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".
Redoubtable Manc social media warrior June Slater (@juneslaer17) posted this wistful memoir of better times, and it is a tour de force.
We all have our reasons for our anger and distrust. Here's mine.
Below is what was our second home in The Austrian Alps. A quiet well kept village, ten minutes from skiing, and a 500 metre cycle ride to a warm still lake that you could safely swim in during the warm summers, Southern Austria, Carinthia, has a great climate . David played golf there.
I walked my dogs and in summer went to the lake, with a picnic on my bicycle, to sit on the grass and swim with my neighbours and friends.
Austria is not afraid to want Austrian values first. No robberies in our village ever, no graffiti and no litter. Free parking in the centre at selected times.
The winters were fresh with blue skies and crispy white snow, everyone had candle lanterns on their doorsteps and always a gluewein to give to the neighbours.
It was great, for a lass from a mill town like me, I'd look down through the mist as the final ski of the day, and think, wow, I'm going home to my cosy mountain house to my three lovely doggies, have a walk in the fading sun with them, their paws crunching the snow and feel thankful, that this life I'd created was mine.
We did it without a directive from a government, no flamboyant start up money from them either, just the usual bank borrowings with your home securing the loan, until you could pay them back, which we did. I didn't need the government to tell me how to treat my staff, they stayed with us for years. Not one salesman was on a target, we worked as a team.. I made brews and cleaned the loos, I helped in the warehouse at busy times. Worked a 6 day week plus half of Sunday in winter. The reward was being able to make choices, a lass like me would never normally see.
I was never a career girl, my goal was to do as much as I could, including multiple jobs before I had a business, so I could pack in working and have rescue dogs.
I did it . I got there..
There are many who think like me, who want that chance. The self employed don't have sick days, maternity leave, personal days. They just get on with it. Workers rights couldn't even cover the sacrifices I made, but it was worth it. I didn't follow my dreams, or queue for the X Factor. I got on with a real life in a world full of opportunities for those that want to grab them.
It saddens me to say, the future these political lunatics have mapped out doesn't offer these opportunities anymore. You'll either work for a big corporation, big government and big tech, limited travel, property ownership made near impossible and education is teaching them just enough to think they've had an education, but not enough to question what they're being taught.
Effort and skill are not necessarily assets anymore, accidents of birth like skin colour or sexual orientation steal the opportunities of the keen enthusiastic players like me. A burning desire to succeed without a limp wristed degree in some pointless subject just won't cut it anymore.
How much talent have we lost with this new dumbing down system. There's still time to stop it. To challenge it . 98% of Britain's manufacturing is small and medium sized business. We are 61% of the total employment, we're bigger than the big guys, remember that.
So we need to fight to continue capitalism, because it works. People are happier in a capitalist society. Corporate socialism has failed everywhere it's been forced, and it's s always forced!
The big challenge for a startup political party - including the Will of the Electorate - is to convince potential supporters that it has a hope of making an impact, and getting seats at Westminster... so their vote is not going to be wasted in the wilderness of no hopers. This task has not been made any simpler over the years for serious contenders by the presence of "pantomime politics" in the shape of the Monster Raving Loony party, and various others seeking 15 minutes of fame on the stages of the bye elaction results that are announced to the nation.
But the "system" of government is designed to maintain status quo, and like any immune system, reject the presence of foreign bodies with a range of "antibody" responses.
A "governor" is traditionally a device on an engine that prevents the engine from over or under revving, and maintain a "steady state". A governor provides negative feedback to slow down, and positive feedback to speed up until equilibrium is achieved.
The situation in 2023 is unusual - there is definitely no more than a year to the next UK general election - barring a major crisis - so it may be possible to institute rapid radical change in under 12 months and see that take effect - when conventional wisdom suggests that it takes two or three election cycles to make a difference.
There are plenty of examples of political parties with big name participants that have struggled for many years and barely achieved a single seat in the House of Commons.
The commercial media plays a big part in this process - it naturally wants to feel that it participates and wields influence to draw a majority audience to sell to advertisers. Which gives the BBC the option to deploy its social engineering influence for idealogical purposes, and this attracts staff and fellow travellers seeking to promote a range of subjective political agendas.
It is very much in the interests of the Whitehall establishment to make it impossible for new upstarts to arrive and interrupt their largely unchallenged grip on the basics of government.
Students of the excellent Yes Minister TV series from the 80s will know that the Civil Service has spent many years training the major political parties and subverting the system to the point at which it is almost impossible to tell who's in government. This has led to the notion of a "uniparty", implying that there is so little difference between Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrat that it makes no difference which one is "in power".
Voter apathy seems actively sought by civil servants, since there's nothing worse than a populist movement with widespread support in the population who then expect to see radical ideas executed by government, creating change that means hard work for the Civil Service. So the idea that all political parties are as bad as one another suits this mindset.
The main drivers of politics are blown along by the storms created by world events - and organizations such as the World Economic Forum ("you will own nothing and be happy") and its accolytes now have a central role in determining our future - without any direct democratic input or control from the voters of the United Kingdom.
A major task for any sovereign government concerned to maintain genuine democracy will be to work out how to contain the WEF and other influence seeking cabals (Bilderberg, various regional alignments such as the EU).
I haven't been discussing the carbon climate recently, since there is steadily growing evidence of cracking in the facade of the zealots. Notably Sunak's minor concession on fossil fuels and net zero targets. This contribution is a breath of much need objectivity and addresses the ongoing inconvenient truth that the fixation with carbon dioxide remains a hypothesis without evidence merely coincidence, extrapolation and religious conviction that flatly refuses to look at the bigger picture which remains heresy for politicians who are terrified to face up to the possibility that much of money spent chasing climate change to date, is being misdirected. As Mark Twain observed - it's easy to fool somebody, but much more difficult to convince them that they have been fooled.
From X ... A repost by Scott Adams..
