World Socialists: Do Away With Capitalism For Solving Climate Change

By William Teach September 20, 2014 – 4:46 pm

But don’t say the issue of climate change isn’t primarily a far left issue

(World Socialist Worker) Yet, there is a clear contrast between the urgency of the situation and the absence of any significant response from the political establishment. This contrast is the product of the basic fact that it is impossible to resolve climate change and other major environmental problems within the framework of the capitalist nation-state system.

For this reason, the perspective on which the People’s Climate March is organized offers no way forward. Appeals to the United Nations, to the governments of the major world powers, to President Obama, and to the billionaires who underwrite many of the environmental organizations—all such efforts will accomplish nothing.

From the standpoint of science and technology, the framework of a policy to address climate change is clear. The phasing out of fossil fuels, for example, and their replacement by renewable energy sources like wind, solar, thermal, hydroelectric and biomass, could be accomplished through a major, coordinated public works program on a world scale.

Any serious proposal to remedy the effects of climate change and halt and reverse global warming, however, runs up against two insuperable obstacles: private ownership of the means of production by a handful of capitalist billionaires, and the division of the world into rival capitalist nation-states. (snip)

The capitalist nation-state system likewise constitutes an impenetrable barrier to rational policy-making on climate change and other environmental issues, which must be, of necessity, carried out on a global basis. Each of the powers involved in global climate talks—the United States, the EU, China, Russia, the OPEC countries—looks at the issues from the standpoint of the interests of its own ruling class, not the survival of humanity.

Interestingly, they are saying all the Warmist leaders and groups haven’t gone far enough to socialism. What they’re missing is that Warmist are doing this for Progressivism (nice fascism), which give the government even more control. The WSW is just a tracking the issue from a slightly different leftist policy position.

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If All You See…

By William Teach September 20, 2014 – 1:00 pm

…is snow that is caused by too much heat, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is American Power, with a post on interesting happenings regarding the “Red Band Society” and Leftism.

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Pastor: We Need Redemtion For “Climate Change”

By William Teach September 20, 2014 – 11:44 am

More from the pseudo-religion of “climate change” invading the world of real religion, as Leftists infiltrate churches. Here’s Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church

A Pastoral Message on Climate Change

……

While an accounting of climate change that has credibility and integrity must include our own repentance, we find our hope in the promise of God’s own faithfulness to the creation and humankind and in the liberation that comes from God’s promise.

God, who made the creation and made it good, has not abandoned it. Daily the Spirit continues to renew the face of the earth. All who care for the earth and work for the restoration of its vitality can be confident that they are not pursuing a lost cause. We serve in concert with God’s own creative and renewing power.

She goes on to use Jesus to push the failed religion of “climate change”, which is based on far left progressive policies and politics, not science. Sadly, she, like so many others, ignores real environmental issues to focus on Hotcoldwetdry.

Meanwhile, a Massachusetts church is taking a fossil fueled trip to NYC to whine about “climate change” caused by fossil fuels

(The Sun Chronicle) Five families from Murray Unitarian Universalist Church will take to the streets of New York City Sunday, joining up with thousands of other marchers in a bid to persuade world leaders to get serious about climate change.

The People’s Climate March will bring together people of many faiths who share a conviction that climate change poses a dire threat to the web of life on Planet Earth, and that the most destructive consequences will be unjustly borne by those least equipped to deal with them.

“This march will bring together a lot of concerns on people’s minds, from oil and gas pipelines, to fracking, to extreme weather events,” he said. “We can lessen all of these concerns by moving quickly to clean energy, and bring jobs into our local economies at the same time.”

How are they getting there?

This is the Liberalization of religion, turning it from real issues as espoused by Christ to fake ones propped up by Leftists.

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CNN: Obama’s Like Eye Of Sauron Or Something

By William Teach September 20, 2014 – 7:34 am

Someone needs less caffeine

(Mediaite) During a serious discussion about intelligence on ISIS during CNN’s Erin Burnett Out Front Friday evening, host Erin Burnett decided to employ an unusual metaphor to make a point about U.S. “priorities.”

“I’m sort of thinking in The Lord of the Rings, you know, the Eye of Sauron is now on Syria and Iraq,” Burnett said, “but as a result it’s not looking anywhere else. It is not looking at Libya, it’s not looking at a lot of other places, it’s not looking there. How big of a risk is that?”

Her guest David Gergen didn’t miss a beat, saying, “That’s a really good question, Erin. It’s exactly what some of our friends in the Arab nations are asking: Are you guys only going after ISIS or are you going to look at the bigger threat?”

Now, Mediaite’s headline states that she was comparing the U.S. to the Eye Of Sauron, but, really, Sauron is one guy, so that has to be Obama, right? And Sauron was a Very Bad Person.

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Guess Who’s Running The #ItsOnUs Anti-Sexual Assault Program For White House?

By William Teach September 20, 2014 – 6:50 am

On Friday, Obama, the White House, and Democrats launched their #ItsOnUS anti-sexual assault program, calling on citizens to Do Something (and acting like there are no laws about this on the books)

(White House) Today at the White House, President Obama joined Vice President Biden and Americans across the country to launch the “It’s On Us” initiative — an awareness campaign to help put an end to sexual assault on college campuses.

