The watermelons’ true colors, unmasked

Green on the outside, red on the inside:

There is so much at stake for the charlatans that have foisted the failed “global warming” hoax, followed by the equally dubious claims and predictions regarding “climate change”, that it should come as no surprise that they have begun to wage a propaganda war on the courageous scientists who led the struggle to educate the public about the truth and the organizations who supported their efforts.

Along the way, many groups and publications claiming scientific credentials abandoned those standards to pump out global warming and climate change propaganda. Scientists discovered they could secure grant money for “research” so long as it supported claims that the North and South Poles, as well as all the world’s glaciers were melting. “Research” that predicted vast hurricane activity or a massive rise in ocean levels became routine headlines. None of it occurred. Both the government and liberal foundations provided millions to maintain the hoax.

Now we have a President claiming that his daughter’s asthma was due to “climate change.” It is obscene nonsense. If this was just a disagreement between scientists, we could look on as the facts determine the outcome, but there are vast agendas as stake so we have to keep in mind that billions have been wasted on “renewable energy” alternatives to replace fossil fuels; the oil, coal, and natural gas that are the heart’s blood of modern nations and our lives.

We have to ask why the United Nations Framework on Climate Change takes such a dim view of the world’s population that it cites its use of energy and other resources as a reason to reduce it instead of celebrating it. Hard-core environmentalists do not like humans because they build houses, start businesses, need roads, and generally consume a lot and then create trash. Climate change is also the platform the U.N. is using to “transform” the world’s economy.

We have to ask why our government is engaged in shutting down the coal-fired plants that provide the bulk of the electricity we use. This isn’t just a war on coal. It is a war on our entire economic system, capitalism. It is a war on Americans by their own government.

Keepass2Android & ownCloud are playing with each other again

tl;dr: All is well with the world once again. :-)

A while back, I switched from LastPass to KeePass for password management; while I had no suspicion that my passwords were compromised with LastPass (they’re stored in such a way that they’re not supposed to be able to read them), I still felt better having my password info residing on equipment under my control. (That KeePass is also open-source is a nice bonus.)

My password database is in a WebDAV share served up by an ownCloud instance on a server at home. This makes it accessible from pretty much anywhere: home, work, on-the-go. KeePass provides a desktop client that runs anywhere you can get either the .NET Framework or Mono running, so both Windows & Linux are covered. For Android, there’s Keepass2Android.

For the past few months, though, there’s been a snag. There was an ownCloud upgrade that kept Keepass2Android from being able to access the password file over WebDAV. (It also broke WebDAV access for a bunch of other Android apps; I think the only one that still worked was ES File Explorer.) Trying to load the password file directly from WebDAV would throw an error. My workaround was to grab it with ES File Explorer, note the location, and have Keepass2Android load the local copy. This, however, breaks synchronization between devices.

I don’t know if ownCloud changed or if Keepass2Android changed, but as of the versions I’m currently running (ownCloud 8.0.2 and Keepass2Android 0.9.7), loading the password database over WebDAV works again. This means a password created or changed on my phone or tablet gets synced back to the server so that it appears across all my devices (including desktops and notebooks).

Democrats: returning to their decades-old playbook

Thomas Sowell on the warmists’ attempts to silence dissent, and how it relates to their racist past:

Don’t Let Science Be Settled with Political Intimidation

How long will this country remain free? Probably only as long as the American people value their freedom enough to defend it. But how many people today can stop looking at their electronic devices long enough to even think about such things?

Meanwhile, attempts to shut down people whose free speech interferes with other people’s political agendas go on, with remarkably little notice, much less outrage. The Internal Revenue Service’s targeting the tax-exempt status of conservative groups is just one of these attempts to fight political battles by shutting up the opposition, rather than answering them.

Another insidious attempt to silence voices that dissent from current politically correct crusades is targeting scientists who do not agree with the “global warming” scenario. Congressman Raul Grijalva has been writing universities, demanding financial records showing who is financing the research of dissenting scientists, and demanding their internal communications as well. Mr. Grijalva says that financial disclosure needs to be part of the public’s “right to know” who is financing those who express different views.

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Some of us are old enough to remember when this kind of game was played by Southern segregationist politicians trying to hamstring civil-rights organizations like the NAACP by pressuring them to reveal who was contributing money to them. Such revelations would of course then subject NAACP supporters to all sorts of retaliations, and dry up contributions.