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  1. Melanie Phillips on the ‘Occupy’ Protesters outside of St Paul’s Cathedral in London:
    “The encampment may not be violent, but it is nevertheless a conspicuous example of passive aggression. The forcible occupation of private property/public space is an aggressive act towards everyone else – backed up, in this case, by some ripely sanctimonious but essentially left-wing bullying.
    “In other words, the real message of the St Paul’s encampment is that force wins. This message will unquestionably have consequences way beyond the cathedral precincts. Any half-sentient law enforcement official understands that control of the streets is the essence of public order. If the streets are surrendered to the lawless, the police can no longer protect the law-abiding.”
    Read “The sanctification of public nuisance” here.

  4. Regarding Solyndra and other DOE fiasco’s; they were warned.
    “Ex-Obama Operative Urged White House to Oust Energy Secretary Chu,Emails Show”
    Dan Carol, also a prominent clean-energy activist, complained about rising gas prices and said department resources were not being put to good use. “These job creation bean fields are not being watered right now,” he said.
    […]
    Another set of suggestions from Carol warned that Chu and his team were “scaring away the talent we need.” Carol said the new team “must have a Republican to succeed.”
    Carol wasn’t thinking of Newt was he?

  6. “Climate impasse could kill carbon offset investment”
    “The failure of U.N. climate talks to clarify the future of the Kyoto Protocol and its market-based mechanisms could dry up investment in the carbon offset market, possibly threatening prices that are already trading near record lows.
    A legally binding pact is unlikely to be agreed at the climate summit in Durban, South Africa, which starts November 28, as governments continue to wrangle over emissions cut commitments and climate aid. Many do not see such a deal emerging until 2014 or 2015.”
    http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/31/us-cdm-investment-climate-idUSTRE79U4YA20111031
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    “Another DOE Loan Scandal: Are We Bailing Out Spain’s Solar Collapse?”
    “Following the collapse of Spain’s solar sector, a Spanish company with ties to Democrats received $2.7 billion in US Energy Department loans.”
    “Yet again, evidence of impropriety surrounds the issuance of federal Department of Energy “green” loan guarantees — in this instance, loans were granted to a foreign company with Democratic Party ties.
    Over the last two years, DOE Secretary Steven Chu has awarded Spain-based Abengoa — a sprawling, multi-national industrial firm operating in 70 countries — loan guarantees worth a staggering $2.78 billion for solar and ethanol plants.
    Abengoa is a Madrid-based conglomerate that operates throughout Europe, the Middle East, Latin America, and Asia. It is not starved for cash: according to its 2009 annual report, the firm was valued at $25.5 billion, enjoying a cash flow of $4 billion and a net profit of $288 million. It is traded on the Madrid and Barcelona stock exchanges and employs more than 25,000 workers.
    At first glance, Abengoa does not appear to require U.S. government-backed loan guarantees. In 2010 it qualified for private bank loans in 11 countries worth $161 million. In July 2009 alone, Abengoa issued convertible bonds in Europe worth $688 million.
    Overall, the Energy Department has awarded Abengoa three separate loan guarantees.”
    http://pjmedia.com/blog/another-doe-loan-scandal-abengoa/

  7. Neo-AGW Progress Report.
    Nice AGW kills indulgences, aka “carbon offsets”.
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    “Record-Challenging Cold Building in Alaska, Canada”
    “Unusually cold air is forecast across Interior Alaska and northwestern Canada this week. While cold air is common here, record lows might be broken by the end of the week.
    The weather pattern will set up such that high pressure will strengthen across Interior Alaska and Canada’s Yukon Territory over the next several days. Usually high pressure building means nice weather. But, not this time.”
    http://www.accuweather.com/blogs/news/story/57716/record-challenging-cold-buildi.asp

