Monday, 28 February 2011

The three lies that prove the scam - by Richard... Monday, February 28, 2011

Booker on wind energy in The Daily Mail. "Why the £250bn wind power industry could be the greatest scam of our age - and here are the three 'lies' that prove it," runs the title.

"Only in Britain is our political class still so imprisoned in its infatuation with wind that it is prepared to court this dangerously misguided pipe dream", says Booker. Well worth the read. In the old days of steam journalism, this would have been one to cut out and keep.

Meanwhile, The Guardian is bitching about the Tories ditching a key element of their "green" policy – the green ISAs. Hailed by the child Osborn, he told his admirer in 2008 that: "Green ISAs will engage the public in a new way in the issues around climate change and show them very clearly the economic benefits of green investment."

This either makes the Tories hypocrites about as big as Charlie Boy, or suggests that they might be seeing the light. The former is more probable, reflecting the simple truth that greenery is costing them money we haven't got.

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This cannot continue - by Richard...

The Daily Mail tells us a story about an Englishman's home being his castle, or so the saying goes.

However, after squatters moved into John Hamilton-Brown's new £1million five bedroom home he has been forced to beg them to get out through his letterbox. Yet the group of foreigners who have taken possession, have been granted legal aid to fight an eviction order - while Hamilton-Brown has been forced to represent himself.

The father-of-two was having the property renovated for his wife and two young daughters before they moved in when a dozen people from France, Spain, Poland and England sneaked in during the night. The occupants are part of a growing army of squatters banding together and seeking out empty homes.

And now we come to the money quote. The group occupying Mr Hamilton Brown's home qualified for legal aid because they are EU citizens and unemployed.

Sometimes words are not enough. But for the moment, they are all we have got. We can only record, therefore, that this is what happens when you break down national barriers and lose control over making your own laws. If these people were not given legal aid, they could sue for compensation under EU law.

You will not get many saying this in the media, but it exemplifies why we must leave the EU. The other day, talking to the MP person as I was, I suggested that if this sort of thing continued (I gave different examples), we (generic – not necessarily EU Ref readers) would eventually start killing people.

He did not turn a hair. A few years back, I would have politely been shown the door. They know ... we know. This cannot continue.

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Reform of the BBC - by Richard... Sunday, February 27, 2011

Don't think about it – it has gone too far down the rotten road. It is beyond redemption. Just stop paying the BBC tax.

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A nation of people - by Richard...


Huge numbers of Britons would support an anti-immigration English nationalist party if it was not associated with violence and fascist imagery, according to the largest survey into identity and extremism conducted in the UK. This is according to a Populus poll, reported by The Observer.

It finds that 48 percent of respondents answered their questions in such a way as to allow their answers to be construed as demonstrating their willingness to consider supporting a new anti-immigration party committed to challenging Islamist extremism. That's not the sexiest way of putting it, but perhaps more accurate.

Similarly, the majority responded in the affirmative to an embedded question which asked whether they would support policies to make it statutory for all public buildings to fly the flag of St George or the union flag.

This, incidentally, is the Populus that has its founder Andrew Cooper taking leave of absence to become director of political strategy at 10 Downing Street working directly to the Prime Minister. Perhaps he might take the findings with him and lay them in front of his new boss – not that the Euroslime Dave would be able to take them on board.

However, whatever the detail of the findings, they do lend support too a suggestion that there is room for a true, mainstream nationalist party. That is perhaps where the true political divide lies. At the moment, all three main parties are tranzie-orientated, which means that the majority of the population are no longer politically represented.

This further suggests that the main political objective must be to recover and rehabilitate nationalism, projecting it as a force for good. It has been tainted by Nazism and Fascism and the tranzies have dined off the disorder ever since.

That, though, was state nationalism. I'm thinking we need people's nationalism – early days yet, but the germ of an idea is forming. A state run by a nation of people, not a nation of people run by a state. It is a question of who is in charge.

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No Greens in the Emerald State - by Richard...


The complications of the Irish voting system mean that the results are still not fully in, and the election count is not a lot more exciting that a synchronised paint drying contest. Only forget the synchronised bit - we're saving that for the burnings.

State of play, if you can call it that, is that Ireland's main opposition party Fine Gael, looks set to take the final seats, giving it a record 75 plus. That isn't enough for a majority in the 166-seat lower chamber, so it will have to do a deal with the Labour Party which is close to its all-time record of 33 seats.

The greatest joy is that the Greens have been totally stuffed, losing all their six seats. It's funny how it works that way. They do alright until they get a bit of power – then people realise how absolutely crap they are, and they never get another look in. That's what's happening in Germany.

Happily Fianna Fail was set for a record rout with just 14 seats and Sinn Fein, best known as the political wing of the now-dormant Irish Republican Army, is close to trebling its 2007 election result with 13 seats. Some 14 seats have gone to independents.

Whether any of this makes any difference at all remains to be seen, but at least we don't have to look at Cowen any more ... until he turns up again with a nice little earner, courtesy of the "colleagues". A napalm sandwich would be a better idea, but then these people never get what they deserve.

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Follow the money - by Richard...


Booker today focuses on one of those groups which have a huge interest in keeping the great global warming scare alive.

This is the re-insurance industry, which charges retail insurers for "catastrophe cover", paid for by all of us through our house insurance premiums, on the retail insurance market. And, as Booker says, no financial interest stands to make more from exaggerating the risks of climate change than this sector. In a process close to market rigging, if it can talk up the specific risks of weather events, then that justifies premium hikes which can be worth billions.

One of the biggest players in this scam has been Munich re, but most of them are in it up to their armpits in one way or another. But even if they weren't, nothing by climate risk prediction financed by the reinsurance industry can be trusted as it is a direct beneficiary from elevated perceptions of risk. The industry is bent and the links take you into some very dubious corners.

Anyhow, Booker has now shone a light into another very dubious corner, this one occupied by eight authors of a paper published by Nature on 17 February, which claims to show for the first time how man-made climate change greatly increases the risk of flood damage.

Among the of the paper are two of the most influential scientists at the heart of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Prof Peter Stott of the UK Met Office's Hadley Centre and Dr Myles Allen, head of Oxford’s Climate Dynamics Group. Two of their co-authors are from Risk Management Solutions (RMS), a California-based firm which is the world leader in advising the insurance industry on climate change, a company with interesting connections.

Booker has a very serious look at the paper, and the implications, which are worth careful study, as is the piece by Willis Eschenbach. But the bottom line, as always, is that if you want to know what is driving this scare, follow the money. The re-insurance industry is a major player, and with the billions that it has invested in rigging the results, it really should be totally unsurprising to leanwhere the trail leads.

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Irish general election - by Richard... Saturday, February 26, 2011

Polling for the Irish general election was yesterday, only you would be extremely hard put to pick that up from the terminally parochial British media, which has barely mentioned the campaign.

With 566 candidates contesting 165 seats, turnout is believed to relatively high, close to 70 percent against 62 percent in the 2007 election.

The main opposition party, Fine Gael, is expected to lead the next government but without an overall majority, according to an exit poll for state broadcaster RTE. Some 36.1 percent of respondents claimed to have given their first preference votes to this centre-right party, its best result since 1982, but below that needed for an outright victory.

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