Does he believe it himself? Does anyone he talks to believe it? Yet you may be sure this has been focus-grouped to death and came out with a strong positive result so someone must at least say their vote will depend on it: No net cost for renewable plan: Labor.

Bill Shorten insists a plan to force commonwealth agencies to run on 50 per cent renewable energy will have no net cost.

But the opposition leader won’t say if the policy has been costed, relying on a government-commissioned report that found renewable energy puts downward pressure on power prices.

He’s also banking on technology getting cheaper before 2030.

“There’ll be no net cost,” Mr Shorten told reporters in Sydney on Thursday.

“I know if you want an economic plan you’ve got to have a plan for climate change.”

Mr Shorten repeatedly side-stepped questions on whether Labor had costed the plan to sign 10 to 15 year power purchase agreements with energy companies to buy renewables.

“It’s called leadership,” he said [to all the other lemmings].

I still find this the single most important story of the Obama years and what I find ultra remarkable is how little controversy it has led to. But it’s not for want of trying. If you go to the link, you will see the thirty-six individual sets of commentaries that I have come across since the original interview with Ben Rhodes was published. In Australia, so far I have come across not a single comment except for the ones I have written myself. To which I now add another, published at Quadrant Online. I won’t even quote myself, but one of the people I discuss in the article. If you don’t find this terrifying about our collective futures and the defence of the West, I don’t know what would.

In the New York Times Sunday Magazine, David Samuels details how Ben Rhodes, a script writer, author of the Beloit Journal fiction piece titled “The Goldfish Smiles, You Smile Back,” and brother of CBS president David Rhodes, a man with zero foreign policy experience, shaped and promoted the president’s foreign policy narratives.

Samuels observes: “His lack of conventional real-world experience of the kind that normally precedes responsibility for the fate of nations — like military or diplomatic service, or even a master’s degree in international relations, rather than creative writing — is still startling.” (In this respect, of course, he matches the president’s foreign policy background: None.)

The article details how these two shaped and spun make-believe about the facts and their policies and with the aid of a supine press and a number of think tanks and social media outlets helped propagate the false narratives these two wove out of their fantasies.

It may be recalled that Jonathan Gruber did the same in relation to the changes made to the American health care system, as discussed here: Obamacare Architect: Yeah, We Lied to The “Stupid” American People to Get It Passed. And I have watched an economic policy as badly constructed as has ever been inflicted on an ignorant population. Which leads me to my own conclusion in the Quadrant article:

If Obama can permit Iran to build nuclear weapons in plain sight without bringing the world down on his head, what is it you think he cannot do by using the same techniques across every other area of government policy?

You know that if any of this were done by a Republican, the explosions would be loud and never ending which is why such actions are almost never done by parties of the right. The consequence of a supine media is an American health care system in a shambles, the economy in permanent stagnation and the Middle East in chaos, with an Iranian nuclear capability now just a matter of time.

UPDATE: There are some who understand the evil that these clowns have caused, and no people are more concerned than the Israelis. It is Obama’s fundamental anti-semitism, disguised as anti-Zionism, that has driven his policy. Which brings us to the latest development: ISRAELI LEADER: IRAN MOCKS WWII HOLOCAUST, PREPARES ANOTHER. This is the altered face of the Middle East Obama has created. Such hollow lies when this outcome has been Obama’s almost certain policy intent.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lashed out at Iran Sunday for staging a Holocaust-themed cartoon contest that mocked the Nazi genocide of 6 million Jews during World War II and said the Islamic Republic was busy planning for another one. . . .

State Department spokesman Mark Toner, traveling with Secretary of State John Kerry in Saudi Arabia, said the United States was concerned the contest could “be used as a platform for Holocaust denial and revisionism and egregiously anti-Semitic speech, as it has in the past.”

“Such offensive speech should be condemned by the authorities and civil society leaders rather than encouraged. We denounce any Holocaust denial and trivialization as inflammatory and abhorrent. It is insulting to the memory of the millions of people who died in the Holocaust,” Toner said.

