indeed. the hard part is that the second best trick is convincing people that these shadowy agencies are somehow omnipotent and skillful and cunningly execute well concieved, effective long term plans instead of the haphazard absurdities that tend to actually emerge.
if i wanted you to fear me, i'd convince you i was plotting against you in all manner of long term fashions that loosely coincide with natural social processes then let your selection bias make me look effective as you sought out reasons to see me lurking behind ever setback.
it's a hard hall of mirrors to sort out once you're in it. this is part of what makes it work (or seem to work) and blurs the difference between the two.
I learned early on that the best defense is to ignore the multiple fear fires being lit and attack the premise and its promoters. With global warming never argue and try to counter their claims with facts. That's exactly what they want, for you to use all your efforts to prove their lies are lies, and while you're doing that they light three more fun-fact fires, and so on. MUCH better to go after who they really are and what the purpose and agenda behind their lies is. It's the equivalent of pulling back the curtain to expose Oz. Changes the whole game and gives you control over the ball.
Like: if what "you" say is true, why did you fly to Davos in a private jet? Or is it about every resource for US and 15 minute cities and bug burgers for you.
And if Michael Bloomberg cares so much about "climate change," why does he have three helicopters, six planes, 11 houses, and 42 cars? And he thinks you should use public transportation to save the environment.
They also prey on people's natural tendency to make sense of "patterns".
Human nature is always looking to make the complex manageable. So they collect "evidence" to determine that which fits their simplistic conclusions, settling around their eyes like distorted spectacles.
The expertocrats know this and that's why they use non-random samples, pretending theyre random.
We used to have a term "Magic Hands" for researchers who's data just looked too good. Either too random or not random enough. This was because the data had been "massaged". Using valid statistical methods, I could make the Great Depression look like the Roaring Twenties, or a Monder Minimum a Monder Maximum. You know the saying: Lies, damn lies, and statistics.
NASA has been gradually cooling the past observations, just a tiny bit each year. If you look at the graph published in, say, 1975, and compare it to the current data up to 1975, you see the same peaks and valleys, but the older version is rotated a bit, with the left (older) end being moved down while the present (whatever that is at any given time) remains stationary.
They also have a problem with the locations of many of the thermometers used to record the data. If you grab the coordinates of any given thermometer and look on Google satellite view, you often see that they are on or immediately adjacent to airport aprons (often called "tarmac" in the US, even though Tarmac is a British brand of asphalt, not an airport feature), which makes them hotter than the ambient temperature. Asphalt absorbs a lot of heat from the sun, and radiates it onto all nearby objects. The rules for siting the thermometer enclosures state that they are supposed to be a certain distance from asphalt or concrete structures, but you will find that many of them are right on top of them.
That absorption of solar energy is also why there is a heat island effect in cities, which also makes the localized temperature around many of the thermometers warmer. It doesn't mean the global temperatures are higher... just that many of the thermometers are increasingly in heat islands. They were sited years ago, before there was a concerted effort to massage the data to support their agenda, so they probably were appropriately located at that point, and simply never relocated as the city grew up around them. So now it shows an increase in heat that is interpreted as global, when it is clearly very localized.
I agree with you, but even more so. I believe the entire data set has been tainted. They are now trying to purge the original data and replace it with the "normalized" data. By normalized, I mean massaged, i.e. statistically manipulated to get the result you want. I don't trust any data presented after 1995.
The "Pastafarians" make fun of this with their assertion that since the global temperature has increased while the number of pirates has decreased, it means that pirates prevent global warming, making pirates into revered figures in their "religion." (For those that don't know, the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is a satirical faux church.)
just finished a booklet from 1971, no one dare call it a conspiracy. People have known for quite some time what is going on. But the masses don't care. Long as they got football and hamburgers, who cares?
It's almost as if the NY Times reads Bad Kitty and decided to shape the narrative with the manipulators as heroes and those of us revealing the lies and the lying liars who tell them as the dangerous villains:
The Weatherman Who Tried to Bring Climate Science to a Red State
Within the story you'll find the "hero" TV weather propagandist who was chased off by "climate denier" deplorables and bitter clingers in flyover country was hired away by Woods Hole Group as a "scientist" in climate and risk communications, based in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, not far from the Woods Hole ferry to Martha's Vineyard (where they don't want the ugly wind farms they want in flyover country to spoil their pristine views). So I decided to follow the money, the most reliable path to truth.
"Woods Hole Group is a company that provides science-based solutions for environmental, climate, fisheries, energy, and maritime issues. It operates in the USA and worldwide, and offers innovation, testimonies, and news on its website."
