“The Great Reset”

Living without government services isn’t necessarily cheaper or easier, but it sure beats putting up with municipal bureaucracies.

When our water was turned off one morning last January, we assumed it was due to the sinkhole slowly expanding across the width of our single-lane street in South Philadelphia. But we could only guess, as no one answered the phone at the Philadelphia Water Department, and the first city employee didn’t show up on our street until four hours after the taps died. When one of my elderly neighbors asked how long it would take to restore service, the city guy said his crews were swamped. It took 27 hours.

With spotlights shining into the house and construction equipment rattling our walls, my wife and I spent most of that night wondering where we could go for a reprieve with a 2-month-old in below-freezing weather. North Carolina was an obvious place.

A lot is broken now.

The housing market is driving young people into ever smaller living spaces

“I will not eat bugs! I will not live in the pod!”

This is the ‘anti-Davos’ mantra — the rallying cry of those who reject the supposed neoliberal vision of the future.

FIRST we were placed under virtual house arrest. Now we are being frozen by soaring fuel bills and energy supply shortages in those same homes. Coming next, we are to be starved. All in pursuit of one of the Net Zero cults: Covid or carbon emissions. Too bleak a picture? We have only to look across the North Sea to one of our nearest neighbours, the Netherlands.

Surprisingly for such a small country (it is only about twice the size of Wales), the Netherlands is the second largest food exporter in the world, second only to the United States. It is Europe’s largest meat exporter. Four million cows, 13million pigs and 104million chickens are reared annually. It provides vegetables to many of its Western European neighbours.

Last July, following a 3-hour call with with the German firebrand MEP Christine Anderson, I published the article, “A small short: the coming collapse of the air travel industry,” about the strange epidemic of travel chaos at airports around the western world. The contention from three industry insiders on that call was that the chaos was being deliberately orchestrated to destroy the air travel industry. They presented detailed and compelling evidence for their contention.

Of course, any such conspiracy theorizing tends to elicit raised eyebrows among the normies. Evidence or no evidence, they reject whatever can’t be linked to “credible sources” in legacy media (by contrast, they’ll accept the official narratives even on statements attributed to unnamed officials). The dismissal of any suggestion that there might be a planned agenda to destroy an entire industry usually leads with the question, “who would do such a thing?“

Left-wing doomerists are empowering global elites

One might think that the arrival of the planet’s eight-billionth resident — a title symbolically awarded to Vinice Mabansag, a baby girl born in the Philippines — would be cause for celebration. Amid a sharp drop in the global fertility rate, the staggering rise in the world population witnessed over the past 70 years is the result of the extraordinary advancements in public health, nutrition, personal hygiene and medicine that have extended lifespans and dramatically reduced maternal and child mortality rates. Vinice’s birth, in other words, is a testament to the power of human ingenuity to make the world a better place.

A VERY small group of control freaks, who own or manage the majority of the world’s wealth and exert huge political influence, are intent on forcing us to comply with their schemes to shape the world into the image of their mad ideas. Your intrinsic value and the quality of your life, and that of your children and future generations, is being taken from you. Their tactics to achieve control of populations are instability in the present, promotion of negativity for the future, and ultimately subjugation to the ‘common good’ for all.

AS FAR as social engineers are concerned, efficiency, precision and consistency are not human traits. Two prominent men, a century apart, have sought to override the flaws of nature by making us more mechanistic. The current reformer of Homo sapiens is Yuval Noah Harari, to whom I will return, but cold and clinical manipulation of manpower began in the early 20th century.

European Christmas markets and illuminations are scaling back due to the energy crisis and climate breakdown – ditching seasonal ice-rinks for roller-skating and switching on lights for shorter hours.

When the traditional end-of-year markets and Christmas lights launch in France and Germany this week, many cities, such as Paris, will go dark hours earlier than usual.

But local politicians insisted they must still offer some kind of “festive spirit” to lift what they called the glum mood amid the war in Ukraine and the rising cost of living.