Postal Service puts 'canceled' stamp on Santa Clause in North Pole, Alaska — yep, that's really him — and tiny town's 55-year tradition of answering 'Dear Santa' letters after discovery that volunteer was a sex offender.
GOP Rips Medicare 'Doc Fix'
Republicans slam plan to keep doctors of Medicare patients from taking steep cuts, warn Obama of deficit
A Little Turkey, Then a Troop Decision?
Obama won't make the call on U.S. troop levels in Afghanistan until after Thanksgiving holiday, aides say
Seal the Deal or Sell It?
Multitrillion-dollar greenhouse gas reduction treaty hits a wall, but that's not slowing down the U.N.
Push to raise legal drinking age above 18
EXPERTS say banning 18-year-olds from drinking alcohol could save thousands of lives.
Leader has 'bloody hands' on Cup money
CUP prizemoney owed to Chechen leader said to have links to murders may be frozen.
Snoozing MP says it was just a 'power nap'
FRAN Bailey says she had been working her butt off at NATO conference in Scotland. - conservatives are held to a higher standard than their ALP counterparts. - ed.
Supermodel 'glamourises' anorexia slogan
KATE Moss believes "nothing tastes as good as skinny feels", and so do pro-anorexia blogs.
Rally duo die in classic car race crash
GARY Tierney and David Carra will be honoured with a minute's silence ahead of racing today.
Accused shooter had 'poor work ethic'
MEMO reveals concerns about the "professionalism and work ethic" of accused Fort Hood shooter.
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Somali pirates hijack boats, loot ships, and have kidnapped over 200 innocent people! Who is training and funding these violent groups? Our team goes around the globe to investigate!
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Senate Health Care Bill
Is it the wrong prescription for the economy? Neil breaks it down!
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Sarah Sounds Off!
Was the media's portrayal of Palin fair? Find out in Bill's hard-hitting interview!
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Guest: Elisabeth Hasselbeck
From Sarah's TV treatment to the controversial Newsweek cover, Hasselbeck shares her views on all things Palin!
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Rough Month for President Obama
By Bill O'Reilly
While the president had some difficulty trying to convince the Chinese government to act civilized, that's nothing compared to what he's facing when he returns home Thursday. Fort Hood, Afghanistan, the health care chaos, and now Khalid Sheikh Mohammed being tried in New York City have all put the president on the defensive.
A new Quinnipiac poll shows his approval rating has dropped below 50 percent for the first time. But Mr. Obama is shrewd, and so he made himself available for some interviews while in Asia.
Fox News correspondent Major Garrett pinned the president down on whether Obamacare would compel taxpayers to fund abortions. That's the so-called Stupak amendment.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
MAJOR GARRETT, FOX NEWS CORRESPONDENT: Will you sign legislation on health care that includes the Stupak language?
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: You know, I think that there is a balance to be achieved that is consistent with the Hyde amendment, what existed before we reformed health care. I believe in the basic idea that federal dollars shouldn't pay for abortions, but I also think we should not restrict women's choices.
GARRETT: Does the Stupak language strike that balance?
OBAMA: Not yet.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
The problem is the president wants it both ways. He knows forcing pro-life taxpayers to fund abortion is wrong. Every fair-minded person knows that.
Yet the president falls back on the liberal line that women should have the choice to give birth, but that has nothing to do with other people paying for that birth or the termination of a pregnancy. The Constitution does not compel American taxpayers to abort babies. Mr. Obama should wise up.
The other hot issue is Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other Al Qaeda thugs being tried in New York City. All the polls show Americans overwhelmingly reject that, believing the military should handle the terror killers. But Mr. Obama is holding firm:
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Can you understand why it is offensive to some for this terrorist to get all of the legal privileges of an American citizen?
OBAMA: I don't think it will be offensive at all when he's convicted and when the death penalty is applied to him.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
Wow, the president just convicted these guys. I think that may be unconstitutional.
