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Source; by Amir Taheri December 17, 2023 at 4:00 am
[H]istory shows that civilizations based on recycling and no growth end up disappearing, the most glaring example being ancient Sumer.
Nuclear energy may sound attractive.... But the fact is that we still know little about its impact in the long run, especially when it comes to disposing of the waste it produces.
Since the Paris Conference of 2015, those leading the "save the planet" crusade have opted for a piecemeal approach to a problem that, if it exists, cannot be solved by diplomatic gimmicks, fixing sectorial targets such as a maximum of 2 degrees increase in global warming by an arbitrary date...
(Image source: iStock)Even before it started, it was evident that the COP28 jamboree to "save the planet" would not satisfy the high expectations, some of them contradictory, of the 198 nations and dozens of non-governmental organizations attending the event with different agendas, including some hidden ones.
It is, therefore no surprise that some participants pronounced the event "a big failure" even before the conference president, the UAE's Sheikh Sultan Ahmed al-Jaber, struck the final gavel.
The next move was to blame "the Arabs" and the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) as a whole.
The fact, however, is that OPEC as a whole accounts for just over a third of global oil production.
Of the top oil producers, only two Saudi Arabia and Iraq are Arab states. The United States, Russia and Canada claim first, third and fourth slots as largest producers. Of the top 20 consumers of crude, oil only two, Indonesia and Iran, are OPEC members.
If the "Big Bad Oil" octopus exists, its tentacles reach beyond Arabs and OPEC, from China and India to the European Union, the United States, Canada, Mexico and Brazil.
But why did "Big Bad Oil" come into being in the first place?
Oil became the indispensable element for building what was to become known as "the modern world" that promised a lifestyle of movement and speed in the service of free global trade based on the comparative advantage theory.
From the start, that is to say sometime in the 19th century, the oil business has been dominated by a handful of Western nations that, except the United States, all had state-owned oil companies and a military machine to protect and expand their oil interests.
The "modern world" meant rapid urbanization, growing distances between places of work and of abode that necessitated transport, including automobiles, hailed as the latest symbol of individual freedom.
The new lifestyle also meant building energy-devouring vertical mega-cities seen as the most effective symbols of wealth and power.
Even today, building skyscrapers is regarded as the entry ticket to the "modern world". Cheap oil also made unprecedented mobility of labor and immigration possible.
Ironically, many Western eco-warriors who blame the "Big Bad Oil" forget all that and a few more facts.
The first is that Western governments earn more money from taxes on oil and its byproducts than the average OPEC member.
At the same time, the bulk of investment in exploring and producing new oil reserves comes from Western and to a lesser extent Russian and Chinese companies.
While Western eco-warriors speak of the need to end oil, hardly a year passes without their own companies cutting the ribbons on new oilfields in the Mediterranean, the Gulf of Guinea, the Black Sea and even the Arctic Circle and Antarctica.
If global warming is a real threat to the planet it should not be treated as a technical problem to be solved by technocrats. It is a civilizational problem that can only be dealt with if we are prepared to contemplate and start working for an alternative lifestyle less dependent on speed, movement, mega-cities and consumer-led economic growth.
The alternatives offered so far lack credibility.
Keeping the present lifestyle, which incidentally is expanding into China, India and many more "emerging nations" while trying to replace oil with alternatives, involves a number of unknowns not to mention the unknown unknowns.
Nuclear energy may sound attractive. But the fact is that we still know little about its impact in the long run, especially when it comes to disposing of the waste it produces.
The reopening of long-abandoned coal mines in Australia, the US, Poland, Germany and the UK, among others, amounts to trying to use a bigger evil to deal with a lesser one.
Renewable energy sources such as solar, wind and others are still in their infancy and, provided current levels of investment and technological progress are maintained, could take decades to sustain the "modern world" as we know it.
Such radical ideas as "the end of obsession with economic growth" and a new culture of recycling are unlikely to secure the public support needed for a serious transition from one way of being to another.
In any case, history shows that civilizations based on recycling and no growth end up disappearing, the most glaring example being ancient Sumer.
Blaming the "big bad oil" may provide a ready excuse for the failure of political leadership, especially in the more powerful countries, to present the problem as one of building a different, hopefully more sustainable global lifestyle and not a collection of discrete issues such as the submersion of ocean islands and the spread of air pollution beyond the 300 or so mega-cities that are already poisoning their inhabitants.
Since the currently popular model took almost two centuries to take shape it would be naïve to expect an alternative to emerge with a few COP28-like gatherings and duplicitous pseudo-solutions such as the sale of "carbon offsets" by some nations to others.
Since the Paris Conference of 2015, those leading the "save the planet" crusade have opted for a piecemeal approach to a problem that, if it exists, cannot be solved by diplomatic gimmicks, fixing sectorial targets such as a maximum of 2 degrees increase in global warming by an arbitrary date, and the inevitable passing-of-the-buck game.
At the other end of the spectrum, eco-warriors are struck by short-termism by pretending that throwing paint at a Van Gogh in the National Gallery or blocking access to the metro in Paris are the best ways of inviting people to think of the transition that may have become inevitable.
Guess which industrial nation has had more success in reducing its carbon footprint, mainly by replacing classical cars with electric ones.
The answer is Norway. But it is also the world's fifth-largest exporter of oil and third-largest exporter of gas.
And, which country has the biggest solar-energy production? The answer is China, which is also the world's number one importer of oil.
Gauging the impact of "Big Bad Oil" isn't that simple.
