We live in a world where words are very carefully chosen. Companies hire public relations firms to give just the right “spin” to what they are saying. Politicians make statements which suggest that everything is going well. Newspapers would like their advertisers to be happy; they certainly won’t suggest that the automobile you purchase today may be of no use to you in five years.
I believe that what has happened in recent years is that the “truth” has become very dark. We live in a finite world; we are rapidly approaching limits of many kinds. For example, there is not enough fresh water for everyone, including agriculture and businesses. This inadequate water supply is now tipping over into inadequate food supply in quite a few places because irrigation requires fresh water. This problem is, in a sense, an energy problem, because adding more irrigation requires more energy supplies used for digging deeper wells or making desalination plants. We are reaching energy scarcity issues not too different from those of World War I, World War II and the Depression Era between the wars.
We now live in a strange world filled with half-truths, not too different from the world of the 1930s. US newspapers leave out the many stories that could be written about rising food insecurity around the world, and even in the US. We see more reports of conflicts among countries and increasing gaps between the rich and the poor, but no one explains that such changes are to be expected when energy consumption per capita starts falling too low.
The majority of people seem to believe that all of these problems can be fixed simply by increasingly taxing the rich and using the proceeds to help the poor. They also believe that the biggest problem we are facing is climate change. Very few are even aware of the food scarcity problems occurring in many parts of the world already.
Our political leaders started down the wrong path long ago, when they chose to rely on economists rather than physicists. The economists created the fiction that the economy could expand endlessly, even with falling energy supplies. The physicists understood that the economy requires energy for growth, but didn’t really understand the financial system, so they weren’t in a position to explain which parts of economic theory were incorrect. Even as the true story becomes increasingly clear, politicians stick to their belief that our only energy problem is the possibility of using too much fossil fuel, with the result of rising world temperatures and disrupted weather patterns. This can be interpreted as a relatively distant problem that can be corrected over a fairly long future period.
In this post, I will explain why it appears to me that, right now, we are dealing with an energy problem as severe as that which seems to have led to World War I, World War II, and the Great Depression. We really need a solution to our energy problems right now, not in the year 2050 or 2100. Scientists modeled the wrong problem: a fairly distant energy problem which would be associated with high energy prices. The real issue is a very close-at-hand energy shortage problem, associated with relatively low energy prices. It should not be surprising that the solutions scientists have found are mostly absurd, given the true nature of the problem we are facing.
[1] There is a great deal of confusion with respect to which energy problem we are dealing with. Are we dealing with a near-at-hand problem featuring inadequate prices for producers or a more distant problem featuring high prices for consumers? It makes a huge difference in finding a solution, if any.
Business leaders would like us to believe that the problem to be concerned with is a fairly distant one: climate change. In fact, this is the problem most scientists are working on. There is a common misbelief that fossil fuel prices will jump to high levels if they are in short supply. These high prices will allow the extraction of a huge amount of coal, oil and natural gas from the ground. The rising prices will also allow high-priced alternatives to become competitive. Thus, it makes sense to start down the long road of trying to substitute “renewables” for fossil fuels.
If business leaders had stopped to look at the history of coal depletion, they would have discovered that expecting high prices when energy limits are encountered is incorrect. The issue that really happens is a wage problem: too many workers discover that their wages are too low. Indirectly, these low-wage workers need to cut back on purchases of goods of many types, including coal to heat workers’ homes. This loss of purchasing power tends to hold coal prices down to a level that is too low for producers. We can see this situation if we look at the historical problems with coal depletion in the UK and in Germany.
Coal played an outsized role in the time leading up to, and including, World War II.
History shows that as early coal mines became depleted, the number of hours of labor required to extract a given amount of coal tended to rise significantly. This happened because deeper mines were needed, or mines were needed in areas where there were only thin coal seams. The problem owners of mines experienced was that coal prices did not rise enough to cover their higher labor costs, related to depletion. The issue was really that prices fell too low for coal producers.
Owners of mines found that they needed to cut the wages of miners. This led to strikes and lower coal production. Indirectly, other coal-using industries, such as iron production and bread baking, were adversely affected, leading these industries to cut jobs and wages, as well. In a sense, the big issue was growing wage disparity, because many higher-wage workers and property owners were not affected.
Today, the issue we see is very similar, especially when we look at wages worldwide, because markets are now worldwide. Many workers around the world have very low wages, or no wages at all. As a result, the number of workers worldwide who can afford to purchase goods that require large amounts of oil and coal products for their manufacture and operation, such as vehicles, tends to fall. For example, peak sales of private passenger automobile, worldwide, occurred in 2017. With fewer auto sales (as well as fewer sales of other high-priced goods), it is difficult to keep oil and coal prices high enough for producers. This is very similar to the problems of the 1914 to 1945 era.
Everything that I can see indicates that we are now reaching a time that is parallel to the period between 1914 and 1945. Conflict is one of the major things that a person would expect because each country wants to protect its jobs. Each country also wants to add new jobs that pay well.
In a period parallel to the 1914 to 1945 period, we can also expect pandemics. This happens because the many poor people often cannot afford adequate diets, making them more susceptible to diseases that are easily transmitted. In the Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918-1919, more than 50 million people worldwide died. The equivalent number with today’s world population would be about 260 million. This hugely dwarfs the 3.2 million COVID-19 deaths around the world that we have experienced to date.
[2] If we look at growth in energy supply, relative to the growth in population, precisely the same type of “squeeze” is occurring now as was occurring in the 1914 to 1945 period. This squeeze particularly affects coal and oil supplies.
The chart above is somewhat complex. It looks at how quickly energy consumption has been growing historically, over ten-year periods (sum of red and blue areas). This amount is divided into two parts. The blue area shows how much of this growth in energy consumption was required to provide food, housing and transportation to the growing world population, based on the standards at that time. The red area shows how much growth in energy consumption was “left over” for growth in the standard of living, such as better roads, more vehicles, and nicer homes. Note that GDP growth is not shown in the chart. It likely corresponds fairly closely to total energy consumption growth.
Figure 3, below, shows energy consumption by type of fuel between 1820 and 2010. From this, it is clear that the world’s energy consumption was tiny back in 1820, when most of the world’s energy came from burned biomass. Even at that time, there was a huge problem with deforestation.
Clearly, the addition of coal, starting shortly after 1820, allowed huge changes in the world economy. But by 1910, this growth in coal consumption was flattening out, leading quite possibly to the problems of the 1914-1945 era. The growth in oil consumption after World War II allowed the world economy to recover. Natural gas, hydroelectric and nuclear have been added in recent years, as well, but the amounts have been less significant than those of coal and oil.
We can see how coal and oil have dominated growth in energy supplies in other ways, as well. This is a chart of energy supplies, with a projection of expected energy supplies through 2021 based on estimates of the IEA’s Global Energy Review 2021.
Oil supplies became a problem in the 1970s. There was briefly a dip in the demand for oil supplies as the world switched from burning oil to the use of other fuels in applications where this could easily be done, such as producing electricity and heating homes. Also, private passenger automobiles became smaller and more fuel efficient. There has been a continued push for fuel efficiency since then. In 2020, oil consumption was greatly affected by the reduction in personal travel associated with the COVID-19 epidemic.
Figure 4, above, shows that world coal consumption has been close to flat since about 2012. This is also evident in Figure 5, below.
Figure 5 shows that coal production for the United States and Europe has been declining for a very long time, since about 1988. Before China joined the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001, its coal production grew at a moderate pace. After joining the WTO in 2001, China’s coal production grew very rapidly for about 10 years. In about 2011, China’s coal production leveled off, leading to the leveling of world coal production.
Figure 6 shows that recently, growth in the sum of oil and coal consumption has been lagging total energy consumption.
We can see from Figure 6 that the only recent time when oil and coal supplies grew faster than energy consumption in total was during a brief period between 2002 and 2007. More recently, oil and coal consumption has been increasingly lagging total energy consumption. For both coal and oil, the problem has been that low prices for producers cause producers to voluntarily drop out of coal or oil production. The reason for this is two-fold: (1) With less oil (or coal) production, perhaps prices might rise, making production more profitable, and (2) Unprofitable oil (or coal) production isn’t really satisfactory for producers.
When determining the required level of profitability for these fuels, there is a need to include the tax revenue that governments require in order to maintain adequate services. This is especially the case with oil exporters, but it is also true in general. Energy products, to be useful, produce an energy surplus that can be used to benefit the rest of the economy. The way that this energy surplus can be transferred to the rest of the economy is by paying relatively high taxes. These taxes allow changes that aid economic growth, such as improvements in roads and schools.
If energy prices are chronically too low (so that an energy product requires a subsidy, rather than paying taxes), this is a sign that the energy product is most likely an energy “sink.” Such a product acts in the direction of pulling the economy down through ever-lower productivity.
[3] Governments have chosen to focus on preventing climate change because, in theory, the changes that are needed to prevent climate change seem to be the same ones needed to cover the contingency of “running out.” The catch is that the indicated changes don’t really work in the scarcity situation we are already facing.
It turns out that the very fuels that we seem to be running out of (coal and oil) are the very ones most associated with high carbon dioxide emissions. Thus, focusing on climate change seems to please everyone. Those who were concerned that we could keep extracting fossil fuels for hundreds of years and, because of this, completely ruin the climate, would be happy. Those who were concerned about running out of fossil fuels would be happy, as well. This is precisely the kind of solution that politicians prefer.
The catch is that we used coal and oil first because, in a very real sense, they are the “best” fuels for our needs. All of the other fuels, even natural gas, are in many senses inferior. Natural gas has the problem that it is very expensive to transport and store. Also, methane, which makes up the majority of natural gas, is itself a gas that contributes to global warming. It tends to leak from pipelines and from ships attempting to transport it. Thus, it is doubtful that it is much better from a global warming perspective than coal or oil.
So-called renewable fuels tend to be very damaging to the environment in ways other than CO2 emissions. This point is made very well in the new book Bright Green Lies by Derrick Jensen, Lierre Keith and Max Wilbert. It makes the point that renewable fuels are not an attempt to save the environment. Instead, they are trying to save our current industrial civilization using approaches that tend to destroy the environment. Cutting down forests, even if new trees are planted in their place, is especially detrimental. Alice Friedemann, in her new book, Life after Fossil Fuels: A Reality Check on Alternative Fuels, points out the high cost of these alternatives and their dependence on fossil fuel energy.
We are right now in a huge scarcity situation which is starting to cause conflicts of many kinds. Even if there were a way of producing these types of alternative energy cheaply enough, they are coming far too late and in far too small quantities to make a difference. They also don’t match up with our current coal and oil uses, adding a layer of time and expense for conversion that needs to be included in any model.
[4] What we really have is a huge conflict problem due to inadequate energy supplies for today’s world population. The powers that be are trying to hide this problem by publishing only their preferred version of the truth.
The situation that we are really facing is one that often goes under the name of “collapse.” It is a problem that many civilizations have faced in the past when a given population has outgrown its resource base.
Needless to say, the issue of collapse is not a story any politician wants to tell its citizens. Instead, we are told over and over, “Everything is fine. Any energy problem will be handled by the solutions scientists are finding.” The catch is that scientists were not told the correct problem to solve. They were told about a distant problem. To make the problem easier to solve, high prices and subsidies seemed to be acceptable. The problem they were asked to solve is very different from our real energy problem today.
Many people think that taxing the rich and giving the proceeds to the poor can solve our problem, but this doesn’t really solve the problem for a couple of reasons. One of the issues is that our scarcity issue is really a worldwide problem. Higher taxation of the rich in a few rich countries does nothing for the many problems of poor people in countries such as Lebanon, Yemen, Venezuela and India. Furthermore, taking money from the rich doesn’t really fix scarcity problems. Rich people don’t really eat a vastly disproportionate amount of food or drink more water, for example.
A detail that most of us don’t think about is that the military of many different countries has been very much aware of the potential conflict situation that is now occurring. They are aware that a “hot war” would require huge use of fossil fuel energy, so they have been trying to find alternative approaches. One approach military groups have been working on is the use of bioweapons of various kinds. In fact, some groups might even contemplate starting a pandemic. Another approach that might be used is computer viruses to disrupt the systems of other countries.
