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Quote of the Day: Agenda 21 — Grassroots Socialism That Could Presage One-World Government

July 14, 2011
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Quote of the Day: Agenda 21 — Grassroots Socialism That Could Presage One-World Government

Agenda 21 promotes European socialist goals that will erode our freedoms and liberties. Most of its vague, lofty sounding phrases cause the average person’s eyes to glaze over, making it easier to sneak into our communities. The environmentalist goals include atmospheric protection, combating pollution, protecting fragile environments, and conserving biological diversity. Agenda 21 goes well beyond environmentalism. Other broad goals include combating poverty, changing consumption patterns, promoting health, and reducing private property ownership, single-family homes, private car ownership, and privately owned farms. It seeks to cram people into small livable areas and institute population control. There is a plan for “social justice” that will redistribute wealth. Once these vague, overly broad goals are adopted, they are being interpreted to allow massive amounts of new, overreaching regulations. Joyce Morrison from Eco-logic Powerhouse says Agenda 21 is so broad it will affect the way we “live, eat, learn and communicate.” Berit Kjos, author of Brave New Schools, warns that Agenda 21 “regulation would severely limit water, electricity, and transportation — even deny human access to our most treasured wilderness areas, it would monitor all lands and people. “No one would be free from the watchful eye of the new global tracking and

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Are All of Today’s Social Controversies Really Just Religious Disputes?

May 3, 2011
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Are All of Today’s Social Controversies Really Just Religious Disputes?

By Mike Gray The Christian faith posits that God is the potter and we are the clay. In economic and environmental religion, our moral and intellectual surrogates are the potters and ordinary citizens are the clay. Both economic religion (a secular gospel of virtuous prosperity) and environmental religion (a secular gospel of virtuous poverty) are pretexts for managing the affairs of others and of directing them in how they should employ their capitals. — Art Carden A new book documents just how pervasive “economic and environmental religions” have become on the American scene: Economic and environmental religions both deliver old wine in new bottles. According to Nelson, a professor of public policy at the University of Maryland , a religion can be “understood . . . as a person’s way of framing his or her basic perception of the world and its meaning.” Religions require priesthoods. Some religions believe we need priests to mediate between God and man. Economic religion requires priests to mediate between gold and man. Environmental religion posits the need for mediators between Gaia and man. The source of almost all the problems in any system is the people

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Will You Be Hoarding Lightbulbs in the Future?

October 28, 2010
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Will You Be Hoarding Lightbulbs in the Future?

By Mike Gray For mystery author Sandra Parshall, it’s already happening: I’m also in favor of saving energy by using more efficient bulbs. In principle. But this is where environmental consciousness collides with personal needs. Fluorescent lighting gives me headaches. It makes my eyes hurt. The longer I’m subjected to it, the worse I feel. I’ve read that this reaction is caused by flickering that’s invisible to the eye but nevertheless has an effect on the body and brain. Whatever the reason, the ill effects I suffer from fluorescent lighting are real and unmistakable. And I hate the way it looks. Weak, watery, with a blue-green tinge. Manufacturers can give fluorescent bulbs the outward appearance of  incandescents, and they can claim fluorescents have equivalent light output, but I have yet to find one that is bright enough and provides the kind of warm, soothing light an incandescent does. We already have fluorescents in the fixtures outside our two back doors, and the low level of light they provide is noticeable, regardless of their “equivalent” wattage. When a fluorescent is installed in every lamp and fixture in the house, I will feel deprived, trapped in a dim, cold place that will

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Are “The Green Religionists” Actually “Children in the Bodies of Adults”?

October 21, 2010
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Are “The Green Religionists” Actually “Children in the Bodies of Adults”?

by Mike Gray Phil Elmore thinks infantile fear motivates the “greenies,” based on his own childhood experiences: . . . . anxiety is the driving force behind today’s environmentalist activists. While I eventually came to my senses , developing an adult’s sense of realism and the ability to use basic logic, many wide-eyed children never realize this innate capacity for reason. Primed by fear, worry and helplessness at an early age, they become the hectoring, self-righteous, insufferable “green” cultists who spend their time trying to make you toe their environmentalist line. Previously in Technocracy, I described to you the spiritual fervor of these green religionists. If you won’t listen to them voluntarily, then by Gaia, they’ll make you listen by bludgeoning you with the force of law. Any violation of your rights as a free citizen is justified to the green religionists, because they’re afraid. Their anxiety, their helplessness, instilled in them from childhood, is untempered by common sense, unleavened by pragmatism and touched by neither logic nor skepticism. They are true believers. In their minds, the failure to believe individually is a sentence of

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From Holocene to Anthropocene to Obscene: Humans Get Credit for Changing the World — For the Worse

September 3, 2010
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From Holocene to Anthropocene to Obscene: Humans Get Credit for Changing the World — For the Worse

by Mike Gray In an article on LiveScience, senior writer Jeremy Hsu offers a muted jeremiad against our rapacious species: Mass extinctions have served as huge reset buttons that dramatically changed the diversity of species found in oceans all over the world, according to a comprehensive study of fossil records. The findings suggest humans will live in a very different future if they drive animals to extinction, because the loss of each species can alter entire ecosystems. Some scientists have speculated that effects of humans — from hunting to climate change — are fueling another great mass extinction. A few go so far as to say we are entering a new geologic epoch, leaving the 10,000-year-old Holocene Epoch behind and entering the Anthropocene Epoch, marked by major changes to global temperatures and ocean chemistry, increased sediment erosion, and changes in biology that range from altered flowering times to shifts in migration patterns of birds and mammals and potential die-offs of tiny organisms that support the entire marine food chain. So the human race—and not giant asteroids or supernovae—may have already initiated an irreversible mass extinction. For the first time in history, according to this theory, our species can be blamed

