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Evola's Sunglasses's avatar

One positive I hope comes out of this U.S.A. Israel/ Iran war is that the British and European Right becomes far more anti GAE/Z0G.

Thanks for everything you do Morgoth.

The Fox's avatar

I agree entirely. The long period of conflating of European parties and interests with the GAE needs to end, and I fervently hope it will. The outing of Trump/MAGA as highly compromised Israeli assets is now just to obvious to obfuscate.

Evola's Sunglasses's avatar

Agree. The sooner European Civilisation starts to move away from GAE/Z0G the better.

I feel the Left are getting it, the Right less so.

Just finished reading Vassal State by Angus Hanton. Highly recommend it, about the Americanization of the British economy over the last decades.

The Fox's avatar

Yes, the European Left are far more astute in that respect, with the Right slow to grasp the reality of the GAE. Thank you for the book recommendation, I shall order a copy without delay!

Spiff's avatar

Politicians don’t care. Their narcissistic outlook is focused on blame. Someone else started the war. The most able adapt quickly to whatever happens. Shortages will be a godsend to them.

Rationing, digital IDs, and a population worked into a frenzy. If they get their act together quickly your neighbours will force you to play along. Similar to Covid.

Our apparent calm is avoidance. Our great sin is how we all look to a government we hate to solve our problems. I think that is why we are in the state we are in. No one wants to act locally. It all seems so hopeless. Demoralisation is real.

So I think the lack of action or concern reflects a deeper apathy that manifests as helplessness. That worries me more than the technocrats.

I think most learned absolutely nothing from Covid. When the digital IDs and rationing come many will embrace it with open arms.

Euterpe's avatar

I agree with you entirely that this doesn't appear to be getting the kind of response from government or profile in the media that it merits

One thing that I would add, from watching how the government is approaching this, is that the default policy reflex is still overwhelmingly financial rather than physical. But oil is not primarily a financial issue but about the hard physical limits to our system.

Most of what is being discussed in Whitehall implicitly assumes that the problem is going to be affordability, cost of living, volatility or fairness of distribution, not absolute availability. There is talk of fiddling with price caps, schemes to subsidise home heating oil, compensation schemes for the energy sector, market interventions and credit. But if hydrocarbon molecules simply do not arrive it doesn't solve the problem.

The government and public sector are less comfortable with the hard questions that then arise about logistics and prioritisation - which parts of the economy and which processes that consume oil and gas are allowed to run, and which are paused. Nobody really has a whole of system view or the expertise to say what the optimum approach to that question will be because we have been used to letting price signals do that for us. But in a country like the UK where price signals are distorted by the very high levels of government spending, legal obligation, and other regulatory incentives, who knows what will happen? One imagines a manager in the council running the "Local Resilience Forum" being suddenly asked to identify priority users of petrol and being told by Legal that there is an absolute duty to keep the Special Educational Needs taxis running even as pharmacies have to stop prescription deliveries.

Morgoth's avatar

Yes! I can imagine hard decisions being like a cardiac arrest in the British system.

AWP's avatar

A very necessary jolt.

Joel Pacheco's avatar

We need this kind of jolt. When the migrants are slashing people open for a small plastic bag of apples, the NPCs will get it--or they will die muttering things like, 'Wait! I'm on your side!'

A lot of good could come out this.

When life gives you lemons, make lemon aid.

Monty Fontaine's avatar

I wonder how the 'new Europeans' will behave in a rationing scenario? Will the normies finally see that they behave very different to us when they don't form orderly queues to receive their weekly handout of powdered milk? Perhaps there might be a good to come out of that.. won't hold my breath though considering they seem to have learned nothing from Covid.

Morgoth's avatar

Craziest of all is that it's deemed politically incorrect to bring the subject up.

Spiff's avatar

This is something I am interested in too. But the raped kids changed very little, so perhaps them not queueing won't be the gamechanger we'd hope for.

