Stupid yes ..but more concerning is a deep psychological phenomenon I don’t think we fully understand . Something on the order of Freud’s “ Death Wish “ . We all know someone that seemingly subverts their own well being . It’s worse and more dangerous than stupid ..I can live with stupid .
All this comes from self-hatred. They pretend to be taking care of the ecology. Saving the planet, is the mantra.
They know this is not true. They cannot confess to others and even to themselves that they just want to destroy Germany. This is bad enough, but even worse is the fact that they don't want to be destroyed alone. This explains their awful influences in Europe to-day.
They have managed to turn the EU into a suicide pact.
I believe you are, unfortunately, exactly correct. The only *possible* escape (improbable but within the realm of possibility) will be for the rest of Yurrip to come to its senses and throw every remaining resource into reversing their parallel courses through the example of Germany racing to its logical end faster than the rest. Not the UK, obviously, or France. Maybe the Eastern contingent (already reversing), but maybe a few others. We live in hope.
Some of it is self-hatred, but I would say most of it is ignorance. The corporate media with their constant mantra of "cheap green energy" have completely convinced a significant portion of the population across the developed world that modern power grids can run cheaply on variable renewable energy. Since "respectable" mainstream media are telling them this is true, these people simply believe it. Whenever I speak with these people, it's obvious within 5 minutes that they do not have the slightest clue how a modern power grid actually operates, and why dispatchable power is critical.
Thing is, who's in charge of the action? Not the people. But if they go along with it, it won't stop until they are plowing with mules and bulls again. I grew up with Germans - Huntsville. Their children were my playmates. They were smart people, whatever else they were. I always saw Germany as highly intelligent, well-educated and thought-driven. NOT any more. Germany has got to be the dumbest nation on the planet. Will the people ever wake up?
Being a non-German who is living in Germany I can say there is a large segment of informed intelligent people here who can see through what is going on. But just as in several other countries, the democratic political system does not work anymore. It has been hijacked by profiteers and ideologues which is a deadly combination. I predict things will have to get a lot worse before they get better. But it’s a worldwide phenomena. I can agree that Germany might be the best example of the worst it has gotten.
Since the late 1800s, and really rapidly after WW1, Germany sank into socialism.
There was a short respite after WW2, when everything was destroyed and there was a short time of a free market in West Germany, leading to the "Wirtschaftswunder" (economical miralce). But in the 1970s we walked slowly back to socialism, and really accelerated after 2005.
In the 1800s/1900s there was a exodus of Germans who desired freedom. They came mostly to the USA.
Those who went to the USA were the more individualistic, entrepreneurial-minded Germans.
You met the descendents of those people.
The descendents of the obedient, socialist people remained in Germany.
I appreciate your comment. I had just been thinking about my own German ancestry from 1800s immigrants to the U.S. and feeling I'm descended from a people who get everything wrong. But you reminded me of another angle.
Decades ago in the US, Germans were known in the technical employment industry as the best to have as a client. They were highly regarded by General Managers needing highly skilled engineers and experienced in fields I didn’t understand. Good for business.
Decades ago in the US, Germans were known in the technical employment industry as the best to have as a client. They were highly regarded by General Managers needing highly skilled engineers and experienced in fields I didn’t understand. Good for business.
These are concepts the so-called 'elite' are very familiar with. They are obsessed with finding "efficiency" everywhere. Yet they are spending 80% of our resources trying to eliminate 20% of what they declare is our biggest threat. When the first 20% of what they spent already eliminated 80% of it. And they know this. Yet they do it anyways. Making it malice, not stupidity.
Most of Pareto's theories are at the heart of finding efficiency in all things, especially governance. Like Pareto-Optimality, Pareto Efficiency:
Vilfredo Pareto taught young Benito Mussolini when he was a young student in Switzerland, helped Mussolini form his "highest form of political organization," Fascism.
Pareto also wrote The Mind and Society and Circulation of Elite, developing sociological theories that describe the types of psychological manipulation and control exacted on us today through media, academia and cultural narrative-shaping. And why the same people end up in positions of power no matter who the public elects. The "meet the new boss, same as the old boss" effect.
"In this book Pareto presents the first sociological cycle theory, centered on the concept of an elite social class. The Mind and Society has been named, by Martin Seymour-Smith, as one of the most influential books ever written"
And freedom is inefficient:
'Damned Efficient Slavery’ vs. ‘Inefficient Freedom’
"Because the Soviets mobilize and direct all their economic resources from one centre, he said, they have a great advantage. “Vice-President Nixon called the Russian system slavery. All right, slavery it is. But damned efficient slavery...We cherish our freedom. All right, freedom it is, but sadly inefficient freedom.”
Ignoring Pareto's 80-20 Principle is prima facia evidence that the climate cult is a scam. For 'leaders' to ignore efficiency - when their entire understanding of governance is about optimizing the most efficient controls on mankind to create their vision of Utopia reveals their goal isn't what they are claiming it is for.
And almost, as if on queue, suddenly this happens. This is called the Pareto Principle. Today Bill Gates is articulating the Pareto Principle I described above:
"Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, who wrote a book in 2021 titled, “How to Avoid a Climate Disaster,” now says leaders need to shift their approach to climate change.
In a letter published Tuesday ahead of next week’s COP30 U.N. climate summit, Gates argued that too many resources are focused on emissions and the environment, and that more money should go toward “improving lives” and curbing disease and poverty.
“Climate is super important but has to be considered in terms of overall human welfare,” Gates told CNBC’s Andrew Ross Sorkin in an exclusive interview. “I didn’t pick that position because everybody agrees with it – it’s I think intellectually the right answer.”
"Bill Gates thinks climate change is a serious problem but it won’t be the end of civilization. He thinks scientific innovation will curb it, and it’s instead time for a “strategic pivot” in the global climate fight: from focusing on limiting rising temperatures to fighting poverty and preventing disease.
A doomsday outlook has led the climate community to focus too much on near-term goals to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that cause warming, diverting resources from the most effective things that can be done to improve life in a warming world, Gates said. In a memo released Tuesday, Gates said the world’s primary goal should instead be to prevent suffering, particularly for those in the toughest conditions in the world’s poorest countries.
If given a choice between eradicating malaria and a tenth of a degree increase in warming, Gates told reporters, “I’ll let the temperature go up 0.1 degree to get rid of malaria. People don’t understand the suffering that exists today.”"
FF - Now why? Why the "strategic pivot?" Well, of course another money tree is taking root that needs some fertilizer to grow into a big ROI producer. The contradiction of building more power plants for AI Data Centers and climate doomsday from energy use for ordinary people. It's too big of a contradiction to navigate around, Gates sees the weakness in the narrative will force its collapse.
But not everybody is on board yet. Not the truly committed high priests of the Climate Cult Temple. Like Jeffrey Sachs and Michael Oppenheimer:
"Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, called the memo “pointless, vague, unhelpful and confusing.”
“There is no reason to pit poverty reduction versus climate transformation. Both are utterly feasible, and readily so, if the Big Oil lobby is brought under control,” he wrote in an email."
Princeton University climate scientist Michael Oppenheimer said he doesn’t dispute the principle of making human well-being the primary objective of policy, but what about the natural world?
“Climate change is already wreaking havoc there,” he wrote in an email. “Can we truly live in a technological bubble? Do we want to?”
FF - And just. like. that. the Climate Doomsday will soon be swept aside, memory-holed, pulled out as needed for future issues of controlling human behavior that arise. The high priests will still have their temple to proselytize for, albeit to small congregations. Pareto Principle. 80-20 Rule. The law of diminishing returns makes chasing that last bit of icky man behavior-caused climate change too expensive to try to harness. And, b'gosh, AI Data Centers need...carbon and atoms!
So you're a dipshit troll, RevelinConcentration! Going to change your profile name after this post into mine - like you did on other threads? Great to know I have my own security state minder who monitors my posts to try to troll me, impersonate me. I take it as a compliment that I've arrived on the minder's radar because what I share threatens them. So, thank you! Now go F your mother. And visit a Canadian MAiD to finish yourself off.
NL historically got itself so (intnlly) embarassed- on how easy it was to off those so requesting ...
So much so that Edward Brongersma ,40 years chief criminologist now has a limpid page in dutch ,lionising the writer of 'Boylove' ,who went on NL nat TV 1998 -to defend Dutroux's 14 child skeletions under foundations .
If Rutte is not of same ilk ,I will bite a piece out of own posterior .Certainly has several intl judges accepting witness statements of 9th circle factural involvement ,according to Kevin Annett .
The GP who off'd EB ,notably under arrest for a year ,as latter was entirely 'healthy' - only felt hard done by ,just 2 bricks through his Wassenaar mansion window (-Had 8 ,just for opposing stichting Martijn )- the corrupt incubator of Rutte ,EB ,and everything in between ,before it was nominally rendered illegal ,2015)
QUOTE: ... some batteries, that store less than 1/2 GW?
The basic point is of course valid, but the technical details in the original piece compare power output (for the battery facility, measured in Megawatt MW) with total power generated over time (aka ENERGY, measured in MW*h* (Megawatt Hours) or TW*h* (Terawatt Hours)) for the nuclear reactors.
According to this piece (link below) in a trade journal, the power output of the proposed battery facility is 400 MW. Total storage capacity is 700 MH*h*. Thus, at full power output, the battery facility will provide LESS THAN TWO HOURS of power, presumably in order to meet daily demand peaks. Not mentioned in the piece is that chemical batteries work for a limited number of power cycles and then fail.
I started to write something, but words are failing me. Time for action. Leadership abhors a vacuum. There used to be a lot of smart people around here. . .
I share your astonished reaction. But in me it provokes nostalgic tears.
Will the German government provide kites and keys to the populace so they can capture their own electricity from lightning, in the manner of Ben Franklin? That appears to be where they're headed.
They are . “ I know , let’s just legalize all drugs including heroin and give out free needles to anyone who wants to comatose in our public parks “ ….what could go wrong ?
I remember when they blew up the cooling tower at the Trojan Nuclear Plant near Rainier--they didn't waste much time taking THAT place apart either. I lost my job out there when they closed that place.
As a lot of people I knew lost their jobs in forest products over false "science" around spotted owls. The manipulation of evidence goes back to the 80's. Nuclear technology was safe then, and still is. There was no human-caused threat to spotted owls then, or ever. But our elites were perfectly willing to sacrifice those jobs in service to their fantasies.
I was on the science side and watched in horror as the scientific process was manipulated in ways that weren't supposed to be possible. Unfortunately, I've seen it over and over again, especially with the climate agenda and then COVID.
Orcas breeding success rate at little and big Cumbrae is significantly less than 0.1% ,over 30-40 years .
The number of un-infected radioactive expanding burns from skeleton to skin in selfsame waters in HunterstonPower station - Firth of Clyde in small and large whales referred to by local fisherman as 'acid burns '
My best friend's dad engineered Hunterston .20 years after his birth - radio Clyde advised -in public - all with such a father to get checked on chromosone 11 (22) .
Niel was dead of lukemia within 7 years therafter .
