Act of War

The mouth of hell, from the Hours of Catherine of Cleves, ~1440.

The mouth of hell, 27th September 2022.

Update: a suggestion is that methane hydrate forms as a solid plug in a methane pipeline where gas is present but not flowing (e.g. the Nordstream pipelines). If the pipe is depressurised at (only) one end to clear it

what generally happens is the hydrate plug will still melt at the plug/wall junction, but when it does, the pressurised side will launch the plug (five feet in diameter, and the same density as water ice) at almost 200 miles an hour down the pipe towards the depressurised side.

When this plug bullet hits a bend in the pipe — well, it doesn’t stop, nor does it change direction easily. It’s going to make a hole.

Thanks to The LawDog Files for this, which seems more plausible then any warry explanation.

Dirty Work, But Somebody's Got To Do It

 A "stay at home social media activist"? So this is who writes th'Twitters.

"Dr" Carol X Lunz 's own bio is a riot'o'larfs in a small room, but the stuck wedding ring is splendid. Many varieties of ape have evolved the capacity to use simple tools, the Lunzes apparently not. All "Dr" Carol can do is fling a GTFOH at anyone who asks if the sister is married because she is wearing a wedding ring.

Is this a parody account? I think it must be but I remain in hope that I'm wrong.

Do Squareheads Have a Sense of Humour?

September 2018 at the United Nations General Assembly. The Krauts are certainly enjoying a whisk of the Tickling Stick

June 2022 and Boche Economy Minister Habeck is pantomiming like there's no tomorrow. Of the bad economic consequences of current shortages. or of Russia turning off the tap altogether, he says

This is "the best breeding ground for populism, which is intended to undermine our liberal democracy from within," Habeck said, adding that Putin's plans must not be allowed to work out.

Any apparent anger or discontent on the part of the German people must be the effect of "populism" (booo!) propagated by the Putin (he's behind you!) and could not possibly be actual discontent or anger (oh no it isn't!) on the part of the German people at the comedians who govern them.

And of course the villain's (booo!) plans will be thwarted, it's just a matter of waiting for the Fairy Godmother to appear at the End.

A Well-Deserved Rest

Manifesting lunacy at a frenzied maximum for any length of time is a draining enterprise. That the Powers That Be have kept it going and steady for two years and more is testimony to an unparalleled Robustitude, Prevailance and lack of Sagacity: but all things have their term and faltering point.

For the next short while, then, we may expect a lull as cesspits are replenished and loins re-girded. And soon, forth into the fray with renewed Persistence!

Inside A Modern Government

A few lines from a Daily Sceptic article on the West's response to Ukraine...

While this strategy may work, I’ve yet to read a cogent defence of it.

In fact, the strategy could have a number of negative second-order effects – i.e., unintended consequences – that haven’t been properly thought through.

As several people have observed, the West’s response seems to have been slapped together on the fly amidst a storm of social media outrage, as opposed to being carefully devised after consideration of all possible eventualities.

...a more concise primer on the Art and Practice of Modern Government would be hard to find.

The quality and competence of the Modern Governor may be gauged from such as

whose interest was clearly not piqued by any notion of assessing Russian strengths, weaknesses, intentions and so forth in the run-up to the war, which had started the previous day.

The declaration that Alphabetti Sphagetti Rights are the crux of Western civilisation, as well as He/him's inability to get the letters right, is eerily reminiscent of the US embassy in Kabul's flying the rainbow flag a few days before the catastrophe in Afghanistan.

For myself, I have grown bone-weary of the Stupid and of their interminable vigour. I am old enough to remember when it was considered a shameful condition - what a fogey!

Momentum

                          For mine own good,
All causes shall give way: I am in blood
Stepp'd in so far that, should I wade no more,
Returning were as tedious as go o'er

 Macbeth III.4

There comes a point in any putsch where the number of people who cannot afford to see the Rule of Law ever restored begins to snowball, and it becomes a Movement.

Starting from Truddafi, whose unlawful implementation of the Emergencies Act amounts increasingly to treason, there are added the senior officers of the Ottawa police, the RCMP, the banks and financial institutions, and now the rank and file, committing criminal acts in increasing numbers. Criminal either directly or because the Emergency is patently not legitimate.

