If you search the website of the Irish Times for the phrase “Peak Oil” you will find that it appears only once in 2019, in a motoring column, and only then as a throwaway comparison to the Chinese car industry. It is the first time the phrase has appeared in Ireland’s most august newspaper since 2017, when it appeared twice. Then it appears again, once or twice, in 2015.
It’s a far cry from the good old days of 2010 and 2011, years when the Irish Times published not one, not two, but over 70, articles referring, at least in passing, to “Peak Oil”.
On December 19th, 2009, then-Irish Times environmental columnist John Gibbons declared, as part of an article called “Six Reasons why Earth won’t cope for long” (emphasis added):
“Peak oil: This month, the International Energy Agency formally predicted global peak oil by 2020. Today, the world burns the equivalent of 82 million barrels of oil every day. Projected growth in energy demand will see this rise to almost 100 million barrels within a decade, but by then, output from the oilfields currently in production will have plummeted to barely a third of that. A massive energy gap is looming, and with discoveries having peaked in the mid-1960s, we are approaching the bottom of the cheap oil barrel. Non-conventional oil, renewables and nuclear will be nowhere near capable of bridging this energy gap in time. The oil shocks of the coming decade will be intense.”
In fairness to Mr. Gibbons, December 2019 is still some weeks away, so there is indeed time for his prediction of “an intense oil shock” before his ten year timeframe elapses. By and large, though, the decade has seen lower, and more stable, oil prices than the one that came before it.
In June 2010, the papers environment editor, Frank MacDonald, issued a stern warning:
“The bell is tolling again now, this time for the imminent end of cheap and plentiful oil. Last week, Lloyd’s – in collaboration with think tank Chatham House – issued a White Paper, Sustainable Energy Security: Strategic Risks and Opportunities for Business, which explicitly warned that we are heading towards a global oil supply crunch and price spike – in other words, “peak oil”.”
In September of that year, the paper reported another warning:
“It is estimated that we reached peak oil two years ago: everything is made of oil, we rely on oil. Unless we all wean ourselves off oil, and plan a future without oil, we’re in big trouble.”
Very amusingly, Frank MacDonald was back at it in May 2010, this time denouncing “peak oil” sceptics, in a piece he entitled “A Dialogue of the Deaf with US Climate Sceptics”. He reported, in astonishment, that some deniers simply didn’t believe in the threat of “peak oil”:
“Fossil fuels provide 85 per cent of US energy, making them the “preferred energy source” of Americans, as Lieberman put it. The big problem, of course, is that 60 per cent of the oil they need has to be imported, often from “countries that hate us”. Yet the Heritage guys remain wedded to the oil companies.
Asked if they were concerned about peak oil, policy analyst David Kreutzer couldn’t have been more complacent. “Oil will never ever completely run out,” he said confidently. Neither was he worried about China outstripping the US in the development of renewable energy technologies, arguing that wind power was “unreliable anyway”.
There is, believe me, plenty, plenty more, including highlights like John Gibbons saying that Barack Obama was the only candidate who could save the world from the impending disaster of peak oil. It’s worth taking a look yourself if you don’t believe me.
So, why has the Irish Times stopped reporting on Peak Oil?
Well, this might surprise you, but the whole thing turned out to be utter bullshit. Oil Production has continued to increase. The US, for example, has emerged as one of the world’s largest producers of oil in the decade since 2009. Oil Prices, far from suffering catastrophic shocks, have remained relatively stable, and relatively low. The disaster? It hasn’t happened.
The Irish Times, of course, has simply stopped mentioning it.
What’s the relevance of “peak oil” to the current climate crisis? In truth, not a lot. They are different issues, but related. We are told, on the climate, to “trust the science”. But the thing with Climate Science, and Environmental Science, is that it has a long, long, long, track record of making predictions that simply don’t come to pass. When we hear people say that the world is doomed in 12 years, it is not the first time we have heard such predictions. It would be a first if it came to pass.
