How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and how hard it is to undo that work again! (Mark Twain)
I watched this “news” piece from ABC this morning at the gym, about how the glaciers are going to collapse on Mont Blanc. It caught my eye because I’ve been there on that platform they used for a backdrop. I don’t otherwise watch or read news. (I don’t know how to bring the video here. The above is a screen grab, not a video.)
Anyway, people of Europe, run for your lives! The glaciers are falling! The glaciers are falling!
John Elway has Dupuytren’s contracture. So do I. For those who don’t know about it, it is often called the “Vikings’ disease,” as it appears to afflict people of northern European extraction more than others. My mother was Irish, and she and her sisters were known as a bunch of redheads, so I assume that is where it came from. She had it, as did my older brother.
The disease causes certain fingers on the hand to contract and pull towards the palm, as if making a fist. It is uncomfortable, and there is no cure. That is key and critical to Elway’s involvement. In severe cases the symptoms can be alleviated, but only temporarily.
This is so transparent that I don’t have to be Sherlock Holmes or Sven Svenson to see through it. We are told that Greta Thunberg crossed the Atlantic on a solar-powered vessel in order to lecture the diplomats during the UN climate summit.
I have seen this happen in my life, and described it but did not give it a name … police are sure they have identified the perpetrator of a crime, but do not have evidence that will stand up in court. So they manufacture it. They are justified in their minds in doing this because they are sure the person is guilty and belongs behind bars. The end justifies the means.
This is common not just in police work, but many other fields, including climate science.
The name given this behavior is “noble cause corruption“, and that phrase was coined by Professor of Philosophy Edwin Delattre in 1989. Wikipedia has a nice entry on it, using the movie Dirty Harry as an example. In that movie, Detective Harry Callahan uses intimidation, violence and murder to achieve justice.
Continue reading “The ‘Madhouse Effect’ caused by climate scientists”
I had to chuckle this morning as I turned to the MMG page for the latest output, a piece called “Who is Greta Thunberg“, written by “Sven Svenson.” Who, I wondered, is “Sven Svenson? Why do people who turn up there wish to remain anonymous? I ask that question knowing that in my one formal encounter with the group, the piece on the McCartney twins, which I had been led to discover by MMG, that I asked to remain anonymous. I became a “Friend in Colorado.”
Why did I do that? In my case, it was not a case of having something to hide, some career to protect. I have outed myself on this blog from the beginning. My theory was that I had nothing to hide, and that even if I did, people would discover me anyway. I had learned before becoming a blogger and using pseudonyms as a commenter that people could always identify my writing style. I do have a voice, such as it is.
Continue reading “Ramblings: Sven Svenson, Dr. Ross McKittrick, Jaws, birds and moral courage”
Something big is in the works. One can only speculate. Negative interest rates in Europe. President attacking the Fed. $75 billion per day being pumped into the system because banks know when the music stops, there aren’t enough seats left for everyone. Nothing kills creditors faster than a crash. Or there’s the slow, painful method of negative interest rates as far as the eye can see.
The environment is indeed facing an emergency, not just the real damage that’s seen, but because so many have placed their faith in the perpetrators of the Big Con. Big oil really does pollute the air we breathe. Big Ag poisons our land, water and food with chemicals and genetic warfare. Big war, well, killing is their business, their only business.
Continue reading “Too many sheepdogs. Where’s our hero in shining armor?”
Quoting National Weather Service meteorologist Paul Nutter in a Bloomberg article about the winter storm that is predicted to leave a whole bunch of snow on the northern Rocky Mountain Front:
Continue reading “Winter storms used to just happen. Now they are caused by climate change.”
I am afraid I am all awash in confirmation bias, but I looked at this video of Ringo Starr being interviewed by Baba Wawa (the former Pamela Courson, in my view) for signs of lying, and they are all about. His eye dart. He rarely looks his interviewer in the eye. When it comes to the point where he is supposed to produce tears, he suggests they stop filming. “Do you want to stop that now” as if tears are coming.
They don’t stop filming and the tears don’t come. He says, tellingly, that “… but I’m sure he’s OK.”
Continue reading “Ringo Starr and Baba Wawa on John Lennon’s death”
Have I ever mentioned how most public demonstrations are not spontaneous, but rather the result of top-down organization and agitation? Here is the result, from HuffPo, maybe 200 or so people in Pittsburgh. Most are apparently still waiting for their signs and marching orders.
Back before we left for this trip, I ordered a book via Amazon.com on a Friday, and found it on our door step Saturday morning. I have read the tales of beleaguered Amazon employees who are monitored all day long via tracking devices, and probably fired if they don’t measure up. A strike would be a good thing, set the company back on its heels, force it to be more humane. However, the only thing I have read is that Amazon employees (maybe a thousand) planned to walk off the job in protest to inaction on climate change. I’ll bet that story died in its cradle.
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