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calendar   Sunday - September 06, 2009

Germany Avoids Criticizing Radical Islam & Radical … Germans have sure lost it ….

This is another one of those very long reads.
Don’t know as I could do better and most likely not. It’s an important issue BUT ... I do wish they could make these things shorter.
Which is not to say that it isn’t worth reading. It sure is.

H/T EUROPE NEWS

Apologists throughout history have never achieved anything. They have at most strengthened the forces of evil and delayed their demise. Biased economic success is temporary. It is built on sand. Only human rationale is solid and eternal.


Germany Avoids Criticizing Radical Islam & Radical ...

By Sami Alrabaa

The German media and some German public figures are soft, too soft, on radical Islam and avoid critics and critique of this violent “religion.” The audio-visual media invite only uncritical talking heads. The print media publish only articles by apologists of Islam. Here are some examples:

The recent confession of the four Muslim terrorists, also called the “Suaerland Group,” who were planning to kill as many Americans in Germany as they could, was hailed by the judge, state prosecutor, and the media. The devastating terrorist attack prepared by these men was foiled from a tip by the CIA, which the German media depict as not abiding by the law and acting against human rights.

The German media and some German politicians hailed the confession and deliberately ignored the ideological/religious sources of their attack, namely the Koran and Hadith, which incite Muslims to kill non-Muslims.

In an interview with Al Arabiya TV (August 16th), Daniel Cohn-Bendit, a leading politician of the Green Party in the European Parliament, presented radical Muslims as “part of a socio-political religious movement across the world, like the RAF, the German terrorist group we had in the 1970s.”

Cohn-Bendit argued that a dialogue with radical Muslims must be established, also with the Taliban. He reminded his interviewer that he (Cohn-Bendit) and the former German foreign minister Joschka Fischer used to sympathize with the RAF. They took to the street and threw stones on the police. “As the Green Party was established as a radical social ecological movement, I joined the party. Little by little, the Green party was accepted by the German political establishment, and now it is a full-fledged political party.” Cohn-Bendit added.

Also, Cohn-Bendit praised Turkey for reconciling Islam with democracy.

The truth of the matter, the AKP, the Islamic party that is ruling Turkey is slowly but steadily Islamizing Turkey. It is also true that Islam is against democracy and formation of parties. Both the Koran and Hadith reject democracy and the formation of political parties. According to a recent poll, the ultimate aim of Islamic Turkey is Sharia, and this what the majority of Turks inside and outside turkey want to see established.

To add insult to injury, Cohn-Bendit said the maiming and killing of innocent people “has nothing to do with Islam.” And radical Muslims are fighting a justice war against their oppressors. He also argued that foreign troops must leave Afghanistan and Iraq and “leave the people of these nations in peace.”

In other words, fanatic Muslim regimes in Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia must be left alone, rule against human rights and export terrorisms. Hence Cohn-Bendit and his ilk have joined the Muslim chaplains on Muslim media.

Further, Cohn-Bendit suggested that Islam “be modernized and can be modernized, like all other religions.”

Cohn-Bendit’s “arguments” about Islam is merely wishful thinking. Radical Muslims strongly believe that the Koran – which includes numerous passages that are diametrically opposed to modern human rights – is the “word of Allah.” They are also convinced that Sharia, which primarily includes the Koran, must be introduced everywhere. Appeasing radical Muslims implies ultimately accepting their Sharia. And “modernizing Islam will eventually lead to scraping the Koran or reducing it to a few pages, something which radical Muslims vehemently refuse.

Contributions of critics of radical Islam are rejected by German media. For example, The German daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung published on July 10, 2009, an article by Alaa Al-Aswani in which he twists facts and argues that the West is ill-informed and biased toward Islam. “Westerners are misinformed about Islam, therefore they hate Islam and hate Muslims,” Al-Aswani says.

Read all of it here >> EUROPE NEWS


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Posted by peiper   United Kingdom  on 09/06/2009 at 12:49 PM   
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Irish Prime Minister still confused on issue of Eu entry.

So says this reporter and it looks like she may be right.

Last year the Irish voted NO to the EU.  BUT ..  the folks in Brussels didn’t like the result, and so now the Irish are going to have to vote all over again.
In fact, in less then a month.  Can hardly wait.  If the Irish repeat the original result, it could cause much damage to that bloated pack of euro-windbags.
Guess we’ll wait and see.  At the moment, based on reading here, the Irish economy is not doing as well as hoped and in worse shape then it was during that original vote.

Hey .. a sudden thought. A flash of brilliance late in the day.

Maybe we (USA) could adopt whatever kind of legal mumbo-jumbo the EU uses to force an election due to being unhappy with original results.
We could say wait ... some minds have changed and we need another presidential election to correct the mistake made by those folks who voted in the guy who is there now.  No huh?  OK, just a thought. I suppose it could work against us as well.
Guess we’ll all have to stay tuned till the next election.
Meanwhile ....

Twenty-nine days until the Irish are forced to vote again on Lisbon, and the Irish prime minister still can’t give more than muddled answers about what is in the treaty.

By Mary Ellen Synon
Sunday Mail

The latest opinion poll in Ireland shows a swing away from a Yes vote in the Lisbon referendum—hardly surprising given that the political leaders campaigning in favour of Lisbon are showing the intellectual finesse of the Three Stooges.

Earlier this week, Brian Cowen, the prime minister, showed he didn’t know enough about the treaty to answer a straightforward question on how the treaty would affect employment policy in Ireland.

Now Enda Kenny, the leader of the main opposition party, Fine Gael, has stumbled over the contents of the treaty. Yesterday he was launching his campaign for a Yes vote. Asked about the proposed switch to ‘double majority voting’ under Lisbon, Kenny tried to claim that it would boost Ireland’s ability to block new EU laws that could hurt Irish business and industry.