It’s On Us asks everyone — men and women across America — to make a personal commitment to step off the sidelines and be part of the solution to campus sexual assault.

“An estimated one in five women has been sexually assaulted during her college years — one in five,” the President noted. “Of those assaults, only 12 percent are reported, and of those reported assaults, only a fraction of the offenders are punished.”

While it is a laudable goal, there are a few issues. First, I find it very interesting that there are so many sexual assaults on college campuses, which tend to be hotbeds of Leftism, run by Leftists, teachers are Leftists, kids, if not Leftists, are indoctrinated into Leftism. Second, this seems more about a “spreading awareness” and “hey, look at me, I can use a hashtag” campaign, rather than a “let’s actually fix this” program. Third

(Daily Caller) A website for the endeavor, promoted by President Obama in the video, asks visitors to take a pledge to intervene against possible assaults, to “not to be a bystander to the problem but to be a part of the solution.” Pledgetakers are asked to change their profile pictures on social media outlets to the campaign’s logo and to supply their emails and zip codes to the campaign.

Those who participate will have their information forwarded to the Center for American Progress, a left-wing think tank with significant ties to the Obama administration. This is because the “It’s On Us” campaign, despite its presidential endorsement, is actually being undertaken by Generation Progress, a student activism arm of CAP.

As a DC commenter notes

This is nothing but another data mining ruse to get names and email addresses. And they are using an anti-rape campaign to do it. The left has no shame.

Boom!

Is sexual assault a problem on campus? Good question. We’ve seen lots of allegories that many sexual assaults are really cases of drunk coeds regretting their hookups. Others, though, are real, and one thing I just do not get is why they are reported to the university, and some sort of university panel deals with them, rather than calling the actual police and working through the government established justice system.

We have an even better anti-rape campaign. It’s called a concealed hand gun. It also works great against muggers, car-jackers, knockout gamers, kidnappers, and anyone else who tries to harm you.

Here’s another: colleges should stop pushing the Leftist agenda of “if it feels good, do it”. Meanwhile, all the data of those who get involved will end up with a hyper-far left Progressive organization.

Crossed at Right Wing News.

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Salon Provides Ultimate Guide To Saving The World From Hotcoldwetdry

By William Teach September 19, 2014 – 6:13 pm

And when I say “ultimate” and “Hotcoldwetdry”, I mean it.

Ultimate guide to saving the world: What we need to do (and do right now)

Hot. Cold. Wet. Dry. ” Climate change causes everything!

Anyhow, here’s what Salon’s Lindsay Abrams suggests Warmists need to demand to stop heavy winter snow

Leave fossil fuels in the ground — all of them

Anyone think Lindsay has given up her use of fossil fuels? Make sure to ask her on Twitter.

  • Invest in a worldwide “energiewende” (pretty much forcing everyone to invest in “green” energy, and dumping lots of taxpayer money in same)
  • Get China on board (good luck with that)
  • Start right now (apparently, if we don’t we’re doom in…wait for it….15 years)

Still. Hotcoldwetdry. Only you can prevent snow from too much heat.

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If All You See…

By William Teach September 19, 2014 – 1:00 pm

…is a wonderful carbon friendly bicycle which Everyone Else should be forced to use, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Jammie Wearing Fools, with a post noting the DOJ has found no evidence against Chris Christie regarding Bridgegate.

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UK Guardian: Kids Should Be Brainwashed About Climate Change At School

By William Teach September 19, 2014 – 10:26 am

The UK Guardian really, really, really wants “climate change” to be taught in schools, because no schools apparently do this at all now

It’s time to teach climate change in school. Here’s how
We need to give our kids the tools to observe and understand the effects of a changing climate – for their future and ours

Why is it so difficult to teach climate change in our classrooms?

My kids hear climate change discussed in the news as a very real threat, but it is largely absent from school science curricula. In fact, most children the world over don’t receive any formal academic reasoning to put the vast amount of information and opinions into context, and they have no credible outlet to ask their own questions.

To date, many attempts to educate the public – and our kids – about climate change have relied on scare tactics that focus on superstorms, massive floods and ominous weather patterns to generate fear. But fear actually can inhibit the desire to learn more and take action – particularly in young people.

Without fear, the “climate change” movement is lost. Hence the part about being “a very real threat”, which seems to be a “scare tactic”.

Teaching climate change shouldn’t be about preaching to our kids. A good science curriculum should empower students to ask their own questions and give them the tools to find and understand the answers themselves…

Climate change curricula should be based on real-time empirical data, encourage hands-on participation and problem-solving….

Well, hey, that sounds good. Kids should be given all the available information from all sides, right? Right??? Um, no, apparently

…and offer a pragmatic approach to what individuals can do and are doing to combat climate change.

In other words, teach one side only, do not allow divergent facts and thought into the curriculum, and brainwash kids.

