Sunday, December 20, 2009

Education officials ‘fail’ teacher in Western Highlands Province

By SENT TIMBI

A high school teacher from East Sepik Province who was stranded in Mt Hagen after provincial authorities failed to provide his leave entitlements was man-handled by thugs and robbed of everything in his pockets.

Nolbert Ozwald Kami from Gawi along the Sepik River is a mathematics teacher at Kombolopa High school in the Western Highlands Province.He should have flown out with his family last week but due to delays, he hung around in Mt Hagen, where he was attacked.

Thugs held him up at the Queen Elizabeth Park in Mt Hagen at around 7pm on Wednesday and walked away with his purse that contained K200, a bank card, leave documents, wrist watch and his mobile phone.

Disgruntled teachers fronting up at the Central Education office for their leave entitlements

“I should have been enjoying Christmas with all my families, friends and loved ones at my village. But due to no leave entitlements, I was stranded here with my family when I was attacked,” he said.

Mr Kami blamed the provincial education leave fare committee for prolonging the leave fares for teachers from other provinces who would only be travelling by air and sea.

“I’m a victim of the poor co-ordination by the provincial leave fare committee.
“I nearly lost my life at the hands of criminals. Kombolopa High School ended its operations last month because the school was located in a very notorious area which was a fighting zone in the Baiyer district.

“I have been in Mt Hagen for the last couple of weeks with my family, living with wantoks (friends) and was waiting for my leave fares but nothing was coming,” Mr Kami said.
He said the education authorities blamed teachers for not performing their duties but last year, teachers did their part by placing Western Highlands Province in the second spot at the nation’s mean rating index (MRI) for high school and secondary schools.

“We did our part to provide the best education in the province while the provincial authorities failed us with our leave entitlements,” Mr Kami said.


Source: Post Courier

*** Teachers work tirelessly to implement the government's education reforms and should be given a fair treatment. The 'leave fare' saga is an on going issue and needs to be solved amicably within the education department to avoid such disappointments among teachers. It seems that no one in the education department is paying attention to this issue.

This depicts a lack of foresight and poor administrative organization in the provinces where most of the teachers are affected. This is an issue that needs to be given priority prior to the closing of the schools for the year. It's getting worse and worse every year because somebody is not doing his or her delegated duty.

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Education officials ‘fail’ teacher in Western Highlands Province

By SENT TIMBI

A high school teacher from East Sepik Province who was stranded in Mt Hagen after provincial authorities failed to provide his leave entitlements was man-handled by thugs and robbed of everything in his pockets.

Nolbert Ozwald Kami from Gawi along the Sepik River is a mathematics teacher at Kombolopa High school in the Western Highlands Province.He should have flown out with his family last week but due to delays, he hung around in Mt Hagen, where he was attacked.

Thugs held him up at the Queen Elizabeth Park in Mt Hagen at around 7pm on Wednesday and walked away with his purse that contained K200, a bank card, leave documents, wrist watch and his mobile phone.

Disgruntled teachers fronting up at the Central Education office for their leave entitlements

“I should have been enjoying Christmas with all my families, friends and loved ones at my village. But due to no leave entitlements, I was stranded here with my family when I was attacked,” he said.

Mr Kami blamed the provincial education leave fare committee for prolonging the leave fares for teachers from other provinces who would only be travelling by air and sea.

“I’m a victim of the poor co-ordination by the provincial leave fare committee.
“I nearly lost my life at the hands of criminals. Kombolopa High School ended its operations last month because the school was located in a very notorious area which was a fighting zone in the Baiyer district.

“I have been in Mt Hagen for the last couple of weeks with my family, living with wantoks (friends) and was waiting for my leave fares but nothing was coming,” Mr Kami said.
He said the education authorities blamed teachers for not performing their duties but last year, teachers did their part by placing Western Highlands Province in the second spot at the nation’s mean rating index (MRI) for high school and secondary schools.

“We did our part to provide the best education in the province while the provincial authorities failed us with our leave entitlements,” Mr Kami said.


Source: Post Courier

*** Teachers work tirelessly to implement the government's education reforms and should be given a fair treatment. The 'leave fare' saga is an on going issue and needs to be solved amicably within the education department to avoid such disappointments among teachers. It seems that no one in the education department is paying attention to this issue.

This depicts a lack of foresight and poor administrative organization in the provinces where most of the teachers are affected. This is an issue that needs to be given priority prior to the closing of the schools for the year. It's getting worse and worse every year because somebody is not doing his or her delegated duty.

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Education officials ‘fail’ teacher in Western Highlands Province

By SENT TIMBI

A high school teacher from East Sepik Province who was stranded in Mt Hagen after provincial authorities failed to provide his leave entitlements was man-handled by thugs and robbed of everything in his pockets.

