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.
Jon Rappoport today:
“… When I wrote my first book in 1988, AIDS INC., I showed that HIV was not the cause of AIDS. In fact, there was no AIDS. That was a label slapped on a variety of health problems all stemming from lowered immunity. These health problems were caused by a variety of factors, none of which had anything to do with “the virus.” The major resistance to the book came from people who were conditioned to believe that every announced new disease had to be real, and every new disease had to have a single cause. I would call this ill-fated belief informational Hypnosis. It’s very effective.
Look at the history of organized religion. Each Church has its single First Cause. Meaning God. “Our God is real. Yours isn’t.” “Our God is the One.” Behind this farce is each organization telling individuals, “We have God. He is the One you should worship. Don’t go off on your own and find your own God. That doesn’t work.”
People are fixated on The One. The one God. The one Cause. The one Virus. And because they are fixated, leaders can sell them this One and that One and the other One. In 1988, I saw the full absurdity of that con, with HIV.
During the decade following the publication of AIDS INC., I discovered that no one had proved HIV existed. There was no reason to believe it did. After all, you could say a man with purple hair and six arms lives on the moon, but then you carry the burden of proof, and if you can’t supply any, your hypothesis is null and void. So the fixation on the One extends to the One that doesn’t exist at all. At that point in my work, I could see I was plunging headlong into territory that was going to place me outside any semblance of the mainstream or even an acceptable alternative universe.
Why? Again, because people were fixated on the One, and I was calling that fixation Mind Control.
[…]
Centralized authority wants to build a collective trance in which people believe they must think and do what falls inside certain boundaries. Nowhere is this more evident, these days, than in the promoted idea that a virus is loose in the world. The one virus causing the one disease. In many articles, I’ve taken apart the myth of SARS-CoV-2 and disposed of it. In the process, I’ve discovered that the whole branch of medicine called Virology is a hustle and a broken down Church of true believers, who can’t and won’t shake off their delusions.
Once again, I’ve come to grips with people who are so hardwired in their trance they can only bray, “People are dying, it must be the (one) virus.” The logic of that proposition belongs in a garbage dumpster in a blind alley at midnight.It’s right next door to, “They diagnosed Harry with COVID, he had shortness of breath, so they put him on a ventilator and sedated him with a drug that radically suppresses breathing and left him on the ventilator and he died because of the virus.”
In the realm of propaganda, willing victims select their preferred one idol. For example, Tony Fauci. His adoring worshippers need The One, so they choose him because he’s there on television, being interviewed by “the best people,” and he has a seal of approval from the White House, and he disagreed with Trump. This is called “following the science.” I would call it trailing behind a horse’s ass.
Over the decades, I’ve encountered many artists who stand for the widest freedom of expression and yet, when it comes to politics, they insist on absolute loyalty to the “prevailing culture.” Meaning the Left. I’ve also seen political libertarians who insist on freedom of thought, but believe all art since the 16th century is a perverse plot against “traditional values.”
At the bottom of these contradictions is, again, a fixation on The One. The one political point of view, the one acceptable art, the one acceptable Church…
And now we’re all dealing with the one tyranny that spells out “the one solution to the one virus.” And this tyranny is bent on subjugating many nations and imposing one government for one planet. On every level, from the political to the psychological to the spiritual to the creative, THE ONE has always been the conditioned mind control reflex that imprisons the individual.”
https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/2021/10/04/the-fixation-on-the-one-and-the-obsession-with-a-virus/
Not a doctor.
Oh do you need a doctor? OK.
https://www.duesberg.com/
One isn’t enough? Plenty of them here:
https://www.amazon.com/Virus-Mania-Continually-Epidemics-Billion-Dollar/dp/1425114679
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV/AIDS_denialism
Bei, it’s hard to imagine you are not a paid troll. You dismiss people you disagree with using appeal to authority and you link to the worst of the lying propaganda to support the official narrative.
Of course, you could be just another person in denial – I notice you, like the rest of the good Germans, never reply in threads about censorship, or official reports of vaccine side effects. Instead you prefer to do drive by trolling – just like most of the other trolls on this site.
Bei, like Norm and others are supporting the worst of the worst government measures, including censorship, segregation and murder
So can I please ask Gail not to delete this comment – pointing out that people support fascism is not “offensive” when they actually do.
If somebody was paying me, I’d post as much as Eddy. (Hmm, as long as we’re being anti-fascist, how do you feel about c-theories involving the Elders?)
I’m not a medical person, and can’t readily evaluate medical information or medical claims. In time I suppose the situation will become clearer. However, I am pretty confident in dismissing most of the c-theories. A lot of them make no sense, or have been debunked long ago (like this AIDS thing). Not that c-theorists ever acknowledge this. (Hello, weren’t Canadians supposed to already be living in camps or something?)
If you want to know what kind of Covid response I support, well, I’ve praised Taiwan’s a number of times, just on the basis of observed results. (We’ve been holding steady at about 150 current cases, mostly imported, out of almost 24 million people.) The USA, by contrast, has more than half the world’s total cases, at least according to reported figures (which I realize are questionable).
I too am frustrated by the issue of censorship in social media, but being censored doesn’t make you Galileo.
“However, I am pretty confident in dismissing most of the c-theories. A lot of them make no sense…”
yes, a lot of them.
“(Hello, weren’t Canadians supposed to already be living in camps or something?)”
The Leak has proven to be full of holes (harharhar).
it’s Q4 and reality is what it is.
The roadmap reported in the Canadian leak is clearly behind schedule in some respects, notably that of the development of “covid-21.” But perhaps Q1 2021 actually meant Q1 2022? We’ll have to wait and see, and can’t jump to conclusions.
https://yl9wj1huk5pejen62zybt2w8-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/MO-Sep-13.pdf
Enough was fed to those in attendance to get Canada to where it is — major uptake on the injections.
Did anyone thing they’d leak the actual plan? The CEP will not be televised.
HIV = AIDS: Fact or Fraud? (1997)
There is zero chance that Bei Dawei will see this doc, since he already “knows” the truth about AIDS.
That the chemical-pharmaceutical industry could have been deceiving its customers for more than a hundred years, corrupting universities and political institutions along the way, is a hypothesis too terrifying for normal people to consider. Normies won’t consider these things because their minds simply refuse to live in a world where these things can be real. Denial denial denial.
Again, I’m not a medical person. I’m not the one you have to convince (and if I was, you wouldn’t do it through a YouTube video). My opinion about AIDS doesn’t matter.
You don’t need to be a doctor to understand all or at least part of what is patently absurd in this pandemic narrative; all it takes is some logical ability and a bit of moral fortitude (a deep distrust for all kinds of authorities doesn’t hurt also).
It seems you rely too much on authorities and specialists. But to paraphrase Konrad Lorenz, Specialists are people who know more and more about less and less, until they know everything about nothing.
The reason American Moon is incredibly important… is that it exposes the matrix…
If governments are willing and able to maintain this massive lie for decades… then they can lie about anything — including covid and the vaccines.
Or AIDS…
Nothing is as it seems.
Exactly, FE. I find it somewhat amusing that some people are able to question the official truth about events like JFK’s death, nine-eleven or covid, but find it impossible that we have been lied to about the moon or AIDS. Why this mental block? I don’t get it. My stance is if they lied about JFK and twin-towers, why should they tell us the truth about anything? Doesn’t add up.
don’t tell me jfk is on the conspiracy list as well
endless.
What if the conspiracy theories are really the way a self-organizing system works?
that could well be so Gail
as long as conspiracy theories are accepted as a product, (or better still, side effect) of a self organising system.
the problem arises when it gets inverted.——— the creatures who are part of that ‘self organising system’ (ie us) convince themselves that the self organising system, is a product of all the conspiracy theories.
That way madness lies. We are headed there.
because then you have millions of people, all convinced that their ‘conspiracy theory’ is the perfect truth and contains the solution to all our problems. No other ‘truth’ is acceptable. No opinion considered.
Those millions energy-feed off each other, reinforcing their ‘certainties’. Conspiracy theories build one on top of the next.
Hence we have JFK–the Moonscam, 9/11 and a host of others, all the output of a hoax factory somewhere. QAnon is the latest. Social media delivers the feedstock. People suck it up greedily. Supposedly intelligent politicians repeat it to cash in on votes.
“we are all being lied to about”–fill in relevant problem here:-_________.
They cannot tolerate dissent, because dissent challenges those certainties, and if proven, also prove the idiocy of the original theory.
Which is why my dissent attracts so much flak. Insults I last saw written in chalk on the skoolyard wall.
I am disturbing peoples’ certainties.
And people cannot tolerate being exposed as foolish and gullible—which explains the religious leaders who extract millions of $ and even lead their flocks into mass death. The resistance to being exposed as foolish really is that strong. It’s being going on for centuries. Martin Luther exposed the sale of absolutions in the 15thc
Look into the eyes of Kenneth Copeland. Mad as a hatter—yet people send him millions. Self perpetuating gullibility. The rapture mongers are another bunch. There are thousands more.
The gullible find each other, then hang on to each other.
Sane people simply leave them to it.
I suspect this being bombarded with stuff like this has something to do with it — there is something about fear that overrides the MOREON’S Pea….
https://citytoday.news/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/wuhan-780×405.png
Keep in mind Century of Self… Freud also feared the Barnyard Animals… he saw what they were capable in WW1… and prior to that the Crimean war (which kicked off the industrial slaughter)….
He understood that they needed to be controlled … Bernays institutionalized control measures and without a doubt he carried out research that determined which buttons to push to ensure the Barnyard Animals would stay in line…. creating fear was and is one of these strategies.
The Barnyard Animals are up against it — they have primitive Pea Sized brains and they are easily confused…
I recall reading some years ago about how food scientists test their products to ensure that the Barnyard Animals will never eat just a handful… the example used was potato chips… the goal was to get the animals to eat the entire super sized bag…. just the right amount of salt… just the right amount of crispness…
It’s like that … only different…
I suppose you could look at it that way, Gail. In the grand scheme of things, self-organizing systems do what they have to do to create complexity and dissipate energy. The difference is that a conspiracy by definition involves intentionality, whereas a hurricane or a tree doesn’t even need a brain to do its work.
Of course, Norman. And Bob Kennedy too, imagine! But of course you are pulling my leg. I can’t believe you’ve never heard of the magic bullet that killed JFK. Even my dog has heard of it, and he didn’t seem shocked by the news, because cynical as he is, he’is used to being suspicious and expecting the worst from human beings.
There are still quite a few people … who would watch the Zapruder film and still believe the Oswald story….
Just as there are those who will look at this … and still believe Biden when he says these vaccines are safe
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/wp-content/uploads/Figure-1-Number-of-Deaths-Since-1990-feature-1024×533.jpg
Barnyard animals…. well trained dogs…. but then they’ve been in training since birth … only the truly exceptional are aware.
Hi Norman,
Here’s something for you to watch after you have finished “American Moon”:
JFK to 911: Everything is a rich man’s trick
As a bonus, it’s almost seven minutes shorter than American Moon!
norm has no time for this… he’s putting on his fanciest clothes and practising in front of the mirror ‘yes suh – please do inject the left arm this time. … then in a deeper more manly tone ‘yes suh….. please do inject the left arm this time’
“One ring to rule them all, One ring to find them, One ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.” – J.R.R. Tolkein
Jacinda wimps out.
by Paul Joseph Watson | INFOWARS.COM Monday, October 04, 2021
New Zealand has announced it is dropping its controversial ‘zero COVID’ policy after numerous critics pointed out that such an approach to eliminating the virus was impossible.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern made the announcement earlier today during a press conference in which she acknowledged, “The return to zero has been extremely difficult.”
