On PMQs today (Jan 11th) several of the questions and answers were about the "wonderful" drive towards Net Zero (Net Stupid). The disconnect between the governed and the governing is huge and the gulf is growing wider.
Very true Greg and Joe Public is finally, but too slowly waking up to the fact, thanks to Rishi's so obvious disconnect. I am appalled to read that MP Bridger has been relieved of the Whip, just for telling the truth. These monsters will continue until stopped but the hopelessly corrupt UK system , from 'first-past-the -post' to the Establishment feeding at the trough of public funds, leaves only a final collapse of the system itself as a remedy - they are deeply embedded.
I record it and watch it in small segments because I can only take a few minutes at a time. I watch it because I feel I need to be reminded regularly how terrible this very very costly kindergarten is, every week.
In the US it appears the young are staying home playing video games perhaps but not working. Chatted with a friend about when we were young delivering newspapers from our bikes; commiserated that the rich folk tipped poorly, or hid when you came to collect. The poorer folk tipped better and paid when due. We retaliated by missing their porch. But both of us started doing that sort of thing in our early teens. I also delivered groceries and pharmacy stuff after school. Those sorts of jobs now seem gone.
The twitter files reveal how much our government is controlling us in violation of our constitution. Wonder if anybody held to account? All responsibility is some committee, not a person.
Your West Mids seems in trouble. Is that a distribution issue? We don't see that much difference in costs over quite large distances, relatively speaking. Where I am 250 mi is a easy drive for an outing.
More and more we are understanding the damage from the vax and boosters make it worse. People are now seeing it fr themselves instead of seeing the data we on SubStack have been fretting about for some time. Don't know when officials will stop being so blind.
Poor Harry. A fine man seeming destroyed by his foolish choices (including his wife). Seeing him tell us about combat death followed by needing counseling over a bad spat with his brother?
We all did our paper rounds and those little jobs as scouts in our day - times change HH and not for the better.
"All responsibility is some committee, not a person". Yes indeed, they hide behind 'joint responsibility' like corporations and all other collectives, so nobody can be held to account. It's a failed system which will only correct when the system itself fails and this is coming IMHO. Decision-making for the commons is tricky but my good friend Niall has a solution: http://harrogateagenda.org.uk/
I am deep in rural SW England - safe and mild, far away from those crazy 'smart cities'. You're right about people waking up - slowly true - but 2023 will see it begin to go viral when the deliberate blindness of the authorities will be too obvious to deny - they will have to back down but must be pursued to the end - I have no intention of letting them of the hook even if there are few rattled ones weeping for forgiveness, viz
"And how prophetic Berenson has turned out to be, for The Atlantic just published the mother of all astonishingly, offensively awful COVID-19 takes, as the reader is probably well aware. In an October 31st piece titled, “Let’s Declare A Pandemic Amnesty,” Emily Oster effectively argues that, well, shucks, we did our best, and we couldn’t have known any better, so let’s just forgive and forget. The contrast to “The Pandemic’s Wrongest Man” is astonishing. The tide is well and truly going out.
And Prince Hal? Could it be a PsyOp to distract from the coming storm? I can't believe Harry is this insane, especially about the 25 Afghans - my detector smells some dark smoke lurking over a smouldering heap of BS. It is too bizarre to be real and his ghost is a very experienced Pollitzer writer. Is this an orange? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLz9ewBt-dw
The North-South divide is kind of another "divide and rule" strategy used by politicians.
Granted the Midlands and the North were shafted by asset-stripping deindustrialisation but there are still pockets of wealth to be found in the North, they are just few and far between.
This puts into perspective PC: "In fact, add up all the multi-millionaires in the other four wealthiest cities in the U.K. and they do not come close to London. Collectively, Manchester (1,060), Edinburgh (420), Birmingham (310) and Bristol (340), have a fifth of London's multi-millionaire population." It's a bit out of date but I don't think anything has changed much - probably got worse:
One of my good friends locally is a multimillionaire by a quirk of inheritance - he lived a modest life prior to 2010 but it never changed him. He remains a generous and happy fellow, so some are worth it and do real good in communities.
