Guest Post by Ryan Maue:
Starting Friday, April 15 in Washington DC, we will be able to witness an absolutely surreal public display of anti-capitalist, extreme far-left community organizing, all wrapped in the cloak of climate change / clean energy activism: The Power Shift Youth Climate Conference. Can we finally stipulate that there exists a well-organized nexus of scientists/politicians/organizations that wish to solve the “climate crisis”, and are using the issue as a political tool to further their leftist agenda? From the list of speakers, partners, and Workshop Titles, there is certainly no doubt about the motivations of this collection of greens. Arrogant, condescending scientists and politicians sneer at so-called anti-science, Big Oil Republicans and demand global warming adherence as a litmus test for elected office. Instead, advocate scientists and environmentalists should be continually questioned about their motivations prior to consideration of their extreme|draconian policy prescriptions. I’m getting really tired of their holier-than-thou-attitude.
After this, you will know the true meaning of the acronym of Win The Future.
Noel Sheppard at newsbusters.org provides a nice summary of the speaker line up, including EPA administrator Lisa Jackson, everyone’s (especially Glenn Beck’s) favorite communist and former Green Jobs Czar Van Jones, and, of course, Nobel Prize winner Al Gore! Keynote speaker list.
Perusing the program of this Youth Climate Conference should immediately disabuse you of all preconceived notions that climate change is not a political issue:
Plain and simple: Power Shift 2011 is a mission to recruit 10,000 youth leaders from every walk of life to be on the front lines in the fight for a clean energy future.
We are moving far beyond the pursuit of building a crowd for a weekend conference. Power Shift 2011 attendees – young faith leaders, entrepreneurs, student government leaders, social justice advocates and blue-collar workers – are signing up for the launch of critical, focused, and strategic campaign efforts in their communities.
“Our Power Shift 2011 “training boot camp” will yield 10,000 leaders, equipped with the game plans, tools, and strategies to WIN on the frontlines of every community across this country.”
Dr. James Hansen of NASA death trains/coal protesting infamy should like this workshop:
Is it too much to dream of an America where polluters are held accountable for their disasters? Is it too much to dream of an America where people aren’t burdened with the cost of pollution? Is it too much to dream of an America where citizens are in charge of our energy decisions, not big polluters? We don’t think so.
Then we will form two marches, one storming Capitol Hill to lobby and hold our elected leaders accountable, the other will march from one corporate polluter’s office to another and return to Lafeyette Park for a dance party.
Here are a list of other Workshop Titles: Link to many, many more
Sex and Sustainability
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce: Dirty Money, Chamberleaks, and how to win back Main Street
Ethical Solutions to Environmental Classism – Case Studies around the World
What would Jesus/Moses/The Buddha Drive? An Inter-Faith Discussion on Religious Environmental Activism
From the BP Oil Spill to the Japanese Nuclear Crisis: Why Capitalism is Killing the Planet:
Panelists
Finding the Billions for Clean Energy and Climate Justice Now!
Regulating Greenhouse Gases (GHGS) Under the Clean Air Act
Stop the Tar Sands Invasion
Climate Voices — The Human Rights of Climate Change
High School and Junior High Organizing
Exposing the Climate Denial Machine
What to do when the President’s just not that into you (program excerpt below)
Despite the hopes of millions that President Obama would champion clean energy and help solve the climate crisis, his response has fallen far short of what’s necessary. At best, his record and rhetoric have been mixed. At worst, he’s actively obstructed progress by boosting offshore drilling, recently announcing a huge expansion of coal mining on public lands, and financing environmentally destructive products overseas. President Obama has also treated the environmental movement, and especially the youth climate movement, with relative disdain: while there are many examples, the most visible was refusing to speak to the 2009 Powershift conference, and then attending a Washington Wizards basketball game just two blocks away. The panel will explore some key questions that have bedeviled our movement since Obama’s inauguration: What is President Obama’s climate/environment record? How should the climate movement deal with the White House? What can we learn from other movements’ response to the White House? Is there a possibility for a pro-environment, progressive challenger to Obama in the 2012 primaries? Is that a good idea? To answer these questions, and share inside knowledge, we’ll feature some of the brightest thinkers on climate politics and movements.
