2023-07-08

In summary, don't.

That's all you need to know (but don't forget the fire risk from exploding lithium-ion batteries) about the green transition.

To make appreciable emissions savings over the life of an electric vehicle is next to impossible by many estimates - and those estimates may be optimistic. Does it really make sense to spend money retooling the entire automotive industry (money that may well not be costed into these estimates) on this basis, for a transition that may well turn out to be unfeasible due to the specific resource constraints?

Still, if you need more convincing, Matt Ridley writing for the Daily Mail

2023-07-08

"The systems for all of this are already in place... this time it will not end"

The WEF-UN partnership is now infamous for its outlandish plans to control the world, right down to the level of the individual,even down to monitoring our bodily functions. Controlling our spending capability via CBDCs, and thus controlling our lives, would be child's-play to them. Linking us up as Cyborgs to their AI hive mind ("enhancing" our thinking) will follow.

Outlandish?

Certainly.

Possible?

Plausibly - it may not be perfect yet but why would that stop

2023-07-07

Russell Brand meets Tucker Carlson.

Who would have thought it?

Well, we don't have to invent it, it's now done.

See what you think!

(80 minutes)

2023-07-07

"Centralisation causes nothing but misery because it destroys the mechanisms of error correction leading to doubling down on flawed policies"

(13 minutes)

2023-07-07

Despite allegedly becoming cheaper every year, the corporate-political windmills are now turning furiously to demand ever higher subsidies from our government, no doubt to stave off disaster.

"The  budget for fixed-foundation offshore wind alone would need to be at least two and a half times higher than its current level to maximise the capacity which could now be secured in this year’s auction"

Unforeseen costs it seems may be to blame. At least, they are being blamed. But who should have foreseen them? And were those that did foresee them ignored and sidelined?

What has the Department of Energy / Department of Energy and Climate Change / Department for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy been doing since 1974, apart from changing its name, consuming lots of resources, devising incomprehensible power auction schemes,

2023-07-07

In the USA we have had racial tensions for centuries, tensions which were fanned recently under the "Black Lives Matter" rhetoric which tried to shame everybody into apologising for the alleged crime of being "racist". Rioters were seen using conveniently placed piles of bricks (strange where those came from) to create their mayhem.

We have also had an unfamiliar but relentless campaign to improve "diversity" - a word which has seen previously unimagined levels of interpretation applied apparently in order to make acceptable practices which hitherto have been considered unacceptable by many. Tolerance is being stretched.

All over the western world now we see governments with seemingly one accord welcoming or at least accepting huge numbers of immigrants from diverse cultures without too much concern about integration assimilation or the capacity of our infrastructure to cope, and apparently no concern at all about how that will be perceived by the native population.

...

2023-07-07

This is not about 9/11 (although that features).

It may be a bit slow for some, but they do explore the overall sequence of events since JFK was assassinated. The history of the world is inextricably tied in with events in the USA, because the USA has been instrumental in destabilising the world in the interests of the ruling elite (regardless of the president-of-the-day).

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2023-07-06

With Russian Federation forces unfazed in the Ukraine and Zelensky looking at scraping a barrel already empty of additional men and NATO munitions, Scott Ritter updates us on the latest geopolitics.

As always, politicians on the ropes are not conducive to good decision-making. If you cannot win under the current rules, then what to do? Start playing a different game...

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2023-07-06

Attacks on free speech are nothing new:

" 'For if men are to be precluded from offering their sentiments... reason is of no use to us; the freedom of speech may be taken away, and dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep, to the slaughter.' George Washington"

"The principal function of free speech under the United States’ system of government is to invite dispute; it may indeed best serve its high purpose when it induces a condition of unrest, creates dissatisfaction with conditions as they are, or even stirs people to anger"

How does that sit with the concept of "hate speech" then?

" 'Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the free acts of speech' Benjamin Franklin"

The Biden administration

Grass Roots Strike Back!

2023-07-05

A calm discussion comparing the status of energy provision in Australia with the state that pertains in the UK and Europe.

The discussion may be calm but the upcoming consequences of the current political trajectories may be a very long way from calm.

