There is something inspiring about your beer posting. It is not yet noon in America but my sense of purpose is to leave work, go to the health foods store, and find this Augustiner-Bräu (supermarket will not have).
I think what is sold here is all fake. I tried a Belgian beer long ago and it tasted about the same as budweiser - I used to call it horse P. Same with wines, nothing tastes good but one Portuguese which I stopped drinking when I caught my baby dog licking from my glass ! Haven't drunk alcohol in 8 years now.
Read and quite enjoyed both, looking very much forward to your next installment together!
The two of you compliment each other very well, and your unique approaches dovetail together to put out a product that is vastly informative yet easily understandable to we laymen.
Prost to you both, here's to more fantastic collaborations!
"Phobia of nuclear power is a cultural phenomenon in Germany that extends well beyond Green voters, with origins in Chernobyl"
That's not entirely correct. The Greens were founded in 1980 and achieved election success into the Bundestag already in 1983, so three years before Chernobyl. The anti nuclear movement grew already heavily in the 70s. Chernobyl was certainly a booster for the Greens (like the refugee crisis of 2015 was for the AfD), but it looks to me like it wasn't the origin of the unique nuclear phobia in Germany
i would have to study this more. the anti-nuclear activists were a thing across the west in the 1970s, but anti-nuclear as an orienting Green obsession with unique intensity in Germany surely seems rooted in Chernobyl and its cultural sequelae to me.
Chernobyl wasn't a German accident. It doesn't explain why nuclear angst is so much stronger in Germany than in France or Poland. Or in computer science terms: you have the same information input (Chernobyl) in all Western countries but a different cultural output. Heck, not even Ukraine did develop such nuclear phobia and they really had to deal with actual Chernobyl and its consequences. It's not the accident but the German reaction which was special. Even more so after Fukushima, which again was the same news for every other country as well
The anti-nuclear movement began in earnest in the early 1970's worldwide, simultaneously, along with Big Oil propaganda like their SOLAR NOT NUCLEAR campaign in the 70's, after Nuclear power had pretty much wiped out Oil Generation in many countries, including France & the USA. There is ZERO doubt this was not an organic movement. This was the Deep State, Overlords, Wall st. whatever you want to call them using their power. Being Malthusians, it is not hard to understand their hatred of plentiful nuclear power. Some history:
The Ecofascist agenda exists because it has been foisted upon us by the Globalist Central Bank Club-of-Rome Malthusian Parasite Psychopaths. Malthusianism has always been used by the welfare bum Banksters as a way to justify their extraordinary wealth & power. "Its for the good of the Environment".
Davos has been instigating this ecofascism Worldwide and milking Climate Change as the best invented crisis ever to justify their vision of a World Totalitarian Neo-feudal State in which us lowly serfs live in forced poverty, even subject to a population reduction genocide. While this ruling class lives in the lap of luxury, exempt from even the rule of law.
my ex worked in the nuclear plant in Belgium. the alarm went off when they came inside with home grown vegetables. But that was of course, not told to the general public. I read at the time that the reindeer up north were so contaminated they tried to tell the owners not to eat the meat. Nice, if you have nothing to eat. And what about the store bought stuff? would it have been safer?
After Chernobyl, the entire population of domestic reindeer in Finland, Norway and Sweden was exterminated, the meat incinerated and buried and new herds bought from Canada.
We've still got contaminated areas in Sweden where you're advised not to pick mushrooms, berries or eat the fish.
NB: this is a case of "better safe than sorry", the levels are back to normal and have been since the early 'Noughties'; problem is, before Chernobyl there was no set baseline for 'normal'...
Funded by Soros? To the extent that her other sources of income were mere pin money by comparison? If not, then he may have bought some favors, but that's not the same as total control.
Biden received Soviet backing, the Clintons received millions from Putin's Russia, and about half of Congress has received Chinese money. None of that adds up to total control, and all these politicians can and do turn against their former benefactors if it's expedient.
It is far more likely that the Clintons and half of Congress receive their funding from AIPAC. The Chinese could not care less who gets elected in the US because it never changes anything as Putin noted.
