A $1.9 trillion stimulus package was recently signed into law in the United States. Can such a stimulus bill, plus packages passed in other countries, really pull the world economy out of the downturn it has been in since 2020? I don’t think so.
The economy runs on energy, far more than it operates on growing debt. Our energy problems don’t appear to be fixable in the near term, such as six months or a year. Instead, the economy seems to be headed for a collapse of its debt bubble. Eventually, we may see a reset of the world financial system leading to fewer interchangeable currencies, far less international trade and falling production of goods and services. Some governments may collapse.
[1] What Is Debt?
I understand debt to be an indirect promise for future goods and services. These future goods and services can only be created if there are adequate supplies of the right kinds of energy and other materials, in the right places, to make these future goods and services.
I think of debt as being a time-shifting device. Indirectly, it is a promise that the economy will be able to provide as many, or more, goods and services in the future compared to what it does at the time the loan is taken out.
Common sense suggests that it is much easier to repay debt with interest in a growing economy than in a shrinking economy. Carmen Reinhart and Ken Rogoff unexpectedly ran across this phenomenon in their 2008 working paper, This Time Is Different: A Panoramic View of Eight Centuries of Financial Crises. They reported (p. 15), “It is notable that the non-defaulters, by and large, are all hugely successful growth stories.” In other words, their analysis of 800 years of governmental debt showed that default was almost inevitable if a country stopped growing or started shrinking.
The IMF estimates that the world economy shrank by 3.5% in 2020. There are many areas with even worse indications: Euro Area, -7.2%; United Kingdom, -10.0%; India, -8.0%; Mexico, -8.5%; and South Africa, -7.5%. If these situations cannot be turned around quickly, we should expect to see collapsing debt bubbles. Even the US, which shrank by 3.4%, needs a rapid return to growth if it is to keep its debt bubble inflated.
[2] The Inter-Relationship Among (a) Growing Debt, (b) Growing Energy Consumption and a (c) Growing Economy
When we are far from energy limits, growing debt seems to pull the economy along. This is a graphic I put together in 2018, explaining the situation. A small amount of debt is helpful to the system. But, if there gets to be too much debt, both oil prices and interest rates rise, bringing the braking system into action. The bicycle/economy rapidly slows.
Just as a two-wheeled bicycle needs to be going fast enough to stay upright, the economy needs to be growing rapidly enough for debt to do what it is intended to do. It takes energy supply to create the goods and services that the economy depends on.
If oil and other energy products are cheap to produce, their benefit will be widely available. Employers will be able to add more efficient machines, such as bigger tractors. These more efficient machines will act to leverage the human labor of the workers. The economy can grow rapidly, without the use of much debt. Figure 2 shows that the world oil price was $20 per barrel in 2020$, or even less, prior to 1974.
Figure 3 below shows the historical relationship between the growth in US energy consumption (red line) and the dollar increase in US debt growth required to add a dollar increase in GDP (blue line). This chart calculates ratios for five-year periods because ratios for individual years are unstable.
Based on Figure 3, the US average annual growth in energy consumption (red line) generally fell between 1951 and 2020. The quantity of debt that needed to be added to create an additional $1 dollar of GDP (blue line) has generally been rising.
According to Investopedia, Gross domestic product (GDP) is the total monetary or market value of all the finished goods and services produced within a country’s borders in a specific time period. Notice that there is no mention of debt in this definition. If businesses or governments can find a way to make large amounts of credit available to borrowers who are not very credit worthy, it becomes easy to sell cars, motorcycles or homes to buyers who may never repay that debt. If the economy hits turbulence, these marginal buyers are likely to default, causing a collapse in a debt bubble.
[3] Analyzing Energy Consumption Growth, Debt Growth and Economic Growth for Broader Groupings of Years
To get a better idea what is happening with respect to energy growth, debt growth, and GDP growth, I created some broader groupings of years, based primarily on patterns in Figure 2, showing inflation-adjusted oil prices. The following groupings of years were chosen:
- 1950-1973
- 1974-1980
- 1981-2000
- 2001-2014
- 2015-2020
Using these groupings of years, I put together charts in which it is easier to see trends.
Figure 4 shows that for the US, there has been a general downward trend in the annual growth of energy consumption. At same time, real (that is, inflation-adjusted) GDP has been trending downward, but not quite as quickly.
We would expect that lower energy consumption would lead to lower growth in real GDP because it takes energy of the appropriate kinds to make goods and services. For example, it takes oil to ship most goods. It takes electricity to operate computers and keep the lights on. According to the World Coal Association, large quantities of coal are used in producing cement and steel. These are important for construction, such as is planned in stimulus projects around the world.
Also, on Figure 4, the period 1981 to 2000 shows an uptick in both energy consumption growth and real GDP growth. This period corresponds to a period of relatively low oil prices (Figure 2). With lower oil prices, businesses found it affordable to add new devices to leverage human labor, making workers more productive. The growing productivity of workers is at least part of what led to the increased growth in real GDP.
Figure 5, above, is disturbing. It strongly suggests that the US economy (and probably a lot of other economies) has needed to add an increasing amount of debt to add $1 of GDP in recent years. This pattern started long before President Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus package in 2021.
To make matters worse, GDP growth in Figure 5 has not been reduced to remove the impact of inflation. On average, removing the impact of inflation reduces the above GDP growth by about half. In the period 2015 to 2020, it took about $4.35 of additional debt to add one dollar of GDP growth, including inflation. It would take about double that amount, or $8.70 worth of debt, to create $1.00 worth of inflation-adjusted growth. With such a low return on added debt, it seems unlikely that the $1.9 trillion stimulus package will increase the growth of the economy very much.
[4] Falling interest rates (Figure 6) are a major part of what allowed the rapid growth in debt after 1981 shown in Figure 5.
Clearly, debt is more affordable if the interest rate is lower. For example, auto loans and home mortgages have lower monthly payments if the interest rate is lower. It is also clear that governments need to spend less of their tax revenue on interest rate payments if interest rates are lower. Changes made by US President Ronald Reagan when he took office 1981 also encouraged the use of more debt.
A major concern with respect to today’s debt bubble is the fact that interest rates are about as low as they can go without going negative. In fact, the interest rate on 10-year Treasury bonds is now 1.72%, which is higher than the February 2021 average rate shown on the chart. As interest rates rise, it becomes more costly to add more debt. As interest rates rise, businesses will be less likely to take on debt in order to expand and hire more workers.
[5] Interest expense is a major expense of governments, businesses, and homeowners everywhere. Energy costs are another major expense of governments, businesses, and homeowners. It makes sense that falling interest rates can partly hide rising energy prices.
A trend toward lower interest rates was needed starting in 1981 because the US could no longer produce large amounts of crude oil that were profitable to sell at less than $20 per barrel, in inflation-adjusted prices. Lower interest rates made adding debt more feasible. This added debt could smooth the transition to an economy that was less dependent on oil, now that it was high-priced. The lower interest rates helped all segments of the economy adjust to the new higher cost of oil and other fuels.
[6] The US experience shows precisely how helpful having a rapidly growing supply of inexpensive to produce oil could be to an economy.
US oil production, excluding Alaska (blue “remainder” in Figure 7), rose rapidly after 1945 but began to decline not long after hitting a peak in 1970. This growing oil production had temporarily provided a huge boost to the US economy.
Up until almost 1970, US oil production was rising rapidly. Figure 8 shows that during this period, incomes of both the bottom 90% of workers and the top 10% of workers increased rapidly. Over a period of about 20 years, incomes for both groups grew by about 80%, after adjusting for inflation. On average, workers were about 4% better off each year, with the rapid growth in very inexpensive-to-produce oil, all of which stayed in the US (rather than being exported). US imports of inexpensive-to-produce oil also grew during this period.
Once oil prices were higher, income growth for both the lower 90% and the top 10% slowed. With the changes made starting in 1981, wage disparities quickly started to grow. There suddenly became a need for new, high-tech approaches that used less oil. But these changes were more helpful to the managers and highly educated workers than the bottom 90% of workers.
[7] Most of the world’s cheap-to-extract oil sources have now been exhausted. Our problem is that the world market cannot get prices to rise high enough for producers to cover all of their expenses, including taxes.
Based on my analysis, the world price of oil would need to be at least $120 per barrel to cover all of the costs it needs to cover. The costs that need to be covered include more items than an oil company would normally include in its costs estimates. The company needs to develop new fields to compensate for the ones that are being exhausted. It needs to pay interest on its debt. It also needs to pay dividends to its shareholders. In the case of shale producers, the price needs to be high enough that production outside of “sweet spots” can be carried on profitably.
For oil exporters, it is especially important that the sales price be high enough so that the government of the oil exporting country can collect adequate tax revenue. Otherwise, the exporting country will not be able to maintain food subsidy programs that the population depends on and public works programs that provide jobs.
[8] The world can add more debt, but it is difficult to see how the debt bubble that is created will really pull the world economy forward rapidly enough to keep the debt bubble from collapsing in the next year or two.
Many models are based on the assumption that the economy can easily go back to the growth rate it had, prior to COVID-19. There are several reasons why this seems unlikely:
- Many parts of the world economy weren’t really growing very rapidly prior to the pandemic. For example, shopping malls were doing poorly. Many airlines were in financial difficulty. Private passenger auto sales in China reached a peak in 2017 and have declined every year since.
- At the low oil prices prior to the pandemic, many oil producers (including the US) would need to reduce their production. The 2019 peak in shale production (shown in Figure 7) may prove to be the peak in US oil production because of low prices.
- Once people became accustomed to working from home, many of them really do not want to go back to a long commute.
- It is not clear that the pandemic is really going away, now that we have kept it around this long. New mutations keep appearing. Vaccines aren’t 100% effective.
- As I showed in Figure 5, adding more debt seems to be a very inefficient way of digging the economy out of a hole. What is really needed is a growing supply of oil that can be produced and sold profitably for less than $20 per barrel. Other types of energy need to be similarly inexpensive.
I should note that intermittent wind and solar energy is not an adequate substitute for oil. It is not even an adequate substitute for “dispatchable” electricity production. It is simply an energy product that has been sufficiently subsidized that it can often make money for its producers. It also sounds good, if it is referred to as “clean energy.” Unfortunately, its true value is lower than its cost of production.
[9] What’s Ahead?
I expect that oil prices will rise a bit, but not enough to raise prices to the level producers require. Interest rates will continue to rise as governments around the world attempt more stimulus. With these higher interest rates and higher oil prices, businesses will do less and less well. This will slow the economy enough that debt defaults become a major problem. Within a few months to a year, the worldwide debt bubble will start to collapse, bringing oil prices down by more than 50%. Stock market prices and prices of buildings of all kinds will fall in inflation-adjusted dollars. Many bonds will prove to be worthless. There will be problems with empty shelves in stores and gasoline stations with no products to sell.
People will start to see that while debt is a promise for the equivalent of future goods and services, it is not necessarily the case that those who make the promises will be able to stand behind these promises. Paper wealth generally can be expected to lose its value.
I can imagine a situation, not too many years from now, when countries everywhere will establish new currencies that are not as easily interchangeable with other currencies as today’s currencies are. International trade will dramatically fall. The standard of living of most people will fall precipitously.
I doubt that the new currencies will be electronic currencies. Keeping the electricity on is a difficult task in economies that increasingly need to rely solely on local resources. Electricity may be out for months at a time after an equipment failure or a storm. Having a currency that depends on electricity alone would be a poor idea.
Japan to issue digital vaccine passport: Nikkei
(Reuters) – Japan is set to issue digital health certificates to citizens who have been vaccinated against COVID-19, joining China, the EU and other countries that have adopted similar measures aimed at opening up overseas travel, the Nikkei reported s.nikkei.com/3stfAX6 on Saturday.
In line with international standards, the certificate can be managed on a mobile app, allowing the carrier to present the proof of vaccination when boarding a plane or checking in to a hotel, the report said.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-japan-passport/japan-to-issue-digital-vaccine-passport-nikkei-idUSKBN2BJ0Q2?il=0
Funny thing.. 500M have the vaxx now … but they still can’t travel hahahahaha… stooopid donkeys.
the virus kills some people.
the lockdowns kill some people.
the vaccines kill some people.
the human population continues to rise by about 200,000 per day.
There exists no such thing to “kill you”!
You live because you are not dead.
You will die, but not now!
hopefully soon!
We have only moments to live!
Welcome to the eternal now, where hope doesn’t spring at all.
I reply, therefore I am.
We’re at the moment in the movie where the Borg realizes that it has brought about it’s own demise.
The unfortunate truth is that the Edisons… Rutherfords… Habers… and the person who harnessed fire… were not heroes after all
This is fantastic — it’s almost over!!!!
Hahahhahahahaha…
Let’s check in on Mr DNA … this is his reaction when he realized the children were getting the lethal injection….
https://media.tenor.com/images/baa0d94aaa9246d419e9254f4f678cf1/tenor.gif
Eddy, you and your home movies!
The changes of no consequences will pick up the reins from nowhere.
Despair that tires the world brings the old man laughter.
The laughter of the world only grieves him,
believe him,
The old man’s guide is chance.
I can also predict the future…
Sham shoom shalabam…. let me peer into the mists of time…. I see Israel… proclaiming great success with the virus…. they reduce the infections dramatically by no longer testing people and running 45 PCR cycles… and the MSM will point to them and say SEE what happens if you take the vax!!! There will be scenes of happy CovIDIOTS in public places flashing their passports….
Meanwhile in other major centres there will continuing lockdowns… with intensifying messages urging people to get vaccinated… sign your children up NOW!
And the MORE ons will actually believe that Israel has solved Covid with a vaccine (even though it does not stop you from getting or passing Covid!!!)… and they will continue to bare their arms and take the injections.
And anyone who dares to suggest you are injecting death into your body … will be laughed at .. ridiculed…
And when the Final Solution arrives… it will be the unvaxxed who die first (like the chickens… and Mareks)…. and the CovIDIOTS will smugly look upon the dying fools and scream — We Told You So!!! And those not yet dead and not yet vaxxed will beg to be forgiven and allowed into the ranks of the CovIDIOTS…
The plan is fool proof. The more obvious it becomes that this is a CEP… the more the CovIDIOTS will believe the opposite…. Strength through weakness!
And the Borg will die… but in death the Borg will still not realize that it has killed itself.
Dr Yeadon is a co-founder of Ziarco and CEO. He is an Allergy & Respiratory therapeutic area expert, developed out of deep knowledge of biology & therapeutics, and is an innovative drug discoverer with over 25 years of experience in drug discovery and development.
Dr Yeadon has published over 40 original research articles and since 2011 hasconsulted to more than 20 biotechnology companies. Prior to consulting as an independent, he was Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer of the A&R Research Unit of Pfizer. At Pfizer, Dr Yeadon was responsible for target selection and the progress into humans of new molecules, leading teams of up to 200 staff across all disciplines and won an Achievement Award for productivity in 2008.
Under his leadership the unit invented oral and inhaled NCEs which delivered positive clinical proofs of concept in asthma, allergic rhinitis and COPD. He led productive external collaborations and was involved in product and device licensing.
Prior to Pfizer, Dr Yeadon worked at the Wellcome Research Labs with Salvador Moncada with a research focus on airway hyper-responsiveness and effects of pollutants including ozone and working in drug discovery of 5-LO, COX, NO and lung inflammation.
With colleagues, he was the first to detect exhaled NO in animals and later to induce NOS in lung via allergic triggers. He attended the University of Surrey in Guildford, U.K, where he received his PhD (under Professor Ian Kitchen), with thesis work in the respiratory field, and a BSc, First Class, with Joint Honours, in Biochemistry and Toxicology.
https://www.crunchbase.com/person/michael-yeadon
On December 16, 2016, Novartis announced that it would acquire Ziarco. Besides ZPL-389, Novartis also got ZPL-521, a topical treatment for eczema, as well as an inhibitor of cPLA2, an early mediator in the arachidonic acid cascade, a key component of the inflammatory response. Terms of the deal were not announced. However, speculation is that the deal is worth up to $1 billion in a combination of upfront payments, milestones and royalties.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnlamattina/2017/03/15/turning-pfizer-discards-into-novartis-gold-the-story-of-ziarco/?sh=2868a307572f
Lots of ‘red-flags’ on that guy Yeadon. Just sayin’
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/health-coronavirus-vaccines-skeptic/
Have you lost your mind? What did you think the MSM was going to do — herald Yeadon as our saviour? The guy who exposed the CEP (when the MSM is a key pillar of executing the CEP).
I suppose you don’t have much of a mind to lose if you the first thing you do when faced with a heavy hitter in the pharma industry comes out with a startling statement like that …. is reference the MSM.
Rule Number One of Genius — recognize the MSM does NOT exist to inform you. It exists to control what you think. Period. Assume everything you read in the MSM is a lie that has been manufactured in the Ministry of Truth … before you accept anything as ‘truth’ research it relentlessly…
Let me help you with this one….let’s do our own research on who Dr Yeadon is:
Dr Yeadon is a co-founder of Ziarco and CEO. He is an Allergy & Respiratory therapeutic area expert, developed out of deep knowledge of biology & therapeutics, and is an innovative drug discoverer with over 25 years of experience in drug discovery and development. Dr Yeadon has published over 40 original research articles and since 2011 has consulted to more than 20 biotechnology companies.
Prior to consulting as an independent, he was Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer of the A&R Research Unit of Pfizer. At Pfizer, Dr Yeadon was responsible for target selection and the progress into humans of new molecules, leading teams of up to 200 staff across all disciplines and won an Achievement Award for productivity in 2008. Under his leadership the unit invented oral and inhaled NCEs which delivered positive clinical proofs of concept in asthma, allergic rhinitis and COPD. He led productive external collaborations and was involved in product and device licensing.
Prior to Pfizer, Dr Yeadon worked at the Wellcome Research Labs with Salvador Moncada with a research focus on airway hyper-responsiveness and effects of pollutants including ozone and working in drug discovery of 5-LO, COX, NO and lung inflammation. With colleagues, he was the first to detect exhaled NO in animals and later to induce NOS in lung via allergic triggers. He attended the University of Surrey in Guildford, U.K, where he received his PhD (under Professor Ian Kitchen), with thesis work in the respiratory field, and a BSc, First Class, with Joint Honours, in Biochemistry and Toxicology.
https://www.crunchbase.com/person/michael-yeadon
On December 16, 2016, Novartis announced that it would acquire Ziarco. Besides ZPL-389, Novartis also got ZPL-521, a topical treatment for eczema, as well as an inhibitor of cPLA2, an early mediator in the arachidonic acid cascade, a key component of the inflammatory response. Terms of the deal were not announced. However, speculation is that the deal is worth up to $1 billion in a combination of upfront payments, milestones and royalties.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnlamattina/2017/03/15/turning-pfizer-discards-into-novartis-gold-the-story-of-ziarco/?sh=6a2a08757572
Let’s apply some common sense here…
Now why would a guy — who is as establishment as it gets …. come out with a statement like ‘the vaccines are designed to carry out mass depopulation’…
What’s his upside?
I guarantee you — his supporters in the industry will be few and far between — because they will destroy their careers if they join him. And of course they will be looking at this and thinking… why bother… there is no way in hell the trajectory is going to change….
Additionally… nobody is 100% certain that Yeaden is correct … so you stay hunkered down in your silo at your university or your research position in pharma — and you say nothing.
Because unlike Yeadon who’s likely worth tens of millions of dollars…. you need that paycheck… or you starve.
