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Anthropogenic Planetary Destruction (not a climate change thread)
Situations like the one described in your video is part of the reason why most people take what scientists and peer reviewed journals tell us with a grain of salt. They tend to lie to us and tell us whatever truth those that are signing their pay checks want us to believe. The actions of certain agribusinesses as documented on CBC and public television station documentaries can only be described as scary and worthy of cartoonish James Bond or Austin Powers villains rather than sentient human beings. Alas the real villains may be much worse than the psychopathic fictional ones.
Ironic some people choose to believe in a Monsanto-led conspiracy, yet the same will not entertain even the possibility that the so-called threat of global warming could be a trojan horse meant to lead to the creation of a one world government where nations give up their sovereignty to the UN. I certainly do, especially in the face of climategate (reinforcing Vlad's point in the above quote). Now there are not just some climate 'change' (a safer term for promoters) 'deniers' (a label meant to stigmatize, as if almost on a par with holocaust deniers) who are climate scientists (unlike Suzuki, a man who travels on jets and has multiple homes, who wishes to jail 'deniers'), but now there are more climate scientists who believe in global cooling, which would would be a real problem, as opposed to moderate warming if it actually happened.
I have no problem in believing that conspiracies have been rife throughout history. My schoolyard experiences alone tell me this.
My rant, for people who trust scientists and governments far too much.
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Anything that can go wrong will go wrong. Murphy's law, by Edward A. Murphy Jr., USAF, Aerospace Engineer
Ironic some people choose to believe in a Monsanto-led conspiracy, yet the same will not entertain even the possibility that the so called threat of global warming could be a trojan horse meant to lead to the creation of a one world government where nations give up their sovereignty to the UN. I certainly do, especially in the face of climategate (reinforcing Vlad's point in the above quote). Now there are not just some climate 'change' (a safer term for promoters) 'deniers' (a label meant to stigmatize, as if almost on a par with holocaust deniers) who are climate scientists (unlike Suzuki, a man who travels on jets and has multiple homes, who wishes to jail 'deniers'), but now there are more climate scientists who believe in global cooling, which would would be a real problem, as opposed to moderate warming if it actually happened.
I have no problem in believing that conspiracies have been rife throughout history. My schoolyard experiences alone tell me this.
My rant, for people who trust scientists and governments far too much.
Hi Kevin:
My belief - there MUST evolve a New World Order! The planet is shrinking. Technology is integrating the planet - I talk every day to people from India, Ghana, USA, etc.
The Problems - they are now planetary - Climate Change; Global Warming (or Cooling) as a result of pollution world-wide; chemicals destroying our planet by irresponsible global corporations, etc. (as being noted in this thread by lots of studies)
The Issue - who will be the designers - the 1%? all the humans?
The Problems - they are now planetary - Climate Change; Global Warming (or Cooling) as a result of pollution world-wide; chemicals destroying our planet by irresponsible global corporations, etc. (as being noted in this thread by lots of studies)
They tend to lie to us and tell us whatever truth those that are signing their pay checks want us to believe.
Yes, money does influence! We just disagree on who "they" are.
I always "take everything with a grain of salt". Occasionally I do find myself agreeing with the "right" rather than the "left", but it is becoming less often as time passes. Be skeptical of everything, but not everything is a conspiracy. :)
Yes, money does influence! We just disagree on who "they" are.
I always "take everything with a grain of salt". Occasionally I do find myself agreeing with the "right" rather than the "left", but it is becoming less often as time passes. Be skeptical of everything, but not everything is a conspiracy. :)
It may typically depend greatly on one's political bent what one chooses to believe is a conspiracy.
When Greenpeace succeeded in unfuroughling a banner on the parliment buildings in Ottawa, Conservatives suspected the NDP of being behind it. Last night, I heard someone suggest on a radio station that Harper and the Conservatives staged the recent security breach in B.C., around the PM (two protesters holding pro-climate change signs in the middle of a long North American cold snap seems fishy, along with the fact they were quickly released, one might think). Personally I believe either accusation could easily be true.
Anything that can go wrong will go wrong. Murphy's law, by Edward A. Murphy Jr., USAF, Aerospace Engineer
Careful what you wish for. The final form of the new world order may not be the one that you would have hoped for. I suspect that the final form, if allowed to come into existence, will involve beheadings, crucifixion, stonings and many other outcomes which most of us agree would not be optimal. If you allow them to create the framework that makes these things possible, you will be responsible for the outcome.
"The Future" by Leonard Cohen
Give me back my broken night
my mirrored room, my secret life
it's lonely here,
there's no one left to torture
Give me absolute control
over every living soul
And lie beside me, baby,
that's an order!
...
Take the only tree that's left
and stuff it up the hole
in your culture
Give me back the Berlin wall
give me Stalin and St Paul
I've seen the future, brother:
it is murder.
Things are going to slide, slide in all directions
Won't be nothing
Nothing you can measure anymore
The blizzard, the blizzard of the world
has crossed the threshold
and it has overturned
the order of the soul
When they said REPENT REPENT
I wonder what they meant ...
Oh No - Harper as president of the New World Order Parliament?
Bob A
By definition Stephen Harper cannot be the antichrist as I have heard him make public statements which disqualify him from this position. Bob, you on the other hand...
By definition Stephen Harper cannot be the antichrist as I have heard him make public statements which disqualify him from this position. Bob, you on the other hand...
Should not this thread be entitled Anthropogenic Planet Destruction?
Hi Keven:
Yikes - my memory?? (sigh): Random House Dictionary - "Anthropomorphic: ascribing human form or attributes to a being or thing not human, especially to a deity."
Hmmm - would be like: "This robot has feelings!" Would be ascribing human feelings to something not human.
Sooooo, got the wrong word surely!
But my dictionary is old & hasn't got "Anthropogenic". Can you give me your dicitionary's definition, so I can be sure, before I try to change the subject heading? Thanks.
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