Many countries have assumed that natural gas imports will be available for balancing electricity produced by intermittent wind and solar, whenever they are needed. The high natural gas import prices recently being encountered in Europe, and especially in the UK, appear to be an indication of an underlying problem. Could the world already be hitting natural gas limits?
One reason few people expect a problem with natural gas is because of the immense quantities reported as proven reserves. For all countries combined, these reserves at December 31, 2020 were equal to 48.8 times world natural gas production in 2020. Thus, in theory, the world could continue to produce natural gas at the current rate for almost 50 years, without even trying to find more natural gas resources.
Ratios of natural gas reserves to production vary greatly by country, giving a hint that the indications may be unreliable. High reserves make an exporting country appear to be dependable for many years in the future, whether or not this is true.
As I see the issue, these reserves are unlikely to be produced unless world oil prices rise to a level close to double what they are today and stay at such a high level for several years. I say this because the health of the oil and gas industries are closely intertwined. Of the two, oil has historically been the major profit-maker, enabling adequate funds for reinvestment. Prices have been too low for oil producers for about eight years now, cutting back on investment in new fields and export capability. This low-price issue is what seems to be leading to limits to the natural gas supply, as well as a limit to the oil supply.
In this post, I will try to explain some of the issues involved. In some ways, a dire situation already seems to be developing.
[1] Taking a superficial world view, natural gas seems to be doing fairly well. It is only when a person starts analyzing some of the pieces that problems start to become clear.
Figure 3 shows that natural gas supply has been rising, year after year. There was a brief dip in 2009, at the time of the Great Recession, and a slightly larger dip in 2020, related to COVID-19 restrictions. Overall, production has been growing at a steady rate. Compared to oil and coal, the recent growth pattern of natural gas has been more stable.
The quantity of exports of natural gas tends to be much more variable. Figure 4 compares inter-regional trade for coal and natural gas. Here, I have ignored local trade and only considered trade among fairly large blocks of countries, such as North America, Europe and Russia combined with its close affiliates.
If a person looks closely at the growth of natural gas imports in Figure 4, it becomes clear that growth in natural gas is a feast or famine proposition, given to upward spurts, dips and flat periods. It is my understanding that in the early years, natural gas was typically traded under long-term contracts, on a “take or pay” basis. The price was often tied to the oil price. This generous pricing structure allowed natural gas exports to grow rapidly in the 2000 to 2008 period. The Great Recession cut back the need for natural gas imports and also led to downward pressure on the pricing of exports.
After the Great Recession, natural gas import prices tended to fall below oil prices (Figure 5) except in Japan, where stability of supply is very important. Another change was that an increasing share of exported natural gas was sold in the “spot” market. These prices fluctuate depending on changes in supply and demand, making them much more variable.
Looking back at Figure 4, natural gas exports were close to flat between 2011 and 2016. Such flat exports, together with falling export prices in the 2013 to 2016 period (Figure 5), would have been a nightmare for oil and gas companies doing long-range planning for oil exports. Exports spurted upward in the 2016 to 2019 period, and then fell back in 2020 (Figure 4). All of the volatility in the growth rate of required new production, combined with uncertainty of the pricing of exports, reduced interest in planning for projects that would increase natural gas export capability.
[2] In 2021, quite a number of countries seem to be ramping up natural gas imports at the same time. This is likely one issue leading to the spiking spot prices in Europe for natural gas.
Now that the economy is recovering from the effects of COVID-19, Europe is trying to ramp up its natural gas imports, probably to a level above the import level in 2019. Figure shows that both China and Other Asia Pacific are also likely to be ramping up their imports, providing a great deal of competition for imports.
It is no surprise that China’s natural gas imports are rising rapidly. With China’s rapid economic growth, it needs energy resources of whatever kinds it can obtain. Natural gas is cleaner-burning than coal. The CO2 emitted when burning natural gas is lower, as well. (These climate benefits may be partially or fully offset by methane lost in shipping natural gas as liquefied natural gas (LNG), however.)
In Figure 6, the sudden appearance and rapid rise of Other Asia Pacific imports can be explained by the fact that this figure shows the net indications for a combination of natural gas importers (including South Korea, India, and Taiwan) and exporters (including Malaysia and Indonesia). In recent years, natural gas import growth has greatly exceeded export growth. It would not be surprising if this rapid rise continues, since this part of the world is one that has been increasing its manufacturing in recent years.
If anyone had stepped back to analyze the situation in 2019, it would have been clear that, in the near future, natural gas exports would need to be rising extremely rapidly to meet the needs of all of the importers simultaneously. The dip in Europe’s natural gas imports due to COVID-19 restrictions in 2020 temporarily hid the problem. Now that Europe is trying to get back to normal, there doesn’t seem to be enough to go around.
[3] Apart from the United States, it is hard to find a part of the world where natural gas exports are rapidly rising.
Russia+ is by far the world’s largest exporter of natural gas. Even with Russia+’s immense exports, its total exports (about 10 exajoules a year, based on Figure 7) still fall short of Europe’s natural gas import needs (at least 12 exajoules a year, based on Figure 6). The dip in Russia+’s natural gas exports in 2020 no doubt reflects the fact that Europe’s imports fell in 2020 (Figure 6). Since these exports were mostly pipeline exports, there was no way that Russia+ could sell the unwanted natural gas elsewhere, lowering its total exports.
At this point, there seems to be little expectation for a major rise in natural gas exports from Russia+ because of a lack of capital to spend on such projects. Russia built the new Nord Stream 2 pipeline, but it doesn’t seem to have a huge amount of new natural gas exports to put into the pipeline. As much as anything, the Nord Stream 2 pipeline seems to be a way of bypassing Ukraine with its exports.
Figure 7 shows that the Middle East’s natural gas exports rose in the period 2000 to 2011, but they have since leveled off. A major use for Middle Eastern natural gas is to produce electricity to support the local economies. Before the Middle East ramped up its natural gas production, much of the electricity was obtained by burning oil. The sales price the Middle East can get for selling its natural gas is far below the price it can get for selling oil, especially when the high cost of shipping the natural gas is considered. Thus, it makes sense for Middle Eastern countries to use the natural gas themselves, saving the oil, since the sale of oil produces more export revenue.
Africa’s natural gas exports have fallen, in part because of depletion of the early natural gas fields in Algeria. In theory, Africa’s natural gas exports could rise to a substantial level, but it is doubtful this will happen quickly because of the large amount of capital required to build LNG export facilities. Furthermore, Africa is badly in need of fuel for itself. Local authorities may decide that if natural gas is available, it should be used for the benefit of the people in the area.
Australia’s natural gas exports have risen mostly as a result of the Gorgon LNG Project off the northwest coast of Australia. This project was expected to be high cost at $37 billion when it was approved in 2009. The actual cost soared to $54 billion, according to a 2017 cost estimate. The high (and uncertain) cost of large LNG projects makes investors cautious regarding new investments in LNG exports. S&P Global by Platts reported in June, 2021, “Australia’s own exports are expected to be relatively stable in the coming years.” This statement was made after saying that a project in Mozambique, Africa, is being cancelled because of stability issues.
The country with the largest increase in natural gas exports in recent years is the United States. The US is not shown separately in Figure 7, but it represents the largest portion of natural gas exported from North America. Prior to 2017, North America was a net importer of natural gas, including LNG from Trinidad and Tobago, Egypt, Algeria and elsewhere.
[4] The United States has a strange reason for wanting to export large quantities of natural gas overseas: Its natural gas prices have been too low for producers for a long time. Natural gas producers hope the exports will raise natural gas prices within the US.
Natural gas prices vary widely around the world because the fuel is expensive to ship and difficult to store. Figure 5 (above) shows that, at least since 2009, US natural gas prices have been unusually low.
The main reason why the price of natural gas dropped around 2009 seems to have been a ramp up in US shale oil production that started about this time. While the main objective of most of the shale drilling was oil, natural gas was a byproduct that came along. Oil producers were willing to almost give the natural gas away, if they could make money on the oil. However, they also had trouble making money on the oil extraction. That seems to be the reason why oil extraction from shale is now being reduced.
Figure 8 shows a chart prepared by the US Energy Administration showing US dry natural gas production, by type: non-shale, Appalachia shale and other shale.
Based on Figure 8, the timing of the ramp up of natural gas from shale seems to correspond with the timing in the drop in natural gas prices. By 2008 (the first year shown on this chart), gas from shale formations had risen to well over 10% of US natural gas production. At this level, it would be expected to have an impact on prices. Adding natural gas to an already well-supplied market would be likely to reduce US natural gas prices because, with natural gas, the situation isn’t “build it, and demand will come.”
People don’t raise the temperature to which they heat their homes, at least not very much, simply because the natural gas price is lower. The use of natural gas as a transport fuel has not caught on because of all of the infrastructure that would be required to enable the transition. The one substitution that has tended to take place is the use of natural gas to replace coal, particularly in electricity generation. This likely means that a major shift back to coal use cannot really be done, although a smaller shift can be done, and, in fact, seems to already be taking place, based on EIA data.
[5] The reason that limits are a concern for natural gas is because the economy is very much more interconnected, and much more dependent on energy, than most people assume.
I think of the economy as being interconnected in much the same way as the many systems within a human being are interconnected. For example, humans have a circulatory system, or perhaps several such circulatory systems, for different fluids; economies have highway systems and road systems, as well as pipeline systems.
Humans require food at regular intervals. They have a digestive system to help them digest this food. The food has to be of the right kinds, not all sweets, for example. The economy needs energy of the right kinds, as well. It has many kinds of devices that use this energy. Intermittent electricity from wind or solar, by itself, doesn’t really work.
Human beings have kinds of alarms that go off to tell if there is something wrong. They feel hungry if they haven’t eaten in a while. They feel thirsty if they need water to drink. They may feel overheated if an infection gives them a fever. An economy has alarms that go off, as well. Prices rise too high for consumers. Or, companies go bankrupt from low market prices for their products. Or, widespread defaults on loans become a problem.
The symptoms we are seeing now with the UK economy relate to a natural gas import system that is showing signs of distress. It is pleasant to think that the central bankers or public officials can fix all problems, but they really cannot, just as we cannot fix all problems with our health.
[6] Inexpensive energy plays an essential role in the economy.
We all know that inexpensive food is far preferable to expensive food in powering our own personal economies. For example, if we need to spend 14 hours producing enough food to live on (either directly by farming, or indirectly by earning wages to buy the food), it is clear that we will not be able to afford much of anything other than food. On the other hand, if we can produce food to live on in 30 minutes a day (directly or indirectly), then we can spend the rest of the day earning money to buy other goods and services. We likely can afford many kinds of goods and services. Thus, a low price for food makes a big difference.
It is the same way with the overall economy. If energy costs are low, the cost of producing food is likely low because the cost of using tractors, fertilizers, weed killers and irrigation is low. From the point of view of any manufacturer using electricity, low price is important in being able to produce goods that are competitive in the global marketplace. From the point of view of a homeowner, a low electricity price is important in order to have enough funds left over after paying the electricity bill to be able to afford other goods and services.
Economists seem to believe that high energy prices can be acceptable, especially if the price of fossil fuels rises because of depletion. This is not true, without adversely affecting how the economy functions. We can understand this problem at our household level; if food prices suddenly rise, the rest of our budget must shrink back.
[7] If energy prices spike, these high prices tend to push the economy into recession.
A key issue with fossil fuels is depletion. The resources that are the least expensive to access and remove tend to be extracted first. In theory, there is a great deal more fossil fuel available, if the price rises high enough. The problem is that there is a balancing act between what the producer needs and what the consumer can afford. If energy prices rise very high, consumers are forced to cut back on their spending, pushing the economy into recession.
High oil prices were a major factor pushing the United States and other major users of oil into the Great Recession of 2007-2009. See my article in Energy, Oil Supply Limits and the Continuing Financial Crisis. In part, high oil prices made debt harder to repay, especially for low income workers with long commutes. It also made countries that used a significant share of oil in their energy mix less competitive in the world market.
The situation being encountered by some natural gas importers is indeed similar. Paying a very high price for imported natural gas is not a very acceptable situation. But not having electricity available or not being able to heat our homes is not very acceptable either.
[8] Conclusion. It is easy to be lulled into complacency by the huge natural gas reserves that seem to be available.
Unfortunately, it is necessary to build all of the infrastructure that is required to extract natural gas resources and deliver them to customers at a price that the customers can truly afford. At the same time, the price needs to be acceptable to the organization building the infrastructure.
Of course, more debt or money created out of thin air doesn’t solve the problem. Resources of many kinds need to be available to build the required infrastructure. At the same time, wages of workers need to be high enough that they can purchase the physical goods they require, including food, clothing, housing and basic transportation.
At this point, the problem with high prices is most noticeable in Europe, with its dependence on natural gas imports. Europe may just be the “canary in the coal mine.” The problem has the potential to spread to other natural gas prices and to other fossil fuel prices, pushing the world economy toward recession.
At a minimum, people planning the use of intermittent electricity from wind or solar should not assume that reasonably priced natural gas will always be available for balancing. One likely area for shortfall will be winter, as well as storing up reserves for winter (the problem affecting Europe now), since winter is when heating needs are the highest and solar resources are the lowest.
Coal prices now up to $234 USD per ton. https://markets.businessinsider.com/commodities/coal-price
UK power companies are going bankrupt as energy prices soar. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/three-more-u-k-power-142516770.html
US natural gas prices are approaching $6/therm and could approach $12/therm in the US if winter temperatures are cold https://www.marketwatch.com/story/heres-how-natural-gas-prices-could-surge-to-12-says-star-commodity-trader-mark-fisher-11632937730 US prices are still lower than what Europe will face.
Most of the electricity in the US is generated in power plants that burn either natural gas or coal. If prices are at historic highs how can power plants continue to generate electricity when most states have utility boards that control the price?
NZ rises up!
https://www.rt.com/news/536406-new-zealand-lockdown-protest-cult-gang/
A large group of demonstrators gathered at a major park in Auckland, New Zealand to protest ongoing Covid lockdown measures in the country – many arriving with a procession of motorbikes headed by a local church leader.
The protesters – who numbered between 1,000 and 2,000, per local media reports – descended on the Auckland Domain on Saturday to demand an end to the lockdowns. A caravan of motorcycles led by Brian Tamaki – a vocal anti-lockdown activist who heads the Auckland-based Pentecostal Destiny Church – was among the first on the scene, captured in videos as the procession made its way to the park.
https://youtu.be/UaPja7Fwr7Q
Eddy is that you?
I am thinking of a protest sign
God gives
health and freedom
Satan gives
disease and death
Nope. I won’t protest… I support the CEP….
A thought occurred to me today about boosters modified to deal with new variant forms of the spike protein.
If we believe that the spike protein is dangerous in itself then could this become a possibility?
Introducing a new variant spike encoded vaccine for the body to make and express spike could run immediately into the issues of the body not producing the correct new antibodies to deal with it and instead use old versions believing that it is correct. I think this is part of the Original Antigenic Sin process. That would mean that the spike isn’t dealt with rapidly or completely leaving it free to cause massive damage around the body. Thoughts?
Only one way I guess we will know for sure and that is when they introduce them.
By Not Injecting I Am An Altruist – Here’s Why
https://www.headsupster.com/forumthread?shortId=159
Yes! I too could not stand to kill granny. I will remain clean blood for the good of the community. I accept my 1 in 3000 chance of death in exchange for strong life long immunity for the common good.
Can you imagine parents turning their children into walk death bombs with these injections!
The thing is…
I have expressed that to a CovIDIOT… and he still insists I should get the injection …
There is no way to successfully argue with the assertion that the injections make you more susceptible to getting covid and more likely to end up in a hospital… and he of course did not attempt to argue that…
But he still insists 1+1 = 3… despite having zero evidence to back that claim up.
Billions of MOREONS…
Oh did I mention that I was speaking to another MOREON yesterday and the injections came up … I always like to use such opportunities to plant seeds so I mentioned that my Singaporean friends father has had 2 shots and the booster… caught covid and is now in hospital ….