“What we have called a long tail has been more like a tentacle that has been difficult to shake,” she added, noting that the delta variant of the virus forced a change in policy.
Critics had repeatedly asked how the country expected to maintain a ‘zero COVID’ policy given the emergence of new variants of the virus and decreasing efficacy of the initial round of vaccinations.
https://www.newswars.com/new-zealand-abandons-controversial-zero-covid-policy/
How to raise one’s body temperature in the winter without any external source of heat? CHILI powder. Feeling a bit chilly, then reach for the chili.
Never say that Mirror never told you nothing useful. The Brits can stock up with packets of chili powder now and thank me if they survive the coming winter.
I often sprinkle generous hot chili powder or dried crushed chilies into the dinner while it is cooking, and I can vouch that it does drastically raise body temperature. I am given to remove one’s top and even to blow a large fan at me while I eat curries or whatever with added chili. They would work in any kind of ‘stew’ or sauce but they can be added to supermarket curries.
It is all about… SERCA and thermogenesis, evidently.
I could not say whether the effect is cumulative, so perhaps Brits would be wise to start currying now and assess whether it is working for them.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/08/080806140130.htm
> Hot Peppers Really Do Bring The Heat
Researchers have found that capsaicin, the active chemical in chili peppers, can induce thermogenesis, the process by which cells convert energy into heat.
Chili peppers can do more than just make you feel hot; the active chemical in peppers can directly induce thermogenesis, the process by which cells convert energy into heat, according to a new study.
Capsaicin is the chemical in chili peppers that contributes to their spiciness; CPS stimulates a receptor found in sensory neurons, creating the heat sensation and subsequent reactions like redness and sweating.
Now, Yasser Mahmoud has found that capsaicin can create “heat” in a more direct manner by altering the activity of a muscle protein called SERCA. Normally, muscle contraction initiates following the release of a wave of calcium ions from a compartment called the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR); SERCA then actively pumps the calcium back into the SR (using ATP energy), causing muscle relaxation and renewing the cycle.
Capsaicin, however, can attach to SERCA and “uncouple” this pumping activity; that is, the protein still burns ATP energy but doesn’t use it to pump calcium. Instead, all the ATP energy is given off as heat. This uncoupling, known as thermogenesis, is one important method of staying warm and is most often seen in hibernating animals.
Mahmoud notes that capsaicin is the first natural compound known to augment the thermogenesis process….
“Mahmoud notes that capsaicin is the first natural compound known to augment the thermogenesis process”
Just a comment here – I know there has been research to explain the reason aspirin works for so many problems (I think it’s still work in progress). Thermogenesis was part of the explanation for aspirin’s many benefits. Since aspirin comes from willow bark, that would be another natural compound.
Willow bark contains salicylic acid. Aspirin is acetylsalicylic acid, which is much more efficient.
Instead of chili the BBC should hire Wim “the iceman” Hof to give classes in cold resistance on prime time. Training the brown fat cells could do wonders when hitting peak everything.
Another Mirror comment I heartily endorse.
Feeling rather seedy on Sunday, a dark, chilly and damp day, I made a rather hot curry from scratch and within a couple of hours I’d been restored to hot and lusty vigour.
I shall email the Chief Medical Officer at once!
Or was it the wine…….?
The national health authority needs to buy a full body winter suit for all Brits that can not afford to heat the living space.
https://images.thenorthface.com/is/image/TheNorthFace/A12P_ZU3_hero?$PDP-SCHEMA$
and gloves and boots
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and a sleeping bag
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and a balaclava
total kit in volume six hundred pounds per kit
say ten million poor that is six billion pounds
so 6 billion out of gdp of 2000 billion pounds
1/3 of 1% of GDP
if you can kill the economy for covid put up a few quid for granny freezing to death
UK Gas Supplies – the politicians’ advisers
Throughout the noughties (2000-2009) the Energy Institute in London used to hold an annual seminar, a day event of multiple talks, every October. I attended them from about 2005 – 2009.
The highest civil servant in the UK govt whose specialist area was UK energy supplies spoke at a couple of these. I have forgotten her name, but she was an economist by trade as was most of her staff. At one of those meetings, 2007 I think, she said her department were involved in a large project looking at oil reserves and oil depletion. i had not heard of this, and she left straight after her talk so I could not chat to her. When I got home, I checked her and her department online – nothing regarding an oil depletion project. But she did say she was very enthusiastic for her team to meet and chat to people, so I got in touch with her and arranged a meeting with them – me, Chris Skrebowski and Richard Hardman (Former Vice President, Exploration, Amerada Hess International) met up with a team from the Energy Dept. to discuss Peak Oil.
Chris gave his usual peak oil presentation (usually about 1 hour long), then after about 15 minutes their chief negotiator, I have forgotten her name, slammed her hand on her desk, interrupting Chris’s talk, and went on a rant. She said various articles in the Energy Economics journals said that oil could increase to £500 / barrel, and the UK economy would cope just fine, and she clearly believed this. I knew we were wasting our time. They were theoretical economists, but Richard Hardman was what you might call an applied economist and they would not listen to a word he said. We left shortly after.
I mention this because these were the folks advising politicians and developing UK govt policy. I doubt the calibre of energy analysts has changed much within the UK govt over the years. Expect nothing less than a load of tosh coming from the UK govt over the next few months re UK gas supplies. They really were clueless 2000-2009 and I am pretty sure still are. Clearly are clueless if we are short on gas at the end of summer. And it has been a remarkably warm September, second warmest on record for the UK the weatherman said tonight.
The articles in the Economist magazine are written by an incredibly clueless group of people.
Perhaps, with so many energy problems in Europe, the group that rose to the top were the completely clueless group. No one dared model what would happen if energy supplies fell and inexpensive imports were not available. It was a better to assume that an economy could run entirely on services, and that these services didn’t depend on energy. This was especially the case in the UK.
I am sure that Norway is a little more aware of the issue, with its dependence on oil and gas, and the hydroelectric balancing it sells. Without its energy resources, Norway would be a very poor country.
I certainly observed at The Guardian that those who were favoured promoted told the story that the clueless senior managers believed.
This must happen in many companies and bureaucracies, and publications like the Economist.
When studying history, we were taught the concept of the ‘official mind’: a narrative apparently grounded in reality that all state officials must follow in order to be take seriously. Original thinking not required.
One had to be very senior indeed to change the narrative.
The “official mind” seems to be the way to the failure of the elites.
why will nobody tell me how much money i need to have to become one of the elite
for all i know—i could be just a pound short.
UK Gas supplies – Brian Wilson MP
Brian Wilson was the UK Energy Minister from 2001 to 2003, when Tory Blair’s New Labour Party were in power. Several times I saw articles written by Brian, or on TV, criticising UK energy policy and lamenting how insecure the UK’s gas supplies were. Oddly, Brian never understood peak oil, he always believed that oil supplies would last forever more or less. But he did understand the precariousness of UK gas supplies, This was 20 years ago, and I always wondered why as the UK Energy Minister, he did nothing about it.
A quick re-cap. The two things that were most required to secure UK gas supplies was a massive extension of UK gas storage facilities, and a change in the law that would allow gas supply companies to enter long term gas contracts, the type that guarantee supply without putting said gas supply company at a financial disadvantage. Neither of these could be done without the support of his colleagues, since it would require new legislation.
A few years later in the Aberdeen Press and Journal’s (daily newspaper) monthly energy supplement he explained why. UK govt Cabinet meetings, where the top politicians gather to discuss and make decisions, totalled about 80 people. He tried his best to explain the dodgy situation the UK was in re gas supplies, but not a single person was interested and he was told to shut up. The top 79 of the UK’s political establishment, and not one of them, bar Brian himself, was interested in the UK’s gas supplies. And so although Brain understood the situation well (probably the only Energy minister that ever did), he was able to achieve anything. And so, here we are.
Thanks for your insights. The peak in the UK’s oil production was 1999; the peak in its gas production was 2000. I would suppose by 2001 to 2003, the energy minister would be pretty aware of the problems he was about to encounter. Whether or not he believed in world peak oil, the peak oil and natural gas were staring him in his face in the UK.
Trying to tell the others would likely have been a difficult endeavor. Oil prices were low then; it didn’t look like the oil that the UK was losing was worth much. There was an abundant supply, at least until China started raising world demand.
I didn’t realize that it would take a law change to massively increase UK gas storage facilities and to allow gas supply companies to energy long term contracts. Clearly, China is different in this regard. It understands the need for long term energy supply, and is willing to enter into long-term contracts to try to obtain it.
I read in a BBC article two weeks ago, so source unreliable but looks about correct, that the UK became a net importer of gas again in 2005. I doubt anyone remembers, but global gas supplies were tight 2005 -2008 (the GFC changed everything, until now), and exactly as now, the UK had to import gas on the spot market at exorbitant prices that it could not really afford. We have been here before, tight gas supplies globally, but the UK is in a particularly dodgy situation.
Storage is of no use… the UK needed to invade a country and steal their gas.
Thanks, very informative.
Didn’t Tony Blair just reply, dismissively, ‘We’ll innovate!’ when asked about energy security?
I hold you are securing all the candles in your part the world?! I’ve enough for 10 years of normal usage now, and am turning to some anthracite stockpiling…….
>>I hold you are securing all the candles in your part the world?!
Just last night I was thinking – why stop at enough for the family? There is a business / trading opportunity here.
Don’t need matches. One of the ironies of life. I collected match boxes and match books as a kid, got about 2,000 (i.e 60,000 matches). They were stored in my parents attic for decades, forgotten about, until recently returned to me. I think they still work.
UK gas supplies – what happens when supplies are short
Until 2009, I assume it is the same now, the protocol for when there is not enough gas is to shut down the industrial / commercial users of gas. Back then this would have cut demand by about 10%. These users are given 24 hours notice that their gas supplies might be cut off. In return , when gas supplies are/were plentiful, they got them a bit cheaper.
This actually happened twice (at least) in the late noughties, 2006-2008, both in March / April, late winter, early spring. The supplies at the Rough storage facility (which no longer exists) were almost empty and there was no policy to ensure imports. Both times all relevant companies were given 24 hours notice, but they were not actually cut off. Then, as now, the price of gas for them quadrupled, and the resulting cut back in gas usage by those companies was enough to prevent cut off of supplies. But then as now several companies shut down, and several moved over to Poland where gas supplies were cheaper (at that time) and more reliable. In other words, these supply and price shocks are not new, we have been here before, and not much has changed.
At the other end of the spectrum, the last customers to be cut off (unless by ‘accident’) are domestic users – homes , schools, small businesses etc. Roundabout 2008/2009, a district within Glasgow got their gas supplies cut off, a few thousand homes. The law in the UK states that when gas supplies are cut off, when they are reconnected, a qualified gas engineer must be in every property, to prevent explosions. For the Glasgow incident, 500 gas engineers were pulled in from all over the UK, and it took two weeks to get everyone’s gas supplies up and running again. The bottom line is, if gas supplies get cut off at the city or regional level, it would take months to get everyone reconnected.
