The International Energy Agency (IEA) has just published a new report that claims to identify ten “demand-side measures” which will “alleviate the economic impacts [of the] war in the Middle East.”
Titled “Sheltering From Oil Shocks”, it is notionally aimed at “easing oil price pressures on consumers”, but it reads like a page straight out of the Great Reset playbook.
Its ten recommendations include old favourites like working from home, limiting air travel and even phasing out gas cookers…
…targeted actions can ease pressure on fuels that are particularly constrained. A reduction in air travel where alternatives exist can significantly lower demand for jet fuel. Measures to shift LPG use away from transport and towards essential applications, such as cooking, can help protect vulnerable households. At the same time, encouraging the uptake of alternative clean cooking solutions where feasible can reduce reliance on LPG and avoid a return to more polluting fuels that harm people’s health.
In full, their recommendations are…
- Work from home where possible.
- Reduce highway speed limits by at least 10 km/h
- Encourage public transport
- Alternate private car access to roads in large cities on different days
- Increase car sharing and adopt efficient driving practices
- Efficient driving for road commercial vehicles and delivery of goods
- Divert LPG use from transport
- Avoid air travel where alternative options exist
- Where possible, switch to other modern cooking solutions
- Leverage flexibility with petrochemical feedstocks and implement short-term efficiency and maintenance measures
If a lot of those sound familiar, well, that’s because they were suggested inclusions in “Climate Lockdowns”, those totally imaginary things that conspiracy theorists just made up.
Let’s take a deeper look at a couple.
Number 4 is especially fascinating. What exactly does “alternate private car access in large cities on different days” mean? Because at first glance it doesn’t look like correct English.
The report explains:
Private vehicles are allowed into designated zones in large cities on specific days only based on their number plate. Vehicles with odd-numbered plates have access on different weekdays than those with even-numbered plates. This measure reduces traffic congestion, engine idling and fuel-intensive stop-and-go driving. It also reduces local air pollution and improves attractiveness of the city centre for the use of bicycles or walking.
…but notably doesn’t actually elucidate how this would be enforced.
It would require CCTV with Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) tech to scan all traffic, and presumably automatically issue fines to anyone with an even-numbered car who dares to drive on a Thursday.
It’s an idea pulled from the plans for “15-minute cities”.
Number 5 recommends “increasing car sharing”, which rather echoes calls to end private car ownership, doesn’t it? That’s a policy which the WEF has been nudging along for the last ten years.
There’s number 8, “Avoid air travel where alternative options exist”, number 1 “Work from home where possible” or number 9, “switching to modern cooking solutions”.
Not one of which is a new policy or original idea; they all already existed as mooted solutions for totally different problems.
The supplementary section – “Targeted consumer support” – suggests extra benefits be paid to low-income households to cover their energy bills (a sort of proto-UBI), as well as boosting electric vehicle uptake and replacing old heating systems with heat pumps.
In short, what we have here is a “climate lockdown” by any other name. Perhaps a trial run.
This really should end the argument for anyone as yet unconvinced that the war in Iran is being used to push through the ever-familiar “Great Reset” agenda.
And in case you’re not seeing where we go from here, recall the (totally spurious) reports of “nature recovering” during the Covid lockdowns?
That’s what comes next.
We’re subjected to these measures as an “emergency management” system, and then – shockingly – we’re told that it’s really helped the environment and reduced pollution and CO2 and slowed warming and…whatever else they want to say.
They won’t be constrained by reality; that’s the benefit of just making stuff up.
Once again, we’re being asked to believe that, by total chance, what we need to do is what all governments on Earth already wanted to do.
It’s really shocking how often that happens.
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I would like to know how you know that the “nature recovering” reports of the Covid times were spurious. It is always frustrating when people just state something and not say why they believe it.
“The Iranian negotiators are very different and ‘strange,’ Trump wrote on Truth Social. “They are ‘begging’ us to make a deal, which they should be doing since they have been militarily obliterated, with zero chance of a comeback, and yet they publicly state that they are only ‘looking at our proposal.’”
“WRONG!!!” the president continued. “They better get serious soon, before it is too late, because once that happens, there is NO TURNING BACK, and it won’t be pretty!”
*
Some will see this as a threat from Donald Trump to Iranians that Trump is seriously considering using nuclear weapons, making the removal of Trump – and Netanyahu – from power all that more necessary and urgent.
