October 18, 2022

The UN rolls out an ad campaign telling you who you should or should not believe

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There's a lot happening but I think the most important story of the day is the Trucker Commission in Ottawa and we’re on the ground covering it intensively and extensively.

We’re live-tweeting it — by which I mean, we’re commenting on it in real time and we’re live-streaming it — by which I mean we’re just literally streaming the real-time video of the full proceedings.

We’re doing special reports and each night we have a livestream broadcast where we go over the day’s highlights. That’s all at the website TruckerCommission.com — I think we’re covering it more intensively than anyone else.

There is still other news in other places and we’re covering that of course.

Some of our top talent has just been in Berlin, Germany to report on the WHO World Health Summit conference.

I can tell you the best is yet to come from them — We have some explosive footage that we’ll share with you in a few days.

An interesting email from a viewer in Australia caught my attention about a strange poster he spotted, warning of the dangers of misinformation.

What caught my attention is the symbols on the poster — The one on the left is the UN symbol. And then there's a double checkmark symbol with a website: shareverified.au and a scannable QR code that goes to the same website.

That strikes me as weird.

What even is the meaning of that? What’s their point?

There’s a couple more photos of that UN symbol and that double checkmark symbol. And then another ad: “Every day is April Fool’s Day when it comes to information online. Always verify what you read online because not everything is true.”

Now of course, those are trite truims. Pretty banal. Some things aren’t true. Some things online aren’t true.

Always verify what you read online. I’m not sure if that’s possible, is it? How can you verify everything, always? You can’t — you have to trust some people.

And we learn over time, we remember things, through good experiences and bad experiences, we see patterns — this guy’s a liar, this guy’s pretty honest, this guy admits to making mistakes and tries to correct them — and this guy take government money and seems to parrot them.

I mean, we literally can’t verify everything we see online; the entire world is online; everything we do or see or read is online, it’s as absurd to say verify everything online as it would be to say verify everything you ever see or hear.

Verify the whole world.

Sorry, that’s absurd, you can’t, you don’t have the time or resources or frankly the interest. So we develop shortcuts. The patterns.

Based on what you know — do you trust, say, the United Nations?

That’s who paid for these ads, bizarrely. The UN is paying for ads in Australian subway cars about not trusting things online. OK. But what if I don’t trust the UN?

The UN itself isn’t trustworthy — it’s full of dictatorships.

Even their human rights council is stacked with human rights violators. Does the trust no-one motto apply to them, too?

But I actually clicked on the link they advertised; I scanned the QR code. And it took me to this page: https://shareverified.com

And naturally it’s about vaccine. They’re obsessed with it, aren’t they.

I mean, just Google Bill Gates gift to UN and you’ll get a sense of why.

He gives them billions to promote his interests and causes and foundations — and his businesses.

And he’s obsessed with vaccines, so you have to be too. Because the UN says so. And — you can trust them. Or can we verify what they have to say?

You can pretty quickly see that this isn’t just about a selfless pursuit of the truth. It’s about an information war, a battle for your mind. Here’s a page on that website the UN is promoting: Using Evidence-based Insights to Create Behavior Change.

So: They want to change you, they want to manipulate you. Change your behaviour. That’s what this is about.

And it’s about allies and enemies. Are you with them? Are you pro-UN? Pro-Bill Gates? Then you’re a friend. But if you’re an enemy, watch out: Fighting misinformation where it happens: striking first and often

Right. Strike the enemy! Except if the misinformation is from the UN and the WHO and the vaccine companies.

Yeah. Funny thing about misinformation — it’s always your opponent that’s guilty of it. Says the UN.

The UN wants you to take a pledge to fight their information enemies.

Here’s a video they’re promoting. It’s been up for a year — it’s had 337 views. I’m serious. It says you’re an emotional wreck who believes everything you see.

What even is the advice or take-away here?

Here’s another one that’s more grown-up:

340 views.

“Too good to be true?” Like that vaccines have a 90% effectiveness rate? That they stop you from transmitting the virus? That kind of too good to be true? But how can we verify things like that, if social media companies ban us from having full debates about them?

Pause and take care before you share. What on earth. They really think you are a foolish child. This is the website promoted with ads in an Australian commuter line.

They talk about emotional manipulation — beware of that. But that’s all they trade in.

I saw this weird line: "Pro-Russian networks are driving anti-Pfizer vaccine disinformation”.

Is that true? Is that the reason people are skeptical of mRNA vaccines by Pfizer? Russia did it? Is that really fact-checking?

So it’s got nothing to do with, say, Pfizer paying the largest health care fraud settlement in history, billions of dollars, for lying about their drugs? It’s not that, it’s Russia?

So I clicked on their “truth link” — this is the guy the UN says we should believe, because he’s “verified”, and I got this page.

Banned sites and pro-Russian networks are driving anti-Pfizer vaccine disinformation?

Well, Pfizer’s drug is experimental. That’s why it needs an EUA — it hasn’t finished done its clinical trials. Normally those take years. People aren’t really guinea pigs; that’s a metaphor — because guinea pigs are often used to test drugs before they’re tested on humans. Of course we’re not real guinea pigs. It’s a turn of phrase. But it’s obviously a fair comment.

