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HISTORIC EVENT OF THE WEEK: Our late Queen Elizabeth II rested in state last week on display for the people to mourn her passing. A digital “queue tracker” used by the government indicated that the length of the queue to pay respects to Queen Elizabeth II was at one point longer than 16km. At its longest, the wait time was more than 24 hours.
People across the country and the world prepared to pay their final respects to Queen Elizabeth II as she was laid to rest in her state funeral on September 19. The monarch had been lying in state at Westminster Hall since Wednesday, with mourners queuing across London to pay their respects.
The funeral saw our late Queen laid to rest alongside her late husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, following the ceremony at Westminster Abbey. A procession carrying her coffin was a short distance from Westminster Hall, around Parliament Square to the Abbey shortly before 11am. As many as 2,000 guests attended the funeral service at the site of the Queen’s coronation in 1953.
The coffin was then conveyed by hearse to Windsor Castle from whence it entered St George’s Chapel for a committal service. Later in the evening, at a private family service, the Queen was buried beside the Duke of Edinburgh, at the King George VI memorial chapel, located inside St George’s Chapel.
I add here my own prayers and grateful thanks for the most exceptional monarch in history. It has been my privilege to have been born in time for me to witness and enjoy our Queen’s coronation at the age of 9, when only one house in our street had a 9″ TV. We all squeezed into the tiny living room with children having a priority front seat. I remember it as if it were yesterday.
Our dear Queen Elizabeth II has cared for and nurtured all her subjects with a love and kindness that is an inspiration for all us Brits, and indeed for the Commonwealth and the world in general. I hope and pray that the passing of ‘Elizabeth the Great’, with an unmatched display of true British, ancient pomp and ceremony over the last two weeks, encourages all our global leaders to look deep into their hearts for guidance, inspiration and courage to do the right thing in the coming years; forsaking conflict, war and genocide.
Under our gracious King Charles III perhaps a new era of humanitarian reconciliation, peace and harmony will emerge offering relief where there is deprivation, comfort where there is pain, and spiritual succour where there is a loss of faith in our Almighty Creator; blessings to everyone.
OT – FYI – THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK: Is Errol Musk (Elon Musk’s controversial father) as bad as Elon makes out? Here is an in-depth history of Errol’s colourful life with his tumultuous sexual adventures: https://www.insidehook.com/article/history/errol-musk-elon-father-myths I knew Errol well at the False Bay Yacht Club, Simons Town, in the mid-2000s when he bought my lovely world-cruiser yacht, ‘Do-It-Now’, and as always there is a story behind the name. It was a loss to me as great as losing a cherished friend which will always mark my heart much as the passing of our beloved Queen has this week.
BREAKING NEWS: Liz Truss was at the UN this week and achieved precisely nothing. But yesterday we saw an even greater non-event – ‘THE MINI BUDGET’. Having waited in trepidation for two weeks of ceremony to end, we have had delivered a ‘budget’ that wasn’t for Joe Public to say the least. We should not have been surprised that the rich will get richer whilst the poor bloody workers will pay, as has ever been the case for centuries. This is a first impression: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/sep/23/kwarteng-accused-of-reckless-mini-budget-for-the-rich-as-pound-crashes
The Tory Budget delivered bonuses for the Banksters, tax cuts for those who had no reason or justification to bank even more money than they have already, and miniscule cuts to NI contributions which had already been raised by Sunak (with the plan to ‘fund the NHS) but this too has gone out of the window. So I guess the NHS and the care homes will have to ‘march on as to war’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fa_qE3hpVas
I haven’t yet had time to look deeply into our new Chancellor’s motivations, but I suspect a loose connection with WEF. I think the Guardian, on September 6, had a good forecast of what Kwarteng would do with his first budget (mini) on Friday, and it looks like they got it bang on target. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/sep/06/kwasi-kwarteng-free-marketeer-and-truss-ideological-soulmate-becomes-chancellor
“Kwarteng last year called a “libertarian in rhetoric but social-democratic in delivery” by the free market ‘Institute for Economic Affairs’, over his interventionist stance as business secretary. However, his promotion to the most powerful government role behind the PM – and with a hand-in-glove relationship with his Downing Street ally – could give Kwarteng more scope to put his credentials as an advocate for liberal economics into practice.
