Tuesday, April 11, 2023

Top News and Opinion From Around The Web - 11 April 2023

by Will Jones Daily Sceptic, 11 April 2023

Husband of BBC Presenter Killed by Covid Vaccine Sues AstraZeneca, Says Vaccine is Unsafe “Defective Product”

11 April 2023 1:00 PM

The widower of BBC presenter Lisa Shaw who died from coronavirus vaccine complications says he has “no alternative” but to pursue legal action against pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca, arguing the vaccine is an unsafe “defective product”. The Mail has more.

Mother-of-one Lisa Shaw, 44, died from “vaccine-induced thrombotic thrombocytopenia” in May 2021, about a week after receiving her first Covid jab. She worked for BBC Radio Newcastle.

Lawyers for her husband, Gareth Eve, reportedly sent pre-action protocol letters to AstraZeneca last year on the behalf of nearly 75 people who allege that their relatives died or suffered injuries related to the vaccine.

Now, nearly two years after Ms. Shaw’s passing and failed attempts to “engage with the U.K. Government, MPs and three prime ministers’, Mr. Eve has told the BBC he has taken legal action in an attempt to get “some sort of acknowledgement or recognition” from the drug producer. ... Continue reading >>>

The ‘anti-racist’ mission to destroy Britain is working – and we have surrendered

Robert Tombs, Daily Telegraph, 11 April 2023

t was inevitable that the monarchy would be attacked for involvement in 17th- and 18th-century slavery. Nearly every other national institution has been already. A new King and the forthcoming Coronation make it a tempting target.

The King, quite understandably, has expressed support for a historical investigation, and perhaps this will calm things down until after the Coronation. But the monarchy would sooner or later have become a target as the symbol of the nation, its unity and its history – the very things that “anti-racist” and “anti-colonial” activists aim to undermine. They have an ally in Vladimir Putin, who attacks the West’s “centuries of colonialism”.

We play along with the pretext that the obsession with slavery and colonialism is about history. We even acquiesce in activists’ claims that the aim is uncovering some long-hidden aspect of our past and “facing up to it”. But real history seeks above all to understand and it aims at getting the complete story. Trawling through the past in a search for something discreditable is crude propaganda. ... Continue reading >>>

EXPLORE:
[Daily Stirrer] ... [ Our Page on on Substack ]... [Boggart Aboad] ... [ Ian Thorpe at Quora ] ... [ Greenteeth Home ] ... [ Greenteeth on Minds.com ] ... [ Here Come The Russians ] ... [ Latest Posts ] ... [ Blog Bulletin ]

Monday, April 03, 2023

Full Spectrum Dominance? Full Spectrum Failure.

posted by Ed Butt, 3 April 2023

As it becomes more obvious every day that the war in Ukraine is only being prolonged at the behest of Washington DC, because while Russia cannot lose the war because of its territorial advantage, superior numbers, superior weapons and its immunity to the west's main weapon, economic sanctions, the USA cannot afford to lose because its credibility as leader of the 'free world, already damaged after its crew ups in Libya and Iraq and its failures in Afghanistan and Syria, will slump to zero.

But while misreporting and propaganda masks the true situation in Ukraine from taxpayers in Europe & the USA, Russia, with support from China, India, Iran, Saudi Arabia and a host of third world nations, is winning the real war, the battle to replace the US Dollar as global reserve currency. As things stand the American dream of global hegemony or as American military types prefer to say, Full Spectrum Dominance, look to be dead.

In a article in todays Counterpunch, Roger McKenzie, a reporter for the Morning Star, and the general secretary of Liberation, one of the oldest UK human rights organizations, writes a commentary on the United States policy since 1997, now known as “Full Spectrum Dominance (FSD).”

According to McKenzie, the United States behaves the way that it does on the international stage in order to safeguard the profits of monopoly capital, which carries politicians in Washington around in its pockets like loose change.

FSD means that the United States also will not tolerate others, such as China, muscling in on potential new markets (although China seems to be muscling in on Africa and South East Asia quite easily while Joe Biden's administration obsesses over Trump and transgender issues,) or swaying people away from its sphere of influence, and according to McKenzie, “China is seen as the biggest threat to the profits of the companies that currently decide pretty much what we will eat and even when we can eat it.”

“Enforcement of [FSD] has included everything from the funding of opposition forces in sovereign nation (color revolutions like the one in 2014 that put the current Ukrainian neo - nazi regime in power,), the removal or even assassination of political leaders who refuse to toe the line, economic sanctions, and military intervention.”

Everyone should read the article, but I do have a bone to pick the author, and with Counterpunch.

The Simple Reason Why the U.S. Wants ‘Full Spectrum Dominance’ of the Earth - CounterPunch.org

McKenzie makes no mention of Russia, the US proxy war in Ukraine, or the history of the US/NATO encirclement of Russia. IN fact there is no mention NATO at all. How can someone write an article about FSD without mentioning NATO and the Russian struggle against the US policy of Full Spectrum Dominance? NATO is an integral part of the mechanism that enforces FSD. It appears that McKenzie and Counterpunch both have a problem discussing the elephant in the room: Russia has drawn a line at US/NATO placing US/NATO nukes on Russia’s western border with Ukraine as a part of the US policy of FSD.

McKenzie correctly points out that: “Anyone who expects the Chinese to simply sit back and take the provocations dealt out by the two-faced Americans is living in cloud cuckoo land.” OK, but does that not also apply to Russia as well.

According to McKenzie, “The answers to full spectrum dominance is full spectrum resistance and organizing. It is necessary to gear our efforts away from piecemeal change and toward revolutionary transformation. This will mean bringing together unions, climate activism, equality organizing, and a range of other social and economic movements in a serious change away from liberal posturing.”

All, well and good, but when this strategy was successfully used during the Vietnam conflict, the movement did not turn its back on the victims of US foreign policy then, and we should not do it today in Ukraine. Both the Ukrainian and the Russian people are the victims of US (FSD) policy. There is equivalency to the present struggle: The ARNV and the AFU (the US proxy army in Vietnam and Ukraine), the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam and the pro-Russian, anti-Nazi resistance fighters of the Donbass, and the People’s Liberation Army of Vietnam (UAV) and Russia the real target of the Ukrainian conflict.

RELATED:

While Crazy Joe Biden Claims Victory Over Russia, NATO's Expansin Plans Have Been Derailed By PutinJoe Biden (or his handlers because we all know Joe's mind is gone,) have been trying to spin reports of Russian troops withdrawing from positions close to the Ukraine border as a diplomatic victory for the USA over Putin but in the geopolitical game things are seldom what they seem to be ...

Europe Rejects Obama Doctrine - US Exceptionalism Is Not Acceptable
With a backlash against his efforts to bully Britons into voting to remain in the EU pushing the leave campaign into a narrow lead in opinion polls Obama's vistit to Europe last week could hardly be described as a success. And now he has been told a foreign policy based on 'American Exceptionalism' is not acceptable and the USA must abide by the same international law as the rest of the world

Irony Overload: Iran Warns Obama Not To Cross Red Lines
the United States concluded an agreement with Iran which lifted US and International sanctions in return for Islamic Shi'ite Republic agreeing to limit their nuclear ability. At a high level, the US would lead the way in lifting oil and financial sanctions imposed due to Iran’s nuclear programs; in return Iran would reduce their stockpile of enriched uranium,

The Business of War: Defense Sales Keep Economies Of Manufacturing Nations Afloat
Tens of thousands have been killed and millions displaced due to 'humanitarian' interventions by the developed nations (led by the USA, France and the UKm the FUKUS axis) in the domestic politics of third world nation. Usually the interventions support rebel groups who if they came to power would be far more oppressive and brutal regime than the one they replaced.

