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		<title>The Façade in DC</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 18:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ In the Old West, buildings were often built with &#8220;false fronts&#8221;, or façades, that hid the fact that the actual building behind them was much less than it appeared on the surface. The word &#8220;façade&#8221; is defined as &#8220;a superficial appearance or illusion of something&#8221;. Now many are probably not aware that the White House in DC has a façade. But it&#8217;s not in front of the WH &#8211; it&#8217;s inside it. President Barack Obama is a human façade &#8211; a living, breathing illusion. Victor Davis Hanson discusses Obama The Myth in his column &#8220;When the Legend Becomes Fact, Print the Legend&#8221; . Throughout the 2008 Presidential campaign, the façade that is Barack Obama was prominent. The media was in love with this god-like persona (&#8220; He&#8217;s sort of a god &#8230;he&#8217;s going to bring all different sides together&#8221;). He caused some media figures to practically swoon in adoration (&#8220; a thrill going up my leg &#8220;) But what does reality tell us? Hanson documents the reality of the Obama myths. Consider. Did Obama achieve a B+ average at Columbia? Who knows? (Who will ever know?) But even today’s inflated version of yesteryear’s gentleman Cs would not normally warrant admission to Harvard Law. And once there, did the Law Review editor publish at least one seminal article? Why not? &#8230; At Chicago, did lecturer Obama write a path-breaking legal article or a book on jurisprudence that warranted the rare tenure offer to a part-time lecturer? (Has that offer ever been extended to others of like stature?) In the Illinois legislature or U.S. Senate, was Obama known as a deeply learned man of the Patrick Moynihan variety? Whether as an undergraduate, law student, lawyer, professor, legislator or senator, Obama was given numerous opportunities to reveal his intellectual weight. Did he ever really? On what basis did Harvard Law Dean Elena Kagan regret that Obama could not be lured to a top billet at Harvard? Where did this aura of brilliance originate? Padded resume, perhaps? Hanson distills the problem: In short, the myth of Obama’s brilliance was based on his teleprompted eloquence, the sort of fable that says we should listen to a clueless Sean Penn or Matt Damon on politics because they can sometimes act well. Read Plato’s Ion on the difference between gifted rhapsody and wisdom — and Socrates’ warning about easily conflating the two. It need not have been so. At any point in a long career, Obama the rhapsode could have shunned the easy way, stuck his head in a book, and earned rather than charmed those (for whom he had contempt) for his rewards. Clinton was a browser with a near photographic memory who had pretensions of deeply-read wonkery; but he nonetheless browsed. Obama seems never to have done that. He liked the vague idea of Obamacare, outsourced the details to the Democratic Congress, applied his Chicago protocols to getting it passed, and worried little what was actually in the bill. We were to think that the obsessions with the NBA, the NCAA final four, the golfing tics, etc., were all respites from exhausting labors of the mind rather than in fact the presidency respites from all the former. Conclusion? Obama is a heck of an actor who knows how to erect a wonderful façade and illusion of competence. Hanson proceeds to dismantle the myths of Obama The Healer, Obama The Reformer and Obama The Magnanimous One. Obama was to be the one who would heal the nation of racism (but who has brought more racial polarization than ever, primarily through the racists who he surrounded himself with, such as Eric Holder and and Van Jones). He was to be the one who was to reverse the ills of the Bush administration, but in fact has turned back few Bush policies and instead has introduced &#8220;the Chicago/Illinois system of Tony Rezko, Blago, and the Daleys&#8221; to DC and has brought new flavors of corruption with episodes such as Jon Corzine &#038; the missing billion, GE&#8217;s Immelt tax dodging, Solyndra, Fast &#038; Furious, etc. He was to roll back Bush foreign policy, yet has failed to shut down Gitmo, has attacked U.S. allies (Pakistan) and continues to intervene in countries like Libya. And who&#8217;s surprised at what has already happened in Iraq, after Obama (finally) fulfilled his promise to pull the troops out? Hanson points out: We went in a blink from the surge that failed and made things worse and all troops must be out by March 2008 to Iraq was a shining example of American idealism and commitment. It was as if the touch-and-go, life-and-death gamble between February 2007 and January 2009 in Iraq never had existed. Bombing Libya was not warlike, and those who sued Bush on Iraq and Guantanamo now filed briefs to prove that we were not at war killing Libyan thugs. We hear only of reset; never that Obama has now simply abandoned all his “Bush-did-it” policies and is quietly going back to the Bush consensus on Russia, Iran, Syria, and the Middle East in general. We will not only never see Guantanamo closed or KSM tried in a civilian court, but never hear why not. Are we to applaud the hypocrisy as at least better than continued ignorance? And it would be funny if it wasn&#8217;t so sad that Obama actually believes his own mythology . The ego is amazing &#8211; it reminds me of an old song by Mac Davis: Oh Lord it&#8217;s hard to be humble when you&#8217;re perfect in every way. I can&#8217;t wait to look in the mirror &#8217;cause I get better looking each day To know me is to love me I must be a hell of a man. O Lord it&#8217;s hard to be humble but I&#8217;m doing the best that I can. With Barack Obama, it&#8217;s all a façade. Behind the pompousness and self-inflated ego, behind the false front of an alleged healer and reformer lies an underachieving leftist ideologue who has accomplished little more than digging the nation into a far deeper hole than when he began Occupy White House 2008. As I have contended all along, Barack Obama&#8217;s problem isn&#8217;t that he lacked executive experience &#8211; the problem is his leftist ideology and inherent incompetence. ]]></description>
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		<title>Hitchens, Remembered: An Index to Remembrances</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 23:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ I've taken to aggreggating a list of all the tributes and obituaries for Hitchens, rather than post them all on Facebook to friends who were no doubt getting bludgeoned with it. Feel free to tweet at me (or post in the comments) links to ones I've missed. Peter Hitchens (Christopher's brother), in the Daily Mail: Here's a thing I will say now without hesitation, unqualified and important. The one word that comes to mind when I think of my brother is ‘courage'. By this I don't mean the lack of fear which some people have, which enables them to do very dangerous or frightening things because they have no idea what it is to be afraid. I mean a courage which overcomes real fear, while actually experiencing it. I don't have much of this myself, so I recognise it (and envy it) in others. I have a memory which I cannot place precisely in time, of the two of us scrambling on a high rooftop, the sort of crazy escapade that boys of our generation still went on, where we should not have been. Matt Labash, the Weekly Standard: "I don't usually start this early," he said, his glass already gratefully extended, "but holding yourself to a drinking schedule is always the first sign of alcoholism." With our soldiers already rolling across the desert, the humanitarian channels to hitch rides were gummed up, stranding hundreds of reporters on the bench. But Hitchens would not be deterred. On assignment for Vanity Fair, he only had a few days to touch Iraqi soil, and watching him get there was a study in forward motion, as he charged just as hard, if not harder, than Lord Cardigan's Light Brigade. Christopher Buckley, in the New Yorker: But even W.F.B., who tolerated pretty much anything except attacks on his beloved Catholic Church and its professors, couldn't help but forgive. "Did you see the piece on Chirac by your friend Hitchens in the Journal today?" he said one day, with a smile and an admiring sideways shake of the head. "Absolutely devastating!" Nick Gillespie, in Reason: It's easy to mistake his thoroughgoing iconoclasm - this is the guy, after all, who wrote jeremiads against Henry Kissinger and Mother Theresa - for a reflexive, even juvenile cynicism, but there was far more than that going on. Whether the target of his scorn was much-beloved (he thought Gandhi a great villain for the way he lionized poverty and preindustrial living practices) or thoroughly hated by the wide world (Saddam Hussein, for one), Hitchens was never a cheap-shot artist. (And this interview is good) Peter Robinson, in Ricochet: I repeat my side of our old argument, insisting that what Christopher experienced today was not, as he insisted it would be, extinction--and that, just as I told him he would--told him as he shook his head in amused disbelief--he has now had a happy if temporarily embarrassing surprise, finding himself in the presence of the only Being with the capacity to love him even more than did his friends. I repeat my side--but never--never--have I so regretted having the last word. Peter Wehner, in Commentary : He had gone out to smoke, which wasn't unusual - and he confided to me that he was nervous, which was. The words "Christopher Hitchens" and "nervous" don't usually belong in the same sentence. He also wore a tie, which he indicated to me he hadn't done in years - and, he told me, he had gotten his shoes shined before the speech, which he didn't recall ever having had done. It wasn't hard for me to fit the pieces together. Christopher felt it was an honor for him, a British citizen, to speak at the White House. For all his reputation for being a bon vivant, an iconoclast, and a man not known for his devotion to protocol, he was in fact quite moved to be a guest at one of the great symbols of American democracy. It was, I thought, something of a touching moment. Jeremy Lott, in AmSpec: The Hitchens of 1994 would have stopped there but his more mature self needed to go further. "However," he wrote, "there came a day when Mikhail Gorbachev visited Washington" and the world changed forever. Hitchens had huddled at the Marriott Hotel "from dawn to dusk with friends, wondering if it could be real." Sean O'Neil, in The Onion A/V Club: Many eulogizers have prefaced their obits with "love him or hate him...," but that's not quite right. You both loved and hated Christopher Hitchens, as even when he wasn't on your side-and even when he was on