So scotland has nuclear waste buried in Mulwacher Southern Uplands - Burns Country ,near Loch Doon.
Grandmothers camping out in winter from Carsphairn .
We have legacy problems from the Manhattan Project installations on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in central Washington as well. I was referring to the newer power stations like Trojan, which never had any problems and could have provided power for decades longer.
Political insanity knows no borders, here in Canada, our federal government and the B.C. and Ontario provincial governments are all massive 💩shows. The actions of these politicians is becoming more and more likely to rip this country apart but they carry on, oblivious to the damage they're causing on their home turf.
That's why the eastern side of Oregon is trying to join Idaho. It's become clear that sanity isn't coming back to Portland anytime soon, and they have the votes to control the state.
I live in Alberta and I'm a 72 year old separatist, so old enough to know better. I was a patriotic Canadian right up until the time Canada left me. That was when Canadians, mostly from east of Saskatchewan and west of Alberta, elected Justin Trudeau to be Canada's prime minister. One Trudeau as prime minister, in a country's history, is more than enough, too much even. The father, at least, had some intellectual capacity, the son is an idiot. Even I didn't predict the damage Justin Trudeau would do to Canada. If Canada ultimately collapses into a group of smaller countries, where what's still called Canada is a much smaller version than you see on today's map of the world, and I do believe this will eventually happen, the person who will be most credited with the eventual breakup of Canada will be Justin Trudeau. So while now Mark Carney as P.M., leading much the same Liberal government in Ottawa, flits about the world and only stopping occasionally to poke another stick into Donald Trump's eye, I sit here in Alberta, watching with some bemusement as Canada's economy and our nation's cohesion both go slowly circling down the drain and the calls and support for separation grow louder and stronger here in Alberta and in our neighbour to the east, Saskatchewan. There's even talk of both provinces leaving together at the same time and then joining to form a new nation. I don't know exactly what Alberta separation would like but I sense it is coming. Something most Americans, and the rest of the world for that matter, don't know is that there is an actual mechanism, as determined by the Supreme Court of Canada in 1995, that allows for a province to legally remove itself from Confederation and pursue a different future on its own.
Fascinating; thanks for this comment. I couldn't understand how JTrudeau got away with blatant lies, not to mention bonkers overreaction against the truckers' convoy. Then again I couldn't understand how BHO got away with everything he did. Even now we have few if any examples of any of those folks or their followers truly realizing or repenting the error of their ways.
I spent a little time in Alberta about 15 years ago and really liked it. Wishing you and Saskatchewan the best, hopefully with self-determination in your future!
See Maurice Strong, touted as a Canadian "hero" of climate and globalism. Follow through Brian Mulroney, Trilateral Commission, etc.
Then Pierre Trudeau in between.
This now looks like the same log ride (my favourite at Expo67 !) ending in the same pond.
I attended the WeUnify "Reclaiming Canada " conference in Calgary last month and share the sense that Albertans are not long for continuing their subjugation by Ottawa, Toronto, and Montreal. Out here there is still no viable solution to NDP policies. Maybe you could get the BC interior to join you, but there is still the Indian (non)-Treaty problem.
Well, just because Maurice Strong was nominally a Canadian didn't make him or his ideas correct. Climate change has always been on this planet and always will be. It's a red herring that tree huggers, globalists, and left wing politicians all love because they can say that "the science is solved", when it's nothing of the sort. For Pete's sake, we on most of the earth's landmass go through major climate change four times a year, it's called the seasons. Anyone with an ounce of sense can see civilization didn't end. We've now been through over 60 years of alarmist climate predictions, all of them predicting dire events within a couple decades or less, and not one of them remotely close to coming true. Computer models are GIGO, garbage in - garbage out. With climate influenced by many different factors, most of which scientists are still struggling to understand the mechanics of how these factors interact with and affect the earth's climate, all the computer models that have been used so far do not have all the necessary inputs to be accurate, nor are these inputs being accurately weighted. Confirmation bias still reigns supreme in the world of climate science computer modeling. Maybe at some future date scientists will finally understand all the factors that affect climate and gow they all interact but that day is still years, even decades away. So the current computer model data is not worth the paper they print it on and, as such, no climate change computer model data should ever be used to set any important policy of any kind in politics, economics, culture, or social interaction. The science is most definitely Not Settled.
Regarding Strong and the list you mentioned, it is the very same "Logride". Before Strong global elitism was around, had been for centuries, but it was all hither and yon, with real central purpose or even point of view. After Strong, this group of individuals began to coalesce, the WEF was born, and so on. But Canada has always had a problem with elitists running the country. Long before the global elite began their power grab the Laurentian elite had been doing all they could to keep the prairies poor, a captive market for central Canadian manufactured goods, and a supplier of cheap raw materials and cheap foodstuffs. Two names you mentioned, Brian Mulroney and Pierre Trudeau, were both Laurentian elitists, both from the same uppercrust area of Montreal, and thus, both Quebecois. For all their political differences they were two sides of the same coin. Mulroney wasn't the economic disaster Trudeau was but he wasn't all that good either. Neither were particularly well-liked in Alberta either, this was the particular reason that Mulroney chose Don Mazankowski as his deputy P.M., an Albertan from a rural riding though close to Edmonton, who, in some ways, was quite the opposite of Mulroney. Mazankowski was affable enough but not nearly as gregarious as was Mulroney. Mulroney was big city money, glitz, and glamour while Mazankowski was from a small Alberta farm town and had the values and viewpoint that were characteristic of such a background. They actually worked quite well together, a tribute to Mulroney's political sense and some degree of decency. Albertans have long had to put up with a degree of Laurentian elitist snobbishness from both sides of the Parliamentary aisle, Mulroney helped to break that cycle just a little.
You mentioned WeUnify and the "Reclaiming Canada" conference in Calgary. I must confess, though I've heard of WeUnify and I might have even heard something about the conference, I know nothing about WeUnify, though the name suggests this organization represents people interested in keeping Canada whole as it currently exists on the map. I'm sure a lot of Albertans agree with this sentiment but I'm no longer one of them. I'm a baby boomer and used to be a very patriotic Canadian, even anti-American, though I grew out of that by the time I was in my late 20s. But no more. I've been leaning towards separation for close to two decades now. Even with a Conservative prime minister from Calgary, Albertans still seem to get screwed by Ottawa. Even an Albertan P.M. has to kiss the collective behinds of the Laurentian Elite to stay in political power. The system, including the constitution, is simply skewed in central Canada's favour, at the expense of everyone else in the country. And this won't change from within the system. So separatism seems the only choice Alberta has to really unleash this province's. It won't happen within Confederation so it will have to happen from outside the country. I think separation is still some time in the future but one never knows about such things until they actually occur. As for a chunk of B.C. coming along to join Alberta, it's probably more difficult for a part of an individual province to leave that specific province, than it would be for that entire province to leave Canada. So while I might welcome eastern British Columbians to join Alberta for the ride, particularly people in the northeastern Peace River country whom, in general, most closely align with the Albertans in the eastern side of the Peace River country, I don't really think it will happen. Maybe it would but right now I don't see how. Saskatchewan, on the other hand, is an entirely different matter. Our natural close proximity and affinity, maybe moreso than any other two provinces in the entire country, plus a truly shared history from before the time we became provinces would make leaving the country together and joining to create a new nation, with significant natural resources and huge potential, an attractive proposition indeed. We even already have a new national capital, Lloydminster, our border city split in two down the middle by the border between the two provinces. This could be a truly serious consideration, build a new capital more or less centered between Edmonton and Saskatoon. Whatever, I do expect Alberta will one day leave Confederation, maybe in 6 or 7 years, maybe in 20 years. I just hope I'm still around to see it. Time will tell.
Yes. I live a few hundred yards (meters) from the hotel. The first protesters included a few local Reform Party female members (I am a Reform Party member) and they were swholly local worried people. Subsequently the source of the protesters widened geographically and became more male but it is still largely local.
It is also peaceful almost all the time. Thursdays and Sundays are the busiest but if a Court hearing or a mistaken prisoner release happens there are more protesters.
Brits and especially the English never had cause to show their national flags or to boast about our heritage because we were so settled and confident about these things. Only the EU, the attempt to break up the UK (Blair of course) and massive immigration by disconsonant cultural peopl;e has cause the display of flags around the Epping hotel and much more widely.
History at your doorstep. This is certainly a fascinating time, watching institutional expertise beclown itself in increasing unbelievable ways. Even something that should be as foolproof as a prisoner release, isn't.
Hope you don't have to wait until the next scheduled election to start turning it around.
For a long time there has also been a movement in Northern California to separate off from the rest of California and become a new state. They haven't made much progress, sad to say.
Doesn’t the breaking up of nation states into smaller, regional groupings determined by economic, geographic and social interests play into the Technocrats’ ideal scenario?
I’m not sure about it being the opposite, I have a sense it is more like “All roads lead to Rome.” I believe it was a talk by Patrick Wood in which he goes thru the history of Technocracy and I recall there being something about decentralized areas linked to global governance structures and the whole thing being run by technocrats and AI rather than elected politicians.
The west coast health alliance or whatever it is called could be shaping up to be an example of this sort of thing. The question is whether such an entity can then be a member of the WHO?
I feel really badly admitting that this is my 3rd winter where I’m realizing some Germans may need to freeze to death before the majority of them wake up.
No no Charlotte,you forget global warming ,Germany may be forced to import Russian ice to keep from roasting . But the tarif's will prevent that solution . The Germans are toast .
If I recall correctly, our goodly author told us that he abandoned academia in the United States, owing to the intolerable douche baggery of the professorate and administrative nags.
As I look back, I think my professors in Toronto were in equal measure 1/losers, 2/weirdos, and 3/supremely brilliant people who I deeply admire. Just saying.
This article has put me in a very bad mood. (Not the author he is the 3rd kind of professor.)
What counts is weather man-made CO2 has any SIGNIFICANT negative impact on on the "ecological balance, (which) is a theory that proposes that ecological systems are usually in a stable equilibrium or homeostasis, which is to say that a small change (the size of a particular population, for example) will be corrected by some negative feedback that will bring the parameter back to its original "point of balance" with the rest of the system"(Wiki - yes, I know...)
CO2 and its effect is irrelevant. It is the current mechanism to assert control. A century ago or more it was International Communism. Before that you can take your pick from any number of religious cults and offshoots.
The key element that ties them together is psychologically unhealthy people in positions of authority. Think of Rev. Jim Jones but in virtually all institutions, from media and academia to the police, the courts and your local council. All gripped by a zealotry we fail to understand.
No one in the climate agenda world reasoned themselves into their position on CO2; you can tell because they don't talk about CO2 they talk about"carbon." They don't know the difference and nor do they care. It is a hook on which to peg their need to control us. Nothing more. If it somehow fails they will use meat consumption, internet use, smoking, alcohol, car driving, porn or video games. They are mentally unwell. The cause doesn't matter.
Some guy on YouTube (maybe UK scientist) seems certain than CO2 is a LAGGING indicator.
This "global warming" (although in 1960's it was "global cooling") is definitely political REGARDLESS that ANY project/study in the US reputably must have a climate change term in the title/description to get funding.
