The first Great Depression, and what is currently happening both in the USA and globally, clearly indicates that the purpose of the G20, besides being narcissistic and utterly futile, is off track.
The world does not need an economic New World Order. It does not need more global organizations to standardize and to organize. What is needed, is decentralization and deregulation. A resilient market is more flexible, not increasingly rigid.
One can’t help but see the misdirected energies of the political elite as sowing the seeds for the next crisis, just as the seeds for the current crisis were sown at least as far back as the creation of the Bank of England.
Of course the power elite would be utterly powerless in a system of economic freedom, enforcement of contract and property rights. Which is why they will continue to sow their seeds of destruction, and the everyday man, libertarian-aware or not, will continue to reap that whirlwind.
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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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If I know that people are working through and with the state to steal from me, am I within my rights to confront them? For example, let’s say my neighbor doesn’t like the fence I have erected around my yard. Local ordinances say that the “good side” of the fence must face my neighbor. Yes, I build it, and he gets the better looking side of something on my property…
So he contacts “the city” and complains that I have erected this fence with the “bad side” towards him. Now he is using the state to attack my property. He’s using the state to coerce me for his benefit.
Do I have a right to confront him? Has he created the first aggressive move?
I’m beginning to think so.
What is my recourse? Complain to “the city” about the width of his driveway?
Within this line of thinking, a lot of us are being coercive all of the time. Check yourselves.
I read Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead (both by Ayn Rand) recently. I read Atlas Shrugged first, and by the end of the book, I wasn’t enjoying it as much as I did when I began it. I think around the time that Rearden and Taggart go on their roadtrip together, the book starts to lose momentum.
But enough about Atlas Shrugged.
I really enjoyed The Fountainhead. I thought Howard Roark was a great hero, the characters in this book are much more developed, the story actually has a plot that serves the ideology, instead of a plot hastily slapped on an ideology (as I felt it was with Atlas Shrugged).
I recommend both books, although The Fountainhead might be much easier for newbies. I regret sending copies of Atlas Shrugged to the two family members I wanted to encourage toward rational thinking. A.S. is simply too long and ends with a rushed whimper, after what seems like a 30 page speech.
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