Sunday, February 12, 2023

Labour No Longer Represents Working Class Says Defector To Tories Lee Anderson

NEW Tory vice chairman Lee Anderson has hit back at critics of his tough position on the death penalty - saying it's a "completely mainstream" view in Red Wall heartlands.

Lee Anderson defended his comments saying Britain should have tougher punishments for sick terrorists who killed Lee Rigby.

*Lee Anderson, MP for Ashfield Notts, left the Labour party in 2018Credit: HOC/UNPIXS*

And he threw his support behind Labour MP Rosie Duffield - saying her suggestion being in the party was like an abusive relationship was spot on and "wish I'd left Labour sooner".

Writing for The Sun today, the Ashfield MP said he was proud to call himself a Tory as it "allows free speech and encourages personal responsibility".

Rishi Sunak and the Tory Chairman last week distanced themselves from his comments, but said he was entitled to his own opinions.

Mr Ashfield said: "It ain’t perfect, but the Tory Party allows free speech and encourages personal responsibility.

"This is why I have found my natural home with the Conservative Party."

He hailed the PM's immigration crackdown and five-point plan as a blueprint to keep the Tories in power, adding: "Get that right and I predict another five years for us, leaving the Labour loonies in the rightful place on opposition benches."

Mr Anderson hit out at Sir Keir Starmer's party for turning their backs on the working class and being "more worried about pronouns than the people's priorities".

And he vowed to learn the lessons of his Red Wall win in 2019 to help the Tories cling on to power and "keep Labour out of Downing Street".

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Labour's politics of envy will trigger a class war

The Fall Of Louise Haigh - A True Story Of Socilist Skulduggery And Back Stabbing

In a sign of growing rifts within Labour, senior union figures and those on the Left of the party suggested that Morgan McSweeney, Sir Keir’s chief of staff, had plotted Ms Haigh’s demise.

It was McSweeney rather than Starmer himself who told Ms Haigh on Thursday night that it might be best for her to resign after her the story of her conviction emerged.

One union source described him as a “shadow prime minister” for whom anyone on the soft Left of the party had become a target of efforts by extremists in the party to undermine SStarmer

The Charge Of The Anti-enlightenment Brigade
I don’t know if many of you remember London's Atheist Bus a few years ago. It toured the city bearing adverts that read: ‘There’s probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life.’ and was a great success[ ... ] this demonstrates the Sheeple - like tendencies of those who claim they have reason on their side: the religious propagandist with the sandwich board saying ‘repent, the end is nigh' was always the subject of jokes. Why do the opposing side now feel the need to parade high tech sandwich boards saying, "no need to repent, the end isn't nigh'?

Landmark Report Explodes The Myth Of Economic Benefits From Mass Immigration
The Contribution politicians and left wing hand wringers claim is by migrants to Britain’s economy are “modest” compared to their long term costs, while mass migration depresses wages and harms GDP growth, a report on the findings of research led by a respected academic has found.

The International Elite's Contempt For National Sovereignty
One of our themes in The Daily Stirrer has been the new elise and their push for global government. Here in a cross post with Philo and Sophia we look at the political philosophy behind multiculturalism global view thinking and the push to abolish national sovereignty and hand power to supranational bureaucrats

Ersatz Culture Created By World View Theorists To Undermine Western Values Western culture is in trouble, I don't think many reasonable people would disgree with that (if you think a totalitarian global government is kool you're not reasonable, GTF out of here.) The Daily Stirrer has posted many items on the war on our traditions and values and so have other people, one such article is embedded here.

Orange Juice is as bad as Coca Cola says government health expert
Professor Jebb is in charge of the government’s responsibility deal, a series of voluntary pledges by industry aimed at tackling health problems such as obesity and alcohol abuse. Even though she is an academic and therefore is out of touch with reality, in view of ...

Gospel of Polyamory' touted as an alternative to traditional marriage by ABC news
When the same sex marriage row was raging many intelligent voices raised in support of the status quo warned that one same sex marriage campaign was won, with the aid of elitist prevert politicians who again betrayed the people who voted for them, and mainstream media creeps, the 'rights' brigade would start screaming for legalisation of other unorthodox relationships. It hasn't taken long ...

New World Order War On free Speech Comes To Britain - Guardian editor accused of treason
The right to free speech is under threat from intolerant, authoritarian elitists, call them The Illuminati, New World Order, Scientific Dictatorshgip, Global Elite, whatever. Their goal is absolute power and they know that while the right of free speech, the free press and free access to information exist they cannot succeed.

Privacy Wrecking Technologies That Are Systematically Transforming America Into A Giant Prison
Some people insisted it was all a conspiracy theory. Even now they know the extent government and corporations are snooping on us via internet and electronic technology they try to insist it is for our wellbeing and there is no sinister hidden agenda. If you find their assurances comforting you really nead to read this article

Brand Plays A Blinder And Paxo Gets Stuffed
The recent and very highly publicised attacks by Russell Brand on corporate fascism, political corruption, the whoring of science and the destruction of democracy do not hail the advent of a new messiah of the working class. Instead they show how out - of - touch the elite of right and left, politicians, business leaders, the media actually are. These people are totally unaware of the realities of life for ordinary people.

Is It Lack Of Diversity That Drives Liberal Hate And Intolerance
Anyone who has spent time in political threads online, especially in the comments under articles on topics like abortion, same sex marriage, climate change, GM crops, vaccines and race related issues will be familiar with the phenomonon of liberal and left wing hate attacks. What used to be the politics of tolerance, free speech and democracy has become the politics of intolerance and authoritarinism with even the slightest and most reasoned dissent provoking orchestrated Nazi and Fascist style hate attacks. So what's the problem with these so called liberals?

