Low cost energy is keeping tens of millions of poor and elderly Americans alive during this record cold winter. Climate alarmists want them to suffer by making energy prices skyrocket.
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TESTIFYING BEFORE the House Energy and Commerce Committee last week, Energy Secretary Steven Chu was asked about something he said in September. “Somehow,” the Nobel laureate had told The Wall Street Journal, “we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe.” At the time, gasoline in Europe was going for around $8 a gallon.
h/t Tom Nelson
Easy–the Global Warming Mob are haters!
Global Warming is the latest in a string of excuses justifying genocide. For a while it was because we’d all starve to death if we didn’t rid the world of excess hungry mouths. Hitler wanted Lebensraum. We’re “running out of clean water, out of land, out of air…”
Like I said, haters. Only the excuses vary.
“Climate change is real, because Shut Up!”
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/03/05/climate-change-is-real-because-shut-up-explains-the-bbc-again/
The AGW debate is over. AGW believers were manipulated by delusional world leaders who foolishly believed they controlled the whole globe.
Thanks to the Clinategate scandal, the delusional world leaders are going down now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWO4JxM3nDc
I like this one by the Dead Kennedys: A Holiday in Cambodia. I hope none of this is a stretch, but there are two things about the song that seem to apply to the warmist facists and the elitist Chicken Littles. One, a holiday in genocidal Cambodia (circa 1970s & Pol Pot) is the type of holiday that these elitist know-it-alls really could benefit from to help them understand the real world and wake them out of their effete indulgent leftist fantasies. Second, the taut acidic feeling of the song echos the ruthless dictatorial impulses of the would be warmist autocrats: they often talk of wanting to imprison or kill those that oppose them, or kill even themselves:
“We should have war crimes trials for these bastards (global warming skeptics) — some sort of climate Nuremberg.” -David Roberts, Grist Magazine
“It is a campaign not for abundance but for austerity. It is a campaign not for more freedom but for less. Strangest of all, it is a campaign not just against other people, but against ourselves.” -George Monbiot, UK Ecojournalist
“If I were reincarnated, I would wish to be returned to Earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels.” -Prince Phillip, World Wildlife Fund
It’s time to taste what you most fear
It’s a holiday in Cambodia…
Well you’ll work harder
With a gun in your back
For a bowl of rice a day
Now you can go where people are one
Now you can go where they get things done
What you need, my son
Is a holiday in Cambodia
Where people dress in black
But the song’s performance here seems a little weird, so I’ll just link to it inline: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Rm-Fu8rBms&ii=HolidayInCambodia
I’m sorry to say the real punchline would be worse though I’m not sure it’s intentional. The real punchline is when the prices skyrocketed, the government would “have to” step in and nationalize the utilities so they could provide affordable heat. The damndest thing about it, the worse job you do, the stronger claim you have to requiring more resources. 🙁
That would be the Venezuelan model to use the most recent dictatorship doing the most conspicuous recent examples.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-02/venezuela-detains-pharmacy-executives-for-waging-economic-war-
“Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro ordered the arrest of executives of one of the country’s largest pharmacy chains for allegedly creating shortages of everything from diapers to heart medicine.”
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“Two months before the local elections in 2013, Maduro sent hundreds of troops to enforce price cuts for electrical appliances. The ruling party subsequently won three-quarters of municipalities as thousands of people emptied the shelves of plasma television sets and Blu-ray players. The shops were never restocked.”
The reason the shelves weren’t restocked is the forced low prices were at a loss, so the retailers did not import any more.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-31159622
“Pedro Luis Angarita Azpurua, president of the Farmatodo chain, and his vice president were accused of pricing “irregularities”.
They were charged under laws aimed at controlling skyrocketing inflation.”
“Prosecutors said their actions were intended to lead to speculation and rising prices, which would have a “destabilizing” effect on the economy.”
Thanks for raising this. I calculate some 750000 extra winter deaths have occurred since hansen turned up heating.
My mechanic mentioned he got his new Smart Meter and last month’s electric bill was $700. YIKES! that is almost double the going rental rate around here. We shut down our our central heating and A/C two years ago to save money when our bills started hitting $400 a month.
