Friday, June 30, 2023

News in Brief 30 June 2023

'France Has Fallen': Dramatic Footage Shows Social Unrest Spreading In Third Night

by Tyler Durden, Zero Hedge, Jun 30, 2023

Picture source: Le Monde / AFP
The police killing of a 17-year-old during a traffic stop on Tuesday has unleashed three consecutive days of social unrest across France. Bloomberg reports more than 600 people were arrested Thursday night into Friday, with a majority of them between the ages of 14 and 18. Rioters targeted municipal buildings, town halls, and libraries in various major cities, stores were looted, and all hell broke out nationwide as the government deployed 40,000 police officers yesterday afternoon to quell the violence. About 200 officers were injured overnight in the Paris suburb of Nanterre, where the teen was killed. The unrest is so bad that President Emmanuel Macron left an EU summit in Brussels, where he will hold another emergency security meeting Friday, AFP reported, citing his office ... Continue reading >>> MORE POSTS France (catalogue)
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The Controlled Demolition Of The Nation State

 

by J.B. Shurk via American Thinker, 30 June 2023

Generally speaking, central banks are empowered to control the supply of money by employing a number of tools that include buying government debt, selling government bonds, adjusting reserve requirements, and setting official interest rates.  Operating under various legal mandates to sustain an overall healthy economy, central banks ostensibly pursue policies that will produce relatively low inflation, steady economic growth, and low public unemployment.  

What if these stated goals are merely talking points meant to justify a central bank's continued monopoly over a nation's creation of money, and the true objective of any central bank is to maximize wealth for the wealthiest economic players?  Central banks, after all, are usually institutionally independent from government interference.  They are private firms managed by the world's financial elite.  How might a central bank pursue a hidden agenda to grow the wealth of its friends at the public's expense?

The easiest and most effective way would be to create artificial "boom and bust" cycles during which economies greatly expand and then quickly shrink.  How does this work in practice?  ... Continue reading >>>

 

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Thursday, June 29, 2023

France Braces Itself For Major Confrontation After Teen Driver Shot By Police

 

Social unrest erupted across France this week after an incident in which police short a teenage male driver during a routine traffic stop. As rioting spread the government was forced to deploy 40,000 police officers to quell the violence. The turmoil was sparked after police fatally shot a 17-year-old teenager of North African descent during a traffic stop. 

The country has been on a knife edge since President Macron tried to bypass the national assembly and push through deeply unpopular pensions reforms early this year. And social unrest has been simmering since the 'Yellow Vests' protests against fuel price inflation and a soaring cost of living in 2018.

The police killing of the teenager occurred on Tuesday, captured on video, shocked the country, and has since unleashed riots across major cities. As President Emmanuel Macron fought to contain a mounting crisis on Thursday unrest erupted for a third day over the deadly police shooting of a teenager of Algerian and Moroccan descent during a traffic stop in a Paris suburb.

The epicenter of the unrest is around Nanterre, located on the western outskirts of Paris. A map of the unrest shows riots are occurring nationwide. On Wednesday night, chaos worsened, leading Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin to announce that 40,000 officers would be immediately deployed. He said:

"The professionals of disorder must go home. There will be a lot more police and gendarmes present tonight."

French President Emmanuel Macron held an emergency security meeting today about the violence. He said the "violence against police stations, schools, town halls, against the Republic, is unjustifiable." 

"The unrest across France, set off by the deadly police shooting of a teenager of North African descent during a traffic stop, has revived memories of riots in 2005 that gripped France for three weeks," The Independent said. 

In Nanterre, the working class town on the western outskirts of Paris where 17-year-old Nahel M. was shot dead on Tuesday, protesters torched cars, barricaded streets and hurled projectiles at police following a peaceful vigil.

Protesters scrawled "Vengeance for Nahel" across buildings and bus shelters.

Local authorities in Clamart, 8 km (5 miles) from central Paris, imposed a nighttime curfew until Monday.

Valerie Pecresse, who heads the greater Paris region, said all bus and tram services would be halted after 9 p.m. after some were set alight the previous night.