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"Every man who loves peace, every man who loves his country, every man who loves liberty, ought to have it ever before his eyes, that he may cherish in his heart a due attachment to the Union of America, and be able to set a due value on the means of preserving it." —James Madison (1788) As Harry Truman said: "Show me a politician who got rich while in office, and I will show you a Crook."
"Every man who loves peace, every man who loves his country, every man who loves liberty, ought to have it ever before his eyes, that he may cherish in his heart a due attachment to the Union of America, and be able to set a due value on the means of preserving it." —James Madison (1788) As Harry Truman said: "Show me a politician who got rich while in office, and I will show you a Crook."
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"[W]here is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation deserts the oaths...Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that National morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle." --George Washington
“When studied with any degree of thoroughness, the economic problem will be found to run into the political problem, the political problem in turn into the philosophical problem, and the philosophical problem itself to be almost indissolubly bound up at last with the religious problem…Religion and politics are inseparable, the decay of one most produce the decay of the other.”
Dan Bell said: “Changes in moral temper and culture are not amendable to social engineering or political control. The ultimate sources are the religious conceptions which undergird a society.” So, should our government be devoid of its traditional and historical religious influences. To do so would ignore that government consisting only of secular influences (or conversely also only religious ones) is not what the Establishment Clause in our founding documents wisely intended. Those documents recognized and understood that such an unequal mix is an aberration that leads to catastrophic results. The Clause intended only to “…make no law respecting an establishment of religion…” meaning only to prevent a particular denomination from achieving official sanction. It didn't preclude specific, proven and sound, religious principles, influences “…or prohibiting the free exercise thereof…” in government.
Religion has been central to people’s lives for all of recorded history. This tangential relationship occasionally makes it appear that religion is the source of bad acts or results. It must be remembered that religion’s correlation to society is not proof of causations that occur in it. Rather, that correlation should point to the idea that the secular faith in democracy and material wealth is too weak, too vague, too societally enervating, to provide the post-Christian West with the spiritual steel it requires for survival. Democracy’s failures tend to prove that Enlightment ideals are not sufficient for the task.
Sound religion’s influence provides a primary safeguard for the commitment to the principles of freedom reached by reason. Without such a safeguard government too easily can alter, abrogate or destroy. Only such transcendent can insure our inalienable rights against the ever-changing tempest of human political will and fortune. Remove those religious influences and human nature fills the vacuum with a replacement religion of secularism, dangerous because it ultimate has no limits on the boundaries of its actions, other than the will and whim of those in power. Atheism’s unprecedented wars, both within and between nations, against religion during the 20th century alone stand as proof. Its predominant secular-based ideology resulted in 150 million killed, primarily by their own governments; billions enslaved, ecosystems polluted and whole nations plundered. Some alternative!
"Again and again, Americans find themselves at war with each other over public schooling. Yet furious conflict over religion in this country is almost unheard-of. ... So why does the endless variety of religious life in the United States lead to so little strife, while the strife over public schooling never seems to end? The answer is no mystery. America is a land of religious freedom, in which people decide for themselves what to believe and how to worship. No religion is funded by government. No church or synagogue has a state-supported monopoly. Elected officials have no say in the doctrines of any faith or the content of any religious service. Religion flourishes in America because church and state are separate. And it flourishes so peacefully because no one is forced to support anyone else's faith, or to attend a church he isn't happy with, or to bring up children according to the religious views of whichever faction has the most votes. Religion is peaceful because it is government-free. Liberate the schools, and they too would be at peace. Taxpayer-funded, one-curriculum-fits-all schooling makes conflict inevitable. There would be far less animosity if parents were as free to choose how and where their children learn as they are to choose how and where they worship. Separation of church and state has made America an exemplar of religious pluralism and tolerance. Imagine what separation of school and state could do for education." -- Jeff Jacoby
“Remember that the struggle against religion is a struggle for socialism”—Emilian Yaroslavsky (Pravada)
"Socialism, which cannot be established without a political police force, and not without stopping any form of dissent, is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and the abject worship of the state…Socialism is, in its essence, and attack upon the right of the ordinary man or woman to breathe freely without having a harsh, clumsy, tyrannical hand clapped across their mouths, nostrils, and throats."--Winston Churchill
Source; American Thinker https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/12/two_weeks_that_changed_america.html?fbclid=IwAR2bfEEqcBmjPOrKYgXgaDYwykmigKeHALh1SL081YjsrmBytasrw6v0NAs
Two Weeks That Changed America
I was recently asked if there was a defining moment that dramatically accelerated and perhaps made permanent the chaos this nation is presently facing. My answer: the two weeks between March 16 and March 30, 2020.
On March 16th, Donald Trump declared a National Emergency for COVID-19 and effectively shut down the nation for “15 days to slow the spread”. At a press conference announcing the temporary shutdown he said: “With several weeks of focused action, we can turn the corner, and turn it quickly.”
Regardless of the severity, never throughout the annals of mankind has a nation been shut down to combat a pandemic. However, the politically compromised and dishonest medical advisors to Trump (including Drs. Fauci and Birx) advised him to declare a National Emergency and agree to a shutdown and social distancing by pointing to the supposed success of China’s choreographed lockdowns.
Soon thereafter, Trump allied with Mitch McConnell and the Democrats to structure an unprecedented economic relief package which was passed by Congress on March 27, 2020. Trump signed the $2.2 Trillion Coronavirus relief bill or the CARES Act on the same day. This was the largest single spending bill in human history and equivalent to the annual Gross Domestic Product of Russia.
Within the voluminous CARES Act was $400 million to the states to legitimize, promote, and underwrite mass mail-in voting and by default, ballot harvesting. By including this spending in the relief package, both political parties and the White House gave their stamp of approval for mass mail-in voting and the inevitable attendant abuse and manipulation.
