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By James Delingpole
Daily Telegraph
More dangerous than Al Qaeda
Former US secretary to the United Nations John Bolton once famously said: “The [UN] Secretariat building in New York has 38 stories. If it lost ten stories it wouldn’t make a bit of difference.” (H/T Milo)
But I’d say Bolton was being too modest in his aspirations. Far too modest. I’d suggest that if we lost all 38 stories the benefits to mankind would be almost incalculable. Right now, indeed, it’s likely that the United Nations poses a far greater threat to Western Civilisation and the world’s economic future than Al Qaeda does. Have a glance at its latest report World Economic And Social Survey 2011 – and you’ll see what I mean.
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The headline of this post really shouldn’t be controversial. It chimes perfectly with what Kevin “null hypothesis” Trenberth wrote in that notorious 2009 Climategate email to Michael Mann: "The fact is that we can’t account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can’t."
And it’s what Phil Jones admitted in a BBC interview when he said that there had been no “statistically significant” warming since 1995.
Why then am I mentioning it now? W-e-l-l, because just as ze war is to the Germans, Chappaquiddick is to the Kennedy family and that Portland masseuse incident to Al Gore, so the recent lack of warming is to the, er, Warmists. They hate it. It’s an affront to everything they believe in. Damn it, if the world isn’t warming with the alacrity they’d prefer, how are they going to keep the funding gravy train going, and how are they going to persuade an increasingly sceptical populace that the “science” is “settled”, the debate over and the time for action is now? That’s why they can’t reminded of the truth often enough. It’s like salting the slugs that are ruining your garden: necessary, but also kind of fun too.
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WVNS
ICG was recently acquired by Arch Coal. By Andrea Lannom A former senior vice president, secretary and general counsel at International Coal Group, has decided to rejoin Jackson Kelly, the firm announced July 5 in a news release.
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Two years ago, U.N. researchers were claiming that it would cost “as much as $600 billion a year over the next decade” to go green. Now, a new U.N. report has more than tripled that number to $1.9 trillion per year for 40 years.
So let's do the math: That works out to a grand total of $76 trillion, over 40 years -- or more than five times the entire Gross Domestic Product of the United States ($14.66 trillion a year). It’s all part of a “technological overhaul” “on the scale of the first industrial revolution” called for in the annual report. Except that the U.N. will apparently control this next industrial revolution.
The new 251-page report with the benign sounding name of the “World Economic and Social Survey 2011” is rife with goodies calling for “a radically new economic strategy” and “global governance.”
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8th Annual Friends of Coal Auto Fair
July 15-17
Paul Cline Memorial Youth Sports Complex, Beckley, WV
Showground Hours
Friday, July 15th: 10am to 11pm
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Showground Admission is $2 Friday and Saturday, Children 12 & Under get in FREE!
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Ft. Wayne News Sentinel
President Obama has embarked on a campaign to destroy the coal industry.
Working through the US Environmental Protection Agency, Obama has: ♦In defiance of Congress, planned a cap-and-trade initiative to make it prohibitively expensive for utilities.
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Published: Wednesday, Jun. 29, 2011 - 1:15 pm
ST. LOUIS, June 29, 2011 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Patriot Coal Corporation (NYSE: PCX) announced that Apogee Coal, Patriot's Logan County complex, received the Employer of the Year Award from WorkForce West Virginia, an affiliate of the West Virginia Department of Commerce. The award was presented during the "Building Workforce Success Together" conference sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor.
"One of Patriot's core values is to hire and retain the most qualified people and maximize their opportunities through personal growth and development," stated Patriot President and Chief Executive Officer Richard M. Whiting. "Our employees are key to the success of our operations. We are pleased to receive this award in recognition of our employee development and training programs and our commitment to building a skilled workforce devoted to a culture of safety and continuous improvement."
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Jobs … that’s what is important today.
Our nation is struggling 14 million people out of work, homes and cars being repossessed and children going hungry. Yet for some folks it seems their narrow political agenda has to come before any consideration for its impact on people.
The West Virginia Sierra Club seems so intent on imposing its “green” agenda on our people that they are willing to bankrupt our people and our state to do so.
A recent story by AP’s Vicki Smith is an example in point …
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