What it says on the tin; a perspective for the silenced majority.
Keep in mind that until the last 30 years and the rapid replacement of the old world order by newspeak and spin - especially by Tony Blair in the UK, Bill Clinton in the USA, and the EU commission - fairy stories were introduced by the phrase "once upon a time", now they are introduced by "according to experts".
Jeremy Clarkson's main sin (he has a few) is to leave it too late to draw attention to the systematic destruction of the Monarchy by a calculating narcissist and her performing pet prince - backed up by the many high priests and disciples of global wokery.
This episode may well speed the replacement of old-fashioned spontaneous
communication by the painstakingly planned, executed and analysed mind
games, devised by "professional communicators" and PR consultants.
Before any approved public utterance there now has to be a detailed analysis of how everything will fit into the narratives of the attention and surveillance economy that drives every action and reaction of modern living; and I don't like it much.
The internet - pervasive networking that puts the entire accumulated knowledge of mankind a few milliseconds away from any keystroke - has inexorably and fundamentally changed the nature of communication. The act of creative writing once meant when you had an idea, you wrote something, it got edited and published and read - in order to avoid cancellation it is now a series of carefully designed procedures that are designed using manipulated psychology to manoeuvre the target audience into exposing its weaknesses and susceptibilities - and then pouncing on and exploiting them for the purpose of selling and/or brainwashing. Generally both.
And then tracking and monitoring any response to extract the last drop of information to add to the targets' profile for further future exploitation.
There is no spontaneity left. This is sterilised thinking - free from the bacteria of off-topic musings that might ferment a serendipitous (off topic) idea or two and lead the reader into unexpected meanders and tributaries of a developing thought process.
Old-fashioned critics from the bygone age of media have been reinvented as "influencers" who are self-appointed "thought leaders" to tell us what we are allowed to think and say - if we want to avoid being cancelled by the star chambers of the bien pensants.
Yet intuitive writers (I am thinking of Jeremy Clarkson) still exist (for now) and have enthusiastic followings that seem to appreciate a style that is still largely based in an old-fashioned robust and healthy (trigger-rich) stream-of-consciousness. This offers a familiar and relatively unguarded insight into the writer's mind, life and times that is not filtered through the tedious prism of probity of a hive mind that mostly exists to ensure that no one could be offended.
Such a dissertation is likely to be interesting, insightful, spontaneous, entertaining and possibly even "edgy". Which is everything that Harry and Meghan and their phalanx of po-faced supporters are doing their best to eradicate.
Self-censorship was very much the thing for those who used to (and still) live under communist regimes. It saved the official censors a lot of work. People knew they were going to get into a lot of trouble if they spoke what they really thought. So they did not. As a result, there were two kinds of truths: the official one, and the one you spoke at home. When you spoke at home, you had better make sure that the kids don’t hear you before they are old enough to understand, and go along with it at school.
Ukraine is providing the hot war that is draining the economies of the west - directly with arms supplies that are used up in seconds, and less direct but even more costly boycotts that have raised energy costs to double inflation. And our subversive media is busy recreating all the evils of the Soviet era cold war mind games across society.
Remember Yuri Bezmenov - his video warnings of the 30-year-long game of old school state subversion needs to be played on all Channels at least twice a day. https://youtu.be/1ZlRdKPVbuU
After 13 years of "premiership" ( if not quite proper full control government) is this the pinnacle of Conservative government achievement...?
Although this is primarily the view from the UK, it applies pretty much anywhere in the world were a subversive Marxist strategy is working with cleverly but insidiously manipulated social media to drive traditional generational dissent, and define the dividing line between easily manipulated woke kids, and a dismayed (presumed reactionary) older population that finds itself marginalised and ostracized for holding the commonsense views that once bound the fabric of a stable society. An older generation that is being abandoned by the numbers people to what they calculate is a fate of diminishing economic value and inevitable extinction.
I have now spent the entire lifespan of social media evolution observing, studying and thinking deeply about the apparently inevitable extermination of the Conservative Party - and I have a simple and direct suggestion that will make a fundamental difference. It may also be the only possible strategy that will work in the very complex circumstances of 2023.
Do the opinion polls also mean the extermination of moderate conservative values? Apparently not, since many of those are what has now taken Keir Starmer and a dysfunctional Labour Party from the brink of oblivion to a massive lead in the opinion polls!
It's something the Conservative Party can make happen with the cooperation and assistance of Conservative Party supporters who want to have a conservative cause to back after the next election, now that the "Boris out" conspiracy has made Starmer's Labour not just electable, but an apparently attractive alternative!
I see that the CDO (Peter Cruddas' Conservative Democratic Organisation) and all forms of traditional resistance to this grisly prospect are described as "a right wing insurgency". And that is the big issue: manipulated perceptions.
