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.
First hand from resident of India
https://twitter.com/wittgenstein78/status/1395431006526652423
Please don’t post Twitter comments.
Sorry, will post video link next time.
This is a resident of Mumbai who says everything is normal there, people are not dying in the streets, and they are doing fine, so don’t believe all the lies that are circulating about the pandemic.
Sickening Evil
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E1y5UaQXoAQiMzq?format=jpg&name=900×900
Propoganda Overload
Get the Facts on the Vax: How do I convince a family member it’s safe to be vaccinated?
https://www.ketv.com/article/get-the-facts-on-the-vax-how-do-i-convince-a-family-member-its-safe-to-be-vaccinated/36492039
Satanic Monsters
How To Talk To Parents Who Choose Not To Vaccinate Their Kids
For the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic began, vaccination isn’t just a hypothetical for a lot of parents; it is now a real option for children ages 12 and up, and many parents have jumped at the chance. According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data, more than 600,000 kids between 12 and 15 received the Pfizer vaccine in the first week it was available.
And experts also now believe that by the start of the new school year in the fall, younger children could be eligible for vaccination as well.
But there have been — and will continue be — a lot of parents who opt out. In one recent survey, 25% of parents said they have no intention of getting their children vaccinated, while another 18% said they’d do it only if their children’s school requires it. (It remains unclear whether schools legally can.)
As we enter this next phase of the COVID-19 pandemic and the vaccine rollout to children, parents will need to start having conversations with each other about what their plans are — and disagreements will certainly arise. So HuffPost Parents asked pediatricians who are experienced in having conversations with vaccine-hesitant parents and caregivers about some best practices to keep in mind.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/talk-parents-choose-not-vaccinate-kids_l_60a69af9e4b0d45b7526b4c9
Matt Hancock: ‘Everyone must get second jab’
https://news.yahoo.com/everyone-must-second-jab-182700088.html
I’ll gladly deliver Matt Hancock’s 2nd jab: although I can’t guarantee what instrument would be used, nor exactly where it will be administered.
My choices might be unorthodox, even ‘experimental’…….
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/524324-china-nuclear-extract-uranium-ocean/
China has an energy plan and it ain’t the green new deal.
This sounds like another workaround for diminishing returns with respect to uranium. Evidently, this will be more efficient than reprocessing spent fuel. The article makes it sound difficult to get uranium from the ocean.
20 years ago the Japanese were extracting Uranium from seawater. I do not know if it was cost effective.
IT BEGINS: Fully Vaccinated People in Oregon Must Show Proof of Vaccination Status in Order to Enter Businesses Without a Mask
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/05/begins-fully-vaccinated-people-oregon-must-show-proof-vaccination-status-order-enter-businesses-without-mask/?utm_source=Gab&utm_campaign=websitesharingbuttons
OR must have a radddical leffftist gov. A few more such states might follow, not all 50, probably not even half.
Where are those guys with the automatic weapons who like to conduct mass murder when you need them?
‘Right Wing Anti-Vaxxer Guns Down 24 Co-Workers After Being Asked to Mask-Up’
Mark Jones arrived at his office on Monday and was told no vax no work unless he wore a mask. He left the office and returned an hour later and with an AK47 assault rifle and shot dead 24 colleagues. he then turned the gun on himself and shouted Death to CovIDIOTS’.
When will the freedom fighters of the south island strike?
I can understand the reason why some counties in Oregon are voting to secede.
Haha… this is fantastic… The Borg will go willing to extinction … not even a whimper
Cuomo’s “Vax & Scratch”: New York Will Now Reward Vaccinations With Scratch-Off Lotto Tickets
In the latest awkward and cringeworthy “incentive” aimed at battling “vaccine hesitancy” the state of New York is now offering all residents who receive the COVID-19 vaccine for the first time next week a “free state lottery ticket” in a new program dubbed Vax & Scratch (no this is not satire).
The Hill details that “The program will give a free New York Lottery scratch-off ticket for the Mega Multiplier Lottery to any individuals over the age of 18 who get vaccinated at certain locations across the state between May 24 and May 28.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/cuomos-vax-scratch-new-york-will-now-reward-vaccinations-scratch-lotto-tickets
If people were not so stooopid … they’d think this was a joke.
Another excellent review from Dr Lee Merritt
Dr. Lee Merritt interviewed by the Health Ranger: Forced vaccines are a Holocaust-level crime against humanity
https://www.brighteon.com/85761cb5-b202-4d89-b36d-cc920319ab73
it could reach that level. We’ll have to wait and see if we get uncensored data in 2022.
There is an election inn 2022 no honest information will be allowed to get inn the way of the uni-party.
over one billion vaccines worldwide. I’m waiting for world data.
Uunvaxxed = Domestic Terrorists
Big gaps in vaccine rates across the US worry health experts
“Low vaccination rates will leave room for the virus to circulate, re-emerge and possibly form new variants,” said Tara Kirk Sell, a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. “High vaccination rates are critical to keeping the disease under control, especially when we get back to the fall and winter.”
The divides aren’t just limited to states — there are marked differences between urban and rural places, from county to county and from one neighborhood to another.
The disparities are even more glaring when looking at individual places around the U.S.: Vermont has four counties where 75% of the residents have had at least one dose, while there are 11 Mississippi counties with under 25% vaccinated.
Roddy Carroll has seen both sides from where he works in technology sales in Atlanta and where he grew up in northern Georgia. “There’s a pretty stark difference,” he said.
Back home in rural Murray County, only 1 in 4 residents have rolled up their sleeves for a shot. Carroll blames conservative politicians for sowing doubts that have made people reluctant.
“They’re more willing to listen to conspiracy theorists than doctors who know how vaccines work,” he said. “You’re talking about people you’ve known all their life. But you hear them say those things, and you think, `How well did I know them?’”
Those anti-vaccine beliefs have led to some uncomfortable conversations with his family, Carroll said. “I don’t know anybody who hasn’t had tense moments like that,” he said.
Dr. Eric Topol, head of the Scripps Research Translational Institute, said the gaps in COVID-19 vaccination can be traced directly to political influences, particularly what he called “anti-science” attitudes among Republican leaders, who were skeptical about the value of masks, too.
Getting more people vaccinated will take continued education, incentives and “head-on” confrontation of misinformation, Topol said.
He expects U.S. regulators to grant full approval to the vaccines soon, which will give employers, the military and health systems the green light to require vaccination. “That will make the biggest difference,” Topol said.
https://apnews.com/article/vt-state-wire-coronavirus-pandemic-health-bfa2dd39d1117a729542cf094504ca56
Tara Kirk Sell, quoted in the article above, co-developed Event 201. She was also on the project team for “The SPARS Pandemic 2025 – 2028.” Let’s take a look at her team’s view of a simulated future that may await us at the end of the COVID-19 scamdemic. The following is the conclusion of the SPARS Pandemic scenario:
“As time passed and more people across the United States were vaccinated, claims of adverse side effects began to emerge. Several parents claimed that their children were experiencing neurological symptoms similar to those seen among livestock exposed to the GMI vaccine. By May 2027, parental anxiety around this claim had intensified to the point of lawsuits. That month, a group of parents whose children developed mental retardation as a result of encephalitis in the wake of Corovax vaccination sued the federal government, demanding removal of the liability shield protecting the pharmaceutical companies responsible for developing and manufacturing Corovax.
“The growing plaintiff cohort quickly withdrew their suit upon learning that the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Trust Fund (NVICTF) and an emergency appropriation of funds authorized by Congress under the PREP Act existed to provide financial reimbursement to those who were adversely affected by the Corovax vaccine in order to cover healthcare costs and other related expenses.2,3 Given the positive reaction to the federal government’s response and the fact that the majority of US citizens willing to be vaccinated had already been immunized, the negative publicity surrounding adverse reactions had little effect on nationwide vaccination rates. The focus on adverse side effects, however, resulted in a considerable increase in the number of compensation claims filed, and many grew concerned about the long-term effects that Corovax could have on their health. This concern was particularly high among some African American parents who continued to question the government’s motives regarding the Corovax vaccination campaign.
“While the FDA, CDC, and other agencies were busy researching possible connections between Corovax and the reported neurological side effects, their efforts were continually undermined by epidemiological analyses produced by various non-governmental individuals and groups.
“While the federal government appeared to have appropriately addressed concerns around the acute side effects of Corovax, the long-term, chronic effects of the vaccine were still largely unknown. Nearing the end of 2027, reports of new neurological symptoms began to emerge. After showing no adverse side effects for nearly a year, several vaccine recipients slowly began to experience symptoms such as blurry vision, headaches, and numbness in their extremities. Due to the small number of these cases, the significance of their association with Corovax was never determined. As of this writing in 2030, longitudinal studies initiated by the NIH at the beginning of the vaccination program have not reached the next round of data collection, so formal analysis on these symptoms has not yet been conducted. Furthermore, these cases arose from the initial cohort of vaccine recipients—those in highrisk populations, including those with other underlying health conditions—making it increasingly difficult to determine the extent to which these symptoms are associated with vaccination.
“As these cases emerged, patients began filing for compensation under the PREP Act. Due to lingering uncertainties over possible links between vaccination and reported neurological symptoms, their compensation requests were placed on indefinite hold, pending further data analysis. This cohort, many of whom adamantly supported the Corovax vaccine initially, quickly took to social media to publicize their issues.
“Despite relatively few reports of neurological symptoms, the social media response was immense. After experiencing initial success with PREP Act compensation policies and working diligently to ensure transparency throughout the claim request and evaluation process, HHS was caught off guard by the new round of negative publicity. They were pressured by the public and media to award compensation to those claiming long-term effects from Corovax despite having no data to support these claims. Displaying a fundamental misunderstanding of scientific research, many demanded proof that the vaccines did not cause long-term effects. HHS Secretary Nagel firmly and vocally supported the decision to postpone evaluation of all claims of long-term side effects and invited an independent Congressional investigation to ensure that the PREP Act was being properly implemented.
“In addition to demands for immediate compensation, Congress faced public pressure to increase the PREP Act emergency appropriation. While the initial allocation of funds was sufficient to provide compensation for acute side effects, the prospect of long-term effects and potentially permanent disability gave rise to concerns that additional resources would be necessary in the near future.”
https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-work/Center-projects/completed-projects/spars-pandemic-scenario.html
Everything foreseen and gamed to the last detail.
Psychopaths, who can dwell with delight on all the possible ramifications of their crimes……
https://www.newsweek.com/moderna-covid-vaccine-ingredient-conspiracy-theory-debunked-1592553
What Is SM-102? Moderna COVID Vaccine Ingredient Claim Debunked by Scientists
conspiracy theory regarding the Moderna vaccine is being circulated on social media, in which anti-vaccination proponents raise concerns that the shot contains an ingredient that is unsafe for human use.
The conspiracy theory being spread by users on Twitter and TikTok highlights one Moderna vaccine ingredient; a lipid, or type of fat, known as SM-102.
According to Moderna, SM-102 is indeed listed among the ingredients of the vaccine.
However, what the videos and posts do not show is that the SM-102 product sold by Cayman is a mixture of two substances—SM-102 and chloroform. It lists chloroform as the dangerous component, and not SM-102, which is listed as “other.”
Substances are often prepared mixed-in with other chemicals that help them to dissolve. These substances that help with the dissolving process are known as solvents, and chloroform is used in this way. Even water can be used as a solvent.
Al Edwards, impact lead for the pharmacy research division at the University of Reading, told Newsweek: “Some solvents are often used to prepare things like lipids, but are removed after use.
“I don’t know the exact process used to make the Moderna vaccine, but even if it did involve dissolving the lipid in a solvent such as chloroform, any residual amount of solvent left in the vaccine—if not fully removed—would be measured very precisely and listed as an ingredient. It would also only be allowed if it was known to be safe.”
Chloroform is not listed as an ingredient in the Moderna vaccine.
Ed Hutchinson, a lecturer at the University of Glasgow’s Centre for Virus Research, told Newsweek it is “entirely normal” for chemicals to be supplied in different grades of purity and that ones destined for human use would be treated with the greatest care.
“If you want an analogy—road grit and table salt are both salt, but you should only eat the more expensive and cleaner one,” he said.
“Safety sheets for chemicals sold for purposes other than vaccines can look alarming for three reasons—they might refer to a less pure product than is used in vaccines; they might include warnings about additional compounds not present in vaccines—for example, flammable solvents; or they might refer to properties of the compound on its own that aren’t present in the vaccine itself.”
