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Is The BBC Becoming AGW Skeptic? -

Maybe. But not willingly.

Isn’t it kind of odd how the entire world was taken in by former VP Al Gore, the reigning High Priest of the Church of Global Warming of Modern Day Idiots, and his power point presentation masqueraded as a documentary? The fat bastard had the audacity to use his “celebrity” to produce a “film” which nearly the entire world consumed as gospel when in fact the “evidence” of man’s contribution to planetary warming was actually manufactured and you all took it in. Shame on you.

Now, even the BBC is questioning the hysteria.

What happened to global warming?

This headline may come as a bit of a surprise, so too might that fact that the warmest year recorded globally was not in 2008 or 2007, but in 1998.

But it is true. For the last 11 years we have not observed any increase in global temperatures.

And our climate models did not forecast it, even though man-made carbon dioxide, the gas thought to be responsible for warming our planet, has continued to rise.

So what on Earth is going on?

For all the Chicken Little predictions of a global calamity of biblical proportions at the hands of that evil creature man, the earth has actually been cooling for nearly 2 years now. Sunspot activity has been nearly non-existent for the same period yet those who still cling to the fantasy that man is causing “global climate change” (the new flimflam term for this group hysteria) are continuing to blame man’s CO2 contributions which in reality is less than 3% of the total CO2 deposited in our atmosphere annually. If CO2 is actually to blame for warming, cooling, or stagnation, then shouldn’t we blame Willy the wale? The oceans are the largest contributor of CO2 to the atmosphere. But you can’t tell those liberal egg-heads anything now, can you? They are, after-all, unquestionable.

As a matter of fact, even the BBC article had to include those still clinging to their hysterical fantasies.

But those scientists who are equally passionate about man’s influence on global warming argue that their science is solid.

The UK Met Office’s Hadley Centre, responsible for future climate predictions, says it incorporates solar variation and ocean cycles into its climate models, and that they are nothing new.

In fact, the centre says they are just two of the whole host of known factors that influence global temperatures – all of which are accounted for by its models.

In addition, say Met Office scientists, temperatures have never increased in a straight line, and there will always be periods of slower warming, or even temporary cooling.

What is crucial, they say, is the long-term trend in global temperatures. And that, according to the Met office data, is clearly up.

I don’t know about you, but to me these morons are beginning to sound like the adults in the Charlie Brown cartoons. “Wa Wa Wa”. (Or is it WAAAAAAAAA! like a baby. Somebody check Al’s diaper!)

How about someone from the touted IPCC? What do they have to say?

To confuse the issue even further, last month Mojib Latif, a member of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) says that we may indeed be in a period of cooling worldwide temperatures that could last another 10-20 years.

Professor Latif is based at the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences at Kiel University in Germany and is one of the world’s top climate modellers.

The BBC report has to then disclaim that Professor Latif is not becoming a skeptic. But we don’t need him to. All we are interested in is that he no longer proliferate the notion that man is causing global climate change when the evidence does not show it.

There are several factors contributing to the natural changes in our climate. Sunspot activity is only part of it. The oceanic currents are another.

Anyone with more than one functioning neuron (again that leaves out our resident DRONES*) knows that the world’s oceans are what regulate our temperatures. If the sun isn’t warming the oceans as much, doesn’t it make sense that the earth’s temperatures would drop? It certainly does to me and apparently it does to an expert in the BBC article.

According to research conducted by Professor Don Easterbrook from Western Washington University last November, the oceans and global temperatures are correlated.

The oceans, he says, have a cycle in which they warm and cool cyclically. The most important one is the Pacific decadal oscillation (PDO).

For much of the 1980s and 1990s, it was in a positive cycle, that means warmer than average. And observations have revealed that global temperatures were warm too.

But in the last few years it has been losing its warmth and has recently started to cool down.

These cycles in the past have lasted for nearly 30 years.

So could global temperatures follow? The global cooling from 1945 to 1977 coincided with one of these cold Pacific cycles.

Professor Easterbrook says: “The PDO cool mode has replaced the warm mode in the Pacific Ocean, virtually assuring us of about 30 years of global cooling.”