U.S. To Station Nuclear Weapons in Germany Against Russia
Germany’s ZDF public television network reported on September 22nd, "New U.S. Atomic Weapons to Be Stationed in Germany," that the U.S. will station 20 new nuclear bombs in Germany, each being four times the destructive power of the one that was used on Hiroshima . Hans Kristensen, the Director of the Nuclear Information Project at the Federation of American Scientists, says, "With the new bombs the boundaries blur between tactical and strategic nuclear weapons.”

"West's War In Syria Is Part Of A Global war Waged By The USA And Its ~~Dupes~~ Allies Against Russia"
Arthur Foxake brings us a brilliant analysis of the geopolitical picture from the black Sea and Middle East, but ahead of the embed window we get a few of Arthur's own thoughts on the situation

Americans Don’t Know that the Rest of the World Views U.S. as Biggest Danger, Rogue State

Americans are stupid, right? Well it is a generalization and generalisations are usually both right and wrong. Not all Americans are stupid of course, I know many who are very intelligent and highly articulate. But as in Britain, France, Austrilia, Russia, Germany, China etc. there are stupid people in America. What we mean however in saying Americans are stupid is that overall American citizens tend to be less well informed on current events and general knowledge that Europeans, Asians and South Americans...

Soros Encourages Obama Administration To Further Interference In Ukraine

While western leaders continue to pose as the guys with white hats in the confrontations with Russia and China, hacker collective CyberBerkut has leaked some hacked documents which show Russia is not behind the escalation of provocation, but the guys in black hats who really run western governments, led by George Soros.

The Demise Of Dollar Hegemony: Russia Breaks Wall Streets's Oil-Price Monopoly In a move that went almost completely unreported in mainstream media, Russia has recently opened a market for the trading of physical and 'paper' oil (futures) in Moscow in Roubles. This is the most blatant challenge yet to the domination of the US dollar in world trade.

The Demise Of Dollar Hegemony: Russia Breaks Wall Streets's Oil-Price Monopoly
Significant moves in the global chess game have just rendered the huffing and puffing of warmonger Obama meaningless and will break Wall Street's monopoly in controlling oil markets. The move is part of Vladimir Putin's long-term strategy of decoupling Russia’s economy and especially its very significant export of oil, from the US dollar, in effect ...

p>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. Irony Overload: Iran Warns Obama Not To Cross Red Lines
the United States concluded an agreement with Iran which lifted US and International sanctions in return for Islamic Shi'ite Republic agreeing to limit their nuclear ability. At a high level, the US would lead the way in lifting oil and financial sanctions imposed due to Iran’s nuclear programs; in return Iran would reduce their stockpile of enriched uranium,

Another Oil Exporting State Surrenders: Last Nail In Petrodollar's Coffin
While record mainland deficits covered by the petroleum sector is nothing new in Norwegian budget history, the 2016 budget did raise some eyebrows. The net inflow to the Norwegian Treasury from North Sea oil will be lower than the required amount to cover the deficit. This has never happened before and is testimony of the sea change occurring in the world of petrodollar recycling.

De-Dollarization Du Jour: Russia's Largest Bank Issues Yuan-Denominated Guarantees

Leading the charge to multipolarity and de-dollarization are Russia, resugent despite economic sanctions and the rising superpower in waiting, China. The downgrading of the dollar is clearly demonstrated in the launch of the BRICS bank and the establishment of the AIIB.

EU and US talk of war with Russia
The European People’s Party (EPP) is the largest political group in the European Parliament, and they are unerringly supportive of America's efforts to start a war with Russia. “The time of talk and persuasion with Russia is over," MEP and Vice-President of the EPP told a meeting on Tuesday, 21 April, “Now it’s time for a tough policy, and concentration on defence and security ...”

[ Imminent collapse of the Petrodollar ] ... [ America warmongering ] ... [ America global hegemon ] ... [ Death of democracy ] ... [ Currency Wars ]

Sunday, April 02, 2023

Russia Will Never Recover From War In Ukraine Claim Zelensky Fan Club As Russia Continues to Crush Ukrainian War Effort

by Egbert Nohbakkon 2 April 2023

An inside page headline in yesterday's (1 April 2023) Daily Telegraph claims 'Russia will never recover from this devastating collapse,' though the article below it does not quite make clear exactly what collapse the writer is talking about. The Telegraph has been unashamedly pro Ukraine, Zelensky worshipping and Russophobic in its coverage since day one of the war and the article was not an April Fool joke (the Telegraho did have a rather good one about the UK government planning to put wind turbines on top of tall buildings.)

Wind Turbine on London's BT Tower (Daily Telegraph)

Almost every day new victories for the glorious Ukrainian military have been proclaimed, readers have been told the Russian economy was in a state of collapse due to western sanctions, the Russian military was in disarray with troops on the brink of mutiny, the Russian war machine was out of artillery ammunition, Soviet era tanks were being brought out of storage and Vladimir Putin was suffering from terminal cancer and on his deathbed (if not already dead. And some were gullible enough to believe it.

By all means, both sides of the case should be explored and investigated, and while it is clear the 'Special Military Operation has not gone to plan for Moscow, objective reports agree that Ukraine is suffering massive material damage to its infrastructure and is suffering heavy casualties.

We have seen -- as in all wars -- senior commanders being replaced for poor performance. And by all means, if there are any additional preparations we can make in readiness should the war spill beyond Ukraine, or is any incremental threat to the security of western nations that flows from this conflict, our leaders should also prepare to deal with the consequences.

Perhaps the most concerning is the suggestion, which is not entirely incredible, that there is a fifth column of elites either actively working towards Russia's defeat, or to ensure that it does not succeed too well. I think they may exist; but it also seems their position is considerably weaker than before the SMO. They might regain some degree of power if events turn decisively against Russia.

However as things stand sanctions have failed to dent Russia's economy and have damaged the NATO member states that imposed them far more than the target. Worse, Russia is now economically closer to China with India, Iran, Brazil, Saudi Arabia, South Africa and a host of emerging economies eafer to do business with Russia and China.

But let us assume for a moment, that all of the specific events (if not the secret intentions and agendas) in this account are roughly accurate; then the main point is that Russia is quietly succeeding and NATO noisily failing in spite of all this across multiple domains (which should be considered in tandem as elements of total warfare): military, economic, defense-industrial, logistical, strategic commodity access, technology, sustainability, diplomacy (outside West), geopolitical alliances, currency, domestic support...

Insofar as this general picture is true, in its totality and in almost all of its particulars, this is the diametrical opposite of what Western 'strategic planners' anticipated, publicly forecasted, & bet our life savings on.

