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Nick Kristof on politics: why we conclude that I'm right, and you're evil

TT's Samurai Stumblings — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 02:11:18 GMT

Here's a very interesting piece by Kristof at the New York Times about the reactions of Obama and

Nick Kristof on politics: why we conclude that I'm right, and you're evil

TT's Samurai Stumblings — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:05:51 GMT

Here's a very interesting piece by Kristof at the New York Times about the reactions of Obama and

re: Murdoch & 149 Other Top Vile Collectivists/Capitalists Call for Global Poverty,

TokyoTom — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 03:33:08 GMT

Contumacy and Stephen:

Thanks for your comments. I am sorry if I have misled you with my snark. I actually think the issue is quite complex. You might try taking a look at my comments on Sean Corrigan`s recent post, "Carbophobic Socialism",

blog.mises.org/.../007482.asp, and then some of my earlier posts on my blog.

re: Murdoch & 149 Other Top Vile Collectivists/Capitalists Call for Global Poverty,

TokyoTom — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 03:27:31 GMT

Kyle, I agree that we should have our eyes open on the points you mention. But we should certainly not close our eyes either, and pretend that this all a perfect storm of idiots, collectivists, misanthropes and the misuinformed.

The people who signed this statement are obviously well-informed and while some may have rent-seeking purposes tha`s a hard sale to say of all of them.

re: Murdoch & 149 Other Top Vile Collectivists/Capitalists Call for Global Poverty,

Stephen.Cramer — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 04:12:16 GMT

but what these collectivists are really saying is that they want a global tax on individuals so that their costs in reducing GHG. They make themselves look good for "caring" about the environment and yet we pay for their ability to carry out and take credit for saving the planet.

re: Murdoch & 149 Other Top Vile Collectivists/Capitalists Call for Global Poverty,

ContumacySince87 — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 21:53:48 GMT

Wow I almost wrote a post on the exact same article. The difference is that I was going to point out what rent-seeking bastards the business leaders are.

Local governments won't stop people from competing with you? No problem! At least not when you have a socialist world state that (you hope) can stop new competition everywhere!

I also appriciated their use of the broken window fallacy. Sure action would create business opportunities...but along comes at least 10x as much cost. Just think of all the good could be done with the money fed to the global warming gods.

I put these men on the same level as military industries pushing for war so they get more business.

re: Murdoch & 149 Other Top Vile Collectivists/Capitalists Call for Global Poverty,

Kyle — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 11:37:32 GMT

Is there no room between global warming is a farce and global warming will be catastrophic?

Sun Microsystems' opinion carries no weight with me. These are the goons that wrote Orin Hatch's anti-trust suit against Microsoft for him, claiming that Microsoft was harming consumers by giving away a free web browser which was eventually taken down by open-source competitors of all things (and has any company actually committed the second stage of predatory pricing?).

Some of the largest energy companies welcome the regulation as increased (imposed) operating costs will bar new competitors from entering the market.

There is a lot of hysteria that comes from the environmentalist crowd's desire to have all bow to their larger wishes--the founder of Greenpeace quit the organization saying that it had been hijacked by political interests using the evironment as a tool for other aims.

Al Gore won a nobel prize for a making a film claiming ocean levels would rise 20 feet in the next hundred years, while the IPCC's report gives a 95% chance of a one foot rise over that time span with a worst-case scenario of two feet. With many in the international community, and especially the NGOs that represent no constituency in particular and their enormous influence in the U.N., celebrating such hype as a step in the right direction, instead of properly treating it as a step backwards that complicates a rational solution to the problem, I don't think distrust of the U.N. is unwarranted.

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