Either way, I agree. They both need to go now. That it can’t be done shows the United Nations is worthless.
Firstly as a legal person we are all slaves. Own fk all and have no rights. We are a debt security to these Epstinian bstrds that run the world.
Secondly the Epstein Empire of Israel. Has control over all your devices: phone, tv, radio, car, stupid meter, computer,, every fkn thing. So be wary.
Thanks to OffG for alerting me to this:
https://x.com/OffGuardian0/status/2037087261242675402
This alludes to a righteously frothing report:
As OffG noted,
But the effect is being played out by, amongst others, your pal Max Parry whose latest item for Covert Action Magazine is titled,
Yeah let’s talk about 9/11!
This is what our “Leftist” opposition does i.e. rejects any “conspiratorial ravings” at the time but may get round to it a quarter century later. If it’s not fulminating against historical atrocities being mobilised as current distractions.
As if anyone, anwhere, is going to take any of those suggestions seriously, much less actually incorporate them into daily life.
Even the wokest of woke is not going to hitchhike from New York to Washington.
Watch uber prices skyrocket.
Switch to modern cooking solutions? I think most people already have. It’s called Take-out, or Take-away, depending on which side of the ocean.
And the hits just keep on comin’. By carrier pigeon, hopefully.
Ukraine’s Zelensky suspended presidential Elections for The Duration. so why
wont President Trump. He has said he deserves a Third Term, does he intend
declaring war against Iran so he can suspend elections ?
Notwithstanding if these rules could ever work (are feasible, necessary, effective, etc), the problem with these rules is that exceptions will be made. The 70s oil crisis is just one example. No there was no oil shortage and yes, it was nice that roads were not congested with cars. But the problem was: that some ‘exceptional’ workers were exempted from not using their cars (they received extra fuel tickets). These exceptional workers were (at least partly) bureaucrats who could make themselves ‘exceptional’. The same applies to covid, where everyone needed to stay home, etc, except exceptional workers who made the rules and were there exempted (your Neil Furguson is just one example).
As in:
All animals are equal, but some are more equal.
Btw, if one really would like to reduce road congestion, a terrific idea would be if things (as in jobs, shops, banks, markets), would be decentralized and within reach for everyone on foot or on bicycle (ie local: as it used to be in NL), and not through industrial sites that can only be reached for people by commuting.
Regarding whether Netanyahu is still alive, here’s a supposed mini-press conference. Is it him?
Nor can we tell exactly when it was filmed. What do you think?
For me the monster Netanyahu is dead – they showed another clip of him in a coffee shop in Israel – which had been tampered with his bodyguards were edited out – to try and hide the fact it was an old clip – his son Yar Lapid performed Shiva for seven days, he’s never off social media but for seven days he followed the tradition after someone close to you dies – (Shiva) and after the seven days were up, he returned to social media again – for me that’s a dead giveaway (Pardon the pun) – that his father is dead.
If you’re interested in how much oil is getting thru and where.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JHh7TdBXzE
Also they’re considering cutting a new channel in Oman to bypass the Strait. Map at the link.
I thought they gave up on the climate change op cuz they need to use mega power (and water) for their AI centers. Gates & some other idiot acknowledged that climate change had been a flim-flam. Now they’re back on it? It’s difficult to effectively counter a position that keeps changing. Just like they did w Covid. Masks effective/ineffective. Shots prevent/don’t prevent.
We have to choose a side in order to do a sneaky fight against the opponent.
Because its about power.
Who controls the narrative controls the world. Water is dry versus Water is wet.
Water is dry will win, because MIC is on that payroll. Water is dry group do pay MIC
No official anywhere seems capable of an articulate, explicit and unambiguous announcement. The NewSpeak waffle here includes encourage, adopt, solutions, leverage, flexibility
The IEA: some weird little club of 32 CO2 fearmongers. No China, India, Russia, South America, Africa. US member but Trump won’t follow them.
Irrelevant WEF style nonsense.
“This really should end the argument for anyone as yet unconvinced that the war in Iran is being used to push through the ever-familiar “Great Reset” agenda.”
Of course, the war and all going on is being “used” for political, financial, and technocratic agendas, that’s how wars go. But that doesn’t mean that is the purpose of the war, why it is happening. Sub-purpose, yes, but this is a long sought after war by Israel and the zionists against Iran. That’s what it is. I won’t go into the reasons, i.e., like Greater Israel, most here know, but that’s the main purpose. Control of oil, LNG, etc, is all part of creating and maintaining Greater Israel. We’ve known that for decades. There are many tentacles to it, and it just so happens primary proponents of the Great Reset and technocratic dystopia are one and the same zionists who have concentrated control in many sectors.
