Revolver — Feb 22, 2023
Did you hear? South Africa can’t keep the lights on… again.
Who could have imagined this, in a country where, until last November, the top electrical utility was legally required to pick suppliers based on the race of their owners?
But surely America is better, at least?
We’re not gonna sugar coat it—time to say what most of us already know in our bones. It’s not just you: big power outages really are a lot more frequent than they were a couple decades ago.
The chart above is only half the story, too. Overall, major power outages are way up since the 1980s.
American aircraft keep nearly running into each other, while scheduled flights are canceled at rates far above the pre-Covid norm, even when there are no weather reasons for it at all. From 1980 to 2015, violations of the U.S. Safe Drinking Water Act more than doubled. In San Francisco last summer, the on-time rate for BART trains dropped to less than two-thirds, putting BART in its worst situation in decades (hope their $190k/year senior social justice manager has some ideas!).
Oh, and there’s the whole freight train derailment thing. You probably saw something in the news about that.
Before our eyes, Revolver’s warning of two years ago is coming to pass.
In the years to come, American infrastructure will fail more and more often, as America becomes less capable of maintaining the core elements of a First World country.
Why would America become less First World? That’s a simple question to answer: Because America is making itself less First World.
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Americans have gotten used to hearing complaints about the country’s “failing infrastructure.” This has typically centered on the most straightforward, easily understood infrastructure: Bridges, highways, subway tunnels and the like. And, yeah, sometimes there’s a lot to be desired there.
This isn’t a railway in a Third World County
This is in Ohio pic.twitter.com/VIYykDgwcJ
— Jack Posobiec (@JackPosobiec) February 16, 2023
But infrastructure isn’t just the existence of physical assets. It’s also how well they are used: How quickly is damage fixed? How well-made are they in the first place? How well do they avoid accidents or systematic screw-ups?
At its bedrock, infrastructure is substantially just people: a population of workers with the expertise and experience to keep a complex system functional, reliable, and accident-free. Decline in this infrastructure — the human infrastructure — may be papered over with improved technology and automation. But when problems do arise, it is impossible to miss the decay. In a recent Twitter thread, venture capitalist Balaji Srinivasan noted the ultimately human roots of America’s declining infrastructure:
One answer is that the only type of maintenance that’s even semi-prestigious in American society is software maintenance.
That is, it’s not prestigious to be plumber, mechanic, or electrician.
You can make money, but it doesn’t have cultural cachet.
And so maintenance suffers.
— Balaji (@balajis) February 14, 2023
Two years ago, when Texas practically collapsed after a severe but hardly insurmountable ice storm, we mentioned the non-physical dimension of infrastructure in the United States:
But infrastructure isn’t just about allocating enough funding. It’s about people. The quality of a country’s broad-based infrastructure is heavily linked to the skills of its common blue-collar workers and local bureaucrats. When these groups are more capable, everything works a little bit better in a country. They cut fewer corners when building new infrastructure, and are more diligent in maintaining it. They work more diligently and efficiently. They are more likely to use the right materials. They avoid preventable errors.
For decades, local planners and technicians and civil engineers were often unsung heroes of American life. Even as American family life frayed, industry moved abroad, and crime soared, they built and maintained the amenities that are synonymous with the First World.
But the Heroic Age of Americans who actually built infrastructure is long past. The Silver Age of those who could at least maintain it is disappearing as well, like the Elves departing Middle-Earth. The average American utility worker is nearly fifty years old. In the next ten years as many as fifty percent of these workers will retire. There are plenty of critiques to be made of elderly workers — we published one just the other day! — but if there is any industry where experience is truly invaluable, it is in maintaining and managing the enormously complex systems that America’s cities and states use to generate power, supply water, move people, and generally keep everything functioning. These workers started their careers in a very different America: one with a higher-quality working class, which felt far less shame about hiring based on knowledge and ability, even if it produced a workforce that was “too white” or “too male” or too anything. Now, they are passing the baton to a population with different skills and very different values. Is anybody confident we’ll be able to manage the handoff?
Early signs aren’t promising. When Colonial Pipeline suffered a major outage due to a cyberattack, the company’s CEO had to admit that the company was essentially incapable of operating its pipelines manually, not because it was impossible, but because everyone with the knowledge to do so was retired or dead.
Colonial Pipeline CEO Joseph Blount says workers who historically operated pipelines and other infrastructure manually have retired. pic.twitter.com/M2izZWFDCP
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) June 8, 2021
Right before our eyes, America is losing that ability to sustain the complex systems that are the markers of modern civilization. Even more appalling, this transformation is a choice.