So for all the announcements of the science being settled it turns out that the evidence isn’t. At least where it implicates man as the culprit. And if the evidence isn’t settled and it is possible (if not probable) that man’s CO2 contributions are NOT responsible, then why is Congress and the President insistent that Cap and Tax must be passed to save the planet? If you can answer that question then you can answer an even bigger one. Why are Democrats so in love with taxes?

And just for the record, Cap and Tax won’t curb man’s CO2 contribution. All it does is shift money around. It is nothing more than a wealth redistribution scheme that will inevitably bankrupt the United States. Perhaps that is the real goal.

So, is the BBC Becoming AGW skeptic? I doubt it. But if they are it isn’t a willing situation.

I’m wondering if MSNoBodyCares will cover this revelation? Or CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, and the dead trees for that matter?

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Obama’s Delay Is Turning Afghanistan Into A Quagmire

October 10, 2009 Barack Hussein Obama, Barack Hussein Obama Lies, Democrat Incompetence, Global War on Terrorism, Lunatic Lefties, News, Opinion, Presidential Politics, Stupidity, War on Terrorism, World Events View Comments

On the campaign trail, candidate Obama famously called Afghanistan the “good war”. But the truth of the matter, Afghanistan was the stagnant war. The enemy shifted its focus to Iraq because that is where we chose to fight. The Taliban and al Qaeda where chased out of Afghanistan and into Pakistan and needed to be regrouped. So they called on Islamic “freedom fighters” to engage the mean old United States in its war against Islam in Iraq. Iraq for all the left’s bitching was the front line of the Global War on Terrorism.

Now that the Islamofascists have had their collective asses handed to them in Iraq, the newly reorganized al Qaeda and Taliban are beginning to fight back in Afghanistan. Now that Iraq has been largely turned over to the Iraqis (prematurely or not) US forces are now needed in mass in Afghanistan or all will be lost.

The President hand picked his own commander in Afghanistan. He just happens to be the man who got Saddam Hussein back in 2003. However when his commander asked for an Afghanistan “Surge” as General David Patreus had in Iraq, our paper President is indecisive and soldiers on the ground are dying.

Let me remind you that Obama called Afghanistan the “good war”. Promised to take the fight to Afghanistan. In the grand old tradition of the left during the Bush years, it seems that Obama lied and people are dying.

His indecision has led to a massive increase in the number of casualties.

From My Way News – US forces leave isolated Afghan base after attack

U.S. forces have withdrawn from an isolated base in eastern Afghanistan that insurgents attacked last week in one of the deadliest battles of the war for U.S. troops, the NATO-led coalition said Friday.

The pullout from the Kamdesh outpost near the Pakistani border is likely to embolden insurgent fighters in the region. The Taliban swiftly claimed “victory” for forcing the coalition to leave and said they had raised their flag above the town.

Now in all fairness the withdrawal was planned however, if the President wasn’t dragging his feet about increasing the number of ground troops in Afghanistan, perhaps the pull-out would not have been necessary at all. But Obama, like most Democrat Presidents since the end of World War II is indecisive. He would rather micro-manage from Washington than commit to winning the war on the battlefield using the best information possible – his commanders on the ground. This concern for not losing a battle tends to lead to drawn out conflicts.

Examples – Harry Truman’s inability to win in Korea led to years of stalemate and hundreds of thousands of dead and wounded because the President couldn’t pull the trigger. LBJ’s micro-managing of Vietnam led to hundreds of thousands of names on a granite wall in Arlington, Virginia.

The longer Obama stalls on an Afghan Surge, the more bodies will be coming home either mangled or in bags. This is the stuff that quagmires are made of.

Barack Obama we are told is a smart man. He attended Columbia University and Harvard Law. He lectured Constitutional law at the University of Chicago, but does any of this qualify him to be Commander-in-Chief? The short answer is no. The next question is, why was he elected?

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Obama Continues To Reiterate His Weakness to the Muslim World

Immediately after winning the election, Obamaramadingdong signaled his willingness to open dialog with Iran after decades of silence. The Iranians answered with contempt at the President Elect.