Nolbert Ozwald Kami from Gawi along the Sepik River is a mathematics teacher at Kombolopa High school in the Western Highlands Province.He should have flown out with his family last week but due to delays, he hung around in Mt Hagen, where he was attacked.

Thugs held him up at the Queen Elizabeth Park in Mt Hagen at around 7pm on Wednesday and walked away with his purse that contained K200, a bank card, leave documents, wrist watch and his mobile phone.

Disgruntled teachers fronting up at the Central Education office for their leave entitlements

“I should have been enjoying Christmas with all my families, friends and loved ones at my village. But due to no leave entitlements, I was stranded here with my family when I was attacked,” he said.

Mr Kami blamed the provincial education leave fare committee for prolonging the leave fares for teachers from other provinces who would only be travelling by air and sea.

“I’m a victim of the poor co-ordination by the provincial leave fare committee.
“I nearly lost my life at the hands of criminals. Kombolopa High School ended its operations last month because the school was located in a very notorious area which was a fighting zone in the Baiyer district.

“I have been in Mt Hagen for the last couple of weeks with my family, living with wantoks (friends) and was waiting for my leave fares but nothing was coming,” Mr Kami said.
He said the education authorities blamed teachers for not performing their duties but last year, teachers did their part by placing Western Highlands Province in the second spot at the nation’s mean rating index (MRI) for high school and secondary schools.

“We did our part to provide the best education in the province while the provincial authorities failed us with our leave entitlements,” Mr Kami said.


Source: Post Courier

*** Teachers work tirelessly to implement the government's education reforms and should be given a fair treatment. The 'leave fare' saga is an on going issue and needs to be solved amicably within the education department to avoid such disappointments among teachers. It seems that no one in the education department is paying attention to this issue.

This depicts a lack of foresight and poor administrative organization in the provinces where most of the teachers are affected. This is an issue that needs to be given priority prior to the closing of the schools for the year. It's getting worse and worse every year because somebody is not doing his or her delegated duty.

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Papua New Guiniea's Provinces and People - East New Britain Province

Map of Papua New Guinea highlighting East New Britain Province

East New Britain Provincial flag

East New Britain is a province of Papua New Guinea, on the north-eastern part of the island of New Britain and it also includes the Duke of York Islands. The capital of the province is Kokopo, not far from the old capital of Rabaul, which was largely destroyed in the 1994 volcanic eruption. East New Britain covers a total land area of 15,816 km², and the province has an estimated population of 220,133 (2000 census). Provincial coastal waters extend over an area of 104,000 m².
Some facts

East New Britain lies between 4 and 6 degrees south of the equator and was one of the first areas in PNG to be visited by early explorers and navigators. It covers a total land area of 15, 816 sq kms much of which is rugged mountainous terrain covered by tropical rainforest. Provincial coastal waters extend over an area of 104,000 square kilometres.

Population

The estimated population of the province is 230, 000 made up mainly of Tolais. People who live in East New Britain are of Melanesian descent, speaking Australasian languages of which there are sixteen.

“Kuanua” which the Tolais speak is the main language of the Gazelle Peninsula. English is also widely spoken and understood. There are sixteen Austronesian languages spoken in the province, of which Kuanua, spoken by the Tolai on the Gazelle Peninsula is the most widely spoken.

East New Britain has a dual economy: a cash economy operates side by side with the subsistence-farming sector. The main crops produced for export are cocoa and copra. Tourism continues to be an increasingly important sector of the provincial economy.

Brief Political History

Local Government Councils were established in the province during the colonial era. between 1960 and 1970 these smaller councils were amalgamated into three large Council Areas, namely the Gazelle, Greater Toma and Mengen. East New Britain attaned Provincial Government status in 1976 with sixteen appointed members in the first Interim Provincial Government (IPG).

Tavurvur Volcano - after the major eruption

The IPG was later responsible for developing the East New Britain Provincial Government Constitution. The first Provincial Government was formely inaugurated on 3th July 1976. Since 1981 East New Britain Provincial Governments have been very stable with only one attempted “vote of no confidence”.

Environment

The tropical nature of the province, with its evergreen rainforest vegetation and rugged mountain ranges, the imposing volcanoes which surround the town of Rabaul and the beautiful Simpson Harbour as well as the friendliness of the local people, have made East New Britain an attractive and adventurous holiday destination.

Putput Sandy Beach - Good for picnicking
The climate consists of two main seasons, the wet, November to April and dry, May to October. East New Britain is also home to numerous colourful birds which include the famous hornbills, parrots and megapodes, whose eggs are selectively harvested from deep in the hot volcanic ash to provide food and income for the local people.