Remember that trillion dollar infrastructure bill Biden passed? Did you know that construction companies who want access to any of that gigantic pile of federal dollars need to implement major affirmative action policies to favor people based on race and sex? And did you know that if a company is getting a government contract on even one project, they need to practice affirmative action on everything? Law firm Jackson Lewis explains:
For women, the participation goal is 6.9%, meaning we are going to strive to make 6.9% of the total hours worked on each and every project, be performed by women. For minorities, we have a different goal, percentage goal, it may be 7%, even up to 23% or more, and that’s based on each individual geographic region in which you’re performing the project.
…
For our individuals with disabilities, it is a utilization goal under that Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act, we’re trying to hit 7% of our workforce in each trade, identify as having a disability. And that number isn’t pulled out of thin air. It really is an estimate of the population of the United States that identifies as having a disability.
Is it any surprise that while the East Palestine train derailment mess was unfolding, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was off giving a speech about the need to make construction work less white?
Buttigieg made no mention of the Ohio train derailment while speaking at a conference this morning but did find the time to say that there are too many white people who work construction. pic.twitter.com/q4WNcq10h9
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) February 13, 2023
When you see stories about American planes nearly crashing into each other, do you feel more or less confident when you also see stories about the pressing need to make pilots more diverse?
Try to imagine if we ever would have gotten to the moon with this set of twisted priorities. Speaking of which, what better example of the decline in human capital and infrastructure than our inability to repeat the moon missions we achieved over a half century ago with pre-pocket calculator technology?
This was 50 years ago, a feat achieved with pre-pocket calculator technology, that no advanced nation has been able to replicate since pic.twitter.com/59kRRKVFil
— Darren J. Beattie (@DarrenJBeattie) December 20, 2021
Oh yeah, and we managed to “lose” the technology too:
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Unsurprisingly, America’s permanent crusade against phantom racism in everything is closely linked to the country’s decay in managing complex systems. Remember the crippling water crisis in Jackson, Mississippi last fall? It didn’t come out of nowhere. Rather, it was just the culmination of more than a decade of steadily-escalating failure in the local government, until finally the city couldn’t even fulfill one of the most basic functions that even lower-middle income countries typically manage. Even the Biden Administration’s planned solution to the Jackson crisis has been to appoint an emergency manager in order to save Jackson from its own incompetence.
The Washington Post, though, simply took one look at the crisis and decided that, welp, racist white people were to blame:
Urban planning experts contrast the investment that flows to better-off White areas with that lacking in places like Jackson.
“Racism set Jackson up for failure. It was a man-made disaster that was decades in the making,” said Andre Perry, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program. “It was a lack of investment in Black people that failed the water system.
“When you do get a new mall, a new community college, a new movie theater, they’re typically placed in non-Black areas. Those developments lead to infrastructure development,” he said. “So there is a tacit refurbishing or a greater likelihood that infrastructure is built in White areas.”
Of course, even if mass flight of people and capital explains Jackson’s troubles, the Post doesn’t dare admit why the people and the money fled. The typical response is simply handwaving about racism: white people (and also middle class black people, evidently) are just so racist, and so evil, that they will abandon entire well-made, functioning cities just to indulge their racism.
The reality, of course, is that people flee cities precisely because they are already becoming unlivable. Jackson has a murder rate of nearly 90 per 100,000 people, more than triple the rate of Chicago and higher than any large city in the country. In a given year, a random resident of the city has a nearly one in a thousand chance of dying by violence.
Trace it all back, then, and Jackson’s water troubles are substantially driven by the political failure to maintain basic safety… but of course, a police department capable of suppressing crime is itself a complex, infrastructure-like system, and it’s yet another system that America loves to ruin with affirmative action and gutted standards.
Blaming “racism” for the problems of Jackson, or Chicago, or any other city is a cliché, an excuse used to avoid engaging with America’s steady decline or why it seems inexorable. Yet this cliché is the only response America’s regime knows. To react any other way — by restoring meritocracy, by enforcing laws, by favoring the capable and law-abiding over the useless and parasitic — has become unthinkable.
We were sadly right two years ago. But it’s all going to get worse in the years to come.
