Finally, thankfully, the global warming craze is dying out. To paraphrase Monty Python, the climate parrot may still be nailed to its perch at the recent COP summit in Belém, Brazil – or at Harvard and on CNN – but elsewhere it’s dead. It’s gone to meet its maker, kicked the bucket, shuffled off this mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. By failing to pledge a cut in fossil fuels, COP achieved less than nothing, the venue caught fire, the air-conditioning malfunctioned – and delegates were told on arrival not to flush toilet paper. Bill Gates’s recent apologia, in which he conceded that global warming “will not lead to humanity’s demise,” after he closed the policy and advocacy office of his climate philanthropy group is just the latest nail in the coffin.

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It’s already started. The mainstream is trying it’s level best to create some controversy about immigration. Trump has put Canada on notice, and I can’t help wondering how everybody’s feeling about it. I know Canadians are proud, but I’m pretty sure everywhere is going to be jealous.

The whole world is seeing what’s going on over here, and I can’t imagine they don’t want in. They’re going to see the exuberance of Americans and the nations are taking note. I get the feeling that the “save the planet” movement has taken its course. How can the planet be saved if China and India won’t play ball? Has anybody seen Al Gore lately?

Our heads may explode on January 20th. There are geniuses working to cut waste now. We thought we’d never see it. Everything was so entrenched that it was just the way things worked, and we didn’t know how it would end, but it wouldn’t be pretty. Is it dawning a new day?

The only thing I have to go by is the election of Ronald Reagan after four years of embarrassment. It was like someone turned on the afterburners. Business ramped up in a big way. It’s not nearly as bad now as it was during the Carter years, but it’s a different situation. But no less important.

The way we were going in the Carter years, we wouldn’t have lasted. Ronald Reagan turned things around in a way that has lasted through all these bad presidencies. At least the nation wasn’t completely destroyed yet. There was only so much they could do. But they’ve grown our bureaucracy until we thought it would never be put right. Hang on to your head.

With people as smart as the ones being chosen, it’s going to be fun. Liberal tears are like rain. And no doubt there will be showers in the months ahead. Donald Trump is already President. Decisions are being made, plans taken, and the other nations are taking notice. They can’t take advantage of us anymore. Sometimes it’s been hard to know if a president was even on our side. We don’t have to wonder anymore.

Our job, Dad’s job, was to chronicle the downfall of western civilizations and look toward prophetic fulfillment. But it looks like we’ve been granted a reprieve. Not to be complacent about it, on the contrary. We could see this whole thing go up like a firework if we don’t recognize the opportunity. We’ve been given another chance, and our children should know. We were so beat down by the media, so sure of themselves as they preached one false narrative after another. Notice how everything’s gone quiet?

They now know, if they didn’t before, that Americans are not buying what they’re trying to ram into our brains. We don’t believe in global warming or that we’re in an “existential crisis.” They can try that out on somebody else, it’s already fallen out of favor.

It’s been hard watching society in a mad rush for X-mas. But Santa didn’t save us. God had mercy on us.

Mark

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It turns out Nigel Farrage, mastermind of Brexit, is good buddies with Donald Trump. Problems that require money to fix are surmountable with Elon Musk on your side. Suddenly everyone is beating a path to Mar-a- Lago. Nobody wants to be on Trump’s bad side.  Some are probably sorry they came. Can you imagine the humiliation? Joe and Mika? Justin Trudeau? Everybody probably saw Trump’s retort to the worry that Canada won’t be able to pay tariffs. The problem is, he says, that Canada can’t survive the tariffs that are coming. Trump suggested that we buy it and make it the 51^st state. Trudeau was probably sorry he came. Even those that have been sneering every foul accusation in the book now want to be on the winning side. Funny how that works.

The whole world is looking at the success we’re about to have with new leadership, and everybody’s jealous. We’ve finally emerged from decades of mismanagement. It’s been a nightmare since Reagan left the scene. Fortunately he, Reagan, put us in a position to survive several presidencies that had interests higher than ours. What? Our greatest challenge is global warming?  Think again.

The whole world is realizing what’s happened in the United States, and they want in. We’re going to have to hold our heads with both hands as we hear some of the news that will be coming out.

