Friday, April 3, 2026

‘Carbon Capture Is a Trojan Horse for Technocracy’

 

Carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) is quite obviously a sham.  It does not produce anything of real economic value.  Like the derivatives that led to the 2008 financial crash, the economic value of CCS is very much an illusion, which will likely bring about another disaster in its wake, whether financial or otherwise.  Nor does it benefit the environment, as carbon dioxide is not causing rapid warming of the planet.  As we noted once before here at The Hayride, CO2 levels rise in response to rising temperatures, not the other way around.

There is thus no good reason for enormous amounts of money to be ‘invested’ in CCS.  Why, then, is it being promoted so heavily?  Because it furthers the cause of globalist control of mankind (and worse, as we shall see), a process termed technocracy by a relentless researcher into it, Patrick Wood.

The New World Order types began ballyhooing about CO2 in 1968 at a meeting of the Club of Rome.  They published the findings of their research in a 1972 book, The Limits of Growth, in which to no one’s amazement they wrote breathlessly (cue Rush Limbaugh’s mock panting) about CO2 ‘causing irreversible changes in the earth’s climate’ (p. 81, PDF version; available as a free download here).

The vilifying of carbon dioxide, which is essential to the flourishing of plants and the production by them in turn of the oxygen that people and animals need, has produced in our own day things like carbon credits to offset one’s carbon footprint:

‘CERs [Certified Emission Reductions—W.G.] are units (carbon credits) issued by UNFCCC, measured in tonnes of CO2 equivalent. Anyone can purchase these units on this platform to compensate (or offset) emissions and/or to support these projects. They can be used by individuals, businesses and organizations to reach carbon neutrality by compensating their footprints, while they help project developers to continue to finance their green projects. The prices per unit are set by project developers, who also receive the full profits from the sale of the units directly: UN Climate Change is not a party to the CER cancellation contract between purchaser and provider. The platform is free of charge, for both buyers and sellers’ (‘United Nations Carbon Offset Platform,’ unfccc.int).

Some of these scams/schemes remain voluntary, for the moment.  But they are swiftly moving into the realm of mandatory participation.  In Europe, for example:

‘Starting in 2027, the European Union will expand its emissions trading system (ETS) into new territory with the launch of ETS2. While the original ETS primarily targeted heavy industry and power plants, ETS2 directly impacts ordinary citizens — their homes, their cars, their daily lives. Under the guise of ’saving the climate,’ the EU will steadily make gasoline, diesel, and gas for heating more expensive. But let’s be honest: ETS2 has very little to do with protecting the environment. It is about economic control, wealth redistribution, and the consolidation of power among banks, large corporations, governments, and the European Commission. 

‘Formally, everything remains ‘voluntary.’ You may continue driving a gasoline car. You may continue heating your home with natural gas. But every choice that deviates from the state’s ‘sustainability goals’ will become economically unbearable. This is not a direct expropriation of property, but it is economic subjugation through price pressure, regulation, and redistribution of the proceeds. Instead of free choices, citizens and companies are financially forced to adopt government-approved behavior’ (Rob Roos, ‘Freedom in the EU? Only if You Can Afford It,’ europeanconservative.com).

Where is all of this heading, someone may be wondering?  Patrick Wood gives an indication:

‘The deathly economic state of today’s world is a direct reflection of the sum of its sick and dying currencies, but this could soon change. Forces are already at work to position a new Carbon Currency as the ultimate solution to global calls for poverty reduction, population control, environmental control, global warming, energy allocation and blanket distribution of economic wealth. Unfortunately for individual people living in this new system, it will also require authoritarian and centralized control over all aspects of life, from cradle to grave. What is Carbon Currency and how does it work? In a nutshell, Carbon Currency will be based on the regular allocation of available energy to the people of the world. If not used within a period of time, the Currency will expire (like monthly minutes on your cell phone plan) so that the same people can receive a new allocation based on new energy production quotas for the next period.  Because the energy supply chain is already dominated by the global elite, setting energy production quotas will limit the amount of Carbon Currency in circulation at any one time. It will also naturally limit manufacturing, food production and people movement. Local currencies could remain in play for a time, but they would eventually wither and be fully replaced by the Carbon Currency, much the same way that the Euro displaced individual European currencies over a period of time.