The point is the terrorists should be convicted because they've admitted what they've done. There's no need for a show trial; there's no need to give them a propaganda outlet. Again, the president needs to wise up.
Even though Mr. Obama has been in office less than a year, his image is beginning to tarnish. We've been fair to the president here, but common sense must rule, not far-left ideology. The president has always struck me as a practical man, but recently his decision-making has been dubious to say the least.
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A government couldn’t have wrought this miracle
Andrew Bolt
I MUST have missed that bit in the Bible right after Jesus turns five loaves and two fish into food for 5000.
You know, the bit where one disciple snaps to another: “Nice, but this lunch should really have been put on by the government.”
But never mind. I got a retelling of this inspirational tale just this week, right after the miracle of the separation of the Bangladeshi conjoined orphans, Trishna and Krishna.
A caller rang 3AW just after the two-year-olds were parted after 32 hours of surgery and said, yeah, all very nice, but why had Federal Health Minister Nicola Roxon refused to pay for this operation?
“I wonder how she sleeps at night,” he snapped.
“I was very disappointed,” agreed 3AW host Neil Mitchell, who’d helped to raise $250,000 for the girls’ care.
Others had a whack at the Victorian Government, too, when the then Acting Premier, Rob Hulls, said it wasn’t going to pay, either.
So it may indeed seem that Roxon and Hulls misjudged completely the eagerness of so many Australians to help these girls, who were joined at the head and faced a very early death until an Australian girl just happened upon them.
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The mad game of paying someone to run for your glory
Andrew Bolt
AT LAST someone’s called time on our puffed-up demand for Olympic gold.
The Rudd Government’s Crawford Report into sports funding this week rejected the Australian Olympic committee’s call for another $109 million to keep Australia among the top five medallists at the Games.
Still better, it questioned why the AOC thought being one of those five was even possible, let alone a grail worth chasing. Try top eight, lads.
It’s strange that so many people sitting on a couch feel like heroes for what some athlete won on their own on the track. And this report, from former Foster’s Group chairman David Crawford, says there’s not even evidence that a medal inspires children to go be athletes themselves.
But there is evidence our Games funding is bloated, with $15 million spent for each gold we won at Beijing.
Indeed, any fringe sport that might earn a medal gets federal funding out of all whack to the number of Australians who play it. Take water polo, which gets more federal grants than do golf, tennis and lawn bowls combined.
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May I have this friend, dear Judge?
Andrew Bolt
DEAR Discrimination Police,
I want to issue invitations to a dinner party and am seeking your official approval to discriminate.
I plan to invite only people who think for themselves and judge things by their consequences, not intentions.
All right, I admit it. They’re conservatives. All of them. I’m not inviting one person from the mad Left.
So why do I want a Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal exemption from our anti-discrimination laws?
True, I’d thought I was free to choose my own company, whether for a dinner, holiday or commune. But I now learn that picking the company we keep is too huge a responsibility for our Labor Government to leave to amateurs, and that judges must now decide for me.
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Justice delayed is justice denied
Andrew Bolt
Terry McCrann is right. The complete collapse of ASIC’s case against One,Tel founder Jodee Rich after eight years of chasing him indicates an unforgivable punishment by process:
What we have seen is an utter disgrace. Think of it in these terms.
Either Rich is innocent - and by that I mean, innocent in the substantive not the legal sense. And the law and the process put him through eight years of hell.
Or he is guilty; and again I mean that in the substantive sense; and eight years and all this process couldn’t establish that guilt.
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The ALP are taking this alarmism seriously
Andrew Bolt
When one of the ABC’s leading warming spruikers, Lateline’s Tony Jones, leads with his chin, you look forward to seeing an intelligent Liberal such as Tony Abbott job him.
He doesn’t. The troubling thing is that the Liberals simply haven’t done the hard work on examining the wild claims of a Jones that this serious issue demands.
