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IPCC Science Designed For Propaganda
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was specifically designed by Maurice Strong as a political vehicle to further his objective of crippling the industrial nations
(7 Feb 10) “.....Scientists at the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) built a dam to contain a lake full of dirty water. Someone behind the dam drilled a hole and sprang a leak. The flow is small but growing and the color of the water gets dirtier and dirtier and the size of the hole will increase as the extent of the corruption expands. Now a second major leak has developed in a different area as people dig through the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Reports. The structure of the organization made this almost inevitable. However, the structure was necessary to achieve the political rather than a scientific goal. Bureaucratic Structure: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was specifically designed by Maurice Strong as a political vehicle to further his objective of crippling the industrial nations. An acknowledged master of bureaucratic systems he set up every segment of the organization for the maximum public relations effect. This meant emphasis on emotional impact, especially by exploiting fear. The first need was to direct and control the science. It was achieved at the 1985 meeting in Villach Austria chaired by Canadian bureaucrat Gordon McBean with Phil Jones and Tom Wigley from CRU in attendance. The second need was for maximizing the fear factor to force political action....” IPCC Science Designed For Propaganda, Dr Tim Ball, Canada Free Press “..... Working Group II: Speculation As Fact Equals Corruption: There are several problems with the articles cited, especially in the WGII Reports. First the IPCC pushed the peer review issue to extremes by claiming they only used such articles, then peer reviewing each other's work. They used the issue to divert skeptics by telling them to get peer reviewed publications knowing they could control it. When one article by-passed their guard and was published by Geophysical Research Letters they got the editor fired. Now we discover they used a multitude of non-reviewed articles often from very biased sources such as the World Wildlife Fund and Greenpeace as references. Attempts to Put Fingers in The Dam: The leaks in the dam they built at CRU and the IPCC get bigger and bigger. Only a fraction of the dirty water has escaped but will continue to emerge. Meanwhile the cover-up has begun. The University of Pennsylvania has a whitewash with an internal review committee. They also announce they are conveniently not subject to the Freedom of Information Act....”
The CFC Ban: Global Warming's Pilot Episode, American Thinker
(7 Feb 10) “.....Although it has been only a little over twenty years since the Montreal Protocol, which effectively created a global ban on chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), the interesting history of the ozone hole has slipped under the radar, largely eclipsed by the much greater story of the anthropogenic global warming fraud. It's interesting to revisit the CFC/ozone depletion scam and note the striking similarities to the current campaign against CO 2 ... Back in the early '70s, chemists at the University of California began studying CFCs in the atmosphere. They theorized that eventually, CFCs could migrate to the upper atmosphere. After fifty to a hundred years, they could be broken down by UV radiation, releasing a reactive chlorine atom which could catalyze the degradation of ozone (O 3 ). It is significant to note that this was not proven, but was based on other work that showed the potential of nitric oxide (NO) to catalyze ozone. It was theory only, and it was hotly disputed by scientists working for CFC manufacturers at the time. In reality, it remains theory to this day. Note: To date, the concept of man-made CO 2 emissions causing global warming remains theory only. There exists no empirical evidence to support the theory.... Then, in 1985, the journal Nature (sound familiar?) published an article by some British researchers who reported observing a greater degree of thinning of the Antarctic ozone layer than expected. Thus was born the "ozone hole."........ In the end, a global ban on CFCs was enacted based on a theory that continues to be challenged to this day. Chemists remain uncertain of the rate and extent of ozone depletion due to chlorine. In fact, the exact role of atmospheric CFCs remains uncertain.....” The CFC Ban: Global Warming's Pilot Episode, American Thinker “.....It appears that the primary catalyst of ozone depletion is atmospheric chlorine, and the most atmospheric chlorine by far is out-gassed from the oceans or emitted by volcanoes. Mankind's contribution is miniscule (does this sound familiar?)... The CFC ban was a perfect pilot for the anthropogenic global warming fraud. It established all the characters: the eco-left NGOs, the environmental "scientists" (both real and self-proclaimed), and big industry poised to make huge profits and political control over human choices and behavior. It had buy-ins by governments all over the planet. It was based on an unproven (and probably unprovable) hypothesis. Many industries stood to gain at the expense of consumers. To this day, research continues to be funded to study CFCs in the atmosphere. Most significantly, the "ozone hole" hasn't changed appreciably. It remains stable...as if we ever really knew what "stable" was.... The CFC ban empowered and emboldened the eco-left. It paved the way for their next big scam.... The CFC ban gave them a "win," and it was based on some of the most specious, tenuous science one can imagine. But it proved a point: Proven science need not trump environmental ideology. Their next target -- perhaps the ideal target of CO 2 -- was in their sights. Noise about global warming started in the late '80s, but it didn't really get much traction until the mid- to late '90s...right after the CFC ban was a done deal....”.
