The Boy Who Cried Wolf

After his Oscar he claimed…
The scientists are virtually screaming from the rooftops now. The debate is over! There's no longer any debate in the scientific community about this. But the political systems around the world have held this at arm's length because it's an inconvenient truth, because they don't want to accept that it's a moral imperative.
Al Gore

Then he said…
“And we now face the opportunity to start doing something about this,” Gore said. “Rather than continuing to spend billions of dollars on foreign oil, we can make a transition to clean energy and pass that money here at home on clean renewable energy sources, creating millions of new jobs, building new industries – making us more secure.”
Al Gore, by Jeff Poor, Business & Media Institute

Consider, however, that Al Gore has never created jobs or started a company. He attended law school but never obtained a law degree, going straight into political life in his father’s footsteps.

Al Gore would have us believe that he is selflessly engaged in saving the planet on principle. His principle is better understood as his “marketing principle”. I’ve included large sections of text from two articles that illustrate and explain the truth behind this Progressive magician’s sleight of hand. Gore, like other Progressive elitists, is setting the stage to usher in an era of American decline. Who in a largely corrupt Washington DC cares?

The Progressives always couch their arguments within the realm of our emotions and point to things that outwardly seem reasonable. This tactic is played out to attract the ignorant (Lenin called them “useful fools”), create demand for more government involvement (spending) while always placing emphasis on sound-bytes and not the facts. In the world of climate change fanatics and “scientists” spurious data and mutually exclusive factors are sufficient.

The media through its biased reporting on climate related topics finds its echo with the news sources of our youth: late night comedians, “reality-based” programming, and MTV. Too many of these young liberals cannot argue their positions beyond scripted catch phrases (i.e., propaganda themes in the business). Rational people with questions are instead dismissed as arrogant or uncaring or both.

Then came Climate-gate…
Professor Jones also conceded the possibility that the world was warmer in medieval times than now – suggesting global warming may not be a man-made phenomenon.
Phil Jones, by Jonathan Petre, Mail Online, February 14, 2010

The knee-jerk reaction of the Progressives was instantaneous. When their shoddy “science” and their fabricated data were exposed the Progressives could not produce valid scientific data nor pier reviewed supporting studies. Only the likes of Gore and his United Nations clones could be heard repeating all but empty phrases in support of their deceptive cause. The best they could come up with was to change “global warming” to “climate change”. That is change Progressives can believe in.

If Progressives are known for their use of sleight of hand techniques, what was the real agenda?

Then came the Plan…
According to Matt Taibbi, The Great American Bubble Machine, Rolling Stone, July 13, 2009:
…the new game in town, the next bubble, is in carbon credits — a booming trillion dollar market that barely even exists yet, but will if the Democratic Party that it [sic, Goldman Sachs] gave $4,452,585 to in the last election manages to push into existence a groundbreaking new commodities bubble, disguised as an "environmental plan," called cap-and-trade.

Here's how it works: If the bill passes, there will be limits for coal plants, utilities, natural-gas distributors and numerous other industries on the amount of carbon emissions (a.k.a. greenhouse gases) they can produce per year. If the companies go over their allotment, they will be able to buy "allocations" or credits from other companies that have managed to produce fewer emissions. President Obama conservatively estimates that about $646 billion worth of carbon credits will be auctioned in the first seven years; one of his top economic aides speculates that the real number might be twice or even three times that amount.

The bank [sic, Goldman Sachs] owns a 10 percent stake in the Chicago Climate Exchange, where the carbon credits will be traded. Moreover, Goldman owns a minority stake in Blue Source LLC, a Utah based firm that sells carbon credits of the type that will be in great demand if the bill passes. Nobel Prize winner Al Gore, who is intimately involved with the planning of cap-and-trade, started up a company called Generation Investment Management with three former bigwigs from Goldman Sachs Asset Management, David Blood, Mark Ferguson and Peter Harris. Their business? Investing in carbon offsets. There's also a $500 million Green Growth Fund set up by a Goldmanite to invest in greentech … the list goes on and on. Goldman is ahead of the headlines again, just waiting for someone to make it rain in the right spot. Will this market be bigger than the energy futures market?

Cap-and-trade is going to happen. Or, if it doesn't, something like it will. The moral is the same as for all the other bubbles that Goldman helped create, from 1929 to 2009. In almost every case, the very same bank that behaved recklessly for years, weighing down the system with toxic loans and predatory debt, and accomplishing nothing but massive bonuses for a few bosses, has been rewarded with mountains of virtually free money and government guarantees — while the actual victims in this mess, ordinary taxpayers, are the ones paying for it.

And the boy cries wolf yet again…
According to The Telegraph, UK, published November 3, 2009:
Al Gore, the former US vice president, could become the world's first carbon billionaire after investing heavily in green energy companies.

Last year Mr Gore's venture capital firm loaned a small California firm $75m to develop energy-saving technology.

The company, Silver Spring Networks, produces hardware and software to make the electricity grid more efficient.

The deal appeared to pay off in a big way last week, when the Energy Department announced $3.4 billion in smart grid grants, the New York Times reports. Of the total, more than $560 million went to utilities with which Silver Spring has contracts.

The move means that venture capital company Kleiner Perkins and its partners, including Mr Gore, could recoup their investment many times over in coming years.

There is something in corruption, which, like a jaundiced eye, transfers the color of itself to the object it looks upon, and sees everything stained and impure.
Thomas Paine, The Crisis, No. 6, 1778

Despite the emotional buy-in by liberals and other concerned citizens, Progressives had and do have an entirely different agenda. Most Americans would agree that good stewardship of the planet is a noble and wise strategy. We could do much more in a sound economy with honest political leadership and real science. The Progressives, on the other hand, have created yet another crisis from which to profit. At Copenhagen, discussion included creating the first “world agency” which would receive cap-and-trade royalties or taxes from wealthy nations to provide funds for the poor “carbonless” nations.

This is a time when scientists and politicians lie to advance schemes that are only compatible with the Progressive vision. All this furthered by politicians that have spent a career developing relationships with which to enrich themselves at taxpayer expense. This scandalous process is reason enough for term limits.

Power is intoxicating. There have been few men, if any, who when possessed of an unrestrained power, have not made a very bad use of it. Samuel Adams, 1771

The least hypocritical of all are the Central Bankers and their leach entities like Goldman Sachs. They forthrightly pursue the next “investment ruse” favoring an elite over the people. Let’s call it like it is, Progressive Capitalism. Real capitalism is community based, does not run for cover, and has a high regard for its customers. Through competition, value, and service real capitalism seeks to make our lives better or more comfortable. Progressive capitalism wants our money by government edict without regard to our welfare or quality of life. Real capitalism means there are ups and downs; Progressive capitalism avoids their “downs” by rewarding failure.

Don’t just take my word for it; start the uncomfortable task of researching the facts for yourself. Stop accepting the propaganda of Al Gore and his cronies. Al Gore, after all, is the boy who cries wolf.