Rabaul which is built on an ancient volcanic crater, is surrounded by six volcanoes which add beauty and are natural attraction to the town of Rabaul. Simpson harbour is one of the deepest in Papua New Guinea and can accommodate some of the world's largest cruise ships bringing tourists to the town, the Gazelle Peninsula and the Province.

Map of PNG - ENBP is circled in red colour

The marine resources in the East New Britain are diverse. The clear warm blue waters provide a home for a great colourful corals, fish and World War II relics, whist scuba-diving and snorkelling can be undertaken at Tavui Submarine Bay, Kulau Lodge , Duke Of York Islands, Baining and Pomio, or for that matter anywhere along the many kilometers of beautiful beaches in the Province. For more information about the East New Britain Province of Papua New Guinea, click here.

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Papua New Guiniea's Provinces and People - East New Britain Province

Map of Papua New Guinea highlighting East New Britain Province

East New Britain Provincial flag

East New Britain is a province of Papua New Guinea, on the north-eastern part of the island of New Britain and it also includes the Duke of York Islands. The capital of the province is Kokopo, not far from the old capital of Rabaul, which was largely destroyed in the 1994 volcanic eruption. East New Britain covers a total land area of 15,816 km², and the province has an estimated population of 220,133 (2000 census). Provincial coastal waters extend over an area of 104,000 m².
Some facts

East New Britain lies between 4 and 6 degrees south of the equator and was one of the first areas in PNG to be visited by early explorers and navigators. It covers a total land area of 15, 816 sq kms much of which is rugged mountainous terrain covered by tropical rainforest. Provincial coastal waters extend over an area of 104,000 square kilometres.

Population

The estimated population of the province is 230, 000 made up mainly of Tolais. People who live in East New Britain are of Melanesian descent, speaking Australasian languages of which there are sixteen.

“Kuanua” which the Tolais speak is the main language of the Gazelle Peninsula. English is also widely spoken and understood. There are sixteen Austronesian languages spoken in the province, of which Kuanua, spoken by the Tolai on the Gazelle Peninsula is the most widely spoken.

East New Britain has a dual economy: a cash economy operates side by side with the subsistence-farming sector. The main crops produced for export are cocoa and copra. Tourism continues to be an increasingly important sector of the provincial economy.

Brief Political History

Local Government Councils were established in the province during the colonial era. between 1960 and 1970 these smaller councils were amalgamated into three large Council Areas, namely the Gazelle, Greater Toma and Mengen. East New Britain attaned Provincial Government status in 1976 with sixteen appointed members in the first Interim Provincial Government (IPG).

Tavurvur Volcano - after the major eruption

The IPG was later responsible for developing the East New Britain Provincial Government Constitution. The first Provincial Government was formely inaugurated on 3th July 1976. Since 1981 East New Britain Provincial Governments have been very stable with only one attempted “vote of no confidence”.

Environment

The tropical nature of the province, with its evergreen rainforest vegetation and rugged mountain ranges, the imposing volcanoes which surround the town of Rabaul and the beautiful Simpson Harbour as well as the friendliness of the local people, have made East New Britain an attractive and adventurous holiday destination.

Putput Sandy Beach - Good for picnicking
The climate consists of two main seasons, the wet, November to April and dry, May to October. East New Britain is also home to numerous colourful birds which include the famous hornbills, parrots and megapodes, whose eggs are selectively harvested from deep in the hot volcanic ash to provide food and income for the local people.

Rabaul which is built on an ancient volcanic crater, is surrounded by six volcanoes which add beauty and are natural attraction to the town of Rabaul. Simpson harbour is one of the deepest in Papua New Guinea and can accommodate some of the world's largest cruise ships bringing tourists to the town, the Gazelle Peninsula and the Province.

Map of PNG - ENBP is circled in red colour

The marine resources in the East New Britain are diverse. The clear warm blue waters provide a home for a great colourful corals, fish and World War II relics, whist scuba-diving and snorkelling can be undertaken at Tavui Submarine Bay, Kulau Lodge , Duke Of York Islands, Baining and Pomio, or for that matter anywhere along the many kilometers of beautiful beaches in the Province. For more information about the East New Britain Province of Papua New Guinea, click here.

