Even though I have already posted a 3 part blog regarding the
fallacy of "global warming" (now in Archives), and the perpetuation of the hoax,
the blog of a friend, Jacob, followed by the blog of yet another friend, Nip,
have inspired me to post another blog about the subject. Well, actually not
about "global warming" per se, but about the constant bombardment
of crises fostered by the liberal population, bureaucrats and
politicians, most of which have no basis in reality or are
twisted versions of the truth. And since I've already started
with "global warming", I'll continue with that line of thinking
first.
We just celebrated the 30th anniversary
of Earth Day (22 April), which was founded by U.S. Senator
Gaylord Nelson as an environmental "teach-in" (similar to the
Viet Nam protests) in 1970 and is celebrated in many countries
every year. This date is Spring in the Northern Hemisphere and
Autumn in the Southern Hemisphere. The United Nations, however,
celebrates an Earth Day each year on the March equinox, which is
often March 20, a tradition which was founded by peace activist
John McConnell in 1969. Senator Nelson (D-WI) wanted to start a
grass roots movement over concerns about overpopulation and when
there was a strong movement towards "Zero Population Growth." The
story goes that Earth Day was conceived by Senator Nelson after a
trip he took to Santa Barbara right after that horrific oil spill
off our coast in 1969. He was so outraged by what he saw that he
went back to Washington and passed a bill designating April 22 as
a national day to celebrate the earth, however, the original
concept of Earth Day was first proposed in a memo to JFK written
by Fred Dutton.
The concerns voiced at that first Earth Day in
1970 were taken very serious by the liberals, and anyone who
disagreed with them was considered ignorant or, worse, a
conservative. So let's see what they were so concerned about back
then. One of the organizers of the event said: "We're going to be
focusing an enormous amount of public interest on a whole, wide
range of environmental events, hopefully in such a manner that
it's going to be drawing the interrelationships between them and,
and getting people to look at the whole thing as one consistent
kind of picture, a picture of a society that's rapidly going in
the wrong direction that has to be stopped and turned
around."
"It's going to be an enormous affair, I think. We
have groups operating now in about 12,000 high schools, 2,000
colleges and universities and a couple of thousand other
community groups. It's safe to say I think that the number of
people who will be participating in one way or another is going
to be ranging in the millions." (The final tally came to
approximately 400,000 people.)
The nationwide event included opposition to the
Vietnam War on the agenda, but this was thought to detract for
the environmental message, and was limited in its involvement and
focus. Denis Hayes, the chief organizer for the first Earth Day,
wrote, "It is already too late to avoid mass starvation." Senator
Nelson stated, "Dr. S. Dillon Ripley, secretary of the
Smithsonian Institute, believes that in 25 years, somewhere
between 75 and 80 percent of all the species of living animals
will be extinct." Peter Gunter, a professor at North Texas State
University, stated, "... by 1975 widespread famines will begin in
India; these will spread by 1990 to include all of India,
Pakistan, China and the Near East, Africa. By the year 2000, or
conceivably sooner, South and Central America will exist under
famine conditions.... By the year 2000, thirty years from now,
the entire world, with the exception of Western Europe, North
America, and Australia, will be in famine." Paul Ehrlich, author
of The Population Bomb, predicted that between 1980 and 1989, 4
billion people, including 65 million Americans, would starve to
death. Life Magazine wrote, "... by 1985 air pollution will have
reduced the amount of sunlight reaching earth by one half."
Ecologist Kenneth Watt stated, "The world has been chilling
sharply for about twenty years. If present trends continue, the
world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean
temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder in the year 2000.
This is about twice what it would take to put us into an ice
age." Watt also stated, "By the year 2000, if present trends
continue, we will be using up crude oil at such a rate…that
there won't be any more crude oil."
The first Earth Day had participants and
celebrants in two thousand colleges and universities, roughly ten
thousand primary and secondary schools, and hundreds of
communities across the United States. More importantly, it
"brought 20 million Americans out into the spring sunshine for
peaceful demonstrations in favor of environmental reform." (This
estimate of attendees comes from Lewis, Jack [November 1985] in
"The Birth of EPA", but cannot be substantiated by usual means.)
"Senator Nelson stated when that Earth Day "worked" because of
the spontaneous response at the grassroots level. Twenty-million
demonstrators and thousands of schools and local communities
participated. He directly credited the first Earth Day with
persuading U.S. politicians that environmental legislation had a
substantial, lasting constituency. Many important laws were
passed by the Congress in the wake of the 1970 Earth Day,
including the Clean Air Act, wild lands and the ocean, and the
creation of the United States Environmental Protection Agency. It
is now observed in 175 countries, and coordinated by the
nonprofit Earth Day Network, according to whom Earth Day is now
"the largest secular holiday in the world, celebrated by more
than a half billion people every year."
