Essay by Eric Worrall
COP27 will be unusually quiet, because the local protestors who usually show up to such events will likely all be in jail.
Egypt to Host Big U.N. Climate Summit While Muzzling Environmental Activists
COP27 will put Biden’s human rights agenda on a collision course with his climate change agenda.
By Robbie Gramer, a diplomacy and national security reporter at Foreign Policy.
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SEPTEMBER 14, 2022, 3:04 PM
In the run-up to hosting a major U.N. climate summit in November, Egypt has publicly touted its commitment to curb carbon emissions and framed itself as a leader in supporting the developing world’s adaptation to new climate shocks. But behind the scenes, the Egyptian government has cracked down on environmental activists in the country through harassment, intimidation, and arrests, according to interviews with environmental experts and a new report from an international human rights watchdog.
Egypt’s role as the host of the 27th U.N. Climate Change Conference, or COP27, is expected to shed fresh light on President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s widespread crackdown on the country’s civil society, including environmental advocates, posing a vexing foreign-policy challenge for major democratic powers seeking to advance ambitious climate goals even if it means cooperating with some of the world’s most repressive autocratic regimes. For U.S. President Joe Biden, the upcoming COP27 summit puts his human rights policy on a possible collision course with his climate policy.
“There’s this underlying tension between two supposedly different realms: human rights on one side and robust climate action on the other side,” said Richard Pearshouse, the director of environment and human rights at Human Rights Watch (HRW), an advocacy group. “Now we’re seeing that tension really play out.”
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HRW released a new report this week accusing the Egyptian government of “severely curtail[ing]” environmental groups’ abilities to do their job, through harassment, arrests, and intimidation, forcing some activists to flee the country. Other environmental advocacy groups voiced concern that the Egyptian government is limiting the number of civil society groups that will be allowed to attend COP27 and tightly controlling planned protests, relegating only limited demonstrations in a cordoned-off area on the margins of the conference, which will be held in Sharm el-Sheikh on Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula from Nov. 6 to 18.
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Read more: https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/09/14/egypt-cop27-crackdown-environmental-activists-united-nations-climate-change/
The cited Human Rights Watch Report goes into further detail;
Egypt: Government Undermining Environmental Groups
COP27 Countries Should Press Cairo to End Restrictions, Enable Participation
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“The Egyptian government has imposed arbitrary funding, research, and registration obstacles that have debilitated local environmental groups, forcing some activists into exile and others to steer clear of important work,” said Richard Pearshouse, environment director at Human Rights Watch. “The government should immediately lift its onerous restrictions on independent nongovernmental organizations, including environmental groups.”
In June, Human Rights Watch interviewed 13 activists, academics, scientists, and journalists working on environmental issues in Egypt. All have been involved in promoting, advocating for, and working on climate action in some capacity. Some currently work for nongovernmental groups. Others who did stopped for safety or security reasons or left the country. They spoke on the condition of anonymity for security reasons. Six other people declined to be interviewed, variously citing security concerns or that government restrictions had forced them to stop their environmental work.
Those interviewed described a sharp reduction in the space for independent environment and climate work since President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s government took office in 2014. They described harassment and intimidation tactics, including arrests and difficulties travelling, creating a general atmosphere of fear. These experiences mirror similar tactics pursued by Egyptian authorities against independent local and international groups more generally since 2014 as part of a relentless crackdown on civil society.
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Others described being repeatedly held up for security checks and questioning at Cairo airport upon leaving or arriving, and sometimes prevented from leaving the country. One person described the harassment of their partners in the Egyptians Against Coal campaign, a popular but ultimately unsuccessful movement that emerged in response to the government’s drive to reintroduce coal to power cement factories from 2013.
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Read more: https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/09/12/egypt-government-undermining-environmental-groups
Well I’m shocked – who could have predicted a military dictator with a vile human rights record would arrest people who might say embarrassing things about government policy, ahead of hosting a big international climate conference?
Let us hope President Biden stays true to his public policy of standing up for human rights, and finds time to draft a diplomatic letter to Egypt to protest the arrest and intimidation of local climate and environmental activists, in between Biden’s diplomatic missions to Saudi, Iran and Venezuela to beg for more oil.
While Egypt still produces oil, I doubt Biden will say a word. On an unrelated note, I hope Greta will be attending COP27!
I was kind of hoping that Peter Kalmus would glue himself to nether regions of the Sphinx.
Nether regions of the Sphinx? The sphinxter?
Sorry, couldn’t resist.
Regards,
Bob
+11!
Can’t stop laughing!
I’m laughing out loud !
Unfortunately acetone is made from propylene in turn from fossil fuels so in the interests of wokeness and non-triggering-
Climate Activists Discover French Police Don’t Use Glue Solvent – Watts Up With That?
Leave the Armstrong Siddeleys out of it.
You mean this Greta, I presume.
No, I think he means this Greta
In Bristol, at her emerging-pandemic rally, she lectured the crowd in front of a solar panel that was pointing in the wrong direction to see the Sun. You couldn’t tell because of the thick cloud that day. For some reason, the PA system still worked.
Middle Eastern military government blocks protesters.
News at 11.
