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Regrettably, This Is About Covid - and Not!

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Category: Covid
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2024-05-17

Regular readers will have noticed that I don't publish too much about Covid any more. It's not that it isn't important, but there's a lot else besides that needs saying these days.

Still, Mike Yeadon has published an important summary (nothing new there, in either sense!) that serves as a very useful reminder that Covid was precisely conceived as a psy-op.

Both he and I noticed quite quickly that Covid as a pandemic was seemingly exceptional in not creating any surge of excess deaths if we ignored reported cause of death. So either the cause of death was misreported, or there was no pandemic, or Covid itself somehow suppressed other normal causes of death.

It turned out that as Covid arrived, flu flew away, just like that!

Call me old-fashioned (thank you!) but Mike Yeadon explains it much better than I.

 

Lies, Damned Lies, And Green Cost Assertions

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Category: Green
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2024-05-17

It's pretty obvious that the assertions of cheap renewable power are somewhat adrift from reality when such assertions coincide with ever rising fuel bills, despite ever more "renewable" power installations, not to mention opaque subsidy schemes.

Either some middle-man is making a killing between power generation and delivery, or some cherry-picking of the definition of "costs" is involved, or total incompetence, outright fraud, or maybe all four ...

The continuing need for subsidies to make it all compatible with gas-powered generation (itself not exactly becoming any cheaper since the machinations around the Ukraine war), and the somewhat opaque government power pricing scheme that could have been designed to confuse the uninitiated, and one begins to see the scale of the deception.

David Turner (Daily Sceptic) puts it all into the realm of facts and figures for us.

It seems that most of the subsidies go to wind, which seems somehow appropriate, but we are still subsidising the burning of "biomass" - "trees" to normal people (perhaps they don't like to admit it?) which if left undisturbed could have reduced both costs and atmospheric carbon dioxide rather than increased both - I guess it takes a politician to understand how that "works".

Did I mention opaque government pricing?

"It should be noted that FiTs, ROCs and CfDs are all index-linked, so prices will continue to rise with inflation. It is clear our bills are going to continue to rise for the foreseeable future as cheap gas is forced out in favour of expensive renewables"

Did I mention the cherry-picking of figures to claim falling cost of renewables?

Oh, and of course the national grid will need to be remodelled to cope with connecting a vast array of highly dispersed intermittent renewable stations which by their nature will be operating neither reliably nor necessarily predictably, so the grid will have the additional task of shuffling the power to wherever it is actually needed, from whatever direction it may be available:

" ... the National Grid ESO has announced £54 billion of spending on the electricity network infrastructure up to 2030 and a further £58 billion in the 2030-2035 period, a total of £112 billion, or over £10 billion per year for more than a decade"

Naturally neither this nor the need to build excessive generation redundancy to mitigate intermittency / unpredictability is nothing to do with the "costs of renewables" even though in a gas-powered grid only a fraction of this work overall would be necessary.

Read the whole miserable story.

 

The Most Important Question in the Universe ...

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Category: Free Citizen
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2024-05-16

The most important question in the universe ... is also the most annoying when repetitively asked by small children!

"Mummy, why did that man tell me to cycle in the road?"

"Because he's a policeman and you are not supposed to cycle on the pavement dear"

"Mummy, why am I not supposed to cycle on the pavement?"

"Because it's against the law dear"

"Mummy, why is it against the law?"

...

OK, enough of that, you get the picture. Children instinctively understand that the "Why" is important.

Perhaps that tells us something?

But when people in big organisations ask themselves the "Why" question and don't get any satisfactory answer, maybe it's time to reconsider what those organisations are all about ... and even to walk away.

(80 minutes)

 

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Come the Revolution, What to Do and How to Do It?

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2024-05-15

Martin Geddes has been contemplating the incoming Greater Reset. 

Well, it is abundantly clear that somebody needs to, and would we trust the current incumbents at Westminster anywhere near the fabled levers of power ever again? It's a reasonable expectation that many of the extant people posing as authorities will be removed as being part of the problem, so cannot preside over the solution.

My first comment is that since the US military seems to have us all under (so far undeclared) martial law, the initial take-down of the criminal elements of the establishment must be conducted by the military themselves in accordance with the military laws in effect.

Why are we in the UK talking about the US military?

Because this revolution is not local to the UK, it is global against the global mafia, and the US military is taking the lead because ... well it's a long story. Where have you been these past years?

Martial law will rightly or wrongly but necessarily preclude any argument over niceties. It will be what it will be, and subsequent argument and heart-searching will be fruitless and largely preempted.

Will the French reintroduce Madame Guillotine, and the British the Halifax Gibbet, or even King Henry's axe?

Probably the Laws of War Manual doesn't leave such latitude as to the form of dispatch, and just as well. Whilst executions must be witnessed ("justice must be seen to be done") they should never be public entertainment.

That said, the inescapable consequences of decades of treason and manipulation will take time to  unwind. There are rafts of issues arising around which many will have divergent opinions, high among them being non-native additions to our population. The UK has a reasonable track record of success in assimilating immigrants over the centuries, but that ability has been ever more stretched by a highly suspect mismatch between declared immigration policy and actual immigration action (especially since "Brexit") and by no means only in the UK.

It's of no use to blame the immigrants (unless they actually conspired with a UK authority for an illegal purpose), but mass deportation seems like a draconian "solution", in the round likely to do as much harm as good. We probably don't even know who or where they are!

Following the shock of the new, the military will need to hand power back to a civilian administration - but since it was the old authorities that got us into this mess, we will have to invent new authorities public services, responsive primarily to the people and Constitution, before that can happen. The old discredited and corrupt model of Monarch-Parliament-Civil-Service-Statute-Book-Judiciary-Oligarchy cannot be left untouched, but must be simplified and made directly both accountable and responsive. This will be very unfamiliar territory for most.

For it to happen, "We the People" will need to step up to defend our interests. After many years of leaving these in the hands of the ruling political classes, that will involve a very steep learning curve, and I predict an extended period of military rule incoming.

All that said, back to Martin Geddes, who offers both a ramble through the consequences of the revolution:

The calculus of consequences

and a review of how we got here and how the revolution may unfold - this isn't all his own work, but is based on a piece from "X":

"I wish to highlight one account on X that is making very bold assertions — PeckerwQQd — and summarise what is being said"

Keep smiling: the end of corruption in Britain

Quite so. I note Martin's reservations!

I would guess that there will be as many views on this as there are people in the UK, and some of it does seem impracticably draconian to me, but as a starting position that gets the discussion going it's probably both necessary and adequate.

"It's your view that counts"!

 

A Speech for Our Times - Winston Marshall

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2024-05-15

Winston Marshall debates politics with Nancy Pelosy at the Oxford Union.

A man to watch - he should go far - the further the better!

(15 minutes)

 

 

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