Guess what? None of those predictions came to
pass, so, when those catastrophes didn't occur, they simply
changed direction. Of course, they take credit for "saving the
world" by feeding the masses and forcing laws that kept us from
all suffering frostbite. Now, it seems, billions are facing
starvation again in "third world nations", and on our own Indian
Reservations, while still others are facing an obesity problem in
the "civilized nations" (mentioned in Jacob's blog), and we are
all going to suffer heat stroke from "global warming". I have to
ask, if we hadn't changed everything to keep from freezing, would
we now be facing all this increase of heating? But, in reality,
both theories were wrong, as history will show. You see,
journalists have warned of climate change for 100 years, but
can't decide whether we face an ice age or warming.
The previous "global cooling" crisis was raised by
such an illustrious a person as Cesare Emiliani (8 December 1922
- 20 July 1995, an Italian-American scientist, considered one of
the greatest geologists and micropaleontologists of the 20th
century and the founder of paleoceanography.), while the current
"global warming" term was the child of Wallace Smith Broecker
(1975, "Climatic Change: Are We on the Brink of a Pronounced
Global Warming?" Science 189: 460-64.) The latter was furthered
by none other than a famed anthropologist, Margaret Meade, and
was carried up by the British science community solely for the
purpose of advancing nuclear power. It is also worthy to note
that none of these people are climatologists or meteorologists,
and that the terms "global warming" and "global cooling" have
been in use since the 1870's.
So, to avoid the labeling the changing patterns
that occur naturally on our planet as either cooling of warming,
they have changed the terminology to "climate change", and are
continuing to blame it on man, not on the real cause, nature.
Yes, man has contributed to "climate change", and for some 10,000
years. But not significantly enough to warrant all the hoopla by
the liberals and their harbingers of doom, the media.
In Jacob's blog, The Wrath of the Watermelons, he discusses some of
the lunacy going on "down under" right now (No, we're not the
only ones who have to deal with them). One such topic is one we
have had to deal with here for some time now, "paper or plastic".
It seems the liberals of South Australia have succeeded in
getting a law passed stating that all plastic shopping bags are
now banned, and you must either use paper (even though paper bags
were banned there over 25 years ago) or purchase a "green"
reusable bag. And since they have a law stating that all refuse
must be bagged in plastic, their citizens must now purchase
plastic bags to put their garbage in instead of using store
shopping bags. (As if that will reduce the amount of plastic in
their landfills somehow.)
When all this "stop using paper, switch to
plastic" liberal panic movement started in this country back in
the mid 70's, I could only laugh. I remember asking baggers to
choose to "destroy the forests or pollute the earth by using oil
byproducts". They usually just looked at me funny, but, if
pressed, I always chose paper. Nowadays, most plastic bags are
made of polyethylene, 80% of which is derived from natural gas,
and only 5.2% of them are recycled, but try to find paper bags in
any retail store today! Polyethylene, as a raw material, can be
manipulated into any shape, size, form or color. It's watertight
and can be made UV resistant. It can be printed on and reused
many, many times. In many cases, it can be recycled but is not
considered "cradle to cradle" meaning it cannot be recycled over
and over or returned to an pure organic state, unlike paper. Oh,
sure, it will eventually break down, but no one knows for sure
how long it actually takes.
Now paper, to me the preferred choice, offers some
very different aspects. Yes, it requires the cutting down and
processing of a tree, or a lot of trees. But trees are a fully
renewable source, and a huge industry. All across this nation are
tree farms surrounding paper mills, along with many logging
operations which reseed as a matter of both course and contract.
Okay, yes, the equipment requires fossil fuels, but so do the
processes required to make plastic, though not as much in plastic
as in paper. And paper must dry, or be kiln dried, before it can
be converted. But back to the bags, which can hold, if packed
properly, 3.5 times the amount as plastic bags hold, so it
requires fewer of them. And they return to an organic state much
faster than plastic. Not to mention they make a great weed
barrier when placed as soil cover, can be used as book covers, or
trash can liners (just like the plastic ones), and make a great
addition when creating compost. And 56% of paper products are
recycled!
