you ready to talk with me?" What a stage entrance for a US President.
However, Wen was not alone in the room, as Obama literally burst in, according to members of the congress. The Chinese (premier) was in the middle of talks with India's head of state Mammohan Singh and the South African president Jacob Zuma. Suddenly the group found itself forced into a conversation with the US president.
It seems to me that a little reading between the lines is in order. American president and moron pop up a lot, though I cannot decipher the rest of it. I am not sure what the Chinese really think, do you?
Too bad Obama's not a reader of this blog. He could translate it as I understand he speaks Austrian.
The way it should have played out was Wen busting into the room ,
and screaming "Where's my f@$#king money !
Did Wen give Ohbummer the old we-should-be-meeting-more-often schtick? And if so, Wen did he do it?
Also, Hu's on first, etc. etc.
For the Chinese delegation it's 'Wen, win'...:)
...or, Wen win when(Obama)whine
It's just not the same without his Chicago mobsters breaking legs and greasing palms while his Lewinski media "clean" things up afterward.
Lord Monkton’s take:
For all the rhetoric – or the flatulence that passes for rhetoric these days – it has begun to dawn on the “leaders” of those nations that subject them to regular recall and re-election that the people no longer believe the mad scientists are telling them the truth. And the people are right.
What is more, after the failure of the mainstream news media to report what the malevolent and unpleasant scientists involved in the Climategate affair had written to one another about those with whom they disagreed, or about what they had done to invent, fabricate, contrive, fiddle, tweak, alter, massage, conceal, hide or even destroy scientific data for the sake of protecting and peddling the pseudo-science in which environment correspondents had so readily and so ignorantly believed, the people no longer trust the media.
And that is bad news for a governing class that has come to develop a far-too-cosy relationship with the mainstream media. It is also very bad news for the mainstream media themselves, which are now rapidly losing circulation and ad revenue as the people rightly desert them for the Internet, where – notwithstanding various expensive attempts by the over-funded international Left to interfere with Google and Yahoo searches – the truth is still available if you know where to look.
http://noconsensus.wordpress.com/2009/12/19/fe-ny-how-china-saved-the-world/#more-7099
Hear, Hear.
Syncro
Unfreakingbelievable!
Wars have been started over lesser slights than this.
Barry's big head gets in the way again eh? Awesome!
Not only does the Hopenchagen Accord die a well deserved death, its the Left's favorite dude who drives the stake into it.
I'm having a little schadenfreude overload here. It feels like one too many coffees. :)
"governing class" - I wonder who they might be.
Obama had to wait. The Tragedy. The Humiliation. The Belittling! Wasting the golf Messiah of the Worlds time .
The Diva could not stop hiself.
Shiver me timbers, its a pirate raid.
This was too funny a post !
Poetic justice at last.
JMO
This just keeps bringing me back to the SNL skit.
Mr Obama, why are you trying to do sex to me?
"what a performance by a US President."
God, I miss Bush. Despite the "he made the world hate us," narrative, the truth is once Chirac and Schroeder got gone, Bush developed excellent working relationships with most countries - just not the despotic ones Obama loves. People knew that when Bush said something he meant it, that he respected them, and that he respected his own office, too.
Obama respects nothing and no one, including himself.
I miss Bush.
Copenhagen may be over folks but Mexico City will be up next. There's sooooo much money behind pushing this crap through I wonder what will finally stop it?
Truth?
We all know that a LOT of truth has been revealed by Climategate but that didn't stop the liars and despots one iota.
One thing I do hope for is that this all angers enough Canadians to give Harper a majority and enough Americans to wrestle control of Congress away from the Dems.
Hey, give the Big O a break, everyone. I mean, come on, it's got to be hard to drag his teleprompter every he goes, all right? Have to give it a break sometimes, otherwise O would run afoul of those union rules.
And the TOTUS knows all and sees all, thus it's the new ruler of the United States - all hail the new Telepromtastic Despotic Ruler Overlords!
Climate change, like health care, is a gateway to tyranny, no matter how sincere the proponents' hope for a better world may be.
And here I thought that totalitarian government was a thing of the past, except for the little guys.
