Posted on 11/21/2004 4:25:19 AM PST by George Frm Br00klyn Park
HOLY MOSES! This guy hits an "out of the park" grand slam!
Better for what? LOL Maybe we should send the lawyers to Iraq.
UN soldiers? Where? The only military teeth to the UN is from US military forces. No one else on Earth can project power anywhere. China? They can't even get across the Taiwan Strait. Russia? They can't even get around inside Russia in a hurry. The EU? Nope, they need to use US aircraft.
We're it.
To enforce Kyoto in civilized countries.
Putin ratified it.
This guy is a maverick within Putin's circle.
Actually I believe it was 99-0 and I don't recall who the non-voting senator was.
Thank you, Maybe it was kerry, tht guy is never in the senate
There actually are SOME good Russians. This guy Ilianov has all the facts, draws a reasonable conclusion in the like to historical experience, and is practical-minded.
Unfortunately, only about 5% (very rough guess) of Russians are like this.
Hmm! That is probably the same percentage as in most countries.
Doc, Maybe less here in he U.S. of A. There is a definite deliberate attempt to make it so. Peace and love, George.
Doc, Or, rather, reverse that. Peace and love, George
When the Head of State signs one of these UN Treaties, does it constitute TACIT acceptance regardless of non-ratification by the House and Senate?
holy smoke screen! sounds like this rusky gets it. is he safe, what with dissenting and all? or is he himself a propaganda tool. the plot *thickens*.
it will be exposed and defeated
I like the way this guy thinks.
Actually it was 95-0 with 5 no votes. FYI sKerry voted against.
More from Illarionov back in the summer, 2004 -
The Moscow Times reports that Russia’s top economist accused Britain of “murder threats” and embracing “national-socialist ideology,” as the United Nation’s global warming dog and pony show plodded into Moscow for a weekend of debates this summer.
Tony Blair’s government is declaring “all-out and total war on Russia” to force Russia to ratify the Kyoto Protocol, said Andrei Illarionov, the personal economic adviser to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
An irate Illarionov blasted Sir David King, the British government’s top junk scientist, of trying, through pressure from Prime Minister Blair’s office and through Foreign Secretary Jack Straw personally, to hijack a two-day conference on the global environmental treaty at the Russian Academy of Sciences.
“During the past year [the British] have used bribes, blackmail and murder threats to put pressure on Russia, which shows how desperate their case is,” Illarionov said.
King filibustered the conference for four hours in an effort to block Russian opponents from challenging the collectivist dogma of the global warming cult.
Illarionov, a highly respected liberal economist, has often clashed with UN socialists on the Kyoto Protocol, which will die if Russia does not ratify it. (In Russia, a liberal is someone who supports capitalism and individual freedom, while a conservative is an old hardline communist.)
Peter Cox, head of the British Meteorological Office’s climate, chemistry and ecosystems department, objected when Illarionov marched into the conference with a cadre of top-notch Russian scientists to refute the socialist junk science of the International Panel on Climate Control, the basis for Kyoto. “Illarionov hijacked the meeting by inviting people who were outside the IPCC process,” whined Cox who knew his global warming con job couldn’t stand up to scientific scrutiny.
The British pack of socialists, IPCC flunkies and untenured con-men panicked when the Russian scientists began unloading data and graphs. A deeply disturbed Cox objected that Illarionov wanted to present scientific facts to debate the global warming issue, so he ordered King to engage in a harassing four hour diatribe to keep the Russian scientists from the podium.
Illarionov reminded the Old Europe socialists that Russia knew about totalitarianism and its tricks and could smell a Marxist rat a continent away.
“Europe has seen the effects of the national-socialist ideology and the Marxist ideology. The imperialist philosophy behind Kyoto is nothing short of these in its scale,” Illarionov said. “This is war. But our cause is just and we will prevail.”
Communist China, the darling of the Kyoto-loving leftists, is exempt from the Kyoto Protocol restrictions, as is India, another giant polluter. The United States has refused to sign onto the Marxist global warming scam, correctly ascertaining that the treaty would destroy millions of American jobs, cost thousands of dollars in increased energy costs for each family and reward the failed socialist policies in Old Europe.
Illarionov accused Britain and other “imperialist” rich nations that signed Kyoto of using the treaty to keep poor nations from developing.
Illarionov argued that the real reason every rich nation but America backs the protocol is because they want control of emissions quotas, something he said will give developed nations unprecedented control of poor countries’ economies.
The Russian Academy of Sciences later issued a statement after the conference stating that it found “no scientific basis” for the Kyoto Protocol.
The Russke gets it.
He should know. I thought they were talking about Arnold for a minute.
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