Scottish Sceptic

I thought today I would try to find any sensible group that has looked at preparing for a nuclear war … now that there is a realistic possibility of one.

The result of this search is that I found:

• Lots of articles about the cons of nuclear everything by Scottish this and that
• I found many articles about “cold war” “nuclear secrets” such as bunkers
• I found a fascist book group of “preppers” based in Scotland … who failed the first test of common sense preparation, which was that they using fascist book. Anyone who knows anything knows the last place anyone should look for useful information on contentious subjects is on manipulative censoring fascist book.
• And I found several links to articles on this website, which was  rather disconcerting.

That means, unless there is a sensible discussion on the “Scotland preppers” or whatever they are called on fascist book, I seem to be the only person in Scotland who has seriously looked at the subject.

Which begs the question: Should I, knowing as little as I do, offer myself as an “expert”?

But then reality hits me. What covid showed, is that in such a situation, government will consult the worst possible people (SAGE) and the result is that the response is the worst possible response. Why would I want to be part of the worst possible response?

Fortunately, the reality is that despite being the only person in Scotland I can find who has done serious research on the subject, I am highly unlikely to get consulted or influence government response.

So, whilst I might (reluctantly) offer myself to “help” … I am not expecting that offer to be taken up. Instead I will not be doing anything except my own and my family’s preparation. Which, to be fair, at this stage, is not a lot. It’s a plan to start doing something … at some future point in time … a bit like a New Year’s weight reduction resolution … except my plan will definitely start when certain conditions are met.

This is a difficult topic to talk about, because any specifics could influence the insane people who might trigger a nuclear war to kill more people. So, I will not talk about specifics.

But, one of the key things to know, is what will actually happen in terms of how many strikes and where.

One thing is clear, is that the “all out war” destroying everything is a total load of codswallop. I don’t whether it is deliberately false, or that the people who game planned it are sociopaths who expressed their own views of what they would like to do, but it makes no military sense.

So, I have been wondering what would actually happen. That affects timescales … as in from the point of the first knowledge that nuclear devices are going to be used, how long on average, do we have as individuals to respond? And, that depends on how the devices will be used, which depends on understanding the military strategy of those who are most likely to fire the devices on the UK.

…  and now I find I cannot say more.

For a naughty schoolboy who knows they are going to be found out and punished, the knowing they are going to be punished, without knowing when or how, is almost as bad as the punishment. Indeed, it can be worse. For many of those committing crimes are so distressed by the not knowing when or how they will eventually be caught and then prosecuted, willingly give themselves into the police and openly admit the crime to bring the horrific period of uncertainty to an end.

The UK has now committed an act of war. The UK knows it will be punished. But it does not know how that punishment will happen, when it will happen, nor because there are so many ways to punish another country, it may not even know if the punishment has happened, is happening or will happen. But it knows something is going to happen sometime.

There is no doubt about the precarious position of the US and UK economy with the massive debt and lack of support for the present unwanted occupants of the top job. So, it is quite possible that this endless speculation about the form and timing of the punishment, and the jumping onto anything that does happen as “potentially the start of the punishment”, that the UK & US markets could talk themselves into a recession. And, it would all be ably abetted by the Western Psyops desperate to push Russia into a response that would allow NATO to start WWIII before Trump takes over.

And, Russia need not do a thing.

The guilt of the criminal … creates the punishment.

Will the UK government be able to repress discussion of impending WWIII from the media?

Let’s see:

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Imagine a group of boys standing in front of the headmaster’s office expecting to get a caning … and everyone is blaming each other for getting them into trouble. And, inside the headmaster is laughing as he lets them wait.

Is there a lot of talk about nuclear war?

There are now posts indicating that the UK has participated in an act of war against Russia.

So, I went shopping to stock up on supplies. The bizarre thing, was walking around the shop because I knew that I was shopping because there was now a realistic prospect of the UK and US starting a nuclear conflict.

It was hard to square the isle of nappies, with the prospect of a nuclear war. Even more bizarre was the idea that, at some unknown point in the future, the store could be filled with terrified people all desperately seeking the last loo rolls. Why they would want loo rolls, is rather weird. There are many many things that I would put ahead of loo rolls on an apocalypse shop, but it is generally accepted, it will be loo rolls that shops run out of in the run up to a nuclear war.

One bizarre thing was buying a few extra long-life Christmas puds for “the stores”. In terms of shelf-life it made perfect sense, but I couldn’t help wondering what I, or whoever found those puds, would do with the Christmas theme.

There is of course, a finite chance that in the next five minutes, everything will kick off. So, there is the question: “do I really want this (whatever I’m doing) to be the last thing I do?” The logical answer is obviously that it doesn’t matter what I’m doing if I then die, it only matters if I live, and then it isn’t the last thing I did, so I should just keep doing what I’m doing.

A more pertinent question would be this: “do I want to remember (this) as the last thing I was doing before everything changed?” Yet, if I knew of anything better to be doing, I would be doing it. The only way I might change, is if I stopped caring about the future, and e.g. spent a lot of money now to enjoy myself now rather than later. But, if I did that, I’m giving up on the future, and if I did that, that would be the thing I most regret if something happened and everything changed.

I do of course, have a plan. But, as covid showed, there is no point sharing the plan. Most people are daft, and I do not want the last thing I do, to be wasting my time trying to convince daft people.

I could publish my plan … but any money I make, would either 1) be from scare raising from something that didn’t happen or 2) be making money from an event that makes money meaningless and so there is no point making money from it. So I will not be publishing.

