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Title: Facts conveniently brushed over by the global warming fanatics
Source: SMH.com
URL Source: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/polit ... ng-fanatics-20100131-n6fr.html
Published: Feb 1, 2010
Author: staff
Post Date: 2010-01-31 12:23:41 by buckeroo
Keywords: None
Views: 2986
Comments: 115

Here are 10 anti-commandments, 10 selected facts about global warming which have been largely ignored amid the orthodoxies to which we are subjected every day. All these anti-commandments are either true or backed by scientific opinion. All can also be hotly contested.

1. The pin-up species of global warming, the polar bear, is increasing in number, not decreasing.

2. The US President, Barack Obama, supports building nuclear power plants.

Last week, in his State of the Union address, he said: ''To create more of these clean energy jobs, we need more production, more efficiency, more incentives. And that means building a new generation of safe, clean nuclear power plants in this country.''

3. The Copenhagen climate conference descended into farce.

The low point of the gridlock and posturing at Copenhagen came with the appearance by the socialist dictator of Venezuela, President Hugo Chavez, whose anti-capitalist diatribe drew a cheering ovation from thousands of left-wing ideologues.

4. The reputation of the chief United Nations scientist on global warming is in disrepair.

Dr Rajendra Pachauri, the chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), is being investigated for financial irregularities, conflicts of interest and scientific distortion. He has already admitted publishing false data.

5. The supposed scientific consensus of the IPCC has been challenged by numerous distinguished scientists.

6. The politicisation of science leads to a heavy price being paid in poor countries.

After Western environmentalists succeeded in banning or suppressing the use of the pesticide DDT, the rate of death by malaria rose into the millions. Some scholars estimate the death toll at 20 million or more, most of them children.

7. The biofuels industry has exacerbated world hunger.

Diverting huge amounts of grain crops (as distinct from sugar cane) to biofuels has contributed to a rise in world food prices, felt acutely in the poorest nations.

8. The Kyoto Protocol has proved meaningless.

Global carbon emissions are significantly higher today than they were when the Kyoto Protocol was introduced.

9. The United Nations global carbon emissions reduction target is a massively costly mirage.

10. Kevin Rudd's political bluff on emissions trading has been exposed.

The Prime Minister intimated he would go to the people in an early election if his carbon emissions trading legislation was rejected. He won't. The electorate has shifted.

None of these anti-commandments question the salient negative link between humanity and the environment: that we are an omnivorous, rapacious species which has done enormous damage to the world's environment.

Nor do they question the warming of the planet.

What they do question is the morphing of science with ideology, the most pernicious byproduct of the global warming debate. All these anti-commandments were brought into focus this past week by the visit of the Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, better known as Lord Christopher Monckton, journalist by trade, mathematician by training, provocateur by inclination.

Last Wednesday a conference room at the Sheraton on the Park was filled to overflowing, all 800 seats sold with a standing-room only crowd at the back, to see the Sydney public appearance of Monckton, a former science adviser to Margaret Thatcher. At the end of his presentation he received a sustained standing ovation.

Monckton is the embodiment of English aristocratic eccentricity. His presentations are a combination of stand-up comedy, evangelical preaching and fierce debating. Almost every argument he makes can be contested, but given the enormity of the multi-trillion-dollars that governments expect taxpayers to expend on combating global warming, the process needs to be subject to brutal interrogation, scrutiny and scepticism. And Monckton was brutal, especially about the media, referring to ''all this bed-wetting stuff on the ABC and the BBC''.

There has also been a monumental political failure surrounding the global warming debate. Those who would have to pay for most of the massive government expenditures proposed, the taxpayers of the West, are beginning to go into open revolt at the prospect.

Last week the Herald reported that Monckton told a large lie while in Sydney.

On Tuesday it reported: ''He said with a straight face on the Alan Jones radio program that he had been awarded the Nobel, a claim Jones did not question.''

The Herald repeated the accusation on Thursday. It was repeated a third time in a commentary in Saturday's Herald.

