Incompetence or PLAN?

One of the raging debates sweeping the nation is: "are our 'leaders' incompetent or are they managing a collapse?"

I think it's 15% incompetence, 85% planned.

As the greatest Conspiracy Theorist of all time noted, 'behind every ruler is the Priesthood.'

The current energy crisis lends credibility to this thesis.  If you starve the hydrocarbon industry  of funds, they can't explore or produce.  You pinch off exploration, you're going to get fewer barrels of oil, less natural gas, less diesel, less coal, and you get a shortage.  This isn't complicated.

Adding to that, you yell at the world about 'global warming' - er - 'climate change', and you broadcast your message through this paragon of engineering, intellectual elite Scandinavian person:

Is Greta a scientists of any sort?  Remember, if you slightly questioned any of the Progressive maxims over the past few years (global warming, BUG19, vaxx efficacy, HIV => AIDS), you were instantly explained away as 'not a scientist' or Karen screamed at you to 'follow the science!'.  But in this case, we're supposed to take 'Greta' seriously because ... why?  Every once in a while I ask some Progressive Follower of The Current Thing why Greta gets a pass on the "not a scientist" paradigm.  It's great fun watching the physical and intellectual contortions.  I recommend it.

By the way, $5 trillion is an excellent grift.  Someone made a ton of money.  I didn't. So there's the money angle.

Irina Slav is wondering about the incompetence part of these obviously ridiculous and stupid decisions when it comes to energy:

The 'renewable energy' move is physics-ally impossible.  As in, the laws of physics prevent it.  Yet, the EC Green Deal president is tripling down on wind power.  Looks like an incompetent bit of decision making to Ms. Slav, an authority on energy.  Perhaps she's right.  It opens up good questions.

Where is the concrete coming from?  Where is the steel coming from? Where is the aluminum and copper wire coming from?  Who is making the non-recyclable plastic blades' and in which landfill will they go?  

Steel and concrete production are the two largest contributors to carbon emissions in the world.  And these are the people who are constantly talking about Climate Change while traveling in private jets and making decisions like these?

So you've disrupted supply chains, caused runaway inflation, which have lead to food shortages and riots in: Sri Lanka, Peru, and China ... and the answer is to build more windmills?

That isn't incompetence.

Especially, when you temporarily have the largest windmill producer do this:

Yes, COAL.

In other words, the dirtiest fuel in the world will hold it down until we can do what should be a decades long energy transition, in 8 years.

Lets's leave out the fact that all the previous energy transitions have happened organically, because of Energy Return over Energy Invested ratios that worked.  None of them happened by government fiat.

This one won't happen either - not without incredible levels of hunger, inflation, and riots.

Apparently, more pain is required.  Whatever pain is happening now isn't enough.  And it doesn't look like 'incompetence' to me - a broken down English teacher in the bad neighborhood who is so far away from the Top of the Pyramid it isn't even funny.

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Gary North

It was in the Fall of 2010 and my libertarian phase was just beginning.

I don't remember how I got wind of Gary North's work, but I remember reading his articles, probably on Lew Rockwell's site first, then on garynorth.com.

What I found on his site, and in his writing, was an abundance of economics, history, and politics.  He'd been on Ron Paul's staff in the 1970's as the chief economist.  As an early stage libertarian, that was the credential of all credentials.  

North wrote 4 articles a day (!), and they were all interesting to me.  Each one, particularly the ones on American History and Austrian Economics, was a deep dive into the topic.  There was no fluff.  His writing style was great: short, terse sentences that wasted no words.  Declarative sentences that spoke of things other sites would call 'conspiracy theory'.  Economic ideas that other sites wouldn't touch, as they were free market based and ruined the economics of the Regime / University.

North's site was the site where there were many firsts for me.  He was the first person I read who spoke of revisionist history / conspiracy in plain terms.  Remember how the Gulf of Tonkin was relegated to conspiracy kook world until around 10 years ago?  North had been talking about it for decades.  Many things that are now grudgingly accepted in the main, like FDR pushing for, and causing WWII by his treatment of Japan, were written about by North since the late 1960's.  Who was this old guy writing this stuff on this Web 1.0 site, in this volume, with this huge subscriber base?

Then I became a subscriber.  North's site was the first site I paid to read.  I had never even considered such a thing before.  His site set the tone.  Now, with substack going full blast, paywalls the norm, and subscriptions services galore, North looks even more prophetic.  Back then I would wake up before everyone else in the apartment, fire up my HP desktop PC, and go to GaryNorth.com.

