From Nopenhagen to Yes We Cancun
by Christopher Monckton
Thanks to Wikileaks, everyone here in the Mañana Republic of Mexico now knows just how much bullying and arm-twisting the administration of Barack Obama in the United States applied to various countries around the world so that they would (and did) sign up to the Copenhagen climate accord.
Without that pressure, nothing at all would have happened at Copenhagen this time last year, and “the Process” – the interminable round of flatulent annual climate conferences in exotic locations at taxpayers’ expense – would have tipped into the gulch forever.
The hard Left has learned the hard way that democracies do not welcome it and, in the end, will reject it. So the climate extremists have abandoned last year’s attempt, in the now-defunct September 15 Copenhagen Treaty draft, to install overnight an unelected world government consisting only of themselves, with unlimited powers of taxation, economic and environmental regulation without representation, as well as control of all formerly free markets worldwide, all in the name of Saving The Planet (which, of course, was triumphantly Saved 2000 years ago and does not need to be Saved again).
Instead, the Martini Marxists dancing the night away doing the Cancun Can-Can with the 25 pneumatic bunny girls in the newly-opened Playboy Casino on the ocean-front strip in Cancun have decided to copy the bureaucrats of the European Union, whose crafty, crabwise coup d’etat over the last three or four decades has transferred all real political power, little by little, treaty by treaty, to the dismal dictatorship of Brussels.
Though there is a toothless democratic fig-leaf in the shape of the European “Parliament”, all decisions in the EU are in fact taken by a couple of dozen faceless, overpaid Kommissars (that is the official German mot juste for them) – faceless because they meet behind closed doors and then emerge to promulgate their “Directives”: on average, one every three hours, day and night, Sundays and holidays included, 365 days a year, 366 days on leap-years.
In Europe, democracy has gone. Perma-Socialism has quietly supplanted it. If demolishing democracy worked there, the enviro-zombs’ reasoning goes, it will work on a worldwide scale, if only the crumbling pretext for global tyranny – the supposed need to prevent catastrophic “global warming” – can be kept going for long enough even though most ordinary voters (in those nations lucky enough to have them) have seen through the scam long since.
The Process works like this. A multitude of long, inspissate, obfuscatory, obnubilating, obscurantist draft agreements are circulated, always a day or two late for delegates to find out what they have actually agreed to. The daily timetables for the various “working” sessions of the conference are never available until breakfast-time on the day, allowing no scope for planning the day. By these means, most delegates are kept permanently and completely in the dark.
Here is a typical paragraph from one of these leaden documents:
“The SBSTA welcomed the report (FCCC/SBSTA/2010/INF.10) on the second workshop of the work programme on revising the “Guidelines for the preparation of national communications by Parties included in Annex I to the Convention Part I: UNFCCC reporting guidelines on annual inventories” (hereinafter referred to as the UNFCCC Annex I reporting guidelines), held in Bonn, Germany, from 3 to 4 November 2010, which was organized by the secretariat as requested by the SBSTA at its thirtieth session.”
Try to read several hundred pages of this stuff. It simply isn’t possible. And that, of course, is the idea. This is the Mushroom-Growers’ Management Method writ large: keep them in the dark and feed them plenty of sh*t.
What these ramblings conceal is the remarkably rapid rate at which dozens – no, hundreds – of new bureaucracies are being created as The Process grinds on. As anyone at the Playboy Casino will tell you, “somebody gotta pay for all those lights.” And that somebody is you, gentle taxpayer. No one has yet managed to discover just how much these hundreds of new supranational climate-change bureaucracies are costing us. That is an international state secret – until Wikileaks gets hold of the figures, of course.
h/t to the Science and Public Policy Institute.
opps, forgot to add – Damn this global warming!
Yes most of us do
But ya never know how it’s going to be spun by the dou-bags.
Proper English is not taught many countries, including North america.
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R. de Haan says:
December 6, 2010 at 1:39 pm
Climate Summit speaker Health problems Obesity caused by fossil fuels!
Maybe someone should tell him what mortality rates will do if fossil fuels are banned.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/climate-summit-speaker-health-problems-obesity-caused-by-fossil-fuels/
And also point out that (almost) no-one is emitting carbon! That’s pretty nealy impossible!
The daily timetables for the various “working” sessions of the conference are never available until breakfast-time on the day, allowing no scope for planning the day. By these means, most delegates are kept permanently and completely in the dark.