Wrong. Under Lisbon, Ireland will lose 40 percent of its power to block legislation.

What is scary for Ireland is that Kenny is set to head the next government—another opinion poll this week shows that 85 percent of the Irish do not approve of how the present Fianna Fail-Green coalition is running the country.

So the man who will soon be leading his country’s negotiations in Brussels imagines he is going to increase his bargaining muscle if he persuades his countrymen to vote Yes, when in fact his muscle will be sliced almost in half.

I may owe the Three Stooges an apology for this headline. I doubt even they would tolerate as big a knucklehead as Kenny.


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Posted by peiper   United States  on 09/06/2009 at 12:28 PM   
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Windfarms? We might as well use hamsters on treadmills.

Another good one from one of my favorites.  I doin’t always agree but then I’m not supposed to. But I try and find something on this subject every wkend, as it touches all of us in one way or another.
And btw, welcome to our German readers and congradulations on leading Europe in the hoarding of the old style light bulbs.  The bulk buying that almost stripped the stores here were bought it turns out, by Germans and exported.  Why do I bring that up here.
Well that’s quite interesting.  You see, it was a German tree hugging planet saving minister in the EU, that instituted this whole ban the bulb thing to begin with.

Anyway ... Heeeeeerrrs Peter.  (Hitchens)

The lightbulb purge will have a piffling effect on energy consumption, nothing like enough to justify the expense and inconvenience forced upon us. I suspect that it has been designed specifically to advance the cult, to make believers feel good about themselves rather than to do good – the main aim of all false religions.


Windfarms? We might as well use hamsters on treadmills
By Peter Hitchens
The Mail on Sunday

A weird and irrational cult has us in its grip. If the Mormons or the Moonies started taking over the BBC and the Government, which then harangued and persecuted us into wearing funny underwear or getting married in mass ceremonies, we would – I hope – rise in revolt.

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Irrational choice: Even Stirling Castle has not escape the new windfarm madness

But the ‘Man-made Climate Change’ fanatics are applauded and praised, even as they force us to abandon perfectly sensible electric lights, and instead subject ourselves to strange, flickering substitutes, simultaneously worse and more costly than the ones they replace.

There is worse to come. The same people wish to compel us to rely for our power on windmills, million upon million of them, as if we had never discovered more efficient and reliable ways of generating electricity.
Irrational choice: Even Stirling Castle has not escape the new windfarm madness
And they are succeeding. Few areas in Britain are now unthreatened by deranged projects to install intrusive, gigantic wind-farms on prominent sites.

This must be one of the first instances of a civilisation voluntarily and consciously going backwards. We might as well rely for our economic and industrial future on tens of millions of hamsters pattering frantically round treadmills. Hamsters only do this by night. Windmills only make electricity when it is windy. See the problem?

For most of us, the truth has yet to sink in. Our old lightbulbs still function, or we have stockpiled a few. And the nuclear and coal-fired power stations which keep our country going have some years yet to run before they wear out or a Brussels decree shuts them down for ever.

But the time is not far away when we will find the irrational opinions of these maniacs being forced upon us unpleasantly in our daily lives. The lights will be too dim to read by. Then they will go off for long periods of the day or night. Our computers will be down much of the time.

The well-off will buy expensive generators and our suburbs will be like Baghdad, with smelly, noisy, petrol-driven motors bursting into life every few hours as the central power shudders and fails.

Even if the prophecies of the man-made global warming cultists were proven, which they aren’t, these measures would be an idiotic response to the problem. Nuclear power, as the French well know, produces no carbon emissions and also ends dependence on Russia for gas and the Middle East for oil. And it works in a dead calm, too.

The lightbulb purge will have a piffling effect on energy consumption, nothing like enough to justify the expense and inconvenience forced upon us. I suspect that it has been designed specifically to advance the cult, to make believers feel good about themselves rather than to do good – the main aim of all false religions.

Why don’t we resist? Partly because, once again, there is now no major political party which speaks for common sense

SOURCE,THE MAIL ON SUNDAY


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Posted by peiper   United States  on 09/06/2009 at 02:45 AM   
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calendar   Monday - August 31, 2009

How things are done in european democracy. Keep voting till powers get their desired result.

The Irish have already voted but the power groups didn’t like the result. So I guess it’s back to the voting booth.
I hope the Irish won’t allow themselves to be pushed into anything. Cause they might regret it mightily down the road. We’ll see.
Stay Tuned.

The Irish government’s ‘Yes to Lisbon’ glove-puppets
Mary Ellen Synon
31 August 2009 11:12 AM

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In six weeks’ time, the Irish government will force the Irish people to vote a second time on the Lisbon Treaty. It is bad enough that any government would try to overturn the resounding No vote the Irish gave last year, but this government is in a particularly awkward position to try to do so: never in the history of independent Ireland has any government been as unpopular, indeed, as reviled, as the present Fianna Fail-Green coalition led by Brian Cowen.

Twelve years of Fianna Fail coalitions have left Ireland with the worst recession in the European Union—indeed, the economy is so bad that it actually meets the economic definition of a depression—so the voters are seething with anger against the Ministers.  It appears some public relations focus group has told Mr Cowen and his colleagues what should have been obvious anyway: that if this much-hated government tries to lead the campaign for a Yes vote next month, they are likely to increase the No vote.

So instead the government has been choreographing a series of announcements by prominent Irish businessmen to come out and announce they will be supporting a Yes vote. In effect, the government are using chief executives as their political glove-puppets, saying what the ministers would say if they weren’t afraid to come out of their bunkers and face the Irish public.

