Last weekend’s episode of BBC One’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg featured an interview with newly-appointed CEO of the U.K.’s Climate Change Committee (CCC), Emma Pinchbeck. Among the softball questions fielded by the country’s chief climate technocrat was one that touched on the increasingly controversial matter of the costs of Net Zero. “I think we talk a lot about the costs of tackling climate change,” claimed Pinchbeck. “What we have rarely talked about… is the costs of not tackling climate change.” This is news to me.
Indeed, it may also well be news to the countless others who have switch off the BBC for its constant political messaging about climate change, among other fashionable causes. Many people from across the political spectrum have begun to find the de facto state broadcaster simply overbearing. And countless programmes and news items attest to the fact the BBC has taken it upon itself to lead the public towards a very particular understanding of climate, based around the idea of a ‘climate crisis’, which will be catastrophic and thus hugely expensive if not confronted. And it has done so in large part by excluding from its transmissions any view that suggests a cost-benefit analysis on the Net Zero agenda ought to have been done before it was advanced.
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The first item by The Mail covering the new kids pneumonia outbreak in China is so predicable ffs ! Don’t worry The WHO will keep us updated in a calm fashion while they wait for their wank treaty to be ratified ,
And the Hallet enquiry which will conclude we should have locked down harder and sooner. And they are going for the kids this time. I think this was predicted.
Here we go again! The latest viral scary story to launch from china.
Anyone noticed the DS absence of the stabbings and riots in Dublin? Why is it not mentioned?
Freddy, I suspect this might be the warm-up so that when their treaty is in the bag off they’ll go again.
Excellent piece of writing looking at the revised Hamas Charter and how this appeals to the Left;
”The mass murders by Hamas on October 7 were the outcome of its core ideology, clearly expressed in its founding charter of 1988. That “ideology of mass murder” has its origins in the fusion of Nazism and Islamism that first took place in the 1930s and 40s, and then persisted in the Islamist politics of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, of which Hamas is an offshoot. Hamas’ ability to gain supporters, first in the universities, now in the streets, rests as well on its revised charter of 2017, which draws on the anti-Zionism of the secular Left. Hence a close reading of the revised charter, whose language and arguments now echo on campuses and in the streets, is in order.
There is no precedent in modern history in which a movement such as Hamas, with roots in both the racist ideologies of Nazism and in Islamist religious obscurantism, has been so successful in finding supporters or at least excuse-makers among those who regard themselves as secular leftists. For its entire modern history, anti-fascism had been a defining feature of leftist or progressive politics. Beginning in the 1960s, however, leftists in Europe and the United States redefined anti-fascism in a way that severed it from its meaning in the 1940s and, amazingly, turned it against Israel. For the generations who have come of age since the 1960s, the language of anti-racism and anti-colonialism, mistakenly applied to Zionism and Israel, has facilitated the emergence of a kind of magical thinking that transforms Hamas from an inherently racist and antisemitic terrorist force into a member in good standing of the struggle of the wretched of the earth against colonialism and Western domination.”
https://www.americanpurpose.com/articles/from-the-river-to-the-sea/
The Irish kicked off big time yesterday, as is evidenced all over social media. More on the stabbing here. I suppose they deny it’s a terrorist attack because he didn’t shout ”Allahu Akbar” before stabbing little kids. Last I saw, after they’d set police cars, buses and trains alight, as well as an immigration centre and a Holiday Inn, where immigrants were staying, the police called the army in. Keep eyes peeled as more details emerge about this incident today;
”Gript Media can confirm that the person of interest in today’s stabbing incident in central Dublin, which left four people plus the assailant – including three children – injured, is understood to be an Algerian national.
Official sources confirmed to Gript late this afternoon that the person of interest – who remains in a Dublin hospital and is understood not yet to be well enough to face garda interrogation – is believed to have originated from the North African country. However, sources also stressed that this is a working assumption, which may yet change based on an analysis of documentation.
At a press conference this evening, An Garda Sīochana released a statement in relation to the incident which took place in the vicinity of Parnell Street, Dublin earlier today. At that press conference, Gardai declined to comment on the nationality of the person of interest, or any other information relating to him.
Gardai did stress that while the investigation is at an early stage, a terrorist motive is not currently suspected.”
https://gript.ie/breaking-news-suspect-in-dublin-stabbing-algerian-national-gardai-believe/
‘…is believed to originate…’
‘….this is a working assumption, which may yet change based on an analysis of documentation.’
