For any not familiar with David Archibald, what he’s about and his alleged presentation to the Australian Senate, click the links.
Well it seems that the Institute for World Politics (IWP) has done the right thing and removed the page on their website where it was falsely claimed that David Archibald had addressed the Australian Senate on the issue of the carbon tax. They had included a link to Archibald’s “testimony” which was actually a speech he had made to a political party asking to be placed on their Senate ticket.
I emailed both Archibald and the IWP asking for clarification and received no reply…how rude. Anyway, I’ll assume my contact may have had something to do with the page’s removal.
So, while I was over at the IWP website I decided to search their site for Archibald and there were 22 results. Most of them refer to him giving the same presentation over and over again. He usually calls it “The four horsemen of the apolcalypse”. In it he identifies 4 things that are going to lead to apocalyptic problems for we humans. These are peak oil, food security due to population explosions in the “FEMA” regions, nuclear proliferation in Pakistan and his whacky sun cycle driven global cooling hypothesis. One thing he is disturbingly lucid about in his presentation is his desire to see a shift from coal-fired power to nuclear so that coal can be freed up to be converted to a liquified medium as a replacement for oil. Parts 1 and 2 of his insanity can be seen here and here.
So what is Archibald’s association with the IWP and who the hell are they anyway? They say on their website that they are a “graduate school founded to fill a major national need: to supply professional education in statecraft, national security, and international
affairs offered nowhere else.” Their very lengthy student handbook has a weird feel about it…or maybe that’s just me. Anyway, here’s an interesting picture found on one of the pages at the IWP site.
David Archibald spruiking his insane coal liquification plan and whacky climate predictions to impressionable young minds at the IWP.
Given that the IWP keeps on inviting Archibald to speak, one can only assume they endorse all that he is on about. If anyone wants to take the time to dig around the IWP I’d appreciate it. To me it just has a weird feel about it.
When you search on the Institute of World Politics using the term “Archibald”, you still get the claims that David Archibald testified before the Australian Senate on the Carbon Tax.
“IWP visiting fellow David Archibald testifies on carbon tax in Australia
Jul 19, 2012 … On July 14, 2012, IWP visiting fellow David Archibald testified before the
Australian Senate on the carbon tax. Please click here to read his …
http://www.iwp.edu/news_publications/detail/iwp-visiting-fellow-david-archibald-testifies-on-carbon-tax-in-australia”
While that apparently false claim of Senate testimony may have been left on there by accident, it just demonstrates the lack of regard they have for this honest error or deliberate lack of honesty. If they had replied and explained how it happened – acknowledged the error or misrepresentation, then this potential additional oversight might be a little bit more understandable.
Being in Sydney, it’s a bit hard to find out about an American “Institute”, but I am reasonably adept at searching online. I’ll start looking.
If other readers are sick of denier lies and strategy of shouting louder, they should email the IWP and David Archibald and ask them how it happened. I already did, with no response or acknowledgement.
If the deniers know that some false claims may be caught out, they may stop some of the lies.
I saw that in my search results but it links to the “this page has been removed” message. I don’t know much about website mechanics. Maybe its a caching thing? Anyway, good luck in your digging.
It may not be IWP related, but here is a website which sets out David Archibald’s plans for the majority of Western Australia.
http://www.durackdevelopment.com/
This website also contains David Archibald’s contact information, for those of you who want to seek his counsel.
I won’t thank you for that link. I read his sharkbay fishery plan and now my forehead hurts.
My letter to the editor “the Gympie Times” challenging Dr Richard Pearson, LNP Noosa was printed this morning, The Gympie times is distributed within Noosa, so it will be brought to his attention. lets have your ugly fact Dr pearson,
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Excellent……don’t hold your breath.
I made this comment in an earlier posting, but it may be more relevant here. ….
Yes but, No but …..
In 2009 Archibald submitted a written testimony, in a document titled “The Future of Energy in Western Australia”, to the Australian Senate, where he stated that “The carbon tax needs to be abandoned” among a plethora of other ideas, and suggestions about Power Generation.
http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate_Committees?url=climate_ctte/submissions/sub04c.pdf
So he may not have “appeared”, but nevertheless he did “testify”, albeit in a written submission which was acknowledged by the Austrailian Senate. This is a fact. Don’t get so hung-up on the trivia, of “did he – didn’t he”.
The fact is that the speech that David Archibald gave before a bunch of Liberal flunkies on 14 JULY 2012 was presented by the Institute of World Politics (IWP) and presumably David Archibald told them that it was Senate testimony given on 14 July 2012. Not 2009. And the transcript of the speech given to Liberal Flunkies on 14 July 2012 was being presented as the Senate testimony.
A submission is not testimony. Anyone can make a submission, no matter how irrelvant, on any matter that is open to submissions.
Testimony is by its nature, done by someone summoned by the Senate. Not any tom dick or harry. Testimony is evidence that the Senate seeks. Submissions can be anything.
David Archibald also provided a submission on child support. I’m looking into that.
David Archibald never testified to the Senate on 14 July 2012 or any other date.
I have found some fairly damning stuff on David Archibald that speaks to his credibility apart from the lies or dishonesty about the 14 July 2012 testimony. Thanks for reminding me about the issue of David Archibald’s character. I’ll go dig it up again. I would have forgotten otherwise. David Archibald will have you to thank for it.
David Archibald has been made aware of the issue with the Instituite of World Politics (IWP) publishing the false claim that David Archibald testified before the Australian Senate on 14 July 2012. He has chosen not to address the issue and explain how it happened. It looks like he has been caught out in providing the transcript to the IWP and telling them that he testified before the Senate on 14 July 2012, not 2009. How else would the IWP received the personal transcript and been able to publish it if David Archibald had not provided it to them? He also would have presumably described the transcripit.
Testimony my ass.
Try again. Claiming an unsolicited diatribe is testimony and tying 2009 to 2012 is a joke.
I smell a denier boot licker. Similar to that elegant paragraph that was pointed out recently about deniers (and their mindless supporters) seeking to suck on the teet of the wealth of others.
Here is some different info that is available on David Archibald. The search string notes for that other information are at my office, so I’ll look at that later.
Other searches have shown that my instinct regarding David Archibald’s “testimony” to the Australian Senate is correct.
Davod Archibald, current dismatler of of climate change knowledge progress used to beworking on another important project. That would be ABOLISHING the Family Court.
David Archibald, aka David Colin Archibald ran as the first candidate for a new Political Party, The Family Law Reform Party.
Acoording to this website, http://australianpolitics.com/elections/1998/wel/SCORE18.HTM#LAW
this political party that endorsed David Archibald as their first candidate was “established with the specific purpose of abolishing the Family Court, which they feel is biased towards women. They both believe that it is Family Law, rather than any personal responsibility, that is responsible for the increase in divorce rates. Their definition of the family is confined to legally married, heterosexual nuclear families. Policies for the Australian Men’s Party have not been released, but their principles are to overcome the disadvantage faced by men in our society.”
The AEC shows David Archibald as the candidate:
http://www.aec.gov.au/Parties_and_Representatives/financial_disclosure/by-elections/lindsay1996.htm
He got 121 votes
http://www.aec.gov.au/elections/supplementary_by_elections/lindsay.htm
Here is the form that David Archibald submitted to the AEC http://electiondisclosures.aec.gov.au/return/Lindsay96/FAD03/LBE05.pdf
I get the feeling he wants the power and jumps from right wing cause to right wing cause to spectacularly fail to achieve it.
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