Edwards also said that fact safety sheets, such as the SM-102 one alluded to by anti-vaccination proponents, can easily be misinterpreted.
“A seller can label something as not for human consumption or use in medicines just because they don’t want the product to be used in that way; the business does not want to certify that it’s safe for human use.”
“But this doesn’t reflect that the product and all its components are unsafe—just that particular preparation.
“Peanuts sold for bird seed often are labelled in this way. That doesn’t mean peanuts are hazardous to humans.”
Thirty nine replies to that article so far, and almost all of them condemning Newsweek. This is not going to do their brand image any good.
Seems SM-102 could well might possibly be poisonous and carcinogenic regardless of whether or not it’s dissolved in chloroform.
One of the commenters said:
Not so fast. This is from the Product Insert.
Product Information for SM-102
Item No. 33474
Description: “SM-102 is an ionizable amino lipid that has been used in combination with other lipids in the formation of lipid nanoparticles. Administration of luciferase mRNA in SM-102-containing lipid nanoparticles induces hepatic luciferase expression in mice. Formulations containing SM-102 have been used in the development of lipid nanoparticles for delivery of mRNA-based vaccines.”
Link to Product Insert —> https://www.caymanchem.com/pdfs/33474.pdf
The BBC had an interesting documentary on tv tonight, at prime time on the prime channel,
BBC1, 7 pm. Indeed, they booted the usual BBC 1 week day programme, ‘The One Show’, a popular news and culture showed presented by a very pretty woman, over to BBC 2, to show this documentary.
It is difficult to explain to non-Brits just how important the BBC is to British culture and every day life. It is known colloquially as ‘Auntie’, which originally was a derogative term but now is meant to imply an organisation you can trust. And most people do. The irony.
The documentary was called “PRINCESS DIANA, MARTIN BASHIR AND THE BBC”, a Panorama special. Panorama is a BBC documentary programme that has been around for decades, since 1953. And this was odd in that it was about the dishonesty and lies about a <> programme aired in 1995, the one where Martin Bashir got the now infamous scoop interview from Princess Diana through lies and deceit. It was a remarkably honest programme, suspiciously honest given that it uncovered serious corruption at the BBC from a previous Panorama programme.
Martin Bashir made false documents (bank statements) to get the scoop interview with Diana, and senior BBC management for years covered up the incident.
This occurred 26 years ago. Why would the BBC switch a very popular weekday programme to BBC 2 to cover this story, now?
I suspect to induce trust within the UK population in the middle of the biggest scam they have ever undertaken (CV19 et al). Diana was probably the most popular member of the royal family over the last century by a long shot, and many people in the UK were gutted when she died. This documentary links the dishonesty of Bashir to Diana’s death two years later (probably correctly), and therefore implies the BBC has now come clean and is a very honest, trustworthy and contrite institution.
Next week Panorama will be doing a special on the CV19 scam – not.
Good observations: I was also wondering why they are digging up all that old crap just now, and came to the same conclusion.
The K ‘feeries’ are v. interesting tho. Video evidence shows that that fatal evening, Diana’s driver was not badly drunk as later suggested. Dodi was shown at the jeweller’s in Paris buying an engagement ring for her. Diana had already campaigned again the weapons trade, upsetting Tory MPs, and it is thought she was about to campaign on behalf on the Palestinians.
Google Annie Machon, an ex-MI5 agent, and Diana, and she will tell you that the deepstate had decided that Diana had to go. And when you think that the ambulance took 2 whole hours to travel the very short distance to the hospital where she could have received expert care, well, that’s just ridiculous!
Could it be the Phillip signed off on the hit, but in recent years he had became increasing loose lipped and so the deep state had to hasten his end with a kovid kill shot?
Come on, surely you don’t think that’s to konspiratorial?
without conspiracies and conspirators there would be no conspiratorium
Verily you have it, Norman. But there is one more vital ingredient required—conspiracists, who can be divided into c theorists and c analysts.
agreed
I hadn’t thought of a conspiracist as one who is the originator of conspiracies
such subtle shades of meaning
Norm – when will you apply your great mind to this?
https://youtu.be/bdQHKf48Mfw?t=1922
opening clickbait supports the idiots who think it up
and idiots who pass it round
I don’t
The royal family are nothing more than greedy turds. https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2021-02-24-charles-of-arabia-how-britains-next-king-bolsters-autocratic-gulf-regimes/
try to stop reading clickbait
the royals don’t want the lousy job any more than you or I would—they are born by chance into it–and get stuck with it
would you want a lifetime of criticism by idiots, and be photographed every time you scratch your bum?
or have a hundred reporters hanging round any girl unfortunate enough to be thought of as a royal girlfriend?
Or have kids and need police protection when they just want to go to school?
Or have to live in a museum–which they certainly do not want
I could go on.
I’m amazed any of them are remotely sane with such a life
Good points!
Based on the level inbreeding involved with royal families… I suspect that the Queen is operating on a level roughly in line with Justin Bieber… needless to say — zero gravitas
While I’m not a fan of royalty, Tim, I fail to have seen the nastiness in DoE that would have allowed him to arrange the death of the mother of his grandchildren.
During a walkabout in London after Diana’s death, a woman said to the Queen, ‘Look after the boys!’ The Queen nodded. The DoE, walking alongside the Queen, was not happy: ‘We ARE looking after them!’ he told the woman, as if stung by a rebuke.
We know that the British security forces ran amok in N. Ireland during the 1970s, plotting with extreme Loyalists to murder Provos. They had no authority or right to do that, but why aren’t we surprised? Remember Eden and Suez. If Eden had never been found out, Normal would have been fulminating against the disgraceful C the ories to this day.
“The US government is placing U.S. citizens and permanent residents on the No Fly List, without reason; this is also happening in Canada now.
People are being banned indefinitely from flying on any aircraft by the government, for no reason at all.
The United States government and Canada are banning innocent people from flying – INDEFINITELY – to, from, or over the United States, even though they’ve never been charged with a crime.
If you are a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident, and the TSC determines you are on the No Fly List, you will not be able to board any aircraft, even if you have a paid airline ticket and confirmation for the flight. Air travelers find out they’re on the no fly list while at the airport, just minutes before their flight, with no reasons given…”
https://steverotter.com/no-fly-list-for-innocent-americans/
stock markets are up today! and Crypto!……………………………………………………………………………………… the Collapse has been delayed.
Careful landing…a little up a little down…easy does it! We will get this economy on the ground… a little recession here, hyperinflation there. The masses will be content as long as they don’t know how bad it really is….
I am like you I look at it every day to see if it is still going!
The masses will be decreasingly content, and will wonder why things are getting really bad. Maybe we can cheer them up, if we can get the message out that things will be even worse in the 2030s.
Hello Xabier,
I am in Cambridge all next week if you would like to risk meeting up with a fellow Cassandra. Gail has my email address. No problem if you are otherwise occupied.
Dr. Christiane Northrup gives new details on covid vaccine shedding / transmission, especially among women
https://www.brighteon.com/2aaed9bc-aa22-4da2-bdf8-2b0f2059983a
people have been telling me that all my life
good to see you back. It must be only later in life that people are telling you to be alert for buzzards circling above you. 😉
they’ve been there for 30 years—so far they have been content with less lively carrion
no doubt there will claim me when my relatives put me out for sky burial
Repo Crisis Looms: Fed’s Reverse Repo Usage Soars To $351BN, Fifth Highest Ever
As expected, today’s overnight reverse repo facility usage soared above $300 billion, surging $57BN from $293BN on Wednesday to a whopping $351BN as 48 counterparties parked their reserves with the Fed in exchange for a 0.000% rate.
The surge in usage pushed the total to not only well above the Covid crisis high of $285BN, but was the fifth highest on record!
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/repo-crisis-looms-feds-reverse-repo-usage-soars-351bn-fifth-highest-ever
This is a link to the chart shown:
https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/ON%20RRP%205.20.jpg
There is definitely a problem.
WTI is now down to $61.95. Euro is up to 1.2228 to the US$. US 10-year treasury is at 1.63%, when anything over 1.50% is high.
The financial system is getting stressed out. The Bloomberg Commodity Index shows a new peak on 5/7 at 93.97. It has started to fall. It is currently at 90.89.
5th highest ever. But as the chart shows, all those other record high spikes were at the end of Quarters (for some technical reason?) while this spike is right in the middle of Q2. So for the middle of a Quarter, this is far and above any other. I bet the Fed can “fix” this, but only with some other mess appearing due to the “fix”.
They are about to die from ADE anyways.
Stop Worrying and Love the F-150 Lightning
Here are seven ways Ford’s first electric pickup truck signals that decarbonization has entered a new era.
Robinson Meyer
May 19, 2021
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/05/f-150-lightning-fords-first-electric-truck/618932/
Transitioning away from it means, in practical terms, that electric vehicles will be much heavier than gasoline-powered vehicles. The F-150 Lightning weighs 6,500 pounds, about the same as the gargantuan Hummer H2 of the mid-2000s. The battery alone is 1,800 pounds.
These are hefty, dangerous vehicles. Ford has said that it will send software updates to its EVs over the air, and that it will soon transmit its new autonomous-driving feature, BlueCruise, to its EV fleet. But the tonnage of the Lightning, specifically, means that it must especially prioritize advanced safety features, sensors, and auto-braking. Otherwise pedestrians, cyclists, and drivers of smaller and lighter vehicles will die.
Every vehicle model ends up being bigger and heavier than the previous generation with more features. Don’t think it’s possible to release a lightweight no frills EV or gasoline car because everything has to be better than before. There no voluntary decomplexification.
The Biden Banana Republic has been restored. Endless trillion dollar stimulus.
The US $ is once again collapsing.
That retard communist from the “Federal” “Reserve” needs to jawbone the fake taper story every single day. Nobody is buying it.
Its either Crypto-to-the-moon or stop manipulating gold and silver.
80 year old rotten structures 2000 feet away from an airport that are listed for $1.5M?
Banana Republic.
Ever since April 2020, WOOD has replaced the Petro Dollar.
Ford needs a 100mpg carburetor instead of chips and batteries.
Crypto-to-the-moon…. but can crypto make it past the van allen belts?
The Van Allen belts are a conspiracy theory invented by flat earthers to cover up for their involvement in the Republican party and the KKK.
Of all that will be illuminated next year (at the latest) when NASA’s Orion spacecraft will take a team of billionaires to the Moon to build the new base (codename: Heaven’s Gate).
Today confirms that HYPERINFLATION is occurring. When will Gail acknowledge the realization that trillions upon trillions of USD is being created off-book.
Core Tier-1 Shale went kaput on April 2020.
Stories like below are increasing every day:
“I got a call last night from one of my closest friends. Three weeks ago he and his healthy 59 year old wife got the Moderna vax. Last Saturday he had to rush her to the hospital as they thought she was having a stroke. After every test in the world they send her home telling her she was fine. Tuesday morning her lips, tongue and throat started to swell so they went back to emergency and within hours had to put her on a ventilator and other life support machines to keep her heart beating. The Doctors are telling my friend that his wife is having an allergic reaction to 5 mg of Ramapril that she has been taking for 6 months and her situation has nothing to do with the vaccine. I did not have the heart to call BS on that because two days before they got the vax they were berating and laughing at me for being anti vax. I am not anti vax just anti experimental vax in my arm “
The thing that I am saying is that oil and coal and gas prices are not inflating a whole lot more than prices in general.
WTI is being quoted at $62.34 for example. It is asset prices that are going through the roof. And materials to build infrastructure. Even food prices. But not fossil fuels.
Why do energy prices refuse to go up relative to other assets? You explained it before but somehow it slips my mind. If it’s not possible to increase the price of energy to make it profitable could energy firms be nationalized or received investment infusions from governments at a loss if it means energy for the wider economy to function? Believe I read someplace shale has been running at a loss for many years thanks to investors willing to take a loss. Do you believe policy makers with the fed bank and government leaders understand there’s an energy problem or do they ignore it like economists thinking we can just find substitutions endlessly? Thank you.
Gail, if we take into account the inflation of everything except FF can we say FF are in decline pricewise?
In a growing economy, the price of essential items, such as oil, need to fall, so that citizens have more money for the non-essential items.
