Allison Pearson’s column in today’s Telegraph is a corker, laying into the constant propaganda and psychological manipulation being thrown at us from official sources, first over Covid and now over weather and climate, to frighten us into compliance with extreme apocalyptic agendas. Here’s an excerpt.
You may have noticed that climate catastrophism has gone nuclear over the past week, as if on cue (we’ll come back to that), but the good old British weather refuses to cooperate. Disappointingly for the We’re All Gonna Fry brigade, it’s cool, rainy and sullen here with fitful gusts of wind; almost autumnal at times. As a July baby, I can tell you this is not unusual for July. (Prince George will have to get used to having his parties in the cloudy drizzle on our mutual birthday.)
Still, reporters scour the rest of Europe for better (i.e., bad) news. Tourists at the Trevi Fountain in Rome are invited to agree that the weather is “unbearable”. If it’s unbearable, why aren’t they back in their hotel rooms with a wet towel on their heads instead of happily licking their pistachio gelato and soaking up the rays? Why are reports of wildfires in La Palma being linked to soaring temperatures, when the weather on the island is in fact unusually mild, and set to be in the mid-20s all week?
Really not very unusual weather events have suddenly acquired important, scary names drawn from the mythological flames of hell. After Cerberus and Charon, get ready for Heatwave Hades. If the current weather in the U.K. had a name it would be Colin.
Are Brits really “cancelling their holiday plans” because of the “truly terrifying conditions”? Or are they, like me, stocking up on Hawaiian Tropic (used to be sniffy about it, now addicted) from Boots and crawling through the final fortnight of work before I can replenish my stocks of Vitamin D on a Turkish sunlounger.
There is something horribly familiar about all these apocalyptic warnings of catastrophic consequences if people don’t act. “Temperatures across the Mediterranean are nearing the highest ever recorded in Europe with travellers being warned that local medical and health services are strained in some areas.”
Ah, yes, that’s it. Knew we’d heard it before: Stay At Home, Save on Sunscreen, Support Net Zero.
It’s almost as if the same people who scared the pants off us during the pandemic, terrorising people into obeying often idiotic rules, were at it again. The Behavioural Insights Team (a.k.a. the Nudge Unit) – spun out of the Cabinet Office, and now working for many large corporates, global institutions and national governments – is teaming up with broadcasters to drive messages about climate change.
A report by the BIT in collaboration with Sky TV called ‘The Power of TV: Nudging Viewers to Decarbonise their Lifestyles’ says that “behavioural change on climate can be driven by TV… It comes at a critical time as experts now widely accept that we must shift the behaviour of millions of people to deliver our collective Net Zero goals”.
You don’t have to be a climate sceptic to find something sinister in the idea of broadcasters plotting to manipulate the public into reaching “our collective goals”. Whose goals are they? Why no questioning of whether this is in the population’s best interest or not? Where are the alternative points of view?
After the disastrous impact of its Covid propaganda on the nation’s mental and physical health, a period of embarrassed silence would be welcome from the Nudge Unit. Yet, here they go again with their sly tricks, their cold calculation of human weakness, their sneaky sleight of hand. What is the betting that the sudden change in TV weather maps, from pastoral greens and shy yellows to diabolical reds, even bruised purples and black, was suggested by the Nudge Unit?
Worth reading in full.
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The government in 2020 – “We need to dish out money as quickly as possible to anyone who asks for it.”
Labour etc – “Do it quicker!”
Yes and Labour wanted / want earlier, harder and longer lockdowns, too.
In the North West it is well known that the curry industry enjoyed record, erm , “sales” during the “Eat out to Help out” free for all. Some of the businesses had rather short lifespans and mysteriously disappeared once the free cash scheme ended. I don’t know why. Very strange.
“Covid” was the biggest fraud in history
Governments everywhere stole our money and gave it to rich firms selling “tests” and “vaccines” that were not fit for purpose
True and Nut zero running a very close second!
Actually Nut Zero may be bigger as it will end up having a much longer run
Members of the House of Lords had fingers in the pie too. Baroness Michelle Mone was associated with the PPE scandal. She is currently on leave of absence. I suppose it was only several millions of pounds of public money anyway.
Ah yes Michelle. Did us for a paltry twenty six million (£) wasn’t it? She would probably be classed as a lightweight dipper.
The intention behind all the ridiculous and apparently reckless spending is to bankrupt the country. Clearly the Tories have been given that honour and Kneel has been given the job of selling the country. I expect a financial disaster within the next two years. And of course once the wholly engineered financial crisis hits some pretty severe restrictions on human rights will be required because even some of the sheep will be upset.
Didn’t Nadine Dorries in her book describe ‘blob’ controlling the tories and their intention was wipe out the Conservative party. That would make sense because if that was their intention what would they be doing any different. I would also extend that to what would the Archbishop of Canterbury be doing differently is the intention was to destroy the church from within?
Precisely, but I have long held the view that bankrupting the country is deliberate. Just look at the latest article ATL – the Navy spending £2.4 million on a diversity team when the service can’t even manage to protect us from dinghy invaders.
It’s a very sick joke.
Rather like the Pentagon shifting uncomfortably on a $2.3trn unexplained deficit the day before a provident ‘9/11’ airliner hitting amidships and destroying all the records, there was surely no more expeditious an opportunity to hide an awful lot of skulduggery and double-dealing than a seasonally normal respiratory virus the better to enrich the usual favoured few.
I am sure that their thirty pieces of silver will ease the progress of their souls.
I need to bind my head up tightly to try and prevent it exploding. I’ve run out of fingers and toes to keep count on, even at a billion per digit.
I really feel that a trip out with a pair of large pliers is called for.
My wife was subject to a fraud over the Covid support for business but the bank involved, HMRC and the regulators were not interested.