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Revisionism

From a man who abandoned his wife and children.

- Clue in by Laban Tall

Belguim: Manual likens Bush to a chimpanzee

Belgium's interior minister was left red-faced yesterday after it emerged that photos comparing US President George W Bush to a chimpanzee had been used in a police training manual.

French speakers try to muzzle the Captain	Les francophones tentent de bâillonner le Capitaine
In French speaking backwaters free speech is always free as long as you go along with the general consensus. Canadians threaten legal action for linking to things they don't like. In France, there's at least one filthy panty-waste who is riddled by the same Pavlovian reflexes.	Dans les quatrièmes zones habitées par la francophonie, la liberté d'expression est toujours libre, tant que vous restez dans le consensuel. Les canadiens brandissent la menace de procédures légales si certains sites créent des liens vers du contenu qui ne leur sied point. En Fwance, il y a au moins un sale pédaloïde qui est secoué par les mêmes reflexes pavloviens.

Across-the-board anti-Americanism	L'anti-américanisme universel des franchouilles
One Ripoublika Franska indigenous bright spark made a spelling error while scrawling 'Death to Murcans'.	Un génie indigène de la Ripoublika Franska s'est trompé en gribouillant 'Mort aux ricains'.

Whitey off da' street!

La rue appartient aux indigènes!

Paris' mayor, Bertrand Delanoë, struts his stuff in today's Trib. He does a song and dance about the festive and hollow socialist street scene that submerges the city. Nothing is said about Paris' near-term scheme to become a gated community for panty-waste PR types or the fact that it is now the capital of French white bashing gang youth. So tell us Little Miss Mayor, when should we expect the first checkpoints to be established around Paris?

Bertrand Delanoë fait le glou-glou aujourd'hui dans le Herald Tribune. Il nous fait tout un numéro autour des animations socialo, aussi festives que creuses, qui submergent la ville. Rien n'est dit au sujet des projets à court terme en vue de transformer Paris en communauté cloîtrée et boboïsée pour pubards pédérastes. Rien n'est dit non plus sur le fait que Paris est désormais la capitale des ratonnades où les bandes de voyous cassent du blanc. Alors, dites-nous Notre Dame de Paris, à quand les premiers checkpoints autour de la capitale?

Fake Indian, Fake Soldier

Victor David Hanson on the very fake Ward Churchill, and his desperate need for love and pity.
Its nothing more than a career move.

Only in EUtopia

Male Chlamydia:

«A RARE rare venereal disease, a bacterial infection of the anus and genitalia, is now "a significant" problem European homosexual men, a specialist journal has reported.
The disease, Lymphogranuloma venereum (LGV), is caused by an invasive strain of chlamydia.»

I don't really want to hat-tip John Ray on this one...

The Lumpenproletariat know the "who" and "why"!

The corrosion

The Spectator (UK): studies show that most Al-Queda operatives and members (70%) learned to hate the west from the an overwhelmingly leftists academia in the west.

STvD	MSTv
The Pope's death and French State TV. The State Party Line©®™.	Télé-sidaïque. La mort du Pape et la télé de l'Etat. La pensée unique Non-Pensée Inique de l'Etat©®™.

The passing scene

Our specials today are paranoia, delusion, defensiveness, and union style shutting the door once you’re in.

We also have a few nice Terroires that goes well with biting ones' lips.

Chapeau to rollin’ Phil, rockin’ Mikko Sari, and many witnesses to the game of exquisite corpse that is most resembles the current level of discussion in the area of society, economics, and the options that those who are young now will have. In short - the conversation is limited to a small number of people who look beyond the surreal games of the news item of the day or pop culture's take on things.

Canada: Voltaire called it «Quelques arpents de neige»

Thanks to unquestioned Leftism and crushed dissent to the contrary, and untalented twits like This guy, its often still true.

Can you think of any nation that can get this cranked up over a hand puppet? Found a portrait of their culture based on who they arent? Surely they're deeply, deeply concerned with far more relevant political matters like wallowing around in politically correct photo-ops, or calling an population thats 85% white diverse.

Not Heard Weeping

Not heard weeping. Not tonight.

Why We Blog

FYI, the statement of purpose that was published on David's Medienkritik last summer has been reprinted on Deepblog. (You can write in your own motives for blogging…)

Prior to that, my piece on Normandy's commemoration of the 1864 naval duel between the USS Kearsarge and the CSS Alabama was printed in the bimonthly magazine Naval History.

