This video is about how orthodox economic theory (an outgrowth of Puritanism) misinterprets and distorts reality and how for decades proposals for rectification have been systematically ignored and suppressed.
Greens and technically challenged scribes apparently believe that battery-powered cars and planes are exciting new clean “zero-emissions” vehicles. There is little new about batteries – battery powered cars were running on British roads over a century ago - they were pushed out of the market by petrol power. Batteries just store energy made elsewhere and all have a finite life. Every battery needs primary energy and resources for production, recharging, replacing and recycling, and every step produces its own emissions.
Batteries require lots of expensive raw materials - lead, calcium, nickel, cadmium, lithium, hydrogen, plus ancillary copper, steel, zinc, aluminium and plastic. All need primary energy like coal or gas for mining, manufacture, construction, recharging and recycling plus coking coal for smelting metals. Even wind and solar are not emissions-free once construction, maintenance, and life cycle replacement are fully accounted for.
All cars, even Green ones, need road maintenance using bitumen, concrete and diesel-powered machinery, all costing money and producing emissions. Green cars also need recharging stations, demanding more metals.
Batteries have an important place in our lives. But they are not “emissions free”.
Ref: http://www.socred.org/index.php/blogs/view/dividends-instead-of-debts
Just last week, Equifax Canada, a credit reporting agency, revealed that the total outstanding consumer debt in Canada had increased 3.6% over the course of a one-year period. At the end of September 2015, Canadian consumers owed 1.587 trillion dollars in debt. By the end of September 2016, that number had risen to 1.702 trillion dollars. Cf. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/personal-finance/household-finances/more-canadians-going-bust-as-consumer-debt-surges-36/article33235495/. The increase of 3.6%, while sounding small, actually involved a net increase in outstanding debt of 115 billion dollars. Please note that we are NOT told how much consumer debt was written off as bad debt during the same period. If that debt had not been wiped out, the total amount owing would undoubtedly have been even greater.
The steady increase in outstanding consumer debt occurs because there is insufficient consumer income to purchase all that is on offer in the economy. Relatively lower interest rates merely facilitate the increase; it is not its fundamental cause as the article seems to suggest. When people do not have sufficient money to purchase the goods and services that are available and that answer to some need or want, they can nevertheless obtain the goods if they are able and willing to pledge their future incomes as collateral for additional credit in the present. It must be stressed that this credit, which is obtained from private banks in the form of lines of credit, personal loans, credit cards, mortgages, student loans, car loans, installment buying programmes, etc., is, like the bulk of the money supply, created out of nothing in the form of intangible numbers and issued as an interest-bearing debt. Consumers who borrow are not borrowing from the rich with the bank acting as an intermediary; they are borrowing the money into existence directly from the bank as a money-creating agency. Consumer credit therefore represents an injection of new or additional money for the economy, money the economy desperately needs if it is to stave off recession or worse.
It is the dogma that is the drama - not beautiful phrases, nor comforting sentiments, nor vague aspirations to loving-kindness and uplift, nor the promise of something nice after death - but the terrifying assertion that the same God who made the world lived in the world and passed through the grave and gate of death.
Show that to the heathen and they may not believe; but at least they may realise that there is something that a man might be glad to believe.
Creed or Chaos by Dorothy L. Sayers
The majesty and eternity of Christ contrasts sharply with the feet of clay shown by the oppressive New World Order or what is now called globalism. We have seen many victories by the little people against their oppressors, from Brexit and the US electoral victory of Trump to our own Federal Election result.
Our writers have used these events to encourage Australians who are hurting – from farmers, to blue collar workers, to the homeless and unemployed, to also take action and become part of a “Western spring,” a democratic grassroots revolt against the elites. I have some articles torn from The Weekend Australian (November 26-27, 2016), on this exact theme.
One article discussing the “nation’s new fringe-dwellers,” observes that “on the urban edges and in country towns, people are feeling abandoned,” which is surely the understatement of the year. Country people are in a state of economic and social crisis, produced by a system too much devoted to inner-city political correctness issues to address their real needs. And the result of this is that Grievance politics, consuming much of the Western world, is also here in Australia. The driving forces are irresistible.
I am taking my inspiration from a highly inventive “deplorable” fellow homeless man in the United States, and will be making my oil-stained shed into a five-star homeless retreat, over the Christmas, or die trying.
The man, living in Los Angeles, lives under an underpass. From discarded junk he has salvaged, he has constructed a makeshift jacuzzi, two porcelain toilets, a bed, couches and refrigerators. He calls his place “Paradise Lane.”
See: http://www.breitbart.com/california/2016/11/26/homeless-turns-los-angeles-underpass-compound-jacuzzi-toilets/.
Of course the authorities have dismantled his man cave twice, but he just rebuilds it. A true hero for Uncle Len, he said: “I refuse to let the city beat me down to what they think a homeless person’s profile is.” It is also a lesson we deplorables should all learn, because our civilisation also needs to be rebuilt.