If cutting off supplies to industrial users is not enough, next in line, I guess, will be the electricity suppliers. I have no idea how likely power cuts are this winter, but as mentioned above, when UK gas supplies were short in the past, it was at the very end of winter, not at the end of summer. like now. I am stocking up on candles, to beat the rush. I am pretty sure that gas boilers don’t work without electricity so it could be a cold winter.
I know that in the Northeastern US, in Massachusetts and areas around there, before all of the drilling for Appalachian Shale gas, it used to be somewhat common to have not enough gas for both electricity producers and for homes and businesses, when it was cold outside. The problem was (and perhaps still is) that the pipelines did not carry enough natural gas for all users to “max out” their use at the same time.
Natural gas was used for heating and businesses; it was used for many industrial processes, and it was used for generating electricity. This electricity was also used for heating homes and businesses.
My understanding was that the electricity generators purchased back up diesel powered generators, so that they could be knocked off line. Industrial users were early to lose their natural gas; in fact, they got a lower rate because of this. Big users, such as schools, could be closed, because reconnecting them would be pretty easy. But, gas for homes and small businesses was not cut off, because of the difficulty of relighting all of the pilot lights on all of the furnaces, hot water heaters, clothes dryers, and stoves that were in use by citizens.
I don’t know exactly what happened in Texas last February when there were natural gas outages because of cold weather. My impression is that homeowner did continue to get natural gas, even as others were cut off. The problem has been that the prices for the natural gas that they purchased was absurdly high. Also, I believe that some of the companies that sold gas to homeowners went out of business because they sold gas to homeowners in a manner that capped their natural gas rates. In this case, it was the businesses selling the gas that got stuck with the un-payable bill.
>>In this case, it was the businesses selling the gas that got stuck with the un-payable bill.
About 8 of the smaller electricity supply companies in the UK (there used to be 18 of them apparently) have gone out of business over the last 3-4 weeks, for precisely this reason. Their gas prices quadrupled, but the prices they can charge their customers for electricity is capped. I am pretty sure that until now domestic price increases are capped at about 12%.
Society in general (not least the MSM) in the UK have a strong track record going back years of accusing the energy suppliers of price gouging. Makes for good headlines but detached from reality.
@Fast Eddy
What would happen if the plebs somehow win and the Humpty Dumpty does fall down?
UK gas supplies – a bit of history
Most but not all of the UK’s current gas supply issues originate from the (Margaret) Thatcher years, the 1980s. Until the Thatcher govt got elected, electricity and gas supplies were organised and controlled centrally by a govt-sponsored organisation. For electricity that was the CEGB, Central Electricity Generating Board, not sure what the gas supplies equivalent was called.
But break these institutions up is what Thatcher and co did, and left UK gas supplies to private companies. This might have seemed like a good idea at the time, since the UK was becoming self-sufficient in supplies at this time, and I suspect that Thatcher was being given outrageously optimistic forecasts about our gas supplies in the long term.
This worked fine, and gave UK gas consumers the lowest gas prices in Europe, as long as there was plenty of gas. But there was, and still is, two issues with security of supply. The UK has one of the lowest, if not the lowest, gas storage facilities in Europe, enough to last 4 days apparently if used at full capacity, but it never is. It was never in any company’s financial interest to increase the amount of storage, so they haven’t. In fact, the small amount of storage that was available at the time of privatisation has actually fallen, since the Rough storage faculty closed in 2017.
The second issue is that it is not any individual company’s interests to enter into long-term contracts with overseas gas suppliers, at least it wasn’t up until about 2009 at least, and I suspect that is still the case. Gas provided by a contract that guarantees delivery (as long as it is there to be delivered) costs more than a contract that does not, so if any UK gas supply company entered into a long term contract with suppliers that guaranteed delivery, they would be at a disadvantage compared to the other companies who would pay less. Up until at least 2009, all countries in Europe had gas suppliers that were able to agree long-term gas supply contracts with Russia, Norway, Algeria, Egypt and Holland, plus LNG suppliers, I could never understand why the UK could not come up with a system that would allow them to do the same.
I cannot find a link, but roundabout 2009 an LNG tanker (from Qatar) that was just about to dock in South Wales was redirected to Japan. The details of the LNG supply contract were confidential, but in any case, one of the Japanese companies bid higher than the UK company was willing to pay, and off the LNG tanker went to Japan. I seem to remember calculating at the time that a tanker-load of LNG was worth about £50 M, so if Japan offered 10% more that would increase the value of the LNG by £5M. Well worth diverting. The point is, Japan gets all of its gas from LNG, and if it is short, it is in a position to outbid the UK for any spot LNG. It would not have to bid a lot more than the UK to divert any available LNG cargoes. It also begs the question, how secure are UK supplies from Norway? Our (UK) politicians are fond of telling us our supplies are secure, but I have a hunch they have not got a clue what they are talking about. More on that later.
Thanks for your bit of history.
Up until about 1980, I believe that a “utility” form of management of electricity and natural gas was typical most places, including the US. Each utility had many types of suppliers underneath them. Each organization also did distribution as well as obtaining the natural gas or electricity. Rates were set that were high enough so that proper maintenance could be done. To me, this is the only sensible way of selling electricity or natural gas. Other approaches do not provide enough rates in total, and do not give the proper incentives for taking all of the steps needed to keep up the system.
My understanding of the history is that after the spikes in natural gas, oil, and electricity prices in the 1970s, businesses especially were unhappy about the way costs were distributed. They wanted more of the costs to be paid by homeowners. They wanted to get the total cost down as well. When Margaret Thatcher (May 1979 – Nov 1990) and Ronald Reagan (January 1981 – January 1989) it become the fashion to break up utilities into smaller pieces to “encourage competition.” So it wasn’t just the UK that moved in that direction. Worrying about maintaining transmission lines became a thing of the past, since that added to costs.
In the US, some states moved heavily into the “competitive model.” These tended to be the states with high electricity prices. These states tended to use a lot of natural gas. The states that used more coal, and that tended to have lower rates to begin with, stayed with “traditional regulation.” There is a map in this website, showing which states are which.
https://www.leveltenenergy.com/post/energy-markets-101
Competitive rating states were those in the US Northeast, California and Oregon, Texas, and Illinois.
I can see how the UK fit in with the group of US states that were most struggling with high prices. They wanted to do anything to get them down. But all of this cost cutting tends to bring the system down.
Georgia, where I live, has “traditional regulation.” For example, those of use living here have been paying for years for two new nuclear electric power plants that are not yet finished. This would never happen in a competitive electricity state.
Ironic that the competitive states have higher energy prices.
i have booked my covid booster
i shall stay clear of junkyards, in case i walk under one of tthose crane magnets
Watch out for EMFs as well. If you begin having muscle spasms while next to your WiFi router it’s a sign.
jordan garbutt
“Hi guys, I received the 1st dose of Pfizer on 16th June 2021. That night throbs all over body that literally thought I was going to combust from the inside. I am a young healthy 25 year old man.
“A few days later went to the Doctors- all bloods, emg, MRI, xray work all normal.
“3 months on and been having daily Muscle spasms, tingling, and twitches/fasculations in every area of my body..some painful.
“As many people on here are experiencing I expect this is our nervous systems reacting creating a longhaul autoimmune response to the vaccine..
“I personally believe in healing naturally, I do lots of yoga, Meditation, breathing techniques and I live a mainly plant based lifestyle so I try not to take meds to heal myself.
“This week I tried Fasting for an entire 48 hours and I have to say It seems to have done me the world of good. The twitches seemed to have calmed down a lot as the fasting seems to have helped free myself of those free radical toxins and helps to clear damaged cells from the body. This is within a matter of days, so Maybe Try Fasting for a few days a week and see if this helps as it definately helped me…been suffering for 3 months not feeling like I can enjoy each day to the fullest with these constant twitches getting in the way.
“Thankfully I am having another test done next week and I am waiting for a neurologist appt so I will post on here to let you know what they say.
“I am hoping with a detox mentality, eating the right food within a healthy time frame will eventually make the twitches go away for good. Have faith and belief people!!! Nature is the best way to heal and it will heal you.”
Ellie S
“There are many reports of graphene oxide and metals in the vax. The metals are conductors. It is clear to me that the electrical feelings and twitching are just that. Your muscles are being electrically stimulated. There is so much electrical charge in our environment with cell towers and WiFi, smart meters and smart devices everywhere. You are just getting hit with the electrical discharge due to the new conductivity of your body. You’re basically an antennae now. You may find peace in the woods, far away from signals, electricity and WiFi. I’m sorry you succumbed to this horror.”
https://www.medscape.com/sites/public/covid-19/vaccine-insights/how-concerned-are-you-about-vaccine-related-adverse-events
What an experiment, eh?
on the last paragraph then
i will stay clear of junkyard magnets
https://thesenecaeffect.blogspot.com/2021/10/the-age-of-exterminations-iii-you.html
Ugo has just blogged about how “they” are likely to want to get rid of old men.
I would agree with Ugo. The system cannot handle all of the pensions and medical care of the middle class old people. Something has to change this.
I am not sure how this actually takes place. If there is a break up of the United States into parts, I would expect that neither part would provide very good coverage for old people. Or perhaps something else happens, with all the COVID and vaccines.
Gail, any new state will not honor the debts of the old state including social security and medicare. I expect we return to the old system; work until you can not then rely on your children. If one has no children then starvation will be the final step of your “retirement”.
I highly recommend The Ballad of Narayama. It is visually beautiful and show a traditional solution to retirement with dignity.
I agree with Gail. Covid and vaccines will probably trigger something…
“Gail, any new state will not honor the debts of the old state including social security and medicare. I expect we return to the old system; work until you can not then rely on your children.”
I tend to agree with Ed. I’m under the belief that the longer you work, the longer you tend to live. It’s when you stop working is when the mind then the body starts to shut off.
I used to work at a Walmart in Florida and we had a little old lady who was on the verge of turning 105 yrs old. Her secret was a stress free life and working. She said working at Walmart gave her purpose and kept her going.
I worked with another fellow who was going on 84 yrs old and he was as sharp as a tack. He worked in the automotive dept, changing tires and doing oil changes.
and of course deadlifts… very important
I think it’s possible some young people may conclude in hard times that “The problems we are facing are the fault of older generations” and act spitefully. I don’t think this is actually justified, but seems to be a possible response in my mind if and when the demographics change.
Is there a tremendous amount of knowledge lost with the retirement/loss of older workers?
The education of the general young population seems to be very poor; e.g. ability to make change. Today I was to receive $.53 and rather than two quarters and three pennies received a quarter, a nickle, two dimes and three pennies. I am receiving incorrect change more and more and those giving it are very slow and uncertain. This is not isolated.
Who will run a nuclear reactor? Who even maintains older systems where current education is lacking?
Dennis L.
Today I was to receive $.53 and rather than two quarters and three pennies received a quarter, a nickle, two dimes and three pennies.
Yes, I can see the problem…
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Thank you for suggestion. Yes, Ugo Bardi is very prolifc with interesting historical comparisons.