Alongside the soothing message for City investors in the FT, Kwarteng issued a warning shot that redistributing the proceeds of economic growth – helping rich and poor benefit from rising prosperity – would take a distinct backseat under a Truss government.
“We will get a super-state to fire a competitive market economy. [That’s] not particularly Conservative,” says Ryan Shorthouse, the chief executive of Bright Blue, a liberal Tory thinktank. “But, with major tax cuts for high earners and large companies, [it’s] not especially socially democratic either.”
And so it has proved to be in yesterday’s announced “minimum-budget”. The problem of course is that their fiscal strategy relies entirely on ‘economic growth‘ to deliver ‘trickle-down prosperity’. But those who know the truth, know that this can’t happen, because economic growth ceased in 2000! We all know that politicians are several decades behind the curve and “Trussian Thatcherite Economics™” (TTE) can never work, they haven’t worked in the past and they certainly won’t in the coming years remaining to this Parliament.
But that’s all OK, because the “rich get richer and the poor get stuffed” is all you need to know and the Bankster-robber-barons win again – as always. But this time, I predict a winter of such severe discontent that Truss & Co will be seeing their arses in the gutter before the end of 2023. I know, as do many observers, that a Great Depression II is on the way for the western world and I don’t believe there is anything the ‘Masters of the Financial Universe’ will be able to mask it this time like they did in 2008/9. Tory backbenchers despair at toxic mini-budget
I believe that the days of pronouncing a glittering future relying on ‘growth’ have already long passed, but it appears that nobody has told our politicians and there are those who disagree. The markets know the truth of course which is reflected in Friday’s market moves: The GBP has fallen to an historic low of 1.90/US$ with FTSE Futures being desperate at: 7,018.6 – we can only await next week’s market response when these initial shocks have dispersed and the Spectre of market ‘rational’ thinking gains the upper hand.
BUT ON THE OTHER HAND– Let’s think again and maybe give Liz & Co the benefit of the doubt? Is it possible that this new Tory economic strategy, as some pundits say (the rich ones) could actually work? In the interests of providing my readers with both sides of the argument; spend just 5 minutes viewing this video for an optimistic view of ‘capitalism’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_Bzw8W1rS8 I will leave it in the hands of the Gods (as you understand them) to see how our future unfolds as global chaos reigns supreme.
Of course, the presenter doesn’t understand, or fails to admit, that the price we have paid for all these material benefits (which cannot be denied, at least in the West) is the complete loss of our spiritual well-being. You only have to look around to see the results of the tremendous advances in technology and its misuse to such extremes that the very fabric of our civilisation is tearing itself to pieces one bit at a time.
IN THIS RESPECT; THE WEF IS PROMOTING THEIR ‘ESG’ AGENDA as one of its many octopus-tentacles seeking anything that smells like money and ably supported by the likes of Goldman Sachs who were the original targets of that monicker. ESG stands for Environmental, Social, and Governance. Investors are increasingly applying these non-financial factors as part of their analysis process to identify material risks and growth opportunities. ESG is fully described here.
But now, under the new ‘Woke Industrial Complex’ it seems that the original profit incentive of an entrepreneurial enterprise is to be expanded to include just about everybody and his dog to satisfy the parasitic non-producers like Klaus Schwab’s mafia rent-seeking billionaires in the World Economic Forum (WEF).
In 1970, economist Milton Friedman wrote an famous article with the headline “Responsibility of ‘Business’ is to increase its Profits”. Friedman’s view was challenged then, but now is dismissed by most, replaced by the UN Agenda 2030 of which ESG is part.
‘The Business Roundtable’, a leading organisation of CEOs in America endorsed ‘stakeholder capitalism’ as far back as 2019, putting the interests of employees, customers, suppliers and communities on a par with shareholders. The board at the time included the chairs of Walmart, General Motors, Apple and Cisco.
But what exactly was Friedman arguing when he wrote: “What does it mean to say that the corporate executive has a “social responsibility” in his capacity as businessman? If this statement is not pure rhetoric, it must mean that he is to act in some way that is not in the interest of his employers.”
