No Treason

This is fraud,

A surreal scientific blunder last week raised a huge question mark about the temperature records that underpin the worldwide alarm over global warming. On Monday, Nasa’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), which is run by Al Gore’s chief scientific ally, Dr James Hansen, and is one of four bodies responsible for monitoring global temperatures, announced that last month was the hottest October on record.

There is nothing surreal about this.  The numbers are, and have been massaged for quite some time.  Global warming zealots and enviro-fascists alike revel in the juggernaut that is the pro-climate change propaganda machine.

If there is one scientist more responsible than any other for the alarm over global warming it is Dr Hansen, who set the whole scare in train back in 1988 with his testimony to a US Senate committee chaired by Al Gore. Again and again, Dr Hansen has been to the fore in making extreme claims over the dangers of climate change. (He was recently in the news here for supporting the Greenpeace activists acquitted of criminally damaging a coal-fired power station in Kent, on the grounds that the harm done to the planet by a new power station would far outweigh any damage they had done themselves.)

Ah yes, familiar leftist meme.  Disrespect of property rights to accomplish a revolutionary goal.

I have recently began to reach a family member who has been taken by this stuff.  But I have a credibility problem (not a scientist), and the person I am trying to show the other side (reason) to, isn’t a rational thinker.  People driven by emotionalism (a group to which I have belonged) emerge in eras of false prosperity where intellectual and ethical safe guards are weakest, and ready for exploit by wolves with social and political agendas.

Doublethink?  Taxing carbon emissions on a planet that is mostly carbon, and populated by beings made of carbon, who must emit CO2 in order to exist.  Does anyone believe this isn’t headed towards famine and tyranny?

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Hubris.

Whether it is a mate thinking they can change their companion and make them something they are not, or an arrogant boss who takes a bad employee under his wing as a reclamation project, hubris undoes us.  All of us.

The latest examples of hubris come from the Ron Paul delegates at the RNC.  The Massachusetts and Nevada delegations not only sold out the principles and ideals of Ron Paul, they wasted the thousands of votes, man hours and dollars invested by Ron Paul supporters to get them to the RNC to represent a faction opposed to the war mongering and Jingoism of John McCain.

As much as we would like to be creatures of rational action and thought, we’re still susceptible to irrationality whether it comes in the guise of emotionalism, patriotism, nationalism, compromise or fanaticism.

I’m certainly guilty of arrogance at times.  In hindsight, I can usually pick out my hubris as a root cause for failure.  But in real time, the ego is difficult to check.

Which is why I suppose I like Ron Paul so much.  The man seems to have almost no ego.  Now that doesn’t mean he is free from error, however he is free from many of the errors I make each day, trying to look good in the eyes of others (external validation), or tying the nobility of my mission directly to my self-esteem (self-aggrandizement).

There is a great power in being able to lead by following.

Fundamentally, it is the difference between being guided by an ideology, and guiding an ideology.

I think that instinctively, the remnant can discern the difference between the two.

From Wikipedia

Doublethink is the act of simultaneously accepting two mutually contradictory beliefs. It is an integral concept of George Orwell‘s dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.

War and Peace, turning their backs on one another.

One of my favourite examples of doublethink is

“War is Peace” or, “We have to fight’em over there, so we don’t have to fight’em over here”.

The premise being that only through war abroad can there be peace at home. Or that killing creates safety. Or that murder is a tool to prevent, yep, you guessed it, murder.

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