Michael Ignatieff wants Canadian taxpayers to fund public childcare at home and abortions in third world countries.
Well I suppose the latter could be seen to be part of their environmental policy as well as ‘social justice’ and thereby kill two birds with one stone as it were, but where is the money going to come from?
And when even your media cheerleaders seem skeptical, you know at the very least that your messaging is faulty.
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Related:
Canadians ok with more spending this year but want taps turned back after: poll – CP:
...The survey results appear to mesh with the Harper government’s plan for the March 4 budget, which will implement the second year of the Conservatives’ economic stimulus plan even as it launches a spending review aimed at reining in costs the following year.
However, Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff might be bucking public sentiment with his promise to pour money into child care and early-childhood education, no matter how deep the deficit, should he become prime minister…
How long will it take Mr. Iffy to waffle on this one?
And did he advise the Liberal caucus about his big ideas? Apparently not. Joan Bryden gives us the details in “Ignatieff urges Harper not to exclude abortion, contraception from G8 health initiative”:
...The release went on to list a series of anti-abortion comments from various Conservative MPs, dating as far back as 1990. Most of the quotes were unrelated to Canada’s foreign aid policy.
The latter tactic was risky in so far as a good number of Liberal MPs hold equally strong views against abortion, including Toronto MP John McKay, who co-chaired Tuesday’s roundtable discussions.
Late Tuesday, Liberal MP Paul Szabo said he was caught off guard by the announcement and claims Ignatieff doesn’t have a consensus for the stand among Liberals.
“I am a pro-life MP and there are many of my colleagues in the Liberal caucus who will protect the unborn in their decisions as Parliamentarians, and should matters come before the House they will continue to act accordingly,” Szabo told the anti-abortion website, LifeSiteNews...
Oops!
If you click on the Lifesite link you’ll see that Szabo even calls the move ‘opportunistic’.
Good work Peter. Keep it up.
Ignatieff pokes abortion issue in search for a few votes – National Post
Michael Ignatieff: Yesterday’s Man, Today’s Fear-Monger – Alex G Tsakumis. (H/T Bourque)
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Thursday Update
‘They’re prepared to take aggressive position’ – Kevin Libin, Post:
“Of all the issues that you could possibly raise about women’s health, why would you start with abortion?” Mr. Flanagan says. “What kind of mindset is that that you have to start killing unborn babies in order to help people? It seems to be based on the now discredited theory that poverty in the Third World is based on overpopulation. I don’t think any serious scholar believes that anymore.”
Ah yes but perhaps Mr. Iffy sees it as a carbon offset type of policy.
good post very strong
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wilson suggested last evening on AA’s site that this abortion thingy coming out of the thinking thoughts camp, has a Donollo/Chretien, ‘dissing Reform’ signature all over it.
It is precisely what I have been thinking although I cannot keep track of the many attempts this week they have made to do the whole backwater, barefoot and pregnant shtick.
The moral compass, logical thinking and integrity that these people lack must be entirely from one half of their brain.
Jo time to dust off your copy of the NDP Waffle Manifesto to ascertain what policy Iggy will be releasing to the media today. Eugenics perhaps, abortion and eugenics are the socialists’ pet topics these days.
Off topic, sorry but did anyone see what the G&M is up to today? Seems they are on the ‘Rights and Democracy’ bandwagon. And wouldn’t you know it, all the staff signed a letter condemning the Tory appointments to the Board.
I think they have three articles in today’s paper. I commented on one.
(Quote): I did some digging into Alhaq, including their website. Seems they are heavily involved in Lawfare and BDS (Boycott Divestment Sanctions), outfits that are determined to beggar Israel any way they can. I don’t understand how this group got on the list for funding in the first place. If this was any example of how R&D handled their mandate, then they were over due for a house cleaning. (End Quote)
Naturally, I’m in the minority. Sigh
This is why Liberals ‘didn’t get it done’ and how ‘hard it was to set priorities’ when they were in govt,
with majority govts and back to back surpluses.