your side, yet still being a smug prick about it-you had to admire his tenacity and envy his eloquence. David Frum, in National Post: I vetoed the idea [of meeting Hitchens, proposed by Danielle Frum]. I knew Christopher's writing and had encountered him a few times in the 1980s. He was an impressive person, no question about that, but I objected to his ad hominem attacks on people I greatly admired. Then a few weeks later, I had my own face-to-face encounter with him. We were guests together on C-Span's morning program, which convened at 7 AM. He rolled in looking absolutely like hell. Of the dead, nothing should be said but good, but ... wow. Christopher's eyes were bloodshot, his clothes were crumpled, his face was ghastly. And then he started to talk. And then he made me laugh and laugh and laugh. The show ended at 8 AM. Even for Christopher, that was not drinking time. We adjourned to the nearby Phoenix Park hotel for a coffee, and two more hours of talk. When I did finally get home I had to admit to my wife, "OK, you were right." Eli Lake, in the Daily Beast : Sometimes Christopher is called a "contrarian," but I never thought that label was right. It's true that he delighted in argument and intellectual confrontation. But he did not just believe things because they were controversial or because no one else in his circle was making the arguments. On the Iraq war, he never stopped saying and writing that the war was just and that American arms were needed to end the regime of Saddam Hussein. But Christopher did not arrive at this position simply because his old colleagues at the Nation Magazine did not. He came to support the Iraq war after befriending many Iraqis, and particularly Kurds, who told him about the horrors of that dictatorship. For Christopher, supporting the war was an expression of his anti-totalitarianism. He would later say that the war pitted the anti-totalitarian left against the anti-imperialist left. Tammy Haddad, The Huffington Post : Pat Buchanan, a great verbal brawler in his own right, is the only person I ever saw who could anticipate the blows. Hitch had a big fight with Bob Novak once on Crossfire and Bob banned him from the show for a while. It was like losing a world champion. I think Bob finally let us bring him back because he knew Hitch had real fight in him, and we kept bringing up his name. Andrew Sullivan, in the Daily Beast: I could sense it coming. But I couldn't write anything beforehand and I cannot write anything worthy of him now. So I just sat down an hour ago when I heard the news - Aaron told me as he clicked on Gawker - and sat a while and got up to write and then blubbered a bit and, staring at the screen, read through some emails from him. The Daily Beast's tribute Dave Zirin, in The Nation: Hitchens then looked me up and down and spit his unlit cigarette against my chest. As my mouth dropped wide, he turned one last time and walked to his table. I stood there stunned, embarrassed and oddly proud. Peter Rothberg, in The Nation: (Videos, as well, fun to watch.) When I was a Nation intern, Christopher Hitchens was, by far, our group's favorite writer for the magazine. Beyond being a spellbindingly brilliant orator and the most prolific and incisive writer any of us had ever seen, on a very basic level he treated us well and with respect. D.D. Guttenplan, in The Nation: Five years later he got me out of trouble in Cyprus after I'd crashed a rented car into a police Land Rover, telling the authorities I was "an influential American journalist"-a fib that not only gained my freedom but resulted in a free hotel room as well. Jazz Shaw, Hot Air: In one of the many jewels among his collection of essays, I was particularly moved by the stark image he painted of North Korea following a trip there in the nineties. Titled, "Visit to a Small Planet," (an ironic homage to the Jerry Lewis film of the same name) he crafted a meticulous, insult laden assault on the late Kim Il Sung and his hapless, seemingly inbred progeny. He describes his visit to the U.S.S. Pueblo with a visceral, white hot anger, but then goes on to convey the shame he experienced for feeling hungry in a land filled with hopeless, starving peasants. Tom Elliot, on Funky Pundit: Afterward, I settled back into my seat and accidentally mistook his water for mine, immediately realizing he was actually drinking straight vodka. Mind you this was 10 AM. And if memory serves, after his cancer diagnosis. Slate's collection David Corn , James Fenton , June Thomas (Hitchens' editor) , Julian Barnes , Jacob Weisberg , Jonathan Karp (publisher, Simon &#038; Schuster) , Anne Applebaum , Fred Kaplan , Peter Florence , Alexander Chancellor , Timothy Garton Ash , Victor Navasky . ]]></description>