Assuming that the recount of the US election scam in three states fail, the next act of cultural Marxism to disrupt the Trump presidency is planned mass protests, which may be highly violent. Collapse News. November 22, 2016, reports that numerous buses arrived in Chicago with anti-Trump protesters “paid protesters working for George Soros’ project MoveOn.org”: http://collapse.news/2016-11-21-false-flag-warning-for-chicago-is-this-how-democrats-plan-to-stay-in-power.html.
The theory is that so much disruption will be caused that martial law will be declared, which would keep Trump out of the White House, and keep Obama in power. Whether he passes the dictatorship over to Queen Hillary is a hypothetical, for he may well keep the crown himself. Overall, this is a remote possibility.
Chicago is a dangerous city and if the cultural Marxists upset the local warlords by pushing too much destruction (not good for the drug businesses), they may all be unpleasantly surprised.
I returned to Florida just in time for the great Richard Spencer Alt Right/Nazi salute controversy. Richard Spencer concluded his speech at the National Policy Institute (“NPI”) Conference, Washington DC, November 19, 2016, with “Hail Trump! Hail Our People! Hail Victory!” He then raised his hand, holding a glass of water. In the audience a few people gave the Roman salute. Apparently some young people of various ethnic groups gave the infamous salute outside the venue, according to some reports. They were not NPI members.
The media said that this was a Nazi salute performed by Spencer – but Spencer only held up a glass of water. Maybe he was being deliberately deceptive. It certainly is not smart to use the “Hail” talk which plays right into the Establishment’s hands because they were sweaty and all excited from screaming that Trump was the new Hitler.
Put on your tin foil hat: it’s conspiracy time, but this time using mainstream sources. According to the New York Post (http://nypost.com/2016/11/17/the-nsa-might-be-spying-on-you-from-this-creepy-nyc-skyscraper/), the “Long Lines Building” in Lower Manhattan could be a NSA spy centre. It is a windowless telecommunications hub, like many in most large cities.
However, it is speculated that the NSA has a part of the building known as the “Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility,” which is used to record telephone conversations and internet data from across the world.
Believe it or not “University of Melbourne Researchers Want Porn Literacy Lessons in Australian Primacy Schools” (http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/parenting/school-life/university-of-melbourne-researchers-want-porn-literacy-lessons-in-australian-primacy-schools/) The “reason” for this is that some children who sexually abused other children, did so when exposed to pornography. Thus, beginning at age 8, porn would be used to deconstruct porn, all done by professional teachers.
This is like arguing that because some children end up in fights with punches in the nose, it would be a good idea to deconstruct fights by having professional boxers punch them in the nose! You get the point.
The United Nations special rapporteur on human rights for migrants, has been to Australia. He has concluded that politicians have given people permission “to act in xenophobic ways” and that section 18 C of the Racial Discrimination Act, the darling Act of the multicult, should be retained. As well, he was concerned about the rise of nationalist populist groups: The Guardian, 18 November 2016. No mention of democracy here, just migrants, migrants, migrants.
If people have been acting in “xenophobic ways” it is because they are suffering from immigration and multiculturalism overload. Immigration is the cause of racism; stop immigration, stop racism. It’s as simple as that.
Natural News.com, November 24, 2016, notes that the Western epidemic of high blood pressure, has now spread to the developing world, fuelled by economic globalisation. The number of people with high blood pressure in the world has doubled in the last 40 years and the biggest increases are seen in South Asia and Africa. In 2015 there were 1.1 billion people in the world with high blood pressure, and over half of these were living in East, South East and South Asia China alone had 226 million sufferers.
Air pollution, another product of industrialisation, is killing 5.5 million people worldwide, according to the Global Burden of Disease project (http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-35568249). Most of these deaths are in China and India. Liquid and solid particles can cause not only cancer and respiratory problems, but also heart disease. New research also indicates that pollution particles can even penetrate brain tissue, which may be a cause of neurodegenerative disease: http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environement-37276219.
Globalisation, economic growth and industrialisation all come with a cost and are not value neutral, and one cost is global health. Globalisation is killing the planet, and us.
CO2 levels data from the ice ages makes a laughing stock of global warming. It needs more attention.
http://www.climatedepot.com/2013/05/14/co2-nears-400-ppm-relax-its-not-global-warming-end-times-but-only-a-big-yawn-climate-depot-special-report/
...Scientists also note that geologically speaking, the Earth is currently in a “CO2 famine” and that the geologic record reveals that ice ages have occurred when CO2 was at 2000 ppm to as high as 8000ppm. In addition, peer-reviewed studies have documented that there have been temperatures similar to the present day on Earth when carbon dioxide was up to twenty times higher than today’s levels. And, a peer-reviewed study this year found that the present day carbon dioxide level of 400 ppm was exceeded — without any human influence — 12,750 years ago when CO2 may have reached up to 425 ppm.
