I usually use the “https://archive.is/” link to get through to the silly paywalled newspaper articles at the Daily Mail, but the site appears to have been hacked by Russians or Serbians or others of the Cyrillic persuasion.
Does anyone have an alternate that does the same thing?
If you’ve already read yesterday’s post (Never Mind The Waves) about switching offshore wind farm funding to oil and natgas, then read on. If you haven’t, read that first, then this one.
Here’s what happens when you elect a government which supports rabid eco-freaks by giving them control of the rudder. Here’s the background:
North Sea Giant Ready To Exploit UK’s Biggest Oil Field This Year
Sounds good, dunnit? And then the sting:
Britain’s largest oil field could be producing thousands of barrels a day by the autumn if Ed Miliband approves the North Sea project.
Well, that didn’t take long did it? Because Miliband is the all-time believer in the “Wind Is Going To Save Us” school of thought — in fact, he’s the fucking headmaster.
So, to sum up: Britishland is sitting close to a gigantic oil and gas field — bigger than anything they’ve ever had before, and larger than anything in the North Sea — and all that has to happen is for Rubber Band to wave the starter’s flag.
Which he isn’t going to do, even if pressure is applied to him by a core Socialist Labour Party constituency:
The powerful Unite union added its voice to the clarion calls demanding the Energy Secretary change tack in the wake of a price spiral triggered by Donald Trump‘s war on Iran.
General Secretary Sharon Graham, who has cut funding for Labour in a row over party policy, said he should not ‘let go of one rope before having hold of another’.
‘We all know that whatever happens the UK will still need for oil and gas for decades to come and the war in Iran is just the latest reminder that when we rely on overseas production our energy security is at the mercy of global events,’ she said. This comes as the Conservatives are set to force a vote in the Commons demanding an end to the ‘sheer lunacy’ of a ban to reduce prices at the pump.
And here it is:
But facing MPs today, Mr Miliband suggested it was unimportant where the UK got its gas.
‘Gas is bought and sold on the international market so whether it comes from the North Sea or imported it is charged at the same price,’ he said.
He went on to praise the amount of money raised by a renewable energy action earlier this year, saying technology like wind turbines and solar panels were ‘homegrown power that we can rely on’.
You have to marvel at the idiocy of a man who sticks to this insane policy, even when time and time again all his guff is proven to be demonstrably false — when the winds drop and the sun doesn’t shine, and areas of the country go dark and people shiver because there’s no power to provide them warmth, as happened just this past winter.
Miliband is quite literally going to bring the UK to its knees.
And at some point you have to ask yourself whether he’s doing it out of the ignorance of policy, or just out of spite. Either way, the result is going to be the same.
He doesn’t just need to be kicked out of government; he needs to be given a free ticket on Air Pinochet.
Ol’ VDH, bless his heart, tries to explain:
Why today’s immigrants to America are so hostile to their new country
Now you can go off and read what he says in 10,000 words, or you can accept my simpler explanation.
These motherfuckers are so hostile towards their new country because we allow them to be.
You can dress this up, posit all sorts of reasons and rationales, but there’s a simple truth: yesterday’s immigrants (e.g. me) came here to improve their lives; today’s immigrants came here to fleece our goodwill (Somalians) or actively try to destroy our country (the pro-Palestinians et al.), and they are able to do this because we let them, instead of kicking their asses straight out of the country using high-speed transportation systems.
It really is that simple.
Anytime a couple of anarchists blow themselves up, it’s a good day for the world:
The bodies of an anarchist couple were found beneath the rubble of a cottage on the outskirts of Rome after they blew themselves up while making a bomb.
Police believed Alessandro Mercogliano, 53, and 36-year-old Sara Ardizzone were plotting an attack against a police station and Leonardo, a defense contractor, which made parts for F-35 jets.
Traces of ammonium nitrate, a chemical used to make explosives, were found in the debris of the abandoned building beside an ancient Roman aqueduct on Friday.
Police said the pair were supporters of Alfredo Cospito, the jailed figurehead of a loosely-organized anarchist network called the Informal Anarchist Federation.
I must admit, though, I like the name: “Informal Anarchist”. I’m something of an “Informal Commie Killer”, myself — except I’m not going to actually do something like shoot a few Commies, oh no not me, no sirree.
Anyway, to return to the main point:
According to this rather lengthy video, Rolex is dropping hundreds of smaller Rolex “dealer” outlets and instead creating Rolex megastores in “prime” locations such as London (!!!) and Manhattan (!!!).
It would appear that the main reason behind this is that Rolex wants to protect their brand by limiting the number of outlets, dropping smaller stores (regardless of relationship longevity) so that they can control the whole “Rolex buying experience” and provide their customers with the proper treatment with fine ambience, better-trained staff and so on. Also, these larger stores can carry the extensive Rolex range that a smaller store couldn’t.
It all sounds well and good, except that the actual reason, it seems to me, is that during the sales spike caused largely by the Great Covid Panic of 2020, the people who really made money weren’t Rolex themselves but the profiteers who bought their watches and resold them on the “grey” market — and Rolex, like Ferrari, wants to keep as much of the market to themselves. (Same tactics, different product.)
Of course, there’s nothing wrong with what they’re doing. As long as there are people willing to pay the inflated prices of their products, then good luck to them.
My own personal take on the thing is that I’m indifferent because (regardless of any lottery winning) I would never be a Rolex sucker buyer in the same way as Ferrari would forever be outside my list of automotive choices (except maybe a Dino, although given the current price list of same… nah, never mind). Sorry, I’m no longer impressed by brand names, especially when the brand’s “value” is artificially pumped up by fools and suckers with more money than sense. And even more so when the brand operates in a commodity category like watches.
And finally, I happen to think that those big, blocky things like the Submariner are just… ugly. I’m not a scuba diver so I’ll never need one, and anyway, there are other watches just as good for half the price and a tenth of the Rolex attitude (once again, see: Ferrari dealers).
A pox on all their houses.
I said a long time ago that I am not interested in hearing anything said by Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens, and here’s a good reason to add Megyn Kelly to make a list of the Three Worst.
I’ve come to loathe the appellation of “influencer” because the problem with being one of these vacuous fools is that (if they’re collecting money for their opinions, as most are) whether they’re being contrary or else sycophantic, there’s always a motive for those opinions: the more outrageous, the more attention they get, the more cash flows their way.
Well, good for them. There’s nothing wrong with being a pimp after all, because all you’re doing is bringing a product to the attention of the market. Of course, I don’t have to buy the product, but some people are quite in thrall to said blandishments.
And as Scott Pinsker points out in the above linked article, other people — in this case, the liberal media — have an ulterior motive to pimp the pimps, because in this particular case Carlson, Owens and Kelly are pushing an agenda that happens to coincide with that of the liberal media — i.e. trying to split up the MAGA movement. Even though I don’t go along with this, I will at least acknowledge that it’s an acceptable tactic: a fractured enemy is always easier to defeat than a cohesive one.
The point is that I don’t trust the motives of these three foul influencers, because in the end, whatever they say is all about drawing attention to themselves and not necessarily coming from principle. In Carlson’s case, I’m fairly certain that someone else is actually deciding what it is that he has to say because from what I can gather, some of his sponsors look extremely dubious (in a bad way).
Whatever. Frankly, I think that if money is the issue — and Carlson seems to have that nailed down — Owens and Kelly should consider an OnlyFans presence because their opinions are fucking worthless.