Hate is 80% of Left Wing Politics
Since my days as a candidate for the old Liberal Party in local and county council elections I have been struck by the hatred and loathing shown by candidates of left wing parties for anyone who opposes them. This ‘politics of hate’ trend started in the USA, now considered a county so politically polarised civil war is inevitable, but has become an integrat part of UK and European politics

Jew hating Leftie Students Union In New Anti-Semitism Row Those anti Semites of the The National Union of Students (NUS) are at it again. [ ... ] Hypocrisy and double standards are the stock in trade of the ‘new left’ of course and the anti – Semitism of Labour voters and other younger lefties (University dumbed down airheads who are too historically illiterate to be aware of the role Britain’s Jewish communities played in establishing the Labour Party Corbyn's Politically Correct Hypocrites Hate Sexism But Approve Of Muslim Sexism
On encountering my insense dislike of the Labour Party, people asume I am a Conservative. WRONG! I have never supported The Conservatives and have never voted either Conservative or Labour in my life. Politicians should never be trusted, I but what sets Labour politicians and activists above the rest in terms of being worthy of only contempt is the hypocrisy.

White Privilege Now Inculdes The Privilege Of Being Fired For being White
Its should be obvious by now that the politically correct left, insaniac sociopaths that they are, have only one emotion at their disposal; hate. Bizarrely the hatered of these predominantly white, middle class people, while of themselves, is mostly racist in nature but directed at members of their own race.

Social Science Degrees Make Great Leaders? More Junk Science.
We've had junk science on climate change, genetically modified seeds, many types of medicines and social engineering. The junkiest of junk science however is always commissioned by public service organisations and is aimed at convincing the public that our public servants are doing a good job. Fortunately the public are not as gullible as our leaders suppose.

Home Secretary says Britain Will Outlaw Hate And Extremism
In yet another example of how out of touch with reality our leaders are, Theresa May announced on BBC Radio 4's Today programme that the "British" government's determination to make "hate," "extremism" and "Neo-Nazism" illegal.

SNP: Scottish Nazi Party?
Do you really want a bunch of creepy authoritarians like this pulling Ed Miliband's strings in a Labour - SNP power sharing deal?

Authorities Have Been Blind to Sex Abuse, There Are More Grooming And Abuses Cases To Be Exposed
OFSTED, the quango responsible for overseeing England’s schools and child services has for years been so obsessed with form filling, box ticking and making sure targets were schieved so that the government statistics would look good, it became blind to the scale of systemastic abuse of young girls by gangs of adult males.

More Swedish PC Madness. Art treasures declared pornographic and offensive to women and Muslims
Crazy California has for many years held the title of global capital of politically correct isanity, but recently Sweden, always a contender, has shown signs of taking the title. The latest example of PC fuckwittery from Sweden's politically correct in their efforts to sacrifice western civilisation to feminist self righteousness and Muslim extremism left suggests they might be ready to assume the title, craziest place on earth.

Millie Tant, Tatchell's Transphobia and Germain Greer's Big Hairy Smelly Vagina
The well of hypocrisy from which the left, champions of freedom, democracy, equality and free speech in their own estimation, draw their dishonest, self rightoeus views on the world is bottomless, it will never run dry. How else could it have continued to flow during this latest two-faced display of authoritarianism from the lovers of all minoities even when those minoritites hate each other. It is the multual hatred of minorities however that is fragmenting the left.

Liberal Says We Shouldn’t Prosecute Sexual Predators… if They are Black.
There are plenty of examples of the depths of stupidity to which 'liberals' or supporters of 'the progressive left' will stooop in order to curry favout from members of the darker skinned races, but few are as staggeringly idiot as this one.

The Left Are So Hopeless They Can't Even Sneer Properly
Yesterday's by election in the Kent constituency of Rochester and Strood produced the expected victory for UKIP, the expected humiliation for the Conservative, Labour and Lib Dem parties. The Biggest disaster however was a Labour own goal own scored by Labour's Shadow Attorney General Emily Thornberry

Birmingham Child Abuse Scandal Set To Break - Will Dwarf Rotherham, Rochdale
Hot on the heels of child sex abuse scandals in Rotherham and Rochdale, another, bigger scandal is set to erupt in brimingham and the West Midlands. Gangs made up of predominantly Pakistani men, using the same modus operandi as the South Yorkshire and Greater Manchester abuse rings, targeted young girls and boys from broken home who were unfortunate enought to find themselves in the care of the local authority. Once groomed the children were raped and prostituted

Nationalism the new target for left wing screechers
The screechers have a new target for their hate, Nationalism. OMFG, I am sick of seeing on Facebook and other Sheeple sites posts from the army of bandwagon followers condemning nationalism. Hate attacks on Andy Murray because he voted Yes for Scottish Independence were deplorable, the bloke is entitled to his opinion FFS. The lefties hater did not stop there however, attacks on his mother are just disgusting (but entirely typical of the Labour voting, free speech hating, all-things-British loathing, bourgeois left scum.)

Saturday, February 11, 2023

More Net Zero Madness

Grant Shapps, the New Energy Secretary in Rishi Sunak's freshly minted Net Zero Department (which could more honestly be titled The Ministry of alternative Realities, is facing a backlash from his own party over plans for a hydrogen levy to be added onto household bills.

The extra green levy, which under Government plans would be added onto energy bills from 2025 to fund the production of low-carbon hydrogen, has been met with anger amid concerns households will be paying for energy that they never use.

It would be the first piece of legislation passed by Rishi Sunak's New Energy Department, but Mr Shapps has been warned that the levy, which critics have branded as another tax, would stoke inflation, going against one of the Prime Minister's five key priorities announced last month.

Former Business Secretary Jacob Rees Mogg said he tried to block the levies when he was the minister in charge of the bill under Liz Truss.

"Let's not beat around the bush, these levies are taxes and tax is already too high," he told the Telegraph. "Putting more taxes will make the UK more inefficient.

“Energy is already expensive enough," he added. "The Government should try to help people get cheaper energy, not more expensive energy. There is no justification for further levies on bills."