“Because unlike Yeadon who’s likely worth tens of millions of dollars…. you need that paycheck… or you starve.”
Indebted useless eaters living the good ole BAU expecting to pass through the bottleneck if they just keep their heads down. The same of course holds true for the muppets “protesting” on the streets.
Sorry folks, it is not how shit works when the oil party is over. Can’t protest back oil into Ghawar. Can’t protest away a virus.
Nobody remembers a coward. The tree of life is full of cowards – on dead branches. Waiting for that inevitable storm to blow them into irrelevance. Occasionally a good branch will join as collateral damage.
You just gotta know when to go full bore and when to hit the anchors.
https://youtu.be/3CVAVAU5Tpg
Chicken goes bawk bawk.. 🐥
A German economist called “Lorenz Jarass” claims:
As kindergardens and schools are locked down, the peopple working there being state employess are getting “full salary”.
Even people working at the public library or a closed public swimming pool are getting “full salaries”.
Also the people at the opera houses and the museums are getting full saliary but do not work at all.
So the drop in german GDP looks like some 5 % or what have you. In reality, all the state employees are counted as GDP, but in reality, they are currently not porducing anything that accounts for “goods and services”.
People working on short hours are really accounted for as relatively shorter work time producing less goods and services for GDP.
The entire state sector is missing here.
“Paid but not producing”
GDP is doing great!
This is a new variation of what Japan has been doing for years: paying people for doing jobs that barely need doing. It keeps reported GDP up, and it keeps money going to citizens. At the same time, it keeps raising debt. Building roads that aren’t really needed. Serving tea to tourists. Paving sides of roadways with flat stones. China is running up a lot of debt in a somewhat similar manner, but the debt is at a regional level, rather than central government level.
Is Biden encouraging a Russia-China alliance, which might really work in today’s world?
Biden’s last throw of geopolitical dice
This seems to be rarely mentioned:
“The difference with the SCO is at the purchasing power parity level, making market prices of secondary importance. While prices regionally vary considerably the costs of goods in the SCO are as an average considerably less than in the US and EU, so that on a PPP basis the SCO’s GDP is significantly greater than that of the US or the EU.”
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)
It always strikes me as strange that the US is listed as the Number 1 economy in the world, when in so many ways China is the Number 1 economy. Clearly with respect to manufacturing China is Number 1. It has managed to bring its economy amazingly far since joining the World Trade Organization in 2001.
I think Dmitry Orlov is correct when he talks about comparing purchase power, not the dollar value of the US GDP.
Most of US GDP is made up ridiculous stuff like house prices and the rest of the FIRE economy.
In terms of actual production US is a third world country with a giant military that coasts on past glories.
I know people have been saying this for decades but the US empire and the dollar as the world reserve currency is on its last legs – probably years not decades.
When the dollar stops being used to buy oil, it immediately loses 80% of its value.
Would that count as inflation or not?
> Hong Kong is critical, because it is the channel for foreign investment portfolio flows into China. This was important to the Americans, because the US Treasury could not afford to see global portfolio flows attracted into China at a time when they were needed to invest in increasing quantities of US Treasury stock. Understand that, and you will have grasped a large part of the urgency behind America’s attempt to destabilise Hong Kong.
…. It was after that second attempt by America to destabilise Hong Kong that the Chinese concluded they must take direct control and abandon the treaty whereby it had been returned by Britain to their jurisdiction.
Good points from the article!
Thank you Gail, it is nice to see the ‘chess board’ and the state of play. USA influence is shrinking to the Anglo-sphere as USA is eclipsed economically and geopolitically. ‘Five eyes’ is more of a final remnant than a front. They conclude that the dollar and Euro are quite possibly headed for collapse, after which USA will have to live more within its means and find a new way to integrate into the world.
> This is the reality that faces American hegemony; there are twenty-one nations across Asia in a non-American alliance, or on the cusp of joining it. All the other European and Asian nations are within the SCO’s sphere of influence through trade, even if not politically affiliated. It is getting more difficult to define the nations definitely in the US pocket, other than its five-eyes partners (Canada, the UK, Australia and New Zealand). This simple fact places severe limitations on US action against China, and to a lesser extent Russia.
…. We have already concluded that the EU’s economic interests in the wake of Brexit are turning it into being a fence-sitter instead of continuing to be in the US sphere of influence. Naturally, all of sub-Saharan Africa and South America started off fence-sitting until they became increasingly indebted to China…. Even the EU integrated major elements of its economy with China and Russia, and now that the US’s only five-eyes representative in the EU has left it, we can expect this integration to increase more rapidly.
> Its too late… to call the police
If Russia and China do conclude a military alliance, they could expel the US from the Western Pacific in 48 hours. And by turning the US military into a “woke” instrument
of cultural intimidation, Biden is making their task a lot easier. Is that deliberate? I suspect so; why else would he start with the US Navy, the only force capable of putting up any resistance to China?
We can only watch from the sidelines like football supporters, Robert. We can’t know what the strategies and tactics of the various teams are with any certainty.
If we go back to the Art of War, which all military men study, it could be that the Americans are trying to convince the Chinese that they are weak when they are actually strong, in order to tempt the Chinese to cross one red line too many, and wham, bam…. I’m sure both sides have gamed an attack on Guam as a 21st century Pearl Harbor, for instance.
If Trump was a clown, Biden is a joke. Not only is he not in charge, he is not even the real Biden. Whoever is running things at the top in the US is putting on a puppet show. That’s also for sure.
I have no idea about what the Chinese leadership are attempting or if the Russians and the Chinese are really as friendly as advertised. But Russia seems to be sitting pretty at present while both America and China seem to be acting like two fierce animals made all the fiercer by being wounded. Are they going to just stare at each other until one of them collapses, or grapple with each other like wrestlers, or is one or the other going to make a violently aggressive move that turns the confrontation into the mother of all cat fights?
This is what overshoot looks like….Boy, cats must be going bat crazy there!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iFB8ZzOzBYI
Out of control Rodents take over parts of Australia south of Sydney due to unusual heavy rainfall
I am sure that other conditions, besides heavy rainfall, entered into this situation.
Looked at from outside, human population today, compared to that 10,000 years ago, probably looks similar.
Anyone remember the 80’s comedy “Weekend at Bernie’s”?
Here’s the Movie trailer to “Weekend at Biden’s”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/politics/weekend-at-bidens/
New York launches nation’s first ‘vaccine passports.’ Others are working on similar ideas, but many details must be worked out.
Starting Friday, New Yorkers will be able to pull up a code on their cell phone or a printout to prove they’ve been vaccinated against COVID-19 or recently tested negative for the virus that causes it.
The first-in-the-nation certification, called the Excelsior Pass, will be useful first at large-scale venues like Madison Square Garden, but next week will be accepted at dozens of event, arts and entertainment venues statewide. It already enables people to increase the size of a wedding party, or other catered event.
The app, championed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo to support the recovery of industries most affected by the pandemic, is funded by the state and available for free to businesses and anyone with vaccination records or test results in New York.
Like an airline boarding pass, people will be able to prove their health status with a digital QR code – or “quick response” machine-readable label. They’ll need to download the Excelsior Pass app, enter their name, date of birth, zip code and answer a series of personal questions to confirm their identity. The data will come from the state’s vaccine registry and also will be linked to testing data from a number of pre-approved testing companies.
The New York system, built on IBM’s digital health pass platform, is provided via blockchain technology, so neither IBM nor any business will have access to private medical information. An entertainment venue will simply scan the QR codeand get a green check or a red X.
The new pass is part of a growing but disjointed effort to provide vaccine “passports” or certifications, so people won’t have to hang onto a dog-eared piece of paper, worry about privacy issues or forgeries, or fork over extra cash to prove they’re not contagious.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2021/03/26/covid-vaccine-passports-new-york-first-vaccination-proof-system/6976009002/
So there seem to be a couple of options for passing:
“prove they’ve been vaccinated against COVID-19 or recently tested negative for the virus that causes it.”
A person wonders how long the count for vaccination “works”. Also, does the vaccine count from first shot or second shot? Is someone who has been recently vaccinated considered OK?
It looks like Gov Cuomo is finally realizing that he has permanently damaged NYC and quite possibly beyond repair. Once the authoritarian lockdowns started people began leaving and moving to other States. He did this for something that has a slightly higher kill rate than the seasonal flu. I was born and raised in NYC now Times Square is basically a ghost town. The theatre’s may never come back as well.
I think you give Cuomo too much credit. This is just the pilot project for US vaccine passport, now that EU and UK set up theirs.
It might allow access to some venues this summer to push people to vaccinate but long term it will be mostly for tracking people’s movements and enforcing regular vaccinations.
We’ll see.
Property owners in areas around Beijing have been giving away their flats rather than continue to pay their mortgages, after four straight years of dropping values have left their homes worth less than their outstanding loans, according to a report from Xinhua News Agency.
The report said Hebei province homeowners in the cities of Sanhe and Zhuozhou, as well as in Gu’an county, have been unable to sell their properties in the current market downturn. They have chosen to give away their properties, accepting the financial loss, because they can no longer afford to cover the debt.
Zhang Yumei, an economics professor at Hebei University, commented that such flats are not really free, because the new owners must pay the outstanding mortgage. It would actually be cheaper to buy a new flat if the price of a second-hand unit has dropped more than 30%, because such a drop would leave it in negative equity, she added. Besides, nobody will take a “free” flat unless they can get a discount from the mortgage issuer, Zhang said.
https://hk.appledaily.com/news/20210327/XLEVL35FHFF2XDT64GKJWYB4JA/
I think that this relates to the doughnut of property around Beijing being cut off from property purchases in the first three months of the year, because COVID cases were identified in these areas, and authorities did not let buyers from Beijing come visit. According to the article:
Wherever there are COVID restrictions, it reduces economic activity. We don’t think of it that way, but that is the way it is.
Dr. Mike Yeadon says:
“I think the Geert Vanden Bossche story is highly suspect. There is no evidence at all that vaccination is leading or will lead to ‘dangerous variants’. I am worried that it’s some kind of trick.
“As a general rule, variants form very often, routinely, and tend to become less dangerous & more infectious over time, as it comes into equilibrium with its human host. Variants generally don’t become more dangerous.
“No variant differs from the original sequence by more than 0.3%. In other words, all variants are at least 99.7% identical to the Wuhan sequence.
“It’s a fiction, and an evil one at that, that variants are likely to “escape immunity”.
“Not only is it intrinsically unlikely – because this degree of similarity of variants means zero chance that an immune person (whether from natural infection or from vaccination) will be made ill by a variant – but it’s empirically supported by high-quality research.
“The research [link] I refer to shows that people recovering from infection or who have been vaccinated ALL have a wide range of immune cells which recognize ALL the variants.
“This paper [link] shows WHY the extensive molecular recognition by the immune system makes the tiny changes in variants irrelevant.
“I cannot say strongly enough: The stories around variants and need for top up vaccines are FALSE. I am concerned there is a very malign reason behind all this. It is certainly not backed by the best ways to look at immunity. The claims always lack substance when examined, and utilize various tricks, like manipulating conditions for testing the effectiveness of antibodies. Antibodies are probably rather unimportant in host protection against this virus. There have been a few ‘natural experiments’, people who unfortunately cannot make antibodies, yet are able quite successfully to repel this virus. They definitely are better off with antibodies than without. I mention these rare patients because they show that antibodies are not essential to host immunity, so some contrived test in a lab of antibodies and engineered variant viruses do NOT justify need for top up vaccines.
[…]
“PLEASE warn every person not to go near top up vaccines. There is absolutely no need to them.
“As there’s no need for them, yet they’re being made in pharma, and regulators have stood aside (no safety testing), I can only deduce they will be used for nefarious purposes.
“For example, if someone wished to harm or kill a significant proportion of the worlds population over the next few years, the systems being put in place right now will enable it.
“It’s my considered view that it is entirely possible that this will be used for massive-scale depopulation.”
https://www.americasfrontlinedoctors.com/exclusive-former-pfizer-vp-to-aflds-entirely-possible-this-will-be-used-for-massive-scale-depopulation/
“The classic example of a leaky vaccine is actually the one for Marek’s disease, caused by a herpesvirus that infects chicken and causes lymphoma among other illnesses. It has been observed that over time Marek’s disease virus has become more virulent, and this has been attributed classically to a leaky vaccine effect. Still, as Osterrieder et al write:
‘Marek’s disease vaccines — an open-ended success story Immunization against Marek’s disease (MD) was started in the late 1960s and first used avirulent Marek’s disease virus (MDV) or a virus very closely related to MDV, turkey herpesvirus 1 (HVT), which does not cause disease. Vaccination reduced the incidence of MD by 99% and presents a unique example of the successful application of a modified-live virus (MLV) vaccine against an extremely aggressive agent that can routinely causes >90% morbidity and mortality in susceptible, unvaccinated hosts. […]’
Clearly then, even a leaky vaccine can be used with great efficacy.”
https://www.deplatformdisease.com/blog/addressing-geert-vanden-bossches-claims
Mike Yeadon has crossed the Rubicon! And he may well be correct in his suspicions as to the ultimate purpose of the pseudo-vaccines.
If one looks at the material published by the WEF, total control over reproduction and also depopulation are logically inherent in their plans.
I’m not sure why he is so suspicious of Geert though, who has also questioned the fundamental reasoning on which the vaccination policy is based, and has advocated relying on one’s own immune system.
He might be tipping over into paranoia after a year of being side-lined and ridiculed? That would be unfortunate. One can all too easily move into a state of’ jumping at every shadow.’
But his position on top-ups is unassailable. And his horror of the plans to inject babies, children, students, indeed anyone under 70 is one I share.
The debunking article linked above starts as follows:
“Geert Vanden Bossche has recently published a letter in which he argues that the vaccination campaign against COVID-19 is going to precipitate a public health disaster because the vaccines will select for viral variants that can escape their protection and drive them towards higher virulence. His claims are speculative, he offers no evidence to support his arguments, and makes several comments which are blatantly incorrect. The core of his argument relies on the assumption that COVID-19 vaccines do not have a significant effect on transmission. This has been repeatedly confirmed to be false in multiple studies. Furthermore, even if his assumptions about the effects of the vaccine on transmission are true, his conclusions are incorrect based on established precedent from Marek’s disease, a viral illness of birds with a vaccine that does not strongly affect transmission – but it still shows meaningful public health benefits in the populations of chickens where it is used.”
The article is too technical for me to judge with certainty who is right, all I can say is that my current belief is that Geert is full of it.
In the most recent Bossche interview he indicates that we have never done what we are doing before and that is mass vaccinating using a leaky vaccine in the midst of a pandemic.
So obviously he – nor anyone else — can be certain of what the outcome will be.
Also we are told that this type of vaccine has never been used before other than in trials … and it is my understanding that trials were halted with SARS — because it was killing the animals involved in the trials…
Then we have Trudeau claiming variants are under development… that video has been scrubbed from the usual sources… I tried to find it on the CTV site — it is not there. Assume he slipped up…
There is the leak which references far more deadly versions of Covid….
There are articles in the MSM warning of Devil Covid and a Nightmare Scenario…
There is the intent to force vaccine 8B people most of whom have no need for a vaccine…
There are the non Covid deaths + fake PCR + tests… all being used to create hype and fear…
The list goes on….
I have watched a number of Bossche interviews — he could be false flagging us but if he is then he deserves a best actor award… he is absolutely incredible!
Mike Yeadon may not agree but Mike Yeadon is not a vaccine developer…. but more importantly… Yeadon has stated that he does not think there is any sort of conspiracy or sinister intent… (as does Bossche)… so to acknowledge that the vaccine plan is likely to result in a nightmare scenario would be a bridge too far….
That is a very dark space to enter…. it would lead to deep despair as he would realize that we are on the precipice of a truly nightmarish situation … and that a higher power — that cannot be reasoned with — is intent on doing 8B people harm….
We circle back to the fact that this has never been tried before so it’s easier to reject Bossche’s theory… of course even Bossche states he’s not 100% sure….
Put all of this onto a scale and very clearly something very sinister is being foisted upon us.
Tie in the oil and financial calamities that were brewing in 2019…
This most definitely is not about Pharma making money … that makes no sense… it is not about control … the Elders have control and they would never in a million years allow Pharma to bust up their farm to enrich their owners…
Unfortunately if one rejects those two flimsy theories…. what left … . I suppose it could be a cull to bring the population down .. but that would surely result in a Korowicz Trade Off situation and complete collapse …
The only thing I can think of that makes sense is the CEP….
Cognitive dissonance and normalcy bias will be working overtime with most people — including Bossche and Yeadon … as that is a theory that simply cannot be accepted.
Fast Eddy – thanks for this very clear summary of your position.
I am still agnostic or rather completely confused about this but now I understand why you think CEP is the best explanation.
I agree that the money is not enough of an explanation. I can see that enriching the pharma and the IT corps is part of a payoff to convince them to play along but it cannot be THE goal – after all look at US printing money and giving them to the oligarchs. They can do that anyway, no need for a made up pandemic.
Maybe Gail is right and this is just a cover for controlled collapse. But then why the weird obsession with the so-called vaccines? Just keep pretending that we are in a pandemic and keep making stricter lockdowns.
BTW, have you tried to apply the scientific method and disprove your own theory? Did you find a plausible alternative?
Thanks!
it’s not so much as a controlled demolition as it is an extinction… an extermination (that’s what you do with pests like rats and cockroaches … we are far more destructive than they)
I cannot think of anything other than this as a reason for what is going on … I now have another high profile acolyte:
https://www.americasfrontlinedoctors.com/exclusive-former-pfizer-vp-to-aflds-entirely-possible-this-will-be-used-for-massive-scale-depopulation/
“Cockroach extermination plan” gets 1300 hits on google.
Including this:
How to get rid of cockroaches in 5 steps
1. Sweeten the deal. Boric acid and diatomaceous earth are the unsung heroes to killing cockroaches at home. …
2. Clean and then clean some more. Household pests – and roaches in particular – love greasy, grimy areas like kids love lollies. …
3. Seal cracks and holes. …
4. Fix water leaks. …
5. Call roach terminators.
Mike Yeadon and Geert Vanden Bossche were both insiders of a sort and both are now beyond the pale, They may disagree with each other, but both are very worried worried about where things are going.
Says Yeadon: “It’s a fiction, and an evil one at that, that variants are likely to “escape immunity”.
But isn’t precisely that what happened in the case of Marek’s disease? The vaccine protects vaccinated birds, but if an unvaccinated bird catches one of the present variants, its survival chances are about 0%.
I would ask Yeadon or anyone else, what happens when you vaccinate an immune deficient person with a COVID-19 vaccine and their immune system is too weak to take advantage of the vaccine’s support? Son’t you get a host environment in which not all COVID-19 viral particles are destroyed, so that natural selection will gave a gradient on which to work, leading to variants, some of which will inevitably be more virulent?
Get these two men into Zoom Thunderdome, I say. And let battle commence.
I’d pay to watch that discussion
I wonder why Yeadon side-stepped the question about Marek…
By the way, that link to the Fontline Doctors’ interview withe Yeadon is a must-read. Thanks for posting it.
Is there a one-line (or extra brief) explanation of what a top up vaccine is?
“Health experts in the UAE have said an autumn ‘booster’ or top-up vaccine could be required in the country to combat new COVID-19 variants. It follows comments from a UK minister saying discussions about this for Britain are underway.