What a load of wordy nonsense. So it’s now a complicated issue to actually say where someone is from even when that person stabbed innocent children? It throws the whole question of the unprecedented much higher levels of immigration in Ireland into even sharper focus. I’m surprised they didn’t set the police station on fire and the home office government buildings for that matter. It’s appalling what’s happening to that country.
Agreed! When the inevitable admission has to be made, just wait for the ‘go to’ “he has mental issues” explanation to come spilling out the msm’s big book of lefty immigrant protection excuses,
vol 2!
But, but Aethelred….”diversity is our strength. ”
😀😀😀
Thanks for mentioning this Mogs! DS seems not to deem it important 🤔.
The irish are thoroughly f-ed off with immigration and are finally waking up to the consequences, eg Stockholm, if more of it is allowed!
Sadly the violent response, although I can fully understand why there was this response, is only playing into the hands of those who wish to impose further controls & surveillance. Perfect excuse to bring in digital IDs, facial recognition & control of movement… All for your safety don’t ya know….
Peaceful resistance, using that little but incredibly powerful word ‘No’ undermines their ability to implement these tyrannical measures. We have to be better than them & not fall into the traps which they lay for us.
EV Batteries – A Marketing Nightmare
“Discounts on new EVs rise 323%”
One thing this article does not mention is whether at these discounted prices, the manufacturers re still making any money or are they selling at a loss? As it is EV value depreciation is already very high, much higher than with ICE cars. This discounting will be contributing to this high depreciation. Buying an EV will not be attractive until there is a settled market and a clear and workable system of secondhand sales through to eventual end of life scrapping.
When they started marketing EVs Renault had a system where you bought the car but leased the battery, this seemed an odd concept at the time but now looks like it would have been a good system from the consumers point of view. In a recent video on the Geoff Buys Cars site;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaRlAV18iaI&t=123s
He talks about the high costs you pick up when EV batteries fail, they should be repairable but all too often a new battery is the only option people are given. And so as Geoff says, if you buy a secondhand Porsche EV for £50,000 and you know that a replacement battery, if ever needed, will cost £40,000, in a manner of speaking when you buy your fancy second hand Porsche EV you are buying £10,000 worth of car and £40,000 of battery liability. It makes the old Renault idea of leasing the battery look like a good option!
People tell me that technology will bring in new more efficient, cheaper easier to re-cycle batteries and they may well be right. But that only makes the current situation even worse, what they are saying is that the current range of EV batteries are the equivalent of a Betamax video recorder and will soon be yesterday’s technology. And then they wonder why people are not buying them!
Tesla for one has never made money by manufacturing and selling BEVs.
It gets its money from gullible shareholders and greenwashing governments, throwing other people’s money at it as a thank you for “saving the planet”.
The manufacture of BEVs is massively subsidised.
The purchase of BEVs is massively subsidised.
BEV – Battery Electric Vehicle, to distinguish from other types, e.g. hybrid (hybrids almost make sense, whereas BEVs just don’t, not in any sense).
I totally agree.
A main inventor of lithium ion batteries didn’t think they were good enough* and continued working to find something better almost until his death.
There’s a slight irony that his name was John B Goodenough. Which also makes me think of Johnny B Goode.
From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B._Goodenough
John Bannister Goodenough (/ˈɡʊdɪnʌf/GUUD-in-uf;[3] July 25, 1922 – June 25, 2023) was an American materials scientist, a solid-state physicist, and a Nobel laureate in chemistry.
From 2016 [aged 94], Goodenough also worked as an adviser for Battery500, a national consortium led by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and partially funded by the U.S. Department of Energy.[47][48]
Goodenough was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry on October 9, 2019, for his work on lithium-ion batteries, along with M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino. To date he is the oldest person ever to have been awarded the Nobel Prize.[5]
Betamax was followed by VHS
VHS was followed briefly by recordable DVD and then by DVR (recording to computer hard disk)
DVR is being replaced by streaming on demand
You shouldn’t really commit to the first few iterations of EV technology.
What is really happening?
Russian military bloggers complain about the presence of Ukrainian troops on the left bank of the Dnipro in the Kherson region and criticize the Russian military’s apparent inability to suppress the operations. A blogger said on Tuesday that Ukrainian forces had killed an entire Russian attack group near Krynky, 30 kilometers northeast of the city of Kherson and 2 kilometers from the Dnipro River.
“After studying the statements of various channels and conversations with soldiers on the front, we have once again come to the conclusion that our main enemy on the front is not the Ukrainian armed forces, but our own inertia. At all levels. The Russian army has come a long way in its development, but there is still a lot to learn.”
‘….a Russian soldier in the Black Sea Fleet operating near Krynky also distributed a video with harsh criticism of his own military. Accordingly, injured Russian soldiers would be forced to carry out attacks.’
