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Saturday, September 14, 2024

Storm Shadow for Ukraine? Starmers Says Yes, Uncle Sam Says No

Ukraine's President Zelensky, after meeting UK Prime Minister and current warmonger in chief 'Sir' Keir SStürmer has ben relying on on Britain to lead the charge of the Allies to be first to supply the Ukie madmen with weapons enabling then to strike targets deep within Russian territory.

It is true Starmer has said he wants the UK to 'lead he world' in giving the Ukies the support they need to start World War Three but the crazy Labour leaders also wants his country to lead the world in achieving net zero and several other policies whivh can only result in the destruction of civilised society.

Ukraine's reason for seeking long range missiles like Storm Shadow from its allies is they need to be able to strike Russian cities in order to holding off the Russian invasion and thence to preventing the destruction of schools and hospitals. Taken at face value this souds admirable, but it is a measure of how stupid the Ukie leadership is that they cannot see such an esclation would only provoke Russia into unleashing their heavy bombers and most powerful missiles against Ukrainian civilians.

Significantly that The USA has emphatically denied Ukraine using US long range missiles in Russia. Only last week, during Zeensky's meeting with representatives of Kiev's major allies, US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin pushed back on the idea that long-range strikes would be a game-changer. “I don’t believe one capability is going to be decisive and I stand by that comment,” Austin said.

The Ukrainians have other means to strike long-range targets, he said, persumably referring to Ukraine's long lange drones which fly under the radar and have on several occasions struck military and infrastructure targets deep inside Russia.

The problem with supplying more sophisticated long range missiles is that they need to be programmed, targeted and launched by military personnel from the source nation, and that would amount to a declaration of war by NATO on Russia.

Furthermore it is no clear what schools and hospitals Zelensky was speaking of. The military academy Poltava where 720 was killed was a legitimate military target and other incidents involving injury to civilians have invoved Ukie hits on targets in Russia as well as vice versa..

These missiles are not new technology but modified versions of the French Scalp missiles which came into service in 1994 but are based on the even older Apache anti - runway missile. They have bbeen used throughout most of this year in Donbass but so far have done nothing to slow Russia's advance in Donbass. The other big question is how many do we have and how many can we produce? Judging from the artillery shell debacle. If Storm Shadow/Scalp was effective and immune to Electronic Warfare there would be no Kerch bridge, but there it is standing and functioning erfectly even after all the threats it would soon be soon gone from the usual pr opagandists in our MSM.

Lastly why on earth would Russia have any territorial ambitions in EU and U.K. as the Warmonger cult and the Zelensky fan club claim?

The other ludicrous claim made by thw War Forever cult is that if the Ukies don’t defeat Russia, Putin plans to conquer the whole of Ukraine and continue to advance unil ll of Europe is under Russian rule. This is beyond stupid, even if Russia's leaders had any such ambitions the nation does not have the manpower to subjugate 500 million people and the Eurozone economic area is already crumbling economically, so why would Russia want to subsidise western and Central Europeans in over 30 nation states at least helf of whivh are economic basket cases?

Russia is making good money to this day being the largest Natural Gas supplier to EU despite European governments pretending they won’t buy any hydrocarbons from Russia. Germany is worse off then before the Plandemic, mainly due to the Nordstream pipeline sabotage the French are doing terribly and U.K. can’t afford helping their old folks not dying from hypothermia and basically fighting freedom of expression and dissent from ge. nder and im mi gration.

The west today has conveniently forgotten the cold war ersa and is living on peoples recency bias and heavy reality distortion in the MSM, most of which is still plugging the 'Ukraine is winning' narrative.

What any move to help Bellendsky escalate the conflict again could finally Putin into ordering mass mobilisation. Any mass disaffection this may have produced amongst the Russian population, would likely be mitigated after a few stray Storm Shadows hit apartment blocks in Rostov or Voronezh, as they are bound to do.

This may finally allow the Russians to steamroller the Ukrainians all the way to the Dnipro. It would change the war, for sure- just not in the way Zelensky and his fan club among world leaders would hope. Given we have essentially zero missile defences, this is not a bet I would be keen to lay odds on.