It's like a bump in a balloon: push it down and it pops up somewhere else.
It's frightening how few seem to object.
Seems to me this graphics sums it up-
Zero brings back
zero...
http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/president_snow_copenhagen.jpg
I just got the Chinese text for solving global warming.
If you have unwrap planet find too warm then push down smoke, drive green car, have sex only one time, report to organ donation facility if not on list exempt, swim in acid river, holes appear in limbs, be unwell, now you lie in coffin, manager be here half an hour, he speak English.
"Smart" diplomacy in action...
Farking idjits
O's Da Mann narcissist*:
"*This is his sole legacy: a massive post-traumatic stress disorder."
"the man who killed
Copenhagen,".
"The president has wrecked the UN".
"But other US environmentalists were scathing of the president. Mr Obama may become known as "the man who killed Copenhagen," said Greenpeace US head Phil Radford.
And Bill McKibbon of the liberal climate change pressure group 350.org, said: "The president has wrecked the UN and he's wrecked the possibility of a tough plan to control global warming. It may get Obama a reputation as a tough American leader, but it's at the expense of everything progressives have held dear."
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"Barack Obama denies accusations that he 'crashed' secret Chinese climate change talks
Senior US officials insist that President Barack Obama did not "crash" a secret Chinese meeting in the final dramatic hours of the Copenhagen climate change talks.
They portrayed the President as pulling negotiations back from the brink of collapse on a day that veered between chaos and farce.
Aides said that by standing up to the Chinese on the make-and-break issue of transparency, he helped force a deal, however flimsy.
The President was desperate not to return to Washington empty-handed after his risky one-day dash to Denmark."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/copenhagen-climate-change-confe/6845952/Barack-Obama-denies-accusations-that-he-crashed-secret-Chinese-climate-change-talks.html
*O'narcissist:
http://www.globalpolitician.com/25109-barack-obama-elections
A petty little Chicago street hustler was put in his place by China & India....What a disgraced little man-child... The Peewee Herman act of 2009… He is gone in 2012
The AGW fraud was created by the Marxists, in America & UE, as a way to global governance. The UN & Environmentalists (fronted by), Oxfam. Etc.. promised the third world countries that AGW would result in entitlements...We are Evil ..Bad Capitalism.. Wealth.. Why develop an economy when joining the EU Communists will result in wealth transfers.
EU communism is not the favorite political policy of "all" the 157 Sovereign Nations...The identifiable groups of Copenhagen will find head choppers waiting for them in some of the nations they threaten...Gore & his group’s plans for China, go directly to the Chinese people, may be considered an act of war..
The good thing is that we have identified the Enemy within our system... The Purge will be sweet & We can de-fund the scammers...
AWG = Fraud & Whacked Science
Environmentalist Groups = Marxists
EPA = Marxists
UN = Marxists
MSM = Marxists
Obama= Marxist (666)
" Why on earth did the American people vote the Empty Suit into the POTUS?"
uh, because to single alternative was even worse?
Who's Jim Prentice?
"Climate accord works for Jim Prentice"
http://www.thestar.com/news/sciencetech/environment/copenhagensummit/article/741087--climate-accord-works-for-jim-prentice
Check out this picture from the meeting. To me Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has the look of contempt. The comments in the thread are quite enlightening:
Link
when Bush said something he meant it"
well thea, a lot of what Bush said needed a certain 'translation' as well.
I wont bore you all with examples.
unless I get a personal attack.
"Sudan's Lumumba Stanislas Dia-ping ..."
You think that maybe his mama was a co-ed at Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow, where she met Stanislas, the Polish Man of Mystery ....?
Unbelievable!
And yet, all I heard on the news yesterday was how it was Obama who saved Copenhagen, it was Obama who brokered the deal, it was Obama who brought everyone together.
Can you imagine if Stephen Harper had acted like this, or GWB????
Talk about destroying an international reputation, they should look no further than their hero for how to do it.
uh, because to single alternative was even worse?
I don't think even Google translate could make this intelligible.
But I found it amusing that the German minister used the term "throwing the dice". Didn't something similar get Brian Mulroney into a lot of hot water?
