Yes, it’s like something out of a dystopian ‘hunger games’ movie, except it is unfortunately real life. ITV News in Great Britain is running a wheel-of-fortune type marketing campaign where desperate viewers can call in for an opportunity to spin the wheel and win having their energy bills paid.
Comrades, it is not a spoof, this actually took place today and it looks like it will continue due to popular demand. UK citizens are facing astronomical increases in energy bills as a result of the EU green climate change agenda in combination with Russia halting the export of natural gas. The price of natural gas increased 30% today alone as Russia cuts off supplies completely. Europe is on the brink of the worst economic recession in history.
ITV steps in with a promotional effort that shows just how bizarre this Build Back Better future has become. Perhaps next week viewers might be able to call in for a chance at winning extra food rations, chocolates or even gasoline. Here’s a video to show what is happening. WATCH:
https://youtu.be/rC7O8LISY48
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Good luck comrade citizens, you too could be a winner on the wheel of survival. It’s all in good fun comrade. Smiles everyone, smiles.
What a time to be alive pic.twitter.com/RiR0nyFf5i
— Jono Read (@jonoread) September 5, 2022
Am I the only one that feels like this is a bad episode of the Twilight Zone? These people act like this is totally normal. I’ve never seen anything like this in my entire life.
You’re in good company.
They are self imploding, ENJOY THE SHOW.
You aren’t the only one. People steeped in TV don’t see how strange it has all become. Like the proverbial frogs in a pot, with the temperature rising slowly.
Some of us, on the other hand, dip a toe in every now and then and scream bloody murder about how hot the water has become.
Accidentally flagged..
Fat fingers..
Interesting you mentioned this tonight. I had pretty much the same thought, recently.
I don’t watch much TV. I was at my girlfriend’s house watching that 911 Texas show on Friday evening. I was very surprised how much the writing and plot lines of the show is hardcore progressive propaganda.
Before cancelling all tv/cable service I’d noticed that, too. Drove me nuts!
Like the two shows that try to glorify the criminal FBI. The SWAT Show is bad too
Love the FB! teams with one representative for every stripe of the rainbow flag as they work to capture the white male criminal.
Yeah, we used to watch that and then decided the Texas one was a lot more woke than the the regular 911, and stopped watching it. But, we got rid of cable a few months back, and we don’t miss most of the crap the networks (yes, including Fox) put out there.
No you are not alone. I wish you were lolol but you’re definitely not. Gives me chills.
just don’t jump up and down on the platform SO much that it bumps the pointer out of the million dollars and into the $10,000 (or bill paid —> then NOT paid)
I actually saw that on the teevee in the 1980’s when a gal was so happy about her big win that she vibrated the wheel pointer into the next slot
BTW, I was looking up the bio of Andy Biggs after seeing him on the stage at CPAC with Brandon Straka who seemed to be making Mr. Biggs somewhat discomfited about the American citizens being kept in the gulag (AKA laogai).
Did you know that Andy Biggs won $10 million dollars in one of those publishing sweepstakes contests? See, actual people DO win those prizes.
From Wikipedia:
In 1993, he won $10 million in the American Family Publishers sweepstakes.[9] He appeared in a TV ad with Dick Clark and Ed McMahon to promote the sweepstakes
To correct myself, I found through various newspaper articles that the lady who was on the “Big Spin” whose ball popped into the $10,000 actually had it go into the $3 million dollar slot (not the one million dollar slot). The host – Geoff Edwards – even announced she was the winner of the $3 million prize before the ball popped into the $10,000 slot.
Mrs. Barnett, a nurse, challenged the State Lottery (of California) in court and the jury ruled in her favor – that was in 1989 – the State Lottery said they were going to appeal but I can’t find anything about that appeal, if it ever came about.
“If you don’t like where we’re going
Then you won’t like what’s coming next”
Dave Mustaine
Dave is much better than all of Metallica combined, just due to his moral compass.
The Hunter Games
Queen for a Day was pretty pathetic as well. I recall watching the show as a small child. The women were desperate to win a washing machine.
Insanity — the new normal! Yes, the world has gone Mad!
I’ve maintained for years that even Serling couldn’t have written this script, as no one would have believed it.
However, he did air an episode describing what it might be like AFTER the collapse of civilization (about the man who could no longer read because he broke his glasses)..
