There is a saying, “Everything happens for a reason.” The fiasco in Afghanistan is no exception to this rule. Even though it is not obvious, the United States is up against energy limits. It needed to pull back from Afghanistan to try to have enough energy to continue in its other roles, such as providing benefits for its growing army of retirees, and building infrastructure to mitigate the COVID-19 downturn.
The fundamental problem is that governments can add debt and other indirect promises of resources that create goods and services, but they cannot actually create the low-cost energy, water and mineral resources needed to fulfill those promises.
The way energy limits play out is not at all intuitive. Most people assume that we will run out of oil, leading to a spike in oil prices. We will then transition to renewables. As I see it, this understanding is completely wrong. Limited energy supply first leads to a need for simplification: Stepping back from Afghanistan would be one such type of simplification. It would save energy supplies and reduce the need for greater tax revenue or added debt.
In this post, I will try to explain some pieces of the problem.
[1] Afghanistan was, and continues to be, in some sense, a “handicapped country.”
Everyone knows that the way a country can succeed in the world market is by providing needed goods or services to other economies at low cost. Afghanistan is a landlocked country. It also doesn’t have any big rivers it can use to transport goods out of the country. It isn’t a member of a trade alliance such as the EU to allow smooth transport of goods out of the country. The difficulty of transit into and out of the country adds a layer of costs that tends to make the country uncompetitive in the world market. No matter how much investment any country makes in Afghanistan, this handicap will still persist.
Also, Afghanistan has too high a population relative to its resources. We know that most wars are resource wars. The fact that Afghanistan has been involved in wars for many years hints at this problem. According to UN 2019 estimates, Afghanistan’s population was 7.8 million in 1950, 21.6 million in 2001, and 38.9 million in 2020, which is about five times the 1950 population. Water needs, in particular, tend to escalate as population rises.
[2] The US doesn’t know how to fight a guerrilla war.
The weapons developed by the US are too complex to be used in a guerrilla war. They tend to break down and require replacement parts. Needless to say, these parts are not available in Afghanistan. Even if Afghan soldiers are trained to use these weapons, they may not be available or suitable when needed.
George W. Bush should have known from the outcome of the 20-year Vietnam conflict (1955-1975) that any guerrilla war was likely to have a bad ending. In Afghanistan, the plan was to train Afghan soldiers, thus keeping US citizens out of the battlefield. This strategy kept the Afghan conflict off the front page of US newspapers, but the overall result seems to be similar.
[3] When George W. Bush took office in 2001, he seems to have had access to more funds than he knew what to do with. Starting a war in Afghanistan probably seemed like a good use for these funds. He could perhaps build military bases, and perhaps raise the standard of living of the people there.
The price of oil was especially low in the 1998 to 2001 period. This allowed tax revenue to “go farther” in providing benefits to the economy, allowing a temporary budget surplus. With such a surplus, getting funds appropriated for any purpose would likely have been easy.
Even more importantly, with a fairly young population, the Social Security system had been collecting funds in advance of when they were needed, with the plan of building up the plan’s Trust Fund for use when a bulge in retirements was expected, starting about 2010. Figure 2 shows one chart that roughly illustrates the overfunding and planned use for the funds. Unfortunately, Figure 2 doesn’t treat investment income in the way it is actually collected; it leaves out past investment income and uses discounted cash flow assumptions for the future, so a person cannot readily estimate net contributions to the Trust Fund balance by year from this chart.
Figure 2 indicates that there was considerable overfunding starting in the late 1980s. The thing that actuaries (and others) didn’t consider is the fact that there is a real difference between debt and the physical resources that will be needed when these older people retire. Retirees will need food, water and energy to heat their homes. They will need medicine and long term care institutions. They should also be able to provide their share of the upkeep of roads and electricity transmission networks.
Debt is a promise of future funds to purchase goods and services, but it doesn’t make the resources required to create these goods and services materialize out of “thin air.” To keep these promises, oil needs to be extracted, refined, and delivered to farmers. There needs to be enough fresh water available to irrigate adequate farmland to produce the required food. There need to be supply lines that are working to deliver the required food. There need to be enough young people who are willing to work on farms and in care centers for the aged. The wages for these young workers need to be high enough so that they too can have food, shelter and other things that we consider necessities.
When the extra Social Security funds were collected, the officials who collected them figured out that as a practical matter, there was little that they could do with them besides spend them at the time they were collected. They couldn’t set up warehouses with food, clothing, building materials and energy resources to keep on hand for 30 or 40 years. If they invested the money in the stock market, the money would simply cause a bubble in stock prices. If they built new factories or nursing homes, they would be unfairly competing with existing businesses.
I am not sure that there is any good record of how these extra funds were spent. My understanding is that they provided a very large slush fund that allowed expanded military activities among other things. From an accounting point of view, non-marketable government debt was substituted for the funds that were spent. Thus, when an actuary looks at the Trust Fund, it is fully funded. It is just that it is funded with more US government debt.
The catch is that the non-marketable US government debt doesn’t actually correspond to any resources. Any food used in 2022 (or 2050) will need to be grown in that year, using resources available in that year. Most clothing used in a given year will need to be produced with resources available at that time. Putting together a model that assumes business as usual forever tends to give a rosy picture because it leaves out this detail.
The 2020 OSDAI Trustees Report provides actual income, outgo, and interest income through 2019. From this report, it can be concluded that the extra Social Security slush fund is rapidly disappearing. In fact, it seems to be turning to a hidden source of required year-by-year funding starting as soon as 2020 or 2021.
In some sense, the “real economy” operates on a “cash basis,” rather than an “accrual basis.” This has not been recognized in our accounting or our models. Ignoring the way the system really works likely leads to a hidden crunch, starting about 2021. We know that retirements were high in 2020, adding to the potential problem. I am certain that President Biden and his advisors are aware of this issue, even though it is never reported on the front pages of newspapers.
[4] There is really a two-sided energy price problem. Consumers can afford only low energy prices but, as the result of depletion and population growth in oil exporting countries, producers need high oil prices.
Figure 3 is a chart I prepared a few years ago. In it, there is a pattern of rapidly rising wages when oil prices were very low. Workers became more productive with new factory equipment and vehicles, produced with oil, and operated using oil products. As a result, their wages rose.
On the other hand, when oil prices spiked, the prices of many goods, including food, airline tickets, and the fuel used for commuting to work, rose. People cut back on discretionary income, such as eating in restaurants and vacation travel. Businesses with fewer customers laid off workers. The workers who could find jobs often found lower-paid or part time jobs. The result was a dip in average wages, both in the 1970s and at the time of the Great Recession of 2007-2009.
We now live in a world with depleted resources. The oil and other types of energy that are available are high in cost, but the prices tend to stay too low for producers when all costs are included. Oil resources from the Middle East and Venezuela, especially, need a higher oil price because the governments of these countries need very high taxes on oil revenue to support their large populations. Even shale oil from the United States needs a higher price than is available today.
If we want OPEC to supply the rest of the world with more oil, the price will need to rise much higher than today’s Brent oil price of about $73. It likely will need to rise to at least $100 per barrel and show that it can stay at this high level. Otherwise, the supposed reserves of OPEC will mostly stay in the ground.
Even the US needs a higher oil price. Its oil, gas and coal production fell during the pandemic in 2020. Through May 2021 (and even later using weekly data, not shown), oil and natural gas production has not rebounded to the 2019 level.
Note that oil and gas production also dipped in 2016. Figure 3 shows that oil prices were also low then. If prices are too low, would-be producers leave them in the ground.
Adding in nuclear and renewables (hydroelectric, ethanol, wood, wind, solar and geothermal) still leaves a large dip in recent production.
President Biden is no doubt aware of the fact that the US’s production of energy products, especially crude oil, is now low. In fact, earlier in August he asked OPEC and its allies to increase their oil production to try to keep prices from rising too much. Why would OPEC want to increase its production, if the US can’t increase its own production at the current price level? All of the producers need a higher price level; it is consumers who cannot afford the higher price level.
[5] The world seems to have already begun shifting to a falling energy consumption per capita situation.
The amount of energy required tends to rise with population because all of the people require food, housing and transportation. Energy, especially oil and coal, are needed for these.
Many countries, including the United States, have been able to hold down their internal energy consumption per capita by moving much of their industry to China and India.
Figure 7 shows that US industrial production reached its peak in 1973, which was shortly after US oil production started to turn down in 1971. This partly reflects auto manufacturing moving to Japan and Europe, where smaller, more fuel-efficient cars were already being sold. Home heating and electricity generation also shifted away from oil to other fuels.
The issue now is that “Ex. Industrial” consumption has been falling since the Great Recession. In some sense, the economy has been losing strength since 2008 and continues to lose strength. Fewer and fewer people can feel like they are really getting ahead. They are saddled with low wage jobs and too much debt.
Figure 8 shows similar patterns for the European Union and Japan. Energy consumption per capita was rising until a few years before the Great Recession, and then it plateaued. It has been declining since.
The pattern shown on Figure 8 suggests that energy prices are still too high for consumers, even though they are, at the same time, too low for producers. Travel restrictions imposed by governments may also be contributing to this pattern.
GDP data indications are prepared on an accrual basis. In other words, they reflect the impact of added debt. If missing energy can be replaced with a promise of debt to pay for more goods and services in the future, made with future energy, then perhaps all will be well. The quantity of debt that is required, relative to the GDP impact, keeps rising, suggesting this substitution is not working very well.
With the addition of growing amounts of debt, GDP increases are reported to be much larger than expected growth, based only on the growth in energy consumption.
[6] We now seem to be reaching the end of the line with respect to what can be done with added debt to make the economy seem like it is performing adequately well.
Interest rates show a very distinct pattern. They rise until about 1981, and then they decline.
When the US economy was growing rapidly, it could withstand high and rising interest rates. Since 1981, the general pattern has been one of falling interest rates, making a larger quantity of debt affordable. Indirectly, these falling interest rates also helped prop up asset prices, such as those of homes and shares of stock. In recent years, interest rates have fallen about as far as they can go. To some extent, these lower rates were made possible by Quantitative Easing (QE). But at some point, QE needs to be stopped.
Today, interest rates are approximately at the level they were during the Great Depression of the 1930s. This makes sense; interest rates to some extent reflect the return an investor can expect to make. Right now, without a lot of government support programs, “Main Street” businesses around the world are struggling. This indicates that the economy is doing very poorly. There are too many people who cannot afford even basic goods and services. Indirectly, this feeds back to commodity prices that are not high enough for producers of energy products.
Recently, governments of many countries have tried a different approach. Instead of loans, they are providing something closer to giveaways. Renters are allowed to stay rent-free in their apartments. Or, checks are given to all citizens earning below some specified amount. What we seem to be finding is that these giveaways produce inflation in the price of goods that poor people buy most frequently, such as food and used cars.
The giveaways don’t actually produce more of the required goods and services, however. Instead, would-be workers decide that they really don’t want to take a low-paid job if the giveaways provide nearly as much income. The loss of workers then acts to reduce production. With lower production of goods and services, a smaller quantity of oil is required, so the oil price tends to fall. The price certainly does not rise to the level needed by oil producers.
[7] In a finite world, longer-term models need to take into account the fact that resources deplete and the population keeps rising.
Any modeler who tries to take into account the fact that resources deplete and the overall population keeps rising will quickly come to the conclusion that, at some point, every economy will have to collapse. This has been known for a very long time. Back in 1957, Admiral Hyman Rickover of the US Navy said,
Surplus energy provides the material foundation for civilized living – a comfortable and tasteful home instead of a bare shelter; attractive clothing instead of mere covering to keep warm; appetizing food instead of anything that suffices to appease hunger. . .
For it is an unpleasant fact that according to our best estimates, total fossil fuel reserves recoverable at not over twice today’s unit cost, are likely to run out at some time between the years 2000 and 2050, if present standards of living and population growth rates are taken into account.
Now, in 2021, it looks as if this problem is starting to hit us. But no one (since Jimmy Carter, who was not re-elected) has dared tell the general public. Instead, accrual accounting with more and more debt is used in financial statements, including GDP statements. Actuaries put together Social Security funding estimates as if the resources to provide the promised benefits will really be there. Climate change models are prepared as if business as usual can go on for the next hundred years. Everything published by the mainstream media is based on the underlying assumption that we will have no problems other than climate change for the next 100 years.
[8] About all that can be done now is to start cutting back on the less necessary parts of the economy.
President Biden’s abrupt pullout from Afghanistan reflects a reality that increasingly has to take place in the world. The US needs to start pulling back because there are too many people and not enough inexpensive to extract resources to fulfill all of the commitments that the US has made. As mentioned earlier, there are a number of obstacles to success in Afghanistan. Thus, it is a good place to start.
With the need to pull back, there is a much higher level of conflict, both within and between countries. The big issue becomes who, or what, is going to be “voted off the island” next. Is it the elderly or the poor; the military or the oversized US medical establishment; university education for a large share of students or classroom teaching for young children?
We don’t seem to have a good way out of our current predicament. This seems to be what is behind all of the recent internet censorship. Renewables and nuclear require fossil fuel energy for their production and maintenance. The powers that be don’t want anyone to know that nearly all of the “happily ever after using renewables” stories we hear are based on wishful thinking.
Maybe when we think about Israel we should remember Henry Kissinger saying some years ago “Israel will not exist in ten years”.
I checked to figure out when this quote is from. There is some controversy regarding whether Henry Kissinger actually said this, or whether it is something that a New York Post columnist made up.
https://blogs.umb.edu/quoteunquote/2012/09/26/cindy-adams-breathlessly-and-casually-passes-on-an-elusive-kissinger-quote-about-israels-future/
The quote was in a September 18, 2012, New York Post article by Cindy Adams. We are about a year away from the ten-year mark from that quote.
false quote makes more sense why would Kissinger speak actual truth in public
As only James Kunstler can word it:
“America’s hair is on fire. A chimeric lab virus apparently funded by our own government has been on-the-loose since January 2020. Supposedly, that is. It’s a little hard to tell because, especially in the early going, a lot of very old and unwell people died — as the very old and unwell do — and a Covid-19 tag was slapped on their death certificates, and that primed the hysteria pump that is still pumping away heroically. A Covid-19 virus may indeed be running through the population, but 98.8 percent do not die from it and, as Covid-19 came on, the usual seasonal flu apparently went on sabbatical. Go figure.
The ignited hysteria was reinforced by a PCR test routine that could produce Covid-19 “cases” on-demand, and still does — even though the government had to admit that the test was unreliable and ordered it discontinued (effective, wait for it, December 2021… really?). Meanwhile, the cases keep coming… as ascertained by what means exactly? PCR tests, still? Or what?
About twenty minutes after the virus came on the scene, a vaccine magically materialized in the pharma labs. And after a completely half-assed testing routine, it was commissioned with an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA), which permitted a wholesale vax-up of the whole population, and provided legal immunity from lawsuits for the pharma companies involved. The public greeted it with a grateful awe usually reserved for religious visitations. Treatment protocols with existing drugs were bad-mouthed and then officially suppressed. They had to be — and still have to be — to maintain that EUA, because the vaxes are not approved by the FDA (despite a recent FDA psy-op to fake-out the public otherwise).
Meanwhile, adverse reactions to the vaxes are literally off-the-charts (the decades-long vaccine safety charts, that is) and those numbers have been likewise suppressed. There are also plenty of reasons to suppose the vaxes create stealth vascular damage to multiple organs that could lead to death over a few years’ time. The prudent have taken note. The prudent are now in for getting cancelled out of daily life for their prudence. Most of these people are onto the game that is being played on them. They must be punished.
The government is desperate to keep the Covid-19 story going and keeps squirting lighter fluid on America’s flaming head. It’s not working so well. The government has lost its mojo, as personified by the mojo-deficient president that the backstage minions of an obscure “power elite” finagled into office by means soon to be publicly revealed. A great wave of fear curdles the spinal fluxes of Western Civ as its component nation-states battle to control their restive populations with an epic turn toward lawless, tyrannical coercion.”
https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/the-game-in-review/
98.8%? Thought it was about 99.8% survival? Whatever the case might be it seems like small potatoes compared to the pending energy contraction and the resulting financial collapse from a shrinking pie. I recently saw the US gasoline consumption has reached an all time high above pre-c19 levels. I wonder how this can be if oil production is still on a bumpy plateau off from all the highs of a few years ago. More fuel to spend since the demand for it has fallen in other regions? Wonder how long the good times will last.
