Unfortunately, many proponents of "green" policies actually do get to ignore the effects of ignoring reality because they don't usually bear the brunt of the costs. This is precisely why so many of the people who claim they care about the climate travel in private jets.
Leonardo d’Caprio flew by himself in a private Jet from Cannes to NYC to receive a “ climate award “ ,then flew back to Cannes . You can’t make this up .
400 parts per million CO2 = .04% = 4 hundredths per hundred = THE SAME RATIO as 4 PENNIES per 100$. The human caused portion of that is about 1 hundredth.
Water vapor AVERAGES ~4%, 100 times as much as CO2. H2O is a far more effective "greenhouse gas" partly because it evaporates near the surface (absorbs heat) , rises (in vapor form, it's light - 2 parts hydrogen), then, as it reaches airliner height (always very cold, because ABOVE most of the WATER VAPOR LEVEL) it condenses into mist (AND clouds block sun) then forms droplets (cool rain).
H20 also absorbs/emits a much wider spectrum of infrared (heat), because that depends on a molecules shape and composition. GASSES DON'T REFLECT LIGHT/heat, maybe refract(bend) it a bit. GASSES ABSORB AND RE-RADIATE heat, in all directions - HERE'S THE THING: heat radiated downward from above the H2O vapor level, has to go through that water vapor. Heat radiated upward has little impediment - sparser air and the laughable "greenhouse effect" of CO2.
Notice that areas lacking humidity cool off rapidly at night. This would be deserts, mountaintops, polar areas, airliner height, cloudless nights...
Also, if your greenhouse doesn't have a roof, it's not going to hold heat very well, because convection. All air transfers heat by convection, but H2O is really good at it.
Maybe it's a bit much to expect much thought from people who learned in school mostly that " all knowledge comes from unionized government employees and experts mostly paid by govt, don't think for yourselves or you'll get bad grades/ cancelled socially". We learned about convection and vaccines before leaving high school, but who has the nerve to argue against "experts"?
Even the anti-AGW experts have been crippled by their need to argue against "intellectual snobs", thus at a level not suitable for normal people - the citizens who screwed themselves by believing the B.S..
But the "experts" and journalists and LOBBYISTS who inform citizens and public policy should be obligated to much higher standards. Those who pushed CLIMATE! and COVID! should be laughed at , a lot, for a long time. Better yet, lose certification and credibility as a source of "science". Sued for fraud?
That much ignorance is not likely from people with their education, has to be dishonesty.
Carbon trading was no afterthought. It was the endgame imo. A new market that would simultaneously control the proles and provide trading profits. Beautiful
Carbon trading has been fervently promoted by the Wall Street Journal's Holman Jenkins for a long time.
And I remember when I first heard of the concept of "carbon trading," in the mid-1990's "The Economist, when that magazine was still interested in markets that could make people money.
I NEVER understood what a 'carbon offset' is. Only that Al Gore pontificated about them and what I basically took from that was 'he gets to do what he wants around the world'
When the same anti-energy green leadership has shifted to calling for building out new power plants, nuclear power and even the yucky carbon type to power AI Data Centers it kinda makes the entire green de-industrialization concept disintegrate into the nothingness it came from.
When we're being told we must change our thermostats, shiver in cold in sweaters inside our homes or suffer in heat with open windows, drive toy cars for 15-minutes and all of the tokens of repentance, sacrifice while massive computers (intended to be our 'invisible' prison guards) get new energy sources built, new water sources diverted, etc, it becomes a difficult pill to swallow for even the most committed greenie.
My husband and I never fell for this bogus theory, much to my family’s chagrin. We graduated college believing the theory of a return of the ice age. Once global warming replaced it, it became a joke. We’d been had but no more.
I am with you. My older brothers talked about the next ice age. 15 years ago I published an article looking at the BP carbon numbers that Trump is lecturing on them today. For the last 15 years, Asia is burning everything they can increasing global carbon output while the US and Europe could revert to stone age living and still not offset the amount of carbon being produced by the Asian countries.
That is 100% correct. Adding to that; the effects of ignoring reality can't be ignored by those who dont ignore it. The bozos who peddle this crap on us all are all propped up by our system of reality-based society. They march, wrapped in their stupid little bubbles, pushing their idiocy, comfortable in the knowledge that they can just get away with their ranting and all of us have to pick up the tab. WE are the ones dealing with the consequences of their drivel and foot stamping. It's time, and it IS TIME, that they deal directly with the consequences of their Long Rampage across the institutions of society. Remove the fences from their gated communities and watch the consequences of their smug "for me and not for thee" philosophy march across their lives and sanity, in all its climate-justice, trans-testicled, barking mad, rainbow jackbooted glory. Nothing propagates without organisation. Their tidal wave of nihilistic insanity is just that: a wave. What undercurrents and forces are driving that wave? Useful idiots like these peons can't organise a root in a brothel. Who is beneath the surface of this wave?
Exactly. I don't even know how to approach this question. And it's a crucial question. Usually, following the money is helpful, and I can see the trail a little (Dem. NGO's, the dominance of China in manufacturing). Also, Brett Weinstein's perception: the purpose of the system is what it does. So if mass migration is achieving the Islamization of Europe and soon the Anglosphere as well, whose star is rising and who might have set that in motion decades ago?
The best thing about Trump's speech to the UN is that it was made off-the-cuff, after his teleprompter mysteriously failed. If the failure was due to mischief by UN staff, then they must have quickly regretted it. Trump unleashed one of his greatest speeches ever, aimed directly at the asshole globalists who run the UN. (Shout out to eugyppius for printing a nice excerpt.)
I was toying with the idea that Trump himself arranged for the escalator to fail, just so he could show the UN that the US now has a president capable of walking up a flight of stairs without falling down them.