They are airheads,
pandering to Dippers and special interest groups.
PMSH is talking about keeping 3rd world nation women children alive with clean drinking water and vaccinations and health nurses.
One of my favourite liberal phrases is “social justice.” What does that mean? Where is the “social justice” in forcing all taxpayers to pay for national daycare, and increase the deficit? Are taxpayers not part of society too?
More proof, if we needed any at all that the guy most in tune with Canada and what Canadians want is currently our Prime Minister, and short of forcing an election or being bolstered undeservedly by media there is nothing that Mr. Waffle can do about it.
For those in Ontario, I have just pulled a Danny Williams and opted for private physio. therapy because going the OHIP route would mean a 4-6 month wait.
Speaking of Danny Millions. I can’t help but comment on the sheer hypocrisy of the same media pundits who, when Danny-boy was crapping all over Harper and the CPC, warning the rest of his province that a vote for Harper would be the death of medicare as we know it, were thrilled with what Danny did and had to say, but now are crucifying Williams for making a personal choice outside of the system and the country.
I expect Danny to be one humble fellow when he returns. Despite his failings I wish him a full recovery.
A pox on all the houses of those media wolves at CTV in particular whose hypocrisy has become obnoxious.
Iggy’s policies are nothing more than a re-gifting of Chetien’s redbook. Nothing new just a recycling of Chretien’s unkept promises using a throwback Donolo to once again pull a fast one on Canadians.
it is playing out faster than I imagined
Fun to watch the squirming
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Kelly McParland: Ignatieff heads down same path as Dion
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2010/02/03/km-liberals-and-daycare.aspx
I’ve had problems with Szabo in the past on certain issues but kudos to him for coming out this ill conceived demand by his leader.
I’m wondering if some in msm are getting tired of the libs/dips and their games of late.Just caught Roger Smith on with Matheson(ctv) discussing todays ‘committee’ mtgs with the opposition members on the detainee thing (saw Kady front and center in the shot) What was MOST interesting was Smith refers to this as ‘grandstanding’..and he specifically mentions the appearance by Errol Mendes..Matheson reminds us all that Mendes appears regularly on ctv as an expert on legal matters..to which Roger replies..sit down for this folks..Mendes is closely CONNECTED TO THE LIBERAL PARTY!!! We all knew that,and nice of ctv to finally disclose that one of their ‘experts’ is FAR from partisan.This should have been stated before any appearances by Mendes previously as it certainly taints his ‘expertise’..Good work by Roger Smith to ‘out’ what we knew,..he is hardly a fan of the Cons but I wonder if ctv has been getting some blowback for their bias of late?
I also notice that the Khadr love-in has fallen off the msm radar..hmmmm,wonder if they finally get it.that majority of ‘real’ Canadians have NO sympathy for this?
Bruce @ 11:17am
I just read the piece in the NP. Kelly does an excellent analysis of Mr. Iffy and his so called policies. I think he may be right on that one.
Bruce – Thanks for that McParland link.
Good on you Paul Szabo for standing up and saying… Hey wait a minute!
Those few teeny tiny voices in the Liberal party who are pro-life won’t be heard amidst the rumblings and fumblings of the rest of the herd who are viciously pro-choice….
Sammy @11:22 am
Thanks for sharing that with us, good to know but I still don’t trust Smith and CTV. They have their brief moments but their very brief.
Vacationing in the US – hard to get much news about politics except from my blogs…. Big story here in Florida – Canada’s health care can’t be much if the person in charge of his own Province has to come to the US to get a heart operation….I refuse to read anything of Jane Tabor’s – she is so liberal bias, but I read a quote from a blogger about her report yesterday – she was quoting something Stockwell Day said in 2000…. why doesn’t she quote what her liberal leader said in 2000 and what was all his Canadian policies and ideas then!!!!…. How come she is so anxious to quote what the Tories said 10 years ago, but refuses to quote where her liberal leader spends his vacations…. about his children… and wife’s history….first wife… just dig for Tory dirt, that is all she is capable of, and I assure you, if Iggy’s history was Harper’s history, we would never hear the end of it!.
