Have the British, in their infinite wisdom, once again miscalculated? To paraphrase an old question from the 1960s: “Suppose they gave a depopulation party, and nobody came?” The threat conveyed in Sky News and other British media that Biden must show up with something more than “C’mon, man!” when he gets to Glasgow, or be deemed a failure by the ghouls of Buckingham Palace, may make no difference as to what may very well occur, despite them, both at the Oct. 31 “Hallowe’en summit,” and before. Hyperinflated prices, revised coal production plans announced by China, India’s persistent insistence that the global warming goals be distributed worldwide on a per-capita basis, even the renewed (though not necessarily principled) advocacy of nuclear power, have potentially gummed up the works.
In Glasgow, the COP26 conference is beginning to resemble a 1960s American situation comedy. Would-be participants already on the scene complain that it has an air of everything being “last minute,” even though the conference was postponed for a year. Vendors complain about “getting ripped off” by having to pay higher expenses than expected. Heads of state keep bowing out. Royal clowns, like Prince “We don’t need no stinkin’ spaceships” William, keep bowing in. 150,000 expected protesters threaten to turn Glasgow into Portland, and that doesn’t even address the “super-spreader event” possibilities in a Europe that has recently seen, particularly in the case of the U.K., a just-beginning resurgence in the pandemic (see slug).
Then there’s all that good news at the trans-Atlantic world’s gas pumps–when you are able to get gas at all. Coal use is up, not down, with the highest demand in years, as the call goes out from Mike Bloomberg to close all the coal plants. Boris Johnson is anxiously urging people to “keep the faith” even as he adds, like a typical, corrupt “jack-leg preacher": “We want commitments on coal, cars, cash, and trees.”
This ramshackle scheme, despite all the money, the hype, the coercion, can fall apart into disheveled chaos, at any moment. “There’s a holdup in the Bronx, Brooklyn’s broken out in fights, there’s a traffic jam in Harlem that’s backed up to Jackson Heights…” COP26, where are you?
How best to understand how the British get themselves, and the world, into these situations? Besides the writings of Lyndon LaRouche, one can consult Gottfried Leibniz, and his New Essays on the Human Understanding. Leibniz tried, unsuccessfully, to become prime minister of England, and to assist mankind in refuting the Royal Africa Company’s John Locke, and his slave-trader’s view of economy and the human race. That Lockean view, included in works like Locke’s Second Treatise on Government, is the view characteristic of today’s trans-Atlantic “financial” policy toward Afghanistan and Haiti, and toward the inexorable, macabre unraveling of the physical condition of major cities, and their populations, throughout the world. This is being done by design, through people such as “Beyond Coal” Mike Bloomberg, UN Special Envoy On Climate Ambition and Solutions, and his C 40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, and his Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy, involving 10,000 cities and local governments. The science of physical economy, in contrast, was founded by Leibniz in 1672 in Society and Economy, the same Leibniz who established in his New Essays work,and many others, the “archetypal” integrity of human reason, and that human beings were not “blank slates” to be bought and sold as melons, or cancelled as intrusive carbon footprints at will.
Pennsylvania’s James Logan, Ben Franklin, and other of the followers of Leibniz were targeted by the Venetian priesthood’s Giammaria Ortes, who was later plagiarized by Parson Thomas Malthus, for whom the first chair of political economy in the world was established at Haileybury College. Malthus’ political-economic outlook is “re-branded” today as “financial regime-change.” Mark Carney, former Governor of the Bank of England, now United Nations Special Envoy on Climate Action and Finance, is the true mirror-image and face of the “Dorian Grays” of COP26.
This is the time for “A Wake-Up Call: The Danger for Mankind Is Not the Climate, But Toleration of a Devious Policy That Uses Climate To Destroy Us!” This statement becomes a sharper spear-point with each passing day. Everyone should endorse it, if only as a “spiritual exercise.” If we were to inspire hundreds or even thousands of people to do that over the next ten days, as a way to drive the Hallowe’en COP26 ghouls into a frenzy, perhaps that will inspire the COP26 “baby-doomers” to, like Rumplestiltskin, stamp their feet so hard that they will rip themselves in half and disappear from history.
Historical Postscript
An incident occurred on or about October 19, 1781, fully 240 years ago, during the surrender of General Charles Cornwallis to Washington, Lafayette, and the Comte de Rochambeau, concluding the battle that marked the victory of the American forces and their allies against the most powerful military force in the world. According to authors Sidney and Emma Nogrady Kaplan, “After the surrender at Yorktown, when Cornwallis visited Lafayette’s headquarters, he was amazed to see there the black man he had believed to be his spy.” That was James Armistead Lafayette. A double agent for Lafayette, James Armistead Lafayette was never suspected by Cornwallis, because Cornwallis could not imagine him in the role of a spy. Cornwallis, and Lafayette, had, like Locke and Leibniz, different conceptions of man. Lafayette’s conception was not only right, but efficient. British intelligence was no match for an American intelligence service deployed with the right purpose.
