Guest essay by Eric Worrall
President Obama’s economic advisors have just blamed the faltering performance of the US economy this year on cold winter weather – just like they did last year.
According to Politico;
Jason Furman, chairman of the president’s Council of Economic Advisers, recently told Congress the White House still “expects that the economy will continue to grow at an above-trend rate and that the unemployment rate will decline further.” Furman added that less fiscal brinkmanship could allow the economy to overcome a winter slowdown and speed up heading into the fall. Furman on Friday said “a range of factors including the weather and the global economic slowdown have affected economic data for the first quarter.”
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/04/obama-us-economy-march-2015-116651.html
The story from April 2014
The White House was quick to note that this year’s insanely cold winter slowed growth, and indicators in March, when temperatures warmed a bit, were stronger.
The 2012-13 and 2011 winters were milder – but in 2012, the President provoked uproar when he cut winter fuel assistance for poor people
2010 was Snowmageddon – so no guesses for what got the blame that year.
Perhaps if President Obama spent less time worrying about “global warming”, and focussed his attention on mobilising federal resources, to help people and businesses in blizzard affected areas, the American economy would stay more on track during severe winters.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlTxGHn4sH4
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It seems there is no consistency in the messages coming from the White House. What next? Warnings about rising sea levels and then buying beach front property? Just kidding, no one would do that, right?
So… Out of one side of the Obama mouth comes the lies of Global Warming and out of the other side of his mouth the reason for the bad economy is the colder weather…
So he takes no responsibility for his policies on AGW killing jobs while double speaking that it is a cooling world that caused it…
Really???? Obama expects the voting US populace to believe in a cooling world while spouting warming mantra?
Does any one else see the blatant lies and hypocrisy??
Whatever obama says is true at the time he says it. If you find discrepancies between his current assertions and his past utterances, the fault is in your mind, your loyalty is in question, and you require re-education.
And if thine brain offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee. No lies, no hypocrisy – obama without end, amen.
Um… Bill, they have that covered. They no longer refer to it as “Global Warming”, they morphed it to Climate Change and Climate Disruption for this very reason. No warming = bad news for the Chicken Little types.
I find it hard to blame them for using this easily wielded club. It’s what politicians do… spew FUD while accusing their opponents of spewing FUD.
Truman had a sign on his desk when he was president; “The Buck Stops Here”.
Obama and many others seem to have a sign that say; “The Buck Stops Over There”.
And “over there” refers to the Bush demon.
It is rather ironic that ‘climate change’ is a psyops weapon designed to destroy market economies based on private property, and then blame for the damage wrought is shifted onto weather.
I think most people have absolutely no idea of how advanced and powerful (and simplified) modern propaganda techniques have become. But are not the best wars those that are won without firing a shot?
As a mental exercise, ponder the progression from a WW1 biplane with wood and canvas, to a modern jet fighter.
Then ponder the similar progression from WW1 propaganda techniques to modern mindwar.
I put forth that the size of the leaps are similar.
You sound like you’ve had a revelation, welcome to the dark side.
Max Photon, you have a rapier-like sense of humour, yet I think you use it to mask the worry you have for mankind. Forgive me for being overly familiar, but I share this affliction.
“But are not the best wars those that are won without firing a shot?”
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The climate war is not yet won; there may yet be shots fired. I have know lefties who would gladly don a green shirt and participate in an eco-Kristallnacht.
The greenpiece o’ shites that boarded that oil rig recently would prolly have been happy to have done so armed had they had enough support.
obama would surely allow armed UN climate-enforcers into the country after usurping enough power.
Come the enviro-revolution, there will be many a bullet pocked wall where deniers were stood.
Max,
Good example. Another comparison can be made with ships from little more than a century ago. They were made of wood, they used cannons for weapons and wind for power. One modern destroyer could easily wipe out the entire world’s navies by itself, with zero damage inflicted on it. Propaganda techniques have progressed the same way.
The premier experts on human nature were the erstwhile Soviets. When the Berlin Wall came down a lot of sensitive documents were released, some of which disclosed that every Western double agent had been compromised. Not a single exception. That includes every U.S. double agent supposedly working for us. They were all ‘turned’.
There is a mountain of evidence for those willing to look, showing that the infiltration of every newspaper, every media outlet, every professional organization (including all scientific organizations like the APS), and every international organization, has been the primary goal of the FSB (the old KGB: same players, different initials). They have been extremely successful, gaining control of most of their targets. Where they don’t have control, they control individuals within those organization.
