“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” [Winston S Churchill]; Does this make ‘Bankster Pigs’ to become Cats?
IS US/NATO PREPARING TO Wage a Nuclear War? Nuclear Attack F-16 Fighters are being sent to Ukraine. Nuclear War is on the Drawing Board of the Pentagon by deploying, “Conventional dual-capable nuclear fighters.” The US/NATO escalation against Russia brings Europe ever closer to the threshold of nuclear war. The political-media complex has cast a curtain of silence so as not to alarm European public opinion and prevent it from reacting and causing civil unrest.
“US Senator Blumenthal (D) [see Twitter here] introduced a bipartisan resolution declaring Russia’s use of nuclear weapons or destruction of the occupied Zaporizhia Nuclear Power-plant in Ukraine to be an attack on NATO requiring the invocation of NATO Article 5″ IMHO this is Cuba 2.
At no point since the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, has humanity been closer to the unthinkable. All the safeguards of the Cold War era, which categorised the nuclear bomb as “a weapon of last resort”, have been scrapped. In 4 minutes viewing you will understand how a nuclear war between Russia and USA will affect you personally. I went through this in the 1970-80s which is why my Substack is named “Protect & Survive”.
David Scott is a prolific writer for UK Column and describes how George Orwell’s 1984 book contains profound and terrifying prophecies which are playing out right now. War is Peace – Freedom is Slavery – Ignorance is Strength. David Scott speaks at the UK Column/UNN ‘Stop the War’ demo https://rumble.com/v2wgapu-david-scott-speaks-at-the-uk-columnunn-stop-the-war-demo.html
Russia accused Ukraine of using British-supplied missiles to strike the bridge to Crimea: Bridge Attack in Crimea Russian-backed officials in southern Ukraine have accused Kyiv of using British-supplied long-range missiles to strike a bridge connecting Kherson province with the Crimean peninsula.
The strike on the Chonhar Bridge – (Inside Intel), one of the few links between mainland Ukraine and Crimea, came two days after Moscow threatened to attack Kyiv’s “decision-making centres” if western-supplied missiles were used against Crimea, which Russia annexed in 2014.
But now the Pentagon wants to use “cluster munitions.” What is so controversial about the US sending them to Ukraine? Forces.net has the story. Sunak has made it clear [at least in public] that Britain “discourages” the use of cluster munitions as the UK is one of 123 signatories of a convention banning their use.
I lived through the 1962 Cuba crisis and the geopolitical moves afoot today remind me of what might be coming at us in the future.
Sources
- ‘Circle the Wagons’: The Government Is On the Warpath: https://www.zerohedge.com/political/circle-wagons-government-warpath
- Zelensky Throws Tantrum Over ‘Weak, Absurd’ NATO Stance On Ukraine Membership: https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/zelensky-throws-tantrum-over-weak-absurd-nato-summit-stance-ukraine-membership “A bigger NATO and cluster bombs won’t keep us safe.” https://www.commondreams.org/news/nato-expansion-ukraine
- Closing remarks at the launch of the Trust & Freedom citizens’ initiative at the European Parliament, 4 July 2023 https://pandauncut.substack.com/p/closing-remarks-at-the-launch-of?utm_source=substack&utm_campaign=post_embed&utm_medium=web
AND just to end this farce – Henry Kissinger believes the ‘Ukies’ bombed the Nord Steam 2 – this centenarian (yes, he’s 100 years old) has clearly lost his mind. We are governed by ancient Boomers, it’s time for them to DIE and let Gen X take the reins. Have a laugh at this skit: Watch: Russian Pranksters posing as Zelensky to dupe Kissinger.
STOP PRESS (lest we forget)
GB News hasn’t stopped bashing the BBC this week for yet another deviant sex scandal. Everyone knows (per last week) that ‘Auntie’ is riddled with leftist deviants and weirdos. It only came to the public’s notice ten years ago when the ‘Great Master Paedophile’ himself, Jimmy Savile after decades of abusing youngsters. Yet the BBC knew all the time!
His abhorrent sex crimes came to light posthumously, due to the BBC’s continuous protection by censorship of those who made claims against him during his lifetime at the BBC. Downing Street and the House of Windsor would enable, if not engage in, Savile’s crimes for decades. Savile was closer to King Charles III than Prince Andrew was to Jeffrey Epstein, leading to the former paedophile being knighted by Queen Elizabeth II under the insistence of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
Thatcher’s office would go on to cover up a wide-ranging inquiry of sex crimes committed by Savile and members of HMG enabled by Downing Street. Minister of Parliament Geoffrey Dickens would go on to assemble a dossier investigating these crimes, which would ultimately be “lost” by Thatcher’s office.
What once was a beacon of broadcast media propriety has become a mouthpiece of HMG’s Propaganda Ministry. The BBC has been made to look utterly foolish, leaving a reputation that was once exemplary, tarnished and torn beyond repair. They have mechanisms for obfuscation and enablement which has cultivated a culture at the BBC where vile perverts aren’t just employed, they’re celebrated!
Katie Razzall, the BBC’s Culture Editor, highlighted how long the network allowed the undisclosed presenter to remain on air, questioning Davie’s leadership and enabling of the alleged paedophile.
This decadent institution (formerly a bastion of propriety in my day) has descended to the depths of deprivation – a Sodom & Gomorrah look-alike. It’s time HMG put a stop to their coercive fraudulent Licence Fee and make the BBC stand on its own crippled legs once and for all.
The network’s blatant hypocrisy can at least serve as a beacon for opponents of their propaganda, for it’s clear that if there’s one thing the BBC is sorely lacking, it is integrity. On Wednesday the identity of the high profile BBC presenter was published. My only comment is to note St. Paul’s proverb; (quote), “Whatever a person is sowing, this he will also reap.” St. Paul warns that it is dangerous to think that the principles of God’s Word can be held in contempt. [Galatians 6:1-10]. (NB, “St Paul is celebrated in the Catholic Church as the patron saint of the missions, writers, [Substackers], and publishers!”)