Nuking China and India (and a couple Volcanoes, including the undersea ones) is the only solution to the CO2 crises, I dont trust anyone who is not advocating these “easy” solutions to the issue…
How do we know that there is a crisis though? It’s not entirely clear that there is a climate crisis. The settled climate science for the past 130 years is merely that CO2 emissions should increase the greenhouse effect by some unknown amount. That's it. But you’re right that the Rube Goldberg solutions like EVs, solar and wind power are less than useless. I remember when mount Pinatubo in the Philippines erupted and caused cooler temperatures
Looking at that graph, it should surprise no one that China supports the "environmental wackos" (admittedly a prejudicial term but reveals my point of view) around the world. And when energy is in short (self ordained) supply, it gives governments the excuse to control it for the "common good". And by controlling speech, this keeps people from hearing any other point of view- except the government point of view. Small wonder that schools, usually dependent at least to some extent on government support, seem to be teaching WHAT to think rather than (previously) HOW to think.
No wonder some people have mentioned making "climate denial" illegal. If (global warming) was BS (and/or people actually believed that that graph was "non fiction") then this whole scam would fall apart.
The "climate change" narrative seems rather fragile, without outside support.
China's official government policy is strict non-interference in leading Western states. Their diagnosis is all of them will cease to exist by 2050 due to mass immigration alone. The climate suicide insanity is just an accelerant.
I am inclined to agree with their prognosis. We are dying, all of us. And we are busy arranging deckchairs while the iceberg looms.
They aren't even secretive about it. They know there are a lot of moronic climate hysterics to drink their kool-aid, and they don't even have to try very hard to subvert them all.
I'm not one who has any business making predictions, but I predict that the picture of that explosion is going to be infamous. It's going to have a notoriety that will far surpass the picture that was responsible for the Streisand Effect.
These greenies are living in a self-reinforcing spiral of madness-induced absurdities, of which this seems to be the (current) pinnacle; the ultimate self-flagellating penance as they drive themselves into their own self-inflicted Dark Age. Times will be hard, but at least the planet will be comfortable!
In reality, this will just widen the economical gap, creating an 'under-class' destined for destruction (self inflicted or by state tyranny), vs. a self-rightious elite... Where have I heard this before..? (cough-Soviet Union-cough)
Perhaps as infamous as the explosion of the Hindenburg which would be an ironic result. You folks can fill in the blanks on this one.....it strikes me as hard to fathom how the German populace can keep falling for these "solutions".
As unemployed Germans sit inside their freezing homes while trying to fend off invading Muslims, at least they can look out the window and take pride in the dramatic improvement in the climate their sacrifices have brought about.
In addition to blow up nuclear energy sources ,coal mines are shut down .Once they where the lifeblood of German industry .The shafts have been filled in and windmills planted on top of it . I think grave stones would make more sense then the windmills ,
They will need to learn Arabic and study the Quran because if they don't convert, their throats will eventually be slit. Convert or die, that's the Islamic belief at its most extreme.
Hello from a PA farm boy in Germany. That was not the first "celebration of demolition" of cooling towers at a nuclear plant. Two years ago they "decommissioned" a fully functional plant. The only thing missing in the Chyron was "wir schaffen das."
I grew up in Pennsylvania where the first language was not English but Pennsylvania Dutch. My first visit was in 1979 with a chum from the international school I attended. (Incidentally, Perkiomen School was founded by a relative; Oscar Kriebel) In '83 and '84, I was here as a tourist, with the latter visit resulting in a 10-year ban on entering the country. Later in the 80s, I spent time under the radar on the US Marine's dime in Landstuhl, getting put back together in my pursuit to "make the world safe for democracy." My love for the German people and culture should be beyond question.
I've lived in Germany for over 20 years and have seen the decline firsthand. I chose to go the route of the trades instead of using my engineering degrees to work for Ford or Toyota. As a result, I have a bit of perspective from the working class regarding the decline of Germany over the last few years.
Mutti Merkel might have been well-loved here, but anyone paying attention knew that her motives we not as pure as the driven snow. Perhaps Osama Obama had additional information from his snooping on her personal calls beside telling Jürgen to turn the heat up.
My German wife was one of those at protests "Hop-hop-hop, Atomraketen stop." Me? Back in the 80s? When they were building a nuclear plant in Limerick, PA (now 10 years overdue for demolition). I was arrested for putting up signs "Limerick—Ground Ground Zero" I was young and naive, but there was the "small problem" at Three-Mile-Island previously.
From my perspective, Germany is following the script for the book by the much-vilified Thilo Sarrazin. At both economic and demographic levels Germany is/has passed the point of no return.
The Greens all beat their chests, tear their garments, and sing in the discordant choir of "sustainability." The result of which is the absolute opposite. Without industry, employment, and production of physical products for sale on the open market, there will be no money to finance their delusional, unsustainable nonsense.
Germany was the #1 export nation in the world, only to be overtaken by China in the past 15 years. 15 years? What was the ruling coalition in Germany?
The only way to save all industrialized nations is to cast off the chains of NGOs and special interests.
It would be a boon for humanity to turn AI/KI loose to "follow the money" and track down the perpetrators of these attacks on the way of life for us working folks.
"I can't say this out loud at home or at work, but the AfD appears to be the only party that might be able to correct the course of Germany."
The analysis is clear: Germans must grow enough of a set to say AND vote this, or they must get their affairs in order to bequeath entirely to their conquerors.
Here in the US, our own recent "crucifixion event" has suddenly given conservative and Christian students the fortitude to organize massively over their leftist oppressors.
I wouldn't wish an assassination on any AfD worthy, but speaking strictly in terms of realpolitik, if one did happen, it might be one of the best things for common-sense, freedom-loving Germans.
Henry, attempts on AfD members lives have already occured. The German (Yellow ) Press presents them as all but harmless events, with the undertone that the attack was deserved.
I don't know what you know about the gun rights in Germany, but yes, we are allowed to have guns, but it is almost prohibitively expensive due to permit costs, licencing and other costs. EVERY SINGLE GUN is registered in a database (just like in 1938). The manner of storage of guns and ammunition is strictly enforced, and the government office is entitled to come and inspect without notice. How is this pertinent? They have been revoking the gun permits of AfD members and supporters of the AfD.
The oppressive firearms regime is known to me. I have been a scholar of firearms rights for 35+ years. Except for a minor perturbation in Switzerland (which is now succumbing to peer pressure) we view pretty much all European firearms regimes as equally unacceptable.
We have a saying here that the ones who wish to take your guns plan to do something to you that they could not do if you still had them.
As the saying goes: "What does a government do after taking all the guns? Anything it wants." Without the Second Amendment, there is no guarantee of the security of the first. America was founded by geniuses and is now run by idiots. Germany has not had a competent leader since Konrad Adenauer, which was perhaps the pinnacle of when the CDU was actually relevant, with the exception of Kohl. Arguably, Helmut Schmidt, Helmut Kohl, and Gerhard Schröder were perhaps the last chancellors of Germany before it started it's decline. I'd have to look deeper, but it might be interesting to compare the decline in German politics in regard to who was in power in the USA.
“If we want to know what a darwinian system will evolve we have to look at the selective pressures on its organisms.
What is our cathedral selecting for?
The selective advantage of an idea may not be driven solely by the quality of that idea . When an idea goes arwy, becomes perverse, it must be because of the pattern of selective advantage in this marketplace of ideas.
A dominant idea is an idea that validates the use of power . There is no market for recessive ideas, recessive ideas, invalidate power or the use of power. A dominant idea is an idea that tends to benefit you and your friends.
The cathedral cannot tell us whether an idea is good or bad because it will always select for the dominant idea. Our institutions cannot hear think know learn understand or teach ANY recessive ideas : that is any ideas that would damage or delegitimate the powers that be.
Punishment and reward are different ways of getting to the same place that is human dominion.
Yarvin is brilliant. I love his take on “ Democratic government “ . “ Try and imagine the state of California creating and producing an IPhone “
I should point out that in 2008 the state set out to build a hi speed rail from SF to LA . Non stop in 2 hrs 45 minutes . As of today ,17 years later and 30 billion wasted we have no rail on the ground . All we have is an overpass in …..Fresno ( look at a map )
People who have a hard time understanding things like the "high speed rail" in CA have been fooled by the folks "building" it into accepting a false premise. The premise they've accepted is "we are building a high speed rail system". They accepted it because that's what the politicians and their "experts" told them. But that is not the real reason for the project. The real reason is the same real reason for all government projects:
To spend the money.
Once you understand this, all those "inefficient, stupid, outrageous, over-budget" projects make perfect sense. They are jobs programs and graft vehicles. The idea is to transfer as much wealth out of your pockets into the pockets of the politicians' favorite supporters as possible, some of which will then come back to the politicians in the form of donations or gifts.
When you understand the true purpose, you will see that not only do these things make perfect sense, they're also *wildly successful*. You'll understand that things like the "high speed rail", or Solyndra, are beautiful and flawless tools for fleecing ignorant taxpayers of their wealth.
I think a lot of people, especially on the left, know this is true.
And a lot of people, esp on the left, spend a lot of time pretending that “spending the money” (as you described) is NOT the goal.
To be fair, there are a few things, or at least some things for a while, where leftist and govt people are actually trying to achieve an agreed goal. (Eg, educating the kids).
But:
1. The lose the goal or don’t measure, get feedback, and correct.
2. In general the left and govt is very incompetent at DOING anything. Their good people are mainly good at conceptualizing and talking.
Once again, a false premise. The "Good Reason" is "educating the kids", but the real reason is *destroying* their education, because educated people can see through ruses like "High-Speed Rail". Now that we have a population that, instead of being taught to use their faculties of reason to properly discern reality from falsehood are instead taught that men can change into women by merely speaking magic words and that rich people are evil, "High Speed Rail" graft is easy.
Not at all, I was just clarifying based upon your statement that we have common cause with leftists on things like education. That belief is not borne out by the actual effects, so one is forced to either realize that leftists are either 100% consistently incompetent, or that their real goals don't match their stated goals.
Milton friedman recounts a general in Indonesia having a canal built without tractors. Friedman questioned this, the general replied more jobs without the use of tractors. To which friedman said if they wanted to create even more jobs, give the workers spoons rather than shovels.
Perhaps California got the idea for the pretend work on the high speed rail from the Indonesian general….
Never despair. It doesn't help. Life is short enough. Look around you and compare your situations with others. It can always get worse, maybe in comparison it is not so bad?
Despair slows down thinking and makes it easy to get into a "doom loop" Thinking yourself out of a bad situation is the most realistic hope.
Laughter can divert us too, and can help people see your point of view from the unexpected juxposition (in this case that some people think a idea of "improvement" is in alignment with deindustrialization and inpovershment + very expensive energy)
The cathedral effect is in my opinion, the intersection of healthy human ambition and practical considerations like not losing your job, . You gotta go along to get ahead. We are doomed. Your plague Chronicle is just that, a chronicling of our inevitable and unavoidable (yes?) failures. This is our fallen world.