Well isn’t that happening? Gasoline in the States is still really really cheap! If prices for oil stay low why aren’t suppliers cutting back on production? Is it that governments are subsidizing it? I follow Steven Koppits and he is saying $100 oil by mid summer.
Steven Koppits always think that somehow prices will rise to match producer costs. It doesn’t really work that way, when there are many resources reaching limits simultaneously.
WTI is now about $62, and I predict $63 by mid summer.
It is really a combination of the price and the relative efficiency that needs to fall, so that share of income spent on fuel keeps falling, just as the share of income spent on groceries tends to fall over time.
If efficiencies of autos and other machinery can keep being ramped up a bit, small price gains can be offset.
If the debt bubble pops, I am afraid we may be back down to $20 per barrel in a few months.
How can you slide in a subtle ‘I told you so’… which offending….
Natural Gas was at 1.6 this time last year it is now almost at $3…..are you saying that oil won’t and can’t climb? Then how did natural gas double? I don’t see how oil can’t do this or why it is not doing it now…unless it is being purposely manipulated so that the masses don’t panic. If gasoline gets to 3.50 or higher a gallon people will panic and that will stimulate a crash. I think that the PTB KNOW this and are manipulating the price. I understand that it can’t stay high for long but if there are no debt bubbles popping than I don’t see how as more and more money gets thrown around the prices should go up….demand for fuel is going up…
$3 for natural gas is still awfully low, in the whole scheme of things. Drillers were hoping for $6 to $10 per MCF.
Think of natural gas prices as being 1/6 of oil prices. At 1.6, the equivalent price for oil is $9.60 per barrel; at $3.00, the oil equivalent price is $18.00 per barrel. Who would call $18 per barrel for oil “high”?
Yesterday exposed the Crypto Reality: Cryptos crash, then Housing Bubble Crashes. Then Stock Market Crashes.
Therefore, Bitcoin will go from 42000 to 480000 by the end of this year. Now everybody knows its a free ride without risk.
What else can possibly happen? Do you really think they are willingly going to let the house bubble crash?
Disclosure: Long Ethereum crypto.
Why can’t anyone be honest about what Crypto currency really is?
It is COUNTERFEIT MONEY.
100% FRAUD.
And yet nobody in America will stop it.
Somebody posted an article here a few weeks ago that left me in no doubt that crypto is just another Ponzi scheme.
My wife told me earlier this week one of her students invested £50 in Bitcoins, I guess sometime last year, and sold them recently for £650.
Where did the extra £600 come from? I don’t know, but I am guessing someone who has joined the party too late.
FIAT money is as much counterfeit. Just a asocial convention designed to last as long as people trust it. It’s about faith, not reality. So cryptos are just another way to distribute wealth.
That said, only gold has a real value when everything collapse. And now just ask yourself: who owns gold?
What value does gold have in real estate configuration completely dependent on proper crude oil like North Ghawar? Are you going to put gold into the diesel engines?
Therefore, Oil FIAT is obviously NOT counterfeit
When a bank lends money she doesn’t have, when a CB print money out of thin air, isn’t it counterfeited?
When your oil and diesel engines become useless, when hyperinflation comes, what will be preferable to have? Paper or gold?
Paper because the stock market will gain 500000000000000000000000% in one year.
Gold is not practical since it is scarce. Money is practical because we can make as much of it as we need to make the economy chug along.
And yes you are correct that gold will be more valuable when things go down the drain. Which is exactly why you will be better off without.
“When a house is filled with valuables, it is impossible to guard” -lao tzu
“When a garden is bursting with vegetables, and the chickens are plump… and the daughters are luscious (or even not so luscious)… and the shops are empty, rape, murder and pillage are guaranteed’ Fast Eddy 2021 End of Days Chronicles.
Food.
“Paper because the stock market will gain 500000000000000000000000% in one year.”
Which means the value of paper will be closed to zero!
Ugo Bardi has written recently a really good essay about gold and money:
https://thesenecaeffect.blogspot.com/2021/03/the-end-of-money-problem-of-shipwrecked.html
“Money is a tool for commerce, of course, but also a way to establish the social hierarchy. ”
“Even a gold coin promises something (wealth) that in itself cannot guarantee unless there is a market where you can spend it. And the fact that money can be spent depends on people believing it to be “real” money, mostly an act of faith”
“Our money is not linked to anything, nowadays. It is something that floats free in space, a ghost of what once were heavy gold coins”
“Eventually it could be replaced by a “point system” not unlike the shèhuì xìnyòng tǐxì, the social credit system being developed in China. By all definitions, that’s a kind of monetary system that establishes a hierarchical system not based on conspicuous consumption. That may well be the future”
What more could I say?
Thanks for the link to Ugo’s article. I see that Ugo seems to have accepted the fact that we are moving toward collapse, right now. He is not pushing faith in some energy capture technique (kite-type wind turbines, for example) that will save us now.
Housing has to crash. People can afford the mortgage on said house
Cecil Rhodes statue will not be removed for now, says Oxford college
A University of Oxford college will not remove a statue of the British imperialist Cecil Rhodes despite an independent commission supporting its removal.
Oriel College said in a statement it would not “begin the legal process” of moving the Rhodes statue at this stage due to “regulatory and financial challenges” presented by its removal.
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So, should the statue of Cecil Rhodes at Oxford university be removed?
What do people really think and feel about it? Do they really care?
Obviously my own position is that there is no ‘truth’ on the ‘question’ of removal, only different perspectives. His image may be carved in stone but the ‘answer’ is not.
The really interesting thing is that the British state establishment is being forced to face up to its past, to itself, in a nearly honest manner.
States, like persons, like to emphasise what is ‘best’ about themselves, and to gloss the rest. States like to point fingers at each other, not at themselves. There is nothing ‘Christian’, self-examining or penitential, about states themselves – as much as they might like citizens to conform to them. Image projection is will to power, the empowerment of the ego, of the state, in the struggle of life.
I am personally happy for the statue to stay up, and for the image to remain controversial. It is a locus for a better understanding of British history and of how and why societies project their past (and their present) in the here in now.
Ironically, the old imperialist statues have become an embarrassment for the British state, a locus of scorn and examination. Long may that continue. Maybe I just like to see dishonesty and vanity exposed and the establishment squirm. Anything that furthers human self-understanding, and exposes the structures of conformity and social control, is a good thing.
My verdict: keep it up – and let the controversy continue and expand.
The long and the short.
Obviously the British state was massively into this stuff at the time, but it looks bad in retrospect. Silence is no longer an option.
Hunter-gatherers obviously stood no chance against industrial imperialism.
It was all about just grabbing stuff in those days, ‘morality’ does not seem to have been much of an issue. States are more interested in ‘morale’ than ‘morality’, whatever pretences they try to put on these days.
Ch.4 1984.
Britain has to pay for keeping Europe in War for the last 5 centuries, and also importing lots of Hindus, who are about to take over the West as Sunak and Harris will become the leaders of UK and USA soon.
In half a century, Rhodes will be replaced by the representation of some HIndu deity.
What have you got against Hindus? (I ask, knowing that any reply will be as ridiculous as your previous comment.)
Kanada goes insane, concentration camps for a 99.9% survivable health issue
I have a hard time seeing that what Canada is much different from what Australia or New Zealand has been doing. I don’t know about the policies of Taiwan and other Asian countries. They have been very strict as well.
I can tell you about Taiwan. In Taipei and a couple of nearby areas, people are required to wear masks at all times when outdoors, in offices, etc.. No more than five people can gather in a home. Schools have shifted to online teaching, and businesses are being encouraged to do so. We have to sign in (or swipe a QR code) every time we buy something from a store, or ride an intercity bus. There are limits on how much rice, noodles, toilet paper, or canned goods one person can buy.
Yes, the government is strict, in the sense that if you do not wear a mask, you will be fined. But there are still no lockdowns. I think most people support the government’s policies.
For those who haven’t been watching closely, Taiwan used to get a handful of Covid cases every day, mostly imported. For awhile the current case count hovered around 30. Then there was some domestic transmission (introduced by an airline pilot) which got out of hand, and for the last five (?) days we’ve been getting 200 to 300 new domestic cases every day. The current case count is above 2000. They say there’s still some hope of containing the outbreak, but I suppose we can expect this to go on for a few months (if we’re lucky) (years if we’re not).
Taiwan began vaccinating in March and then increased the rate of vaccinations from 9 May. The overall number of people vaccinated is still small at at 1.12 doses per 100 people, but it is in the hundreds of thousands of doses, so theoretically, it could be enough to account for the spike in infections.
Oh right–the number of vaccinations has been small, due to the fact that few countries are willing to sell us any vaccines. They got enough AstraZeneca to offer it to the top six priority groups, but until this week there was not a lot of interest, and they were afraid that they’d have to waste doses. Until this week you could also pay a small amount of money (it’s otherwise free due to national health insurance) and get vaxxed. The idea was that this would be for people who needed to travel overseas.
Japan has been using Pfizer exclusively so far, but AstraZeneca and Moderna have just been authorized so they can get all the willing old folk jabbed by the end of July.
In line with the hypothesis that the cure is the disease, I am expecting a further rise in infections and death as we head through summer, despite the coronavirus season being winter. If this rise doesn’t occur, I will have to abandon the hypothesis and say “back to the drawing board.”
I did not write this but I don’t doubt it…
“I was asked by the company I work for to go down to the USA for some meetings but they were not aware of the Canadian Internment camps. I tried for many hours to book a room for three days upon my return. I finally got through to the 1-800 number and I wanted a quote to book 14 days in case I tested positive when I got back. They told me it was to be paid upfront when I booked the room and was non-refundable if I cancelled, non-exchangeable so I needed to pay $18,400 up front plus meals and taxes when I checked out….so I did not go!! “
In NZ it takes months to get a cell… that’s about the only difference.
Honest reporting, from the Guardian?
Most Covid patients in East Lancashire hospital had jab, says council leader
Stop blaming vaccine hesitancy for spread of India Covid variant, says Mohammed Khan
The majority of people in hospital with Covid-19 in East Lancashire have received a vaccine dose, a council leader has said, as ministers were criticised for “blaming” a resurgence of cases on people who had not yet had the jab.
Mohammed Khan, the leader of Blackburn with Darwen council, said six of the nine coronavirus patients in the region’s hospital had received at least one jab. Only three of the Covid patients at East Lancashire Hospitals NHS trust had not received a jab when they were eligible, Khan told the Guardian.
He added: “It’s no good blaming people or blaming part of the community. They have to find out why [people have not had a vaccine] … This virus has nothing to do with nationality, nothing to do with faith – it will move anywhere.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/19/stop-blaming-vaccine-hesitancy-for-spread-of-india-covid-variant-says-council-leader
https://www.thedesertreview.com/opinion/letters_to_editor/ivermectin-crushes-delhi-cases/article_31f3afcc-b7fa-11eb-9585-0f6a290ee105.html
Ivermectin crushes Delhi cases
Just three weeks after adding Ivermectin, Delhi now leads India out of the deadly second surge of the COVID pandemic. Cases that had peaked at 28,395 on April 20 plummeted nearly 80% to just 6,430 on May 15. Deaths peaked May 4, and now they are also down 25%.
On May 10, the Indian State of Goa adopted an even more ambitious policy of preemptive Ivermectin for all adults in the state. The Chief Minister of Goa is Dr. Pramod Sawant, a progressive 49-year-old physician persuaded by science. In particular, he read Dr. Pierre Kory’s Dr. Tess Lawrie’s and Dr. Andrew Hill’s robust meta-analyses. As a direct result, Goa has seen a drop in cases from 3,124 the day after the announcement to 1,314 five days later.
Meanwhile, three other Indian states have followed Goa’s lead in adding Ivermectin: Uttarkhand, Karnataka, and Uttar Pradesh. And, as expected, they have seen a drop in new daily cases as well, with Uttar Pradesh down nearly 75% from a peak of 37,944 just four days after they began following the April 20 AIIMS guidance to just 10,505 on May 16.
The tragic story in all this is that the Indian state of Tamil Nadu installed a new leader on May 7, 2021. He suddenly reversed their state’s decision to adopt Ivermectin. Readers of my book all know about Peruvian President Sagasti’s fateful decision to outlaw Ivermectin. Before taking power, the COVID deaths had dropped 14 fold to almost nothing with Ivermectin use. However after Sagasti was elected, Ivermectin was stopped, and deaths roared back at 13 fold.