Started as an operation of Horizon Marine Inc in 1982. Still connected to Woods Hole Group as a subsidiary of CLS. But check out the clients. Global Big Oil! Supposedly the industry destroying the climate, all the oil exploration, drilling and industry services that support those bad, bad, "fossil fuels." This smells foul to a fox. How about to a kitten?:
IFREMER (Institut Français de Recherche pour l’Exploitation de la Mer), a deep sea exploration company, best known for finding the RMS Titanic in 1985 and the Titan submersible in 2023:
I've not quite had the time to make much out of this, to speculate on what pattern these pieces of the puzzle make. But I have enough to know from this story alone (ignoring all of the other evidence out there for a moment) that the Climate Hoax is just that, a hoax, that has nothing to do with climate and much to do with military industrial, the accused villain of a looming climate catastrophe, Big Oil, itself, and massive profits for the world banking elite.
So thank you NYT for further proving the point Bad Kitty and us dangerous climate hoax deniers are making in your pathetic attempt to control the narrative!
They are not even trying. I was told by a Brit a few days ago that they were pummeled by storied how this May was the hottest on record, when in fact it was unseasonably cold and rainy. They are betting YOU believing it's a heat wave while you are standing in the rain, shivering. Gaslighting, wall to wall.
I think, tho, more people are waking up. I see it in my personal life. People who I know who would NEVER doubt what they're told on Channel 6 (pick one) going WTF.
I think of the Wizard of Oz, who after all his efforts, had never counted on a Dorothy showing up and pulling back the curtain.
Much like Hunter’s Laptop, the most unforeseen and unintended consequences they could never have imagined.
It has tangled them up in so much tap dancing and damage control efforts it’s been quite the show. I can’t help but think how much they must hate the guy for it.
Back in my early conspiracy days, I had this problem as well. You see the plotting, yet they also do a lot of stupid shit, yet also somehow end up winning all the time.
I think it comes down mostly to 2 different things:
1. There isn't a single conspiracy group running everything; if there was, it would be so well done we wouldn't know it existed and probably wouldn't care because it wouldn't seem Demonic-Evil. Instead, it's a bunch of factions with agendas that sometimes coincide and sometimes conflict. So what seems like stupid shit is actually just different factions cock-blocking each other (except when it actually is just them doing stupid shit; it happens to the best of us.)
Thinking there is just 1 conspiracy leads to similar results to an alien trying to analyze an NFL season as if there was only one team: "OMG these humans are stupid, sometimes they run the ball one way, then they run it another! Sometimes they throw this ball to someone, and sometimes a different person seems as if they are stealing the ball! They are obviously retarded!"
2. OODA Loop. The factions in charge fuck up a lot, but they are the only ones that can complete the OODA loop. Those of us in the opposition can 'observe' and 'orient', but we have no ability to 'decide' or 'act.' We just sit on the sidelines observing and commenting about how stupid our enemies are. Meanwhile, they decide and act, which with no competing team running an OODA loop, means that inevitably one of the enemy factions wins. Kind of like Lee vs. McClellan: No matter how much smaller your army is than the other guy, if the other guy just sits there and doesn't do anything, you'll run circles around him and make him look like a fool.
Which suggests that if we ever did get a faction capable of action we could run circles around our idiot enemies.
The greatest trick the psyop ever played is convincing people they gonna go to hell if they [insert normal human action here]. The playbooks were all written a very long time ago. The latest ones just crib from the masters.
Ryan, I think there may be a 3rd group: the clowns, flying monkeys & otherwise useful idiots who think if they tow the line, participate in the scam & otherwise abuse people - they will also be sitting at the “cool kids table”. Hahahahaha!
This is exactly the phenomenon created with the hysterical "covid" will kill us all shortly if we don't mask/ hide/obey rules. If critical thinking is something an individual has no intention of activating - they are fodder for the playbook.
they will be dismissed before those that even don't realize what is going on, the handlers or insiders will throw them under the bus. I am waiting for Zelensky to end there shortly like all the others before him
Every single summer I hear the same shit, “Wow it’s really hot,” and I’m like “No duh it’s summer.” Every summer you get a couple of heatwave weeks…again…it’s summer. Then winter comes and you get a snowstorm or a blizzard and it is like, “Wow it’s really cold, that’s a lot of snow,” and I’m like, “No shit Sherlock it’s winter.” People are just that stupid.
That's a feature, not a bug, of climate catastrophism. It's unfalsifiable because anything that deviates from the norm is considered evidence of catastrophic climate change.
It's a pattern I've noticed for years based on the Jetstream. Cool in the American West, Hot on the American East Coast, and cool in Europe. In other years, Hot in the American West, Cool on the American East Coast, and Hot in Europe.
Oh dear!! Thanks for the info, was looking at Viking. I’m 61, BF is 69. Wouldn’t have known about the changes in river heights. Yeesh. Boyfriend has never been on a cruise and both of us hate crowds the older we get. Worried that most of Europe will end up being overrun by Muslims and won’t be worth seeing anymore.
