Mangled Thoughts

Tim Blair has an embarrassing problem, his rightwing pals, the likes of Andrew Bolt, Jason Soon, et al, and their deliberate deception of the public.

This morning, Andrew Bolt, on radio, denied there is a worsening international food crisis. In his typical sarcastic trivialisation of serious matters, for which the Right are as culpable as the Left, he said there is no food crisis. To the contrary, according to Bolt:

The lumpenmasse of India have never had it so good (funny, that’s the line he used when calling modest Australians ingrates). It is obvious, because “they are all fat”. They are ‘fat’ because “they are eating more”.

Ah, I see. According to Bolt, the teeming masses of India are eating so much that the international food crisis is only a short run supply-demand adjustment, and prices will fall once farmers increase production. The recent food riots according to Bolt have nothing to do with a food crisis.

He then continued his flippant and snide remarks by saying that fashionable westerners react by doing the opposite, eating less and getting thinner. Bolt observed bulimia is “the it” thing to sport. He was alluding to the cut in food supplies in Britain, Europe and the US, and not just in Asiatic countries. (It was recently reported that the British are struggling with food shortages and spiralling prices for available supplies.)

Bolt has deliberately deceived the public about the deepening food crisis, the real hardships it is causing, and the political fall-out inclusive of violence. He papered over real suffering in Asiatic countries, and islands. This callous, Rightwing bastard has decieved the public on radio, and it is no secret why he did so.

He uses his column to promote the very reason why there is a major, international, deepening food crisis, the ethanol fuel fraud. He has not yet apologised for it. He sung its praises, what a great boon it is for farmers seeking an easy way out of running a real agri business. Mind you, it was his rightwing mates in politics, including his equally ignorant friend Peter Costello who rammed this watermelon criminal scheme down in Australia.

Bolt papered over what the criminal fraud is causing, the wrecking of the lattice of agricultural production around the world. Now, I don’t know whether poor Indians have been eating better than in the past, but the improvement has ended. They, in Bolt’s snide and flippant usage, will thin down fast, and many around the world will join them in the exclusive, expensive Quick Slim Programme… ah the Brits are already on it. Joy.

Moreover, economists warned 12 to 13 years ago what the consequences would be if the ethanol fraud were to be imposed. They spelled it out; the destruction of efficient food production.

That callous blatherer, Andrew Bolt, ignored the published evidence. Then, Bolt is not merely ignorant. He is evidently incapable of even picking up a telephone to contact those who could have advised him accurately. Struth, what is Murdoch paying him $3000 plus a week for? To peer at a telephone, then rush of to admire himself in a mirror?

It’s funny but, on this grave matter, the truth for Bolt is not in contention. This foghorn accuses leftists of lying, and distorting facts, and using their positions to promote vicious tyrants such as Castro. Yet, he does the same thing; conceals facts, distorts the truth, and promotes swindlers who are wreaking havoc. How much havoc? Famine is a real prospect.

That, Mr.Tim Blair, is your Rightwing buddy in action.

As damaging, and ruinous as Australia’s version of the Sherman Act, the ACCC, already is, Kevin Rudd has decided to intensify this protectionist measure.

The Rudd Government will today announce new measures aimed at promoting competition and cracking down on anti-competitive behaviour by big businesses.

Monopolies and cartels exist and endure only as government imposed arrangements. This was understood, as was also theory of capital until the 1930’s, which due to the rise of central planners and novelties purveyed as economic theory fell out of view. It was why until the 1930’s monopoly was never discussed - all understood what a monopoly is. As DiLorenzo summed up (of the US):

The Truth About Sherman

Today regulation is generally recognized as a mechanism by which special interests lobby the government to create barriers to entry or other special privileges. Research has shown, for example, that the Civil Aeronautics Board cartelized the airline industry, the Interstate Commerce Commission helped monopolize the railroad and the trucking industries, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation sharply limited entry into the banking business, and occupational licensing created entry barriers into hundreds of occupations. Much of the history of regulation chronicles monopoly privileges procured through the auspices of the state….

