Posted on 07/20/2007 12:03:36 PM PDT by milwguy
WHEN I agreed to make The Great Global Warming Swindle, I was warned a middle-class fatwa would be placed on my head.
Martin Durkin says his documentary has survived last week's roasting by the ABC So I wasn't shocked that the film was attacked on the same night it was broadcast on ABC television last week, although I was impressed at the vehemence of the attack. I was more surprised, and delighted, by the response of the Australian public.
The ABC studio assault, led by Tony Jones, was so vitriolic it appears to have backfired. We have been inundated with messages of support, and the ABC, I am told, has been flooded with complaints. I have been trying to understand why.
First, the ferocity of the attack, I think, revealed the intolerance and defensiveness of the global warming camp. Why were Jones and co expending such energy and resources attacking one documentary? We are told the global warming theory is robust. They say you'd have to be off your chump to disagree. We have been assured for years, in countless news broadcasts and column inches, that it's definitely true. So why bother to stamp so aggressively on the one foolish documentary-maker - who clearly must be as mad as a snake - who steps out of line?
(Excerpt) Read more at theaustralian.news.com.au ...
What’s really amazing to me is that the left has never, not once, in my entire lifetime been right about any major issue. Yet, despite the reality that they are always wrong, so much of the public seems to give them the benefit of the doubt.
I can understand them being delusional about themselves, but I sure can’t understand the 50% of the population that seems always to agree with their wrongheadedness.
I basically agree with you, but I think the left is right about Iraq, although for the wrong reasons (right reason: muslims cannot make a functional democracy without secularizing. Wrong reason: we're America and we suck). I also agree with the left about the Patriot act and warrantless wiretaps. This may be my libertarian side, but while I think we need more cops and more jails, we need weaker law enforcement at the federal level.
That's because they're ALWAYS trying to do things to make the world a better place! It doesn't matter that you're WRONG all the time, all that matters is that you TRIED!
(Actually, it's more like making the sheeple think you tried, most of 'em couldn't give a flying fig whether or not any of their stuff works as long as it keeps 'em in power!)
You have to keep it in perspective. The same people who unquestioninly believe everything on global warming also believe that steel cannot melt under intense heat.
You have to keep it in perspective. The same people who unquestioninly believe everything on global warming also believe that steel cannot melt under intense heat.
OK. My perspective is THEY’RE FREAK’N IDIOTS AND WILL ALWAYS BE! You can’t change them - they will die freak’n idiots.
I must say, the first two weeks of July have been rather mild on the heat index and I’ve rather enjoyed it.
Lawrence Solomon's "The Deniers" (a series of articles on the view of scientists who have been labelled "Global Warming Deniers"):
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The left wants us to pull out of Iraq and effectively leave it to either al Qaeda or Iran -
- in the 1st instance as a terrorist state to replace Afghanistan after a period of mass genocide estimated to involve the death of upwards of 2 million
- in the 2nd instance to have total control of the world’s biggest oil reserves and have a base from which to take control of most of the rest of Middle Eastern reserves; eliminate Israel; foment global jihad against the West
One can certainly argue about whether we were wise to invade Iraq — reasonable people can disagree on this — but given where we are today, abandoning the effort at this stage doesn’t make a hell of a lot of sense. particularly when Gen. Patreus believes that we can contain the violence.
“I also agree with the left about the Patriot act and warrantless wiretaps.”
I know of no “warrantless wiretaps” — the only ones that existed were for international calls to known terrorists (which I saw nothing wrong with at all) and these were voluntarily stopped by Bush
The Patriot Act made me more than a little nervous when first enacted, but I’ve yet to see a single negative consequence to the American public and the Government folks responsible for fighting terrorism say that its provisions are responsible for preventing numerous terrorist incidents in America. Lots of folks wax eloquent with generalities about the patriot Act, but I’ve never seen a reasoned objection based on either its provisions or its actual effect.
Certainly, I understand at some level not trusting Government. That said, individuals cannot, in any meaningful way, fight terrorism — only Government can do that. We have to either provide them the tools or accept living a life of constant terrorist attacks like the Israeli’s do. I’ve spent a lot of time in Israel and prefer the approach that gives Government the tools that they need.