Yup. It was three things that kicked-off the Greens nuclear phobia (bear with me, Robert, I'm, sure you're old enough to remember but not all our fellow commenters are so the below is for their benefit):
1) The connection between nuclear power and nuclear weapons, a connection which was initially denied by the power industry and politicians. This lie eroded trust - it was the Cold War and Nuclear Holocaust was a real fear, and an equally real posibility.
2) The claims that it was perfectly safe and that meltdowns, accidents, waste et c were impossible/perfectly harmless. These claims came during the 1960s, at the same time people were noticing how industrial waste ruined air and water in so many ways, for the Great God Profit in the West nad Communism in the East. If they lie about Neurosedyn, sulphurous oxides in car exhaust, and so much more - why wouldn't they lie about nuclear power?
3) Thee Mile Island in the US and the subsequent cover-up and downplaying of the accident as a big nothing only served to stoke the suspicions and fears into a full-blown panic.
(And that's before going into the "secret" jewish nukes of Israel, India and Pakistan getting nukes while still at war, the german reactors in Iran being situated in an earthquake-zone, fuel rods going missing, 'hot' waste going missing and being found in landfills or being shipped off to 3rd world nations and being dumped there, waste being used as the base for nuclear weapons, and so on.
The political success of Green parties and/or agendas all over western Europe came after decades of lies, profiteering and environmental disasters as well as it being perfectly obvious that capitalism was just as good at destroying the environment as communism - money was more important than not putting PCBs, Mercury, Lead, Kadmium, Kreosote, Dioxin, Ftalates, et c into drinking water via industrial waste.
That's the background: capitalists and "democratically elected" politicians paved the way for the Greens.
The Greens are indeed a new source for political legitimacy differing from all other parties. The traditional left like Social Democrats and Communists base their legitimacy on the 'social question' and equality in general. The Conservatives base their legitimacy on their existing culture, nation and values which they want to beware. The Libertarians base their legitimacy on liberty and freedom, which they want to achieve. But the Greens base it on defending nature from its destruction through mankind. Part of the problem with the Greens is that - in machiavellian terms - it's beneficial to have as a party a vision which is never fully solvable and can be recycled every election. But in the West pollution has reduced significantly in the last decades and in Germany they even achieved their major goal of abolition of nuclear energy. So they were imo TOO successful in achieving their goals as a political force. After Merkel abolished nuclear the Greens were a party without a purpose. Going all in with climate is their equivalent of the social question of the social democrats. It's a never fully achievable goal and therefore perfect for a political party.
And no - I'm far too young to remember the history of the anti nuclear movement personally (I guess even Eugyppius is slightly too young for that)
It parallells nicely with feminism: when 99.9% of the legal differences between men and women in western nations had been abolished in the 1960s, feminists had to find a new goal.
Dang, eugyppius. I know I should say something cogent, but it's Friday night and I'm de-scaling from work and not feeling very bright. But before diving into the second article, I just emerged to say that I did not know that "soluble" could be used as an alternative to "solvable". I pride myself on being reasonably well-versed in English - it's my mother tongue, dammit - but I've always thought it was just the chemical meaning. I'm now feeling insecure. Are you sure you're German?
Eugyppius - Can you clarify whether the EU currently recommends boosting kids same as the US CDC? Last week's TheHighwire.com show said the EU does not, sourced by:
...saying "Earlier this week a US CDC panel of advisers voted 13-1 to recommend new Covid vaccine boosters for all people over 6 months of age, contradicting European and WHO guidelines that focus on high-risk groups."
That story was sourced by this March 3, 2023 EU guidance:
But when I mentioned this in a Public Comment to my local Board of Health, their factually-challenged Health Officer countered that the EU changed its guidance a week ago so now matches the US CDC wanting kids boosted. So I'm hoping you or a commenter could confirm whether this is true and what the EU is currently recommending. Thanks in advance!