From this, at the very least, we can infer that the general premises and foundational concepts underpinning Western strategic planning--things such as GDP, financialized vs industrial economies, military spending as a reflection of or proxy for military strength, reality based analysis vs self-defeating propaganda (e.g., lack of respect for Russian military, industry, technocracy, technology), a war of territorial gains, battlefield symbolism & information warfare vs. macro-strategic thinking, logistics, & attritional warfare--should by now be greetied with ever increasing skepticism.

Conversely, we might at least seriously entertain the possibility--without lapsing into Copium--that the Russian strategic planners are better--indeed vastly better than the Zelensky fan club view would support, and considerably better than we have seen from the West to this point.

Let's take the issue of the bridgies on the Dneiper bridges for example. The failure of the Russian military to bomb these strategically importand bridges is repeatedly cited as proof of the Russian military leadership's incompetence. But why would anyone imagine that a Russian strategic-planning team that is at least holding its own against (if not humiliating) a 50-country Western adversary, does NOT GRASP THE IMPORTANCE OF BRIDGES? Assuming, instead, that they are not far more stupid than we are, and that they do understand, then, either:
a) they don't think they can take the bridges out (if so, case closed);
b) they don't want to take them out.

Why wouldn't they want to take them out if they can (and still assuming they aren't stupid)? Is the next best explanation traitorous or corrupt intent?

Is there a broader strategic vision in which this would make sense--might even be strategically clever?

Better strategic minds than mine might conjure better scenarios but here's one:

Arguably from the before the SMO, or at least soon after, Russia recognized itself to be at war with NATO--indeed a NATO that was brashly talking about crushing Russia's economy, crashing its financial system, triggering a Moscow Maidan (or more likely a Palace Coup of Atlanticist elites) while it launched a long-term NAZI mujahideen guerrilla campaign after the inevitable quick & bloody Russian victory. A victory that in the NATO mind would have required a full-frontal tank assault on the massively fortified Maginot line built over 8 years in the Donbass, & likely at the cost of something on the order of 150,000 to 200,000 Russian KIAs, or more if the standard 3:1 attacker:defender ratio were also reflective of casualty ratios.

Let's just say that Russia has given them something very, very different. Overall, an economy of force operation and war of attrition.

Though Russian losses are hard to calculate (and Ukraine's impossible with any precision), the only credible Western source with a plausible & announced methodology is the BBC's survey, producing evidence for only 16,000 burials. Conversely, not only is there now nearly universal recognition that Ukraine losses are staggeringly high (anywhere from 120k to 350k KIAs), this represents something even more than demilitarization per se, but the elimination of an increasing proportion of the mobilization potential from which the 20-year, stay-behind, nazi guerrilla campaign would be drawn.

As for the war of attrition, it's now clear that Russia more or less on its own is winning that war against a 50-country Western block that includes 30 of the world's highest-GDP per capita economies.

If Russia's planners are fools, knaves or traitors, they're doing it wrong.

I would argue that almost from the beginning Russia has been conducting the war in such a way as to essentially counter and overcome the West's advantages--real but also falsely imagined--and exploit its weaknesses.

Russia has managed to a remarkable degree the pace and escalation of conflict, such that the West, rather than being terrified and spurred to full wartime mobilization by an overwhelming display of Russian power, has instead conducted a remarkable campaign of maskirovka on itself. (Russia weak, corrupt, incompetent, stupid--sound familiar?)

As a result, instead of joining its full NATO forces to the Ukraine military that was at full strength a year ago, the West has watched that UKR military broken twice, then seen thousands of mercenaries and weapons fed into a buzzsaw in the Donbass like those sushi boats we see being floated down to hungry customers at the far end of a sushi counter.

If you decided you must be ready for a NATO (or coalition of the willing) attack at any time--especially after a battered Russia had lost 200k KIAs in a frontal assault on the Donbass--WHERE would you choose to fight? Close to the Russian borders in the East & South or at the end of a 1000k logistical train (across the Dniepr BRIDGES) in Western Ukraine?

Meanwhile, by slowing the pace of engagements, Russia has been able to fully restart its defense-industrial complex, and partially mobilize without sacrificing the civilian economy to the war. New weapons systems and tactics are being steadily tested and deployed. The mobilized are clearly receiving intensive training, likely in new doctrines. The Russian technical education system--already strong--is being upgraded.

And of course, this overall building of war fighting strength, should be seen to include military backing available from allied countries (Iran, China & perhaps NK) and keeping other major economic partners onside.

Indeed it could be speculated that *from the beginning* the primary constraint driving Russia's choices from a menu of strategic and operational options is to fight only at a pace and in a manner that *increases* Russia's overall war readiness in comparison to NATO's in the event of a NATO attack.

This, after all, is exactly the time-biding strategy Russia was pursuing before the SMO and why they delayed an incursion as long as they did. But instead of letting the war interrupt this process--they have accelerated it, with the forces that weaken the West now in overdrive, and Russia now a year ahead at least in actual mobilization for large-scale combat.

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.

Putin, Macron To Hold Urgent Talks To Halt Military Escalation In Ukraine
Even though the leaders of Ukraine itself are talking down the threat of war with Russia over the breakaway region of Donbas, America and Britain are still beating the war drums and demonising Russian leader Vladimir Putin. Russia insists they have no plans to invade Ukraine and one western leader at least, France's Emmanuel Macron, seems to be listening to messages coming out of the East European trouble spot...

Germany News Mag. Spiegel Asks "Is Vladimir Putin Right?" About NATO Expansion
As the confrontation along the border between Ukraine and Russia has escalated to actual shooting with ethnic Russian rebel separatists in Donbas reporting intensified shelling and initiating a "general mobilization" of military-age males, with Moscow denying they plan to invade and Ukraine's leaders accusing US, UK and French leaders of hysteria for talking up the threat of war, Germany's leading newspaper Spiegel asks the question fundamental to the entire conflict...

As The COVID Narratyive Crumbles War Takes Over As The Scary Monster That Keeps People In Fear
As the COVID narrative crumbles under the weight of evidence that the vaccines do not work, masks are useless and lockdowns kill more than they save a new scaremongering narrative - or a revamped old one - is emerging as the threat of war with Russia is the latest fear and panic vehicle to scare the people into compliance with tyranny. Continue reading >>>

Currency Wars - Now The Euro Challenges The Mighty Dollar
Our http://www,greenteethmm.com/currency-wars.shtmlcurrency wars feature has taken a back seat these past two years as the COVID pandemic (or propaganda pandemic as some people might say,) has pushed all other stories aside. In our opinion however, the pandemic has served as a convenient smokescreen behind which all sorts of elitist skulduggery has been going on, hidden from the view of the general population. ... Continue reading >>>

Russia - Ukraine crisis: Western foreign policy failures
Mainstream media's hyping of the threat to Ukrained posed by Russian aggression is the latest in a long line of attempts to lay blame for western foreign policy disasters at the fet of Russia. In fact had Joe Biden not started to babble about Russian aggression, talking up the threat of conflict, there would be no crisis ...