There was something else that caused a major internal change.  North was a devout and unabashed God Fearing Christian.  Over the years, most of the smart, based, thoughtful, fearless, and honest people I read are all religious.  The last few years I have noticed this pattern emerge.  North was the first.  The early stage of my spiritual journey began concurrently by Dr. North casually mentioning that the most important thing was ones service to God.

As a NYC liberal, this was a paradigm shift to say the least.

The first big changes in my head and heart are owed to this man.  

Gary North died on February 24th, 2022.  Being who he was, independent to the end, when he got cancer he followed the Gerson Therapy rather than run into the arms of Big Medical and their corrupt embrace.  He documented this holistic journey for years.

There is a fantastic written eulogy here.

For me, this is the key section:

Here is a sample lecture.  Do as you say you will do.  Do it on time. Do it at or under budget.

Go thou and do likewise.

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In FRANCE, of all PLACES

Things are getting interesting.

As recently as 2015, if you'd heard any gov't official say something like this, it would have been like dropping an atom bomb on social media, and the Corporate Press would have gone ballistic:

Speaking out against multiculturalism?  I thought that was heresy.  

It's fascinating that this is from France, a country that began bringing in colonial territory foreigners decades ago, and then allowed its leaders to flood the place with more.

Apparently, not all cultures are created equal.

Part of the issue here is that everyone knows that the 'all cultures are equal' thing is a scam.  Traditional Christian old world French culture is not on the table.  Talking positively about it was simply not allowed.  This upcoming French election cycle is getting interesting, as the previously forbidden things are getting spoken about and are stated loudly:

Vox pulled the key quote from the article and put it on his heavily trafficked site:

"Former French intelligence chief Pierre Brochand warns that unless Europe and France radically change their policies on mass immigration, civil war could break out, asserting, “all multicultural societies are doomed.”

Brochand, who served as director of the French DGSE from 2002 to 2008, made the comments during an interview with French newspaper Le Figaro. “All ‘multicultural’ societies are doomed to more or less deep rifts,” warned Brochand, adding, “In such a situation, it happens that minorities are violent winners, and majorities placid losers.”

The negative impact of mass immigration on France can no longer be dismissed because it is “increasingly difficult to prevent the French from seeing what they see,” and also because “a breakthrough personality has suddenly appeared in the formulaic world of politics that has encouraged them to open their eyes,” said Brochand.

The ex-intel chief predicts that if Emmanuel Macron wins the presidential election and fails to massively alter his approach to immigration, civil war could ensue. “This gradual upheaval of the French population, if not the only challenge we face, is the only one that directly threatens civil peace on our territory,” said Brochand, warning that Muslim migrants and others from outside of Europe have developed a “spirit of post-colonial revenge.”"

Revenge.  That's the word I have always used.  When people would gush about 'multiculturalism' and 'diversity', they weren't talking about the world I grew up in here in NYC, where we would have friendly pot luck lunches at PS 84 rife with different foods, after we stated the Pledge of Allegiance.  

That was then.  The current style of 'diversity' always looked and sounded like 'revenge' to me too.

Brochand actually said this out loud, in the mainstream press.  In France, of all places.  Looking at the Viktor Orban win in Hungary, the Vucic win in Serbia, the rise of Bolsonaro, 87% of the world's population NOT condemning Russian intervention in Ukraine, it's telling you that nationalism is on the rise.  

The grey part of the map doesn't have an issue with Putin and Russia going into the Ukraine.  Those countries represent 87% of the world's population.

In closing, things are changing.  The 'New World Rules Based International Order' (NWO for short), is on the defensive.  The absurd policy of 'Invade the World, Invite the World', is ending.

Witness:

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Physics Defeats PLATITUDES

I stole that title from Doomberg.

There are reasons why we are living in this world:

If you decide that you will, as a governmental policy, do what feels good: "fight Climate Change", instead of what is required to run a first world society, you will get a hard lesson in physics.

In order to charge your iPhone, drive around town, fly to your vacation, or flip a switch and turn on the light - you need energy.  If your choice of energy is 'carbon free', then you need what are being called 'renewable energy': namely wind, solar and battery power.

There are two things we are paying for because we don't understand physics.  In order to be 'carbon free' via batteries and renewables, those materials have to be mined from the earth.  The main ingredients for batteries are:

• Copper
• Nickel
• Cobalt
• Lithium
• Graphite

The second thing we are paying for is a lack of investment in fossil fuels during the recent past.  Energy is measured in BTU's, and without enough 'juice', our modern world can't run.  It feels good to say we need 'green' energy, but it isn't realistic, and physics will trump platitudes every day of the week.

