An intriguing legal initiative by Volcker, to help block an investigation. By contrast, what legal initiatives has he undertaken – for example in Benon Sevan’s Cyprus – to ensure Sevan complies with as much documentation as is feasible?

You can’t really complain that old media isn’t doing its job when it is an active participant in the scandal. The Sulzbergers and the Grahams are charter members in the Billionaire Boys Club – a nice and tidy group who firmly believe that a New World Order that dispenses with the messy democratic process while continuing to fill their coffers is just the ticket for the future. When the Tides Foundation funds Indymedia and SBL Ltd. purchases the DNC while funding the rabble rousing Kossacks, what institution is left to stand for liberty and free choice?

George Soros, Marc Rich, Maurice Stong Paul Demarais, Patrick Maugein, Paul Martin, Jean Chretien, Jacques Chirac, Kofi Annan, Bernard Schroeder, Teresa Heinz (and her front man), Al Gore and a few hundred others form an affinity group with a common interest. It’s a shame that the interest is in fitting us with serf’s collars. It’s also a shame that the UN has become the tyrants bootmaker under their tutelage.

Hurry up, Roger.

Could never figure out how to send you a “Word” document so finally did a work around. Here is some very prominent people who think that the “Kyoto Protocols” that have been pushed by Mr. Maurice Strong, Kofi Annan’s right hand man until just lately is base of bogus science. Canada just signed on the dotted line for this ‘Protocol’ and the cost overrun is already over $5 Billion Dollars and that was just the first revision, the first month. So here it is, or take a look at http://acepilots.com/unscam/ could be a big one. These are the experts in the field, more names to follow.

Some of the many climate experts who disagree with the science at the heart of

greenhouse gas restriction treaties such as the Kyoto Protocol

Dr. Tim Patterson Professor – Department of Earth Sciences (Paleoclimatology)

Carleton University, Ottawa

Dr. Ian Clark

Professor, Isotope Hydrogeology and Paleoclimatology, Department of Earth Sciences (arctic specialist), University of Ottawa

Dr. Tim Ball Environmental Consultant – 28 years climatology Professor University of Winnipeg

Dr. Madhav Khandekar Environmental Consultant (extreme weather events)

25 years with Environment Canada in Meteorology

Dr. Tad Murty Climate researcher, Natural Resources Institute, University of Manitoba., Editor – “Natural Hazards”. Previously Senior Research Scientist for Fisheries and Oceans Canada; Former Director of the National Tidal Facility of Australia

Dr. Fred Michel Professor – Department of Earth Sciences (Permafrost specialty)

Carleton University, Ottawa

Dr. Sallie Baliunas Astrophysicist – Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Dr. Paul Copper, FRSC Professor – Department of Earth Sciences, Laurentian University, Sudbury

Dr. Vincent Gray Expert reviewer for the IPCC climate reports and author of “The Greenhouse Delusion; a Critique of ‘Climate Change 2001′”, Wellington, New Zeeland

David Nowell Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society, Canadian member and past chairman of the NATO Meteorological Group, Ottawa

Dr. Roy W. Spencer Principal Research Scientist, Earth System Science Center of the University of Alabama in Huntsville

Dr. James O’Brien Robert 0. Lawton Distinguished Professor of Meteorology and Oceanography; Director, Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL

William Kininmonth Managing Director, Australasian Climate Research, Kew, Australia

Paavo Siitam Agronomist (soil chemistry, fertility and microbiology), Colborne, Ontario

Dr. Ian Plimer Professor/Chair, Department of Geology, University of Melbourne, Australia

Dr. Gary D. Sharp Scientific Director, Center for Climate/Ocean Resources Study, Salinas, CA

Dr. Kenneth Green Chief Scientist, Fraser Institute, Vancouver, British Columbia

Dr. Paal Brekke Solar physicist, European Space Agency, Norway

Dr. John Christy Director, Earth System Science Center at the University of Alabama

Dr. Chris Essex Professor of Applied Mathematics, University of Western Ontario

Dr. Roger Peilke Professor and Colorado State Climatologist; Current President of the American Association of State Climatologists

Dr. William M. Gray Professor of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University

Dr. Howard C. Hayden Emeritus Professor of Physics – University of Connecticut;

Dr. Lee C. Gerhard Principal Geologist, Kansas Geological Survey; Adjunct Professor, Colorado School of Mines; Noted author and geological expert on climate history.

Dr. Fred Singer President of The Science & Environmental Policy Project, Distinguished Research Professor at George Mason University, Professor Emeritus of environmental science at University of Virginia.

Dr. Pat Michaels Research Professor, Dept of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia

Dr. Willie Soon Astrophysicist – Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

Would it be excessively cynical to note that the fall guys did not have as much money with which to make donations as the ex-Mrs. Marc Rich?

Apparently not.

Would it be excessively cynical to note that the fall guys did not have as much money with which to make donations as the ex-Mrs. Marc Rich?

Jeez, what would be excessively cynical?

Charlie, you crack me up, as usual.

I’m not sure I agree with suggestions that “Pajamas Media” has to go. At first, it’s an amusing dig, later, it’s an all-too-obvious dig, but even later than that it’ll be just a name with an interesting history. I say keep it.

I second Yehudit’s idea.

I agree and would also add: Find out what are the legal rules of evidence for verifying documents in court, and append a checklist of such rules to each document and check off whichever ones said document satisfies. Be transparent even with regard to authenticity. (Take that, Dan Rather!)

This is also a good pre-emptive move, because people are going to try to cast doubt on these documents to furhter whatever agendas they have.

Lefty Frizzell wrote the Clinton Anthem in 1950. Hank Williams Sr. made it famous. A careful study of the anthem reveals everything in the world that anyone needs to know about both of them. OTOH, the anthem for Clinton friends was written and performed by Kenny Rogers. I find the line “the best that you can hope for is to die in your sleep” to be especially poignant.

As usual, your analysis is superb!

Jamie Iron