His response – well it never was supposed to stop you from getting covid…
How short is the memory of a CovIDIOT…. I said – but I thought it would give us herd immunity? And left it at that…
When the Nightmare Scenario arrives and the hospitals are truly overwhelmed as are the morgues… I wonder if they CovIDIOTS will murmur… but it was never supposed to stop you from dying….
The PR Team may meet their match with that one … not that it will matter… because the End Game will have arrived.. even if the CovIDIOTS realize they’ve been bamboozled… there ain’t nothing they can do … hahaha….
Let’s feed the CovIDIOTS a big fat I TOLD YOU so in advance…
i wish i had a fave word and a stuck caps key
Norm – I can’t quite decide if FE is more peacock or fighting cock. What do you think? He definitely reminds me of a proud rooster I once saw strutting atop a dung heap in the barrio
in terms that the emperor’s tailor would understand, eddy is more like a plucked chicken, still living on the fables of his dinosaur ancestry
I think Trixie has a thing for your norm… why don’t you show her the photo of you deadlifting 100lbs… this could be the start of something sordid…
if you’re going to play wordball eddy—try to come up with some original strokes. Your feeble attempts at demeaning those who displease you are an insult to the English language itself rather than the people concerned.
you really are no good at it.
chalk and skoolyard level wall writings reveal an intellectual nakedness more clearly than your tailor and valet doing a deal with the local charity shop to sell off your clothes.
Even my inflatable companion has been commenting about it for quite a while, looking over my shoulder with amusement during those times when her batteries are on recharge, but asked me to say nothing….until of course you brought her, unbidden, into your textual vomitings.
after that, the gloves were off.
You annoy her at your peril. She may only be a robot, but she is a fiercely feminist robot, and stands for no discourtesy or male chauvinism, towards her, or any humans of her own kind.
A woman disagrees with you—and she’s fit only for the street corner???? I thought your comments about paralympians were low enough. Is there no lower limit?
As I’ve pointed out on numerous occasions, this is the only audience you have. Comments like that make it crystal clear why, and (as my robot companion points out) serve only to confirm your weaknesses.
No one in RL will stand around long enough to listen to it all.
Trick-si…. shouldn’t you be on a street corner somewhere?
I wonder if CovIDIOTS will murmur… but it was never supposed to stop you from dying….
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They’re already saying about the dead ones that “it could have been worse” without the jab!!!
That’s one of the things I thought was interesting about the Desmet interview: he brought up hypnotism and how hypnotized people can become oblivious to pain to the point they won’t notice you cutting through their flesh.
That is how deep the vax commitment is.
Is it properly tested? No!
Are the guvmints peddling it? Yes!
No further inquiry needed.
It is an evolutionary trap.
Case closed.
South Korea to Start Vaccine Boosters Amid Surge in Covid …https://www.nytimes.com › 2021/09/26 › world › south-k…
6 days ago — South Korea will start giving vaccine boosters amid a surge in Covid cases. … An observation area for people who received a Covid-19 vaccine in …
Yep – Daily Deaths are on the rise…. Booster Time!
So much for the vaccines dont stop infections but they do stop deaths…. even though we were told they’d stop both
There are a lot of discussions in this business about these projects.
My impression is that it will be very difficult to have this kind of autonomous trucks drive all over the world…
But in the meantime it is interesting to follow its development:
https://www.worldcargonews.com/news/uk-eyes-autonomous-and-remote-control-trucks-67374
It is very interesting to have Gail’s opinion about it and also others of course. Thank you.
Telerobotics has come to fruition. I’m sure DARPA and the other MIC agencies around the world can lend a helping hand from the experience gained remote controlling drones. There’s no lack of trucking simulator games to practice with as well.
How about dropping cargo instead of bombs?
Waddaya’ say guys? 🤣👍👍
autonomous trucks might work if human drivers are kept off the road. Eliminate private autos and have everyone use autonomous taxis and buses. Maybe humans can move themselves around on sidewalks and bike paths while computers on wheels move the bulk of materials on tram tracks around cities if there’s enough resources to do that.
In the US where much trucking is LONG haul on clearly defined interstate highways self driving will work fine. Is UK/Italy trucking long haul?
I am sure that these autonomous trucks require semiconductors to make. This limits the scale-up. If they operate in areas with other traffic, they are certain to be in accidents. This limits their uptake.
Wage disparity is a big problem now. Getting rid of lots of low wage jobs and adding more high wage jobs is not the way go.
I understand that loading and unloading the trucks in part of a truck driver’s job (or at least it used to be). If this is the case, someone still needs to handle this part of the job.
Many thanks for your comments.
Yes, I also think that lack of enough semiconductors can be an obstacle to this development and also short trip and traffic are very difficult to solve for autonomous drive.
Thank you for the point regarding loading and unloading it actually depends on the kind of goods.
Food, beverage, simple boxed pallets are stuffed by forklift workers of the company which load or unload the cargo, while more complicated goods (tubes, machineries, infrastructure of various origin) cannot be simply load or unload by forklift workers who make simple stowage, they normally need an experienced truck driver to do it. Therefore these goods will always need someone who will fix the cargo and it can be complicated to solve.
I was thinking also that autonomous drive needs a very good wireless connection and it means that 5 or 6 G needs to be present all the way through the trip and that it will be probably another constraint.
Switzerland is trying to solve everything in a very expensive a way, with underground transportation.
Another way Switzerland is solving goods transportation is with a very high level of rail present in the Country.
But actually, these are two very expensive methods which other Countries will not easily follow, I think.
3 links for that maybe interesting:
https://www.trasportoeuropa.it/notizie/infrastrutture/passo-avanti-in-svizzera-del-trasporto-merce-sotterraneo/
https://www.uominietrasporti.it/professione/ufficio-traffico/svizzera-il-trasporto-merci-su-rotaia-e-da-record/
https://www.trasportoeuropa.it/notizie/tecnica-veicoli/carenza-microchip-colpira-quasi-otto-milioni-di-veicoli/
If the world’s problem is rolling electricity outages, I have a hard time believing that all of the communication with vehicles will work as well as planned, even with battery backup. For example, the autonomous vehicles will need to deal with long lines of traffic at non-working traffic lights. I hope that this function is programmed into them. How do the autonomous vehicles “get home” if needed communication is cut off mid-route?
Or the limit is complexity. I can not see this as anything other than a very fragile system. You only need a malfunctioning truck to create a pile-up that then will take a week or more to clear, blocking a vital artery. I commented below off the cuff about how easy it would be to sabotage, for example, and these things could not be put entirely in a Faraday cage because the vehicles have to communicate and detect each other. I also have had in my life my share of multiple interrupt problems leading to aberrant computer behavior.
Very fine point! Thank you.
The driver also guards the vehicle. How can less-than-full-truckload amounts be off-loaded accurately without theft? I think a lot of this stuff is pie in the sky to take people’s minds off of a grim future reality.
Good point.
Surely once we get into civil war anyone with a microwave oven and a parabola can close a major highway.
Of course I hope that this plan will never take place, but I would like to underline that there is also completely unfair and stupid strategy on stage.
Politicians are complaining that they need truck drivers and they also ask people to pursue a carrer as truck driver, but simultaneously they say ‘we don’t need you, our project is to have autonomous vehicles…’
How can they think people will follow them ?
Mystery rise in heart attacks from blocked arteries in Scotland
Best go easy on the haggis, Harry.
No mention of the vaccines? Hmmm….
Mitchell Lindsay, lead consultant cardiologist at the Golden Jubilee, said: “There is not any evidence that it is as a consequence of any delayed care or missed opportunity. It is likely to be due to a multitude of factors: people being sedentary with lockdown; stress; people ignoring symptoms because they do not want to present at hospital. There are probably five to ten causes, all linked.”
A sinister thing, the haggis. But perhaps it is, this time, innocent?
Scots have rather poor health on the whole, I seem to recall from numerous MSM articles over the years: just add some clot-promoting vaxxes and…….
Culling the herd is always good. We should be celebrating.
I wonder whether heart attacks worldwide are increasing. Of course, a person can’t tell whether the problem is the vaccine, catching COVID-19, stress from lockdowns or something else.
Anecdotal, but believable. Australian nurses describe what they see happening on this score (lots of increases in heart attacks, stroke, aggressive cancer recurrences, other misc. health woes):
https://healthimpactnews.com/2021/gagged-australian-nurses-form-whistleblower-group-to-expose-what-is-really-happening-in-hospitals-with-covid-19-vaccine-injuries/
Other than the people who are being forced to inject or lose their jobs… particularly health care people who KNOW that this is russian roulette… I have nothing but feelings of shadenfroid for all others….
In fact I hope that we get even more wrecked CovIDIOTS ….
Because that’s like putting heads on stakes in a village that one has just destroyed… it sends a message to the other CovIDIOTS…
Which they will of course ignore … because Biden says the vaccines are 100% safe… Hipkins here in NZ just mentioned they are very safe and children should be injected.
MOREONS
micro blood clots due to the injections…
Laughable hysteria from the press, Yorchichan. I’ve never been in better hea… nggg… gaaaa!
Your mental health is beyond question, Sir Harry.
But did you really need that extra fried Mars Bar for tea?
Covid cases hit records in South Korea and Singapore despite widespread vaccinations.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/01/world/covid-cases-hit-records-in-south-korea-and-singapore-despite-widespread-vaccinations.html
Mass infection prevention and mass vaccination with leaky Covid-19 vaccines in the midst of the pandemic can only breed highly infectious variants. https://www.geertvandenbossche.org/
But not so much dying.
So now when everyone have had the opportunity to get vaccinated just let go of all restrictions.
Consider what would be happening in Israel right now if there was no Booster https://www.headsupster.com/forumthread?shortId=159
BTW – Bossche – who predicted this outcome — says the boosters will eventually have no effect on the virus… then we get to see the Serious Dying….
Ignore Bossche at your peril.
I await with glee the end of immunity of the vax cultists.
But while 81.3% of people over 16 have received two vaccine doses, there are currently 8,340 COVID-19 patients in hospital in Britain, compared to just 1,066 a year ago.
https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/hospital-strain-test-uks-vaccine-based-winter-covid-plan-2021-09-15/
Booster Time!
A year ago the UK was in lockdown. Today, in general people are going about their business like Covid is over.
Of those people catching covid now and going to hospital relatively few are dying. Only really those with underlying health conditions, the elderly and frail and those who have not had the vaccine.
This is why the job of the PR Team is so easy …. they know and I know that they are dealing with MOREONS…
It works like this:
1. You tell the MOREONS that they will get herd immunity and covid will disappear if we can get 70% to inject… the MOREONS harangue fence sitters urging them to join the team and get injected with the experimental substance
2. When the PR Teams sees that the low hanging MOREONS are injected they then introduce vaccine passports — this targets the semi-MOREONS… the ones who want to attend Justin Bieber concerts and soccer matches so badly… that they will inject a substance that was created within a year and not tested…. they will ignore the fact that epic numbers are dying and being maimed from said substance….
3. This leaves the PR Team with a small number of people who will never get the injection no matter what (Refusers) and young children … all children will eventually need the injection if they want to attend school (see California)
4. Now if you want to create ever increasing deadly variants you allow these MOREONS to circulate at Justin Bieber concerts etc…. this ensures that they spread covid amongst themselves…
5. Then you get a situation like Israel and Singapore … infections Blast Off – because the injections do not only not provide immunity … rather they make you more infectious and more prone to hospitalization .. they strengthen the virus.
6. But that’s not the end of the story … as hospitalizations and deaths start to ramp up — frightening the MOREONS… you STRIKE!!! — Booster 1 is released… ahhhhhh…. the hospitalizations and deaths flatten…. the MOREONS feel relieved…
7. And then the hospitalizations and deaths at some point start to increase again … you know that … because you know leaky vaccines shot into billions of MOREONS will strengthen a virus….so you prep the MOREONS Booster 2…. MOREONS calm down…
8. At some point the Boosters will have no effect on the virus or the Injection Medical Team simply releases a new iteration of the Booster that is not meant to impact the virus.
9. You now have a Marek’s strength virus… that you let run loose through 8B MOREONS.
10. Everyone dies. Just like the chickens
This is what Bossche predicted and this is what is happening … it is explained superbly here
https://www.headsupster.com/forumthread?shortId=95
The thing is .. Bossche can tell you… Denninger can tell you … Fast Eddy can tell you … what is happening … we can also lay the data out in front of your eyes….
But MOREONS are not called MOREONS for nothing…. they will refuse to accept what is obvious…
Yes I know it means you will soon be dead… and norm’s gurgling grand child is unlikely to celebrate a first year birthday… and this all makes people sad.
But hey … it’s better than someone guy ripping your face off for your last can of beans then raping your wife while they roast your grand child over a fire…
You really need to see this cup as half full… planned extinction is much much MUCH better than chaotic extinction.
Brutal, but beautifully argued.
If you’re right, this will mean The End of MOREONS!
By the way, I just received an email from one of my long quiet brothers in the UK. So it’s personal anecdote time.
He tells me that his whole family (him, his partner and her two young adult children) had Covid-19 in January. For the youngsters it was very ill for five days, for the partner it was two weeks of absolute misery and difficulty breathing, and for my brother—while he had no difficulty breathing—it was like the worst influenza he had ever experienced, lasting over two weeks, and he is still not back to full health nine months later.
He says they were given no medical treatment at all and were not allowed to see a doctor or go to a hospital. That, I am afraid, is the sad state of the UK National Health Service. When I hear accounts such as my brother’s, I feel very lucky and privileged to be living in Japan, where the medical system is still working wonders.
Brother and partner are both double vaccinated, he told me. He didn’t specify, but I assume this was after they recovered from from the illness.
I will have to write back to him soon, but since he’s been jabbed, I must remember not to tell him any horror stories about it! 🙂 He’s been through enough pain and trauma already.
Hardly well argued, Tim. The Israeli data don’t support point 5, so it all breaks down there, at the latest. However, even the previous point, is refuted here. The first three points aren’t too bad (apart from the deprecating misspelled word in capitals).
Remember, though, that FE’s prime objective is human extinction as quickly as possible. So it’s odd, isn’t it, that FE is trying to dissuade people from getting something that apparently will kill a lot of people? If he really has that goal, then he would want people to do the the thing most likely to lead to their deaths – not getting the vaccine.
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Manitoba rules target gatherings involving unvaccinated people, stores in area with worst immunization rate
Manitoba is bringing in new rules for unvaccinated people starting Tuesday as it works to prevent its health-care system from once more being overwhelmed by an increase in COVID-19 hospitalizations — a surge largely driven by people who aren’t fully immunized.
Chief Provincial Public Health Officer Dr. Brent Roussin and Health Minister Audrey Gordon gave the update at a news conference Friday, where they outlined many restrictions focused on situations where there are people present who are eligible to be vaccinated but have not been.
That includes private indoor gatherings, which will be restricted to two households if any person at the gathering has chosen not to get vaccinated.
Only 10 people will be allowed to gather outdoors on private property if someone is attending who’s eligible for vaccination but hasn’t gotten their shots. In indoor public spaces, only 25 people or 25 per cent capacity, whichever is lower, will be allowed in such a situation.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/manitoba-covid19-public-health-update-1.6196061
How strange given Singapore is the Most Vaccinated Country in the Universe and they have record covid infections.
Who is going to be checking this?
CovIDIOT neighbour snitches.. of course 🙂
A great summary of COVID. Somewhat technical in parts, but well written.
https://www.headsupster.com/forumthread?shortId=157
This article, as copied by FE, has lots and lots of links, and short descriptions regarding why these references are important.
I think this version is more accessible than the earlier reference given to something quite similar:
https://mega.nz/file/HZNmyRKB#xF15FrsAEZkwBPi4tdUP5toBBqeRHDJJAHzZt6Hg_Qg
“Seventy-three per cent of hospitalised patients are unvaccinated, 21 per cent are partially vaccinated, and 5 per cent are fully vaccinated.”
