20 years of mislead, divide and rule

20 years of mislead, divide and rule:
social media fuelling narcissism

 

Work in progress - initial release  06july22 
update 20oct22 0v6

Is anyone in government really aware of the full extent of the manipulation of users and messages by social media? We assume the spooks are?

The online safety bill needs to start with the basics of identity verification and accessibility. Maybe that's all it should do?

It obviously suits the blob that their woke champions are at the top of the newsfeeds. And those who question and counter the narrative, delayed and hidden away.

Is there a way to enable and promote alternative counterbiased news and commentary and a whois service that provides a quick lookup and summary of social media user profiles - using data scrapes, plus contributions from other identified and verified users. 

With options for the positively identified users to respond and add their own commentary.

I am particularly annoyed by people like Gary Lineker and Deborah Meaden who have been gifted platforms at the BBC licence fee payers expense they use as political soap boxes with very little accountability or responsibility.

The internet has given a lot of folks the impression they have a voice and influence in the great "global online debate". Wrong! 

Whatever you think, the reality is that your voice is strictly limited by what the new overlords of opinion - the oligarchs of tech in various forms of unnerving collusion with governments - are willing to permit you (and everyone else) to do and say.  Your opinions will only ever be allowed to appear be if they promote, sustain and otherwise support the purpose of the platform owners. To avoid being arbitrarily cancelled, those opinions and ideas must not fall foul of the imperiously imposed "community standards" as established by the kangaroo courts that are held in secret, and whose decisions may occasionally be challenged after a huge amount of time-wasting, chasing around automated procedures designed to sap your will to live. No communication you will receive is likely to include a "reply address" and the message will generally include platitudinous references to web links where the community standards will be explained. Badly.

If you post a comment that displeases the AI analyser bots and/or censor committees, you will be summarily sent to the naughty step for periods ranging from a day to "forever". There are squads of woke busybody users patrolling Twitter and Facebook, doing their very best to be offended, and eagerly reporting other users they regard as "off message" for any imagined abuse in the finest traditions of the Stasi and secret police everywhere.

You may be invited to contest the decision in case some simple mistake has been made that a bot without any ability to discern context has missed. But if that simple objection is rejected, then if you try to make contact and contest any decision, you will be given a massive run-around until you lose the will to live, and give up. Facebook in particular will pile on the agony by sending you round in recursive circles until you give up; knowing that after you have served your penance, you will be sufficiently chastened and eager to avoid a repeat trip to the naughty step that you will be careful to comply.

Here is an example of Twitter at work on Alex Berenson...

Everything "social" is offered for free (at least initially) - and just as a drug dealer waits for their clients to become addicted, so the dealers and pushers of social media wait for unmistakable signs of dependence and narcissist syndrome to emerge, as their victims become bathed in the endorphins of peer approbation.  Abraham Lincoln saw it coming in his Lyceum Address...

And thus the Pavlovian process of conformance and compliance through punishment for wrongthink - and reward by issuing peer "likes" has changed the world's mindset in under a generation.  The "unnatural" woke mindset of the kids running social media has been installed and imposed on those unwilling to stand up for freedom of expression and tell Facebook and Twitter where to shove their propaganda and mind control tactics. 

The Microsoft LinkedIn business network has eventually scraped together a repuation as more useful than Facebook for professionals - but it remains a hangout for recruiters and all manner of tiresome professional services salespeople. But is is the de-facto go-to directory - with an effort to filter out the worst spammers... but it's not oplace for discussion or debate of issues that have cause controversy. 

Does Bill, the great Vaccine Meister Gates, still have influence at the company where sales of barely functional PC software - until Windows 7 eventually provided a passably  stable desktop platform - that made him richer than Croesus, I wonder?

Let's recall that the animal rights movement established the gold standard for activist protest back in the 1970s - it established the damage that extreme protest could quickly do to commercial interests by mobilizing opinion directed against an individual, organization or company – and since Facebook makes money by selling users' data to advertisers, the protestors quickly worked out the tactic of harassing advertisers on the basis that their adverts were helping to fund content that did not suit their causes or match their views and opinions. 

Companies that used animals for medical testing in the 70s were fire-bombed for displeasing activists. Today's advertisers didn’t need the aggravation of being twitter and mail-bombed by the awkward activist squads, and commercial pressures drove the cancellation of all designated wrong-think. Buoyed by success, cancellation tactics became positive affirmation of what they were assured was enlightened social policy; the age of woke had arrived.  Advertisers (whose marketing departments are now mostly run by social-media aware millennials, believed that it was in their interests to pander to the activists - and once-sensible companies began to actively promote the assumptions of the woke activism. 

There is barely a TV commercial that does not now tick a range of boxes concerning diversity and inclusivity - presenting a misleading impression of the nation that substantially over-represents minorities.

This is an interesting reflection on the tolerance of British society, where ... 67.081 million United Kingdom (June 2020 est.) White 87.2%, Black/African/Caribbean/black British 3%, Asian/Asian British: Indian 2.3%, Asian/Asian British: Pakistani 1.9%, mixed 2%, other 3.7% (2011 est.)

Even police forces have abandoned catching burglars to spend their time painting their vehicles with rainbows - and watching social media for signs of wrong think.

Also, an estimated 2.7% of the UK population aged 16 years and over identified as lesbian, gay or bisexual (LGB) in 2019, an increase from 2.2% in 2018. Between 2018 and 2019, the number of men identifying as LGB increased from 2.5% to 2.9% and women identifying as LGB increased from 2.0% to 2.5%. as at 27 May 2021

So is there anything you can do to complain to the operators of social media platforms that so tirelessly manage to convey a distorted impression of the core demographics of UK society? Remember, you paid nothing to participate in their platforms; you clicked loads of buttons saying that you agreed to the terms and conditions set by the platform operator - so there is no "classic contract", and you cannot easily sue the platform operator for any imagined loss. Even if they persuaded you to spend 70% of your advertising budget wooing the 10% of their fêted minorities.