He keeps up the honor to be an Italian Scientist who should never forget where he comes from and he surely does well.
ah yes—‘they’
i am surprise that Bardi gets mentally enmeshed in the ‘they’ thing
i’ve no doubt that swathes of humankind will die, for one reason or another—ive said it so oftem i’m beginning to annoy myself, but there’s no ‘elite’, no ‘they’ involved.
those who die off will do so because they do not have sufficient energy input to stay alive.
starving, freezing…sickness–you name it. Those who live will live in circumstances of reduced energy availabilibity
but there’s no universal grand plan with it all.
the world can’t carry 7–8—9bn, therefore the world will shed its excess, No help from Bezos, or Gates’ injections of iron filings, or godly intervention on sinners like me.. Nobody is going to get raptured.
Humankind is maybe at an evolutionary dead end. In species terms we got here very quickly
We would not be the first. Having a private yacht to sail away in will only prolong the inevitable, not prevent it. (they run out of fuel).
It is naive to say that there is no elites – history shows that the elites often work for their own interests to the detriment of the rest of us. The events leading to the establishment of the (not) Federal (not a) Reserve clearly show this..
Perhaps you mean in this case, elites are not acting? Quite the leap of faith..
The establishment of the Federal Reserve showed powerful families manipulating congress and the media to institute a system that benefited them and hurt everyone else through the stealing of the purchasing power of the dollar..
So it is undeniable that “elites” exist and manipulate events..the only question is whether they are acting now..like I said, to presume they aren’t is naive.
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A little primer on the fraudulent fed:
The New York branch was always intended to be the strongest/controlling branch of the Fed. It is estimated that 8 families own 80% of the NY Fed through various bank holding groups. It was designed to be as confusing as possible so that the peasants would not discover that a quasi-private entity was creating money from nothing, hence Henry Ford’s statement: ‘It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.’
Although the 6% permanent dividend is pretty sweet free money, that’s not the real cherry is it? The real cherry is money creation. So if you are familiar with fractional reserve lending, it goes like this: US gov knows to tax people directly for wars/handouts etc would never work without their heads on a pike, so better to do it on the down low. So .gov says we are going to sell treasuries. Anyone can buy these treasuries, but the Fed is always the buyer of last resort (gotta make sure .gov can bomb some brown people) through the FOMC. This is the unholy alliance between the quasi-private Fed and .gov, the Fed always makes sure .gov gets their money and in exchange the Fed gets to create free money..
Anyways, let’s say that the Fed bought 1 million in treasuries from monies created out of nothing. Now the Fed can sell/transfer all, or a portion of, these treasuries to its member banks. The member banks can then use these treasuries as reserves. Remember fractional reserve banking? So let’s pretend the reserve requirement is 10%, it is much lower of course, but let’s pretend. A member bank buys 100k in treasuries from the Fed at .05% interest, the member bank can then use this 100k in treasuries as reserves (at our fictional 10% reserve requirement) to loan out (read: create out of nothing) 900k in new loans with interest/principal paid back to themselves. So the member bank, using the 100k in treasuries from the Fed, can create 900k of new money with the interest and principal of this 900k paid back to themselves…pretty sweet deal for the bank huh?
Wait, doesn’t this cause inflation? By creating new money, aren’t they eroding the value of the money already in existence? – You betcha! That is why inflation is called a stealth tax, but as long as the peasants don’t cotton on how this system works or that they are being taxed twice, it is all good…
So the questions that naturally arise are: 1. Why do banks get to make money out of nothing while you and I have to work for it? 2. If a legal contract is only binding if there is consideration from both parties, does that mean that any contract with a bank (i.e., a mortgage) automatically fails for lack of consideration from the bank? Something made from nothing (no risk) cannot constitute consideration, thus are all mortgages/loans fraudulent?
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The answer is easy, Norman: he is both bright and observant.
Oh, and well-informed.
Yes, there are plenty of reasons for expecting some kind of reset (to put it mildly). There is no need for inventive theories about how that reset plays out. We can be fairly certain it will be uneven and chaotic. Several commenters here would deny many of the reasons for the collapse, ahem, reset despite abundant evidence but will quite happily accept that it’s “them” who will do it and with an actually worked out plan. I don’t think it will be that pretty but part of me wants to live to see it in full flow (oddly, for some of the reasons FE wants extinction).
“…the life expectancy of the people who are alive today is going to drop like a stone. It will be a classic example of a Seneca Cliff.”
I believe Ugo Bardi is right. Therefore gen-xers like me will never reach retirement age, and the life expectancy of my generation will be 20 ot 25 years less than that of the lucky boomers. Helas, c’est la fukking vie of a dissipative system.
Shouldn’t they only be injecting the older people? And no children
We still don’t know what pseudo-vaccines do. I can’t rule out the possibility that its aim is to cull pensioners and sterilise the young. About that only time (beginning next winter) will tell.
CDC Director: Vaccines No Longer Prevent You From Spreading COVID
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2021/08/06/cdc_director_vaccines_no_longer_prevent_you_from_spreading_covid.html#!
What is the purpose of vaccine mandates if the vaccines do not stop you from getting and spreading covid – and almost ZERO healthy people get very sick from covid?
This establishes that they are not purposed to protect people… so we can rule that out
Of course, the goal is not to protect. All vaccines serve only one purpose: to capture fixed costumers and generate billions for Big Pharma.
Re covid-vaccines, we know that their goal is not just profit, nor even just paving the way for the normalization of digital passes.
There has to be something more to it. You suggest “devil covid”, and you may be right. But we can’t rule out a softer scenario, which would be to cull pensioners and increase infertility among the young.
I think this last scenario is more likely, since devil covid would create utter chaos, major disruptions, and it is very important for elders to ensure two things: that the sheep do not panic, and to maintain plausible deniability.
Enough billions to pay off every leader on the planet – including the ridiculously wealthy Putin and Xi?
Hard to imagine there’s enough dosh in this to make wrecking their country and citizens… worthwhile.
I believe no vaccine was ever designed to protect anyone, but only to guarantee billions to the pharmaceutical industry.
But why would men like Putin and Xi — both worth probably hundreds of billions of dollars… wreck their countries to ensure Big Pharma made a few billion?
Sure they could offer to share… but that would be a pittance…
Airlines along lost over 200B .. https://www.headsupster.com/forumthread?shortId=170 Far more than Big Pharma is making … surely there are people who own shares in those business who have power and would push back… what about all the other businesses that have been clobbered?
Xi’s or Putin’s problem is the same as that of any cattle farmer in a period of drought. If the summer only gave you pasture for 1000 sheep, and you, a highly indebted shepherd, have 5000 of them, the only option is to slaughter the ones you can’t feed, trying to sell their meat at the best possible price (or let it rotting for the vultures).
IOW reducing the world population is seen by the leaders as something imperative and inevitable. It may not be seen as The Solution, but if I were a billionaire I wouldn’t see any other options to try to secure a future for my family, my friends, my class.
We always bump into the same point, dear FE: I believe the covid operation is an attempt at controlled degrowth and transition to a sort of techno-feudalism, you think it is a CEP. Only time will say who’s right (not that it matters to a dead man anyway, as i expect to be when the Truth is revealed!).
But where will the energy come from to run this?
Nuclear? What do i know? Anyway the great reseters seem convinced that their plan is goody goody. Maybe they envision themselves in the future as feudal lords, only with nuclear power and electric cars instead of horses and carriages, happy and prosperous in a world of 500 M people? Feasible? Maybe not. But it is not only the poor who delude themselves with vain hopes.
The women tend to live longer – when freed from us, I suppose?
Given your presence on Our Finite World, one would be hard pressed to argue that you are uninformed regarding the “vaccines.”
I have two colleagues who, early on during the scamdemic, said they didn’t care what was in the injections. One colleague said she’d inject cat litter if it would end the lockdowns. This colleague recently said, “Oh, we’re all going to need boosters.” The other colleague had his third Pfizer shot about a month ago. He went out of network to receive the first two shots because his healthcare provider didn’t have the new experimental gene therapy injections available fast enough for him.
being ‘informed’ is not the same as being amused, but in can create amusement unintentionally.
eddy constantly informs me that the moon landing never took place.—why he finds this necessary i have no idea (along with other critical ‘facts’)
ultimately it is amusing.
I am ‘informed’ that Bill Gates wants to inject me with iron filings so that my movements can be tracked via 5G masts.
I am supposed to react with something other than amusement at such nonsense?
Yet it is ‘truth and reality’ to some on OFW.
I am ‘informed’ that my new g-grankids will be used for medical vaccine experiments.
Worth nothing more than ridicule I’m afraid.
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/oct/04/bridgerton-emmy-winner-marc-pilcher-dies-covid Double Injected
no medical procedure is 100% effective or safe
i’ve repeated that on numerous occasions.
people die in the dentist’s chair
the precise medical circumstances of that incident are unknown, but it at least allows you to jump up and down and foam at the mouth at my stupidity, (spelt without o’s you notice)
medical procedure?
He died of COVID even though he was fully injected.
Do you know what day it is norm? State your full name… no it’s not dunc.. try again … no it’s not MOREON… that’s technically not your name … but if you want to change your name to that you can apply at the court….
Let’s do some additional tests:
What street do you live on norm?
What was your first job?
What is your blow up doll’s name?
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/
my blow up doll has been looking over my shoulder for years, giggling at your daftness eddy
she’s said nothing until you decided to include her in your inane ramblings.
now, she makes her thoughts very clear: (I did warn you)
”eddys problem is obsession with self”—her words, not mine.—- she is a very observant lady.–almost human in fact.
she went on: “I’m so glad you bought me,’ she said . ” if he had bought me, i would find myself a large pin, and sit on it, if he ever came near me”…(not her exact words you understand, but this is (mostly) polite company, and I try to respect that.)
interesting reaction wouldn’t you say eddy?
“being so self obsessed would make him useless to me.” she went on. She’s a good judge of men.
I should point out at this stage, that she is a top of the range model, but only has two settings, which I can control from my phone:
Nymphomania, and martial arts.
Sometimes its hard to tell the difference until you get used to her.. The Martial arts setting is useful against burglars though. Personally I’m used to the bruises. You get what you pay for, I always say.
“it would all be over in 30 seconds” she says…'”not worth my battery recharge time”
I then point out that you are called ‘fast eddy’.
to which she replies…”yes but I’ve never known anybody THAT fast., no wonder he has so much time to waste on OFW.””
I nod in sympathy. “this is his life. Here he can play at superiority, as long as no one peeks under the cloak his con artist tailor sold him. or dares to disagree with him. —and he’s almost as old as I am, so we should make allowances.”
to which she makes a rude noise. “you are as old as you feel” she says. I raise a quizzical eyebrow.
I hope she hasn’t accidentally sat on one of my pins.
So I’m to believe everything I heart on MSM about a pandemic, and how to behave about it? I think I remember you saying otherwise.
Norman, you are a brave man and accepting a Covid-19 booster shot is a truly courageous act.
The damage caused by these injections to the human body is cumulative. At a conservative estimate, each shot cuts the recipient’s life expectancy by an average of three years.
But you accept this risk with good grace in the sure knowledge that you are helping to flatten the curve. To paraphrase Christ, Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s insurance company.
All of us at the Prudential, who have an excellent change of being relieved at an early date of our contractual responsibility to continue to pay your pension, salute you!