Next Steps for White Allies (program excerpt below)
“Now that you understand the importance of diversity and inclusion to the climate change movement, how do you practice being a strong white ally? For the most part, white folks have little opportunity to talk about race, racism or how to be an ally to people of color. Indeed, we are socialized to not notice or talk about such things. It can be lonely being a white ally.”
Regarding “Power Shift 2011″…
Yawwwwwwwwwwwnnnn…ZZZZZ.
“Dr. James Hansen of NASA death trains/coal protesting infamy should like this workshop…”
Sorry – he and Gavin are too busy generating valuable “climate products” [LOL]…
Holden Magroin says:
” …. where Socialism has replaced Capitalism has changed from a wasteland to an environmental paradise.”
An example would be …. North Korea!!
Daniel H says:
April 13, 2011 at 8:06 pm
It’s a joke really. Ten years ago it was anti-globalization and now it’s all about “climate justice” (whatever that means). This too shall pass!
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Globalization, in the context that I know it to be, has not passed. And, I stand against it. It is more deceptive and evil than the climate issue. Indeed, because of the success the globalization efforts that the pinheads felt emboldened to pursue this current course of action. It is the centralization of governments and issues that give a path to the “utopia” desired by the organizers of this gathering described above.
Globalization rejects accomplishment through competition and denies the freedom of individualism. I abhor such notions and is one of the focal reasons as to why I engage in the discussion.
I am deeply concerned when people jump on the global warming controversy to promote their own political agendas. It signifies a ideological fervor which undermines any claim to rationality and an inability to remain objective. It makes all their arguments and data open to realistic ad hominem attacks. I know that many left leaning and socially concerned individuals have an objective and skeptical view of the CAGW hypothesis. And many conservatives are adamant believers. It was after all Margaret Thatcher who kick this whole thing off. It is always easy to find some fringe group on the left or right which can be held up and portrayed as representative of a larger political movement. It is stances such as this one which make analyses, which would otherwise be convincing, easy to dismiss as the irrational antagonism of anti science zealots.
Ryan, chill out dude. [ :
The story of the political cuckoo, a cautionary tale for our children:
Once upon a time the world was threatened by a brooding dark and cruel political beast that flew the red banner as its standard, the people who lived under that banner were bullied and abused and lived in misery and fear, their lives were dull and and grey and hopeless. One day the red banner and all it stood for became unpopular, people saw and understood what the red banner really meant in practice, as the red banner flew over its dominions and subject peoples all people everywhere became aware of what the red banner actually stood for and what it really meant for ordinary people so the people rebelled and tore down the red banner and removed the followers of the red banner by force and the people rejoiced at their freedom.
The followers of the red banner that had never known first hand the cold hearted cruelty of life under the red banner were bereft, they searched and strived to make their banner acceptable and loved until they hit upon the idea of the political cuckoo methodology. If people distrusted the red banner then why not paint the red banner green? So the reds invaded and took over the green banner from within modifying green theologies and doctrines so that although they appeared green on the surface they were in fact red all the way through. Now the followers of the red banner now fly the green banner but they are the same and hold the same beliefs as before only the colour has change in order to fool the people.
All of this was highly successful for the followers of the red banner, they enjoyed the trust of those young and vulnerable that the reds desperately needed, although the red banner was now green all the essential ingredients were present like authoritarianism, arrogance, elitism, subjection of the individuals will to the states will and the domination of that state and the unquestioning obedience of the people.
So the red banner and all it stands for has returned and all that has changed is the colour, from red to green with a new army of followers unable to to see the simple change of colour. The new green is not and never was about saving the planet, its all about the restoration of an ugly and rejected political creed.
Tony K says:
April 13, 2011 at 8:38 pm
Holden Magroin says:
” …. where Socialism has replaced Capitalism has changed from a wasteland to an environmental paradise.”
An example would be …. North Korea!!
Yeah, and the Aral Sea. Holden, you’re supposed to say something like /sarcoff after that sentence.
Evo Morales’ Bolivia pushing UN resolution to give Gaia rights and destroy capitalism in the name of Pachamama (Quechua for Gaia). Tell me that green is not the new red.
http://www.canada.com/technology/document+would+give+Mother+Earth+same+rights+humans/4597840/story.html
Holden Magroin.
Holden Magroin???
Another example: Venezuela.