For instance, it’s deeply misleading of Jones to suggest that the debate has on one side thousands of scientists honestly trying to save the planet, and on the other side ... nothing but conspiracy theorists. In fact, there are thousands of scientists on both sides of the argument, and fewer on Jones’ side than he may think. Jones should have had his question turned against him: does he think the thousands of sceptical scientists are in a conspiracy by Big Oil to wreck the world? In short, does Jones agree with Kevin Rudd?
It is also worth pointing out that the fall in temperatures since 2001 is now so clear that even Rudd’s own department grudgingly acknowledges it. The trend lines since 2001 are indisputably down, against predictions, even though our emissions are fast going up:
Third, the theory that man is heating the world dangerously is actually not proved even to the satisfaction of the IPCC which pushes it. The IPCC’s fourth report concedes there is still 10 per cent doubt on its side - or, in fact, actually more.
Fourth, science is not settled by a vote, but in this case by checking a theory, however popular, against the objective facts. Among those facts: temperatures have fallen since 2001, not risen; total sea ice is not falling; total hurricane energy is down, not up; sea level rises have slowed in the past few years, not increased.
And so on. The key issue under discussion should have been returned to again and again, too. Will Rudd’s plans for a colossal tax on emissions lower the world’s temperature by a jot? Would we even be better off if it could?
But here’s one overall lesson to be learned. No senior Liberal politician should ever go on TV and say he’s not read a single scientific paper - not even the IPCC fourth report - and then talk in a fumbling and timid way about the science.
Prepare. The stakes are too high not to, and the rewards of discomfiting a Jones with the facts too great.
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Hand of a fallen god
Andrew Bolt
What a shame. I’ve suddenly lost my respect for him, and I’d say he’s lost a lot of money in future endorsements:
SUPERSTAR Thierry Henry was at the centre of a sensational cheating storm this morning as France reached the World Cup finals.
France, the 1998 champions and 2006 runners-up, drew 1-1 with Ireland at the Stade de France in the second leg of their play-off for a 2-1 aggregate win.
But the extra-time triumph came in controversial circumstances when French skipper Henry appeared to control the ball with his hand before his angled pass allowed William Gallas to head in the crucial 103rd-minute goal.
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No political journalist believes Rudd
Andrew Bolt
I’ve said it bluntly: Kevin Rudd lied and lied again when he said he’s offered no “special deal” to the asylum seekers on the Oceanic Viking.
Deputy Opposition Leader Julie Bishop in Parlament nails just what a lie it is to claim that offers of resettlement withinin four to 12 weeks was “non-extraodrinary”::
There is the department of immigration’s own annual report that says offshore processing for asylum seekers, and that includes those in Indonesia, is running at about 52 weeks—75 per cent have been finalised within 52 weeks. Prime Minister, that is a little different from four to 12 weeks. It is 12 months, not 12 weeks.And Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull in his censure motion showed just how much of a liar many in the media think Rudd, too (and, yes, I did notice he did not dare for tactical reasons to cite my own opinion). Here’s Turnbull’s devastating list of quotes:
The one thing that is beyond question is that the Prime Minister’s claim that there was no special deal has been comprehensively, universally disbelieved. I do not believe there has ever been a statement by a Prime Minister in this House in respect of which nobody is prepared to give agreement or endorsement. We will just work through some of the commentary in the media. We had Dennis Shanahan in the Australian say:===… the … Sri Lankans …will disembark because they have wrung a special deal from the Rudd government.Greg Sheridan in the same newspaper said:For some bizarre reason Rudd keeps saying the people on the Oceanic Viking have not got a special deal. This simply defies the ordinary meaning of language and common sense.Paul Kelly said:He seems to think almost any line can be spun and will be believed, even when it is nonsense.But, I am afraid to say, the disbelief extends past that centre-right newspaper with which the Prime Minister is so unhappy at the moment. Tony Wright in the Age says:There was no special deal for the Sri Lankans, Rudd insisted. Which, presumably, is why the last of them were content to leave the ship yesterday after refusing to budge for more than a month.Annabel Crabb