Sorry, but as I keep saying to my old style liberal Left family, I just don’t see the US imperialist analysis can any longer adequately explain what’s going on in this world. Post-covid there are just too many dangling facts that don’t fit. And I say that as someone raised by Leftists.
It’s Zionist Imperialism. That will clear it up.
I wish they had some damn “public transport.” I would use it if they had it. I’m sick of driving my car all around every day.
They had to hold back on suggesting 10 minute cities, dead giveaway
The Great Change is accelerating…
And it will not resemble the WEF’s plagarised version of C.S. Lewis’ That Hideous Strength…
Meanwhile… walk bare foot on forest soil and breathe slowly
Here’s a ‘debt’ that can never really be paid:
https://consortiumnews.com/2026/03/25/vijay-prashad-un-votes-today-on-slavery-reparations/?unapproved=521231&moderation-hash=406ee9d6de2aafe1a1df0fe444a8a6ce#comment-521231
Not with all the money in the world.
Well, here is what I think of that nonsense.
https://worldyturnings.wordpress.com/2020/10/16/reparations-then-we-will-get-along-ok/
Think what you like.
Thinking changes nothing
Its must be great to meet, greet and vote at these confabs that change nothing. Nukes are supposed to be under a “non-proliferation” treaty that requires reduction of existing nukes. In 2017, UN GA passed another treaty whereby any nuke is illegal.
Meanwhile, slaves must be faithful and obedient to their owners. You can look it up or ask a “religious” authority.
White man’s burden.
First, I didnt do anything! I am completely innocent of all these accusations. Therefore I refuse to pay for what other people around me didden dutten in the past. I pay 0.
Besides that, it was not that bad to be a slave then. They got a roof for bad weather, a bed and food every day and were allowed to sing in the cotton fields. First signs of a Social welfare State.
Which is proof some of them had a jolly good time. But a few wanted to destroy it for the many. Therefore we have all these “pay me millions for what your grandpa did”. No Sir.
Everybody are slaves of something. Brian ferry – Slave to Love https://ok.ru/video/279184691
‘l didn’t do anything’
Neither did Satanyahu, Hitler or Pol Pot.
No, not with all the money in the world. But rest assured, the uber wealthy will not be the ones to pay that, the middle class will. One more way to gut the middle class, but I’m sure that is not what our owners really have in mind?
And really, just how does one put a dollar figure on that? It seems almost an insult to me to reduce that to some arbitrary dollar figure, but that’s capitalism for ya I guess.
“International agency” prefigures the existence of a world government just like the WHO and the UN.No public consent, pure declaration of authority, without any. When each “agency” starts tabbing up their active assistance to the goal of LOCKingDOWN humanity, it calls attention to the total hypocrisy of the elite’s anti-human agenda.Were these international props existing to actually prevent “demand destruction” and world crisis, there’s two quicker policy solutions:
1) Any physically unprovoked military action by one country upon another initiates universal sanctions by all countries upon the aggressor. To prevent this, before or after, mandatory mediation to agreeable termination of threats, from to, both countries are made in open public hearings, until neutrality is restored.,
(Under the above, both US and Russia would have been economically discouraged and forced into public negotiations open to public scrutiny where the real issues would have to become public knowledge.)
2) All countries sign on to decentralized dependency, self-sufficiency measures to avoid resource crisis for basic human resource needs. Contracted supplemental resource agreements for smaller nations would be established by closest natural provider.
We don’t need world government, we need world cooperation directed by public need and consent. No more “representatives” or autocratic “leaders” deciding.
Because international solutions like this do not exist, the true goals of the elite are transparent to all.
Brownstone on your wavelength Kit:
https://brownstone.org/articles/energy-lockdown-the-drumbeat-begins/
“Sometimes the blindingly obvious are obviously meant to blind” … (anon) …
Sorry, but what does that mean in this context? The IEA et al don’t really want to use the war as an excuse to promote energy rationing, 15 min cities etc, they’re – just pretending to?
The richer and older they get, the more obsessively controlling and manipulative they become.
Why?
Because no matter how filthy rich and authoritarian they are, they’re all gonna wither and die. Just like us.