The natural end result of the dogood/feelgoodism of the left-liberal mindset.
This is the mindset of Iffy and his Liberals.
“The children, all of whom are terminally ill, come from Canada, the United States and Australia, she said.”
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“Sick kids stranded as Olympic cruise halted”
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/759854–sick-kids-stranded-as-olympic-dream-trip-canned?bn=1
Iffy couldn’t take care of his own family. Why should anyone listen to him when he talks about looking after someone else’s family.
O/T – but Christina Blizzard’s article today is very positive for the CPC and the PM. Chris shares her thoughts about the PM’s choice of Bob Runciman to the Senate, but she also says something else that has been speculated on here a while ago, and that I agree with. That is that McGuinty shouldn’t have stayed on provincially for a go at a 3rd term. He should have made the move to federal politics taking the leadership from Mr. Iffy Waffle because above all Dalton was election ready and could have, if he wanted to have turned the Liberals around much faster federally.
Staying on beyond his due date might just set the entire provincial Liberal party back even more.
the NP’s McParland is right. I do believe that the Liberals, in a panic mode, are trying out every issue but the kitchen sink in hopes that one of them will stick with voters long enough for the LPOC to actually think some thoughts about forming policy.
In the comments on that article is a great one from a female liberal who wont vote for Mr Iggy.
Wonder how many of the grass roots feel the way she does.
Sammy, further to your earlier post:
http://news.sympatico.ctv.ca/abc/home/contentposting.aspx?isfa=1&feedname=CTV-TOPSTORIES_V3&showbyline=True&date=true&newsitemid=CTVNews%2f20100203%2fopposition_meetings_100203
“First, a special committee on Afghanistan will continue to try to determine how much the government knew about the torture of Afghan detainees, and when.
University of Ottawa professor Errol Mendes and Colonel (ret’d) Michel Drapeau will appear before the MPs on that topic.”
What a riot!! The opposition parties are beyond pathetic!!
“… meetings which are largely seen as a publicity stunt by the opposition, said CTV’s parliamentary correspondent Roger Smith.”
“Really this is just a partisan show the opposition is putting on to highlight the prorogation of the House by the government,” Smith said.”
Joanne, problem seems to have solved itself re data error
dillon@12:15pm, absolutely correct.
PET Cemetery Announcement from Our CTV.
Iffy, Jacky, and Jill, the Separatist Coalition, invite youse to a Whine Party.
BYOB. PET.
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“Tories absent from ‘all party’ meetings in Ottawa
CTV.ca – 2 hours ago
In what are being described as “all party” committee meetings — which won’t include any members of the Conservative party — opposition MPs will meet in Ottawa Wednesday to discuss foreign affairs issues.”
The gap or lead Paul Szabo has held his riding has shrunk, he is like most liberals and NDP who have broken ranks on occasion. Paul does NOT drink into the media driven kool-aid about the 11 point drop on a full time basis.
Look at the photo-ops of Liberals, the closer to the leader the more likely you are a bobble-head.
2009 was a close for the most part and for only a few weeks was it a significant gap. The Gap was caused by the Liberals threatening an election. The gap was reduced Oct-Dec 2008 to 9,7,6 and 4 points after Iggy backtracked.
In October 2008 families gathered around the thankgiving table and decided our PM Stehpehn Harper was the best leader to deal with the economic uncertaintity. -Nik Nanos Post Analysis. Oct 15, 2008
When voters were polled on replacing the PM with a coalition led by 3 stooges the numbers shot up to 46% in December 2008. John Stewart has a laugh at it on his show! (looking for the clip)
With all Mr Iggy’s stmts re health issues, brain disease, abortion, then the rehash of red book promises made and broken, I think Mr Iggy is suffering from
RMD, repressed memory disorder.