Howser & Worth (mega-rich art dealers from London) arrived in Bruton some years ago and have transformed the town. They bought up failing local farms and shops and promote localisation which allows us access to short supply lines and affordable prices as well as bringing employment. So there is good in these people too - sometimes! It's not all bad as you note.
Had no idea the North was so different, aside from mushy peas, of course. And I don't think the party scene in Newcastle is all that different. Scotland has always been unique even from the time of the wall. My family has some Scots roots but they are a different lot. One might think the mids would have a solidly established industrial base by now, but that seems to have gone away.
Funny how Berenson and the Atlantic have had to come to terms.
Britain's manufacturing base has disappeared, HH. The UK economy is dominated by services industries. These include retail, hospitality, professional services, business administration and finance. In 2021, services industries contributed £1.7 trillion, 80% of total UK output. Manufacturing was a pathetic £183 billion!
The Brits spend their time selling houses to each other, drinking, gambling, bean-counting and creating 'wealth' out of nothing in the City of London!
The article reflects my thoughts in greater depth. One aspect:
"The fact that American living standards have broadly stagnated, and for some segments of the population have declined, should be cause for real concern to the ruling class." .... "Thwarted personal aspirations are often channeled into politics and zero-sum factional conflict. " .... ".. cultural dysphoria, social atomization, and alienation"
And if the Chinese are running a PsyOp using TicTok to affect our youth, we are fighting a very real internal battle.
I'm just not clear on what policies must be revised to restore confidence. I do think large numbers are not happy with the current situation.
Scottish people generally are the the sort of people who will take in strangers and do anything for them.
I wish I could find a link for it but there was a guy who decided to go to a particular Scvottish Island to kill himself because it was the place where he remembered being at peace.
Long story short, things happened like his van broke down and local people took him in and fed him and cared about him.
Lovely story to uplift our spirits and restore faith in human nature - thanks PC. I guess there are so many heroic acts which bypass the toxic MSM and social media as they revel in disaster and suffering - it sells clicks I guess - and makes people feel better about their lot - there's a name for it: schadenfreude.
Me too PC - and Firefox is great for this - I have thousands. But then I have difficulty finding them sometimes but my youngest son is an IT whizz and told me to use 'Cntrl B' in the body of any page and up pops a search on the left (it's only a word search but is really helpful - I use it a lot.).
I asked FF for a search function a while ago and they never said anything so I wonder if they even know about it?
Yes indeed so far, but I am seeing tiny cracks appearing now; they appear to be losing some momentum, which could widen during the year. Much depends on how far China will go to clear out their WEF infiltrators. BOOM commented on this yesterday - look out for the post tomorrow.
This is true what you say, but they will not give up.
Already there are plans to introduce Digital ID all over the Globe, there is no end in sight to this. I myself am an American living in Japan, and already there is talk here of connecting their My Number card (similar to our Social Security Card.) to a digital ID, next year in fact they will connect their drivers license to the My number card. Since Japanese all wear mask here, I am afraid they will eat this digital system up as they tend to still obey authority, there will be some that refuse, but I'm not sure if that in itself will be enough to stop this. Once everything is on this digital ID TPTB will have everything they desire, complete control.
Already with food shortages, oil shock around the corner, shipping cost going up along with inflation on most goods, the squeeze is on, when people are starving to death they will tend to accept anything to be saved, and that is their plan. As one can plainly see.
You are so right - they are evangelical in their devotion to 'the cause' and China has similar adherence to authority as Japan. One of my Chinese readers sent me this last year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXyzpMDtpSE
China is totally different than Japan. Japan in the end will demonstrate and if not listened to could become violent, and unlike China the Police will not intentionally murder their own citizens. Japan may arrest demonstrators, but they will not disappear people like China does. Already Brazil is arresting demonstrators and copying how America treated the J6 demonstrators as terrorist and they are all copying China. The goal is crush dissent and Censor anything that is not the Main Stream Authoritarian Narrative similar to China.