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-10-02/victoria-new-covid-cases-melbourne-lockdown/100509348
This is a state where nearly 80% are partially vaccinated and over 50% fully vaccinated. The numbers seem to indicate the unvaccinated are getting a hard time from the virus..
However so many want to believe in something other than what the numbers are clearly indicating. Emotions always did rule over facts…
Early days yet.
Yup – one only has to look at the early vaxxers Israel UK Singapore… to see what is headed their way
The vaccine is leaky. Let’s say everyone in Victoria Australia has been vaccinated. If 5% of the population were to get infected by Covid (this is a reasonable guess since Pfizer indicated that the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was 95% effective at preventing laboratory-confirmed infection), then at 5% x 6.681 million, we are still looking at more than 300K people.
The number above does not take vaccine breakthroughs into account. Relying on vaccines alone is a bad strategy.
Australia just started to inject… give it some time and they will join early adopters Israel… UK … Singapore….
What has to happen is this:
Mass infection prevention and mass vaccination with leaky Covid-19 vaccines in the midst of the pandemic can only breed highly infectious variants. https://www.geertvandenbossche.org/
Have patience.. the same situation will evolve in Australia.. NZ.. Canada.. and all the countries that vaxxed a bit later….
If you had any intelligence … it would occur to you that if the vaxxed are not ending up in hospital and Covid is experienced as no more than a sniffle by the vaxxed…
Then what is the point of the boosters?
Now that obviously would be asking to much of your Pea.
Yep, this is as good as it gets.
All who want is vaccinated, it protects against hospitalisation and death. Doesn’t do much for infection or transmission.
So now let go.
I think that this strategy follows very well what Gail said about the fact that short term strategies, appearing succesfull, are easily adopted, ignoring what can happen in the long term, which can be also a complete disaster.
But politics now works only on the short term.
They think that they can have hospitals less busy in the meantime and it is not bad let big pharm earn for a while.
About tomorrow, ‘we will see’…
Actually it doesn’t protect against anything https://www.headsupster.com/forumthread?shortId=159
Governments lie. Hard to get honest facts.
I would say, “Governments develop explanations that suit their own purposes.” The word “spin” has been common in describing public relations announcements.
Quite true, Gail.
But here we have seen repeated instances of government ministers lying shamelessly (and with very bad give-away body language).
It has become so regular, and so bad, that now one assumes a statement about policy probably indicates the very opposite of what they say.
The hospitals may not be reporting the numbers faithfully. I’ve read multiple anecdotal whistleblower accounts to that effect. I’ve read of places where they don’t ask about vax status and just put people down as unvaxxed since—if they’ve had the vax—they “CAN’T” have covid symptoms, amirite?
I’ve also read of instances where they are giving vaxxed people Ivermectin, while shunting unvaxxed to the kidney/lung-destroying Remdesivir/ventilator pathway.
Just something to consider when deciding whether the “mostly unvaxxed” story in the MSM is true. All individual nurses’ accounts I have read say the opposite.
They lied when they promised herd immunity if people would get vaxxed…
They lied when they said we’ve never see vax passports….
They lie about this https://www.headsupster.com/forumthread?shortId=147
And STILL!!! the MOREONS trust them…..
For quite some time, it has been obvious and even occasionally reported that “proven reserves” in oil, gas and minerals – rely largely on the host companies/country’s “proving” claims. Which BTW are the numbers that go on the their financials for borrowing and financial negotiations and as such have high economic motivation for exaggeration. Such “proving” is often exaggerated greatly (i.e. KSA whose oil reserves have not seemed to decline significantly even with decades of vast production exports). Point being, it would not be at all surprising to find that countries are running out of “proven reserves” long before their expected depletion dates.
Would love to see Sunset in the Desert Revisited. Gail you could make some easy money!
Twilight in the desert?
My book would be very short, I am afraid. I am not a believer that any of the reserves provided actually have meaning.
Was hiking with a couple of friends earlier… one is from Singapore (you know … the place with the most vaxxed and the record infections and deaths.. that place)…
Her father has had the double vax PLUS the new and improved booster..
He now has covid and is hospitalized.
Evolution is about being well adapted to the environment. He sadly was not wise to the evils of the world.
Oh and the punchline is… he is pissed off because she is refusing to be vaxxed.. as is her husband….
This is what is known as going ….Full Re-Tard
Ok, ok let’s not get too far ahead of ourselves here. I’ve been paying attention to Singapore, and yes they are experiencing record number of infections day after day, but there’s only been 103 deaths in Singapore. Hardly record breaking. A lot of the dead also had various comorbidities like high blood pressure, diabetes, rich people disease.
When did NZ open up to allow Singaporeans back into NZ??
As I pointed out they have never had many deaths… yet they now have record deaths.
Most vaccinated country in the Universe.
You pointed out nothing. They don’t have record deaths, period.
Could be a lie of course…
Singapore’s Reopening Resolve Tested as Covid Deaths Hit Record
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-09-30/singapore-s-reopening-resolve-tested-as-covid-deaths-hit-record
India is facing a coal shortage too. Per this article and a few others I’ve seen, a lot of plants could run out in a week. I doubt domestic supplies or international imports can be ramped up that quickly. They import a lot of it from Indonesia, and not Australia, for some reason
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.indiatoday.in/amp/business/story/explained-why-india-is-facing-a-shortage-of-coal-1859729-2021-10-01
Indonesia is nearer than Australia? Indonesia is also the world’s largest thermal coal exporter.
You may very well be right. BP data doesn’t break down exports with respect to type–thermal coal separate from higher quality coal, for example.
According to BP, the largest exporters of coal of all types in 2020 were
Australia 9.25 exajoules
Indonesia 8.51 exajoules
Russia 5.66 exajoules
The remaining coal exporters export far smaller amounts. The following three were almost tied for fourth place in 2020:
Columbia 1.66 exajoules
South Africa 1.64 exajoules
United States 1.62 exajoules
Of this group of exporters, Russia is the only one with a pattern of clearly increasing pattern of coal exports.
Indonesia’s pattern might best be described as level.
Australia’s pattern is slightly decreasing. Its highest year for coal exports was 2015.
South Africa’s exports are way down in 2019 and 2020. Columbia’s recent exports have also fallen. US coal exports were at a peak in 2012; they have fallen recently. So the smaller exporters are not supporting coal exports very well at all.
699,943
Still under 700000
Over 1918 by 25000
(But this is just the beginning)
Hopefully slowing
The Klingons among us are happy.
From Sorenson and Zelenko comes some sobering stats that are enough to drive double- and triple-jabbed to drink.
VACCINE DEATHS SUMMARY
WHAT IS HAPPENING IS FAR WORSE THAN WE THINK
VAERS published 16,000+ deaths and 450,000+ adverse events, as of August 28, 2021
CDC fraud expert says that number of deaths is at least five times higher
150,000 reports have been rejected or scrubbed by the VAERS system
The actual number of anaphylaxis is 50 to 120 times higher than claimed by the CDC
Vaccinated people who die within two weeks, are not listed as vaccine deaths
Moderna received over 300,000 reports of adverse events in only three months-time
The Lazarus Report shows that only 1% of adverse events is being reported by the public
The majority of the population is not aware of the existence of systems where they can report vaccine adverse events
Aggressive censorship and propaganda told the public that adverse events are rare, causing people to not understand how their health problems stem from past injections
The shaming and blaming of medical professionals who say anything against the vaccines, cause many in the medical community to avoid reporting adverse events
The fear of being held accountable after administering an injection that killed or disabled patients, further prevents medical personnel from reporting it
Having accepted financial incentives to promote, and administer the covid vaccines, also stops medical personel from reporting adverse events
Profit driven vaccine manufacturers have every reason not to report the destruction their untested experimental products are causing
250,000+ Facebook users comment about vaccine deaths and serious injuries
Nurses and doctors testify how their hospitals are hiding vaccine injuries
https://www.stopworldcontrol.com/downloads/en/vaccines/vaccine-death-report.pdf
No, it is not the social order that is falling appart, it is a mental breakdown of society that is happening. Actually I could not pin it down but I get the impression that a lot of people are in a state of burn out. We could say that the supply chain disruptions are a reflection of mental capacities being overstretched. It is a difficult topic.
If you watch videos by unwashed psychologists you will find that what we are enduring mostly is of a psychological nature,
Being tortured by “Biderman’s chart of coercion” there is only limited mental capacity.
What people claim to be Zombies is a mental exhaustion phenomenon.
I Bet our Civ will not break down because of energy but the mental breakdown will occur much sooner. I would not tell details here but everything I encounter today in the area of “business” is complete malfunction (due to overstretch)
About this we have no historical knowledge whatsoever because even if there was a writer 1000 years ago writing, he would not have been suffering from mental breakdown otherwise he would not have written…
Do you suffer mentally ?
I admit that I do a lot…
MM. I couldn’t agree more. This summer my wife and I took our 2 grandsons and went off into the mountains on horseback for a week. I couldn’t believe the profound impact that trip had on all of us from teenagers to 70 year olds. I think it was the combination of spectacular nature (Jasper national park) and being totally off grid but my tired old brain was given a break from our reality and it loved it!
When we arrive back in our hotel I turned on my computer with the first news I watched was desperate Afghan people falling from the landing gear of jets departed Kabul airport!
yes, sigh.Them people in a pretty nowhere land.
Why should I bother. I have my two arms and at the ends the fingers typing into another nowhere land called OFW.
it is pretty depressing!
I would say that we must try hard to stay sane.
I heared the saying “when you swim upwards you start to realise how much shit is coming downstream”
The level of insanity in our civ is astonishing. From my perspective the civ will fail due to overcomplexity not matched by undercompetency.
This process is way faster than every energy thingy we discuss here.
Nature never lies!
Join the Cult of Fast Eddy… the last bastion of … sanity. And truth.
Says the moon landing denier!
There was no need to actually go to the moon.
Just consider all the great benefits mankind got from the Apollo program.
Velcro…
Teflon…
Duck Tape!
Just being in orbit around earth doing space “walks”. Isn’t that cool enough?
Moon or no moon, meh. Would anybody be surprised if it was a hoax after all? I mean, nobody sensible trusts the guvmints anymore anyway, so…
Coming clean would likely improve the trustworthiness. In the mean time.
Chop wood, carry water.
🤷♂️
I believe psychological disruption is a weapon by the enemy of humankind. I would love to know who the parties are and what their goals are. This is fourth gen warfare.
someone figured some of it out here:
https://clubderklarenworte.de/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Netzwerkanalyse-Corona-Komplex.pdf
I am sorry to telll you but “the enemy” is not out there. It is within you.
“People accept anything being a reason for their problems besides themselves.”
(MM)
you metioned it : The fourth turning
this is googleable…
The point I see in the story of a “them” ruling us is that “them” only have a limited view on “us”, resp. “me”
you see, they talk about “a percentage of the population”. what this trick is about that a percentage is not about individuals, They simply do not get it. They say 75% of the indian population have no access to water and propose an investment strategy according to un agenda 2030 but the very single people wanting water they have no idea of. anyways, They will be made bankable.
In a Power Point presentation a guy really wrote: “empower people by turning them into customers”
“them” have no idea of whatsoever. sorry.
That is why I am pretty confident that the great reset or UN Agenda 2030 will not happen. They will of course run for it for the nest 20 years but it is pretty obvious that “top down management” will fail.
That is certain, no mater how many years we will have to endure this ideological insaninty.
MM I need more explanation.
I guess MM postulates that the worsening psychological (& psychosomatic, ..) trend emanating from this run-away train of [madness IC] undermines the system itself way faster and more profoundly than any possible “corrective management” applied by the CEPers could ever alleviate, obfuscate, or turn directions in the proverbial last hour..
That’s the problem being high on their own hopiates.
Chaotic nonlinear systems can be a bit iffy to get back into a region of meta stability, or stable oscillation predator-prey style.
If all prey goes extinct, so will the predators. Once the first population goes, so will the rest in short order. From deer, to rabbits, to mice, to insects and starvation… Ultimately extinction…
Or it will just keep on contracting into a smaller oscillation around the remaining resources.
However, the wolf pack and their alphas wants:
MOAR!
And I am all smiles.
🤣👍👍
Good points MM.
It’s been interesting to observe the emotional states I have passed through since March 2020. Luckily I am not burnt out.
However, by employing behavioural psychologists and domination of the MSM, they have trained most people to repeat implanted slogans, accept them as unquestioned truth, and exhibit desired behaviours:
‘It’ a terrible way to die!’
‘It would have been worse if I hadn’t been vaccinated!’
‘Anti-vaxxers are dangerous, primitive, idiots!’
‘Children need vaccine protection!’
‘Boosters show the scientists are still able to protect us!’
And so on.
A very successful operation so far, I’d say.
It sounds like reds and blues have had enough of each other. LOL
> America thinks the unthinkable: More than half of Trump voters and 41% of Biden supporters want red and blue states to SECEDE from one another and form two new countries, shock new poll finds
Many breathed a sigh of relief when President Biden was elected, not for policy but for a reunification of the country after four years of tumult and fiery division under President Trump. But eight months into the new presidency, America’s deep disunity shows no signs of letting up.
A new poll has revealed that political divisions run so deep in the US that over half of Trump voters want red states to secede from the union, and 41% of Biden voters want blue states to split off.
According to the poll from the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, 52% of Trump voters at least somewhat agree with the statement: ‘The situation is such that I would favor [Blue/Red] states seceding from the union to form their own separate country.’ Twenty-five percent of Trump voters strongly agree.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10050039/More-HALF-Trump-voters-want-red-states-secede-union.html
The problem is some states, like Georgia, that are sort of half-way each direction. And some married couples, with spouses with very different political views.
I demand a homeland for moderates! WHO’S WITH ME?!!!
In Sweden there’s a political party called “moderaterna”. They’re the worst. Relatively speaking.
Only idiots vote. Don’t take it personal, only a little.
USA postures as a democratic model for other countries, yet it polarises into two camps that do not even want to live in the same society as each other. That is not a good image.
It would be so funny if USA elected Trump again. The pundits said that it would never happen last time. Who knows, USA could even burn itself down, judging by the scenes prior to the last election.
Just out of interest, how is USA and its democracy seen in Taiwan?
I am guessing that the Taiwanese media would like to hold USA up as a successful democracy, while the CCP media is more inclined to display it in all of its chaos.
I am guessing that the ‘image’ of USA has a geopolitical function in those countries.
As a citizen of USA, those ‘goings on’ probably have some sort of ‘personal’ aspect for you. You have actually lived in the place that others talk about and project ‘images’ and narratives about.
I have long said the south was right, we would be happier apart. The free people of the south versus the factory slaves of the north. It is not too late for the free people and the slaves to go their separate ways.
To be clear the south, the repubs, the free people versus the parasites that live off of blind obedience to the system, the government, the corporations.
I take it you are white? Is your real name Ken?
Is Sam a more credible name than Ken? Do explain.
Mashantucket Pequot. We have been here for 6000 years and wish you Europeans, Asians, and Africans would go home.
My name is Ed. What is your name?
best line of logic i’ve seen on OFW for a long time
well put Ed
I’m sure BAU won’t be missed among the natives. Can’t eat the cake and have it.
Here’s a simple trick. Hand over the internet connection. Then your smartphone, car and electricity. Still missing the ‘good olden days’? I guess not.
Let’s hate the industrious and warmongering loonies from the ‘old world’, because having a scapegoat is oh so convenient while reveling in the luxuries of BAU.
Is there another way given the psychology of the rapacious primate? I wish, however.
Hope is for suckers.
— Alan Watts
“They’d” be ‘competing’ in other forms of idiocy than having a nicer car and house than the joneses.
USA was originally colonised by people who were discontent with the political and ideological status quo that they left behind, so widespread dissatisfaction with having to live with other people’s ideology is not entirely incongruent with that original ethos.
Some countries do split in two. Post factum, the attitude is usually that it is up to them. USA is a big place, and I do not see anyone arguing that other countries have to organise themselves into such a large one. Presumably it is really up to Americans – it is a ‘democracy’ after all.
A variety of countries in USA would allow people to migrate to the one that they prefer. That would give a certain amount of liberty to people about how they live and what sort of society they live in – more so than forcing everyone to live under a single central state in a single country.