From what I’ve read it’s more like 99.7%. Like you said that’s still small potatoes.
I wonder if the FDA got their numbers mixed up when they were ‘thoroughly testing’ Pfizer…
The testing guys were out on a big night at the VIP lounge sniffing all sorts of powders (surely they have access to whatever it takes….) … came in straight from the club… into the lab jackets… still completely off their faces…. tested Pfizer….
Fauci hollers down from his lair (where he’s just butchered a fresh baby and eaten strips of it’s tender loins…) ‘where are those f789ing results!!! – and they better tell a good story!!!’
The guys grab a random piece piece of paper from the pile and run towards Fauci’s office… making a quick pit stop in the shitter to shovel more powder up their blow holes…. eyes wide – pupils dilated they shove the paper into Fauci’s hand…. he looks at them…. shaking his head… you boys been into the powder again? … no sir no sir….. he glances at the results 99.7% effective?
Come on guys this is ridiculous nobody will believe this … he looks again … and sees that is the recovery rate…. scratches that out … writes over 99.7 with 95% … asks his secretary to retype it… and applies anti-blush ‘Morgue’ powder to his face in anticipation of the presser.
Get outta here you useless junky bastards… what are you waiting for???? The testers scurry down the hall … towards the lab… but not before a quick interlude in the stall… where they replenish.
If the deaths ‘with’ rather than ‘from’ Covid were removed… as well as the flu deaths that have been counted as covid ….. I suspect the actual death total would be no more than a bad flu year….
And the deaths and injuries caused by the vaccines… would dwarf that number…. as has been stated the actual numbers are at least 5x this https://www.openvaers.com/covid-data
The risk of hospitalization from COVID-19 in kids ages 5 to17 is 0.3 per million for the week ending July 24, 2021, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
We also know that the risk of hospitalization after the second vaccine dose due to myocarditis, or inflammation of the heart muscle, is about 50 per million in that same age group.
https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/why-covid-19-vaccines-should-not-be-required-for-all-americans
Waaaaaaahhhhhh…..
A cousin recently got flu like symptoms. He went to the hospital and they tested him for Covid….three times until he finally came up positive. Another fake Covid diagnosis.
So, I’m assuming they used a PCR test. Many claim this test is bogus because it makes many copies of the viral DNA and that is the only way they can prove covid infections.
OK. I’m just an uneducated layman so maybe someone can explain how these very same PCR tests are used to replicate DNA from crime scenes which is used to convict people and put them away for years.
Are these people innocent? Are the courts incarcerating all these poor victims of a false test? Are most of them telling the truth when they say they are innocent?
How can the results be valid for one DNA test but not the other?
Every human has a different DNA. The current technology for human DNA identification works. I have witnessed links to kin through “23 AND ME” that leave no doubt in my mind that they can link a human DNA particle to the human that it came from. This is the basis of the DNA links from crime scenes. I have no idea what the particle of matter is that the PCR test replicates to provide enough material to complete these human DNA identifications. But I saw with my own eyes that once they have the two samples they came determine if they came from the same person
In the case of the viral DNA identification, I have read that they identify certain segments of DNA that they claim came from the covid virus. The covid virus was identified by Chinese scientists a few weeks after it popped up in Wuhan. How’s that work? It took years to identify the bacteria that allegedly causes Lyme Disease.
Do you believe the pharmo sock puppets? Do you distinguish between science and science styled marketing? Do you believe the experts that bring us modern medicine? Two studies from Johns Hopkins, since 2002, have stated that medical mistakes and Iatrogenic causes are the third leading cause of death in the U.S. Only heart disease and cancer kill more than medicine. Search Dr. Barbara Starfield and Dr. Martin Markary of Johns Hopkins.
Kary Mullis, the inventor of the PCR, objected strongly to its use to claim that HIV causes AIDS. I don’t know the techno of his objections, but he should know what the limitations of the PCR process are. He was shouted down by the Pharmos even though he won a Nobel Prize for the invention. He conveniently died in the fall of 2019 so he wasn’t a problem when the covid came along.
No, I don’t necessarily believe the pharmaceutical companies. I’m not sure what to believe. There is too much conflicting information from all sides to sift through that all claims to be the truth. I cannot really determine what is the real truth about any of it.
It’s all links to this or links to that. Peer reviewed papers that can’t really be trusted because they may have an agenda other than people’s health. Those pushing the vaxx seem to be in it for the money. But does that make the vaxx an ELE, as some say?
Statistics are manipulated to the point of being unreliable. Is because we have been lied to all these years that we trust nothing or no one?
I haven’t gotten a shot yet and don’t plan to. I have many of the suggested alternate treatments I will use. Don’t know if they will work or not.
But no one has convinced me either side is right.
Part of it has to do with the fact that what they’re doing in the case of “covid” is taking a partial scrap of something they supposedly found in some “patient zero”‘s lungs in China, amplifying it, and extrapolating with a computer the missing base pairs they think would/could/might constitute a virus. [This, to me, is sketchy. I left off school when we were doing analog (gel electrophoresis) gene mapping. Something was either reproducibly there or it wasn’t. I don’t have any direct experience with how gene sequencing is done today.]
I would say the difference between a covid PCR and a forensic PCR has to do with the fact that, in a crime-scene case, one is amplifying whole or partial DNA that’s found at a scene and comparing it with a known and whole reference DNA sample from a suspect’s actual blood, semen, saliva, etc., which isn’t in question.
In the case of covid, they seem to be comparing a questionable fragment to another questionable fragment. It doesn’t seem so certain to me. Neither sample is really fully sequenced, it would seem. It’s all “in silico” (meaning modeled or extrapolated by computer).
Also, in forensics, they apparently stop at 28 amplification cycles, whereas with covid they have been wont to exaggerate with 35-40 cycles. I saw at MIT they were using 40 cycles. Remember, each cycle is a doubling, so the difference between 28 cycles and 40 cycles is the difference between “finding” 268,435,456 copies of the suspect sequence (from an origin of one sequence fragment), and finding 1,099,500,000,000 copies instead (about 4100x as much). That isn’t a particularly honest reckoning, imo.
I recommend reading the entire article as it references the repos…. as the signal that implosion was imminent just prior to Covid … which is also referenced in the CEP.
Basically this article is The CEP…. and concludes with this:
Twenty years of zombie movies have left us perfectly positioned to enter the new economy of the walking dead. That’s us. No more middle class for you, America! No more paychecks. No more blue light specials. No more auto loans. No more McHouses. And pretty soon, maybe, no more food even. What then? How about: Oh, just go die….
James needs to cover his tab at the VIP lounge so it is understandable that he’d drop a plug for World Made by Hand as he takes his leave….
And you don’t want to leave the audience in total despair… you need to give them a puff of hopium… othewise they hang themselves and you’ve no longer got an audience.
https://twitter.com/RWMaloneMD/status/1432773748688658442
‘Injections for Dummies’ perhaps.
Not sure if this has been posted.
There is definitely a seasonality to COVID-19. One thing I would note is that the climate of the Southern US is moderately similar to that of Israel. This may be influencing the peaks in these areas at this time. The Northern US peak would seem to be more during the January February time frame.
Charles has been reported to the Met. police, who have been called upon to investigate the illegal acts for which evidence already exists in the public realm.
The Times reports that Charles was ‘100% behind’ the acts.
> Former minister urges police inquiry into CBE for Saudi businessman
Allegations that a wealthy Saudi businessman was offered help to secure an honour and British citizenship after donating to Prince Charles’s charities have been reported to the police and should be the subject of an investigation, a former government minister has said. Norman Baker, a former Liberal Democrat minister, author and critic of the royal family, has written to the Metropolitan police commissioner, Cressida Dick, urging a police investigation into the affair. Baker said a letter, published by the Mail on Sunday, allegedly from Fawcett to an aide at the Mahfouz Foundation, appeared to be “prima facie” evidence of an offence.
Baker said he had written to Dick “to say that in the light of the full transcript of the letter, there appears to me to be prima facie evidence that an offence has been committed under the Honours [prevention of abuses] Act 1925. If politicians had engaged in selling honours, or in offering support for citizenship, they would be in big trouble. And the same thing should apply to Prince Charles.”
Baker believes any investigation should examine what Prince Charles was aware of at the time. The Times reported that Charles was “100%” behind the offer to help the Saudi billionaire, according to a fixer, described by the newspaper as a paid adviser to Mahfouz, and the royal had met Mahfouz in Riyadh, Clarence House, and at Dumfries House, in 2014 and 2015. Baker said he believed the questions lead directly to Charles. “Of course,” he said, describing Charles and Fawcett as “Tweedledum and Tweedledee”.
“I have suggested to Dame Cressida Dick that there is good evidence, and that there ought to be an investigation based on what is in that letter. On the face of it, there’s evidence of corruption. I believe in propriety in public life. And Charles is in public office,”
The prince gave Mahfouz, 51, his “honorary” CBE – for those who are not British or Commonwealth nationals – at a private ceremony at Buckingham Palace in November 2016.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/sep/06/norman-baker-urges-police-investigation-mahfouz-prince-charles
A second party has reported Charles to the Met. police, and there are now two requests for the Met. to begin an investigation into reports of illegal activity by Charles, evidence of which is already in the public realm.
> Prince Charles and close aide reported to police by pressure group Republic over cash-for-honours claims
Graham Smith, chief executive of Republic, which campaigns for an elected head of state, said he had contacted the Metropolitan Police and reported both Charles and Mr Fawcett on suspicion of breaching the Honours (Prevention of Abuses) Act 1925.
Former royal valet Mr Fawcett is accused of promising to help secure a knighthood and British citizenship for a Saudi billionaire donor.
Mr Smith said: “Failure to properly investigate these matters will damage public trust in the police, the royals and the honours system.
“Time and again the royals blame their staff or associates for their own mistakes.
“It is difficult to believe Charles wasn’t aware of these arrangements or promises. It’s time the royals were personally challenged over their conduct.”
Ex-Liberal Democrat MP Norman Baker has also written to the Met asking the force’s Commissioner, Dame Cressida Dick, to launch a criminal probe.
https://www.coastfm.co.uk/news/uk/prince-charles-and-close-aide-reported-to
Who does Prince Charles think he is trading favours for money — god?
…smarter than I…. Yeah yeah…I’m trying to do my best…
The WTI in its downward tunnel is forming what the traders call a Bull Flag. The chart is signaling a new spike in the price of oil after it hits the bottom of that tunnel.
I guess it’s counter intuitive to think that oil prices will rise in this environment. But it might just be a spike in oil prices and inflation that forces the Fed to raise interest rates…which will cause the final crash?
I know that there are smarter people than me at the Fed who have thought about these things decades ago.
Been reading about this insect..
https://amp.the-daily-record.com/amp/5714351001
BRYCE BUYAKIE | THE DAILY RECORD | 4:05 am EDT September 4, 2021
WEST SALEM – In nearly four days, a legion of armyworms marched across an alfalfa field, eating every leaf in sight except for the weeds.
By the end of the invasion, the entire field was devastated.
Jim Kemp remembers looking out at his Wayne County neighbor’s knee-high alfalfa farm on Aug. 26. By Monday, it was reduced to a short brown groundcover.
“I remember talking to my wife saying how good it looked over there and then in one weekend it was all gone,” Kemp said
Gone in four days: How armyworms are invading Ohio farms
Jim Kemp stands in his neighbor’s alfalfa field. The field was once knee-high and green. Then the armyworms invaded, devastating everything in four days.
Jim Kemp stands in his neighbor’s alfalfa field. The field was once knee-high and green. Then the armyworms invaded, devastating everything in four days
BRYCE BUYAKIE | THE DAILY RECORD | 4:05 am EDT September 4, 2021
WEST SALEM – In nearly four days, a legion of armyworms marched across an alfalfa field, eating every leaf in sight except for the weeds.
By the end of the invasion, the entire field was devastated.
Jim Kemp remembers looking out at his Wayne County neighbor’s knee-high alfalfa farm on Aug. 26. By Monday, it was reduced to a short brown groundcover.
“I remember talking to my wife saying how good it looked over there and then in one weekend it was all gone,” Kemp said.
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It was like the highway was moving there were so many of them
WAYNE COUNTY FARMER JIM KEMP ON ARMYWORMS
Kemp, who has been in the farm business for “decades,” only remembers armyworms when he was 10 years old. They destroyed a field of wheat before crossing the road to a neighbor’s field.
“It was like the highway was moving there were so many of them,” he said.
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Wayne County — and much of Ohio — is experiencing an armyworm invasion that has devastated lawns, hay, alfalfa and rye farms.
Experts warn that if the warm weather lasts deep into the fall, farmers could see another generation of armyworms wreak havoc on their crops.
Jaren Imhoff looks at the small alfalfa saplings that are regrowing after he mowed the field down. It’s his best chance at salvaging even a small portion of his crop.
Jaren Imhoff looks at the small alfalfa saplings that are regrowing after he mowed the field down. It’s his best chance at salvaging even a small portion of his crop.
BRYCE BUYAKIE
Gone in four days
Jaren Imhoff’s alfalfa field that sits near Kemp’s farm in West Salem wasn’t the only casualty. He lost two fields and is expecting most of his hay to be next.
To get ahead of the impending feast, he plans to bale as much hay as possible.
“It’s pretty common to have armyworms in wheat and rye, but this late in the year just seems unheard of,” Imhoff said, who runs the farm with his family.
Imhoff first noticed the small caterpillars on his alfalfa on a Thursday in late August, but he didn’t think much of it. He was more concerned about the browning leaves in the field.
After a quick call to an agronomist, he was reassured that it was a different pest called wee
“But then he (agronomist) got a ton of calls from other farmers who had the same problem, so he did his homework and research and determined it was this armyworm,” Imhoff said.
The usual insecticides didn’t work, so he hoped to get something stronger that is used in Southern states.
“We couldn’t get that in over the weekend and by Monday it was too late,” he said. “We still sprayed it and it killed a lot of them, so now we have hundreds of birds eating them.”
The worms ate everything in sight, including the grass and bottom leaves of his nearby cornfields. Everything but weeds that is.
“They were kind enough to leave the one thing we didn’t want,” Imhoff said.
Making the best of a bad situation
Imhoff and his family know the risks of farming. They are often at the whim of nature and have to prepare for anything.
While they lost an entire field of alfalfa, which costs $400 per bag of seed, he’s optimistic.
The fall armyworm is in its larval stage from 14 to 22 days.
“We were told the best thing we could do was mow everything down,” he said, looking at the field. “But it looks like we’re having some growth, so we might be able to salvage some of it.”
Imhoff doesn’t want to estimate the total money lost in that field, but he said that he probably lost about $6,000 from a hayfield the armyworms ate through.
“I believe in God and I know he’ll always provide for us,” Imhoff said. “But sometimes I’m just like, what are you doing?”
A foreign invader
While Ohio is home to armyworms, this breed is from the South and is native to South and Central America.
They grow up to two inches long and are characterized by the “Y” shape at the top of their head. They also have yellow and grey stripes down their bodies.
How it came to Ohio has to do with the summer’s unusual weather patterns, said Frank Becker, program coordinator and integrated pest manager at Wayne County’s OSU Extension.
We disturb ecosystems. We should expect predators to take advantage of this. We also know that all ecosystems evolve and come to an end, to be replaced by different ecosystems that are better adapted to the new situation.
MSM takes advantage of this situation and writes pieces to make us feel guilty about “causing” this problem.
Trying to impose a narrative of morality and guilt where it doesn’t apply – and fostering the flattering delusion that humans will always be able to do something positive in response.
We see this in medicine, too.
https://qz.com/author/zschlangerqz/
In China, air conditioning used to be rare. But there are now more air conditioners in China than there are in any other country in the world, and sales continue to skyrocket, according to a report by the International Energy Agency.
