Tom Nelson points out that Michael Mann’s sabbatical gives him time to take a break from his sober, objective, apolitical, just-the-facts, hard-science-only work to discuss the environmentalist movement on:
Seems rather ho-hum until you look up what network “Inside Story” is on:
Great, maybe after appearing on Al Jazeera, he’ll be inspired to some sort of Hockey Stick Jihad. Oh, wait.
He seems desperate to me.
http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/insidestoryus2012/2012/04/201242462010275243.html
davidmhoffer says: April 25, 2012 at 9:06 am
David, just a gentle reminder that ALL news sources should be considered biased.
Anyone defending Hamas has his head up his Hamas.
No one here is “defending” Hamas – it is a terrorist organization, and their murderous record speaks for itself. But that doesn’t justify manufacturing BS about the 2006 Palestinian election, which by all credible accounts was free and fair. Hamas’ clear victory was a political rebuff for the US, which had pumped millions of dollars into shoring up the corrupt and unpopular Fatah regime before the election – and subsidized Fatah’s resistance to the democratic outcome afterwards, which led to a bloody civil war.
Brian H says: April 26, 2012 at 1:39 am
Anyone defending Hamas has his head up his Hamas.
Not necessarily so. Depends on your outlook on the world.
In Gaza, the Palestinians (Hamas, as it happens) are in full control of civil administration and also policing. Their police can and do carry weapons. All foreign representatives, UN, Aid NGOs, must deal with Palestinian government representatives (Hamas, it so happens).
All just like a real government.
Meanwhile, in the West Bank, Palestinian police cannot carry weapons. They cannot intervene in a dispute between a Palestinian and an Israeli. They (or any other Palestinians) cannot enter Israeli enclaves in Palestinian areas. In many areas they cannot use or even cross Israeli access roads which slice up their community. In most areas all security is run by Israel, and in some areas civil administration is too.
I reckon if I was a Palestinian, Hamas may look alright.
Now, I admit I don’t know much about Hamas, only what I have read and heard in the press.
But I do know a lot about the press, and know that everything I see and hear is part of someone’s program and propaganda, and I’m betting that Hamas don’t have quite as much international media clout as do the Israelis.
I find it ironic that people who question the propaganda flood surging over them in the climate debate do not always similarly question other major issues.