In (un)related news:

Live from Beijing, Ian A Holton… brings us the China Experience… and will be doing so for the coming 12 months…

Profits first	Les bénéfices d'abord
CEOs are the true 'citizens of the world'. Illiterate, violent suburban trash can wait.	Les patrons des entreprises sont les vrais 'citoyens du monde' (et non les consensuels pédaloïdes-bobos aisés et globophobes). La caillera voyou et analphabète peut attendre.

How long has it been?

EU "close to" a response to Iran (on nukes)

How long has it been?

A few week, they now say. How long should it take to say -no-?
Listen to the Pravda-esque weaseling:

«Negotiators had proposed that Iran would build a scaled-down version of an original plan that would have seen Iran construct tens of thousands of centrifuges to enrich uranium. But despite the offer failing to meet the crucial demand that Iran halt all uranium enrichment activities, it is still being seriously considered. “It was obviously well thought through,” said one diplomat. Tehran hopes that the offer will satisfy the EU’s demand for ‘objective guarantees’, although this appears unlikely.»

Thank You

Listening to Richard and Ronald

…"now, more than ever, Beijing needs to feel outside pressure if we are to ensure that talks continue"

Invoking Tibet, Richard Gere intervenes in the scandal of the Europeans wishing to sell arms to China, while Peter Robinson communes with Ronald Reagan about Iraq, Ukraine, President Bush, and more…

Eco-babble from Broadcast House to the Lower East Side

Biased BBC points out the goofiness of the claim of a "panel" on the BBC claiming that we have "used up 2/3 of the world's resources" (how? By mass of the earth's volume?) and Jonah Goldberg keeping it real when it comes to the U.N.'s "Millenium Ecosystem Assessment Report" claims that amount to the world, basically ending...

«Seriously, forests are breaking out all over America. New England has more forests since the Civil War. In 1880, New York State was only 25 percent forested. Today it is more than 66 percent. In 1850, Vermont was only 35 percent forested. Now it's 76 percent forested and rising. In the South, more land is covered by forest than at any time in the last century. In 1936 a study found that 80 percent of piedmont Georgia was without trees. Today nearly 70 percent of the state is forested. In the last decade alone, America has added more than 10 million acres of forestland.»

«Across the country, the coyote has rebounded (obviously, this is a mixed blessing, especially for roadrunners). The bald eagle is thriving.... ...And, of course, there's the mountain lion. There are probably now more of them in the continental United States than at any time since European settlement. This is bad news for deer, which are also at historic highs, because the kitties think "they're grrrreat!" In Iowa the big cat was officially wiped out in 1867, but today the state is hysterical about cougar sightings.

...Anyway, there's more good news, of course. According to Gregg Easterbrook, air pollution is lower than it has been in a generation, drinking water is safer, and our waterways are cleaner.

The richer you get, the healthier your environment gets. This is because rich societies can afford to indulge their environmental interests and movements. Poor countries cannot. Unsurprisingly, rich countries tend to have a better grasp of economics and the role of markets, private stewardship and property rights, reasonable regulations, and so forth.

With the exception of some oil-rich states, they're also almost always democratic and hence have systems that can successfully assign blame to, and demand restitution from, polluters. In socialized economies, a "tragedy of the commons" almost always arises. As Harvard president Lawrence Summers says, nobody's ever washed a rented car. So let's get back to the bad news...»

To be sure, the environment is not pristine neither in the G8 states or elsewhere, but sanctions and measures seem to dwell on peaceful, developed societies that are in the best environmental state because, well, they're peaceful and developed. Environmental activists from the left are disparaging the wrong social instruments – unless their goal is to “vanquish” developed states for some other political goal.

Which brings us to the biggest single fallacy of the Kyoto Accord which has more to do with the transfer of wealth between growing societies and shrinking ones - particularly the US having to pay off the EU.

The treaty does not allow for carbon absorption. Were that the case, the payment flow would be going the other way, and nations with successful environmental policies would be rewarded and not punished.

To be sure - were that the case there would be no Kyoto treaty as we know it, and the US and Canada in particular would be accused of imposing anti-development strictures on the rest of the world and "poor" Europe which would squeal about being bankrupted.

Where Is Another Abu Ghraib-Type Story Dissing Americans When We Need It?

Here is yet one more story that the MSM, at home and abroad, will not be making too much about… (Thanks to Gregory)