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Danielle Smith was spot-on in her observations about “man-made global warming”. The science is, indeed, not settled (as the “Climategate” emails have made crystal-clear). Mind you, she’s not against protecting the environment – global warmists, however, don’t care about the environment, but only about communist-style wealth redistribution – and has said so very clearly in an op-ed article, in which she actually promotes efforts to develop alternative forms of energy and working towards higher energy efficiency.

People with a genuine concern for the environment are interested in clean air and water and conservation and/or careful use of our resources. Global warmists, by contrast, apart from being snake-oil salespeople, care only about their communist/radical leftist ideology.

http://www.news-spectator.com/2009/12/gary-mason-believes-the-man-made-global-warming-hoax.html

Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe proclaimed in a speech: “When these capitalist gods of carbon burp and belch their dangerous emissions, it’s we, the lesser mortals of the developing sphere, who gasp and sink and eventually die.”

Right. That is, unless Mugabe kills them first.

National Review

The Rape of Nanking, December 9, 1937 Japan’s unspeakable cruelty toward the Chinese people began with the 1931 invasion and occupation of Manchuria. Indeed, this was the first military exercise that began the long march toward the Second Wo rld War, still two years before Adolf Hitler’s assumption of power in Germany. The full-scale invasion of the world’s most populous nation waited until the fall of 1937. Within a month, the first genocide of the modern era – what has become known as “the rape of Nanking” began.The use of the word “rape” is not an exercise in alliteration. Once the hapless Chinese military retreated from their imperial capital, the women of Nanking suffered unimaginable indignities. Women were killed in indiscriminate acts of terror and execution, but the large majority died after extended and excruciating gang-rape.

“Surviving Japanese veterans claim that the army had officially outlawed the rape of enemy women,” writes Iris Chang. But “the military policy forbidding rape only encouraged soldiers to kill their victims afterwards.” She cites one soldier’s recollection that “It would be all right if we only raped them. I shouldn’t say all right. But we always stabbed and killed them. Because dead bodies don’t talk … Perhaps when we were raping her, we looked at her as a woman, but when we killed her, we just thought of her as something like a pig.” (Chang, The Rape of Nanking, pp. 49-50). Kenzo Okamoto, another Japanese soldier, recalled: “From the time of the landing at Hangzhou Bay, we were hungry for women! Officers issued a rough rule: If you mess with a woman, kill her afterwards, but don’t use bayonets or rifle fire. The purpose of this rule was probably to disguise who did the killing. The military code with its punishment of execution was empty words. No one was ever punished. Some officers were even worse than the soldiers.” (Yin and Young, The Rape of Nanking, p. 188)

One eyewitness, Li Ke-hen, reported: “There are so many bodies on the street, victims of group rape and murder. They were all stripped naked, their breasts cut off, leaving a terrible dark brown hole; some of them were bayoneted in the abdomen, with their intestines spilling out alongside them; some had a roll of paper or a piece of wood stuffed in their vaginas” (quoted in Yin and Young, The Rape of Nanking, p. 195).

John Rabe, a German (and Nazi) businessman who set up a “Nanking Safety Zone” in the city’s international settlement and thereby saved thousands of Chinese lives, described in his diary the weeks of terror endured by the women of Nanjing. Though young and conventionally attractive women were most at risk, no woman was safe from vicious rape and exploitation (often filmed as souvenirs) and probable murder thereafter.

http://mitchieville.blogspot.com/2007/12/week-of-death-finale-day-7.html

One of the great atrocities of world history: the slaughter, rape and torture of more than 300,000 Chinese civilians…

http://www.irischang.net/

Man those Japs were bastards, eh.  But we put them in confinement so Canada is really the bad ones here.  Well that’s what they teach in universities.  Oh wait I can’t say this is bad the Japanese are diverse and can do no wrong in Canuckistan.  And the world stood around living their happy lives.

A Court of Queen’s Bench judge has ruled an anti-gay letter written by a former Alberta pastor in 2002 was not a hate crime and is allowed under freedom of speech.

Justice E.C. Wilson overturned a 2008 ruling by the Alberta Human Rights Commission that the letter by Stephen Boissoin that was published in the Red Deer Advocate broke provincial law.

At the time, the commission said it may even have played a role in the beating of a gay teenager two weeks after it was published.

The commission had ordered Boissoin to refrain from making disparaging remarks about homosexuals and to pay the complainant, former Red Deer high school teacher Darren Lund, $5,000 in damages.

This was the worst example of abuse. It does not matter where one stands on homosexuality; Boissoin was well within his rights to write what he did.

The real abuser in this case was Lund. Lund isn’t even gay himself, so he had no right whatsoever to “feel offended”. In fact, no one has such a right.

To any observer, it would seem that Lund merely claimed “hurt feelings” on behalf of a group to which he doesn’t even belong so that he could net himself some cash (i.e., $5,000). Did he actually donate the $5,000 to a gay-rights group or something at least? Or did he simply pocket the money for himself? Either way, he will have to pay back the money now. Tough bananas!

http://www.news-cruncher.com/2009/12/free-speech-wins-abusers-will-have-to-find-other-sources-of-income.html

And as it turns out, the concerted efforts of a protective mainstream media to ignore the scandal turned out to be worst possible course of events for the University of Anglia’s motley CRU and their supporters in the wealth distribution industry.

Tons more at Kates. 

Posted by Kate at 12:48 AM

Words don’t often fail me, but this is beyond ridiculous. How could anyone who calls himself a scientist allow the primary data and metadata to be destroyed? I’ve long thought the AGW case was built on sand, but it’s worse – it’s built on utter vacuum. Somebody will have to do the work of collating raw historical data from the weather stations and time periods the CRU mined all over again before we will know anything about the quality of their results. A significant portion of the climatological literature — everything that used CRU reconstructions or models as an input — will have to be outright scrapped.

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Ahhh infinite greed day as long as Mohammed has lots of boxes for Christmas he’s  done well right?  Why play together,….

Not in my house but, oh yes I can see it.

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