As an American it took me a while to figure out the European parliamentary system. After casual observation and head scratching I have concluded that it always tends to reinforce establishment parties, like so much cathedral selection.
I've concluded that parliamentary systems are so voting cannot change the government. Maybe things will get so out of whack that AfD, Reform and FN get outright majorities but doubtful. If they do get in power their incentive, an entirely appropriate one, would be to abolish the prior government and form a new republic.
I think AfD would have to reach 51% or more so a coalition is not required, but E or the other natives here would know for sure. I think that as things get worse they can approach 80%. Look at the 80/20 issue of incarceration/deportation of foreign gang bangers in USA. Surprising but achievable. The only Q of how bad does it get before this conclusion is reached.
He is brilliant and extremely well read . He has led me to many great books .
So you believe in “ Democracy “ ? How ‘s that working for you ? Does your vote make a difference ? No person is illegal ? Trans rights are human rights? Black Lives Matter ? Free Huey Newton ?
I need to read Yarvin at least once a week. He cuts through the shit. Generally speaking, I think I understand about 2/3 of what he says, but I think he likes it that way. He also regularly insults his audience. I appreciate that.
> The truth is that the shrieking media personalities and activists leading the charge don’t want to have good jobs or to bequeath our children a nation full of prospects. Sometimes it seems like they don’t even want to heat their homes in winter
For the last fifteen years of my life, I have lived in places where if the temperature goes below freezing, it is very very unusual. As everyone knows, I don't live in a place like that now.
last week I accidentally locked myself out of my house taking out the trash, in my gym shorts. One hour outside, 5C weather, and holy fuck I will set every chunk of coal on fire and blanket the sky with CO2 if that's what it takes to make it never be this cold ever again. And this isn't even cold yet! It'll be -40 outside in 3 months, I know I've taken that before, but I don't think I can take that now. Fuck the planet, it needs to be warmer anyway
Talk about burning your bridges. I wonder how much this was motivated by the desire to completely remove the option to reverse course on energy production.
tl:dr-anser: One of the go-to states and personality-traits of a politruk/apparatchik/corporat is "Because Fuck You, that's why".
Rant:
Ca 100%. It is a feature of that hybrid-mongrel creature common in all large organisations, that can execute orders so well they inevitably end up promoted to a position where they have to think for themselves.
And thus, they equally inevitably create situations where they need to destroy all other options since doing so is the only way their idea can be the best one.
To this type of creature, this makes perfect sense without any malicious aforethought (or any afterthought) because lacking creativity and imagination both, this is how they understand the world: people do things which have been decided upon by committee as being the Right Thinh To Do, and so... in endless fractal recursions.
Down South, where I used to live, the state authority for railroads (all railroads in Sweden are nationalised, have been since the 1950s) decided that a line crossing the southern region of Scania from SW to NE was to be scrapped. The counties along the route offered to buy it at cost and run it themselves as public transport, as otherwise one had to go on a round-trip of Scania (which is a small region, barely 150km on the side, with coast on three sides - and all the major roads follow the coast - so a diagonal rail-line made perfect sense).
The state authority said no, the counties appealed to the government, and the governement upheld the decision to not just close the line but to remove the railroad completely so that no later demands for re-opening it could be made.
"they inevitably end up promoted to a position where they have to think for themselves.'
Important Observation: Many students of the bureaucratic mind have concluded that after any length of time in that mind numbingly, stifling environment, the probability of any individual possessing any ability to "think for themselves", approaches zero.
Yes - from talking to such in private, I've come to suspect it is a survival/coping mechanism run amok.
Some learn to switch on/off so that they are the stereotypical automaton at work.
Some have, for whatever reasons, a personality that makes them naturals at seemingly mindlessly follow orders, and which they therefore never can switch off, as there's no off to switch to.
And for some, the majority I suspect, the switch eventually gets spot-welded to "on" (or "off" but that results in the individual getting the eff out of Dodge).
I too have experienced a workplace where the ad for the job said they wanted "creative individuals used to thinking outside off the box", and the actual job was "follow Margret around for the first week so you know what we do and how, then repeat that until you retire".
Maybe 50 000 years into the future we will have two human races: the individual ones, and the eusocial ones.
Like they tried to do with the bought and paid for Mexico-US border wall in the US. Biden* sold the purchased and assembled (but not installed) border wall as scrap to various metal scrapping companies for pennies on the dollar. I understand money was raised to purchase this back from the companies before Jan 20 2024.
And of course Project Veritas film of the EPA apparatachek bragging of "throwing gold bars off the Titanic" where the EPA moved many billions to various NGO's so Trump couldn't use it. This money was "clawed back" however
Look at the bright side ,In no time Germans will learn from migrants how to live without energy and industry .Migrants lived for centuries without energy ,Industry or housing . They will teach Germans how to live inside a circle of sicks in the ground . Diversity can solve any problem .
Its hilarious when the Neocon fanbois say that America has to get involved in the war in Ukraine because Putin is going to take Europe next. Once I stop laughing I have to ask, why would Putin want some muslim shitholes like England or France or why would he want to have to take care of the dumbest people on earth in Germany? No one wants to take over Europe because then you have to take care of their retarded, useless populations. Just let them all commit suicide like they want to and then we can build something nice on their ruins.
Well, you guys have reached the level of my idiot ex- and late father-in-law, respected professor of English and high-level civil servant that he was, over in one of Those Places, who built his lovely house to be all-electric and without fallback fireplaces in a region that experienced power outages for at least six hours a day in the winter rainy season, and I can testify that homes built to withstand the brutal summer heat are mighty, mighty chilly when it ain't sunshiny outside.
When our little coal brazier wasn't enough to keep my twinkly toes from freezing I'd go down the street to one of the in-laws' places where a cozy fire would be all nice and toasty.
Congratulations, Germany, for truly reaching that third-world level at last.
I ain't actually that much better off though in New England. Even though my building has hot-water baseboard heat, when the power goes out as it does not infrequently in the winter months, we getses our selveses cold too. Worse off in a sense, without the feeble remedy of braziers. You guys understand now why I do that crocheting so much? You never can have too many cozy cardigans.
You know, after surviving them multicultural adventures of mine I really came to understand Scarlett O'Hara's determination not to experience reversals of fortune ever again.
The EU has become like a roach hotel....the elites of the nations check their countries in but the populace can never check out.....just observe how Orban/Hungary and Fico/Slovakia are being set up for shunning.....for the EU elites, though, once the tipping point comes it's unlikely that any semblance of order will survive. There is hope though, barring Israel starting the flinging of nukes, the market will eventually solve this problem.....populations that have experience the luxury of civilization don't really like the kind of deprivation that results from the kind of policies embraced by the "West". Or I could be full of hot air.
It’s an interesting academic exercise for me to observe though I am not insensitive to the plight of civilians. I feel that way about UKR vs RUS as well. I suspect all aspects of the conflict will be studied for decades. From the propaganda war to the attrition to the, “what ifs.” I sound like an a-hole, like I’m carving up people’s lives just to satisfy my own curiosity. I don’t mean that.
A part of Progressivism of any sort is the belief that you can blow shit up or burn it down and that, in that, you will feline-like land on your feet and be all the better for it. Voila! Progress! That humanist confidence is pure in its self-deceptive self-destructive draw. This is the sickness that is Utopia.
On live TV! Lmao. Germany is living in a perpetual South Park episode.
Truly hilarious. Im laughing so hard I can't think of anything witty or incisive to say.
Goodness. Just. So. Fucking. Stupid.
Stupid yes ..but more concerning is a deep psychological phenomenon I don’t think we fully understand . Something on the order of Freud’s “ Death Wish “ . We all know someone that seemingly subverts their own well being . It’s worse and more dangerous than stupid ..I can live with stupid .
All this comes from self-hatred. They pretend to be taking care of the ecology. Saving the planet, is the mantra.
They know this is not true. They cannot confess to others and even to themselves that they just want to destroy Germany. This is bad enough, but even worse is the fact that they don't want to be destroyed alone. This explains their awful influences in Europe to-day.
They have managed to turn the EU into a suicide pact.
I believe you are, unfortunately, exactly correct. The only *possible* escape (improbable but within the realm of possibility) will be for the rest of Yurrip to come to its senses and throw every remaining resource into reversing their parallel courses through the example of Germany racing to its logical end faster than the rest. Not the UK, obviously, or France. Maybe the Eastern contingent (already reversing), but maybe a few others. We live in hope.
Some of it is self-hatred, but I would say most of it is ignorance. The corporate media with their constant mantra of "cheap green energy" have completely convinced a significant portion of the population across the developed world that modern power grids can run cheaply on variable renewable energy. Since "respectable" mainstream media are telling them this is true, these people simply believe it. Whenever I speak with these people, it's obvious within 5 minutes that they do not have the slightest clue how a modern power grid actually operates, and why dispatchable power is critical.
Thing is, who's in charge of the action? Not the people. But if they go along with it, it won't stop until they are plowing with mules and bulls again. I grew up with Germans - Huntsville. Their children were my playmates. They were smart people, whatever else they were. I always saw Germany as highly intelligent, well-educated and thought-driven. NOT any more. Germany has got to be the dumbest nation on the planet. Will the people ever wake up?
Being a non-German who is living in Germany I can say there is a large segment of informed intelligent people here who can see through what is going on. But just as in several other countries, the democratic political system does not work anymore. It has been hijacked by profiteers and ideologues which is a deadly combination. I predict things will have to get a lot worse before they get better. But it’s a worldwide phenomena. I can agree that Germany might be the best example of the worst it has gotten.
"Germany has got to be the dumbest nation on the planet."
The competition is fierce.
Cracked me up! You are SO right!
Since the late 1800s, and really rapidly after WW1, Germany sank into socialism.
There was a short respite after WW2, when everything was destroyed and there was a short time of a free market in West Germany, leading to the "Wirtschaftswunder" (economical miralce). But in the 1970s we walked slowly back to socialism, and really accelerated after 2005.
In the 1800s/1900s there was a exodus of Germans who desired freedom. They came mostly to the USA.
Those who went to the USA were the more individualistic, entrepreneurial-minded Germans.
You met the descendents of those people.
The descendents of the obedient, socialist people remained in Germany.
I appreciate your comment. I had just been thinking about my own German ancestry from 1800s immigrants to the U.S. and feeling I'm descended from a people who get everything wrong. But you reminded me of another angle.
Decades ago in the US, Germans were known in the technical employment industry as the best to have as a client. They were highly regarded by General Managers needing highly skilled engineers and experienced in fields I didn’t understand. Good for business.
Since the end of WW2 Germany is in permanent shell shock and most good Germans died in Stalingrad .
Decades ago in the US, Germans were known in the technical employment industry as the best to have as a client. They were highly regarded by General Managers needing highly skilled engineers and experienced in fields I didn’t understand. Good for business.
Yes, it’s hard to see all the people that are proud of this debacle.
Reality usually corrects stupid, sometimes in a funny way.
But this death wish, so delusional and so assured of the West’s uselessness. Hard to fathom and hard to correct.
But remember, while there are some you cannot help, still there are others you can help.
