In this week’s episode of London Calling, James and I have our usual argument about whether the mismanagement of the coronavirus crisis by the authorities is a conspiracy or a cock-up. I remain resolutely sceptical, while James is so far down the rabbit hole he thinks today’s anti-vaxxers who stormed the wrong BBC building are agent provocateurs sent into the field by a shadowy state agency to embarrass vaccine sceptics. In addition, we discuss my wildly ambitious plan to turn my substack newsletter about following QPR into a Fever Pitch-style bestseller and James’s brief career as the men’s fashion critic of the Times. (No, I couldn’t believe it either.)
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Bingo! Spot on.
Sure, solar and wind can be converted to stored energy but there are very high efficiency losses in the process and commercially available solutions have not reached the energy density of a tankful of diesel.
Just another grift. Yawn. Seen it all before.
According to The White Hats Telegram channel Haiti has disintegrated and the President has fled the country.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/3/12/haiti-live-news-pm-henry-resigns-as-country-spirals-into-chaos
All the MSM are covering this even el-Beeb.
Oh I’m pretty sure they’ll be rocking up to the U.S border any day now.
Yup.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/covid-19-vaccine-uptake-uk-healthcare-workers/5851868
Thirty percent of NHS staff have taken five jibby shots. No wonder it is falling apart. They’re off poorly or knackered with calamari crawlers.
Amazing statistic and yet the junior doctors Union have not even noticed this alarming issue whilst striking for better conditions etc!
https://www.globalresearch.ca/engineered-destruction-america-europe/5851789
An excellent although disturbing essay hi-lighting the stupidity of the two Microns – Joe and Macron who appear to be acting for the Club of Rome.
Macron threatening to send French troops to Ukraine – no chance. The French Tommy isn’t that firkin stupid and Brandon who has apparently imported 320,000 single men to the US of A. The parallels with uk are remarkable.
Absolutely! Just like all the ‘lockstepped’ similarities through different countries during covid, we, like the US, seem to have adopted an open border. The paymasters are certainly pulling those strings, aren’t they?
https://www.globalresearch.ca/turbo-cancer-treatment-race-johnson-johnson-completed-2-billion-cancer-drug-buy-ambrx/5852007
Oh look, this time it’s a turbo cancer jibby. Looks like Fishy has probably done a deal already given the pharma scramble.
Wind/solar, Use them when you can not when you need!
https://off-guardian.org/2024/03/12/net-zero-the-digital-panopticon-and-the-future-of-food/
The best summary of where the world is at that has been written for a long time. A ten minute read but worth every second.
Colin Todhunter at his best.
So here we have yet another case reminiscent of Sam Melia and those policemen who were sent down for so-called ‘hate crimes’. I have zero time for these neo-Nazi idiots because I find them just as distasteful as the Islamist extremists, but ultimately this guy’s ”crime” was to make these distasteful comments in an online chat room. So tell me this; is this any worse than what we’re seeing every fricking weekend ( and every other day in between, seemingly ) with the pro-terrorist yobs all across the West? Is it any worse than the Islamists on the streets shouting for Sharia to be implemented? Then there’s the Muslims going all out at trying to convert people on the streets of London, as I shared this morning, then there’s the Imams preaching hate in the mosques, which would definitely qualify as ”racist” and ”hateful” to any reasonable person….This here is so obviously unfair and disproportionate it’s a joke.
”A court in Belgium sentenced prominent far-right activist Dries Van Langenhove to a year in prison on Tuesday for running an organization that a judge said spread “racist, hateful, Nazi and negationist speech,” in a major ruling on how the nation deals with extremism.
Five members of the extremist group that Van Langenhove led received suspended sentences, including two who work for the far-right Flemish Interest party, which is slated to make big gains in June elections.
Tom Van Grieken, the leader of the Flemish Interest party, said the ruling was proof that “Belgian justice is rotten to the core” and called the proceedings “a political trial from day one.”
They were accused of using a chat group to exchange racist, antisemitic and other extremist comments. Van Langenhove, a former Belgian parliamentarian, also had some of his civil rights suspended for a decade, making him ineligible for office.
Van Langenhove, 30, said he did not commit any crimes.
“A years-long investigation, on which the Justice Department wasted millions of euros of taxpayers’ money, shows that the … activists cannot be charged with anything other than some memes. Humor. Memes that I didn’t even post myself,” he said in a reaction.”
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/ap-belgian-nazi-brussels-friends-b2511442.html
Western judiciaries have been bought as I have been stating these last couple of years.
Once again a great comment, but did you mean to post it under a different article?
Once the storage problem is solved, then of course we can switch completely. That said, it will be a slow boat to China.
Storage is not close to being solved, and if and when it does it will be hugely expensive. By that time though we may have come to our senses anyway and turbine dismantlement will be a massive Industry creating hundreds of thousands of those “Green Jobs” the silly politicians and bureaucrats have been ranting on about.
Who was it who said “Giving people cheap energy is like giving an idiot child a machine gun”? ——This is what the mentality of the eco socialists now running most of the western world (except Trump) ——To many people, this idea that governments don’t want energy to be cheap seems daft. People would say “Surely that is just a conspiracy theory” “Why would governments not want us having cheap energy”? ——The answer is a simple one and it is that cheap abundant energy is the driver of Capitalism. Green Energy policies are anti Capitalist and anti human. The “save the planet” green energy policies all emanate from the United Nations and its Sustainable Development Politics. ——This is the politics that thinks the standard of living of the wealthy west is “too high”. They have this Malthusian world view that there are too many people using up depleting resources, and so the prosperous west must reduce its energy use and consumption. ——Sadly our own political class are fully onboard with this agenda, and ofcourse they will never tell you that they want to lower your standard of living as that would be political suicide. So instead you hear a whole barrage of hand wringing eco babble like “We must save the planet” “We must fight climate change” “We must be world leaders in decarbonising our economy” “We want to be the Saudi Arabia of wind” etc etc. ———–PS By the way whenever you hear a squirming UN lackey tell you that wind is now cheaper than fossil fuels, realise that this is an illusion. It is economic sleight of hand. Huge costs have been added to coal and gas in the form of environmental regulations and carbon taxes etc and wind get s 100% subsidy all paid for by the consumer. ——Fraud.
“They want to lower your standard of living ….”
Correct. But they are absolutely determined that it won’t apply to them; their billionaire donors or the Globalist “Elite” who are pushing the policy.
We are heading towards a Medieval society: Overlords living in luxury; and serfs.
And the serfs will be dragged off to the climate gulags where they will face re-education of their denial
This is the most important issue regarding prosperity, health and life spans. —-Price and availability of energy is directly correlated to well being and standard of living. ——I cannot emphasise how important this issue is and at the moment we are on a path with Net Zero to greatly reduce prosperity, and we are doing it under false pretences of a climate crisis. We can only hope that politicians are bitten hard in the behinds by the real world and they greatly reduce this absurdity or hopefully scrap it for good. ——-There is no point in worrying about 2 pence of this tax and 3 pence of some other tax or the pint of lager staying the same as long as Net Zero is already hammering us into poverty, and that is exactly what it is doing, and infact that is what it is designed to do. ——-Surely this is some “conspiracy theory”? ——Nope. It is the UN Politics of Sustainable Development and 95% of the political class are signed up to it.