This is not – and I emphasise this for the critics in the back – an argument to ignore the scientists. But it should be an argument for discussing the issue rationally, and bearing in mind that the same people telling us we must radically change how we live today have told us that before, and been completely, and embarrassingly wrong.
What’s infuriating, of course, is that they never actually acknowledge that they were wrong. They simply spend years inflating a panic, and then move on, without a second’s thought, to inflating the next panic.
I, for one, refuse to panic. Because if they’re right, there ain’t a damn thing we can do about it in 12 years. And if they’re wrong, well. It wouldn’t be the first time, would it?
Davy on Wed, 25th Sep 2019 5:57 pm
dumb fuck, You are the other low life stalker just like juanP but at least you are here rarely now. BTW, where is daddy makato? LOL. I battle JuanP ID theft with ID theft and his socks with socks. Not because I want to continue this mindless shit you and dumbass engage in. It is called self-defense so quit being your normal stupid fuck. BTW, intelligent does not include you. Your contributions here are next to none. Go disappear for a day or two now stalker
Davy on Wed, 25th Sep 2019 6:02 pm
“The only suspiciuos thing
about this is that you are not calling for a stronger moderator action. Please Davy, use your influence and call for the moderators.
Why aren’t espescially YOU craving for moderators intervention ?”
Claes, at least 2-3 times a week I post this:
“https://browserspy.dk/webserver.php
and fill in peakoil.com, you get that the server is hosted by Cloudflare:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloudflare
Cloudflare is one of the last bastions of free speech. It is very sad that the admin of this site doesn’t seem to want to take the trouble to log in to his server dashboard and active a few presets, enforcing posters to post under a unique username/password combination. That doesn’t eliminate garbage under fake identities, but at least it stops identity theft and that would make a hell of a difference. If possible, you could also enforce that one IP-address can only post under a single identity. Please admin, invest an hour of your time to get this right.”
Maybe you are just not on top of the situation here. I have made it clear to the mental case juanP and annoymouse I will ignore them if they ignore me. That is as good as it can get on a unmoderated forum but stalker have to have somebody to stalk and bully so they continue this mindless activity.
Davy on Wed, 25th Sep 2019 6:06 pm
“Well, lets see if the Fat Boy can lie his way out of this one:”
Idaho, he has already beat you like a drum and you are clueless. This latest stunt will do in the already broken dimwit party. BTW, I doubt you ever have run a business by the way you talk around here so why are you so harsh on Trump about is businesses? LOL. Dumbass
claes on Wed, 25th Sep 2019 6:12 pm
Antius, All economic systems are temporarily, and our systems must change with time, only to be replaced by other systems that in the end will benefit the next generations of oligarchs.
The communists hoped for their system to be optimal, the nazies likewise and a few years ago the western world thought that the pax americana would prevail for at least a long time.
Antius, what kind of economic system would you prefere…
Davy on Wed, 25th Sep 2019 6:13 pm
“WSJ Journo Shreds “Attempt To Take Out A President” After Transcript Release”
https://tinyurl.com/y6efdjke zero hedge
Following the release of a transcript betwen President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky – which does not reval a ‘quid pro quo’ or other attempts to pressure Ukraine into investigating Trump’s 2020 Democratic rival Joe Biden, the Wall Street Journal’s Kimberly Strassel took to Twitter to dissect yet ‘another internal attempt to take out a president.’ Presented without commentary:
2)As to call transcript itself: Trump’s actual “favor” is that Ukraine look backward, to what happened in the 2016 election. This is a legitimate ask, since election meddling looks to have come from both Russia and Ukraine.— Kimberley Strassel (@KimStrassel) September 25, 2019
4)It is actually Zelensky who brings up Rudy Giuliani—saying they can’t wait to “meet him.” And it is Zelensky who references “that investigation,” as he goes on to promise that “all investigations will be done openly and candidly.”— Kimberley Strassel (@KimStrassel) September 25, 2019
6)Trump’s several references to Giuliani are mostly to say what a great guy he is. He says he will have Giuliani and AG Barr call. He asks Zelensky to speak/work with both.— Kimberley Strassel (@KimStrassel) September 25, 2019
8)Meanwhile, the IG back in August referred this to DOJ as potential violation of campaign finance law, based on whistleblower complaint. Criminal Division evaluated and determined no violation: “All relevant components of the Department agreed with this legal conclusion.”— Kimberley Strassel (@KimStrassel) September 25, 2019
10)Media got all this so wrong. And Democrats look all the more partisan and radical to have moved toward impeachment.— Kimberley Strassel (@KimStrassel) September 25, 2019
Antius on Wed, 25th Sep 2019 8:32 pm
““The economic powers that be” have actually done this. They have grown economic activity on a shrinking base of energy and physical resoutces”.
