Two plus two equals five

As I recall from George Orwell's '1984,'  it was not enough that the protagonist verbally agreed that 2+2=5,  he had to really believe it.

And now, it is not enough that we politely agree with a deluded (or cheating) man that he is a woman, or vice versa, we have to act as if we believe it.   So science,  (as in chromosomes XY means male,  and XX means female)  has to be ignored. Biological fact must be cast aside in favour of ideological nonsense.  And those who do not go along with the nonsense are punished.

Luckily, this tripe has not truly affected most of us so far, but unless common sense enjoys a resurgence, then it will, inevitably.

There are some things that do not matter much, for example, the waste of money that is involved in providing women's sanitary products in boys' toilets.  Or the assertion that there is a 'female penis.'  That was a Transgender person who calls himself a woman, and says that therefore his penis must be a 'female penis.'

Now we see newspaper articles of  a man's experience when having a baby.  But no man has ever become pregnant and had a baby.  A few just like to pretend.

Hayden Cross

Headline: Man Gives Birth.  Hayden Cross was legally a man when she became pregnant and gave birth to a daughter.

The poster to the right is of a 1994 movie, 'Junior.'  They would have been astounded that 25 years later, people are actually talking about men having babies.

And they are not supposed to laugh, but rather, accept it without a blink.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4676182/Britain-s-pregnant-man-gives-birth-baby-girl.html

Women's Sport:

Women's sport is important.  It is such a shame that a man can now claim to be woman, and win money, fame and championships.  And when they do, they are more likely to be praised for their 'courage' and being 'true to their own selves,' than they are to be criticized for being blatant cheats.

Just a few years ago, it would have been assumed that very few men would have so little self respect that they would call themselves women merely in order to win prizes.  But it is becoming more and more common.

The Olympic Games are to be in 2020.  As far as I know, the only limits put on biological males competing in women's events is that their Testosterone level must be below a certain level.  And there are some individuals protesting even that feeble limit - 'discrimination,' they say.  And 'invasion of privacy.'

Female athletes are labelled 'Transphobic' if they dare object, and may lose their places on their team, or may be barred from representing their country.

 A few are finally starting to object as more and more men take the prizes from women.  Mostly, so far, it has almost always only been those who have retired from competitive sports, such as Martina Navratilova, retired tennis player.

 "Players born as men simply have too many advantages, no matter how many hormones they take," she says, and has suffered a lot of criticism for stating this obvious fact.





There is also the matter of a woman's safety in contact sports.  A martial arts competitor, Fallon Fox,  caused considerable damage to 'her' opponent, Tamikka Brents,  whose eye injury resulted in a damaged orbital bone that required seven staples.

In a post-fight interview,  Brents said, "I've never felt so overpowered ever in my life.” And that was because she was fighting a man, and not a woman.

https://thelibertarianrepublic.com/transgender-mma-fighter-destroys-female-opponent/

Left:  Fallon Fox defeating another female opponent, Tamikka Brents.


Brents had the temerity to say something, but in the article I saw, was heavily criticized for it.

To demonstrate the absurdity of the pretense that a woman is the same as a TG 'woman,' a chap who calls himself 'Rapper Zuby' stated he now identified as a woman, and broke the women's weight-lifting record. And then he re-identified as a man.

"I keep hearing about how biological men don't have any physical strength advantage over women in 2019...
So watch me DESTROY the British Women's deadlift record without trying.
P.S. I identified as a woman whilst lifting the weight. Don't be a bigot."                Zuby, Feb, 2019.

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BqlQlUNs8A&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR0afTqwf1nWqcQVNCaFkSpNtvti_aaay-jyIoIbLsze8Tg9YO0kH47B3Qs

Women's Safety

The nonsense that a man can be a woman merely because he says so, is compromising women's safety, and not just in competitive sports.