Peru paid the price in skyrocketing cases and 78,000 preventable deaths. Tamil Nadu’s Chief Minister, MK Stalin, also chose to forgo Ivermectin. Instead, he ordered tens of thousands of doses of Remdesivir, a drug that sells for 3,000 dollars per dose. So now Tamil Nadu’s cases are rocketing as well.
In contrast to Goa’s young physician Chief Minister who had read the latest science on Ivermectin’s dramatic effect on reducing COVID death, MK Stalin is a 68-year-old non-physician socialist and atheist who is towing the party line by forbidding Ivermectin.
Stalin now requests allocations for some 20,000 daily doses of Remdesivir for the Tamil Nadu citizens despite the science that shows no reduction in COVID death with this drug. Remdesivir is an anti-viral agent given late in the disease, only after hospitalization when the Cytokine storm has set in and when anti-virals have lost their effectiveness.
At that later stage, steroids, anticoagulants, and oxygen are crucially important. Also, Ivermectin has shown a remarkable ability to reduce inflammation at that stage, with some being liberated from the ventilator with just one dose.
I had to check out that name. Muthuvel Karunanidhi Stalin really is Tamil Nadu’s Chief Minister.
Talk about an ill-omened name ………
A person would think that these stories would start to make headway in getting doctors around the world to prescribe ivermectin. But this is still not what the medical establishment is preaching.
Your government wants you dead. Love the part about not taking large doses…duh! They are cool about untested “vaccines” though.
https://www.fda.gov/consumers/consumer-updates/why-you-should-not-use-ivermectin-treat-or-prevent-covid-19
Here’s What You Need to Know about Ivermectin
FDA has not approved ivermectin for use in treating or preventing COVID-19 in humans. Ivermectin tablets are approved at very specific doses for some parasitic worms, and there are topical (on the skin) formulations for head lice and skin conditions like rosacea. Ivermectin is not an anti-viral (a drug for treating viruses).
Taking large doses of this drug is dangerous and can cause serious harm.
If you have a prescription for ivermectin for an FDA-approved use, get it from a legitimate source and take it exactly as prescribed.
Never use medications intended for animals on yourself. Ivermectin preparations for animals are very different from those approved for humans.
https://youtu.be/aQnBvs3LTZw?t=1118 This is the part about raping young girls
There’s lots of documentation from Nanjing that put things in a rather different light.
Rapes Committed During the Nanking Incident (1927)
Now we would like to examine the rape cases mentioned in Documents of the Nanking Safety Zone. But before we begin, we shall first look at the memoirs of John Powell (publisher of The China Weekly Review), entitled My Twenty-Five Years in China. Powell wrote that on the night after the Nanking Incident, he and all other foreign correspondents were summoned to a press conference held at the U.S. Consulate. He accompanied Manley O. Hudson, professor of international law at Harvard University, to the conference. There, he and his colleagues were introduced to an American missionary who had been in Nanking when terrorism was rampant.1
The American missionary presented a report mentioning several rapes that had occurred in Nanking. The journalists in attendance listened raptly as he spoke. A member of the consular staff distributed copies of the missionary’s statement, which had just been printed. Before the conference ended, Professor Hudson suggested that Powell ask the speaker whether he had actually witnessed a rape. The speaker replied no, he had not, but had heard about them from someone he trusted. A heated debate ensued, in the midst of which Professor Hudson told the gathering that he had been a member of a committee that investigated World War I atrocities. He explained that upon investigating those atrocities, the committee discovered that very few of them had actually been committed.2
The missionary was referring not to incidents that had taken place in Nanking in 1937 after the city fell, but to those that had occurred 10 years previously, in 1927. However, one does notice a common thread linking the Nanking Incident of 1927 to that of 1937 . namely, even when reports of rapes were investigated, very few were found to be based on fact.
Rapes Reported in Documents of the Nanking Safety Zone
Documents of the Nanking Safety Zone contain records of cases numbered 1 through 444, including those that warranted investigation, e.g., murders and rapes. Cases 114-143, 155-164, and 204-209 (46 in all) were deleted, probably because they were deemed groundless. Of a total of 398 cases, 251 were rapes (or attempted rapes), if one includes .asking for girls.3 in this category. However, 190, or 75.7% of those case records were missing crucial information, e.g., the names of witnesses or of those who had reported incidents. Therefore, John Magee was lying when he testified, at the Tokyo Trials, that the records contained the names of the persons who had reported them.4
Sixty-one descriptions of rape or attempted rape cases included the names of the parties who had recorded them. Our examination will begin with these cases.
First, we have Case No. 167.
Five Japanese soldiers and one servant … took away two girls. Fortunately, while these two girls were just being dragged out, some Military Police came to our place for inspection and so they found the happening and captured these three soldiers and one servant.5
Eyewitnesses were mentioned in some of the cases, Case No. 107, for instance.
December 21, 3 p.m. Mr. Sperling was called to Mo Kan Lu No. 8. When he came … he found one soldier locked in a room with a young girl.6
However, since the Japanese soldier in question was not arrested by the military police, this incident may have taken place in a brothel.
Case No. 227 is similar to Case No. 107, and allegedly occurred on February 1. According to the record, Magee and Ernest Forster were summoned to a house, where they found two Japanese soldiers and a young girl in a locked bedroom. Magee and Foster handed the soldiers over to sentries.7
Case No. 192, an excerpt from which follows, seems even more improbable.
On the morning of [January] 17 … the [Japanese] soldiers came again with two trucks, two cars with two officers and got* some men and seven women from the Sericulture Building. Dr. Bates was there and observed the whole process and found it was completely voluntary on the part of the men and women going. One woman was young but went willingly.8 [Italics supplied.]
(Note: Hora mistranslates got* as “abducted.”9)
These people had probably been offered paid work, which they must have been happy to get. The record shows that the women acted of their own volition. The young woman who .went willingly. was probably a prostitute10 recruited by Wang Chengdian (aka Jimmy) of the Red Swastika Society, as stated in Rabe.s diary and in The Sino-Japanese Conflict, compiled by the German Embassy in Nanking.
The account of Case No. 146 follows.
December 25 … two Japanese soldiers came to the Hankow Primary School Refugee Camp … and then raped a Miss Hwang of the staff. It was immediately reported to the Japanese Special Service Military Police. They sent Military Police to get the soldiers who had left, so they took the girl to their office and held her as witness.11
This case was, evidently, thoroughly investigated. When accusations were found to have been based on fact, Japanese military authorities made certain that the perpetrators were arrested. They never ignored crimes committed by Japanese soldiers.
Of 61 rapes or attempted rapes reported by someone who is named in the record, those reported to Japanese military authorities may be classified as follows.
(1)
One case (No. 167) in which a Japanese soldier was arrested.
(2)
One case (No. 227) in which Japanese soldiers were turned over to military police.
(3)
One case (No. 426) in which military police were contacted.
(4)
Two cases (Nos. 168 and 220) in which Japanese soldiers were brought before military authorities.
(5)
One case (No. 146) in which a victim was apprehended and interrogated by Japanese authorities.
(6)
One case of attempted rape (No. 216) in which both a Japanese soldier and the victim were brought before the authorities.
Only About a Dozen Rapes Reported to Japanese Military Authorities
A total of seven rapes or attempted rapes were reported to Japanese military authorities. It is possible that there may have been cases other than those enumerated above. Therefore, we would like to refer to testimony given by Tsukamoto Koji, head of the Judicial Department, at the Tokyo Trials.
The Judicial Department was an entity that administered military trials. Tsukamoto was assigned to Nanking as judge advocate of the Shanghai Expeditionary Forces, from December 1937 to August 1938. When asked by prosecutor Sutton how many incidents had occurred during his assignment, Tsukamoto responded as follows: .I believe there were about 10 cases … Quite a few of them involved more than one person..12
He added that most of the crimes involved looting or rape,13 and that there were few incidences of personal injury or theft.14 Furthermore, very few crimes had resulted in someone.s death.15 There had been two or three cases of murder16 in Nanking, but the perpetrators were individual soldiers.
For purposes of comparison, we would like to cite some statistics concerning rapes committed by American soldiers in Japan, during the Occupation. During a 12-day period extending from August 30 to September 10, 1949, the Japanese government reported 1,326 rapes, in Kanagawa Prefecture alone, to the authorities at GHQ. This topic is discussed in detail in Gifts from the Vanquished by Masayo Duus.17
http://www.sdh-fact.com/book-article/242/
https://www.pinterest.nz/pin/406449935093758167/
Soon…. the reign of terror will end. Permanently.
And Earth will return to equilibrium.
I really can’t wait. Where is that bloody devil covid?????
Are we sufficiently grossed out yet!?
China has a history of really horrific massacres, often involving hundreds of thousands of and occasionally millions of victims. In Japan, losers in war were always much more likely to be given exile or even a place in the winning hierarchy, while in China, they, their relatives, and their relatives relatives, were liable to exterminated.
This was formalized under the Ming Dynasty as the nine familial exterminations or nine kinship exterminations, literally “execution of nine relations”. This was the most serious punishment for a capital offense in premodern China, Korea and Vietnam, although not in Japan. A collective punishment typically associated with offenses such as treason, the it involved the execution of all relatives of an individual, which were categorized into nine groups. Nine exterminations were often done by slow slicing. I suppose this goes hand in hand with the well-known dog-eating “cultures” of these nations, which continue to flourish today.
Here’s a wiki article on Chinese massacres.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_China
Up to 4.7 million killed during the Chinese Land Reform of 1949-53, 2 million killed in the Campaign to Suppress Counterrevolutionaries 1950-53, and 2.5 million killed in the Violence in the Great Chinese Famine in 1959-61. These are seriously big numbers.
And fourteen separate massacres listed during the Cultural Revolution alone. No wonder Mao said the Japanese went too easy on the Nationalists in Nanjing.
And here’s one on Japanese massacres. The biggest one was 37,000 beheadings to crush the Shimabara revolt in Kyushu. Most of the rest were mass killings by individuals. In terms of sheer blood, gore and torture, there is literally no comparison.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_Japan
If the problem is too much population in the area, relative to resources, then killing off as many people (and perhaps livestock) as possible makes sense. This way there are more resources for the conquerer’s group to have more resources for their people and herds.
The execution of whole kin groups is justified if, as often, surviving relations are obliged by custom and family-feeling to seek revenge come what may – one cannot allow even one to escape and lead a revolt.
My favourite Chinese massacre was of the Confucian students who protested en masse about the corruption, violence and neglect of Confucian ideals.
It didn’t go down well, and the next generation of students took the hint…..
@Xabier
In the case of revenge the Israelites solved by problem of revenge by having all the males of the Midianites killed. Since they were responsible for bringing plague upon Israel.
And took the female captives aside from those who laid with a man for themselves since the women apart from those spared were responsible for the plague:
http://www.christian-thinktank.com/midian.html
No indication of future revenge occurring in that case. Likewise with Royal houses that committed treason against God:
http://christianthinktank.com/qjehu.html
Eddy
I realise this is the only audience you have
but spare us the lurid details of your every fantasy
I agree!
Hasn’t turned up yet, FE – if it doesn’t do so this winter, you may well have to put up with maybe a few more years of being held ever tighter to the breast of Big Mother Jacinda, who wants to love and protect all her trusting NZ babies from even the mildest Covid.
With the s*** of the ruling class going on I have come around to your point of view.
Attention Doomie Preppers… here we have a soldier with a baby… this is what humans are capable of….
https://www.pinterest.nz/pin/406449935094071549/
Yes, this looks like it might be authentic. It’s not quite as well done as the moon walk videos, but I’ll give them an A for effort.
Almost as gross as what the Kaiser’s men are supposed to have done.
(spoiler alert: this is just a comic book style illustration)
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Your_Liberty_Bond_will_help_stop_this_Crisco_restoration_and_colours.jpg/600px-Your_Liberty_Bond_will_help_stop_this_Crisco_restoration_and_colours.jpg
I thought maybe the moonscam nonsense had been killed off at source, no mention of it for weeks–along with several other rampant conspiracies.
reminded me of a particularly pernicious weed in my garden
weedkiller–digging–burning—no matter what you do, it still pops its head up again and again–got to admire tenacity, if nothing else.
thinking of buying a goat, to eat it
wonder if that would work in here
“weedkiller–digging–burning”
Yes, this is a typical american right here. I really hope people in 100 years get to read this and hopefully learn something.
