Long past time to remember that simple word No and relearn how to mean it, through our individual actions and human agency. The ability to say and mean No has been unrelentingly programmed out of us plebs by elite promotion of the endlessly easily and permanently offended. Don’t bother engaging- just ignore them.
I mean, shipping has been happening since man’s earliest days.
I guess that the globalists in the US don’t want any bananas for breakfast or morning coffee. Oh, I guess the coffee can come by llama up from South America. My bad.
But no more paper imports from Vietnam, no clothing from Bangladesh or Taiwan.
But, if no shipping, then, {gasp} no oil! I mean, we can’t pump it here, so it will have to come
From the Middle East.
And I don’t know what the poor Brits will do, being that they’re on an island. Definitely no coffee or bananas or even chocolate for them.
Seriously. These people are, so arrogant. May God strike them down.
This has nothing to do with climate change. The current World Government (Davos Gang of Psychos) energy plan is a blatant and obvious scheme of energy rationing, forced energy poverty, using various devious means, like foisting useless wind & solar power down our throats. The thing about rationing is that it should be applied equally, not one group, namely the poor and middle class must ration and the rich don't need to. So either EVERYONE rations including the Aristocracy with their giant fuel guzzling yachts, mansions & private jets or NOBODY should ration.
If this really was about reducing emissions (hint: it isn't). There are far more rational and vastly more effective ways achieve that goal:
#1: remove the roadblocks against nuclear power production and expansion
#2: is quit building wind & solar which just vastly increases energy inefficiency
#3: is remove all preferential discriminatory subsidies given to the political favorites, like wind & solar, and not given to political pariahs like nuclear, hydro, ultra-supercritical coal and extreme efficiency CCGT.
#4: Use a revenue neutral carbon fee and dividend to shift the cost of emissions to those (like Davos Psychos) who cause the most emissions and reward the poor and middle class who produce the least emissions, this is done in a transparent, automatic and natural way.
#5: Replace the idiotic Carbon Credit, Net zero, Carbon Trading, Cap & Trade, REC's etc with the above CF&D. All the various Carbon Credit scams do is funnel incredible government guaranteed profit to the energy glutton rich all paid for by the energy frugal poor & middle class, while doing zip to reduce emissions, except by forcing energy poverty upon the poor & middle class who can't afford the high energy prices that the Carbon Credit scams create.
The trouble is, just as with COVID, these policies are not based on any data, but on a giant state of mass hypnosis. There is no data showing that people will improve greenhouse gases if they forego meat--the greenhouse gases produced by all of animal agriculture in the US is 3.5% of the total. There is no data showing that meat is unhealthy and plants are healthy--just the opposite in fact. Focusing on meat distracts attention from the vast amounts of carbon produced by industry, which elites do not want to curtail. If we forego meat, they can produce fake meat and sell it to us for a profit. The whole climate policy argument supposedly supported by "science" is anything but scientific; it has been completely corrupted by globalist corporations and the billionaires who run them, just as pharma has corrupted public health. As many have pointed out, electric cars do not save any carbon, nor do they improve pollution. Wind and solar are completely incapable of taking over the world's energy needs, even if we all cut back. It is all bright green lies used to shift power to unsavory billionaires.
This is fast approaching a tipping point in our favour. The West is NOT China. We have a long History of Judeo-Christian Values and The Rule of Law. The tipping point occurs when synchronization takes place. It is a Scientific Principle which applies to all Complex Systems. All Communities and Nations are Complex Systems. 6 months and we are there ! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-_VPRCtiUg
Problem is, human beings are not rational. Hundreds of millions will have to die for this to get off the ground. Humans are basically selfish and all the techo-planners behind this thinking are in it for their own egos and their own immediate security -- they get paid to come up with this stuff and get to identify with megalomaniacal grandiosity. The goal is some sort of heaven, and those who stand in the way of it will be mercilessly eliminated. Mass Murder is always accompanied by moralism and high ideals.
Lots of people will change their behavior without thinking it's a choice. I fly less because when I left Europe for Mexico, Air France and the whole system were so abusive and dishonest, I realized travel was too risky. But I don't think that's a choice, except in the sense of not going back to the alley where you always get mugged. So that part of your argument needs work. I know whose fault it is, and I'm ready to feed them feet first into the shredder, even though I no longer fly unless I have to.
We all need a bit more villager common sense in our fine cities.
My friends up in Swat, they had electricity, and those three-bar heaters. But the power went out all the time. Whenever it did, they brought out the kerosene lanterns and the charcoal braziers. Phone lines in those days were of course of the old-fashioned kind.
