Hard to Argue With This Logic

The six major beneficiaries of drug prohibition....

We Have Been Programmed to Think Democracy is Good

Here's why it's not.

Godfrey Bloom in the European Parliament

He even mentions the falsification of climate data in New Zealand.

RIP Swine Flu

And now the real story is coming out about the Swine Flu:

• It was completely hyped
• WHO colluded
• Pharmaceutical company profits
• Corrupt bureaucrats.
• Cover ups once they knew they were busted

How many people were forced, through fear, to take a untried and unproven vaccine as a result of this hyped flu? Will anyone be punished? I doubt it.

Now that you have seen a very obvious and clearly provable farce such as swine flu, is it any greater stretch to believe that Global Warming is a similar level of hoax or that a great many other stories the lame stream media presents to us are equally false or misleading?

Another interesting article is here.

Lord Monckton at His Best

The bottom line is that most people that support Global Warming (aka Climate Change) have simply not done their homework. Climate Change is becoming a religion. They don't want us to look into the details because the facts do not stack up!

Copenhagen

I haven't had a great deal of free time to post lately but recent events in Global Warming just can't be ignored.

If you don’t know about your government signing you up for Copenhagen in a few days then you need to wake up and check it out. Copenhagen is the latest attempt to get global consensus on an action plan to save the world from Global Warming – now called Climate Change because the world is in a regular cooling cycle.

I don’t believe Global Warming, if it is even occurring, is man-made. I do, however, believe that humans have done a lot of damage to the earth and the environment needs to be protected for all our sakes. For example, water purity and supply, soil quality and control of genetically modified organisms are serious environmental issues. CO2 is a plant food and one of the building blocks of life including water, oxygen and the sun!

What we read on the news about the Copenhagen agreement is pretty much the “party line”: Global Warming is a serious issue which needs a serious response which Kyoto began and Copenhagen will lock in. It’s a GLOBAL issue and needs and GLOBAL solution.

Because I have a very low regard for the mainstream media I thought I would read the actual Copenhagen agreement rather than take their word for it – all 64 pages of it which can be found with a quick search on Google or here. It’s a very interesting document. Governments and the media don’t really want us reading the fine print because that means we get too much information and may not like it and may actually oppose it. Best to keep us listening to our iPods, reading entertainment magazines and watching really silly TV shows like Glee. We’re too stupid to understand it anyway they presume.

I have read it and it’s very enlightening.

Fact #1: “Industrialised nations” – that’s us – have to get to zero carbon emissions (ZCAPs) and non-industrialised nations don’t really have to (LCAPs). The reason they don’t have to is that we caused the problem in the first place so it’s our bloody fault so we need to do the most to fix it. And, the non-industrial countries need to industrialise to raise themselves from poverty etc (nothing wrong in that).

Likely effect: What is left of our manufacturing jobs will go to developing countries. We can all be Barristers (the coffee making type) or maybe environment cops but more likely flipping burgers. Our high value jobs will go to low wage high pollution jurisdictions just as has been happening for the last 30 years; a continuation of the fundamental re-adjustment of the relationship between capital and labour will continue unabated under the guise of "globalisation".

Fact #2: The cost for the first 5 years is US$160B per year, to be paid for by the industrialized countries because the others don’t have any money and it’s our fault anyway.

Likely effect: We will be taxed to buggery to pay for this.

Fact #3: One of the goals is stated in an early draft was as follows:

The outcome for industrialized countries’ plans would be the achievement of their QERCs on a short term and an economy-wide transformation required to address unsustainable patterns of consumption and production leading to a phase out of carbon emissions by mid-century.

An “economy-wide transformation” to address “unsustainable patterns of consumption” …wow; now that’s a big statement. It certainly means you can kiss your standard of living goodbye.

What about this pearler in the final draft:

No ....Programme shall be developed for any unsustainable technology, particularly and especially nuclear energy-related technology.

Why?

Fact #4: The goal is “global governance” – that means global government. There is no mention whatsoever of how we vote for this government or how it will be elected.

Fact #5: Once a country signs on to this agreement, there needs to be a unanimous vote by all others to allow you to leave the agreement. Therefore, the rich ones that will want to get out can’t because the poor ones are on the gravy train.

….and there is a great deal more very alarming statements in this offensive document so go read it. Basically this is a funding mechanism for global government packaged as saving the environment to make you feel good.