The psychopathic quest to subjugate and destroy all nature in the name of delusions of grandeur. How dare another living thing try to survive in your deathzone that you call a garden?
While FE hopes for a quick death because underneath he is a softie, I hope for pain and suffering because humans deserve nothing less.
Some have said that the Fifth Mass Extinction began with agriculture (or even earlier, when burning down forests could be used to clear land). Some plants and animals were declared as wanted, others as unwanted.
I was merely using that as an example, not a declaration of war on the amazon rainforest. When you jump to conclusions its best to look first.
in reality my land-space is full of critters who seem to like living here. Wasps come and build their nests–I make them welcome. They cause me no harm. So I offer them none. I think the bird count has been up to 32 species over the years.
Buzzards circle overhead constantly. They find sustenance here it would seem.
my dawn chorus is deafening in spring
critters know when people wish them no harm
if you were really such a defender of the natural habitat, you would be aware of that
You know one of my sweetest contacts with nature?
a dragonfly alighted about a yard from me…- watched it for a minute or so, then walked over an so very very lighly touched it. It didn’t move. I was a unique point of contact never to be forgotten
try it sometime, instead of talking about it
Norm – if you want to kill it off… then you will need to explain to me why the astronauts are pretending to be in lunar orbit when very obviously there are in low earth orbit.
BTW – this is leaked raw footage that came out of NASA…. it makes one wonder…. over 40 years and then suddenly .. as the end of days approached… a leak that absolutely confirms the lunar landings are a lie…. almost as if ‘they’ decided they’d just let the ‘conspiracy theorists’ know … they were right all along…. maybe we get to know who killed JFK as we get closer to the extermination date…. and ‘they’ admit to 911…
https://youtu.be/bdQHKf48Mfw?t=1921
“There’s No Vanishing Act for China’s Hidden Debt…
“In practice… it’s almost impossible, or at least financially unviable, to turn this troublesome debt — involving infrastructure projects across the country — into the mainstream variety that can be sold on the bond market to earn some returns.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-05-19/china-s-huge-off-balance-sheet-debts-won-t-vanish-with-an-accounting-change
“China’s $2.14tn of bonds coming due unnerves foreign investors… The problem of heavily indebted state-backed companies in China is starting to spook investors in global corporate bonds…
“A sudden spike in defaults by big corporate borrowers in China could rattle global markets.”
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Markets/China-debt-crunch/China-s-2.14tn-of-bonds-coming-due-unnerves-foreign-investors
We seem to have a lot of countries with debt problems. China, Japan, Italy and Greece to name a few.
What about the u.s? And Europe?
Russia is the only one in good shape
the USA also is in good shape. The federal debt should be manageable at $50 trillion, and right now it is only about half way there.
I think that the world has hit a point where the number of financially viable infrastructure investments is approaching zero. There are constraints on way too much resource extraction, sending costs up. At the same time, the number of workers within the economic system is down, because quite a few people have found that government programs pay enough money that there is no longer a need to work. If the world economy could really grow, there would be a need for more roads, railroads, shipping ports, and electricity transmission. There would also be a need for the resources to support these investment, including oil, coal, copper, and the materials required to make concrete and steel.
In a growing economy, there would be more people who could provide more worker hours. There would be a need for more factories and more end products. There may still be a need for end products (including food and fresh water), but with the resources increasingly difficult to extract, the financial equation doesn’t work out. Adding more complexity just makes wage disparity worse.
watching a prog on ‘luxury’ the other day
apparently you can’t get a build-slot in luxury boat yards at the moment
as Biden said the other day, trickle down wealth hasn’t worked
“If the world economy could really grow, there would be a need for more roads, railroads, shipping ports, and electricity transmission. There would also be a need for the resources to support these investment, including oil, coal, copper, and the materials required to make concrete and steel.”
So maybe the world economy will stop growing, since it can’t grow forever anyway. If ever there was a time to think of something different, it would be now.
“…more roads, railroads, shipping ports, and electricity transmission” are very much past their pull date. CONTINUING TO BUILD THEM IS ABSURD IN THE EXTREME.
What may be needed is a triage economic system which prohibits demolition of old structures or the creation of new ones. This would be a make do economic system requiring hanging on to the fossil fuel industry to the utter extent feasible. Since the current economic system can’t support it, it will be a mere fraction of what it is now. Some of that can be compensated for by doing with drastically LESS. Less lends itself to beauty, and more to just the opposite. Beauty guides. Beauty leads.
So the people who know how to see, create or maintain beauty must be at the table in deciding economic matters. Unfortunately, they are not trained to see any relationship with the economic system. OFW might be the best and clearest place for them to learn, but where is the synapse to connect to creative types?
quite correct
the purpose of infrastructure is to consume energy—in the building of it and subsequent use of it
yes it creates jobs in the meantime, but those jobs create money only so long as energy is consumed/converted in the process.
if we follow the path of employment where the prime purpose of that employment is to build energy-devices, then ultimately that will become our prime function as a species.
which of course can never happen, because our economic system will collapse under the top-heavy strain of it.
because we will be producing energy–mainly electricity—for which ultimately there will be little use
sinking an oil well allows you to enjoy all the excess peripheral benefits of oil, a factory eroding pv panels only pays wages so long as they go on producing more and more panels, which sucks in the raw materials which obviously get scarcer and scarcer the more panels are produced
it isn’t possible to rebuild a crumbling road using the output of a pv panel or wind farm..
governments are offering substitutions where substitution cannot exist–and the mass of unthinkers believes it
the same mindset thinks bitcoin is money
Thanks! I hadn’t thought of it this way:
“the purpose of infrastructure is to consume energy—in the building of it and subsequent use of it.”
Also, the purpose of UBI is to take people out of the labor force. Less labor = Fewer goods and services produced
UBI can only function for a limited number of people for a very limited period of time
if you take 25% of the people out of a labour force and give them ubi, that ubi can only come from the other 75%–it isn’t possible print ubi specific money because that will create a 2 tier class system worse than the one we have now.
The closest to UBI is foodstamps
neither will the 25% on ubi be content with a subsistence minimum if they see the 75% living it up, to the lifestyle they used to have as ‘normal workers’
The 75% are not going to like supporting the rest
Universal UBI won’t work either because money has to be underpinned by energy
if nobody is delivering energy into the system, In no time at. all wheelbarrows will replace wallets
“which of course can never happen, because our economic system will collapse under the top-heavy strain of it.”
Part of what contributes to that strain is centralization. I’ve heard that centralization calls for more complexity to manage at great distances. And that decentralization can avoid such complexity.
I might have missed something
but I don’t think you can have sophisticated ‘systems of energy production without centralisation.
a matter of pulling all bits together etc
Not too sophisticated. Although there was an oil industry run by government (and I was not then even curious as to how that affected centralization) I remember seeing an admirable kind of industrialism in Mexico on driving through in the early 70’s. Amazing welding and ironwork that helped with our car. A great deal of metal work done in simple shops (lit by a single light bulb) by grassroots people.
Interesting about Mexico and simple ironworking—which I know they can do, forging one iron object to another and so on
But Is it possible though to perform ‘welding’ in the sense that we know it, without compressed gases (and ancillary equipment) being available?
Huge science deficit on my part, unfortunately. So that’s one of an unfathomable number of things I don’t know. 🙂 But I got the impression that one could live well by the industrial standards I witnessed (especially if you didn’t throw avoidable complexity into the mix.
you may have missed the point
a 15th c or even 10thc artisan/blacksmith could have fixed up the rolling support part of an ic vehicle, and kept it ‘rolling’, or taken one part of a similar vehicle and transfer it to another. The principles are very easy to understand.
but that isn’t ‘living to industrial standards’, it’s hanging onto the coat tails of someone else’s industrial standards
what the blacksmith couldn’t do is create the vehicle itself–which is unavoidably complex
And without petrol to make it move, a car is just a chicken coop on wheels.
The measure is to move away from the back street workshop, and take a look at how everyone else is living close by
Norman, thanks for following up and insisting on seeing something that makes sense to your very experienced thinking.
But maybe I’m the one who is confused by this exchange.
1) I’m not talking about UBI’s. I’m trying to conceptualize a triage industrial system that jettisons complexity the way a foundering plane in flight does baggage. Some of this complexity might involve some banks. I like the use of cash, using existing notes (which must be routinely laundered). As a last resort, there are barter and gift economies.
2) At no point did I suggest that some sort of temporary patch to industrial society could do without a significant amount of BAU. If cars are needed, they can be dug up out of junk yards and fitted (for the few) with rebuilt engines. Triage could simply be like patching up holes in a sinking ship till you can figure out either how to get it to shore, or to create lifeboats to get off it. It’s a case of using what you have in a desperate situation.
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3) The old Mexican blacksmiths had the type of abilities to effect the above. There will have to be a bigger industrial system beyond them to enable their survival. There are some people trying to maintain the semblance of such a system, and I would not propose getting in their way or adding the least strain to their efforts. (Communities that can somewhat manage on their own would seem to be a way to reduce strain.) Thus the need for a considerable degree of decentralization.
I understand the points you are making Artleads
but ultimately the problem is fuel
as I understand it, petrol/diesel has a very limited shelf life
refitting engines will be difficult, because engines need very close tolerances on parts–and that requires complex machinery to make them. Without those close tolerances ic engines simply cannot work
Cars generally end up in junkyards because those ‘close tolerance’ parts have often failed.
if you managed to create cars for the ‘few’ then those cars must have a ‘purpose’—driving round and round with a flag on your car will just get you shot at
We use cars now for the purpose of work or leisure—nothing else.
they consume fuel to do that, they do not create prosperity. What we do at either end of the journey that creates ‘prosperity’
as to ‘jettisoning baggage’—a foundering aircraft can do that, but can’t jettison an engine
Baggage is ‘simple’ —an engine is ‘complex’
“as I understand it, petrol/diesel has a very limited shelf life”
you can extend the shelf life with additives and filtering. for the latter, you need two tanks, if it’s a lot of fuel. the military have figured out how to do this on a large scale.
After reading this book … I find myself wishing the Americans would have dropped 50 atomic bombs on the Japanese…. pay back.
they only had produced 3 at the time, and one was used at Alamagordo test site, so that left only two, which they used. so, in their furry, they unleashed their entire nuclear arsenal.
https://youtu.be/aQnBvs3LTZw
I’m not going to watch this one. It’s either vile propaganda aimed at maligning the fair Japanese race—the Klingons to the Chinese Romulans—or even worse, some of it might be true.
But I will say one thing. The Japanese occupiers allowed a safety zone to be set up inside occupied Nanking run by a group of Western residents including a leading Naazii, and thousands or tens of thousands of civilians were allowed to take refuge there. Of course, as with everything in WW2, we can argue numbers. But lots of Chinese people were saved because the Japanese honored the safety zone. They could have burned entire city down to crush the resistance, but they didn’t do that. And within three months of the massacre, Nanjing was a flourishing commercial city again with peace and economic activity restored. Chinese flooded into the city to escape from the surrounding war zone where peasants were preyed on by desperate armed men.
If you want to condemn them for Unit 731 or for the starvation and cruelty of the POW camps and for invading a slew of counties, including China, that they had no business or right to invade, I won’t complain. If you want to go along with the “victor’s narrative” that cast Japan as the Devil and anyone they fought against as the Good Guys, I’m fine with that too. But please accept that they did allow a safety zone at Nanking and that they restored that city to life very quickly.
(I have to write these notes occasionally to quality for my Tokyo Rose allowance from the Prime Minister’s Office. I keep telling them that the Chinese pay Godfreed much more and that I can’t be expected to fight propaganda wars for peanuts, but there you go. )
Tim – this is not a condemnation of the Japanese … it is a condemnation of their military and government at the time.
There is a quote in the book to the effect ‘yes these atrocities appear to be out of character with the polite Japanese — however perhaps the polite character of the Japanese is a result of their historical treatment at the hands of the warrior class — when they passed you pressed your head to the ground and said nothing — or you lost your head’
Most Japanese were in the same position as the Chinese… not a many years prior to WW2.
I have read many accounts of barbarous behaviour during wars … but I am unaware of anything even remotely close to what is described in Rape of Nanking, at least more contemporary history.
This was not soldiers gone wild .. this was sanctioned from the very top … officers participated in the rape… and mass murder of non combatants and surrendering soldiers.