Needless to say, the powers that be do not want the general population to hear about issues of these kinds. We find ourselves with narrower and narrower news reports that provide only the version of the truth that politicians and news media want us to read. Citizens who have developed the view, “All I need to do to find out the truth is read my home town newspaper,” are likely to encounter more and more surprises, as conflict situations escalate.
I see ‘Student’ has posted this below already. Did not take long for the UK govt to start promoting a third dose:
Third dose of Covid jab to be trialled in UK
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-57174733
“The findings will help vaccine advisers decide if re-vaccinating some people in the autumn is necessary.
More than 20 million people have been fully vaccinated – with two doses of a Covid vaccine – since the UK’s vaccination programme started, but it’s still not clear how long protection lasts.
Offering some groups a third dose to boost protection from coronavirus ahead of winter has been suggested – but not confirmed.”
Fed Alert: Overnight Reverse Repo Usage Soars Above Covid Crisis Highs
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/fed-alert-overnight-reverse-repo-usage-soars-above-covid-crisis-highs
“… we are rapidly approaching a critical moment when the Fed will no longer be able to conduct $120BN in QE every month, as sooner or later someone will figure out that the Fed buying up hundreds of billions in securities only to turn around the then repo out the resulting reserves each and every day, amounts to outright debt monetization with potentially calamitous consequences for yields and the US dollar.” ……………………………………………………. sooner or later this is going to blow up. I still think later is more probable.
I think the Fed is trying to “feather “ a landing a maybe initiate a recession that they can then lift up for a year or two….I am a big fan of Jeff Snider and he is still preaching deflating economy and I think that he is right. But if any of the horses get scared and run then all bets are off!
maybe. Or the Fed is trying desperately to tweak the dials to get back to permanent normal yearly growth. It seems that most of us suspect that growth years will become more and more rare, and the Fed does not have this inside information. The economy mostly will be shrinking from here on out. The Fed can probably determine where much of the economic damage will be located, whether in sinking USD or high inflation or debt defaults etc. They can tweak one area to the better, but not all areas. Something in the economy will always be getting worse. QE helps on the one hand, and hurts on the other. The economic decline is certain, though the details of how the economy gets there is unknown.
Damn… where is that Devil Covid…. Global Holodomor beckons……
I need to start identifying the most plump children in the area….
The feeling in Germany is that the Vatican can go do one.
https://www.ncregister.com/news/catholics-and-protestants-share-communion-at-german-ecumenical-convention
America and China are the only nations left with GDP growth.
The technique to add genome to the spike protein was invented in the US, but banned due to obvious danger. The US had connections to the Wuhan lab. The Wuhan lab had the RatG13 virus which turned into the Sars-Cov-2 with the added genome to its spike protein.
Maybe, just maybe the US and China are working together? Let’s hope so.
I believe that is very likely. It looks like a win-win situation, given the problems ahead. Some more low intensive hostilites between USA and China will divert the populations even more. This will enable more totalitariansim and lowering of prosperity, which does look like a necessarry thing if you would like to avoid spontaneous insta-collapse.
The people starving will just sit in front of their TV screens waiting to starve.
Yes Klausi, perfectly true. All our simulations showed this.
Beijing Lays Out Strategy For Curbing ‘Unreasonably High’ Commodity Prices
But on Wednesday, policy makers discussed more concrete steps to deflate the commodity boom, as Chinese state media broadcast details from the latest State Council meeting, which was chaired by Premier Li. According to China’s CCTV, the committee focused on strategies for curbing “unreasonable” commodity prices, with the goal of ensuring that they are not passed on to consumers.
To accomplish this, the cabinet said it would step up stockpiling of commodities to ensure adequate supplies while stepping up exports and imports, with tougher market oversight on spot and – more importantly, for the market – futures to crack down on speculation and hoarding, while cracking down on any “abnormal transactions”. Monetary policy should be kept stable, while the yuan exchange rate should be kept steady at “an appropriate equilibrium level”, the report added.
The State Council’s China’s National Development and Reform Commission focused mainly on steel and iron ore, saying they would increase monitoring and adopt new safeguards to ensure stability in markets for iron ore and steel.
Coal producers were urged to boost production to meet higher demand this summer, a move that seems at odds with Beijing’s climate commitments from President Biden’s virtual climate summit last month.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/beijing-lays-out-strategy-curbing-unreasonably-high-commodity-prices
DUH!.
The market is crashing!
I must do something about it! ?
Why?
Because I am a participant in the musical chairs play.
Who exactly influenced my world view that “the market” will “crash”?
Gail Tverberg? Tim Morgan? Greta Thunberg? Guy McPherson? LTG Book?
What exactly exists in my head that has not been put there ?
A very basic question imho..
I wonder if today’s Fed comments were to get the dollar back up? The amount of dollars around are way down
“To accomplish this, the cabinet said it would step up stockpiling of commodities to ensure adequate supplies while stepping up exports and imports”
I fail to see how this strategy will “deflate the commodity boom” but will on the contrary inflate it.
It is my impression that we are on the same path as the antibiotic treadmill.
The ‘discovery’ by science (that mad bad belief system) that actually, bacteria is pretty important in our lives (vital!) has come fairly late in the game. Superbugs anyone.
The aggressive piushing of this nonsense therapy (leaky vexine) onto a dumb and fearful populous for a disease which had (before this gene therapy) an average age of death exactly that of the average life expectancy defies logic; that is why messaging has been so emotional, not factual. Images rule!
My own experience of never having had a vexine for anything, and people being shocked that I am still alive, is testament to the programming. Been dealing with the emotional response to non-vex for years.
In fact whenever a new outbreak of measles or whatever comes about, only those with natural immunity gained through childhood illness are exempt the need for a booster shot; as per the panicked press releases.
This is a nasty business; our Dr Doomfield in NZ has not talked at all about lifestyle choices. I have not been to a doctor in over 30 years. Never had a traffic accident claim either (fell off a motorbike once when went through a diesel spill) ; have I just jinxed myself
I must admit that it might be quite helpful to read this article:
https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/germ-theory-denial-in-the-age-of-the-covid-19-pandemic/
You will notice that there exists a fundamental battle between the terrain and the germs people.
I can not figure it out.
I would say:
Living healthy with a glass of vodka once in a while will do the trick.
I understand that vodka is not aplicable to all huans, so them might prefer “injections”.
A shot of vodka or a shot of vaxter’s special brew? I don’t think that’s such a difficult choice.
More?
I have encountered the threat of being stupid many times.
I understand that there exist people much much better qualified fo their tasks as I am but for some strange reason in the very end I am the one to execute the task.
The very next layer in my organisation is not at all capable of executing my tasks.
I do not even know how many layers exist above me.
So,the question is: who has “power”?
I do not have it!
Do I have it ?
well, let’s make it a game…
You can not achieve anything without me.
I can achieve anything without you
Nice thing to notice,,
> You can not achieve anything without me. I can achieve anything without you
Then how is it that you do not have the ‘power’? The ball would seem to be entirely in your court on that analysis.
You are pefectly right!
I figured that out a long time ago 😉
But the flow of money, you know…
Ultimate power comes from money.
As long as you are in this game you will always loose.
I am in a process of getting by without money,,,?… !… … ?? ….!!
Or let’s say without “their” money…
Freedom is just another word for nothing left to loose.
Let me be MM in the context of THE M, Karl Marx.here:
Capitalism 4.0 basically is:
Doing stupid things for stupid managers to earn stupid amounts of stupid tokens to buy stupid stuff that breaks soon and has to be replaced immediately that generates the stupid impression to stupid managers that their stupid product is selling stupidly well and everything they stupidly did to get the stupid product in the market is stupidly fine.
That seems stupid 😉
Enjoy.
That is playlist of Pete Townshend’s demos for Quadrophenia.
Zerohedge: the real story today: reverse repo usage just surpassed Covid crash highs. We are effectively out of repo market collateral, Fed is cornered, and there is no place to park $1TN more in reserves.
Fed can’t do 18 more months of QE
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E1xHyi_WQAUq611?format=jpg&name=900×900
The first law of game theory is:
(If you are under stress) change the rules.
Who makes them “FED” rules?
What are they about ?
Who puts them in place?
If you like to be a puppet being played in a puppet theatre, go here:
https://www.bloomberg.com
It sounds like the Zerohedge article is only for premium members. Zoltan On The Coming QE Endgame: “Banks Have No More Space For Reserves”
I notice a perhaps somewhat related article, Money-Supply Growth Finally Slows In March, Drops To 10-Month Low
The article says:
This sounds like a big deal in itself.
43 COUNTERPARTIES TAKE $294.0B AT FED’S FIXED-RATE REVERSE REPO
US $ skyrockets on talk about ‘taper’l
Then the Stock Market CRASHES to 0 like Harry Dent predicts in June.
Launch the virus!!! Launch the virus!!!
Oh – we already did that????
But what about the Devil Covid?
Oh — it’s not going according to plan? Yes I know a lab experiment is not the same as real world….
Well if it doesn’t present in the next month or so … we need to go to Plan B…. inform the Chinese to get ready to Push The Button over Taiwan… and the Russians and Brits and French and Israeli’s need to be ready as well…
Yes I know it’s an incomplete solution that will lead to mass suffering … but it’s still better than Global Holodomor…
This analysis is largely garbage. The reason the UK coal use went down is the replacement with petroleum. Petroleum is much more portable than coal, and can be pipelined. Petroleum extraction is much cheaper than coal extraction pushing out labor usage for coal. Likewise uranium/thorium is incredibly cheap but cannot push down costs because petroleum consumes more labor in the US (leading energy consumer), and labor usage influences politcal direction. If the US only used uranium, the labor overburden in other industries would disappear. All coal mines would close and oil wells would shrink and solar/wind installations would be history.
So energy consumption is a mixture of practicalities and poilitical influence.
I am afraid not. New fuels get added to old fuels. It was a story of oil + coal. The big push in (sort of) recent years has been from coal.
You may have seen my chart of the world’s energy consumption, from 1820 to 2010.
https://ourfiniteworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/world-energy-consumption-1820-to-2010-with-logo.png
Nevermore, I like your theory. But I have a question.
You say “petroleum extraction is much cheaper than coal extraction pushing out labor usage for coal.” So reducing labor usage (in association with coal) was an effect that drove the wider use of petroleum.
Then you say “uranium/thorium is incredibly cheap but cannot push down costs because petroleum consumes more labor in the US (leading energy consumer), and labor usage influences politcal direction.” So increasing labor usage (in association with oil) was an effect that prevented wider use of uranium/thorium.
These two statements appear contradictory on a superficial reading. Your thoughts?
I mean:
Have you ever been trying to set up a local network with DHCP?
Look guys, you might have an insight in everything I do, but unfortunately all the basis for that has been shown already to be bogus.
To lift me up in the datasphere you have exactly nil knowledge on how to do it.
I experience it on a daily basis with my company.
No understanding whatsowver how “them systems” work.
If I decided to stop “building it” as Ch Austin Fitts said, I will create many millions of losses to my company because they simply do not get it, hehe.
Still I do not have any power in the organisation.
Collapse thereof is the only possible outcome. Sorry to tell you, but I told you before…
The “Great reset” is based on a binary assumption that it does not have any point of failure.
As far as I am concerned all software projects being shot up to the moon have had a lot of failures.
Klausi: Sorry to tell you but you are dead wrong.
Very sad. … but for whom ?…
The technical charts are saying that a correction is coming. After looking at only charts for a year, I have forgotten why a correction must come… expect for technical reasons.
Why on earth should the markets in the US correct when the dollar is the world reserve currency and the Fed can print it as they wish?
NYSE
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E1wqs_5WEAEdhXR?format=png&name=large
Sorry man.
If you have not noticed the MK-Ultra manipulations of people engaged in the stock maket and the “FED” in the stock market and still believe in “signs” nobody can help you.
Up and down is something we here call a “puppet theater”.
We even do not have a “price” for “oil”.
The price dicovery mechanism claimed to exit in markets does not exist at all.
Looking at “the market” is plain stupid.
There exists nothing to “look at”.