Women's toilets:

In some areas, there have been changes to rules, sometimes actual laws, that individuals can use the toilet they are 'most comfortable with.'  This, of course, can compromise the comfort and the safety of others.   I read a story just yesterday, of American highschool girls objecting to a TG 'girl' with male genitalia using their change-room.  There are others, girls finally having the courage to brave the accusations of bigotry. 
https://www.dailysignal.com/2015/12/21/why-these-high-school-girls-dont-want-transgender-student-a-in-their-locker-room/

They need to be brave, as attacks will follow the ' wrongthink.'  I have even experienced this myself, when I said (online)  that I did not like 'unisex'  toilets.  The comment was:   'So you must want to look at men's penises, so are  you the pervert?'  (Just for the record, in the opinion of most women, a man's penis is not the object of beauty that the man himself seems to think.)


A Washington restaurant had to pay a fine for questioning an individual who was using the women's restrooms. They also had to post a notice saying that "that, under D.C. law, everyone is allowed to use the restroom that matches their gender identity or expression."
https://www.theblaze.com/news/dc-restaurant-fined-for-questioning-gender

So the employee who questioned the man was punished, and the restaurant was punished.

Every time  this sort of thing happens,  women are less safe.  It is a problem that some transgender 'women' are so ready to become aggressive when other people do not recognize they are supposed to be women.  I am thinking of the video that went viral of an individual becoming furious that someone called him 'Sir' instead of 'Ma'am.  "I am 'Ma'am,"  he was bellowing.

Luckily, women who 'transition' to men are either not as aggressive,  or I have not happened to hear about problems they cause.

Hospital wards: 

Except for Intensive Care wards, where the patients are too sick to care, hospital wards have traditionally been separated into male and female wards. Will that be ended? Will you find a man who pretends to be a woman (or thinks he is a woman) in the next bed to you in hospital? Will you have to put up with his snoring, or his intrusive staring when you are at your most vulnerable?

Probably, you will. And if you object, then suddenly, you could be labelled as intolerant or 'transphobic.'   If an employee, you risk losing your job for your 'non- inclusive' attitude.


Women's Refuges:

It is biological fact that most men are bigger and stronger than most women, and some men use that to bully their wives or partners. These women need protection, and that is why we have women's refuges. Is it now 'discrimination' to say that no men are allowed?

The 'Hope Center' in Anchorage, (Alaska) is fighting the city council who are trying to tell them that they must admit any man who calls himself a woman.

At the time of the article, 2018, they were resisting.  If discrimination laws are brought against them,  they are likely to be defeated and then the women-only spaces will no longer be women only.  When men are admitted, no matter if they wear a dress,  then those areas are less safe.

https://www.adn.com/opinions/2018/12/06/anchorage-threatens-womens-shelter-for-serving-women/?fbclid=IwAR19gXkaywNcxfNPfFhY3baHWmxmbawIEGieBqUdr-cAQGS5FA3RAkliYL0


Women's prisons:

When I spoke of this concern to someone, I was assured that female prisoners are a lot tougher than most women.  But so are male prisoners, and they are almost always bigger and stronger than women. So now, men who call themselves women, have been placed in women's prisons, where they are free to intimidate or rape as they choose.

One example is a chap called Martin Ponting, who was convicted of the rapes of two young girls. Once in prison, he decided to be a woman instead. So 'Jessica Winfield' was moved to a women-only prison (despite still having a perfectly usable penis) but then had to be isolated because he was making unwanted advances to the real women.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4400327/transgender-rapist-womens-prison/

In 2017, Australia, a very violent individual attacked random people with an axe. The person has a man's build and face and calls himself Evie Amarti. The photos of him wielding that axe are horrific.

One of his victims is Sharon Hacker, shown left.

"Evie Amarti" is now in a women's prison. His fellow prisoners are less safe than they were.

Britain is the first country to open a special prison for men pretending to be women, after several instances of rapes of real women by TG 'women.'  Predictably, transgender activists are objecting on the grounds that it is discriminatory.  I think it is high time it was pointed out that discrimination is a necessary thing, not a bad thing.  Try being non-discriminatory when you eat fungi, for instance. It does not work.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/03/04/uk-transgender-prison-sex-attacks/

They are trying to say that there is no difference between transgender 'women' and real women.  In many workplaces, people are obliged to pretend to believe that in order to keep their jobs.

Of course, there are differences. That is not 'bigoted,' it is factual, especially as it is apparently no longer necessary for a man to do anything more to 'become' a woman than declare that he now 'identifies as' a woman. Absurd, but the PC mob would have us believe it.