American and world opinion is being tightly regulated. We are being told only what they want us to be told. The one area that they have not been successful in controlling is the internet. But they are working on that, and working hard: “Net Neutrality” is simply a veneer to control the internet.
There is a big push to turn control of the internet over to a UN authority. Guess who controls the UN? Anyone unhappy that a comment of theirs was deleted from a website because the blog owner didn’t agree with it was seeing what will be in store for them once the internet is controlled by the UN.
For example, last year a comment I made at Scientific American was deleted for “name-calling”. It was the only comment I made there, and I had been very careful to be excessively polite and factual. There was no “name-calling” at all, but they deleted my comment with that excuse — and banned me permanently. From my comment they could tell that I was skeptical of MMGW being a serious problem, and they don’t want comments like that seen by their readers.
That is the future. Being somewhat of a pessimist, I don’t have much hope in stopping it. Lenin was right when he said that capitalists would be happy to sell him the rope to hang them with. If the internet goes the way of Scientific American, or the NY Times, or TIME magazine, etc., we will lose the last major free speech outlet we have.
Free speech is worth fighting for. But I don’t see much in the way of a fight among users of the internet. At first, of course, government control will be made to appear as a good thing. But the pattern is that they will never give up control, and all contrary voices will eventually be silenced. For your own good, of course.
Net neutrality used to be a good thing.
Trust the left to pervert a proper concept into a political tool without its supporters even realizing it.
The idea was to prevent those with huge money backing from crushing those without it. To prevent something like Netflix from absorbing all of the available bandwidth and squeezing out independents or other competition.
The result has been 90% (estimated) ownership of online content by rabid leftists, and the desire to convert that to 100%.
We need a new name for what Net neutrality USED to be.
They dare not let us have a voice of any kind.
Here’s one for you db – good old days
http://tinyurl.com/1920sciamCO2
Can you say Exocet ?
I imagine there are whole crews trained to shoot those nasty bastards down nowadays.
Partly on point. My uncle was a higher up in the Def Dep’t at one time and worked for USAID in Yemen. We catch spies and send them home. The Russians, as my uncle said, kidnapped the spy, tortured out the info and delivered identifiable body parts to the appropriate embassy. End of spy problem.
Obama’s anti fossil fuel mantra will bring our economy down and he has the audacity to blame the winter’s cold weather and the miserable economic numbers on climate change!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlTxGHn4sH4
“[o]bama’s anti fossil fuel mantra will bring our economy down…”
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Exactly his purpose.
He is gutting the “middle-class” and pitting the wealthy against the poor. How better to foment communism?
The basic push is for a world dictatorship, and that didn’t just start. International Communism has always had that stated goal. It is more than words to them. They are working hard 24/7/365 to bring it about.
And the goal, if reached, will not be a one-man dictatorship. That is too dangerous to the bureaucracy. Karl Marx wrote that a nameless, faceless bureaucracy controlling society was the greatest danger of all, worse than Capitalism. But that is the most likely outcome.
For an example, look at the EU. Can anyone name even one of the [hundreds] of officials and bureaucrats who have real regulatory power over five hundred million citizens? Do people even know that the EU president is appointed by some unknown good ol’ boys — who are also unelected? On a smaller scale, the EPA rules over citizens and has arbitrarily run many of them off their land. Or the IRS, [which] is now heavily political, and which grants or withholds 501(c)3 status depending on what it perceives as the ‘right kind’ of organization.
The goal of world government is supported by a complicit press that is always ready to accuse selected groups and individuals of “racism”, and other thought crimes. But they do the same, and worse, themselves. The President and Hillary accuse their opponents of a “war on women”, when they both pay their female staffers less than their male staffers. But it’s A-OK, because it’s all for the cause.
When you read a quote or a story in the media that demonizes an institution or an individual, it is well to keep this law of human nature in mind:
Fen’s Law:
The Left believes none of the things they lecture the rest of us about.
+1
It is not just the state worshiping leftists. Conservatives look to expand the power of government when they get the chance.
It is the nature of the State to want to expand and to dominate its people. All States (governments) will grab all the power that they can. The State seeks to enslave the minions. See George Orwell for details.
For an great analysis on this issue look at this Matt Palmer essay on Murray Rothbard’s view of the State and his famous book “Anatomy of the State”; and then read the book itself. (free all over the place) http://mises.org/library/rothbard-and-nature-state
The short version is his quip that the State is “a gang of thieves writ large”.
~ Mark
Here is an absolutely profound and prescient article written just a few months after the launch of the Euro.
Anyone who cares about human freedom would do well to print it out and invest the time to read it.