in the Sydney Morning Herald—and not many people would say that is a right-wing newspaper— wrote on the 18th:Against this crowded palette of lunacy, it’s almost possible to overlook lesser offences against human intelligence— such as the Prime Minister’s insistence that the Sri Lankan passengers disembarking the Oceanic Viking have not received any sort of special deal.Today, the same writer notes:A Denialist so shameless that he can stare barefacedly back at the electors and his parliamentary opponents and deny, again and again and again, that a bunch of Sri Lankans currently being processed in record-fast time in Indonesia are not in receipt of any ‘special deal’.The Prime Minister’s spin has not been able to fool anyone, even in his own town. Dennis Atkins wrote in the Courier-Mail today:The consensus view that the Rudd government provided a special deal for the 76 asylum seekers on the Oceanic Viking is now stronger than the much trumpeted world scientific agreement on the causes behind climate change.Michael Gordon yesterday in the Age—and surely, Prime Minister, that is not a right-wing newspaper— wrote:The truth is that the group was offered a special deal to leave the boat.But the disbelief extends even, I am afraid, to the ABC. This reluctance of the Australian media to accept this spin seems to be spreading. Barrie Cassidy:Just to say there is no special deal is silly.Probably the neatest summary of all of this was in the editorial in the Financial Review today. It said:Mr Rudd’s refusal to give a straight answer to opposition questions on the asylum issue follows a consistent and unattractive pattern of behaviour
I warn the US Congress
Andrew Bolt
Beware the power of this blog! We even get a mention on the floor of the US Congress. Now, for a word in Rudd’s shell-like…
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Cherish the audience, and two fingers to the clique
Andrew Bolt
Terrible when a nasty conservative like me says it, but refreshing when it’s repeated much later by the industry’s own:
THE Australian film industry must act like a business and abandon social realism films for melodramas like Australia and Mao’s Last Dancer, says Screen Producers Association of Australia (SPAA) president Antony I Ginnane…Ginnane, like me, is a fan of Samson and Deliliah. We part company on Australia, though, but my objections there are more on the fake history it presents.
“We need to resolve once and for all the 40-year push/pull between art and commerce,” Ginnane told delegates.
“Industry and government need to accept this is a business, not a culture fest.
“In the film industry government intervention has been consistently used to assist in the creation of product the market does not want, and the market tells us that, year in, year out, by rejecting it en masse....”
In 1998, Australian films took 18 per cent of the box office takings. Since then the figure hasn’t risen above 10 per cent, and recently it has been floundering between three and four per cent.
Ginnane said the problem lay with the kind of films Australia was producing.
“Perhaps collectively our ability to read the marketplace and audience appetite has been so dulled by the subsidy drug that we’ve completely forgotten what audiences want,” he said.
“Genre is key, and it’s bizarre to me that when literally hundreds of social realist Australian films fail, we keep making them...”
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No Amnesty on Khan’s nonsense
Andrew Bolt
Why does Amnesty International boss Irene Khan - who rated John Howard alongside Robert Mugabe and the president of genocidal Sudan as a leading violator of human rights - get such a free ride from journalists when peddling her nonsense?
Today’s example:
THE head of Amnesty International, Irene Khan, has called on the Federal Government to stop offshore processing of asylum seekers and close the detention centre at Christmas Island… ‘’We don’t believe that holding asylum seekers at offshore centres of that kind actually deter asylum seekers from coming...”Our experience suggests they actually do, though, Ms Khan, and given that we must live with the consequences of such judgments, perhaps you should leave the call to us.
“… If you look at the numbers arriving, they come when there are problems in the world.’’So we can’t deter anyone until we stop the “problems in the world”? And if boat people arrivals aren’t influenced at all by policies of deterrance, why did they spike up almost the instant Kevin Rudd relaxed our laws (the red dot marks the date)?
Ms Khan said it was not so much the attraction of Australia but push factors in countries of origin that created refugee flows.Oh, so that’s why Tamil boat people from Sri Lanka bypass India’s Tamil Nadu, Malaysia and Indonesia to sail to Australia? Nothing to do with the attraction of Australia?