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		<title>Canada to Kyoto: ‘Sayonara!’</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 10:06:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Onoshobishobi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ On Monday, Canada&#8217;s Environment Minister Peter Kent announced that his country would exercise its legal option to end its participation in the Kyoto Protocols. The Protocols were a United Nations initiative, adopted in 1997 with a goal of rolling carbon dioxide emissions back to 1990 levels in an effort to stop Global Warming. Failure to meet those goals would incur stiff monetary penalties. Canada will not meet its 2012 goal, so as a treaty member it would incur penalties of $14 billion in 2012, or $1,600 for every Canadian family. Kent characterized Kyoto as an &#8220;impediment&#8221;, citing the absence of the world&#8217;s two largest carbon-emitting countries, China and the U.S., from its membership. (The United States never ratified the Kyoto Protocols. China was exempt from the penalties. China&#8217;s carbon emissions are now highest in the world, eclipsing U.S. emissions by nearly 50% in 2008 .) Canada Withdraws From Kyoto Protocol (NYT link may require subscription/registration.) &#8220;To meet the targets under Kyoto for 2012 would be the equivalent of either removing every car, truck, ATV, tractor, ambulance, police car and vehicle of every kind from Canadian roads or closing down the entire farming and agriculture sector and cutting heat to every home, office, hospital, factory and building in Canada ,&#8221; Kent said. [Emphasis added.] To quote Lloyd in Dumb and Dumber , &#8220;So you&#8217;re saying there&#8217;s a chance!&#8221; [Prime Minister Stephen] Harper&#8217;s Conservative government is reluctant to hurt Canada&#8217;s booming oil sands sector, which is the country&#8217;s fastest growing source of greenhouse gases and a reason it has reneged on its Kyoto commitments. Canada has the world&#8217;s third-largest oil reserves, more than 170 billion barrels. Daily production of 1.5 million barrels from the oil sands is expected to increase to 3.7 million in 2025. Only Saudi Arabia and Venezuela have more reserves. But critics say the enormous amount of energy and water needed in the extraction process increases greenhouse gas emissions. Kent said Canada produces &#8220;barely 2 percent&#8221; of global emissions and said the previous Liberal government signed onto Kyoto in 1997 without any intention of meeting its targets. But Canada&#8217;s population of 35 million is just 0.5% of global population, which makes them carbon hogs almost on a par with their neighbors in the U.S. But wait; there&#8217;s still hope for the polar bears: Kent&#8217;s announcement comes a day after marathon climate talks wrapped up in the South African port city of Durban. Negotiators from nearly 200 countries agreed on a deal that sets the world on a path to sign a new climate treaty by 2015 to replace the first Kyoto Protocol, which expires at the end of next year. Check out the coverage at wattsupwiththat.com . Cross-posted at my blog . Follow @VladimirRS ]]></description>
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		<title>Saving the Planet Once Again in Durban</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 00:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The annual " historic agreement " to meet again later -- wait, sorry, that's " to save the planet " -- has been agreed, to the also-annual teary-eyed hugging and standing ovations by EU delegates, at "COP-17", the negotiations to replace the expiring (after 2012) Kyoto Protocol. On its face, the summary is that the rest of the world agreed to let Europe continue binding itself until some later date. Yesterday, ClimateWire reported that a fund was established to administer the fund agreed in Copenhagen two years ago. Oh. AP tells us]]></description>
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		<title>Canada Won&#8217;t Sign Onto Kyoto II</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 02:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Canada is raising eyebrows both at home and abroad for announcing it will not sign onto the second phase of the Kyoto Protocol. Peter Kent, Canada's Minister of the Environment, made the announcement today in Durban, South Africa. The current agreement expires at the end of 2012. Like the U.S., Canada has an entrenched liberal media. Consider the lead sentence written by staff writers at CTV: China's willingness to consider cutting back on emissions has failed to change Canada's rigid position on the Kyoto accord. And what exactly is China willing to consider? Well, not all that much really. China, which is exempt from Kyoto's provisions despite becoming the world's largest emitter of carbon in 2007 , indicated it would be willing to cut emissions only if industrial countries first met their current Kyoto targets and extended them. China knows full well that all of the signatories aren't going reduce their emissions below 1990 levels. They were unrealistic targets in the first place and China knows it. So it's easy for China to make a promise it knows it won't have to keep. Peter Kent, Canada's Minister of the Environment, sees right through China's smokescreen. Kent stated , "We haven't seen any detail yet. We look forward to China bringing its proposal to the conference. But with regards to Canada not taking a second Kyoto commitment period, that would not change our position." Kent knows full well that China will submit a proposal to reduce its carbon emissions at about the same it]]></description>