Keep up the good work , Dr. M
Science will prevail…
But the hubris makes me mad…this Hitler Youth Conference, notwithstanding.
Chris
Norfolk, VA, USA
A good cure for most of these people would be to spend some time on a communal farm in Cuba where they really do practice green policies – I should stress, of course, that this is not out of choice.
In these places you get: i) fed a good diet of socialist propoganda, ii) a good salary which could approach as much as $12 per month, iii) occasional electical power – blackouts are the norm, iv) outside toilet facilities (“long drop” type), v) monotonous and insufficient food (rice and beans), but it’s good because meat is only rarely included, vi) travel is discouraged and could cause you to lose your job, vii) housing varies from bad to very bad, viii) free health facilities, but sadly only with medicines if you are a communist party member, ix) almost no consumer goods – and the list goes on.
I saw enough of the “triumphs of socialism” when conducting mineral exploration in Cuba. It is unbelievable the poverty of mind and pocket this failed philosopy produces.
Age, experience and guile always beats youth, enthusiasm and gullibility – hence Al Gore and the young greenies referred to in this post.
From their website,
“only $80 for students for all three days of programming”
remove programming, insert brainwashing.sarc.
Sound familiar.
Douglas says:
April 13, 2011 at 2:57 pm
eadler says:
April 13, 2011 at 2:35 pm
[——-The history of the idea of global warming is that the scientific objections to the idea of AGW, which arose in the late 1980′s were the spearheaded by right wing think tanks who objected to government regulation. So the politicization of this issue originated with the American political right.]
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Eadler. What on earth do these two statements mean? Talk about confused disconnected ideas!
You are displaying your ignorance of history. Read the Merchants of Doubt by Naomi Oreskes.
Here is an article which explains the two sentences I wrote in more detail. The right wing think tanks, financed by the energy industry, employed two ex scientists, turned political ideologues, to use their scientific prestige to discredit the idea that sulfur pollution was a health problem which needed to be regulated, and subsequently turned their efforts to discrediting the idea that GHG’s would cause global warming. This began the political polarization of the science of Climatology, that has become more intense as the centrists are driven out of the Republican Party.
http://e360.yale.edu/feature/global_warming_deniers_and_their_proven_strategy_of_doubt/2285/
REPLY: “You are displaying your ignorance of history. Read the Merchants of Doubt by Naomi Oreskes.”
Oh puhleeze. That’s not history, just one woman’s interpretation of it, and that woman has an agenda. – Anthony
Dr Maue,
Thanks for this. The threat of this cult is very grave, and there is far too little awareness, so your help is appreciated.
The climate con (and all environmentalism today) is a grand diversion. There are no legitimate plans to reduce CO2 concentration because this was never the objective.
The two objectives are clearly identified:
1. Denial of energy (for all societies, and excepting the priveleged) (Food and Property Rights to follow)
2. Wealth confiscation and redistribution
There is no question what this is. Melding in the Malthusian ethos and Gaia worship seemed to provide the religious cultlike devotion we see. But then I had an epiphany. Marxism is a cult. It is like Smeegol when powerless but morphs into Gollum when power is at hand. America is in terrible danger. And with us would fall the world. This cult is more terrible than anything since the Nazis.
It isn’t enough to win back the Senate and the White House. From that point, the work will just begin. We must find a way to articulate our benevolent intentions for the environment and the need for all out energy development. A great awakening must happen for all Americans. What you and many of us here know now must become common knowledge.
Re: The Birth Certificate:
Can you enter any venue of entertainment without showing your ticket?
Can you cash a check at your bank without ID?
Try to get employment at any defense contractor without a Birth Certificate, even in commercial work. Not Happening.
One simple 10 minute disclosure would bring that issue to immediate conclusion, yet millions are spent to avoid it?
(I read that) his mother was not old enough to meet the age requirements to automatically convey citizenship in the event he was born overseas. It may be a technicality, but might explain how he could have been unable to obtain documentation of citizenship. Last, there are multiple SSN’s associated with his financial activities. So called “Birthers” aren’t extremists at all. They’re simply following Reagan’s advice to “Trust, but verify”.
The UK tried Socialism for the last 13 years and all i got for it was a 1 trillion pound debt, I think it brakes down to about 300,000 pounds for each tax paying person, not bad I could buy a couple of house’s.
