Friday 9 December 2022

Gas Consumption Even Worse Yesterday.

 

Courtesy of GridWatch: Go look at their website


How did we do on the first really cold day nationwide?

Well, here's yesterday's energy chart. Solar is limited (as it always is in the UK in Winter) to a small contribution for a limited amount of time. Wind has reduced to about 10% of energy production and gas is up to 60% at the end of the day. Considering the number of offshore wind farms that blight the horizon and provide hazards to shipping off our coast, you'd think it would be more. But renewables.

Nuclear, the grey smudge at the bottom is helping. Coal (in black) started strong in the morning considering we only have a handful of stations left and contributed throughout the day. 

Interesting is the pink smudge in the evening. That's us supplying energy to France.

Don't forrget this is only electricity production. Direct burning of gas in boilers is not counted. This is Gridwatch's data, so this is electrical energy on the grid for the day.

That's a heck of a lot of very expensive gas....

Thursday 8 December 2022

How's Those Renewables Working Out This Winter?

 Here is the graph:

Courtesy of GridWatch: Go look at their website

See that big swath of Orange? All Day? That's gas fired generation plants. 

At the top of the graph is a sliver of black. Guess what? That's coal, baby!

See that little streak of Yellow that lasts about 4 hours? That's winter solar in the UK. Fucking Useless.

At least the Turquioise band representing wind is contributing something. But only about 15% of the daily total.

That's why our energy costs are so high. 

It started with Thatcher, but the governments after her did this. They made us hostage to world energy prices. They made us reliant in a big way on gas.

Way to go.

Tuesday 6 December 2022

Ngozi Fulani: Race Grifter?

Okay, the "Royal Racism Row" is raising more than just on hackle on the back of my neck. As someone who is not in any way racist (I take everyone as I find them) I hate it when someone uses racism as a tool. Either to line their own pockets, or to cause fake offence to gain a dominant position.

It now appears that Ngozi Fulani was actually called Marlene Headley and was born in London.

She changed her name and started a charity expressly for black women who are the victims of domestic violence. 

Now, alarm bells start a-ringing. Why would someone of Afro-Carribean heritage change their name to a more African-sounding one? Now I can understand the name change of Cassius Clay to Muhammed Ali when he converted to Islam. But an arbitrary name change to a more African-sounding one when your links are in the Carribean?

Sounds like a grift to me.

Along with being head of a charity supporting black women, it sounds like a measure to make her sound more "authentic".

So here we have a woman, born in London from Afro-Carribean parents, changes her name to a more African-Sounding one whilst running a charity for black women who suffer from domestic abuse.

A woman who then goes on to decry the deportation back to the Carribean of criminals, some of who are rapists. Exactly the sort of violent act perpetrated on the victims supported by her charity. Makes you wonder how the women she supports felt about that.

Now is her stance about race? Is it about Colour? Is it about domestic Violence? It sounds to me like she's kinda confused. Or is it self-promotion, boosting her profile and earning maybe a bit more money?

Is this cultural appropriation? Is it like a man just calling himself a woman? Is it like a trans woman demanding her rights usurp a biological woman's rights?

To me they are very similar. It's a grift, it's demanding attention, it's demanding respect where none is due. 

It's like someone wearing a medal at a remembrance service they didn't earn, wearing a uniform they don't deserve. it's pretending to be someone you aren't.

Maybe Lady Hussey recognised Ms Fulani was pretending to be something she wasn't.? Maybe after being  with the Queen all those years and meeting genuine people from Africa, she can spot a grifter, a pretender. And she called Ms Fulani out on her pretence.

Who knows the real reason for the row, but Lady Hussey doesn't deserve to be sacked.

I assume the exaggerated offence is just yet another plea for attention.... 

UPDATE

Ms Fulani is kicking off in the press, complaining about the "racist hate" she's been getting online. I think it's not racist love, it's just pointing out you are far from perfect and your attitude has lost an old lady her job. I hope you're happy.

 Also, I see online that even black people are far from happy with her. Especially those with African roots. It seems they don't appreciate someone coming along and pretending to be African when they are quite clearly not. Also there's a big issue with the African names she's chosen to use. The first name is female of a certain tribe and the surname is of another tribe. A bit of a faux pas if you actually know shit about Africa and their people.

Finally they are not happy with her dressing up in some approximation of African dress. 

It seems all a bit Walter Mitty. She's trying to live a life she hasn't lived. Interesting that in a predominantly white country, she's able to get away with it because people understandably don't know the details about life in Africa. But someone who is genuinely African can point out the holes in her assumed persona straight away. 

There's another big issue with her charity in that they only support Black African women. I'm not sure if it is true, but the word on the internet is they don't support mixed race women or African Asian women either. Is that racist?

£20 to the first white bloke that turns up on their doorstep identifying as a Black African woman demanding refuge. That should tear a gaping hole in their ideological reality.

