Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Jerry Brown thinks we all need a total brainwashing to avoid the extinction of all mammalian life due to climate change.
Jerry Brown, President of the Independent Republic of California
As he crusades across Europe, the governor is acting like the leader of a sovereign country—an alternative to the United States in the Trump era.
By DAVID SIDERS November 11, 2017
Bonn, Germany, this week, Jerry Brown stopped over at the Vatican, where a doleful group of climate scientists, politicians and public health officials had convened to discuss calamities that might befall a warming world. The prospects were so dire—floods and fires, but also forced migration, famine and war—that some of the participants acknowledged difficulty staving off despair.
California’s doomsayer governor did not express much optimism either. Seated between an economist and an Argentine bishop at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Brown leaned into his microphone and said, “It is despairing. Ending the world, ending all mammalian life. This is bad stuff.”
“There’s nothing that I see out there that gives me any ground for optimism,” he went on. Still, he promised action: “I’m extremely excited about doing something about it.”
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In one sense, Brown’s fixation on climate change would seem unremarkable, the predictable conclusion of a career steeped in the ecological and environmental movements of the 1960s and 1970s. The 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill, early Earth Day rallies and the Stockholm conference on the environment weighed heavily on the public consciousness when Brown was starting out in politics, and observers of a certain age will still recall him mystifying audiences with pronouncements about “planetary realism” and the “spaceship Earth.” He was still talking about the need for a fundamental shift in lifestyle when he said at the Vatican that confronting climate change will require “a transformation of the relationship of human beings to all the mysterious network of things.”
“It’s not just a light rinse,” Brown said. “We need a total, I might say, brainwashing. We need to wash our brains out and see a very different kind of world.”
But in his climate diplomacy today, Brown is performing a more urgent, final act. For nearly all his public life—from secretary of state to governor, to mayor of Oakland and state attorney general before becoming governor once again, at age 72—Brown’s near-constant state was to run for public office. Now, for the first time, he is not. Term limits will chase Brown from the state Capitol in January 2019, and today he calls climate change his “campaign,” dismissing the idea that after running unsuccessfully for president three times, he might try again in 2020. “I’ve thought because people like you ask me,” he said in an interview before leaving for Europe. “But no, I’m not running.”
Now, Brown’s future rests on a family ranch in Northern California, where he is nearly finished building a remote, off-the-grid home. These days, he talks more about rattlesnakes and wild boar than the presidential election, and he has turned his focus from electoral politics to more existential concerns.
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Read more: https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/11/jerry-brown-california-profile-215812
Perhaps retirement is what Brown had in mind, when Jerry Brown instructed state regulators to survey his Northern California ranch for oil in 2015. Despite the disappointing results of the survey, income from Brown’s land holdings, his governor’s pension and whatever other investments he has accumulated should make for a comfortable retirement.
This on the 100th anniversary of the Lenin mandate or at least the murderous delusion of one.
WUWT commenter “Jimbo” (who for some reason never posts anymore) posted this image on Jan 25, 2015 on a WUWT thread.
This photo is very appropriate to deranged MoonBeam’s desire to save his Climate Religion via indoctrination (i.e. Brainwashing).
http://i65.tinypic.com/9h181s.png
It looks like there are more than just this guy in that photo who are not saluting, but your point is clear.
I thought it was a Klimate Konvention asking “How high would you like your Klimate Reparations Funds stacked?”
These yellow-circled guys don’t seem to be saluting either, but they’re also not as obvious as Landmesser.
Landmesser very clearly stands out in defiance. He is quite purposefully not saluting and crossing his arms in defiance. The others you circle are more just trying to blend in. Whether they were defying is not clear.
For those that do not know the background…. read here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Landmesser
I hope that Jimbo is still around. He always had real backup for all his posts…Where is he..?
Jimbo I suspect went the way of commenter RGBATDUKE. They got put on notice by their Department’s political Gestapo chief to quit or be arrested.
Jimbo obviously had lots of paywalled journal research tools at his availability to make his posts. That’s typical of an academic at a big university.
I love that picture! 🙂
Like Mao, moonbeam Brown is a very dangerous ideologue.
“Spaceship Earth” was timothy Leary’s thing. Too much Brown acid?
“Spaceship Earth” was also Buckminster Fuller’s mantra, but at least he had common sense…He was optimistic about the earth…
DON”T EAT THE BROWN SNOW!!!!
