Gotta say…in that article that I linked most of the comments are arguing ‘is he or isn’t he?”
My take was Mccullough was looking right thru Obama’s claims about what Islam ‘is not’ and subtly rakes it over Obama’s claim that he is Christian.
“A man whose faith he claims, while practicing precious little of it, declares that tens of thousands of people practicing another faith, are not in fact practitioners of that faith. And he declares this while being an expert in neither faith.
Head spinning yet?”
“LAST month a damning report came out that showed 1,400 vulnerable children in Rotherham, UK, had been systematically sexually abused by gangs of men, mostly of Pakistani origin, between 1997 and 2013.”
“After similar scandals in Oxford and Rochdale, as well as the Jimmy Saville case, the Rotherham scandal has stirred up huge controversy in the United Kingdom. Not only had abuse of the worst kind taken place, but the police and the Rotherham Council ignored the victims’ pleas for help, thus victimising them further.”
This is in a Pakistan News Site. And it is more honest than anything I have seen in our mass media. http://www.dawn.com/news/1131779/rotherham-lessons
Gang rapes by Muslims are common throughout Eurabia. They say it’s OK for them to rape infidel women. The lieberal MSM turns a blind eye. It’s been going on for over a decade and is only getting worse. Any critical reporting is branded ‘racist’. http://fjordman.blogspot.dk/2005/02/muslim-rape-epidemic-in-sweden-and.html
Toronto Star, Sunday, Sept. 14. Look who’s back spreading more ignorance about capitalism: http://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2014/09/13/facing_climate_change_headon_means_changing_capitalism_naomi_klein.html
Star: “In her own book, This Changes Everything, Capitalism vs The Climate, Klein advances this existential conundrum:”
“Capitalism, as it’s conceived and conducted today; capitalism that relies on globalization, unbridled consumerism, deregulation and perpetual economic expansion, is irreconcilable with a livable climate.”
“And since humans have no control over the natural laws that govern a carbon-stoked climate, she argues, capitalism will have to change.”
You can’t change capitalism any more than you can change the solar system. An economy is founded on voluntary trade for mutual benefit between individuals. Capitalism is the system that does not interfere with this trading. If you start interfering, you have something else, usually called a “mixed economy”.
Deregulation, or more correctly an absence of regulation, is a characteristic of capitalism on the sensible and just principle that those who produce goods and services should not have to obtain permission from those who do not.
Globalization, as I understand it, means an absence of protectionist regulations between nations, allowing the successful to be better rewarded and thus providing higher standards of living.
“Economic expansion” isn’t really the correct term. Economies can be more productive or less. Any person who learns his job, discovers new scientific knowledge or more efficient ways to make products, is improving the standard of living, not least for himself.
In answer to a question about what made her focus on climate and write a book:
NK: “What changed for me was hearing the argument for the existence of a climate debt, which is the idea that in order to address the crisis . . . which was created by the wealthiest countries in the world and is being felt most acutely by some of the poorest countries in the world, there needs to be a process of redress.”
“Core inequalities need to be tackled through redistribution of wealth and technology. And this was explained to me as a chance to heal the world; to heal some of the deepest and most lasting wounds left by colonialism. And I suddenly saw that though this crisis continues to be existentially terrifying, it could also be a catalyst for really inspiring change and social justice.”
Redistribution of wealth wouldn’t even help in the fight against an allegedly changing climate, it would just shuffle the problems around. This is just a mindless, fatuous attack on the productive West.
From a question by the Star’s interviewer: “… many people continue to ignore or outright deny climate change. And this denial is based largely on the (oil-interest inspired) belief that the science is still unsettled. …”
Really? Where have you been for the past five years? Pulling a Rip van Winkle? Haven’t you heard about the fudged data, the phony studies and “hide the decline”? In 2014, an often unseasonably cool year after a decade and a half of no change, people are jumping off the climate change bandwagon like rats off a sinking ship. And every other week brings another example of a scientific discovery contradicting a previous one thought “settled”. Don’t you even read your own newspaper? Aren’t you supposed to be a journalist?
Star: “Some of the aspects of that perpetual growth economy are rampant consumerism, globalization and deregulation … those seem ingrained and backed by irresistible (business) forces. How do you convince enough of those people who are more concerned with a bigger TV and the newest logo-bearing product that they can rise up and face those powerful interests?”
NK: “… it is to me the greatest crime of neo-liberal ideological messaging; that so many of us have been convinced that all we are is self-interested, gratification-seeking units.”