Carbon Dioxide Does Not Cause Warming. An Original X Post by @owengregorian
The climate-change scheme and net-zero carbon policy are based upon a false notion that carbon dioxide and other gases cause global warming. They do not. We don’t have to guess about this. We have empirical and scientific proof.
I owned a Weights and Measures gas-physics test-and-repair facility and conducted tests. We learned gas physics from engineers at factories that manufacture gas-physics instruments. They must understand gas physics, or their instruments won’t work.
How academia got this wrong
In 1988, James Hansen flip-flopped from “global cooling” to “global warming” being dangerous.
Al Gore fed the fear with $22 billion in annual funding for universities and professors to study the matter. Hansen’s claim is a falsehood. People move to warmer climes for their health. Consider all the species, in the plant and animal kingdoms, that thrive near the equator, whereas none survives at the poles.
Yet, out of desperation for the money, professors cornered themselves into attempts to prove a falsehood to be true. To do that, one must lie. Each lie created new falsehoods until they have made gas physics look like a child’s messy bedroom strewn with theories.
Nearly everything we have heard about global warming for the past thirty-five years has been from the professorial world, which has been untested theory. How often have their declarations and predictions come true?
Because their world is theoretical, they use peer review for approval. But there is no such thing as peer review in the private sector; either something works or it does not, and everything is tested. Engineers who design gas-physics instruments must be correct, or their instruments fail, buildings might burn, and they certainly would be fired.
There are two trees of gas physics: the professorial-theoretical tree in academia, beginning in 1662, and real-world gas physics, taught by private-sector engineers, beginning in 1836. The professorial tree began in 1662 with Boyle’s law (pv=k, higher the pressure, lower the volume). American Meter company engineers invented the gas meter in 1836, the same dual-bellows meter that sits in front of your home. That began the non-theoretical tree, which is supported by real science — testing.
In the last half of that century, John D. Rockefeller began using American Meter instruments (turbines and diaphragm meters) to measure thousands of cubic feet of compressed natural gas into large tanks, and transporting them by train to New York. Apparently, a customer disputed the amount of gas sent. American Meter tested the diaphragms measuring the flow out at low pressure and the high-pressure turbines measuring gas into the tanks. They found the meters to be accurate; however, the readings were significantly different.
To test the correction factor of Boyle’s law, American Meter built a high-pressure test facility in northern Pennsylvania, which is still there. I toured it with them. They determined that Boyle’s law is wrong. The higher the pressure, the more wrong it is. They meticulously tested and created calculi that match the tests. These calculi are called supercompressibility formulas. Over the years, they have created fifteen formulas, AGA 1 through 15. Not one of them shows up in my advanced physics book. The book has pages of calculus derived from formulas that are wrong. Even the ideal (or universal) gas law formula is not precisely accurate. It would have to change with each gas to remain accurate.
There is no curriculum for gas physics in academia. Engineering and physics classes merely touch upon the subject with centuries-old (and misleading) postulates such as continuity of energy and thermodynamics. Professors have used these to leap to the conclusion that energy cannot be destroyed, or at least it migrates on and on. This is also false.
Theoretical gas physics is like theoretical math: it leads to false conclusions.
** I am posting this from X - Carl Benjamin is a thoughtful commentator who he has been randomly de-platformed several times over the years for offending the sensibilities of the woke - and been declared an extreme right wing and provocative conspiracy theorist. But you are grown up, so make your own mind up. His is the usual crime - he is too often correct when calling out the keepers on the woke narratives, and that is now unforgivable.
The West is experiencing an on-going collapse of moral legitimacy. It has been for many years. Many of our elites use support for Israel as a proxy for an unambiguous moral good: preventing another Holocaust. This is why our elites are generally leaping to near-genocidal support of Israel over Palestine.
However, support for Israel is actually not that unambiguous due to the power it exerts over Palestine, and this greatly complicates the moral equation. This would normally preclude full-throated support for any cause, but in the special case of Israel, our elites are completely captured and, in a sense, view themselves (at least project the attitude) of fighting the new Nazis and preventing another genocide.
This full-throated support in favour of an ambiguous cause naturally creates a (large) constitutency who recognise the inherent unfairness in only one side being properly represented in political discussion, especially when it appears that the people this constituency views itself as defending is facing an impending bloodbath.
I would guess that this is radicalising the Islamic world, and shows us to be, in their view, morally backwards and worthy of fighting; more worthy, in fact, of fighting one another. The main problem this presents to the current Western (American) world order is that it is predicated on consent. The West claims to desire a peaceful and stable world in which "human rights" are protected and nations may prosper as long as they respect certain rules. The implication that underpins the legitimacy of said rules is that they are fair and any party should be able to find adequate redress given any wrongs done to them.
When it is demonstrated that the rule of human rights is actually a fiction that is used to keep the rest of the world quiet, then this system comes to an end.
The erosion of this system has, of course, been happening for many years now. Various pretexts have been used many times to justify a breach of the doctrine of human rights, and this has been grudgingly accepted because the benefits of the Western world order have outweighed the damage done by these exercises of power disguised as moral crusades.
However, we have arrived at a position where, in fact, the United States has been economically attacking other states, after deliberately and systematically attempting to erode their standing in the world, based on our own perceived moral superiority. This has created a massive upset in the global economic order and forced the disparate opponents of the West into an economic coalition with one another, whilst massively weakening America's allies.
The short-sightedness of this can surely not be overstated, as the plan to judo-flip the various economies of the opposition to bring them to their knees simply hasn't worked; it has been decades for some of these regimes and they still persist, and have been laying the groundwork for a parallel world economy.
Needless to say, as the world's economic hegemon, the United States can't allow this to happen. However, it seems that it is happening and it probably cannot be stopped at this point.
I think this is really why the political class is gripped with war fervour over a tiny terrorist-run strip of land. It isn't that there is an existential threat to Israel from Gaza, it is that we are looking at the potential to set off a chain of events that shows the West to not have the moral legitimacy it claims to have, which will unravel its own political alliances and put all its enemies into a righteous coaltion against us, whilst destroying the global economic system and throw everything into chaos. The West will need to fight or the Western elites will lose everything.
