By Alan Caruba
I have been witness to the complete subversion of science in the service of an utterly corrupt new religion called environmentalism.
In the Middle Ages the Church determined what “truth” was. Today the Green Church seeks the same power. From the fall of the Roman Empire in the 5th century to the beginning of the Renaissance in the 15th century, civilization experienced a period of ignorance and superstition. Globally, via the media and the classroom, a distorted and debased science is being used to advance the fraud of global warming.
The challenge is to say “no” when everyone else is saying “yes” to global warming.
There is no dramatic warming of the earth. There is no indication of a near-future warming. Carbon dioxide (CO2) plays such a minimal role in the atmosphere that an increase would have no effect beyond the very beneficial boost in the growth of forests, crops, and everything else that is truly green. Indeed, climatologists will tell you that CO2 increases follow, not precede, warming cycles. They are not a trigger. They are a response.
During the United Nations’ Bali climate conference, a hundred prominent international scientists released an open letter warning that any attempt to control the Earth’s climate is “ultimately futile” and would constitute “a tragic misallocation of resources that would be better spent on humanity’s real and pressing problems.”
“It is not possible to stop climate change, a natural phenomenon that has affected humanity through the ages.” The notion that mankind has any impact on climate or weather is absurd.
In November, in Valencia, Spain, delegates from more than 140 nations agreed to what they and the media echo chamber that disseminates the global warming lie, called “an ‘instant guide’ for policy makers stating more forcefully than ever that climate change has begun and threatens to irreversibly alter the planet.”
A science that can barely predict the weather next week is being perverted for purely political purposes.
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Posted by Walt as Environment Issues, Junk Science at 11:41 PM EST
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In its recently released annual report, the United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA) boasted of its spending on “reproductive health services” (contraception) and pledged to pressure governments to do more in this regard.
UNFPA spends $148 million annually on “reproductive health” programs, compared to only $51 million on development programs.
The report warns that “every minute, 190 women are forced to confront the possibility of an unplanned or unwanted pregnancy – one that could have been easily prevented if only they had access to contraceptives.”
World Congress of Families International Secretary Allan Carlson responded: “UNFPA acts as if this was one of the great tragedies to befall humanity – that a woman is expecting a child whose conception wasn’t planned. How many of the great men and women of history – scientists, inventors, artists and composers – were the result of an ‘unplanned pregnancy’”?
UNFPA claims to be “abortion neutral,” but states it promotes “family planning as a means to reduce unsafe abortions.” By “unsafe abortions, UNFPA means “illegal abortions,” which implies that the agency considers legal abortion to be a valid “reproductive health service.”
In the past, investigators from the governments of the United States and Britain have charged the agency with complicity in China’s forced abortion program. For that reason, the U.S. no longer contributes to UNFPA.
According to The New York Times, UNFPA has also been charged with promoting forced sterilization in Peru, where indigenous women were sterilized without their consent or were bribed into undergoing the procedure for bags of groceries.
Carlson noted: “UNFPA’s agenda is the same as that of Planned Parenthood. If it could, it would locate a condom dispensary in every school and neighborhood in the Third World.”
Carlson continued: “The UN agency acts as if people are a plague – a hindrance to economic development and social stability. If that was true, why are some of the most densely populated nations among the most prosperous – including many of the countries of Southeast Asia?”
The Warsaw Declaration (adopted at the close of World Congress of Families IV – May 11-13, 2007) noted, that “the future of humanity passes by way of the family” and that such families accept, “joyful responsibility for every child-to-be, versus the fear of the child expressed in the contraceptive mentality.”
The World Congress of Families calls on UNFPA to re-think its dogmatic support for so-called family planning and focus instead on helping nations plan for the needs of their people – born and unborn.
For the Warsaw Declaration (translated in four languages), click here: http://www.worldcongress.pl/warsaw.php?change_lang=en. For more information on World Congress of Families, go to www.worldcongress.org. To schedule an interview with Allan Carlson, contact Larry Jacobs at 1-800-461-3113.
The World Congress of Families (WCF) is an international network of pro-family organizations, scholars, leaders and people of goodwill from more than 60 countries that seeks to restore the natural family as the fundamental social unit and the ‘seedbed’ of civil society. The WCF was founded in 1997 by Allan Carlson and is a project of The Howard Center for Family, Religion & Society in Rockford, Illinois (www.profam.org). To date, there have been four World Congresses of Families – Prague (1997), Geneva (1999), Mexico City (2004) and Warsaw, Poland (2007).
Posted by Walt as Population Control at 11:45 PM EST
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In an attempt to build its battered image, the desparate United Nations is teaming up with Spider-Man.
In a move reminiscent of storylines developed during the World War II, the U.N. is joining forces with Marvel Comics, creators of Spider-Man and the Incredible Hulk, to create a comic book showing the international body working with superheroes to solve bloody conflicts and rid the world of disease.
The comic, initially to be distributed free to 1 million U.S. schoolchildren, will be set in a war-torn fictional country and feature superheroes such as Spider-Man working with U.N. agencies such as UNICEF and the “blue hats,” the U.N. peacekeepers.
But I like what John Bolton, the former U.S. ambassador to the U.N., once said:
“if the U.N. building in New York lost 10 stories, it wouldn’t make a bit of difference.”
All the more reason to get the US out of the UN.
Posted by Walt as Education, General Commentary at 11:08 PM EST
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By Alan Caruba
The end of a year, any year, is a good time to give some consideration to the reason we have arrived at a particular state of affairs and whether a new direction is required. This is particularly true at a time when the campaigns to be the party’s choice for the presidency is more drenched in debate of religious issues and assertions, than in domestic and foreign policy issues.
The religious views of President George W. Bush may have gotten us to where we are at this point and our national policies could do with far less of it and a far more dispassionate review of our history. Our greatest need is to literally protect and preserve the republic.
I think I first noticed a problem when Bush used the word “crusade” to describe what the U.S. was doing in the Middle East. A born-again Christian, Bush has worn his faith on his sleeve ever since, during the 2000 campaign, he announced that Jesus was his favorite philosopher.
Americans generally are believers. They are predominantly Christian and they have always expected their president to demonstrate some faith in God. We have historically encountered problems when a president believes he was chosen by God for the position and that his actions are sanctioned by God. It’s one thing to pray for guidance. It is quite another to believe one’s action are divinely authorized and approved.
Woodrow Wilson believed God wanted him to be President and, with considerable irony, was re-elected on the slogan, “He kept us out of the war”. When Germany began to attack American ships providing military and other provisions to England, he put American troops into battle in a strictly European war. The result was a disastrous 1919 Treaty of Versailles that became a roadmap to World War II and some present problems.
The U.S. Senate had the good sense to reject membership in Wilson’s dream of a League of Nations, but following the end of World War II, Franklin D. Roosevelt’s legacy was the United Nations, an international institution that ignores genocides, embraces intolerance, and is seeking to foist a totally bogus “global warming” crisis on the world.
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Posted by Walt as General Commentary at 11:04 PM EST
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