The cutting of trees has been used as a
contributor to both the cooling and warming theories, and using
paper is still considered taboo by the liberals who screamed for
more plastic to be used, but now plastic is as well. We used
plastic because we were not given much choice (Like I say, try to
find a paper bag at WalMart these days, or anyplace else for that
matter.), they forced it on us. Now it seems they are telling us
they were wrong in applying plastic as the cure-all, and we need
to use paper, even though they screamed that we were killing the
earth by using paper in the first place. Bottom line, they simply
overreact to every situation, force changes, then when those
changes cause even more problems, they force us in another
direction.
Just as Jimmy Carter has now come out saying that
we must end our dependence on foreign oil, all while Pelosi and
others block legislation to open offshore drilling as well as
opening up the many oil fields we have on our own soil. It was
the liberals among the Democrats who first blocked that drilling
some 30 years ago, and forced us to utilize even more foreign oil
to begin with. So which is it? Do we continue using foreign oil,
or drill for and use our own? Even the liberals can't seem to
make up their mind which way to go, but if we question it, we are
labeled idiots and "right-wing zealots". Which leads me to Nip's
blog, SHOCK: FRIGHTENING, OMINOUS CONFIRMATION-A MUST
READ, and a recent article in, of all places, Pravda.
The title of the piece is, "American capitalism
gone with a whimper", and is spot on. It opens with, "It must be
said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American decent
into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed, against the
back drop of a passive, hapless sheeple, excuse me dear reader, I
meant people. True, the situation has been well prepared on and
off for the past century, especially the past twenty years. The
initial testing grounds was conducted upon our Holy Russia and a
bloody test it was. But we Russians would not just roll over and
give up our freedoms and our souls, no matter how much money Wall
Street poured into the fists of the Marxists." (I'd say that's a
pretty fair assessment of what just happened with the bailout of
Wall Street and the banks here, wouldn't you?)
"First, the population was dumbed down through a
politicized and substandard education system based on pop
culture, rather then the classics. Americans know more about
their favorite TV dramas then the drama in DC that directly
affects their lives. They care more for their 'right' to choke
down a McDonalds burger or a Burger King burger than for their
constitutional rights. Then they turn around and lecture us about
our rights and about our "democracy". Pride blind the foolish."
(Sure sounds like what we see around us everyday, doesn't
it?)
"Then their faith in God was destroyed, until
their churches, all tens of thousands of different 'branches and
denominations' were for the most part little more then Sunday
circuses and their televangelists and top protestant mega
preachers were more then happy to sell out their souls and flocks
to be on the 'winning' side of one pseudo Marxist politician or
another. Their flocks may complain, but when explained that they
would be on the 'winning' side, their flocks were ever so quick
to reject Christ in hopes for earthly power. Even our Holy
Orthodox churches are scandalously liberalized in America."
(Sounds right on the button to me, how about you?)
"The final collapse has come with the election of
Barack Obama. His speed in the past three months has been truly
impressive. His spending and money printing has been a record
setting, not just in America's short history but in the world. If
this keeps up for more then another year, and there is no sign
that it will not, America at best will resemble the Wiemar
Republic and at worst Zimbabwe."
"These past two weeks have been the most breath
taking of all. First came the announcement of a planned redesign
of the American Byzantine tax system, by the very thieves who
used it to bankroll their thefts, loses and swindles of hundreds
of billions of dollars. These make our Russian oligarchs look
little more then ordinary street thugs, in comparison. Yes, the
Americans have beat our own thieves in the shear volumes. Should
we congratulate them?"
"These men, of course, are not an elected panel
but made up of appointees picked from the very financial
oligarchs and their henchmen who are now gorging themselves on
trillions of American dollars, in one bailout after another. They
are also usurping the rights, duties and powers of the American
congress (parliament). Again, congress has put up little more
then a whimper to their masters."
"Then came Barack Obama's command that GM's
(General Motor) president step down from leadership of his
company. That is correct, dear reader, in the land of 'pure' free
markets, the American president now has the power, the self given
power, to fire CEOs and we can assume other employees of private
companies, at will. Come hither, go dither, the centurion
commands his minions."
"So it should be no surprise, that the American
president has followed this up with a "bold" move of declaring
that he and another group of unelected, chosen stooges will now
redesign the entire automotive industry and will even be the
guarantee of automobile policies. I am sure that if given the
chance, they would happily try and redesign it for the whole of
the world, too. Prime Minister Putin, less then two months ago,
warned Obama and UK's Blair, not to follow the path to Marxism,
it only leads to disaster. Apparently, even though we suffered 70
years of this Western sponsored horror show, we know nothing, as
foolish, drunken Russians, so let our 'wise' Anglo-Saxon fools
find out the folly of their own pride."
