I just watched a recording of Westminster yesterday where Tory Minister Amber Rudd announced the government was rapidly dropping the subsidy for solar energy down to zero. Yet the government has just agreed to pay to the nuclear industry a subsidy that will dwarf, in real terms, all the subsidies ever given to the coal and renewable industries combined, and what is more will be paid to the Chinese and the French. I am lost for words.
Nor am I in any way pleased to be proved instantly correct, that Western governments view terrorist incidents like that in Paris primarily as a means to enhance their power and social control. The French government has immediately seized on the pretext to ban all demonstrations at the forthcoming climate change summit in Paris. Yet they have not banned gatherings of large crowds generically, for example at football matches.
Cameron’s announcement of 15% budget and staff increases for the security services was made immediately after the Paris attacks, but was plainly not something thought up in a few hours. The plans for mass surveillance had already been announced, and would have to be staffed. This kind of sickening political opportunism is the true disrespect to the innocent dead.
Yes it is rather remarkable, that David Cameron can suddenly find £1.9 billion to bolster British security services, and pack out MI5, MI6, and GCHQ with staff.
David Copperfield the world famous magician would be proud if Osborne’s conjuring act, afterall there’s not many people who could conjure billions out of nothing, or is there?
https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/chancellors-speech-to-gchq-on-cyber-security
Meanwhile there doesn’t seem to be any monies left in the pot for renewables, or tax credits, nor the 1,000’s of people (many, many times the dead in Paris) who’ve died after having their benefits stopped, no solidarity for them, I’m afraid.
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/aug/27/thousands-died-after-fit-for-work-assessment-dwp-figures
The world will be in mess as long as there are “useful idiots”.
“No need in Germany’s case, it’s got loads of its own. As does the UK for that matter.”
But Germany still imports coal from China and Australia, Britain from Poland. They sell it cheaper than we can mine it.
Why do not we all close our PC/laptop for few hours and stop posting bullsh..it here for a while? This will be our contribution to the environment. Would not it?
I suggest going even further.
Do not flush after a small one, only after a big one (even if once in 2-3 days). You have no idea how much energy and resources (mostly chemicals) it takes to clean each of your flushes.
Salford Lad
19 Nov, 2015 – 2:24 pm
“There is no more pernicious form of propaganda than that of omission.
The Western MSM is subservient to the Western security services and Govts. They publish and criticise only to that agenda. Otherwise they have difficulties with jobs ,licensing and advertising, plus other forms of pressure.
iT IS DIFFICULT TO PUBLISH THE TRUTH WHEN YOUR PAYCHECK AND MORTGAGE DEPEND ON MAINTAINING THE LIES.”
Absolutely! That cannot be repeated enough.
The two Davids at MediaLens are experts in analysing and exposing the real nature of the truths you state.
and
“Only in the blogosphere will you get a semblance of the truth.”
Yes, but there are blogs, and then there are blogs. It’s a minefield without a map.
Not sure how many of you know but human (and animal) urine can be purified and turned back into clean and drinking water. This is being done in space for many decades.
Clean water is prognoses to be world’s most precious recourse in decades to follow.
Not sure how many of you know but living in a deep cave is at least 50% more energy efficient than living in typical house in Britain. Average British family (3.4 people) could comfortably live in a deep cave (Scotland for instance full of mountains) and save millions of KWt of energy per year. No need for financing all these Chinese and French engineers then. Could get away with few wind powered stations (Scotland for instance full of winds).
When (very rare occasion in Scotland) there are no winds we can all burn our big ones (it produces a lot of energy) thus no need to flush and wasting energy. Thus killing 2 rabbits with one bullet.
“Western governments view terrorist incidents like that in Paris primarily as a means to enhance their power and social control. The French government has immediately seized on the pretext to ban all demonstrations at the forthcoming climate change summit in Paris. Yet they have not banned gatherings of large crowds generically, for example at football matches.”
What we have in the West is equality of democratic opportunity, not equality of results. If it were Apartheid we could gripe about the few members of society ‘banned’ from meeting with more than one person at a time and restricted to a tight zone of living conditions, but since we all will suffer from banning equally, and apparently consensually, it’s all good.
Nature has been managing our planet for billions of years and us humans made it a mess in just few millennias. If only all these utilitarians could still find cave life comfortable we would have lived in peace and paradise.
Who cares about progress when nature is at stake?
Meanwhile David Cameron, (without a UN resolution) may well go charging into Syria, to appease his Neocon buddies.
But do we really know who we’re backing? What’s free about the, Free Syrian army, isn’t it just a Western backed hotchpotch of compliant manpower in the region, now going by the moniker of the “Southern Front.”
Now, the alliance of non-jihadist groups is to receive up to £5 million in equipment and training from the UK Government, as David Cameron sets his sights on Syria.
In a written statement, foreign secretary Philip Hammond said there was an “urgent strategic and operational need” to provide 4×4 vehicles, uniforms, radios, cameras and thermal imaging technology to the group.