‘’They are pushed out by serious political problems and by serious conflict,’’ she said.Memo Ms Khan: the civil war in Sri Lanka ended six months ago.
Australia tended to panic in response to the arrival of boat people, and political leaders should avoid playing on people’s fears, she said.Panic isn’t really the right word, is it, Ms Khan? I’d say we just don’t like having our hospitality abused, our laws broken, our good nature taken advantage of, our taxes wasted and our generous refugee program rorted and undermined. It kind of makes us feel such people might not make us the kind of neighbours we like - and have welcomed from all over the world.
‘’There is a lot of panic here. When you think that there are 3000 asylum seekers arriving in Australia, Italy received 30,000 last year.’’What’s your argument? That we can’t try to stop the boats until we get 30,000 asylum seekers each year, too?
‘’There is a retraction on protection of refugees and asylum seekers across the Western world … ”Yes, that’s what happens when you let in 30,000 asylum seekers each year. The locals tend not to like it. So maybe our way is better, after all.
“...We know that hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers [coming from Africa] actually die in their efforts to get to Europe.’’“Hundreds of thousands”? Got a source for that wild figure, lady, or are you just “playing on people’s fears”? But you actually touch on one of the real hypocrisies in your brand of “compassion”. Since Rudd weakened the laws last July, to your applause, the boats resumed - and people once more started dying at sea again. At least 54 so far, by my count.
Luring people to their deaths is not “compassionate”, Ms Khan, and if Europe could deter “asylum seekers” as well as did wicked John Howard, I dare say it would save the lives of the vast majority of those “hundreds of thousands” for whom you now weep.
Judge policies not by the beating hearts of the architects, but by their results. And hold those proposing nonsense to account.
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HOLD YOUR FIRE
Tim Blair
Let’s wait until we have proof about these alleged hacked emails from the Hadley Climatic Research Centre, said to have been authored by prominent warmenists.
There’s no rush on this. If false or forged, the emails are obviously of no consequence. If true, however, the phrase “hide the decline” may mark something of a turning point.
UPDATE. Some emails appear genuine.
UPDATE II. A prediction from Infidel Tiger: “The Global Warming scam keeps on truckin’, but a whole bunch of lefties suddenly become interested in the ‘ethics’ surrounding the hacking of files.”
UPDATE III. Interesting:
The director of Britain’s leading Climate Research Unit, Phil Jones, has told Investigate magazine’s TGIF Edition tonight that his organization has been hacked, and the data flying all over the internet appears to be genuine.Further from that source shortly. Curiously, Jones says his organisation is yet to contact police.
In an exclusive interview, Jones told TGIF, “It was a hacker. We were aware of this about three or four days ago that someone had hacked into our system and taken and copied loads of data files and emails.”
UPDATE IV. As Andrew Bolt notes – amid a welter of other information – the believers at Real Climate are now real silent.
UPDATE V. Lubos Motl:
The conclusion looks pretty clear. These people should be put in jail as soon as possible.We’re some distance from that point. Chris Horner is nearer the mark:
If legit, this apparently devastating series of revelations will be very hard for the media to ignore. I didn’t say impossible — they’re fully vested partners in the global warming industry, because catastrophism sells. But so does scandal, and this appears to be the makings of a very big one.===
LINE DRAWN OVER DRAWN LINES
Tim Blair
Associated Press reports:
Four years after cartoons of the prophet Muhammad set off violent protests across the Muslim world …Not true. The violence was largely provoked by fanatical imams who sought to incite ignorant audiences. In any case, people who can be driven to mayhem by mere cartoons probably fall outside of any rational cause-and-effect structure.
Islamic nations are mounting a campaign for an international treaty to protect religious symbols and beliefs from mockery — essentially a ban on blasphemy that would put them on a collision course with free speech laws in the West.On a collision course with the West, you say? There’s a shock.