Immediately after taking office, Obamaramadingdong sent a note to the Iranian leadership expressing a willingness to ease the tensions between our nations which was answered by ridicule and observations of American weakness under the Obama Infestation.

So what does that Obamaramadingdong do next? He sends a VIDEO to Iranian leadership to which they have replied…

Khamenei’s initial response was not encouraging, but U.S. officials and European diplomats noted that the Iranian leader did not rule out a future breakthrough. A familiar chant of “Death to America” echoed around a religious shrine in the northeastern city of Mashhad as Khamenei complained that Obama had “insulted the Islamic republic of Iran from the first day.”

He added: “If you are right that change has come, where is that change? Make it clear for us what has changed.”

His remarks came as a nuclear powered U.S. submarine — the USS Hartford — collided at sea with an amphibious vessel, the USS New Orleans, off the Straits of Hormuz. Fifteen sailors were injured, but the submarine’s atomic propulsion system was undamaged.

The Iranian leader’s comments followed a striking attempt by Obama to break the deadlock with the country. The president marked the beginning of the Persian new year with conciliatory remarks intended to establish a new commitment to diplomacy after years of bellicose exchanges between Tehran and the administration of former President George W. Bush.

In the video — subtitled in Farsi — Obama pledged to pursue “constructive ties.” The president noted that the process would “not be advanced by threats,” and referred to Iran as an “Islamic republic,” signalling his readiness to deal with the current religious leadership. SOURCE

Einstein said of insanity – “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” So what is Obamaramadingdong trying to prove by repeating the same redundant tactic over and over?

Obamaramadingdong is one of these types that cannot understand why people don’t think the way that he does. He was raised with an idea that America is the ultimate evil in the world and if WE ‘change’ the world will ‘change’ in turn. He thinks that the American people ushered in ‘change’ by his election. That is the only ‘change’ ever promised by him. The election of an African-American is the only positive ‘change’ that you are entitled to.

The theme of his Olive Branch Diplomacy* is, “America has ‘changed’ as evidenced by the election of Me, the Messiah, the first African-American (non-white) to the Presidency. That should be the only proof you need to prove that we have ‘changed’.” His repeated efforts to send this message to the deaf ears of the Iranian Mullahs is proof, if Einstein was correct, that Obamaramadingdong is – in fact – INSANE.

There exists only two (that’s 2 for you morons who voted for this imbecile) ways that the United States and Iran can ever not be adversarial. The first is submission by the United States to Islam as a theocratic philosophy and joining in the Islamic Caliphate that is coming. OR the second, complete military defeat of Iran and all other Islamic theocracies.

Islamic theocratic nations are never going to submit to a world order which brings about the Kumbaya socialist fantasy of the left. There will never be peace in the Middle-East as long as Islam is permitted to control nations. That said however, there is a complete lack of willingness among the nations of the world to rid our planet of Islamic theocracies.

Radical Islam’s war of fear on the world is in fact – succeeding. As long as we give them legitimacy, they will continue to spread their message of hate. It is embedded in western society whether you want to admit it or not – it IS here.

The first step in countering this covert invasion is to counter it EVERYWHERE not just on the battlefield. Obama in his arrogant socialism doesn’t see a problem. Buddy up to them and perhaps they won’t destroy us. This is a mistake. It is weakness and the Mullahs of Iran and radical Sheiks will exploit this weakness.

Putting this weakness out for the world to see openly is a mistake that Obama is using to destroy everything American. It is embedded in his programming. Yes I said programming.

Obama is the Manchurian Candidate among us. His programming started at infancy by his beloved Mommy and her openly socialist parents. It grew under their tutelage and matured under the influence of Frank Marshall Davis. Obama sees his election as an endorsement of the nation that now is the time for socialism. And the Politically Apathetic American Lemmings who voted for this turd made it possible.