The payment is of course your personal data that defines you as a target for advertising - and as the saying goes, if you are not paying for use of the platform's services then you are "the product" being sold. A rather gory analogy being that cattle do not pay to be let into an abattoir.

The world of online has moved the goalposts of the law as it relates to free speech and the imperious behaviour of the  inestimably wealthy, smug and arrogant controllers of the global social agenda. This world exists because of the entirely new currency created by the industry: welcome to the attention economy! Also accurately described as the "surveillance economy". Behind this imposition of unwanted and wholly negative intrusion lies the insidious notion that if you object to being sniffed, probed and shaken down to provide a demographic profile for sale to advertisers, then why are you objecting? ...and ultimately the implication is that "what indiscretions, picadillos, naughtiness and potentially reputation destroying secrets have you got to hide?"

This is video is a particularly interesting point of view discussing some of the less obvious consequences of our  social media addiction, delivered by a very bright girl... "Liv" Boeree is a British science communicator, television presenter and former professional poker player." Liv is an objective science based observer with no axe to grind.

Aside from these clear and obvious dangers to personal freedoms and rights, the "blob media" in the US has been assisting the Biden administration to redefine the US Constitution.

Tucker Carlson and Fox News are doing their best to try and prevent the most flagrant abuses - but the quite astonishingly brazen "Washington swamp" is not really bothered ... It seems Nancy Pelosi is making up a new US Constitution off the top of her head to fit the fluid narrative...

One of this blog's followers suggests...

"In my view, the root cause of the social media endorphins-generating polarisation is narcissism. An indispensable human trait that works well as an essential ingredient for survival, and historically has been kept in check and neutralised by daily survival battles of most humans.

Those daily battles of attrition that kept the excesses of narcissism at bay are no longer needed. The society now includes and feeds large numbers of people who do nothing much else but nurture and cultivate their narcissism, via new, previously unavailable outlets for parading and signalling their admirable looks and virtues, on fashionable issues, real, imagined or otherwise contrived and manufactured. 

Manufactured issues are preferrable because their parameters can be better optimised to suit a narcissist’s mindset which requires maximising the amount of generated attention and admiration while minimising the amount of actual work needed. Previously, maximum amounts of endorphins achievable by narcissistic individuals were available mostly only via actual human interaction and one would have to become a dictator in order to reach the pinnacles of narcissism’s ultimate rewards. Today, it is possible to become a widely admired social justice (or climate action, etc.) warrior by technology-aided pretence on social networks, with millions -strong audiences eager to partake in endorphin-feeding frenzies of mutual admiration and the feeling of superiority resulting from belonging to the “righteous” group worshipping prepackaged dogmas. 

Facts are the antithesis of dogmas and people who insist on facts are naturally perceived as enemies and dangerous extremists because they have the potential to stop the flow of endorphins that a narcissist requires in order to thrive, by toppling the carefully constructed coulisses of the artificial stage on which a narcissist performs, and where he (or she) receives applause from admirers..."

work in progress....

The silent majority thinks aloud..?

 

Work constantly in progress - draft 0.3 Update July8t h 2022

Us and them... let's start with identifying the main players...

You are very likely to be with "us" or with "them". This video is from an unknown source but succinctly identifies and describes the nature and origins of "polarized society". I'd be delighted to learn who this is - although the video goes on to discuss vaccine conspiracies and becomes less comfortable without going full "lead foil helmet". Nevertheless, the familiar questions raised remain mostly unanswered, and facts like the humungous profits being made from liability-free regular vaccine updates.

 

However, these are the issues at the very heart of the freedom of speech and debate. The desire of any incumbent "establishment" to preserve the staus quo is inevitable, and the lengths to which ruling elites will go to grab or stay in control are driven by a belief that they are the only ones in charge of the "truth"; and that those who seek to depose them must by definition be guilty of sedition. This situation has been amplified across the 30 years of access to online information that has been steadily weaponised by the special interest groups that seek to control the social agenda, and know where trigger points and fault lines can be found to maintain the sense of entitlement that empowers the educational and civil service establishment.

 

 This meme has evolved for a while ...

Please keep in mind that this can be adapted by other groups who feel they have been unfairly oppressed and gaslit by a conspiracy of the manipulated media. Try it... just swap out the emotive words... and play your part in the age of spin.

 "I used to think I was just a regular person, but I was born white, which now, whether like it or not, makes me a racist. 

I am a fiscal and moral conservative, which by woke standards, makes me a fascist. I am heterosexual, which now makes me a homophobe. 

I am mostly non-union, which makes me a traitor to the working class and an ally of big business. 

I was brought up as Church of England which now labels me as an infidel. I am retired, which makes me useless. 

I think and I reason, therefore I doubt much that the mainstream media tells me, which must make me a reactionary. 

I am proud of my heritage, which makes me a xenophobe. 

I value my safety and that of my family and I appreciate the police and the legal system, which makes me a right-wing extremist. 

I believe in hard work, fair play, and fair compensation according to each individual's merits, which today makes me an ant i-socialist. 

I (and most of the folks I know), acquired a fair education without student loan debts and little or no debt, which makes me some kind of odd underachiever. 

I believe in the defence and protection of my country and I honour those who served in the Armed Forces, which now makes me a right wing-militant. 

Please help me come to terms with the new me ... because I'm Just not sure who the hell I am anymore!

As if all this nonsense wasn't enough to deal with ... now I'm not even sure which toilet to use.

Incredibly ...it's all just taken place over the last 7 or 8 years! Under a Conservative government."

Let's ponder that last line:  

"Incredibly ...it's all just taken place over the last 7 or 8 years! Under a Conservative government."

The government apparently believes that one of the UK's biggest challenges is the need to build up the (taxable!) workforce; it would certainly help explain a curiously laissez-faire immigration strategy, where young people of working age arriving in rubber boats have been waved through at Dover without formal screening procedures. Although as of April 14th, that is set to change.  Across Europe, the demographics of an ageing population continue to accumulate problems as retirement ages are edged upwards.

