The Great Global Warming Swindle, in 9 parts

NOTE:  These videos were removed from Youtube because of copyright infringements.  Sorry.

This is UK channel 4 documentary, Martin Durkin’s The Great Global Warming Swindle,  that I mentioned in this post.  Please note that mention of the problems of malaria are in part  7.  Part 8 is particularly relevant to Africa and our discussion group.  This should anger us!

Part 1:  Introduction


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Hyper-Inflation: Think the economy is bad now? Just wait

The post on Obama and inflation in Zimbawe has received 257 hits so far.  Well, here are a couple experts who agree with me.

Peter Schiff calls the US economy a “ponzi” economy.  He warns that stimulus package suggested by Congress will lead to a “unmitigated disaster”.  He warns of hyper inflation (not just double digit inflation) similar to Latin American countries or to the Weimar Republic.  He compares the interventionist government with Hoover and Roosevelt which is leading us into a new depression.
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New Series: Why American-style liberalism would be bad for Africa-Preamble

Preamble

It may have occurred to the few readers of this blog that I am a conservative.  I don’t know how this strikes them.  Perhaps some may question the appropriateness of a partisan line of thinking in a blog which is supposed to be a conversation about any subject relating to French-speaking Africa.  Perhaps some of you think that it is not relevant at all to speak of US politics. Continue reading

Obama's inexperience

Obama has never run a private business. He’s never been an executive before (unlike Sarah Palin who has experience as both a mayor and a governor).  He’s never had to make tough decisions; apparently he often voted as a Illinois state senator not “aye” or “nay” but “present”.  But somehow he let the over eager liberal media talk him into running for president, and now he’s got the job.  In 2004, when he had just become junior senator from Illinois, he was asked if he would run for President of the United States in the 2008 election.  This was his answer:

By his own admission he wasn’t ready for the job.  Those of us who voted for McCain agreed with him.  Simply put, he is the least experienced president in my lifetime, perhaps in the history of the country.  That inexperience is starting to show after only two weeks.
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The Secret of Rush Limbaugh’s Success

Rush Limbaugh is a conservative talk radio host in the United States with over 20,000,000 listeners a week, making his program the single most watched or listened to source of news in the USA. Not surprisingly, Rush Limbaugh is demonized by the mainstream media as a right-wing extremist. For his listeners, however, he is a breath of fresh air. One constant desire on the part of the Left in America is to come up with a counterpart, the liberal Rush Limbaugh. Attempts have been made on the Left to do this, but no one has succeeded. Yet on the Right, numerous radio talk show hosts have repeated Rush’s success (e.g., Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham). Why is this?
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