Chins uses 68 times more electricity on cooling than it did in 1990, and that number continues to grow faster than anywhere else in the world.
At the moment, the US (with a population far smaller than China’s) still uses the most energy on air conditioning of any country in the world. As of 2016, 40% of all air-conditioning capacity is installed in the US, and its 328 million residents consume more energy for cooling than the 4.4 billion people living in all of Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, and Asia (excluding China) combined, according to the IEA report.
When did indoor air become cold and clean?
Air conditioning is one of those inventions that have become so ubiquitous that many in the developed world don’t even realize that less than a century ago, it didn’t exist. Indeed, it wasn’t so long ago that the air inside our buildings and the air outside of them were one and the same, with occupants powerless against their environment.
Eric Dean Wilson, in his just published book, “After Cooling: On Freon, Global Warming, and the Terrible Cost of Comfort,” dives deep into the history of this field. It took more than just inventing the air conditioner to make people want to buy it. In fact, whole social classes outright rejected the technology for years. It took hustle, marketing skill and mass societal change to place air conditioning at the center of our built environment.
Wilson covers that history, but he has a more ambitious agenda: to get us to see how our everyday comforts affect other people. Our choice of frigid cooling emits flagrant quantities of greenhouse gas emissions, placing untold stress on our planet and civilization. Our pursuit of comfort ironically begets us more insecurity and ultimately, less comfort.
It’s a provocative book, and TechCrunch hosted Wilson for a discussion earlier this week on a Twitter Space. If you missed it, here are some selected highlights of our conversation.
This interview has been condensed and edited.
https://techcrunch.com/2021/08/28/eric-dean-wilson-interview/amp/
Yes, old enough to remember an America largely without cool inside temperatures in the hot summer months. As the above article pointed out, movie theaters were the first to promote it as a draw to get people in their places during the Summer.
When I was a kid had to endure a few uncomfortable months with electric fans blowing hot air in New Jersey. Some of my wealthier friends had parents that purchased window units.
Pretty interesting links….it will certainly be a very different world after the post modern world.
I imagine that part of the issue is the fact that heat from very efficient coal cogeneration (Electricity producing plant in the middle of a city. Pipelines carry excess heat to homes and businesses during the winter months) is being replaced by heat pumps. Heat pumps work in two direction. They provide heat in the winter and AC in the summer. In total, the change increases fossil fuel energy use considerably.
The change may have been inevitable, because nearby coal mines were depleting. Also, the old approach provided an unacceptably high level of pollution. The new approach is more modern. It looks “efficient,” if a person doesn’t understand the old system.
This is only partly true, as many civilisations have devised architecture that can deal with very hot weather well enough.
Even my little brick house has one cool room, without power.
The real global disaster has been building towers of concrete, glass and steel which can only be furnaces without cooling units.
In case one person doesn’t know and wants to have some interesting suggestions to avoid heat or cold in its own house, Bill Mollison in his very intersting book ‘Permaculture’, gives very nice ones.
Among various suggestions I followed, there is also the idea to build a porthole in the highest part of the room, in order to let the heat go out in summer.
I did it and it works well.
I close it during autumn, winter and spring.
It is not the only solution to avoid heat, there are many other suggestions.
Of course you cannot save the world, but till it’s possible, you can try to stay better.
Interesting comment from another blog.
It looks to me that the covid and vax propaganda in the MSM has been on a sharp decline recently. Other projects have taken center stage — Afghanistan, Texas politics, weather and fire news, etc.
In my own business activities here in LA I’ve noticed that a lot fewer people are wearing masks outdoors and only put them on to enter businesses where they must wear them. A few months ago almost everybody was wearing them all the time outdoors. DIscussions of covid have also pretty much disappeared altogether. Nobody seems interested in it anymore.
For a while, there was talk of some new local legislation to make it against the law to enter certain businesses without being vaxxed but that effort has faded out. In yesterday’s LA Times the headline said “California lawmakers drop statewide vaccine mandate idea.”
Some media space is still being given to stories of alleged “spikes” and “surges” in covid cases and various sob stories about “vax denier regret” but I don’t think many people are really paying much attention. The unvaccinated have gotten through over a year and a half with no illness and, in most cases, nobody we know has gotten sick either. So, it’s like the boy has cried wolf for far too long and nobody is listening anymore.
one response on that thread would appeal to the CT’s among us:
“I’ve noticed that too recently, like they were taking a small break. I think it’s the calm before the storm, and it gets amped up going into winter. Last three weeks all the news media didn’t post many statistics on the front pages that they did since April 2020. But this week all the stats are back with reports of increased hospitalizations and new Covid cases. Testing and vaccination places that shut down a few months ago are also reopening, and indoor mask mandates have returned. I still don’t know anyone that got sick or died from Covid or from this first annual roll out of the vaccines. But with that said I think next year with the boosters is going to be the problem, this year was just a trial run.”
I wonder if the issue is that the outbreak now is mostly limited to the “South” in the US. The South is the major area where vaccination rates are low. So, it is possible to claim that the problem is low vaccination rates in the South. Also,the South had a peak at about this time, a year ago.
https://ourfiniteworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/US-COVID-Cases-by-Region-Sept.5-1024×630.png
The US Northeast is the opposite extreme. It is the highest in vaccination percentages. It is the area where all of the elderly in nursing homes died during the first cycle, when Cuomo and others sent sick COVID patients to stay in nursing homes. (The chance of death then truly was high!)
https://ourfiniteworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/US-COVID-Deaths-by-Region-1024×596.png
The Northeast is also home to many of the commuter rail systems and subway systems. Also, it has lots of apartment buildings with common hallways. Once it gets back to the Northeast, there will be much more concern. This could be closer to winter.
What I am concerned about is more stories about attempts to stop the use of ivermectin. Also, more stories about it being a source of poisonings.
This is the latest gem doing the rounds, even though the hospital in question has put out a statement specifically refuting the claims:
“Oklahoma hospitals deluged by ivermectin overdoses, doctor says… “There’s a reason you have to have a doctor to get a prescription for this stuff, because it can be dangerous,” Dr Jason McElyea, a family doctor in Sallisaw, told KFOR, an Oklahoma TV station.
““The [emergency rooms] are so backed up that gunshot victims were having hard times getting to facilities where they can get definitive care and be treated.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/04/oklahoma-doctor-ivermectin-covid-coronavirus
Below is the hospital’s refutation. Segments of the press are pursuing a very aggressive gaslighting campaign to frighten and ridicule those considering using ivermectin instead of getting vaccinated. Scary.
“Although Dr. Jason McElyea is not an employee of NHS Sequoyah, he is affiliated with a medical staffing group that provides coverage for our emergency room.
With that said, Dr. McElyea has not worked at our Sallisaw location in over 2 months.
“NHS Sequoyah has not treated any patients due to complications related to taking ivermectin. This includes not treating any patients for ivermectin overdose.
All patients who have visited our emergency room have received medical attention as appropriate. Our hospital has not had to turn away any patients seeking emergency care.
“We want to reassure our community that our staff is working hard to provide quality healthcare to all patients. We appreciate the opportunity to clarify this issue and as always, we value our community’s support.”
Making all usage of “the I” illegal and then wondering why self medication does not work out so well for some.
Oh, the Hegelian dialectic. I love it because it is all over the place today.
Hilarious!
My father once almost killed himself eating too much chilled melon on a very hot day – let’s put that on prescription, or ban it!
The propaganda is so crude, Bernays would be embarrassed.
The attention that Ivermectine has been getting this last week or so reminds me of the story from WWII where the bomber pilot said that the flak got heavy as they got over the target.
Bravo!
PR Team Leader…. ok team … we are pushing on the string with this vax campaign …. we’ve sopped up all the remaining CovIDIOTS and semi-CovIDIOTS with the donut offer…. and lotteries…. the refusers are not going to budge….
But don’t take that as failure … if you recall the Statistics Team and Psychology Team informed us from day one that if we broke 50% everything above that was icing on the cake… in many states we are over 60… and we are not yet authorized to jab under 12’s… so we should pump those numbers up a bit yet
I’ve notified the ad agency to stop the vax buys… and we will now transition to the Booster Phase…
All PR and advertising will now be focused on the roll out later this month…. let’s keep an eye on Double Vaxxed who end up in the hospital… we’ll need some fat data on that to frighten the CovIDIOTS and ensure we get as many of these Double Vaxxed Tripled Up…
Ok – leave it to you to work out the details of Operation Booster… I expect detailed plans on my desk by Friday.
A firefighter in Washington, DC recently contacted me about the city’s plans to require all firefighters to be vaccinated against Covid or fired. “That was my line in the sand,” he wrote. “I’ve been quiet throughout this whole COVID-19 nonsense but now I’m speaking out.”
Washington firefighters are also emergency medical technicians or paramedics, so a city order requiring health-care workers to receive at least one vaccine dose by September 30 covers them.
The deadline is four weeks from today. Hundreds of firefighters are trying to decide what to do.
The anti-mandate firefighters estimate that about 40 percent of the department has not been vaccinated. Without them, the department will barely be able to function and will likely have to go to what firefighters call a three- or two-platoon system.
Normally, the department works on a four-platoon system, meaning firefighters work one 24-hour shift and then have three days off. In a three-platoon system, they have two days off, and in a two-platoon, they have only one day to recover after each 24-hour shift.
“It’s pretty much insanity to try to do that long-term, it’s reserved for emergencies,” the firefighter wrote. But because the process of hiring and training new firefighters takes so long, the department would have little choice.
So why are these firefighters – who as EMTs treated many people with Covid firsthand – so opposed to being required to take the vaccine?
https://www.headsupster.com/forumthread?shortId=64
Something similar has happened in Oregon and the Fire Chief said he would rather be fired and that he’s not going to force the vaccine mandate on his personnel. He also said that 75 or 85% of his dept will leave as well.
People are starting to pushback so that’s good.
I guess people in relative hazardous/dangerous jobs are not so susceptible to let others decide how they can “stay safe”.
This is a good clip, from a perfusionist. Says he and the only other perfusionist in the area are both not going to take the EGT.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/OX8mRvQb9AMp/
That is outstanding…. if a significant number of medical professionals were not CovIDIOTS… or at least willing to make some sort of stand (work to rule?) … the CEP might be sabotaged…
But as we can see… money is a VERY powerful motivator…. it’s one of the key tools that the Elders use … to control the world
Part of me thinks They can’t not have foreseen this, and that it’s just part of the controlled demo of the health system. I forget where I heard yesterday that—between one thing and another—the UK’s NHS is operating at 40% of prior capacity.
The virus is genetically engineered and unnatural. Unnatural vaccines are not the cure. Nature is the only cure against it?
India has reached herd immunity through infection. They are struggling with the common flu again.
If the population is in poor health, even the “regular” flu can be a problem.
The WTI is ready to fall to $60 in this next leg down.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E-ZJnomXIAEZCC6?format=jpg&name=large
It does look that way!
The WEF video is reality close to parody. A Russian disinformation video.
I can believe that the WEF video is a parody by someone. If you say it is Russian, perhaps they are the source.
More likely produced at the Air Force film studio at the head of Laura Canyon, California.
“‘This is life from now on’: Israel’s Covid tsar warns people to prepare for a ‘fourth injection’ of Covid vaccine” – With over 2.5 million Israelis already inoculated with three Covid vaccine doses, the national Covid tsar says preparations need to begin for an eventual fourth jab due to the virus’ growing variants
https://www.rt.com/news/533981-israel-covid19-vaccine-fourth-dose/
Absolutely! Once someone has accepted The Jab, they can be easily conditioned to accept more Jabs. A co-worker yesterday told me he took his Booster shot and felt like shite the last 4-5 days with various symptoms. I told him I refuse to get Vaxxed and I feel great.
See the top of this page http://www.headsupster.com…. you can insert something like the content below… and their email address and hit send… there is no way they would know who sent it…. because you don’t need to register….
Study: COVID Shot Enhances Delta Infectivity
STORY AT-A-GLANCE
According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, people who got the COVID shot early are now at increased risk for severe COVID disease
This may be a sign that antibody dependent enhancement (ADE) is occurring, or it may simply indicate that the protection offered is limited to a few months, at best
Recent research warns the Delta variant “is posed to acquire complete resistance to wild-type spike vaccines.” This could turn into a worst-case scenario that sets up those who have received the Pfizer shots for more severe illness when exposed to the virus
To “stay ahead of the virus,” the Biden administration is now considering recommending a booster shot five months after the initial two doses rather than waiting eight months, as previously suggested
Israeli data show Pfizer’s shot went from a 95% effectiveness at the outset to 39% by late July 2021, when the Delta strain became predominant. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s expectation for any vaccine is an efficacy rate of at least 50% compared to placebo
More https://www.headsupster.com/forumthread?shortId=62
Government Advisers Tell Ministers to Ignore JCVI and Move Ahead with Plans to Vaccinate Children Against Covid
The independent panel of experts [JCVI], which is made up of professors and doctors who routinely advise the Government on vaccination strategies, cited the fact that the Covid virus presents a very low risk to younger teenagers.
But Professor Chris Whitty and the UK.’.s three other Chief Medical Officers are now reviewing the wider benefits of vaccinating the age group, such as minimising school absences, and are expected to present their findings within days.
Professor Peter Openshaw, of the New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (NERVTAG) which advises the Government, told BBC Breakfast he was “a little surprised” at the JCVI’s decision to not back the rollout among children.
“We do know the virus is circulating very widely amongst this age group, and that if we’re going to be able to get the rates down and also prevent further surges of infection perhaps later in the winter, then this is the group that needs to become immune,” he said.
“And the best way to become immune is through vaccination, and there’s never been as much information as this in the past.
“To think there hasn’t been enough research is completely wrong.”
He added: “To my mind, the public health benefit is very, very important, and we have to take the wider view that unless we do get infection rates down amongst this particular part of the population, it will be very, very hard to prevent further large recurrences (of Covid).
“I would say that teenagers are often amongst the most altruistic and the most generous people in society.
“They often think very deeply about these moral and ethical issues and they want to protect others as well.
“So I would think that a lot of teenagers, actually, if they see the evidence in the round, would prefer to be vaccinated.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9959683/Parents-vow-pupils-home-avoid-peer-pressured-getting-Covid-jab.html
All this for something that has a kill rate of less than .5% if that.
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Austral-Flu-s.png
When the colonials powers left, they left abruptly.
They forgot to destroy the infrastructure they set up, and these ex colonies are still using them to a degree.
As late as 1990s, Calcutta (I refuse to call that city with whatever the Bengals had changed) had pipes lain by the British .
Arguments that they would have built such infrastructure themselves do not hold truth. Poland , which was not a colony, didn’t have a highway system leading to Warsaw until quite recently. There were highways going to Poland’s north coast since they were German before, and a highway in the southwest of the country because it was also German, but the Poles didn’t build anything on their own until 2010s
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/af/Historia_budowy_autostrad_i_dr%C3%B3g_ekspresowych.gif
I don’t know what MG will say, but that kind of condition is not uncommon in many east european country. The infrastructure was built by Germans, Austrians and Russians, not on their own. Czechia might be an exception but it was the richest province of the Austria-Hungarian Empire.
If they, next door to Western Europe, are like that it is quite unlikely that the colonials would have built anything of that scale on their own, since they lacked the money, expertise and the will to do it.
Which means much less consumption would have taken place in such countries.
After 2 centuries of fossil fuels, perhaps Malthus was correct. IT was not a great idea to try to keep everyone fed.
Similarly, Iran, it seems started the 20th century with no roads at all: everything which came later was built by imperialists and engineers associated with the oil trade (another form of imperialism).
Government was so corrupt and weak by then that nomad tribes and bandits (often dispossessed or starving villagers) could cut the primitive routes that did exist whenever they liked, and often out-gun the troops.
Interesting!
Most places were the same
The USA wasnt crossed by motorised transport until 1919, the model t ford was initially designed to run off road because there were effectively none
railways were seen as the main thing.
roads in cities were often made with wooden blocks
oil delivered made up roads everywhere
I suppose you learned to drive in model t?
we all had to learn somewhere
the hardest part of any driving technique on OFW is keeping your brain in gear with your typing finger,
get that wrong and your delivery stalls.
do it too often and your transmission system is wrecked.
after that, no matter how many words you use to accelerate towards the destination of your point of view ,
you find you never quite get there.