Ode to the once hard working americans in steelmills,
mines, factories, dockyards and their european race +
class brothers incited against each others by criminal
trade unian leaders, traitor politicians + jewish hate medias .
those times are over for USA + europa . traitors +misfits
are now ruling straight into the abyss in both hemispheres .
only the Russians, some balkanes, the Chinese + diligent
hindus are moraly justified . as you british have enough
political dirt around you here in germany its the same .
despeakable political dirt i renounce to mention . it goes
down down down .
even the old corrupt politicians had some good sides :
chanceler Kohl (cohen) asked Thatcher in VAIN for
permission to send the turkish “gest”workers home .
we have no sovereignity ! but at least he tried .
and now with Merkill we got more invaders .
Rothschilds favourite girl maggie thatcher
in true socialist style closed all the mines ship building cars motorbikes steel in fact all heavy industry
and put a crippling VAT tax on small firms killing them too
The woking man was robbed of his future
The Fralklands war was to reclaim all the rothschild mining and oil deposits in the area
for the jew and to think we thought maggie thatcher was a tory
no more than Toerag-Tony was new labour
its all rothschild every bit
BOOKS I DIDNT READ
World in Crisis: The End of the American Century
is a new book from one of the world’s leading scholars. Gabriel Kolko provides a panoramic overview of the problems facing the US and the world today. Each chapter covers a key topic, spanning a range of international issues including the current financial crisis, the limits of US foreign policy, the politicisation of intelligence, and why a war with Iran would be likely to culminate in disaster for the US. Kolko also outlines why changes in military technology make all wars, no matter who fights them, increasingly futile. At the heart of the book is the idea that the international system is in the grip of a great transition. Kolko shows how America is losing its dominance, and examines the profound changes we are experiencing as it is forced to accept the limits of its military power.
After America: Get Ready for Armageddon
is a non-fiction book authored by socio-political commentator Mark Steyn, being published in 2011 by Regnery. In the work, he asserts that the United States has placed itself onto a trajectory towards decline and eventual collapse due to different trends in its history, a path that he states has been set out previously by other nations of the Western World. The author specifically cites what he sees as unsustainable national spending and borrowing, with the U.S. national debt causing multiple negative effects across the country in his view.
More of the Black plague will mend the plague
The NHS ( national Health Service )
was brought in for two reasons
the government realised men were not fit enough for another war
and also people said if Hitler could bring in this for his people, with free health clubs and a
free national holiday for all in a purpose built resort
why can we in the UK >
So money paid in each week in the UK was supposed to be held in trust for those folk a s they got older, but the government stole the money and gave it and free health treatment to the migrants it people trafficked in
In the USA so many men are not fit for service either they are fat bastards poofs drug addicts etc
https://www.theepochtimes.com/food-assistance-contributing-to-obesity-with-almost-80-percent-of-americans-aged-17-24-unfit-for-military-service_5076107.html?utm_source=h
American politicians and CEOs responsible for it all think their way of doing everything still dominates. China’s infrastructure is far superior. It’s modern, it’s clean, it works, it’s safe. I wouldn’t be surprised if the evil US tries to sabotage some Chinese projects just so they can say, “See? It’s not that good!”
The irony…
“Try to imagine if we ever would have gotten to the moon with this set of twisted priorities.”
Perpetuating myths of greatness is itself a twisted priority.
“You’re either with us or you’re with the terrorists…”
Totally agreed with the author…
until he brought up the Moon Hoax 🙄
Basically the USA is too corrupt….so when a high speed rail line is planned…..so many parasites come out of the woodwork that the project falters and succumbs finally to the weight of corruption….something like that anyway…..
Imagine the magnificent engineering projects in Switzerland under the Alps….couldnt happen in the US any more….There is no social cohesiveness….
And when an industry wants something done which requires skilled labour….the price is often astronomical.
Anyway just look at the Clintons….who were middle class lawyers.
Theyre now worth $120,000,000 as a conservative estimate….but they own no business capable of generating anything near that amount of money…..theyre corrupt as hell and NO the media is not going to expose them,because the media is corrupt too!!.
What about the abovementioned Washingstein Post…..why quote this rag…..it runs at a loss and is kept afloat by the Amazon jew for its propaganda value…..it is worthless and full of poseurs like the two jews who exposed Nixon in H20gate…..always an agenda except the truth ….should be their motto
All by design, so many tried to warn humanity.