And the best quote i’ve seen was form the posts round here, ‘The trouble with socialism is that they always run out of other peoples money’.
I do have one big advantage though, as i live in the UK i can give up paying all taxes and simply go on the dole and be handed free money, it’s an option when my energy bills become unpayable.
James Sexton says:
April 13, 2011 at 8:40 pm
What you describe sounds more like internationalism or multilateralism. My understanding of the term globalization is that it deals with the free movement of goods and services across borders. It’s about commerce and free trade and opening up new markets. Socialists are anti-globalization by nature since they seek to severely curtail, control, and/or abolish free trade and commerce.
Why is it that these “progressives,” who are supposedly calling for a “color-blind society,” are always so obsessed with the color of the skin? Their race-centered attitude toward most of the problems in life is simply sickening.
P.S. Native Americans came to America from Siberia (killing off the previous population of the same America). I was born and grew up in Siberia. Doesn’t it make me a Pre-Native American? Where is my six-figure check with the Statue of Liberty on it?
I would say let them have their day – then organise an event to promote reality. Let us see how they would react to such a show of the sceptical side of the debate. I have no doubt whatsoever that there will be an outcry!
As an aside – the picture shows the wearing of green plastic helmets, do they not know that plastic is a derivative of oil? To me this shows the ignorant nature of the organisers and participants.
“and demand global warming adherence as a litmus test for elected office.”
I thought the constitution forbad religious tests for office?
Exactly, there are plenty of Communist/Socialist/Third World rat holes left that these people could easily flee too. But as we know it is not about living the life, which so few of them do, it’s about forcing others to do their will. Period. I’m still waiting for Robert Redford to move to France as he promised to do if Bush won his second term.
I’d be willing to trade, even up, American Watermelons for Cubans who would want to defect. We should make this offer to Hollywood and Harvard and see how many takers they get.
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Peter Miller says:
April 13, 2011 at 11:33 pm
A good cure for most of these people would be to spend some time on a communal farm in Cuba where they really do practice green policies – I should stress, of course, that this is not out of choice.
This is straight from the play book, attack, defame, slander and lie about your opponent at every opportunity. The Democrats have been doing it just as well as Pravda and Goebbels since the Republicans stopped playing nice and nominated Barry Goldwater. The Tea Party is about responsible spending, first and foremost, and it pisses the left off to no ends that they carried the last election and are now forcing Obama and the Democrats to bend to popular will.
Also now note how the press is all out on the Party line that now deficit spending and a huge national debt is nothing to worry about after railing on Bush for 8 years about the exact same thing. Democratic political operatives are hypocrites and liars and the press is their complicit band of useful idiots. I read the NYT every day for my job and the paper is so far left, 99% of the time, it is unbelievable. And the way the stories are written, the photos used, pure propoganda, subtle but insidious. Espeically in covering the Middle East, but that’s a whole different ball of wax.
Maybe the Indians, Brazilians, Indonesians, and Chinese will be so economically successful that these kids will shut up when they can’t find jobs or loans for more school.
So Lisa Jackson, Al Gore, and others who are clearly associated with the Democratic party are not only advocating that we spend the children’s future earnings, but also that they should forgo achievement and success through hard work and dedication to promote a socialist-communist idealism that is even more destructive to their futures. This is nothing short of an evil attempt to hijack our children’s future. Unfortunately, I think that our kids are smarter and western culture is going to oppose them on every front. Those who do attach their futures to these people will sometime in the near future find that they have wasted their youth on unenterprising failures. While the green socialist machine scurries to try and gain favor with the youth by banging their drums and clanging their gongs, the slow methodical time tested dedication to truth and justice will grind away at their flanks until they are left with nothing to look at but their face in the mirror.
Keep the faith and keep up the pressure on these goons.
According to the latest reports marijuana production uses 1 percent of the electricity produced in the USA and thereby significantly contributes to global warming.
Will these kids give up weed to save the planet?
Naahh … didn’t think so.
The problem is authoritarianism rather than the liberal/conservative split. Both major US parties have a problem with it. Conservatives want to regulate things gambling, voting rights, abortions, drug use, etc. Liberals want to regulate emissions, health, businesses, gun ownership, etc. They both try to limit free speech when it is against their beliefs. Just two sides of the same coin.