THE PSYCHOLOGIST : Goebbels Warming

Goebbels Warming

“Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.”

Thus spoke Joseph Goebbels, progenitor of Nazi propoganda, and an early adopter of the concept of media 'spin'. To place emphasis on a particular part of a message such that the remainder of the issue is buried behind one or two key points. The following data is drawn from the background information for the Australia 2020 Summit. This information relates to the section on Australia's Future in the World. In line with the oft told lie, "climate change" is posited as the greatest threat facing mankind at this present point in history. To bolster this claim, the background information contains this disclaimer within the preamble.

These background materials aim to tell an evidence-based story about how Australia is faring. They are not intended to be definitive or comprehensive, but were put together to stimulate discussion on the main challenges and opportunities facing the country and the choices to be made in addressing them. They do not represent government policy.

The point of stimulated discussion is to advance the subject further than before, based on facts and evidence, not supposition or conjecture. Background materials which contain errors, lies and untruths end up placing emphasis on elements of a subject that mask other factors which may be worthy of equal consideration. For example, within this paper there is not a single mention of the threat that Islamic terrorism places on Australia's regional security, it's infrastructure protection, and educational and political sanctity, amongst other things. There is a graph on page 10 that outlines an alleged life-loss due to rising sea levels predicated on massive rises to ocean levels. Ranging from 60-100 cm, the graph provides no time frame for reference, and does not go back to the alleged 'key reference', the IPCC Inter-governmental Report from last year.

In other words, placing emphasis on 'Resource scarcity' and 'Cimate change' as the key security issues to be addressed instead of booming regional powers with an eye for land and resources here. The questions posed to be addressed at the security Summit don't address any of the strategic issues, and will more than likely not be conjoined with the Defence White Paper, currently due for release at end 2008.

This government has made noise about issues that are of little import in the short term, and failed to present a cohesive and multi-faceted approach to Australia's role as an 'active middle' power within international affairs.

In line with the opening quote, this is the focus of the Australia 2020 Summit. It's one point, and one point alone that is made abundantly clear.

Health - "Climate change is expected to have adverse health effects", page 14.

Economy - "The Australian economy will need to adapt to meet coming challenges while grasping future opportunities" One of three challenges mentioned is 'Climate Change', page 2.

Education, skills and productivity - "The Australian economy will need to adapt to meet coming challenges while grasping future opportunities" Same graph and issue as the Economy discussion paper, page 2.

Climate Change - No guesses on what this topic is flogging. Every page.

Productivity - "Australia is more vulnerable to climate change than most other OECD nations…", page 2. Then Garnaut's Climate Change Interim Report 2009 gets a mention in references. An inordinate amount of time is spent on developing the concept of Early Education as maximising productivity.

Rural Australia - "Climate change presents challenges, but also some opportunities for rural and regional Australia", page 10.

Communities - "Many working households have low incomes, and there is an older group of Australians who lack sufficient retirement savings", page 12. Using the term 'working households' is not the same as 'working families'. Which is ALP policy.

Indigenous Australia - No options for dealing with climate change in Aboriginal communities are proposed in this paper. The ALP are still hell-bent on pursuing a policy of social exclusion though. "What can be done to best promote and preserve Indigenous culture, languages and traditions?", page 11.

Creative Australia - "While our film industry appears to be growing, domestic successes have recently eluded us", page 4. That's because Australian films are usually dross, and require significant levels of government support in the form ofproduction finance, taxation incentives, grants and subsidies to exist. Real 'creative'.

Australian Governance - "How should individuals and the state share responsibility for community problems like climate change, lifestyle-related diseases etc?", page 14.

Australia's Future - "Climate change, if not effectively addressed, will have enormous economic and human security costs, especially for coastal and agriculture-based economies", page 10.

Crossposted at Bastards Inc.

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Background

The essence of conservatism is caution. The essence of Leftism is anger

This blog is written solely by John Ray, who has a Ph.D. degree in psychology and 200+ papers published in the academic journals of the social sciences. It does occasionally comment on issues in psychology but is mainly aimed at giving a conservative psychologist's view on a broad range of topics. There are very few conservative psychologists.

The blog originated in Australia and many (but not most) posts discuss Australian matters. Australians have an unusually good awareness of events outside their own country. Australian newspapers feature news from Britain and the USA not as an afterthought but as a major part of their coverage. So Australians do tend to have a truly Western heart, which is the reason behind the old name for this blog. So events in Australia, Britain and the USA all feature frequently here, plus occasional coverage of other places, particularly Israel.

A primer in American politics for non-Americans:

SCOTUS is the Supreme Court of the United States, the highest court in the land

The "GOP" stands for "Grand Old Party" and refers to the Republican party. The GOP is at present center/Right, while the Democrats have been undergoing a steady drift Leftwards and now have policies similar to mainstream European Leftist parties.