Combining his openly socialist upbringing with the ultra leftist bent under which the House of Representatives is run – the United Socialist States of American is in the birthing stage of labor. It is during this birthing stage when radical Islam has its opening to exploit the chaos created by the radical ‘change’ of the leftists and now they can worm their way into control. Look at Dearborn, MI.

Obama is weak and his politics are making We The People weaker. And the Main Stream Media is turning a blind eye to what he was, is, and becoming.

From this point forward I am listing all posts about Obamaramadingdong as Domestic Terrorism. Because he is empowering domestic terrorism if not actively bringing it about.

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Obama Mediocrity and Incompetence Will Doom the Obama Infestation

With less than a month before Barry Obama takes the oath of office, it has occurred to me to point out the consequences of electing this incredibly unqualified twit chief executive. The people elected Obama in guilt inspired fit of mass hysteria brought on by the liberal guilt machine which is also responsible for the asinine big brother style PC thought police that guilts people into censoring their speech. So much for the 1st Amendment that libtards like for you to believe they are trying to protect.

Before the 2004 Democrat National Convention Barack Hussein Obama was an unheard of (on a national scale) state Senator who had to that point in his career achieved very little. He was legislatively impotent preferring to take no position on anything other than the termination of human life and the neglect of children born alive following botched abortions. He has prided himself as a “community organizer” for whatever that job entails but as a “community organizer” he was just as impotent. He failed to achieve any of the goals he set out to accomplish. As a United States Senator he again, failed to achieve any notable success. In a sense, the 2008 Presidential election resulted in the most successful failure in US history being elected President of the United States.

Consequence #1 – What could we possibly expect from such an underachiever other than more failure?

Since the 2008 campaign launched itself shortly after Christmas 2006, Barack Hussein Obama has been riding a wave of popularity sparked by the proliferation of urban culture. The expansion of which has increased the rate of demoralization in America. White liberal guilt has permitted urban culture to blur the lines between acceptable and unacceptable behavior in this nation. How did it happen? Because white liberal guilt was permitted to become mainstream and as I discussed above – the PC police took control and it was no longer acceptable to question the expansion of this harmful behavior.

The imbeciles in the ghetto, who have traditionally been an unreliable voter base, registered by the millions because of the encouragement and sometimes illegal bribing from organizations such as ACORN. These voter registration efforts took place in largely black neighborhoods in urban areas and were largely successful because Barry is black. I hate to be the bearer of bad news to these simpletons from apathy central – but Barry has more in common with Georgie Soros than you. You bought a bill of goods that his election would empower you. News flash – nothing in your life is going to change.

How do I know this? I spend a lot of time in a largely black neighborhood in Cincinnati and have seen (post election) with my own eyes a sign that said “Yes We Did”. What exactly is that person expecting from the President-Elect? The moon. But there is no way on God’s green earth that Barry can deliver.

Since he was elected, America now has to tolerate people like Montel Williams appearing on television commercials in order to pimp coins with Barry’s likeness on them. Personally, I find these coins – and Montel Williams for that matter – tacky and repugnant.

Which leads me to consequence #2 – What is going to happen when the poor, apathetic African-American base who voted for Barry solely out of a sense of responsibility for getting the first black elected to the highest office in the land realizes that his election isn’t going to matter to them and they fail to support his re-election bid? Or for that matter, the re-election of those in Congress that Barry is going to rely upon to further his agenda? If they feel ignored the likelihood of their ever voting again is nil.

So I say congratulations Barry – for your sake I hope you are Superman and can make good on all your campaign promises. But wait, how could you when you promised different groups contradicting promises? You can’t.

It is impossible to be everything to everybody. But that is exactly what he was proclaimed to be. ‘The Chosen One’ ‘The Messiah’.

The truth is that Obama’s Presidency is doomed to failure before it begins. He can’t be everything to everybody so he isn’t going to even try. He got you to do his bidding and has 4 years to put forth an agenda which has not surfaced yet. His campaign rhetoric was just that, rhetoric. Empty promises that he never intended on honoring.

Obama has a hidden agenda – what that is, is anybody’s guess at this point. It could be that he doesn’t actually have one because he never believed that he would win. It’s possible, but I doubt it.

