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.
Wristbands and Dining Cards: New Army Policies Exclude, Isolate Unvaccinated
The U.S. Army can’t legally mandate COVID vaccines, but restrictive policies like those at Fort Drum and Fort Bragg make it increasingly difficult for service members to refuse.
A March 17 memorandum from the commander at the U.S. Army’s Fort Drum reservation in New York lists privileges withheld from service members who refuse to get the COVID-19 vaccine — an experimental Emergency Use Authorization product not proven to prevent infection or transmission of the COVID virus.
The memo, “Prohibited Activities for Personnel Within the Authority of the Commander, 10th Mountain Division and Fort Drum,” states:
Fully vaccinated service members do not have “restriction of movement” or quarantine after travel and return to post. Unvaccinated must quarantine for 10 days and can test out after seven days of quarantine. “Family members must be able to quarantine with the service member (i.e. spouse cannot go to work, children cannot go to school).”
Vaccinated service members only require an O-3 (captain or company commander) to approve their leave, while unvaccinated must request leave from a higher-ranking O-5 (lieutenant colonel or battalion commander) with an additional procedural step of submitting an Exception to Policy (ETP). These ETPs will be tracked at the division level for additional scrutiny, and likely will be denied.
Vaccinated service members may meet with or host any non-local visitor from outside the five states contiguous to New York (New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont). Unvaccinated service members must obtain approval from an O-5 in their chain of command, and then enter a 10-day quarantine to meet with or reside with any non-local visitor.
Vaccinated service members have no limits on gatherings at a private residence. Unvaccinated have a limit of 12 guests at indoor gatherings, and 15 guests at outdoor gatherings. ETPs may be granted for larger on-post public social gatherings by an O-5 commander, but If all personnel attending the gathering are vaccinated no ETP is required.
Vaccinated service members can conduct outdoor physical training unmasked. Unvaccinated must wear masks during physical training. Vaccinated personnel may be authorized to conduct unmasked physical training at indoor facilities, “without unvaccinated personnel present.”
Face masks may be removed if all people in a room are vaccinated.
Perhaps the most shocking item in the new policy is this: Fort Drum authorized a COVID wristband for vaccinated service members.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/army-policies-exclude-isolate-unvaccinated/?utm_source=salsa&eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=00d115bb-f938-4672-8dde-5c4cd1642622
This sounds like an idea from the very densely populated North Eastern part of the US. It has a lot of people living in apartment buildings, with ventilation systems that send COVID-19 through the buildings. It uses more rapid transit than any other part of the US. In many ways, it is like parts of Europe. In terms of average confirmed cases in the last seven day, the US Northeast is way high:
US Northeast – 41.7 new cases per 100,000 in past week
US Midwest – 24.3
US South – 17.9
US West – 9.31
Total cumulative deaths are also very much higher in the US Northeast than anywhere else in the US.
I am not sure why they can’t meet from people outside of the 5-state area in the Northeast. They would more likely give COVID to them than the other way around. Perhaps it is like not letting visitors into nursing homes.
“Children’s Health Defense is an American 501c3 nonprofit advocacy organization, known for its anti-vaccine activism. Much of the material put forth by the organization involves misinformation on vaccines and anti-vaccine propaganda”
Please state your source.
perhaps pro-vaccine propaganda doesn’t require a source.
“Misinformation” = “information I don’t like”
The fifth columnist strikes again
Covid vaccines: Probe as hundreds fail to attend appointments
People are being urged to attend vaccine appointments after hundreds failed to show up for their jabs.
In the Swansea Bay area almost 500 people did not attend on Monday.
At a mass vaccination centre in Bangor, in Gwynedd, almost 200 people failed to show up over a three-day period.
The Welsh government said it was investigating after reports of “people not attending their vaccine appointments”.
As of Monday, 1,413,710 had received their first dose of the vaccine in Wales, the equivalent of 44.8% of the Welsh population, according to Public Health Wales.
A further 7,016 people received a second vaccination, taking the total number of people who are now fully vaccinated to 424,016, which is 13.4% of the population.
However, officials have stressed vaccines were safe amid concerns about blood clots, and urged people to turn up for their appointments if invited, after reports from health boards of rising no-shows.
Celebrities and health professionals have joined a bid to encourage more people from black, Asian and minority ethnic communities to get the vaccine, amid concerns that rumours and disinformation about the jabs were stopping people taking up the offer.
Swansea Bay University Health Board issued a warning on social media after more than a quarter of people booked in for the jab at a mass vaccination centre failed to turn up on Monday.
The health board, which serves Neath Port Talbot and Swansea areas, said out of 1,750 appointments, 492 did not attend, the equivalent of 28%.
The health board said numbers failing to turn up for their first doses had fallen after rising over the weekend.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-56575733
That’s because they stopped handing our free doughnut coupons
Free fried Mars bars? Oh, that’s Scotland, isn’t it. Chip sandwiches, maybe?
Gail in the articol you tell the producer of oil Need 120 dollar for barrel ….. But i can ask you what price Need shale oil? Maybe 140. Canada sands maybe 150…Saudi Arabia maybe only 90 and Russia ,90 too? Thank you
Shale oil probably needs to be above $120 just to break even. Keep in mind that Shale oil is highly leveraged, meaning it can only be pulled out of the ground by creating debt.
I would be interested in what the price of oil would be in a world where there was honest money, (i.e historical average interest costs for financing, stock and bond valuations, etc.) Obviously the costs would see-saw back and forth depending upon new technology of extraction vs increasing costs due to decreasing ease of accessibility.
Obviously the contorted financial and geopolitical markets make this difficult.
Saudi Arabia especially needs a high price, to support its large population.
I think that the price really needs to be more than $120 per barrel, almost everywhere, for the companies to do well and their governments to collect enough taxes.
Is there any research where I can find these details out? $120 seems a bit high to me.
Caught in the act! Dolphins slaughtering infant porpoises just for the giggles.
Dolphins outed as violent gang r/pists; violent bullies; infanticides of rivals’ offspring; brutal tribal killers; aggressive to each other and humans; they even try to violently r/pe humans; they kill other mammals just for the giggles. Awful things.
Ahh, the beauty of being an apex predator, roaming about in the salty grave, fending off wannabes for shits, giggles, sport and good practice, always wearing a meter wide grin, occasionally having a small chew at obnoxious rapacious primates (harmless for the most part).
As for humans being apex predators? Laughable. Pathetic. The best we can do is use sticks and stones to injure each other substantially. Rapacious primates: Super sized, flimsy, life-long infants with a bad attitude and piss poor planning abilities.
🤣👍
“always wearing a meter wide grin”
LOL
That is what a species looks like when it really does not give a d/mn.
They surely surely give a damn, at the same time provide zero shits and lots of giggles. That mesmerizing grin crowning awesome.. Adorable, vicious, horny, compassionate predators. You know, just being goddamned themselves for a little while before nothingness.
Why bother? Because they can. So should you.
Here’s a guy that took it to the next level with dolphins.
https://youtu.be/jAAFHu164h0
😳👍
Dark side can emerge from “extremes” of necessity. Fighting for territory, food and mates….or fighting when things are too good, i.e., plentiful food, no predators, plenty of mates etc. and the emergence of boredom.
An idle mind is the murderer/psychopath’s workshop?
Idle hands are the devil’s tools?
A mystery? (Miss me much?)
This is obviously cold blooded murder; an apex predator killing for practice, carefully selecting the right sized ones for good sport. Sort of like, dunno, cats and dogs perhaps?
Here’s another predator together with a group of (soon to be extinct) frugivore tree dwellers.
https://youtu.be/PG-q9avfxrc
🤖💕🐬
Dolphins hyper-aggressively compete to violently maintain dominance hierarchies. They have developed their cooperative strategies to violently abduct and gang r/pe the females. They form into r/pe gangs that fight it out with other gangs to violently abduct the females. Awful things.
https://seaworld.org/animals/all-about/bottlenose-dolphin/behavior/
> Bottlenose dolphin males in Shark Bay, Australia, have been observed to form groups to socialize and obtain access to females by two different strategies. One strategy involves the formation of a small and stable alliance (two to three males), where males cooperate to control individual females in reproductive condition. Then, teams of two or more of this alliance cooperate to attack other alliances or defend against them, forming second-order alliances. A second strategy involves the formation of flexible alliances within a stable large second-order alliance called “superalliance”. Here, individual males frequently switch their alliance partners within the superalliance.
Bottlenose dolphins show aggression and establish and maintain dominance through posturing, biting, chasing, jaw clapping, smacking their tails on the water, emitting bubble clouds from their blowholes, and impact through body slamming in the most severe cases. Dolphins often show aggression by raking — scratching one another with their teeth, leaving superficial lacerations that soon heal. Traces of light parallel stripes remain on the dolphin’s skin. These marks have been seen in virtually all dolphin species. Biting refers to the forceful contact between one dolphin’s teeth and another dolphin’s body, usually resulting in long, thin, parallel, or nearly parallel tooth rake marks on the skin. In a study done on some 285 bottlenose dolphins living around Shark Bay, Australia, 83% of the observed population has tooth rake marks.
I don’t think this Dr. Vernon Coleman video has been posted already. From the 13th March, this month. He brings good news. He thinks that having studied the recent claims of Vanden Bossche, there is the distinct possibility that the human race will now wipe itself out. Vernon Coleman has a pretty good track record of correct forecasts.
Covid-19 Vaccines Are Weapons of Mass Destruction – and Could Wipe out the Human Race
https://vernoncoleman.org/videos/covid-19-vaccines-are-weapons-mass-destruction-and-could-wipe-out-human-race
I think the damage could be bad, but we will not be wiped out by any virus. Radioactive fallout might do the trick though.
It is impossible to come to a good solution. Even Dr. Coleman admits this. The unvaccinated may be harmed by the viruses that continue to go around and get worse.
We have huge energy problems as well. COVID takes our minds off of them.
Our energy problems are solvable.. Nuclear Waste is the solution!
Popular Mechanics
The Radioactive Diamond Battery That Will Run For 28,000 Years
Caroline Delbert
Tue, March 30, 2021, 9:12 AM·3 min read
From Popular Mechanics
The startup NDB is making a 28,000-year battery.
The battery is powered by nuclear waste, with energy extracted by diamonds.
The battery is costly and fussy, but it could power devices for (many) years at a time.
In two years, one startup says you’ll be able to buy its diamond nuclear-powered battery. Even cooler: The battery will last for up to 28,000 years.
This is a link to the article.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/green-tech/a35970222/radioactive-diamond-battery-will-run-for-28000-years/
I don’t think you will be able to buy such a battery in 2023. The article says,
“After working on its battery since 2012, NDB says it will finally have a working product in 2023.”
I read this to mean that the company will have a working prototype. They would then have to figure out how manufacture this at tiny scale, and gradually move up to full scale. I am sure that there would be governmental approvals that would be required as well.
The battery will last 28,000 years. The things it powers will fall apart within a few decades, however. Nobody reads the fine print.
Suez blockage could ‘take weeks’ to clear
It could take weeks to clear the tail-back of ships looking to use the Suez Canal, even as the gigantic container carrier Ever Given resumes its voyage through the world’s business shipping lane, data analysts have calculated.
“We currently expect a delay of at least 10 days to 2 weeks for all vessels reaching Suez henceforth and assuming the stuck container ship is refloated within the next couple of days for the transits to resume,” Ranjith Raja, oil research manager at data group Refinitiv, said.
The 400 meter long Ever Given – owned by Taiwanese company Evergreen Marine Corporation – ran aground on March 23, halting passage through the vital trade route and causing a log-jam of ships in the Mediterranean and the Red Sea.
After the ship was refloated on Monday and was preparing to exit the canal, resuming its voyage to Rotterdam, the effects of the blockage are expected to remain a challenge to the shipping industry, already dealing with volatile market conditions.
“The canal has handled about 100 ships making the transit on a single day according to the 2020 transit data. However, there are limitations due to the size of the ships making the transit and the tidal factors that prevail on the day. Factoring these, it will take weeks to clear the jam that has accumulated till date and not accounting for the additional vessels that would be added for the week,” he added.
Refinitiv calculates that a total of 369 ships are currently waiting on either side of the canal to make the transit once the Ever Given is re-floated and the channel cleared. This accounts for a total of 25 million tons, an increase of 80 percent in the past five days. An estimated 85 ships are currently enroute to join the jam before the end of the month.
