Late last year, Melissa Fleming, Under-Secretary for Global Communications at the United Nations, told a World Economic Forum ‘Disinformation’ seminar that we “own the science” around climate change, and we think the world should know it, so we partnered with Google to ensure only UN results appear. Needless to say, this arrogant claim merely hints at the scale of disinformation practised by global elites in pushing numerous messages designed to spread fearful command-and-control societal propaganda.
PR Flak Fleming also noted that the UN worked with Tik Tok on a project called ‘Team Halo’ to boost Covid messaging. This was said to be another trusted messenger project, “where we trained scientists around the world and some doctors on Tik Tok, and we had TikTok working with us”.
With climate, as with some of the Covid narrative, science has long taken a back seat. Any scientific findings that suggest human-produced carbon dioxide is not the overriding thermostat that determines the Earth’s climate are either insulted or ignored. Only ‘settled’ science messages from presumably ‘trained’ scientists are allowed. It is perhaps no accident that Google’s capture by the UN came at a time when it ‘demonetised’ a blog detailing the global satellite temperature record. This work by two scientists at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, is the most accurate record of global temperature. As we have seen, it shows considerably less warming since 1979 than surface datasets, that have been adjusted upwards on a retrospective basis. Google took its action on the patently false grounds that the page was supplying “harmful claims“.
Of course, much of this narrative is indicative of a desire by elites in an inter-connected world to enforce more controlling collectivism on local and international populations. Green politics mostly arose on the Left, attracting activists who have always sought collectivist approaches to often messy, individualistic human activities.
We must be grateful to the Guardian for providing a ‘long read’ (how your correspondent suffers for his art) detailing the way that political activists infiltrate the climate debate in order to push this long-cherished, capitalism-hating political narrative. “One of the goals of system change is to supersede individual virtue,” writes U.S. correspondent Rebecca Solnit (pictured). By “individual virtue”, of course, she means individual choice. “Electrification will have happened because of the collective action that takes shape as policy and regulation,” she adds.
Solnit quotes the climate writer Mary Heglar, who suggests that for too long the climate fight has been limited to scientists and policy experts. What we “desperately need” are more artists. Solnit suggests “winning” the popular imagination by providing new stories on climate. Already, she says that “climate denial” has been rendered largely obsolete by climate-driven catastrophes promoted by activists and journalists. By this, she refers to the non-stop pseudoscientific attribution of every bad weather event to humans burning fossil fuel. We have to find stories of a liveable future, “stories of popular power that motivate people to do what it takes to make the world we need”, urges Solnit.
Stories, it might be noted, that persuade people to give up products that work like gas boilers and internal combustion engines, in favour of manifestly inferior substitutes. Stories, for instance, as spun by Solnit, that suggest mining for lithium and cobalt will be an “inevitable part of building renewables”. Thus important questions over the finite supplies of both these materials, and the use of children to mine cobalt, are conveniently ignored. It is estimated that 225 tonnes of the Earth’s crust must be disturbed to supply just one 1,000 pound car battery, but Solnit points to the “far vaster scale and impact of fossil fuel mining”. Of course it can be argued that the modern-day extraction of oil and gas is a remarkably clean process, requiring little more than a hole in the ground. No children need die in the process.
Old-school Marxists have always relied on demonising the rich to promise a better future for all. So Solnit runs with the story that we need to punish the rich with their large carbon footprints, and “the global majority don’t need to change much”. This is highly disingenuous. Lifestyle changes proposed by green elites become more extreme by the month – this month, meat off the menu because cows fart, next month, dangerous fertilisers and farms impounded. Billions of people will be affected by diet, travel and energy bans and restrictions, and billions more will be denied the life-enhancing progress enjoyed in the industrialised countries over the last 200 years.
Last year, green elites were shocked by polling evidence that suggested four in ten people across five continents believed climate change was mainly due to natural causes. This despite decades of climate catastrophising to promote Net Zero policies. The 30-country IPSOS survey found that the level of climate scepticism was very similar in all age categories, but there was wide divergence when political leanings were taken into account. Across seven countries surveyed, 28% of supporters of the Left were sceptical of human-caused climate change, a figure that rose to 50% of those on the Right.
