18 spectacularly wrong apocalyptic predictions made around the time of the first Earth Day in 1970, expect more this year – AEI | Carpe Diem Blog » AEIdeas

Earth Day was founded by a man who killed and composted his girlfriend. But that’s not the only tragedy that surrounds it. Failed predictions of disaster is another one:

In the May 2000 issue of Reason Magazine, award-winning science correspondent Ronald Bailey wrote an excellent article titled “Earth Day, Then and Now” to provide some historical perspective on th

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Warrants & Revolution

“The last instance where the Writs of Assistance controversy played a part in bringing about the Revolution occurred in 1768, when customs agents relied on such a writ issued years earlier in Boston to attempt to force entry onto a ship owned by John Hancock, the ship being named, ironically enough, The Liberty.”

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Sultan Knish: Islam is Colonialism, Palestine is Colonialism

“Allah is the patron deity of colonialism. Jihad is just colonialism in Arabic. Islamic theology is nothing but the manifest destiny of the Muslim conquest of the world, colonial settler enterprises dressed up in the filmy trappings of religion appropriated from the culture of conquered Jewish and Christian minorities. Muslim terrorism is a reactionary colonial response to the liberation movements of the indigenous Jewish population.”

Source: Sultan Knish: Islam is Colonialism, Palestine is Colonialism

Sultan Knish: In the City of the Decadents

“The decadent civilization has a million laws which it applies selectively. Its universal laws, inherited from a vigorous civilization, are buried between equivocation. Decadents don’t believe in objective truths and so they cannot have universal laws. Instead they mire them in so many legalisms as to be meaningless. The laws must be interpreted by a specialized caste. Everyone is always in violation of some obscure law.”

Source: Sultan Knish: In the City of the Decadents