If you’d just put on your Skeptic Glasses ($19.95 + s/h from Amazon) this is what you’d see:
http://thenewsdoctors.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/John-Carpenter-film-They-Live-e1438976272591.jpg
Oh My! That’s what I did see!!!!
You’ve been inoculated from the climate hustle by “independent thinking” plus a lack of need to ride the Climate Gravy Train.
Those who need to ride that train either succumb to the spell or get tossed under the wheels if they resist.
I liked that movie. (They Live) Truer than it seems.
Notice that none of the usual AGW trollups appear on these posts.
They KNOW they cannot defend this sort of idiocy.
No – but they are happy to spread the propaganda and participate in the brain washing, because
“The Ends Justify The Means!”
““It’s not just a light rinse,” Brown said. “We need a total, I might say, brainwashing. We need to wash our brains out and see a very different kind of world.”
Always wondered how much coke Moonbeam musta done when he was dating Linda Ronstadt…
Well there goes Jerry’s defence, he does know what he does.
Brainwashing, via government institutions is propaganda.
The “progressives” are masters of that art, for this they lust after power and seek to live at taxpayers expense their entire lives.
As I said earlier, I don’t know how much dope Brown smoked or how much acid he dropped in the 1960s and 1970s, but there were other things just as bad, and they can all have a long term effect on the brain. No one has ever done a long-term study on the side effects of that garbage, but if he’s been doing that for 50-some years, it’s probably got the same effect on the brain that chronic alcoholism has – and that ain’t pretty.
if he really believes what he’s saying, he’s off his trolley. If he’s just saying it to get attention, he’d better have some backup for this twaddle (which I’m sure he can’t really produce). He is, however, on a roll of some kind. He may crash and burn before long. You’d have to ask, reasonably, why it’s more important to look like a fool in public than it is to be addressing real issues like the fires in October that destroyed so many vineyards.
Most people have their feet planted on the ground, even if they make silly statements. That doesn’t appear to be true in this case. Just my opinion.
Sara,
Moonbeam is of the Left. He has a rabid, deranged base he must appease. He’s learned to control it to a point. But he can’t go against the Left’s orthodoxy. He must preach climate scripture. Someone on the Right who disavows Climate Scripture just get called silly names, like the D word.
That’s a good point, joe. Someone said this morning that the reason Feinstein and Pelosi continue to be elected is that there is someone worse than they are waiting in line to get those jobs.
But the rabid, deranged base is a minority, however vocal it may be, and the people who aren’t fooled will eventually push them back where they belong.
I think the La Brea Tar Pits may have some space available.
I do not think you realise how far Left the US Democrats have been pushed in the last 9 years.
Until Obama came in, the Democrats could discuss centrist ideas. They could: Discuss abortion or prolife in their party. Discuss ideals of freemarket versus state control. Discuss equality of economic opportunity versus equality of economic outcome. Discuss the need to balance environmental regulation versus economics.
No more. Absolutely not. Obama and Bernie Sanders imparted a Hard Left Turn for Democrats.
Any Democrat who does not tow-the-line on pro-abortion, equality of outcome, hatred of capitalism, limits on free speech, free stuff galore,,… they get slammed hard by an intolerant, very vocal base. Those are litmus tests for today’s Democrats.
And it is about to split the Democratic Party into a civil war.
I think the Dems steering to the hard left happened as a result of their lost election in 2000 when Ralph Nader acting as a Green took sufficient votes away form the Democrats that they purposely embraced climate change-global warming under their failed candidate Al Gore who had earlier spearheaded a lot of the demonization of CO2 as a Senator and then VP. In retrospect, it sure was a good thing that AL Gore didn’t become President and implement his hair brained CAGW program. Thanks Ralf Nader!
and thank you Janet Stein, Green Party candidate in 2016. Jill took more than enough votes from Crooked Hillary to keep Hillary’s crime syndicate out of the WH.
Ross Perot did the same for HW Bush in ‘92. That Gave us Slick Willy and his White Water criminal gang.
I watched the videos of him. (many). I think that this proves that an idiot can be elected to State Governor, or even President… or to the House or the Senate in the US, but also to any country in the world.. They can’t comprehend real data…reality…whatever…I just don’t understand….
With independence California can become yet another international failed state. Low educational performance levels (48 out of 50), no major water storage projects in decades even though population has doubled (see disaster struck Hover Dam), tent cities springing up everwhere in the central valley area, road systems in disrepair and pedophiles and rapists rampaging throughout Hollywood. CAGW is just the distraction that they need to keep their minds off the real problems.