It might no seem like much when billions of shots are involved… but every drop matters… when the end goal is to create billions of mutation factories all focused on being the first to birth Devil Covid…
The thing is… norm needs to buy a ticket if he wants to be in the running for The Man Who Ended Humans…. i.e. norm needs to get infected with Covid…. unless he is infected then the vaccine has nothing to work with …. the vaccine needs the virus so that it can act as its sparring partner… so that the virus can reach its peak potential…
norm … let us know which mass gatherings you’d like to attend… we’ll see what we can do about getting you tickets…
https://guides.ticketmaster.co.uk/concerts-and-tours-guide/
It’s a long shot … given the billions who are vying for the crown… but if you don’t play — you can’t win
you serve to keep my pin sharp eddy
i need little more
Here’s an idea!!!
Let’s all put 50 bucks in the pot … and buy a whopping life insurance policy on norm …
If his ongoing participation in Covid Roulette goes badly (Booster 4 is being prepped… 5 is being discussed)… we take the cash … and find a way to meet and hold the Mother of All Wakes!
When there is a local power cut, I can actually feel it before getting confirmation when I flick a switch and nothing happens.
How would we all feel if the power and the waves went off, I wonder?
Sounds like a talent that should be developed.
A well-known and respected sporting journalist here, Mike Yardley, who reviews top-notch shotguns, etc, suffered terrible ‘adverse effects’ from the first shot.
Within hours he experienced:
Collapse, clots in legs, blurred vision, unable to walk, burning sensation, and skin actually peeling off.
He is now only able to hobble about, and in great pain.
He’d asked his GP if in light of his medical history, it was safe to get vaxxed? ‘Absolutely!’ said the GP……
I hope all goes well for you.
well–the first two went ok
unless it was distilled water
Perhaps “they” consider you too important to eliminate, Norman. You are being protected from on high, having been placed on their list of “Chosen Ones” who will survive the genocide and help “Build Back Better” for the coming generations. You’ll finally be able to join the Council of Elders for the next round of human civilization. In one of life’s ironic twists, you’ll find yourself a welcomed member of the “they” and your mind will be blown by the additional perspective gained.
“I thought you people were the stuff of conspiracy theories and legends,” you’ll say upon meeting “they” for the first time.
“Yes, we prefer the majority of humanity to think the same, dear Norman. We would like you to join us in our efforts at directing the future trajectory of the human species. What do you say?”
I think it was the pithy book title that put Lord Pagett over the top.
And Norman will say,
“No, it’s impossible, impossible! You exist only in the delirious and sick imagination of C-theorists! I absolutely refuse to believe that They, or rather you, exist! Go away, ghosts, shoo!”
Deadlifting has been designated a key sport in the Great Reset… and norm has a spot as a trainer of the old goats
I think I’m too important to eliminate, but that state will be short lived.—at my age i am about to put my theories on immortality to the ultimate test.
Council of elders has nothing to do with it.
My mission on OFW is keeper of the pins—to puncture conspiracy balloons where possible.
come to think of it, I wouldn’t want to be ‘saved’ into the company of elders, only to discover. (as I have stated on numerous occasions) that my lavatory will not flush.
for the moment i will stick to earthly rapture, rather than rely on the heavenly variety.
O Keeper of Pins, so you admit that despite all your sharp points, you haven’t been able to puncture the American Moon conspiracy balloon? Despite being presented with endless opportunities to make it go bang? This is a significant failure on your part. Lord Vader will not be amused.
despite constants pricks from my pin, the faithful conspirateurs on ofw keep blowing harder and harder–prodded incessantly by you know who.
it is, on a more serious note, too foolish a concept to be worth pinpricks–it ultimately deflates itself
as i can testify from my consumption of moon sourced green cheese
But it’s happening right before your very eyes norm… and deep down you know its happening.
Otherwise — why are you getting the Booster?
well—the place giving the booster is close to the dementia home where one of my old classmates is now residing
thought it would save petrol doing both at the same time.
This is the look on the CovIDIOTS face when Fauci said — sorry but the Boosters are no longer effective … we’ve caused Immune Exhaustion …
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/76/d1/09/76d109f7c5adeddb4dadcc5891d76c88.jp
good to see norm and dunc doing their part to bring about the Nightmare Scenario and the CEP.
Better they take the risk than me…
Already got my third.
Haven’t been near any junk yards yet.
Did take a long hike today, and no metal attached to my body.
Probably a commie plot.
You, too, Duncan, must be among the “Chosen Ones.” Fascinating: two future members of the Council of Elders on Our Finite World! I’m sure you’ll be tasked with showing Norm the secret handshake. You’ll probably be assigned to each other as “Brothers.”
Yes, that is the way “they” work. Infiltrate the opposite and turn key select members with money and membership.
If you were in power… would you not want to breed docility and MORONISM into your subjects?
That way it is unlikely that anyone would ever oppose you….
You need the right breeding stock to achieve this … norm and dunc are a bit old to be MOREON Studs… but that’s where this contraption comes into play
https://ae01.alicdn.com/kf/HTB1Q3ToKXXXXXcoXVXXq6xXFXXXJ/Sperm-washing-equipment-car-washing-liquid-wax-tool-automatic-dilution-ratio-is-the-ratio-of-diluted.jpg
I like the artificial sperm propeller.. guarantees crappy sperm inseminate the egg!
We live in the era of intermittency: the costly oil or natural gas are intermittent, too, as the majority of the population can not afford them continuously and almost freely the same way as the cheap energy.
The Bat Woman published the RatG13 bat virus genome January 20th 2020, which is 96% same as Sars-Cov-2. Until that day no one had heard of the RatG13 virus.
The RatG13 virus is probably not natural, but a lab virus, a former lab creation to the Sars-Cov-2. It contains genome that doesn’t exist in nature, that improves its proofreading when it replicates it self in a cell.
The fun thing is that Pfizer recognised this and changed a letter in the unnatural gene sequence in their mRNA vaccine.
“Nothing to see here! Just some bats with high degrees.” Harvard2TBH
By not natural do you mean to inject a DNA fragment containing the letter psi is natural?
https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/reverse-engineering-source-code-of-the-biontech-pfizer-vaccine/
Confusing and ranting recommendations.
‘EMA’s human medicines committee (CHMP) has concluded that an extra dose of the COVID-19 vaccines Comirnaty (BioNTech/Pfizer) and Spikevax (Moderna) may be given to people with severely weakened immune systems, at least 28 days after their second dose.
The recommendation comes after studies showed that an extra dose of these vaccines increased the ability to produce antibodies against the virus that causes COVID-19 in organ transplant patients with weakened immune systems.[1] [2]
Although there is no direct evidence that the ability to produce antibodies in these patients protected against COVID-19, it is expected that the extra dose would increase protection at least in some patients.
EMA will continue monitoring any data that emerges on its effectiveness.’
So, what is the purpose of third dose?
To let you monitor us?
Because other purposes are not clear…
https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/news/comirnaty-spikevax-ema-recommendations-extra-doses-boosters
The purpose is to force the virus to further mutate and strengthen and work towards an outcome that involves creating a Super Virus that acts on humans as Mareks acts on chickens.
On the issue of Russian nat gas to EU, has no one in Europe seen the Chinese and Russians do deal after deal for the last 20 years for fossil fuels and delivery pipelines?
Russia has an honest reliable customer that does no continuously threaten and sanction Russia. How dumb can the EU and Britain be?
Good points. China is willing to sign long term contracts for fossil fuels and delivery pipelines, without constantly getting into spats with Russia. No wonder that China comes ahead. Perhaps China has been more confident of its ability to pay for the fuels.
As if Europe was some autonomous entity that could act in its best self-interest. Heck, even the motor of Europe, Germany, is under American military occupation since WWII.
“[The purpose of NATO is] to keep the Soviet Union out, the Americans in, and the Germans down.”
— Lord Hastings Lionel Ismay, NATO’s first Secretary General
When it comes to pipelines (Ukraine), here are another famous words:
“Fuck the EU.”
— Victoria Nuland, Assistant Secretary of State
OK, i will tempt fate. Here in NY state we have no food shortages, no fuel shortages, no electric issues, all is well.
There are some empty spots on the shelves for junk food in the grocery. Building supplies have quadrupled in price. Medical system seem no worse than usual.
When do you see this hitting home?
I think food supply chains run on 3 to six month intervals. So my guess would be December
I don’t really know. One, perhaps minor issue is that the Indian Point Nuclear Plant was closed on April 30, 2021.
New York State does have a lot of hydroelectric power. One EIA sources says that New York is third in the country in the production of hydroelectric power. This is helpful.
Higher natural gas prices will raise electricity prices starting quite soon, I expect. It will also raise home heating costs for those heating with natural gas.
Otherwise, New York faces the same risks as everyone else.
Disaster is truly upon us – Facebook is off.
same here but the question is
is it facebook
or is it us who are off fb
Just asked people who use FB and it’s down here(SE England).
Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp all down apparently.
Since I only dream, and let things happen as they may, I played around with the following…
A WORK IN PROGRESS
We have a totally new world system, all of a sudden
Facebook could be part of that system
The government doesn’t need to nationalize Facebook; we the people might people-ize Facebook
Governments needn’t go away, but they aren’t there to lead
We the people, comprising free individuals with the entire world on our shoulders, each one’s version of it different, must balance government power with people power
EDUCATION
What we learn needs be divided into sections that suit the human mind; the structure of pedagogy must mirror the structure of that mind
Adroit, responsible, creative cutting and pasting from social media might get to be the new, printed materials for education
Murals and other public art, with life spans based on what they communicate, might be appropriate physical ways to communicate in our new Facebook world
governments only give an illusion of leading
energy leads—the more surplus energy is available, the stronger the government ‘appears’ to be. They can build roads bridges and dams (Roosevelt’s new deal) and they can support armies. (Hitler)
without surplus energy governments collapse and descend into chaos.
but people remain convinced that the government is somehow in charge—but it isn’t.
they are on the same rollercoaster as the rest of us..
as surplus energy declines—-like now—the delusion of democracy vanishes like the mirage it always was. So we elect extremists who promise we can have our BAU back—like Trump.
such people are self seeking charlatans. They do not restore democracy, they inflict autocracy.
And we cheer them on.
For a short time
I think you are right, Norman. Without surplus energy, it is hard for any country to be successful.
What happened to my reply to Norman Pagett?
I’m following you up to your paragraph 6. As time goes on, I regard Trump with increasing disquiet, but you have to be missing something to see him as an essential cause of the mess we’re in.
Donald was and is weak. In hard times we need a hard leader who can take all the energy, food, land, resources from the others and make it ours. Maybe a member of the Hell’s Angles for president or a leader of a strong Mexican Business group aka cartel.
i can only hope and assume that you are joking
the don was weak
but those around him were not—and if he runs again, and gets the job, he will hit the period of total collapse. those around him will manipulate him with flattery to get what they want
Norman yes joking. Donald will be an equal failure in 2024 if he wins. We do need someone with a mind of his own.
It takes some seriously twisted thought process to ferret and scrap around to find a way to blame Trump for the disgusting state the newly-Socialist America is now in…and for the decay of Socialist Europe.