At this point, I think a world war is inevitable.
The West's lack of moral legitimacy is seen in its own countries; a very large percentage of the population of almost all of them has severe doubts about the legitimacy of the governments and institutions of those countries because the fifth columns that have been allowed to proliferate within our societies have done their work of making said governments and institutions unreliable, immoral, and degraded. The point of the left has been to weaken us from within by sowing moral discord, and they have done a very good job. They have, in fact, undermined our very claims to nationhood, family, and imperium. We do not view ourselves as the legitimate rulers of anything, and the major institutions of every country spend a large amount of their time attacking the majority population groups of that country.
It is well-known that Western militaries have serious trouble recruiting, and that we are struggling economically. To say we are being poorly governed is an understatement and a half and everyone knows it. There is simply no passion to fight for a civilisation that appears to be in collapse, appears to hate itself, and appears to be vindictive to other states on the world stage. Say what you like about Trump, but he actually seemed to be able to respect the nations ranged against the US. This goes a long way.
Now, that time appears to have passed. It seems that, in their desperate bid for moral legitimacy, the dominate faction of Western elites are at once going to drive us into a war, whilst the subversive faction of elites are going to stoke the fires of civil war in our own countries while we do it.
Personally, I think we're in a position of profound weakness. It isn't that our enemies are strong, it is that we are vulnerable and we don't really know what we stand for or why we should do what we do. So we will use Israel as a proxy for the expansion of our power and this will become an intolerable nightmare for our opponents, and they will probably decide that the best opportunity they will get to escape Western dominance has arrived. It is going to be painful, bloody, and ruinous, but if ever it could be done, now seems like the time.
I do hope I am wrong.
This is translation from a Czech website of a feature by Petr Robejšek, send to me by an old friend who is an expat Czech living in Australia, who shares the general sense of gloom and despair felt by many of those of us who have lived through the period since world War two and seen a prosperous world, free from totalitarian Nazis and communists. But now gradually turned back into a dystopian nightmare by the entitled generations that have experienced no real hardships, but have fallen hook line and sinker for the classic cultural subversion tactic that was set out in the famous Yuri Bezmenov 1984 briefings.
More than thirty years ago, the West celebrated a triumphant victory over communism, but today the vast majority of European countries have only a second hand democracy, a moribund economy, problematic security and an Americanized culture.
Comfortable decades and their consequences
Nevertheless, it would be inaccurate to talk about the decline of European civilization, because these are all the consequences of the long-term degeneration of the political caste.
From the end of World War 2 until about the 1970s, the Western world was fine. At the time, most countries had relatively sound economies in a functional economic and political model.
And favourable global conditions have ensured prosperity growth largely independently of the quality of political leaders and their decisions. Until the end of the last century, the vast majority of European countries ruled so easily that elites lost the skills necessary to handle even less favorable situations. That is why the number of self-centered speakers grew, climbing into high politics and creating there, across the borders of the parties and the ideology of the coalition of interest with anyone. Top politicians defended the rise of those who could endanger them, and so the quality of the political caste continued to deteriorate.
Then there was a break. The Internet fever of 1996-2001 did not bode well, and the financial crisis of 2008 definitively ended the era of a prosperous economy and global security stability. It suddenly turned out that comfortable governance was only possible on debt, that social inequality is escalating in Europe and that migratory pressure from the South threatens the continent. And that wasn't all.
In an unfavorable situation, two basic strategic mistakes of the ruling elite were fully reflected. On the one hand, rulers have systematically favored the economy to the detriment of other social areas, such as social security, culture, security and science. The whole of Western society has become the service sector for the economy. The logical consequence was the second fundamental error of the elites. Governments have stopped caring for the interests of the majority of the population and have served mainly the needs of business circles. An American study by Martin Gillens and a German one by Armin Schäfer, showed that the political interests of the middle class and the poorer classes play virtually no role in both countries. Both researches concluded that the more important the political goals for these population groups are, the less likely the political caste is to carry them out. That was the beginning of the end of representative democracy.
In the first decade of the new millennium, demands for the quality of governance increased sharply, but second-rate political staff could not meet them. The result has been and still is a continuous chain of crises, failures and halves. In the grip between the growing influence of multinational companies and the effort to maintain power, governments have increasingly begun to pursue conflicting goals, such as sustainable economic growth and current labor savings and increasing sales. European integration or migration policy has also become a synonym for confusion and contradiction. The preliminary peak of curious political plans is the so-called green deal.
The contradictory and de facto inefficiency of its goals is trying to bridge the centralization of everything for European elites. In the last two decades, politicians, businessmen, the media and experts have merged into one ruling group, and their vision for the future is centralist. It is striking that almost all post-communist countries have taken over this philosophy of unity at all costs, one on one. Their leader, but not even most citizens at all, thought that before the historic moment of centralization of political and economic power, it had brought Central and Eastern Europe into a state of needy dictatorships.
We can do it
What we are experiencing today is not only the bankruptcy of specific politicians and governments, but unfortunately also the bankruptcy of representative democracy. The new nobility of politicians, businessmen, the media and experts has different interests than the majority of the population. But how is he supposed to represent them when he speaks differently and about completely different things than most voters. The power of elites today cannot rely on convincing arguments and results, and all that remains is manipulation and propaganda.
And the result? We live in an era of empty words when truth is not sought, but only declares when truth depends only on volume and volume only on money. We live in an era when there are neither promises that must be fulfilled, nor knowledge that can be refuted, nor laws that apply to all.
Examples? Politicians and the media are teatrally desperate for the division of opinion of society and themselves contribute to its deepening. Although they are bothered by differences of opinion within a more or less consistent population that European countries had by 2015. But they do not mind the programmed deep opinion split between Europeans and members of the African or Asian civilization circle. Simply put, no matter how much the Germans, the French or the Czechs disagree about politics or anything else, they still do not go with knives. This signals a truly alarming opinion, but above all the civilizational rift that governments want to import to the continent.