Being dead: The great equaliser.
Love, live, play.
The bitter grinding of teeth by the rich an the powerful: Ecclesiastes.
FOUND: The origin for the idea of using pagers to blow people’s heads off !
‘A Pay phone was ringing, it just about blew my mind/
when i picked it up and said hello, this foot came through the line.’ **
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbdF4hBfQiE (6:31)
** Bob Zimmerman
Instead of Sharing The Pain solutions being imposed on us ordinary** folk, why not
just impose lockdown on the world’s worst ‘global warming gas’ producer, the US War
Machine, the US military ? (And if it still wants to carry-on warring, restrict it to doing
so every second day ? Or only four days a week ?)
** meaning ‘normal’, in the old sense…
Emissions of the “deadly” gases that US reported (in the past) exclude those from its military that were simply “classified”.
According to government data (25 March) Australia has 36 days of petrol, 32 days of diesel,
29 days of jet fuel. The government might be tempted to ‘act quickly before pandemonium
breaks out.’**
However coming up is Sydney’s very popular annual event “The Royal Easter Show” and
the NSW premier, who was the first Australian politician to favour lockdown and digital ID
petrol rationing as The Solution, will stay his hand till after the event, because to impose restrictions before the Royal Easter Show would cost him lotsa votes.***
** aka – ‘impose lockdown and restriction super fast at the first hint of The Next Pandemic”.
*** But then, politicians can act irrationally, and the guy is already rapidly closing in on
Victoria’s Dictator Dan of ‘covid’ lockdown infamy, as the worst ever authoritarian
(expletive deleted) !
The ‘Royal’ Easter Show.
Old, pathetic traditions die-hard.
Good one Kit, keep up the good work.
Called what exactly.?Great Reset playbook if it was 1980!!!
Uk road safety advert from 2000s highlighting the ‘It’s 30 for a reason’ message.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeUX6LABCEA
an over reaction to something thats been about for at least 2 or 3 decades.
You clearly have never live in the real world, “born with a silver spoon in one’s mouth”
So I guess this is how they told the Hasbara grunts to put this over. “Nothing new here, just go back to sleep”, and nice stab also at making out Kit is an elitist kid and all us blue collar guys who’ve been around know this Great Reset is nothing new, it’s just being blue collar. Well I’m blue collar and I’m 68 and let me tell you you’re full of crap.
And yeah you can trace some of this stuff back twenty or more years because news flash, they been planning this a long time and easing us in!
We were poor too when I was a kid and if you think what Schwab has in mind for us is gonna be like being blue collar in the 1960’s you are in for one big shock.
Did we have fake meat in the 60’s?
Did we eat bugs in the 60’s?
Did we have the government spying on us and telling us when and where could go places in the 60’s?
Did we have to show a permit to leave our zone in the 60’s?
Did we have censorship to point we could go to jail for just saying the wrong words in the 60’s?
Did we have social credit scores in the 60’s?
Did we have a cashless society in the 60’s?
Could the government shut down your bank account or stop your pay check because you said a wrong word or voted for the wrong candidate in the 60’s?
Was it illegal to take your kid out of school and hime school in the 60’s?
Did we have carbon allowances in the 60’s?
I thank God for people like Kit trying to wake people up before it’s too late. Only chance we have is for that. I look at my grandkids and just hope something gives and they don’t have to live in the techno hell the crazy mofo’s have got planned.
Rutabaga with the familiar style of commenting
with the fake 14 upvotes.
Thank god for kit, that is some bootlicking.
Did we have fake meat in the 60’s? yes
Did we eat bugs in the 60’s? yes
Did we have the government spying on us and telling us when and where could go places in the 60’s? yes
Did we have to show a permit to leave our zone in the 60’s? yes
Did we have censorship to point we could go to jail for just saying the wrong words in the 60’s? yes
Did we have social credit scores in the 60’s? yes
Did we have a cashless society in the 60’s? yes
Could the government shut down your bank account or stop your pay check yes because you said a wrong word or voted for the wrong candidate in the 60’s? yes
Was it illegal to take your kid out of school and hime school in the 60’s? yes
Did we have carbon allowances in the 60’s?
We do not live in a techno hell, get of the computer and get in the real world.
when it comes to kit and co they shill just as much fake fear than Alexjones and UK column.