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Let There Not Be Light (At Least of a Certain Kind)

September 1, 2010
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Let There Not Be Light (At Least of a Certain Kind)

by Mike Gray The National Center for Policy Analysis alerts us to a Washington Times report entitled “Europe’s light-bulb socialism”: Beginning today, it is a crime to manufacture or ship for sale a traditional 75-watt incandescent light bulb in the European Union (EU), says the Washington Times.  The United States is scheduled to begin a phaseout schedule mirroring the European plan in 2012 — the same year incandescent lights are to be fully phased out in the EU: Energy-saving bulbs have been clearly labeled since 1998 as the most cost-effective bulbs, but their relatively high purchase price has inhibited take-up, the European Commission Web site explains. In response, EU governments and the European Parliament asked the Commission to adopt minimum requirements phasing out the least-efficient bulbs. Consumers are not reacting as planned: - In Finland, Helsingin Sanomat reported that the new ban has not resulted in a surge of sales for the new bulbs that the bureaucrats expected. Instead, 75-watt packages have been flying off the shelves as customers fill their closets, garages and attics with lighting supplies for the long term. - Such hoarding has been the rule for more than a year — London’s Daily Mail gave away

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A Convenient Deceit

April 22, 2010
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A Convenient Deceit

In commemoration of Earth Day, here is my analysis of the Academy Award-winning Al Gore movie that galvanized the global warming movement and ultimately led to its demise by exposing the arguments for global warming alarmism to serious public, scientific scrutiny. An Inconvenient Truth is a platform from which Gore assumes the Cassandra role of predicting the demise of the world as we know it. As a work intended to frighten audiences into compelling government to “do something, anything” about global warming, the film fails on both scientific and rhetorical levels. An Inconvenient Truth attempts to link personal events in Gore’s life with subsequent political causes. For example, the film includes scenes detailing such personal tragedies as the death of Gore’s sister from lung cancer, the traffic injuries incurred by his son as a young child and his painfully drawn-out defeat for the presidency in 2000. Such emotionally charged cinematic manipulation serves to humanize the notoriously stiff former vice president by granting him unearned moral authority. No one but a heartless cynic would deny another human his or her personal tragedies for taking up a cause, but Gore’s assertion that his sister’s death caused him to rethink his family’s history

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‘Story of Stuff’ Is Outrageous Classroom Propaganda

April 9, 2010
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‘Story of Stuff’ Is Outrageous Classroom Propaganda

The brilliant documentary filmmaker Ann McElhinney (Mine Your Own Business; Not Evil, Just Wrong) has written a must-read essay exposing the slanted, ignorant, self-contradictory, blatantly Luddite nature of a propagandistic “documentary” already shown to millions of U.S. children by useful idiots spending your taxpayer dollars in order to indoctrinate your children into hatred of the modern world and a desire to return to savagery. This is an outrageous misappropriation of funds indicating the arrogance and lack of accountability among public school teachers and administrators across the nation. It’s more evidence (as if any were yet needed) of the pressing need for school choice. Read it here.

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That Fascist Green Police Ad is Stuck in My Head

February 10, 2010
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That Fascist Green Police Ad is Stuck in My Head

And that’s the point, I guess. Watch this ad for a “clean diesel” car by Audi, and good luck getting this slightly modified version of the Cheap Trick classic “Dream Police” out of your head. I couldn’t get it out with a lobotomy. It’s been playing off and on in my brain since it first aired during the Super Bowl. But beyond the ditty, I also can’t get the vision of a fascist “green” future out of my head — even if it’s portrayed with a heavy dollop of of “Reno: 911“-style cop-show parody. Good comedy has to have a grain of truth in it to work, and this spot has plenty. It’s not just a peek at a ridiculous future, but a look at our “be green or else” present. An overreaction? Tell that to the chief of America’s Green Police, San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom, who Tweeted: “Ok .. That ‘green police’ Audi commercial hits home..” And hits home hard. San Francisco, which proudly considers itself the greenest city in America, has mandated composting for all residents and businesses. Failure to comply results in an escalating scale of fines. No word on whether Newsom was proud or embarrassed

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Another ‘Goode’ Work by Mike Judge?

May 27, 2009
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Another ‘Goode’ Work by Mike Judge?

          TV writer-producer-actor and filmmaker Mike Judge has a new TV series premiering tonight on ABC. It sounds like another winner for the politically incorrect satirist, writes S. T. Karnick.

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James Bond’s Distrust of Superiors Reaches New Heights in ‘Quantum of Solace’

November 15, 2008
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James Bond’s Distrust of Superiors Reaches New Heights in ‘Quantum of Solace’

        The new James Bond film, Quantum of Solace, is an entertaining and thought-provoking entry in the series. Its use of American action film conventions is both a strength and a weakness, however.        

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‘Closer’ Season-Ender Presents Chilling Picture of Radical Environmentalism, Darwinism

September 17, 2008
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‘Closer’ Season-Ender Presents Chilling Picture of Radical Environmentalism, Darwinism

      Radical environmentalism and an anti-human perversion of Darwinism spark an attempt at mass murder in the season-ending episode of the acclaimed TNT drama series The Closer.

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