Right now there’s Europe that’s hell-bent on driving the world to Global Socialism by forcing the democracies into following them down the deadly rabbit hole of energy insecurity….forcing them via a threatened consumer cartel…holding them hostage …forcing them to try to survive on energy from the WEATHER…and there’s an incompetent secret regime in the US that used an apparently non-compos-mentis but well-known and usefully-compromised and dodgy machine politician with personal business links to the Chinese Communist Dictatorship…as their Trojan Horse to get them into power with the help of the oligarchs of BIGTECH …brutally and ruthlessly rogue and partisan-political FBI and CIA…and almost all of the MSM jackals .
No one knows who’s running the USA…just that it’s not Joe Biden.
What we do know is that this proudly-Socialist US regime-has held hundreds of political prisoners-many in solitary confinement for >9months-sent swat teams to homes of middle-aged and elderly law-abiding Americans…took ALL their electronic gear…hard drives etc… took THEM away to prison…claimed they’d been unlawfully in the Capitol when many of them were just watching from outside…and now they’re losing EVERYTHING they’ve ever worked for…homes…. pan-generational family farms…all their money…to try to defend themselves against a vicious…corrupt… authoritarian…life-destroying BidenInc regime that would make Putin and XI proud and obviously emboldens them.
And then you have Donald Trump-who -despite the assault on every aspect of his administration and life …and on his family and anyone who accepted an appointment from him…a relentless pogrom on one man that’s unprecedented in history…despite the HORROR the rational world as distinct from the Global Socialist New World Order world witnessed over 5 years from the moment he decided to run….despite the malevolent forces he faced every day…he positively recharged American hope and enterprise and Americans’ pride and faith in their country.
Trump restored the US economy and had it roaring ahead pre-Covi….he embedded energy security…started the pipeline from Canada…guaranteed veterans timely medical treatment for the first time in US history…got more black and Hispanic Americans into employment than any other POTUS had done in > 60years….announced he would legislate for the transformative policy of school choice…..empowered black colleges…brokered peace in the Middle East…and much more…too much and to threatening to their own subversive agenda for the Global Socialists to tolerate.
So of course it’s Trump who NEVER politicised the military….never threatened to destroy the nuclear family and the suburban live they strive for….never incited anyone to do anything violent or against the law…never breached the sanctity of law-abiding families’ homes…never destroyed American jobs with the stroke of a pen…never used the Deep State to threaten lives and livelihoods of law-abiding Americans ….never changed laws unconstitutionally amongst many other devices…to steal an election…..of course it’s Trump you label now as ‘extremist’..’charlatan’….autocrat….to try to shift the blame away from the Socialists of America and Europe…where all the blame resides…blame for the CAGW hoax and the energy crisis it spawns as it USES climate as its political tool for its planned [and well and truly-admitted REAL AIM] …drive to DESTROY what are …for now… democracies…in order to enslave them under the yoke of Global Socialism….their Build Back Better scam….that can only lead to a world absolutely DOMINATED by the Communist Chinese Dictatorship.
metro thank you for the valuable post.
I think Trump was the best president for black Americans. He did many good things. What disappoints me so, is surrounding himself with traitors that destroyed both him and the nation.
metro I believe the US federal government is already “absolutely DOMINATED by the Communist Chinese Dictatorship”.
I thought Putin controlled America?
Or was it the Elders… yes of course… the Elders…
Look, look, over here, it’s the ‘wicked’ Chinese/socialists.
Don’t look over there at the plutocrats and the M.I.C., there is nothing to see.
Postkey…
I’m looking straight at the plutocrats.
Haven’t you noticed that the plutocrats ARE the uber-Socialists and they are running the CAGW hoax….making unfathomable fortunes out of the misery they intend to cause the rest of us in their grab for total control.
While preaching to the rest of us about CO2 and sea level rise they fly the world in their private jets and most of their massively-emitting mansions are so close to the ocean as to be almost IN the ocean…see the oligarchs of Big TECH…Gore…Kerry…Obama…Biden…Gates…Hollywood Left et al.
the certainty continues that our problems lie in ‘politics’, that a different brand of politics can change everything, or is responsible for what we do not like
that in itself is the main ‘problem’.
but the scream goes up—”socialism”—as if that will be economic suicide, using Cuba or somewhere as an example.
or blame the ‘deep state’—whatever that is supposed to be, for some political malaise or other.—
there is no deep state., only powerful business interests.
Trump had religious bigots dancing round his desk in the oval office, ‘laying hands’ on him…..and we are supposed to accept that as ‘normal behaviour’ from someone supposed to be the ‘leader of the free world’?
The expression on his face read ‘charlatan’.
Biden is a ‘man of god’, but at least he keeps it private.
At political rallies, it’s ‘normal’ to lead your throng in chants of ‘lock her up’??
Lose re-election, have the results proven again and again, and still scream ‘fraud’ months later?
Charlatan.
states that climate change is a hoax, as a vote getter for those who believe that.
anything to stay in office.
I thought it was Obama who put in place to improving employment model. Trump just took credit for it.
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all of the above is academic anyway.
The USA, as with everywhere else, has an energy problem, compounded by a climate problem.
The shade of politics is irrelevant.
it isn’t possible to create employment without energy conversion.
and energy conversion is making the planet unlivable.
We insist that the laws of physics do not apply to human beings. We are about to discover that they do.
No matter who you vote for.
@Norman Pagett
LOL Biden a ‘man of God’? He’s a supporter of late-term abortion and the queer lobby. The Catholic Church in the US is debating whether or not they should ban him from receiving communion at church because his politics is so un-Godly. This is only a couple of steps removed from being officially kicked out of the faith altogether.
Moreover: the claims of election tampering and voter fraud were never disproven and there was a TON of evidence that never got a fair hearing in an actual court. Of the dozens of cases filed all but ONE were dismissed on procedural grounds (“No standing to sue”, “wrong jurisdiction for that type of lawsuit”, etc). Judges ran for the hills. If I could post a GIF here that epitomizes the banana republicesque 2020 election, it would be that one from Michigan that shows a red curve and a blue curve (total vote counts over time), with the blue curve (Biden) suddenly jumping up vertically and leapfrogging the red one in the middle of the night on Nov 4th.
Obama oversaw the weakest economic recovery since WW2, both in terms of GDP and jobs growth. Metro is right, Trump made comparatively better gains, especially on the jobs and wage growth front and also especially for the various identity groups that the Democrats always claim to be fighting for (e.g. women, blacks, Hispanics).
Finally: AGW is a fraud. The whole field is built on models that never sync with reality. It’s not science, it’s scientism.
Bravo!!! Thumbs Up!!!
Biden is a man of personal faith.
he is also a realist, he doesn’t seek to inflict that faith onto others. He doesn’t allow creepy godbotherers to stand around his desk laying hands on him. (how weird was that?)
He recognises that being elected to high office doesnt give him the right to control personal inclinations of other people.
extreme religion seeks to deny human rights, ie—my god is better than your god…..if you remain convinced that Trump was defrauded of the election—then i must leave that with you.
arguments would be pointless and a waste of keyboard time.
as would trying to point out the physical manifestations of AGW, visible right now..
if you have that fixed as a fraud, you find yourself in like minded company on OFW. I recognise where you are coming from, There’s nothing i can do about that, neither would i try to.
‘Socialism’ is the catch-all blame point for the condition human society now finds itself in, brought about by personal greed and the certainty that insatiable greed is the right condition for human advancement….ie ‘technology’ will solve everything. Capitalism brings wealth to all.
thus, the laws of physics are transcended by the laws of god and economics.
unfortunately for all of us, that isn’t true.
I think Biden is one of the few presidents to be aware of that. Carter was another. He is a man of god too—and also a realist.
Wow… it’s much much much worse than I thought…
“O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!”
Looks like a DNS/routing/network problem.because hostname can not be resolved.
A switch in DNS is the easiest way to “switch off globally”.
My question would be, what was the (last) post that made fb switch off.
If there was such a thing, it will show up shortly on another site.
Not worried.
This will have a huge impact on the internet holobiont.
I mean, we understand that we can no longer live on google and youtube but fb off is pretty bad for Moarons. Thank you for pushing them towards alternative sites.
11 days left from M.Pool….
I have it:
“We read it first on OFW”
haha, thanks Gail and fellow posters!
FB is being blamed for stirring up hate and violence by our trustworthy MSM? (sarc)
According to net providers (backbone connectivity) the “Facebook outage” knocked out in cascading fashion the overall net infrastructure globally for any other users as the mass of people rushed through the system like a tsunami..
FACEBOOK: AN OVERVIEW
It seems to me that FB, the medium through which nearly half the world communicates, is being systematically maligned and
pressured to follow the libtard, snowflake, wokesterist line. It has no interest in those matters and is only trying to survive. It sensibly weighs, compromises, sorts on what to enable or censor.
USERS
FB users like me are happy to have a free medium to communicate through with the rest of the world. We pay no attention to ads. We even might fancy that we could use it toward organization. Is that what is called to imagine a vain thing?
The overwhelming majority of censors on FB are members, whose ignorance and st. upudity reach unfathomable dimensions. You might welcome their knowledge in one area that could serve for organizing. But then mention subjects we’ve been discussing here for years and it’s like stirring up a hornet’s nest.
FB members don’t need TPTB to censor FB. FB users do a most impressive job of that themselves.
They would have data centres and layers of redundancy because every hour down costs huge money in lost revenues….
I suspect this is yet another signal preparing us for what is coming.
At least in the U.S. the federal government runs the back bone of the internet. The work is contracted to ATT. With a few keystrokes any address can be blocked.
Wonder why a missile was fired at the ATT building in Nashville shortly after the election.
Destroying the concrete reinforced sub-basement and the machines contained within. I was in Nashville and saw the destruction done.
Dead machines tell no tails.
Today one of my recorded lectures mysteriously became unavailable to the students. An external site for homework refused to send grades to the Canvas system most universities use, and one of my students got unregistered from my class without anyone doing anything. I seldom have one bug in a day, and when it happens it is early in the semester. I never had two, but today it is three. Lots of networking problems out there.
The recording medium of my thesis about 3-D Computer Vision was stolen from the safe of my faculty 20 yeas ago.
When I asked my professor about it he said: maybe it was just a minor technical glitch.
Seems to be a DNS Problem:
https://www.zdnet.com/article/what-took-facebook-down-major-global-outage-drags-on/
“…people can not enter the building because security badges do not work…”.
“…poeple that might enter the building do not have the skills to get the thing up and running again…”.
Very funny.
Some people manageing complex systems obviously have a very low knitted brain.
So now its the time to invent the “CMC” by MM here:
“Collapse due to missing mental cpabilities”
Do not confuse with: “CNP4WID”
“Collapse due to not being paid enough for what I deserve”
here it is:
facebook.com domain is name serviced by 4 servers on the facebook domain:
a.facebook.com
b.facebook.com
c.facebook.com
d.facebook.com
and not IP adresses.
If the domain fecebook.com is doiwn your nameservers won’t be resolved.
I do not know much more of this but I bet that in the background with proxies, caches, reverse lookup services, DNS and secure DNS and cloudflare and so on, this will take quite a while to reestablish.
If you get acces to a console.
Actually I have a Notebook with a RJ-45 port aka serial port to connect to a switch. I am just so fuckin old school, nobody should hire me.
Later problem might be that the person having access to the “keystore” is no longer employed and the keypass is somewhat lost. Or similar problems. This thing is somewhat “far out of daily routine” that to find the cause might also be quite far…
I had that before, sigh.