But, Christopher, it is a ‘useful idiot’ paradise, after all.
Fie on you critics. Lord M raises free rhetoric to an art form.
Gnashing, gnashing, gnashing your teeth over how “skeptics” will be perceived!!! Get a life!!! Shall we out-petty the petty bureaucrats? Out-smarm the MSM? Out-obscure the obscurantists?
Go get ’em, Chris. And thank you for your creative and humorous elegy for the dreadfully departed corpse of CAGW-CD.
Gareth Phillips says:
December 6, 2010 at 1:47 pm
I wonder if he re-reads this in the cold light of day he will think
“I could have made the point much more efficiently if I had reviewed this before posting”
Cheer up though though my Lord, your heart is in the right place, even if your verbosity sometimes gets the better of you.
His Lordship is English (British!) (from the UK!). In this Country (i.e. England) parody is a very useful tool; particularly against the pompous, self-regarding, left wingnuts!!
j ferguson says:
December 6, 2010 at 2:08 pm
Forgive me Lord (M).
A bit more than a year ago you were trying to convince us that Obama would sign at Copenhagen, a treaty surrendering US sovereignty to a newly created agency which would by fiat monitor and control our various emissions. Instead we got a meaningless agreement.
Obama, a constitutional scholar, would never sign such a treaty nor would our senate approve it.
Is it so hard to appreciate the meaninglessness of meaningless agreements?
Here we have another one. Be glad.
For the rest of you, be most wary of the people you think are your allies. Surfing the waves of an astonishing vocabulary is not an effective mode of communication. Is it?
I repeat PARODY. Is that so hard to appreciate?
David Jones says:…..
And it is a powerful weapon in the “wright” hands.
Or in this case the “Watts” hands.
H/T to Lord M as well, he “knocked it out of the park”.
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Thanks CM, you’re a true national treasure.
It’s been a while since you last blasted a broadside and, although this was but a small commando raid, it’s bl**dy great to see you re-girding your loins
to get stuck back into the fight for freedom again!
So your solution of choice is either censorship of posts or “equal time” posting from all possible flavors of critics?
Why is it so difficult for people to comprehend that blogs like this are open to any contributor? The views expressed in any post are rightly only applied to the person who posts them, and not some representative post of some “group de jour” that people want to hang a label on.
The folks on this forum are also (for the most part) capable of separating topics contained in a single post. A post might include a scientific statement, a political view, and an opinion. The three are separable, and need not be conflated into one homogenized world view.
Real people do not have entirely consistent views on all topics and might make sound and rigorous scientific comments and slightly loony political comments. One does not necessarily color the other. Even our great scientists had some interesting world views outside their core competency.
I have no problem with an off hand reference to some religious comment, it neither validates or damages the value of other ideas expressed by a poster. It is what is, a personal view point. I am not hypersensitive about such things. Of late the secularists have been just as obnoxious as religious zealots who keep beating the drum for their religious view points. In so doing they are being religious zealots themselves — just that their religion is anti-religion.
Get over it guys! No one cares that it bothers you that someone made an off hand remark that can be construed to be religious. Just like I don’t care that you choose not to believe in a deity. That is your choice and none of my business as long as you avoid taking every thread off on a useless tangent by crapping it up with some obnoxious comment about it and whining about every obscure comment that even remotely alludes to some political view point, religious thought, attitude or concept.
The history of mankind is colored by religion for good or worse. In fact you cannot understand history if you leave out religious subjects, it is so deeply intertwined in politics and history of every culture.
I don’t preach about my religion and I would appreciate it if you would not preach about your non-religion. I am not in any way offended by someone making a reference to their choice of a supreme being, it is simply their world view, just don’t beat me over the head with it regardless of which deity or philosophy you personally subscribe. Including non-religion.
Such discussions are inherently non-productive in this sort of forum and are best left to private discussions between close friends, no to sermonizing on the web.
Larry
The saddest and most alarming part of Lord Monckton’s article is the fact that European democracy has been hijacked by such unsavory characters. The citizens have completely lost the right to vote.
Who elected the “President of Europe,” Herman de Rumpuy? The citizens were never given the opportunity to vote. Yet Herman controls their lives and confiscates their earnings and wealth, and there is nothing they can do about it but say, “BOHICA” and pay ever higher taxes while their lives are regimented for the benefit of a shady elite.