Biden couldn’t draft a sentence, let alone a diplomatic letter.
There is a stimulant drug called Ritalin, massive doses of which can apparently bring a person suffering dementia back into clarity for a few hours. It’s not usually prescribed because of its nasty side effects, it can cause paranoia and psychosis.
Not sure why I thought of that just now…
Chiming in only because my significant other was diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) 4 years ago at the Cleveland Clinic here, and it has progressed to cognitive impairment now (not yet severe). Using the Montreal Assessment protocol, 26-30 is normal (30 is ‘perfect’). 25 and below is MCI, 20 and below is CI, and below 15 is severe CI. She is in the treatment hands of both a psychiatrist and a neurologist, the best money can buy here in Broward County. She is on two prescription drugs for anxiety disorder, but none for CI because none exist.
Ritalin can alleviate symptomatic apathy in the cognitively impaired. Biden may be taking it since he frequently displays flashes of anger, the opposite of apathy. But Ritalin has NO clinical evidence (yet) that it can alleviate (even briefly) the underlying cognitive impairment—no matter the underlying impairment cause. There are several, including vascular dementia (multiple ministrokes), Lewy Body dementia (Robin Williams), and Alzheimers (Ronald Reagan). (Hers was, at least originally, clearly sudden onset from a severe PTSD form of anxiety disorder from nearly dying of anaphylactic shock. Each main drug works for 2-3 years, then stops. We are on main drug number 4.)
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmed.2021.594228/full
There are indications Ritalin can also improve memory in elderly cognitively impaired patients.
The dose given in the study was 10x the dose normally given for ADHD. A significant number of patients suffered adverse side effects.
So sorry about your wife.
I detest when people accuse others, including Biden, of suffering from such a distressing condition.
I lost my Mother in Law to Dementia of an unspecified type. I knew her longer than I knew my own mother, and she loved me like her own son.
A kinder, more intelligent and wiser woman I couldn’t have ever hoped to have met other than my own, taken by a dreadful condition no one deserves to suffer from.
My heart goes out to you and your partner.
It isn’t an accusation. No one is faulting them for their condition, simply describing it.
HotScot, I’m sorry about your mother. But given some of Biden’s incoherent speeches, speculation about his mental state IMO is warranted.
Biden has always been an idiot. Look back at his performances over the years.
Perhaps he has just got better at being an idiot with all those years of practice?
true I was stunned to see how incoherent he was decades ago, hes just soooo much worse now
I would not use the word “accuse” there, HotScot. Dementia is a condition that at least most sufferers haven’t done anything to bring on, it is no fault of their own.
I would also note that, if Biden is not suffering from dementia, the only possible reason for his behavior is that, from his very roots, he is a vicious, nasty, evil bastard.
Saying that he has dementia is being charitable.
I’d agree with that wholeheartedly. Nothing has changed over the years, including his ability to give a speech.
Considering his well-known history, the fact that the DNC ran him for president, and managed to get him elected, despite not really actively campaigning, says a lot about the power of ‘The Swamp.’
And US oligarchs in control of FB, Twitter, U Tube, Washington Compost, NY Slimes, CNN, etc.
Praying for you both, Mr. Istvan. 😥
Thanks, Janice. We have a few good days and then a lot of bad days. But she remains my significant other.
(Decode. We are both divorced. She was a very religiously observant Catholic. I was Lutheran. So if we had gotten married, she would no longer have been allowed to serve Communion at her long time church. So, thanks to Florida laws, we just ididn’t.
Does make estate planning more complicated and much more expensive. We can afford it.
So sorry…. (about the bad days). Adam and Eve weren’t married, de jure, either. But, in God’s eyes, they were “one.” Just as you and she are.
Take care.
After 22 years together,we sure hope so. Tyx.
my sympathy to you both its a hard road to travel
risking being annoying
coconut oil is spoken of as having been useful to some
Stupidest comment I have ever seen you make Eric.
See reply to Rud, I wasn’t talking out of my @rse.
Your reply to Rud was about dementia’s response to a specific drug. Of that there is little doubt however, you are making an assumption Biden is suffering from the condition.
Whilst I agree his cognitive and physical abilities are not good, they are consistent with many 80 years olds (confusion and shuffling), it does not mean he’s suffering from dementia.
Id argue that he IS and the avoidance of the testing that his party forced Trump to do suggests they damned well know it too
There IS a reason the WH didn’t give the press the ability t question his official physician.
When TRUMP! was in office the press demanded to question his official physician and the questions they asked were ridiculous.
We in the US may well have a shepherded president who is being controlled by his staff. He has mentioned, more than once, that his staff would not like him taking more questions, etc, that he will get in “trouble”.
The citizens of the US deserve to know what drugs Brandon is taking.
Hot Scot. If someone in their 80’s or 90’s or ANY age is “confused,” it is because they are impaired. This is NOT a normal characteristic of aging.
MCI [Mild Cognitive Impairment] is NOT the same as normal aging.
Mayo Clinic
https://connect.mayoclinic.org/blog/living-with-mild-cognitive-impairment-mci/newsfeed-post/what-is-mild-cognitive-impairment-mci-questions-you-may-have-after-being-diagnosed-with-mc/
Didn’t know it might be Ritalin, but suspected he was on something. The two minutes of hate that he led in Philadelphia was surely not in the realm of logical and uniting.