The underlying climate message is hard-core Marxist. Recognising the reality of climate breakdown means limiting the freedom of the individual “in the name of the wellbeing of the collective”, Solnit states. There is another way to count wealth and abundance for the many including “meaningful work and purposeful lives”, she suggests.
You will be happy in your work and prosperous, declared the Communist posters of old. “They pretend to pay us, and we pretend to work”, muttered citizens of the old Soviet Union quietly among themselves.
Chris Morrison is the Daily Sceptic’s Environment Editor.
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I remember early on in the shitshow when I was still actively trying to persuade those among my friends and colleagues I mistakenly considered intelligent and politically aware of the evils of lockdowns, I quoted something from Sikora to a ex-friend. She’d clearly not heard of him (neither had I to be fair, before all this) and obviously then checked him out on Wikipedia. Her answer to my arguments (and his) was to send me this snippet from his Wikipedia enrty:
“In a 2017 Newsnight opinion piece, he described the NHS as “the last bastion of communism””
That was the extent of her counter arguments – Sikora has dared criticise the NHS, so he is Literally Hitler and all his opinions are immediately invalid without further discussion, as are mine by association. That more or less summed up for me the covidian cult mentality.
I think it was/is one of the many modern faiths that we simply couldn’t recognise as being a faith. People in modern society, through a lack of real human interaction, have become decoupled from reason and logic. Social media and online communication in general has driven this disconnect (yes, I see the irony in my own musings). We need meaning in life, and we seem to have replaced the meaning we get from direct human interaction with the meaning we get from faith – ‘vaccines’, climate, the NHS etc. Much of this faith is clearly a kind of self-flagellating pleasure. Also interesting is the idea of God as a higher power being replaced by the Gods of Big Tech, Big State & Big Pharma – these are now revered. In the biggest paradox in history, technology has driven us backwards into the dark ages.
Beautifully put.
Yes, I suspect I have a lot of ex-friends because I refused to accept the lockdowns. There are simply lots of people who I haven’t bothered to contact, because I know how they’ll think. People are hopelessly brainwashed. We’re living in the world of Atlas Shrugged right now.
She’s an ex friend now I assume?
Yes. We don’t mix much with non-sceptics now – at present it’s just too much of an effort.
It’s not the NHS’s fault.
It’s not their fault that it had grown into an unmanageable behemoth that couldn’t cope in the first place.
It’s not their fault that they overreacted to a pretty mild flu like virus and stopped treating those with other diseases.
It’s not their fault that they dedicated so many resources to rolling out a treatment most people didn’t need and actually has caused quite a lot of harm.
It’s not their fault that they don’t really want to meet patients any more
They’re the NHS, a national treasure, that needs to be loved and saved at all costs.
It’s our fault for not changing our lives enough to adjust to the needs of the NHS. And for doing annoying things like getting sick or developing illnesses.
What we need to do is to shut up, give them more money and do as they tell us. That’s how you build a world leading service.
A blisteringly accurate appraisal.
How many people do you think would be in their front gardens banging their pots and pans this year if it was made a ‘thing’? No need for a poll to get an idea of just what the public opinion is of “Saving the NHS” this time round is there? And don’t forget to keep a look out for all of those highly choreographed Tiktok dances…that were obviously cobbled together over their lunch break. Not!
The way to build a world-beating NHS is for everyone to die at home all at once, then there won’t be anymore waiting lists!
Nail. Head.
It’s the perfect cover. You can imagine the conversation – “but how do we hide all the deaths from this shot?”… “lockdown. What we do is we lock everyone in their homes for a couple of years, let a huge backlog of medical issues mount, further weaken the immune system and, hey presto, we’ve got two for the price of one. Not only do we kill and maim with the shot, we kill and maim through removal of medical care. We then hide the shot deaths amongst the lockdown deaths. Job done”.
Pretty much. The first lockdown was designed to instill fear and get the population used to being controlled, then the propoganda campaign hit like a Blitzkrieg intended to ramp up the fear. Then, tantalisingly the talk of vaccines was introduced and only, if only, these could be produced quickly would millions be saved from certain gruesome death.
