Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Greta Thunberg’s band of future burger flippers have reaffirmed their determination to ensure the children of evil exploiters get the best jobs and university courses.
From Fridays for Future;
SEPTEMBER 24
GLOBAL CLIMATE STRIKE
ON SEPTEMBER 24, WE WILL STRIKE TO DEMAND FOR INTERSECTIONAL CLIMATE JUSTICE! JOIN US!
#UPROOTTHESYSTEM
The climate crisis does not exist in a vacuum. Other socio-economic crises such as racism, sexism, ableism, class inequality, and more amplify the climate crisis and vice versa. It is not just a single issue, our different struggles and liberations are connected and tied to each other. We are united in our fight for climate justice, but we must also acknowledge that we do not experience the same problems; nor do we experience them to the same extent.
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The time to join the masses and follow the lead of the environmental defenders and workers has been long overdue. Reparations to MAPA must be paid for the historic injustices of the richest elite, drastic emission cuts in the Global North, vaccine equity, cancellation of debt, and climate finance are only the beginning of these. Together we will fight for a just future where no one is left behind. The historical victories of collective action have proven the need for the youth to stand united with the multisectoral, intergenerational struggle for a better future for all; a future where people and planet are prioritized.
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Read more: https://fridaysforfuture.org/september24/
The referenced Google Drive document is even funnier;
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We’re in the midst of a climate crisis, mass species extinction, a world health pandemic, socio-economic inequality crises, and more. The current system actively strives towards highlighting the voices of the most privileged through a racist and white-savior narrative that portrays people from the Global South as underdeveloped, poor, and voiceless. Industrialized countries of the Global North have been doing this for centuries through colonialism, imperialism, the perpetuation of systemic injustices and their fixation on everlasting growth. However, people from the Global South or the most affected areas are not underdeveloped, poor, or voiceless, but battling with the consequences of colonization and neocolonization while actively being silenced. They are strong, fearless and conscious as they have been fighting and addressing the root cause of these crises for centuries, that is the systems of oppression and injustice created by the richest of the Global North.
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We must unite, follow the lead of defenders and workers, amplify MAPA voices, and demand more ambitious action from Global North representatives. Together we will fight for a just future where no one is left behind, because our liberations are tied together. The historical victories of collective action have proven the need for the youth to stand united with the multisectoral, intergenerational struggle for a better future for all; a future where people and the planet are prioritized over profit.
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Read more: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1b25qhqIf0E-4h6NQDzLX40YifD6khpgee3Vl6g7nNSE/edit
One thing I’m curious about, I regularly receive letters from people who mostly seem to live in the global south, from grieving widows explaining they have millions of dollars inheritance locked away, they just need help from an honest person in another country to unlock it. They even sometimes offer a share of the cash to the kind person who agrees to help them.
Surely if people in the global south need more money for climate adaption, instead of pushing Greta to demand the industrial North pay vast reparations for the crime of providing the modern world, why don’t the leaders of the global south simply ask the grieving widows to to come forward, so their cases can be investigated, so all money in their frozen up bank accounts can be put to work?
Greta could lead the charge, to help all those widows and other unfortunates who keep writing to me access their frozen accounts, so they can invest their money into climate resilience projects.
Me personally I am a little tired of these shenanigans, although they may be quite entertaining for some. Let us get serious and end this once and for all, since the code HAS been cracked..
https://greenhousedefect.com/the-holy-grail-of-ecs/the-big-stupid
“shenanigans”?
What sexist claptrap! The proper term is HEnanigans!
You are blatantly disempowering women.
You are practicing cis-heteronormative colonialism.
Bigot.
Sexist.
Colonialist.
From diversity [dogma] (i.e. color judgment), including racism, sex-ism, gender-ism?, and other class-based bigotry, progresses adversity, inequity, and exclusion.
Personigans
Theynigans
Itnigans
Xinanigans, but can you blame him, when Western carbon evolves into the em-pathetic kneeler.
We are not amused. That said, nice (pun intended).
I see what you did there. Exclusion of “the People and our Posterity” under a twilight faith, ethical religion, and divergent ideology. Wicked.
“Personigans” as opposed to “Perdaughterigans”?
Peritigans.
Dumbasdirtigans
Let us bray together. Shamen.
No, THEYnanigans, surely?
Nope, “They” has a HE in it…
I think the preferred term is “Xenanigans” — it’s completely non-binary.
PERSnigans?
THEYnigans?
XEnigans?
ZEnigans?
This is only a start. Cambridge university, home of woke-ness has publicly apologised that all their plaster casts of classic Greek and Roman sculptures are white. Quite right too, both the ancient Greeks and Romans were people of Magnolia colour.
Vuk, I initially thought that you were joking but it turns out that you weren’t.
https://thejjreport.com/world-news/notes-to-be-placed-on-misleadingly-white-plaster-cast-sculptures/
Where the alma mater of our most celebrated traitors is concerned, nothing should surprise you.
CAMBRIDGE University has backed and promoted an academic who posted “White Lives Don’t Matter” after she was sent death threats.
Professor Priyamvada Gopal, a fellow of Churchill College, faced a 4,000-signature petition calling for her to be sacked over the tweet.
Cambridge Uni promotes academic who tweeted ‘white lives don’t matter’ to professor after she’s sent death threats (the-sun.com)
The Pro-Choice religion of the Progressive Church, Synagogue, Mosque, Corporation, Clinic, etc., denies women and men’s dignity and agency. and reduces human life to a negotiable property for social, medical, and Green[back] progress. That said, keep women appointed, available, and taxable is the dream of feminists and masculinists alike. Abort, cannibalize, sequester.