For decades we’ve suffered under the brainchild of experts who say we’ve got a planetary emergency on our hands.  We suffer ridiculous regulations while the real polluters continue polluting.  China and India, you see, are developing nations, so they get a pass.

The idea of “America first” is taking hold, and it is an ideology that goes against all this planetary emergency stuff.  If we’ve got a planetary emergency, doesn’t that include China and India?  Why should the most civilized nations on earth be mandated to “save the planet” while others do what they want?  It’s never made sense, and doesn’t now.  It looks as though we’re about to experience a return to sanity after so many years of accepting the status quo.

We’ve been “saving the planet” for a long time now, and there was no end in sight. Putting America first is a bizarre idea, and it may be that it’s time has come. Immigration has become an American nightmare, but it’s not only here. Europe has been overrun. Our gadgets tell us of horrific crimes being committed by illegal aliens, and we are often treated to scenes we can hardly believe on the border.  Even the northern border is a concern.

Stand by.  We’re going to be finding out some mind-bending details about what our government has been doing without telling us.  We’re also going to be finding out the corruption in government that we knew nothing about. 

Suddenly somebody sees things the way we do.

We’re hearing that the French government has collapsed.  Eastern Europe is in a quandary.  South Korea announced marshal law, only to have a rebellion on their hands.  The Arabs are suing for peace.  It seems like a lot of the world’s problems are about to be solved.  Unless the powers that hold sway between now and January 25^th start WWIII.  

Mark

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I don’t think we can even envision what lies just ahead in our immediate American future.  Having listened to most of the Trump rallies, it’s going to be a joyride.  How long have we been quiet about this woke nonsense?  (We haven’t been quiet.) They’ve been introducing stuff we don’t even want to know about, and making like we think it’s fine.  We are a long-suffering people.  And we’ve been suffering forever, at least since the 80’s. For young people, their entire lives.  But our long journey to sanity might be just about over.

It’s a similar feeling to when Ronald Reagan won the White House after four years of Jimmy Carter.  Jimmy Cater humiliated the United States, and couldn’t seem to make a right decision.  Many years ago, I watched a documentary on the rescue mission for the hostages in Iran.  It didn’t turn out well, largely due to incompetence.  

These protesters speak up and don’t mind making fools of themselves in front of cameras.  We just change the channel.  But the way things have been going, they were going to bankrupt us and make our lives miserable with all their global-warming mandates. We have to bear the brunt of saving the planet while the most vile of polluters will get on board someday?  We finally had enough.

The networks are nearly broke, ratings having collapsed since the Trump win.  There were apparently some attempts to rig the election in various jurisdictions, and they all fell short.  I guess some places they’re still counting.  “Too big to rig” may have been more than a rallying cry.  There is evidence in some elections, where the loser suddenly catapulted. But it wasn’t enough. Trump won anyway.

Elon Musk is being called “the guest who wouldn’t leave.”  Apparently he’s been staying at Mar-a-Lago and it’s undoubtedly at Trump’s request.  Trump thinks he can use the guy’s ideas and influence.  After all, Musk cut Twitter’s employee rolls by 70 percent when he bought it, and it still runs just fine, maybe better.  Can you imagine if he makes recommendations for government departments along the same lines?  

Have you seen the video of the booster rocket coming back to earth?  I’m guessing the foremost rocket scientists around the world watched in awe.  I have a feeling that they’re watching the entire spectacle, wondering what comes next.

Ever heard of Matt Gatez?  There’s talk of making him Attorney General. Then there’s Kash Patel, and his new prospective job is head of the F.B.I.  Can you imagine the panic inside these departments?  They better make sure their passports are in order.  Who’s Trump going to put in charge of abolishing the TSA, or am I getting ahead?  

Suddenly the media is chasing scandal on most of Trump’s picks for high office.  Get used to it for as long as they’re in business.

I don’t know about everybody else, but we’re walking on air around here.  The media will undoubtedly try to dampen our moods with unfolding “scandals” on everyone who’s been mentioned for high office.  It’s already started.  But the media has been filling our heads with nonsense for years now.  They think we’re about to start believing them without homework?  Dream on.  