It is disgusting that the State Department merely sees this about denying historical events no one doubts occurred. It is not words and opinion that matter here, but the future battle lines in the Middle East. With the media comprised of compliant idiots, you will find no truth about anything of significance by reading the American press. Facilitating another Holocaust has been Obama’s aim from the start. Since we know they never tell the truth, their words mean nothing. It is the reality on the ground that matters, which absolutely everyone in the Middle East perfectly well understands. No one who wished to forestall an Iranian attack on Israel could have acted in the way Obama has done.

First read this: Europe’s Muslims hate the West and then read this: An Up-close Look at the Liberal-Muslim Alliance.

We no longer know history, not our own and certainly no one else’s. Our ignorance and the malice of our elites will do us in, and there is little chance of recovery in Europe from here. So far as Europe goes, it is a lost continent, like the Titanic at the moment it hit the iceberg. It hadn’t sunk yet but its fate was from then on inevitable.

And it’s not just the hand: Scientific paper which says the human hand was designed by a ‘Creator’ sparks controversy:

It says human hand coordination “should indicate the mystery of the Creator’s invention,” and concludes by again claiming the mechanical architecture of the hand is the result of “proper design by the Creator.”

The evidence of design is all around us. But if you think it is all just random chance you are welcome to your belief in the multiverse which has got to be the least probable outcome anyone has ever conceived.

From Ace of Spades, Are the Global Warmistas Simply Juicing Up the Latest Years’ Temperatures With “Adjustments” While Reducing the Temperatures of Previous Years, To Always Make the Current Year “The Hottest”?

Sure seems that way — and people have noticed this tendency in their ever-changing adjustments to the temperature record.

But now they may have gone too far — in order to declare 2015 the “hottest on record,” they apparently had to revise and “adjust” the previously declared all-time “hottest on record,” 1997.

Because 1997 was more than three and half degrees warmer than 2015 — going by NOAA’s published data.

If they’ve now adjusted 1997’s temperature down by three and a half degrees or more — thus making the former All Time Hottest Year On Record not particularly hot — this should be the lead, no?

And this would then reveal a lot of about their practices, where the “adjustments” made to the numbers change so much depending on current political messaging needs, and where all the warming comes from the “adjustments,” and not the actual temperature records themselves.

Gone too far? Not a chance. Them’s that want to believe are grateful for one more lie to keep them from facing their non-preferred reality.

Here’s the backstory.

And for another take on pussy cats.

Cannot say this surprises me since it is the Millennials who are most comprehensively shafted by our current political and economic structures: Survey: Millennials around the world worry most about economic inequality. They would like to get a piece of the action, and I don’t blame them. But they are hopelessly badly served by their own attitudes.

Millennials around the world worry most about social and economic equality, remain skeptical of government and the media, and count Tesla CEO Elon Musk as one their heroes, according to a World Economic Forum survey released Sunday.

More than 1,000 young people, ages 20 to 30, from 125 countries and who are all active in the forum’s Global Shapers Community, were canvassed for the survey. The average age was 28. The results were released at the beginning of a three-day World Economic Forum conference in Abu Dhabi, capital of the United Arab Emirates.

The survey showed that 65% of the Millennials said one of their top three goals in selecting a job was to make a difference in society, their city or country. They also look for an opportunity to learn, followed by career advancement. More than nine out of 10 said they would be willing to relocate to advance their career.

The annual survey “reveals that Millennials care about society in their reflections and also in their own career and economic choices,” said Yemi Babington-Ashaye, head of the Global Shapers Community.

Asked about the top three issues facing the world today, 56% named social and economic inequality, 42% included climate change and environmental preservation, and 33% identified education. Half said their national government was neither fair nor honest. And 46% had the same view about the media, while 35% said they distrusted religious leaders and armed forces, the survey showed.

The most admired figure among the Millennials was the late Nelson Mandela, followed by Pope Francis. Musk, 44, the billionaire inventor, engineer and creator of SpaceX, was third, followed by Mahatma Gandhi, Bill Gates and President Obama.

How did Bill Gates slip in among all of the other no-hopers and grifters. Gates actually created something out of nothing. The rest are charlatans of one kind or another, with Musk, on the receiving end of $4 billion of government money a ridiculous choice. That Obama forms any part of their conception of what is to be admired only means they are a generation heading for an even worse disaster than we boomers have created.