“I guess the cyclepath lobby are behind 15-minute cities. Cyclepath’s are the new Zil Lanes and the Cyclepath party will soon be afforded special access to Cyclepath party supermarkets, and bonus retreats outside of the limits of the cyclepath ringway around the Fulham Epsilon enclave.” Digger Tonefreqhz, Laments the rise of 15 Minute cities under the new Big Brother Mercantilist State.
I watched two Douglas Carswell interviews one with Brendon O’Neil and the other with Grace Blakely. O’neil is a Marxist Libertarian and Grace Blakely is Ash Sakars friend and both I think are into their fully automated luxury communism
Ash I know is “A Literal communist” Grace is for democratic socialism.
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Grace makes the case for socialism – and Corbyn – while a sceptical Douglas Carswell challenges her. But they find some surprising common ground.
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From the way they see Brexit to football, the elite both despise and distrust ordinary folk. What can we do about it? Watch Brendan O’Neill in conversation with Douglas Carswell.
Both in the Introduction to the book and from the interview with Carswell, sadly Grace seems enamored of the millenarian Climate Change doom.
An Hour and a quarter interview and the introduction to a book certainly show that Grace has a good grip on where the problems in our Society, Economy and politics lie. Talking about Net Zero in 2030 does though
point to a naivete, if not substantiated evidence of ignorance, of the Energy realities of the modern economy. At several points drawing on Marx and probably Gramsci Grace talks about Power as a form of Capital
I certainly think that this video would repay the watching for Grace and indeed Douglas.
Douglas Carswell introduced a private member’s Bill on “Fractional Reserve Banking back in September 2010, his has been an interesting journey, and his latest interview is with Pres. Trump’s Former Education Secretary, Betsy DeVos, sister Of Eric Prince ( From 2001 to 2010, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) awarded up to $600 million in classified contracts to Blackwater and its affiliates.[20]) it looks like Douglas is making something of a Christopher Hitchens of himself across the pond at the moment. Looking at Carswell, Baker and Farage and also Boris its interesting to see where two apparent reformers now seem to have ended up, post the ” Scandemic “, I do wonder how much of Stolen would be considered to be having gone to far or to have flown to close to the sun.
2014–present: Constellis Holdings[edit]
A merger between Triple Canopy and Academi, along with other companies that were part of the Constellis Group package, are now all gathered under the Constellis Holdings, Inc. umbrella.[6] The transaction brings together an array of security companies including Triple Canopy, Constellis Ltd., Strategic Social, Tidewater Global Services, National Strategic Protective Services, ACADEMI Training Center and International Development Solutions.[7]
In September 2016, Constellis was bought by Apollo
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/APO/holders?p=APO
DeVos grew up as a member of the Christian Reformed Church in North America.[30] She has been a member and elder of Mars Hill Bible Church in Grand Rapids.[31][32] Former Fuller Seminary president Richard Mouw, with whom DeVos served on a committee, said she is influenced by Dutch neo-Calvinist theologian Abraham Kuyper, a founding figure in Christian Democracy political ideology.[3]
Only a Pindaric poet can sing praises of Augustus
Anyone, Iullus,3 who strives to compete with Pindar relies on wings that have been waxed with Daedalus’ skill, and is destined to give his name to a glassy sea. Like a river rushing down a mountainside, swollen by rains above its normal
Pindarum quisquis studet aemulari,
Iulle, ceratis ope Daedalea
nititur pennis vitreo daturus
nomina ponto.
Collection of Posts in the BBC News Business blog of Robert Peston And Stephanie Flanders
- Banking Commission: retail banking must be ring-fenced07:21am on 12 Apr 2011Hi Robert,I thought it would be a good idea to read the report in full, thank you for posting the link, It is also a time-consuming but necessary job to read the other contributions of your other readers.
The commission’s recommendations whilst welcome in that the banks are being placed under scrutiny does fall short of a comprehensive analysis of the problem.
The tone of the report seems to be “What can we do to keep as close to business as usual” as opposed to ” There has been a catastrophic failure here what is structurally amiss”.Douglas Carswell tabled a private members bill in Parliament in September its second reading I think has been delayed I am trying to find out what happened to it. Mr Carswell I do feel is asking the right questions and would have been an excellent member for the Commission. Here is footage of his Bill being voted on under the ten minute rule.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMGr-OuXihgThere is a lot of reading to do here and so much going on elsewhere in the world and peoples daily lives and yet this is perhaps one of the most important issues of our time with profound effects on what all of our futures will bring. I can’t help but think that all those of you still living in the UK and who have an MP should ask them to speak with Mr Carswell and offer him some support. Mr Carswell the MP for Clacton is a Conservative ember of parliament, not my own stripe admittedly but it does seem to me that his question is important to democracy and to a fair and even playing field. The system as it currently stands does not represent that.
My view is that the present system is past its sell by date those running it would have forfeited their right to continue with the trust of the Government long before 2007 ( their continued arrogance since should be all the evidence anyone needs), there is a very big public service element of Fractional reserve Banking, it is licensed it is institutionalised, supposedly for the greater good. The bail outs are not serving the greater good and the Bankers have taken their privileged position granted to them when they were being useful for granted for to long.The price we are being asked to pay for a System that does have an alternative ( a Credit not Debt Based Money Supply system) Is far to high. Let them leave if they don’t like the Ratios, The Bank of England isn’t going anywhere and Neither are Llyods or RBS. Heres a populist suggestion Fully Nationalise Lloyds and RBS Merge them and put Alan Sugar in charge with a board of directors made up of Leaders from our Manufacturing and innovation sectors Like James Dyson.
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Banking Commission wants firewall around retail banking4:46pm on 10 Apr 2011Hi Robert, How about some background on this Private Members Bill, What’s this all about?
Douglas Carswell MP announced a bill that would end fractional reserve banking. It’s produced below in full (directly from Hansard), but I’ve added some explanatory comments in [brackets]. The bolding is mine. The bill passed to a second reading, which will be held on Friday 19th November 2010.
UK House of Commons Ten Minute Rule Motion; Financial Services (Deposits and Lending) Mr Douglas Carswell 15 September 2010, 13:33 BST
The other debate of note was the Steve Baker One
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Harold Wilson used to refer to the Money Power as the Gnomes of Zurich, Hot Money in the late 60´s and 1970´s was not nearly the Terror Wing of the Neo-Liberal “Queen TINA” Elites that it is now, even then Harold Wilson Knew to be wary of it. Dennis Healy Callaghan’s Chancellor got into bed with it. Starting the UKs Seduction by Thatcher in 1979 and her Bastard Son Blair in 1997.
The British People have found their Moses in the Reeds on the far banks of the River Thames. Mr Corbyn with his Brand of Social Democracy can lead the British People to the Promised Land but will require having the Conservative establishment on to side. This is necessary so that they to have political Skin in the Game and so they will Fend off, if not fully engage in a Fight, against the Money Power ( And dare I say, Their Magic Money Tree).
The City State of the City of London is a Fifth Column within Britain, Even our Queen Has to get Permission from the Lord Mayor of the City of London to Visit.
Clement Atlee in his 1945 post-WW2 Landslide was able to redeem the British Working Classes Rain Check from the Years of Depression and War, with the Reforming Parliament of 1945. Mr Corbyn must first do the Fight on Brexit with the Tories alongside and on board, as Atlee Did with Churchill.
It is still the same enemy and we are also fighting to liberate the same people and not just to protect our own Freedoms.Atlee actually Nationalised the Bank of England, after the war due to his 45 landslide, Corbyn will secure a similar landslide in two and a half years time post-Brexit. Corbyn can similarly reform the money Power, there are Conservatives, among them Peter Lilley, Bill Cash, and Steve Baker, who want this to happen too.
Mr Corbyn needs now to think Very Carefully about the Wise Words of Paulo Freire in Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Here I have put them in this meme, which I made when Owen Smith contested Mr. Corbyns Leadership for a second Time.
I am reminded of the writing of Caitlan Johnson and a blog I did some time ago
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conclusion that the MSM is a lie machine,MSM All In with Lies about everything
One thing that puzzles me is why when you draw the conclusion that the MSM is a lie machine, Which I agree with. Then why is it that Anthropogenic Global Warming due to the CO2 Hypothesis is somehow a Truth that the MSM is Consistently Telling? I can not reconcile that contradiction, I am curious how you do yourself.
Also, if genuinely Good things happen to be presented as Good by the Mass Media; then it will invariably be the case that they also are said to be Good for the wrong reasons.
Thus, the major output of the modern International Mass Media consists of only four categories:
1. Good presented as bad
2. Bad presented as Good
(That is to say simple inversion)
3. Good presented as Good for a bad reason
4. Bad presented as bad for a bad reason
(That is to say explanatory inversion)
Therefore those who want to free their minds from the Mass Media must first avoid as much Mass Media output as possible, and secondly develop automatic negativistic behaviour towards the Mass Media output which they cannot avoid”.
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Climate Change .AGW and all points from Activism to Skepticism. @Wiki_Ballot #GrubStreetJournal
Is a debt-riddled economic system capitalism?
I’ve read the data on this – not the variant local trend data often used by climate deniers – but the long term trend data and it is pretty damning. Furthermore, the notion that the elites are using climate change to shoehorn humanity into a new autocratic tyranny is, quite frankly, silly.
Not that John argues this point here – it is argued elsewhere. I also don’t believe this isn’t ‘capitalism’ as argued: it is finance capitalism, a post-industrial outgrowth of industry intensive, product driven capitalism. It is also one aspect of the hydra-headed crisis facing the elites. The amassing of contradictions in the system – admirably signposted in John’s article – is gaming the outcome, an outcome well beyond their own powers to limit and control. The threat of market contagion is real. Will they be able to head it off? No. What will emerge from the catastrophe? Look at history. You don’t have to be one of the Horsemen to answer that question.
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kieranteach, Is Climate Denialism Alt-Right ?
Is Skepticism per se also Alt-right?
Would you please reference the Long Term data which those not wishing to engage in wrong think should consult.
My regular source of Long Term Data is the Satellite record which Dr Roy Spencer publishes monthly
https://www.drroyspencer.com/
April 3rd, 2023
The Version 6 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for March 2023 was +0.20 deg. C departure from the 1991-2020 mean. This is up from the February 2023 anomaly of +0.08 deg. C.I saw Bill Mc Gibben preaching earlier in Twitter thatMarch was the 529th straight month hotter than the 20th century average. If you’re younger than 44, you’ve never seen a cooler-than-normal month
So for 44 years, the only way has been up?
If you look at the cyclical nature of the UAH data I think that Mc Gibbens’s position is Alt- ( fairyland) perhaps.
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NASA will spend about $ 52 billion to search for and destroy the Pioneer 10 probe, launched into space 50 years ago and carrying a message to intelligent life forms that was recognized as transphobic.
My own reading into Climate, Monetary History, Political Economy, and Hetrodoox Economics as well as a long career as a property developer has given me an interesting look at the picture from both sides of the fence. Intergral Analysis is a good way of looking at things from different perspectives #AQUAL, all quadrants all Levels, Bernard Leitaer did a paper on the integral analysis of money. What happens when our World view needs a piece of the jigsaw that another Quadrant has Righter than our own variable inserted for that bit of our own version of the big equation?
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The overwhelming feeling of running around in ever-increasing circles is all but overwhelming, as I listen to Douglas Carswell’s speech to the House of Commons, “Bogus Candy Floss Credit”, Ten Minute Rule Motion; Financial Services (Deposits and Lending) Mr Douglas Carswell 15 September 2010 Joint with Steve Baker
https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201011/cmbills/071/11071.i-i.html
and Steve Baker On Thursday 20th November 2014, for the first time in 170 years, UK parliament has debated the creation of money. Few people know that 97% of our money supply is created not by the government (or the central bank), but by commercial banks in the form of loans.
And Now we come to #GoingDirect, Grace mentions Blackrock in the Carswell interview, sadly the transcript on the video is not working properly so referencing different parts is a chore as it is not possible to easily reference points made, from Memory Grace was saying that Blackrock were effectively managing the state treasury and that this function should be performed by a cooperatively owned body and not by a global corporation, I think she was right in September 2019 and is still right today.
I guess the cyclepath lobby are behind 15-minute cities. Cyclepath’s are the new Zil Lanes and the Cyclepath party will soon be afforded special access to Cyclepath party supermarkets
and bonus retreats outside of the limits of the cyclepath ringway around the Fulham Epsilon enclave.
Two pieces of tarmac are sitting at a bar having a drink…
The Conquest of Dough,
The wise king said, “A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in vessels of silver” (Prov. xxv. 11). Hear the explanation of what he said:—The word maskiyoth, the Hebrew equivalent for “vessels,” denotes “filigree network”—i.e., things in which there are very small apertures, such as are frequently wrought by silversmiths. They are called in Hebrew maskiyyoth (lit. “transpicuous,” from the verb sakah, “he saw,” a root which occurs also in the Targum of Onkelos, Gen. xxvi. 8), because the eye penetrates through them. Thus Solomon meant to say, “just as apples of gold in silver filigree with small apertures, so is a word fitly spoken.”
Maimonides, A Guide for the Perplexed.
Introduction.
As the Low Hanging Fruit rots, the true believers and credulous continued to grasp at the unseen upper branches of the tree of myth and ideology: clutching further, and stretching longer, extending their reach by any means, even means unimaginable to anyone but the desperate and deluded. They knew that the Golden Apple, no one had ever seen, or, produced evidence of its existence was there, just beyond their furthest reach, Just out of sight of their keenest glance, so as the Low-Hung Fruit still rotted having ripened and yet not nourished those for whom only the Perfection of the Golden Fruit of pure ideological reified hubris would ever be enough. The obvious went ignored its goodness rejected in the pursuit of the impossible promises of soothsayers, priests, mountebanks, politicians and Fifth Avenue suits, and City Bankers, so many lies clothed in so many promises taking hope and optimism and producing a pathetic belief in the bounties of the Noble Lie.
And here we see the Autumn of a civil war where men women and children have perished, their death caused by what some in years to come will say was due to the Mythical invasion of the sea peoples. Which, Historical Turning of a 21st-century Ideologue would find its analog in Aleppo Syria to the Firestorms and Privations of the Bronze Age collapse in 1150 BC. And what do these two disparate events and the Low Hanging Fruit and the Apple of Gold wrapped in Filigree of silver have to do with our business here ? In our thoughts and investigations in these coming pages we will surely find out as we discover together, as we look at the scenes that play out before us. Together we will in our mind’s eye trace the steps of Ahmed Abdul Hittite the Bakers son of Aleppo who was sent abroad again to seek refuge for the secret of his Guild to be perpetuated in a Bond millennia Old and passed down from Father to Son. Along with the Secrets of the precious alchemy from which his family had sustained Egyptian Pharaohs through to the Palace in Damascus of President Assad and Sultans, Pashas, and great Kings and Queens of yore in the Cradle of civilisation, Damascus even before Abraham had Spoken of Gods word Already ancient when Jesus Christ Was a Boy and Older Still when the prophet Mohammed Received the Holy Quran. For Abdul’s mission and the secret recipe was the secret of Dough, the Sacred Dough of Aleppo from which all Leavened Bread had been exported as an Idea and a Method, yet only the Hittite Sour Dough of the Hittite Bakery of Aleppo was the true source and substance of the Greatest most sacred and honored Starter, the eminence, and fountainhead of The Bakers Craft, tied to antiquity and bound to the most Trusted and to a Brotherhood of world Wide civilisation. Where there was Trade there was Counting to be done and accounts to be settled, where merchants would Seal their Bargains with the breaking of Bread and the Dipping of Bread in Salt and where the secrets of the alchemies of Commerce were held deepest and closest. The Hittite bread would serve to mark, The Conquest of Dough, Where all could bake and break bread hewn from the earth of Mother Nature’s bounty, the true source of the wealth of man in nature.
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This is a very important distinction Grace. As is the difference between Free Trade v Free markets. Carey v Ricardo and Malthus
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