Is The Russian Threat To Invade Ukraine Real Or A Globalist Conspiracy Theory?
Continue reading >>>While Joe Biden's handlers in Washington and Boris Johnson In London talk up the threat of war should Russia invade Ukraine as they claim Moscow is preparing to do,Ukrainian leaders are dismissive, accusing the west of ramping up hysteria in a bid to divert attention from oither problems.

British Government Laundered Fake U.S. 'Intelligence' On Ukraine
The British government on Saturday accused Russia of organizing a plot to install a pro-Moscow government in Ukraine, as the Kremlin masses troops near the Ukrainian border. The U.K. Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office gave relatively little information about the intelligence unveiled Saturday other than to say that the Russian government was considering trying to make a Russia-leaning former member of Ukraine’s parliament, Yevhen Murayev, the country’s new leader. Continue reading >>>

One Of The Weaker NATO Members Goes Off Message To Prevent War With Russia
Mainstream media has been singing in unison on the Ukraine crisis, just as it has been over the vastly exaggerated risks posed by the manufactured pandemic crisis. Russia bad, war good has ben the mantra throughout the last couple of weeks as the ruling elites tried to turn up the the fear-and-panic generator to eleven [...]The whole Ukraine scare is as false as the pandemic ...

Putin has got Biden over a barrel with Ukraine – and markets know it
We’ve had a number of armed kerfuffles in Europe fairly recently but these were mostly centred on The Balkans and were local affairs [...] The threatened bust up between Russia and the west over Ukraine is much more serious – potentially the worst inter-regional conflict since the cold war, with far reaching consequences for both geopolitical and economic stability if mainstream mediaeports are to believed.

Storm Clouds Gathering Over Ukraine - Or Just The Usual Geopolitical Games
25 January 2022: As the COVID-19 Killer Virus Pandemic narrative crumbles under the weight of evidence that the vaccines don't work and therefore vaccine passports are irrelevant, masks are useless, and lockdowns only trash national economies and destroy businesses, the elites are desperately looking for another scare story to distract public attention from the godawful mess they have made with their globalisation plans, green energy follies and open borders insanity.

Russia Responds To UK's "Very Dangerous" Coup Allegations
23 January 2022: Russia has blasted this weekend's allegations by the UK government that it's planning to install a pro-Kremlin puppet leader in Ukraine. "We have information that indicates the Russian Government is looking to install a pro-Russian leader in Kyiv as it considers whether to invade and occupy Ukraine," the UK statement published Saturday began ...

Europe's Energy Crisis Exposes Green Fraud
Vladimir Putin has been celebrating the recent and much reported European energy crisis, knowing that withouout his doing anything, thanks to the obsessive pandrering to Greta Thunberg and the green lobby political leaders ion the UK and EU member states Russia has been handed control of European markets, with the option of manipulating supply chains and prices at the same time. In the meantime the European nations have failed to sufficiently diversify supply.

Recommded real news: Back to business as usual on COVID - 19 (8 April 2020)
Today: COVID-19 Computer Models Continue To Deteriorate; Covid-19 drags French economy into deep recession the likes of which it has not seen since 1945; Oil Prices Tumble As Russia Balks At Proposed US Production Cut; Kissinger says ‘even US’ can’t defeat Covid-19 alone. His solution? Global NWO government,

Friday, March 31, 2023

Climate Scaremongers Have Taken Over Where COVID Scaremongers Left Off

As we enter the final few hours of March 2023, your Boggart Bloggers can announce that the winners of our coveted Scaremongering Bolocks of The Month award goes this month to BBC News. Not only did the BBC report in one of their regular climate catastrphe scare stories that river levels across the UK have been at record lows and are likely to be “devastated”, as new data forecasts broadly dry weather until at least May, the 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.

Truth (lack of it,) has never been an obstacle to the project fear antics of climate activists. Using a picture of one river's tidal estuary, taken at low tide, as evidence, campaigners have accused the government and water companies of not doing enough to conserve water supplies by building reservoirs and fixing leaks, as months of low rainfall could cause some areas to run out of water.

The monthly scare story from the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology warns that extended dry conditions are more likely than not and that rivers are already suffering.

The River Ribble near Preston - Picture: screengrab from BBC News

The BBC (and most other mainstream news organisations to be fair,) lying about imminent water shortages, almost empty reservoirs, searing heat on prolonged heatwaves (three hot days together now gounts as a heatwave,) and the greehouse properties of Carbon Dioxide should not surprise anyone who has listened to or read mainstream media on climate change. Compare their news to empirical evidence and it quickly becomes obvious lying is the default position, and when it is called out on this they revert to bullying tactics and “de-platforming” in order to silence the truth seekers.

Recent action by farmers in Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and Poland and by government agencies and car manufacturers in Germany and Italy to protect their industries, should be wholeheartedly supported, they have shown that the EU whilst autocratic is also smart enough to understand that almost 2,000,000 unemployed car workers and up to 9,000,000 sub suppliers is a problem that may just cause bigger problems than they can cope with - typically, the UK Government has declared that “just because the EU think this is right, does not mean that we should follow them”.

Are our leaders and opinion influencers really prepared to destroy successful industries, and sacrifice national prosperity to pander to “Climate Change” without any thought about how, by 2030 when according to 'net zero' policy Internal Combustion Engined cars and vans will no longer be available, we will have replaced the entire electricity distribution grid, built a few dozen new nuclear power stations, and have in place a recharging infrastructure to accommodate the switch to electric vehicles? An energy system capable of supporting the base load increase caused by the switch to electric cars and the replacement of gas boilers for domestic heating and hot water within seven years is beyond the bounds of possibility, even if our heaviliy indebted nation could afford it, seven decades would be a more realistic timescale than seven years. Every promise, every ambition, every policy is predicated on the blind faith that just around the corner some new technology will be available that will make it all possible.

There is constant talk of “Green Energy” jobs bonanza, but as the new technologies that priests of the Church of Sciencology truly believe will deliver it have not yet left the world of science fiction and established themselves are realities. And even if these technologies do magically appear it is certain the number of jobs that will be lost do not match those fantasy “new jobs in green industries," but then 10,000,000 unemployed will be more carbon neutral than 10,000,000 employed so the Climate Crisis mob will be able to claim this as a success.

Since the early 1940’s Fusion Power/Energy has just been “around the corner”, only now have we reached a experimental stage where energy in has been balanced by energy out - but only for one millionth of a second - so still some way to go.

Battery technology MAY progress, we may get that all important breakthru that renders fossil fuel energy null and void, BUT, until that day, you need to run both old and new energy sources in tandem and prepare to change over should the technology allow.

[ Climate Change ] ... [ Net Zero Reality ] ... [ Energy Green Dreams ] ... [ Climate Deception ] ... [ Green energy catastrophe ] ... [ Wind turbine truth ] ... [ love nucler risk ]

Europes Tractor Protests Spread To Germany And Now Include Fishing Trawlers
Hundreds of farmers have descended in their tractors on a small German coastal town to protest measures imposed by the European Union as part of the bid to 'save the planet' by reducing CO2 emissions from cow farts. 400 tractors reportedly gathered in Büsum on Wednesday to protest what is probably the most insane environmentalist policy dreamed up by the EU idealogues to date ...