The Labor/Green coalition in Australia has declared war on coal, oil and gas. So why is Big Mining not fighting back?
BHP Billiton is a big producer of coal, oil, gas, iron ore, copper, nickel and uranium. Rio Tinto is a big producer of uranium, coal, iron ore, copper and aluminium. Glencore is a big producer of coal, copper, zinc and nickel. And Shell is big in oil, gas and bitumen, manufactures biofuels, and generates peak power with natural gas.
These companies employ competent geologists, physicists and chemists who could tell them that CO2 is not a pollutant and is not the primary driver of climate. They must know there is no scientific justification for the green war on hydro-carbon fuels - but none of these big miners speak out against this baseless war on their products. Some even waste shareholder funds producing glossy brochures promoting the green agenda.
Big Mining is not that dumb. Their climate concern is more motivated by self-interest - they see long-term profits flowing from the silly green agenda. They are also political cowards.
Albert Einstein’s special and general theories of relativity are cornerstones of faith in Western physics. Although both theories are admitted to be logically inconsistent with quantum mechanics, physicists cling to them and via string theory are attempting the impossible of reconciling them. So far they have been unsuccessful, which may be an indication that the theories cannot be coherently brought together.
There are two postulates to the theory of relativity, the principle of relativity (that the laws of physics take the same form in all admissible frames of reference), and the postulate that the speed of light is a constant. Much of the criticism of relativity relates to the principle of relativity, but the constant speed of light postulate has also been criticised.
The mega-rich of the world, such as Bill Gates, are preparing for social chaos, big time, according to a number of media reports: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/bunker-builders-anticipate-lucrative-trumpocalypse-932748. As well, the mega-wealthy are moving out of the big cities, and tele-commute, or travel to work via helicopter, quickly in, and out.
News Target.com (http://newstarget.com/2016-11-29-the-worlds-mega-rich-are-prepping-for-something-could-it-be-they-are-expecting-violent-revolution.html), notes that the rich are scared of the world that they have created through globalisation, of increasing crime, terrorism, racial conflict and social breakdown. Some are even worried about Trump, but he should be the last of their worries.
Overall, they have made sound investments in bunkers. The only problem is, once one is down the rabbit hole it may be a little difficult to get out again when one’s supplies ultimately run out, if one’s exit has ten tons of cement dumped over it, or a truck parked over the lid. Hopefully they are not claustrophobic.
Home sweet home, may become a tomb. (“This is no mine. It’s a tomb.” Boromir, The Fellowship of the Ring, (2001))
The communist tyrant, Fidel (not to be confused with my dog “Fido”) Castro is dead, dying on November 25, 2016 (1926-2016). The Cuban-cigar smoking, ful-smelling, dictator’s funeral will be graced by an Obama aide: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/29/world/americas/obama-fidel-castro-funeral-cuba.html?_r=0. This is symbolic of the Left’s admiration for someone who was truly monstrous.
While the Left mourns one of its 1960s icons, there is little lament about the Cuban homosexuals who were sent to labour camps to work to death, or the dissents and journalists destroyed by psychiatric warfare. There was over 15,000 political enemies alone executed, which dwarfs the death toll associated with some, not-to-be-named US political figures, well, by a little.
The standard reference to 40,000 years for the alleged first Aboriginal settlement of the landmass that would come to be called “Australia” by the British keeps getting pushed further back into pre-history, according to mainstream and less than mainstream archaeology. I have heard a 75,000 year figure: http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/news/2011/09/dna-confirms-aboriginal-culture-one-of-earths-oldest/. On the net, various groups even go so far as to claim that Aboriginal Australians are 400,000 years old: https://www.creativespirits.info/aboriginalculture/history/australian-aboriginal-history-timeline.
There is an interesting paper about this at: http://thestringer.com.au/homo-sapien-sapiens-originated-in-australia-not-out-of-africa-dna-evidence-5938#.WD4nV4N95aQ.
See also: http://humansarefree.com/2014/08/the-first-human-race-came-from.html.
The logical conclusion of all of this is that modern humans did not arise in Africa, as the “Out-of-Africa” anti-race hypothesis posits, but arose in Australia!
How’s this one: a mother of six is facing gaol time after selling a homemade meal to an undercover investigator: http://www.naturalnews.com/056132_regulations_food_police_California.html. The Californian woman sold a meal without a permit, and in the socialist republic of California (much like Australia), that is an offence with one year’s gaol time. She will go on trial in December. We in Australia also have our own versions of “food crimes,” but we may not be as crazy as California yet.
Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton may not be prosecuted by Trump, who perhaps for strategic reasons has moved away from appointing a special prosecutor, although maybe he might have changed his mind with the Democrat’s challenge of the election results: http://www.politicususa.com/2016/11/27/trump-threatens-prosecute-hillary-clinton-pursues-election-recount.html. Trump said to The New York Times: