Earlier this week Switzerland’s environment minister Simonetta Sommaruga, in a Q&A courtesy of Swiss outlet 20 Minuten, she suggested people “turn off the computer when you don’t need it, or turn off lights, or shower together.”
Citing a report from The Times of London, The Epoch Times reports that the backlash Sommaruga’s begat her to then say this was only intended to be for younger people, saying that “after a certain age, showering together is no longer suitable for everyone,” though she insisted her message was still overall well-received.
Her advice is part of her campaign to reduce 15% of energy consumption from October of this year, extending to March 2023 at the earliest.
The WinePress has noted in previous reports that other nations like Germany have suggested their people start using washcloths instead of showering to stay clean, as Germans were already starting to reduce the number of showers they were taking.
But figures in Swiss media have mocked these different policies for energy consumption, such as Géraldine Savary, editor of the women’s magazine Femina, writing a satirical piece addressing some of these suggestions.
She wrote (translated to English):
“Drink milk”, said the late Mikhail Gorbachev, in order to fight against the alcoholism of his compatriots. “Take showers together,” Simonetta Sommaruga tells us to prevent heating shortages this winter. Our governments also administer our intimate lives, down to the most trivial details. After all why not? There is almost a kind of poetry in interpreting the Federal Council’s list of good practices. Judge instead.
At 6:30 a.m., we open our eyes with the chirping of birds, since we have disconnected the alarm clock. We stay glued to each other under the local woolen blankets. Conjugal love acts as a radiator. At 7 a.m., together we take a quick shower, we rub our skin with Marseille soap, we say to ourselves that we would like to be on vacation to crapuler rather than going to work.
At 7:30 a.m., we have breakfast in the darkness of the kitchen. The dawning day erases our wrinkles, we look young and beautiful. We drink a hand-squeezed juice and an organic coffee. At 8 am, we leave for the office entwined, normal, we left car, vespa and electric bike in the garage. We say goodbye, see you tonight, no need to shop, we’ll eat leftovers and supplies from the closet.
At work, we share the kettle for a little tea, and we discuss the program in a tiny room that retains human warmth. Even the most austere colleagues become real chimneys. We write our articles on recycled paper and wait for them to be ready to turn on the computers. At noon, we learn that Jean-Luc Godard is dead, we go for a walk on the avenue de la Gare, we imagine ourselves as Jean Seberg on the Champs-Elysées and we distribute the unsold goods from Le Matin Dimanche.
Around 6 p.m., we go home, we cross the city deprived of signs and lights, the sky turns blue, Klein takes a last photo; the first stars to appear have never been so twinkling. When we arrive, we pee in the garden, the earth is not unhappy. We eat by candlelight, we give up the news on the radio, the fifth episode of House of the Dragon, listening to music on our Boombox, we tell each other stories that we have read, the most gifted sing tender melodies. We go out to watch at night, we fall asleep with the chickens freed from the batteries, thinking that, great, tomorrow the Federal Council is preparing new measures for us.
As alluded to earlier, Switzerland is looking to enact harsh policies by mitigating Swiss family’s room temperatures, to no higher than 19°C (66°F), not allowing water to even reach the boiling point, and even banning the sale of mini heaters; and disobeying such edicts could result in jailtime and/or hefty fines: “Switzerland Considers Jailing Residents Who Heat Their Rooms More Than 19°C And Banning Portable Heaters.”
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
A poor man that oppresseth the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food.
When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.
Proverbs 28:3, 29:2
Across the board Europe will have a rough winter as the bills continue to rocket higher, due to the inflation and price-gouging of everything, in the name of “sticking to Russia” and trying to enforce these green policies.
It’s forced slavery, that’s the goal: ‘they’ need the people to beg and grovel for help, to which they will offer their solution, and the masses will voluntarily concede.
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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I was in high school during the ’70’s when they were pushing their sexual revolution, feminism, and drugs were beginning to be pumped into not only the inner cities, but the suburbs and rural areas known for their conservativism & resistance to the progressives. When they off-shored our industry, and jobs that could support single-income, biblical order families, they really ramped up the international street drug trade: think global, act local, you know. Porn was ramped up correspondingly.
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Anyways, they tried to get the pagan public baths thing with gym classes in the ’70’s…..but it was too much, too fast…and they had to back off & be happy with the rock&roll, hippie ‘natural’ sex craze and Playboy, Hustler etc. Good old Hee-Haw with its Playboy bunnies, Nurse Goodbody, and Gospel quartet….hypocrisy & confusion, like Elvis & his covert new age Crowley magick, getting away with statutory rape with Priscilla….yet singing Gospel for the non-discerning. They were crazy times of confusion. Pushing more & more porn in fiction, drama, the schools.
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The girls especially were uncomfortable with that public showering & nudity…even in the all girls gym classes of that earlier time, because natural modesty & biblical mores were still intact to a great extent. Parents complained so they backed off, but worked behind the scenes towards centralizing education so that it didn’t matter WHAT the parents thought or said.
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There were people all through those times reading elementary & middle school materials into the minutes of state & federal Congress to the squirming of many members demonstrating the nastiness & perversity that was coming in to the schools….but the media wouldn’t cover it.
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Pediatricians were trying to warn about the epidemic of std’s….venereal disease in those days before lying whitewashing of all sin became the standard…amongst younger & younger patients. Their careers were destroyed, and people daring to speak out or to complain were handled as ‘people like that’ & blamed, slandered as goody-two-shoes, self-righteous, and so forth. I remember one female pediatrician in Ohio particularly. I’d scanned her book back in the late ’90’s or early ’00’s from the library as I was homeschooling & learning just how purposely false so much of what we were taught was, & how things had gone so horribly, horribly wrong in this nation….and my own life. Sin was a verboten word that we never heard.
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Her book was called simply ‘Epidemic’…and when I realized later what was going on & how history was being rewritten & ‘disappeared’, I tried to find a copy to document what the world denies …and couldn’t. I couldn’t even find a trace of its ever existing on the web.
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They never give up, & though they play their dialectic & their indirect march game….the direction never changes: three steps forward toward the antichrist goals & agenda of tyranny (the ditch), and two steps back toward God’s good way & order tending to life & liberty. Left, right; left, right….. Sin mucking the whole thing up & aiding their cause. Were it not for the grace & mercy of God, those clinging to the word of God, even to evident truth, we’d have gotten here even faster.
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It would help proud young people today to read some about the struggles & confusion of those days….so many destroyed young lives in those days when they first began ramping up their agenda in the ’60’s especially. Families destroyed. They weaponized race, stepped up the dialectic manipulation, took & used the arts & education…and when there was resistance, they came up with their hippie jesus and ccm thing; promoting it first in California, drawing in Chuck Smith when Billy Graham failed to sufficiently bring in the ‘conservative evangelicals’ with his Lausanne global thing. Especially the King James folks. (And the Mennonites, because so many had ties to what happened behind the Iron Curtain…and when Billy Graham had his big ‘crusades’ in Russia while Christians were rotting in the gulags, ignored & denied…they weren’t buying the story-line)
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Lonnie Frisbee was a wicked, wicked man….and some of those people ….and definitely their handlers & groomers…many of whom were sodomites, or who found them ‘useful’: knew what they were doing.
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Many were naive & duped. The purpose driven wickedness & evil of Tavistock & Monarch were beyond the ken of most Americans, saved or not. Easy to see looking back & investigating, researching….freedom of information act releases & so forth, seeing the outcomes of their ‘outcome based’ temptations & manipulations, their abuses & violations in the name of ‘freedom’ (one-sided…..like that of women & abortion, not considering the innocent life involved)…..but at the time it was surreal, not believable, and they played the ‘conspiracy theorist’, extremist, and nutjob angle well.
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There’s a man from Mt. Blanco, Texas who wrote concerning those days. He’s primitive baptist, Calvinist….or, at least was raised so. Ran a little creation museum. Joe Taylor. His early work & books were good, & useful for understanding those days. Something happened to put him in the crazy camp with the Bigfoot & paranormal crowd back around the Obama years….about the same time Kent Hovind lost his mind after his ‘diesel therapy’.
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God only knows the whole truth of some of the manipulations, poisonings, steering, drugging etc. It always struck me as odd, and suspicious, how Hovind’s family didn’t even know where he was half the time….yet heretics were able to have full access to him with free & publicly broadcast phone conversations with him. And it made me downright sick to see the treatment which the ‘be reasonable’ creation & prophecy club crowd gave the younger Hovind, put out publicly on their web broadcasts. Just take the money & shut up about the ‘nonessentials’….think of all the ‘good’ you could do with that money….& it’s not like you have to censor the Gospel: just the distinctives which make the big boys higher up and deeper in upset, bringing trouble to all of us ….being ‘dangerous’ and ‘divissssssive’, rocking the boat……
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I’m getting too used to watching slow motion train wrecks from a distance, & the Lord didn’t answer prayers to blow it all up & expose it. But I don’t think any of those things are ‘random’….and I’m not so sure as some that at least a few of these men weren’t saved, but ‘handled’ like so many martyrs before them. Only now it’s more subtle because of the knowledge & technology at their disposal. MYSTERY.
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Revelation 17-18 and 1 Corinthians 4:5 Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.
They are taking control of people houses, and many are still asleep.