His mother and grandparents were avid socialists. He surrounded himself with these same kinds of people during his years as a student and “community organizer”. Why on earth would we now believe that he is anything but what he’s been groomed to be – a socialist. So could Marxism be his secret agenda? Possibly.

What I do know for sure is that he hasn’t a clue as to what the Presidency entails. Just as we don’t know exactly what a “community organizer” does. Since he is now privy to intelligence reports and military briefings, he has backed off his withdrawal plans. I wonder why? Could it be that it is much easier being an armchair quarterback than it is to suit up and take the hits?

I also know that there is a power struggle in the making within the Democrat Party and I doubt that sharing power with the Speaker of the House was in the President-elect’s plan.

In 2006 the American people gave the power of the purse to the Democrats and they squandered it. They had the power and did nothing with it. This inspired the people to further trust the Democrats with even more power – but that power will be for nothing as well.

I predict a widening recession maybe even full-out world wide depression brought upon by Democrat advocated regulations and bureaucracy. Obama’s solution? Roads and bridges. Sorry to inform the President-elect but roads and bridges are built by a core of companies who employ specialized personnel. On top of that, there is an asphalt shortage in this country. Unless the President-elect finds a new way to surface roads and bridges, those projects will do nothing to stimulate the economy.

The economy is just one of many issues that Obama will face in his first year as President. However, he is grossly underqualified to address these issues. He has spent years avoiding taking positions on anything but death. Death of the unborn and unwanted. Why should we believe that he has any clue about how to solve the problems that every-day people face every day? He can’t.

As I quoted below the banner of this page, Ann Coulter said it best when she said, “In the spirit of reaching across the aisle, we owe it to the Democrats to show their president the exact same kind of respect and loyalty that they have shown our recent Republican president.” It is my duty and that of every Conservative blogger to point out the political errors of the majority and be the political opposition in this country. Because if we fail we would surrender total power to liberals. And when that happens, this nation would become the USSA (Union of Socialist States of America).

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Sick of Obama’s Iraq Opposition Hypocrisy

November 25, 2008 Barack Hussein Obama, Libtards on Parade, Lunatic Lefties, News, Opinion, Presidential Politics, Stupidity, War on Terrorism, World Events View Comments

Sitting around decompressing after a long week surrounding the death of a family member, I was surfing the net and came across a website that has been tracking Iraq War casualty rates. It got me to thinking about Obama and his “opposition” to the Iraq War. I wondered how Obama’s beloved home of Chicago compares to a war zone this month.

This is for all of you who boo hoo about the numbers of Americans losing their lives in the valiant effort to free the people of Iraq from first tyranny and now terrorist oppression.

In the city of Chicago for the month of November 2008 to date there have been 23 homicides committed. In Iraq (the entire country mind you), 15 US soldiers have lost their lives.

All of the following homicides are considered 1st degree murder…

- On November 1, 2008 at 1:55am a non-domestic homicide was committed on a sidewalk in the 2800 block of N. Rockwell Street.

- On November 1, 2008 at 12:42am a non-domestic homicide was committed on a sidewalk in the 3500 block of W. 72nd Place.

- On November 4, 2008 at 5:15pm a non-domestic homicide was committed on a train platform/depot in the 2600 block of E. 130th Street.

- On November 4, 2008 at 11:53pm a non-domestic homicide was committed at a residence on the porch in the 00 block of W. 70th Street.

- On November 6, 2008 at 11:00am a non-domestic homicide was committed at an apartment in the 7400 block of the S. South Chicago Avenue.

- On November 6, 2008 at 5:13pm a non-domestic homicide was committed in an alley in the 1500 block of W. 63rd Street.

- On November 7, 2008 at 8:44pm a non-domestic homicide was committed in an alley in the 1800 block of S. California Avenue.

- On November 7, 2008 at 11:30am a non-domestic homicide was committed in the street in the 8700 block of S. Exchange Avenue.

- On November 9, 2008 at 7:20pm a non-domestic homicide was committed in the street in the 2500 block of E. 97th Street.