Proactive Use of COVID Shots Drive Dangerous Mutations
It’s now clear that early warnings against mass vaccination during an active outbreak are being realized. It’s not the unvaccinated that are driving mutations; it’s the vaccinated, as the injections simply do not prevent infection.
The end result, if we keep going, will be a treadmill of continuous injections to keep up with the merry-go-round of waning effectiveness in general combined with the emergence of vaccine-resistant variants. As reported by Live Science:
https://www.headsupster.com/forumthread?shortId=62
No doubt another vaccine death… 100% guaranteed he would have been jabbed before being allowed in….
Germany’s ambassador to China Jan Hecker dies suddenly days after taking office
The 54-year-old was a confidant of outgoing chancellor Angela Merkel and appeared to be in good health on Friday
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3147693/germanys-ambassador-china-jan-hecker-dies-suddenly-days-after
Kids get free comic books at Death Jab Centres
https://twitter.com/i/status/1433844021949042694
https://i.postimg.cc/P5xj4WFr/bd94fc5e-img-20210905-211501-547.jpg
good one FE
https://i.postimg.cc/Y0Qwy72H/Expected-Observed.png
Germany’s new ambassador to China, who was previously a senior adviser to Chancellor Angela Merkel, has died at age 54, the German Foreign Ministry said Monday.
The ministry announced Jan Hecker’s “sudden death” in a short statement in the early hours of Monday. It didn’t give details of when or where Hecker died, or specify a cause of death.
Hecker, who became ambassador in August, was married and had three children, according to his biography on the Foreign Ministry website.
He arrived in China on Aug. 1 and presented his credentials on Aug. 24, according to the Chinese Foreign Ministry.
Sudden death, aged 54, in China—Could he have choked on a spring roll or a piece of sweet and sour pork? More than likely, I’d say.
When someone high profile dies… suddenly .. who was healthy … and there is no cause of death mentioned…
You can pretty bet the house that it’s vaccine related.
My buddy pinged… he needs heart surgery to remove ‘misfiring heart tissue’ – he is getting a second opinion…
I mentioned this to a fully injected CovIDIOT … telling him the issues started the day after the second jab and he had a full physical the previous year…. his response — how does he know it’s the jab.
What can you say other than good luck with your Booster shots.
The thing is … there is plenty of info out there regarding the deaths and injuries… yet these fools don’t believe any of this …
Even if you show the VAERS reports …. if CNN says injuries and deaths are rare… they will go with CNN.
This is why I rejoice whenever I read about a CovIDIOT getting wrecked by the Injection…. there is no excuse for ignorance
A well-known sporting journalist here, shooting expert, suffered this after the jab:
Immediate collapse, clots in his legs, blurred vision, shingles AND his skin shedding.
Annoyingly, people have questioned if it was really the vaxx.
It all happened in the first week: now he is still in constant pain, often barely able to walk.
He’d asked the jabbers if it would be OK given his medical history, and they said it would be quite safe.
I’ve not received the ‘data’ from the doctor who said the two teens we manage should get injected because it protects them from serious illness and death…
So I fired off an email to the clinic to her attention — requesting that data — and including my data (from Johns Hopkins) that references the CDC and indicates virtually all the issues with kids and covid has involved existing serious illness.
I am waiting on a call back from the medical complaints office for Central Otago.
At the very least I am hoping the doctor will be exposed to the Johns Hopkins data so that she realizes she has injected her child with an experimental substance (that is obviously not thoroughly tested).
That in itself would be satisfying knowing that I might have triggered anxiety and possibly guilt.
Masks in schools are a particularly good idea when you consider how easy it is for most children to wear a mask. Children are already familiar with superheroes who wear masks, including Batman and Batwoman, Spider-Man and Captain America.
https://off-guardian.org/2021/09/05/this-week-in-the-new-normal-5/
I thought I responded to this post elsewhere. I will try again.
This post is a copy of a post from this link, but without the direct links to where the information is from:
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2021/09/06/covid-shot-enhances-delta-infectivity.aspx
Mercola says the story will disappear in a couple of days, so in a way, what FE is doing is a service.
Yes… that was why I copied the entire rather lengthy article… also this will allow me to rub it into the CovIDIOTS faces even after it disappears from the Dr’s site 🙂
norm dunc… did you guys like the excerpts?
Well this sucks!
A study posted August 23, 2021, on the preprint server bioRxiv now warns the Delta variant “is posed to acquire complete resistance to wild-type spike vaccines.” This could essentially turn into a worst-case scenario that sets up those who have received the Pfizer shots for more severe illness when exposed to the virus. As explained by the authors:
“Although Pfizer-BioNTech BNT162b2-immune sera neutralized the Delta variant, when four common mutations were introduced into the receptor binding domain (RBD) of the Delta variant (Delta 4+), some BNT162b2-immune sera lost neutralizing activity and enhanced the infectivity.
Unique mutations in the Delta NTD were involved in the enhanced infectivity by the BNT162b2-immune sera. Sera of mice immunized by Delta spike, but not wild-type spike, consistently neutralized the Delta 4+ variant without enhancing infectivity.
Given the fact that a Delta variant with three similar RBD mutations has already emerged according to the GISAID database, it is necessary to develop vaccines that protect against such complete breakthrough variants.”
we can only hope
This excerpt seems to be from this source:
https://www.infectioncontroltoday.com/view/delta-variant-mutations-seem-to-elude-vaccine-antibodies
The preprint is this one:
https://www.infectioncontroltoday.com/view/delta-variant-mutations-seem-to-elude-vaccine-antibodies
The SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant is poised to acquire complete resistance to wild-type spike vaccines
Also on The Repository https://www.headsupster.com/forumthread?shortId=62
The CDC also confirmed that fully vaccinated individuals who contract the infection have as high a viral load in their nasal passages as unvaccinated individuals who get infected, proving there’s no difference between the two, in terms of being a transmission risk.
If vaccination status has no bearing on the potential risk you pose to others, why do we need vaccine passports? According to Harvard epidemiologist Martin Kulldorff, this evidence demolishes the case for passports.17 They clearly cannot ensure safety, as evidenced by outbreaks where the vaccination rate was 100%. Examples include outbreaks onboard a Carnival cruise liner18 and the HMS Queen Elizabeth, a British Navy flagship.
NOW that’s the same QUESTION I have been asking for weeks now….!!!!
In fact I have asked some CovIDIOTS… and they just stare back like the dummmb beasts (that they are)
80% of COVID Hospitalizations in Massachusetts Were Vaxxed
Data13 from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also raise questions about the usefulness of the COVID shots. Between July 6 and July 25, 2021, 469 COVID cases were identified in a Barnstable County, Massachusetts, outbreak.
Of those who tested positive, 74% had received two COVID injections and were considered “fully vaccinated.” Even despite using different diagnostic standards for non-jabbed and jabbed individuals, a whopping 80% of COVID-related hospitalizations were also in this group.
Boo Hoo… boo hoo hoo hoo….. ‘I pity the fools!!!’ Boo hoo hoo hooooooooo…
And no …. it is not possible to undo what you have done…. the devil has set up house in all of your cells… and the only way he’s leaving … is in a black body bag…. with a zipper!
Hey dunc…. do you mind to pop in for a cameo appearance on the Fast Eddy show… I’ll pass you a tissue and you can cry on my shoulder …. while I smile at the audience and mouth the words ‘I Told Him So’
norm… what will we do with you… I know … we can send you to Disney Land … there are some funds in the Make a Wish Foundation for sick old goats.
I don’t like to divulge too much info on myself, but i will just say I never set foot in Europe or UK, and it was not a great idea to give independence to Korea after WW2 since it would have been Japan’s problem, not USA’s. Thanks to some fools in the US State Department who listened to the handful of Korean-Americans who wanted independence, 50,000 American lives were lost.
Robert Firth was proud of his UK heritage and he wrote a long tirade and concluded a piece on Waterloo with “Europe was saved!”
Saved from what? So all these corrupt crowned heads could come back? No one talks about it in history books but the french nobles reclaimed about 50% of their privilege thanks to the City of London, and still hold it to this day although they tend to keep lower profiles.
UK led a 25 year war to quash French Revolution and was also important on instigating two World Wars just to keep its waning superiority, benefitting India primarily.
Since all the youths of UK got killed and maimed or scarred at least , and lots of troops from the colonies were used , gaining more perspective and military experience, it became harder for UK and other colonial powers to maintain their power. If they had been kept dark the colonies would have continued, and much less energy and resources would have been spent on them.
No one was going to invade Britain, although the guy with mustache gave some scares. I don’t give any attention for what the people of UK does in their island, although I do have some opinion on NI which is not relevant here.
UK arming and educating its colonials to some degree gave it some advantage at that time but it eventually led to a huge consumption craze, not only in former English colonies but the colonies of other countries since they began to emulate the UK to gain their own comparative advantage, leading to the current crises.
It would have been much better if Willem III’s fleet capsized on 1688. We would have been on the exoplanets if that had happened.
What’s more, while Israeli authorities claim the Pfizer shot is still effective at preventing hospitalization and death, many who are double-jabbed do end up in the hospital, and we’re already seeing a shift in hospitalization rates from the unvaccinated to those who have gotten one or two injections.
For example, by mid-August, 59% of serious COVID cases were among Israelis who had received two COVID injections.
Link?
All of these posts point back to this … it’s too long to post in one go on OFW… it is what we might call damning….
https://www.headsupster.com/forumthread?shortId=62
norm dunc… dunc norm…
The CDC director appears to all but admit that the vaccine’s efficacy rate has a strict time limit, and its protections are limited in the ever-changing environment.
‘Given this body of evidence, we are concerned that the current strong protection against severe infection, hospitalization and death could decrease in the months ahead. Especially among those who are higher risk or those who were vaccinated earlier during the phases of our vaccination roll out,’ Walensky explained …
https://www.headsupster.com/forumthread?shortId=62
So much for ‘protection from severe illness’…. you are actually MORE susceptible to severe illness…
Get that damn Booster fellas…. it will keep you safe (for a little while at least)
CDC Admits ‘Vaccine’ Immunity Doesn’t Last
“’The data we will publish today and next week demonstrate the vaccine effectiveness against SARS COVID 2 infection is waning,’ the CDC director [Rochelle Walensky] began … She cited reports of international colleagues, including Israel ‘suggest increased risk of severe disease amongst those vaccinated early.’
https://www.headsupster.com/forumthread?shortId=62
https://c.tenor.com/ZUBUW3ELrUcAAAAS/spit-take-laughing.gif
If CovIDIOTS were not so stoooopid… they’d read this … and groan in utter despair…
Study: COVID Shot Enhances Delta Infectivity
According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, people who got the COVID shot early are now at increased risk for severe COVID disease
The official COVID-19 vaccine narrative changes rapidly these days. It took just one month for it to go from “if you’re vaccinated you’re not going to get COVID,”1 including the Delta variant,2 to “people who got vaccinated early are at increased risk for severe COVID disease.”3
From the get-go, I and many other medical experts have warned of the possibility of these shots causing antibody dependent enhancement (ADE), a situation in which the shot actually facilitates a cascade of disease complications rather than protects against it. As a result, you may suffer more severe illness when encountering the wild virus than had you not been “vaccinated.”
More https://www.headsupster.com/forumthread?shortId=62
Following the link through, the story is from this link. https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2021/09/06/covid-shot-enhances-delta-infectivity.aspx
This link is said to disappear in a day or two. So FE is, in some sense, doing a service by copying the information off of it. The references are only on the Mercola version of the article, however.
References added https://www.headsupster.com/forumthread?shortId=62
what would constitute a mass die off?
100 million? a billion? within a year? or 2 to 5 years?
does the third world count?
I’m sure the beginnings would be much more reported in alternative media and much sooner than in the MSM.
any sign of it anywhere? No, I didn’t think so.
Yes, the third world counts, since they have to eat too. If they don’t eat, well, it will be a net positive for civilization.
I expect that those in the third world will not see the situation this way.
QUITE SO.
David, that’s why we are here – I trust your skepticism will be useful.
Given the match between the most vaxed countries and the most Covid hospitalizations/deaths, I expect the dieoff will show up as a huge spike in “Covid” deaths in the rich countries.
As for the number – 10% the current death rate would be about what’s required for Agenda 2030 (Population would halve in 7 years).
Sorry I meant 10x not 10%.
our current mode of existence, (as a species) is exactly, and i do mean exactly, like riding a bike
it depends on constant input of energy and forward motion
yes, you can slow down a bit, take it easy, but you cannot stop or go into reverse.
That way, you fall into the ditch.
The USA will pull back from outliers (too much energy cost) then find the same problem on home territory, imagining that ‘forward growth and expansion’ is possible within the bounds of the contiguous USA itself.
But the American people cannot commercially exist by taking in each others washing, and mending each others shoes. They (and we in Europe) imagine we can have $10 toasters while paying $20 wages.
We can’t. We have relied on the Chinese for that.
The USA will stop–and so fall into the ditch.
Empires have always done that.
But no Empire admits it.
the alternative then is to fight with each other over perceived ‘wrongs’ in different regions. (because it’s always someone else’s fault or conspiracy) Religion is a great motivator there. My god is better than your god.
one region will have water (or oil, or food) while another does not.
Empires in termination have always done that too.
Impossible to be definitive about how it will all play out.
But it will be something along the lines ive set out there.
I am afraid you are correct, Norman. You may remember my bicycle illustration regarding how the economy works.
https://ourfiniteworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/bicycle-analogy-v2.png
iT’S NOT AS THOUGH THE KNOWLEDGE ABOUT CAUSE AND EFFECT WILL vanish overnight. Some people will understand how dots connect, and how numerous the dots are that could but aren’t connected.
The bicycle analogy sounds like mysticism, by contrast. Whose bicycle is this? It clearly doesn’t apply to hunter gatherers. If it applies to the rest of the world it does so in infinite shades and gradations. Without saying how these shades and gradations work, the bicycle analogy seems way too simple.
hunter gathers had no need of wheels.
whereas a bike incorporates all the technology input of an industrial civilisation. It is far from simple.
mining, metals, refining, factories, machining, assembly, marketing, roadmaking, repairs maintenance, plus the necessary human input to give the whole thing purpose.
Then food intake (farming and food distribution) to provide energy conversion, from muscle power to rotary/forward motion.
all of those factors are interlinked.
none can exist without the others.
Which sums up our current existence. It isn’t possible for Gates and Bezos to plot to decimate the human population ”to make resources stretch further”.
Because their lavatories will stop working. Yet that silly notion keeps getting regurgitated. Think!!!
‘Keeping prices down for the top 10%’ is meaningless.
dunno why i have to keep repeating that. Once lavatories cease to function, we are all back in the dark ages. No matter how many $$$ you have.
Body wastes present a problem: Either you move away from the pile, or you pay somebody to move it for you.
For a short time we have been able to do the latter.
That simple factor (and clean water input) removes limits to growth on civilisations. In the short term.
Bear in mind that we are probably only 5 generations distant from a naked flame society–much less in many cases.
Post collapse, we will still know how to make bikes, but without surplus energy input, that knowledge will wither on the vine.
After 2 generations, no one will know where to start.
And that applies to any industrial function you care to name.
And No…AI will not alter anything.
When I was growing up, the poor people walked barefoot on rugged, sharp stone roads. There were of course wheels and industry and vehicles, but the poor country people got by without a significant amount of it. Different now,but some of us are old enough to remember the lifestyle and infer from it that there are NEAR TERM possibilities to return to some of that lifestyle. In such contexts, using the bicycle analogy to explain how the entire planet has to work seems overly simplistic.
well i explained how the manufacture of a bike encompasses the entire manufacturing capability of our industrial system, the one in which we live our lives now, and which supports us now. It isn’t just an opinion. The bits are all there.
obviously one can step outside it, or revert back to some previous era (in theory).
