High Energy Prices Are the Fruits of A Biden Sellout
Tom Shepstone
Shepstone Management Company, Inc.
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Corporatism is an unholy alliance of the state and with elites of big business who seek favors more than profits and it’s behind so much of what is wrong today. We must end it.
Some of you probably wonder why I’ve spent so much time over the last couple of years writing about corporatism. One of the reasons is that it has become patently obvious to me the green energy movement is not what it seems to many others. Those on the left have assumed it is a necessary crusade to fight global warming. Those on the right see it as an ideological/political blunder based on a faulty narrative. I was in the latter camp but now I see things differently.
No, I have not switched sides, so to speak. What I have come to recognize is that the green energy movement is little more than a Potemkin village for what is a wholesale grab for power, money and complete control by elites who have forged an alliance between; a) those in business willing to throw capitalism to the wind in favor of corporatism guaranteeing favors far exceeding any possible real profits and b) the state itself, which has also brought academia and non-government organizations (NGOs) such as foundations into the mix.
I have spent many years now documenting the role of the NGOs from my little perch here at NaturalGasNOW and before that at Energy In Depth. It was eye-opening at first to see the ideological side of things and how wealthy foundations controlled the narrative and even agencies such as the corrupt DRBC, flaunting the rules theoretically applicable these tax-exempt entities. Seeing how the Rockefeller family controlled so much of what happened using a multitude of foundations, preventing New York from getting fracking that could have made such a difference for the Southern Tier, was incredibly disturbing.
As time went on, though, the question became why? There were certain very clear objectives such as grabbing land in the case of the Rockefellers and there was always the matter of alleviating limousine liberal guilt on the part of trust-funder generations for having done so undeservedly well in their own eyes. And, there was elitist peer pressure to conform to gentry ruling class ideological standards, which largely consist of disingenuously arguing for the lower classes as a technique for protecting the special privileges of their own. None of these, though, fully explained the depths of elitist commitment to the cause.
No, nothing explained it until the money and power involved became too hard to ignore. There are literally trillions of dollars and absolute power to be had by our ruling class if only they can make a crisis out of global warming in the same way they made one out of the Wu-Flu. Each such crisis provides an opportunity to grow the state and further corporatism. That’s one of the reasons we keep going from crisis to crisis. They are, if not intentional, welcomed as fortuitous by those who will gain (think Jeff Bezos who made out like a bandit during the Wu-Flu).
And, corporatism doesn’t just happen. Both sides have a continuing incentive to pursue it, which is why the World Economic Forum has become the greatest promoter of it and the greatest danger to free civil society outside of the Chinese Communist Party. But, how does one fight such already enormously powerful entities? Well, one of the most effective ways is ridicule, which has a moral purpose in that it is far less deadly than war and tends to separate the lies from the truth, by embarrassing the liar into having to defend the indefensible.
We have a lot of liars out there today and we need some healthy ridicule of them, the World Economic Forum being among the worst. Therefore, in the spirit of confronting the beast that is corporatism, I offer you J.P. Sears who does an invaluable job of declawing it with great humor that reveals more than a seed of truth:
Sears is brilliant and thoroughly takes down old Klaus the stormtrooper. We need a lot more of this!
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