The DNS is not needed if you use the address directly.
Reach Facebook by IP Address
69.63.176.13. 69.63.181.15.
What Is Facebook’s IP Address? – Lifewire
https://www.lifewire.com › Social Media › Facebook
It appears to be deeper.
Please accept my condolences in the midst of your great national tragedy.
I copied and changed a little on this comment to make it clearer. It is related to nat gas in EU.
They (EU) will blow up his (Puton) pipelines too and then try to blame him for Europe freezing to death, in the run up to the banksters third world war.
Maketh sense…. if they are desperate.
All your gas belongeth to us
Actually the russion gas is in Turkmenistan. That is not Russia.
A lottava also exists in Iran.
We will see.
I do not think that there will be a deliberate attack, more like False Flag. We will see.
From what I gather from Klausi, “them” do not endorse a big war…
“ . . . we’re going to have wars against what they called much weaker enemies and these have to be carried out quickly and decisively or else there will be embarrassment— . . . And that’s the way it’s been. . . . but it’s some kind of constraint.”
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2018/03/noam-chomsky-populist-groundswell-u-s-elections-future-humanity.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NakedCapitalism+%28naked+capitalism%29
World’s Largest Commodity Traders Face Massive Margin Calls As Global NatGas Arb Explodes
https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/worlds-largest-commodity-traders-face-massive-margin-calls-natgas-arb-explodes
Seriously as if we dont have enough issues… Evergrande is still not settled by the way… they have 30 days before it is declared as a default
Reuters is reporting:
LNG sellers seek credit letters as gas price spike stretches credit limits
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Also,
I would note that a spot price of $34.47 for LNG is equivalent to oil selling for $206.82 per barrel.
Prices are getting way up there. Banks are increasingly in the middle of this. Something could go wrong.
Will this be the first winter that Brits go through the winter without working central heating due to an impending acute energy crisis?
10 of 1000s of the elderly here already die each winter from the cold due to fuel poverty. It has been going on for decades, and it is perspectivized as one of the ways that people eventually pass on, and no big deal – to literally freeze en masse our poorer pensioners to death. Something for the younger to look forward to?
Scandinavian countries do not have the same problem, despite harsher climates, due to narrower wealth inequality and better conditions for the elderly.
We may find out how the younger like it. But the elderly will still be the most liable to be killed by it, in the hundreds of thousands. All for want of better LNS storage? The Tories have opted for minimal storage and for ‘on the spot’ supplies, which is not working out.
“All Nordic countries have far lower winter mortality rates, despite much harsher weather. Norway’s rate is a quarter that of England and Wales, while Finland reports no difference in mortality rates between the summer and winter months.” https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/jan/20/older-person-dying-winter-fuel-poverty
https://www.ageuk.org.uk/latest-press/articles/2018/november/response-to-new-excess-winter-death-figures/
> Response to new excess winter death figures equating to 379 older people a day
Published on 30 November 2018 11:31 AM
New figures released by the ONS today show that over the winter of 2017-18 there were nearly 46,000 excess winter deaths among people aged 65 and over. Excess winter deaths compares the number of deaths between December and March to those during the rest of the year.
Responding to the new figures, Age UK’s Charity Director Caroline Abrahams, said:
“Last winter there were nearly 46,000 excess winter deaths amongst people aged 65 and over – a shocking 92 per cent of all excess deaths – equating to 379 older people a day. These distressing figures are now the highest we’ve seen in over 40 years.
“A toxic cocktail of poor housing, high energy prices and ill health can make winter a dangerous time for many older people, and tragically it is the oldest old and those who are the most vulnerable who particularly suffer the consequences.
“We know such high levels of excess winter deaths are not inevitable. As a country we are not doing enough to ensure our older population stays warm and well throughout the harsh winter months.
“Age UK is urging older people to do everything possible to protect themselves against the threats posed by the winter cold – and it is vital that we pull together and make sure we all help those around us.”
I wonder if the difference is partly due to higher vitamin D levels in the Scandinavian countries, allowing residents to fight off flu and other winter illnesses better.
I am doubtful of freezing to death.
Shocking as it is, a lot of elderly people in the UK are shuffling off with hypothermia.
https://www.ageuk.org.uk/latest-news/archive/hypothermia-cases-almost-double/
It will be worse this winter I reckon.
A nice anecdote for you.
Sven Goran Erickson the Swedish ex-England team manager toured the country watching football at the start of his coaching career.
He went to see Leeds train at their Thorpe Arch facility, on top of a moor somewhere in Yorkshire. The weather was horrendous. Horizontal snow.
The Leeds lads came out wearing only short sleeves, and proceeded to knock seven bells out of each other. Just in training.
Sven reckons he’d never felt cold like it! He thought it was the most impressive spectacle he’d ever seen.
The cold in the UK in a bad winter is wet and dank. It gets in your very bones.
Hypothermia can build slowly and sneak up on people. I was without heat for several days due to a furnace failure and the house stayed about 50F/10C which was tolerable at first but body temperature kept dropping. Layers and exercise helped but could never really get my core body temp up without an external heat source.
The problem in the UK is there is still a not of Victorian red brick housing, that is very poorly insulated. Many more modern buildings from the 60s/70s and 80s are not much better.
And a lot of pensioners who can’t afford the heating.
“Scandinavian countries do not have the same problem, despite harsher climates, due to narrower wealth inequality and better conditions for the elderly.”
Scandinavian houses are likely far better insulated than british houses. Prices of electricity is lower. Its common to heat houses at countryside using wood. I do it myself, very cheap, but some additional work.
It has always seemed odd the stories from England when the temp hits 30F and people are dying. While here in New York it is -10F and no one complains.
People without money for heat will have to either share a house with another to double the money for heat or do as they do in Japan and put the old folks in the school/town hall for the winter.
To the “aware” commenters of OFW, throwing aside conspiracy theories, are the leaders in EU and China blind towards the energy crisis? I mean someone did not check constantly what is happening to the supply and demand or there is someone who told the leaders but the leaders are practising “shoot the messenger “. I think this “fiasco” is not something that happened overnight but must have some telltale signs way before it explodes. Or perhaps I was naive?
I am fairly certain that the Chinese leaders were very aware of the energy problems ahead. I say this from meeting with some high level people, and with the kinds of things that the Chinese energy researchers and I were writing in the papers I published with Chinese energy researchers.
My understanding of renewables in China is that to a significant extent they were adopted to help their export economy. They are much more realistic about the limitations of these devices than the US devices. Some of the solar was purchased mostly to help out the export industry when the industry could not find markets elsewhere for their devices. Electric cars were pushed to make use of their coal.
I don’t have any “inside information” from Europe. The Paris-based IEA seems to be chief cheerleader for the Renewables will Save Us story. Anyone looking at their fossil fuel production data can see it is headed downward. Germany is incredibly far north to have faith in solar panels. They have needed a story to tell, so have picked the “Renewables Will Save Us” story.
I also don’t have any ‘inside information’ about Europe, but leaving here, reading European newspapers and talking with Europeans, in my view they mainly believe in their new ideology: green energy.
Nobody has taught them the role of energy in society and how it works.
They still think they can argue with any Country, because in any case US will come to save them and also about energy.
They still think US is the new Saudi Arabia for oil & gas.
Some Country maybe thinks it would be enough to ask for energy and have it, due to their own importance or ‘grandeur’.
They (we) are at mercy of their dreams.
But they (we) will probably see the result of this.
You have good insights regarding their problems.
I do have inside information, although not directly in the energy field, but in a couple other technical and ONG fields, and you would be hard pressed finding people more ideologically stiff and incompetent. Their description, here and in other fora, is generally quite accurate. If you are perceptive, you can just watch their faces in pictures and extrapolate.
Physiognomy FTW:
https://images.thewest.com.au/publication/B881865257Z/1620269391615_G2N38QQEU.2-1.JPG
It seems that in France the opinion is moving slowly. The famous doomer Jean-Marc Jancovici has gained a lot of audience and he is now member of the “Haut Conseil pour le Climat”. There is also Mathieu Auzanneau, a journalist who wrote the book “black gold” (which is excellent by the way). They are both involved in the think tank “the shift project”. The problem is, they pretend that the decline will happen by 2030 while we are already in, obviously. I am still waiting for someone here to have the courage to tell it frankly, but we are not here yet.
Most politicians are really stupid so I don’t expect anything smart from them, but the top leaders are necessarily aware of what is happening.
From a german point of view, I can only agree.
The vast majority of citizens have eaten the “wind and solar will save us” story.
Morality and ideology has swept everything else completely away.
“Abstract
We add to the emerging body of literature highlighting cracks in the foundation of the mainstream energy transition narrative. We offer a tripartite analysis that re-characterizes the climate crisis within its broader context of ecological overshoot, highlights numerous collectively fatal problems with so-called renewable energy technologies, . . . “
https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/14/15/4508/htm
From my perspective (email traffic up to the european commission) I can tell you that these people are completely nuts.
They are so utterly completely brainwashed by their ideology of free market and are pretty sure that MMT will print energy into existence that I can assue you: They have no plan whatsoever.
Nothing. Period.
The idea of these peoeple is that whatever needs to happen will happen because Adam Smth said so.
Making something like a plan is absolutely completely unimaginaribly nothappeningly out of their mind.
It was easy to realise when they strarted the completely insane hydrogen thingy. I think it is about 1 year ago that they flipped that switch because it is the emergency exit to inefficient renewables above a certain level. They have no clue whatsoever.
This is clear. If I climed here, nobody will believe me, but I have plenty of written evidence of sheer utter mental failure by authorities.
I made the post some 3 days ago: our civ will fail due to mental problems. Sorry guys.
“We do not need a plan, because we invest in innovation”
Thanks for your insight. The situation is really strange. Perhaps the problem is excessive faith that the future will always be like the past. This is the standard way economists believe the economy operates.
It’s like the fashionable belief that if the ‘AI God-mind is brought into being – for which we have to be digitised – it will pull the miraculous innovation rabbit out of the hat, being so much smarter than us.
Such people need to experience rolling black-outs …….
Everything I see and hear is consistent with the supposition that Chinese Communist Party leaders fear economic upheaval, if not collapse, and are preparing for this type of unrest by dramatically tightening state security. Their worst nightmare is millions of angry, unemployed young men on the street.
The obvious solution would be to start a war. Not with Taiwan–it would really have to be a land war, in order to be able to deploy all those angry unemployed young men. Not with Russia either–they have nukes.
The actual data for energy is not publicly available… except possibly when cheap energy was abundant…
There is no way we are being given real numbers … likely we get reserve numbers based on impossible price points…
Can anyone say they are not blindsided by the apparent peaking of key suppliers to Europe? (assuming that is real…)
Nice Blog piece by JHK titled: “Slowly, Then All at Once”
https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/slowly-then-all-at-once-2/
It is a sad state of affairs. Of course, the issues he talks about aren’t on the front pages of newspapers. They are filled with COVID-related stories.
The supply lines are wobbling and many will go down. No stuff, no parts, before long, no food. Energy supplies are shaky everywhere. China’s electric grid is going dark from insufficient coal. Russia lacks the surplus NatGas to keep Western Europe warm. Global shortages drive up US oil and gas prices while people lose jobs and incomes over vaccine mandates — meaning families will freeze as the daylight dwindles. “Joe Biden’s” dark winter is coming on fast.
