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johanna
As someone said not all that long ago, anti-Catholicism is the last acceptable prejudice. Hence the reason why child abuse=catholic priests in the eyes of the (il)literati and the left wing intellectuals.
Like the Welshman's complaint: "One Welshman shags one sheep and we never hear the end of it!"
As I understand it (you'll know better than me) Pell, along with Ratzinger, has been at the forefront of trying to clean up this whole sorry mess which, inevitably, was never as widespread as people tried to make out.
Nor was it ever confined to the Catholic Church or indeed any church, though the bien pensants and their unthinking followers aren't keen on admitting that.
Mike Jackson
Hey BTW THe EU just announced allocation of €150m for energy infrastructure projects
"The electricity projects include feasibility studies for Celtic interconnector that will link France and Ireland"
- Of €150m : €80m is for gas
- Gaelectric has secured €6.47m grant for its compressed air energy storage (CAES) project near Larne in Northern Ireland.
- Which is strange considering the May 21st headline : Energy firm Gaelectric pulls plug on Larne power plant
"We are now actively searching for sites in the Islandmagee area" ..It's better than Larne.
- Brendan McGrath, chief executive of Gaelectric, said"a further endorsement of the Larne project" which could cost £300m.
What just €6.47m ,hardly ringing is it ?
"As part of the CEF programme, EU has set aside €5.35bn for trans-European energy infrastructure projects between 2014 and 2020"
..but don't worry the Leprechauns are paying not the EU taxpayer !
stewgreen
@It doesn't add up.
"Moyle is a warning about the risks of relying on subsea connectors."
seems contradicted by slightly earlier story ..wonder if that journo is working on old info ?
The Moyle electricity interconnector between Northern Ireland and Scotland should be back to full capacity by 2016, its operator has said. bbc.com (yes see how bbc.co.uk defaulted to bbc.com ..just the same as Guardian does)
- Also Mutual Energy * website says "The Moyle return cables project will restore the interconnector to its full capacity by 2016 – a year sooner than had been originally signalled." ..Blah blah gotta get the permits aswell "a key factor in achieving the 2016 delivery date for the project."
* Mutual operates like a building society.
- Mind you there are weird stories about Ireland electricity after Moody's said New Windpower would cause WHOLESALE electricity prices to fall.
RenewablesBiz.com published a story 1 Jul 2015 headlined "Irish wind to blow prices down" but then quietly disappeared it when they realised that of course increasing wind projects puts RETAIL prices UP not down.
- Irish Times pointed out "the reduced cost would be passed onto consumers because the new assets will come with increased subsidy costs."
I'll explain cos Green Religious didn't in their newspaper articles : More wind = higher prices overall, cos they get a huge FIT price, but the conventionals are competing in a less flat out market, therefore they bid slightly lower than before.
- "a decline in the wholesale power price OF between €53 to €58 per megawatt hour. " Surely €53 is what the price is.It can't drop BY such a huge amount as €53/MWh, so they must mean TO not OF. Why can't journos spot such an obvious error ?
stewgreen
@RC TTIP "would make the current NHS (and BBC) set up unworkable."
- Breaks the 'too bizarre to be true, rule' ..an extraordinary claim needs extraordinary evidence otherwise it's just scaremongering.
..Sorry of course Greens never scaremonger !
- Mr Google says Nov 2014 “Public services are always exempted … The argument is abused in your country for political reasons”. House of Lords Answer
or here "there appears to have been quite a lot of disinformation and scaremongering going on about TTIP – especially as it relates to TTIP and the NHS. " from bottom of this page
- Yes corporate lawyers seek to use law in the same way that Human rights laws. e.g. We have freedom of speech to use red Malboro packaging in all countries so Uruguay insisting on plain packaging is a breach of that freedom.. but surely you expect corp lawyers to use any law they can ?
stewgreen
@Johanna some good stories on WUWT "Aussie PM Tony Abbott has infuriated greens in the last few days, by approving a gigantic new coal mine in the state of New South Wales."
@JR & @Dung "Cardinal George Pell gave the 2011 Annual GWPF Lecture"
His new words were first in the FT chat about Finance (freewall) thenSpectatorm Breibart
@Tomo RE - DGR ..Yes you'd think that Cheltenham would set up a website to lure in potential eco-Ts, so that they can keep an eye on them ......oh hang on.
stewgreen
Pell has long been sceptical of climate hysteria. He is an extraordinarily bright and capable guy, which is why he was brought in to clean out the Augean Stables that are the Vatican's finances.
His opponents keep trying to slur his name by linking him with child sexual abuse cases involving priests. In fact, I saw a comment on WUWT just today which said that he was not to be trusted because of this.
The fact is, he set up (years ago) the first process for formally recognising these events, including reaching out to victims and paying compensation. He has been accused of being complicit in events where he was not even in Australia at the time. There is a Royal Commission into institutional child abuse on at present. It covers all institutions, not just the Catholic ones, but the ABC and Fairfax press linger lovingly over those and mention Pell's name at every opportunity.
He has repeatedly said that he is happy to co-operate with the RC, including returning to Australia to testify. This leads to headlines from the usual suspects along the lines of "Pell implicated in RC Inquiry."
It's pure politics. With a Marxist Pope in charge, he has a hard row to hoe just now.
johanna
Recently made aware of some pretty full-on eco-warriors in the USA - DeepGreenResistance = DGR
Buried in the veritable blizzard of things to get agitated about is The Arctic Emergency ...
This crew look to be aiming to be a more edgy, zealous and "physical" competitor to Greenpiece and that means they're worth keeping an eye on. I fully expect the eco-nutters known to be lurking around Bristol will become the first English cadre of the resistance.....
tomo
David Malone, of the Green Party, raises many serious concerns about the TTIP agreement that is rumbling on between the EU and USA in this presentation, which lasts just over the hour:
"The Death of Democracy" a public talk on the TTIP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fDCbf4O-0s
He raises some very unlikely scenarios, for example, about fraccing, but do not be put off! It isn't about fraccing. It is about the TTIP. He is pointing out that within the TTIP agreement there is a mechanism for companies to bypass national courts and go to 'international' arbitration, which has been 'stretched' to such an extent that if a country decided that, say, pollutant concentrations need to be lowered, an affected company could sue the nation for loss of future earnings. And the arbitration isn't as 'fair and open' as one might hope. He also explains how, although there is no NHS privatisation mentioned in the agreement, it would make the current NHS set up unworkable. It would also be the same for the BBC, though it would be a high price to pay!
Others' views welcomed, especially if you know something about it. :)
There is also a delightful section, from 52 mins, where he talks about economic models and the weather! :)
Robert Christopher
Dung; is there a link for the Pell speech?
Joe Ronan
Stewgreen
re:DGR
yeah... well Bristol has some history in the agent provocateur game. The ALF have had a whinge about it and some press coverage of a claimed state funded facilitator / organiser at the time has gone AWOL....
But any way it's sliced - DGR are a really quite odious crew with fizzing wires between their ears.
@Mike Jackson
Clerical celibacy is at least in part a magnet responsible for the enhanced attention that RC gets in this issue. The Welsh analogy stands though! Good for Pell that he's standing up to Marxist ideologues. As a young catholic I was weaned on papal infallibility - heaven was on a Vatican speed dial button.