Green Energy & Net Zero: A Herd Of Elephants In The Room

The Cuadrilla Lancashire gas exploration wells yielded very high-quality natural gas from just a few fractures [ ... ]Claims that less than 1\100th of the gas resource of 37.6 trillion m3 could be extracted has been shown to be false, no actual UK data on gas recovery is available the claim was based on pre-2010 US data. Just 10% gas recovery from Bowland shale could supply 50 years’ worth of current UK gas demand.

Germany Forcing Farmers To Use LESS Fertilizer To Satisfy EU’s Green Agenda
The German government, already reeling from the public backlash against rising fuel prices, the shortage of gas since supplies from Russia were cut off, and the biggest economic crisis in the EU, has now jumped on another 'woke' bandwagon. The socialist led ruling coalition has banned farmers in one of its federal states from properly fertilizing land in compliance with the latest lunacy of the EU's green agenda ...

Germany haemorrhaging cash to keep country running on as ‘net zero’ becomes zeroeconomic activity
Germany was so desperate to achieve 'net zero' CO2 emissions that for years the country's government closed its fossil fuel-fired and nuclear power plants,replacing those plants with wind and solar power — as well as impoorting huge volumes of natural gas and oil from Russia. After the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, when NATO (aka the U.S.A.) mandated that the West impose retaliatory sanctions on Russia, including a ban on importation of Russian gas and oil, Germany found itself in a hole:

The Truth About Coal And The Lies Of The Elite
So much for all the COP 26 banter late last year. Let me remind you. The elites all flew in on their private jets and promptly told us we’re all (royal we) getting off fossil fuels and killing coal.So how’s that turning out? The usage of coal is now at record highs:

Net Zero Will Lead To The End Of Modern Civilisation, Says Top Scientist
In a recently published science paper, Dr. Wallace Manheimer said Net Zero would be the end of modern civilisation. Writing about wind and solar power he argued it would be especially tragic “when not only will this new infrastructure fail, but will cost trillions, trash large portions of the environment, and be entirely unnecessary”.

Just When We Need It Most, Renewable Energy Disappears
In an encouraging sign of a great awakening, million of people in the UK are now, after a week of brutally cold, absolutely windless weather asking "Why have we wasted so much money on wind turbines and harvesting solar energy."
Yet when politicians are asked directly: "How do we keep the lights on and our homes warm when the wind does not blow and the sun is too low in the sky to make much impression on photovoltaic cells that do the business in solar panels?

Europe's Cold Spell Exposes Green Energy Policy Failure
So far the autumn of 2022 has been unusually mild which has had eco-warriors getting worked up and gluing their arses to motorways and airport runways to demand that we stop using oil. However winter temperatures across Europe predictably dropped sharply in late November and through most of December to date have been positively arctic. Scientists have offered the opinion that the cold weather spell the ongoing European gas crisis is now “likely” to worsen significantly as usual seasonal weather spreads across the northern half of the continent, bringing with it an increased need for domestic heating.

Climate Scientists' Mathematical Models Of Reality Wrong Again…New Study Shows Jet Stream Strengthening, Not Weakening
recent research by Samantha Hallam et al published in the journal Climate Dynamics looks at the seasonal variations over decades in Northern Hemisphere jet stream latitude and speed over land for the period 1871–2011. The authors report that they found no evidence of weakening of the sort climate alarmists have been warning about for the past three decades.

It Looks As If Carbon Credits Scam Has INCREASED CO2 Emissions
As the climate change scare becomes more and more exposed for the money making fraud it always was, they green weirdie beardie, rope sandal wearing tree huggers get more hysterical and stupid in their arguments that we must all return to medieval lifestyles, the billionaires like Al Gore who hope to profit from it keep flogging the dead horse and the angrier and more vicious the left wing hate mobs become in their witch hunts.

Arrogance, Intolerance, Snobbishness and Corrupt, Self Interested Practices. It's modern science. The world sems to be waking up the the fact that while in the past scientists tended to be rather detached, slightly obsessive people not driven by material goals, the modern science academy has been very largely corrupted by political patronage and corporate money. The academic field of climate science it especially notable for this.

Hiding The Decline In Temperatures Through Massive Data Tampering
We've said forever that the global warming scare was a massive fraud, cooked up by governments that needed an excuse to impose massive tax increases to plug the black hole in the global economy. They had willing allies in the science academe of course. Yep, so long as they are confident the research grants will keep flowing, scientists will always give their political and corporate paymaster the required answer ...

Thursday, March 30, 2023

De - Dollarisation: China, Brazil Make Deal To Ditch US Dollar For Bilateral Trades

The Move To Ditch The US Dollar Is Gathering Momentum

China and Brazil this week concluded a deal to conduct trade between their nations in their own in their own currencies, ditching the established reserve currency for global trade, US dollar as an intermediary, the Brazilian announced said on Wednesday. This is Beijing’s latest strike against the almighty greenback in its currency war aimed at shifting the balance of geopolitical and economic power from west to east.

The deal will empower China, the top rival to US economic hegemony, and South America's biggest economy, Brazil, to conduct their massive trade in Brazilian commodities and Chinese manufactured goods, and the associated financial transactions directly, exchanging yuan for reais and vice versa instead of going through the dollar, a system which allowed US businesses and goverment agencies to skim off the cream from each transacyion for themselves.

It is this systematic abuse of the financial power gained from being issuer of the reserve currency that has kept the US economy on top throughout the past 30 years of failing US foreign and industrial policy.

“The expectation is that this will reduce costs... promote even greater bilateral trade and facilitate investment,” the Brazilian Trade and Investment Promotion Agency (ApexBrasil) said in a statement.

It is not the first bilateral agreement to abandon the US$ as the de facto world currency this week.

China settled its first LNG trade in yuan; but gold remains the bigger winner in the global de-dollarization.

The U.S. dollar's role as the world's reserve currency was further tested as more nations chose to settle commodity trades with national currencies or the Chinese renminbi.

On Tuesday, the Shanghai Petroleum and Natural Gas Exchange announced that it completed its first yuan-settled trade for liquid natural gas between China's National Offshore Oil Corporation and France's TotalEnergies.

According to press releases from the financial markets, confirmed by Reuters, 65,000 tonnes of LNG imported from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) changed hands. This latest trade deal comes as China tries to establish the renminbi as an international non - dollar currency.

The trade also came after President Xi Jinping traveled to Saudi Arabia in early December to strengthen economic ties with the Middle East and encourage the region to use the renminbi to settle its oil and gas trades, a visit that has resulted in detente between the formerly hostile regional powers, Saudi Arabia and Iran, the latter being a long term ally of China.

.At the same time, the renminbi has been Russia's defacto reserve currency for the past year since it invaded Ukraine, which prompted Western Nations led by the U.S. to impose harsh economic sanctions, cutting the nation off from Western financial markets.As a result of this collaboration with China, now also supported by India, the west's economic sanctions have economically harmed America's NATO allies far harder that they have Russia, which had no problem finding customers in South est Asia and Aftica eager to buy it oil and minerals without having to pay exorbitant commissions to Ameican middle - men.

23 Countries Now Abandoning US Dollar

A new world monetary system is being set up right now which will completely kill the US dollar, which is the world's reserve currency.