In 2007 the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change shared the Nobel Peace Prize with the former US vice-president Al Gore. The prize committee, in citing its selection of the IPCC, said: ''Through the IPCC … thousands of scientists and officials from over 100 countries have collaborated to achieve greater certainty as to the scale of [global] warming.''

Thousands of people were thus collectively and anonymously part of the prize process.

So what lie did Monckton tell about the prize? Despite the gravity of the accusation, the Herald never published the offending remark. Here, for the record, is what he actually said:

Monckton: ''I found out on the day of publication of the 2007 [IPCC report] that they'd multiplied, by 10, the observed contribution to sea-level rise of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheet. By 10! I got in touch with them and said, 'You will correct this.' And two days later, furtively, on the website, no publicity, they simply relabelled, recalculated and corrected the table they'd got wrong.''

Alan Jones: ''But this report won a Nobel Prize!''

Monckton: ''Yes. Exactly. And I am also a Nobel Prize winner because I made a correction. I'm part of the process that got the Nobel Prize. Do I deserve it? No. Do they deserve it? No. The thing is a joke.''


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#75. To: abraxas (#74)

Some scientists are even debating the effects of the SUN on the climate. Imagine that--the sun having a correlation with temperatures.

Yeah ... Kepler's epicycles are convincing the world and finally demonstrating the world towards methods of energy conservation.

"The most terrifying words in the English language are, I'm from the government and I am here to help." -- Ronald Reagan, circa 1976

buckeroo  posted on  2010-01-31   19:16:25 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#76. To: farmfriend (#64)

You're not really reading what I post are you?

You're used to foruming with people who are sympathetic to your cause, aren't you?

Deasy  posted on  2010-01-31   19:28:00 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#77. To: Deasy (#76)

You're used to foruming with people who are sympathetic to your cause, aren't you?

Not at all but I see no reason to continue a conversation with someone who isn't going to even look at the material provided.


"The only thing better than a Federal Reserve audit would be a Federal Reserve autopsy." ~ unknown

farmfriend  posted on  2010-01-31   19:30:54 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#78. To: farmfriend (#77)

You're expecting me to take an off-site link as your argument? You've got to be kidding.

Deasy  posted on  2010-01-31   19:32:07 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#79. To: Deasy (#65)

Not your links. Put your arguments in line. You haven't answered my question about water for agribusiness yet, either.

My answer was in the links.


"The only thing better than a Federal Reserve audit would be a Federal Reserve autopsy." ~ unknown

farmfriend  posted on  2010-01-31   19:32:56 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#80. To: farmfriend (#79)

So this "farmfriend" moniker of yours. You're still lobbying for agribusiness, right?

Deasy  posted on  2010-01-31   19:33:54 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#81. To: Deasy (#78)

You're expecting me to take an off-site link as your argument? You've got to be kidding.

No but I can't explain to you in a short post what it took him a whole book to explain. The post of his at FR I linked to is a good start even though it is about energy not water. Same arguments apply but you won't even go read that. So again, what is the point in even having a conversation with you?


"The only thing better than a Federal Reserve audit would be a Federal Reserve autopsy." ~ unknown

farmfriend  posted on  2010-01-31   19:35:27 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#82. To: Deasy (#80)

So this "farmfriend" moniker of yours. You're still lobbying for agribusiness, right?

I never lobbied for agribusiness. I lobbied for the Grange. Founded in 1867, the Grange is the oldest general farm and public policy organization in the United States. They are grass roots, not agribusiness. And no, I'm not even a member of the Grange now.


"The only thing better than a Federal Reserve audit would be a Federal Reserve autopsy." ~ unknown

farmfriend  posted on  2010-01-31   19:37:32 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#83. To: farmfriend (#81)

You want me to visit Free Republic?

Deasy  posted on  2010-01-31   19:38:33 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#84. To: Deasy (#83)

You want me to visit Free Republic?

Painful as it may be, yes, just that one post. It is worth it.

OR you can go here and read a synopsis of the book:

Synopsis

This book proposes a free-market environmental management system designed to deliver a product that is superior to government oversight, at lower cost. It provides examples illustrating how the system might work and proposes an implementing legal strategy. Though environmental in origin, the principles this book describes are applicable toward privatizing nearly any form of government regulation.