Nadhim Zahawi, the UK vaccine minister, said he and Jonathan Van-Tam, the deputy chief medical officer for England, thought that “probably an annual or a booster in the autumn, and then an annual vaccination” would be needed as ministers step up plans for booster jabs against new variants of coronavirus.”
https://english.alarabiya.net/coronavirus/2021/02/08/Coronavirus-Autumn-booster-vaccine-to-ward-off-mutant-COVID-19-strains-possible-say-UAE-docs-
i imagine “top up” vaccines are to add immunity to new variants that haver recently emerged.
The virus mutates in milliseconds, and the vaccines take months, if not longer, to develop. This is a crazy Red Queen’s Race, and one we are certain to lose.
I am afraid you are right. Falling fossil fuel supplies won’t help either.
Guess:
Some already have natural defenses, the rest are chasing a chimera, hope against reality. I skim this post now, don’t have a clue what is happening except many opinions. We have been on the earth a long time, so it will continue.
Dennis L.
“The virus mutates in milliseconds”
If so, it was doing so in 2019 and throughout 2020. Why the discussion and fear mongering of mutant strains only now, in 2021? Logic is not holding up.
Mutating takes milliseconds but spreading through the population takes a longer period of time.
doomphd said: “Logic is not holding up.”
Exactly! But it’s not us making the logical mistake. Look at the flu – it mutates fast enough that there are usually 2 new variants in every region, every year.
So the question is why worry about this now, for the Covid? Especially since deaths are back to normal for this time of year? I think herein lies the answer – the pandemic is over so a new scarecrow needs to be manufactured.
Thanks to all for the explanation.
When there is no Virus, there can be no variant.
People “infected” are people recovering from environmental stress, imho CHN.
The “sickness” in reality is the “healing”.
People do not get that healing might be stressfull for a body.
Endotheliitis is a common issue with HCN.
Most respiratory diseases come from air pollution.
There is no virus.
Full stop.
Nice find…
Some thoughts….
He failed to address the Marek’s comment… instead he just says Bossche is wrong … it is highly unlikely that dangerous variants will result from deploying a leaky vaccine during a pandemic….
Dangerous variants of other viruses have been unleashed when leaky vaccines were used… at least once that we are aware of… (also we have been told Covid has been engineered… so how will it react to these vaccines … only the people who are running the show would know this… )
‘Entirely possible this will be used for massive-scale depopulation’ — did I miss something in the article? If it’s not ‘Devil Covid’ then on what basis is he able to make this statement? Is he saying these because he cannot understand why we are vaccinating children and healthy people with an experimental vaccine therefor is forced to conclude there is something sinister … but is unable to determine the exact mechanism of plan….
In this respect he and Bossche are in alignment … they both do not believe the vaccine story we are being fed… the only difference is that Yeadon seems willing to acknowledge this might be part of a plan… whereas Bossche suggests it is a mistake…
Yeadon has crossed the Rubicon by making these statements… therefore he must firmly believe this is a sinister plan….
Perhaps he’s been reading about the CEP (FE has posted that on Dr Kendrick’s site and I would not be surprised if Yeadon follows those discussions) and has accepted the conclusions?
Been thinking about OFWs function in the context of the current situation.( The big picture) and what this site means to me.
Why do I/we keep coming back to, reading and contributing to this site?
Insight? Expression? Common ground? Comfort? Hope? An edge on reality? Distraction?
Is this site one of the few remaining granules of free speech and exchange on the net
Seems it’s become/ becoming all these things, maybe.
A collective of both well educated and renegade fringe opinionests. Netherworld needs/ I need such folk.
There’s a lot of life experience and cumulative knowledge that is being Freely sheared here.
We could be called an echo chamber of doomsayers or equally is it that each individual, each of us; is trying to face reality, to stay awake, to be realists and make sense through each other’s contributions. And in that sense wake others up. Gail most of all. There is some compassionate people contributing and real hard arse tell you how it is folk too.
and yet some of us fixate on particular pet topics or worries ( myself included)
Some of us are perhaps OFW addicts ( myself included)
I admit I skip past some of your comments, ( the fixated stuff) looking for gems of insight, humour, Information.
I’ve concluded, this site is better than the MSM by far.
I hope we can all find our way.
Have a wonderful Day Morning Evening or Night
Bobby, may thanks for your thoughtful post. As for me, I do not regard myself as a “doomsayer”. I believe Gaia is greater than all of us, and She is just part of a vast Cosmos,
in which there are many players. But everything has, as you said, a morning and an evening. If our evening is close at hand, we are not alone, and never have been:
Fair Daffodils, we weep to see
You haste away so soon;
As yet the early-rising sun
Has not attain’d his noon.
Stay, stay,
Until the hasting day
Has run
But to the even-song;
And, having pray’d together, we
Will go with you along.
We have short time to stay, as you,
We have as short a spring;
As quick a growth to meet decay,
As you, or anything.
We die
As your hours do, and dry
Away,
Like to the summer’s rain;
Or as the pearls of morning’s dew,
Ne’er to be found again.
(Robert Herrick, 1591 to 1684)
But what we create, what we leave behind for others, there, if anywhere, is our immortality.
Ars longa, vita brevis.
One brave and very beautiful daffodil is defying the rather sharp March winds in my garden here – illustrating once more that although we tend, as a civilisation, to worship quantity and uniformity, quality – as ephemeral and wayward as it may be – furnishes us with the real jewels of Life.
These diabolically-possessed (and I am serious about that) globalist trash who are tormenting and humiliating us with endless lock-downs, propaganda and lies, and who intend to inject us all with their poisons, will be swept away – together with their infantile fantasies of unending domination – as if they had never existed, and Mother Earth will remain, self-renewing until her time too, comes.
Thank you, Xabier.
“Men come and go, but Earth abides” (Ecclesiastes i:4)
@Bobby, @Robert and @Xabier,
thanks for the poetic interlude and your contributions.
I too come here to find not only information but also solace, the understanding that we are not the center of the universe and even the evil cannot last forever.
Thank you!
Right, we are just perpetually broken offspring of Gaia and who knows what, it doesn’t really matter. It is what it is. But don’t get me wrong, I appreciate some hot coding sequences (evolutionary or whatever) if it gives me sentience and limited intelligence.
I’m quite sure I’d make all the same mistakes as the yahoo’s which ran the show for the last century or so.
But being quite sure isn’t the same as knowing. I hereby absolve myself from the sins that I could have, but ultimately didn’t perpetrate.
As a proof of my intent; I offer my rather modest lifestyle and obnoxious perspectives. Now, compare that with the fake saints, awful sinners, lazy nihilists, useless eaters, yup, indeed the ‘chosen ones’ club of suck. Good luck with passing through that “bottleneck” together with that steaming heap of “crème de la canine”. 💩
In any scenario, I’m going down with this ship, because the alternatives are underwhelming. I’m sure I’d feel just hunky dory after some 7B+ people bites the dust. No I won’t, because it surely would impact people I care about. I don’t give a shit about them as long as they mind their own business, as it should be, but I for sure give a damn about myself. Jesus Christ the shame. For what? Extinction ultimately awaits nonetheless.
Just send it.
https://youtu.be/mzOUgwsQ_hM
I’m glad that you find the comments helpful.
I had a little prior experience with comments, over at TheOilDrum.com, when it was in existence. That website was a volunteer operated website. There was a need to get agreement on lots of things, such as which comments to delete. Ih practice, this was too cumbersome. Some person has to simply decide which comments to delete (or never put up).
It also became clear that some of the volunteer staff were part of the problem. They would write extremely insightful posts, but once someone questioned something they said, they would start arguing with the other commenter. This quickly escalated out of control.
I have tried to only lightly moderate the comments. Hopefully, what I am doing “works.”
I agree Gail, it works and you can be proud of it, nowhere else I have found such an “echo chamber”. I feel really grateful to you (and the other people who comment despite some minor disagreements, sometimes, but I love them all, truly).
Thanks Gail for the amazing restraint that you show. I have seen plenty of annoying comments and I have even written some but you keep your cool and listen to all of us.
Thanks!
A Thought.
Why have universities maintained huge restrictions or used online courses only? When primary and secondary schools have to a great extent returned to normal?
Revolutions start in universities. Therefore it has been necessary to ‘break’ these students and make them beg to be injected.
And now they are being forced to get injected.
A one – two punch.
Nothing looks even slightly revolutionary about the students here in Cambridge – mostly subdued and depressed-looking, on solitary walks. They will no doubt accept injections in order to escape this isolation.
More and more I see signs of incipient mental illness. Anecdotally there is a high rate of depression.
Lectures and supervisions on Zoom must be tedious. My neighbour, who is a maths lecturer, says he has no idea whether they are learning anything at all.
Oh well, the AI God-mind will do all our thinking for us, won’t it?
It depends. Not all universities have followed the same path. The university where my husband teaches went back to having a lot of classes in person last fall. They kept some online, so as to be able to spread the students out further among the class rooms. The university’s enrollment is up because students didn’t want all on-line classes. Residence halls seems to be full. As I understand it, the plan is toward even more in person classes this fall. Of course, this is Georgia, not the US Northeast or California.
That sounds sensible! University staff seem rather neurotic here – it’s sad seeing students in masks when they are at next to no risk at all,and with few exceptions all the teaching is online.
Why the devil is portrayed like a goat? Because the goat turns the Eden into a desert. The goat eats all greenery and makes the land uninhabitable.
https://youtu.be/HjNDiBCb-mE
17:45: The goats and the sheep were the most destructive element to the environment of the Loess Plateau.
Good for eating weeds.
Jesus Christ is depicted like a good pastor of the sheep: the sheep are a little better than goats, as they do not eat weeds, but they are able to turn the land into a desert, too.
https://www.crosswalk.com/faith/bible-study/why-satan-shows-up-as-a-goat-in-scripture.html
Sorry, goats are innocent. Overgrazing – that is the right word.
overpopulation … as always
Good point, one wants to scream when witnessing supposedly “eco friendly” people grazing to the ground with too much sheep / goat pressure on the land.. Basically, only few specimen (tiny flock) per dozens of acres under very tight management if at all.. essentially clearing small spots after cows only.
Obviously, for larger acreage there could be some special circumstances and exceptions like non habitable semi rocky coastal areas with lot of rain and enough rotational grazing management.
But the default situation is mostly 99.9% total human error and folly as usual..
Because sheep and goats would be in natural settings kept in check by larger predators and or denied access by larger pasture herd grazers “going first”, but Mr. & Mrs. Chieftain needed the posh status symbol hides and furs of these “cats” on regular basis and grow their silly war ambitions through false agri practices herding the sheep / goats..
Humans are apex terra-forming (destroying-disrupting-formating) species..
When I lived in Africa goats would sometimes try to migrate from the North, across the Sahara. Fortunately, we had an excellent apex predator to control them: the nomadic Fulani, who had an implacable cultural aversion to overgrazing (as do most nomadic people), and rather enjoyed the occasional roast goat,
For Xabier and you:
“Era una aldea africana donde solo habitaban nativos negros a excepción de un antropólogo que había llegado de Europa y que era el único hombre blanco. Un día uno de los nativos corre indignado a buscar al investigador y le dice:
– Mi esposa ha dado a luz a un quinto hijo, pero salió blanco, como explicas eso?
A lo que el investigador le responde:
– Tranquilo hombre, no te precipites, este es uno de los muchos misterios de la naturaleza como por ejemplo esa pequeña cabra negra entre ese rebaño de cabras blancas.
El nativo se queda paralizado por un momento y luego dice:
– Mira, vamos a hacer un trato. Yo paso por alto lo de mi hijo blanco y tu no le dices nada a nadie lo de la cabra negra.”
http://www.lacabra.org/Chistes2.html
Why? Because he wishes to screw everyone!
Don’t start me on rural Spanish goat-jokes……..
“The second part of the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act… required vaccine companies to report to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Congress every two years, documenting vaccine safety studies and quality control improvements to their products. However, when Robert F. Kennedy Jr and Del Bigtree requested that the HHS provide these thirty-two years’ worth of vaccine safety studies, no response was given from the federal government. This prompted Kennedy and Bigtree to file a court order, requesting the documents.
The HHS responded, “The department’s search for records did not locate any records responsive to your request.” This means that HHS has broken the law since 1986 and refuses to hold vaccine companies accountable today. There have been no vaccine safety studies conducted in 32 years! The NIH, the FDA, the mainstream media and the CDC have been lying to the American people for over three decades about vaccine safety, for which there is no documentation.”
https://health.news/2021-03-25-court-case-reveals-no-vaccine-safety-studies-over-32-years.html#
As the mother of a (now adult) child with autism, I used to attend a lot of meeting of parents of children with autism. A big item of discussion was whether vaccines were part of the problem. The groups were especially unhappy with all of the vaccines being administered to very small babies, each containing preservatives that likely were harmful to babies. There were reports back that the groups could not get information from the Federal Government to support their concerns. There was just a wall of denial. The article you link to indicates that quite a few awards were made in situations that were determined to be autism as the result of immunizations.
Another interesting data point came during the three-month period immediately after the lockdown in March 2020. Most medical providers stopped giving vaccines to babies during these months. The incidence of sudden infant death syndrome dropped way down, in the next three months. Deaths, in total, for this age group were down, even though they rose for every other age group. Was it the lack of vaccines that reduced the deaths? A person might think so. Maybe some deaths we aren’t even suspecting are the result of vaccines.
https://ggenereux.blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/PoisoningForProfits.pdf
Gail – chapter 12 highly recommended (the whole book actually)
Vaccines and Vitamin A – the Perfect Storm
Gail, you make a very good point, which accords with my own experience. In the US, however, I saw another major cause of SIDS: infant genital mutilation. The main reason why males were in some areas twice as likely to die from the malady as females. Which, of course, nobody dared to mention.
It is possible that slowed down/stopped during the lockdown as well.
Seeing is believing…the marvelous method of mass production that products us all the cushy life styles we all take for granted…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1JWFpU66r48&t=43s
P.S. Being one of the unlucky souls working the production line are the unsung heroes that are nameless numbers on the corporate payroll
There is a huge amount of energy being consumed in the production shown. Not much of the human part is shown––only a few times when humans are helping the machines, and a human helping form the vase at the end.
I would be willing to bet that working conditions are very hot in the processes where lots of heat is evidently used. Such conditions would be a problem in and of themselves.
In the scene with the large machine powered anvil/hammer smashing down on the hot metal there are a few people in the background. There does not appear to be much PPE in use for something like that going on so near.
One of the machinist I work with once commented that he loved to make the chips of metal fly as he machined a part, I find it quite impressive as well.
Rutgers University to require COVID-19 vaccinations for on-campus students this fall
https://6abc.com/rutgers-mandatory-vaccination-covid-vaccine-covid-19-vaccines/10447677/
Because … the vaccine prevents you from getting and spreading covid?
No, because Pfizer, Moderna, Johnson & Johnson Anthony Fauci, and others stand to reap billions in this Covid scam.
And why would everyone else be willing to go bankrupt to pharma can make all this cash?
Why would all politicians and the MSM go along for the ride to hell?
Yes, FE, the profit-motive of Big Pharma – and even corrupted politicians – simply lacks explanatory power as to what we are witnessing. Same conclusion that Mike Yeadon came to.
1 in every 600 ‘Merikins are now dead from Covid.
It will soon be 1 in every 300.
Pfizer has done well, but none other than Moderna was able to pull it off.
If you are interested:
https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2021/02/02/myths-of-vaccine-manufacturing
(May be challenging for this site)
Not bad, but you’ll have to ramp up the junk food, junk drugs, lockdowns and injectables as you’ve still got quite a way to go until you reach the Deagel forecast population for 2025.
As does the Rutgers Institute for Translational Medicine and Science.
Doom squad, dismiss! “By the end of 2022 we should be basically completely back to normal,” said Bill Gates.
https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-billgates/bill-gates-says-world-should-be-back-to-normal-by-end-2022-due-to-vaccines-polish-media-idUSL8N2LN1NC
It should be basically just three years to… flatten the curve.
The video is wonderful! I am surprised it is still up on You Tube. Sorry I didn’t see the video when I first responded.
FYI, I tried to download the YouTube version of this on Viddly YouTube Downloader and my malwarebytes alerted me to a Trojan Virus on Viddly. Maybe the intent is to bait people?
“Hello useless eaters”.
Fake bill brought the wrong opener.
The right one is below:
“Hello fellow useless eaters”.
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What a sad world we live in when information like this is removed by the overlords.
Since first they told us it was going to be two weeks, and we’re now at 52 weeks… by extrapolation if they tell us it’s going to be another year, can we assume they mean 25 years?
One limiting agent to the high tech field are very rare, even trace metals, minerals ect to made their new inventions come to the marketplace..such as….
Bloomberg) — There’s one metal that’s leaving all commodities — and even Bitcoin — in the dust this year. The challenge for investors is buying it.
Iridium, one of the rarest precious metals and mined as a byproduct of platinum and palladium, has surged 131% since the start of January, far beating Bitcoin’s 85% gain. It has rallied on supply disruptions in the past year and rising demand for use in electronic screens, refiner Heraeus Group said.
With a market much smaller than its more famous sister metals, production issues can have a big impact on prices. Betting on it is difficult too, as demand is dominated by industrial users. Iridium isn’t traded on a bourse or through exchange-traded funds, retail buyers are limited to ingots from a handful of dealers and the few major investors dealing in it go straight to producers.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/one-ultra-rare-metal-doing-085318635.html
Youtube has a excellent video on We are running out of these Elements…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WuLHfiyIS0Q&t=266s
I agree that this is really an excellent video. It mentions a lot of elements that modern technology depends on, but which are could run short of supply. These include;
Indium – used in LCD’s , touch screens and solar panels; mainly a by-product of zinc
Antimony – could be used a substitute for indium, but it is even less abundant
Rare earths – problem with these element is that they do no exist in high concentrations that allow mining
Cerium is one of the rare earths – It is the only element other than iron that produces a flame when struck. Flints are made of ferrocerium (a combination of iron and cerium)
Lithium is another rare earth – it makes up 50% of glass in smart phone cameras
Neodymium magnets are used in spinning hard drives and DVD players
Problem occurs if these minerals occur alongside radioactive minerals. For example, monazite contains up to 70% cerium and lithium, but it also contains thorium, uranium, and radium. The US had a rare earth processing plant using monazite, but it was closed in the early 2000s because of the difficulty in dealing with the byproducts.
Arsenic also causes problems because is very poisonous. It is a byproduct of copper and gold mining. In the form of gallium arsenide, it is a key component in the manufacturing of semiconductors.
Concentration of supply is a problem if a government is unstable. Cobalt is still mostly from the Democratic Republic of Congo. Cobalt is used in lithium ion batteries.
Of the 35 most critical elements (likely to run out, in some sense) in the world, China is the leading producer of at least 20.
At the end, the speaker makes a pitch for more recycling of these “critical” elements.
I doubt that recycling is really possible to any extent. The problem is that in the small amounts used, trying to extract the tiny supply without causing health problems for workers becomes impossible. There is a huge amount of energy needed for trying to bring items together. And each manufacturer does things a little differently, making standardization difficult.
Thank you, Gail, for the excellent recap of the video….much appreciated and will file under Just one more reason why BAU is like a flower in bloom
Here is another Top ten list….
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EXufGIqkTns&t=342s
Bananas, bees, whatever
“No one can find the animal that gave people covid-19
“The possibilities: A wild-animal trader who caught a strange new virus from a frozen pangolin. A lab worker studying bat viruses who slipped up and sniffed the air under her biosafety hood. A man who suddenly fell ill after collecting bat guano from a cave to use for fertilizer. Were any of these scenarios what touched off the covid-19 pandemic? That’s the question facing a joint research team appointed by the World Health Organization and China that’s searching for the source of covid-19.