Jerry is finally over the top. There must be legal justification for removing Brown from office by recall for malfeasance, mental disability, senility, incompetence, hallucinating, being a danger to self or others or inability to walk straight on a white chalk line. On the other hand, I have some big ideas on where to find oil in California. Maybe, I could interest him in hiring me to check out his northern California ranch. Enough oil might distract him from any interest in climate change.
California produces a high volume of crude oil, about 201,284,000 barrels per year, despite any denial by people like Guvner Moonbeam. A good deal of that is exported to out-of-state refineries, not sure exactly how much, but it’s substantial.
Everything he says is baloney.
Yes indeed, many people just don’t think of California as a significant oil producing state, but it is just behind Alaska and Texas in volume and 3rd largest producer in the USA. Major disconnect from its ideology and what it does regarding oil production. Just think what it could produce if it allowed off shore drilling and production? Trump should get on that file, and drive the eco-loons over the cliff.
For 16 of my 61 years on the planet, Jerry Brown has been in-charge of my State. For 1/4 of my lifetime ! Sure, it was fun when Linda Rondstat was the First-Girlfriend of the Governor but those days were happy go lucky compared to the HORRORS of Jerry’s latest RULE. Yes, there are LAWS against such Fascist, Dear Leader, terms of Governor. But Jerry’s team of crack Lawyers made-up an exemption for such an exceptional Dear Leader as Jerry. As a result, I PAY through the bunghole for every therm, kilowatt, and gasoline I need to survive, while swerving to avoid the potholes of our neglected automobile infrastructure. Jerry has so embedded his leftist eco-beliefs in this State, that we will NEVER undo the damage. I honestly believe it will take a TOTAL and COMPLETE economic collapse resulting in plummeting property values to WAKE UP all the eco-virtue-signalers following Jerry’s Pied Piping. As long as the charade of State DEBT is papered-over with accounting ju-jitsu, the music will keep playing. BUT … a day of reckoning is coming for CA. I expect near-octogenarian Jerry will have passed on by the time the economic apocalypse hits, but I pray that I will have retired, cashed-in, and LEFT this JOKE of a State BEFORE it all comes tumbling down. But I suspect that is actually Jerry’s endgame. To completely CRASH our capitalist economy, only to replace it with a command-control Eco-Fascist State that brainwashes its citizens to do the bidding of our Supreme Leader(s). It appears as though my EXIT is going to be a photo-finish.
You could always brick up his doors and gates, once you’re sure he’s inside his perimeter.
But where to go? Are any other states any better?
Texas seems to be popular among refugees from Calizuela.
yep, and they are trying to turn Texas into another california. They face a still strong and viable resistance though except along the central part of the I-35 corridor.
If he actually believes what he blathers, then he is living his final years in a horric nightmare.
Haha.
Just tell him that China and India are helping the world to build 1600 new coal fired power stations that will totally swamp any feeble attempts at mitigation that Califoolia tries to implement
Should send him into a apoplectic fit.. .. but will anyone notice any difference?
When he spoke on the BBC ‘Costing the Earth’ programme, he definitely sounded like somebody who has gone senile.
Brown embodies “the messianic delusion” (Mencken), as do many other crjusading warmists (Gore, Hansen, Mann, etc.). And nearly all the nastiest political leaders of recent centuries.
Jerry Brown has rubbed shoulders with messianic delusion, brainwashing and cults in the past. When he was governor in 1977, both he and his lieutenant governor attended a testimonial dinner for Jim Jones , of the Peoples Temple and Jonestown infamy. Brown’s description of Jones: “what you should see every day when you look in the mirror in the early morning hours… a combination of Martin Luther King, Jr., Angela Davis, Albert Einstein… Chairman Mao” . That didn’t end well did it? Jerry Brown quite clearly can’t see something is bad even when it’s inches from his face. His path seems to be simply to fail with the herd.
…and our climate concerned friends seem to think that Brown is just about right.
We are coming to a terrible, dangerous point in our culture.
Well, some journalists claim climate denial is the fault of old, white men. Perhaps they or their sources Jerry B, Al G, Arnold S et al figure out the irony one day.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/09/22/guardian-climate-denial-is-the-fault-of-old-white-people/
California leap-frogged Pennsylvania to become the state with the largest gas tax – Pennsylvania’s tax settles in at $0.50 cents per gallon, with New York at $0.42 cpg following closely behind. The Golden State’s gas tax, meanwhile, increased from $0.40 to $0.52 cpg.