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“I am a fan of the social policies that you find in Europe”
(From the book “I’ve Always Been A Yankee Fan” by Thomas D. Kuiper, p. 76 – Hillary in 1996)
So Hitlery is a fan of the Fabian Socialists planned killing of old folks and other useless eaters:
Sun, December 5, 2010 Britain is freezing to death: MIDDLE class families are among millions of Britons who cannot afford to heat their homes this winter, as elderly ride on buses all day to stay in the warm.
3 February 2012 Hundreds die from the cold in eastern Europe: …the number of deaths had risen to 63 over the past six days in Ukraine, with 945 people hospitalised with frostbite… In the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius, at least two people froze to death.
2015 Death toll soars as cold snap hits UK:some 28,800 people died in the fortnight ending January 23…. More than 25,000 people aged over 65 lost their lives due to the cold snap. 11,102 men and 14,129 women lost their lives…. The death toll among the elderly was 18,154 in the same period last year.
Top doctor’s chilling claim: The NHS kills off 130,000 elderly patients every year. Professor says doctors use ‘death pathway’ to euthenasia of the elderly
Children placed on controversial ‘death pathway’ Sick children are being placed on a controversial end-of-life “pathway” previously only thought to have been used for elderly and terminally-ill adult patients.
Jo Nova — Killing People with Concern:Biofuels lead to nearly 200000 Deaths est. in 2010.
joannenova(DOT)com.au/2011/06/killing-people-with-concern-biofuels-lead-to-nearly-200000-deaths-est-in-2010/
They want to commit genocide because at the heart of environmentalism is earth worship and the idea that man is a cancer on the planet.
The less of us the better in their opinion. This is a very dangerous ideology, almost as dangerous as ISIS.
Yes it is dangerous because it is everywhere.
*raises hand*
Oooh! The carrying capacity of the Earth is only 1.2 billion humans, or precisely three Michelle Robinson-Obama units of food consumption. Unless you’re talking about BBQ pork rib twinkie sandwiches, in which case “hands off”, peasants!
Your numbers are way way too high.
“A total population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal.” – Ted Turner, founder of CNN and the United Nations Foundation.
Motives vary. Gaia-like thought is certainly one factor. The vague concepts of equality and fairness are others. And, IMO, much more important. i.e. why should some live comfortably when billions do not?
Doesn’t that inequality seem unfair? Well, don’t worry! There is never a shortage of people who know exactly how to fix it. And they would if we give them power for a few generations.
There are also historical and political views. These invariably support attitude adjustments. Why shouldn’t those in, say Europe, suffer for colonialism? Or for slavery? The Equalitarian thinks a century or two of nearly starvation would even things out a bit. Outright slaughters would seldom be necessary.
Still others, Statists, feel the masses don’t deserve any independence. Paying your own bills, such as the costs of home heating, is just a form of independence. The Statist feels that if people couldn’t pay they would have to behave and ask the State for survival. Since the State itself would be perfect (being run by the Statists) all inequities and flaws would soon be erased. Utopia would result.
At this point the reader has noticed all the advocates ask the same. Give us absolute power and we will solve everything, real soon.
No matter if the science of global warming is all phony…
climate change provides the greatest opportunity to
bring about justice and equality in the world.”
– Christine Stewart,
former Canadian Minister of the Environment
Leftist have not faith in the people to advance themselves and improve their own conditions. They will always use the lowest to steal from those that produce. Any excuse will do.
Europeans did suffer from colonialism and slavery (as have we all). The Romans and Moors (et al) both colonized Europe, and over a million Europeans were taken as slaves by North African slave traders.
What goes around, comes around.
“Motives vary. Gaia-like thought is certainly one factor. The vague concepts of equality and fairness are others….” aka ‘Social Justice’
That is just another excuse given to the useful idiots. It is straight from KGB agent Willi Muenzenberg’s play book.
What Exactly Is ‘Social Justice’?
To put it bluntly ‘Social Justice’ is the excuse given by the lazy thieves and the power hunger for STEALING YOUR WEALTH. The wealth confiscated by governments never really makes it to the ‘poor’
The USA has been confiscating the wealth of the working class to give to the poor since FDRs New Deal in the 1930s. The result is a large class of people with a gimme attitude who have the mind of a spoiled toddler in the body of a man in his prime.
If you want to see the results of ‘Social Justice’ look at the black on black crime rate, the drug use, the number of births out of wedlock. THAT is the result of ‘Social Justice’.
