Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Death by Peace Prize: Why Millions Could Die Because of Gore, Carter and the Dalai Lama
Regardless of their intentions, three Nobel Peace Prize winners--Al Gore, Jimmy Carter, and the Dalai Lama--are leading humanity straight to hell.
Tens of millions of people are possibly facing death and starvation because of the three Nobel laureates, whose diverse but weirdly connected campaigns and causes have been embraced and endorsed by supposedly enlightened mainstream media. A brief overview follows:
The Goring of America: The former Vice President has elevated a crackpot theory about manmade global warming to the level of a national religion. His fanatic utterances and filmed slideshow, for which he won an Academy Award, have contributed mightily to a crushing sense of hopelessness and despair and helped to bring the United States to a terrible tipping point.
Energy is the the lifeblood of any nation; but thanks to Gore, genuine energy development--meaning the production of vital oil and gas and coal--is being stopped, sapped, and sidelined in favor of cockeyed, government-backed green energy dreams and complex carbon trading schemes. Relative handfuls of entrepreneurs and promoters benefit from the energy dreams; Wall Street bankers, eyeing a potential trillion-dollar market in hot air, hope to profit from the trading schemes.
Meanwhile, the price of gasoline is almost certain to continue climbing; and food inflation--fueled by government mandates and subsidies actually aimed at creating windfall profits for Big Agribusiness by boosting corn and soy prices--is raising the terrifying specter of serious food shortages and mass hunger across the globe.
In the United States, many rural county officials and Congressmen representing rural districts are already reporting alarming spikes in the numbers of residents seeking public assistance--for food. If energy and food prices are allowed to keep on rising, masses of middle class Americans will be pauperized, and those who are already at the bottom rungs of the economic ladder will freeze (during the winter months, especially in light of evidence that the planet is cooling instead of warming), starve, and die. Countless poor people will perish in fires triggered by cheap, unsafe heating devices.
One is tempted to joke that it is only a matter of time before angry Americans pelt Al Gore with snowballs; but his crippling of the country is no laughing matter. When the history of the era is written, this reporter predicts, the damage done by Gore will far surpass the terrible cost in human life and treasure of the Iraq war. Whereas one can envision a way out of Iraq--regime change in Iran would be a good start--it is becoming increasingly difficult to imagine an acceptable end to the Goring of America.
The Carter Curse: The former US President, whose administration assisted in the Islamist overthrow of Iran's pro-Western, modernizing monarch, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, is now helping Iran's monstrous, missile-mad mullahocracy to overthrow the international status quo--regionally and globally. Iran's intentions and aims are clear; at a minimum, it seeks an arsenal of nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic missiles in order to destroy Israel, drive the US from the Middle East, and dominate Europe. The regime's more maximalist mullahs aim higher--for "a world without America," in the words of their clerical fascist front-man, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Like fictional villains, these real-life lunatics plot and plan America's doom.
Thus, the consequences of Carter's campaign could be catastrophic for the entire civilized world. Instead of preventing war, his attempts at appeasement are likely to make war inevitable and once unthinkable events--i.e. Iranian-sponsored nuclear attacks on Israel and the US--sickeningly plausible.
As shown by his much publicized, Middle Eastern terror tour, Carter's underhanded diplomacy undermines the national security of both the US and Israel by undercutting the international push for new sanctions on Iran over its ominous nuclear enrichment program while emboldening Tehran's anti-American terrorist proxies, Hamas and Hezbollah, and anti-American ally, Syria.
The Dalai Lama's Revenge: Tibet's former absolute ruler, the exiled Dalai Lama, is out to split China. His "Greater Tibet" autonomy movement actually aims to cut off about a quarter of the country's current territory. He seeks a restoration of theocratic government over the so-called roof of the world--a strategically important, resource-rich region that was a model of backwardness and misery before Chinese liberation. Contrary to the appealing myth, Old Tibet was no Shangri-La. On the contrary, the land ruled by the teenage Dalai Lama with the help of his depraved monks and nobles, was a hellish place. More than 95% of the population were serfs or slaves with no human rights. Torture and brutality were commonplace. Big monasteries owned nearly everything. Sadistic monks raped women and children, drank the blood of the people--literally--from bowls made out of human skulls, and decorated their living quarters with wall hangings made of human skin. The skin of children was particularly prized for this purpose.
All of which is not to suggest that the Dalai Lama (who has urged the US to negotiate with Osama Binladen) wants to return to those horrific days, although he has never apologized for the Hitlerian atrocities, oppression and exploitation that distinguished Old Tibet--birthplace of the swastika in the eyes of his prewar admiring Nazi visitors and lifelong Nazi and fascist friends--never admitted that the liberation and education of the serfs was the main reason the monks rose up (with the well documented help of the CIA during the Cold War) against China following the much needed intervention of the central government in Tibetan affairs. The Dalai Lama insists that he merely seeks autonomy for his homeland; but independence is his goal.
It is a prescription for violence. China is a multicultural, multinational country; and Tibet has always been and will always be a part of China. It will never allow a split. Independence for Greater Tibet could lead restive Muslim areas to try to split from China, too. And there is no telling what could happen if the center does not hold. A series of internal conflicts could consume millions of lives.
Should pro-independence forces in Taiwan try to use the opportunity of chaos to declare formal independence from the mainland, a conflict in the Taiwan Strait could conceivably endanger the security of the world by pitting two nuclear powers--China and the US--against each other. Washington is still seemingly obligated to help Taiwan--which China regards as a renegade province--to defend itself.
