{"id":38569,"date":"2022-04-30T02:31:35","date_gmt":"2022-04-29T16:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=38569"},"modified":"2022-04-30T02:31:35","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T16:31:35","slug":"our-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=38569","title":{"rendered":"Our Leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-38570\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Our_Leaders-227x300.jpg\" alt=\"Our Leaders\" width=\"610\" height=\"806\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Our_Leaders-227x300.jpg 227w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Our_Leaders.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(Tom: He is <span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">100% wrong and 100% correct in the same article. <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Global warming was the first scam to precipitate the great culling. Covid is the second. But according to some reports they are already predicting (can you say planning?) the next one.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><br \/>\n<\/span>\u201cWe have to make decisions now which will literally determine whether organized human life can survive in any decent form. You can just imagine what the world would be like if the sea level rises, say, 10 or 20 feet or even higher, which is within the range\u2014easily within the range of predictions. I mean, the consequences are unimaginable. But it\u2019s as if we\u2019re kind of like the proverbial lemmings just happily marching off the cliff, led by leaders who understand very well what they\u2019re doing, but are so dedicated to enriching themselves and their friends in the near future that it simply doesn\u2019t matter what happens to the human species. There\u2019s nothing like this in all of human history. There have been plenty of monsters in the past, plenty of them. But you can\u2019t find one who was dedicated, with passion, to destroying the prospects for organized human life. Hitler was horrible enough, but not that.\u201d<\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Noam Chomsky<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Tom: He is 100% wrong and 100% correct in the same article. Global warming was the first scam to precipitate the great culling. Covid is the second. But according to some reports they are already predicting (can you say planning?) the next one.) \u201cWe have to make decisions now which will literally determine whether organized &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=38569\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Our Leaders&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38571,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38569\/revisions\/38571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}