This could lead to a shortage of containers vital for global trade, as well as a “shock” to the global supply chain, especially in industries like manufacturing and car assembly, which relies on the “just in time” supply principle.
https://www.arabnews.com/node/1834216/business-economy
Okay, so much for that prediction along with all the others of doom and gloom. Only shock and awe is the headlines.
Dennis L.
Doctors reveal patients are ALREADY demanding ‘vaccine passports’ – as it emerges firm behind troubled NHS contact tracing app is behind plans
The Government has launched a charm offensive on MPs who oppose domestic vaccine passports amid reports that patients are already asking doctors to provide them with formal proof they have had the jab.
Michael Gove, the Minister for the Cabinet Office, reportedly held an hour-long Zoom call yesterday with Tory, Labour and Lib Dem MPs to discuss so-called ‘Covid status certification’.
The Government is currently conducting a review into how the scheme could work with interim findings due to be published on April 5.
It has been suggested the passports, which are likely to feature a combination of vaccine and testing data, could be used to determine whether people can visit the pub or go to sporting events.
Ministers are facing fierce opposition from some Tory MPs who believe the documents would impinge on civil liberties and privacy.
The Lib Dems are expected to oppose the vaccine passports and it now appears they could work with disillusioned Conservative backbenchers to try to torpedo any plans which are brought forward.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9417391/Patients-asking-vaccine-passports.html
My d..d..dears, it’s all true: they are simply d..d.. dying for the vaccine passports.
Why are they telling people who have had Covid to get the vaccine??? Isn’t the natural process better?
The new mRNA “vaccines” are over the top. They work better than your natural immune system. We don’t know what long-term harm they do to your natural system, however.
Wow! I guess I need to do more research on this
All vaccines problems show up within 6 weeks (all, not some).
We are way past that.
We still don’t know the long term durability– but “harm” is in the rear view mirror.
At 95% on mRNA, no one expected such success!
Technology is amazing!
https://youtu.be/JAQF6BWALS0
I remember the good old days in medical school when the the push in charity hospitals was to get the patients discharged -mostly to nursing homes. One of the big requirements was a negative urine screen/ culture and sensitivity and a negative chest x-ray and TB test (PPD). The directive came from the residents who were looking to reduce workload. We were told to “air” culture wounds and culture our own urine,
It seems that there could be a huge black market for these vaccine passports obtained by the nurse in the doctor’s office agreeing to squirt the vaccine in the sink.
“Now that stick didn’t hurt a bit, did it?” Wink-wink.
I wonder if these vax jabs will have to be witnessed by a third party, similar to how a nurse anesthetist or anesthesiologist has to have a witness to watch her waste any unused narcotics after a surgical case.
‘Ministers are facing fierce opposition from some Tory MPs who believe the documents would impinge on civil liberties and privacy.’
You can’t have a situation where there is complete support for a policy … or else you lose credibility.
See North Korea.
Edward Bernays… PR 101…. chapter 5…page 76… paragraph 4.
Some news from our beloved Tedros.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9413365/WHO-report-says-animals-likely-source-COVID.html
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20210330-following-report-who-chief-calls-for-deeper-probe-into-lab-leak-theory-on-covid-19-origins
“The World Health Organization chief today said all theories on the origins of Covid-19 remained open after reading the WHO-China study – despite the claim the report dismissed the notion that the virus escaped from a lab as ‘extremely unlikely’.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said all of the hypotheses are ‘on the table’ and require further investigation after reading the report from the international experts’ mission to Wuhan.”
“He added that the international team had difficulty accessing raw data during the mission to China, demanding “more timely and comprehensive data-sharing” in the future.”
I wouldn’t like to be him right now. Disclaiming his own team must not be easy. Much pressure.
“further investigations” sounds like a promise for next revelations. I wish we get them. (I know, it will be another BS narrative, but THIS narrative will give us much more entertainment).
Insane! – ECB balance sheet took another leg higher. Total assets rose by a whopping €343bn, biggest amount since June 2020
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Exuzx8OWgAIlwb2?format=png&name=4096×4096
Like sand through the hourglass so is the T cell regulatory producing ability of our Thymus glands.
The Thymus is the master immunity gland of the body. It naturally shrinks as a person ages.
In this way it is very much like a finite resource. The Thymus really represents the immune systems plasticity to adapt and produce new T cells or regulatory cells to fight new disease/ virus or remember old ones.
To die of natural causes in fact is to have exhausted this resource.
In older people the thymus has essentially gone.
Have seen this personally in an anatomy museum in Dunedin when I studied occupational therapy.
We looked at a child body cadaver who had died in a MVA and an elderly lady’s who’d died of natural causes. Guess which one didn’t have a thymus anymore.
Taking vaccines as an elderly person, near end of life or with an autoimmune condition ( and a non existing or near depleted thymus ) is pointless, particularly if it is required we take the vaccines again and again. It is misleading, because it creates false hope in vaccines that can’t be effective because the resource to produce the necessary immunity is gone or limited.
If we still have a thymus taking vitamin D is going to be better than taking a vaccine
There’s just a no comparison.
Useful video on the thymus
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hynF5ZLEluc
This video is less than 9 minutes long. It is very good. It explains why a functioning thymus glands is important for preventing illnesses of all kinds. If a person loses his thymus, he will have lots of allergies and autoimmune problems. To keep it operating well, it needs vitamin D, iodine and zinc. Also, avoid sugar. The gland tends to atrophy away as we age.
There seem to be articles that talk about the thyroid, what goes wrong, and how to prevent these issues. Chemotherapy and radiation seem to particularly harm the thymus. Malnutrition and lack of sleep are other issues. The area seems to need more research.
https://drjewilliams.com/rejuvenate-your-thymus-gland/
https://www.fredhutch.org/en/news/center-news/2018/01/thymus-regeneration.html
“Like sand through the hourglass so is the T cell regulatory producing ability of our Thymus glands.”
Robert Browning said it better:
“Swift as a weaver’s shuttle fleet our years
Man goeth to the grave, and where is he?”
Here’s a couple of lectures you might find interesting, given by the researcher who discovered the Marshall Protocol, which is the use of Olmesartan Medoxomil (Benicar) to activate the Vitamin D Receptor to kick-start the innate immune response. Benicar is a ligand that fits the binding-pocket in the VDR, enabling it to produce the powerful anti-microbial substances like the Cathelicidin peptides. Wiki does a great job on those.
Through the Marshall Protocol research cohort over many years they have demonstrated remission of auto-immune disease and other chronic conditions, which they regard as infections; where the primary immune system is slowly rendered dysfunctional due to microbes disabling the VDR, which is a major evolutionary advantage some ‘stealth pathogens’ have acquired. Lida Mattman of Wayne State University wrote a definitive textbook on this subject titled Stealth Pathogens.
He has some insights into the seco-steroid “Vitamin D” that most of us don’t hear via mainstream medicine. It’s a very complicated subject.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60-VAun2R6Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8CL32dGJC4
Some of the original nurses involved with the Marshall Protocol branched-off and started their own consulting service where they coordinate with a person’s general practitioner and oversee progress via blood-work, symptoms, diet, etc.
Lots of info at their library.
https://ci-recovery.org/
Bobby and Hillcountry. Thank you for some very educational and interesting materials.
Thanks for the information. I am afraid most of this information is over my head, but I have a sister who recently got out of the hospital with sarcoidosis who might be able to make use of it. She has a PhD in biochemistry, so she understands these things better than I do. I noticed that a testimonial at the nurse’s library link you gave said,
“”I want everyone to know there is hope for recovery from sarcoidosis. Please read my story. I got my life back with Inflammation Therapy and you can too.” Meg Mangin, RN”
At one point in my life, I also had problems with inflammation. I changed my diet. This caused me to lose weight. The combination pretty much led to the inflammation going away.
‘We’re not out of the woods’: How commercial property could spark a financial shock
LONDON — The International Monetary Fund has raised concerns over commercial property and the risk it could pose to financial stability, as the sector faces a series of challenges on the back of the coronavirus crisis.
These include the fact that many non-essential retailers were forced to shut their doors as economies across the world locked down in response to the pandemic. In addition, many employees began to mostly work from home, and online shopping surged. It has raised questions about the future of physical stores, whether companies will move to smaller offices, if retailers will need bigger logistic warehouses, and ultimately how all of this will impact rents.
“Going forward, I don’t think we are out of the woods yet for a couple of reasons,” Fabio Natalucci, deputy director of the monetary and capital markets department, told CNBC on Friday.
“One is that, historically, if you go back to the financial crisis there was a difference in time between how equity markets, for example, reacted … So, they dropped sharply, and they recovered in 2008, but the realization of losses in the commercial real estate took longer.”
Transaction volumes and prices in commercial property sank in the second quarter of 2020, after the first coronavirus lockdowns were imposed. The sector has recovered somewhat since then — mainly in Asia, where restrictions have mostly been lifted for some time — but the sector remains under a lot of pressure.
“There is a huge amount of uncertainties about the outlook, the economic outlook, so understanding what is conjectural here and what is going to be structural is going to be crucial,” Natalucci added.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/30/imf-commercial-property-overvaluation-could-create-new-shocks.html
I am wondering if a peak in values on commercial real estate is coming soon. Also, a peak in sublet values. An article today in the WSJ is
JPMorgan, Salesforce Join Growing List of Firms Dumping Office Space
Rise of remote work means demand for office space could be permanently lower for some companies
If commercial real estate of all kinds in vastly overbuilt, there is little reason to build more. This cuts into job availability and reduces demand for construction materials.
Letting people go is never easy, it is harder face to face. Is it possible that perhaps many of these “jobs” were really not necessary? Took a Quicken Loan recently, effortless, fast, minimal f2f contact, expect much was done with AI. Essentially all the work was done from home. Only personal contact was with a notary, she essentially worked from home and her car, no office.
Real work is making things, financial profits most likely have plateaued, normal course of business, out of growth phase.
Construction materials are a puzzle, the costs are up dramatically along with delivery costs. Shipping costs are also up greatly.
Dennis L.
With very low interest rates and lots of debt available, everyone (except probably commercial buildings) are building. Residential construction seems to be up. Projects to stimulate the economy, like fixing roads, are up. Universities are adding buildings and residence halls, because they assume that there will be even more students in the future, and cheap debt is available now.
“Covid-19 is the annual seasnoal flu rebranded and rebranded and remarketed.” Dr. Vernon Coleman at his most provocative and brilliant best.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/Smi8SfrfaBrF/
In the second half, an exasperated Coleman talks favorably about Prof. G. Vanden Bossche’s and Mike Yeadon’s “interventions” in the Covid War.
‘It’s all about money making and it’s destroyed economies everywhere’
Slight issue with the lack of logic in that statement … but otherwise a fun watch.
He’s probably got grandkids so is unable to wrap his head around the CEP…
Coleman probably doesn’t view this as a planned extinction of the bulk of humanity strategy and may not be aware of the energy issues, but he does acknowledge that we’re fighting for our lives and he insists that old people are being murdered in droves. But Mike Yeadon seems to get the overall picture. He’s not afraid to use the “G” word (genocide). “It’s entirely possible this will be used for massive-scale depopulation.”
Goochland County man suffers ‘rare’ severe reaction to J&J COVID-19 vaccine
https://www.wric.com/news/local-news/goochland-county-man-suffers-rare-severe-reaction-to-covid-19-vaccine/
Attention, Attention…The Next Big Growth Model to keep BAU Rolling
From Live Science..
Scientists have crafted a single-celled synthetic organism that divides and multiplies just like the real thing. The advancement could someday help researchers to build miniscule computers and tiny drug-producing factories, all out of synthesized cells.
Of course, that future likely won’t be realized for many years to come.
“There’s just so many ways in which this coming century of biology could potentially change our daily lives for the better,” said senior author Elizabeth Strychalski, leader of the Cellular Engineering Group at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). For example, Strychalski and her colleagues plan to engineer living sensors that can take measurements from their surrounding environments, monitoring the acidity, temperature and oxygen levels nearby.
Yes, And we have plenty of humans very willing to provide themselves as lab rats…
Ya, Mein Fueher there is a plan!
Some of us rats,they might bear in mind, Herbie…….BITE!
Which reminds me. Why did a wholesome boy like Michael Jackson perform a song about loving a rat?
Ben.
Rodents have feelings too.
As do androids!
Michael Jackson was hard to assess, but why would you call him wholesome?
Sarcasm. But in fact, the jury is out. I have no clear view of the fellow, and he’s gone now anyway.
Dozens in Central Florida contract COVID-19 after being fully vaccinated
ORLANDO, Fla. – They’re called COVID-19 breakthrough cases — people who have been fully vaccinated yet still contract the virus more than 14 days after their second shot.
The cases are popping up around the country, including in Central Florida.
Hanna Rewerts, 27, is a physical therapist and has been tested for COVID-19 at least once a week since the pandemic started.
She says she got her first positive test just days ago.
“I was shocked, you know,” Rewerts told News 6. “Immediately I’m like, ‘This has to be a false-positive. This can’t be right.’”
But multiple tests confirmed it.
She said she was shocked because she is also fully vaccinated.
As a health care worker, Rewerts had her first dose of the Pfizer vaccine in December 2020, according to her vaccine card. Her second dose was three weeks later in January.
More than two months after the second shot, she contracted the virus.
“So it’s just, it’s very odd,” Rewerts said.
Rewerts said three of her family members who were also fully vaccinated contracted it as well.
“One of my family members actually went to the hospital,” Rewerts said. “I mean, that’s pretty severe enough to be concerned about the vaccine.”
Researchers are still trying to figure out if people who are fully vaccinated and contract the virus can also spread it to other people, which is why they recommend still wearing masks even after you’re vaccinated.
https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2021/03/29/dozens-in-central-florida-contract-covid-19-after-being-fully-vaccinated/
I wonder how she caught it? Must have been from some filthy unvaxed unmasked unsanitized fiend who fondled an avocado at Whole Foods but didn’t buy it.
I found this article as well:
https://www.wistv.com/2021/03/29/hospitals-see-rare-covid-cases-fully-vaccinated-patients/
It takes the position that the number of cases is within what would be expected. Those hospitalized were in their 80s or 90s. According to the article,
““You would speculate that the very old are less likely to respond to any kind of vaccination and therefore may not generate protective antibodies,” Stock said.”
This is another article on the subject: https://www.webmd.com/vaccines/covid-19-vaccine/news/20210325/minnesota-finds-89-covid-cases-in-vaccinated-people
With all of the complexity involved in the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, my first guess is that a batch of vaccine in the Orlando area was not mixed together right or held at a low enough temperature.
Houses are at record price! Materials are at record price! Stocks at record price! Hmmm where have we heard this before?! Oh yeah 2008! All over again except this time it’s much worse!
yep this can’t end well. I think stock markets will start to crash about April but I think the Fed is buying up stocks right now or the treasury I am not sure which one. At least when everything implodes you have something tangible with a house the stock market maybe not….
My laptop was getting a bit long in the tooth.. slowing … battery would last only 10 minutes (and they want me to buy an EV!!!!) … but still functioning… I was looking at the chip situation … and the various supply chain issues… so I went to the Warehouse… and picked up a new laptop…. heaven forbid the SHTF and I am unable to get onto the interweb and enjoy the dying days of the humans…
Come all this way — only to be foiled by hardware. Now I have this laptop and my old one as backup… just need to make sure I’ve got enough popcorn … plenty of whisky … just ordered a few more bottles of the good stuff.
Go ahead – splurge, Elon’s got ya covered
Free laptop with every hospitalization.
https://www.veoh.com/watch/v142103958tzjgSYSk
This is high comedy.
When is vaccine not a vaccine?
When it gives you ‘Covid’….?
Let’s hope those dispassionate researchers, following The Science (TM) get to the bottom of it and are not too long in recommending 4 masks and 10 shots per year.
To, you know. Keep Us Safe.
Harry Litman – Former US Attorney, DOJ official:
“Vaccine passports are a good idea. Among other things, it will single out the still large contingent of people who refuse vaccines, who will be foreclosed from doing a lot of things their peers can do. That should help break the resistance down.”
https://twitter.com/harrylitman/status/1376293633746366465
The view is related to vaccinating chickens. If you don’t provide the vaccinations, many of the chickens die from the disease the vaccine is intended to stop. The vaccine you need to use needs to keep changing, because the virus keeps mutating. In fact, it keeps getting worse, making the need for the vaccine even more essential.
The system sort of works, if diminishing returns to finding new vaccines is not too great. It also depends on how far the economy is from limits. If there is not enough energy to go around, how much can be spared for making vaccines and spreading them to some favored population? There is also an unknown side effect issue in humans.
A very clear statement of what they intend to achieve with the ‘passports’.
And of the moral turpitude of Mr Litman.
The Nazis and the Soviets also knew how to ‘break down’ decent people.
Among other things, it will single out the still large contingent of people who refuse vaccines, who will be foreclosed from doing a lot of things their peers can do. That should help break the resistance down.”
Among other things, it will single out the still large contingent of people who refuse these untested and quite possibly dangerous vaccines, who will be foreclosed from doing a lot of things their peers can do. That should help break the resistance down.”
It will be very inconvenient to reject the Lethal Injection…..does it make sense to work out a list of places that are not locked down … get on a plane … and just do a final bucket list tour? Africa is probably the only real option …
New Covid vaccines needed globally within a year, say scientists
The planet could have a year or less before first-generation Covid-19 vaccines are ineffective and modified formulations are needed, according to a survey of epidemiologists, virologists and infectious disease specialists.
Scientists have long stressed that a global vaccination effort is needed to satisfactorily neutralise the threat of Covid-19. This is due to the threat of variations of the virus – some more transmissible, deadly and less susceptible to vaccines – that are emerging and percolating.
The grim forecast of a year or less comes from two-thirds of respondents, according to the People’s Vaccine Alliance, a coalition of organisations including Amnesty International, Oxfam, and UNAIDS, who carried out the survey of 77 scientists from 28 countries. Nearly one-third of the respondents indicated that the time-frame was likely nine months or less.
Persistent low vaccine coverage in many countries would make it more likely for vaccine-resistant mutations to appear, said 88% of the respondents, who work across illustrious institutions such as Johns Hopkins, Yale, Imperial College, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and the University of Edinburgh.
“New mutations arise every day. Sometimes they find a niche that makes them more fit than their predecessors. These lucky variants could transmit more efficiently and potentially evade immune responses to previous strains,” said Gregg Gonsalves, associate professor of epidemiology at Yale University, in a statement.
“Unless we vaccinate the world, we leave the playing field open to more and more mutations, which could churn out variants that could evade our current vaccines and require booster shots to deal with them.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/30/new-covid-vaccines-needed-within-year-say-scientists
A look at history shows that it is extraordinarily unusual that vaccines can actual stamp out a disease, worldwide. What makes these folks think that these vaccines will be different?
What makes them think that?
Money.
They are not scientists, working in the highest standards of that tradition: they are mere pay-check whores.
“Persistent low vaccine coverage in many countries would make it more likely for vaccine-resistant mutations to appear, said 88% of the respondents, who work across illustrious institutions such as Johns Hopkins, Yale, Imperial College, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and the University of Edinburgh.”
And said “illustrious institutions” stand to make very large sums of money from a permanent vaccination scheme, even if (or perhaps especially if?) if it doesn’t work.
Cui bono?
And I am really getting tired of these people yelling “Ipfung Macht Frei”. We should all remember what lies at the end of that road.
If/when Devil covid hits … the unvaxxed will be blamed… when it’s actually the CovIDIOTS like Duncan and Norm who may have engaged in some blasphemous sub-carnal acts… producing the evil spawn that will be known as Devil Covid. Fast Eddy stardate March 31, 2021. (print that one out too and put it in your time capsule)
Pres. Biden calls on governors, mayors and local leaders to reinstate mask mandates
“I need the American people to do their part as well. Mask up. Mask up. It’s a patriotic duty.”
https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1376609393383473160
No comment on Biden’s call, except:
Patriotism.
Scoundrels.
Here we have to endure Boris Johnson who, having sold his soul to Satan, is deteriorating both mentally and physically before our eyes – one hopes that he will not last long.
I would imagine Boris (and others in the know re the CEP) are under a great deal of stress… bad stress. Maybe he’ll crack up.
I on the other hand in an extremely positive frame of mind — even though I am .. in the know….actually … because I am in the know.
Happy times … are almost here….
‘Every vaccine in an arm… is another nail in the coffin… of the Borg’ Fast Eddy stardate March 31, 2021.
Does he also feel ‘impending doom’
As with so many issues where I learned better, this is just my starting position:
I support wearing masks.
– There’s the slight chance that (in the overall big picture) they mask out something more harmful than what they cause from wearing them.
– They can act as a placebo.
– Since the global IC is not suited for human survival (something the average human cannot grasp) it might be helpful to keep the human public under some externally imposed uniformed restraint. (We don’t have the option for intelligent human mass behavior with our current global system.)
– There likely is some level of higher human or system control than most of us are aware of or understand. I would refer to it as Caesar. Some or much of it might be self-organizing.
– Masks are required by Caesar, and it might be wise to give to Caesar what is his, while refraining from giving to Caesar what he has not yet demanded but that is waiting in the wings to kill us: mandatory vaccinations.
– The theory being that if we can manage to conform while being also AWARE and quietly subversive (a critical mass of us anyway) time will rob Caesar of some venom.
– We can remove our masks at every convenience where it won’t invite persecution (which also could result from being in Caesar’s face with masklessness. It’s a case of not angering or panicing Caesar re his maintaining the universal mask protocol.
Government Minister Says People Should “Call Out” Others For Hugging Their Loved Ones
Suggests loving embraces should be patrolled even as lockdown begins to ease.
A government minister appeared on morning television to urge Brits to “call out” others if they were seen engaging “in an odd way,” such as hugging their loved ones.
Yes, really.
Nigel Huddleston, the UK’s minister for tourism and sport, made the remarks during an interview spot on BBC Breakfast.
“Despite the temptation, please don’t risk the health of your loved ones by actually hugging them,” said Huddleston, before going on to suggest that people should intervene if they witness such dreadful behavior.
“We all know the rules…if you see somebody behaving in a slightly odd way, then maybe call them out on it in a respectful way, because sometimes some people just forget,” he added.
Huddleston said it was “a little bit awkward” to refuse close physical contact but “in these circumstances it’s the right thing to do.”
https://summit.news/2021/03/29/government-minister-says-people-should-call-out-others-for-hugging-their-loved-ones/
I seriously doubt whether Huddleston gets many offers to hug, let alone to French kiss.
So hugging is out, but half a dozen police officers getting involved in a scrum with somebody who is not wearing a mask in public is no problem at all.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/newsalerts/video-2377078/Video-Group-police-officers-arrest-man-allegedly-not-wearing-mask.html
The last French kiss I got was from my dog.
I have no intention of detering any human offers in the Great British Summer of Love which is looming, whatever the minister says…..
When the D-Covid arrives… that will be a ‘stoning’ crime… or better still
https://www.danhostel-ribe.dk/sites/default/files/images/billeder/Ribe/witch_burned_at_stake_anne_hendricks_1571_amsterdam.jpg
Hugging is a custom that varies greatly by country. You don’t see Chinese or Japanese adults hugging as a greeting. In fact, hugging is not a custom in Norway, either, as far as I know. In the US, hugging as a greeting is much more common in the South than in the North.
I expect that hugging and cheek kissing grew up as greetings in countries where disease transmission was not as big an issue; population was at least stable, even with occasional disease transmission.
Probably it became established where people simply believed that the will of God, or Fate, determined the hour of death. All societies were awash with infectious disease in the past.
I don’t recall hugging being much of a thing in the fifties ,perhaps sixties in the US. Seems it was a social thing introduced on TV, or at best a “distanced” hug, face over the shoulder.
Hugging everyone seems somewhat superficial, perhaps an attempt to get the huggee to let down their guard.
Dennis L.
I don’t know about that Dennis. In Shakespeare’s plays the nobles were forever kissing and hugging each other in public displays of affection.
Meanwhile, we all know that one characteristic of the poor in the Middle Ages and during the Industrial revolution was that they often lived, slept and slept in overcrowded conditions.
And then there’s this:
https://www.storemypic.com/image/3mXs
Dogs like to sniff each other butts… what’s with that.
Imagine the reaction if you went up to someone and tried to sniff their butt!!!!
Harry – you need to get on board with Michael and get onto the Covid headlines… this is where the action and excitement is. Titillation even
The financial stuff is a bit dull … and irrelevant… because as we can see the CBs are not going to allow a financial crisis to tip the boat over…
It’s all about Covid and the CEP now…. always room for the occasional poke at Norm (wonder if Norm is working on an End of More sequel… or maybe he’s reading Moondoggie now that he’s accepted that conspiracy is a real word)
Put the ship on a new course?
