2 + 2 = 4

• 20091125

  Dave The Engineer (17:35:46)

  “They are elitists. They are not to be questioned by YOU. And they enlist their elitist friends in helping them. Since they see themselves as THE elite scientists they believe themselves to be above the petty requirements of the FOI act, these acts don’t apply to THEM. We see this all the time in politics, in journalism, throughout academia, nothing special in it, it is as common as dirt. The really interesting part is that these idiots are frequently [2+2=5], they really want [2+2=5] to take over the world. And once it does it is these same elitists that quickly end up in the gulags as slaves or dead. It is quite logical actually, these elitists are insufferable to be around so once the Marxist thugs take over they quickly get rid of them. It is true, look at the old Soviet Union, Cuba, China, anywhere [2+2=5] took over, the elitists help them to power then get purged. They are not really that smart, they do this over and over again, history means nothing to them. Their ego tells them they are above history. If they are lucky they live somewhere that never goes [2+2=5] and never have their wish fulfilled, and they live a full life honored by their equally elitist friends, writing Marxist drivel, living in moderately well off surroundings; bitter, clinging to their ideology and their tenure. Keep pushing, these are brittle people, they’ll crack before they’ll bend.”

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• 20091122

  Explanations exist; they have existed for all time; there is always a well-known solution to every human problem — neat, plausible, and wrong.

  — H. L. Mencken

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  Narrative fallacy

  “The narrative fallacy addresses our limited ability to look at sequences of facts without weaving an explanation into them, or, equivalently, forcing a logical link, an arrow of relationship upon them. Explanations bind facts together. They make them all the more easily remembered; they help them make more sense. Where this propensity can go wrong is when it increases our impression of understanding.” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan

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  The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

  — Proverb

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  The Dog Ate Global Warming

  2 + 2 = 5

  ‘Warwick Hughes, an Australian scientist, wondered where that “+/–” came from, so he politely wrote Phil Jones in early 2005, asking for the original [surface temperature] data. Jones’s response to a fellow scientist attempting to replicate his work was, “We have 25 years or so invested in the work. Why should I make the data available to you, when your aim is to try and find something wrong with it?” Reread that statement, for it is breathtaking in its anti-scientific thrust. In fact, the entire purpose of replication is to “try and find something wrong.” The ultimate objective of science is to do things so well that, indeed, nothing is wrong.’

• 20091121

  Tyler Cowen at TEDxMidAtlantic ‘The Story Bias’ “We should be more suspicious of stories.”

• 20091120

  When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?

  — John Maynard Keynes

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  The "Man-Made Global Warming" Skeptics Handbook II: Global Bullies Want Your Money

  “Thousands of scientists have been funded to find a connection between human carbon dioxide emissions and the climate. Hardly any have been funded to find the opposite. Throw billions of dollars at one question and how could bright, dedicated people not find 800 pages worth of connections, links, predictions, projections and scenarios? What’s amazing is what they haven’t found: empirical evidence.”

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  Despotism (1946) Encyclopedia Brittanica Films

  ~TWO PLUS TWO EQUALS FOUR POLITICAL ECONOMY~

  Governance
  LIBERTY (FREED FROM) <———> TYRANNY (FORCED TO)
  Economics
  PRICE-DISCOVERY <———> PRICE-FIXING
  Society
  TAX ON LAND <———> TAX ON LABOUR

  ~References~

  Governance: Alex Jones
  Economics: Max Keiser
  Society: Fred Harrison

• 20091119

  Sir James Goldsmith on Globalization (1994) “Now I’m not here as a bleeding heart [2+2=5]; I’m a hard-headed realist and it is my view that if we try and make profits and at the same time destroy our nations, no one will benefit from it—not even those who make the profits. [W]e’ve forgotten what the economy is about, what its purpose is.”

• 20091118

  The Rise of the Unskeptical Scientist

  “Once upon a time, a scientist and a skeptic used to be one and the same thing…”

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  Silly Money “Bremner, Bird and Fortune offer a satirical look at the global financial system in all its astonishing sophistication and stupidity.”

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  They must find it hard to take truth for authority who have so long mistaken authority for truth.

  — Gerald Massey

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  We must stop being tolerant of repression

  “…the [2+2=5] has virtually copyrighted the word freedom – while showing relatively little regard for the concept. Trumpeting freedom hasn’t stopped many [2+2=5] from supporting the expansive national security state or an ongoing censorious culture war. On the [2+2=5] you rarely hear people utter the word freedom, although they sometimes talk about civil liberties; they tend to focus on equality and not just economic but existential equality, which includes some sort of imagined right to psychological wellbeing. And this, I think, is really quite dangerous. The [2+2=5] undermines freedom the most by trying to restrict intolerance or discrimination in the private sphere. The [2+2=5] tends to undermine freedom by trying to restrict sin in the private sphere. But put [2+2=5] and [2+2=5] together and you’d still lack any coherent analysis of rights and liberties and the public and private realms.”

• 20091117

  COLLAPSE: Balance on the table “This is going to be the greatest age of evolution in human thinking that has ever taken place.”