I don’t know what your health officer is talking about. The EU can approve drugs, including vaccines, but member states are responsible for vaccine policy. The European Medicines Agency I believe has approved the vaxx for everyone 5 years and older, but EU member states have mostly dropped the universal jab recommendations. Austria is the one exception, recommending the latest jab to everyone 12 and up, otherwise the latest round of vaxx are only for the old and vulnerable.
Sep 29, 2023·edited Sep 29, 2023Liked by eugyppius
There should be a box in the computer so you could pass us a beer. Read part of the interview, curious to hear a voice, but it was all Irina's.... she got some interesting stuff on her site indeed. I specially enjoyed the post about fake meat.
Reality is making a welcome return to the Great Blighty Asylum, but whether the ruling inmates will abandon their magical thinking remains to be seen.
Much will depend, I think ,on how cold the coming winter will be: even the most dedicated dogmatic Greens, like Holyrood's Harvie and Westminster's Lucas,will have trouble selling Net Zero if a blocking anticyclonic episode takes hold.
The usual suspects are in a lather, but economic reality can no longer be dismissed.
However, legal challenges are being planned, so there might be a run on hit water bottles, fleecy things and socks.
Last year our energy suppliers advised us to jump around, hug a dog- but not an American bully- and wear more socks, while prices went through the roof.
So much for Green plans to 'Save the Planet': kill all the cetaceans, birds, bats and other unfortunate creatures which collide with the blades and the noise , then introduce blackouts and managed demand for the humans and 'Job done'!
Weather does what it's been doing since time began, as the cycles of change continue,while what used to be known as civilisation will be reduced to a dreary impoverished monoculture, tightly controlled by paranoid rich zealots concealed in their 'sustainable' fortresses.
I'm glad you're a fan of Augustiner. I first tasted it as a teenager in 1973, on a snowy Easter holiday in Bavaria and Austria. Edelstoff is just divine, and is one of the beers I'd consider as a 'one beer for life', if I had to make such a terrible choice.
On a more serious note.....
I enjoy your substack, as it's about what I call 'the reality of things', and written from a German perspective. My parents (British, dad was pseudo-civilian RAF meteorologist) introduced me to the realities of life and history on that holiday. Amongst cultural vists in Salzburg and Munich, we visited the Berghof bunker in Berchtesgaden, and finally, before we went home to Gutersloh, Dachau. I've never forgotten it, my parents teaching me, oh so subtly, the horrors to which ideology and unlimited government power can lead.
Great interview, thanks. I've said it before but still: I really enjoy your wider political writing and predictions for the future. I entirely agree with your points about academic life being a desert for the intellectual, I'm not exaggerating when I say I've learned more from anons on the internet since 2018 than the years of 'higher' education that I've had. Mentally and intellectually I'm miles away from where I used to be. Sobering, really.
I'll probably be calling for a Fourth Reich in another 18 months.
There is something inspiring about your beer posting. It is not yet noon in America but my sense of purpose is to leave work, go to the health foods store, and find this Augustiner-Bräu (supermarket will not have).
let us know if it is available in the US. Sitting here drooling
i believe paulaner is available in US, burning my experience it’s not quite the same.
I think what is sold here is all fake. I tried a Belgian beer long ago and it tasted about the same as budweiser - I used to call it horse P. Same with wines, nothing tastes good but one Portuguese which I stopped drinking when I caught my baby dog licking from my glass ! Haven't drunk alcohol in 8 years now.
Mmmm, Augustiner.
Possibly my favorite restaurant in Berlin.
Dang it, now I want Schweinehaxen and that's just not going to happen here in Albuquerque. 😭
It sure won’t lead to a post scarcity fusion economy, that’s for damned certain.
BREAKING NEWS: RFKjr to announce run for President as an Independent Oct 9, due to the DNC blocking him from running as a Democrat. Yowsers!
My mother used to brush the Kruste with cognac, there was never any left by the time the roast was done!
Read and quite enjoyed both, looking very much forward to your next installment together!
The two of you compliment each other very well, and your unique approaches dovetail together to put out a product that is vastly informative yet easily understandable to we laymen.
Prost to you both, here's to more fantastic collaborations!
so glad you liked it!