Bottom line, I don’t accept that the Left is “right” about these issues either. In fact, I don’t think that most of them think that they’re right either — they’re just against anything that Bush supports or anything that contributes to defense of America. They view America in the same way the jihadists view America — as the Great Satan (of course, as atheists, they use different terminology)
GW ping
There’s a comment section on the link, which I presume Martin Durkin will definitely read.
BUMP!
If we got out of Iraq now, the Suuni’s and Shiites would start fighting for control. And since the Shiites outnumber the Suunis, that means they would start winning. So Suunis from Saudi Arabia and Syria would be pulled in. This would in turn pull in Shiites from Iran. Rather than US soldiers killing Muslims, we have Muslims killing Muslims. That is an ideal solution. Ideally the whole Middle East would be pulled into a giant war.
Off your chump? Can any Aussies translate "chump"?
Not an Aussie, but I’m guessing it roughly translates to “rocker”.
Interestingly, it has been so cool here in central Texas, that I have not heard the phrase “heat index” yet ths summer.
So, the major producers of oil for the whole world are involved in a nasty religious war for years. At the end, most likely on religious sect ends up controlling most of the oil production for the world, and it is certainly going to be anti-US.
Hundreds of thousands of basically innocent women and children who are Muslim, not to mention the men, are killed. And what do we gain? And this gains us what?
What a wonderful article. Thanks for posting it. This guy has it right - global warming IS a political movement, much like a religion. It is populated by the elite and the elite-wannabees who think that prosperity has been pushed down way too much, that we, the "little people", have too much money and too much leisure, so we're travelling to the beautiful places on earth and SCREWING THEM UP.
Most of the GW watermelons will not be content until we (the "little people", "Joe Six Pack") are living in caves, wearing animal skins, and grubbing for roots and berries.
I resent like hell that Republicans are paying lip service to this nonsense. It must be defeated.
” What’s really amazing to me is that the left has never, not once, in my entire lifetime been right about any major issue. Yet, despite the reality that they are always wrong, so much of the public seems to give them the benefit of the doubt. “
Love that, mind if I use it ?
I am probably older than you, and I agree. not a single time.
Among other things, that's what makes them angry; having a perfect score in wrongness. I think G.K. Chesterton stated the reason perfectly quite a few years ago:
”Men defend most violently, not the things they know to be true, but the things they fear may be false.” -- C.K. Chesterton
The left never has to be correct. They just have to persuade enough people that they really care. “I feel your pain.” Then they get the votes to stay in power and can do whatever they please.
“Why are the global warmers so zealous? After a year of arguing with people about this, I am convinced that it’s because global warming is first and foremost a political theory. It is an expression of a whole middle-class political world view. This view is summed up in the oft-repeated phrase “we consume too much”. I have also come to the conclusion that this is code for “they consume too much”. People who believe it tend also to think that exotic foreign places are being ruined because vulgar oiks can afford to go there in significant numbers, they hate plastic toys from factories and prefer wooden ones from craftsmen, and so on.”
You know, I think he’s on to something here although I wouldn’t attribute this to “a whole middle-class political world view...” More like an ‘upper class political world view’ that all of us ‘less than upper class’ are consumming too much. We’ve moving out of the cities and cramping the idylic life in the country for example. We need to be kept in place where we don’t bother the elite gentlefolk like Algore and his buddies. And the rules and restrictions necessary to fight ‘global warming’ are do just that without affecting the ‘carbon offset’ crowd like Algore.
Thanks for posting this. I appreciate the insight this article provided.
Live Earth Vs. Africa
Accra Mail | 7/11/2007 | Kofi Benti
Posted on 07/19/2007 7:10:17 PM EDT by Argus
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1868652/posts
Kennedy calls "climate change" deniers to be "traitors" guilty of "treason," and that he'll "see all of you on the barricades." The video has been yanked from other websites. If you haven't heard it, click the link before it is yanked there too. It's still working and only 6 minutes long.
Now here’s one the should convince you doubters!:)
Pristine Alaskan Glacier Turns Into Tropical Wasteland
http://www.ecoenquirer.com/Frosty-Cove-Alaska.htm
Now here’s one that should convince you doubters!:)
Pristine Alaskan Glacier Turns Into Tropical Wasteland
http://www.ecoenquirer.com/Frosty-Cove-Alaska.htm
bttt
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