Documents obtained by The Associated Press show that Algeria and Pakistan have taken the lead in lobbying to eventually bring the proposal to a vote in the U.N. General Assembly.Thus ends the only sentence in recent history to connect Algeria and Pakistan with the phrase “taken the lead”.
“There has to be a balance between freedom of expression and respect for others,” (Pakistani diplomat Marghoob Saleem) Butt said in a telephone interview.Do please tell us, Mr Butt, about the Islamic world’s depiction of Judaism and Christianity. Any lines crossed there?
“Taking the symbol of a whole religion and portraying him as a terrorist,” said Butt, referring to the Muhammad cartoons, “that is where we draw the line.”
In a telephone interview Wednesday, the Ad Hoc Committee’s chairman, Algerian Ambassador Idriss Jazairy, said concerns the treaty could stifle free speech have been “whipped up into a bugaboo.”What a curious outcome. Still, weaving concerns into metal and fabric is no big deal for Jazairy, who is capable of far greater illogical flights:
Failure to agree on a treaty would boost extremists in the Arab world, said Jazairy, a former envoy to Washington now considered a key player in the U.N.’s human rights forum.In other words, ban mockery or we’ll kill ourselves. Seems a rather simplistic – not to mention Islamophobic – view of the Muslim mindset.
“If we keep hitting this glass wall and say there’s nothing you can do about Islamophobia — you can do something about anti-Semitism but Islamophobia is out of bounds — you give an ideal platform for recruitment of suicide bombers,” he said.
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GORE EFFECT OFFSET
Tim Blair
Everyone’s favourite weather system is on the move:
Former Vice President Al Gore was in Seattle Tuesday to speak at Town Hall and promote his new book, “Our Choice: Creating a Green Future.”That explains Seattle’s current weather:
RAIN AND SNOW. SNOW LEVEL 4500 FT ... SNOW ACCUMULATION 2 TO 5 INCHES … SHOWERS. SNOW LEVEL 3500 FEET. SNOW ACCUMULATION 2 TO 5 INCHES … SNOW. SNOW LEVEL 1500 FEET … RAIN AND SNOW. SNOW LEVEL 4000 FEET … MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF RAIN AND SNOW. SNOW LEVEL 4000 FEET … RAIN AND SNOW LIKELY.But, as Lee M. emails, warmth and sunshine are coming to the rescue.
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OBSCURE PHRASE OF THE WEEK
Tim Blair
“Dab of oppo” – coined by automotive cavalier Troy Queef and now available in t-shirt form.
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STAND TAKEN
Tim Blair
Due to the bizarre provisions of NSW’s child protection laws – specifically Section 11, (1A) (b) of the Criminal Proceedings Act (1987) – editors and journalists face fines or prison for identifying an underage crime victim. These penalties potentially apply even in cases of children who have been murdered, which means that protection (in those examples) is actually extended to those accused of the crime (should naming them identify the child).
This element of the law is idiotic. Today, the Daily Telegraph, the Australian and the Sydney Morning Herald defy it. Good.
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ADDICTION FED
Tim Blair
US reader Smike emails:
I’m getting a boatload of revenue-producing work done during your sojourn.I blame blogs for the blowout in US unemployment. Just look at all that change. (Via Instapundit.)
I find myself acting all professional-like in meetings, organizing deals with good payoffs, etc. Similar to what I used to do before I first found timblair.net.
I’ve accepted that your blog is as addictive as absinthe and that those cravings will always haunt me.
UPDATE. I have not been imprisoned.
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Hadley hacked: warmist conspiracy exposed?
Andrew Bolt
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8.15 PM UPDATE: The Hadley CRU director admits the emails seem to be genuine:
The director of Britain’s leading Climate Research Unit, Phil Jones, has told Investigate magazine’s TGIF Edition tonight ..."It was a hacker. We were aware of this about three or four days ago that someone had hacked into our system and taken and copied loads of data files and emails."…So the 1079 emails and 72 documents seem indeed evidence of a scandal involving most of the most prominent scientists pushing the man-made warming theory - a scandal that is one of the greatest in modern science. I’ve been adding some of the most astonishing in updates below - emails suggesting conspiracy, collusion in exaggerating warming data, possibly illegal destruction of embarrassing information, organised resistance to disclosure, manipulation of data, private admissions of flaws in their public claims and much more. If it is as it now seems, never again will “peer review” be used to shout down sceptics.
TGIF asked Jones about the controversial email discussing “hiding the decline”, and Jones explained what he was trying to say….
This is clearly not the work of some hacker, but of an insider who’s now blown the whistle.
Not surprising, then, that Steve McIntyre reports:
Earlier today, CRU cancelled all existing passwords. Actions speaking loudly.But back to the original post - and the most astonishing of the emails so far…
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Hackers have broken into the data base of the Hadley GRU unit - one of the world’s leading alarmist centres - and put the files they stole on the Internet, on the grounds that the science is too important to be kept under wraps.
The ethics of this are dubious, to say the least. But the files suggest, on a very preliminary glance, some other very dubious practices, too, and a lot of collusion - sometimes called “peer review”. Or even conspiracy.
A warning, of course. We can only say with a 90 per cent confidence interval that these emails are real.
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The price of Rudd’s weakness
Andrew Bolt
The fifth boat to arrive in just the week since Kevin Rudd blinked - and offered the Oceanic Viking passengers the special deal he keeps lying about:
AUTHORITIES have intercepted another boat of suspected asylum seekers off the northwest coast of Australia. It is the 44th boat of suspected asylum seekers to arrive in Australian waters this year.They’ve figured out this Prime Minister.
It was intercepted at approximately 10.40am (AEDT) near Ashmore Islands, and is believed to be carrying 53 passengers and two crew, Home Affairs Minister Brendan O’Connor said in a statement.
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Give that poor man a free rental on his BlackBerry
Andrew Bolt
The poor will always be with us - if we now acept as poor a beggar who can still afford to snap Michelle Obama on his BlackBerry as she spoons out his free food:
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Global warming causes prostitution
Andrew Bolt
Maybe global warming is really bringing a new Noah’s Flood to once more drown a sinful world:
Suneeta Mukherjee, country representative of the United Nations Food Population Fund (UNFPA), said women in the Philippines are the most vulnerable to the effects of climate change in the country.===
“Climate change could reduce income from farming and fishing possibly driving some women into sex work...”
Gore wrong again: The real reason New Orleans drowned
Andrew Bolt
Al Gore blamed Hurricane Katrina, a mere category 3 hurricane by the time it hit land. In fact:
FROM the weather satellites it looked every inch an act of God: a giant doughnut of low pressure and high winds churning towards New Orleans. Four years on, a judge has ruled that the flooding of the city by Hurricane Katrina was, in large part, a man-made disaster.===
In a decision that could leave the US Government liable for billions of dollars in damages, US District Judge Stanwood Duval blamed the US Army Corps of Engineers for failing to maintain the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet (MRGO) and allowing the hurricane’s storm surge to breach the city’s flood defences.
Show me your needy, Tom
Andrew Bolt
Why don’t the deserving simply go to court, then?
RECONCILIATION will not succeed unless the stolen generations can access wide-ranging reparations, including financial compensation, Aboriginal Social Justice Commissioner Tom Calma says.Hey, Tom, I’ll agree to compensation if you can name me just 10 of the people who deserve it for having been stolen from their parents just because they were black, and not because they needed help.
Just 10.
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Sadly, the ABC doesn’t run ads
Andrew Bolt
The Climate Sceptics Party, which is running candidate Stephen Murphy in the Higgins by-election, has produced four ads for television. No doubt they’d like cash to help broadcast them.
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Holder ponders: give bin Laden a lawyer?
Andrew Bolt
One of Barack Obama’s top aides in the war against terrorists is Attorney General Eric Holder. Pity that the true terror right now is in having this man seem so completely incompetent in defending his extraordinary decision to give a civilian trial to key al Qaeda operative Khalid Sheik Mohammed:
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