So £5 million of taxpayers money is to be allocated, to bolster flagging insurgents, to remove a dictator, so that the Western Neocons can replace him with a compliant one.
The Neocons will then move in their construction companies, and rebuild the Syria’s infrastructure (one they destroyed ) at an almighty cost to the Syrian people, who said war isn’t profitable.
MPs were given ten parliamentary days, instead of the standard 14, to raise objections to the move.
Founded in February last year, Southern Front is made up of almost 60 different factions including First Army, the Youth of Sunnah Brigade and the Quneitra Military Council.
However, recent reports suggest a rise in tensions and disputes between these parties – some secular, some moderate – and their supporters, amid fraught conditions.
http://www.thenational.scot/news/exactly-which-side-are-we-on-in-the-fight-to-run-syria.10174
“So £5 million of taxpayers money is to be allocated”
Something like cost of 2 days of British troops in Iraq? If I was an accountant (and neocon) I would have said that it is a very good deal indeed.
“No Fred, the time is now for everyone to stop wasting energy on a grand scale, through insufficient insulation, old appliances and leaving appliances and lights switched on.
An over production of electricity by smaller community projects would not only safeguard the net for all, it would bring down prices and make nuclear power a vastly overpriced tax rip off.”
Unfortunately the amount of power used to drive and cool computer servers is increasing at an alarming rate. There are probably enough pictures of fluffy kittens on facebook to power Birmingham. Google servers averaged 260 MW in 2010, that’s half the output from one coal fired power plant turbine. IT now accounts for one tenth of the world’s electricity output.
Freedom of information exchange is a worthwhile thing but do we have to waste so much of it?
It isn’t people forgetting to turn the lights off using all the electricity.
“DAESH’S official magazine carried a photo on Wednesday of a Schweppes drink it said was used to make an improvised bomb that brought down a Russian airliner over Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula last month, killing all 224 people on board.”
http://www.thenational.scot/world/egypt-daesh-magazine-carries-photo-of-sinai-jet-bomb.10162
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Daesh official magazine, I hope no one is buying into this.
It’s meant to conjure up a image of a veil covered terrorist dressed in black, with a AK47 over his shoulder turning a huge wheel on a printing press whilst shouting out loud “Allah akhbar.”
In my opinion any Daesh propaganda material including their flags which are always fluttering and scrupulously clean, just like their black uniforms, (Hugo Boss eat your heart out) are produced less hostile forces.
Afterall wasn’t al Qaeda a file meaning “database” of all the Mujaheed forces.
Is the moniker Daesh of which I first heard the Western press use, really anymore believable.
Bin Laden was, though, a product of a monumental miscalculation by western security agencies. Throughout the 80s he was armed by the CIA and funded by the Saudis to wage jihad against the Russian occupation of Afghanistan. Al-Qaida, literally “the database”, was originally the computer file of the thousands of mujahideen who were recruited and trained with help from the CIA to defeat the Russians.
http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/jul/08/july7.development
What do we make of this, is it speculative or has it substance.
Why did the Times of Israel change their story from being warned “Just Friday” to “For months?”
http://www.redicecreations.com/article.php?id=34766
A cover up in the Tory partei.
Tories ‘failed to act’ on ‘institutionalised bullying’
By James Clayton and Esther Oxford
BBC Newsnight
18 November 2015
Video
Ben Howlett told BBC Newsnight there was “institutionalised bullying” in the party’s youth wing
A Conservative MP says party bosses failed to act on multiple complaints and warnings about bullying, harassment and blackmail by a senior activist.
Ben Howlett told BBC Newsnight there was “institutionalised bullying” in the party’s youth wing, after he stepped down as its chair in 2013.
Allegations of inappropriate behaviour by Mark Clarke, who ran a campaign bussing volunteers around the country during the election, surfaced after Elliott Johnson, a young party activist, took his own life in September.
After it was approached by Newsnight for comment this week, the Conservative party said it was banning Mr Clarke, who denies the claims, for life.
After Mr Johnson’s death, it emerged that he had complained to Conservative Central Office that Mr Clarke, a former Conservative parliamentary candidate, had threatened to destroy his career. He also named Mr Clarke in a letter found by his parents.
Ben Howlett, MP for Bath, told Newsnight he first raised concerns about Clarke’s behaviour with party bosses in 2010 and had discussed Clarke with current party chairman Lord Feldman and Baroness Warsi, chair from 2010 to 2013.
Newsnight has spoken to five more activists who say they made complaints about Clarke before Johnson’s death.
Mark Clarke ran RoadTrip which bussed young volunteers around the country to marginal seats
Mr Howlett said: “We’ve complained about him [Clarke] for a long period of time, and it’s not just him, it was people that were attributed to him as well.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-34858722
‘Youth wing’? It sounds like the Nazi party. They used to be called ‘Young Conservatives’!