Thank you Inugo - LOL. I must confess that the stereotype is well taken but I guess there are some youngsters willing to put shoulder to the plough and it is those I hope who will be encouraged to take on an apprenticeship.
I regret that Polytechnics in my day have transformed into second-rate 'universities' - a common social engineering artefact which merely obfuscates the true meaning of words and labels. It's toxic effect is to diminish the value of practical skills and laud the 'apparent value' of worthless degrees leaving a dearth of productive contributors. I assume that the pendulum will return in due course as it always does.
- It is never the dogs' fault when the piss on the carpet.
- Don't hate the players (gen z et al), hate the game.
When was the last debate class an under 30 person took in school? Humans are miraculous and as soon as you expose the human brain to new learning, it becomes an addiction (for most) to get more of that feeling. I love debating and being proved wrong. It happens all the time! Haha
Me too - my long life has been a continual learning exercise and the older I get the less I know - it's called wisdom of old age! "The secret of success is knowing how to fail" - Xerox 1977
Holding on too tightly to yesterday's truth makes our ego(s) stronger (eg. snowflakes) but our intelligence level(s) stagnant or permanently weakened.
As soon as you say "I" alongside a statement of truth, it becomes part of your ego and no longer anything to do with the truth. A wise academic taught me that a long time ago (I wish I was better with this trait).
One of the many lessons I learned during my training to be an humanistic counsellor in the 1990s was to own what I say by using 'I' rather than the more common 'you'. Your wise adviser has put another angle on this for me.
Great article, subscribed and shared. Decentralization is the key. Governments are the worst polluters because they are so centralized and do not tend to lead by example, and only dictate the remedies for the very problems that they help create. Listening to their solutions is a waste of time.
Thank you Bert for your kind words and I will reciprocate - anybody that supports the route forward is a friend of mine! It will take a while for our crazed rulers of the West to concede their failing centralised structures. Economic failure in the face of rising Eurasia led by China should do the trick. I am writing about it next week. Unless of course the wounded tiger chooses nukes - time will tell.
On PMQs today (Jan 11th) several of the questions and answers were about the "wonderful" drive towards Net Zero (Net Stupid). The disconnect between the governed and the governing is huge and the gulf is growing wider.
Very true Greg and Joe Public is finally, but too slowly waking up to the fact, thanks to Rishi's so obvious disconnect. I am appalled to read that MP Bridger has been relieved of the Whip, just for telling the truth. These monsters will continue until stopped but the hopelessly corrupt UK system , from 'first-past-the -post' to the Establishment feeding at the trough of public funds, leaves only a final collapse of the system itself as a remedy - they are deeply embedded.
Always good to have you input - thanks Greg.
The trusty Grauniad (Guardian to your foreign readers) has an article castigating Bridgen, but then you would expect that from the Guardian/BBC/Government Trio. "Tory MP Andrew Bridgen loses whip over ‘dangerous’ Covid vaccine claims" . If anyone does not know what we are up against, the article is worth a skim. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jan/11/tory-mp-andrew-bridgen-loses-whip-over-covid-vaccine-comments
Yes I saw this too Greg - I monitor the enemy daily.
How do you watch that pantomime without screaming?
I record it and watch it in small segments because I can only take a few minutes at a time. I watch it because I feel I need to be reminded regularly how terrible this very very costly kindergarten is, every week.
Thank you for making the sacrifice so that others don't have to.
I cannot watch mainstream TV any more since it makes me want to throw things.
In the US it appears the young are staying home playing video games perhaps but not working. Chatted with a friend about when we were young delivering newspapers from our bikes; commiserated that the rich folk tipped poorly, or hid when you came to collect. The poorer folk tipped better and paid when due. We retaliated by missing their porch. But both of us started doing that sort of thing in our early teens. I also delivered groceries and pharmacy stuff after school. Those sorts of jobs now seem gone.