However, in the hope we make it that far … Happy Christmas and a (very) Merry New Year.

With the confirmation that the US has participated with an attack on Russia, it is now the fact that the US is in a war with the US.

Попрыгунья Стрекоза
Лето красное пропела;
Оглянуться не успела,
Как зима катит в глаза.
Помертвело чисто поле;
Нет уж дней тех светлых боле,
Как под каждым ей листком
Был готов и стол, и дом.
Все прошло: с зимой холодной
Нужда, голод настает;
Стрекоза уж не поет:
И кому же в ум пойдет
На желудок петь голодный!
Злой тоской удручена,
К Муравью ползет она:
«Не оставь меня, кум милый!
Дай ты мне собраться с силой
И до вешних только дней
Прокорми и обогрей!» —
«Кумушка, мне странно это:
Да работала ль ты в лето?» —
Говорит ей Муравей.
«До того ль, голубчик, было?
В мягких муравах у нас
Песни, резвость всякий час,
Так, что голову вскружило». —
«А, так ты…» — «Я без души
Лето целое все пела». —
«Ты все пела? это дело:
Так поди же, попляши!»

I found this list of links of Bishop Hill

which hasn’t posted for a while. I was just wondering where to store the list, and I reckoned here would be most useful. (Note some links don’t work, but I’ve not checked for changed URLs). Also one blog owner who was quite obnoxious to me has been removed from the list.

• Science blogs
• Rational Optimist
• Harmless Sky
• Climate Audit
• EU Referendum
• Judith Curry
• No Tricks Zone
• Donna Laframboise
• The Blackboard
• The Air Vent
• Lubos Motls
• Richard Tol
• Pielke Jnr
• Shub Niggurath
• GWPF
• Roy Spencer
• Steven Goddard
• Jo Nova
• Climate Resistance
• Klimazwiebel
• Tom Nelson
• SPPI
• Mike Hulme
• Resilient Earth
• Science of Doom
• Dot Earth
• Paul Hudson
• Real Climate
• Met Office
• Hot Topic
• James Annan
• Bob Tisdale
• Tallbloke’s Talkshop
• Cameron Rose
• Digging in the Clay
• Surface temps
• Stoat
• Deltoid
• Deep Climate
• Climate Lessons
• Icecap
• Chiefio
• Bart Verheggen
• Tamino
• Fiona Fox
• Rabett Run
• Overmatter
• AJ Strata
• Omniclimate
• View from Here
• Barry Woods
• Bernie Lewin
• Joe Bastardi
• Scottish Sceptics
• Harold Ambler
• All Models are Wrong
• Polar Bear Science
• Geoff Chambers
• Doug McNeall
• Numberwatch
• Paul Homewood
• Oversensitive
• Simon Donner
• Green World Trust
• Paul Matthews
• Alex Cull
• Bob Carter
• Climate Change Predictions
• Climate Sceptics
• Euan Mearns

• Political blogs

• Liberal Vision
• Libertarian Alliance
• Language Business
• Head of Legal
• Cobden Centre
• Adam Smith Inst
• Civitas
• Cicero’s Songs
• IEA
• Guido Fawkes
• John Redwood
• Peter Risdon
• Brian Micklethwait
• Tim Worstall
• Longrider
• Samizdata
• Jock Coats
• James Bartholomew
• Douglas Carswell
• Liberal Conspiracy
• Iain Dale
• Chris Dillow
• Tory Diary
• Cranmer
• Political Betting
• Tax Research UK
• Orphans of Liberty

• Other blogs

• Biased BBC
• Sometimes It’s Peaceful
• Dare to Know
• Open Secrets
• The Volokh Conspiracy
• BBC College of Journalism
• No Hot Air

Global events have taken an extremely serious turn and as a result, I may not be able to post anything for some time.

Revolutions occur when those who control society do not respond to the concerns of the people in those societies, and those people decide that there is no other way to have their concerns addressed than to support revolution.

Free speech, something now so hated by the likes of Stärmer, is in fact essential for the likes of Stärmer, because unless he and his totalitarian fascists can hear what ordinary people are thinking, he will have no idea of what the ordinary people are thinking and therefore resentment and discontent will rise until there is revolution.

Of course, on the way, we are likely to get mass murders as occurred in Nazi Germany, Stalin’s USSR, Mao’s China, Pol Pot, etc., because as free speech is ended, both the governed and governing start embracing the extreme ideas. The governed murdering the masses and the masses finally realising they are on the road to be murdered eventually condoning or facilitating the murdering the government.

All Stärmer is now doing, is blocking the pressure release valve of society and, whilst that might give the appearance of quietening the pressure cooker, any engineer knows what is really going on.

In all the heat and fury of the appalling behaviour of Starmer, most people have not noticed that scepticism has become mainstream. It’s now widely accepted that the politicians and media are lying to us most of the time. Medics and academics are not far behind. They have done everything they can to discredit themselves, and now, rather than halt their lies and apologise in an attempt to improve their trustworthiness, they are doubling down with the lies. It’s a vicious circle. They can no longer keep spreading their politicised lies and retain credibility. The two are not compatible.

I am now finding myself shocked to hear someone who actually believes the lies, because they are a dying breed (in the case of covid literally). People are adjusting the way they view the world to take account of the fact that they are being endlessly lied to by the legacy media, politicians, academics and even doctors.

We now have societal anti-bodies against the obnoxious people who spread the climate & covid lies. Every time the liars try to push for more, there is now a rapid response that each time grows in magnitude. The resistance is growing far far faster than the disease.