My simple idea is to accept that the rules have changed and that there needs to be a "content" creation and production project to develop "conservative content" to get the attention of 8-30 year olds based on the current experience and reality. Carefully tailored and delivered propaganda is the nature of the game that has comprehensively outflanked the Conservative establishment since before Brexit.
In order to slow the rot and begin to restore a position with future foundations, the "silenced majority" must learn the lessons, accept that the current mainstream media is a lost cause as far as any "moderate working class traditional conservative" is concerned, and support its "own" media infrastructure that can commission and develop content that will inform and influence the under 30s in the same way that the (current) BBC, C4, Disney (and the rest of the media that is controlled by the millennial marketing industry) are now the key influential beacons of the unquestioning woke culture.
The Jesuits (and other major religions) have always understood that influencing the upbringing of 7 to 12 year olds is fundamentally formative for their adult behaviour, especially in a situation where parents are not closely engaged in their upbringing as has happened throughout the west since ww2.
This means determination and engaging the right people - and a modest budget to establish and develop a vetted and trusted core creative and production team.
And learn from success of the dominant "streamers" - a big audience can be attracted to a streaming service with just one hot content property. Amazon Prime video took off by capturing the Top Gear Team. Netflix may have a catalogue of hundreds, but 90% of the viewing is from the popular 5%.
Netflix success includes a lot of controversial "tabloid" cinema, and Disney has been its predictably and magnificently formulaic self… accumulating knowledge of what works and what doesn't that stretches from the original Anaheim Disneyland all the way to the latest Marvel cinematic CGI extravaganzas.
The bad news is that this is probably only half the problem, and that we need to take into account the effects of games that consume so much of kids' attention. The Chinese make no bones about their concerns…
China has put in place a new policy that limits online video game playing for young people to three hours a week.
The new rules restrict online gaming for those under age 18 to one hour in the evening on Fridays, weekends and public holidays.
Well, good luck to the politicians who will have to deliver this! But is there any realistic alternative that can avoid the extinction of the broadly tolerant western "liberal conservative" society that has prevailed since WW2?
No wonder the swamp is angling for CBDCs (look them up) to guarantee compliance as society continues to come apart at the seams…
it's a self-inflicted cultural disaster - but we don't seem willing or able to stop it...
The Spectator's ever perspicacious Rod Liddle has been thinking a lot about Wokeness lately, and has managed to make a decent fist of nailing this quivering blob of cultural jelly to the ceiling at last. If you are not already a Spectator subscriber, then you should be... here's a sample...
"...We going through a phase in the United Kingdom where unless the Spectator is willing to freely cast its pearls of wisdom beyond its subscriber base for a while, the country may be sufficiently diminished that no one will be able to afford a subscription after the next general election. Indeed the extreme regime in place will probably send the entire Spectator staff for re-education on collective farms in the Orkneys.
And again, I remind you to familiarise yourself with Yuri Bezmanov's analysis of how the west has been slowly but certainly destroying itself from within for the past 70 years. Then this all makes perfect sense, although it does not offer a solution to put our society back on the rails.
Two very brief excerpts from Radio 4 last week. First, my wife turned on her radio in time to hear an actor in the afternoon play utter the words: ‘But Bob, you’ve been helping young disadvantaged black kids all your life!’ At which point, she turned off. Two days later I switched on my car radio and the display announced a ‘radical updating of Oliver Twist’ and I had just enough time to hear an actor say something like: ‘Quick, come quick! Babatunde has been shot in de leg by de gangs!’ before I too turned off.
They are nothing if not psychotically obsessive at Radio 4, I think. It is worth tuning in for three seconds every few hours at random just to see what gratuitous wokery they are spraying in our direction – before switching over to something else, anything else.
People wonder where wokery has come from and those on the alt-right are often inclined to put it down to some ectoplasmic thing called ‘Cultural Marxism’. I have my grave doubts. Marx was both empirical and famously collectivist, while progressive politics is individualistic and post-rational. In the late autumn of this year I was asked by the New Culture Forum to deliver the Smith Lecture in front of a few hundred people in London and took as my topic the origins of this asinine creed, wokery. (I don’t know who Smith is, by the way. It wasn’t Adam, nor Jacqui, nor W.H. Perhaps it was named in honour of George Smith, a combative midfielder who played for Middlesbrough at the turn of the 1970s and a little later for Birmingham City.)
My conclusion was not a particularly happy or useful one. What we call wokery does not have a proper ideological base because it is incoherent and often contradictory: you would need to be on very good-quality acid to unite its various strands into a semblance of semantic order – and it still wouldn’t make sense. Instead, we have created it unwittingly, without thinking, over the past 50 or 60 years and as such only have ourselves to blame. It is, beyond all else, a creature of affluence, comfort and security: nobody in Somalia or Chad gets terribly worked up if you misgender them. The consequence, then, of cosseting.