We could do an article How the Authoritarian One World Government Hides Behind Woke Noise.
hymn for doomsters
#DylanDay #BackOnStage https://t.co/iMhwcJOXvf
(https://twitter.com/NationalTheatre/status/1393167642752598019?s=03)
I don’t seem to be able to see twitter videos on my computer. It looks like a bandwidth issue.
this is the youtube version
Missing?
sorry—I must be losing it after all
IEA’s “Net Zero by 2050” Report:
https://www.iea.org/reports/net-zero-by-2050
PDF Version:
https://iea.blob.core.windows.net/assets/4719e321-6d3d-41a2-bd6b-461ad2f850a8/NetZeroby2050-ARoadmapfortheGlobalEnergySector.pdf
Includes goals like:
– No new coal, oil, and gas development. Starting today.
– Coal demand dropping 50% by 2030.
– 75% reduction in oil demand by 2030.
– Net zero emissions in electricity generation for advanced economies by 2035 (!)
No mention of Jevon’s Paradox, EROEI, Limits, etc. – basically any significant counterpoint is ignored.
The report does have a slight air of desperation, though. There’s a consistent use of phrasing like “massive”, “huge”, “largest”, “fastest”, etc. etc. For example, they admit “We need to drive huge leaps in clean energy innovation”.
Thanks for the information. It is appropriate that the US stock market started heading downward yesterday, which was the day the report was released, and is headed down further today. It is a fantasy report.
Why is this level of lying tolerated? 2035 is only 14 years away.
How about selecting prototype cities in each country and making them GREEN first?
How about prototype village of 500 people and making them GREEN? We can’t do this on any scale.
One would think if we are going to repurpose all of global human civilization we should make a small test first.
Or many small tests at different tech levels.
1) 1000 people you get 10 pounds of steel per year per person from the outside otherwise you are on your own 10 acres per person so about three miles by three miles
2) 1000 people you get a small nuclear reactor that will last 100 years without maintenance otherwise you are on your own same 10 acres per person
any many other combinations we are staking the future of human kind on this!!!!
there’s never a shortage of controllers wanting to be in control
or people willing to tell them to take control
or people willing to abuse their control
or people willing to Lynch them after they lose control
Or perhaps 45 people (many of them slaves) 25 pigs, 8 cows and 100 sheep………?
Living by a stream and some woodland.
I think Xavier is closest. I would think several small groups that trade genetics. With ocean resources, oak woodlands and a deep knowledge of native fauna and flora. Stone Age but more knowledge and use of introduced trees and crops. More pigs less sheep.
GOLD AND SILVER is informing us that…
Biden is a complete DISASTER and the USA will disintegrate before the end of this year.
Gold and silver prices are generally headed upward, although today silver is headed downward. Silver is used in a lot of commercial application. If the economy is headed downward, it will affect silver demand.
This is a link to a site with charts. Look at 5 year charts.
https://goldprice.org
I am not a Biden fan for other reasons but it doesn’t matter who is president; this would still happen! It’s resource limitations. Solar, fracking etc.. they all are b.s
I may be wrong, but I don’t Biden has mentioned growth so far
Norman, I think you are saying Biden has not mentioned growth. That is an interesting observation. It will be hard to keep unlimited immigration with an explicit no growth policy.
I was saying Biden hasn’t mentioned growth because he knows there isn’t going to be any in any real sense
so that makes him honest at least in that respect
I would imagine his bank balance is growing enormously from the epic corruption that he and Hunter and the brother are engaging in … but alas… what’s the point
Really good https://www.harpercollins.com/products/secret-empires-peter-schweizer
If diversion by omission counts as honesty to you Norman, you’re really beyond hope.
Haha… Biden (or any politician for that matter)… honest…. hahahahaha….
BTW – the Elders tolerate and encourage the dishonesty and corruption …. because the last thing they want are politicians who are not corrupt….
They want men and women who are thoroughly corrupt…. who will do what they are told — and accept the rewards that go with doing what you are told.
Norman, what of the Queen? Has she been talking growth?
she has a policy of never discussing anything controversial
I’ve been trying to do the same thing online
This is not at all controversial Norm… what’s happening here?
https://youtu.be/bdQHKf48Mfw?t=1921
I agree. We are up against a resource limits problem. If it were only oil, then substitution could, in theory, could take place. If it is all kinds of resources, including fresh water, copper, lithium, and all of the fossil fuels, then we have a problem.
Starving, yes, the US is ending. It has nothing to do with Biden he is just the talking head. I will be a bit conservative and say US dead by May 1, 2022.
military fighter jets, F22s, were orbiting overhead this afternoon. This is a new never before event. How long will they be able to fuel those hogs?
For longer than you can fuel your car.
Stocks following Crypto
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E1wB3xPX0AEOZSD?format=png&name=medium
Right. I see that NASDAQ is leading the way down, at -1.27% right now. The Dow is at -1.12% or -381. WTI is at $63.46.
Everyone is abandoning the US dollar for GOLD AND SILVER!
Now it seems to be the small stocks leading the stock market down. The Russell 2000 is down 2.19%, while the Dow is down 1.44%, and NASDAQ is down 0.95%.
WTI is down to $62.88.
The US dollar is down below 90 relative to the basket of currencies.
https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/currency
“Now 20 US states have legalized the practice of liquefying dead people, dumping their flesh goo down the sewage drains, harvesting the sewage as “biosludge” and spreading it on food crops as a form of fertilizer.
Welcome to 2021 in America, where the dead are liquefied and fed to the living, almost like a scene ripped right out of The Matrix. … States like Wisconsin are adding liquefied human “flesh goo” remains to the biosludge cocktail, actually dumping human DNA and vaccine-originating RNA fragments onto food crops, apparently oblivious to the trans-genetic process of “transfection” that may wreak havoc on the sustainability of future food crops and soil microbiomes.
The timing of all this seems especially convenient, given that the vaccine death wave from Antibody Dependent Enhancement (ADE) may only be another 5-6 months away. It begs the question: What will cities and states do with all the dead bodies as the spike protein bioweapon achieves the depopulation goals of Fauci and Gates?”
https://biosludge.news/2021-05-17-20-us-states-liquefy-vaccine-murdered-people-and-spread-their-flesh-goo-on-food-crops.html
I checked that out
I don’t think it’s true because anyone with any knowledge of recycling–which is what it is, would be aware that the hot air thus generated would be reused to power heat systems rather than letting it go to waste.
this would be done with a fart compressor as an initial process, (the body is passed through ever-decreasing rollers, in case the process is difficult to understand) before the body itself is rendered down into something more useful than a human being,
The final roller of course would recover the last traces of hot air that most humans hang onto (that’s where ‘his last gasp’ comes from btw–not a lot of people know that)
Those last traces of hot air are the most difficult to recover, because many people go through a compulsive energy conversion process, which involves transferring them into words.
In the old days, word energies of that type could be recovered by burning the paper they were written on.
Online it’s not so simple
But at least the rendering process eliminates pollutants from crematorium chimneys
“Alkaline hydrolysis (also called biocremation…or water cremation[3]) is a process for the disposal of human and pet remains using lye and heat. The process is being marketed as an alternative to the traditional options of burial or cremation.”
“Alkaline hydrolysis as a method of final disposition of human remains is currently legal in eighteen states, including Oregon, Missouri, Minnesota, Maryland, Maine, Kansas, Illinois, Florida, Colorado, Georgia, Wyoming, Idaho, Nevada, California, and Utah. Additional rules are pending in New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.[22] The process was legal in New Hampshire for several years but amid opposition by religious lobby groups it was banned in 2008[23] and a proposal to legalize it was rejected in 2013. Alkaline hydrolysis has been used for cadavers donated for research at the University of Florida since the mid 1990s and at the Mayo Clinic[1] since 2005.[26] UCLA uses the process to dispose of donor bodies.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alkaline_hydrolysis_(body_disposal)
I certainly hope that mercury fillings are removed first.
I intend to remain insoluble
Every time I go on YT to look at – the shrinking – number of rebel sites these days, I get a eco-cremation ad, with a smiling granny looking as though all her problems have been solved.
That, and ‘Single Muslim’ dating agency: ‘Khadijah is looking for someone on Single Muslim.com’. The latter probably because I like Moroccan classical music….
I’m assuming the cremation ads are not a message from the Deep State.
‘Without an inch of steel.’ Soaring metal prices spell trouble for China’s recovery
https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/18/economy/china-steel-iron-infrastructure-pandemic-intl-hnk/index.html
the secret of ‘infinite growth’, (something we have been promised), is that we must make more and more ‘stuff’ at cheaper and cheaper prices, in real terms.
looks as if we’ve reached the end of the line on that fantasy
DNA Evidence From Mass Grave Suggests Bubonic Plague Had Long-Term Effect on Human Immunity Genes
Scientists examined DNA from mass grave of plague victims in Germany.
While examining DNA from bones of 16th century bubonic plague victims in the German town of Ellwangen, scientists discovered the first evidence that evolution may have driven immunity to the disease among later inhabitants of the city.
Scientists examining the remains of 36 bubonic plague victims from a 16th century mass grave in Germany have found the first evidence that evolutionary adaptive processes, driven by the disease, may have conferred immunity on later generations from the region.
“We found that innate immune markers increased in frequency in modern people from the town compared to plague victims,” said the study’s joint-senior author Paul Norman, PhD, associate professor in the Division of Biomedical Informatics & Personalized Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. “This suggests these markers might have evolved to resist the plague.”
The study, done in conjunction with the Max Planck Institute in Germany, was published online today in the journal Molecular Biology and Evolution.
The researchers collected DNA samples from the inner ear bones of individuals in a mass grave in the southern German city of Ellwangen, which experienced bubonic plague outbreaks in the 16th and 17th centuries. Then they took DNA samples from 50 current residents of the town.
They compared their frequency spectra – the distribution of gene variants in a given sample – for a large panel of immunity-related genes.
https://scitechdaily.com/dna-evidence-from-mass-grave-suggests-bubonic-plague-had-long-term-effect-on-human-immunity-genes/
…. And since the plague tormented Europe for nearly 5,000 years, the study suggests that these immunity genes may have been pre-selected in the population long ago but recently became selected through epidemic events.
“Although the lethality of the plague is very high without treatment, it remains likely that specific individuals are protected from, or more susceptible to, severe disease through polymorphism in the determinants of natural immunity,” the study said. “In this case, any change in allele frequencies that occurred during a given epidemic crisis could be evident as genetic adaptation and detectable in modern day individuals.”
‘Survival of the fittest’ underscored
Later simulations showed that natural selection likely drove these allele frequency changes….
Adaptation, evolution, happens through ‘selection’ – only when some people die and others with a trait survive.
Evolution works through death.
A trait could also increase in frequency when breeding is privileged in some sense, like social stratification or conquest – eg. Genghis Khan.
The plague seems to be a case of the former.
Medicine, health care, lock downs, halt and even reverse that process of an increase in inherited resilience and fitness.
The S&P 500 weekly chart is now broken…but it’s only Wednesday today…
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E1vEtzuX0AIqMzW?format=jpg&name=large
I notice it also was broken in early 2020. Then after that, which way did it go?
Norman, where is your logic? We do not know enough about the long term results!
“Thruth is the first casualty in war.” There will be lot of disinformation about the virus and the vaccines.
The vaccine info about their safety and effectiveness is coming from big pharma. No one knows the short or long term problems following vaccinations. I most certainly have no clue.
I’m quite certain that China released a bioweapon into the world. I believe that the emergency approval of the vaccines are our response to the Chinese biowar.
There is no reliable data on even mid-term effects of he ‘vaccines’, and the short-term data comes from highly compromised sources, such as Big Pharma and public health officials.
The very same people who are attempting to bury or minimise the appalling level of adverse effects and to demonise and insult ‘anti-vaxxers’.
It’s rather like trusting a gypsy gang who turn up and tell you they can fix your ‘damaged’ roof, but won’t name the exact price to pay, and who go on to make a terrible mess.
This is exactly what a friend who is actually heading an immunology research team here said to me privately, when he advised to avoid taking any of them for 4-5 years – at least!
Like a lot of things these days, the bioweapon may have been manufactured in China but designed and paid for in America. There isn’t enough reliable information for a mere layperson like me to conclude that any state actor released it on purpose. Also the bioweapon may not be the virus. It could be in the vaccines. Indeed, there could be a dozen pathogens and other diabolical devices floating in each dose of the brew.
