Utopia, you are standing in it!

Obscene is one way to describe the wind power debacle playing out in Britain; power prices are punitive, in calm weather power rationing is normal. And with a bitter winter looming, the worst is yet to come.

That untold £billions have already been squandered on subsidies directed to chaotically intermittent wind and solar is bad enough, but the level of audacity involved peaks when it’s understood that Britain’s taxpayers are forking out hundreds of £millions each year for wind power outfits to deliver absolutely nothing, at all.

The team from Jo Nova details the depth of the obscenity below.

Soviet electricity: UK faces blackouts, blistering costs and still has to pay wind farms £1b to do nothing
Jo Nova Blog
Jo Nova
12 November 2022

Imagine an energy system so broken that the government forced The People to buy generators that only work (randomly) 30% of the time and told…

The new Sight and Sound magazine “Greatest Films of All Time” list has gotten its once-a-decade updating.

It’s the list that first enshrined “Citizen Kane,” that later critics/voters replaced with “Vertigo,” and so on, down the decades since 1952.

And they picked a film that has long been held in esteem, a 1975 Belgian drama that runs for three hours and 20 minutes, with the pithy title “Jeanne Dielman 23 Quai de Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles.”

Say what now?

“An epic of experimental cinema” following a widow (Delphine Seyrig) through her daily routine of housekeeping, cooking and caring for her son. Oh, and she’s a Belgian prostitute, a sex worker “turning the occasional trick.”

It was on the last version of the S&S poll at #36, but magically jumped all the way to the top when the polling sample size was greatly increased, almost certainly to diversify the demographics of those…

‘Poor Rome, doomed to be masticated by those slow-moving jaws.’
(Augustus’s dying comment on his adoptive son and successor, Tiberius, quoted in Suetonius’s Life of Tiberius, section 21)

Tiberius Julius Caesar Augustus was the second Roman emperor. He succeeded his stepfather and adopted father, the first Roman emperor, Augustus, in 14 AD. Born in 42 BC, Tiberius reigned from 14 (i.e. aged 56) until 37 AD, 23 years in total, dying at the age of 78.

Roman texts were divided into short sections, sometimes called ‘chapters’ though most are less than a page long. Suetonius’s biography of the emperor Tiberius is 76 chapters long. Like all the emperors, you can divide his biography into two parts, before he was emperor, and his reign as emperor.

The central fact about Tiberius is that he was a grumpy, unsociable and reluctant emperor who began his reign with exaggerated respect for the…

From the Emperor’s Desk I: Hungarian Revolution of 1848 is very complex. What I have posted here is a basic retelling of the events and it’s relationship to Archduke Franz Joseph of Austria becoming both Emperor of Austria and Apostolic king of Hungary on December 2nd 1848.

The Hungarian Revolution of 1848 was was one of many European Revolutions of 1848 and it was closely linked to other revolutions of 1848 in the Habsburg areas. Although the revolution failed, it is one of the most significant events in Hungary’s modern history, forming the cornerstone of modern Hungarian national identity.

In April 1848, Hungary became the third country of Continental Europe (after France (1791), and Belgium (1831)) to enact laws about democratic parliamentary elections. It thereafter set up a representative type of parliaments which replaced the old feudal estate–based parliamentary system.

Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria (Apostolic King Ferdinand V…

The Big Calm that struck wind power-dependent Europe and the UK in the latter half of 2021, was dripping in irony. They were meant to ‘fix’ the weather and here it was demonstrating how magnificently pathetic they are at generating power as and when we need it.

Promoted by misanthropic doomsday peddlers, wind and solar are said to be the only solution to every errant weather event. The climate – simply an aggregation of measured weather events – is, we’re repeatedly told, under catastrophic threat from any human activity that generates carbon oxide gas. Ignoring naturally occurring carbon dioxide gas that is magnitudes greater than anything we create.

But all is not lost, provided we keep shovelling untold $billions into the pockets of crony capitalists profiting from the grand wind and solar scam.

Those endless seas of solar panels and fleets of whirling wonders are, apparently, all that’s needed to…

Dr. Lindzen – a long-time critic of IPCC-sponsored climate theories – argues, among other things, that ‘Changes in mean temperature are primarily due to changes in the tropic-to-pole difference, and not to changes in the greenhouse effect.’ Unfortunately decades at the forefront of climate research don’t count with some people unless you’re making the right alarmist noises.

H/T Climate Depot
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Dr. Richard Lindzen’s new paper: An Assessment of the Conventional Global Warming Narrative. – Published by the Global Warming Policy Foundation – September 22, 2022:

Climate change is “a quasi-religious movement predicated on an absurd ‘scientific’ narrative. The policies invoked on behalf of this movement have led to the US hobbling its energy system.” –

“The Earth’s climate has, indeed, undergone major variations, but these offer no evidence of a causal role for CO₂.”

“Unless we wake up to the absurdity of the motivating narrative, this…

Introduction

Queen Elizabeth II Opens CHOGM 2011 in Perth.

The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM, pronounced “Chog-m”) convened in Perth, Western Australia at the end of October. The Commonwealth Heads of Government discussed, among other issues, the Cameron government’s legislation to amend the Act of Settlement, 1700. Among other things, the Act establishes the rules that determine the succession to the Crown of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; Prime Minister Cameron wants to repeal male primogeniture through an amendment that would take into account the first-born child rather than the first-born son and repeal the penalty on marrying Catholics (or “Papists” as the current wording says!), which currently causes a royal to lose his or her place in the line of succession. However, these reforms would still maintain the established Church of England and the overall Protestant succession: the Sovereign, being the Head…

Succession in Australia

Anne Twomey, a Professor of Law at the University of Sydney, has written extensively on the Crown of Australia and other issues of government. I consider her the foremost expert on constitutionalism and Westminster parliamentarism in our sister Realm down under!

Most recently, Professor Twomey has written an op-ed to the Sydney Morning Herald which I regard as the direct Australian equivalent of the op-ed that Professor Lagassé and I just submitted to the Ottawa Citizen. In “Archaic and Sexist Law Overshadows Pending Arrival of New Royal,” Twomey explains why altering the laws of succession to the Crown of Australia also involves a constitutional amending procedure that requires the concurrence of the parliaments of the 6 Australian States and of federal Parliament of Australia:

In Australia, the issue is complicated by the federal system. It is most likely that the Federal Parliament does not…

Canada is yet another case that buries the lie that nuclear power is expensive. The only stand-alone generation source that does not generate carbon dioxide gas during the process, you’d think that the climate cult would be screaming from the rooftops to get nuclear power plants built as a matter of pressing urgency. But, not a bit of it.

No, their lack of temerity on that score reveals them to be nothing more than a delusional, human-hating cult that will never be taken seriously.

Unfortunately for Australians, plenty of their number occupy positions of power, not least those in charge of the Green/Labor Alliance, a group of lunatics who appear to be applying the same model used by Vlad Putin to deny his Ukrainian opponents of any form of power generation. In Vlad’s case, the destruction of his enemy’s power generation and distribution system makes for good wartime strategy.

In…