Munich Security Conference - Russian FM Lavrov: "the post-Cold War order, i.e. the "liberal world order," has come to an end".

Munich Security Conference - Russian FM Lavrov: "the post-Cold War order, i.e. the "liberal world order," has come to an end". (MEMRI).

Russian FM Lavrov's Call For A New World Order To Counter U.S. Influence In Europe.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's speech at the 53rd Munich Security Conference contained the elements of a new political ideology that Russian President Vladimir Putin is striving to build. The Soviet Union was erected on the foundation of a cohesive communist ideology. 

However, with the fall of the Soviet Union, Russia remained without an ideology to counter the "liberal world order" and, most importantly, the U.S. influence in Western and Eastern Europe. 

As pro-Kremlin philosopher Alexander Dugin wrote: "All of Russian history is a dialectical argument with the West and Western culture, a battle for the assertion (sometimes grasped only intuitively) of its own Russian truth."[1]

Now, Putin does not yet have this "Russian truth," as he is still trying to outline the basis of a new ideology. However, it clearly appears that the new, not-yet-shaped ideology is based on the rejection of the "liberal world order." 

In order to reject it, Russia has to stop the U.S./West from exporting liberal values by establishing the concept of "pragmatism" in foreign policy. Pragmatism is a tool to protect its sovereignty and avoid color revolutions, and by extension, U.S. influence. 

Director General Of Russian Government-Funded Think Tank, RIAC Andrey Kortunov stated that the Kremlin's emphasis on "sovereignty" displays "the evident fear of foreign ideologies penetrating Russia rather than an intention to promote another universalist ideology abroad."[2] 

However, as mentioned earlier, the emphasis with sovereignty can be interpreted as the basic principle for the rejection of the liberal order in actual policies, especially regarding Western and Eastern Europe; and, contrary to Kortunov, Dugin considers that disagreement with liberalism is far from being a bad foundation for a new ideology.

Lavrov: 'The Post-Cold War Order Has Come To An End'

Ten years later, Lavrov declared that this post-Cold War order "has come to an end," since Cold War institutions, NATO being one of them, failed to adapt to new realities. Stressing the fact that NATO became an anachronistic institution, Lavrov stated that NATO expansion created "a level of tension in Europe unseen in the last thirty years." 

He then added: "It is said that wars start in people's heads, but according to this logic, it is also in people's heads that they should end. This is not the case yet with the Cold War. Some statements by politicians in Europe and the United States seem to confirm this particularly clearly."

In his speech, Lavrov also refuted the allegations that Russia is attempting to undermine the so-called "liberal world order," that won over communism after the collapse of the Soviet Union. 

However, at the same time, he stressed that Russia rejects the 'liberal world order,' which he defined as a model that ended up being merely "an instrument for ensuring the growth of an elite club of countries and its domination over everyone else." (It worth noting, as mentioned above, that Lavrov opened his speech, stating that the post-Cold War order, i.e. the "liberal world order," has come to an end). 

He then called up leaders with "a sense of responsibility" to choose "a post-West world order," in which each country develops its own "sovereignty" within the framework of international law, with respect for each country's identity. Read the full story here.

Ontario's Wynne to spend $7-billion on sweeping climate 'insanity' plan.

Ontario's Wynne to spend $7-billion on sweeping climate 'insanity' plan. (GlobeAndMail).

The Ontario government will spend more than $7-billion over four years on a sweeping climate change plan that will affect every aspect of life – from what people drive to how they heat their homes and workplaces – in a bid to slash the province’s carbon footprint.

Ontario will begin phasing out natural gas for heating, provide incentives to retrofit buildings and give rebates to drivers who buy electric vehicles. It will also require that gasoline sold in the province contain less carbon, bring in building code rules requiring all new homes by 2030 to be heated with electricity or geothermal systems, and set a target for 12 per cent of all new vehicle sales to be electric by 2025.

