There’s been a two-week gap since my previous opus, A Case Study In ‘Rewilding’; so here’s a pre-Christmas treat for you to get your teeth into before those Brussel sprouts. Yum! yum!
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THE FOUNDATION SCAM
Here, I am of course referring to the ‘climate crisis’. It’s foundational because if you buy into this, or even if you just silently accept it, then you help erect the ‘Tower of Bullshit’ that’s built upon it.
In this ‘tower’ you’ll find net zero, behavioural control, loss of personal freedoms, open borders, wealth transfer, anti-white racism, personal carbon allowances, and a host of other evils that George Orwell might have warned us about if he’d lived long enough to write a sequel to 1984.
The evils we see around us, the ways in which everything becomes more expensive, and our lives more miserable, can only be imposed if enough of us accept we need to make sacrifices to combat (they love that word!) their ‘climate crisis’.
Because if we buy into the climate scam then we’ll dutifully vote for uniparty politicians and parties controlled by those who dreamed up and now profit from the scam.
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STORM DARRAGH BLOWS AWAY THE COBWEBS (TOGETHER WITH THE SOLAR PANELS UNDER WHICH THE SPIDERS WERE HIDING)
Among the most obvious measures being promoted to fight the ‘climate crisis’ is renewable energy. This usually means wind turbines and solar panels.
A truly disastrous combo.
On the plus side, Wales sees a lot of wind. What we don’t get a lot of is sunshine. Which is why solar panels are an insult to our collective intelligence.
To begin with, solar ‘arrays’ take up a hell of a lot of space, often good agricultural land. Which then gets poisoned. Even the so-called ‘Welsh Government’ admitted as much in this report from March 2023.
The problems mentioned occur if the panels stay in place, but as we saw with Storm Darragh the other week, they don’t always stay in place. For the winds caused chaos at Porth Wen, near Cemaes, in the northern part of Ynys Môn.
It was soon reported in the Daily Mail, and the New Civil Engineer. But it was a full six days before the ‘National Newspaper of Wales’ got around to mentioning it.
The problem is of course that Ynys Môn sees a lot of wind. That wind often comes straight off the Atlantic. To make matters worse, the island is relatively flat, with no sheltering hills.
So you might think it’s a good place for wind turbines. Well, no.
For as the New Civil Engineer also reported, just nearby, at Llanbadrig, a wind turbine had its blades ripped off.
And yet, despite the obvious problems, there are plans for even bigger solar installations on Ynys Môn.
I heard of other incidents where solar installations broke up, and panel parts took wing. One incident involved Aberystwyth University’s £2.9m solar farm at Penglais.
An investment that’s inspired . . .
Four new degrees . . . International Relations and Climate Change, Biology and Climate Change, Business and Climate Change and English and Climate Change.
“English and Climate Change” must have a module, ‘Selling this crap to the plebs’.
For those unfamiliar with the area . . . Penglais is a hill above the town, perfect for catching the wind coming off Cardigan Bay. Though not so good for ground-mounted solar panels, which positively invite levitation.
Even if they reach the grand old age of 20, wind turbines and solar panels will never ‘repay’ the environmental damage they caused in being created and installed.
In addition, massive subsidies are demanded. And when there isn’t enough of our money on offer, developers go off in a huff. As was the case recently in Denmark.
Governments are then advised to come up with “healthier pricing” . . . by the wind industry. If it was up to me, I’d tell them to . . .
The Danish Government must now quickly . . . adapt their auction design to market realities. The industry needs healthier pricing and fairer risk allocation
Once installed, turbines and panels offer unreliable, intermittent supply – that has to be backed up by something more reliable; usually nuclear, or fossil fuels.
And as we’ve seen with Storm Darragh – which was nothing out of the ordinary – ‘renewables’ can’t cope with serious wind.
In fact, turbines have to be switched off in anything other than a strong breeze. And of course they produce nothing in windless conditions. Solar panels obviously generate nothing at night, or when there’s no sun, or if they’re covered in snow.
Which means that on those cold, overcast, windless winter days we experience so often, ‘renewables’ contribute bugger all to the grid.