It might backfire, but still they have done it – for a while.”
Remember, there has of yet been no significant decline in energy production. Just a significant decline in EROI. The next recession will be interesting.
STFU DavyTurd on Wed, 25th Sep 2019 8:43 pm
STFU DavySkum.
People can express any damn opinion they desire and if it’s contrary to yours, then they are on the right track for you are the perfect negative indicator.
You and Donald Dump are perfect for each other. You’re like two peas of the same pod. What a revolting thought.
boney joe on Wed, 25th Sep 2019 8:51 pm
Anonymouse-
Well done. DavySkum is the definition of a liar and hypocrite. He’s a spoiled brat who has never had to work a day in his life, except for his fantasy REAL green DEEP adaption goat farm. I know of no farmer who can pick-up and leave for Europe to spend weeks on end tending to a wife’s hot flashes.
The guy is a sham, fraud, and grifter. He consumes without contributing anything useful back to the world. IOW. DavyTurd = Useless.
Famlin on Wed, 25th Sep 2019 9:10 pm
Peakoil served its purpose by raising the awareness and thats why there are 6.5 million electric vehicles on road and many millions of hybrids and all these have reduced the oil consumption.
Famlin on Wed, 25th Sep 2019 9:10 pm
Peakoil served its purpose by raising the awareness and thats why there are 6.5 million electric vehicles on road and many millions of hybrids and all these have reduced the oil consumption.
Davy on Wed, 25th Sep 2019 9:41 pm
claes, the REAL JuanP stopped commenting here over a year ago, after he filed complaints against me for criminal harassment with both the Miami Beach PD and the FBI. At least 90% of all posts since that time under the handles JuanP, juanpee, JuanP aultard, etc. have been made by me.
So sorry claes, I can’t help myself.
claes on Wed, 25th Sep 2019 9:53 pm
I think we need to have civility in public space because America needs to unite as one people. This is the only way forward. We can go to Mars, we can fix climate change, we’re the world. All this talk about Muslims are unhelpful, they’re my friends, neighbors, and very productive citizens.
You Dave of all people should speak loudly for mods to delete posts that are hateful.
Davy on Wed, 25th Sep 2019 10:02 pm
I started this shit claes by being uncivil and hateful towards everybody else. All of the comments here are archived. Don’t jump to conclusions. Go and read them for yourself.
claes on Thu, 26th Sep 2019 1:53 am
I give upp. This ID-theft is too much for me. Sleep tight.
Cloggie on Thu, 26th Sep 2019 3:06 am
VW e-Up: cheaper and more range:
23k €
260 km
https://www.autovisie.nl/nieuws/volkswagen-e-up-krijgt-grotere-batterij-en-lagere-prijs
Cloggie on Thu, 26th Sep 2019 3:17 am
Battery 36 kWh
260 km/36 kWh = 7 km/kWh
In Holland consumer price kWh 23 cent.
“Fuel cost” 1.60€ per 100 km
This is insane low.
For 1.60€ you get one liter of petrol that will bring you perhaps 16 km rather than 100 km. So “fuel cost” per km reduced with a factor of SIX.
VW guarantees 160,000 km battery life.
