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Title: The Pope joins the EU in a sad world of make-believe
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The Telegraph
URL Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/ ... sad-world-of-make-believe.html
Published: Jun 22, 2015
Author: Christopher Booker
Post Date: 2015-06-22 16:27:41 by redleghunter
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Views: 944
Comments: 16
What has a Papal Encyclical calling on the world to end its use of fossil fuels and to pray to God for the success of the global “climate summit” in December got in common with the Greek euro crisis, the ominous rift between the West and Russia, and the shambles Europe is making over the desperation of African and Syrian refugees to find safety this side of the Mediterranean? They are all different aspects of the two greatest acts of political make-believe of our time, so all-pervasive that it is hard for us to grasp just how much effect they are having on all our lives. When future historians come to look back on our age, few things will puzzle them more than the extent to which our politics became so dominated and bedevilled by two belief-systems, each based on an obsessive attempt to force into being an immensely complicated political construct which defied economic, psychological and scientific reality. One of these was the peculiar way in which Europe’s politicians, with full support from the US, had set out to unite their continent under a form of supra-national government unlike anything the world had seen before. The other was the way those same politicians fell for the idea not just that human activities were disastrously changing Earth’s climate, but that by taking the most drastic measures they could somehow change it back again. Although for quite a time these two belief systems seemed to carry all before them, each was essentially based on a fantasy view of the world; and it is in the nature of trying to act out a fantasy that it must eventually overreach itself, to the point where it collides unpleasantly with reality. The essence of the “European” fantasy was not just that it could gradually weld all Europe together in “ever closer union” by overriding and eliminating the kind of nationalism which had led to wars; but that it could continually expand its own “empire”. We now see in all directions how that sense of national interest cannot be eliminated. We see it in the desperation of the Greeks to escape from the trap created by forcing them, through corruption and dishonesty, into the euro. We see it in how the EU’s reckless bid to absorb Ukraine into its empire aroused that sense of Russian nationalism which drove the Crimeans into voting to rejoin the country where they felt they belonged. We see it in the sense of national self-interest which makes it impossible for EU countries to agree on how to deal with that flood of refugees from across the sea. The attempt to create a Europe at one with itself, living prosperously and happily under a new kind of unelected government, has led it to become such a sad, unhappy, divided place, economically in decline compared with the outside world, ruled by a strange form of government it no longer trusts, respects or understands. Similarly, the last desperate throw by the EU and the US to achieve a world agreement next December to “halt climate change” is not going to succeed, not just because the “science” on which it is based is so increasingly questionable, but because the emerging powers of the East, led by India and China, are simply not prepared to go along with it. If the West wishes to commit economic suicide, so be it. In their own national interest, they are not willing to follow. In fact, what we are seeing here is a geopolitical shift of huge proportions. So lost is the West in its bubbles of self-deceiving fantasy that the hegemony it so long exercised over the rest of the world is passing to the world outside it, to India and China, even, in its own way, to Russia, still a nuclear power which can prevent us pushing too hard in our support for a bankrupt Ukrainian dictatorship, and which also still supplies Europe with a third of the gas it needs to continue functioning. How forlorn in light of all this looks that would-be well-meaning 300-page document in which the Pope, under the spell of his chief scientific adviser, a fanatical German climate activist called Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, calls for an end to use of the very fossil fuels which keep the Vatican’s own lights on. In asking us to pray for that global climate treaty, Pope Francis solemnly trots out all those familiar plaints about “melting polar ice caps”, “rising sea levels”, unprecedented droughts, “extreme weather events” and the rest of that greenie litany which has no basis in honest science whatever. The outside world is no longer listening to this claptrap. But it is not just the world outside the West which is beginning to call the shots. Reality itself is now knocking loudly at the door.
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#1. To: TooConservative, cranky, liberator, A K A Stone, GarySpFc, Chuck_Wagon, CZ82 (#0)
PING.
Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from him cometh my salvation. He only is my rock and my salvation; he is my defence; I shall not be greatly moved. (Psalm 62:1-2)
I am pretty sure the Pope was speaking against EU economic polices so how is he joining them?
That is quite long so I will only post the link, there are some good laughs in there. Same old Leftard claptrap that Pericles is so fond of. “Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rapidly promoted by mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.”
He's aligning himself with global hotting, just like the EUros and our own political elite. These days in the EU, you have to think about the Grexit and the Brexit (Greece and Britain leaving the Euro). It's a political thing about how undemocratic the EU and how unlikely it can endure the way a nation-state could. The sheer size of the modern EU is a big problem for them.
So he believes the science as do others - There are 2 kind of people - those that have a different scientific view point and then those that think global warming is a commie plot. I can be against the science but not think it is a conspiracy.
Even so, this is merely the pope echoing the opinions of others. The idea that he holds any particular qualifications to evaluate claims about the dubious modern science of climate is laughable. The pope did this as a political statement. And it is not binding, which means that the pope doesn't really throw the weight of the Roman church behind it. IOW, a pope's encyclical has all the force and impact of a Congressional resolution: zero.
“Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rapidly promoted by mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.”
“Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rapidly promoted by mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.”
I am not Catholic and I have no idea if he is stating this as a political statement alone as if he is anti technology or if he believes the science of the majority of scientists.
If he really believed it, he would have issued a bull. Not a mere encyclical which is little more than a personal papal op-ed.
That is quite long so I will only post the link, there are some good laughs in there. Same old Leftard claptrap that Pericles is so fond of. Wow what a global alarmist laundry list. Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from him cometh my salvation. He only is my rock and my salvation; he is my defence; I shall not be greatly moved. (Psalm 62:1-2)
To think global climate change is at the top of the list for this pope when Christians are beheaded daily in the ME.
Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from him cometh my salvation. He only is my rock and my salvation; he is my defence; I shall not be greatly moved. (Psalm 62:1-2)
Yea tell me about it. Did you know he is supposed to address our Congress on Sept 24th?? http://therightofreply.blogspot.com/2015/06/is-pope-francis-illuminati-puppet.html “Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rapidly promoted by mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.”
Thought we needed a break from Marxists...So here goes... A young Naval Officer was in a terrible car accident, but due to the heroics of the hospital staff the only permanent injury was the loss of one ear. Since he wasn't physically impaired he remained in the military and eventually became an Admiral. However, during his career he was always sensitive about his appearance. One day the Admiral was interviewing two Navy Master Chiefs and a Marine Sergeant Major for his personal staff. The first Master Chief was a Surface Navy type and it was a great interview. At the end of the interview the Admiral asked him, "Do you notice anything different about me?" The Master Chief answered, "Why yes. I couldn't help but notice you are missing your starboard ear, so I don't know whether this impacts your hearing on that side." The Admiral got very angry at this lack of tact and threw him out of his office. The next candidate, an Aviation Master Chief, when asked this same question, answered, "Well yes, you seem to be short one ear." The Admiral threw him out also. The third interview was with the Marine Sergeant Major. He was articulate, extremely sharp, and seemed to know more than the two Master Chiefs put together. The Admiral wanted this guy, but went ahead with the same question. "Do you notice anything different about me?" To his surprise the Sergeant Major said, "Yes. You wear contact lenses." The Admiral was impressed and thought to himself, what an incredibly tactful Marine. "And how do you know that?" the Admiral asked. The Sergeant Major replied, "Well sir, it's pretty hard to wear glasses with only one "$%^& ear." Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from him cometh my salvation. He only is my rock and my salvation; he is my defence; I shall not be greatly moved. (Psalm 62:1-2)
LOL... I have been told I lack tact and couth.. :) so I will leave the other question for another day.. “Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rapidly promoted by mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.”
See the Rangers thread. A few articles linked there of interest. One being it seems JD is getting serious with talks of Hamels.
Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from him cometh my salvation. He only is my rock and my salvation; he is my defence; I shall not be greatly moved. (Psalm 62:1-2)
#2. To: redleghunter, TooConservative, cranky, liberator, A K A Stone, GarySpFc, Chuck_Wagon, CZ82 (#1)
#3. To: redleghunter (#0)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/the-pope/11682872/Pope-Francis-publishes-climate-change-encyclical-live.html
#4. To: Pericles (#2)
I am pretty sure the Pope was speaking against EU economic polices so how is he joining them?
#5. To: TooConservative (#4)
He's aligning himself with global hotting, just like the EUros and our own political elite.
#6. To: Pericles (#5)
#7. To: TooConservative (#6)
#8. To: TooConservative (#6)
#9. To: TooConservative (#6)
#10. To: Pericles (#9)
#11. To: CZ82 (#3)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/the-pope/11682872/Pope-Francis-publishes-climate-change-encyclical-live.html
#12. To: CZ82 (#3)
#13. To: redleghunter (#12)
#14. To: CZ82 (#13)
#15. To: redleghunter (#14)
Thought we needed a break from Marxists...So here goes...
#16. To: CZ82 (#15)
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