And while German swimming pools are dominated by oriental machismo and the situation in France sometimes resembles a civil war, European governments want „ to stop “ illegal migration by legalizing it. Angela Merkel's legendary air castle hovers over this policy, „ we can handle “.
Another example of manipulative policy is that European society is undermining its own hypersensitivity. Its intellectual and political leaders idealize and romanticize weakness. The world he describes to us is full of victims who are not to blame. They are not responsible for their condition and the majority company is obliged to submit to their needs. In 80 million Germany, there are 3,000 people whom medical science recognizes as transgender. But from the local mainstream, you get the impression that it is at least a third of the population.
We have shown that the rulers have maneuvered into a situation in which they are unable to secure the support of citizens with convincing arguments. And that is why they are not only prone to manipulation, but also to censorship. They cannot change reality according to the values they appropriate, so they change how reality is, must or must not be talked about. They can't handle the real world, so they give people the impression of an unreal world. But even that is no longer enough. Elites can't handle the real world, so I'm realizing my unreal world. How?
Digitization of everything
Especially in the last three years, we have been experiencing a frontal attack on functioning and necessary social institutions in order to undermine the foundations of the stability and performance of the continent. Yes, this is an attempt to subvert European civilization. The world's largest PR agencies are targeted and paramilitary. We have already talked about migration and domination with the naked eye of invisible minorities over most. We can also mention the dramaturgy of panic pandemics, the gender campaign, the systematic breakdown of family structures and, most importantly, climate change.
Media brainwashing, which is strongly reminiscent of communist propaganda, suggests that there is a saving eco-ideology at stake. But at least the Communists promised prosperity, the environmentalists offer only austerities and despotism. The climatic religion and the sacrament of the carbon footprint is a way to morally sanctify and realistically expropriate and politically enslave people. And that is why they blackmail us with supposed hereditary sins against nature. We have to lose weight, supposedly for mother country. But in reality, it is your right to own and your freedom to use your property.
Secondary political and media elites are no longer able to deal democratically with the diversity and free will of the people, and they want to „ solve it by digitizing “ society. The goal is the planability of human behavior and the ability to manage society as a production line
It is no coincidence that the project „ state as a company “ has been haunting Western politics for at least two decades. At the same time, politicians led the hand of the global economic elite, and therefore governments had a dictatorship under this slogan. And over the last three years, Western societies have strongly advocated the tendency to manage not only the economy but everything with the help of modern technologies. The whole society is to turn into a production line and thus become a socio-political version of Taylorism. At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, obsessed with the flawless operation of belt production, Frederick Taylor tried to increase labor productivity by using detailed prescribed movements of the worker while operating the production line. In Taylor's conception, the worker is only part of the machine.And today's superelites want to enforce the taylor standardization of the behavior and thinking of all people in all situations and thus make society a machine.
The way to do this is to constantly narrow the space in which one can make one's own decisions, simply because, from the point of view of the elites, every free decision is a disorder that threatens their government. They want to solve „ by digitizing society with their inability to treat differences and the free will of the people democratically.
German philosopher Karl Jaspers as early as 1966 and drew attention to the danger of party despotism; he literally spoke of „ the deadly danger of a party oligarchy. “ The crises of the last two decades have accelerated the realization of his prediction and the representative political model degenerates into a dictatorship. The political and economic model that would have arisen if they had succeeded would have been identical to the social structure of the Middle Ages.
At the top of the pyramid of power should stand a few thousand richest ( in the Middle Ages they were royal families ), then the media and scientists ( then they were priests ) and finally politicians and civil servants ( former court officials and claw officials ). At the very bottom is the mass of subjects.
How to get out of this?
Symptoms of the real decline of the West can be seen in big cities. They live in a high proportion of the educated and well-earning population. These are often people unable to think independently and prone to slavishly accept distorted notions of progress and freedom. These include intellectuals in the islands of socio-scientific departments, a large proportion of media workers, many government officials and politicians, apparatchiks of non-profit organizations, and a bunch of rich snobs looking for an impressive opportunity to untie themselves morally. This atmosphere of cities is inflated by the media and pretended to be the mood of society as a whole.
And that is why it depends so much on when the masses of still silent ordinary people, especially those who live, will put their phlegmaticism off the metropolis and understand that representative democracy has served and will either be replaced by despotism, or direct democracy.
Yes, European civilization is in danger of decline, but it can be averted when there are enough people in the still largely silent mass who will start living their own society. One that is not organized „ from top to bottom “, in which there is no need for political intermediaries who still represent only themselves. It is high time to fragment power and return it to individuals who begin to create a self-help and self-governing society from the bottom. It is high time that those „ down “ determined what they decide for themselves and what they let decide on the upper floor. It is high time to start living a new society.
This is not a blog post on climate change denial - this sets out to explore how the zealous cult-like obsession with the barely scientific "Carbon" hypothesis may be dangerously obsessive, and that there are many more (measurable) factors at play. Most of which are well outside our ability to directly influence - or tax... or mainstream media to comprehend and report objectively. So let's start with a genuiinely indisputable fact: possibly the only one in all climate "science": The sun is still the ONLY significant source of warmth and energy in the solar system!
This video is from the very watchable Anton Petrov. He's giving a useful round up on Ice Ages and the sun's role with Milankovitch cycles - and then introduces the news that methane (CH4) levels have taken a dramatic surge. The best guess is that this is coming from decomposing wetlands in Africa. But given the significance of the surge, I would expect a lot of work to be going on to narrow down exactly what is going on. It may help explain the international focus on farming and the clumsy efforts to shut down advanced farms - where once again, fundamentally ignorant politicians are being wound up by fanatics, and being goaded to make barely researched decisions, with many unintended consequences. Maybe it would be more beneficial to turn agricultural farmland over to vast solar farms, and use the energy to incinerate the bodies of humans that will starved to death to meet WEF population requirements... (let's see just who reads this blog, eh? 😳)
https://youtu.be/72uza9JpT-I
The reference to Exxon's in house predicitons in the Science article is very much the sort of influential but under reported matter that may have been distracted and obfuscated by the climate lobby's irrational fixation with "carbon".