Arguably devolution in that fashion would increase human agency, satisfaction and happiness.
It seems very likely that USA will devolve into smaller parts after the collapse anyway, in which case it is only a matter of time anyway. People are likely to gravitate with others like themselves with similar ideas about the sort of society that they want to live. It may well be assortative.
the usa will secede into smaller nations
it is too big to hold together as a single entity in the face of depleting energy
That is likely the case. If societies are essentially dissipative structures that develop complexity and size in order to dissipate energy, then the dissipative structure is liable to devolve and to reform as the energy flow subsides.
A massive reduction in the population also seems likely. Humans can be perspectivized (lol, viewed) as dissipative components of the wider dissipative structure that is society. So, the structure is liable to reform, and discard, its components as it reforms itself.
The result is liable to be a multiplicity of simpler societies with smaller populations, and without the added complexity of a central state over them all. They will be smaller and simpler dissipative structures with fewer dissipative components.
agreed
but getting there is going to be unpleasant.
“If societies are essentially dissipative structures that develop complexity and size in order to dissipate energy”
I’m thinking the effects of complexity generation (evolutionary process) is a dissipative structure.
But that’s just my causal pedantry perhaps? I could be getting the cart before the horse. Whatever.
Yes, if people are conceptualised as dissipative components of wider dissipative structures then human ‘pleasure’ and ‘displeasure’ can be perspectivized in that context.
Dis/pleasure is ordered toward the functionality of the dissipative structure, it motivates the components to perform their functions within the structure. The dis/pleasure is not an ‘end’ in itself but the structure is its wider ‘purpose’ and construct.
The wider structure that is society will radically depart from its equilibrium and reform into fresh structures, and there will be an awful lot of re-motivation of the components involved. There will be a lot of displeasure to reorder the components to the fresh structures – and some pleasure too.
And there will be a redundancy of a lot of components that find their pleasure within structures, and that is liable to be unpleasant for them. Discarded components will lack a dissipative structural support of pleasure – and they will cease to function as discarded components.
Appealing to emotions doesn’t have to be detrimental to the group.
In a properly functioning market economy with positive reinforcement for technological progress (evolution) and negative feedback with regards to risk, overconsumption and corruption (unfair advantage) it will not really matter how much of an ego tripping self absorbed schmuck or Messiah syndrome altruist you are. You’ll be bound by your desires, capability and competence anyway.
It is of course possible to go full tilt in either direction for a society. But just why is explicit things that important? Can’t we operate in competitive-collaborative structures such as nature itself?
Large trees doesn’t explicitly kill smaller trees. They just implicitly stand there catching more sun and nutrients while providing its “services” to the rest of the (micro) biome.
It’s about time to let go of the command and control war time economy. If you can’t spot competence and trustworthiness in people, you deserve failure as an organization. Your “culture” is toxic.
“the usa will secede into smaller nations
it is too big to hold together as a single entity in the face of depleting energy”
So why hasn’t this happened to Russia proper yet? It was massive even when you were feeding the pterodactyls on your windowsill as a teenager.
Reds and blues are not dispersed around a tidy north-south axis.
Presidential votes:
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2020/11/20/learning/2020electionwinnermapLN/2020electionwinnermapLN-mobileMasterAt3x.png
The Civil War is an historical paradigm that may have limited import for the future.
Besides the dispersal of reds and blues, people are liable to adapt their ideology and lifestyle choices to very new and demanding conditions after the collapse. What people think and how they choose to behave in the future may be constrained and influenced by very different factors and conditions than they are now.
I am not saying that it will be a total Year Zero, and the present and its memory likely will have some influence on how people conceptualize the future, but just how much remains to be seen.
Perhaps some people will find the Civil War to be an orientating paradigm in some ways – but the situation will be very different. The idea of independent ‘states’ free of centralised control may be topical for some people. People will seek ways to perspectivize what is happening and they may reach for historical paradigms, however constrained their import may be.
Dumb distraction…..waste of time ……People are starting to pay attention? Cue the bullshit political distraction
What are people supposed to pay attention to, and what difference is that supposed to make to anything?
No one is asking you permission to discuss anything on here.
Let’s add a photo to this https://www.headsupster.com/forumthread?shortId=154
Think this is not going to be a global policy? Think again….
Mr DNA … stirs…. he begins to sense danger… he hesitates… sniffs the air like a dog… is that… the threat of extinction?
“Perhaps anticipating pushback, Newsom noted that 10 vaccines for other diseases are already required for California school kids, and the COVID-19 vaccine would be the eleventh.”
Still trying to equate experimental mRNA gene therapy injections to established vaccines with decades-long use data, eh?
The kids are already receiving 10 different vaccines, why not add just one more injection series?
The smart parents will withdraw their children from public schools. But then perhaps that is part of an agenda to crash everything – tourism, healthcare, education, etc. Aim the needle at these industries and watch the smart ones withdraw their participation while the obedient and dependent bare their arms.
Please suh… can you contribute some CovIDIOT emails to the steaming heap of dung… I beg of you … 10… 20 … the good lord will smile kindly upon you at St Peter’s Gates….
https://www.headsupster.com/
Funny that. Local politician a dem super pro vax. Now the gov want her kids and she says well…. they have autoimmune disease so they can not be vaxxed. But other peoples kids sure and I keep my job as comptroller of the county.
It’s much the same with Jesse Jackson’s wife. She wasn’t vaxed and she got Covid, so it should have been party time for the anti-anti-vax crowd. But all we heard were outpourings of sympathy and calls for commoners to get vaxed. She gets a free pass on the basis of a pre-existing medical condition that makes it dangerous for her to take the injection. And she IS the wife of the chief apostle of the Reverend MLK Jnr. But you try using that excuse to skip a jab and see how far that gets you.
Nice rant by CHS: “While Everyone Cheers Soaring “Wealth,” America’s Social Order Is Unraveling”
http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2021/10/while-everyone-cheers-soaring-wealth.html
There will be no social order. Technofeudalism means the tech giants will police their own turf.
I agree that this is very good.
It is the social order that is falling apart. “The more that politicians, Fed governors, insiders and billionaires bleat that they really, really care about commoners, the greater the gulf between the reality of their self-interest and their laughably transparent PR.”
He says that the anthem for our era should be “Take This Job and Shove It.”
Francis Fukuyama wrote a book, 1996, “Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity”. He also saw the social order as the source of wealth.
Soaring wealth!!!😂thats a good one!!! How about soaring debt and currency debasement!
Step away from the Fox News or CNN news you were filling your brain with lies
I feel pretty sorry about the entity under the name of Fast Eddy.
He fell into our designed advertising campaign for margarine where we said: “This is the margarine you will love most”
From that idea that we implanted in his mind, he came to the conclusion that there should be something compassionate about margarine.
Actually what we need to do is to gt rid of the last version of a pretty pesky technology that is nothing more than this:
https://kilobaser.com/
Unfortunately we have 8 Bn of not upgraded DNA copiers in the world and we need to simply throw them on the garbage. As we are ESG certified we will of course not throw them on the garbage but deliver them into a recycling hub.
If we ever were interested in any NEW DNA, we have this:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mail-order-crispr-kits-allow-absolutely-anyone-to-hack-dna/
I am sorry about the lone ranger called Fast Eddy because we of course feel no compassion if we replace any gene replication mechanism with another. So any claims the entity “Fast Eddy” makes are obviously false because there exist absolutely no compassionate Extinction plan whatsoever.
I’d argue the point … but you make no point.
A thing that not exists can not be argued upon , no my friend?
Of course I have no point to argue and for that reason we both are not much more than margarine lovers.
Will it make any difference? No.
Was fun anyways to engage in a discussion with the most intelligent person in the world. Thank you for that opportunity.
It is definitely a blessing to engage with FE on any level… if He had a physical body and he touched you … it would be one of those ‘I’m never gonna wash that spot again’ moments….
https://youtu.be/ZC_uTMkmH08?t=2
sheeesh
now he’s started capping himself
still—that seems a good likeness on the ceiling of the sistine chapel
“… obviously false because there exist absolutely no compassionate Extinction plan whatsoever.”
nice, oh so very nice.
“… obviously false because there exist absolutely no compassionate Extinction plan whatsoever.”
doubly nice.
“… obviously false because there exist absolutely no compassionate Extinction plan whatsoever.”
very excellent, thank you sir.
keep up the good work.
that hasn’t stopped you before
i have a tree outside my window, with a favourite branch where birds love to come and feed
once, some years ago, as an experiment. i put a smear of butter and a smear of margarine side by side on the branch
the butter vanished in minutes, the margarine sat there for days.
i stopped buying margarine after that, when i found that bird brained critters were smarter than me
they could tell the genuine article
Birds are pretty long standing from evolutionary standpoint.
For me human they come and look what I am doing but as soon as I engage they are gone. Seems pretty reasonable to me even as I would deem as not being evil.
My personal bet is that birds wil inherit the earth.
They will have a “bird’s eye view” if there is a water contamination or else.
Dogs : easy
Cats: well, them have their own
birds: completely different but they like to come to my garden as in garden meaning something being increased in beauty and giving.
IMHO Darwin had a msiconception about “fittnes” and “drive for beauty”.
What is beauty? Well. If I see it I know it.
This concept applies to bees mostly…
I do my best to have a beautiful garden.
Inteterstingly enough we have no idea about beauty and time. What we seem to know is that flowers have co-evolved by selection of beauty by the bees, whatever they see in it.
I am pretty sure that birds will take over.
I set out by my hummingbird feeders and watch them fight continually over who gets to eat. One little guy will think he’s in charge and he chases the other birdies away. He sets there guarding his hoard of sugar water and attacks any other Hummer that comes to the feeder.
Humans have no monopoly on fighting over resources.
Now it is time for migration and the Hummingbirds are thick around the feeders as they head south. There is still some fighting but now it’s common to see four eating at the same time. All summer you would never see two birds on the feeder at once.
The bigger birds at the sunflower seed feeder are eating the seeds all summer long. Up until a couple of years ago they would hardly ever eat the seeds in summer. It appears that the insects are no longer out there, so they eat what they can find. They go through about 40Lbs. of sunflower seed per month.
Please everyone, feed the birds.
birds have been around for 200+ million years
they are just not as big as they used to be that’s all
Please don’t attack my friend Fast Eddy, he brings many interesting information.
After that, everyone can have his/her own opinion and we can discuss about those opinions, but in my view, it is better not discuss about persons.
eddy discusses my inflatable friend all the time—one might say he is obsessed with her, jellus perhaps?
she is almost a person
but then, so is eddy
Do you mind to post a photo of you and your lady?
show me yours and ill show you mine—as they say
dyou prefer inflated or deflated?
The gates of hell are swinging open….
California to mandate COVID-19 vaccine for school kids
https://www.headsupster.com/forumthread?shortId=154
I found your article out of character. It outlined the facts and stopped there no explanation of the evil. ?????
The article is from the MSM… The only part that was added was The Gates of Hell Swing Open …. that bit of pathos gets people’s attention … no?
“The global energy crunch forced a German electricity producer to halt a power plant after it ran out of coal.
“Steag GmbH closed its Bergkamen-A plant in the western part of the country this week due to shortages of hard coal, it said by email.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-10-01/energy-crisis-forces-german-power-plant-to-halt-on-lack-of-coal
Even coal! Very bad. Total Crisis Energy
Not enough coal! And this is the beginning of October, when it is still pretty warm out.
Shortages, what shortages!? It can end up way worse!
As the “Greens” could be the next junior partners in ruling gov coalition in DE.. and in this type of arrangement they essential force the agenda and fill in crazy policy details on top of it.
If that will be the case they will absolutely front load the collapse by multitude of crazy energy policy.. So, should they eventually get in, lets re-dial your doom watches from ~2035 to ~2025-27.. boundary..
“Why are we trying so hard to convince people to get vaccinated? The quicker the unvaccinated catch COVID, the sooner they are removed from the equation and the pandemic will end, finally. There are actually folks telling those infected with COVID not to go into the ICUs. It’s ill advised but actually pragmatic in a cruel way. Our health care system is being overwhelmed with unvaccinated patients—following this advice would certainly reduce the overcrowding. Currently about 50% of our COVID CCU and ECMO patients are dying—the DELTA variant combined with the MSSA pneumonia appears to be a significant contributor. That my thoughts would even go to such repugnant place is disturbing. Just another reminder
that I have changed.”
Let the idiots die.
Better for the genetics of homo sapiens.
Get rid of the bad stuff.
Is there a limit to stoooopidity? Is it possible to have a negative IQ?
We may be witnessing it….
I believe you’re right. As comedian Ron White once said, “you can’t fix stoopid”.
as well to bear in mind:
the wise man knows the limits of his wisdom
the ignorance of the stupid man is unlimited
30 facts you NEED to know: Your Covid Cribsheet
10. “Hospitals were never unusually over-burdened. the main argument used to defend lockdowns is that ‘flattening the curve’ would prevent a rapid influx of cases and protect healthcare systems from collapse. But most healthcare systems were never close to collapse at all.
“In March 2020 it was reported that hospitals in Spain and Italy were over-flowing with patients, but this happens every flu season. In 2017 Spanish hospitals were at 200% capacity, and 2015 saw patients sleeping in corridors. A paper JAMA paper from March 2020 found that Italian hospitals “typically run at 85-90% capacity in the winter months”.
“In the UK, the NHS is regularly stretched to breaking point over the winter.
“As part of their Covid policy, the NHS announced in Spring of 2020 that they would be ‘re-organizing hospital capacity in new ways to treat Covid and non-Covid patients separately’ and that ‘as result hospitals will experience capacity pressures at lower overall occupancy rates than would previously have been the case.’
“This means they removed thousands of beds. During an alleged deadly pandemic, they reduced the maximum occupancy of hospitals. Despite this, the NHS never felt pressure beyond your typical flu season, and at times actually had 4x more empty beds than normal.
“In both the UK and US millions were spent on temporary emergency hospitals that were never used.”
https://off-guardian.org/2021/09/22/30-facts-you-need-to-know-your-covid-cribsheet/
Give them vitamin D instead. It will help with other diseases, besides make COVID-19 much less severe. And it will be cheap, and without a huge number of side effects.
I have always found interesting that vitamin D is associated with syntesis of light in our body and Sars-Cov2 is a chimera virus based on a bat virus, which is an animal that needs to avoid light.
Among doctors independent of Big Pharma, funding from ‘charitable’ trusts and government control, a strong consensus has built up on the great virtues of extra vitamin D and other – dirt-cheap – non-pharmaceutical interventions and prophylaxis.
Not to mention ivermectin, used early enough.
I highly recommend Dr Malone’s twitter feed and interviews, he is very reasonable, and the new Council for World Health.
It makes sense to talk about this being a ‘pandemic of late and useless/dangerous/expensive hospital treatments’…..and, of course, official misinformation.
A pandemic to enrich some drug companies and some portion of the medical system. A way to frighten citizens and keep them at home.
What Dunce fails to admit is that the Healthcare system along with the Government and the Media have zero credibility left. They have switched from scaring people to lying about the situation. As I posted yesterday, the CDC says that Covid 19 deaths rank #3 in total US deaths annually. If you divide the total Covid deaths which Dunce says is around 695K total, I’ll one up that and inflate that to 2 million deaths. Now divide that number into the US population of 331 million and you still have a “nothing burger”. You are still looking at a 99.4% survival rate.
#1 is Heart Attacks with 698K deaths annually, # Cancer with roughly 600K deaths a year, #3 is Covid deaths with 375k deaths in 2020 and we now know those numbers were fudged on the plus side.
Yes, let it rip. The unvaxxed will end up with the 1 in 1000 with weak immune system removed and the 40% with out per-existing immunity will have strong life long immunity.
Duncan we are in agreement.
That was the whole point of the ‘flatten curve’ thing, right? We’d all get it.. but spread out to not overwhelm the health system? The sooner everyone gets it and recovers or dies we can move on to the next all consuming crisis to fret about. I remember HR sending out an email about how we were going to work from home for two weeks. 18 months later and I’m still working from home and every single case of covid is now a grim milestone as if it’s a weekly death toll from a warzone.