I took a brief glance and found Norm tweeting away as usual. He’s been commenting on several other tweets by people who think universal basic income is a good idea, explaining to them that:
“Money is just tokenised energy. So UBI must be underpinned by equivalent energy. It isn’t possible to print energy, therefore it isn’t possible to print UBI wages.”
Over the long term, I think he’s correct. But economically, we live in a loonytuniverse. It’s possible to head off the cliff and remain there motionless for a time before hurtling into the abyss.
The reason why this is possible is because money can be created out of nothing and after being used can be returned to nothing, and in the meantime it doesn’t work its wonders instantaneously. Perhaps there is a vast store of abiotic money deep in the bowels of Fort Knox or in the vaults under Threadneedle Street that conventional economists don’t suspect exists. The accounts don’t have to be balanced simultaneously everywhere and there are an enormous number of fudge factors that help us kick the can down the road.
A few days ago a CovIDIOT was pinging with celebratory messages indicating Hong Kong was looking at establishing travel bubbles with a few destinations….
I responded with — won’t happen — what’s to discuss? surely this was discussed the last time they floated this idea… and the last time… and the last time… so by now they should have a policy ready roll – and the bubbles should start now…
I then said — you watch — HK or one or more of the bubble partners will get a sudden flare up in covid cases and….
This just dropped:
Hong Kong ‘not ready’ for Covid-19 rules overhaul; 7 new cases confirmed
Health secretary Sophia Chan says opening up Hong Kong too quickly risks reversing the city’s progress in fighting the fourth Covid-19 wave.
I sent it over with an I told you so a sweet kiss and a bye bye bubble bye bye message…
I hate to rub it in… well actually… I don’t mind….
They deserve it , FE.
Let’s get a recap of activity at the Ministry of Truth – Covid Division….
Ok PT Team… what have you got for me… Sir… we thought Devil Covid was a bit cheesy … so Steve came up with Double Mutation …. the psych boys said that really rang the bell when tested out on a group of CovIDIOTS in the lab…. and we’ll go with Triple Mutation once Double wears out its welcome…
Great – but do you have any headlines in play yet?
Yes Sir… the outlets are jumping on this quickly — here are the results over the first hour…
About 191,000,000 results (0.58 seconds)
Here’s a sample:
Double mutation of the Covid variant in India risks spreading to other countries, doctor says
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/30/double-mutation-covid-variant-in-india-may-spread-to-other-countries-doctor-says.html
Well done team… let’s get some hit pieces out on Mike Yeadon and Fast Eddy .. they’ve caught us with our pants down and we can’t have that getting traction .. Yeadon hasn’t work out the entire story but he’s hot on the trail….
Yes Sir… we will get right on that…
Dismissed… Team Leader Robinson … see me in my office…
Robinson … this is Black Ops leader Thompson….. Fellas… this Fast Eddy character concerns me… he’s somehow work out the CEP… and he’s out there on the boards exposing it top to bottom…. so far nobody believes him but his logic is impeccable… if this continues it could be…. troublesome…..
First we need to get the Black Opp Team to check if we have a leak in the Ministry… or perhaps Trudeau or Ardern are having second thoughts and attempting to sabotage the CEP with the help of Fast Eddy…. I am told he is originally from Canada but living in New Zealand… so we need to look at both leaders…
Sir surely there must be a leak — there is no way that anyone could have discovered the CEP without help…. that is unthinkable…
Yes Thompson … that would require some serious mental horsepower…. but we cannot rule it out.
Sir what do we do about him if he has worked it out? asks Thompson
Everyone man has got a breaking point … you and I have one… Fast Eddy has reached his …very obviously he has gone insane……… (helicopter rotors whup whup in the background)… yes sir… very much so sir…. obviously insane…. your mission is to land in Westport… proceed inland to Queenstown… find Fast Eddy… and terminate him…. terminate…. Fast Eddy?…. he’s out their operating without any decent restraints…totally beyond the pale of any acceptable human conduct… terminate… with extreme prejudice….
“Bond Investor Revolt Brews Over Bogus Green Debt Flooding Market:
“…At the forefront of concerns among a small but growing contingent of bond buyers is greenwashing: the possibility that governments and companies are exaggerating or misrepresenting their environmental credentials or sustainability bona fides to tap feverish demand, lower borrowing costs and boost their reputation.” [Well, colour me not remotely surprised.]
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-29/bond-investor-revolt-brews-over-bogus-green-debt-flooding-market
The UK govt’s propaganda department, the BBC, have excelled themselves again this morning. Five out of the 13 top headlines re CV19:
World leaders call for treaty on future pandemics
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-56572775
“Boris Johnson and more than 20 other leaders say another health crisis is a matter of ‘not if, but when'”
[‘not if, but when’ – Fauci and Gates have been saying this for months, Gates with his grin]
“Writing in the Daily Telegraph and publications such as Le Monde in France and El Pais in Spain, the 24 leaders argue that a treaty similar to that reached in the wake of World War Two is needed to build cross-border cooperation…”
Cross-border cooperation!
Sir Lenny Henry: “Trust science, take the jab”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-56565995
[Lenny Henry is one of the best known faces and popular comedians / actors in the UK]
“The comic and actor leads stars in an open letter urging black Britons to have the Cocid-19 jab”
Covid-19: CDC head warns of ‘impending doom’ in US
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-56572452
“Cases and are rising as US officials warned the struggle to end the pandemic is not over”
‘It’s like someone has piled sandbags on top of me’ (video)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/health-56571663
“A year on since 29-year old Reece caught coronavirus, what he imagined would be a mild infection changed his life beyond recognition”
[Make sure you take the vaccines Reece, that will solve your problems, permanently]
Coronavirus: Morning Update
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-56571763
Five more articles and statistics
Conclusion: the vaccination of all is not going well.
Only lies cross borders these days.
Oh, and the super-rich and politicians in private jets.
Looks like Dow Jones will crash in April. Forced liquidation has already started?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ExrBi1BWEAQ9JVr?format=jpg&name=large
The triangle seems to come to a point about the beginning of June. Could the crash come later than April? I am not very familiar with how these triangles work in practice.
Maybe this has been posted before…?
The bulk of the article highlights that Tanzania has the raw materials that the ‘green new steal’ needs and how Magufuli sought to forge deals to benefit his country….hence this President has disappeared….
He also went against the narrative when he sent goat tissue, engine oil and a piece of fruit to get positive PCR results.
The longer article characterises USAID as a CIA cut-out.
‘Numerous examples of vaccines with severe adverse effects being pushed onto the Tanzanian people, combined with the widely reported safety issues surrounding the AstraZeneca/ Oxford vaccine that Tanzania would receive through COVAX, make the Western media’s “anti-science” characterization of Magufuli particularly inappropriate. For example, as far back as 1977, studies published in The Lancet established that the risks of the diphtheria tetanus pertussis (DTP) vaccine are greater than the risks associated with contracting wild pertussis. After mounting evidence linking the drug to brain damage, seizures, and even death, the U.S. phased it out in the 1990s and replaced it with a safer version called DTaP. A 2017 study funded by the Danish government concluded that more African children were dying at the hands of the deadly DTP vaccine than by the diseases it prevented. Researchers examined data from Guinea Bissau and concluded that boys were dying at 3.9 times the rate of those who had not received the shot, while girls suffered almost 10 times (9.98) the death rate. GAVI, subsidized by USAID and the Gates Foundation, has dumped over $27 million worth of the dangerously outdated DTP vaccine onto the Tanzanian health system as of today.’
https://unlimitedhangout.com/2021/03/investigative-reports/tanzanias-late-president-magufuli-science-denier-or-threat-to-empire/
It is an excellent article. A link was posted yesterday.
The 80-year old Italian Catholic cleric Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò (read his Wikipedia article; he has been in the vanguard of the fight to rid the church of corruption and to deal with child molesting clergy, and he has been a thorn in the side of the current Pope on the latter account) has just taken a tough stand on the Covid pan/scam/plandemic. I haven’t read anything quite this radical and conspircytheoriological since Bishop Williamson called nine 11 an inside job and questioned elements of the H narrative.
What we have learned so far about the pseudo-pandemic gives us the picture of a disturbing reality and of an even more disturbing criminal conspiracy hatched by misguided minds. This reality, however, is not taken into consideration by those who, hypnotized by media indoctrination, persist in considering a serious seasonal influenza as a pandemic scourge, known treatments as ineffective, and the so-called vaccines that are admittedly useless and harmful as nothing short of miraculous.
We know that the pharmaceutical giants – AstraZeneca, Pfizer, Moderna, Johnson & Johnson – not only have not followed the ordinary protocols for drug testing, but they have a track record of a long history of condemnations for having previously caused grave damage to the population, distributing vaccines that have been revealed to cause disabling diseases.
We know what macroscopic conflicts of interest exist between the pharmaceutical companies and the bodies responsible for their control: in many cases, employees of these companies have passed through the entities which must approve and authorize the use of drugs, and it is difficult to imagine that they – who often continue to have professional ties to Big Pharma – would have the freedom to make a fair and prudent assessment. Indeed, we have just seen recently with the case of AstraZeneca in Europe that the obvious harmfulness of the so-called vaccine – which has led some Nations to suspend its distribution – is not considered a sufficient reason by the EMA (European Medicines Agency) to prohibit its adoption. The recent findings about serious side effects have been designed to exclude the majority of cases and above all to deliberately ignore the causal relationship between inoculation with the vaccine and its short- or long-term side effects.
We know that, in defiance of any legal principle and the protection of the population, the pharmaceutical companies have demanded total immunity for damages that may arise to patients, who are asked to sign a release form along with their informed consent. Thus, along with the scandalous profits from the sale of the vaccines, the pharmaceutical multinationals guarantee their own impunity for a criminal operation, conducted with the complicity of international institutions and governments.
We know that the contractual terms of the agreements made by nations and by the European Union with these pharmaceutical companies are inaccessible and secret: not even the parliamentarians and political representatives are allowed to see the clauses that they had to approve inside a sealed box. And we know that the same pharmaceutical companies not only are not taking any responsibility for the side effects, but they also declare that they do not even guarantee their effectiveness to provide immunity from the virus.
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We know that in order to conduct this criminal operation – since we must speak of a crime against God and against humanity, not of a merely unfortunate fate – it was necessary to have years of planning, conducted systematically, in order to weaken national pandemic plans, drastically reduce the number of beds in hospitals and intensive care units, create a mass of blind, deaf, and dumb employees, no longer doctors, who placed their own safety in the workplace ahead of their duty to cure the sick. The Hippocratic oath was violated in the name of profit for the pharmaceutical companies and the pursuit of a social engineering project.
There’s more; much, much, more. names are named, etc.
https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/abp-vigano-on-truth-over-fear-covid-19-the-vaccine-and-the-great-reset
An impressive, entirely rational statement of the facts – a salute to Archbishop Vigano.
To use theological terminology, this monstrous, anti-human, conspiracy is clearly a ‘work of darkness.’
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to issue executive order banning ‘vaccine passports’
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Monday that he would issue an executive order forbidding local governments and businesses from requiring so-called “vaccine passports” to show proof that customers have been inoculated against the coronavirus.
He made the announcement on a day when more Floridians would become eligible for vaccination and during a ceremony he convened at the state Capitol to sign into law a bill approved by the Legislature on Friday that would bar COVID-related lawsuits against businesses that have made good-faith efforts to comply with guidelines meant to stop the spread of the virus.
While the governor has previously spoken out against “vaccine passports,” he said he would take the additional step of forbidding businesses from refusing to serve people who can’t prove they have been vaccinated.
“It’s completely unacceptable for either the government or the private sector to impose upon you the requirement that you show proof of vaccine to just simply participate in normal society,” the governor said.
DeSantis, who was joined during his press conference by House Speaker Chris Sprowls and Senate President Wilton Simpson, called on the Republican-led Legislature to send him a measure for his signature that would enshrine the matter into law, but he did not lay out specifics.
The governor has rejected mask mandates and has used his executive authority to preempt local governments from enforcing such measures. He has done so to reopen the state’s economy after much of it was shuttered a year ago to help control the coronavirus outbreak.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/mar/29/ron-desantis-florida-governor-executive-order-ban-/?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=google_mail&utm_source=email
the Elders need to get their act together and get this man under control.
but they are quite the incompetent bunch.