"The only thing better than a Federal Reserve audit would be a Federal Reserve autopsy." ~ unknown

farmfriend  posted on  2010-01-31   19:41:13 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#85. To: Deasy (#83)

Don't goe to FreeRepubulick..... I swear, the power there is to persuade you into a fascist agenda. I tried it once ..... I am considered a bad, bad boy.

"The most terrifying words in the English language are, I'm from the government and I am here to help." -- Ronald Reagan, circa 1976

buckeroo  posted on  2010-01-31   19:42:31 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#86. To: farmfriend (#84)

Why wouldn't privatization be just as corrupt as what we have is today? If the government is corrupt, private control could be just as well.

Deasy  posted on  2010-01-31   19:43:04 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#87. To: farmfriend (#84)

Furthermore, if natural resources were privatized, where would public policy come into play? If there's public input, then how is it truly privatized? This doesn't make sense. It sounds like a method for getting the corporations back into control over the resources they've always wanted.

Deasy  posted on  2010-01-31   19:47:01 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#88. To: Deasy (#86)

Why wouldn't privatization be just as corrupt as what we have is today?

Third party verification and liability insurance.


"The only thing better than a Federal Reserve audit would be a Federal Reserve autopsy." ~ unknown

farmfriend  posted on  2010-01-31   19:55:48 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#89. To: Deasy (#87)

It sounds like a method for getting the corporations back into control over the resources they've always wanted.

It's not.


"The only thing better than a Federal Reserve audit would be a Federal Reserve autopsy." ~ unknown

farmfriend  posted on  2010-01-31   19:56:24 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#90. To: farmfriend (#89)

So you just want us to trust you. That's not very reassuring.

Deasy  posted on  2010-01-31   19:59:11 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#91. To: farmfriend (#88)

Third party verification and liability insurance.

How would third party verification and insurance be better than congressional oversight and executive authority? Who appoints the third parties? Who keeps them from profiteering from collusion with the corporations?

This is corporatism.

Deasy  posted on  2010-01-31   20:01:01 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#92. To: Deasy (#91)

You could easily appoint me, "buckeroo" as your tyrant taking so-called concepts into our new world vision.

One of my first acts:

1) no more give-aways.
2) no more free votes.
3) no more free Constitution.
4) Everyone pays their own weight, no matter how massive they are.

Note: no guarantee towards the above without massive infusion of dinero.

"The most terrifying words in the English language are, I'm from the government and I am here to help." -- Ronald Reagan, circa 1976

buckeroo  posted on  2010-01-31   20:35:01 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#93. To: buckeroo (#63)

with responsive understanding that each and everyone of us is capable to modify the environment.

Perhaps. But there are lots of things we can do without being leeches on the taxpayers and electric ratepayers. Do you know who uses the power you generate in the middle of the day when nobody is home? The answer is nobody, you are being paid for power that nobody needs. The rest of us honest ratepayers pay for the power you generate that nobody uses.

Next question, how do you get power when the sun isn't shining? Solar that works without sunlight? No, it's coal, gas and oil. All you would have to do is get some batteries and get off the grid. But you refuse to live by your own motto: "everyone of us is capable to modify the environment". But not you, you got a special deal to sell your useless power to the power company even though we taxpayers subsidized your installation. Then you expect power whenever you feel like it, when your solar can't provide it. And you expect it at low rates instead of the peak rates that it actually costs.

So answer this: why are you on the grid? You are certainly not doing anything useful for the environment while you leech off the grid.

Money problems do not come from a lack of money, but from living an excessive, unrealistic lifestyle

purpleman  posted on  2010-01-31   20:38:12 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#94. To: Deasy, buckeroo (#91)

How would third party verification and insurance be better than congressional oversight and executive authority? Who appoints the third parties? Who keeps them from profiteering from collusion with the corporations?

This is corporatism.