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Papua New Guiniea's Provinces and People - East New Britain Province

Map of Papua New Guinea highlighting East New Britain Province

East New Britain Provincial flag

East New Britain is a province of Papua New Guinea, on the north-eastern part of the island of New Britain and it also includes the Duke of York Islands. The capital of the province is Kokopo, not far from the old capital of Rabaul, which was largely destroyed in the 1994 volcanic eruption. East New Britain covers a total land area of 15,816 km², and the province has an estimated population of 220,133 (2000 census). Provincial coastal waters extend over an area of 104,000 m².
Some facts

East New Britain lies between 4 and 6 degrees south of the equator and was one of the first areas in PNG to be visited by early explorers and navigators. It covers a total land area of 15, 816 sq kms much of which is rugged mountainous terrain covered by tropical rainforest. Provincial coastal waters extend over an area of 104,000 square kilometres.

Population

The estimated population of the province is 230, 000 made up mainly of Tolais. People who live in East New Britain are of Melanesian descent, speaking Australasian languages of which there are sixteen.

“Kuanua” which the Tolais speak is the main language of the Gazelle Peninsula. English is also widely spoken and understood. There are sixteen Austronesian languages spoken in the province, of which Kuanua, spoken by the Tolai on the Gazelle Peninsula is the most widely spoken.

East New Britain has a dual economy: a cash economy operates side by side with the subsistence-farming sector. The main crops produced for export are cocoa and copra. Tourism continues to be an increasingly important sector of the provincial economy.

Brief Political History

Local Government Councils were established in the province during the colonial era. between 1960 and 1970 these smaller councils were amalgamated into three large Council Areas, namely the Gazelle, Greater Toma and Mengen. East New Britain attaned Provincial Government status in 1976 with sixteen appointed members in the first Interim Provincial Government (IPG).

Tavurvur Volcano - after the major eruption

The IPG was later responsible for developing the East New Britain Provincial Government Constitution. The first Provincial Government was formely inaugurated on 3th July 1976. Since 1981 East New Britain Provincial Governments have been very stable with only one attempted “vote of no confidence”.

Environment

The tropical nature of the province, with its evergreen rainforest vegetation and rugged mountain ranges, the imposing volcanoes which surround the town of Rabaul and the beautiful Simpson Harbour as well as the friendliness of the local people, have made East New Britain an attractive and adventurous holiday destination.

Putput Sandy Beach - Good for picnicking
The climate consists of two main seasons, the wet, November to April and dry, May to October. East New Britain is also home to numerous colourful birds which include the famous hornbills, parrots and megapodes, whose eggs are selectively harvested from deep in the hot volcanic ash to provide food and income for the local people.

Rabaul which is built on an ancient volcanic crater, is surrounded by six volcanoes which add beauty and are natural attraction to the town of Rabaul. Simpson harbour is one of the deepest in Papua New Guinea and can accommodate some of the world's largest cruise ships bringing tourists to the town, the Gazelle Peninsula and the Province.

Map of PNG - ENBP is circled in red colour

The marine resources in the East New Britain are diverse. The clear warm blue waters provide a home for a great colourful corals, fish and World War II relics, whist scuba-diving and snorkelling can be undertaken at Tavui Submarine Bay, Kulau Lodge , Duke Of York Islands, Baining and Pomio, or for that matter anywhere along the many kilometers of beautiful beaches in the Province. For more information about the East New Britain Province of Papua New Guinea, click here.

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The real achievements of Copenhagen‏


From The Viscount Monckton of Brenchley in Copenhagen

The mountains shall labor, and what will be born? A stupid little mouse.

Thanks to hundreds of thousands of US citizens who contacted their elected representatives to protest about the unelected, communistic world government with near-infinite powers of taxation, regulation and intervention that was proposed in early drafts of the Copenhagen Treaty, there is no Copenhagen Treaty.

There is not even a Copenhagen Agreement. There is a "Copenhagen Accord". The White House spinsters spun, and their official press release proclaimed, with more than usual fatuity, that President Obama had"salvaged" a deal at Copenhagen in bilateral talks with China, India,Brazil, and South Africa, which had established a negotiating bloc.

The plainly-declared common position of these four developing nations had been the one beacon of clarity and common sense at the foggy fortnight of posturing and gibbering in the ghastly Copenhagen conference center. This is what the Forthright Four asked for:

* Point 1. No compulsory limits on carbon emissions.

* Point 2. No emissions reductions at all unless the West paid for them.

* Point 3. No international monitoring of any emissions reductions not paid for by the West.

* Point 4. No use of "global warming" as an excuse to impose protectionist trade restrictions on countries that did not cut their carbon emissions.


After President Obama's dramatic intervention to save the deal, this is what the Forthright Four got:

* Point 1. No compulsory limits on carbon emissions.

* Point 2. No emissions reductions at all unless the West paid for them.

* Point 3. No international monitoring of any emissions reductions not paid for by the West.