Mark

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Is it just my imagination, or is this one of the coolest Summers ever?  East Texas is my Mom’s home, and we visited often.  One time when my Mom and Dad went to tour Europe, they left us kids with my Mom’s parents.  It was the only house on the right when you enter the Big Sandy property.    The global warming set must be in a panic.  But it’s hot in Dubai.  Do tell.

Andrew McCarthy, who usually knows what he’s talking about, says Trump will be found guilty and sentenced to prison two months before the election.  Can you imagine?  Having watched most of the Trump rallies, people are fired up.  Those that fear or hate Donald Trump better watch what they hope for, or they risk setting off something they apparently don’t see coming.  We still don’t know what the crime was.  An accounting error?  

More videos related to the assassination attempt are coming out all the time.  I just saw one where the kid is walking on the ground, carrying his rifle.  Trump is praising the Secret Service, and publicly mourning the murder of one of his supporters, a fireman who shielded his family with his body and was fatally hit.  Now, it’s like it never happened.  Just a lone crazy person who was a genius at protecting himself.  There were mistakes by the score, almost too many to be coincidental.  How is it possible that there was no communication between the local Police units and the Secret Service?  Not even a phone number?

The good news is the would-be assassin only managed to clip an ear.  Then they killed him, after he got off eight shots (reportedly).  Imagine the disappointment when Trump walked off the stage under his own power.  Phones must have been ringing.  Now what are they going to do?  They’ve tried everything.  You think they’ll stop?  We don’t even want to consider where we’d be if he hadn’t turned his head when he did.  He’s crediting the fact that he’s still alive to Divine intervention, saying he believed in God before, but he’s crediting God with having saved his life, to a huge roar from the crowd.  

The Israel war against the terrorists in Gaza goes on and on.  The bad guys must have dug deep.  You don’t suppose that’s where all the aid has been going?  There’s a much more difficult situation than there was a few short years ago.  Some Arab leaders who would like to make peace are afraid to do it.  Remember Anwar Sadat.  They cursed his name and celebrated when he was assassinated.  How dare he have anything to do with the hated Jews.  

Suddenly the news has Ukraine on the offensive, and Russian positions being evacuated.  Whatever.  So Ukraine is going to defeat Russia?  In Zelensky’s dreams.

I think everybody realizes that the next few months are an extremely dangerous time for the United States.  We have no leadership at the moment.  All important functions have been delegated to the woke bunch they brought in with them, or so we’re told.  The border czar never went to the border, and whatever the policies are now, they’re letting untold numbers invade the United States.  When you think of all the paperwork you have to carry to cross any border, anywhere in the world… and these people just walk in to be let go.

There’s talk everywhere of civil war.  I was going to dismiss it.  Talk is cheap, but it’s all over the internet.  They better hope nothing happens to Trump, or these keyboard warriors are going to have to back up their words.   

Mark

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It’s as if it never happened.  Farmers erupt all over Europe, blocking various well-traveled sites and it’s barely news.  They’ve disbanded, but leaders say they’re ready to resume the protest if announced concessions are not forthcoming.  This whole thing was to be handled quietly.  The photos are dramatic, and if the convoys didn’t dismantle the blockades, it would be ruinous for all involved.  So the farmers got their way.  Surcharges on fuel (to save the planet, no doubt) were quickly and quietly dropped.  They wouldn’t want it to be seen as having to do with their false religion.  But there are tractors blocking roads all over the place and all kinds of remedies.

As if flying to climate conferences, preaching to the choir, is a life that should be funded by us.  Not only that, we should hang on every word, and feel blood guilty for our part in planetary destruction.  Check out this quote:

“For nearly three years, John Kerry has been jet-setting on the international climate conference circuit while sending taxpayers the bill,” PTF Executive Director Daniel Turner told Fox News Digital in a statement. “Today, we begin the process of teaching John Kerry and Joe Biden that they work for the taxpayers. No one should have to waste resources on litigation, but that is our only option since John Kerry thinks he can keep his office off the books.”

Have you noticed?  From global warming dogma to circling the wagons around the first family, there’s an air of self-righteousness in the media that’s hard to take.  They protest over much.  The logic they want us to buy is beyond almost anyone’s ability to accept.