Friedman suggested a simulacrum of a ‘tax’, suggesting that if executives were acting in the furtherance of a social good, they were effectively imposing a tax on shareholders by producing fewer profits or on consumers, by producing more expensive products. How are managers supposed to decide upon which social interest group to expend this ‘tax’? Friedman argued for a government to make these allocations and not business executives.
In response to the ‘Business Roundtable’ statement, there has been plenty of criticism following this line of thought: “Focusing on shareholder value is the social cause because it leads to the greatest amount of wealth creation. As corporations and their shareholders maximize wealth, resources flow into the economy in ways that necessarily increase overall social welfare,” argued George Mason University professor Donald Kochan only last year.
I suspect this view is not now mainstream; almost all corporations at least nominally support the notion of corporate social responsibility, and that idea is now more explicitly expounded in the idea of ESG – [environmental, social, and governance]. This change happened possibly for these main reasons:
- First, there has been a new realisation about the extent of “externalities”, particularly as part of climate change. Externalities are the consequence of the production of goods that result in costs to unrelated third parties. This is obvious with the climate crisis where climate change is the external consequence of, for example, oil companies’ narrow pursuit of profit.
- Second for the change is the increased scepticism over the ability of governments to adequately deal with all the multiple challenges of modern society, which was Friedman’s solution.
- Third, the ‘democratisation’ of the investment sector, and particularly the increase in retail investors, has resulted in incentivising companies to act in ways proportionate with citizens’ interests beyond just profits.
- Fourth, the investment industry has an interest in projecting longer term returns than those of corporate executives. It’s no accident that some of the most ardent supporters of ESG are investment houses, especially the likes of Blackrock.
But the mainstream support of ESG doesn’t solve all the problems, and in fact it does somewhat highlight Friedman’s objections. The famous recent tweet by Elon Musk, on the occasion of Tesla being dropped from the S&P 500 ESG Index, was “certifiably bonkers” because Tesla’s objective, and indeed its fundamental goal, is to reduce ‘greenhouse gasses’. Well that is what Musk claims but I suspect that the generous US subsidies had a lot to do with it, regardless of the apparent ‘environmental’ benefits.
Musk says: “ESG is a scam. It has been weaponized by phoney social justice warriors,” he wrote, pointing to the inclusion of six oil companies on the index, and claiming that a good “ESG score” amounts to a business’ compliance with the leftist agenda. Observers say: “If we don’t have social justice, everything we are trying to build will not be sustainable,” It’s impossible to live in a western country and ignore these issues because they are rammed down our throats by the likes of the WEF cabal.
What I question is whether the E-S- and G are compatible measures in themselves. It is far from easy to build the aspired objectives with such a broad measure to expect everything even vaguely related to corporate ethics to fit into a single box? Is it practical, or even feasible, to compare in the same index a massive and global environmental compliance scheme with something much more specific to a particular national and corporate context like even an individual company? Certainly Elon Musk thinks so which rather endorses his conclusion that ESG is some kind of yet another fraudulent magic pill to extend the failing health of a collapsing global financial system initiated as a result of the 2008 GFC.
A further criticism returns to Friedman’s original issue: ESG should offer a way of reducing the accountability of government for its part in the system. And is thus an acknowledgement of failed government policies which have been so visibly exposed in Britain over the last 12 years of crass Tory mismanagement.
Regardless whether ESG is the scam that Musk perceives or not, you can be sure the ‘Masters of the Global Financial Universe’ will be promoting it with all the considerable force and propaganda at their disposal. And thus it will be at the forefront of the multi-facetted Great Reset, with yet another frontier of the 4th Industrial Revolution.
THE KEY GLOBAL ISSUE THIS WEEK, discounting our dear Queen’s laying to rest, was the Fed’s rate hike on Wednesday. Dr. Thomas Hoenig was the longest-serving Federal Reserve president ever. Perhaps it’s worth listening to what he says about the dilemma facing central bankers today. He suggests that the Fed is running the risk of tightening the economy into a deep recession or otherwise allowing high inflation to become so ingrained that even a Volker-style magic pill will fail this time around.