 

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France has been closer to social breakdown than the political establishment in the EU and their mainstream media sock puppets will ever admit since the the gilets jaunes demonstrations at their height nearly torched Paris and other cities. It would be a mistake to think, as television news bulletins and large circulation newspapers have suggested …

The Yellow Vests, Deplorables and Gammons Are Here To Stay

The Gilets Jaunes (yellow vest)movement, which began as a Facebook group for dissatisfied French drivers almost a year ago and since the Macron government proposed a hike in fuel taxes for petrol and diesel cars spakred the first street protests, has mushroomed into a people's rebellion against globalism and corporatism. It has worried the French establishment and succeeded in forcing the usually arrogant and imperious President Macron into offering what globalist fellow travellers in mainstream media call major concessions from the government,

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The left wing wankerati will not doubt be screaming about racism and xenophobia when they learn of the latest exploits of the Yellow vest movement. This time it is the German branch of the movement who were out in the streets protesting against the latest step Hausfrau - Volksfuhrer Merkel and The Boy Macron have taken towards politically integrating Germany and France, a plot not mentioned by mainstream media but on which Original Boggart Blog and The Daily Stirrer have been following developments

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COVID To Blame For Inlation Says Economically Illiterate Bank Of England Chief

 An interesting insight into why the liberal democracies are all in the throes of financial crises emerged yesterday as a result of a pissing contest between the current head of the Bank of England, Andrew Bailey, and his predecessor Mark Carney.

Canadian national Carney was always a supporter of the European Union and throughout his tenure at the BoE from 2013 to 2020 was a strong supporter of closer economic integration with the European Union and then of the 'Remain' campaign and finally of efforts by certain billionaire psychopaths and globalist politicians to habe the referendum result overturned. Since leaving his role at the Banl he has consistently spoken and published articles claiming Brexit is to blame for everything from inflation to extreme weather events. 

The current BoE chief Andrew Bailey said in an obvious rebuke to Carney earlier this week that Covid is to blame for the inflation crisis rather than Brexit, which is still wrog but not as stupidly wong as Carney's belief that Brexit is to blame for everything

Mr Bailey said the pandemic is the key problem, as workers who left the jobs market during Covid do not appear to have returned, leaving a sustained hole in the economy.

It should be obvious to anyone who has more tits or testicles that inflation is caused by banks, more specifically the central banks. While theidiotic responses of the debeloped nations to the COVID pandemic led to an orgy of money printing, which certainly did not help, inflation is an upwards movement of wealth. Bankers, as always, hide behind false accusations, always pointing towards big events and not their own nefarious activities in stripping the wealth away from ordinary people. People are left not knowing who to blame in this instance because saying it is ‘Covid’ or ‘Brexit’ is to cloud the issue in political blaming and point towards the governing party at the time, namely the Tories, who have no ability to make financial decisions without the say so of their banking overlords. Inflation, just like the banking crises of 2008 and 1929, was caused by central banks, the only winners in this game.

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Wednesday, June 28, 2023

EU Power Grab Backed By France, Germany, Aims To End Member States Right To Veto Bureaucrats Policy Moves


Germany's Chancellor Scholz and Frence President Macron rehearsing their double act (Picture: Reuters)

In what may be the beginning of the end for the European Union's ambition to become a federal superstate, Germany and France are collaborating to put an end to the right of veto, currently held by every member state to veto any policy proposed by the Brussels bureaucracy before the end of this year.The fractious debate over the issue has led to increased tensions between members in recent months, but following a meeting between Chancellor Scholz and President Macron the measure has now been put back on the agenda.

France and Germany are convinced that a large-scale institutional reform of the European Union, including the abolition of the veto on European Council votes, could be achieved this year, French EU Affairs Minister Laurence Boone and German Minister of State Anna Lührmann told Euractiv.

“This is one of the options we want to explore in order to maintain our position as a global player with the EU’s common foreign and security policy,” Lührmann said.

He added that “it would be an important signal in other policy areas if we were to move to qualified majority voting already this year” and expressed confidence that this would happen.

The two ministers said that both countries consider it important to abolish unanimous voting in the European Council in areas such as foreign policy and taxation before the enlargement of the European Union. This could mean, for example, that Brussels would be able to implement a flat tax rate across the EU or even involve itself more deeply in the war, both moves that Hungary has rejected and in some cases even deployed its veto to stop. Paris and Berlin claim abolishing the veto is a change that is possible without amending the EU treaties, a point hotly contested by a number of European parties, as it would not only give Brussels enormous power but also the largest states, such as Germany and France. This would subsequently allow for the EU to enact a liberal immigration policy, green rules and various other progressive goals without any hindrance from Hungary and other smaller, conservative nations. The introduction of qualified majority voting would remove the veto on foreign policy issues, which would mean that only 15 of the 27 member states — representing 65 percent of the EU’s population — would have to agree to make particularly important foreign and defense policy decisions affecting the EU as a whole.

via @planettoday #PlanetToday: https://www.planet-today.com/2023/06/enormous-power-grab-france-germnay-want.html

 

France and Germany are confident that a partial institutional reform of the EU will be possible this year, the French and German ministers of state for Europe, Laurence Boone and Anna Lührmann, told EURACTIV in an exclusive interview.