The announced initial 15 days to slow the spread of COVID-19 days became 45 days as Donald Trump, on March 30, 2020, reluctantly extended the de facto national shutdown for an additional 30 days after acquiescing to the so-called public health experts in the government.
Once that extension was announced, Trump lost control of events and it became impossible for him to reverse course. He was mercilessly mocked whenever he talked about ending the lockdowns toward the end of the 45-day period as the legacy media and the Democrats were incessantly fearmongering and the federal medical bureaucracy was deliberately inflating the infection and fatality numbers.
This cabal was secure in the knowledge that the measures outlined by Trump and the White House Covid Task Force would sink the economy and open the door to mass mail-in voting and voter fraud. Which would also be the catalyst to defeat Trump in the general election. Accordingly, the political opposition and legacy media unrelentingly wallowed in alarmism and championed draconian lockdowns, masking and social distancing while also promoting mass mail-in voting.
Thus, the extension issued on March 30th inevitably led to long-term lockdowns, massive economic dislocation, protracted school closures as the various state governors, pointing to Trump’s decisions as their justification, initiated their own lockdown regimens. Trump was confronted with the reality that a president has no legal basis to intervene in the shutdown policies of the individual states.
Instinctively, Trump knew he had made a mistake as he watched the economy implode. However, due to the upcoming election, he hesitated to remove those around him, such as the duplicitous Drs. Fauci and Birx, who were not only incompetent but in league with the Democrat/Legacy Media axis.
Trump, in his speeches, did attempt to convince the governors and federal bureaucrats to alter course, but it was too late as the damage to his presidency, the nation, and the citizenry was a fait accompli. Further, with donor and federal government funding combined with insouciance on the part of the Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee, the Democrat war machine relentlessly, and in some cases unconstitutionally, succeeded in changing election laws in numerous states prior to November 3, 2020.
The decisions and actions between March 16th and March 30, 2020 were the primary factor in the election of Joe Biden and the Obama-led Marxist takeover of the presidency and the Executive Branch, which has eventuated in the following:
- A de facto open border resulting in over 10 million illegal immigrants and an untold number of potential terrorists flooding the nation,
- $10.3 Trillion in new national debt since March of 2020 (in 2008 the total national debt was $10.0 Trillion),
- A potentially permanent stagnant economy and ongoing inflation resulting in one dollar in November of 2023 buying only 82% of what it did in March of 2020, while real disposable income is down 7.5%,
- A politically weaponized justice system and federal police force (FBI) targeting Trump and other political adversaries as well as everyday Americans,
- Permanent uncontrolled mail-in voting in 34 of the 50 states,
- The massive expansion of the government-sponsored censorship and domestic spying industry,
- An overwhelming erosion of confidence in the Federal health bureaucracy due to manipulating data, promoting lockdowns, and the haphazard approval and mandating of the COVID-19 vaccine,
- The funding of a never-ending and unnecessary war in Ukraine, the enriching of Iran, and the greenlighting of Chinese expansion and belligerency.
Donald Trump deserves to be recognized as an indispensable man who was the right president at the right time and prior to March of 2020 had one of the most successful presidencies in the modern era. However, when confronted by his adversaries and their manipulation of the Coronavirus Pandemic, Trump’s acquiescence and decision-making process was out of character as he was far too fixated on the upcoming election.
The decisions a president makes in times of national crises oftentimes have enormous implications for the future of the country. The decisions made in those fateful two weeks between March 16 and March 30, 2020 are the backdrop to the chaos this nation is presently experiencing.
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What they do!
They smile in your face
Smiling faces... smiling faces sometimes tell lies
Back stabbers
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The nation I grew up in would not have tolerated the left-wing/democrats invasion by millions upon millions of illegal migrants, young men alone of military age coming across the non-existent borders to take what they wanted while demanding money.
We have seen its familiar choreography in efforts involving racism and crime, our national security, agriculture, education, and health care, etc.; whatever the tune, the steps are the same:
1.Manufacture a “crisis”
2.Offer “emergency solutions” people would never accept except for the “crisis.”
3. Results achieve the hidden goal, unrelated to the supposed problem
This 3-step process is a function of what’s termed “communitarianism,” which claims that in matters of public policy, we must “balance” individual rights guaranteed by the Constitution with (imagined) “community rights” to assure “fairness.” The 3-step process is:
- Individual rights are selfish, harming the community
-Individuals cede some of their rights to the community
-Results: fewer rights/freedoms for individuals, more power for local, state, or federal government
The “problem” (i.e., lack of community rights) didn’t actually exist but, was manufactured by those whose true goal was abolishing individual rights and freedoms and increasing the power and reach of government they control to impose their social and political visions.
Your mistake is in assuming that the left-wing (whether clinton, BObama, biden, schumer, pelosi, et al) actually wants what’s best for this nation and its citizens… they don’t! They want what’s best for them and the other global left-wing elites with whom they share the same ol’ self-serving globalist fantasy.
“What they do,” an example:
Step 1: The “Crisis”: the COVID-19 “pandemic” was supposedly an existential threat to humankind that demanded draconian “emergency” measures. Of course as it turns out that for normal or healthy people, it was barely more deadly than seasonal flu.
Step 2: “Emergency Solution”: useless business lockdowns, schools closed, churches closed, parks/beaches closed, vaccine mandates(1), useless social distancing, useless masking(2) etc. Of course many small businesses (that typical oppose BIG government) operate on narrow margins, so such lockdowns forced their permanent closings, and even major industries were impacted.