The young generation which has taken progressive politics to its heart is the most affluent the world has ever seen, the most mollycoddled and the least at risk from warfare. Even within our society, just as in the USA, wokery has little or no purchase among the poor or the working class and instead thrives in areas populated by the wealthiest – our university cities, for example.
Further, it is the most affluent of universities which most gladly embrace every and any woke idiocy which hoves into view: Oxford, Cambridge, Durham – not Teesside Poly. It is all a means by which the middle class can differentiate themselves from the working class and look down upon them (much as with Brexit, of course).
The rapid rise of Health and Safety is a contributory factor, its language utilised by social justice warriors on the campuses and beyond. They insist that they merely wish to be ‘safe’ by not reading Macbeth or listening to Douglas Murray give a speech.
We might add into the mix that other growth industry, Human Resources, where the focus is always on the individual at the expense of the majority and the response to whining complainants of ‘Can’t you just get on with it?’ is no longer acceptable. Increasingly, these days, industry seems to exist to nurture individuals and cater to their whims, rather than to actually, y’know, make things
In
our schools we have seen a shift away from the acquisition of knowledge
towards how one feels about stuff, how one might interpret it.This is crucial, I would suggest. It is not merely that the acquisition of knowledge is tiresome and difficult – it is that the knowledge acquired is itself part of the problem, an agency which enables white supremacy and the straight hegemony (as critical race theory has argued about maths, for example).
Further, if facts are not important – only your own truth and your lived experience – then the woke project is immune to rational analysis and empirical objections can be dismissed with an effete wave of the hand. I might add that the enormous number of pastoral care staff in schools (in my old comprehensive of 1,900 kids we had one nurse) reinforces the unfortunate notion among young people that their petty worries matter – when in fact they do not matter at all, and it would be far more instructive to let the kids know that.
There is so much more, so much that we have done to enable wokery. Our retreat from the church, for example. Where once Christianity (and particularly Protestantism) fostered a sense of self-reliance, communitarianism and the adherence to a bunch of simple and very clear strictures, that has all gone. We are now pretty much a secular society and yet we have put nothing in the place of God, be he fictional or real, that might inculcate societal norms and mores – and so everything is up for grabs and we are left with a bland moral relativism and a ‘Don’t judge me!’ mentality.
The generation which has taken these progressive politics to its heart is the most affluent ever seen.
Allied to this is the constant injunction, these days, not to stigmatise sections of society or individuals for behaviour which is both injurious to themselves and incivistic. The problem is that stigma is society’s way of regulating antisocial behaviour.
If you remove the stigma of being, say, obese, more people will be overweight, the diminution of marriage and the reform of divorce laws, the lack of an external threat to this country and the rise of a post-rational feminism – they’re all in the mix. Truth is, we should have seen woke coming..."
"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers"
William ShakespeareHenry VI, Part 2, Act IV, Scene
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Internet pioneer and all-round Cassandra, Peter Dawe, has made some more observations that are just
too sensible - and so will never get past the vested interests of "the system" to be able to benefit us all. But here goes anyway. . But to make anything happen, we
will need to take Shakespeare's advice from Henry VI, Part 2, Act IV, Scene
2. "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers"
"...The UK justice system is an excellent example of how a system becomes self-toxic.
The system is defined by lawyers, and the same interests run it.
It is in the interest of lawyers to make the requirement for lawyer expertise in effect essential to access the system
It is in the interest of lawyers to make the system ever more onerous, thus requiring ever more legal advice
They make it illegal to do stuff without the advice of lawyers
They make it the norm that lawyers do not give "advice", merely answer
whether a particular course of action is likely to be legal or not. Thus
absolving themselves of any risk or being liable
They ensure that
the system is not symmetrical between litigants. This ensures that the
wealthy and the criminal are better represented than the poor or the
victim.
They demand the ability to challenge every decision through ever more tiers of justice, to keep the £ flowing.
Eventually,
the system collapses. In this case, the cost of prosecution in criminal
courts has become too much for the public purse to bear. However,
rather than change the system, they campaign for more money to go into
the court system.
And what consumer in their right mind would
seek justice against a corporate? They just keep the case going until
the opponent runs out of money, patience or just simply dies!
So
here is an idea; a voluntary parallel justice system, where the
litigants are restricted to a fraction of the value of the harm. The
papers are presented to a random jury, who determine the JUSTICE of the
case. (Note, not the "law"). If one of the litigants refuses to accept
the judgement, they are refused the future use of the system.
Litigants can always use the legacy law system if they want...."
Far too sensible to make it past the vested interested of the "system", but well worth discussion and further development.
Recent legislation like the EU's all-encompassing GDPR law has careered out of control and created a labyrinthine set of rules and enforcement procedures that have pretty much created its own entire industry for the benefit of lawyers and paralegal rent seekers.