The future of our communities, natural resources and ecosystems depends on how well we understand, value and protect the habitats and species that sustain our world. We need to be proactive and give young learners the tools to observe the effects of a changing climate for themselves. It’s one more way to invest in the future of our planet and let our kids shape the world that soon will be theirs. To quote Carl Sagan, “This is our world. It is our responsibility to cherish it.”

Isn’t that part of the “scare tactics” we were told shouldn’t be taught?

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9 Circuit Court Of Appeals: It’s A-OK For Schools To Restrict The American Flag So As Not To Offend

By William Teach September 19, 2014 – 8:55 am

But of course. Can’t have legal American citizens waving and wearing the American flag and Offending Mexicans waving and wearing the Mexican flag on Cinco De Mayo, a mostly made up holiday celebrated in one tiny Mexican province, and only celebrated here in the U.S. in order to get drunk

(Daily Caller) It’s official: the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has issued an order declining a request for an en banc hearing in a case involving four students in at a California high school who were sent home for wearing American flag T-shirts on Cinco de Mayo.

The full slate of Ninth Circuit judges has thus agreed with a lower district court and with a trio of appellate judges that officials at Live Oak High School in Morgan Hill, Calif. could censor students who wanted to wear flag-emblazoned shirts.

The federal appeals court issued its denial of an en banc hearing on Sept. 17 — Constitution Day.

Most awesome! Denying the 1st Amendment on Constitution Day.

This issue goes back to May 2010, when several students wore American flag shirts, and the principal of the school told the students to either turn them inside out or go home because the shirts were “incendiary”. Nothing was said to any of the Mexican students flying the Mexican flag. The previous year, there was a verbal confrontation after a US flag was raised to counter the Mexican flag being flown. The 9th Circuit had ruled that it was OK to restrict the use of the American flag because of “potential violence”.

The practice of limiting one group’s free speech rights because that speech might cause another group to react violently is known as a “heckler’s veto.” It is understood by free speech enthusiasts to have a chilling effect on First Amendment rights.

Can’t have Mexican students offended, ya know.

(Fox News Latino) William Becker, a lawyer representing the students called Wednesday’s decision “outrageous” and said he’d likely take the case to the U.S. Supreme Court.

“(We) will not allow the politically correct judiciary to insult our flag,” he wrote in his blog.

But, in his blog, Becker said wearing an American flag to school is a symbol of patriotism, not aggression.

“The American flag is not a symbol of racism or division,” Becker said. “It is the symbol of freedom and unity. Americans have fought and died to protect that flag, and now we are told to conceal it so we don’t offend Mexican aliens, some of whom entered this country illegally.”

He also notes in his blog

Judge O’Scannlain’s excoriated his fellow judges in a searing dissenting opinion, stating:
The freedom of speech guaranteed by our Constitution is in greatest peril when the government may suppress speech simply because it is unpopular. For that reason, it is a foundational tenet of First Amendment law that the government cannot silence a speaker because of how an audience might react to the speech. It is this bedrock principle—known as the heckler’s veto doctrine—that the panel overlooks, condoning the suppression of free speech by some students because other students might have reacted violently.

Yeah, but some people were Offended, so, restriction of speech is required. This is Liberal World.

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Obamacare Final Enrollment Number: 7.3 Million

By William Teach September 19, 2014 – 8:29 am

Which has Politico’s Jennifer Haberkorn jumping up and down while clapping her hands like a giddy schoolgirl in a 1960’s sitcom

7.3 million in Obamacare plans, beats CBO forecast

The administration’s announcement that 7.3 million people are now enrolled in health insurance plans on the Obamacare exchanges immediately ignited a new round of arguments about the success or failure of the health law.

The figure — which is the number who had signed up and paid as of mid-August — is a drop from the 8 million who had chosen plans but not necessarily paid by mid-April. But it’s much higher than the 6 million that the Congressional Budget Office forecast would be covered this year, a number that seemed unattainable when the botched launch of HealthCare.gov slowed signup to a crawl last October.

Of course, not mentioned is that the CBO’s original forecast was for 7 million signups. This still means that the number was beaten, but 1.3 million more has more impact in making Ocare look super wonderful than .3 million.

The figure is complex to unravel. The number came from the health insurers, who told the Obama administration every month how many people are covered by Affordable Care Act plans. A CMS official said Thursday that in prior monthly reports, the numbers varied widely, but recently stabilized.

It includes some of the 8 million who signed up in the regular season, minus those who didn’t pay or dropped out for some reason, such as deciding that they didn’t like the coverage or getting a new job with insurance. It also includes those who signed up in the “special enrollment” period because of changes in their job or family situation that affected their insurance coverage.

Interestingly

[Medicare Chief Marylin] Tavenner refused to break down the figures and other CMS officials said they couldn’t do so, either.

Sounds familiar. Team Obama trots out a number, but cannot back it up with actual figures.

The CBO is forecasting 13 million for this signup period. It will be interesting to see how high the premiums and deductibles go, as well as what effect there might be on corporate insurance policies, as in, how many keep them and how many dump them.

Of course, wasn’t the whole point of this venture to make sure that the 30-45 million without health insurance purchased insurance? And, if your deductible is an average of $5081, do you really have insurance, when you cannot afford to pay?

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