IPCC: International Pack of Climate Crooks, American Thinker
(7 Feb 10) “.....Unquestionably the world's final authority on the subject, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's findings and recommendations have formed the bedrock of literally every climate-related initiative worldwide for more than a decade. Likewise, virtually all such future endeavors -- be they Kyoto II, domestic cap-and-tax, or EPA carbon regulation, would inexorably be built upon the credibility of the same U.N. panel's "expert" counsel. But a glut of ongoing recent discoveries of systemic fraud has rocked that foundation, and the entire man-made global warming house of cards is now teetering on the verge of complete collapse. Simply stated, we've been swindled. We've been set up as marks by a gang of opportunistic hucksters who have exploited the naïvely altruistic intentions of the environmental movement in an effort to control international energy consumption while redistributing global wealth and (in many cases) greedily lining their own pockets in the process.... The U.N. signalled its intent to politicize science as far back as 1972 at its Conference on the Human Environment (UNCHE) in Stockholm, Sweden. There, an unlikely mélange of legitimate environmental activists, dyed-in-the-wool Marxists, and assorted anti-establishment '60s leftovers were delighted to hear not only the usual complaints about "industrialized" environmental problems, but also a long list of international inequities... by fomenting accusations that "rich" countries have effectively violated the human rights of hundreds of millions of the world's poorest people by selfishly causing climate-based global suffering, it helps promote the promise of international wealth redistribution to help less fortunate nations adapt to its consequences.....” IPCC: International Pack of Climate Crooks, American Thinker “.....Best of all, being driven by junk-science that easily metamorphoses as required, it appeared to be endlessly self-sustaining. But it needed to be packaged for widespread consumption. And packaged it they surely have... In 1990, the IPCC issued its First Assessment Report, warning of a natural greenhouse effect being enhanced by human emission activities. Apparently not quite ready to show its cards, the IPCC even admitted that the still-little-understood effects of such factors as carbon sinks, ocean currents, and clouds left many uncertainties as to timing and magnitude.... From that meeting sprouted the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) treaty. Absent specific numbers, the highly-touted Kyoto precursor nonetheless promised to stabilize greenhouse gas (GHG) concentrations in the atmosphere to prevent "dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system." But much less fanfare accompanied the essentially concurrent adoption of Agenda 21 : a global contract that bound governments around the world to a U.N. plan to change the way people "live, eat, learn and communicate," all in the name of "saving the earth" from mankind's mistakes, particularly global warming...... Back in 1989, future Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) Working Group 2 (WG2) lead author Stephen Schneider disclosed several tricks of the trade to Discover magazine: “....To capture the public imagination, we have to offer up some scary scenarios, make simplified dramatic statements and little mention of any doubts one might have. Each of us has to decide the right balance between being effective, and being honest....” And according to MIT's Richard Lindzen's 2001 Senate subcommittee testimony , that's precisely what he witnessed as a Third Assessment Report (TAR) lead author. Among the atmospheric physicist's revelations was the fact that contributing TAR scientists -- already facing the threat of disappearing grant funds and derision as industry stooges -- were also met with ad hominem attacks from IPCC "coordinators" if they refused to tone down criticism of faulty climate models or otherwise questioned AGW dogma. I suppose that's one way to achieve the "consensus" the IPCC loudly boasts of..... ”
(6 Feb 10)The 35 errors in Al Gore's movie
The Green Monster Socialism and the Environment Movement
(5 Feb 10) “......Most baseball fans know the 37' 2” left-field wall in Boston's Fenway Park as the Green Monster. Literature calls envy a green monster while in Shakespeare's Othello , jealousy is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mock the meat it feeds on. To the politically aware, there is a more formidable green monster , lurking on the horizon with its tendrils threatening to ensnare every feature of American life in a socialist embrace... Since one of the Greens tactics is the perversion of the language, it is important to demonstrate how it differs from traditional conservation....Today's radical environmentalism is primarily a political movement, emanating from a socialist ideology. While the Green radicals have borrowed from conservation and ecology, they have added a neo-Marxist twist with more bureaucracy and regulation than any of the predecessors. It was the Marxist roots that prompted scholars such as Peter Beckmann and Warren T. Brookes, both conservative critics of radical environmentalism, to label the radicals Watermelons , that is green on the outside but red on the inside . This pejorative term emphasizes the Greens' plan to put social justice above ecological justice....While many Greens truly believe their own propaganda about the planet and the imminence of its meltdown, they have no qualms about distorting the truth to force their will on the general population. According to author Levin, fear is one of the Greens' most productive weapons and they exercise it with virtual impunity. The more dire the threat whether it be the weather, food, sweeteners, bird flu, swine flu, dioxins, water or disease, the more freedoms people are willing to surrender. ... The Green Monster Socialism and the Environment Movement “...... Many theories are examples of politics dictating the course of scientific research. It should be realized that the Greens' goal is not the saving of the planet from mankind, but the global redistribution and reallocation of economic resources. Because of their addiction to the government's largesse, countless scientists have let their pocketbooks determine their scientific speculations to favor a man-made global warming. The 2007 book, Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years , by Fred Singer and Dennis Avery presents irrefutable scientific evidence for the cyclical nature of global climate change.... Green philosophy will carry American technology back to the English Luddites of the early 19th century, who destroyed all their advanced machinery during a labor protest.... g oing green is no longer a lifestyle choice--it is a government mandate . Like any socialist movement, the Greens have targeted the next generation as the submissive acolytes who will sell their philosophy to more unsuspecting Americans. Their Rainforest Action Network brainwashes school children that the oil companies are responsible for destroying millions of acres of rainforest to fuel American cars. They have enlisted thousands of teachers to spread their propaganda and create a new generation of environmentalists....Americans need to educate themselves as to the nature and true goals of the radical green movement so as to turn back the green tide that threatens to drown the truth about the environment. Otherwise they might wake up one morning and find that Big Brother has turned into a monstrous Green Giant whose thumb is squashing their faith, freedoms and livelihoods......”
UN climate change panel based claims on student dissertation and magazine article
The United Nations' expert panel on climate change based claims about ice disappearing from the world's mountain tops on a student's dissertation and an article in a mountaineering magazine.