The Online Safety bill is another classic example of a vague idea that has been allowed to career totally out of control by activist lawyers that infest the "civil service". It sets out to address issues that are basically already covered by existing "off-line" legislation. Alex Belfield was convicted of stalking using all extant laws and process - despite no question of any physical intimidation being involved - Belfield got 5.5 years porridge as the result of a most astonishing case that is subject to appeal. Alex made no secret of anti-woke views, and this almost certainly was used against him as he foolishly conducted his own defence, in the fond belief that British Justice was all he needed. Silly boy...
And there is also now a serious attempt to legislate rude and irreverent jokes out of existence... you can probably imagine the activist ranks that have been triggered into being outraged and motivated to demand action and establish a specific criminal offence of public sexual harassment. Hold tight... "Consultation outcome... The government’s response to the targeted consultation on whether there should be a criminal offence of public sexual harassment ...
How can this madness happen? Simple This government has been systematically perverted and destroyed by a determinedly subversive civil service, determined to make mischief and make governing impossible... you will recall that Dominic Cummings tried to clear out the politicized civil service that infested Whitehall and Westminster? Well, of course the "blob" quickly managed to close ranks and arrange for his entrapment and removal.
Tony Blair's regime established the "Supreme Court" - Blair and his missus were both lawyers you will recall - the Blob takes its orders from the cabal of left wing lawyers who have spent their lives gaming the system. If I was inclined to conspiracy theories
I have waited for the dust to settle and the revolving doors in Downing Street to slow down. And for the markets to stabilise to show the angry Gods of the Markets have accepted the appeasement sacrifice of the UK Middle classes. And the ritual suicide of the Conservative Party.
The ugly and unwanted imposition of Sunak and Hunt has managed to alienate the heartland voters. There is deep and unreconciled fury for the hijack of the Conservative Party by Sunak/Hunt and what is widely perceived to be their WEF "influencers". The desire to find and support an alternative voice for the silenced majority is growing and will become overwhelming.
The sight of a smug remainer dishing out a punishment beating on middle England and telling us immigration is an economic necessity is borderline incendiary.
Let's open up this post by exhuming the ghost of National Fiscal Disasters Past: who remembers War Loan?
So how about this..?
What if HMG sold UK residents (only) 100m government bonds of £5k
each - backed by frackable energy assets with a yield of up to 5% - in
return for paying reduced rates of tax? The £500bn would be handy, and it would give a lot of people a stake in the success of fracking.
Pragmatism is the only sane option for the Conservative Party at this point. Like so much else in UK business, the job of PM has been outsourced to talent from the Sub Continent.
The hideously white Labour Party is in a curious place, where it is absurd amounts ahead in the opinion polls, yet the Party leader and his shadow cabinet are regarded with very little enthusiasm. Indeed, they seem to be regarded as at least as much of a clown show as the Tories have been recently!
Boris has probably achieved all he could have hoped
for at this point. He stepped aside in the interests of stability and
unity - and avoid the privileges hassle and the inevitable market
convulsions.
He will have the satisfaction that the world will
know he would have won the members' vote had he wanted to. And he will
be able to charge even more on the rubber chicken speaker circuit.
Let us not forget that Boris is basically still too woke and lefty, with an unnervingly mad wife promoting irrational green nonsense; and by now we expect that whatever happens, Boris will always have the chutzpah to be a very naughty boy. He got away with it magnificently as Mayor of "melting pot" London - but failed to realize that the job of PM was a rather more challenging one - especially where the silent majority that is the backbone of Tory support has become the silenced majority at the behest of woke media and activist millennials twittering in the marketing industry.
BUT...
Somewhat ironically, the simple pragmatic reality (financial jitters)
of the situation has reunified the majority of the turkey lobby fodder
behind the Sunak snake. A different story in the country and with the
members, of course.
So the task now is to get the Sunak government moving forward with some
engaging and thoughtful policies, so that Boris has a shot when he
returns in glory for the 2024 GE. Sunak can be eased out and undone at
any time by a Richie Rishi themed campaign. Since he has no need of the
money, he might even be persuaded to go quietly at the perfect time -
having prepared the way for Boris to come back and campaign in 2024...
The
sheer indifference towards Starmer displayed in all the Vox pops we saw last week,
was very surprising. Starmer is still balanced on a knife-edge in terms
of KormaGate and the all round poor quality of his troops. Not to
mention his knee-taking fiasco alongside the ginger growler...
However depressed Conservative MPs might be when looking at opinion polling results, they can take great comfort by recalling that their enemy may have an even bigger death wish...
And this is the Labour chairman of the Parliamentary Privileges committee that is due to "try" BJ for misleading the Commons ...