And so we are. That doesn’t negate love, friendship, recreation, artistic appreciation and other apparently non-commercial activities. But even those are self-interested — one would not waste time on a romantic partner or a friend whom one disliked, or listen to a piece of music one despised.
There is no such thing as “new socialist man” — there is only man, and his nature is self-interested.
NK: “We (believe) we’re so unidimensional in our values and desires that we are incapable of responding collectively to an existential crisis and incapable of acting collectively for a greater good.”
“Well, we know that historically, this has not been the case. We know that in the midst of the Great Depression we came together and built some of the social programs we’re proudest of. We know the same is true of wartime rationing. …”
A one-time British Labour politician (Tony Benn, or maybe Michael Foot) infamously hurt his own cause by admitting that the kind of economy he wanted was most like the British war economy, with its rationing. It is not a stretch to suppose that the likes of Naomi Klein favour the same thing. The left’s attacks on “unbridled, rampant consumerism” are really a hatred of productivity and, above all, freedom.
But if consumerism is so bad, why do they want to redistribute our wealth to the have-nots? Wouldn’t the latter become “consumerist” then too?
Klein’s entire thesis here is a logical fallacy called “attacking a straw man”, and the contradictions in her (and almost all) leftism are glaringly obvious.
Does NK stand for North Korea?
NATO’s Eastward Expansion: Did the West Break Its Promise to Moscow?
By Uwe Klußmann, Matthias Schepp and Klaus Wiegrefe
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has accused the West of breaking promises made after the fall of the Iron Curtain, saying that NATO’s expansion into Eastern Europe violated commitments made during the negotiations over German reunification. Newly discovered documents from Western archives support the Russian position. http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/nato-s-eastward-expansion-did-the-west-break-its-promise-to-moscow-a-663315.html
So the barbaric murderers in the name of Islam ar beheading British journalists and not their going to behead a British aid worker and Cameron is simply telling us he’s damned angry but refuses to join in air strikes to wipe the bastards out? Britain is surely lost, God help the Queen.
Cheryl Gallant Conservative MP – Renfrew-Nipissing – Pembroke
Wants to know if UN Agenda 21 should be an election issue
“While many people support the United Nations for its ‘peacekeeping’ efforts, hardly anyone knows the organization has very specific land use policies they would like to see implemented in every village, town, city, county, province and nation. The specific plan is called United Nations Agenda 21 Sustainable Development, which has its basis in Communitarianism. Most Canadians have heard of sustainable development, but are largely unaware of the U.N. initiative Agenda 21.”
Your Voice – Agenda 21
Should Agenda 21 be an election issue?*
a. Yes
b. No
c. Not sure http://cherylgallant.com/2014/08/28/report-parliament-9/#gform_wrapper_42
Like undercover promises made to criminals to bring them under control, promises made to criminal nations are not valid.
I wonder how much press coverage will be given to Gallant’s position? Usually she is the target of negative publicity. This time she has hit on a serious issue that many people are not aware of. It is about time we started reading about Agenda 21 in the media — but I don’t expect to see much any time soon. Gallant’s position is totally correct. Agenda 21 spells the demise of rural areas, while pretending it is simply about protecting the environment. We should all be concerned.
“promises made to criminal nations are not valid.” Sorry, but given that there are different views on who is criminal and who is not, your assumption is not valid. The entire process of negotiations among nations would break down if it’s o.k. to promise something — then renege because you have decided the other guys are criminals.
The entire process of negotiations among nations would break down if it’s o.k. to promise something — then renege…
Oh, you mean like the criminal nation of Russia is in the habit of doing?
Duh, the ‘process’ has already broken down.
I always wonder what kind of alt/universe these over-educated twits live in, where their echo chamber vibrates their words, over and over, ad nauseum.
Communist. Never let these wing nuts near the seat of power. These are destroyers, not creators.
The costs of feeding the climate-change “monster” are staggering. According to the Congressional Research Service, from 2001 to 2014 the US government spent $131 billion on projects meant to combat human-caused climate change, plus $176 billion for breaks for anti-CO2 energy initiatives.
Federal anti-climate-change spending is now running at $11 billion a year, plus tax breaks of $20 billion a year. That adds up to more than double the $14.4 billion worth of wheat produced in the United States in 2013.
nypost.com/2014/09/14/leo-v-science-vanishing-evidence-for-climate-change/
Oh, you mean like the criminal nation of Russia is in the habit of doing?
Oh, you mean like the criminal nation USofA is in the habit of doing?
LindaL >
“I wonder how much press coverage will be given to Gallant’s position?”