I look into the mists and I see… I see … Florida getting a big fake spike… and I see the PR boys launching messages (using the Sweden templates)… see what happens when you don’t lock down etc…
I see…’impending doom’
https://twitter.com/i/status/1376557200433410050
“I look into the mists and I see… I see … Florida getting a big fake spike… ”
Just yesterday there were several stories about a spike in Scamdemic cases in Florida. So the panic, fear and hysteria machine is in overdrive.
Google this – impending doom variants america…
About 932,000 results (0.49 seconds)
The Covid CEP PR Team has done a stellar job … this release and video has gone global… it’s everywhere…. prepping the masses — for….. the variants!!!
The variants are coming the variants are coming — boom BOOM BOOM thunder the big drums… hurry get the vax… put on your masks… hide away… BOOM BOOM boom go the drums… what I can’t get the vaccine yet??? OMG … call me the minute you get more .. I am waiting … I will be by the phone… BOOM boom BOOM thump the big DrUMS….
https://www.nocleansinging.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Impending-Doom-Death-Will-Reign.jpg
– California: 42.8 new cases per 100,000 people in last 7 days
– Florida: 162.3 new cases per 100,000 people in last 7 days
– Michigan: 326.7 new cases per 100,000 people in last 7 days
– New Jersey: 346.4 new cases per 100,000 people in last 7 days
– New York: 237.3 new cases per 100,000 people in last 7 days
Its not CA, but its not NJ.
I think you mean, “It is NJ.”
Duncan, do you know the vaccination rate in CA?
This site gives percentage vaccinated by state:
https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/public-health/states-ranked-by-percentage-of-population-vaccinated-march-15.html
California – 15.57
Florida – 14.96
Michigan – 16.65
New York – 15.88
New Jersey – 17.64
Meaningless numbers — expect if you are a CovIDIOT
https://off-guardian.org/2021/03/27/making-something-out-of-nothing-pcr-tests-ct-values-and-false-positives/
The explanation is quite straightforward,and it is not incompetence.
In some places they have effectively captured the government, having key people fully on board and able to determine policy (which all the spineless little bureaucrats then put into effect a they are bound to do by law -but not morality); in others they have failed to win over all the politicians to their plans (eg Tanzania) or coerce them with blackmail; and in yet others they are ringing the changes on policy – the level of strictness of lock-downs,masks, etc- so as to confuse the picture a little and make it all look spontaneous and as though governments have full autonomy.
This is a coup d’etat, and that is how they unfold: for historical examples see the Nazi take-over in neighbouring countries, and the Soviet coups in Eastern Europe.
We must watch Florida with great attention.
I think Florida is more likely to be a bit of clever PR aimed at combatting those who demand the end to lockdowns….
How do I know… I was at the meeting and recorded it…
Ok Covid PR Team… all hands on deck… we’ve got an anti Lockdown revolution brewing…. what are we going to do???
Sir… we’ve concocted a devious plan… we’ll allow a state to gradually remove restrictions… we’ll let them prance about without masks for a few weeks… the WHAM… we’ll crank up the PCR cycles to get a lot of false +s…. and we’ll roll the variant stories out hard and fast…. we’ll get a CDC doctor to record a short clip warning of impending doom in keeping with the tried and true Bernays Fear Ramping PR strategy
Very good — and what are we calling this operation?
Sir — we thought Operation I TOLD YOU SO…
Oooh.. I like it. Good work … cigars all Scotch all round….
Bravo!
My Israeli neighbour said yesterday; ‘There’s no racism at all in Israel: just Green Card and No Green Card.’
Which sums up the situation they are trying to engineer in all the countries dominated by the WEF minions.
I hope people start to get it that this has been turned into political theatre with a HUGE agenda.
How cool is this … ‘see you fools –this is what happens when you don’t lockdown’…..
This is priceless… and these MOREonic CovIDIOTS will Do as they are Told and accept more restrictions….
B.1.1.7, the more contagious variant first identified in Britain, is also rising exponentially in Florida, where it accounts for a greater proportion of total cases than in any other state, according to numbers collected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
“Wherever we have exponential growth, we have the expectation of a surge in cases, and a surge in cases will lead to hospitalizations and deaths,” said Bill Hanage, a public health researcher at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Hooray, my Gov and my home state. A Gov with a huge pair of bowling balls. The same Gov who told Joe Bidet to “F-Off”. This guy needs to be cloned. 😀
Might have to change his mind about those passports now that the variants are surging… of course that was always the plan… we want to return to normal without passports but these variants… they are very scary …
It must be fun to be on the PR Team … sitting around having some beers after a long week and laughing about how Stooopid these CovIDIOTS are… so easily manipulated … they probably have all sorts of names for them .. donkeys… imbeciles.. dunces… MORE ons.. dumm beasts.. lemmings… cattle… swine… cockroaches…
Meh. He did outlaw criticism of Israel.
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/florida-passes-law-protecting-israel-criticism
“We see that those who refuse to be vaccinated have a list of pseudo-scientific excuses for their behavior. They claim that the vaccines are not safe because they have not been tested like previous vaccines and that they have been rushed to approval. They claim that the mRNA type of vaccines has never been used before and is all experimental and go on to say that the mRNA vaccines are not vaccines at all, but are actually gene-therapy drugs. There are further claims that they have personal rights to decide what medical practices they must follow.
The truth that we must face is that these individuals use these excuses to conceal their true objective which is to cause as much harm as possible to others. They have dedicated their lives to the infliction of pain and misery. God loving people seek joy and harmony and they get vaccinated to protect their fellow man as well as themselves.
These Unvaxxers are just the opposite. They reject God and seek maximum harm to his people. We have different religions that have different names for God, or Allah, or Jehovah, or The Lord that refer to the same entity but the entity that people worship is not God but the opposite of God.
These unvaxxers are Devil Worshippers.”
Coming soon to the MSM sock puppet near you!!
Should say, “the entity that these people worship”.
When the world is collapsing, the hygiene ideas are very actual. That is why Adolf Hitler was so popular during the given time.
because he kept his mustache well groomed?
The idea of “the clean race” and “ethnic cleansing” is nothing else than a pretense for the reduction of the population.
If you destroy people from the poor slums, there is no problem with hygiene anymore. But if you destroy the slums and the people move somewhere else and create a new slum because of poverty, the lack of hygiene persists.
The lack of hygiene is not a picture of the past backwardness, but the actual collapse.
The old age is not a picture of the past, but the actual senility and dementia.
hygiene is one of those things that would appear to be essential, but that is just a superficial view of the human condition.
the human race survived for many thousands of years without modern hygiene, and perhaps it will again starting in the near future.
They didn’t have modern hygiene, but they must have had ancient hygiene. Words such a clean, wash and dirty go back a long way.
Not everybody embraced hygiene. I know Asian countries have a long tradition of cleanliness (maybe to protect from tropical diseases) but in Europe they were quite proud of living with the animals in the house (to warm them up in winter), washing only once a year (a good layer of dirt stops the disease entering the body) and placing the toilet in the kitchen (so it sucks the bad air).
You can verify all of the above online.
What was the result? Europe had plagues which triggered the renaissance and the technological revolution (surplus food does that) PLUS Europeans developed immunity for many zoonotic diseases which allowed them to wipe out the Native Americans.
I can imagine a similar split in the future with a weakened population in Europe/North America etc being quickly dispatched by new diseases once the energy is not there for annual vaccines.
You may be right, but I think that it partly relates to the colder climate in Europe and North America, compared to the heavily populated part of Asia.
When it is cold, there is a need for heat, and this leads to animals being very nearby, or in, the house. I have seen houses built over the top of where animals lived.
Where it is warmer, more of the calories seem to come from plant products. Plants grow year around; there are fewer animals raised as food. People in cold areas raise animals partly because they provide a ready source of calories in the winter. This leads to the zoonotic disease problem.
They also perhaps have a greater need for the skins, hair, wool, bones and sinews from animals, as well as that warmth.
Richer northern farming people got through winter by slaughtering a pig per month; poorer families got by on one pig for the whole winter season.
North Africans like the Berbers also lived over their animals, with a hole in the floor to let the heat rise – the winters there can be very damp and bitter.
Hygienically-minded reformers in the early 20th-century had great difficulty in convincing peasants that they should open their windows to let in fresh air now and then – this was when the health-conscious rich slept with windows wide open or even on balconies, and took cold baths.
I have only ever known one person who took a cold bath every morning, a Frenchman who was perpetually sniffling…. Another Frenchman at the office rarely washed under his arms, as he believed it made him sexier -the girls were of the opposite opinion!
Tanzania’s Late President Magufuli: ‘Science Denier’ or Threat to Empire?
While his COVID-19 policies have dominated media coverage regarding his disappearance and suspicious death, Tanzania’s John Magufuli was hated by the Western elites for much more than his rebuke of lockdowns and mask mandates. In particular, his efforts towards nationalizing the country’s mineral wealth threatened to deprive the West of control over resources deemed essential to the new green economy.
Less than 2 weeks ago, Tanzanian Vice President Samia Suluhu Hassan delivered the news that her country’s president, John Pombe Magufuli, had died of heart failure. President Magufuli had been described as missing since the end of February, with several anti-government parties circulating stories that he had fallen ill with COVID-19. During his presidency, Magufuli had consistently challenged neocolonialism in Tanzania, whether it manifested through the exploitation of his country’s natural resources by predatory multinationals or the West’s influence over his country’s food supply.
In the months leading up to his death, Magufuli had become better known and particularly demonized in the West for opposing the authority of international organizations like the World Health Organization (WHO) in determining his government’s response to the COVID-19 crisis. However, Magufuli had spurned many of the same interests and organizations angered by his response to COVID for years, having kicked out Bill Gates-funded trials of genetically-modified crops and more recently angering some of the most powerful mining companies in the West, companies with ties to the World Economic Forum and the Forum’s efforts to guide the course of the 4th industrial revolution.
Indeed, more threatening than his recent COVID controversies was the threat Magufuli posed to foreign control over the world’s largest, ready-to-develop nickel deposit, a metal essential to electric car batteries and thus the current effort to usher in an electric, autonomous vehicle revolution. For instance, just a month before he disappeared, Magufuli had signed an agreement to begin developing that nickel deposit, a deposit that had been previously co-owned by Barrick Gold and Glencore, the commodity giant deeply tied to Israel’s Mossad, until Magufuli revoked their licenses for the project in 2018.
https://unlimitedhangout.com/2021/03/investigative-reports/tanzanias-late-president-magufuli-science-denier-or-threat-to-empire/
This is a very good, but very long, article. A person starts wondering if someone killed him, to get (steal) minerals from Tanzania at low taxes rates. In fact, the article seems to suggest the same thing is happening elsewhere. The articles we read in the West talk about how awful Magufuli was. If we believe the article, he was very popular in the country, because he looked out for his nations interests, rather than doing as mining companies would have him do, or as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation would have him do.
The final paragraphs of the report are good:
This by and from Whitney Webb’s website. She is an excellent journalist. One of very few remaining.
Strategic rivalry is going to make this much worse. An intelligent species response to this transient would be to throttle back and control births, reduce energy usage, and de-conflict ethnic differences.
Defense requires maintaining high energy consumption and continued technological complexity. With the pace of modern combat, we cannot afford to get killed in a drone swarm that lasts a few days. The pandemic may very well be a preparatory strike designed to destroy our industrial base.
The US is unique in that it is entirely possible for foreign supported enclaves to develop and hence become part of the battlefield in a future conflict.
Superb article, well worth reading.
Don’t anger Glencore and the Rothschilds – they want Tanzanian resources for ‘smart’ technologies – is the moral.
Magically, a ‘new variant’ has popped up in Tanzania: and so the narrative spreads its darkness into every corner of the earth.
Florida Gov. DeSantis says he’ll be taking executive action against “vaccine passports.”
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1376616022439030790
the Elders need to get their act together and get this man under control.
but they are quite the incompetent bunch.
For some, like the some homeless souls outside of Warsaw, Poland, going underground where heat pipes provide relief is a place to seek refuge…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=e42P7LzLvys
P.S. Police providing meals, not here in the US
I notice this video is from 2012, so it is not a new situation.
The financial crisis of 2008 never ended according to Lynn Alden article she penned….so this current crisis is really just an extension of the story.
Some folks never got relief…
The academic article I wrote with respect to the 2008 crash is called Oil Supply Limits and the Continuing Financial Crisis. The link is to a free version on Our Finite World. It has been cited by many other authors.