 2 + 2 = 5, and we can be punished if we don't appear to fully believe it.

Punishment:

In some areas, punishments are becoming more severe for those who do not appear to believe that a man is a woman or vice versa. Nearly all men who call themselves women are clearly and obviously, still men. And the ones who still look most like men seem to be the ones who become most irate if someone makes a mistake. Complaints, law suits, even violence against the one who does not know a 'Ma'am' when he sees a man.
Genuine errors have not so far been punished legally, as far as I know. But more places are now punishing when it is deemed that the 'misgendering' or 'deadnaming' might be deliberate. 

New York City, for instance, issued guidelines that state that businesses and property owners must use an individual's preferred pronoun, (as in Ms. Mrs, Mr, but also 'Ze' or 'they,') or face a possible fine of up to $250,000. It is hard to believe they would actually do that, and they do say "for violations that are the result of willful, wanton, or malicious conduct."


Still, what other rudeness could possibly be punished so severely?



New York City is not alone.   Canada has become a very 'progressive' country, though most of what is called 'progressive' these days, smacks rather of lunacy.

Ontario, 2017. A chap called Bill Whatcott passed out flyers that stated that one of the local candidates for Parliament was a man, not a woman. And up until five years before, the candidate had lived as a married man with children, so it was no lie. It was also a fact that those about to vote were entitled to take into consideration.

Whatcott was arrested, imprisoned, and had to pay a fine of $55,000 for committing a 'hate crime.'

https://www.afa.net/the-stand/culture/2019/04/fined-55-000-for-calling-a-male-a-male/

Also in Canada,  a man has been threatened with arrest if he refers to his child by its true gender. Hormone blockers were given to the child without the parents' consent. He/she was fourteen at the time.  And there was an additional order made that rules that the father "will henceforth be subject to arrest, immediately and “without warrant” if any police officer has “reasonable” grounds to believe that he has in any way referred to his daughter as a girl in public or in private." 

https://thefederalist.com/2019/04/29/authorities-arrest-canadian-father-refers-trans-child-real-sex/?fbclid=IwAR0FarLhvx_mlUn2irF3Ibg83NjHJ008DGSKApRUGHQB8RWFG-sqgQEimTo

In Britain, a woman was arrested for stating that a man was not a woman. She was arrested in front of her children, which must have been traumatizing for them, and spent seven hours in prison.  This is Britain, once the bastion of fair play.

https://hotair.com/archives/2019/02/10/british-woman-arrested-identifying-gender-transgender-attorney/

Newborn babies, 'assigned' sex. 

Some of those who now say that gender is fluid, and who talk about, not whether a newborn baby is boy or girl, but instead, speak of their 'doctor-assigned gender,' have made some extraordinary wins.  Tasmania (Australia) has actually passed a law that makes stating the sex of a baby, optional on birth certificates.  Admittedly, there are some very rare babies with ambiguous genitalia, but normally, it is perfectly obvious whether a baby is a boy or a girl.  Some people want to deny biological fact.

We are yet to see what implications this extraordinary decision will have.


Children's Safety:

Most sinister of all is what some parents are doing with their children, or allowing others to do.  Teaching a young child that he can be the other sex if he chooses is a very bad idea.  A three-year-old boy is likely to notice that his sister gets to wear far fancier clothing than he does,  so he could try,  "I want to wear a dress."

Before this modern fad, the parents would laugh and probably agree he could wear a dress for a bit if he chose.  There is NO WAY they would agree that he could somehow change to be a girl.

Cowboy girl

And a girl of six or seven might notice that men get to do more exciting things, and declare herself 'really' a boy. 

A sensible parent would point out that girls can do exciting things as well if they choose.










These days, though, some parents are likely to take the child to a clinic and maybe even start treatment that will damage her health. It will not, cannot, turn her into a boy. She will probably be made sterile.

And that boy will not turn into a girl, even with surgery that makes his genitalia look less masculine.

In many Australian public schools, small children are taught the nonsense that gender is 'fluid.' Gender is not fluid. You are XX, female, or XY, male. (There are very rare exceptions.)
Teaching a child that gender is not set at conception is wrong.  

It is child abuse.

So far, they have not tried to change a child into a dog when he states he is 'really'  a dog. Children like to pretend.  But maybe that will be next.


And what about those strange adults whose kink is that they are  ponies?  Are we supposed to believe those as well?

We know there is a middle-aged man who says he is a six-year-old girl.  It is hard to believe that he has found a man and woman who agree to pretend they are his parents.

Worse, the couple have a real daughter.  I do not like the thought of a young girl growing up with an unrelated and obviously kinky man in the same home.  How much chance has that real little girl have of  growing up unmolested?

There must be a lot more eunuchs around now.  Some years ago, I wrote a series of books about a boy turned eunuch.  The first was called 'Not a Man,' written in 2010, so I was trying to research in 2009.  I wanted to know more about the effects of castration before puberty.

I found almost nothing.  

Just 10 years later, and things are so different, except they don't call the castrated boys 'eunuchs;' they say they have 'transitioned,'  and they are now girls.  And as there is a push from transgender activists for candidates to 'transition' before puberty, there are going to be a lot more eunuchs around, eunuchs that include normal boys castrated before puberty.  A lot of those, inevitably, will be very much regretting that premature decision to mutilate their bodies and to destroy their natural sex drive.  In another 10 years, it will probably be far easier to research the effects of castration.  That is hardly a good thing!

So, 1984.  Two plus two equals five.  We know it is wrong, and yet Transgender activists would force us to act as if it is true.  What miserable individuals these activists must be, maybe never happy with themselves.

Are there transgender people who are happy in their new personality?  Maybe there are some who are not worried what other people think, and simply go about their lives.  Those ones could be happy.

But no matter what he does with surgery, hormones, and self deception, a man will never be a woman.  A woman will never be a man.  We are different.  That is the way biology works. 

Two plus two does not equal five, and wanting it to be so, does not make it so.

ZUBY:
✔@ZubyMusic
· Feb 26, 2019



I keep hearing about how biological men don't have any physical strength advantage over women in 2019...

So watch me DESTROY the British Women's deadlift record without trying.

P.S. I identified as a woman whilst lifting the weight. Don't be a bigot.

Stop scaring the children

As more and more of the Global Warming claims are disputed with firm evidence, the hysteria only become more shrill.  'We are all doomed,' they say.  'Doomed!' 

In school and universities, the theory is taught as fact,  scientists are likely to lose their jobs if they point out that the theory has flaws, and it is most certainly NOT a 97% consensus of scientists.

An American senator, Cory Booker, made the claim that America has just 12 years to do something to prevent disaster, and another American politician,  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,  came up with the absurd 'Green New Deal,' which, if taken seriously, would have quite quickly ruined America.

Film stars are chiming in.  (When don't they?)   Robert Redford spoke of a 'tipping point' that we are rapidly approaching. There was a good answer for him - Dear Robert Redford:
If you are truly worried about global warming, tell your rich Hollywood pals to stop flying on private jets and driving cars. Also, film production is a carbon-spewing, pollution-creating endeavor. So please, for the sake of human civilization, stop making movies. Oh...and while you're at it, tell them to downsize their carbon footprints by giving up their massive mansions and many homes and live like the rest of us. Signed, We the People. (Brietbart News on f/b, 26th April, 2019)


But still, a lot of us are too sceptical for the liking of some,  and the BBC produced a show narrated by David Attenborough.  We have grown up listening to nature shows narrated by the soothing voice of David Attenborough - Sir David Attenborough, and are much inclined to believe what he says.
https://www.radiotimes.com/news/tv/2019-04-25/climate-change-the-facts-bbc-david-attenborough-global-warming-threats-dangers-ways-to-fight-climate-change/

But this time, people are panicking because of what he says, even when many of his 'facts' are quite untrue.

Paul Homewood has been through its various claims, and found many to be misleading and inaccurate - not facts, in fact.  These are some of his criticisms, condensed and sometimes paraphrased.

Attenborough shows a surface temperature chart of dramatically rising temperatures but a) fails to mention that the more accurate satellite temperature data shows no increase since 1998; b) fails to explain why temperatures rose sharply in the early 20th century, long before CO2 emissions began to rise significantly; c) fails to mention that since the 19th century, Earth has been emerging from the Little Ice Age — probably the coldest period since the end of the Ice Age.

It was forecast in the programme that there would be more rainfall, more superstorms and worse flooding.
But there is no increase in cyclones or 'superstorms.'
Attenborough says that islands are drowning.
But they are not.  Some of the 'vulnerable' areas,  like the island of Tuvalu, has gained in area.
The vanishing polar ice caps: But according to NASA, the Antarctic is actually gaining ice.

Greenland:  The temperatures in Greenland are no higher now than they were in the 1930s.

“It may sound frightening," says Attenborough, "But the scientific evidence is that if we have not taken dramatic action in the next decade we could face irreversible damage to the natural world — and the collapse of our societies.” 

It is no wonder that people, especially children, are frightened by that prospect.  But it is not true.

For the full story. go to the link below: 

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/04/18/more-outrageous-green-lies-from-attenborough-and-the-bbc/?fbclid=IwAR35s9DybJWMSnWKXWQiCk2TjJTbLNTOJBP402hSOrfXBbW61kRg0NvPtAA

To the right is a picture of 16 year old Greta Thunberg, who has become fixated on the need for world change in order to avoid world extinction due to human-caused Global Warming.   She is being treated almost as the Messiah of the new religion of Global Warming, welcomed as a speaker at some very important meetings.

A part of one of her speeches:
"Either we limit the warming to 1.5 degrees C over pre industrial levels, or we don’t. Either we reach a tipping point where we start a chain reaction with events way beyond human control, or we don’t. Either we go on as a civilization, or we don’t. There are no gray areas when it comes to survival.
And when I say that I want you to panic I mean that we need to treat the crisis as a crisis. When your house is on fire you don’t sit down and talk about how nice you can rebuild it once you put out the fire. If your house is on fire you run outside and make sure that everyone is out while you call the fire department. That requires some level of panic."

This child wants us to panic.  And she wants other children to panic.

She is just 16.   What does she know, aside from what has been fed to her?

But people are taking notice of these dire predictions.

April, 2019.  A very big protest in London

A ten day long protest has taken place in central London.  The protesters took over places like Piccadilly Circus, Waterloo Bridge, and planned to take over the airport, but did not succeed.  They staged what they called called a 'die-in.'  The idea was to draw attention to the absolute urgency of reducing 'emissions' to zero.  What they achieved was to scare a lot of children and cause a great deal of inconvenience, and some damage, even though it was theoretically a 'peaceful' protest.
Hundreds of people were arrested.      (Sydney Morning Herald, April 24th, 2019.)

More and more people are becoming alarmed. On facebook, a lady called Joanna Martin has this to say about it.

"This girl. Greta. And David Attenborough's Climate Facts. I’ve spent the night feeling the panic. I will go to sleep panicking. We have 10 years people. 10 years to reduce carbon emissions by 50%. That's an astronomically challenging goal. That we most likely will fail at if not for revolutionary leadership." 

If an adult is panicking, what about the children?  

At London's demonstrations, there was a banner displayed by young people - 'Are we to be the last generation?' 

Well, if they are, I don't think that Climate Change will have anything to do with it.  Remember that the sea levels were supposed to rise and beach suburbs would be under water?  They told us that years ago.  (That was after the 70s when there was to be new Ice Age, and also after the hole in the Ozone Layer was about to wipe us out.) 

I became sceptical then, 20 years ago, when it all first started, and yet houses close to the water still sold for millions. 

I have known Queenscliff since I was a child. The water level has not risen.  In fact, there is more land there than when I was a child, as beaches have silted up, been revegetated, and in some places, there are now buildings where once there was only sea. 

The pier pictured above is now three quarters on land, not sea. 

Another place I knew as a child, is Warrnambool, Victoria.  It is the same there, more land, not less.

Fudging the facts:

There have been so many scandals about temperature records being changed to give support to the idea that the world is getting warmer. Here is one that I came across the other day.

