Copenhagen summit venue a madhouse

UPI ^ | Dec. 18, 2009 | STEFAN NICOLA

[IrishMike]

COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Friday saw the biggest security operation ever staged in Denmark, with 115 heads of state and government, including U.S. President Barack Obama and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, packed in one building.

Danish, U.N. and other national security forces were deployed in unprecedented numbers to Copenhagen and specifically to the Bella Center, where the two-week climate talks were due to end Friday. Among the leaders to be secured were such controversial figures as Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Zimbabwe's leader Robert Mugabe.

Nearly all of the 30,000 non-government organization and observer representatives were locked out from the building as of Thursday, with numerous side events canceled to prepare security for the high-level event with the world leaders.

A group of NGOs wrote an open letter to Yvo de Boer, the United Nation's top climate official, and conference President Lars Lokke Rasmussen saying it was "unacceptable that civil society observers should be limited in this forum."

Kumi Naidoo, head of Greenpeace International, said civil society participation "has been shrunk to an absolute minimum." He added the summit started off transparent but in the final days had been on a "slippery downward slope."

De Boer has since defended the move, saying it was a result of several disruptive events inside the Bella Center.

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The Bella Center has been a madhouse for quite some time. The second week has seen journalists and NGOs arriving in Copenhagen in droves, with authorities unable to handle the crush.

The Bella Center can hold 15,000 people but nearly 45,000 people were registered for the event. Frank McDonald of The Irish Times fittingly described the venue as "bedlam," a hint to a psychiatric hospital in London notorious for its cruelty to patients.

[Izzy Dunne]

OK, who’s got the film rights?

[HiTech RedNeck]

It had to have been orchestrated. Big shots in, observers out.

[sinanju]

Chicago ‘68 all over again!

There was a half-hearted attempt to film a Seattle ‘99 movie...

[SWAMPSNIPER]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNQqUACJ_Kw

[goldstategop]

The Left of course is directing a show that will lead nowhere. Its devoid of any real political meaning. Copenhagen, What? Even now, its relegated to political obscurity.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus

[Red Badger]

“Bedlam” WAS a psychiatric hospital. That’s where we got the word!.............

[Carley]

Headline is perfect!!!

[pabianice]

U.S. Global Warming hysterics show their solidarity with Copenhagen representatives.

[COUNTrecount]

Crapenhagen.

[Red Badger]

Danish, U.N. and other national security forces were deployed ...

Am I the only one that finds that statement disturbing?..................

[Izzy Dunne]

I was thinking of something like Woodstock, where everybody says “to hell with it” and strips naked and slides around in the snow...

[Col Frank Slade]

Hey Rasmussen is there !

Maybe he’s polling the delegates after Zero’s speech.

New low: -19

HAHA

[Jaxter]

[lgjhn23]

With the world’s worst trash all congregated in one building, maybe there will be an earthquake to swallow em all up.....or a deadly lightening bolt of some sorts.

[KarlInOhio]

I was thinking of something like Woodstock, where everybody says “to hell with it” and strips naked and slides around in the snow...

Sever frostbite can get you a rare "still alive" Darwin award.

[paulycy]

How could that scene fail to solve the world’s problems? /s

[sinanju]

There must be a few rad websites out there with choice photos.

A la those “Burning Man” sites.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Ping.

[gibtx2]

This is a harbinger of things to come in DC with Obama in charge and Soros funding him.

[Izzy Dunne]

The Bella Center can hold 15,000 people but nearly 45,000 people were registered for the event.

I think I see a flaw in the plan....

[clintonh8r]

If only everbody would do handstands.....

[SWAMPSNIPER]

Blue helmets produce an excellent sight picture!

[clintonh8r]

or “everybody”

[Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!]

So will Obama via Hillary still be giving them 100 billion of our dollars?

[catnipman]

Mama always did say, “Madhouse is as madhouse does.”

[New Yawk Minute]

Heheheh we think alike, it seems.

[paulycy]

This is a harbinger of things to come in DC with Obama in charge and Soros funding him.

Even evil genius George Soros won't throw good money after bad. Barack is going to get a serious talking-to after the events of the past several weeks, especially if healthcare - God willing - goes down to defeat.

[A_Former_Democrat]

Yet Tea Partiers are the crazies

[longtermmemmory]

who is pay for all this conference facility stuff (yes the taxpayers) but WHOSSE budget has this as an expense?

[Overtaxed Patriot]

Dog: I gotta get away from these dumbasses.

[dfwgator]

Wouldn’t it have been just an absolute tragedy had an SUV, traveling oh say, about 70 MPH, came barreling down the road right at that same time?

[imjimbo]

looks like a ‘target rich’ area.

[gibtx2]

He and his staff have gambled on green big. This rivals the take over of the silver market of past millionaires.

[imjimbo]

SUV good, mortar round better-!

[maggief]

Media watch U.S. President Barack Obama addressing the session of United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009 in Copenhagen December 18, 2009. World leaders worked through the early hours to try and beat a Friday deadline for a deal on cutting emissions and helping poor countries cope with the costly impact of global warming.

[freekitty]

Hey, Mad Dog Pelosi is there too. She should fit right in as crazy as she is.

[HIDEK6]

With the world’s worst trash all congregated in one building, maybe there will be an earthquake to swallow em all up.....or a deadly lightening bolt of some sorts.

Don't know about that, but if Al Quaeda does have a nuke, that would be a tempting target.

[paulycy]

He and his staff have gambled on green big.

When green/climate fails the whole leftist movement loses focus.

Halleluiah.

[gibtx2]

That is very true. It is their long term money. Soros is their short term money.

keep it up

THEY CAN NOT STAND CONSTANT PRESURE

[Rocky]

It’s Woodstock for eco-nazis.

[EyeGuy]

The caption attached to that picture was a blatant editorial.

It is amazing how brazen the LeftMedia has become.

[longtermmemmory]

where do you think all those citibank credit card charge offs are going to go? Obama collected a fotune in unverifiable credit card donations.

If citi fails it will be in PART to burry the evidence.

[stubernx98]

Where is that Pacific underwater Volcano eruption when you need it? Think how much better off the world would be if it had let loose under Copenhagen!

[paulycy]

If citi fails it will be in PART to burry the evidence.

Wow. I forgot about all that. Good catch.

[bert]

The dog is the only sane one in the picture

[dagogo redux]

Thinking exactly the same thing - only sane one is the disgusted dog.

When did military attire become the new clown suit?

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[TigersEye]

The Bella Center can hold 15,000 people but nearly 45,000 people were registered for the event.

I think I see a flaw in the plan....

And these are the people trying to measure a one or two degree difference in the average temperature of the whole planet.

The Bella Center can hold 15,000 people but nearly 45,000 people were registered for the event.

I think I see a flaw in the plan....

And these are the people trying to measure a one or two degree difference in the average temperature of the whole planet.

[SueRae]

Good point!!!!!