Step 3: Actual Results: devastated U.S. (and world) economy… again, the global elites’ primary goal all along, making Western democracies weaker against their globalist great reset/narrative push from the un, wef, et al.
"Things get to terrible places one tiny step at a time. If I encroach on you and I’m sophisticated about it, I’m going to encroach 2 millimeters. I’m going to encroach right to the point where you start to protest, then I’m going to stop. I’m going to wait, then you’re going to calm down, then I’m going to encroach again. Right to the point where you protest, then I’m going to stop. I’m just going to do that forever, and before you know it, you’re going to be back 3 miles from where you started. Bad things don’t just happen overnight. The Nazis didn’t just appear overnight. It’s small steps that before you know it, you look back and you go, ‘Man, maybe we should have done a little something’ While they’re encroaching, they’ll use distractions as a weapon. Evil doesn’t appear overnight; it festers and it preys on the fact that most of us are distracted with other things. It feels like we’ve been running through a test over the last couple years. Could we force people to live inside their homes and tell them they can’t go outside and put masks on outside and take a dangerous vax for little to no proven scientific reason. However, now people are starting to push back. So you push, push, push, push, push, push, push, and eventually the systems all start breaking down, and perhaps that’s where we are right now"--Jordan Peterson
That explains the coordinated media campaign claiming a 2nd Trump term will usher in the end of the republic and the rise of a fascist dictatorship? It’s because fear is all the left-wing/democrats got. It’s all they ever had, fearmongering polemics from the likes of ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, CNN, MSNBC, NPR, the Associated Press, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and every other leading left-wing media outlet in every major city in the US--the fake news media occupied by documented liberal biased so-called journalist. 3 weeks after biden’s campaign made their demands of the press, nearly every major left-wing media outlet in America rolled out some version of the campaign’s talking point about how dangerous a 2nd Trump term will be.
Why? Because Trump would “use the Justice Department to wreak vengeance against his adversaries,” and “get prosecutors to go after his enemies.” In other words, Trump might do what biden is doing right now in plain sight! Liberal PROJECTING—AGAIN! The left-wing media have no problem calling Trump and his supporters vermin all the time. All through Trump’s presidency, liberal/democrat reporters and columnists repeatedly described Trump as a rat and his officials and supporters as rats or vermin. But if Trump calls his opponents “vermin”? He’s just like Hitler.
In order to stoke our fears of Trump’s looming despotism, left-wing editors like kagan invoked the names and deeds of past presidents: “Abraham Lincoln suspended habeas corpus, the democrat Wilson shut down newspapers and magazines critical of the war; democrat F.D. Roosevelt rounded up Japanese Americans and placed them in camps.” Ooooh. Trump did nothing even remotely resembling these unconstitutional outrages in his 1st term, and — mark my words — he won’t do any such things his 2nd time around.
kagan says that in just a few short years, we’ve gone “from being relatively secure in our democracy to being a few short steps, and a matter of months, away from the possibility of dictatorship.” Anyone who thinks we’ve been “relatively secure in our democracy” under biden hasn’t been paying attention. biden has been far more dictatorial than Trump.
In closing, kagan turns the volume up to 11: “To shift metaphors, if we thought there was a 50% chance of an asteroid crashing into North America a year from now, would we be content to hope that it wouldn’t? Or would we be taking every conceivable measure to try to stop it?...At each point along the way, our political leaders, and we as voters, have let opportunities to stop Trump pass on the assumption that he would eventually meet some obstacle he could not overcome. Republicans could have stopped Trump from winning the nomination in 2016, but they didn’t. The voters could have elected hillary clinton, but they didn’t. Republican senators could have voted to convict Trump in either of his impeachment trials, which might have made his run for president much more difficult, but they didn’t.
Clearly, kagan, left-wing demogague that he is, doesn’t understand the point he’s repeatedly making: they didn’t! Republican primary voters were free to choose any other as the establishment standard-bearer in 2016, but they chose not to. The American people were free to elect the repugnant mrs b.j. clinton, but they chose not to. Republican senators were free to convict and remove Trump from office following his impeachment by the left-wing/democrat-controlled House, but they didn’t because they knew his persecutors were merely exercising a political vendetta rather than standing up for Rule of Law. THAT, mr. kagan, is how representative democracy works!
kagan closes with his umpteenth warning that we: “continue to drift toward dictatorship, still hoping for some intervention that will allow us to escape the consequences of our collective cowardice, our complacent, willful ignorance and, above all, our lack of any deep commitment to liberal democracy.”
Might it simply be that what left-wing elitest kagan sees as “collective cowardice” is merely the people's choice, a growing preference among the American people forTrump’s vigorous anti-woke leadership and “America First” policies ’s over the dangerously flawed, undeniable weakness and ineptitude ? Might it be that arrogant kagan mistakes complacency for quiet resolve, willful ignorance for informed approval, resistance for knowing better, commitment for his disapproval of his selfish agenda.
It’s fair to call this kind of left-wing rhetoric “assassination prep,” because of course if this will really be the last election, if we’re really facing a fascist dictatorship in Trump’s 2nd term, well then drastic measures are necessary, are they not? That’s the tacit argument being advanced in these pieces. And it’s not some fringe thing on the left. Scan left-wing media for hysterical essays warning that the next Trump presidency “will be worse.” The left-wing is getting desperate. You can only run so many pieces about how inflation isn’t real before people stop taking you seriously. And talking about biden will only hurt his chances at reelection. So the last move of the corrupt left-wing establishment is to do what the biden campaign asked it to do and churn out pieces designed to scare people into not voting for Trump.