The problem with that is, so far the only business leaders who have agreed to pay big money towards the Lisbon Yes campaign are men who clearly have a vested interest in sucking up the the European Commission.

For example, on August 20th, Jim O’Hara, the chief executive of Intel in Ireland—the company is a big employer, but one which has recently laid off hundreds of workers—announced his company will spend hundreds of thousands of euros to campaign for a Yes vote. He said he has the support of ‘the wider Intel corporation’ in this campaign.

Too right he does. Intel is a global corporation which is now appealing a €1.06 billion (£935m) fine imposed in May by the European Commission for anti-competitive practices. The money is frozen in a blocked bank account, pending an appeal by the company in the European Court of First Instance. The executives at Intel won’t ever touch any of that billion-plus again unless their appeal succeeds - or unless they can negotiate a lower fine with the Commission.

Then there is Michael O’Leary, the chief executive of Ryanair. Last week he called a press conference to announce the airline will spend €500,000 on campaigning for a Yes vote. Which you could call a kind of protection payment to the goodwill of the Commission: the routes and pricing for O’Leary’s airline are at the mercy of the unelected, unsackable eurocrats in Brussels.

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Posted by peiper   United Kingdom  on 08/31/2009 at 08:00 AM   
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calendar   Wednesday - August 26, 2009

AMERICA, YOU DAMN WELL BETTER GET YOUR BUTT IN GEAR AND READY FOR THESE ASSWIPES.

RCOB. Again.

Some of you just have to recall me banging on as much as a year ago, saying things that happen here will spread to the USA, and that what saved us (it’s only temporary ) is our size.
It’s the idea that theses foreign mother!*%!+=s will come to the states and do EXACTLY what this group is trying on.

If Americans want to argue amongst ourselves that’s our business. What we don’t need is a foreign based group (and god alone knows we already have enuff of those) coming to America to preach their fucked up green agenda to us.

Just be warned folks these bastards are on the way to add to the argument.
I really hate these bastards.  It’s like a fire that never goes out.

Just so ya know. I’ve censored myself. But you can guess more then likely, what I’d like to do if I have my way with regard to these intrusive ppl.


Today nagging the British, tomorrow the world: Green quango launches campaign to preach abroad

By James Chapman
Last updated at 2:10 AM on 26th August 2009

A green quango funded by the British taxpayer has caused outrage by launching an international campaign to preach about the need to curb emissions.

Despite growing pressure for public spending cuts in the UK, the Carbon Trust is expanding its empire to establish a presence in the U.S. and China.

The Daily Mail has learned that the organisation, which received almost £100million in taxpayer funding last year, is trying to recruit a Head of Carbon Trust U.S.A.

Critics expressed astonishment that the trust was attempting to influence the democratic debate in the U.S.

Matthew Sinclair, of the TaxPayers’ Alliance campaign group, branded it an ‘extremely questionable’ use of British taxpayers’ money.

The trust was created as an independent, but taxpayer-funded, company by the British Government to encourage firms to cut their greenhouse gas emissions.

But this summer, it created a new arm - Carbon Trust International Ltd - to ‘further its international objectives’.

The organisation has signed agreements with a Chinese national investment corporation and the state of Florida.

Its American boss will be expected to work at establishing organisations across the U.S. to engage in green lobbying.

But Mr Sinclair said: ‘It is shocking that an organisation funded by British taxpayers is trying to expand into new territories as if it is a multinational company.’

Iain Murray, an energy expert at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a U.S. think-tank, said: ‘ Americans are extremely sceptical about the cost to America of emissions reduction. I suspect they will be even more annoyed if their representatives listen to the British Government rather than to them.’

But Tom Delay, chief executive of the Carbon Trust, said: ‘They are barking up the wrong tree.

‘We do not lobby governments wherever they are in the world, we help business reduce carbon emissions now and in the future.

‘Our work overseas is funded by overseas companies and governments and our support for this represents 1 per cent of our UK budget.’

SOURCE

Meanwhile, this is what the Daily Mail has to say on the subject in an editorial this morning.


The £100million-a-year empire of the green quango

By Daily Mail Comment


Spending cuts are the last thing on the mind of Tom Delay, £223,000-a-year chief executive of a green quango funded by British taxpayers.

While the rest of us tighten our belts, he’s expanding his £100million-a-year Carbon Trust empire to establish a presence in the U.S. and China.

‘Our work overseas has one sole purpose - to accelerate the move to a low carbon economy,’ he says.

What conceivable business is it of ours to subsidise preaching to the Americans and Chinese?

At an estimated £100billion a year, Britain’s 700,000 quangocrats cost more than enough as it is, without spreading their tentacles around the globe.

This week, Gordon Brown is under pressure to draw up a list of ‘compassionate cuts’, to fall where they will cause least pain.

He should start with the Carbon Trust.


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Posted by peiper   United Kingdom  on 08/26/2009 at 02:53 AM   
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calendar   Sunday - May 24, 2009

Our Masters in Brussels to switch off the watt rating on light bulbs. It’s to be lumens.

No link to the story I found on the subject and so had to wing it, mostly.
But I got it in the Telegraph and the original article was written by,
Louise Gray.

Light bulbs are to be labeled in ‘lumens’ rather than watts under new European rules that critics fear will lead to a “complete mess and consumer confusion.”

Since so called energy saving bulbs no longer accurately reflect the amount of light given out, from Sept. 2010 bulbs will be labeled in lumens, which are units of light.

The equivalent wattage, if the same amount of light is produced by an incandescent bulb, will be displayed in smaller print.  Example, 800 Lm light bulb is equiv. in old bulb of 60 watts.

