Tuesday, December 22, 2015
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Monday, December 14, 2015
Placate the Masses
I hate to be a 'downer' on the climate change agreement. With lots of world-wide attention, there was a real chance to actually make history and to at ameliorate possible climate change pace and impacts. But, the agreements from the summit are voluntary; the deadlines are way to long, and the money needed to address the issue is not mandatory. The words are nice in the agreement but they are straw men, hollow reeds.
The agreement makes no commitment to abandon fossil fuels. The time period for changes makes not sense. Do we have 30-50 years to meet targets, all of which are not mandated. If there is one thing that is certain, models underestimate change. Year after year since the first IPCC report, NEW factors have emerged that show an ever hastening climate disaster.
The summit and all of the nice talk appears to be more of a ruse to placate the masses and to lull them into thinking all will be okay---that it's all under control. It's not.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/william-bradley/global-climate-change-sum_b_8801996.html?utm_hp_ref=climate-change
"But those are targets, not requirements. And the national action plans brandished by all but a few of the 195 nations voting for the Paris accord add up, in the first round of estimates, to fall very short of the target. Indeed, temperatures would rise between 2.7 and 3.5 degrees Celsius under the actual national plans, between five and more than six degrees Fahrenheit. That result would be absolutely disastrous.
President Barack Obama hailed the Paris summit accord as grandly historic. But former NASA scientist James Hansen, a founding father of climate change awareness, declared the summit "a fraud," an event of "no action, just promises."
So the agreement, at the insistence of the Obama administration, includes a schedule of regular reviews, every five years, of national action plans, essentially pushing the nations to resubmit new and better plans based upon technological advances and increased political will.
And the Paris accord does not call for an actual phase-out of widespread fossil fuel use.
Instead of "greenhouse gas emissions neutrality" in the draft, which some interpreted to mean an end to emissions, the phrase "global peaking of greenhouse gas emissions as soon as possible" was substituted. This change was made, not surprisingly, at the urgent insistence of Saudi Arabia and some other members of OPEC. The Saudi line is to keep burning oil and make up for it with carbon sinks such as new forest growth and techno-fixes down the line. Meanwhile, they are going to keep on pumping and selling."
Wednesday, December 9, 2015
Tuesday, December 8, 2015
Donald "Goebbels" Trump
Donald Trump: Ban all Muslim travel to U.S.
CNN
Some of the Goebbels' principles of propaganda:
"Propaganda must be planned and executed by only one authority."
"Credibility alone must determine whether propaganda output should be true or false."
"Propaganda must label events and people with distinctive phrases or slogans. "
"Propaganda must facilitate the displacement of aggression by specifying the targets for hatred. "
"Black rather than white propaganda may be employed when the latter is less credible or produces undesirable effects. "
"To be perceived, propaganda must evoke the interest of an audience and must be transmitted through an attention-getting communications medium. "
"Propaganda to the home front must create an optimum anxiety level"
There
was no point in seeking to convert the intellectuals. For intellectuals
would never be converted and would anyway always yield to the **er, and
this will always be "the man in the street." Arguments must therefore
be crude, clear and forcible, and appeal to emotions and instincts, not
the intellect. Truth was unimportant and entirely subordinate to tactics
and psychology.
Read more at: http://www.azquotes.com/quote/1393155
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”
“It would not be impossible to prove with sufficient repetition and a psychological understanding of the people concerned that a square is in fact a circle. They are mere words, and words can be molded until they clothe ideas and disguise.”
"The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly - it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over.”
“Success is the important thing. Propaganda is not a matter for average minds, but rather a matter for practitioners. It is not supposed to be lovely or theoretically correct. I do not care if I give wonderful, aesthetically elegant speeches, or speak so that women cry. The point of a political speech is to persuade people of what we think right. I speak differently in the provinces than I do in Berlin, and when I speak in Bayreuth, I say different things than I say in the Pharus Hall. That is a matter of practice, not of theory. We do not want to be a movement of a few straw brains, but rather a movement that can conquer the broad masses. Propaganda should be popular, not intellectually pleasing. It is not the task of propaganda to discover intellectual truths.”
There
was no point in seeking to convert the intellectuals. For intellectuals
would never be converted and would anyway always yield to the **er, and
this will always be "the man in the street." Arguments must therefore
be crude, clear and forcible, and appeal to emotions and instincts, not
the intellect. Truth was unimportant and entirely subordinate to tactics
and psychology.
Read more at: http://www.azquotes.com/quote/1393155
There
was no point in seeking to convert the intellectuals. For intellectuals
would never be converted and would anyway always yield to the **er, and
this will always be "the man in the street." Arguments must therefore
be crude, clear and forcible, and appeal to emotions and instincts, not
the intellect. Truth was unimportant and entirely subordinate to tactics
and psychology.
Read more at: http://www.azquotes.com/quote/1393155
There
was no point in seeking to convert the intellectuals. For intellectuals
would never be converted and would anyway always yield to the **er, and
this will always be "the man in the street." Arguments must therefore
be crude, clear and forcible, and appeal to emotions and instincts, not
the intellect. Truth was unimportant and entirely subordinate to tactics
and psychology.
Read more at: http://www.azquotes.com/quote/1393155
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