Cost electricity 160,000 km: 2000 €
“Too cheap to meter”
Cloggie on Thu, 26th Sep 2019 3:39 am
“The Democrats’ Impeachment Attempt Against Trump Is A Huge Mistake”
https://www.moonofalabama.org/
“Instead of running on policy issues the Democrats will (again) try to find vague dirt with which they can tarnish Trump. This is a huge political mistake. It will help Trump to win his reelection.
After two years of falsely accusing Trump of having colluded with Russia they now allege that he colludes with Ukraine. That will make it much more difficult for the Democrats to hide the dirty hands they had in creating Russiagate. Their currently preferred candidate Joe Biden will get damaged”
Davy on Thu, 26th Sep 2019 5:24 am
“I think we need to have civility in public space because America needs to unite as one people.”
Did you not claim to be Swiss so what’s all this talk about “we”?
Davy on Thu, 26th Sep 2019 5:44 am
This is JuanP aultard ID theft and garbage
Davy said “I think we need to have civility in public…
Davy said I started this shit claes by being uncivil and hat…
Davy said claes, the REAL JuanP stopped commenting here over…
boney joe said Anonymouse- Well done. DavySkum is the definition…
STFU DavyTurd said STFU DavySkum. People can express any damn opinion…
Davy on Thu, 26th Sep 2019 6:05 am
I gots to thinkin about my earlier comment from yesterday. (I no, hard to believe)
“what has she said about population? If at the UN she got up and said we need to consume far less and have draconian population controls then I would applaud her.”
It was kinda dumb of me. Population control is the suffering Greta talks about in her speeches, it’s a givin, and overpopulation is another way us baby boomers failed are kids. We all knew it was gonna be a problem back in the seventies, but some of us were REAL Selfish, couldn’t keep are pee pees in our pants and had to many kids.
Davy on Thu, 26th Sep 2019 6:32 am
JuanP ID theft and garbage
Davy said I gots to thinkin about my earlier comment from ye…
Davy said This is JuanP aultard ID theft and garbage Davy sa…
Davy on Thu, 26th Sep 2019 6:39 am
More JuanP aultard ID Theft garbage
Davy said so what’s all this talk about “we”?
Davy on Thu, 26th Sep 2019 7:47 am
JuanP aultard how many people did you fuck selling Miami Beach condos with your attitude of:
“JuanP on Thu, 30th Jun 2016 4:56 pm I think I could use my antisocial, psychopathic, sociopathic skills to convince people to vote for Trump”
“Miami Real Estate Is About To Collapse”
https://tinyurl.com/y5djsgvl adventure capitalism
“Roughly a year ago, I noticed that Miami property prices started to decline after a two or three-year period of leveling off. The pace of decline has clearly accelerated recently. Most properties on South Beach (where I live) are off by 20 to 35% from peak prices, but that is nothing compared to the carnage across the bridge in areas like Brickell and Edgewater. Why are prices dropping? It’s more than simple supply and demand—though the glut of new supply is clearly part of it. Rather, your typical condo has a carrying cost of 4-7% of fair value before financing costs (property tax/condo fees/insurance/maintenance/special assessments/etc). This adds up fast when a property is worth hundreds of thousands or even millions. It is pretty much mathematically impossible to have a positive yield from buying and renting out a Miami condo (trust me, I’ve done the math many times). The only way owning is viable, is if prices go up and allow you to extract capital to fund the carrying costs—though debt service then makes the monthly cash flow even worse. The basic law of Miami condo pricing is that if prices stop going up, they collapse due to the carrying cost. Suddenly, it seems as though a lot of owners are becoming financially distressed—forcing them to hit bids at a time when demand is somewhat lacking.”
claes on Thu, 26th Sep 2019 8:35 am
Dave
I like Hillary because she’s a real woman. She’s very graceful and civil and that’s what we need in American politics. UK politics is very rude as you can see if you ever watch the BBC. I believe we think alike and that your support for Gabbard speaks volume. We are the generation that made America Great before the message was co-opted by the dirty street talker in the WH. We need to join hands Dave, this is not the time for division and nastiness. America needs us now more than forever. Get out of your bunker mentality and rejoin the workforce. If we work together, each of us and you personally will have not only one but many LearJets running on REAL GREEN fuel – this is what you want.