Massif Capital just came out with this dirty little secret in its latest letter (emphasis mine):

"The dirty little secret no one tells you is that the carbon free economy is not free of environmental impact, the impact is just different. Your Tesla requires the mining of 90,000 lbs. of material to extract the necessary ore for 1, one-thousand-pound battery. We are not getting rid of environmental impact; we are changing the impact we are having. An important distinction people fail to recognize.

This is an important under-discussed reality. It is well understood what the possible outcome of raising temperatures caused by GHG emissions are, but no one seems to want to discuss the impact of the widely accepted solution. Another example from our paper Failure to Impact:

Building a single 100-MW wind farm requires 30,000 tons of iron ore, 50,000 tons of concrete, and 900 tons of nonrecyclable plastic.[1] A 100 MW solar development requires cement, steel, aluminum, and glass 150% greater than the wind farm.[2] The 1,000-pound lithium-Ion battery one would find in most electric vehicles requires roughly 25 pounds of lithium, 30 pounds of cobalt, 60 pounds of nickel, 90 pounds of copper, 110 pounds of graphite, and 400 pounds of steel, aluminum, and various plastic components.[3] In total, mining firms will need, on average, to extract about 90,000 pounds of ore to produce that volume of useable material, much of which will be extracted using mining trucks that can haul 400 tons of material in a single load and get a sporty 0.3 miles per gallon of diesel."

What this means for the regular person is that our unserious leaders have no idea about physics, nor do they have any idea where stuff comes from.  Not mentioned above is solar energy.  Where is the polysilicon that makes up solar panels coming from?  There are 3 poly silicon plants left in the USA.  China has a stranglehold on that industry now, as the Globalists have hollowed out the manufacturing base here in the U.S.

The so called 'green' movement is continuing to make everything more expensive for you.  Doomberg will provide you with one more example regarding oil:

That was posted in January 2022.  I work with someone who thinks that her high gas prices at the pump are from "greedy oil companies".

I took a shot at explaining to her that those "greedy oil companies" have been blocked at every turn by screeching environmento-malthusians who have zero concept of what it takes to make things work.

I made no progress.  You'd think I'd have learned by now.

Anyway, as you can see from above, the obstruction of oil and gas continues.  Things will continue to get more expensive, and eventually gas here in the USA will cost $6.95 a gallon.

That's going to hurt.  But, as Doomberg tweets regularly about how long it will take to make things change: "More pain required."

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The NWO Takes the L

The cracks in the Globalist Rules Based Neoliberal Order (or whatever the current nomenclature is) keep widening and increasing.

Here's one of the biggest shifts, courtesy of Irina Slav, a great writer on the energy markets:

The International Energy Agency is one of these globalist outfits, along with the World Economic Forum, Bank of Int'l Settlements, the UN, who are the ones who we are supposed to look toward for the 'right' information, and in the IEA's case, about energy.

The IEA has, every year except 2020, underestimated the demand for hydrocarbons, particularly oil.  They are always telling us that because of the so called 'green' agenda, the need for oil will subside.

It's almost as if they think if they say it enough, it will come true.

Eventually, reality intervenes.  We are seeing that now.

"Then came the COP26 conference where large oil and gas consumers raced to outcommit each other on emission reductions. Biden’s SPR oil releases started and failed to make a lasting difference in petrol prices. Then Russia invaded the Ukraine and the West started pouring sanctions on Moscow. The oil-producing part of the East, meanwhile, kept quiet and distanced itself from outright public condemnations.

And then, after the latest series of calls for more oil, it appeared that OPEC had had enough.

"I think in COP 26 all the producers felt they were uninvited and unwanted but now we are again superheroes, it’s not going to work like that," the UAE’s Al Mazrouei said earlier this week, as quoted by Reuters. He then went on to explain that OPEC+ needed to replace some 5 to 8 million barrels of oil production daily just to keep output at current levels.

Separately, speaking to CNBC, Al Mazrouei said it was becoming increasingly difficult to maintain order on the oil market and boost production in line with demand.

“For that to happen, we need resources – financial resources – we need to invest and we need to decouple politics from energy availability and energy affordability,” he said."

Here's what happened.  For years, you had everyone demonizing oil and gas.  The Corporate Press, Social Media, and the NPC's (see previous post), were howling about 'clean energy', the 'green' agenda, 'zero emissions', and 'divestment' in the energy sector.  The NY State Teacher's Retirement System made a big show of divesting from oil and gas companies.

Fast forward to today.  Demand for energy is raging.  The COP26 rhetoric is meaningless and forgotten. The EU needs energy - badly.  As demand rises, supply has been curtailed because of the lack of investment.  In other words, the energy sector has been starved of capital, unable to explore or drill, and been told that its product is obsolete.

I'll let you in on a little secret. You will be using oil for the rest of your life.  So will your children. 