What next, no wage and price controls, as promised by PET yeas ago, only to be implemented a few months later.
Maybe we need a fb page, titled, Liberals then and now, with a list of all redbook promises they never had any intention of keeping.
Islam: the ally of the Separatist Coalition of the CBC/CTV, Liberal Iffy, Taliban Jack LaytoNDP, commie Duceppe Bloc.
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“Pakistan girls school destroyed
UPI.com – Jan 24, 2010
24 (UPI) — Suspected Pakistani Taliban militants have blown up a girls school in the North West Frontier Province, officials say”
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“Harper government violating Constitution: prof
CBC.ca – 37 minutes ago
The Conservative government has violated the Constitution and will be in contempt of Parliament if it continues to refuse to release uncensored documents regarding the Afghan detainee issue, a constitutional law professor says.”
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/013264.html#comments
Re: The so called documents that the Harper government is witholding or redacting.
IOf the media would just report the truth they would quote both Harper and government officials that NO member of the Conservative government has been inolved in any way, even at an advisory level, with determining which documents can be provided and which information is to be redacted.
The beurocrats follow strickt guidelines which have not been changed since the Liberals were in government.
If Liberals were in government now the very same rules would apply and the very same documents would be denied access to MPs.
Or, is that now ANOTHER Liberal rule that Ignatieff and Layton want changed since it is now a conservstive regime?
“Harper government violating Constitution: prof
CBC.ca – 37 minutes ago
Apparently the conservative governmen have violated constitution for ‘BEING CONSERVATIVES’ and nothing else.
The liberals want to disclose sensitive documents of our troops then, the only solution to this is. vote the liberals back into government, professor
All the Conservatives have to do is start replaying pretty much the same truth ads they played last year all through the Super Bowl re: how the “coalition” doesn’t respect the will of the people and seems to think it can slide one past voters.
Those truth ads are as good today as they were last year. We also know that there’s more of a Layton “coalition” tape kicking around out there somewhere.
I’m thinking that the PM is waiting all of this out because it’s going to taint the Olympics which is what we should be paying attention to now. Not the coalition.
OT but what is lizzie may talking about re Own the Podium. We did say that the libs/opposition would have some plan to disrupt the olympics. Something about funding.
Just caught a few minutes of Evan’s show and lizzie was spouting off about something Gary Lund did or didn’t say today re Olympic funding.
Question of the day, should taxpayers be funding olympic athelets during this recession.
With the olympics only days away, why are the lib/lizzie and others trying to make the athelets worry about funding. Leave it to the media/libs to screw things up.
PET Cemetery bull-etin: Cliches from the Separatist Coalition.
1. “no stone unturned”.
2. “in order to get to the bottom of this story,”.
“a meeting between legal and constitutional experts and representatives of the Liberals, Bloc Quebecois and New Democrats Wednesday.”
Separatist Coalition strategy session mulls(nice MSM word) the hoariest of cliches:
““I believe that Parliament needs to leave no stone unturned in order to get to the bottom of this story,” said Drapeau.”
>>>> Liberal MP Iffy’s name does not appear in the TORedStar blurb.
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/760035–censure-tories-over-detainee-handling-mps-urged
Tom Clark continues to promote the Liberal Party. Liberals all good …Conservatives all bad. Clark comes across as more Liberal than John Manley and Iffy’s financial advisor.
At Evan is attempting to have both the government position and opposition position. Of course CBC has Kady working full time for the Liberals so I guess they will allow the Government some time to report the facts….
We need Fox!!!!!
Richco yes the red book does come to mind doesn’t it. The Liberals are bereft of ideas so they fall back on what was then…and take the now ideas coming from the NDP and the Conservatives and put their own spin on it, believing that if they talk about it long enough it will become their own….
It is so irresponsible of Mr. Iggy to say National Daycare by hook or by crook. And the last word would definitely describe what it would be to the Canadian purse. This man and his advisors are becoming so transparent, but I do not think they see it. Ya see they are following their old mantras…why not…it worked before…it should again.