It’s rather ironic that Professor Priyamvada Gopal, the daughter of an Indian diplomat and beneficiary of India’s caste system, has chosen to comment about whites rather than attack the Indian caste system.
What was worse about that woman was that she had a history of what any reasonable person would consider racist (& sexist) posts – which were deleted soon after her ‘white lives don’t matter’ comment made the news; but someone managed to recover them (they posted a link on youtube at the time, I’ve not looked to see if it still works). They were, in my opinion, the rantings of a deranged person. The university & college ignored it all – since her racism was towards whites & her sexism towards men (in one, for example, she expressed a desire to knee-cap white men), neither counted.
And that is what passes for “higher education” these days. We’re doomed.
“Ivory Tower,” anyone? Academia has always been recognized as being irrelevant to productive life. Also, will the little kiddies and supposed adults now protest the term “Ivory Tower?”
We have entered the twilight fringe.
I hope those stupid notes mention the fact that, when new, the original sculptures would have been painted in vibrant colours.
Fascinating. Naturally chalk white statues can only represent people with medium flesh tones, not albinos nor Negroids, Asians, Mongoloids & etc.
Anyway their sculpturee were in general painted in bright, and, to modern eyes, gaudy, colours.
Vuk: “Cambridge university, home of woke-ness has publicly apologised that all their plaster casts of classic Greek and Roman sculptures are white.”
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Nothing that a few cans of spray paint can’t fix. Don’t those academics have any common sense?
Psssssst…. (shake-rattle-rattles) psssssst… (shake-rattle-rattles) pssssssst, and we can all move on.
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Oh wait. The debate in those hallowed halls over which color of paint to buy will rage on for years. Never mind.
Perhaps they should paint them green or blue…since no human has skin that color that should be deemed “safe”….
Unfair to Smurfs!
Smurf’s are sexist, all those guys and only one girl?
To paint them would desecrate ancient artwork. These were models for the actual statuary.
More on the insanity of Cambridge University. Cambridge University Press published this:
The long-running BBC sitcom, ’Allo ’Allo!, has been thoroughly criticised for its use of various racial, gendered and sexualised tropes, not to mention its cynical view of the French experience of the Second World War. This article, however, reassesses the programme in light of what it highlights about the lived experience of Anglo-American airmen who were forced to bale from their planes over Occupied France. It uses the comedic aspects of the programme to investigate escape and evasion training, the use of language, ‘fitting in’ and the prominence of peasants in the wartime lives of Anglo-American aircrews in France. The programme, rather than being just another example of Gaullophobia, accurately represents some elements of the Second World War in France. In addition, changes in the plot over its nine seasons suggest that the sitcom reflects broader British concerns, as well as the Anglo-French relationship.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/contemporary-european-history/article/abs/jolly-romp-we-were-always-destined-to-win-the-bbcs-allo-allo-and-british-memories-of-downed-aircrew-in-occupied-france-during-the-second-world-war/4B6795B02E1A9EB89A5BD11B9BA9715A
Back in the real world, with real people, an American soldier killed the 13th August 1944, Morton Eustis, is remembered every year on that day for the last 77, for his courage and sacrifice, by the ancestors of those he helped to liberate.
Do not let them divide us, it is us, all of us against them.
The memorial.
“ancestors”?? They have a time machine? Try, “descendants.”
ooouupppsy… 😉
Oh for goodness sake, ’Allo ’Allo! was created for light entertainment purposes during ultra-boring 1970s prime-time TV! What was the alternative? Next they’ll be having a go at “Steptoe and Son”, or gawd forbid, ‘The Benny Hill Show’! It can happen, they already took the hot grid-girls out of MotoGP!
It’ll be ‘Happy Days’ next!
Sick people.
Greeks are of sub-sharan African decent duh! You’re obviously not Ivy League. Pish -posh fetch me a tea peasant…
We are all of east African descent – every single human being on the planet; every single H.Sap has the same origins. One single race, no exceptions.
So where’s my tan?
Our ancestors lost the increased melanin in the skin to compensate for a need for more vitamin D. After successive generations, a group of associated genes have become dominant family characteristics – less melanin in skin, hair and eyes results in a group with predominantly pale skin, blonde sandy or ginger hair and blue eyes. We are one race with virtually the same genetics in every person – it’s just that some gene groups are dominant in some groups and others are recessive or even dormant; a bit like each gene having a binary switch being ‘off’ or ‘on’.
People of Magnolia (a color bloc, a racist label)… abort their evolution, then sequester their privileged carbon.
Now put notes on bronze statues that the person depicted was white.
All older bronze statues are black.
All wedding dresses in white and funerals black suits are part of the racist imperialism imposing itself on person who like to dress differently, a person who is usually a black sheep of the family (oops ..!).
Some German racist Gustav Kirchhoff had a cheek to be first to define ideal black body as there were not enough white bodies around, yes that was the same Kirchhoff of electric circuit junctions.
Max Plank had a few things to say about this.
How about those (esp. Egyptians) depicted in ebony stone?
So why are they not discussing the mistreatment and ostricizatrion of those afflicted by albinism?
I never knew that the statues represented their actual skin color.
Whodathunk.
How dare plaster by so naturally white … disgraceful!
“Let us get serious and end this once and for all, since the code HAS been cracked..”
It seems to me there is another “code” that explains the “this” that has been going on lately. To crack it, one can simply employ the “intersectionality” key:
THIS, includes much focus on, and vilification of, a particular sort of people : Europeans (AKA “white” people), and almost everything of real historic significance that can be attributed to them.
THIS, also includes much pressure from various “Elites” (AKA people in high places) on non-elites to do as we are told by them (or else).
THIS, does NOT include much focus on something of real historic significance that was done by “white” people, which limited the ability of people in high places to dictate what non-elites must do (or else).
Therefore, I suggest that the reason “white” people in particular are being “targeted” by people in high places, is BECAUSE various “Elites” would like very much to undo what “white” people did which limits the ability of people in high places to dictate what non-elites must do, or else . . to get the “white” baby thrown out with the bathwater, so to speak ; )
Was the code a code red?
Is that why the Cleveland Indians are now named after a couple of white stone statues on a bridge (The “Guardians of Transportation” chiseled out long before EVs) nobody ever noticed before?
I am actually beginning to suspect that AI algorithms and such are being utilized to sniff out any possible “intersectionality” that can be exploited to advance the “grievance” aspects of this bizzaro-land BS we are witnessing . . So, maybe some supercomputer did “suggest” what it “saw” as a good connection for reinforcing whatever it “thinks” humans might be influenced by, and launched a barrage of “red” related tactical strikes, by way of it’s human imbecilli ; )
Sure that is one part. The above doctrine however is simply to promote hate, fear and chaos in every thinkable way. It has got to be men against women, black against white, muslims against christians. If there is any spark of unrest, put gasoline on it. If there is no spark, just make it up. It is the socialist doctrine. Organization wise it is about putting socialists in charge, everywhere, and get rid of everyone who is not complying.
Yet, the “code” I was referring to is that “climate change”. I know what they did, willingly or not, and how these tricks, or mistakes respectively, produce the idea of significant warming by CO2. Not a triviality I would guess, since sites like this have been after it for a long time. Unsuccessfully.
“It is the socialist doctrine.” I suggest that’s just a convenient cover story sort of “disguise”, one form of “sheep’s clothing” the wolves can don to fool some of the less wary “white” people.
The “intersectionality” key can be employed to break the “political ideology” code too . . and the “distillate” is:
Controlled Society (by any other name ; )
Had some other “color” of people birthed the baby that changed the “ruling elites” game, that “color” of people would be in the crosshairs now (according to my calculations ; ) and we would be seeing the unwary being encouraged to think our “Elites” were convinced they could best serve us within the same array of ‘Controlled Society’ (by any other name) political structures.
I’m not suggesting your “code breaking” is erroneous, or irrelevant to the struggle to un-don the wolves at our door, so to speak, but rather to shed a bit of more serious light on the shadowy “intersectionality” code, which many here had been engaged in “making light of” in humorous ways (which I most certainly condone ; )
In short: I confess, I exploited the opportunity your “code breaking” linguistic approach afforded me, and apologize for any distraction from your salient points I may have caused.
So Global South includes Australia?
Ere, we want our cash, and we wannit now!
I’m sick and tired of having to bend bananas for a living, I can tell you. I want my luxury seafront villa.
Tom Hanks had to lose 40 lbs for his seafront villa. I’m afraid we’ll all be forced to ClimateScam™ weight loss plan if the Green-Marxists get their way.
This is a fallacy spread by Queenslanders, almost all bananas bend themselves. Occasionally you get a rogue Cavendish that insists on going straight but they are not the norm.
Actually no, it doesn’t. This was carefully explained to me in a university class on global geopolitics. Why, you might ask? Well, because the economic system and the colonists, who are now Aussie citizens, are mostly European and therefore from the Global North. It can become confusing if you think “north” and “south” actually retain their usual meanings, which they don’t in this context.
So Australian Aborigines simply don’t count? And American Indians are really “global Asians”, American blacks are really global Africans, and … But then the ancestors of all Homo Sapiens ever born came from Africa so we are all global Africans?
You seem to have been taught in the manner of Lewis Carroll wrote “When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’
’The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’
’The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master — that’s all.”
It is best to consult a dictionary.
The Cambridge Dictionary, of course.
Not saying I agree with the geopolitical definitions, since I don’t. Just saying that this is how the geopolitical science elites think. They have to name an entire country as part of the Global North or Global South. The fact that any particular country may have groups of people that are marginalized or unusually wealthy doesn’t mean the country as a whole can’t be categorized this way.
Yeah. You selfish people up the top of the globe need to pay us Aussies and Kiwis for something, something. Used high denomination notes, please.
With so many of us up here, it continually amazes me that the Earth doesn’t turn over.
Sounds like a COVID super spreader event is needed.
An ADE event in progress.
What does mapa mean?
Good question! It is not in this list of abbreviations:
https://www.abbreviations.com/MAPA
And what is ableism?
I was involved with the sport of fencing. They were talking about including blind people.
😲 … 🙄 … 🏥 🚑 🚑 🚑 🚑
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(Yikes!)… (Oy vey)… (Gonna be a lot of trips to the hospital)
Doesn’t matter if you take out an eye of a blind person (just kidding).
They fitted in perfectly as referees.
I know a lady that is blind in one eye … she CAN take it out & then put it back.
She must have been a hoot at children’s birthday parties.
I have told the story on this website about the corrupt driver’s license bureau employee who sold a driver’s license to a blind guy who wanted one. I guess if they can drive, they can fence. Just not around me, please.
But the blind guy promised to buy a Tesla autonomous EV.
May “the Force” be with you!! Jedis train blindfolded with light sabers which must surely be as dangerous as a tipped foil!
…….. Roy Orbison owned a Ferrari
Watch the Star Wars. You can be better with the light saber if you close your eyes and just let yourself be led by The Force.
As the actress said to the bishop.
I think it is the disdain for or marginalisation of people who are mentally, physically or emotionally disabled.
Here in the US we don’t practice ablism. After all, we hired Joe Biden to fill the most important job in the world.
“emotionally disabled”
That would include just about all the alarmists, it seems to me. Their emotions overcome their ability to think straight about CO2.
Millennials and Gen Y is who they are referring to then?
Yeah, that bugged me too: Ableism.
noun: ableism; noun: ablism
From Wiki, of course!
Gregory: “1. discrimination in favor of able-bodied people.”
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So the solution to ableism is to hire quadriplegic porters and pay them to watch you schlep your own stuff? And we’re supposed to tip them?
Dunno. I think tipping a Quadriplegic is wholly based on white privilege. I wouldn’t do it in public view!!
Hiring someone who can physically do the job without “accommodation.”
Melbourne Academy for Performing Arts…MAPA or
Management of Actual and Potential Aggression…MAPA
I am sure neither is correct but this is what the first page of the Google Search says – and who ever goes to page 2! Besides I am sure either one could apply – they are either all actors, all angry or both!
the answer is with mod, for expediency consult the ‘urban dictionary’
I took one for the team: Most Affected Peoples and Areas
That description includes me as I am being affected financially by these people
I want my reparations and I want it now!
Then we will have to determine the degree to which you have been affected, since it specifies “Most Affected”. You may not be affected enough to qualify. See Greta for more information.
I’m most affected with the mental anguish that I will be hurt financially
That should qualify, imo. But, I’m not Greta.
A lotta gum flapa from the mapa.
Make America Poor Again
ha similar thought as me, my first thought was
Make America Primitive Again
You win a free booster for that. Head to the nearest pharmacy or big box store to collect your prize.
After a short search on “MAPA Climate” This comes up:
What is MAPA and why should we pay attention to it? – Fridays …https://fridaysforfuture.org › newsletter › edition-no-1-…
This is why the term MAPA: Most Affected People and Areas arises, to make the communities that suffer the most from the effects of Climate Change more …
Undefined acronyms are annoying
UAAA
Since there has been no negative climate change, no MAPA.
You are all wrong: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Mapas
scrawl down to number 2. mapa
That’s funny. Vulgar. But funny.
Make America Poor Again!
It’s Italian.
“You’a lost’a? Look at the Map’a!”
(Apologizes in advance.)
Malaysian Airlines Pilots Association
Sept. 24th you say, let me check my calendar. Ah, sorry, I won’t be able to make it. I’ll be busy exploiting the proletariat in the morning and have a mani-pedi in the afternoon.
Quacks spouting gobbledegook have always been with us, and always will be: millenarians who believe The Rapture is imminent, people who believe apricot pits cure cancer, and so on.
Why do Greta’s Wackos get such unequal treatment? Such lopsided publicity? That carbon is poison, rather than an element required for all life on earth? Who died and made them gods?
Where’s the quack justice in that?
Quacks spouting gobbledegook have always been with us, and always will be
Yes, but the idiots used to be confined to the village.
Now the Misleadia give the village idiot the strongest voice.
It sells. Just watch your local news when a weather event occurs…if it bleeds it leads.
“Quacks spouting gobbledegook have always been with us”
Isn’t that the truth! And that’s exactly what we are seeing here.
Nobody will even notice the global climate strike because the only people participating in it will be the ones who don’t do anything constructive in their lives.
Yep – let’s dare them to go on strike forever 🙂
We already did, and we continue to pay them to stay out of work.
AOC believes that everyone is entitled to a living wage. Even those who don’t want to work.
She is certainly collecting hers, plus some.
Everyone is entitled to a free starship and an east galactic-rim holiday too.
The “just” future that is coming is likely to be a global society of impoverished subjects whose franchise has been stripped away by a ruling elite – call it a global technocracy. All because of the useful idiots whose “climate” campaigns are a trojan horse to implement this takeover of democracy. The result could be the exact opposite of what they claim to be fighting for.
Excellent comment, Vincent.
It always has been. Every revolution in history has been comprised of a majority of useful idiots and a small minority at the top willing to use them to achieve their goals.
They are clueless oafs. They show Scotland N Ireland, Wales and England as separate countries. They aren’t.
That’s a difficult one. Is, for example, Scotland a country? A state of the United Kingdom? What?
Technically these are all countries, but United as a nation under one monarch, hence the (sexist) title, United Kingdom.
United Queendom?
That might raise a few eyebrows these days.
The Scots certainly think they have a country.
“They show Scotland N Ireland, Wales and England as separate countries. They aren’t.”
Sorry, but as a 70yr old UK citizen, I can assure you they are politically “separate countries”, each with their own little tinpot dictators.
There are lots of historical reasons why Scotland, N Ireland & Wales
dislikehate England – & Boris Johnston is the latest !!They are not separate countries as defined by the United Nations (h/t Richard Osman), they are separate nations within one country, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Island. Gibraltar, The Channel Islands, the Falklands, Ascension Island and the Isle of Man are not countries either, even though they self govern. The Canary Islands are not countries, they are Spanish but are not governed by Spain and hence are not in the EU. Likewise Madeira and the Azores in relation to Portugal. Individual states in Canada, Germany, the USA and Australia are not separate countries either but are self governing.
States or countries? The Vatican City is a state but not a country.
The Isle of Man, Falkland Islands etc are Crown Protectorates, but also seem to also be labelled Crown Dependencies or British Overseas Territories.
I don’t think US states are self governing, much as some might wish.
At least the founders decided on Federation of States, Commonwealth of Australia.
Maybe they predicted that united was a step too far?
Isn’t Canada a Confederation?
According to our ‘Dear Leader’ Justin the duly elected leader of a supposed great nation(and if memory serves I quote him from an interview with New York Times):
“Canada is the first post-national state”.
It ain’t a nation according to it’s Prime Minister. It’s left all that behind. Perhaps it is a Confederation, but not for long if we reelect this usshole.
This is treasonous talk for a leader in my book.
I detest the little entitled shut more than anyone I have had to vote about.
There hasn’t been a State-wide lockdown or mask mandate in my State all during this pandemic, despite Biden calling for both at one time or another. I think Biden is getting ready to sue my State and others for defying his wishes on mask mandates. Let him sue.
Texas is going to test the line between State power and Federal power. They have been forced into it by the Biden administration refusing to enforce the law and allowing an invasion of Texas by illegal aliens. Texas is going to try to stop the invasion, and the Biden administration is going to try to stop Texas.
And yet Puerto Rico competes separately from the US in the Olympics. Go figure.
I can assure you they are politically “separate countries
That is only true of Scotland, Wales and Ulster
England has no assembly of its own because they dare not give it one. They try to ‘regionalise it’ every now and again and fail.
Realise that both poverty and wealth come in two forms – absolute and relative. Then the sad thing is that when you look at the zero carbon proposals being floated their major effect is to enrich the wealthy and to further impoverish the poor. Examples such as:
I could go on and on. Basic Marxist class analysis shows that the CO2 catastrophism is simply a means by which the wealthy connected “woke” are using to reinforce their privilege.
I believe that Lenin said it best when describing the Russian equivalents to Saint Greta the Shrill as “useful idiots”
/Sarc not intended.
What about paying rich people, who can afford solar panels on their home, by making electricity more expensive for the poor people who can’t?
What about using taxpayers’ money, that could be spent on facilities for poor people, to subsidise EVs for rich people who can afford them, probably as a second car anyway.
CAGW is the perfect vehicle for transferring wealth from the poor to the rich. Typical socialist framework.
The only thing that I disagree with is the use of the word socialist. It’s actually a feature of crony capitalism by which the rich use their political power to increase their share of wealth and prestige. Examples abound in the economic history of the US, U.K., Germany, India etc.
A true socialist would be seeking a popular and democratic mandate for measures to enrich everyone which entails providing the benefits of cheap energy to the worlds poor. With todays technology that means electrification (using gas and coal) to the poor within reach of a grid and local distributed solar to those outside of that reach. It most certainly doesn’t mean betraying the poor by supporting measures to limit their ability to live in a warm house as the current British Labour party does. Nor does it mean the regressive policies of the US Democrats which will really screw the urban, dispossessed poor. .
I think I could count the number of “true socialists” I have met in 70 years on the thumbs of one hand.
And probably still have a thumb left over.
TonyG ..
I met a thumb too, once and very fine guy he was. In later life he pulled me aside to tell me how his friend from the revolution days (Chile) had just told him that another friend from the revolution days (all of whom had emigrated to Canada after the revolution tanked) had just been found to have defrauded their housing cooperative of all its operating funds. He admitted to MY friend that
“we would have been the same if we had won” (referring to the themselves as revolutionaries).
Good honest men both, one for admitting this to my friend and one for my friend who told this to me.
Sometimes good men cannot see the obvious.
Crony capitalism is socialism. Using government to take money from one group of people in order to give it to another, has nothing to do with capitalism and is pure socialism.
As to what true socialists say, who cares. What matters is what true socialists do. Socialists always seek to enrich themselves by taking from others.
Yes, look at one of the founders of Black Lives Matter. She managed to buy herself two, not one, two expensive houses while leading BLM.
Socialism pays if you are in the leadership. The Peons get nothing except slogans.
All you need to do is look at Marx’ own life to see how socialism is supposed to operate. Keep the focus on everyone else to insure they always have enough to support your needs.
Marx was a schnorrer. That should say something about where he was coming from.He mooched off Engels
He mooched off everyone he met if they looked like an easy touch. The man was a monster, who understood neither economics nor human nature … an absolute charlatan and con man.
Was it H.L. Mencken that said every American movement turns into a racket?
Eric Hoffer said that.
Thanks, Tom.
True socialists, by your definition, are very thin on the ground! Most of them seem to want everything they can get from the government but give back next to nothing. This is why socialism, as a form of government, never has worked and never will work. It is a lovely utopian dream but it doesn’t even work on the small scale of agricultural communes. There are always too many who don’t pull their share of the work but expect a full share of the rewards.
Never forget the international socialist rallying cry.
“This time it’s going to work.”
I read recently that socialism, marxism, stalinism, trotskyism and other leftist factional brand names have one primary brand in common – communism.
Since the various sub-slogans don’t work, the socialist is always forced to concentrate more and more power into the centralized government. In order to force everyone to behave as the socialist wishes. With the end result always being communistic totalitarianism.
In my experience, the most ardent Socialists and Communists are people living in non-socialist or communist countries where they get to enjoy all the privileges of a free society. The last place they want to live is in Venezuela or North Korea where foolish protestors are jailed or shot!
Every socialist I have known is convinced that government could easily afford all of their schemes if only the government would have the courage to start taxing the rich. They have been convinced that the rich pay nothing in taxes.
Just so! They also firmly believe that they are entitled to free everything, even if they choose not to work at a real job to earn money.
The most fervent anti-socialists tend to be expats from socialist countries. They left because they wanted freedom to live as they choose and had already seen what a CF it is living under socialist tyranny.
I suggest just ‘cronyism’ would have sufficed. No need to get all “ideological” about it . .
I think it is absolutely wonderful that these Windfarms & Solar arrays are built on the land owned by wealthy land-owners, & that we energy bill payers are paying them for the privilege of it all, making these wealthy land-owners even richer!!! Last time I checked, former Prime Minister David Cameron’s father-in-law earns around £300k a year from such facilities!!!
The three branches of so called renewable energy are;
I remember the NZ faction decided they were racist and disbanded
Where they led the rest should follow
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They will all eventually eat themselves, it’s the logical end to their lunatic ideology.
I see XR ( Extinction Rebellion ) are about to grace London and the larger UK with 14 days of climate action. They painted the Guildhall in The City with fake blood yesterday and intend to disrupt the lives of everybody. The cry seems to be “something must be done” while denying us the specifics they would like to be done.
The participants seem to be mainly from the educated but stupid and obviously, unlike those they disrupt, they don’t need to work. A few days outside in late August will be very nice, amongst friends and feeling morally superior while the rest of us keep everything they depend on going.
A perfect metaphor for the times in which we find ourselves.
XR need to spend more time disrupting the lives of ordinary folks by stopping the tube down at Barking, Dagenham and Canning Town. I am sure they will get a supportive reaction from the public and they will learn very useful things too.
Like f*** with ordinary, working peoples lives at your peril.
Canning Town
Most enjoyable.
Canning Town –
https://metro.co.uk/2019/10/17/angry-commuters-drag-xr-protesters-off-tube-try-glue-10933003/
That’s one stunt they won’t try again.
Its funny when our saviors have to have the police protect them from us.
On Saturday last, the anointed upper middle class ones also known as XR had a plastic garden marquee outside a local midi-supermarket.
Previously they had successfully glued some flyers on lamposts etc
They were all wearing clothes you could not possibly have without the black gold.
They should rebel for a decent education..
Isn’t painting the Guildhall in The City with fake blood vandalism? Why have they not been arrested for this activity? I simply don’t understand why their antics are tolerated, blocking traffic, vandalizing buildings, generally acting like idiots in public. Do they have permits for these demonstrations and, if so, why are they being permitted?
The socialists who run government never object when other socialists protest demanding more power for the socialists who run government.
On the other hand anyone who speaks up that government is too big and needs to be downsized, must be punished to the full extent of the law, and then some.
You’ve just described what socialism provides us with … and why it has never and will never work. For all their talk about doing all this “for the people“; they really have no idea what people want or need.
People tell us what they want when they voluntarily spend their own money.
Brevity might be the soul of wit, but you lost me at “people“.
Socialists don’t care what they people want. Since they are convinced that they know what the people need.
Just look at how offended they get when some uppity minority dares to disagree with a white liberal.
Wasn’t it Malcolm X who said:
“The worst enemy that the Negro have is this white man that runs around here drooling at the mouth professing to love Negros and calling himself a liberal, and it is following these white liberals that has perpetuated problems that Negros have.”
Recently some XR geniuses glued themselves to Australia’s Parliament house in Canberra after painting slogans and setting fire to a pram of all things releasing clouds of toxic smoke. It transpires the authorities used some solvent (acetone?) to release them. I believe they should have left them there to enjoy a cool Canberra night in the open. Give them some intersectional justice whatever that is, to keep them warm.
And make sure the attached are properly hydrated, the poor lambs….
Fire hose hydration, maybe?
Gluing themselves to roads, buildings etc seems to be a popular stunt for these idiots. I say leave them stuck to whatever until they’ve soiled themselves, then point and laugh at them. Just make sure your not downwind.
Why don’t these XR geniuses go to the worlds biggest polluter ( China ) & glue themselves to Tiananmen Square ??
Because China already has the government they want.
Good point!
They wouldn’t dare simply because they don’t believe in freedom, democracy, & helping the poor & needy, unlike China, unless there’s a vote in it for them!!!
Because they know tanks would roll over them.
By all means, they should have been allowed to remain firmly attached to Parliament House until the glue released on its own after a period of time….
All the greentards should stop exhaling, right now. It’s a climate emergency, after all.
Climate change is just another Marxist struggle. Like all Marxist struggles they are invented in order to divide people in the hope that a Marxism/Socialism/Communism system will be implemented to solve the non-existent problem.
Unfortunately the West is heading down that path and not just with climate change policies.
Not so – its a text book example of crony capitalism in which the elites use their control of the means of production to further their sectional class aims to the detriment of others. Personally I blame the abysmal state of the west’s schools for people not waking up to this.
The true socialist tries to pretend that anything bad can’t be socialist.
“The abysmal state of the West’s schools” is a direct result of socialist baffle-gab. The big lie is centered on the belief that any aspect of socialism has value. Crony capitalism is just a meaningless buzz phrase. Marx is the ultimate “true socialist” … living off the hard work of others while attacking them for being successful in the free market. Their sense of entitlement is immense.
The Bandar-log at their best.
Did you just Kipple ? 😛 🙂
This very much reminds me of the time of the 3-day week in the UK many years ago. The government imposed a 3-day working week during a time of fuel shortage. Some unions were incensed by this and threatened to have their members go on strike. Problem for the unions was that with their members not working (hardship for the workers) the employers did not have to pay their wages (win for the bosses) and with the factory now closed anyway the power demand was reduced (win for the government).
At a public servants union meeting a while back they were asked to vote for the introduction of a 4-day week.
One of the delegates spoke up –
“fvck that – I’m not working another 2 days a week for any b@stard”
When I was a manager for the Federal government a visitor to our offices asked how many people worked there. I told him about half. [While that is an old apocryphal story, I actually told that to a guy who asked the question.]
“Most Affected Peoples And Areas”..
Well certainly I’ve always thought the Doom Goblin “Affected”
I couldn’t work out what MAPA meant. I looked at abbreviation.com but that didn’t help so I looked at the linked document:
I think that means that the people and areas most affected are most affected. Is that what’s known as a circular argument?
Yes, it is begging the question. However, reading between the lines it simply means that the “have nots” are the group most affected by bad weather. Gosh, what a revelation. If your life is always exposed to the weather, you’ll be most affected. Flood planes will have the most floods. They merely state the obvious and do nothing about it.
“All the Useless People Will Walk Out Until Their Demands are Met”
Will they walk out and STAY out?
“Yes yes Strikers…this way to the ‘B’ Ark…”
“The climate crisis does not exist in a vacuum.”
It’s all in your head, so technically it does…
Who writes this stuff for Greta?
Her off-script remarks are pretty much unintelligible. OTOH, so was the release. So maybe Greta did write it after all.
Who?
They are largely written for her by grown-up environmental activists including her father Svante Thunberg and an Indian delegate to the U.N. Climate Secretariat called Adarsh Pratap.
Well, they can’t write either.
The Illiterati are taking over.
“Adarsh Pratap ”
I think your Spell Check failed. It was supposed to be Harsh Claptrap. 😀
don’t you actually mean cranky sh..tberg an add-ass crack-up?
Liberate the oppressed by denying them and the entire world affordable, abundant energy!
Yep … and it is going to come back and bite them in the ass very soon. The hundreds of billions poured into this nonsense could have helped build infrastructure and a reliable, affordable power supply in Africa. Instead, the Chinese are doing it (using our money), while they insure access to the resources needed to produce the mythical “carbon free” society.
The mindless and the useless who don’t work, aren’t going “to work….” I think the world will notice we DON’T NEED THEM AT ALL.
Wasn’t the problem with these worthless types solved by Douglas Adams in Hitchhiker…. by sending them off in rockets to orbit the Earth forever? Or am I thinking of another author?
Stupid, brainwashed kids, out for a one-day holiday, making idiotic “demands” so that they can feel good about themselves. Imbeciles.
These “Stupid, brainwashed kids” will very soon have to deal with their own Stupid, brainwashed kids. And the wheel goes around and around. An intellectual vortex with a state/Party marxist Dictatorship coming out at the bottom .
An intellectual vortex with a state/Party Marxist Dictatorship coming out at the bottom .
This will inevitably fail once all the massive wealth they coveted is squandered in the attempt to make bad ideas work. Of course, the orchestrators will be enriched once again, while the masses try to recover some of what they lost.
These political documents just confirm that Human-caused Climate Change is a political issue.
Overthrowing Society as is suggested in the text, is the aim of Karl Marx and the Marxists.
Is Greta a Marxist? Did she write any of that word-salad garbage?
There is only one person who benefited from Marxism … Karl Marx, which was the intent in the 1st place.
Why on earth is Greta Thunberg the poster child of the green movement?
Childish ✓
Ill-informed ✓
No science education ✓
Intellectually challenged ✓
Borderline personality disorder ✓
Anger management issues ✓
Oh, Ok then…
It was written …
“Napoleon holds a dinner party for the pigs and local farmers, with whom he celebrates a new alliance. He abolishes the practice of the revolutionary traditions and restores the name “The Manor Farm”. The men and pigs start playing cards, flattering and praising each other while cheating at the game. Both Napoleon and Mr. Pilkington, one of the farmers, play the Ace of Spades at the same time and both sides begin fighting loudly over who cheated first. When the animals outside look at the pigs and men, they can no longer distinguish between the two.”
Oh, deary, deary me (as my paternal grandma used to say)! Dontcha just wonder how these buffoons are gonna survive without warm places to stay and food to eat, come winter?
If they want a “walk-out” or strike or whatever, fine. We can watch the parade. Is there a walrus haulout we can send them to?
I have yet to see the mass extinction of anything other than the newly-sprouted grass in my lawn that shut down a few days later because we had chilly weather overnight – deliciously chilly weather, the kind that makes the kitties come and snuggle up next to you.
I really do want to know just how willing Greta and her followers are to suffer real-time, real-world stuff, like a week-long blizzard where you can’t even push the door open. I do not believe any of them have what it takes to put up with deprivation of any kind, whether it’s food or shelter or the loss of their electronic toys.
Mr. Worrall: My highest praise for the headline!
It’s long for a headline, but every word packs a punch. Jonathan Swift couldn’t have done it better.
The ubiquitous K-T atmospheric heat budget diagram contains two egregious errors.
https://www.cgd.ucar.edu/staff/trenbert/trenberth.papers/TFK_bams09.pdf
The diagram depicts 63 W/m^2 of LWIR upwelling from the surface – TWICE!
Once sourced from the 161 net, net solar energy that arrives at the surface from the sun minus the upwelling sensible and latent flows. Since it is not shown and MUST be there maybe it fell behind the sofa.
Second as part of a theoretical, “What if?” S-B BB calculation for a surface temperature of 16 C used to calculate emissivity, i.e. 63/396=0.16, and with no actual physical meaning.
When the music stops the solar 63 has chair in which to sit.
The theoretical, “What if?” calculated 63 does not.
The greenhouse effect is a fifth-grade math error.
Graphic.
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0.16 emissivity? WTF Nick ? If emissivity was 1.0, then 396 corresponds to a reasonable surface temp of 16C and 333 to a cloud base temp (or sky/outer space average) of 3 C. The net average radiative transfer of 63 from surface upwards is reasonable, even on the high side a bit….your double accounting claim is pretty FUBAR.
And what’s this got to do with Greta anyway ?
16 C, 289 K, 0.16 emissivity = 63 W/m^2.
396 is more energy than arrived at ToA from the sun in the first place. WTF?
333 downwelling is not possible w/o adding work.
Can’t have two 63’s.
The whole global arming/climate change/Greta et al carnival is a house of cards.
Well, that house of cards still stands despite your ignorant huffing and puffing.
A rant all ya got?
Even the naive can balance their checkbooks unlike you and Willis.
The “checkbook” is harmed if one makes up a number for the emissivity of the earth. Figures don’t lie but liars figure.
I know, I know, guys; one shouldn’t attempt to reason with a crank that has an undefeatable (to the crank) screwball theory that he pushes incessantly.
Christ, not again! The sad part is naive people believe his bullshit.
the majority of the worlds billionaires are all in greta’s camp . and will probably fly in aboard their private jets to march with her against over consumption and social inequality .
it would be interesting to see greta’s tax returns . with all the gifts , donations and you tube money ( I’m guessing ) she must be a 1% by now . I don’t think she’s too worried about finding a job anyway …a recent Tony Heller video showed young teen activist Severin Suzuki impersonating greta in the 90’s addressing a UN environmental confab . according to wiki she’s now worth $23 million made from environmental activism .
For socialists it’s all about exploiting others’ people misery
Climate confused child: “Mommy mommy, I want to be a Climate Justice warrior when I grow up”.
Bad parent response: “That is great, honey, I’m so proud of you”.
Good parent response: “Shut up, and do your homework”.
Good parents never use words like “shut up” talking to their children.
Good parents never send their children to indocrinaing camps (“public schools”) so they don’t know the very word “homework”.
“white-savior narrative” You mean like Greta?
Time to roll coal.
This is an excellent opportunity to have parasites self-identify. Give them the Reagan Air Traffic Controllers treatment and don’t look back.
It is difficult to endure the ravages of Klimate Breakdown…
“The current system actively strives towards highlighting the voices of the most privileged through a racist and white-savior narrative…”
Excuse me, but isn’t that girl Greta the perfect embodiment of the “white-savior narrative”? Or are Swedes people of color now?
has greta ever participated in one practical hands on project to help anyone ? if she went to Haiti for instance she could do some real good there to help some downtrodden suffering people . it doesn’t take much personal sacrifice or altruism to be an internet hero .
“The climate crisis does not exist in a vacuum. Other socio-economic crises such as racism, sexism, ableism, class inequality, and more amplify the climate crisis and vice versa.”
Feminists made the same mistake. Instead of focusing on women’s issues, they got intersectional, taking on every conceivable progressive cause. Not only did this make them less effective — some would say completely useless and often counter productive — but the conflicts between these various causes has ripped feminism apart at the seams.
NON-WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE!
What a bunch of fruitcakes and oaded with nuts. Now linking other issues to try and strengthen their failing position.
So kinda a reverse Atlas Shrugged?
Ugh. Word salad for breakfast with lame comment dressing.
“MAPA”??? Is that Make America Poor Again?
I’m starting to think this has nothing do do with Science.
Now there’s some very deep irony, right there. Starting?
Well, more sarcasm. I’ve been saying this is almost all about pushing progressive policies since about 2004
I wasn’t disagreeing with you. I was merely questioning the word starting. It has had nothing to do with science from the very beginning. By 2004 the politics was so entrenched, the true believers haven’t bothered with anything even resembling science.
All of these ideologies have been held by a small fringe minority – the guardian reading vegan loonies. When climate change and the MSM gave them legitimacy and brought their views into the mainstream, it opened the floodgates on all the other views they hold.
We’re now being squeezed between two manufactured crises … “climate change” and covid. If one becomes ineffective, there is always the second. It will take some real focus to resist such pressure to conform.
Lucy to Charlie Brown: “Liberal scientist can prove that climate change is real”.
Charlie Brown to Lucy: “They can’t even tell the difference between boys and girls”.
What is “MAPA”? I must have missed it somewhere along the way.
May the Master of the Universe (or Mistress of the Universe) save us from the likes of Greta and the Woke folk.
Little Miss Thunberg is from Sweden, which according to most maps is part of the Global North. Why doesn’t she lead by example, and pitch in the first million?
Identifies as female. Check.
Is white. Check.
Is rich and entitled. Check.
Comes from a rich Northern country. Check.
Conclusion: She is her own sworn enemy.
I’m confused.
You disagree with this:
My own view is I don’t like such broad generalities so I prefer to say that the global South, is on average less developed, is on average poorer, and on average the voices from the global South don’t get heard as much as voices in the global North, but I don’t think your objection is the generality when you retort:
If so, what’s the problem?
You claim they are battling with the consequences of colonization but if they are not underdeveloped, poor or voiceless, there is no need for action.
You also claimed they are silenced but not voiceless. Sounds like a distinction without a difference.
Please try putting together a coherent summarization of the problem.
This will let companies know which employees aren’t needed.
Great title image, btw.
So love getting tuned-up by ingrates and literally ignorant young adults who don’t know the difference between local decadal and transient weather variability, and a global climate-change. Can there be anything more tedious and disappointing than the self-scaring presumptuous eco know-it-alls who know nothing? They’ve been told they’re geniuses, by earlier deluded manipulative fools, just like them. The meme machine is just cranking them out … as intended, by the baseless IPCC Climate-Calamity™ propaganda.
That crazy looking doll looks so much like Greta Thunberg the climate change wacko. With a little luck she’ll meet the same fate as Chucky.
Ahem. ERIC. Where you wrote “future burger flippers”. Surely you meant VEGIEburrger flippers?
As the Vietnamese B-girls told me: “Nebba happen, GI.” Steers also need work.
That whole thing could have been lifted from a Kelly Turnbull novel.
“It is not just a single issue, our different struggles and liberations are connected and tied to each other.”
“It’s an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us and penetrates us; it binds the galaxy together.”
Weld the doors shut behind them and shut off all water and food to them. Climate “problem” will cure itself quite quickly, then.
The climate crisis does not exist in a vacuum.
What? So if we just pump all the air out we can stop Global Warming(tm)!?
Please don’t disparage “burger flippers”. At least they work and contribute to the economy by providing me with burgers when I desire them. The professional grievance mongers provide nothing of economic value to the masses.