(31 Jan 10) “.....The revelation will cause fresh embarrassment for the The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which had to issue a humiliating apology earlier this month over inaccurate statements about global warming. The IPCC's remit is to provide an authoritative assessment of scientific evidence on climate change... In its most recent report, it stated that observed reductions in mountain ice in the Andes, Alps and Africa was being caused by global warming, citing two papers as the source of the information. However, it can be revealed that one of the sources quoted was a feature article published in a popular magazine for climbers which was based on anecdotal evidence from mountaineers about the changes they were witnessing on the mountainsides around them. The other was a dissertation written by a geography student, studying for the equivalent of a master's degree, at the University of Berne in Switzerland that quoted interviews with mountain guides in the Alps... Professor Richard Tol, one of the report's authors who is based at the Economic and Social Research Institute in Dublin, Ireland, said: "These are essentially a collection of anecdotes. "Why did they do this? It is quite astounding. Although there have probably been no policy decisions made on the basis of this, it is illustrative of how sloppy Working Group Two (the panel of experts within the IPCC responsible for drawing up this section of the report) has been. "There is no way current climbers and mountain guides can give anecdotal evidence back to the 1900s, so what they claim is complete nonsense.....” UN climate change panel based claims on student dissertation and magazine article , The Telegraph " .... neither the dissertation or the magazine article cited as sources for this information were ever subject to the rigorous scientific review process that research published in scientific journals must undergo. The magazine article, which was written by Mark Bowen, a climber and author of two books on climate change, appeared in Climbing magazine in 2002. It quoted anecdotal evidence from climbers of retreating glaciers and the loss of ice from climbs since the 1970s..... The IPCC has faced growing criticism over the sources it used in its last report after it emerged the panel had used unsubstantiated figures on glacial melting in the Himalayas that were contained within a World Wildlife Fund (WWF) report. It can be revealed that the IPCC report made use of 16 non-peer reviewed WWF reports. One claim, which stated that coral reefs near mangrove forests contained up to 25 times more fish numbers than those without mangroves nearby, quoted a feature article on the WWF website....The IPCC failed to respond to questions about the inclusion of unreliable sources in its report but it has insisted over the past week that despite minor errors, the findings of the report are still robust and consistent with the underlying science......” (download free Adobereader)
Stern Report was changed after being published
Information was quietly removed from an influential government report on the cost of climate change after its initial publication because supporting scientific evidence could not be found.....
(31 Jan 10) “.....The Stern Review on the economics of climate change, which was commissioned by the Treasury, was greeted with headlines worldwide when it was published in October 2006...It contained dire predictions about the impact of climate change in different parts of the world..... But it can be revealed that when the report was printed by Cambridge University Press in January 2007, some of these predictions had been watered down because the scientific evidence on which they were based could not be verified. Among the claims that were removed in the later version of the report, which is now also available in its altered form online, were claims that North West Australia has been hit by stronger tropical typhoons in the past 30 years....Another claim that southern regions in Australia have lost rainfall due to rising ocean temperatures and air currents pushing rain further south was also removed. ....” Stern Report was changed after being published , The Telegraph “......Claims that eucalyptus and savannah habitats in Australia would also become more common were also deleted. The claims were highlighted in several Australian newspapers when the report was initially published, but the changes were never publicly announced... Details of the changes, which have not been publicly detailed before, have emerged as the IPCC is under fire for errors on the melting of Himalayan glaciers that appeared in their most recent assessment report because of a failure to check the sources of the information....Professor Roger Pielke, from the centre of Science and Technology Policy Research at the University of Colorado who has been a long term critic of the Stern Review, described the changes to the report as "remarkable". He said: "In any academic publication changes to published text to correct errors or to clarify require the subsequent publication of a formal erratum or corrigendum. "This is to ensure the integrity of the literature and a paper trail, otherwise confusion would result if past work could be quietly rewritten. "Such a practice is very much a whitewash of the historical record......”
Flawed history keeps myth alive
(31 Jan 10) “....In his 2008 parliamentary apology, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd endorsed the estimate by Peter Read, the university historian who first advanced the concept of the Stolen Generations, that 50,000 Aboriginal children were forcibly removed in the 20th century. Read had written that governments removed children as young as possible and reared them in institutions isolated from any contact with Aboriginal culture. "Welfare officers, removing children solely because they were Aboriginal," he said, "intended and arranged that they should lose their Aboriginality, and that they never return home."...The majority were allegedly babies and infants. The SBS television series First Australians claimed most of the 50,000 were aged under five. Henry Reynolds explained the rationale: "The younger the child the better, before habits were formed, attachments made, language learned, traditions absorbed.”....It is not difficult to prove these assertions are untrue. When you look at the surviving individual case records in NSW, as I did for the period 1907 to 1932, they reveal that 66 per cent of the 800 children then removed were teenagers aged 13 to 19 years. Some 23 per cent were aged six to 12, and only 10 per cent were babies to five-year-olds....J W Bleakley, the Queensland chief protector who also wrote the commonwealth policy that prevailed in the 1920s and 1930s, this was a matter of great principle. "We have no right to attempt to destroy their national life. Like ourselves, they are entitled to retain their racial entity and racial pride.".....The idea that most children were removed permanently is also untrue. In NSW, 80 per cent of those sent to one of the three Aboriginal child welfare institutions stayed there less than five years. Those aged 12 to 15 typically remained for months rather than years.....” Flawed history keeps myth alive , Keith Windschuttle. The Australian “.... Long-term residents were limited to those who had no parents willing or able to care for them. Rather than attempting to destroy Aboriginal culture, institutions for these children performed a temporary care function for disadvantaged and dysfunctional families, the same as welfare institutions for white children.....There is plenty of evidence of Aboriginal parents visiting their institutionalised children in NSW, SA and WA. As one inmate of the Cootamundra Girls' Home said, "my father, he always used to come over on pension day, and me birthday". At the Retta Dixon Home in Darwin, up to one quarter of those accommodated were working women, several of them single mothers with their children....What support there was for the Stolen Generations thesis came from quotations taken out of context by politically motivated historians...None of the historians of the Stolen Generations have ever reproduced Perkins's statement. Nor have they reported any of the other critical reactions made by Lyons to the press. On June 23, 1933, the Darwin newspaper, the Northern Standard, quoted Lyons government sources saying: "It is all a lot of rot." But you won't find that quoted in any of the academic literature on this topic. (Robert)Manne is not the only offender here but, as a professor of politics, he had the greater public duty to tell the full story. However, he stopped short of revealing that the events concluded with cabinet throwing out the proposal and the minister denouncing it in parliament. To have told it all would have publicly disproved his case about the Stolen Generations and the allegedly racist and genocidal objectives of government policies in the 1930s....”