Actually, it's worse than stupid...
Absolutely idiocy.
After spending countless millions € cleaning up, they'll replace with some batteries, that store less than 1/2 GW?
You know, that in a few years, after a couple of cold winters & hot summers, some genius politician will claim "we shouldn't have done that".
You know, too little, too late.
The Pareto Principle, 80-20 Rule. Law of Diminishing Returns.
https://betterexplained.com/articles/understanding-the-pareto-principle-the-8020-rule/
These are concepts the so-called 'elite' are very familiar with. They are obsessed with finding "efficiency" everywhere. Yet they are spending 80% of our resources trying to eliminate 20% of what they declare is our biggest threat. When the first 20% of what they spent already eliminated 80% of it. And they know this. Yet they do it anyways. Making it malice, not stupidity.
Most of Pareto's theories are at the heart of finding efficiency in all things, especially governance. Like Pareto-Optimality, Pareto Efficiency:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilfredo_Pareto
Vilfredo Pareto taught young Benito Mussolini when he was a young student in Switzerland, helped Mussolini form his "highest form of political organization," Fascism.
https://www.cato.org/commentary/economic-leadership-secrets-benito-mussolini
Pareto also wrote The Mind and Society and Circulation of Elite, developing sociological theories that describe the types of psychological manipulation and control exacted on us today through media, academia and cultural narrative-shaping. And why the same people end up in positions of power no matter who the public elects. The "meet the new boss, same as the old boss" effect.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circulation_of_elites
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mind_and_Society
"In this book Pareto presents the first sociological cycle theory, centered on the concept of an elite social class. The Mind and Society has been named, by Martin Seymour-Smith, as one of the most influential books ever written"
And freedom is inefficient:
'Damned Efficient Slavery’ vs. ‘Inefficient Freedom’
SAN FRANCISCO (AP), January 4th, 1958
https://archive.org/details/dailycolonist0158uvic_1/mode/2up?view=theater
"Because the Soviets mobilize and direct all their economic resources from one centre, he said, they have a great advantage. “Vice-President Nixon called the Russian system slavery. All right, slavery it is. But damned efficient slavery...We cherish our freedom. All right, freedom it is, but sadly inefficient freedom.”
Ignoring Pareto's 80-20 Principle is prima facia evidence that the climate cult is a scam. For 'leaders' to ignore efficiency - when their entire understanding of governance is about optimizing the most efficient controls on mankind to create their vision of Utopia reveals their goal isn't what they are claiming it is for.
PSA for trolls:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/10/30/canada-series-assisted-dying/
And almost, as if on queue, suddenly this happens. This is called the Pareto Principle. Today Bill Gates is articulating the Pareto Principle I described above:
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/28/bill-gates-says-countries-need-to-rethink-their-climate-strategy.html
"Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, who wrote a book in 2021 titled, “How to Avoid a Climate Disaster,” now says leaders need to shift their approach to climate change.
In a letter published Tuesday ahead of next week’s COP30 U.N. climate summit, Gates argued that too many resources are focused on emissions and the environment, and that more money should go toward “improving lives” and curbing disease and poverty.
“Climate is super important but has to be considered in terms of overall human welfare,” Gates told CNBC’s Andrew Ross Sorkin in an exclusive interview. “I didn’t pick that position because everybody agrees with it – it’s I think intellectually the right answer.”
https://apnews.com/article/bill-gates-climate-change-united-nations-4108f76e746d1e3e13845f33b8ae7007
"Bill Gates thinks climate change is a serious problem but it won’t be the end of civilization. He thinks scientific innovation will curb it, and it’s instead time for a “strategic pivot” in the global climate fight: from focusing on limiting rising temperatures to fighting poverty and preventing disease.
A doomsday outlook has led the climate community to focus too much on near-term goals to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that cause warming, diverting resources from the most effective things that can be done to improve life in a warming world, Gates said. In a memo released Tuesday, Gates said the world’s primary goal should instead be to prevent suffering, particularly for those in the toughest conditions in the world’s poorest countries.
If given a choice between eradicating malaria and a tenth of a degree increase in warming, Gates told reporters, “I’ll let the temperature go up 0.1 degree to get rid of malaria. People don’t understand the suffering that exists today.”"
FF - Now why? Why the "strategic pivot?" Well, of course another money tree is taking root that needs some fertilizer to grow into a big ROI producer. The contradiction of building more power plants for AI Data Centers and climate doomsday from energy use for ordinary people. It's too big of a contradiction to navigate around, Gates sees the weakness in the narrative will force its collapse.
But not everybody is on board yet. Not the truly committed high priests of the Climate Cult Temple. Like Jeffrey Sachs and Michael Oppenheimer:
"Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, called the memo “pointless, vague, unhelpful and confusing.”
“There is no reason to pit poverty reduction versus climate transformation. Both are utterly feasible, and readily so, if the Big Oil lobby is brought under control,” he wrote in an email."
Princeton University climate scientist Michael Oppenheimer said he doesn’t dispute the principle of making human well-being the primary objective of policy, but what about the natural world?
“Climate change is already wreaking havoc there,” he wrote in an email. “Can we truly live in a technological bubble? Do we want to?”
FF - And just. like. that. the Climate Doomsday will soon be swept aside, memory-holed, pulled out as needed for future issues of controlling human behavior that arise. The high priests will still have their temple to proselytize for, albeit to small congregations. Pareto Principle. 80-20 Rule. The law of diminishing returns makes chasing that last bit of icky man behavior-caused climate change too expensive to try to harness. And, b'gosh, AI Data Centers need...carbon and atoms!
So are you a commi or a fascist? I’m a little confused.
So you're a dipshit troll, RevelinConcentration! Going to change your profile name after this post into mine - like you did on other threads? Great to know I have my own security state minder who monitors my posts to try to troll me, impersonate me. I take it as a compliment that I've arrived on the minder's radar because what I share threatens them. So, thank you! Now go F your mother. And visit a Canadian MAiD to finish yourself off.
Elucidate CM ,unfamiliar .
NL historically got itself so (intnlly) embarassed- on how easy it was to off those so requesting ...
So much so that Edward Brongersma ,40 years chief criminologist now has a limpid page in dutch ,lionising the writer of 'Boylove' ,who went on NL nat TV 1998 -to defend Dutroux's 14 child skeletions under foundations .
If Rutte is not of same ilk ,I will bite a piece out of own posterior .Certainly has several intl judges accepting witness statements of 9th circle factural involvement ,according to Kevin Annett .
The GP who off'd EB ,notably under arrest for a year ,as latter was entirely 'healthy' - only felt hard done by ,just 2 bricks through his Wassenaar mansion window (-Had 8 ,just for opposing stichting Martijn )- the corrupt incubator of Rutte ,EB ,and everything in between ,before it was nominally rendered illegal ,2015)
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QUOTE: ... some batteries, that store less than 1/2 GW?
The basic point is of course valid, but the technical details in the original piece compare power output (for the battery facility, measured in Megawatt MW) with total power generated over time (aka ENERGY, measured in MW*h* (Megawatt Hours) or TW*h* (Terawatt Hours)) for the nuclear reactors.
According to this piece (link below) in a trade journal, the power output of the proposed battery facility is 400 MW. Total storage capacity is 700 MH*h*. Thus, at full power output, the battery facility will provide LESS THAN TWO HOURS of power, presumably in order to meet daily demand peaks. Not mentioned in the piece is that chemical batteries work for a limited number of power cycles and then fail.
https://www.power-technology.com/news/rwe-breaks-ground-on-germanys-largest-battery-storage-facility/
As you state, all batteries have a usable life, as do wind turbines & solar panels.
This latest investment may have a 20 year lifespan?
What is the true payback?
Just some of the questions I have about reliable energy.
QUOTE: This latest investment may have a 20 year lifespan?
Even 20 years seems highly optimistic. At least the actual battery cells will have to be replaced every few years.
The bar for being a ‘genius politician’ has been set at what must be an all time low.
And The Simpsons!
https://i.imgflip.com/aa8afk.jpg
The inverted Hanlon's Razor
Yes! Lolol.
Sheftall's Razor.
I started to write something, but words are failing me. Time for action. Leadership abhors a vacuum. There used to be a lot of smart people around here. . .
I share your astonished reaction. But in me it provokes nostalgic tears.
Will the German government provide kites and keys to the populace so they can capture their own electricity from lightning, in the manner of Ben Franklin? That appears to be where they're headed.
Exactly. Its like that joke:
What did communists use before candles?
Electricity
If so, it would have to be 100% biologically degradable kites with 100% certified materials that were produced without any sweatshop labour.
To coin a phrase, "And there it is."
This seems to be a crucial part of the signal, the public destruction of the evil although up to now its been mostly coal fired plants.
I can't laugh. A once-proud people reduced to self destructive zombies.
Yes!!!! But they and we continue to give these nutters airtime. When will it end? When we decide we've had more than enough, thank you.
And I thought Oregon's politicians were insane...
They are . “ I know , let’s just legalize all drugs including heroin and give out free needles to anyone who wants to comatose in our public parks “ ….what could go wrong ?
Yeah, I hope everyone learned from our example.
I remember when they blew up the cooling tower at the Trojan Nuclear Plant near Rainier--they didn't waste much time taking THAT place apart either. I lost my job out there when they closed that place.
As a lot of people I knew lost their jobs in forest products over false "science" around spotted owls. The manipulation of evidence goes back to the 80's. Nuclear technology was safe then, and still is. There was no human-caused threat to spotted owls then, or ever. But our elites were perfectly willing to sacrifice those jobs in service to their fantasies.
I remember that was the first time I started paying attention to local politics. A cousin of mine lost his logging job over that owl.
I was on the science side and watched in horror as the scientific process was manipulated in ways that weren't supposed to be possible. Unfortunately, I've seen it over and over again, especially with the climate agenda and then COVID.
Orcas breeding success rate at little and big Cumbrae is significantly less than 0.1% ,over 30-40 years .
The number of un-infected radioactive expanding burns from skeleton to skin in selfsame waters in HunterstonPower station - Firth of Clyde in small and large whales referred to by local fisherman as 'acid burns '
My best friend's dad engineered Hunterston .20 years after his birth - radio Clyde advised -in public - all with such a father to get checked on chromosone 11 (22) .
Niel was dead of lukemia within 7 years therafter .
So scotland has nuclear waste buried in Mulwacher Southern Uplands - Burns Country ,near Loch Doon.
Grandmothers camping out in winter from Carsphairn .
No ,nothing to see here .
We have legacy problems from the Manhattan Project installations on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in central Washington as well. I was referring to the newer power stations like Trojan, which never had any problems and could have provided power for decades longer.
Political insanity knows no borders, here in Canada, our federal government and the B.C. and Ontario provincial governments are all massive 💩shows. The actions of these politicians is becoming more and more likely to rip this country apart but they carry on, oblivious to the damage they're causing on their home turf.
That's why the eastern side of Oregon is trying to join Idaho. It's become clear that sanity isn't coming back to Portland anytime soon, and they have the votes to control the state.