"Again, the American public has taken this with
barely a whimper...but a 'freeman' whimper."
"So, should it be any surprise to discover that
the Democratically controlled Congress of America is working on
passing a new regulation that would give the American Treasury
department the power to set 'fair' maximum salaries, evaluate
performance and control how private companies give out pay raises
and bonuses? Senator Barney Franks, a social pervert basking in
his homosexuality (of course, amongst the modern, enlightened
American societal norm, as well as that of the general West,
homosexuality is not only not a looked down upon life choice, but
is often praised as a virtue) and his Marxist enlightenment, has
led this effort. He stresses that this only affects companies
that receive government monies, but it is retroactive and taken
to a logical extreme, this would include any company or industry
that has ever received a tax break or incentive."
"The proud American will go down into his slavery
with out a fight, beating his chest and proclaiming to the world,
how free he really is. The world will only snicker."
Obama has sworn to "change how the world views the
United States", and he is doing exactly that, and as that last
line of the Pravda piece states, "The world will only snicker."
Is it any wonder, when the liberals are the ones getting the
press and MSM coverage? I have to snicker myself at the
foolishness that continually comes out of their mouths, harping
one crisis after another, with not a single one of them coming to
fruition. And all while even more crises are being created by our
own Congress and President. Sadly, these new crises are no
laughing matter, they are destroying our nation one step at a
time. From the nationalization of our automakers and banks, to
the forcing of a national health care plan and its forced
enrollment. From the raising of taxes on everything we buy and
use to the outrageous spending on programs that are not worthy of
consideration, we are following the path that the USSR and other
communist countries took so long ago, and we dismantled just a
few years ago. Even during the 60's and 70's, when liberals were
marching for a change in our government, I saw them as promoting
conflicting ideas. The path of Marxism, and the creation of a
police state. Even though the Communist (Marxist) Republic of
Cuba and the USSR were so obviously police states, they pushed
the Marxist agenda, and claimed the Republicans were creating
that police state. Their contradiction continues, and we are only
beginning to suffer the effects that will come in the near future
if this trend is allowed to continue.
The examples of the police state that is coming
are already in front of us. First, the DHS
report that drew so much fire, yet nothing was said about it by
the administration just as though it didn't happen. And there was
no outrage voiced by the MSM, but if it had happened during the
terms of Bush II, there would be cries of outrage still coming
from the left. But, instead, it was quickly replaced by the
"Swine flu" crisis that has ended up not being a crisis, yet. Why
do I say that? Because it was harped as being the worst flu
pandemic to hit this planet ever, exceeding the "Spanish flu"
outbreak of 1918, then slowly dismissed as an overreaction. But
now people are forgetting about it, attending public events,
traveling, sending their children to school as though it had
never happened, but it is still out there, and is now growing and
spreading even more than it was before. It will continue to
spread, but it won't become the great disaster it was first said
to be, though it will still be devastating.
Next, the arresting of a man who committed no
crime, who only had a "Don't Tread on Me" bumper sticker. A
violation of his First Amendment rights? Indeed. But swept under
the rug without so much as a by your leave. Where is the outrage?
And then the Air Force 2 flyover, bringing fear to the streets of
NYC, and the absolute denial by the White House of any knowledge
of the incident ever being planned. Anyone who has ever inquired
about either of the two planes used as transportation by the
President knows that they do not leave the ground without his
knowledge, and he is always informed if they in advance are not
going to be available, and, for security reasons, one does not
fly unless both fly. Security procedures also must be checked to
be certain that there will be no possible crisis that would force
them to be needed. But with a simple apology and the crucifying
of a subordinate as a sacrificial lamb, all is forgiven, and
forgotten by the liberals and the MSM without a proper
investigation.
These actions are only the beginning, there is so
much more to come, much more danger for all Americans but
especially conservatives who speak out. Yet speak out we must, or
face the same fate of the Russian people of ninety years ago. And
it won't matter one iota if you are white, black, red, yellow,
brown or any combination of races or ethnic backgrounds. We must
all stand together if we want our nation to survive!
WAKE UP, AMERICA!!
WE'RE BEING SOLD DOWN THE RIVER!!!
And I don't particular care to call my friends
Komrade!
I end this piece with a request. Please post any
and all examples of how liberals take first one side, then the
other, of issues and crises, as I want to know what the rest of
you see. Liberals who visit this page may make statements to
defend themselves or the stances of their selected groups. I know
there are so many more things I could have discussed, however I
held off strictly so you could have the opportunity to discuss
them among yourselves, and bring up some I might have missed
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