Surely the problem we all need to recognise is the subversion of all public servants - and their cohorts in globalist markets - that are operating the rejoin agenda? It has simply not been possible to get anything "conservative" done in the UK for over 20 years: anything from Brexit to stopping illegal migration to curtailing woke social engineering and sedition by the BBC and MSM.
The cancel culture first explored back in the 70s by the violent animal rights movement showed social justice warriors how to intimidate. And our woefully inept (and thoroughly infiltrated) police are encouraging and supporting the demonstrators and the overall wokewashing of public service.
Somehow the Tory Party leadership was reprogrammed to believe that it was necessary to abandon the traditional silent majority of centre right opinion, in order to appease the upcoming generations of indoctrinated kids. Ironically, many aspirational immigrants come from a realistic and pragmatic world, where they are natural conservatives.
The BBC is now shameless and unfettered in its efforts to undermine absolutely anything and everything the government has tried to do.
Look at the absurd situation in the US where a "questionably" elected geriatric has been barely coherent, but doing the bidding of the military industrial power brokers. The manipulation of pandemic measures - lockdown and fairy money - has predictably triggered global inflation which is hollowing out the middle class and devaluing its savings.
And then there is Ukraine, Russia and China to contemplate. The subversion of the United Nations by China and WEF has left the moderate centre ground without any viable global forum and representation.
Russia and China have strong leaders who know that the UK and US are being hmstrung by corrupted media and politics that have been subverted by years of infiltration and manipulation.
First... a reminder of the WEF preferred version...
...now a determined woman who annoyingly wants to get in Klaus Schwab's way...
Fingers crossed, but Liz Truss could be about to begin to fix the mess that was left unsolved in 2008 when the Great Caledonian Calamity, Gordon Brown, claimed he had saved the global economy from reckless US banking practices, moments before he resigned as PM ...and saddled the Royal Navy with £12bn worth of aircraft carriers, aka "sitting ducks" in the age of pound-shop drones, that anyone with an AliExpress account and a soldering iron can now make. Nevertheless, they provided gainful employment for Brown's Kirkcaldy shipyard constituents for many years.
Whereas all he had done was delay the inevitable "adjustment", and do the foundation work for the WEF (Davos/Bilderberg/Schwab) to manoeuvre into position and exploit the opportunity created by the wreckless behaviour of US politicians and banks - which became referred to as "the Great Reset". Russell Brand got fully on board with his brand of irreverent (if not completely fearless) analysis at this time...
This reset has since been talked about by all manner of easily duped, including King Charlie , endowed with wholly delusional remedial qualities that would be "good for us" - although they were always going to be far better for the globalist agenda.
The long period of ultra low interest rates has suited the major financial institutions and big companies like BlackRock and Vanguard - all the fanboys of the WEF. Rates like 0.2% are an aberration, when all traditional economics suggested an inflation rate of 2-3 percent is required to keep markets honest.
It has penalized smaller savers and driven investment in volatile stock markets and companies whose values have been pumped up way beyond traditional and rational analysis. GBNews' Liam Hannigan is one of the few financial journalists that can be relied on to talk sense and not immediately contradict himself when the wind changes.
This piece in Telegraph is the best analysis we have seen. Allister Heath begins.
"For the past 25 years, and especially since the financial crisis, the global economy has taken a disastrous wrong turn for which we are about to pay a hideous price. In one of the gravest intellectual errors since communism, many of the world’s cleverest people thought they had discovered the secret to perpetual prosperity. Forget about hard work, deferred gratification, tackling post-industrial wastelands or actually earning one’s keep by creating, building and exporting: there was an easier way.
Cheered on by politicians, central banks kept interest rates low,
favoured borrowers over savers, printed money with abandon and
engineered an artificial boom in house prices, tech firm stocks,
crypto-currencies, bond markets, art and more. This ersatz “wealth” was
meant to encourage spending and investment, the tax receipts would fund a
generous welfare state, low rates would allow rising government debt,
and there would be no need for difficult conversations on ageing,
science, tax, competitiveness, incentives or productivity.
Yet it was a Potemkin economy, a facade, a con. Much of the “growth” and wealth weren’t real. The UK was stagnating,
not booming. House prices “enriched” the haves while infuriating the
have-nots. It was a bubble at best, and a Ponzi scheme at worst, keeping
zombie projects alive and fuelling obscene malinvestment. Edward
Chancellor’s The Price of Time is a brilliant primer on this tragedy.
This madcap experiment is now ending, killed off by a money printing
overdose from Covid, the supply-side dislocation that accompanied the
virus and the attempt to put the economy into a coma, and Putin’s war,
all of which sent consumer prices rocketing. The necessary transition
from cheap to rational money will be traumatic and could trigger a
vicious global recession, higher unemployment and bankruptcies.
Long-term mortgages are already at 7.1 per cent in America as the old
order crumbles, and financial markets are in turmoil worldwide.
This is the context for the punishment beating meted out to Britain.
The readjustment that every other country will also undertake –
especially much higher borrowing costs – has taken place in accelerated
form in the UK, triggered by the financial markets’ ridiculous reaction
to the Budget. The pound has fallen disproportionately. Some pension
funds were caught out, forcing the Bank of England to intervene."
"
Heath manages to put the febrile situation into a perspective that is not being discussed by the BBC and other mainstream media, whose agenda since Brexit has been to bring the government down and replace it with one that will re-apply for EU membership. But poor Allister has been mauled by the usual Twitter sheep with reduced attention spans, who are incapable of analysis beyond a handful of trigger words. Although "casting pearls before swine" also works.
Now check out this Redacted YouTube posting. These folks can be a bit excitable, but it is covering what Russia is doing in the Ukraine while the rest of our media appears to be too desperate to bring down the government to pay attention. Their analysis suggesting that Russia was not responsible for Nord Stream destruction makes a change from the EU presumption that it was Russia wot did it. But for the EU to contemplate that anyone but Russia might have done it would raise so many other questions about this turf war between mafia families that would need to be addressed.
Meanwhile, the Labour Party has been quiet about rejoining the EU, but it is going to be back on the agenda once its many closet Europhiles feel they are unassailable, and the opinion polls suggesting popular support amongst voters panicking and seeking safety in numbers. Discreet discussions between Labour and Brussels are gathering pace - they never stopped...
The IMF is the provisional wing of the Klaus Schwab WEF, and will do its best to destabilize the Truss government, which has basically declared war on the WEF ethos and narrative - including a move to question the validity of the headlong pursuit of "Net Zero". Jacob Rees Mogg has confirmed that it makes sense for the UK to develop and exploit its own fossil fuel energy as part of the overall drive for energy independence. Those who have seen through the WEF as it has become progressively more unhinged with its declaration that "you'll own nothing, and be happy" are hoping Liz will keep her nerve.
The plunge into EV world also needs to be rethought as owners suffer range anxiety with poor charger support, and find out that makers are taking big brother liberties with the ability to remotely control vehicles. BMW and Porsche (at least) are charging owners to reinstate features controlled by software that get removed during software upgrades. Plus the realisation that every move they make (including speed) is being logged and reported to High Command.
Will Liz Truss have the nerve to call out the subversive influence of WEF illuminati with their pandemic and climate misdirections? These are undeniably at the root of the present financial crisis... coupled to the arrival of an easily manipulated geriatric at the Whitehouse? Is Net Zero the result of Russian funded useful fools?
As an increasing number of people become awakened to the inconsistencies of this situation, with "awake" commentators like Russell Brand and Joe Rogan observing and challenging the contradictions... is there hope that Liz might double down and announce that the climate debate has been hijacked by well-intentioned but misguided folks who have been programmed with a "carbon" obsession, when it is difficult to sustain an argument that the UK should freeze in poverty because it contributes 1% pa of the CO2 that makes up 0.04% of the atmosphere. Yes, that's 1% of 0.04%.
(Chief Secretary to the Treasury) Chris Philp's touching ingénue honesty is endearing and apparent. He might be in the right job at last. In the wake of JRM, he actually said the UK would be increasing oil and gas exploration and production, at last.
It seems that BBC has been told to bring down the government as fast as possible, as there is a danger that Liz & Co will be able to explain their cunning plan and and in the process, undermine and expose the indoctrinated WEF countries who will inevitably suffer even worse consequences for not acting. Germans are becoming aware...
' Germany's future looks bleak due to war-based sanctions and an energy crisis. Germans continue to protest - but will it do any good? We ask academic researcher Ralph Schoelhammer what we can expect from Germany and what he calls "incompetent politicians." '
Footnote:
Meanwhile, I have a friend who has been trapped near Kiev in Ukraine since the start of the war, with a severe neck injury that means he can't travel long distances - and this is his latest update...
"Making progress albeit slow thanks. Left leg is working better but left hand is still pretty much useless...plus get muscle exhaustion. Anyway, at least I can see a consultant on the same day and if I need tests or to see another consultant, that happens there and then...in a country that is at war. The NHS could learn a lot..."
Peter is someone who has always put his money where his mouth is. He made his bone as an internet pioneer with Unipalm Pipex back in the day, and has then done his best to read the crystal ball of the future that the internet he enabled - and spell out the consequences and dangers. He accurately predicted the food crisis (from long before the Ukraine invasion)
"Globalisation means that resources can move easily across the world.
While supply exceeded demand, the “rising tide” lifted all boats.
