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January 18, 2009
Politics Doesn't Stop
Mr. Obama's big problems so far have been his relations with corrupt politicians. I think it will be a continuing problem with his new administration. However, his biggest problem is that the Democrat Party is prone to strangling the economy. A case in point his his nominee for energy czar, Carol Browner. She is also referred to as the climate czar. And what is with is with this czar business? A drug czar, a car czar, and now a climate/energy czar. I suppose the purpose of the czar if to oversee the 10,000 Federal efforts in a given area and make them all pull in the same direction. Of course a czar is a petty dictator. And you know where that leads. Such a policy has been tried before only it was called by another name Fuehrerprinzip. You know it doesn't sound nearly as appealing in the original German. So where were we? Oh yeah the new climate fuhrer has an interesting past. However, she was no National Socialist. She was an international socialist (bigger ambitions?). A member of the Socialist International which was founded in 1951. And what is their fundamental policy on energy/climate and other ecological matters? The best and cheapest solutions to the crisis are those that change the basic framework of production and consumption so that environmental damage does not occur in the first place.Let me repeat the critical part change the basic framework of production and consumption. What would that mean in practice? Appointing really smart fuhrers who would tell us what to do. No more of that try things out and see who profits capitalist crap. Nope. This will all be very scientific. The smartest people (with the right political connections) will be giving orders. Friedrich Hayek in his book The Road to Serfdom explained why that is impossible. No one person actually knows enough to give the right orders for millions of people. No one can know the correct trade offs in all cases. There is a Hayek I might be willing to take orders from. But it would have to be up close and personal. And even then it would probably lead to Mi Vida Loca as it does in economics. So back to Browner and her economic ideas. According to its own principles, Socialist International favors the nationalization of industry, is skeptical of the benefits of economic growth and wants to establish a more "equitable international economic order." In true Marxist form, it asserts that, "The concentration of economic power in few private hands must be replaced by a different order in which each person is entitled -- as citizen, consumer or wage-earner -- to influence the direction and distribution of production, the shaping of the means of production, and the conditions of working life."Of course to carry out that sort of economics you can't just have people going off on their own deciding what is just. You need a dictatorship of the proletariat. In other words the fuhrer decides what is good for you and what you will get. And you will be getting it good and hard. So how does she intend to reduce carbon emissions? She has a plan. It is called decoupling. Profits will be decoupled from production. In late-December, Carbon Control News reported that Browner was a "strong backer" of utility "decoupling," which had emerged as a "key climate policy priority for Obama."Obama did promise in his election campaign to bankrupt the coal industry and it looks like he has found just the woman to do it. The British are well into such a scheme and it looks like they are losing their power. Their electrical power. It was in July of this year that the House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee - prop. Tim Yeo - told the government that it must set a deadline for coal-fired power stations to install technology massively to cut their emissions, or they must be shut down.Ah yes the social in socialism brings disastrous consequences. When was it ever otherwise? The electric utilities will make out and the consumer will do without electricity. Corporate socialism at its finest. For the people. With political connections. So is the Obama team proud of Ms. Browner's socialist connections? I don't think so. Then there's Carol Browner, Obama's pick as energy czar and Clinton's Environmental Protection Agency director. She's a member of Socialist International, the world's leading home for socialism and SI's Commission for a Sustainable World Society, which calls for "global governance" and says rich countries must shrink their economies to address man-caused climate change.It is almost as if they had something to hide. And there is another reason why socialist Browner is kind of a funny choice for Obama. When she headed the EPA it was a hotbed of racism. According to a February 2001 report in TIME magazine, the EPA was plagued with "festering racial problems" during Browner's time in charge. One African-American EPA employee, Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, told TIME that she'd been passed over for promotions for being "too uppity," adding, "We [African-American employees] were treated like Negroes, to use a polite term. We were put in our place."There are a lot of good things about the Obama administration. Understanding the scientific arguments about global warming isn't one of them. Fortunately, although the scientific arguments about global warming aren't settled the politics is. Green on the outside, red on the inside. Socialism all the way. Because they believe, despite over a hundred years of recent evidence, that government can run your life better than you can. Our only hope is that Mr. Obama is kept busy with corruption scandals and foreign wars so that he does not have much time or political capital to do serious damage here at home. Cross Posted at Power and Control posted by Simon on 01.18.09 at 08:42 AM
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The daughter of prospective CIA director is buddy-buddy with Thugo Chavez and Danny boy Ortega. Gringo · January 18, 2009 10:40 AM A czar wasn't a "petty dictator." They were the last of the absolute monarchs. It has never sat well with me, the asinine penchant for entrenched high level bureaucrats to appoint one of their own an anything czar. As a dedicated anti-monarchist (no, really, I think they're really precious when other countries have them - how amusing for the tourists!) I despise any official suggestion, however cute, of absolute power, unaccountable to the elctorate. Not in this damn country. Steve Skubinna · January 18, 2009 12:54 PM "This will all be very scientific." Remember the loony-tunes Scientific People in Alfred Bester's "The Stars My Destination"? pst314 · January 18, 2009 01:01 PM pst314, One of my very favorite books. Soon to be a movie: http://www.theendoftheuniverse.ca/node/107 Maybe. M. Simon · January 18, 2009 01:12 PM Greetings: Today's Question: What's Black & White and Red all over? 11B40 · January 18, 2009 06:33 PM Czar irritates me too. "Commissar" is probably the word we want used, though if you are going to go German, then "gauleiter" would make more sense. Ken Mueller · January 18, 2009 08:05 PM Post a comment
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Presently over 70 % of our electricity is generated from burning coal or natural gas, the only other proven dependable source is nuclear. Hydro is probably already maximized.
Wind and solar depend on wind and sunshine over which we have no control.
Can you think of a better way to maintain support than to subject the population to power outage every dark cold
winter day???
Will the need for all of us to buy inefficient auxillary generators provide the stimulus they desire??
Or will we freeze in the dark first?