But in those previous times, the people you speak of (dont know where that was of course) had no personal experience of anything different.
the human foot is intended to be bare, skin toughens up like shoeleather with use. From personal experience, I know that barefoot walking on grass or sand invigorates the body–you can feel the benefit of it instantly.
Shoes are the oddity.
But I cant do that on tarmac roads, it would rip my skin to pieces after a few yards. So no, i don’t think its possible to revert back to that, we derive and expect too much from the society in which we find ourselves.
Not possible to return the SOME of it–its all or nothing.
We are aware of the availability of medical care, for instance. We would continue to expect that.
The people you speak of no doubt had their food and water sources within walking distance.
ask yourself how you would obtain your own food and water supplies right now. That is the critical factor.
They got by without a significant amount of it–but i’d guess the average age of death would be no more than 60?
I don’t believe there is an all or nothing formula where earth’s populations are all on a bicycle or NOT on a bicycle. I believe the bicycle analogy holds for the mainstream global economic system, but I don’t see the need to be stuck with it when that system has run into the wall. I don’t understand when and how the bicycle system started, but I’ll buy that the modern just-in-time globally networked economic system is bound by it. Peripheral countries that were more bound to it are less so now that the system has fallen apart at those peripheries. I understand that many people in those places return to the land and start growing their own food. Anywhere there is land and water some food can be grown, perish bicycles. There are a whole lot of dots to connect in the world, and most of them languish unconnected. A lot of edible wild plants lie unharvested in the backyard. Many individuals and groups that could help each other don’t do so. Education is a waste of time: students should be learning by helping to grow food and repair…bicycles. I wouldn’t doubt that we live in a “mushy” economic environment where the bicycle system is showing wear, while other ways of living still hang around. It may be better to develop something different than to try and analyze this bleeding mess of a bicycle system. You may not see the entire COVID “project” as a symptom of abject failure of the bicycle system, but a respectable number of people do, and they’d do well to go back to earlier ways or invent new ways to survive. Wild creatures don’t spend time thinking about what system they do or should live under. They use what’s available, old, new, natural, industrial. Humans could manage in similar fashion.
we are gifted with imagination for the sole purpose of stretching it
some use it to the full, and can take a concept and fly with it, in any context you care to name
others are unaware of its elasticity.
Then it dies.
most of us are stuck somewhere between the two.
The ‘bicycle was just an analogy, nothing more. I could have chosen any one of a hundred objects. i didn’t realise it would be so difficult to grasp.
The analogy is there to stretch your imagination…… to see possibilities.
But no one can ‘go back’ and invent a better way. Any more than you can think of a better way to live tomorrow and be certain of it.
Life and living doesn’t work like that. We might imagine it–but that’s as far as it stretches.
we exist in the here and now.
as to covid–humankind has intruded on the living spaces of wild creatures. Thr virus that plagues us now is possibly a defence mechanisn against our predations.
Many diseases have jumped from animals to humans, all did so when we crowded us and them too close.
This is why we need AI to keep the prices down for the top 10%.
as you point out nothing yet
15:00 for the Punchline …
https://rumble.com/vlzr73-dr.-peter-mccullough-the-vaccine-is-failing-in-the-uk-and-israel.html
In the semiconductor industry there is an idea that the number of transistors per chip double every 18 months. So every body works to meet that target to keep up. It is a self fulfilling prediction. I wonder if the Limits to Growth model is that same thing. The authors themselves said it was for educational purposes only but it seems surprisingly accurate on timing.
did it double in the past 18 months?
I doubt it, but I’m okay being wrong,
if it doubled then, will it double in the next 18 months?
I doubt it.
diminishing returns never sleep.
looks like we are slowing to double every 24 months
https://www.icinsights.com/news/bulletins/Transistor-Count-Trends-Continue-To-Track-With-Moores-Law/
Exponential growth cannot continue indefinitely.
There is not much movement in the solution of disposal of nuclear waste most recent solutions seem to be less than perfect- https://cen.acs.org/environment/pollution/nuclear-waste-pilesscientists-seek-best/98/i12
USA – bury it deep https://www.epa.gov/laws-regulations/summary-nuclear-waste-policy-act
Finland – Bury it deep https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2021/05/31/finland-breaks-ground-on-its-deep-geologic-nuclear-waste-repository/
I think that a possible solution would be to jacket sub critical masses of spent uranium in airtight streamlined capsules and drop in a spaced pattern over the Mariana trench they would sink deeply into the seabed and be at least 10 km from the surface. Ideally the site would be where more sediment would be covering them and over the centuries they would become less and less of a problem as they get buried deeper.
If any of this was feasible… it would have been already done.
Covid 19 coronavirus Australia: More than one in 10 with virus in NSW is in hospital
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/covid-19-coronavirus-australia-more-than-one-in-10-with-virus-in-nsw-is-in-hospital/NT4AVJ5A5OKTDCD3A337SOSI5Q/
If this is true … one has to wonder if the virus is getting more contagious and more deadly…. as Bossche said it would….
With all these Injected CovIDIOTS cavorting surely that will accelerate and increase the Power of the mutations…
Do the Boosters eventually fail to blunt the virus… OR once the virus has mutated into a ‘Marek’s’ level of deadliness… does Pharma stop trying to blunt it … and put saline into the Boosters?
We’ve already seen the massive record infection spike in Israel…. now imagine what would happen without the blunting Booster that is now being rolled out rapidly…
Give the virus a few million iterations (remember – it evolves every 8-19 hours in each person that is infected according to Yeadon)…. and after this current Booster it might be ready for Prime Time.
End the boosters in late Q4… and it spreads like wildfire… cleansing the Earth of all humans?
Mass roll out of Boosters in America!!!
https://twitter.com/i/status/1434575303817400320
The consumption in the third world will significantly be reduced
Consumption among the non-elites in the First World will also be reduced
China is cracking up its entertainment industry and prohibit foreign (mostly Korean) entertainment activities there too.
Seems it is getting energy conscious now
The nonproductive portion of population lived too high in the last 75 years
It is time for them to go back to the life of ‘three hots and a cot’, if they are lucky. (The usual was one more or less decent meal (usually lunch), a light breakfast and a small supper).
The ‘elites’ of the post-collapse future could well be descended from the ‘barbarians’ of today.
The medieval elites were descended from the initially least ‘civilised’ of the north/ west European tribes: the east Germanic tribes who invaded the Roman Empire – Lombards, Visigoths, Vandals (!) – and England was conquered and ruled by the descendants of Vikings, the Normans via France. The Anglo-Saxons who made the Britons their slaves were also ‘uncouth’ warriors. Nietzsche argues that aristocracies generally originate with barbarian castes.
For the longest time in Europe, the elite caste were austere warriors, ‘knights’, who excelled at war. They were warlords. They were not the prissy, couth courtiers who followed them as aristocracy began to give way to the bourgeoisie. And they certainly were not mathematicians or astrophysicists. The ‘elites’ today likely would not have lasted 5 minutes in the Middle Ages. They would likely have got a sword up the middle – or they would have been docile serfs.
What ‘virtues’ are considered to be ‘elite’ or ‘noble’ varies through time and it depends on the energetic, material and social conditions of the day. There is nothing to say that those with ‘elite’ ‘virtues’ today will possess whatever ‘virtues’ facilitate social dominance in whatever conditions prevail after collapse. It could be the rough and ruthless types, who simply do not give a care about other people, ‘culture’ or ‘civilisation’ or any of the ‘high’ stuff, and who are simply willing to do whatever it takes to dominate.
The future ‘elites’ could well be descended from people that you would probably exclude from eligibility today – because you are thinking in terms of today and how you see people today. Your modern paradigm will not apply in the post-modern period. It did not apply in feudal times and it is unlikely to apply in post-bourgeois times. There are all sorts of variables, like military advantage, the technologically organised central state, that are likely to give way in fresh material conditions.
Everything will be up for grabs. Europe could even end up Islamic, just as it ended up Christian after Charlemagne’s wars against the pagans – religion motivates. No one really knows what is going to happen. And it is not clear that any of us should really care either. We are socialised to ‘care’ according to social conditions today – and they are not going to apply in the future. People will look at things differently and ‘care’ about things differently for themselves when they time comes. It is a mistake to assume that our ‘care’ transcends our own historical conditioning.
For example, the Anglo-Saxons, who conquered much of Britain and became the ‘elite’, were ‘coarse’ primitive ‘roughnecks’, farmer warriors who enslaved the more ‘cultured’, richer and softer Romanised British. They ran several kingdoms initially, with the British as slaves, and the Normans eventually took over as the new ‘elite’.
The ‘English’ today are mainly (70%) descended from the ancient British, who were most like the people of western Ireland today, and they were eventually assimilated into the language and culture (and identity) of their conquerors. They are mainly Irish-like with minor German admixture in their ancestry.
So, you cannot assume that the ‘elites’ of the future will be descended from those of today, they could well be rough ‘barbarians’ like the Anglo-Saxons. Indeed, it is often an outside population that becomes the new ‘elite’.
> …. This left the island unprotected, an opportunity that the starving people on the continent couldn’t pass up. Angles, Saxons and Jutes left their mound dwellings and broad bean fields in the wetlands of northern Europe in droves. Entire family clans set out to sea, usually in the spring and summer when the water was calm. Their ships were bulging with household goods, cows and horses. According to an old chronicle, the land of the Angles was soon “abandoned.”
…. The Celts were no match for these roughnecks. The Romans had taught them how to play the lyre and drink copious amounts of wine, but the populace in the regions controlled by the Pax Romana was barred from carrying weapons. As a result, the local peoples, no longer accustomed to the sword, lost one battle after the next and were forced to the edges of the island. The Old English heroic epic “Beowulf” suggests how coarse and combative life was among the pagan conquerors in their reed-covered huts. They had soon occupied eastern and central England.
…. In truth, however, the army of the Britons was usually in retreat. Many fell into captivity. According to Härke, the captured Britons lived a miserable existence as “servants and maids” in the villages of the Anglo-Saxons. There were two types of grave in the cemeteries of the time: those containing swords and other weapons, and those with none. The local inhabitants, deprived of their rights, were apparently buried in the latter type of grave.
The London geneticist Mark Thomas is convinced that the conquerors from the continent maintained “social structures similar to apartheid,” a view supported by the laws of King Ine of Wessex (around 695). They specify six social levels for the Britons, five of which refer to slaves.
https://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/the-anglo-saxon-invasion-britain-is-more-germanic-than-it-thinks-a-768706.html
Ya but where did they get those teeth from …
There were quite a few militant apologists for what United Kingdom had done in the centuries here, but I can proudly say that its fuckups significantly outweigh its achievements.
Without much ado,I will just cite its two major fuckups.
1. It incited European Wars constantly and contributed to the killing of many Europeans which proved to be irreplaceable,
and
2. More importantly, it was the first country to educate nonwhites in a white level. I earlier cited the examples of the two Japanese men (who later became Kaoru Inoue, Foreign Minister, and HIrobumi Ito, Prime Minister) who stowed into an English ship to study in England, and I also said if if the English sailors threw them to the sea, the sinking of the Repulse and Prince of Wales in 1941 would not have taken place.
Ramanujan, instead of being admitted into Royal Society while the real scientists were killed wantonly in Western Front, would have had his skull cracked, his brain taken out and made into a nice meal of curry.
Nonwhites should not have been allowed to learn any scientific discipline other than medicine, as the Taliban is doing to Afghani women now. The Japanese themselves were smarter and did not allow Koreans to study science and tech and only medicine and agronomy, and many of the “Korean” tech advancements are done by non-Koreans, or Korean-Americans, hired by the Korean conglomerates.
Not keeping the Third World dark is UK’s bigger fuckup.
Going forward, we are going to lose a lot of complexity, both in medicine and in other scientific fields. At this late date, might there be an advantage to not being on the forefront of scientific research? If the energy isn’t there to make use of it, you are going to lose what you have.
You make what sounds like bigoted statements about who should be educated. But aren’t we now losing the advantage of this education anyhow? We really need the older, more traditional solutions. Or at least something that will work with very little or no supplemental energy.
I much agree Gail. What we used to call “education” has led us to a disaster. We could have made other technological choices. Technologies from the past that have not been developed could be solutions for today and tomorrow. We all know that the oil industry, among others, has killed very soon technologies that could have threatened their business.
Maybe spending time studying ancient ideas (scientific ones but also in other areas) is the key to survive the collapse.
@kulmthestatusquo, your first proposition is debatable. Did the UK cause as many European deaths as the Soviet Union and the Third R // ch?
As for #2, the UK is a small country and lacked the manpower to run its huge Empire without co-opting the natives. Also, it is difficult to maintain a high standard of brutality towards your overseas underlings in the Empire without importing that attitude into your own country. Such behaviour would have infected British society itself, leading it to become far more repressive against its own citizens, though not to the extent that say Stalin was.
Also, the more brutally you repress your Imperial subjects, the more they rebel and the more quickly they overthrow you. Der Phewrer felt that Britain was losing its iron resolve and was therefore doomed to lose its Empire. Der Phewrer therefore resolved to act differently. And how long did his own large and far more brutal empire last, compared to that of the British? From 1938 to 1945.
In any case, nothing lasts forever – not even Empires. Eric Blair a.k.a. George Orwell worked as a policeman in “British” Burma, where it didn’t take him long to see both the pointlessness and petty and not so petty injustices of Empire – a view increasingly shared by other Brits, as time went by.
Anyway, I see the intended irony in your comments, so I think you should reveal your nationality and ethnicity, so that we can better judge where you are coming from. Me, I am a Englishman, of European descent i.e. “white” – though if I woke up one morning and found I had truly turned “white”, I would get a terrible shock!
Blaming the UK is ignoring the incalculable number of causes leading to such events.
As Tolstoy said, quoted by Ugo Bardi in a great post,
“To us, their descendants, who are not historians and are not carried away by the process of research and can therefore regard the event with unclouded common sense, an incalculable number of causes present themselves. The deeper we delve in search of these causes the more of them we find; and each separate cause or whole series of causes appears to us equally valid in itself and equally false by its insignificance compared to the magnitude of the events, and by its impotence- apart from the cooperation of all the other coincident causes- to occasion the event”
“It was necessary that millions of men in whose hands lay the real power- the soldiers who fired, or transported provisions and guns- should consent to carry out the will of these weak individuals, and should have been induced to do so by an infinite number of diverse and complex causes. We are forced to fall back on fatalism as an explanation of irrational events (that is to say, events the reasonableness of which we do not understand). The more we try to explain such events in history reasonably, the more unreasonable and incomprehensible do they become to us”
“In historic events the so-called great men are labels giving names to events, and like labels they have but the smallest connection with the event itself. Every act of theirs, which appears to them an act of their own will, is in an historical sense involuntary and is related to the whole course of history and predestined from eternity.”
https://thesenecaeffect.blogspot.com/2021/08/lev-tolstoy-about-afghanistan-it.html?fbclid=IwAR2p2JUATYe_kzlNfAb9FEOmeVzGwtQ4RYr_kFkZ5W2V_Goges18aHK6NMc
ultimately wars are about resources.
To exploit animosity over acquisition of those resources,, human ’emotions’ must be stirred up, someone’s ‘pride’ must be damaged in some way, usually by some king or dictator.
this ‘pride’ factor must be extrapolated onto the population at large.
Jan 6th was the most recent in USA.
trust me–there will be more–and far worse than that.
WW1 was the most widespread example of pride-fanaticism:
The grand duke ferdinand was assinainated. This was the excuse for the pride of the whole of Europe to be offended.
But in fact, it was the Austro-Hungarian empire that was under threat of breakup. Then Turkey came in to bolster their own weaknesses in the middle east. Then Russia got involved.
entire armies and war plans had been put in hand in previous years
In no time at all mobs where whipped up into a frenzy, desperate to enlist in the military.
They had all been ‘affronted’ by somebody else. Mass hysteria takes many forms.
“All quiet on the western Front” is the best movie ever made about it.
The end result was a dozen empires being destroyed over the next 25 years or so. WW1 and 2 were just chapters in the manual of human resource grab.
Germany and Japan did the same in 30s. Thrust out to grab resources then collapse back in again.