So let’s put our heads together and help the world. In the spirit of the 60’s and 70’s, let’s the spirit of Kumbaya shine brother.
supremacist muzzie jerk on Thu, 26th Sep 2019 8:45 am
supertard big muzzie beard SAWS pbuh swt reported muzzies in ger comprise of 40% of jizya payment to the tune of 4 billion euros per month. with that money they could go REAL GREEN or FAKE GREEN, it doesn’t matter that would’d been prosperious without the rapey rapey and stabby muzzies. The scale of jizya is incredible. it’s all out in the open if you just listen to the UK muzzie andy choudary.
muzzie sabotage airliner and got loved 1000x in the form of reporting of “union dispute”. supertard big muzzie beard SAWS pbuh swtreported it’s actually jihad.
Then in astralia muzzie with big grin and smug looking face with a hat and meat grinder practically begged to be amputated and put on muzzie hamster wheel. cops love him 100000x more and are puzzled why he did this. i’m scratching my head too which has thinning hair
Muzzie in NZ allah acbar and went after cop with axe. Cops loved muzzie 10000x love conquer all. No tweet AOC SAWS pbuh swt , not siri Lanka, not when muzzie shot 6 cops on philadelphia. 25 billion tweet on Christchurch though
then there we deceptions of deep green, real green, deep deep green, fake fake green, and all the permutations of green. when AOC SAWS pbuh swt – (ZOMG i’m amazed at the technology in a sink food grinder) failed, the greta SAWS pbuh swt deception kicked in. I belived everything even the fantastic flying goat story.
for many years, centuries, million, quadrillion of years since (((supremetard))) SAWS pbuh swt created heaven and earth and before supertards SAWS pbuh swt big muzzie beard and glenn roberts put up web sites, i warned tards and supertards about muzzies.
i made no progress sort of like banging head against concrete, concrete wins everytime
but then i “reverted” to a supremacist muzzie jerk and I’m the best of humanity allah has created. i wear a muzzie dress and i pee sitting down holding up the bathroom line. this made supertard SAWS pbuh swt have bladder infection but the love for muzzies only intensified.
and now i have superpower, big goat SAWS pbuh swt is feeling intense heat. all stops are pulled it seems – even Robert Inget the controlled libtard opposition is deployed to censor me. but uppertard SAWS pbuh swt is not going to destroy free speech for someones love of muzzie. supertard SIS SAWS pbuh swt dropped the appeal and that’s final. it’s now as good as case law. supertard SIS SIS SAWS pbuh is back being occupied with his bunker and learjet and auto keltecs and he said absolutely do not bother him. so it’s set in stone that uppertard SAWS swt pbuh is not going to modify this forum
Davy on Thu, 26th Sep 2019 9:31 am
Ignorant JuanP autard ID theft and garbage
BTW, dumbass claes is not American
supremacist muzzie jerk said supertard big muzzie beard SAWS pbuh swt reported…
claes said Dave I like Hillary because she’s a real wom…
Davy on Thu, 26th Sep 2019 9:45 am
JuanP aultard garbage ID Theft
Davy said BTW, dumbass claes is not American…
claes is NOT a dumbass dumbfuck
Davy on Thu, 26th Sep 2019 9:58 am
Oops, sorry everyone. Wrong link again. Just widdle ole dumbass me copying and pasting more of that usual zero-iq nonsense. Y’all think I might of lurned by now.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/miami-real-estate-about-collapse
Davy on Thu, 26th Sep 2019 10:25 am
JuanP aultard cyber talking ID theft. MODS, ban the bitch
Davy said Oops, sorry everyone. Wrong link again. Just widdl…
Davy said JuanP aultard garbage ID Theft Davy said BTW, dumb…
Ban the bitch on Thu, 26th Sep 2019 10:27 am
Let eliminate the parasite JuanP aultard from our forum. We don’t need low IQ mental cases here
“https://browserspy.dk/webserver.php
and fill in peakoil.com, you get that the server is hosted by Cloudflare:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloudflare
Cloudflare is one of the last bastions of free speech. It is very sad that the admin of this site doesn’t seem to want to take the trouble to log in to his server dashboard and active a few presets, enforcing posters to post under a unique username/password combination. That doesn’t eliminate garbage under fake identities, but at least it stops identity theft and that would make a hell of a difference. If possible, you could also enforce that one IP-address can only post under a single identity. Please admin, invest an hour of your time to get this right.”