Of course George Bernard Shaw gave us the real reason and it has nothing to do with ‘Social Justice’ “”A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.”
Once the dependent class is larger than the wealth creating class, the government is now in complete control and can do as it pleases. This is the stage the USA is now in.
Soon see Shaw’s OTHER plan put into practice. Many parts of it are already being implemented by stealth.
Source: George Bernard Shaw, Prefaces (London: Constable and Co., 1934), p. 296.
George Bernard Shaw: The Intelligent Woman’s Guide to Socialism and Capitalism, 1928, pg. 470)
I love the replies here. Stellar. You have no ‘contact’ page .. so please do contact me at [email protected] and we’ll set up that live Skype. Thanks.
Obama should be made aware that many of the poorest countries in the world, that would benefit most from cheap reliable coal-fired electricity… are inhabited by muslims and/or darker skinned people.
Middle East, Africa, ….. Kenya …. etc etc
He certainly loves his father race & religion as much as he loves the country of his birth.
Speaking of genocide or an Apocalypse, Hotair did a post saying: Confirmed: Republicans more confident in their ability to survive the apocalypse than Democrats.
My comment at the Hotair article:
What could bring on the equivalent of an Apolcaylpse?
The 2009 Cap & Trade bill that passed the House and would have cut US CO2 emissions (and thus energy use, in an expanding country!) by 83%. We are talking collapse and our guns would come in handy to keep the food and body robbers away.
Comments from the fear mongering warmists that deep down are striving for the Apocalypse Soon:
“Isn’t the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn’t it our responsibility to bring that about?” -Marice Strong, ex UNEP Director
“A massive campaign must be launched to de-develop the United States.” -John Holdren (1973), Obama’s Science Czar
“Global Sustainability requires the deliberate quest of poverty, reduced resource consumption and set levels of mortality control.” -Maurice King, Research Fellow, University of Leeds
“We have wished, we ecofreaks, for a disaster… to bomb us into the stone age, where we might live like Indians.” -Stewart Brand, Whole Earth Catalogue
“The data doesn’t matter. We’re not basing our recommendations [for cutting CO2 to the bone] upon the data. We’re basing them upon the climate models.” -Chris Folland, UK Meteorological Office [but their climate models have totally failed to reflect any semblance of reality: http://www.drroyspencer.com/2013/06/still-epic-fail-73-climate-models-vs-measurements-running-5-year-means/
Reblogged this on John Hargrove’s Weblog.
It’s actually a pincer attack. On one side they have ZIRP killing interest earnings on savings and on the other side they are forcing prices upwards on energy, food, and medical goods and services.
Of course few recognize it. But this is a deliberate action. They know what they are doing.
It all comes from the a belief in the 1798 essay on population growth by Thomas Malthus an Anglican curate at Oakwood Chapel UK. He argued that population multiplies geometrically and food arithmetically; therefore, the population will eventually outstrip the food supply. This has been proven false. Without immigration from Catholic countries to the south, the USA would have negative population growth.The EU has a worse negative population growth and is also importing third world people as a result.
Dr Tim Ball wrote this article for WUWT: Overpopulation: The Fallacy Behind The Fallacy Of Global Warming
What is interesting is the amount of nay saying and flack heaped on Dr Tim Ball over on WUWT when his essay appeared. I had been priming people for this conclusion for years so it is not like they did not have the evidence to see this was the true.
I am not a conspiratorial person by nature and was faced with a dilemma when I first read their reports. But it’s all there – in black and white. The CoR claims that “we are facing an imminent catastrophic ecological collapse” and “our only hope is to transform humanity into a global interdependent sustainable society, based on respect and reverence for the Earth.” In the end I came to the conclusion that there are two possibilities – either the CoR wrote all these reports and setup a vast network of supporting organisations just for fun or they actually believe what they have written and are working hard to fulfill their role as the self-appointed saviours of Gaia.
Based on my close observation of their actions, and watching the recommendations made by the CoR many years ago now being adopted as official UN and government policy – well, I have become personally convinced that they are deadly serious. On this website I try to use quotes and excerpts as much as possible and let the reader reach their own conclusions.