Rees Mogg is showing some common sense but Net Zero is one of the great sacred cows of mordern politics in the liberal democracies. It is highly unusual for a member of any established political party to step away from the narrative that unless we stop using efficient and reliable energy sources to generate electricity and produce the heat needed to cook our food, heat our homes and fuel industry and commerce we are all going to die because of a very slight increase in the level of a trace atmospheric gas which will cause a trivial increase in the global mean temperature. It's all bollocks of course.

A report published by Lancet recently reminded the world that around five million people die every year on account of climate extremes.

Of those deaths, 4.5 million are caused by cold compared to five hundred thousand attributed to heat. In our time on this planet, an interglacial between ice ages, it is always the cold that is far more of a deadly threat to human life – ten or 20 times as deadly.

And yet still the priests of the new religion of climate fear preach that we must cool the world.

You’ve probably heard that 97 per cent of scientists are agreed that humans are the cause of climate change. It comes from research carried out in 2013.

Do you know how that team obtained that number?

They gathered nearly 12,000 scientific papers dealing with global climate change. They didn’t read the papers – heavens no, that would have been proper research – instead they looked at just the summary paragraphs on the front covers.

On that basis they grouped them into four piles. 3,896 papers agreed humans were to blame for climate change; 7,930 took no position either way; 78 rejected the idea of it being humanity’s fault and 40 were uncertain altogether.

That initial pass gave a figure of just 32 percent blaming humans for climate change. Obviously, that wasn’t nearly scary enough. So then came the gross and clumsy cheat: the 7,930 papers that took no position on whether humans are to blame were removed from the final analysis.

With them gone, the figure of 32 percent went up to 97 per cent. And the likes of Obama and Al Gore have been quoting it ever since.

.. this is the kind of deliberate tampering with evidence that underpins the Net Zero madness that is being pursued by the zealots running our countries, or rather ruining our countries.

Hydrogen has two big problems which turn any project into a dead whale exercise.

The first is that pure hydrogen doesn’t exist – it’s both everywhere and nowhere. We must generate all the hydrogen we can then use, and this requires a lot of energy. This is fine when the output of the process is something very valuable to us, such as fertiliser. But less so when the output of the process must compete with much cheaper commodities, as it must in an energy market.

Secondly, hydrogen’s intrinsic physical properties create a whole range of unique problems. It’s a tiny atom that easily escapes confinement. Keeping it captive for storage is expensive, and moving it around safely even more so, because in liquid form it must be very cold.

Hydrogen advocates tend to shrug off these issues – solving them will be someone else’s problem, they reckon. Individually, none of these factors make hydrogen as an energy carrier or storer impossible, but the whale-like properties are becoming harder to ignore.

To replace gas boilers with hydrogen boilers requires thousands of miles of new, much thicker, high-pressure pipes. Last year, Lord Martin Callanan, the energy minister, candidly described the plans to replace our gas boilers with hydrogen boilers “as pretty much impossible”

Politicians also think they are riding a popular wave with net zero and all the 'save the planet' bollocks when in fact all they are doing is widening the poor/rich divide.

The reasoning is that the more expensive something is the less we will use but it just means the poor who are often those with families and elderly don’t keep warm when they need to or make that choice of heating or eating.

Government must stop using the price of energy as a control mechanism to reduce CO2 emissions.

We already use less total energy than during the 1980’s, government would be better mandating that imports from high CO2 producing nations are subject to carbon taxes and investment made in commonwealth nations to make the tat we get from China from low CO2 energy sources.But instead they have made us dependent for manufactured goods on China and India, the two biggest producers of CO2 emissions on the planet.

Mind Control: WEF Technocrats Openly Plot to Observe and Track Human Thoughts With Brain Implants

by Ben Bartee via The Daily Bell

Mind control is the final frontier of the technocratic revolution. What you say, do, buy, and sell is increasingly trackable through technology. Yet, so far, the human mind remains a sanctuary free from prying foreign eyes – the last refuge.

This will not last if the technocrats have their way.

“Can you imagine that in ten years when we are sitting here we have an implant in our brains and I can immediately feel… because you all will have implants [gesturing to audience], I can measure your brain waves,” cartoon James Bond villain Klaus Shwaub giddily introduced the prospect of shared consciousness at Davos.

Duke University Professor Nita Farahany, also at Davos, surveyed the current state of mind-monitoring technology.

Likely, the technology is actually further along than publicly acknowledged, as the technocrats tend to roll out controversial advances incrementally to slowly acclimate the slaves to their new reality.

Note the apparent lack of any hesitation on the part of Farahany, Schwab, or any of these WEF technocrats to these novel technologies. Normal people (who don’t crave total control) don’t casually discuss monitoring every human’s brain activity 24/7/365 with no acknowledgment of the obvious risks of abuse. The only logical conclusion here is that there is something fundamentally broken in their psychological/spiritual makeup that allows them to decouple their normal human intuition from their work advancing The Science™.

A Zombie Apocalypse Of Morons…

by Capitalist Exploits

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Eggs. It’s definitely the eggs. Not just eggs. Meat, too. Stay away from both. Eat your bugs and be happy you dirty little grubs.

It would seem there is an epidemic of crooks posing as researchers. I don’t know where they find these people but they ought to be put up against a wall for facilitating crimes against humanity.

Coinciditis - Myocarditis that coincidentally only affects the vaccinated

Of course, this comes on the back of newly released video footage of Project Veritas, which is — ahem —compromising.

The MSM immediately had a cardiac moment themselves and began furiously publishing hit pieces on Project Veritas, conveniently steering away from the actual footage and topic.

So now what?

Sadly, probably nothing. It’s not like the police are going to go and arrest Pfizer management as they should. How many times have we seen egregious crimes being committed in the open with zero accountability and recourse? I’ve lost count.

The Zeitgeist Is Definitely Changing

Remember how we discussed in a recent issue that most people are actually “vaccine hesitant?” That is a loss of trust.

And now this. Not good for trust.

A recent Rasmussen report concluded that 57% of Americans want the CDC investigated.

Now, we need to be cautious with any poll done as the sample size and the region (or regions) it’s conducted in can skew the results wildly.

Still, this is almost certainly much, much higher than it would have been back in 2020. That’s good. More folks are waking up.

What else?

They Knew: Why Didn't The Unvaccinated Do More To Warn Us?

Hahaha! This one. I swear, I’m not making this up, though I’m still unsure if it’s a parody. You never know these days. I mean, the MSM is going to put the Onion out of business, so … Continue reading >>>

Friday, February 10, 2023

The Problems With Electric Vehicles (continued)

from Quora:

I’ve heard people worry about charging them, and they are quite right to worry about that. The usual counter argument is that “I can always find a place to charge and they’re putting in more”.

Well yes, possibly you can always find a place to charge whilst electric cars make up three per cent of those on the roads, but as soon as electric cars become the norm and not the exception, it’s going to be problematic.

Seen from a logistical point of view the problem is in the transportation of the fuel. Liquid fuels can be placed in a tanker and distributed that way. You can’t do that with electricity. It needs to be transported down wires. If all thirty-two and a half million cars on UK roads became electric, and only one per cent want charging, that’s 325,000. That’s smaller than the number of electric cars on the roads today for sure, since it’s about 1,000,000 (give or take) but again if the number wanting charging is only one per cent, that’s only ten thousand. There are in fact about 42,000 charging points across the UK but not all cars can use all points (some are private, some need adaptors) and so just to get to one per cent of all charging needs we need another 273,000 charging points. All of them need to tap from a live grid fed by a generating station.

Well, logistically, I suppose it can be done if you are determined enough but now we run into a technical problem. Because of this:

I total is the sum of currents for those nodes. Put simply, the wires between nodes 1&2 and 7&8 have to cope with the currents of R1, R2, and R3. Between 2&3 and 6&7 they only have to cope with R2&R3 and between 3&4 and 5&6 only that of R3.

That’s the sort of idea. Multiply that several times for several nodes and much lower resistances and you’ll see that some pretty big wires are going to be needed there if you don’t want them to melt. Having both worked with and made big wires, the adjectival phrase there is “not cheap”.

Plus we’ve got a finite current source. It might be nice to think that magic electric fairies will provide us with enough current to satiate our every need, but I’ve been in electrical and mechanical since 1982 one way or another and I’ve never laid eyes on such a creature yet. The Set-on-Fire fairy though, she turns up regularly if you aren’t careful. At some point whatever’s feeding the current will be topped. There are a number of ways you can do this but the easiest is a bangy fuse.

Then we’ve got the problem of what’s generating it. Wind and solar won’t cut it. The Germans are finding that out at the moment because the Energiewendepolitik they’re pursuing has managed to shove up the cost of the electricity and the carbon footprint. Krass. Danke, Tante Angela.

This means that we are either going to have lots of nukes (Greta says no) or lots of burny/bangy things (Greta says no again) making steam to rotate some big spinnies to get some electron-juice out. More than we have now. This means that we may have cleared up local pollution by running cars with no emmisions, but we’ve transferred it to central locations instead. The only other alternative is to use our cars for essential journeys and public transport for getting about and to and from work. Which is what I do now; hey, how bloody green am I without knowing it? Well, what’s a boy to do once he’s found that out? I’ve got a day off and so down to Next it is to get my ethnic skirt and sandals.

Then we come to the battery itself. I’m having this argument that the battery materials may have changed but the technology has not. Any battery you care to name provides a flow of charge that needs a couple of plates separated by an electrolyte. The technological equivalence of the Cruickshank battery of 1802 and the shiniest newest one coming out of a factory in China is therefore so close to 1 in the working principle that arguments are moot. The fact that we can stuff a microprocessor into the Foo-Qingbig battery is neither here nor there; the principle of charge and discharge is just the same as Cruickshank used in 1802 and Planté used in 1859.

One thing that is moving the equivalence to <1 is one of the reasons the microprocessor is there. Car makers are building grace capacities into their batteries. You can do this by linking together discrete lithium cells some of which don’t get used until others deteriorate. This means for years the battery won’t have any noticeable degradations. However, once the grace is used you’ll start to see this:

which is a graph of some Cadex played about with in their labs and is pretty much what we’d expect to see from a normal test. What you’re doing when you recharge a battery is shoving a current through it backwards; the anode becomes the cathode and vice-versa. Every time you do this you cause a tiny bit of irreversible damage to the battery. Tiny bits sum up to honking great bits. What we normally find is a gentle slope to 80% capacity, then a knee, where the rate of degradation becomes sharper. Shall I tell you that there isn’t a full understanding of the complete chain of chemical reactions in how a battery operates? We know how to work the materials, but we don’t fully understand why it does what it does in the reaction process. Sometimes we get surprises. Sometimes they’re bad ones.

The act of building in grace capacities is good as far as longevity is concerned but bad as far as battery mass is concerned because it means bigger, heavier batteries and adding more mass to a vehicle means more inertia to overcome from rest. It also increases the costs of the batteries.

So it’s not that we think they’re a scam. What we do think is that the Tesla Fanboys are hyping it up too much and they aren’t looking at how vehicles are used and the logistical and technical problems if instead of ten cars on the street being electric, a hundred are.

Now, people think I’m anti-electric vehicle. I’m not. I’ve made and repaired hundreds since 1982. Electric vehicles are great for certain jobs; can’t have a reach truck in a warehouse on any other power. Trams are quick and unobtrusive and a much better ride than busses (and I’m currently having the argument about whether it’s busses or buses too, you buses-nazis can all knob off because it’s either and busses was the way I did it at school and nobody red-penned that in a grammar, so stuff it up your arses without Vaseline) with their horrible Diesel knock, and all-electric trains you can hardly tell when you’re moving, unlike Diesel-electric when you certainly know when they’re setting off.

If you are a housewife who drops the kids off at school, then does an hour or so of poncing about in Lidl and seeing to your elderly granny, an electric car (providing you can charge it at home) is great for you. You’ll have less maintenance to do on it and it may well be cheaper than petrol. If you are somebody that depends on their car for getting round multiple sites though, spread far and wide, knocking up lots of miles per day, it’s not. You are going to need to fill it with six gallons of bangy hydrocarbons to get through your day and back home.

That latter isn’t what we’re being told, though. We’re being told that electric cars are the cure for all our transport evils, and they aren’t. That’s where the objections are coming from.

SOURCE

Thursday, February 09, 2023

Talk of Sending Fighter Planes to Ukraine Is Madness

Typhoon aircraft

President Zelensky’s warmongering speech to the UK Parliament yesterday unequivocally and unashamedly made the case for starting World War 3 in order to polish the oversized ego of this little clown with the piano playing penis when he demanded that Nato-grade fighter jets to be sent to Ukraine.

In what is starting to feel like a repeat of the recent tank saga, what seemed impossible is taking on an unassailable momentum. As then, Britain is leading the West towards the inevitable self - immolation of nuclear conflict with Russia.

Should we commit to sending jets it will take Ukraine months to receive them, but will immediately be seen as an intolerable provocation by Russia, which alread has its military forces or a war footing. OK say the war hawks in Washington, London, Paris, Berlin and Brussels will say this is going to be a long war, and saying we will send them will be a huge blow to Russian morale. They have saidame about every incremental increase in volume and sophictication of military hardware donated to the neo - Nazi nutters in Kiev and yet the Russian war machine grinds on.

Last month it was battle grade heavy tanks that Zelensky demanded and was promised, though it will me months before any are delivered and more months before the Ukies are trained to use them. Tanks, say the military bureaucrats are the first half of the winning equation, and fighter jets the second half.

F16 Fighter (source: the defensepost.com)

Though they may be few in number, the British Typhoon fighters would inevitably unlock a much larger number of European Typhoons or F-16s, as the British tank did with European tanks. It’s true that as things stand we have very few fighters to spare. The general idea however is that with air support for their donated tanks the Ukies will be able to rout Russian ground forces. Nice theory but it overlooks the fact that Russia has modern, highly advanced aircraft technology in the MIG35s and Sukhoi Su57s both of which designs are less than five years old, more than capable of taking on the 30 year old Typhoon Eurofighters and 45 year old F16s.

Aside from the fact that military aircraft technology development in the west has lagged behind that of Russia and China, the idea that sending these ageing aircraft to Ukraine will guarantee a quick and total victory over Russia is quite literally pie in the sky. Even experienced pilots cannot just ‘type convert’ onto modern generation jets like Typhoon. Without questioning Ukrainian pilots’ capabilities (although it would not be unfair to do so,) there does not exist the capability to train people from such a flying background onto a completely different combat platform. It doesn’t really help that they have fighter experience. They are going to have to ‘unlearn’ so much that will be counter-intuitive to the operation of these jets. Nobody has ever tried a rapid type conversion programme such as this, there is no syllabus, no standards written, no instructor training system. Forget that the RAF has not even the capacity to train its own fast jet pilots right now. Don’t even start on maintenancen training for engineers, logistics support, third line maintenance, battle damage repair, armourer training…. It’s not even worth considering unless the US leads. They are the only people with the resources and infrastructure to even know where to start so talk of the UK leading is bollocks. Forget Sunak's virtue signalling and the follow-my-leader games of other European leaders, nobody has thought this through properly.

Sukhoi Su57 (source: defencetalk.com)

MIG35 (source: alphacoders.com)

More importantly, the donations would signal the most significant demonstration to Putin that as far as NATO is concerned this is no local war but a concerted attempt by the USA and its allies to destroy Russia. The Russians still believe if they can stick the war out as long enough, they will crack the western will to keep supporting Ukraine. Recent reports warn that the Russians are apparently preparing 500,000 conscripts to throw into the melee for a spring assault intended to break the will of the Ukrainians. If that fails and The Kremlin knows that Western jets are on the way, that could be enough to push Russia into lanuching unrestrained aerial warfare, sending in wave after wave of heavy bombers to destroy the entire country.One thing is certain, Russia will not give in, knowing any withdrawal now would result in the fast tracking of Ukraine into NATO

One of the underlying principles of the United Nations is that no distant military power is allowed to place its military on your border, unless of course you are America or NATO.By allowing Ukraine to join NATO, Russia would ensure that the whole of its long border with Ukraine would be garrisoned by American, British and European troops backed by long range missiles, all type of military aircraft and a whole range of high tech military gadgetry.

The former head of the CIA claims America has exercised a proxy war against Russia for years, that NATO has been training and arming the Ukraine military for a decade. Evidence indicates America has insisted on allowing Ukraine entry to NATO , effectively leading to an anti Russian state armed to the teeth with advanced western weapons along the Russian border. The existential threat this posed to Russia was repeatedly ignored by Washington resulting in the invasion taking place.

We now face a conflict in which neither Russia nor America can afford to lose, defeating Russia on the battlefield risks forcing Russia to consider deploying nuclear weapons, any Russian victory would be seen as a defeat for the Biden administration. As for Ukraine, the ultra natiobalist neo - Nazis are in control demanding total victory and the destruction of the Russian state.

Instead of diffusing the conflict America and its allies are hell bent on escalation, happy to wallow in the platitudes voiced by Zelensky while serving his every demand.

I hope for all our sakes the red button is never pressed , should it happen what then ?

Who Blew Up The Nordstream Pipeline
So whodunnit? Sabotage of undersea gas pipe will escalate tension and move the world closer to nuclear war, but who is behind it, Russia in a bid to put more presure on Europe, Ukraine in an attempt to drag NATO into direct action, or the USA using a CIA false flag event to advance its own agenda.

Has Putin Has Pushed Europe Into Economic Depression, Hyperrinflation and Currency Collapse?
Though it was entirely predictable and indeed had been expected for some time, the news over the weekend that the Nord Stream 1 pipeline which feeds gas from Russia to northern Europe via The Baltic route had been shut down completely by The Kremlin in retaliation for the continued financial and military support given by NATO and EU member states to Ukraine in the conflict with Russia. The European Commission, governing body of the EU, immediately put the community on something close to a war footing, ...
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Is Russia Selling Its Oil To The World Through An Obscure Egyptian Port?
As this blog predicted when NATO and EU member states shot themselves in the foot by reacting to Russia's invasion of Ukraine with sanctions that prevented Russia from selling oil, gas and vital raw materials to the countries that needed them most, the NATO and EU member states, the Russians have had no problems finding alternative customers for their gas and oil and no problem getting oil into the world's commodity markets through the back door.

Are US Supplied Long Range Missiles Really Winning The War For Ukraine?
Since very soon after the start of the war between Russia and Ukraine western powers, USA, UK, EU and NATO have been doing everything possible to prolong and escalate the war. The latest move is to provide the Ukrainian military with long range HIMARS missile. Mainstream media are claiming this has tilted the balance in Ukraine's favour. But for what? To prolong the slaughter? ...

Jingoistic Western Triumphalism Will Not End The War In Ukraine Or Cripple Putin, But It Is Crippling Western Nations

As the war in Ukraine grinds on and Russia steps up its economic war against the west and in particular The European Union, claims made recently by the idiotically 'woke' leaders of Europe's main economic and military powers that the West has a once-in-a–generation chance to severely weaken Russia’s capabilities, both militarily and geopolitically, look increasingly hollow. Putin's critics have cited 'Western unity' as one of the main reasons why Russia will be economically destroyed and politically humiliated when the Ukraine's military finally claim victory.

European Union Is Again Close To A Meltdown As Eurozone Economy Collapses
Once more we return to the political instability and economic fragility of the European Union as the conflict in Ukraine combined with loonytoons Climate Change mitigation policies, the failure of 'sustainables' to meet ever increasing demand for electricity, fod shortages and rampant price inflation put economic and social pressure on governments of member states ...

Russian Long Range Missile Test Fuels Nuclear War Fears As NATO Pushed Ukraine To Escalate Conflict
Russia tested its latest intercontinental ballistic missile yeserday, the Satan II has a range of 10,000 miles and can devastate an area of 250,000 square kilometers according to military experts. Bizarrely commentators in mainsteam and online news services portrayed this as a sign of weakness by Russia, though the same people cheered when Joe (Dementiaman) Biden threratened a nuclear response if Russia crossed his 'red lines' in Ukraine ...

We The Good Guys Versus They The Bad Guys Reporting Does Not Make Sense For The Ukraine Crisis
Mainstream media reporting of the conflict in Ukraine has disappointed. Perhaps I was naive to suppose that lessons might have been learned from the hits their print sales and online traffic rates took as a result of their handling the COVID pandemic But instead of focusing on the most obviously newsworthy aspect of the build up to and escalation of the war, Russia’s view of NATO expansion into Ukraine and even further to Georgia and Kazakhstan, news reports have simply demonised Russia and portrayed Ukraine as the good guys.

Boris and Biden Can't Blame Ukraine War For Energy Crisis
With typical arrogance and condescension towards the people who elected them Boris Johnson, Joe Biden and their respectiive presstitutes are trying to spin the energy crisis Europe and North America are currently facing as somehow being linked to the conflict in Ukraine and therfore blame is being attactched to Russia and Vladimir Putin. Do they really think we are stupid enough to believe such unmitigated bollocks? ...

Europe's Depleted Gas Storage Might Not Get Refilled Ahead Of Next Winter
While mainstream news reporting of the conflict in Ukraine continues to pump out a torrent of anri - Russia, pro - war propaganda the catastropic effects of this war that could so easily have been avoided are not mentioned. Well why would warmongering governments admit they have inflicted an energy crisis, food shortages and soaring living costs on their people for no good reason ...

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Status Report On That War Thing In Ukraine: Nordstream to Bakhmut, electricity and water

In the wake of attacks on the on the Stream pipelines, that effectively halted the flow of natural gas which German industry, commerce, agriculture and society relies on, and the terrorist attack on the Kerch Bridge, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken gloated that the attacks were a “tremendous opportunity” to weaken Moscow [...] And shortly after news of the Nord Stream sabotage broke on mainstream media, gas supply companies in the USA were offering to supply Europe with shipments of Liquid Natural Gas carried by supertanker to be sold to European nations at vastly inflated prices.

EU Vows To Retaliate if Nord Stream Gas Pipeline Blasts Were Sabotage - But against whom, the USA?
Yesterday's shocking news that the Nord Stream 1 & 2 gas poipelines between Russia and Germany immediately triggered speculation about who is responsible, but as the facts emerge the knee jerk blaming of Russia has failed to convince because the attack bears all the halllmarks of a false flag event engineered by the usual suspects ...

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Wednesday, February 08, 2023

Why Cant We Ban Cashless Shops

The government and Bank of England seem to have finally woken up to one of the many glaring problems with trying to achieve a cashless society: that there are 1.3 million people in Britain who do not have a bank account. Whether that is because of long-established habit, because they don’t trust banks or because banks don’t trust them, it is an awful lot of people to contemplate shutting out of the economy. Presumably, they would have to resort to some form of barter, or to establish unofficial currencies such as cigarettes, used in jails.