Saturday, December 30, 2023

Winter Gales, Wind Turbines and Net Zero - We Told You So

One of the many things this blog has been consistent in our criticism of, in spite of censorship by big tech and hostility from trolls who love 'The Narrative' is the push by governments, academic and big business to phase out use of 'fossil fuels' as a source of energy for generating electricity in favour of wind turbines.

The technical issues with using an intermittent energy source to meet a constant need have been dealt with so many times it has become boring but an issue covered less often is the fragility of these strange gadgets. But it seems mainstream media are waking up to it at last, as a story reported by The Daily Mail demonstrates:

There are many potential hazards of Net Zero but who’d have thought being decapitated might be one of them? According to the Mail it seems that Storm Gerritt had the same effect as trying to do a crash dive in a Tiger Moth:

Shocking footage showed the energy generator in Ayrshire, Scotland, wracking up speed before the blades suddenly come loose and are flung across a seemingly deserted field in opposite directions.

Loud crashes are heard as the debris lands on the ground, while bare trees surrounding the lone turbine are blown back and forth.

Just for good measure, the decapitated wind turbine then burst into flames:

A spokesperson for the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service said: “We were alerted to reports of a fire within a wind turbine at 10.28am on Wednesday, 27 December near Newhouse Farm, Sorn.

“Operations Control mobilised one appliance to the scene, the fire was extinguished prior to the arrival of firefighters.

“The crew left after ensuring the area was made safe.”

The bad news is that if wind turbines costing £3 million each are going to fall to pieces and turn into burning scrap every time there’s a gale, won’t that affect global warming? ... Continue reading >>>

Wind farms: Is Common Sense Breaking Out In The Warmageddonist Industry?
When somebody who has been whining about Warmageddon and the CO2 effect that is killing life on earth for twenty years suddenly starts talking not about climate change, athropogenic global warming and the need for green solutions but the arrogance and greed of those in the green lobby, it's worth paying attention

In Spite Of Evidence They Don't Work Governments Wind Farm Madness Goes On. Many writers have exposed the junk science behind the global warming scam and just as many have exposed the fraudulent claims of those who profit from wind turnbine operating licences. Of the former all we can say is "science was ever fascism's whore", the latter of course, the wind turbine profiteers, rely on ...

Greenpeace stunt backfires. Exposes Green Energy Scam!It's always great to mock the Watermelon when they shoot themselves in the foot but this exapmple of the self interest that underpins their climate science and green energy scams is classic.

Has The Government Seen Sense On Wind Farms?

Too little too late, is the verdict of the brilliant Allister Heath on the Tories' near-non-existent recovery strategy. I'm 90 per cent with him. Like Allister, I believe that the Tory high command simply doesn't understand what radical action needs to be taken if there is to be any kind of meaningful economic recovery.

Vertical Farming: The Looniest Idea Yet For Saving The PlanetClimate Science is a strange discipline. Part trainspotting, part trekkie convention going, it combines an almost autistic obession with collcting details, a very autistic obsession with focusing on a single theme and a fantasist's capacity for self deception and a taste for mutual masturbation. The latest loonytoons idea for saving the planet involves turning skyscraper buildings into farms growing food for urban populations. Apart from increasing the cost of food by 1000% and increasing rather than reducing the carbon footprint of food production the idea is so insane noboy could ever take it seriously. Nobody that is except scientists, politicians, academics and the media.

The Futility Of Wind Farms.In some ways the Conservative / Liberal Democrat coalition has made quite a good start in government. One area they are set to fail badly however is energy. Driven by politically correct thinking the coalition are set to follow Labour down the road that goes through wind power and eventually leads nowhere. Wind turbines look fine on paper. If they generate at their optimum output for 365 days a year the contribution to energy needs looks like a viable business proposition. The problem is due to the limitations of the technology and the vagaries of the weather wind farms are doing well if they operate at a quarter of their potential output.
Climate Change Crooks And LiarsThough climate change alarmists claim that that "the science is settled" no longerr holds water the arguments rage on. If anything they are getting more heated as the climate science lobby, knocked from the moral high grounds show their true colours. But more and more evidence is showing the climate change science was never settyled and the global warming Armageddonists had built their whole case on very flimsy evidence.