Unthinking mobs cheering them on to enslave Poland /China so that Germany and Japan could live on the loot. Knowing nothing of the processes of war, hoping only that bombs do not fall on them.
Thanks Gail, a great article!
Is this really WEF?
https://twitter.com/i/status/1434599871693180931
I can see why you say, “Is this really “World Economic Forum?” It does look like their graphics and the bizarre things that they seem to be saying.
Saying, “We (WEF) can fix the population growth problem by 2030 with an engineered virus and precision economic attacks,” is really over-the-top.
“Those of you who remain will be under our protective watch. You will live in the pods. Meat is unhealthy; you will eat the bugs. You will own nothing and be happy.”
It seems like saying things like this would get the leaders of the WEF shot at by someone. Why would anyone do this?
It’s a very good spoof of the standard-format WEF videos, but much closer to the truth perhaps….
They all run like this:
‘Big problem. Big Tech ‘smart’ solution. The future is bright with WEF – we’ve got a hack for that!’
Mind you, the WEF does manage to self-parody quite a lot, too.
unmissable
truly fantastically unmissable
https://www.alternet.org/2021/09/alex-jones/
AJ:
• Your TV’s spying on you
• Elite Cabal of sex traffickers
• They’re turning the frogs gay
• Bohemian Grove
• Silver iodide
• Rich people using baby blood
• Harvesting aborted babies
• Human-monkey chimeras <= you are here
• Inter-dimensional elves
For inter-dimensional elves you need Jacques Vallée.
Or possibly Terence McKenna, who spoke about encountering self-transforming elf machines from hyperspace on his DMT trips:
and thats just the short list
Ivermectin is a wonderful medicine, but unfortunately, there is no cure for Alex Jones.
And to give credit where credit is due, Alex pioneered the alternative online counter-narrative media; the internet version of talk radio. In so doing, he made conventional talk radio seem boooorring. His example also taught a lot of people more sincere than he is how to use their voices.
He’s also King Kong to David Icke’s Godzilla!!!!
But at the end of the day, Alex is a blackwasher of the alternative media. Thanks to his high-profile over-the-top presence, mainstreamers can point to anyone who doesn’t buy the narrative and sneer, “You are bonkers, just like Icky, and dingbat crazy like Alex!!
On more thing, Alex Jones is a role played by an actor. Whether the actor playing that role is actually named Alex Jones is not a question I can answer. But anyone that over the top in real life—even in Texas!—would be a pain in the ass to be around.
your last line applies elsewhere too
Don’t forget the contributions of Art Bell!
Nice pictures and a drone video of General Motors’ Ultium battery-plant under construction in Lordstown, Ohio.
https://gmauthority.com/blog/2021/06/ultium-cells-battery-plant-construction-moving-along-video/
heard there’s two more of these in the pipeline
Hey, I just remembered that GM actually air-transported the bodies for the Cadillac Allante all the way from Pininfarina in Italy. Who knows, maybe these days they’re talking lithium-deals with the Taliban.
Does anyone think the chip shortage will resolve, or will these plants just never re-open?
https://www.kizn.com/news/gm-shutting-down-production-at-most-of-its-plants-in-north-america/
I am doubtful it will resolve.
If it doesn’t resolve soon, the automobile industry and all sorts of other industries that rely on ICs are going to go bankrupt. And those industries are one of the cornerstones of the current world economy. It would mean major structural damage that may be unfixable. And perhaps that is the whole point. The controllers seem to be nocking out the supports one by one so that when they give the order “pull it”, Western industrial society collapses under its own weight into its own footprint at close to free-fall speed.
“Isn’t the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn’t it our responsibility to bring this about?”
—Maurice Strong (Did he really say this? Even if he didn’t, it’s a good quote.)
https://www.azquotes.com/author/14256-Maurice_Strong
There are only a few comprehensive, logical and integral descriptions of the global management of the pandemic IMO. Gail’s articles are in this group, but this last piece of Julius is quite amazing. There is a lot of information I read in a few virology/epidemics books, articles and research publications compiled into one great essay (already posted here).
https://www.juliusruechel.com/2021/09/the-snake-oil-salesmen-and-covid-zero.html
This topic is fundamental to our polemics here and a lot opinions were already published.
I would like to have some clarification though, because I have several, mutually exclusive hypotheses regarding pandemic genesis and to be honest I am not fully convinced to any of them.
1. Elders (FE favourite 😉 – the highest level of ‘conspiracy’ theory (I am not excluding it BTW) – i.e. the power elite (aka TPTB) arranging post-growth depopulation to keep control of the system (101 eugenics exercise);
2. Riding the wave (Julius’s from the link explanation) – the virus arrived (from bats, wet market or lab – doesn’t matter for the moment), the governments, politicians panicked, pressured by the public, media, WHO, big pharma, etc. ordered full warp-speed campaign to win the war with virus 🙂 (didn’t work so far, as with all other wars – drugs, cancer, poverty, Afghanistan, etc.)
3. Preparation (my own hypothesis – not very strong – just put for discussion) – gain-of-function research is pure biological warfare development. The pandemics is just a trial and the civilization blocks are testing their vulnerabilities. Vaccination campaigns are forced on the populations to prepare for more intense conflict in this area.
Do you see any other explanations? Any sub-options to the above?
What are your views in this matter?
This is an excerpt from the link given. It is good!
He is missing the part about where it’s ‘unthinkable’ to deploy a leaky vaccine during a pandemic
This is not about endless injections and a Big Pharma Gravy Train…
There are indeed lots of pieces to this.
Actually he does get into the leaky vaccine Mareks story….
Actually it’s not population control … it is extinction…
COMPASSIONATE EXTINCTION PLAN (CEP)
1. Every country on the planet is on board with the Injections. Even Sweden. When have all countries aligned on any issue? Never.
2. Not a single MSM outlet is interviewing any of the expert dissenters – Yeadon, Bridle, Montagnier, Bossche etc… and the mainstream social media platforms are blocking them.
Why?
Conventional Oil peaked in 2005 http://www.euanmearns.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/C-Cdec141.png
Shale in 2018.
According to Rystad, the current resource replacement ratio for conventional resources is only 16 percent. Only 1 barrel out of every 6 consumed is being replaced with new resources
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/The-Biggest-Oil-Gas-Discoveries-Of-2019.html
Shale binge has spoiled US reserves, top investor warns Financial Times. https://energyskeptic.com/2021/the-end-of-fracked-shale-oil/
Shale boss says US has passed peak oil | Financial Times https://www.ft.com/content/320d09cb-8f51-4103-87d7-0dd164e1fd25
THE PERFECT STORM : The economy is a surplus energy equation, not a monetary one, and growth in output (and in the global population) since the Industrial Revolution has resulted from the harnessing of ever-greater quantities of energy. But the critical relationship between energy production and the energy cost of extraction is now deteriorating so rapidly that the economy as we have known it for more than two centuries is beginning to unravel https://ftalphaville-cdn.ft.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Perfect-Storm-LR.pdf
“The global economy was facing the worst collapse since the second world war as coronavirus began to strike in March, well before the height of the crisis, according to the latest Brookings-FT tracking index. “The index comes as the IMF prepares to hold virtual spring meetings this week, when it will release forecasts showing the deepest contraction for the global economy since the 1930s great depression. https://www.ft.com/content/9ac5eb8e-4167-4a54-9b39-dab48c29ac6c
The Illusion of Stability, the Inevitability of Collapse http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2021/09/the-illusion-of-stability-inevitability.html
Fed is sharply increasing the amount of help it is providing to the financial system https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/23/fed-repo-overnight-operations-level-to-increase-to-120-billion.html Banks did not trust each other – similar situation when Lehman collapsed
Oil Gluts – do NOT indicate we have found more oil. We just pumped what’s left too fast.
Summary In 2019 a second Perfect Storm was approaching – the central banks had been doing ‘whatever it takes’ for over a decade…. Essentially nothing was off the table — throw the kitchen sink at pushing GFC2.0 into the future. In 2019 the guns were blazing but the beast was no longer held at bay…
What do you do when you are burning far more oil than you discover — and your efforts to offset the impact of expensive to produce oil push you to the edge of the cliff? You can accept your fate and allow the beast to shove you into the abyss…. Or you can take the ‘nuclear option’ and shut down as much of the economy as possible, preserve remaining oil and pump in trillions of dollars of life support to keep the system feebly alive.
Punchline: The problem global leaders face is that if you unleash the nuclear option without some sort of cover, the sheeple and the markets would be thrown into a panic and you risk blowing things up prematurely. So you need a reason for putting the global economy on ice — one that does not spook the masses – one that is big enough to justify such epic amounts of stimulus and extreme policies — and one that allows you to explain ‘this is just temporary – once this is gone — we will get back to normal’
A pandemic is the perfect cover.
End Game – Covid was foisted on us as cover for the response to peak oil (if we don’t slow the burn oil prices go through the roof and we collapse) but it is also being used to convince billions to be Injected. The Injection is meant to cause extremely deadly variants like this .. only worse because we are deploying into a pandemic so everyone dies https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/tthis-chicken-vaccine-makes-virus-dangerous.
The reason for this is that 8B people need cheap oil to live. They would starve without it. And 8B people without food would result in epic starvation, violence, rape and cannibalism. Industrial civilization ends soon after peak oil. Unfortunately we also have 4000 spent fuel ponds that will boil off and release toxic substances for centuries. These facilities cannot be controlled with computers and energy. So even the subsistence level humans die as they consume these toxins in the food, air and water.
The PTB understand all of this and that is WHY every leader is on board with the Injections. There is NO way out of this — so they have decided to mitigate the suffering as much as possible by putting us down and here is the mechanism https://www.geertvandenbossche.org/post/why-the-ongoing-mass-vaccination-experiment-drives-a-rapid-evolutionary-response-of-sars-cov-2.
Ok, I get it, I know it, it seems plausible.
These are only traces, nevertheless. Potentialities.
Global coordinated plan? With all these factions…? I doubt it.
There are countries trying full opening:
Denmark
https://unherd.com/thepost/denmark-overtakes-sweden-as-the-restriction-free-nordic-nation/
Iceland the same.
They will test different paths. The same goes with vaccination strategies.
From 0-covid policy fascist states (NZ, Australia, etc.) to quite liberal Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Bulgaria. I don’t see global conspiracy. Yet.
Yes, but the damage is done, oil consumption reduced, new habits established. Preparing the public for further downsizing when needed. Countries implement restrictions because their neighbor did it and leaders don’t want to get called out as irresponsible. Also there is a lot of “benefits” as leaders get more control over the people.
You can deem protests and riots as unsafe thus illegal. Harder to be an illegal immigrant as well since you need vaccine pass to do anything. These are not pressing issues in the Nordics so maybe that’s why they are trying to get back to normal.
Ah yes… the re-opening … let’s take a look at what happened in Israel after they re-opened 🙂
https://www.headsupster.com/forumthread?shortId=62 (this is the must read of the 3)
https://www.headsupster.com/forumthread?shortId=47
https://www.headsupster.com/forumthread?shortId=31
Remember how not long ago Israel was feeding carrots to the CovIDIOTS who injected… they were allowed to go to a concert! And the MSM was pointing at this telling us — look at the happy Israelis at the concert!!!…. if we can all get injected we can be like the Israelis and go to the concert!!! too.
Didn’t someone post a video here yesterday showing Injected CovIDIOTS showing their green pass and being admitted to A Concert in Central Park?????
Speaking of America, it’s been quite some time since there have been lockdowns in America… let’s see how that is working out
https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-covid-19-hospitalizations-approach-a-peak-as-delta-variant-spreads-11630155627?mod=hp_lead_pos7
And it’s Booster Time in America now….
One might argue that re-opening is what you do once you have got enough people injected (and the others are refusing)… because as we have been told by Bossche… each injected person is a variant factory … and the more you expose the variant factories to each other — particularly the ones who are shedding (i.e. infected and exhibiting covid symptoms)…. those variants get to mix and match…
… and that creates more virulent strains….. more rapidly.
Think of it as inviting millions of people who have syphilis to a mass orgy….
Take a look at what’s happening in Israel real time… record infections (‘re-opening’)…. hospitalizations and deaths big spikes…. clearly the virus had strengthened considerably….
https://www.google.com/search?q=israel+covid&rlz=1C1CHBF_enNZ946NZ946&oq=israel&aqs=chrome.0.69i59l3j46i433i512l2j69i60l3.5845j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
Then they hit the variants with The Booster… and it’s flattening hospitalizations and deaths…
Now what do you think would have happened to hospitalizations and deaths if Israel didn’t administer The Booster? Up up and away in my….
The Booster is not sterilizing so what is going to happen is the virus will get stronger still… they know that and that’s why booster 4 is being prepped…. (‘waves’ of Boosters they say)
The virus gets stronger with every Booster… you might want to brush up on https://eugyppius.substack.com/p/the-marek-effect…
At some point the booster is impotent… or perhaps (if you are into exploring conspiracies) … once the virus is deemed ”marek level deadly’….
They stop offering Boosters… or they inject with an inert substance…..
The PR Team is very clever…. but Fast Eddy is a 1500 horse power logic machine…. he sees right through them….
Point 3 above is interesting, and had also occurred to me.
Entering as we are an age of Bio-Digital ‘warfare’, it might make sense to abolish old ethical barriers and get whole populations used to regular ‘vaccinations’ in preparation either for being attacked, or launching viruses globally.
It would be the equivalent of the Romans suddenly have to erect city walls as the Empire became threatened.
That these vaccinations could also be us to manipulate domestic demographics, and link in to new micro-control systems would make them a multi-level tool.
Good to hear that I am not the solitary adventurer of pandemic theories.
Any other proposals are welcome.
Lest we forget the titanic battle between the Atlantic Plate and the North American Plate, which is being pushed South-SouthWest according to this analysis.
Ron is our guide – begins at 22:00 and is best listening at 1.5-x speed
It’s tedious to wade through most of his videos, but he’s watching seismology and volcanoes like a hawk. I usually skip to wherever he’s showing evidence of New Madrid Fault activity. Some days I wonder if big oil concerns worry about broken transport lines, as much as they do about filling them.
The Italian situation becomes every day more surreal.
The President of the Republic has declared today that Covid vaccination is a moral and civic duty.
One cannot invokes freedom to try to avoid it.
https://www.corriere.it/politica/21_settembre_05/mattarella-vaccinarsi-dovere-civico-morale-18388a84-0e68-11ec-90a7-94fb0e4dd84c.shtml
The detail is that it doesn’t stop the virus from circulating. In fact, the vaccine seems to encourage mutations that make it worse. The vaccine suppresses symptoms, so that the vaccinated have an easier time of spreading the disease.
At a social event all this weekend I had the chance to gauge, casually, just why people had got vaccinated: all highly educated, healthy, well-off, etc, they had done so solely in order to protect elderly relatives – none of them had realised that they would still be infectious, maybe even more so.
Moreover, they all relied on the MSM for info on the vaccines.
Even basic negative facts about the vaccines – I trod very carefully so as not to appear a CT loon – left them saying ‘But I’ve never heard that, really?’ Of course they hadn’t, as they rely on ‘trusted sources’.
Interestingly, those with young children were opposed to child vaccination ‘ because it hasn’t been tested properly’, while unaware that just the same reservation applies to adult vaccination.
It something could have happened here. People have the same approach. MSM gave the same perception. The so called western world is moving together.
So do they all now realize that they can in fact contract and pass covid?
If so did they express regrets about being Injected? Did any comment on whether or not they’d take the Boosters?
Hello Eddy, my impression is that many jabbed people, who have probably realized the mistake done, have become at the same time aggressive against who is not vaccinated, like if they wanted them to suffer the same. Unconscious psychological punishment ? Who knows?
Yes I suspect that is a correct observation …
The CovIDIOT who responded to my mate’s heart damage with the typical MSM regurgitation ‘how does he know it’s caused by the vaccine?’ (worthy of mike the plug that is!)… turned a little hostile after I told him it started the day after jab 2 and he had a full physical within the previous year and there were no heart issues…. he is a very fit individual…. telling me not to bother him with this covid stuff….
Of course I took a last swing dropping the Vaers data on him one final time…. and muttering about how people don’t want the truth…..