Now they’re threatening to send U. S. troops if money for Ukraine is not forthcoming (See statement by Chris Coons).  They’re also threatening to release illegals unless everything goes their way.  No third-world country on earth allows an invasion like this.  News from the border is nigh unto impossible to watch.  As you know, Texas has exerted State power, taking control and expelling the welcome wagon you-know-who had in place.  Now there are six strands of razor wire, and it’s only re-routed the caravans to points West.  You’ve probably seen reports, people are coming from all over the world.  The media has noticed that many are from China.  How can this be?  The speculation is that they’re coming with the knowledge and approval of the dictator.   

Meanwhile we’re treated to the scandals.  The polls say that Donald Trump is winning in the crucial states.  He’s under criminal indictment in four jurisdictions.  They’ve fired all of the guns at once, and it may have been a terrible mistake.  You’ve heard of “death by a thousand cuts?”  The laws have been tortured to charge numerous crimes at once, with the former president jetting to and fro to appear.  The cases are complicated, and they better hope something sticks.

I guess the confused, bewildered act isn’t standing the test of time in the courtroom.  How these “attorneys” thought they’d be basking in the glory of having brought down the one that everyone on the left despises, is anyone’s guess.  They might have celebrated too soon.

As far as the war in Ukraine, who knows?  It’s a quagmire and the primary objective is to deceive people into opposing camps.  We know Vladimir Putin is not a good guy, but at this point the posturing is getting old.  The whole thing probably could have been worked out through diplomacy.  Anything would have been better than an ongoing war, where we’re a financial participant.  The national debt is beyond comprehension, and they act like they can add to it without consequence.

So Germany is rising to the occasion and projecting its military power so as to guarantee that Europe doesn’t get invaded.  Maybe this wouldn’t be a big deal, but it seems Germany is going back on something that was decided in the aftermath of WWII.  Will Germany be the guarantor of Europe’s security?  That might not be the best solution.

The war in Gaza rages on.  It’s obvious that humanitarian aid was being spent on a labyrinthine infrastructure of tunnels.  The Israelis are manufacturing automatic rifles that can see around corners.  Sounds impossible, if I hadn’t seen it demonstrated.  They’re manufacturing these advanced weapons, replete with cameras and all kinds of technology.  

Hostages are still being held somewhere.  Unbelievable that these terrorists think they’re brave.

Mark

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There’s so much to make your blood boil, it’s hard to know where to start.  By now most everybody has seen the video of the policemen being attacked in Times Square by a gang of illegals.  They caught the perpetrators, who kicked and beat one policeman on the ground and jumped on another.  Apparently the perpetrators were apprehended, released and are on a bus to California where the atmosphere for illegals is perfect.

Where are the reports about the tractors shutting down major hubs all over Europe?  You can find it, but you have to go looking.  When you do find it, you’ll see tractors clogging Brussels’ streets along with Paris and other targets.  It looks like many of their demands will be met, quietly.

The left is PETRIFIED of another Donald Trump presidency.  It’s so unacceptable they can’t even talk about it without an insult or two.  But they have to report the results of political races, so that’s the time to tune in, when they’re choking on what they have to say.  You’ll also see them taking the opportunity to lampoon Christians, for obvious reasons.  One guy says he’ll, “convert back to Christianity just so I can be first in line for the rapture.”  There’s so much wrong with that, it can’t be covered in an update.  But this is on Yahoo along with a whole bunch of other articles that decry the inevitable.  They’re running out of strategies.

E. Jean Carroll has been awarded millions on the basis of an unbelievable story.  My only question, “Where was the entourage?”  Anyway, she’s won a vast sum of money, and she’s living it up on channels I don’t watch.  She’s absolutely beside herself with glee, promising gifts to TV anchors who can’t contain their delight.  

I have to see what they’re saying sometimes, mad as it makes me.  You can’t overstate how the left is wallowing in panic.  Every article on these left-wing websites is something about Trump, always negative.  It’s not just that he might pull the country out of the nosedive we’re in, and they can’t have that!  It wouldn’t be fair!  Besides, the pretender is doing great.  Just look at their numbers!

This is going to be one interesting year.  All the news right now is celebrating a roaring economy.  They can hardly believe the economic revolution that’s taking place.  If you want to know about it, you’ll have to read up.  Yeah, it turns out the pretender has done a masterful job.  He’s riding high, and there’s nothing on the horizon but smooth sailing.  Now, back to reality.

