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    Posted: 25 Oct 2022 at 8:11am
Friends ask when Britain will get its manufacturing back.

The answer is never.

Our passport to leisure literally cost the earth - definitely our part of the earth plus a whole lot more.

In the beginning, the oligarchs said let (fiat) there be money, and there was, and for 7 days a week they rested.

For that they needed a reserve currency, and that was and still is but may not be soon, the dollar.

The poorest peoples were encouraged to buy dollars, and not just by the owners of the reserve currency, but eventually by all of Christendom too.

How can the poor buy anything? They can only do that in exchange for their labour.

That labour has to be cheap and produce far more goods per dollar than what Christendom can do.

The first was post war Japan (and Hong Kong), being "friendly" types, but to continue to inflate the value of the reserve currency (to fund things like the NHS as regards Britain), more cheaper labour was required.

In the 70's the poorer parts of Europe were added to the list, which was OK as long as the richer parts of Europe could sell us energy too.

So as to keep the pyramid selling ("Ponzi") scheme fuelled, the only choice left was to look to the east, and the BRICS, mainly India and China as far as we are concerned, plus Russia for the oil and gas to add to Germany's coal (with France frantically going nuclear).

The thought was that in doing so, communism would be destroyed, and we could keep on printing money, provided the poorest (in India and China) could be kept poor.

The trouble here was that communism plans earlier for a "better future" - for communism - and we never planned for anything apart from a free lunch.

So now the reserve currency is in debt to the communists by upwards of 30 trillion dollars, which isn't a problem while ever the dollar is the world's reserve currency (and is why China and Russia want their own reserve currency - the war in Ukraine is helping that on).

But Britain's debt is 2.4 trillion pounds! And the pound isn't the reserve currency!

So, to close down overseas operations and bring it back would require Britain to pay its debts to the communist countries (and India etc), the 2.4 trillion pounds, but that's all the money we have!

And our new prime minister added the 0.4 trillion to make it 2.4 trillion to fund Covid, while he was chancellor.

He will also have to stick with the 3% on military spending so we can replace all the ammo we sent to Ukraine, but white surrender flags would be cheaper.

Oh, and there's the 0.15 trillion needed so the public don't freeze this winter. We need to pay that money so that Russian fuels can come to us via China with China's mark up, rather than direct from Russia. We can't use our own resources because it would short circuit the system, and so Just Stop Oil (and other environment protestors) come in handy...

And you'd really like to buy British, but I'm really sorry that it's only the small guy who can go through the pain to do that for you now.
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Unfortunately Britain has become a playground for post-Brexit opportunism based on deregulation and the denaturation and exploitation of natural resources. 
None of which is geared toward helping the growth of genuine innovation such as Graham Slee has manifested all these years.
I can by cut only begin to conceive of the supply problems inflicted upon essential electric components for amplifier designers this has manifested.
We are in the grip not of a crisis, but a chronic threat to our wellbeing perpetrated by weaponised capitalism.
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A country without resources, or the knowledge to get at and use those resources, is called a third world country.

Third world countries have to rely on developed countries for their every need.

So, if you were Russia for example (or any of the BRICS), and wanted to build an empire you'd have to make plenty of third world countries happen, and you'd do it by removing their resources.

But you couldn't just flatten them by air assault because that would damage your ability to reuse them when you were ready.

No, you'd have to do it from within those countries. You'd have to persuade those governments to get rid of their resources, and you'd do it by psychology, and it could take many years.

You'd have to get inside the minds of the influencers, who happen to be the upper or middle classes. Such people tend to be highly educated in some respects, but are otherwise gullible. An applicable phrase being 'useful idiots'.

At the same time you have to change the education system to remove all common sense, and also wipe memories, and that means waiting until the old and wise die, so that the new generations don't think.

Take underground explosions for example. You need to frighten the new generation into thinking it would cause earthquakes. Get the public to believe it, and those resources such as fracking can be removed temporarily until you move in. Simply make them aware that the normal heave that happens and has happened for centuries, is new, and is caused by underground explosions.

Be careful to wait until all the old miners of an earlier industry you destroyed by industrial unrest, have died. If not you risk a thing called hypocrisy.

Semtex was used every working day of the week by the charge men, who followed the heading workers, and used to blast new roadways to get at the required strata called coal.

Once the roadways reached the coal seam, some 50 to 100 metres apart, the seam would be tunnelled to install the rotary cutter on its panzer conveyor and row of hydraulic chocks. Each cut by the hydraulic driven cutter with its hardened picks necessitated the panzer and its chocks to be advanced by the coal face workers. Behind it was a void 50 to 100 metres long (called a gob), and after so many advances, the strata above would break with an almighty crack, and fill in the void. Like sand in a hour glass, the earth at the surface would sometimes heave and change level, and that was called subsidence.

Large buildings above coal seams were, and still are, constructed using subsidence correcting mechanisms that adjust for heave. I worked in one and in the earie silence of the night, the stairs would vibrate in sympathy with the coal cutter some thousand or so feet below.