* Point 4. No use of "global warming" as an excuse to impose protectionist trade restrictions on countries that did not cut their carbon emissions.* Here, in a nutshell - for fortunately nothing larger is needed - are the main points of the "Copenhagen Accord": Main points:

Protesters at the Climate Change conference in Cophenhagen

In the Copenhagen Accord, which is operational immediately, the parties "underline that climate change is one of the greatest challenges of our time"; emphasize their "strong political will to urgently combat climate change"; recognize "the scientific view that the increase in global temperature should be below 2 C°" and perhaps below 1.5 C°; aspire to "cooperate in achieving the peaking of global and national emissions as soon as possible"; acknowledge that eradicating poverty is the "overriding priority of developing countries"; and accept the need to help vulnerable countries -especially the least developed nations, small-island states, and Africa - to adapt to climate change.

Self-imposed emissions targets: All parties will set for themselves, and comply with, emissions targets for 2020, to be submitted to the secretariat by 31 January 2010. Where developing countries are paid to cut their emissions, their compliance will be monitored. Developed countries will financially support less-developed countries to prevent deforestation.

Carbon trading may be used. New bureaucracies and funding: Under the supervision of a "High-Level Panel", developed countries will give up to $30 billion for 2010-12, aiming for $100 billion by 2020, in "scaled up, new and additional, predictable and adequate funding" to developing countries via a "Copenhagen Green Fund". A "Technology Mechanism" will "accelerate technology development and transfer" to developing countries. And that's it.

Expensive, yes. Unnecessary, yes. But earth-shaking? No. The disconnect between the gaseous halations of various grandstanding "world leaders" about the supposedly urgent need to "Save The Planet Now" and the puny outcome of the Copenhagen Non-Event is dazzling. And it is welcome.

For all the rhetoric - or the flatulence that passes for rhetoric these days - it has begun to dawn on the "leaders" of those nations that subject them to regular recall and re-election that the people no longer believe the mad scientists are telling them the truth.

And the people are right. - What is more, after the failure of the mainstream news media to report what the malevolent and unpleasant scientists involved in the Climate gate affair had written to one another about those with whom they disagreed, or about what they had done to invent, fabricate, contrive, fiddle, tweak, alter,massage, conceal, hide or even destroy scientific data for the sake of protecting and peddling the pseudo-science in which environment correspondents had so readily and so ignorantly believed, the people no longer trust the media.

And that is bad news for a governing class that has come to develop afar-too-cosy relationship with the mainstream media. It is also very bad news for the mainstream media themselves, which are now rapidly losing circulation and ad revenue as the people rightly desert them for the Internet, where - not withstanding various expensive attempts by the over-funded international Left to interfere with Google and Yahoo searches -the truth is still available if you know where to look.

Copenhagen was the last-chance saloon not for the planet, which does not need saving, but for the UN's world-government wannabes. They blew it,big-time, by believing their own over spun propaganda about planetary peril and thinking they had "world leaders" where they wanted them.

They overreached themselves, and have paid the price. Even though next year is an el Nino year accompanied by fast-recovering solar activity, 2010 may not, after all, set a new global-temperature record to over top that which was set in 1998, the year of the Great el Nino. By the time the next yackfest takes place in Mexico City in December 2010, the steam will have gone out of the "global warming" scare.

We should not let our guard down, but Copenhagen is more than the end of the beginning for Green fascism: it is the beginning of the end. The eco-Nazis' attempt at global bureaucratic coup d'etat has failed, and no such attempt is likely to succeed again. Too many of you are watching.

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The real achievements of Copenhagen‏


From The Viscount Monckton of Brenchley in Copenhagen

The mountains shall labor, and what will be born? A stupid little mouse.

Thanks to hundreds of thousands of US citizens who contacted their elected representatives to protest about the unelected, communistic world government with near-infinite powers of taxation, regulation and intervention that was proposed in early drafts of the Copenhagen Treaty, there is no Copenhagen Treaty.

There is not even a Copenhagen Agreement. There is a "Copenhagen Accord". The White House spinsters spun, and their official press release proclaimed, with more than usual fatuity, that President Obama had"salvaged" a deal at Copenhagen in bilateral talks with China, India,Brazil, and South Africa, which had established a negotiating bloc.

The plainly-declared common position of these four developing nations had been the one beacon of clarity and common sense at the foggy fortnight of posturing and gibbering in the ghastly Copenhagen conference center. This is what the Forthright Four asked for:

* Point 1. No compulsory limits on carbon emissions.

* Point 2. No emissions reductions at all unless the West paid for them.

* Point 3. No international monitoring of any emissions reductions not paid for by the West.

* Point 4. No use of "global warming" as an excuse to impose protectionist trade restrictions on countries that did not cut their carbon emissions.