Thank you!😘
Business At The Capitol Grinds To A Halt After Biden Falls And Blocks Hallway
WASHINGTON D.C.—Disaster has struck Congress, as President Joe Biden has fallen sideways in the main Capitol hallway and become stuck, blocking all Congressional business. Congressional staffers heard Biden gibbering incoherently, so he seems fine other than the fact that he’s stuck.
“Has he tried standing up?” Representative Jerry Nadler suggested.
“Yes, he’s tried!” Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi answered. “But has anyone tried kicking him? Like kicking him so hard in the back he spins a bit and becomes unstuck?”
“I was kicking him, but it didn’t work,” said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.
“We have to destroy the walls and then he’ll have room to become unstuck,” Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez stated. She then pulled out the hammer and sickle she always carries and started to attack the hallway walls. “Destroy all the walls!”
“Can’t we just step over him?” suggested Senator Ted Cruz.
“You can’t step over the president!” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer responded. “It’s disrespectful.”
“What if we built a stairway over him?” Senator Bernie Sanders asked. “I bet we could do it for under $300 billion.”
“How are we supposed to pass a $300 billion stairway project if we can’t get to the Senate chambers where I store my gavel, ya dumb-dumb?” shot back Schumer.
“We have to face facts,” declared Vice-President Kamala Harris grimly. “The only way we’re going to free up the hallway is to blow up Biden with dynamite.”
“That was your suggestion when he wouldn’t budge on the minimum wage!” said Schumer.
If Biden continues to be stuck, politicians fear that so many spending bills will now be blocked that the country could start to lose its deficit, setting a dangerous precedent.
https://babylonbee.com/news/biden-has-fallen-sideways-in-capitol-hallway-blocking-all-congressional-business
I presume this is a different version of “The Onion.”
Yes, but with more of an evangelical Protestant focus.
I am reminding of the Kuwaiti Ambassador’s daughter in To Sell a War….
Check out the video
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/right-now-im-scared-cdc-director-chokes-back-tears-she-fearmongers-impending-doom
Then
https://youtu.be/yaR1YBR5g6U?t=34
Just pinged an American mate/CovIDIOT to say I TOLD YOU SO!… When they started to relax and he was telling me I told you so (as in the US was returning to normal) I said you just wait… the variants will emerge and they will use that to smash your hopium … and make people desperate for the vax… so desperate that they will even sign up their kids even though kids dont die from covid and they can still catch it even if they take the vax (lethal injection actually)
Then I asked him if he wanted me to choose some lottery numbers for him.
Senator Markey, Rep. Khanna Introduce the “Investing in Vaccines Before Missiles (ICBM) Act”
Legislation stops development of the Pentagon’s new $93-96 billion intercontinental ballistic missile and redirects savings this fiscal year towards development of a universal coronavirus vaccine
Washington (March 26, 2021) – Today, Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on East Asia, and Representative Ro Khanna (CA-17), Member of the House Armed Services Committee, introduced the Investing in Cures Before Missiles (ICBM) Act. The ICBM Act would stop the further development of the Pentagon’s new $93-96 billion ground-based strategic deterrent (GBSD) intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) and direct those savings towards development of a universal coronavirus vaccine, as Senator Markey called for in February, and towards the battle against other types of biothreats.
“The United States should invest in a vaccine of mass prevention before another new land-based weapon of mass destruction,” said Chairman Markey. “The ICBM Act makes clear that we can begin to phase out the Cold War nuclear posture that risks accidental nuclear war while still deterring adversaries and assuring allies, and redirect those savings to the clear and present dangers posed by coronaviruses and other emerging and infectious diseases. The devastation sown by COVID-19 would pale in comparison to that of even a limited nuclear war. The ICBM Act signals that we intend to make the world safe from nuclear weapons and prioritize spending that saves lives, rather than ends them.”
“With all of the global challenges we face, the last thing we should be doing is giving billions to defense contractors to build missiles we don’t need to keep as a strong nuclear deterrence,” said Representative Ro Khanna. “Proud to introduce this important legislation with Senator Markey in a bicameral effort to bring back some semblance of rationality into our defense spending and common sense in our nuclear modernization policy. The GBSD program is unneeded and projected to cost $100 billion, there is simply no logical reason to allow the program to move forward. For much cheaper, we can extend the lifespan of the Minuteman III missiles we already have and instead focus on investing in the urgent national security threat in front of us: the COVID-19 pandemic.”
https://www.markey.senate.gov/news/press-releases/senator-markey-rep-khanna-introduce-the-investing-in-vaccines-before-missiles-icbm-act
In Venezuela’s survival economy, local taxes become latest challenge for business
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan mayors desperate for cash are levying hefty tax hikes and launching aggressive collection campaigns that have spurred complaints from businesses already struggling to stay afloat in an economy battered by economic crisis and the global pandemic.
Bills for local taxes and municipal services, which were for years so cheap that business hardly noticed them, have over the last year jumped to thousands of dollars per month. In some cases, that has led to legal disputes and incarcerations.
It is the latest chapter in President Nicolas Maduro’s abrupt liberalization of Venezuela’s economy as U.S. sanctions ushered in an end to generous subsidies and price caps that kept goods and services artificially cheap.
That liberalization has also largely halted federal transfers of oil revenue to municipalities that had for decades kept local governments’ coffers full.
The situation creates another challenge for businesses that are barely surviving hyperinflation and Venezuela’s six-year recession by effectively linking local taxes and municipal services to the greenback.
“Because the government doesn’t give them money to do what they need to do, the municipalities are trying to make taxation their source of revenue,” said tax consultant Hector Orochena.
“Business now face economic insecurity because there’s no way to know how high the dollar will go.”
In the industrial city of Valencia, one merchant said the mayor’s office billed his business $5,200 in taxes for 2020 – more than his total profits for a year in which his business was shuttered for eight months due to the pandemic.
A single municipal tax rose 9,481% in 2020, he added. The municipal government of Valencia did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-taxes/in-venezuelas-survival-economy-local-taxes-become-latest-challenge-for-business-idUSKBN2BL250
Norway readies first offshore wind tenders to spur oil industry transition
OSLO (Reuters) – Norway will press ahead with North Sea wind power this year, awarding its first development licences as it spurs the transition of its oil and gas industry and despite its already plentiful renewables supply.
The government has earmarked two areas in the North Sea for up to 4.5 gigawatts of floating and bottom-fixed wind turbine capacity, just under half the current installed capacity in Britain, Europe’s offshore wind leader.
Norway does not actually need offshore wind farms for power – nearly all its electricity comes from renewables already – but instead sees the sector as a means of helping its vast oil and gas industry secure a new, low-carbon business model for the future.
Oslo will present details of the tender this spring as part of a white paper on the energy sector, and first wind farms could be in operation by the end of the decade.
Many details remain unclear but the process should follow oil and gas exploration procedures where typically seabed rent is not charged.
Norway, western Europe’s largest oil and gas producer, is examining how it can adapt its petroleum industry.
Norway’s Equinor and several other European oil firms including Total, BP and Shell have announced plans to massively scale up their renewable power portfolios, often focusing on offshore wind, as they seek to reduce reliance on oil to satisfy stakeholders and meet climate targets.
“We believe that especially offshore resources offer all the prerequisites to succeed. We have the knowledge, the experience, we have a good track record from establishing and building advanced installation in tough conditions far out at sea,” NOG oil lobby boss Anniken Hauglie told Reuters.
“We now need to use the time to build up new industries, new value chains, that will over time become the new legs for Norway to stand on,” she said.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-norway-offshore/norway-readies-first-offshore-wind-tenders-to-spur-oil-industry-transition-idUSKBN2BL1U1
How much intermittent electricity can really be sold, and at what price? Using Norway’s hydroelectric to back it up will leave less hydro for backing up other intermittent electricity elsewhere. Lots of transmission lines are needed to take it away from Norway. I thought that they were getting filled as well.
P-F Bach writes about the intermittent energy bottlenecks that have been occurring in Europe already. Prices for traded intermittent electricity drop very low. Southern Sweden needs more electricity, but its transmission lines are very inadequate. There is also a problem with the major interconnecting transmission lines getting filled.
Green New Deal seeks to ‘control humanity’ under guise of a crisis
It is amazing how much Bernie looks like the guy behind the curtain in Oz scaring the wits out of Dorothy, et al. Actually it was written as a parody on the gold standard and the fight among politicians, farmers, industry and academics. As usual once exposed – politicians just click their heals and head back to Kansas.
Sorry folks but not much has changed since then. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.
Transitioning to renewable-energy sources(Green New Deal) is also a fictional story that fails to address how much energy will need to replaced by these devices and the extent of non-renewable materials and minerals needed to manufacture, maintain and transport these devices, plus the net negative impact on agricultural production. Until someone sits down and does the hard arithmetic and how long the yellow brick road can all be sustained .
Until we pencil-out some real evidence based numbers, repeat and sing along with me –
“We are off to see the Wizard, the wonderful Wizard of Oz… ”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZR64EF3OpA
https://images.app.goo.gl/dGqs9sWU3yEJcSYC6
“Hungary is the country in the European Union (EU) with the highest number of vaccinated population, but the third worst in the world in number of deaths by Covid-19 – 2,067 deaths per million inhabitants, according to the Our World in Data platform , after San Marino (2,475) and the Czech Republic (2,416).” …
“Hungary’s positive record in this area has failed to prevent the third wave from sparking a record new cases and deaths in the country.”
https://observador.pt/2021/03/29/covid-19-hungria-e-o-primeiro-pais-da-ue-em-vacinacao-e-o-terceiro-em-mortes-por-um-milhao-de-habitantes-no-mundo/
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/hungary/
Ever more clear that the ‘3rd wave’ is created by vaccinations. Interesting to see how they will try to cover this up.
I’m afraid they don’t even need to cover it up. They can just ignore it. If it is not reported, it does not exist.
Anyway, people are conditioned, through decades of schooling, to trust the authorities and not to ask difficult questions.
Biden boosts offshore wind energy, wants to power 10M homes
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is ramping up efforts to sharply increase offshore wind energy along the East Coast, announcing progress on a huge wind farm planned off the New Jersey coast and setting a goal to generate enough power to provide electricity for more than 10 million homes by 2030.
Meeting the target could create jobs for more than 44,000 workers and employ nearly 33,000 others related to offshore wind activity, the White House said Monday. The effort also would help avoid 78 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions per year, a key step in the administration’s fight to slow global warming.
President Joe Biden “believes we have an enormous opportunity in front of us to not only address the threats of climate change, but use it as a chance to create millions of good-paying, union jobs that will fuel America’s economic recovery,” said White House climate adviser Gina McCarthy. “Nowhere is the scale of that opportunity clearer than for offshore wind.”
The administration’s commitment to the still untapped industry “will create pathways to the middle class for people from all backgrounds and communities,” she added.
https://news.yahoo.com/biden-boosts-offshore-wind-energy-170904769.html
It becomes ever-more threadbare, doesn’t it? The Green Dream.
The subsidy junkies make off with the loot, the large numbers of middle-class (?) jobs never really appear, and the oceans are junked up with fast-decaying turbines….
This is the problem with devising policies in the closed circle, the echo-chamber, of Davos-WEF – real world results are very poor indeed.
I suspect this is the way it happened… Al Gore was approached about making that movie…
He said — ok I’ll do it but if we are going to fake GW and push into fake renewable energy … to provide hopium to the masses… I want some of that subsidy cash….
Elon Musk … when approached about the third leg of the dodgy chair… drove a harder bargain .. he wanted to take control of Tesla and be given carbon subsidies and a guarantee that no matter how badly he ran the business… the Fed’s plunge protection team would be standing by to drive the share price higher… creating a perpetual prosperity machine … and fund managers would hold their noses and jump onto the machine….
He also wanted high quality pills… uncut blow… hookers…. and a few romps with hollywood bimbos or his choice.. oh did I already say hookers?
Fast Eddy – are you just throwing darts or what? Trying to recreate the wheel? The heavy-lifting has already been done on the Muskrat. You gotta stop watching those videos of millionaires in their working-class garages.
http://mileswmathis.com/musk.pdf
https://patriotssoapbox.com/opinion/elon-musk-the-illusionist/#:~:text=One%20researcher%20and%20blogger%20%28Miles%20Mathis%29%20looking%20into,pic.twitter.com%2FpHd52YTZD2%20%E2%80%94%20Elon%20Musk%20%28%40elonmusk%29%20July%2012%2C%202018
I wonder what offshore wind would cost with union pay scales.
