George Soros Takes Aim At Canadian Politics

Political Animal 30 Comments

I wonder what the outcry might be if it were revealed that prominent Republican financiers were working behind the scenes to promote activist campaigns directly linked to Conservative Party of Canada political interests?

Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:19:04 -800
From: Ricken Patel – Avaaz.org [avaaz@avaaz.org]
Please note: you’re receiving this email because you signed a petition with MoveOn.org using the email address XXXXXXXX. MoveOn has merged it’s global effort with groups around the world in a new campaign called “Avaaz.org”. […]
Dear friends,
Wow – on Tuesday we aimed to get 25,000 Canadians to join the emergency call to Prime MInister Harper to stop blocking the crucial UN climate change talks in Bali – and we hit that target in just 18 hours! […] the petition ads are running in papers tomorrow, including the OTtawa Citzen and the Calgary Sun. At the Bali summit, it is touch and go – with almost the entire world vs. Canada and the US over whether to accept targets on harmful carbon emissions. The Draft agreement changes every hour with carbon targets dropping in and out. We now have just over 24 hours left for an all-out push to get Harper to do the right thing….

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Background:

  • Who is George Soros?
  • Avaaz behind Fossil Award
  • Avaaz.org news release. A Soros-funded “massive grass roots” campaign?

    • The Sound Of Settled Science

    Climate Cult 77 Comments

    Consensus Busters: The pushback grows stronger

    Over 400 prominent scientists from more than two dozen countries recently voiced significant objections to major aspects of the so-called “consensus” on man-made global warming. These scientists, many of whom are current and former participants in the UN IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), criticized the climate claims made by the UN IPCC and former Vice President Al Gore.
    This blockbuster Senate report lists the scientists by name, country of residence, and academic/institutional affiliation. It also features their own words, biographies, and weblinks to their peer reviewed studies and original source materials as gathered from public statements, various news outlets, and websites in 2007. This new “consensus busters” report is poised to redefine the debate.
    Many of the scientists featured in this report consistently stated that numerous colleagues shared their views, but they will not speak out publicly for fear of retribution. Atmospheric scientist Dr. Nathan Paldor, Professor of Dynamical Meteorology and Physical Oceanography at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, author of almost 70 peer-reviewed studies, explains how many of his fellow scientists have been intimidated.
    “Many of my colleagues with whom I spoke share these views and report on their inability to publish their skepticism in the scientific or public media,”
    […]
    The distinguished scientists featured in this new report are experts in diverse fields, including: climatology; oceanography; geology; biology; glaciology; biogeography; meteorology; oceanography; economics; chemistry; mathematics; environmental sciences; engineering; physics and paleoclimatology. Some of those profiled have won Nobel Prizes for their outstanding contribution to their field of expertise and many shared a portion of the UN IPCC Nobel Peace Prize with Vice President Gore.
    Additionally, these scientists hail from prestigious institutions worldwide, including: Harvard University; NASA; National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR); Massachusetts Institute of Technology; the UN IPCC; the Danish National Space Center; U.S. Department of Energy; Princeton University; the Environmental Protection Agency; University of Pennsylvania; Hebrew University of Jerusalem; the International Arctic Research Centre; the Pasteur Institute in Paris; the Belgian Weather Institute; Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute; the University of Helsinki; the National Academy of Sciences of the U.S., France, and Russia; the University of Pretoria; University of Notre Dame; Stockholm University; University of Melbourne; University of Columbia; the World Federation of Scientists; and the University of London.
    The voices of many of these hundreds of scientists serve as a direct challenge to the often media-hyped “consensus” that the debate is “settled.”

    Update – Here’s a stinging counter-punch: “After a quick review of the report, Gore spokeswoman Kalee Kreider said 25 or 30 of the scientists may have received funding from Exxon Mobil Corp.”

    “This is the saddest and most pathetic thing I have ever heard.”

    Religion Of Submission 109 Comments

    Ali Eteraz replies to a party to the CIC complaint against Maclean’s in the comments section of this post;

    “Please let us be heard?”
    “Provide me a vehicle for debate?”
    Is something wrong with you?
    1 -Did you call Mark Steyn’s agent and try and set up a public debate? I bet he’d love a go; the right wing pundits do.
    2 – Did you contact opposition publications to Macleans and publish stuff there? I bet they’d love a go to make Macleans look bad.
    3 – Did you try and raise funds to start a new liberal magazine so you can respond to people like Mark Steyn?
    4 – Did you contact the writer of Little Mosque on the Prairie, who is quite sympathetic to the CIC, and ask her to make a snide reference to the demographics issue that Steyn raises?
    5 – Did you call Tarek Fateh, who and his associates seemingly have NO PROBLEM WHATSOEVER getting published works critical of Steyn?
    6 – Did you even think about taking me up on my offer to get you guys published in the Guardian?
    7 – Did you try and contact Anar Ali, the short story writer, to use her influence to write a rebuttal?
    8 – Did you try to contact Irshad Manji — who last year wrote a piece damning all those who seek to stifle immigration — to help use her influence in challenging Steyn?
    9 – Did you try to contact an agent for yourself or your other equally inept legal friends so that you might write an anti-Steyn?
    I’m sorry if this sounds too much like a generalization, but I’ve dealt with individuals propounding the same kind of rhetoric you are — willful victimization, complete ignorance of how the world works, wallowing in self pity — and they often love to attach themselves to Western Muslim communities after 9/11 and drag them down. I’m sure you’ve got a few Muslim enablers as well. The individuals I am describing often tended to be highly educated, driven by some kind of parochial original sin which motivates them to teach utter and total despair to the community they attach themselves to, so that they may then save said community, and feel good about themselves.
    I bet you and the other law students who have done nothing but toe the line the entire life (and have now turned into “humanitarians!” in what I figure is the last year of law school) had grandiose visions of having your name appear in Macleans as “defenders of the weak.” To be followed by a parade led by beautiful Muslim muhajjibas (oh, but how dare I suggest that YOU might be an orientalist).
    Again, like I said, the statement of yours that I just quoted, is one of the saddest things I’ve read; quite helpless in fact. I never respond at this length in the comments, and felt compelled to do so, because you are just so far gone its tragic.
    Anyhow this has been my last and final response to you.
    Best of luck.

    h/t

    Reader Tips

    Reader Tips 71 Comments

    It’s a quagmire;

    Democrats made the anti-Iraq crusade their top priority in the new Congress. Now, the 70-vote approval of the war by the Senate represents the breathtaking dimension of their failure.”

    Three of history’s best charts.
    Liberal Press Release: “Mr. Gore and Mr. Dion shared their thoughts on hating America and about the positions of both Canada and the United States here at the Bali talks. They also discussed their alarmist efforts to further bludgeon their media friends to help further their one world socialist agenda. One tax, one world.”
    Add yours in the comments.

    Merry Christmas From Garth Turner

    Moonbats 101 Comments


    A reader explains – “This is an online…christmas? holiday? disturbing? card sent, presumably to commenters on Garth Turner’s blog.” The copy of the email I received indicates it’s “From: “Garth Turner, MP Halton” [mp@garth.ca]”
    I’m holding out hope that this is a hoax…
    source
    Update. The good citizens of Halton can be proud. It’s no hoax. It appears that their elected member of parliament is actually sending this “e-card” to individuals who have commented at his blog site.

    Y2Kyoto: Enter the Dark Age of Unreason

    Moonbats 73 Comments

    “Don’t tell my boss, but two-thirds of the delegates here are mad.”

    I nearly didn’t go to Bali. The UN, which had not wanted any dissent at this carefully-staged event, rejected my journalistic credentials out of hand, and without explanation. However, a non-government organization came to the rescue and the high priests didn’t dare to say No a second time. That would have looked too obvious. I proved my journo-cred by writing a major article in the Jakarta Post on day 1 of the conference, cheekily claiming my share of the Nobel Prize because the IPCC had made a correction to its latest Holy Book at my suggestion, and concluding that, since our influence on the climate is a non-problem, and the correct approach to a non-problem is to do nothing, my fellow-participants should have the courage to do nothing and push off home.
    […]
    Ever since the high priests tampered with the scientists’ text of the IPCC’s 1995 Holy Book, deleting multiple references to the absence of credible evidence for any anthropogenic effect on climate and inserting the directly contrary statement that there was now a discernible human influence, anyone who dares to check the science is regarded as a heretic for daring to question the Holy Books of voodoo. Never mind the facts: just believe the nonsense, even when it doesn’t add up.
    I couldn’t resist baiting the stallholder at the stand run by a certain national weather bureau. This particular tax-gobbler, reliably Messianic in its Siotological fervour, had a childishly imaginative poster that ramped up the imagined disasters as global temperature rose by each additional degree Celsius. At just 2 degrees, the poster said the Greenland ice sheet would be permanently destabilized. Oo-er. The message was illustrated by the usual picture of a glacier calving spectacularly into the water.
    “’Scuse me,” I said, Earl-of-Emsworth expression in place, “but isn’t that a picture of a glacier that cuts across a freshwater lake in Argentina?” For it wasn’t Greenland. It looked suspiciously like a grainy vid-grab from the traditional collapsing-glacier footage shown every few minutes on the unspeakable BBC. As the waters of the freshwater lake build up behind the glacier, it breaks apart spectacularly every eight years. Or rather, as I pointed out to the stallholder, every five years these days, because much of the southern hemisphere is cooling. This image did not demonstrate “global warming” but regional cooling.
    […]
    Therein lies a danger that Gore has not yet seen. For he failed, yet again, to declare his financial interest before whipping up worldwide alarm with his trademark errors and exaggerations in Bali. He is a director of Lehman Brothers, a global finance house that wants to control the worldwide managed market in carbon-emissions trading. He founded his own “green” corporation, Generation Investment Management. He is a paid member of the Board of a renewable-energy company. In the UK, if he made a speech containing so many deliberate and unidirectional errors as he did in Bali, and if he failed to declare his financial interest, he would be committing a criminal offence.
    It is surely only a matter of time before a complaint is filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, alleging that, through the numerous, extreme and scientifically-unwarranted exaggerations which Gore has relentlessly continued to peddle notwithstanding the warning in the UK judge’s verdict, he is in effect fraudulently promoting a false prospectors to potential investors. Indeed, his exaggerations are on such a scale, and have commanded such attention, and have done so much damage, that he may even have committed an offence under the Federal racketeering statute. I wanted to ask Gore about his failure to disclose his financial interest, but – as usual – he does not dare to take questions.

    RTWT.

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