Poverty was in retreat, in spite of the increasing population. This free
movement, also allowed the “Just-in Time” method of minimising short
term costs. However from around 2019, the balance of supply and demand
shifted due to: climate change, unsustainable exploitation of resources,
population growth and their appetite for a better life. This caused a
global chronic slow-burn crisis. The “Ebbing Tide” is rapidly stranding
many “boats”. Layered on to this chronic crisis, we then had two further
crises (“tsunamis” if you will ), Covid and the Ukraine war.
Historically, a local food crisis, was local, and neighbours, and
the world beyond, would eventually respond with aid, offer refuge and
seek to mitigate the crisis. The Globalised Hunger of 2022, is very different! Globalisation is distributing the crisis across the world. The poor in every country across the world are suffering.
How will governments respond to this new situation?
Across the media in every country, there is the demand that “The
government should do something”. However, as a global crisis, they are
powerless. A government cannot magic non-existent resources into being.
All government can do are :-
“Beggar their neighbours“ in seeking to get their countries share of resources at the expense of others
Allocate these resources within their jurisdiction.
Ignore the deprivations of other countries
Beggar their neighbours
The typical first response is to restrict the export of any food and
energy resources. We have seen this over the last few years, with bans
on the export of palm oil, wheat, and many other staples across the
world.
Another response is, if you have the currency, to buy up whatever
resources are available on the international market. E.g. Germany is
buying all the LNG it can lay its hands on.
A third, again if you have the currency, is to build strategic
stocks, which of course increases the scarcity of that resource for
everyone else!
Fourth, is to use political and military power to divert resources
to your country. Arguably the reason for a number of recent wars.
Resource allocation
So far, the “Market Democracies” have allowed the market to
continue operating, with only limited government intervention. In the
UK, the Energy Regulator has simply caused many small energy companies
to go to the wall, and then subsidised the larger companies who are “too
big to fail”. The exchequer has been pumping money into the economy,
apparently in the hope it will some how magic more resources.
With rapidly rising inflation, the economy also becomes a market
where the strongest enjoy maintaining their share, with the consequence
that the weakest suffer more. It was no surprise that the early strikers
were in the essential logistics sector. - Trains, Post, Ports, Refuse.
During the similar global crises of the two World Wars, the UK
government rapidly implemented central control of resource allocation
and used rationing to ensure everyone “suffered” the deprivations
equally. (Or at least as far as they could)
Perverse policies
The “Market” is a good mechanism for incrementally finding a local
maximum for productivity. However, it is useless at resource allocation
when the parameters change dramatically.
With energy prices going up faster than food prices, the use
of food-for-fuel, converting cereals to alcohol, veg oil to diesel and
other crops to methane in anaerobic digesters, becomes MORE attractive.
One
of the biggest uses for Natural Gas is the manufacture of Nitrogenous
fertiliser. Governments in Europe are failing to prioritise fertiliser
over other uses, (particularly consumer energy use). While this will
improve the situation in the winter of 2022, the consequence on global
food productivity in the 2022/2023 will be catastrophic. The UN’s World
Food Programme, is already warning that the 2022/2023 yields will be
significantly down.
Food production has time delays. Arable
crops are typically annual, as are dairy, lamb and pigs. Chickens are 12
weeks but beef takes 30 months. While one can rapidly reduce production
through slaughter, rebuilding breeding stocks can take years. In the
UK, and many other countries, the meat, dairy and egg sectors have
massively contracted in 2022. Mainly due to the uncertainty of selling
prices, when their input costs have in most cases doubled or trebled.
And the vegetable sector is not immune either, heated greenhouses that
supplied year-round salads etc. have all been mothballed, as the heating
costs make their use uneconomic. As we found after the Covid
lock-downs, rebooting mothballed sectors is neither easy or fast!
The inevitable policy
The consumption of the population needs to match the resources
available. With a massive lowering of global productivity, this means
everyone's living standard has to drop. Eventually, governments will
have to centralize resource allocation, and implement rationing. This
will be the only way to ensure everyone gets enough.
If the situation is allowed to get out of hand, extremist “Social
Entrepreneurs” will rise, through scapegoating of some unfortunate
group.
Note: I’ve tried to make this paper apply to any
country, however I am aware that I only have experience of the UK, and
have used UK and EU examples. Not all countries fit this model, the US,
Russia and China in particular.
The energy/food/inflation crisis is MUCH more serious than the dubious diversions of Covid or climate. There WILL be civil disorder! As MI5 once so poignantly observed, Britain is just four square meals away from anarchy. And the realization of savings being devalued (a euphemism for theft by government) by inflation will dawn rather more gradually.
We must mobilize effort on solutions in the same way a vaccine was conjured in a fraction of the usual time? Frack/ coal/nuke/ fusion/hydrogen... and also "control" internet access with transparency and common-sense.
