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December 21, 2009 By Fausta

Jake Tapper picks up the scent of Chavez’s sulfur

Last Friday I translated and posted Hugo Chavez’s video (in Spanish) where he says Obama smells of sulfur, during his speech at the Copenhagen Climate Summit,

Vlad Tepes subtitled the video with my translation and posted it on YouTube.

The media, which made a huge fuss over the times that Chavez said that GW Bush smelled of sulfur, has ignored Chavez’s insult to Obama.

About the only one who hasn’t is Jake Tapper, who posted my subtitled video,
At Copenhagen, Chávez Suggests Obama is the Devil and posted my translation.

I wish Jake would have linked to my post particularly since I specifically request it because this is a professional translation, but looking at the bright side, the subtitled YouTube has had over 11,000 viewings – so I appreciate that he picked up the YouTube.

I’ll be talking about this and other news in today’s podcast at 11AM. The Carnival of Latin America and the Caribbean will be up later this afternoon.

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Filed Under: Blog Talk Radio, Denmark, Global Warming, Venezuela Tagged With: Copenhagen, Copenhagen Climate Talks, Jake Tapper

December 19, 2009 By Fausta

DC snowstorm chills Pelosi’s global warming trip

Bwahahahahah!
DC snowstorm chills Pelosi’s global warming trip

In a strange twist, a Washington snowstorm is forcing Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-California, to make an early departure from a global warming summit here in Denmark.

Pelosi told CNN that military officials leading her Congressional delegation have urged the 21 lawmakers to leave Copenhagen several hours earlier than scheduled on Saturday.

The Speaker said she has agreed to the new travel plan so that lawmakers can get back to Washington before much of the expected storm wallops the nation’s capital.

You’d think that the Church of Global Warming would be holding its holy conclave in tropical lands – such as Cancun, Puerto Rico or Hawaii – or perhaps somewhere in the Southern Hemisphere where it’s almost summer now, instead of snow-covered Copenhagen, but even then the believers from the colder climates would still have to face the inclement weather at home.

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Filed Under: Global Warming, Nancy Pelosi Tagged With: Copenhagen, Copenhagen Climate Talks, Fausta's blog

December 18, 2009 By Fausta

Chavez: Obama smells of sulfur, too

Hugo Chávez, in Copenhagen (my translation. If you use this translation, please link to this post),

…That’s why we thank the president for giving President Morales and me a chance to speak.

It would have been regrettable if they had attempted to veto us in this meeting. I don’t even want to think about it, no, nor suspect it.

As Lula already said, the Kyoto Protocol can not be declared dead or extinguished, which is what the US pretends to do.

Which is why Evo tells a great truth: If Obama, Nobel War Prize, said here, by the way, it smells of sulfur here.

It smells of sulfur. It keeps smelling of sulfur in this world.

The Nobel War Prize has just said here that he came to act. Well, then show it, sir, don’t leave by the back door, eh?

Do everything you need to do for the US to adhere to the Kyoto Protocol, and let’s respect Kyoto, and empower Kyoto, and respond to the world in a transparent fashion.

Listen to him say it,

I guess Hugo must have changed his mind from the last time he spoke at the UN about Obama, when he was saying “It doesn’t smell of sulfur here. It smells of hope,”

Special thanks to Vlad Tepes for subtitling the video and posting it on YouTube.

UPDATE
NewsBusters looks at the media’s silence:

Readers are advised that when Chavez made this comment about Bush in 2006, the media were all over it.

A Google search of “Chavez,” “Bush,” and “Devil” yielded over 40,000 results. There’s even a Wikipedia page about it.

This was such a popular media incident that when Chavez told the U.N. the sulfur smell was gone in September 2009 — a reference to Bush being out of the White House and Obama being in — the press had another field day with the story.

With that in mind, it should be fascinating to see how the Obama-loving media report this now that the tables have been turned on the object of their affection.

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Filed Under: Barack Obama, Communism, Global Warming, Hugo Chavez Tagged With: Copenhagen, Copenhagen Climate Talks, Fausta's blog

December 17, 2009 By Fausta

The Copenhagen blizzard

Ah, the irony, Blizzard Dumps Snow on Copenhagen as Leaders Battle Warming, or do they mean, struggle to stay warm?

World leaders flying into Copenhagen today to discuss a solution to global warming will first face freezing weather as a blizzard dumped 10 centimeters (4 inches) of snow on the Danish capital overnight.

“Temperatures will stay low at least the next three days,” Henning Gisseloe, an official at Denmark’s Meteorological Institute, said today by telephone, forecasting more snow in coming days. “There’s a good chance of a white Christmas.”

Apparently they haven’t had a white Christmas in 14 years. Nice.

Not so nice, the reaction to Chavez’s speech: The Copenhagen, Chavista Consensus: Free Markets Kill Polar Bears

As Ron Bailey pointed out in his latest dispatch from the Copenhagen climate change conference, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez gave a predictably insane speech blaming capitalism for the melting if the polar ice caps and all sorts of other environmental degradation. Of course, he likely remembers that the Soviet Union and its slave states were all terrific stewards of the earth, using green technology to eliminate the kulaks and giving Andrei Sakharov fair trade chicory coffee in prison.

I am not a scientist, don’t pretend to be a scientist, and defer to Bailey on all things science related, but am I allowed to be more than slightly troubled that those formulating policy on such matters appear to be barking mad?

Oh yes, indeed. So many despots, so little time!

Be that as it may — and even though there is still a lot of bickering over the hand-outs … er, budget — this city is about to be descended upon by some 115 world leaders. One of them, Hugo Chavez, is already here, evidently to great acclaim. I missed his speech yesterday (somehow I’m not on the invite list), but I will take one for the team today and go hear Chavez speak off campus at a place called Valby Hallen. He won’t be alone. Accompanying him on the program are Raul Castro, Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua, Eva Morales of Bolivia, the Foreign Minister of Ecuador and the recently deposed president of Honduras Manuel Zelaya. (Wasn’t he supposed to be in the Brazilian Embassy in Tegucigalpa?) Anyway, it’s a veritable rogue’s gallery of the Latin American left.

I really want to know how Zelaya managed to get out of the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa, but I digress.

European Carbon Credit Trading System Plagued by Fraud, which may explain the appeal from the tyrants: it is yet more root-cause corruption.

Meanwhile, the Russians are piping in, with yet another inconvenient truth,
Climategate goes SERIAL: now the Russians confirm that UK climate scientists manipulated data to exaggerate global warming

What the Russians are suggesting here, in other words, is that the entire global temperature record used by the IPCC to inform world government policy is a crock.

But fret not, The Obama administration is making a last-gasp effort to put together a deal in Copenhagen, with Hillary promising $100 million billion right off the bat. As if it wasn’t a big enough zoo, Nancy Pelosi is leading a large delegation on at least two Air Force jets to Copenhagen.

Can’t wait to find out what Lady M will be wearing to the blizzard…

UPDATE
Lord Monckton reports on Pachauri’s eye opening Copenhagen presentation, and manages to slice, dice, chop and fillet Pachauri’s list of errors. More on Pachauri at EU Referendum.

And,
Chavez-hagen!

Post re-edited to include an omission.

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Filed Under: Global Warming Tagged With: Copenhagen, Copenhagen Climate Talks, Fausta's blog, Mel Zelaya

December 16, 2009 By Fausta

Chavez does Denmark

Emitting CO2 at the Climate Conference, Chavez,

Vlad Tepes’s post, Hugo Chavez defines hypocrisy in Denmark, takes a walk down memory lane on Chavez’s real stand on democracy and concludes,

Examples of Hugo Chavez sheer venomous contempt for democracy, for inclusivness are legion. Well worth a subscription to Stratfor.com if you want the newest on this clown. I’ll post one or two examples of Hugo Chavez and his ‘Bolivarian revolution’ and it’s relationship to the Jewish people in Venezuela as examples of how inclusive he really is. But the straight facts are that his actions at home and in power are in direct opposition to his words at Copenhagen and for that matter in general.

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Filed Under: Hugo Chavez, Venezuela Tagged With: Copenhagen, Copenhagen Climate Talks, Denmark, Fausta's blog

December 9, 2009 By Fausta

Obama: How not to make friends, but influence people nonetheless

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Smart diplomacy in action:
Will Obama Snub the King?

The question they should be asking is not will he, but how; according to the article, Obama

  • Declined an invitation to lunch with King Harald V
  • Will not attend the Peace Center exhibit in his honor, even when Prize winners traditionally open the exhibitions about their work that accompany the Nobel festivities.
  • won’t attend concert in his honor in Oslo on Friday

That’s right, Obama’s not showing up to lunch with the king, to inaugurate an exhibit, a concert, all events about himself.  Must be modesty that prevents him?

That may have something to do with Obama’s uncharacteristic shunning of the press. Whereas other prize winners have viewed the standard Nobel Peace Prize CNN interview as an opportunity to address the world for a full hour, Obama seems unwilling to answer any questions at all. There will be no press conference, just a statement from the president.

It’s high time Barack Obama learnt some manners, says Con Coughlin.

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Filed Under: Fausta's blog Tagged With: Copenhagen, Copenhagen Climate Talks, Fausta's blog, King Harald V, Nobel Peace Prize, Nobel Prize, Norway

December 7, 2009 By Fausta

Emitting carbon in Copenhagen

Andrew Gilligan reports from the summit zoo:
Copenhagen climate summit: 1,200 limos, 140 private planes and caviar wedges
Copenhagen is preparing for the climate change summit that will produce as much carbon dioxide as a town the size of Middlesbrough.

According to the organisers, the eleven-day conference, including the participants’ travel, will create a total of 41,000 tonnes of “carbon dioxide equivalent”, equal to the amount produced over the same period by a city the size of Middlesbrough.

For those of us not familiar, Middlesbrough has a population of 142,691 or so, larger than Savannah, Ga (or a small African country).

As it turns out there aren’t enough limos on Denmark to meet demand, so they’re bringing them from Germany and Sweden:

Ms Jorgensen reckons that between her and her rivals the total number of limos in Copenhagen next week has already broken the 1,200 barrier. The French alone rang up on Thursday and ordered another 42. “We haven’t got enough limos in the country to fulfil the demand,” she says. “We’re having to drive them in hundreds of miles from Germany and Sweden.”

And why bother flying coach?

The airport says it is expecting up to 140 extra private jets during the peak period alone, so far over its capacity that the planes will have to fly off to regional airports – or to Sweden – to park, returning to Copenhagen to pick up their VIP passengers.

Looks like the Swedes are having a sweet time from all this, but the hotels in Copenhagen are loving it,

The top hotels – all fully booked at £650 a night – are readying their Climate Convention menus of (no doubt sustainable) scallops, foie gras and sculpted caviar wedges.

I’m curious at how does one sculpt caviar, but I digress.

Ironically, about the only ones who won’t be rolling in dough are the whores,

the local sex workers’ union – they have unions here – has announced that all its 1,400 members will give free intercourse to anyone with a climate conference delegate’s pass. The term “carbon dating” just took on an entirely new meaning.

Gilligan says

At least the sex will be C02-neutral

but he forgets that humans emit CO2, particularly from all that heavy breathing.

But hey, Christmas is a religious holiday that has no place at a United Nations function, so there won’t be any Christmas trees.

The global alarmists wouldn’t want to have competition for their faith-based cult, would they?

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As if climategate wasn’t enough, Al Gore may be worrying about this:

One of the problems facing the negotiators at Copenhagen is what to do with the mountain of carbon credits that Russia threatens to put on the market. In a news report late last month, the Washington Post noted that under the formula reached under the Kyoto Protocol, “Russia is expected to post the largest absolute drop in emissions from 1990 levels of any of the countries that signed the treaty. But the decline is almost entirely the result of the 1991 collapse of the Soviet economy rather than environmental measures by the government. Critics say Moscow doesn’t deserve to keep its carbon credits because it didn’t earn them with any special effort. ” The West could retrospectively compensate the Russians for the collapse of the Soviet economy.

How else to face this? Borrowing!

“Borrow to the hilt to stop global warming, says Lord Stern”,

Imagine that. A global warming dyed in the wool believer thinks borrowing to the hilt is a good idea.

In the meantime, China, India, Brazil and South Africa are not going along with the recommendation to cut emissions. I’m willing to bet that their whores remain honest and insist on demanding cold hard cash, too.

Al won’t be going to the conference. Maybe he’s contemplating going into the conference limo rental business, if only to leverage himself from the possible loss in the carbon-credit business.

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