Mary-19 Nov. 1.15p.m. “The Latter” was on The One Show last night-or The Agenda Show as I call it.
Philw-1.52p.m. A damned good question I have pondered over for months now. One with no logical answer forthcoming.
RoS I saw that (the photo of the berm) and thought it total crap. A Daesh magazine? Can we buy it at W H Smith?
“Yes it is rather remarkable, that David Cameron can suddenly find £1.9 billion to bolster British security services, and pack out MI5, MI6, and GCHQ with staff.”
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Hardly that remarkable, dear boy.
Programmed spending can be shifted around either within rubrics or between them. And then – have you ever heard of the contingency reserve? Finally, since you seem worried about the amount of £1,9 billion, have you any idea of total govt spending these days (without debt servicing)?
Miscalculation, or did he do what his paymasters wanted?
Cameron’s turning into Blair (who advises him on bombing campaigns). Just waiting for the sickening sticky ripping noise when he removes his synthetic face to reveal….
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/david-cameron-to-get-refitted-raf-plane-as-budget-version-of-us-presidents-air-force-one-a6739931.html
Note, the possibility of using scheduled flights hasn’t even crossed what he laughably describes as a mind.
Deepgreenpuddock
Una rondine non fa primavera but I thought your longish post on energy was excellent.
I would incline towards the second of the two possibilities you mention, Lysias.
Bin Laden was acting on the instructions of George Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and Uncle Tom Cobley when he carried out the attacks on New York and Washington.
In turn, George Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld were acting at the behest of the Israeli govt which was blackmailing them with information received from the CIA and the British security services.
In its turn, the Israeli govt was acting as an agent for the Illuminati.
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You are such a fool, Lysias.
I seem to have struck a nerve.
Yeah Mary they sell it around the tube too, and soon as someone reaches for their purse or pocket a whole boatfull of special branch chaps pounce on the suspected buyer and he or she is taken in for further interrogations.
That is if Cressida Dick is not on duty, in which case the suspected buyer is shot dead and the Oligarch Owned Media print column feet on the buyers puffer jacket and the wires hanging out of the said puffer jacket’s pockets and the buyer was engaged in loud prayers said in tongues!!!
The cold war was credible because Russkies had the stuff and could make the stuff, here we have a bunch of mercenaries who are moving from group to group dependent on who is paying a better daily rate, and the only weapons are the US made weapons.
This is reminiscent of the famous Rummy press interview and the colourful charts of bunker facilities in Tora Bora “complex” (caves) included the computers and the air conditioning !!!!! (ROFL)
Note the frequency of the threats of bombs on the airliners that has jumped up to one every four hours after meals!!!! hopefully the hoaxers/informers shoes were put through the Xray machines and they were frisked before informing the relevant airlines!
The state of paranoia has reached such a crescendo that two passengers joking about bombs in their suitcase have brought a whole terminal to stand still:
Evidently war on humour is a new front and anyone daring to have a silly joke with any friend (not any official asking patently obvious and infantile questions; do you have any explosives in your case?> who packed your bag? …….) is liable to be apprehended and strip searched.
Why don’t we just simply call it planet Salem and be over and done with?
who is going to launch a petition on this?
Heightening the fear factor.
Don’t Lie Down: UK Terror Advice Is Published
Running or hiding from attackers is the best way to reduce casualties in the event of a Paris-style assault, new guidance says.
The Government has published advice on what people should do in the event of a “firearms or weapons attack” in a public place.
According to the National Counter Terrorism Security Office, victims of a Paris-style shooting should attempt to run away from the scene first, as long as doing so would not expose them to greater danger.
They should also insist others leave with them, and make sure belongings are left behind.
If running isn’t a possibility, the next option should be to hide from attackers and find cover from gunfire – instead of lying down in full view.
However, the NaCTSO guidance warns bullets can go through brick, glass, wood and metal, meaning it is safest to hide behind heavily reinforced walls.
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http://news.sky.com/story/1590536/dont-lie-down-uk-terror-advice-is-published
People will recall that during the IRA bombing campaign they more often than not targeted politicians and the military (the Brighton bombing being a prime example). Why do the ISIS headcases only target civilians? Paul Craig Roberts ponders the same thing…
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2015/11/17/more-paris-puzzles-paul-craig-roberts/
Why do the ISIS headcases only target civilians?
1. Because it’s easier.
2. Because they want to terrorise the population (See also Timur Leng + piles of skulls) into compliance.
3. They don’t. Quite a lot of Kurds are reporting a bit more than grazed knees after meeting them. For instance.
According to a guy called Chris Spivey, last Friday’s attacks were a complete hoax and the 130 deaths were faked!
http://chrisspivey.org/qui-qui-poo-poo/
How do people on here feel about this?
“Why do the ISIS headcases only target civilians?”
They don’t target only civilians. In Iraq they went from door to door executing anyone involved with the army or police. They released footage of it with that weird chanting music that always seems to accompany their videos.