The shape of things to come

Precursor of things to come? The shape of the new resistance? (This post is being run elsewhere as well.)

https://dailysceptic.org/2023/09/01/sir-iain-duncan-smith-says-he-is-happy-for-blade-runner-ulez-vandals-to-destroy-cameras-because-they-have-been-lied-to/

It’s notable that no one besides Khan seems willing to defend the scheme or even state their opposition to the vandalism of the cameras. At this point it feels like it’s Khan versus the whole of London.

Meanwhile, the Transport Secretary, Mark Harper, told GB News this morning that he would stop the rollout if he had the power to do so and highlighted his reservations about the true motives behind the expansion.

What Harper didn’t mention, though, is that the reason he doesn’t have the power to stop it is because the Government’s lawyers have said it would be contrary to the Government’s own policies on air pollution. That’s despite the impact assessment showing it will have a negligible impact on air quality! In truth, the Government could challenge it if it wished, either by changing its own policies (perhaps via legislative amendment) or by arguing that the impact is too negligible to contravene its commitments.

The Uniparty ... unfit for purpose and needing to be expunged henceforth.

But how?

A nation of foreigners

It doesn't do to look too closely at the underbelly of a society because it's usually pretty rancid and that's particularly true of the US and the UK ... the net is full of the doings in those countries, usually dire, possibly followed by Canada, France and Germany for sheer numbers of posts which we get to see here.

As I just replied to Lord Somber, we watch America's self-destruction and Fani-Georgia in particular ... monumental waste of resources, not to mention the Ukraine but Lord Somber, hailing from Athens, Georgia, has his eye on us in turn ... and in this case, Anthony Daniels (Theodore Dalrymple):

https://www.city-journal.org/article/ill-served

And Dalrymple is spot on for the money, it's hard to fault his crit ... here's too much of it as it's hard to pare down:

Staying recently for a few days in a luxury hotel in London (not at my own expense, I hasten to say), I was struck, as in the past, by the fact that not a single member of the staff was of British origin.

We are at an odd, and not reassuring, conjuncture. Britain faces an economic recession, a labor shortage (as a growing proportion of the population no longer works), stagnation in productivity, and unprecedented levels of illegal immigration. Indebtedness, both public and private, is great and growing; a gaping commercial deficit exists with the rest of the world.

Current standards of living can continue only through further borrowing, which may not be possible for much longer. Both inflation and taxation are at their highest levels for nearly half a century. It is hard to see any light at the end of this long tunnel: the instinct of many, particularly of the most productive and ambitious, is to flee. They have seen the future, and it is impoverishment.

A situation like this does not strike like lightning: it takes years of improvidence and foolishness to lay the ground for it. Demagoguery and frivolity (though without accompanying gaiety) have proved a deadly combination.

Very difficult to argue. Over on Twitter, half of my tweeting is "nature" and "past history" tweeting, the other half political. On Gab, it's almost all political. 

We are certainly being overrun and even after a valid criticism of Dalrymple that London's hardly representative of Britain now, having gone under some years ago, with only the M25 bubble remaining of bizarrely naive English upper-middle ... my next thought is ... why?  Why is it so? To be fair to Dalrymple, I also have been nowhere near London for years, nor do I have the slightest desire to go there ... nor Manchester proper, nor Liverpool, nor Leeds etc.

Out in the sticks here, up on my hillside, looking out, about a year back, this working class English society saw the house across the road taken over by blacks, with white council officers furtively looking around for possible opposition. Up the road, a hostel of illegals sprung up, let alone the takeover by the travellers further over ... but in one sense, they're "ours", not "foreign".

All major jobs in the lower rungs, i.e. the actual workers, the productive, are done by Eastern Europeans, with a smattering of blacks, Jamaicans, a few English dotted about. The English are not hard to spit ... surly, defensive, loud, tattooed, lazy and on benefits.  The Romanian who's moved in on my floor smiled whilecwe were discussing it and immediately said the words "on benefits".

