Let the 2012 patriot games begin

Andrew Stephen

There is now every possibility that Obama will be defeated in 2012.

Did I ever say "I told you so" about Barack Obama? If I did, I never meant to and will never do so again. Besides which, it's too soon to deliver a definitive verdict on his presidency, especially when it remains to be seen whether he can achieve the miraculous feat of reforming health care. It grieves me, though, to report that a CNN poll has found that 52 per cent of Americans now think he does not deserve a second term in the White House. Even the hitherto Obamaniacal Washington Post - doubtless picking up on my idea that Hillary Clinton has her eye on a nomination to the US Supreme Court - is mooting that Obama should stand aside for Clinton in 2012, with the understanding that President Clinton II would nominate him for her first vacancy on the court.

Pundits are already predicting a possible Armageddon in the midterm elections this November, in a rerun of 1994 when Republicans took control of both the House and the Senate for the first time in 40 years. These days it is compulsory for every US politician to swear solemnly that this year's elections are the only ones on their minds. The truth, however, is that more and more attention is being paid to an election being held in less than 1,000 days - the next presidential polling day, which will either put Obama back into the White House for a second term or give the country a new, 45th president. Inside the Obama camp, strategising for what insiders are calling "the re-elect" has already begun.


Monckton on the IPCC

Tom Minchin


Christopher Walter Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley [1]

The IPCC Is "Corrupt from top to bottom"

I met Lord Monckton at a luncheon in Melbourne during his recent tour of Australia. I was surprised journalists here had not thought to ask him how his views on climate science had evolved. Why had he become so interested in climate science fraud and its political implications? The Q and A that follows is the result of an interview conducted with him after his return to Scotland on February 15.

I began by asking him what had started him on the road to his YouTube-covered speech exposing the draft Copenhagen treaty:

Minchin: What first made you suspect the "climate change" research of recent decades was skewed?

Monckton: The CEO of a boutique finance house in the City of London asked me to have a look at "global warming" because his analysts could not decide whether it was real or not. I first realized something was wrong when I wanted to find out how to convert radiative forcings in Watts per square meter to temperature in Kelvin, but not once in 1,000 pages did the IPCC's 2001 science assessment report reveal the existence of the Stefan-Boltzmann radiative-transfer equation, without which one cannot even begin the calculation. So obscurantist was the IPCC's methodology for determining climate sensitivity that it took me two years to research the underlying equations, some of which I had to derive for myself. A scientific establishment that was confident of its results would have explained the matter clearly and concisely.


Does Israel hope to spark a new wave of suicide bombing?

Stuart Littlewood

Stuart Littlewood looks at how Israel’s incessant abuse of the Palestinian people’s rights and freedoms, and its trampling on their dreams, lie behind almost every act of suicide bombing.

”Here in the West few of us can fully comprehend what turns a bright, intelligent person into a suicide bomber. But then, we don’t have a jackboot on our throat. We don’t have our front door battered down in the middle of the night by military thugs, our family abducted, our home bulldozed and our land confiscated.”

The suicide bomber wrote that he began to live the day he came to know he was to die. Where did he get this passion to kill? – Mahesh Bhatt

Here in the civilized West we hate suicide bombers with a passion.

We’re taught that the proper way to blow fellow humans to smithereens is to do it from 40,000 feet.

Or failing that, send Apache helicopter gunships at street level firing their laser-guided missiles and 30mm cannon.

Or failing that, turn loose our main battle tanks to shred and vaporize the “enemy”, reduce their homes to rubble with depleted uranium (DU) shells and spread birth defects for generations to come.

Nowadays we don’t even have to leave home to do it. We can train our really brainy chaps to steer armed drones to the target from the comfort of an armchair. B-52s, F-16s, Apaches, drones and tanks – that’s the ticket.


La dimension morale des choses

Rodrigue Tremblay

“Quand le pillage devient un moyen d'existence pour un groupe d'hommes qui vit au sein de la société, ce groupe finit par créer pour lui-même un système juridique qui autorise le pillage et un code moral qui le glorifie." ~ Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850)

"Certaines autorités hiérarchiques de l'Eglise catholique en Amérique latine utilisent la prière comme d'un somnifère pour endormir les gens. Lorsqu'ils ne peuvent pas nous dominer avec les lois, ils se servent de la prière; et quand ils ne réussissent pas à nous humilier ou à nous dominer par la prière, ils ont alors recours aux fusils." ~ Evo Morales, Président de la Bolivie (13 juillet, 2009)

«La qualité la plus importante pour résister au mal, c'est l'autonomie morale. L'autonomie morale n'est possible que par la réflexion, l'auto-détermination et le courage de ne pas coopérer.» ~ Émmanuel Kant (1724-1804) philosophe allemand

Pourquoi avons-nous le sentiment que les dirigeants politiques mentent la plupart du temps ? Pourquoi l'avidité sans borne semble si répandue dans les officines d'entreprise ? Pourquoi des hommes pervers se lancent-ils dans des guerres d'agression et sont indifférents devant la mort d'innocents ? Pourquoi le matérialisme ambiant semble-t-il régner en maître ? Pourquoi avons-nous le drôle de sentiment que notre société progresse à reculons ? Le fait même que nous devions se poser ces questions est peut-être en soi un signe des temps.


Calling All Rebels

Chris Hedges

[Photo: University of California at Berkeley student Natalia Garcia protests on campus during a day of demonstrations, marches, teach-ins and walkouts planned nationwide. Events are being held at most of California’s public colleges and universities to protest budget cuts that have led to canceled classes, faculty furloughs and steep fee hikes.]

There are no constraints left to halt America’s slide into a totalitarian capitalism. Electoral politics are a sham. The media have been debased and defanged by corporate owners. The working class has been impoverished and is now being plunged into profound despair. The legal system has been corrupted to serve corporate interests. Popular institutions, from labor unions to political parties, have been destroyed or emasculated by corporate power. And any form of protest, no matter how tepid, is blocked by an internal security apparatus that is starting to rival that of the East German secret police. The mounting anger and hatred, coursing through the bloodstream of the body politic, make violence and counter-violence inevitable. Brace yourself. The American empire is over. And the descent is going to be horrifying.


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