After President Obama's dramatic intervention to save the deal, this is what the Forthright Four got:

* Point 1. No compulsory limits on carbon emissions.

* Point 2. No emissions reductions at all unless the West paid for them.

* Point 3. No international monitoring of any emissions reductions not paid for by the West.

* Point 4. No use of "global warming" as an excuse to impose protectionist trade restrictions on countries that did not cut their carbon emissions.* Here, in a nutshell - for fortunately nothing larger is needed - are the main points of the "Copenhagen Accord": Main points:

Protesters at the Climate Change conference in Cophenhagen

In the Copenhagen Accord, which is operational immediately, the parties "underline that climate change is one of the greatest challenges of our time"; emphasize their "strong political will to urgently combat climate change"; recognize "the scientific view that the increase in global temperature should be below 2 C°" and perhaps below 1.5 C°; aspire to "cooperate in achieving the peaking of global and national emissions as soon as possible"; acknowledge that eradicating poverty is the "overriding priority of developing countries"; and accept the need to help vulnerable countries -especially the least developed nations, small-island states, and Africa - to adapt to climate change.

Self-imposed emissions targets: All parties will set for themselves, and comply with, emissions targets for 2020, to be submitted to the secretariat by 31 January 2010. Where developing countries are paid to cut their emissions, their compliance will be monitored. Developed countries will financially support less-developed countries to prevent deforestation.

Carbon trading may be used. New bureaucracies and funding: Under the supervision of a "High-Level Panel", developed countries will give up to $30 billion for 2010-12, aiming for $100 billion by 2020, in "scaled up, new and additional, predictable and adequate funding" to developing countries via a "Copenhagen Green Fund". A "Technology Mechanism" will "accelerate technology development and transfer" to developing countries. And that's it.

Expensive, yes. Unnecessary, yes. But earth-shaking? No. The disconnect between the gaseous halations of various grandstanding "world leaders" about the supposedly urgent need to "Save The Planet Now" and the puny outcome of the Copenhagen Non-Event is dazzling. And it is welcome.

For all the rhetoric - or the flatulence that passes for rhetoric these days - it has begun to dawn on the "leaders" of those nations that subject them to regular recall and re-election that the people no longer believe the mad scientists are telling them the truth.

And the people are right. - What is more, after the failure of the mainstream news media to report what the malevolent and unpleasant scientists involved in the Climate gate affair had written to one another about those with whom they disagreed, or about what they had done to invent, fabricate, contrive, fiddle, tweak, alter,massage, conceal, hide or even destroy scientific data for the sake of protecting and peddling the pseudo-science in which environment correspondents had so readily and so ignorantly believed, the people no longer trust the media.

And that is bad news for a governing class that has come to develop afar-too-cosy relationship with the mainstream media. It is also very bad news for the mainstream media themselves, which are now rapidly losing circulation and ad revenue as the people rightly desert them for the Internet, where - not withstanding various expensive attempts by the over-funded international Left to interfere with Google and Yahoo searches -the truth is still available if you know where to look.

Copenhagen was the last-chance saloon not for the planet, which does not need saving, but for the UN's world-government wannabes. They blew it,big-time, by believing their own over spun propaganda about planetary peril and thinking they had "world leaders" where they wanted them.

They overreached themselves, and have paid the price. Even though next year is an el Nino year accompanied by fast-recovering solar activity, 2010 may not, after all, set a new global-temperature record to over top that which was set in 1998, the year of the Great el Nino. By the time the next yackfest takes place in Mexico City in December 2010, the steam will have gone out of the "global warming" scare.

We should not let our guard down, but Copenhagen is more than the end of the beginning for Green fascism: it is the beginning of the end. The eco-Nazis' attempt at global bureaucratic coup d'etat has failed, and no such attempt is likely to succeed again. Too many of you are watching.

Labels:

The real achievements of Copenhagen‏


From The Viscount Monckton of Brenchley in Copenhagen

The mountains shall labor, and what will be born? A stupid little mouse.

Thanks to hundreds of thousands of US citizens who contacted their elected representatives to protest about the unelected, communistic world government with near-infinite powers of taxation, regulation and intervention that was proposed in early drafts of the Copenhagen Treaty, there is no Copenhagen Treaty.

There is not even a Copenhagen Agreement. There is a "Copenhagen Accord". The White House spinsters spun, and their official press release proclaimed, with more than usual fatuity, that President Obama had"salvaged" a deal at Copenhagen in bilateral talks with China, India,Brazil, and South Africa, which had established a negotiating bloc.