Among the Highlights included:

• $3.8-billion for new grants, rebates and other subsidies to retrofit buildings, and move them off natural gas and onto geothermal, solar power or other forms of electric heat. Many of these programs will be administered by a new Green Bank, modelled on a similar agency in New York State, to provide financing for solar and geothermal projects.
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• New building code rules that will require all homes and small buildings built in 2030 or later to be heated without using fossil fuels, such as natural gas. This will be expanded to all buildings before 2050. Other building code changes will require major renovations to include energy-efficiency measures. All homes will also have to undergo an energy-efficiency audit before they are sold.
• $285-million for electric vehicle incentives. These include a rebate of up to $14,000 for every electric vehicle purchased; up to $1,000 to install home charging; taking the provincial portion of the HST off electric vehicle sales; an extra subsidy program for low– and moderate-income households to get older cars off the road and replace them with electric; and free overnight electricity for charging electric vehicles. The province will also build more charging stations at government buildings, including LCBO outlets, and consider making electrical vehicle plug-ins mandatory on all new buildings. The plan sets targets of expanding electric vehicle sales to 5 per cent of all vehicles sold by 2020, up to 12 per cent by 2025, and aiming to get an electric or hybrid vehicle in every multivehicle driveway by 2024, a total of about 1.7 million cars.
• New lower-carbon fuel standards would require all liquid transportation fuels, such as gasoline and diesel, to slash life-cycle carbon emissions by 5 per cent by 2020. The plan will also provide $176-million in incentives to fuel retailers to sell more biodiesel and 85-per-cent ethanol blend. The government will also oblige natural gas to contain more renewable content, such as gas from agriculture and waste products.

Hmmm.....Good luck heating homes in Winter without fossil fuels & transporting all goods with electric trucks......MORONS!  Read the full lunatic story here.

$13 million wasted on windy last day of March: Ontario pays to get rid of excess Hydro.

$13 million wasted on windy last day of March: Ontario taxpayer pays to get rid of excess Hydro. (WindconcernOntario) By Parker Gallant

These spring windy days are costing you: Ontario’s Wynne government  pays millions for power it can’t use including wind, produced exactly when we don’t need it.

                                   More than $13 million wasted on windy last day of March

March 2016 left like a lion with the wind roaring mightily. Wind on March 31^st could have generated over 90% of its IESO posted capacity of almost 3,900 MW— but it didn’t.

Demand  was relatively low in Ontario that day, with users requiring only 359,000 MWh. That meant the IESO folks were busy getting nuclear to steam off (about 26,000 MWh), spilling hydro, and actively curtailing wind.

Curtailed wind generation on that day exceeded both Ontario’s net exports of 31,400 MWh, and wind-generated electricity actually delivered to the grid.   Our exported surplus was sold at a negative average price of the HOEP (hourly Ontario energy price) as we paid New York, Michigan, Quebec, and others $1.71/MWh to take our excess power.

We also paid wind power generators in the neighbourhood of $120 per MWh to curtail an estimated 40,500 MWh.

Our production costs for the month of March are collectively estimated at $117/MWh, suggesting the Global Adjustment (GA) will average about $112/MWh and the HOEP will average around $5/MWh.
That means the cost of the day’s full generation of 400,224 MWh (Ontario Demand + exports) at an estimated $46.8 million. Included in that figure are costs for net exports,  steamed off nuclear, spilled hydro, curtailed wind, and idling gas plants, needed to back up wind and solar.

The one-day costs included in the $46.8 million are: an estimated $1.5 million for Bruce Power to steam off nuclear; $3 million to pay idling gas plants; $3.7 million to pay for our exported surplus; and about $4.8 million for curtailed wind.

Without including costs for spilled hydro, the total costs for energy not needed for just one day came to about $13 million.  We should be grateful the sun wasn’t shining too or we would have been paying for solar generation at even higher prices.

We also saved about $15/MWh or $600,000 March 31^st by curtailing wind generation or the $13 million daily cost would have been higher.

Now, try to imagine how that $13 million might have helped out our health care system, perhaps by retaining nurses at many hospitals such as Windsor, North Bay, etc., where recent staff reductions have occurred. No wonder an Ontario Health Coalition study a year ago stated:  “we have been deeply disturbed at the devastating cuts we are seeing to needed public hospital care all across Ontario.”

The money that should be earmarked for health care is finding its way into the pockets of the mainly foreign wind turbine and solar panel developers instead of actually helping out Ontarians.

Time to scrap the acquisition of more intermittent wind and solar generation and earmark the money where it belongs. Ontarians don’t want to see $13 million wasted daily, just to pretend wind and solar are better than emission-free nuclear and hydro.

Ontario’s skyrocketing electricity prices endanger domestic manufacturing.

Ontario’s skyrocketing electricity prices endanger domestic manufacturing. (GM). By Adam White.

As an advocate for some of Ontario’s largest manufacturers, we fear the province’s long-term electricity plan is placing too high a financial burden on industry.