  8. EUrope: socialist brothers deathlock.
    Uncle Joe’s Red Army vs Herr Adolf’s Brown Army.
    Red Socialists’ Big Lie: “The evidence points to a new kind of right-wing terrorism unlike anything Germany has seen.”
    What’s new? Raus mit der Mohammedans. (Raus mit der Juden.)
    Old tactics include criminal robbing of banks for the financing of their crimes. In this, they are following Red Stalin’s criminality.
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    “The Brown Army Faction”
    “A Disturbing New Dimension of Far-Right Terror”
    “Germany has been shocked by a series of revelations relating to a trio of neo-Nazis who appear to have carried out a crime wave lasting for over a decade. They are suspected of murdering nine immigrants and a policewoman as well as a series of bank robberies. The evidence points to a new kind of right-wing terrorism unlike anything Germany has seen.”
    “Frühlingsstrasse in the Weissenborn neighborhood of the eastern German city of Zwickau is a street lined with renovated old houses, manicured front gardens and sidewalks that look swept clean. It would be an idyllic residential neighborhood, if it weren’t for the house at number 26.”
    http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,797569,00.html

  10. O’sour grapes: Leftist TORedStar’s whine vat runneth over.
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    “Canada Loves Obama – YouTube
    17 Sep 2011 … Originally uploaded in 2008. We like Barack Obama and we made this little ditty for you all. Thanks for making him your President.”
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_IyfCh3b_c
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    “Keystone pipeline: Shabby rebuff from a friend”
    “The $1 trillion Canada-U.S. trade and investment partnership should be nurtured, not hobbled. Quirky displays of bad faith make for a rocky relationship. Meanwhile our Asia trade is growing rapidly.”
    http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/article/1085770–keystone-pipeline-shabby-rebuff-from-a-friend

  11. Brown Neo-National Socialism vs Red socialism.
    Herr Angela Merkel von Deutschland Uber Alles.
    “The challenge of our generation is to finish what we started in Europe, and that is to bring about, step by step, a political union.”
    >>> “The historic challenge of our generation is to show we can use the crisis for a better future.”
    It’s for our children.
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    Der Krize Europa:
    “12.35pm: We’ve got more details of Angela Merkel’s speech – and the top line is that the German chancellor is insisting that the solution to the crisis is closer political integration across Europe.
    From Reuters:
    The challenge of our generation is to finish what we started in Europe, and that is to bring about, step by step, a political union.
    11.49am: “Europe is in one of its toughest, perhaps the toughest, hour since World War Two”.
    That’s the stark message from Angela Merkel this morning as she addresses the annual conference of her Christian Democratic Union party in Leipzig.
    Merkel told the CDU that “We have a long challenging path” ahead, but insisted that Germany could not simply allow its eurozone partners to collapse. “If Europe is not doing well then Germany will not do well”, she said, adding that:
    If the euro fails then Europe will fail….
    The historic challenge of our generation is to show we can use the crisis for a better future.”
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/blog/2011/nov/14/italy-mario-monti-eurozone-crisis

  15. Neo-AGW Progress Report.
    AGW Renewabull Index at 8.09 > 8.808.
    “Q-Cells, once the world’s largest maker of solar cells, said finance chief Marion Helmes resigned following a wider-than-expected quarterly operating loss.”
    Q: What is a major contributor to EUrope’s/USA’s socialist quagmire? Nothing in MSM about this.
    A: Red-Green AGW fraud.
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    “Is It Time to Name Blizzards, Nor’easters?”
    http://www.accuweather.com/blogs/news/story/57596/is-it-time-to-name-blizzards-n-1.asp
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    “European renewables caught in perfect storm”
    “Three of Europe’s top renewable companies said prices would fall further amid oversupply and lower government incentives, echoing recent comment from peers in China and the United States as the sector fights a worsening crisis.
    Renewable energy companies around the globe have been hit by a mix of high inventories and slower demand after ramping up production last year to meet a surge in demand from Germany and Italy where customers rushed to buy solar panels before governments cut vital subsidies.
    Germany and Italy are reducing so-called feed-in tariffs to make the solar sector more productive, and subsidies and prices have been falling at a faster rate than manufacturing costs, leading Germany’s renewable elite to slash their 2011 outlooks.
    SolarWorld, Germany’s No.2 solar company by sales, cut its outlook, saying it no longer expected 2011 revenue to reach last year’s 1.3 billion euros ($1.8 billion).
    “In the entire market, the demand in the third quarter of 2011 developed worse than expected,” Chief Executive Frank Asbeck said, adding he saw prices for modules falling by another 10 percent in 2012 after a 40 percent drop this year, making only single-digit margins possible.
    SolarWorld said it sees its 2011 revenues above 1 billion euros, though, in line with the average analyst estimate of 1.17 billion euros in a Reuters poll.
    CATASTROPHIC FINANCES
    Q-Cells, once the world’s largest maker of solar cells, said finance chief Marion Helmes resigned following a wider-than-expected quarterly operating loss.
    It kept its 2011 outlook, still expecting a triple-digit million euros EBIT loss and sales of 1 billion euros, down more than a quarter from last year, adding price declines would continue in 2012.”
    http://business.financialpost.com/2011/11/14/european-renewables-caught-in-perfect-storm/

  16. As not heard on Our CBC. The twits felled NewSpeak.
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    “Newsweek, Mired in Red Ink, Cancels Longtime Political Series (Dinosaur Media DeathWatch™)
    The New York Times ^ | November 14, 2011 | Jeremy W. Peters
    Posted on 11/14/2011 4:10:35 PM PST by abb
    It has been one of Newsweek’s signature ventures and a staple of American political journalism since 1984.
    Every presidential election season, the magazine detached a small group of reporters from their daily jobs for a year to travel with the presidential candidates and document their every internal triumph and despair — all under the condition that none of it was to be printed until after the election.
    Then two days after Election Day, the sum of their reporters’ work would appear in the magazine. But the ambitious undertaking, known inside the magazine simply as “the project,” is no more. Newsweek, bleeding red ink and searching for a fresh identity under new ownership, has decided the project would not go forward this election season.
    Explaining the decision to end the series, Edward Felsenthal, executive editor of Newsweek and The Daily Beast, its online partner, cited the quickening speed of the news cycle. In a news environment when scoops are often measured in milliseconds between Twitter posts, fewer news organizations are comfortable waiting to publish the kinds of attention-grabbing anecdotes that they would have once saved for longer articles.”
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2807467/posts

  18. O’hoser’s 80& green juice.
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    “Oh By The Way: It’s Obama’s White Hose Too”
    “Just to make sure everyone understands, diverting funds isn’t just a city and state sport. Why no, we do it for those who make political donations too — especially those who bundle together really big political donations….”
    ” A new book by Hoover Institution fellow Peter Schweizer details the startling extent of the cronyism that has pervaded President Obama’s “green jobs” push. According to Schweizer, 4 out of every 5 renewable energy companies backed by the Energy Department was “run by or primarily owned by Obama financial backers.””
    Those companies’ “political largesse is probably the best investment they ever made in alternative energy,” Schweizer explains. “It brought them returns many times over.””
    “80% eh? That’s a pretty impressive number. And while I can argue that renewable energy companies are probably more likely to be run by Democrats than Republicans you can be a Democrat and not give a lot of money to a Presidential campaign, can’t you?
    Why yes you can…. but in this case the “yes we can” appears to be directly related to Obama’s political donations — give him a lot of money and the federal spigot will open and shower you with taxpayer funds!”
    http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=197513

  19. Mao Stlong* Lepolt.
    Canada’s Liberal leader, Bob Rae, is a nephew of UNaBomber Maurice Strong*, c/o Red China.
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    “Ottawa slammed for stand against Kyoto extension”
    “Facing the danger of collapse in global climate negotiations, the host of the talks is making a hard-hitting appeal to the Harper government to abandon its opposition to an extension of the Kyoto Protocol.
    A top diplomat from South Africa, host of a crucial round of United Nations climate negotiations this month, is attacking Canada in highly undiplomatic language for its refusal to consider extending the international commitments to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions.”
    ““Are you going to follow the United States, are you also going to become a serial non-ratifier of any agreements?” asked Mohau Pheko, the South African high commissioner to Canada, in an unusually harsh criticism.
    “Why take a moral high ground before, on the issue of the environment, and suddenly do an about-turn now?” she asked in an interview with The Globe and Mail.
    “We can’t afford to sign on to UN conventions and, when we don’t like the toys that are inside there, start throwing out the toys that we don’t like.”
    Despite South Africa’s pressure, there is no indication that the Harper government is ready to reconsider its position. In a speech last week, Environment Minister Peter Kent said the government “will not be swayed” from its stand, no matter how “stormy” the climate talks become in Durban.
    “However acute the international pressure, we will not agree to taking on a second commitment-period target under the Kyoto Protocol,” he said.”
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-slammed-for-stand-against-kyoto-extension/article2236195/

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