Count your blessings. Here in the UK, fuel duty is £0.59 per litre, which comes to about $2.94 per US gallon. Why do you think we mostly drive smaller more economical cars?
You’re saving us from .000,000,01 degree of warming though! Kudos! Hip hip hooray!
I paid $2.19 USd for gasoline this morning and I am not happy about it. That is up ten percent in two weeks. I seriously feel sorry for you guys in Eutopia. And the People’s republic of California, of course.
Jerry Brown needs a reality check. Based upon the paleoclimate record and modeling efforts one can conclude that the climate change we have been experiencing is caused by the sun and the oceans over which mankind has no control. There is no real evidence that CO2 has any effect on climate and plenty of scientific rational to support the idea that the climate sensivity of CO2 is zero. The last interglacial period, the Eemian, was warmer than this one with higher sea levels and more ice cap melting yet no tipping point was ever reached and the last ice age went off as Mother Nature scheduled it. In the past CO2 levels were more than 10 times what they are today and no tipping point was ever reached. The AGW conjecture depends upon the existance of a radiant greenhouse effect which has never been observed anywhere in the solar system including the Earth. The radiant greenhouse effect is science fiction. Hence the AGW conjecture is nothing but sceince fiction. There are good reasons to be conserving on the use of fossil fuels but climate change is not one of them.
Not surprising that common-and-garden exofasc1st Jerry Brownshirt should be naturally attracted to the spiritual home of all fasc1sts.
Is it really possible that in light of this story here…………..
and this one:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/11/12/consensus-climatology-in-a-nutshell-betrayal-of-integrity/
and this one:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/11/11/vox-conservatives-cant-be-pursuaded-about-climate-change/
and this one:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/11/11/good-news-is-hard-to-find-at-cop23/
and this one:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/11/10/al-gore-president-trump-cant-be-educated-on-climate-change/
just a few *very* recent stories here and *how* many others…..
………that there isn’t a (depressant) psychoactive substance ‘at loose’ in the population?
See how they argue – just like drunks, they repeat, repeat, repeat, getting ever louder and extravagant in the claims and when they don’t get their way, throw Ah-homs, tantrums, message deletions etc (Violence)
See the endless buck-passing (just try persuading a drunk driver that he actually has just wrecked his own car)
See the endless fixation on ‘the negative’ – classic sign of ‘ordinary depression’ = chronic despondency
See the Consensus and the Appeals to Authority – childish tribalism.
See them wracked with guilt – classic depression.
And someone mentioned about ‘Jerry not wanting to die, make a mark = live forever’
Why does no-one want to die, pretty obvious but could it just might be that when they do, they are by convention, going to meet my namesake, St Peter and he is gonna ask some pretty searching questions. Face-to-face at that so no room for hypocrites then. We all know we’ll be found out sometime.
(This is the religious guilt trip and what King Knut realised worked so well in controlling populations – also most mothers as a way of controlling children.)
Best try delay that time for as long as possible eh not?
Making trying to ‘make up for something’ perchance?
Guilty about something you’ve done in the past, are doing even now?
Yes Al Gore, I’m looking at you
And what have you got left in a grown-up human if/when most/all of its memory and thinking abilities are switched off = depressed by a chemical something? Are you not left with what that human was born with, the instinct and actions of a child?
And how do children behave, how MUST a child behave if it is to survive – it constantly ‘seeks attention’
Familiar eh not?
Problem is of course, we’re not privy to how Einstein, Newton, Queen Victoria, Gladstone, Disreali, Abe Lincoln, Planck, Churchill and the like conducted themselves so how do know that the current ‘behaviour’ is unusual?
There again, how do we know the temperature of the Earth when those people were alive?
(Take these thoughts as an unfinished jigsaw puzzle – look yourself for parts that fit.
Its not Gospel, set in stone, peer reviewed or linkable to – take time, just ponder, to do research)
wot did i writ there (St Peter, gospel)
sigh
Not bad, Peta, but you left out the following, which is important: Is there some sort of punishment awaiting the amorphous blob known as a “soul”, or is it something else?
Well, to be clear on my input, some time ago I asked a good friend of mine if she believed in reincarnation. She emphatically answered “Yes, and you have to keep coming back over and over and over until you learn how to do it right.”
No one has ever really asked what happens to the energy that makes us who/what we are when the corporeal body dies, because it doesn’t just go “poof!” when the brain (battery) shuts off. Electromagnetism is what keeps us intact as individual organisms, applies to all organisms, large and small, so where does it go?
