From the Weekly Standard:
Secretary of State John Kerry welcomed French foreign minister Laurent Fabius to the State Department in Washington on Tuesday to discuss a range of issues, from Iran to Syria to climate change. Or, in the words of the foreign minister, “climate chaos.” Kerry and Fabius made a joint appearance before their meeting, and the foreign minister warned that only 500 days remained to avoid “climate chaos”[emphasis added]:
Here is the transcript (and a video of the event).
SECRETARY KERRY: Thank you very much. Do you want to say anything? He speaks perfect English. Do you want to say anything?
FOREIGN MINISTER FABIUS: Well, I’m very happy to be with John. There is no week without a phone call or a visit between John and myself, and we have on the agenda many items, many issues – Iran, because negotiations are resuming today; the question of Syria, and we shall meet next Thursday in London together; Ukraine as well; and very important issues, issue of climate change, climate chaos. And we have – as I said, we have 500 days to avoid climate chaos. And I know that President Obama and John Kerry himself are committed on this subject and I’m sure that with them, with a lot of other friends, we shall be able to reach success on this very important matter.
And it’s always a pleasure to meet with John. We are working very closely together. And we speak either French or English, but the most important point, whatever the language is, is to (inaudible) case. Merci. Thank you.
It is unclear what the foreign minister had in mind with the 500 days. However, France is scheduled to host the “21st Conference of the Parties on Climate Change” (aka COP21) in December 2015, about 565 days from now.
Hmmm, better send notices out to those conference participants telling them that by the time they convene, the climate will be have descended into hopeless chaos and travel is not recommended.
Maybe they try out some climate gaming theory at COP21?
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“”””””……Auto says:
May 14, 2014 at 1:44 pm
george e. smith says:
May 14, 2014 at 10:51 am
I don’t think Winston Churchill though very highly of CdG [who, unlike Winston, has an airfield named after him in his hoe country].
“The heaviest cross I have to bear is the Cross of Lorraine” seemed to sum up WC’s experience with CdG.
Well within my father’s youth . . . .
Auto…….”””””””
Actually, I never said any such thing; but I am very familiar with WSC’s self stated opinions on the subject.
On the night before D-Day, CdG was asked to broadcast a radio message to the French underground (some real patriots), as a pre-arranged signal for them to activate disruption and sabotage programs, to occupy German forces during the landings.
CdG refused, unless Eisenhower named him head of the French forces, and agreed to let him lead the parade into a liberated Paris; something Roosevelt had specifically told Eisenhower he was not to do. Eisenhower reluctantly agreed to dG’s plan. During that late hour planning confrontation, Omar Bradley came very close to decking CdG, for his intransigence.
Extended consequences of that D-Eve agreement, were that the French; out of all the European colonial powers, were allowed after the war to re-establish their colonial empire in Asia (French Indo-China) which ultimately precipitated the Viet Nam War, that cost so many American lives.
I say that it is about time! I was worried that I wouldn’t be around for the End of the World (as we know it).
MattS says:
May 14, 2014 at 12:32 pm
French surplus military rifles available for sale. Never fired, only dropped twice.
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You sure about that ?
Check the deaths per country in WW1/and WW2.
Best not to share a border with a country determined to take over the world.
pottereaton says:
May 14, 2014 at 1:06 pm
As for Kerry, he’s always been a socialist.
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A fake-socialist you mean, like the rest of those parasites on our society.
Weren’t useful idiots further down the chain of command not so long ago? Now they’re in charge !!!
Kerrry, a socialist? Are you living in a tree? Kerry is a miserable destabilizing Hegelian termite, Skull and Bones putative world ruler, the arrogant Kerry, just like the many Bushes and other entitled parasites in this country who have been tapped in their senior year at Yale to become one of the puppet masters.. They have all sworn allegiance to a foreign philosophy belonging to one Prof. Wlhelm Wundt and a few enterprising Americans brought this philosophy here to enslave America and have done a pretty good job.The Dewey system and ‘educational’ philosophy came from this.They would turn all of us into cogs in the great wheel.
(In French Accent) You stupeed Americain don’t you eefen know dat we Fronch beat da living crap out of our students during de 70s and built nuclear power plants all over de playce! Global warming! We laugh in da face of Global warming! Pttuey!
Sorry for the horrible stereotype, but Kerry must really be as dumb as he looks if he thinks the French aren’t selling this message for National advantage.
@Goldie – as a representative of the French, I will say you do not need to apologize for reality.
“Hi Barack? […] Yeah, it went really well. The French agreed to everything.”
[…] “What? Ah – no. They said speak to the Germans. They have no money.”
“But the good news is we got the whole thing on TV.”
Oh! I get it.
It’s not a wine pogram, it’s a cheesy pogram……….right? Wait! Wait! That would be a gluten pogram etc. et al…………
For a moment there I thought I missed something
harkin says:
May 14, 2014 at 12:05 pm
In the old days the French would just drop their guns, grab their ankles and hope the UK/USA would clean up the mess before too many Frenchies suffered.
The times change but the cowardice remains the same.
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It is true that the American intervention was needed to ensure victory in WW I, but the French fought hard from the beginning to the end and suffered immense losses. It is also true that their resistance collapsed rapidly in WW II, but this was not due to cowardice but to inept strategic planning and poor commanding. In these faults and failures, they were joined by the British, who were spared the same fate not by superior bravery but only by the Channel.
Since de Gaulle’s name came up in this thread, It also bears mention that de Gaulle himself was a notable strategic thinker who, before WW II, had vehemently advocated the same Blitzkrieg strategies that were put into practice by the Germans under Guderian. De Gaulle, and similarly Liddell Hart in Britain, had had the right ideas but simply couldn’t get through the ossified layers of the military establishment. Ironically, Guderian didn’t face this problem, since the German army had been all but disbanded in the treaty of Versailles.
My German ancestors fought in both world wars. None of them ever commented slightingly about the bravery of the enemy, French or otherwise. The cowardice of the French is a legend born from shameful ignorance.
This is an easy critique. France is troling for dollars. Plain and simple. So. How much money ARE we giving France?
Let’s be exact here. I agree the Michael about the legend. The bravery of the French Underground, and their extreme sacrifices paid, should be remembered always.
ITS THE POLITICAL CLIMATE, STUPID!
500 hundred days??? They are talking about the POLITICAL CLIMATE. At first glance it seems that the message is that the lefties have 500 days in which to pass laws and regulations that institutionalize global warming. Its a “do or die” situation for them. They either make global warming the law of the land (or more correctly the law of the world) or the political scam fails.
And they can’t. The political climate has been shifting for at least the last five years — and the smart ones have known it! Yet, there was still plenty of political advantage to be sucked out of global warming — but now they are hearing the first gurgles of the giant flushing sound that is going to send global warming (and all its namesakes) down into the sewers.
So whats up? This is not a real call for political action — rather it is a warning to insiders that it is time to jump ship. The smartest rats will hear the real message and be jumping off the quickest. The dumb rats will still go on ranting about global warming providing cover as the ship goes down.
Meanwhile, the smart rats, while the dumb rats continued their rants, will have found a safe hole into which to crawl. Later the smart rats will not open their holes to the dumb rats — the dumb rats becoming a big part of the smart rats’ disguise. Hiding is so much easier when public attention is focused elsewhere — on someone else.
(Woe onto them! The climate scientists who pimped their science and pumped up global warming are the ideal “scaperats”. There will be no political protection for them! The smartest rats will actually help prosecute them!)
The political sky is falling! That’s what this 500 days statement really says. And the smart rats better run!
Eugene WR Gallun
Gordon Brown October 2009 : “we have 50 days to save the world”.
I’m not sure what is worse. The blatant stupidity …. Or the fact that these guys actually seem to believe what they say.
500 days to the 21st birthday party- book your seats now; Paypal accepted.
harkin says:
May 14, 2014 at 12:05 pm
In the old days the French would just drop their guns, grab their ankles and hope the UK/USA would clean up the mess before too many Frenchies suffered.
The times change but the cowardice remains the same.
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What an idiotic comment, is there some kind of contest going on ?
In 500 days, France plans on offering its unconditional surrender to any nation who will support them and their unions, 30 hr work weeks, August off paid of course, and 30 days vacation in the other 11 months.
What’s he going on about – we’ve got until July, 2017 to save the planet? That other mental midget Prince Charles said so:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jul/13/in-eight-years-quoth-the-prince/?page=all
A very good read – and you’ll see why when you get to the bottom and see who authored it. Definitely worth a bump.
Obama has around 500 days until he becomes a lame duck. About 500 days to fulfill his promise to make power costs skyrocket. Perhaps that’s where the 500 day deadline came from?
In related wackiness walk-backs, Gov Moonbeam retracts his ludicrous statements on LAX and SFO.
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-brown-lax-remarks-20140514-story.html
An aide to Jerry Brown confirmed Wednesday that the governor was wrong when he said global warming would eventually cause rising seawater to inundate Los Angeles International Airport.
Citing new studies, Brown called attention to the global warming issue on Tuesday, saying a predicted 4-foot rise in sea level within the next 200 years could force the relocation of LAX at a cost of billions of dollars.
Monsieur Fabius is wrong about the 500 days . Prince Charles said in The Independant on July 9, 2009 that he had carefully calculated that we had only 96 months to save the planet from disaster . We only need to start worrying about July 8, 2017.
If Russia cuts off gas to Ukraine and most of europe then we are all saved…. But then, R Hunter Biden came to the rescue.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-05-13/farce-complete-joe-bidens-son-joins-board-largest-ukraine-gas-producer
Now we are all doomed.
It is said that the french eat frogs and snails, so folks, don’t worry. Perhaps that works with plonk in abundance only, but the time comes that the sobriety of truth will enlighten even the most obstinate frenchman.
It is simply 500 days to propagandize the public with a “we are doomed story” over every drop of rain, puff of wind, or drop of rain that fails to fall, until the public humbly accepts every proposal to acquiesce to their power plots and money grabs.
I think we now only have 498 days left. Oh well.
Isn’t it roughly 545 until the next Presidential election in the US?