DUFF & NONSENSE!

Climate alarmism causing the UK and EU energy crisis

You can take your pick from any of climate alarmism's propaganda organs currently trying to spin their way out of the catastrophe they have brought to the energy industries of the UK and EU, and knock their blame passing attempts down one by one.  Here's one for example ...

https://www.qz.com/2059429/why-are-electricity-bills-so-high-in-the-uk-and-europe/amp/

The spike was caused by a combination of rising carbon credit prices, low output from wind farms, transmission infrastructure outages, and skyrocketing prices for natural gas.

So one by one then ...

(1) "Rising carbon credit prices".  Well that's directly attributable to climate alarmism, it's their system FFS.

(2) "Low output from wind farms".  Also directly attributable to climate alarmism, it's their system FFS.

(3) "Transmission infrastructure outages".  Follow the link from the QZ article ...

https://mobile.twitter.com/JavierBlas/status/1438054066739941376

French power, largely nuclear, provides more than all our windmills put together.  Why don't we have nuclear power to match and compete with the extra we buy from France and stand up our energy supply when the French go down?  Anti-nuclear green alarmism, sister of, and joined at the hip to, climate alarmism.

(4) "Skyrocketing prices for natural gas".  The blundering QZ article fumbles its own spin and answers that one for us ...

And surging competition for liquified natural gas (LNG) shipments with China and other Asian countries, where it is increasingly used to replace coal.

Why is LNG used to replace coal?  Climate alarmism again, LNG being perceived as cleaner than coal sees climate alarmism strong arming China and Asia into LNG, thereby forcing up the price.

And yet the QZ article spins the truth into a tub-thump for more windmills.

A global delusion being propagandised into the minds of humanity in plain view.

These people are sick.

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Cheese, kiwis and carbon off the menu, and the dragon in the room

The new "AUKUS" defence pact between Blighty, Uncle Sam and Oz has ruffled some feathers ...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-58592613.amp

One up: France with their loss of a multi-billion diesel subs deal.  You know it's bad when the Froggies refuse to go to a freebie cheese and wine party! ...

France's Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian called the announcement a "stab in the back".

He called it a "brutal, unilateral and unpredictable decision" that reminded him of former president Donald Trump.

French diplomats in Washington cancelled a gala to celebrate ties between the US and France in retaliation.

Ooh-la-la!

Two up: Ping-a-Ling smarting and ranting about Cold War II being on the cards ...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-58564837.amp

China has condemned the agreement as "extremely irresponsible".

Foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said it "seriously undermines regional peace and stability and intensifies the arms race".

China's embassy in Washington accused the countries of a "Cold War mentality and ideological prejudice".

Would it were so Xi me old mate, would it were so!  Keep talking it up into the bargain and let's get "Cold War mentality" circulating globally again - double quick time!

Three up: AUKUS just pissed all over COP26's fireworks because Ping-a-Ling's "Me no-likey" hissy-fit might mean he pulls the plug on toeing the zero carbon line ...

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/sep/16/aukus-pact-dash-hopes-china-emissions-deal-cop26-climate

The timing of the new defence deal between the US, UK and Australia has dismayed climate experts, who fear it could have a negative effect on hopes of a deal with China on greenhouse gas emissions ahead of vital UN climate talks.

The Anglo-sphere cooking on gas!  I say, well done Carruthers!

But there has to be one Judas doesn't there?  One for whom the filthy lucre proves just too irresistible?

Are the Kiwis going to play the Belgium part in this coming war?  Try to be neutral and reap the benefits of both teams - and thereby make itself a latter-day Flanders football to be kicked around by the two sides' players when it really kicks off? ...

https://theconversation.com/amp/anzus-without-nz-why-the-new-security-pact-between-australia-the-uk-and-us-might-not-be-all-it-seems-168071

At which point New Zealand could have expected a drum roll, too, having only just marked the 70th anniversary of the ANZUS agreement. That didn’t happen, and New Zealand was conspicuously absent from the choreographed announcement hosted by the White House.

Having remained committed to the Five Eyes security agreement and having put boots on the ground in Afghanistan for the duration, “NZ” appears to have been taken out of ANZUS and replaced with “UK”.

That is perhaps surprising. Despite problematic comments by New Zealand’s trade minister about Australia’s dealings with China, and the foreign minister’s statement that she “felt uncomfortable” with the expanding remit of the Five Eyes, reassurances by Ardern about New Zealand’s commitment should have calmed concerns.