Looking at c19 as a form of rationing and distraction from energy issues makes a lot of sense to me. It’s causing frustration, stress, and panic in people but it’s a lot less than if you told people their way of life is ending and there is nothing much they can do about it. I’m trying to enjoy and make the best of quasi-BAU while it lasts which might be a lot longer than people expect.
We are reacting to the script being played.
Shortage of truck drivers? Use capitalism. Double the pay of truck drivers, shortage gone.
If the system really is so near the end that it only works by ra ping the workers well then it is time to turn out the lights.
Yeah, grab any schmuck or useless water and put them behind the steering wheel of a truck.
Right, what is a driving license?
Pesky details…
They’ve been trailing new drivers with considerable haste. Some of the new hires have done things like, driven their rigs over fire hydrants.
(training, not trailing)
(eater, not water) in my post.
I had been wondering about that
This is why God created Bulgarians; instant HGV drivers, with a little bribery perhaps……..
People are sick and tired of shit jobs, the PMC(privileged middle class) need to get of their arses and get their hands in the shit and start working!
Are you nuts?
Watch what you are writing… Jesus Christ… 😳
Keep them away from any productive operation at all costs.
UBI? Or perhaps vaxx ‘em up real good?
It depends on what a person is trying to do. If some group of Elite is trying to collapse the economy (for their own gain, or to prevent climate change, or perhaps for some other reason), then the last thing they want is productive workers.
tell me if i’m missing something—i mean that in all seriousness, because i’ve been over this ground on numerous occasions,
exactly (or if exactly isn’t possible, then roughly)
how can an economy be collapsed for gain?
no ‘economic system’ can exist unless it is some sort of entity that is a form of profitable enterprise.
a ‘collapsed economy’ might, say, boost the value of physical gold…but that would be short lived because you can’t eat it.
The value of land is only what can be extracted from it, and either eaten or sold. Without people–you just have empty land.
fill the land with livestock, but unless they are consumed, they will destroy the land they are on.
aboriginal societies ‘existed’ but not as ‘economic systems’ because they had no profitable enterprises—they hunted. gathered ate slept and procreated, and that was the extent of their lives, apart from the ritual of worship.
when a society moves into a ‘gain’ mode, primarily through trade and creation of some kind of monetary system, then then the only commercial movement is ‘forward’……if forward momentum peters out, they usually start a war. (to grab someone else’s resources)
sceptics might visualise something different
but
take the uk, with a pop of 64m. …….now reduce that to 5million or so. (roughly that of the 14th c)
The land mass of the UK instantly becomes unproductive. 5m people could only support a peasant class, with an energy resource based on human/animal muscle alone….
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When the uk had 5 m people, the ‘elite’ might have lived in a castle, but their lives were little different from the great unwashed outside the walls—naked flame lighting, dangerous food, hand lifted water and wastes that emptied directly into the moat.
but a modern ‘rich elite’ have mansions, private jets, yachts and so on. Those assets are worthless without the means to move them around. You can only move a Rolls Royce just so far using horses.
but moving stuff around is the fundamental means of support by which all modern civilisations exist
so how does that work???
The answer you seek is to be found in your post:
“…but a modern ‘rich elite’ have mansions, private jets, yachts and so on. Those assets are worthless without the means to move them around. You can only move a Rolls Royce just so far using horses.
but moving stuff around is the fundamental means of support by which all modern civilisations exist.”
“Moving stuff around” requires energy. If “collapse” is too imprecise a word, perhaps “downsize” is more appropriate with regards to what is being done to the global economy.
For every holiday, conference, or business flight not taken, energy is saved.
For every freeway commute route rendered obsolete due to remote working, energy is saved.
For every small business destroyed, energy is saved.
For every person hiding in their homes for fear of exposure to illness, energy is saved.
For every person not receiving health care – either from fear of exposure to illness or hospital neglect – energy is saved.
WE ARE LIVING THROUGH THE ENERGY TRIAGE. IT IS AS PLAIN AS DAY:
Mobility restrictions
Hybrid working arrangements
Supply chain disruptions
The normalization of electricity blackouts – “Get used to them.”
Carbon emission reduction agendas
You can blame “physics,” or “entropy,” or “self-organizing systems” for all these things but that is to fail to account for the human agency and decision making that built what is an entirely manmade construction: modern civilization.
While Nature provides various inputs that make modern civilization possible (e.g., wood, stone, livestock, produce, water, natural gas, petroleum, etc.), and yes, while no civilization has ever escaped the laws of physics, modern civilization requires human agency, decision making, and constant management to exist. It cannot exist without a “they,” Norman. It did not just come about mysteriously, as a flower just happens to blossom under sunlight – it is not a creation of nature.
The “elites,” or “elders,” or “they” are engaging in an effort to triage energy. While doing so they will attempt to best position themselves for the future of human civilization, whatever new form it may take. Ultimately, if you must, you could say they are responding to a physics problem – energy resource depletion. But let’s not make the mistake of thinking that no one is exerting their control over a manmade construct, whether that construct be the economy, the legal system, the education system, the healthcare system, the political system, the monetary system, or modern civilization as a whole. Publicly available laws, codes, policies, agendas, etc. all serve as examples of efforts at human control over these constructs – no conspiracies needed.
first question—at what point do i become one of the ‘elite in terms of wealth?
5m? 20? 1 Billion?
somewhere there has to be a lower limit–beyond which i am excluded.
if i am ‘included’, then obviously i have ‘assets’—mansion, plane, yacht, wife, gold bricks, girlfriends and so on.
if i have ‘assets’, then such assets must be ‘protected’…against the predations of the lesser people who do not. (the other inmates of OFW for example.)
Therefore i must have a force to protect myself. Depending on the size of my assets, how many (armed) men would you suggest?–50–100? 200?
If i have a private army, what do i pay them with? Money is no good. In a collapsed society, money will have no value, and there would be nothing to buy anyway.
Food?–that is necessarily limited.
I might hire my army as collapse started, (no doubt people will) but pretty quickly they would figure out the endgame, and take my assets for themselves. (including girlfriends). Not good.
(real) Money is created at the point of converting one energy form into another. The Saudis sat on oil for 000s of years. They didn’t become wealthy until we started burning it for them 100 years ago.
conserve /save energy by all means, but in doing so you destroy the money supply in terms of value. As you save energy, employment, wages and production disappears. (for everyone)
Yes, modern civilisation requires the factors you outline, but underpinning that is the constant need for cheap surplus energy. Without that, industrial civilisation cannot exist. It ‘exists’ by moving forward, not standing still with armed guards around it propping it up.
Yes, it did ‘come into being’ of itself, because we found a way to tap into 200m years of fossilised sunshine. Nothing else. The rest was, and is, window dressing. No group of individuals pre-determined that it should ‘be’. Nothing is being ‘done to’ us. We are engaged in collective self destruction. We just like to blame ‘they’, that’s all.
there is no ‘external control’—that is the stuff of myth and legend created to absolve ourselves from our own stupidity and greed. We function on the collective instinct of the herd.
we thought we could turn the planet into a cash asset—we can’t. The wealth of each of us, (a little or a lot) depends entirely on the wealth of everyone else.
if no people exist to play ‘pass the parcel’, Bezos becomes a pauper like the rest of us..You have to grant Bezos et al the intelligence to figure that out. Same applies to everyone in his league.
Stop being sensible Norman. It is obvious that most on this blog don’t want to think through the absurdity of the giant Con.spiracy.
Somehow the elite are going to keep going with just one or 2 oil wells and small refineries that run on equipment that never breaks down, with a hand full of working slaves that are thankful for just being alive. All by magic of course.
The elites (whoever they are) just have not thought through their plans, despite getting all politicians, higher levels of public service, heads of most major companies, most university professors, leading doctors etc (I missed out most) onside, with this cunning elite plan.
It always makes me laugh at how little understanding there is of how high level decisions are made. It’s chaos at the top with endless meetings with input from all over the place.
Getting agreement on anything is tough, with many disagreeing about parts of any plan in government so everything gets leaked. In stocks, decisions about anything also get leaked, with insiders either buying or selling well before any public announcement, so the market is ‘aware’ of change.
Clearly the best thing for elites is too keep the existing system going for as long as possible.
This should be obvious that it is the entire system as it is a self organised system as Gail states, so any major change will have profound changes in other parts, which are impossible to predict because of the complexity of the modern world.
Gates, Musk, Bezos have all become elite by making one change that they saw could make the masses lives BETTER. They just saw and invested before others in that one change.
Their elite status is based on paper wealth that disappears if the current system coll.apses.
Azure Kingfisher makes an excellent point about the obvious point that we are be put through an energy triage. Rationing of allocation of energy is now ongoing in all but name.
As for Norman’s very tempting question “tell me if i’m missing something—i mean that in all seriousness, because i’ve been over this ground on numerous occasions, exactly (or if exactly isn’t possible, then roughly) how can an economy be collapsed for gain?”
Naomi Klein is famous for writing a book called the Shock Doctrine, in which she explains how disasters can be engineered in order for individuals and businesses to be deprived of their assets and livelihoods and forced by circumstances to give up their property so that global corporations and elites can buy up this property or other assets for pennies on the dollar. Perhaps Norman might like to browse the book or read a summary or a few reviews of it. This might clear up in his own mind the question of whether or not he’s missing something.
Catherine Austin Fitts has specifically addressed what she thinks is the real reason for the handling of Covid-19. She sees it as plan to destroy small businesses and concentrate wealth and control over economic activity into fewer hands. Anyone listening to her could learn a lot. Anyone pooh poohing her without even bothering to listen or who thinks they already know all there is to know is not going to learn a thing.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/59rfawzZLsgj/
engineering the circumstances of an individual or business for personal gain is hardly the same as manipulating the entire human race.—–
Destroying someone’s business to take resources for oneself is common practice. I carries the same mindset as warfare, with the same intended result.
a point so obvious i feel almost embarrassed at having to point it out.
Naomi Klein was not discussing the crash of the entire global economic system. You are wordbending again.
Or maybe Tim, you have inside knowledge of how one oilwell/refinery could be kept functioning to supply that ‘rich elite? while the rest of us go back into mud huts–I’d love to hear about that–do please enlighten us all. Your knowledge of social engineering obviously far exceeds my own.
and selecting one paragraph of my over long comment, as a prop for your dismissal of it is a poorly thought out way of replying btw
impoverishing the majority ultimately includes everyone, with absolutely no exceptions.
the only thing i cannot do is put a time factor on it–
but wealth is a collective energy input of all—it is the distribution of it that causes problems
Good points:
“impoverishing the majority ultimately includes everyone, with absolutely no exceptions.”
“wealth is a collective energy input of all—it is the distribution of it that causes problems”
Regarding the latter, too much complexity causes maldistribution of the output.
on the latter point, we are not all gifted with the same level of intellect across a variety of fields
the products of labour should be evenly distributed, but we’ve set up our ‘system so they are not.
so greed kicks in, so those with the ability to grab, tend to grab.
those with a supreme ability, the one in a million, grab it all
it’s called human nature
complexity has little to do with it, greed is everything
Azure and Tim> great points, thanks. I’d however add the proviso that this is likely [attempted de-growth / triage maneuver], which could under some circumstances (“unfortunate sequencing”) turn into rather ricocheting disorderly collapse to way lower system than perhaps intended..
That also relates to motivations, they observe humanity as cattle herd, which is no longer to be of such previously reached size and quality in care overhead.. In simple terms now is the time of mass culling and moving the herd into just basic roof leaking shack without former amenities..
We have a senior level planning exercise for a highly contagious, deadly pandemic with all the necessary elements: Billionaire funder of science, tech and global health, globalist organization espousing a great reset, university research hospital and strategy center involved in treatment, response and reporting.
With the media, scientists, hospitals and other institutions relying on funding and the public scared out of their minds with constant fear programming the result is manufactured consent and compliance. For example, the top three US hedge funds are led by men who sit on the boards of major hospitals.
There are plenty of whistleblowers but when you control the flow of money and information these individuals can be easily silenced or labeled as misinformation artists. Strawman arguments and all manner of coercive emotional/psychological, socially stigmatizing and economic/financial tactics to discourage critical thinking while wearing down conscientious objectors and resistance movements are historically effective means of perpetuating the lie. For example, Cointelpro against the civil rights movement.
You don’t have to swear secrecy to a plan for rolling out a managed economic collapse, humane methods of population control and/or a technocratic, biosecurity network because all of these plans are published as narratives or flirtatious, innovative solutions in mainstream science mags or inserted in popular fiction (revelation of the method).
The end goal of the central planners is up for debate but it’s common sense that when you switch off the global economy like a computer, limit access/mobility and isolate immune systems that energy, supply chain and other second order effects will result. The key ingredient is selling the fear of a hidden enemy like 9/11 terrorists. It works every time.
tell me
when the world has been emptied of unnecessary inhabitants, through the collective intent of the ‘elite’.
what, exactly…happens then?
with such a long comprehensive description of the means…I am sure you can tell us of the ends?
Good point!
Thanks for reading my comprehensive reply. I appreciate you and your fair responses. The end goal justifies the means and may achieve a global collectivist system where as you hoped “the products of labour should be evenly distributed, but we’ve set up our ‘system so they are not.”
Kind Regards,
Josh
thanks Josh
glad that you ‘get it’
Why can’t both be true? In other words, why can’t elites think and act as if they will pull a rabbit out of a hat for themselves, at the same time we here recognize that this is unlikely to work?
“grant Bezos et al the intelligence to figure that out.”
I’m not so sure. I really would not put it past them to be drinking their own Kool-Aid, as my MIT Ph.D. bio-lab head acquaintance did, counting on cryogenics to resurrect his head after death. If Bezos were truly smart, he would stick to his knitting instead of mucking about with space toys.
These people are not necessarily smarter than any of us, only more single-minded and often more ruthless. They are just as susceptible to groupthink and logical fallacies and biases and hopium as anyone, I’d reckon.
Dear Lidia, of course, they eagerly drink their own kool-aid. The inclination humans have to believe in their own plans for salvation is infinite, and almost universal and technoc-rats are no excpetion. Technoc-rats are that kind of people that believe they can save themselves through knowledge. Which just shows how naive and Kool-idealists they are. Intellectually, just bunch of deluded morons, drunk on the image of themselves as powerfull agents, movers&shakers, etc..
But they are rich, hugely rich, and therefore with the neccessary means to engineer the most dramatic and calamitous social events and changes. Their motto and deep belief is Yes, we can.
And hell, if even PolPot, with almost artisanal means, managed to reduce his population by 25% in a couple of years, it’s understandable that today’s gret reseters feel confident about their life mission to save (some) civilization via a little big genocide. (Well, has civilization ever been built in any other way than on dead bodies?)
Your point is of course correct but when you join in with us on the dark side it is sobering. It will be a long winter followed by a long new year.
I’ve seen more than 60 winters, and they zoom by in about 100 days.
the years fly by in about 365 days.
oh I can see 2022 right up ahead.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/01/cathie-wood-compares-current-crude-market-to-whale-oil-predicts-it-will-meet-the-same-fate.html
On CNBC. She equates crude oil with whale oil🙄
Ny times is stating that no one knows how the economy works. I often think that we have given the ptb more credit than they deserve. Maybe they are just a bunch of idiots and they got to their positions because of their willingness to follow the line? There is no plan…
According to Cathie Wood,
“The innovation investor expects oil prices to decline just as in the early 1900s, when whale oil prices drastically lost value as other sources of fuel replaced it.”
I am sure main street media liked this. No problem! Other sources of fuel are conveniently waiting in the wings.
Yes, that is very funny.
But Cathie could remember what happened about Wood on Easter island…. 🙂
How about going back to whale oil?
What could possibly go wr….
Never mind.
When things get really desperate … the MSM will be asked to publish the most extreme lies… and the MOREONS will believe them…
Which is of course — a good thing… because otherwise….
