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anticlimactic said
I live in the UK and am concerned about a Labour government. The party has recently declared that its primary aim is to fight Climate Change. They are also promising to nationalise all the energy companies.
Socialise the losses, bail out the owners with cash of temporary value. Keir Starmer was Jimmy Saville’s protector while he was head of the CPS, he is as dirty a politician as you can get: bent as a bureaucrat, bent as an MP, how else did he become leader of Labour.
John Day asked
What’s WW-3 in your book?
Good question. I see what is happening now as a battle initiated by the western elites on the western people. Unlike past wars where it has been one group of nations against another, this time it appears that it is a class war within nations. The wealthy see the west as one entity and want to change the order of those nations to put the people into slavery. Every western nation is under attack, every nation is in the process of destroying its energy sources, this is a western thing, this is not happening in the BRICS. Without energy a nation cannot survive and certainly cannot be an industrial nation. The western nations will be destroyed and the people will be impoverished and enslaved.
If this is WW3 then you would have to assume that someone outside the west is coordinating this attack on western energy, the aim being to destroy the west. I very much doubt that scenario, I suspect that it is a group within the west that have gone rogue and believe they can win something better by destroying the west. I do not consider this to be WW3, it is more like a sick civil war where the perpetrators have already taken over the governments and are using that power to sabotage the west.
DBS said
The “West” is OVER for a long time to come, and will not be coming back at scale anytime soon either.
I suspect that the WEF types will offer Europe a solution to restore their standard of living. It will involve slavery of the majority of working people so that the elites can continue to do nothing and live in luxury.
John Day said
This 300 years is ending and we are arguing about which part of that is most fearsome, rather than securing our needs for the relatively near future, which is WW-3.
I disagree. WW3 is not on the cards, instead the western elites are trying to impose a new world order by demolishing the existing western order. The sabotage on the pipelines is about destroying Europe, not about Russia, which is why NATO has not attacked Russia. That is not to say that Russia’s turn will not come, obviously Putin feels that it is currently Russia’s turn to fight for its existence, but the sabotage does not really impact Russia, it gives more control to those demolishing Europe.
The pipeline sabotage was not to damage Russia, it was to prevent Europe from rescuing itself from the tyranny that is being imposed by western elites. The new world order needs to demolish Europe before it can impose its new solution, that demolishion could have been stopped by Putin and the pipeline, now it will be much harder to rescue Europe from the evil of the slavery world order.
It is obvious from Putin’s speech that he sees the war as the demolishion of the western world as well as Russia. I suspect that Putin is still trying to save Europe as best he can as that will give him support in the future. The pipeline sabotage is to prevent him from stepping on the plans of the slavery world order people.
boschohorowitz said
Science is about logic and data, not political outrage.
Really? What world do you live in, the AGW world? The Covid vaccine world? Science is mostly witchcraft.
boscohorowitz said
Conservative patriots love fireworks to celebrate our wars, in the process triggering major PTSD episodes in the actual veteran soldiers who fought those wars.
The majority of whom are conservatives. We appreciate your concern for conservatives, especially after your Obummer tried to kill so many in his perpetual wars. Faux concern is so slimy.
boscohorowitz said
“Once all the available energy is absorbed”
The CO2 post said
Once all the available energy in that band has been absorbed
Nice try. The lies of the looney left.
boscohorowitz said
but it isn’t a “once”, it’s a perpetual stream.
We are speaking English here, disingenuous claptrap does not help. More looney left.
AFKTT said
And of course, if atmospheric CO2 were allowed to double, that would terminate much of the life in the oceans via acidification and disturbance to the bicarbonate cycle -which is already on the cusp of collapse.
The oldest fish fossils are 500m years old, since that time carbon levels have been over 2000. The fish survived, they still exist, so why do you think an increase to 500 will destroy all fish? Doesn’t make sense to me unless other factors are involved.
For those not dying to die of CO2, here is the most amusing graph of CO2 levels … the graph predicts CO2 levels to 2500 and you will notice that a few years after today, the levels hit the roof … this is typical green bullshit, now they are able to predict the future based on fairies? It is certainly not based on science …. https://earth.org/data_visualization/a-brief-history-of-co2. I despise these people because they are trying to steal tax dollars which causes me grief.
