This morning, Jennifer Rubin lambasted the Obama administration’s “feckless Iran policy.” Fair enough. I agree the president’s approach has proven disjointed, at best, and “rudderless,” at worst. Waging a shadow war in the global economy against a diabolical theocracy, while assassinating nuclear scientists and corrupting technology with the help of its arch-nemesis won’t cultivate fertile soil for constructive engagement. And that’s fine and dandy. These aren’t the Khatami years and the ” dialogue among civilizations ” is off the table. However, Rubin’s hardline approach demonstrates an unfortunate artlessness on a number of levels — it’s both strategically and historically unfeasible.
This is still in the “claim” category, but… A former MF Global employee accused former president William J. Clinton of collecting $50,000 per month through his Teneo advisory firm in the months before the brokerage careened towards its Halloween filing… Originally posted here: Hey, Guess Who Else Profited From Jon Corzine Billion Dollar Debacle?
Originally posted here:
Hey, Guess Who Else Profited From Jon Corzine Billion Dollar Debacle?
“I’m in the egg-laying business,” Henny-Penny said, “but the world champions are the members of the college of cardinals of global warming meeting in Durban South Africa right now. They came to drum up a successor to the Kyoto Accord and will go home with nothing.” Ms. H-P knows everything there is to know about the global warming religion, having been until recently the founder and recording secretary of The Holy Order Of The Sky Is Falling (THOOTSIF). Having seen that its dire prophecies have not been coming true, she is now a leading skeptic. She continued: “Have your noticed that it’s springtime in Durban, South Africa? Nearly every one of the several hundred delegates to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change conference is on some government’s payroll — or the UN’s — and they came by airliner without noting the irony of the thousands of pounds of carbon they were pumping into the air by doing so.” ME: Tell me about their goal at this meeting. H-P: The same thing they’ve had at all these meetings. They want a legally-binding agreement between the world’s “rich” nations to put $100 billion a year into a fund to help “poor” nations cope with global warming. You can imagine how that would be spent. The U.S. isn’t a party to Kyoto, and Canada is withdrawing from it. They and Japan and Russia have signaled they won’t sign on to this new pact. China and India will stand aside unless the others sign. Result: a giant goose egg (many times the size of the ordinary eggs I lay every day in the hen house).” ME: There was a strong note of desperation in the conference statement released by one Virginia Dandan, the UN Independent Expert on Human Rights and International Solidarity. Among other things, she called for “old and new polluters to confront the massive, irreversible damage that has already been caused.” She appealed to the “Global Village” that the Durban negotiations “are a make or break for humanity.… Failure in Durban would impact on the three pillars of the UN, namely, peace and security, development and human rights.” H-P: It’s just more scare talk. Note that she mentioned three UN “pillars,” but named four.
Europe is closer than you think to bringing down the American — and, therefore, the global — economy
See the article here:
Europe is closer than you think to bringing down the American — and, therefore, the global — economy