Oh, yes! More, please!!!!!
"Phobia of nuclear power is a cultural phenomenon in Germany that extends well beyond Green voters, with origins in Chernobyl"
That's not entirely correct. The Greens were founded in 1980 and achieved election success into the Bundestag already in 1983, so three years before Chernobyl. The anti nuclear movement grew already heavily in the 70s. Chernobyl was certainly a booster for the Greens (like the refugee crisis of 2015 was for the AfD), but it looks to me like it wasn't the origin of the unique nuclear phobia in Germany
i would have to study this more. the anti-nuclear activists were a thing across the west in the 1970s, but anti-nuclear as an orienting Green obsession with unique intensity in Germany surely seems rooted in Chernobyl and its cultural sequelae to me.
Chernobyl wasn't a German accident. It doesn't explain why nuclear angst is so much stronger in Germany than in France or Poland. Or in computer science terms: you have the same information input (Chernobyl) in all Western countries but a different cultural output. Heck, not even Ukraine did develop such nuclear phobia and they really had to deal with actual Chernobyl and its consequences. It's not the accident but the German reaction which was special. Even more so after Fukushima, which again was the same news for every other country as well
of course, chernobyl inspired a unique cultural reaction in germany that other countries didn’t get in the same way.
We have a regional, old timer memory of 1979 Three Mile Island melt down that is probably close to the same cultural reaction.
The anti-nuclear movement began in earnest in the early 1970's worldwide, simultaneously, along with Big Oil propaganda like their SOLAR NOT NUCLEAR campaign in the 70's, after Nuclear power had pretty much wiped out Oil Generation in many countries, including France & the USA. There is ZERO doubt this was not an organic movement. This was the Deep State, Overlords, Wall st. whatever you want to call them using their power. Being Malthusians, it is not hard to understand their hatred of plentiful nuclear power. Some history:
https://environmentalprogress.org/history-of-nuclear
Ecofascism: Lessons from the German Experience, Janet Biehl and Peter Staudenmaier
Fascist Ecology: The “Green Wing” of the Nazi Party and its Historical Antecedents, by Peter Staudenmaier:
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/janet-biehl-and-peter-staudenmaier-ecofascism-lessons-from-the-german-experience
Dark Green II: Roots of Eco-Fascism:
https://infrakshun.wordpress.com/2015/02/06/dark-green-ii-eco-fascism/
William Kay on Ecofascism and Nazi Germany:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ut0ZKgg_20
William Kay on Ecofascism and Landlordism:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVhTlQJYOu8
The Ecofascist agenda exists because it has been foisted upon us by the Globalist Central Bank Club-of-Rome Malthusian Parasite Psychopaths. Malthusianism has always been used by the welfare bum Banksters as a way to justify their extraordinary wealth & power. "Its for the good of the Environment".
Davos has been instigating this ecofascism Worldwide and milking Climate Change as the best invented crisis ever to justify their vision of a World Totalitarian Neo-feudal State in which us lowly serfs live in forced poverty, even subject to a population reduction genocide. While this ruling class lives in the lap of luxury, exempt from even the rule of law.
my ex worked in the nuclear plant in Belgium. the alarm went off when they came inside with home grown vegetables. But that was of course, not told to the general public. I read at the time that the reindeer up north were so contaminated they tried to tell the owners not to eat the meat. Nice, if you have nothing to eat. And what about the store bought stuff? would it have been safer?
After Chernobyl, the entire population of domestic reindeer in Finland, Norway and Sweden was exterminated, the meat incinerated and buried and new herds bought from Canada.
We've still got contaminated areas in Sweden where you're advised not to pick mushrooms, berries or eat the fish.
NB: this is a case of "better safe than sorry", the levels are back to normal and have been since the early 'Noughties'; problem is, before Chernobyl there was no set baseline for 'normal'...
I’m picturing in my mind a plate of grilled glowing reindeer sausages, perhaps with some sort of cranberry-juniper dressing. Mmmm.
Murkel was funded by Soros, who is the front man for the Rothschild banking dynasty.