What is the Cause they embroil themselves in, for what Yawning Heights do they strike out? Nobody knows, not even the Amghar has any real clue: the banners, when and if the delivery man comes, will have sauve qui peut emblazoned on them.

Illustrated: Indigenous Rights activists clear Trumpite truckers from the Winter Palace, or whatever

Why Censorship is Necessary and Good

The Ministry of Defence yesterday published this chilling map which is totally chilling and warry, and utterly convincing.

Sinister internet trolls working for Vladimir Putin immediately faked up this fake map to spread distress and mental health.

The box about the arrows, top right, explains that they are Ground Movements, and only the tiny writing underneath gives the game away - "Warning: Ground movement indicators are for illustrative purposes only". But for this, the reader might have thought that the arrows represented some actual war plan or something, and weren't just the work of a bunch of retarded clowns.

This is why Mis- Dis- and Something Else That Begins With M- Information (MDM*) must be erased from the interwebs, and only entirely trustworthy Government and Corporate Sources allowed to post stuff online.

*MDM: a satisfyingly euphonious acronym which improves with repetition; encourages faux-scholarly quibbling about the referents of the different D- or M- gibberish definitions; sounds like a Class A drug or a venereal disease. Works a treat.

Easy Peasy Tyrannesey

 

All you have to do is say "time for a dictatorship" and... laws, constitutions, charters... all such inconveniences are gone like the dew of a Spring morning.

The repeated assertions that the convoys are seas of Swastika and Dixie flags; the racism😨 hatred😰 white supremacy😭 misogyny😲 the transphobia! Swelled and perhaps instigated by Russians (who will certainly have snow on their boots)!

Such piffle could only work with the Stupid (Lat: stupor): those who are unable to apprehend the world around them, either because they are flatly unwilling or because they are convinced of their own superior cunning; stupidity is always a voluntary state.

Whether the Stupid make a sufficient power base for Truddafi in Canada remains to be seen. In other times and places, for other homunculi, they often enough have done.

Warry

I want to thank NHS staff up and down the country for how they tirelessly worked on cancer throughout the pandemic.

But sadly we've seen I think around 50,000 fewer people diagnosed with cancer because of the pandemic, and we do need to go a lot further, a lot faster. We need a new national war on cancer.

That's why today on World Cancer Day. I'm launching a new call for evidence that will be part of a new 10-year plan on cancer about how we can do even better at prevention, how we can do much better in early diagnosis, and how we can make the very best use of cutting edge treatment.

So says Sajid Javid in February 2022. Entirely unrelated, of course, to what Dr Karol Sikora said about the lockdown in May 2020,

If this continues for six months, I suspect that in the years to come there will be at least 50,000 excess cancer deaths

"excess cancer deaths" being not the same as "fewer people diagnosed", "because of the lockdown" not the same as "because of the pandemic". These excess deaths being caused exactly by the NHS not tirelessly working on cancer.

A good robust Call For Evidence will certainly undo all this damage though, so no harm done, eh.

However awful the consequences of inept policy, the Establishment will simply shift the Talking Point away from the Actual Point and carry on as if nothing untoward has happened, as will indeed be the case once the new National War gets under way.

In the Soviet Union on Sea, the manifestation of failure is a failure of the policied-on, not of the policy, a transient untidiness in the raw material.

Trajectory

Ape, Boney, Adolf, a homosexual gimp and a Je Suis Charlie jackal. Presumably the last is to be seen as a sanctimonious scavenger.

The cartoon is from a piece in The Cosmopolitan Globalist about Russian all-out propaganda warfare. Everything on the site is worth reading, which cannot be said about many blogs, least of all my own.

Faster Than A Speeding Glacier

 

Pictured: a penny, of the type that may well drop at some point in this decade.

Longrider notes that Prof Pantsdown and his Magnificent Miscalculating Engine have come in for some criticism from MPs lately

Furious MPs today slammed No10 for its 'despicable' reliance on 'hysterical' Covid forecasts which have repeatedly driven the nation into living under economically-crippling curbs. 