According to Dr. Hoenig, it’s a double-edged sword brought on by the excess of the QE era and I agree as I have persistently written over the years. He compares our present economic circumstances with the 1970s, while identifying mistakes the Fed must avoid repeating.
- “The current Chairman says that he is going to follow Paul Volcker’s example, and the FOMC is going to stamp out inflation. And that is its only priority. Now, the real test is follow-through.”
- According to Dr. Hoenig, the politicisation of the Fed complicates policy decisions and calls the committee’s credibility into question.
- Do you remember 1971, when Nixon was forced to finally abandon the remaining elements of the gold standard? Any rule-based method of controlling the expansion of money leaves it in the hands of a committee which will inevitably become politicalised such as to produce the proverbial camel when a horse was the first objective.
- “All central banks globally have a political element to them now, because it’s all driven by fiat currency and committee decisions. There’s no external system of rules, and that means the test of actually following through is going to be a serious test.”
INFLATION WATCH: Joe Public is being led to believe that the Russian SMO in February is the consummate reason for the rise in inflation and thus the cause of our cost-of-living crisis. Whilst it certainly hasn’t helped, inflation was rising long before Mr Putin’s actions to secure his borders.
Have a look at the graph is this short article linked below and you will see inflation suddenly escalating from April 2021 – now what do you think caused this? Suggestions on a post card – answer given next week https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/sep/14/uk-inflation-falls-amid-cost-of-living-crisis (Hint, it’s not what the mainstream will tell you but then, they’re not Austrian Economists)
COLLAPSE MONITOR: Our 12 million British Pensioners are at the sharp end of this ongoing economic collapse https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/sep/14/ive-always-thrown-myself-into-work-now-it-keeps-me-alive-the-over-65s-forced-to-join-the-great-unretirement
“We will be skint this winter” – read here one family’s struggle to manage in a cost-of-living crisis which the Truss Mini-Budget has patently failed to not only address, but will put the very structure of our fragile society at risk to such an extent that, like the last riots against Maggie’s Poll Tax, saw her gone within months, I predict Truss will be gone before the next election. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/sep/14/we-will-be-skint-this-winter-one-family-struggle-to-manage-in-cost-of-living-crisis
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Peter, my sympathies on your being so misled about the monarchy and who to respect and revere.
I celebrate the deaths of almost all world leaders when they happen, as they will meet their maker and be given just rewards in judgment for eternity.
Virtually the entire world population, sheep, have been deceived by their leaders, the shepherds.
We, the citizens of the world, have all been prepared for the butcher.
Based on their cumulative actions, the leadership of the Western World is standing at the precipice of WWIII and still the collective West pokes Russia and China with warlike actions.
I fear you, and we all, will soon be mourning a great many more deaths of those we directly know and love, that are coming in this near term conflict, rather than some old lady in a far-away castle for an obsolete decorative monarchy.
Does it feel like 1938/1939 to you yet? It sure does to me….better get ready my friend…
Thanks SW and I do agree with you – sound assessments. The fact that Lizard Liz II was indeed at the centre of a ruling dynasty didn’t deter me from mourning an old lady who’s behaviour and polite discourse set a standard of social interaction long lost in the past. She was the last of a line, the Windsor usurpers, if you check your history. My guess is that Charles III will not survive the tumults of the coming years. We shall see.
Your sense of a 1939 redux is valid – we appear to be in the period of the ‘phoney war’ of that era – so yes, I agree it does feel just as you have detected:
“The term ‘phoney war’ refers to the period at the beginning of WWII between September 1939 and April 1940 when there was little fighting. It was brought to an abrupt end by the German invasion of Norway in April 1940. The term is thought to have been coined by an American Senator called Borah”
https://www.history.org.uk/publications/resource/9689/the-phoney-war-teaching-wwii
Peter, I envy you and your countrymen and countrywomen. At least you had a figurehead that you revered, someone classy and with a sense of humor and who liked to tipple a bit–Gin at breakfast!–my kinda lady.
Seriously, we here in the US have not been so fortunate, for decades even. We have no heroes or heroines.
So, condolences for the departure of a passing era, one of gentility and humility. And a remarkable woman.
King Chuck III seems to have become the apple who fell far, far away from that extraordinary tree.