FURTHER UPDATE: 

It seems like me, someone else hasn't felt at ease with Ms Fulani's actions and attitude. Someone has been moved to investigate her "Charity". There is a Twitter thread available here. It makes interesting reading. 

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1601735411860406274.html

Both disturbing but all too predictable.  I can smell a grifter a mile away, it's nothing to do with race. 

One does wonder if anyone benefitted from her charity other than her family. Charging the domestic abuse victims the charity is supposed to support for anything is a pretty shitty move given they are funded by taxpayer grants, etc.

It's interesting that their website is missing success stories of how the charity has helped particular victims of domestic abuse. So no direct evidence of support there. Most charities like to show how they've made a difference to people's lives. But this one seems to be a bit coy. The Support & Advocacy link seems to ask people to sign a petition for a law, but no evidence of any support or advocacy actually being given in case studies.

The link on training jumps to the same page as for advocacy and support. 

I'll just skip the other links on the page, because they ALL link to the same page for "Valerie's Law". 

No case studies, no examples of how the charity has actually made a difference. You get the feeling that the website and the charity are nothing more than a few videos put up on Social Media. Once you read the Twitter thread above, you get the inkling that it's worse than it looks.

On the Charity Commission website their mission statement is:

1. TO PROMOTE AND PROTECT THE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH AND RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF WOMEN AND FAMILIES AFFECTED BY DOMESTIC AND SEXUAL ABUSE (DSA), PRIMARILY AFRICAN HERITAGE WOMEN AND GIRLS, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY (I) PROVIDING A SAFE SPACE WHERE THOSE AFFECTED BY DOMESTIC AND SEXUAL ABUSE CAN MEET (II) PROVIDING COUNSELLING, SELF-HELP GROUPS AND SUPPORT FOR SUCH PEOPLE. (III) PROVIDING TRAINING IN HEALTHY RELATIONSHIPS. 2. TO ADVANCE EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY DELIVERING EDUCATIONAL TALKS AND WORKSHOPS ABOUT DOMESTIC AND SEXUAL ABUSE TO THE LOCAL COMMUNITY AND STATUTORY AND VOLUNTARY GROUPS.

Well, that seems a bit of a easy statement to make. Providing a safe space where victims can meet and talk. Counselling and self-help groups. Any registered/trained counsellors on the books? Ah, self-help groups: i.e. don't cost the charity any money.

Providing educational talks and workshops. Hmm, indoctrination of kids and workshops where apparently the participants have to pay to access. Hardly charitable. 

If this whole affair was a stick of rock, it would have the word "Grift" right through it.

Stop Being a Burden to Yourself and Society at Large. I Thought We'd Buried That Mindset Back in the Forties

I've blogged elsewhere about Canada's new push to kill off people that are a burden to society. Their new act regarding Medical Assistance In Dying (MAID) aims to widen the types of conditions that can legally be covered by MAID.

Now Canada aims to add mental illness and physical disability, which I assume includes depression to the ACT. 

Already we've had tales of patients going to Canadian doctors with relatively minor issues and then incredulously being asked if they wanted to end it all.

Paralympian Christine Gauthier has testified that she was given the option of assisted suicide when she asked for a stairlift.

Elsewhere, in the Netherlands a girl was allowed assisted suicide because she had severe depression.

This is what happens when assisted suicide is allowed. Yes, the heart-strings are tugged when it's initially debated: the most terminally ill and desperate individuals are put up front to argue the point that if they are in constant great pain, or have no quality of life, they should be allowed to die under their terms. 

To an extent, I agree with their plight. BUT (and it's a big but), once assisted suicide is established in law, it NEVER stops at the worst cases. There is ALWAYS mission creep. So, it evolves over time: if they are in pain, or have no quality of life, why can't I be allowed to die with my debilitating depression or mental illness?

Once the gates are open to essentially anyone to just top themselves with the help of state-supplied poisons, it then evolves into "wouldn't you like to stop being a burden to your relatives? To then wouldn't you like to stop being a burden to the state? To then eventually "Look I'm sorry, but the state has requested your "suicide", you have no choice in the matter as you have been deemed a net drain on state resources".

And that's the Rabbit hole Canada is half way down at the moment. Other countries that have legislated assisted suicide are at the top of the rabbit hole and have found the slope quite slippery.

In the UK, we don't have assisted suicide laws, but I've already blogged about the borderline illegal issuance of Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) forms during the pandemic for those deemed unworthy of treatment.

A UK Paralympian, Helen Raynesford was asked to sign a DNR form at a medical appointment. And she's just in a wheelchair with no life-limiting condition.

Normally the medical profession do it with more subtlety and don't outwardly ask you to sign the DNR, your GP just gets a memo to do it for people that fit certain criteria behind their backs. 

Or we just don't provide basic healthcare, like Ambulances to pick up people with life-limiting conditions for 16 hours, so they die before they have a chance of getting to hospital for treatment.