Having been an object of the US gov’t experiment called ‘bussing to achieve racial integration’ in the middle 1970’s, laws against depraved indifference require that I must insist that it wouldn’t be wise to get on an airplane piloted by blacks. The first few ‘black’ pilots may be stellar examples of half- or quarter-blacks, but when the hiring practice gains acceptance and the usual sub-par cadre finds their way into the field, deaths will increase as will the normal jewish media spins and excuses. In fact, flying is already becoming more problematic:
https://mslegal.org/2019/02/fight-escalates-over-race-based-hiring-program-at-the-faa/
Affirmative action succeeded in getting many less-qualified blacks into college from the inner city school (90% black) that I attended. I ended up as an enlisted man in the military even though I received the highest score in the school on the SAT. It was not a great score (below 1200) since the school was not actually a place one went to learn unless running and fighting were the curriculum. The point seemed to be getting the few blacks with any potential at all into college. Accordingly, grade inflation (fraud, actually) was used. I received a full 4-year ride to a small school (they stated in the offer letter that they would be proud to have a minority student of my caliber) that was rescinded when they finally figured out that I was not black. I suspect that my race may have been falsified in certain databases to increase school standing and opportunites for other students.
Zelensky needs fresh, young, Americans…
https://twitter.com/JamesPhillips00/status/1630584722253312002?t=9Sm377D3TGHbw8BmnwYu6w&s=19
“All the way from Washington
Her bread-winner begs off the bathroom floor
We live for just these twenty years
Do we have to die for the fifty more?”
Here’s a fresh young American nobody would miss.
https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1630905040947781633?t=NAcgjwIKLWkWb7XlfRc_bQ&s=19
Out-sourcing manufacturing to third world nations, and giving out all those H1 visas to Hindus, Sihks, etc., certainly contributed to this. Heck, when we drive along I-10, half the truck drivers I see wear turbins…in other words, Sihks!
Too all those young couples that have any carpentry/plumbing/auto-repair/electrician/sewing/agri-type skills: teach your kids these skills, because one day, being “old school” is going to become a necessity. (And you don’t have to be male to have these skills…we taught our daughter how to change tires, fan belts, etc, and you don’t have to be female to learn sewing either!)
@ Optimus Primate
While you are right in part about the US, you are dead wrong about China where you say, “China’s infrastructure is far superior. It’s modern, it’s clean, it works, it’s safe.” That is exactly what the all-powerful, communist-spawning Rothschild dynasty in control of both nations want you to think.
Working with their Rockefeller subordinates and a host of other stooge organizations, they built China as it is today with their direct and indirect funding of the communist movement in that nation right from its inception, and then with their iron-fisted puppet communist party control of the nation, beginning in the 1970’s they began their their massive draining operations of the West, with the shifting of capital, jobs, technology, machinery, entire industries to that nation in order to milk all Western markets with their low-cost Chinese goods, while making themselves enormously rich. You can follow huge whacks of the profits to off-shore havens and to Israel.
Within 20 years of 1979 they deliberately turned every so-called “free-market” nation of the West from a creditor nation into a debtor nation. This was all planned and carried out by the arch capitalists of the world who are also the arch communists. They have been systematically dismantling and destroying the West with all of their grand leveling schemes for their totalitarian NWO for the past 100 years with puppets such as Justin Trudeau in these days holding out totalitarian China as “the model nation of the world”.
Only parts of China that are “modern” are “clean”. Without Western markets for its goods, and the controls by its Rothschild-controlled central bank, it would not “work”, but it could prosper on its own, as can any nation with an industrious, free, and law-abiding citizenry. China will continue in the grand leveling process now to falter and suffer from the same top-down-controlled, economic management diseases which have infected our Western nations. You say it is “safe”? If you are not trolling from or on behalf of China or the Rothschild tribe, then just go there and see how “safe” you will be. Find a real “truth seeker site” in that nation if you can, or see what will happen to you if you try to start one.
The problem with the US is that it is just too convoluted, corrupt and crooked to straighten itself out now. China is comparatively clean (if that is what you mean by “clean”) in its top-down totalitarianism, in that most everyone is already in complete lockstep automaton control. The difference is that China uses more oppression than deception, but both rule mainly by fear.
Despite their great economic and military powers, both nations are examples of exactly what no other nations ought to emulate. People need, want and deserve self-made governments for a self-determination and a flourishing based on truth, freedom, justice, trust, and cooperation. Both of these evil top-down systems are systematically irradicating the integrity of the individual person and family life necessary to attain these goals.
Follow the money – central banks, UN Agendas, WEF, WHO, CFR, USSR, PCR, NWO, DARPA, CBDC’s and you always come up with the same culprits.
After what Amerika has done to the world with their hegemony, who cares about them anymore…
The “moon landing” lol.
https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/van-allen-probes-spot-impenetrable-barrier-in-space
Nasa admits humans can’t pass through the dangerous Van Allen Belts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDBBUwdyz4I
“Did you hear? South Africa can’t keep the lights on… again.”