Some nurses are so hard up that they are having to not eat at work in order to feed and clothe their children, research among hospital bosses has found.
I must admit that I normally just skip Guradian links, I respect my brain so would not normally let it read that traitorous garbage. This sentence caught my eye, mostly because it is so corny that I have not read something like this for a couple of years. Of course, I did not read the rest of the article, but I am amazed that they are still selling copy with this crap. Hospital bosses are very aware that their nurses are living in poverty and starving? If true, all you can say is that those who willingly accept slavery deserve slavery.
If anything happens to the TurkStream natural gas pipeline
How else will the west strangle Russia? The USA/NATO block has become a terrorist, much like the USA/NATO/ISIS block.
Got to love the British press, using Truss and the darkie chancellor as fall guys for all the mistakes that started with their heroes, people like Maggie and Blair. I guess we all need a fall guy and a darkie and someone seen to be completely moronic as FM appear to fit the bill for the land owners.
Snakes are beautiful. I watched a stunning olive green snake making its way across a white concrete road a few days ago. Not as flamboyant as this garter snake but very beautiful.
As I read more I am having real doubts about Meloni. Just based on the company she keeps, I am inclined to consider her to be controlled opposition. Maybe we were a bit too hopeful for genuine opposition in an EU country, other than Orban.
Look at her track record and it is very difficult to see what separates her from Macron. Sure, the MSM are demonising her, but she supports everything they support apart from woke. Either she is so ambitious that she has already sold out or she is just another promoted tool of the people trying to enslave us. I have a feeling that this will have the same ending as Greece. She will do severe danage to te country and it will take a long, long time to recover. Will WEF march in before she is finished and offer her salvation in return for enslaving the Italian masses? We shall see.
Rule number one: there is nothing good in politics, just more bad and less bad.
brazza said
Looks like Truss’ gamble payed off.
Truss is an ambitious imbecile sponsored and promoted by rich owners. She does not need to think, she is going to enjoy achieving her ambitions while obeying then she will be discarded in the bin along with the UK and the Zimbabwe chancellor.
Armenio Pereira said
Nord Stream pipelines: those are (were?) supposed to be key infrastructures (both in logistics and political terms) – for all logical reasons, it should be one of the most controlled/under surveillance infrastructures on the planet.
Absolutely. It is difficult to imagine putting that amount of investment into a pipeline without a monitoring system that will listen for ships and also monitor for mechanical integrity. Given the attempts at sabotage during the construction of the pipeline, I suspect that it is monitored and that the Russians know perfectly well who is the guilty party. The question now is when will they reveal that information as the Russian public will expect retribution.
boscohorowitz said
Regarding Russia and this “balls” thing people seem to think are so imp[ortant in geopolitical confrontations, I repeat from yesterday:
The point is that Russia knew that the USA was involved in the sinking of the Moskva, but Russia decided to not accuse the USA and continued as if the USA had not just sunk one of its battleships. In other words, Russia ignored reality so that they did not have to abide by their own rules of war and retaliate. I suspect that when Russia uses nukes in Ukraine, the USA will also ignore reality and pretend it never happened.
Redneck said
and a sham they are. How can only half of the population of a province decide the future for the other half that didn’t vote?
True of most votes, but how can you criticise Russia for spreading democracy, that is the USA’s excuse?
Now the west will sabotage the other Russian pipelines in order to achieve financial strangulation and take over of Russia.
The question is whether Russia has the balls to declare the USA as the guilty party and respond in kind or whether it will pretend it doesn’t know who did it and back off, like it did with the Moskva.
An appropriate response would be the destruction of some US LPG terminals and the Baltic pipeline. We shall see, but this is very likely to go nuclear before Christmas as the two parties step up their attacks, the USA willing to sacrifice Europe to capture Russia. Of course, that is assuming that Putin is playing a straight bat.
A group of senior German MPs were quick to point the finger at Russia and blame Moscow for the incident.
Spot the guys whos jobs depend on them obeying their puppet masters.
Veracious Poet said
Talk about “moronic beyond comprehension”, there is -0- possibility that Russia (even with China’s aid) could pull off such a task…
Nuclear deterrents would stop them *DEAD* in their tracks.
