Comments on: The Left: Lost, Found, Re-purposed, Finished

By: Don Cwicsieti

Don Cwicsieti — Fri, 02 Aug 2024 20:30:30 +0000

Unfortunately I cannot go to Pontypridd next week for the Eisteddfod Hwyl for personal reasons.
I love wandering around the main MAES and meeting people young and old. The stalls are generally of such quality.
Can anyone report back on a few things:-
Did you visit any stall run by Plaid Cymru? Was it pushing Renewable Energy and Bute Energy in particular. Did you challenge Plaid about Bute? Please report back to us via Jac.

By: Ioan Richard

Ioan Richard — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 22:13:47 +0000

In reply to Ioan Richard. I just checked GRIDWATCH UK at 11pm tonight Thursday 1st August 2024 in mid summer. GRIDWATCH shows on set times the sources of power in the UK Grid. It showed just 7% Wind Power and 2% Coal Power. Can anyone challenge or explain that?

By: Robert Morgan

Robert Morgan — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 22:13:03 +0000

Climate change is a cycle, the world has been here before

By: David Smith

David Smith — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 16:50:12 +0000

So English Labour have taken the axe to what little the Conservatives put in place towards investment in a practical alternative to car use, the Restoring Your Railway Fund. All the while the Taphydom Branch Office spouts slogans about saving the environment. They really are a duplicitous band of cunts aren’t they? Right from the top down, Knee-er Starmer and his smug-faced ginger tosser of a lieutenant.

By: Ioan Richard

Ioan Richard — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 13:54:00 +0000

Let’s get back to Bute Energy and the present silence as our country is going to be racked to landscape ruin to serve the electric demand of English cities.CPRW is a charity, Campaign for Protection of Rural Wales, set up many years ago to campaign to protect the rural landscape of Wales from intrusive developments such as today’s wind turbines. CPRW other than advocating the Celtic Sea as a generating wind zone is silent .
The Open Spaces Society OSS is a very well-known UK organisation, set up a very long time ago, to protect open-access heathlands and commons from enclosure and developments.
They have both recently been surprisingly fairly silent over the proposed enclosures and development of vast areas of Wales for so-called “green” energy schemes claimed to save the planet from climate change. Bute Energy is but one example.
In my opinion, they are basically ‘do-gooders’, not wishing to offend the ‘keen to be seen as green’ politicians who are madly propelling us towards unachievable zero carbon within a decade.
It is today a virtual ‘blasphemy’ to disagree with any form of renewable energy development. If anyone objects the ‘greens’ rudely call them ‘deniers’.
Here in my village we fought for 25 years to save Mynydd y Gwair Common in north Swansea from 300ft-high plus wind turbines – each with a service road made of rubble and fences and cable runs – it has devastated the area.
Their output here is just an average of 8MW or 8,000 old fashioned single-bar electric fires. They persistently claim it to be 32MW capacity (which is maximum in a persistent strong steady high wind force) – whereas often it is simply nil on calm days.
Y Bryn – between Neath and Maesteg – was once ravaged by coal mines and is soon to be swallowed up by a mass of wind turbines 820ft tall, to be developed by a wind developer that is part of the state owned nationalised power company of the foreign Irish republic government reaping huge UK subsidies creating erratic power.
It will be equivalent to ‘taxing’ us, the UK energy-consuming residents, by levies on our energy bills to subsidise the Irish republic state budget, and yet nobody much is complaining. Google Irish utility Electricity Supply Board (ESB).
This new UK state energy business, now proposed by Starmer and Miliband, Great British Energy, GBE, is nothing new.
The Irish already operate a state-owned wind turbine complex between my village and Ammanford on Betws Mountain, next to Mynydd y Gwair.
Nearly all wind turbines (and solar panels) are manufactured overseas in Denmark and Germany (solar panels in Spain and China – with child labour used in foreign lands to mine essential molybdenum).
Now, the most ultra-devastating proposal, is many, many hundreds of wind turbines each 820ft tall all the way down the spine of upland Wales – Google Bute Energy – with pylon lines taking out the erratic power to English cities – Google Bute Energy for one example.
Some of this major development is to be massively bankrolled as an investment by the Welsh local government workers pension fund. Let’s hope the bubble does not burst.
There already is a firm proposal to alter the UK National Grid to accept such erratic power from the remote hills of Wales.
Google and regularly check for free Gridwatch UK.
All this is to save us from exaggerated climate change in an insane rush to carbon zero when UK’s contribution to carbon is so globally minimal – and Wales’ contribution to global carbon is so small it cannot be calculated easily – especially after the last Port Talbot blast furnace imminently closes.
Go for a walk along the coast at Swansea and Gower to see submerged forest remains at low tides and raised beaches along the coastal path – proof of major changes in climate and sea levels throughout history – far more recent than geological times.
Tell your grandchildren the legends of Cantre’r Gwaelod, and its bells, and the tale of Seithenyn.
National Grid is also having a laugh at gullible us, the UK public, in saying that when the wind does not blow and the sun don’t shine (as every night) we can turn to our overseas friends to send us electric via massive undersea international connectors (that already exist in small versions). So, when we get a severe winter, when all of Europe is desperately trying generally to keep warm, we can ask France; Germany; The Republic of Ireland; Holland and Denmark to send us several Giga Watts of their own over stretched power, via undersea cables. Surely in a calm very cold freezing January night they will want all their own energy for themselves. We might as well beg Russia for some help from Siberian Solar Panels! Then there’s talk of costly storage batteries. How big will they be? They also glibly say nuclear, when the last practise needed is to play about ramping up and down our own existing stable nuclear fission reactors. Oh, I forgot the promised Solar Panels for the UK talked about siting them in an Algerian desert via undersea connection, but dash it, they are on a fairly similar longitude night time zone as the UK! Can anyone explain all this to the National Grid and our UK Energy Minister Ed Miliband MP and most members of our own Senedd? I think all these pseudo ‘greens’ have been partaking of loony lunar moonshine.The only moonshine I know that works comes in a proof bottle from a remote secret village in western Ireland.
What happens when the wind isn’t blowing and the sun isn’t shining?