You are over the target jo, and so well put 🙂 You always know you are on the right course when 6 down votes equate to flak during the bomb run – and a sudden side-slip to fall thousands of feet in seconds defeats the night-fighter on your tail. As my father observed in 1944 – there is always an escape if you know tactical theory put into practice.
This of course applies equally to our spiritual war in which we are presently engaged. Thank you for taking your valuable time to add to TBP knowledge base.
A final farewell….. Now wave bye-bye to the rest of those putrid freeloading arrogant royal asshats and you have put the GREAT back in Great Britain.
Yep BL – I do not believe that Charles III will survive the course, neither will Harry.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3_R1mzv09k
Peter- If Chuck gets to live out his life as a lavished king, then big apologies should be given to Pol Pot. Chuck and Phillip along with Mum have been completely dedicated to global depopulation since I can remember…. and that is a long time. If you give them a pass, the depop will go into high gear.
SOMEWHERE along the line humanity must get serious about opposing and bring down these genocidal elites. That includes the UK.
Yes indeed BL. A good friend and reader in Florida is an historian and has a wealth of info on all this. We correspond regularly.[NOTE: I have not yet found out how to post a Jpeg pic on TBP here.] He sent me a picture of Charles in 1950s with Klaus Schwab proving what you claim. I wish I could post it here for you.
Perhaps a good TBPer could give me a simple step-by-step way to post a Jpeg here? Maybe even I could do so in my posts too. For EG: Here is what my Substack post looks like – it is the same post as you are reading in Jim’s WP – I am not hot on DP – actually that’s an over statement – I am totally dim in this area.
My Substack Saturday:
https://austrianpeter.substack.com/p/elizabeth-the-great-a-final-farewell?utm_source=post-email-title&isFreemail=false&utm_medium=email
AP- I think Ghost has a tutorial for jpegs.
Thanks Anon, I think she did mention it once a while ago but I lost the thread. I will reactivate it.
My condolences… I guess. I will say that 60-70 years ago, she was quite the looker, seriously.
The article is a stellar example of why I never read anything from Guardian/Star/ Times, mainly projectile vomiting of the oxford dictionary (several times over! ) in a desperate attempt to be relevant/witty, and or propagandize.
In other newz, Elvis is still dead.
Peace, L.
All crap and fuc the Queen. Glad she’s dead
“Show respect to people who have died by not saying anything bad about them. Since dead people can no longer hurt us, or defend themselves, it is better to forget their bad actions and remember only their good ones. Origin: This proverb has been traced back to Chilon of Sparta (6th century BC).”
Liz presided over the infiltration and destruction of the UK…she was great at that!
“As Head of State, The Monarch has to remain strictly neutral with respect to political matters.
By convention, The Monarch does not vote or stand for election, however they do have important ceremonial and formal roles in relation to the government of the UK. The formal phrase ‘Crown in Parliament’ is used to describe the British legislature, which consists of the Sovereign, the House of Lords and the House of Commons. The Monarch’s duties include opening each new session of Parliament, granting Royal Assent to legislation, and approving Orders and Proclamations through the Privy Council.”
https://www.royal.uk/queen-and-government
I once asked my dad what he thought of Britain, he said it had a small number of wealthy people controlling a lot of poor people with no middle class. He was thinking about what it was like in the 1950,s. Funny how little things change.
Yep, they are designed this way: “After democracy finally shunted aside hereditary lords, they found new means to protect their extravagant riches. For all the modern tales of noble poverty and leaking ancestral homes, their private wealth and influence remain phenomenal”
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/sep/07/how-the-aristocracy-preserved-their-power
“Our lovely Queen.”
“Her perfidious ministers, who oppress the poor workers.”
Those ministers sit with her (and now with noble Charles) in the Privy Council. What do you suppose they talk about? The lovely tea and scones they enjoy at taxpayers’ expense? The weather?
I would guess that it is about geopolitics and how to keep what they already own and how to further loot the serfs. If I were privileged to be in the BIG CLUB, that is what I would talk about in private.
Indeed, not only do they talk about that in private, they also discuss it in PUBLIC…just review any information from the WEF Sites or summaries from the Davos yearly meetings.