Global Warming - The Other Side (parts one to five)
(17 Jan 10) “.....Americans should pay attention to the Lisbon Treaty and the corresponding events in Europe. We're on the same road, and we're fast approaching a point of no return. Europe -- the Europe of free and independent nations -- is no more. Sovereignty is all but dead there, and a collective behemoth, tellingly referred to as the "European soviet" by Mikhail Gorbachev, now straddles the continent, ushering in a new tyranny for the 21 st century...... Europe is now lost to history.... Borders are no longer an issue, because Lisbon solves immigration problems by "ensuring the absence of any controls on persons, whatever their nationality, when crossing internal borders". Even voting rights have been circumvented. Lisbon contains provisions granting foreigners the right to vote and stand in elections in nations not their own, so long as they are Europeans . Should Germans represent British citizens? With no authentic collective interest, this development promises to sever citizens from their leaders and neutralize political accountability.... Also in the Lisbon Treaty is one of the most destructive documents in European history, counter intuitively called the Charter of Fundamental Rights. Long resisted by some member nations due to the large seizures of individual liberty inherent in the document, the charter contains a provision that reads: "Limitations [on individual liberty] may be made....” The Breaking of Nations , John Griffing, American Thinker “.... Lisbon comes complete with a European justice system , replacing centuries of Anglo-Saxon common law with the Code Napoleon -- i.e., guilty until proven innocent . European courts can now kidnap innocent British citizens to stand trial in foreign lands by way of the new European Arrest Warrant (EAW). So far, over two hundred Britons have been arrested under the EAW, and 101 have been extradited . The unelected European Commission can revise, edit, or even remake the laws passed by the people's duly elected representatives.... How did this happen? How did independent nations with separate identities and divergent cultures allow themselves to be bullied into submission by a gaggle of European bureaucrats in Brussels? The answer is that the attack on European nationhood was implemented brick by brick, piece by piece, bite by bite. Europe lost its sovereignty fifty years ago with the establishment of an incremental framework designed to feed Europeans an elephant one bite at a time....Those responsible for these destructive steps knew what they were doing. A recently declassified Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) document reveals startling knowledge of the potential damage to British sovereignty prior to British entry into the European Common Market.. ...” .
Labor connives with green alliance to control indigenous growth
(16 Jan 10) “....Next time you bump into a koala conservationist begging for money in the street, ask what it thinks of Noel Pearson and his opposition to the Queensland government's wild rivers laws. The koala will tell you that I am a rapacious developer who wants to mine, clear-fell, pollute and pillage the unique environment of Cape York Peninsula. The koala will tell you that I do not speak for Aboriginal people from the region, and that the laws are strongly supported by them..... The Wilderness Society has an army of teenagers out on the streets saying that about those of us resisting its attack on the land rights of Aboriginal people in the cape. As in all propaganda campaigns, its main currency is to push its side of the story..... It spent years laying down the groundwork before Premier Anna Bligh announced three wild river declarations after the state election last March. The first step was to cause great alarm about the threats facing Cape York. From Indooroopilly to Surry Hills it distributed pamphlets and held public meetings in the suburbs talking up the threats to Cape York. Threats can be the lifeblood of campaigns such as those routinely run by the Wilderness Society.....Add a good brand name - Wild River - and there you have it: the perfect product to sell to an environmentally troubled public. The name corners the market on motherhood and apple pie, and whatever protests affected landowners in remote regions may make, they have no chance in the propaganda war because they are by the very definition of speaking against Wild Rivers, environmental vandals.....” Labor connives with green alliance to control indigenous growth , Noel Pearson, The Australian “.....The Wilderness Society spent years campaigning about the threats facing Cape York. But when you examine what possible source of threat it is talking about, you find very little.... The Wilderness Society is campaigning vigorously against "strip mining" by the Cape Alumina mob, but seem silent on the Chinese proposal. Why? It is because this was the terms of the deal the Wilderness Society cut with former Queensland premier Peter Beattie. Beattie insisted the Wilderness Society could get blanket Wild Rivers over the blackfellas' land - without providing anything to the blackfellas other than a few make-work ranger jobs - provided the Chalco mining area was excluded. This is why the Wilderness Society is silent on Chalco and screaming loud on the other mine. Like moving pieces in a massive game of chess, the leaders of the Wilderness Society sit down with Labor Party principals in front of a map of Queensland and they make deals about what they want and what they're prepared to give away. You give us the Traveston dam, we give you Cape York. You can fight Cape Alumina, but don't fight the Chinese....The real decisions are made in Brisbane. The people who actually live in these regions and who strive to make a livelihood out of the land, are reduced to being bit-part "stakeholders", while the real players are those cutting the deals in Brisbane..... From the far north to western Queensland you can see what is happening. The poor buggers who live in these places are no match for the corporatist power of organisations such as the Wilderness Society and the wealthy US outfit, the Pew Foundation, who bankroll these campaigns.....”
