The Controlled Demolition of Nation-States

  J.B. Shurk     ()MUST READ)

Why would nations give a bunch of global bankers a monopoly to control the supply of money, when that awesome power allows them to impoverish and manage everyone else?  Why would politicians who claim to care about income inequality perpetuate a system that specializes in producing income inequality?  The answer is simple: governments are concerned exclusively with power and do not care about preserving democratic ideals, personal freedom, or the livelihoods of their people  ......Call it the road to serfdom.  Call it socialism hiding inside the Trojan horse of late-stage capitalism.  Call it Marxist globalism intent on creating a small class of masters and several continents of slaves.  Whatever it is called, it represents the controlled demolition of entire nation-states.  When central banks and politicians work together to fleece ordinary citizens, they create the conditions for despotism, poverty, and...sometimes...revolutions for change. ....."

ED: This is what "climate change" is all about - CONTROL

The Contradictions of Carbon Capture

 John M. Contino

In May, 2022, the Biden Administration announced a $3.5 billion program to capture carbon pollution from the air, and the money has been flowing copiously. A quick search on LinkedIn for companies engaged in Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS) projects will reveal dozens of companies, most of which are U.S.-based. They are well-staffed and generously funded with millions of up-front taxpayer dollars.......The hyperbolic language of the climate change crowd has been wearing thin ever since Al Gore’s dire predictions from 2006 have inconveniently not materialized. It’s up to us to make the left realize they’ve overplayed their hand: they cannot ride roughshod over property rights whenever it suits them, just as they cannot force us to drink Bud Light if we don’t wish to do so."

Germany’s Federal Network Agency Plans To Ration Electricity As Electric Power Crisis Heightens

 NoTricksZone

Greatest energy folly of all time?

No one could have imagined a folly of this scale less than 2 years ago, just before the current Socialist-Green government took over the reins of power at the end of 2021. Other countries may want to avoid the idiotic German path."

 

French President Macron Sells Out Climate Activists, Calls for a “Pause” in New Regulations

WUWT 

President Macron has chosen to dump climate activists in his desperate struggle to save his political skin from the rise of French Conservative Marine Le Pen.   .......Macron is now desperate to distance himself from climate issues a little, to prevent more of his working class industrial belt supporters defecting to his rival Marine Le-Pen. France has been rent by widespread protests against pension reforms and cost of living rises. The situation in France is now so unstable, France has cancelled hosting the World Cup Soccer tournament in 2025, claiming they don’t have enough money to support the event – but more likely, Macron is worried football violence could escalate into a popular uprising against his heavy handed incompetence."

Lomborg: ‘Organic agriculture’ could optimistically support 4.7 billion people – ‘Industrial agriculture’ could optimistically support 12 billion – Current global population is 8 billion

 WUWT

New Nature paper: w/extreme yields (everywhere highest today) +current share of feed-food competition (57%, much food to animal production) Organic agriculture can support 4.7 billion Industrial agriculture (w/fossil nitrogen) can support 12 billion https://nature.com/articles/s43016-023-00741-w

Why would anyone believe these people can control temperatures, sea levels, and storm activity forever?

 American Thinker

The people who say they can control the climate forever if we are forced to buy electric cars and give up a lot of other stuff somehow can't figure out how to have AM radio stations without interference from electric vehicles.......Does anyone think they can solve all the economic and environmentally harmful issues related to electric vehicles? Here is some information about electric vehicles that the complicit media will not be allowed to see. This information is as censored as the stories showing Biden family corruption.  ......And the last problem is this. Even if all the predictions were true and we all changed to electric, the temperature would only be reduced by a few 10ths of a degree in 80 years. Anyone who believes that prediction when the weather can't be predicted even for tomorrow should see if they have lost their ability to think.

Why would we spend trillions, greatly destroy our quality of life,  and destroy industries that directly and indirectly employ tens of millions to supposedly adjust temperatures by a miniscule amount? "

The IPCC Radical Climate Change Agenda Is a Neo-Marxist, Postmodern Value Narrative

 American Thinker

In combating the global warming (aka, climate change) movement, we fail to understand that the radical left today lives in a value-relative phenomenology shaped by a mixture of postmodernism blended with neo-Marxism. It misses the mark merely to refute the hoax science behind the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)’s decision to eliminate the use of hydrocarbon fuels.

The sad truth is that government-funded climate scientists know CO2 is not the control knob of Earth’s temperature. The postmodernist mind lives in the John Lennon world where “reimagining” is required to advance us into their carbon-free utopia. In this bizarre world, post-modernism rejects the Enlightenment’s confidence in a fact-based, rule-driven reality anchored by scientific proof that overrides subjective desires. To them, reality is a “language game” (in Wittgenstein’s terms) or, as they say, a “narrative.”......In 2018, the IPCC issued a policy statement requiring governments to limit or discontinue the burning of hydrocarbon fuels to reduce the emission of CO2 to keep the planet from exceeding 1.5°C above preindustrial levels. Politically correct global warming/climate change true believers assume all who love Earth must think we have no choice but to abandon hydrocarbon fuels. The IPCC “scientific consensus” is operative on a normative level, not as an Enlightenment science-tested statement of proven fact."