Americans who remember what the economy was like during the Trump years aren’t going to be fooled — no matter how many bylines the left-wing adds to its 3,000-word think pieces about the coming dictatorship of Trump. They can chatter all they want, but fewer and fewer people are listening. Americans will make a choice. And if they won’t be suckered by the left-wing/democrats’ fearmongering, they’ll reject the poisonous anti-Republican message and they’ll support the America First policies of a, yes, imperfect, but just so much better than any left-wing/democrat, Donald Trump.
1. Pfizer said it expects sales of its mRNA Covid vax to plunge again in 2024. Annual sales of Pfizer’s shot and anti-Covid drug Paxlovid will fall 35% next year - on the heels of an 80% collapse this year. In 2022, Pfizer reported vax sales of $38 billion - the highest annual sales ever recorded for any pharmaceutical industry product - along with Paxlovid sales of $19 billion, for a total of $57 billion in China virus loot. Next year, it expects sales of $8 billion for the 2 products. Even that 85% drop underestimates the decline in how many doses of each will be given, because Pfizer is charging far more for them now than it did in 2022. Despite what can only be called a coordinated government-media propaganda campaign to press the shots, along with Pfizer’s and Moderna’s own ads, people simply do not want these vaxs.
Pfizer chief executive Dr. albert bourla 2023 pay has not yet been disclosed, but bourla made about $33 million in 2022, up from $24 million in 2021. “Nice work, if you can get it.”
2. Follow the science and those studies. Neither social distancing or masks are effective against a virus, bacteria maybe, but not a virus which is about 20 times smaller and can easily penetrate.
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“There is no science out there, or no scenario out there, that says the phase-out of fossil fuel is what’s going to achieve the 1.5 degree change goal (we're already at one or 1.1)...A phase-down and phase-out of fossil fuel, is in my view, inevitable … but we need to be real, serious and pragmatic about it. A rapid premature phaseout would bring untold harm, especially to the poorest and most vulnerable around the world...asking for a phase-out of fossil fuels, please help me, show me, the roadmap for a phase out of fossil fuels that will allow … for sustainable socio-economic development. Unless you want to take the world back into caves.” --cop28, Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, head of the state oil and renewable energy companies and the cop’s host.
A phase-out of fossil fuel use is likely inevitable. But it shouldn’t and hopefully won’t be forced upon society on some artificial timeline(1) set in the vain attempt to control the weather. Rather, for the peoples of the world, it will best occur when relatively inexpensive replacements are found that provide the benefits fossil fuel now largely uniquely provide: the more than 6,000 products in daily use; reliable and inexpensive electric power; and the chemicals and plastics that make possible modern agricultural abundance and critical public health technologies possible.
The un’s periodic climate reports want to be given Czar-like powers, to both recommend and oversee the implementation of climate policies globally. 5 ipcc report authors say scientists should be allowed to make policy prescriptions and potentially oversee implementation … by the 195 states signed up to the un framework convention on climate change (unfccc). The left-wing scientific elite, want governments to impose, under our guidance and legally binding oversight, polices to force people to comply with the climate crisis (2) diktats that we proscribe. They demand they should be allowed to force various nations to act according to their myths.
This is also not the first time un climate officials have called for a conscious remaking of society. In 2015, christiana figueres, then the executive secretary of un’s framework convention on climate change, admitted that climate policies are not about saving the planet or the environment, but about the power to remake society into a socialist paradise, as if there has been or ever could be such a thing, stating: "This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time, to change the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the Industrial Revolution.”
alexandria ocasio-cortez’s (D-NY), chief of staff, saikat chakrabarti, admitted the same thing concerning the green new deal, saying: “[t]he interesting thing about the green new deal is it wasn't originally a climate thing at all. We really think of it as a how-do-you-change-the-entire-economy thing.”
And in February 2021, Massachusetts Undersecretary for climate change david ismay said at a climate conference in Vermont that in the Northeast there were no more big climate “offenders,” to break, now it was time to “break” the people.
Extreme weather is not worsening and deaths from weather events have declined by more than 98%. In addition, as the Earth has modestly warmed crop production and yields have dramatically increased with a corresponding decline in hunger and starvation, and deaths attributable to non-optimum temperatures have substantially fallen. There is absolutely no demonstrated need to eschew the benefits of modern society that fossil fuel use makes possible. Also, there is certainly no justification for giving up essential liberty or economic progress to climate czars in a vain effort to control future weather.
In the end, authoritarians will always try to cloak their ambitions in paternalistic terms, “we must do this for the good of, ‘the people,’ ‘the proletariat,’ ‘the volk,’ ‘society,’ ‘the planet,’” pick your term from the appropriate region and time period, but it is in reality all about increasing power and aggrandizing themselves. The truth should be an absolute defense against climate authoritarians’ ambitions.
In his farewell address, President Dwight Eisenhower, warned that with the advent of big government funding big science, the people should jealously guard their liberty, saying: “[H]olding scientific discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.”
The Guardian reports U.N. climate scientists are finally saying the quiet part out loud: they want the authority to prescribe specific climate policies and the ability to track or monitor the compliance of the 195 nations that are signatories to the Paris climate agreement with those prescriptions or mandates.
The need to uphold and defend scientific and political transparency and the peoples’ primacy in deciding and implementing public policies, after a careful weighing of the potential benefits and costs in terms of economics and personal liberty, has never been more critical. Many companies, politicians, developing countries, and oil-producing countries who know full-well that “net zero by 2050” would be one of the most destructive developments in human history, think that it’s somehow necessary and practical to agree to the net-zero goals, but then in practice just engage in marginal GHG emissions reductions that will bring us nowhere near net-zero by 2050, such as: expanding carbon capture, subsidizing some solar and wind, experimenting with hydrogen fuel, or substituting some natural gas for coal.