From Anton's video comments: Tundra permafrost melting is definitely a contributor too but from the data in the paper it seems the wetlands are adding larger amounts in comparison. Increase in farmland in countries like Brazil is a contributor too but it's not growing large enough compared to the data-This is the first study majorly addressing this, so it's still not clear what's happening. The methane data seems to be very robust and was reported in other papers using other observations so the jump is real-Methane correlates with solar activity as well (check out Neptune video below) and the Sun is becoming super active, so it may skew the data downward...suggesting the levels may go up even higher after 2026...maybe-CO2 is still an issue too and will be making things even worse. It's also what probably started all of this. Internal studies conducted by oil companies in the 1960s/1970s literally predicted all of this. They just cared about profits more: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abk0063 Neptune and methane: https://youtu.be/60z6fpFehyA
0v3 08Sep23
Here is awkward news for the anthropogenic climate change lobby - which remains determinedly focused on CO2 as the primary cause of "climate change".
"It's the sun that provides all the heat"
After a long period studying CO2 effects, as a chemical engineer and technical problem solver - I leveraged the most credible experts and put together a simplified summary! And I stick ONLY to the FACTS! DOWNLOAD this short vid here to share elsewhere! https://we.tl/t-T2cHvoZ32N
https://youtu.be/wnjozntXnZ4?si=LxsP8vAvypIomMp0
updated 0v3 07Sep23
Astrum on Milankovitch cycles... earth axis angles and the holocene...
https://youtu.be/dpvd9FensT8
Atrum are one of the more observers who are sticking with the CO2 warming hypothesis, and making a brave effort to call for consensuson basics so we can at least agree the starting position and way points. But the list of unfulfilled scare prophecies from the Gore era have left too many cries of "Wolf!" reverberating around the echo chambers of carbon obsessives. Although cries of "polar bear!" may be more appropriate, since they are not extinct as once widely predicted, but still around 31k since 1980.
0v3 02Sep23.
New study suggests global warming could be mostly an urban problem
It's over to the YouTube solar watcher - smAsho mAsh - for his daily report featuring a "lot of stuff" going on. With the Florida Hurricane making landfall and storm surge coming to coincide with a "super blue moon" that promises :
"A rare super blue moon will shine in the sky as August wraps up.
The month already featured a supermoon
as it began, but the second full supermoon of the month — which will
appear on Aug. 30 — will also be a blue moon. A blue moon is not
actually blue in color; the term signifies a second full moon within a
single month.
August's first full moon rose on Aug. 1 and was the
second of four consecutive supermoons. On average, supermoons are about
16% brighter than an average moon. They also appear bigger than the
average full moon. According to NASA,
it's similar to the size difference between a quarter and a nickel. The
phenomenon occurs when the moon's orbit is closest to Earth at the same
time the moon is full.
The Aug. 30 supermoon will appear to be even closer than the full
moon at the beginning of the month. The last of the four consecutive
supermoons this year will be the Sept. 28 "Harvest Moon."
So how far are we from solar maximum..?
19AUG23
SUNSPOTS MAKE CLOUDS ON NEPTUNE: A new paper published Aug. 17th in the research journal Icarus
offers dramatic proof that solar activity can affect planetary
weather. The big surprise: That planet is Neptune, 2.5 billion miles
from the sun. Twenty-six years of images taken by the Hubble Space
Telescope show bright clouds forming in sync with the 11-year solar
cycle:
The connection between Neptune and solar activity is surprising to planetary scientists because Neptune is our solar system's farthest major planet and receives only 0.1% of the sunlight Earth receives. Yet Neptune's cloudy weather seems to be driven by solar activity, and not the planet's four seasons, which each last approximately 40 years.
"This is extremely exciting and unexpected," says Erandi Chavez, a graduate student at Harvard-Smithsonian's Center for Astrophysics, who led the study when she was a student at UC Berkeley.
The research team confirmed Hubble's results using data from the Webb Space Telescope, the Keck Observatory, and the Lick Observatory. The link between sunspots and Neptune's clouds appears to be solar ultraviolet (UV) radiation, which peaks when sunspot counts are high.
For all that the Sun is a ubiquitous and vital part of our lives, a lot about it remains baffling. And it's continuing to surprise. Here material from a filament of plasma erupting from the Sun's surface broke away and appeared to form a crown-like vortex over the solar north pole.
A primary source of breaking space weather and solar news is @tamithaskov on Twitter, aka "Space Weather Woman" whose YouTube Channel is the go to for sun watchers looking to get a round up of current solar news. 04Aug23
update v16 12feb2023
Introduction....
An Essential primer - from a Channel 4 documentary made in 2007 - before the current (2023) climate hysteria had begun to peak.
https://youtu.be/oYhCQv5tNsQ
... The Great Global Warming Swindle caused controversy in the UK when it premiered March 8, 2007 on British Channel 4. A documentary, by British television producer Martin Durkin, which argues against the virtually unchallenged consensus that global warming is man-made. A statement from the makers of this film asserts that the scientific theory of anthropogenic global warming could very well be "the biggest scam of modern times."
According to Martin Durkin the chief cause of climate change is not human activity but changes in radiation from the sun. Some have called The Great Global Warming Swindle the definitive retort to Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth. Using a comprehensive range of evidence it's claimed that warming over the past 300 years represents a natural recovery from a 'little ice age'.
According to the program humans do have an effect on climate but it's infinitesimally small compared with the vast natural forces which are constantly pushing global temperatures this way and that. From melting glaciers and rising sea levels, The Great Global Warming Swindle debunks the myths, and exposes what may well prove to be the darkest chapter in the history of mankind.
