Posted on 05/13/2007 6:59:49 AM PDT by Reform Canada
Global warming advocates know that there is a lot of money in it for them. They also realize that it is just another way of attempting to control the masses. If they get their way, not only will it make them millionares, like Gore and his movie, but they will be able to dictate what type of car you drive, what kind of home you live in, what type of building you will do your shopping in and the list goes on. Global warming advocates, like Al Gore, know that if they position themselves correctly, they will benefit financially and the tree huggers will follow by the millions, gladly giving them their money and allowing them to control their every move. Al Gore and people like him will play on “The sky is falling” idea and they WILL benefit from it and they know it.
A truly Reaganesque man could say to Al Gore-bachev today: Mr. Al Gore-bachev, “if there is any honesty in your heart, take off your mask. Do not exploit your lies to further your devious agenda. Tell us candidly what your goals are so that we can have an honest debate. Stop erecting those bogus smokescreens and stop scaring the gullible with pseudo-science.” Mr. Al Gore-bachev, “take off that ugly green mask.”
More than 100 emergency workers on the site of the accident on 26 April 1986 suffered radiation sickness, and 41 of them died.
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The report says other evidence of increases in radiation-related diseases is very limited. 'Intensive efforts to identify an excess of leukaemia in the evacuated and controlled zone populations and recovery workers were made without success. There remains no internationally accredited evidence of an excess of leukaemia.' There is also no evidence of an increase in other cancers, and there has been no statistical increase in deformities in babies. The only deformities related to radiation were among babies of pregnant women working on the site at the time of the explosion.
In the nearly 15 years since the Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe thousands of people have died and hundreds of thousands of births affected by its fallout. But the deaths are due to radiophobia, which caused extensive political fallout, and not from radiation-induced illness. According to UN scientists looking at the medical effects of Chernobyl, the real disaster has been psychosomatic disorders that were exacerbated by the mass media hysteria at the time. This hysteria encouraged inappropriate government actions in the former Soviet Union such as forced evacuations from locations that might have been contaminated with radiation.
Following the accident there was a small increase in radiation levels in Russia, the Ukraine and Belarus. Massive radiation screening programmes were established in these regions and in other countries such as Poland. Incidents of thyroid cancers (the form of cancer most likely following acute exposure to radiation) had not increased until 1996. Indeed the Brestoblast region of Belarus, the area with the second lowest radiation level, had the highest incidents of thyroid cancer. There has been an excess of 1,800 cases of childhood thyroid cancer in the whole of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine, according to the recent report, but even this may be partly due to previous under-reporting.
According to a Swedish radiobiologist, Professor Gunnar Walinder, the LNT hypothesis, and not radiation, is the real health hazard. The belief that any exposure may be harmful leads to disproportionate policies to remove people from this hypothetical danger.
Jaworowski estimates that nearly 5 million people in the former Soviet Union have been affected by severe psychological stress, leading to psychosomatic diseases. The main stress was inflicted on those living in areas where the media and Government informed them that it was fatal to live. Forced evacuations of the 850,000 newly categorized "Chernobyl victims" was planned. In the end, 400,000 people were forced to move.
Many of these people suffered from gastro-intestinal, endocrinological and other non-radiation induced problems. Relocation occurred for over 5 years, causing the destruction of family and community social networks, and according to Jaworowski "exposed the relocated persons to resentment and ostracism in the new localities, where old inhabitants treated them as privileged intruders." Relocation started with those exposed to most radiation (levels about the sixth the background level in Iran), but soon people exposed to doses of radiation lower than in Cornwall were being moved.
Among those moved, morbidity and mortality rates were far higher than those who stayed behind. And the cost of the process ran into billions of dollars. One estimate endorsed by Jaworowski puts the cost to Belarus at $86 billion. Perhaps saddest of all is that as many as 200,000 abortions were conducted of wanted pregnancies in order to avoid non-existent radiation damage to the fetus.
The end result of government action, activist pressure and media campaigns has been the spawning of a victim culture, where half of the Ukraine says their health has been adversely affected by Chernobyl.
You will never see that happen.....it would have a negative impact on his wallet. One thing to remember about Al Gore....he spent his whole life, preparing for the office of the President of the U.S. When the American people rejected him, he just about lost it, mentally. Now he is attempting to get some control back by controlling how we live. I honestly believe that his plan is to punish the American people for not electing him to an office that, he believes in his own mind, he deserved.
Al Gore, Rudy Gulianni, Hillary, Gorbachev are all similar types, Fascists and Neo-Fascists.
>You will never see that happen.<
Somehow I have a very clear mental image of Duncan Hunter saying such a thing to Al Gore in a debate scenario.
Yup....I don’t believe that Rudy is the right person to run this country. I tend to lean towards Romney, F. Thompson or Newt Gingrich. I think that Newt would be the strongest when it comes to running and protecting this country but I don’t believe the people would elect him. They would be afraid of him because he’ll tell it like it is and they don’t want the truth. What is that saying? “You can’t handle the truth.”
Richard C Hoagland points out that for Pluto to be warming as much as it is by direct sunlight earth would be baked dry by the same sun. Nevertheless, the entire solar system seems to be warming. While human industrial activities contribute, most of earth’s warming is due to the same natural cause as Pluto, etc.
They don't need "evidence" they have "consensus".
You clearly cannot: you know too little about dictatorial regimes in general and USSR in particular. Neither Gorbachev, nor anyone else would address ecological issue when the world is on the brink of war: if a significant part of the kGB balked at his reconciliation with the west and ''letting go'' of the Soviet colonies, they would start a nuclear war, the plans for which have been prepared long before. That is what Gorbachev faced on one hand and starving (yes, literally) starving population.
Nor was he free in choosing his reaction to Chernobyl. Secrecy was standard, and that is what the Party and the KGB demanded from him.
Finally, whatever insight you get into Gorbachev, says nothing at all about Gore, for instance: the circumstances are so vastly different. The above-quoted statement is a logical fallacy.
Thanks for the ping.
What, they just found out about “follow the money?”
What is the emperor wearing today?
Bookmarked.
Actually, there is another theory of why marxists adopted environmentalism.
This theory holds that marxists still believe in their theory that the capitalists would force down wages until the common folks faced with starvation would revolt ushering in socialism. Their principal problem was explaining why the common folk standards of living increased under capitalism.
Marxists reached the conclusion that the capitalists ravaged the environment in order to produce the excess wealth used to raise the standard of living for the common folk. It follows then, that if the marxists can force draconian environmental measures on the capitalists, then the common folk will starve and revolt and usher in socialism.
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