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		<title>Can&#8217;t Face Economic Reality</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 16:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Most of us have now lost count of how many times Europe's political leaders have announced they've arrived at a "fundamental" agreement which "decisively" resolves the eurozone's almost three-year old financial crisis. As recently as late October, we were told the EU had forged an agreement that would contain Greece's debt problems -- only to see the deal suddenly thrown into question by internal Greek political turmoil, which was itself quickly overshadowed by Italy's sudden descent into high financial farce. No doubt many of these dramas reflect commonplace problems such as governments having difficulty reconciling promises made in international settings with domestic political demands. The apparently unending character of Europe's crisis, however, is also being driven by another element: the unwillingness of most of Europe's political establishment to acknowledge the root causes of Europe's present mess. One such mega-reality is the unsustainability of the pattern of low-growth, big public sectors, heavy regulation, large welfare states, aging populations, and below-replacement birthrates that characterizes much of the eurozone. Even now, it's difficult to find mainstream EU politicians who openly concede the high economic price of these arrangements. Nor have they acknowledged how the costs of this state of affairs necessitated the heavy public-sector borrowing used to fill the fiscal gap that not even the eurozone's notoriously high-tax rates could cover. Today we know such borrowing helped facilitate many European nations' catastrophic sovereign-debt levels which now translate into dismal growth-prospects, not least because of mounting debt-servicing requirements. Rare, however, is the European politician willing to explain how this fiscal train-wreck occurred. Instead they often indulge in the intellectually lazy practice of blaming many Europeans' favorite all-purpose bogeyman -- " néolibéralisme ," aka "Anglo-Saxon capitalism" -- for the EU's woes. This issue of debt and its deeper causes brings us neatly to a second major reality-denial by Europe's political elites: the fact that the various bailout mechanisms created by the EU are built on sand. A good example of this is the European Stability Mechanism (ESM). Due to start operating in mid-2013, the ESM will serve as a permanent institution for assisting financially challenged eurozone nations. Every eurozone member is obliged to contribute different amounts to the funds at the ESM's disposal. There are, however, serious questions about various countries' capacity to meet their obligations. Italy agreed, for example, to guarantee 18 percent of the ESM's funds. But as the Financial Times journalist Wolfgang Münchau wrote in March: "do we really believe that Italy… is in a position to find tens of billions for the bailout of another member-state?" A third reality underlining Europe's current predicaments often ignored by many European politicians is the European model's increasing obsolescence in a global economy. After World War II, many European countries sought to combine elements of the market with strong top-down coordination by the state, generous social programs, and neo-corporatist policies. The latter typically involved governments hardwiring protocols for extensive consultations between management and employees into entire economies in order to settle disputes about wage-levels, working conditions, and production-targets. As the economist Barry Eichengreen observes, neo-corporatist structures may have helped many Western European countries shattered by war and characterized by sharp ideological and social divisions to side-step these fractures to address pressing reconstruction and development problems. In a globalizing age, however, the utility of this approach is far less obvious. Employer associations, trade unions, and governments can negotiate wages in Spain as much as they want. But if labor is less-expensive in Korea, many companies may decide it's much simpler, less time-consuming, and more cost-effective to cut out the middleman of neo-corporatist officialdom and build new factories outside Seoul rather than Madrid and employ Koreans instead of Spaniards. To be sure, countries such as Germany and Sweden have made significant internal changes that have helped them capitalize upon the opening of world markets. But other EU nations have not. Instead they persist in futile dirigiste exercises such as France's quixotic efforts to promote "national champions" that apparently aren't great enough to do without government subsidies. There is, however, a fourth factor at work that might well be the most intractable economic truth that many Europeans are reluctant to face: the corrosive effects of the never-ending West European quest for perpetual economic security and ever-deeper economic equality. No one craves economic insecurity. Nonetheless, if most of your policy settings prioritize economic security and reducing wealth disparities over basic economic liberties and incentives to create wealth, you should expect low levels of economic growth and declining international competiveness. While disagreeing about when it occurs, most economists acknowledge that once wealth-redistribution efforts reach a certain level, the incentives to be economically creative begin shrinking. As several EU studies demonstrate , steady majorities in most West European countries express a decided preference for security (be it through attaining a public-sector job, voting for munificent social security systems, or supporting massive wealth transfers within and between EU countries) over allowing more scope for economic freedom. The same analyses illustrate that West Europeans are more willing than Americans and Chinese to trade off