I meant Maven. MKH is my second favorite blog Maven.

Lawrence on January 26, 2007 at 5:42 PM

MMmmmmm… Ham…

Mazztek on January 26, 2007 at 5:57 PM

Oh, the environmental movenment has always been about how much they hate themselves. Beavers good, people bad.

bbz123 on January 26, 2007 at 6:00 PM

This video tells one side of the story very convicingly. I believe we need balance between the two opposing forces in this this issue, economic development and legitimate attention to ecological considerations.

This video shows the side of the economic interests and the hypocracy of many of the moonbat ecology freaks. If these people had their way we would all be herded into an area the size of Texas and turn the rest of the world into a park.

The other side of the coin is commercial interests run by people who do not see mining as their objective - they see these activities as a way of making money. Unrestrained they would return to the days of monopoly, and tactics used by Carnegie and Rockafeller. Profit and greed are real, will surface immediately and in great strength if allowed, and are ignored at the peril of anyone but the corporate and wealthy individual intersts.

Balance between these two opposing factions is where, I believe, the best interests of the nation and the individual are. This video describes the extremists on one side of the equation and does not pay attention to that balance.

omegaram on January 26, 2007 at 6:14 PM

The attituted of “poor=quaint” exhibted by the environmentalists reminds me of one of my college roommates.

There were 5 of us living in a really crappy apartment in the East Village. One of us happened to have a very wealthy father that owned half of Pakistan and had lunches with the president of HSBC bank. When his father saw where we were living, he offered (I kid you not) to buy a decent apartment BUILDING in Manhattan and let us have one of the apartments. We would continue to pay rent, but instead of our $600/person/month going for a horrible apartment, it would go towards a really nice apartment. My roommate said no, which, would have been admirable if he were the ‘make it on his own’ sort; however, he had no problem letting his dad foot the bill for college, his portion of the apartment we were living in, his food, etc. When we asked him why he said no, he said, “Don’t you think it’s more cool and more real to be living in an apartment like this?” Little did we know, the rest of us weren’t poor, we were hip.

What’s sad is that, compared to the situation of the people in the countries being referred to in “Mine Your Own Business”, my roommates and I were living the good life.

I particularly enjoyed the ignorance displayed when the filmmaker was talking to the girl with the curly brown hair and told her that she was a rich westerner. She got really offended and started to say how she worked for a small NGO and didn’t make that much money. It was completely lost on her that, with a few rare exceptions, the poor in the west are wealthier than the average person in many other countries.

One cultural note: Romanian is a romance language (related to French, Spanish, Italian, etc). So, I’m not sure how correct it is to have slavic music at all (she mentions having had to use Russian music in the credits). However, the culture definitely has a heavy slavic influence, so, that might be closer than any other music-types. Perhaps someone on hot air can clear this up for me (Entelechy, I believe you said you were from Romania, am I correct?)

JadeNYU on January 26, 2007 at 6:28 PM

She did an awesome version of this same song, replete with native costume, at Michelle’s birthday party.

It nice to know you’re actually friends outside of work.

Esthier on January 26, 2007 at 6:31 PM

but she who puts food on the big A’s table is loved unconditionally.

Does Allah subsist from food?

Entelechy on January 26, 2007 at 6:45 PM

Global warming has been on a freaking vacation or something? Where is it when you really need it?

wytammic on January 26, 2007 at 6:54 PM

YEEEEESSSS!!!! Somebody gets it!! They are RAAAAACIST!!!!!

The Left has spent too much time among the desperate and poor (minorities). Ill equipped to help them (mentally and spiritually) they have failed over and over.

They have given up helping people, and now secretly HATE them - though they love those votes. Decades of failure in Africa (tears on a fire) and at home have left them tainted. Now they have their excuse TIA (this is Africa).

Liberals now promote romantic views of poverty even criminal barbarisms seen in gangs. “Look head hunters - how quaint.”

Boil this down and you understand where they are coming from with Iraq. They do not believe “All men are created equal”.

I know that the Iraqis are a pain in the ass, but they are not “inhuman”. They are capable of being civil, even if our soldiers have to beat the barbarian out of them first.

Agrippa2k on January 26, 2007 at 7:08 PM

I recently printed the lecture by Michael Crichton, “Aliens Cause Global Warming” for one of my nephews to use as a reference in a paper he was writing. I would recommend it to all.

Please correct me if I’m wrong, but wasn’t Green Peace founded in the early 1960’s by a group of bed wetting French Communist trying to destabilize France?

The environmental movement, in my view, is just another attempt by a few who think they are “more enlightened” than most trying to seize power over the many…

Zorro on January 26, 2007 at 7:17 PM

Thanks MKH. These are the kinds of documentaries I’d like to see more of.

This would make for an excellent entry at this year’s Liberty Film Festival

Lord knows film festivals like Sundance would never think of airing it.

The Ugly American on January 26, 2007 at 7:27 PM

Does Allah subsist from food?

Entelechy on January 26, 2007 at 6:45 PM

My collie says: “doggie biscuits.”
I wonder if Michelle makes him sit-up and beg?
One thing is for certain:
If you want companionship, get married,
but if you want unconditional love, buy a dog.

CyberCipher on January 26, 2007 at 8:06 PM

she really needs to get that intern a copy of vegas or premier and make playing around with it for a week her job or something.

jummy on January 26, 2007 at 9:03 PM

Dang that girl is hot!

Tzetzes on January 26, 2007 at 9:57 PM

Enjoy this link to HamNation; it might be the last one to grace our site. MK thought it’d be a good idea this afternoon to snark on the cartoonish yet enchanting Ilana Donna Arazie, with whom I’m momentarily smitten, and so a penalty must be paid.
AP, I am seriously worried about you. Ilana is cute enough, in a high-maintenance Cosmo-girl / Manhattanite-wannabe fashion, but she’s got nothing on MKH.