Hey ... No Matter. What? Me Worry?
Yesterday I ordered another 50 of the 100watt bulbs on line, as after Sept. the enviro-nazis have decreed no more will be sold.
Must make a note to check the 60s although we don’t use too many of those.  Still, ya never know when one will be needed and it’s always best to be overstocked then under.

A curious thing about the UK and lamps and lamp shades. It’s always been quite difficult to get shades with a 100watt rating. Most are 60, so when a year ago I happened to find a bunch of lamp shades on sale that were ok to use with higher wattage, I bought some.  But on reflection, I now think I should have got more.

The heck with the tree huggers and their environment nonsense. The sky will still be there long after they’re gone and frankly, I don’t give a damn! I’m concerned with NOW.


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Posted by peiper   United Kingdom  on 05/24/2009 at 06:27 AM   
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calendar   Thursday - April 30, 2009

Just arrived … car crashes into crowd in Holland .

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The horrific moment four people were killed when car deliberately ploughed into spectators cheering the Dutch queen

By Eddie Wrenn
Last updated at 4:57 PM on 30th April 2009

A speeding car careered into spectators moments after the Dutch Queen Beatrix had passed in an open-topped bus, leaving up to four people dead and 14 others injured.

The small black car appeared to be deliberately heading at high speed toward the royal bus, Dutch authorities said this afternoon.

It passed within a few yards of it before ploughing into a stone monument in the town of Apeldoorn.

Onlookers speculated the crash might have been an attack on the royals. Dutch prosecutor L. Goossens said the incident appeared to be deliberate, but not an act of terrorism.

The driver of the car - a 38-year-old white Dutch male - was pulled from the car bleeding from the head but alive. He appeared to have lost consciousness at one point while slumped inside the car.

‘From initial contact with police before the suspect was removed from the car ... we have reason to believe it was a deliberate action,’ he said.

The driver is now in hospital. Police said he had no criminal record or history of mental illness, but refused to give his name.

Run a needle up his willie and see how fast the rat bastard starts shouting his miserable name.  The crowd should have rushed the police and then kicked the shit to death right there.  I suppose he’ll get a trial and the Dutch being pc as they are will make certain his “rights” won’t be violated.

There are a ton of photos at the link above and the rest of the story.


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Posted by peiper   United Kingdom  on 04/30/2009 at 11:33 AM   
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calendar   Monday - April 27, 2009

EU judges want Sharia law applied in British courts.  I think it’s a false alarm BUT …

I can’t think this bit of lunacy has a chance of passing muster. Can you?  I mean come on.  Even these these people will begin to see how ridiculous and unworkable this would be.  Or, would it?

The reason for posting this short piece is not just to highlight Moonbattery.  It shows us how lightly something called national sovereignty is held by far too many.  Oh sure, some politician in some eu member country will sit down and write legislation for a country he or she isn’t even a citizen of.  Easy thing to their way of thinking as they are not citizens of France or England or Germany.  No.  They are citizens of the EU now.  See how that works?

I really do not think this will travel just because this particular judge thinks it should. I think it’ll be ignored EXCEPT .... unless I am very much mistaken sharia already exists here in some form for domestic issues.  But not because some EU judge deemed it should be so. 
Which doesn’t make things any better. Does It?

Americans can be thankful we’re (well you guys are) located in a place not attached to Europe.  For now anyway.  But hey, keep your eye on Barry America.

EU judges want Sharia law applied in British courts
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
Last updated at 8:01 AM on 27th April 2009

Controversial: An EU plan is calling for family courts across Europe to hear cases using the laws of whichever country the couple involved have close links to

Judges could be forced to bow to Sharia law in some divorce cases heard in Britain.

An EU plan calls for family courts across Europe to hear cases using the laws of whichever country the couple involved have close links to.

That could mean a court in England handling a case within the French legal framework, or even applying the laws of Saudi Arabia to a husband and wife living in Britain.

The Centre for Social Justice think tank today attacked the so-called Rome III reform as ludicrous.

It warned it would slow down cases, increase costs and lead to unjust results.
However, in a report it says existing arrangements are ‘anti-family’.

Currently, a couple from different EU states can have their divorce heard in the first country where one of them files divorce papers.

Because different states offer varying financial advantages to spouses in terms of division of wealth, the resulting ‘race to court’ in the best jurisdiction discourages couples from trying to save their marriage, it says.

The report calls for a simpler solution, with each country applying its own laws and cases being heard in the country where the couple have the closest connection.

At least nine EU states - not including the UK - are said to want to push ahead with the Rome III plan.

EU AND SHARIA


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Posted by peiper   United Kingdom  on 04/27/2009 at 09:21 AM   
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calendar   Sunday - April 19, 2009

THE PEOPLE SPEAK BUT … DOES ANYONE LISTEN OR CARE? NO!  THE FREEKIN EU HAS SPOKEN! PERIOD.

Pisses me off as usual. Hell, I wasn’t even aware there were anymore left to buy?  WHERE?  Not in these parts.
Oh well, we still have a cabinet full. For now.

But the EU gweenie jellyfish have spoken and the UK must go along.  Never mind only the tree huggers believe in this crap.
EU sneezes and UK catches the cold. 
Hey ... don’t be tooooo complacent there back home.  According to my embassy newsletter and listening to news here, BO wants to co-operate more with euro-peons and they are excited that the USA is “finally listening.” I don’t see that as a good sign.

You think you HATE the UN?  Ha!  Just wait till we sign on to the eu crapola.

Reminder to me ... quick. find source ... buy more 100w .... screw their carbon footprint.

what. me worry?

