Everything that comes out of Brussels is a foul multilayered onion. On the outside is the laughable impossible childish utopian idealism. As you peel back the layers of abstract aspirations for the concrete prescriptions underneath, you become steadily more terrified. Thus the European Green Deal, proposed by the European Commission in 2019 and approved in 2020, promised to show member states the way to climate neutrality by 2050. A key component of this Deal – one layer deeper – is a legislative package called Fit for 55, which sounds like a diet plan for menopausal women, but which in fact aims to reduce EU emissions by 55% by 2030. This is starting to sound bad, and our creeping suspicions are confirmed when we go deeper still to this thing called the Buildings Directive, which regulates building energy efficiency in the EU. In 2021, the European Commission proposed extensive revisions to bring this Directive into alignment with its ‘Fit for 55’ aspirations.
The climate neutrality envisioned by the Green Deal simply won’t happen, but the proposed changes to the Buildings Directive were both realisable and for precisely that reason deeply alarming. The Eurocrats had worked out that the building sector is responsible for 36% of all emissions in member states. To meet their 2030 goals, they decided that each member state should be required to divide their existing structures into nine efficiency classes, and to impose “Minimum Energy Performance Standards” – that is, mandatory and ruinously expensive renovations – on the two least efficient classes.
Now, there are a lot of very dumb things about this. As far as I can tell, the climate-neutral utopia of 2050 is supposed to be an all-electric world, in which we’ll travel in electric cars and harvest organic corn with electric tractors and heat our homes with electric heat-pumps. All this extremely abundant and cheap electricity will be generated by fields upon fields of wind turbines and photovoltaic panels. How the energy efficiency of buildings will matter for emissions at all in this electrical utopia is a hard thing to understand.
Even more dumb, the Commission proposed to define “Minimum Energy Performance Standards” (MEPS) not in absolute terms, but relative to the building stock in each member state. Thus, wealthier states with on average better-insulated buildings would have to impose mandatory renovations on structures that would pass muster as perfectly green and climate friendly, if only they were located in poorer states with worse-insulated buildings. For East Germany, this would have been especially catastrophic, because the value of real estate is much lower there, and the more efficient buildings of the West naturally skew the average energy efficiency upwards. It is hard to see how the MEPS as originally envisioned would not have destroyed the value of a great part of East German real estate.
If all this reminds you of Robert Habeck’s changes to the German Building Energy Ordinances, which caused massive uproar before finally scraping through the Bundestag in attenuated form in September, that is no accident. The revisions to our Gebäudeenergiegesetz (GEG) regulate heating, with the ultimate goal of compelling all German buildings to install heating systems that operate on 65% renewable energy. They were intended to complement the European Commission’s revised Buildings Directive, which addresses insulation. The Federal Republic of Germany is an insane place and it is not enough merely to do the crazy things that everybody else is doing. We have to exceed them in our mania for self-punishment.
I spent many years in the United States, but for most of them I maintained an apartment in Munich, and all the while I’ve quietly endured the escalating crazy of the climate mob. I’ve seen my electricity bills climb and climb and climb. The GEG, however, was the first time I became seriously alarmed, and it was not just me. The controversy over the legislation propelled Alternative für Deutschland ever higher in the polls and almost destroyed Habeck’s political career. It was so bad that it has contained the utopian Green aspirations for the near future at least.
Happily, the GEG fracas also reduced the political appetite for turning the Buildings Directive into a cruise missile set to destroy the European housing sector. As Tagesschau reported back in August, Germany “at first supported” and “explicitly endorsed” the Minimum Energy Performance Standards of the European Commission, but soon changed its position in response to “domestic political pressure.” Handelsblatt further notes that “Housing Minister Klara Geywitz (SPD) spoke of the ‘huge imposition on homeowners’” that the Buildings Directive represented, while “Finance Minister Christian Lindner… called the Buildings Directive ‘enormously dangerous.’”
The result is that the Minimum Energy Performance Standards have now been binned. From the Handelsblatt link above:
The Buildings Directive is currently in the final negotiations between the Commission, the Council and the Parliament. An internal document obtained by Handelsblatt states that “substantial progress has been made” and that “agreement has been reached on a large part of the outstanding points.” The negotiations in the so-called tripartite procedure are to be concluded by the end of the year. After the agreement, the EU Parliament and the EU Council still have to formally agree. …
Instead of [the Minimum Energy Performance Standards], the buildings with the worst energy performance (the “worst performing buildings”) are now to be determined as follows: Each country will divide its building stock into two parts. The 43% with the highest energy consumption will be defined as the worst performing buildings. 55% of the energy savings are to be achieved in these buildings.