Terry Bell's avatar

Our own people didn't give a monkeys about anyone else when the shop-shelves were bare at the start of covid. So imagine how little the Africans are going to care about others considering these same people are famous for clearing out food banks without a shadow of doubt about whether they should share.

I'm saying that if the S hits the F, it won't be groups fighting, it'll be every man for himself, the high-trust society we used to live in is gone, it only exists among closely-knit people & really only when things are comfortable.

John Wood's avatar

If only the UK had reserves of fossil fuels close to home.

The Fox's avatar

Yes, like in shallow territorial waters, or something.

A Bloke's avatar

A traumatised people may suffer from a sense of a foreshortened future. People I meet seem emotionally numb these days. A form of repeated mental abuse has had an affect on everyone's plans for the future.

Matt C's avatar

It’s actually quite odd.

A couple of years ago, there was the slightest hint that there might be an issue with petrol.

Very quickly there were two hour queues at the pumps and fights breaking out on forecourts.

Now we have a 6wk kinetic war in the Middle East and a blockade of one of the world’s most critical shipping lanes and no one seems to care.

With regards to populism, I disagree that it’s over, the populist position was no more wars.

It’s quite obvious that Trump has been compromised.

He was doing OK until the Epstein files business and then all of a sudden he’s gone crazy.

Morgoth's avatar

I think the failure to contain the war-party will be seen as part and parcel of populist failure and the future will belong to banal technocrats like Mark Carney.

AWP's avatar

To paraphrase a rapper - i think it was Michael Frante - “Death is the silence, in this cycle of violence. Death is the silence.”

Plans are being hatched beneath the blandness of Starmer & the madness of Emperor Trump and his minyan of Zionist advisors.

Joel Pacheco's avatar

This coming shock, the brutal shock that many (including me) have been expecting for a long time, is upon us.

I know what I am about to say will alienate many, but, perhaps, this shock is what the West needs to wake up and truly understand how much mass immigration has actually undermined the foundations of Western countries and societies. Having the middle and upper-middle classes experience rampaging mobs of third world migrants taking away life support from them is what will shatter their money bubbles and illusions along with them--forever. Finally, they will understand that is has become us or them.

Maybe this coming shock is what we need?

Morgoth's avatar

And this could be on the streets in a few months. There is an accelerationist argument to be made here, but it is only logical for people who are very prepared to make.

That said, I notice that many ''preppers'' seem to yearn for it. But yes, it is possible this fractures society in many ways terminal for the system.

Joel Pacheco's avatar

I am not an accelerationist; I am a realist. I studied history in college, with a focus on military history and revolution, and I quickly came to the conclusion that it all comes down to supply chains.

Terry Bell's avatar

You are so right. I've worked in a huge Asda warehouse & most people would be shocked to know that there's basically 48 hours worth of food in the supply system.

Civilisation has been so comfortable for so long in Britain that I don't think the younger people that I know have any clue what it's like to go without.

I also agree that it wouldn't be a bad thing to toughen them up a bit. Might take their minds off pronouns and all that shite.

Joel Pacheco's avatar

Over twenty plus years ago, I worked at a large supermarket in America for a year as a frozen food manager. It was a real eye opener.

I watched a YouTube video where a guy rambled on about how supermarkets who lose power have only enough diesel in their backup generators to maintain their refrigeration for an hour--something like that.

NO BACKUP GENERATORS

The supermarket I worked in had only emergency lighting, and it was limited. There weren't any backup generators for frozen foods. Refrigeration drinks energy, probably second only to data centers. I was told that if the power ever went out longer than 30 minutes, bin everything in frozen food. So, forget about frozen pizzas, tater tots, fresh hamburger, steak, and chicken wings.

A third of the store was filled with perishables; bakery products like fresh bread and cookies, fruit and vegetables.

The store was also filled with giant bags of dog food, canned goods, cake mix, and even DVDs, but with the exception of the canned vegetables, peaches, and Spaghetti-Os, there really wasn't much one could loot in a crisis.