According to a group of leading scientists brought together by documentary maker Martin Durkin everything you've ever been told about global warming is probably untrue. Just as we've begun to take it for granted that climate change is a man-made phenomenon, Durkin's documentary slays the whole premise of global warming:-
"Global warming has become a story of huge political significance; environmental activists using scare tactics to further their cause; scientists adding credence to secure billions of dollars in research money; politicians after headlines and a media happy to play along. No-one dares speak against it for risk of being unpopular, losing funds and jeopardizing careers."
The sun is also the source of Geomagnetic influence - and the earth's magnetic field or magnetosphere is hugely involved in the planet's ecology. But it is barely understood by probably 99% of the people who are currently stressing over "Carbon" - although the evidence of its existence is spectacularly visible at the polar Auroras. So I will provide a broad overview here - and please bear with my efforts to haul together the many and various components for this work in progress.
It is a vast subject that is so much more complex than the simplification offered by those seeking to curtail debate and impose their choice of mind control. So let's start by getting back to the basics - before manipulative spin doctors roamed the earth; these are the fundamentals that have applied since the birth of the universe and Solar system.
"... I’ve found that if one scratches the surface of a denier/contrarian/sceptic one almost always finds a very right wing personality that believes that climate science is strongly biased by a left wing ideology to make findings that support left wing ‘solutions’. Organs such as the rather right wing WSJ tend to spread opinions that, they hope, will counter the ‘closet socialism’ they believe is piggy-backing on, and exaggerating, climate science for ideological reasons...."
The bulk of this entry was written April 2022 - the trends described then have continued so there is nothing new to report other than pole migrations as normal. The poleshift guru and keeper of the runes - Gene Beards - has become quite excitable and wandered off piste into other aspects of "armageddon watch". He's not a happy bunny.... Track his mood at Poleshift News Central
Ponder this for a moment. The ultimate ease with which the hypothesis of climate change based on "carbon" has been established as a religious doctrine, complete with saints, sinners and heretics; and the numerous "greater good" excuses to curtail the use of free speech and open debate to explore and question the basic tenets. So at risk of excommunication I remind you that most "carbon worship" remains an act of faith expressed by congregations of (mostly) non-scientific believers; it is as much about science as Christianity is about turning water into wine. And just as religion refuses to be challenged to produce evidence of a God, we are told that we will be consumed in the flames of climate hell if we don't stop doubting, and believe unquestioningly in "carbon".
Climate has been a useful primer for how a compliant population can be gaslit and sold any number of other dubious propositions. Dissenters are suspended to contemplate the errors of their ways in woke limbo - and then persistent offenders are cancelled in woke purgatory. I wonder if governments used this experience when preparing the gaslit narratives for their pandemic sermons?
We really do need to look behind and deep into the nature of power and influence across politics and the media in the light of the staggering amount of "money" that has been conjured/printed since the 80s by a handful of governments, organisations and individuals; at the same time that traditional asset-backed currency and value was forgotten. The idea of social media "Social engineering" has been born from the fusion of propaganda and technology, and mostly monopolised by an unaccountable and unelected gaggle of "got lucky" investors - who were early to work out that the users are the product in a surveillance economy that gives social media platforms more direct control and influence of populations than governments. Leading to unholy alliances where "blind eyes" are turned to outrageous social media abuses in return for insights that even the Stasi would have been proud to extract with the benefit of thumbscrews and pentathal.
There is evidence of struggles deep in the bowels of the Washington "Swamp" and Westminster "Bubble", where populism is hated by politicians and uncivil servants who want to wrestle all influence and control of the "narrative" from the people. The most stark example of something seriously wrong is that someone as obviously unsuitable as Joe Biden is President of the United States. C'mon, get real US people: you voted for Biden because you had bought the MSM/Swamp/Bubble narrative that Trump was the orange Beelzebub, not because you believed that Biden/Harris was going to lead the world into a new age of enlightenment and bounty. You have been told to believe that you voted for Trump - although those postal votes and questionable voting machines were only "verified" by the same elites and media cliques that made up the rules and won big from a Biden victory, marking their own homework.
Meanwhile Boris Johnson has been hated and hounded by the UK liberal establishment and its compliant mainstream media cancel squads since before he was even elected. Even now Boris probably remains the people's choice in all respects other than his capacity to "reimagine" certain aspects of reality of what are relatively inconsequential matters. Winston Churchill would have not survived the same process of character assassination and sanctimonious analysis - and then we could have avoided wasting all that time and effort on WW2 and the EU - and gone straight to a Europe dominated by Germany. But the hyaenas eventually got Boris's scalp.
Watching GBN's Dan Wootton expose the climate crazies gluing themselves to the roads begs questions about who funds the eco movement that has indoctrinated the under 30s through our education system and especially the BBC. Remember those BBC fantasy images of polar bears drowning? Well there's been a polar bear population explosion in recent years, so in some parts of the Arctic you will be in more danger from being mauled by a marauding polar bear, than you are from climate change.
Here's a question to ask climate extinction zombies.. "what is the percentage of CO2 in the atmosphere we are arguing about anyway?" Most people will suggest a figure over 5%, many think 20%. Very rarely will they know the answer to within even an order of magnitude, since it is an "inconvenient truth" that can arouse the critical faculties of even the most "conditioned zealot".
The answer is 0.04%, 4 parts per 10000, and it is a vital part of the growth of all things green through the process of photosynthesis. CO2 is even introduced into greenhouses for this purpose. The UK contributes just 1% to the global total, anyway. 1% of 0.04% - are you catching on?
We have been gaslit by CO2 speculation and paying unchallenged green taxes for long enough - so it's time for a blast of science and reality. Magnetic Pole migration geek - Gene Beards - runs a channel dedicated to observing the behaviour of the earth's magnetosphere... which is unquestionably and without doubt (or need for any act of pseudo-scientific faith) a direct consequence of solar activity interacting with the earth's molten iron core.