And why were the Irish disenfranchised in their vote against the EU? The rules were clear. Then they were arbitrarily changed; heavy-handed propaganda was used to bring about a second vote, authorization for which is found nowhere in the rules.
Now the U.S. seems to be following suit, with the clear loser of the Senate election, Al Franken, installed into office based on fabricated votes and massive ACORN fraud. And Washington state’s pseudo-governor, Christine Gregoire, lost the election. Yet she sits illegitimately in the governor’s office, after ACORN ‘found’ ballot boxes, and the overseas military vote was not counted.
Democracy in the world is dead or dying. It is certainly dead in Europe, which is now an unelected Socialist dictatorship. And the U.S. isn’t far behind, with massive cheating in every national election.
David Jones,
Isn’t parody almost by definition lower case? Are your sure this is CM’s game?
FWIW, I think O is perfectly capable of doing the meaningless thing to stall off dealing with a lot of his supporters who probably believe the CAGW nonsense. I have a lot more confidence in him than some of the posters here – maybe because he hasn’t gotten near my ox.
Accords with agreements to worry the consciousnesses of our children are a bit troubling though, don’t you think.
Billy,
(December 6, 2010 at 2:25 pm)
Perhaps he spent a little ‘mad money’ buying the shuttered CCE or GIMs carbon monitoring software for a penny on the dollar and is beginning to lobby … to sell s/w & credits, if not to us, to those IPCC sign-ons.
George Bernard Shaw was correct when he said “England and America are two countries separated by a common language.”
The nuances inherent in the correct usage of English seem to be lost to those not of this Sceptred Isle.
Obama is not a Constitutional scholar. Being a professor at a law school is not a qualification. A better Constitutional scholar is Lt Col Terry Lakin, a decorated Army surgeon currently being court martialed because he dared to demand Obama prove his orders were legal. According to a recent CNN poll, only 42% of Americans are convinced Obama was born in the US and is constitutionally eligible for the office – that means 58% are not convinced. In 2011, at least four states will discuss legislation requiring presidential candidates to submit a birth certificate before they will be put on the ballot in those states. Obama will not be able to run in 2012. Obama is no patriot. He cares nothing for the Constitution and he is no scholar. The Birthers are winning. It’s about time.
Re “James Barker says:
December 6, 2010 at 11:32 am
Would anyone ever expect an Honest Martini Marxist?”
Of course James, if he was drinking with a champagne socialist.
TheFlyingOrc says: December 6, 2010 at 11:10 am
Mark says: December 6, 2010 at 11:32 am
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I think you two are just a tad sensitive regarding Viscount Monckton’s reference to the event of 2000 years ago given the context. It was really quite aptly ‘mission accomplished’ stuff.
Douglas
Rocky H
Completely agree with you. Democracy in Europe is dead. The current UK government is a clear example of that. And if it wasn’t for the brilliance of the American Constitution, it would be dead in the US by now as well, despite the efforts of some politicians over there to destroy freedom (and for Gareth Phillips’ sake, I include politicians from both parties in that statement).
The light of freedom is dimming the world over. Somehow, it has to be relit, and defeating the lies of the science purporting to unequivocally prove the hypothesis of man made climate change is as good a place as anywhere to begin, given it is so abominably bad.
Monkton’s comments were more then parody. He was explaing how power can be gained and moved in the obscurity of bureacracy.
I agree with old construction worker. They should legalize CO2 and not punish non-violent CO2 users. That way it could be regulated and taxed. Think of the benefits; economic prosperity, less crime, and fewer deaths. Permits could be issued for recreational use such as heating your home, growing food, breathing etc., thereby eliminating black market distribution.
“Obama, a constitutional scholar….”
If he knows it – the Constitution – why does he reject it? Obama really has had his fair chance to champion the individual human mind, and he has obviously rejected it. So I conclude that he doesn’t have one.
A few thoughts regarding some ‘hiccups’ I’ve seen in the great discussion today:
Hiccup #1. …’we don’t need God on ‘our side”…
Obvious Answer: We’re on HIS side ~ not the other way around, I’m glad others picked up on that one, but I needed to second that.
Hiccup #2: …mentioning God… could ‘detract from any knowledgeable scientific debate’…
That, were it to become commonplace, is, tacitly agreeing not to acknowledge Science, as Science at all.
True Science is God’s brilliance and our OBSERVATION of that Brilliance, nothing more. (Gosh…Where’s Chuck Missler when you need him…how many of you have seen his Genesis Commentary?…she ponders)
Anything more than our Observation and what our brains deduce from that Observation simply isn’t ‘Science’ at all. More than that and we’re on that slippery slope of exalting our egos (ie: Ignorance on display for all the universe to see). That happily includes praying to some Mayan Jaguar Priestess. (and…wowie zowie, ain’t she a DOG, at that!!! – YECH!)
Hiccup #3:…Monckton’s subtly crafted ‘Christian hyperbole’…
Answer: I hope that as we discuss here, that we ‘come as we are’ rather than in an attempt to impress each other with astounding intellects. Either we’re comfortable in our skin, or we’re not.
Let’s try to keep things plain and simple. It’s how humans function best. (Like when Einstein said that if he was proved wrong, one statement to that effect – rather than the 100’s he received – would’ve been enough. That’s the hallmark of an intelligent human…not petty bickering. That’s defensive and a sure sign of a small minded kids wanting their own way.)
If we agree that we enjoy reading/listening to Sir C of M – then, I think we’ve GOTTA admit (among other things) that he’s a gifted Linguist. That shouldn’t be a ‘stretch’ when one considers the God of the Universe calls Himself “The WORD”, right?
Truth is ‘simple’ and ‘direct’ (while being wonderfully deep, too – best discussed by a warm fire in an old pub) and when we begin to trivialize simple Truth – chalking it up to ‘hyperbole’ – we’re wandering onto shifting sand, my friends.
Terms like ‘martini marxist’ (I’ve been around those elites at the U.N. and the term is precise!) is just another display of our hero’s delightful observations that roll from a humble and playful mind onto the keyboard ~ or outta the lips ~ whatever the venue may be.
One of my specific prayers is that more of you guys believe in YOURSELVES in the same way Chris Mockton has learned to. (Don’t you have to WONDER what a biography of this guy would entail?!? Someone like him is FORMED from standing in a fire of affliction, no one is ‘made’ like that from birth.)
We need more of you! It’s obvious that we don’t need more greedy ego-centric politicians. We need more ‘Smart Tools’ like most of you. Tools that God can pick up and use as He sees fit. One of the key ingredients is that you’ll need is to be ‘humble’ because when God picks you up, you may ‘think’ you’re gonna be a saw (on any given day) …but, He may want to be using you as a hammer, so a ‘key concept’ is keeping humble enough to remain supple in His Hands. (Ever tried hammering with a saw? Owch. It’s not a pretty sight, been through it myself.)
So…….as this year rapidly comes to a close, I hope to see more of you rising to the challenges of our environment. The ‘clashing of Egos over who’s gonna govern the increasingly illiterate (by design) serfs’… is going to be ‘Epic’ at the very least. And, I think we’re gonna win and it’s gonna be almost fun getting there. Why? Why want to break out the V.S.O.P. and ‘think’ in a humble manner from depth of experience???
Well…….for One: Elites actually believe their own propaganda machines. An’ I’ve seen their prodigy ~ not truly a ‘brain’ or a ‘heart’ among them, sad, but true. They’re the ‘blind leading the blind’ and those ‘the blind leaders’ won’t be able to discern that no one else is following them, themselves being blind. The result doesn’t bode well for our potential petty dictators ~ and regardless, we WIN.
Chris Monckton is being his brilliant self in an environment that would give any of us a real headache, should we attempt what he has been truly ‘made for’.
C.L. Thorpe
What Lord Monckton is warning us about in his usual amusing, entertaining and erudite style is old the pea and thimble trick being played upon the world.
We are all distracted by this utter nonsense called climate ‘whatever the latest description is now’ while at the time the action is to steal democracy and replace it with world dictatorial government – led by whom? We are all watching the wrong thimble. All the while, as he reminds us ‘the Martini Marxists [are] dancing the night away doing the Cancun Can-Can’
The economies of Europe and the U.S. are so dysfunctional that I doubt if they can save themselves right now – let alone the planet by whenever the latest ‘must do’ time frame is set. In England it looks as if they can’t even organise sufficient salt and grit for the roads during the current blizzard! Blimy – such foresight – such skill!
I think that it is time for a revolution now.
Douglas
Casper says:
December 6, 2010 at 2:33 pm
Its nearly always the Mrs and my last song of an evening. Although Susan Boyle’s Wild Horses is getting a serious round of listening to.
inspissate, obfuscatory, obnubilating, obscurantist…………………..
I do like his literary style !!!