The twitter files reveal how much our government is controlling us in violation of our constitution. Wonder if anybody held to account? All responsibility is some committee, not a person.
Your West Mids seems in trouble. Is that a distribution issue? We don't see that much difference in costs over quite large distances, relatively speaking. Where I am 250 mi is a easy drive for an outing.
More and more we are understanding the damage from the vax and boosters make it worse. People are now seeing it fr themselves instead of seeing the data we on SubStack have been fretting about for some time. Don't know when officials will stop being so blind.
Poor Harry. A fine man seeming destroyed by his foolish choices (including his wife). Seeing him tell us about combat death followed by needing counseling over a bad spat with his brother?
We all did our paper rounds and those little jobs as scouts in our day - times change HH and not for the better.
"All responsibility is some committee, not a person". Yes indeed, they hide behind 'joint responsibility' like corporations and all other collectives, so nobody can be held to account. It's a failed system which will only correct when the system itself fails and this is coming IMHO. Decision-making for the commons is tricky but my good friend Niall has a solution: http://harrogateagenda.org.uk/
The problem in the midlands and north is their failed heavy engineering legacy from the industrial revolution with no meaningful replacement. We call it the 'North–South divide'. Again it says in this article; "The State of the North 2019 report also blamed centralisation of power" https://geographical.co.uk/culture/a-country-divided-why-englands-north-south-divide-is-getting-worse
I am deep in rural SW England - safe and mild, far away from those crazy 'smart cities'. You're right about people waking up - slowly true - but 2023 will see it begin to go viral when the deliberate blindness of the authorities will be too obvious to deny - they will have to back down but must be pursued to the end - I have no intention of letting them of the hook even if there are few rattled ones weeping for forgiveness, viz
"And how prophetic Berenson has turned out to be, for The Atlantic just published the mother of all astonishingly, offensively awful COVID-19 takes, as the reader is probably well aware. In an October 31st piece titled, “Let’s Declare A Pandemic Amnesty,” Emily Oster effectively argues that, well, shucks, we did our best, and we couldn’t have known any better, so let’s just forgive and forget. The contrast to “The Pandemic’s Wrongest Man” is astonishing. The tide is well and truly going out.
And Prince Hal? Could it be a PsyOp to distract from the coming storm? I can't believe Harry is this insane, especially about the 25 Afghans - my detector smells some dark smoke lurking over a smouldering heap of BS. It is too bizarre to be real and his ghost is a very experienced Pollitzer writer. Is this an orange? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLz9ewBt-dw
The North-South divide is kind of another "divide and rule" strategy used by politicians.
Granted the Midlands and the North were shafted by asset-stripping deindustrialisation but there are still pockets of wealth to be found in the North, they are just few and far between.
This puts into perspective PC: "In fact, add up all the multi-millionaires in the other four wealthiest cities in the U.K. and they do not come close to London. Collectively, Manchester (1,060), Edinburgh (420), Birmingham (310) and Bristol (340), have a fifth of London's multi-millionaire population." It's a bit out of date but I don't think anything has changed much - probably got worse:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/oliverwilliams1/2019/11/15/these-are-the-uk-towns-and-cities-where-the-wealthiest-live/
In my small town Bruton, we have lots of 'rich' types from London after the lockdowns: https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/visit-somerset-town-rich-famous-6713484
It is very well and good living in a city full of multi-millionaires but the only problem is that the greedy buggers keep it all to themselves!!
(Only joking, I am sure they all are 100% totally worth it!!)
One of my good friends locally is a multimillionaire by a quirk of inheritance - he lived a modest life prior to 2010 but it never changed him. He remains a generous and happy fellow, so some are worth it and do real good in communities.