Germany Burns Net Zero Pledges And Fires Up Coal Generating Plants Ahead Of Winter Peak Electricity Season
On Wednesday this week Germany's coalition government approved putting coal power plants back online until the end of March 2024 to ensure energy security when natural gas supplies cannot meet demand. Though Germany has for at least a decade vied with Britain to claim leadership of Europe's ill - advised push for net zero, the Berlin government has been forced into this move

The Offshore Wind Fiasco Sets New Records For Government Incompetence
In an article on wind powered generators last week a science & technology writer showed himself in need of remedial education in basic literacy:"Meanwhile, 14GW of installed capacity puts us second in the world behind China," he burbled The problem here is inability to understand the meaning of 'installed capacity.' If it means a capability of generating 14GW of electricity, as it would if we were discussing gas, nuclear or coal that would be lovely ...

Millions Of Brits Told Not To Heat Homes At Night As Part Of 'Net Zero' Push
No, they aren't urging elites to ditch their private jets for commercial, or not to burn 1,000 of fuel taking the yacht out for a jaunt. Chris Stark, head of the UK's Climate Change Committee, wants ordinary citizens to turn off their electric heaters (heat pumps) at night as part of a wider drive to deliver "emissions savings," which includes a shift away from gas boilers - which Chris, a hypocrite, still has.

Another Setback For UK's Net Zero Green Dreams As Cost Rise Faster Than China's CO2 Emissions
The UK ruling elite's dreams suffered another setback today when Swedish energy company Vattenfall announced work on the Norfolk Boreas offshore wind farm is to be suspended. The reasons given are spiralling costs, uncertainty in supply lines and the economic reality that offshore wind farms are hideously expensive to operate as well as being enormously damaging to the marine environment.

How Germany's open door to migrants and mad dash to Net Zero Brought Down The Establishment
Friedrichstrasse in Berlin is one of Europe's most renowned shopping streets. Lined with glitzy stores, from Galeries Lafayette to Karl Lagerfeld it is on a par with Avenue des Champs-Élysées, London's Regent Street or Via Montenapoleone in Milan, teeming with shoppers eager to spend their hard earned or ill - gotten cash and flowing with cars, buses and taxis.

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

Implosion of Germany's Green Party Threatens To Destabilse EU
With the defeat of Donald Trump in the 2020 US election, the far left parties in Liberal Democracies celebrated the defeat of the far right. At around the same time it appeared that Germany's AfD party, Italy's Lega and and the Sweden Democrats had been discredited and surges in their popularity had been halted by negative propaganda campaigns while Germany's Green Party were at the height of their popularity and were hailed as Europe's great hope for a clean, net zero, woke, gay and trans friendly future.

Climate Scaremongers Have Taken Over Where COVID Scaremongers Left Off
Boggart Blog can announce that the winners of our coveted Scaremongering Bollocks of The Month award goes this month to BBC News. Not only did the BBC report in one of their regular climate catastrophe scare stories that river levels across the UK have been at record lows, they broadcast that news story on the same day as The London Weather Centre announced that March 2023 was set to be the wettest March since records began.

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Tuesday, January 16, 2007

Ice Storm has elements of Shakespearean Tragedy

A contact at gather.com told me yesterday there is a big ice storm going on in America's mid west. Millions of people in the area around St. Louis, Missouri have been without electricity for nearly a week after ice and snow brought down overhead power lines. So far 36 people have died because of the freak weather. Government officials say it will be several more days before power can be restored even if temperatures rise.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070115/ap_on_re_us/winter_blast

Meanwhile us climate change deniers crank up the volume as we ask, "So how does this biggest ice storm ever equate with global warming then eh? And the airlines tell us to keep on flying, there is no danger.

And George W. Bush announces an escalation of the war in the Middle East.

Perhaps the President needs a lesson in literature. Let's start with Shakespeare; Henry 1V part 2 (Act 4) where somebody asks the King:

"Be it thy course to busy giddy minds with foreign quarrels?"
Yeah well, quite.

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