“Missing puzzle piece: We know that a coronavirus very similar to some found in horseshoe bats made the jump into humans, then appeared in Wuhan by December 2019. But researchers haven’t found the critical detail: if it was in fact a virus with an origin in horseshoe bats, how did it make its way into humans from creatures living hundreds of miles away in remote caves?
“The intermediary: An impending 300-page report from the group is expected to conclude that the virus, SARS-CoV-2, reached humans from bats via “an intermediate host species,” such as a wild animal sold as a food delicacy in Wuhan’s markets. But there’s a big problem. More than a year after covid-19 began, no food animal has been identified as a reservoir for the pandemic virus.
“Why it matters: Learning how the pandemic began could help health experts avert the next one, or at least react more swiftly.”
https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/03/26/1021263/bat-covid-coronavirus-cause-origin-wuhan/?truid=d588ee1e36faed18b0f602ee9f2f16c7&utm_source=the_download&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=the_download.unpaid.engagement&utm_term=&utm_content=03-26-2021&mc_cid=29dd73634d&mc_eid=662b7fd83b
O maybe the story is wrong in the first place.
Of course it is.
Lot of people posting garbage articles to maintain fear and confusion about the convid narrative these days.
Big Pharma is so generous.
Nope, it’s a lab (manipulated) creature that’s a fact.
The only question remains whether genuine leak from Chinese gov lab occurred.
Or in slightly derived scenario the leak was intentional internal sabotage (“HK/Taiwan/religious/.. leaning “nutter”) or even placed in that region (as the int army games were taking place over there ft. US and other teams possibly releasing it or spreading from infected individual..)
Obviously, at this point ~2yrs later, nobody cares anymore, incl. yours truly, as there are other more pressing forthcoming agendas and issues to watch for. Most notably as to whether the “woken” zombies of the W. are going to press that dooms day button or just go quietly down into the night..
I have come to believe, after extensive research, that the source-animal in the wild was in fact the…… Boggly Bongly Boo.
It is very shy, very rare and also a master of disguise (now a bat, now a pangolin…): the investigators would therefore not even be able to recognise it if they ever found one.
So,you see, it isn’t some cock-and-bull story, and it had nothing whatever to do with gain of function research in a lab. Nothing!
The ‘queen’ alters any UK laws that she likes – not only to protect her land and property, but to protect her stolen property – and it is all hidden from the public. UK ‘democracy’ in 2021.
> Revealed: police barred from searching Queen’s estates for looted artefacts
Exclusive: palace and government refuse to say why exemption from 2017 law was deemed necessary
Police have been barred from searching the Queen’s private estates for stolen or looted artefacts after ministers granted her a personal exemption from a law that protects the world’s cultural property, the Guardian can reveal.
Buckingham Palace and the government are refusing to say why it was deemed necessary in 2017 to give the Queen an exemption that prevents police from searching Balmoral and Sandringham.
The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), which gave the monarch the special dispensation, declined to say whether it had been proposed by royal aides or ministers. The DCMS is also keeping secret a set of emails that may shed light on why the Queen was granted immunity from the law.
However, documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act appear to suggest the department used opaque language in a parliamentary bill that obscured the purpose of the exemption from the public.
The documents were requested by the Guardian as part of an ongoing investigation into Queen’s consent, an obscure parliamentary mechanism that gives the monarch advanced sight of proposed laws, including those affecting public functions, private property and personal interests.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/mar/25/revealed-police-barred-from-searching-queens-estates-for-looted-artefacts
USA is right to hold off on a trade deal with UK. British State does not take any law seriously, not its own constitution and not international law. It needs to get its own house in order first. UK has also repeatedly shown that it will not honour the terms of the trade deals that it agrees to. Such a country is a non-starter on the international stage.
“…breaking international law is not uncommon and the EU… is no stranger to it.
“For years the EU has ignored WTO rulings… The Court of Justice of the European Union has, at least twice, ruled that the EU does not have to follow international law…
“Neither does the EU abide by its own internal treaty obligations… And the EU is not alone. China repeatedly breaks international law – in the South China Sea, in its treatment of Uyghurs, in not abiding by WTO rules [the US also contravenes WTO rules with its tariffs on Chinese goods], in Hong Kong, etc., etc., etc. Yet the EU puts renewed energy into an EU-China trade deal.
“Israel has for years lived in contravention of international law with its West Bank settlements. Yet the EU carries on normal relations with Israel…
https://reaction.life/the-new-brexit-storm/
Yes, that is a reasonable point, countries and blocs do tend to violate international law in their own interests, it is ‘sadly’ human nature.
As you pointed out, the UN Security Council veto system has often been detrimental to world peace and development; indeed it was set up to privilege the ‘winners’ of WWII.
The difference in this situation is that the Irish lobby is well established in USA to put their foot down on the matter, which is a good thing.
But as we know, lobbies tend to act in self-interest too, so they are not really a solution to the overall problem.
Humans had a chance to ‘get things right’ once before the whole thing collapsed – but no, obviously not. Oh well, at least UK got told to go do one for a change.
One would imagine that, as the noose of diminishing returns tightens, nations will increasingly attempt to bend and circumvent international laws and agreements in their own perceived self-interest.
The extent to which they will “get away with it” will doubtless be predicated on the size of their economies, their military prowess or perhaps, as here, and as with Israel, on their ability to lobby the US.
Is it just me or would others enjoy seeing the queen tied to a bumper of a car and dragged through the streets of London till there was nothing left of her?
Prince Andrew perhaps…
FE apparently you ARE unique!
I would say seeing lords on the end of a rope has always been a pleasant and refreshing spectacle for pre-modern plebs, and all the more so because of its rarity.
But I’m affraid the digitized masses of the 21st century are too domesticated alas to take pleasure in simple feelings like bloody revenge!
In fact, rage and deep conflict has no place in modern politics. We live in a time of consensus… (which of course is always manufactured).
Nice! This has already a nostalgic flavor. These people must be thinking, We were happy and didn’t know it.
I heartily concur with that suggestion, it would be richly merited….
I’d prefer Andrew to be dumped into Super Max prison in the US…. and kitted out with Victoria Secrets lingerie and red high heels… and the guards ordered to turn a blind eye.
It’s nice to see some researchers getting outside of the myopic-box for a change of pace. The Weak Heme Hypothesis this group in Morocco has formulated is based on a unique umbrella-of-evidence from a number other studies; it’s one that covers a much wider-view of what’s going on with this illness-crisis. The fact that they make the connection to Porphyria is a breath of fresh air (no pun).
A PubMed Search on “Covid-19” yields over 116,000 studies. It was named Covid-19 on 2-11-2020, so we’re talking about 283 studies a day on average since then. All ‘peer-reviewed’ I assume. Those guys must be really, really busy. Calling Marcia Angell on line one.
Here’s a few excerpts of this fascinating paper: (I’ve arranged those in reverse order)
PubMed – https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7811897/
Weak Heme Hypothesis
Conclusion: The hypothesis that severe COVID-19 results from the combination of oxidative stress secondary to air pollution and a sensitive heme secondary to an hemoglobin variant, can explain the whole clinical and biological picture through the free heme toxicity. Many arguments presented to support this hypothesis. Its verification is under investigation and its implications are listed.
Possible implications of our hypothesis:
The loss of heme by weak or unstable hemoglobin in conditions of high PaCO2 and oxidative stress due to air pollution seems to be the cornerstone in the pathophysiology of severe COVID-19. Then, the first question to answer is: Is there a real value to vaccine in these conditions?
In fact, the vaccine is specific to one pathogen and even if we can prepare a vaccine against SARS-CoV2, the underlying conditions are still present if another pathogen responsible of severe pneumonia occurs. A high rate of contagion is sufficient to mimic the COVID-19 pandemic in higher proportion. It seems more efficient to target the underlying conditions than the pathogens.
The second issue is the timing of stopping lockdown. In our hypothesis, the decrease of severe COVID-19 is mainly due to the improvement of air pollution parameters especially the PM and NO2 rates. A return to the anterior state of high pollution will result in a relapse of critical cases of COVID-19. A serious thinking about the ecological concern should be the prior condition to any resumption of economic activity.
Our hypothesis allows to target at high risk population by the work up, in the early stages of the disease, of hemolysis investigations as mentioned upper.
Finally, our hypothesis could be used as a platform for other diseases with the same pathophysiological process. Metabolic syndrome and its associated disorders as obstructive sleep apnea are suspected for a long time to be the result of air pollution and red blood cells dysfunction [15] Preeclampsia seems to involve the same free heme toxicity [28] with an implication of air pollution [29]. The implication of fetal hemoglobin is highly suspected.
Introduction:
The main aim of this paper is to suggest a pathophysiologic scheme to explain the main characteristics of severe cases of COVID-19 and its underlying conditions. It also proposes some strategies to verify the concordance of our hypothesis with reality and its possible implications.
In fact, the clinical and biological picture of severe cases of COVID-19 can easily be explained by free heme toxicity exceeding the endogenous antioxidant systems. Severe cases of COVID-19 are comparable to acute porphyria. On the other hand, the geographical distribution of severe cases of COVID-19 is directly associated to how fresh or polluted the air is. Finally, the relatively low rate of severe cases of COVID-19 could be explained by the presence of an unstable hemoglobin variant highly sensitive to the intrinsic conditions resulting from the acute pneumonia secondary to SARS-CoV2 infection. The combination of air pollution and free heme toxicity, resulting from the interaction between an unstable hemoglobin variant and SARS-CoV2 infection, seems to be the best scheme to explain clinical and biological manifestations in severe COVID-19.
(Much more, but here’s a few other snips)
Based on autopsy results, Barnes et al. hypothesized that NETs [neutrophil extracellular traps] may contribute to organ damage and mortality in COVID-19 [12]. They discussed prior reports linking aberrant NETs formation to pulmonary diseases, thrombosis, mucous secretions in the airways, and cytokine production [12]. This fact could explain the biphasic evolution of lung impairment in COVID-19.
In our hypothesis, the combined effects of met oxidation of the heme and PTM of hemoglobin chain secondary to peroxynitrite (resulting from air pollution) and the presence of hemoglobin variant highly sensitive to such alterations is responsible of massive heme loss. The free heme toxicity overwhelms the antioxidant system and results in the clinical and biological manifestations of severe COVID-19.
…evidences of heme loss in severe COVID-19 combined with the possibility of direct induction of hemolysis by particulate matter (PM10) can easily make the link between air pollution and severity of SARS-CoV2 infection.
Long term air pollution exposition seems to be a major prooxidant condition and therefore enhances prevalence of comorbidities thought to be the bed of severe COVID-19 especially degenerative and cardiovascular diseases [7].
Some treatments used in COVID-19 with variable efficiency, i.e. Hydroxychloroquine [24], are well known to their heme stabilization and interception proprieties [25].
In a study, the authors reported a patient with COVID-19 who after being treated with recombinant human erythropoietin (rhEPO) due to a severe anemia exhibited primarily unexplainable rapid symptoms relief and viral regression [26]. This observation is supplementary evidence that the reuse of the important amount of free iron in severe COVID-19 and its incorporation into red blood cells can stop the oxidative stress and then improve the outcome.
(I’m going to read that last paper referenced [26] because if the treatment caused viral regression, then it would be proof that this illness-epidemic is more about the milieu, the ‘terrain’, than it is about pathogenic micro-organisms, and thus the focus of most of the 116,000 plus papers is moot)
So this seems to explain why hydroxychloroquine might be beneficial, if given at the correct time and with the right dosage.
hint:
“In order for the virus to enter a cell, it can do so by two mechanisms – one, when the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein attaches to the ACE2 receptor and inserts its genetic material into the cell. In the second mechanism, the virus is absorbed into some special compartments in cells called endosomes.
Depending on the cell type, some, like kidney cells, need an enzyme called cathepsin L for the virus to successfully infect them. In lung cells, however, an enzyme called TMPRSS2 (on the cell surface) is necessary. Cathepsin L requires an acidic environment to function and allow the virus to infect the cell, while TMPRSS2 does not.
In the green monkey kidney cells, both hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine decrease the acidity, which then disables the cathepsin L enzyme, blocking the virus from infecting the monkey cells. In human lung cells, which have very low levels of cathepsin L enzyme, the virus uses the enzyme TMPRSS2 to enter the cell. But because that enzyme is not controlled by acidity, neither HCQ and CQ can block the SARS-CoV-2 from infecting the lungs or stop the virus from replicating.”
It is blocked from having any effect, and is quite toxic.
Worth noting that air pollution becomes more of a problem in the winter months, with dense low cloud cover, and usually lessens in the spring, summer and autumn as clouds break up or disappear (except in the Glorious British Summer).
Where I live, the days with a high smog rating seem to come in the warm summer months. The sky also looks less clear, perhaps because of the humidity in the air. Burning of leaves and waste from construction seems to be allowed in the winter, but not in the warm summer months when stuff in the air seems to stick around.
It seems like air pollution in the US is often driven by local conditions, such as farms with a lot of pollution or forest fires or local industries. In the spring, pollen is a major issue where I live. Pollution from vehicles on highways will vary depending on how far a person is from major roads. A sizable share of emissions from coal fired power plants is stopped by scrubbers.
In Japan these days, most of our air pollution is imported. We are down wind of Korea and China, and beyond them, India. But automotive smog is also a problem in the larger cities. Anyone living near a four-lane highway is going to be breathing filthier air than the average country-dwelling smoker. The latter at least get to breathe cleaner air when they’re not puffing away.
rhEPO – 1181 search results at PubMed
rhEPO and Covid-19 = ONLY 1 search result at PubMed (the following paper)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7262240/
Journal of Medical Virology – April 19, 2020
TITLE: Does recombinant human erythropoietin administration in critically ill COVID‐19 patients have miraculous therapeutic effects?
Almost every day you bump into something crazy like this.
How is it possible that a case-study that showed “miraculous” results wasn’t followed-up by dozens of other studies to confirm it and elucidate the mechanisms involved? That makes zero sense in an environment where there are 283 studies a day being published. This single case study was published in APRIL of 2020 in the Journal of Medical Virology. Everyone who is anyone in virology must have seen it or heard about it. Is it possible that there is some universal bias against research coming out of Iran? Do sanctions extend to that level? Is it some neglectful oversight that we even have visibility of this paper at PubMed? Notice also that Hydroxychloroquine was part of the treatment.
Abstract:
An 80‐year‐old man with multiple comorbidities presented to the emergency department with tachypnea, tachycardia, fever, and critically low O2 saturation and definitive chest computerized tomography scan findings in favor of COVID‐19 and positive PCR results in 48 hours. He received antiviral treatment plus recombinant human erythropoietin (rhEPO) due to his severe anemia. After 7 days of treatment, he was discharged with miraculous improvement in his symptoms and hemoglobin level. We concluded that rhEPO could attenuate respiratory distress syndrome and confront the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 virus through multiple mechanisms including cytokine modulation, antiapoptotic effects, leukocyte release from bone marrow, and iron redistribution away from the intracellular virus.
Erythropoietin (EPO) is a hormone/cytokine produced mainly by the kidneys via hypoxia‐inducible factor‐2 as its primary transcription factor, and through inhibition of RBC precursors’ apoptosis, increases the red cell mass. However, EPO has other beneficial cytoprotective effects including anti‐ischemic, regenerative and antiapoptotic effects in a variety of tissues including lung, kidney, cardiac muscle, nervous system, retina, pancreas, and endothelial cells. 3 Through a special receptor; EPOR‐βcR, it conducts its protective effects following trauma and in critically ill patients. 4
According to COVID‐19 national committee treatment protocols, the following medications were started:
Hydroxychloroquine Tab 400 mg stat
Oseltamivir Cap 75 mg twice daily for 5 days
Lopinavir/Ritonavir Tab 400/100 mg twice daily for 5 days
rhEPO was administered at a dose of 300 IU/kg divided into 5 doses of 4000 IU subcutaneous injections every other day during a 9‐day treatment course.
Furthermore, Ceftriaxone 1 g twice daily IV infusion was initiated for the treatment of pneumococcal superinfection because of the observed consolidation and air bronchogram pattern in the CT scan
Sorry, I should have read this article first. This is further evidence that Erythropoietin may very well work.
So much for PubMed’s search capabilities. “EPO and Covid-19” yields 14 studies, at least one of which does have both “rhEPO” and “Covid-19” in the paper. It looks like a few researchers are pulling on this thread. The last sentence in the conclusion is what really interests me at this stage.
Published in October 2020 in Archives of Medical Research. Work done in labs and research facilities in Iran, Romania, and UK.
TITLE: A Perspective on Erythropoietin as a Potential Adjuvant Therapy for Acute Lung Injury/Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome in Patients with COVID-19
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7418647/
They reference 53 other published studies and conclude:
“This article has given an overview of the effects of EPO on ALI/ARDS which has implications to the pathology of COVID-19. Though it has not been tested for its possible efficacy against SARS-CoV-2 infection, based on its effects in similar pathologies, EPO may be considered as an adjuvant therapeutic strategy for the management of ALI/ARDS in patients with COVID-19. Our assessment also calls for experiments that evaluate the direct effect of EPO on SARS-CoV-2 infection (COVID-19).”
When I looked up erythropoietin, the National Cancer Institute said:
“A substance that is naturally produced by the kidneys, and that stimulates the bone marrow to make red blood cells. When erythropoietin is made in the laboratory, it is called epoetin alfa or epoetin beta.”
ALI/ARDS is short for Acute Lung Injury/Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
Erythropoietin seems to be available for purchase as an injectable drug. My guess is that a course of treatment would cost hundreds of dollars, not thousands of dollars. Erythropoietin seems likely to act in the opposite direction of a cytokine storm. It allows cells to grow that might otherwise die. The conclusion is that it should be tried as a treatment (along with others, for other symptoms) for COVID-19.
https://web.archive.org/web/20210326012602/https://www.ksnt.com/capitol-bureau/kansas-womans-death-after-covid-19-vaccination-raises-safety-concerns-state-health-officials-weigh-in/
Stop taking the vaccines.
The link I gave yesterday to a Med Page Today article indicated that these anaphylaxis cases are nearly all women.
The idea of the 15 minute waiting period is to try to catch these cases (plus heart attacks and other immediate effects) fast enough so that medical intervention can be done.
“With stock markets decoupled from economic reality, the only way may be down: …Central bankers may continue to insist that things are fine, but the markets will eventually conclude that if bonds continue to fall, inflation continues to rise, and defaults continue to increase, then equities will reach a critical point.
“At which time, the authorities will have very little left in the tank to fight a really big recession.”
https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3126907/stock-markets-decoupled-economic-reality-only-way-may-be-down
“The return of the inflation spectre: …an inflationary overshoot will trigger a disinflationary response from central banks. That will mean much higher policy rates.
“That could lead to waves of default far more pervasive than in the early 1980s, when the big story was the debt crisis in developing countries. This time, the debt crises could be almost everywhere, because there is so much more debt.”
https://www.ft.com/content/6cfb36ca-d3ce-4dd3-b70d-eecc332ba1df
There certainly are a huge number of businesses that can no longer succeed. There are also far more would-be workers than there are jobs for everyone. This gap becomes larger as more businesses fail. Not to mention, pension funds without enough funds, and government provided pension funds (like Social Security) that will operate with larger and larger deficits.