I read the teleprompter started working again early in his remarks. I remember seeing the end when he was obviously reading from it. But, still, throws you off when you first start, few would handle it as well as he did.
Yes, well… compared to Bibi and Zelensky’s empty auditoriums, the leader of the free world drew a packed house. I’m sure they suffered through with the annoying ear pieces just to hear what he had to say. Most leaders speak English. It’s too bad they couldn’t hear him directly because his timing and irony are those of an accomplished comedian. Frigging hilarious. He had me rolling actually.
I love that story, but I'm sorry to tell you that his staff had given him a backup paper copy, perhaps suspecting that the teleprompter might work as well as the escalator.
Trump is the one-eyed man among all the blind leaders of the West. He's not always right, but at least he is not a stupendous fool like Merz, Starmer, Macron, Carney, etc.
Indeed the Communists had a plan. Supposedly it was perfect. They should have listened to Mike Tyson.
"Everyone has a plan, until they get punched in the mouth."
Reality doesn't care about what you want, what your feelings are or what your intentions are. Reality, as Tyson put it so aptly, is the bi punch to the face.
Germany did that too. Just a couple months ago, national elections replaced the liberal-led coalition government with a new conservative-led government.
Didn't seem to make a damn bit of difference. Maybe even got worse. No effective leaders in sight.
👍👌🙂 Reminds me of my Dad -- gawd rest his soul -- who once said of me, if I remember correctly, that I would rather be right than President. Better than either-exclusive-or is to be both ... 😉🙂
Well if it wasn't the citizens fault that weather changes then they wouldn't have to use communism as a solution!
At this rate we'll be "running out of time", forever. I think many people are catching on because they cried wolf too many times....because , ultimately, facts are hostile witnesses.
Global "elites" love the "net zero" religion because they can make up new commandments as needed, condemn naysayers as selfish apostates, and rebrand totalitarianism as philanthropic virtue. "Global warming" pseudoscience allows the U.N., the WEF, and other religious denominations to tell everyone else how much to pay in taxes, how much freedom to give up, and how to behave.
Germans now get penalized in taxes for adding solar panels to homes and businesses. They get back pennies on the dollar in energy credits for power their panels generate. Meanwhile electricity comes at a high cost when purchased from the grid.
Now in Germany the price of a 2 sqm solar module is 35 €, which is 17,50 € per sqm. Which is cheaper than roofing sheet. So I bought 80 pieces of it, as my barn needs a new roof. LOL.
How much did they tax you for home improvements? Also, I’m guessing you wisely bought your own batteries. Nice to hear you have a barn! I sometimes follow German permaculture farmers when they show up on the YouTube.
Actually, the solar stuff is VAT tax free now here. I use the modules as a replacement for my roofing sheet. Possibly I connect the modules directly to some heating rods in my buffer tank of my central heating for some 100 Eurons. I don't connect to the grid. It's nice to be independent. If you make it the normal way, the price of a complete PV System 12- 15 times the price of the modules.
Likewise. In So Cal we seek independence as much as possible. 100 off grid panels for home with batteries and 300 on grid for the business.
We do not have panels yet at the remote property but I’d like to. Electricity service is the only modern convenience available in the area. It is stupid cheap but I prefer to be safe rather than sorry if there is a power outage and would like panels. The generator is fine but fossil fuel from the tank can run out.
Here in Utah, I believe most subsidies for solar panels have gone away or are going away, and the sole power company keeps trying to weasel out of crediting grid-tied domestic solar systems.
The discrepancy between the left and right hands of gov don’t go unnoticed. Fluffy promises and pledges made by Sacramento, SLC, or Berlin are not always in alignment with the power company. Follow the money.
You’re correct. I’ve spent 3 years looking for affordable solar solutions and at my current age of 70, I’ll be dead before I even break even on the expense of installation. So not an option in Summit county Utah.
The taxation of solar systems is a bit complicated. If you feed in elecricity into the grid and sell it, you have to start a business. Then the PV system is an expense of the business, but you have to sell the electricity you use to yourself...
‼️ Beyond the pale. Truly absurd. Unbelievable. Someone should write a screenplay about that with the general theme of, “When bureaucracy overruns its utility.” Or, “When accountants take over the world.”
"Global warming" always was perfect for politicians:
They could ignore the concrete, immediate concerns of the electorate while pretending to be focused on the future, a future that when it arrived they'd be long gone.
It was a scam that allowed elected officials to escape accountability.
German law is based upon civil law. American law is based upon English common Law. In America, civil law shows up in places like driving regulations. English Common Law goes from the bottom up and encourages debate. Civil Law is top down. In very general terms, in Germany if you want to be smiled upon as being a “good citizen,” you follow the rules as they are laid out for you without the disruption which comes from dissent.
Turns out, the German people weren't necessarily especially well disposed toward Nazism. They are just culturally programmed to submit to whoever party or whatever ideology is in power at any given time... In the 30s and 40s, that meant Nazis. Now it means some species of social democrats. Poor Germies...
Yes and in the 20’s there were battles between Nazi’s, National party, and Communists. All marching in the street and vying for power. We know which won out. (Also in UK.)
You make a good point . Here in the USA , Trump just squashed th3 “ green new deal “ and opened up Alaska to drilling and deregulated all emission mandates and everyone went “ Ok , I guess these are the new rules “ .
It pretty simple really ..although I took 4 years to develop “ project 2025 “ so when Trump won , he hit the floor running with 3000 loyal soldiers .
No, I think everybody is going, "enough with this Green New Deal BS. Let's utilize the energy resources we have to ensure prosperity for all while taking reasonable steps to protect the environment." It's just common sense--Project 2025 has nothing to do with it.