Howser & Worth (mega-rich art dealers from London) arrived in Bruton some years ago and have transformed the town. They bought up failing local farms and shops and promote localisation which allows us access to short supply lines and affordable prices as well as bringing employment. So there is good in these people too - sometimes! It's not all bad as you note.
https://www.hauserwirth.com/locations/10068-hauser-wirth-somerset/
Had no idea the North was so different, aside from mushy peas, of course. And I don't think the party scene in Newcastle is all that different. Scotland has always been unique even from the time of the wall. My family has some Scots roots but they are a different lot. One might think the mids would have a solidly established industrial base by now, but that seems to have gone away.
Funny how Berenson and the Atlantic have had to come to terms.
Britain's manufacturing base has disappeared, HH. The UK economy is dominated by services industries. These include retail, hospitality, professional services, business administration and finance. In 2021, services industries contributed £1.7 trillion, 80% of total UK output. Manufacturing was a pathetic £183 billion!
The Brits spend their time selling houses to each other, drinking, gambling, bean-counting and creating 'wealth' out of nothing in the City of London!
https://www.theburningplatform.com/2022/11/29/did-you-know-that-only-one-square-mile-dominates-the-entire-planetary-civilization/
Overpriced cars? Really, there is no longer any manufacturing base? Understand City of London & it's fiefdom but do they not invest?
This is a bit long, HH, but I think it puts the Collective West into context - Britain is not alone:
https://amgreatness.com/2023/01/06/an-age-of-decay/
The article reflects my thoughts in greater depth. One aspect:
"The fact that American living standards have broadly stagnated, and for some segments of the population have declined, should be cause for real concern to the ruling class." .... "Thwarted personal aspirations are often channeled into politics and zero-sum factional conflict. " .... ".. cultural dysphoria, social atomization, and alienation"
And if the Chinese are running a PsyOp using TicTok to affect our youth, we are fighting a very real internal battle.
I'm just not clear on what policies must be revised to restore confidence. I do think large numbers are not happy with the current situation.
No, we have been asset-stripped by the globalists since around 1971.
Scottish people generally are the the sort of people who will take in strangers and do anything for them.
I wish I could find a link for it but there was a guy who decided to go to a particular Scvottish Island to kill himself because it was the place where he remembered being at peace.
Long story short, things happened like his van broke down and local people took him in and fed him and cared about him.
Long story short, he didn't kill himself.
Lovely story to uplift our spirits and restore faith in human nature - thanks PC. I guess there are so many heroic acts which bypass the toxic MSM and social media as they revel in disaster and suffering - it sells clicks I guess - and makes people feel better about their lot - there's a name for it: schadenfreude.
I only wish I could find the link for it but I am an avid bookmarker since the scam started in 2020.
Me too PC - and Firefox is great for this - I have thousands. But then I have difficulty finding them sometimes but my youngest son is an IT whizz and told me to use 'Cntrl B' in the body of any page and up pops a search on the left (it's only a word search but is really helpful - I use it a lot.).
I asked FF for a search function a while ago and they never said anything so I wonder if they even know about it?
You must admit, so far TPTB are doing a good job on their approach to their agenda.
Yes indeed so far, but I am seeing tiny cracks appearing now; they appear to be losing some momentum, which could widen during the year. Much depends on how far China will go to clear out their WEF infiltrators. BOOM commented on this yesterday - look out for the post tomorrow.
This is true what you say, but they will not give up.
Already there are plans to introduce Digital ID all over the Globe, there is no end in sight to this. I myself am an American living in Japan, and already there is talk here of connecting their My Number card (similar to our Social Security Card.) to a digital ID, next year in fact they will connect their drivers license to the My number card. Since Japanese all wear mask here, I am afraid they will eat this digital system up as they tend to still obey authority, there will be some that refuse, but I'm not sure if that in itself will be enough to stop this. Once everything is on this digital ID TPTB will have everything they desire, complete control.