Now that prices are skyrocketing, the same people who demonized hydrocarbons have shown up, angry that the supply is low, and prices are high.

OPEC + has simply said we're not taking it anymore.  They started this week by jettisoning the IEA as a source of anything.  They don't even want it to count barrels, or project demand.

Neither China, India, Iran or Russia are on board with the Laptop Class' obsession with renewables.  They are all building more capacity for Oil, Gas, and Nuclear.  They don't care what the weirdos on Twitter have to say.  The irony is that Twitter won't work without electricity.

The battery powered cars, and green energy clownishness not only won't work, it can't work.  Renewables don't produce enough power, and never can.

Every time you think batteries and a 'green' world, think of this image:

The NWO keeps taking losses.  This is a great thing.

UPDATE:

Bison Interests just recorded a webinar on The State of the Oil Market.  Put it under the heading of "Reality Therapy".

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Brainlessly Support the CURRENT THING

Paul Joseph Watson lets it fly on this latest 'current thing' that all the NPC's are mindlessly supporting.  Instead of doing the Conservative Inc. routine, where you are shocked! at how dumb the libs are, take this information as a school lesson as to how it is.

I know I wasted years in disbelief at how easy it is for the Top of the Pyramid to manage the minds of the Herd.  Even after reading "Isaiah's Job" by Albert Jay Nock, confronting friends on Facebook with Murray Rothbard's writings, and showing the illogical aspect and exposing the mental illness that is 85% of progressive policies, I would still manage to get upset at the goldfish level responses I would get.

I did this for years.  It was a complete waste of time.

You can't reason with these people.  Don't even try.  

Don't believe me?  Ask your local NPC neighbor why they're maniacal about Supporting Ukraine! and virulently against V. Putin, and have never said, posted, intimated, or suggested any opinion whatsoever about the almost 400,000 deaths in Yemen, courtesy of Western backed weaponry.  10,000 children dead since 2015.

Why no boycotts?  Where are the sanctions?  How come no one has the Yemeni flag in their twitter bio?

Ask these questions at this house first please:

Watson really unloads at 9:07.  It's perfect - the best part of the video.

He's good at this kind of rant.  I wonder how long until The Managers Who Disseminate The Current Thing kick him off of YouTube?

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Chris Hedges CENSORED

One of the best features of Matt Taibbi's substack is he gives notice when someone's work is 'disappeared'.  He also interviews the person on his platform.  

I was wondering what had happened to Chris Hedges.  An anti-war, left leaning voice against organized power, Hedges' circuitous career proves that the idea of a "liberal" media is simply not true.  

After being let go by The NY Times and TruthDig, Hedges just had 6 years of videos on YouTube vaporized:

Because Russia!! is the new bogeyman, Hedges' work at RT was deemed unfit for human eyes, so the liberal arts majors in Big Tech unilaterally decided to censor Hedges.  He writes and speaks too clearly about those at the top of the Pyramid:

"In the end, of course, Russia pulled the trigger, and they’re guilty, but they were baited to a degree. But you can’t even say that within this media landscape, even though that’s a historical fact. That’s not an opinion. But it doesn’t fit with the kind of euphoria.

After 20 years of committing egregious war crimes all over the Middle East, we’ve suddenly anointed ourselves once again as the saviors of the world, and we love it. And a lot of it has nothing to do with Ukraine, but about our own self-adulation. This is the difference, as Chomsky and Herman write about, between worthy and unworthy victims. So Yemenis are not worthy victims, Palestinians are not worthy victims, Iraqis are not worthy victims. But Ukrainians — and it helps that they’re white — are worthy victims. They’re worthy of our compassion and our support. It’s just another way to mask our own war crimes. What we did in the Middle East — I believe Shock and Awe alone far outstrips anything Putin’s done, though that may change.

What does the U.S. want? Well, the U.S. is quite clear. It wants another Chechnya. It wants another old Afghanistan, where Brzeziński baited the Russians into Afghanistan, by significantly arming those forces that would become the Taliban. And then he was quite proud of it, and argued that the defeat of the Soviet army in Afghanistan led to the collapse of Eastern Europe. And that’s what they want. They want, in their cynical parlance, to make Russia bleed. But of course, the irony of this is the people who will really bleed are the Ukrainians. That’s what’s happening."

This is exactly right.  Boobus Americanus has suddenly become concerned about a country invading another country.  Millions of people are 'standing with Ukraine', even though they have no idea what is going on.  Hedges simply calls out Big Media and Big Government on their double standards and malfeasance.  This is what reporters are supposed to do, and used to do with some regularity.

Because Hedges sees the forest from the trees, he had to go.  

Now Chris Hedges is on substack.  Hopefully the platform will survive.


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