That might explain Brandon’s angry dystopian #PedoHitler speech…
NEVER underestimate your opponent!
Biden may seem stupid, but he got to be POTUS and, I can say without fear of contradiction, you (collectively) didn’t.
How dumb are you if you condemn Biden as such?
Milo has evidence to back up that assertion, Mr. H. Scot.
While “cognitively impaired” may be the polite way to describe him, “couldn’t draft a sentence” is essentially what that means.
He did not need great intelligence to capture the presidency — just a very good organization to make it happen.
More evidence:
“America in one word:”
And, while, in general, it would be cruel to laugh at Biden, after all the wicked things Biden has done, I have no problem with people laughing at him.
That his FAMILY allows him to make a fool of himself is reprehensible.
I’m happy people are laughing at an old fool, as they were laughing at him as a young fool, but because he’s confused and shuffling, like many 80 year olds, it does not mean he is suffering from dementia.
And, frankly, it does no one any good to believe that because it underestimates and excuses a dangerous, vicious old man.
Joe Biden is definitely a dangerous, vicious man and has been all his life.
And people dismiss him as demented at their peril.
We dismiss him as being too impaired to be dangerous. We do not dismiss those who are actually making the decisions and telling him what to say.
Hot Scot:
Apparently, your experience with people in their 80’s and 90’s has been much different than mine.
The ONLY elderly people I have known (and, through church, chorale, family, profession, the general public, and taking animal shelter dogs and puppies to nursing homes for years, I have known many) who are “confused” were/are suffering from a disease, e.g., Altzheimer’s.
Meaningful cognitive impairment does not happen to most older people. That is a myth.
And I am not, not for many years, yet, personally biased to assert the above.
Finally, a friend of mine, a case manager, assesses the cognitive abilities of seniors in our community to determine what services/treatment they need. She said that Biden is clearly suffering from some form of enduring, persistent, dementia.
He is also a wicked man.
As an old man I find the actions of his wife, family, political colleagues despicable in pushing Biden into this situation. They should have let him retire to a quiet place for the remainder of his life but instead they put their own ambitions and interests first.
^ yes.
He’s an old man, your video is certainly indicative of that, but no one can say he’s suffering from dementia (Alzheimer’s disease etc.) without a formal diagnosis.
The fact is, Biden has always been an idiot. Even Obama said “Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to f*ck things up” in 2020. He also said “And you know who really doesn’t have it? Joe Biden.”
Obama worked with Joe for years, he didn’t want him to be POTUS. Don’t you think that unscrupulous fokker would have blown the whistle had he been able to?
Obama didn’t want Joe to run because he’s an idiot, not because he was demented.
I wonder if the biggest problem with Biden is that he is like a puppet with someone behind the scenes pulling the strings? Who writes his speeches and decides the message he should be sending out to the American public? Perhaps these are not even elected representatives and the voters should know what is going on. I blame Republicans as much as Democrats for the mess and the failure to put out a clear and concise set of policies that the public can compare and contrast.
Don’t blame his speechwriters, Joe knows what he’s saying and doing.
Look at him ranting and shaking his fists, this is a man drunk on power, echoes of hitler who was also dismissed as a fanatic by many.
Nor can we look to history to understand what he’s doing, or what’s going on in the world. As usual, the trap of socialism is always sprung in unexpected ways.
By any conventional measure the world economy should have collapsed by now. It hasn’t and it’s left financial guru’s scratching their heads.
Something few people understand is going on and it’s likely a form of socialism no one has ever seen before.
The MSM was captured many years ago, the first target of any despot, but this time there was no ground war mounted, it’s all been a social war. The great march through the institutions has been largely successful; the seats of learning have been captured, the financial institutions tee’d up (e.g. Blackrock and all the others with their ESG compliance regulations and banks with their digital money systems ready to be switched on) local governments etc. all seized by the left.
All we’re waiting for is the switch to be flipped for a bloodless western descent into totalitarianism.
“Look at him ranting and shaking his fists, this is a man drunk on power, echoes of hitler who was also (using drugs to enhance his short term cognitave abilities, and) dismissed as a fanatic by many.”
This psychiatrist says Biden is gravely impaired:
“Norwegian psychiatrist Fred Heggen claims that Joe Biden is suffering from “dementia” ***
Heggen, [ ] a medical director at the Lovisenberg Diaconal Hospital’s psychiatric clinic in Oslo, says the presidential candidate is suffering from obvious cognitive failure. ***
The psychiatrist asserts that Biden’s behavior at campaign events and debates over the past few moths, characterized by forgetfulness, mischief, confusions, gaffes, and aggression, is indicative of someone who is beginning to struggle to perform basic mental functions.
… Everyone who has had experience with people with dementia knows that a deterioration can come quickly and have a particularly dramatic course, Heggen wrote.