Nuclear deterrents? Like the USA is willing to be glassed over to save Germany, the Germany they are actively trying to destroy? I assume you are joking. It is pretty obvious to most of us that the USA’s NATO machine is only going into action to save the USA. Even the UK has to get USA permission to launch their Polaris missiles.
WES said
So the US dollar appears to be very strong these days. Well not quite so fast here. The US dollar index that everyone mentions is composed of a basket of foreign currencies. The Euro’s weight is about 57%. The Yen’s weight is about 13%. The pound’s weight is about 12%. These 3 currencies make up about 83% of the US dollar index. Sweden Switzerland, and Canada are also part of this index but amount to beans.
Doesn’t matter, the index is meaningless, it is a tool used for valuation. FX matters as that is often a factor in the price of collateral, which is mostly denominated in USD. If your OTC position has lost a lot of value today, your variation or initial margin will require you to top up and in a descending market that means that the reference currency increases in value as people try to buy USD to pay the collateral on deals that may have been struck 20 years ago.
why are people like Von der Leyen, Borrell etc. clamoring so loudly for a thorough investigation when the Whodunnit logic says it may well point to one of their allies?
Because they are sociopaths who can now pretend – duping delight – to be on the side of Germany and the people. Yesterday they were threatening anybody who broke the neoliberal consensus, now that the ability to buy Russian gas has been taken away, they can be more conciliatroy and pretend to be outraged as they know they have now achieved what they want, they are the winners.
Tucker Carlson summarized it pretty well last night:
Tucker said:
Methane is a key driver of global warming
Tucker is promoting the elite bullshit.
boscohorowitz said
I doubt that Germany’s leaders tenure will last very long. People hungry, cold, and broke demand — and get — change.
Except that they won’t get the change that they need, the provision of cheap energy. With NS 1 and 2 destroyed, the Russians will not be investing in pipelines to western Europe any time soon and would logically decide to destroy the Danish pipeline and US gas imports should hostilities continue.
Definitely not Russia as this limits their options: turning off a tap gives them the option of turning it back on again should they so wish, why would they get rid of that option and tie their own hands behind their backs?
The people who did this wanted to remove that option: who benefits from removing that option? The people who want to see Germany collapse without energy. The pipeline will make no difference to the Russian economy, they will sell the gas to China, so the impact will be on Germany.
BUT, do not overlook that the leaders of Germany greatly benefit from this sabotage. The leaders, such as Olaf Scholz, do not need to refuse to turn on the gas and be seen to be destroying Germany. The leaders are no longer seen to be acting against Germany’s best interests, gas is not an option any more and so the tenure of the current leaders is secured.
Goldman said he rushed to get the booster shot, believing he would need it more than most people because once he started chemotherapy, his immune system would be compromised.
Yet they still trust authority, they still believe anthropogenic global warming, they still self-censor in fear of the woke brigade, they still read the Bezos Times. I was at a yoga class the other day and the instructor kept on saying “I am not being sexist but …”, after the lesson I called him out on it and told him nicely that he is a coward who should be pushing back against the “males and females are the same” bullshit, not helping to spread the fear.
We can and we should wish her success. Good luck, Giorgia, you’ll need a lot of it.
She will not succeed without the overt support of the people, the physical support of the people turning out to demonstrate their continued support for her. The elites are already plotting her assassination if she does not do as they say. Support from the people shows that there is opposition to their plans and that an assassination will likely not result in something better … you see this in America where they are trying to criple Trump. Makes you wonder why they think DeSantis would be better than Trump.
The elites would rather control her than kill her off. If she survives then we know she is doing the devil’s work. The trouble with democracy is that there is no one individual in charge, a monarchy has a King/Queen, a democracy has the leaders hiding in the shadows. The world is full of conspirors and worse, full of people willing to do anything for the elites in return for a boost to their egos. The attraction of the Chinese system, where they have Xi to blame, is growing stronger.
Under different circumstances, the West might be celebrating the ascent of this underdog. But her politics are, for the most part, outside the West’s liberal democratic consensus, which is why Italians love her.