“A more wretched hive of villainy and scum you’ll not find anywhere”- Alex Guinness as Ben Kenobi, who was a true treasure of England.
Kudos my good SW – a classic quote and entirely appropriate. I would recommend you view GB News for the reality that is Britain: https://www.gbnews.uk/watchlive
I would have been much more likely to attend Doc de Vaca’s funeral than any politician’s or monarch’s, neither of which I have ever met in person, but I feel a spiritual connection rather than disgust toward the former.
Yes indeed SL – spirituality is really what it is all about. Most have lost the ancient wisdom in the cascade of materialism delivered by 200 years of the industrial revolution (which is what that video about capitalism is all about). But in the process we lost our connection with our Creator and it is in this Fourth Turning that I believe that lost link will be restored.
I witnessed this rather unusual interaction in an upscale resort hotel last week. As I was soaking in the hot tub, there was this older gentleman who appeared to have some joint problems, was moderately overweight and a nice middle aged woman started some small talk with him and his wife and after a few minutes she asked them if they wanted to pray together and then they all three prayed for his healing and improved physical ailments, right by the poolside. Then they talked a bit about their next travel destinations and said goodbye. I wonder if that woman was some sort of wandering preacher. Maybe a Mormon, given that this was in Utah. She seemed Hispanic though. In MA, people would have looked at you rather strangely if you suggest praying with a stranger, 5 minutes after you meet them.
What a wonderful experience to witness SL It is good news to know that people are getting the idea of prayer. I call it meditation and speak to the ‘Universe’ each morning at dawn (I’m up before dawn generally). It’s a quiet few minutes of contemplation and I ask my Creator to give me guidance for the day, to forgive my sins, and to allow me the courage to forgive those that trespass against me.
I am a Christian Deist; “Deism holds that God does not intervene with the functioning of the natural world in any way, allowing it to run according to the laws of nature that he configured when he created all things. Because God does not control or interfere with his self-sustaining Creation, its component systems work in concert to achieve the balanced natural processes that make up the physical world. As such, Human beings are “free agents in a free world.” A “free agent” is someone who has authority and ability to choose his/her actions and who may make mistakes. A “free world” is one which ordinarily operates as it is designed to operate and permits the consequential properties of failure and accident to be experienced by its inhabitants. God is thus conceived to be wholly transcendent and never immanent. For deists, human beings can only know God via reason and the observation of nature but not by revelation or supernatural manifestations (such as miracles)—phenomena which deists regard with caution if not skepticism. Christian deism is one of several branches of deism to have come about over time:”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_deism
Above is a note about the power of prayer and meditation – good thoughts matter: The article concludes: “Let us use the technology of prayer and meditation as tools to change humanity’s destiny by working cooperatively and collectively to manifest a beautiful new world of peace, prosperity, health, and abundance – A new Golden Age of Gaia.”
If Jesus didn’t intervene in Earthly events, I would be dead at least three times already; and I’m not alone. There are hundreds of personal testimonies on Youtube, thousands in print and no doubt millions total since appx 33 AD. The New Testament is not infallible but it is close enough to bear considerable consideration.
Ah, yes rhs jr – I myself have been saved from certain death by close calls at least three times in my life. What I claim is that our Creator doesn’t intervene directly but his angels guided by Jesus do so all the time, they live among us if we do the spiritual work and therefore sense their guidance.
“Christian deists believe that Jesus Christ was a deist. Jesus taught that there are two basic laws of God governing humankind. The first law is that life comes from God and we are to use it as God intends, as illustrated in Jesus’ parable of the talents.”
Wiki: “Christian deists see no paradox in adopting the values and ideals espoused by Jesus without believing he was God. Without providing examples or citations, one author maintains, “A number of influential 17th- and 18th-century thinkers claimed for themselves the title of ‘Christian deist’ because they accepted both the Christian religion based on revelation and a deistic religion based on natural reason. This deistic religion was consistent with Christianity but independent of any revealed authority. Christian deists often accepted revelation because it could be made to accord with natural or rational religion.”[10]” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_deism
I hope this clarifies my position on this vital belief system (well, vital for me anyway). My counselling training and hypnotherapy confirmed for me the existence of universal energies for good everywhere on the planet. When I am alone at sea, these forces are most clearly detectable, not in a material sense, but a feeling of inner peace, serenity if you will and a complete absence of fear.