The refusal to accept conventional climate change wisdom based on evil CO2 is the religious equivalent of declaring that there is no God. But it is difficult to get those who (may) have been duped and invested so much in their "faith" to admit they have been fooled. Such is the missionary zeal of the Carbon lobby that it goes out of its way to intimidate converts to also be sure to attack any sign of dissent they come across. A polite disbelief in the absolute veracity of the cause leads straight to vicious accusations of being stubborn (evil!) conspiracy promoters. Many doubters are threatened with being "unfriended" (both on FB and real life) if we continue to choose to dissent. Scary Scientology moments.
"In the year 2000, NASA published information on its Earth
Observatory website about the Milankovitch Climate Theory, revealing
that the planet is, in fact, changing due to extraneous factors that
have absolutely nothing to do with human activity. But, again, this
information has yet to be accepted in the mainstream, some 22 years later, and sparsely informed zealots continue to claim that we really only have 18 months left before the planet dies from an excess of carbon dioxide (CO2).
A rather more enlightened reality includes multiple factors - including the research of Serbian
astrophysicist Milutin Milankovitch, after whom the Milankovitch
Climate Theory is named. It must be apparent to anyone that the climate changes by season - these seasonal and latitudinal
variations of solar radiance affect the earth in different ways, and
at different times, have the greatest impact on earth's changing
climate "as it happens" - not as the result of a long term accumulation of atmospheric inertia."
A lot of effort is invested by CO2 lobbyists when trying to debunk the inconvenient Milankovitch theory although since it contains a lot of indisputable fact, the debunking is limited to narrow interpretations. Once again, let's stress that climate is an accumulation of many interactive factors and observations that need to be intelligently aggregated - and not isolated to fit specific prejudices.
Whatever, this recent pole-shift video is one of his better backgrounders and explanations of why we should be taking more notice of events going on under our feet in the earth's core....
Here is a detailed April 22 sitrep:
Gene Beard's Cassandra act does not include "bedside manner" - and occasionally his obvious frustration strays into the sociology issues of a society that is not paying attention to his evidence-based campaign for his observations to be taken seriously. This next video is less about pole migration than the parlous state of world leadership...
We should all be trying to help Gene Beards who runs this channel "socialize" his campaign to bring attention to a climate change proposition backed by real science. The migration of the magnetic pole - and possibility of a complete reversal - is real and measurable.
The usual deep state CO2 lobbyists are aware of this, as it undermines their narrative, and so they try to dismiss it. They already know that they can promote the most precarious pseudo-scientific propaganda, and have it eagerly swallowed by the zombie woke. So why are there not more voices raised in scientific dissent? Remember what happened to the late Dr David Bellamy when he raised his doubts? A cheer leader for BBC climate change indoctrination is currently 95 year old National Treasure, Sir David Attenborough, who now does what he is told, and no longer mentions overpopulation after being something of a crusader a few years back...
Also remember that people will generally admit to be wrong when faced with the evidence, but they hate to admit to having been fooled. (Which may be the basis of all religious faith...)
This real science is based on observed solar activity and the capture of real data. It might seem obvious to anybody after a brief moment of thought that the biggest influence on climate throughout the whole of the solar system is that big round bright thing called the sun. It's been blasting out energy and particles for billions of years and it's what stripped the atmosphere from Mars to turn it from a potentially habitable planet with water oceans, into the present arid desert.
Nicolaus Copernicus, the 16th-century astronomer whose findings were
condemned by the Roman Catholic Church as heretical, was only recently reburied by
Polish priests as a hero nearly 500 years after he was laid
to rest in an unmarked grave. He had spent years labouring in his free time developing his theory,
which was condemned as heretical by the church because it removed
Earth and humanity from their central position in the universe. Now substitute the Roman Catholic Church by the new kids on the ecology block, whose faith in their interpretation of the climate scriptures, leads them to believe in much the same sort of direct action as the Spanish Inquisitors. Their version of Greta Thunberg was Tomás de Torquemada, and had his disciples had access to superglue, God Knows what would have been stuck where...
Back to the science... the difference between Mars and Earth is that Mars did not have a magnetic field to help shield it from the solar and cosmic particles - but earth has a complex magnetic shield structure, thanks to its molten iron core.
Magnets have poles ... and in the case of Earth, the magnetic North pole has been used for navigation using compasses for centuries. The magnetic North pole is not the same as the "true" north, and the divergence between true and magnetic North varies over time. The mechanism is fascinating and not too hard for anyone with an inquiring scientific mind to grasp. Have a Google.
"True north is a fixed point on the globe. Magnetic north is quite different. Magnetic north is the direction that a compass needle points to as it aligns with the Earth's magnetic field. What is interesting is that the magnetic North Pole shifts and changes over time in response to changes in the Earth's magnetic core. "
The earth's molten iron core is the basis of the magnetic field that interacts with the sun's influence to create a shield that deflects damaging particles that would otherwise strip the atmosphere in the same way that Mars lost its atmosphere.
This process is most dramatically visible in the form of the aurora (which are centred at the north and south pole) where the magnetic field lines excite gases in the atmosphere to show those spectacular moving colours.
So why does the climate vary over time in the form of seasons? The key factors are the variable nature of the orbit of earth around the sun which determines its distance from the sun, and the activity of the "solar dynamo" that creates a magnetic field in conjunction with the earth's molten iron core, that shields the earth from space radiation ...or not...
We have known for hundreds of years that there is an 11 year cycle involved in regulating the sun's activity levels - where this activity level is manifested in the number of sun spots visible on the solar disc. This can range from none - for quite long periods of time - to as many as 100 at peak solar activity.
Astonishingly, the sun's 11 year activity cycle has only recently been explained by reference to planetary tidal influences acting on the inner solar dynamo ... which raises a further interesting possibility that maybe astrologers really have some scientific basis for their craft? Dare I be contentious and suggest there is now more scientific evidence supporting a possible basis for astrology than there is for any religion?