Also, with on time delivery, what you saw on the store shelves was it. The store rooms in the back of the store (which had been built in the early 1950s) were all empty and used as break rooms. Store inventories are very thin and replished nightly.

In other words, if rioters did loot the store, they wouldn't even get a day's worth of groceries. And in a real breakdown crisis, few, if any drivers would deliver fresh produce and Jello mix. The stores would be abanoned, at least in urban areas.

Civilization is on thin ice.

Terry Bell's avatar

Without trying to worry people what you've said must be accepted. Even the water system is dependant on electric pumping so, no power = no fresh water. Newer homes often don't have tanks so not even a few gallons to fall back on. For decades the infrastructure has been paired down to the minimum for "peak productivity" so exactly as you've said, any minor disturbance to the system is a real problem. For those with pets I think it's worth always having a few months of food put away because if fuel shortages arise, human food will be prioritised.

I remember us all chatting about stockpiling a bit a few years ago (covid time) & at the time I couldn't afford to but now I always have several months of cat food & tinned human food & a few plastic jerry cans of fresh water. It's ridiculous but I was the guy back then who was working every day & when I went to Tesco there was NO toilet paper, pasta or tins of beans. People panic buy & get very scarey when the TV tells them things are running out.

The Shit-Show is a possibility, I mean look at the bunch of Gonks running the country; I wouldn't trust them to run a bath.

Susanne C.'s avatar

Prepping seems so exhausting, even though I do think it is necessary. I bake and cook everything from scratch so loading up on yeast, baking powder, flour, sugar, etc. is relatively easy and stable, but the three adult men I cook for are heavy meat eaters and I’d need an industrial freezer to prepare adequately, filled with Australian lamb.

Going back to the simpler, more repetitive diet of our ancestors is inevitable.

It is very odd that so few are even remotely aware of the coming hard times. The short attention span is part of it, as is the loss of the ability to plan ahead, that was a really excellent point that you made early on. We have lost quite a bit of what it meant to be human to the internet.

Thank you for this. It is always a treat to listen to these.

And it is absolutely true that preppers can’t wait for a catastrophe. We had friends during the Y2K frenzy, engineers who really should’ve known better, who filled their enormous ranch house basement with several tractor trailer loads of wheat, corn, and oats as well as honey, oils, etc. They were absolutely devastated when the worst didn’t happen and they donated almost all of it in the end. It was a fun if expensive hobby while it lasted.

This seems like a much more likely and less publicized disaster.

Oswald longshanks's avatar

just a COVID re run, extreme austerity this time ,no free payouts, last time money spigots on full , this time the opposite , they are gonna squeeze everyones balls in a vice until you beg for help .

Morgoth's avatar

Thing is I’m not sure how the government should react.

AWP's avatar

Given the abject mess thats become of our present political system, i suspect that the managerial elites will do nothing. The covid project, with its beta-tested nudge-protocols, taught this system an awful lot about control. What’s to say that these oligarchic untouchables are going to change tact, and optimise chaos this time? Using the countless millions of fighting aged migrant men - brought in during the covid reset - as a fifth column, to initiate a toxic noblesse oblige. A ethno-plural group that can subsequently miscegenate a room-temperature I.Q. civilisation into its system of dominant control.

Morgoth's avatar

The problem is that that sort of instability puts the basic functioning and power of the system in jeopardy.

AWP's avatar

Yes.

The Irish situation seems far more of a delayed response to The Good Friday agreement of 25 years ago.

The Double Irish agreement, that let the yank corporations in, between the late 1980s and late 2010s did what Cromwell's Roundheads couldn't. Replacing a majority Catholic Ireland with a meaningless material dialectic, and Stormont. A final cog inTony Blair's political devolution project, that has since created assemblies-as-quangos, in Scotland, Wales & Ireland, thats made a mockery of representational governance.

Now, this Dark Lord policy is failing dramatically in a newly ethnos-driven Ireland, as Blair's Peace Commission reveals its impotency, violently, throughout the Middle East.

Give it up, Tone!

