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Source: UN Food Security Expert Warns About Impact of Climate Change – The New York Times

One of the main tenets of any successful propaganda campaign is to repeat the same thing over and over again until it becomes accepted as truth. In fact the person who revealed that strategy was a guy named Joseph Goebbels: here is the quote:

“…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 that 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…”

Of course the original quote may have been in German, but it still translates well.  The global warming crowd has taken this recipe even further.  Hardly a day passes when there is not some new calamity/malady/threat/danger apparently exposed by global warming.  So it’s not just repetition, which does work, but also reinforcement through supporting ‘evidence’.  The spreading of such propaganda today is aided by the fact that many use Facebook as a news source. The more the likes, the more likely the story’s veracity.

Just today, the New York Times cited an academic paper warning of declining sexual appetites attributable  to global warming.  Naturally, this study of sexual activity was released by the National Bureau of Economic Research, whomever they are.  I think that their research may be skewed by the fact that economists likely don’t get much sex in any case.  While this is not the gravest of dangers to result from global warming, it’s the one that perhaps hits closest to home…unless of course, you’re an economist.  A clever website, Whatreallyhappened   enumerates a pretty good survey of the accumulated calamities ostensibly caused by global warming.  Few of them rate up there with declining sexual activity, but some of the more amusing ones are:

attack of the killer jellyfish, Baghdad snow, beer shortage, brain eating amoeba, camel deaths, creatures  move uphill, fashion disaster, football team migration, giant oysters invade, invasion of midgets, witchcraft executions and a truly scary one which has already come to pass, lawyers’ incomes increase.

The linked article above is so truly dumb, it should have its own reality show with the Kardashians.  Wouldn’t warming cause an increase in the amount of arable lands which in turn would be beneficial to feeding people?

Don’t expect opposing voices to restore some measure of sanity to the ‘discussion’.  Philipe Verdier, the chief weather garcon for French Televisions has been sacked for daring to offer opposing views to the accepted truth.  Look out for the giant oysters.

Source: Campaign shifts as Harper looks to protect seats in Ontario | Election 2015

The majority of Americans can be forgiven if they are unaware that an important Federal election is being held in the nation just to the north of them.  Given all of the media hoopla surrounding their own votes just over a year away, the activities in Canada likely don’t register on the GAF meter.

Nonetheless, it is important to Canadians and the results will ultimately affect Americans as well.  Anyone paying attention to the candidates will be struck by the stark similarity to the elections held in the U.S. some years ago.  Presently, the resurgent Liberal party is being led by the scion of a former Prime Minister whose party was summarily tossed out for years of irresponsible fiscal policies.  Justin Trudeau has precisely zero experience in managing or running any kind of enterprise.  He has exhibited all the charm of a rhetorical peacock supported by an army of enablers without regard to his obvious lack of tangible vision.  His position in the Liberal Party is solely due to his famous, or infamous last name.

Didn’t the Americans do the hope and change experiment for the last 7 years…with a person also lacking any life experience beyond academia and  wholly disconnected to reality ( as is now more and more evident ) by marshaling an army of ideological supporters?  How is that working out?

Now, this same campaign slogan for “change” is being purloined for Canadian use since it worked so well in the U.S. If you had the unfortunate occasion to listen to any of Justin’s  speeches, you’d swear you were attending a stand up comedy show as he parodies the rhetoric used by campaigners for hundreds of years everywhere.  It’s as if he was reading from the Campaigning 101 textbook of tired clichés.  Change…for the middle class…lower taxes…unite the people…more jobs…zzzzz.  It’s embarrassingly jejune.

But he’s just one guy.  The alarming aspect is that he’s being supported (apparently) by an enormous segment of the Canadian population who identify with his rhetoric.   The fact that Canada has been singularly an island of stability economically, socially and culturally in the world for the past decade is too much for people to take.  Far too dull and too Canadian.  Let’s have racial and religious strife, militant labor discord, soaring debt and a musical chairs style of government as they do in more interesting nations such as Italy or Greece.

With only a week to go before the formal vote, Trudeau has yet to play his big ace card.  Like the American president, he will reveal his true ability to lead by….speaking on Global Warming!

Canadians are being lured by the siren call of change from a position that is the envy of 99% of the world’s nations.  It’s like trading Tom Brady away for a guy with a better signal calling voice.  Maybe Trudeau isn’t the delusional one.