I live in Alberta and I'm a 72 year old separatist, so old enough to know better. I was a patriotic Canadian right up until the time Canada left me. That was when Canadians, mostly from east of Saskatchewan and west of Alberta, elected Justin Trudeau to be Canada's prime minister. One Trudeau as prime minister, in a country's history, is more than enough, too much even. The father, at least, had some intellectual capacity, the son is an idiot. Even I didn't predict the damage Justin Trudeau would do to Canada. If Canada ultimately collapses into a group of smaller countries, where what's still called Canada is a much smaller version than you see on today's map of the world, and I do believe this will eventually happen, the person who will be most credited with the eventual breakup of Canada will be Justin Trudeau. So while now Mark Carney as P.M., leading much the same Liberal government in Ottawa, flits about the world and only stopping occasionally to poke another stick into Donald Trump's eye, I sit here in Alberta, watching with some bemusement as Canada's economy and our nation's cohesion both go slowly circling down the drain and the calls and support for separation grow louder and stronger here in Alberta and in our neighbour to the east, Saskatchewan. There's even talk of both provinces leaving together at the same time and then joining to form a new nation. I don't know exactly what Alberta separation would like but I sense it is coming. Something most Americans, and the rest of the world for that matter, don't know is that there is an actual mechanism, as determined by the Supreme Court of Canada in 1995, that allows for a province to legally remove itself from Confederation and pursue a different future on its own.
Those of us in the Greater Idaho movement are watching you with great interest and are encouraged by the progress of your separation attempt.
Fascinating; thanks for this comment. I couldn't understand how JTrudeau got away with blatant lies, not to mention bonkers overreaction against the truckers' convoy. Then again I couldn't understand how BHO got away with everything he did. Even now we have few if any examples of any of those folks or their followers truly realizing or repenting the error of their ways.
I spent a little time in Alberta about 15 years ago and really liked it. Wishing you and Saskatchewan the best, hopefully with self-determination in your future!
But follow the history.
See Maurice Strong, touted as a Canadian "hero" of climate and globalism. Follow through Brian Mulroney, Trilateral Commission, etc.
Then Pierre Trudeau in between.
This now looks like the same log ride (my favourite at Expo67 !) ending in the same pond.
I attended the WeUnify "Reclaiming Canada " conference in Calgary last month and share the sense that Albertans are not long for continuing their subjugation by Ottawa, Toronto, and Montreal. Out here there is still no viable solution to NDP policies. Maybe you could get the BC interior to join you, but there is still the Indian (non)-Treaty problem.
Well, just because Maurice Strong was nominally a Canadian didn't make him or his ideas correct. Climate change has always been on this planet and always will be. It's a red herring that tree huggers, globalists, and left wing politicians all love because they can say that "the science is solved", when it's nothing of the sort. For Pete's sake, we on most of the earth's landmass go through major climate change four times a year, it's called the seasons. Anyone with an ounce of sense can see civilization didn't end. We've now been through over 60 years of alarmist climate predictions, all of them predicting dire events within a couple decades or less, and not one of them remotely close to coming true. Computer models are GIGO, garbage in - garbage out. With climate influenced by many different factors, most of which scientists are still struggling to understand the mechanics of how these factors interact with and affect the earth's climate, all the computer models that have been used so far do not have all the necessary inputs to be accurate, nor are these inputs being accurately weighted. Confirmation bias still reigns supreme in the world of climate science computer modeling. Maybe at some future date scientists will finally understand all the factors that affect climate and gow they all interact but that day is still years, even decades away. So the current computer model data is not worth the paper they print it on and, as such, no climate change computer model data should ever be used to set any important policy of any kind in politics, economics, culture, or social interaction. The science is most definitely Not Settled.
Regarding Strong and the list you mentioned, it is the very same "Logride". Before Strong global elitism was around, had been for centuries, but it was all hither and yon, with real central purpose or even point of view. After Strong, this group of individuals began to coalesce, the WEF was born, and so on. But Canada has always had a problem with elitists running the country. Long before the global elite began their power grab the Laurentian elite had been doing all they could to keep the prairies poor, a captive market for central Canadian manufactured goods, and a supplier of cheap raw materials and cheap foodstuffs. Two names you mentioned, Brian Mulroney and Pierre Trudeau, were both Laurentian elitists, both from the same uppercrust area of Montreal, and thus, both Quebecois. For all their political differences they were two sides of the same coin. Mulroney wasn't the economic disaster Trudeau was but he wasn't all that good either. Neither were particularly well-liked in Alberta either, this was the particular reason that Mulroney chose Don Mazankowski as his deputy P.M., an Albertan from a rural riding though close to Edmonton, who, in some ways, was quite the opposite of Mulroney. Mazankowski was affable enough but not nearly as gregarious as was Mulroney. Mulroney was big city money, glitz, and glamour while Mazankowski was from a small Alberta farm town and had the values and viewpoint that were characteristic of such a background. They actually worked quite well together, a tribute to Mulroney's political sense and some degree of decency. Albertans have long had to put up with a degree of Laurentian elitist snobbishness from both sides of the Parliamentary aisle, Mulroney helped to break that cycle just a little.
You mentioned WeUnify and the "Reclaiming Canada" conference in Calgary. I must confess, though I've heard of WeUnify and I might have even heard something about the conference, I know nothing about WeUnify, though the name suggests this organization represents people interested in keeping Canada whole as it currently exists on the map. I'm sure a lot of Albertans agree with this sentiment but I'm no longer one of them. I'm a baby boomer and used to be a very patriotic Canadian, even anti-American, though I grew out of that by the time I was in my late 20s. But no more. I've been leaning towards separation for close to two decades now. Even with a Conservative prime minister from Calgary, Albertans still seem to get screwed by Ottawa. Even an Albertan P.M. has to kiss the collective behinds of the Laurentian Elite to stay in political power. The system, including the constitution, is simply skewed in central Canada's favour, at the expense of everyone else in the country. And this won't change from within the system. So separatism seems the only choice Alberta has to really unleash this province's. It won't happen within Confederation so it will have to happen from outside the country. I think separation is still some time in the future but one never knows about such things until they actually occur. As for a chunk of B.C. coming along to join Alberta, it's probably more difficult for a part of an individual province to leave that specific province, than it would be for that entire province to leave Canada. So while I might welcome eastern British Columbians to join Alberta for the ride, particularly people in the northeastern Peace River country whom, in general, most closely align with the Albertans in the eastern side of the Peace River country, I don't really think it will happen. Maybe it would but right now I don't see how. Saskatchewan, on the other hand, is an entirely different matter. Our natural close proximity and affinity, maybe moreso than any other two provinces in the entire country, plus a truly shared history from before the time we became provinces would make leaving the country together and joining to create a new nation, with significant natural resources and huge potential, an attractive proposition indeed. We even already have a new national capital, Lloydminster, our border city split in two down the middle by the border between the two provinces. This could be a truly serious consideration, build a new capital more or less centered between Edmonton and Saskatoon. Whatever, I do expect Alberta will one day leave Confederation, maybe in 6 or 7 years, maybe in 20 years. I just hope I'm still around to see it. Time will tell.
Thanks for the info.
I used to wonder why the British Foreign Office was prepared to cede so much to the US from what had been our territory in the north west.
Now I think it was wise. The populations and their governments (?rulers) have lost their minds.
Governors
Something about the coast…
Are you really in Epping? Kind of a focal point there as well.
Yes. I live a few hundred yards (meters) from the hotel. The first protesters included a few local Reform Party female members (I am a Reform Party member) and they were swholly local worried people. Subsequently the source of the protesters widened geographically and became more male but it is still largely local.
It is also peaceful almost all the time. Thursdays and Sundays are the busiest but if a Court hearing or a mistaken prisoner release happens there are more protesters.
Brits and especially the English never had cause to show their national flags or to boast about our heritage because we were so settled and confident about these things. Only the EU, the attempt to break up the UK (Blair of course) and massive immigration by disconsonant cultural peopl;e has cause the display of flags around the Epping hotel and much more widely.
History at your doorstep. This is certainly a fascinating time, watching institutional expertise beclown itself in increasing unbelievable ways. Even something that should be as foolproof as a prisoner release, isn't.
Hope you don't have to wait until the next scheduled election to start turning it around.
For a long time there has also been a movement in Northern California to separate off from the rest of California and become a new state. They haven't made much progress, sad to say.
State of Jefferson, still has some support.
Doesn’t the breaking up of nation states into smaller, regional groupings determined by economic, geographic and social interests play into the Technocrats’ ideal scenario?
It's the opposite. The globalists want more projects like the European Union.
I’m not sure about it being the opposite, I have a sense it is more like “All roads lead to Rome.” I believe it was a talk by Patrick Wood in which he goes thru the history of Technocracy and I recall there being something about decentralized areas linked to global governance structures and the whole thing being run by technocrats and AI rather than elected politicians.
The west coast health alliance or whatever it is called could be shaping up to be an example of this sort of thing. The question is whether such an entity can then be a member of the WHO?
God forbid!
...but they are 'virtuous' no? 🤪
Precisely, they are virtuous? NO!!
I feel really badly admitting that this is my 3rd winter where I’m realizing some Germans may need to freeze to death before the majority of them wake up.
I can already tell you that it will have been Putin‘s fault. Narcissists are incapable of admitting to having been wrong, least of all to themselves.
“ nothing focuses the mind like getting hung in a fortnight “
Keep talking.
It’s hard to know when you’ve said enough.
It’s hard to know when they’ll hear enough and change.
Let's hope a majority of them ain't put into that eternal frozen sleep by this lunacy.
No no Charlotte,you forget global warming ,Germany may be forced to import Russian ice to keep from roasting . But the tarif's will prevent that solution . The Germans are toast .
If I recall correctly, our goodly author told us that he abandoned academia in the United States, owing to the intolerable douche baggery of the professorate and administrative nags.
As I look back, I think my professors in Toronto were in equal measure 1/losers, 2/weirdos, and 3/supremely brilliant people who I deeply admire. Just saying.
This article has put me in a very bad mood. (Not the author he is the 3rd kind of professor.)
Absolute hubris, but think about the weather sir…
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G3uWvvGXwAAI7dN?format=jpg&name=medium
There you go again ..confusing us with actual facts .
Incredible chart .
Imagine what it is in real life though, because there is no way the Chinese have broken their decades long habit of cooking the data…
What counts is weather man-made CO2 has any SIGNIFICANT negative impact on on the "ecological balance, (which) is a theory that proposes that ecological systems are usually in a stable equilibrium or homeostasis, which is to say that a small change (the size of a particular population, for example) will be corrected by some negative feedback that will bring the parameter back to its original "point of balance" with the rest of the system"(Wiki - yes, I know...)
CO2 and its effect is irrelevant. It is the current mechanism to assert control. A century ago or more it was International Communism. Before that you can take your pick from any number of religious cults and offshoots.
The key element that ties them together is psychologically unhealthy people in positions of authority. Think of Rev. Jim Jones but in virtually all institutions, from media and academia to the police, the courts and your local council. All gripped by a zealotry we fail to understand.