Just for the news, Europe has just approved to allow vaccinated people to come freely to Europe for holidays. If I have understood correctly, vaccinated people can still become positive to Covid and spread it. So from that specific point of view, they should be treated like not vaccinated people. Therefore, if that is correct, it is – at least – surprising to let those people come freely.
Please see LeMonde today: https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2021/05/19/covid-19-les-vingt-sept-s-accordent-pour-l-entree-dans-l-union-europeenne-des-voyageurs-vaccines_6080742_3210.html
Can I be vaxxed with Sputnik V?
Can I be “vaxxed” by being given the disease by my doctor and surviving with a nature immunity? This I would do.
Yes! This is what happened to me ; I got it but am now being vilified because I won’t get the vaccine! I had my blood tested and have antibodies but …They won’t do any studies on people who have had Covid!
The manufacturers would like to make as much money as possible from the vaccines. It is like selling software. Nearly all of the effort goes into designing the original product. Once it has been designed, the selling price is nearly all profit.
Hungary approved Sputnik V and Hungary is in Europe, so I think it will be allowed. Also a person who can proof in a document to have had Covid can come. But sorry to say that these are just little details. I would like to highlight that the real key and frightening point is that (if I have understood well) people vaccinated can spread the virus anyway and not checking them at arrival if they are positive or not (and thus allowing them to move freely) seems to be dangerous and potentially devastating. I’m not a Doctor, so maybe I could be completely wrong, but I have some question marks about all that.
Just received news that UK is starting the ‘third dose’ plan:
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/thousands-to-get-third-covid-19-jab-in-new-cov-boost-trial-matt-hancock-announce/
https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/matt-hancock-announces-vaccine-booster-20634722
Given the choice of contracting covid by choice — or being vaccinated… I most definitely would take option 1.
As it stands I prefer neither.
Safety has been how I have approached people with regards to vaccine uptake. If people ask why I haven’t taken it yet I inform them about the current (large) list of adverse reactions and the unknown long term safety implications. Now that the most vulnerable people have been jabbed it makes no sense to continue with the vaccination programme. Remember, the CDC suspended the rotavirus vaccine in 1999 after it injured 15 children. It appears we have crossed the threshold where the jabs are doing more harm than good. Those advocating for their use are advocating medical mal-practice. A challenge to those who promote the shot is to respond, “Why are you in favour of causing harm to healthy people?” Plus the additional burden on society and the health services this issue will create.
“I’m quite certain that China released a bioweapon into the world.”
Why so unlethal then? Did they know that the west was on the brink of madness anyway?
A bioweapon released by China: that’s an interesting idea, Yoshua. However, I have trouble with it based on my own personal experience. I live in California and have extended family – multiple generations – in five US states and three different countries. Not even one of them claim to have had COVID-19. Now, many of them have recently been “vaccinated” and do claim that they were “wrecked” for a day or two or more.
Perhaps everyone in my family is “lucky” to have not suffered an encounter with the dreaded Chinese bioweapon. Or perhaps there is no bioweapon, there is no SARS-CoV-2, and there is no COVID-19. There is, however, a potentially lethal injection on offer.
Ask yourself this: how many people do I know who claim to have had COVID-19? How many people do I know who have been “vaccinated” and suffered side effects of any kind?
For extra credit, ask yourself this one: of the people I know who claimed to have had COVID-19, how many of them were ill / symptomatic and how many of them only received a positive PCR test result?
I have run into people who had negative PCR tests (in spite of symptoms), or no PCR test (with symptoms). Recently, they test positive for antibodies. I think that the there are a mixture of false positives, false negatives, and people who chose not to get tested.
Bitcoin is COLLAPSING…now at 39000…down from 64000 not too long ago.
The rats are fleeing the ship.
38000, 37000, 36000, ….HAHAHAHAHA
“Its going to go back up, right?”
Uh…
the value of money is directly and specifically linked to the energy available to underpin it
(but what do I know?)
TSLA is down 4% pre-market.
Any knife catchers around these parts?
A great time to buy.
Cryptos are crashing
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E1ubSXsUUAINqO9?format=jpg&name=large
Hopes for US crypto ETFs recede after SEC warning
https://www.ft.com/content/c36013a0-65a9-4f1c-901d-314577cc5266
China bans finance firms from servicing crypto transactions
China’s latest attempt to clampdown on a burgeoning digital trading market has sent crypto prices hurtling down.
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2021/5/19/china-bans-finance-firms-from-servicing-crypto-transactions
If the market crashes, there’s a high chance governments will crack down further on crypto. Look to the restrictions on gold during the great depression.
And now for something completely impenetrable to those of us without some training in virology.
Geert Vanden Bossche: Second and last reply to M. Yeadon
Michael Yeadon’s rhetoric that mass vaccination campaigns do not have the potential to promote circulation of more infectious immune escape variants and that more infectious variants are not problematic are not based on sound immunological grounds at all. This will be my second but last reply to his erroneous and misleading interpretations. I hate to do this since this may leave the public with the opinion that people like me have nothing else to do than to focus on their own ego, although nothing is less true. However, when the most compelling arguments for my warning about the potentially disastrous consequences of mass vaccination are wiped from the table with scientifically hollow and invalid arguments, one has no choice but to react. Now, more than ever before, criticism is indispensable to build and consolidate a consensus on why mass vaccination campaigns (using the current vaccines in the heat of a pandemic caused by a highly mutable virus) are highly problematic. However, it doesn’t help when people bring to the table arguments that are scientifically incorrect.
Yeadon is basically not understanding the difference between viral escape from protection-blocking immunity and viral escape from infection-/ transmission-blocking immunity.
His rhetoric about conserved T cell epitopes and long-lived cross-reactive MHC cl I-restricted responses to those, relate to protection against clinical disease but not against infection! Yeadon doesn’t seem to understand the mechanism of S-directed immune selection, let alone adaptation of variants to conditions of suboptimal, S-directed immune pressure, which become increasingly prevalent upon mass vaccination. I can barely believe that someone who claims to be a skilled expert in immunology doesn’t see the parallel to serial in vitro cell culture passage of a mutable virus in the presence of suboptimal antibody (Ab) concentrations. In case of CoV inoculated on permissive cells, one would incubate the inoculated cell culture in the presence of suboptimal S-specific Abs to place infectious pressure on viral infectiousness. Provided you harvest the viral progeny and use it to repeat this procedure a number of times, you’ll manage to progressively enrich the viral progeny with naturally occurring S variants that have been selected to overcome the immune pressure placed on the S protein and which are, therefore, more infectious in nature. As the selected immune escape variants are so to speak ‘trained’ to reproduce more efficiently, they will now enjoy a competitive advantage in comparison to the wild strain. This is to say that they will now become the dominant variant/ strain! All this occurs of course in the absence of T cells or any kind of active immune response. One simply uses a biological (i.e. an Ab), instead of a chemical or physical agent, to select adequate mutants and enable them to adapt. I don’t get it that Yeadon doesn’t understand that this is highly similar to Sars-CoV-2 being ‘inoculated’ on epithelial cells from humans experiencing suboptimal S-directed immune pressure only (!), as is the case in (a large number of!) people who are in the process of mounting Abs in response to S-based vaccines or who are sitting on short-lived, suboptimal S-specific Abs following asymptomatic infection. In none of these cases the S-directed Abs are accompanied by cytolytic MHC cl I-restricted T cells! Again, when it comes to fighting more infectious variants, Yeadon argues that because of their high degree of sequence homology, variants are ‘irrelevant from an immunological standpoint’. Again, he doesn’t seem to capture that even a single mutation can make a big difference when it enables enhanced infectiousness and is comprised within a variant that is repeatedly exposed to conditions that precisely exert immune pressure on viral infectiousness. Again, in terms of clinical protection and recovery from disease, CTLs can deal with all of them and I never pretended the opposite. However, more infectious variants will make rise the infection rate in the population, thereby increasing the likelihood that previously asymptomatically infected people get re-infected by a variant within a few weeks (1-6w) after their primary infection. This is at risk of enhancing their susceptibility to the disease as their natural Abs may be sufficiently suppressed by their suboptimal S-specific Abs to no longer be able to eliminate the virus via innate immune cells (most likely NK cells). Yeadon may want to educate himself on natural/ innate Abs and their relevance in fighting a multitude of different pathogens, not just viruses and not only CoV but, for example, also Influenza virus.
The bottom-line is that Yeadon is far more eloquent than I am and that I would certainly prefer if he would lead the discussion when it comes to opposing the madness of mass vaccination campaigns. However, as long as he’s mistaken about the high likelihood for these campaigns to drive the adaptation of more infectious variants and the issue that comes with those, I cannot concur with his strategy for countering the mass vaccination program.
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Vanden Bossche then goes on to reply to specific points that Mike Yeadon made in his previous letter.
https://www.geertvandenbossche.org/post/second-and-last-reply-to-m-yeadon
In the comments, somebody has kindly rewritten Vanden Bossche’s opening paragraphs for improved clarity and readability:
I have been warning about the potentially disastrous consequences of mass vaccination in the heat of a pandemic caused by a highly mutable virus. Michael Yeadon does not think that mass vaccination campaigns have the potential to promote circulation of more infectious variants. He does not believe that more infectious variants are problematic. When the most compelling arguments for my warnings are brushed aside with scientifically hollow and invalid arguments, I am left with no choice but to explain once again the sound immunological grounds for my warnings. Criticism is indispensable to build and consolidate a consensus on why mass vaccination campaigns are highly problematic. However, it doesn’t help when people bring to the table arguments that are scientifically incorrect.
There is a difference between viral escape from “disease-blocking” immunity; and viral escape from “infection-blocking” immunity. His main arguments are about conserved T cell epitopes and long-lived cross-reactive MHC cl I-restricted responses. These relate to protection against clinical disease, but not against infection!
Yeadon must address natural selection directed at the S-protein and the adaptation of variants to conditions of suboptimal, S-directed immune pressure. Someone who claims to be a skilled expert in immunology must surely see the parallel between mass vaccination, and serial in vitro cell-culture passage. In both cases repeated passage with naturally select highly infectious strains to overcome the pressure of suboptimal antibody (Ab) concentrations! If you repeat cell passage a number of times with viral progeny, you will naturally select any mutations that bind to the ACE-2 receptor better. Improvements in ACE-2 binding potential will make these variants more infectious in nature, and they will quickly become the dominant strain.
All this occurs of course in the absence of T cells or any kind of active immune response. Suboptimal Abs are simply a biological agent that select mutants and enable them to adapt. I don’t get it that Yeadon doesn’t understand that this is highly similar to Sars-CoV-2 being ‘inoculated’ on epithelial cells from humans experiencing suboptimal S-directed immune pressure only! A large number of people are in the process of mounting Abs in response to S-based vaccines. Many are sitting on short-lived, suboptimal S-specific Abs following asymptomatic infection. None of them have cytolytic MHC cl I-restricted T cells, only S-directed Abs!
Again, when it comes to fighting more infectious variants, Yeadon argues that because of their high degree of sequence homology, variants are ‘irrelevant from an immunological standpoint’. Again, he doesn’t seem to realise that even a single mutation can make a big difference when it enhances ACE-2 receptor binding potency. Yes, in terms of clinical protection and recovery from disease, CTLs can deal with all of them and I never pretended the opposite. However, more infectious variants will increase the infection rate in the population. This makes previously asymptomatically infected people more susceptible to the disease. Here is how this works.
The virus has a mechanism for overcoming their natural immune system. On the first exposure, the Natural Immune System usually clears the virus. However a small, suboptimal Adaptive Immune System response often occurs, in the form of S-specific Abs. Due to their higher binding affinity to the virus these suboptimal Abs can suppress the Natural Immune System, If such people get re-exposed within a few weeks (1-6w) after their primary infection the natural Abs may no longer be able to eliminate the virus via innate immune cells (most likely NK cells). Yeadon may want to educate himself on natural/ innate Abs and their relevance in fighting a multitude of different pathogens, not just viruses and not only CoV but, for example, also Influenza virus.
The bottom-line is that Yeadon is far more eloquent than I am and that I would certainly prefer if he would lead the discussion when it comes to opposing the madness of mass vaccination campaigns. However, as long as he is mistaken about the high likelihood for these campaigns to drive the adaptation of more infectious variants, I cannot concur with his strategy for countering the mass vaccination program.