Indeed says that a wind turbine technician’s average base salary is $21.52 per hour. If these are folks putting up wind turbines, they are constantly moving from place to place. They are always away from home. They can only work when weather conditions are adequate.
If these folks are living more or less onsite, to take care of the constant repairs needed by the offshore wind turbines, there is more stability to the job, but it tells you that these are devices that require constant input of human labor (as well as replacement parts). They are not devices that work on their own, indefinitely into the future.
Denmark found exactly the same thing. Their offshore wind turbines need regular inspection, itself an expensive and dangerous job, just to determine whether or not they need maintenance. As jy happens, many of them did, because their vertical supports were underdesigned for coping with lateral forces; the designers forgot that wind turbines generate huge lateral forces. (It’s called the Law of Conservation of Momentum.)
Brings me back to my favourite instance of real green design: many windmills still standing and working in early 20th century England had main working parts dating back to the 15th-century. By chance I found a fascinating and detailed book on the subject by an enthusiast.
The only problem which was encountered as wooden mill technology spread from the 12th-century age of expansion was getting some of the bigger timbers.
For buildings, too, these often came from the Baltic region at even that early date, a well-established trade. British wood was often inferior in quality, and smaller.
Offshore wind turbines,and terrestrial ones, by way of contrast, seem to be destined to be junk practically from the moment they are erected. Just like panels, inverters, etc.
‘When all want sense, God takes a text and preacheth Patience’
Xabier, mediaeval windmills were resistant to high winds because their sails would automatically partially “feather”. Modern wind turbines cannot do that; they are either fully on or fully off. That means they are useless in low winds, and useless in high winds. Modern overcomplicated technology strikes again.
And the ignorant bureaucrats who insist on siting the windmills in regions of high wind are, as usual, compounding the problem.
UK Now Considering Digital Face Scanning to Enter Pubs
The UK government is funding companies that are producing technology which will utilize digital face scans to check people’s vaccination status and allow or block them from entering pubs, stadiums and other venues.
“Britons could have their faces scanned to allow them to access pubs, gigs and sports events under one government-funded plan being drawn up for vaccine passports,” reports the London Times.
Two companies – Mvine and iProov – are working together on the system after being given a £75,000 grant by the government having already worked with the NHS on facial recognition technology in the form of the contact tracing app.
The technology is being proposed as a solution to concerns that presenting vaccination status via an app on a phone will be too slow when multiple people are entering a busy venue.
“Whoever is standing on the door of the pub is going to have to scan the certificate, read the name and date of birth, then ask the person for an ID document, check that the name and date of birth on the ID document are the same, squint at the photograph on the ID document and then make sure that the person in front of them is that person,” iProov CEO Andrew Bud said. “To which the answer is, that’s not going to happen.”
https://summit.news/2021/03/29/uk-now-considering-digital-face-scanning-to-enter-pubs/
I am resigned to never again drinking in the lovely 18th-century front room of The Eagle in Cambridge (no music!) where Crick and Watson used to imbibe.
So be it. I will still be free.
Facial scanning is state of the art technology in human livestock control. Chinese farmers are quite happy with this progressive experience, and their cattle (although mute) seems to be happy too.
One is told countless times that the Chinese are a very happy nation: of course they are, as murder by the state no longer occurs there in millions these days.
Grateful for small mercies, that’s what they are…..
This article about the WEF mentions a featured “stakeholder”, Victoria Alonsoperez, “founder and CEO of Chipsafer, Uruguay, and a Young Global Leader”
https://braveneweurope.com/norbert-haring-the-world-economic-forum-is-planning-the-great-reset-to-prevent-it-from-happening
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CHIPSAFER
Patented platform that can track and detect anomalies in cattle behaviour at any time and place.
TAKING CARE OF YOUR LIVESTOCK
We transform the data gathered with our sensors into actionable information. The farmer can access all the information through his personal account.
FARMING TECHNOLOGY
Do you want to know what your livestock is doing while no one is watching? Chipsafer will show you.
https://www.chipsafer.com/
LOL. How appropriate!
Wonderful find, Lidia. Moo, baa, etc………
“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
― George Orwell, closing sentence from Animal Farm
It’s one of those Orwells that end well!!
The UK must be a great deal more coordinated with their vaccination effort than the US, to make this work. The US seems to have a different plan in each of the 50 states. Many different groups are giving the vaccine out (pharmacies in grocery stores, an outdoor booth at the university nearby, many different assisted living and nursing homes, some hospitals and physician groups.) I can’t believe that they are keeping adequate records to know who has had what with respect to vaccines.
PR Team Director —- so what have you got for me today team?
We’ve got a CDC director nearly bawling and saying ‘I’m Scared’…. then she reads of the teleprompter “I’m going to reflect on the recurring feeling I have of impending doom,”
This was prepping the general mass of CovIDIOTS for the next round of lockdowns … we’ll start the fake PRC testing in a couple of weeks to drive up the numbers….
Have you got the MSM outlets ready for this?
Yes they have been informed they need to go to Level 10 Fear .. red alert… ultra hype…
Good .. good… anything else?
Yes.. we are targeting the boozers with this app that scans their faces and cross references with our dbase of people who have the LI (lethal injection)…. we actually can’t do that because it’s too complicated but we are saying we will … and that’s enough to get the sousers to get the LI because they are both stupid and alcoholics…
Very good…. I’d like to see Team C push harder on getting parents to LI their children… our polling is showing there is still strong resistance to that…. let’s meet here again on Friday and I’ll be looking for a broader plan that will throw a bit more fright into them… Not to tell you how to do your job but remember that child we strangled then tossed on the beach during the Syrian thing? Let’s set the bar on that level…
But there are no children dying of Covid chief… blurts out a junior member of the team…
The director glowers at him and shouts — Well then…. yu get out there and snatch a kid and make it happen. You take a pillow and you smother it. If that bothers you then maybe you shouldn’t be on the team … you can go back to pushing Barbie Dolls….
Facial recognition uses supposedly stable facial metrics that have been known for well over a century (they even appear in a couple of Murdoch Mysteries episodes). Length of nose, shape of ears, distance between eyes, …
However, they can all be subverted by simple cosmetic tools: slightly heavier earrings, nose ring (or nose shield) classic Egyptian eye makeup, … And to do it accurately you need high resolution cameras, preferably two of them for stereoscopic vision. Can’t be done.
Not far-fetched, FE, I agree: they have already thrown hundreds of millions into misery, killed many others, etc, so to kill some little children in order to reinforce the flagging narrative and start a panic will not be beyond them.
We’ve already had the ‘2nd Wave’ stories of more young adults ending up in ICU’s. Time for these psychos to step it up.
This is, after all, organised by those who merrily destroy whole countries forever – Iraq, Libya, etc.
Nothing in the spectrum of evil is beyond them.
Unless they have watched this (and read the book) and 100% agree…. they won’t be considered for a position in The Ministry:
https://youtu.be/IHcqIl8vT44
Far-right extremists in the US move from ‘stop the steal’ to stop the vaccine
Adherents of US far-right groups who cluster online have turned repeatedly to one particular website in recent weeks — the federal database showing deaths and adverse reactions nationwide among people who have received COVID-19 vaccinations.
Although negative reactions have been relatively rare, the numbers are used by many extremist groups to try to bolster a rash of false and alarmist disinformation in articles and videos with titles like “COVID-19 Vaccines Are Weapons of Mass Destruction — and Could Wipe out the Human Race” or “Doctors and Nurses Giving the COVID-19 Vaccine Will be Tried as War Criminals.”
If the so-called “Stop the Steal” movement appeared to be chasing a lost cause once President Joe Biden was inaugurated, its supporters among extremist organisations are now adopting a new agenda from the anti-vaccination campaign to try to undermine the government.
Bashing of the safety and efficacy of vaccines is occurring in chat rooms frequented by all manner of right-wing groups including the Proud Boys; the Boogaloo movement, a loose affiliation known for wanting to spark a second Civil War; and various paramilitary organisations.
These groups tend to portray vaccines as a symbol of excessive government control. “If less people get vaccinated then the system will have to use more aggressive force on the rest of us to make us get the shot,” read a recent post on the Telegram social media platform, in a channel linked to members of the Proud Boys charged in storming the Capitol.
The marked focus on vaccines is particularly striking on discussion channels populated by followers of QAnon, who had falsely prophesied that Donald Trump would continue as president while his political opponents were marched off to jail.
“They rode the shift in the national conversation away from Mr Trump to what was happening with the massive ramp up in vaccines,” said Devin Burghart, the head of the Seattle-based Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights, which monitors far-right movements, referring to followers of QAnon. “It allowed them to pivot away from the failure of their previous prophecy to focus on something else.”
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/far-right-extremists-in-the-us-move-from-stop-the-steal-to-stop-the-vaccine
When the only people left supporting the Nuremberg Code and the Hippocratic Oath are demonised as “far right extremists”, you know that your Constitution and your traditional liberties are doomed. Welcome to the Empire, “where the strong do what they will, and the weak endure what they must”.
Robert – thought you’d appreciate this link.
Joel Barlow in the 1790’s informed us in eloquent language what the Elite of the time thought about constitutions in his essay ‘Advice to the Privileged Orders’.
Chapter 5 – Revenues and Expenditures – is instructive as to what was really on in the minds of the Cosmopolitans back then regarding such documents as merely means to ends. That would suggest that many literate men of the time also knew quite well what was going on here.
https://books.google.com/books?id=nGAOAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
Barlow’s Wiki page elaborates further on his global cavorting for the “America” dream. That last bit from Goeztmann’s 2009 book ‘Beyond the Revolution’ sure adds some color to their visions of grandeur. They’re getting pretty close to that nowadays I suspect; metaphorically or otherwise.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Barlow
Thank you: informative and, indeed, prescient.
BAU is set FREE…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rs4RSdCWjPk
Collapse has been averted….we get to post comments here for another day!
Five weeks to go. A Scottish poll for the Express over the weekend showed the usual, SNP set for a majority, and majority support for independence.
> Tories fear Welsh independence push if Labour loses power in May’s elections
Cabinet ministers fear that the Cardiff government will insist on holding a Welsh independence referendum if Labour loses power in May’s elections.
The most likely outcome of the May 6 poll is a three-way split between Labour, the Tories and Plaid Cymru, with no party getting close enough to a majority of 60 seats.
Plaid Cymru disclosed on Times Radio yesterday that a referendum for Wales to split away from the UK will be central to its election campaign. Adam Price, the Welsh nationalist party’s leader, ruled out governing with the Tories in Wales. He is expected to insist on a vote for independence as his price to prop up a minority Labour government in Cardiff.
Senior Tories believe that Mark Drakeford, the Labour leader, will accept the demand as the only way to hold onto power. The issue has been discussed at cabinet level recently. The scenario leaves the UK government facing the prospect of two simultaneous demands for independence referendums.
Support for Welsh independence has tripled in eight years. In 2013, 10 per cent of the population supported it, but a poll by Savanta ComRes for ITV News this month found that 39 per cent of Welsh people would vote “yes” — the highest support for it so far.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/tories-fear-welsh-independence-push-if-labour-loses-power-in-may-s-elections-wqp2hc8mj
Sinn Fein has increased its lead in the south, with over 30% support in the latest poll. It is established as the opposition party there, and it is possible that SF will lead governments in both jurisdictions come 2025. It need gain but one seat in the north. Former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern has suggested 2028, the 30th anniversary of the GFA, for a border poll.
> Sinn Fein strengthens position as Ireland’s most popular political party in new opinion poll
Sinn Fein has strengthened its position as Ireland’s most popular political party according to the latest opinion poll put together by Ireland Thinks for the Mail on Sunday.
The party now represents the preferred choice among 30.5% of the Irish public, according to the new poll, up 2.5% on the figure reported back in February.
https://www.irishpost.com/news/sinn-fein-strengthens-position-as-irelands-most-popular-political-party-in-new-opinion-poll-207005
Any Sinn Fein government will last a year at most before we get the IMF in again. I’ll take their madcap economic plans as a cue to avoid tax by taking life easy. What’s the point in paying 70% tax? Work to the limit, then relax. Some truly loathsome individuals in that party.
A friend of mine, very proud of being Welsh, simply loathes Welsh nationalism as it forced her to waste a lot of time on compulsory Welsh lessons: ‘What’s the point, when Shakespeare wrote in English?!’ She happily calls herself British.
The irony of it, the better that TP and the UKIP spin off do, the more seats that they take from LP, the more likely an LP-Plaid agreement. TP has no chance of winning in Wales, and their only possible effect is to get PC into power. TP and UKIP will be out campaigning hard LOL.