So maybe he was just skipping to the end of our story.
but before that, it was “conspiracy theory stuff”
That’s not winning.
THIS is winning:
Labelled “Sensitive Content” – Must be over the target.
“That’s how you know it’s true.”
The winner receives a power bill voucher .
What’s the booby prize?
A gas powered car?
Note Phillip doing the one-eye sign pose at 0:14.
Hunger games.
Coming to the good ol USA SOON!
“Coming to the good ol USA SOON!”
38 minutes ago.
The California Independent System Operator, or Cal ISO,
said there is what it calls an Energy Emergency Alert 2 Notice for Monday from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.,
which is the last step before it declares rolling blackouts are imminent.
With an EEA 2, Cal ISO says all available resources are in use.
All consumers are urged to conserve energy.
…….
I just gassed up the vehicle, purchased freshwater and got the candles ready..
Meanwhile, it’s dark and San Onofre is decommissioned (2.2GW) and Diablo Canyon on its way out (2.2GW).
But those solar panels and windmills are supposed to power us through the dark, still, muggy night.
I keep replaying the song Solsbury Hill while sitting in my old, funky farmhouse that I moved to, from CA, 2 years ago.
At the base of the Tushar mountains which supplies not only our our water, but energy too. Electricity from our own hydro plants and fresh spring water.
From the song: “My heart going boom, boom, boom… he said: son grab your things I’ve come to take you home…”
Feels good man.
Love that song, and good for you.
…and over the precipice a once great empire goes.
Embarrassing and cringe worthy. Oh dear Britain…we hardly knew ye.
So true Betsy jones.
These are the people who held off Hitler almost single handedly for two years with just a little help from the USA before we entered the War full force.
Hitler tried to starve them and bomb them into submission with no success and now look how pitiful they are.
These are the Brave Brits who huddled in the subways at night when the Luftwaffe hit them with endless night bombing and lived off practically air for six years of the War because of the German subs sinking our ships that were trying to supply them with food.
Now they are down to this kind of stuff.
Their leaders are fluffy, silly, spineless, spoiled losers.
Hope we can pull America out of the Abyss that looms in front of us.
They are so spineless and blind that they have followed the US over the cliff of sanctions that are destroying their economy and the economies of Europe. But that is what their elites and ours want. Destroy the energy sector and you make lives poorer in quality and easier to control.
Destroy the energy sector and you make lives poorer in quality and easier to control.
Poorer and Fewer lives are certainly much easier to control.
Yes, starving and therefore physically weak people are no threat, they think.
It is much worse than that over here in the Scottish gulag.
We have a brain dead socialist in charge in Edinburgh and down south the pretend Tories have just appointed an ex Liberal Party and anti Brixit female called Liz Truss to be our next dear leader. The FOURTH PM in the twelve years the Tories have been in power.
Now I know you Americans have your own cross to bear but we cannot see any way out of our own purgatory.
There was I thinking a Truss was something one wears for a hernia or severe abdominal issues …… Perhaps we need major surgery
God bless you, Patrick. You have the “UniParty” curse over there as well. Yes, our betters don’t give a flying fig about us. Pray.
Pray we do and can then help our English brothers and sisters out of the crap hand they have been dealt! First, we pull up our own bootstraps. God bless all freedom lovers, even those damnable MAGA folks (us!!!) God bless Sundance and our President Donald J. Trump!!
And sadly, this is just the beginning. Just wait until the meat and vegetable lotteries start. And then people selling home grown food out of their car trunks! Thanks Joe Biden! NEVER EVER VOTE DEMOCRAT AGAIN!!!!
It was my home for 20 years. I was happy there. I have family and friends there still….and memories. The best of what was and is no more. It grieves me more than it is possible to explain.
Looks more like Wheel of Misfortune.
I’d like to buy a S T A R V E
How long before Europeans storm their elites “castles?”
Starting….infant stages admittedly. So far a continuing uprising in the Netherlands, this past weekend tens of thousands in the Czech Republic protesting unaffordable power, and now…finally… Germans have awakened and are beginning to make their voices heard. Good to see they won’t wait until they can no longer afford to heat and eat.
The WEF/UN pact to speed things along with the 2030 Agenda is reaping results..and not the ones I believe Schwab and Co expected.
Klaus likely won’t see 2030 one way or the other.
One can only hope. By then this whole grotesque, diabolical, unholy pantomime will have finished one way or another.