I have no idea if Russia doesn’t like Pfizer.

But I’ve never read a single word from a Russian website about them. And the story starts off by saying the Russian sites have been deplatofmed — as in hidden, cancelled. So what are they banging on about?

Frankly, this feels like misinformation — whether or not Pfizer vaccines are good or bad is a debate we should have (thought these folks don’t want one).

But trying to “win” that debate by saying that the anti-Pfizer point of view is from Russia, trying to cut off debate before it begins by saying if you doubt this vaccine by an American company ordered by American and Canadian politicians into your own veins, using a new technology that has never been tried before, if you have concerns about this, you’re just a Russian dupe — yeah, no, that’s disinformation. And this “First Draft” truth fact-checker — come to think of it, I’ve never heard of them before. Maybe I should follow the UN’s advice after all — and verify their lies before believing them.

What a bunch of weirdness this anti-disinfiormation scam is. Free government money; globalist agendas, and an obsession with promoting vaccines.

What a bunch of kooks they are — yet they’re the ones telling you to doubt yourself.

You shouldn’t doubt your self — or at least, you shouldn’t doubt everything in the world, which is what these people want you to do.

They want you to distrust your own eyes; they want you to ignore everyone else, except them.

GUEST: Andrew Lawton, on the Public Order Emergency Commission.

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World Leaders in “Green Energy” Returning to Fossil Fuels; “The experiment has been disastrous”

World Leaders in “Green Energy” Returning to Fossil Fuels; “The experiment has been disastrous”

OCTOBER 18, 2022

By B.N. Frank

Green energy proponents in the U.S. continue to push funding for what they consider to be green (aka environmentally friendly) energy programs despite increasing problems associated with them – some of them environmental. For example, numerous problems have been associated with solar and wind energy as well as electric vehicles (EVs) and LED light bulbs. Additionally, research has determined that American power grids are extremely vulnerable (see 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8) and U.S. utility regulators have warned that the rush to eliminate fossil fuels is making them more so. Experts overseas are warning against the U.S. rush to eliminate fossil fuels as well.

From Full Measure:

Energy Crisis

By Full Measure Staff Sunday, October 16th 2022

We begin with an amazing development on the energy front. Right now, some of the world’s leaders in green energy are reluctantly returning to fossil fuel in a big way. That’s because what some see as a climate emergency has been overtaken by a more immediate crisis: a global energy disaster. Europe is rationing power and on the cusp of shortages and blackouts, worrying about citizens literally freezing over the winter. Today, we travel to the United Kingdom and Germany, where experts say their experience is a warning of what may come here, as the U.S. follows in their green energy footsteps.

You’re looking at an artist’s animation of a modern marvel, a massive project now under construction in the North Sea, off the northeast coast of England.

Sharyl: What role will the Dogger Bank Wind Farm play?

Alexandra Malone: So Dogger Bank Wind Farm is going to be, when it’s complete in 2025, the world’s largest offshore wind farm. It’s going to be able to provide over 5% of the U.K.’s electricity demand.

Alexandra Malone is with SSE Renewables, the company leading construction of the $10 billion project.

Malone: What you will see, when the wind farm is complete, is 277 turbines. These are state-of-the-art technology, you know, some of the biggest in the world. They are 260 meters tall, or — for an American audience — they are the same height as the tower at the Rockefeller Center in New York.

So remarkably big, a blade’s single rotation will generate enough to power a home for two days. It’s all part of a master plan to hasten the death of fossil fuels like coal, oil, and natural gas.

Europe is far ahead of the U.S. in terms of aggressive moves to get to what’s called “net zero” — to add zero pollutants like carbon dioxide from coal plants to the atmosphere. Great Britain’s “Build Back Greener” plan, unveiled last year, promises to get there by 2050.

But on our recent visit to Great Britain, we found clean energy optimism dissolving into doubt.

Sharyl: Any thoughts about Europe’s green energy progress, or the United Kingdom’s green energy progress? They want to get to net zero by 2050.

Cyclist: Well, obviously, here on bicycles, we’re very much big on recycling and net zero and no emissions. We’re never going to get there. Never going to get the target at the moment.

The fact is, there’s been a fast and remarkable turnaround in Europe’s green agenda. They’re ramping back up on fossil fuel. Greece, the Netherlands, and the Czech Republic have already reopened shuttered coal plants and resumed coal mining where it had been halted. Germany has authorized restarting 27 coal plants.

David Cowling of King’s College University in London.

Sharyl: I think that’s a very tangible thing — if they’re reopening coal plants, that may look like failure.

David Cowling: Absolutely. And I don’t know if there’s any way to explain it away, because — how can you? You know, the coal is regarded as one of the worst pollutants, and for a country that has been at the forefront of wanting to advance the course of green energy, to have to reopen those coal mines is an admission of defeat.

It was a singular event that exposed serious fault lines in Europe’s ambitious climate change plans. The war in Ukraine has laid bare poor planning, unrealistic goals, and reliance on an unreliable partner: Russia. Russia was providing half of the European Union’s coal and 40% of its gas.