Sources
- Answers for questions about one of Britain’s worst sex abusers who is the subject of Netflix’s ‘Jimmy Savile’: A British Horror Story https://www.leeds-live.co.uk/news/celebs-tv/jimmy-saviles-wealth-who-inherited-23614007
- The “BBC Nonce” & the acceptable face of paedophilia – Kit Knightly – https://off-guardian.org/2023/07/10/the-bbc-nonce-the-acceptable-face-of-pedophelia/
- BBC Engulfed in another Child Sex Abuse Allegation against One of its Hosts – https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/bbc-engulfed-another-child-sex-abuse-allegation-against-one-its-hosts
- BBC star ‘broke lockdown rules’ to meet young adult during Covid – https://www.gbnews.com/news/bbc-star-broke-lockdown-rules-latest-presenter-young-person
- Teenager, 17, claims presenter sent ‘creepy’ messages on Instagram – https://www.gbnews.com/news/bbc-scandal-teenager-instagram-messages-presenter-latest
- Keir Starmer led the CPS when it did not charge Jimmy Savile https://fullfact.org/online/keir-starmer-prosecute-jimmy-savile/
NEWS FLASH, Britain experienced zero growth over the last three months according to the OBR this week. But I have already reported that Britain has experienced zero growth over the whole of this century, and before, whilst our deluded leaders remain in denial and continue to promise a return to growth! Go figure.
FUN TIDBITS:
…Anheuser-Busch’s Other Beers are also Suffering!
THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK: What is the truth about Conspiracy Theories? And anyway where did this ridiculous phrase come from? I guess most of my readers will know, but for those who don’t, here’s what Wikipedia (the CIA disinformation site), lists as their idea of all these conspiracies and there are a lot of them – it’s a fun read!
However, this article from Pakistan seems to have grasped the truth. This is an important exposé of the CIA cover-up and worth reading in full. My astute Substack colleague, KW Norton, has saved me editorial space by further exposing the failing CIA PsyOp. https://kwnorton.substack.com/p/how-come-conspiracy-theories-are?utm_source=substack&utm_campaign=post_embed&utm_medium=web
BREAKING NEWS: Don’t forget to follow this link at UK Column which is a truly independent, multimedia, and real-news website: supported by its members
BREAD & CIRCUSES
It’s no different now than in Roman times, only the instruments have changed. The blood-thirsty mob continue to revel in blood and gore at Formula One racing, just hoping for a spectacular crash, to assuage their desire for adrenaline-fuelled disasters, but from a safe distance.
These voyeurs have always been ensconced in the herd and now they’re exposing their soft underbelly, like ‘Just Stop Oil’ prancing about with eco-friendly orange ‘stuff’, even desecrating a solemn wedding ceremony. George Osbourne lives down the road in my town of Bruton (It’s NOT a village as reported – it’s a small town, pop. 3,000) and was married in St. Marys last week. [I wasn’t invited!]
As my fellow Substacker, KW Norton has reported, “THE DAMN IS CRACKING & CANNOT HOLD.” Read and enjoy – I believe we are winning this ‘War Against Humanity’ perpetrated by the usual suspects.
UN ‘EMERGENCY POWERS’ are being usurped by the BANKSTERS!
The UN has outlined a far reaching plan to secure ‘Emergency Powers’ which would allow the global body to lead a “common agenda” for all nations during any “complex global shocks” such as a new scamdemic. The Federalist reports that the plan is to be finalised at a September 2024 ‘Summit of the Future,’ where the UN will adopt a ‘Pact for the Future,’ to include policies that have been outlined in the Globalist body’s ‘Our Common Agenda‘
One such policy is an “emergency platform” during any events that have a global impact and would give the UN authority to, “actively promote and drive an international response that places the principles of equity and solidarity at the centre of its work.”
The report notes that some details of the emergency platform were outlined in a paper from March with the UN Secretary-General declaring, “I propose that the General Assembly provide the Secretary-General and the United Nations system with a standing authority to convene and operationalize automatically an Emergency Platform in the event of a future complex global shock of sufficient scale, severity and reach.”
The paper gives several examples of what could trigger their Emergency Authority, including “major climatic event,” “future pandemic risks,” a “global digital connectivity disruption,” “major event in outer space,” and generic “unforeseen risks, (‘black swan’ events).”
The paper goes on to suggest that the UN would have the power to oversee the “Stakeholders” of the world, including academics, governments, private sector actors, and “international financial institutions” (aka Banksters) to ensure there is a unified, global response to whatever crisis is ‘declared’.
The paper further suggests that such authority would “Ensure that all participating actors make commitments that can contribute meaningfully to the response and that they are held to account for delivery on those commitments.”
It also states that while the emergency authority would have an initial finite lifespan, the UN would be able to extend it indefinitely if it saw fit to do so. The Federalist report notes that the Biden Administration has backed the proposal on multiple occasions, prompting reporter Justin Haskins to warn that, “If the Emergency Platform is approved, the United States as we know it could cease to exist.”
FROM the ‘GREAT RESET’ to the ‘GREAT REJECT’
The ‘Summer of Davos’ in China let out the highest “Quality Corporate BS” from an Israeli ex-Intel female. The World Economic Forum (WEF) has declared that by 2030 fashion will become completely obsolete and all humans will be a ‘No Soup for You’ Vegan, whether they like it or not for, ‘The Future of Urban Consumption in a 1.5°C World.’ Nothing will now stop a Currency Crisis and a War Crisis, David Morgan reports. Sources:
- What’s Really Behind the Global Reset and Sustainable Development Agenda 2030 https://internationalman.com/articles/heres-whats-really-behind-the-global-reset-and-sustainable-development-agenda-2030/
- The Great Famine Reset: You Will Own Nothing and You Will Be Starving https://www.theburningplatform.com/2023/07/12/the-great-famine-reset-you-will-own-nothing-and-you-will-be-starving/
BANK of ENGLAND ‘DIGITAL POUND’ Progress Report:
The way we use money is changing. This Consultation Paper sets out an assessment of the case for the retail ‘Central Bank Digital Currency’ (CBDC), aka ‘Digital Pound’. It is overseen by the joint Bank-HM Treasury CBDC Taskforce announced in April 2021.