Klaus is planning on living to the rip old age of 150. He has access to meds that most don’t even know exist.
Unless someone slips a wee bit of bleach into that mixture.
Like the baby derived meds Soros is on?
“Meds”… is that what they’re calling it now?
A vile satanist whose departure from this earth is long overdue.
He should be dead already.
He needs to go long before that!
70,000 in Prague, if you believe the report. I suspect it was waaay more.
I agree. I saw what looked like, as you say, way more than that. It was inspirational.
Support them. It’s coming here. It’s a global fight for nationalism.
My guess is when the freezing and starving protestor to jackboot ratio hits 100 to 1 or so.
If the desperate protestors are armed it less than ten to one.
Once this thin line collapses its Sri Lanka time.
The problem is even once the illegitimate government collapses and runs away the problems will remain because the damage is done.
The problem will be will the people blame the right ones or will the lies about who did this to them affect there thinking.
War is coming
Probably more like a 1000 to 1 spaul.
Things are not looking good over there.
As soon as they have no heat in their homes.
Oh, about late November when people are tired of freezing to death.
They seem like obedient slaves who want to go back to the medievil times.
We beat the German psyche into that after ww2. We beat them so hard they accepted reunification with communist East Germans. Look where that ended up.
I don’t know….I hear in England you can be in big trouble for trying to defend your home from burglars. Sounds like they’re too meed to stand up for themselves.
They’ve been conquered by Islamists & their own traitorous gubmint & police forces.
Where is our natural gas being shipped right now? Anyone noticed a sharp increase in electric rates lately? 44% of our power in Florida is generated by natural gas/LNG.
Both electric and water have gone up in my neck of the woods. Feed prices skyrocketing again too.
Why are people watching this?
wake Up!
Top Game Shows of 2022
Truth or Dire Consequences
Let’s Make a Natural Gas Deal
The $100,000 Pyramid Scheme
What’s My Unemployment Line?
The Price is Rigged
Concentration Camp
Don’t forget ‘Beat The Reaper’
one of my favorites
A classic.
LMAO…..that’s good!! Would say nice joke but…….
Never thought I’d live to see the day. Although less people will if they succeed in starving us all to death.
Or freezing us all to death.
Will we get to pick one or the other?
Life Imitates Art – “Art” being Insanity…
Crickey.
Sadly next month theyll be higher. When will the serfs revolt?
Watch his left hand. I think his thumb is stopping the wheel on the free energy.
Surprised?
Totally legit 🙄
Emphasizing who will decide individual fates.
And the wealthy and the movers-and-shakers can tune in to be amused by the plight of the desperate.
Another informative day at CTH. The serious and painful stage is coming unless Net Zero and other policies are reversed.
The Conservative party in the UK just spun the leadership wheel and elected Liz Truss as the new UK Premier with 57% of the vote. If past Tory policies are any indication, the UK people will not be winners.
I believe she has the ability to make a positive difference if she is inclined to do so. But I haven’t seen a UK sundance that has provided detailed evidence of who she might be controlled by or on which side she will likely be on for all the important issues.
You won’t see this photo in DC.
This picture….tells you everything you need to know about anything in Britain.
And why our ancestors left, Keln.
From time to time I thank G_d that my great-grandparents (paternal line) emigrated (1870s) from Sverige. And, another set from Norge.
I’m still contemplating the expression of what looks like terror combined with what appears to be a case of one month constipation by the “lad”? in the upper left corner ….
“Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way”
God Bless America
some say, previous WEF trainee….like some of our own. Where is Davy Crockett?
Liz Truss’ approval rating is already in the hole. Only about 34% of people are glad she won.
She is Boris Johnson in women’s clothing. She will continue to allow people to freeze and close their businesses to keep green energy and to provide for Zelensky’s offshore bank accounts. She is on the same page as Biden’s plan to restrict our economy.
Where’s the bastille?
Where the J6’ers are.
Hmm…. what kind of underwear are those two guys wearing?
Why no wig? Definitely gender bias.
They are having a ‘laugh’
In your face, mockery.
We’ll ruin your lives;
and then suggest you watch our show, ($$$$ money in our pocket) at a chance for your bills to be paid;
BY US, (who destroyed your life in the first place)
.. And then they’ll be taxed on their ‘winnings’ at year end.
“.The price of natural gas increased 30% today alone as Russia cuts off supplies completely. Europe is on the brink of the worst economic recession in history.”