Our manufacturers are currently paying excessively high electricity rates for power the system doesn’t need; this surplus energy is then sold to our competitors in neighbouring jurisdictions (Quebec, New York, Michigan, Illinois) for a heavily discounted price. The math just doesn’t make sense.

This trend results in two outcomes. They can close, further opening the door to suppliers south of the border. Or they can move to the United States or Mexico.

Electricity costs in Ontario are unlikely to ease.The cost, in multiple billions, will be borne by Ontario electricity customers.

As policy-makers in Ontario and elsewhere turn their attention to the energy sector, we need to make sure that they keep the interests of Canadians in mind.Read the full story here.

Adam White is the President of the Association of Major Power Consumers in Ontario

EU, US States And Can provinces push for 2050 ban on petrol and diesel cars.

EU, US States And Can provinces push for 2050 ban on petrol and diesel cars. (Caradvice).

The European Commission’s push to have conventional petrol and diesel vehicles banned from dense city areas is building steam, with news this week that more regions will work towards the same goal.

In 2011, the European Commission proposed a commitment to massively transform Europe’s transport networks and needs, in a bid to cut overall carbon emissions by around 60 per cent.

The plan had initially been rejected by the UK, but this month’s international climate conference in Paris has seen 13 international members – including the UK – commit to accelerating the global adoption of zero-emission vehicles.

“The UK already has the largest market for ultra-low emission vehicles in the EU, and the fourth largest in the world and today’s pledge reaffirms our commitment to ensuring almost every car and van is a zero emission vehicle by 2050,” UK transport minister Andrew Jones said.

Members of the new International Zero Emissions Vehicle Alliance include The Netherlands, Norway and the United Kingdom in Europe; Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, Oregon, Rhode Island and Vermont in the United States; and Québec in Canada.

Jens Frølich Holthe, Political Advisor to Norway’s Minister for Environment, described the multi-region commitment as a positive step towards climate change control.

“We see working together with other proactive governments as a key to a global transition to an electric fleet. The problem of climate change is clearly global, and we see electric vehicles as one of the important global climate solutions.”   Hmmmm.....I presume Ontario is also included in this 'madness' since Wynne follows the California Model.Good luck with developing Electric trucks to transport all goods. Read the full story here.

Video - Canada - Green energy plan to reduce traffic congestion? It's really "a tax on driving a car"

They think the reason far too many people continue to drive is because it doesn't cost enough and they're prepared to do something about it.

But, it already costs us plenty to drive as I explain in my report.

Those pushing a green agenda don't really care though because it costs them nothing to test out their useless theories even if it costs you everything.

Canada Election Day - Seems Ontario had it's belly full of Liberal politics after........even not ONE Year.

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The Truth About #Trudeau… Increased national debt by 800% plus ran 14 straight deficits.. http://t.co/WUsnbDoObG #elxn42 #cdnpoli

— Jimbo R (@Jimbo679) October 16, 2015

#Wynne doesn't listen to #Ontario taxpayers #Trudeau won't listen to #Canada - they're #birdsofafeather pic.twitter.com/B6khImQAPO

— NoLibsPls (@NoLibsPls) October 19, 2015

An Open Letter to Trudeau and Mulcair- Why am I so worthless? @Joe_warmington https://t.co/Ef4CzNLz6k

— Nancy Henry (@nancyhenry_) October 19, 2015

#KeepItBlue #Ontario - #LPCCorruption are #birdsofafeather pic.twitter.com/geDHWWZouY

— Trixie (@TrixieFordGirl) October 19, 2015

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— Monica Henry (@chevymo) October 19, 2015

Scientist Confesses: "Global Warming a $22 Billion Scam" http://t.co/CQvXAmM3M5

— NoLibsPls (@NoLibsPls) October 18, 2015

This simple fact needs to be shared ... as a reminder ... #elxn42 #polqc pic.twitter.com/PqDy6Gk4Fv

— Monica Henry (@chevymo) October 12, 2015

Canadian Elections - Has the Liberal Party of Canada been Infiltrated by Extremist Candidates?

Canadian Elections - Has the Liberal Party of Canada been Infiltrated by Extremist Candidates? HT: tsecnetwork.

If you are concerned about the Safety in Canada and want to know which 'Islamist' threats Canada could be facing then this report is A MUST READ! 