I'm sure this would scare the sh*t out of the newer generations, and that's how the enemy works.

The amount of rare earths contained in coal is amazing. Just the job for electric car motors. China has plenty of coal mines. Extraction of rare earths requires heat, and guess what? Yes, coal is burnt to release several hydrocarbons used to make the things new empires require to conquer nations through selling essential goods.

Just think of all that CO2.

Another thing pit men knew was that CO2 is heavier than air, so falls to the floor, whereas CO rises along with methane. You'd need to know that so an injured colleague who'd fallen to the floor was stretchered to a higher place, or he would be asphyxiated.

But miraculously, CO2 is now lighter than air, able to travel high into the atmosphere (where it would be really heavy...)

But when you have political leaders that knows now't, and now we have the third PM in one year, and another nonce baying for an election, and all educated in the enemies ways, you have no chance but to become slaves.

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So you want a transformer? Ah, you'll need steel, but not any ordinary steel. You need silicon steel.

Steel is iron and carbon, but you knew that didn't you? No? Oh dear.

Silicon is of carbon group chemistry. Carbon was formed in the earth's crust in the carboniferous period. Britain's "saviours" say "keep it in the ground" as they text each other on their cell phones, not knowing that it contains silicon...

Dunces corner should be quite crowded, but that could hurt their feelings, so we simply allow thickness, and they're off to university soon anyway (to learn what?!)

Just stop carbon! I wish they would! It would be a right laugh.

Where does the silicon come from to alloy with steel? Carbon!

How's it made?

By melting quartz in a carbon rich atmosphere using? Coal!

You want four electrons orbiting the atom nucleus that can stand elevated temperatures don't you?

Yes, but Intel say it's sand. We can heat sand instead? Well, yes, if you want glass, but I thought you wanted silicon?

Why oh why don't people just accept the truth of how stuff is made?

Well, if you hide all the processes inside communist China, then they're not going to find out, are they?

Luckily, the left leaning Wikipedia hasn't taken down all the true scientific methods of making things, yet.

So, to make steel required carbon, which came from coal, and a lot of steel making happened around Durham, where they had the right sort of coal.

And Sheffield had nearby iron ore (Sc**thorpe) and nearby coal (South Yorkshire and North Derbyshire). It's still there, waiting.

And we had trains to do the heavy lifting (no more).

So coal had its gasses driven off, and that went to gasometers and was called town gas (so we didn't have to rely on our enemies). And then it became coke, which was just the right amount of carbon to react with iron ore, but it also needed calcium, but that was also right next door in the Peaks (limestone).

And that made the steel.

Then, to make silicon steel, it had to be alloyed with silicon.

So coal and quartz was heated to about 1000 to 1100 C, and although it was a bit more complicated than that, out came silicon metal.

And the coal came from the mines, and the quartz was found among the limestone, and that was local to either side of the Pennines, and so we could "grow our own" transformer steel.

And with a bit more processing, the silicon metal could be made pure enough for transistors, and microchips, which were made around Manchester and Oldham. And the Timex factory made computers and calculators and digital watches.

So we gave the lot to communist China so we could all live in poverty as slaves in England's green and peasant land?

Censored

Shall we do cement next?

And what about all the other things we need to have the comfy society which wants to take all its comforts away, without knowing what the hell they're talking about!


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Cement (concrete and mortar)

Let's spread fear?:

"The four materials prominent in infrastructure development – steel, cement, aluminum, and chemicals – are responsible for 60 percent of current industry emissions. According to the IPCC, the global construction sector alone will be responsible for emitting 470 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide by 2050."

Got to be careful not to upset feelings:

Isn't it so clinical? Why don't they just come out with it.

They make a bonfire with all the ingredients - including the fuel - and out of it comes the required product. That bonfire is in an enclosure called a kiln, but the fuel is on the inside and the fuel is part of the product.

And that sticks bricks together to make houses.

And we all want a home, don't we?

We all want the mall for shopping or to hang around in?

What's the nightclub built of?

The university buildings?

The patio for the barbie?

Who is actually in denial?
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Some might ask how I know these things?

I was made redundant from the electronics industry and there were no jobs, except there was a job selling engineering parts, so I became a sales rep, selling parts into industry at ground level, to the guys who actually did the job. The industries were infrastructure. I also did my engineering apprenticeship with British Rail and the National Coal Board, and while I waited for the start of the apprenticeships, I worked in a garage doing exhausts and changing tyres. And around that time I self-studied the motorcycle industry because I was into bikes. I also worked in AV in education where I discovered communism, and worked part time in hospitality, playing records to party people. For 7 years I designed and made printed circuits which encompasses a lot of chemistry and industrial processes that have since disappeared, and numerous customers who have also disappeared. And in audio electronics design and manufacture a total of 30 years (or if you include PCBs, 37 years)(plus hobby stuff, may as well call it 40 years).

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