I am convinced that I am backing the right horses. I like the driver too.
So many subjects covered here Joanne…my head is spinning…. but I like to come here and settle into the energy…
So I guess Ignatieff will be attending the Olympics courtesy of the All-Access pass the Government gave him. Funny how he’s never mentioned that ….
This is wayyy offf topic but it is absurd
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/760035–censure-tories-over-detainee-handling-mps-urged
University of Ottawa law professor Errol Mendes and retired Col. Michel Drapeau, now a lawyer, urged MPs not to abandon their probe even though the Tories have tried to stifle their work by denying a parliamentary committee access to crucial documents, attacking the credibility of witnesses and even suspending Parliament for two months.
The government’s defiance became more strident after senior diplomat Richard Colvin, who served in Afghanistan in 2006 and 2007, told the committee that torture was widespread and his repeated warnings went unheeded by ministers, mandarins and military chiefs.
“I believe that Parliament needs to leave no stone unturned in order to get to the bottom of this story,” said Drapeau.
Liberal Iffy’s I’O Harvard buddy: I’O Elvis.
I’O'I’O'I’O >>> ‘I’O = 49 I’Os.
Latest for Narcissist Book of Records.
“Thank you, guys. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Everybody please have a seat. Thank you.”
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“The I’s Have It: Obama Reaches 49 I’s in Washington, D.C.
FOXNews.com
Much attention has been given to President Obama’s persistent use of “I” when giving speeches to sell his administration’s agenda. Is he taking responsibility — or, as his critics say, is he still in campaign mode? FoxNews.com is tracking the president’s speeches all this month and will report back after each to see whether The “I’s” Have It.
Today’s Speech: Opening remarks at the Senate Democrats’ annual issues retreat in Washington, D.C.
Subject: The Democratic legislative agenda
Speech Length: 2,449 words
Number of “I” References: 49
The following is a transcript of Obama’s remarks:
Thank you, guys. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Everybody please have a seat. Thank you.
Listen, you guys had to listen to me at the State of the Union — or at least pretend to listen to me. (Laughter.) So I’ll try to keep it relatively brief, some opening remarks and then open it up for questions.
First of all, I just want to thank Harry Reid. (Applause.) I recently said he’s got one of the toughest jobs in Washington — managing an institution that by its very nature is, let’s face it, you guys are a little difficult to manage. I’ve been a part of this caucus. I really don’t think anybody could have done a better job under more trying circumstances than Harry Reid. And I think he deserves a huge round of applause. (Applause.)”
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/02/03/obama-reaches-washington-dc/?test=latestnews
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/mt/mt-comments.cgi
How do we get the message out that it is not the PM who decides what documents get released. And what if the head of the dept that makes such decisions is a liberal and withholding them to make the PM look bad.
Isn’t it fun watching the Chess Master at work. What will the Opposition do now when they have to vote on whether to cancel their March and Easter holiday week. Will they vote to take their holidays and look stupid, or will there just be empty seats as usual.
It is too bad we can’t have propositions on our ballots like they do in the US.
How about, do you think Khdar should be brought back to Canada,
Are you concerned that an afghan terrorist was hit by a shoe.
Are you in favor of a coalition govt of Bloc/libs/ndp
Or how about this-do you think that the CBC should be privatized.
Results might be interesting.
Completely OT – Macleans has a poll up re: who should light the Olympic flame. So far David Suzuki leads the pack at 45%. No way, not if I have anything to do with it. My vote went to ‘a member of the Canadian forces’. You can cast your vote here: http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/01/29/who-would-you-pick-to-light-the-olympic-flame/
Ruth, I just caught that! Absolutely brilliant!
But what to do, the Villa in France is waiting for a Easter holiday. We are in a mess now with tickets already booked.
This should be fun!!
“The Day the music died” and the Liberal Party of Canada continues to die.