But the solution suggested by Jeremy Hunt and Andrew Bailey seems itself wrapped in problems. They have suggested creating a Bank of England digital pound by 2030 which could be used without a bank account. Trouble is that four per cent of the population – almost the same proportion who do not have a bank account, and quite possibly the same people in many cases – don’t have internet access either. To use a digital currency in a shop would presumably require either a prepayment card or a smartphone. Still, 16 per cent of the population do not own a smartphone.

Presumably, that might rise if a digital currency became the only means of going shopping. But then there is a far simpler option to a digital currency: to enshrine in law the right to use cash. The government is in the process of passing a law which gives a right to access cash – which would oblige banks to ensure that sufficient cashpoint machines are available. But having access to cash is no good if you cannot use it. Why can’t we have a law like those already passed in New York and San Francisco, which bans cashless stores?

It is very significant that San Francisco, the world’s tech capital, has chosen to take this route. But it should not be surprising. When you are close to tech it is perhaps easier to see the potential consequences of allowing it to steam-roller every area of daily life.

It is not that anyone wants to stop people paying by card, mobile phone, fingerprint scanner, earlobe detector or whatever. It is the exclusion of cash which is the problem. The drive to abolish cash is coming from vested interests in the fintech sector which stands to profit from people being forced to use their services. Government should have the strength to tell them to get lost, to say: ‘If you want to sell us fintech, then you will have to convince us of the benefits of using your services; we are not going to help you by making them the only means of paying for goods’. Why does the government not do as it should have done years ago? Enshrine in law not just a right to access cash but to use it, too.

Switzerland to Vote on Guaranteeing Citizens Access to Cash

https://famousbio.net/lifestyle/switzerland-to-vote-on-guaranteeing-citizens-access-to-cash/

“Switzerland Rejects the Cashless Society: Citizens to Vote on Keeping Banknotes and Coins Alive”

Swiss citizens will be given the opportunity to ensure their economy never goes cashless, an advocacy group said after collecting enough signatures on Monday to trigger a referendum on the issue.

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The Free Switzerland Movement (FBS) says cash is playing a shrinking role in many economies as electronic payments become the standard for transactions in increasingly digitized societies, making it easier for the state to monitor the actions of its citizens.

She wants to add a clause to the Swiss currency law, which regulates the management of the money supply by the central bank and the state, that stipulates that a “sufficient amount” of banknotes or coins must always remain in circulation.

There is no evidence of moves towards a cashless society by the Swiss authorities.

FBS said it had collected over 111,000 signatures in support of the measure, more than the 100,000 needed to trigger a popular vote.

In defense of cash

Under the system of direct democracy in Switzerland, the proposal would become law if approved by the electorate, although government and parliament would decide how this law was implemented.

“It is clear that … the abolition of cash not only touches on issues of transparency, simplicity or security … but also poses the grave threat of totalitarian surveillance,” FBS President Richard Koller said on the group’s website.

He also sees Switzerland as the European flag-bearer for the defense of cash, as enforcing such guarantees in the European Union would entail the “almost impossible” process of getting approval from all 27 member states.

Accelerated by the impact of COVID-19 lockdowns, the trend towards more cashless payments was already apparent in 2017, when an Ipsos study found that more than a third of Europeans and Americans would like to give up cash and pretty much 20 percent already did .

Source: www.euronews.com

Tuesday, February 07, 2023

Ukraine End Game: As Bakhmut Falls Real Reporting Vies With Propaganda In Western Media

by Arthur Foxake, 7 February 2023

Ever since Russia crossed the Ukrainian border and launched its 'Special Military Operation' almost a year ago now, everyday in western news media we have watched, heard and read that Ukraine was winning the war - Russia was losing ten soldiers for every Ukrainian casualty, Russian troops were incompetent brutes, Russian military hardware did not work and the Russians were running out of missiles, bullets and everything else.

And yet the Russian war effort kept grinding on, advancing a little then consolidating then advancing again, occasionally retreating a little in order to regroup but all the time maintaining the bombardment. While the media reported every little Ukrainian win as a major victory and every minor setback for Russia as a game changing defeat, while Bellendskyyyyy preened and posed and played piano with his penis, enjoying a level of fame he had never known in his first career as a comedian, while western leaders demonised Russia and poured money and hardware into Ukraine and encouraged the regime to keep escalating the war, the Russians, unrelentingly, often brutally, just got on with the job.

This week, however, there has been a significant shift in the tone of reporting; in Britain most news organisations repoted that Bellendskyyyyy had acknowledged the battle for the strategically important town of Bakhmut was going badly and the town plus control of road links throughout the easdtern area was likely to be lost. On top of this the New York Times, a newspaper which has beeen streadfast in its support for Ukraine and faithful in sticking to the US/NATO narrative throughout the war, reported that the current situation is catastrophic for Ukraine. Under this headline:

Outnumbered and Worn Out, Ukrainians in East Brace for Russian Assault

the NYT reporter embedded with the Ukrainian forces wrote:

Exhausted Ukrainian troops complain they are already outnumbered and outgunned, even before Russia has committed the bulk of its roughly 200,000 newly mobilized soldiers. And doctors at hospitals speak of mounting losses as they struggle to care for fighters with gruesome injuries.
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The first stages of the Russian offensive have already begun. Ukrainian troops say that Bakhmut, an eastern Ukrainian city that Russian forces have been trying to seize since the summer, is likely to fall soon. Elsewhere, Russian forces are advancing in small groups and probing the front lines looking for Ukrainian weaknesses.
The efforts are already straining Ukraine’s military, which is worn out by nearly 12 months of heavy fighting.
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Losses among Ukrainian forces have been severe. Troops in a volunteer contingent called the Carpathian Sich, positioned near Nevske, said that some 30 fighters from their group had died in recent weeks, and soldiers said, only partly in jest, that just about everyone has a concussion.

“It’s winter and the positions are open; there’s nowhere to hide,” said a soldier from the unit with the call sign Rusin.