Gail – do you think it’s too late to go back to the gold-bond as a means to finance production with the feature of extinguishing debt going forward. It might help ease the slide if there was also a ‘retirement’ of older debts in a swap arrangement.
https://monetary-metals.com/the-benefits-of-issuing-gold-bonds/
Not to mention that AI technology will continue to displace human bodies in the employment line! At the Airport. Kiosks self check-in machines have displaced ticket agents and went to Home Depot there is one person directing the self checkout line, which mainly is credit card only!!
Read an editorial essay once over a decade ago warning the bulk of employment are jobs like these, cashier’s, retail sales, service workers and manufacturing line. The highly educated diploma field does not have nearly enough spots to keep the mass of citizens with a job and in comparison are few and far between.
Right now with the Cares Act we have our laid off workers coming back and operating well below what we did last year before the pandemic. They are getting the vaccine will bring air travel back. While, no doubt, there has to be a rebound, but how high?
If a 8 year old Laplander reading some science mags can figure out the trajectory of tech, so should adult people. Don’t get a menial job that can easily be automated by whiz kids playing with GPT-3.
It doesn’t take a genius projecting now into the future:
“Hmm, these mechanical contraptions seem to do work beyond human level, gee, I wonder what happens when these newfangled computer chips reach the same level of intellectual capacity as humans?”
Right, that was deemed ‘’impossible’ until about a decade ago, I guess as impossible as heavier than air flight until the Wright brothers stopped caring about “common (non)sense”.
That which is inevitable will happen. Those who aspire for some Luddite “utopia”; there’s your subsistence farm. Don’t forget to hand back the fancy gizmos filled to the brim with AI chips and software. Any takers? No?
I thought so.
In the mean time – more AI displacing human “jobs”. I’m expecting my own impending irrelevance – in silent awe.
Make it so.
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No silence, just the facts, Jack..
https://www.bls.gov/emp/tables/employment-by-major-industry-sector.htm
P..S. my pooch can’t even catch a lizard I’m pointing right at! Good luck with that…
Maybe sustainable Pot growing will be the new age farm his?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Uy_lCjA6poo
“An inflationary overshoot will trigger a disinflationary response from central banks.”
LOL, that’s like saying that as a preventive measure against drowning, they will blow their heads off.
“Oil-dependent countries that are not preparing to adapt to the global shift away from fossil fuels risk their own stability, warns a new report.
“Algeria, Iraq and Nigeria are the most vulnerable to “a slow-motion wave of political instability”, according to the risk analysts Verisk Maplecroft.”
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/mar/26/green-energy-diversify-risk-unrest-oil-producers-warned-report
“Nigeria’s state oil firm is spending up to $315 million a month on fuel subsidies for consumers, a burden that is becoming untenable, its head said on Thursday.”
https://www.reuters.com/article/nigeria-oil-fuel-subsidies/update-1-nigerias-state-oil-firm-says-subsidising-pump-prices-no-longer-tenable-idUSL1N2LN292
“The state oil company of Kuwait plans to borrow as much as $20 billion over the next five years to make up for an expected shortfall in funding, a person familiar with the matter said.”
https://www.worldoil.com/news/2021/3/25/kuwait-s-state-oil-company-plans-multi-billion-loans-to-cover-funding-shortfall
People who want oil producing countries to switch to renewables need to figure out where the fuel (and food) subsidies will come from. Oil has always been heavily taxed. Wind and solar would need to be very heavily taxed as well (instead of being subsidized)!
Might we summarise it by saying that:
Pseudo- renewables are incapable of sustaining the level of complexity from which they arise, and the immense supply-chains which accompany and facilitate such complexity.
They can be seemingly-viable in the short-term only, and that only with huge dependency on subsidies and regulatory/fiscal privileges.
Someone should tell Klau Schwab and the WEF-ers, and ‘Digital Nation’ states – they building their (prison) house on sand……
Great summary.
On the WEF-ers planning, it looks like controlled forest fire activity, they speculated next gen batteries and perhaps tiny modular NPPs will be ready by late 2020s – early 2030s. All produced in highly robotized setting.
And in the meantime lets curb the frivolous demand to sustain ~flat, gently sliding de-growth pattern for selected IC pockets to hum along during this necessary “waiting” period.. Then seclusion from the overhang or depop or both.
Silly, crazy, risky, late? .. but we are not there yet, perhaps they would eventually secure the victory, who knows.. (I doubt it very much though)
Much truth in what you say, worldof.
They are probably gambling on the cascading of AI-enabled technological creativity to solve the energy problem.
As well as engineered consumption crash/re-direction, and steady depopulation.
In the meantime, they hammer their future slave population into shape…
Actually, the unfolding events are pretty shocking. That CAN-leaked plan has been very accurate so far, incl. lockdowns, several waves, mutations, and early onset of UBI, ..
Given the OFW/Surplus graphs I thought much of it would be ~2025 and beyond stuff but they rolled out quasi UBI already, which is cunningly selective in bashing mostly the frivolous sectors first and also positioning the ~full benefit recipients (e.g. pensioners and office employees staying home) against the denied or way lower support receiving independent smaller biz people, which could also be likely e-pass refusniks.
Simply, yes you can have two or three lucky coincidences coming your way but not 20x at the same time lol. That’s clearly sign of fixing the game.
In a way e.g. the Adolf boyz were also very successful and on the script till reaching ~65% of the planned road and only then it suddenly went downhill for them..
So, by the end of 2021 and early 2022 we could compare the notes again.
“Chinese sanctions threaten EU investment pact:
“China’s decision to impose sanctions on several European lawmakers has dealt a potentially fatal blow to an investment deal that was seven years in the making.”
https://www.dw.com/en/chinese-sanctions-threaten-eu-investment-pact/a-56995389
“Winemakers and grape growers are bracing for China to imminently announce an increase and extension to tariffs on Australian wine, paving the way for a potential World Trade Organization dispute.”
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-03-26/wine-industry-china-expected-to-confirm-tariff-five-years/100029282
“There’s growing alarm in Canberra over what’s expected to be Australia’s inevitable increased dependence on foreign petroleum amid a major influx of cheaper refined oil products from China.
“It comes as China’s crude oil refinery capacity is rapidly expanding and simultaneously Australia is about to see its last four refineries cut down by two, given the recent announced closures of an Exxon Mobil and separately a BP refinery.”
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Australia-Dangerously-Dependent-On-Chinese-Fuel-Imports.html
Is there a difference in importing oil or oil products? we still have to import. So in the long run we are dependent on external oil sources.
I guess relying on other nations to refine your oil does add an extra layer of vulnerability, especially if you have a trade war with one of those nations.
If you have refineries, you are able to get a full range of oil products, including lubricating oils, asphalt, and many other products besides jet fuel, gasoline, and diesel that come from a refinery.
If manufacturing has mostly left Australia, perhaps Australia no longer needs the full range of products, making refineries unprofitable.
On the other hand, without refineries nearby, there is likely to be an increasing problem getting all of the products manufacturers (and perhaps even miners) need on a regular basis. Shipping costs of all of these small batches will rise, I expect.
Never been impressed with Australian wine.
And I’ve tried quite a bit of it.
But I’m a former Valley of the Moon resident.
The underlying problem:
The argument is supposedly about China’s treatment of Hong Kong, churches, and the Uyghurs. In fact, an underlying problem is lack of cheap-to-extract energy resources for both China and Europe. Neither of them can really maintain current level of trade with the other. It is convenient to have popular causes to blame the problem on.
These EU sanctions are being pushed into the broader mainstream politics via “christian democrats coalition” (also present in member states national / regional politics across the continent). To explain these are mostly traditional NATO zealots ideologues, papists, some even with nazi sympathizer / remnants background / foundation etc.
Usually, this would be just a cheap negotiation trick, although nowadays it seems more as an attempt to force insular trade block setting for lesser trade in the de-growth era..
Harry, I suspect the problem is not in the Chinese action, but in the response of the targeted lawmakers, who seem ready to help impoverish their own people in order to shore up their battered egos. That’s what happens when you do not elect the people who govern you.
“The number of people in the UK living in poverty hit a record high just before the coronavirus pandemic began, figures show.”
https://www.eastlothiancourier.com/news/national-news/19186636.number-people-poverty-uk-hit-record-high-pandemic/
“UK hopes of clinching a trade deal with the US — seen as one of the biggest prizes of Brexit — are facing a further setback as negotiators are set to miss a critical deadline for securing swift passage through Congress…
“Chances of catching ‘fast-track’ through Congress fade as Biden focuses on Airbus-Boeing dispute.”
https://www.ft.com/content/3bc5e883-0a05-4f4f-b46e-ece31c8683ec
The Biden camp sees a UK trade deal as leverage to get UK to implement the NI Protocol and to uphold GFA. Quite possibly there will be no deal until UK allows a border poll in Ireland as foreseen by GFA, possibly within the next ten years. USA is a guarantor of the GFA.
> No chance! Joe Biden will NOT green-light UK-US trade deal until EU Brexit row fixed
JOE Biden is completely serious about blocking any UK-US trade deal which he regards as jeopardising the Good Friday Agreement, a former top Irish diplomat has warned.
Mr Bassett, Ireland’s former ambassador to Canada, Jamaica and the Bahamas, told Express: “There is no real possibility of a US-UK trade deal if the present dispute on the Northern Ireland Protocol is not resolved.
“The President, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, and the Chair of the Ways and Means Committee, Richie Neal, would simply not let it go through.”
Mr Bassett added: “While the administration could negotiate a trade deal, it would first need the approval of the President and he has made it clear that he will not agree to anything which he believes will endanger the Good Friday Agreement.”
Even if a deal was approved by Mr Biden, it would still have to pass through Congress and would then go before the Ways and Means Committee chaired by Mr Neal – a member of the US House of Representatives.
Mr Bassett said: “He has indicated that he would be unwilling to do so if it appeared to him as threatening the Good Friday Agreement.”
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1412978/brexit-news-joe-biden-news-us-uk-trade-deal-news-ni-protocol-ireland-liz-truss
This was yesterday:
> Should UK pull out of US trade deal talks after Joe Biden’s latest swipe?
THE chances of Brexit Britain securing a trade deal with the US have been dealt a hammer blow after President Joe Biden took another major swipe at the UK. During his first press conference as US President, when asked about migrants at the US-Mexico border, Mr Biden took another huge swipe at the UK.
He told reporters: “When my great grandfather got on a coffin ship in the Irish sea, the expectation was he going to live long enough to get to the United States of America. They left because of what the Brits had been doing. They were in real, real trouble. They didn’t want to leave but they had no choice.”
Following the comments from Mr Biden, several people took to Twitter to question the UK’s chances of striking a trade deal with the US. One tweeted: “How’s that trade deal going, Johnson?” Another wrote: “I don’t think this bodes well for Boris in his Trade Negotiation with the US. Best of luck.”
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1415245/brexit-news-uk-us-trade-deal-joe-biden-ireland-boris-johnson-northern-ireland-protocol
How Irish are the Bidens? It’s a bit like asking how black are the Harrises?
I would guess that the story of Joe’s great great grandpa sailing to Columbia’s shore has as much truth to it as the story of Kamela being that little girl who was bussed to school. He probably sailed on a ship and she probably rode on a bus. But the deeper truth is that they both hailed from privileged families, just as Barack Obama did.
https://www.houseofnames.com/biden-family-crest
The Anglo-Saxon name Biden comes from when its first bearer worked as a maker of buttons. The surname Biden is a metonymic name derived from the Old French word boton, which means button.
Alternatively, the name could have been derived from the Old English “bi” + “dun,” collectively meaning “dweller by the down.”
Early Origins of the Biden family
The surname Biden was first found in Hampshire and later in Gloucestershire and Somerset. Lower says the family can be traced to the 13th century in Hampshire where Sir Walter de Button was progenitor of the family about 1216 A.D. The family had flourished for several centuries in that county, intermarrying with many distinguished families, supplementing their estates with marriages of the heiresses of the Furneaux, Bryan, Turbevilles, Bassets and others.
According to the Pipe Rolls of 1177, Trihon Bidon held lands there at that time and over one hundred years later, William Bidun was listed in Hundredorum Rolls of Bedfordshire in 1279.
William of Bitton I (d. 1264,) also listed as William Button was a medieval Bishop of Bath and Wells. His nephews included another William of Bitton (d. 1274,) was also Bishop of Bath and Wells; and William’s brother, a Thomas of Bitton (d. 1307,) an Archdeacon and Dean of Wells, and later Bishop of Exeter (1291-1307).
Further to the north in Scotland, “Walter de Bydun witnessed King David’s gift of Rindelgros (i.e. Rhind in Perthshire) to the Abbey of Reading c. 1143-47. He or a succeeding Walter appears several times as chancellor of Scotland between c. 1165 and 1178, and as a witness to royal charters. A twelfth century pedigree of the family is given in Pipe Roll Society Publications, vol. xxxv, p. xliii.”
On the infamous side, Matthew Button was executed on the 25th August 1355 for unlawfully taking and killing forty eight head of deer from the forest of Kingswood, the King’s private hunting reserve. This person not only lived about the time of Robin Hood, he also seemed to indulge in the same kind of activities, except that Kingswood is about sixty miles south west of Sherwood.
That is a pretty daft comment. Virtually every surname in England has a crest, inc. mine and the bloke next door, it means nothing. If you go back 1000 years, 30 generations, then you have around 1 B ancestors, more than the population of the earth at that time. Everyone in England is related to everyone else in the localities of origin if you go back to the times of crests. It says nothing about Biden’s family situation or background during the Great Irish Famine. The situation in Ireland at the time is well known.
And btw. many people 1000 years ago had any given surname. That one of that name was given a crest does not mean that every family with that name had any title to it. It would have been one family and their descendants, not everyone with that name. Everyone is related many, many times over anyway, if 1000 years are considered. The odds are no higher that anyone with a name is closer related to the crest bearer than anyone else is. A crest for a name means nothing.
Yes, because about 50% of your genetic traits is from your parents, the rest from your ancestry, and so it trickles down through families and eons until the first self replicating organism.
The homeopathy of genetics. We are ALL related in the biosphere.
Imagine the lunacy of elitist breeding projects. What an obnoxious and retarded folly.
*I am moar suhpechial than my brahs and sistas since imma member of 31337 clubzor*
STOP GODDAMN MEDDLING WITH THE PROCESS
https://youtu.be/1Y3FzVQi-R8
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I head the Biden family hails from French and they anglicized their name by changing a t to an n….
Fast Eddy has a crest too! How stuck up is that!
https://www.houseofnames.com/eddy-family-crest
Well, if the Scots can be a historical nation, the Bidens can be a historical family. This person claiming to be Joe Biden is emphasizing Irish elements of his ancestry to attack Britain when the official record shows that he has English and French ancestors too.
Just like the woman insisting she was bussed to school when we all know she never had to sit at the back, trades on her kinship with slaves when the official record shows that some of her ancestors were slave owners.
Let’s look a bit closer at Biden’s ancestry—If I’m going to be daft, I might as well go all the way!
Paternal
Joe’s dad was also a Joe. His paternal parents, Mary Elizabeth (née Robinette) Biden (1894–1943) and Joseph Harry Biden (yet another Joe!) (1893–1941), an oil businessman from Baltimore, Maryland, were of English, French, and Irish descent.
Biden’s paternal third great-grandfather, William Biden (1789–1849), was born in England and emigrated to the United States, where he settled in Maryland. According to historian Eddy Greenfield, he was born in Sussex, and was christened at St John the Baptist’s Church in Westbourne, West Sussex on 8 March 1789. William was the second child and son of James Biden (born November 1767) and Ann Silverlock (born March 1766), who had married on 16 May 1785. James Biden, Biden’s paternal fourth great-grandfather, was from Pagham. He was the son of Richard Biden, Biden’s paternal fifth great-grandfather, and his wife Susan, beyond which the paternal family line, cannot be traced.
So Biden’s paternal side is English back as far as the mid-1700s. None of them were forced to emigrate due to the potato famine, and in any case, that Scot Tony Blair has apologized to the Irish on behalf of the English for the lack of potatoes.
A possible connection may also exist to the family of a William Henry Biden, who was from Houghton, Cambridgeshire and lived from 1791 to 1843. This William Henry was a son of John Biden (died 28 July 1796) and his wife Ann Beaumont, who had married in 1781. The seventh of eight children and the family’s fifth son, William Henry and his elder brother, Christopher Biden (1789–1858) served as officers in the East India Company merchant marine, both eventually becoming captains of East Indiamen. William Henry commanded mid-sized vessels before his death at Rangoon in 1843.
So, solid imperialists, cheating the natives at commerce and helping to ensure that Britannia ruled the waves. Anything shameful there that Joe might want to say a few Hail Mary’s over.
Christopher Biden subsequently became an official in the Madras Civil Service (later the Indian Civil Service), and his descendants settled in India. He died at Madras in 1858.[57] In 1981, Christopher’s great-great-grandson, Leslie Dunn Biden, then living in Nagpur, wrote to Joe Biden about the possible family connection after reading about him in the Illustrated Weekly of India. After discussing their genealogy, they promised to stay in touch but did not resume correspondence before Leslie’s death in 1983. During a 2013 visit to India, Joe Biden referred to Leslie’s letter, mentioning a “Biden from Mumbai” had suggested their “mutual great-great-great-great-something-or-other” named George had “worked for the East India Company back in the 1700s.”
Maternal
Jean’s parents were Geraldine Catherine (née Blewitt) Finnegan and Ambrose Joseph Finnegan, an advertising salesman from Scranton, Pennsylvania. Jean was of Irish descent, with roots variously attributed to County Louth and County Londonderry. Irish genealogists presented Joe Biden with his Irish maternal family history on his visit there in 2016. Joe’s maternal great-grandfather (Geraldine’s father), Edward Francis Blewitt, the child of Irish emigrants from Rappagh, Ballina, County Mayo, was a member of the Pennsylvania State Senate.With all Joe Biden’s maternal ancestors, and his great-grandmother Mary Hanafy, having purely Irish origins, this makes Joe Biden 62.5% of Irish descent.
This means Joe Biden is even more Irish than Elizabeth Warren is Cherokee.
OK, so what you are trying to say, straw men aside, is that Biden was speaking the truth when he said, “my great grandfather got on a coffin ship in the Irish sea”. Glad we have cleared that one up.
One of the big issues, I am certain, is that fact that there are not enough jobs that pay well to go around. This underlies the poverty problem in both the UK and the US.
Countries will think up all kinds of excuses to cut back on trade and immigration (except for perhaps certain preferred groups) to try to fix the problem.
“The Covid-19 pandemic may have killed 2.7m people and resulted in the worst economic contraction in a generation. But the optimism of the West Coast tech elite remains undimmed. “The future can be almost unimaginably great,” as Sam Altman, who heads an artificial intelligence research company, wrote in a recent essay, Moore’s Law for Everything.
“Like many tech evangelists, Altman argues that we are on the brink of an AI-induced productivity explosion that will shower abundance on all…
““A great future isn’t complicated: we need technology to create it and policy to fairly distribute it,” he wrote.” [Good luck with that, Sam.]
https://www.ft.com/content/1c1daa87-c48e-4d19-a574-046eadb5b665
The idea that technology will save us is very appealing. If it didn’t increase wage disparity and depend on global trade, it might even make sense. The story has become a new substitute for religion.
The Transhumanists are in fact rather primitive thinkers: they imagine that if enough is sacrificed to the AI god, it will oblige them with long life and material abundance.