Those politicians responsible for the Sherman Act (1890) deceived the public by claiming it was a measure aimed at protecting consumers against ‘trusts’ - monopolies and cartels. It was a protectionist measure aimed at preventing entry into markets of competitive firms run by entrepreneurs. The object of damaging successful firms is to protect, as Di Lorenzo also related, “incompetent businesses from superior competition, not to protect consumers from monopoly”. Entrepreneurial firms, consumers and labour all lost out with the imposition of the Sherman Act.

It is ironic to consider that in contrast to today, Unions in America did not demand and support the Act. Today, they are demanding the Act be weilded against companies such as Walmart. What those Unions would thus do, is assist protectionists in condeming labour to less productive jobs and with that, falling income.

The Sherman Act was used against the free market, competitive firm, Microsoft. The irony in this action was that some of the hostile parties - software firms inclusive of Java, ride on the back of Microsoft’s operating system and integrated software. Next, they were not producing products that could displace Mircrosoft. Contrast this to the British firm Unix and the development of its pc version, Linux, and Apple’s redevelopment of its products. As Gates correctly said, Microsoft is not a monopoly. 240 economists signed an open letter, published in the major US papers against the Act and the action:

“An Open Letter to President Clinton From 240 Economists On Antitrust Protectionism.” It said, in part, “Consumers did not ask for these antitrust actions - rival business firms did. Consumers of high technology have enjoyed falling prices, expanding outputs, and a breathtaking array of new products and innovations. … Increasingly, however, some firms have sought to handicap their rivals’ races by turning to government for protection. … Many of these cases are based on speculation about some vaguely specified consumer harm in some unspecified future, and many of the proposed interventions will weaken successful U.S. firms and impede their competitiveness abroad.”

It should be noted that there are US Judges who are blunt about the real force of the Sherman Act. Justices Bork, smeared by the Stalinist Democrats, and Posner have firmly set out that the Act punishes entrepreneurs, protects inefficient interests, punishes consumers, imposes real losses and burdens. Indeed DiLorenzo quotes Bork in the above linked article:

Robert Bork might not have been exaggerating when, writing in his book, The Antitrust Paradox, he remarked that if government were to somehow force the economy into “competitive equilibrium,” it would have approximately the same effect on personal wealth as several strategically placed nuclear explosions.

Well, that is what Rudd, and the Right - courtesy of the CIS are about to do Australians with their carbon tax, so why not finish the serfs off properly!

Australia has its own Sherman Act, the Australian Consumer and Competition Commission. The assumption used to justify this protectionist regulatory regime is the falsehood of perfect competition. The defining test (also fallacious) is market concentration. The fallacy of perfect competition in fact serves those who are hostile to free markets. Portectionists, as DiLorenzo observes, seized on it. This fact points up how palpably bad the “free market think tanks” in Australia are - the CIS and the IPA:

Once the economics profession embraced the “perfect” competition theory which…means “the absence of all competitive activities,” it also embraced antitrust regulation. For…

The related falsehood of monopsony was used by the ACTU against labour market reform. Shockingly, the Right conceded that lie. Yet, it is understandable why they did so - apart from the monstrosities the likes of Hugh Morgan and Des Moore put up as theory of labour markets. The Right believes in the lie of perfect competition.

The ACTU’s objective is a mercanitilist’s aim. That is, to extract effective minimum rates higher than real market prices. This means enforcement of protection of unionised labour. It’s funny but this, if any monopoly exists, really looks as if it is exerted by central government for selected interests. There, it was, under the old IRC regime.

The ACCC is also appallingly destructive, as this case illuminates:

Anti-merger laws are bad for the Australian economy, Mr Barnaby Joyce

… go back to 2000 when the express trucking company McPhee and four of its executives were fined $4 million in a federal court for…

Then there is the recent, infamous case of Richard Pratt, his Visyboard and Amcor. In fighting the action, they must have been advised by ignoramuses - not only their lawyers, but, since it turns on economics, also ‘economic advisers’.

One is not altogether sympathetic to Pratt. He has supped with the Devil and the Devil seized his dining cutlery, rammed it up under his rib cage and rummaged around his gizzards. Dick Pratt fully supports ‘evironmentalism’ and watermelon red measures. Seeing that greeny-hugging bastard suffer is not an unmixed joy.The fly in the ointment is, he was skewered for the wrong reasons.