Customers buy up traditional light bulbs before switch to low energy alternatives
Householders are clearing the shelves of hardware stores by bulk-buying traditional light bulbs ahead of a looming EU ban.

By Alastair Jamieson
Last Updated: 11:14AM BST 19 Apr 2009

Shopkeepers say customers are “panic-buying” armfuls of the 100 watt bulbs, which are becoming increasingly scarce since many supermarkets agreed to phase them out ahead of the end-of-August deadline.

The ban on sales is supported by the government, which wants consumers to switch to low energy compact fluorescent lights (CFLs) to help meet its climate change targets.

CFLs typically cost more than four times as much as a traditional incandescent bulb – starting from £2 each compared to 50p or less – but use one fifth of the energy and can reduce electricity bills by £7 a year for each light in the home.

Many householders, however, believe the switch is unnecessary and say CFLs produce harsh and flickery light, while campaign groups blame them for triggering migraines and skin rashes. Most CFLs do not work properly in dimmer switches and those that are compatible can cost up to £12.

“Some shops have seen customers taking as many as they can carry, 20 or even 50 at a time,” said Mick Weedon, from the British Hardware Federation. “There has been mild panic-buying because it is becoming harder to get hold of the 100 watt bulbs now that the bigger stores are not stocking them.”

The 100w bulbs, as well as less common 80w bulbs, will no longer be sold after August 31. Frosted glass bulbs of all types will also be banned.

Many supermarkets and high street chains have already agreed not to replenish existing stocks as part of a voluntary agreement with the government. Traditional 60w bulbs will be allowed until the end of August 2011, with all phased out by 2013.

The trade body for light shops, the Lighting Association, says most consumers accept the need to adopt a more efficient form of lighting than the traditional bulb, which has changed little since it was invented by Thomas Edison in 1879.

However Brian Smillie, managing director of Edinburgh general store Gray’s of George Street, said: “A lot of our customers are not convinced that these new bulbs, which will end up on landfill sites, are any better and do not see why they should not have the choice to buy what they wish. We are selling lots of the traditional bulbs, sometimes at up to 50 at a time, and we keep having to scrap around to find new suppliers to restock the shelves.”

The charity Migraine Action has called for more research into the health effects of CFLs and said it was still receiving calls from sufferers who believe CFLs trigger their migraines. A spokeswoman said it was advising them to “stockpile the old type of incandescent bulb if you can”.

Argos, Tesco and Asda have already stopped replenishing stocks of 100w bulbs. A spokeswoman for Sainsbury’s said: “We have stopped selling incandescent light bulbs of 100w or over but we still sell 60w incandescent bulbs and have seen some bulk buying of these.”

Chris Gardiner, who runs three hardware stores in Cheshire including Vikings in Wilmslow, said: “We got 10,000 of the incandescent bulbs in stock because everyone was coming in asking for them. It tends to be older customers who prefer them and can’t get them anywhere else.”

Mr Weedon added: “The profit margins on a light bulb are tiny but independent stores are just happy to be seeing customers through the door at the moment and this rush to buy 100w bulbs has helped.”

Patrick Hodgell, managing director of online retailer Light Bulbs Direct said: “We have been taking large orders both from individuals and from shops. It is possible a lot of these bulbs will be turning up on offer at car boot sales once the changes take effect.”

The European Commission has admitted the bulb switch may lead to the loss of as many as 3,000 jobs in Europe because most incandescent bulbs sold in the EU are made there, while most integrated electronic lights such as compact fluorescent lamps are made in the Far East.


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Posted by peiper   United Kingdom  on 04/19/2009 at 10:29 AM   
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calendar   Monday - April 13, 2009

The Free World Bars Free Speech.

After years of international scorn, the United States can claim the high ground by supporting the right of all to speak openly about religion. Otherwise, free speech in the West could die with hope of little more than a requiem Mass.

That headline caught my eye this afternoon and I thought, hello.  Can it really be that bad outside a few places here and there?
Then I remembered the persecution of Bridget Bardot a couple of times for having the nerve to voice an opinion. And worse yet. She actually wrote a book giving her views on the world.

So I read the article here and while it may appear damned silly of me I must confess.  I had no idea it was quite this shaky.  I knew the UK was getting pretty bad in some areas. Mostly the usual PC BS.

This is from The Washington Post.  It’s quite long so I’m only posting a part of it. The rest of course can be found at the link.
As for the UN .... well nothing surprises me there and I do believe you all know how I regard the UN.


The Free World Bars Free Speech

By Jonathan Turley
Sunday, April 12, 2009; B03

For years, the Western world has listened aghast to stories out of Iran, Saudi Arabia and other Middle Eastern nations of citizens being imprisoned or executed for questioning or offending Islam. Even the most seemingly minor infractions elicit draconian punishments. Late last year, two Afghan journalists were sentenced to prison for blasphemy because they translated the Koran into a Farsi dialect that Afghans can read. In Jordan, a poet was arrested for incorporating Koranic verses into his work. And last week, an Egyptian court banned a magazine for running a similar poem.

But now an equally troubling trend is developing in the West. Ever since 2006, when Muslims worldwide rioted over newspaper cartoons picturing the prophet Muhammad, Western countries, too, have been prosecuting more individuals for criticizing religion. The “Free World,” it appears, may be losing faith in free speech.

Among the new blasphemers is legendary French actress Brigitte Bardot, who was convicted last June of “inciting religious hatred” for a letter she wrote in 2006 to then-Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, saying that Muslims were ruining France. It was her fourth criminal citation for expressing intolerant views of Muslims and homosexuals. Other Western countries, including Canada and Britain, are also cracking down on religious critics.