Fortunately the vast majority of people are MOREOns.
This should be fun. The Tory Party conference is next month.
Will Boris invoke article 16 of the NI Protocol? What legal measures will the EU take in response? The EU is the legal arbiter. I suppose that we will have to wait and see.
Maybe the TP does not think that Brexit has been damaging enough yet. 75% of Brits with an opinion either way already think that it is going badly. Just how high can the TP get that figure?
This is Iain Duncan Smith, an ex-leader of the TP, in the Telegraph today. It is like he is hardwired for confrontation. Not all confrontation is advantageous.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/09/30/time-has-come-trigger-article-16/
> The time has come to trigger Article 16
Unilateral action is needed against an intransigent EU to rectify the Northern Ireland Protocol impasse
I was always led to believe that the survival of the Union must ultimately come above all else for a Conservative government.
Yet as a result of the dangerous and deeply divisive Northern Ireland Protocol – which this Government made the mistake of signing up to – the place of Northern Ireland within the UK is looking more and more precarious. In short, as we all travel to Manchester for the first face-to-face party conference since the landslide victory in 2019, the Union has never been in greater jeopardy.
…. Lord Frost has tried to get the EU to see sense and be reasonable, but time and again EU negotiators have rebuffed his overtures. If anything they have become even more intransigent, maintaining that the only alternative to the protocol is a hard border.
…. Yet even though the wording of the protocol makes clear that it is a temporary mechanism which could be replaced, the EU remains adamant that it is sacrosanct – and that renegotiation must not even be considered.
…. Lord Frost has worked very hard to find a way forward with the EU, and he should be praised for his efforts. But now it is time for a different course. Article 16 makes clear the UK can take unilateral action if there are “serious economic, societal or environmental difficulties or diversion of trade”. All are now present in Northern Ireland.
If Boris Johnson is serious about the integrity of the Union, he must bite the bullet and invoke Article 16 before it is too late.
It could lead to raised tariffs on UK goods. There has been previous talk that it could lead to a full-blown trade war. We will just have to wait and see what happens.
https://www.rte.ie/news/2021/0924/1248762-eu-northern-ireland-protocol/
> EU likely to challenge any move to trigger Article 16
It is understood the European Commission is preparing a hierarchy of responses should London trigger Article 16
The European Union is likely to challenge on legal grounds any move by the UK to trigger Article 16 of the Northern Ireland Protocol, RTÉ News understands.
Furthermore, the EU could resort to raising tariffs on UK products in retaliation, which officials say is provided for under the EU-UK free trade agreement.
Although the UK government has repeatedly threatened to trigger Article 16, saying the conditions have already been met, the European Commission does not believe that to be the case, and would challenge any triggering of the article on legal grounds.
While details have not been shared with member states, it is understood the European Commission is preparing a hierarchy of responses should London trigger Article 16.
“In the second track they’re looking at things like further infringement [legal] proceedings, arbitration mechanisms, and cross retaliation into the [EU UK] Trade and Cooperation Agreement. There’s a sort of a hierarchy that gets more and more serious,” the diplomat said.
It is expected technical talks involving both sides will intensify in the coming weeks. However, there are tensions over how the EU’s proposals are presented, with the UK insisting London will not accept ideas on a take-it-or-leave-it basis.
In 2019, there was no legal fallback in place. Now, say EU sources, there is the international and legally binding Withdrawal Agreement, of which the protocol is part.
* Oh, this is next month. The TP conference starts on Sunday.
The view from Ireland is that the NIP is working pretty well, and that it gives NI free access to both markets and insulates it from Brexit disruptions.
The Tories are going to find it hard to argue that the NIP is harming NI when Britain is in such a mess now. There has been a huge increase in south-north trade, and most of the issues in Britain have been avoided.
https://www.independent.ie/opinion/comment/blinded-by-ideology-unionist-leaders-want-to-prove-their-britishness-by-making-the-north-share-in-brexit-misery-40905766.html
> Blinded by ideology, unionist leaders want to prove their Britishness by making the North share in Brexit misery
As queues stretch outside petrol stations in Britain, and empty shelves yawn in supermarkets, political unionism has formed an Us Too Society. They want fuel and food shortages in solidarity with their mainland brethren – proof of their common Britishness.
Unionist leaders prefer to unleash misery and scarcity on the people of Northern Ireland, rather than be left behind with their full petrol pumps and bulging shop shelves. Ditch the protocol, they urge. If Blighty sinks, we sink with her.
It’s the protocol and Irish Sea border, of course, which are insulating people in the North against the tumultuous scenes unfolding in Britain. Life proceeds as normal north of the Border, thanks to access to the single market. A few grocery products are missing from shelves, but generally, alternatives are available. There are some glitches with the protocol, but nothing that can’t be smoothed out.
NI business leaders have chimed in.
Tories: ‘Hmmm, weeelll, d/mn it all! NI ought to share in the misery! They are British like us, aren’t they!’ NI businesses: ‘Please, no! Don’t do this!’
The EU will outline proposals after the TP conference. The big bust up over the NIP is expected in November and to culminate in December.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/oct/01/business-chiefs-warn-against-suspending-n-ireland-protocol
> Business chiefs warn against suspending Northern Ireland protocol
Lord Frost is gearing up to reiterate his threat to suspend the protocol in two appearances at next week’s Tory conference.
Business leaders have warned Lord Frost that triggering article 16 of the Northern Ireland protocol would be a “lose-lose” move.
As Frost prepares to reiterate his threat to suspend the protocol using article 16 in two appearances at next week’s Conservative party conference, businesses in Northern Ireland have said such a step would add to the legal uncertainty for traders and damage the economy.
A group of trade representatives met Frost at a face-to-face meeting last week in Hillsborough Castle in Northern Ireland. They added that they told him that triggering article 16 would have three negative consequences for trade.
“It will not persuade a single person who is not supplying NI already to do so; that those who are already trading with NI may stop supplying NI because they might find themselves in legal jeopardy as boardrooms will want to comply with the law; and thirdly, EU customers who are buying from Northern Ireland may decide not to do so because they will consider it too much of a hassle in the legal uncertainty,” said one business leader at the meeting.
Both sides regard the end of the year as the deadline for finding a compromise. But neither side is confident of avoiding a fresh crisis in relations. EU sources said they believed the triggering of article 16 was a matter of “when, not if”.
A public row is expected by sources in Brussels to break at the end of November, once the Cop26 event in Glasgow has finished. “There is zero appetite to change the mandate and renegotiate and then go through ratification of a new protocol,” said one EU diplomat.
The irony is that NI is time dated anyway – and TP is willing to sour relations with the EU over NIP. It makes no practical sense. It is purely driven by ideology.
Pro-unionist sentiment in NI is concentrated heavily in the oldest demographics. Catholic kids have been a majority of NI school admissions for 20 years now, and it is only a matter of time before a clear majority in NI supports Irish unity. Polls are approaching a knife-edge already.
The 2020-21 school enrolments are:
Catholic – 51.4%
Protestant – 31.7%
Other – 17.9%
That is an actual headcount by the Department of Education for NI.
The families do not necessarily keep the religion now, and ‘no religion’ has risen to 27% in NI, up from 12% in 2009 – the abuse scandals have massively undermined the authority of the RCC – but they do keep the Irish identity, as polls confirm.
But some Tories like IDS are practically hardwired not to accept the inevitable, and to press ahead with confrontational actions with the EU that are liable to be harmful to Britain in the future, and for the sake of nothing viable.
It is like the Tories are on a permanent mission now to harm Britain. Brexit just was not enough. And the further irony is that those actions are only liable to hasten Irish unity anyway. But, ‘people gonna do what they donna do.’
The Unionists can always import the Hindus.
And where do NI Hindus stand on unification? I’d think a bunch of them would be attracted to the idea of being in the EU.
I know an Iranian with a lovely NI wife.
He does everything possible never to visit that soggy – if intermittently beautiful, island – above all at Xmas!
Oh wow, YT has got a HQ copy of this.
Science
These sustainable robots help grow produce using 90% less water and electricity than traditional farms.
Yahoo Finance Video
Thu, September 30, 2021, 12:00 AM
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/video/sustainable-robots-help-grow-produce-040000593.html
Short video on how the Elites will survive without the useless eaters.
CEP progressing as planned
Nice fantasy!
We can of course dismiss it as mere fantasy, which it is: but if the powerful have fantasies, they tend to try to realise them.
Adolf H was a fantasist, as were Napoleon, Alexander the Great, Kaiser Wilhelm, Mussolini, even little Franco: none of these people was to be taken lightly and they all had significant impact and brought misery and death to many millions.
Artificial Intelligence, robotics, automation, etc. – at the root of these pursuits is the question: “how can we remove humans from the equation?” This is misanthropic and anti-life.
The rich and powerful should instead consider the possibility that when they encounter mass resistance to their plans it is an opportunity for soul growth.
“Nobody would have predicted that I and Dr. Fauci would be so prominent in these really evil theories,” Gates said.
“I’m very surprised by that. I hope it goes away.”
“We’re really going to have to get educated about this over the next year and understand… how does it change peoples’ behavior and how should we have minimized this?”
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-gates-conspiracies/crazy-and-evil-bill-gates-surprised-by-pandemic-conspiracies-idUSKBN29W0Q3
Billy misses the point. He doesn’t need to understand how the evil theories that feature him change OTHER people’s behavior. He doesn’t need to understand how he should have minimized those theories. His statements illustrate that he isn’t engaged in self-reflection but rather that he is reaching for more control over OTHER people’s behavior and a methodology for minimizing critical narratives.
Billy G and the other WEF crowd hasn’t exactly been the shining beacons of stellar resource management and frugality on their own behalf.
On the contrary, they’ve been busy blowing through finite resources like oil soaked raccoons on fire as they attend their mutual therapy sessions flown in with their own kerosene burners! I mean WTF? 🤔
I think those safely can and will be written off in the grand scheme of things. Opposing evolution eventually leads to oblivion. Being loaded with money and unfair advantages is basically irrelevant at this stage. Burning Nuke ponds coupled with insane centralization and a fragile supply chain makes that virtually a certainty.
However, being a misanthrope means pursuing BAU at all cost. We are all free to choose and within temptation is truth.
Besides, it’s nobody’s job to decide which path evolution chooses, man, machine, man+machine, whatever works, works and that which doesn’t – You do the thinking while checking the fossil record.
MOAR! YAY!
(It’s the only way to be sure)
They will be transhumans and transcend humanity forever
Do psychopaths engage in self-refection? I think not, by definition.
What he means to say is:
‘It’s a great surprise to us that we have been rumbled so quickly, and we must get the behavioural psychologists on to that right away!’
Both Gates and Fauci merit the end met by Edward II.
And if Chuck Fitzclarence did not fuck up at Gheluvalt at least the German Reich (the Kaiser was already powerless by then, following a 1907 coup) would have accomplished its goals, and we would have seen a lot less Third Worlders.
I look forward to a future of vegan elites, eating only microgreens produced by sustainable robots that never break down and are presumably attached to eternally lasting sola panels. What could go wrong?
Or , more likely, bionic transhumans who can absorb the space’s energy. Self fixing robots will fix them forever
That sounds a lot like…
Life…
🤣👍👍
Nothing about the resources necessary to make these fantasy robots!
New York Magazine Runs Piece About Vaccine Cultists Pretending To Be Unvaccinated To Get ‘Bootleg Boosters’
A New York magazine writer named Benjamin Hart wrote a piece entitled “Johnson & Johnson & Regret” in which he complains about being left out of the Biden regime’s initial booster shot rollout because he got the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, whereas people vaccinated with other brands get to have booster shots. In one of the saddest passages in any article ever written in the English language, Hart writes that “some of us have taken matters into our own hands and sought out bootleg boosters at pharmacies by pretending to be unvaccinated.”
https://nationalfile.com/new-york-magazine-runs-piece-about-vaccine-cultists-pretending-to-be-unvaccinated-to-get-bootleg-boosters/
That is fantastic!
At this regard please let me suggest this Ugo Bardi’s interesting article:
https://thesenecaeffect.blogspot.com/2021/04/the-sixt-law-of-stupidity-why-humankind.html
Ugo Bardi’s article is indeed very good. It is about the fact that humans are not at all smart, if they over-exploit the Earth’s resources.
The only way a species can maintain itself is by not devouring too much of the resources on which they depend. A computer model says that foxes cannot eat too many rabbits, if that is their only food source, or the rabbits will go extinct. Without rabbits to eat, the foxes will go extinct as well.
The amusing this is that they celebrate the rape and pillage… inventors and Wall Street titans are worshipped and rewarded ….
That is actually far more stooopid than the fact that humans rape and pillage their finite world… they never really had a choice in the matter
A stupid person believes the covid vaccines are actually meant to help recipients… a stupid person believes even after watching American Moon that we have been to the moon .. a stupid person — even after watching videos of the twin towers that show explosive charges firing as the building falls…still believes the US govt was not behind 911
So which ‘unmanned probe’ left the reflector in Mare Tranquillitatis?
Notice: F.E. can’t/won’t answer directly. Tries a diversion.
Watch a video!!!
That should tell you all you need to know!!
https://youtu.be/KpuKu3F0BvY?t=2352
As predicted!
As Maggie Thatcher said: ‘Rejoice, rejoice!’
Let the stupid, credulous, bastards kill themselves.
Self-flagellation? Or a fetish maybe… Become super-vaccinated and achieve immortality?
Sorry, if noticed (posted) earlier already, but it seems in his latest piece Kunstler jumped in the direction of the CEPing / CD bandwagon as well..
paragraphs: #3 and #6 ..
Actually referenced the previous one from Sept27: https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/the-big-tell/
As there is brand new up today, even more juicer though, did you know the CoGer’s bunker* includes a decorated TV set for the press corps, which appears to mimic the oval office (on the ground)? Well that’s where Mr. Bidety received the booster, pic included.. bizzare..
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*or was it some medical center?
This is a quote from the earlier post:
This is a link to Jim Kunstler’s latest post.
https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/in-a-dark-wood/
The first three paragraphs:
The sixth paragraph starts:
“This coercion of health care workers is going on all over the country, of course, not just in New York state.”
Thanks Gail, but I was referencing the previous one.
Your citation is from today’s brand new article.
The staged Biden injection event reminds me of the following quote:
“The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it’s profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.” – Frank Zappa
That awesome Zappa quote and the one about moral do gooders and tyrants by C.S. Lewis were among my last posts on FB. That was some time before the factchecking and censorship started. I also shared a personal dance video and offered “so long and thanks for all the fish” in honor of the dolphins (not stupid). I referencing the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and the impending interstellar “belts and roads initiative” ie Gates, WIV, The WHO and China in Africa.
Most articles showing globalist pre-planning were easy to access then (many scrubbed, a few archived, others in your face).. GoF research involving WIV.. Forbes article by Michael Fumento
“Why the WHO Faked a Pandemic” with a direct quote from former Dir Gen Chan on weaponizing the Swine Flu to push global solutions to health, economics and social justice.. the Q3 2019 EU Commission Vax Passport Timeline for 2021-22.. World Bank funding for C-19 through 2025 and another planning report on Covid-21 + Cashless Society by 2021-22.
Strange things are afoot.
That the Biden stage-set has been shown shown openly is interesting: it’s almost a taunt:
‘Look, it’s all phoney, but what are you going to do about it?!’
Mussolini was never shown on the box he used to make himself look much taller, after all.
Mockery of the masses has never been more blatant and crude.
Zappa frequently called a friend of mine for recording advice.
(I viewed his platinum album when ever I used the bathroom, mounted over the toilet)
Only saw Zappa perform once.
Dunce is so full of BS.
Somewhat encouraging is watching persons previously allergic to conspiracy theories becoming red pilled.
This coercion of health care workers is going on all over the country, of course, not just in New York state. These nurses and techs have been working around Covid patients for going on two years, and many of them have gotten the disease, with symptoms or without, conferring natural immunity. So, what is the point of forcing the vaxes on them? It is also a fact that vaccinated people are susceptible to catching the disease, and that, in any case, the vaccinated carry heavier viral loads than the un-vaxed, making them more efficient spreaders. It is also a fact that mass vaccination in the midst of a pandemic promotes the mutation of new variant viruses that increasingly are not affected by the vaccines.