With Brown and all his hipppie/Greenbean/Warmian buddies, it may just slowly dissipate into the general pattern of electromagnetism, or they may have repeated cycles of being on the bottom rung of the ladder until they learn to behave better.
For the rest of us – well, maybe we get a chance to come back for a do-over to get it right and then take a break.
Liked your take on it, but I think it’s a non-ending cycle.
“Well, to be clear on my input, some time ago I asked a good friend of mine if she believed in reincarnation. She emphatically answered “Yes,”
Reincarnation does seem to give the most logical explanation of reality. It explains things like why bad things happen to good people. Maybe they/we weren’t so good at some time in the past, and end up suffering the consequences of our own past actions.
It would be nice to think that the law of Karma was in effect and every bad person (and every good person) would get just exactly what they deserve.
I don’t know if reincarnation has any validity, but it is an interesting subject.
I like the one about the five-year-old boy who just a few years ago described his experiences in a past life during World War II where this child said he was a fighter pilot who was killed in action in the Pacific theater.
The child named names and described naval vessels that he could not have known about in his present life (he was too young to coach). He even met the family that was related to this World War II pilot and they consider him one of their family now! A fascinating story.
There is a university in the Southeast of the U.S. (I cannot remember its name) that has something like 1,500 cases similar to the one above. They are doing a big study on the reincarnation and have a Department dedicated to it.
They said most of the cases they had studied were of children, and explained that young children were more closely connected to their past lives and could therefore recall more details than older people.
There was a tv special on the five-year-old and his story not too long ago.
I would like to hear a logical explanation for how that child recalled all those things from a place and time he could not have possibly known about.
There are lots of mysteries in this old world.
Problem solved:
WASHINGTON (AP) – Today President Trump disclosed that he has reached an agreement with Enrique Pena Nieto, President of Mexico, which provides for the sale of all of the State of California to the country of Mexico. President Trump noted that this deal, which he claims “is his largest real estate deal ever” is a win-win for everyone involved.
One of the benefits he says he will highlight includes using the proceeds received by the US from Mexico to 1) pay for the Wall (fulfilling yet another campaign promise), a wall which will now include the length of the eastern border of California, 2) fund all the infrastructure spending in the remaining 49 states and 3) pay to relocate the 67 Republicans that currently reside in California if they so choose.
He also noted that Federal money saved from the elimination of California citizens on US social programs will allow those social programs to be cash positive in less than 3 years.
Mexican President Pena Nieto announced that he has already introduced a bill to the Mexican Congress asking to change his country’s name to ‘MexiCal’.
California will now be able to act as a sanctuary state within MexiCal.
The elimination of the existing border between Mexico and California will allow drugs to flow more freely between Mexico and the users in Hollywood.
Nancy Pelosi released a statement stating that she looks forward to making the Mexican President’s life miserable and prefers the year round weather in Mexico City to that of DC. Her office has already announced a schedule of fund raising activities for an upcoming campaign to run for President of MexiCal.
Papers released along with Trump’s statement reveal that a newly incorporated real estate company, pmurT, Inc., will receive a broker fee of $25 billion on the California sale.
California residents will be issued special Bluecards to cross the border into the US so that the total number of California liberals entering the US can be tracked and at any point in time not exceed predetermined levels.
Mexican President Pena Nieto stated he is thrilled with the deal and is looking forward to declaring Spanish the national language for his newly acquired territory and opening SSL (Spanish as a second language) schools throughout California.
He also noted that funding for the transaction would come from the Mexican drug cartels, which have agreed to provide low interest loans to Mexico so long as they are allowed to move their cash out of Switzerland and the Cayman Islands back into Mexico tax-free. He also said he considers the fact that Disneyland will now be located within his country an added bonus.
President Trump wrapped up his statement stating, “this deal is HUGE and while the U.S. will be smaller, it will help Make America Great Again”.
I agree w/your sentiments, but sooner rather than later, I & all other US taxpayers will be bailing-out that nest of socialist-corruption.
Louisiana Purchase and Alaska are muuuuuch bigger by land area.
One could also say that the United States has stretched too far south and into the desert. It’s time to retire before the desert sun burns the rest of the brain. Not even brainwashing would help than anymore, for lack of mass.
http://content.caiso.com/green/renewrpt/20171111_DailyRenewablesWatch.pdf
Look at the blue imports in the graph. About 25%. All out of state power is brown. (Except for nuclear, which is clean, that they would like to shut down). Without imports, there would likely be brown outs.
Message – CO2 emissions are OK as long as they occur out of state or somewhere else like India or China.