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Climate Change Deniers Are Generally Uneducated, Brainwashed Stooges Who Live Below The Poverty Line But Defend The Old Money Wealthy Elite

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AlleyCat

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Jan 27, 2021, 7:35:20 PM1/27/21
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Are the climate change deniers with no evidence just naturally gullible?

I've often been struck by the way in which people who subscribe to one set
of baseless beliefs are susceptible to others, in fields that are not
obviously related. The internet is awash with sites that explain how the
US government destroyed the twin towers – and how alien landings have been
covered up by the authorities. Many of those who insist that Barack Obama
is a Muslim also believe that sex education raises the incidence of
unwanted pregnancies.

A rich collection of unfounded beliefs is a common characteristic of those
who deny – despite the overwhelming scientific evidence – that man-made
global warming is taking place. I've listed a few examples before, but
I'll jog your memories.

Lord Monckton, whose lecture asserting that man-made climate change is
nonsense has been watched by 4 million people, also maintains that he has
invented a cure for Aids, multiple sclerosis, influenza and other
incurable diseases.

Nils-Axel Mörner, whose claims that sea levels are falling are widely
cited in the Telegraph and elsewhere, also insists that he possesses
paranormal abilities to find water and metal using a dowsing rod, and that
he has discovered "the Hong Kong of the [ancient] Greeks" in Sweden.

Peter Taylor, the Daily Express's favourite climate change denier, has
claimed that a Masonic conspiracy has sent a "kook, a ninja freak, some
throwback from past lives" to kill him, and insisted that plutonium may
"possess healing powers, borne of Plutonic dimension, a preparation for
rebirth, an awakener to higher consciousness".

Now our old friend Christopher Booker reminds us of his membership of this
select club, with a remarkable article for the Spectator:

"I spent a fascinating few days in a villa opposite Cap Ferrat, taking
part in a seminar with a dozen very bright scientists, some world
authorities in their field. Although most had never met before, they had
two things in common. Each had come to question one of the most
universally accepted scientific orthodoxies of our age: the Darwinian
belief that life on earth evolved simply through the changes brought about
by an infinite series of minute variations. The other was that, on
arriving at these conclusions, they had come up against a wall of
hostility from the scientific establishment."

He goes on to list the tiredest old creationist canards, each of which has
been answered a thousand times by evolutionary biologists. How can
distinct species exist if evolution proceeds by gradualism? Where are the
intermediate forms? How could natural selection "account for all those
complex organs, such as the eye, which require so many interdependent
changes to take place simultaneously?" How could it account for changes
across "an improbably short time, such as those needed to transform land
mammals into whales in barely 2 million years?" DNA and cellular
reproduction are "so organisationally complex" that "they could not
conceivably have evolved just through minute, random variations".

He appears to be unaware that these objections have been repeatedly
debunked. He also appears to be unaware of any developments in the science
of evolution since the Origin of Species was published. He maintains that
these objections expose evolutionary scientists as "simply 'believers'
taking a leap of faith", who treat any dissent as a "thought crime". He
compares them to the Inquisition and to Trofim Lysenko: the Soviet
agronomist whose hypotheses were imposed by Stalin as the official
scientific orthodoxy.

His view of evolutionary science, in other words, is in line with his view
of climate science. Indeed, he makes the link explicit:

"We have seen a remarkably similar response from the scientific
establishment to anyone dissenting from that other dominating theory of
our time, that rising CO2 levels caused by human activity are leading to
runaway global warming."

What he's saying is that it is no longer acceptable to tell people they
are wrong. If you knock down the claims of people who can marshal no sound
science to support them, you place yourself in the same category as the
Inquisition or Stalin's thought police.