economic dynamism in order to have lower wealth disparities. If that's what most contemporary Europeans want, then so be it. But if leadership occasionally involves telling people hard truths, Europe's politicians should inform their constituencies that the economic policies flowing from such preferences have contributed mightily to the eurozone's contemporary disarray. Once again, their silence on this matter is deafening. Europe's leaders are hardly alone in avoiding meaningful discussion of their countries' deeper economic troubles. Even now, some American politicians simply won't admit the need for major entitlement reform. It's near-impossible to find Chinese officials prepared to confess that China's one-child policy is turning out to be an economic and moral-cultural disaster. Nevertheless, it's striking how a crisis that's presently leading to ruinously high youth-unemployment, the disintegration of governments, and threatening the euro's implosion hasn't produced any profound rethinking of economic policy by most European politicians. It's as if they're convinced Europe can somehow hang on through a combination of financial chimeras, minor adjustments to retirement ages, temporary spending cuts, and, above all, centralizing more power in Brussels in the name of "European economic governance." Such wishful thinking may turn out to be the greatest European delusion of them all. ]]></description>
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		<title>Bill Clinton Says Green Movement Strapped for Cash</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ NEW YORK (The Blaze/AP) &#8212; Former President Bill Clinton said Tuesday that the success of the alternative energy movement is hampered by a lack of financing. His comments came as world leaders attending his annual philanthropic conference expressed fears about rising seas. The ex-president&#8217;s three-day Clinton Global Initiative for VIPs with deep pockets began Tuesday with a frank discussion about addressing global climate challenges, co-hosted by Mexican President Felipe Calderon and South African President Jacob Zuma. There was a sense of frustration among the world leaders over the failure to create a legally binding world agreement on carbon emissions. &#8220;We have seen much less progress than we hoped for,&#8221; said Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg. Pointing to Germany&#8217;s successful creation of solar energy jobs as a model for other nations to emulate, Clinton said the main issue with green energy is a lack of proper funding. &#8220;This has to work economically,&#8221; Clinton said. &#8220;You have to come up with the money on the front end.&#8221; Clinton&#8217;s talk of renewable energy financing comes as Republicans are criticizing the Obama administration for awarding billions of dollars in taxpayer subsidies for such projects, including a $528 million loan to a now-bankrupt California solar panel maker. Fremont, Calif.-based Solyndra filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection earlier this month and laid off its 1,100 employees. The Silicon Valley company was the first renewable-energy company to receive a loan guarantee under a stimulus-law program to encourage green energy and was frequently touted by the Obama administration as a model. Rising seas are a matter of life and death for small island nations, Zuma said. &#8220;Not theoretical, not in the future, now,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And they can&#8217;t understand why we&#8217;re failing to realize that.&#8221; Noting that the Kyoto Protocol on climate change is set to expire next year, Calderon said progress must be made toward establishing new rules at the United Nations convention on climate change in Durban, South Africa, in November. Calderon said he is concerned that the world&#8217;s economic problems are overshadowing the need for action on climate change. &#8220;Last year we had the worst rains ever in Mexico, and this year we are living with the worst drought ever in Mexico,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I know that the world has a lot of troubles, but we are still facing the most challenging problem for human kind in the future, and that is climate change.&#8221; Sheikh Hasina, prime minister of Bangladesh, said rising seas would submerge one-fifth of her country, displacing more than 30 million people. Clinton said the next countries most likely to be affected by climate change are places that are inland and hot &#8211; such as Mali, a landlocked nation in western Africa. &#8220;A few years ago, after the south Asian tsunami, I spent a lot of time in the Maldives,&#8221; Clinton said. &#8220;I think it&#8217;s quite possible that the Maldives won&#8217;t be here in 30 or 40 years.&#8221; Clinton said Caribbean nations are microcosms of the problems associated with combating climate change. Every Caribbean nation should be energy-independent, he said, by generating solar, wind and geothermal energy. &#8220;But only Trinidad has natural gas,&#8221; Clinton said. &#8220;Everybody else imports heavy oil to burn old-fashioned generators at high cost.&#8221; Other leaders who participated in Tuesday&#8217;s panel included European Commission President Jose Barroso, Slovenian President Danilo Turk, Tillman Thomas, the prime minister of Grenada, and Cisse Mariam Kaidama Sidibe, the prime minister of Mali. Last year&#8217;s GCI conference generated nearly 300 new commitments valued at $6 billion to tackle major global issues from poverty and disease to climate change. &#8220;We&#8217;ve got to somehow involve the imagination of ordinary people,&#8221; Clinton said. &#8220;They have to understand that this is not a burden, it&#8217;s an opportunity.