(16 Jan 10) “….The quote in the last line of the newspaper article said it all: “It's on the vanguard of social change.” Yep, that's for sure. This is all about social manipulation and using the political and legal process to push a radical agenda. What passes for government nowadays is simply unashamed social engineering. I refer to a story in today's Herald Sun about a new law change which has come into effect. It is about a lesbian couple who have taken advantage of a new law in Victoria allowing non-birth parents to be named on birth certificates. The story opens as follows: “Little Drew Hardy-Hughes and her two mothers are now legally recognised as a family in Victoria. Sweeping January 1 changes to the state's reproductive laws mean that non-birth parents can now be named on birth certificates. Drew's parents Eilis Hughes and Kristen Hardy, of Werribee, were among the first lesbian couples to act on the landmark legislation. The birth certificate of their two-year-old daughter, conceived using a known donor, will now list Ms Hughes as the birth mother and Ms Hardy as the other ‘parent'.” The quote about social change comes at the end of the story: “Victorian Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages spokeswoman Erin Keleher, said the department was delighted it can recognise rainbow families. ‘It's on the vanguard of social change,' she said.” Just how many Victorians even knew that such a law change had taken place? Just how many Victorians were even consulted as to whether they approve of such radical social changes? Why are we allowing the democratic process to be subverted by radical minority groups? Since when do activist minorities get to railroad their agenda over the will of the majority of Victorians? Unashamed Social Engineering , Bill Muehlenberg “….Why have we allowed the wellbeing of children to be stomped under foot so that radical homosexual activists can cater to their selfish interests? Why in the world do politically correct agendas take precedence over the right of every child to be raised by his or her own biological parents? This is nothing other than radical social engineering. A radical group of politicians and legislators have gotten into bed with a radical group of minority activists, and are turning society upside down to suit their distorted agendas…When societies allow the selfish demands of adult activist groups to trump the needs and interests of children, then we know that society has become terminal, and it is only a matter of time before its descent into barbarism is complete. Two thousand years ago the Roman scholar Pliny the Elder said this: “What we do to our children, they will do to society.” Quite right. When we treat our children as mere guinea pigs in adult social experiments, we really have forfeited the right to be called civilised. We are now rapidly moving into all the brave new world scenarios so many have warned us about. When we can treat our children as fodder to satisfy the lusts of activist minority groups, then we have well and truly lost our way….This is but another case of the activist minorities – aided and abetted by brazen and seemingly unaccountable bureaucrats and politicians – holding the rest of society to ransom. And everyone suffers as a result. But the children are the biggest losers here. But in a world where adult desires are the only concerns going, who cares?
New study finds no rise in atmosphere share of CO2
(3 Jan 10) Another nail in the coffin on man-made global warming theory. A study by Wolfgang Knorr of the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Bristol, published in Geophysical Research Letters, finds that the airborne fraction of carbon dioxide has not increased either during the past 150 years or during the most recent five decades. Professor Knorr reanalyzed available atmospheric carbon dioxide and emissions data since 1850. So much for "settled science."
(3 Jan 10)"......The Europe as you know it from visiting, from your parents or friends is on the verge of collapsing," Geert Wilders said in a speech in the United States last year. We are now witnessing profound changes that will forever alter Europe's destiny and might send the Continent in what Ronald Reagan called 'a thousand years of darkness.' " And not just Europe, but America as well.....Been to Europe lately? Thought it was bad? You ain't seen nothing yet. The passage of the Lisbon Treaty, hailed by President Obama, nailed the coffin shut on national sovereignty in Europe. The people of Europe fought it, but were overwhelmed by their political elites and the lack of American leadership in this age of our rather Marxist, collectivist U.S. president. Come Jan. 1, 2010, a disastrous and suicidal pact called the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (Europe/Mediterranean) goes into effect with little fanfare or examination. It boggles the mind that such a consequential and seismic cultural shift could be mandated and put into play without so much as a murmur from the mainstream media.....” Europe's looming demise , Pamela Geller, The Washington Times “......Why should Americans care about this? Americans have to care because this global gobbledygook is coming to our shores, thanks to our globalist president. The European human rights group called Stop the Islamization of Europe (SIOE) has been working tirelessly to expose the mass Muslim immigration plan of the Euro-Med Partnership....The goal of the Euro-Mediterranean cooperation is to create a new Greater European Union encompassing both Europe and North Africa, with the Mediterranean Sea becoming a domestic Eurabian sea.... According to the SIOE, in the Euro-Med plan "Europe is to be islamized. Democracy, Christianity, European culture and Europeans are to be driven out of Europe. Fifty million North Africans from Muslim countries are to be imported into the EU."......"Islamophobia," "discrimination" and "racism" are all terms Muslims in Europe and America use to confuse people into thinking that the perpetrators of Islamic terrorism are the real victims. And it is working: Mr. Wilders is going on trial in the Netherlands, instead of all the Islamic hate sponsors he is fighting against. It has to be this way, to increase harmony among the Muslim and non-Muslim member states of the Euro-Med Partnership......”
(24 Dec 09) “.....In the 1970s and early '80s, having seized control of the U.N. apparatus (by power of numbers), Third World countries decided to cash in. OPEC was pulling off the greatest wealth transfer from rich to poor in history. Why not them? So in grand U.N. declarations and conferences, they began calling for a "New International Economic Order." The NIEO's essential demand was simple: to transfer fantastic chunks of wealth from the industrialized West to the Third World. On what grounds? In the name of equality -- wealth redistribution via global socialism -- with a dose of post-colonial reparations thrown in. The idea of essentially taxing hard-working citizens of the democracies in order to fill the treasuries of Third World kleptocracies went nowhere, thanks mainly to Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher (and the debt crisis of the early '80s). They put a stake through the enterprise. But such dreams never die. The raid on the Western treasuries is on again, but today with a new rationale to fit current ideological fashion. With socialism dead, the gigantic heist is now proposed as a sacred service of the newest religion: environmentalism....” The New Socialism, Charles Krauthammer, The Patriot Post “.....Politically it's an idea of genius, engaging at once every left-wing erogenous zone: rich man's guilt, post-colonial guilt, environmental guilt. But the idea of shaking down the industrial democracies in the name of the environment thrives not just in the refined internationalist precincts of Copenhagen. It thrives on the national scale too.....Socialism having failed so spectacularly, the left was adrift until it struck upon a brilliant gambit: metamorphosis from red to green. The cultural elites went straight from the memorial service for socialism to the altar of the environment. The objective is the same: highly centralized power given to the best and the brightest, the new class of experts, managers and technocrats. This time, however, the alleged justification is not abolishing oppression and inequality but saving the planet... Big Brother isn't lurking in CIA cloak. He's knocking on your door, smiling under an EPA cap.....”