Anton on January 26, 2007 at 7:17 PM

MKH may have to wear sexy clothing for a few clips to restore the balance in The Force. From the looks of it Allahpundit is easily distracted by low hanging fruit (even of smaller size). Perhaps if he is so inclined to persuide MKH but the grasshopper may have earned his reward.

omegaram on January 26, 2007 at 10:20 PM

Allow me to borrow from the words of STRYPER, that great Christian metal band from the 80’s and early 90’s, “To Hell With the Environmentalist Whackos!”

Troy Rasmussen on January 26, 2007 at 10:36 PM

CyberCipher
My high school son and I spent a month in Romania a few years back. I can tell you that it is the most pro American nation I have ever traveled to. How I wish I had the money to go back!
If you have a command of any romance language, especialy Italian, you can pick up Romanian rather easily.

When I see films such as this I am reminded of the Soviet regime that was in the process of draining the Danube Delta, the 3rd largest flyway for migratory birds in the world, to be used as farm land… Talk about an ecological disaster! How about the Marsh Arabs in Iraq? No one seemed to chain themselves to anything while that ecological disaster was taking place. How about when the Romanian gov’t decided to build a canal from the Danube to the Black Sea? The gov’t emptied the prisons to get workers and, when that source of labor was exhausted, they took people off the streets and enslaved them. People were basically worked to death and buried next to the canal in anonomous graves. I traveled this canal and the entire crew on the boat was silent as we did it…
My point is that Romania wants to advance itself. The people there are generally rather smart and they know what is going on in the west. They want the prosperity that the rest of us enjoy. It is so totally hypocritical of western “environmentalists” to deny this of the people of Romania because of the environmentalist’s need to have people remain in their “indiginous” form.For Romanians this idea of “indigiouness living” really means slavery.
I would absolutely recommend a trip to Romania to anyone. The food and wine are great, the countryside beautiful and the people very pro American.
There are plenty of people still using horse and cart… They do not consider themselves as something to be admired. They consider themselves on the cusp of economic freedom… The environmentalists do them no favor.
Let me put it bluntly; would you want to sh!t in an outhouse???

Babs on January 26, 2007 at 11:09 PM

The environmental movement, in my view, is just another attempt by a few who think they are “more enlightened” than most trying to seize power over the many…

Yes, and it allows them to adopt as their world view Rousseau’s “Myth of the Nobel Savage,” which their moonbat professors would have introduced them to in Intro to Political Science. The Westerphobes never seem to want to make that last leap and adopt the lifestyle they romanticize so much, however.

Coyote D. on January 27, 2007 at 3:16 AM

Environmentalists make me sick.

Hell those environmentalists probably haven’t had to miss a meal in their pitiful lives. Sure they may have engaged in one of those ‘30-hour fasts to end hunger’ but they knew there was a big-mac or three at the end.

Even when they go to a ‘3rd world’ country (even Mexico) they usually stay in a tourist area or 4/5-star hotel and have all their whims catered to. If they ever drive through a poorer area (they never stop!) they don’t see the poverty - just the quaint ‘culture’ and ‘customs’.

And MK is Great!

CrazyFool on January 26, 2007 at 11:59 PM

I agree with you, CrazyFool.

When I lived in El Paso, TX, 14 years ago, my ex and I used to go to Juarez for the cheap eats and shopping. After taking a wrong turn, which is relatively easy since there are few street signs, if any, we came across neighborhoods of people living in deplorable conditions. People living in shacks, near dumps with no running water, maybe an outhouse or a ditch, and if they had any kind of electricity, it consisted of extension cords, and someone who wasn’t afraid of getting electrocuted when they plugged it in. I asked my ex, why do they live this way? Why don’t they travel to warmer touristy places in Mexico? He told me the poverty in those places are even more appalling and even if they could “travel”, would most likely be robbed or killed along the way. Whole families are reluctant to move from places they’ve known all their lives.

All those people in Ham’s film looking for work will one day, leave their quaint little towns, their families and friends, their customs and culture, in desperation, because of the need to work to feed their bellies, put roofs over their heads, and to take care of families back home. They speak little to no english, have little education, and wind up working in sweat shops, meat packing plants, factories, etc., stealing other people’s identities to continue to work.

The wheels keep on turning, don’t they?

Enviromentalists have a lot to answer for as they hold their cardboard signs or have sit down rallies in front of the White House or Capitol Hill. They have their slick little websites asking for donations. You know what the curly haired woman in Ham’s video probably did later that evening? She went to one of those funky little 18th Street bars crowing to her like-minded bozo friends guzzling endless rounds of cocktails.

kiakjones on January 27, 2007 at 7:44 AM

Thank you MKH for bringing this docuentary to our attention. The enviroMENTALnuts have been essentially given a free pass to spew all their fear mongering nonsense for too long and it’s about time someone called them out on their methods and tactics.

Yakko77 on January 27, 2007 at 1:21 PM

Good post - and informative!

Emmett J. on January 27, 2007 at 3:22 PM

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I am not sure that anyone that grows up here in the U.S. can fully grasp the severity of the poverty until they have been there and seen it for themselves.

Go to El Paso, Texas, and drive the road that is right on the border. You can just about jump into the Rio Grande from your car, and on the other side of this narrow river is Mexico. Watch with studied admiration as entire, multiple generation families come to the river to bathe and wash all their clothes, usually consisting of what they have on and a couple of extra items.

Labamigo on January 27, 2007 at 7:46 PM

ok. I just saw the bit on this chick you’re “smitten” with.

d00d.

upgrade your standards.

seriously.

One Angry Christian on January 28, 2007 at 11:10 AM