This is on par with Mongol atrocities … when it was common to kill everyone in a city including babies.. and rape the women.
With regard to the safe zone…. how ironic that it was a Nazi — John Rabe — who petitioned Hitler to push the Japanese to allow a safe zone in Nanking and to limit bombing to military targets…. It must be very nasty business if the Nazi’s are the good guys….
In any event … let me recalibrate my comments regarding the dropping of atomic bombs on the Japanese….
What should have been done is 10 bombs onto the Hirohito’s palace…. till not even a cockroach was alive…. simultaneously … every military base in the country should have been hit with multiple bombs…. every overseas Japanese military base should have been similarly bombed…
As a message to others who go to far… that there will be consequences. (I am a big big fan of consequences)
I note that the Chinese ambassador to the UK — when asked about the legality of the concentration camps in Xinjiang commented — they are illegal under your international law — those laws do not apply to China.
What goes around comes around it seems…
In any event… this is all moot … so the Japanese are more vile than the Americans… or the British… maybe not the Romans….
All humans are vile.
We all feed off of animals that are farmed industrially … we all use products tested on animals. We all prosper because our militaries are commit atrocities on our behalf….
And like the Japanese… we are about to get some payback of our own…
This horror flick has a happy ending 🙂
It is probably a story of not enough resources for the population. Japan has very little in the way of energy resources.
Yes.
Let’s circle round to the purpose of posting that information (I could have selected from thousands of incidents throughout history but I just happen to be reading that book) — which was to demonstrate what humans are capable of – particularly when Mr DNA is trying to survive.
We do not join hands and sing Koombaya… anyone doing will face outcome similar to a person jumping into a feeding frenzy of great white sharks… or trying to make peace with a lion….
If we think Nanking was a bad scene… we need to keep in mind — the soldiers had food… petrol… electricity… they were killing and raping for pleasure — and because there were NO consequences.
If the CEP fails… 8B people will at some point find themselves in total darkness.. permanently…. because the power will go off… and bad things happen… when night falls….
And when men see that food is running out … they will panic.. they will want to save themselves and their families…. desperation will kick in … even good men will kill to feed their families….
Think about what bad men will do …. when they are hungry… and there are NO consequences.
I say again to the Doomie Preppers… lose your normalcy bias… you need a Plan B. You do not want to be a beacon of light that attracts such men… they will find you…
And if you are so remote that you cannot be found — the radiation will.
Fast, my old mate, I don’t really want to go there. I don’t share your enthusiasm for sadistic war porn. After watching Soldier Blue and being thoroughly sickened by some of the scenes, I decided that when it comes to westerns, I would limit myself to John Wayne and Clint Eastwood.
I’ve also seen enough brutality carried out by Japanese people at home in peacetime to know that a conquering Japanese army would be capable of causing great atrocities. Then there are the testimonies of 140,000 allied POWs and their general physical condition when they emerged at the end of the war, and the fact that 30,000 of them didn’t survive the camps. Then there is the Unit 731 story, which seems well documented.
The story of what happened in Nanking beginning in 1937 is that the Japanese army took the city and pacified it, cleaned it out of irregular Chinese troops got it up and running within two months, and held it for the next eight years. Of course, the devil is in the details. And here is where we enter the realms of propaganda.
Nanking, the war and everything was a settled matter between Japan and China when they signed their Treaty of Peace and Friendship in 1978. It was only when Iris Chang published her book The Rape of Nanking in 1995, that this issue became hot, so to speak. I have a copy on that book. I had to read it as it was major topic of conversation. And as I read it I felt it was pretty convincing as an indictment. However, historical writing and witness testimony can be embellished, different interpretations can be placed on pieces of evidence. So it is not enough to simply be emotionally impressed by a text and to decide to believe it based on that alone.
Several Japanese historians wrote critiques with the aim of discrediting Chang’s work. Whether they succeeded in debunking it is something that can only be judged after reading here work, their work, and the debunking of their debunking. The amazing thing is that almost everything she wrote in that book has been attacked by somebody as being embellished, distorted, taken out of context, or totally fabricated.
There is no time here to go into the details of that text, but there is an even more amazing thing about Chang’s book. It has dozens of photographs allegedly showing Japanese atrocities that took place in Nanking. Three Japanese scholars, Higashinakano Shudo, Kobayashi Susumu & Fukunaga Shinjiro, went to considerable pains to try to track down the originals, and he found that in (just about) every case, they did not show what they purported to show.
Some of the photos are crude forgeries, such as an execution scene in which the executing Japanese officer steps forward with the “wrong” foot and shadows of two of the standing persons extend in different directions. Now, where have we heard this before. Oh yes, that’s right. The moon landings! Some of the atrocities were committed by people dressed in light summer clothes, so could not have taken place in Nanking in winter. We have a photo of Chinese performing a public execution from the early 20th century, and somebody took the photographed head of a Japanese soldier and stuck it on the earlier photo and it appears in Chang’s book as a Nanking atrocity. The truth matches reality seamlessly, but the lie always leaves a signature behind—if you know where to look.
Interesting factoid. The Japanese didn’t conduct public executions after the Meiji Restoration. Any executions they performed in China would not have been photographed. The Chinese, though, were very big on public executions. They used to carry them out regularly in squares or sports grounds in towns and cities across China well into the 1970s, and the townspeople were ordered to attend.
Anyway, please consider this PDF as the Rape of Nanking version of the Wagging the Moondoggie.
http://www.sdh-fact.com/CL02_1/26_S4.pdf
Superb comment Tim.
For once I agree with Eddy
I shall now go lie in a warm bath and slit my wrists
Shall we pause to discuss the atrocities committed by the Churchill government? In particular the starvation policy that killed millions of Indians who ‘deserved it because they breed like rabbits’
Churchill the pompous ass.
don’t push your luck
wrist slitting is a once only phenomenon
Keep in mind… I have suggested dropping an atomic bomb on the Junta in Burma… so I am consistent.
Imagine a world… where Fast Eddy is the nuclear armed power …. and any extremely bad behaviour results in an atomic bomb through the front door.
Have a watch of this movie if you haven’t seen it already. Most disturbing thing I have ever seen. I saw it in an open air cinema in Thailand with children in the audience!
The Men Behind The Sun
I don’t know why all the bad press is reserved for Dr Mengele.
I’ve been rivetted to Nanking Massacre book today …. Doomie Preppers need to read this book…
They gang raped very young girls (under 10) slicing them open to make penetration easier … pregnant women raped and their foetuses stabbed to death…. sons were forced to have sex with their mothers in front of their families… fathers with their daughters… then they were killed.
The depravity and barbarity of the acts is unspeakable…
When BAU ends…. you doomie prepper idio ts better make sure you have an exit plan.
This is where your Delusional Thinking … will have consequences…. you haven’t the slightest clue what awaits you and your family ….
You have been warned.
Yes, many times.
too many times. meanwhile, bAU is bAU.
“‘Syria is not safe’: Protests grip Denmark over plans to deport refugees.
“Scores of Syrian refugees have already been rounded up and sent to ‘return centres’ where they will wait indefinitely, as Denmark has no diplomatic relations with Syria.”
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/protests-grip-denmark-over-plans-deport-syrian-refugees
“At least 6,000 migrants have reached Spain’s Ceuta enclave from neighbouring Morocco, a record number over a single day, Spanish officials say.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-57150051
“More than 50 feared drowned after migrant boat sinks off Tunisia…
““There are 33 survivors, all apparently from Bangladesh,” Flavio Di Giacomo, a spokesperson for the International Organization for Migration (IOM), told AFP. “At least 50 are missing.””
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/18/migrant-boat-sinks-off-tunisia-mediterranean
Migrants from poor countries are a problem all over the world.
There is no problem just a choice
1) open the borders and go down to the level of the starving
2) close the borders and live a high standard of living
Yes, it is not that simple but it is a first steep for any nation that chooses to try to maintain technology.
“Eurozone in double-dip recession as Mediterranean economies risk another lost summer.
“Risk of widening divide between industrialised economies like Germany in the north and tourism-dependent countries like Spain in the south.”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2021/05/18/eurozone-double-dip-recession-mediterranean-economies-risk-another/
“Greece banks on tourists for bad loan relief.
“Rhodes ferry operator Paris Kakas cannot afford another summer lost to the pandemic if he is ever to repay the millions of euros he owes: “When the bank comes asking, we say: sorry.””
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/greece-banks-tourists-bad-loan-relief-2021-05-18/
“ECB warns pandemic debt burden creates financial stability risks.
“The rising debt levels of eurozone governments and companies have made it more likely that economic aftershocks from the coronavirus pandemic could trigger financial instability, the European Central Bank has warned.”
https://www.ft.com/content/de2ddeb2-c557-4f7e-af6b-54d3cbaaaa78
It becomes more and more obvious, as (medically-senseless and useless) restrictions and lock-downs become more or less permanent policies, that the current system is being quite deliberately crashed.
There is no other rational explanation for what is being done.
A banking collapse is required to justify imposing the new monetary system, which has been years in preparation.
Sometime 2023-25 I would estimate – sooner if we are really unfortunate.
To make it to 2025, …
The Dow would have to go to 800000
SP500 90000
Nasdaq 100 50000
without blowing up.
Ah, yes. The ole 3 to 5 years. That used to be a routine prediction until covid made it NOW NOW NOW. Thanks for bringing back that oldie but goodie.
the sophisticated prediction is now 2027 to 2032.
If Geert Vanden Bossche (DVM, PhD), Pietro Luigi Garavelli (Professor) and also others are right, as a consequence of allowing vaccinated tourists come to Europe for holidays will create an incredible surge of new variants of the virus after summer, brought in Europe just by vaccinated people.
In case, if useful for you, links here:
https://www.radioradio.it/2021/04/allarme-del-prof-garavelli-vaccinare-errore-mutazioni-virus/
https://www.affaritaliani.it/coronavirus/covid-garavelli-vaccino-non-risolutivo-il-lockdown-cosi-inutile-729858.html
https://www.geertvandenbossche.org/post/predictions-on-outcome-of-mass-vaccination-during-a-pandemic-of-more-infectious-sars-2-cov-variants
But I’m not an expert on virus, so it is not clear to me. At the same time, there many question marks on this green pass.
And in Italy green pass will be given also only after first dose of (allowed) vaccines, which is something strange even from what can be heard from scientists on mainstream media:
https://www.iltempo.it/politica/2021/05/20/news/vaccini-covid-green-pass-scatta-dopo-prima-dose-dura-9-mesi-27289853/
And the General of the Army in charge of the vaccine campaign says: plan holidays according to your vaccine bookings
http://www.tusciaweb.eu/2021/05/figliuolo-programmate-le-vacanze-base-al-vaccino/
Anything to encourage Devil Covid…. and the rapid spread of it once it emerges.
I saw an ad yesterday saying that effective May 28, Greece will be allowing visitors from the US with either a vaccine certificate or a negative COVID test. This is a little late to start making plans, especially for an early summer vacation. I am sure that August gets to be hot in Greece.
It will be hard to ramp up tourism quickly, starting now. Many people are still afraid to travel.
Targeting the vaccine hesitant… just watch what happens though … Greece will get a spike and there will be another lockdown (due to the variants)… and lots of folks will have to scramble to get back home (no hotel refunds) and be forced into 2 week quarantines… which will send the message to others that travel is risky business…
But it will have achieved the desired effect — more guinea pigs with the jab — increasing the velocity of the development of Devil Covid.
In NZ there is a two month wait for a prison cell for returning citizens… if there is a big spike in Australia the bubble will be cancelled … and the thousands of NZers on holeeeday in Australia… will be waiting a very long time for a cell of their own…. meanwhile their travel insurance won’t pay for their stay in Australia…. and one can imagine their employers will not pay them….
Meanwhile CovIDIOTS will point to Greece and say ‘see – they are fulfilling on their promise to open up if everyone will just get the jab’
“Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey said that quantitative easing has not reached its limits, but that he would like to reduce the stimulus to give the bank more tools if there is another economic hit.
“The Bank pumped billions of pounds into buying bonds during the Covid-19 crisis.”
https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/andrew-bailey-quantitative-easing-not-164809966.html
“There’s an inflation timebomb at the heart of our [UK] economy – and I fear it has started to tick…
“…the threat of an inflation surge, followed by higher interest rates and a tightening of the amount of money being pumped into the UK economy, is becoming very real… if history teaches us anything, it is that profligate money creation can end badly.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-9597783/ALEX-BRUMMER-Theres-timebomb-heart-economy-fear-started-tick.html
It is hard to see the current approach ending well.
