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For those of us who spend the greater part of the year outside Norway, it does not fall so naturally to switch on the radio to listen to the morning news on NRK, which for a long time has been a kind of morning ritual for many Norwegians.

But it does not in fact have most to do with the geographical distance; it is rather the mental one. For the feeling of being subjected to a psychological operation (psyop) for propaganda purposes has seldom been avoidable when exposed to NRK over the past decades – and above all during the Trump era.

One may begin to listen to a news or debate segment about some current topic, and actually learn something one did not know before. But it rarely takes many seconds before there manifests itself a feeling that there is something one is not being told. Are all aspects of a matter really illuminated? Is there not something in the background or among the relevant facts that is conspicuous by its absence? Do we really know enough about those who are being used as authorities? Is there filtering of the members of the public who are interviewed? Are tone of voice or the use of plus and minus words politically charged?

Most often, attempts to answer such questions result in an acknowledgement that NRK seeks to foist upon its audience views that correspond with very specific political ideas. When this acknowledgement makes itself felt time and again, exposing oneself to NRK becomes almost an affliction. One switches on a programme and almost immediately notices that one’s head begins to fill with fog, and in order to avoid it becoming completely fogbound, one switches it off again, almost in self-defence.

Nyhetsmorgen readily pumps this fog into the unfortunate heads of many early birds in Norway, and this day was no exception. In one of the segments, which can be found after 01:45:50 here, the topic is that Vinmonopolet from 1 January has required that all wine without bubbles costing less than 250 kroner be bottled in light bottles, which is tantamount to much of this wine being sold in plastic bottles.

Why has such a requirement been introduced? Because Vinmonopolet wishes to emit less greenhouse gases and can achieve this by replacing glass bottles with plastic bottles, which weigh less and thereby cause lower greenhouse gas emissions during transport. In this manner the Polet’s CO₂ emissions decrease by ten per cent. Hurrah, as it were.

Since all the activities of life are normally associated with CO₂ emissions, climate fanaticism – which is now also Norwegian law – is inevitably a highly life-hostile ideology that forces its way into all areas of life, somewhat like Islam or the Cultural Revolution in China. It was inevitable that the green death would also overtake wine.

But that perspective you will naturally not get from NRK. On Nyhetsmorgen it is the Progress Party’s Member of Parliament Kristoffer Sivertsen who first comments on the matter. Sivertsen describes the measure as woke and symbolic climate policy that destroys the wine experience, and suggests that emission reductions ought to take place by other means.

Thereafter the word is given to one employee and three customers at a Polet in Stavanger, and all four are in essence positive about plastic bottles. Insofar as reservations are expressed, they are overshadowed by consideration for the climate or the environment, which all regard as paramount.

The word then goes to the Minister of Climate and Environment Andreas Bjelland Eriksen, who dismisses Sivertsen by stating that the Progress Party is in reality opposed to all emission cuts (if only that were so).

Finally, the word is given to a panel of three persons in the NRK studio who unanimously dismiss the notion that wine in plastic bottles is woke. Again, it is consideration for the climate that is given precedence, insofar as the discussion does not drift over to concern beer instead.

If one is to keep stock of the votes here, it becomes eight to one. The impression many listeners must be left with is inevitably that it is Progress Party Sivertsen who is today’s fool.

But for NRK it is a good day at work. Once again they have contributed to keeping Norwegians mentally confined within a hermetically sealed climate-ideological bell jar.

Not only does it never occur to NRK that climate policy is something that very few of the planet’s countries pursue, or that most of these countries are located in Europe – at present the planet’s most foolish continent. They also fail to register that climate policy is now giving many politicians and business leaders around Europe cold feet. Is the aim that Norway shall remain the most foolish country, while an awakening is taking place elsewhere in our continent?

But even if we were to disregard that most of the world now does not care a jot about climate policy, so that those who continue with it engage in nothing other than self-harm, NRK refrains from examining relevant issues closely.

It is, for example, stated that plastic bottles are no problem. The wine tastes just as good. For many it surely does, though not for all. But why in the world is no one concerned about increased use of plastic?

When beverages have traditionally been sold in glass rather than plastic, it is because glass has better properties. Plastic, for example, reacts more readily chemically with the liquid it contains than glass does. In other contexts we are told that microplastics in food and drink may be harmful. Why does one uncritically accept that this is no problem here?

Perhaps because it only concerns the sub who buys wine for under 250 kroner per bottle? Who cares about the health of the deplorables? Are they not merely some racists who may as well go and die anyway?

A little more information may be obtained by reading the matter at NRK Rogaland, which forms the basis for Nyhetsmorgen’s segment. We learn that the Polet has its own “professional officer for climate and environment” by the name of Rolf Erling Eriksen. He has long worked to reduce the Polet’s “climate footprint”.

On the website of the foundation Miljøfyrtårn, which offers EU-approved environmental certification in Norway (you can’t make this up), one may read an interview with Eriksen from December 2020 in which he – as one of the Polet’s “eight internal environmental heroes” – voices ambitions to “make the wine world more sustainable”. The year before, Eriksen worked at Emballasjeforeningen. One cannot help wondering whether he is in fact any authority on the quality of wines, as he appears in NRK Rogaland’s article.

Seen from a purely packaging-technical point of view that does not consider the content so important, plastic may perhaps be more sensible than glass. But why take so lightly a tradition of glass bottles that goes back many hundreds of years? If we include amphorae of ceramic and barrels of wood, we are speaking of many thousands of years.

For the climate religion that is part of the point. For it is fundamentally anti-Western and therefore also hates the history of the West. Thus everything that can contribute to severing ties to the past, and preferably erasing the memory of it, is part of the West’s sin-offering for its colossal climate sin. The same attitude explains why one is to relinquish the small sense of luxury that the glass bottle provides. You are to suffer. Even the smallest luxury is not for you.

Sivertsen sees that climate ideology is part of a beast that encompasses several harmful ideas, but is unable to do much more than simply call it woke. That is not enough.

Faced with this psychosis, which people will one day look back upon with astonishment, it is of no use to do as the Progress Party does and say that – yes indeed, emission cuts are fine, just not here. The party must soon launch a frontal attack on the entire premise that we ought to strive for emission cuts, before the vanguard of this fanatical green communism brings society to an end.

Enough is enough. Declare war on the green Khmer. And may customers turn their backs on the plastic bottles when NRK is not looking.