And let's be frank, the UK education system has knocked the spirit of enterprise from indigenous kids who are not so much educated as "socially engineered" in schools with notoriously inadequate careers guidance, with a default proposition to go to university and pass the career problem upstream. For most, university now means around £30k in student debt - to study nebulous subjects that rarely include starting and running their own businesses.  However, in Scotland, university is still free, but only if you're a student from Scotland! And those fees are ironically at least in part funded by the English through the infamous "Barnet Formula".

At the same time, government had made starting and running any sort of business far more difficult now than ever before, through the imposition of endless process, formalities and a straitjacket of red tape.

It was Nixon that first coined the phrase the "Great Silent Majority", those citizens who are only "graciously" noticed once every four or five years during general elections, were resigned to be overlooked for the rest of the time. Nixon gave the term a conservative/republican inference.

For the past 30 years, a vociferous minority has largely succeeded in over-representing the opinions of "the left", steadily infiltrating and taking over institutions including Education, the BBC, Civil and Public Service. This has resulted in a fundamentally cultural Marxist society, where ideology masquerading as intellect is a key aspect of controlling the narrative, which comprises "acceptable" language. Alternative viewpoints are not tolerated, but are shouted down while those expressing dissent are intimidated by insult and cancellation, and given no option to contribute to any discussion or defence. 

Evidence? The audience of the traditional press is weighted about 3:1 in favour of small-c conservative opinion, yet the mainstream TV news media mostly reflects the views of left-leaning and "woke" publications like the Mirror and Guardian. The view amongst the metrolectual "bubble" that has been able to infiltrate TV news and social media is that the older generations are dying out, and that all effort should be focused on indoctrination of under 30s.

The over representation of minorities (inc kids) had got out of hand. A recent poll of the US showed the general population believed the proportion of blacks was 41%. But from the July 2021 US census...

White alone,  76.3%
Black or African American alone, 13.4%
American Indian and Alaska Native alone, 1.3%
Asian alone,  5.9%

This can only be the result of "conditioning" by mainstream and social media. So let's ponder that...

We have seen time and again that Facebook and Twitter (especially) are specifically setting out to "socially engineer" their users to force them to adjust their views of the world to comply with their so-called "community standards".  There is no attempt to reconcile this with free speech - maybe government has given orders? It's all quite unnerving as preparations for a universal online identity are taking shape under the usual duress of "what have you got to hide?" for any objectors.

The WEF says "we will own nothing and be happy".  Work on making all money digital so that that your assets can be frozen and sequestrated by politicians in the same way Russian miscreants have been instantly de-possessed, is complete.  If we are not very careful, we will wake up and own nothing, because big brother knows best, and owns it all.

There is an urgent need to create an alternative mass medium for grown up discussion and debate. We urgently need to work out just how the strategy of "divide and rule" by the biased imposition of specious community standards has as lead us into the mess that we find ourselves in.

Keep this in mind at all times: Only broadcast radio offers the off-grid capability that is needed to escape malevolent state interference and censorship.

There are now many topics that the mainstream media, social media and politicians do not want "us" to discuss - the imposition of a wokocracy has replaced meritocracy in the UK - and much of the free world in the past 30 years.  It hasn't gained any ground in those countries we are once again coming to regard as "strategic challengers" if not outright enemies in a Cold War sense; China, N Korea, Russian Federation (including satellites like Belarus) - and those governed by religious laws in Islamic states.

Diversity is not - in itself - strength. Any more than "incest is weakness" - or the horse racing industry would be a very different place. Context is everything.

Diversity has been weaponised as an ideal and watchword of globalists pursuing ideas of a New World Order, where pretty much any enemy of the incumbent white (Christian) ruling classes of the West during the past 100 years, is their friend.

It has been progressively weaponized and imposed by manipulators that understand the valuable strategy of divide and rule. Diversity disenfranchises and demoralizes the majority, using positive/discrimination that unfairly favours the strident cabal of vociferous minorities.

Countries with a culturally homogenous population have lower crime rates; get over it. Some because religious laws invoke extreme punishments (cf Islamic states), others because they have been comfortable in their own skins and "with their own people" for a long time (cf Iceland).

Yet the most violent and visceral clashes of the past have occurred in places like Ireland, Vietnam, the Middle East and now Ukraine - where the protagonists have been genetically similar, if not identical! But cultural diversity arising from diverging religious beliefs (even sects within the same fundamental religion) is not generally a recipe for harmony. To put it mildly.

Nations belong to their indigenous people and ethnic group, and they come first and foremost in their own country. Few living in a racially pure society - yes, that's wicked and emotive, I  know, but it's also inconveniently true - want to have diversity imposed on them without being asked. People want to keep their country, their jobs and their resources for their people and their culture. Civilized tolerance towards outliers is another issue, and "modulated" by the willingness of the outliers to respect and acknowledge the culture they wish to adopt and benefit from.

Furthermore, in the modern context, "diversity" apparently means "less white people". Modern diversity is an ideology that has become inherently bigoted against white people who have been made to feel ashamed for the assumed sins of their forebears -= and recently triggered by media incitement following the unlawful death of a serial criminal in the USA, at the knee of a criminally negligent cop; BLM is not what it seems! "Diversity" is only applied in European and predominantly white nations; indigenous European peoples are becoming disenfranchised minorities in their own nations. Try promoitio  tolerance and diversity in a Muslim state, and see where it goes...

This unease in society and "friction" suits the globalism narrative. The manipulators know that a population that is scared and agitated can be easily led (pandemics, climate hysteria and wars - anyone?) into handing over their once-fundamental freedoms to the state for "safe keeping".  The warehousing of online IDs in most countries has been led by conditioning with collaborators like google, Twitter and Facebook. All of which now know more about you and your partners than your mothers ever did. (A big subject for another post.)

Another of the unexpected new intake of intelligent commentators that lives far enough outside the bubble to have an objective perspective is Neil Oliver, @theCoastGuy, who again asks the right questions when exploring Joe Biden and the 'new world order'...

 

 

 

Not much to argue with there. 

And now this is a popular meme doing the rounds in June 2022 ... the impasse that defines confrontation politics in the US with its virtual 50/50 division between Republican and Democrat for the past few elections, is making any reconciliation of conflicting ideas and space for new thinking, quite difficult...

 

Ouch.

 

Fault lines in society start with education failures

 

How as Education has been hijacked..?

Work in progress... upodate 11/7/2022 v0.2

Politically motivated industrial action is another blast from the past, accompanied by rising interest rates, inflation and cold wars. Happy days....

The Boris haters failed in their bids to unseat him over party gate (and the various other human frailties and picadillos that his supporters have tended to "price in" to the BJ package all along). The mob is now onto the next phase of their determination to replace the democratic process and bring down the government by Daily Mirror orchestrated mob rule. The trades unions appear to have given up all hope of the Labour Party mounting an effective opposition with actual policies - and the RMT reverted to the trusty old tactic of bringing the country to its knees through industrial inaction.  Although, the chosen cause of more money for already well-paid railway workers may not work out entirely favourably.

The Great Divide

UK and US society (especially) continues to fracture along the left/right fault lines of globalist cultural Marxism, nurtured, encouraged and fed by seriously scurrilous politicians jumping on nebulous opinion bandwagons like BLM, climate and a curious obsession with gender diaspora.

It all tends to come into focus at the WEF with the crusaders of Klaus Schwab's globalist institutions and oligarchs are eating through the big institutions of government and money in order to place ever more distance between the people and the power to actually determine their lives.  Various networks of "local chapters" of faceless globalism operate via sleeper activists embedded in national civil and public services - such as Common Purpose.  

The left broadly conflates all aspects of "wokism"  (no TV ad-break without a same-sex or coloured family featured; no opportunity to introduce the same-sex partner of a TV game show contestant is ever missed) - this is discrimination at the level of serious brainwashing with a slightly trendier name - and taunts the mildly reactionary populism of what was once  "the silent majority". Most people who just want to be left alone to get on with their lives and families, without being cornered into adopting the tenets of rabid extremism. All the while, the mainstream narrative pushed by the BBC, C4 , Sky and ITV takes is cue from Tony Blair's 1997 junta, whilst "rubbing the noses of the right in diversity".

Fault lines in society start with education, failed by dogma and activists. This principle is applied in every religion:  'Give me a child till he is seven years old,' said St Ignatius Loyola, ' and I will show you the man.' The founder of the Jesuit Brotherhood.

Former head teacher Chris McGovern is a rare voice of sanity in he education "blob":  'we've got a long way to go to catch up to where we were 40 years ago' | Chris McGovern

How has this happened in the UK? 

With years of steady subversion of education, as the UK system was steadily degraded when grammar schools that traditionally provided social mobility based on achievement, were dogmatically dumbed down as comprehensives, Further serious mischief occurred when Blair arranged that all kids - regardless of ability, need or suitability - would go to university - any old university - where indoctrination could take place away from the moderating influence of family. Fundamentally subversive left wing staff and institutions were paid to wash brains in the final flush of impressionable youth. was more than likely. Most uni staff realized they were onto a fabulous earner with wonderful vacations that they would never achieve outside the protective cocoon of further education. Don't rock the boat, Prof!  Also, hanging the spectre of a £30k debt around the necks of graduates on departure, might also help keep them compliant... 

The process of empowering society's fringes and margins was turbocharged in the 1980s by the arrival of the opportunity for any anarchist with £5 a month to locate "fellow online travellers" via special interest online bulletin boards that were the forerunners of social media. And from these gatherings of like minds, propagate outrageous and unchallenged opinions in echo chambers, at light speed. In the early days, disputes amongst online nerds that could not be easily resolved in a civilised manner became "flame wars", and so set the seeds of cancel culture.

All propagandists and psychologists will tell you that people are at their most vulnerable and easily manipulated when worked up into a lather, and the progressive adoption of English as the default global language of communication has also helped to strip away the subtlety and nuance of diplomacy, and reduce political confrontation to a hard core of seething resentment. Social media companies quickly learned that

The murmuring from the Boris haters suggests that a bandwagon of potential strikers is now trundling along and gaining momentum; after all, who would not fancy a pay rise if they are being dished out? More to the point, perhaps, who fears being left off the pay rise bandwagon when they see already well-paid railway workers determined to bully their way to a pay raise on top of well above-average salaries.

Will the government have the bottle to call the bluff and cancel the folly of HS2, and put the money into backed-up resilient fibre communications to every location in the land, and give the UK the scope to allow bright UK entrepreneurs to take home working to the next levels? Given the pace of progress in 3D printers, we can't be too far away from scifi replicators and matter transporter, can we?

 

 

He thinks it's all over...

Peter thinks it's all over. 

One of the the founding fathers of the European commercial internet - Peter Dawe, founder of Uniplam Pipex - has been peering into his crystal ball for a long while, trying to warn others of what he was seeing, but ever since the oracle Cassandra created the genre, no one wants to believe bad news. 

Peter has recently issued one of his occasional "state of the nation" reports, and coincludes.

"50 years ago, the existential “comet” of the “Limits to Growth” report was spotted by Jorgen Randers and others. The Comet was a long way away, and there was no certainty that it would hit humanity. 

In 2008, I took a look at the “Comet” in my book “The New Noah” and concluded that its track needed to be researched and updated. I funded the “Exoshock” world economic model at Anglia Ruskin University. 

The Exoshock model demonstrated that the “Comet” was still on track to wipe out civilisation, and that this was likely to happen in the next 20 years.

Working from that model, I concluded that the decline of civilisation would occur in a series of
steps, rather than a steady decline, or indeed a one-off catastrophe. However there were steps
society could make that could delay the crash, or at least mitigate the consequences for some.

Over the last 10 years I have sought to warn society, and to get it to take measures that would help.
Sadly these efforts have been unsuccessful. I’m sure many of you will acknowledge that I tried very
hard, using all the tools at my disposal.

The Covid pandemic might have been the catalyst for a crash. However, the world’s governments mostly managed to control the consequences, or at least delay them. Covid seriously damaged the global industrial supply chains. Damage that is still significantly affecting global industrial productivity.

This brings us to September 2021. The global “dash-to-gas”, in order to disguise the lack of commitment to solving climate change, pushed the demand above available resources. This caused a sharp up-tick in the price. As a consequence, Ammonia production, especially in Europe, was moth-balled, in the expectation that the price of Natural Gas would fall back. However, the fundamentals of the industry meant this was not going to happen. So global fertiliser production reduced significantly. I realised that this was a existential threat to civilisation, and started my final campaign to get the world to understand the consequences of this appalling decision.

And then the Ukraine war. This war did for the global food supply chain, what Covid did for the industrial supply chain. The supply of natural gas for fertiliser in Europe simply stopped. Virtually all ammonia plants across Europe closed. Exports of fertilisers from Ukraine, Russia and Belarus also stopped, or at least massively diminished. The consequences of a lack of fertiliser only hit 6 to 18 months later at the next affected harvest. Timing depends on stocks and timing of the harvest. 

So today, we have world leaders announcing that there is about to be a World Food Crisis. However, when one looks at what they are actually doing about this crisis, it makes one despair! Only the US and China have prioritised fertiliser production in the allocation of natural gas. This week, the government of Pakistan SHUT its ammonia plant, to redirect gas to electricity to power a/c system of the middle class! The US is still converting crops to bio-fuels, indeed a recent policy relaxed restriction on bio-fuel production!

I use wheat as a proxy for all basic foods, The international price of a tonne of feed wheat has gone from £140 last August to £340 today. This comes on top of the price of energy doubling over the same period. However, currently the headline rate on inflation is below 10%. How can this happen? The answer is stocks. The world is still eating last years harvest, bought at last years prices. However, those stocks are now exhausted.

The next 6 months, will see global food price inflation reflect the underlying price. Global food prices will at least DOUBLE in the next 6 months. The consequences of this on many civilisations across the globe are indeed existential!

The great problem for me up, is I’ve watched milestone after milestone of the descent of civilisations go pass. For me the Comet has hovered over me for years, getting bigger, getting more inevitable. Over the last period, I have been posting evidence of each milestone we pass. I’m now going to stop posting. There is no longer any point, the next 6 months is set, and what happens as a consequence is totally out of my vision. 

As in “Don’t Look Up,” the “Mad Entrepreneur” built an escape pod, and to some extent I have too. And maybe the pod can be the basis for rebuilding a better civilisation. 

To borrow from another seminal book. “Bye and thanks for all the fish”

And here we go... (21May22)

 

Africa starves: https://youtu.be/I0kWvBEbtbI

...there is much worse to come...

Don't be distracted by talk of climate, Africa has always been a victim of drought and other climate extremes long before time climate change became a thing.

This present situation is now seriously compounded by Putin's single-handed destruction of Ukraine grain and cooking oil industries, and his part in the energy crisis. His propaganda even taunts the West by suggesting Europe will be overrun by starving refugees.

All of these things should have been seen coming by our politicians and the hopelessly shambolic United Nations... who have barely mentioned the rapidly increasing population in territories where food is always going to become an issue at the first sign of trouble. Elon Musk's insistence that the world is underpopulated is so bizarre, you have to wonder if he is actually all there at times - the world has no buffer capacity or regions left for food surplus growth or population migration. A small crisis quickly grows and spreads.

The big question is "are we going to accept there is currently nothing that we can do about this, and concentrate on putting on our own oxygen mask and life jacket (as per the safety instructions on an aircraft) or are we going to be distracted by the sight of possibly 20% of the earth's population starving, and go down in flames with them?"

The self-sufficiency of the United States and Canada is the envy of the world. Yet both of those countries are under the control of leaders who are demonstrably unfit for the task, and who appear to be manipulated by the Klaus Schwab WEF gang.

And all the BBC and UK media continue to talk about is partygate...

Elon Musk's battle for free speech

Elon Musk's battle for free speech flushes out the enemy...

Updated May 13th 2022

 

The conspiracy of liberal elite money, influence and politics to intimidate Elon Musk is typical and deeply sinister. The effort to associate all aspects of populism with the "extreme right wing" betrays the liberals' fear that free speech will inevitably expose the cultural Marxism that is the foundation of its subversive manipulation of public opinion. Control of the permitted vocabulary of public debate first "became a thing" in the form of political correctness, and has got far worse over recent times.

A cabal of activist organizations and NGOs signed a letter to companies who advertise on Twitter, warning them to reconsider if Elon Musk makes changes Musk has pledged to lift the 'censorship' of Twitter: critics worry that he will give free rein to those trafficking in hate speech and dangerous scientific theories. The letter writers said that Musk 'will further toxify our information ecosystem and be a direct threat to public safety'.

But these people seem mostly concerned that they are going to lose their ability to set the social agenda with the cancel culture that started with political correctness and peaked when a president of the US was de-platformed for becoming more powerful than Twitter's ability to intimidate.

They wrote: "Twitter risks becoming a cesspool of misinformation, with your brand attached".

Musk replied, wanting to know who was behind the 26 groups signing the letter, and commenting: 'Sunlight is the best disinfectant' 

Some of the most high-profile "liberal" figures have joined together to encourage advertisers to boycott Twitter if Elon Musk brings in his promised policy of unfettered 'free speech.'

After 26 activist organisations and NGOs signed a letter to Twitter advertisers asking them to boycott the platform if Elon Musk makes content moderation changes, it has been revealed that some of these groups are funded or tied to billionaire philanthropist George Soros, former US presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.

After Musk tweeted about “who funds these organisations that want to control your access to information,” the reports surfaced that the groups behind the anti-Musk campaign belong to wealthy Democrat donors and their family foundations, labour unions and the governments of European nations.

Yes folks, it's the usual suspects of the WEF and New World Order globalism. And it is high time we defined the word "liberal".

Does the "silent majority" at last have a champion who is willing to stick his neck out and confront the occupants of the Washington swamp and Westminster blob that have stealthily established themselves as the alternative to democratic government, as vast vested interests learned to manipulate mainstream and social media to achieve their ends without the inconvenience of the democratic process.

 

The Daily Mail eagerly ran with the story and Liberal Hivemind posted a Youtube video on the topic...

 

If you are getting the impression that democrtactic governments have been dangerously undermined by the "new money" that has exploded as the tech industry has learned how to exploit online and electronic media using embedded spyware with "atrtificial interlligence" to track and tag users - whilst avoiding all accountability and traditional checks and balances of the traditional media, you would be right. 

Long established bricks and mortar businesses that grew up over a hundred years, employing millions in traditional enterprises were overtraken in value by new tech companies less than 2 years old, that got lucky and rode the hype that was built on bankers' fear of losing out on the next big thing.

The subversive quality of this effort relies on the smokescreen and distraction created by and amplified by social media with its focus on trivia - including celebrity lawsuits, Partygate and Beeergate. We are being buried in trivia while Soros and his cohorts steadily undermine the democratic foundations of any country that has been willing to allow its culture driven by tech manipulation and cancel culture.

It is ironic and tragic that the UK entered the internet age with its BBC World Service respected and largely in control of the soft diplomacy that had been deployed over 75 years - establishing a reputation as a trusted and reliable source of world news and comment.

No unelected and unaccountable offshore behemoth like Meta, Alphabet, tiktok, Microsoft, Apple or Amazon should have been permitted the opportunity to manipulate the judgement of UK residents using information acquired by stealth and spyware.

UK politicians were warned 10 years ago that they would lose control the social agenda unless something was done to kerb the likes of Facebook and Twitter, and now it is too late. UK owned operated and responsible alternatives to all the major social platforms may be the only way forward. 

 

And now... TalkTV - it must be time for a rethink of TV news

  April 27th 2022 V 0.1

 

And now... TalkTV - it must be time for a rethink of TV news

Oh well... it's a clone of GBNews with a fatter budget.

There is something surreal about news agenda priorities and the way that TV news in the UK is not adequately analysing the growing threat of a nuclear response. The isolated nut jobs in the Kremlin are plainly not enjoying the goading from the West - which is enjoying the sight of Russia's armed forces being humiliated. We're not sure what is more stressful - watching Steve Coogan's flagging career being given a plug on the BBC sofa, or the prospect of glowing in the dark?

And now GBNews and TalkTV are fighting over exactly the same silent majority/ moderate conservative/ "realistic right" audience... and advertisers! But Talk TV has VASTLY more resource from the Murdoch coffers, and his newspapers to plug it. Realistically, GBNews is doomed... so is there a way for them to combine their efforts, and set about creating examples of fresh thinking that is obviously better than turgid BBC TV? Not hard, you would think. We just wish it was possible to lose the commercials;  NOBODY likes the interruptions, do they?

Then the BBC could be shut down and rebooted as a simple (and cheap) public service broadcaster to appease the nations with Welsh, Gaelic, and the Thoughts of Chairman (sic) Sturgeon, without any need for a detailed discussion with the BBC?

It's not obvious why Sky News (now owned by US behemoth Comcast) has chosen to be another stronghold of the hectoring woke hegemony. Possibly because of the mania/malaise that has overtaken the US since the last presidential election - when even more evidence is emerging that the big plutocrat money with a globalist WEF agenda, did indeed influence the election for the worst president in history. Remember that "political correctness" - a precursor to "woke" - (https://www.ourcivilisation.com/pc.htm) originated in the US in the 80s when big business did the sums and realised that traditional WASP demographics were being overtaken by "non-WASP" (https://www.chicagoreporter.com/the-us-white-majority-will-soon-disappear-forever/), and that these were the consumers of the future. Big business could not afford to be called out for advertising with media that was not pushing a relentlessly positive BAME agenda.

The BBC has no commercial pressures, having led many years of charmed life and spent the past 20 years mocking the audience that pays its stipend. The last time the BBC produced anything properly entertaining was 20 years ago - before the woke revolution stripped humour from its tedious output. 'Ello 'ello, Only Fools, Porridge, Yes Minister etc. Not forgetting Doctor Who, before Russell T Davis turned into a tiresome sequence of woke sermons.

So while the BBC and Westminster bubble obsesses over beer, cake, and parties - we should all be a LOT more angry about the COLOSSAL increase in energy costs, the coming food shortages, inflation destroying savings - and the other consequences of a supine parliament being apparently helpless to do anything meaningful about any of it.

"Net Zero" perfectly sums up the Carrie and BJ clown show.

A sense of proportion is completely missing from the cloistered world of the BBC as it carries on regardless to push it's tiresome metrolectual liberal elite woke agenda. Dominic Littlewood telling us when it's the best time to buy a new car and much coverage of £34k+ EVs with their dubious economics and uncertain battery futures. These are still basically experimental electric prototypes because only Hydrogen fuels cells have a real future. A £60k tesla may be fun for the Islington set that drives 40 miles a week to Waitrose and a Hampstead eatery, but not for the rest of us, living out in the real world. And with a perfectly good car that has been built at the zenith of the internal combustion art, and able to last a good 25 years with reasonable maintenance, and deliver 50 mpg. It's interesting that the once-cynical motoring press has been bought by the terrifying performance of many 2 ton EVs with acceleration of 0-60 in under 5 seconds... we digress....

So then, how about developing a combination of TalkTV with GBN?  They could share the adaptable "focal coverage" of emerging trending events, (we hesitate to call it Twitter TV, but...) , and between them continue to expose the irrelevance (and bias) of BBC news and social engineering coverage..?

We are being desensitized to the Ukraine situation, and not putting enough pressure on politicians to sort it out. There is a good argument for the launch of a dedicated news channel that reports the Ukraine situation from all points of view. Especially the horrors and cynical funding for Putin from Germany, plus weapons from France. But the BBC's relentless pro-EU fanaticism is throttling its ability to call out EU countries that are feeding the Russia problem.

There's no shortage of reporting going on in Ukraine if you look just slightly away from mainstream narratives and news services. The reports just need to be gathered, collated, knocked into shape and given "warnings" where necessary. 

Will this cause kids to be traumatized? We suggest that those that play any sort of computer games will already be desensitized to the sight of body parts flying in all directions. The benefits of educating them in the realities of modern politics and its infinite capacity for hypocrisy may outweigh the trauma. After all, it's not as if this is a short-term event, we are now being warned the Ukraine War may last up to 10 years! Really?

Meanwhile, the German cash is paying for devastation like this - maybe they should be required to deposit an equivalent amount in the fund to rebuild Ukraine?

The battle for Popasnaya

What can possibly be done shorten it? The oligarchs would really love to get their yachts and bank account access back. And the west needs to be able to buy cheaper oil and gas once more. So please let's work on developing that theme? Shame the Germans and others that continue supporting the Russian war machine.

Rupert Murdoch's News TV project looked moribund from the off. If only he had had the nerve to launch it as the Ukraine channel, and put Piers Morgan on the front line in a helmet... but Rebekah Brooks - the old school print exec who is in charge in the UK - does not seem to understand the medium and its possibilities. Nevertheless, top marks to Julia Hartley-Brewer who is giving excellent Douglas Murray the opportunity to do what he does best - tell it like it is, not how the Islington liberal hive-mind wished it was.

Elon Musk steps up for the global leadership vacancy

An evolving history of the world : the global leadership vacancy  

 April 18th 2022 V 0.4

The world's richest (and most driven) man: boring he ain't...
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Let's set the scene with the challenges facing a would-be leader. In effect, Musk is setting out to grasp the baton of thought leadership via Twitter. This post is going to evolve, so please come back and review progress. As long as the target keeps moving, it may never reach V1.0, and it will be a major mission to try and get there... 

George perfectly sums up why the present Twitter board are trying to make Elon go away... in a single sentence

"...If I was pure evil and wanted to control global public debate in a simple, subtle but utterly pernicious way, I could do no better than invent twitter...."

But first a word about plutocrats by one...

From a 2014 Ted Talk.... 

Nick Hanauer is a rich guy, an unrepentant capitalist — and he has something to say to his fellow plutocrats: Wake up! Growing inequality is about to push our societies into conditions resembling pre-revolutionary France. Hear his argument about why a dramatic increase in minimum wage could grow the middle class, deliver economic prosperity ... and prevent a revolution.

The way forward is not managing the status-quo, but innovation that solves problems and focusses on growing a thriving middle class.

When I started this piece in October 2021, I observed that the world has been a relatively stable place since WW2 with only a number of "local difficulties" in the form of regionally contained conflicts. NATO has kept Europe safe from Russian ambitions, and the sheer overwhelming nature of the US military machine kept the lid on around the globe, while China remained an enigmatic oriental conundrum that kept very much to itself behind a bamboo wall. Japan was mostly confined to the far East and Pacific during the second World War, but with few natural resources and no significant military alliances, it has not since been a global military threat, and instead focused on manufacturing and trading its way to prosperity. The same lesson was also learnt eventually by Germany, with its subtle but effective control of the European Union to provide workers and customers for its industry.

Religious rivalry in the Indian subcontinent remains unresolved, in fact religious rivalry remains unresolved just about everywhere. But with India and Pakistan both (openly) having nuclear weapons, it's a major worry. If they actually believed their religious teachings, neither has anything to fear from the afterlife themselves...

The fractured nature of Islamic factions across the middle and far East is not resolving itself, and a glance at the population figures in Islamic states suggests a long game of "overwhelm by numbers".

According to a Japanese university - https://www.waseda.jp/top/en/news/53405 - the world population of Muslims has been increasing significantly in recent times. The Muslim world population stood approximately at 1.6 billion in 2013 and is estimated to reach 2.9 billion (making up 26% of the world population) by 2050. There are currently 21 Muslim-majority Asian and African countries highly influenced by Islam. None are tolerant democracies in the western sense. Among them, countries such as Bangladesh, Egypt, Indonesia, Iran, Pakistan and Turkey are expected to grow as consumer markets, 1.2 billion in terms of consumer population.

Meantime, the unchallenged supremacy of the US as the "world policeman" has dramatically declined under Obama and now Biden. In the past 20 years, the emergence of drones has confused the once unchallenged value of manned fighters and ground attack aircraft. Bombers were already overtaken by cruise and ballistic missiles from the 60s and 70s - with countries outside NATO using tech stolen by classic spying, supplemented by cyber incursions and intercepts;  and also acquired more subtly by the flood of foreign students at Western universities. 

It has never been simpler for the disloyal to send secret information around the world for profit or philosophy... revenge on a system they want to destroy without bothering about due democratic process.

A further subtle development has been the adoption of English as the global second language - especially in science and transport. There are more English speakers in China than England.

English speaking countries grew from the times of the British Empire, when Rhodes observed that "to be born an Englishman is to win life's lottery". Such a statement is regarded as insensitive to those cultures that do not share the Empire heritage, but it remains a realistic if uncomfortable truth. Of course, the fact that Cecil Rhodes, has been "cancelled" by woke culture, led by the Education establishment, which pays little regard to current reality in pursuit of a coercive agenda of thought control through dogma and doctrine, to establish its preferred new reality.

The British Empire also introduced (or imposed, if you must) a legal and parliamentary system that is based on Common Law, which is a topic for further discussion and analysis, along with a review of the state of democracy, as financial reality increasingly suggests that democracy is a function of affordability.

In 2022, the world is a far less certain place, with China - by sheer dint of numbers - now in possession of nearly all the industrial and military cards. Whilst the US - for all its critics - did a fair if occasionally clumsy job of promoting democracy, China doesn't make any secret of its agenda to promote its own best interests at almost any cost to human rights. China does not do democracy, which is an anathema for a society that can only function through unquestioning conformity.

China's territorial expansion includes its declared intention to re-annexe Taiwan; Hong Kong's assimilation is a done deal and serves to remind that there is no such thing as an equitable deal - where China is concerned. Its own best interests will always prevail - try and stop them! It now has footholds across Africa, and has thoroughly rattled resource-rich Australia in recent years. The lithium rich mountains of unruly Afghanistan are on the shopping list. However, Afghanistan has confounded all presumptive world powers for centuries by its ability to be fundamentally ungovernable. We shall see...

A previous essay in the series set out the state of the post Empire United Kingdom following World War II, so where does a global perspective now leave the United Kingdom? Currently, something of a shambles with the home Nations unhelpfully set against each other by Tony Blair's unhelpful gerrymandering strategy of national devolution. This most notably resulted in the emergence of a conniving demagogue in Scotland, just as the rest of the world has become far less secure and predictable, and it is more important  than it has been since WW2 for the nations of the United Kingdom to avoid squabbling rivalry. The petty antagonism between Edinburgh and London is not serving any discernible useful purpose for the people of the UK.

Many conspiracies have been swirling around the idea that China has carefully and thoroughly infiltrated the US Democrat party and supporters to influence US policy. There really needs to be a forensic examination of the vulnerability of the curious US election process where there are almost no identity checks and "voting machines" that send results around the world for processing to determine the fate of not just the US but the free world. The stakes are such that we are all involved, and entitled to ask questions - and get answers. It is increasingly obvious that the best interests of the United States and free world are not being served by a president who can barely function.

The way that the media which helped to promote and install Joe Biden and his administration is now looking down at its feet in embarrassment is more than simply "unfortunate". The role of media (and money) when influencing politics around elections needs to be better defined and closely monitored.

However, the hopelessly divided political situation in the US means that half the country regards the other half as naively under the influence of a right-wing egomaniac, and that half regards the other as a coterie of communism, manipulating a senile and barely functional frontman, soon to be replaced by the rapidly unraveling Kamala Harris.

Worryingly, there is much remarkably obvious evidence to support both of these contentions. Which of course plays into the hands of America's enemies in Russia and China.

Biden's clumsy retreat from Afghanistan appears to have handed the vast Lithium resources over to China. The Biden administration does not appear to be in control while the general disruption and division of US society created by BLM and campaigns to defund police, continue to reinforce division. Including in the US military. A US retreat into introspective isolation - never mind the expansive but ultimately empty words of the administration, suits Russia and China just fine for the time being.

Remember Comrade Bezmenov's advice that the US would destroy itself from the the inside, and then consider just where the doctrine of Political Correctness has taken the US since Reagan observed in 1975 that if fascism ever arrived in the US, it would come disguised as liberalism.

Awkward.

Never underestimate the depth and subtlety of the games being played. There is no doubt that both China and Russia understand the nature of the information society better than the western marketing minds that developed the internet as a marketing machine for social media (especially), with cookies and other forms of individual tracking in the first place. Totalitarian societies (cf 1984) understand the crucial roles of propaganda and fake news. The diplomacy game has evolved, and gunboats have been replaced (supplemented) by weaponized information. 

A revolution once involved insurgents taking over the national TV station and shooting the president. Now they take over the fact-checkers and key media influencers, and deplatform the President.

The move to buy Twitter by Elon Musk  could be a game changer. He appears to want to re-establish the idea of freedom of expression and discussion. It's not beyond possibility that he's bidding for the vacant role as leader of the world...

Twitter and other social media has progressively closed down debate and free speech by prescriptive censorship - not all of which is obvious.  The insidious "shadow ban" leaves users to go on ranting and raving, but not being penned in their echo chambers if allowing their heretic views reach a wider audience there is a danger of damage to Twitter's commercial strategy.

A US version of Russell Brand - An0maly - does a good job of analysing - remember you can speed up playback 1.5x and easily follow... he explores the topic in a unique and disarming way - he runs on a bit, but in such a way that you can be pretty confident that he is expressing honestly held views...

If Elon does close this deal, he will become a major influence broker and be a folk hero among those who are trying to strip misdirection, hypocrisy and social engineering from social media. We hope his heart is in the right place. Musk is very much a risk-taker, and a believer that market driven capitalism delivers the best results.

The way Twitter is trying to resist Musk in not commercially rational, and suggests they are far too attached to their power. Interesting times.

Fast forward to 10:03 to go to the Musk segment - although the discussion of markets that  precedes it is worth the time...

And then here is the state of  play on April 16th as Twitter attempts to poison the deal so Musk goes away.  But no one is yet asking and discussing "what does it cost to launch an alternative and better Twitter?" The answer is not nearly as much as buying Twitter. 

Musk is assured of many millions of his fans signing up on day one.

 

Let's hope Elon has worked that out, and is going to sell his stake to the mug private equity business that appears to planning to outbid him, and ups the price he already paid. Using that profit, Elon could then have the Twitter killer developed inside 3 months (it really is a simple software task) destroy Twitter value within 12 months. 

This just in, Elon musk at TED

 

 

And the full further earlier interview with Chris Anderson.

Given that Russia/Ukraine seems to be playing out as a visceral spat between Mafia bosses - where no other country has actually got the cojones to put boots on the ground and  flesh in the game, whilst being happy to see how Russia performs agaisnt a number of motivated guerillas armed with a minimal number of weapons, the new world leader's first proper job is to tackle unresolved questions around the origin and propagation of a certain virus. Whoever emerges to lead the free World needs to strip away the rumours and conspiracy.  

About the only thing we do know for sure is that it started in China and spread out from Wuhan ...the rest is yet to be explained. All leaders seem scared to grasp this nettle in case the evidence of a Chinese conspiracy is inescapable.  After all - what would anyone be able to do about it?  Send them to the naughty step? Ask them to refund the 5 trillion dollars their negligence has caused? 

## Work in progress