From January 1st, 2013, onwards Denmark has forbidden oil or gas fired heating systems for new builds; for existing heating systems 2016 will be the deadline.
Even though mainstream avoided and avoids this ground breaking news making headline - all over Europe, not only the UK! - there are already sarcastic comments floating around on how tiny Denmark believes it would make a da... bit of a difference, etc.
Stupid, arrogant foolishness; no, it is intentional ignorance!
By the way, any news on the offshore leaks?! No! Wonder why? And then this hits the Italian nail on its cappella:
Listening to all this media crap today, those endless lies and all kinds of red herrings, flooded with mainstream's latest propaganda makes me reminisce about the times when politicians were leaders, thought leaders, forward thinkers that (always!) gave speeches that one had to work on; often chew on; but at all times trying to take one through the mist towards the truth.
Willy Brandt had to have his last speech read to the delegates of the SPD convention by Hans-Jochen Vogel in September 1992; the last sentence read:
„Nichts kommt von selbst. Und nur wenig
ist von Dauer. Darum – besinnt Euch auf Eure Kraft und darauf, dass jede
Zeit eigene Antworten will und man auf ihrer Höhe zu sein hat, wenn
Gutes bewirkt werden soll.“
"Nothing happens by itself. And only very little is permanent - hence, bethink your power and the fact that every time wants its own answers; and that one has to keep pace with time if good shall be done."
I very much doubt any politician in charge today has managed to keep pace with time; they all keep pace with mainstream, no doubt, with mainstream setting the standards with its alleged but confounded ideas of creating free markets for free people while it is nothing else but a bonanza for the very rich to become very richer - assisted by the many want-to-be-rich-or-at-least-part-of-it - while the huge rest falls to pieces and poverty. What a stupid idea! What a lousy way of leading. Does anybody still believe there shall good be done?
When QE was the last resort they promised to watch inflation to not kick in; now they forge statistics, fiat money every bloody day and want to deflate the currency at any price; they skim the savers, install capital controls that they will never be able to lift again but let the big ones run offshore; when offshore leaks mainstream is already there and takes its silencium. And as all do everything at the same time, in parallel, deflation is global with us all riding on the same corkscrew - no cork, though.
I have tried! is my loose translation of Mr. Brandt's words on his gravestone: Man hat sich bemüht!
I would like to add
Nichts bleibt wie es ist!
Nothing stays the same!
Carpe diem!
P.S. See below, funny, even in German (at 0.31 to 1.00): Willy Brandt's three-questions-three-one-word-answers-interview - he was offended by the fact that German TV had offered him a mere 90 seconds to talk about the first French-German Consultations, 1971, which he thought was way too short - those 90 seconds - for such an important meeting: they had had to discuss currency relations, FF/DM, by the way!
Would any of today's politicians let the chance pass to bla-bla-bla for 90 seconds!
I do not think I do:
I really do. It rather stinks; it is going to be one of those storms described as perfect. Perfect because things are
starting to fall into place that we expected to eventually fall but not all at
once.
I could live with bad management, lousy and/or corrupt
managers being punished like it finally seems
to happen with RBS
and HBOS’ so called former
bosses. Whether in the end any of those heroes will ever really get punished -
I doubt it. See the Libor
scandal! What scandal you might ask? True: that law-breaking insolence isdealt with behind those thick curtains that
protect today’s banksters’ offices from any light; just in case Deutsche Bank and
others set up provisions,
some hundred million Euro, measurements in return reducing their tax load and buying them off. But, that
scam will end without further consequences except for them trying harder, next time.
That Offshore
Leak might be a different story; for one there is not much about that in
British media, yet * ; may be that is because there are many off-shore
paradises, money wise in this case, that speak English, some very close, and many are somehow related
to thee Queen, thee Commonwealth and thee City? Mind you, we are told it
involved 170 countries and 120.000 letterbox-companies. Mind boggling that
amount of data going back 30 years and as much as this needs to be dealt with ** –
I am afraid this could be a financial and social tsunami. What if the Queen and
the Camerons are part of this, or even Tony and George? What if Putin, Merkel,
Hollande and Berlusconi plus Sarkozy needed to be arrested and put into the
same jail cell? Well, guess somebody would notice and put Madame Merkel into
the female block.
Watch the suicide and emigrant lists of those 170 countries … and do not believe a minute that any criminal or immoral aspect of all this will be put into any bankster's basket; evil to him who evil thinks and while all banks offer sophisticated off-shore services it is the stupid customer that gets caught, eventually.
Emigration will not really help anybody to avoid that
global currency
battle, now entering an unknown dimension with Japan going berserk. As a
measurement of last resort they are printing vast, vast, vast sums of money –
mind you, that’s hitting return after punching in 12 or 15 zeros behind a 1 or a two or actually any figure and that not only once but monthly from now on – fiat money the
easiest way, ever - to buy back their own crap; recycling, snow-balling, ponzi-ing? Government bonds and then dump them in a bin, or the worst bank, if that’s
the better name for it. That is the most daring monetary experiment of modern
times as The
Telegraph titled this flooding the market with YEN; the idea is to massively devalue
the currency for exports (jobs!) to grow fast and furious, to force-inject
inflation into what is a deflating economy and hope for nobody else following
that pattern.