The most obvious evidence that planets interact with the sun is simply that they stay in orbit around the sun, and have not spun off into deep space. Remember that the complex mysteries of gravity are at the core of Einstein and Hawking's work.
The question of how cosmic rays and magnetic storms can affect physiology as well as atmospheric effects like Jetstreams is it also important, given the obvious effects on animal and bird behaviour. Just as we know homing pigeons can lose their way during solar storms, there is some evidence that migraine sufferers respond to changes in magnetic field.
I realise all this is a lot to digest, but let's make the effort and take the opportunity to explore a potential climate misdirection conspiracy, and get to the bottom of what is really going on. We could start by giving Gene Beards some media training, and having him explain in a series of interviews just how close we are getting to a full magnetic reversal and what that means.
When the US Geological Survey is asked for an opinion, it says: "Almost certainly not." Soin the contest of absolute faith required by the Climate Inquisition - that's tantamount to a "maybe"!
Beards may be at little excitable, but he is entitled to be frustrated, having seen the pseudoscience of "carbon" getting away with murder for the past 10-years while his real data is overlooked - inconvenient truth that does not fit the narrative. And besides if it is true, no politician can do anything to change the process - although obviously there is a lot that could be done to estimate the potential consequences and develop contingency plans. Which are likely to to suggest the planet population should have been kept down a billion or so, to have any chance of mass relocation.
Don't forget, Beards has got real time evidence and scientific measurements to back his assertions. Dan Wootton has shown that the XR climate fanatics don't know about even the most basic aspects of the pseudo science they are using as an excuse to disrupt our lives.
When man can influence climate... there was one infamous event that provided a wake up call ...
On July 9, 1962, the US military detonated a thermonuclear warhead 250 miles above the Pacific Ocean–a test called “Starfish Prime.” What happened next surprised everyone. Witnesses from Hawaii to New Zealand reported auroras overhead, magnificent midnight “rainbow stripes” that tropical sky watchers had never seen before. Radios fell silent, then suddenly became noisy as streetlights went dark in Honolulu.
Essentially, Starfish Prime created an artificial solar storm complete with auroras, geomagnetic activity, and blackouts. Much of the chaos that night was caused by the electromagnetic pulse (EMP)–a ferocious burst of radiation that ionized the upper atmosphere. Ionized air over the Pacific pinned down Earth’s magnetic field, then let it go again when the ionization subsided. The rebound created a manmade geomagnetic storm for hundreds of miles around the blast zone.
...and here's a recent update from Gene Beard, the one man pole shift authority...
This is typical of the effort to restrict the debate... LinkedIn is now a waste of time anyway, so no great loss to be de-platformed. But this is clearly inconvenient for the "carbon" taxers, along with Germany now abandoning it's green virtue signalling in the face of economic reality. The discussions at least, are definitely "hotting up".
We have also known that there have been earth climate events associated with this activity level - notably the "little ice age" of the middle ages, which occurred during a period of especially low sunspot activity known as a "Grand Solar Minimum".
And this is how the German media is playing the the global warming gallery... 15 years apart and now we appear to be trapped in some sort of dystopian apocalyptic inferno. Run for your lives, everyone. Various defenders of the climate change faith do their best to call this of comparison "misleading"..."one is a heatmap, whereas in the other, colours have no meaning at all. So this is total bs."
But hopefully we are able to understand the psyops games being played?
And here's how alarmists might be influencing the measurements...
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If you have been following so far, well done, but you'll be wondering why so little mainstream attention is being given to what is potentially the most influential effect on our climate - while attention is focused on a hypothesis that has not been conclusively proved, and that is apparently more religion then science. Although God help anybody who dares to question the CO2 scriptures, such are the interests now vested in trying to maintain the "carbon bogey" narrative.
Maybe one explanation is that it is not possible for politicians to regulate or tax the sun?
Gene Beards deserves a wider appreciation of his work, and hopefully somebody at GB News - the UK's preferred (slightly) contrarian News TV/radio channel, will be willing to go the extra mile to understand and work with him. He's not quite Dr Magnus Pike showman material (showing my age again), but with a little work, he could match Greta in the exasperation stakes?
The speed at which the magnetic North pole is traversing is a very simple demonstration of a fundamental process taking place that could have a dramatic effect on climate in our life times. And it can be measured in real time.
There are people in governments who also understand this; which begins to explain some curious and contradictory behaviour going on in an effort to create misdirection. But the religious fervour that has been deployed to intimidate the heretics is such that hardly anybody dares question, for fear of being described as a conspiracist. Sadly, Dr David Bellamy is not around to ask.
The danger of being tagged as conspiracy theorist is obviously a challenge, but once you delve into the subject it's hard to explain the behaviour of governments and the powerful influencers in the shadows who seem to be spared mainstream media attention, while they pull the levers and trouser the cash...
The Hydrogen debate is developing nicely in this blog post: Here’s How Long It Takes To Fully Fill A Hydrogen Car in California with a Toyota Mirai where he explains how much it costs and how long it takes to fill up a hydrogen electric vehicle (HEV)
August 8th recent addition:
The real reason for medium-long term climate change according to Professor Of
Physics & Mathematics at Northumbria University & solar
physicist Valentina Zharkova.Valentina was one of the earliest solar observers to join up the dots around planetary alignment with solar dynbamo tidal effects and sunspot cycles. This discussion and presentation is an hour long, but well worth your time if you are serious about not wanting to be bamboozled (and bankrupted) by climate conspiracy and misinformation.
"Professor Of Physics & Mathematics at Northumbria University, Valentina Zharkova is a solar physicist who knows a lot about the sun. In fact, she is probably the world’s leading solar physicist.
Except that it’s all nonsense, because humans don’t influence Earth’s temperature.
The sun does."
This is complex but thoroughly explained fighting talk - which includes a swift dismissal of Greta Thunberg... but the bad news is that we are on the predicted track of a grand solar miniumum that is associated with global cooling events - the Dalton and Maunder minimums have been the most recent examples.
