There have been a lot of prophecies of doom before. As before, the prophets of doom are making money and gaining power from their prophecies Some of the data supposedly demonstrating global warming turned out to be fraudulent. The major scientific global warming authorities, notably the IPCC seem curiously relaxed about employing some fraudulent data, which casts doubt on the rest of their data. The anthropogenic global warming movement is …
Month: April 2008
Escalating prophecies of doom
When prophecies of doom are not working out, the first reaction is to escalate them: Ted Turner tells us: We will be eight degrees hotter in thirty or forty years, and basically none of the crops will grow, most people will have died, and the rest of use will be cannibals, civilization will have broken down. Over past millenia, global temperatures have risen and fallen several degrees. A few thousand …
Commodity derivatives: the new currencies
E-gold, which I thought would save the world, turned out to be something of a bust, with essentially zero use in real internet commerce, but “unenumerated reports†that we are seeing the financial markets going into commodity based fractional reserve monies in a big way, many trillions of dollars.  Still, you cannot pay for your we hosting or cell phone minutes with commodity based monies. These moneys are for big …
I was wrong 1
I was wrong about Muslim reaction to the video “Fitnaâ€. I said that Muslim’s were not reacting, just their pals in the west. This is not the case. Muslims are reacting, and, as usual, threatening murder and terror, though their western pals reacted first.
More pussy for Muslims: It’s the law!
The state of Texas has just engaged in the mass abduction of wives and children from Christian polygamists because of the alleged bad conduct of one Christian polygamist – though strangely they seem unable to find the person who alleged this bad conduct. Evidently, although Muslim polygamy is multicultural, Christian polygamy is not.