That’s a little ambiguous, but my best understanding of it is this: the EU will set a still-to-be-announced energy savings target that member states must meet by 2030, and they will mandate that 55% of these savings be achieved in that 43% of the building stock in each member state that consumes the most energy. It is hard to tell how much of an improvement this is. If the EU target is negligible enough, it could conceivably be met by the steady replacement of old substandard buildings with new ones, which is always happening whatever fever dreams the Eurocrats happen to be dreaming. Whatever the case, and even if the new proposal is less terrifying, it’s even more stupid: the least efficient buildings are the lowest-hanging fruit, and they will be where states try to achieve the bulk of their energy savings in any case. This is perhaps why MEP Markus Pieper of the CDU has called the revised proposal an “empty shell”.
The Buildings Directive saga is merely the latest event in a recurring pattern I have been documenting throughout the year here at the Plague Chronicle: Sweden has finally walked back its 2045 goal of climate neutrality, the U.K. has delayed by five years its ban on internal combustion engines, the revised German GEG pushed back the new heating requirements while larding the rules with a wide range of exceptions, and now the EU has ditched its concrete demands for building renovations. As our lofty aspirations run up against our self-imposed deadlines, they are steadily modified downwards, but never abandoned altogether. As with Covid, the lunatics are losing, but we’re not winning, and the result is that the apocalypse never quite happens, but we’re never quite relieved of impending doom either. Instead, we find ourselves in a strange middle place, with persistent uncertainty about how liveable the future will actually be and how much of our savings will survive this corrupt and decaying ideological system.
It goes without saying, of course, that none of these unilateral regulations have any hope of saving the climate, even on their own terms. While EU emissions have declined substantially since the mid-2000s, fossil fuel production and global emissions remain on an undeterred upward trend:
Demand-reducing European regulations simply edge global fuel prices downwards and encourage our rivals to consume more, while the threat of impending restrictions incentivises producers to bring more fossil fuels to market.
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That’s as may be, but I’ll wait for the Lancet to explain how locking up children is medically beneficial to post-colonial climate justice.
If that sounds like I’m being flippant, well, it’s nice to finally see studies like this coming out, but it’s really a “You don’t say?” matter. Of course isolating social monkeys for a year (or more) is going to have dreadful outcomes.
Everything in the Covid/Climate change is unnatural. Carbon Dioxide is vital to all life on Earth and yet it’s treated like a toxic gas. Covid is the same as a cold or a flu and yet is being treated as the most dangerous disease ever invented.
The people must now fight this evil.
The Mother of all Dutch Anti Lockdown Protest Amsterdam 5-9-2021 – if you thought the Dutch were cultured they too sing “you can stick you New Worl Order up your ****! ”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWHui59eMvo
Next Peaceful & Friendly Roadside Banner Events : Bracknell, Henley-on-Thames & Wokingham
– let’s join in with Worldwide backlash before it’s too late
4pm Tuesday 7th September
Henley Bridge/White Hill,
Henley-on-Thames RG9 2LP
5pm Friday 10th September
Loddon Bridge, (Winnersh Garden Centre/Showcase Cinema)
Reading Rd, Winnersh,
Wokingham Berks RG41 5HG
** 12pm September 11th ** Hold The Line Event (like the Baltic countries in 1989 )
Meet on Wokingham Rd outside Weather Vane Pub Arlington Square, Wokingham Rd (B3408) , Bracknell RG42 1NA
As the Weather Vane still requires masks I wouldn’t drink there. Please don’t park there.
11:30am Saturday 18th September Grand Stand in the Park Grove Park (nr basketball court), 21 Mill Ln, Carshalton SM5 2AN
12pm to 3pm Sunday 19th September 2021 Surrey’s Super Stand in the Park , Stoke Park, Nightingale Rd, Guildford GU1 1ER. – after your local Stands!!
Stand in South Hill Park Bracknell –
Sundays from 10am & Wednesdays from 2pm
Make friends – keep sane
http://t.me/astandintheparkbracknell
Will peaceful protests be enough to stop the globalist Covid-19 behemoth?