Rudd is an ingornamus, and so is the rest of his Cabinet and their advisers. What, exactly, is the Right’s excuse for committing economic sabotage throught the Australian version of the Sherman Act? More so in view of, despite their public propaganda efforts, the Right has never advanced nor defended the case for free markets and genuine Liberalism. They have acted with deliberation for contrary aims.

One target of protectionists is the supermarket majors. The public campaign against them asserts the chains are supposed to:

1. sell to consumers at low and even lowering prices;

2. but not at a price that puts the inefficient out of business;

3. will pay some protectionist suppliers prices higher than their real market values.

4. The majors are in violation of 1,2 &3;

5. this means they must be operating as a cartel.

It’s a bizarrely schizophrenic list of demands that can only be imposed by government coercion. Yet, it doesn’t require much effort to draw the correct conclusion, efficient producers, consumers, and employees and capital can only be damaged by the imposition of those demands.

One type of protectionists are those pretending to be in the business of agricultural production. To repeat, 40-45% of farms are successful business operations, supplying 95-98% of total output. The other 50-60% producing a very expensive piffling 2-5% of output are fully propped up by transfers. It is this lot who are trying to extract more out of much abused successful producers and consumers, by the deliberate attempt to force retailers and, in reality, consumers, to pay more. Take, for example, meat :

The ineffectual are complaining the majors are forcing livestock prices down while charging profit taking prices to consumers. Hey presto, they are running a cartel. A figure shows how absurd this claim is: The major’s build their earnings on thin margins of 1% to 2% on products sold.

What is funny is, according to the fallacy of perfect competition, the numbers of butchers is large. From the fallacy of perfect competition, by definition the markets in meat are highly competitive.

There are many, sole proprietor, single shop butchers in suburbs and towns, and a number of small independent butcher chains. This is in addition to independent supermarket/mixed business shops and small chains. There is also a reasonably large array of types of meat sellers. Victorians have dozens of alternatives within a matter of minutes of their doorsteps. They are not bound to major supermarkets for meat. So if the majors are making profit, why aren’t a significant number of others selling at lower prices, thus eliminating those profits?

The reason the protectionists give is, the majors have negotiated high volume supply contracts with a limited number of large-scale, efficient producers. This is, they assert, proof of monopoly,with the smoking gun of ‘collusion’. No, it is evidence of producers and buyers resolving efficient production of meat. The objection is nothing less than the incompetent crying foul because they are not successful in the business of meat production.

What is really going on in meat pricing is buried under the whining and also the fallacies of perfect competition. The reality is protectionists, to get their way, are supporting measures that will damage successful retailers and consumers. They are using fallacious ‘economics’ to push their case.

Rudd has made this clear, the object is to force successful firms and consumers to subsidise the inefficient and handover to them unearned incomes. It’s a policy of capital liquidation and deliberately forcing down the real incomes of consumers so that a lucky few can enrich themselves even though they are failures as businessmen and businesswomen. Successful enterprises and consumers can get stuffed. Rudd has made this plain:

Where appropriate, legal cases involving a misuse of market power will be heard in the Federal Magistrates Court rather than in the Federal Court.

The reforms will also strengthen the role of the ACCC

Australia’s Right never did unwind the “Sherman Act”. They fully support it and, in reality, have told Rudd to screw Australians. Oh, not intentionally. No, it is because the Right parrots the textbook, as does Jason Soon, who seems oblivious to the force of what he has written in:

Tackling price-fixing cartels

The force of the Australian version of the Sherman Act protecting “incompetent businesses from superior competition”, and its fallacious economic justification, perfect competition, is the breaking up and smashing of the latter. Rudd can cut to the chase and decree his own great leap forward.

Rudd can order the break up of BHP, Shell, Woodside Petroleum and Caltex. Next, order every Australian household to drill for oil and distil ethanol in their backyards. In five years time there willl be a gloriously competitive market with many producers producing ‘efficiently’ and selling at much lower prices. Hail, Chairman Kev!

It is risible that Soon and the CIS regard themselves as authorities on Hayek. The Right are oblivious to the genuinely ruinous force of Australia’s version of the Sherman Act, and to the fact that Rudd’s decision to intensify it will compound its ruinuous impact. Their economic shallowness fuels their demonstrated callousness.