Any person running to be a Member of Parliament in Canada should be a supporter of the Constitution of Canada, the Charter of Rights and the Criminal Code of Canada.
As such, it is fair game to ask all candidates questions such as:

1. Do you reject the teachings of Hassan Banna, Sayid Qutb and al-Maududi as being the antithesis of the Canadian Constitution and the Charter of Rights?

2. Will you denounce the Muslim Brotherhood and Jamaat-e-Islami as having values that run contrary to the Canadian Constitution and the Charter of Rights?

3. Is the head of the Greenlight Committee for the Liberal Party of Canada aware of this problem? Are they acting on it?

4. Do all candidates from all parties reject the misogynistic views advanced by the Muslim Student Association (and others) that advocate you can beat your wife and that she will see this as a sign of “love and concern”?

Read the full in depth report HERE.

Christians are the 21th Century lepers.

Christians are the 21th Century lepers. HT: Archbishopcranmer.

Speaking at Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University in Virginia last week, the next Republican nominee (if they have any sense) for President of the United States spoke of the increasing intolerance being expressed toward Christians by the erstwhile liberal democratic states, simply for believers’ adherence to centuries-old moral orthodoxy and theological wisdom in an age of relativism and aggressive assertions of equality and human rights.

Yes, he was courting the ‘Evangelical vote’ (aka ‘Religious Right’), but quite why an appeal to that constituency should be deemed cynical when a presidential candidate must impress across a broad church (quite literally) is perplexing. The fact that much of the media, however, deemed his speech to be a depthless flash of detested pretence rather goes to prove Bush’s point: Christians are the new lepers.

He didn’t quite point it like that, but the inference is clear:

How strange, in our own time, to hear Christianity spoken of as some sort of backward and oppressive force. Outside these seven thousand acres of shared conviction, it’s a depressing fact that when some people think of Christianity and of Judeo-Christian values, they think of something static, narrow, and outdated. We can take this as unfair criticism, as it typically is, or we can take it as further challenge to show in our lives the most dynamic, inclusive, and joyful message that ever came into the world.

His zeal is for religious freedom, which, under President Obama, has been made a little lower than Gomorrah: “What should be easy calls, in favor of religious freedom, have instead become an aggressive stance against it.”

It strikes me that most of the criticism directed at believers in our day is drawn from hostile caricature. That’s just the easy way of avoiding honest discussion. It is a posture that only deepens distrust, instead of inviting understanding.

The truth, of course, is that the censorious liberals and intolerant democrats don’t want an honest discussion.

By deepening distrust of Christians, they stifle debate in order to suppress truth. Leviticus introduced us to the scapegoat; the Athenians gave us ostracism; Matthew and Luke tell us about lepers. Now, of course, we send people to Coventry.

Every age and culture has its heretics, untouchables and outcasts. Christians aren’t quite criminals, but if ‘hate speech’ continues to suck in Scripture, it won’t be too long before the priestly persona non grata is thrown into prison by the enlightened establishment simply for refusing to join two men in holy matrimony.

And yet that conscience has become warped, dangerous and damaging. Christianity has become a perverted practice and phobic offence.

Christians who were called to a revolutionary mission of love have become the haters, bigots and social deviants. Our words are deemed destructive; our beliefs archaic; our opinions obsolete.

We cling to free speech but know that our mere thoughts are scorned by the illiberal anti-democrats who demand unqualified subjection to what we are told is the new mainstream of reason and factual authority. To criticise is social suicide. To utter a word in defence of the Faith is shrill and shallow.

To tweet truth is to invite Stephen Fry’s horde of devotees to screech ‘homophobe’ and heckle until an apology is extracted – with threats, if necessary.

There can be no opposition, no resistance and no petition for appeal. Every jarring dissonance must be muzzled before it is uttered. Those who demur are stamped upon and snuffed out. The land must be purged of ugly scars and cleansed of infectious scabs. Christians were once scapegoats and sacrificial lambs, and then we became heretics and outcasts. Now we are the lepers of omniscient secular enlightenment. Blessed are those who conform. Read the full story here.


Hmmm.....Luke 6:22 - Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you [from their company], and shall reproach [you], and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake.

Number of European tourists wishing to make VIP travel to Iran exceeds 12K.

Number of European tourists wishing to make VIP travel to Iran exceeds 12K. (Taz).

Over 12,000 residents of European countries have applied to Iranian Tour Operators Association to take part in the tourist VIP travel to this country on a luxury train, Iran’s ISNA news agency quoted the association’s president Ibrahim Purfaraj as saying on Oct.31.