The usual Secrecy is emphasised by HMG/BoE, “Members must not make statements that might give clues to developments in monetary analysis that have not been disclosed, or that might confuse or mislead the public about monetary policy.”
This is a wide-ranging discussion with Bob Moriarty of 321 Gold. Moriarty begins with the prescient book about America’s rendezvous with destiny—The Fourth Turning by Strauss and Howe—and looks at the inevitable transition away from a dollar-denominated and US-led world to whatever system emerges to replace it. [Read the exposé coming in my Letter, July 29]
My colleague at BOOM has already noted (quote), “An unelected European Commission and some unelected officials of the European Central Bank have decided that they are planning to grant themselves the right to issue money that the people can use, under their terms. And they will do this with the assistance of unelected commercial bankers.”
Jesus only acted violently on one occasion during his ministry, when He entered the temple area and began to drive out those who were selling and buying on the temple grounds. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who were selling doves. He would not allow anyone to carry merchandise through the temple grounds. And He began to teach and say to them, “Is it not written that My House will be called a House of Prayer for all the nations? But you have made it a den of robbers” [Mark, 11:15–17].
Here are some REASONS behind the Central Bank Digital Currencies operation. This discourse was first published on the author’s Substack blog and is reproduced with the author’s permission. We are truly living in historic times as the world financial system is being transformed in real-time as the Banksters pursue their take-over of global currencies. Emerging are two competing forces to develop a new world currency.
This study of BRICS+ versus DAVOS is worth considering. However the BoE is not acting alone; the CBDC project is global and being coordinated by the ‘Bank of International Settlements’ (BIS) in over 130 countries worldwide; watch the BIS proclamations HERE.
Eleven countries, including a number in the Caribbean, and Nigeria, have already launched Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) as they are known, while pilot testing in China now reaches 260 million people and covers 200 scenarios from e-commerce to government payments.
AND, to add insult to injury Nigel Farage has confirmed that Coutts Bank (part of NWB) closed his bank account due to his being a, “politically exposed person” or PEP. PEP was brought into law following Directive 2015/849 of the EU Parliament and approved by the Council following the EU Commission draft instrument. He revealed that nine UK clearing banks had rejected him and even his lawyer claims being classed as PEP.
Farage says many small businesses had been forced to close as a result of this Directive, “Anybody involved in cash businesses have been losing accounts because they’re suspected of being money launderers. The law needs to be revised, not just for high profile public figures who are PEPs, but for everybody”
“These are ordinary men and women running their own businesses trying to do their best. They are being penalised in the most extraordinary way.” Farage applauded the GB News Petition Initiative, “Don’t Kill Cash” to protect the status of cash as legal tender. “Controlling people’s money would be the ultimate form of tyranny.”
But what about Russia, are they following the WEF script, albeit silently? ‘Coin Telegraph’ has an interesting observation: “Russia’s central bank digital currency (CBDC) project, the digital ruble, has taken a step closer to reality. On July 11, the lower chamber of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, the State Duma, passed the digital ruble bill in the third reading.”
Now believe that the Banksters are using every device to close down western economies from interest rates to destructive legislation. Sources:
- Fake Money is a Cluster Bomb https://www.ukcolumn.org/article/fake-money-as-cluster-bomb
- ‘Britcoin‘ “Will Change Everything,” – An Analyst Warns https://www.theepochtimes.com/britcoin-will-change-everything-analyst-warns_5374877.html
- “Not a Big Brother Project” Says European Commission on Central Bank Digital Currencies https://mishtalk.com/economics/not-a-big-brother-project-says-european-commission-on-central-bank-digital-currencies/
- And the timing of CBDCs? There could be 24 CBDCs live by 2030: BIS survey https://cointelegraph.com/news/research-there-could-be-24-cbdcs-live-by-2030
INFLATION WATCH
Remember that Policy-makers in the 1970s were blamed for cutting rates too quickly at the first indication of inflation easing; but later were blamed for policy errors. However in Britain there remains sticky inflation everywhere.
SURVIVAL MONITOR: Charles Hugh Smith has seen the future and I agree. There is a make-or-break financial fork in the road ahead for the West. There are three options:
- Slash trillions of dollars in annual federal spending to align with current tax revenues. [not gonna happen]
- Raise trillions in additional tax revenue from the only entities able to pay more, corporations and the top 5%. [stealing from their mates? I don’t think so]
- Monetise the soaring federal debt by the central bank “printing money” and using this new money to buy Treasury bonds, as per issuing new Treasury bonds for sale and is the way the federal government funds its stupendous deficit spending. [I’ll bet this one]
HOWEVER I would add a 4th option – Bitcoin anyone? Do you see what’s happening? A fellow Substacker, Jimy Changa, also sees the future and describes it very well. https://jimychanga.substack.com/p/do-you-see-whats-happening?utm_source=substack&utm_campaign=post_embed&utm_medium=web
BUT – it’s all very well playing games on the Wall Street sports field – you might win a score or two – or not. But what happens when your water supply becomes toxic? You can’t boil out inorganic chemicals. I use a recognised water filter but even then they tell me certain heavy metals slip through.
THE NARRATIVE BATTLE – JUST A MERE 12 Years Ago – (9BC – ‘Before Covid’), this is what has become of the former excellence of the Disney Corporation. So what happened to this great enterprise allowing it to dissolve into a scrap heap of Wokeness and moral degradation?
In 2020 GloboCap implemented the WOKE part of its Grand Plan for total World Government driven by ESG (which I covered recently). This is what Disney was like in 2011, a mere twelve years ago. In 2023 this is the direct consequence of price-gouging families plus the ‘WOKE’ backlash.