“Former Washington Mututal CEO sees a housing bubble forming because the Fed is ‘hooked’ on low interest rates…
“‘Everybody wants to have asset prices forever going up and the cost of financing to be next to nothing,’ Kerry Killinger says.”
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-former-ceo-of-washington-mutual-foresees-another-housing-bubble-and-he-blames-the-fed-11621287287
“Is the UK heading towards a house price crash?
“Annual house price growth in March hit 10.2pc, according to official figures – the highest rate of growth recorded since August 2007. It is a comparison that sparks fears of an overheated market.”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/house-prices/uk-heading-towards-house-price-crash/
In the US, Federal Student loan repayments have been stalled until at least October 1, 2021. This allows young people to save up for a down payment. Adding many young adults as buyers of homes is part of what is pumping up a bubble in the US, according to my daughter.
“Lenders recouped far less from US companies that went bust during the pandemic than in previous economic downturns, a new report has revealed…
“The average recovery rate for the holders of bonds and loans was 45 cents on the dollar, rating agency Moody’s found, down from 59 cents in the 2008-09 financial crisis and below the historical average of more than 50 cents.”
https://www.ft.com/content/9075329d-ef6b-481e-91ee-a8f02ac621d6
“On paper, Americans have never been richer. Their household assets topped $130 trillion at the end of December, up 10% in a year, according to the Federal Reserve [but]…
“Sooner or later, the day will arrive when much of these apparent riches vanish in a puff of smoke.”
https://www.reuters.com/breakingviews/chancellor-beware-hyperreal-financial-market-2021-05-18/
Businesses have likely been borrowing more. Also, their “assets” are increasingly overvalued. For example, oil or gas reserves are worth less than previously thought.
“The world is ‘standing on the precipice’ of multiple crises, former UN chief warns…
““We are standing on the precipice of all these crises … I hope that global leaders should have far-reaching global visions, that we are in this world together, we are all in this together, otherwise, we will all be a failure. Therefore, I’m really urging political leaders to do their best, lead by example,” said former U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.”
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/19/ban-ki-moon-world-is-standing-on-the-precipice-of-multiple-crises.html
“These invisible whales could sink the economy…
“For the average American dealing with the ravages of life under Covid, the story of Bill Hwang and Archegos may seem like just another Wall Street fat cat who got too greedy. But there may be many more Archegos-size risks – hidden from regulators, lawmakers and traders alike – now threatening to spark the next financial crisis.”
https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/opinion/these-invisible-whales-could-sink-the-economy
Be careful of what you wish for, Ban Ki! They do have a Plan. Oh yes!
Global visions are becoming less and less feasible, unfortunately. Working together, when there is fundamentally not enough resources to go around, is a problem.
One way “global visions” have been enabled is that it isn’t really everybody working together. It’s certain classes and interest groups working together. So this is part of the wage disparity you point out. For global visions to continue extending this trend would have to continue (e.g. more people slipping into poverty, more groups and regions cut out). In America large businesses with access to international markets have benefitted more than small businesses and individuals. In some countries dictators and propped up leaders live large while their people do not. How long can this last? Probably until food prices get high is my guess.
“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.”
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil/Colombias-Oil-Industry-Is-On-The-Brink-Of-Collapse.html
“The Colombia Uprisings Offer a Warning About Post-Pandemic Unrest Across the Developing World… hopes of change are beginning to wane, and human suffering is growing.”
https://bylinetimes.com/2021/05/19/colombia-uprisings-offer-a-warning-about-post-pandemic-unrest-across-the-developing-world/
“Argentina bans meat exports for 30 days in an attempt to curb inflation.”
https://en.mercopress.com/2021/05/18/argentina-bans-meat-exports-for-30-days-in-an-attempt-to-curb-inflation
“Diesel shortages paralyze Venezuelan farms, prompting sanctions debate.
“With farmers warning they may not have the fuel needed to plant staple corn and truckers sounding the alarm about difficulty transporting food, aid groups and some U.S. Democratic lawmakers have pressed President Joe Biden to end the ban on [crude oil for diesel] swaps.”
https://www.reuters.com/article/venezuela-diesel-agriculture/feature-diesel-shortages-paralyze-venezuelan-farms-prompting-sanctions-debate-idUSL1N2N12TY
I can see the point of ending the ban on crude for diesel swaps. Venezuela doesn’t have the ability to refine its heavy crude adequately.
But with bans like that, isn’t the usual response from producers to let the food go to waste, or hold it back, rather than sell cheaper?
And Argentina desperately needs export sales of basic foodstuffs to survive.
Bloomberg would agree with you, Xabier:
“Argentina’s new ban on exports of its famed beef won’t quell runaway inflation if previous interventions are any guide.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-19/inflation-near-50-leads-argentina-down-path-that-failed-before
One thing that this article says is that part of the problem is that refiners no longer are as interested in the kinds of crude that Columbia is selling
Why, in a world that is rapidly getting poorer, would anyone want to cap sulfur emissions for maritime fuels? I am sure that those refining maritime fuels would support a cap on sulfur emissions, because this would provide more revenue for them. There are many refineries set up to handle sulfur. We have dealt with sulfur from coal as well over the years.
If the refineries can pass these higher costs along, they would certainly like the additional revenue. Perhaps the issue is that they cannot really pass these additional costs along.
Also, we humans have gotten additionally “fussy” about the amount of pollution that we are willing to live with. Sulfur Oxides are certainly not good for breathing, and SOX emissions contribute to acid rain. But are we at the point now past the point where we can afford to fix this problem?
Police in Belgium seal off vast forest to hunt anti-lockdown
15 hours ago — Police in Belgium seal off vast forest to hunt anti-lockdown sniper … in a forest after he vowed to fight to the death against coronavirus lockdowns. … The soldier is believed to have spent much of Tuesday reconnoitring targets
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/manhunt-for-soldier-who-threatened-belgian-virologist-7svg0bhzq
Belgian police hunt heavily armed soldier who threatened virologist
https://news.yahoo.com/belgian-police-hunt-heavily-armed-141236739.html
He’s probably just gone off to have another tattoo done.
https://images0.persgroep.net/rcs/m_-eyE87e-jIJh8XEy79VOMCbX0/diocontent/202983870/_fitwidth/694/?appId=21791a8992982cd8da851550a453bd7f&quality=0.8
Norman said, “I haven’t a clue about spiked proteins.” Perhaps this is one reason why he is a lot more sanguine about the COVID-19 mRNA injectables that many of us here. And yes, no doubt COVID-19 can be deadly, and IF there was a safe and effective vaccine to prevent it, very few people would object to taking it.
I’ve posted this before, but it is a pivotal paper for anyone who wants at least a glimmer of understanding about why COVID-19, once it gets to the lungs, is so much nastier than a bog-standard coronavirus. The key is in the spike proteins (S proteins), and this comes from an impeccable source, the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, and they have even more street cred than ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER!
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April 30, 2021
The novel coronavirus’ spike protein plays additional key role in illness
Salk researchers and collaborators show how the protein damages cells, confirming COVID-19 as a primarily vascular disease
LA JOLLA—Scientists have known for a while that SARS-CoV-2’s distinctive “spike” proteins help the virus infect its host by latching on to healthy cells. Now, a major new study shows that the virus spike proteins (which behave very differently than those safely encoded by vaccines) also play a key role in the disease itself.
The paper, published on April 30, 2021, in Circulation Research, also shows conclusively that COVID-19 is a vascular disease, demonstrating exactly how the SARS-CoV-2 virus damages and attacks the vascular system on a cellular level. The findings help explain COVID-19’s wide variety of seemingly unconnected complications, and could open the door for new research into more effective therapies.
A lot of people think of it as a respiratory disease, but it’s really a vascular disease,” says Assistant Research Professor Uri Manor, who is co-senior author of the study. “That could explain why some people have strokes, and why some people have issues in other parts of the body. The commonality between them is that they all have vascular underpinnings.”
Salk researchers collaborated with scientists at the University of California San Diego on the paper, including co-first author Jiao Zhang and co-senior author John Shyy, among others.
While the findings themselves aren’t entirely a surprise, the paper provides clear confirmation and a detailed explanation of the mechanism through which the protein damages vascular cells for the first time. There’s been a growing consensus that SARS-CoV-2 affects the vascular system, but exactly how it did so was not understood. Similarly, scientists studying other coronaviruses have long suspected that the spike protein contributed to damaging vascular endothelial cells, but this is the first time the process has been documented.
In the new study, the researchers created a “pseudovirus” that was surrounded by SARS-CoV-2 classic crown of spike proteins, but did not contain any actual virus. Exposure to this pseudovirus resulted in damage to the lungs and arteries of an animal model—proving that the spike protein alone was enough to cause disease. Tissue samples showed inflammation in endothelial cells lining the pulmonary artery walls.
The team then replicated this process in the lab, exposing healthy endothelial cells (which line arteries) to the spike protein. They showed that the spike protein damaged the cells by binding ACE2. This binding disrupted ACE2’s molecular signaling to mitochondria (organelles that generate energy for cells), causing the mitochondria to become damaged and fragmented.
Previous studies have shown a similar effect when cells were exposed to the SARS-CoV-2 virus, but this is the first study to show that the damage occurs when cells are exposed to the spike protein on its own.
“If you remove the replicating capabilities of the virus, it still has a major damaging effect on the vascular cells, simply by virtue of its ability to bind to this ACE2 receptor, the S protein receptor, now famous thanks to COVID,” Manor explains. “Further studies with mutant spike proteins will also provide new insight towards the infectivity and severity of mutant SARS CoV-2 viruses.”
The researchers next hope to take a closer look at the mechanism by which the disrupted ACE2 protein damages mitochondria and causes them to change shape.
https://www.salk.edu/news-release/the-novel-coronavirus-spike-protein-plays-additional-key-role-in-illness/
You beat me to it Tim.
>>Norman said, “I haven’t a clue about spiked proteins.”
Norman, spike proteins are at the centre current events, the new weapon-of-mass-destruction. All pictures that I have seen representing a sars-cov-2 molecule have something that looks a but like a golf ball with many spikes sticking out of it. These spikes are the ‘spike proteins’, as I understand it, and it is generally thought that these proteins have been messed with to make them more deadly, discussed in the video link below. I have watched several videos attempting to explain spike proteins but most of them have gone over my head. This one Tim posted on Monday is I’d say the best at explaining the spike protein, at least for like me.
IS COVID-19 A BIO-WEAPON?
https://www.bitchute.com/video/qlnmKcLYmvKM/
The guest speaker, Dr. Richard Fleming, points out the top of the protein can cause prion disease (Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease, mad cow disease) which can take months or years before the symptoms can show. I am pretty sure there is no cure for prion-type diseases.
The host Del Bigtree also points out that normally a less harmful part of a virus is used for a vaccine. But with sars-cov-2, they have taken the really harmful bit, the spike protein.
I have watched this video twice, will probably watch again. Full of useful info.
The academic paper on which this article is found here. https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.121.318902
One thing that struck me is that the authors of this study are pretty much of Chinese origin, if not in China currently. Zu-Yi Yuan is in Xian, China; John Y-J Shyy as well as several of the other authors are at Xi’an Jiaotong University Health Science Center, Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California.
They also imply that the vaccines are safe:
“which behave very differently than those safely encoded by vaccines”
Virus bad, vaccines good?
Only globalization can handle the rising complexity. Every attempt to deglobalize means the population collapse.
In other words, the answer to too much complexity is yet more complexity. All history teaches otherwise, as does Joseph Tainter.
i wonder where we are on the Tainter Curve. in his plot of societal complexity over time, the curve peaks and begins to roll down some just before the crash, IIRC.
over one billion jabs of the new gene therapy, so that is an addition to complexity. Most car manufacturers are increasing their production of EVs. then there is 5G. And Elon Musk and his new web of satellites above us. And insane Crypto. ………………………………………… Complexity seems to be continuing on its upward path.
I propose a new indicator of the collapse: the percentage of Pentecostal Christians or the rate of growth of them..
https://www.gordonconwell.edu/blog/demographics-of-pentecostals-worldwide/
https://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2020/may/holy-spirit-empowered-christian-global-pentecostal-study.html
“Have Pentecostals Outgrown Their Name?
