GREEN on the outside, RED on the inside.
POGW related
Posted on 05/30/2008 10:11:23 PM PDT by CreativePerspective
For a century, an ambitious, arrogant, unscrupulous knowledge class -- social planners, scientists, intellectuals, experts and their left-wing political allies -- arrogated to themselves the right to rule either in the name of the oppressed working class (communism) or, in its more benign form, by virtue of their superior expertise in achieving the highest social progress by means of state planning (socialism).
Two decades ago, however, socialism and communism died rudely, then were buried forever by the empirical demonstration of the superiority of market capitalism everywhere from Thatcher's England to Deng's China, where just the partial abolition of socialism lifted more people out of poverty more rapidly than ever in human history.
Just as the ash heap of history beckoned, the intellectual left was handed the ultimate salvation: environmentalism. Now the experts will regulate your life not in the name of the proletariat or Fabian socialism but -- even better -- in the name of Earth itself.
Environmentalists are Gaia's priests, instructing us in her proper service and casting out those who refuse to genuflect. (See Newsweek above.) And having proclaimed the ultimate commandment -- carbon chastity -- they are preparing the supporting canonical legislation that will tell you how much you can travel, what kind of light you will read by, and at what temperature you may set your bedroom thermostat.
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The most obvious step is a major move to nuclear power, which to the atmosphere is the cleanest of the clean.
But your would-be masters have foreseen this contingency. The Church of the Environment promulgates secondary dogmas as well. One of these is a strict nuclear taboo.
Rather convenient, is it not? Take this major coal-substituting fix off the table and we will be rationing all the more. Guess who does the rationing?
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
GREEN on the outside, RED on the inside.
POGW related
“Somebody’s finally connecting the dots.”
Czech President Vaclav Klaus has been connecting the dots for some time. He recently spoke to our Congress and asked the congressmen not to yield to pressure from environmentalists and abandon the principles of free society: “the biggest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity at the beginning of the 21st century is not communism or its various softer variants. Communism was replaced by the threat of ambitious environmentalism.”
Here’s more: http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/03/29/159/
I’ve been saying this for years.
NUCLEAR ENERGY 2008!
(hint...it ain’t Barry)
:)
The Cambridge Conference Net (CCNet) is a rallying point for climate skeptics. It's edited by Benny Peiser, a faculty member at the University of Liverpool. Peiser's newsletter (daily, often with extra editions) covers a number of other topics besides Green silliness, and is a sort of clippings service. He offers an executive summary or abstract version of each article, followed by either the article in full, or excerpts, or abridged versions of the originals with links.
Peiser is actually a sociologist and catastrophist, i.e. he is interested in catastrophes, human responses to same, and aversion of same. He covers geological, climatological, and astrophysical and astronomical topics as well as environmental ones. Sample: He is involved with, and writes and circulates others' articles about, the NASA program to identify asteroids, planetoids, and planetesimals that might present a threat to earth in the future (like the Chicxulub meteor impact on the Yucatan platform that wiped out the dinosaurs and 65% of all species on earth).
Five months of winter with heating oil @ $5.00 a gallon and we’ll see more than a few watermelons dangling from the end of a rope.
They don't need O'Brien and his rat cage, they don't need Iron Feliks, if they can capture your children's minds, take away your grants, and make it impossible to publish or to speak.
In universities, they even have perfected Maoist self-criticism by using 60s-style transactional analysis techniques. No Red Guard needed.
This is classical revolutionary communism, which, far from being crushed, has adapted and survived by learning from its mistakes.
It's triply dangerous, therefore.
As I have said many times, when the Left has amassed as much power as they have here, right now, the only way out is Chile, or even Indonesia.
I hope I'm wrong about the solution.
[Environmentalists are Gaia’s priests, instructing us in her proper service and casting out those who refuse to genuflect. (See Newsweek above.) And having proclaimed the ultimate commandment — carbon chastity — they are preparing the supporting canonical legislation that will tell you how much you can travel, what kind of light you will read by, and at what temperature you may set your bedroom thermostat.]
These monsters of communist manipulations and socialism marxist indoctrination populate the current political structures of a dying western civilazaiton and the people support these fools while complaining about the high prices legislated by the fools.
So we see the blind leading the blind and dragging all into the ditch.
Just Monday, a British parliamentary committee proposed that every citizen be required to carry a carbon card that must be presented, under penalty of law, when buying gasoline, taking an airplane or using electricity. The card contains your yearly carbon ration to be drawn down with every purchase, every trip, every swipe.
There's no greater social power than the power to ration. And, other than rationing food, there is no greater instrument of social control than rationing energy, the currency of just about everything one does and uses in an advanced society.
I've been using a version of the title as my tagline for years. The three paragraphs above should scare the heck outta any rational person who reads them. Unfortunately, not enough will.
The lack of opposition makes enviromarxism the greatest threat to liberty in the world today. Unfortunately the POTUS has bought into it. The ideological triplets left standing in the race to be the next POTUS buy into it. The left leaning Senate and House buy into it. An American public, duped by a phoney propoganda film from a failed politician who's enriching myself over a panic he generated, buy into it.