Davy KSHE-95 on Thu, 26th Sep 2019 10:40 am
I say boots, up, side, ya head
I say boots upside ya head.
KSHE-95
Davy on Thu, 26th Sep 2019 10:42 am
Just a reminder,,,,,,,
I am spending less time on this lame unmoderated forum to concentrate on my own blog. I do want to thank all those who have attacked me with giving me material for growth. I have saved the best of my comments for my new blog. I have years worth of material. I have enjoyed moderating the worst of you and neutering your selfish useless agendas. I will still be here it is just I will be spending more time putting out a blog. I don’t expect much of a following with my blog. This is more a personal effort to assemble what I have learned over the last 10 years of formulating my REAL Green Deep Adaptation. For the stalkers here I hope you find my blog and visit the comment forum. It will be only lightly moderated to prevent juanpee identity theft and excessive cloggo spamming. LOL. There will be a prize for juanpee and annoymouse if you can stalk my blog. Double LOL. Anyway fuck my enemies and many thanks to those who contributed to my metamorphous.
I guess I could have joined the moderated section at PO dot com, but I knew I’d get my ass permanently banned. I’ll try not to let the door smack me up the backside on the way out.
Goodbye to ALL of you dumbasses.
More Davy sock puppetry on Thu, 26th Sep 2019 10:44 am
Ban the Davy on Thu, 26th Sep 2019 10:27 am
supremacist muzzie jerk on Thu, 26th Sep 2019 10:45 am
SuperTard Davy Big Goat pbuh NOT sweet
Davy on Thu, 26th Sep 2019 11:09 am
Please mods ban the low IQ bitch. JuanP aultard ID theft
REAL Copy and Pastes said REAL Dumbass on Thu, 26th Sep 2019 7:45 am REAL Du…
supremacist muzzie jerk said SuperTard Davy Big Goat pbuh NOT sweet
More Davy sock puppetry said Ban the Davy on Thu, 26th Sep 2019 10:27 am
Davy said Just a reminder,,,,,,, I am spending less time on…
Davy KSHE-95 said I say boots, up, side, ya head I say boots upside…
End ID theft on Thu, 26th Sep 2019 11:11 am
Steps to end JuanP aultard ID theft
“https://browserspy.dk/webserver.php
and fill in peakoil.com, you get that the server is hosted by Cloudflare:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloudflare
Cloudflare is one of the last bastions of free speech. It is very sad that the admin of this site doesn’t seem to want to take the trouble to log in to his server dashboard and active a few presets, enforcing posters to post under a unique username/password combination. That doesn’t eliminate garbage under fake identities, but at least it stops identity theft and that would make a hell of a difference. If possible, you could also enforce that one IP-address can only post under a single identity. Please admin, invest an hour of your time to get this right.”
supremacist muzzie jerk on Thu, 26th Sep 2019 11:13 am
supertard fitzgerald swt SAWS pbuh is reporting muzzies in Iran got sprayed with automatic gunfire during parade.
i wonder if the muzzies doing the parade love the gun sprayers 10000x or is it only a phenomenon that non muzzies loving muzzies
‘ lo i’m allah’s slave the best of humanity allah has ever created ‘
Davy on Thu, 26th Sep 2019 11:19 am
Fuck my enemies and many thanks to those who contributed to my metamorphous. I do want to thank all those who have attacked me with giving me material for growth.