You do understand the concepts of third party verification and liability insurance don't you? UL is a perfect example. When was the last time you worried about being seriously harmed by your coffee maker? Do you think we need congressional over sight for small appliances?

Ok, you're a pig farmer. You're saying you need congressional oversight and regulations (which we all know are currently corrupt) to protect the local creek.

I'm saying that you need certification from a third party that you are using best environmental practices, waste and run off containment etc. You need this to cut your liability insurance costs, liability against damaging the creek of course. Now should you damage the creek, your insurance covers the cost of clean up. Your insurance goes up, possibly to the point of putting you out of the pig farming business. It is in your best financial interest to protect that creek.

Let's use Exxon spill in Alaska as an example. Government regulation didn't protect us from that did it?

But if they had to carry liability insurance against environmental damage they would have been using double hulled ships already. No accident. Using double hulled ships would have cut their insurance costs and thus would have been in their financial interest.

Get it?


"The only thing better than a Federal Reserve audit would be a Federal Reserve autopsy." ~ unknown

farmfriend  posted on  2010-01-31   21:09:46 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#95. To: purpleman (#93)

Before pursuing your question I want you to know to know that I highly respect your many and varied posts concerning financial matters that affect all of us whether you agree with my opinions or not; it is clear, you are wise by all posts and standards; and more than that, you really care about the world around us. So, don't be afraid to belt out your personal opinions. Our dialogue makes the world happen.

I shall attempt my most heartfelt and genuine capability to say that I want to answer your questions:

Perhaps. But there are lots of things we can do without being leeches on the taxpayers and electric ratepayers. Do you know who uses the power you generate in the middle of the day when nobody is home? The answer is nobody, you are being paid for power that nobody needs. The rest of us honest ratepayers pay for the power you generate that nobody uses.

True. I received a government stipend to help pay for the system I designed.

Next question, how do you get power when the sun isn't shining? Solar that works without sunlight? No, it's coal, gas and oil. All you would have to do is get some batteries and get off the grid. But you refuse to live by your own motto: "everyone of us is capable to modify the environment". But not you, you got a special deal to sell your useless power to the power company even though we taxpayers subsidized your installation. Then you expect power whenever you feel like it, when your solar can't provide it. And you expect it at low rates instead of the peak rates that it actually costs.

There are no answers to any local energy methods. Here, in Southern California I capitalized on the normalized climate.

So answer this: why are you on the grid? You are certainly not doing anything useful for the environment while you leech off the grid.
I don't understand your perspective. I am interested in changing the world around me. So what if I took advantage of explicit government benefits as I recognized that to make a significant claim and commitment within my neighborhood; I am the first to claim energy independence within my neighborhood.

"The most terrifying words in the English language are, I'm from the government and I am here to help." -- Ronald Reagan, circa 1976

buckeroo  posted on  2010-01-31   21:13:12 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#96. To: Deasy (#91)

How would third party verification and insurance be better than congressional oversight and executive authority? Who appoints the third parties? Who keeps them from profiteering from collusion with the corporations?

This is corporatism.

No, what is going on now is corporatism. Kill the competition with regulations, create a shortage, and cash in. Is that really what you are advocating? It is exactly what the environmental movement has given us.


"The only thing better than a Federal Reserve audit would be a Federal Reserve autopsy." ~ unknown

farmfriend  posted on  2010-01-31   21:15:57 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#97. To: buckeroo (#63)

Here's a graph that will help you understand why your solar power is useless. http://www.caiso.com/outlook/outlook.html Since it is from Calif, it is directly applicable. First look at the red line, that's your power usage and everyone else's. If you are a typical user you will use power mostly from 5PM to 10:30PM. How much power are your solar cells generating then? Zero.

Next look at the green line, that's power available to the system. Note how 28000 MW can be supplied during the middle of the day when your solar cells are working (except when it is cloudy). Note how only 23000 MW are being used. How much power does the system need from your solar cells? Zero. How much are you being paid for your unneeded power? Full price. It is simply an unrealistic subsidy for your political correctness.

