EU director calls for new EU Intelligence Agency

By Michael Heaver In a potentially worrying new development EU counter-terrorism director Oliver Luyckx has called for a new EU-wide intelligence agency, aimed at becoming a “one-stop shop for information sharing”. The EU already has instruments such as the European Arrest Warrant that demand compulsory extradition, with Baroness Ashton acting as the EU’s High Representative for Security Policy and Foreign Affairs. Luyckz’s demand for a new powerful EU terrorism division would see the creation of a massive new agency, forcing Britain’s MI5 and MI6 to share its information on citizens with this new EU counterpart that would see the merger...

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Russia’s Zhirinovsky calls on Japanese to move to Russia

Vladimir Zhirinovsky

Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the colorful and flamboyant leader of Russia’s LDPR party, has called on Japanese to leave “the dangerous islands” and move to the unpopulated Russian territories, the newsru.com website reported on Sunday.

Zhirinovsky, 64, also deputy speaker of the lower house, offered Russian government to start talks with Japan over Japanese nationals’ migration to Russia.

“In this case we do not share any islands, we offer the way to avoid a humanitarian catastrophe,” newsru.com quoted Zhirinovsky as saying. “Russia will even benefit if such hardworking people join us,” he added.

The politician said he was serious since “the Japanese nation is under the threat of extinction in the near future.”

Zhirinovsky’s statement came in the wake of a 9.0 – magnitude tremor, which struck the Japan’s northeast on Friday. The quake triggered a 10-meter tsunami wave that swept away people, houses and cars.

In late February Zhirinovsky invited Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi to move to Moscow.

In his address to Gaddafi, he said: “I invite you to make Moscow your place of permanent residence.”

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Helmut Schmidt calls for IPCC inquiry

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by Bob Carter (originally published on Quadrant Online)

Former German Chancellor demands IPCC inquiry

Helmut Schmidt, the respected former Chancellor of Germany, has told an audience at the Max-Plank-Gesellschaft that a full inquiry needs to be held into the credibility of advice on global warming that stems from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Set up in 1988 in order to deliver policy advice to governments regarding global warming, ever since 2005 the IPCC has been become mired in controversy over the integrity and accuracy of its procedures. Most recently, in early 2010, a number of scandals erupted over the selective use of published literature by the IPCC, and also its practice of relying upon documents from environmental lobby groups rather than refereed scientific papers.

In his speech, Helmut Schmidt said:

In addition to all the aforementioned problems caused by humans, we are also concerned, at the same time, by the phenomenon of global warming and its alleged consequences. We know that there have always been naturally occurring ice ages and warm periods; what we don’t know is how significant the human-induced contribution to present and future global warming is and will be.

The climate policy adopted by many governments is still in its infancy. The publications provided by an international group of scientists (the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC) have encountered skepticism, especially since some of their researchers have shown themselves to be fraudsters (Betrüger). In any case, some governments’ publicly stated targets are far less scientific, but rather politically endorsed.

It seems to me that the time has come that one of our top scientific organisations should scrutinise, under the microscope, the work of the IPCC, in a critical and realistic way, and then present the resulting conclusions to the German public in a comprehensible manner ….

The Max-Plank-Gesellschaft is Germany’s most eminent science organisation, and that Helmut Schmidt should deliver his lecture there is highly symbolic. But in calling for an investigation by one of Germany’s “top scientific organisations”, Schmidt shows that he only appreciates part of the problem, which is the integrity of the IPCC. An equal problem in nearly all western countries (Russia perhaps excluded) is the integrity of their national science academies and leading organisations, nearly all of whom, under the leadership of the Royal Society of London, have been acting as cheerleaders for the IPCC for the last ten years or more. Remember, too, that no fewer than three independent inquiries into last year’s Climategate (leaked email) scandal at the Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia, ended up as anodyne whitewashes, and this despite the undoubted “distinction” of the chairmen of the inquiries.

Helmut Schmidt is undoubtedly right to call for a searching inquiry into the IPCC, but any such inquiry will need to be conducted by a special, independent scientific audit group with full legal powers. For, to be effective, any review of the IPCC is going to need to also investigate the actions of other leading national and international science organisations.

Professor Bob Carter is a geologist, environmental scientist and Emeritus Fellow at the Institute of Public Affairs.

Translation courtesy of Dr Benny Peiser, Global Warming Policy Foundation, London. Further comment and access to the full lecture (in German) available through the GWPF website here…

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Chechen terrorist leader calls for holy war against Russia

Chechen terrorist leader Doku Umarov has called on Russian Muslims to launch a holy war against their government in a video published Friday on the website kavkazcenter.com.

‘Destroy the enemies of Allah, open up the fronts,’ Umarov said. The terrorist claimed responsibility on the same website for the January bombing of a Moscow airport in which 38 people died.

The Kremlin had declared ‘total war’ on the North Caucasus with its military operations there, Umarov continued.

In the nine-minute video, in which the bearded 46-year-old is flanked by two armed companions and which appears to have been filmed in a snow-covered wood, he also announced further attacks.

In a previous message Umarov had already threatened Russia with ‘a year of blood and tears.’

Authorities are particularly worried about the possibility of attacks before the 2012 presidential elections and the 2014 Winter Olympics in the Black Sea city of Sochi.

Radical Islamist groups in the Caucasus, a region which includes the Russian republics of Dagestan and Ingushetia, have been fighting for years for the establishment of a ‘Caucasus emirate.’

There are frequent clashes between pro-Russian forces and Islamist militants. On Friday a high-level member of the internal security services, the FSB, was killed in a shoot-out in Dagestan.

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