&#8221; Read the original: Bill Clinton Says Green Movement Strapped for Cash ]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Enron &#8212; What Will the Spin Be?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 23:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Now that the feds have raided Solyndra's HQ and sordid details of the numerous preferences and avoidance of due diligence emerge even in establishment media outlets -- oh, and all of those White House visits in the run-up to the rush-rush deal -- it's time to start giving the analogy more thought. I don't remember video of Bush touting Enron as "the future". Or lining up a fat finance package for them (though he did go along with Texas's windmill scheme at Enron's request...Enron Wind is now known as ObamaPal GE Wind, incidentally). Or Bush granting similar sops at the taxpayer's and economy's expense like agreeing to Enron's beseeching him to seek ratification of Enron's big achievement under the Clinton administration: getting them to ignore unanimous Art. II, Sec. 2 "advice" and agree to, then later sign (yes, they did) the Kyoto Protocol. Which stunt was agreed in an August 4, 1997 Oval Office meeting. I'm not sure how much traction they'll get with "Well, at least Obama never gave the CEO a nickname!" (Er, how about 'the future'?) But it will be fun to watch them try. ]]></description>
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		<title>MSM Silent As Military Instructed To Applaud Obama, Went After Bush For Similar Incident In 2005…</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Nah, liberal media bias is just a fable pushed by a vast right-wing conspiracy. (Yahoo! News) — Did the news media expose its liberal bias by ignoring a clip of a group of naval officers who needed to be instructed to applaud President Barack Obama? That&#8217;s what several conservative pundits are asking, after a video of the incident in early August surfaced this week. As Obama was introduced at the Washington Navy Yard on Aug. 5, he approached the podium to &#8220;Hail to the Chief.&#8221; The assembled officers did not applaud. The senior officer who introduced the president, sensing the awkward silence, said, &#8220;You can go ahead and cheer, too.&#8221; The crowd, some of who were taking photos, dutifully clapped hands. &#8220;Perhaps it&#8217;s protocol not to cheer until told to when in the military,&#8221; Ben Howe, a blogger for RedState.com , wrote. &#8220;But if that&#8217;s true, the media has some explaining to do as to why they went after Bush for the same thing in 2005.&#8221; Howe is referring to how the national news media covered a similar incident in June of that year, when President George W. Bush gave a speech at Fort Bragg and applause was initiated by a White House staff member. As Howe noted, Terry Moran, reporting for ABC News, said at the time, &#8220;I must tell you that applause was initiated by a member of the White House advance team.&#8221; On NBC, Brian Williams said, &#8220;Some folks at home no doubt were curious about the lack of applause breaks. By pre-agreement between the White House and Fort Bragg, there was no entry applause as the soldiers were at attention. We were 23 minutes into it before the first break for applause.&#8221; &#8220;It was my observation that that one applause break was actually triggered by members of the president&#8217;s advance team,&#8221; NBC&#8217;s Kelly O&#8217;Donnell told Williams. &#8220;They were just a few feet from me. They started to applaud — applause is contagious, and it then swept through the room. There was applause when the president left the room after the speech was over but people in uniform here told me that they had planned to be polite and to follow protocol.&#8221; Keep reading&#8230; ]]></description>
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		<title>Morning Briefing for September 7, 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 13:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ RedState Morning Briefing For September 7, 2011 Go to www.RedStateMB.com to get the Morning Briefing every morning at no charge. 1. Enough 2. Proposed Questions for the GOP Debate: Time for Specifics 3. Mitt Romney beclowns the Netroots on job growth. 4. Job Creation vs. Career Politician: The Romney Path to Victory 5. Post Labor Day Political Analysis: The Arrogance of “the One” has Caused Him to become Undone 6. From civility to ‘barbarians’ and ‘SOBs’ and the Reverend Wright ‘I didn’t hear it’ defense 7. Media Silent as Audience Instructed to Applaud Obama &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;- 1. Enough On Fox News, Ann Coulter and Laura Ingraham had the best discussion on Sarah Palin I have seen. And Ann said something I have said. But I have not said it nearly as well as Ann did. To paraphrase Ann, a lot of us fell in love with Sarah Palin because of her enemies and a lot of us have fallen out of love with Sarah Palin because of her fans. For the past year, Palin fans have become an online fixture with more venom and insanity than the most rabid Ron Paul fan. They have not evangelized on behalf of Sarah Palin trying