If fossil fuel companies and other advocates of fossil fuels agree with net-zero, the naive think, it really must be the right goal—and any actions they take to slow down the achievement of that goal must be corrupt. Observe that much of the aftermath of cop28 is people like alGore saying that cop28’s goal of rapidly eliminating fossil fuels to achieve net-zero was undercut by fossil fuel interests, while he’s made $millions from the “crisis.”
Conferences, like cop28, are immoral because they deprive billions of the energy they need to prosper. They should be replaced by energy freedom conferences. If fossil fuel advocates had fundamentally challenged “net zero by 2050” in favor of energy freedom and global human flourishing, they could have made a huge difference. net-zero by 2050, that means rapidly eliminating fossil fuel use and really ruining the future of the world, means massive harm to the world and just by slowing the growth of emissions, we've done massive harm, which is not the goal. The goal is: advance human flourishing around the world, by that standard, fossil fuels are good, and energy freedom is good.
More and more scientists are finding the nerve to speak out against the climate hoax, but they’re decades behind the climate-industrial complex that is making trillions of dollars from “green” energy like solar and wind farms. But it’s becoming clear even to the environmentalist Kool-Aid drinkers that those “renewables” won’t come close to replacing the cheap and reliable fossil fuels that drive the world’s economy. Eliminating meat and dairy and crippling agriculture will result in the mass starvation of millions of people.
Again, who would want those results? Only the globalist elites at the un, the world economic forum, the club of rome, et al. -- many of whom are U.S. left-wing/democrat politicians, industrial magnates, and Big Tech oligarchs -- whose globalist fantasies are based on false malthusian ideas of “sustainable” levels of world population being limited to one billion people. They know that only a world government with unrestricted power can achieve what they call the misnamed “peaceful elimination” of over 7 billion people, so they see agenda 2030, the wef'’s great reset/narrative, et al., as the paths to achieve that global power and control. Those globalists use their 3-step process in every area of life to bring about the ruination of the U.S. and the Western democracies that are the major barriers to their dreams. That’s the true goal behind all their supposed “solutions.”
It's way past time to stop dancing to the leftists’ globalist tune, to stop accepting their phony “crises” and, especially, their crippling “solutions” that are designed to only destroy humanity in general.
1. Ernst & Young reported on sustainability efforts undertaken by business around the world and found businesses, especially in the Asia-Pacific region, were scaling back their climate commitments due to an increasing recognition of the high costs entailed by actions aimed at preventing global warming. As a baseline, the EY report accepts the belief that achieving net zero is necessary to meet the Paris climate goal of limiting post-industrial global average temperature to a rise of no more than 1.5 ℃. The 2023 sustainable value study shows that in Asia-Pacific, progress is slowing, conducted between August and October with 520 chief sustainability officer-level managers at international firms with at least US$1 billion in annual revenue across 10 industries in 23 nations. Among all businesses surveyed globally, the median target year for reaching net zero CO2 emissions has retreated to 2050 now. The delayed target was especially pronounced among businesses in the Asian-Pacific region, which made up 33% of the companies surveyed. Companies in Asia are twice as likely as their global peers to say the cost of achieving climate commitments is too high.
-65% percent of firms in the Asia-Pacific region, in countries such as China, Japan, and Australia, will spend the same or less on addressing climate change over the next 12 months, compared previously.
-20% of the corporate sustainability leaders in the Asia-Pacific region said the financial cost of achieving their companies’ climate change commitments is too high, which has led them to push back their targets—twice the number of companies saying the same thing based in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, India, and Africa.
-15% of the Asia-Pacific respondents said their firms are committed to achieving their climate change ambitions by 2030 or earlier, while 19% said their goals will be for 2060 or later. The rest set their targets between 2030 and 2060.
2. The climate change crisis:
Step 1. The “Crisis”: climate change is an existential threat to the earth; if something isn’t done immediately, the earth will burn up in (fill-in the blank) years.
Step 2. “Emergency Solution": eliminate fossil-fuel usage (curtail all manufacturing production, reduce/eliminate gasoline-powered cars, trains, trucks, planes, and ships), drastic restrictions on agriculture and cattle raising, make CO2, the most beneficial element in the world, a pollutant, etc.
Step 3, Actual Results: agenda 2030 is the un’s supposed response to climate change; if its 17 sustainable development Goals are actually implemented, the world will be reduced to mid-1800s-levels of food production, transportation, manufacturing, etc… except for the globalist elites behind the sc
Related news:
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/energy-experts-bash-john-kerrys-un-deal-shut-down-fossil-fuels
https://reason.com/2023/12/13/the-medias-misleading-fearmongering-over-climate-change/
Source; Sent from an Internet Friend................ Our current government is betraying us and our children!
"In the first 100 days of the biden regime there were over 90 executive actions on immigration, most of which dismantled an effective system, making it easier for illegals to enter and stay for good. Nearly every follow-up executive action or policy decision has been used to launder the crisis - not end it... The so-called left-wing/democrat comprehensive immigration reform plan is merely a reward to lawbreakers and an invitation to the entire world."--Dan Stein
"...the situation on the southern border is truly unprecedented. We have seen record-breaking month after record-breaking month of apprehensions... More than 5 1/2 million people including more than a million known getaways and untold number of violent criminals, gang members and potential terrorists since biden took office. The cartels have seized operational control of the border. And increasingly beleaguered Border Patrol has been pulled from frontline duties to focus on processing and releasing record numbers of illegal. A record number of more than 1,300 illegals have lost their lives on US soil. All of this biden's watch."-- May 2023 statement by Mark Morgan, former acting commissioner, and Tom Holman, former acting director, of the US Customs and Border Patrol
Today, immigration requirements that have been enforced for many decades, that is, whether an immigrant entering our country is self-sufficient or would become a welfare recipient, has been trashed. Meanwhile American taxpayers provide to the illegals transportation, shelter, food, medical care, education, etc. Unprecedented demands are being placed on job markets, schools, hospitals, police, social safety nets, infrastructure and natural resources. Unlimited illegal immigration is unsustainable given America's vast welfare state and woke agenda.