Russia has already dramatically cut what it’s selling the EU. Now, amid soaring energy prices and critically short supplies, Europe has set a target of a 15% reduction in its citizens’ gas usage and has warned it’s on the cusp of winter rationing and blackouts.

France and Spain limited air conditioning in businesses over the summer. Germany has banned heating of pools and warming of offices above 66 degrees. And there have been mass protests over the German government’s handling of the mess.

Cowling: Germany has certainly been very active in trying to go green. But like a lot of countries that are going green, they still substantially rely upon fossil fuels. You can’t suddenly go and change from, you know, 100% fossil fuel to 100% green. It doesn’t work like that. And whilst there were abundant supplies of traditional fossil fuels and natural gas, people could imagine moving in steady stages towards more green energy. But actually, once you disrupt that system, once you turn off the taps, it brings home very brutally and very quickly how dependent you are.

The disaster unfolding in Europe may foreshadow what’s to come in the U.S., which is following in Europe’s footsteps.

Just as Europe was descending into its crisis and scrambling to dial back on clean energy, President Biden was signing the biggest climate change bill ever in the U.S., the “Inflation Reduction Act.”

President Biden (August 16th): The Inflation Reduction Act invests $369 billion to take the most aggressive action ever, ever, ever, ever, in confronting the climate crisis and strengthening our energy security.

John Constable: It’s baffling to me that the White House is not focusing on this disastrous result and saying, “Well, they got it wrong. We ought to rethink this.”

John Constable is author of “Europe’s Green Experiment.” We caught up with him in London.

Sharyl: What have we seen, or what could the U.S. learn from Europe?

Constable: Europe is much further ahead. We’ve spent much more. We’ve learnt much more. Or at least, we could have learnt a great deal, and so can you. The experiment has been disastrous, to put it no more strongly. Since around about 2008, we’ve spent nearly $800 billion subsidizing renewable energy. The costs have not fallen. We’ve not got a green industry. All we’ve done is increased consumer costs — dramatically increased consumer costs.

We found similar analysis in Germany, where the ideal of green energy has crashed into reality, according to Professor Alexander Libman.

Alexander Libman: It’s very difficult to master this great transition under the conditions of economic crisis and with a population which will fully suffer from possible energy deficit. There are simply no alternatives for gas supply on the global market Germany and other European countries can rely upon. There is no substitute.

Sharyl: So, what happens?

Libman: I don’t know. Nobody knows, actually. The hope is that Putin doesn’t stop gas supply.

Sharyl: It seems like this is, maybe then, a turning point in a quick march forward in Europe toward climate change policies and green energy. Now, is all of that having to be re-configured?

Libman: Absolutely. I think if you talk to somebody who clearly subscribes to the Green Party agenda, they would say that’s exactly the moment when one needs to push forward, and that’s the moment when their energy transition really has to happen. But I’m not so sure about that.

But pushing forward on green energy ever harder is the strategy supported by politicians like Stella Creasy in London. She’s a left-leaning Member of the U.K. Parliament.

Stella Creasy: For many of us, the answer isn’t to go back to fossil fuels. It’s to put the investment into renewable energy, because that also makes us less reliant on people like Russia and the terrible things that they’re doing in the Ukraine and the way they’re holding the world to ransom in that way.

So far, it’s still full speed ahead for the Dogger Bank Wind Farm project. Which is scheduled to start producing its first wattage next summer and for a projected lifetime of 35 years.

Meantime, the U.K. and other European countries are implementing costly plans to help their citizens pay skyrocketing energy bills, keep the lights on, and heat their homes this winter. It’s a $500 billion tab and growing, ultimately billed to taxpayers.

Sharyl: People who aren’t watching this carefully but they do like the idea of green energy, and they’re well-meaning — I’m talking about people in the United States — what is your advice to them?

Constable: Look carefully at what’s happened in Europe and make up your own mind about whether it’s been a success. Do you really want to see falling energy consumption, de-industrialization, extremely high consumer prices across the board from industry right way through to households? If that’s what you want, well, by all means, go ahead. Copy Europe and its experiment. If, on the other hand, you want to prosper and be a defensible and independent country still — well, think again.

Sharyl (on-camera): How bad is it? Slovakia’s prime minister recently declared that skyrocketing electricity costs have put the country’s economy at risk of collapse.

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Of course, utility “Smart” Meters (electric, gas, and water) are also still being promoted worldwide as “green” and essential for “energy efficiency” (and beneficial to consumers) even though reports and studies continue to prove otherwise (see 1, 2). Environmentally unfriendly issues associated with “Smart” Meters include fires, explosions (see 1, 2, 3, 4), and harmful radiation emissions. Opposition to “Smart” Meters has been ongoing since utilities first started deploying them over a decade ago. Adding insult to injury, the cost for their installation, maintenance, operation, and replacement is often passed on to consumers.

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“Smart” thermostats are now also being promoted as “green” and essential for energy efficiency (and beneficial to consumers). NOT SO according to studies published last month (see 1, 2). Other complaints have been reported about “Smart” thermostats as well. Additionally, experts have warned that they too threaten power grids! Argh!

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