Sadly he doesn't tell us who the "world authorities" who have destroyed
the theory of natural selection are. In fact he cites no scientist, no
paper, no publication of any kind, except Darwin and the Origin of
Species. We must simply take his word for it that the entire canon of
evolutionary biology, just like the entire canon of climate science, is
not just wrong but a fiendish conspiracy against the public, that those
who reject it are true scientific heroes, and those who defend it are
witch-finders and despots.

Needless to say, some of Booker's fans have swallowed all this and
reproduced his article on their own sites. Piers Corbyn, also a well-known
man-made climate change sceptic, added this comment to the Spectator
thread:

"Superb stuff Christopher. We seem to be having to fight attempts to
impose a new age of religiosity where belief in the 'Official' view reigns
supreme."

So here's a poser. Are people who entertain a range of strong beliefs for
which there is no evidence naturally gullible? Or does the rejection of
one scientific discipline make you more inclined to reject others?

To dismiss an entire canon of science on the basis of either no evidence
or evidence that has already been debunked is to evince an astonishing
level of self-belief. It suggests that, by instinct or by birth, you know
more about this subject (even if you show no sign of ever having studied
it) than the thousands of intelligent people who have spent their lives
working on it. Once you have taken that leap of self-belief, once you have
arrogated to yourself the authority otherwise vested in science, any faith
is then possible. Your own views (and those of the small coterie who share
them) become your sole reference points, and are therefore unchallengeable
and immutable. You must believe yourself capable of anything. And, in a
sense, you probably are.

AlleyCat

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Wilson Woods

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May 30, 2023, 1:56:41 AM5/30/23
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Sarah Barrass and Brandon Machin murdered their two sons and
tried to kill their four other children in Sheffield

Neighbours of a killer incestuous couple have told how they
first suspected they were in a sexual relationship when one of
the children called their uncle "dad".

Sarah Barrass, 35, and 39-year-old Brandon Machin, from
Sheffield, were sentenced to 35-years in jail after murdering
their two teenage sons and plotting to kill four other children.

Barrass and half-brother Machin, the father to all six of her
children, plotted together to kill the youngsters in May,
fearing they would be taken into care.

Now neighbours have revealed they long suspected the pair were
in an incestuous relationship.

"She had two more children and yet there was no sign of a father
and no explanation for how the little ones came to be conceived.

"The only man who was ever seen at the house was her brother,"
one told the MailOnline.

They said: "My suspicions really started when I would watch him
leave the house and shout goodbye, he'd see them in the morning.

"Then after the younger children were born and could talk they'd
slip up and call him 'Dad'.

"I heard it once when the children were leaving the house to go
somewhere and I heard a little voice call 'bye Mum, bye Dad.'
One of the older children shushed the young one and said not to
say that."

It was later revealed in court the devious pair worked together
to strangle their two eldest children, Tristan, 13, and Blake
Barrass, 14, before ensuring their certain deaths by placing bin
bags over their heads.

A court heard on Tuesday how two of the children they had
plotted to murder were under the age of three.

Prosecutors told how the surviving children have said they
wanted their parents to go to prison for "300 years" and one
feared they might "become a murderer".

A packed public gallery also heard how two of the children are
"emotionally broken" by what happened and "repeatedly ask why
and how".

A day before murdering Tristan and Blake on May 24, the sick
pair had also forced the two teenagers, as well as two more of
their children, to take tablets gathered from around the family
home in Sheffield.

Barrass and Machin both expected the mixture, which included
prescribed ADHD medication, to end the lives of all four of them.

But when that failed, they killed Tristan and Blake before
attempting to drown another child in the bath.

Sentencing the two to life jail-terms with a minimum term of 35
years, Mr Justice James Goss told Barrass: "You considered your
love for them and fear of being parted from them entitled you to
take their lives as well as your own."

The pair had both admitted murdering Tristan and Blake, plotting
to murder all six of the children and five counts of attempted
murder, two of which were against the teenagers who died.

Prosecuting the case, Kama Melly QC told Sheffield Crown Court
that, to the outside world, it appeared that Barrass and her
children lived relatively ordinary lives.