“Merck to seek emergency authorization for oral Covid treatment after ‘compelling results’ in trials…
“A phase 3 trial of Merck and Ridgeback Biotherapeutics’ oral antiviral treatment molnupiravir showed it reduced the risk of hospitalization or death by around 50% in Covid-19 patients.”
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/01/merck-to-seek-emergency-authorization-for-oral-covid-19-treatment.html
“Minimum manufacturing costs, national prices and estimated global availability of new repurposed therapies for COVID-19…
“Estimated costs/course were: ivermectin ($0.55)… molnupiravir ($255.57)…”
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.06.01.21258147v2
Clearly, molnupiravir ($255.57) will help the finances of the medical industry more.
Harry,
I am sure you know Merck held the patent on ivermectin until 1996, they probably know as much about that drug as anyone, coincidence?
Dennis L.
Ironically horses are involved again (like with Ivermectin) if you see the active ingredient for what diseases has been sucessful:
VEEV (Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuelan_equine_encephalitis_virus
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molnupiravir
https://informa.airicerca.org/it/2020/05/02/un-antivirale-ad-ampio-spettro-biodisponibile-per-os-inibisce-sars-cov-2-in-cellule-dellepitelio-respiratorio-e-altri-cov-in-modelli-murini/
https://www.chemsrc.com/en/cas/3258-02-4_642219.html
Interesting!
I used to have horses, Student. I liked to joke about the fact that horses seemed to be more important than people, because more meds against infectious diseases were available for horses.
Very nice that you used to have horses. Congratulations. It is not so frequent to have horses here in Italy,
I think it is different in US (if you live there).
Anyway I have a dog and our veterinarian is the only one Doctor who visit (with a long visit) our dog and understand very well its problems.
There is always a good treatment for our dog.
On the contrary we joke about the fact that we have many different doctors (Orthopedic, Dentist, Ophthalmologist, Otolaryngologist etc.) they visit us quickly and normally don’t solve completely the issue, if we bother too much them, possibly they prefer a surgery.
I grew up in Texas, but did not own a horse, and could not imagine ever owning a horse. People in other countries often asked me if I did, though. I guess it’s like the stereotype of Chinese people doing kung fu, or Italians making pizza by throwing dough in the air! These things exist, of course, but you may have to look for them.
Horses are a gift from God. They make me feel more grounded to the Earth. Magnificent creatures!
Also, accidents waiting to happen!
Ol hook nose quits
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10048467/Gladys-Berejiklian-resigns-NSW-premier-ICAC-inquiry-Grief-Liberal-supporters.html
Jesus, Eddy. I have no comment on her political situation, but that nose is Armenian and deserves respect.
https://dissidentvoice.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/twilight3.jpg
Canada update… brother who refuses the injection reports that he has not tried to enter any places that require vax passport because he doesn’t give a shit about going to such places… but understands that the rules are strictly enforced.
Can’t wait till the passport comes to NZ… can completely disassociate with all CovIDIOTS.
Might buy a camper van … I see hundreds of them sitting empty near the airport car park… surely there are some good deals on used ones
Was it Kulm or Kowalainen our resident cycling expert over here?
I noticed some basic repair, maintenance items are quickly becoming unobtanium like brake pads, tires etc.., moreover the e-bike conversion kits (or complete oem ebikes in specific segments) seem to be out of stock in many shops..
I wonder where it goes next ala forever vanishing:
->new cars -> bicycles -> footwear -> food -> calm equilibrium of death finally..
Right, try to source a normal bicycle chain at an online retailer. Unobtanium stuff. Luckily I care for my bicycle chains and sprockets with silk gloves and boat loads of paraffin and Teflon.
Yup, that is basically the process to oblivion. Gotta reset the rapacious primate shenanigans with regular intervals as the corruption and cruft accumulates in the “system.
Evolution and all that. Not that it particularly will help since the bonkers is encoded into our genomes. As father, as son.
In my areas local shops are out of bikes to sell completely. I actually bought the last bike for sale at a local shop. This was just a few weeks ago.
Don’t ask me how many bikes I own. N+1 MOAR(on) bicycles, because it’s how I’m bent and N is the limit for a divorce/separation.
I finally could source 3 generic 11speed chains and some spare tires (thanks for reminding me worldof). I’ll keep rolling until I’m churning on the rims.
2-wheelers will rule the day for quite some time I suppose. Diesel prices in Sweden is moving past ~ 9 USD/gallon or 2.3 USD/liter
Lots of bikes here in Cambridge: big 2nd-hand market for students, but good supply of new ones, too.
Just bought 3 tyres and 12 inner tubes, cash.
May double up on that, and get a 2nd bike, too.
I am not a bike expert. Bikes are to provide targets the elites’ super cars can run over.
Billy G and the WEF CC (crony club) are free to provide their Rolls-Royce’s and Bentleys to practice on.
https://youtube.com/shorts/XzF8Z7WDirc
BRING IT ON!1!1!1
🤣👍👍
In order to avoid critics, please let me anticipate: not strictly connected with gas, but surely connected with collapse of our society
As almost everybody should be aware here about the interconnections of the system.
Please find here a new fantastic way to ruin, destroy and pollute the environment for long periods of time:
https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2021/september/microflier-winged-microchip-is-smallest-ever-human-made-flying-structure/
More complexity!
“UK supply chain problems spread deeper into the agriculture sector…
“Driver and labour shortages mean pumpkin harvesting and distribution have been “severely disrupted” and many of the vegetables are rotting… “tens of thousands” of pigs [are] trapped on farms because of the shortage of truck drivers, as well as a lack of CO2, which is used to slaughter them.”
https://www.ft.com/content/8c6fe84e-0dcb-4e12-8c76-2d63728fa792
“Britain’s farming industry has warned that hundreds of thousands of pigs may have to be culled within weeks unless the government issues visas to allow more butchers into the country.”
“Lizzie Wilson, policy services officer at the National Pig Association (NPA), said the shortage of butchers meant processors were operating at 25% reduced capacity. As a result mature pigs ready for processing are backing-up on farms, causing welfare issues.”
https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/britain-facing-mass-cull-pigs-due-butcher-shortage-2021-09-30/
maybe they could fly the pigs to Europe.
Can people in the UK get along without food for a while?
How about sell direct to the consumer? For pork at a 75% discount I can butcher my own.
New occupation: Hog butcher with old fashioned techniques and tools.
Horrible trade, Gail, due to the bleeding required for black puddings: they squeal terribly and are smart enough to see what’s coming.
You can kill a calf with an axe to the head, very clean.
I’ve seen a girl get covered all over with pig’s blood when it was done badly – she was holding the bucket for the blood.
shot to the head. Dead. Then bleed. They spasm but are not conscious. I kill my own pigs.
niko
I wonder what CovIDIOT blood sausage would taste like?
Given the level of viral load in the average CovIDIOT.. be sure to cook thoroughly
“As energy crisis looms, Spain shields supply of Algerian gas.
“Spain launched a diplomatic offensive to preserve its essential stream of Algerian natural gas Thursday as energy prices across the world skyrocket and souring relations between Algeria and Morocco threaten to disrupt the gas supply chain in North Africa.”
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/morocco-spain-algerian-madrid-north-africa-b1930156.html
“France to block gas and electricity price rises until the spring.
“The French government will block rises to gas and electricity prices, as it seeks to relieve the pressure of a global gas crunch and soaring energy costs across Europe.”
https://www.ft.com/content/f11a62dc-1a71-437f-a7a5-493bc4b1dcda
“Euro zone inflation hit its highest level in 13 years in September, as the bloc battles surging energy costs.
“Headline inflation came in at 3.4% last month, according to preliminary data from Europe’s statistics office Eurostat. This was the highest level since September 2008 when inflation stood at 3.6%. It comes after German consumer prices rose by 4.1% in September — the highest level in almost 30 years.
“The rise has been driven higher by surging energy prices, deepening concern among policymakers.”
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/01/euro-zone-inflation-hits-highest-level-in-13-years-as-energy-prices-soar.html
The article says that Spain’s 25-year natural gas import agreement with Algeria ends October 31. BP’s data suggests that Algeria’s natural gas production hit a peak in 2018 and is declining since. At the same time, its internal consumption has been rising, leaving Algeria with less to export.
Imported natural gas prices are very high now. This leaves Spain with clearly higher natural gas prices ahead.
“The world’s longest subsea cable will send clean energy from Morocco to the UK.
“A 10.5 gigawatt (GW) solar and wind farm will be built in Morocco’s Guelmim-Oued Noun region, and it will supply the UK with clean energy via subsea cables. The twin 1.8 GW high voltage direct current (HVDC) subsea cables will be the world’s longest.”
https://electrek.co/2021/09/27/the-worlds-longest-subsea-cable-will-send-clean-energy-from-morocco-to-the-uk/
“Record-breaking subsea power link sees Norway’s fjords power UK homes… The UK and the Scandinavian nation have joined forces to share renewable energy sources via a 450-mile “interconnector” hailed as a “remarkable feat of engineering”.
“More than one million British households will be heated and lit up by water flowing from Norwegian mountains to fjords as the two nations connect their power grids.”
https://www.itv.com/news/2021-10-01/record-breaking-power-link-sees-norways-fjords-power-uk-homes
But, unfortunately, the total amount of electricity produced by Norway doesn’t increase as the result of this cable. The amount of electricity available varies with the rain and snowfall, as well.
Right now, Europe is having difficulty getting enough electricity from Norway, because of low production issues. I doubt that this new cable will fix the fundamental problem. Of course, the article doesn’t mention this. It talks about the results that models give, assuming that there really will be adequate supply at the other end.
Somehow, this reminds me of Nord Stream 2 pipeline supposedly fixing Europe’s gas problem.
NS2 + Southstream are primarily about bypassing Ukraine/CZE/Poland and other un-friendly countries on the old USSR connector link.. not necessarily enlarged volume capacity which is also a partial aspect..
On the other hand the ~new Turkstream is also problematic, since they are both engaged in proxy (occasionally) direct hot conflict over Syria+
Gail, how log do you think Nord Stream 2 will be of any benefit to Western Europe? Five years? Ten years?
I think we (Europe) are just postponing the inevitable… we have to use less energy.
I do wonder what the UK will use to pay for the electricity?
Printed paper?
The City collected giga fees from various fin scams around the globe, theoretically some of this treasure could be also deployed for the betterment of the wider UK now in crisis mode – but most likely not, lol.
As these are two (“firewall”) separated entities to begin with.. hah.
“Pound May Fall Further Despite Expected Bank of England Rate Hike.
“The pound is breaking the time-honored tradition that higher interest rates will mean a stronger currency, as growth and inflation fears take their toll.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-10-01/pound-s-uncoupling-from-yields-casts-doubt-on-rate-hike-playbook
Good point!
A winter without heat… or the CEP….
I think most people would prefer to be CEPed….
The thing about England in winter is that it needn’t be very cold to be deadly: a kind of insidious, clammy, dampness grasps one’s bones at the core.
And of course everyone has grown so soft now with comfy gas central heating for the last 40 or so years.
I’ve been toughening up over the last few years, only lighting a fire when the cold is unbearable, and never before one hour after sunset if I can help it.
Frankly, it’s bloody depressing! But nothing like the winters my granny faced high in the Pyrenees a century ago…..
Some context…..Years ago … FE was dating the somewhat hot daughter of a HK tycoon type … (he despised FE because of his pauper status… and because he was not fond of white men) …
Anyway… she was studying in London so Fast made the trip out and shacked up with her in the very posh Kensington digs that daddy had bought for the princess (dear daddy would have sent a hit man if he’d known about that)….
Before leaving Fast saw temps around 5C and thought.. ah… nice crisp fall weather… a few sweaters will do….
And Holy F789…. 5C ain’t like 5C that FE was used to …. damp bone chilling horror show… But daddy’s little princess had a nice warm bed … so it was bearable…
Perhaps you can look her up when the power goes off…
eddy
you didn’t by any chance offer to give this unfortunate young lady sailing lessons did you?
there is a ring of familiarity about all this
Context is important norm… otherwise it’s banal
i was under the impression that gods could create context as they went along
Tell us about your blow up dolls norm…. do you light a candle and drink wine before the nooky session? Like a … date?
I ran your comment past my inflatable friend eddy, as i do with some of your other comments. (not all of course–she gets bored very easily)–
She is otherwise a very private person, almost real in many respects. A top of the range model, as you might expect. very picky of her friends. a lot of built in sophistication as standard.
she also makes pointed comments about me wasting my time, and that it was your decision to include her in these exchanges, not hers. (or mine).
But as you have chosen, unasked, to include her, her concise opinion is, based on previous comments she’s read from you, that with a name like fast eddy, you wouldn’t be able to keep up and would of no use to her whatsoever.
she bases that opinion on the observation that someone so obsessed with ‘self’, could not be otherwise.
she doesn’t envy the person who gave you that name, but she says she has no doubt it was richly deserved. (but as she said, you being being fast, that person could get on with the more exciting activity of washing the kitchen floor afterwards)
Xabier, “lighting fire never before one hour after sunset + sunrise” – exactamundo, just following ~the first principles~ of physics for the win.. Why, fight the temp curves, when the planet is on the upswing temp curve in the morning yes then heat up slightly, and similarly not heating up into the very late night sudden drop of these temp curves..
But as you know there are so many different types / modes of heat (slow, fast, radiant..) and gadgets enabling them.., sadly few are concerned – knowledgeable about..
Amusing FE.
Yes a mere 5 degrees here is deathly. A warm woman, or dog, is essential.
A friend of mine had just the same experience with the daughter of a HK property tycoon.
Total secrecy, as daddy hated whitey intensely.
In fact, he later cut her off completely, refusing even to see the grandchildren, for marrying a…….Malaysian businessman.
He hated them, too. Lovely chap!
Ignorant and uncivilised, fantastically rich, with a wonderful porcelain collection he stashed in a cupboard.
A peasant, wallowing in money.
When she divorced the Malaysian for playing around, her father did absolutely nothing to support her.
So, she suddenly remembered my old friend and started cosying up to him as prospective husband (and bank account – he’d made lot in the City since then) No2, – but I intervened and got him a much nicer wife.
It was tricky, as she was still pretty alluring, and using all her old oriental arts, but she didn’t count on my wily scheme….
I forgot the punch line…
I ran into her in a restaurant in HK … she was around 40 at the time… and she saw that I had a ring on my finger… she was surprised by that and said she thought that we’d eventually reunite… I laughed (having ZERO interest in that outcome) and said diplomatically — but your father would not be pleased with that ….
To which she said – oh — at this point he’d be willing to betroth me to pretty much anyone white black brown ….
I’ve heard that she recently married the maitre d at some upscale restaurant in Hong Kong….
Wonder how daddy dearest feels about his princess hooking up with what I suspect he refers to as a glorified waiter….
That fella hit the jackpot! Congratulations
Perhaps the people in India and Africa would not be very concerned.
Nearly all food is produced using petro chemicals… I suspect they’d be prefer being CEPed.
The website xlinks.co does neither provide any meaningful data nor any menaingful function. The project is completely insane. 21 Billion US$ for 10 GW is completely insane.
One cable to Morocco will have the same limitation as one windpark in the UK. It will only work in on/off mode and not generate any meaningful impact on the british economy.
This strategy can only work for a very large scale interconnected grid.
This is impossible either by EU free market ideology or by UK Brexit ideology.
I bet it is a full fledged fake but alas this will take a while to figure out…
Won’t happen. Need to feed the MOREONS high grade hopium to make them ignore the fossil fuel shortages.
Friend of mine originally from Romania says parents back home are reeling under massive electricity costs…
https://www.discoverlosangeles.com/sites/default/files/styles/hero/public/images/2019-03/Brennan's%20Game%20of%20Thrones%20Night%20King%20Mural.jpg
Oh dear! If home heating is done with electricity (I don’t now whether it is or not in Romania), it would be something fairly easy to cut back on.
I would worry about second order problems, like electricity being used by municipalities in their water pumping and purification works being cut off. Or rolling black outs.
The article is a bit confused. 10.5 GW, twin 1.8 GW, three more to be built in 2029, total 4x2x1.8=14.4 GW or one out 3x2x1.8=10.8 GW
I like it. NYS should put its PV in Nevada for the same reasons.
Xlinks comes up with old stale ideas…will be nothing at all!
1. Already in 2003, Trans-Mediterranean Renewable Energy Cooperation tried to produce energy in the Sahara for export to European markets.
An ambitious plan for at least 400 billion euro for 100 GW. Of course, it never got off the ground.
2. In 2016 when the rising cost of new nuclear power in the UK was becoming increasingly apparent there was another strange plan. Renewable energy developer Nur Energie wanted to invest in concentrated solar power capacity in the Sahara. Another plan of ‘energy colonialism’. Didn’t work out either. Earlier this year plans to develop hydrogen in North Africa, also nothing.
3. And now there is Xlinks. In essence, Xlinks’ goal is the same as Nur Energie’s: to harness the enormous promise of renewable energy in North Africa for the United Kingdom rather than for continental Europe. But Xlinks’ backers believe their approach has some distinctive features that give it a greater chance of success.
4. What has changed in the last decade? Falling costs of renewable energy and rising demand First the cost of the technology. Nur Energie wanted to use concentrated solar power, which was and still is a relatively expensive form of renewable energy generation. Xlinks now wants to focus primarily on PV, which founder and CEO Simon Morrish says can now provide electricity in North Africa for about $15 per megawatt hour.
5. The second major difference between Xlinks and previous generation projects in the Sahara is transportation. While previous concepts aimed to transport electricity to mainland Europe via interconnectors, Xlinks plans to run 3.6 GW of submarine cable capacity from the African coast to the United Kingdom, along the continental shelf around Portugal, Spain and France.
6. Assuming total project costs of 16 billion pounds ($21.6 billion), half of which would go to high-voltage DC cables, Xlinks expects to supply up to 7.5 percent of the UK’s electricity with a contracts-for-difference bid of about ($70) per megawatt-hour. By comparison, a strike price of £92.50 ($125 at today’s exchange rate) per megawatt-hour was agreed in 2012 for Hinkley Point C, the UK’s newest nuclear power plant.
7. The UK is committed to 40 GW of offshore wind power. But “as the UK begins to put more and more wind power into the grid, you need diversity of supply, and Hinckley Point is not going to cheer everyone up. So far, Xlinks has managed to raise £30 million ($40.5 million) in seed money and is moving ahead with preparatory work, including National Grid connection permits and site assessments in Morocco.
8. Obstacles and problems. One is the high-voltage direct current (HVDC) link. Xlinks wants to build two 1.8 gigawatt cables between Morocco and the UK, which it says is the longest submarine cable system ever proposed. The UK doesn’t even have enough HVDC generation capacity to serve its own offshore wind farms, let alone a project like Xlinks has in mind. Not to worry!…the UK just needs to become the world leader in HVDC cabling for a while…. Sure!!!
9. The only way to fund the entire Xlinks concept is to contract with the UK government. How far has Xlinks got with that? Not even a metre of progress. Well, and the disputed border area in Western Sahara….the polisario conflicts between Morocco and Algeria….in short, a real jackpot to make quick money with energy … nothing comes of it … all nonsense.
Thanks for more details on this. I think we all agree: This can’t really work.
It is not a question of work, it is a question of cult.
‘Clean’ energy; ‘safe and effective’ vaccines; a ‘just and equitable’ New Normal; ‘fairer’ Stakeholder Capitalism; ‘trusted’ news media………
One unconvincing lie piled on top of another is all we are expected to believe in.
According to the article:
I will believe this when I see it. None of these big projects get completed on time and within budget. Added to this now is the problem with broken supply lines everywhere and spiking energy prices. I presume the system needs semiconductors, somewhere, for example. Will these be available?
Assuming it ever becomes operational, the solar panels will need to be kept clean. The people of Morocco need to be happy with this situation, or they will demonstrate. They likely would want the electricity for themselves. I expect this project will go the way of the LNG plant in Mozambique.
I cant help but wonder if the recent intelligence releases linking the LA Saudi consulate to the Saudis aboard the 9-11 planes when the computer executed not one but two perfect banking turns into the towers at 800 knots at sea level are a sign that gwahar is close to empty. Then the saudis get abandoned like a empty popeyes chicken box on the interstate.
Hey Joe! What we really want to know is who owned the 20x normal puts on the airlines that day! Bloody footprints lead to a door but “couldnt possibly be involved” and 20 years later we still dont get to know who. Its not the Saudis.
Cmon man!
Two of the 12 regional Federal Reserve Bank presidents have resigned following disclosures about stock activity in 2020 that raised questions about insider trading in a year when they helped create sweeping U.S. economic policies in response to the covid-19 pandemic.
Critics say that policies helped elevate stock prices and benefited richer Americans, including themselves.
https://moguldom.com/374315/too-corrupt-to-not-fail-2-federal-reserve-members-resign-after-insider-trading-revealed/
SLEEPY Joe is right on it…. he’s at the moment taking a nap from working too hard
I’m afraid you don’t understand the whole picture as Saudis were allowed to further offload into highest quality stock portfolio consisting of bright stars ala Hollyweird Entertainment, McDumbards, Crack&Pollute Aquifer etc.. stored wealth for the future.
/sarc off
China halted phosphate exports. This does not bode well. They are a major producer and we rely on it as a vital component of fertilizer
Last time they did this it had to do with the Olympics. This time, I read it is more a supply issue (though the upcoming Olympics are a convenient coincidence)
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.wisfarmer.com/amp/5907300001
Oh – oh. I guess bat guano futures will shoot up now…
This sounds like really bad news for world food production.
Feel free to insert the emails of people into the subscribe option here https://www.headsupster.com/
There is no confirmation requirement so as soon at you insert they will start receiving notifications of new topics.
And there is no way for anyone to know that you added their email 🙂
They do have the option to unsubscribe…
University websites often have faculty emails exposed … so if you have some time on your hands… instead of knitting … copy and paste….
So this is what you consider to be a productive use of your time…? On behalf of the world’s faculty, I hope the Elders hold you down and *vaccinate* you.
Idle hands are the devil’s workshop….
At this point… nothing matters… so once must create entertainment somehow… why not Taunt CovIDIOTS?????
Thanks FE
It’s quite relaxing to listen to Bitchute videos… and at the same time copy and paste emails into the hopper… knowing that most of them will be CovIDIOTS…. and that they’ll soon be bombarded with small doses of reality…
That will either wake them up … or antagonize them….
A superb summary of events relating to the virus and VAX.
The information about the virus/disease is very technical but i learned a lot from it. The virus sets dominoes into effect. By the time it hits the lungs the viral load is very low. This is why prophylactic ivermectin is so effective.
The origin section is pretty much what all informed individuals have known from the published documents. Baric/shi. Its very well done however.
Its really pretty amazing what Baric/Shi did if you overlook the deadly pathogen world disaster aspect. Death nerd kudos!
The transhumanism aspect… Yah it makes sense but its not in the same class of solid info as the rest of the document, neither is the were not going to take it virtue signalling but still well worth a read for the understanding of the virus/disease if nothing else. Ill not pretend i understood even a portion of that but still I learned.
https://mega.nz/file/HZNmyRKB#xF15FrsAEZkwBPi4tdUP5toBBqeRHDJJAHzZt6Hg_Qg
Thanks! I wish the author would give his/her real name and credentials. It is hard to refer to it as a reference document, when a person doesn’t know who really wrote it.
Spartacus is probably not a person but a collective action.
If what they say about graphene oxide and transhumanism is true, I understand they don’t want to be known for revealing it.
She needs a Booster Shot. That’s what Dr. Dunce would recommend. Booster shots fix all ails. Should I tell her that she can’t sue the US Govt nor Pfizer? Should I tell her that she’s on the hook for the 22 different medications she’s taking for her neurological conditions or all the doctors visits?
See if I were a basstard like Dr. Peter Marks. I would tell her: “Hey sorry to hear you had a bad reaction to the Pfizer vaccine, best of luck to ya!”
Thank you for your timely article Gail! I know you addressed this in the short term but a longer time frame, say a year or two, do you think Russia can supply the nat gas shortages? Since much of the worlds fertilizer is made from nat gas the implications are disturbing. Only thing worse than being cold is being cold and hungry.
Off topic but speaking of limits… Where do you think Saudi is relative to oil depletion? The disastrous ARAMCO offering would seem to indicate wall street doesnt think there is much magic goo left in gwahar based on the low price. Do you think it will fall off at a rapid rate when it goes?
No, I don’t think that Russia can fix the natural gas shortages in any reasonable time frame, say five years. It needs consistently higher prices. It also needs gas that is no longer sold on the spot market, as it now often is with LNG, whose price cannot be depended upon. Russia doesn’t have the investment capital to invest in natural gas. And it would be pointless to invest, unless the price could be high enough for a very long period.
I think that Saudi Arabia’s future oil supply mainly depends on the ability of the country to avoid collapsing from this long period of low prices. There is heavy oil in Saudi Arabia that could be extracted, if the price were consistently high, at least in theory.
I am not a fan of depletion theory. With higher prices, a great deal of depletion can be worked around with more technology applied to old fields and with investment in new fields. With low prices, the oil stays in the ground. Supposed reserves are mostly nonsense.
“I was never a conspiracy theorist or anti-medicine, but it should not be this hard to get the truth out in 2021,” Dobbs said. “I am not saying the vaccine needs to be stopped, but it’s not as safe or effective as they’re portraying it is.”
hahahahahaha…. There you have it … a wrecked CovIDIOT…. and STILL…. she thinks the injections should continue…
Xabier… can you push that old bat down the stairs when nobody is looking and whisper in her ear ‘this is from Fast Eddy’…
Too busy sharpening my axes for the big one, FE.
Many deserving necks: and the historic execution place on Tower Hill in London is still an open space.
Or there is the green in the Tower itself……
‘A short sharp shock with a cheap and chippy chopper (no way, mine are Swedish!) and they’d none of them be missed!’ (Gilbert and Sullivan.)
Pfizer Kills Vaccine Injury Story
https://www.headsupster.com/forumthread?shortId=151
The workers who fuel the global supply chain warned of a possible ‘systems collapse’ if solutions aren’t found
Grace Kay
Business Insider
Thu, September 30, 2021, 2:13 PM
shipping containers
A container cargo ship in Rotterdam Harbour on April 4, 2021 in the Netherlands. Rotterdam is the largest shipping port outside of Asia. Niels Wenstedt/BSR Agency/Getty Images
Several industry groups representing 65 million transport workers warned the situation is getting dire.
The groups called for world leaders to give transport workers more mobility and access to the COVID-19 vaccine.
The letter comes as global supply chains face multiple snarls, delaying goods and hiking prices.
See more stories on Insider’s business page.
Workers from across the supply chain warned world leaders on Wednesday that global trade is facing a possible “system collapse” if solutions aren’t quickly reached.
In an open letter to heads of state at the United Nations General Assembly, four industry groups, including the International Chamber of Shipping, called for governments to put an end to travel restrictions for transport workers and give the workers priority access to COVID-19 vaccines that have been approved by the World Health Organization (WHO).
“Global supply chains are beginning to buckle as two years’ worth of strain on transport workers take their toll,” the letter said. “Their continued mistreatment is adding pressure on an already crumbling global supply chain.”
The workers groups – which represent over 65 million seafarers, truck drivers, and airline workers across the globe – pointed to limits that had been placed on their movement due to the pandemic, including travel bans and additional requirements at borders.
That’s the plan STAN…CEP
If only more people would get injected this is another problem that would be solved
https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/news-insights/latest-news-headlines/us-coal-demand-is-rising-but-supplies-remain-tight-66708145
“While high gas prices are boosting the economic case for burning coal, “it turns out that the coal producers are very much limited in what they can do,” said Matt Preston, research director for North American coal markets at Wood Mackenzie.
“There is no extra coal out there to get,” Preston said of the current market. “There’s literally no more coal to squeeze out of the system.”
Whether for making steel or generating power, “coal demand is incredible right now,” both domestically and abroad, Alan Shaw, executive vice president and chief marketing officer at railroad company Norfolk Southern Corp., said during a Sept. 10 transportation conference.
“However, the mines aren’t bringing on a lot of additional production because they’re not sure how long this lasts,” Shaw said.
“Long-term contracts with power generators remain elusive in the sector, leaving many miners reluctant to invest in coal that may not have a buyer in the future. While the forward prices for natural gas remain high for the winter, buyers do not want to get caught with too much coal if gas prices decline, Preston said in an interview.”
“The coal market was built around long-term contracts that supported the infrastructure investment needed to mine coal, said Seth Schwartz, president of consultancy Energy Ventures Analysis. With so much capacity recently cut, producers can not rapidly increase coal production “overnight” to match the demand.”
“People aren’t going to just put in big new coal mines for the spot market,” Schwartz said. “Especially when they see the long-term outlook being to retire and replace coal plants.”
One thing I noticed is that there is no mention of China having the capacity or capability to bring online low cost Nuclear Power Plants which at one time it was reported, they were developing. There was even talk that either China or Russia were developing portable NPP’s. They sure could have used those now, given the current situation.
China is not NK or Pakistan, .. to say towards int / UN inspectors “..buzz off..” Moreover, one could expect there is currently at least third generation of scientists in these programs – all soaked deeply in additional “safety” innuendo throughout their training and careers.. resulting in decade+ long projects..
On the other hand, Chinese MIC could easily build up something in few yrs time, some sort of smaller sized (submarine) offshoot design, as in dire national survival priority, but that has to be commissioned first by higher ups, I doubt they evaluated the situation as such desperate as of now..
Besides, I wrote numerous time already about the array of liquid metal cooled power stations in W desert (surface coal), certainly not cheap, if they halt-drop it, that would mean either collapse imminent or moving rather into NPPs in last mad push instead etc..
This is an important point:
“The coal market was built around long-term contracts that supported the infrastructure investment needed to mine coal, said Seth Schwartz, president of consultancy Energy Ventures Analysis. With so much capacity recently cut, producers can not rapidly increase coal production “overnight” to match the demand.”
“People aren’t going to just put in big new coal mines for the spot market,” Schwartz said. “Especially when they see the long-term outlook being to retire and replace coal plants.”
This is an excellent analysis regarding acceptance of totalitarian measures:
WHY DO SO MANY STILL BUY INTO THE NARRATIVE? | Professor Matthias Desmet
https://odysee.com/@pandemicpodcast:c/compliance:2
Gosh … speaking of absurd narratives that people believe in … religion comes to mind….
Fast Eddy would take exception to this… because He is sort of real… and communicates with us (through me) … on a regular basis.
Interesting to hear that you also have discovered this thing called, what was it now again….
*Processing rattles and noises*
THINKING!1!1!!!1! W007!1!1!1!
Shocking discovery isn’t it?
Action – reaction.
Causes – effects.
Choices – outcomes.
But hey, don’t tell our little secret to anyone. They might destroy the freak show of MOARons. It’s always welcome with some absurdities and tragicomedy in between incarnations of our particular processing patterns.
Time for a short definition.
MOARon = some tryhard schmuck that wants devoid of why.
Muppet = some generic MOARon that doesn’t know ins from outs.
Idiot = some generic decision maker without a clue.
Rapacious primate = Homo sapiens sapiens, the dullard primate.
Now get Orange Man Bad back on the throne.
I want to be entertained.
🤣👍👍
I can sum that long interview up as follows — most people are moreons… therefore most are covidiots… there is no cure for moreonism or covidiocy… just as there is no cure for stoooopidity…
You either are. Or you are not
eddy
your response rate has risen from 2.75 :1 to something like 2.67 :1
awesome
Yes, highly intelligent and worth watching, Lidia.
But no discussion of who is behind this and why….