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<p><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">Let's assume something actually can and should be done about the changing climate, a big “if” that alone sets off alarm bells in any scientific endeavor, we ne</span></span><span lang="en-US">ed to try and predict the results of a warming climate and possible ameliorating respo...

<p>Though sun & wind get all the good press, nuclear energy can replace fossil fuels for our energy needs; not just now but far into the future. Nuclear is already in wide use: Europe has the most reactors, almost 200, followed by Asia with almost 150, and the U.S. holding steady at about 120 because fear has overwhelmed fact. First generation nuclear reactors were used to make atomic bo...

<p>A recent government report came out projecting how Climate Change will negatively impact the U.S. GDP: 10.5% by 2100. It's humorous when people make 10-year predictions, but 80 years is insulting, especially when they’re so obviously politically motivated. Climate Alarmists generated sensational doomsday headlines with that data but without any context; which is that number is inconsequen...

<p>Though Wikipedia calls it; “list of scientists who disagree with the scientific consensus on global warming,” “Denier” is a term in common usage, and there's no reason not to adopt it. Let's highlight some of the famous Climate Deniers”</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Freeman Dyson, professor emeritus of the School of Natural Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study...

<p>What is a Climate Scientist, and why is it <span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">that only Climate Scientists, celebrities, and Democrats can understand climate science? For example, if anyone dares question the dire predictions of Climate Scientists, or shows any amount of skepticism, they are accused of being a science denier, and if they a...

<p>For all the political reasons to promote Climate Change, the question is why scientists go along? Real climate data has been misinterpreted, re-adjusted, or excused as erroneous when it didn’t support the dire predictions. First, they renamed the narrative “Climate Change” from “Global Warming” because per satellite data, there hasn't been any temperature increase in almost two decades. W...

<p>There's a whole new voting block coming up that's been seeped in Climate demagoguery at ever-increasing levels. Three generations ago, it started out as conservation, the laudable goal of husbanding the world's wildness & resources; I was convinced as a child because that's how indoctrination works but the lesson was innocuous enough, and promised to enhance our way of life, not threa...

<p>Religion rests on the sense of superiority that comes with piety. Environmentalism as a whole, and Climate Change specifically, are similarly soaking in self-congratulations & piety, so-much-so that ecopiety has become the most universal religion on the planet; a Green imperative rather than a mystical one. Environmentalism offers both ethics and spirituality, establishing new sensibi...

<p>Everyone has biases, especially ideological ones; let's review:</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Yellow Journalism is the natural state of news as entertainment.</p> <ol> <li> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Which came first: biased news or biased public opinion?</p> </li> <li> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in;...

<p>The idea that there is a Deep State, a behind-the-scenes cabal of high level government bureaucrats, protected by their positions and corrupted by their power, that really pull the strings of government, is a plausible, even a predictable one. It's only our indoctrinated sense of fair play and naive preconceptions that makes us flinch when we hear the Deep State is an actual fact; even th...

<p>Misinformation presented as fact, called Fake News, has become an everyday norm. News has always been closely associated with entertainment so it's not such a big surprise that it's become entertainment. In fact, there's a significant portion of the news that's about the news: ratings, the newscasters, whether it's biased. The news is making the news more than real news is. Now, like tabl...

<p>In a 2-Party system, the simple mathematical fact that half of the people will benefit from forcing the other half to share keeps the size of the Parties about equal. Even though only two-thirds of the voters register their Party affiliation, that's certainly enough of a sample to predict the remaining one-third splits in half too. That's why so many elections are only separated by a few...

<p>For all the condemnation of “hate” by The Left, they seem to be the most hateful group in history; the rise of Communism, the physical manifestation of ideological Leftism, has killed more of humanity than even The Plague. What is the feeling that motivates people to call others names, to wish ill upon them, to plot the destruction of their lives and their livelihoods? That's hate, regard...

<p>Computers are proof that any question can be logically answered by asking a series of yes-or-no questions. All human thought can be simulated via computer algorithms based on this underpinning, called Artificial Intelligence, or AI. If you believe that eventually people won't be able to distinguish a computer simulation from a human, then you must accept that any thought, even political t...

<p>Mr. Magoo was a famous old cartoon character whose entire shtick was that he had such poor vision that he misidentified everything he saw. Mr. Magoo wasn't very funny but it triggered in the audience a deep-seated recognition of their own life experience; they too knew someone who mischaracterized everything in their own imagined reality. However, Mr. Magoo's life is an accurate metaphor...

<p>In business, it's considered bad form to use negative advertising to attack their competitors though they often do comparisons showing their product is better than the market leaders. However, there's no law against it, and groups sometimes advertise against cigarettes or fossil fuels, but they can't lie, or misinterpret the data without getting sued. Not so with politics; anything can be...

<p>Something that young people don't know they're missing is honest news; facts presented without a bias, allowing the reader to formulate their own opinion. There was a few decades after WW2 where that was called “news,” and the word still carries that aura and expectation of objectivity even though it's long since been abandoned. The reality now is that all Americans hear is propaganda, an...

<p>The term, Yellow Journalism, is rare to hear nowadays but it's the same kind of so-called, news, reporting from back in the time when the color of cheap newsprint was yellowish. We've had a resurgence of Yellow Journalism in this country and there doesn't seem to be anyway back short of legislation. Why the change back to times past? Well, since the goal of journalism in a Capitalist econ...

<p>Liberty is the greatest concept of all, let's go over it:</p> <ol> <li> <p lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">The dictionary isn't much help distinguishing liberty from freedom but the hints are there.</p> </li> <li> <p lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0in; font...

<p>The Constitution is a flawed document written by flawed men who happened to be in the right place at the right time, but they had the foresight to include an amendment process, which has worked out pretty well to smooth out the rough edges. There's even been an Amendment canceling an Amendment: the repeal of Prohibition; the 21<sup>st</sup> over the 18th. Per Article 5, there...

<p>The choice between liberty and collectivism is the most dangerous ideological schism in America today. Marxists, because of their successful “long march through the institutions,” have gone from being almost illegal to actually gaining the upper hand. A lot of their success has come by denying their success; whenever someone raises an alarm about the attacks on liberty, collectivists eith...

<p>Words are weapons for ideas, and the ultimate weapon in the battle between liberty and collectivism. One of the often used tactics by the forces arrayed against liberty is to diminish the status of the United States as its standard bearer, to directly attack its liberty strength. The so-called Freedom Index is a prime example of this; the U.S. is ranked #20 or lower, where Canada is #1, a...

<p>“Liberty” is a famous word; the motto of the French Republic is “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity,” and therein lies the problem of why America's definition of liberty is not the same as the rest of the world, because just reading the motto, it's clear their “liberty” is a collectivist liberty, while the U.S. espouses individual liberty. Though America adopted its definition of liberty first...

<p>Since liberty isn't taught anywhere anymore, the only place for people who want to learn about it are in the alternative media: online videos and podcasts. There are still written explanations but who reads? It's telling that most of the people who promote liberty in these venues are independent; some guy in his kitchen talking into an iPhone. I find that both concerning and compelling be...

<p>“Liberal” is one of those strange words, like “modern,” that are both a concept and description, and though their concepts remains the same, what they describe changes over time; modern things of 50 years ago are not modern today but you still use the word “modern” to describe things. “Liberal” is the same way; 50 years ago, you may have been liberal but if you don't change with the times...