Lecturing About Third World 'Murder' by Climate Change
In Sunday’s Washington Post, film critic Ann Hornaday laid out a red carpet for a lecture on “climate change” courtesy of Mohamed Nasheed, former president of the Maldives, a string of islands southwest of India. The piggish Western world is out to murder the people of the Maldives, apparently.
“We’re just so small,” Nasheed said in Toronto, Hornaday touting his voice rising to a “mouselike” squeal. “You can’t bully. It’s not right to bully. And we’re not angry. Whatever happens, even if we all die, we should not be angry with the people who murdered us. We can’t run climate change campaigns fueled by anger. I can’t tell the people [of the Maldives] that there are other countries trying to murder you. They’re trying to do good by their people according to their understanding. We just have to try to find an amicable position and keep talking.”
Yes, that’s certainly an “amicable position,” implying that people are trying to “murder you” with a flood caused by global warming. Hornaday lauded this man as an “unlikely star” of the documentary “The Island President,” which was greeted with “rapturous ovations” at the Toronto Film Festival by all the socialist cineastes.
Hornaday introduced the murder quotes with this gush: “what emerges is still an impressive portrait of a charismatic, compelling leader punching far above his weight and managing to land a few blows. While he was in office, Nasheed learned the art of leveraging the very thing that puts him at a disadvantage: the Maldives’ tiny size. His country may be on the geographic low ground, but he has a clear claim on the moral high ground.”
She touted his interview on MSNBC. “I’ve been saying that you have to have a planet to have a democracy,” he said moments before being interviewed by Andrea Mitchell at the MSNBC studios in Tenleytown. “And you have to have democracy to have a planet. It goes both ways.”
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But apparently...
Submitted by c5then on Mon, 04/16/2012 - 10:12am.
You do not have to posses inteligence to be a "leader", not do you need to have integrity to be a "journalist".
Madison and Jefferson and Franklin built a Republic - Roberts killed it!
Democracy for a planet??
Submitted by jon_torlin on Mon, 04/16/2012 - 11:02am.
And you have to have democracy to have a planet. It goes both ways.
Um, no, democracy SUCKS. Democracy is what leads to tyranny which is what these climate change/global warming wackos wish to have on us to force people to make us buy the Volts and live with windmills for electricity.
This "murder" nonsense is a new low for these wackos.
-Jon
Drama Queen Extraordinaire
Submitted by CobraMan on Mon, 04/16/2012 - 11:51am.
"Whatever happens, even if we all die, we should not be angry with the people who murdered us."
Hay, Drama Queen: Even if the ocean rises and swallows the islands whole, it isn't going to happen instantaneously. The process will take YEARS. The people can easily evacuate, via boats. What do you expect: that the people will just stand there and let themselves slowly drown? No, it doesn't work that way.
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. The US Constitution
Unless you're a fetus. The US Supreme Court
Or Anwar al-Awlaki.
Maldives, the melodrama
Submitted by deadeyedan on Mon, 04/16/2012 - 1:55pm.
The Maldives are the archetypical coral atoll in form. They are shaped by the corals that formed them and the oscillation of eons of sea level fluctuation.
Did you hear that? That's right - sea level fluctuation since the serpent in the Garden. That's what allows the erosion to so strongly offset the effects of coral growth.
The sea had to be considerably higher to have allowed coral growth at the level it is currently, and as the sea ebbed the waves at the surface eroded the islands into their current morphology. This is true at virtually every coral reef (including the Florida Keys, look for yourself).
Today's oceans are about 300 feet higher than in ice age maximum yet 300 feet lower than most of earth's (geologically recognizable) history going back 100's of millions of years. The levels now are about as stable as one could possibly hope for and will not be subject to any kind of human influence, probably not ever.
Nature is not a democracy, Mz. Hornaday, and neither is this planet.
CLIMATEGATE (now I & II plus FAKEGATE) - the revelation that the pseudo-scientists at East Anglia University know just as much about the atmosphere as Harvard law professors know about the Constitution
more outlandish poppycock to get ANYONE to read it
Submitted by wizardjr on Mon, 04/16/2012 - 4:39pm.
It's like a high school in the LSM. They keep saying more and more outlandish nonsense in hopes of making the 'A List' for celebrity. Because most of the world is either completely nonplussed by the whole thing, or has determined it's all a crock of BS, these journalists (sic), much like washed up Hollyweird stars, dig as deep into their alternate universe visions to come up with headlines to grab readers.
What is with that dingbat?
Submitted by drsamherman on Mon, 04/16/2012 - 5:17pm.
Every one of her pieces reads like some idiot scribbling from a freshman coed with a foolish infatuation trying desperately to impress the burnt-out hippe has-been professor who is the object of her ridiculous crush.
She is the poster child for liberal indoctrination in place of education at the college level.
DDT
Submitted by lilium479 on Mon, 04/16/2012 - 7:16pm.
How many did you murder by lack of DDT? The only proof you have of MMGW is belief in ignorance.
50,000,000 since 1972...
Submitted by Jim54 on Tue, 04/17/2012 - 11:16pm.
Source:http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1259