3 Damning Equations to Defeat Global Warming Zealots

 American Thinker

The true economic, social, and political cost of the measures proposed by governments (in the West only) to destroy their nations' businesses and jobs and to impoverish every household is becoming ever more visible.  At last, therefore, a few brave souls in the scientific and academic communities are beginning to question what I shall call — with more than a little justification — the Communist Party line on climate change.   ......However, the three equations stand firmly in the way.  It is these three equations — simple enough to be explained here for the general reader, yet devastating enough utterly to destroy the official climate change narrative — that will soon lay low the enemies of prosperity, democracy, and liberty who have, until now, gotten away with undermining the West, no less from within than from without, by their childishly apocalyptic climate change narrative.  .......Therefore, I said, every $1 billion the world squanders on trying to get to net zero emissions by 2050 would prevent only one 16-millionth of a degree of warming. ..."

The Industrial Revolution has had a minimal effect on atmospheric CO2

American Thinker 

In February 2022, Health Physics published a little-noticed study that recently received so much attention, the publisher removed the paywall behind which the article previously hid. The article’s title is mind-numbing: “World Atmospheric CO2, Its 14C Specific Activity, Non-fossil Component, Anthropogenic Fossil Component, and Emissions (1750–2018).” The three authors are all academics in the field of radiology with ties to the University of Massachusetts Lowell According to the study, it is true that CO2 began to increase a bit with the Industrial Revolution. However, the increase in CO2 because of human fossil fuel use has been negligible and could not have caused the climate to change. Here’s the authors’ abstract: .........There are two actual, stubborn facts to note. First, the Earth’s climate has been changing without pause since it came into being. Indeed, the Earth is incredibly dynamic. I live near the South Carolina coast. Although I’m several miles inland from the Atlantic Ocean, there is sand everywhere. That’s because my neck of the woods used to be the bottom of a primeval ocean. In the same way, the Sahara Desert was once a verdant primeval forest. The Earth’s climate changed, and humans adapted because that’s what they do.

Second, plants need CO2. I happen to know some (legal) marijuana growers who pump CO2 into their indoor crop to facilitate its growth. More CO2, not less CO2, is good for human beings.

That leftists are so terrified of something that makes food more, rather than less, available for people across the planet tells you everything you need to know about their long-term agenda for humankind. The favored people will live in comfortable enclaves with good food of the type routinely served at World Economic Forum gatherings. The rest of us will be at the mercy of painfully hot or cold weather and survive on a diet of bugs and lab-grown sludge."

Western leaders are madder than I thought

 Unherd

Europe is belatedly grappling with the (entirely foreseeable) consequences of imposing sanctions on Russia. The Nord Stream pipeline has been intermittently closed over the summer, reportedly for “maintenance” (which no one believes). Another closure has just been announced.

As a result, prices are rocketing across the continent, with the ripple effects already being felt by businesses and consumers. 

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From the comments:

"This certainly has to do with Russian sanctions, but that isn’t the whole story… by any stretch.The serious misery we are only just beginning to experience is far more the result of decades of short-termist policy making re energy security, and pandering (and I would argue ‘elite capture’ – an almost cult-like groupthink among the elite/governing classes) and their naive wholesale stampede toward the ruinous policy of Net Zero …well before we have any adequate infrastructure or technology in place to replace the ‘old’ energy types [namely oil, coal and gas]."

"The rot started in 1997 when Blair stopped all new nuclear projects and was made worse by Milliband’s disastrous 2008 Climate Change Act. The 2010 coalition continued the nonsense with the LibDems insisting on having the Energy Department under their control.
And yes, it’s got worse since 2015 with undeliverable policies on gas boilers, petrol/diesel vehicles and heat pumps making a bad situation worse.
All political parties have been singing from the same hymn sheet and now we haven’t got a prayer."

 "This article completely misses the point – this energy and cost of living crisis was not caused by western leaders’ failure to appease an aggressive tyrant’s unprovoked invasion of a democratic neighbour, but by them adopting energy policies which allowed them to become dependent on and at the mercy of this particular tyrant for many of their energy needs in the first place. An ultra-nationalist bully like Vladimir Putin was always going to start a major war eventually, and now he has."

"If the West had not thoroughly embraced Green energy and gone away from reliable, cheap coal and nuclear it would not be in the big crunch it is in now.
It will take more than 100 years to displace fossil fuels, if they even need to be displaced (AGW is BS). What is the big rush? Why immiserate the people for a pipe dream? (Oh, yeah, it makes them feel virtuous!)"

 

Energy Company Shuts Down Access to Home Thermostats During 90 Degree Heat Wave in Denver

 Gateway Pundit

Now you know why the government and Big Tech were pushing smart meters.

