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We suppress our geniuses only because we haven’t yet fi gured out how to manage 11 Paul Charman 40 Daniel Silva Turning Illiteracy Around a population of educated men and women. Not Fit for Offi ce How ‘reading warrior’ Graham Crawshaw The solution, I think, is simple and glorious. Planet-saviour zealots are modern-day turns troublesome non-readers into eager Let them manage themselves. village idiots – and we’re electing them readers. - John Taylor Gatto to high offi ce! COVER STORY The aim of both ‘Third Way’ and ‘Neocon’ 41 Bob Carter 12 Bernard Darnton politics is clear enough: it is power. Power The Stern Climate Review - Goskomizdat Comes to Helengrad for power’s sake -- and all policy is geared to Last Hurrah Of The Warmaholics How the exposure of the stolen election has that aim: policy as the handmaiden of power The Stern warning could join ‘The brought the Clark Government’s totalitarian lust. Population Bomb’ and the Club - Peter Cresswell, p. 20 instincts into the foreground. of Rome’s ‘Limits to Growth in the pantheon of big banana scares that 15 Professor Jim Evans proved to be unfounded. The building codes of the democracies In Praise of the Auditor General embody, of course, only what the previous How the Auditor General got it right in 42 Peter Cresswell generation knew or thought about building... fi nding the Clark Government acted illegally. The Buzzword For The Next - Frank Lloyd Wright Political Year Is ‘Sustainability’ 18 Bernard Darnton Both National and the Clark Nearly every signifi cant statement that One Pledge Card . Slightly Used Government have trumpeted that your former Vice-President Gore makes regarding Selling a Pledge Card, one bidder at a freedom and your future prosperity are climate science and climate policy is either time… to be sacrifi ced on the altar of one sided, misleading, exaggerated, ‘sustainability.’ What’s it all about? speculative, or wrong. In light of these 20 Peter Cresswell numerous distortions, An Inconvenient Truth Third Way Meets Neo-Con in the Authoritarian 44 Scott Wilson is ill-suited to serve as a guide to climate Scoring the Green Party Middle science and climate policy. Greenhouse Policies Bush and Blair – more in common than just - Marlo Lewis, p.29 The ‘six-pack’ of Green proposals to a handshake. help ‘fi x’ global warming are marked When the productive need to ask permission out of ten. 22 Phil Rennie from the unproductive in order to produce, Why Tax Cuts Are Good For Growth then you may know that your culture is 47 BOOK REVIEW Tax is no silver bullet on its own, but Selling disaster: The four horsemen of modern doomed. research shows it can have a signifi cant apocalypse - Ayn Rand positive impact on economic growth. 49 COLUMN – Susan Ryder The Stern review is not about climate FREE RADICAL The Road to Hell change but about economic, technological ENVIRONMENT FEATURE: and trade advantage. Its perpetrators seek 50 BEER – Neil Miller power through climate scaremongering. The Best of Beer in 2006 - Bob Carter, p.41 29 Marlo Lewis A Skeptics’ Guide to An Inconvenient Truth 51 BEER – Kachina Allen The ‘remote possibility’ of the best thing is Al Gore: Misleading, one-sided, Let’s Hear It For Beer! better than a clear certainty of the second speculative, exaggerating, and wrong. best. 52 HUMOUR – Save The Humans - A maxim fondly quoted by author Henry 34 Dr Fred Goldberg Twelve Guidelines for Objectivist Writers James Some Selected Climate Events From Historical Records 53 TEN YEARS AGO… Humans have always been at the TV Guide, April 1, 1996 mercy of rapid climate changes Humour from the much earlier pages of The through its entire existence… Free Radical … Visit ‘The Free Radical online’ at: www.FreeRadical.co.nz December 2006 - February 2007—The Free Radical — 1 Contributors A Free Rad Of Two Halves! Peter Cresswell This Free Radical arrives in your Packed with Cabinet Ministers inbox as you make your plans for who once espoused the value of summer holidays, and it’s packed free speech for themselves, the PETER CRESSWELL JOHAN NORBERG BERNARD DARNTON with good, holiday reading – articles Clark Government now routinely to shock, to enlighten, and to shuts down debate except on their offer ammunition for the inevitable terms. Stealing money to buy an debates of the holiday season. election, changing the law to avoid a law suit, threats to charities and In many ways this issue is “a media who criticise the government magazine of two halves,” each too harshly, proposals for state half highlighting a particular funding for political parties and for PROF.JIM EVANS GEORGE REISMAN SUSAN RYDER contemporary assault on our restricting third-party advertising freedoms. (“speech rationing” as one American constitutionalist calls Al Gore’s fi lm, the Stern Report, it), refusing to answer questions the false claim for “consensus” on in Parliament while at the same climate science and the outrageous time we see fi nes, arrests and jail- equating of “climate denial” with time for sedition, for “contempt Holocaust denial have between of Parliament” and for “bringing them signalled the outright Parliamentarians into [well- GRAHAM CLARK PHIL RENNIE NEIL MILLER politicisation of science, and an deserved] disrepute” … all-out assault on our industrial civilisation. With these threats, proposals and very real fi nes and incarcerations The second half of The Free in the air, there is being created Radical features a defence of the “an atmosphere where criticising values of our industrial civilisation, the government is becoming a debunking of the many myths hazardous.” PROF BOB CARTER MARLO LEWIS DR FRED GOLDBERG of global warming, and a sober look at the history of warming and Enjoy your holiday – but don’t cast of the false predictions by earlier aside the ongoing threats to the scaremongers.