- On November 9, 2008 at 11:43am a non-domestic homicide was committed in an alley in the 100 block of S. Mayfield Avenue.

- On November 9, 2008 at 12:20am a non-domestic homicide was committed in the street in the 2400 block of S. Adams Avenue.

- On November 9, 2008 at 4:09pm a non-domestic homicide was committed at a gas station in the 400 block S. Pulaski Road.

- On November 10, 2008 at 6:10pm a non-domestic homicide was committed at a residence on the porch in the 1400 block S. Kedvale Avenue.

- On November 11, 2008 at 5:30pm a non-domestic homicide was committed on a sidewalk in the 7900 block S. Essex Avenue.

- On November 11, 2008 at 10:18pm a non-domestic homicide was committed in the street in the 3800 block W. Augusta Boulevard.

- On November 14, 2008 at 1:00am a non-domestic homicide was committed on a sidewalk in the 6700 block S. East End Avenue.

- On November 14, 2008 at 8:44pm a non-domestic homicide was committed in a location listed as “other” in the 6000 block S. May Street.

- On November 14, 2008 at 9:00pm a non-domestic homicide was committed at a residence in the 1100 block W. Polk Street.

- On November 15, 2008 at 4:29am a non-domestic homicide was committed on a sidewalk in the 2200 block W. 23rd Place.

- On November 15, 2008 at 2:27pm a non-domestic homicide was committed at a residence in the garage in the 10800 block S. Green Bay Avenue.

- On November 16, 2008 at 10:45am a non-domestic homicide was committed on a sidewalk in the 800 block N. Homan Avenue.

- On November 16, 2008 at 6:55pm a non-domestic homicide was committed in the street in the 7100 block S. Ridgeland Avenue.

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If Barry Obama was so concerned about the deaths of American servicemen and women in Iraq, why is it he seems to be unconcerned about the high numbers of murders being committed in his beloved city of Chicago?

In Chicago, no one is fighting to bring freedom to any oppressed people. In Chicago, there is not terrorist insurgency threatening the stability of the city. But in Iraq, the people lived under a monster for decades. The citizens of that nation were tortured, starved, and gassed at the whim of a madman.

I also have a few things to say about the perceived war in Iraq…

The war has been over since 2003. The entire country was under US control long before the surrender of Saddam Hussein in December of that year. The United States has not been engaged in active combat with the Iraqi Army since mid 2003 so referring to the US effort in Iraq as a war is misleading.

On a related note, just yesterday I read a story about a KFC opening its doors in Fallujah. FALLUJAH! Isn’t that the safe haven that took many US Marines to exterminate just over a year and a half ago? Seems like we’ve kind of won that “war” don’t you think?

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Liberal Contradictions About Iraqi Oil and the War

April 10, 2008 Global War on Terrorism, Libtards on Parade, Lunatic Lefties, News, Opinion, Stupidity, The Do-Nothing Congress, World Events View Comments

I find it incredibly ironic that those who first began to oppose the “War in Iraq” did so on the basis of “No Blood for Oil” as if we would be pillaging Iraq’s oil as we conquered their country. These same libtarded members of Congress are now advocating that Iraq tap into their oil surplus to rebuild their own country. Who buys this oil? The United States of course.

The anti-war slogan “No Blood for Oil” made it seem like we would be willing to trade American, or worse yet to the libtards – Iraqi, blood for plundered oil. Remember the protests? We were only going to war with Iraq to steal their oil. Not to rid the world of a dictator who has openly boasted about his willingness to use chemical weapons against his own people let alone a sworn enemy. Not to rid the world of a dictator suspected of attempting to acquire nuclear materials and weapons. Not to rid the world of a dictator who was willing to allow his own people to starve as he collected millions of dollars through a loophole in the UN’s “Oil for Food” program and used the money to build more extravagant palaces and acquire weapons to re-arm his army. Oh no, the US wasn’t waging war against a war-lord who gained his political position through assassination and maintained it through more assassinations.