I wonder how much conservative blog coverage will be given to Gallant’s position.
Outside of a few SDA commenters bringing up Agenda 21 over the years there’s zip nada nothing about bringing it forward to mainstream debate.
Now with a Conservative MP on board, it’s still crickets.
Maybe you could point out the countries the US kept in slavery for 70 years, dumba$$.
Oh my, now you’ve resorted to name calling in a lame attempt to make what point?
Thanks for both links, Rev (5:14) and OMMAG (7:25).
From Fernandez’s piece:
“It was a time when civilization apologized for its existence to the barbarians, because the only criterion they recognized for civility was guilt.”
Verily.
Naomi Klein. It’s from an interview with her about her new book in which she “attacks a straw man”.
Joseph Epstein: “Notes on What’s So Damn Funny“.
Silent Coup: Harry Reid’s plan to hand America to liberal billionaires.
A great read…a ‘subtle’ analysis of Obama and his claim to be a Christian. Read the whole thing:
http://townhall.com/columnists/kevinmccullough/2014/09/14/obamas-forgotten-n-word-n1891449
Gotta say…in that article that I linked most of the comments are arguing ‘is he or isn’t he?”
My take was Mccullough was looking right thru Obama’s claims about what Islam ‘is not’ and subtly rakes it over Obama’s claim that he is Christian.
“A man whose faith he claims, while practicing precious little of it, declares that tens of thousands of people practicing another faith, are not in fact practitioners of that faith. And he declares this while being an expert in neither faith.
Head spinning yet?”
Edmonton teacher sentenced for hotel meeting with student, but a majority of comments suggest most people disagree with the harsh sentence.
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/jennifer-mason-sentenced-hotel-meeting-234600218.html
correction: Calgary teacher
“LAST month a damning report came out that showed 1,400 vulnerable children in Rotherham, UK, had been systematically sexually abused by gangs of men, mostly of Pakistani origin, between 1997 and 2013.”
“After similar scandals in Oxford and Rochdale, as well as the Jimmy Saville case, the Rotherham scandal has stirred up huge controversy in the United Kingdom. Not only had abuse of the worst kind taken place, but the police and the Rotherham Council ignored the victims’ pleas for help, thus victimising them further.”
This is in a Pakistan News Site. And it is more honest than anything I have seen in our mass media.
http://www.dawn.com/news/1131779/rotherham-lessons
Gee, why didn’t we think of that ? If you treat them like royalty maybe they will even come back.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/sep/14/today-show-tells-victims-treat-home-invaders-royal/
A great song that many tried to duplicate, however few could sing it like the man who composed it, Charles Trenet. If you’ve seen the movie ”Mr. Bean’s Holiday,” you’ll connect.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fd_nopTFuZA
I’ve also included Bobby Darrin’s American version.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEIDep_UMmk
Caved in like a wet cardboard box. A Muslim country that doesn’t want to help westerners. What a shock.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2014/09/11/Turkey-Takes-Back-Promise-to-fight-IS-Won-t-Allow-Coalition-to-Use-Air-Bases
Gang rapes by Muslims are common throughout Eurabia. They say it’s OK for them to rape infidel women. The lieberal MSM turns a blind eye. It’s been going on for over a decade and is only getting worse. Any critical reporting is branded ‘racist’.
http://fjordman.blogspot.dk/2005/02/muslim-rape-epidemic-in-sweden-and.html
Updated in 2013
http://www.d-intl.com/2013/10/15/sweden-a-new-hell-for-women/?lang=en
Muslim Gang Rapes are a growing problem in the world, and little is being said or done about it.
https://ca.search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=AqmTVKywFMVERvEOdNqSZXst17V_?p=muslim+gang+rapes&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8&fr=yfp-t-715&fp=1
Toronto Star, Sunday, Sept. 14. Look who’s back spreading more ignorance about capitalism:
http://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2014/09/13/facing_climate_change_headon_means_changing_capitalism_naomi_klein.html
Star: “In her own book, This Changes Everything, Capitalism vs The Climate, Klein advances this existential conundrum:”
“Capitalism, as it’s conceived and conducted today; capitalism that relies on globalization, unbridled consumerism, deregulation and perpetual economic expansion, is irreconcilable with a livable climate.”
“And since humans have no control over the natural laws that govern a carbon-stoked climate, she argues, capitalism will have to change.”
You can’t change capitalism any more than you can change the solar system. An economy is founded on voluntary trade for mutual benefit between individuals. Capitalism is the system that does not interfere with this trading. If you start interfering, you have something else, usually called a “mixed economy”.