In my view civilization's only true purpose is to provide running hot and cold water on demand in glorious full-pressure streams to every household and to remove bodily waste expeditiously and sanitarily so we ain't gonna find typhoid or cholera hiding under the bed in chamber pots, and that everyone should be cozy and warm indoors in the winter and not fainting from heatstroke on their sofas in the summer, and that these basic services should be affordable to even the humblest home.
Anything else is a bonus for which I'm also grateful of course but I feel I have my priorities straight.
Last week, watching Trump's speech with considerable enjoyment, I was only sorry that, say, you and Simulation Commander weren't co-hosting a live commentary threads event as he did on November 5 because that would've made my year.
'In my view civilization's only true purpose is to provide running hot and cold water on demand in glorious full-pressure streams to every household and to remove bodily waste expeditiously and sanitarily so we ain't gonna find typhoid or cholera hiding under the bed in chamber pots, and that everyone should be cozy and warm indoors in the winter and not fainting from heatstroke on their sofas in the summer, and that these basic services should be affordable to even the humblest home.'
Exactly.
And, of course, my own take: A few years ago I took to saying about the government in my county:
"Collect the trash, treat the sewage, manage the parks, police the streets and run the schools. And that's it."
Instead of course we end up with a bunch of would-be philosopher kings on the county board.
Somewhat apropos of which, and since I think you follow "Martyr Made/Maid?" 😉🙂, you might be "amused" by David Cole's latest shot at some of the "unhinged" people in the Republican camp, Candace Owen in particular:
DC: Der Stürmer, May 1934. Also Candace Owens’ laptop wallpaper.
Though I kinda think Cole is a bit clueless that the most probable cause or "reason" for Kirk's assassination was "stochastic terrorism" from the Democrat side, at least from the transloonie tribe under their umbrella. But he probably has a point about Owens and her cohort which apparently wishes to lay the blame for that crime at Israel's and Netanyahu's doorstep.
Indeed. Though I wonder which actor/actress on the stage you might be referring to. Cole? Owens? Me -- maybe being autistic and obsessive-compulsive myself? 😉🙂
But Owens seems the best candidate for that, and my point is that she is more or less under Trump's umbrella. And maybe he needs to do a bit of "house-cleaning". Rather doubt he'll have much luck putting up a casino in Gaza until then, despite some "urban renewal" happening there, as we speak ... 😉🙂
Though I wonder what you want to do about it. May not amount to much, but it may have some relevance to the fate of western civilization -- itself!! -- at least to the deliverance of hot and cold running water ... 😉🙂
It's the Peter Principle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle. But after finishing her term as president of the GA, the post of the German Bundespräsident needs someone new. Most likely a woman. The Lord spares us nothing...
When the Trump administration cut off the money spigot of USAID being funneled to every leftist NGO and green scam around the world, the size and scope of all these green causes and subsidies of the Left dried up almost overnight. Most of their attempts at protest now are mere shadows of their former selves, manned by only the dying breed of their most brainwashed devotees.
We are watching it in its death throes.
The elites in power now have only to resort to doubling down on squelching the people’s freedoms, particularly speech, left in their quiver. But even that is now being met by a much more full throated resistance than ever before. You can only go so far arresting your citizens while letting rapists and murders roam free before the center no longer holds.
Thus enter their incentivizing and justifying of actual murder of members of the opposition as an excusable and even honorable deed, their method of last resort in clinging onto whatever semblances of power they appear to retain.
Things will be getting a lot uglier before they ever get better.
And yet in the USA we kicked out the green Democrats and Trump Administration has gone 180 degrees in undoing all the damage they did and there is hardly any resistance.
Once a strong leader takes command everyone pretty much falls into line .
'When the Trump administration cut off the money spigot of USAID being funneled to every leftist NGO and green scam around the world, the size and scope of all these green causes and subsidies of the Left dried up almost overnight.'
Meanwhile Canada, which the supposed Trudeau upgrade Mark Carney likes to think is “the most European non-European country” we are merely heading for the most European non-European Hell. He’s probably already qualified for Magnitsky sanctions by his advice to the Trudeau brain trust about freezing the bank accounts of protesting truckers. Let’s hope he gets it good and hard.
The debanking was the most important story out of Canada the last few years. It's what they want for all of us via the Digital ID cards that can just be turned off.
...this scheme doesn’t solve the fundamental problem faced by the UK government — if an employer is already breaking the rules to hire somebody illegally, why would they suddenly start following the rules surrounding digital ID?
I also worry that not only is the ID a single point of failure (turn off your access to services), it's also a single point of success -- meaning the fraudsters only have to get a Digital ID and they're home free.
Only because they tried to go through an exchange. Direct btc donations would have been impossible to shut down. Of course, that means everybody has to have a "real" btc wallet to send to AND a way to spend that btc (or get it back into dollars to spend).
While it was a peaceful protest, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act after supporters donated more than 20 BTC to the truck drivers via a crypto platform called Tally. Supporters initially used crowdfunding platforms such as GoFundMe and GiveSendGo. However such pages were forced to shut down which is how the movement diverted their efforts to Tally.
The Ontario Provincial Police and Royal Canadian Mounted Police issued a court order to this platform to shut down its crypto wallets.
Definitely the movement is losing traction, but one has to wonder how much the decline in attendance at the protests is a de-funding of USAID? None of this was ever organic.
We all knew that, though for the PTB to have admitted it would have been self-defeating.
As far back as 1948, the federal government published guides such as the U.S. House Un-American Activities Committee's "Guide to Subversive Organizations and Publications," explaining that a basic tactic of communists and other far leftists was to found a dozen or more distinct pressure groups (that just happened to be led by the same handful of people), in order to feign grassroots support for fringe policies.
It's strictly buying influence and buying votes... and for that, you need money.