I sometimes use this little book as I work with my clients:
BTW – at least 50 years ago I read a magazine article (I still have the hardcopy) about this women’s use of her ‘parking angel’. She claimed that it was easy: just ask your angel for a parking space, (not specific) and when inevitably one appears, it is important to thank your angel afterwards. I use it all the time and my wife will attest to it be almost 100% effective.
In fact, on one occasion in Bath (parking is notorious) I asked nervously three times. When I arrived in the multi-story there were 3 empty spaces next to each other – and the bonus was they were next to the ticket machine, But I couldn’t get my coin in, then I noticed a ticket half out of the slot – pulled and lo and behold it was valid for 3 hours! True story, my passenger was astounded.
I wonder if this will spark some controversy amongst TBPers:
https://www.beliefnet.com/inspiration/angels/2006/12/angel-i-need-a-good-parking-spot.aspx
Hi Peter, just a short update on ESKOM, the alleged power supply company in your late homeland South Africa. Us little folks here in the RSA are now supposed to be thrilled to bits that we are ONLY at Load Shedding stage 3 and thus able to at least use the WWW on 25/9/2022. Last Sunday we were at LS Stage 6!!! So there we are my friend, progress under Cyril the Squirrel and the make out bandits in the ANC.
To bring this LS lunacy to a final end I have decided to purchase a Power Trolley which is a large battery on shopping trolley type wheels to keep the fridge on the air (so I’m told) Of course, the instant I have parted with my Trolley cash the Load Shedding curse will predictably cease forever…..Now how’s that for a bit of Ubuntu Mr. Pete?
How wonderful and exciting to hear from one of my adopted compatriots Dave – I follow RSA like a hawk each day on Maverick (ZAR100/mth), BizNews and my dear friend Rick in Wilderness is always letting me know what’s going on locally.
Yvonne and I hate this crazy UK; even as a kid I had the desire to move south asap. and did so finally in 1999 and had a wonderful ten years in Simons Town. Few people realise that we are 50 degs N here, just off the arctic circle with only the Gulf Stream keeping us temperate. I have secretly hoped for the GS to shift and then this shitty little island will die in a permafrost!
I emailed my own UK electricity optimisation plan to some of my Substack readers and you can subscribe free here: https://austrianpeter.substack.com/p/watt-counts-greta-is-gone-mega-strikes?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email. If you email me (see em address at the end), I will email a copy to you.
All Yvonne’s family are in JoBurg and Durban and she keeps in touch by WhatsApp, so we know what is going on at the coal face.
Where are you in RSA? I can copy you into Rick’s email, as you say, promoting UBUNTU! In the meantime we are hunkered down in SW England ready for the winter storms with plenty of stores and backup power/lights. Us yachtsmen are so used to be self-sufficient, so it comes naturally to us – it’s only the landsmen who panic and rush about like scolded cats when the lights go out!
https://austrianpeter.substack.com/p/sunshine-britain-race-result-sri?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
As you will read, it’s all crises here in UK and I’m sick off it. But frying pans and fires come to mind at least until your 2024 election and hopefully a coalition result, which I feel is the only chance for the future of my lovely SA.
Otherwise, we have Plan B – Belize – initially looking very good, especially for a yachtsman, and we are ‘making a plan’ (Ons moet ‘n plan maak), as my wife says all the time (after that – nothing happens because is going to happen, ‘just now’). In UK that means now, now!
Hope to share a pint with you when we finally get back to Cape Town, either by passenger-cargo ship or yacht!
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Elizabeth the sell out free shitter.
The people of Europe are facing not only a winter, but very possibly a decade of discontent.
NATO’s irresponsible actions and the EU’s support of those actions, along with suicidal sanctions are ensuring not only energy and food shortages, but the most severe economic collapse Europe has seen since the second world war.
Now instead of realizing the folly of their idiotic policies, they are forming and even more hostile stance, and pushing Europe towards another continent wide conflict.
Make no mistake, the oligarchs in the US would love nothing better than to see the whole of Europe reduced to a smoldering bombed out ruin dependent upon the US for its very existence, and insuring another century of US dominance.