Deregulation, or more correctly an absence of regulation, is a characteristic of capitalism on the sensible and just principle that those who produce goods and services should not have to obtain permission from those who do not.
Globalization, as I understand it, means an absence of protectionist regulations between nations, allowing the successful to be better rewarded and thus providing higher standards of living.
“Economic expansion” isn’t really the correct term. Economies can be more productive or less. Any person who learns his job, discovers new scientific knowledge or more efficient ways to make products, is improving the standard of living, not least for himself.
In answer to a question about what made her focus on climate and write a book:
NK: “What changed for me was hearing the argument for the existence of a climate debt, which is the idea that in order to address the crisis . . . which was created by the wealthiest countries in the world and is being felt most acutely by some of the poorest countries in the world, there needs to be a process of redress.”
“Core inequalities need to be tackled through redistribution of wealth and technology. And this was explained to me as a chance to heal the world; to heal some of the deepest and most lasting wounds left by colonialism. And I suddenly saw that though this crisis continues to be existentially terrifying, it could also be a catalyst for really inspiring change and social justice.”
Redistribution of wealth wouldn’t even help in the fight against an allegedly changing climate, it would just shuffle the problems around. This is just a mindless, fatuous attack on the productive West.
From a question by the Star’s interviewer: “… many people continue to ignore or outright deny climate change. And this denial is based largely on the (oil-interest inspired) belief that the science is still unsettled. …”
Really? Where have you been for the past five years? Pulling a Rip van Winkle? Haven’t you heard about the fudged data, the phony studies and “hide the decline”? In 2014, an often unseasonably cool year after a decade and a half of no change, people are jumping off the climate change bandwagon like rats off a sinking ship. And every other week brings another example of a scientific discovery contradicting a previous one thought “settled”. Don’t you even read your own newspaper? Aren’t you supposed to be a journalist?
Star: “Some of the aspects of that perpetual growth economy are rampant consumerism, globalization and deregulation … those seem ingrained and backed by irresistible (business) forces. How do you convince enough of those people who are more concerned with a bigger TV and the newest logo-bearing product that they can rise up and face those powerful interests?”
NK: “… it is to me the greatest crime of neo-liberal ideological messaging; that so many of us have been convinced that all we are is self-interested, gratification-seeking units.”
And so we are. That doesn’t negate love, friendship, recreation, artistic appreciation and other apparently non-commercial activities. But even those are self-interested — one would not waste time on a romantic partner or a friend whom one disliked, or listen to a piece of music one despised.
There is no such thing as “new socialist man” — there is only man, and his nature is self-interested.
NK: “We (believe) we’re so unidimensional in our values and desires that we are incapable of responding collectively to an existential crisis and incapable of acting collectively for a greater good.”
“Well, we know that historically, this has not been the case. We know that in the midst of the Great Depression we came together and built some of the social programs we’re proudest of. We know the same is true of wartime rationing. …”
A one-time British Labour politician (Tony Benn, or maybe Michael Foot) infamously hurt his own cause by admitting that the kind of economy he wanted was most like the British war economy, with its rationing. It is not a stretch to suppose that the likes of Naomi Klein favour the same thing. The left’s attacks on “unbridled, rampant consumerism” are really a hatred of productivity and, above all, freedom.
But if consumerism is so bad, why do they want to redistribute our wealth to the have-nots? Wouldn’t the latter become “consumerist” then too?
Klein’s entire thesis here is a logical fallacy called “attacking a straw man”, and the contradictions in her (and almost all) leftism are glaringly obvious.
Does NK stand for North Korea?
NATO’s Eastward Expansion: Did the West Break Its Promise to Moscow?
By Uwe Klußmann, Matthias Schepp and Klaus Wiegrefe
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has accused the West of breaking promises made after the fall of the Iron Curtain, saying that NATO’s expansion into Eastern Europe violated commitments made during the negotiations over German reunification. Newly discovered documents from Western archives support the Russian position.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/nato-s-eastward-expansion-did-the-west-break-its-promise-to-moscow-a-663315.html
So the barbaric murderers in the name of Islam ar beheading British journalists and not their going to behead a British aid worker and Cameron is simply telling us he’s damned angry but refuses to join in air strikes to wipe the bastards out? Britain is surely lost, God help the Queen.
Cheryl Gallant Conservative MP – Renfrew-Nipissing – Pembroke
Wants to know if UN Agenda 21 should be an election issue
“While many people support the United Nations for its ‘peacekeeping’ efforts, hardly anyone knows the organization has very specific land use policies they would like to see implemented in every village, town, city, county, province and nation. The specific plan is called United Nations Agenda 21 Sustainable Development, which has its basis in Communitarianism. Most Canadians have heard of sustainable development, but are largely unaware of the U.N. initiative Agenda 21.”
Your Voice – Agenda 21
Should Agenda 21 be an election issue?*
a. Yes
b. No
c. Not sure
http://cherylgallant.com/2014/08/28/report-parliament-9/#gform_wrapper_42
Like undercover promises made to criminals to bring them under control, promises made to criminal nations are not valid.
I wonder how much press coverage will be given to Gallant’s position? Usually she is the target of negative publicity. This time she has hit on a serious issue that many people are not aware of. It is about time we started reading about Agenda 21 in the media — but I don’t expect to see much any time soon. Gallant’s position is totally correct. Agenda 21 spells the demise of rural areas, while pretending it is simply about protecting the environment. We should all be concerned.
“promises made to criminal nations are not valid.” Sorry, but given that there are different views on who is criminal and who is not, your assumption is not valid. The entire process of negotiations among nations would break down if it’s o.k. to promise something — then renege because you have decided the other guys are criminals.
The entire process of negotiations among nations would break down if it’s o.k. to promise something — then renege…
Oh, you mean like the criminal nation of Russia is in the habit of doing?
Duh, the ‘process’ has already broken down.
I always wonder what kind of alt/universe these over-educated twits live in, where their echo chamber vibrates their words, over and over, ad nauseum.
Communist. Never let these wing nuts near the seat of power. These are destroyers, not creators.
The costs of feeding the climate-change “monster” are staggering. According to the Congressional Research Service, from 2001 to 2014 the US government spent $131 billion on projects meant to combat human-caused climate change, plus $176 billion for breaks for anti-CO2 energy initiatives.
Federal anti-climate-change spending is now running at $11 billion a year, plus tax breaks of $20 billion a year. That adds up to more than double the $14.4 billion worth of wheat produced in the United States in 2013.
nypost.com/2014/09/14/leo-v-science-vanishing-evidence-for-climate-change/
Oh, you mean like the criminal nation of Russia is in the habit of doing?
Oh, you mean like the criminal nation USofA is in the habit of doing?
No, NK stands for Nutbar Kommie
Environmental extremism a rising threat to energy sector, RCMP warns
The Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/industry-news/energy-and-resources/environmental-extremism-a-rising-threat-rcmp-warns/article20594114/
RCMP analysts have warned government and industry that environmental extremists pose a “clear and present criminal threat” to Canada’s energy sector, and are more likely to strike at critical infrastructure than religiously inspired terrorists …
GM admits at least 19 deaths linked to faulty ignition switch
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/gm-admits-19-deaths-linked-154047973.html
Good thing they weren’t electric cars, some believe that would have made it worse
AGW Kills.
…-
“Not enough rain. Too much rain. A plunge in wheat prices. And then eight inches of snow.
For farmer Jay Schultz, this season has been one to forget. The surprise snowstorms that hit the central part of Alberta for four days last week flattened his fields of waist-high wheat. The crop he had hoped would fetch high prices as top-grade milling wheat bought by global bread makers is worth much less, and could be destined for cattle feedlots and pig farms.”
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/industry-news/energy-and-resources/from-bushel-to-bread-early-snow-storm-contributes-to-very-tricky-harvest/article20593965/
LindaL >
“I wonder how much press coverage will be given to Gallant’s position?”
I wonder how much conservative blog coverage will be given to Gallant’s position.
Outside of a few SDA commenters bringing up Agenda 21 over the years there’s zip nada nothing about bringing it forward to mainstream debate.
Now with a Conservative MP on board, it’s still crickets.
So long civilization. It was grand while it lasted.
The Great Unraveling
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/16/opinion/roger-cohen-the-great-unraveling.html?_r=0
When the Shiny Pony admired the Chinese system of government, was he thinking of this:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/15/us-china-xinjiang-idUSKBN0HA07520140915
http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2014/09/15/time/
TIME indeed!
Maybe you could point out the countries the US kept in slavery for 70 years, dumba$$.
Oh my, now you’ve resorted to name calling in a lame attempt to make what point?
Thanks for both links, Rev (5:14) and OMMAG (7:25).
From Fernandez’s piece:
“It was a time when civilization apologized for its existence to the barbarians, because the only criterion they recognized for civility was guilt.”
Verily.
Naomi Klein. It’s from an interview with her about her new book in which she “attacks a straw man”.