The psychiatrist suggested that Biden’s campaign staff were aware of his limitations and that this is why he is only rarely presented for short speeches and is heavily screened from the public and the media. ***
(Source: Norwegian Psychiatrist Claims Joe Biden is Suffering From “Dementia,” Paul J. Watson, April 23, 2020https://conservative-headlines.org/norwegian-psychiatrist-claims-joe-biden-is-suffering-from-dementia/ )
And that was over 5 years ago. It is getting worse (as you can see from video evidence).
And, regardless of whether it is dementia caused by his neurosurgeries or by Altzheimer’s or by another cause or combination of causes, he is seriously cognitively impaired.
No one voted FOR Biden, they voted against Trump.
I didn’t say anyone voted for Biden.
that was money and the machine
hes the puppet
I don’t care if Biden has dementia or is clinically insane or not. Neither he nor Trump disserve to be President of the great USA. It is a disgrace to good democracy that either of them was able to buy the position, surely there are better candidates out there that can represent the free world against predators such as China and Russia than these divisive septuagenarians, managed or not.
Speaking of “drafting”, I don’t remember seeing Joe in Saigon, DaNang or Hue.
No, Joe wasn’t in Vietnam, he was in the U.S. Congress at the time voting to cut off military aid to South Vietnam and to remove all the American troops that were there.
We now know how all that worked out. Just like the disaster in Afghanistan. Joe Biden is real good at throwing millions of innocent people to the wolves.
Biden has caused the death and displacement of literally tens of millions of people over his political lifetime. We are all in danger while he is in power. This should be obvious to those paying attention.
Joe Biden is without a doubt, the worst president in the history of the United States, and second place is not even close.
Let’s fervently hope that the upcoming November elections free us from this dangerous fool.
Those who nominated and voted for Biden should accept the blame. What I find most shocking is that the Democrats could not find a younger and astute person to run for president. In a country of 330 million I am sure there must be a dozen or more who would make excellent leaders. Perhaps someone like that would have been too independent of the political establishment? That is why I detest politics although recognize our need of a government.
That’s what he has all the people behind the scenes for. He is, after all, a shadow puppet.
maybe he needs a good astrologer like reagan had to get him thru his presidency with alzheimer’s
Perhaps the U.K. could import a few Egyptians to assist in managing their XR problem
All they need is a dinghy, a mobile phone from some lefty-liberal-Guardianista ‘refugee’ charity so they can call out the lifeboat to pick them up mid Channel, who will oblige hopefully not at the expense of somebody having a real emergency, and job’s a goodun.
They don’t even need that – get the dinghy, the French will escort them half way and probably call the UK lifeboat as well if you ask them nicely.
Hey Greta, Joe Bidet, John Kerry, Leo Dicaprio, RFK Jr, Andy Dessler, Mikey Mann, etc ad infinitum as well as our resident trolls. Here’s your chance to show the world how seriously you take the climate crisis. Go to Egypt and tell us how you really feel.
I think Egypt is doing the right thing. “environmental groups” shouldn’t be allowed “to do their job, through harassment and intimidation,”
Protest is one thing, but since most of these so-called environmental groups use harrassment and intimidation to do their alleged jobs, it is perfectly correct to curtail them.
Give free tickets to Egypt to all of the XR and milk/food supply disrupters.
Kip:
I read that sentence differently.
Alan ==> Well, sloppy English….I think my interpretation is the better….far closer to reality.
Watch the UK carefully over the coming two years, and the media’s coverage of anti fracking campaigners. Particularly the BBC.
I suspect the BBC climate dogs will be called off somewhat by a government that ultimately holds the purse strings.
Coverage of climate activist events like Extinction Rebellion may not be quite what they demanded in the past.
I’d like to see the BBC go hog wild on their coverage. Maybe the parliament will finally pull their license fee and get rid of their virtual monopoly over the airwaves.
It doesn’t help that most of their presenters when I lived there (2000-2003) were dumber than a post. Even the comedy programs were unwatchable.
Parliament will never get rid of the BBC. Regardless of what anyone claims, it’s the propaganda arm of the government.
It might be tweaked and the licence fee presented in a different way, but it’s far too useful to destroy.
I hope some of the activist who block traffic and glue themselves to buildings show up so they can learn from a contrasting experience just how tolerant we have all been with their antics.
Sharia Law might just Unhand Them for glueing themselves
They should glue themselves to The Great Pyramid, with a permanent adhesive….
I’ll supply the quick set epoxy!
Don’t give them ideas – you remember the morons that damaged the Nazca lines for an activist publicity stunt? Let them glue themselves to an oil tanker heading for, say, China or Korea if they want to but leave off the archaeology.
This is great, Maybe we should have COP28 in Iran, then COP29 in North Korea and all the rest of COP meetings in other dictatorships around the world.
I agree. I hope NO one writes to complain. Those spreading lies and especially those using the obnoxious tactics of those whining about Egypt constructively banning them SHOULD be stopped.
Schadenfreude
Best there is!
Which human rights did Biden stand up for and where??
*Analysis of booster shots identified the fact that no two shots were the same, i.e. the mRNA strand types and amounts were different.
Amen!
Looks to me like both Brandon & Egypt are just doing the regulation Simon
Jenkins (The Grauniad) thinks is needed for “free speech to thrive”!
Leftists will defend to the death your right to say whatever they tell you to say.
Leftists will defend to the death your right to say whatever they tell you to say.
_______________________________________
Uhm, I don’t think that’s the way it goes, try this:
You may not agree with me, but I will defend to
your death my right to disagree. Berynn Schwerdt
Festus, (Ken Curtis), passed away in 1991. Otherwise he’d sue for associating his face with such sordid despotic claims.
I see that as a questioning look, such as “this guy is crazy.”
When you read about somebody looking ‘askance’, that’s it, John. That’s the look right there.
“Which human rights did Biden stand up for and where??”
Good question.
Biden has fooled somebody, hasn’t he.
Pretty much – the only piece I can find about him ever doing so (regarding Uyghurs in China) was branded disinformation by China who say that Biden has never as much as mentioned it to them. It wouldn’t surprise me to learn that Biden is trying to fool everyone whilst doing bugger all.
You left off the IRS.
human rights on one side and robust climate action on the other side,”
Well, to those whose travels are blocked and windows are broken and whose premises are spray-painted by those oh-so-robust climate actions, an ‘activist’ or two in the slammer may actually represent joy to the world.
I say wherever in the world they glue themselves to the road, put a barrier around them and leave them there !
i agree with leaving them there. Not sure I agree with the barriers though.
Awww… just put an orange barrel over them.
Priceless, MarkW!
The drivers there won’t even slow down so the protesters will simply be messy speed bumps.
Or maybe run a steam rler through and leave the lines as is.
The crows will clean up…
THAT’S what we WOULD be singing. 🙂
Those ol’ hippies had some great tunes.
“Jooooooyyyyy to the world!”
Sorry, but when it comes to Biden, all hope is gone..
Indeed, it is. Or as famous dude said some time ago,
“Abandon all hope ye who enter here’
Dante’s Divine Comedy
COP27? How many more of these pointless shrimp-fests will we have to endure? Wake me for COP 42.
They will keep doing them until the world submits and declares the UN the world overlord and all people bow to the big brother state.
COP 42 will be the final shrimp-fest – we’ll already have the answer to life, the universe and everything
Isn’t 42 the Universal Answer?
Let’s hope they hold the next one in North Korea
Serge, PERFECT!
I would recommend that climate activists and protesters should think long and hard before contemplating protesting at COP[OUT]27 lest they find out what the inside of Egyptian prisons are like and how they operate.
Reminds me of the motion picture Midnight Express which is based on a true story. In the film, an American is caught trying to leave Turkey with illegal drugs on his person. He is arrested and has a harrowing experience inside of a Turkish prison before escaping when the opportunity to do so presented itself by chance.
A good movie for movie buffs out there who haven’t seen it yet.
I found it quite distressing.
Prison clearly doesn’t work under conventional conditions because it requires control, which is the very thing criminals rebel against.
Prisoners enter prison, they are subjected to much harsher control than in the community, then are released into a community that’s a cakewalk to them.
How about we change the dynamics slightly. We create free prisons. No rules, allow prisoners to live as they wish. No guards other than to patrol the prison boundaries.
Prisoners are given a financial budget. Other than that they can do what they want. They can order food and drugs as they wish. They can murder and kill each other if they wish. they have complete freedom to do as they wish within their own budget.
Lets see what emerges and we might have a solution to society at large.
You obviously hate the idea of rehabilitation
Zig Zag, while I agree with you about rehabilitation, the problem is that the US Prison system seems to hate the idea of rehabilitation, too and, in reality, pretty much operates as HotScot describes.
I agree, the USA penal system is atrocious. Most of the developed world do it much better.
I wholeheartedly support rehabilitation, but prison is not a suitable environment for it. I’m an ex cop, I have seen prisoners released into the very environment that formed them in the first place. They have no chance of getting out the cycle of reoffending.
I have seen prisoners released then commit a crime on the same day so they can be locked up again.
Rehabilitation should be a secondary and completely separate part from a prison environment. By all means make terms shorter and harsher, prisons should be feared, then provide sufficient resources to ensure they are properly rehabilitated out-with the prison.
Prisons are occupied predominantly by reoffenders. That should tell us all we need to know.
Yes – they’re being let out too soon.
Yep, someone let them out to reoffend.
In the US, especially, we need MANY MORE prisons, and to end the current corrosive welfare system that has created the millions of criminals created by the “US government is your daddy” system that funded them to be raised in households without fathers.
All welfare recipients MUST be DNA tested so that when a 14 YO girl has a baby the FATHER can be prosecuted for the rape. Many of those fathers are from the same welfare system, and if not, probably have or will have contact with law enforcement.
This alone would clear much of the scum committing so many of our violent crimes out of the civil society..
What will happen is that one prisoner will emerge as the boss and he will organize all the other prisoners into his gang. Those who agree to follow him live, those who don’t, suffer. And once their sentences are up, they will move their organization out into the rest of the society.
You imagine that’s not happening right now?
Many British prisons right now are hives of Muslim indoctrination and conversion. People emerging radicalised and ready to die for Allah.
AND law enforcement wants to add productive citizens to the prisons for daring to speak bad words. They even are tracking those who have not actually committed a “hate” offence but have professed views that are “leaning” that way.
The UK will need to clear out the violent criminals to provide space for these though criminals.
HotScot,
Prisoners are given a financial budget.
You are rewarding criminal behavior by giving them a budget. If I remember my college course in psychology correctly, rewarding any behavior is going to encourage more and more of that behavior. Nothing will change.
When they are released, you are simply moving the criminal behavior to the outside world, if you release them at all.
CD, agree but that is exactly what our Prison system seems to do to include realeasing prisoner and their criminal behavior back into the outside world.
100%.
What do you think prisoners are given right now but a budget, it’s just managed for them.
I think you should reexamine your psychology orthodoxy because so far, it’s not working no matter how good the psychologists tell us their methods are.
Prisons are getting fuller and prisoners released early to make room for new ones.
Prisons should be the most terrifying place anyone could imagine, that way they might not be so careless as to be sent to one.
“Prisoners are given a financial budget. Other than that they can do what they want. They can order food and drugs as they wish. They can murder and kill each other if they wish. they have complete freedom to do as they wish within their own budget.”
with all due respect, you just described dem controlled inner cities in the u.s.
Incarcerating a White Collar ‘creative’ accountant with a psychotic killer is akin to giving a death sentence to the one good at juggling books. Society has a responsibility to protect the weaker or less aggressive criminals who are serving a short sentence for a relatively minor crime. What would come out of your ‘solution’ would be survival of the experienced killers.
‘based on’ a true story…
Much of the film was just made up, including the escape. It wasn’t chance, they bribed a guard to let him have it off with his wife (or girlfriend?) in a car, and they just drove away. Obviously that wasn’t exciting enough for a film.
Reading is usually better than watching adulterated films.
Yes Zig Zag, most of the film is fictionalized. I would probably have been better to say that the film was inspired by the true story of William Hayes rather than based on it. Hayes’ experience gave the filmmakers the idea for the film.
Midnight Express, very dark movie, one of my favourites.
Even without activist protesters, COP27 is going to be ‘fun’. By then it will be winter in Northern Europe, with people starting to freeze from lack of natural gas.
Being held in a developing country, the tier 2 Paris nations will be demanding their $100 billion per year climate reparations that tier 1 in BBB/GND induced recessions cannot afford. And since the site is a luxury resort area, we will also be treated to all the delegates enjoying all the sunny luxuries—unlike dour Glasgow last year.
Correct — it is a Party of the Councils.
The only issue is I never figured out how to get a pre-paid invitation.
It is very hard for me to show sympathy or feel sorry for protesters. Black Lives Matter and Antifa are called protesters.
Hmmmm!!!
I vaguely remember a SciFi show, Outer Limits?, where in one episode the penalty for any infraction, even disobeying a “Don’t Walk on the Grass” sign, was death. There were no repeat offenders.
One of the early Star Trek: Next Generation episodes had such a plot.
Agreed.
They’ll like this. All future COP events will be held in totalitarian countries where peasants are not allowed to bother the elites.
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They will be taking notes, totalitarian is their goal for the rest of us.
Ah, Shoki, thanks. I hadn’t though of that. That explains a lot, including the COP members total lack of criticism for the biggest emitter of CO2 and real pollution on Planet Earth, China.
Better to be safe than to let them deface archeological sites for their agenda statements.
Seriously.
Dang, I was hoping for a road blockage protest in central Cairo.
It’s possible greenpiss will do something, remember that time they tried to occupy a Russian oil rig – even crazier than taking on Egypt. Having said that they were treated gently by Russian standards, they were kept separate from the rest of the Siberian prison population, who were apparently keen to discuss the attack on the rig.
Have you seen traffic in central Cairo? No one would notice the difference.
Thump! Thump!
“What was that?”
“I dunno. We don’t have a flat, so it wasn’t anything serious.”
“But the screech?!?”
“Yeah. Gotta get the brakes checked. They’ve been squealing a lot lately.”
Having fairly recently been to Egypt, this doesn’t surprise me in the least. The last thing on the minds of those struggling in marginal economies is their “carbon footprint”. Even in Cairo they still do open air burning of garbage to try to dispose of their waste. That’s if anyone even bothers to gather together their garbage into one place so that it can be disposed of. Not really top-of-mind for the people there.
Protesting, on the other hand, that’s not something they tolerate much of.
I do not doubt what you say about Egypt is true, Tom B, so what’s in the charade of their leaders pretending to be concerned about CC? I suspect it is, as usual and everywhere else, money and power if leaders play nice with the CAGW bigwigs, but it would be interesting to have your perpective since you were there recently.
Did they actually express any concern? Or are they just “hosting” the actual “charade?”
Open air burning is probably better than what Haiti does. Someone put a GPS tracker on a garbage pile, the tracker turned up on another garbage pile – the garbage collectors were just moving it around.
Is that a version of Keynesian Economic Theory?
Biden’s human right course is all about suppression of ideas !
Why would he be concerned. !
“For U.S. President Joe Biden, the upcoming COP27 summit puts his human rights policy on a possible collision course with his climate policy.”
I’m sorry Mr. Gramer but I was unaware Joe Biden has a human right policy. I do wish you had summarized it, or posted a link to it.
Whatever Joe Biden’s human rights policy is, he certainly does not appear to be applying itI to his own Administration, nor to its Law Enforcement and DOJ agencies, nor to any of its policies in the USA, assuming it has anything to do with human rights, of course, which since I don’t know what it is, I cannot evaluate it.
So far, it seems to be missing in action in the US, so I would not be surprised to see Biden ignore it around the world. After all, this is the same guy who plans to give Iran one trillion dollars of US taxpayer money and let them get nukes. I can’t think of a more egregious abuse of human rights than starting WWIII.
“After all, this is the same guy who plans to give Iran one trillion dollars of US taxpayer money and let them get nukes. I can’t think of a more egregious abuse of human rights than starting WWIII.”
What rational person would think it is a good idea to give religious fanatics who are State sponsors of terrorism, access to billions of dollars and nuclear weapons? The answer is no rational person would do such a thing.
But Joe Biden and Barack Obama will. They are eager to do such a thing. Why? Why are Obama and Biden enamoured with Iranian religious fanatics to the point that they would make them a nuclear power and certainly spawn a war in the Middle East as a result, as the Israelis and allies move to pre-empt the Mad Mullahs nuclear war dreams?
This is one of the most stupid, dangerous moves the Obama-Biden Cabal have made. It doesn’t make any sense. It only helps Iranian religious fanatics who think nothing of murdering innocent people. And you are going to give them access to nuclear weapons? How crazy are you?
Obama and Biden are guaranteeing a war in the Middle East in the very near future by bending their knee to Iranian religious fanatics. Perhaps Obama is secretly a religious fanatic that hates the United States, like the Mad Mullahs of Iran and is trying to help them out. That might explain his part. And Joe, well, he’s just going along with the Obama program because he’s too stupid to know any better, and all his current advisors are former Obama minions.
It doesn’t make sense to give the Mad Mullahs of Iran nuclear weapons, yet that’s what Obama and Biden are aiming to do.
What a disaster Biden’s presidency is!
For some reason, most Jewish leaders like to back the people, who back the people who want to kill all the Jews.
That is strange, isn’t it.
Iran was on the brink of financial collapse when Obama bailed them out with his “agreement” and cash infusion.
TRUMP! reinstated the restrictions and if he had 4 more years, we would have seen the collapse of their economy.
Instead Brandon has raised the price of oil due to shutting down expansion of US production and his weakness allowing the invasion of Ukraine. And now he intends to, right after the midterm elections, to again sign an “agreement” that will bail them out again.
I’m not sure that we should be criticising these protesters. It is certainly possible that they are protesting about what they consider to be inadequate action against the “dreaded” Climate Change. But isn’t it also possible that they are protesting about the nonsense which most of us here, concerning a non-existent Climate Emergency? Either way, they should be permitted to protest peacefully – isn’t that what we believers in Free Speech would prefer?
Either way, they should be permitted to protest peacefully
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From above:
Egyptian government is limiting the number of civil society groups that will be allowed to attend COP27 and tightly controlling planned protests, relegating only limited demonstrations in a cordoned-off area on the margins of the conference,
Let’s hope that those are “mostly peaceful” limited demonstrations.
For the deep green — Climate “rights” trump human rights every time. Its the joker in the pack…
I’d think that people protesting against the climate agenda would receive similar treatment.
Suppose I’d go there with that banner, very apt for the Egyptian human condition:
We don’t need the UN. We need affordable electricity.
I’d find myself in jail in no time.
Sorry peeps, this is an epic but touches upon what’s being talked about and also upon most of the readership.
Look after yourselves. OK?
Much talk of Biden and Greta..
Let’s start with this:
Headline:”Most Americans Over 50 Suffer Some Type of Joint Pain (Poll)from here
It’s talking about Arthritis, in all its manifestations
Arthritis is an autoimmune disorder – your own body is attacking itself.
Why:
1/ The ‘something else‘ is, in a nut-shell, Oxidative Stress.
That comes from 3 main sources, in order of importance/magnitude:
2/ The protective things are ‘bacteria‘ = bacteria that are/comprise our own personal biome. Generally reckoned to outnumber our own cells by at least a factor of 10.
e.g. Consider just your skin. It is alive/crawling/covered-with bacteria All The Time. Consider a space of one metre all around you, generally reckoned to contain 10’s if not 100’s of trillions of micro-organisms. That is just your own little bubble and there is no escaping it.
Take or do ‘the sniff test’ If that bubble ‘seems OK‘ then it is OK. Nothing in that bubble will hurt you and nothing resident upon you will neither.
(It is why after all, we actually have a Sense Of Smell)
But, if you burst that bubble by/or strenuously wash/clean/sterilise your skin with repeated (daily) bathing/showering and/or the constant use of ‘sanitizers’ – that leaves room for ‘Bad Guy Bacteria’ to get into your bubble and onto your skin.
Normally your immune system would see them and take them out but, if it’s busy elsewhere clearing away all the damage being created by Oxidative Stress, the Bad Guys will gain a foothold.
What damage they will do can only be guessed at and sure as eggs are eggs, once you or your system figures it out, they will adapt and change.
Have any pennies dropped yet concerning the recent episode of ‘the virus that shall not be named‘ – how almost every measure taken to combat it in fact made it worse?