No I honestly believe they will do a great job of stopping themselves when they run out of fear porn ammunition and their policies become hilarious parodies of totalitarianism. They went for shock and awe. It didn’t work out and they aren’t converting anyone that wasn’t already on board. Let’s stay positive, we’ll get to see these people behind bars (or worse) eventually.
I’m a massive fan of germs and bacteria and viruses. Bring ’em on. We seem to have forgotten what millions of years of evolution have done to create an amazing microbiome within us that we live symbiotically with.
All this ‘let’s clean everything to kill everything’ does us no favours. I roll my eyes at all the people in the gym still cleaning down equipment after using it. Same with bath and shower soap – just get rid of it – does the body no good. Water is all you need (maybe a drop for pits and privates but that is all).
If people only realised that their bodies are home to literally billions of different microbes that are both within them and on their skin, they wouldn’t be so quick to ‘disinfect’ everything with that disgusting hand sanitizer gunk. I used to work on antimicrobial resistance… the problem is bad now, but we ain’t seen nothing yet! The sloshing around of 70% ethanol everywhere is going to cause a massive problem down the line for those of us left with a functional immune system.
Same, I was forced out of my actual profession during the lockdowns (I normally work at a gym funnily enough and also hate the obsessive, ritualistic cleaning, now I just give the sanitiser a few token sprays in the general direction of what I was using to keep up appearances), and worked in a supermarket. I didn’t enjoy myself one jot, however I was immensely grateful to be out of the house, mixing with others as much as possible, breathing the same air, touching things etc. Getting my hands dirty as it were. I ditched the hand sanitiser and I just washed my hands at the times I normally would and got on with it. I was thankful that house arrest didn’t have the opportunity to retard my immune system
Agreed.
I rarely use soap except for a little for puts and privates in the shower. Explained to wife – who has a degree in biology – she was a bit weirded out but got it.
I had a feral childhood roaming the countryside from age 7 so used to being dirty.
Get a dog. People may be isolating, dogs are not. When I see my dog licking my children’s faces I know their gut fauna is benefitting.
it’s a feature, not a bug
This article more than anything else highlights how little we know about the microbial world.
Microbiologists can’t make up their minds whether less population interaction means we our immune systems don’t get a strong enough work out or whether too much population increases the mutations of microbial pathogens and the risk that one of them becomes really deadly killer (i.e. not SarsCOV2..)
Hundreds of years after the plague, we still don’t really know why some people seemed immune to it and didn’t die from it.
We don’t really know how viruses spread.
We don’t know whether viruses lie latent in our bodies and ebb and flow like a tide depending on the state of our immune system, or whether we get sick only from outside contagion.
I’m not an biologist myself, but I deduce they haven’t a clue about any of these things, simply because of they way public health officials have flailed around for 18 months making up useless measures.
At least the last year or so has showed us how little the medical/scientific world actually does know, on a very basic level. That’s okay, I don’t hold that against any specialist in their field, but at least they should be honest. Too many aren’t and would rather do something, even if it creates more havoc than doing nothing.
“…but at least they should be honest. Too many aren’t and would rather do something, even if it creates more havoc than doing nothing.”
Absolutely. One ‘evolutionary finding’ is the need for certain academic disciplines to be put back in their box as highly speculative (and provisionally – in perspective – worthwhile) enterprises.
Public health in a general historical perspective, has been probably the most potent beneficial medical intervention. But the recent role of ‘Public Health’ as a profession has been a disaster of craven significance seeking (rather than evidence-based intervention) that has negated the term.
Spot on. Having read the 2019 WHO pandemic influenza plan, it became clear that the “experts” were basically fumbling around in the dark.
and some “experts” weren’t experts just narcissists with a white board and an afternoon to scribble on it.
They are quite concerned with the “backsliding” of gender roles.
At least it’s not all bad news then.
the world has done a massive experiment on itself with no idea of the long term outcomes (this goes for vaccines as well as lockdowns)
time will tell.
Since we know that: masks, SD, lockdowns do nothing epidemiologically, then I consider it highly unlikely that they have inhibited the spread of any pathogen at all.
The paper displays a touching faith in the efficacy of such measures.
The immune system is like your muscles, if you don’t exercise them regularly you loose strength. Personally I actively go out and socialise and don’t do any covid crap in the hope I get infections to exercise my immune system.
I’m old enough to remember disease parties, if some kid in the neighbourhood got some disease then all the kids were sent round to catch it. Now my parents would of been locked up for child abuse.