In a heated Westminster Hall discussion about coronavirus, Conservative Bob Seely called the use of modelling a 'national scandal'. He argued the projections, peddled by SAGE, created a 'climate of manipulated fear'.

A mere two years to stumble into the megalithically obvious. Remarkable.

'This is not just the fault of the modellers but it's how their work was interpreted by public health officials, by the media and yes, by politicians and sadly by Government too.'

Yes indeed. And we have, no doubt, an episode or two of Moderate Breastbeating and an Exhibition of Registered Apologies to look forward to, before our corrupt, murderous, incompetent Betters get back to counting their remittances.

Everybody Panic Anyway And All The Time

Dr John Campbell, who has been making surveys of the pandemic since it began, has this Freedom of Information Revelation for us.

The numbers are from the ONS, Deaths from COVID-19 with no other underlying causes

As Dr Campbell notes, the total of Covid deaths in England and Wales with no co-morbidities involved, from the start to Q3 2021 (pretty much the whole bang shoot before Omicron), is 17,371.

The average age of all those dying from or with Covid in the UK in 2021 was 82.5 years, at or above the average life expectancy generally.

He also notes an estimate (at 10:41 on the original) from Prof Karol Sikora, that the lockdown will result in an extra 50,000 cancer deaths.

The Establishment's response to the ONS figures, published 16th December and only just noticed by Dr Campbell, has of course been as melodramatic and over-the-top as... the drifting of tumbleweed through a ghost town.

Illustration: tumbleweed drifting through a ghost town

But then the Establishment knew about this all along anyway I guess.

Consecutive and slow —

Full interview with Bob Moran on Odysee here, this excerpt starts at 31:56

if you lock people in their homes, if you shut down front line health care, if you introduce a situation where mental health goes through the roof, where you drive people to suicide, where you destroy their businesses, where you put them into extreme poverty, you make them homeless [...] it will kill people, it has killed people, it will go on killing people for the next ten, twenty years.

Now the Government itself commissioned a report into the effects of the first lockdown, which said around two hundred thousand people could die over the following ten years as a result [...] that was later revised up to five hundred thousand people

[...] what should have been a last resort has become a first response - it's absurd

The Establishment has been happily eroding the props of its own legitimacy for getting on two years now. It is an odd revolution being incubated here, one which offers no Utopian incentive at all, only a Fully Realised and Actual Incompetence founded on uncertain herding skills.

Cartoon from Bob Moran's website.

Monumentally Stupid

Scott Jennings, billed in Wikipedia as a "conservative commentator"😂, wailed in June last year that "removing Teddy Roosevelt's statue is the worst kind of pandering".

The statue (1939 - 2021) stood at the entrance to the American Museum of Natural History. Jennings goes on

When this national statue removal madness started, we were assured advocates were just after the Confederates. Why are we honoring traitors, they asked?

and explains that

Roosevelt was no Confederate. He was an American hero, a bold symbol of our nation's exceptionalism. He lived life to the fullest. He represents the best of us, not the worst.

The petard with which the hoisting is to be performed is already evident

I agree that Confederate statues shouldn't hold places of honor in America's government buildings, and was among the first Kentucky Republicans to call for the removal of Confederate President Jefferson Davis (a native to the Bluegrass State) from our state capitol -- something that finally happened in 2020.

The article conveys perfectly the plaintive bewilderment of the Energetic Narcissist Cretin who is the ubiquitous precursor of the Neuer Übermensch. He busily Signals his Virtue concerning the demolition of that which his Herd disapproves. It does not and cannot cross his mind that there might be any another Herd out there with an equally limited but slightly different mental apparatus, which will set about destroying different things. The slippery slope argument might one day occur to him, but there is no slope.

Poor Teddy,

he's not here to defend himself, so the weak-kneed politicians are more than happy to sacrifice him on the altar of wokeness

while Jennings' own combat with the shade of Jefferson Davis was presumably heroic.

And so of the more recently deposed statue of Edward Colston in Bristol

a Bristol councillor, Ray Sefia, said he could understand why the statue was targeted. “It’s like having a monument to Hitler,” he told the Bristol Post

which is akin to one standing in Antarctica saying "it's like Central Africa".