Dennis Althouse, 7 April at 03:26

The CBC JUST PUT OUT A LEAKED REPORT SAYING THE NORTH IS WARMING AT TEMPERATURES 2.5 TIMES GREATER THAN THE REST OF THE WORLD.... THIS IS WHAT I PERSONALLY EXPERIENCED FOR THE LAST 20 YEARS IN THE ARCTIC...The air quality monitoring stations that were installed after 2000 are a point of faulty data collection. The person who installed them (i helped them find locations for the ones in Inuvik and Yellowknife) were placed in locations to to get 'hits' ... when I asked the person in charge why he wanted them in locations where it would obvious give high readings he told me they want 'hits' so they can get more funding. I thought that was bad science so I would only approve a site that was average air quality for the town of Inuvik by a soccer pitch and no buildings or traffic near it... since they are going to use that single point to represent the surrounding 500 km I felt that was best... the person complained to the SAO and Mayor ... but I held firm on my assertion that the location away from direct sources of pollution was a better location to collect a representative sample. Since I moved away they moved the air quality station next to the boiler end on one of the larger buildings in Inuvik (Midnight Sun Rec Center) obviously to get 'hits' ... the air quality monitoring station in Yellowknife (see pictures) is next to one of the larger sewage lift stations (think pig barn) in the city... I would get calls a couple times a year from environment Canada asking about a high numbers...LOL! so the data from any of these sources are suspect... not because I don't believe data... quite the opposite ... I collect and analyze data professionally... there are serious problems when the data is collected to get 'hits'... the report 'leaked' by CBC has been fixed with 20 years of manipulated data... we are being miss-lead.

Below is a link to something as important, about Corruption of the US Temperature Record.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kUAtt2pXlc&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR0w25zrzF5Fso52gpABsp_3CEiqRU1o17Zi3TfLsSs0ppdqf088vn16CkA

And in Australia:
An article by Jennifer Marohasy, The Spectator Australia, 10 March 2019

"The Hottest Summer On Record Except for the Ones We've Changed."
 In essence, she says: "It is actually now near impossible to know which summer was the hottest ever summer – because of the extensive remodelling of our temperature history."

The link to the full article is below.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10156312768489370&set=pcb.10156312773324370&type=3&theater

Andrew Bolt  is well known for doing his research:  Here is some of what he says, summarised and sometimes paraphrased.  The link to the full article is below.)

"Here are other popular falsehoods that warmists fervently claim as true, only to get cross when I quote back “the science” they claim to “believe” in.
—Global warming is happening as predicted.
In fact, warming has slowed dramatically since last century, giving us lower temperatures than predicted by the vast majority of warming models. (Source: Dr Roy Spencer.)
— Global warming is causing more and worse cyclones.
In fact, Australia has had fewer cyclones, and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change this year admitted “numerous studies … have reported a decreasing trend in the global number of tropical cyclones and/or the globally accumulated cyclonic energy”.
— Global warming is causing more drought.
In fact, rainfall in Australia has increased over the past century. The IPCC now admits it has “low confidence in the sign of drought trends since 1950 at global scale”.
— Polar bears are becoming extinct.
In fact, adjunct professor Susan Crockford estimates numbers jumped from 22,500 to 28,500 over a decade.
— Global warming means less food.
In fact, grain crops in Australia and the world have set several records over the past decade."

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10156151669814370&set=a.10150149146444370&type=3&theater

A scientist has said: "Thinking the world’s temperature was driven primarily by man’s tiny emissions “borders on magical thinking."

In 2014,  I made a blog post about the matter.  In it, I spoke of old records being changed, sometimes deleted.  So if anyone has any old records, make quite sure that they are kept safe, preferably on paper as well as on computer.  They are more precious than ever now that we cannot trust 'scientists' to respect the data.

 http://mamcrae-author.blogspot.com/2014/09/global-warming-science-is-settled.html

Oddly, it was difficult to find this post when I checked on Google, though with the exact same search terms, it was first in the results for another search engine, 'Duckduckgo.' Google is frequently being  accused of fiddling with results of searches. Nearly all the results that were there were heavily in favour of the theory that human 'emissions' was causing the Earth to become warmer.

This was this interesting one I came across, though:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/01/18/dark-green-money-reveals-vast-self-dealing-network-in-canadas-climate-change-leadership-like-green-new-deal-proposal-says-friends-of-science/


It includes this paragraph:  “Dark Green Money” is a new report by Ottawa energy policy consultant, Robert Lyman, that takes the mask off the big green funding machine behind Canada’s Climate Change “Leadership”, issued by Friends of Science on Jan. 15, 2019. According to Friends of Science, what is in play in Canada sounds like the proposed US Green New Deal, as outlined by Vox, Jan. 7, 2019. Contrary to Al Gore’s claims of industry money funding climate dissenters, as reported Dec. 21, 2018 in National Geographic, “Dark Green Money” shows that billionaire foundations with vested interests in renewables and carbon trading, along with government policies are the big money pushing the climate narrative." 

I have heard similar allegations before, that the whole thing is a hoax perpetrated in order to make money.  Certainly Al Gore made a huge amount out of his alarmist film 'An Inconvenient Truth.'

But maybe it is not about money at all.  Religions have always been used to control the people, from the despicable practice of corrupt popes and the selling of 'Indulgences' to the spread of Communism by imposing atheism, one religion being replaced by another - the religion of Party.

And now, the theory of human-caused Global Warming has become a religion. The accusation of 'Denier,' is akin to the shrieks of 'blasphemy'  of olden times.

 Is it to impose more central control?  Bodies like the EU and the UN push it strongly, but for their own purposes.  Some, of course, might believe it, the same as some Middle Ages popes might have believed in the religion that gave them power.

But these are allegations, and how much truth there are in them, I have little idea.


I do know this:

Random kids not to scare

It is NOT FAIR to scare the children into believing they have no future.

Let them play and learn.  Don't make them worry.

I can't say it better than Joy Holbrook said it when she was incensed at school children 'striking' for more action on climate change. They called it a 'strike,' but it was supervised by teachers, and some children were bused to the demonstrations. The media coverage was overwhelmingly approving.

 

Joy writes:

This entire agenda is a disgrace! As a former teacher, I'm happy I can sleep at night, knowing I didn't terrify children into believing that they have no future. My grandchildren are being brainwashed at school with this insidious rubbish but fortunately for them, they have parents and grandparents who tell them the truth.

As professional information disseminators, it's incumbent on you to provide children with facts, not hysterical rubbish. For example, are schools teaching that the polar ice caps are growing in size? Check NASA's website for the photographic proof. Are schools teaching that the planet has been through this cycle many times over the millennia? Read Ian Plimer for geological proof. Are schools teaching that the islands of Tuvalu and Kiribati, which Al Gore predicted would be submerged by 2015, have grown in size since that prediction? I could go on but I know it's probably futile because those in the cosy left wing bubble don't care to step outside that bubble. And for the record, I voted Labor for over 50 years and, until three years ago, I believed in anthropogenic climate change. I believed that what I now know to be a rabidly left wing media, was telling me the truth. Then I retired and found myself with time to research.

In case you're not aware, I'll tell you what's REALLY going on. Climate change is being driven by two factors: the UN and our ubiquitous old friend, money. I've just read an article quoting the head of the UN climate body who admitted that the IPCC rounded up temperature data in their report last year. She also admitted that the alleged concern for global warming has nothing to do with the environment. It's about gaining control of energy worldwide, thus giving them control of industry and, by extension, the world's population. The goal of the UN is a One World Government. As to the money, the wealthy have billions invested in the renewables industry. The Turnbull family is a case in point. The Labor Party has investments, the unions, including your very own Teachers' Federation. Of course they're going to push the warming agenda. You're their puppets, dancing to their string pulling and you don't even realise it.

In conclusion, I'd ask you to go back to your classrooms and show your students video footage of vast solar farms in the US, covered with a good 30 cm of snow, thus rendering them useless. The sun hadn't shone there for over a week anyway. Or maybe you could entertain them with the video footage of the helicopter dropping hundreds of litres of fuel onto a wind turbine to de-ice it. Brilliant for the environment! Stop frightening the kids and get back to what the teachers' charter tells you to do. Arm kids with facts that will give them a basis for a successful life, not over emotional claptrap that scares them. And while you're at it, ask them to give up their phones, game consoles, electricity and transport to and from school. That'll tell you how serious they are about saving the world.

Regards, Joy Holbrook. Wallsend.