Gave BAU an hour downtime….how thoughtful
HOLLYWOOD, FLA. (WSVN) – It was lights out for some cities around the world in observance of Earth Hour, and South Florida was no exception.
The Guitar Hotel at the Seminole Hard Rock took part in the yearly observance with its own light display going dark.
Across the country, iconic landmarks like the Empire State Building, and the Seattle Space Needle also went dark.
Makes one feel so much better we observed Earth Hour!
In Quest of a Multipolar Economic World Order
A transcript of a webinar featuring Michael Hudson (American Economist) and Pepe Escobar (an editor for the Asia Times).
Zerohedge summarizes this webinar as follows:
The interview brings up the fact that Russia and China are definitely not on board with the Great Reset. It brings up the role of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization among other things. It doesn’t get into the role of energy, unfortunately.
Hudson says, ” There is a basic incompatibility between a rentier society controlled by the finance and real estate interests – and military interests – and an industrial democracy.”
Escobar says,
Thank you, Gail. This looks like something I should read and enjoy. On my schedule for tomorrow.
I shared this with a FB group, and got the following question. Can anyone help?
“Let’s take a look at Financial engineering? What happened when these funds start to run out? To make money, there needs to be freedom to grow. I don’t see how financial engineering will do this with out growth. Am I missing something?”
War? Theft? Cannibalism?
Big Pharma invests in coercion and fraud and dirty deals with regulators, rather than make decent products…..
The richest Czech, a billionaire Petr Kellner, dies in Alaska:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/29/us/helicopter-crash-alaska.html
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/03/29/business/petr-kellner-helicopter-crash/index.html
And in Slovakia, the government crisis is solved by swapping the Prime Minister with the Minister of Finance.
Slovak PM to quit, swap role with finance minister to end crisis
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/3/28/slovakia-pm-matovic-to-resign-with-finance-minister-to-end-crisis
The company Home Credit of the deceased Petr Kellner provides consumer loans in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Russia, Kazakhstan, China and India. Another company from his portfolio is Škoda Transportation, which produces trams and trains.
Well, from the description he seemed to reinvest at least something out of the wild privatization schemes of the early 90s into productive enterprises (generally only few survived), but the ~shark loaning biz was controversial (forced personal bankruptcies on the borrowers etc.). Nevertheless there was also his ~token positive influence by financing anti Soros-jugend politics in the wider EU-CEE..
Only 56 years old in Alaska using a Helicopter as a ski ⛷️ lift from the mountains!?
Didn’t this guy learn a lesson from Basketball 🏀 great Kobe Bryant?
Helicopters are the riskiest even in good normal terrain. Just ask all the traffic news reporters that have died on the job while scanning the freeways!
Well, Mister D is the great equalizer of us all, regardless. You get up and take your chances.
Me, I prefer the Swiss Alps, myself
One of the most dismal and pointless of all deaths, a helicopter crash while reporting on traffic. Imagine their last thoughts. No, it was not worth it……
Until you sit in a helicopter yourself zooming in the magnificent alpine scenery hoping for the technowizardry to continue and skiing to be omitted.
Skiing is boring compared with kerosene burning and noisy birds.
Gotta get that UL-B cert before I throw in the towel.
https://youtu.be/eP8t3gSA-jI
Rich doesn’t seem to equate to “taking only prudent risks.”
Supposedly he was judged by others as to be very risk averse guy. It depends on perspective, occasionally spotted on a bicycle with no security detail etc.. small potato after-all ~50B corp value (~10B personal wealth/stake) that’s nothing in today’s world, third tier billionaire specimen.. lolz
Lehman was leveraged 30 times to what it owned when it crashed.
European an Japanese banks are today leveraged up to 100 times.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ExoUzFvWEAAjyIY?format=jpg&name=medium
“Credit Suisse and Nomura have warned of large losses after a fire sale of about $20bn of Chinese and US stocks, as their client Archegos Capital Management was forced into a huge unwinding of assets…
“Bankers in Tokyo familiar with the circumstances surrounding the heavy sell-off of Archegos assets described the event as a possible “Lehman moment” that would force multiple lenders to recognise that leverage extended to the fund had created excessive risk.”
https://www.ft.com/content/073509cd-fe45-44d2-afac-cace611b6900
“Executives at the Zurich-based bank are warning that damages from a line of funds managed with now-insolvent Greensill may rise to $3 billion, according to the Financial Times…
“This is more than the 2.67 billion Swiss francs ($2.85 billion) in net profit the bank generated last year.”
https://www.finews.com/news/english-news/45630-credit-suisse-greensill-thomas-gottstein-lex-greensill-david-mathers-damages
$3 billion is far more than Greensill was claiming a day or two would tide it over, until it could get more credit to solve its problems. (IIRC, what it wanted as 170 million pounds).
Vaccine is worthless
COVID-19: Cases of vaccine-resistant variant more than doubles in B.C.
https://vancouversun.com/news/covid-19-cases-of-vaccine-resistant-variant-more-than-doubles-in-b-c
This is happening all over the world. Beginning last fall when the mass vaccination campaigns started up – leading into the Winter – we now see the variants spreading in the same areas one by one in terms of their reporting it as the hospitals fill up again and deaths rocket back up. This ‘wave’ is clearly vaccine-induced and there’s a general panic amongst higher level health officials who are facing the gallows if they admit this.
The US is yet to make it all front page news because they have target vaccine numbers to reach. It’s just like it was ‘in the beginning’ – the US being the last to really acknowledge anything bad happening. Right now, it’s programming the public to believe, falsely, that the injections are going to keep them healthy and allow them ‘back to normal’.
There is no mass testing going on now like last year due to the false sense of belief that the injections have ended it – that the people aren’t really sick – and it’s just a matter of ‘tick tocks’ to get it all going again.
But the reality is far different, as the vaccinated masses are falling ill again and the testing for the variants is taking place at a slower rate as individuals seek treatment here and there.
It’s going to get alot worse as the months roll on with more and more succumbing and getting the bad news. The ‘authorities’ are in denial at the moment – faced with following the ‘open up the economy’ protocols that lead to nowhere – or having to maintain things as they have been – keeping their ‘machine’ close to idle status and having to pony up the funds to support the population through this period.
We, who have stayed at least slightly saner, can look on at this very obviously vaccine-induced wave with no little satisfaction. Unless we end up as the scapegoats, of course…..
Hint:
T Cells.
No change
(You probably don’t know what I’m pointing out)
I bow to your immense wisdom.
But still won’t allow myself to be injected – repeatedly – by these fraudsters.
That is my right as a free man.
When people do not know what being sick or healthy means, a vaccine can not solve this diconnect. At least it stays in place. It might even be excarbated by more psychological complications. “Does the vaccine work?” “What does work mean?”
“Less severe symptoms” mean the natural healing processes of the body are disturbed. If this is deemed a succes is in the eye of the beholder.
An astute observation: the suppression of symptoms is not true good health!
‘Vaccines’ are, however, 100% effective at filling certain bank accounts.
But Brazil (where the P1 mutation came from) didn’t have a high vaccination rate. And I am not sure that Vancouver did either.
What can an area really do about the mutations? Shut down the economy to try to “save” the medical system?
Simple–
Have enough vaccinations, to slow the mutation rate.
No issues yet, but RNA viruses are eventually going to win with an unvaccinated public.
I have no issues there, as it will eliminate the less fit, and have a healthier population– however, the ignorance does enhance mutation.
But Duncan .. the ‘vaccine’ does not provide immunity to covid. That’s the problem with leaky vaccines https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/tthis-chicken-vaccine-makes-virus-dangerous
Interesting find! I am afraid all of these vaccines just keep people from getting very sick with the disease, but they can still pass it on. This is a very strange situation.
People with only slight symptoms passing on new variants seems like the very worst option of all.
And let us not forget for one moment, they intend to put this crap into children and newborns!
The evil of these people passes all limits.
Here is an insightful video re: Vitamin D where groups with higher VD deficiencies, older folks, people of color, and those living over the 35th parallel have greater risks of contracting respiratory diseases -generally. These clinical conclusions are bearing out under the current COVID pandemic; begging the question – have we missed a risk mitigation opportunity here that has been ignored despite many years of affirming clinical studies? How many lives could have been saved?
I’ll be a bit cynical here – sunshine is free, but drugs cost money and make obscene profits for a few. They clearly prefer money over sunshine. They are also the ones telling the story. Interesting – let’s eat their apple..
https://youtu.be/ha2mLz-Xdpg
Do we really need these seemingly temporary vaccines or would target risk management with VD and other mitigates be a more effective approach – it is certainly a policy issue not under discourse in Canada or elsewhere. Why? Could it be the money?
Moreover, that discourse could also include other risk mitigates such as sleep, diet, sugar, fitness, BMI, drugs and alcohol plus stress management. But where are the HUGE usurious profits in these decisions and actions?
What was it that tall lawyer fella from Illinois once said about fooling folks all the time? Hmm… I wonder..
Well, 95% on the mRNA is ok with me.
Plus 100% protection against death or severe disease .
But I’m all for eliminating the less fit and intellectually deficient.
“But I’m all for eliminating the less fit and intellectually deficient.”
It appears the intellectually deficient are those who have fallen for this virus hoax.
Yes… I am with you on that…
Anyone who thinks a ‘vaccine’ that has been developed in under a year … when it takes over a decade to test and determine the safety of a vaccine….
Well.. that is the definition of mental deficiency…. and the sooner such people are eliminated from the gene pool…. the better…
I now understand why they want to give this to under 18’s … you really need to get to the CovIDIOTS before they breed….
And not just one vaccine. It seems any pharmaceutical company that desires it can come up with a “safe and effective” vaccine in record quick time. Funny how a fake pandemic focuses the mind!
I do wonder if all the vaccines are, in fact, the same.
Duncan, we agree eliminate the less fit and stupid. I will keep up my vitamin D and be happy.
It wouldn’t surprise me one bit if these so called ‘vaccines’ consists of salt water mixed with some vitamins and minerals.
How funny wouldn’t that be; raking in the profits from salt water jabs.
🤣👍
The virus is so weak that it will eliminate only the elderly and senile.
You seem to desire a Nazi purification of the population – how like a true Leftist.
Are you in favour of pumping this crap into babies, and children, too, Duncan,when they are at no risk at all? And the perfectly healthy young who are at very little risk?
Perhaps if you reflect a little you will see the moral outrageousness of this policy.
Duncan is peddling polarization.
Why give a shit about dumb ass western IC “CDC” shenanigans? The only thing you need to know is this:
Country: Taiwan,
Number of covid deaths: eight
Number of lockdowns: zero
Number of curfews: zero
Shits given (about WHO): zero
Damns given (about exterminating the virus): all-in
Second wave: EZ
Third wave: u serious… 🤔
N’th wave: i see… 🥱
Do we need vaxxing?
Ask Tsai Ing-Wen.
Only incompetent and corrupt western muppets wield jabs, lockdowns and curfews. Masters don’t fuck around, they execute according to _THE_ plan. Not because they give a shit, rather because they can. The damns, shits and giggles then arrive by default.
Gail, we only have 10% of our population vaccinated. Way too early to say if the vaccines are useless against these variants.
Those 215 cases of the Brazilian variant did put us back in lockdown mode as of midnight tonight.
I particularly like the part where obama and springsteen sit down for a chat…. two ‘massive’ rebels hahaha…
This applies to covid — it’s a gargantuan sea of lies… yet people discuss these vaccines…as if they are actually vaccines… and purposed to protect them hahaha….
They do that even though they know it takes many years to develop and test a vaccine to ensure it’s safe… and they are even willing to give this toxic shit to their children hahahaha
Fantastic. Eat the poison you stooopid borg… I can even inform you that it is poison (and so can Mike Yeadon)… but you gulp it down greedily because it’s sweetened with PR!!!
https://off-guardian.org/2021/03/21/media-pseudo-debates-and-the-silence-of-leftist-critics/
Sadly, that’s how moronic our species is. Any doubts that may still remain in this regard have been completely smashed in the past 12 months.
PR (and state violence) steers the human herd. And Homo stupidus-carbonicus will be H. stupidus-carbonicus.
It would make Edward Bernays proud, the “mental intercourse” the CovIDIOTS have willing accepted.
If humans are THIS stoooopid then might Bernays (and Freud) have been correct in asserting that it was imperative that they be controlled?
There is that….