Another thing to think about. Where does your neighbor get his power? From your solar cells? Well only when they are working. Suppose a cloud comes along, then where does you neighbor get his power? From the grid which includes whatever they need to generate power when no solar is available (e.g. a storm)

Final step: when you are using your power from 5 to 10:30, where does it come from? Did you store it during the day in batteries? No you leech it from the grid at low prices. It comes from coal, gas and oil. You have done nothing to save the environment. There is the same amount of coal, gas and oil capacity and when you "supply" power to the grid you are not saving any coal, gas or oil since, as I pointed out above, your power is unreliable.

You can, of course, change the entire equation by disconnecting from the grid. But I doubt you will do it since you are getting a subsidy for supplying politically correct, but actually useless electrons. Plus you get power at cheap rates when it is most expensive to generate. That brings up the other possibility, if you want to do something good for the environment, use no (zero) power from 5 to 10:30 in the evening. But I don't think you will do that either.

Money problems do not come from a lack of money, but from living an excessive, unrealistic lifestyle

purpleman  posted on  2010-01-31   21:18:10 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#98. To: farmfriend (#94)

Do you think we need congressional over sight for small appliances?

How does that relate to vast arrays of aqua fir, mineral and floral resources, such as our national parks and forests? Sure, you can have companies attempting to "steal" value from customers, but after a few are shocked, they'll just stop buying coffee makers.

Ok, you're a pig farmer. You're saying you need congressional oversight and regulations (which we all know are currently corrupt) to protect the local creek.
You're saying that individual examples of failure (Valez oil spill) represent systemic failure. Yet this isn't the case. We've had increasingly better environmental protection since the 1960s. In fact, it was activists who were arguing against public oversight and congressional authority who were trying to get us to stop the legislation that has cleaned up our waterways, protected our wetlands, improved our fuel standards, and whatnot. You're in good company there. You're on the wrong side, as far as I can tell.

Industrialization requires risk taking, hence the occasional failure. But things have gotten better. Our air is cleaner, much cleaner than it was just 20 years ago.

We can still require environmental insurance with our present system.

So no, I don't get it. I'm not about to turn our parks, our water, our air, and anything else in the environment back over to the corporations.

The proper thing to do is fix government. If we don't do that, things will just keep getting worse.

This all reminds me of Ron Paul saying he didn't want to close the borders with military force because sound economic policy would "fix it." He didn't even really care about illegal immigration in the first place.

The people and their governmental representatives care about the environment. Corporations could care less, and no amount of legislation will make them do it.

Deasy  posted on  2010-01-31   21:18:28 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#99. To: buckeroo (#95)

I am the first to claim energy independence within my neighborhood.

Until you disconnect from the grid you are not energy independent.

Money problems do not come from a lack of money, but from living an excessive, unrealistic lifestyle

purpleman  posted on  2010-01-31   21:19:53 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#100. To: farmfriend (#96)

It is exactly what the environmental movement has given us.

Says the former lobbyist. I'm not buying it. We have national forests, protected water tables, clean air, good wetlands. Some could be better. Things would be a lot worse if they were privatized.

What we need to do is get our governments cleaned up. You won't have any better situation without doing that, no matter what you're proposing. Protecting the common good is always going to require sound government, which we lack. But at least citizens take interest in the environment, and it's not on the other side of the planet (unless you count the carbon dioxide situation).

Deasy  posted on  2010-01-31   21:22:17 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#101. To: Deasy (#100) (Edited)

Says the former lobbyist.

Like that has anything to do with it. I lobbied Grange policy. As I said, that was grassroots.

I take it you have never watched Overview Of America. Your collectivism is disgusting.


"The only thing better than a Federal Reserve audit would be a Federal Reserve autopsy." ~ unknown

farmfriend  posted on  2010-01-31   21:42:55 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#102. To: purpleman (#99)

Until you disconnect from the grid you are not energy independent.

Incorrect.

"The most terrifying words in the English language are, I'm from the government and I am here to help." -- Ronald Reagan, circa 1976

buckeroo  posted on  2010-01-31   21:44:50 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#103. To: farmfriend (#101)

Your collectivism is disgusting.