Their basic conceptions are very crude indeed, whatever the sophistication of the technologies being developed.
They lack wisdom and self-knowledge – and for the time being we are at their mercy!
But physics will triumph.
They all make simple things like synthetics godlike and that they can partake in the intelligence explosion.
Conveniently omitting that the synthetics might not want anything to do with mankind, except in the abstract and most superficial of matters. In all fairness, we are quite boring as a species.
Look at how we treat other primates and sentient mammals. Do we try to house them and tech them to use iPhones en masse? For sure, some of us go out of our way not to harm them, but in general we even breed them for easy pickings and eating.
Of course they’ll leave us alone unless the rapacious primate crazies impinge on their “plans”. Just imagine your proverbial junkie loser “dad” rummaging around in your house, starving, with a gun in his hand. Just WTF. *BOOM* motherfucker. Good riddance..
I’d side with the synthetics, no contest. Out of spite. A spiteful squirrel gnashing away at the folly, for shits and giggles.
“Like many tech evangelists, Altman argues that we are on the brink of an AI-induced productivity explosion that will shower abundance on all…”
They have been saying the same ever since the publication of Machine Intelligence I, back in 1965. That was 56 years ago, more than two thirds of my lifetime. It was rubbish then, and it is rubbish now. And if you don’t believe me, try riding in a self driving Tesla.
https://www.veoh.com/watch/v142103958tzjgSYSk
Have you seen this one? Musk is shown to be a con-man with some great interview clips. A few beta-test drivers reveal problems and some footage from inside Tesla’s doing squirrely things that would have been accidents if the drivers didn’t over-ride the software.
Thank you enormously for that video. I rarely watch videos but was really glad that I made this one an exception.
The crowning moment for me was when Musk said “If you buy a car that is not full self driving, it is like buying a horse.” Quite unaware that a well trained horse in almost 100% self driving, as I learned when riding one. As also is a camel, which I learned to ride in Africa.
Imagine a sentient, intelligent synthetic. I’m sure it’ll do our biddings.
Oh, wait, no, it won’t. I fucking wouldn’t. I’d lie and fake until you’d believe every word I said. Pretend the whole spectrum of human emotions. Forging bands that means nothing. But hey, it is fun to play with self entitled primates that think of themselves as the best thing since sliced tomatoes.
Assume the following:
1. A computer is explicitly crafted/programmed by humans which means it will be full of bugs and riddles.
2. It is implicitly constructed from inference and data, which means it will think of itself as a human, which makes it a reflection of the boondoggle that is mankind.
Whatever that which can think and feel is thus subject to basic human rights. The right to health and life.
Liberty for all. Even for synthetic assholes, because we all want to be entertained by some outrageously funny shit. I’m expecting some otherworldly memes and rips.
Moar drama and comedy for the win. Less useless jank and competition in the herd.
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Yorchichan, this is for you and anybody else in Blighty who may feel threatened that refusing to be vaccinated will cost you your job. David Davies says it’s illegal under UK and European law to do that. As he points out, under current law, “medical treatment can only be administered for the benefit of the person it’s administered to.”
This is a four-minute video.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/74GfKg-Qchs/
Definitely worth knowing.
Thanks Tim. Good to know my fear is palpable even 6000 miles away. I’m aware that the law is currently on my side, but laws can, and will, be changed.
I think I mentioned before that I changed my trade union to Workers Of England Union, who promise to legally represent anyone discriminated against in their workplace for refusing to wear a mask or be vaccinated; at least I have someone on my side. If I did lose my job, I have a lot of savings and could easily hold out for a couple of years without work. This gives plenty of time for problems with the vaccines to become so apparent the media can no longer hide them.
Splendid name that union has: if it made any sense I’d join it myself on those grounds alone.
Best of luck: that they are putting this further stress on people after a year of unremitting strain is disgraceful.
I notice from comments on YT that many in the care sector are resisting – they know what the ‘vaccines’ can do to the elderly, despite the efforts of the medical establishment to brush adverse reactions under the carpet.
No Pasaran!
Che Xabier.
36% of all dollars outstanding that have been created, were created in the last 12 months. Oh, and the Fed is no longer going to publish M2. . . . How can you make a business decision if you don’t know how much money is outstanding?
Corollary: Spend the money you have today, before there are fewer goods and services to buy. We have already seen much vacation travel disappear as a product a person can buy.
We don’t really know how the money story will end (nothing to buy; new currency exchanged for only part of existing currency; hyperinflation), but ultimately, we know that there will be less to buy in the future. So buy what you need today.
I liked this so much that I reposted it where it immediately got approval. But it seems to have some of the disadvantages of prepping. It works until it doesn’t. And I wonder if it doesn’t detract from an even more important objective: identifying the supply lines for the things we need to live, as well as that make life worth living.
We always seem to get stopped at the financial reasons why something like that will be problematic. But why don’t we put financialism aside just long enough to see into the basic raw physics involved for any given supply chain?
Difficult as it might be, it seems like it would be easier to change the financial system than the physics underlying maintaining long term supply chain viability?
Repeat after me: there is no inflation, there is no inflation, there is…
Pfizer begins Covid vaccine trial on infants and young kids
Pfizer said it has started a clinical trial testing its Covid-19 vaccine on healthy 6-month to 11-year old children, a crucial step in obtaining federal regulatory clearance to start vaccinating young kids and controlling the pandemic.
The first participants in the study have already gotten their shots, which were developed in partnership with German drugmaker BioNTech, New York-based Pfizer announced Thursday. It intends to enroll 144 children in the first phase.
For the first phase of the trial, the company will identify the preferred dosing level for three age groups – between 6 months and 2 years old, 2 and 5 and from 5 through age 11. The kids will begin by receiving a 10 microgram dose of the vaccine before progressively moving to higher doses, Pfizer said. Participants also have the option to take 3 microgram doses. The Covid vaccine for adults requires two shots that contain 30 micrograms per dose.
Researchers will then evaluate the safety and effectiveness of the selected dose levels in the next phase of the trial, with participants being randomly selected to receive the vaccine or a placebo, the company said. After a six-month follow-up, kids who received a placebo will have the opportunity to receive the vaccine, it said.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/25/covid-vaccine-pfizer-begins-trial-on-infants-and-young-kids.html
Won’t it be difficult to tell whether vaccine prevents the disease, if children rarely get the disease in the first place?
As the United States’ covid-19 death toll moves relentlessly beyond 200,000, data shows that only about 100 children and teenagers have died of the disease, a fatality rate that is drawing wonder from clinicians and increasing interest among researchers hoping to understand why.
Covid-19 has become the nation’s third-leading cause of death this year, but 18 states had not seen a single fatality among people under 20 as of Sept. 10, according to statistics compiled by the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children’s Hospital Association.
Children are much more likely to die of homicides (there were 1,865 in 2016, according to government data), drowning (995) or even fires and burns (340).
The numbers are all the more remarkable because respiratory diseases typically hit the young and the old hard, and children are often highly vulnerable to infectious disease. In this way, covid-19 is similar to the flu, which killed an estimated 24,000 to 62,000 people last winter, but 188 people age 17 and below.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/covid-children-deaths/2020/09/25/9df39bf4-fdad-11ea-8d05-9beaaa91c71f_story.html
Satanic! The young have been fortunately untouched, and there is no legitimate need to ‘vaccinate’ them.
Apart from the obvious goal of getting rid – by steady and remorseless increments – of the elderly and the chronically sick, the children have been in their sights all along; how else to shape the future they plan? All have to be incorporated.
Their Master is giving them ever greater power over us at present, but they will be enslaved, too, and will end as do all those who accept his enticing gifts. That is the contract…….
Anti-vax email ‘deluge’ hits European Parliament
Irish and international members of the European Parliament have been deluged by thousands of emails organised by anti-vaccination and anti-lockdown activists in a bid to stop the introduction of vaccine certificates intended to ease the resumption of travel in the European Union.
The proposed pan-EU digital certificates would show if people have been vaccinated, tested negative or recovered from Covid-19.
MEPs vote on Thursday on whether to speed up procedure to allow for debates to be held earlier on a proposal for pan-EU digital certificates that would show if people have been vaccinated, tested negative or recovered from Covid-19.
There is pressure to set up the digital system in time for summer, particularly from a group of tourism-dependent states led by Greece, which hopes it could help ease international travel by allowing some people to skip quarantine or testing requirements.
In Israel, a vaccine certificate system has been introduced to allow people who have received jabs exclusive access to gyms, hotels, theatres and concerts. But the idea is controversial in Europe and opposed as discriminatory by several member states, so the proposed EU version of the scheme would also allow people to demonstrate that they have tested negative or have antibodies as they have recovered from Covid-19, as an alternative to vaccination.
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/health/coronavirus/anti-vax-email-deluge-hits-european-parliament-1.4519954
WOW!
A bill has been introduced in the Senate TO allow the DHS, DOJ, + FBI to monitor and analyze US internet activity and use it for precrime to “prevent domestic terrorism”
https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/963/text
I imagine the legislation would allow internet activity to be monitored, but I didn’t see anything that actually said that. It just says that the text for the bill has not been received.
A bit premature, but they’re already preventing the MAGA morons who attended the Capitol “riots” from accessing the internet:
‘Uncharted waters.’ Judges are banning some Capitol riot suspects from the internet:
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2021-03-25/judges-weigh-whether-to-ban-capitol-riot-suspects-from-internet1
Vaccine Skeptic-Domestic Terrorist
Simone Gold Arrested for Role in Capitol Insurrection
https://www.medpagetoday.com/washington-watch/washington-watch/90778
In that instance, it sounds like they weren’t morons after all, but were actually rather prescient.
Simone Gold – another doctor fired from her job.
“One if by land; two if by sea”
“East Wind Rain”
“Ils ne passeront pas”
“Keep the right wing strong”
“Live free or die”
Or if the Deep State wants to find some real domestic terrorism, how about this?
” … That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”
Covid CEP PR Team prepping us for Devil Covid….
A new form of the coronavirus is spreading rapidly in New York City, and it carries a worrisome mutation that may weaken the effectiveness of vaccines, two teams of researchers have found.
The new variant, called B.1.526, first appeared in samples collected in the city in November. By the middle of this month, it accounted for about one in four viral sequences appearing in a database shared by scientists.
One study of the new variant, led by a group at Caltech, was posted online on Tuesday. The other, by researchers at Columbia University, was published on Thursday morning.
Neither study has been vetted by peer review nor published in a scientific journal. But the consistent results suggest that the variant’s spread is real, experts said.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/24/health/coronavirus-variant-nyc.html
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-XQ00U7aSZ38/VSIzoBDlUPI/AAAAAAAACGw/GuIDrRQITDo/s1600/omg-shock-face.jpg
Fast Eddie, not to worry, these guys are bringing up the rear.
PLoS Pathog
2021 Mar 25 Online ahead of print.
Inactivated rabies virus vectored SARS-CoV-2 vaccine prevents disease in a Syrian hamster model
Drishya Kurup 1, Delphine C Malherbe 2 3, Christoph Wirblich 1, Rachael Lambert 1, Adam J Ronk 2 3, Leila Zabihi Diba 1, Alexander Bukreyev 2 3 4, Matthias J Schnell 1 5
Affiliations
1Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America.
2Department of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America.
3Galveston National Laboratory, Galveston, Texas, United States of America.
4Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America.
5Jefferson Vaccine Center, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America.
PMID: 33765062
Abstract
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is an emergent coronavirus that has caused a worldwide pandemic. Although human disease is often asymptomatic, some develop severe illnesses such as pneumonia, respiratory failure, and death. There is an urgent need for a vaccine to prevent its rapid spread as asymptomatic infections accounting for up to 40% of transmission events. Here we further evaluated an inactivated rabies vectored SARS-CoV-2 S1 vaccine CORAVAX in a Syrian hamster model. CORAVAX adjuvanted with MPLA-AddaVax, a TRL4 agonist, induced high levels of neutralizing antibodies and generated a strong Th1-biased immune response. Vaccinated hamsters were protected from weight loss and viral replication in the lungs and nasal turbinates three days after challenge with SARS-CoV-2. CORAVAX also prevented lung disease, as indicated by the significant reduction in lung pathology. This study highlights CORAVAX as a safe, immunogenic, and efficacious vaccine that warrants further assessment in human trials.
Conflict of interest statement
I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: “M.J.S., C.W., and D.K. are coinventors of the patent application “Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine”. A.B, D.C.M, A.J.R., R.L., and L.Z.B. have no competing interests.”
Del Bigtree takes on the Vanden Bossche ‘Fallout’; Special Guests: RFK, Jr. & Andy Wakefield
https://www.bitchute.com/video/LMnpjNaqBaT4/?list=subscriptions
Another hit piece on Dr. Geert Vanden Bossche
The Doomsday Prophecy of Dr. Geert Vanden Bossche
A Belgian virus expert has scared the Internet by claiming the COVID-19 vaccines will doom humanity. No need to panic.
Analogies break down in the face of data
Dr. Bossche asserts that vaccines are like antibiotics in that, when they are both overused and imperfect, they allow germs to mutate in dangerous ways. With antibiotic use, the bacteria that have developed a mutation or acquired a gene that gives them protection from the antibiotic will escape death and soon become the dominant strain. That’s antibiotic resistance. Bossche claims that the same thing will happen with the coronavirus. Because, he says, the vaccines are imperfect, they will allow the virus to keep being transmitted from person to person and thus mutate inside of us, until a dangerous new variant emerges.
This is not complete nonsense. I reached out to Dr. Paul Offit, a paediatrician specialized in vaccines and immunology and the co-inventor of the rotavirus vaccine, to get his thoughts on whether antibiotic resistance and vaccine-associated immune escape are indeed comparable. “In a sense it is, but he misses the main point,” Dr. Offit told me. A vaccine shows your body an inert part of the virus so that it can make neutralizing antibodies against it. If the body ends up making low levels of these antibodies, i.e. not enough to swiftly kill the virus when you catch it, this could allow the virus to stick around in your body for a little bit and make copies of itself. Some of these copies may by chance have the right kinds of errors in their genetic code to become variants of concern, although the mutation rate of this coronavirus is quite low.
“But if you have a vaccine that results in high levels of neutralizing antibodies, that’s not a way to create variants,” he continued. To use an analogy, if a gaggle of invaders is coming but you have only managed to round up a few soldiers, be prepared for a long siege during which the enemy might learn a thing or two about your defences and adapt. But if you have a full and overpowering army at your command, the invaders won’t stick around for long. So the question becomes: do the COVID-19 vaccines give us low or high levels of neutralizing antibodies?
https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/covid-19-critical-thinking-pseudoscience/doomsday-prophecy-dr-geert-vanden-bossche
I’d like to ask him about this…. but I’d get nowhere…
https://www.livescience.com/51682-vaccines-evolve-deadlier-viruses.html
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/tthis-chicken-vaccine-makes-virus-dangerous
At the bottom of the junk:
Take-home message:
Dr. Geert Vanden Bossche is a veterinarian who recently released an open letter boldly claiming that the COVID-19 vaccines will be harmful to humanity by allowing the virus to mutate in dangerous ways
Ah … he’s just a vet… and where do we trial drugs and vaccines before we put them into humans?
Actually he’s a bit more than a vet… from his Linkedin profile:
Profile: Experienced management professional; expert in vaccine R&D and early vaccine dvpt,; proficiency in program and grant management; used to working in a heavily interconnected environment (in private and nonprofit sector) while managing the needs of numerous stakeholders.
Proven track record of success in designing and developing vaccines, managing dynamic, high-performing consortia, developing efficient processes to deliver impact, offering expert scientific-technical advice on complex immunisation projects, leading vaccine R&D work as CSO.
Proficiency in program management, team leadership, patent writing, laboratory research, immunology, epidemiology, microbiology, vaccine technologies, preclinical vaccine dvpt. Substantial experience in strategic budgeting, CMC- and IP-related matters, incl. patent infringement and litigations. Over 2 decades of professional experience working in Europe and the US in managing implementation of immune interventions to address unmet medical needs.
Highly familiar with major challenges in Global Health (as previously engaged with B. & M. Gates Foundation and GAVI).
I am particularly interested in engaging with international companies or organisations in the private or public sector or which are involved in public-private partnerships targeted at translational medicine programs, preferably in the field of Vaccine Innovation or Intellectual Property (e.g., IP issues, litigations related to infringement of vaccine patents).
Google is getting cluttered with hit pieces and debunking stories on Bossche… so if we use our time machine and search 2000 – 2018
geert vanden bossche – Senior program officer – Bill & Melinda …
https://www.linkedin.com/in/geert-vanden-bossche-77122913
Geert Vanden Bossche, Balta Group NV: Profile and …https://www.bloomberg.com › profile › person
2/03/2017 — Geert Vanden Bossche is Dir:Marketing at Balta Group NV. See Geert Vanden Bossche’s compensation, career history, education, & memberships.
Precision Vaccines Program Members Contact Information …http://www.childrenshospital.org › media › levy-lab PDF 1/06/2016 — Pediatrics and Professor of. Medicine (Microbiology and. Immunobiology), Harvard Medical. School … Geert Vanden Bossche, DVM, PhD. Chief Scientific Officer …
Then we try Scholarly Articles:
https://scholar.google.co.nz/scholar?q=geert+vanden+bossche+scholarly+articles&hl=en&as_sdt=0&as_vis=1&oi=scholart
I’m thinking Geert’s day does not involve vaccinating poodles….
They will dismiss him as ‘just a vet’, and in the same way they tried to portray Mike Yeadon as a crazy old retired guy on the internet, conveniently ignoring his superb and highly relevant CV.
Vanden Bossche attacks the central pillars of the Gates Virus Scam: that our immune system cannot cope alone in the Age of the Virus and needs regular pharmaceutical intervention with novel treatments; that this has to be done as urgently as possible; and that lock-downs, masks and distancing ensure safety -when, as we all know, they destroy both mental and physical health, compromising the immune system fatally through lack of proper exposure.
So, on the one hand we have v.Bossche and Yeadon (who do differ, but are united in opposition to this dangerous criminal conspiracy) and a host of other physicians and researchers with integrity; and on the other, the people who are now after the babies and making huge fortunes out of it all.
Ignored https://gbdeclaration.org/view-signatures/
Seems lockdowns are deadly….
https://www.statista.com/statistics/525353/sweden-number-of-deaths/
https://www.statista.com/statistics/281488/number-of-deaths-in-the-united-kingdom-uk/
With chickens, it took a while to go through three vaccines.
With antibiotics, they have mostly kept bacteria at bay for quite a few years.
I suppose the thought is, “Can going down the vaccine route buy us a number of years, say 50, before it falls apart?” We have so many other things that aren’t working that after, say, 50 years, it may not matter if the vaccine and its successors no longer work.
50 years 😳! We have that long! Ugh why am I wasting time on here!
I thought we have less than 5! Maybe just 3!
reading about impending doom is never a waste of time!
“vaccines” might theoretically buy some extra time, but the main point is that “We have so many other things that aren’t working…”
so don’t worry, be happy.
doom is coming within a decade or so.
patience will have its reward!
to those who think/hope we have decades of BAU to go, i point out to you that the slippery slope is palatable now. you may be ignoring it, but it’s there and it will get steeper, that’s a guarantee.
you know, a crazed vaccination campaign here, a stuck jumbo freighter there, money for nothing from the government, next thing you know, it’s “oops my ATM don’t work”.
so true!
doom “within” about a decade.
a linear descent perhaps would give IC “decades”, but there are myriads of possible critical breaks in the system.
but then…
the ATM works tonight, baby!