Gaddius's avatar

I feel like the “nothing ever happens” mindset is baked into the public consciousness now because of the nature of media consumption. Even if it’s something serious it’s treated as frivolous because no single source can be trusted to give you the straight dope consistently.

Then you have revisionism going on in real time about things that took place mere months or years ago, that are recorded no less! “The lockdowns were exaggerated” etc.

Things that would’ve caused a revolt or panic (from either or both sides) years ago, are just brushed off or tolerated now.

Seems like a double edged sword though. A lot of the psyops that previously worked are obsolete now because the public has rewired its own thinking through device usage habits and media curation. You’re not going to get someone excited about anything if they’re a Tim Pool or Candace Owens viewer that hears about the civil war coming next week (every week) or the alien assassins that abducted Charlie’s soul.

“Nothing ever happens” until people feel it in their personal life or pocketbooks.

Morgoth's avatar

That meme of the mayor from Jaws telling everyone everything is fine has been doing the rounds and it sums it all up perfectly.

AWP's avatar

Discomfort is an apex motivator.

Niall Roche's avatar

Hi Morgoth, thank you for what you do. You are constant source of calm and rationality during these turmoultous times.

Could I ask, what is the piece of music you used at the opening to this episode?

Morgoth's avatar

Thanks. The music is from ''Mishima'' by Philip Glass. I use a cover version to protect from copyright issues but you can find the whole thing on YouTube here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9rB33JnvyM

Ben Emlyn-Jones's avatar

Britain has all the resources we need in our own land. North Sea oil, gas, coal in South Wales, farmland, fisheries, factories etc. The problem is globalism has made every nation dependent on imports from every other. This is deliberate because it reduces sovereignty and makes us easier to control.

Joel Pacheco's avatar

I can't believe the UK is still pursuing Net Zero. These policies will only make the oil shock that much worse.

Ben Emlyn-Jones's avatar

It will indeed and I think that is deliberate. It's what the government want.

Jonathan Williams's avatar

The country still seems to be in a post-convid sleepwalk, still shell-shocked by the dreadful, destabilising years of 2020 & 2021. For many people I meet through work, just getting to the end of the day with themselves & loved ones intact is an achievement. Thinking a bit further ahead isn't on the menu, for most people. We have Ursula Von der Strangelove leading an EU whose sole raison d'etre is war with Russia and our puppets are in the vanguard, and a neo-Bolshevik nation-wrecker in charge of our 'energy policy', whilst what was our country is overrun by aliens. Our problems are crowding in now but, as TS Eliot wrote, 'Humankind cannot bear very much reality.'

Dan O'Connor's avatar

Trust the plan.

Only kidding

Terry Bell's avatar

It's good to hear your familiar voice. The sound of where I'm from, of my people. It's funny the things that matter after all. Hope you're well man. O

Oswald longshanks's avatar

in an ideal world they should offer some short term help with scrapping fuel tax for farmers and similar help , but this all lines up perfectly with agenda 2030, so I assume some level of chaos where they stand back and let it all go, them wait for people to protest(ask daddy for help). it's not in the elites interest to cushion any blows /shocks at this juncture ? to me it looks like that are going to just walk away from the spinning plates..

Morgoth's avatar

I was skeptical of the Irish protests at first, but it does seem like the government is screwing the people despite the shortages.

Why, for example, still have a carbon tax on fuel when there's a shortage of it?

AWP's avatar

Yes. My hopes are with Irealand, as well.

They’ve had it rough since the Double Irish Agreement, or (BEPS) let the yank corporations in, during late 1980s and late 2010s.

Blair and his public/private laced Good Friday Agreement - reached, in part, as an important cog in his “devolutionary” political program, was squarely aimed at doing what Cromwell’s Roundheads couldn’t. Completely undermining the majority Catholic state of Ireland. Now, that’s backfiring in a similar way to his Middle Eastern Board of Peace debacle.

When will The Dark Lord subsist from his rabidly misplaced universalism?