Before leaving it with … remember how you were urging me to get the vaccine…. and I was warning you that there is no way it could be properly tested in such a short period of time … remember how you ridiculed me claiming it would both stop me from getting covid AND prevent serious illness?
And now the first into the breach – the Israeli’s – have both record infections and the vaxxed are the majority in the hospitals…. so it seems the vax wasn’t thoroughly tested after all…. and it is more than useless….
And now they are on their third shot with the 4th being primed … and ‘waves’ of shots to come….
Feel free to continue to ignore the warnings… feel free to continue to believe injuries are rare… and keep on rolling up your sleeve….
If you get wrecked — don’t come to me for sympathy …. you are on your own … good luck with the boosters.
I suspect he continues to believe the injection had some upside … not sure if he accepts that there are loads of deaths and injuries… at least not on a conscious level…. but surely these statements out of Israel about the ‘waves’ of boosters… must be troubling?
Consciously you can block this out … but Mr DNA will be monitoring the situation … and he surely must be considering asserting his position and ordering the organism to flee from this danger?
He will likely not tell me if he gets the Booster… for obvious reasons.
Yes, they some of them realised that, but not all! Incredible.
I had to be rather careful in what I said, as the event was strictly ‘vaxxed-only’, but I had worked out how to evade the security checks with the help of friends – after arrival there were no further checks.
They all got their vaxx info from the FT, Times, BBC, etc, no other sources. A few dismissive comments about ‘CT nuts’, etc.
Very stupidly, we were all seated at the grand dinner strictly 1-metre apart, but most of us gradually moved our settings and clumped together to chat – I tried to lead the way with that and set an example. No one criticised me.
Some insisted on staying put, but didn’t get angry or censorious.
Waiters had to wear masks, which angered me and most thought it was silly and unfair – but still that was the rule.
On the other hand, we were allowed to pack in at the bar just like normal and no one gave a stuff about distancing by then.
Would they get boosters? Probably, but I think I sowed some seeds of doubt and will be emailing some people with better sources of info like Mc Cullough and the others.
a mole in the British establishment
A mole trying not to get whacked, Ed!
I did enjoy the sneaking-in bit.
Actually, security in the Colleges has really tightened here in Cambridge, which we all thought was sad.
Certainly not as relaxed and trusting as it was in the 1990’s.
And lets not forget courageous…
As we are finding out these Double Vaxxed might be carrying Extra Strength Covid…. hopefully none of these vile beasts sneezed or coughed… apparently a single cough from an Injected CovIDIOT contains 500 trillion particles of Extra Strength Covid …
More than enough to put the entire room of people into hospital…
I’ve heard that the KGB is looking into replacing Polonium with ESC when they carry out a hit… that’s how Awesome it is.
Xabier…. at the first hint of illness… grab and axe… bust into the chemist… and snatch some Ivermectin…
The ‘queen’ says that people should stop being so selfish and get jabbed.
The Italian president is elected by the parliament, so at least Italians get some indirect say in their head of state. The Irish demos elects their president directly. I would question the need for any ‘head of state’ but the more democratic the better.
When politicians talk about duty and morality……..
The more she talked of her honor, the faster we counted our spoons..?
Yes of course… it’s working so well in Israel
I need to get off my butt and down to the drive through… I am sure I’ll get around to it… tomorrow…
The economic catastrophe from COV is going to be bigger than the problem. From what I can see there has been mal- investment due to the easy money given by governments. Because of the abuse it will be harder in the U.S for senators to create money for free to people not working. Everywhere I go I still see signs that employers can’t get employees and I don’t know where that comes from. Also lots and lots of building of apartment buildings …..it is easy for a pension fund to jump on board of that……From what I am seeing it’s timber!! come October!!!!
I think what we are really seeing is the expected impact of “Limits to Growth.” It masquerades as COVID and its impacts.
At this point, there really aren’t resources to support all of the necessary jobs. Also, too many people are retired. The system has been running on growing debt more than growing energy consumption per capita. With all of the government give aways, there is less incentive to work.
I live in a town where the average home price is is $600,000 and rich are moving here in droves to hide and think they will be protected. They can’t understand why no one has employees and they say well no one can afford to work here …..so the poor are in areas where there are no jobs and the rich have driven up prices so high that the poor can’t afford it….
George Gammon has a new you tube on it…..there is not any growth! Just Debt Growth….I think this would have been discovered long ago in the u.s if it not for team republican and team democrat distraction…..I think the FED is in a box and going to do what it can as long as it can and maybe a solution will come about
A right lot!
‘Prince’ Charles has been selling access to himself, titles, and even citizenship for money, all of which is completely illegal. He is to be reported to the Met. police tomorrow. Everyone is supposed to be equal before UK law, and to be possessed of equal personhood and rights.
USA has served the British state with MLAT to hand over ‘prince’ Andrew for questioning about repeated child r/pe and battery and it refuses to cooperate.
It has been revealed this year that the ‘queen’ has illegally vetted all legislation and changed laws to protect her private interests for decades.
The UK is in an utter shambles with the ‘monarchy’. They have been running completely out of control for decades, and the British state refuses to apply the law to any of them.
Harry has books planned on ‘living with that lot’, which should be an eye opener.
The recent poll revealed that 42% of Brits disfavour the abolition of the monarchy while 34% support abolition once the present ‘queen’ dies – and a swing of a few points would tip it. Monarchism is favoured by an older demographic, so the clock seems to ticking on that.
> Charles can’t hide behind aides. His fingerprints are all over this mess
Cash for access. Cash for honours. And even cash for citizenship. The Mail on Sundays’ devastating revelations about Prince Charles and his advisers, including right-hand man Michael Fawcett, will come as a shock to many. But the real surprise should be that their activities have remained hidden from public view for quite so long. For this is no one-off. It is a pattern of behaviour. His own father, Prince Philip, once described Charles as ‘rent-a-Royal’. And the greater the sum, the shadier the donor.
Yet today’s revelations – that Michael Fawcett offered to help a Saudi sheik obtain both a knighthood and a British passport – takes the issue to a whole new level. It is a criminal offence to sell an honour under the Honours (Prevention of Abuses) Act 1925. Tomorrow, I shall be writing to the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Cressida Dick, to ask her to open an investigation.
As for helping to obtain citizenship in return for cash, that was the sort of link – which I uncovered through a parliamentary answer back in 2001 – that forced Trade Secretary Peter Mandelson to resign from the Labour Government. He had intervened with the Home Office on behalf of the Hinduja brothers, who were making a big donation to that whitest of elephants, the Millennium Dome. How is this different from Charles soliciting money for Dumfries House in return for a promise of citizenship? It is not.
But let’s be clear – this is no rogue operation. Mr Fawcett is doing exactly what Prince Charles wants. And it is the Prince of Wales, not Michael Fawcett, who has to answer questions now. His royal fingerprints are all over this. The monarchy has been seriously damaged by the dodgy activities of the boorish Prince Andrew and by the self- obsessed bleatings of Harry and Meghan. The Queen continues to command respect, but she will not go on for ever. This morning, many will be asking themselves how Prince Charles can square such behaviour with the momentous responsibilities he is due to inherit one day.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-9958453/NORMAN-BAKER-Charles-hide-aides-fingerprints-mess.html
World’s biggest Ponzi Scheme : British Royalty.
Somehow, this reminds me (on a larger scale) of the stories about Hunter Biden, and how he has earned money.
The difference seems to be that he is cooperating with authorities.
Any tier of society is liable to corruption, especially the higher. The English Civil War was fought to dislodged monarchs and peers from their ‘privileges’ but the monarchy was reimposed. Society has come some way, but there is more work to be done in UK.
“Philippine Airlines files for bankruptcy.
“Philippine Airlines, Asia’s oldest carrier, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the United States to pursue a lender-backed restructuring plan…”
https://www.philstar.com/business/2021/09/04/2124833/philippine-airlines-files-bankruptcy
“Italy’s Biggest Airline Ends Its Operations From October 15 Due to Financial & Coronavirus Crisis…
“Alitalia is terminating its activity due to the lack of investment. In addition, the company was put under public administration in 2017, while the pandemic situation worsened the situation even more.”
https://www.schengenvisainfo.com/news/italys-biggest-airline-ends-its-operations-from-october-15-due-to-financial-coronavirus-crisis/
“The Airline Failures and Bankruptcies So Far in the Pandemic… Skift has compiled a list below to show you the extent of the damage…
“The $74 billion in aid delivered to U.S. airlines clearly helped those carriers escape their worst fates, but the threats remain deep into the pandemic as the spread and fear of the Delta variant slowed air travel in late summer and perhaps into early fall.”
https://skift.com/2021/09/04/the-airline-failures-and-bankruptcies-so-far-in-the-pandemic/
Here again, the plan is not to end services completely, right now:
Reuters
American Airlines to end pandemic leave for unvaccinated staff
Fri, September 3, 2021, 4:54 PM
(Reuters) – American Airlines said on Friday it would not provide special leave from next month to unvaccinated employees who have to quarantine due to COVID-19.
Unvaccinated workers will have to use their sick time or medical leave if they miss work due to the disease, it said.
“Given there is an FDA-approved vaccine, pandemic leave will only be offered to team members who are fully vaccinated and who provide their vaccination card to us,” the carrier said in a memo to staff seen by Reuters.
The stock of American is about $19.and change….without the Uncle Sam handouts it, along with most airlines would be bankrupt.
Imagine this is just the start of penalties..
The move comes after United Airlines Inc last month became the first U.S. carrier to require vaccinations for all domestic employees.
Separately, Alaska Air said on Friday that it had stopped special pay for unvaccinated employee absences due to COVID-19 infection or exposure to a suspect. (https://bit.ly/3h07qlo)
The airline has mandated vaccination for all new hires and will pay $200 to employees who provide proof of vaccination.
Thanks for the posts as always 💗😊
“Given there is an FDA-approved vaccine, pandemic leave will only be offered to team members who are fully vaccinated and who provide their vaccination card to us.”
This has to be the stupidest statement I’ve read yet during the entire scamdemic.
“Given there is an FDA-approved vaccine…”
– There isn’t. Pfizer’s FDA-approved Comirnaty essentially doesn’t exist. It is not available to the public. No one is getting a Comirnaty jab.
“…pandemic leave will only be offered to team members who are fully vaccinated…”
– Why is that? Do the “vaccinated” experience the “pandemic” and its associated illness differently than the “unvaccinated?”
Is a “vaccinated” employee’s COVID-19 disease experience more significant than an “unvaccinated” employee’s COVID-19 disease experience?
– Also, if the “vaccines” worked, then the “vaccinated” wouldn’t need “pandemic leave” anyway. If anything, the “unvaccinated” would be the ones in need of leave.
But the vaccine doesn’t stop them from contracting covid….
And yet the MSM does not question this policy. Nor do the CovIDIOTS
It sound like the plan is to cut back the airline in size and reduce debt payments at this time.
I can imagine a time in the future when many parts of the world are no longer served by airline flights. It will be a retreat toward the “center.”
“ISIS militants kill at least 16 security personnel in northern Iraq…
“The attacks raise questions about the ability of Iraqi forces to maintain security beyond the planned withdrawal of US troops from Iraq by the end of this year. The US has 2,500 troops among the 3,500 members of the international anti-ISIS coalition in Iraq.”
https://www.thenationalnews.com/mena/iraq/2021/09/05/isis-militants-kill-at-least-13-policemen-during-clashes-in-northern-iraq/
“Concerns grow in Libya as armed clashes break out in Tripoli…
“Conflict in Tripoli between the armed groups who vie to control both territory and state institutions would further undermine the prospect of December elections as part of a plan to end a decade of chaos, violence and division.”
https://www.dailysabah.com/world/africa/concerns-grow-in-libya-as-armed-clashes-break-out-in-tripoli
Just call the russians, noone dares cross them, especially ‘isis’
They didn’t fare so well against the Mujahideen in the Ghan….
You can’t compare the ussr with the ruseian federation. Two very different aninals. In addition when the soviets left Afghanistan the installed government survived for 3 years and it felt after the dissolution of the USSR (the one installed by usa didn’t even last 3 months after twice as lomg occupation). And the most important thing is that the Russian Federation has succeeded in achieving revolution in the way they do war, they have gained the quality upper hand. Just look what handful of planes, couple of divisions and 2 radar/ew centers achieved in syria. Also you can without problem see who the talibans are scared of, the only embassy in Kabul provided with security was the russian one. Everybody craps its pants when confronted by the ruskies.
I don’t think the CIA’s goal is to have the Tally Boys invade Russia or China … and they won’t have to evict a foreign occupier from the Ghan…
Rather the plan is likely about facilitating terrorist attacks and supporting armed insurrection in western China and taunting the CCP via proxy war…. the CIA has done this a thousand times before….
Apparently there is talk of disrupting the New Silk Road…. as well
It’s kinda like Fast Eddy vs norm dunc… Fast Eddy can never eradicate these two villains… but he can administer enough regular beatings and taunt them forcing them to keep their heads under their mother’s skirts…. neutering them
eye rolling time again
Or you can check the BBC for the plan … or better still CNN… the CIA generally publishes their intentions in the MSM.
(one only competes with equals)
The US is pulling troops out of Iraq, not unlike the situation in Afghanistan. Not really a surprise.
That is potentially huge, given the way that IS took over the last time that USA withdrew – and the outcome in Afghanistan.
Just another 4 months now.
bottom line is, the USA is running out of the necessary resources to maintain outliying armies
same thing happened to the Roman Empire, and the British empire, and many others.
And just like the Romans, they will need their military internally, come serious SHTF time
Iran seems to be positioning itself to consolidate its influence in Iraq. A person might suspect that the ‘country’ is liable to fracture, again, on Shia/ Sunni sectarian lines. If so, then all that the USA has done by weakening AQ/ IS in Iraq is to help Iran. Ironic. USA seems to be absolute dreadful at geopolitics these days anyway, as in Syria, Afghanistan and elsewhere, so perhaps it might as well get out of everywhere anyway before it does itself any more harm.
Much of the Middle East is fake ‘countries’, drawn up without any regard to ethnicities and religions, set up by Britain and France after WWI to facilitate oil exploitation, and a person might suspect that it is liable to prove very unstable – Iraq and Syria already have, and Lebanon had a massive civil war (1975-90). Plus the Arab Spring. The entire region is liable to ‘redraw’ itself at some point.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-57970464
US combat forces to leave Iraq by end of year
…. The US presence in Iraq has become a major issue since top Iranian general Qasem Soleimani and the leader of an Iran-backed Shia Muslim militia were killed in a US drone strike in the capital Baghdad last year. Political parties aligned to Iran have demanded the withdrawal of all forces from the US-led global coalition against IS, despite the continuing threat posed by the Sunni jihadist group. Shia militias have meanwhile been accused by the US of carrying out hundreds of rocket, mortar and drone attacks on Iraqi military bases that host coalition forces in an apparent attempt to pressure them to leave.
…. Ever since Iran’s Islamic Revolution in 1979 it has been trying to evict US forces from its neighbourhood and become the premier power in the region. It has had little success in the Arab Gulf states where mistrust of Tehran runs deep and where the US military has facilities in all six countries. But the US-led toppling of the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq removed the most effective obstacle to Iranian expansion, and Tehran has not passed up on the opportunity since then. It has successfully inserted its Shia militias into the fabric of Iraq’s security establishment, and its allies have a powerful voice in parliament.
Syria’s civil war has opened the door for a major Iranian military presence there, while next door in Lebanon Iran’s ally Hezbollah has become the most potent force in the country. Iran is playing the long game. Its leaders hope that if it keeps up the pressure, both overt and covert, it will eventually make the Middle East a region not worth America’s effort to stay engaged in, militarily. Hence the frequent rocket attacks on US bases and Iran’s support for civil protest calling for US troops to leave. An agreement that sees the end of US combat operations in Iraq will be seen by many in Tehran as a step in the right direction.
apart from island nations, all borders are political constructs
that inevitably means that they will be fought over into political infinity
‘All life is will to power!’
Exactly!
“The “perfect storm” of problems scuppering UK supply chains will increase prices sharply for households across the country, road haulage and food bosses have warned.