I spent 2020 in the middle of the most “progressive” area of the United States (the San Francisco Bay Area) and even THERE, with nothing but obedient maskers, the sad humans who think they are the “PTB” were unable to achieve most of their NWO/Great Reset goals. They weren’t even able to make vaccine passports stick. In SAN FRANCISCO.
I think we have nothing to fear from these people. Their plans are very dastardly, and sites like this always imply that said plans are JUST AROUND THE CORNER and inevitable – which is of course what the “PTB” want you to think.
So whom/what is served with articles like this exactly? It seems to me that at this point it is giving far more weight to the ravings of these madmen than is warranted. Their plans are transparent and hilariously inept, always. Hollywood wants you to believe they are ruthlessly efficient but the reality is a lot more like the 3 Stooges.
Ask yourself: if everyone you ever knew with a personality disorder got in one room and made a plan to “take over the world” – do you think it would work? Would it REALLY be something to worry about?
Well man I hope you’re right. You give me some hope anyways.
Welcome friend. I’m 5th gen Bay Area and lost solidarity most of my anti-authoritarian friends during the LOCKDOWN after living in Oaktown and moving to Oregon. They fell whole hog into the “humanitarian” fraud of BigPharma’s “saving peoples lives”. While I agree with you that the elite’s schemes are openly idiotic nonsense made by sociopaths, never underestimate capture of even anarchists, with a humanitarian call. I’m glad to hear they never got away with passports down there. That is hopeful. But in equally liberal Eugene, the lockstep and humiliation hysteria was in full force. We have been thrown out of almost every form of establishment here, even chased down the street with phone videos rolling. Vigilance to manufactured attitude by the PTB should still be in practice.
Now we just need to wait for the PTB to make them compulsory – all it will take is for the war on Iran to last that little bit longer, and the PTB can use it as an excuse to implement that 10 point plan, of course the PTB’s mouthpieces presidents, PMs etc, will all come out and read-off their scripts that it will be a short-term thing, just until things go back to normal, but they won’t go back to normal.
Prices will not go back to normal, Iran has said even after the conflict is over – it will control the Straits of Hormuz, and put a tax on ALL ships travelling through the straits, this will further strengthen the PTBs 10 point plan, especially in transport and travelling, such as in cars, trains and planes – which will initially be limited – but we’ll be told it will go back to a kind of normality – at a later date, but it won’t.
Iran to put a tax on all ships passing through the Dire Straits of Hormuz.
‘Iran provided Hormuz passage free for decades despite sanctions. Egypt
charges (Suez passage) $200K – $1 million; Panama charges $100K – $450K.’
Problem… Reaction… Solution, also known as the Hegelian Dialectic, which these bastards always use to further their agenda along with False Flags which can happen anywhere, including in Australia. And here in the land downunder, there’s already talk of people being limited to $40 worth of petrol when they visit the service station, being asked to work from home if they can, as well as limiting air travel. All this, and what you pointed out Kit, smacks of Covid 2.00 to me. And I would bet a sizable amount of money that sooner or later they’ll bring in climate change lockdowns as well. No working from home for me as I sell a street magazine in different suburbs each day. Times are going to get very interesting.
‘Times are going to get very interesting.’
That old Chinese curse keeps on coming.
Nope. It’s the OODA Loop.
This is starting to remind me too much of 2020! – Listening in silence to my folks and siblings quote the news verbatim and believe every darn word, then coming to OG to get reassured I’m not all alone and /or going a bit nuts.
You are not alone Jez.
The brilliant light of truth lights out path.
The rest are in shadows.
“… the war in Iran is being used to push through the ever-familiar “Great Reset” agenda.”
Don’t confuse cause and effect there.
The “war” in Iran was created as an excuse for the agenda.
I have to say though I am kind of proud of humanity. Yes 99% are either programmable meat robots or narcissistic addicts that only care about what makes them release endorphins. Yes, most of the remaining 1% are genocidal psychopaths that only plan to save the world for themselves.
And yes the remaining minuscule group of free humans are spending their time whining online instead of actually moving to some mountain in South America hoping to survive.
Despite all that, you have to admire the suicidal stubbornness with which we all continue on our way no matter how many times doing exactly the same has failed before.
I think it would take a lot more to actually survive this shit show coming up than living in the mountains and “hoping” to survive.
Yeah.It was “Called It!” on here by a few.Shit.We just had a new combi boiler put in man.Great article thanks.