to lead people to Sarah Palin, they have freaked a lot of us out. I am at the point of fearing that should Palin not get in the race we’re going to have a Hale Bopp moment with many of her most ardent supporters. These people have become too emotionally invested in one person to discuss that person rationally or even to address serious policy concerns. For the longest time I wanted Sarah Palin to run. At some point, I decided Sarah Palin could not defeat Barack Obama, but I’d rather go down fighting on Team Sarah than side with any of the guys who will just take us down the “big government conservative” path of creeping socialism. Finally, I decided Sarah Palin was not going to run and I moved on. Ultimately, 2012 really is about beating Barack Obama, not what Sarah Palin will or will not do. Unfortunately, as I found out and as others are starting to find out, moving on from Sarah Palin is like leaving Scientology. Please click here for the rest of the post. 2. Proposed Questions for the GOP Debate: Time for Specifics Although a debate stage with eight candidates is inherently conducive to a circus atmosphere, the debate moderators need to focus on questions which elicit substantive answers to specific policy questions from the candidates. Moreover, the liberal moderators from Politico and NBC should remember that they are overseeing a Republican debate. As such, their questions should stem from conservative premises, and should provoke thoughtful responses from the candidates – responses that will demonstrate their visions of conservative governance to a conservative electorate. Another bonus proposal would be for the Reagan Library to screen the audience more carefully to prevent outbursts of cheers and jeers, thereby engendering a more serious atmosphere than the previous debate (yes, we’re looking at you, Ron Paul supporters). Here are some proposed questions. Please click here for the rest of the post. 3. Mitt Romney beclowns the Netroots on job growth. I don’t normally devote the front page of RedState to Twitter nonsense from the Online Left – aside from everything else, the netroots are horrifically bad at Twitter, which makes it not quite sporting – but I’ll make an exception in this case. The short version: the campaign of Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney put out a chart today as part of his jobs plan that happened to show historical data on our five most recent recessions. It was done up as a bar graph, with red and blue bars: the red bars showed jobs lost in the recession, while the blue bars showed the jobs added in the 24 months following. I’m quoting, by the way: the legend was clearly printed on the chart. Here, look for yourself. Please click here for the rest of the post. 4. Job Creation vs. Career Politician: The Romney Path to Victory I have written that I thought the better attack for Mitt Romney would be to go after Rick Perry for being a career politician rather than try to discredit, as the Democrats are, Texas’s job creation record under Perry. The reason for this is two fold. First, it would differentiate Romney’s attack from the Democrats and because the “career politician” argument is right for the zeitgeist in this election season. People intuitively give the chief executive of a state credit for job creation in the state in a way similar to giving credit to a CEO for a company’s growth. Yes, yes yes, we know that it is a citizen and business effort in the state in the same way it is an employee effort in a company. But the Governor and CEO steer the ship of state and commerce and they get the credit. Please click here for the rest of the post. 5. Post Labor Day Political Analysis: The Arrogance of “the One” has Caused Him to become Undone As Perry solidified his lead for the GOP nomination, the opposite has happened to “the One,” who, in short, has become obviously and glaringly undone — in a way that has been so dramatic that even the main stream media cannot ignore it, downplay it or talk around it. Basically, if there is a credible pollster, Obama has hit that pollster’s all time low, including Gallup, Quinnipiac, CNN, and the NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll. Meanwhile, Gov. Rick Perry leads the GOP field by double digits in the following polls: NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, Gallup, Quinnipiac and CNN. The fact that the mainstream media (MSM) has begun reporting that “the One” is in real trouble, is directly related to the fact that Governor Perry began to focus their blindingly bias ways on the fact that there is an alternative the MSM could not paint as a idiot or a nutcase (although they tried). Even Maureen Dowd, in this Sunday’s NYT, mockingly wrote: “The One is dancing on the edge of one term.” Please click here for the rest of the post. 6. From civility to ‘barbarians’ and ‘SOBs’ and the Reverend Wright ‘I didn’t hear it’ defense President Obama, on yet another taxpayer-funded reelection campaign junket — this one billed as a preview of his upcoming big jobs speech, called for a bipartisan response to his latest plan amidst extreme partisan rhetoric. Please click here for the rest of the post. 7. Media Silent as Audience Instructed to Applaud Obama What you are about to witness is either awkward or simply military protocol. Either way it’s media bias on display. Please click here for the rest of the post. ]]></description>
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