Never before have healthy people been quarantined on a global scale Never before have we been isolated away from each other, mandated to wear bacteria traps across our airways, constantly told to put chemicals our hands, manipulated into a chronic state of fear and stress, which lowers the immune system, all in the name of “public health and safety.” The so-called medical experts authorising this and governments mandating this, know damn well this is going to have a detrimental effect on populations. The know all right, how it will weaken the majority. It’s all by design. How the hell could they keep up the pretence of an on-going virus and constant jabbing of nefarious potions if the public were strong in mind body and soul. Only those with eyes to see, to understand, to educate themselves and and who will try to impart that information to others, will really survive, and they are the biggest threat of all.
Insight 7: “We have not evolved to seek the truth”
you wouldn’t really look at Israel data and have the sense that vaccines work
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/israel/
highest cases ever
deaths heading that way
middle of summer
everyone is on third booster
but then of course no-one is dying anyway and never really was
https://euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps/
I think we have a mild virus that some octogenarians are dying ‘with’ – vaccine or no vaccine when you’re that frail you are going to die of the next thing you get
“This year, New Zealand has already seen an unusually large outbreak of RSV (a respiratory virus affecting children), which doctors have attributed to an ‘immunity debt’ caused by lockdowns last winter. “
If only someone could have foreseen this.
Oh. We did.
I read somewhere recently (maybe here) that the next phase in the bio-terrorism takeover of the world will move from Coronavirus to RSV. Interestingly, RSV has the same issue with ADE as Coronaviruses – they experimented on children with a vaccine for RSV in the 60s and a good portion of them died and got severely ill with ADE.
Further info and links:
#3: THE UGLY HISTORY OF ATTEMPTS TO MAKE CORONAVIRUS VACCINES
https://www.deconstructingconventional.com/post/18-reason-i-won-t-be-getting-a-covid-vaccine
RSV and ADE also cited here:
Informed consent disclosure to vaccine trial subjects of risk of COVID-19 vaccines worsening clinical disease
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ijcp.13795
We also have a rise in RSV among children, according to Clare Craig’s twitter feed.
An extremely questionable mixed bag, based on immature science.
The possible immunological consequences are a quite common perception, and there has been a lot of prior debate about the role of ‘dirt avoidance’ in provoking an increase in allergies. So that’s nothing new in essence.
But other analyses are highly debatable, and the introduction starts off with a massive distortion :
“The outcome has been tragic—across the globe, millions have been sickened and hundreds of thousands have died.”
… which reinforcement of the central myth about the virulence of SARS-CoV-2 gives little faith in the substance as a whole.
“The American Food and Drug Administration provided full approval of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine last week, but noted in its press release that “information is not yet available about potential long-term health outcomes.””
https://www.jpost.com/health-and-wellness/israeli-experts-analyze-if-mrna-covid-vaccines-be-dangerous-in-long-term-678171
Something to note about that is it only applies to pfizer ‘vaccine’ made after that date. It doesn’t apply to the existing stockpiles made under EUA. It also means that the EUA for the Moderna and Johnson and Johnson stuff also ends as there is a treatment available now. Yet no one seems to mention any of this…
Excellent point which so far no one else has made [the the moderna and J+J jabs]
Does this now give any people like the care home staff etc who don’t want to be jabbed an “out” if they are presented with the AZ/Moderna etc jab – that there is no EUA for it now pfizer is approved or does that approval only apply in US?
Only USA.
In the UK we have our own regulations for the administration of covid vaccines
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/regulatory-approval-of-covid-19-vaccine-astrazeneca/conditions-of-authorisation-for-covid-19-vaccine-astrazeneca
I can find no reference in it to the authorisation being conditional on no other treatment being available.
Long, but excellent. Well worth your time.
“If we ‘follow the money’, we will see that the economic blockade deviously attributed to Virus has achieved far from negligible results, not only in terms of social engineering, but also of financial predation”
http://thephilosophicalsalon.com/a-self-fulfilling-prophecy-systemic-collapse-and-pandemic-simulation/
The destruction of immune systems in both young and old is part of the plan and isn’t an unwanted side effect of “well intentioned ” Covid-19 measures.
The other day I went to an eye appointment and I asked to wash my hands on arrival. The muzzleoid covidnazi on reception INSISTED I sanitized my hands BEFORE I was allowed to go and wash them. Madness
Oh, I’ve had plenty of that shit in hospitals.
MRI scan:
TOLD, TOLD mind, to sanitize my hands before handling a pen with which I was to sign the disclaimer. “No”
I was told I HAD to use the gunk, again bluntly refused.
Nurse nazi 1 then tells nurse nazi 2 to escort me to a gents convenience, clearly some way a way so that I could wash my hands. Then, realising how ridiculous he was becoming he said:
“forget it, we’ll sanitise the pen after you’ve signed.”
Comedy fuckin gold.
Our, wonderful, sainted NHS. Woefully overpaid for their so-called expertise.
The organisation is packed with bullies, muppets and wasters.
In the public loos in the local shopping centre, there is a hand sanitiser they would like you to use before going in, AND another one, after you’ve washed your hands with actual soap and water, on the way out!!! But there again, my mother in law hand sanitises after using our loo, which has running water, ample liquid soap, and clean towels! Its insulting, cultish and mad.
Sharpie pen: “magic cult member lotion” on every dispenser one encounters. Oh and “vaccine genocide” on the yellow stripe of every ‘Thank You’ rainbow.
I always explain that it is now known that fewer than 1 in 10,000 pick up Covid from touch. They are often amazed. I then point out that the Government knew it wasn’t transmitted by touch since May 2020, yet went on with the show and the slogan. I finish with : I wonder what else they have lied about? And leave them to that thought, urging them to check the study themselves.
Fight back at all opportunities.
Liberally sprinkled with facts lifted from polio infections and literally insane speculations: Eg, the idea that Sars-CoV2 somehow makes sick people feel healthy and extremely keen to socialize with others. That’s absolutely not what happens when sick with a flu-type illness. The common social symptom of that would be that people whine about their symptoms and would prefer to stay in bed.
In worse cases, it can go to the point where the body is weakened enough that doing anything but rest becomes virtually impossible.
When I had it and was at my worst I was physically incapable of getting out of bed, never mind leaving the house to socialise.
… as is the case with a severe ‘flu infection.
Exactly; got “Asian” flu 3 winters ago, and was exactly like Milo, to a “T”.
You do know when you get “proper” ‘flu. What did I take? Bed rest, Paracetamol, water by the gallon, chicken soup occasionally , let my bladder do the rest.
Spot on. I’m struggling with the 1984 now and I can honestly say the last thing I need at this time is company.
I just want to be on my own.
The MAIN evolutionary impact of lockdowns has been to accelerate the evolution of Homo Non Sapiens. I know, I know, it has been coming for years but the rate of change has been increased by an order of magnitude.
I’ve not changed much over the last 18 months apart from foreign travel (unfortunately). Everything else as normal. The good news is my ‘business cards’ arrived today. The bad news (for the globalists, their lackeys and collaborators) is that there’s a *real* hunger out there for an alternative narrative. The ‘hits’ on my website today have been huge… simply after handing out a few cards to willing (mask-free) pissed off employees and members of the public. Old school meets hi-tech. The truth will always succeed over the lies. FIGHT. BACK. BETTER. https://www.LCAHub.org/
No one in my entire circle of family or friends have reduced our exposure to anything at all over the last 18 months – not the sun, fresh air, each other, dirty surfaces etc. I am expecting to live in an age of generally deteriorating health amongst all of those gullible enough to fall for the propaganda. No neurodevelopment issues in my household, thanks.
My mother, an 86 year old retired nurse, said this on the day that the first lockdown was announced. She is entirely back to normal now; no masks, no ‘social distancing’, plenty of lunches out. She has always thought the whole thing was ridiculous and, apart from being vaccinated, for which the benefits outweighed the risks at her age, her only behaviour change has been to sit outside at least once a day for Vitamin D.
She should also take D supplements at at least 2,000iu daily. As we age, the ability of our skin and our guts to absorb D lessens. And unless she sits bare legged and bare armed in the sun at midday, without burning of course, she probably isn’t getting enough skin exposure anyway. And of course in Britain we can’t make D from the sun at all in the six winter months.
She sounds a very sensible woman.
Apart from the physical effect of it all, the other problem is the false education being presented by so-called experts. Some of it is motivated mainly by the “something must be done” attitude, some of it by commercial opportunism. There’s no doubt about that, unfortunately, but it exacerbates the loss of trust by the more intelligent people.