It’s a nice ship, food was great, we got the unlimited drinks, or it includes house beer and wine.
Daily Excursions were included, better ones (wine tasting, monastery dinner) are very nice but pricey.
Blind spot for us was the possibility of the river being too high/low which results in you being bussed from ship to ship (huge pain in the ass, as we learned from a couple we met in Amsterdam that just ended their trip).
If you’re in the age group they target (65-75-85-??), it’s amazing. We are about 20 years younger so it got boring at times so we leaned heavy on drinking (even though we usually did 1-2 excursions daily).
It’s also QUITE expensive, we got the explorer suite and with the mandatory gratuity (even though we tipped CONSTANTLY) the bill was over 20k.
With so many other options main consideration would be your level of fitness and, of course, price.
If you’re to do a river cruise Viking is the best so they charge accordingly.
Now take it easy on TAI matey...he's just noticing patterns. Me too. In the PNW where I live, we've been experiencing an exceptionally cool year with no significant letup as the summer solstice approaches. It probably explains why the Global Warming narrative has been reframed as "Climate Change". Now, in the interest of science let's observe some patterns - taken from Greenland ice core samples. Hmmmm, more patterns. What a shame that all of those warming and cooling spikes in the data, all those ice ages came and went without a gang of latter-day hobgoblins collecting carbon credit$. Further, does anyone in China or India really give a shit about climate issues (other than as convenient business opportunity)?
Part of the REAL climate change cycle are the El Nino, La Nina oscillations. The climate change "experts like to act like this is proof that the climate is permanently changing for the worse no matter which cycle it is in.
Yeah, of course. But these climate cycles when taken in a broader context than than during the last half-century (let's say more like the last 100k years ) seem to reveal the fact that the anthropogenic influence upon climate is a bit north of preposterous.
I get the sense that the climate lies are not really fooling as many people as they would like.
Last evening, I was on our weekly college buddies zoom call and the talk turned to weather (currently in the 90's in the U.S. northeast where most of us are, and one lives in AZ where it is 100+ degrees, as usual this time of year).
All of us were laughing at the stupid terms the weather people come up with to make people think things are getting really scary: "atmospheric river," "heat trap," "bomb cyclone," etc. -- plus the naming of low pressure systems, coloring the weather maps red when the temps are normal, etc.
All of these guys are usually fully bought into the approved narrative, so to hear them mock it was refreshing.
I really hope you are correct. I indulge in the "normie" social media site Reddit periodically and it certainly seems to have taken hold there, but then again, that site is also heavily astroturfed.
The UK used the SAGE group. Particularly the SPI-B unit in Sage. Laura Dodswoth's book A State of Fear did a wonderful job writing it up. In the USA the government hired a private firm of course. This was the Fors Marsh Group. They market themselves as experts in the new "science" of behavioral modification strategies. As a funny note... when they released the first contract there was an angry reaction from the democrats in congress. They made a big splash about it in the press. They thought the contract was to blunt the Democrats campaign message strategy of Trump killed everyone with covid... it lasted about a week and then went dead silence on the topic. I suspect the DOD and IC started knocking on some democrat doors telling them to shut the hell up it has nothing to do with Trump. Biden renewed the contracts through his administration. They like their work.
On Facebook in 2020, I called out a journo who reported a false story about lots of young people on ventilators at a certain hospital. His source was second-hand info from someone who saw a post by a doctor making that claim. The doctor actually made up the story because he didn't think people were "taking the virus seriously enough," and the author of the article did not vet the info with the hospital before reporting it. His excuse was that he believed a doctor should be trusted, and that it was important to get the info out to the public as soon as possible. The hospital made its own statement that the info was completely false; there were no young people on ventilators in their hospital. The doctor was made to issue a public apology.
Yet someone responded to my post about the whole debacle by defending the journalist! 🤦♀️
That’s like the temperature map of the UK/Europe that was circulating not too long ago where the numbers are mostly the same but now the maps shows red and orange areas instead of yellow or green.
The red background temperatures were actually lower/colder than the green background ones. Exhibit one proof of the dishonesty being used throughout legacy media.
As with all these programs, the best defense is a healthy skepticism with a dose of common sense. If you believed the pandemic panic porn or similarly believe the weather patterns are dramatically and devastatingly affected by historically small increases in the C02 atmospheric %, then you lack both prerequisites. Unfortunately, the long march through the western educational systems have ill equipped 2 generations to recognize, much less combat, these plainly false narratives. It is funny to laugh at the buffoons who are all in on the agitprop, until you realize how many people don’t get the joke and the consequences of the elite’s successful power grab.
Example no. 1567+ of the climate stupidity: I recently read about a new tech company that is producing a machine that will capture and sequester C02 from the atmosphere. They were touting this breakthrough technology and trumpeting their prospects for tremendous economic gains through this amazing and much needed innovation.
Who’s going to tell the precocious little wunderkinds that there already exists a “machine” that comes in thousands of varieties, can be deployed all over the planet, self replicates, and produces and releases oxygen as a byproduct of the carbon capture? I call it a “tree”. 😜
Everything government does, along with it’s NGO helpers involves psyops. Fear is the weapon of choice government uses against its own people. I’ve said it before elsewhere that when FDR said, “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself,” he was laying the foundation of control. My method of dealing with climate change alarmists is to agree with them. They say the glaciers are melting. I say I always wondered what was under all that ice. They say the oceans will rise, I say great, all those rich fuckers will have to abandon their beachfront property. Whatever they ascribe to climate change, I say give me more.
Are they simply better at selling their message than their opponents are?
The market picks the winners is the oft-repeated idea of today's world, and the market for ideas have picked "climate crisis" as the idea du jour for those with capital and power to get their way, despite such pesky notions as democracy, empiricism, science or factual reality.
What can be offered that trumps "climate crisis" as an idea for societal evolution?
Good lyric. I like the response given to Dinesh D’Souza when he asked his parents why they immigrated from India to the U.S.? They replied, “We wanted to go where the poor people are fat”.
welp, I wanted to go to art school when I was a teenager. My dad said no. he advised get a CPA or an RN. I hate math (not really but I did bk then) so went to school to get my RN. I did lots of math.
Anyway, I have friends that did go to art school ... many many friends.
I learned that when you get a job you are pretty much doing what you are told, there is no freestyling
unless you have time. Your job is to produce what the client wants, not make a magnificent sculpture or a brilliant painting. Same with journalism. You are told what to write. If you do not like it, quit the job, but good luck trying to find the salary you desire bc all the big news people are on to the hoax and it is their religion du jour.
Medical people also have their freakish regimental indoctrination, oh yep.
I left the hospital setting because it was "not my thing (people laying around in beds)" It was boring and required shift work. So after 4 years I split and went to work for a couple of surgeons. Best decision I ever made.
Either case.
most of the time you are doing stuff that other people are telling you.
The greatest trick the psyop ever pulled is convincing half the population psyops don’t exist.
indeed. the hard part is that the second best trick is convincing people that these shadowy agencies are somehow omnipotent and skillful and cunningly execute well concieved, effective long term plans instead of the haphazard absurdities that tend to actually emerge.
if i wanted you to fear me, i'd convince you i was plotting against you in all manner of long term fashions that loosely coincide with natural social processes then let your selection bias make me look effective as you sought out reasons to see me lurking behind ever setback.
it's a hard hall of mirrors to sort out once you're in it. this is part of what makes it work (or seem to work) and blurs the difference between the two.
I learned early on that the best defense is to ignore the multiple fear fires being lit and attack the premise and its promoters. With global warming never argue and try to counter their claims with facts. That's exactly what they want, for you to use all your efforts to prove their lies are lies, and while you're doing that they light three more fun-fact fires, and so on. MUCH better to go after who they really are and what the purpose and agenda behind their lies is. It's the equivalent of pulling back the curtain to expose Oz. Changes the whole game and gives you control over the ball.
Like: if what "you" say is true, why did you fly to Davos in a private jet? Or is it about every resource for US and 15 minute cities and bug burgers for you.
And if Michael Bloomberg cares so much about "climate change," why does he have three helicopters, six planes, 11 houses, and 42 cars? And he thinks you should use public transportation to save the environment.
Point made!
Exactly.
They also prey on people's natural tendency to make sense of "patterns".
Human nature is always looking to make the complex manageable. So they collect "evidence" to determine that which fits their simplistic conclusions, settling around their eyes like distorted spectacles.
The expertocrats know this and that's why they use non-random samples, pretending theyre random.
But we must always remember Theodore Sturgeons Law: 90% of everything is crap.
We used to have a term "Magic Hands" for researchers who's data just looked too good. Either too random or not random enough. This was because the data had been "massaged". Using valid statistical methods, I could make the Great Depression look like the Roaring Twenties, or a Monder Minimum a Monder Maximum. You know the saying: Lies, damn lies, and statistics.
NASA has been gradually cooling the past observations, just a tiny bit each year. If you look at the graph published in, say, 1975, and compare it to the current data up to 1975, you see the same peaks and valleys, but the older version is rotated a bit, with the left (older) end being moved down while the present (whatever that is at any given time) remains stationary.
They also have a problem with the locations of many of the thermometers used to record the data. If you grab the coordinates of any given thermometer and look on Google satellite view, you often see that they are on or immediately adjacent to airport aprons (often called "tarmac" in the US, even though Tarmac is a British brand of asphalt, not an airport feature), which makes them hotter than the ambient temperature. Asphalt absorbs a lot of heat from the sun, and radiates it onto all nearby objects. The rules for siting the thermometer enclosures state that they are supposed to be a certain distance from asphalt or concrete structures, but you will find that many of them are right on top of them.
That absorption of solar energy is also why there is a heat island effect in cities, which also makes the localized temperature around many of the thermometers warmer. It doesn't mean the global temperatures are higher... just that many of the thermometers are increasingly in heat islands. They were sited years ago, before there was a concerted effort to massage the data to support their agenda, so they probably were appropriately located at that point, and simply never relocated as the city grew up around them. So now it shows an increase in heat that is interpreted as global, when it is clearly very localized.
I agree with you, but even more so. I believe the entire data set has been tainted. They are now trying to purge the original data and replace it with the "normalized" data. By normalized, I mean massaged, i.e. statistically manipulated to get the result you want. I don't trust any data presented after 1995.
The "Pastafarians" make fun of this with their assertion that since the global temperature has increased while the number of pirates has decreased, it means that pirates prevent global warming, making pirates into revered figures in their "religion." (For those that don't know, the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is a satirical faux church.)
Big picture, man, big picture.
just finished a booklet from 1971, no one dare call it a conspiracy. People have known for quite some time what is going on. But the masses don't care. Long as they got football and hamburgers, who cares?
“Selection bias”! ❤️❤️
I always knew it! Confirmation bias doesn’t exist! 🤫
It's almost as if the NY Times reads Bad Kitty and decided to shape the narrative with the manipulators as heroes and those of us revealing the lies and the lying liars who tell them as the dangerous villains:
The Weatherman Who Tried to Bring Climate Science to a Red State
New York Times, June 20, 2024
https://archive.is/TacV8
Within the story you'll find the "hero" TV weather propagandist who was chased off by "climate denier" deplorables and bitter clingers in flyover country was hired away by Woods Hole Group as a "scientist" in climate and risk communications, based in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, not far from the Woods Hole ferry to Martha's Vineyard (where they don't want the ugly wind farms they want in flyover country to spoil their pristine views). So I decided to follow the money, the most reliable path to truth.
https://www.woodsholegroup.com
"Woods Hole Group is a company that provides science-based solutions for environmental, climate, fisheries, energy, and maritime issues. It operates in the USA and worldwide, and offers innovation, testimonies, and news on its website."
WHG's History:
https://www.woodsholegroup.com/about/history/
Started as an operation of Horizon Marine Inc in 1982. Still connected to Woods Hole Group as a subsidiary of CLS. But check out the clients. Global Big Oil! Supposedly the industry destroying the climate, all the oil exploration, drilling and industry services that support those bad, bad, "fossil fuels." This smells foul to a fox. How about to a kitten?:
https://www.horizonmarine.com/clients
Woods Hole Group is now a subsidiary of CLS (Collecte Localisation Satellites). Hmmm, Climate Hoaxes and Satellites? Interesting pairing.
https://www.cls.fr/en/acquisition-woods-hole-group/
And CLS is a subsidiary of a collaborative holding, Ardian, CNES and IFREMER.
Ardian (formerly AXA), a French Blackrock/Vanguard peer private equity fund:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ardian_(company)
CNES (Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales), a French Defense and Research Ministry:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNES
IFREMER (Institut Français de Recherche pour l’Exploitation de la Mer), a deep sea exploration company, best known for finding the RMS Titanic in 1985 and the Titan submersible in 2023:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IFREMER
I've not quite had the time to make much out of this, to speculate on what pattern these pieces of the puzzle make. But I have enough to know from this story alone (ignoring all of the other evidence out there for a moment) that the Climate Hoax is just that, a hoax, that has nothing to do with climate and much to do with military industrial, the accused villain of a looming climate catastrophe, Big Oil, itself, and massive profits for the world banking elite.
So thank you NYT for further proving the point Bad Kitty and us dangerous climate hoax deniers are making in your pathetic attempt to control the narrative!
They're clumsy and anything but masterminds, but the average person doesn't require a well-crafted mastermind argument to convince them.
They are not even trying. I was told by a Brit a few days ago that they were pummeled by storied how this May was the hottest on record, when in fact it was unseasonably cold and rainy. They are betting YOU believing it's a heat wave while you are standing in the rain, shivering. Gaslighting, wall to wall.
I think, tho, more people are waking up. I see it in my personal life. People who I know who would NEVER doubt what they're told on Channel 6 (pick one) going WTF.
I think of the Wizard of Oz, who after all his efforts, had never counted on a Dorothy showing up and pulling back the curtain.
Much like Hunter’s Laptop, the most unforeseen and unintended consequences they could never have imagined.
It has tangled them up in so much tap dancing and damage control efforts it’s been quite the show. I can’t help but think how much they must hate the guy for it.
Back in my early conspiracy days, I had this problem as well. You see the plotting, yet they also do a lot of stupid shit, yet also somehow end up winning all the time.
I think it comes down mostly to 2 different things:
1. There isn't a single conspiracy group running everything; if there was, it would be so well done we wouldn't know it existed and probably wouldn't care because it wouldn't seem Demonic-Evil. Instead, it's a bunch of factions with agendas that sometimes coincide and sometimes conflict. So what seems like stupid shit is actually just different factions cock-blocking each other (except when it actually is just them doing stupid shit; it happens to the best of us.)
Thinking there is just 1 conspiracy leads to similar results to an alien trying to analyze an NFL season as if there was only one team: "OMG these humans are stupid, sometimes they run the ball one way, then they run it another! Sometimes they throw this ball to someone, and sometimes a different person seems as if they are stealing the ball! They are obviously retarded!"
2. OODA Loop. The factions in charge fuck up a lot, but they are the only ones that can complete the OODA loop. Those of us in the opposition can 'observe' and 'orient', but we have no ability to 'decide' or 'act.' We just sit on the sidelines observing and commenting about how stupid our enemies are. Meanwhile, they decide and act, which with no competing team running an OODA loop, means that inevitably one of the enemy factions wins. Kind of like Lee vs. McClellan: No matter how much smaller your army is than the other guy, if the other guy just sits there and doesn't do anything, you'll run circles around him and make him look like a fool.
Which suggests that if we ever did get a faction capable of action we could run circles around our idiot enemies.
The greatest trick the psyop ever played is convincing people they gonna go to hell if they [insert normal human action here]. The playbooks were all written a very long time ago. The latest ones just crib from the masters.
seems to date back to the 1700s and some even claim longer
"You don't wave these feathers the right way that volcano gonna blow!"
It ain't all bad news...at least we've identified who would drive the one way train of box cars.
There are two types of people:
Those who have nothing to lose and those who have everything to lose once their worldview collides, like two ICBMs, with reality.
In the end we'll strip them naked with memes leaving them holding nothing but computer model printouts.
These people will do great in The Reaping
Ryan, I think there may be a 3rd group: the clowns, flying monkeys & otherwise useful idiots who think if they tow the line, participate in the scam & otherwise abuse people - they will also be sitting at the “cool kids table”. Hahahahaha!
A lot of this group could be the media talking heads who deliver us the nooz. Now they fear we might deliver them the noose.
This is exactly the phenomenon created with the hysterical "covid" will kill us all shortly if we don't mask/ hide/obey rules. If critical thinking is something an individual has no intention of activating - they are fodder for the playbook.
Bleat...bleat...bleat...repeat
they will be dismissed before those that even don't realize what is going on, the handlers or insiders will throw them under the bus. I am waiting for Zelensky to end there shortly like all the others before him
lol. LIKE
*Cass Sunstein has entered the chat*
https://www.amazon.com/Nudge-Improving-Decisions-Health-Happiness/dp/014311526X
Aw yes, nudge. I hope thaler took the poison shot.
Don’t forget his sidekick Sunnstein.
LOL
I’m glad you got a laugh. Usually, you are the one causing me to laugh : )
:)
Every single summer I hear the same shit, “Wow it’s really hot,” and I’m like “No duh it’s summer.” Every summer you get a couple of heatwave weeks…again…it’s summer. Then winter comes and you get a snowstorm or a blizzard and it is like, “Wow it’s really cold, that’s a lot of snow,” and I’m like, “No shit Sherlock it’s winter.” People are just that stupid.
And I keep hearing it:
33°C in June: Climate Change.
12" snow in December: Climate Change.
Every. Single. Time...
That's a feature, not a bug, of climate catastrophism. It's unfalsifiable because anything that deviates from the norm is considered evidence of catastrophic climate change.
You're correct!
Once the "climate change" pill, has been swallowed, everything becomes a direct result of "climate change".
Believers will believe.
I simply SMH in disgust.
it is so freaking annoying. I have to tune those people out
And I do...
Stupid, yes, but also they lead boring lives and letting themselves be scared is one way to spice things up.
They are stupid
Forgot the period.
Good point. Maybe an exclamation mark.
“Good point.” 😂
Yes! I'm a native Arizonan. I know hot!!! It's always like this is summer, people!!
Really annoying in Spring: “Summer’s early.” Then next week: “Winter came back.” I never fail to say, “It’s Spring! (dumbass)”
Just came back from a Rhine cruise, every person we met was saying this summer is way colder (60s, even 50s in Amsterdam) than previous years…
Fear mongering is a huge and profitable business.
It's a pattern I've noticed for years based on the Jetstream. Cool in the American West, Hot on the American East Coast, and cool in Europe. In other years, Hot in the American West, Cool on the American East Coast, and Hot in Europe.
The jet stream is very high right now in the middle of the country. We have warm tropical air firmly in place. : )
dad in Belgium says this month it has not been over 17C. nights are so cold the tomato plants crawl back into the ground.
How was the cruise? Have been looking at a few cruise lines and wondered if you’d recommend yours.
Last day running into a bridge was an extra bonus🤣
wait uh you weren't coming out of Baltimore on a ship of containers were you??? LOL
Oh dear!! Thanks for the info, was looking at Viking. I’m 61, BF is 69. Wouldn’t have known about the changes in river heights. Yeesh. Boyfriend has never been on a cruise and both of us hate crowds the older we get. Worried that most of Europe will end up being overrun by Muslims and won’t be worth seeing anymore.
It’s a nice ship, food was great, we got the unlimited drinks, or it includes house beer and wine.
Daily Excursions were included, better ones (wine tasting, monastery dinner) are very nice but pricey.
Blind spot for us was the possibility of the river being too high/low which results in you being bussed from ship to ship (huge pain in the ass, as we learned from a couple we met in Amsterdam that just ended their trip).
If you’re in the age group they target (65-75-85-??), it’s amazing. We are about 20 years younger so it got boring at times so we leaned heavy on drinking (even though we usually did 1-2 excursions daily).
It’s also QUITE expensive, we got the explorer suite and with the mandatory gratuity (even though we tipped CONSTANTLY) the bill was over 20k.
With so many other options main consideration would be your level of fitness and, of course, price.
If you’re to do a river cruise Viking is the best so they charge accordingly.
Why, you speak heresy. Cancel him!
Now take it easy on TAI matey...he's just noticing patterns. Me too. In the PNW where I live, we've been experiencing an exceptionally cool year with no significant letup as the summer solstice approaches. It probably explains why the Global Warming narrative has been reframed as "Climate Change". Now, in the interest of science let's observe some patterns - taken from Greenland ice core samples. Hmmmm, more patterns. What a shame that all of those warming and cooling spikes in the data, all those ice ages came and went without a gang of latter-day hobgoblins collecting carbon credit$. Further, does anyone in China or India really give a shit about climate issues (other than as convenient business opportunity)?
Part of the REAL climate change cycle are the El Nino, La Nina oscillations. The climate change "experts like to act like this is proof that the climate is permanently changing for the worse no matter which cycle it is in.
Yeah, of course. But these climate cycles when taken in a broader context than than during the last half-century (let's say more like the last 100k years ) seem to reveal the fact that the anthropogenic influence upon climate is a bit north of preposterous.
I get the sense that the climate lies are not really fooling as many people as they would like.
Last evening, I was on our weekly college buddies zoom call and the talk turned to weather (currently in the 90's in the U.S. northeast where most of us are, and one lives in AZ where it is 100+ degrees, as usual this time of year).
All of us were laughing at the stupid terms the weather people come up with to make people think things are getting really scary: "atmospheric river," "heat trap," "bomb cyclone," etc. -- plus the naming of low pressure systems, coloring the weather maps red when the temps are normal, etc.
All of these guys are usually fully bought into the approved narrative, so to hear them mock it was refreshing.
yes and every day some red banner at the top of a weather page
EXTREME WEATHER
EXTREME HEAT
EXTREME FIRE HAZARD
etc etc
I really hope you are correct. I indulge in the "normie" social media site Reddit periodically and it certainly seems to have taken hold there, but then again, that site is also heavily astroturfed.
Richard Feynman: "Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts."
Just like with "covid," they use our tax dollars to employ people to figure out how to get us to act against our own best interests.
The UK used the SAGE group. Particularly the SPI-B unit in Sage. Laura Dodswoth's book A State of Fear did a wonderful job writing it up. In the USA the government hired a private firm of course. This was the Fors Marsh Group. They market themselves as experts in the new "science" of behavioral modification strategies. As a funny note... when they released the first contract there was an angry reaction from the democrats in congress. They made a big splash about it in the press. They thought the contract was to blunt the Democrats campaign message strategy of Trump killed everyone with covid... it lasted about a week and then went dead silence on the topic. I suspect the DOD and IC started knocking on some democrat doors telling them to shut the hell up it has nothing to do with Trump. Biden renewed the contracts through his administration. They like their work.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/11/hhs-congress-coronavirus-contract-412219
wow. disgusting.
On Facebook in 2020, I called out a journo who reported a false story about lots of young people on ventilators at a certain hospital. His source was second-hand info from someone who saw a post by a doctor making that claim. The doctor actually made up the story because he didn't think people were "taking the virus seriously enough," and the author of the article did not vet the info with the hospital before reporting it. His excuse was that he believed a doctor should be trusted, and that it was important to get the info out to the public as soon as possible. The hospital made its own statement that the info was completely false; there were no young people on ventilators in their hospital. The doctor was made to issue a public apology.
Yet someone responded to my post about the whole debacle by defending the journalist! 🤦♀️
It is religion!
More like a cult. Think Jim Jones more than St. Paul.
All religions are cults.
And all cults are religions, including the cult that all religions are cults.
lol. love it
No cigar for you.
Does that mean I can't join your cult?
What cult do you imagine that might be?
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We are the barriers they want to dismantle.
The real "barriers" are logic, free speech, and independent thinking, which is why they favor indoctrination, censorship, and conformity.
We are the CARBON they want to erase.
nailed it
That’s like the temperature map of the UK/Europe that was circulating not too long ago where the numbers are mostly the same but now the maps shows red and orange areas instead of yellow or green.
I have that photo. Comparing 2017 & 2022. The temps in 2022 are lower and the whole map is in red.
Has the following caption underneath.
“ Government warns that heatwaves will occur at lower temperatures this year, due to a shortage of green crayons. “
Lol
lol. LIKE
The red background temperatures were actually lower/colder than the green background ones. Exhibit one proof of the dishonesty being used throughout legacy media.
As with all these programs, the best defense is a healthy skepticism with a dose of common sense. If you believed the pandemic panic porn or similarly believe the weather patterns are dramatically and devastatingly affected by historically small increases in the C02 atmospheric %, then you lack both prerequisites. Unfortunately, the long march through the western educational systems have ill equipped 2 generations to recognize, much less combat, these plainly false narratives. It is funny to laugh at the buffoons who are all in on the agitprop, until you realize how many people don’t get the joke and the consequences of the elite’s successful power grab.
Example no. 1567+ of the climate stupidity: I recently read about a new tech company that is producing a machine that will capture and sequester C02 from the atmosphere. They were touting this breakthrough technology and trumpeting their prospects for tremendous economic gains through this amazing and much needed innovation.
Who’s going to tell the precocious little wunderkinds that there already exists a “machine” that comes in thousands of varieties, can be deployed all over the planet, self replicates, and produces and releases oxygen as a byproduct of the carbon capture? I call it a “tree”. 😜
Everything government does, along with it’s NGO helpers involves psyops. Fear is the weapon of choice government uses against its own people. I’ve said it before elsewhere that when FDR said, “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself,” he was laying the foundation of control. My method of dealing with climate change alarmists is to agree with them. They say the glaciers are melting. I say I always wondered what was under all that ice. They say the oceans will rise, I say great, all those rich fuckers will have to abandon their beachfront property. Whatever they ascribe to climate change, I say give me more.
Sounds like any -ism, cult or such.
Are they simply better at selling their message than their opponents are?
The market picks the winners is the oft-repeated idea of today's world, and the market for ideas have picked "climate crisis" as the idea du jour for those with capital and power to get their way, despite such pesky notions as democracy, empiricism, science or factual reality.
What can be offered that trumps "climate crisis" as an idea for societal evolution?
Hard times from a deep economic downturn will take the wind out of the sails of caring about societal evolution. and, the new hard times are here.
I always think about the song lyric "When eating comes too easy, nothing makes you think."
Good lyric. I like the response given to Dinesh D’Souza when he asked his parents why they immigrated from India to the U.S.? They replied, “We wanted to go where the poor people are fat”.
Just a sweet beautiful girl from Tucson, with a golden voice. His parent’s reply speaks volumes in a single sentence.
That was a good reason for Dinesh's parents.
The song I quoted was from Linda Ronstadt's "The New Hard Times" Lyric link if you want to look it up. http://www.absolutelyrics.com/lyrics/view/linda_ronstadt/new_hard_times/ Song is on YouTube. She was my 1st love as a musician in the late 1960s Stone Ponies band days.
Wall, as I always say, "if you can't dazzle 'em with science, baffle 'em with bullshit".
Works most of the time...
welp, I wanted to go to art school when I was a teenager. My dad said no. he advised get a CPA or an RN. I hate math (not really but I did bk then) so went to school to get my RN. I did lots of math.
Anyway, I have friends that did go to art school ... many many friends.
I learned that when you get a job you are pretty much doing what you are told, there is no freestyling
unless you have time. Your job is to produce what the client wants, not make a magnificent sculpture or a brilliant painting. Same with journalism. You are told what to write. If you do not like it, quit the job, but good luck trying to find the salary you desire bc all the big news people are on to the hoax and it is their religion du jour.
Medical people also have their freakish regimental indoctrination, oh yep.
I left the hospital setting because it was "not my thing (people laying around in beds)" It was boring and required shift work. So after 4 years I split and went to work for a couple of surgeons. Best decision I ever made.
Either case.
most of the time you are doing stuff that other people are telling you.
I had more freedom in private practice
Isn’t 26C only about 78F? That’s nothing!