Kyoto – Cap and Trade: Destructive Policies Like WW I Reparations

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Jun 072010
 

By Dr. Tim Ball
Canada Free Press, June 7, 2010

In a wonderful parody two Australian satirists put the current European and world financial situation in an appropriate Alice In Wonderland perspective.

It’s a simple situation compared to the larger, but just as foolish, plans underway with cap and trade to create global socialism. It’s almost trite to quote George Santayana’s “Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Invariably it is bad politics that repeats.

Secular Retribution: Pay For Your Sins
Selfishness and retribution have undermined the global economy before. Wrong-headed political decisions of the Treaty of Versailles caused economic collapse after World War I. Countries demanded reparations from Germany as part of the 14 points Woodrow Wilson drafted before the war ended.  One of the most devastating parts of the Treaty was Article 231, the “War Guilt Clause.” Germany was forced to accept responsibility for starting the war and required, at French insistence, on paying massive unmanageable reparations. Reparations are defined as “making of amends for a wrong one has done, by paying money to or otherwise helping those who have been wronged.” Continue reading »

Obama’s Assault on the Church, via the EPA

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May 192010
 

Arlen Williams
Canada Free Press, May 19, 2010

In the kind of move forseen last year by Brannon Howse, the Obama administration is attempting to gain a foothold of ministerial (pardon the pun) influence over American churches, this by means of the pagan god, Gaia and the religion of environmentalism.  It is to be accomplished through the EPA, a tender thought from souls of the likes of Marxist tacticians, Joel Rogers, Van Jones, and that old fellow sojourner, Jim Wallis.

Do we need to care for the earth?  Yes, that is among Adam’s charges.  Do we need the Church to be directed by government, to fulfill the deceitful schemes of thieving profiteers seeking global, Marxofascist governance?  I know you can answer that question, too. Continue reading »

The Technocrats’ New Clothes

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May 192010
 

Climategate, the Icelandic volcano, the Greek meltdown — suddenly the bureaucratic Masters of the Universe don’t look so omnipotent.

Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online, May 19, 2010

In the last year, many of the dreams of an emerging international elite have imploded — and this, in a new century that was to usher in a regime of global liberal ecumenism.

The lies and academic fraud of Climategate reminded us that it is almost impossible for even disinterested scientists to fathom the complex history of global climate change. But it also — and more importantly — reminded us how Western universities have turned into rigid medieval centers of intolerant orthodoxy. Our new academic monks, in their isolated sanctuaries — cut off by grants, subsidies, tenure, and cadres of obsequious graduate students from the grubby efforts of others to stay alive — have for years breezily issued all sorts of near-religious exegeses and edicts about the public’s ruination of the planet. We lesser folk were supposed to find salvation through installing windmills and junking our incandescent light bulbs under the tutelage of wiser overseers. Continue reading »

Comparing Apples and Orangutans

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May 142010
 

By
The American Spectator, May 14, 2010

One of the most important energy matters to understand is that popular “renewable” electrical energy sources are not even remotely equivalent to our conventional energy sources.

Of course lobbyists don’t want consumers and politicians to think about that fact, so they go to great lengths to disguise it. Everything they propagate is based on an “equivalency” between “renewables” and conventional power sources that does not exist in the real world.

Even generally objective sources like the Department of Energy’s Energy Information Administration (EIA) seriously err when they show such things as levelized cost charts that have wind energy and nuclear power in contiguous columns. Continue reading »

Cap-and-Trade Is Back

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May 102010
 

By Brian Sussman
American Thinker, May 10, 2010

On Wednesday, Senators John Kerry (D-MA) and Joe Lieberman (I-CT) plan to introduce legislation designed to inflate the cost of energy, strain family budgets, and decimate America’s manufacturing sector — all in the name of supposedly saving the climate.

Kerry and Lieberman have been revamping legislation that narrowly passed the House of Representatives last year. The House bill imposes oppressive limits on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and establishes a complex cap-and-trade scheme in which the federal government determines how much CO2 a business may emit. If a business exceeds its allowance, it may purchase additional “carbon credits” from an exchange, where the credits will be traded like a commodity. Rules for the exchange of carbon credits, including the trading of carbon derivatives, are addressed in the House bill, and my sources tell me that the Senate version will include these same stratagems. Continue reading »

As the MSM Whips Up Fears of Tea Parties, Media Ignores the Real Terrorists Among Us — the Eco-Nuts

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May 012010
 

by Rich Trzupek
BigJournalism.com, May 1, 2010

We hear a lot about the tea party movement’s supposed potential to inspire violence an awful lot from the left and their allies in the lamestream media. It’s a predictable response to a powerful grass-roots movement that they aren’t capable of understanding: crank up the fear machine boys! If bogus charges of racism won’t stick and if the tea parties themselves are peaceful – if  passionate – protests, then you have to find some theme with which to frighten independent middle-America away from a movement to which they would otherwise instinctively sympathize with.

To wit: OK, maybe the tea-partiers themselves aren’t violent, but by expressing their anger with regard to big government, they will surely inspire some fringe nut-job to violence! Continue reading »

Whatever Happened To The Erupting Iceland Volcano?

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Apr 292010
 

By Dr. Tim Ball
Canada Free Press, April 29, 2010

This photo (left) taken on April 27, 2010 shows that the Eyjafjallajokull volcano continues to erupt in Iceland, but the story has fallen off the very small mainstream media tabletop. We need to put in perspective what happened and what it means.

There are two major stories. The first was the information provided by the United Kingdom Meteorological Office (UKMO) that was used to ground all the flights. They provided maps of the distribution of the ash cloud and made these available on their web site.

The site is still providing information but it is also providing an analysis of the model used to generate the forecasts. This is the Numerical Atmospheric Modelling Environment (NAME) that uses information from their larger Met Office Unified Continue reading »

Why I Am Enlarging My Carbon Footprint

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Apr 222010
 

By Robin of Berkeley
American Thinker, April 22, 2010

As a psychotherapist, I try my best to calm down my anxious clients. But in this case, I inadvertently triggered a panic attack.

My twenty-something client Emma, a survivor of the Berkeley public schools, had a coughing fit during our session. I helpfully got up to get her some water. When I handed her a cup, she looked at it, incredulous.

Her voice quivering, she asked, “Is this Styrofoam?”

I said yes. She stared at the cup, mesmerized by this forbidden fruit. When she finally found her words, she said, “I’ve never seen Styrofoam before. We learned in school that it kills baby birds.”

Worried that Emma would bolt, I quickly defended the contraband, “Actually, I bought the cups years ago, and still have a few left.”

When Emma returned the next week (thankfully), I asked about her reaction. She flooded me with stories about indoctrination by teachers. One of her earliest memories was singing songs on Earth Day, prayerfully, when she was five. Continue reading »

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