Maybe it’s too much to hope for, but it looks like this global warming nonsense is blowing up all over the world.  Years were wasted on fanciful clap-trap that didn’t work as advertised.  Some brave advertisers are still trying to get you to buy a battery car.  Other’s its seems, have given up.  Why send good money after bad with all the advertising they’ve done?  It would be curious to find out how much they’ve spent on TV alone trying to convince us that battery cars are glamorous.  Maybe they are, but we saw people pushing their Teslas in the snow.  That’s a definite demerit.  

It’s not like the manufacturers didn’t play the government’s game for reasons we’ll probably never know. But alas, reality dawns.  Nobody wants a wildly expensive car that might strand you in the freezing cold.  I like Elon Musk.  The feats he’s pulled off are unbelievable.  I’ve watched the booster rockets return to their launch pads, and it’s amazing.  How is it he doesn’t know that freezing temperatures and batteries don’t mix?  Not that battery cars don’t have their place, as a second or third vehicle.  You’d hate to have to depend on one!

This is a time for skepticism.  The mainstream news is deceptive, to say the least.  They try to make it seem like we need to get on their bandwagon, or… or…  We’ll destroy the planet?  

It’s not easy to find, but there’s a tractor protest blocking all kinds of European thoroughfares.  The Davos crowd foisted this nonsense on Europe first, and for the most part everybody went along.  But the reality of actually saving the planet has dawned.  They want to say it’s about government subsidies for this or that, but the policies have global warming as their basis.  We can’t tell if the earth is getting warmer or not, but these policies are going to put farmers out of business.

Diversity, equity and inclusion are going to put major corporations out of business.  It’s putting us all in danger.  Unqualified people doing jobs that belong to highly skilled people.  What could go wrong?  

Despite the news telling us everything is great, it clearly isn’t.  The showdown over the border seems to have been won by Texas.  Turns out barriers work.  So the cartels will just send them to one of the other border states.  There will be consequences.  There already are, and it makes a patriot’s blood boil.  

We’re facing a challenging year, with the news bound and determined to get us to see it their way.  Unfortunately they’ve been compromised by so-called modern philosophy.  We reject that.

Mark

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It’s getting to where you can’t even watch anymore.  The scenes they’re showing you, the incidents they are describing are not fit for human consumption.  The “terrorists” committed atrocities reminiscent of the worst we’ve ever heard of.  

They’re mad at us for not supporting Ukraine.  But we’re being invaded by who knows who, and we’re supposed to believe that Ukraine’s problems are worse than our own?  Oh yeah, Putin is a bad man, so…  So we’re supposed to sit and watch our own country invaded by people from all over the world while we get lectured by Zelensky?  You’ve probably seen them lined up at the border.  They love Joe Biden, who apparently invited them.

How can this problem persist?  Even third world nations never allowed a border incursion such as this.  Did you see what happened on the 110 Freeway in California?  They were Jews?  There were many instances where people needed to get somewhere on an emergency basis.  The drivers that need to get somewhere aren’t going to be amused.  They’re liable to take things into their own hands.

Some explosive devices were found with the “immigrants,” on the Mexican side by Mexican authorities.  But with this uncontrolled immigration we can’t escape, there’s going to be trouble.  Let’s just hope it’s not terrorism.

The media is still excited about January 6.  They can’t wait to tell us the latest.  But, you don’t suppose there was government involvement?  It will be interesting to see if any of the mainstream outlets want to tell us about that.  Is the public just being jerked around by the government and their media accomplices?  We hear things all the time, but have learned not to believe everything at first glance.

What is it with all the demonstrations on university campuses and even on California freeways?  Do these people know what they are demonstrating about?  Apparently Chris Cuomo saw some of the most horrendous video, and thinks it should be released for everybody to see.  You can count me out.  You’ve got to be careful.  If somebody is about to launch into some gruesome description of what these terrorists did, I’m turning it off.  Whether “released” or not, they wouldn’t dare show this stuff on TV.  We already know several heartbreaking stories, spare us the video.

Al Gore is ticked off!  Now we’ve got crises that take our attentions away from his angry predictions.  How dare we worry about the logistical situation in Ukraine?  How dare we worry about who’s coming across the border.  It’s almost as if global warming has become an issue of faith.  All the nature shows come with a heavy dose of evolution and global warming.  

Sorry, we’ve got real things to worry about.  

There are two hot wars going on, and several more threatening.  Hopefully those get sorted out before another flares up.  We’ve got another year of embarrassment, maybe worse.

An impeachment inquiry has passed the house.  The embarrassments may just be getting under way. 

Mark

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Everybody’s heard that Russia was involved in the crash of a U. S. Navy drone.  They’re telling different stories, but when don’t they?  The Navy says Russia caused the crash by colliding with the drone’s propeller, and Russia says they were minding their own business.  The video we’ve all seen shows that the Russian jet was definitely flying provocatively around the drone.  Whatever turns out to be, it’s another incident in an already troubled relationship.  Aren’t we already in a proxy war with Russia?

This comes after a Chinese balloon, of all things, traversed the United States collecting who knows what?  Apparently it lingered over sensitive sites we knew nothing about.  It’s been reported that Chinese aircraft breach Taiwan’s airspace on a regular basis.  What’s the pretender going to do, irritate his benefactors?  Sure wish the regime weren’t such reliable liars.  We have to be deceived at all costs.

It’s been a harrowing week for the banking industry.  Not only did Silicon Valley Bank go under, Moody’s has downgraded U. S. financial stability with repercussions that are not yet understood.

Some of Silicon Valley Bank’s web pages were broadcast, and they were up to their ears in equity, diversity and inclusion.  Word is that they based their lending on how woke the business plan was, and lost money hand over fist.  Will the whole country give in to these idiotic ideals?  Does the pilot on your flight check enough boxes?

Airlines are reportedly hiring cockpit crew on the basis of woke philosophy.  Various races, creeds and genders need to be included, otherwise, the whole enterprise (airline) is racist.  But then again, we keep hearing of near collisions at airports.  Makes you wonder how bad you need to go somewhere.  Realizing of course that you’ll be handing yourself over to government employees who’ve been hired using the same philosophy.  Not good.

My Dad often publicly said that a financial collapse would lead to a centralized power in Europe.  Notice how these multilateral organizations seem to be making all the rules?  How big is this collapse going to be?  They’re apparently going to bail everybody out.  Well, not EVERYBODY.  Regional banks in flyover country that haven’t been making loans for planet-saving boondoggles will be taken on a case by case basis.  

No matter how imbecilic the proposal, if it was equitable, diverse and inclusive, the bank couldn’t invest enough.  How’s it going to look when Silicon Valley Bank’s bad loans become public knowledge? Maybe that information will never see the light of day.  They better hope not.

Have you noticed how many crises we have?  Crises that didn’t exist a couple of years ago?

Looks like Obama knew what he was talking about when he said, “Never underestimate Joe’s ability to mess things up.”  The list of crises goes on and on.  

It’s like the new philosophy has taken hold.  Nobody’s trying to prove anything anymore, they just issue mandates because they know better than anybody else.  We’re being swept along and they’ll make all the big decisions for us.

If you look at the record of ominous predictions, it’s unbelievable.  The claims they made on global warming didn’t come true.  But that hasn’t stopped the ranting and raving.  We’ve been manipulated on all kinds of subjects, sometimes being led down the wrong path altogether.  While they’ve been ranting about diversity, equity and inclusion, everything that could go wrong, did.  

No need to spell it all out, you’ve got access to all the information.  But it seems that the “experts” have it in for us, every way you can imagine.  We hope that the nation can survive the next couple of years, but it’s going to be painful all the way around. 

Mark

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The usual suspects are out in force.  They’ve got to explain away, given how smart they are, the fact that they were trying to get a panic going in the 1970’s, and some of us are old enough to remember.  Not only that, the material is available on the internet.

It was Newsweek’s fault for trying to be sensational.  People are misinterpreting the intent, which was squeaky clean.  No problem.  These science writers are used to readers jumping to the wrong conclusions.  The mainstream is denigrating the public figures who’ve noticed, and publicized their “global cooling” conclusions.  Was it not science then?  They’re acting like a bunch of gullible novices jumped on the bandwagon and produced a slew of articles in noteworthy publications, and it was the best information they had at the time.