So the idea that a country can rely 100% on ‘renewables’ is utterly insane. Yet this is what ‘Mad Monk’ Miliband is demanding. Though he’s being paid handsomely to push this bullshit by those who’ll benefit.
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BOLLOCKS IN THE WIND
If we’re talking of wind turbines, then we can’t ignore Bute Energy; maybe the biggest player in Wales, with many wind farms planned, plus solar installations, Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS), even its own power lines.
And of course, Bute is well connected with Labour in Wales, having created sinecures for party insiders. Then there’s the Danish connection, with Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners. Which matches funders with Bute projects.
A 25% stake in CIP is held by another Danish outfit, Vestas, and on the Vestas board is former Danish PM Helle Thorning-Schmidt. Alternatively known as Mrs Kinnock, for she’s the wife of Stephen Kinnock, MP for Aberavon, son of former Labour leader Neil, and the late Glenys, for many years a MEP.
(Talking of Vestas, here’s a very recent mishap with a new Vestas wind turbine in Scotland. And there have been others.)
Mrs Kinnock has her own company, Thorningschmidt Global Ltd, and she also sits on the board of the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship.
The address given for her company is Acre House, 11/15 William Road, London NW1 3ER. Other companies at that address appeared in the Paradise Papers. This is the UK end of Rontec Group (Jersey) Ltd, the empire of Sir Gerald Ronson OBE. For those old enough to remember, Ronson was one of ‘The Guinness Four’.
Mrs Kinnock’s also worked with the World Health Organisation and the Trilateral Commission.
I’ve made the point before that the principals involved in Bute came from property company Parabola. The holding company for the Bute empire is Windward Global Ltd. This is controlled by Oliver James Millican, son of Peter John Millican, chair of Parabola.
Is Bute just a front for Parabola? I ask, because one might need to be very generous to believe that four young executives, including the boss’s son, cut their ties with Parabola at the same time to take a leap into the unknown.
I just wrote “four young executives“, which may confuse some of you familiar with the principal players. For in addition to Millican Jr the other ex Parabola people prominent with Bute are usually Lawson Steele and Stuart George.
But there was a fourth departure from Parabola, Barry Woods. If you look at the list of related companies, you’ll see that Steele, George and Woods each had a ‘Windward’ company formed for them 31.05.2018.
Woods’ company was dissolved in September 2019 when, I assume, he broke with Bute.
If you go down that list you’ll see Windward JR Ltd. Those initials stand for John Reilly. He’s the Project Manager for Bute Energy, and a bit of a joker. For here he is quoted by NorthWalesLive in May 2023.
John Reilly, project manage . . . said: “As a nation we’re in a Climate Emergency, and a cost-of-living crisis.
The cost-of-living crisis is partly caused by Net Zero, forced on us to fight a non-existent ‘Climate Emergency’, yet Reilly tries to turn facts on their head. It’s too late for this bullshit, pal. Too many people now see through it.
The latest accounts for Windward JR, which became available to view earlier this month, show a remarkable upturn in fortunes.
A company that never had more than a few hundred quid in the kitty now has over a million. With the filed accounts offering no explanation for this windfall. So where might it have come from?
Answers on the usual postcard.
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A WOMAN OF SOME IMPORTANCE
In June ’23 I put out Taking Control, Of Everything, where I tried to explain how, through funding, appointments, and other means, the ‘Welsh Government’ seems to take over bodies that should be non-political.
In particular, I drew attention to recent changes at the Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) and the Football Association of Wales (FAW).
I mentioned Dr Carol Bell who, according to this bio from Chapter Zero (one of her many directorships), leads (the FAW’s) sustainability strategy“. Which, given how ‘sustainability’ operates in the wider world, will probably bankrupt Welsh soccer.
Since I wrote last year Dr Bell has taken up a number of new appointments.
In January she started Aileni Ltd, with crachach luminary Geraint Talfan Davies, and Geoffrey Hunt of Arup. In March, she became Treasurer of Glamorgan County Cricket Club. Then she got involved in three archaeological bodies. And on April 23 Dr Bell joined Bute’s Windward Energy Ltd.