FINALLY: Maybe this is a good reason to live in Cape Town? Is this the R13/Ltr alternative to South Africa’s ‘high’ petrol prices? That’s just 54 pence in real money! I am paying £1.50/Ltr in UK – What’s not to like?
COMING NEXT WEEK Sorry, last week I said I would expose “The current state of the United States of America” but the ‘Digital Pound’ took precedence; this is postponed to next week, with Energy leading and lots more to titillate and intrigue.
For more, read: “The Financial Jigsaw”: Scroll: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/358117070_THE_FINANCIAL_JIGSAW_-_PART_1_-_4th_Edition_2020 including regular update.
BOOM is published at: https://substack.com/@boomfinanceandeconomics – as well as LinkedIn and at WordPress: https://boomfinanceandeconomics.wordpress.com where all previous BOOM Editorials are archived. Also: COVID NEWS Substack: CMNnews-covid-medical-network-news
AUSTRIAN’S NEWSLETTER ARCHIVE: https://www.theburningplatform.com/author/austrian-peter/
FIRST THING, THE CRIMEA NEVER EVER BELONGED TO UKRAINE, SAME GOES FOR THE DONBAS REGION, FURHTER MORE THE UKIES NEVER ADHERED TO THE MINSK TREATY FROM DAY ONE AND THE U.S. AND THE REST OF SO CALLED NATO NEVER PUSHED THEM TO DO SO. AND ANYWAY THE DONBAS REGION WAS LEASED TO THE SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF UKRAINE BACK IN 1956 BY THE SOVIET UNION, LEASED NOT GIVEN OR SOLD LEASED. SO WHEN THE SOVIET UNION COLLAPSED ALL LEASES OR CONTRACTS BECAME NULL AND VOID. ALSO THE DONBAS AND OTHER ETHNIC RUSSIAN AREAS WEREN’T ATTACKED UNTIL HILLARY AND OBAMA OVER THREW THE ELECTED PRO RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT IN UKRAINE IN 2013-14 INSTALLING THE SO CALLED PRO WESTERN GOV IT HAS NOW THE SO CALLED ZELENSKY DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT WHERE EVERYONE IS FREE TO WORSHIP THEIR GOD, THE IS FREEDOM OF PRESS, SPEACH ETC ETC. BUT ALL CHURCHES AND MONISTARIES HAVE BEEN BANNED AND SHUT DOWN, NEWSPAPERS SHUT DOWN, ELECTIONS DONE AWAY WITH, OPPOSITION PARTIES OUTLAWED, PEOPLE ON THE GOVERNMENTS KILL LIST HAVE BEEN ASSASINATED IN UKRAINE AND OTHER COUNTRIES, EVEN PEOPLE HERE IN THE USA AND UK HAVE BEEN FOUND ON THOSE LIST ANYONE WHO OPPOSES ZELENSKY AND HIS REGIME HAS ENDED UP ON SAID LIST. WELL IF YOU REALLY LOOK AT UKRAINE AND IT’S HISTORY YOU’LL SEE WE THE USA HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO BUSINESS BEING THERE LET ALONE SENDING BILLION OF DOLLARS IN CASH AND BILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN ARMS EQUIPMENT AND AMMO LEAVING OUR COUNTRY DEFENSELESS.
What kind of person writes in all caps?
WHEN YOU WRITE IN ALL CAPS IT SOUNDS LIKE YOU’RE SHOUTING.
USING CAPITAL LETTERS TO INDICATE STRONG FEELING MAY BE THE MOST FAMOUS EXAMPLE OF TYPOGRAPHICAL TONE OF VOICE. BUT THERE ARE DIFFERENT KINDS OF STRONG FEELINGS. LINGUIST MARIA HEATH ASKED A CROSS SECTION OF INTERNET USERS TO RATE THE DIFFERENCE IN EMOTION BETWEEN A MESSAGE IN ALL CAPS AND THE SAME MESSAGE IN STANDARD CAPITALIZATION. SHE FOUND THAT ALL-CAP STYLING MADE PEOPLE JUDGE HAPPY MESSAGES AS EVEN HAPPIER: “IT’S MY BIRTHDAY!!!” FEELS HAPPIER THAN “IT’S MY BIRTHDAY!!!” BUT IT DIDN’T MAKE SAD MESSAGES ANY SADDER: “I MISS U” IS JUST AS PATHETIC AS “I MISS U.” WHEN IT CAME TO ANGER, THE RESULTS WERE MIXED: SOMETIMES CAPS INCREASED THE ANGER RATING AND SOMETIMES THEY DIDN’T, A RESULT WHICH HEATH ATTRIBUTED TO THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN “HOT” ANGER (FIGHT ME) AND “COLD” ANGER (“FIGHT ME”).
A SINGLE CAPPED WORD, ON THE OTHER HAND, IS SIMPLY EMPHATIC. LOOKING AT EXAMPLES OF ALL-CAPPED WORDS ON TWITTER, HEATH FOUND THAT THE MOST COMMON SINGLE ONES INCLUDED NOT, ALL, YOU, AND SO, AS WELL AS ADVERTISING WORDS LIKE WIN AND FREE: THE SAME KINDS OF WORDS THAT ARE OFTEN EMPHASIZED IN SPOKEN CONVERSATIONS (OR COMMERCIALS). WHEN WE WANT TO EMPHASIZE SOMETHING IN SPEECH, WE OFTEN PRONOUNCE IT LOUDER, FASTER, OR HIGHER IN PITCH—OR ALL THREE AT ONCE. ALL CAPS IS A TYPOGRAPHIC WAY OF CONVEYING THE SAME SET OF CUES.