Twice in the past, the US has instigated and financed world wars in Europe that have left the US in both instances as both the lifeline for Europe’s survival for several decades, and increased the US dominance as the premiere world imperial power. Why would any reasonable person think this time is any different?
John Lydon and Austrian Peter have helped me better appreciate what the queen mother has meant to the British populace at large. I’m a Yank, so contempt for the Crown is in my blood. (It also helps my disdain for all things “British” that I have Spanish lineage. )
[I’ll leave aside, for now, the debate surrounding the less “human” aspects of the Queen and her family that comprised many, many decades of human suffering for more than just the “subjects” of the Crown. P.O.M.s might do well to show just a bit of respect.]
Add to the perspective from Johnny “Rotten” and Austrian Peter, a commentary I listened to from a young Romanian vlogger. His take is quite valid, from a strictly genteel view.
First, the British Constitutional Monarchy is the only monarchy that has survived popular uprising. Most of the remaining monarchies in the world today are more aligned with tyranny than a parliamentary government. And, how many of those monarchies were major powers on the high seas and in far-flung areas of the earth for so many hundreds of years? [Remember, for this discussion, I’m intentionally neglecting just how much blood was spilled to keep India British… wink, wink.]
The second point made by the Romanian commentator is that, though the Royal family pays no taxes, they are responsible for what is probably the bulk of tourism to Brittain.
How many tourists travel to Buckingham Palace to see the changing of the guard? The Tower of London and Big Ben? Would there be any tourism of significance without the rich, storied past that is associated with the British Monarchy?
There is no other corollary in our modern world to the life and times of Queen Elizabeth II.
And, to me, anyone who FINALLY! allowed the public access to such a masterpiece of English gardening as your Queen Elizabeth II did when she allowed picnics on the lawn in the gardens at Buck-Pal deserves my respect for that gift to this moment in time.
Thank you so much Ooze; I really appreciate the display of your strength of character to offer a truly objective critique of such a controversial subject, especially given your natural Yankee scepticism. Our Royal family has an amazing lengthy lineage:
“The Royal Family’s reign spans 37 generations and 1209 years. All of the monarchs are descendants of King Alfred the Great, who reigned in 871”
https://allthatsinteresting.com/lineage-british-royal-family#:~:text=Things%20you%20might%20not%20know,Great%2C%20who%20reigned%20in%20871.
“The Windsors are not directly descended from the Tudors. But, they do share a distant connection in their lineage. Historians have determined that Queen Elizabeth II is descended from Henry VIII’s sister, Queen Margaret of Scotland, the grandmother of Mary Queen of Scots.”
BUT – it’s not true that the Royal pay no taxes. In fact they pay more in taxes than it costs to support them, so HMG makes a profit out of them! I think maybe your “Romanian commentator is that, though the Royal family pays no taxes…” has misled you. I wrote about this in my Letter on September 17 – but it was buried in the text and likely was missed by many: https://austrianpeter.substack.com/p/king-charles-iii-extended-edition?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
Here is the relevant linked article: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/sep/14/the-sovereigns-wealth-uk-royal-familys-finances-explained?utm_term=6322d380bfa4e8ca2992ace9a78af48f&utm_campaign=BusinessToday&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&CMP=bustoday_email
HOWEVER It should be noted that Queen Elizabeth II holds title to roughly 6.6 billion acres of land throughout the world. For reference, that’s about one-sixth of the land on the entire planet. Most of the land falls under the Crown Estate, which essentially operates as a real estate business:
There’s much more to the question: “Who rules the world” than appears at first sight. America is the political centre focused on Washington DC and of course controls the ‘income streams’ of the world via the mighty dollar, but don’t be fooled that USA is in control. The hidden cabal driving global finance, major economic decisions and geopolitical factors, like when to go to war with whom and looting resources around the world, is in the hands of the asset owners. Although the Rothschild’s and the Rockefeller’s assets are easier to identify, the true seat of global financial power remains in the City of London.
This is another subject altogether and I’m going a bit OT. If you haven’t seen this, it answers some questions:
AND Have a laugh about the Romans to whom we Brits have much to be grateful for: