The First World’s biggest Climate Liars are gathering at the UN in New York. Their Big Lies are the EU and now G8 “targets” of limiting temperature rise to 2 degrees C (now inevitable whatever we do) and of limiting atmosphere greenhouse gas (GHG) concentration to 450 ppm CO2-e (it is already at a dangerous 475 ppm).
Goldstone Commission Gaza Conflict Findings and Reactions
Investigating Reports
By Stephen Lendman
Monday, 21 September 2009
As a former South African Constitutional Court justice, Goldstone is a respected jurist. He also served as chief prosecutor for the Yugoslavia and Rwanda tribunals and is a Hebrew University board member. As a Jew, he promised to be fair and even-handed, and "hope(s) that the findings....will make a meaningful contribution to the peace process....and will provide justice for the victims."
Remember back in grade school, when all learning came to a screeching halt while the teacher stopped to explain what was going on to the slow kids? She’d spend the entire morning trying to simplify the lesson plan so they could get it.. Using small words in her annoying patient voice, which tended to pitch strident the slower she talked. Well, that’s what’s happening here. America is being held hostage by the dim.
The most senior US and Nato commander in Afghanistan has said the war against the Taliban "will likely result in failure" if more troops are not sent and a new strategy developed.
Egypt's culture minister, who has in the past been accused of anti-semitism, looks set to be elected as the new director-general of the United Nation's cultural body.
The United States and European Union are bracing for a contentious G20 summit amid differences over the economic slowdown, bankers' pay and climate change.
China has warned authorities in Taiwan's second-largest city not to "stir up trouble for cross-strait relations" by screening a documentary about an exiled Uighur activist accused by Beijing of inciting ethnic violence.
The US president has denied that objections from Russia influenced his decision to abandon the previous administration's plans to site a missile defence system in Eastern Europe.
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