EMPHATIC CAPS FEEL LIKE THE QUINTESSENTIAL EXAMPLE OF INTERNET TONE OF VOICE, AND SURE ENOUGH, THEY’VE BEEN AROUND SINCE THE VERY EARLY DAYS ONLINE. LINGUIST BEN ZIMMER FOUND PEOPLE IN OLD USENET GROUPS EXPLAINING THAT ALL-CAPS MEANT YELLING AS FAR BACK AS 1984. WHAT’S MORE INTRIGUING IS THAT CAPITALS WERE AVAILABLE FOR EMPHASIS LONG BEFORE THE INTERNET AS WELL. THE LINGUIST JOHN MCWHORTER DATES SHOUTY CAPS BACK TO PIANIST AND WRITER PHILIPPA SCHUYLER IN THE 1940S, WHILE AUTHOR L. M. MONTGOMERY HAS A CHARACTER USE BOTH CAPITALS AND ITALICS FOR EMPHASIS IN HER FICTIONAL DIARY ENTRIES OF THE 1920S, WHICH ANOTHER CHARACTER CRITICIZES AS “EARLY VICTORIAN”— MEANING OLD-FASHIONEDLY MELODRAMATIC, EVEN BACK THEN. GOING YET FURTHER BACK, A NEWSPAPER IN 1856 DESCRIBED A LINE OF DIALOG WITH THE PHRASE “THIS TIME HE SHOUTED IT OUT IN CAPITAL LETTERS.”
BACK IN THE HEYDAY OF PERSONAL LETTER WRITING, ALL-CAPS WAS JUST ONE PART OF A BROADER EMOTIONAL ECOSYSTEM FOR EXPRESSING STRONG FEELING, ALONG WITH ITALICS, UNDERLINING, LARGER LETTERS, RED INK, AND OTHER DECORATIVE FORMATTING OPTIONS. THE EMOTIONAL USE WASN’T EVEN THE MOST PROMINENT OPTION: ALL-CAPS WAS WIDELY USED TO AVOID THE IDIOSYNCRASY OF JOINED HANDWRITING, SUCH AS IN COMIC STRIPS, ON FORMS (“PLEASE FILL OUT YOUR NAME IN BLOCK CAPITALS”), OR IN OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS BY LAWYERS, ARCHITECTS, AND ENGINEERS. TYPEWRITERS AND EARLY COMPUTER TERMINALS MADE ILLEGIBLE HANDWRITING LESS OF A PROBLEM, BUT THEY ALSO INTRODUCED A NEW ONE: THEY WOULDN’T LET YOU TYPE ITALICS AND UNDERLINES OR CHANGE FONT SIZES (FOR THAT MATTER, MANY SOCIAL MEDIA SITES STILL DON’T). THIS CREATED A VACUUM INTO WHICH THE PREEXISTING BUT RELATIVELY UNCOMMON SHOUTY CAPS EXPANDED.
THIS BRINGS US TO A PUZZLE. EARLY INTERNET GUIDES LIKE THE JARGON FILE, WIRED STYLE, AND WEBSITE FAQS MENTIONED ALL-CAP STYLING, BUT NOT TO FACILITATE SHOUTING, THE WAY THAT *BOLDING ASTERISKS* OR _ITALICIZING UNDERSCORES_ WERE RECOMMENDED TO COMPENSATE FOR THE LACK OF OTHER FORMATTING THAT CAN INDICATE EMPHASIS, OR A SMILEY FACE WAS RECOMMENDED TO FACILITATE SARCASM AND JOKING AROUND. NO, THEY WERE GENERALLY TRYING TO DISCOURAGE IT, MEANING THAT A FAIR PERCENTAGE OF ’80S AND ’90S COMPUTER USERS WERE WRITING THEIR ROUTINE CORRESPONDENCE IN ALL-CAPS. (THE ’90S VERSION OF “OH MY GOD, MY BOSS DOESN’T REALIZE THAT PERIODS ARE PASSIVE-AGGRESSIVE” WAS “OH MY GOD, MY BOSS DOESN’T REALIZE THAT ALL CAPS IS SHOUTING.”) WHERE DID THE IDEA THAT IT WAS EVER OK TO TYPE A FULL MESSAGE IN BLOCK CAPITALS COME FROM? AFTER ALL, PEOPLE HAVE BEEN HANDWRITING IN LOWERCASE FOR OVER A THOUSAND YEARS, AND EVEN THE MELODRAMATIC EARLY VICTORIANS DIDN’T CAPITALIZE EVERYTHING. WHY WOULD ANYONE SUDDENLY SWITCH TO ALL-CAPS ON A COMPUTER?
PART OF THE BLAME MAY GO TO MORSE CODE, THAT DASHINGLY DOTTY SYSTEM USED FOR SENDING TELEGRAMS. MORSE CODE REPRESENTS EVERY LETTER AS A COMBINATION OF DOTS AND DASHES, SUITABLE FOR TRANSMITTING AS LONG OR SHORT TAPS ALONG AN ELECTRICAL LINE: A IS DOT-DASH, B IS DASH-DOT-DOT-DOT, AND THE REST OF THE 26 LETTERS CAN ALL BE REPRESENTED AS COMBINATIONS OF UP TO FOUR DOTS AND/OR DASHES. BUT IF WE WANTED TO INCLUDE LOWERCASE LETTERS, WE’D NEED A FIFTH AND A SIXTH DOT OR DASH, BECAUSE WE’D BE REPRESENTING 52 SYMBOLS, AND TELEGRAPH OPERATORS WOULD HAVE TO MEMORIZE TWICE AS MANY CODES. UNSURPRISINGLY, PEOPLE DECIDED IT WASN’T WORTH IT—IF ALL-CAPS WAS GOOD ENOUGH FOR THE ROMANS, IT WOULD BE GOOD ENOUGH FOR TELEGRAMS.