More than a quarter of the global church falls under new and debated label: “Spirit-empowered Christianity.””
I think I agree, if you mean that pie in the sky reeeeeligion will be bursting with growth as the world economy is plunging.
Cryptocurrency accounts wiped out ‘in an instant’ by cyber crooks
Experts call it a fast-growing crime
SAFETY HARBOR, Fla. — Cryptocurrency has become a red-hot investment, generating huge returns for people who bought in at the right time.
Bitcoin, Dogecoin and Ethereum are among the most popular currencies, with each Bitcoin valued at nearly $50,000.
But ABC Action News I-Team Investigator Adam Walser has uncovered cyber-criminals have found ways to drain people’s cryptocurrency accounts in the blink of an eye. And currently, there’s no easy way for victims to recover their funds.
“They think their money is safe and it’s not”
“The money we were looking forward to after we retire is gone. Probably two-and-a-half years of my salary is gone,” said Tampa Firefighter Tanja Vidovic.
She and her husband Jared, who is a VA nurse, started investing in cryptocurrency three years ago after hearing about the high rates of returns from friends.
“We were aware this was a riskier investment, but you don’t expect to wake up one morning and find that it’s completely gone,” Jared Vidovic said.
The Vidovics lost nearly $170,000 in the blink of an eye when someone hacked their Coinbase account.
Coinbase claims on its website to have 43 million customers and describes itself as the “world’s most trusted crypto exchange.”
But the Vidovics say the company has inadequate fraud protection.
“All these people who are investing think their money is safe and it’s not,” Tanja Vidovic said.
https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/local-news/i-team-investigates/cryptocurrency-accounts-wiped-out-in-an-instant-by-cyber-crooks
Who wants a currency that can be wiped out by a crook, with no way of going after the crook?
People who are especially greedy. I read not that long ago that there are still people that fall for the “Nigerian” scams. The everything bubble isn’t that far behind.
James talks to the receptionist of a large NHS medical practice. She tells him the true shocking story about adverse reactions to the ‘jab’.
Nina’s name has been changed and her voice has been altered to protect her identity
https://delingpole.podbean.com/e/nina-1621086702/
What a coincidence…..I am listening to that right at this moment.
One wonders how long the lid can be kept on this.
Forever, I’d say, Mrs S.
Truth is generally a friendless orphan in this world.
The mass media is completely compromised, and for many it is gospel.
Delingpole and others like Anna Brees, ‘Hugo’, etc, are squeezed to the margins and only get a hearing from those who have woken up to this crime.
Public health authorities, as we have repeated proof, are completely corrupt and imposing the programme methodically, created by psychopaths and well-funded.
Due to the brainwashing of the last year, even relatives of the dead and injured often conclude that it wasn’t the jabs, but ‘coincidence’ or bad luck because the ‘protection hadn’t fully kicked in’!
Deliberate and ruthless murder by the state/corporations is – for most people – too hard to face up to.
Public health authority . . . the joke is on us.
Wiki– Maggie De Block– In 2020, De Block was appointed by the World Health Organization’s Regional Office for Europe to serve as a member of the Pan-European Commission on Health and Sustainable Development
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maggie_De_Block
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Quote: “I know I’m not a model, but you have to see what’s inside, not the packaging,”
https://www.scotsman.com/news/opinion/columnists/fiona-mccade-making-meal-obese-health-minister-1523382
The farce is well established.
“Obesity/food expert”
https://sanford.duke.edu/people/faculty/brownell-kelly-d
Regretfully, I have to agree with you.
“but ‘coincidence’ or bad luck because the ‘protection hadn’t fully kicked in’!”
Incidentally, I saw a new expression last week that seemed appropriate:
“coincidence theory”
Agreed… the CovIDIOTS are not logical… they are dismissive of anything but the party line (right NormDunc?)
I just had someone suggest to me that it is reasonable that Cathay Pacific force their flight attendants to be vaccinated … or be fired…
My response:
why reasonable? 1. they can still get covid 2. they can still pass covid to passengers 3. they are generally young and fit so they are at near 0 risk of dying from covid ……
please explain to me why they should be forced to be vaccinated with what is an experimental treatment — that has not been tested for long term side effects? if morons want to take something like this by choice… let them do it … but forcing it on people is actually contravening a major international law … it is violating the Nuremberg Code — you cannot coerce people to participate in experiments
I doubt I will get a ‘reasonable’ response…. how can there be?
When I informed someone recently that I will not be vaxxed and why…. they rejected my assertions of the short term deaths/injuries …. and they said but you could die from covid…
My response – 52 people under 60 out of 60 million in Germany …who were healthy — have died from Covid… I’ll takes my chances with that vs vaccine injury or long term side effects…. they shook there head (in disgust?)
There is no cure for stoooopidity….
A GP practice of 20,000 patients receiving 1,000 calls a day with 100s of vaccine deaths and 100s of suicides?
I cannot believe those figures. 5% of all patients calling every day?
It would be impossible to keep the lid on such a large number of vaccine deaths over a 5 month timescale in one practice.
Whereas large northern cities may be pretty grim, 100s of suicides from 20,000 people is unthinkable.
I found a study of the effect of vaccines on nursing home patients in the New England Journal of Medicine. It shows that something like 70% of COVID-19 nursing home cases (for both residents who are vaccinated and those who are not vaccinated) are asymptomatic.
Strangely enough, it doesn’t show a very big difference between the vaccinated and unvaccinated residents with respect to the percentage of residents testing positive for COVID-19, after the vaccination start date (February 15, 2021) in the study. The study doesn’t really have enough participants and isn’t well designed to tell whether the vaccines really kept the residents out of the hospital or from dying.
This is where a write-up of the analysis is given. It is more of Letter to the Editor than a peer reviewed report.
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2104849
There is also an appendix, with more information and charts:
https://www.nejm.org/doi/suppl/10.1056/NEJMc2104849/suppl_file/nejmc2104849_appendix.pdf
The study involved 18,242 vaccinated residents and 3,990 unvaccinated residents in a multi-state nursing home chain. Of those who were vaccinated, 80% received the Pfizer vaccine and 20% the Moderna vaccine. The incidence of COVID-19 within the surrounding communities was dropping during the time of the study, which started on February 15, 2021. All of the patients were followed up carefully with tests and with nurse’s examination to see whether they had symptomatic or asymptomatic COVID-19 cases.
This is a summary chart of the results (without the footnotes):
https://ourfiniteworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Incidence-of-COVID-19-infections-in-Nursing-Home-Patient-NEJM.png
The rows that seem to be comparable are the first four rows (vaccinated individuals, followed as they gradually became fully vaccinated, and the two weeks after that) and the second four rows (unvaccinated individuals, followed during the same period).
In the first two weeks after the first dose, 4.5% of the vaccinated individuals tested positive and 4.3% of the unvaccinated individuals tested positive. Vaccination seems to have worked slightly the wrong direction.
In the second two weeks after the first dose, 1.4% of the vaccinated tested positive and 1.7% of the unvaccinated tested positive. Here the results came out in the expected direction
At 4 weeks, a second dose was given to the vaccinated group. In the two weeks after that, 1.0% of the vaccinated group tested positive for COVID-19, while only 0.4% of the unvaccinated group tested positive. This again goes the wrong direction, with the vaccinated group getting more positive tests.
Finally, in the last two weeks of the study, 0.3% of the vaccinated group tested positive and 0.3% of the unvaccinated group tested positive. The community spread was decreasing, so this may have been the reason for the fall. Or, if nursing home residents were spreading COVID-19 to other residents, I suppose the greater share of immunized residents could have reduced the overall spread. Thus, a “herd immunity” effect might be happening. Of course, many COVID-19 cases are expected to be brought in by staff members, so this would make the herd immunity argument less likely.
The study only found 9 cases (0.1%) of the total who were fully vaccinated and had symptomatic COVID-19. Of these, two were hospitalized. As far as I can see, this is not much different from the result for the same time period for the unvaccinated group. It shows 2 cases (0.1%) with symptomatic infection.
Also, in the Appendix, Figure S1, Chart (C) it is strange to me that there is a big spike in cases immediately after the COVID-19 clinic took place. I thought the unvaccinated were not involved in this vaccination clinic. Was there an adverse effect that spread to the unvaccinated? Or, am I not understanding this Letter to the Editor?
Unless I am missing something, this study points to the vaccine having an overall negative affect compared to the unvaxxed?
The Daily Mail now has a way of spinning the story very differently:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-9600909/Unvaccinated-nursing-home-residents-benefit-vaccinated-likely-COVID-19.html
Nursing home Covid infections fell 93% for vaccinated OR unvaccinated residents after more than 80% had had at least one shot, study finds
-Nursing home data shows decreased infection rate among unvaccinated residents as more people around them received the vaccine
-Infection rates have plummeted among vaccinated residents as well
-Study shows real world effects of the vaccine, says the researchers
-Many nursing home residents will soon need a third dose to stay safe from the virus
I thought the virus was spread through staff and contractors of various sorts walking through the facility, not through nursing home residents who go nowhere at all. Someone needs to bring the virus inside. I can’t imagine that these nursing home residents were allowed to see visitors, except through a window.
The effect started immediately; it was not delayed at all. Vaccinated and unvaccinated groups caught COVID-19 to the same extent, even early in the study.
There didn’t seem to be a benefit of getting rid of asymptomatic infections in either group. Presumably, these asymptomatic infections could be spread to others, but we don’t know for certain.
Here’s the conclusion stated by the writer.
“Our observation of a reduced incidence of infection among unvaccinated residents suggests that robust vaccine coverage among residents and staff, together with the continued use of face masks and other infection-control measures, is likely to afford protection for small numbers of unvaccinated residents in congregate settings. ”
This is in line with the conventional, “vaccines help lower the spread” hypothesis. And it is stated in tentative terms: “our observation … suggests”, “is likely to afford protection”. But in order to be able to state this weak conclusion with any degree of certainty, one would need to keep groups of vaxed and unvaxed residents in separate facilities. There is no control group if everyone is breathing the same air and intermingling in the same facility. Vaccinating may have aided protection, or it may have hindered it.
I notice that GVB has posted on Linkedin that he is now dedicating all his time to investigating the vaccines… so I assume he is no longer employed.
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.
more https://www.geertvandenbossche.org/post/second-and-last-reply-to-m-yeadon
Take a look at the NEJM article I talk about in my comment above.
https://ourfiniteworld.com/2021/05/04/how-the-worlds-energy-problem-has-been-hidden/comment-page-11/#comment-295242
Do you understand the article the way I tried to describe it?
Chip Shortage Enters “Danger Zone” As Lead Times Reach New Record
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/chip-shortage-enters-danger-zone-lead-times-reach-new-record
I agree that this is a concern. Lead times are now estimated to be 17 weeks.
I noticed another article which may be related:
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/logistics-hell-tesla-stuck-20000-cars-mysterious-factory-hold-fremont
Logistics Hell: Tesla Is “Stuck” With Up To 20,000 Cars On Mysterious “Factory Hold” In Fremont
Permian – update through February 2021
https://shaleprofile.com/blog/permian/permian-update-through-february-2021/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=blog&utm_content=permian_february_2021
I see that this same author has updates for a whole lot of other things, including North Dakota Bakken and Pennsylvania oil and gas. These are shown in other blog entries.
Terminal Cancer:
Shale binge has spoiled US reserves, top investor warns. Financial Times.
A fracking binge in the American shale industry has permanently damaged the country’s oil and gas reserves, threatening hopes for a production recovery and US energy independence, according to one of the sector’s top investors.
Wil VanLoh, chief executive of Quantum Energy Partners, a private equity firm that through its portfolio companies is the biggest US driller after ExxonMobil, said too much fracking had “sterilised a lot of the reservoir in North America”.
“That’s the dirty secret about shale,” Mr VanLoh told the Financial Times, noting wells had often been drilled too closely to one another. “What we’ve done for the last five years is we’ve drilled the heart out of the watermelon.”
Soaring shale production in recent years took US crude output to 13m barrels a day this year and brought a rise in oil exports, allowing President Donald Trump to proclaim an era of “American energy dominance”.
Total US oil reserves have more than doubled since the start of the century as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, and horizontal drilling unleashed reserves previously considered out of reach.
Thanks for mentioning this again. I saw it before, but I am not sure I had a chance to take note of it.