The libtarded Bush Derangement Syndrome mantra about the war is “Bush lied, people died” implying that President Bush knew before the invasion of Iraq that they had no Weapons of Mass Destruction. This is a sentiment that has never been proven. If President Bush honestly believed that those weapons did exist, as Saddam Hussein (remember that name) led the rest of the world believe, then he didn’t lie about anything.

The truth my friends is that the war was fought to keep weapons of mass destruction out of the hands of radical Islamic Terrorists. The world believed that Iraq had them because Hussein led the world to believe that he had them. We believed him when he said that he had them and it got him hung.

So now the left wants to dictate to Iraq that they use their oil revenues to rebuild their nation. That was the plan from the beginning. We still heard the cries of “No Blood for Oil”.

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Trouble in Nepal

April 9, 2008 News, World Events Comments Off

A communist candidate for an assembly aimed at rewriting the national constitution in Nepal was killed on Tuesday two days ahead of national elections. This sparked violence between “former” communist rebels and police and at least 1 person was killed when police opened fire.

From FoxNews.com:

Police opened fire on rampaging protesters in western Nepal on Wednesday, killing at least one a day ahead of a landmark election to chart the country’s political future, a police official said.

The protesters, enraged by the slaying of a candidate a day earlier, began smashing stores and vandalizing buses in the mountainous Surkhet district, prompting police to fire at them with live ammunition, said the area’s police chief, Ram Kumar Khanal.

The protesters were defying a curfew imposed in the area following the killing Tuesday of the candidate, Khanal said. One of the protesters was killed Wednesday, he said.

The candidate? Rishi Prasad Sharma of the Communist Party of Nepal United Marxist Leninist was killed on Tuesday by an “unknown gunman in Jahare Bazar town in Surkhet district” according to Government Administrator Anil Pandey.

The elections originally scheduled for Thursday have been suspended are were to be part of a peace agreement with a Communist rebel group known as the Maoists.

I find it interesting that at a time when the whole world is protesting Communist China’s occupation of Tibet that neighboring Nepal would actually recognize Communists as a legitimate political party within their system. I mean, aren’t they worried that any Communist elected officials would be puppets of, I don’t know, Communist China?!?

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The South American Madman Closes Border w/ Columbia

March 4, 2008 News, Opinion, World Events Comments Off

Hugo “The South American Madman” Chavez is pushing South American toward war over something that had nothing to do with his country.

Earlier this week, Columbia launched an incursion into Ecuador in pursuit of a rebel group called FARC. The Marxist terrorist organization had been launching raids into Columbia. Many FARC members were killed including its leader. Following this incursion into Ecuador, Chavez blew a couple of o-rings and moved tanks to the border, expelled diplomats and re-called his own. Now he’s closed the border signaling that hostilities may erupt at any moment.

Question, what will US involvement, if any, be?

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Chavez Flexes Military Muscle [UPDATED]

March 2, 2008 News, Opinion, World Events View Comments

Venezuelan madman Hugo Chavez has moved tanks to the border with Columbia as a warning to Columbian officials following an incursion into Ecuador by Columbian troops.

According to Reuters, Columbian forces tracked down and killed Columbian Raul Reyes, a leader of Marxist FARC rebels in Ecuador. Chavez, reacting to this news ordered his Defense Minister on his nationally broadcast television program, to “move me 10 battalions to the frontier with Colombia immediately, tank battalions.”

“Mr. Defense Minister, move me 10 battalions to the frontier with Colombia immediately, tank battalions,” Chavez said on his weekly TV show.

“The air force should mobilize. We do not want war. But we are not going to let them … come and divide and weaken us.”

The first question that popped into my head is, what business is it of Hugo’s? Is Hugo trying to provoke the United States? He’s been claiming for years that the US is potting his assassination and the over-throw of his country. By provoking Columbia a US ally, this may be the catalyst that Chavez needs to provoke the US into doing what he has previously predicted.

That said, Mr. Chavez may find out that the Colombians aren’t the push overs he thinks and kick his ass back across the border.

The Columbian government said the following in a statement:

“Colombia has not violated any sovereignty, only acted in accordance with the principal of legitimate defense,” the government said in a statement.

