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Jun 17, 2022Liked by epimetheus

Next week's news: "Gas rationing blamed on climate change."

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Hahaha, that made my day, thanks a lot, Tom!

(As an aside, we had that headline over here in Norway two weeks ago: high electricity prices were 'explained' by…the delayed spring melt of snow and ice. You couldn't make this up.)

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Jun 17, 2022Liked by epimetheus

Looking at my firewood supply, I can do nothing but shrug dismissively. The majority of leaders, both business, politics and various civil, have a embraced and endorsed this doomsday cult, and so has their customers, voters and devotees.

I don't want to speak with ms Thunberg (who has her own company up and running, the business-idea being getting paid for being Greta Thunberg and spouting talking points), I want to speak with the masses who keeps voting for a Merkel or whatever the snivelling wretch taking the reins from her is called, or a Macaron, or any other crony of the EU synarchy. I want to ask them:

"What did you expect, when you replaced knowledge and reason with faith and belief? What i you expect when you replaced experience and empiricism with rights and principles?"

Intentions and beliefs never ever trumps consequences.

It is like my paternal grandmother said about the EG way back: "Hitler is laughing in Hell. He won. They are trying to build Festung Europa."

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Re the firewood supply: exactly my thoughts. On of the reasons for buying a farm was--the woodlands that cover about 2/5 of the property.

Who pays for having G.T. speak? Is is the same 'people' who also pay Hillary Clinton?

Your grandmother's quip is well taken. It's also a Voldemort phenomenon among credentialised academics. Don't tell anyon that EUropan integration has its roots in pre-1945 developments. Or, as a (now retired) professor friend of mine uses to say: 'the EC was an association of the losers of 1940 [Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands, France] and 1945 [Germany, Italy]'.

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Jun 18, 2022·edited Jun 18, 2022

If you're a politician wanting to gain credence without knowing squat about the sciences involved in climate, and believing the "95% of scientists claim"-spiel not to mention the "the west consumes 6 planet's worth of resources per year"-fabrication, hiring ms Thunberg to give you some credibility-by-association in the hope that it will mean first-time voters will flock to you, you're definitevely in the taget audience.

Also, she is now legally an adult, and is no longer interested in letting her mother's svengali of a spin doctor friend run things for her.

And finally, it is a time-honoured tradition in Sweden to exploit gullible Gutmenschen employed in municipal administration, most often in the school and libray systems, to hire you for inflated sums to hold bland, ignorant and pointless speeches about whatever is the Zeitgeist-question.

You see, Covid coincided with peak Greta so she is most like a child-actor having outgrown their usefilness to the studio, now clamouring for staying in the spolight since she is useless as anything else.

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" Freezing for Freedom"

Lurved it!

Virtuous Europeans, take one for Earth!

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