23 countries (60% of the world's GDP) are setting up swap lines which bypass the dollar and SWIFT, which is the dollar-based worldwide financial transaction system.

These countries include Russia, China, India, and even Germany, France, and the United Kingdom.

Once the new system is in place, the dollar won't be needed in these countries and a new reserve currency will come into being. All those dollars in foreign accounts will come home, which will annihilate the dollar dominated monetary system.

Also, China just announced that it will stop purchasing US Treasury bonds (holding dollars in reserve). This will force The Federal Reserve to print even more dollars than the $85 billion per month it's currently printing. NB: References to printing money in the financial press refer to the practice of borrowing money by selling bonds for hard currency. The seller must pay interest to the bondholder and also redeem the bond at face value after a fixed term (usually 2,5 or 10 years.) Bond trading is a complicated business and this is not the place for a more detailed explanation.)

RELATED:

[ Currency Wars ] ... [ Money & Finance ] ... [ dollar fears ] ... [ debt crisis ] ... [ Debt: a dollar ponzi scheme ]

U S Regional Bank First Republic Crashes As America's Banking 'Crisis In Confidence' Becomes Contagious
Shares in America's First Republic Bank's crashed when the New York stock market opened for trading this morning. The crash was triggered by a statement issued on Sunday night that sought to ease investor worries about the bank's liquidity situation in the wake of the failure of Silicon Valley Bank. Shares in the San Francisco based regional bank are down 60% on last week's close.

Negative Interest Rates - Final Nail In The Coffin Of Neoliberalism? Negative interest rates, in plain terms a situation in which we pay bankers for holding our money, are the latest ruse of politicians and economists to make uis start spending our investments and savings, thus kickstarting the global economy thy have screwed up.

Pupils Shut Out Of School Because They Refuse To Wear Gender Neutral Uniforms
Overshadowed somewhat by the idiocies in Parliament this week as Remain supporting, democratically elected MPs try to overturn the democratically expressed wish of the people and keep the UK in The Fourth Reich politely known as the European Union, the idiocy of politically correct, far left authoritarianism in education goes on...

The Elite’s Scheme to Eliminate Cash And Impose Negative Interest Rates
Politicians love inflation, it provides an easy way out of the financial mess they create, Bankers too love inflation because while they lend fiat money, the loans they issue are secured against real assets such as people’s homes and valuables. However both need “the punters they fleece to have faith in the value of the currency they hold or the numbers stored in computers that increasingly represent our wealth ...

Elites Losing The War On Cash? Sweden U-Turns On 'Cashless Society' Agenda
Sweden was leading the the War On Cash, the ruling elite had pushed the idea that a cashless society would protect citizens from crime and be more convenient. There was no mention that in a cashless society we would completely surrender control of our money to banks, and our privacy in financial matters to government security agencies...

War On Cash. If You Want To Buy A Car Or Appliance From A Friend For Cash, You Will Not Be Able To.

A geopolitical move by the globalist control freaks that began as a seemingly innocuous hypothetical discussion several years ago now appears to have become a deep state / corporate policy backed by a propaganda campaign involving some of the most powerful commercial and government agencies in the industrialized world. Throughout this omnibus web page we have called it the War on Cash.

War On Cash. If You Want To Buy A Car Or Appliance From A Friend For Cash, You Will Not Be Able To.

Lord Rothschild: The New World Order Is At Risk
In the RIT Capital Partners 2014 annual report, the head of Rothschild family banking empire warned that the geopolitical situation is most dangerous since WWII. A year later, Baron Jacob Rothschild repeated his warning about the outcome of "the greatest experiment in monetary policy in history". Little did he know that, they would keep rising, but related to that, he also made another warning which the market has so far ignored:

Government Whistleblower admits Labour Opened Borders to Eastern Europe to ‘Lower Wage Growth’
It should be no surprise then that it was under a Labour government led by Tony Blair, our borders agencgy was ordered to open the door to uncontrolled mass immigration from eastern Europe. The move came folowing a series of secret meetings between Blair and then Bank of England governor Mervyn King in which King “pressed the case” that mass immigration would “lower wage growth” by creating a pool of cheap workers, a former senior diplomat has claimed.

Could Italy’s Banking Crisis Drag Down Mario Draghi?
The latest banking crisis in Italy risks focusing scrutiny on the leadership of both the Bank of Italy and Italy’s financial markets regulator Consob. The decision to give the central bank’s current Chairman Ignazio Visco a fresh six-year mandate despite his having presided over one of the worst banking crises in living memory ...

Naked Bankers Go For Gold
... That gold sale in 2013 was a naked short. The seller had no gold to sell. COMEX reported having gold only equal to about half of the short sale in its vaults, and not all of that was available for delivery (quite a lot of it belonged to the german government) In effect the naked shorting of gold could only work because really the right hand was selling to the left hand.

India Takes A Leading Role In De-Dollarization
Reuters reported last Wednesday that “India’s Oil Deals With Russia Dent Decades-Old Dollar Dominance”, which highlighted the growing tendency of those and many other using nations using national or or third-party currencies to settle cross border trades thus sidelining the US$ which has dominated international trade since the 1970s.

De-Dollarization Du Jour: Russia's Largest Bank Issues Yuan-Denominated Guarantees

Cashless Society: The Spy In Your Wallet

Back In 1971 Libertarians Were Predicting Debit Cards Would Become A Spy Tool For Authoritarian Governments. In 2013 The Wall Street Journal reported that the Naional Security Agency (NSA) was monitoring the card transactions of American citizens. Following that, two Senators, Wyden and Udall – who both sit on the Senate Intelligence Committee and thus have access to classified information about the government’s ~~digital snooping~~ intelligenece gathering programs wrote ...,/p>

NATO Rhetoric About Russian Threat is 'Absurd'
The reasons being given for the latest NATO military buildup in Eastern Europe, the idea that the Russian 'Russian threat' to Eastern Europe grows every day is "simply absurd," according to former US diplomat and Senate policy advisor Jim Jatras. Effectively, Jatras says, the buildup is an attempt by the US to keep Germany and France on board with Washington's world domination agenda and ...

WMD in Mayfair
Recalling yesterday's Machiavelli Blog which commented on events surrounding the unfortunate death of the alleged former Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko, it seems the murder investigation has now found evidence of many caches (well OK, traces) of radio active toxins in various fashionable establishments in London's West End frequented by former Russian intelligence agents.

China launches global yuan payment system
China’s Central Bank has started a global payment system which provides cross-border transactions in yuan. The China International Payment System (CIPS) intends to internationalize the yuan and challenge the US dollar's dominance.

Wednesday, March 29, 2023

Brussels Cancels Looming Ban on Internal Combustion Engine Cars

Picture: Fords of Winsford

Wednesday 29 March 2023

The UK's plans to achieve net zero ahead of any other developed nation was dealt a blow yesterday and the proposed ban on the sale of new internal combustion engine cars by 2030 was thrown into chaos when the EU Commission (de facto ruling committe of the European Union,) scrapped its own proposed restrictions on the sale of petrol and diesel fuelled cars after opposition from Germany's powerful auto industry.