RIVERHEAD BOOKS
EARLY COMPUTERS WERE VERY SIMILAR. SOME USED TELETYPE MACHINES— THE MECHANICAL DESCENDANTS OF TELEGRAPH OPERATORS—AS A WAY TO TRANSMIT OR PRINT OUT INFORMATION. THE CLASSIC FIRST COMMAND THAT YOU LEARN WHEN YOU START TO CODE IS SOMETHING LIKE PRINT(“HELLO WORLD”), WHICH CAUSES THE COMPUTER TO DISPLAY HELLO WORLD ONSCREEN. IT DOESN’T MAKE THE COMPUTER PRINT OUT ON PAPER HELLO WORLD, BUT AT ONE POINT IT DID—BACK BEFORE SCREENS, WHEN WE COMMANDED COMPUTERS BY KEYING WORDS INTO A TELETYPE MACHINE AND RECEIVED THEIR REPLIES PRINTED OUT ONTO ROLLS OF PAPER. EVEN ONCE COMPUTERS HAD SCREENS, STORAGE SPACE WAS STILL EXPENSIVE, AS PRECIOUS AS THE BRAIN CELLS OF A TELEGRAPH OPERATOR, SO MANY OF THEM, SUCH AS THE APPLE II, DISPLAYED EVERYTHING IN JUST ONE CASE—ALL CAPS. RELICTS OF THIS SETUP ARE STILL IN PLACE ON SOME COMMERCIAL COMPUTER SYSTEMS: TELETYPES ARE UNCOMMON, BUT YOUR GROCERY STORE RECEIPT, BANK STATEMENT, OR AIRPLANE TICKET MIGHT VERY WELL APPEAR FROM A ROLL OF SHINY PAPER, PRINTED IN ALL-CAPS.
BY THE TIME COMPUTERS DID START SUPPORTING LOWERCASE CHARACTERS, WE WERE FACED WITH TWO COMPETING STANDARDS: ONE GROUP OF PEOPLE ASSUMED THAT ALL CAPS IS JUST HOW YOU WRITE ON A COMPUTER, WHILE ANOTHER GROUP INSISTED THAT IT STOOD FOR YELLING. ULTIMATELY, THE EMOTIONAL MEANING WON OUT. THE SHIFT IN FUNCTION HAPPENED IN PARALLEL WITH A SHIFT IN NAME: ACCORDING TO THE MILLIONS OF BOOKS SCANNED IN GOOGLE BOOKS, THE TERMS “ALL CAPS” AND “ALL UPPERCASE” STARTED RISING SHARPLY IN THE EARLY 1990S. BY CONTRAST, IN THE EARLIER PART OF THE CENTURY, THE PREFERRED TERMS WERE “BLOCK LETTERS” OR “BLOCK CAPITALS.” PEOPLE TENDED TO USE “ALL CAPS” TO TALK ABOUT THE LOUD KIND, WHILE BLOCK CAPITALS MORE OFTEN REFERRED TO THE OFFICIAL KIND, ON SIGNS AND ON FORMS. BUT THE ADDITION OF ALL CAPS FOR TONE OF VOICE DIDN’T ELIMINATE THE OFFICIAL KIND OF CAPITALS, WHICH REMAIN COMMON ON EXIT SIGNS AND CAUTION TAPE AND CHAPTER ONE HEADINGS: THEY MAY BE EMPHATIC, BUT THEY AREN’T INTERPRETED AS ESPECIALLY LOUD.
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RATHER, OUR INTERPRETATION SEEMS TO FLIP DEPENDING ON WHETHER WE READ THE TEXT AS FORMAL OR INFORMAL: HOME IN A WEBSITE’S MENU BAR IS A MERE GRAPHIC DESIGN CHOICE, WHILE HOME IN A MESSAGE LIKE “UGH I WANT TO GO HOME” IS TYPOGRAPHICAL TONE OF VOICE.
ANOTHER WAY TO DO EMPHASIS ONLINE IS BY REPEATINGGGGGG LETTERRRRSSSS, ESPECIALLY FOR EMOTIVE WORDS LIKE “YAYYYY” OR “NOOO.” JUST LIKE SHOUTY CAPITALS, THE ORIGINS OF THIS PRACTICE PREDATE THE INTERNET BY MAANYYY YEARS. I SEARCHED THE CORPUS OF HISTORICAL AMERICAN ENGLISH FOR SEQUENCES OF AT LEAST THREE OF THE SAME LETTER (TO ELIMINATE COMMON ENGLISH WORDS LIKE “BOOK” AND “KEEP”). THE CORPUS CONTAINS TEXTS FROM 1810 TO 2009, BUT TO MY SURPRISE, THERE WERE HARDLY ANY RESULTS IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE CORPUS. THE FEW EARLIER EXAMPLES WERE MOSTLY JUST TYPOS, LIKE “COMMMITTEE,” OR NUMERALS, LIKE “XXXIII.” HERE’S THE OLDEST REAL EXAMPLE I COULD FIND, A CHARACTER PRETENDING TO BE A CANDY SELLER IN A NOVEL PUBLISHED IN 1848:
“CONFECTIONARY, CONFECTIONARY,” HE CRIED, BURSTING INTO A LOUDER TONE OF VOICE, WHICH RANG FORTH CLEAR AND DEEP-TONED, AS A BELL. “CONFECTIONARY!” AND THEN HE ADDED WITH GROTESQUE MODULATIONS OF HIS VOICE, “CONFECCTUNARRRY!”
“BY JOVE, HOW THIS REMINDS ME OF THE LITTLE FELLOW IN LONDON. I’LL GO THE COMPLETE CANDY-SELLER. I MIGHT AS WELL.”
“LADIES AND GENTLEMEN! HERE’S YOUR FINE CANDY, LOZENGES, APPLES, ORANGES, CAKES AND TARTS! HEEEERE’S YOUR CHANCE!”
