Toppunt van ironie

Reynders, minister van Financiën uit België:

Landen in de eurozone moeten ervoor zorgen dat ze de huidige crisis aangrijpen om de Europese intergratie te versterken

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Uh huh. Een minister van een land dat sinds november 2009 demissionair voorthobbelt, is een grote voorstander van verregaande Europese integratie. Want al lukt het ze maar niet in België om de twee "volkeren" door één deur te laten lopen, Europa-breed is het geen enkel probleem???

Wacht effe. WAT???!!!

"Kern economisch beleid naar EU"

Het kabinet wil een aantal kernbevoegdheden op het gebied van economisch beleid uit handen geven aan de Europese Unie. Het denkt dat de economie in de eurozone alleen kan worden gestabiliseerd door het nemen van fundamentele, verregaande maatregelen.

Samenvattend: Een minderheidsregering draagt bepaalde Nederlandse soevereine bevoegdheden zonder referendum, zonder een enkele volksraadpleging, zonder slag of stoot over aan een nog niet bestaand, geheel ondemocratisch centraal Europees orgaan???!!??

(en in de kranten, artikels over studenten, onthoofdingen, nek bommen, snelweg schutter, en dan dit bericht in een klein hoekje)

Oh nee. Dacht het niet.

Yes.

What they all said!

The biologist, the oil industry and the drowned polar bears

These three really don't mix. With the ice and permafrost melting, the area becomes increasingly attractive to the oil industry and then, strange shit happens.

Five years after publishing what amounts to little more than a scientific note (peer reviewed and administratively approved), one of the scientists who wrote it, is getting hammered.
This complaint has been filed on his behalf by PEER. It looks like a witch hunt, it walks  like a witch hunt, it smells  like a witch hunt (and meanwhile, the projects he's working on -he's one of the main researchers in the field of arctic biology- screech to a halt and become worthless.

Criminal investigators.... you really should read this complaint. it contains some transcripts of the interviews from the investigation. Mind boggling. And this is done with American tax money.
(soon nobody will want to do the research any more)

This article - a scientific note - was published in 2006 by Gleason & Monnett. Both received so much flak from their own department over this, that Gleason decided to up and leave for a lower pay scale elsewhere, So he could work without being harassed. It's a long read but really, everyone should take the time to read through this transcript of the interview investigators had with Gleason.

It's a prime example of ideology in action, bending facts to your own version of events.


Some newspaper articles; key quotes from the second article:

Monnett is overseeing several scientific studies that would affect decisions on permits for oil and gas development, according to PEER Executive Director Jeff Ruch. The group filed a misconduct complaint today against government officials on Monnett’s behalf.

The state of Alaska filed a lawsuit claiming the polar-bear decision would limit resource development and the economy.
A federal judge rejected that challenge last month. The agency’s listing “represents a reasoned exercise” of its discretion based on the facts and the available science in 2008 when it made the determination, U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan in Washington wrote in a 116-page ruling.

President Barack Obama created an interagency working group led by the Interior Department to oversee oil and natural-gas exploration in Alaska. The group will coordinate permit decisions and environmental reviews for onshore and offshore projects, including Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA)’s plan to drill in the Chukchi and Beaufort seas.
“As we go into this period, this critical window where permits are going to be decided, you’ll do it without the benefit” of Monnett’s work

It's not a good time to be a biologist or climatologist or any kind of scientist even remotely connected with climate science!!