"The picture of the Sarah Barrass household prior to the events
in 2019 was, to the outside world, a household of a loving
single mum with six children, heavily supported by her brother
Brandon Machin," she said.

"In fact, unbeknown to everyone but the defendants, Brandon
Machin was in a sexual relationship with his half-sister, Sarah
Barrass, and he was the father of all six children.

"The children believed and even told officers at the scene their
father was dead, having died in the Second World War."

She said it was "clear the relationship between the two
defendants was of a consensual sexual relationship", adding that
friends and relatives described Machin as a "pushover" and said
Barrass "definitely wore the trousers".

The judge also said the pregnancies of the six children had all
been planned.

The prosecutor told how the mother-of-six was heard repeatedly
making remarks such as "I gave you life, I can take it away" to
the children.

The court heard how Barrass had sought help from the local
authority with the youngsters, texting a friend that she had
loved her children "too much to kill them".

The message read: "I've thought of every possible solution to
this mess. Mass murder, putting them all in care, checking in to
the local nut house.

"I love my kids too much to kill them, I can't put them into
care for the same reason."

Miss Melly said that, on May 24, Barrass had strangled Tristan
by wrapping her dressing gown cord around his neck and pulling
on it for around three minutes, while Machin strangled Blake
with his hands.

Following the murders and the attempted murder of the younger
child who was placed in a bath, the mother took the surviving
children, who are all under the age of 13, to the bedroom and
phoned the police.

A case review into the deaths of the two boys by People Services
at Sheffield City Council is now due to take place.

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/incest-parents-were-
rumbled-neighbours-20878435

Wilson Woods

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May 30, 2023, 4:51:35 AM5/30/23
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A man killed and dismembered a convicted serial sex offender in
revenge before strangling his daughter when she disturbed him,
police believe.

Nathaniel Henry, 37, sought retribution on a man who committed
33 offences including rape, sexual assault, burglary and theft.

There were 12 convictions, and seven of the offences were sexual
in nature.

Henry, the police's chief suspect, is thought to have killed
himself a day after the bodies were found on November 4, 2017,
and was discovered by officers on New Year's Eve that year.

The body of Noel Brown, 69, who was missing both arms from the
elbow down and his right leg, was discovered in his bath in his
Deptford, south London flat in November 2017.

Police believe Henry knew one of Noel Brown's victims and this
was the motivation for the murders.

The man's daughter, 41-year-old single mum of two Marie Brown,
was strangled to death when she is believed to have walked in on
her murderer dismembering her dad.

Both of then Henry's victims were throttled with surgical socks,
tubigrips and nearly two years after the double murder, the
missing body parts have never been found.

Ms Brown visited her dad after he had failed to answer his phone
for a few days in December 2017. After she failed to return, her
teenage daughter Venita contacted police who made the grisly
discovery.

The Metropolitan Police went through a lengthy process of
checking over 500 people's DNA before they finally came upon
Henry.

DCI Simon Harding said: "We checked every CCTV camera in the
estate. It was bad luck when the only camera that pointed at the
flat was the only one on the entire estate that wasn't working.

"The nearest street in Deptford attracts thousands of people on
a weekly basis as there are market stalls. This made tracking
CCTV very difficult."

Two spots of DNA were discovered on two tubigrips, one found
underneath Mr Brown's bed, and another in the living room where
Ms Brown was murdered.

The case matched DNA found at an aggravated burglary in 2011 in
Hounslow.

Using sophisticated tracking techniques of matching familiar DNA
at both scenes, police were able to pinpoint the closest match
of DNA to Nathaniel Henry's father.

DCI Helen Rance, who led the investigation, said: "He did not
understand why he needed our DNA and was at first very resistant
to that idea.

"We checked on him again and he eventually asked, 'does this
have something to do with my son?' We asked him what that meant,
and he said that his son had died.