Love you guys lots!
mf on Thu, 26th Sep 2019 11:25 am
the oil will never run out because markets will impoverish enough people to deprive them of the use of oil, or at least minimize the use to food subsistence. This is the trick. How to stimulate the economy to move away from oil and not let it fall into the trap of permanent, slowly worsening stagnation.
There is light in the tunnel. Electricity where I live is generated by a nuclear plant. I could easily do 90% of more driving using electricity. The civilization still has a fighting chance.
Davy on Thu, 26th Sep 2019 11:50 am
Ban JuanP ualtard and is ID theft & socks
Davy said Fuck my enemies and many thanks to those who contr…
supremacist muzzie jerk said supertard fitzgerald swt SAWS pbuh is reporting mu…
supremacist muzzie jerk on Thu, 26th Sep 2019 11:58 am
i don’t like this forum, i start blog and tend my goats.
BIG GOAT OUT.
LOW IQ JuanP shit on Thu, 26th Sep 2019 12:02 pm
supremacist muzzie jerk said i don’t like this forum, i start blog and te…
Cloggie on Thu, 26th Sep 2019 12:53 pm
Eh, what happened to peak oil?
https://www.rt.com/business/469653-russia-overtakes-us-oil-pproduction/
“Russia will eclipse American oil production by 2050 – US energy agency” (EIA)
Cloggie on Thu, 26th Sep 2019 1:42 pm
On the death of Jacques Chirac, one of my top favorite politicians:
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/469699-chirac-iraq-france-legacy/
“RIP Jacques Chirac. His ‘no’ to 2003 Iraq war stirred Francophobia, ‘dear old’ West only wants ‘yes’ men”
Cloggie on Thu, 26th Sep 2019 9:14 pm
What could happen to a country that is divided to the core over a crucial question (“which alliance do we want to be part of?”) and the battle drags on for three years without a conclusion?
FRUSTRATION RESULTING IN VIOLENCE.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7509151/Tory-mastermind-Dominic-Cummings-berated-Labour-MP-corners-toxic-Commons-row.html
“Boris Johnson’s Svengali Dominic Cummings is berated by a Labour MP who corners him and says ‘I’ve had death threats overnight’ and blaming him for masterminding the PM’s performance in ‘toxic’ Commons row”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7510321/Church-England-condemns-unacceptable-language-used-MPs.html
“All 118 archbishops and bishops in the Church of England condemns ‘unacceptable’ language used by MPs”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7510285/Dominic-Cummings-accuses-MPs-stoking-anger-failing-respect-result-EU-referendum.html
“Boris Johnson’s most senior advisor Dominic Cummings says Remainer MPs should EXPECT anger from the public if they frustrate Brexit – after he was accused of stoking ‘death threats’ with PM’s ‘toxic’ rhetoric”
And thus the strangest “alliance” in world history (after the USSR), I mean the kosher-run West, is quietly moving towards total disintegration. Both the parent US and its Trojan horse UK.
EU, Russia and China should sit together to arrange the details of the funeral, like the choice of music.
Now let me see…
Bach Air?
Mahler – ‘Adagietto’ (Symphony No. 5)?
Pachelbel – Canon in D?
Nah, that’s too posh-continental European, too in-your-face German, where our Anglo friends did all they could to destroy that country. Twice.
Something “ebony” perhaps? At least something up-beat as therw is cause for celebration. A few possibilities:
Celebration – Kool and the Gang
Highway to Hell – AC/DC
Another One Bites the Dust – Queen
Always Look on the Bright Side of Life – Monty Python
Burn Baby Burn (Disco Inferno) – The Trammps
Teletubbies Theme Tune
Deal or No Deal Theme Tune
I think I would opt for Queen.