While the shift to qualified majority voting would be initially “in a limited, very pragmatic way” to “show that the EU 27 is capable of reforming itself”, there is still more to come afterwards, Lührmann stated.

Both countries consider it important to abolish unanimous voting in the European Council in areas such as foreign policy and taxation before the enlargement of the European Union. This could mean, for example, that Brussels would be able to implement a flat tax rate across the EU or even involve itself more deeply in the war, both moves that Hungary has rejected and in some cases even deployed its veto to stop.

via @planettoday #PlanetToday: https://www.planet-today.com/2023/06/enormous-power-grab-france-germnay-want.html

The two leaders said that both countries consider it important to abolish unanimous voting in the European Council in areas such as foreign policy and taxation before the enlargement of the European Union. This could mean, for example, that Brussels would be able to implement a flat tax rate across the EU or even involve itself more deeply in the war, both moves that Hungary has rejected and in some cases even deployed its veto to stop.

One of the reasons Germany is supporting this move relates to the German push to expand the Union further east, with seven candidates waiting for their applications to progress the 27 would increase to the 34. At first glance it is difficult to understand German enthusiasm for admitting more economic basket cases to the EU until we remember that in the past Germany, France and Brussels have all made references to the idea of extenting the European Union into North Africa and The Middle East. It is about power, pure and simple.

The current EU is a lot different to the original Common Market of which France and Germany were among the six founder members 70 years ago, and a different animal to the European Economic Community (EEC) that I worked for in the 1980s. It started as a trade association but there has been a gradual and ongoing creep to increasing surrender of sovereu=ign powers by member states to an increasingly authoritarian central power hub. That centralising trend gained a huge boost as a result of the Ukraine conflict. Democracy and the will and welfare of the people has been thrown out of the window. The EU is fast becoming a dictatorial regime of power hungry elites that usurps the sovereignty of every member nation. But the move to a single, centralised government is doomed, while the elites dream of becoming part of a global governance scheme, in the towns and cities of member states resistance is growing.

In Germany the AfD (Alternatif fur Deutschland,) having weathered a torrent of smears, lies, and adverse propaganda, Germany's populist centre right paty is riding high in polls and doing well in regional elections, the Sweden Democrats, having been prevented by the EU from participating in a ruling coalition in 2017 were, at the last election in 2022 too popular to be stitched up by political jiggery pokery. Georgia Meloni and her Brothers of Italy party lead a Eurosceptic centre right coalition government in Italy and all around Europe opposition to centralisation and support for democratic nationalism are gaining ground.

However an atempt by France and Germany to remove the veto and thus, together, dominate the EU may be a good thing as it will give much more momentum to AfD, Rassemblement National, Brothers of Italy, Sweden Democrats and simlar anti - federalisation parties and may prompt an exodus of smaller states from EU membership. If we aggregate all this negative sentiment, add a Russian victory in Ukraine and a single currency in hyperinflation the result will be the total implosion of the EU.

Unlike the federal superstate that is the USA, where individual states have no individual cutural background or political history as sovereign states outside their Union, every EU member has a distinct culture or in some cases several regional cultures and centuries of independent history, their own language and traditions, and their flags, in many cases symbols of past struggles to preserve that political and /p>

People in Europe don't sing the EU anthem, The Ode To Joy, the French sings The Marseillaise, the Germans Lied der Deutschen, Thou Ancient, Thou Free in Sweden, Where My Home Is in The Czech Republic and so on. Europeans do not salute the EU flag, but The Union Flag, UK; Tricolor, France; Bundesflagge ("Federal Flag") Germany, Italy and several more,); Rojigualda ("Red-weld"), Spain; Dannebrog ("Danish cloth"), Denmark; Biało-Czerwona ("White-Red"), Poland. Peoples' loyalty is to their nation, and the discussion within the EU that is dividing nations now revolvces around whether the union is a benefit or a liability to their nation. Take away the last shred of national sovereignty from them and subject them to the rule of unelected buresucrats from different cuktural backgrounds and the people will turn away from the idea of a federal European superstate in even greater numbers.

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Italy Pondering Total Ban On Unvaccinated In The WorkplacesItaly's unelected governments, which has already faced riots and massive resistance to its authoritarian measures to strip away citizens rights and liberties under cover of pretending their actions are necessary steps to deal with the pandemic, now risks plunging the country into greater chaos by mandating vaccines for the workplace.

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Thousands of people took to the streets of Germany on Monday in protest over COVID-19 restrictions that are set to go into effect on Tuesday.The demonstrations were biggest in Mecklenburg, northern Germany, where roughly 15,000 demonstrators took to the streets to protest against tighter measures, according to local reports. In Rostock, a city along the Warnow River on the north coast of the country, roughly 6,500 people demonstrated, while in Schwerin there were roughly 2,700 and in Neubrandenburg, around 2,400 joined a demonstration. Continue reading >>>


After a weekend of increasingly violent protests around Europe, similar to the one pictured above in London, against elitist plans to introduce new limitations on freedom, lockdowns and further steps towards compulsory vaccination (with a vaccine that does not immunise against a virus that makes very few people ill,) it is disappointing to see that in the US and UK, mainstream media is still doing its best to ratchet up the fear and panic ... Continue reading >>>

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Spain Arrests People Traffickers And Drug Smugglers Crossing From North Africa in Speedboats
Spanish police announced the arrest of 90 people involed in a smuggling rackets that moved both people and drugs from Africa to Europe. The Civil Guard released a statement today stating that the smuggling network regularly moved people and drugs from Ceuta, a Spanish enclave in northern Africa to The Costa del Sol in high powered semi inflatable speedcraft of the type often used to move illegal immigrants from Libya to Italy or Turkey to Greece.

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Populist Politicians Threaten Legal Action Against Proposed Covid Passports
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Spanish Socialist Budget Fails As Budget Rejected; New Elections Expected


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Majority Of French Agree With Military Generals That Nation Is Nearing "Civil War", New Poll Finds
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The Islamic Republic Of France
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Italian Government Near Collapse After Renzi Pulls Ministers From Ruling Coalition

Yesterday this publication reported that under the leadership of Premier Giuseppe Conte, Italy's government has - to the surprise of all Daily Stirrer contributors - held together for almost two years, as the technocratic former law professor - initially brought in to lead a government formed at the behest of the Brussels bureaucracy from two anti-establishment parties, the anti-migrant League and left-wing populist Five Star Movement - had already survived the collapse of his original coalition.

Italian Government On Verge Of Collapse Amid Battle Over EU COVID Relief

from Zero Hedge

Under the leadership of Premier Giuseppe Conte, Italy's government has enjoyed a degree of stability unseen in decades, as the technocratic former law professor - initially brought in to lead a government formed by two anti-establishment parties, the anti-migrant League and left-wing populist Five Star Movement - Conte has already survived the collapse of his original coalition. When League leader Matteo Salvini withdrew from the ruling coalition back in 2019, Conte managed to stave off another election by recruiting new allies from the opposition.

Lockdowns, The Great Reset and the Unfolding Disaster That Is Globalism

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New Figures Show Brexit Has Failed To Take Back Control Of Immigration
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Tuesday, June 27, 2023

So Was Last Weekend's Abortive 'Coup' In Russia Anything But Theatre?

 "It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.'—Henry Kissinger, February 1999"

That is very significant quote by , or attributed to, Henry Kissinger and it is interesting that former Uk Prime Minister Tony Blair used a very similar line when selling his 'New Labour' schtick to British voters. No coincidence of course that both these figures have close links to the World Economic Forum. It has always been the case that perception overrides actuality, were it not so there would never have been any empires, religions or political parties. All these depend on how things are perceived. 

But perceived by whom? The millions of ordinary punters whose priorities extend no further than earning a living and paying the bills. Or by political activists, journalists and commentators in print and broadcast media, the few who read the news, and actually think about it and challenge the narratives. The rest don't think so changing their minds doesn't count and so will accept whatever the propagandists tell them. 

The US and its hapless sidekicks, the nation states that make up the membership of NATO, The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, are on the way to becoming a totalitarian society of unprecedented paranoia - driven tyranny. Questioning dissent and aking difficult questions has been criminalised under the cover of a hoax pandemic, free speech is constantly threatened by technological 'advances' which allow the ruling class to monitor opinion and control information to an extent that even Gorge Orwell never dreamed would be possible as he created his fictional Big Brother regime of Oligarchic Collectivism.

Every discussion, no matter how obscure and trivial it might be, is carefully recorded and analysed, (logarithmically?) by what we are told is Artificial Intellligence though in fact it is nothing more than a binary string matching system which parses vast amounts of data at incredible speed. All participants in alt_news websites, blogs and comment threads are identified and their filed profiles constantly updated. 

And though this data collection is illegal and breaches the inalienable human rights laid down in the Geneva convention of 1948, it leads inevitably, as we have seen during the 'disinformation' and 'misinformation' monitoring crazes, to demands for governmental action.Those who control the media and therefore are able to manipulate perceptions by controlling the information on which perceptions are based have become so adept at what they do, they can make people opposed to censorship cal out for more censorship, those who complain about loss of liberties demand that even more constraints are imposed for the greater good.

 tThis is how we are now witnessing the prosecution of individuals calling for an end to pouring weaponry into Ukraine. In Canada, peace campaigners and other opponents of Ukrainian Nazism have been prevented from hiring assembly rooms or, having hired them, fighting off thugs determined to prevent discussion of Ukraine. The government says Zelensky and his neo Nazi masters are the good guys because Russia stands in the way of US / Cultural Marxist global domination.

Here in Britain, while rapists are being sent to women's prisons because they 'identify' as women, and anyone who openly states their disagreement with the notion that a woman can have a penis and a man can have a womb and conceive children, law abiding citizens can end up in big trouble for claimingv their are only two genders, and parents who complain about sex lessons for six year olds including descriptions of oral sex, and various homosexual acts risk having their children taken away by the authorities. 

What this is leading to is a body politic without a functioning facility for critical thinking - legislatures that make Hitler's Reichstag look like a lively and liberal exchange of ideas, a media which pumps out, uncontradicted, the increasingly extravagant and dangerous policy perspectives of a tiny group of powerful elitists.

In this world the advantage is with those countries with lower living standards, where 'education' is not omnipresent, and where the masses have more important things to do than pretend that their opinions matter on foreign policy matters. Those without TVs or the leisure to sprawl in front of them are better off, the illiterate are spared the poison from the Daily Mail or the NY Times. Those without elected governments are relieved of the burden of watching the Starmers and Sumacs playing with themselves.

Russia, after the coup that wasn't, has real problems, it has yet to escape the hell into which the Pied Pipers of Wall St and the City, Harvard and Oxbridge led it. But it will. Its people are alive and capable of returning to the mir and communal self rule. But the America under the corrupt and increasingly insane Biden regime, the dull stupidity and the sleazy criminality of the Washington swamp, with the economy looking more like tribute to Ponzi as the government borrows more and more money to finance pointless wars and maintain an illusion of growth, and societal breakdown turns the cities into lawless dystopias, has far bigger problems than Russia, China, the EU, UK, Japan and Germany. 

America is in real trouble. Hundreds of millions hierarchically organised to conform- to 'go along to get along' seem incapable of dissent, so terrified of incuring the disapproval of their peers they dare not speak their minds. And in Europe, every bad idea, every loonytoons policy that comes out of the Californian madhouse is eagerly taken up, obscenely clad grotesques, exhibitionists and attention seekers made up to look like clowns humiliate themselves to support something they refer to without irony as 'Pride', schools teach young pupils that t.hey can flip flop between sexes on a whim, while pupils who identify as cats, squirrels and trees are encouraged by techers so dimwitted they cannot see the kids are mocking them.

And yet we are expected to believe that the theatrical stunt staged in Russia last weekend and faithfully reported by western media as proof that Russia was about to disintegrate, Putin's downfall was imminent and Ukraine was still winning the war (despite half the country having been reduced to rubble.) The big question is, what was the Wagner coup staged to distract us from, is there about to be a major escalation of conflict, taking it beyond Ukraine's borders?

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Monday, June 26, 2023

Out Of Touch Elites Are Destroying Civilised Society Society With Net Zero Obsession And No Plan B


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Andrew Orlowski has written an excellent piece in the Telegraph lambasting the Net Zero ideologues running the UK, who have foisted on a public unable to opt out, a mass of unrealistic, contradictory policies around the transition to 'clean, renewable energy and 'Net Zero' CO2 emissions, that will destroy European economies while reducing emissions locally by moving dirty industry to China, India, South East Asia and Africa. Here’s an excerpt.