"That was when we knew that we looking at a possible murder-
suicide."

Henry was a basketball coach and volunteered to work with under-
privileged children.

DCI Harding said: "He had a history of mental illness, but
nothing could have prepared us for this.

"We still don't know the trigger for why he committed this
homicide now."

Henry swallowed an overdose of cold medication and was found in
a cupboard, and both the coroner and police say they do not know
whether it was suicide or not.

DCI Rance said: "Our hypothesis is after we put out to the media
that Marie was a mother of two young girls, his mental health
may have declined even further."

Henry's computer was not seized until months after his death,
and it was wiped clean. His iPhone was also seized but was
locked and remains a mystery to the police.

DCI Rance: "The investigation was incredibly successful in
identifying a killer. Any murder investigation that is
ultimately solved has to be considered a success.

"It would be fair to say there was a tinge of disappointment
when we identified the killer that he was dead. We would have
liked to have questioned that person why he did it. We won't be
able to have it in this case.

"I am 100% certain we have the killer. His DNA is in Noel's flat
and Noel's DNA is on his jacket. We have CCTV of him leaving and
arriving on the scene on a bike. There's no doubt in my mind."

Police said the briefing held at New Scotland Yard on Friday was
to present the evidence they would have had at court.

DCI Rance said: "Nathaniel Henry was not convicted of any crime
and we have to reiterate this.

"He would have been our chief suspect and the man we would have
charged with the crimes of these two killings and put him
forward for the CPS to prosecute.

"It is disappointing for the victim's families who won't be able
to have closure in this way."

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/murderer-
dismembered-sex-offender-killed-20891491

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A progressive Virginia prosecutor this year dropped charges
against a felon with a history of gun charges. Months later,
that felon killed two innocent men.

In July, Francis Rose shot two "innocent bystanders" in the head
while robbing an apartment complex in Alexandria, Va., according
to police. In February, he was freed from jail by the office of
Arlington County commonwealth’s attorney Parisa Dehghani-Tafti
(D.). Rose, who was already on probation for illegally carrying
a weapon in Washington, D.C., was arrested in October 2020 for
possession of a firearm and possession of cocaine and fentanyl
with intent to distribute.

The double murder is the latest instance where soft-on-crime
Virginia prosecutors enabled violent felons. Dehghani-Tafti’s
ally Steve Descano (D.), Fairfax County’s top prosecutor,
released three offenders with gun charges who each went on to
murder. Both prosecutors’ campaigns received over $600,000 from
the Democratic megadonor George Soros. Like Soros-backed
prosecutors across the country, Dehghani-Tafti and Descano have
abolished cash bail and pushed for decarceration.

"What happened in Alexandria was senseless and tragic," Virginia
attorney general Jason Miyares told the Washington Free Beacon.
"Unfortunately, it continues to be true that the vast majority
of violent crime is committed by the same repeat offenders."

Police announced the double homicide of Adrian de Jesus Rivera
Guzman and his step-son, Juan Carlos Anaya Hernandez, on
Tuesday. Rose’s victims were landscape workers who had escaped
gang-led violence in their native El Salvador.

Arlington police arrested Rose during a traffic stop in 2020
after finding a loaded handgun, cocaine, and fentanyl on him. In
February, a county judge ruled the search unconstitutional. The
evidence was not legally admissible because the drugs and gun
were "appended" to Rose rather than in the car, his defense
attorney argued, according to the Washington Post. Dehghani-
Tafti’s office dropped the charges following the judge’s ruling
and criticized the arresting officers’ conduct.

But before the ruling, a prosecutor in Dehghani-Tafti’s office
praised the officers’ conduct, according to the Arlington
Coalition of Police. Her office held Rose in jail without bond
for more than a year before his trial, the law enforcement group
said, implying prosecutors believed the officers had acted
lawfully.