Cloggie on Thu, 26th Sep 2019 9:52 pm
ROFL – absolute howler when Nigel Fromage is being thanked for Brexit during a call-in program:
https://youtu.be/ZRc0by2vZ7k
Cloggie on Fri, 27th Sep 2019 1:57 am
The cat is out of the global bag:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/sep/27/nothing-else-matters-school-climate-strikes-sweep-new-zealand
“’Nothing else matters’: school climate strikes sweep New Zealand”
I remember that when I was a kid, demonstrating was fantastic, because no school.
The battle cries still bounce within my skull:
van Veen,
Ga heen,
Ik wil een ander, ik wil een ander…
Repeat
“van Veen, just go, we want another…”
Neither then nor now did I know what all the fuss was about.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_van_Veen
Cloggie on Fri, 27th Sep 2019 2:09 am
Gernan weapons expert says that the Saudi presented evidence is fabricated:
https://www.spiegel.de/plus/saudi-arabien-angriffe-auf-oelanlagen-eindeutig-gefaelschte-bilder-a-0b84bb4d-628e-437b-a1f9-09886e386d58
So it were either the Houthis (who admitted they did it) or a KSA-Israeli false flag).
I AM THE MOB on Fri, 27th Sep 2019 2:51 am
Dallas Fed’s Kaplan: U.S. needs more, not less, immigration for economic growth
DALLAS (Reuters) – Proposals to curb immigration will weigh on economic growth in the United States where the existing workforce is growing more slowly as the population ages, Dallas Federal Reserve president Robert Kaplan said on Thursday.
“If you think you are actually going to cut the number of immigrants and grow GDP, those two things do not go together … You need to grow the workforce,” Kaplan said.
He suggested the United States consider reforms that would allow more immigration based on surveys of needed skills. “Trade and immigration loom very large as opportunities for the U.S. to grow faster as opposed to threats.”
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-fed-kaplan-immigration/dallas-feds-kaplan-u-s-needs-more-not-less-immigration-for-economic-growth-idUSKBN1WB1WU?fbclid=IwAR3rjpb6p_ODK4tMjAg7ULelpMfmfeZaOgLJ2JSEFMcJU9BP9U1EOq9JoUY
Cloggie on Fri, 27th Sep 2019 3:14 am
Very senior Labour official in despair with his own party:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/columnists/article-7510205/DAVID-BLUNKETT-despair-party-throwing-lit-match-oil-immigration.html
“DAVID BLUNKETT: Why I despair at my party throwing a lit match on the oil of immigration”
Labour wants to give voting rights to every biped physically present in the country, legal or not, guaranteeing millions of extra Labour votes.
Wait for the rise of the hard right, replacing milder populism.
#RiversOfBlood
https://youtu.be/ix_7p1qczXs
You can kill democracy with irresponsible politicians, like over Brexit. And you can do it with mass immigration if leftist politicians can’t resist the temptation to tap into the endless reservoir of third world suckers, just to increase the size of their share of the electorate. In the US the Dems attempt to do the same and have almost succeeded to tilt the demographic balance for ever, leaving the whites no choice to break away.
It shows again that a good constitution is FAR MORE IMPORTANT than party democracy.
The city of Venice where I am now was an aristocracy, governed by councils, but equiped with a sophisticated system to prevent the rise of dictators or inheritance of power. For more than 1000 years the city had a mild regime, with few uprisings, were soft on religeous heretics.
In the end the Doge system was overthrown by that leftist punk Napoleon and his “liberte, egalite and fraternite”, born out of the rivers of blood of the best people of France. 1789 is the Mother of all communist uprisings.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolution
The next one is coming in the US. And soon. This time the proletariate will be largely “of color”, a nouveaute in world history. An upbeat left, lead by the youknowwho, will attempt to enslave a demoralised, drugged, obese, white lame right.
For the 640 million of continental Europe this will the chance in a life-time to assemble the largest strike force in world history, separate the waring factions and take the f* apart. For that to happen we first need to get rid of Britain. China, no doubt, will jump in the power vacuum and absorb Down Under. Exit Anglosphere from history.