Where I'm living now, in a lovely building in a town that pretends it's a city in a NE state subject to the brutal vagaries of weather, power goes out, I'm fucked. Can't even make a cup of tea. Phone's a faux landline. Yeah, I got a cellphone for emergency purposes. So long as the power comes back before the battery runs down, it's all good.
In regard to the broader perspective of your post, seems to me that feudalism really has never gone out of fashion, in the hearts of our betters.
And thank you for the entirety of that Nietzsche quote. I'd quite misunderstood his intent before this. He'd nailed it, absolutely.
Eradication of gobal poverty & hunger, “world peace”, everyone w/ “equality of outcome” - none of this can ever be achieved due to the fallible nature of mankind. The hubris of our “betters” is stunning; that anyone thinks they can correct & control nature/planet/human nature is so ludicrous it is laughable, but for the psychopaths currently calling the shots & pulling all levels of power.
Excellent article. Old school Stalin style oppression is dead. In the future, we will build our own prisons.
If we want to fight against these “nudges” from our overlords, we have to withdraw from the mainstream culture *now*. Netflix, Amazon, Google, Disney, social media — it all has to go. No more excuses.
The way would be for humans to feel it in their hearts; that there is a better, simpler way to live that honours the planet and human joy. It must spring from inside us, not foisted upon us from above, legislated and enforced by punitive means. It would mean a new (and somewhat old) way of being. We need to see ourselves as part of the ecosystem and we need to dispense with win / lose competitive thinking. Collaboration for win / win outcomes and reverence for nature is our way forward. We need this to be discovered within each of us so it becomes something we hold dear and true.
As I'm sure you and many others have, I too have had my fair share of meetings where one is supposed to brainstorm and hammer out a campaign, a programme or somesuch. Always progressive in that way that makes actually fulfilling them impossible due to the goalposts being undefined or even undefinable. So, I thought I'd ride the coattails of your post and quickly go through the 17 points up there. Also, caveat: Specific numbers and greater would require actual research, so I'll stick to the principles instead.
1: impossible due to poverty being a relative concept. Abject poverty can be relieved virtually overnight, relative can't. It can only be gradually removed by ensuring there are always profitable work (which is easier to achieve by dropping taxes for the lowest income brackets, perhaps even to zero, than with welfare checks) even for those with least ability to compete in the labour market. What is being prepared intead, in action if not intent, is a society with at least 1/3 on perpetual generational welfare.
2: Same as 1, really. Could be solved overnight in several ways. A good start would be to make domestic food production tax exempt if under a specific (and quite generous) level of revenue/value.
3: Good health is easy. Public healthcare strictly focused on basic health, not lifestyle-related stuff like removing freckles or phalloplasty for the mentaly ill - everything above "keeping people alive"-level is left to the private sector, with zero tax-based subsidies. Well being is a meaningless phrase of the same variety as "pursuit of happiness", you have to be very special indeed to believe that one.
4: Quality education begins with realising what schools are for. Not social engineering but pushing children and youngsters to achieve as much as they apply themselves to achieve. When you arrive in my classroom you are no longer greek or jew or hindu or other: you are my student and I will teach you. That's all. Any other problem, situation or other - talk to the counselor, your rabbi, or whomever - it's not my job and it's not the school's either. Order, discipline, and decorum.
5: Going through the law with a fine-tooth comb to remove all instances of legally mandated discrimination between sexes, and you're done. The rest must be left to people themselves if it's to be achieved at all.
6: Not a problem. Really, it's not. The West only needs to look at how it was achieved a century ago in Scandinavia, and copy that. Getting rid of the capitalist grift and state corruption that gets in the way is the real problem.
7: Go nuclear on the national level. Make domestic alternatives tax exempt. Example: here, we could communally finance a small hydro-electric station, the dam already being in place. It could produce enough for the fewer than 1 000 households in the area, with surplus to sell. So make it tax exempt up to a certain level. The capitalists and taxmen both will still get their Shylock's share, since what we then wouldn't spend on energy we would spend on other stuff.
8: Too vague, much too vague. Also, economic growth is a pointless measurement as it says nothing of the contents of the economy: growing profits from speculation and so on will look like growth, yet nothing of actual, real, value has been produced (no, money even if you call it BitCoin has no intrinsic value, that's why using money to measure economic growth makes one draw the wrong conclusions - goods produced and services rendered have value, depending on the intrinsic value of the goodor service inquestion).