One has to assume, therefore, that even if New Zealand had been asked to join, it might have chosen to opt out anyway.

Nonetheless, the fact that New Zealand’s supposedly extra-special relationship with Britain, Australia and America hasn’t made it part of the in-crowd will raise eyebrows. Especially while no one likes to mention the elephant – or should that be dragon? – in the room: New Zealand’s relationship with China.

Or perhaps "Plucky little New Zealand" will try to dismount the dragon? ...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/25/a-matter-of-time-new-zealands-foreign-minister-warns-china-storm-could-be-coming

It was one of the minister’s more frank discussions of the vulnerability of New Zealand’s trade dependency on China – and a clear directive to local exporters that they should be seeking to redistribute some of those eggs to baskets elsewhere.

But as the old Chinese adage goes, "Ch'i 'hu nan hsia pei".

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It's OK, I won't say I told you so

Blighty's inexorable decline and fall lumbers grindingly on under the Blue Socialist autocracy ...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/09/04/tories-war-idiotic-national-insurance-tax-increase/

IDS's comment sums it all up ...

Sir Iain Duncan Smith, the former Tory leader, said: “If we start raising substantial sums of money without a proper solution we end up, if we’re not careful, as a high-tax, high-spend party and the problem not solved.”

BoJo intends to dump oodles of extra tax cash into the top of the power pyramid of the failed NHS system using the failed National Insurance system.  Pure Blue Socialism with a track record of degradation since 1948.

But IDS's comment hints at a realisation of the problem in the minds of the diminished and usurped Libertarian faction of the Tory party ... "without a proper solution ... the problem not solved".

A high-tax high-spend Tory party "without a proper solution ... the problem not solved" matches Liberal and Labour party stances on the matter, thereby demonstrating the triple-lock failure of Blighty's democracy - quite literally a hard-baked zero solution ballot paper with a fake choice - and guarantees another 1970's style bankruptcy and failed state long term outcome.

The NHS has 1.4 million people working for it.  It is the 5th largest employer in the world; only McDonald's, Walmart, the US DOD, and the Chinese Army have more staff working for them than the NHS.  And yet the NHS doesn't have enough doctors and nurses.  It makes the Brits wait weeks to see a GP, months to see a consultant, and years to have an operation, and that was even before the Covid plague arrived.

Brexit was the prime mover in this triple-lock socialism that has broken Blighty's democracy.  Brexit is the statist, collectivist, socialist dream come true, left, right and centre.  It emboldens the executive's control of the means of the production in all parties because "Take back control" didn't mean take back control for you and me, it meant take back control for the political class in Westminster.

Specifically, it meant the external governance of Blighty that prevented such triple-lock socialism and fake democracy from happening, namely:  Margaret Thatcher's single market, four freedoms, and state aid rules, was removed like a straitjacket from the lunatic - the proven lunatic from the "hero of WWII to zero of bankruptcy" 1945-1975 period.

And so there's no surprise that Blue Socialists of the right, like BoJo and Cummings with their "backing winners", "f*ck business", and "Brexity Hezza" mentality, are now hand-in-hand with the original red socialists, in fact, out-doing them.

There's another hint at the truth of what is needed in Steve Baker's comment ...

Steve Baker, the former Brexit minister, said: “Of all the ways to break manifesto tax pledges to fund the NHS and social care, raising NIC must be the worst. In this time of crisis, we need a zero-based review of what the state does and how it is funded.”

But IDS and Baker are fools if they think that a low-state, no-state healthcare system to replace the failed NHS will ever happen until Blighty is bankrupt and a failed state yet again.

Now the lunatic is unfettered and running the asylum, we just have to wait for economic, social, and political oblivion before we get any "proper solution" and "problem solved".

Good call 23rd June 2016.

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When the DT conflates booing of BLM with monkey chants, you know we're in trouble

If you boo BLM you are now deemed to be a racist - and that's the Daily Telegraph talking ...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2021/09/02/monkey-chants/

Gareth Southgate said the onus is now entirely with Fifa and Uefa to tackle racism as there is "no more" his players can do on the issue after yet more abuse in Hungary.

On a night in which Raheem Sterling and Jude Bellingham faced monkey chants in Budapest, the England manager added that fans still booing players for taking the knee were "dinosaurs".