Oh Ruth. That’s hilarious! But Mr. Iffy is entitled to be abroad whenever he needs it. We must get with the program.
Re cancelling the spring breaks, I think someone suggested that somewhere in the blogging world a while ago, plus the summer holiday. Bet the PM had that in mind all the time, let the opposition rant and rave about not being able work, knowing they would have to eat their words.
Difference is, if they don’t show up, parliament will be in session, without them.
Mao Stlongs’s Red-Green AGW/IPCC is not a fraud?
It’s Dion’s Green Shift?
Maybe it’s a disinformation campaign, right.
They’s calling it “green” technologies” to flouster Liberal Iffy, Taliban Jack LaytoNDP, commie Duceppe Bloc.
Right?
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Here’s the Red-Green MSM:
“He also outlined what policy tools the government will use to put those people back to work. Mr. Clement said that Environment Minister Jim Prentice and Natural Resources Minister Christian Paradis were to brief cabinet at the Meech Lake meetings on how adoption of “green” technologies could create jobs. That idea was a central part of the doomed Green Shift plan touted by former Liberal leader Stephane Dion in the last general election campaign.
Neither Messrs. Prentice nor Paradis was available to explain how their ideas might be different from Mr. Dion’s.”
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/canada/politics/story.html?id=2518901
P.S. Will Lizard May be the minister of green technologies?
I recall that Greg Weston spent the spring break with Iffy in Bermuda!!! The MSM made such a big deal over the prorogation vacation…. how are they going to let the Liberals off the hook on this?
Did anyone else notice how upset Tom Clark appeared when Robert Fife broke this news at the end of Power Play? Why would he be so upset if he was allegedly non-partison?
IPCC-junk science crooks: Including Canadian sinophile Maurice Strong*, the UNabomber.
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“IPCC: International Pack of Climate Crooks
American Thinker ^ | February 04, 2010 | Marc Sheppard
Unquestionably the world’s final authority on the subject, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s findings and recommendations have formed the bedrock of literally every climate-related initiative worldwide for more than a decade. Likewise, virtually all such future endeavors — be they Kyoto II, domestic cap-and-tax, or EPA carbon regulation, would inexorably be built upon the credibility of the same U.N. panel’s “expert” counsel. But a glut of ongoing recent discoveries of systemic fraud has rocked that foundation, and the entire man-made global warming house of cards is now teetering on the verge of complete collapse.
Simply stated, we’ve been swindled. We’ve been set up as marks by a gang of opportunistic hucksters who have exploited the naïvely altruistic intentions of the environmental movement in an effort to control international energy consumption while redistributing global wealth and (in many cases) greedily lining their own pockets in the process.
Perhaps now, more people will finally understand what many have known for years: Man-made climate change was never really a problem — but rather, a solution.
For just as the science of the IPCC has been exposed as fraudulent, so have its apparent motives. The true ones became strikingly evident when the negotiating text for the “last chance to save the planet” International Climate Accord [PDF], put forth in Copenhagen in December, was found to contain as many paragraphs outlining the payment of “climate debt” reparations by Western nations under the watchful eye of a U.N.-controlled global government as it did emission reduction schemes.
Then again, neither stratagem should come as any real surprise to those who’ve paid attention. Here’s a recap for those who have, and a long-overdue wake-up call for those who haven’t.
The Perfect Problem to the Imperfect Solution
The U.N. signaled its intent to politicize science as far back as 1972 at its Conference on the Human Environment (UNCHE) in Stockholm, Sweden. There, an unlikely mélange of legitimate environmental activists, dyed-in-the-wool Marxists, and assorted anti-establishment ’60s leftovers were delighted to hear not only the usual complaints about “industrialized” environmental problems, but also a long list of international inequities. Among the many human responsibilities condemned were overpopulation, misuse of resources and technology, unbalanced development, and the worldwide dilemma of urbanization. And from that marriage of global, environmental, and social justice concerns was born the IPCC’s parent organization — the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) — and the fortune-cookie like prose of its socialist-environmentalist manifesto, the Stockholm Declaration.