Interesting video on Youtube about magnetogenetics titled “Magnetogenetics – the reason why jabbed people……….” But Youtube won’t let it play but for a few minutes and blocks download. But a link was provided that has more information.
https://silview.media/2021/05/12/magnetogenetics-isnt-this-why-vaxxers-turn-into-fridge-doors-and-magnets-stick-on-them/
It seems researchers have been able to use tiny magnets targeted to specific cells to open and close ion channels when exposed to a magnetic field or radio frequency (5G?) at a distance. They’ve actually done this in the striatum of a mouse brain whose behavior could be controlled by using the magnets to regulate the release of dopamine. Turn on the microwaves, the magnet spins and opens the ion channel and the dopamine is released. A memory of a previous reward that would get someone moving is no longer necessary. You can get people moving and motivated by magnetic field or radio frequency. This is better than Elon Musk’s Neuralink.
There are other uses for magnetosomes and ferritin in vaccines but this would be such a devious and effective means of behavioral control. Natural ferritin is most prevalent in brain cells.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17425247.2021.1860938
The article seems to be a reasonable one about a possible strategy for treating long-term COVID-19 symptoms using nanoparticles.
Out of curiosity, and assuming that such mind control technology exists, how many people do you suppose it would take to survey and control one human mind?
I think that is where their “Artificial Intelligence” comes in; coupled with Starlink, 5G and the “Internet of Things.”
Imagine everyone crowding into a single restaurant which puts out “good (5G) vibes.” “I don’t know why I came here, I guess I just like Chinese food.” No people necessary to survey and control the target. Just release the dopamine at the right time through a pulse of electromagnetic waves. You will still think you have “free will” but others will be nudging you along. Don’t wait for advertising to work, make them want to buy your product. There are so many targets like the hypothalamus and amygdala to control things like appetite, sexuality, and fear.
Brain cells contain ferritin, but most is probably found in the plasma, liver and blood. A single ferritin protein can hold 4,500 iron atoms.
Good heaven, MRI scanners must be really disrupting people’s bodies. Or not.
Saudi Arabia dumps stake in Canada’s Suncor, all 51 million shares
Instead the $400 billion wealth fund doubled down on video games
Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund doubled down on its pandemic-era investments in video-game makers and added new bets as it raised holdings of U.S. stocks by about a fifth to US$15.4 billion.
The Public Investment Fund brought its total commitment to video-game makers including Activision Blizzard Inc., Electronic Arts Inc. and Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. to US$6 billion during the first quarter, according to regulatory filings on Monday. Those holdings were valued at US$3.3 billion at the end of the fourth quarter.
https://financialpost.com/commodities/energy/oil-gas/saudi-wealth-fund-loads-up-on-video-game-makers-and-exits-suncor
The Unabomber and the origins of anti-tech radicalism
Theodore Kaczynski, better known as the Unabomber, is one of America’s most infamous domestic terrorists. His 1995 Manifesto, ‘Industrial Society and Its Future’, is well known and influential among radicals of many stripes, yet surprisingly little has been written about it. This article uncovers the origins of Kaczynski’s ideas and examines his influence on contemporary anti-tech radicalism. Using newly discovered archival material, I reveal the sources that Kaczynski deliberately concealed in the 1995 Washington Post version of his Manifesto. My excavation of his sources shows that his ideology is more novel than the common ‘eco-terrorist’, ‘green anarchist’, and ‘neo-Luddite’ labels suggest. His Manifesto is a synthesis of ideas from three well known academics: French philosopher Jacques Ellul, British zoologist Desmond Morris, and American psychologist Martin Seligman. Further, I show that it is necessary to understand Kaczynski’s distinct combination of ideas in order to understand the anti-tech radical groups that he has inspired, such as the Mexican terrorist group Individualidades Tendiendo a lo Salvaje (ITS). The ideological novelty of anti-tech radicalism has been overlooked because, like Kaczynski himself, it has been mistaken for radical environmentalism or green anarchism.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13569317.2021.1921940#.YJjru1yD8Tw.twitter
Ted had the right idea initially moving into his ‘Walden’ …
But you cannot overthrow industrial civilization …. nor would you want to — because it would cause our extinction …
Where he went wrong was when the bulldozers encroached on Walden… instead of posting bombs to officials … he should have sold Walden … and moved to somewhere truly remote… Amazon… deep Alaska…. gotta be loads of better options…
In any event – Ted’s Dream … is about to come true!!! He must be thrilled
Probably the Unabomber was another psyop. Ted’s hair was styled by the same hippy who did Charles Manson’s—a dead giveaway.
Another explanation occurs to me.
(We never did get to see him in that hoodie.)
Ted Kaczynski was Henry Murray’s student. Murray conducted a series of psychologically-damaging experiments on undergraduate students, involving drugs and LSD.
Some people see the shadow of CIA and MK Ultra.
So yes, a psyop with high probability.
I enjoyed reading his book “How I got buy living in Montana on $300 a year and had fun doing it”
Just starting listening to this brute of a book… anyone looking for rationale for the CEP… or just wanting to despise humans…. I highly recommend it
If you thought The Road was nasty…. this will probably make you physically sickened….
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/95784.The_Rape_of_Nanking
Vehicle complexity and its impact on maintenance
Maintenance and repair technologies have evolved along with the vehicles to provide technicians with products, such as advanced diagnostic scan tools. However, that is not always enough to make a proper diagnosis.
In the early days of heavy-duty commercial trucks, fleets could choose from a fairly wide variety of options from different manufacturers to customize a vehicle that suited their needs. The truck could be fairly complex, but that complexity came in the form of mechanical components that most technicians could easily service.
Today’s commercial trucks are still available with a certain level of intricacy on a basic mechanical level, but it is the newer, more advanced technologies that have been developed over the past 10 to 15 years that makes these vehicles truly complex. Systems that fleets have come to rely on to make trucks safer, more operationally efficient, and more comfortable than ever are driven by complex electronics, sensors, and electronic control units (ECUs) utilizing miles of wiring.
“As the industry has evolved and grown, customers have become much more sophisticated in thinking about their vehicle as a business solution and are spec’ing their vehicles based on their specific application,” said Ryan Major, on highway marketing manager, Daimler Trucks North America.
Fleets are also spec’ing trucks with the driver shortage in mind, making them easier and more comfortable to operate with features such as advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), automated manual transmissions (AMTs), and more complex infotainment systems.
“You’ve got computers for collision mitigation, roll over control, tractor-trailer combinations, ABS,” said Tim Bauer, vice president aftermarket North America, Eaton. “Then you’ve got ECUs that manage the engine-to-transmission coupling and transmission of power and the automatic shifting, so there’s another ECU there.”
https://www.fleetowner.com/resource-center/maintenance/article/21164315/vehicle-complexity-and-its-impact-on-maintenance
Tanker truck driver shortage, combined with pipeline disruption, could continue to impact gas prices
As if the disruption of the Colonial Pipeline caused by a ransomware attack wasn’t bad enough, many of those in the states affected by the disruption began panic-buying gas. This has placed a strain on the transportation of fuel to not only the states affected by the pipeline, but also other areas of the country.
Combine this with the major traffic disruption with the closing of the Interstate 40 bridge (link) spanning the Mississippi River between Arkansas and Tennessee, and the tanker truck industry is experiencing what might seem to be a perfect — and unfortunate — storm. This has prompted the shortage of drivers to take center stage as the nation’s attention turns to a single topic: fuel.
Industry leaders are warning that the years-long driver shortage in the tanker truck industry is likely to hit home for millions of Americans in a very personal way this summer, as families prepare for vacation trips and taking one more step toward pre-pandemic normalcy.
In early May, national news outlets reported what industry professionals have long known: Lack of drivers will likely mean higher prices and even shortages of gas, chemicals and food components hauled by tankers.
Holly McCormick, vice president of the talent office for Oklahoma-based Groendyke Transport, said the headlines “screaming” about gas shortages only tell part of the story.
“The sensationalism the headlines spun up was, ‘Oh my God! Now we can’t have summer vacation because we’re not going to be able to get gas,’” she said. “I want to mention that it’s bigger than gas, although that’s what’s getting the headlines right now.
“We also haul a lot of chemicals that go into building products, makeup, soaps and hand sanitizers. It’s jet fuel, too. I mean, all kinds of things, anything and everything you can imagine,” she continued. “It’s not a supply issue, it’s the ability to transport it.”
https://www.thetrucker.com/trucking-news/the-nation/tanker-truck-driver-shortage-combined-with-pipeline-disruption-could-continue-to-impact-gas-prices
somehow someway US military personnel should be assigned to fill many of these positions, unless there is some other source of real men who ccan be convinced to do this work. Maybe high wages would work? 😉
We don’t realize how much we depend on the drivers of tanker trucks to get products to their intended destinations.
Truck drivers, and those who maintain power lines and water pipes……
I’d like to add that I’ve also found couriers and supermarket delivery drivers to be unfailingly reliable and cheerful over the last year, even when they were denied any social life after work by the lock-downs.
The central bankers and manipulators are not fit to lace their boots.
I work for a plastics company and there has been trouble getting adhesives which are delivered by tanker truck. The Texas freeze is still getting the blame. I’m expecting the next blame to be on truckers or pipeline issues. Too many force majeure situations will probably collapse the place if things don’t ‘get back to normal’ within the next 5 years but so far sales are booming this year so the executives are thrilled though I suspect it’s an inflationary illusion. Limits to resources and falling surplus energy will never cross anyone’s mind. They’ll go to their graves shouting about lazy people not wanting to work long shifts for low pay or whichever political party they dislike. So very few people question resource limits or for how long every corporation can keep fighting to churn out more product every quarter. It’s a race to see who can convert the world into trash fastest. Hopefully I get laid off so I can step off this crazy train for a while and weed the garden.
“It’s a race to see who can convert the world into trash fastest.”
You got it. I’ve seen companies where their main output, by far, was waste.
by building ‘civilisation’ in the sense that we know it, the inevitable outcome must be waste, because we need disposability in order to create more ‘stuff’.
If we cannot recycle wind turbines and solar panels (including their concrete bases), we have to keep mining new materials to make their replacements at the same time that we find places to dispose of the parts of the old devices. Somehow we still need to keep producing the energy needed for this recycling process.
Who is our Mad Max? Fast? Xabier?
spoiler the gasoline tank truck is empty
North suburban man’s COVID mortgage forbearance nightmare
The plans are being extended for many borrowers in hopes the economy improves. But Gregg Pupecki got a big shock when his loan servicer demanded a lump-sum repayment.
Like millions of homeowners, Gregg Pupecki of Beach Park accepted mortgage forbearance — an interest-free pause in his payments — during the coronavirus pandemic.
A first-time homeowner, Pupecki loves his two-story house, which he bought in 2012. So he paid attention when he got a notice from his loan servicer in February demanding an immediate payment of $12,475 “to bring your loan current.”
“Failure … may result in fees and the loss of your home due to foreclosure,” the document read.
His original lender, Chase Bank, offered the forbearance — essentially a pause in having to make the payments on his 30-year mortgage without racking up extra interest or hurting his credit — on his FHA-backed loan.
Sometime later, the loan was transferred to Midland Mortgage of Oklahoma City, and it demanded that all of the forbearance payments be made immediately.
After the Chicago Sun-Times contacted Midland’s corporate parent, MidFirst Bank, the loan servicer withdrew the demand and offered Pupecki what federal law requires in his case: a choice to either exit forbearance and put the unpaid payments at the back of his loan interest-free or to stay on forbearance for another three months, with the option, if Pupecki wanted, for three months more.
After consulting a housing counselor, he decided to stay on for at least another 90 days while he waits for his industry to come back to life.
“It was supposed to help you,” the far north suburban resident says of the COVID-19 mortgage forbearance he’d accepted last spring following the loss of his job at a marina last year when the economy nosedived.
When he saw that his new loan servicer was demanding a lump-sum repayment, he says, “I was, like: That’s not helpful.”
