Hey, did you hear the one about the UN?
United Nations climate chief Christiana Figueres said that democracy is a poor political system for fighting global warming. Communist China, she says, is the best model.
China may be the world’s top emitter of carbon dioxide and struggling with major pollution problems of their own, but the country is “doing it right” when it comes to fighting global warming says Figueres.
Yep, and the proof is in the pudding that used to be air.
Just one of the many benefits of living under a basic dictatorship. Here are five more.
And the media, like ours, don’t report on things which they believe to be harmful
to our little ears. A curious instance: when Nixon was president, and beginning his
rapprochement with China, he ordered the bombing of Haiphong harbour. A friend of
mine listened regularly to the Chinese news broadcasts in English, and told me that
there was no mention whatsoever of the bombing. Only vaguely positive things were
mentioned about the US government, despite the US media being up in arms about it.
CNN and the NYT couldn’t have suppressed the news better.
When you hear statements this deranged coming from our would be global governors, you realize that the upper regions of transnational authority is populated with raving psychopaths.
Why are we still a member of this indeed – special shout out to Albertans, this is the crucible of authoritarian dementia which spawned your Primier.
While we are sure that the trace gas CO2 in the atmosphere is not ‘gassing the planet’ we can be
assured that the Chinese lack of pollution controls and a landscape rife with smokestacks are assuredly ‘gassing the planet’.
United Nations climate chief Christiana Figueres crypto fascist believes that gassing the countryside is a good thing…hmmm.
Time to heave the UN IPCC overboard!
Cheers
Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North”
Hey, little Justy “admires Chinas basic dictatorship” too, cause like, dictatorships allow countries to go greener faster and junk… or some other such blathering nonsense… Maybe the pro dictator Liberals can hire this deranged woman to be a candidate, or as the media would call her, “a star candidate”. Heh.
She must be getting her China love advice from Shiny Pony.
He thinks China is a spiffy place to live, all greenie and Gaia loving etc.
Wow! I didn’t think that level of partisan-fueled stupidity was possible. Alas for humanity, I was wrong.
Are you certain that this wasn’t Justin in drag?
Christiana Figueres must of not gotten the memo that China has 8 million acres too polluted to farm:
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.ca/2014/01/8-million-acres-of-chinas-farmland-is.html
The more I watch and listen to politicians the more I think they need professional accreditation. On one hand we are told they are wiser, smarter, more humane and more enlightened than the rest of us. On the other hand their words and action disproves this idea.
Perhaps they should be required to write an exam that tests their knowledge about energy, science, math, history, economics and the principles of democracy and individual rights. Personality screening might not hurt either. The results should be published in detail so voters can judge the political candidates ability to make good decisions in those areas. Weed out the weak-minded and psychologically dysfunctional before they can do any damage.
Oh we know. I have never been so po’d about the results of an election, before or since, when Redford was elected. God damn can’t anybody have a balanced budget anymore?
LC, Figueres is NOT a politician. She’s a career bureaucrat, starting a career with the Costa Rican foreign ministry before branching into NGO activity, a turn at university before getting into the UN bureaucracy. She’s never represented or been elected to anything in her entire life.
Of course she thinks democracy is a poor system.
1. It prevents the UN from establishing its non-elected governance over troublesome things like national sovereignty,
2. It means the ignorant peasants get a say in what Christiana and the Philosopher Kings pronounce from on high, and
3. democracy means that aristocratic twits like her will never be placed in charge of anything if it has to be voted on.
I LIKE Christiana. She’s the living, breathing reminder of why everything to do with the UN must be completely and utterly opposed.
waiting for CBCpravda to trumpet justins insight to the world
“Weed out the weak-minded and psychologically dysfunctional before they can do any damage”
I think that it should be applied to the voters first, then we probably won’t have to worry about the rest. Who in their right mind would ever elect Justin?
Majority governments in Canada are de facto dictatorships. NAFTA, the GST and C-68 attest to that. Our system is just a bit less ruthless than China’s. Like an iron fist in a velvet glove. Yer still getting screwed, but they give you free Vaseline and call it foreplay.
Don’t remember where I got this but it’s a report via Sierra Club of proposed coal fired energy plants.
59 countries 1,199 projects. NOTE many of these projects will not come to fruition. “According to IEA estimates, global coal consumption
reached 7,238 million tonnes in 2010. China accounted
for 46 percent of consumption, followed by the
United States (13 percent), and India (9 percent).” http://www.wri.org/sites/default/files/pdf/global_coal_risk_assessment.pdf
I didn’t know that. That’s even worse. Unelected, unaccountable, far away bureaucrats making decisions that have major impacts on citizens standard of living is profoundly undemocratic.
As always, cgh, your comments are insightful.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2540955/Beijing-clouded-smog-way-sunrise-watch-giant-commercial-screens-Tiananmen-Square.html
The smog has become so thick in Beijing that the city’s natural light-starved masses have begun flocking to huge digital commercial television screens across the city to observe virtual sunrises.
We all knew this would happen when her nut houses where left open. Add to that leftist politics. The strongest flakes would rule rule by the most dominant being the more insane.
The survival of the most degenerate for the quickest gains
Off the political aspect, but my wife and I were in China last May. From Shanghai on the coast to Chongqing inland, each day was an 18% grey. The sun was there, but just a weak ball in the sky that one could look directly at without strain.
In Beijing it snowed. Each flake that fell upon my wife’s dark shiny coat left a grey bit of sooty material as it melted. By the time we returned to our hotel, the coat was completely in need of cleaning.
And that’s what those folks breathe each day.
On the other hand, there’s a great many Audi A6’s and Buicks on the freeways, instead of ox drawn carts and rickshaws.
The moral pillars at the UN are also now demanding that the Vatican release the findings of their investigations into child abuse. Release the findings to the UN of course.
As Kate might say, “Why do we still belong to this thing?”
The UN is now everything they opposed and were supposed to guard against in their genesis. Communism equals domination and world domination is now the goal of the UN. There must be something good in communism…..over 100 million dead can’t all be wrong and western society just can’t say enough good things about China and the UN. I’m just waiting until we get glowing reports about the triumphs of N Korea. The present ambassador (Dennis Rodman) is every bit as credible as the UN. They really should start teaching history in school again instead of sexed.
Well said Peter, and those who connect this UN bureaucrat to Marxism. Since Justin thinks the same way, we now know, as if we did not do earlier, that the Liberal Party of Canada has become the equivalent of the Russian Menshevik Party, while the NDP are somewhat mild version of the Bolsheviks.
Outside of the UN and EU, can North Korea realistically claim they have the high ground?
Opps.
Given the UN and EU …..
We have heard this before. It was during the run-up to the Copenhagen Kyoto Conference in 2009. Gore & Oboma went to China on a mission & Paul Krugman wrote a NYT article praising the environmental plans of China. That was meant as a nudge.
After the Copenhagen disappointment an angry Paul Krugman went on PBS and said, “We will send our UN Green Environmental operatives into China and convert the people”
The UN statement could have one of two reasons: They, the green army, may have been very successful in the 5 years since Copenhagen, or they have been caught meddling in China and they are fearful of arrest.
Who in their right mind would ever elect Justin, RGB?
No-one. But that’s no comfort – odds are there are more than enough deranged voters to do just that.
That’s why they need to be “weeded” out.
Bin Laden should have aimed the jets at the UN building.
Touché!
This “basic dictatorship” nonsense illustrates why I call the twerp Liberal leader Kim Justin-il.
North of 90 hits another home run outta da park. What would you, income tax to 99% of income???GST is a good way of taxing, increase it and drop the income tax and institute “rebates” for the actual needy. As to NAFTA, would you we build a huge wall????Come in out of the cold BOY, visit Florida for a week and let those 2 synapse thaw out!!
Thank you, LC. This is the key difference which N60 doesn’t understand, and it’s the precise reason why Figueres hates democracy. Every four years or so, we the benighted voters have an opportunity to throw the government out, hurl the buggers headlong into the unemployment line. Hence, they can only rule by taking into account, not so much what we want, as what we really don’t want. As a general rule, people don’t vote for something; they vote against something.
However, unelected bureaucracies such as the UN or the EU never have to face the wrath (and possibly the pitchforks) of the voters. So how do you unelect an unelected bureaucracy? Absent a peaceful, institutional process, pitchforks appears to be the only way.
The proper quotation about proof of a proof follows …
“A proof is a proof. What kind of a proof? It’s a proof. A proof is a proof. And when you have a good proof, it’s because it’s proven.”
Right Honourable Jean Chretien, September 2002
Occam –
WRT Nurse Ratched – Redford – there is speculative talk of a Prime Minister Alison Redford.
Be very afraid – this woman is deviously clever.
A Myers-Briggs personality assessment would be good start.
To become Prime Minister Redford, the current premier of Alberta would have to head up a Liberal-NDP coalition party. I couldn’t see her getting beyond the first ballot at a CPC convention.
China’s environmental problems aren’t just its problems. They spread to other parts of Asia.
This is the basic dictatorship Justin loves. Oh joy.
“have aimed the jets at the UN building.”
There would be no point in attacking something that represented utter impotence.
“there is speculative talk of a Prime Minister Alison Redford.”
She is from Alberta not Quebec.
C’mon folks. Those “5 reasons’ have got to be just a web hoax. Too silly for words.