No one in the climate agenda world reasoned themselves into their position on CO2; you can tell because they don't talk about CO2 they talk about"carbon." They don't know the difference and nor do they care. It is a hook on which to peg their need to control us. Nothing more. If it somehow fails they will use meat consumption, internet use, smoking, alcohol, car driving, porn or video games. They are mentally unwell. The cause doesn't matter.
This is an unwinnable fight.
we are the carbon they plan to reduce
Too few take this seriously. The kind of fanatics Eugyppius writes about would have no qualms euthanizing you and your family to save the planet.
post-partum abortion up until death is the newest right
Indeed. I can see why some insist they are possessed by demons.
Some guy on YouTube (maybe UK scientist) seems certain than CO2 is a LAGGING indicator.
This "global warming" (although in 1960's it was "global cooling") is definitely political REGARDLESS that ANY project/study in the US reputably must have a climate change term in the title/description to get funding.
Sabin?
Nuking China and India (and a couple Volcanoes, including the undersea ones) is the only solution to the CO2 crises, I dont trust anyone who is not advocating these “easy” solutions to the issue…
How do we know that there is a crisis though? It’s not entirely clear that there is a climate crisis. The settled climate science for the past 130 years is merely that CO2 emissions should increase the greenhouse effect by some unknown amount. That's it. But you’re right that the Rube Goldberg solutions like EVs, solar and wind power are less than useless. I remember when mount Pinatubo in the Philippines erupted and caused cooler temperatures
There is no crisis.
But I think Flatline meant so-called crises.
Looking at that graph, it should surprise no one that China supports the "environmental wackos" (admittedly a prejudicial term but reveals my point of view) around the world. And when energy is in short (self ordained) supply, it gives governments the excuse to control it for the "common good". And by controlling speech, this keeps people from hearing any other point of view- except the government point of view. Small wonder that schools, usually dependent at least to some extent on government support, seem to be teaching WHAT to think rather than (previously) HOW to think.
No wonder some people have mentioned making "climate denial" illegal. If (global warming) was BS (and/or people actually believed that that graph was "non fiction") then this whole scam would fall apart.
The "climate change" narrative seems rather fragile, without outside support.
Ad the money spent to support it!
$$$$$$$$$
China's official government policy is strict non-interference in leading Western states. Their diagnosis is all of them will cease to exist by 2050 due to mass immigration alone. The climate suicide insanity is just an accelerant.
I am inclined to agree with their prognosis. We are dying, all of us. And we are busy arranging deckchairs while the iceberg looms.
China is secretly funding traitors in the West to help propagate the climate fraud.
Yes of course. But it is barely needed. Demographic change will destroy Western nations anyway. Climate initiatives just speed our decline.
possibly, but there seems to be a counterrevolution going on, so I'm hopeful.
I think we will prevail, but it will be brutal.
They aren't even secretive about it. They know there are a lot of moronic climate hysterics to drink their kool-aid, and they don't even have to try very hard to subvert them all.
Superb.
Everybody in the West should take a glance at this chart.
I'm not one who has any business making predictions, but I predict that the picture of that explosion is going to be infamous. It's going to have a notoriety that will far surpass the picture that was responsible for the Streisand Effect.
These greenies are living in a self-reinforcing spiral of madness-induced absurdities, of which this seems to be the (current) pinnacle; the ultimate self-flagellating penance as they drive themselves into their own self-inflicted Dark Age. Times will be hard, but at least the planet will be comfortable!
Yup. These people have just become the acceptable faces of barbarism
In reality, this will just widen the economical gap, creating an 'under-class' destined for destruction (self inflicted or by state tyranny), vs. a self-rightious elite... Where have I heard this before..? (cough-Soviet Union-cough)
Perhaps as infamous as the explosion of the Hindenburg which would be an ironic result. You folks can fill in the blanks on this one.....it strikes me as hard to fathom how the German populace can keep falling for these "solutions".
As unemployed Germans sit inside their freezing homes while trying to fend off invading Muslims, at least they can look out the window and take pride in the dramatic improvement in the climate their sacrifices have brought about.
In addition to blow up nuclear energy sources ,coal mines are shut down .Once they where the lifeblood of German industry .The shafts have been filled in and windmills planted on top of it . I think grave stones would make more sense then the windmills ,
They will need to learn Arabic and study the Quran because if they don't convert, their throats will eventually be slit. Convert or die, that's the Islamic belief at its most extreme.
Hello from a PA farm boy in Germany. That was not the first "celebration of demolition" of cooling towers at a nuclear plant. Two years ago they "decommissioned" a fully functional plant. The only thing missing in the Chyron was "wir schaffen das."
I grew up in Pennsylvania where the first language was not English but Pennsylvania Dutch. My first visit was in 1979 with a chum from the international school I attended. (Incidentally, Perkiomen School was founded by a relative; Oscar Kriebel) In '83 and '84, I was here as a tourist, with the latter visit resulting in a 10-year ban on entering the country. Later in the 80s, I spent time under the radar on the US Marine's dime in Landstuhl, getting put back together in my pursuit to "make the world safe for democracy." My love for the German people and culture should be beyond question.
I've lived in Germany for over 20 years and have seen the decline firsthand. I chose to go the route of the trades instead of using my engineering degrees to work for Ford or Toyota. As a result, I have a bit of perspective from the working class regarding the decline of Germany over the last few years.
Mutti Merkel might have been well-loved here, but anyone paying attention knew that her motives we not as pure as the driven snow. Perhaps Osama Obama had additional information from his snooping on her personal calls beside telling Jürgen to turn the heat up.
My German wife was one of those at protests "Hop-hop-hop, Atomraketen stop." Me? Back in the 80s? When they were building a nuclear plant in Limerick, PA (now 10 years overdue for demolition). I was arrested for putting up signs "Limerick—Ground Ground Zero" I was young and naive, but there was the "small problem" at Three-Mile-Island previously.
From my perspective, Germany is following the script for the book by the much-vilified Thilo Sarrazin. At both economic and demographic levels Germany is/has passed the point of no return.
The Greens all beat their chests, tear their garments, and sing in the discordant choir of "sustainability." The result of which is the absolute opposite. Without industry, employment, and production of physical products for sale on the open market, there will be no money to finance their delusional, unsustainable nonsense.
Germany was the #1 export nation in the world, only to be overtaken by China in the past 15 years. 15 years? What was the ruling coalition in Germany?
I can't say this out loud at home or at work, but the AfD appears to be the only party that might be able to correct the course of Germany. The nation is sailing into the abyss, guided by the Sirens' call of the "climate change" narrative. (https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/homer/the-odyssey/william-cullen-bryant/text/book-12)
The only way to save all industrialized nations is to cast off the chains of NGOs and special interests.
It would be a boon for humanity to turn AI/KI loose to "follow the money" and track down the perpetrators of these attacks on the way of life for us working folks.
I am curious as to how much food you have stored in case of a crisis in Germany.
Two cases of water, a gas stove as well as a stocked pantry. We also have a well on our property.
Thanks for your reply Krispy Kris.
"I can't say this out loud at home or at work, but the AfD appears to be the only party that might be able to correct the course of Germany."
The analysis is clear: Germans must grow enough of a set to say AND vote this, or they must get their affairs in order to bequeath entirely to their conquerors.
Here in the US, our own recent "crucifixion event" has suddenly given conservative and Christian students the fortitude to organize massively over their leftist oppressors.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/this-turning-point-tpusa-says-campus-chapter-requests-surge-over-54000-after-kirks-assassination
I wouldn't wish an assassination on any AfD worthy, but speaking strictly in terms of realpolitik, if one did happen, it might be one of the best things for common-sense, freedom-loving Germans.
Henry, attempts on AfD members lives have already occured. The German (Yellow ) Press presents them as all but harmless events, with the undertone that the attack was deserved.
I don't know what you know about the gun rights in Germany, but yes, we are allowed to have guns, but it is almost prohibitively expensive due to permit costs, licencing and other costs. EVERY SINGLE GUN is registered in a database (just like in 1938). The manner of storage of guns and ammunition is strictly enforced, and the government office is entitled to come and inspect without notice. How is this pertinent? They have been revoking the gun permits of AfD members and supporters of the AfD.
The oppressive firearms regime is known to me. I have been a scholar of firearms rights for 35+ years. Except for a minor perturbation in Switzerland (which is now succumbing to peer pressure) we view pretty much all European firearms regimes as equally unacceptable.
We have a saying here that the ones who wish to take your guns plan to do something to you that they could not do if you still had them.
As the saying goes: "What does a government do after taking all the guns? Anything it wants." Without the Second Amendment, there is no guarantee of the security of the first. America was founded by geniuses and is now run by idiots. Germany has not had a competent leader since Konrad Adenauer, which was perhaps the pinnacle of when the CDU was actually relevant, with the exception of Kohl. Arguably, Helmut Schmidt, Helmut Kohl, and Gerhard Schröder were perhaps the last chancellors of Germany before it started it's decline. I'd have to look deeper, but it might be interesting to compare the decline in German politics in regard to who was in power in the USA.
Professor, I quote the inimitable Curtis Yarvin:
“If we want to know what a darwinian system will evolve we have to look at the selective pressures on its organisms.
What is our cathedral selecting for?
The selective advantage of an idea may not be driven solely by the quality of that idea . When an idea goes arwy, becomes perverse, it must be because of the pattern of selective advantage in this marketplace of ideas.
A dominant idea is an idea that validates the use of power . There is no market for recessive ideas, recessive ideas, invalidate power or the use of power. A dominant idea is an idea that tends to benefit you and your friends.
The cathedral cannot tell us whether an idea is good or bad because it will always select for the dominant idea. Our institutions cannot hear think know learn understand or teach ANY recessive ideas : that is any ideas that would damage or delegitimate the powers that be.
Punishment and reward are different ways of getting to the same place that is human dominion.
Yarvin is brilliant. I love his take on “ Democratic government “ . “ Try and imagine the state of California creating and producing an IPhone “
I should point out that in 2008 the state set out to build a hi speed rail from SF to LA . Non stop in 2 hrs 45 minutes . As of today ,17 years later and 30 billion wasted we have no rail on the ground . All we have is an overpass in …..Fresno ( look at a map )
People who have a hard time understanding things like the "high speed rail" in CA have been fooled by the folks "building" it into accepting a false premise. The premise they've accepted is "we are building a high speed rail system". They accepted it because that's what the politicians and their "experts" told them. But that is not the real reason for the project. The real reason is the same real reason for all government projects:
To spend the money.
Once you understand this, all those "inefficient, stupid, outrageous, over-budget" projects make perfect sense. They are jobs programs and graft vehicles. The idea is to transfer as much wealth out of your pockets into the pockets of the politicians' favorite supporters as possible, some of which will then come back to the politicians in the form of donations or gifts.
When you understand the true purpose, you will see that not only do these things make perfect sense, they're also *wildly successful*. You'll understand that things like the "high speed rail", or Solyndra, are beautiful and flawless tools for fleecing ignorant taxpayers of their wealth.
I think a lot of people, especially on the left, know this is true.