Why did Papuan New Guinean politicians cave into the Rudd Cabinet’s scheme to rob landowners and reduce them to mendicancy? Perhaps the inducement is Australian politicians Left and Right having successfully reproduced themselves, are propping them up with transfers straight out of the pockets of Australians. For they didn’t require much convincing to agree to what is nothing less than larceny –“Listen, do as we tell you or we shove you off the gravy boat”. Whatever, the PNG administration caved in.

The Rudd, Garrett and Swann have stolen the land along the Kokoda trial from its rightful owners. The excuse is, because the owners wish to better themselves through economic development, the mining venture. One Aussie halfwit spoke enthusiastically about the ‘native porters’. Yah, right, that’s why the poor sods want to get rich, they are fed up to the gills with destitution and being treated as nothing more than vacantly grinning natives who simply love living in squalor by Oz ‘middle class’ boors out to feel some sort of mystical thingy - “Do you admire my navel too”, “Yes, mastah’ .

Garrett, being a corrupter of youth and a Chief High Priest of the Green’s death cult, is a hardened liar much admired by boors. To make up for the massive theft of private property, and fiat killing of the mining venture, he announced the Australian Government will ensure ‘sustainable economic development’. The only clue that parasite has about economic development is how to fill his own bank account.

The truth is the Rudd cabinet will finish those bloody natives off by reducing them to permanent mendicancy. They are to be kept in their place - the misery of destitution. Compounding their criminal actions against the local landowners, Australians will be savaged again in the way of additional transfers, not as compensation to the locals and the mining company. No, the sums will be handed to the bums in Port Moresby. Why should it be otherwise? Australia’s Left and Right don’t give a stuff about the serfs who litter Australian cities, so that the PNG locals might aim for something higher than that miserable condition is an aspiration that has to be killed stone dead.

It is property theft. It is also a deliberate, criminal action to reduce the local landowners to permanent destitution, unlike wealthy parasites such as Kevin Rudd and Peter Garrett. Not that Australia’s Right did much to genuinely liberate those poor sods in PNG.

Rudd, Swann and Garrett, these three crims have opened the Australian Government to criminal charges on precisely these causes. What a disgrace. What a disgusting, racist action against villagers whose great crime would be to prosper through real economic development of their own property, their land.

Ah, it would be a lie to hold they are not crimes because the PNG Government agreed to let the Rudd Cabinet steal that land. That land doesn’t belong to the PNG Government either. The fraud involved is compounded by the transfers Rudd has promised to Moresby. Transfers that will be no compensation what-so-ever to the landowners and the mining company and their joint venture. There is no good reason why the landowners should not launch criminal actions against those parties guilty of these crimes.

Mind, Australia’s Right also see nothing wrong in stripping many of their real rights. They have done it to many Australians many times over. So why should they be disturbed and stir themselves for mere bloody natives who can be depicted as happy, smiling village idiot serfs only too pleased to carry the bags of boors from Oz? Besides, even if they had an inkling it is the right thing to do, as soon as ‘stand and fight’ was uttered they’d scream, bolt their steel doors and, sweating profusely, sedate themselves.

The Right used to laugh at the Greens as merely a gaggle of bong sucking louts. I always took the Greens seriously as a threat. The Greens, to sum up again, was a front the KGB set up in the 1960’s to undermine the West. The old USSR has collapsed, but KGB thug, Putin, is collecting the payoff; noting he is rearming Russia’s armed forces with new weaponry, and it is aimed at the West, the U.S. in particular. Putin himself has been open about this.

Yobbo, avid fan of the CIS and their studs over at Catallaxy, joined in the hilarity over “Mad Doug”. I found the gags amusing, even touching. However, Yobbo has a problem. He’s a pastoralist in WA. His capital stock is sheep, as he once related on his site. I have noticed the Green’s twin, PETA, is now making the same inroads that saw the Greens converted into what it now is - a major political danger, they are no longer simply protean economic saboteurs.

PETA’s aim is not merely to stop mulesing. Their aim is the outright destruction of lamb and wool production. The aim is certainly well known in Victoria, because one of its thugs during a recent interview on a Melbourne radio station declared that it is their aim. They want merino sheep eliminated in Australia.