Those responsible for imposing lockdown, nominally Bozo and his band of Co genocidalists, would certainly have known that locking people up, denying social interaction, would undermine mental and physical health and dilute the population’s ability to fight infection and disease AND keep many away from rNHS. This of course would lead to:
“hey presto, we’ve got two for the price of one. Not only do we kill and maim with the shot, we kill and maim through removal of medical care. We then hide the shot deaths amongst the lockdown deaths. Job done”.
And that’s because Bozo et al knew that mass sickness and death was inevitable following the ‘jab’ campaign.
As somebody rightly pointed out yesterday, why are no politicians and certainly no leading politicians falling to heart attacks or sudden aggressive cancers?
Simple – none of the buggers have been injected, more’s the pity.
The agenda is to maim and kill. Depopulation and enslavement for a few sickly survivors.
Before Bozo ultimately became a man without a country, he was already a man without a soul, having long since sold it to the highest bidder.
The elites all probably got the saline placebo jab instead.
Good interview with (once) eminent Dr Tess Laurie with John Oliver.
How she woke up
https://youtu.be/cgX7IY2rBug
Neil Oliver…
He’s well worth watching.
The sooner the state admits the NHS is dead and all that’s left is a corpse churning with maggots giving the impression of life, the sooner we can sort out a replacement. A couple of weeks ago, my Mum was told that there was a 50-week wait on the NHS to see the specialist who took a carcinoma off her leg, as the wound hasn’t healed properly. So she spent £140 to go and see him at his private clinic for ten minutes last week. Significantly, he told her what to do with the wound and it’s now healing well. The nurse practitioners at the GP surgery had told her completely the wrong thing to do with the wound and had dragged out the healing process by months.
In my home town, an equity firm is now running three of the NHS GP practices and more are likely to fall under its ownership soon. I pay monthly insurance to cut down the NHS fees at my optician’s and there are no NHS dentists available so I’m looking at £22 per month minimum rate to go to a private dental surgery
So we’ve already de facto privatisation, only with all the worst elements of the state gumming up the works. If I didn’t have to contribute thousands of pounds a year in National Insurance to help fund other people’s NHS treatment (and employees’ diversity courses), I could find a comprehensive private insurance package that would include GP care, opticians and dental plans, rather than scrabble around looking for someone who isn’t already oversubscribed…
The once-great NHS has apparently been moribund for a while now, from decades of mismanagement and death by a thousand austerity cuts. The latest machinations are simply finishing it off.
Privatization is basically a foregone conclusion at this point. Of note, of all of the rest of Europe, only Spain has a similar fully-socialized healthcare system. Switzerland, in contrast, is basically the polar opposite. And the rest are either some variant of either single-payer Medicare for all (i.e. public insurance but private healthcare system) or some sort of hybrid system.
What I will say, as an American, is whatever you do, DON’T be like us though with our for-profit sick care system and widespread medical bankruptcies that everyone ends up paying for either way. Frying pan, meet fire. As for our neighbor to the north, Canada, they WOULD have a good single-payer system if they didn’t subject it to their own death by a thousand austerity cuts for three decades straight.
The rot in the whole health sector is rife. The NHS is corrupt and broken, while the private sector is exploiting the shortfalls whilst not having any interest in doing something positive. Two grasping hands on one stinking amoral moneypit.
“We failed a generation of children – many of whom are now overweight, unable to talk…”
I have a sister and two neices who work in the education industry. The term used for children who cannot speak – literally – when they start school aged 4 / 5 is:
NVC – Non Verbal Communicators.
I kid you not, and there are lots of them.
Will that generation, and future generations, ever forgive us?
Then there is the increase in children starting school still in nappies. Children who have regressed in social skills of all kinds.
This may be of interest https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.589884/full
Can I call people who imposed the lockdowns child killers as children were never at serious risk and children have died as a result of the various interventions?
Absolutely!
How many people that you know, who were in remission, have had their cancers come back as stage four and die? I know three people.