Curious..."well thea, a lot of what Bush said needed a certain 'translation' as well.
I wont bore you all with examples.
unless I get a personal attack."
You are missing the point...the fact is that when Bush said or did it, it was headline news (just as it is when SH says something) for days, the hate would drip from the airwaves.
In Obama's case...cue the crickets. Nowwhere has this appeared on any mainstream media and hence, the love-in with the Nobel Peace Prize winner continues.
The fact that you pull out GWB proves my point that if GWB had done this, it would have been all over every newspaper, every newscast and he would have been vilified.
I hope this wasn't too "personal" for you. Merry Christmas
Barack Hussein Obama: Unintended consequences.
Delicious!
qwery 1, great link.
Barry: I give up ... I'm way over my head ... I'm about to have a nervous breakdown.
Look at the photo referenced by QWERTY1 above together with the photo released of Obama meeting with General McChrystal.
As I recall, the pose of Obama is almost identical.
(see: http://msnbcmedia4.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/091002-obama-mcchrystal-hmed-8a.h2.jpg)
Well-choreagraphed condecension? What does this say of Obama? (rhetorical question)
Obama with Wen: 'Like putting a three-day-old kitten into the ring with a tiger.
Re. quirty1's picture, Wen's body language says: "What could you possibly teach me!!"
Back in my days as an undergrad student, I took a couple of classes in the history of China. The Chinese have never suffered fools. They consider themselves above everyone else, from whom they have nothing to learn. That's exactly what I see in this picture.
qwerty1's Photo
MSM's candidate for President is no Alpha male. Very reflective of the West's evolution over the past 40 years.
After running down America, and demystifying the American presidency by being all Obama all the time, Obama now is missing the power that being an American President is.
By apologizing and prostrating oneself everywhere, by frittering away his power at home, others can see him as Jimmy Carter. Give it another few months and even the Europeans will be compaining, like there were with Carter....pining for a direction and consistency.
It would be funny if it werent so serious
Chinese media headlines(?):
"Wen Wins Big, Bao Tu Lo Sinks Fast at Copenhagen".
"California Will Be Sold Cheap To China To Erase Debt".
While watching Hopenhagen coverage kept hearing the music from Cher's "Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves" with different "denier" lyrics in my mind. No doubt someone somewhere is hard at work on a devastating song satire given the rich material.
No taxation without representation. We need to remind Harper and Prentice of this. It's not a request. It's a demand.
Our public schools, our undisciplined families, our PC politicians, judicial system, and MSM, all run by anti-Christian (they’re certainly not godless!), adult toddlers, who cater to and encourage the selfish whims of our children—at the expense of authentic authority, respect, self-discipline, and maturation—are turning out mini Obamas at a terrifying rate: entitled, base, self-referential, angry, immature, omnipotent mini-MEs.
I’ll reiterate my thesis that the proliferation of selfishness and thuggery we see all around us—neatly personified in His Me-ness, Barack Hussein Obama—has everything to do with the West turning its back on its Judeo-Christian heritage, the seed, root, branch, and tree of its success. The “O” Antiphon for December 19th is: “O Root of Jesse, you stand as a sign for the peoples; before you kings shall keep silence and to you all nations shall have recourse. Come, save us, and do not delay.” (Alleluia. Amen.)
When the example of the all powerful Saviour of the World—who entered it quietly, in lowly form, to serve and free mankind, not to oppress—was taken seriously: “Love thy neighbour as thyself”—the crass selfishness and blasé attitude, on view everywhere these days, was tempered in a way we’re not seeing in this present Dark Age. W.B. Yeats foresaw this, and its reason:
“The darkness drops again but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle . . .”
Yes, the World was shaken—and still is!—by the birth and reality of Jesus. The thugs, beginning with Herod, have always been terrified of the Truth and have striven to eradicate it. I don’t believe that Obama is actually the anti-Christ, but he’s doing a fair impression!
Here’s all of W.B. Yeats’s powerful, prophetic poem, The Second Coming:
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and
everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: a waste of desert sand;
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Wind shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round
at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?