Southgate admitted there might also be a lesson during the "completely unacceptable" scenes last night for English fans who have continued to boo players for taking the knee as "the world is changing".

"Although some people are stuck in their ways of thinking and in their prejudices, they're going to be the dinosaurs in the end because the world is modernising," he added.

Gareth Southgate's players also faced loud boos resounding around the Puskas Arena before kick-off as they took the knee. With Fifa now under mounting pressure to launch tougher sanctions than a previous ban by Uefa, here Telegraph Sport explores how Hungary supporters defied warnings and recent sanctions as this opening World Cup qualifier turned sour

There were also further demonstrations by far right groups outside the stadium ahead of France players taking a knee before kick-off during the second fixture. A number of French media reports alleged monkey chants were later directed at Paul Pogba, N’Golo Kante and Kylian Mbappe. Fans had also loudly jeered Republic of Ireland players for taking the knee at a Euro 2020 warm-up game.

After racist abuse on the terraces in Montenegro and Bulgaria in 2019 and then booing over taking the knee from their own supporters at Euro 2020, the current England generation were well-prepared for hostilities they faced at the Puskas Arena.

BLM is a political movement and its supporters who "take the knee" are political activists.  Booing them is exercising the right to freedom of expression.  End of.

But in addition, BLM itself is a political movement for anti-white discrimination and pro-black privilege.  This is both anti-equality and anti-equity.  Anti-equality because privilege is the antithesis of rights which are there for all equally.  And anti-equity because equity is about redistribution to those in need irrespective of any other categorisation of human being, like race, creed, gender, or identity, other than need.  Put simply, BLM is racist.

Criticizing, including booing, is the right of freedom of expression and should be available to all people including the far right, and targetable at all people including the far left.

In those paragraphs above you see how the Daily Telegraph is now complicit in the conflation of criticism of BLM with racist monkey chants, joining ranks with the BBC, CNN and the nexus of the Left Axis.

Another step in the direction of the New Dark Age, and a sad day for those who Love Enlightenment and Liberty.

SoD

The hidden victory in Afghanistan

Glezza was worried in the comments about it being difficult to bomb Islamists at home.  Well, that may be true, but it's also just become a lot easier to bomb the Islamists abroad, because now we're working with them abroad ...

US Army General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has said it was “possible” the United States will seek to coordinate with the Taliban on counterterrorism strikes in Afghanistan against Islamic State militants or others.

Marine General Frank McKenzie, head of US Central Command, has described the U.S. relationship with the Taliban during the evacuation as “very pragmatic and very businesslike”, saying they helped secure the airport.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/02/its-possible-us-military-chief-could-work-with-taliban-on-is-counter-terror-strikes 

Service folks should not think their efforts have been in vain in Afghanistan.  Far from it, neither of the two paragraphs quoted above would have been possible to say 20 years ago.  In fact, the turning point against terrorist Islamism has been made in those 20 years by the skill, courage and resilience of those who served in Afghanistan.

We now have the Hairies willing to fight and kill each other, and, with the faction we're backing willing to down tools against us.  This is the mirror of the success in Syria and the wider ME, where we got Shia and Sunni terrorists to fight each other.

"Bait and bleed", the Judean People's Front vs the People's Front of Judea, hold their coats while they kick the proverbial out of each other, all of these are with us now on all foreign fronts against the enemy.

So Glezza, back to Winnie's old adage that seems to be worrying you "When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you"?  And we have the enemy within, therefore a problem, right?

Well the homeboys are puppet-mastered by their hard-nut masters abroad.  And correct me if I'm wrong, but the hard-nut foreign puppet-masters are mighty busy in their Sunni-on-Shia and soon to be Taliban-on-ISIS wars all across the ME and Asia.  So the command strings have been somewhat severed.

And, if any Brit Conservative Muslim Dad's and Grandad's fancy sending their nutter youth to those foreign wars to fight the new priority enemies over there, we should buy them their EasyJet or RyanAir tickets and wave them a fond farewell!  The problem of bombing our homeboy terrorists just got solved by getting them to travel abroad and bomb themselves there!

If the West's foreign policy and military picks up the massive opportunity granted us by the blood, toil, tears and sweat of our armed forces, in the end it will be easy being a Roman again ...