At one frontline hospital in the Donbas, the morgue was packed with the bodies of Ukrainian soldiers in white plastic bags. In another hospital, stretchers with wounded troops covered in gold foil thermal blankets crowded the corridors, and a steady stream of ambulances arrived from the front nearly all day long.

So what is going on with the media. For eleven and a half months they tried to convince us first that Russia would fold at the first sigh of resistance, citing 'western military intelligence' as the only reliable source of information on the war.

Unfortunately western Intelligence has been wrong about the Soviet Union and Russia for decades: the problem is wishful thinking and ideological blindness. One aspect of that blindness is the conviction that all is well 'at home' and that Russians long to live as well as the English or the Americans, by which they mean themselves. The members of the Intelligence community, the armed forces and the political class live in a social bubble, another planet from the one in which the people they rule live.

As to negotiations, there is nothing to negotiate about. The NATO strategy, laid down in Washington, is to build an iron curtain across eastern Europe thus preventing the development of China's One Belt One Road, and then to squeeze the Eurasian alliance through the agency of Central Asia's former Soviet Republics.When Russia was willing to talk and the Ukrainian regime, realising they were outnumbered and outgunned were ready to listen, then UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson was dispatched to Kiev to tell the regime there could be no negotiations until US / NATO conditions were met (i.e. total surrender by Russia,) and to pledge support and high tech weaponry to the neo - Nazi nutters in Kiev so long as they kept fighting.

The war was never about Ukraine, they were just the unfortunate people whose land was chosen as the site for the main event in a proxy war the USA / NATO has been waging since the Soviet Union fell apart in the early 1990s. It is not about democracy, freedom or the guys in white hats beating the guys in black hats. It is not about protecting 'little Ukraine' from the imperialistic ambitions of Russia's leader, it is and was always about about money, preserving the imperial dominance of the USA by protecting the status of the Petrodollar as the global currency and about control of Russia's vast reserves of natural resources, oil, gas, minerals and fertile agricultual land.

Which leads us back to the dollar, which is what the imperialists seem to have forgotten about when their sanctions made it impossible for the rest of the world not to wake up to the reality that the dollar is not a currency for trade and investment, a store of wealth or reliable medium of payment but an instrument conquest in the incompetent hands of the idiots running the US Economic Empire, to be weaponised against any nation that stood in the way of Washington's geopolitical ambitions. Unfortunately sanctions failed, China, India and Iran led the resistance and the weapon became a dud.

To put the situation into perspective it is useful to recognise that the Imperial system in question dates back two thousand years to the Punic Wars when Rome crushed its main rival Carthage to become the dominant power in the known world.

Since then, though Empires have come and gone the imperial system has never been challenged, though it has survived several changes of ownership and successive unsuccessful takeover bids from Genghis Khan, the Islamic Caliphate, Sweden, Austria, France, Germany and the Axis powers, most recently. Its essential nature, long distance maritime trade facilitated by naval dominance and hinged on the exploitation of the natural resources of undeveloped regions, has been unchanged.

The Eurasian uprising, born of the movement for decolonisation, patronised by the Soviet Union and its allies, represents the first real challenge to the Empire, the first revolution, in the sense of the world being turned upside down, since Zheng He was ordered to dock his fleets by the Ming emperor, and the way was open for Europeans.

Which is why Russia has to be effectively expelled from Europe driven back into a smaller area than it has occupied in almost six hundred years, and the Russian - Chinese alliance broken.Due to the aforementioned incompetence of the Empire's leaders it looks as if the emerging economies are gathering around Russia and China, and The Empire is losing the economic war as well as the shooting war. I pity the people of Ukraine who may have to suffer more years of conflict before this exercise in idiocy can be ended.

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Dozens of giant turbines at Scots windfarms powered by diesel generators

Source: Scottish Daily Record

Scottish Power admitted 71 of its windmills were hooked up to the fossil fuel supply after a fault developed with their power supply.

The Glen App windfarm in South Ayrshire (Image: Jamie Williamson)

Dozens of giant turbines on Scotland’s windfarms have been powered by diesel generators, the Sunday Mail can reveal. Scottish Power admitted 71 of its windmills were hooked up to the fossil fuel supply after a fault developed on the grid.

The firm said it was forced to act in order to keep the turbines warm during very cold weather in December. But a whistleblower has told the Sunday Mail the incident is among a number of environmental and health and safety failings.

The worker, who asked to remain anonymous, said: “The Scottish Government wants to make our country attractive to foreign investors as 40 per cent of the wind that blows across Europe blows across Scotland. However, that should not mean we put up with our waterways and nature being polluted with carbon from diesel generators and hydraulic oil.

“People should be aware that, while their energy costs continue to rise, our windfarms are not operating as efficiently as they could be due to corporate greed.”

Labour’s South Scotland MSP Colin Smyth said: “The SNP and Greens have proven time and time again they cannot be trusted on environmental issues. They laud Scotland’s potential for renewables, yet don’t appear to ensure those already in existence are properly run. This isn’t the first problem raised about this site and there is concern at a lack of openness when problems arise.

"Whatever the reasons, having to use diesel generators to de-ice faulty turbines is environmental madness. This level of dishonesty cuts to the very core of the SNP and Green Government where their rhetoric on net zero is very different from the reality."

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon with Ignacio Galan, CEO of Scottish Power

Sixty turbines at Arecleoch Wind farm and 11 at Glenn App near Cairnrayn in South Ayrshire were affacted and connected to six huge diesel generators. The windfarms are operated by Scottish Power Renewables, a subsidiary of Spanish-based Iberdrola, which operates 1183 onshore turbines which can produce enough electricity to power two million homes.

But the whistleblower revealed how they had to bring in generators after the issue was discovered.

The worker said: “During December 60 turbines at Arecleoch and 11 at Glenn App were de-energised due to a cabling fault originating at Mark Hill wind farm. In order to get these turbines re-energised diesel generators were running for upwards of six hours a day.”

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