British Right Wingers Worse Than Ours: Meet Nick Griffin

Imagine someone worse that Glenn Beck or Ann Coulter.

Rush Limbaugh really is a fuzzball next to Nick Griffin, who is overtly racist (believes in "purity" of the races) and anti-semitic. He especially hates Muslims. A lot of Brits were outraged when Griffin was invited on a TV show, Question Time. Griffin doesn't mess around with cute rhetoric.

Ann Coulter, for example, would like to say out loud that Islam is an evil religion, but peer pressure prevents her from saying that.

Griffin just comes right out and says stupid stuff.

On his website, it says "white working class finds their champion."
He believes that ALL immigrants--not just undocumented ones--in Britain should leave. He's sort of like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Griffin is one of those who says the Holocaust is propaganda. In fact, most rightwingers are like Ahmadinejad--raging ideologues. Griffin pals around with David Duke, former head of the KKK.

He believes global warming is a scam:

“Man made global warming is an unproven theory. The science of climate change is in its infancy. The so-called consensus on the issue is the product not of debate but of the suppression of expert dissent.
“Before the political class and the green industrial complex dare to impose a single new tax, sub-standard lightbulb or useless windfarm on the ordinary taxpayer, they need to try to convince the public that global warming is man made, that returning the world to the warmer climate of medieval times would be a bad thing, and that there is anything that Europeans, as opposed to China and India, can do about it anyway.

He uses the same tactics as our rightwingers. He associates himself with ordinary people. It's the equivalent of when our rightwingers talk about "real America" and "true patriots."

One difference between Griffin and our rightwingers, he's not a war monger.

Charlatans like Griffin prey on people's weaknesses. Griffin blames immigrants for taking white people's jobs. This is the time of the charlatan because people are fearful right now. Change is happening--both good and bad--and it's happening at a faster pace. It seems we are truly at a pivotal moment in history where change and progress are bumping up against those who would prefer times of yesteryear. Pat Buchanan, who wrote a few days ago about his fears for "white America," sums up people who are out of touch with reality:

Moreover, the alienation and radicalization of white America began long before Obama arrived. He acknowledged as much when he explained Middle Pennsylvanians to puzzled progressives in that closed-door meeting in San Francisco.

Referring to the white working-class voters in the industrial towns decimated by job losses, Obama said: "They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."

He concludes by suggesting that he and his kind are America and that they are losing something:

America was once their country. They sense they are losing it. And they are right.

Here is Griffin debuting on Question Time:

Tea Partier Explains Global Warming

This video is hilarious and also sad. We have to teach our children to be smarter than this.
Al Gore did a lot to bring awareness of global warming, but because he was such a polarizing figure, politically, he pushed certain people, like this woman in the video, off the deep end. It's not his fault, of course. It's the denier mentality. People deny science and reason for the purpose of perpetuating an ideology.
We've seen the deniers in action lately, denying evolution, denying landing on the moon, and denying Obama's birth place.

Al Gore's Speech July 17

Isn't it nice to have bigger brains looking at our problems in a bigger way, seeing the interconnectivity of all the pieces and then offering solutions that address the whole.
Here are some excerpts (video):

Two major studies from military intelligence experts have warned our leaders about the
dangerous national security implications of the climate crisis, including the possibility of
hundreds of millions of climate refugees destabilizing nations around the world.

Just two days ago, 27 senior statesmen and retired military leaders warned of the national
security threat from an “energy tsunami” that would be triggered by a loss of our access
to foreign oil. Meanwhile, the war in Iraq continues, and now the war in Afghanistan
appears to be getting worse.
.....
I’m convinced that one reason we’ve seemed paralyzed in the face of these crises is our
tendency to offer old solutions to each crisis separately – without taking the others into
account. And these outdated proposals have not only been ineffective – they almost
always make the other crises even worse.

Yet when we look at all three of these seemingly intractable challenges at the same time,
we can see the common thread running through them, deeply ironic in its simplicity: our
dangerous over-reliance on carbon-based fuels is at the core of all three of these
challenges – the economic, environmental and national security crises.

We’re borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways
that destroy the planet. Every bit of that’s got to change.
....

What if we could use fuels that are not expensive, don't cause pollution and are
abundantly available right here at home?

We have such fuels. Scientists have confirmed that enough solar energy falls on the
surface of the earth every 40 minutes to meet 100 percent of the entire world’s energy
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needs for a full year. Tapping just a small portion of this solar energy could provide all of
the electricity America uses.

And enough wind power blows through the Midwest corridor every day to also meet 100
percent of US electricity demand. Geothermal energy, similarly, is capable of providing
enormous supplies of electricity for America.
.....
Today I challenge our nation to commit to producing 100 percent of our electricity from
renewable energy and truly clean carbon-free sources within 10 years.

This goal is achievable, affordable and transformative. It represents a challenge to all
Americans – in every walk of life: to our political leaders, entrepreneurs, innovators,
engineers, and to every citizen.
Read the whole thing.

Al Gore To Speak On Global Warming

Update: Read speech here.
Al Gore's expected to speak in Washington today and he'll tie together global warming, energy and national security to draw the big picture-- we need to get off of oil.
Gore could really accomplish his goals with the vice presidency. He could be a non-traditional vice president. That's not to hard to imagine in an Obama administration. I'd like to see Arnold Schwarzenegger as energy czar.
It also occurred to me yesterday that Colin Powell could be Obama's vice president choice. It seems the attention has been drawn away from Powell. When people talk about Powell now it's that he's talking to Obama and McCain to see who he should back.

WaPo: Just as John F. Kennedy set his sights on the moon, Al Gore is challenging the nation to produce every kilowatt of electricity through wind, sun and other Earth-friendly energy sources within 10 years, an audacious goal he hopes the next president will embrace.

The Nobel Prize-winning former vice president said fellow Democrat Barack Obama and Republican rival John McCain are "way ahead" of most politicians in the fight against global climate change.

Rising fuel costs, climate change and the national security threats posed by U.S. dependence on foreign oil are conspiring to create "a new political environment" that Gore said will sustain bold and expensive steps to wean the nation off fossil fuels.

"I have never seen an opportunity for the country like the one that's emerging now," Gore told The Associated Press in an interview previewing a speech on global warming he planned to give Thursday in Washington.

Schwarzenegger in Obama's Administration?

I like California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, despite his republican status. He's a thinking man. Schwarzenegger said he'd take Obama's call.

Swamp: Today in an interview with ABC's "This Week with George Stephanopoulos," Schwarzenegger was asked about rumors that Obama would ask him to take a position within his potential administration relating to energy or the environment.
"I'm always ready to help in any way I can the United States, because as you know, I've committed myself to be a public servant, because this country has given me everything.... I'd take his call now and I'd take his call when he's president, anytime," Schwarzenegger said.

George Bush didn't believe in global warming, Schwarzenegger said. Anyone that tells you that drilling will bring down the price of gas is fooling, he said. We need to stay the course on energy, he said.

Obama Talks Small Politics Video

"People are used to seeing promises broken."