 

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The darkest hour comes before the dawn

So Sleepy Joe's not for "remaking other countries" anymore?

Well let's take a look at the scores on the doors then ...

For

WWII: Germany, Italy, Japan. Cold War: Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Rumania, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia, South Korea. Others: Israel, Ukraine (minus Crimea), Rojava.

Agin

Vietnam, North Korea, Iraq, Syria (minus Rojava), Cuba (just missed a sitter there), Afghanistan.

You're winning, Uncle Sam!

Stiff upper lip old boy, and remember: 14 years after that helicopter flew off the roof of the Hotel Saigon the wall came down and Communism / Socialism collapsed, freeing billions of people totally or partially from the most murderous ideology and regimes in the history of mankind!

That was the greatest victory in the history of warfare.

So broad sweeping generalisation statements like "we're not remaking other countries anymore" are wrong-headed.

Pick and choose, "Watch and shoot" as my old section corporal used to say, and "It ain't what you do it's the way that you do it, and that's what gets results" as Bananarama and Fun Boy Three used to sing.

Don't quit while you're ahead. "If you're going through hell, keep going" as Winnie once said.

Keep going, and go for the whole globe.

You can do it.

SoD

Biden is a racist

Sleepy Joe just called one of his staffers, a 48 year old black man, "boy" ...

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-calls-black-adviser-boy

Biden is a full-on died-in-the-wool Dem racist.  He lost the battle to enslave blacks, lost the battle to segregate them, and now he privileges them merely to garner their votes, while underneath the privilege facade his wool is died the same as it ever was.

The slip-ups are just too regular to be passed off as anything else.  The "If you don't vote for me you ain't black" blurt, the one where he said "Poor kids are just as bright and talented as white kids", and now a straightforward racist slur.

I don't know why he doesn't just come straight out with it like Lyndon Johnson, Dem president, in 1965 ...

"I'm gonna have those niggers voting Dem for 200 years".

Here's MSNBC acknowledging Johnson's full-on blend of racism-with-privilege character and politics ...

https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/lyndon-johnson-civil-rights-racism-msna305591 

Shame MSNBC and the rest of the Left media can't acknowledge Biden is out of the same mould - and the entire BLM, Antifa, Woke apparat as well.

SoD

UPDATE #1

Jeez, I hadn't watched the actual footage when I wrote the above.  It's actually worse than I envisaged.  Unlike the "Poor kids ..." comment there's no correction, no expansion to dilute the damage, not even realisation.  One can only conclude that the only thing progressive about Biden is his dementia.  This is, quite literally, a demented racist in full flow, "busier than the devil" ... 

UPDATE #2

Oh, and btw, as you might expect: CNN, BBC, and the Left Axis media crew nowhere to be seen.  Just imagine if the Don or one of his team had said something like that ...

https://www.google.com/search?q=biden+calls+adviser+boy&tbm=nws

 

Goodbye Taliban, hello Mujahideen

If ever the Realpolitik adage "Your enemy's enemy is your friend" needed a real world example it is the opportunity, yes opportunity, that now presents itself in central Asia.

Let's raise the telescope to our eye, and through the fog of war scan the enemy's battle line and list their contingents on this field of glory - clockwise from North ...

- Russia

- China

- Pakistan

- Iran

All four of them fear the Taliban for various reasons: all have deep vulnerabilities to the Taliban.

Vlad is terrified of renewed conflict in the Stan's, his south eastern "near abroad" buffer zone.  Connecting to Islamist groups in the Stan's would be straightforward for the Taliban to achieve and a bloody thorn in Vlad's side.

Ping-a-Ling is fearful of the same: Taliban and Uyghur Islamism in collaboration.

"It's not cricket" Khan has beaten the Pakistan Taliban for now while simultaneously supporting the Afghan Taliban and taking development and anti-terrorism support from the West!  In the world of Realpolitik that's an A*, you have to say.  But in the Great Game everything has changed now and all bets are off.  It's ding-ding round 2 - or round 22 more like - and there is no reason why a victorious Afghan Taliban cannot revisit the quarter lost to "It's not cricket" Khan.

The Mad Mullahs are the Taliban's greatest infidel enemy, the Shia splitters from the true Sunni Islam, and with a pesky minority in Afghanistan that the Taliban would do well to oppress and isolate from Iranian influence.

