Archive for the ‘Politics’ Category
Twenty years ago the cry across Europe was “Freedom”
Posted at 11:22 pm | Filed Under Politics, Viewpoint
This is about as forthright and personal as I am ever likely to get on the Internet, but here goes…
This from the BBC:
Dissidents in Eastern Europe had a bitter joke about the communist approach to compromise. “What do you do when you’ve made someone 99% communist,” it went. Answer: “Beat the other 1% out.”
It was [...]
“Climate change shrinking sheep”
Posted at 6:34 pm | Filed Under BBC, Politics, Religion, climate science
Yes, just when you thought the whole climate change panic couldn’t get any sillier, the BBC comes along to push back the boundaries of scientific journalism (or is it down?)
Climate change is causing a breed of wild sheep in Scotland to shrink, according to research.
Scientists say milder winters help smaller sheep to survive, resulting in [...]
Does democratically elected mean you can ignore the Constitution?
Posted at 1:31 pm | Filed Under Politics
Maybe there’s something I’ve missed about this story.
A new president has been sworn into office in Honduras, hours after the ousting of President Manuel Zelaya.
Congress speaker Roberto Micheletti will serve as interim president until polls are held, Congress said.
The removal of Mr Zelaya by the army came amid a power struggle over his plans for [...]
EPA suppression of skeptical report on CO2 confirmed
Posted at 11:08 am | Filed Under Politics, climate science
I’m just adding my lone voice to the rising clamour about the apparent suppression of a key report written by an EPA analyst, which had questioned the EPA’s own beliefs about the threat of carbon dioxide rise to global warming.
The Smoking Gun:
Anthony Watts is right in the eye of the political storm, and the San [...]
The Iranian Election: The numbers tell the real story
Posted at 11:31 am | Filed Under Politics
In the wake of the disputed Iranian Presidential Election, here is an analysis of the electoral returns indicating strongly that the ballots were stuffed with large numbers of extra votes for Ahmadinejad.
Since the declaration of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s landslide victory in Iran’s presidential election, accusations of fraud have swelled. Against expectations from pollsters and pundits alike, [...]
Charter 77 – the reaction from the Communist Party
Posted at 5:15 pm | Filed Under Politics
From Rudé právo (The Red Law) the official daily of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, January 12th, 1977:
In their gnarly struggle against the progress, the international reaction is trying to create the illusion of a certain broad anti-communist front into which they try to drag not only open traitors but also fluctuating and disoriented individuals [...]
Here’s my opinion, right now
Posted at 2:54 pm | Filed Under Politics, Viewpoint
In the style of Mencken’s views on elitism, comes this op-ed in the Wall Street Journal:
The Blog Mob
“Written by fools to be read by imbeciles.”
BY JOSEPH RAGO
Blogs are very important these days. Even Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has one. The invention of the Web log, we are told, is as transformative as Gutenberg’s press, and has shoved [...]