Robert Mugabe new UN Leader for Tourism

Most definitely time to disband and deconstruct the UN. A genteel article from the Guardian - softies.

Improbable as it seems, the Zimbabwean president, who is widely accused of ethnic cleansing, rigging elections, terrorising opposition, controlling media and presiding over a collapsed economy, has been endorsed as a champion of efforts to boost global holidaymaking.

Surely the AGW myth is at an end

Copenhagen Climate Challenge. An open letter to Secretary-General of United Nations.

We the undersigned, being qualified in climate-related scientific disciplines, challenge the UNFCCC and supporters of the United Nations Climate Change Conference to produce convincing OBSERVATIONAL EVIDENCE for their claims of dangerous human-caused global warming and other changes in climate. Projections of possible future scenarios from unproven computer models of climate are not acceptable substitutes for real world data obtained through unbiased and rigorous scientific investigation.

Specifically, we challenge supporters of the hypothesis of dangerous human-caused climate change to demonstrate that:

• Variations in global climate in the last hundred years are significantly outside the natural range experienced in previous centuries;
• Humanity’s emissions of carbon dioxide and other ‘greenhouse gases’ (GHG) are having a dangerous impact on global climate;
• Computer-based models can meaningfully replicate the impact of all of the natural factors that may significantly influence climate;
• Sea levels are rising dangerously at a rate that has accelerated with increasing human GHG emissions, thereby threatening small islands and coastal communities;
• The incidence of malaria is increasing due to recent climate changes;
• Human society and natural ecosystems cannot adapt to foreseeable climate change as they have done in the past;
• Worldwide glacier retreat, and sea ice melting in Polar Regions , is unusual and related to increases in human GHG emissions;
• Polar bears and other Arctic and Antarctic wildlife are unable to adapt to anticipated local climate change effects, independent of the causes of those changes;
• Hurricanes, other tropical cyclones and associated extreme weather events are increasing in severity and frequency;
• Data recorded by ground-based stations are a reliable indicator of surface temperature trends.

Signatories include the following who are based in Australia or studied in Australia.

Colin Barton, B.Sc., PhD, Earth Science, Principal research scientist (retd), Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Robert M. Carter, PhD, Professor, Marine Geophysical Laboratory, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia

David Evans, PhD (EE), MSc (Stat), MSc (EE), MA (Math), BE (EE), BSc, mathematician, carbon accountant and modeler, computer and electrical engineer and head of 'Science Speak', Scientific Advisory Panel member - Australian Climate Science Coalition, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Stewart Franks, PhD, Professor, Hydroclimatologist, University of Newcastle, Australia

William Kininmonth MSc, MAdmin, former head of Australia’s National Climate Centre and a consultant to the World Meteorological organization’s Commission for Climatology, Kew, Victoria, Australia

John Nicol, PhD, Physics, (Retired) James Cook University, Chairman - Australian Climate Science Coalition, Brisbane, Australia

Cliff Ollier, D.Sc., Professor Emeritus (School of Earth and Environment), Research Fellow, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, W.A., Australia

Garth W. Paltridge, BSc Hons (Qld), MSc, PhD (Melb), DSc (Qld), Emeritus Professor, Honorary Research Fellow and former Director of the Institute of Antarctic and Southern Ocean Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Visiting Fellow, RSBS, ANU, Canberra, ACT, Australia

Ian Plimer, PhD, Professor of Mining Geology, The University of Adelaide; Emeritus Professor of Earth Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Australia

Tom Quirk, MSc (Melbourne), D Phil, MA (Oxford), SMP (Harvard), Member of the Scientific Advisory Panel of the Australian Climate Science Coalition, Member Board Institute of Public Affairs, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Robert G. Roper, PhD, DSc (University of Adelaide, South Australia), Emeritus Professor of Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A.

Walter Starck, PhD (Biological Oceanography), marine biologist (specialization in coral reefs and fisheries), author, photographer, Townsville, Australia

Raphael Wust, PhD, Adj Sen. Lecturer, Marine Geology/Sedimentology, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia

There are 141 signatories.

UN finds fault with Australia's treatment of Aborigines

What a surprise.

THE United Nations special rapporteur on indigenous rights says the intervention into remote Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory is clearly discriminatory, and that there is "entrenched" racism in Australia.

James Anaya didn't pull any punches after his two-week visit of the country.

He says the Rudd Government should reinstate the Racial Discrimination Act in the NT "right away" because the intervention is discriminatory.

"It undermines the right of indigenous peoples to control their own destinies, their right to self-determination," he said.

He also slammed Labor's policy of demanding 40-year leases over indigenous land before building new houses and said the stolen generations should be paid compensation.

More later.

Update:

So the UN has advised that the Rudd Government shouldn't racially discriminate.

Does that mean extra handouts should stop? Does that mean that extra medical assistance should stop?

The special treatment of aboriginals, for example, separate legal aid, etc, special petrol which can't be sniffed?

After all, this is all racism.

Some aboriginal people need more help than others; some white people need more help than others, but there is a limit to the help you can give when the helped don't help themselves.

The people who are making a living out of the aboriginal industry should be ashamed. They are ripping off their own people and feathering their own nests. And they are blaming the white man for the aboriginal situation (where it is bad).

The UN rep talks of self-determination. All self-determination in remote communities (and some not so remote), has done is enable the continuation of anti-social, dangerous, predatory, self destructive activities in these communities. Left to their own devices only the strong would survive and those not for long as they fall to savagery.

So, Mr UN rep, what's your suggestion? Have you read the history of the aboriginal situation? White man's guilt has enabled a lot of what has turned these communities savage, guilt which has been assuaged by throwing more and more money at the problem, with little reaching and benefitting those who most need it.

Don't even get me started on the ridiculous statement about the "stolen generation".

The stolen generation and AGW. Peas in a pod. Say it often enough, stifle dissent by calling those who disagree or doubt racists/deniers, and there you have the pattern.

Why won't these people open their eyes and see the truth?

Swine flu - don't panic!

Now I hear on ABC news that Mexico has dramatically reduced the number of deaths from swine flu, from over 170 to

wait for it

nineteen

yes, 19

Federal Health Minister Nicola Roxon has rejected suggestions Australia's stockpile of antiviral drugs to treat swine flu is running out.

Mexico's Government says the country's swine flu outbreak appears to be stabilising, though the confirmed death toll in Mexico has crept up to 19.

More cases have cropped up across the globe including in Ireland, Costa Rica and Hong Kong.

But the UN is still determined to upgrade the threat to level 6 in the not too distant future.

There was also mention of confusion about the severity and danger of the outbreak of swine flu, and criticism mentioned of the needless panic caused by MSM reporting of the outbreak.

ABC News link here.

Brave UNAMID

I received this link from a friend.

And this little ditty:

With apologies to Monty Python:

Brave UNAMID ran away.
Bravely ran away away.
When danger reared it's ugly head,
They bravely turned their tail and fled.
Yes, brave UNAMID turned about
And gallantly they chickened out.

Bravely taking to their feet,
They beat a very brave retreat.
Bravest of the braaaave, UNAMID!

Nigerian peacekeepers attacked in Darfur

The joint United Nations/African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) said some heavily-armed men, numbering 10, attacked the Nigerian peace-keepers traveling in a UNAMID vehicle on 3 January. The attackers got away with the vehicle.

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This raises many questions in me about training and tribalism.

Sorry this is so old, I'd forgotten I had it.