The author of chaos

Politically, the question raised in this excerpt will be familiar to many Australians...think NBN, mining tax, global warming tax, school building program and of course the deadly insulation scheme...to mention a FEW!

‘The question of course is how could such absurd decisions have been made to begin with? Were there no experts involved in the planning of the new power generation infrastructure? The answer obviously is no. Power executives are viewed as evil, dirty and greedy polluters, and thus were never really consulted. They could not be counted on to give the politically correct solutions. Therefore the decision to shut down the German nuclear power plants and to massively support renewables was done unilaterally by the government, without consulting the power executives or even neighboring countries.’

Bureaucrats who really believe that they know more than all 'others', that they alone occupy the 'moral high ground', and that they in their collective 'wisdom' are going to usher in the new Utopian dream of a perfect world.
Such misguided hubris! Such narcissistic blindness! Such petty stupidity!

"I beseech you my brothers, remain faithful to the earth, and do not believe those who speak to you of otherworldly hopes! Poison mixers they are, whether they know it or not.”

(Thus spoke Zarathustra!)

Fanatical 'faith'

Well...reason is beginning to surface in Germany where the deep green religion first took traction (it was the basis of the Nazi 'faith'). This excerpt indicates that the sun is beginning to rise over the darkness:

Germany has now plunged into raucous discord on the heated topic of climate change

What has set it all off? One of the fathers of Germany’s modern green movement, Professor Dr. Fritz Vahrenholt, a social democrat and green activist, decided to author a climate science skeptical book together with geologist/paleontologist Dr. Sebastian Lüning. Vahrenholt’s skepticism started when he was asked to review an IPCC report on renewable energy. He found hundreds of errors. When he pointed them out, IPCC officials simply brushed them aside. Stunned, he asked himself, “Is this the way they approached the climate assessment reports?”

Vahrenholt decided to do some digging. His colleague Dr. Lüning also gave him a copy of Andrew Montford’s The Hockey Stick Illusion. He was horrified by the sloppiness and deception he found. Well-connected to Hoffmann & Campe, he and Lüning decided to write the book. Die kalte Sonne cites 800 sources and has over 80 charts and figures. It examines and summarizes the latest science.

Unfortunately in Australia this 'faith' has already cost the taxpayer billions of dollars and unlike what is beginning to happen in Europe, Australian fanatics still hold power and it looks like they are going to continue to inflict expensive damage on the country into the foreseeable future.

In other 'Green' news coming out of Germany:

Weather-dependent supply wreaking havoc on the power grid

The problem is that these energy sources are weather-dependent and thus their sporadic supply is starting to wreak havoc on Germany’s power grid and is even now threatening to destabilize power grids all across Europe. The other problem: the power grid needed to distribute the decentrally produced green power is simply not there yet. They forgot to build it! So far, after tens of billions of euros spent on renewable energy systems and higher prices for consumers, not a single coal or gas-fired power plant has been taken offline. To the contrary, old inefficient plants have been brought back into service in an effort to stabilize the grid.

In a panic reaction, Germany shut down 8 nuclear power plants

To make matters worse, in a fit of panic and hysteria, the German government shut down 8 of its older 18 nuclear reactors in the wake of the Fukushima disaster, thus removing a very cheap and stable supply of power and further pushing the grid to the limits. Before the shutdown of the nuclear reactors, Germany had been a net power exporter; today it is a net power importer and is at times severely straining neighboring power grids

Poison peddlers

For anyone who still believes in the sad myth of anthropogenic global warming, read this blog to see how those whose livelihoods depend on the maintenance of said myth use lies, conceit and ad hominem attacks to promote their poison...somewhat akin to stand over bandits.
http://joannenova.com.au/2012/02/cooking-the-books-monckton-replies-to-cook/#more-20133

Wake up call

For those who merely shrug their shoulders and parrot 'live and let live' when asked about their stance towards the legalising of homosexual marriage, please read this: http://townhall.com/columnists/robertknight/2012/02/04/counterfeit_marriage_is_antireligion/page/2

Whilst no one promotes a pogrom against people with a different worldview I also think that to ignore the ramifications of a change in legislation is to betray those innocents who might depend on your perspicacity to make informed choices when the time finally comes to eradicate that cancerous tumour growing on the limb of politics in Australia.

A sainted warrior

If you have ever wondered how compassionate, intelligent, moral and enlightened people can believe in cruel, stupid, perverted and self-destructive truths, there is a straightforward progression to the introduction of seditious ideas into the minds of human beings.

An extreme proposition is thrust into the limelight.
Most 'normal' people react with horror to said proposition and a flurry of debate takes place, with the defenders of the outrageous proposition finally offering a watered down version of the idea, which is then accepted with a sigh of relief by the 'normal' brigade.
The unthinkable has become acceptable and in time it becomes the orthodoxy and therefore ripe for another assault.
And so it goes until the original extreme proposition has been reached sometimes even exceeded, and no one can remember when such a position was not acceptable. 

The only way to combat this inevitable progression is to stand back from the issue(s) at stake, view with a humble heart and set aside your ideological goggles (not easy). And what is even more difficult is that if you spot a flaw in your worldview it is extremely difficult to deny years of painstaking study, accumulated recognition and status to buck the collective opinion.

Consider for example those who have been pushing the Anthropogenic Global Warming myth and how difficult it must be to change your position, even in the face of accumulating evidence to the contrary, when your job, career, income and reputation are on the line. It would require the courage of a warrior and the ethics of a saint and how many of those have we encouraged during the last 50 years of politically correct ideological warfare?

a breath of fresh air

Douglas Murray is a young writer who I have recently discovered and who instantly garnered a place on my 'favourite blogs' list. Consider this excerpt:

We have for some time now been in a period in which, as I've often explained, people appear to believe that their "identity" is more important than their ideas.

It is the reason why so many people find it impossible to pose any question from an audience without starting: "As a woman of Indian background", or "As a gay man", and so on. It is very, very tedious. Particularly if you believe people are defined not by their skin colour or sexuality but by the thoughts in their head and the way in which they live their lives.

Amen brother!

the Janus complex

Bolt observes the paradoxical thinking within a left-wing ideologue:

Greens candidate Professor Clive Hamilton complains:

The Right has jettisoned science in favour of deeper beliefs.

Greens candidate Professor Clive Hamilton preaches:

So I think where we’re going is to begin to see a Gaian earth in its ecological, cybernetic way, infused with some notion of mind or soul or chi, which will transform our attitudes to it away from an instrumentalist one, towards an attitude of greater reverence.

Greens candidate Professor Clive Hamilton complains:

In Australia and the US, climate change is the most important arena for the long-running culture war of the neo-conservatives. In pursuit of their goals they have tapped into primitive fears.

Greens candidate Professor Clive Hamilton preaches:

Personally I cannot see any alternative to ramping up the fear factor.

Question: is Hamilton a fool or a hypocrite?

The truth of the matter is that when you believe that you alone are the bearer of absolute truth, you can never be wrong. That belief enables the holder to bear inconsistency, paradoxical thinking and illogical reasoning with equanimity, i.e. to be two-faced.