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Cut Out and Keep Article of the Week.

We here all know the nature of the beast, so there is not much point me saying anything else about it, because this article says it all.
It’s crunch time for little Cyprus tomorrow. What happens to them, will happen to us the day after.
Be afraid, be very afraid…

Mali

So what are we up to in Mali?
I have never seen a more rapid and openly disingenuous escaltion ever. First it is a couple transport planes, then it’s a surveillance plane (but no boots on the ground - honest), then it’s “training” and it’s allowing tankers to operate from British airfields but still we’re [...]

Windy Miller - Irish edition - it’s like a Leprechaun rotisserie!

UK and Irish ministers will today sign an agreement that could see some of the world’s largest wind turbines built across the Irish midlands.
Stretching more than 600 feet (180 metres) in the air, the towers are set to generate energy for millions of UK homes from 2017.
The companies involved say the Irish power is a [...]

In a hole in the ground…

…there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.
It had a perfectly round door like a porthole, painted [...]

Attenbore Redux

According to arch-misanthrope David Attenborough, humans are a plague on earth.  This claim is nothing new of course and I’ve sailed on his sea of Malthusian sewage before .  The fact that Telegraph Environment Correspondent, Louise Gray, is cheerleading for him is no great surprise either.
The television presenter said that humans are threatening their own [...]

Bile.

Yesterday I sent an airmail letter to the Prime Minister of Vietnam. This is something I rarely do.
This is fairly urgent…
So please make some noise about it. And you all have the ‘net - you know how.
Ministry of Defence issues eviction order.
Animals Asia’s Vietnam Bear Rescue Centre faces eviction from Tam Dao National Park, [...]

Climate Wars Redux

This started out as a Quote of the Day, with the following quote, but it grewed, into almost a repost. I hope the original author doesn’t mind.
It doesn’t matter how many of the opening rounds you lose because you see, by refusing to give up and die, that in itself is a victory.
(…)
I have [...]

Banality of evil

Well, here we have it. Senator Bob Brown, the most powerful politician in Australia outside Cabinet, arguably more powerful than many senior government ministers, may have been Australia’s own personal barking moonbat, but he’s your problem now as well.
Here we have the global gathering of Greens from around the world, meeting in Dakar, and agreeing [...]

The Death Rattle Of The Private Sector

There are all sorts of issues in libertarianism and small governmentism, and some are more important than others, and we all have our particular things we focus on. My own normal focus is “social” liberty, the puritan stuff about sex’n’drugsn’craplikethat, and other than polluting the comment sections of other blogs (sorry Tim!) in particular I [...]

Ding Dong the Leech is Dead…

…in the water.
Huhne, no longer able to cling to power like the proverbial turd to a blanket, has finally resigned after being charged with perverting the course of justice.  Now comes the circling of the climate change wagons. Neil O’Brien, Director of Policy Exchange writes in the Daily Telegraph:
The next climate change minister must learn [...]

AGW Redux

Louise Gray contines to spew her climate science ignorance in the face of the barely twitching corpse that is the AGW fraud.  She does this by riding to David Attenborough’s defence.
That awful Lord Lawson of the Global Warming Policy Foundation has accused rabid warmist and Malthusian thoroughly decent bloke, Sir David, of over egging the [...]

Feck off Frack Off.

Bugger it!  The alarmist bullshit being flung around by the greenies and the braindead media over the estimated 200 trillion cubic feet of gas locked inside the Bowland Shale deposit has dragged me out of blogging oblivion. I have been paying attention to the” shale gas drilling causes earthquakes” story.  You see, I live a [...]

Little Green Men

It may not rank as the most compelling reason to curb greenhouse gases, but reducing our emissions might just save humanity from a pre-emptive alien attack, scientists claim.
Has Jonathon Porritt been eating organic Roquefort before bed again?
Watching from afar, extraterrestrial beings might view changes in Earth’s atmosphere as symptomatic of a civilisation growing out of [...]

The New Bullshit Part 3

Reading and commenting on Gore’s tripe has rapidly become an endurance test.  His outpouring is the verbal equivalent of a vindaloo crapocalypse in Whipsnade’s elephant enclosure.  However, my loins have been girded with industrial strength caffeine and a large bacon butty so I’ll plough on.  Any encountered non sequiturs, such as the two from Part [...]

The New Bullshit - Part 1

RAB, my fellow Kitty Counter and bullshit buster, has requested a fisk.  I am only too happy to oblige.  He has handed me Climate of Denial (CoD), a target rich piece of ordure penned by the the Archbishop of the Church of Climate Catastrophe himself, Al Gore aka ManBearPig.   Clearly Gore has been paying [...]