And turning the telescope to our own battle line, who's there? ...

- Turkey

- Saudi Arabia and the Emirates

Well, there's a gift!  Dirty Erdy and the Camel Boys are all Sunni and thereby the brethren of the Taliban!  That makes it easier.

So what's to do and how to do it?

Firstly, swallow pride, suppress emotion, step away from the event, and let is pass into the mere status quo of history.  You got beat.  Get over it and don't be a Shushka.

Secondly, opium.  Immediately the whole of the West needs to reduce the local price of heroin to zero by putting a dispenser machine outside every newsagent, GP surgery, pharmacy, and hospital, whereby you simply press the button and your baggy drops into the tray, like a bag of crisps or a Snickers bar, absolutely free of charge.  That will destroy the domestic heroin drug trafficking industry stone dead.  It is the only known way to kill a market: reduce the price to zero.

To supply the dispenser machines the West needs to buy the poppy crop of Afghanistan, or at least, as much of it as is required to sate the domestic usage.  That buys us huge influence with the Taliban, we will be their biggest customer.

And then there's the surplus heroin we don't need, and here's the rub: this one's a leaf right out of the pages of the British Empire: allow and encourage the supply of heroin to Vlad, Ping-a-Ling, and "It's not cricket" Khan.  But let them keep paying full whack street price.

Blighty already pulled this trick with Ping-a-Ling's crew way back when, as said.  We rubber ducked them up big time with this one.  They're addictive people, gambling, getting high, they're mad for it up for it.  Here's a little piccie from the past to remind you ...

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/History_of_opium_in_China

The Rooskies, Chinks and Pak's are deeply conservative societies unlikely to be able to lever the Liberal ethos required to take the logic to its conclusion: you destroy a market by reducing the price to zero.  They won't be fitting smack dispensing machines in public places any time soon.  And even if they do, they'll be buying at the Taliban's street price until they can get a poppy crop of their own going.  Their societies will be wrecked and their economy too as they pay "top whack for smack" into the bargain.

Thirdly, get those Talib chaps au fait with the oodles of mil kit we've left behind, and get them busy doing nasty in the Stan's, Xinxiang province, and Pakistan.  There's great synergy here with step two: the heroin smuggling routes where all the wonga is made are the same routes down which the Talibs will be going to do the nasty.  The smugglers need security and the Talibs are it, and the Talibs need covert passage and networks and the smugglers are it.  Nice.  See that smug grin wiped off "It's not cricket" Khan's fizzog in round 2 (or 22) - double nice.

Fourthly, we need to embrace the Taliban as our prime actor against ISIS and more extreme Islamist groups.  The Talibs hate them already, so this one's a no brainer.  "There shall be no-one more extreme than the Taliban".  We'll take that now.  So let's back it up.  The synergy with the weaponry left behind in Afghanistan is obvious.  Any Talibs wanting some foreign service in Africa against Boko Haram, or with the Hairies in Syria against Assad and Vlad, or in Yemen against AQ: speak to Dirty Erdy and the Camel Boys and roll-up roll-up!

Fifthly, and last but not least, some PR and positioning with the domestic audience.  Can't be without PR these days of course, and the Taliban need a rebranding.  From now on they are to be called the Mujahideen once again.  Nice retro spin with plenty of preserved value, we are conservatives after all.

And from a positioning perspective, we need to acknowledge and project that Dirty Erdy and the Camel Boys are at least as nasty to the Laydeez and devoid of human rights, possibly more so, than the Taliban after 20 years of having had nail bars, beauty parlours, kids tranny clinics, chicks with dicks in girls changing rooms, and Save the Whales offices (or is it "Save the Cats and Dogs"? - what a Shushka that Pen Farthing bloke is) thrust upon them.  If Dirty Erdy and the Camel Boys are our friends then the Mujahideen are welcome.  If you served and gave over these 20 years it was not in vain: none of the above would be possible without your sacrifice, particularly the comparatively moderate Taliban of today versus two decades ago.

Of course, Dirty Erdy, the Camel Boys, and Mujahideen are not our friends.  They are our enemies' enemies.  When our current enemies are destroyed these friends will become our enemies and we will destroy them too - if we haven't worn them down with nail bars, beauty parlours, kids tranny clinics, etc. etc. and assimilated them into us by then.

Well there it is.

Sound like a plan?

SoD