Now it's tinfoil hat time. This push to kill off the old, the infirm the mentally ill and the physically disabled is not a national or local phenomenon. It is global. Countries around the world have skirted round the issue, poking and prodding at it until the time is right to implement assisted suicide laws. And there is a push from outside politics to install such laws. Luckily, the majority of civilised countries have rejected the move to assisted suicide being on the books. 

And yes, I class any country that allows people to top themselves for no reason at all as uncivilised. Any civilised country would provide an environment for such people that would enhance and enrich their life and provide support. It certainly wouldn't just say "well, why don't you top yourself then?".

So why exactly is this a worldwide push? Well, it's that old Malthusian tune again. The one that started off with Mathus, then erupted violently it the thirties with eugenics (the pinnacle of which was the Nazis) and now we have the "environmental" lobby. It's all about population control.

Or to put it more succinctly, reduction of parts of the population you don't belong to. For instance, extinction rebellion are not just advocating we stop using oil. Because if we did do that, then overnight people would die because of those policies. Of course, the extinction rebellion people have no qualms about killing a few people off because they aren't in the group that would be culled. They are predominantly middle-class youngsters, the Tamaras and the Tarquins. 

They think they wouldn't be in the culling list, so they cheer on the policies that would result in the demise of the poor. Just like the Germans did in the Thirties and the Forties when they cheered on the persecution of the Jews and didn't lift a finger as they were led off to the gas chambers. 

Extinction rebellion are the same sort of thinkers: they believe themselves above others. They certainly think themselves above the law and continue to do criminal damage and cause obstruction and seem surprised and indignant when the law does actually deal with them. Those poor people, those consumers of energy, those untermensch, are they really worth saving? 

When World War Two was over and the excesses of the Nazi's eugenical polices was laid bare for all to see, we had Nuremburg. The trials quite rightly dealt with the worst perpetrators in the only way the world was prepared to countenance. They were hanged for their crimes against humanity. 

We also had medical policies that came out of the same period, with the same name. The Nuremburg code of 1947. It's increasingly clear that certain Pharmaceutical companies did not follow the code recently. 

The essence of the Nuremburg code is informed consent and rejection of unethical practices. But how are people supposed to exercise informed consent if the Pharma companies lie about their drugs? Just how dangerous is it to take an experimental drug created in emergency conditions? 

Certainly with the so-called "Vaccines" of the past couple of years, there has been very little information upon which to inform consent. 

Are the Vaccine makers in violation of the Nuremburg code? I tend to think so. Governments and companies that mandated the "vaccine" only followed the information provided by the Pharma companies. That the "vaccine" was safe, that it prevented spread of the virus and that it did less harm to those that took it than getting the actual virus itself.

We now know that was a lie. The "vaccine" had not been properly tested, that it didn't prevent transmission and spread, and that actually it wasn't as safe as it was purported to be. We are only now, two years later, finding out what the risks are and who is most at risk. We can now also do a personal risk assessment and decide for ourselves if the risk is worth it. 

However, Nuremburg also has something to say about coercion which is just another word for mandating. Could the Governments of the world argue they were only following advice from the Pharma companies? 

Surely Governments should have had the full information about the efficacy and risks associated with the "vaccine" available to them? Are we saying the Pharma companies lied to Governments? I mean, it's not like they would lie to Governments in order to be first to market and therefore maximise profits, would it?

With all the above, I do have to ask the questions:  

When exactly did it become a thing to help people to die that are only minimally affected by their medical condition? 

When did it become a thing for doctors to arbitrarily decide that some people deserved to be resuscitated and others not? 

When did become a thing to want to kill people off to help the planet? 

When did it become a thing to experiment on the majority of the population?

When did it become a thing to legally kill your fellow man (or woman, or child)?

When did life become so cheap?

UPDATE:

The More I think about this, the more I'm convinced that those in power across the World are in the thrall of various death cults. 

Extinction Rebellion I've already mentioned, with their push to freeze the poor to death.

I've previously mentioned the Muslim faith and their ideas around martyrdom.

But the Davos set seem dead set in seeing large numbers of ordinary citizens dead.

The WEF want us to stop eating healthy fresh food and eat processed bugs instead. That'll see off another few percent of the population that can't afford to eat.

The WHO are no longer concerned with World health and instead push dangerous, deadly ideologies. 

It's no wonder that all these various factions have some affinity with each other despite not having any obvious connection. The common denominator is the idea that life is cheap.



Monday 5 December 2022

I commend everyone to listen to this interview: Back from the front: a British volunteer in Ukraine

This is a fascinating interview with a chap that went to Ukraine to fight. It's interesting to note the skills the modern military are not given and their reliance on logistical support these days.

I did chuckle when he mentioned the Americans calling for air support, or the fact that hardly any of the volunteers brought basic kit like stoves with them. Not sure I like the idea of worm stew though. I'd have to starve. 

But a fascinating chat all the same.