The UK Lockdown Files

Vast Right Wing Conspiracy Wuhan Flu 21 Comments

The release of more than 100,000 WhatsApp messages from the British government cabinet members is the most monumental crack in the dam of silence of any government to date. Those who choose to bury their heads in the sand, dismissing this as a “UK problem”, are beyond naive. The messages are very likely emblematic of what occurred in every government around the world that followed the cruel, non-fact based lockdown, mask, and vaccine policies.

Here are some key links to follow this breaking story:

Here are the words of Planet Normal listeners, whose messages were read aloud:

Political expediency always seemingly trumps transparency.  What Matt Hancock meant by his protective ring around care homes was really to say that the country was woefully unprepared but we are scrambling around, doing the best we can with limited resources, instead of frankly lying.  This was compounded by dogmatic drowning out of dissenting voices such as The Great Barrington Declaration. The government, therefore, deserves no slack whatsosever.  It imposed utterly draconian controls on the population, ruthlessly enforced by the police to the minutiae, whilst electing to ignore and denigrate respected epidemiologists.  Meanwhile, Hancock played his opt-out Joker card, pleading the love my life, a new relationship gambit.  Tawdry conduct.

Lockdown was comfortably the most spectacularly moronic Public Health policy enacted in recorded history.  A failure that could have been avoided by the basic safety net of a cost-benefit analysis.  Instead we had a government of scientifically illiterate cowards slavishly following popularity polls.  We have a political class composed of liars, charlatans, and dross united in utter and complete ineptitude.  And now we are paying the price:

  • Excess deaths due to the NHS turning itself into a single disease service are now costing far more life years than were ever supposedly saved.
  • Isn’t it typical of Conservatives/Labour that the Covid inquiry is already a very slow running joke.
  • Civil servants names have been blocked out.

The sad fact is our politicians and civil service mandarins are utterly third-rate trash.  We deserve better.

Y2Kyoto: Blunder Down Under

Climate Cult Y2Kyoto 23 Comments

Australian renewables;

Proponents of the renewables boast about how places like South Australia (SA) achieved near 100% renewable energy generation, often around the middle of the day, implying they could do it all the time. What they don’t say, because it spoils the narrative, is a lot more instructive. Look at the generation profile below of one such day. They had to keep the gas turbines on to provide inertia. These had to generate most of the load before dawn and at dusk because the wind wasn’t there. Battery provided very little. The balancing interconnectors to Victoria that allowed near 20% export or coal fired power to come in were important if not essential. Without the gas power and the Heywood line, SA would have been in real trouble.

Even on a “normal” day, the merit order in SA is akin to a switch. When the sun is out and the wind is blowing, the merit order is in negative pricing. When it’s not, prices go up, often around $400/MWh. That raises costs for the distribution companies which pass it on their customers.

It’s a long and detailed post, so do read it all.

Pay attention to this Newfoundland offshore oil case

Climate Cult Drill, Baby, Drill Insufferable Twits 19 Comments
Bay du Nord project artist conception. Equinor

Uncertainty about the regulation of downstream emissions was one of the things that ultimately killed the Energy East Pipeline project. This was one of the clearest cases of the federal Liberal government “moving the goalposts.” If legal ecowarriors Ecojustice are successful in this case, it could have profound implications for all oil production in Canada. That’s especially is we are to be “net zero” by any particular date.

Note in the story how the Bay du Nord offshore project was approved by CN-tower climber himself, Steven Guilbeault. The story notes how it was one of the hardest choices in his life. Interesting, how a Newfoundland offshore project could get approval from none other that Guilbeault, and yet the rest of the oil industry feels it has no hope with him. Would that have anything to do with Newfoundland’s consistent election results of nearly every seat going Liberal red for decades? And that this project will be enormously profitably for Newfoundland? Yet when it came to the $20 billion Teck Frontier oilsands project in Alberta, the company walked away because it didn’t feel it could get any regulatory confidence from the feds?

Reverse psychology

Juxtapose! Protected Class The Tolerant Left 13 Comments

No matter what you think about Scott Adams’ recent comments, he does highlight a disturbing trend regarding race relations in our culture. What SDA readers have known for a long time is that the criteria for determining hate speech tends to be, well, just a little bit subjective. Take, for instance, the Quebec government’s recent stand on non-French speaking immigrants.

To paraphrase Adams, the Quebec government is effectively proclaiming, “Stay the f*** away from us!”.

So where’s the outrage? All I hear is crickets.

Legault’s nationalist Coalition Avenir Quebec party was re-elected with a huge majority in October, partly on a platform of protecting French as the dominant language in the province of 8.7 million people. His speech to the legislature Wednesday laid out his priorities for his second term, including a plan to bar almost all economic immigrants who don’t speak French by 2026.

Temporarily Unexpected

It's Probably Nothing Shiny Pony The Libranos 18 Comments

20% of CIBC Mortgages Have Reached Their Trigger Rate;

Thanks to skyrocketing interest rates, one out of five Canadians who took out a mortgage with CIBC can no longer afford the interest portion of their loan.

In a footnote included in CIBC’s latest quarterly financial statements, 20% of the bank’s residential mortgage holders have reached their trigger rate, meaning that their monthly payment can no longer cover the interest portion of their loan. In other words, the bank is now increasing the amortization period on $52 billion worth of mortgages out of its $263 billion residential loan portfolio.

Other than that, all is well.

Saturday On Turtle Island

Turtle Island 17 Comments

Today In Islam:  This week in Jihad.  A Toronto workshop.

Biden’s America:  The Covid mandates.  Triggering trans activists.  Some migrants kill a bald eagle.  A drag queen at Yale Law School.  The deception and failure of Joe Biden.  Apparently riding horses is racist.  Modern psychology can’t help American men.

Woke Britain:  Mother defends drag show for babies.

The Chinese Colony Of Canada:  The CBC coverage.  Justin’s woke military.

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