He said it is necessary to organize additional 80 tours in order to ensure the travel of this number of VIP tourists to Iran on a luxury train.

Purfaraj said the majority of tourists who have applied to participate in the VIP travel on a luxury train to Iran are from the UK, Germany and France, adding that residents from the US and Austria are also among the applicants for these trips.

The majority of the applicants have already made an advance payment for these trips, according to Purfaraj.

“A luxury train will carry out two more trips to Iran by the end of the current year, while it is planned to organize nine VIP tours on the Budapest-Tehran route in 2015,” the association head added.

He said that in order to improve the quality of service, currently, the positive and negative feedbacks of tourists about the organized trips are being studied.

Purfaraj said that VIP tourists from Europe are satisfied with the visits to various cities of Iran.
These travels have increased the interest of European tourists in Iran, he added.

Iranian Tour Operators Association has organized VIP travels for European tourists to the country on a luxury train. A train with tourists left Budapest for Iran for the second time on Oct.14.

All conditions have been created for the passengers in the compartments of the train’s cars. The price for one ticket for the train reaches $15,000. The train heads from Budapest to Iran through Romania, Bulgaria and Turkey. Hmmm.......I'll Take Jamaica anytime.

Biden’s New NSA Chief Mocked Israeli Nuke Fears

Biden’s New NSA Chief Mocked Israeli Nuke Fears. (TJP).

Colin Kahl, a former deputy secretary of defense for the Middle East in President Obama’s first administration, was recently named Vice President Joe Biden’s national security adviser and deputy assistant to the president. 

But, as Lee Smith reports in the Weekly Standard, Kahl is perhaps best known - or would be, if more people realized who was responsible - for deleting the reference to Jerusalem as the eternal, undivided capital of Israel in the Democratic platform during the last presidential campaign.

What should be of even greater concern is Kahl’s hostility to action against Iran’s drive towards nuclear weapons capability, as well as his eagerness to understate Arab leaders’ thirst for such power and to underestimate the existential dangers to Israel posed by such ambitions.

As Smith points out, Kahl was a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security when he co-authored a May, 2013 report which sought to assure legislators that it would be possible to contain a nuclear Iran should measures to stop it fail to achieve their goal. That report described how the U.S. could “manage and mitigate the consequences of a nuclear-armed Iran.”

Although the CNAS is generally considered a centrist think tank, it issued reports recommending non-intervention in Syria, including not arming the early opposition, as well as taking a soft, pro-diplomacy stance towards Iran.

In advance of the CNAS report’s publication, Kahl wrote an astonishing op-ed in the Washington Post which sought to convince readers that Israel made things much worse than they would have been when it bombed Iraq’s Osirik reactor, and that there would be similar or still more disastrous results should Israel dare to attack Iran’s nuclear weapons plants. Think that’s a mischaracterization? The title of the op-ed is “An Israeli attack against Iran would backfire - just like Israel’s 1981 strike on Iran.”

Kahl warned in his op-ed that if Israel were to strike it would doom the likelihood of Iran’s cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency. “An Israeli strike would also end any prospect of Iran cooperating with the IAEA, seriously undermining the international community’s ability to detect rebuilding efforts.”

It seems Kahl may be the only one still holding out hope that Iran will ever cooperate with the IAEA regardless of any action by Israel. He also claimed Saddam was nowhere near ready to create nukes, so Israel’s Osirik mission was premature and ill-advised.

Why Joe Biden - someone most Israel supporters used to consider reliably pro-Israel, would pick someone like Kahl is a mystery.

As the Weekly Standard‘s Smith was told by at least one senior official at a pro-Israel organization in Washington, D.C. about Kahl: “He tried to insert an anti-Israel plank into the Democratic party’s platform and failed to the point where the president had to personally intervene to repair the damage. Since he left government, he has galloped to the fringe of the Iran debate, floating all kinds of suggestions - including letting Iran go nuclear - that the party had to publicly shoot down. You really have to ask yourself why Joe Biden thought he was an appropriate choice.”

That it’s Joe Biden who has summoned Kahl to his side, rather than someone who stands any chance of being the Democratic’s choice to lead the party in 2016, may be the only good news in this story.

THE JEWISH PRESS

Video - Canada's Liberals - 'LIGHT AND BEAUTY' IN TERRORISTS?

"The War on Christianity" - City of Toronto cancels Christian parade, allows Al-Quds, Anti Israel....etc

HT: InfidelBloggers.