‘…..military blogger, complained that the Russian armed forces in the Krynky area lacked reconnaissance drones. This slows down their movements and puts them at risk of Ukrainian attacks. The soldier also apparently complained that the Russian forces in the Krynky area lacked fire support, as artillery and mortar units quickly changed their location after firing “a few shots” to avoid return fire. According to the soldier, his unit has virtually no interaction with other Russian units operating nearby. The Russian headquarters near Kherson is making unsuccessful plans because it only receives false and delayed information.’
‘Why don’t you show how Avdiivka is burning and being destroyed. What kind of liberation is this when a city is leveled to the ground? There are still locals living there who used to expect Russia but now hate it. These shellings do not particularly affect the armed forces of Ukraine but the civilians suffer’
Askold, Telegram
Where does Russia go after Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova? Latvia, and then ‘sudden health problems’ coming to a town near you………
‘Janis Adamsons, a former interior minister and an ex-lawmaker from the opposition Social Democratic Saskana (Harmony) party, to 8 1/2 years in prison after finding him guilty of spying for Russia.
Adamsons’ co-defendant, Gennady Silonov, a former Soviet KGB officer and Russian citizen, was handed a 7-1/2 year prison sentence on the same charge.
Adamsons was found guilty of passing information related to Latvian laws, military finances, and the situation along Latvia’s eastern borders to Silonov, who passed the information down the line to Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB).’
‘A man detained in Latvia on suspicion of spying for Russia has died in detention following sudden health problems, prison authorities said Wednesday.
Igors Bobirs was detained in August, with authorities in Riga claiming the Russia-born man could have been working for the FSB secret service.
The Prison Administration of Latvia said the 53-year-old Bobirs — who had still not been officially charged — died one week earlier after being admitted to hospital.
It did not give a cause of death but said there had been a “rapid deterioration” in his health.
The LETA news agency said police had launched an investigation and autopsy and toxicology reports were ordered.
Bobirs and three other suspects were detained after their names came up in the high-profile espionage trial of former interior minister Janis Adamsons.’
Latvia became a member of NATO in 2004.
Well, they’re just copying the attitude of the educational establishment during covid. They were the ones that thought nothing of closing schools down, teaching online, not allowing kids into school id they tested positive on a covid test that said nothing of how sick you actually were. Even when it was abundantly clear there was no real risk for anyone, the teaching establishment more than anyone refused to go back to work. Where was the commitment and passion for educating children then?
They set the example and now kids understand very well that going to school only matters to those “in charge” when it suits them. Lesson learned.
There’s more appetite these days for different types of learning. Forest schools, farm schools, homeschool hubs etc. Unfortunately these options are not widely available. I live on a farm where they have a sort of farm school (Steiner influenced) a few days a week. The kids get to do things outside away from wifi and sitting at desks. They chop kindling, gather wood, make fire, feed goats and sheep and chickens and even some of the heifers. They weed and harvest veggie gardens, do felting with wool from the sheep and so much more. They’re not all from privileged backgrounds either. Although I’m not involved, I get a sense they get a lot out of it.
My daughter worked harder during lockdown, teaching children of essential workers in the day and preparing online lessons and videos in the evening for those not attending during the day. She was exhausted. She also had to oversee with her own 4 children who were working online at home. Best not to lump all teachers in the same category.
I am very mindful of that, which is why I expressly referred to the teaching establishment (unions, etc) rather than teachers. I also know teachers that worked very hard during that period to make sure kids continued to get their lessons.
What is also undeniable is that the teachers unions were amongst the most ardent supporters of lockdowns, shutting down schools, delaying reopenings and imposing all manner of hideous testing and screening measures on children. The end result was that in large part they got their way.
And as with the rest of society at large, those who didn’t agree kept their heads down and went along with it. That is also undeniable.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/11/23/pro-lockdown-obsessives-still-long-to-be-told-what-to-do/
Jemima Lewis in the Torygraph. She does admit in the article that she wore a mask during the Scamdemic. Oh dear.
““The Covid Inquiry has unmasked the flaws in trusting ‘the science’” – There is no use following the science if the science comes from only one direction and there is no open debate about its efficacy or otherwise, says Rod Liddle in the Spectator”
As doon as you see the phrase “The Science”, rest assured, this is nothing to do with science, but refers to an ideological belief system. Noted that long ago, thanks to the Climate Change scam.
Burley. More like “Barely” human…
Adherents of the anti-Gentile teachings and traditions of Judaism might well agree and be left equally speechless by such a question.