by Jim Ball | Dec 7, 2025 | Blog, Gas Lighting, Orwell, Random Notes |
In 2025 we call it gaslighting but just remember this 1949 Orwell observation from his dystopian book, 1984 next time youโre told that renewables are cheaper and then you take a second look at your electricity bill. It’s exactly the same thing. by Jim Ball | Dec 2, 2025 | Blog, Ecocide, ICC, Random Notes |
Ecocide is defined as: โ..๐๐๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐๐๐ฆ๐๐ ๐ ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐ฎ๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐จ๐ ๐๐๐จ๐ฌ๐ฒ๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ฆ๐ฌ, ๐๐๐๐ข๐ง๐๐ ๐๐ฌ ๐ฎ๐ง๐ฅ๐๐ฐ๐๐ฎ๐ฅ ๐จ๐ซ ๐ฐ๐๐ง๐ญ๐จ๐ง ๐๐๐ญ๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐ ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐๐ฅ ๐ฅ๐ข๐ค๐๐ฅ๐ข๐ก๐จ๐จ๐ ๐จ๐ ๐๐๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฌ๐๐ฏ๐๐ซ๐, ๐ฐ๐ข๐๐๐ฌ๐ฉ๐ซ๐๐๐, ๐จ๐ซ ๐ฅ๐จ๐ง๐ -๐ญ๐๐ซ๐ฆ ๐๐ง๐ฏ๐ข๐ซ๐จ๐ง๐ฆ๐๐ง๐ญ๐๐ฅ ๐ก๐๐ซ๐ฆโฆโ And there is a global campaign underway to make it a crime under... 
by Jim Ball | Nov 30, 2025 | Blog, Gulliver's Travels, Random Notes |
When youโre young, whether at school or at home, reading or having a story read to you, itโs rarely explained that these arenโt just stories for the sake of it but rather, allegories. That is a story using symbolic characters, events, and settings to represent and... by Jim Ball | Nov 25, 2025 | Blog, Patriotism, Random Notes, The National Interest |
There are times when the use of the phrase โin the national interestโ has its place. There are issues and moments when it applies. But far to often in more recent times it has become a โgo toโ set of words deployed to push emotional buttons and trigger an emotional... by Jim Ball | Nov 25, 2025 | Blog, Democrats, Random Notes |
This is a psyop plain and simple. Itโs all about creating perceptions . Creating the perception of instability and crisis and then โ๐ง๐๐ฏ๐๐ซ ๐ฅ๐๐ญ๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ ๐๐ซ๐ข๐ฌ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ ๐จ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฐ๐๐ฌ๐ญ๐โ Slotkin et al as the arsonists light the fire to deliberately provoke a response and then tries to... by Jim Ball | Nov 25, 2025 | Blog, Climate, Climate, Random Notes, Renewable energy |
The idiom โ๐ญ๐ข๐ฅ๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐ญ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ง๐๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฌโ comes from Don Quixote (1605) and means to be attacking imaginary enemies or pursuing futile goals. I find it rich and pregnant with irony that 400 years later, here we are attacking the imaginary enemy of c02 with windmills and...