The plainly-declared common position of these four developing nations had been the one beacon of clarity and common sense at the foggy fortnight of posturing and gibbering in the ghastly Copenhagen conference center. This is what the Forthright Four asked for:

* Point 1. No compulsory limits on carbon emissions.

* Point 2. No emissions reductions at all unless the West paid for them.

* Point 3. No international monitoring of any emissions reductions not paid for by the West.

* Point 4. No use of "global warming" as an excuse to impose protectionist trade restrictions on countries that did not cut their carbon emissions.


After President Obama's dramatic intervention to save the deal, this is what the Forthright Four got:

* Point 1. No compulsory limits on carbon emissions.

* Point 2. No emissions reductions at all unless the West paid for them.

* Point 3. No international monitoring of any emissions reductions not paid for by the West.

* Point 4. No use of "global warming" as an excuse to impose protectionist trade restrictions on countries that did not cut their carbon emissions.* Here, in a nutshell - for fortunately nothing larger is needed - are the main points of the "Copenhagen Accord": Main points:

Protesters at the Climate Change conference in Cophenhagen

In the Copenhagen Accord, which is operational immediately, the parties "underline that climate change is one of the greatest challenges of our time"; emphasize their "strong political will to urgently combat climate change"; recognize "the scientific view that the increase in global temperature should be below 2 C°" and perhaps below 1.5 C°; aspire to "cooperate in achieving the peaking of global and national emissions as soon as possible"; acknowledge that eradicating poverty is the "overriding priority of developing countries"; and accept the need to help vulnerable countries -especially the least developed nations, small-island states, and Africa - to adapt to climate change.

Self-imposed emissions targets: All parties will set for themselves, and comply with, emissions targets for 2020, to be submitted to the secretariat by 31 January 2010. Where developing countries are paid to cut their emissions, their compliance will be monitored. Developed countries will financially support less-developed countries to prevent deforestation.

Carbon trading may be used. New bureaucracies and funding: Under the supervision of a "High-Level Panel", developed countries will give up to $30 billion for 2010-12, aiming for $100 billion by 2020, in "scaled up, new and additional, predictable and adequate funding" to developing countries via a "Copenhagen Green Fund". A "Technology Mechanism" will "accelerate technology development and transfer" to developing countries. And that's it.

Expensive, yes. Unnecessary, yes. But earth-shaking? No. The disconnect between the gaseous halations of various grandstanding "world leaders" about the supposedly urgent need to "Save The Planet Now" and the puny outcome of the Copenhagen Non-Event is dazzling. And it is welcome.

For all the rhetoric - or the flatulence that passes for rhetoric these days - it has begun to dawn on the "leaders" of those nations that subject them to regular recall and re-election that the people no longer believe the mad scientists are telling them the truth.

And the people are right. - What is more, after the failure of the mainstream news media to report what the malevolent and unpleasant scientists involved in the Climate gate affair had written to one another about those with whom they disagreed, or about what they had done to invent, fabricate, contrive, fiddle, tweak, alter,massage, conceal, hide or even destroy scientific data for the sake of protecting and peddling the pseudo-science in which environment correspondents had so readily and so ignorantly believed, the people no longer trust the media.

And that is bad news for a governing class that has come to develop afar-too-cosy relationship with the mainstream media. It is also very bad news for the mainstream media themselves, which are now rapidly losing circulation and ad revenue as the people rightly desert them for the Internet, where - not withstanding various expensive attempts by the over-funded international Left to interfere with Google and Yahoo searches -the truth is still available if you know where to look.

Copenhagen was the last-chance saloon not for the planet, which does not need saving, but for the UN's world-government wannabes. They blew it,big-time, by believing their own over spun propaganda about planetary peril and thinking they had "world leaders" where they wanted them.

They overreached themselves, and have paid the price. Even though next year is an el Nino year accompanied by fast-recovering solar activity, 2010 may not, after all, set a new global-temperature record to over top that which was set in 1998, the year of the Great el Nino. By the time the next yackfest takes place in Mexico City in December 2010, the steam will have gone out of the "global warming" scare.

We should not let our guard down, but Copenhagen is more than the end of the beginning for Green fascism: it is the beginning of the end. The eco-Nazis' attempt at global bureaucratic coup d'etat has failed, and no such attempt is likely to succeed again. Too many of you are watching.

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Pregnant with Anticipation

Fourth Sunday of Advent

Blessed are you among women - Luke 1:42

A unique scene unfolds before us in our gospel. Two women, both pregnant through the most unusual of conditions, exchange greetings filled with joy, wonder, and amazement at their shared circumstance, each describing for the other (and for us!) what God has done.