Residents in Colorado were surprised this week when they were unable to adjust the smart meters in their own home. The government shut down access to their home thermostat in order to save on energy during the current heat wave.

It’s for your own good......When thousands of Xcel customers in Colorado tried adjusting their thermostats Tuesday, they learned they had no control over the temperatures in their own homes. via @jaclynreporting https://t.co/mgLEC6SEzR    ......

The Gateway Pundit warned consumers about smart meters back in 2011 when the Obama White House was pushing the idea.

We posted this report by The P/Oed Patriot back on December 20, 2011."

 

The misinformation and lies that are peddled to the public on climate change dwarf the misinformation on COVID

 American Thinker

The misinformation and intentional lies on climate change/global warming dwarf the misinformation the government fed us on COVID and are an existential threat to our survival as a great country.  Essentially, climate change pushers are infecting the U.S. with a pandemic of the indoctrinated. 

The Earth is not rapidly warming.  We have had a one- to two-degree rise in 160 years after a little ice age ended in 1860.  That is cyclical and normal and certainly has no relationship with an exponential rise in fossil fuel consumption. 

Sea levels are not rising rapidly.  Sea levels have risen and fallen throughout history, and a nine-inch rise in over 100 years in seas that average over 12,000 feet deep is essentially immeasurable.  It certainly cannot be attributed to organic fuel combustion engines. 

Floods and droughts are not worse than ever.  The Earth is covered by deserts and seas, which are there because of big floods and long droughts. 

Climate change is not killing thousands of species each year.  Extinctions have always occurred, and it appears that fewer than two species per year have gone extinct the last 500 years, and those certainly can't be attributed to humans, CO2, or fossil fuels.   ...

One of the most egregious examples of pure lies was that polar bears were dying because of climate change.  They are thriving today, and somehow that story is not printed because it doesn't scare the public into submission...........

Why don't journalists do their job and ask Biden, Kerry, AOC, Gore, Gates, and all the others spreading this propaganda for scientific data showing a direct relationship between fossil fuel consumption and temperature?  The answer is that they don't care and probably know there is none. 

Getting rid of organic fuel combustion vehicles and replacing them with vehicles powered by the flammable pollutant lithium will not change the climate at all.

Anyone who believes that politicians and bureaucrats who can't control budgets, crime, borders, or a virus; can't keep their promises on Obamacare; and can't get kids to read or do math at grade level can control temperatures, sea levels, and storm activity forever if we just destroy our economy needs to take a cognitive test."

 

 

It doesn't matter what they say: This isn't climate change's fault

 American Thinker

The study did find that there was less physical activity during the coronavirus pandemic.  You think?  When experts and rulers shut down schools, closed playgrounds and fitness centers, and locked everyone in his house for nearly two straight years? .....

In light of all this, experts still have the nerve to tell us man-caused global warming/climate change is responsible for kids' declining physical (and mental) health?!

I am sick and damn tired of experts telling us that the COVID-1984 vaccines are safe and effective.  And mandatory.  I am sick and damn tired of being told that all white people are (inherently!) racist, that men can be women and vice versa, and that "abortion is health care."  Or "love."  And that I am a "domestic terrorist" simply for holding these views.

And I am sick and damn tired of being told that — in addition to floods, droughts, extreme heat, and extreme cold — man-caused climate change/global warming is demonstrably responsible for the coronavirus, Monkeypox, cedar apple rust, inflation, Russia invading Ukraine, the sudden rise in polio cases, distrust of our institutions, Jan. 6, supply chain issues, food shortages, Liz Cheney's defeat, falling spermatozoa levels in males in Western nations, Chinese aggression, stock market volatility, homelessness, painful rectal itch, loneliness, the opioid crisis, the decline in the popularity of Major League Baseball (MLB), Lyme disease, solar flares, and acid reflux.

Is climate change also to blame for Joy Behar, Jerry Nadler, MSNBC, the Impossible Whopper®, and Nicki Minaj?

And for...studies like this one?

Global warming is the greatest scientific fraud in history

 American Thinker

Until the advent of the anthropogenic global warming hypothesis, the Piltdown Man was the most remarkable scientific fraud in history.  The anthropogenic global warming hypothesis has now assumed that title."

 Neil Oliver GB News Video

Neil Oliver: 'It's hard to tell yourself you've been taken for a fool but open your eyes'

From the comments -

"I hope this monologue escapes the censors and is available for future generations to look back to a time when people were unafraid to speak out against the unfolding tyranny"

 

"This is perhaps the best monologue Neil has done so far. Honestly baffles me how so many people in general still refuse to acknowledge even the possibility that something nefarious has gone on these last couple years by those we placed our trust in and refuse to open their eyes to it all."

 

"Niel Oliver, one of the few who tell the true story of what is going on in this the world. Thanks for your work. Support from the Netherlands"

 

"I'm 56 now. If someone had shown me the future back in '96 when life was so much better I think my blood would have run cold at the prospect of the life awaiting me. I still struggle to believe this is all actually happening."

 

Update :  Video link is to Rumble (back up)