A Warning and a Ray of Hope from and Intelligence Operative
(24 Dec 09) “Recently, I sat down with a friend who has spent almost three decades working as an intelligence operative in the defence of our nation. During the course of our conversation, I asked him what -- based on his vast experience -- was the number one threat facing our nation? Without even pausing to think about it, he forcefully answered, “ Our mainstream media .” ... More than Al Qaeda, more than home-grown terrorists, more than heavily armed Mexican drug cartels, more than non-existent borders, more than out-of-control and extremely violent domestic gangs, and even more than biological and nuclear terrorism, this dedicated intelligence operative felt that our own liberal media was a greater threat to our safety. Why? “Simple,” he answered. “They enable all of those things and more. They betray our secrets, assign civil rights to enemy combatants, and push for a multi-cultural nation with no borders.....” A Warning and a Ray of Hope from and Intelligence Operative , Douglas MacKinnon “.....The vast majority of those who work in mainstream media have a visceral hatred of traditional values and all those who espouse those values.... The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other far-left outlets think nothing of betraying national secrets on the front pages of their papers in the hope of winning the far-left Pulitzer Prize. "They do this while simultaneously wringing their hands and crying foul when someone hacks into a computer system and exposes as lies, their false and economically crippling religion of global warming....."In the United States of today, no one on the left is ever held accountable for their sins because their protectors in the far-left media ensure that they are blameless. Worse than all of that is the fact that the far-left controls the content and socialist propaganda fed to our children on a daily basis...”
A fascinating read. The connections , the machinations, the wheels within wheels, the deals within deals...That's NSW Labor
(22 Dec 09) “......Forget about six degrees of separation. If you are a Labor mate, it takes just three degrees to be linked to everyone else. If you throw in property speculation, the odds are even shorter.Take, for instance, the sale of two boutique beachside apartments on Mons Avenue, Maroubra.In 2002 the state Treasurer, Eric Roozendaal, was the general-secretary of the NSW Labor Party. His sidekick was Mark Arbib, now a powerful senator and minister in Kevin Rudd's inner sanctum. Each bought an upmarket Maroubra flat, a block from the beach, before construction was finished. Parliament was told each paid a discounted price. The seller was a company controlled by a generous Labor donor and property developer, Brian Boyd, 60, whose shareholding in his flagship company, Payce Consolidated, is estimated to be worth $61 million..... Given he has been a wheeler-dealer extraordinaire over the years, it may have slipped Obeid's mind that shortly before he became an MP, his company parted with $2 million to buy an industrial site on Canterbury Road, Bankstown, from Boyd's company. And while Arbib and Roozendaal were finalising their purchases with Boyd's company, Telmet Ventures, Telmet was successfully lobbying the Labor-controlled Strathfield council to rezone contaminated land at Homebush West. Telmet, which bought part of the site from State Rail, is planning to build up to 1000 apartments there.....Boyd has also been a long-time developer in and around the Olympic Park precinct. The connections don't stop there. Brian Boyd's lawyer is Mark Morgan. Morgan is a director of several Boyd companies and he turned up as a shareholder in a company owned by Eddie Obeid's son, Moses. Streetscape Projects sells multipurpose street poles with street lights, banners and security cameras. Despite coming last in a tender assessment by council officers in 1999, Streetscape was awarded a contract to supply Smartpoles to the City of Sydney, run by then lord mayor Frank Sartor.....” The circle of influence , Kate McClymont, Sydney Morning Herald “....But Morgan himself was not the shareholder in Moses Obeid's company. The identity of the real investor was hidden within a $2 shelf company controlled by Morgan, who has steadfastly refused to disclose on whose behalf he held the shares. Morgan's $2 shelf companies, which he runs on behalf of unnamed people, donated a massive $230,000 to the ALP between 2002 and 2006... In 2007 eyebrows were raised when Unions NSW, run by John Robertson, now a NSW minister, announced that the successful purchaser of the unions' historic workers' cottages, Currawong, at Pittwater was Allen Linz's company. Hired by Unions NSW to broker the sale of Currawong was Joe Tripodi's close friend Tanevski, who just so happened to have been in the internet business with Robertson, Roozendaal and Linz, as well as being a business partner of Linz's at the time of the Currawong sale.When asked about Tanevski's role, Robertson said at the time, ''We wanted somebody who understood how property developers operated.'' Tanevski certainly fitted the bill. He had business links with Linz and fellow developer Duncan Hardie. In 2001 Tanevski bought a house from developer Bob Rose in a Rose project, Breakfast Point, at Canada Bay. Breakfast Point, an American-style $1.5 billion residential village complete with its own country club, won the Urban Task Force's Development Excellence Award for a Master Planned Community in 2004. The 39-year-old Macedonian-born Tanevski has been a director of the Urban Task Force, a lobbying organisation for property developers, since 2002. Noel Hemmings, QC, who was also counsel assisting the commission during last year's Independent Commission Against Corruption hearings into Wollongong City Council, has recently been appointed the Task Force chairman, replacing Bob Rose, who held the position for seven years. Recently elected deputy chairman is Allen Linz, while former directors have included fellow developers Bob Ell and Duncan Hardie. The lobby group's chief executive is Aaron Gadiel, brother-in-law of the Labor MP Tanya Gadiel and a former chief-of-staff to Joe Tripodi and Eddie Obeid....”.
Reforms to enhance police capability
The ‘Eco/Enviro-Gestapo' are on the prowl...
(21 Dec 09) “....Minister for Home Affairs, Brendan O'Connor, today announced significant administrative reforms to the Australian Federal Police (AFP) as part of the government's response to the Federal Audit of Police Capabilities. Conducted by Mr Roger Beale AO, the audit examined the AFP's capacity to meet contemporary and future demands, and government priorities. “In line with our election promise, the Australian Government is improving policing capability to respond to current and future law enforcement challenges,” Mr O'Connor said. The major areas of reform include: a new funding structure providing flexibility to meet existing and emerging priorities including: counter-terrorism; serious and organised crime, including e-security crime; border protection; overseas deployments and peace keeping; criminal law enforcement in business regulation; and support to the enforcement of the anticipated Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme .... “ Reforms to enhance police capability, Media Release, Minister for Home Affairs “....According to Minister O'Connor, while many of the recommendations of the Beale Audit relate to internal operations of the AFP, some recommendations, such as those regarding policing at major airports, will be of particular interest to the states and territories. “The Australian Government is committed to working with the states and territories, airports and aviation bodies, and unions to ensure there is support for the implementation of the Beale recommendations,” he said. The government has also appointed a third Deputy Commissioner to support the increased responsibilities of the senior AFP structure. The Australian Government has also agreed to implement all remaining recommendations made by the Audit, except for the recommendation relating to changes to the administrative arrangements for protection of official and diplomatic premises. “ The measures the government is implementing will ensure the AFP, as the core commonwealth law enforcement agency, is well equipped to combat serious crime, terrorism and other security threats,” the Minister added....”
(19 Dec 09) From the Andrew Bolt Blog . Drive like you mean it, Tim (Tim Costello, yet another climate hypocrite)
The story of Peter Spencer is also the story of the media again not doing its job. Michael Duffy in the Sydney Morning Herald and on his Radio National program Counterpoint in 2005 is the only journalist that's exposed what the NSW state government has been up to. Essentially stealing private property. This fraud on Australian farmers has now been exposed as part of the Rudd governments shell game concerning Australia's grand plan in Copenhagen and its commitment to CO2 abatement...What is also disgraceful is that this has now only become a story because Peter Spencer is into his 4 th week of his hunger strike at Shannons Flat...All of a sudden the media has a human interest story...
”......Spencer is the latest victim of the drought, and also of the cruel green war against farmers that the State Government has been waging for the past decade. In Bob Carr, political power is combined with religious passion (in his case, for green beliefs), a mixture that has long been acknowledged in the West as potentially dangerous. Supported by green activists and the city's lack of interest in the fate of farmers, Carr has been gradually destroying the lives of many people in the country. I've written about Spencer before. His sufferings in the green war are like something from the Book of Job. In the 1980s he bought a lot of grazing land in Shannons Flat, just south of the ACT. More than 80 per cent of it became covered in regrowth and before he could clear it the government brought in native vegetation laws which made clearing illegal. There was no compensation for what was effectively the nationalisation of 80 per cent of Spencer's property. He then invested hundreds of thousands of dollars in setting up ponds for trout fishing, but the introduction of new water laws ended the venture. There was no compensation.Then Spencer set up a fine-wool breeding program, advised by scientists from the University of New England, in an attempt to make more profitable use of the small amount of cleared land on his property. The fires of 2003 in the national parks that ring the area pushed out hundreds of wild dogs, which have devastated farmers in the area. Spencer lost hundreds of sheep. His property is now home to thousands of kangaroos, which destroy pasture. This invasion of his land happened because of gross underspending on park management in NSW and the ACT, specifically on fire prevention activities, the culling of kangaroo and wild dog populations, and fencing. There is no compensation for farmers unlucky enough to live near parks, which have increased in area by 50 per cent under Carr's premiership. Put yourself in Spencer's shoes. Imagine you're in middle age and supporting a family and a mortgage. Then imagine the State Government announces your house is now worth only 20 per cent of what you paid, and all your future earnings will be cut by 80 per cent.....” Farmers pushed beyond limit, Michael Duffy Sydney Morning Herald , June 2005 “..... Finally, when you seek welfare this is denied on the grounds you were a financial basket case. Since first writing about native vegetation laws I've heard from dozens of other farmers. Two are Peter and Darren Hepburn, a father and son in Bombala Shire, near the Victorian border. I've visited them and talked to Bruce Bashford of the Monaro Rural Financial Counselling Service, who tried unsuccessfully to help them fight another case of almost unbelievable injustice. The Hepburns bought a block of 500 hectares in 1994, intending to clear 303 hectares (which had been logged in the past) and sell the timber to repay their bank loan of $300,000. They needed to expand their existing farm to ensure it would be viable in the future. Bashford says Peter Hepburn is a "battling cockie who did everything right". He got written permission from all the relevant government authorities. And he had an understanding with a timber company to buy the logs. The purchase was a responsible business decision.Then in 1995 an early native vegetation law, SEPP 46, came in and suddenly the Hepburns had to apply for permission to clear their land. This was refused. The financial implications for the Hepburns have been horrific. The land was unusable and unsaleable, and by 2000 they had incurred interest costs of $200,000. Peter Hepburn has had to sell another piece of land, 180 hectares he's owned since 1957, to help cope with the disaster. The State Government has been completely unsympathetic. Documents I've seen show public servants trying to get the Hepburns to sign an agreement to set aside a large part of their block for conservation purposes in return for permission to clear and farm another part. It's a disgraceful abuse of the power of the state that remains unresolved today. And it's going on all over NSW. This war on farmers reminds me of a less extreme version of the attacks on peasant farmers by the Soviet commissars after the Russian Revolution. There's the same appeal to ideology to justify an assault on an often disliked class of people. Back then the ideology was social, now it's environmental. It's just as unfair, and it's time we started talking about the morality of government appropriating private property without paying compensation...”
Reposted from December 2006 When push comes to shove landowners stand up for their rights
(31Dec 06) This opinion piece by Michael Duffy, Sydney Morning Herald, zeros in on the theft of private property and water by stealth and the slippery antics of the NSW government. It is a must read for all in the lead up to the state election.
“..The natives are getting restless. On February 11 there will be a rally in Hyde Park to protest against the State Government's long-running assault on democracy and private property. At a meeting at Rouse Hill just before Christmas, about a dozen community groups decided to join forces for what they hope will be a big event. The political ramifications could be interesting. Some of the groups are small, but others have previously organised demonstrations of thousands of people in their own areas. They have a range of issues, but as a coalition they are calling for three things. 1. Fair compensation when government legislation, such as rezoning or native vegetation law, reduces the value of private property. 2. An end to developer donations to political parties. 3. Restoration of the planning powers of local councils, possibly by entrenching councils in the constitution of NSW…” When push comes to shove landowners stand up for their rights , Michael Duffy, Sydney Morning Herald “…Another big rural issue at the moment, as reported by Daniel Lewis in the Herald on December 16, is the Government's theft of water that irrigators have been promised and have paid for ….The legal situation regarding compensation for the state theft of property rights was considered in a 2003 paper by Bryan Pape, a senior lecturer at the University of New England's law school. The State Government is legally obliged to pay just compensation if it takes property, but has no obligation at all if it only goes halfway, as it were, and reduces a property's economic value by taking away some of the usage rights previously attached to it…One farmer who will be at the rally is Peter Spencer, who lost the use of about 90 per cent of his property because of native vegetation law . Backed by a new group called the Constitutional Property Rights Association, he is pursuing legal action against his council, because the rates it charges him are still based on the assumption his land is economically productive….”
U.N. climate chief cashes in on carbon
(12 Dec 09) “.....A story emerging out of Britain suggests "follow the money" may explain the enthusiasm of the United Nations to pursue caps on carbon emissions, despite doubts surfacing in the scientific community about the validity of the underlying global warming hypothesis. A Mumbai-based Indian multinational conglomerate with business ties to Rajendra K. Pachauri , the chairman since 2002 of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, stands to make several hundred million dollars in European Union carbon credits simply by closing a steel production facility in Britain with the loss of 1,700 jobs. The Tata Group headquartered in Mumbai anticipates receiving windfall profits of up to nearly $2 billion from closing the Corus Redcar steelmaking plant in Britain , with about half of the savings expected to result from cashing in on carbon credits granted the steelmaker by the European Union under the EU's emissions trading scheme, or ETS......” U.N. climate chief cashes in on carbon
Tied to conglomerate that stands to make hundreds of millions in emissions scheme “....How does the closing of a steelmaker in Britain tie to the chairman of the U.N.'s global warming science committee? In 1974, the TATA Group provided the financial resources to found the Tata Energy Research Institute , or TERI, a policy organization headquartered in New Dehli, India, of which Pachauri has been chairman since the group was formed. Continued business ties between TERI and TATA are demonstrated by a press announcement on the TERI website dated Feb. 4 in which Jairam Ramesh, the Indian minister of state for commerce and industry as well as minister of state for power, announced a joint venture with TERI and TATA power to extract and use carbon dioxide for the propagation of micro-algae. On Dec. 10, 2007, Pachauri shared with Al Gore the Nobel Peace Prize for his work on global warming. At the Nobel ceremonies, Pachauri in his Nobel lecture openly represented the U.N.'s IPCC....”
Shocking UN Document Divulges Climate Change Brainwashing
(5 Dec 09) “…….With the reverberations of climategate still echoing, it has now emerged that children are being greenwashed in public schools by being forced to sing climate cult ditties and hate their parents as part of a United Nations propaganda program aimed at capturing young minds, as the UN itself officially acknowledges the global warming mantra as a new religion. A shocking new UN strategy document also reveals how elitists are recruiting members of academia from all over the globe in an effort to hide the “end-run” around national sovereignty that their program represents…When did global warming turn into a forced religion?,” asks the New York Post's Andrea Peyser as she tells the story of how her daughter came home from school singing the words ” . . . You can hear the warning — GLOBAL WARMING . . . “.“All the kids had been coerced into singing this catchy ditty, which we called “The Warming Song,” at a concert for parents. Further song lyrics scolded selfish adults (that would be us) for polluting our planet and causing a warming scourge that would, in no short order, kill all the polar bears and threaten the birds and bees,” writes Peyser…..A strategy paper for the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP), the world's would-be environmental watchdog, reveals how the global elite in charge of the green takeover resolved that, “Environmentalism should be regarded on the same level with religion “as the only compelling, value-based narrative available to humanity,” according to a Fox News report. This approach follows a similar tack to the new methods adopted by Al Gore, who in his recent presentations has delivered his message as a kind of religious sermon, acknowledging, “Simply laying out the facts won't work…..” Shocking UN Document Divulges Climate Change Brainwashing Prison Planet.com “…..A core element of the program includes, “an extensive propagandizing role for UNEP that reaches beyond its member governments and traditional environmental institutions to “children and youth”. “Civil society, including children and youth, and the private sector will be reached through tailor-made outreach products and campaigns,” states the document.The document discusses recruiting academia to further the power of UNEP, noteworthy in light of the recent climategate scandal where scientists at major universities were caught hiding evidence of global cooling…..This document represents yet another smoking gun proving that the climate cult movement is all about expanding the power of a dictatorial, unelected global government, diluting powers of nation states, seizing control of the global economy, eviscerating the middle class with a raft of new regulations and laws, and shutting down industry with impossible CO2 reduction mandates, while erecting environmentalism, which is really a thin veil for global fascism, as the new universal religion. This has nothing to do with saving the earth and, as the climategate scandal has illustrated, nothing to do with the real science – but everything to do with a relatively small clique of globalists running roughshod over humanity itself in pursuit of their malthusian control freak agenda….”
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