After decades of being regarded as merely another pack of bong sucking crazies, PETA is gaining a major bridge-head in Victoria where it counts. It is called Voters. You can tell PETA is securing it because increasing numbers of ‘the man in the street’ now accepting the lies and demands PETA has been pumping out for decades. They cry crocodile tears each time PETA tells lies about the horrors of “mulesing mutilation”.

Peta is now a major political danger, they are no longer simply protean economic saboteurs, and here are a few examples showing why from PETA’s website:

PETA wrote to Nike-owned Cole Haan after receiving numerous complaints about the company’s sale of mink- and rabbit-lined coats and gloves. The CEOs of Nike and Cole Haan immediately informed PETA that they plan to eliminate the use of fur in their products effective fall 2008. Cole Haan and Nike join an ever-growing list of major retailers that refuse to sell fur, including Kenneth Cole, Ann Taylor, Express, Gap, Banana Republic, Polo Ralph Lauren, Forever 21, American Eagle Outfitters, and Calvin Klein.

To this list can be added major retailers who refuse to carry products with Australian merino wool content. This week, Hugo Boss added its name to the list. Hugo Boss has announced it is now its policy to use no more merino wool for production of materials for its products. This is the tip of the iceberg of the sheer amount of economic destruction in the West they have wrought. Here is their 40 pages of major economic sabotage that they have committed.

That is sabotage without including the violence they have committed against scientists and Universities. Not mere violence, but the commission of terrorism. Not only, for example, stalking scientists, but issuing bomb threats for good measure. Why are they not listed as a terrorist organisation?!

You can tell we are in deep touble when not only the man in the street believes their lies and accepts their propaganda as truth. You know you are in deep shite when wealthy types who would never soil their hands in real enterprise, in production of any type, join the PETA wagon, and use their TV and radio shows to promote PETA, and then funnel millions of dollars into their coffers. Use, stage and screen to spout PETA propaganda, for example, this blonde bimbo -

Lying nude and cuddling a rescued lamb alongside the tagline “The Naked Truth: Lambs Suffer and Die in Live Export,” model and actor Annalise Braakensiek appears in a brand-new ad for PETA.

To illuminate, consider these names who fully support the Green Front and that good for nothing corrupter of youth, John Dee:

Pierce Brosnan, Olivia Newton-John, Jamie Durie, Steve Irwin, Kylie Minogue, Dannii Minogue, Nicole Kidman, Tom Cruise, Rolf Harris, Layne Beachley.

They have all starred in that Stalinist front’s public campaigns. Olivia Newton John fancies herself as a high priestess to Mot, god of death. Worse, unbelievable, one entrepeneur whose airline company is being shafted by the Tony Blair-Gordon Brown carbon tax con, Sir Richard Branson, is all for the hard left cause! The man has caved into ideologues out to wipe his companies off the face of the earth.

In Australia, we have the likes of the two Dicks, Pratt and Smith. Of PETA, how many wealthy, clueless types, Right and Left, have lined up behind PETA? With the Greens and their related fronts, including the taxpayer kept “Australian Conservation Foundation”, as an indication, it is most likely a very large number, and pouring millions into PETA’s bank vaults in crisp $100 notes.

Millions is a litote (understatement). Media advertising campaigns are not cheap. It requires millions to mount only one campaign. Multiply those millions by the very many campaigns these Stalinist fronts have run and we are talking about many very wealthy backers. This is before Federal, States and Local Governments topping up those squillions by taxing the hard oppressed real taxpayers and siphoning the proceeds into the accounts of these fronts. This tax transfer is before a second top-up called tax reduction. In Australia, they have philanthropic standing under the tax regime of Australia. Jeepers, what a real entrepeneur could do with all those billions thrown down the throats of hot to trot Reds.

But wait, there is more! PETA will have their way with Australian pastoralists. Kevin Rudd, with the full support of the CIS and their Brahman backers will deliver them victory on fine china plate with the best silver service and butlers in town. The dish is Carbon taxation.