You're the one lobbying for corporate control, which is one step removed from the people, of our entire set of environmental resources. As even a good Bircher can tell us, corporations are now part of the communist control over America. So you're arguing for completing the cycle.

I'm saying we're lucky that we have any control at all over our natural resources, and that resulted from a tug-of-war between the corporatists and the people who actually care about the environment.

Deasy  posted on  2010-01-31   21:50:26 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#104. To: Deasy, buckeroo, Original_Intent (#103) (Edited)

You're the one lobbying for corporate control,

Already stated at least twice that I did not. Your insistence otherwise is suspect at best. You want to know what I lobbied? Read Grange Policy

So you're arguing for completing the cycle.

No, that's what you are doing. Sadly you can't see it.You think the environmental movement actually cares about the environment? You really didn't read my posts at all did you. I'll post it again just for your benefit.

The supply regulation game is at least as old as the Dutch East India Company's manipulation of coffee prices by controlling access to the plants. Understanding that sorry history of economic tyranny by European corporate royalty, the founders of this nation tried to design a limited government, one that didn't have the power to control private property or have control of resources. Control of access to resources is too much temptation for the wealthy to purchase corrupt influence that depresses everybody else. They Founders failed.

The key to cracking the Constitutional system was international law, a loophole in Article VI Clause 2 of the Constitution, governing the adoption of treaties and the scope of their powers (IMO the rat Patrick Henry and others smelled only too clearly; if you want a good chuckle read Hamilton's defense of the manner of treaty ratification in Federalist #75). To implement the plan European investors needed a foothold in the US before they could get into the market. Until the Civil War, corporations were haltered in the US because they were not allowed to own land and were not protected under the Constitution in a manner co-equal to citizens. After the Civil War the US was deeply in debt to that very European investor class. The 14th Amendment changed that balance of power between the individual and corporate. Once the appropriate Supreme Court cases were in place interpreting persons "subject to the jurisdiction thereof" as including corporate persons, corporations then derived equal protection under the laws and could own property, the investment floodgates opened, and that not only created an American industrial colossus, it produced an American investor class owning enormously influential private tax-exempt foundations.

So it isn't exactly by coincidence that it is those same colossal foundations that are making all those "charitable" donations to those icky Greens. The Environmental Grantmakers Association? That's Rockefeller. The Pew Charitable Trusts? That's Sunoco. W. Alton Jones? That's Citgo. The World Wildlife Fund? BP and Shell. You do see a pattern, don't you?

These are more than investors in energy, their assets include timber, mining, banking, food production… They aren't fools. They use the same simple and ancient recipe as did their European forbears by which to manufacture a predictable return: Kill the competition with regulations, create a shortage, and cash in. It's become so common there is even an excellent book out on the topic that I suggest you read, .

It's a simple process that has accelerated over the last five decades.

1. Foist the necessary treaty law via (primarily American) NGOs at UN environmental agencies (largely funded by the US government).
2. Get the implementing legislation through Congress.
3. Use lawsuits by those same NGOs in federal courts to alter the meaning of the law.
4. Overwhelm the agencies with graduates brainwashed by professors who subsist of government and foundation grants.
5. Establish the regulatory power on the local level to control the decision-making with the cheapest politicians money can buy.

It's a vertically integrated racketeering system that extends over the entire planet. American investors in multinational operations are perfectly happy taking a hit on US operations destroying domestic production because their investments abroad get the business. They either convert domestic resource land to real estate or mothball it under tax exempt conservancies, Federal monuments, and such.

It is these corporate owned NGOs that are funding the environmental movement. They force regulations that kill competition for their investments. Wake up and smell the coffee, the environmental movement is NOT about the environment.


"The only thing better than a Federal Reserve audit would be a Federal Reserve autopsy." ~ unknown

farmfriend  posted on  2010-01-31   22:06:48 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#105. To: farmfriend (#104)

1. Foist the necessary treaty law via (primarily American) NGOs at UN environmental agencies (largely funded by the US government).

