CLOSE RELATIONS - SOCIALISM AND FASCISM.



I remember reading this essay some time ago and thought I would share it with ATW readers. The essential point made here by the author is that modern day leftism owes much to Mussolini, that Blair's pragmatic economic model echoes that of the Italian tyrant, and that when leftists drone on about the "fascism" of the right - funnily enough they merely demonstrate their shocking ignorance of history. Read the article for yourself - a good primer in understanding where our friends on the left come from! Ciao.

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GLOBAL WARMING - CHILL OUT!



It appears that science has finally settled the vexing question of global warming.



"After four years of one of the most rigorous peer reviews ever, Canadian Ross McKitrick and another of us (Michaels) published a paper searching for "economic" signals in the temperature record. McKitrick, an economist, was initially piqued by what several climatologists had noted as a curiosity in both the U.N. and satellite records: statistically speaking, the greater the GDP of a nation, the more it warms. The research showed that somewhere around one-half of the warming in the U.N. surface record was explained by economic factors, which can be changes in land use, quality of instrumentation, or upkeep of records. This worldwide study added fuel to a fire started a year earlier by the University of Maryland's Eugenia Kalnay, who calculated a similar 50 percent bias due to economic factors in the U.S. records.



So, to all who worry about global warming, to all who think that people threatening to blow up millions to get their political way is no big deal by comparison, chill out. The science is settled. The "skeptics" -- the strange name applied to those whose work shows the planet isn't coming to an end -- have won."

With thanks to John Ray and Greenie Watch.

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WHY DO THEY HATE US?



A very perceptive article here by Irish-American writer Patrick O'Brien. It deals with one of the biggest issue of our times - why do the Jihadists hate the US/Israel - and, more importantly, should we care?

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THE OLYMPIANS THAT DON'T COUNT....



A few regular contributors here on ATW seem to have got a bee in their bonnet because of comments I have made regarding Arabs. So, I thought this was an appropriate story to post showing exactly how decent and moderate some Arabs can be to those "oh-so-provocative" Israelis. Once again, the genocidal anti-Semitism that deforms Arabia is manifest - and yet, those of us who point it out are attacked. Funny old world.

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GCSE FAILURES..



This entertained me. Apparently the GCSE pass rate has "stalled" at only 97.6%. This is an outrage - just think despite all the years of dumbing down - 2.4% of those who enter GCSE's still fail it. Time to lower the bar, don't you think?

After all, the point of having an exam is that everyone passes, feels good about themselves, and that none are judged better than others. Honestly, it makes you want to weep.

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DON'T MENTION THE WAR...



I'm afraid the very mention of the UN makes me laugh! This corrupt gang has no role of any value that I can think of that could not be done more efficiently by an informal gathering of democratic nations. (Dang - there goes a whole big pile of UN members) So, this Reuters headline that I picked up care of the mighty UN-R-US merely confirms my views. The great UN brains reckon that there is far too much talk about this pesky terrorism business and that it is time we figured out that life is so much more complex, requiring the fine-honed solutions of the UN. Like in Rwanda, and Sudan. The US should stop funding the parasitic UN and make it start paying its own way - a greater waste of US tax-payers money I cannot envisage. (apart from sending it to John Kerry)

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Tom's Tosh



Check out this rubbish from Tom Griffin in the Irish World (the newspaper for those Irish happily residing in Britain who, simultaneously, campaign for British citizens in Northern Ireland to be stripped of their constitutional and nationalistic rights). It never ceases to amaze me just how much utter stupidity comes from the mouths and the pens of primary advocates of an all-Ireland state. In Griffin's case, it is his argument that a cumulative chain of causation stemming from a resurrected Stormont would sweep all before it, minimising 'dependency' on the British State and, thus, providing the ideal circumstances for a 'united Ireland' to emerge.



What a load of bollocks! Has it occurred to the likes of Griffin that any 'dependency' Ulster had on the rest of the United Kingdom was because of the terrorist warfare being raged by the same people he now believes are sufficiently rehabilitated to categorise them as units of democracy and democratic rule? Nationalists never talk of the dependency the Irish Republic has had on the European Union for much of its membership. People advocating the territorial expansion of a polity which still receives the equivalent of £6 for every £1 it contributes to Brussels' coffers can scarcely lecture on the pitfalls of dependency to anybody else.



Now we move on to the whole question of devolution as a vehicle to drive Ulster from the Union. If Griffin is so confident of such a sequence, perhaps he should inform we ardent supporters of the Union why we should therefore support something which would be to our fundamental long-term detriment? The dichotomy is not between 'Irish democracy' or 'British dependency', but between a stable and prosperous region of the UK - governed in the interests of its broadest number of citizens, or as a tool of a peace process designed to embolden and strengthen terrorist apologists. Griffin's bastardised formula for the objective of a bastardised constitutional entity is not one we Unionists are likely to endorse.

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DERB ON THE CASE



John Derbyshire neatly articulates the argument held by many of us armchair hawks;

We wanted a proactive approach taken post 9/11.

We understand the Jihad "strong horse" mentality.

When the Twin Towers came down , people were dancing in the street.

Arabs needed to be shown what the consequences of such barbarism would be.



As John puts it, "Mess with US and THIS will happen to your regime. Now let's talk."

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