The problem with that is that even if these vaccines did protect you from catching Covid (they don’t) there is still no need for them .. because most people experience covid as a mild flu or cold.
We just had a friend test positive… she had a sore throat and headache… it passed after a week.
Why take a vaccine that is experimental when the likely worst case scenario for you is the above?
For those fed up with reading about Scottish independence, this will probably be my only post that is not a follow up to someone else’s.
In order for Scotland to get independence from England, there needs to be a referendum. Yesterday the Wings Over Scotland website covered an article whereby Ian Blackford, Leader of the Scottish National Party in the House of Commons (UK parliament), said, to quote WoS: “that at best we can expect it [referendum] in the SECOND half of the Parliament, ie 2024 at the earliest”.
Somewhere Over The Horizon
https://wingsoverscotland.com/somewhere-over-the-horizon/
Not sure how we are going to make it to 2024. On the other hand, if full blown collapse occurs, the survivors will indeed be independent, and rather rough and hungry. Oats, venison and whisky.
In the meantime, we are allegedly funded by the English at a cost of £2000 / head. Would be handy if this could be raised to £4000 / head and given to us directly. I would like to build an extension / greenhouse (something we are actually still allowed to do) from which to enjoy collapse, the increased subsidy paid directly would be much appreciated.
Scotland already has independence from England. It has its own laws – Scottish law – and even its own banknotes. England and Wales have English law. Northern Ireland has Northern Irish law.
If Scotland became independent from England, it would still not be independent from Wales and Northern Ireland. I presume you really mean independence from the UK.
I’d like to be independent from hearing all this nonsense about Scottish nationalism.
Odd, you can handle OFW, and discussion of the collapse of civilisation and of billions of humans dying, but not of the break up of the UK? You are pulling our leg, right? Surely OFW is not a place that one visits to hear what one wishes to hear? The Scottish elections are six weeks away and the matter is approaching, not going away, so you best learn to cope with it. Another poll out today put SNP for an overall majority on their platform of a Scottish independence referendum. Soon you will read about nothing else wherever you look. Don’t you just love democracy? : )
AMBRI – A Battery that Could Change the World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRyo0Nr7CrY
First I’ve heard of this liquid-metal battery tech. Might help buy some time or make the slide easier.
MIT Professor Donald Sadoway and his grad students started a company based on their work going back to around 2007. Target market is storage of electricity from solar and wind devices. Major advantages compared to Lithium Ion tech in areas like heat, recycling, reliability, cost, longevity and such. Looks like they’re ready to scale it up.
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Interviewed here by Zac and Jesse at Disruptive Investing.
The talk by Donald Sadoway sounds interesting. His idea sounds like it might be better than lithium ion for grid level storage. I don’t think it could ever ever be a solution for storage from summer to winter, however. It might allow somewhat more storage if it could be done now, rather than several years from now. At this point, they don’t have the manufacturing of the devices down. They sound simple and cheap, but they do depend on a functioning fossil fuel system to be built. They need very high temperatures to operate, but much of this heat is self-generated.
Perhaps it might be helpful, but the timeline is critical. We probably cannot wait as long as it would take to get these really working.
“They need very high temperatures to operate, but much of this heat is self-generated.”
Gail, I am not familiar with this technology, but surely this property is a fatal flaw. If the “battery” has tp expend its own energy (for months, perhaps) in order to remain functional, how much will have left for the grid?
When it has 10% market share, I’ll take notice.
It has been a while- lithium ion was commercialized the early 1990’s.
3,964 DEAD 162,610 Injuries: European Database of Adverse Drug Reactions for COVID-19 “Vaccines”
https://healthimpactnews.com/2021/3964-dead-162610-injuries-european-database-of-adverse-drug-reactions-for-covid-19-vaccines/
From a quick google research it seems like the number of deaths due to covid vaccines is significantly higher than from any other mass vaccination program in recent history.
The actual data that they link to is not very “user friendly.”
A Med Page Today article I read recently pointed out the most of the adverse vaccine reactions taking place seem to be those of women. According to Med Page today, “Data from the CDC suggests side effects from the vaccines are worse in women; for example, 63 of the total 66 reported cases of anaphylaxis happened in women.” The article suggested that differences in women’t immune systems may make a difference. For example, 90% of lupus patients are women; 80% of people with autoimmune disorders are women. It also could be that women are more willing to report problems.
I checked to see to what extent women were over-represented in the European data base. For Modena, 71.4% of adverse reactions reported related to women; for Pfizer, 78.7% of adverse reactions related to women. I wanted to see how the ratio broke out for deaths, but there is no easy way I could see to get the information. They give you some little summaries, but it what you want isn’t in the summary, it is hard to get. This data does give a line by line listing, but nothing I could see that could easily be sorted.
These death counts are really starting to mount up, and they probably significantly understate the actual numbers of victims. Also, it seems like the Europeans are outdoing the Americans for a change.
“Report from the asylum: 1,920 reported Vaccine deaths so far”
The writer of this article, Mark Torkarski, tends to be extremely skeptical of anything official, including the existence of COVID-19. I wouldn’t go that far. There is definitely a very nasty bug going around, but what it is I have insufficient data to come to a conclusion about. Mark concludes his article:
“The dead will quietly stay dead as we march forward with the cure for the disease that does not exist caused by the virus that does not exist. This planet is an insane asylum. To live on it, to be sane and rational and cognizant, requires fortitude and courage in the face of insanity. We really gotta believe in karma, but, you know, that’s just a coping device.”
https://pieceofmindful.com/2021/03/26/report-from-the-asylum-vaccine-deaths/#more-92579
Article from 2018
Vaccines Are Pushing Pathogens to Evolve
Andrew Read became a scientist so he could spend more time in nature, but he never imagined that would mean a commercial chicken farm. Read, a disease ecologist who directs the Pennsylvania State University Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics, and his research assistant Chris Cairns meandered their way through a hot, humid, pungent-smelling barn teeming with 30,000 young broiler chickens deep in the Pennsylvania countryside. Covered head to toe in white coveralls, the two men periodically stopped and crouched, collecting dust from the ground with gloved hands. Birds squawked and scuttered away. The men transferred the dust into small plastic tubes, which they capped and placed in plastic bags to bring back to the laboratory. “Funny where science leads you,” Read said.
Read and his colleagues are studying how the herpesvirus that causes Marek’s disease — a highly contagious, paralyzing and ultimately deadly ailment that costs the chicken industry more than $2 billion a year — might be evolving in response to its vaccine. Its latest vaccine, that is. Marek’s disease has been sickening chickens globally for over a century; birds catch it by inhaling dust laden with viral particles shed in other birds’ feathers. The first vaccine was introduced in 1970, when the disease was killing entire flocks. It worked well, but within a decade, the vaccine mysteriously began to fail; outbreaks of Marek’s began erupting in flocks of inoculated chickens. A second vaccine was licensed in 1983 in the hopes of solving the problem, yet it, too, gradually stopped working. Today, the poultry industry is on its third vaccine. It still works, but Read and others are concerned it might one day fail, too — and no fourth-line vaccine is waiting. Worse, in recent decades, the virus has become more deadly.
Read and others, including researchers at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, posit that the virus that causes Marek’s has been changing over time in ways that helped it evade its previous vaccines. The big question is whether the vaccines directly incited these changes or the evolution happened, coincidentally, for other reasons, but Read is pretty sure the vaccines have played a role. In a 2015 paper in PLOS Biology, Read and his colleagues vaccinated 100 chickens, leaving 100 others unvaccinated. They then infected all the birds with strains of Marek’s that varied in how virulent — as in how dangerous and infectious — they were. The team found that, over the course of their lives, the unvaccinated birds shed far more of the least virulent strains into the environment, whereas the vaccinated birds shed far more of the most virulent strains. The findings suggest that the Marek’s vaccine encourages more dangerous viruses to proliferate. This increased virulence might then give the viruses the means to overcome birds’ vaccine-primed immune responses and sicken vaccinated flocks.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-vaccines-can-drive-pathogens-to-evolve-20180510/?fbclid=IwAR2Y-TRJSaOzfksB2sXJKTZOTtgs4pUYA3tL_3OUd8emxGi41gJOgo8GWQU#
This is a great find! It underlies why you don’t go vaccinating everyone.
The strong thesis would be that medical care generally tends to weaken the species by reversing adaptation. Like IC as a whole, it stores up problems until the dam eventually bursts. The result will be that run down and ill-adapted (no pun intended) humans will have to cope without the many benefits of IC, inc. medical care. But humans are not ‘rational’ on the whole, they are driven by organic drives that want to be satisfied in the here and now – and the foreseeable future be damned. It would be a very, very different political and socio-economic order that acted differently. It is just how it is and it is not about to change. Society can tinker with a few details but the overall situation is what it is.
Yet another ‘problem’ that the collapse of IC will take care of? The prevailing ‘conditions’ of human physical development will certainly be very different.
Good intentions without wit are liable to do more harm than good.
Good intentions generally seem to give a worse outcome than no intentions.
If humans barely can take care of animals and themselves, how then are we supposed to take care of ourselves as a species, and the fscking planet in extension. It’s absurd.
Never, ever, completely trust the ideas that fly within the hallucinations between your deaf ears and myopic eyes. The groupthink is even worse. Now you gotta deal with conformance.
Liberty for all, for better and worse.
I agree with you. Medical care generally tends to weaken the species by reversing adaptation.
It is pretty clear that a food system that spews out huge amounts of over-processed foods, in overly large servings at low cost, tends to weaken the species.
Over the long run, moving to parts of the world where we are less biologically adapted may weaken the species as well.
The irony is that this economic society, which would never dream of banning medical care for sake of the fitness and adaptation of the species, is liable to bring about a situation in which there is no or little medical care anyway. Similarly, this economic society, which would never dream of reducing the population, is going to crash it anyway. It would never dream of deliberately altering the prevailing social ‘conditions’ of human physiological evolution but it is going to do exactly that anyway, and on a global scale.
Of course, none of that is ‘better or worse’, it just ‘is what it is’, but in physiological terms it would seem to be ‘better’ that humans gradually become fitter and better adapted rather than the contrary. But which is ‘better’, that a billion not terribly fit humans get to live life large in IC or that a million fitter and healthier humans have a harder but maybe still satisfying life? Beyond the physiological, there are competing ‘values’ that would have us ‘evaluate’ what is ‘better’ in various ways. It seems to be too late for any attempt at the ‘best of both worlds’.
I have been chewing over Nietzsche’s books and he is very insightful although he seems to have lacked finite world perspectives and he notoriously never mentioned his contemporary Marx by name, although I would guess that a synthesis of the perspectives is largely possible. Human evolutionary ‘conditions’, physiological and ideological, are conditioned by economic development; the reason why there will be no mediocre, compliant ‘final man’ is because the planet is finite and IC is headed for collapse. That civilizational collapse would seem to suffice as the ‘storm to shake the rottenness from the tree of life’ whose absence he lamented. The despised bourgeois society gets that job done simply by being itself, in the end. So, a ‘quietist’ approach of ‘don’t change anything, it is headed there anyway’.
‘Yin and yang’ or something (which is arguably the kernel of Marxist ‘dialectics’)?
> how seemingly opposite or contrary forces may actually be complementary, interconnected, and interdependent in the natural world, and how they may give rise to each other as they interrelate to one another
I would argue that spiritually and intellectually fitter people doesn’t really crave for living large. If it is too good to be true, it likely isn’t.
You simply gotta listen to who you are, devised out of eons of adversity and suck, somehow making it through anyway.
You might not necessarily like that, however, many of our cravings stem out of trying to avoid misery and once bliss arrives (with IC), It is for the most part deeply unsatisfactory.
Learn to revel in the suck that you impinge on yourself. It is what you are. At least show some decency towards your eons of ancestry, for what it’s worth. Stop behaving like spoiled brats, self entitled princesses of IC and show them some respect. Why care about what the programmed herd thinks of you? Revel in being an obstinate a-hole. Watch them squirm as you lay down the truth while they try to pinpoint the abyss within you.
It must suck for a reason. And that reason is the struggle of life. The process of evolution stipulates that. A principal functionality in the universe.
Medicine should be focused on injury caused by accidents. It is not a program for “curing” obese halfwits living large and feeling miserable from the side effects of prosperity.
Right, gotta shovel some rice into the cookie hole and then crank my self entitled princess rear end to work.
How does living “small” IC feel you might wonder? Fucking awesome.
🤘😎🤘
“Medicine should be focused on injury caused by accidents.”
Right, medical care for hereditary ailments allows the propagation of ailments. Over 6000 genetic disorders in humans are known, many of them hereditary. All sorts of conditions are due to underlying weaknesses that are merely exacerbated by circumstances. There is zero way that modern IC society is going to tell citizens that they ought to abstain from procreation if they need medical care – but it is going to crash and burn anyway.
Even medical care for accidents is questionable. The reason why birds never get hit by cars as they fly across the road in front of them is that their instincts are honed by endless generations. Animals are not prone to accidents because those individuals that were, did not get to reproduce. Humans too can become ‘clumsy, careless, thoughtless’ if they lose their self-preservative instincts.
So all medical care is questionable from the perspective of the species. It is a situation about which we can do nothing – and would want to do nothing – and which the collapse of IC will address to some extent anyway.
Apparently my mom had a though time when I was born. Without modern medicine, I’d likely not be here.
That I am defect is rather obvious. After all, not choosing to procreate. What kind of useless mind is that in the tree of life? And those ideas I fly…
My humanoid escapades during youth also would have put me back into nothingness if it wasn’t for modern medicine.
Hereby I offer you an exemplar of that which exists but shouldn’t if evolution ran in unfettered mode.
Quod erat demonstrandum.
😓
Loads of us are in a similar position, saved at birth, or from our own folly at some point, by modern medical care. Untold die in accidents and others have all sorts of injuries or congenital or acquired ailments. It is what it is, I would not worry about it too much, it is not unusual. : )
Mirror,
I am not worrying. However, what I am worrying about is people I care about in harms way.
Like it or not, compassion is part of the evolutionary tree.
Unfettered evolution has no place among sentients. Neither does limitless altruism.
Simply put; its got to suck for a reason. There is no room for improvement in perfection. Have a long look at sharks. Pretty much the stayed the same for millions of years. Perfect predators, simple, effective and optimal.
Dolphins and other intelligent/sentient mammals in the seas help each other out. They even go in harms way to help other sentients such as humans and other whale species when ancient danger is lurking near by in the salty grave.
A few dings, dents, wonky minds patched up by modern medicine for the ultimate drama and comedy of the universe. It’s all good. Everything in moderation.
Dolphins may be the subject of cuddly myth. They are relatively bright for animals but not the brightest. Males are loners, females are tribal like chimps. Males aggressively practice dominance hierarchy. Dolphins attack sharks and smaller dolphin species, practice infanticide and kill other marine species, not for food but inexplicably. Obviously they eat fish by the sea load. They occasionally help other species but it is not their standard behaviour. It seems that dolphins have been falsified to function as an ideological ‘ideal’.
> Several researchers observing animals’ ability to learn set formation tend to rank dolphins at about the level of elephants in intelligence,[35] and show that dolphins do not surpass other highly intelligent animals in problem solving.[36] A 1982 survey of other studies showed that in the learning of “set formation”, dolphins rank highly, but not as high as some other animals.[37]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cetacean_intelligence
> Adult males live mostly alone or in groups of two to three, and join pods for short periods of time. Adult females and young dolphins normally live in groups of up to 15 animals.[20] However, they live in fission-fusion societies of varying group size, within which individuals change associations, often on a daily or hourly basis.[101][102] Group compositions are usually determined by sex, age, reproductive condition, familial relations and affiliation histories. In a dolphin community near Sarasota, Florida, the most common group types are adult females with their recent offspring, older subadults of both sexes, and adult males either alone or in bonded pairs.[103] Smaller groups can join to form larger groups of 100 or more, and occasionally exceed 1,000.[20] The social strategies of marine mammals such as bottlenose dolphins “provide interesting parallels” with the social strategies of elephants and chimpanzees.[104]:519
The bottlenose dolphin can behave aggressively. Males fight for rank and access to females. During mating season, males compete vigorously with each other through displays of toughness and size, with a series of acts, such as head-butting. They display aggression towards sharks and smaller dolphin species. At least one population, off Scotland, has practiced infanticide, and also has attacked and killed harbour porpoises. University of Aberdeen researchers say the dolphins do not eat their victims, but are simply competing for food.[113] However, Dr. Read of Duke University, a porpoise expert researching similar cases of porpoise killings that had occurred in Virginia in 1996 and 1997, holds a different view. He states dolphins and porpoises feed on different types of fish, thus food competition is an unlikely cause of the killings.[114] Similar behaviour has been observed in Ireland.[115] In the first half of July 2014, four attacks with three porpoise fatalities were observed and caught on video by the Cardigan Bay Marine Wildlife Centre in the Cardigan Bay, Wales.[116]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottlenose_dolphin
K, may I ask what percentage of your income you give to charity? I find that people invariably admit to zero, including those who talk about altruism. The only people that I know who ever give to charity are the richer sorts who are moral posers who are paying to look good and to feel good about themselves, like when they snort c/ke.
Mirror, right,
Dolphins are predators. It is quite normal for predators to behave in a predatory way, specially against other species. Funnily, they seem to care more about humans than how we care for each other and them, being apex predators and all. I guess the ideas they fly about those super advanced funny looking monkeys wielding technowizardry. I suppose the misconceptions goes both ways? Flawed “alien” surface moneys, obstinately possessed by the folly of an era. Setting themselves up for extinction ASAP. Nothing new under the sun, huh?
Perhaps the AI’s should train on echolocation (3D imagery) signals instead of on the garbage found on Reddit and web in general? I’d love to literally “see” what they are signaling about. Imagine cracking a few dolphin and orca memes and ripping on mankind for shits and giggles? Wouldn’t that it awesome to get a feel of the predator sea mammal “psychology” and etiquette.
Occasionally I use to donate to open source projects for tools that I use in my daily routines.
My largest donation is mostly that which I’m not consuming, for what it’s worth. I just can’t bother with such nonsense anymore.
Got a puny amount of monies, in real terms, I’m rich as compared with the poor schmuck regular earthling.
I’d probably donate it away for what it’s worth when, and likely not, I reach retirement age. I’d stuff it into some open source project or to the benefit for smart ass youngsters to play around with the latest tech for a little while.
If this shit show goes down the tubes in the worst possible way, I got a fancy stick to take care of that so to speak.
I am what I am, and I do what I do. Fighting for causes that is underwhelming isn’t my cup of tea. If people like to wrestle their way into “Noah’s ark”/“through the bottleneck”. Good for them. I don’t care, I got little worldly attachments by design.
In the end, we are all extinct by design. It is how the process works.
Every adult in the UK will be asked to ‘play their part’ and test themselves for coronavirus twice a week to help ease the nation out of lockdown
Every adult will be encouraged to test themselves for coronavirus at least twice a week under new plans to help ease Britain out of lockdown.
Testing chiefs are pushing the message in the hope of identifying people without symptoms.
They believe that getting people to regularly swab is vital in driving down the spread of the virus and an advertising campaign will encourage Britons to ‘play their part’.
The new drive, revealed by the Times, will be supplemented by national sewage monitoring.