Some parts of us, notably our brains, have their own immune system.
Should anything get in there, that system will work to protect the brain and will do it in ‘different’ or seemingly strange ways.
So it is with sugar, or Glucose (blood) sugar. It is a small molecule, can get and go anywhere it likes and is The Main Source of Oxidative Stress.
How our brain’s immune system works is by trying to physically shield the neurons from the sugar – manifested as ‘Protein Plaque’
Enter Modern Medicine that says ‘Protein Plaque in the brain causes Dementia. Wrong wrong wrong. The plaque is trying to protect, not to damage.
(Likewise plaque on the insides of large arteries)
So, enough pre-amble and back to the top
By age = 50 almost everyone’s immune system is falling apart and attacking them. By age = 60, make that 97%+++
Why, because our immune system is wrecked.
Why is that if not via ‘nutrient deficiency’ – it is not getting the resources it needs to do its job
This is of course, the real actual manifestation of the, as predicted, Mass Starvation and in turn that is a real effect of Soil Erosion.
Then Climate Change is a manifestation of that.
The missing nutrients are not difficult to find nor are they expensive, unless you are really rich and you want them to be expensive. “One Born Every Minute” etc etc
In any case, get some Vitamin C.
If there is anything wrong inside your mouth, fuzzy/furry teeth, wobbly teeth, gappy teeth, receding and bleeding gums, rotten teeth and or masses of expensive dentistry = You Are Borderline Scurvy. period.
Get some Vitamin C and munch down 250mg every couple of hours while you’re awake. Don’t worry, water is genuinely more toxic to us than Vitamin C.
For an experiment, find some water-soluble Zinc. Ideally Sulphate but Citrate will do.
Take a very modest amount (about 2mg actual Zinc metal) in some water and swish it around your mouth.
4 things may happen:
If either #1 or #2 occur, that is = ‘Good’
You are OK for Zinc and just ‘keep on trucking‘
If either #3 or #4 occur (esp #4), buy some more of whatever stuff you used (Citrate is fine and very inexpensive) and help yourself to 30mg Zinc daily.
Once you can taste the stuff, cut back to 15mg daily.
(You recognise the main symptoms of Long (shall not be named)?)
That’s what ‘long covid’ is = Zinc deficiency
To help your heart and brain, do what you can to get enough Magnesium into yourself.
It’s been known for at least the last 100 years, human bodies need and use 10mg of Magnesium, daily and per each kilogram of bodyweight.
To the greater extent, Magnesium is what ‘marbles’ are made of:
As in the saying “Old Joe has lost his marbles”
Also to hold marbles together, Vitamin B.
Find a 1000mg tablet of Vitamin B complex (8 pence each UK price inc tax), split it in half: one bit in the morning and the 2nd half at bedtime
To hold almost everything else together, find some real natural sea-salt or salt taken from inland salt-flats or seas. In this part of the world, Dead Sea salt is epic and…
Do Not Be Afraid Of Using It
Now do we see how Zinc works?
In deficiency we lose our sense of taste so what do we do, we add more salt to our food to get it back.
And if that salt was ‘natural salt’ or Sea Salt as salt always was – it will contain Zinc.
Ain’t that neat?
Yet what Modern Medicine does when it says ‘Avoid Salt’ is beyond bizarre and frankly, those people are homicidal in their actions if not intent.
Simply cut the booze and reduce the carbs as much as you can, try to get below 10% of calories from carbs.
very simple to reduce the carbs, simply gradually introduce yourself to saturated fat and your sugar consumption will gradually fizzle out.
It’s what butter was invented for.
After that, Do Everything You Can To Avoid Glyphosate.
That means almost all French Fries you find in reastaurants and take-aways and also: most all grain products.
Vast acreages of grain are dessicated pre-harvest using Roundup.
It is Real Actual Insanity in action.
It truly is and is powered by nothing other than $$$$$$
Sod the people that eat that shit.
So just don’t eat it.
After that, we all a have a little ‘pica’ inside of us and it will keep you straight thereafter.
‘pica’ = Ye Olde Englishe Worde for Magpie.
Learn to trust yourself.
From the article: “For U.S. President Joe Biden, the upcoming COP27 summit puts his human rights policy on a possible collision course with his climate policy.”
I didn’t know Biden had a human rights policy. Ask the starving people of Afghanistan if they think Biden has a human rights policy.
Biden does whatever it takes to advance the radical Left agenda. Human rights have nothing to do with it or him.
This doesn’t mean that the conference will achieve anything significant, as usual. Didn’t global per capita emissions keep increasing from between the 1st COP conference in 1995 and the 2016 one? And hasn’t the earth’s temperature continued to slowly rise up to today also? Meanwhile last year’s CO2 emissions worldwide reached their highest-ever level as a result of more coal being consumed as part of the economic comeback. This despite the fact that renewables registered their largest historical growth. This tells us one thing: wind and solar still can’t come close to supplanting fossil fuels as main or even significant energy sources. So when in doubt, depend on oil, coal, and natural gas, while COP supporters need to realize that not enough countries are following their suggestions or maybe those suggestions are ineffectual in the first place.