“A paucity of HGV drivers, soaring shipping costs, delays in deliveries from Asia and ongoing Covid related problems have compounded to produce severe shortages of products.”
https://www.cityam.com/road-haulage-bosses-warn-buckling-supply-chains-will-trigger-soaring-prices/
“UK energy bills may rise due to global gas supply crunch.
“The surging price of natural gas could send UK energy bills soaring and force energy-intensive industries to limit production or close down factories altogether.”
https://news.yahoo.com/uk-energy-bills-may-rise-over-global-gas-supply-crunch-095659373.html
“Russia Has a Gas Problem Nearly the Size of Exports to Europe…
“Gazprom PJSC needs to store nearly as much natural gas at home to keep Russians warm this winter as it currently ships to its top customer Western Europe every day, Bloomberg calculations show.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-09-03/russia-has-a-gas-problem-nearly-the-size-of-exports-to-europe
From the article:
So, if some part of the world gets left out, it is Europe.
after WW2, the eastern countries occupied br Russia, had their economies tied in to cheap Russian oil
If they stepped out of line, they had their oil cut off.
Someone must have noticed that if Germany is dependent on Russian gas, they are in exactly the same position.
“European natural gas futures surged to record highs on Monday as the amount of Russian gas flowing into Europe through a key entry point dipped, crimping supplies in an already tight market.”
https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/european-gas-futures-climb-fresh-083111422.html
and the joke is of course, that betting on natural gas futures is betting on the European economic system in its entirety
when the gas is shut off, there won’t be one.
I was thinking of peat futures Harry—anything worth a punt there?
Definitely, Norman. It’s the fuel of the future and the Hebrides are the Saudi Arabia of peat. 😎
They say you can use it to infuse whisky, too,
Sounds like “Limits to Growth.”
“Russia’s central bank says a new financial crisis on the scale of the 2008 collapse could happen in less than 18 months if global inflation is not kept in check.
“A surge in public and private sector debt levels during the recovery from the pandemic could cause the global economy to “deteriorate drastically and rapidly” if the US Federal Reserve has to jack up interest rates to quell inflation, the Bank of Russia warned in its annual monetary policy forecast…
“Several large emerging markets have raised interest rates aggressively this year in an attempt to keep rising inflation under control.”
https://www.ft.com/content/624b3082-6774-4967-aab1-d5d617eb49b0
“Turkish annual inflation jumped more than expected to 19.25% in August, above the central bank’s policy rate and its highest level in more than two years, according to data released on Friday, maintaining pressure for tight monetary policy.”
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/turkish-inflation-rises-1925-above-policy-rate-2021-09-03/
“Fear of stagflation increases significantly in Brazil.
“The Central Bank has been revising upward estimates for inflation this year for more than 20 consecutive weeks. While the consensus at the beginning of the year for IPCA was 3.32% in 2021, today, the consensus is 7.27%.”
https://riotimesonline.com/brazil-news/brazil/business-brazil/fear-of-stagflation-increases-significantly-in-brazil/
“Chile’s central bank became the latest in Latin America to hike interest rates this week, startling markets with a decision to double its overnight rate…
“Mexico, Brazil and Peru have all raised rates in the last few months. And Colombia’s central bankers have also hinted that they may need to begin a tightening policy.
https://www.axios.com/latin-america-inflation-banks-chile-brazil-peru-d828d950-3472-43e9-8ac2-8474435988a3.html
Higher interest rates are just as likely to cause an economy to shrink as mandating lockdowns for COVID-19.
“Abstract
The rate of interest – the price of money {credit} – is said to be a key policy tool. Economics has in general emphasised prices. This theoretical bias results from the axiomatic-deductive methodology centering on equilibrium. Without equilibrium, quantity constraints are more important than prices in determining market outcomes. In disequilibrium, interest rates should be far less useful as policy variable, and economics should be more concerned with quantities (including resource constraints). To investigate, we test the received belief that lower interest rates result in higher growth and higher rates result in lower growth. “Examining the relationship between 3-month and 10-year benchmark rates and nominal GDP growth over half a century in four of the five largest economies we find that interest rates follow GDP growth and are consistently positively correlated with growth. If policy-makers really aimed at setting rates consistent with a recovery, they would need to raise them. We conclude that conventional monetary policy as operated by central banks for the past half-century is fundamentally flawed. Policy-makers had better focus on the quantity variables that cause growth.
Reconsidering Monetary Policy: An Empirical Examination of the Relationship Between Interest Rates and Nominal GDP Growth in the U.S., U.K., Germany and Japan”
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921800916307510
Such event will play in their favor. Russia is almost dedollarized, i.e. insulated in practice from turmoils in the dollar coNplex.
It is certainly difficult to sign a contract to make or build something, and then have to complete it with much more expensive materials (or labor costs). Any debt borrowed to facilitate the process is likely to be defaulted upon.
“Former Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti told CNBC Saturday that he believes the greatest threat to Europe’s economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic is “stagflation.”
“Monti, now the president of Italy’s Bocconi University, said the “huge mass” of accommodative monetary policy by central banks and fiscal stimulus from governments, implemented to support economies amid the coronavirus pandemic, “may well fire more inflation.””
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/04/mario-monti-stagflation-is-the-greatest-risk-to-europes-recovery.html
“ECB Tightening Too Soon Risks ‘Big Mistake,’ EU’s Gentiloni Says…
“With the virus pandemic far from over, policy makers in the euro area and the U.S. are weighing inflation risks against the need to sustain the economic recovery. The ECB is due to make its next policy decision on Thursday.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-09-04/ecb-tightening-too-soon-risks-big-mistake-eu-s-gentiloni-says
If it is not the virus, it is the economy!
“Stagflation Has Arrived [in the US]… Recent data in the inflation and economic surprise indexes indicate that stagflation has arrived.
“With growth trending lower and inflation higher with an increased debt burden and rates near zero, I believe it is secular… My instinct is that without incessant stimulus, prices of all capital goods would collapse.”
https://seekingalpha.com/article/4453643-stagflation-has-arrived
“Jobs slowdown makes Fed September taper statement unlikely…
“A sharp slowdown in US jobs growth precludes the possibility that the Federal Reserve will announce plans this month to begin scaling back its pandemic-era stimulus, economists say, as the spread of the Delta coronavirus variant muddies the economic outlook.”
https://www.ft.com/content/e545f112-f662-45e4-b633-51ec5d5da3b0
“‘Silent crisis’ looms as US to end Covid aid for millions of jobless…
“The government-funded programs that increased weekly payments and gave aid to the long-term unemployed and freelancers were credited with keeping the United States from an even worse economic collapse last year.”
https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/silent-crisis-looms-us-end-022741544.html
The article talks about extended unemployment insurance benefits ending Sept. 6. People are able to stay in their apartments without paying rent until Oct. 3, IRRC under a CDC requirement.
There are also some program available for deferring mortgage payments. I notice from this article says that seems these programs needed to be applied for by Sept. 30, 2021.
Federal Student Aid repayments have been temporarily stopped. These are to resume after Jan. 31, 2022.
Right: “without incessant stimulus, prices of all capital goods would collapse.”
I expect that prices of all commodities would collapse, too, without stimulus.
Canadian pathologist Dr. Roger Hodkinson speaks for four minutes on the response to Coivd-19:
“Believe nothing you’ve been told. It’s all been a pack of lies from start to finish. Pure propaganda. This is nothing more than a bad seasonal flu with slightly increased risks for older people with comorbidities.”
“For God’s sake, don’t let them scare you into getting vaxed.”
https://alethonews.com/2021/09/04/dr-roger-hodkinson-its-all-been-a-pack-of-lies/
Hodkinson is superb.
Meanwhile, in the UK the (Iraqi) Vaccine Minister is making it plain that he intends to get 12 yr olds and upwards injected by hook or by crook, bypassing parental consent.
Then they will surely turn to the babies and infants….
Who cannot see that this is a horrible crime, and foreshadows more – and no doubt worse – crimes to come?
The running narrative for society is that humans must be saved from illness and death at all costs. Like the saying that the fetus must be saved from abortion by the folks who enjoy sending young people off to war. The problem with understanding would have come quite a bit prior to this stage.
I think he is a little “over the top.” He says that 95% of the cases identified by the PCR test are false positives. I can believe that the 34% (or whatever the right percent is) of cases that never produce antibodies might be false positives, but not the others. Even some of these might be from immune compromised people.
I think his delivery is rather strained because he is not used to making videos of this kind. Also, he seems to be born and bred in England from his accent and body language, and the English often express controlled “anger” by making their voice go “up”, while North Americans are more likely to make it go “down”.
To quote what he says at greater length, he says, “The PCR test creates over 95% false positives in perfectly well people.”
This doesn’t mean that 95% of the cases identified by the PCR test are false positives. It means that over 95% of the cases identified by the PCR test in perfectly well people are false positives. The statement says nothing about the cases identified by the PCR test in symptomatic individuals. It concerns only perfectly well people.
When perfectly well (or non-symptomatic) individuals are given a PCR test for the SARS-CoV-2 virus, and the test comes back “positive”, in over 95% of those cases it is a false “positive”. That’s what he’s saying, and I am not sure if what he’s saying is true, but I am sure he knows a lot more about this than I do and that he has chosen his words carefully. After all, he has put his professional career and his reputation on the line by speaking out like this.
And if we check out online, the we see that “the fact checkers” are tearing his reputation to shreds.
Does anybody reading this have detailed knowledge about what PCR tests for Covid are measuring and how many of the results in asymptomatic individuals are false positives?
“ . . . the swabbing of the nasopharynx
14:56 so the oropharynx the nose of the throat
14:59 is looking for genetic material now
15:02 that’s all it’s doing and so it is
15:04 frequently emphasize that pcr test is
15:06 really outstanding test
15:08 for what it was designed for the problem
15:10 is
15:11 it’s being used for something it wasn’t
15:13 designed for . . . “
Tim, that could be difficult to determine as it’s not always clear what # of cycles have been run. Yes, “95% of positives are false” is the more logical of the two possible parsings.
The New York Times goes on to say that the “C.D.C.’s own calculations suggest that it is extremely difficult to detect any live virus in a sample above a threshold of 33 cycles.” But, this is a deceptive way of stating what the CDC’s data shows that significantly understates how using 40 or even 37 cycles is going to result in massive numbers of people getting told they have COVID-19 who don’t.
The CDC didn’t just have “extreme difficulty” finding any live virus in samples whose cycle threshold was above 33. They were straight-up unable to find any. Moreover, they were frequently unable to find any live virus even in samples with lower cycle thresholds.
But the worst is yet to come.
Though the CDC replied to the Times by saying they were “examining the use of cycle threshold measures for policy decisions,” the New York Times either didn’t know or didn’t want you to know that the CDC already has guidelines that recommend … wait for it… 40 amplification cycles. Even though their own researchers were unable to find any live virus in samples with a cycling threshold greater than 33!
https://redstate.com/michael_thau/2020/09/03/ny-times-up-to-90-of-people-who-tested-positive-for-c19-not-infected-truth-a-whole-lot-worse-pt-3-n253332
This is similar to what Fauci had stated at one point:
Fauci acknowledged in the interview that at 35 cycles or higher, the chances of the test being accurate are “minuscule.”
“It’s very frustrating for the patients as well as for the physicians,” he said, when “somebody comes in, and they repeat their PCR, and it’s like [a] 37 cycle threshold, but you almost never can culture virus from a 37 threshold cycle.”
“So, I think if somebody does come in with 37, 38, even 36, you got to say, you know, it’s just dead nucleotides, period,” said Fauci, the top White House coronavirus adviser.
He pointed out that patients usually are not told their cycle threshold after testing positive.
video at link
https://principia-scientific.com/dr-fauci-admits-covid-test-picks-up-harmless-dead-virus/
Someone being tested is unlikely to be able to find out the number of cycles at which his test has been run, even if he were to make it a point to ask.
I came across this document by an MD, referencing the NYT article mentioned above, which was in parts interesting and in other parts incoherent.. for example, ok to use less-sensitive tests if you are going to test more often (???).
To confound things further, she attests that “Ct values vary 3-12 cycles within and between viral gene targets, PCR tests, and labs. Well, all righty, then!
https://medicine.yale.edu/labmed/sections/virology/COVID-19%20Ct%20values_YNHH%20Aug.%202020%20_395430_36854_v1.pdf
Norton antivirus gives me a ‘Warning Suspicious Link’ when I mouse over the Fauci video link…
That always shows when I am being directed to the truth….
Imagine the power you must have to control the MSM … all social media … and to command Norton to embed these warnings in any content that you want to keep people away from
Okay, now I find this interesting, and I hope any docs reading here can chime in with their reactions..
This is taken from the last link (pdf) in my post above. The presenter wrote (p. 8) “Obtaining the most sensitive
result was deemed essential.”
and here are the two case examples as to why (pp. 9-10; bold emph. mine):
Case example: Diagnosis of acute infection
• 43 year old, with fever, cough, SOB for 8 days. Presented to ED at outside hospital.
• CXR showed ground glass opacities
• SARS CoV-2 RT-PCR negative [GeneXpert]
• Sent home
• Patient returned to 2 days later with worsening SOB and O2 sats
• SARS CoV-2 RT-PCR positive [CDC assay]
• Ct values: 35.2 N1 /37.7 N2
• Patients with pneumonia may have little virus in upper airway and using a sensitive assay is essential.
• PCR of sputum or BAL preferred, but often not available
as opposed to:
Case example 2: Low and rising viral load
• 66 year old with hypertension, diabetes, on dialysis, anemic, admitted with weakness, no fever, no cough or SOB.
• Patient improved. SARS CoV-2 RT-PCR was ordered prior to discharge to a SNF, and was “inconclusive” with only 1 or 2 genes positive.
• Serial PCR results over 10 days shown:
• Patient remained without symptoms
• If less sensitive test was used, diagnosis would have been missed and patient discharged to SNF as COVID negative
(and that would have been bad, why?, since asymptomatic?)
It seems to me this doc is laying out the case for her institution’s missing the forest for the trees. The individual with acute respiratory symptoms was sent away untreated (only because of a negative test?), while the person with a multitude of other chronic health issues complaining only of “weakness” was tested and re-tested. I’m not sure how these cases would have been better handled with “more sensitive” PCR tests.. unless I am missing something, which is surely possible!
Taken together as presented, it seems as though treating symptoms appropriately is, or at least was, less important to this institution than obtaining a positive covid result.
Thanks, Tim, for that probably correct interpretation of what he said. I see that others have used a different interpretation, probably because it more closely matches their narrative.
Last year, I posted many studies comparing PCR with viral culture (the common reference standard for viral infections). For SARS-CoV-2, false positives accounted for the large majority (including 90%+) of positive PCR results. It’s difficult to assess the official stats on PCR results, because the governments (and frequently, individual research teams) don’t report the cycle thresholds or PCR targets. These are the two main dials for controlling the false positive rate, apart from sloppy technique (contamination in collection and analysis).
It seems to me that 90% false PCR test reporting is awfully high. The CDC did a study recently that said that 34% (if I remember correctly) of the people who tested positive for COVID never developed a positive result when testing for antibodies. They also remarked that most of those tests required a high number of cycles. I could believe that those were false positives.
If you figure approx. 600,000 Covid-19 deaths x 34% false positive rate you get 204,000 inflated deaths. In a March 26, 2020 NEMJ article Fauci says Sars-Cov2 is more akin to a severe influenza outbreak like 1957 and 1968 rather than a killer like MERS. Some of the actuarial material on excess deaths and second order effects concedes maybe half of the deaths are the result of the virus. A viral video with the backdrop of Woodstock made the claim that the 1968 flu pandemic adjusted for population and modern health issues ie. Obesity, Diabetes would result in at least 250,000+ deaths in the US. The ’68 bug killed 100,000 in the US and 1 million worldwide before all the novel testing, tracing and death coding procedures not to mention the fear-driven media hype and govt approved applied behavior science measures.
New England Journal of Medicine March 26, 2020. Fauci. 1957, 1968 pandemic. CDC death coding changes introduced on March 24, 2020.
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