So it’s Rush Limbaugh’s fault, and several other media personalities, who’ve dared to broadcast the earlier findings of the scientific community, and how they’ve done a complete 180.  We’re often warned of China’s suspect intentions and the moves they’re making, but at least we’ll have done our part to “save the planet” if we have solar panels on our roofs and drive electric cars.  You think that will do it?  Something has dawned, true or not.  That is that we were going to be alarmed, and other smarter individuals were going to have to alter human consumption one way or another to SAVE the PLANET.  

Life was simpler before these elite decided it was up to them.  

No, they’re going to have to clamp down on farmers and their use of fertilizer.  It turns out that nations with the best ESG (environmental social governance) scores are in complete collapse.  But Germany and Holland are not bothered.  They intend to treat their farmers fairly as they take arable land out of service.  You saw the huge tractor protests in Holland?  How’s all that working out?

So governments are bribing farmers to quit growing so much produce on the premise that the planet is being destroyed.  Science has branded man a “force of nature.”  They’ve got to control us.  How else are they going to save the planet?

Quote, Time Magazine:  The U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued a report on the state of planetary warming in February that was surprising only in its utter lack of hedging. “Warming of the climate system is unequivocal,” the report stated. What’s more, there is “very high confidence” that human activities since 1750 have played a significant role by overloading the atmosphere with carbon dioxide hence retaining solar heat that would otherwise radiate away. The report concludes that while the long-term solution is to reduce the levels of CO2 in the atmosphere, for now we’re going to have to dig in and prepare, building better levees, moving to higher ground, abandoning vulnerable floodplains altogether. When former Vice President Al Gore made his triumphant return to Capitol Hill on March 21 to testify before Congress on climate change, he issued an uncompromising warning: “We do not have time to play around with this.” (2007)

Who’s we?  These climate change alarmists fly their private jets to exclusive conferences at posh resorts to dine and pat each other on the back about how successful they’ve been at saving the planet.  What could be a loftier cause?  Who cares if some countries (Sri Lanka, with a near perfect ESG score) go into complete meltdown, with people starving and they have to call out the military?  At least the “planet” will still be here.  That must be how they reason, this elite class has to save us from ourselves if it wrecks human existance. 

If you search this, you’ll find that the mainstream has performed its expected function.  They’ve completely justified everything they said in the 1970’s, and ridiculed those who dared notice, “right wing” talk hosts and the like.  No, that was all innocent and based on the best scientific information at the time.  It just took them a while to understand that they needed to do a complete 180 degree turn and panic about global warming.  If you look at the “scientific community’s” projections, they were all wet.  They’ve embarrassed themselves repeatedly with contortions that are hardly scientific.  You can read all about it, just not in the mainstream press.  Not many dare come out and roundly condemn the “global warming” scam.  Those who do are pitied amid attempted destruction.

There have been times in history when government would come down hard on anyone disputing the official conventional wisdom.  We laugh now about how much trouble was suffered over the flat earth theory, about medical theories, a whole roster of approved beliefs.  Dispute of the approved narrative is not well received in the halls of power.  “This misinformation must be stopped before more damage is done!”

We know all about deception.  We’re about to find out how it was used to betray the nation.  That’s right, some news was factual while non-approved information had to be banned.  And ban it they did.  Turns out everybody isn’t particularly interested in the biggest arguments of the day.  They can’t be bothered.  

Do we not have enough actual problems here on earth?  We have to invent something to panic about?  It turns out children are being frightened and their sleep disturbed with nightmares over the effects of global warming. Show them an aerial shot of Obama’s waterfront mansion.  Makes you wonder if the people inside are having nightmares.

They’ve decided man is a “force of nature.”  As soon as the esteemed elite get control of these volcanoes that keep erupting, we’ll talk about solar panels and electric cars.  In the meantime…

We believe God controls the weather.  If He wants it to be hot, it will be.  If He wants us to have drought or rain…  After all, He set the weather patterns in motion, and can interfere with them if He sees fit.  The sooner these private jet alarmists figure that out, the better off we’ll be. 

Mark

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