“The terrorists, among them Raul Reyes, were used to killing in Colombia and invading the neighboring countries to hide. Many times Colombia has suffered these situations, which we are obliged to avoid to defend our citizens,” it said.

This is no different than Turkey launching the incursion into Iraq in pursuit of PKK rebels or the US pursuing Poncho Villa in 1914. Chavez has his ass up on his shoulders because a Marxist is taking the permanent dirt nap.

He (Chavez) called it a “cowardly assassination” of a “good revolutionary.”

See.

“I am putting Venezuela on alert and we will support Ecuador in any situation,” Chavez said

“He (Columbian President Alvaro Uribe) is a criminal. Not only is he a liar, a Mafia boss, a paramilitary who leads a narco-government, and leads a government that is a lackey of the United States … he leads a band of criminals from his palace,” Chavez said.

Uribe has in the past been reluctant to over-react preferring to utilize all diplomatic means available. Chavez on the other hand sees himself as South America’s leftist leader and is willing to use Soviet style tactics to spread his Marxist beliefs.

Chavez, a Cuba ally, sees himself as a leader of Latin America’s left and says right-wing Uribe is an obstacle to uniting South America.

Chavez wants one South America under one leader… Him. Not happening Hugo.

Note:

All quoted material comes from Reuters.

UPDATE:

“This is something very serious. This could be the start of a war in South America,” Chavez said. He warned Colombian President Alvaro Uribe: “If it occurs to you to do this in Venezuela, President Uribe, I’ll send some Sukhois”—Russian warplanes recently bought by Venezuela. SOURCE

UPDATE 2 1257:

The Daily Mail suggests that the United States may intervene should war break out.

Venezuela threatened to declare war on neighbouring Colombia last night, raising the prospect of the U.S. being drawn into conflict in South America.

The U.S. would almost certainly come to Colombia’s aid if oil-rich Venezuela launched an invasion. But Washington-based diplomats played down the brouhaha and said it might be no more than bluster from Chavez, an outspoken opponent of the U.S.

While the US has bitterly deteriorating relations with Venezuela it has recently improved ties to Colombia and has troops in that country helping in the fight against the massive illicit cocaine trade.

According to Pentagon sources the US has warned Colombia not to let its military venture into Venezuela in pursuit of Farc guerrillas and there is no indication that they have done so. emphasis mine

The US is hoping that President Chavez – known for making extravagant claims – is on no more than a sabre-rattling exercise with no real intention of going to war.

Although there is no hard evidence to support The Daily Mail’s speculation, it is something that citizens of the US should be concerned with. We are already involved in operations around the world fighting terrorism.

Any attack from Venezuela against Columbia would be a threat against an ally in the War on Drugs. What would we do?

The US warned Columbia not to launch any incursions into Venezuela and according to The Daily Mail, there is no evidence they have. They got Raul Reyes and other FARC terrorists in Ecuador not Venezuela.

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U.N. Sec. Gen. Moon Condemns Israeli Attacks, But What About the Palestinian Attacks?

March 2, 2008 News, Opinion, World Events Comments Off

Useless Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (ROK) is condemning Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip as excessive use of force. Surprisingly he says nothing about the Palestinian rocket attacks that were killing and maiming civilians indiscriminately. Someone inside of Gaza, I suspect Hamas, is launching those rockets aimed at civilian areas of Israel. This begs the question, “Is Moon ok with the sunsetting on Israel?”

I’ve spent time in Moon’s homeland and the people there didn’t strike me as the type that would roll over and let something like this happen to them. South Korea was, at the time I was there, always ready to defend itself. Israel has been putting up with weeks of rocket attacks. This seems to be a pattern. Each year about this time they dust this up and each year Israel has to send in the tanks in order for them to stop.

Someone is launching those rockets, Hamas. Someone is supplying those rockets – Iran through Hezbollah. Israel is the lone island in a sea of radical Islam. They’ve been able to defend itself to this point, why shouldn’t they defend themselves now? Perhaps the USS Cole and her battle group should move a little South. Just in case you know.

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