Emblematic of the assault is the effort to pass an international ban on religious defamation supported by United Nations General Assembly President Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann. Brockmann is a suspended Roman Catholic priest who served as Nicaragua’s foreign minister in the 1980s under the Sandinista regime, the socialist government that had a penchant for crushing civil liberties before it was tossed out of power in 1990. Since then, Brockmann has literally embraced such free-speech-loving figures as Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, whom he wrapped in a bear hug at the U.N. last year.

The U.N. resolution, which has been introduced for the past couple of years, is backed by countries such as Saudi Arabia, one of the most repressive nations when it comes to the free exercise of religion. Blasphemers there are frequently executed. Most recently, the government arrested author Hamoud Bin Saleh simply for writing about his conversion to Christianity. 

While it hasn’t gone so far as to support the U.N. resolution, the West is prosecuting “religious hatred” cases under anti-discrimination and hate-crime laws. British citizens can be arrested and prosecuted under the 2006 Racial and Religious Hatred Act, which makes it a crime to “abuse” religion. In 2008, a 15-year-old boy was arrested for holding up a sign reading “Scientology is not a religion, it is a dangerous cult” outside the organization’s London headquarters. Earlier this year, the British police issued a public warning that insulting Scientology would now be treated as a crime.

Sure, I’m aware that there’s a lot going on under the banner of free speech.  But some of what we’ve seen and heard over the years does give one pause for thought.  And one thought comes to mind is, where will it end?


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Posted by peiper   United Kingdom  on 04/13/2009 at 08:49 AM   
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calendar   Monday - April 06, 2009

SARKOZY OF FRANCE TO OBAMA OF USA.  KEEP YER FREEKIN NOSE OUT OF OUR BUSINESS.

From The Times
April 6, 2009
Leave Turkey’s bid to join EU to us, Nicolas Sarkozy warns Barack Obama

David Charter in Prague
The love-in between Nicolas Sarkozy and Barack Obama proved short-lived after the French President warned his US counterpart yesterday to keep his nose out of the issue of Turkey’s membership of the European Union.

President Obama used his first EU-US summit, on the eve of his visit to Turkey, to encourage European leaders to embrace the Muslim country and “anchor it in Europe”. However, Mr Sarkozy, a long-standing opponent of full membership for Turkey, rebuffed the US leader in language that seemed to sour the revival of Franco-US relations.

Support for Turkey in joining the EU, a process that it began formally in 2005 and hopes to complete before 2020, has long been an American foreign policy goal.

Mr Obama, who flew to Turkey last night, clearly wanted to leave on a positive note. He told EU leaders: “The United States and Europe must approach Muslims as our friends, neighbours and partners in fighting injustice, intolerance and violence.

“Moving forward towards Turkish membership in the EU would be an important signal of your commitment to this agenda and ensure that we continue to anchor Turkey firmly in Europe.”

Mr Sarkozy, who has talked of offering Turkey a privileged partnership rather than membership, did not wait to hit back. “I have been working hand in hand with President Obama but when it comes to the European Union it is up to member states of the European Union to decide [on membership],” Mr Sarkozy said in an interview on French television. “I have always been opposed to this entry and I remain opposed,” he added.

His comments laid bare the continuing EU split over Turkish membership, with France and Austria openly opposed and deep reservations in Germany and the Netherlands. Turkey would become the most populous EU country and Germany in particular is said to have concerns about the shift in power that this would cause, with the largest number of MEPs coming from Turkey, along with strong voting rights in European Council decisions.

José Manuel Barroso, the European Commission President, sought to paper over the cracks as he welcomed Mr Obama’s comments. “We have started a process of negotiations with Turkey for membership of the European Union and that was a unanimous decision of the European Union, all 27 member states,” Mr Barroso said.

“Of course we have to go on with the negotiations and at the end, we have to see if Turkey is ready to join and if the European Union is ready to integrate Turkey.”

Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish Prime Minister, reiterated his country’s desire to join the EU when he visited Brussels this year.

Olli Rehn, the EU Enlargement Commissioner, called last week on Turkey to renew its focus on reforms to meet Union entry criteria for democracy and workers’ rights. “The pace of negotiations depends on the pace and intensity of the reforms in your country,” he said.

The Turkish press said yesterday that the country had secured concessions for dropping its objections to Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the Danish Prime Minister, becoming the next Nato Secretary-General.

Ankara had argued that Mr Rasmussen was not suitable because he did not offer an apology for cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad published in a Danish newspaper in 2005, which led to violent demonstations across the Muslim world. Turkey expects to secure several key Nato posts, including that of assistant secretary-general.

Mr Rasmussen insisted in the Danish media yesterday that he had not sacrificed his defence of freedom of expression in order to secure Turkey’s support of his nomination.

Turkey also objected to the hosting by a Danish satellite of a Kurdish television channel that is regarded by Ankara as a mouthpiece of the outlawed PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party). Speaking to the Danish daily newspaper Jyllands-Posten, Mr Rasmussen added: “If it can be proven that Roj TV is participating in terrorist activities, then we will do what we can to close the television station . . . within the framework of what Danish legislation allows.”

SARKOZY


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calendar   Saturday - March 28, 2009

Spanish court considers trying former US officials .

APbat

Have to thank Joe over at Vilmar’s site for this. And am including Joe’s comments at the bottom.
Nobody could have said it better.
H/T Joe


Spanish court considers trying former US officials over Guantanamo torture

Spanish court considers trying former US officials
Sun, 29 Mar 2009 9:27a.m.

A Spanish court has agreed to consider whether to open a criminal case against six former Bush Administration officials, including former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, over allegations they gave legal cover for the use of torture at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, according to a lawyer with detailed knowledge of the case.

