Passing Observations 256

Dr Vernon Coleman MB ChB DSc
VernonColeman.com

1. President Biden has the sort of mask like face seen with Parkinson’s Disease. Is it remotely possible that he could be taking Levadopa for this condition? This drug can cause confusion. Is it remotely possible that Biden wants to remain President so that he can pardon his son and avoid prison? What a tragedy it is that both American Presidential candidates seem more suited to institutional care than another four years in the White House.

2. Nine out of ten British workers admit that they are practising `quiet quitting’ – they are doing the least amount of work they have to do to avoid being sacked. This is one reason why productivity in Britain is lowest in the world. Quiet quitting has cost the economy hundreds of millions and seems destined to continue. It is why no one much cares and nothing much gets done.

3. The Guardian newspaper claims that `the rich and powerful’ try to stop it publishing stories and complains about `lobby groups with opaque funding who are determined to undermine facts about the climate emergency and other established science’. Er, since when has there been any established science about the alleged climate emergency? Climate change is a dangerously subversive myth promoted by crazed billionaires, Bilderbergers and members of the World Economic Forum. And is this the same Guardian newspaper which has, since 2020, failed to encourage debate about the covid scandal and the toxic covid-19 vaccine? The Guardian is part of the mainstream media which has collectively suppressed free speech for years. The truth, of course, is that the covid-19 vaccine is toxic and never did what it was supposed to do. And the climate change story is a conveniently promoted myth. I bet you won’t read that discussed in The Guardian. The Guardian is part of the media establishment – and must stand in the dock alongside the BBC and the Daily Mail.

4. Crypto currencies are now worth $3 trillion. Which is odd. Because they aren’t actually worth anything at all.

5. Within two or three years the AI industry will use as much energy as the Netherlands.

6. Planners refused permission for a new data centre in the UK because the proposed buildings would be visible from a motorway bridge.

7. Immigration is a huge problem in the US, Canada, Australia, much of the EU and the UK. Apart from oddities such as Monaco, England has been the most overcrowded country in the world for years and is now dangerously overfull. Within a year or so the UK population will be 70 million. And as the population goes up, so Britain will become poorer and public services will become more overstretched.

8. `To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything.’ – Emily Dickinson

9. The flat earthers are on the rise. They don’t believe in germs or gravity. Fortunately, they are easily recognisable. They wear shorts, long white socks and slip-on plastic sandals and carry a well-thumbed copy of The Guardian.

10. There are proposals for 500 new tower blocks (all at least 20 storeys high) for London. All part of the plan for 20 minute cities (or, more accurately, `20 minute suburbs’).

11. I’m sorry to have to tell you this but Britain is bankrupt. The country has £2.6 trillion in unfunded public sector pensions and that debt is growing daily. In the last year the State had added another 132,000 people to the Government payroll. State apparatchiks are breeding like flies. Student debts are roaring upwards with students already owing over £200 billion to the State. And most of that won’t be paid. We’ve spent hundreds of billions on other people’s wars and we’re planning to spend hundreds of billions on Net Zero. The response to this will be to push up taxes on entrepreneurs. Most of them will emigrate taking their money with them. If Britain were a company no one would invest in it.

12. Health care used to be organised to keep people alive and well. As the months and years go by it will become increasingly clear that the main aim of organised health care is to kill people without drawing too much attention to what is happening. To help yourself survive please read `How to stop your doctor killing you’. You can buy a copy via the bookshop on vernoncoleman.com.

13. The new Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive is going to result in thousands of small firms closing. And most of the owners will probably emigrate.

14. Once a source of copper or tin has been identified it now takes almost 20 years to build a mine. Even if permissions and money can be obtained. Abandoned tin mines in Cornwall could probably be made profitable. But what chance is there of them ever being reopened? And yet tin is massively in demand and very expensive since electric vehicles use three times as much tin as proper cars use. Tin is also required for the computer chips for AI. So, Cornwall will remain dependent upon tourists they don’t want.

15. Climate change nutters are excited that companies are using electric arc furnaces instead of coal to turn iron into steel. There is one small snag. Fossil fuels are needed to produce the electricity. But the nutters, who close their eyes and stick their fingers in their ears, don’t want to know that.

16. My favourite sign of all time was one on a beach in Devon which read `Do not throw stones at this notice’. That was all it said.

17. Global commodity prices are going higher because Net Zero requires vast amounts of copper (for all that wiring) and Net Zero nutters have stopped banks from investing in mining. Oh, and the extra taxes mean that companies aren’t going to bother removing oil from the North Sea. Finally, solar engineering (blocking the sun) will reduce the already miniscule solar production of electricity.

18. Fifteen years ago over half of all UK payments were made with cash. Today less than 10% of payments involve cash. Not surprising really since in the last five years some 15,000 cash machines have been removed and over 2,000 bank branches have closed.

19. Online anonymity has made the internet a swamp and has, paradoxically, damaged freedom and privacy. Please read `How to protect and preserve your freedom, identity and privacy’. You can buy a copy through the bookshop on vernoncoleman.com.

20. I predict that the UK’s postal service (Royal Mail) will be dead and buried in five years’ time. We’ll miss it.

21. Re-wilding will destroy farming. And we will all have to eat insects reared in vertical factories inside our 20 minute cities.

Copyright Vernon Coleman July 2024

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