A few years ago, Australia's Prime Minister was going to have an Enquiry into the way that data was handled by the Bureau of Meteorology after doubts were raised about the 'homogenisation' of data. The PM was ousted, and the prospective enquiry dropped.  Tony Abbott was thought not to be a 'Believer,' though he apparently thought it too politically risky to ever actually say that.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-09-24/government-discussed-bom-investigation-over-climate-change/6799628

As part of the recent London demonstrations, some young people unfurled a banner that read:
"Are we the last generation?"

No, you are not going to be  'the last generation.'  The world is NOT going to end,  and if we do suffer catastrophe, it is far more likely to be from over-population or maybe from flu pandemics.

So stop scaring the children.  It is not fair on them.

An Anzac Day Post

In WW2, thousands of Australians became Prisoners of War of the Japanese.  They were used as slave labour, they were starved and beaten, and they died of diseases such as Cholera, Dysentery, Beri Beri  and tropical ulcers.
There was a death toll of around 50% .

Below are pictures of two best mates.  One survived, one died.

My father, Merv McRae, was one who survived, though his best mate, Curly Kirk, did not.  From his autobiography, 'But Sir.'   "Some working parties left for Singapore, and soon to places further afield, including Thailand. "H" Force was to start work on the infamous Burma railway; Curly Kirk, my mate, was taken with that force, but didn’t survive it, and we never saw him again." 

The Greatest March of All.

You may have seen this title

About some other march so grand

But they were just a picnic

To the one across Thailand.

It started dawn at Changi

In rice trucks by rail

For six days thro’ Malaya

Then at Banpong starts the tale.

The first three nights were not too bad

Along a main road grand

Then into swamps and jungle

Went our intrepid band.

There were three thousand A.I.F.

Three hundred British too

The good old British lion

The old Aussie kangaroo.

In parties of six hundred

We set out each night

To march about eighteen mile

The prospect wasn’t bright.

Feet soon were blistered raw and sore

Treatment hard to get

But the order ever onward

Ever onward yet.

The food we got was none too good

And what there was not nice

Two meals of dried radish

With each a plate of rice.

We left the swamp behind us

Then into jungles of bamboo

Poisonous snakes and scorpions

And many tigers too.

Then we hit the mountains

The road was pretty steep

The climbing it was bloody hard

Enough to make you weep.

But on and on we battled

Getting thin and gaunt

When we get relieved from here

This trek our dreams will haunt.

Men dropped by the roadside

Exhausted, tired and sick

Unable to go another step

They played their final trick.

Hospitals were crowded

With weary footsore men

Dysentery took heavy toll

Cholera broke out then.

Now the march is over

After two hundred weary miles

Men worked on road and railway

Or maybe driving piles.

So when this war is over

And you hear of marches grand

Just dip your lid to the legions

Who tramped across Thailand.

Think of the men who paid the price

And rest in that far off land

We’ve gone through blood and battle

But died at disease’s hand.

But the reaper swung a heavy scythe

Upon that Thailand trail

With grisly bone he danced a jig

Told many a ghastly tale.

So we who were upon it

And saw the toll he took

Will sneer when we read of glory

In some great History book.

We stood and saw pals buried

Struck down in all their prime

Then staggered on another lap

In that God forsaken climb.

Although not killed in action

They were heroes all

At Reveille and Retreat

Their memories recall.

Tho’ you preach to us of glory

And tell us deeds so grand

Excuse us if we scorn you

For we marched across Thailand.

So when the price you tally

For God’s sake see it’s high

For the death of our marching comrades

Was a horrible one to die.

And when the talks of marches

And some hard trek recall

Just remember the unsung heroes

Of the greatest march of all.

(by an unknown author.)

In the book -  "The poem was given to me on a hospital ship whilst on my way home from Malaya after the war ended. I since realize that although this was an historic march, the most tragic of all was the Borneo march, where only six survived from a force of several thousand men."

The list below is of those in his unit.  The ones with the crosses beside them are the ones who did not survive.

My father's book was published 1986,  and republished 2014.

The book with the yellow cover is the original, but is very difficult to find now. It has some photographs included that are not included in the republished version.  

The newer version is available from online booksellers. 

Some of those men shown above died as prisoners,  

but even the ones who survived would never forget their suffering.  

They are probably all dead now, so many years later.

Lest we forget.