The case was brought by human rights lawyers before leading anti-terror judge Baltazar Garzon, who agreed to send it on to prosecutors to decide whether it had merit.

Gonzalo Boye, one of the lawyers who brought the charges, told Spain’s Cadena Ser radio he expected the National Court to take the case forward. He called them “very serious crimes.”

Another lawyer with detailed knowledge of the case told The Associated Press that Garzon’s decision to consider the charges was “a significant first step.”

AP

Joe has said:

Normally, I would laugh this off as a masturbatory action of a second-rate, half-assed nation’s attempt at relevance on the world stage, but, given the tendencies of the quasi-Marxist wannabe dictator DICKHEAD that 52% of American voters chose to name as president of the United States, who knows?

Still, I would think that, regardless of what TQFU may try, the only way those so named in this “legal action” could ever stand “trial” in a modern-day Spanish Inquisition would be to set foot outside US soil.

That said, I hope Spain gets another terrorist attack for its troubles in pandering to the goat-fellating followers of the death cult known as islam.

And to help expedite that scenario, I propose the CIA take all remaining “detainees” from Gitmo, dump them off a ship onto a few rafts just inside Spanish territorial waters, and, if they are fortunate enough to be picked-up by whatever the Spanish may have that calls itself a navy these days, the Spanish can deal with them.

Stupid fucks.

KICKIN’ AND SCREAMIN’


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Posted by peiper   United Kingdom  on 03/28/2009 at 05:33 PM   
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calendar   Monday - March 16, 2009

Nobody listens to the real climate change experts.

There isn’t a thing I can add to anything Mr. Booker says here because he wrote the book (it seems) on this side of the argument.

He is ridiculed by the left of course and that alone tells me he is right on this subject.

What’s interesting too is that while he does try to use reasoned arguments, his opponents reply with insults.

Nobody listens to the real climate change experts
The minds of world leaders are firmly shut to anything but the fantasies of the scaremongers, says Christopher Booker.

By Christopher Booker
Last Updated: 6:52PM GMT 14 Mar 2009

Considering how the fear of global warming is inspiring the world’s politicians to put forward the most costly and economically damaging package of measures ever imposed on mankind, it is obviously important that we can trust the basis on which all this is being proposed. Last week two international conferences addressed this issue and the contrast between them could not have been starker.

The first in Copenhagen, billed as “an emergency summit on climate change” and attracting acres of worldwide media coverage, was explicitly designed to stoke up the fear of global warming to an unprecedented pitch. As one of the organisers put it, “this is not a regular scientific conference: this is a deliberate attempt to influence policy”.


Taxes must rise to pay for climate change, MPs warn

What worries them are all the signs that when the world’s politicians converge on Copenhagen in December to discuss a successor to the Kyoto Protocol, under the guidance of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), there will be so much disagreement that they may not get the much more drastic measures to cut carbon emissions that the alarmists are calling for.

Thus the name of the game last week, as we see from a sample of quotations, was to win headlines by claiming that everything is far worse than previously supposed. Sea level rises by 2100 could be “much greater than the 59cm predicted by the last IPCC report”. Global warming could kill off 85 per cent of the Amazon rainforest, “much more than previously predicted”. The ice caps in Greenland and Antarctica are melting “much faster than predicted”. The number of people dying from heat could be “twice as many as previously predicted”.

None of the government-funded scientists making these claims were particularly distinguished, but they succeeded in their object, as the media cheerfully recycled all this wild scaremongering without bothering to check the scientific facts.

What a striking contrast this was to the second conference, which I attended with 700 others in New York, organised by the Heartland Institute under the title Global Warming: Was It Ever Really A Crisis?. In Britain this received no coverage at all, apart from a sneering mention by the Guardian, although it was addressed by dozens of expert scientists, not a few of world rank, who for professional standing put those in Copenhagen in the shade.

Led off with stirring speeches from the Czech President Vaclav Klaus, the acting head of the European Union, and Professor Richard Lindzen of MIT, perhaps the most distinguished climatologist in the world, the message of this gathering was that the scare over global warming has been deliberately stoked up for political reasons and has long since parted company with proper scientific evidence.

Nothing has more acutely demonstrated this than the reliance of the IPCC on computer models to predict what is going to happen to global temperatures over the next 100 years. On these predictions, that temperatures are likely to rise by up to 5.3C, all their other predictions and recommendations depend, yet nearly 10 years into the 21st century it is already painfully clear that the computer forecasts are going hopelessly astray. Far from rising with CO2, as the models are programmed to predict they should, the satellite-measured temperature curve has flattened out and then dropped. If the present trend were to continue, the world in 2100 would not in fact be hotter but 1.1C cooler than the 1979-1998 average.

Yet it is on this fundamental inability of the computer models to predict what has already happened that all else hangs. For two days in New York we heard distinguished experts, such as Professor Syun-Ichi Akasofu, former director of the International Arctic Research Center, Dr Willie Soon of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and Professor Paul Reiter of the Pasteur Institute, authoritatively (and often wittily) tear apart one piece of the scare orthodoxy after another.

Sea levels are not shooting up but only continuing their modest 3mm a year rise over the past 200 years. The vast Antarctic ice-sheet is not melting, except in one tiny corner, the Antarctic Peninsula. Tropical hurricane activity, far from increasing, is at its lowest level for 30 years. The best correlation for temperature fluctuations is not CO2 but the magnetic activity of the sun. (For an admirable summary of proceedings by the Australian paleoclimatologist Professor Bob Carter, Google “Heartland” and “Quadrant").