Rudd and his gang of ‘brown pantaloons’ are raising the bills to ram down the tax. Cattle, and sheep are included, they will be served up. Mr. Yobbo will pay carbon tax on every beast he owns because they fart and burp and he can thank his Rightwing heroes for this, because they flung Kevin Rudd and the Soviet Politburo onto the Treasury benches.

It will be a victory PETA didn’t have to even lift a finger for. In Victoria the Greens and ACF exercise real police state goon squad powers. This is no joke, those in rural Victoria know all about it. Those farmers in Victoria who are businessmen, and not mendicants wanting a lifestyle by pretending to be businessmen in the type farming, are furious.

They are not merely furious at the Bracks and Brumby Cabinets. They are furious at the treacherous Right and their Toorak - South Yarra - Malvern backers. They are in no doubt that that lot of congenital idiots landed Victorians in the soup called Brackistan. They are also Liberal Party members and they want that lot smashed, They realize the Left will not be smashed until that lot are shot over the proverbial cliff-edge.

One day, it won’t only be the Brackistan Green police goon squad invading your property, dictating what you can and cannot do, and hitting you with criminal offences with hefty fines attached for breaching Stalinist decree no 2,000,0065. One day, you will receive 4 visits, one from Greens Party, one from Planet Ark, one from Australian Conservation Foundation, and one from PETA. It’s no joke.

PETA is making real inroads, they are making exponential gains in voters’ support for their causes. They are gaining many wealthy backers who don’t give a stuff for modest Australians. PETA is a real political threat. Oh, and as for “bong suckers”, careful examination shows, sarcasms to their expense is one thing. Underestimating them is altogether different. This is something Yobbo also should be careful about. As it is:

Mr.Yobbo will not be the only pastoralist who will awake one day to a bit of joy in the morning, the liquidation of his business. Carbon taxes will brighten his day. The Right are not free market warriors. They are selling out Australians to the hardcore Left. First it was the Greens, now it is PETA.

As for Mr.Yobbo:

Joining the CIS – Catallaxy troll club in a bit of jollity, Yobbo failed to ask himself one question:

If the Heroes of the Right are so tough, their economic reasoning impeccable, their grip on other core matters such as science sure, and their fighting the Left ferocious, then why have they been spectacularly ineffectual? And, not merely ineffectual but have conceded many a lie the Left uses to attack free markets, capital, science, and Liberty?

The farmers alluded to above know what Yobbo is blind to. Yobbo might explain to his fellow pastoralists what a fine thing it is those great heroes of the Right ensuring the Left roll on. I might advise him not to, more out of concern for his personal safety.

Then again, I might not. In the meantime, while Yobbo might be satisfied with the Right’s success in advancing measures that, if imposed, will ruin his business, others are not one bit impressed.

Over a decade of Rightwing MPs in Cabinet and the best that they and their advisers - inclusive of the CIS and IPA, could manage is to ram down watermelon red measures. What a stunning success.

Way to go Yobbo! How the Right biffed and smashed the Left, eh. Oh, and there are those charlies the Australian Wool Council with Ian McLachlan AO as chiefy weify. They have been spectacularly ineffectual too. Yes, Sir, Australia’s Right, a bunch of bungling, ineffectual clowns whose notion of winning is to help the Left bleed Australians to death.

Given the Right and their “thnuk tanks” concede the Green’s lie, man causes globular warming and climatically sheet changing via carbon emissions, this is pertinent:

1. Research Scientist Dr. Roy W. Spencer (the University of Alabama), is so disturbed by the lies governments are using as an excuse to impose destructive policies that he has taken to public polemics. He has been engaged in the fight since at least 2004. His effectiveness is indicated by the sheer number of hardcore Leftists who expend many words smearing him, as even a cursory google search shows.

Author of, Climate Confusion: How Global Warming Hysteria Leads to Bad Science, Pandering Politicians, and Misguided Policies that Hurt the Poor, he makes what at first seems a recondite point. Subtle, it is easily missed but, a few moments consideration reflects, the gentleman has delivered a real blow to the liars:

You might be surprised to learn that there has never been a single scientific paper published which has ruled out natural climate variability for most of our current global-mean warmth. Not one…

Instead, since Mr. Carbon Dioxide was found at the scene of the crime — albeit without the murder weapon — there is no need to search for any other culprits or accomplices. The circumstantial evidence has convicted him. Even though Mr. Carbon Dioxide is necessary for life on Earth, we are now calling him derogatory names, like “pollutant.”