It was seven years later that UNEP was handed the ideal villain to fuel its counterfeit crusade. That was the year (1979) in which NASA’s James Hansen’s team of climate modelers convinced a National Academy of Sciences (NAS) panel to report [PDF] that doubling atmospheric CO2 — which had risen from 280 ppmv in the pre-industrial 1800s to over 335 ppmv — would cause nearly 3°C of global warming. And although the figure was wildly speculative, many funding-minded scientists — including some previously predicting that aerosols and orbital shifts would lead to catastrophic global cooling — suddenly embraced greenhouse gas theory and the inevitability of global warming.
It was at that moment that it became clear that the long-held scientific position that the Earth’s ecosystem has always and will always maintain CO2 equilibrium could be easily swayed toward a more exploitable belief system. And the UNEP now had the perfect problem to its solution: anthropogenic global warming (AGW).
After all, both its abatement and adaptation require huge expansion of government controls and taxation. Furthermore, it makes industry and capitalism look bad while affording endless visuals of animals and third-world humans suffering at the hands of wealthy Westerners. And most importantly, by fomenting accusations that “rich” countries have effectively violated the human rights of hundreds of millions of the world’s poorest people by selfishly causing climate-based global suffering, it helps promote the promise of international wealth redistribution to help less fortunate nations adapt to its consequences.
Best of all, being driven by junk-science that easily metamorphoses as required, it appeared to be endlessly self-sustaining.
But it needed to be packaged for widespread consumption. And packaged it they surely have. Here’s an early classic.
The year was 1988, and Colorado Senator Tim Wirth had arranged for Hansen to testify on the subject before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee to help sell the dire need to enact national environmental legislation. As Wirth has since admitted, he intentionally scheduled Hansen’s appearance on what was forecasted to be the hottest day of the hearings. And in a brilliantly underhanded marketing ploy, he and his cohorts actually snuck into the hearing room the night before and opened the windows, rendering the air conditioning all but useless.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2444063/posts
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/mt/mt-comments.cgi
(*Mao Stlong, aka Canadian “Liberal leader” Boob Lae’s Uncle Mo.)
I wonder what Mr Iggy and his harem think of the ad that will be running during the Super Bowl in the US.
You know, the one with Heinsman winner Teobow for Focus on the Family. If nothing else, this ad has shown that the pro abortion feminists have absolutely no use for anything that supports life. Wonder how many of those feminists wish their mothers had chosen abortion instead of allowing them to be born.
I doubt the ad will be shown on canadian coverage of the game.
Mr Ignatieff is resurrecting the “Red Book” I guess that is the holy grail as far as the Liberals are concerned. I thought it was more of a wish book than the old Eatons catalogues, we all know where they ended up, nailed to a wall in a “out door facility” That and anything at all from the far left of their cousins the NDP. They are giddy with the bump in the polls. Problem is Mr Ignatieff will be rollin’ out the Ideas, I think this is goin’ to be very interesting. Yep the Haitians would be treated to the “free standing portable Abortion Clinic” courtesy of the Liberal Party?
So some 44% of the people want Mr Suzuki to light the flame to open the games? Really? I wonder how many of those that voted for his holiness know he has been whinging about the snow being trucked in for the Olympics. Heck we could ask Osama bin Laden He is slaggin’ the great Satan (USA) over not signin’ on to the Copenhagen fraud also. At least he lives in a cave, eats organic, wears natural fibers and really does not want us Infidels doin’ much of anything. Heck settin’ fire to somethin’ in Infidel-Land he would probably jump at that! I know, I know the Americans would arrest him throw him in Git-Mo (pun intended) He would sue us for a gazillion dollars, Mr Ignatieff would be ashamed of bein’ Canadian. The NDP would want it all investigated by the U.N.
If this sounds a little out there you haven’t been listenin’ to the news lately.
maz2 at 8:00 am:
Great, informative post!!