The Post-Partisan Emporium

Thanks to ozarkmichael for writing this essay... Lenin's Disdain: The 1920 pamphlet on the relationship between Communists and the Proletariat.     by OzarkMichael In 1917 the bold Putilov factory workers (whose strike in 1905 spread throughout the nation and almost toppled the Tzar twelve years earlier) went on strike for better working and living conditions. This 1917 strike helped start the Russian revolution, the eventual result of which was Lenin and his Bolshevik party seizing power.   Two years later, in 1919, even though the Bolsheviks have gained power, the working conditions were worse instead of better for the Putilov workers. They did not have enough food rations, so once again the bold Putilov factory workers went on strike. They wanted the same rations as Bolshevik party members, or at least as good as Red Army soldiers. In response Lenin ordered a massacre of the workers by his newly formed pet agency, the Cheka, so 200 workers were shot without trial pour ...

Neil Oliver, the Madness of Teaching Children Nihilism Through the Insanity of the Green Energy Agenda  |  Sundance  |  During his weekly monologue, a refreshing blast of commonsense amid a world gone mad, GBNews host Neil Oliver pushes back against the ridiculous ‘green’ propaganda that people are parasites on the planet. Generations of children have been taught their existence is destroying the world, and the growing population is the source of environmental damage.  Yet none of that is true.  Greta Thunberg, the weird Swedish kid who tells all the adults around her what to do – and they listen, is the textbook example of a child scared out of her wits by anti-human propaganda, who grows up to become a cult leader.   WATCH: [ Transcript ] –  It’s time to stand up for humanity. Underlying so much of what is wrong in the West now, is a pernicious, baleful belief that there are too many people in the world – that people are the problem. Generations...

If we insist on doing the transition the hard, slow, costly way rather than the easy, fast, cheap way, it's going to be a needlessly arduous, soul-crushing slog. Let's cover a few common-sense points and ask a few questions about the Global Energy Crunch.  Let's start with the high-tech, super-costly solutions that many promote as the surefire source of abundant, affordable energy: thorium reactors, mini/modular-reactors, clean coal plants and fusion. Every one of these may turn out to be a solution, but in the here and now they take many years to build and huge sums of money.  Full-scale functioning examples of these technologies do not yet exist. Various prototypes are in development, but the timelines are long and uncertain. For example, one modular nuclear reactor design recently gained approval, and the first prototype will hopefully be ready for testing in 2030. As for when we can expect the first full-scale modular nuclear reactor to start producing electricity, nobo...