Yet the terrifying thing, as President Klaus observed in his magisterial opening address, is that there is no dialogue on these issues. When recently at the World Economic Forum in Davos, he found the minds of his fellow world leaders firmly shut to anything but the fantasies of the scaremongers. As I said in my own modest contribution to the conference, there seems little doubt that global warming is leading the world towards an unprecedented catastrophe. But it is not the Technicolor apocalypse promised by the likes of Al Gore. The real disaster hanging over us lies in all those astronomically costly measures proposed by politicians, to meet a crisis which in reality never existed.

BOOKER ON CLIMATE

Now then there is another voice to be heard from the other side and not and unknown one either.
Prince Chucky, as Drew refers to Prince Charles, the future King of England and current Prince of Wales, has said the world only has 100 months to reverse the ill effects of gorebal warming.  One Hundred Months.  That’s the word from Chucky.

Well, Seems I recall Sir Chuck shilling for the following but .... things haven’t worked out as promised ...

Prince of Wales’s guide to alternative medicine ‘inaccurate’
Mark Henderson, Science Editor
The Times Online

The Prince of Wales is being challenged today to withdraw two guides promoting alternative medicine, by scientists who say that they make misleading and inaccurate claims about its benefits.

The documents, published by the Prince and his Foundation for Integrated Health, misrepresent scientific evidence about therapies such as homoeopathy, acupuncture and reflexology, say the authors of a new evaluation of alternative treatments.

In a letter to The Times, Edzard Ernst, Professor of Complementary Medicine at the University of Exeter, and Simon Singh, a science writer and broadcaster, call on the Prince to recall the publications, one of which was produced with a £900,000 grant from the Department of Health.

“They both contain numerous misleading and inaccurate claims concerning the supposed benefits of alternative medicine,” they say. “The nation cannot be served by promoting ineffective and sometimes dangerous alternative treatments.”

OKAY THAT DOES IT DAMN IT!
I WANT MY 100 MONTHS BACK RIGHT NOW!


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Posted by peiper   United Kingdom  on 03/16/2009 at 08:01 AM   
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I MOST SINCERELY HOPE THIS IS A HOAX, A JOKE, A GIGGLE SOMEONE MADE UP. IF NOT…..

If it’s true and there really and honestly and truly are people who buy into this for honest to gosh serious ,,,, bat

Then England and Europe europe are in some deep doo-doo.  bat bat

If this is not a hoax, as I’m almost inclined to believe it is, then there are some ppl who need to seriously think about getting a job. If anyone will have them. But oh wait a minute, that’s why they’re employed by the eu.

These folks rake in tons of money from member states,,, for this?
I should mention that I couldn’t find this story in the Daily Mail.  ??? 

Maybe the citizens of the member states should pay em to DO NOTHING!

Euro chiefs ban ‘Miss’ and ‘Mrs’
The European Parliament has banned the terms ‘Miss’ and ‘Mrs’ in case they offend female MEPs.

By Simon Johnson
Last Updated: 3:06PM GMT 15 Mar 2009

The politically correct rules also mean a ban on Continental titles, such as Madame and Mademoiselle, Frau and Fraulein and Senora and Senorita.

Guidance issued in a new ‘Gender-Neutral Language’ pamphlet instead orders politicians to address female members by their full name only.

Also, ‘sportsmen’ be called ‘athletes’,
‘statesmen’ be referred to as ‘political leaders’ and even that ‘synthetic’ or ‘artificial’ be used instead of ‘man-made’.

The guidance lists banned terms for describing professions, including fireman, air hostess, headmaster, policeman, salesman, manageress, cinema usherette and male nurse.

However MEPs are still allowed to refer to ‘midwives’ as there is no accepted male version of the job description.

The booklet also admits that “no gender-neutral term has been successfully proposed” to replace ‘waiter’ and ‘waitress’, allowing parliamentarians to use these words in a restaurant or café.

It has been circulated by Harold Romer, the parliament’s secretary general, to the 785 MEPs working in Brussels and Strasbourg.

Struan Stevenson, a Scottish Conservative MEP described the guidelines as “political correctness gone mad.”

He said: “We have seen the EU institutions try to ban the bagpipes and dictate the shape of bananas, but now they see determined to tell us which words we are entitled to use in our own language.”

Philip Bradbourn, another Conservative MEP, vowed to ignore the booklet, which he described as a “waste of taxpayers’ money” and called on Mr Romer to reveal its cost.

He added: “I will have no part of it. I will continue to use my own language and expressions, which I have used all my life, and will not be instructed by this institution or anyone else in these matters.”

Seven years ago, an attempt to amend noise laws came close to effectively outlawing bagpipes.

However, a number of bizarre EU rules remain in place, including a directive stating that every pair of rubber boots must be supplied with a user’s manual in 12 languages.

TELEGRAPH

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THIS IS THE EDITORIAL REPLY FROM THE TELEGRAPH

Vive la différence
Brussels’ latest ruling on ‘gender neutrality’ is absurd

Telegraph View
Last Updated: 7:18PM GMT 15 Mar 2009

In the interests of “gender neutrality”, the European Parliament is seeking to prohibit the use of such inflammatory words as Miss or Mrs, Madame or Mademoiselle, Señora or Señorita. When addressing each other, MEPs must avoid any reference whatsoever to a woman’s marital status. Whatever next? It can only be a matter of time before the words “man” and “woman” are proscribed by the nitwits in Brussels on the grounds that their use is loaded, gender-wise. What a dull world they want for us – and our civilisation. Would Emma Bovary have been quite so intriguing as a mere Ms? And to gender neutralise the Mademoiselle from Armentières would rather miss the point. Are they being serious – or is this just another one of those notorious Brussels myths? Or should that by Mses?


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