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[COMMENT: From Wikipedia, "In economics, a monopsony (from Ancient Greek μόνος (monos) "single" + ὀψωνία (opsōnia) "purchase") is a market form in which only one buyer faces many sellers. It is an example of imperfect competition, similar to a monopoly, in which only one seller faces many buyers. As the only purchaser of a good or service, the 'monopsonist' may dictate terms to its suppliers in the same manner that a monopolist controls the market for its buyers."
Monopsony by government is a whole new wrinkle for me...!
A monopsony can be legitimate only in cases such as a patent or copyright. But that is temporary, not eternal.
Monopsony, just like monopoly, defeats the whole meaning and purpose of science, a freemarket of ideas. Science requires a freemarket of ideas, or it cannot even exist. Government control of science by gargantuan funding (and hence the dominating buyer - & thus controller - of scientific information) is wrong and evil, a part of the centralization of any dictatorship. We are not doing it with guns, but with buy-out money (thank you, George Soros and the nonFederal nonReserve). And it MUST be STOPPED. Downsize DC to its rightful size.
Get government out of both monopsony and monopoly control of
all thinking, ideas, education, science, and religion. It will always
become a tool of tyrants -- lies, deceit, brainwashing -- tools of Satan and
darkness. Exactly what we have today. Our freedoms are being sluiced
out from under us because, We, the People, are oblivious. This news below
is sickening... Time to stand up!
E. Fox]
Government monopsony distorts climate science, says SPPI -- The Science and Public Policy Institute
The climate industry is costing taxpayers $79 billion and counting
Washington, DC 7/22/2009 09:12 PM GMT (TransWorldNews)
The Science and Public Policy Institute
announces the publication of Climate Money, a
study by Joanne Nova revealing that the
federal Government has a near-monopsony on climate science funding.
This distorts the science towards self-serving alarmism. Key findings:
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The
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Despite the billions wasted, audits of the science are left to
unpaid volunteers. A dedicated but largely uncoordinated grassroots
movement of scientists has sprung up around the globe to test the integrity
of “global warming” theory and to compete with a lavishly-funded,
highly-organized climate monopsony. Major errors have been exposed again
and again.
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Carbon trading worldwide reached $126 billion in 2008. Banks, which
profit most, are calling for more. Experts are predicting the carbon
market will reach $2 - $10 trillion in the near future. Hot air will
soon be the largest single commodity traded on global exchanges.
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Meanwhile, in a distracting sideshow, Exxon-Mobil Corp is repeatedly
attacked for paying just $23 million to skeptics—less than a
thousandth of what the
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The large expenditure designed to prove the non-existent
connection between carbon and climate has created a powerful alliance
of self-serving vested interests.
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By pouring so much money into pushing a single,
scientifically-baseless agenda, the Government has created not an
unbiased investigation but a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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Sound science cannot easily survive the vice-like grip of politics
and finance.
Says
Nova, “For the first time, the numbers from
government documents have been compiled in one place. It’s time to start
talking of “Monopolistic Science”. It’s time to expose the lie that those
who claim “to save the planet” are the underdogs. And it’s time to get
serious about auditing science, especially when it comes to pronouncements
that are used to justify giant government programs and massive movements of
money.”
Robert
Ferguson, SPPI’s president, says: “This study counts the cost of years of
wasted Federal spending on the ‘global warming’ non-problem. Government
bodies, big businesses and environmental NGOs have behaved like big tobacco:
recruiting, controlling and rewarding their own “group-think” scientists who
bend climate modeling to justify the State’s near-maniacal quest for
power, control, wealth and forced
population reduction.
“Joanne
Nova, who wrote our study, speaks for thousands of scientists in questioning
whether a clique of taxpayer-funded climate modelers are getting the data
right, or just getting the “right” data. Are politicians paying out
billions of our dollars for evidence-driven policy-making, or
policy-driven evidence-making? The truth is more crucial than
ever, because American lives, property and constitutional liberties are
at risk.”
Read Joanne
Nova’s important paper Climate Money
here:
http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/originals/climate_money.html
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