It's coming. The only question is when will people wake up and what will it take and how long will it take to recover. I hate to say it, but an extended cold period, along with all of the suffering that brings, may be good if it helps expose the fraud and hastens the end of totalitarian enviromarxism. See...
I think people are beginning to wake up to the *extremism without substance* aspect. Most of us want to be good stewards of the beautiful earth given to us by God. We don’t need to throw away our common sense in so doing though.
I have learned that communicating with my senators and congressmen DOES have an impact. That’s why I emailed them earlier this week to share the REASONS why I am opposed to the Lieberman-Warren bill. That bill is a knee-jerk reaction...and horribly unreasonable and dangerous to our economy. Better solutions CAN be found.
Charles K. forgot to mention that the founder of Greenpeace, Patrick Moore, has stated that when the Berlin Wall fell, all the marxist/communists have migrated to the environmentalist movement. Patrick is now very pro-nuclear power
“..every citizen be required to carry a carbon card that must be presented, under penalty of law...”
Does it bother anybody that Carbon has the element number “6” on the Periodic Table?
Totally correct....except that the leftist elites who are working overtime to ensure economic enslavement to the “masses”.....will live in luxury as is the ultimate goal of all totalitarians no matter what garbage they spew out for others...
Krauthammer gets it.
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The right to have children should be a marketable commodity, bought and traded by individuals but absolutely limited by the state.
—Kenneth Boulding, originator of the “Spaceship Earth”
concept (as quoted by William Tucker in Progress and Privilege, 1982)
We have wished, we ecofreaks, for a disaster or for a social change to come and bomb us into Stone Age, where we might live like Indians in our valley, with our localism, our appropriate technology, our gardens, our homemade religion—guilt-free at last!
—Stewart Brand (writing in the Whole Earth Catalogue).
Free Enterprise really means rich people get richer. They have the freedom to exploit and psychologically rape their fellow human beings in the process…. Capitalism is destroying the earth.
—Helen Caldicott, Union of Concerned Scientists
We must make this an insecure and inhospitable place for capitalists and their projects…. We must reclaim the roads and plowed land, halt dam construction, tear down existing dams, free shackled rivers and return to wilderness millions of tens of millions of acres of presently settled land.
—David Foreman, Earth First!
Everything we have developed over the last 100 years should be destroyed.
—Pentti Linkola
If you ask me, it’d be a little short of disastrous for us to discover a source of clean, cheap, abundant energy because of what we would do with it. We ought to be looking for energy sources that are adequate for our needs, but that won’t give us the excesses of concentrated energy with which we could do mischief to the earth or to each other.
—Amory Lovins in The Mother Earth–Plowboy Interview, Nov/Dec 1977, p.22
The only real good technology is no technology at all. Technology is taxation without representation, imposed by our elitist species (man) upon the rest of the natural world.
—John Shuttleworth
What we’ve got to do in energy conservation is try to ride the global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, to have approached global warming as if it is real means energy conservation, so we will be doing the right thing anyway in terms of economic policy and environmental policy.
—Timothy Wirth, former U.S. Senator (D-Colorado)
I suspect that eradicating smallpox was wrong. It played an important part in balancing ecosystems.
—John Davis, editor of Earth First! Journal
Human beings, as a species, have no more value than slugs.
—John Davis, editor of Earth First! Journal
The extinction of the human species may not only be inevitable but a good thing....This is not to say that the rise of human civilization is insignificant, but there is no way of showing that it will be much help to the world in the long run.
—Economist editorial
We advocate biodiversity for biodiversity’s sake. It may take our extinction to set things straight.
—David Foreman, Earth First!
Phasing out the human race will solve every problem on earth, social and environmental.
—Dave Forman, Founder of Earth First!
If radical environmentalists were to invent a disease to bring human populations back to sanity, it would probably be something like AIDS
—Earth First! Newsletter
Human happiness, and certainly human fecundity, is not as important as a wild and healthy planets…Some of us can only hope for the right virus to come along.
—David Graber, biologist, National Park Service
The collective needs of non-human species must take precedence over the needs and desires of humans.
—Dr. Reed F. Noss, The Wildlands Project
If I were reincarnated, I would wish to be returned to Earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels.
—Prince Phillip, World Wildlife Fund
Cannibalism is a “radical but realistic solution to the problem of overpopulation.”
—Lyall Watson, The Financial Times, 15 July 1995
Poverty For “Those People”
We, in the green movement, aspire to a cultural model in which killing a forest will be considered more contemptible and more criminal than the sale of 6-year-old children to Asian brothels.
—Carl Amery
more on the greenienfrom Bill here.
The Rats in charge see it as their best chance to implement socialism they have been dreaming of. They see it as a way to get votes too.
The Rat voters probably don't know what they are voting and asking for. Most are unable to think that far ahead.
I think we are in big trouble over this issue.
I cannot get past the feeling that the government and the new ruling class are our enemies..
What we're experiencing isn't an accident. It's a strategy.
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