In the past four years, about eight troublemakers have been thrown out of this ramshackle, sprawling house ... every single one loud ASBOs ... impossible to live near them. The foreigners are employed, fairly quiet, they know the score and are watchful of both an indigenous neighbour further down who works, plus myself. Downstairs is a nest of indigenous ... on benefits, loud, up all hours through the night ... you know the type of thing ... drugged out of their skulls, belligerent just beneath the surface.

Now that IS ... meaning it exists ... that's the reality. Generation? I'd say from Gen X and Millennial, no post-Millennials yet.

Conclusions? Well that's an entire other post, innit.

No, I Think You'll Find It's The General Public's Buying Power...

The “gigantic” power of the meat and dairy industries in the EU and US is blocking the development of the greener alternatives needed to tackle the climate crisis, a study has found.

...they don't want your meat alternatives or your vegan food that's not as healthy and twice as expensive.

Cutting meat consumption in rich nations is vital to tackling the climate crisis. Livestock production causes 15% of all global greenhouse emissions.

And India and China's fossil fuel industry? And their livestock industry? How much is that? 

The researchers also highlighted restrictive labelling rules. Terms such as “milk” and “cheese” have been banned since 2017 in the EU for most alternative milk and dairy products.

A US proposal would prohibit the sale of alternative meats unless the product label included the word “imitation”.

Remember when scientists demanded accuracy in labelling? I do... 

“It’s not a level playing field at all at the moment,” Lambin said. “The new sector needs to be given its chance to expand and gain efficiency. After that, consumers will judge whether they like it or not...”

Well, going purely on the regular appearance of these foodstuffs in the 'yellow sticker' shelf of all my local supermarkets, they've already judged. 

Bruce Charlton, quoted by Vox

... was always going to muse on the nature of evil which the "Rationalists" like to put down to that dark side of human nature they never adequately explain in the first place ... the soul ... and the nature of the evil agenda has now changed:

Why is mere managerial obedience to the evil agenda no longer sufficient? 

The reason is that – at the highest, most-strategic level of the real world-leadership – i.e. the senior demonic – the plan has changed from the imposition of a bureaucratic-totalitarian global System (which reached its peak in the worldwide coup of early 2020); to the current increasingly “Sorathic” agenda of destruction: destruction of people, animals, plants and the planet (justified via the inversion of all true-values). 

We could argue about the metaphysical side of life till the cows come home or are all slaughtered to appease Gaia or Shamballa, we could also argue over the cause of the Maui fires and death toll ... what we cannot argue about is this either change or move to the next step of The Agenda ... let's face it, the Germans have always maniacally stuck to a plan, their Achilles heel.

I'd argue that 911 was quite deliberate ... not just for Silverstein to make a killing the day before ... but for a few reasons, including it being a precondition of The Patriot Act.

The notion of "kill us all" ... for real I mean ... was mooted long ago ... I read something about it around 2001 ... first overrun the West with half of Africa ... then start the killing itself, the clandestine and not so clandestine pogroms.

Had I come out with this post in 2006, I'd have been labelled a nutter, not without cause, mind you, as the evidence had not compounded at that point as it has now ... it was a series of fragmented indicators at that stage. Some of us have antennae, that's all.

Endgame?  More of the same and worse, with the BofE near, if not now, insolvent. That's the next one to keep an eye on:

So What? That's What They Always Do...

The British Retail Consortium (BRC) claims a nationwide DRS could cost £1.8billion a year, plus the expense of establishing the required recycling infrastructure, and it suggested the industry will pass on these costs to customers through higher prices.

That doesn't make it a bad idea, or mean that the scheme shouldn't go ahead, if we are really serious about pollution in the enviroment.  

Scotland has already been forced to delay the introduction of its scheme until 2025 under pressure from businesses and a dispute with the UK government on how it should operate.

I took a walk along a canal a week or so ago, and the unsightly plastic bottles floating around in the water or discarded in the grass of the local park really showed up our throwaway society. It wasn't for lack of rubbish bins, either. Since we can't seem to educate people to not do this, then this makes sense, no matter how much the supermarkets whine. 

It worked years ago - surely we can make it work now? 

The process is the punishment

I'm heading in two different directions with DAD's first and second drops at NOWP:

BS is beginning to hit the fan in Canada.

More than two years after he was accused of breaking pandemic-related public health restrictions, a Red Deer judge acquitted Whistle Stop Cafe owner Chris Scott.

The decision came Monday after the prosecutor invited the ruling in light of a recent court decision finding the orders were invalid because they were imposed in a way that breached Alberta’s Public Health Act.

“Mr. Scott I will acquit you of the charges, you’re free to go,” said Justice James Glass.

... plus PJW's analysis of the madness now going on in public life, madness placing ordinary people in danger. 

At OoL, the direction is "the process is the punishment" or how seemingly innocuous daily behaviour can result in full blown overreaction by authority ... a very OoL-y type topic.  

At N.O., the reaction is to continue my dislike of the vlogging format, started earlier today.

Right ... the process is the punishment ... the most distressing part to me was seeing Plod mincing around in their idea of an alphabet person which, were I an alphabet person myself, would be insulting ... "straights" playing alphabetters must, to them, be unbearable ... I mean, as PJW shows, all the alphabetter wants is to go into schools in clown suit, unmolested, to talk one-on-one with kiddies about sex ... perfectly normal in his eyes.

Whatever the cause which those behind the State have latched onto in order to achieve maximum nausea and distress among ordinary people ... the latest, for example, is telling us, just before winter, not to have our heaters on when it gets cold during winter nights ... whatever the cause du jour, you can be sure the reaction will be highly visible, sensationalised by the MSM, involving ling drawn out persecution of the "offending party".

Loss of your dhop, your home, your livelihood ... all in a day's work to true creeps like that Fani or Jack Smith i America, similar over here.

Truly I say to you, dear reader, we're up against Globopsycho here ... no one remotely rational behaves like this.

Sarah Palin asked did they really want civil war?  And the answer is ... yes, undoubtedly, very much so.  We could even call it "evil" ... evil being not only bureaucratically banal, as has been noted many times before ... but also truly psycho.

Dealing with institutional psychopathy is a thousand times harder than pointing out wrongness to a rational human.  And things will go one of two ways ... either the conflagration Sarah P refers to, with assassinaton of Grandduke Obama or someone to kick it off ... or else it will go the Soviet way.

In my stay in that land, I saw most people, even long after the USSR had collapsed, still cautious what they said to neighbours in case they're shopped to the authorities.  I once went up to Plod in the street to ask directions to a building I was looking for. Later, back home, my friends were incredulous: "You actually went up and asked directions?!" They fell about laughing.

And the laws, often overlapping and clashing ... they just decided, the authorities, on the basis of how obsequious and compliant you'd been, which one to get you on ... spoilt for choice ... or indeed whether to bother at all.

A situation now imported into western countries by zealous Globopsycho through the payola pollies we reelect on the basis of false promises every election time.

Circus indeed.

The New 'Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name'...

...and believe it or not, it's 'Pride'. The BBC, it's the unique way it's funded, clearly!

The 'dear old Beeb' is seemingly determined to lose its reputation for impartiality as it surges ever forward into pushing the woke agenda:

A BBC spokesman said: 'It appears that the photograph used as part of this graphic has been altered, which, although there is no intention to mislead, should not have happened and is not acceptable BBC practice. We will be reminding our staff of this.'

If there was no intention to mislead, why was it altered? And why would you need to remind staff? 

H/T: @RiPNutmeg via Twitter

It’s about what you cherish, your intentions, the use of power

Any C19th pastor could tell you that a man-made system, however good, with fine precepts et al, e.g. the US Constitution and Amendments, can still be corrupted beyond redemption by legalistic sophistry and erosion by people with bad intentions, plus the Bible, despite constant corruptions and detail lost in translation, plus all the revisionism, though still solid in its core precepts, is also susceptible once flawed men and women get to it to “revise”.

