Posted on 12/17/2009 9:32:34 AM PST by Stoat
Bookworm on Dec 17 2009 at 9:28 am |
Since the beginning, climate change skeptics have said that the hysteria of the man-made global warming movement, aside from being based on manifestly shoddy and often dishonest science, was in fact a Leftist political gambit. The Communists, having failed to win the world over with a Cold War had regrouped and were seeking to win it over with a warm war. By targeting Western (that is, capitalist) nations as the evildoers in the worlds imminent boiling destruction, and then playing on the fear, guilt and ignorance of those same Western nations, the Communists . . . er, global warming saviors . . . announced a solution: the West should give up its wealth by transferring it en masse to poor nations. The West should also give up its lifestyle, by abandoning electricity, gas and even toilet paper. The West, in other words, should give true meaning to global warming by engaging in self-immolation.
The last month, however, has seen this Communist-inspired house of cards collapse as quickly as the Soviet bloc did back in 1989. First came ClimateGate, which revealed to the whole world the fact that the most ardent climate scientists were, in fact, ideologues who cared little about science, and a great deal about achieving a political goal. They lied about their data, destroyed their facts, and systematically set out to muzzle and destroy anyone who disagreed with them.
Second came word from Russia that the same scientists (and please understand that these scientists are responsible for almost all of the conclusions on which the hysteria was based) cherry-picked climate data from Russia. This is no small thing. Russia covers 12% of the earth, and its been the Siberian tree rings that have been at the centerpiece of the warmies claims.
And today comes news that definitively rips the mask off of this whole thing. When Hugo Chavez, a man who seeks to turn his beleaguered nation into a Communist workers paradise, with himself as leader for life, announces in Copenhagen that capitalism is the real culprit, and is met, not with silence or boos, but with deafening cheers, everything becomes clear:
President Chavez brought the house down.
When he said the process in Copenhagen was not democratic, it is not inclusive, but isnt that the reality of our world, the world is really and imperial dictatorship down with imperial dictatorships he got a rousing round of applause.
But then he wound up to his grand conclusion 20 minutes after his 5 minute speaking time was supposed to have ended and after quoting everyone from Karl Marx to Jesus Christ our revolution seeks to help all people socialism, the other ghost that is probably wandering around this room, thats the way to save the planet, capitalism is the road to hell .lets fight against capitalism and make it obey us. He won a standing ovation.
Let me translate Chavezs speech: The capitalist pigs in the United States are the enemies of the people and need to be destroyed. Chavezs speech, in other words, is pitch-perfect Communist Cold War rhetoric. During the Cold War, however, non-Communist bloc nations would have been politely silent, even if they agreed with his sentiments. Thanks to the brainwashing of global warming, however, people no longer feel compelled to hide their hatred for America and their desire for its destruction.
If Barack Obama had anything approaching human decency, he would use this Chavez speech and, more importantly, the reaction to this Chavez speech as the justification for refusing to go to Copenhagen. He wont though. Obama has made it clear, time and time again, that he agrees with the Chavez speech. He too believes that America is the cause of the worlds woes. He too believes that America should be de-energized and debased, both because it would make the world a better place and because America deserves that kind of humiliation. Chavezs speech, rather than being the straw that should break the Obami back on climate change, is simply the spoken expression of of their innate beliefs.
Incidentally, I realize that I erred somewhat when I compared whats happening now to 1989. The difference between now and then is the media. Although the media always hewed left, and was steadily dragging Americans into the relativist world of Communism is just another way of life, it was still able to recognize the shattering drama of the Solidarity movement and the physical destruction of the Berlin Wall. These were visible symbols of a decades-long conflict, and their occurrence made for good TV.
Things are entirely different here and now. The media, with almost no exceptions, had bought wholesale into the religion of Climate Change. Media members dont want to see their God fail. Additionally, theres no good TV here. Instead of hundreds, and then thousands, of Polish dockworkers facing down Soviet guns, or brave people climbing a wall, again to the backdrop of loaded guns, here are have somewhat complex scientific discussions, a few disgraced academics, and Hugo Chavez (a man media people find charismatic). They dont want the American people to see or know anything about all of this and, because it lacks good visuals, its easy to hide. Theres a revolution taking place, and the media is doing its damndest to bury it.
So folks, its up to us here, the ones in the blogosphere, to get word of the revolution out. Bloggers need to write, readers need to email blog posts and news articles to their less news obsessive friends. All of us need to put intriguing notes on facebook, linking to articles that will enlighten a population kept in the dark. We need to write letters to our local editors chastising them (politely, of course), for missing out on the biggest story, so far, of the 21st Century bigger even than the election of a vaguely black, completely red, man into the White House. The one thing I suggest is that you dont use the I told you so approach. People tend not to respond well to that kind of thing. Its much better, in terms of piquing peoples interest, to strike a tone of incredulous amazement, or excited sense of discovery, or even vague sadness.
Theres a revolution happening here. We have the weapons to destroy the Communist movements second attempt to destroy the Western world. Dont sit on the sidelines. Do something!
The so called Communist China and Russia are against it.
“History is written by the victors” a quote attributed to Winston Churchill.
That was always true. i.e. Once the English monarchy was restored following Oliver Cromwell’s shortlived republic...Cromwell was assigned the blame for genocide in Ireland.
So, in fact, there has always been post-conflict revisionism in addition to what we are now experiencing - pre-conflict propaganda.
They know the Communist playbook all too well, and can easily see the wolf under the 'green' sheep's clothing. They have been discovering that their modest, timid steps in the direction of free market Capitalism have been quite lucrative and they don't want the 'useful idiots' of the 'green movement' to spoil things, I'm sure.
Cromwell did commit genocide in Ireland. There’s a street called Scarlet Street in a town in Ireland, so-named because of the blood flowing through their streets, committed by Cromwell and his murdering cutthroats.
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