Senior figures in the industry warned that British rules due to take effect in 2030 are untenable following the European climbdown, which will allow internal combustion engines as long as they burn carbon-neutral petrol alternatives.

The European Union will go ahead with its ban the sale of petrol and diesel cars from 2035 but will now allow these so-called e-fuels, which have been reclassified as carbon neutral following a backroom compromise forced on it by the German negotiators on Tuesday night.

Sources in Brussels and London suggested the UK government was considering following the Commission’s lead by also allowing an e-fuel exemption. British carmakers Aston Martin and McLaren are already understood to be examining e-fuels as an option for powering future models.

Critics of the Government’s Net Zero plans claimed a victory for common sense on learning of the EU decision, with some going so far as to demand a total review of 'net zero' policy is needed. Ecoloons representing Greenpeace, Extinction Rebellion and Just Stop Oil have said that it could slow down electric vehicle adoption although recent sales figures suggest take up of EVs is declining as owners become aware it is almost imposssible to offload an electric car in the second hand market.

The former Tory leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith said: “The 2030 deadline for the elimination of petrol and diesel engine cars in the U.K. is simply not achievable. Unless we delay, we hand a massive boost to the Chinese car manufacturers. They are already dominant.”

Britain is to ban the sale of new cars that run on petrol and diesel only in seven years’ time under plans drawn up by former Prime Minister Boris Johnson but this policy now looks to be in jeopardy.

The EU’s e-fuel exemption will allow a synthetic alternative to petrol which is made by mixing carbon dioxide captured from the air with hydrogen obtained by splitting water molecules using renewable energy.

Currently this is expected to be more expensive than petrol, however, Benedetto Vigna, the boss of Ferrari, said this week that he expects the price to fall as the market grows and economies of scale become viable. Industry experts believe synthetic petrol and diesel could be the beginning of a return to sanity that would allow carmakers to focus on collaborating with chemical companiesproducing lower-cost e-fuels instead of expensive battery powered cars.

Andrew Graves, a car industry veteran and professor at the University of Bath, said: “I think it’s a very exciting technology that we’re looking at, so that we can not only use it for things like motorsport, but we can also more importantly use it for keeping existing vehicles on the road. I think there’s a lot of things that the Government needs to look at before it goes hell bent on just having a blanket ban on diesel or petrol.”

Soaring Lithium Prices Putting Transition To Electric Cars In Doubt
With battery quality Lithium Carbonate regularly trading at above $US70,000 per ton the impact of this soaring cost of the essential material in batteries for electric vehicles is starting to impact the push to abandon fossil fuels . Worse still, analysts are predicting lithium prices will continue to rise as demand for electric cars and goods vehicles grows.

VW Audi Suspends Electric Vehicle Production Due To Battery Shortage
Today in “news that affects all electric vehicle manufacturers”, Audi has announced that it has suspended production of its e-Tron electric SUV effective February 20 and won’t resume untilfurther notice. The suspension has been a resolve of “resolving production issues”, which are mainly attributed to bottlenecks in battery supply, according to Business Insider.

Tesla Stock Hit After German Regulator Warns Self-Driving Cars Are Unsafe

While the Tesla company and its Ubernerd founder Elon Musk have for several years been the darlings of the stock markets and the media, things may be changing. Like most technology startups, Tesla talk a good launch but fail to deliver real results. Since the cars launched to widespread admirationed at the elegant design, and open mouthed shock at the huge price tags and ...

House battery to store energy will 'change entire infrastructure of the world' - or maybe not
Another costly new product hailed as a breakthough in technology, this time a clutching-at-straws exercise from the failing electric car company Tesla, completely fails to live up to the hype under scrutiny. Hailed as a super battery, a mjor advance in battery technology that will change the world to store power for a household, it turns out to be nothing more than a streamined car battery. It will run the average home for about 2 hours.

Google Self Driving Car Can't Drive Itself
A lot of nerdy types have been getting very excited about the self - driving cars being developed by Google. Being nerdy they are not making such a fuss about the decent looking rides being developed by the likes of Mrecedes Benz, General Motors and Toyota. No, it's the Google wankermobile that turns them on.

All The Reasons You'll Ever Need For Not Buying An Electric Car As Tesla Electric Car Turns Into Firebomb after Collision.
The electric car thing will not go away will it, ever since the science tits who work for Big Tech started proposing that electric cars are the future it has been proved many times in many ways that they are not. Cost, extremely limited range and safety are mong the reasons. And here as a Tesla goes up in smoke, is another ...

Google Car Driverless Because No Sane Person Would Be Seen Dead In One
A few years ago Google boss Eric Schmidt said the company's aim was to get as close to creepy as they could without crossing the line. Well they had crossed the line long before he said that. The latest Google wirdness is the much hyped driverless car. It looks as if it was designed by a five year old. On the other hand it might be the ideal car for paedophiles who want to go cruising for jailbait.

Electric Car Mini Adventure
Keep The Engine Running
Just Drive
Driver Friendly Roads
Rare Earth
Reasons To Hate The Toyota Prius
Renewable Energy Con
V2G Technology

Tuesday, March 28, 2023

Global Corporate Power versus The Farmers On Their Tractors

In this blog we have reported in detail for around six months now, the tractor protestes staged initially by farmers in The Netherlands, but later spreading to Belgium, France, Poland, Italy, Spain and Germany. Hundreds of farmers have driven their tractors into towns and cities, moving slowly through streets and arterial roads to cause gridlock, in protest at new environmental protection policies imposed by the European Union (EU) to force farmers to reduce the numbers of livestock they keep and to limit the amount of commercial fertliser they are permitted to use. It should surprise nobody then, that attempts by member state's governments to implement the policy have sparked massive protests by farmers, who see it as a direct attack on their livelihoods or that the recemty formed small farmers party, the BBB (slogan — “No Farms, No Food” ) resonated with voters to the extent that the party emerged as the largest contingent in the Dutch senate after elections earlier this month.

But aside from concerns about the impact of the measure on the country’s food security, and on a centuries-old rural way of life integral to Dutch national identity, the rationale behind this drastic measure is also questionable. Agriculture currently accounts for almost half of the country’s output of carbon dioxide, yet the Netherlands is responsible for less than 0.4% of the world’s emissions. No wonder many Dutch fail to see how such negligible returns justify the complete overhaul of the country’s farming sector, which is already considered one of the most sustainable in the world: over the past two decades, water dependence for key crops has been reduced by as much as 90%, and the use of chemical pesticides in vast greenhouses has been almost completely eliminated.

Given the irrational nature of the EU policy, which seeks not only to limit Carbon Dioxide emissions but also emissions of nitrogen, an inert gas that forms 78% of the air we breathe, many protesting farmers believe the folly cannot be blamed solely on the urbanite “green elites” currently running the Dutch and other EU member states' governments. They suggest one of the underlying reasons for the move is to squeeze independent farmers from the market, allowing their land to be bought out by multinational agribusiness giants who recognise the immense value of the country’s land — not only is it highly fertile, but it is also strategically located with easy access to the north Atlantic coast (Rotterdam is the largest port in Europe). They also point out that prime minister Rutte is an Agenda Contributor of the World Economic Forum (WEF), which is well known for being corporate-driven, while his finance minister and Minister of Social Affairs and Employment are also tied to the body. The struggle playing out in the Netherlands would seem to be part of a much bigger game that seeks to “reset” the international food system by concentrating control in the hands of a few global corporations.