If illegal aliens break our laws by entering this country without permission and give birth to a child, they are rewarded with US citizenship for the child and guaranteed full access to all public and social services our society provides. And that's a lot of expensive services that the taxpayer pays for too. No other country does this.
Moreover, assimilation today is much more difficult. Diverse people worldwide are mostly engaged in hitting each other or it was killing each other. A diverse, peaceful, or stable society is against most historical precedents. Unfortunately the composition of current immigrants, reflecting their home country culture and politics can be more easily indoctrinated, manipulated, and persuaded by the left-wing marxism and political authoritarianism (with its racist and segregationist woke propaganda, which is a deeply flawed ideological mix of europhobia, separatism, emotions of alienation and hate, victimization and paranoia), causing at best assimilation into American society without assimilating the core American culture that unifies our nation.
And as to amnesty, which is blatantly abused in use, under the biden regime ICE is not even allowed to participate in claims proceeding, and uses parole as a mechanism to circumvent mandatory detention provisions. And HHS loses immediate contact with over 33% of unaccompanied minors(1). All of which grants illegals more protections than it allows US citizenship.
And of course the biden regime allowed illegals to enter and be shipped all over the US without the covid restrictions they forced on American citizens.
Meanwhile, Mexican cartels have made billions and billions of dollars exploiting the biden policies and the atrocious human suffering attendant to them - sex trafficking, rape, kidnapping, involuntary servitude, squalor, child abuse, child labor, etc. Even the uber liberal ny times wrote on the terrible condition facing tens of thousands of migrant teenagers which has exploded since 2021. "This is what can be described as modern-day slavery" as Ira Mehlman said.
In fact, W. Kurt Hauser also said the huge increase in illegal immigration caused by the rescission of prior immigration practices, policies and the laws by the biden regime includes crime, sex-trafficking, coercion, violence, rape, drugs, debts, and payments that would qualify as slavery. But the biden regime refuses to acknowledge that they are enabling this entirely predictable criminal and exploitative result of their policies. They, instead, deceptively portray themselves as saviors of the illegals, even as their policies are literally enslaving some of the migrants to the cartels.
Citizenship implies the status of freedom with the accompanying responsibilities, rights, and duties. The purpose of citizenship is to unite people around common values, belief systems, principles, etc. The ultimate purpose of immigration is to benefit citizens, not illegal aliens.
The preservation of a nation's territorial sovereignty, and the culture, language, mores, traditions, and customs that make possible a harmonious community of citizens, dictate that citizenship be granted only by the consent of the government and not by unilateral actions or demands of the alien. And then only to aliens who will throw off their allegiance to their former nation and society and pledge the allegiance to their new nation.
America is becoming an unrepresentative democracy because in critical issues, especially involving national identity, it's left-wing/democrat leaders pass laws and implement policies contrary to the views of the American people. But the left wing/democrat Party believes immigrants will enlarge their voting block. In fact, biden's unstated purpose is to allow as many aliens as possible to freely enter the US virtually at will, in face of broad public opposition and without regard for who the aliens are and whether they are willing or capable of assimilating into America. The left-wing/democratic party wants mass immigration as a part of its fundamental transforming of American society and culture
Left wing/democrat elites previously opposed illegal immigration, as did their labor unions. But now they see mass immigration as an imperative to gaining, retaining and exercising power. For the left-wing/democrat, party comes before country, which is why it has reversed course - again - determining that it's power is enlarged by open borders. Which will of course evolve to eliminate distinction between citizen and alien—and who can vote. In fact, this can be already be seen in a growing movement in left-wing/democrat run cities and states, as a package(3) to expand voting to include non-citizens, eliminate voter identification and allow other fraud-inducing policies. See California, Maryland, and Vermont for such actions.
All this one can only surmise that the left wing Democratic party does not believe in America, that the illegal alien is the rightful occupant of the us.
biden’s regime has a greater affection for aliens illegally in the U.S. than for tens of millions of US citizens who do not share his political ideological agenda. By all this one can only surmise that the left wing/democratic Party does not believe in America, that the illegal alien is the rightful occupant of the U.S., not the citizen., and they, the left-wing/democrat Party, want to destroy America(4).
And those who dare to take notice of the dangerous travesty of all this are immediately denounced and dismissed as racist promoting the great replacement / white genocide conspiracy theory.
In the past, biden, along with other notable left-wing/democrats such as woodrow wilson, fdr, harry reid, walter mondale, cesar chavez, and chuck schumer have all made statements supporting the replacement theory. But for the left-wing/democrat, there is no truth but their current desires.
1. The number of unaccompanied minors entering the US was at a high of 130,000, 300% higher than 2017.
2. Today unions have no problem with illegal immigration since they can be signed up as dues paying union members, unions which substantially fund the left-wing/democratic party.
3. "If non-citizen voting is implemented, non-citizen voters would not have to demonstrate an understanding of the English language including the ability to read, write, and speak words and ordinary usage. They won’t have to demonstrate a knowledge and understanding of the fundamentals of the history and the principles and form of government of the U.S.. They will not have to demonstrate that they are of good moral character by not, for example, having been convicted of a felony. They would not have to take an oath of allegiance to the US and renounce allegiance to another country. And they will not have to have had been in residence to the United States for at least 5 years, all of which puts the illegal in a far less demanding situation than for a citizen voting."--Stanley A. Renshon
4. richard lamm, former left-wing/democrat Governor of Colorado, said this on how to destroy America:
1st, turn America into a bilingual or multilingual and bicultural country. History shows that no nation can survive the tension, conflict, and antagonism of two or more competing languages and cultures.
2nd, invent multiculturalism and encourage immigrants to maintain their culture and the belief that all cultures are equal.
3rd, celebrate diversity rather than unity, reinforcing differences rather than emphasizing similarities.
4th, make the fastest growing demographic group the least educated creating a underclass, unassimilated, and antagonistic.
5th, get big foundations and businesses to give these efforts lots of money. Establish a cult of victimology and get all minorities to think their lack of success was the fault of the majority in other words a grievance industry.
6th, make it impossible to enforce her immigration laws. Develop the mantra that because immigration has been good for America in the past it must always be good. Make every individual immigrant symmetric and ignore the cumulative impact of millions of them.
Related news:
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/5000-illegals-released-daily-into-us
https://nypost.com/2023/12/10/opinion/joe-biden-loves-to-talk-compromise-why-no-senate-border-deal/
Source; 12/13/2023 // Ethan Huff //
Did you know that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) considers it a crime to support President Trump because to do so makes a person "anti-government?"
Being "anti-government," whatever that even means, is not even a crime in and of itself, but the FBI has decided that Trump supporters must be treated like terrorists in order to prevent another January 6 incident from occurring.
In the leadup to the 2024 presidential election, Big Brother wants America to know that it is watching you, especially if you want to "Make America Great Again." And if you are not careful, the FBI might end up tracking and monitoring you secretly because of the apparent risk you pose to the establishment.
The FBI has said nothing about doing this same type of spying and surveillance on Black Lives Matter (BLM) rioters, even though they looted Target stores and burned down businesses. It only cares about going after Trump supporters to purportedly prevent another "insurrection" type of incident.
(Related: The FBI has previously made it clear that it will do whatever it wants, regardless of what people think or what the law says.)
FBI miscarries justice and goes rogue
It was not all that long ago when the United States did not even have an FBI. It was the year 1908, in fact, when the FBI was spawned as a national police force, something America's founding fathers never intended for a free collection of states.
The idea of an FBI was sold to the public under the guise of it being needed to deal with legitimate federal crimes committed by, say, foreign criminals who infiltrate the U.S. and do things that fall under no other jurisdiction.
It was probably obvious to freedom-loving constitutionalists at the time that the idea of creating an FBI was dangerous in that doing so could one day allow a nationalized police force to be weaponized against the American people themselves. This is precisely what is now occurring.
Many, including investigative reporter Leo Hohmann, believe that the FBI needs to be disbanded to prevent any further assault on Americans' constitutional rights. The FBI has clearly been weaponized against a certain brand of politics which, love it or hate it, is still constitutionally protected.
The same would need to be said if the FBI suddenly started going after Democrats or some other group in exclusivity. This is known as a miscarriage, or perversion, of the justice system, and it is the FBI's forte.
"You do not need to be armed in order to be a strictly investigative agency," Hohmann notes. "Do your investigations and then turn the information over to state or local law enforcement, which could then make the decisions about whether to make any arrests."
Hohmann, by the way, actually opposes Trump for many of the same reasons this writer now does. Trump launched Operation Warp Speed, which was predicated by the PREP Act and other related legislation, that paved the way for the unleashing of Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) "vaccines."
"I turned against him when he rolled out a militarized vaccine program with an injection that wasn’t even a vaccine, using mRNA technology to tinker with human genetics," Hohmann says.
"He's also now gone soft on abortion, saying Republicans need to moderate their pro-life position. You're either pro life or you're not, Donald. You can't have it both ways. So I am done with Trump. I think he could even be a plant who is working for the other globalists, a type of Emmanuel Goldstein character from Orwell's 1984. In short, controlled opposition."
What do you think the next group of people will be in America whom the FBI tags as terrorists? Find out more at FBICorruption.news.
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"Every man who loves peace, every man who loves his country, every man who loves liberty, ought to have it ever before his eyes, that he may cherish in his heart a due attachment to the Union of America, and be able to set a due value on the means of preserving it." —James Madison (1788) As Harry Truman said: "Show me a politician who got rich while in office, and I will show you a Crook."
"Every man who loves peace, every man who loves his country, every man who loves liberty, ought to have it ever before his eyes, that he may cherish in his heart a due attachment to the Union of America, and be able to set a due value on the means of preserving it." —James Madison (1788) As Harry Truman said: "Show me a politician who got rich while in office, and I will show you a Crook."
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"Every man who loves peace, every man who loves his country, every man who loves liberty, ought to have it ever before his eyes, that he may cherish in his heart a due attachment to the Union of America, and be able to set a due value on the means of preserving it." —James Madison (1788) As Harry Truman said: "Show me a politician who got rich while in office, and I will show you a Crook."
"Every man who loves peace, every man who loves his country, every man who loves liberty, ought to have it ever before his eyes, that he may cherish in his heart a due attachment to the Union of America, and be able to set a due value on the means of preserving it." —James Madison (1788) As Harry Truman said: "Show me a politician who got rich while in office, and I will show you a Crook."