Climategate

And now we find out what we knew must have existed all along: the Church of Climatology has been busted falsifying climate data to cover up the cooling of the planet in the last 10 years. Check it out a good Climategate summary blog here. The local media in Australia has done its absolute best to suppress this story but it is raging in the UK and USA at the moment.

We always knew they were full of it and now we see concrete proof through leaked emails and computer programs which show among other things:

• Collusion to present false reports

• Falsification of source data

• Conspiracy to prevent of FOIA requests

• Political pressure to discredit scientists with alternative viewpoints

• manipulation of computer models

• political interference in the science

Don’t listen to anyone who tells you there is “consensus” on climate change or that “the science has been done” because there most certainly has not been consensus (I mean, even the commie George Monbiot agrees!). Check out here for some very qualified skeptics.

In summary, it’s all too much for me to bear………………………thanks goodness a few skeptics in the Liberal Party are balancing the Rudd governments headlong rush into the brainless emissions trading scheme. The best thing for Australia to do right now is NOTHING until we can all figure out what’s really happening and what, if anything, needs to be done.

PS: Oh and Polar Bear numbers are at record levels.

Sometimes it’s Just Better to Stay in Bed

I used to get up in the middle of the night to watch Sid Going, Grant Batty and Andy Haden play the poms in the 70’s. They were great spectacles. I drank coffee to stay awake. Sometimes, being just a young fella, I would start to drift off, but then I would force myself to stay awake and see the whole game. The thought of missing any of it was tantamount to treason. You see, this was before Foxtel IQ, PVRs and replays. We’d only just got a colour telly a year or so earlier as I recall. But in those days these tests were worth getting up for, worth capturing the moment in the memory banks for all time.

Sunday morning I got up - as always - but this was one night I should have just stayed in bed. As I get older I realise my time is more valuable. Getting up in the middle of the night means I lose the morning the next day as I catch up on lost sleep. My weekends are a short time to enjoy life before its back to the daily grind of working for the man. So why did I waste my time getting up on Sunday morning? Why indeed did I waste my time staying for the second half? Hope? Blind faith? Loyalty? Idiocy? All of the above.

I do not think I have ever seen such an inept performance in 35 years of watching the All Blacks live. It was embarrassing. It was a disgrace. It was positively un-All Black.

I watched an interview with Andy Haden yesterday and he pretty much summed up my issues with the players and the coaches. Now, everyone knows I am not a fan of Henry, but I did warn you! How long ago did they re-sign Henry? Just a few weeks ago. I said at the time to put that contract in the bottom drawer until the end of the year to see whether Henry can change and adapt. The reality is that Henry is not learning anything and the players are in dire need of a good clean out (perhaps a spanking is in order now, that the referendum will allow it). That sort of performance simply must not go unpunished.

The Boks were good but not that good. Hell, their game is based on kick and chase and forcing errors which Steyn kicks for 3 points a pop. It’s really simple and highly predictable. It’s not like they had to think long and hard to figure out what he Boks would do? So Henry decided to play attacking running rugby and it failed. Henry, you were wrong. Listen really carefully…you were WRONG. Ah but the headmaster simply can’t be wrong even if he is wrong as I recall having been in front of the headmaster quite a few times as a lad.

The players need to take 50% of the blame too for the outrageous error rate and the brain explosions. Clearly “Jumping” Joe Rokocoko has been watching too much league because he thinks he had to run the ball out of his in-goal area to avoid a line drop out. Joe, mate, in Rugby you restart from the 22 line when the opposition sends it into your goal – there is no “line drop out”. Learn the rules numb nuts or go play league. I don’t think we have to worry about Joe because if Henry keeps him in the team for Sydney I think there will be riots in the streets in NZ.

Which brings me to the topic of Dan “the man” Carter. I do not want Dan back just yet for two reasons. 1) Achilles injuries take a long while to heal and the incidence of re-injury is high. 2) Dan might just save this team and these coaches. We need to clear the decks if only to shake the entire All Black machine up and get these blokes back hungry enough to be in the black jersey and earning the spectacular incomes so that they play BASIC rugby without so many dumb errors.

The Wallybees will have a good chance at beating the South Africans too if only because they can hold on to the ball better and might have a chance at beating the kick and chase game. They also have a functioning lineout. The Wallybees should be able to beat them.

And as for Sydney, I can tell you that the criminals are salivating at the thought of having another crack at the All Blacks especially given their superb record at ANZ Stadium. I just hope that we turn up for the game.