And a lot of people, esp on the left, spend a lot of time pretending that “spending the money” (as you described) is NOT the goal.
To be fair, there are a few things, or at least some things for a while, where leftist and govt people are actually trying to achieve an agreed goal. (Eg, educating the kids).
But:
1. The lose the goal or don’t measure, get feedback, and correct.
2. In general the left and govt is very incompetent at DOING anything. Their good people are mainly good at conceptualizing and talking.
Once again, a false premise. The "Good Reason" is "educating the kids", but the real reason is *destroying* their education, because educated people can see through ruses like "High-Speed Rail". Now that we have a population that, instead of being taught to use their faculties of reason to properly discern reality from falsehood are instead taught that men can change into women by merely speaking magic words and that rich people are evil, "High Speed Rail" graft is easy.
You seem to think I was disagreeing with you, when I was agreeing. I did have a typo or two. Maybe a double negative.
What I am still puzzled by is how these leftists, some of whom I like or even love, can be so stupid on some of these issues.
Not at all, I was just clarifying based upon your statement that we have common cause with leftists on things like education. That belief is not borne out by the actual effects, so one is forced to either realize that leftists are either 100% consistently incompetent, or that their real goals don't match their stated goals.
Milton friedman recounts a general in Indonesia having a canal built without tractors. Friedman questioned this, the general replied more jobs without the use of tractors. To which friedman said if they wanted to create even more jobs, give the workers spoons rather than shovels.
Perhaps California got the idea for the pretend work on the high speed rail from the Indonesian general….
And the federal government in the USA has been endeavoring since 1991 to put a man on Mars.
How's that coming along?!!
Not well . It’s been almost 60 years and we can’t even get back to the moon .
Actually we can’t do much of anything except create new financial derivatives. And print more dollars .
Does any of this comport with your thinking?
of course, I am very sympathetic to this kind of reasoning.
Never despair. It doesn't help. Life is short enough. Look around you and compare your situations with others. It can always get worse, maybe in comparison it is not so bad?
Despair slows down thinking and makes it easy to get into a "doom loop" Thinking yourself out of a bad situation is the most realistic hope.
Laughter can divert us too, and can help people see your point of view from the unexpected juxposition (in this case that some people think a idea of "improvement" is in alignment with deindustrialization and inpovershment + very expensive energy)
The cathedral effect is in my opinion, the intersection of healthy human ambition and practical considerations like not losing your job, . You gotta go along to get ahead. We are doomed. Your plague Chronicle is just that, a chronicling of our inevitable and unavoidable (yes?) failures. This is our fallen world.
Unavoidable, yes?
As an American it took me a while to figure out the European parliamentary system. After casual observation and head scratching I have concluded that it always tends to reinforce establishment parties, like so much cathedral selection.
I've concluded that parliamentary systems are so voting cannot change the government. Maybe things will get so out of whack that AfD, Reform and FN get outright majorities but doubtful. If they do get in power their incentive, an entirely appropriate one, would be to abolish the prior government and form a new republic.
I think AfD would have to reach 51% or more so a coalition is not required, but E or the other natives here would know for sure. I think that as things get worse they can approach 80%. Look at the 80/20 issue of incarceration/deportation of foreign gang bangers in USA. Surprising but achievable. The only Q of how bad does it get before this conclusion is reached.
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Cool I think Curtis is the shit.
He is brilliant and extremely well read . He has led me to many great books .
So you believe in “ Democracy “ ? How ‘s that working for you ? Does your vote make a difference ? No person is illegal ? Trans rights are human rights? Black Lives Matter ? Free Huey Newton ?
I need to read Yarvin at least once a week. He cuts through the shit. Generally speaking, I think I understand about 2/3 of what he says, but I think he likes it that way. He also regularly insults his audience. I appreciate that.
> The truth is that the shrieking media personalities and activists leading the charge don’t want to have good jobs or to bequeath our children a nation full of prospects. Sometimes it seems like they don’t even want to heat their homes in winter
For the last fifteen years of my life, I have lived in places where if the temperature goes below freezing, it is very very unusual. As everyone knows, I don't live in a place like that now.
last week I accidentally locked myself out of my house taking out the trash, in my gym shorts. One hour outside, 5C weather, and holy fuck I will set every chunk of coal on fire and blanket the sky with CO2 if that's what it takes to make it never be this cold ever again. And this isn't even cold yet! It'll be -40 outside in 3 months, I know I've taken that before, but I don't think I can take that now. Fuck the planet, it needs to be warmer anyway
Talk about burning your bridges. I wonder how much this was motivated by the desire to completely remove the option to reverse course on energy production.
tl:dr-anser: One of the go-to states and personality-traits of a politruk/apparatchik/corporat is "Because Fuck You, that's why".
Rant:
Ca 100%. It is a feature of that hybrid-mongrel creature common in all large organisations, that can execute orders so well they inevitably end up promoted to a position where they have to think for themselves.
And thus, they equally inevitably create situations where they need to destroy all other options since doing so is the only way their idea can be the best one.
To this type of creature, this makes perfect sense without any malicious aforethought (or any afterthought) because lacking creativity and imagination both, this is how they understand the world: people do things which have been decided upon by committee as being the Right Thinh To Do, and so... in endless fractal recursions.
Down South, where I used to live, the state authority for railroads (all railroads in Sweden are nationalised, have been since the 1950s) decided that a line crossing the southern region of Scania from SW to NE was to be scrapped. The counties along the route offered to buy it at cost and run it themselves as public transport, as otherwise one had to go on a round-trip of Scania (which is a small region, barely 150km on the side, with coast on three sides - and all the major roads follow the coast - so a diagonal rail-line made perfect sense).
The state authority said no, the counties appealed to the government, and the governement upheld the decision to not just close the line but to remove the railroad completely so that no later demands for re-opening it could be made.
As I said, BFYtw is built-in.
"they inevitably end up promoted to a position where they have to think for themselves.'
Important Observation: Many students of the bureaucratic mind have concluded that after any length of time in that mind numbingly, stifling environment, the probability of any individual possessing any ability to "think for themselves", approaches zero.
Yes - from talking to such in private, I've come to suspect it is a survival/coping mechanism run amok.
Some learn to switch on/off so that they are the stereotypical automaton at work.
Some have, for whatever reasons, a personality that makes them naturals at seemingly mindlessly follow orders, and which they therefore never can switch off, as there's no off to switch to.
And for some, the majority I suspect, the switch eventually gets spot-welded to "on" (or "off" but that results in the individual getting the eff out of Dodge).
I too have experienced a workplace where the ad for the job said they wanted "creative individuals used to thinking outside off the box", and the actual job was "follow Margret around for the first week so you know what we do and how, then repeat that until you retire".
Maybe 50 000 years into the future we will have two human races: the individual ones, and the eusocial ones.
Are you postulating that homo-eusocial will still exist that far in the future?
At the rate they're going, even 50 years seems optimistic!
I'll have to get back to you on that one.
Perhaps I've read "The Time Machine" on time too many.
Like they tried to do with the bought and paid for Mexico-US border wall in the US. Biden* sold the purchased and assembled (but not installed) border wall as scrap to various metal scrapping companies for pennies on the dollar. I understand money was raised to purchase this back from the companies before Jan 20 2024.
And of course Project Veritas film of the EPA apparatachek bragging of "throwing gold bars off the Titanic" where the EPA moved many billions to various NGO's so Trump couldn't use it. This money was "clawed back" however
Maybe gun licenses should be issued for shooting eider ducks. The feathers make very warm clothes and blankets.
Chose blankets because you won’t be going anywhere.
Good idea, hopefully they'll start target practicing in the next Bundestag Parliament Session.
Look at the bright side ,In no time Germans will learn from migrants how to live without energy and industry .Migrants lived for centuries without energy ,Industry or housing . They will teach Germans how to live inside a circle of sicks in the ground . Diversity can solve any problem .
Its hilarious when the Neocon fanbois say that America has to get involved in the war in Ukraine because Putin is going to take Europe next. Once I stop laughing I have to ask, why would Putin want some muslim shitholes like England or France or why would he want to have to take care of the dumbest people on earth in Germany? No one wants to take over Europe because then you have to take care of their retarded, useless populations. Just let them all commit suicide like they want to and then we can build something nice on their ruins.
Well, you guys have reached the level of my idiot ex- and late father-in-law, respected professor of English and high-level civil servant that he was, over in one of Those Places, who built his lovely house to be all-electric and without fallback fireplaces in a region that experienced power outages for at least six hours a day in the winter rainy season, and I can testify that homes built to withstand the brutal summer heat are mighty, mighty chilly when it ain't sunshiny outside.
When our little coal brazier wasn't enough to keep my twinkly toes from freezing I'd go down the street to one of the in-laws' places where a cozy fire would be all nice and toasty.
Congratulations, Germany, for truly reaching that third-world level at last.
I ain't actually that much better off though in New England. Even though my building has hot-water baseboard heat, when the power goes out as it does not infrequently in the winter months, we getses our selveses cold too. Worse off in a sense, without the feeble remedy of braziers. You guys understand now why I do that crocheting so much? You never can have too many cozy cardigans.
German progressives are striving for the added moral virtue involved in attaining third-world status.
You know, after surviving them multicultural adventures of mine I really came to understand Scarlett O'Hara's determination not to experience reversals of fortune ever again.
German people have to suffer more before things change. At least the world has a first hand view of what happens when the inmates run the asylum.
Silver lining?
Practically speaking, there is no silver lining.
It has to get worse before it gets better, something something….
The problem is that if it gets much worse, the damage will be irreparable. Well, we're probably past that point already.
The worry becomes:
And then what?
Departing EU? AfD says they wish to work from within the EU but perhaps they’ll change their mind considering the loony policies coming from there.
Putin said Europe is in his rear view mirror. No cheap fuels in future.
Reconstitution of government? These European governments were set up by USA after WW2. Maybe it’s time they ditch what ain’t working.
The EU has become like a roach hotel....the elites of the nations check their countries in but the populace can never check out.....just observe how Orban/Hungary and Fico/Slovakia are being set up for shunning.....for the EU elites, though, once the tipping point comes it's unlikely that any semblance of order will survive. There is hope though, barring Israel starting the flinging of nukes, the market will eventually solve this problem.....populations that have experience the luxury of civilization don't really like the kind of deprivation that results from the kind of policies embraced by the "West". Or I could be full of hot air.
No you’re not.
It’s an interesting academic exercise for me to observe though I am not insensitive to the plight of civilians. I feel that way about UKR vs RUS as well. I suspect all aspects of the conflict will be studied for decades. From the propaganda war to the attrition to the, “what ifs.” I sound like an a-hole, like I’m carving up people’s lives just to satisfy my own curiosity. I don’t mean that.
You mean “ life sucks and then we die “ ?
Yeah.
You said it better.
Yes . Some country will have to implode to expose the net zero hoax .
A part of Progressivism of any sort is the belief that you can blow shit up or burn it down and that, in that, you will feline-like land on your feet and be all the better for it. Voila! Progress! That humanist confidence is pure in its self-deceptive self-destructive draw. This is the sickness that is Utopia.