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Freedom, not climate, is at risk

Sat, 16 Jun 2007 04:45:17 GMT

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clipper's remarks: An amazing article that brings much needed clarity to the subject.

We are living in strange times. One exceptionally warm winter is enough – irrespective of the fact that in the course of the 20th century the global temperature increased only by 0.6 per cent – for the environmentalists and their followers to suggest radical measures to do something about the weather, and to do it right now.

Rational and freedom-loving people have to respond. The dictates of political correctness are strict and only one permitted truth, not for the first time in human history, is imposed on us. Everything else is denounced

global warming hysteria has become a prime example of the truth versus propaganda problem

The environmentalists ask for immediate political action because they do not believe in the long-term positive impact of economic growth and ignore both the technological progress that future generations will undoubtedly enjoy, and the proven fact that the higher the wealth of society, the higher is the quality of the environment. They are Malthusian pessimists.

Tags: politics, climate change, global warming, environmentalist, communism

Is Communism Dead?

Sat, 09 Jun 2007 01:19:09 GMT

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clipper's remarks: From the article:
"If the Communist-coordinated terrorists had been squashed or had never existed, Dr. Waller concludes, in all likelihood the world would not be plagued by the present-day terrorism of Hezbollah, Hamas, al-Qaeda, and the other violent organizations that commit mass murder in the name of God."

Read the entire article.

Clip Source: www.heritage.org

It is a grave failing of our age that the full extent of Communism’s inhumanity to man is not known

Who knows that the Soviet Union murdered 20 million people through mock trials, purges, famines, and the infamous Gulag?

Who knows that Mao Zedong and the other Chinese Communist leaders have slaughtered an estimated 50 million people

Who knows that Fidel Castro has executed thousands of political prisoners since coming to power in 1959 and continues to silence any open opposition to his rule?

Who knows that the Communist plague has exacted a death toll surpassing that of all the wars of the 20th century combined?

This tragic oversight must be corrected. A Memorial to the more than 100 million victims of Communism must be built—and it will be

On the front pedestal of the Memorial statue will be the words

To the more than one hundred million victims of Communism and to those who love liberty

On the back pedestal will be the words

To the freedom and independence of all captive nations and peoples

Tags: communism, memorial, politics, history, news

A Necessary Apocalypse

Fri, 02 Feb 2007 14:20:17 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Before this article, I hadn't really put much thought into why someone would ignore the science and accept man made global warming on faith. For these people, it is a religion and for any religion to survive it must have its believers.

Clip Source: www.americanthinker.com

A Necessary Apocalypse

When religious belief is subverted, it does not, as Chesterton implied, simply vanish. It is almost immediately replaced by another set of beliefs on a similar level of abstraction and serving the same purpose. Sometimes it's an import, such as Buddhism or TM. Sometimes it's a creed deliberately created to serve a political agenda, as we see in Nazism and Communism. Sometimes it's the goofy SoCal syncretism currently expressed in Wicca and Neopaganism. ("If people seriously want to be pagans," the late Joe Myers, a Christian brother of my acquaintance once said. "They'd become Roman Catholics.") And sometimes they're a combination, a weird melange of ideas picked up from various sources that (and usually not coincidentally) also serve a political purpose. Which brings us to environmentalism.

That environmentalism is in fact a pseudo-religion goes without saying. Like all such, it possesses every element of contemporary legitimate belief. It has a deity, in this case the goddess Gaia, the personification of the living Earth, (first envisioned by

, whom we can slot in as high priest). It has its holy books, most changing with the seasons, and most, as is true of the Bible with many convinced Christians, utterly unread. It has its saints, its prophets, its commandments, religious rituals (be sure to recycle that bottle), a large gallery of sins, mortal and otherwise, and an even larger horde of devils. (Let me pause here to sharpen a horn.)

Another item that a pseudo-religion must have is an apocalypse - and that's what global warming is all about.

Tags: global warming, climate change, religion, enviroment