The arrogance, hubris and stupidity of these technocrats is so profound it’s almost comical – if it wasn’t so tragic. If you force a Dutch farmer to cull their herd by say 1,000 animals, you aren’t doing anything to help the environment. Demand for these animals won’t magically disappear. The supply will simply be filled somewhere else.

And because the Dutch are maybe the most efficient and productive farmers in the world, production will almost certainly shift somewhere much less desirable, where the environmental footprint is significantly worse. So now we get some farmer in Brazil burning down 1,000 acres of rainforest so he can create the pasture to fill the market void left by the Dutch.

Meanwhile, in Holland you’ve made some farmers wealthier, but unproductive. They will likely invest their money in real estate or some other financial instrument that doesn’t produce tangible products or jobs.

None of these policies are based on a holistic knowledge of the likely impact they will have, they are not formulated by people with experience of farming or food production but by people who have spent their working lives cocooned in universities studying mathematical models of food production. There will be endless unforeseen consequences. For instance, insects feed on animal dung. No animals, no dung, no insects, no wildflowers. Globalist policies are recipes for the sterilisation of the earth.

Technocrats, like socialists, never seem to learn from their past mistakes. Their anthem is always ‘this time it will be different’. But it never is different and once again this time a few people who are already obscenely rich, and obscenely powerful because their great wealth has enabled them to buy political influence without having to endure the inconvenience of getting elected, will gain much more wealth and power from this nonsense while the rest of us will pay for the folly.

The poorest will pay the most whether the lower income cohort in developed countries or the subsistence farmers and their ilk in the poorest countries.

This whole green movement has been captured by the wealth globalists with a few self - interested stooges and well intentioned puppets to do the shouting. The wealthy will eat their Steak and the poor will be lucky to get enough of the powdered bugs and genetically modified beans. Eating insects for many will be about scavenging (Mopani Worms in Africa for example) and not buying in lab grown protein.

In the past I was frequently angered by the daily torrent of environmentalist propaganda we have regularly been fed through mainstream media news organisations, with the BBC being by far the worst culprit. Much of this is mindless repetition of themes such as "humanity is destroying the planet," for which there is no empirical evidence, only the output from mathematical models based on outrageous assumptions. Yet apparently ‘intelligent’ individuals, absorb this uncritically or suspend disbelief and allow themselves to be swept along on the current of mob hysteria.

The phrase: “If you tell a big lie and repeat it often enough it becomes the received truth!” is often credited to Josef Geobbels, propaganda chief in Hitler's regime, but despite its odious antecedents it has become dogma for the cult of globalism. Anyone capable of remaining detached and giving an objective and critical reading to the dailt news torrent could only conclude the aim is to brainwash the public into a state of dependency on the state, and if the state - controlled broadcaster is at the forefront of the brainwashing campaign that only adds to the credibility of the propaganda.

In the UK government policy appears to be fixated in the insane ambition of being the first developed nation to achieve ‘Net Zero’ , a carbon neutral industialised society rather than dealing with problems like energy security, food supply stability, and shifting domestic agriculture towards food self-sufficiency for the nation. Let the people eat insects, the ecoloons chant.Let the people eat insects, the ecoloons chant.

Better to have ‘rewilded’ farms thus getting rid of cattle and their environmentally destructive farts, if we reduce beef production it will benefit wildlife, although nobody has yet explained how the rewilding lobby's plan to reintroduce wild boar, wolves and bears to the British countryside will benefite the vegetation they destroy or the deer, hares and rabbits they eat.

It seems nothing can stop this madness. The Lords of Misrule have somehow hijacked the apparatus of government.

Have you noticed it has all gone a bit quiet on climate change? After all that screaming and shouting from politicians and scientists it turns out the science was never settled. So now they need to spread fear and panic about something else. Guess what ... Food. We are all going to starve if we do not obey The New World Order. Who says? Statistics say and we all know statistics never lie don't we? A must read for independent minded people.
GM crops will not feed the world
To feed the world we need more CO2 not GM crops
Just whaty chemicals are going in your food?
Global Food Crisis and Control Freakery
The Danger Of Monopolies To The Food Supply
Food and Another Science Fraud
Clone cows give human milk?
Frraky Frankenstein Fish
Vertical Farming
Science and technology menu
Latest Fear and Panic Strategy: They Tell Us We Are All Going To Starve

Have you noticed it has all gone a bit quiet on climate change? After all that screaming and shouting from politicians and scientists it turns out the science was never settled. So now they need to spread fear and panic about something else. Guess what ... Food. We are all going to starve if we do not obey The New World Order. Who says? Statistics say and we all know statistics never lie don't we? A must read for independent minded people.
Scalar Waves: A hidden source of clean, cost free energyA infinite supply of cost free, clean electricity that has been know to the world for over a hundred years but never exploited? Is Ian talking about a science fiction story? you might well ask. Well no, I'm not. Scalar Waves, discovered by Nikola Tesler have that potential along with the potential to put the energy companies outr of business ...
Seven Billion: Population Growth And Its ConsequencesAs the world passes the milestone of seven billion people alive in the planet at one time The Daily Stirrer's Ian Thorpe looks at the likely consequences of population growth and at what we might be able to do to get it under control.
GM crops will not feed the world
To feed the world we need more CO2 not GM crops
Just whaty chemicals are going in your food?
Global Food Crisis and Control Freakery
The Danger Of Monopolies To The Food Supply
Food and Another Science Fraud
Clone cows give human milk?
Frraky Frankenstein Fish
Vertical Farming
Science and technology menu
Dairy Farmers Ruined: Free Markets Versus Corporate Dictatorship
Thatcherite conservatives in the UK and Reaganite Republicans in the USA love to talk of free markets and the utopia they create. But do fre markets ever exist. In response to one free market enthusiast and proponent of globaliation, the daily stirrer and ian thorpe show that what looks like a free market from above is anything but when viewed from the ground.upposed to protect the efficient has actually been hijacked by a cartel of food retail chains.Dairy Farmers are being driven to bankruptcy because the "free market" in milk in which market forces are s UK
See also: [ Daily Stirrer, June 2012 ]
Latest Fear and Panic Strategy: They Tell Us We Are All Going To Starve

Have you noticed it has all gone a bit quiet on climate change? After all that screaming and shouting from politicians and scientists it turns out the science was never settled. So now they need to spread fear and panic about something else. Guess what ... Food. We are all going to starve if we do not obey The New World Order. Who says? Statistics say and we all know statistics never lie don't we? A must read for independent minded people.
[ Globalism ] ... [ New World Order ] ... [ Black Hat Biotech ] ... [ GM takeover global food ] EXPLORE:
[Daily Stirrer] ... [ Our Page on on Substack ]... [Boggart Aboad] ... [ Ian Thorpe at Quora ] ... [ Greenteeth Home ] ... [ Greenteeth on Minds.com ] ... [ Here Come The Russians ] ... [ Latest Posts ] ... [ Blog Bulletin ]