Believe it or not, it is intimately tied to the ‘climate change’ front on which we are fighting.
The Year of the Euro: The Missed Opportunity of the Millennium
by Antal E. Fekete
http://www.professorfekete.com/articles/AEFTheYearOfTheEuro.pdf
Preparations for dealing with identified possible Conservative & Libertarian uprisings from groups in California, Texas and Utah. As well as other economic stuff.
https://youtu.be/_Kc_LAdWsz8
…a nameless, faceless
bureaucracybarackracy controlling societywasis the greatest danger of all…What a ‘sh.t grin’ if I’ve ever seen one as this man systematically weakens to destroy our country. I wouldn’t post such things on your site if I were you (the deceptive image). Most younger people don’t have the experience to see through the vast deceptions in play.
For all the heroes out there who dare to think for themselves …
I like Tina Turner’s “We Don’t Need Another Hero” better …
On April 22, 2013, she was issued a Swiss passport and is now a citizen of Switzerland.Turner signed the paperwork to give up her American citizenship at the U.S. embassy in Bern on October 24, 2013.
https://youtu.be/mJMSZoM78QU
re the Greenpeace gang on the rig – they couldn’t take the weather!
12 April: Maritime-Executive: Wendy Laursen: Bad Weather Sends Greenpeace Home
Six Greenpeace activists rappelled down from an oil rig in the Pacific Ocean on Saturday after spending six days living on the structure to protest against drilling in the Arctic, the environmental organization said.
The multinational team climbed on board Polar Pioneer, an oil rig leased by Royal Dutch Shell that is bound for the Arctic, on Monday…
Worsening weather conditions that were expected to bring swells of up to seven meters led the six activists to leave the oil rig on Saturday.
They climbed down into inflatable boats and returned to the Greenpeace ship Esperanza, which had brought the activists out into the Pacific Ocean for the protest.
Shell said the protesters had jeopardized their safety and that of the crew assigned to the oil rig.
The company had filed a complaint in federal court in Alaska seeking an order to remove the activists. On Saturday evening, a judge granted a restraining order against Greenpeace to prevent a repeat of the protest, Royal Dutch Shell spokeswoman Kelly op de Weegh said in an email…
More to come
“I might be climbing off this oil rig, but this is merely a transition into the next step of saving the Arctic,” American Aliyah Field, one of the six activists, said in a statement. “I can’t wait to join the millions of voices, the volunteers in Seattle, and all Americans who believe we deserve better, safer, cleaner forms of energy. My voice cannot be silenced, and neither can the millions of others taking a stand against Shell.”…
Annie Leonard, Executive Director of Greenpeace USA, said: “I am so inspired and impressed by the volunteers’ decision to climb Shell’s drill rig. I hope everyone who sees what they did is inspired to take action in their own way, to help save the Arctic…
http://www.maritime-executive.com/article/bad-weather-sends-greenpeace-home
12 April: SBS Australia: Greenpeace activists leave Arctic-bound oil rig
Australian Zoe Lennox, 21, formed part of the group….
TWEET: Zoe Buckley Lennox: Weather systems coming. So we’ve just made one more crossing – on the way home to @gp_espy. #TheCrossing
http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2015/04/12/greenpeace-activists-leave-arctic-bound-oil-rig
and good riddance – glad the filed and got the order
but –
makes me wonder about the cranial capacity of the useful idiots –
right, contradiction in terms
Hilarious Pat – write this up as a story, send it to Anthony using the “Submit Story” button.
I really enjoy this site and the discourse. That being said, this post was exhausting to get through due to the trolls battling. Don’t feed the trolls!
Thanks. Now I have a hankering for troll house cookies and milk.
Lol.
This is standard operating procedure from Obama’s White House; the lack of accountability and leadership skills is appalling. He gets things done not because he is a good leader but because he abuses his position of authority. It’s like having an incompetent boss, even if he is an idiot, he still gets to tell you what to do.
In terms of leadership, the plaque on Obama desk reads.
And a poster on the wall reads,
http://www.jsmineset.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/clip_image0024.jpg
lots of conspiracy theories O.o
Sorry, I am confused. Is the problem the:
The cold weather?
The cold global warming weather?
Or the global warming weather that is really warm but just appears to be cold?
And if Hussain Obama want’s to alleviate global warming, is this to:
Make the cold weather colder?
Make the cold weather warmer?
Or make the global warming cold weather that is not cold really, appear to be less cold than it isn’t?
Errrr, I hope that is clear……
Crossing the “spin” beams of WH messaging is not allowed. It confuses the media poodles.
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