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Just noticed that this same issue offers Time’s expert analysis of foreign relations: “Beyond Detente: Why We Can’t Beat the Soviets”

FROM ED DRISCOLL< OVER AT INSTAPUNDIT: SNOWFALLS ARE NOW JUST A THING OF THE PAST:

● Shot: BBC Scream: ‘18 Months to Save the Planet’ from Global Warming.

—NewsBusters, today.

● Chaser: President Obama ‘has four years to save Earth.’

—The London Guardian, January 17, 2009.

● Hangover: Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past.

—The London Independent, March 20, 2000.

● The DTs: “A senior U.N. environmental official says entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000.”

—The Associated Press, June 29, 1989.

Ed doesn’t mention Prince Charles who at various times in the past and depending on what Camilla has slipped into his tea on a morning, has given the world 18 months, 100 months and, perhaps after Camilla has administered a thorough bowel cleansing to calm him down, a full 35 years before death descends upon us. Each date, mid you, is irrefutable, based as it is on “settled science”.

What all these doomsday scenarios have in common, from a coming ice age to world-wide overpopulation and famine to ozone holes, to this decade’s flavor, global warming, is that they each call for exactly the same solution: a centralized command economy with rulers who know better than us atop. Coincidence? I think not.

JANUARY, 1960