The consensus is evidence that democracy does not exist, the wealthy elites have used their money to place their people in the top political positions, thereby preventing the rise of politicians who represent the people. The placement of people using money continues in Italy so I expect there to be a Greece 2 where the elites with money now threaten Italy with financial destruction unless Meloni does as they instuct. You can be sure that they are busy buying lapdogs in her party ready to stab her in the back, the press will be against her, the whole show is likely to come to a sudden stop thanks to the likes of Soros, Bezos etc.
Professor of Economics Michael Hudson
Why do people listen to this guy? He’s an economist, so I do not expect much, and I get what I expect, but why has this person become an alternative news celebrity? He is as full of crap as the other economists. Sure, he can talk about debt, but having worked in finance, that is kind of the business of finance and nothing he says is news. Nothing he says enlightens me to anything.
AFKTT said
The Precautionary Principle, previously highlighted by me on this forum, and ignored (of course).
So you know people ignore you. As a pseudo scientist, where does the evidence lead you as to why that is? Have you built a theory, you know, other than the usual “they are all morons” tripe? Anyway, I thought you were going to piss off, that’s what you said the other day. What happened? Separation anxiety? You dug a hole in the living room sofa and realised you needed to get back to TAE?
DBS said
I do believe there is a way out of this place that does not involve winding up as a line of digital code in some monstrous AI, or as a meal in the belly of a predator.
I would say move to Italy to experience the revolution, but that would imply that I trust democracy and/or politicians, both of which are under massive strain/pressure.
TAE Summary said
A Tale of Two Narratives, Ukraine Edition
This raises one of the very interesting aspects of the Ukraine/NATO war with Russia. NATO is hiding behind Ukraine so that the people of the west will blame Russia and support NATO intervention, or at least that appears to have been the intention although it is not working out so well. With Russia permitting NATO to pretend to be on the “sidelines”, none of the NATO countries have declared “emergency war powers” – a war footing – which means that there are two narratives, None of the NATO countries can clamp down on the second narrative, on “enemy propaganda” or “enemy sympathizers who listen to enemy propaganda” because they are not at war. I am very sure that should NATO officially join the war, emergency powers will be used against all alternative internet sites and their owners will become targets. Will the majority of the populations support this or has the veil been lifted too far now for the majority to be fooled?
TAE Summary said:
Russia attacked Ukraine because it wants to expand its empire to that of the Soviet Union and beyond
Looking through your “Mainstream Narrative”, this seems to be the only component that points to any real motive for Russia’s SMO. I judge this as telling us more about western thinking than Putin’s thinking.
DBS said
Perhaps it is even the first highly visible stage of the end of hierarchy itself
When person A drops litter in the road, there is often a person B willing to scold person A for dropping that litter, and there will certainly be others willing to quietly disapprove of person A’s actions. In such circumstances, person B is taking the role of authoritarian, telling person A how he must behave. Authoritarianism is part of nature, your parents are the first, the hierarchy is part of nature, your parents are the first, there is no ridding ourselves of nature, however much we may dislike bits of it.
Monarchy may be outdated, but the essence of monarchy – the centralised control by ruling elites – will last forever. although it will receive various face lifts until centralized AI – the ultimate monarch – takes over.
Redneck said
The first bluff was the SMO which failed rather badly as demonstrated by the ned for the implementation of a Russian draft.
The SMO captured the pro-Russian regions of Ukraine and Russia will now absorb them into their country. They have also made it clear to the west that any attempt to take them back will be considered a full scale assault on Russia, which, under their existing rules will permit them to defend itself using nuclear weapons. How is this losing? You obviously hate Russia as much as you hate reality.
AFKTT said:
I guess, as I am proven increasingly right on all the matters I comment on, the ad hominem attack will increase.
The question is, should I bother countering the bullshit that peolle churn out? Probably no longer.
Thank god! We have had to put up with your incessant shite for what feels like an age, beyond the call of duty. I am now so used to skipping your comments, yet today I granted you a benefit of the doubt and scanned a few – I was in a charitable mood – only to have my priot judgement confirmed as correct. When are you pissing off then?
boscohorowitz said
“Anybody with a brain knows a few kids scrambling around in the dust are not mining Lithium.”
No, you’re wrong:
The link you provided is about Cobalt mining which absolutely proves nothing about Lithium mining. You are wrong again, but this time with a shake of false news.