So, what exactly is the Club of Rome and who are its members? Founded in 1968 at David Rockefeller’s estate in Bellagio, Italy, the CoR describes itself as “a group of world citizens, sharing a common concern for the future of humanity.” It consists of current and former Heads of State, UN beaureacrats, high-level politicians and government officials, diplomats, scientists, economists, and business leaders from around the globe….
I would like to start this analysis of the Club of Rome by listing some prominent members of the CoR and its two sub-groups, the Clubs of Budapest and Madrid. Personally it isn’t what the CoR is that I find so astonishing; it is WHO the CoR is! This isn’t some quirky little group of green activists or obscure politicians. They are the most senior officials in the United Nations, current and ex-world leaders, and the founders of some of the most influential environmental organisations. When you read their reports in the context of who they are – its gives an entirely new, and frightening, context to their extreme claims.
The names are familiar ones to all of us starting with Al Gore, Maurice Strong, Mikhail Gorbachev, Sir Crispin Tickell, Kofi Annan (former Secretary General of the United Nations) and Surprise Surprise Anne Ehrlich There are a lot of others named in the Article.
I appreciate the long version you provided and full attribution for the the Club of Rome “the real enemy is humanity itself” quote. It’s good to have the unabridged version, though for impact I usually shorten it to something lke:
Here’s some more Club of Rome quotes I have in stock:
“The Earth has a cancer and the cancer is Man.” -Club of Rome, Mankind at the Turning Point (A. Gregg?)
“We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis.” -David Rockefeller, Club of Rome executive manager
“Now is the time to draw up a master plan for sustainable growth and world development based on global allocation of all resources and a new global economic system. ” -Club of Rome, Mankind at the Turning Point
“Democracy is not a panacea. It cannot organize everything and it is unaware of its own limits. These facts must be faced squarely. Sacrilegious though this may sound, democracy is no longer well suited for the tasks ahead.” -Club of Rome, The First Global Revolution
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Scary. VERY scary.
I would add: “The earth has a cancer and the cancer is liberal thinking.”.
Overpopulation is the central tenet of Obummers Energy Policy, the deployment of Smart Meters, the closing of Coal plants, the denial of medical care to the elderly (Obummercare) It is also the basis of the newest attack on the US middle class, the Dietary Guidelines. All are based on that 1798 essay on population growth although the concept has been renamed Sustainability. The renaming was done so the Sheeple do not realize it is really about impoverishing them and killing off the elderly and other useless eaters.
Paraphrased from Dr Ball’s Essay linked above:
Overpopulation was central in all of The Club of Rome’s activities. Three books were important to their message, Paul Ehrlich’s The Population Bomb (1968) and Ecoscience: Population, Resources and Environment (1977) co-authored with John Holdren, Obama’s Science Czar, and Meadows et al., Limits to Growth, published in 1972 that anticipated the IPCC approach of computer model predictions (projections). The latter wrote
Economist Julian Simon challenged TCOR and Ehrlich’s assumptions based on the Malthusian idea of overpopulation
In response to Ehrlich’s published claim that “If I were a gambler, I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000? – a proposition Simon regarded as too silly to bother with – Simon countered with “a public offer to stake US$10,000 … on my belief that the cost of non-government-controlled raw materials (including grain and oil) will not rise in the long run.”
Simon proposed,
You could name your own terms: select any raw material you wanted – copper, tin, whatever – and select any date in the future, “any date more than a year away,” and Simon would bet that the commodity’s price on that date would be lower than what it was at the time of the wager.
John Holdren selected the materials and the time. Simon won the bet.
However the idea behind that quote came straight out of The Club of Rome.
This is not surprising since Anne Ehrlich Paul’s wife and co-author was a Club of Rome member.
1972 was the same time that Club of Rome member Maurice Strong Chaired the First Earth Summit and the UN Secretary-General was Kurt Waldheim (a former Nazi) The book International Organizations and Development, 1945-1990 cites Waldheim’s correspondence with the Club of Rome. The book also cites “Draft Speech on “The World Food and Energy Crisis — The Role of International Organizations” – 9 May 1974
On another note:
Did you know Delta Airlines did this?
https://www.youtube.com/embed/c_VGxfmDmEo
Delta isn’t the only Airline that does it and others come home by military aircraft. They’re called “Angel Flights”. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70Ikj1hZDnw?feature=player_detailpage&w=640&h=360%5D