I guess it’s not the Russians who are incompetent.
The Russians are in the driver’s seat.
Via remote control.
Into the wall of sanctions these fools blocked themselves in with.
I believe a depression is a drop in economic activity by 10%. 60% of businesses closing or lowering operations just might qualify.
This is going to be “interesting “ to watch
The real question is…can Americans get in on this?
We’ll create our own version where we spin to see who gets the next available kidney or heart surgery.
…but only if they are vaxxed.
Coming to an American network soon…
A&E channel has a sweepstakes where the winner gets free TV for a year..
Such a travesty that the poor Europeans have to have massive demonstrations to get anything done, and even that isn’t working.
They better get on it. Winter is coming.
Very sad EmilyA.
There are tens of thousands of them to just hundreds of their leaders and all they can do is gather in the street and scream and shout, so far.
They are not even tearing down the buildings like in Sri Lanka where the people mean business and are letting their leaders know they are fed up.
I am going to guess that these Euro leaders know the people will take what ever the leaders dish out.
They gave a date certain by which they expect the government to resign.
Don’t count them out yet.
Wait until December. It’s coming.
I’ll take ‘Terrifying Experiences’ for $500 Alex.
1) college loan reduction. Next, heating bill exemptions. Then , car loans are racist and government programs must be created to pay off these loans because…. Next mortgage payments are racist…. Screw the people that have no mortgages. My crystal ball is rarely wrong. Just print more $. Pray and pray more
That was Jeopardy… oh, wait! We are in jeopardy!
😩
Sorry KAF. Due to Bidenflation, the minimum price to play is now $5,000.
An attempt – fragile and frail as it may be – to offset news images of people in the British Isles burning their gas bills!
It’s creepy, very creepy.
I want to post this link on here. A friend of mine wrote it. Some of you have read him before. He doesn’t put out much (maybe 1x every quarter) but when he does it’s damn good. This is a good update on the state of the union as any.
https://capitalisteric.wordpress.com/2022/09/05/q3-2022-notes-connecting-the-dots/
Excellent essay, bookmarked and also saved.
Luke: Thanks for the link. One of the better analyses that I have read. Well reasoned, not sensationalist or bombastic.
I do think I have visited his blog before, perhaps, via another site.
Thanks, Luke, good synopsis, particularly regarding Russia and BRICS. The new world order is not turning out to be the one that was ordered.
Unless one recognizes that WEF and BBB was always a suicide pact.
Great article. Thanks for the link. It underlines everything else I have been reading here and on other sites.
I like almost all of it.
Im skeptical of the prediction on Chinas economy.
We are programmed to hate China,
so any bad news we hear is like, “Yeah, that’s right”
We underestimate Chinas economy at our own risk.
They are ruthless, and will eradicate millions
of people if they have to, in order to come out ahead.
And how is China supposed to invade Australia and North America
when their economy is on the threshold of disaster?
Doesnt grok.
But a really solid write up of the global situation.
Impressive.
YIKES!!!
Unfortunately he makes sense.
People are being brainwashed to believe the massive inflation in energy and food prices is all because of Putin. So they believe that. And not that their own government is doing this to them intentionally.
UK energy bills went up over 50% in March.
UK energy bills are projected to go up over 80% in November.
UK energy bills are expected to increase again in January.
And Liz Truss, who panicked when a reporter fainted in front of her and has campaigned on a “willingness” to “Press the Button” against Russia just became the Prime Minister.
Match game 22. Where te contestants can match a can of beans or maybe a tank of gas. Just more reality television. FJB
This reminds me of the movie “the running man”
Everything will become a game show where people will risk yhere lives for money
Thought the same…
“Climbing for Dollars”
Just watch out for the dogs!
First image I had was Rollerball (1975) with James Caan. We’re not that far away
Rollerball (1975 film) – Wikipedia
I imagine Neil Oliver will mention this in his next monologue
Nice island you got there.
Shame if anyone happened to it.
Can’t afford your monthly BUG order?
Need help affording that delicious cockroach milk?
There’s a GAME SHOW for that.
Orwell could hardly have envisioned this.
We used to have contests here where folks danced themselves to death competing for a single cake.
Reminds me of the movie “They Shoot Horses Don’t They”. The money for the energy bills will be counted as income and they will have to pay VAT and other taxes on it. So………
Trump tried to warn them when he spoke to the UN General Assembly in 2018 and the Germans laughed at him. I’ll bet they’re not laughing now.
I have zero sympathy for the Germans because of that.
It was waning long before that because of their move to socialism, but it is gone now.
I no longer give a tinkers damn about those who refuse to see what is happening to them.
I paid £140 a month for gas and electric as far back as I can remember. Now I’m paying £375 a month and that will only be enough if residential rates stay capped at where they are (which they won’t).
What frustrates is that everyone whines but refuses to see the source of the problem. I am the ONLY person that’s ever said “You hated Trump and couldn’t wait to see him out of office; this is the direct result. If the election weren’t thrown, he’d still be in office, the Russians would still be in Russia and prices would be even lower than they were in 2020 even with the shutdown of coal and nuclear plants in the EU.” That’s too cerebral for them.
The saddest part is this is completely avoidable. But tey arw doing it on purpose. Lord Jesus, save us!
Win an all expenses paid vacation with the Biden Crime Family. Clubbing with Hunter. Shopping with Jill. Share a shower with the Big Guy.
The Braindead Games
My money is on the little guy.
How disgusting this is to celebrate the suffering of citizens caused by absolute nitwits in their government.
When will the games of citizens competing against citizens begin?
When they build a Hollywood Colosseum and the bread and circuses fail, they will pit a “white supremacist” MAGA vs. packs of lions or of transgender women for entertainment.
Where is this going? I’ll offer one guess. Government housing but multiple families must live together and share space. At least you will not freeze. Just give up your old house that you could not afford. Own nothing and be happy? People will give up a lot to be fed, warm and healthy. Maybe everything.
Reminds me of “Running Man”
Says a lot about the phonys that present this garbage.
You know, this could actually be alot of fun…
Think about it.
We can all stand around in the town square watching government tv where Sally jumps from a 5 story building into a small glass of water.
Maybe she lives…
Wall Street Silver on Twitter:
“BREAKING: Protests and clashes erupt in Indonesia over high cost of living following government decision to raise fuel prices by 30%. Police retreating.
This makes me think of the
movies whose plot lines were of government or other forcing people to play–in those movies they were dangerous, deadly with live and televised audiences–games for various quid pro quo arrangements.
Scary. We’ve already entered the dystopian world. WEF has the West in compliance, all plans in motion, on track…full speed ahead.
Thankfully ‘We the People’ around the globe are rebelling. Do not comply!
Victoria is being groomed for an energy crisis by green lunatics | Cairns News
VICTORIA’S green-left and the dizzy-headed disciples of the World Economic Forum are pushing for the total electrification of the state while unlawfully abandoning the massive gas resources they sit on and are duty-bound by law to use for the state’s benefit.
Andrews and the corporate clones around Melbourne Mayor Sally Capp, a WEF disciple, want some 2 million Victorian homes to ditch gas appliances and switch to unreliable wind and solar-fed grids and battery banks in suburbs that go flat after a few hours. The government has costed the so-called Gas Substitution Roadmap $14,500 per household, which would cost the state an astronomical $30 billion. But the gas industry says it’s more like $21,500 to $40,000 per household or roughly $60 billion.
In the UK, the energy crisis caused by the insane Russia gas boycott, is pushing household energy bills up tenfold. In Scotland, people are burning their power bills in public protests. It’s all part of the current stupidity of western political and corporate decision-making.
Meanwhile there is no shortage of gas in Victoria. The state’s first developed offshore gas and oilfield, the Gippsland Basin, contains reserves of 2.7 trillion cubic feet of natural gas and ethane, and there is so much excess gas in the more recent Otway Basin in the west of the state, they are storing it underground when it is not being sold out of Queensland to foreign buyers.
Andrews’ Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning is refusing to release modelling for its so-called Roadmap, which is hardly surprising when one realises there is no sound reasoning behind it. It is little more than blind obedience to the World Economic Forum that has arbitrarily announced a global “transition to net zero carbon emissions” to stop the alleged “climate emergency”.
Biden was just a year early on his prediction of a winter of death
Disgusting, horrible, Labour… Be sure to thank Sir Tony Blair next time you see him!
Good lead-in show for everybody’s favorite, “The Running Man!”
Nothing signals decline more than having a game show offer a chance to win basic needs instead of prizes.
Great way to make fun of people’s legitimate problem of paying their power bills.