As the mass hysteria calling for an end to carbon dioxide production has accelerated…

Not one paper! This is staggering in its force. The left dominated media, and the politicians, not only Leftists, but of the Right and their “thunk tanks”, have asserted the science is in, AGW is true. Secondly, they have resorted to the falsehood of ‘consensus’. Those ‘scientists’ who have been willing to betray sound science to grab hold of the billions of taxed dollars governments throw at the Greens’ cult of death have been more dishonest than has been assumed.

The boosters are covering themselves by slipping in the truth but in such a way it is missed. This is not bad science, it is fraudulent charlatanism. It is corrupt, and it is insidious in the implications. Debasement of science, the rise of the cult of nature, the descent into superstition and mysticism in the 19th century was bound up with the emergence of totalitarian regimes in the twentieth century. This is what “AGW” is.

The Right, given the millions they have poured into their “kerplunk tanks”, have not attacked the movement and politicians with the rigour, vigour and determination required. Instead, they have thrown up three watermelon red Ministers for the Green cult, and pump for the imposition of even harder Greens’ demands. The Rightwing “sputternak tanks” have also spurned scientists who showed the ability to fight in public. Combined with their intellectual feebleness, it is understandable why the Left consider that lot not only to be clowns but also pet lambs, as quiet as Mary’s baaaaaa lamb.

Dr. Spencer was one of 60 scientists who signed this petition:

Open Kyoto to Debate

(An open letter to Stephen Harper, Prime Minister of Canada,
from 60 Expert Scientists)

6 April 2006

Dear Prime Minister:

As accredited experts in climate and related scientific disciplines, we are writing to propose that balanced, comprehensive public-consultation sessions be held so as to examine the scientific foundation of the federal government’s climate-change plans. This would be entirely consistent with…

Observational evidence does not support today’s computer climate models, so there is little reason to trust model predictions of the future. Yet this is precisely what the United Nations did in creating and promoting Kyoto and still does in the alarmist forecasts…

While the confident pronouncements of scientifically unqualified environmental groups may provide for sensational headlines, they are no basis for mature policy formulation…

We appreciate the difficulty any government has formulating sensible science-based policy when the loudest voices always seem to be pushing in the opposite direction. However, by convening open, unbiased consultations, Canadians will be permitted to hear from experts on both sides of the debate in the climate-science community. When the public comes to understand…

“Climate change is real” is a meaningless phrase used repeatedly by activists to convince the public that a climate catastrophe is looming and humanity is the cause. Neither of these fears is justified. Global climate changes all the time due to natural causes and the human impact still remains impossible to distinguish from this natural “noise”. The…

We believe the Canadian public and government decision-makers need and deserve to hear the whole story concerning this very complex issue. It was only 30 years ago that many of today’s global-warming alarmists were telling us that the world was in the midst of a global-cooling catastrophe. But the science continued to evolve, and still does, even though so many choose to ignore it when it does not fit with predetermined political agendas.

We hope that you will examine our proposal carefully and we stand willing and able to furnish you with more information on this crucially important topic…

Sincerely,

The signatories is a gallaxy of distinguished scientists. What is telling is all the petitions and open letters and documents that have been raised by scientists against Greens’ lies over the years have all been signed by distinguished scientists around the world. John Daly, Still Waiting for Greenhouse, compiled them on his site for all to view.

That much great work has been done for over a decade is a fact that not only Australia’s Left dominiated media conceals from the public, for obvious reasons. It is a fact neither the IPA nor the CIS has promoted, and run on, and certainly never approched any of the thousands of scientists who have acted in this matter. Instead, the IPA is now pretending it, this very year, is uncovering the truth - a fool’s joke and it ain’t April 1 anymore.

Neither have the CIS and IPA accepted scientists’ offers, pro bono, to fight this grievous matter in public debate. I have been told by Liberal Party heavyweights, fed up to the gills with the Right and their “sunk tanks”, they have refused all such offers. And the Right call themselves geniuses. Luckily it is not WW II and these idle ignoramuses commanders because the Wermacht would have destroyed the Allied forces.