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The rest is at https://thehayride.com/2025/05/garlington-carbon-capture-is-a-trojan-horse-for-technocracy/.

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Holy Ælfred the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us sinners at the Souð, unworthy though we are!

Anathema to the Union!

Tuesday, March 31, 2026

Remembrances for April - 2026

 

Dear friends, if you have time, please pray for these members of the Southern family on the day they reposed.  Many thanks.

But one may ask:  ‘What good does it do to pray for the departed?’  An answer is offered here:  https://orthochristian.com/130608.html

Along with prayers and hymns for the departed:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6je5axPodI

April 1st

Ellis Marsalis, Jr

One of New Orleans’s great jazz musicians.

https://selu.libguides.com/BlackHistorySELA/marsalis

April 2nd

Gen A. P. (Ambrose Powell) Hill

Amongst the best generals serving under Lee.  Both Jackson and Lee called upon him as they stepped into the life beyond death.

https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/hill-a-p-1825-1865/

April 3rd

Richard Weaver

Perhaps the greatest defender of Southern ways to be born in Dixie.

https://www.ncpedia.org/biography/weaver-richard-malcolm-jr

April 6th

Gen Albert Sidney Johnston

One of Dixie’s leaders during the War, killed at the Battle of Shiloh.

https://www.battlefields.org/learn/biographies/albert-sidney-johnston

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/4334/albert-sidney-johnston

April 7th

Judge Jackson

He helped the Southern folk-art of shape-note singing to blossom.

https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/blog/the-colored-sacred-harp/

April 9th

Appomattox Day

If you have time, please pray for the South on April 9th, Appomattox Day, the beginning of our sojourn in captivity.  Do some fasting as well if you can:  The Holy Fathers tell us and show us over and over again that humility attracts the Grace of God.

April 11th

Caroline Gordon

One of the South’s best writers of novels and short stories.

https://www.visitclarksvilletn.com/plan/clarksville-connections/literature-and-journalism/caroline-gordon/

April 11th

Gen Wade Hampton III

A fine calvary officer in the War; he was chosen to succeed JEB Stuart as the leader of that department after he was killed in battle.  After the war he served his State of South Carolina in political office.  A more dedicated man to the cause of Southern independence would be hard to find.

https://northcarolinahistory.org/encyclopedia/wade-hampton-iii-1818-1902/

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/439/wade-hampton/photo

April 12th

Gen Richard Taylor

He lived and fought in Louisiana before and during the turbulent War years and was buried there after he died.

http://www.la-cemeteries.com/Notables/Civil%20War/Taylor,%20Richard/Taylor,Richard.shtml

https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fta31

April 13th

Gen Joseph Kershaw, one of the best officers of the Army of Northern Virginia.

https://theconfederatemuseum.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Joseph-Brevard-Kershaw-SC.pdf

https://longstreetmuseum.com/museum/general-kershaw/

April 13th

Col Edmund Rucker

A leader under General Forrest in the War; lost his left arm at the Battle of Nashville.  After the war, he led the industrial development of Birmingham, Al.

https://www.geni.com/people/Col-Edmund-W-Rucker-CSA/6000000017376848156

April 18th

Grady McWhiney

Writer of one of the seminal works of Southern culture – Cracker Culture: Celtic Ways in the Old South.

https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/statesman/name/grady-mcwhiney-obituary?id=26939345

April 22nd

Gov Henry Allen

One of Louisiana’s most productive governors, and unfortunately one of the shortest-serving.

https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/louisianas-warrior-governor/

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/10815/henry_watkins-allen

April 22nd

Fr Abram Ryan

An eloquent poet and priest beloved of people across the South.

https://catholicism.org/priest-poet-patriot-father-abram-j-ryan.html

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7494769/abram-joseph-ryan

https://www.docsouth.unc.edu/southlit/ryan/ryan.html

April 22nd

Alabama Confederate Memorial Day

April 25th

Donald Davidson

Another outstanding 20th century defender of the South and an excellent writer of poems, non-fiction prose, and ballads.

https://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entries/donald-davidson/

https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2013/06/philosopher-poet-donald-davidson-agrarian-south.html

April 26th

Don Andrés Almonaster

A wealthy Spanish civil servant who lived in New Orleans during Spanish rule of Louisiana.  He gave very generously to rebuild the city after the Great Fire of 1788.  Two of his notable benefactions are what would become Charity Hospital and the St Louis Cathedral in which he is buried.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andres_Almonaster_y_Rojas