The northern hemisphere has been subjected to what we might call accelerated shock in terms of energy supply (due to the sanctions in support of the Ukraine) which has had some effect in concentrating minds.

"... they are telling the armed forces to decarbonise... "

How are matters likely to unfold in the future?

As usual, the issue is dominated by the politics, but might the market respond and save the day?

Maybe not, but perhaps we can buy our energy from overseas ... ?

This doesn't seem to be about to end well any

2023-07-05

At last - somebody who has crunched the numbers on what it will take to achieve all the legal targets that have been set world-wide to keep "global warming" within the magical 1.5^oC, even assuming that that's what we need to do.

Can it be done?

"Current renewable energy systems generally have a lower Energy Returned on Energy Invested ratios (ERoEI) than current fossil fuel-based systems. They may not be productive enough to replace fossil fuels.  As such, they may not be the energy foundation for the next industrial era, but a steppingstone to some other kind of energy generation system not yet identified"

How can we do it?

"This is actually a mining problem"

"There is no other source for those metals"

"The idea of being managed from a central point is almost never going to

2023-07-05

Rebel News delves deep into the recent troubles in la Belle France, providing a more nuanced glimpse into the sentiments that are actually driving the recent events.

Journalism is not dead, it's just hiding in unofficial places, where I suppose it has always had to be if it is to be truly independent.

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More at France on Fire.

2023-07-05

The AIER notes some of the circumstances that led to George Washington taking up arms against the British.

As always, government overreach was behind it - pluck the goose too hard and it will ultimately turn on you. I guess this was before the government had worked out that they need to at least mount a pretence that they are on the side of the people whose finance they need in order to pursue their grand plans ... they just needed to learn the hard way - but learn they eventually did.

It's interesting because many of the monetary tricks that we see today were in play then too.

Imperial Monetary Policy and the Independence Movement

2023-07-04

Hope Sussex was founded to support those parents who wanted to take their children out of the public and state education systems, those who were prepared to do what had to be done to bring up their own children for themselves in accord with their own beliefs and principles.

Clearly the Universe has smiled upon their efforts.

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2023-07-03

"Joe’s avatar will soon put all whistleblowers out of work, he’s such a one-man red pill machine"

"Congress passed resolution 503 calling for the impeachment of Joe Biden for high crimes and misdemeanors"

Ouch.

He may not be the only one. And tomorrow is 4th July...

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2023-07-03

Michael Senger writing for the Brownstone Institute investigates.

Mind you, he is commenting on the performance of one Matt Hancock, so it may be a bit one-sided - but are the contributions from all the protagonists both official and 'non-official but expert' all being give weight?

"... the COVID Inquiry ... has revealed little of value and assiduously avoided asking officials why they found the horrific decision to copy China’s lockdown policy remotely appropriate... "

" 17 members of the pro-lockdown pressure group ‘Independent SAGE’ have been asked to give evidence "

Well, I

2023-07-02

Mahyar Tousi reminds us that the current troubles in France may not be unrelated by some to the concept of the religious wars of old.

That's not to say that they are or that they are not, just that it is likely that some will see it that way.

From my perspective, a conversion achieved by force is not a conversion at all, it is a subjugation.

Force is an open admission that persuasion doesn't work.

Those who seek to convert and spread their religion by coercion rather than by persuasion do not respect the right of anybody to make up their own minds for themselves, and the result is top-down control. It is the direct antithesis of a government of the people, by the people, and for the people.

OK, so a true bottom-up government of the people has yet to be established anywhere, but the principles established in Magna Carta and the American Constitution probably go some

2023-07-02

If only!

So who could possibly pull off such a feat? I guess there's only one candidate...

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2023-07-02

Mahyar Tousi investigates the banking shutdown of Nigel Farage, and how "the narrative" is being pushed out.

I hope he has an alternative bank lined up...

Shutting down a bank account is an extremely serious matter in the modern day and age. Almost everybody needs access to banking, and existing on a cash-only basis is next to impossible for anybody employed by a corporation or government entity. One might think therefore that such action is wholly disproportionate in most circumstances.

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