9: Again, make it profitable and easy. Slash copyrights and related IP-laws down to ten years after first sale. Make it 'green' by basing import tariffs on distance travelled, quality of product and the producing nation's environmental protection laws. Want to make more moolah? Offer superior product. I'd gladly pay real money for the kind of drill I could still buy in the 1980s, made in West Germany, rather than paying a pittance for the chinese sh*t they peddle today. And that 40-year old drill designed and manufcactured by white men still works as if new.
10: Gah. Again, remove discrimination from the law. That's enough.
11: Again: Gah! I think my points above covers how to achieve this.
12: And another one. So vague. Impossible to comment on. But the better, more durable and repairable the product, the better for the environement, even if it's a coal-fired engine.
13: Groan. We're into the part of the meeting where the me-tooists and hangers on are shouting their meaningless slogans to show the head witch that they are loya followers. But okay, just to say something, let's punish polluters for real. Give the major shareholders, the BoE ond the CEOs real prison time if their companies violates EP laws in a significant manner, no matter where on the planet they do it. (Guaranteed: not even St Greta would support that, since that could send both her and her parents to prison.)
14: Make fish farming tax free. End of problem.
15: ?
16: Pretty sure it's "Peace, justice and the american way" that's Superman's tagline. Want peace? Prepare for war. Want justice? Make all legal proceedings completely transparent (yes, we might need to make exemptions for children, molestation and such horrors) and make the offender's registry fully public. Remove prescription. Institute mandatory capital punishment for certain crimes, evidence allowing. The strenght of an institution is based on the accountability of the persons in it - full, personal public accountability. Shouldn't matter if it's a CHAV wth a knife holding up someone behind a pub or a council memeber embezzling funds: theft is theft. First gets you prison and voactional training. Second 5 years labour camp. Third theft gets you the short sharp drop - no matter if you're Gav the Gobber of Glouchester or Lord Ponceival Chinless the fourth.
17: No. That means supra-state level decisionmaking, meaning democracy loses whatever little substance it has left. Which gives us the people only two options: violent nationalism and outright jingoism or knuckling under for ever.
Hope you don't mind me doing like a dough, but this topic is dear to me.
Long past time to remember that simple word No and relearn how to mean it, through our individual actions and human agency. The ability to say and mean No has been unrelentingly programmed out of us plebs by elite promotion of the endlessly easily and permanently offended. Don’t bother engaging- just ignore them.
God is not dead
No shipping?!!!
No shipping.
I mean, shipping has been happening since man’s earliest days.
I guess that the globalists in the US don’t want any bananas for breakfast or morning coffee. Oh, I guess the coffee can come by llama up from South America. My bad.
But no more paper imports from Vietnam, no clothing from Bangladesh or Taiwan.
But, if no shipping, then, {gasp} no oil! I mean, we can’t pump it here, so it will have to come
From the Middle East.
And I don’t know what the poor Brits will do, being that they’re on an island. Definitely no coffee or bananas or even chocolate for them.
Seriously. These people are, so arrogant. May God strike them down.
This has nothing to do with climate change. The current World Government (Davos Gang of Psychos) energy plan is a blatant and obvious scheme of energy rationing, forced energy poverty, using various devious means, like foisting useless wind & solar power down our throats. The thing about rationing is that it should be applied equally, not one group, namely the poor and middle class must ration and the rich don't need to. So either EVERYONE rations including the Aristocracy with their giant fuel guzzling yachts, mansions & private jets or NOBODY should ration.
If this really was about reducing emissions (hint: it isn't). There are far more rational and vastly more effective ways achieve that goal:
#1: remove the roadblocks against nuclear power production and expansion
#2: is quit building wind & solar which just vastly increases energy inefficiency
#3: is remove all preferential discriminatory subsidies given to the political favorites, like wind & solar, and not given to political pariahs like nuclear, hydro, ultra-supercritical coal and extreme efficiency CCGT.
#4: Use a revenue neutral carbon fee and dividend to shift the cost of emissions to those (like Davos Psychos) who cause the most emissions and reward the poor and middle class who produce the least emissions, this is done in a transparent, automatic and natural way.
#5: Replace the idiotic Carbon Credit, Net zero, Carbon Trading, Cap & Trade, REC's etc with the above CF&D. All the various Carbon Credit scams do is funnel incredible government guaranteed profit to the energy glutton rich all paid for by the energy frugal poor & middle class, while doing zip to reduce emissions, except by forcing energy poverty upon the poor & middle class who can't afford the high energy prices that the Carbon Credit scams create.