Let people understand when they are being ghosted and why. The present situation where idiot social media employees try to invoke arcane and misguided policies with opaque inconsistency is only going to continue to foment trouble, and we WILL have to sell the need for genuine old-fashioned "greater good" wartime censorship.
It could be that Covid and climate change have been dress rehearsals with social and mainstream media to refine the process by which the government can muzzle the dissent and debate, when the sh1t really hits the fan.
Boris and Trump have both been hounded out by media manipulation because they represent exactly the type of charismatic popular leadership that the WEF wants to be silenced and replaced with compliant protégés like Trudeau and Mark Rutte (Netherlands) before we are plunged ever deeper into the absurd contradictions coming to try and justify the great reset ahead. Look at the huge effort to spin up trivia in a concerted effort to justify the towering hypocrisy of Pelosi and Starmer. Meanwhile, in China...
Sleight of media: what is going on in China?
"China just experienced its first wave of bank runs, triggered by frozen deposits in online accounts worth 40 billion yuan ($6 billion) and affecting 400,000 depositors. The scattered runs on small banks in central Chinese towns are not singular events but the precursor of a nationwide reshuffle of small and medium-sized banks (SMBs). Social media virality and dramatic stories of losses and protests are shaking savers’ trust in SMBs, presenting an urgent challenge to China’s banking regulators. China is fighting a war on multiple fronts against financial insecurity right now, from dubious online investment schemes to an ongoing property crisis. Preventing potential financial contagion and social unrest triggered by runs on small banks is a battle that Chinese regulators and policymakers have to win.
The recent bank runs started from three rural village and town banks (VTBs) in Henan province. Three more runs on VTBs happened within a month, including two in neighboring Anhui province. Five of the six troubled VTBs have the same major shareholder bank, Xuchang Rural Commercial Bank. Not being able to withdraw their life savings has led to protests by depositors, triggered panic over the solvency of small banks, and increased the nationwide risk of runs on small banks.
I struggle to understand the endless news coverage and surprise being expressed that Salman Rushdie has been attacked after years and years of venal threats from the mad mullahs of Iran. The usual WEF friendly world leaders have been queueing up to praise Rushdie for refusing to be intimidated in his pursuit of freedom of expression.
The same world leaders that stand idly by and watch countries like Canada,France, Italy and Holland abusing their citizens over rather less contentious issues, such as a desire to stay in the business of farming, and not be stamped out, on the basis of an increasingly dubious climate hypothesis. And at a time when shortages of basic food are in the headlines, as war and drought ravages the fields of Europe.
China's heat and drought has led to shutdowns of manufacturing, and possibly helps explain the continuation of the zero covid policy although the rest of the world seem to have decided it's been something of a disaster. But it means the government can effectively close down large areas of the country by strategically planting a few covid cases, and then blame those for locking diwn the population.
But why is the liberal elite mainstream media deflecting attention from what's going on in China? The alternative news on telegram (always take with a pinch of salt) is saying the Chinese economy is in freefall...
"China's entire economy is about to collapse. But the thing is, this banking crash and financial crisis going on in China right now is hardly being talked about at all. And the story is just plain weird, in so many ways.
"...Slaughtering one sacred cow after another, Xi has destroyed profitable industries with a word, shut down major cities for months at a time, and sought to cut China off from international markets. Analysts have often portrayed these moves as blunders that open Xi up to challenges from within the party. Yet it is time to embrace the reality that Xi prefers it this way. His vision for maintaining stability calls for extreme political and ideological control, and he is more than willing to sacrifice economic progress to achieve it....
China’s potential banking system bankruptcies and inability to pay funds to customers has already started spilling out into the West. And if China’s economy falls, things could get much worse for us all."
And this story is also edging into more mainstream publications but not the TV news. What was the point of sending the increasingly unstable Nancy Pelosi to poke the Chinese dragon in the eye, and instigate a considerable military response, ended intimidating Taiwan and the rest of the world?
There's nothing like an offshore military adventure to take the minds of the disgruntled folks back home off an awkward economy (rewind to 1982, and ask the blessed Margaret Hilda).
However you look at China, you must conclude that it is a big problem that is not going to go away. Not least because of all the money owed to it by the United States and others and, the fact that it controls manufacturing and has probably intercepted and warehoused detailed data on just about every user on the internet, anywhere.
China's "soft" invasion of Commonwealth countries and threats to Australia also need to be taken seriously!
Elon Musk should be tasked with using his is astonishingly effectivy skilled manufacturing organisation to build semiconductor fabrication plants in the US. After all the evidence of many centuries, brought into sharp relief over just the past year, that foreign governments (understandably) cannot be trusted to look after any but their own interests, it must be an obvious precaution to eliminate all critical dependency on anyone beyond the borders you own and control.
So is manufacturing now at a level of automation that the robots can be reprogrammed overnight to turn out just about anything?