Verstehen sie ?
Funded by Soros? To the extent that her other sources of income were mere pin money by comparison? If not, then he may have bought some favors, but that's not the same as total control.
Biden received Soviet backing, the Clintons received millions from Putin's Russia, and about half of Congress has received Chinese money. None of that adds up to total control, and all these politicians can and do turn against their former benefactors if it's expedient.
It is far more likely that the Clintons and half of Congress receive their funding from AIPAC. The Chinese could not care less who gets elected in the US because it never changes anything as Putin noted.
Yup. It was three things that kicked-off the Greens nuclear phobia (bear with me, Robert, I'm, sure you're old enough to remember but not all our fellow commenters are so the below is for their benefit):
1) The connection between nuclear power and nuclear weapons, a connection which was initially denied by the power industry and politicians. This lie eroded trust - it was the Cold War and Nuclear Holocaust was a real fear, and an equally real posibility.
2) The claims that it was perfectly safe and that meltdowns, accidents, waste et c were impossible/perfectly harmless. These claims came during the 1960s, at the same time people were noticing how industrial waste ruined air and water in so many ways, for the Great God Profit in the West nad Communism in the East. If they lie about Neurosedyn, sulphurous oxides in car exhaust, and so much more - why wouldn't they lie about nuclear power?
3) Thee Mile Island in the US and the subsequent cover-up and downplaying of the accident as a big nothing only served to stoke the suspicions and fears into a full-blown panic.
(And that's before going into the "secret" jewish nukes of Israel, India and Pakistan getting nukes while still at war, the german reactors in Iran being situated in an earthquake-zone, fuel rods going missing, 'hot' waste going missing and being found in landfills or being shipped off to 3rd world nations and being dumped there, waste being used as the base for nuclear weapons, and so on.
The political success of Green parties and/or agendas all over western Europe came after decades of lies, profiteering and environmental disasters as well as it being perfectly obvious that capitalism was just as good at destroying the environment as communism - money was more important than not putting PCBs, Mercury, Lead, Kadmium, Kreosote, Dioxin, Ftalates, et c into drinking water via industrial waste.
That's the background: capitalists and "democratically elected" politicians paved the way for the Greens.
The Greens are indeed a new source for political legitimacy differing from all other parties. The traditional left like Social Democrats and Communists base their legitimacy on the 'social question' and equality in general. The Conservatives base their legitimacy on their existing culture, nation and values which they want to beware. The Libertarians base their legitimacy on liberty and freedom, which they want to achieve. But the Greens base it on defending nature from its destruction through mankind. Part of the problem with the Greens is that - in machiavellian terms - it's beneficial to have as a party a vision which is never fully solvable and can be recycled every election. But in the West pollution has reduced significantly in the last decades and in Germany they even achieved their major goal of abolition of nuclear energy. So they were imo TOO successful in achieving their goals as a political force. After Merkel abolished nuclear the Greens were a party without a purpose. Going all in with climate is their equivalent of the social question of the social democrats. It's a never fully achievable goal and therefore perfect for a political party.
And no - I'm far too young to remember the history of the anti nuclear movement personally (I guess even Eugyppius is slightly too young for that)
It parallells nicely with feminism: when 99.9% of the legal differences between men and women in western nations had been abolished in the 1960s, feminists had to find a new goal.
Progressivist, post-modern marxism.
The rest is history, as they say.
Prost to you and Irina! Do Germans have Wiesn Koks outside of Oktoberfest and do they export it? Asking for a friend who tried it once in Munich ;)
Dang, eugyppius. I know I should say something cogent, but it's Friday night and I'm de-scaling from work and not feeling very bright. But before diving into the second article, I just emerged to say that I did not know that "soluble" could be used as an alternative to "solvable". I pride myself on being reasonably well-versed in English - it's my mother tongue, dammit - but I've always thought it was just the chemical meaning. I'm now feeling insecure. Are you sure you're German?
Eugyppius - Can you clarify whether the EU currently recommends boosting kids same as the US CDC? Last week's TheHighwire.com show said the EU does not, sourced by:
https://collateralglobal.org/article/cdc-goes-it-alone-with-universal-covid-booster-recommendation/
...saying "Earlier this week a US CDC panel of advisers voted 13-1 to recommend new Covid vaccine boosters for all people over 6 months of age, contradicting European and WHO guidelines that focus on high-risk groups."
That story was sourced by this March 3, 2023 EU guidance:
https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/publications-data/overview-implementation-covid-19-vaccination-strategies-and-deployment-plans
But when I mentioned this in a Public Comment to my local Board of Health, their factually-challenged Health Officer countered that the EU changed its guidance a week ago so now matches the US CDC wanting kids boosted. So I'm hoping you or a commenter could confirm whether this is true and what the EU is currently recommending. Thanks in advance!
I don’t know what your health officer is talking about. The EU can approve drugs, including vaccines, but member states are responsible for vaccine policy. The European Medicines Agency I believe has approved the vaxx for everyone 5 years and older, but EU member states have mostly dropped the universal jab recommendations. Austria is the one exception, recommending the latest jab to everyone 12 and up, otherwise the latest round of vaxx are only for the old and vulnerable.
There should be a box in the computer so you could pass us a beer. Read part of the interview, curious to hear a voice, but it was all Irina's.... she got some interesting stuff on her site indeed. I specially enjoyed the post about fake meat.
https://dailysceptic.org/2023/09/29/sunaks-popularity-surges-after-watering-down-net-zero-targets/
Reality is making a welcome return to the Great Blighty Asylum, but whether the ruling inmates will abandon their magical thinking remains to be seen.
Much will depend, I think ,on how cold the coming winter will be: even the most dedicated dogmatic Greens, like Holyrood's Harvie and Westminster's Lucas,will have trouble selling Net Zero if a blocking anticyclonic episode takes hold.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-66933804
The usual suspects are in a lather, but economic reality can no longer be dismissed.
However, legal challenges are being planned, so there might be a run on hit water bottles, fleecy things and socks.
Last year our energy suppliers advised us to jump around, hug a dog- but not an American bully- and wear more socks, while prices went through the roof.
Did you make it to Wiesn ?
i did not, may go on monday.
nice. you should do a wiesnquerdenkertreff next year 😆
Plain or Dumplings?
just plain i think
may be you should start a second stack with culinary tips. I remember eating a wonderful dish in Schongau with pfifferlinge.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/wind-farms-are-killing-whales/
So much for Green plans to 'Save the Planet': kill all the cetaceans, birds, bats and other unfortunate creatures which collide with the blades and the noise , then introduce blackouts and managed demand for the humans and 'Job done'!
Weather does what it's been doing since time began, as the cycles of change continue,while what used to be known as civilisation will be reduced to a dreary impoverished monoculture, tightly controlled by paranoid rich zealots concealed in their 'sustainable' fortresses.
I'm glad you're a fan of Augustiner. I first tasted it as a teenager in 1973, on a snowy Easter holiday in Bavaria and Austria. Edelstoff is just divine, and is one of the beers I'd consider as a 'one beer for life', if I had to make such a terrible choice.
On a more serious note.....
I enjoy your substack, as it's about what I call 'the reality of things', and written from a German perspective. My parents (British, dad was pseudo-civilian RAF meteorologist) introduced me to the realities of life and history on that holiday. Amongst cultural vists in Salzburg and Munich, we visited the Berghof bunker in Berchtesgaden, and finally, before we went home to Gutersloh, Dachau. I've never forgotten it, my parents teaching me, oh so subtly, the horrors to which ideology and unlimited government power can lead.
Keep up the good work.
Great interview, thanks. I've said it before but still: I really enjoy your wider political writing and predictions for the future. I entirely agree with your points about academic life being a desert for the intellectual, I'm not exaggerating when I say I've learned more from anons on the internet since 2018 than the years of 'higher' education that I've had. Mentally and intellectually I'm miles away from where I used to be. Sobering, really.
I'll probably be calling for a Fourth Reich in another 18 months.