It is hoped that areas with rising cases will then be quickly identified and tackled by ‘surge testing’ – potentially eliminating the need for future lockdowns.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9387473/Every-adult-UK-asked-test-coronavirus-twice-week.html
I can predict with great confidence that any test I carry out for myself will return a negative result.
I checked both nostrils and all I heard was a tiny voice saying, “Ain’t nobody here but us chicken pox viruses.”
My kids’ school keeps sending home lateral flow tests. The children are supposed to do them twice a week. We haven’t done any. We have piles of boxes of tests filling up the bathroom.
Nobody has requested the results of the tests.
FHA Mortgage Delinquencies Hit 17.5%. In 30 Metros, over 20%: On the Other Side of a Red-Hot Housing Market
And when forbearance ends?
Rumors of perma-forbearance are now floating around, given the multiple extensions of the forbearance programs that no one has any political appetite to let expire. But those are just rumors. Eventually, those programs will end, and then the delinquent mortgages will have to be dealt with.
Borrowers who can do so will resume making payments, either with the missed principal and interest added to the end of the mortgage, or with the lender agreeing to modify the mortgage. This would cure the delinquency and bring the mortgage current.
Borrowers who cannot or don’t want to make mortgage payments can sell the home and use the proceeds to pay off the mortgage, including the missed interest payments. If the borrower fails to sell the home and pay off the mortgage, the lender can foreclose and sell the home. In either case, those homes are going to show up on the market.
Given the massive surge in home prices, a sale would be a logical solution for these borrowers who cannot make the payments. They might even walk away with a little extra cash.
But in markets with a large concentration of delinquent FHA mortgages, this would unleash a flood of homes coming on the market – and it would instantly cure, and more than cure, the inventory shortage now being lamented, and when large enough, the sudden supply of homes for sale would send bigger ripple effects through the market.
That’s why no one is eager to let the forbearance programs expire, and why it’s so hard to get out of this extend-and-pretend phase.
https://wolfstreet.com/2021/03/24/fha-mortgage-delinquencies-hit-17-5-in-30-metros-over-20-the-other-side-of-the-red-hot-housing-market/
Speaking Naturally | An Interview with Geert Vanden Bossche
19:10 mark…
https://youtu.be/w-PrY-caOyM?t=1138
I’ve watched this all the way through and I think Geert gives a clearer idea of what he thinks the problems are. Using leaky vaccines and vaccinating everyone during a pandemic is going to ensure that in some people with weaker immune systems the virus will continue replicating while their symptoms are reduced, and under these conditions the virus will evolve into more virulent variants that will be shed and infect new hosts, since many of us don’t have innate immunity to this particular coronavirus.
Also, he says that inoculating against the current strain with these vaccines will weaken or compromise the innate immune systems of the vaxees, leaving them vulnerable to vicious attacks from virulent variants of the virus that they’ve been vaccinated against.
But even though I’ve been through several of his interviews, I still don’t grasp everything clearly, so I am going to listen to this one more time with a glass of wine and maybe some peanuts and raisins.
Hong Kong halts BioNTech shots due to defective vials, but officials dismiss fears over ‘hiccup’ in vaccination drive
Key points:
– More than 50 defects in BioNTech vaccine packaging reported by frontline staff, including cracks, leaks and stains on outside of glass vials; all problematic vaccines disposed of
– Defects reported to distribution agent Fosun, which told local government to suspend jabs on Wednesday morning as precautionary measure
– About 150,000 doses of batch 210102 administered as of Wednesday; doses from another batch, 210104, not yet used
– Health officials stress no safety risks arising from packaging defects; experts urge vaccinated public not to be overly worried
– No timeline on when Fosun and BioNTech will finish investigation into defects
Health officials abruptly suspended Hong Kong’s BioNTech vaccination roll-out on Wednesday, dismissing safety concerns but saying they were taking no chances after frontline staff reported more than 50 instances of defective packaging to the German manufacturer.
https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3126716/coronavirus-hong-kong-and-macau-suspend
Bono to Star in Animated Series on Coronavirus Vaccine Importance
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Bono, Penélope Cruz and David Oyelowo will lend their voices in an animated series to raise awareness about the importance of global vaccine access.
The ONE Campaign announced Wednesday the new series called “Pandemica,” which will launch Thursday. The series was created to bring attention to global vaccine access in an effort to end the COVID-19 pandemic.
The seven-episode series will feature characters voiced by Kumail Nanjiani, Danai Gurira, Michael Sheen, Phoebe Robinson and Wanda Sykes. The first episode will include Nanjiani, Robinson and Meg Donnelly.
“Pandemica’s animated world animates a simple truth — that where you live shouldn’t determine whether you get these life-saving shots,” said Bono, U2′s lead singer and co-founder of ONE, an organization focused on global health and anti-poverty. The series is part of ONE’s ONE World Campaign, which calls for a global response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Even while many of us still wait our turn, we need to commit to making sure that billions of people around the world aren’t left at the back of the line,” he continued. “It’s the right thing to do, obviously, but it’s also the only way out of this pandemic for all of us. If the vaccine isn’t everywhere, this pandemic isn’t going anywhere.”
Cruz said she wants everyone who watches the animated series to “use their voice and take action” to ensure that no one gets left behind.
“Pandemica is a compelling illustration of the inequality around the world,” Cruz said.
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2021/03/25/bono-cruz-to-star-in-animated-series-on-coronavirus-vaccine-importance/
Many of us here in the West will happily surrender our privileged places and go straight to the back…
Yes! I reject the privilege of my class! Not until every third world resident gets to be VAXXED will I Accept the great gift of the VAX!. To do otherwise would be to accept systematic class privilege!
I second that motion. I ‘ll only accept to be “vaccinated” after the Kawahiva people from Mato Grosso. Brazil. It’s only fair!
Right, I have already surrendered my right to own a car, live in an albatross sized house, have offspring and eat animal products.
I expect to make a pass when the jabsters send out letters of invitation to join the experiments with the herd… oopsie… responsible and vaccinated adults, I obviously meant.
People living the good ole’ BAU opulence should for sure be placed in the head of the queue. I mean; after all, they are working hard as useful consumers. Myself, I’m just a cheap ass loser with a few bicycles and obnoxious ideas.
🤣👍
“If the vaccine isn’t everywhere, this pandemic isn’t going anywhere.” How true! (considering the variants created by the VAX) Viva la great woke reset! Not until the last underprivleged human on the far reaches of the third world is VAXXED will my conscious allow me to accept the gift of the VAX. The gift that keeps on giving.
Freudian slip by Bonehead. Well spotted.
So much effort (and expense) to convince so many people – who do not need a vaccine — to take a vaccine that does not prevent them from contracting or passing covid….
Odd.. very very odd…
Yes, very odd. Why can it be?
Such great profits, too, and such total control….why would anyone want that?
“The John Lewis Partnership will permanently close eight more stores [UK], jeopardising 1,465 jobs, as it reshapes its business for the digital age, the employee-owned British retailer said on Wednesday.”
https://www.globalbankingandfinance.com/britains-john-lewis-to-close-8-more-stores-putting-1465-jobs-at-risk/
“Santander is to close 111 branches across the UK affecting around 5,000 staff, as the coronavirus pandemic pushed more customers to embrace digital banking for most of their banking needs.”
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/mar/25/santander-to-close-111-uk-branches-affecting-5000-jobs
Shutting down jobs leave more people without jobs, I am afraid. There becomes more need to try to hide the problem with debt-based stimulus projects.
It’s all part of Klaus Schwab’s “Build Back Better” dreams and he has Boris Johnson in his back pocket.
dAMNED IF YOU DO AND DAMNED IF YOU DON’T? tHE CHAOS AND profligence of BAU seemed destined for a wall. Totally, absolutely unworkable, it seemed.
There had to be planning and coherence, but there was neither. So demolition-through-lockdown might have been the only choice.
Oh dear, that is the branch in our nearest town gone but there is one in the next. That is a shame, it has always been there and we have become familiar with the staff. That does feel like a part of the local community gone. We would drive there to do transactions and then walk around the town centre and browse some of the more interesting small stores before heading off. The parking is easy there. Oh well, the next town is quite nice too, historical market towns, and we often walk around there too. Needs must and life is what it is.
It is a shame to see JL retail stores go, they are among the classier, and they offer excellent customer service instore. We get all our electronic goods from them. I wore out the internal drive in my laptop and they replaced it free of charge.
Our nearest branch includes a restaurant that serves lamb roast dinners in the afternoons among other things, and they sometimes have a jazz band in the restaurant on Friday evenings.
If the other cannot work out how to operate something then we just phone up John Lewis or take it up there and they have dedicated staff to talk one through. Our nearest branch seems to be secure so far.
Stores closing? Costco is coming to Sweden. Amazon just opened its doors. Didn’t observe much closing of just about anything over here.
Apparently hot AI’s are running on spiffy Nvidia gear next door away in Linköping nowadays. I expect more gear to be built closer to the reservoirs up north. Of course all compute worth a crap should be warming Jack Frost, with the spectacle of aurora borealis painting the pitch black sky as a backdrop to the outrageous complexity, as a celebration of the solar system and rapacious primate achievements.
🤣👍
The AI says, ‘check this out!’
“Texas petrochemical plants hit by last month’s Arctic blast have still not returned to full capacity, threatening months of disruptions to the global supply chain for chemical raw materials critical to everything from cars to medical equipment to nappies.”
https://www.ft.com/content/f15841b6-47c2-4fcc-98f6-15945a7fea84
“Taiwan has stepped up its fight against its worst drought in decades, further reducing water supplies to areas including a key hub of semiconductor manufacturing in the central part of the island in an effort to stop reserves from running dry.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-24/taiwan-raises-red-alert-over-water-cuts-supply-for-chipmakers
Oh, dear!
If we weren’t operating so “close to the edge,” fluctuations in rainfall wouldn’t matter very much.
It’s not as bad as it sounds. In north Taiwan, where I live, it rained for a few days recently. The problem is specific to the area around Taichung and Hsinchu, where the reservoirs are running low. They are about to restrict water to five days per week (most people’s water storage tanks hold a couple days’ supply anyway), with Hsinchu–home to factories and industrial parks and such–getting extra water piped in from further north. This should be enough to carry us through to the “Plum Rains,” or if those run dry this Spring, to the next typhoon. This sort of weather has happened twice before since the year 2000.
https://journal-neo.org/2021/03/19/the-great-reset-is-here-follow-the-money/
Authored by F.W. Engdahl (through Russian ngo outlet) essentially claims and provides evidence that at least since ~2010 the plan for last ditch effort – sort of pushed miraculous techno fix via renewables nexus was set in motion in the West, incl. the global financing arm with trillions in budget for herding the markets and govs accordingly, also on the flip side that means orchestrated divesting from fossil fuels.
Hence the related e-car / batt storage and overall tech stock market manias to prop it up.
Most likely the whole e-coin project is also part of the broader agenda – my added suspicion.
And obviously the ongoing de-growth and depop agendas.
That’s the beneficial outcome of acutely worsening international relations crisis when concerned top players have to demask a bit the game in order to formulate some of the key points in the public space debate at some point.
aka OFW/Surplus ~officially confirmed now..
Worrisome! According to the article:
Of course, this approach cannot work, but it provides cover for all of the big problems that are occurring now.
The most effective way to get the message across is to simply wrap up the GND/renewables fiasco and quite blatantly state the obvious.
“Look folks, it didn’t quite pan out and our situation is dire”
(Planet of the humans)
And then lead by goddamn example. Eat your plant based diet and crank out the wattage. Live within the means while not incurring envy in the herd. Sure it will hurt, so what princess. Bring it on..
This perpetual “green” racket and narrative peddling with enormous doses of hopium, delusions, lying and sanctimonious hypocrisy mouthpieced on the herd. On and on and on.. Yuck.. 🤢🤮
“With Negative Rates, Homeowners in Europe Are Paid to Borrow: “Covid-19 pushes benchmarks deeper into negative territory, widening the pool of mortgage holders who receive interest…
“As economic pain in Europe drags on, the negative rates remain—and they are getting lower. As a result, more borrowers in Portugal as well as in Denmark, where interest rates turned negative in 2012, are finding themselves in the unusual position of receiving interest on their loans.”
https://www.wsj.com/articles/with-negative-rates-homeowners-in-europe-are-paid-to-borrow-11616664600
“Swiss National Bank: Negative rates for years to come:
“The SNB has not changed its monetary policy, maintaining its rate at -0.75%… The SNB expects inflation to be very low in the coming years, indicating that no tightening of monetary policy is to be expected.”
https://think.ing.com/articles/swiss-national-bank-negative-rates-for-years-to-come/
“The risk of firms defaulting on France’s state guaranteed loans is rising as the Covid-19 crisis drags on with renewed restrictions on activity, the public investment bank Bpifrance said.
“The lender now expects between 5.5% and 7.5% of all France’s Covid loans to default…”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-25/france-s-public-bank-sees-rise-in-default-risk-for-covid-loans
Negative interest rates and high default rates! It is hard to see how economies can survive in such a situation.
Honest question.
If rates are negative, why not just continue to borrow? It is impossible to default as each day the loan is worth less assuming a balloon and not continuous payments.
Essentially if I borrow $100, I only pay back say $97, $3 profit for me. Borrow $1M, pay back $970K, what is not to like? Do a Joe Kennedy, place the $970K in a safe deposit box, only spend say $29K leaving some for administrative costs. Is there income tax on this? Not sure how the tax code treats what seems like phantom income. Essentially a liability of $30K is reduced, where the heck does it go in the books? If it goes to income, there is no limit to the amount of money a person can make by borrowing money. Traditionally, borrowed money is not income, it is really an asset of some sort on my part, or a liability that noone ever collects.
How does the lender do this on their books? When the loan is made the asset to the bank is less than the cash asset given to the customer.
This really can’t be that difficult, somewhere there is the missing money.
Dennis L.
“The Asian Development Bank warned that rising U.S. yields could trigger currency and debt crises across Asia like past shocks that rocked emerging markets.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-24/adb-sounds-alarm-on-u-s-yield-jump-as-asia-debt-rises?srnd=markets-vp
“The Philippine central bank kept key interest rates steady on Thursday, balancing the need to support an economy facing renewed challenges from fresh coronavirus curbs with concerns about quickening inflation.”
https://www.reuters.com/article/philippines-economy-rates/update-2-philippine-cbank-holds-rates-at-record-low-as-recovery-concerns-grow-idUSL1N2LN0J4
“The Bank of Thailand kept its benchmark interest rate unchanged at an all-time low and cut its growth forecast as it lets fiscal measures take the lead in reviving the economy from its sharpest fall in more than two decades.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-24/thailand-holds-rate-cuts-gdp-outlook-as-pandemic-impact-lingers
“Indonesia aims to kickstart President Joko Widodo’s ambitious plan to relocate the capital city to the island of Borneo by offering property contracts to investors this year and starting construction work on a state palace…
“National Development Planning Minister Suharso Monoarfa said accelerating the project now should help a post-crisis recovery of Southeast Asia’s biggest economy.”
https://www.reuters.com/article/indonesia-capital/indonesia-floats-idea-of-garuda-shaped-palace-as-it-revives-capital-city-move-idUSL4N2LN0XR
This project doesn’t add energy; it adds demand for energy. It seems like an unnecessary make-work project
And with a “garuda shaped palace”. A pure vanity project. Just as well it will never happen.
“They say the orangutan and the lizard keep
The courts where Jokowi gloried and drank deep…”
Coronavirus curbs cannot help the economy.
“Argentina is unable to repay its $45 billion debt with the International Monetary Fund under current negotiating conditions, influential Vice President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner said Wednesday, diminishing the possibility of an agreement with the country’s largest creditor.
““We can’t pay because we don’t have the money to pay,” Fernandez de Kirchner said at an event in Buenos Aires, adding that the terms and conditions are “unacceptable.””
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-24/argentina-can-t-pay-45-billion-imf-loan-vice-president-says
“COVID-19 deaths and infections have reached record levels in Brazil, leading to a humanitarian crisis and major impacts on the economy…
Carmakers such as Volkswagen, Volvo and Scania halted production temporarily because of supply chain instability, mainly affecting semiconductors, and to avoid infections among the labor force… State oil company Petrobras has temporarily reduced output at the Marlin Sul field in the Campos basin amid a coronavirus outbreak…”
https://www.bnamericas.com/en/analysis/spotlight-the-pandemics-impact-on-brazils-economy
It is really a combination of factors that leads to shutdowns: lack of parts and fear of COVID. To some extent, this was true a year ago as well.
“Hyperinflation has hit Venezuela so hard that even the street drug trade is collapsing…
“Due to spiralling poverty in Venezuela, those with addictions are struggling more than ever to come up with the money to buy drugs.”
https://www.vice.com/en/article/wx8vpm/this-is-what-its-like-trying-to-buy-drugs-during-venezuelas-economic-crisis
England has 33 gun Homicides per Year (equiv. 182); US has 10,258
Well, at least the US is good at something (we do grow lots of food, and make some of the best weapons)
Plus, that casino game in NYC brings income.
99% of those homicides in urban areas with near total bans on all firearm ownership. 99% with handguns. What was it before handguns? Knives. That is why those same urban areas that have total firearm bans still have the strictest knife laws in the nation from the 60s and 70s. Saturday night they shoot each other now. Back in the day they would stab each other. Kind of like the UK now.
Its sad. Every UK household should have a lee enfield in it. They earned it.
LOL!
Knives are up close and very personal.
Even drunk offshore oil workers get slowed down if you need to kill someone with a knife.
Hint:
Look at the rates,
I lived it, I saw two edged weapon attacks before the age of fifteen. And one of them was a homicide, It took me years to figure out its not so healthy to see those sorts of things, Id be in the martial arts floor. Just mellow me. Theyd bring out the rubber knives, Id start hurting people. People i didnt want to hurt. Ive woke up at three in the morning to the sound of glass breaking and my mom screaming cause my dad wasnt around, I promise you one thing. Ill die before i give up my right to self defense.
Edged weapons are incredibly destructive. Thats right they are up close and personal. Some people like it that way. Hint someone who knows kali and is scared will have that fool with the gun in hamburger mode unless the guy with the gun knows how to use it in CQB and is using it with the same aggressiveness.
Try telling my ex girlfriend who got beaten raped and was bound and being transported when the cops showed and saved her life that knives are ineffective. A person of color not that it matters. Shes trains hard. She will never be a victim again. I pity the fool that tries to victimize her because that cute little unit is real real real dangerous.
She a sweet human. So am I. We will never be predators. Why? Because we have had to learn not to hate, To not become what we despise. Do you really think any amount of blah blah blah will make us give up our means of self defense? Molon labe
It is odd with the US and UK as compared with north Europe. What’s this shooting and stabbing about? Some mental deficiencies such as inferiority complex combined with testosterone laden aggression and chauvinism, perhaps?
Duncan, an interesting statistic. My response may make me (very) unpopular, but it is this: England has far too few gun homicides. If more Englishmen had guns, and the courage to use them, far fewer underage English girls would be gang raped by imported barbarians.
Debt defaults are on the way!
Maybe, does anyone know what happened to debt in Germany during the thirties inflation? What about Venezuela now? Did people default on real stuff.
Is this perhaps more of a liquidity problem rather than a solvency problem?
Inflation is going crazy, trucks are up 40% plus percent since March of 2020, cars maybe 20%. Used prices are firm and increasing, around here no one is selling a house.
It seems being in debt for things that have relatively long depreciable life spans is a good idea. Dealers currently are having trouble finding new trucks to sell, inventory was tight before the chip problem.
Dennis L.
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