April 26th

Florida Confederate Memorial Day

April 28th

Jack Hinson

A family man in Tennessee trying to stay neutral in the War.  When Yankees murdered two of his sons in cold blood and mutilated their corpses, he became one of their deadliest enemies as a sniper.

https://www.gunsandammo.com/editorial/the-story-of-civil-war-sniper-jack-hinson-and-his-rifle/247860

https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/jack-hinsons-one-man-war/

April 29th

Mississippi Confederate Memorial Day

Also, to celebrate some of the saints of April from the South’s Christian inheritance of various lands, follow these links on over:

https://southernorthodox.org/orthodox-saints-for-dixie-april/

https://confiterijournal.blogspot.com/2020/05/happy-feast-for-saints-of-april.html

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Holy Ælfred the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us sinners at the Souð, unworthy though we are!

Anathema to the Union!

Friday, March 27, 2026

‘Springtime of Renewal in Serbia, but What of Dixie?’

 

The European Christian country of Serbia may be considered something of a sister of Dixie’s.  Both peoples have followed similar paths:  After attaining a solid Christian identity and unity, both faced an horrible cataclysm:  The Serbs were conquered by the Muslim Turks in the 14th century and remained their vassals until the 19th century; the South was subjugated to the Yankees in the 19th century and remain under their yoke to this day.  Some of the figures of both countries are also strikingly similar, such as Prince Lazar the Great-Martyr of Serbia and General Stonewall Jackson of Virginia – about all of which we have written in more detail elsewhere.

Given this special kinship between the two peoples, we see something hopeful developing.  There is a renewed appreciation and embrace of the past being kindled in the souls of the Serbs.  They are pouring into Kosovo, the primordial cultural/spiritual heartland of Serbia, despite the fact that Kosovo is under threat from various foes.

There is a profound yearning to be rejoined to their roots.  A student at the University of Belgrade described this yearning in his own words:

‘As soon as you turn west towards Kosovo from the highway connecting Belgrade and Thessaloniki, you begin to realize that you are entering another reality, a completely different dimension. You arrive in Visoki Dečani and you feel that you time-travelled several centuries back—time runs differently there. Or take Prizren—sure, it has practically no Serbs living there anymore, but you have this gut feeling that the town is still ours, it is Orthodox, it is Serbian! You cannot describe this feeling with words—I think you can only experience it once you are in Kosovo and Metohija. On the one hand, I feel ashamed, but on the other hand, it is also surprising and brings joy. It is only when I’m here that I realize I am a Serb and an Orthodox Christian. I go back to my people and I begin to understand what the Church, its priesthood, and monasticism mean to me. The genuine, heartfelt hospitality, the embraces, the joyful gratitude that we still remember, the stories about life of the recent past and what is going on there now… I am convinced that every Serb, if he thinks of himself as such, simply must visit Dečani, the Patriarchate of Pec, and Gračanica—at least once! And experience has shown that if you have ever visited Kosovo and Metohija once, you will always long to return to our holy places’ (Maria Vasic, ‘How Pilgrims Bring Back Hope: Notes from Kosovo and Metohija,’ orthochristian.com).

Hospitality?  Embraces?  Again, quite Southern.

There is anecdotal evidence that Dixie is seeing some resurgence of interest in her old ways:  increased attendance at (misnamed) Civil War reenactments, for instance.  But our people still seem too beguiled by the flashy materialism of Yankee America and the pseudo-sacred Philadelphia charter of 1787 to reclaim in full our patrimony.  We have become, to say it differently, too enamored with comfort.  Richard Weaver and some of the other Southern Agrarians (see, e. g., ‘The Life and Death of Cousin Lucius’ by John Donald Wade in I’ll Take My Stand) tried to remind us that the poverty of our forefathers was a shield protecting us from spiritual and cultural enervation.  We have failed to listen.  For the Serbs in Kosovo, however, suffering and struggle remain everyday realities, and it is enlivening them as it once did us:

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The rest is at https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/springtime-of-renewal-in-serbia-but-what-of-dixie/.

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Holy Ælfred the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us sinners at the Souð, unworthy though we are!

Anathema to the Union!