Take climate change targets. How good it must have felt for politicians to set those lofty goals, knowing that someone else must deal with the cost and the implementation? But now the bills are now arriving, and they’re bringing a world of hurt.

To sum up: Western policy elites have embarked on the electrification of society, replacing hydrocarbons in housing and transport, but without the technology to replace it well.

The laptop elites of Davos who back this transition are not technologically savvy people – they’re fundamentally frivolous people, anecdotalists who yawned their way through their science GCSEs. A squiggle on the back of an envelope will impress them.

They must be astonished how easy the “energy transition” project has been so far, with Maoist cadres of activist investors ensuring the most valuable stuff our economy depends on is left in the ground.

Electrification is a profound change, however, and in practice, means two things. The public is being required to surrender a superior product for an inferior one. And secondly, the infrastructure to transition to these inferior products cheaply and reliably does not exist.

To make an additional rod for our backs, Governments have decreed that a proportion of the replacement energy for hydrocarbons must come from methods that we wisely abandoned in the Middle Ages: the sun and the wind.

Even if we could acquire superior equivalents to a combination gas boiler or a 38-tonne diesel truck, in reality they’d go unused. The capacity required to generate the required level of supply, even expensively, will be absent for a very long time.

So it’s fairly safe to predict that Net Zero will fail – those targets will be missed. But for now, the policy throws up massive contradictions, while resolving them is nobody’s department.

For example, ministers say we need a multiple of the electricity generation capacity we have today. The National Grid says we’ll all have to get by with a lot less. In fact, so many contradictory measures have been passed, that “it is now beyond any minister or civil servant to name them all, let alone understand how they interact with each other,” Professor Dieter Helm warns in his latest bulletin on the U.K. energy industry, published this month.

“The resulting complexity is the prime route to enabling lobbying by vested interests, and the consequent capture of each of the technology-specific interventions,” Helm adds.

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One needs only look at the electricity generation statistics published 24 hours a day, every day on Gridwatch.co.uk to understand that we are saved from power cuts almost every day by burning natural gas and importing electricity via undersea cabled from France, Netherlands, Belgium and Norway. Similarly our transport systems are utterly dependent upon oil. Our society without these fuels is about as likely as a hospital without drugs and medicines.

The application of Net Zero Targets, just like Trans Ideology it's not based on a shred of fact , but these pseudo - scientific   quasi - religions are readily swallowed up by all our institutions, politicians and big business due to the influence of globalist groups like tThe World Economic Forum (WEF), The Bilderberg Group and the semi official World Health Organisation (WHO) which seems to be leading the push to create an unelected, authoritarian global government. The playbook comes straight out of the philosophy of Cultural Marxism, a world domination plan crated by The Frankfurt School in he 1920s. It will fail spectacularly of course, but not before it has wreaked political havoc, trashed national economies, and destroyed the lives of millions. The term 'bunch of little Hitlers' is accurate and not applied to politicians often enough. 

It's mostly young people that believe in global warming with utter certainty. And they've been indoctrinated with this propaganda in school since they were very young. They were taught this before they had developed any critical thinking skills so questioning the nonsense was impossible for them. So almost all of them believe it, impending climate catastrophe due to use of 'fossil fuels' is one of the dogmas on which their lives are founded.

And you are not going to be able to change those beliefs in spite of the fact that the science is NOT settled and if we did deeply enough we will always find links between promoters of the climate change scare and people or organisations who stand to gain either financially or politically by appearing to support this narrative instead of challenging it..

This blog has for the eighteen years of its existence doubted the global warming narrative and all the scaremongering propaganda warning of an immediate looming climatic catastrophe and have on numerous occasions reported on publication by independent researchers of data proving the threat of climate disaster is vastly overstated and the effect of CO2 on climate is minim, we have to take the climate change lobby and extremist groups like Just Stop Oil and the Exstinktion Rebellion crusties seriously. There are three reasons for that: 

First the great majority of the people believe there is a problem. And that makes it a real issue, even if it there is no verifiable scientific evidence supporting the case of the alarmists.. 

Second, looking at things from an objective scientific perspective, there is a good chance there really is a problem. I have lots of criticism for the pseudoscientific way in which the universities think about these things, but that does not prove there isn't a problem, we Boggart Bloggers do not believe it is Carbon Dioxide or even man made, but there has to be free and open debate, with the views of groups outside the academic community allowed to be heard in order to understand the nature and causes of environmental challenges.

And third, fossils fuel resources are being depleted faster than the earth produces them, so this is a problem that has to be solved anyway. 


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