Already with food shortages, oil shock around the corner, shipping cost going up along with inflation on most goods, the squeeze is on, when people are starving to death they will tend to accept anything to be saved, and that is their plan. As one can plainly see.
You are so right - they are evangelical in their devotion to 'the cause' and China has similar adherence to authority as Japan. One of my Chinese readers sent me this last year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXyzpMDtpSE
We will push back here in UK - some Brits will not comply and IDs are an anathema to us. https://austrianpeter.substack.com/p/the-financial-jigsaw-part-2-localisation?s=w
China is totally different than Japan. Japan in the end will demonstrate and if not listened to could become violent, and unlike China the Police will not intentionally murder their own citizens. Japan may arrest demonstrators, but they will not disappear people like China does. Already Brazil is arresting demonstrators and copying how America treated the J6 demonstrators as terrorist and they are all copying China. The goal is crush dissent and Censor anything that is not the Main Stream Authoritarian Narrative similar to China.
Quite so - governments always have to use force to suppress liberty and free speech. However, the Brits do it very subtly and secretly. Witness: Julian Assange festering in Belmarsh prison for no real crime whatsoever and it's not even mentioned anywhere. https://declassifieduk.org/uk-minister-who-approved-trumps-request-to-extradite-assange-spoke-at-secretive-us-conferences-with-people-calling-for-him-to-be-neutralized/
Video games and over-the-counter narcotics versus going to work and learning.
Most gen Z want a CEO position with no experience because they watched a youtube series that told them how to run a company.
Good post. ✔️
#followed
Thank you Inugo - LOL. I must confess that the stereotype is well taken but I guess there are some youngsters willing to put shoulder to the plough and it is those I hope who will be encouraged to take on an apprenticeship.
I regret that Polytechnics in my day have transformed into second-rate 'universities' - a common social engineering artefact which merely obfuscates the true meaning of words and labels. It's toxic effect is to diminish the value of practical skills and laud the 'apparent value' of worthless degrees leaving a dearth of productive contributors. I assume that the pendulum will return in due course as it always does.
"What are Gen Z wants and needs? They're primarily focused on flexibility, personalization and emotional support." aka - snowflakes. Here's a peak into where Gen Z resides! https://www.insiderintelligence.com/content/gen-z-has-1-second-attention-span-work-marketers-advantage
- It is never the dogs' fault when the piss on the carpet.
- Don't hate the players (gen z et al), hate the game.
When was the last debate class an under 30 person took in school? Humans are miraculous and as soon as you expose the human brain to new learning, it becomes an addiction (for most) to get more of that feeling. I love debating and being proved wrong. It happens all the time! Haha
Me too - my long life has been a continual learning exercise and the older I get the less I know - it's called wisdom of old age! "The secret of success is knowing how to fail" - Xerox 1977
Bingo.
Holding on too tightly to yesterday's truth makes our ego(s) stronger (eg. snowflakes) but our intelligence level(s) stagnant or permanently weakened.
As soon as you say "I" alongside a statement of truth, it becomes part of your ego and no longer anything to do with the truth. A wise academic taught me that a long time ago (I wish I was better with this trait).
One of the many lessons I learned during my training to be an humanistic counsellor in the 1990s was to own what I say by using 'I' rather than the more common 'you'. Your wise adviser has put another angle on this for me.
There may be no 'I' in team but there is still a 'me'.
What do academics know anyway?
Be well.
merde: "when they piss on the carpet"
Great article, subscribed and shared. Decentralization is the key. Governments are the worst polluters because they are so centralized and do not tend to lead by example, and only dictate the remedies for the very problems that they help create. Listening to their solutions is a waste of time.
Thank you Bert for your kind words and I will reciprocate - anybody that supports the route forward is a friend of mine! It will take a while for our crazed rulers of the West to concede their failing centralised structures. Economic failure in the face of rising Eurasia led by China should do the trick. I am writing about it next week. Unless of course the wounded tiger chooses nukes - time will tell.