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2021/5/7/22422889/mortgage-forbearance-covid-gregg-pupecki-cares-act-hud-fha-fannie-mae-freddie-mac-bank-foreclosures
‘If you’re trying to get a bicycle, you’re looking at two or three years’ | Bike shortage continues as stores struggle to order parts from overseas
WASHINGTON — As families spend more time outdoors following the long pandemic winter, demand for bikes continues to be at an all-time high. However, if you are in the market for a new bicycle, you may find there are not many options.
Because of the challenges with ordering bike parts from overseas, many local shop owners said they no longer have inventory to sell.
John Logan is the CEO of a new bicycle company in northeast DC called You Move. The company is based around helping people service their bikes because he says it is extremely difficult to enter the selling market right now.
“As of right now, if you are looking to get a bicycle, you’re looking at two or three years for anything from any big brand unless there is a massive factory expansion,” said Logan.
More than a year after the pandemic started, Logan said the bike shortage likely won’t go away anytime soon.
Many bike shops are still unable to order bicycle parts because many of the shipments come from countries outside of the United States. The disruptions in the supply chain are now impacting nearly every bike shop across the country.
https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/bike-shortages-continue-more-than-a-year-after-pandemic-started/65-1f5d68cc-66d0-4ef4-8211-0446596da19a
I am going to have to say this is an exaggeration…I am seeing bikes yes…..yes…there is a shortage and you may not be able to get the blue bike you wanted but….I am going to have to call B.s. Rad power bikes says you can get an electric bike in two weeks! So t
Went to Walmart last night and they had some adult bicycle shaped objects in stock for those desperate for a set of wheels.
in London UK they are starting a rental scheme for pay as you ride electric scooters, which can be ridden on pavements. (sidewalks to colonials)
and you thought vaccines were a danger to the public at large
I think they are everywhere now, Norman. We got them last year in York and they now the docking stations extend out into the suburbs. They’re mostly used by youths who ride around on them in groups late at night. Yet another hazard to watch out for, along with food delivery cyclists and uber drivers. All three are prone to going the wrong way down our narrow one-way streets.
I think they are lethal
Lenders struggle to recoup losses after US corporate debt defaults
https://www.ft.com/content/9075329d-ef6b-481e-91ee-a8f02ac621d6
Colonial Pipeline hack signals electric grid next, ‘electronic apocalypse’
The cyber attack shutdown of the Colonial Pipeline that delivers gas and jet fuel to the East Coast has sparked new fears among experts of a broader Russian-backed assault that could darken the U.S. electric grid in just 24 hours.
Using easy-to-build electronic weapons installed in just 20 little trucks, enough attacks on little-guarded grid transformers over 24 hours could turn the U.S. into a cave society, according to a leading electronic and cyber weapon expert.
Peter Vincent Pry lays it all out in his upcoming book, part of which was shared with Secrets following the Colonial shutdown last week.
In “Blackout Warfare: An Experiment,” Pry calculated that 20 trucks armed with “directed energy weapons” and manned by 40 personnel “could in 24 hours attack 500 of 2,000 [extra high voltage] EHV transformer substations in the U.S. national electric grid. Reportedly, according to a restricted study by the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, an attack that sabotages just nine of 2,000 EHV transformer substations would result in a protracted nationwide blackout.”
It may sound exotic, but he said that examples of the weapons have been developed in Russia and are used in the U.S. and internationally to test against electromagnetic pulse.
He said that a House committee in 2000 hired an electrical engineer and some students to see if they could build one from off-the-shelf parts. They did, and stuck it in a Volkswagen bus.
He also said that companies offer “EMP Suitcases” that simulate an attack that can be weaponized against the grid to darken cities.
In past reports, Pry and others have warned of more elaborate nuclear electromagnetic weapons put on missiles and satellites, but low-budget and easy-to-use non-nuclear EMP weapons are catching on.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/colonial-pipeline-hack-signals-electric-grid-next-electronic-apocalypse/ar-BB1gSkj1?li=BBnbcA1
Or the Pentagon /Klaus Schwab’s Genevan hit-squad of gnomes, could do it and blame it on ‘Russia’.
We are fully in the Age of Unlimited Lies.
With Japan controlling/preventing those that “recently got the jab” – what time-frame” will be needed so “those folks” can donate blood again??? – If “most of the population” of any country gets the jab – it won’t be long until their blood supply is kaput.
From Japan Red Cross website at 3/31/21 and 4/13/21:
Those who have received vaccinations within a certain period of time.
Those who have received inactivated vaccines for influenza, Japanese encephalitis, cholera, hepatitis A, pneumococcus, pertussis, tetanus, etc. and toxoids are not allowed to donate blood for 24 hours after vaccination.
Those who have received hepatitis B vaccine are not allowed to donate blood for 2 weeks after vaccination, those who have received anti-HBs human immunoglobulin alone or in combination are not allowed to donate blood for 6 months after administration, and those who have received rabies vaccine (after being bitten by an animal) are not allowed to donate blood for 1 year after vaccination.
Those who have been vaccinated against mumps, rubella, BCG, and other weakly poisonous live vaccines are not allowed to donate blood for 4 weeks after vaccination, those who have been vaccinated against smallpox are not allowed to donate blood for 2 months after vaccination, and those who have been vaccinated against tetanus, snake venom, gas vesicles, and botulism are not allowed to donate blood for 3 months after administration.
Those who have been vaccinated against new coronaviruses are not allowed to donate blood for the time being.
If you have had a specific disease If you are sick on the day of the donation, taking medication, or have a fever If you have or are suspected of having AIDS, hepatitis, or other viruses If you are pregnant or nursing If you have had a blood transfusion or organ transplant If you have had a piercing within the past 6 months. If you have had a mouse implant within the past 6 months. If you have a trauma. If you have been bitten by an animal or a person. Those who have received vaccinations within a certain period of time. – Those who have received dental treatment (including tartar removal) that involves bleeding. – Those who have traveled or lived abroad. Those who have or are suspected of having Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD).
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Very curious. Meanwhile, the American Red Cross says:
When can I donate blood after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine?
“The Red Cross is following FDA blood donation eligibility guidance for those who receive the COVID-19 vaccination. Deferral times for donations may vary depending on which brand of vaccine you received. If you’ve received a COVID-19 vaccine, you’ll need to provide the manufacturer name when you come to donate. In most cases, there is no deferral time for individuals who received a COVID-19 vaccine as long as they are symptom-free and feeling well at the time of donation.
“The following eligibility guidelines apply to each COVID-19 vaccine received, including boosters: There is no deferral time for eligible blood donors who are vaccinated with a non-replicating inactivated or RNA-based COVID-19 vaccine manufactured by AstraZeneca, Janssen/J&J, Moderna, Novavax, or Pfizer.
“Eligible blood donors who received a live attenuated COVID-19 vaccine or do not know what type of COVID-19 vaccine they received must wait two weeks before giving blood.
“If you have an appointment scheduled and need to change your donation date based on the above guidance, click here.
“If you have further eligibility questions, please call 1-800-RED CROSS. Regardless, of the type of vaccine an individual receives, all donors must be symptom-free and feeling well at the time of donation. If an individual is experiencing any symptoms from the COVID-19 vaccine, the Red Cross asks that they postpone their donation until they are feeling better.
“When you receive your COVID-19 vaccination, make sure you receive a handout with information about the vaccine, including the name of the manufacturer. It is encouraged to bring this information with you to your donation appointment.”
https://www.redcrossblood.org/local-homepage/news/article/covid-19-vaccination-guide-blood-donation.html
Last paragraph: I just want to know about the mouse implants.
(Richard Gere, call your office!)
This is appalling. Boris has ‘bungled’ it yet again.
He refused to shut the borders with India quick, despite warnings, and the Indian variant of c 19 is now spreading completely out of control in Britain. A third lockdown would deepen the economic and financial damage to UK.
It also raises the question of Gail’s point of whether countries will ultimately need to find some other way to cope with c 19.
It is just unbelievable that Boris has pursued lockdowns – and repeatedly undermined them with open borders. There will have to be a public enquiry into the entire matter.
> Boris says the jury’s out on June 21st Freedom Day as it’s revealed Indian Covid mutant has now reached 40% of England’s local authorities and is dominant in 23 of them. So how many cases have been recorded in your area?
…. Analysis of samples from people infected with Covid has revealed that by the week ending May 8, the variant accounted for eight in 10 cases in hotspots Bolton, Blackburn with Darwen, Sefton and Bedford, as well as in Chelmsford in Essex and Croydon in London.
Data suggests it is also dominant – accounting for more than half of all positive tests – in Nottingham, West Lancashire, Stevenage, Oadby and Wigston, South Northamptonshire, Broxbourne, Hillingdon, Brent, Camden, Hounslow, Greenwich, Bromley, Dartford, Sevenoaks, Canterbury, Rushmoor and Hart.
…. Figures from the Wellcome Sanger Institute revealed the Indian variant had been spotted in 127 English local authorities – or 40 per cent – in the two weeks ending May 8, the most recent data, after the total number doubled in a week. Nationally, there have been 2,323 cases of the variant – four times the 520 ten days ago – and the strain now makes up at least one in five of all new infections.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9590927/Indian-variant-dominant-23-parts-England.html
There need to be treatments for people with the illness, to mostly keep them out of the hospitals. In fact, if vitamin D, taken in advance, is helpful, this needs to be explained to people everywhere, along with any contraindications.
Deliberate action is not ‘bungling’.
Boris and Co. are working to a plan, as anyone can see.
They merely needed a ‘new wave’ this summer in order to justify lock-down measures putting intense pressure on the unvaccinated.
The Indian Variant is merely the pretext.
I am already throwing my money on the table with various DelusiSTANIS asking them to take bets on more lockdowns due to ‘the variants’…. no takers… never any takers…
Show me the money…. walk the walk!!!! etc
Now Mirror wants Boris to hate Indians and build a pseudo-wall to keep them out. You just never know what Mirror is going to say next. Like Boris, he is consistent only in his inconsistency.
Can’t resist, I just have to trigger him:
British State!
Just a little innocent fun……
Nonsense!
https://www.argusmedia.com/en/news/2216050-colombia-oil-producers-closing-taps-as-unrest-persists
Colombia oil producers closing taps as unrest persists
Anti-government protests and roadblocks are forcing oil producers in Colombia to shut in wells, dealing another blow to the non-Opec exporter.
Latin American independent GeoPark has had to “significantly reduce activity in the fields and to start executing controlled production shut-ins” at the Llanos 34 block and Patanillo block, which it has gradually implemented since 8 May.
The unrest has impacted “transportation, drilling, and the mobilization of equipment and personnel,” GeoPark said yesterday.
The company’s net production curtailments total 12,000-15,000 b/d of oil equivalent (boe/d), or 40pc-45pc of its Colombian output.
“Drilling, maintenance and other field activities in Colombia have been temporarily suspended until the situation is resolved,” Geopark said.
Similarly, Canadian independent Gran Tierra said today it has reduced oil output by 5,250 b/d, reflecting “a combination of slowdowns of some oil wells’ production rates, the shut-in of some oil wells in certain fields and the complete shut-in of certain other fields.”
It seems like anti-government protests and unrest are popular reasons for keeping workers at home. In this case, these actions lead to reduced oil production.
Colombia’s Oil Industry Is On The Brink Of Collapse
Editor OilPrice.com
Tue, May 18, 2021, 5:00 PM
Colombia’s oil industry is yet again under considerable pressure, despite the national government in Bogota attempting to reactivate the economically crucial sector. The March 2020 oil price crash, COVID-19 pandemic, rising security risk and now significant political turmoil are weighing heavily on the oil industry’s performance. After a rough 2020 where Colombia’s five-month long quarantine lockdown sharply impacted operational activity and crude oil production, there are signs that the Andean country’s oil industry is struggling to recover. This comes after a moment of optimism in late-2020 where it appeared that Colombia’s hydrocarbon sector was on track to return to a pre-pandemic tempo of operations. The latest data from the energy ministry for Latin America’s fourth largest economy indicates that is not the case.
During March 2020, Colombia pumped a daily average of 744,715 barrels of crude oil and 1.2 million cubic feet of natural gas, which is a 0.14% and 5% less than a month earlier.
Source: Colombia Ministry of Mines and Energy, U.S. EIA.
More worrying are signs that Colombia’s hydrocarbon sector is struggling to recover from a devastating 2020. A reliable de-facto indicator of industry activity is the Baker Hughes rig count. The latest data shows that by the end of April 2021 there were only 16 active drill rigs in Colombia, which while 2 more than a month earlier is nearly half of the 30 operating at the end of April 2019
Low prices and depleting fields are a terrible combination!
Just talked to a woman from Columbia SA and she said her family was hit hard by Covid 19 there…
Did a Google on it…seems true..
the crisis in Latin America — and in South America in particular — is taking an alarming turn for the worse, potentially threatening the progress made well beyond its borders.
Last week, Latin America accounted for 35 percent of all coronavirus deaths in the world, despite having just 8 percent of the global population, according to data compiled by The New York Times.
Latin America was already one of the world’s hardest hit regions in 2020, with bodies sometimes abandoned on sidewalks and new burial grounds cut into thick forest. Yet even after a year of incalculable loss, it is still one of the most troubling global hot spots, with a recent surge in many countries that is even more deadly than before.
From NY Times
Meanwhile there is … Sweden… no lockdowns… no masks
This is a tonic for the MSM poison
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1104709/coronavirus-deaths-worldwide-per-million-inhabitants/
Households in the US to get monthly stimulus payments.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/households-including-most-us-children-get-monthly-stimulus-payment-2021-05-17/?taid=60a28174905c070001e8a6b0&utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter
UBI…. as The Leak said would happen …
UBI tonight, baby!
Are the Chicks for free too
Moderna and Pfizer did use mRNA vaccines on animals and humans and they were safe.
https://apnews.com/article/fact-checking-afs:Content:9792931264
It would be good if there were a article link available with respect to exactly what happened with these animals. How many animals were tested? Were they tested against getting a “wild” strain of the virus later? In fact, the study should pass peer review standards.
Some interesting commentary on the animals used on the Dark Horse podcast #79 recently (B. Weinstein / H. Heying).
If memory serves, Weinstein says that the original SARS vaccine research used ferrets, which all/mostly died. The vaccines companies weren’t going to do animal testing until there was an outcry about it. So they backed down but chose macaques and mice.
He said the macaques have a mellower respiratory immune response than ferrets (which are a better model for human response), and the mice used were of a strain that repairs damage better than some others, so perhaps not the best model for humans either. Lots of shenanigans going on it seems. Apologies if I am getting some of the details a little off.
The devil always seems to be in the details.
The “System” desperately needs more “stimulus”.
Because everything wants to CRASH again.
What a massive tank of the STock Market right before the close.
I think Harry Dent nailed it.
You are right. US stock market did tank today. Was there any announcement late in the day to cause this action?
What it was only down 267….today?
Minority, I found an article about the 2012 vaccine test against SARS. They didn’t use mRNA vaccine and the animals didn’t die.
https://mobile-reuters-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN2A22UW?amp_js_v=a6&_gsa=1&usqp=mq331AQHKAFQArABIA%3D%3D#aoh=16213643156689&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&_tf=From%20%251%24s&share=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Farticle%2Fuk-factcheck-mice-idUSKBN2A22UW
https://www.wired.com/2003/05/feds-race-to-make-sars-vaccine/
The contention is that SARS is like Dengue Fever. There is a general problem with vaccines (of all types) later causing worse reactions than would be the case, without the vaccine.
Of course, COVID-19 is a close relative of SARS, so a problem with SARS is likely to be a problem with COVID-19.
I would like to see actual test results with respect to COVID-19 vaccines on animals.
The following is an excellent journal detailing past vaccine developments and the how complicated the biology is:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41579-020-00462-y
I had an interesting experience yesterday evening. I was walking from one shop to another, when I bumped into one of my neighbours, a nurse (children’s hospital) about the same age as me (late 50s) who I have always got on fine with but we don’t chat much.
She asked me if I was still working from home (I work in IT at one of the local universities). I said yes, I thought that the uni would wait until probably December to see what happened over the next flu season before deciding if anyone can return to the office. She responded that since so many were now vaccinated (in the UK) there was little chance that the virus could be an issue. Was I vaccinated?
No, and i was not going to.
Yikes. Raging rant for the next 5 minutes that we walked together. It has been a long time since I have seen someone explode, emotionally, like that.
“So you let everyone else get vaccinated so that you can enjoy the benefits of herd immunity” (she is fully vaxxed)
I tried to explain that I could not see any benefit of getting vaxxed given my age and healthy lifestyle, which seemed to enrage her even more.
I tried pointing out that for previous mRNA vaccines most if not all the test animals died, the response I got was “I don’t care”, followed by something to the effect she new all she needed to know from her job. My impression was she had not heard of mRNA vaccines before.
As we parted she went on a ‘woe-is-me’ rant. “I worked really long hours to save lives, the whole NHS worked flat out to treat cv19 patients, I just worked overtime now and I am tired because of CV19, everyone is exhausted …”
Nothing, absolutely nothing, I could have said would have changed her mind. I don’t think she really listened to me anyway. The lynch mob beckons.
Your Friend = Rothschild Zombie
She desperately wants to be part of a JonesTown-like Mass Cult and drink the “koolaid”
Not my friend Starving, but otherwise I agree.
I am once again reminded of Germany during the 1930s. The masses are easily taken in by slick propaganda.
Stoic Marcus Aurelius came to this conclusion 2,000 yrs ago:
“If you can teach them, do so; but if they are not worth the trouble, let them be and proceed untroubled in mind.”
I wouldn’t dream of discussing my personal business with my sheeplike neighbors.
Wise words Nate.
My favourite Marcus Aurelius quote.
But he could also afford to take that stance without repercussions…..
My second favourite quote is when he remarks that sometimes he wishes he could just stay in bed and not have to face all the stupidity and crookedness…..
Scary…Thank God I haven’t run into any Covidians yet, but I know it’s only a matter of time.
WOW, do you live in a cave? If so, don’t leave it, covidians are everywhere!
she was quite correct
though wrong to explode—though I’m not surprised she did
I did not realise you were fully vaccinated Norman. Good luck.
the nurse at the focus of this issue is paid to bend over individuals, on a daily basis, so she risks getting a massive viral dose from each one. That puts her and her family at risk
Each of her patients might have exercised their human right not to get vaccinated, but caught covid anyway. Covid has never heard of human rights btw.
when/if they catch it, their human rights are of course immediately forgotten, covid is suddenly real and they demand to be treated.
the nurse doesn’t get to exercise her human rights and refuse to treat them on the grounds of being irresponsible in the first place, anymore than a smoker is refused treatment because he’s an idiot
she gets on and does her job
She likely sees individuals gasping for air, demanding attention and oxygen, which she freely gives.
she likely sees deaths too. And gets exhausted with it all.
Then she meets someone who pronounces that he doesn’t see the need for it because he’s fir and healthy. And it’s his right not to get vexed.
No wonder she blew up.
But the anti-vaxxers carry on repeating stories about vaccinations being a form of mind control, or covid is just the flu, or is a government plot —and the unthinkers believe it all
Every medical intervention, no matter how trivial, carries risk. Women die in childbirth, somehow we all get born.
It is a decision people have to make. Older people often choose to be vaccinated; younger people not so much. The risk of illness and death is different. You seem to be in the “older” category.
Nurses have to make choices as well. Supposedly, PPE and vaccines offered to the nurses will protect them. If they catch COVID-19 and recover from it, their natural immunity will protect them (unless they are immune system is compromised to begin with–such people are exposing themselves to big risks, with any small exposure).
If the system was smart enough to offer those with COVID-19 treatment (or actions that would help prevent COVID-19) at home, the hospitals would not be nearly as full. Death rates would be lower. There would be less problem with overworked nurses. Perhaps we will finally get to this stage in the pandemic.
those in medical professions tend to make only one choice–to follow the vocation they chose when young
So do computer programmers, but the profession tends to leave them, as skill needs change, and employers hire people just out of school. Those doing heavy manual labor follow one course as well, but their bodies don’t keep up with the demands of these jobs, and they find that they need to downshift into something else.
My father (who was a general practitioner physician when I was young, and a psychiatrist after I graduated from college) used to tell about physicians who did absolutely the minimum amount required to keep up with changes in medicine. I imagine that is the case as well. My father was one of many people in medicine who have changed their careers. He developed an allergy to latex gloves, back in the day when latex gloves were required for surgery and physical examination. He found he needed to retrain for a new career.
And so it goes on. The health care profession is not really different from any other. Every profession seems to run into dead ends, as universities spew out way too many new graduates relative to what are needed by the system.
thats like saying a motor mechanic had to give up because he got an allergic reaction to oil
it wouldn’t reduce his knowledge of cars and engines, or his affinity for them, or his ability to advise on keeping them in good condition
maybe the medical profession changed from keeping people well, to trying to heal the sick
Norman, this will probably not make much sense to you, but I expect most of the regulars here will share my sentiments, which are born of exasperation with your way of arguing.
I would really like to get a nice big fresh wet fish, say a Salmond or a Sturgeon, and repeatedly slap you on both cheeks with it for a few minutes. Indeed, just thinking about doing it makes me feel so much better.
And I am only specifying a wet fish rather than something harder and less forgiving because I like you so much.
you’ve been watching too much Monty Python
A sturgeon might be too big for you to lift—unless of course you held it between your teeth and shook your head from side to side—that would probably work ok.
But that brings us to the point , that every activity must have a purpose. One must assume that this would not be entirely recreational?
Have no concern about hardness, my dentist told me I have the hardest bone he’s ever come across. (quite true btw)
I merely pointed out that a medical professional is required (if possible) to nurse a sick person back to health, irrespective of stupidity. Assuming this was the comment selected for today’s critique?
The consensus of opinion, everywhere, is that a pandemic exists. It appears to be killing people. As a species, we react (rightly or wrongly) to that situation and try to save lives. There is no sinister plot to control the destiny of the human race, by injecting them with tracking devices in the vaccine. No conspiracy to make us all have medi-passports. No plot to reduce us to 1 billion.
Again. there must be purpose. I can find none.
Perhaps the wrapped bodies in India are produced by the same set-designers who produced that other great plot that is no longer mentioned.
When people, (deniers or otherwise) get sick with Covid, they seek medical help—they do not quietly retreat somewhere in isolation and leave it to chance.
In doing that, they expect others to shoulder responsibility for their actions.
In trying to make my comments analytical, they are perhaps short on the hysterical. I try to make up for that with the logical. It no doubt comes across to some as comical.
As you point out, the end result is exasperational.
tough.
But norm… why won’t you respond to this?
https://youtu.be/bdQHKf48Mfw?t=1921
Gail, there is a severe shortage of psychiatrists. I believe this is an example of over complexity in a world no longer rich enough to support the job class.
Norman, people commit crimes. If we put tracing devices into all humans we can stop crime. Stop ra pe stop mur der, etc. By your common good reasoning we are compelled to do this????
Closer to home on the medical front. Blood, kidneys, slices of liver, marrowbone jelly, can, when donated, save valuable lives. Norman, would you be in favor of making such donations mandatory when required? And if not, why not?
Also, not wanting to overload you, but it IS important. Being vaccinated against Covid-19 doesn’t protect you from catching it or from infecting others. As far as I’m aware, there is no reliable data indicating that it is of any prophylactic value at all. And let’s consider the issue of vaxed people spreading spike proteins or some other poison that can injure non-vaxed people in the vicinity. If this proves to be the case, you will have to stand your argument on its head. At least, I shall enjoy seeing you try.
I carry a card which lets folks take which bits they fancy–for souvenirs or anything else
certainly they should be mandatory
haven’t a clue about spiked proteins, and spreading whatever–‘some other poison’ reads like conjured information from somewhere–
>>haven’t a clue about spiked proteins
Enough said.
ya still lost me
not difficult
must be some sense there somewhere, but off on a tangent I can’t follow
Sad, but stick to your guns: your position is reasonable, above all in light of the level of adverse reactions compared to other vaccines, and her comments were foolish and ill-informed, but being over-wrought can be excused – who isn’t these days?
The UK govt. propaganda machine is now definitely trying to turn the vaccinated against the sane and cautious, which is ominous.