Critical year 1989. The European left definitively lost its political and ideological anchoring, their heads were already empty of decent ideas but then even more. So they started to highjack Europe, developing their usual blind faith in a European model that they despised till the day before. Since then immigration, climatism, social justice, quotas bla bla all the communist garbage in a different sauce. Greens are watermelons, the inside is red, all propaganda and fundamentally Marxist with the goal of destroying European societies.
It's probably an oversimplification, but the foundation on which all of modern climate panic is based is CO2.
Topple this and the entire thing should fall crumbling to the ground. I say "should" because the true believers are, as in all religions, impervious to actual facts.
In nutritional and medical studies this is known as a "surrogate endpoint".
A useful concept in the service of bamboozling the reader, and which depends on the infallibility of that surrogate endpoint as representing the real result in question. Classic example: cholesterol and heart disease.
The percentage of world wide energy usage of fossil fuels has been constant at 80% for the past 15 years . So what has the “ green hysteria “ accomplished besides impoverishing the poor ?
Ironic that a polymath like Vaclav Smil supports it in his important books such as "Energy and Civilization" and "How the World Really Works". Does he support it in actuality or was it to appease his publishers?
All the climatroids need to do is destroy a few more expensive pieces of art, glue themselves to a few more city streets, and they will be right back on top!
“ In retrospect, I think climatism was an ideology crafted for a world bereft of concrete villains – a world where industrial processes and gases were the only conceivable enemies. We’re not in that world anymore”
But what Trump is doing here in the US, deporting millions and cracking down on sanctuary cities is being looked upon by regular Brits and European citizens with green (pun intended) envy!
And it has mobilized their resistance exponentially.
You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the effects of ignoring reality.
Unfortunately, many proponents of "green" policies actually do get to ignore the effects of ignoring reality because they don't usually bear the brunt of the costs. This is precisely why so many of the people who claim they care about the climate travel in private jets.
Leonardo d’Caprio flew by himself in a private Jet from Cannes to NYC to receive a “ climate award “ ,then flew back to Cannes . You can’t make this up .
400 parts per million CO2 = .04% = 4 hundredths per hundred = THE SAME RATIO as 4 PENNIES per 100$. The human caused portion of that is about 1 hundredth.
Water vapor AVERAGES ~4%, 100 times as much as CO2. H2O is a far more effective "greenhouse gas" partly because it evaporates near the surface (absorbs heat) , rises (in vapor form, it's light - 2 parts hydrogen), then, as it reaches airliner height (always very cold, because ABOVE most of the WATER VAPOR LEVEL) it condenses into mist (AND clouds block sun) then forms droplets (cool rain).
H20 also absorbs/emits a much wider spectrum of infrared (heat), because that depends on a molecules shape and composition. GASSES DON'T REFLECT LIGHT/heat, maybe refract(bend) it a bit. GASSES ABSORB AND RE-RADIATE heat, in all directions - HERE'S THE THING: heat radiated downward from above the H2O vapor level, has to go through that water vapor. Heat radiated upward has little impediment - sparser air and the laughable "greenhouse effect" of CO2.
Notice that areas lacking humidity cool off rapidly at night. This would be deserts, mountaintops, polar areas, airliner height, cloudless nights...
Also, if your greenhouse doesn't have a roof, it's not going to hold heat very well, because convection. All air transfers heat by convection, but H2O is really good at it.
Maybe it's a bit much to expect much thought from people who learned in school mostly that " all knowledge comes from unionized government employees and experts mostly paid by govt, don't think for yourselves or you'll get bad grades/ cancelled socially". We learned about convection and vaccines before leaving high school, but who has the nerve to argue against "experts"?
Even the anti-AGW experts have been crippled by their need to argue against "intellectual snobs", thus at a level not suitable for normal people - the citizens who screwed themselves by believing the B.S..
But the "experts" and journalists and LOBBYISTS who inform citizens and public policy should be obligated to much higher standards. Those who pushed CLIMATE! and COVID! should be laughed at , a lot, for a long time. Better yet, lose certification and credibility as a source of "science". Sued for fraud?
That much ignorance is not likely from people with their education, has to be dishonesty.
Why would an actor get a "climate award" anyway?!!
actors help produce the propaganda (fear) and are paid by the US government to do so.
Like spoiled meat they attract the roaches, er, the media.
Of course, they can afford the 'carbon offsets', paid to a company run by a cousin or something.
Carbon trading was no afterthought. It was the endgame imo. A new market that would simultaneously control the proles and provide trading profits. Beautiful
Carbon trading has been fervently promoted by the Wall Street Journal's Holman Jenkins for a long time.
And I remember when I first heard of the concept of "carbon trading," in the mid-1990's "The Economist, when that magazine was still interested in markets that could make people money.
Al Gore claims he plants trees in somewhere .
He owns the largest private home in all of Tennessee.
And he lives there all by himself
Or they are John Kerry at the WEF.
I NEVER understood what a 'carbon offset' is. Only that Al Gore pontificated about them and what I basically took from that was 'he gets to do what he wants around the world'
who publicly claim they care....
I need this on a T-shirt.
You're in luck!
https://www.redbubble.com/i/t-shirt/You-Can-Ignore-Reality-But-You-Can-t-Ignore-The-Consequences-Of-Ignoring-Reality-by-RRiDesigns/97018448.IJ6L0
(Turns out I screwed it up slightly)
I think I prefer your version :)
Me too!
That's a lot of words for a T-shirt. How about "You can ignore Reality, but it won't ignore you." Not as concise, but cheaper to print.
Reality rules, even while you ignore it.
Like!
Everything Al Gore predicted 20 years ago in his fear porn climate movie failed to happen .
What do you think was wrong with that guy?
Do you think losing a close election in 2000 messed him up?
Just follow the money.
Just a tool, used by the monsters to promote a humanity-crushing agenda
Gore was planted, acting on someone else's behalf (a powerful lobby).
As many predicted at the time he said it. Thank God he did not become President.
The end of this is quite predictable and.already in progress. let's hope we.avoid another world war.
When the same anti-energy green leadership has shifted to calling for building out new power plants, nuclear power and even the yucky carbon type to power AI Data Centers it kinda makes the entire green de-industrialization concept disintegrate into the nothingness it came from.
When we're being told we must change our thermostats, shiver in cold in sweaters inside our homes or suffer in heat with open windows, drive toy cars for 15-minutes and all of the tokens of repentance, sacrifice while massive computers (intended to be our 'invisible' prison guards) get new energy sources built, new water sources diverted, etc, it becomes a difficult pill to swallow for even the most committed greenie.
Well that's one ending, the other is weakness where there was once strength that invites a conqueror.
True. Both is another ending. Not mutually exclusive, you know.
Gary E speaks for me.
My husband and I never fell for this bogus theory, much to my family’s chagrin. We graduated college believing the theory of a return of the ice age. Once global warming replaced it, it became a joke. We’d been had but no more.
I am with you. My older brothers talked about the next ice age. 15 years ago I published an article looking at the BP carbon numbers that Trump is lecturing on them today. For the last 15 years, Asia is burning everything they can increasing global carbon output while the US and Europe could revert to stone age living and still not offset the amount of carbon being produced by the Asian countries.
https://www.bp.com/content/dam/bp/business-sites/en/global/corporate/pdfs/energy-economics/statistical-review/bp-stats-review-2022-full-report.pdf
https://www.bp.com/content/dam/bp/business-sites/en/global/corporate/pdfs/energy-economics/statistical-review/bp-statistical-review-of-world-energy-2017-full-report.pdf
http://dl.groovygecko.net/anon.groovy/clients/bp/ecm/yearinreview2008/BP_Statistical_Review_of_World_Energy_June_2008_Slide_Transcript.pdf
https://www.germanwatch.org/en/2749
http://geocommons.com/search.html
That is 100% correct. Adding to that; the effects of ignoring reality can't be ignored by those who dont ignore it. The bozos who peddle this crap on us all are all propped up by our system of reality-based society. They march, wrapped in their stupid little bubbles, pushing their idiocy, comfortable in the knowledge that they can just get away with their ranting and all of us have to pick up the tab. WE are the ones dealing with the consequences of their drivel and foot stamping. It's time, and it IS TIME, that they deal directly with the consequences of their Long Rampage across the institutions of society. Remove the fences from their gated communities and watch the consequences of their smug "for me and not for thee" philosophy march across their lives and sanity, in all its climate-justice, trans-testicled, barking mad, rainbow jackbooted glory. Nothing propagates without organisation. Their tidal wave of nihilistic insanity is just that: a wave. What undercurrents and forces are driving that wave? Useful idiots like these peons can't organise a root in a brothel. Who is beneath the surface of this wave?
Exactly. I don't even know how to approach this question. And it's a crucial question. Usually, following the money is helpful, and I can see the trail a little (Dem. NGO's, the dominance of China in manufacturing). Also, Brett Weinstein's perception: the purpose of the system is what it does. So if mass migration is achieving the Islamization of Europe and soon the Anglosphere as well, whose star is rising and who might have set that in motion decades ago?
https://www.unz.com/lromanoff/the-richest-man-in-the-world/
"Consequences have consequences, all the way down" ... (anon) ... ?
Precisely.
No matter whether you like or dislike the man, he was right.
The best thing about Trump's speech to the UN is that it was made off-the-cuff, after his teleprompter mysteriously failed. If the failure was due to mischief by UN staff, then they must have quickly regretted it. Trump unleashed one of his greatest speeches ever, aimed directly at the asshole globalists who run the UN. (Shout out to eugyppius for printing a nice excerpt.)
Teleprompter, escalator, and speakers. If world leaders wished to hear him they had to use the earphones with annoying translator voice.
I was toying with the idea that Trump himself arranged for the escalator to fail, just so he could show the UN that the US now has a president capable of walking up a flight of stairs without falling down them.
Hah!
That is funny.
You never know…. Apparently the teleprompter returned to function 1/2 way through his speech.
I read that, too. Truly a shame. Hopefully a few of them read transcripts afterward.
It was to be expected. Censorship is always the tool of the extreme Left.
I read the teleprompter started working again early in his remarks. I remember seeing the end when he was obviously reading from it. But, still, throws you off when you first start, few would handle it as well as he did.
This is hilarious and great fun:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lU_kpnS6Zdc
Yes, saw it!
If all that technology failure was deliberate it simply highlights the childish pettiness of his opponents.
Europe universally hates him and the EU and globalist Americans run the UN.
They snub him and Melania at every possible opportunity. It's all they've got.
All three things didn't work? That's convenient!
Yes, well… compared to Bibi and Zelensky’s empty auditoriums, the leader of the free world drew a packed house. I’m sure they suffered through with the annoying ear pieces just to hear what he had to say. Most leaders speak English. It’s too bad they couldn’t hear him directly because his timing and irony are those of an accomplished comedian. Frigging hilarious. He had me rolling actually.
I read similar comments on several other Substacks and news outlets. Will teach them to make fun of him and try to boycott him!
I love that story, but I'm sorry to tell you that his staff had given him a backup paper copy, perhaps suspecting that the teleprompter might work as well as the escalator.
in pictures one can see T's hardcopy - https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/24/world/united-nations-general-assembly-recap.html (Trump speaking at the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday.Credit...Brittainy Newman/The New York Times).
Trump is the one-eyed man among all the blind leaders of the West. He's not always right, but at least he is not a stupendous fool like Merz, Starmer, Macron, Carney, etc.
This shits easy. All he's doing is replacing nonsense with common sense.
Yes, but somehow Trump is the only major Western leader capable of it.
And a year ago, there were none.
And they hate him for it, too!
They hate the truth more than anything .
Correct and after the massive blow to green policies in the USA …crickets .
He is even allowing drilling on public lands and Alaska and yet the defeated greens simply are quiet and move on to ..free Palestine or something .
When you hit someone in the head with a 2 by 4 , they quiet down ..fast
Indeed the Communists had a plan. Supposedly it was perfect. They should have listened to Mike Tyson.
"Everyone has a plan, until they get punched in the mouth."
Reality doesn't care about what you want, what your feelings are or what your intentions are. Reality, as Tyson put it so aptly, is the bi punch to the face.
Alas, common sense has been drummed out of the leadership class.
They have traditionally been wicked first and foremost..
Yes, and then there's that!
In the UsA we changed the leadership .
Germany did that too. Just a couple months ago, national elections replaced the liberal-led coalition government with a new conservative-led government.
Didn't seem to make a damn bit of difference. Maybe even got worse. No effective leaders in sight.
Wrong, Bibi's cuck is the most stupendous of fools. Also, a paedophile.
👍👌🙂 Reminds me of my Dad -- gawd rest his soul -- who once said of me, if I remember correctly, that I would rather be right than President. Better than either-exclusive-or is to be both ... 😉🙂
And thanks for the memory. 🙂
"No matter whether you like or dislike the man, he was right."
And how is it come to be of importance whether somebody "likes" or not a man who speaks the truth?
yeah, every once in a while he says something which makes sense. True.
Well if it wasn't the citizens fault that weather changes then they wouldn't have to use communism as a solution!
At this rate we'll be "running out of time", forever. I think many people are catching on because they cried wolf too many times....because , ultimately, facts are hostile witnesses.
Global "elites" love the "net zero" religion because they can make up new commandments as needed, condemn naysayers as selfish apostates, and rebrand totalitarianism as philanthropic virtue. "Global warming" pseudoscience allows the U.N., the WEF, and other religious denominations to tell everyone else how much to pay in taxes, how much freedom to give up, and how to behave.
“Facts are hostile witnesses”. THAT should be on a T-shirt!
Germans now get penalized in taxes for adding solar panels to homes and businesses. They get back pennies on the dollar in energy credits for power their panels generate. Meanwhile electricity comes at a high cost when purchased from the grid.
Now in Germany the price of a 2 sqm solar module is 35 €, which is 17,50 € per sqm. Which is cheaper than roofing sheet. So I bought 80 pieces of it, as my barn needs a new roof. LOL.
How much did they tax you for home improvements? Also, I’m guessing you wisely bought your own batteries. Nice to hear you have a barn! I sometimes follow German permaculture farmers when they show up on the YouTube.
Actually, the solar stuff is VAT tax free now here. I use the modules as a replacement for my roofing sheet. Possibly I connect the modules directly to some heating rods in my buffer tank of my central heating for some 100 Eurons. I don't connect to the grid. It's nice to be independent. If you make it the normal way, the price of a complete PV System 12- 15 times the price of the modules.
Likewise. In So Cal we seek independence as much as possible. 100 off grid panels for home with batteries and 300 on grid for the business.
We do not have panels yet at the remote property but I’d like to. Electricity service is the only modern convenience available in the area. It is stupid cheap but I prefer to be safe rather than sorry if there is a power outage and would like panels. The generator is fine but fossil fuel from the tank can run out.
Fine, but in five years it's going need ANOTHER new roof.
Why? The top of a module is hardened glass. when not broken, it keeps infinite. you just have to care for the sealing around.
Here in Utah, I believe most subsidies for solar panels have gone away or are going away, and the sole power company keeps trying to weasel out of crediting grid-tied domestic solar systems.
The discrepancy between the left and right hands of gov don’t go unnoticed. Fluffy promises and pledges made by Sacramento, SLC, or Berlin are not always in alignment with the power company. Follow the money.
Or…. Bait and switch, if you prefer.
You’re correct. I’ve spent 3 years looking for affordable solar solutions and at my current age of 70, I’ll be dead before I even break even on the expense of installation. So not an option in Summit county Utah.
The taxation of solar systems is a bit complicated. If you feed in elecricity into the grid and sell it, you have to start a business. Then the PV system is an expense of the business, but you have to sell the electricity you use to yourself...
‼️ Beyond the pale. Truly absurd. Unbelievable. Someone should write a screenplay about that with the general theme of, “When bureaucracy overruns its utility.” Or, “When accountants take over the world.”
Unreal
'Global "elites" love the "net zero" religion.'
"Global warming" always was perfect for politicians:
They could ignore the concrete, immediate concerns of the electorate while pretending to be focused on the future, a future that when it arrived they'd be long gone.
It was a scam that allowed elected officials to escape accountability.
Perfectly said
The wonder of government-granted rights........
German law is based upon civil law. American law is based upon English common Law. In America, civil law shows up in places like driving regulations. English Common Law goes from the bottom up and encourages debate. Civil Law is top down. In very general terms, in Germany if you want to be smiled upon as being a “good citizen,” you follow the rules as they are laid out for you without the disruption which comes from dissent.
I..e., one must "be a good German?"
Turns out, the German people weren't necessarily especially well disposed toward Nazism. They are just culturally programmed to submit to whoever party or whatever ideology is in power at any given time... In the 30s and 40s, that meant Nazis. Now it means some species of social democrats. Poor Germies...
Yes and in the 20’s there were battles between Nazi’s, National party, and Communists. All marching in the street and vying for power. We know which won out. (Also in UK.)
You make a good point . Here in the USA , Trump just squashed th3 “ green new deal “ and opened up Alaska to drilling and deregulated all emission mandates and everyone went “ Ok , I guess these are the new rules “ .
It pretty simple really ..although I took 4 years to develop “ project 2025 “ so when Trump won , he hit the floor running with 3000 loyal soldiers .
No, I think everybody is going, "enough with this Green New Deal BS. Let's utilize the energy resources we have to ensure prosperity for all while taking reasonable steps to protect the environment." It's just common sense--Project 2025 has nothing to do with it.
Just like you wrote about in your last stack
Like I always say, I don't actually WANT be proven right.....
We're running out of time: "Universe to End. Women and minorities hardest hit."
Hahaha
In my view civilization's only true purpose is to provide running hot and cold water on demand in glorious full-pressure streams to every household and to remove bodily waste expeditiously and sanitarily so we ain't gonna find typhoid or cholera hiding under the bed in chamber pots, and that everyone should be cozy and warm indoors in the winter and not fainting from heatstroke on their sofas in the summer, and that these basic services should be affordable to even the humblest home.
Anything else is a bonus for which I'm also grateful of course but I feel I have my priorities straight.
Last week, watching Trump's speech with considerable enjoyment, I was only sorry that, say, you and Simulation Commander weren't co-hosting a live commentary threads event as he did on November 5 because that would've made my year.
'In my view civilization's only true purpose is to provide running hot and cold water on demand in glorious full-pressure streams to every household and to remove bodily waste expeditiously and sanitarily so we ain't gonna find typhoid or cholera hiding under the bed in chamber pots, and that everyone should be cozy and warm indoors in the winter and not fainting from heatstroke on their sofas in the summer, and that these basic services should be affordable to even the humblest home.'
Exactly.
And, of course, my own take: A few years ago I took to saying about the government in my county:
"Collect the trash, treat the sewage, manage the parks, police the streets and run the schools. And that's it."
Instead of course we end up with a bunch of would-be philosopher kings on the county board.
Exalted for truth.
When the stuff you mention were solved, is when the West went off the rails, first in increments and then finally all at once.
The "all at once" came when they decided to beat us over the head with "ugly is beautiful."
Yah. Or when everything became racist.
I asked a friend once, in the early 2010s, if she realised dating was racist and homophobic.
We shared a laugh at the thought.
It's funny how they never collect war stories from white girls brought home to meet the black guy's family
Interesting.
Although, honestly, I don't think it happens that often.
It's more likely the reverse, and the black girl makes out just fine.
You never saw NY in the '60s?
Have to agree.
👍👌😉🙂
Somewhat apropos of which, and since I think you follow "Martyr Made/Maid?" 😉🙂, you might be "amused" by David Cole's latest shot at some of the "unhinged" people in the Republican camp, Candace Owen in particular:
DC: Der Stürmer, May 1934. Also Candace Owens’ laptop wallpaper.
https://bestservedcole.substack.com/p/charlie-candace-tucker-megyn-and?utm_medium=reader2&triedRedirect=true
Though I kinda think Cole is a bit clueless that the most probable cause or "reason" for Kirk's assassination was "stochastic terrorism" from the Democrat side, at least from the transloonie tribe under their umbrella. But he probably has a point about Owens and her cohort which apparently wishes to lay the blame for that crime at Israel's and Netanyahu's doorstep.
I think tiresome crazy people come in every flavor.
Indeed. Though I wonder which actor/actress on the stage you might be referring to. Cole? Owens? Me -- maybe being autistic and obsessive-compulsive myself? 😉🙂
But Owens seems the best candidate for that, and my point is that she is more or less under Trump's umbrella. And maybe he needs to do a bit of "house-cleaning". Rather doubt he'll have much luck putting up a casino in Gaza until then, despite some "urban renewal" happening there, as we speak ... 😉🙂
I did understand your point, Sparky.
💋 Sparkily yours... 🙂
Though I wonder what you want to do about it. May not amount to much, but it may have some relevance to the fate of western civilization -- itself!! -- at least to the deliverance of hot and cold running water ... 😉🙂
Wait what? Bareback is the president of the General Assembly??
yes, it's been an amusing side story
I'm trying to remember…is she one of the Marshmallowians?
One of the world salads like Kamala, Ursula, and Kallas.
including Moldavia's Sandu. and Europe's Big Bank's Lagarde.
Au contraire, she was a gymnast before she became a professional politician.
all ears - anon - excellent post again - onwards>>>>
It’s new. Baerbock failing upwards like many others.
It's the Peter Principle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle. But after finishing her term as president of the GA, the post of the German Bundespräsident needs someone new. Most likely a woman. The Lord spares us nothing...
Peter Principle, not to be confused with the Pareto Principle. Hahaha
Actually, the shuffling which goes on often smells like a cushy paycheck for a globalist job well done. Kaja Kallas is the new bobble head.
Sadly yes.
When the Trump administration cut off the money spigot of USAID being funneled to every leftist NGO and green scam around the world, the size and scope of all these green causes and subsidies of the Left dried up almost overnight. Most of their attempts at protest now are mere shadows of their former selves, manned by only the dying breed of their most brainwashed devotees.
We are watching it in its death throes.
The elites in power now have only to resort to doubling down on squelching the people’s freedoms, particularly speech, left in their quiver. But even that is now being met by a much more full throated resistance than ever before. You can only go so far arresting your citizens while letting rapists and murders roam free before the center no longer holds.
Thus enter their incentivizing and justifying of actual murder of members of the opposition as an excusable and even honorable deed, their method of last resort in clinging onto whatever semblances of power they appear to retain.
Things will be getting a lot uglier before they ever get better.
And yet in the USA we kicked out the green Democrats and Trump Administration has gone 180 degrees in undoing all the damage they did and there is hardly any resistance.
Once a strong leader takes command everyone pretty much falls into line .
Time for the Germans to elect Alice . And the AFD
'When the Trump administration cut off the money spigot of USAID being funneled to every leftist NGO and green scam around the world, the size and scope of all these green causes and subsidies of the Left dried up almost overnight.'
That is a breathtaking observation.
It's to the Democrats' great advantage in the current post-USAID America that stochastic assassins need not be paid.
Meanwhile Canada, which the supposed Trudeau upgrade Mark Carney likes to think is “the most European non-European country” we are merely heading for the most European non-European Hell. He’s probably already qualified for Magnitsky sanctions by his advice to the Trudeau brain trust about freezing the bank accounts of protesting truckers. Let’s hope he gets it good and hard.
The debanking was the most important story out of Canada the last few years. It's what they want for all of us via the Digital ID cards that can just be turned off.
Coming to the UK and Germany. (Also the rest of Europe and Australia.)
Yep. Literally just wrote about this yesterday.
https://simulationcommander.substack.com/p/if-your-rights-come-from-government
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...this scheme doesn’t solve the fundamental problem faced by the UK government — if an employer is already breaking the rules to hire somebody illegally, why would they suddenly start following the rules surrounding digital ID?
“It will be mandatory.”
As usual it will be the law abiding populations wishing to be proper citizens who obey the mandate.
I also worry that not only is the ID a single point of failure (turn off your access to services), it's also a single point of success -- meaning the fraudsters only have to get a Digital ID and they're home free.
What was most interesting to me was how ineffective “ Bitcoin “ was in helping the truckers .
Only because they tried to go through an exchange. Direct btc donations would have been impossible to shut down. Of course, that means everybody has to have a "real" btc wallet to send to AND a way to spend that btc (or get it back into dollars to spend).
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https://elementalcrypto.com/tips-and-tricks/did-canada-freeze-cryptocurrency/
While it was a peaceful protest, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act after supporters donated more than 20 BTC to the truck drivers via a crypto platform called Tally. Supporters initially used crowdfunding platforms such as GoFundMe and GiveSendGo. However such pages were forced to shut down which is how the movement diverted their efforts to Tally.
The Ontario Provincial Police and Royal Canadian Mounted Police issued a court order to this platform to shut down its crypto wallets.
If you would only unleash the fossil fuels . My God Canada has natural resources others only dream of . Trudeau did real lasting damage
Every part of Canada has resources in spades. From NL to the Territories to the Prairies.
Quebec, Nunavut and NL in particulier have natural resources.
Definitely the movement is losing traction, but one has to wonder how much the decline in attendance at the protests is a de-funding of USAID? None of this was ever organic.
We all knew that, though for the PTB to have admitted it would have been self-defeating.
As far back as 1948, the federal government published guides such as the U.S. House Un-American Activities Committee's "Guide to Subversive Organizations and Publications," explaining that a basic tactic of communists and other far leftists was to found a dozen or more distinct pressure groups (that just happened to be led by the same handful of people), in order to feign grassroots support for fringe policies.
It's strictly buying influence and buying votes... and for that, you need money.
Nice reference!
Critical year 1989. The European left definitively lost its political and ideological anchoring, their heads were already empty of decent ideas but then even more. So they started to highjack Europe, developing their usual blind faith in a European model that they despised till the day before. Since then immigration, climatism, social justice, quotas bla bla all the communist garbage in a different sauce. Greens are watermelons, the inside is red, all propaganda and fundamentally Marxist with the goal of destroying European societies.
Astute observation.
May want to drive a stake through climatism’s heart so it won’t rise up from the grave.
It's probably an oversimplification, but the foundation on which all of modern climate panic is based is CO2.
Topple this and the entire thing should fall crumbling to the ground. I say "should" because the true believers are, as in all religions, impervious to actual facts.
A perfect example of a metric becoming a target and thus losing all its value as a metric.
In nutritional and medical studies this is known as a "surrogate endpoint".
A useful concept in the service of bamboozling the reader, and which depends on the infallibility of that surrogate endpoint as representing the real result in question. Classic example: cholesterol and heart disease.
The CO2 story is so scientifically bankrupt it’s hard to be mean enough about it
The percentage of world wide energy usage of fossil fuels has been constant at 80% for the past 15 years . So what has the “ green hysteria “ accomplished besides impoverishing the poor ?
Enriching the crooked.
Ironic that a polymath like Vaclav Smil supports it in his important books such as "Energy and Civilization" and "How the World Really Works". Does he support it in actuality or was it to appease his publishers?
You are such a pessimist, Eugyppius.
All the climatroids need to do is destroy a few more expensive pieces of art, glue themselves to a few more city streets, and they will be right back on top!
LOL
Did German and other EU-ropean media completely ignore the remarks on migration, and hyper-focused on the climate-stuff?
I'm betting they did, and I'm also willing to bet that most people didn't even notice.
WHAT A SENTENCE
“ In retrospect, I think climatism was an ideology crafted for a world bereft of concrete villains – a world where industrial processes and gases were the only conceivable enemies. We’re not in that world anymore”
PHENOMENAL
It's a shame that official support for mass migration isn't as far along the path to failure as climatism.
But what Trump is doing here in the US, deporting millions and cracking down on sanctuary cities is being looked upon by regular Brits and European citizens with green (pun intended) envy!
And it has mobilized their resistance exponentially.
It's getting there faster, though.
Spot on analysis. How much longer will your country go down this road? Years?
I’m wondering that as well . I always respected the German . Strong , smart , competence ..what happened ? Einstein,Goethe , Beethoven
Until Russia kicks their ass unfortunately