Yesterday evening when driving in East Lothian, occasional spectacular glimpses of the Forth and the hills, absolutely clear as far as could be seen, the Forth like a mirror for the clouds, their edges browned b the setting Sun, and on Radio Scotland came the show, ‘Take The Floor!’ with this wonderfully enthused man introducing each tune and a slice of its history, then inviting the listeners (no doubt in their tenements, a few wee drams down already, poised) to ‘TAKE THE FLOOR!’ and off they’d go. Every day The Broons! I also see curling stones on doorsteps sometimes, a Masonic thing?
Later on a long drive back to Edinburgh I was listening to a fascinating program on R4 reading the diaries of a gay British man from the late 40s to the 70s and all the persecution and underground scene that went with that, surprisingly young men from military units were mentioned very often as being game for (paid) action, and when Mr Lucas complained of being exploited there was debate as to who was really being exploited. He seemed to spend small fortunes on rent boys. It got riveting when talking about how this Mr Lucas may have been involved in murder, but at this riveting point as I’d pulled up outside a house, the customer was already on the doorstep so I missed those minutes, but a lovely chap he was who’d also moved up from England, never regretted it, said the pace of life was so much nicer, the people calmer. A really nice chat.
Just another day delivering posh food.
Sunday, drizzle, the progs all God Squad. One excerpt from the Bible, about attending a feast or wotnot, do not take the high seat as you’ll be asked out of it, instead take the lowest seat and your host will elevate you, let the humblers be humbled and the humble be elevated, which … hmm … seems like a bit of social gamesmanship, ‘avoid embarrassment at parties and let others big you up’. As if it were from the film Ridicule, tripping up dancers or throwing their shoes into the fire when called to meet the King. There was then something about inviting the poor and invalided as this is an innately blessed thing to do, as they can’t pay you back (which is somewhat disablist surely) and the payback will come when the ‘upright rise up’ (tautology?). I need to read the Big B, and the Koran, see what all the fuss is, how much of what’s claimed in their name is really just the projected bigotry of murderous shysters.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-62524031
If production can meet demand, but some of the key components in making solar panels have very finite production capacities worldwide, what with the impetus to buy them coming from soaring gas prices, but gas etc being integral to manufacturing abilities, this is a vice of soaring costs for the panels that may see them priced out of competition with fossil fuels. I don’t know but it seems Putin and the hydrocarbonists are Hell bent on wrecking the great transition by destroying the West’s economies and their ability to invest in green techs, while those same green techs become as expensive if not more than the fuels they replace – all meanwhile to the great benefit of fossil fuellers, like Russia. I think the USSR collapsed in part due to collapsed oil prices in the 1980s, so is this revenge, collapse the West with high gas prices? High everything prices, cause mass destitution, although at the same time if you crash the world’s economy you’ve taken out the ability to buy your gas, then your own hydrocarbon economy goes down and you with it. Hmm!
Already we know Putin’s bots and troll farms, and oligarch funds, have spread misinformation, targeted lies, and financed bent far-right politicos in the US and UK, meddled in elections, referendums, sown division, and made folk on all sides lose faith in democracy and faith in journalism, ‘fake news’, forever asking what is true and the motives of who tells them … then having sown such divisive chaos around they go for the kill, upending billions of lives and creating so many poor and destitute that the far-right traditionally love to hoover up. Bannon may go to jail, Dugin is wounded, Putin is ill, Trump may yet be put out of action by the FBI, but the damage they’ve already wrought, we may enter some epically black times.
The guy is a noted Holocaust denier and phobe of anything non-white, basically. I may have to look up this poison to see if they’re pushing the Great Replacement theory.
Farage, receiving death threats? Not like those we saw outside the Commons, as supported by Ian Paisley of the DUP, those deranged Puritans with whom the Tories entered into coalition.
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Re-reading this post from the top … well, that escalated quickly.
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