I’d suggest that both the Bible and Constitution are fine for their core ideas, e.g. the Ten Commandments, the Beatitudes, Matthew Chs 5-7 … these hold up, Leviticus still holds up … plus the USCn plus Amendments are fine … they all work, provided people are still interested in them working.

The problem is, and always has been, those with no love for the rule of law in which both the responsibilities and protections for the common man, woman and child are clearly set out, where there’s a spirit permeating the documents, a spirit the writers clearly felt and which framed their intentions, summed up in Matthew 22:37-39.

It’s always been tyrants and tyranny versus the freedom to live and work in a decent and dignified way which have been the issue.  You know very well the great hymns of the past, such as Abide With Me and O Come O Come Emmanuel … and lines such as:

O come, Thou Rod of Jesse, free
Thine own from Satan's tyranny;
From depths of hell Thy people save,
And give them victory o'er the grave.

It’s as clear as day that we’re fighting tyranny, whether it’s satan’s tyranny or that of the communists, fanatics, evilmongers in high places, myrmidons, karens down through society … those with black hearts, with the clear intention to subvert the spirit of the idea, either through legalistic sophistry or through all out abuse, protecting themselves by projecting.

It was never the intention for one’s political opponent to be pursued, persecuted and stopped by force, it was never the intention of the writers to provide for erosion of freedom from tyranny … quite the opposite. It was never the intention in the US Constitution and Amendments to give govt levers to oppress those below but rather to offer people protection from govt, forcing it to back off.

But in order to have the wherewithal to ensure that, it requires a people to be au fait with the history of such documents, with their spirit, with their intention, not to indulge in sophistry ultimately designed by evil muvvers to debase, deteriorate and ultimately destroy those provisions. And that requires parents and schools to teach it down through the ages.

In short, documents, treaties, agreements … all are only ever as good as the various parties agreeing to the provisions. Otherwise it’s lawless powermongering and certainly displays no love whatever for humans as a species … quite the opposite in fact.

Is the spirit to meekly capitulate and comply with tyranny? Not according to Ephesians 6:11-15 … that’s quite warrior-like in its tone, in its spirit … it suggests an ongoing, ancient war for the heart and soul.

And shorn of its Christian terminology, looking for example at Sunak and Khan, looking at the communist Demrats across the pond … same spirit, same war in different terminology.

Oppose tyranny … simple.

We're each of us products of our perceptions

We are, each of us, a product of our knowledge of the world, experience, age, intelligence, all sorts of factors such as former occupations ... and therefore, by definition, we're products of our perceptions ... in fact we're slaves to our perceptions.

Seated at a table in a Chester restaurant some years back were two bloggers ... the peerless Tom Paine, plus your humble blogger here. Said Tom to me that I was a very personalised blogger, wasn't I, i.e. not shy to give my opinion on something, something also picked up on by another libertarian blogger:

The former, as mentioned, was a libertarian, the latter a rabid Marxist ... both articulate, educated, both with intelligence ... yet that had led them to two quite different places.  How so?  

To compound the dilemma, another comment on Mr. Higham:

Acute? Then why so disagreed with? This one was in OoL comments:

A Locked Room, This Time..?

Ahsan Zia, 33, was suffering from delusions and hallucinations involving the late Queen and that there was a plot to rape and kill him, Newcastle Crown Court heard.

He launched a 28-second attack on Michael Matthews, 55, in his victim's room on the acute Fellside Wing of Newcastle's Hadrian Clinic in April last year.

If the races were reversed we'd be seeing this a bit further up the webpage, I suspect... 

Mr Dry said Zia had used cannabis the day before the attack, but there was no evidence that this had any influence on his behaviour when he lashed out.

No, just a stunning coincidence. Like all the other cases.  

Consultant forensic psychiatrist Dr Pablo Vandenabeele, via videolink, told the court Zia suffered from a treatment-resistant form of paranoid schizophrenia.

We put down rabid dogs. We don't send them to an animal shelter.  

Zia will be treated at the maximum security Rampton Hospital, the judge said.

Another triumph for the mental health advocates, no doubt.