This has been going on for quite some time. Chinese attempted to fix it but from what I gather the ‘locals’ just weren’t technical enough to understand the basics.
“This was 50 years ago, a feat achieved with pre-pocket calculator technology, that no advanced nation has been able to replicate since”
And won’t be able to replicate since it never happened.
America is toast. A fantasy land that thinks skin color and gender is all that’s necessary and are totally godless now believing in Satanism. Check out this years Grammy’s.
Like God used the Romans to destroy Jerusalem in 70AD He will likely use the Russians to destroy the USA. Just a calculated guess….
the Moon Hoax 🙄
https://mcdn.wallpapersafari.com/medium/60/26/kzSW9M.jpg
open this with your photo viewer and zoom in on the horizon line, that separates the backdrop from the lunar set
the photo is not on the moon, it is on a studio set
paper mache moon lander:
https://raypeatforum.com/community/proxy.php?image=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.endalldisease.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2016%2F02%2FNASA-hoax.jpg&hash=989a20de755097ed57b6e219807cb88e
Mars fakery:
http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s—yJWUyFd–/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/1374040864090690372.jpg
https://www.mimikama.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Mars-lemming-devon-island.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzyOdH6OlV0
@ken on March 1, 2023 at 7:02 pm
Corrections. Like many parts of Afrika the pylon’s copper wires are getting stolen in broad daylight, like how catalytic converters are now getting stolen in Amerika. In Afrika the whole car save for the garage is stolen instead of just the converters for their minute paladium.
@Fred B on March 1, 2023 at 5:49 pm
China causes 25% of world pollution. Its contribution to the Paris Agreement is contributing more pollution. This is because just like how the almost 6 million Chinese students in the US were exempted from the Fluvid-19 vaccines so is China exempted from environmental pollution reduction.
Have a look at films of the Apollo rockets taking off–as someone said, if they wanted to fake it, it’d be cheaper to fake it on the moon
Not only will the US military industrial complex fall apart. So will everything else. Bureau of Labor Statistics:
Electricians, plumbers and carpenters Estimated 84% are
WHITE HETEROSEXUAL MALES
Other construction and extraction occupations 82%
Installation, maintenance and repair occupations 80%
Machinists, welders, and technicians 78%
Airline pilots, truck drivers, heavy equipment operators 76%
Farmers and ranchers 72%
Firefighters and police officers 70%
Electrical, Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineers 65%
White men are 3/4 to 4/5 of those doing actual work, whereas the other classes are paper-pushers and parasites
A 35-year-old and a 15-year-old were arrested for shooting 9 CHILDREN at a Georgia gas station 10 days ago. Why haven’t you heard about this mass shooting?
https://notthebee.com/article/a-35-year-old-man-and-a-15-year-old-were-arrested-for-shooting-9-children
Know you know why.
AIPAC Israeli Economic Espionage Against US Hits $366 Billion
https://irmep.com/2023/02/02202024aipac-israelfta/
Yukon Jack–it says the barrier stops the fastest electrons, not rockets
Affirmative action, diversity, inclusion, “wokeness”, they are elements of degradation and a recipe for disaster and utter failure. Snivelry leads to mediocrity at best and, more likely, failure. In this Jew World Order dystopia of satanic inversion, this shit is pushed to the surface and glorified while the cream gets labeled as racist and scheduled for destruction.
That photo of the two black women in the cockpit…oh my God…I have known enough black women to know that anyone boarding a plane seeing even ONE black woman in the cockpit who doesn’t turn around and disembark immediately is either literally mentally retarded or hopelessly suicidal. If one sees TWO black women in the cockpit, they would then be obligated to strangle them both with their seatbelts to prevent the impending disaster. Even most black men, as inherently stupid as they are, boarding a plane who would see black women in the cockpit would turn around immediately while saying, “Oh HELL NO! F*ck this.”
you remember tale of jesus ? : a disturbed evil
ghost left his house to seek company . he returned
with several others + behaved worst with them .
this we have today with our mentaly disturbed
parasitic politicians : they invited more parasites
and they will behave worst !
No real men and no real women! No wonder our youth are so confused, they have no examples to follow.
Apollo-denial is all a part of denying the White Man’s achievements (German and American, mostly, in this case). At the time, the Black singer Gil Scott-Heron was already throwing shit at it
Our works in Space are the White Man’s doing, even if the synthetic world of Jew TV pushes the fart-face de Grace-Thyssen (spell?) forward as the voice of Physics