Rose will appear in court on Oct. 28. He faces up to 40 years in
prison for each count of second-degree murder. Juan Hernandez’s
wife told the Post she hopes he will stay behind bars this time.

"I know that if he’s in prison, my son and husband, they won’t
come back," Laura Hernandez said. "But this man can’t get out.
He can’t get out."

Update 7:05 p.m.: This piece was updated to include comment from
Virginia attorney general Jason Miyares.

Published under: Crime, George Soros, Progressive Movement,
Virginia

https://freebeacon.com/latest-news/virginia-progressive-
prosecutor-freed-felon-who-went-on-to-murder-two-men/

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In May 2019, an illegal immigrant in North Carolina tried to
kill his ex-girlfriend just days after his release from prison.
A month later, Democratic congressional hopeful Wiley Nickel
opposed a bill that would have prevented the ordeal from
happening again.

As a North Carolina state lawmaker, Nickel roughly three years
ago voted against House Bill 370, which required sheriffs in the
state to comply with Immigration and Customs Enforcement
detainers issued against illegal immigrants. Those detainers
help ICE take custody of illegal immigrants when they're
arrested on local charges and subsequently released on bail.
Just one month before Nickel's vote, a self-described
"progressive" sheriff's refusal to honor an ICE detainer
prompted a violent rampage.

On May 15, 2019, police arrested 37-year-old Honduran national
Luis Analberto Pineda-Anchecta—who was deported from the United
States in 2006 but reentered the country illegally—after he
assaulted his ex-girlfriend. One day later, ICE placed a
detainer on him, which, if honored, would have kept the illegal
immigrant criminal in custody. But progressive Mecklenburg
County sheriff Garry McFadden ignored that detainer, and Pineda-
Anchecta was free to roam the streets following his release on
bond on May 17, 2019. Four days later, Pineda-Anchecta kidnapped
his ex-girlfriend, tied a rope around her head to keep her
quiet, told her he intended to kill her, and took her to a
secluded, wooded area near a highway. The victim escaped, and
Pineda-Anchecta was later sentenced to 20 years in prison.

Three years after the incident, Nickel is running to replace
outgoing Republican congressman Ted Budd in North Carolina's
13th Congressional District. Nickel says he's running in part to
"support law enforcement" and make sure "everyone feels welcome
and safe in our communities." For the North Carolina Sheriffs'
Association, however, Nickel's vote on House Bill 370 did just
the opposite—the association supported the bill with "high
priority," arguing that it provided "an appropriate and careful
balance under the Constitution for the rights of the accused and
for the public safety of our communities."

Nickel did not return a request for comment. His decision to
vote against the sheriffs' association-backed bill could become
a flash point in his race against Republican Bo Hines, who has
called to "enforce our laws, deport all criminal aliens, and
save Americans from dying."

Nickel first entered the political arena in 2006, when he ran
for state Senate in his native California. Nickel lost to
Republican incumbent Jeff Denham by approximately 20 points,
despite funneling thousands of dollars of his own money into the
race and running in a district that "was carved out specifically
to elect a Democrat." Nickel's own family donated to Denham's
campaign before Nickel entered the race.

Nickel went on to work for Barack Obama's 2008 presidential
campaign before he launched another state Senate run in 2018,
this time in North Carolina. He went on to serve two terms as a
state legislator before announcing his 13th district
congressional bid after Budd vacated his seat to run for U.S.
Senate. North Carolina's redistricting process made the district
considerably less red, prompting the Democratic Congressional
Committee to add Nickel to its "competitive ‘Red to Blue'
program."

Nickel will square off against Hines in November. Both
candidates have raised roughly $1.7 million as of June 30.

Published under: 2022 Election, Crime, Illegal Immigration,
North Carolina, North Carolina Senate

https://freebeacon.com/democrats/an-illegal-immigrant-tried-to-
kill-his-ex-while-out-on-bail-this-soft-on-crime-candidate-voted-
to-let-it-happen-again/

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