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The Greens Go Very, Very Red

just logged onto Terra Daily, a Greenie/Warmie hysteria site that books itself as “Earth News, Earth Science, Energy Technology, Environment News.” I often look at Terra while writing Sunday Scan because it’s so amazingly gloomy - all about environmental disasters and (related, they claim) higher CO2. But today it reads like the People’s Daily. Have the Chinese bought the environmental movement lock, stock and barrel?

The lead story, China says Somali mission signals no change in military policy, is a statement from the Chinese military saying, in effect, “Don’t worry just because we have ships engaged off the coast of Somalia. We’re still just a passive little defensive navy.” And this has what, exactly, to do with the environment?

The second lead is China pledges more support for impoverished Malawi, noting that last year Malawi switched its backing from Taipei to Beijing. The green connection seems to be missing here. That’s followed by, under the heading “Farm News,” China couple first to take milk pay-out: State media, and under “Sino Daily,” China awash with fake 100 yuan notes. Again, does anyone see green here instead of red?

There are two more stories out of China before we finally get to the typical Terra Daily fare of surging CO2 levels and death tolls from floods (nothing to be seen about the various deep cold snaps, though). Nothing on the site explains this transformation since I last looked at it last Sunday. It’s all presented totally matter of factly, as this news is the news that appeals to the Gaian deep greeners.

Maybe it does. Maybe they’re finally letting their true colors show. Or possibly, Terra Daily was flailing, unable to find enough readers to keep the owners in their metro-yuppie-hipness, so they sold out to the Chinese. If so, it’s very heavy-handed, which is what we’d expect. And if so, it won’t stop with little ol’ Terra Daily. From sea to shining sea, major newspapers are looking for buyers.

NanPo Goes Conyers-Crazy

anPo, the Evil Queen of Frisco, has pretty much endorsed one of the whackiest of the Dem house members, Jon Conyers, by not slamming the door shut on Bush Admin. war crime prosecutions. As Michelle Malkin put it in a tweet this a.m.:

Nancy Pelosi, now “open” to prosecuting Bush DOJ, tosses red meat (or is that blue meat?) to the impeachment zealots. (link)

Here’s NanPo:

“I think you look at each item and see what is a violation of the law and do we even have a right to ignore it. And other things that are maybe time that is spent better looking to the future rather than to the past.”

C-SM readers know Obama gave an equivocal answer (What a shock!) about war crimes prosecutions, but NanPo said something about that … and it’s particularly chilling:

“I don’t think that Mr. Obama and Mr. Conyers are that far apart. There are different subjects and you treat them differently.”

Huh? Just to refresh here, U.N. resolutions allowed the war; Congress authorized it; the entire world intelligence community agreed Hussein had WMDs and was prepared to use them, Bush kept us safe for the rest of his presidency, and Joe Wilson is, to borrow a phrase from the Senate seat thief from Minnesota, a big fat liar.

The Stench Of Chavez (And Reuters)

n an obnoxious, foul-smelling piece of what poses for journalism nowadays, Reuters writes about how Venezuelan dictator Hugo (No, you go) Chavez as already being turned off to Obama:

Most world leaders expect a new era of U.S. foreign relations when Obama, a Democrat, is sworn in as president on Tuesday after Republican George W. Bush’s eight years in the White House.

But Chavez said frayed ties with Washington were unlikely to improve despite the departure of Bush, who the Venezuelan leader has often called the “devil.”

“I hope I am wrong, but I believe Obama brings the same stench, to not say another word,” Chavez said at a political rally on a historic Venezuelan battlefield.

Notwithstanding that I’d be very happy if Obama makes Chavez as whacked out as Bush did, let’s focus on Reuters, shall we? Without lifting a reportorial eyebrow, Reuters goes on to quote Chavez at length as he says the American “empire” is likely to be done with Obama, just as it ridded itself of others who stood up against the system: Kennedy, Martin Luther King … and Abraham Lincoln. Gosh. I didn’t know we had an empire way back then.

Reuters then goes on to explain that relations between the US and Venezuela deteriorated when he “took on” U.S. companies - an interestingly positive way to say “nationalization” - and accused us of backing a coup against him.

That’s why relations deteriorated? It had nothing to do with his efforts to turn Venezuela into a post-Soviet state, to support FARC terrorists against Columbia, to suspend his own constitution, to shut down all opposition media in Venezuela, to suspend human rights, and to foment revolution in Bolivia and anywhere else that will listen to him?

Reuters doesn’t bother to mention any of that, picking up instead many of the memes mentioned in the Sunday Scan item that follows.

The Memes Of Suicidalism

marsaker, the most eclectic of all those kind enough to comment on C-SM, is a deep thinking on the topic of threats to America. He recently posted a comment which I repeat here in its entirety. I recommend you go to the links he references below, especially the first and third (Suicidalism).

I believe you’ll find these two links very interesting, Laer.

http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=260http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=260
http://www.hoover.org/publications/policyreview/3484376.html

In a previous post on Suicidalism, I identified some of the most important of the Soviet Union’s memetic weapons. Here is that list again:

There is no truth, only competing agendas.

All Western (and especially American) claims to moral superiority over Communism/ Fascism/ Islam are vitiated by the West’s history of racism and colonialism.

There are no objective standards by which we may judge one culture to be better than another. Anyone who claims that there are such standards is an evil oppressor.

The prosperity of the West is built on ruthless exploitation of the Third World; therefore Westerners actually deserve to be impoverished and miserable.

Crime is the fault of society, not the individual criminal. Poor criminals are entitled to what they take.

Submitting to criminal predation is more virtuous than resisting it.

The poor are victims. Criminals are victims. And only victims are virtuous. Therefore only the poor and criminals are virtuous. (Rich people can borrow some virtue by identifying with poor people and criminals.)

For a virtuous person, violence and war are never justified. It is always better to be a victim than to fight, or even to defend oneself. But ‘oppressed’ people are allowed to use violence anyway; they are merely reflecting the evil of their oppressors.

When confronted with terror, the only moral course for a Westerner is to apologize for past sins, understand the terrorist’s point of view, and make concessions.

Ymarsakar posits that all these memes can be traced back to the KGB’s Department V, which …

… was charged during the Cold War with conducting memetic warfare that would destroy the will of the West’s intelligentsia to resist a Communist takeover. This they did with such magnificent effect that the infection outlasted the Soviet Union itself and remains a pervasive disease of contemporary Western intellectual life.

Even with the fall of the Soviet Union, the memes live on and are now used by both al-Qaeda and their apologists in academia, the intelligentsia and the “unintelligentsia” - those buffoons of the radical left who parrot these thoughts without thinking.

Interesting stuff … and good Sunday reading.

Inaugural Price Tag

he most recent reports, which put the price tag for the Obama coronation inauguration at $150 million - almost four times more expensive than the last Bushfest - probably suffer from under-reporting. If I were an Obamaite, I’d be working diligently to cover up inauguration costs. (If I were a Bushie, I wouldn’t be … but then morality had a different role under Bush than it will under Obama.)

Even so resolute an Obama supporter as AP can see the incongruity here:

Unemployment is up. The stock market is down. Let’s party.

The price tag for President-elect Barack Obama’s inauguration gala is expected to break records, with some estimates reaching as high as $150 million. Despite the bleak economy, however, Democrats who called on President George W. Bush to be frugal four years ago are issuing no such demands now that an inaugural weekend of rock concerts and star-studded parties has begun.

AP reports that the Obamaites have raised $41 million to “cover” inauguration events. Sounds like Obamanomics. In other words, Obama can’t even get through his inauguration without a $110 million deficit.

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