When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?
Paul Samuelson (commonly misattributed to John Maynard Keynes)
The Financial Times’s ‘Monday Interview‘ of Lord Browne was headlined ‘Beyond BP: John Browne on the oil company’s green U-turn’. Aged 77 and now standing for the Chancellorship election at Cambridge university, it was his chance to reminisce over 40 years of career experience at BP, with 12 years as the company’s CEO. Despite the headline, he had precious little to say about the oil company’s dramatic shift away from ‘green’ investments back to oil and gas under its new CEO. As the FT put it: “Browne demurs, in his characteristically circumspect way, saying he ‘doesn’t really approve’ of former CEOs weighing in on the choices of their successors.”
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“Burning electric cars must be dunked in baths of water to stop fires spreading”
…or perhaps we ought to have a moratorium about vehicles that spontaneously combust. Perhaps this isn’t the right technology to build our future on.?
They’re not so carbon neutral when they go up in flames, are they! Not to mention all the water needed to put them out. Probably equivalent to growing a couple of avocados for an eco activist’s brunch!
I’d like to see them get a lorry back builders skip and a 20ton crane into and underground car park! The ceiling is only 7ft high at best! Or, all this on a ferry or halfway down the channel tunnel!
“Richard Curtis regrets the way he wrote about women in his films”
I regret the way that Richard Curtis has curled up and died under pressure from his child about the use of the word ‘chubby’ to describe overweight people.
Chubby Checker, Fats Waller, King Tubby, Fats Domino…men who really couldn’t care less about such monikers of corpulence!
The article by Major General Charlie Herbert is a must-read. At last, we hear an expert voice on how the ground assault will not solve anything.
The move into Gaza will produce the desired, planned effect..
A global war..
This is The Great Reset Part 3….
If anything, it will be the breeding ground for even more radicalised terrorists. War begets war, only peace begets peace.
Very powerful piece by Scott Ritter;
https://www.sott.net/article/485173-Why-I-no-longer-stand-with-Israel-and-never-will-again
“Sir Patrick Vallance says release of full diary entries would breach human rights”Funny- he didn’t give a dam about human rights a few years ago.
‘Why has the Gaza ground invasion been delayed since Friday?’
“To achieve victory we must as far as possible make the enemy
blind and deaf by sealing his eyes and ears and drive his
commanders to distraction by creating confusion in their
minds”.
Mao Tse Tung, Protracted War, 1938
Hammas cares so much about the citizens they’re blockading the roads so they can’t evacuate South. More explained in this short video;
”The Israel Defense Force (IDF) slammed Hamas terrorists for blocking Gazan civilians from evacuating south as the IDF readies expanded operations in the strip, calling the move both “sinister and vile.”
“Hamas has both issued warnings to their civilians not to evacuate, and when people didn’t listen to those warnings of Hamas, they have actually stopped civilians, and have stopped convoys of Gazan civilians trying to flee from the situation,” IDF spokesman Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus explained in a daily briefing shared to social media.”
https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2023/10/15/sinister-idf-blasts-hamas-stopping-gazan-civilians-evacuating/
This author explains how he thinks the Hamas attack was down to mainly incompetence and that the conspiracy theories are just that;
”Finally, Israel is a small country. A whole lot of people know each other and are related or friends with each other. This conspiracy theory requires you to believe that military personnel who had friends and family living in these communities decided to ignore calls for help and sit around playing cards while they were being butchered. Not to mention ignore attacks on their own bases and allow their fellow military personnel to be murdered, tortured, and taken hostage.
But since it is out there, let’s address it.
Most forms of this ‘trutherism’ claim that Israel’s security is so great and its intelligence apparatus so solid that there’s no way that the Hamas attack could have happened without some sort of complicity.
Sorry, no.
Libertarians, of all people, should know that governments are incompetent. Israel’s security is pretty compared to the United States because it actually tries to secure things. But it’s a long way from being secure. The best evidence of that is how many times it has failed.
Israel’s intelligence has been hyped a lot, but it’s mostly offensive intelligence. That means it’s pretty good at doing what it does now, learning the locations of enemy targets and taking them out. Its defensive intelligence has been a mixed bag at best. Israel’s track record at preventing terrorist attacks using intelligence is only a little better than ours.
Ask where a particular terrorist is and they stand a good chance of being able to answer, ask where the next terrorist attack is coming from, and the answer is no more useful than our color-coded homeland security alerts. There’s usually ‘chatter’ and some ‘sources’ say something, but ‘other sources’ say something else. Analysts pore over it and then someone higher up settles the debate.
Without having boots on the ground, Israel was relying on passive intelligence collection and on sensors and cameras, rather than on human intelligence sources and people who were actually paying close attention to what was going on.”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2023/10/the-hamas-inside-job-truthers-dont-understand-israel-or-war
Lots of Israelis injected other Israelis with the experimental untested gunk.
Yes and that’s one good reason just in and of itself why Netanyahu has shown total disregard for the people of Israel, he turned that place into ‘Pfizer Nation’ and went full ‘Nazi’ on the citizens regarding the restrictions too, and if a bomb dropped on his head tomorrow I’m sure there’d be a party on the streets over there. I’m wondering if there was a poll just what his popularity would look like these days. If this current epic disaster is ‘political suicide’ then it’s a tragedy that he’s had to take so many innocent civilians with him, but he’s the one who at least still has breath in his body.
Struck by how the down-tickers have yet to explain why the don’t like your post. Can’t help feeling we all need to stand back and look at the bigger picture, the history and context of what’s going on. None of us can know the full details and social media just exacerbates the fear-mongering and division. So many lies, speculation and hatred that does nothing to help ordinary Israeli or Palestinian people, or humanity in general
Yes exactly. I just keep an open mind and listen to all angles really. Straight away I didn’t discount the idea it was an ‘inside job’ and found it hard to believe the IDF would not have had intelligence or let their guard down, so to speak, so that such a slaughter could ensue. Then when I heard Efrat Whatsername speak, who also is very doubtful this was just incompetence on the part of the military, I gave her more credence because she’s both Israeli and has served, whereas the above chap is American and I’ve no idea what his military expertise is, if any. However, he is allowed his opinion the same as anyone else, popular or not. But as you say, none of us know and it’s all just conjecture at the end of the day. Will the truth ever come out? Either way Netanyahu is finished.
‘U.K. lockdowns were a policy ‘failure’
No cost benefit analysis…..over £400bn spent with no cost benefit analysis…..bungling incompetence is far too generous an assessment. But it would be the triumph of hope over experience to expect this inquiry find in favour of criminal negligence…..which it so clearly should……
‘…..the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling (SPI-M-O)….failed to adequately assess the negative consequences of a nationwide lockdown.’
“The harms of the social distancing measures – particularly lockdown, the economic harms, the educational harms, the harms to access to healthcare, the harms to societal wellbeing … just the way we all function … mental health – were not included in any of the work that SPI-M-O did and, as far as I could tell, no one else was doing it either,”
“The question of how to avoid lockdown was never asked of us and I find that extraordinary.”
‘I think it’s fair to describe lockdown not as a public health policy, but as a failure of public health policy. [Lockdown] is what you do when all those other things you know you can do haven’t worked, it’s a last resort and it should always be that in my view.”
Reminds me to post this link to an excellent and succinct talk by Nick Hudson of Panda reviewing the evidence on the lockdowns and vaccines from an actuarial standpoint.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hNcWbO1tY_E
Interesting 2min vid. It’s not all about the land therefore giving them more land is not the solution.
https://twitter.com/Lionroyboy/status/1714076217760981108
Double warning, by J Campbell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lyeO9IqJzc&list=WL&index=1 About the emerging abuse of power by the WHO & others.
This is very concerning – Reiner Fuellmich has been arrested:
https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/breaking-reiner-fuellmich-taken-from
https://www.europereloaded.com/reiner-fuellmich-taken-from-german-embassy-in-mexico-on-passport-errand-flown-to-frankfurt-and-arrested/
Indeed, very concerning especially as most judges in the West are corrupted.
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-67125230
Oh dear, showing copies of his written diary entries will contravene Unbalanced’s human rights, yet arresting someone – and looking towards prosecution – of someone just having thoughts, doesn’t?
Strange world.
I want to see the diary entry about the exponential growth graph. Is he so thick he believes epidemics grow exponentially never mind the laws of Maths nor the prior art from 1927 onwards.
Then butt out of Syria, Joe, and stop stealing their oil.
Hamas are terrorists. FACT
Ah, but facts can be partial. BBC