THE “GROTESQUE MODULATIONS” OF THIS 1840S FAUX CONFECTIONER WERE AN ANOMALY, AHEAD OF THEIR TIME. THE AUTHOR RESPELLS THE ELONGATED “CONFECTIONARY” WITH A U, RATHER THAN PRESERVE THE COMPONENT LETTERS LIKE A MODERN WRITER WOULD DO. EVEN NOW-COMMONPLACE ELONGATIONS OF SOUNDS LIKE “AHHH,” “OOOH,” “HMMM,” “SSSHH,” AND “BRRR” DON’T START SHOWING UP IN THIS HISTORICAL CORPUS UNTIL THE DECADE BEFORE AND AFTER 1900, WHEREUPON THEY INCREASE STEADILY FOR THE NEXT HUNDRED YEARS, DISPLACING WORD-LIKE VERSIONS SUCH AS “AHEM” AND “HUSH.” RARE, ONE-OFF ELONGATIONS OF FULL WORDS LIKE “CONFECCTUNARRRY,” “EVVVERYONE,” AND “DAMNNN” FOLLOW IN SUBSTANTIAL NUMBERS A FEW DECADES BEHIND, STARTING TO RISE IN THE 1950S AND ’60S AND REALLY GETTING POPULAR IN THE 1990S AND 2000S. THE PERIOD WHEN LENGTHENING BECAME POPULAR LINES UP WITH THE RISE OF RECORDED SPEECH, SUCH AS PHONOGRAPHS, RECORDS, CASSETTES, AND CDS. IT MIGHT BE COINCIDENCE, BUT IT MIGHT ALSO BE THAT WHEN WE STARTED BEING ABLE TO PLAY AND REPLAY RECORDED SPEECH, WE STARTED PAYING MORE ATTENTION TO REPRESENTING IT PRECISELY. AT ANY RATE, IT’S CLEAR THAT THE GOAL OF REPEATED LETTERS IS TO REPRESENT SPEECH IN WRITING, BECAUSE THE EARLY EXAMPLES SHOW UP IN FICTIONAL DIALOG, ESPECIALLY IN PLAY SCRIPTS AND NOVELS.
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REPEATING LETTERS IS AN EXPRESSIVE TOOL THAT’S BEEN GROWING FOR OVER A CENTURY IN INFORMAL WRITING, NOT JUST ON THE INTERNET. AND IT ISN’T HAPHAZARD. ONE STUDY LOOKED AT THE MOST COMMONLY LENGTHENED WORDS ON TWITTER AND FOUND THAT THEY STILL TEND TO BE SENTIMENT WORDS. THE TOP 20 MOST LENGTHENED WORDS ARE A CORNUCOPIA OF EMOTIONS: NICE, UGH, LMAO, LMFAO, AH, LOVE, CRAZY, YEAH, SHEESH, DAMN, SHIT, REALLY, OH, YAY, WOW, GOOD, OW, MAD, HEY, AND PLEASE. SEVERAL STUDIES HAVE FOUND THAT THIS EXPRESSIVE LENGTHENING, AS LINGUIST TYLER SCHNOEBELEN NAMED IT, IS SENSITIVE TO SOCIAL CONTEXT: PEOPLE LENGTHEN MORE IN PRIVATE TEXTS OR CHAT MESSAGES THAN IN PUBLIC POSTS.
PEOPLE ARE ALSO SENSITIVE TO LINGUISTIC CUES. IN A STUDY I DID WITH THE LINGUIST JEFFREY LAMONTAGNE, WE FOUND THAT WHILE PEOPLE GENERALLY LENGTHEN THE RIGHTMOST LETTER IN A WORD, THEY’LL ALSO LENGTHEN THE RIGHTMOST LETTER IN A SMALLER UNIT OF SOUND. FOR EXAMPLE, IN THE WORD “DREAM” THE “EA” TOGETHER INDICATES THE VOWEL SOUND, SO PEOPLE WILL LENGTHEN THIS WORD AS EITHER “DREAAAM” OR “DREAMMM.” BUT IN THE WORD “BOTH,” THE TWO MIDDLE LETTERS “OT” ARE NOT A UNIT (THE “T” BELONGS WITH THE “H” INSTEAD), SO PEOPLE LENGTHEN IT AS “BOTHHHH” OR MAYBE “BOOOTH,” BUT NEVER “BOTTTTH.” BUT PEOPLE AREN’T COMPLETELY TIED TO PHONOLOGICAL FEASIBILITY. THEY OFTEN WRITE THINGS LIKE “STAHPPP” OR “OMGGGG,” BUT IT’S NOT PHYSICALLY POSSIBLE TO HOLD PPPPP OR GGGGG FOR MORE THAN AN INSTANT. EVEN MORE IMPROBABLY, PEOPLE SOMETIMES “LENGTHEN” SILENT LETTERS, WRITING “DUMBBB” OR “SAMEEE.” WHAT’S COOL ABOUT EXPRESSIVE LENGTHENING IS THAT, ALTHOUGH IT STARTED AS A VERY LITERAL REPRESENTATION OF LONGER SOUNDS, IT’S ENDED UP CREATING A FORM OF EMOTIONAL EXPRESSION THAT NOW HAS NO POSSIBLE SPOKEN EQUIVALENT, MAKING IT MORE AKIN TO ITS TYPOGRAPHICAL COUSINS, ALL-CAPS AND ITALICS. ON THE WHOLE, INDICATORS OF STRONG FEELING HAVE REMAINED REMARKABLY STABLE SINCE THE EARLY DAYS OF THE INTERNET, AND FOR MUCH OF THE PAST HUNDRED YEARS. CATULLUS OR CHAUCER WOULD HAVE BEEN AT A LOSS, BUT L. M. MONTGOMERY FROM THE 1920S WOULD HAVE HAD NO PARTICULAR DIFFICULTY TELLING WHEN A MODERN TEXT MESSAGE WANTED TO EXPRESS EXCITEMENT OR EMPHASIS. PERHAPS THIS STABILITY IS BECAUSE WE DON’T FEEL AS CREATIVE WHEN WE’RE IN THE GRIPS OF STRONG EMOTION, OR PERHAPS IT’S BECAUSE STRONG FEELINGS ARE SO CLEARLY IMPORTANT THAT WE HAD TO FIGURE OUT SOMETHING.
FROM BECAUSE INTERNET: UNDERSTANDING THE NEW RULES OF LANGUAGE, BY GRETCHEN MCCULLOCH, PUBLISHED BY RIVERHEAD, AN IMPRINT OF PENGUIN PUBLISHING GROUP, A DIVISION OF PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE LLC. COPYRIGHT © 2019 BY GRETCHEN MCCULLOCH.
as a famous psychiatrist/philosopher is believed to have said, “Not all cigars are penises.”
likewise, sometimes your Caps Lock key just gets stuck.
Took me 30.seconds to scroll past this shit
Scroll harder, bitch!
tl;dnr
Too loud; did not read.
The kind that habitually jerks off over his keyboard. He must be right handed because that tracks with the caps lock location. He’s pulling everything to the left!
Stop shouting.
He can’t hear you. He’s blind!
Hers an antidotal economic report. We’ve been watching for signals.
Our fruit company buyer recently told us there is a glut of our fruit. Not worth picking. Also they lost their Asian market (huge. We’re working on other markets personally but are new-takes time).
. Okay, there can be other reasons for these two bad news items.
Then the word is out in our market that grocery stores have really slowed down buying. I went, hmmmm
Then saw this article, with a bad title:
https://www.activistpost.com/2023/07/shifting-consumer-behavior-conagra-ceo-warns-americans-now-cut-back-on-food-purchases.html
Which states a big slow down in the grocery market in general.
On the plus side prices will come down so stock up. The negative side is if you can get it.
Upping my canning game.
LOL very wise! And maybe a garden or smallholding?
https://austrianpeter.substack.com/p/the-financial-jigsaw-part-2-localisation?s=w
Well they want ,3 bucks for a can of fruit cocktail not many takers
Canned stuff I was buying <$1 3-4 years ago has all doubled in price, at minimum. Almost nothing under $1 now. Most $2.25+
Gone almost entirely local now. Miss many things not grown here, but not paying $2+ for a tiny can of fruit.
The cost of the can of fruit cocktail hasn’t changed, it’s the value of the dollar you use to purchase it; it’s worth less than a pile of dog cr*p. Tell me: just how much silver is there in a dime today.
And that thing they installed in the White House has been burning out the bearings in the printing presses; he can’t ship it over to the Ukraine fast enough – and now 3000 of our servicemen (oh yeah: and women). And all for a border dispute that doesn’t even concern us: the Ukraine is not the Sudenland, Vladimir Vladimirovich isn’t Adolf, and this is 2023 not 1938.
Many thanks Guest – an excellent find. It’s all part of the Globalist plan to kill economies, at least in the West, because 200 years of growth ended around the beginning of this century. UK is a leading example which I noted in the Substack version email that accompanies my Letter.
https://austrianpeter.substack.com/p/the-financial-jigsaw-part-2-the-end?s=w
I said:
“And back in Britain, Mark Dowding, the BlueBay chief investment officer at RBC BlueBay Asset Management, expects growth to “slow to a standstill in the second half of the year”, with the outlook in 2024 also looking downbeat. Some would say economic depression but we can’t mention the ‘D’ word – it might frighten the horses!” Here’s the UK’s pathetic 25 year ‘growth’ story:
You can see the extreme effect of lockdown in 2020-2022. They want to do again – they just need a believable narrative – good luck with that.
Jimmy Savile is now in a very special, very hot place in hell set up for just for the likes of him. Unfortunately, it seems has a lot of company.
Related.
I wouldn’t date a “trans woman” because I don’t fuck men.
Jew Blumenthal the hero of Vietnam.
y’ mean like the Jew Kerry, the other Nam hero.
or the Jew Carter, who welcomed back all the heros who ran to Canada or the ones who ran to Britain like the Jew Clinton.
Suggest he get some real combat experience and help out the Ukies on the front lines.
If it takes a nuclear war to defeat Globohomo then so be it.
A guillotine is just as fast with fewer side effects and far, far more satisfying.
Sick.
Rope and lamp posts.
Lots of rope and lamp posts.
So all the world can see where dreams of tyranny lead.
The stench will help remind them too.
When the bodies finally rot off, leave the rope up to further the point.
The Romans had good ideas CA: “Frequently, the legs of the person executed were broken or shattered with an iron club, an act called crurifragium, which was also frequently applied without crucifixion to slaves. This act hastened the death of the person but was also meant to deter those who observed the crucifixion from committing offences.
BUT we mustn’t forget ‘Vlad the Impaler’ ruler of Walachia (Vlad III Dracula). His methods even beat the ‘Viking’s Spread Eagle’ for long suffering and slow, painful death.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vlad-the-Impaler
Let me know when you have caught one of the Globalist f**kers. 🙂
“Is US/NATO preparing to wage a nuclear war?”
No. I don’t doubt that there are many mentally deranged chickenhawks and war pigs (e.g., most neocons, Lindsey Graham, Richard Blumenthal, etc.) who would like to see a nuclear war, but ultimately they don’t make the important decisions. The NWO fully intends to (and will) implement their Great Reset/Agenda 2030 but they won’t use nuclear war. It is too uncontrollable and would likely kill many of their own. They are just going to use their current playbook of scamdemic/climate change lockdowns, kill shots, CBDCs, food supply reduction, etc to kill the majority of the population and herd the survivors into tightly controlled and monitored 15-minute cities. But they will continue to threaten nuclear war as a means of distracting the sheeple (along with all of their other distractions) so that the sheeple won’t figure out what is happening until it is too late and most of them are dead.
I don’t think nuclear war is their plan. It would break all the stuff they want to plunder.
Very true – but accidents can happen?
Perfect – you’re over the target and I agree wholeheartedly. The elites have far too much to lose in the event of a nuclear winter. It would mean worse than the medieval era:
All problems are from Jews.
At this point, Peter, I’m about ready to take that short walk out back of the equipment shed. Just waiting on my escort.
LOL TCS – time to prepare – because if the Nukes don’t fly (which is likely) what the Globalists have in mind would leave the survivors no better off than a nuclear winter anyway. Time to remember how they fed themselves as the agricultural era emerged: (Small is beautiful)