That’s hopeless, stupid! What BO and BSB do for the
greenback in the US, why Merkel insists on a EURO agitated by the PIIGS’ and french stress to keep it soft, DC and GO want to do in the
UK; strengthen UK exports by weakening the Pound or rather vice versa; woau! How much of that export strength is left? I
believe proper schooling, training, apprenticeships worth the title, dual
education plus on-going, extensive studies and education would do much
better!Want an example?
While discussing Passiv
Haus Standard during this year’s ecobuild seminars and the
installation of a MVHR, a mechanical ventilation system including heat
recovery, UK experts explained coram publico that this would make things too
complicated, too difficult a gadget for the average British tenant/owner to
cope with.
Sorry? Hellooow!? Such
a system includes a ventilator and a mechanical heat exchanger controlled by
three or four buttons to press – basta.
Frightening;and
insulting: why would the average middle-European be able to cope with that kind
of high tech while the British … ?
Or, this very likely is the early result of adding the word vitiosus to this circulus
of cuts and savings into schools, training, education? Next step will be to forbid knife and fork endangering the hungry!
Apropos weak: how much does a weak Pound buy? We import more
than 50% of our energy and, while you might like it cold, more than 50% of our
food! Do you like strict diets? This year we might even have to import much more, or do you see UK
potatoes growing with the coldest March on record?
Just for another
record: in general terms importing means we have to pay in a foreign currency
after swapping Pound into $, € or ¥ where, please note, the last stands for the
YEN but also for the YUAN!
China is boosting
its defence spending by almost 11% - this year! Obviously China has the funds,
hardly any debts and something to prepare for or against? It is also growing
its agriculture and
pumping a lot of money into renewables.
Funny, isn’t it? We are cutting any incentives, we are discussing silly bedroom taxes for the poorest and
whether to install Casinos
in Cyprus to save its economy, Merkel’s Euro and Schaeuble’s regime - while China
prepares for its future. They might not value human life as high as we are rumoured to do, but then...
Well - the
Euro! Really, I wanted to avoid that criminal rubbish; it is still alive; rather,
it is not disconnected, yet, from life supporting but until lately utterly illegal
instruments such as bad banks, bail-outs and bail-ins, and the on-going … here we are again:
money printing.
A pity they cannot print jobs. Unemployment in the EU rates
are soaring, even the official ones, the ones that lack continuity and belief:
Spain 26.3%, Portugal 17.5% Italy 11.6%, Greece 26.4%;
that’s the overall one.
But our future even looks more difficult and much darker:
Spain 55.7%, Portugal
38.2%, Italy 37.8%, Greece 58.4%, France 26.2%; the official figures for
those between 18 and 24 years old. Official! And what kind of jobs does the rest have?
Low-paid ones, un-trained ones, picking tomatoes or serving beer to poor tourists? How many of them all have gone through any
decent apprenticeship and can base their lives on the founds of a sustainable
education?
You could call it the Euro’s unemployment bomb - until it explodes; no wonder DC
and GO think, why should they put any money and effort into a dying market of people needing
training and education?
Guess what, at least car sales show some sympathy:
Spain minus 13.9%, France minus 16.4%, Austria minus 19.9%,
Finland minus 58.6%, Germany minus 17.1, Netherlands minus 31.4, and in
addition Japan minus 16.7, Brazil minus 4.7%. So, really, how long can we be
happy and proud on headlines like UK car
sale rise for 12th consecutive month? And what is the base of
this rise, how are they paid for, those cars, and how long do they or does this
last?
Is it a coincidence that VW is creating new
jobs, outside the EU?
It becomes apparent that Mr Neo and Mrs. Lib have not only
allowed all those jobs to be exported to – mainly – China;
any kind of job machine has been given up for nothing,
for free. This is the third time I add this video… I think it should now read 2020, not
2030:
My respect, China. Age must help in becoming wiser.
While Gobi Dessert is growing steadily, 28% of Chinese
landmass is dessert-like area, anyway, and China buying all kinds of land
worldwide, we are all in for increasingly bad weathers; if you thought that
cold lately would tell us Global Warming has had it then I would recommend to
come to senses and title the problem Climate
Change. And that’s what it is.
The rate of changes multiplied by the level of ignorance in
solving any of our problems is unbelievable; we are presented with scientific results by crowds of scientists
from all over the world, they describe the problems we face, we see and in many cases feel those; we do understand most of them but we are
unwilling or incapable of addressing and solving them; or, even worse, we wilfully ignore them all for all kinds of stupid, bad and criminal reasons; that makes it
easy for the storm to become that perfect storm.
I can smell it.
Carpe diem!
* … might be that they all need time; similar to
the big fish on Cyprus when Putin took two days to decide whether he would
support Cyprus or rather give his friends and soon-to-be-friends time to visit
those London branches of the Cyprus banks to sort out their accounts just in
time…
** ... we will see capital control mechanisms installed like we had them before 1985, no question.
rockenergy is concerned with man made change and manipulation - from economy to ecology - and what should or should not be done; topics that will govern our lives for many years to come; topics that will be unpleasant to discuss with our children as they will ask us: "How could you?" or "Why didn't you?". Topics that we soon will be - or are already - fed up with. Becoming fed up with our very existence will not feed us, warm us, or carry us; it threatens our survival – and that of our children.