She is a non-executive director of Norwegian Bonheur ASA. A non-executive director of Cyprus-based platinum and chrome mining company Tharisa. Dr Bell’s Tharisa bio mentions Hafren Scientific Ltd, another mining and drilling company, which for some reason isn’t mentioned in her Linkedin profile. Strange, seeing as she’s the chair.
Hafren Scientific has three outstanding loans with the Development Bank of Wales (DBW), of which Dr Bell was a director until a year ago.
The first DBW loan was made in December 2014. And in that very same month Dr Bell joined both Hafren Scientific and BlackRock Energy and Resources Income Trust Plc. (Though it appears she left BlackRock in March.)
I used to think that Dr Bell and others worked for the ‘Welsh Government’, pushing the Globalist agenda. Now I wonder if she works for a higher authority to ensure Welsh politicos follow orders.
And as we’ve seen, earlier this year, and within weeks of leaving(?) BlackRock, Dr Bell joined Anglo-Scottish investment company Bute Energy. Intriguing.
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FINAL THOUGHTS
John Reilly’s “Climate Emergency“, was concocted by very rich individuals and corporate entities wanting to exercise political and social control through uniparty political systems in Europe and North America.
Their strategy is to destabilise and weaken the West from within, thereby making the Globalist takeover easier. Using tactics like DEI, ESG, CRT, Net Zero, open borders, and a comprehensive rejection of Western traditions and values.
To promote this strategy Globalists have recruited environmentalists, Islamists, vegans, sexual deviants, and of course, the Quisling Left. For all the measures designed to weaken Western societies are promoted as ‘progressive’, with critics dismissed as ‘far right’, etc., etc.
Of course, politicians come and go, whereas other institutions and structures are more enduring, even self-perpetuating. Higher education and the civil service might come into this category.
Academe is obviously in the service of the Globalist agenda, and it’s long been rumoured that senior levels of the UK civil service have been ‘captured’. More than that, it’s said they – not the politicians – now make (or convey) major policies.
It can be seen in Wales. I’ve chronicled the assault on Welsh farming for a decade or more, and it’s usually led by civil servants sent down from London by Defra. Which is believed to have devised (or conveyed) the Starmer regime’s inheritance tax.
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CONCLUSION
Matters are coming to a head. The lunacies that have prevailed for too long are in retreat. We shall see major change in 2025. And it may not be bloodless.
The German government has effectively fallen, there will be elections in February. Already moves are afoot to stop the ‘populist’ AfD from winning. In France, De Gaulle’s Fifth Republic totters from one crisis to another, the country run by pygmies not fit to utter the great man’s name.
Across the West, Globalism and Cultural Marxism (Wokeism) are in retreat, and people realise the threat posed by Islam. Change is coming.
Here in the UK there’s talk of cancelling some of next year’s local council elections in England due to ‘reorganisation’. The truth is, Reform must be stopped.
As I write this, it’s rumoured Canadian PM Justin Trudeau will resign. Whether he does, or whether he clings on until next year’s elections, he’s finished.
Down in Argentina, President Milei has taken a chainsaw to bureaucracy and socialist corruption – and the country is thriving.
And finally, it’s just a month until Donald J Trump becomes the 47th president of the United States of America. And then things are really going to change.
I’m looking forward to 2025 so very, very much.
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© Royston Jones 2024
Nadolig Llawen a Blwyddyn Newydd Dda
The National Grid Group says that in 2023 “wind power contributed 29.4% of the UK’s total electricity generation”. Presumably you don’t agree with that. What’s the correct figure then, 0%? That is the impression I get from reading your article.
You say: “Even if they reach the grand old age of 20, wind turbines and solar panels will never ‘repay’ the environmental damage they caused in being created and installed.” Is that just an idea that you had, or is there any convincing evidence for it?
You appear not to believe in climate change, or to believe that it is not anthropogenic. But you make no attempt to justify either of those points of view.
I think the work you do is really important, especially the research you do which would never otherwise get done (or if it was done the results would never see the light of day). I agree with a lot of the conclusions you draw and positions you take. But there is a danger that you are devaluing your own work by overstatement, overgeneralisation and posturing.
I do agree that the true requirements for sustaining human civilisation, such as it is, on a planet undergoing climate change have never been presented to the public with honesty and candour. At the very least we are going to have to move around much less and make less mess. But it is getting increasingly hard to conceal the reality, as it unwinds. There is certainly no intention from our rulers to offer or allow a “just transition”. Since the turn of the century I have been convinced that our “civilisation” is not up to coping with this challenge, and that gets more obvious with every month.
No one disputes that wind and solar make a contribution. But equally, no sensible person disputes that that contribution is erratic and unreliable. That is dictated by the sources on which they rely.
I believe in climate change. I don’t accept that impoverishing us, restricting our movements, destroying livestock farming, and other measures, will do anything to influence the climate. That’s because the ‘climate emergency’ is being used for purposes that are unrelated to the climate.
Why do you say, “human civilisation, such as it is” and “civilisation” (in quotes)? Are you one of those who believes we should ‘knock it all down and start again’?
Very interesting and informative post again Jac. Have a well-earned break over the Christmas period to recharge the battery [powered by renewables!] ready for the new year.
Nadolig Llawen a Blwyddyn Newydd Dda i bawb.
Compliments of the Season to you and your family Jac. Apart from the usual Xmas fare, there is a hell of a lot to digest and, like you I await 2025 in great anticipation.
I can sense the tide is turning. You know they’re getting desperate when they are openly trying to interfere with or delay elections, or stop certain parties from standing – or even being heard. This is happening in Romania, Germany, France, and now England.
I was amused to see the four new courses offered at Aberystwyth.
Brought back memories of another degree course offered in response to the “energy crisis” of the 70s, this time at Swansea University.
Lasted for just three years, the few students who enrolled saw through the nonsense then being peddled. Repeat performance soon at Aber?
Good to see that the Kinnock family retains its socialist roots……
Come the Revolution, the Kinnocks will rush to the barricades – in a chauffeur-driven limo.
Thankyou for putting the whole spiders web of many years weaving together in this post with all leading to the big fat globalist spider in the middle. The model of indoctrination, censorship, demoralisation and destabilisation has always been the route in the ultimate totalitarian plan adding guilt and gaslighting into the mix results in a Mass formation of some just going along with what they are told to stay in the group. The last stage of any communist style plan is starvation so coming for the farmland and all assets to make people wholly reliable on the meagre crumbs that they will receive from the state for total compliance. The WEF motto was “You will have nothing and you will be happy”! The plan has become more and more obvious to so many that they have been desperately rushing to push it on so now corruption shown is off the scale. Amazing time to be alive and watch.
A very Merry Xmas wish.
I think you’ve put your finger on the difference between today and perceptions 10 or even five years ago. People can see that the assault on agriculture has nothing to do with saving the planet, and everything to do with a corporate land grab and control of the food supply.
Once that is realised, then other things make sense. Keep prodding and, eventually, the whole ‘climate disaster’ narrative starts falling apart. This, as I say, is the foundation for all the deprivation and impositions being suggested. Remove the ‘foundation’ and it all collapses.
Exactly
“You will have nothing and you will be happy”
That comes from a work of fiction doesn’t it?
No, the WEF is very real.
Of course they are and we choose to join. That quote though is from a work of fiction
Who’s ‘we’?
The U.K.
But the quote is from a work of fiction
Although, I don’t own my car, and don’t want to, and I’m happy
I suggest you need to reconsider that answer.
Do we, the public, choose to join? Which political party do we vote for if we wish to leave the WEF?
I’ve no idea, never considered it
This came from the WEF (unelected World Economic Forum)
“You’ll own nothing and you’ll be happy” actually originates from the WEF’s “8 predictions for the world in 2030 published in 2016 and it is still on the WEF Agenda blog.
The NESO Clean Power 2030 report (produced specifically for Miliband), and Future Energy Scenarios 2024 (how to reach 2050), are very clear that there is no intention to have only renewables
Clean Power 2030 includes nuclear and gas, while FES2024 includes more nuclear, gas with carbon capture as well as renewables such as tidal. It’s true that the majority of generation will come from wind, offshore wind, and there will be solar and onshore wind
Interestingly, after all the noise made about lifting the so called ban on onshore wind in England, only about 10% of turbines will be in England (which creates 80+% of the demand)
Its not true to say wind is backed up by nuclear, as nuclear can’t back up anything. It is very inflexible in operation, if you try to vary the output you reduce its life and make more waste, so you just let it run at the same rate all the time. Wind turbines are constrained to keep nuclear running. Nuclear needs flexibility, which the early ones got from pumped hydro and the later ones got from gas
There was an article in the Telegraph last month by Jonathan Leake that showed the future cost of managing our current stock of nuclear waste was about equal in value to all the electricity the nuclear stations had ever generated, so purely economically nuclear in the U.K. is a non starter. It was only revived by Blair because of net zero. No net zero = no nuclear (something Reform U.K. haven’t grasped). Except of course, we do need a nuclear supply chain to keep the subs going, but we could have that by just funding the navy a bit more
You and I are never going to agree on ‘renewables’, but I’m more relaxed now because I believe the tide has turned. Twenty or thirty years ago it was easy to talk of global warming and get almost everybody to agree that something must be done. With that ‘something’ invariably being wind turbines.
But now, with so many wind farms, solar arrays, UK consumers are paying more than consumers in any other country. What happened to the cheap electricity we were promised? And the jobs? So people start questioning the justification for renewables that only benefit the foreign corporations that own them.
And once they start to question renewables, then they move on to other aspects of the scam. Few believe that the inheritance tax changes for farmers has anything to do with raising revenue for the exchequer. And as the picture clears people realise what 20mph was really about. Everything starts falling into place.
And all these little things add up to a rejection of the Globalist agenda. Which is why I’m quite optimistic as we head into 2025.
But the 20 mph is wonderful! I’m convinced my journeys are quicker as junctions flow so much easier. It’s like being in Norway again
Maybe I’ve got a really good council who implemented it well
Maybe you’re just trying to be contrary.
Not at all. There is a fascinating piece of mathematical modelling that could probably explain my observations, but driving now is much, much better and you hardly ever have to wait at junctions, the traffic just keeps flowing
its a similar argument for not driving like crazy on the motorway which just results in endless stop/start and longer journeys
“Few believe that the inheritance tax changes for farmers has anything to do with raising revenue for the exchequer”
No one I know thinks it’s anything but! Who are these few and where are they?
What?
F it’s not to raise tax for the exchequer, what is it for?
To release farmland for investors and others.
What would they want it for?
Because they want to control the food supply. And Bill Gates has invested in insects and artificial ‘meat’. You’re beginning to sound deliberately obtuse.
Why?
In the 1960’s ICI invested in making artificial meat from North Sea gas. Many others tried similar things as the big concern was that the world couldn’t feed a growing population, so alternative protein sources were looked at (single cell proteins – first year chemical engineering, 1981)
ICI built a plant on Teeside to make it. They turned methane into methanol then fed that to fungi which was subsequently processed to form protein fibres which were formed into chunks. They even had a name for the product, Quorn
But the price of gas scuppered using that as a feedstock, so by the time Quorn hit the consumer market they had switched to glucose made from wheat, and ICI had offloaded it as non-core
Looking at insects as a human food is far less science fiction than the Quorn story. Such developments happen all the time as a natural part of a competitive consumer industry
I don’t dispute any of it. But the motivations of those today pushing artificial meat are different. They aren’t interested in feeding a growing population, instead they argue for reducing the population. And if you’re comfortable with eating bugs or ‘meat’ produced by ‘Dr’ Bill Gates, then that’s fine with me. But don’t expect me to eat it.
But that’s where we’re heading. The Globalists and the environmentalists, vegans and others they fund, talk openly of banning meat and dairy. Not because they’re concerned with our health, or with animal welfare, but because they want to destroy livestock farming. And they want to do that to release the land currently grazed by cattle and sheep.
That land will then be covered in trees, or solar farms, or whatever else politicians are giving out huge subsidies for. Subsidies they’ve been encouraged to give by those funded by the ultimate recipients. As a reward, there’ll be land put aside for rewilding.
You have a very vivid imagination, you should write a novel
It’s happening now. Where have you been?
Not in my world
“rejection of the Globalist agenda”
I still don’t understand what this might be
I’ve explained it often enough.
Not in a way that I understood
Watch this.
Few believe that the inheritance tax changes for farmers has anything to do with raising revenue for the exchequer.
I beg to differ. It will raise revenue as estates will be taxed. Whether it raises a significant amount is open to debate but given the eyewatering prices of land, livestock, and other assets like machinery the allowances will be used up pretty damn quick. The fly in the ointment is farm liquidity – I mean cash not milk. If inheritors can’t stump up the cash to settle there will be nothing stopping HMRC from taking over chunks of land as settlement of debts.
At that point it gets sinister because adjacent farms may not have the means to buy those plots so UK or Wales Gov could then assume permanent ownership and invite some goodlifer society or planet saving crew to take up tenancy on chicken feed rents. That would permit said dreamers to do their far from useful thing subsidised by benefits and grant aid drawn down from the array of madcap schemes a government of the day might float around the place. Doomsday scenario ? Not at all. It’s one of the many scenes likely to transpire as the country glides gently through the next stage of its decline.
Or take the land and lease it back
Who will they lease it to? The measures we see now go hand in hand with the plan to destroy livestock farming.
The same ones who’ve just been farming it, they are the ideal tenants
What measures are there to destroy livestock farming? There was Brexit, sure, but the fields are still full of cows and sheep, although that’s about as far as my knowledge of the industry goes
Are you seriously telling us that you are unaware of a widespread campaign to do away with livestock farming? Using the insane excuse that cow farts are destroying the planet. Because the true reasons cannot be stated.
Yes, I am totally unaware of a “widespread campaign”. There are no more ruminants on the planet now than before the American plains were cleared. I am aware some people are trying to find ways of reducing methane emissions (mainly burps), which if easily possible would be a good thing. But certainly not a widespread campaign to do away with livestock farming
Its just free market economics with feed additive companies dreaming up new things
If you really believe that methane emissions (cow burps) are a serious threat to the world, then you’ve fallen for the scam.
Any methane emission is a bad thing, hence all the effort to reduce it in gas wells, but it’s not something I ever worry about and wouldn’t change dietary habits for (rice paddies are far worse), but if someone wants to develop a slightly better way of raising cattle, and someone else wants to buy it, I’m not going to stop them
So you’d buy milk from cows fed ‘Dr’ Bill Gates’ Bovaer?
If that’s what Lidl sells then yes, assuming it’s been suitably tested and fit for animal consumption
No one gets worked up about the exotic chemicals in silage additives. Or feeding single cell proteins to pigs with their fish meal
Ignoring all his visits to Epstein’s child porn island, and just concentrating on his involvement with foodstuffs and medicines, do you trust Bill Gates?
I have very little interest in Bill Gates but he must put his money into loads of things. I have no reason to distrust him (or trust him for that matter)
3 nitro oxypropanol is derived from propanol/propionic acid (or probably synthesised from butanol) which can form naturally in silage (but not as much as lactic acid). I assume it’s just suppressing the activity of the methanogens in the digestive system. I suppose it might improve feed efficiency by stopping loss of carbohydrates
Ironic that it’s nitrated though! There must be a reason they done that
Far more benign than the glyphosate in all our grain crops
Stop showing off!
“Across the West, Globalism and Cultural Marxism (Wokeism) are in retreat, and people wake up to the threat of Islam. Change is coming”
To wake up and be aware is literally the definition of woke (“I was asleep, but now I’m woke” in African American vernacular)
so you Jac must be the Grand Wizard of Woke?
Just in case someone else is tempted, I have re-written that section. Hope you didn’t suffer from flying ‘renewables’ debris during the storm.