I am a full carnivore I eat nothing but meat fish and eggs, some dairy. Good luck nudging me
The trouble is, just as with COVID, these policies are not based on any data, but on a giant state of mass hypnosis. There is no data showing that people will improve greenhouse gases if they forego meat--the greenhouse gases produced by all of animal agriculture in the US is 3.5% of the total. There is no data showing that meat is unhealthy and plants are healthy--just the opposite in fact. Focusing on meat distracts attention from the vast amounts of carbon produced by industry, which elites do not want to curtail. If we forego meat, they can produce fake meat and sell it to us for a profit. The whole climate policy argument supposedly supported by "science" is anything but scientific; it has been completely corrupted by globalist corporations and the billionaires who run them, just as pharma has corrupted public health. As many have pointed out, electric cars do not save any carbon, nor do they improve pollution. Wind and solar are completely incapable of taking over the world's energy needs, even if we all cut back. It is all bright green lies used to shift power to unsavory billionaires.
This is fast approaching a tipping point in our favour. The West is NOT China. We have a long History of Judeo-Christian Values and The Rule of Law. The tipping point occurs when synchronization takes place. It is a Scientific Principle which applies to all Complex Systems. All Communities and Nations are Complex Systems. 6 months and we are there ! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-_VPRCtiUg
Problem is, human beings are not rational. Hundreds of millions will have to die for this to get off the ground. Humans are basically selfish and all the techo-planners behind this thinking are in it for their own egos and their own immediate security -- they get paid to come up with this stuff and get to identify with megalomaniacal grandiosity. The goal is some sort of heaven, and those who stand in the way of it will be mercilessly eliminated. Mass Murder is always accompanied by moralism and high ideals.
Lots of people will change their behavior without thinking it's a choice. I fly less because when I left Europe for Mexico, Air France and the whole system were so abusive and dishonest, I realized travel was too risky. But I don't think that's a choice, except in the sense of not going back to the alley where you always get mugged. So that part of your argument needs work. I know whose fault it is, and I'm ready to feed them feet first into the shredder, even though I no longer fly unless I have to.
"The theory of Communism may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property." — Karl Marx
"You will own nothing, and you will be happy."— Klaus Schwab
Hopefully this problem solves itself over the next two winters. Cough cough, quad vaxxed elite idiots.
We all need a bit more villager common sense in our fine cities.
My friends up in Swat, they had electricity, and those three-bar heaters. But the power went out all the time. Whenever it did, they brought out the kerosene lanterns and the charcoal braziers. Phone lines in those days were of course of the old-fashioned kind.
Where I'm living now, in a lovely building in a town that pretends it's a city in a NE state subject to the brutal vagaries of weather, power goes out, I'm fucked. Can't even make a cup of tea. Phone's a faux landline. Yeah, I got a cellphone for emergency purposes. So long as the power comes back before the battery runs down, it's all good.
In regard to the broader perspective of your post, seems to me that feudalism really has never gone out of fashion, in the hearts of our betters.
And thank you for the entirety of that Nietzsche quote. I'd quite misunderstood his intent before this. He'd nailed it, absolutely.
Eradication of gobal poverty & hunger, “world peace”, everyone w/ “equality of outcome” - none of this can ever be achieved due to the fallible nature of mankind. The hubris of our “betters” is stunning; that anyone thinks they can correct & control nature/planet/human nature is so ludicrous it is laughable, but for the psychopaths currently calling the shots & pulling all levels of power.
Excellent article. Old school Stalin style oppression is dead. In the future, we will build our own prisons.
If we want to fight against these “nudges” from our overlords, we have to withdraw from the mainstream culture *now*. Netflix, Amazon, Google, Disney, social media — it all has to go. No more excuses.
The way would be for humans to feel it in their hearts; that there is a better, simpler way to live that honours the planet and human joy. It must spring from inside us, not foisted upon us from above, legislated and enforced by punitive means. It would mean a new (and somewhat old) way of being. We need to see ourselves as part of the ecosystem and we need to dispense with win / lose competitive thinking. Collaboration for win / win outcomes and reverence for nature is our way forward. We need this to be discovered within each of us so it becomes something we hold dear and true.
As I'm sure you and many others have, I too have had my fair share of meetings where one is supposed to brainstorm and hammer out a campaign, a programme or somesuch. Always progressive in that way that makes actually fulfilling them impossible due to the goalposts being undefined or even undefinable. So, I thought I'd ride the coattails of your post and quickly go through the 17 points up there. Also, caveat: Specific numbers and greater would require actual research, so I'll stick to the principles instead.
1: impossible due to poverty being a relative concept. Abject poverty can be relieved virtually overnight, relative can't. It can only be gradually removed by ensuring there are always profitable work (which is easier to achieve by dropping taxes for the lowest income brackets, perhaps even to zero, than with welfare checks) even for those with least ability to compete in the labour market. What is being prepared intead, in action if not intent, is a society with at least 1/3 on perpetual generational welfare.
2: Same as 1, really. Could be solved overnight in several ways. A good start would be to make domestic food production tax exempt if under a specific (and quite generous) level of revenue/value.
3: Good health is easy. Public healthcare strictly focused on basic health, not lifestyle-related stuff like removing freckles or phalloplasty for the mentaly ill - everything above "keeping people alive"-level is left to the private sector, with zero tax-based subsidies. Well being is a meaningless phrase of the same variety as "pursuit of happiness", you have to be very special indeed to believe that one.
4: Quality education begins with realising what schools are for. Not social engineering but pushing children and youngsters to achieve as much as they apply themselves to achieve. When you arrive in my classroom you are no longer greek or jew or hindu or other: you are my student and I will teach you. That's all. Any other problem, situation or other - talk to the counselor, your rabbi, or whomever - it's not my job and it's not the school's either. Order, discipline, and decorum.
5: Going through the law with a fine-tooth comb to remove all instances of legally mandated discrimination between sexes, and you're done. The rest must be left to people themselves if it's to be achieved at all.
6: Not a problem. Really, it's not. The West only needs to look at how it was achieved a century ago in Scandinavia, and copy that. Getting rid of the capitalist grift and state corruption that gets in the way is the real problem.
7: Go nuclear on the national level. Make domestic alternatives tax exempt. Example: here, we could communally finance a small hydro-electric station, the dam already being in place. It could produce enough for the fewer than 1 000 households in the area, with surplus to sell. So make it tax exempt up to a certain level. The capitalists and taxmen both will still get their Shylock's share, since what we then wouldn't spend on energy we would spend on other stuff.
8: Too vague, much too vague. Also, economic growth is a pointless measurement as it says nothing of the contents of the economy: growing profits from speculation and so on will look like growth, yet nothing of actual, real, value has been produced (no, money even if you call it BitCoin has no intrinsic value, that's why using money to measure economic growth makes one draw the wrong conclusions - goods produced and services rendered have value, depending on the intrinsic value of the goodor service inquestion).
9: Again, make it profitable and easy. Slash copyrights and related IP-laws down to ten years after first sale. Make it 'green' by basing import tariffs on distance travelled, quality of product and the producing nation's environmental protection laws. Want to make more moolah? Offer superior product. I'd gladly pay real money for the kind of drill I could still buy in the 1980s, made in West Germany, rather than paying a pittance for the chinese sh*t they peddle today. And that 40-year old drill designed and manufcactured by white men still works as if new.
10: Gah. Again, remove discrimination from the law. That's enough.
11: Again: Gah! I think my points above covers how to achieve this.
12: And another one. So vague. Impossible to comment on. But the better, more durable and repairable the product, the better for the environement, even if it's a coal-fired engine.
13: Groan. We're into the part of the meeting where the me-tooists and hangers on are shouting their meaningless slogans to show the head witch that they are loya followers. But okay, just to say something, let's punish polluters for real. Give the major shareholders, the BoE ond the CEOs real prison time if their companies violates EP laws in a significant manner, no matter where on the planet they do it. (Guaranteed: not even St Greta would support that, since that could send both her and her parents to prison.)
14: Make fish farming tax free. End of problem.
15: ?
16: Pretty sure it's "Peace, justice and the american way" that's Superman's tagline. Want peace? Prepare for war. Want justice? Make all legal proceedings completely transparent (yes, we might need to make exemptions for children, molestation and such horrors) and make the offender's registry fully public. Remove prescription. Institute mandatory capital punishment for certain crimes, evidence allowing. The strenght of an institution is based on the accountability of the persons in it - full, personal public accountability. Shouldn't matter if it's a CHAV wth a knife holding up someone behind a pub or a council memeber embezzling funds: theft is theft. First gets you prison and voactional training. Second 5 years labour camp. Third theft gets you the short sharp drop - no matter if you're Gav the Gobber of Glouchester or Lord Ponceival Chinless the fourth.
17: No. That means supra-state level decisionmaking, meaning democracy loses whatever little substance it has left. Which gives us the people only two options: violent nationalism and outright jingoism or knuckling under for ever.
Hope you don't mind me doing like a dough, but this topic is dear to me.