We have become familiar with their children, the sons born to Elizabeth and Mary a few months after this monumental conversation. Elizabeth will give birth to John, the one we call "the Baptist," the one who prophesies, proclaims, and prepares the community for Christ's ministry. Mary will give birth to Jesus, the Messiah, Emmanuel - God with us.

Blessed are you among women - Luke 1:42

It is through this prism of hindsight that we can appreciate the words spoken by these women - women in vastly different life circumstances, whose maternal joy we know will eventually lead to sorrow as their sons' ministries and lives follow God's call even to death.

Elizabeth is an old woman who has remained childless. Her miraculous pregnancy was foretold by the angel Gabriel, who appeared to her husband, Zechariah. Meanwhile, Mary is a young woman, engaged to be married, when the same angel appears to her with the impossible news of God's Son. Both women have had much to process and ponder, it is no wonder that their hearts burst into proclamation and song.

"Blessed are you," Elizabeth cries, the first witness to the miracle in Mary, "the mother of my Lord." Somehow Elizabeth and the child within her own womb both intuitively know who Mary is and whom she carries within her. Mary responds with her own vision, her song of praise, her Magnificent. "My soul magnifies the Lord," she proclaims, proceeding to paint a glorious and grand vision of God's great mystery unfolding within her.

These two pregnant women with trust, courage, and eloquence have shown us a glimpse of God.

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Pregnant with Anticipation

Fourth Sunday of Advent

Blessed are you among women - Luke 1:42

A unique scene unfolds before us in our gospel. Two women, both pregnant through the most unusual of conditions, exchange greetings filled with joy, wonder, and amazement at their shared circumstance, each describing for the other (and for us!) what God has done.

We have become familiar with their children, the sons born to Elizabeth and Mary a few months after this monumental conversation. Elizabeth will give birth to John, the one we call "the Baptist," the one who prophesies, proclaims, and prepares the community for Christ's ministry. Mary will give birth to Jesus, the Messiah, Emmanuel - God with us.

Blessed are you among women - Luke 1:42

It is through this prism of hindsight that we can appreciate the words spoken by these women - women in vastly different life circumstances, whose maternal joy we know will eventually lead to sorrow as their sons' ministries and lives follow God's call even to death.

Elizabeth is an old woman who has remained childless. Her miraculous pregnancy was foretold by the angel Gabriel, who appeared to her husband, Zechariah. Meanwhile, Mary is a young woman, engaged to be married, when the same angel appears to her with the impossible news of God's Son. Both women have had much to process and ponder, it is no wonder that their hearts burst into proclamation and song.

"Blessed are you," Elizabeth cries, the first witness to the miracle in Mary, "the mother of my Lord." Somehow Elizabeth and the child within her own womb both intuitively know who Mary is and whom she carries within her. Mary responds with her own vision, her song of praise, her Magnificent. "My soul magnifies the Lord," she proclaims, proceeding to paint a glorious and grand vision of God's great mystery unfolding within her.

These two pregnant women with trust, courage, and eloquence have shown us a glimpse of God.

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Pregnant with Anticipation

Fourth Sunday of Advent

Blessed are you among women - Luke 1:42

A unique scene unfolds before us in our gospel. Two women, both pregnant through the most unusual of conditions, exchange greetings filled with joy, wonder, and amazement at their shared circumstance, each describing for the other (and for us!) what God has done.

We have become familiar with their children, the sons born to Elizabeth and Mary a few months after this monumental conversation. Elizabeth will give birth to John, the one we call "the Baptist," the one who prophesies, proclaims, and prepares the community for Christ's ministry. Mary will give birth to Jesus, the Messiah, Emmanuel - God with us.

Blessed are you among women - Luke 1:42

It is through this prism of hindsight that we can appreciate the words spoken by these women - women in vastly different life circumstances, whose maternal joy we know will eventually lead to sorrow as their sons' ministries and lives follow God's call even to death.

Elizabeth is an old woman who has remained childless. Her miraculous pregnancy was foretold by the angel Gabriel, who appeared to her husband, Zechariah. Meanwhile, Mary is a young woman, engaged to be married, when the same angel appears to her with the impossible news of God's Son. Both women have had much to process and ponder, it is no wonder that their hearts burst into proclamation and song.

"Blessed are you," Elizabeth cries, the first witness to the miracle in Mary, "the mother of my Lord." Somehow Elizabeth and the child within her own womb both intuitively know who Mary is and whom she carries within her. Mary responds with her own vision, her song of praise, her Magnificent. "My soul magnifies the Lord," she proclaims, proceeding to paint a glorious and grand vision of God's great mystery unfolding within her.

These two pregnant women with trust, courage, and eloquence have shown us a glimpse of God.

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