Indeed very sad, i’ll probably be facing some similar issues soon, can’t help but wonder what’s the smartest approach ?. Up till now i have tried to inform close family (mainly my parents & in-laws ) and 1 friend in the hope of stemming the tide.
One technique that the media seems to be instilling round the clock is a very dishonest debating tactic that holds the middle somewhere between “ad hominem” attacks and gaslighting (=making your opponent look weird or downright insane, for example by making you question your own sanity through lies, etc…). It was a term i was fortunately not so familiar with until recently.
Every time i do best efforts to provide articles and even a book on the subject they will at best politely pretend that they will look at it. I know for a fact that some family members even lied to me about whether they had actually read one of the key sources i provided. (Either that or they are somehow magically incapable of reading & comprehending anything). Yet whenever – increasingly sparingly now – the subject comes up some of them – notably my brother-in-law – will pretend that i never provided any info that might contradict their views. When i react – admittedly rather testily – that i DID provide that info – and point out some of his less respectable debating tactics – he even went as far as to say that if i get bugged about it, it proves he’s right ! He’s supposedly intelligent, has a PhD,….
NomadicBeer may be right about this, …but on the other hand if history shows one thing it is that totalitarian regimes rely on making their supporters believe they are in the majority. The worst atrocities are usually committed when the other side gives up its resistance, as now they don’t have to pretend any commitment to higher ideals of reasonableness or individual freedom anymore. If people decide to remain quiet – which i fully understand – should we expect worse to come our way soon ? What would the chances be to make it through OK by remaining quiet ? Would “the cult” require plenty demonstrations not just of compliance but full commitment ? But on the other hand, resistance to a thing does tend to fuel the polarization, and so just going on with our lives may lead them back to sanity out of their own realization ?
I don’t know, but the question will become very real for all of us soon enough. It is sad to say, but our best hope to wake them up is that Yeadon et al are correct on the ADE / Autoimmune issue and that the “jabbed” start dropping like flies, but it also holds great peril as the media will undoubtedly try to (s)pin this on the other side. I plan to hold off at least untill december or so, as we should have some more clarity of the ADE issue by then i would guess.
Best of Luck to all of you !
I don’t try to put anyone off the vaccines…. I very much doubt abstaining will make any difference…
And as suggested… it might mean you live to suffer through the global Holodomor.
I do not wish that upon anyone … not even Justin Bieber
I am afraid of this issue coming up in the future, as well. I am not sure how a person can dodge the issue. If anyone has an idea, let us know.
Why not lie and say you were vaccinated?
I think we are way past standing up for our principles.
This is a survival situation. As a person that is very bad at lying and tends to antagonize people, I have decided to try to blend in.
Wear a mask when required, never contradict the propaganda and never provide facts to people.
The only exception is if someone is really undecided and asks me for info, I will link to some peer reviewed studies. Even that might become risky in the future.
I think we are spoiled because we lived in a rich “live and let live” society. That is not true anymore. Just look at the people here (hello Norman!) that encourage and support online censorship. Do you think they would defend you if the government comes to take you away?
So we all better keep our heads down and learn to be duplicitous if we want to survive.
Agreed. With strangers, it is highly advisable to pretend that you are part of the team. With close friends and family, however, I am afraid I’m not resisting the urge to warn them against the “unpredictable effects” of these “vaccines”. With only a moderate success until know, i must confess…
I’d agree, Nomadic, a certain amount of prudent compromise is required socially, and even more so now that governments are actively trying to turn people against one another over this issue.
Unfortunately, it won’t be a matter of, as in the 1930’s, being able to conform superficially by simply wearing the Party badge and saluting the flag, but accepting repeated injections with noxious and dubious substances, and it looks as though we will be pushed hard to the wire eventually.
They are now trying to fix the labels of ‘leper’ and ‘anti-social criminal’ on those who are unvaccinated – much more dangerous than calling us idiots!
In casual conversation, citing a moral or religious exemption probably wouldn’t satisfy the Branch Covidians. Citing an allergy, on the other hand, might do the trick. This also is probably not too far a stretch given the list of known side effects of the “vaccines.”
One could perhaps make the argument that anyone experiencing any side effects after injection is having an allergic reaction to one or multiple “vaccine” ingredients, and this may indeed be the case for the vast majority of people who’ve submitted themselves to the shot.
On the other hand, Branch Covidians may counter with a glib remark that, “the side effects mean that the vaccine is working, stupid!” or, “the more severe your reaction to the vaccine, the more severe your reaction to SARS-CoV-2 would’ve been, so consider yourself lucky, be thankful, and clap for the NHS!”
Yes, being allergic to an ingredient does sound like a reasonable answer. Of course, with three vaccines available, with different ingredients, a person could argue that there is a way around this issue.
If You Are Allergic to Polyethylene Glycol (PEG) or Polysorbate
“PEG and polysorbate are closely related to each other. PEG is an ingredient in the mRNA vaccines, and polysorbate is an ingredient in the J&J/Janssen vaccine.
“If you are allergic to PEG, you should not get an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine. Ask your doctor if you can get the J&J/Janssen vaccine.
“If you are allergic to polysorbate, you should not get the J&J/Janssen COVID-19 vaccine. Ask your doctor if you can get an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine.”
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/recommendations/specific-groups/allergies.html
Maybe we’re allergic to both PEG and polysorbate, eh?
mid term and long term safety and effectiveness has not been established; previous vaccines have undergone 4 to 8 years of phase 3 trials
You’ve probably been vaccinated for *something*..
Voilà! You’re “vaccinated”!
They don’t need to know what for.
What they are talking about isn’t even a vaccine, anyway, so….
lidia thanks for pointing this out. It s helpful.
Good idea Lydia: throw the barking dogs their bone and move on.
Although a poisoned treat might be better with certain of them……
The next question will be, “which of the vaccines”.
Pfizer is the larges vaccine producer so answering Pfizer is likely not a lie if you’ve been vaccinated for something before.
Excellent suggestion.
Thanks for this.
I wonder what she’d say if you said you already had Covid so are immune?
I wonder what she’d say if you told her the vaccines don’t stop the spread of Covid – they only maybe stop 90% dead people from dying….
There is no cure for stooopidity … therefore best to just lie and say ya just got my THIRD jab last week!
She’d probably take you into the back alley and let you have your way with her. Vaccine Groopies.
Please let me say something about these last comments. I can say that also in Europe governments and institutions are making big pressure on people to take the jab. Maybe it is not a big technical issue to lie about any particular covid-condition (being Covid-vaccinated or have recovered from Covid), the big issue might be to stay close to vaccinated people without masks, risking to be exposed to more dangerous variants. But I don’t have medical knowledge about it.
see this article (please use translator):
https://www.radioradio.it/2021/04/allarme-del-prof-garavelli-vaccinare-errore-mutazioni-virus/
So far I have not seen any data that makes me believe there are “more dangerous” variants. So far I believe that phrase is pure propaganda.
Exactly. It’s all propaganda to make the hesitant step up and get jabbed.
Keeping mask mandates in place through the summer months (spain) is another disgusting tactic.
One thing to say that usually shuts people up is that you won’t take any product that has been developed by experimenting on innocent defenceless animals. Takes away their supposed moral high ground in an instant.
Yeah, but this time I think they skipped the furry animal trials and went straight to experimenting on gullible trusting normies.
A hundred years ago, people were a lot smarter!
Rally of the Anti-Vaccination League of Canada, Old City Hall, Toronto, November 13, 1919.
https://images.prismic.io/wellcomecollection/09eedd74c68e5d5940e5310b741ff3bbf5fafca2_03-toronto.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&rect=&w=820&h=
Well, that’s the official narrative. Personally, I suspect the “vaccines” have been tested on animals and nobody who knows the results would take the jab. But even if these “vaccines” really have skipped the animal testing phase, their precursors and components certainly will have been injected into creatures living short lives of pain and misery.
Did you mean “gullible trusting Normans?”
Is this true or not?
The Connecticut Department of Public Health has published the Ingredients list for the Moderna COVID “Vaccine”
https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/breaking-news-urgent-connecticut-publishes-moderna-covid-vax-ingredients-deadly-poison-sm-102-not-for-human-or-veterinary-use
The Connecticut Department of Public Health has published the Ingredients list for the Moderna COVID “Vaccine” and that data sheet confirms it contains a chemical “SM-102.”
The SM-102 Material Safety Data Sheet describes this chemical as “NOT FOR HUMAN OR VETERINARY USE”
According to the manufacturer, Cayman Chemical Company in their filing with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), this chemical causes “Acute Toxicity “Fatal in contact with skin.”
In that same OSHA filing, the manufacturer declares SM-102 “Causes damage to the central nervous system, the kidneys, the liver and the respiratory system through prolonged or repeated exposure.”
Here is a section from the manufacturer’s OSHA filing:
Even worse, on the list of ingredients, SM-102 is listed third, even before polyethylene glycol. This is a photo of the listing:
https://halturnerradioshow.com/images/2021/05/17/ModernaIngredientsList.jpg
I don’t know anything about the ingredient’s safety.
Download the 2 pdfs and read it.
This is blatant-in-your-face PROOF that at least one of the “vaccines” is deliberate blood poisoning.
Drs Sherri Tenpenny and Judy Mikovits discuss the ingredients of vaccines in general in one of their videos (July 2020). The list is lengthy.
I don’t seem to be able to get a link to the specific video. Click on the link below then select the video second row left.
https://www.drtenpenny.com/podcasts-interviews?pgid=k8hlwck4-f1d9e04b-24f7-4267-b83f-b038e876c44e
I have not watched the whole video myself, too long. Talk on vaccine ingredients starts at about 4min. Mind-boggling. The first few minutes (min 4-20) should be enough to put you off getting a vaccine ever again.
Tesla has already broken down from its support line, but has now found support at the 200MA.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E1riQixXoAc8mza?format=jpg&name=large
Sort of support at the 200 day moving average. We will see if this holds.
S&P 500 is starting to break down from its support line at 4160 on the weekly chart. Just a technical correction is coming after one year?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E1rJ5BBWQAEOJP8?format=jpg&name=large
Perhaps it is starting to break down, or it could continue to rise a bit. It doesn’t look to me like it is a very clear situation yet.
S&P 500 closed at 4128 today, so it is breaking down from its support line now.
Harry Dent says the STock Market is headed to 0 as soon as June.
Fear sells. These perma-bear buy metals types have been saying this forever. Glad I went long SPY years ago and trippled my money.
It’s like driving over a rotten bridge, without the support structures it will eventually collapse.
That’s what makes it a thrill. We know it will collapse but not when so enjoy the ride while it lasts. There will be plenty of time for despair later on but for now all the utilities are on, the shelves stocked, and the credit card still works so party on.
We are seeing lots of signs we are starting to hit limits. Once things start going “south,” they could go badly south, it would seem like.
The UFO’s are indeed real. Here is the video of advanced Rothschild technology
https://youtu.be/bTGRK9a-oHQ
https://gcaptain.com/watch-u-s-navy-tracks-spherical-shaped-ufo-off-california/?subscriber=true&goal=0_f50174ef03-e122a249ce-170045729&mc_cid=e122a249ce&mc_eid=66a31e9db6
An investigative filmmaker has released unclassified U.S. military footage showing a spherical-shaped UFO as seen by U.S. Navy personnel off the coast of California.
The footage was recorded by the Combat Information Center on board USS Omaha in July 2019 in a restricted warning area off the coast San Diego and captured by Night Vision and FLIR technology. Now unclassified, it was released by Jeremy Corbell, who first provided details and still images of the incident back in May. Corbell published the video on Friday.
“This footage was filmed in the CIC (Combat Information Center) of the USS Omaha on July 15th 2019 in a warning area off San Diego. This footage depicts a UAP event series that reached a crescendo with one of the unknown targets entering the water. No wreckage found. None of the unknown craft were recovered,” Corbell explained in the original blog post on the Extraordinarybeliefs.com.
UAP is short for Unidentified Aerial Phenomena. In the video, you can hear military personnel comment as they track it across the water.
“Whoa, it’s getting close,” said one person. Seconds later, the object disappears into the water. “Whoa, it splashed!”.
Oh, so now UFOs are “Rotschild technology”?
Jooz in Space!
The blob in the Youtube video is a tethered balloon. Montgolfier technology, methinks.