So much for the bad news. The good news (some consolation) is that the looming chaos and conflicts create opportunities for new wannabe winners of the Nobel Peace Prize.
-Andre Pachter
Copyright 2008
Tens of millions of people are possibly facing death and starvation because of the three Nobel laureates, whose diverse but weirdly connected campaigns and causes have been embraced and endorsed by supposedly enlightened mainstream media. A brief overview follows:
The Goring of America: The former Vice President has elevated a crackpot theory about manmade global warming to the level of a national religion. His fanatic utterances and filmed slideshow, for which he won an Academy Award, have contributed mightily to a crushing sense of hopelessness and despair and helped to bring the United States to a terrible tipping point.Energy is the the lifeblood of any nation; but thanks to Gore, genuine energy development--meaning the production of vital oil and gas and coal--is being stopped, sapped, and sidelined in favor of cockeyed, government-backed green energy dreams and complex carbon trading schemes. Relative handfuls of entrepreneurs and promoters benefit from the energy dreams; Wall Street bankers, eyeing a potential trillion-dollar market in hot air, hope to profit from the trading schemes.
Meanwhile, the price of gasoline is almost certain to continue climbing; and food inflation--fueled by government mandates and subsidies actually aimed at creating windfall profits for Big Agribusiness by boosting corn and soy prices--is raising the terrifying specter of serious food shortages and mass hunger across the globe.
In the United States, many rural county officials and Congressmen representing rural districts are already reporting alarming spikes in the numbers of residents seeking public assistance--for food. If energy and food prices are allowed to keep on rising, masses of middle class Americans will be pauperized, and those who are already at the bottom rungs of the economic ladder will freeze (during the winter months, especially in light of evidence that the planet is cooling instead of warming), starve, and die. Countless poor people will perish in fires triggered by cheap, unsafe heating devices.
One is tempted to joke that it is only a matter of time before angry Americans pelt Al Gore with snowballs; but his crippling of the country is no laughing matter. When the history of the era is written, this reporter predicts, the damage done by Gore will far surpass the terrible cost in human life and treasure of the Iraq war. Whereas one can envision a way out of Iraq--regime change in Iran would be a good start--it is becoming increasingly difficult to imagine an acceptable end to the Goring of America.
The Carter Curse: The former US President, whose administration assisted in the Islamist overthrow of Iran's pro-Western, modernizing monarch, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, is now helping Iran's monstrous, missile-mad mullahocracy to overthrow the international status quo--regionally and globally. Iran's intentions and aims are clear; at a minimum, it seeks an arsenal of nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic missiles in order to destroy Israel, drive the US from the Middle East, and dominate Europe. The regime's more maximalist mullahs aim higher--for "a world without America," in the words of their clerical fascist front-man, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Like fictional villains, these real-life lunatics plot and plan America's doom. Thus, the consequences of Carter's campaign could be catastrophic for the entire civilized world. Instead of preventing war, his attempts at appeasement are likely to make war inevitable and once unthinkable events--i.e. Iranian-sponsored nuclear attacks on Israel and the US--sickeningly plausible.
As shown by his much publicized, Middle Eastern terror tour, Carter's underhanded diplomacy undermines the national security of both the US and Israel by undercutting the international push for new sanctions on Iran over its ominous nuclear enrichment program while emboldening Tehran's anti-American terrorist proxies, Hamas and Hezbollah, and anti-American ally, Syria.
The Dalai Lama's Revenge: Tibet's former absolute ruler, the exiled Dalai Lama, is out to split China. His "Greater Tibet" autonomy movement actually aims to cut off about a quarter of the country's current territory. He seeks a restoration of theocratic government over the so-called roof of the world--a strategically important, resource-rich region that was a model of backwardness and misery before Chinese liberation. Contrary to the appealing myth, Old Tibet was no Shangri-La. On the contrary, the land ruled by the teenage Dalai Lama with the help of his depraved monks and nobles, was a hellish place. More than 95% of the population were serfs or slaves with no human rights. Torture and brutality were commonplace. Big monasteries owned nearly everything. Sadistic monks raped women and children, drank the blood of the people--literally--from bowls made out of human skulls, and decorated their living quarters with wall hangings made of human skin. The skin of children was particularly prized for this purpose.All of which is not to suggest that the Dalai Lama (who has urged the US to negotiate with Osama Binladen) wants to return to those horrific days, although he has never apologized for the Hitlerian atrocities, oppression and exploitation that distinguished Old Tibet--birthplace of the swastika in the eyes of his prewar admiring Nazi visitors and lifelong Nazi and fascist friends--never admitted that the liberation and education of the serfs was the main reason the monks rose up (with the well documented help of the CIA during the Cold War) against China following the much needed intervention of the central government in Tibetan affairs. The Dalai Lama insists that he merely seeks autonomy for his homeland; but independence is his goal.
It is a prescription for violence. China is a multicultural, multinational country; and Tibet has always been and will always be a part of China. It will never allow a split. Independence for Greater Tibet could lead restive Muslim areas to try to split from China, too. And there is no telling what could happen if the center does not hold. A series of internal conflicts could consume millions of lives.
Should pro-independence forces in Taiwan try to use the opportunity of chaos to declare formal independence from the mainland, a conflict in the Taiwan Strait could conceivably endanger the security of the world by pitting two nuclear powers--China and the US--against each other. Washington is still seemingly obligated to help Taiwan--which China regards as a renegade province--to defend itself.
So much for the bad news. The good news (some consolation) is that the looming chaos and conflicts create opportunities for new wannabe winners of the Nobel Peace Prize.
-Andre Pachter
Copyright 2008