By: Gruff Williams

Gruff Williams — Mon, 29 Jul 2024 16:45:51 +0000

In reply to Jac. Get a job!

By: David Robins

David Robins — Sat, 27 Jul 2024 13:29:39 +0000

Post-Soviet Russia has a military-industrial complex too. I’m told by someone who visited lately that factories are engaged in Stakhanovite efforts for the Motherland, turning out Kalashnikovs 24/7. More cynical Russians are viewing Putin’s military activities as a long-planned attempt at Keynesian reflation post-Covid. The consensus for stalemate in Ukraine suggests neither side would be happy to see sales dropping off any time soon.

By: Dafis

Dafis — Sat, 27 Jul 2024 13:04:33 +0000

In reply to David Robins. Sleeper cells are specifically for terror and similar covert operations. The "mainstream" insurgent activity is mostly run through religious channels and as religion permeates most aspects of life in those communities it works well at stirring mob responses like those we've seen over recent days.

By: Dafis

Dafis — Sat, 27 Jul 2024 12:59:22 +0000

In reply to Jac. RFK giving any kind of backing to Trump will suck a lot of breath out of the Democrat effort. He may, or may not, be up to much but his family name has a certain magic that latter day bums like the Clintons and even the Bush "dynasty" crave. Indeed the Bush crew have much to fear if Trump or anyone else lifts the lid on the JFK assassination.

By: Jac

Jac — Sat, 27 Jul 2024 12:42:13 +0000

In reply to David Robins.

We’re moving towards a world in which everything counts but ability, and when we get there everybody will suffer. Except those who’ve encouraged this descent into chaos. They’ll step in with the solution – them!