You're surely not going to tell me that the blue helmets are coming to get me if I don't sign up for your multi-level forest management system?

Deasy  posted on  2010-01-31   22:09:38 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#106. To: Deasy (#105)

You're surely not going to tell me that the blue helmets are coming to get me if I don't sign up for your multi-level forest management system?

what the hell are you talking about now?


"The only thing better than a Federal Reserve audit would be a Federal Reserve autopsy." ~ unknown

farmfriend  posted on  2010-01-31   22:11:43 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#107. To: farmfriend (#106) (Edited)

You're the one talking about NGOs and the UN. If there is an elaborate mechanism as you describe it, how would privatizing it break the links? That's unclear. Links would be very easy to recreate with corporate control as well.

Deasy  posted on  2010-01-31   22:18:14 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#108. To: Deasy (#107)

You seem to have no concept of what I'm talking about.


"The only thing better than a Federal Reserve audit would be a Federal Reserve autopsy." ~ unknown

farmfriend  posted on  2010-02-01   0:07:13 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#109. To: farmfriend, Deasy (#108)

You seem to have no concept of what I'm talking about.

Desperately in need of a clue but it's raining and no bucket - or even a teaspoon.

"One of the least understood strategies of the world revolution now moving rapidly toward its goal is the use of mind control as a major means of obtaining the consent of the people who will be subjects of the New World Order." K.M. Heaton, The National Educator

Original_Intent  posted on  2010-02-01   0:16:05 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#110. To: Original_Intent (#109)

Desperately in need of a clue

What is required to get into your thick skull that the world is not all about government? Although the government can make up just about anything, there is truly and realistic truth about the world around us.

"The most terrifying words in the English language are, I'm from the government and I am here to help." -- Ronald Reagan, circa 1976

buckeroo  posted on  2010-02-01   0:23:23 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#111. To: Original_Intent (#109)

Desperately in need of a clue but it's raining and no bucket - or even a teaspoon.

Well maybe some reader will get the benefit.


"The only thing better than a Federal Reserve audit would be a Federal Reserve autopsy." ~ unknown

farmfriend  posted on  2010-02-01   0:27:16 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#112. To: farmfriend (#111)

I sure hope so. The trail could be no clearer.

"One of the least understood strategies of the world revolution now moving rapidly toward its goal is the use of mind control as a major means of obtaining the consent of the people who will be subjects of the New World Order." K.M. Heaton, The National Educator

Original_Intent  posted on  2010-02-01   0:41:44 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#113. To: buckeroo (#110)

I see your point.

More Mad Dog?

"One of the least understood strategies of the world revolution now moving rapidly toward its goal is the use of mind control as a major means of obtaining the consent of the people who will be subjects of the New World Order." K.M. Heaton, The National Educator

Original_Intent  posted on  2010-02-01   0:44:34 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#114. To: Original_Intent (#113)

Mad Dog?

? I can only suppose you caught me making posts towards that insipid low-life.

"The most terrifying words in the English language are, I'm from the government and I am here to help." -- Ronald Reagan, circa 1976

buckeroo  posted on  2010-02-01   0:53:33 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#115. To: buckeroo (#102)

Until you disconnect from the grid you are not energy independent.

Incorrect.

Do you use any power from 5pm to 10:30 pm? Where does that power come from? Do you store it during the day? No, you bragged about how you sell it to the power company. But the curve I showed you demonstrates that the power you sell it not needed. They only buy it from you as a policy of political correctness.

More importantly, where does the energy come from that you use after dark? Answer, coal, gas, oil. Those are the peak providers of energy since they can be turned on every evening when needed. You use that coal, gas and oil energy, so how can you say that you are energy independent?

There are simple things you can do to he energy independent and help the environment, (1) disconnect from the grid. Or (2) get some batteries to store your energy to use at night. Or (3) refrain from using power during the evening (that means zero, so you will need to change your schedule, possibly change some appliances or get controllers for them, etc.

Money problems do not come from a lack of money, but from living an excessive, unrealistic lifestyle

purpleman  posted on  2010-02-01   5:35:34 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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