The ideological identity of both parties has however been very fluid -- almost reversing itself over time. In the mid 19th century, the GOP was the party of big government and concern for minorities while the Democrats advertised themselves as "The party of the white man" -- an orientation that lasted into the mid 20th century in the South. The Democrats are still obsessed with race but have now flipped into support for discrimination AGAINST whites.

Was Pope Urban VIII the first Warmist? Below we see him refusing to look through Galileo's telescope. People tend to refuse to consider evidence— if what they might discover contradicts what they believe.

Global warming

Calibrated in whole degrees. Larger graph here

Climate scientist Lennart Bengtsson said. “The warming we have had the last 100 years is so small that if we didn’t have meteorologists and climatologists to measure it we wouldn’t have noticed it at all.”

The term "Fascism" is mostly used by the Left as a brainless term of abuse. But when they do make a serious attempt to define it, they produce very complex and elaborate definitions -- e.g. here and here. In fact, Fascism is simply extreme socialism plus nationalism. But great gyrations are needed to avoid mentioning the first part of that recipe, of course.

Two examples of Leftist racism below (much more here and here):

Beatrice Webb, a founder of the London School of Economics and the Fabian Society, and married to a Labour MP, mused in 1922 on whether when English children were "dying from lack of milk", one should extend "the charitable impulse" to Russian and Chinese children who, if saved this year, might anyway die next. Besides, she continued, there was "the larger question of whether those races are desirable inhabitants" and "obviously" one wouldn't "spend one's available income" on "a Central African negro".

Hugh Dalton, offered the Colonial Office during Attlee's 1945-51 Labour government, turned it down because "I had a horrid vision of pullulating, poverty stricken, diseased nigger communities, for whom one can do nothing in the short run and who, the more one tries to help them, are querulous and ungrateful."

Defensible and indefensible usages of the term "racism"

The book, The authoritarian personality, authored by T.W. Adorno et al. in 1950, has been massively popular among psychologists. It claims that a set of ideas that were popular in the "Progressive"-dominated America of the prewar era were "authoritarian". Leftist regimes always are authoritarian so that claim was not a big problem. What was quite amazing however is that Adorno et al. identified such ideas as "conservative". They were in fact simply popular ideas of the day but ones that had been most heavily promoted by the Left right up until the then-recent WWII. See here for details of prewar "Progressive" thinking.

R.I.P. Augusto Pinochet. Pinochet deposed a law-defying Marxist President at the express and desperate invitation of the Chilean parliament. He pioneered the free-market reforms which Reagan and Thatcher later unleashed to world-changing effect. That he used far-Leftist methods to suppress far-Leftist violence is reasonable if not ideal. The Leftist view that they should have a monopoly of violence and that others should follow the law is a total absurdity which shows only that their hate overcomes their reason

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was a war criminal. Both British and American codebreakers had cracked the Japanese naval code so FDR knew what was coming at Pearl Harbor. But for his own political reasons he warned no-one there. So responsibility for the civilian and military deaths at Pearl Harbor lies with FDR as well as with the Japanese. The huge firepower available at Pearl Harbor, both aboard ship and on land, could have largely neutered the attack. Can you imagine 8 battleships and various lesser craft firing all their AA batteries as the Japanese came in? The Japanese naval airforce would have been annihilated and the war would have been over before it began.

FDR prolonged the Depression. He certainly didn't cure it.

WWII did NOT end the Great Depression. It just concealed it. It in fact made living standards worse

Joe McCarthy was eventually proved right after the fall of the Soviet Union. To accuse anyone of McCarthyism is to accuse them of accuracy!

The KKK was intimately associated with the Democratic party. They ATTACKED Republicans!

People who mention differences in black vs. white IQ are these days almost universally howled down and subjected to the most extreme abuse. I am a psychometrician, however, so I feel obliged to defend the scientific truth of the matter:

The average African adult has about the same IQ as an average white 11-year-old and African Americans (who are partly white in ancestry) average out at a mental age of 14. The American Psychological Association is generally Left-leaning but it is the world's most prestigious body of academic psychologists. And even they have had to concede that sort of gap (one SD) in black vs. white average IQ. 11-year olds can do a lot of things but they also have their limits and there are times when such limits need to be allowed for.

America's uncivil war was caused by trade protectionism. The slavery issue was just camouflage, as Abraham Lincoln himself admitted. See also here

Did William Zantzinger kill poor Hattie Carroll?

Did Bismarck predict where WWI would start or was it just a "free" translation by Churchill?

Leftist psychologists have an amusingly simplistic conception of military organizations and military men. They seem to base it on occasions they have seen troops marching together on parade rather than any real knowledge of military men and the military life. They think that military men are "rigid" -- automatons who are unable to adjust to new challenges or think for themselves. What is incomprehensible to them is that being kadaver gehorsam (to use the extreme Prussian term for following orders) actually requires great flexibility -- enough flexibility to put your own ideas and wishes aside and do something very difficult. Ask any soldier if all commands are easy to obey.

A good article on Leftist hate

The real history of social Darwinism

Some personal memoirs

Memoir highlights

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