CEP….
If it is not one thing, it is another these days.
Last week we were informed that the UK could be without much meat as the UK faced a lack of CO2 to freeze and to fresh package meat for the supermarkets, due to fertiliser plants facing bankruptcy. The government stepped in to finance the plants.
Then there is the matter of supply line disruptions due to a lack of HGV drivers, due to Brexit, which is leaving supermarkets half empty. Countries in the EU that have a shortage of drivers get all of the drivers that they need from elsewhere in the EU.
And crops are literally rotting in the fields for want of pickers, due to Brexit. Meanwhile a petrol supply crisis is ongoing, particularly in the SE. The country faces an acute energy crisis this winter as the Tories have opted for minimal LNS storage and for ‘on the spot’ supplies, which is not working out. And the Tories are facing off with the EU over the NIP, which could lead to a full-blown trade war.
And now it transpires that Britain lacks, due to Brexit, the abattoir workers to prepare the meat anyway – and 120,000+ pigs may all end up incinerated.
The problems really seem to be piling for Britain up these days.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/oct/01/uk-pig-industry-warns-butcher-shortage-mass-cull
> Up to 120,000 pigs in UK face culling due to lack of abattoir workers
National Pig Association fears ‘acute welfare disaster’ within weeks if farmers cannot get stock processed
Farmers have warned that up to 120,000 pigs face being culled because of a lack of abattoir workers, as acute labour shortages across supply chains continue to wreak havoc on the UK economy.
Rob Mutimer, the chair of the National Pig Association (NPA), said Britain was facing an “acute welfare disaster” within a matter of weeks, with farmers forced to kill their livestock because of an acute shortage of butchers and slaughterers.
“We are within a couple of weeks of having to consider a mass cull of animals in this country,” he told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme on Friday.
“We think our backlog is in the region of 100,000 to 120,000 as we stand today. And it is growing by around 12,000 a week. This is happening on pig farms all over the country; they are backed up and running out of space to keep animals.”
One farmer said they were being told to expect further reductions next week in the number of animals able to be transported, as there were not enough workers at meat-processing plants to handle the loads.
“The problem in the industry has got considerably worse over the last three weeks,” said Mutimer. “[A cull] involves either shooting them on the farm or taking them to an abattoir and disposing of them in a skip. These animals won’t go into the food chain, they will either be rendered or sent for incineration. It is an absolute travesty.”
Before they pulled it, the Deagel forecast (or was it a target?) for the UK in 2025 was for a population of 18 million. We still have three and a bit more winters of discontent to get through before ringing in 2025 That figure doesn’t sound quite so impossible or quite so laughable these days, does it?
Yay… we are saved…
Oil Spikes To Highest Since 2014 After OPEC+ JMMC Reccs ch400k Output Increase
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/opec-meeting-preview-400k-or-800k-bump
Spike of WTI is to about $78 per barrel. Still way too low for producers. WSJ has a story about this also.
“European gas storage levels may have started to drop, the latest sign that the region’s energy crisis is getting worse. Inventories showed marginal declines on Thursday and Saturday, according to data from Gas Infrastructure Europe…
“Vitol SA, one of the world’s largest traders, had forecast that Europe would enter the cold season in October or November with gas storage about 78% full, making for a “very tight” situation.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-10-04/europe-gas-stocks-show-first-signs-of-decline-as-crisis-worsens
“Europe’s energy crisis threatens to reignite disputes within the bloc…
“The EU’s southern and eastern countries have called on Brussels to help alleviate the pressure on their struggling households, demanding the European Commission come up new emergency funds and provide explicit support for national spending measures to protect consumers…
“The energy crisis has touched on some of the EU’s most sensitive internal debates, from the bloc’s approach to carbon taxes, dependence on Russian gas, upcoming rules for sustainable finance, and the pending revision of EU spending rules.”
https://www.ft.com/content/5805c3d0-f102-48fc-9cfb-d3b721b85c34
“Europe’s northern corner can’t hide from the global shortage of natural gas and coal, with falling water reserves curbing the region’s most important source of electricity.
“Sweden is relying on a 52-year-old plant that burns oil to keep the lights on and a local utility is trying to convince industrial users to save energy as cold weather draws closer.”
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/europe-power-crisis-moving-north-040000046.html
Italian TV virologist Roberto Burioni has just declared that only 1 person in the world died for myocardithis after Covid vaccine and it happened in New Zealand (he says so about time 4:00 of the video).
For the rest all the problems were solved and people had only transitory adverse events.
Therefore vaccines are safe, take the jab.
That really happened on the main public national channel.
I’m really sorry for the destiny of my Country.
https://twitter.com/chetempochefa/status/1444743314104852485
I am sorry for him, Student: he has lost his soul.
What people will do for money, and not much of it at that. One of the useful nobodies who support all tyrannies.
Thank you Xabier. Have a nice evening.
Maiale che non e’ altro.
I can tell you that I have seen a youtube video on Dec26 2020 where some people in a small city in germany called “Uhldingen” recorded a live event demanding clairifccaion why 8 out of 17 vaccinated people of a home for the elderly died in less than 2 weeks after vaccination.
These people made the “small” mistake to mention a horse dewormer.
The video was deleted from youtube three days later.
reference:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4rmxNkgfVk
Everything that happened after Dec 26, 2020 is pure murder. Full Stop.
I am not actively searching for that but I would say if you do that people claiming adverse events from the vaccine are treated best with anit-depressants.
The medics will never post these events because
medics medic
The Tories have threatened, during their annual party conference, to invoke article 16 of the NI Protocol. The EU is to respond to their proposals next week. The situation is expected to escalate toward the end of the year.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/oct/04/what-may-happen-if-article-16-of-northern-ireland-protocol-is-triggered
> What may happen if article 16 of Northern Ireland protocol is triggered?
Brexit minister David Frost threatens EU with use of emergency brake
The UK Brexit minister, David Frost, has stepped up demands on the EU to renegotiate the Northern Ireland protocol, a linchpin of Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal. At a speech to the Conservative party conference, Frost said “tinkering around the edges” of the protocol would not be enough. “We cannot wait for ever. Without an agreed solution soon, we will need to act, using the article 16 safeguard mechanism, to address the impact the protocol is having on Northern Ireland.”
…. If either side disagrees with unilateral safeguard action, they can retaliate with “proportionate rebalancing measures”. For example, the EU could hit British imports into the EU with tariffs, a part-suspension of the broader EU-UK free-trade deal.
…. The European Commission plans to unveil its response to his July proposals next week, but has ruled out renegotiation. Frost evidently fears the EU will not go far enough, telling Tory activists he may have no choice but to trigger article 16. He is convinced that playing hard ball with Brussels pays dividends, having accused Theresa May’s government of failing to be tough enough.
“He is convinced that playing hard ball with Brussels pays dividends, having accused Theresa May’s government of failing to be tough enough.”
I seem to remember that Boris and his team negotiated the final Brexit deal, and that they won a GE on the basis of ‘get Brexit done with our oven ready and good to go deal.’
And here we are.
There is talk in the Dutch press that the EU may limit energy supplies to the UK over the NIP. Maybe it is bluster.
It seems possible that states will use geopolitical grievances as a pretext to apportion energy as the supply of energy becomes more constrained. (One might wonder whether the British state has its eyes on Norway and its energy resources – as well as on Ireland and its agricultural land.)
https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1500569/france-limit-energy-flow-uk-brexit-english-channel-fishing-row-eu-latest
> France threatens to ‘limit energy to UK’ as Brexit ‘non-compliance’ reaches boiling point
France has reportedly threatened to throttle the flow of electricity into the UK as the EU considers unleashing sanctions against Britain’s “non-compliance” over the Brexit agreement.
…. Tension is also brewing over the Northern Ireland protocol, which describes Northern Ireland’s position in regards to a border with the European Union, Ireland and the UK. Dutch media have now zeroed in on the conflict, claiming Brussels may implement sanctions against the UK in retaliation for not honouring its Brexit agreements.
In a comment piece published in Volkskrant on Thursday, Marc Peeperkorn claimed the European Commission may consider banning British companies from the European market as well as introducing import duties.
At the bottom of his article, he also claimed: “If London does not come up with more, France will consider less energy supplies to the UK.”
Former hedge fund manager Tony Walker has argued France could use energy access as a political bargaining chip against the UK. He tweeted: “Dutch paper this morning – big article on EU coalition formed to implement UK sanctions due to Irish border agreement non-compliance.
France is one of the UK’s biggest energy links to the continent and in 2018, about six percent of the UK’s energy was supplied from France. However, Britain has been diversifying its energy portfolio and may avoid trouble with the French with the aid of Norway.
The British Chamber of Commerce is clearly more concerned with the instability to the NI economy, and with the possibility of EU sanctions on UK goods bound for the EU, than with any benefits that an invocation of article 16 might bring.
It does not seem that Boris has the support of UK businesses to invoke article 16. The Tories seem to be acting in a purely ideological way.
https://www.britishchambers.org.uk/news/2021/10/bcc-says-agreed-solution-on-northern-ireland-protocol-best-way-forward
> BCC says agreed solution on Northern Ireland Protocol best way forward
Reacting to Lord Frost’s speech at the Conservative Party Conference, William Bain, Head of Trade Policy at the BCC, said:
“An agreed solution between the United Kingdom and the EU on how the Protocol should work and businesses comply with it, is by far the best outcome. It offers clarity for businesses and certainty for inward investment in Northern Ireland.
“With the Command Paper released over the summer and the EU proposals set to be published next week, we urge both sides to reach a negotiated solution within months that works for Northern Ireland and the overall UK-EU relationship too.
“The last thing exporters need is the risk of tariffs hanging over UK goods exports to the EU if agreement on the Protocol cannot be reached and talks break down.”
https://media.gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/086/604/335/original/ac94e2951c13c02d.jpg
Yup but Bill Gates and Big Pharma are happy with the billions they’re raking in with zero liability.
https://i.redd.it/nv0wyvge6lq71.jpg
If that picture of the little girl bleeding from her nose is legit this is just going to lead to a massive build up in the mistrust of authority and history says that’s NEVER good. But i’m sure Norm, Dunce and Mike are happy. That wouldn’t have happened if she had just taken the jab and her booster shots like a good little citizen.
From the interview with Dr. Mattias Desmet on “The Pandemic Podcast”:
So, the first and one of the most important effects of mass formation is that it leads to a very narrow field of attention…meaning that people seem to be only able to be aware, both cognitively and emotionally, of a very small part of reality, on which the mass narrative focuses their attention. So that’s something extremely problematic. For instance, you see this in the fact that people in one way or another only seem to be sensitive, emotionally. for victims of the coronavirus and then all the other victims: children who starve, who risk to starve, people who lost their jobs, people or treatments that were delayed and there was huge collateral damage, but in one way or another it never had the same effect as the damage caused by the coronavirus. … the field of attention is so limited that it seems almost impossible to provide arguments that are in conflict with the narrative. Because all the arguments that you can raise rationally against the narrative, they do not fall into this small field of attention that is really counting for people in the mass.
…their attention is focused —just like in hypnosis—on a small part of reality, and people are even not aware of the things that are usually extremely important for them in a normal state, like their psychological and physical health, their wealth, their well-being, and so on. And in a condition of hypnosis or mass formation, you can take all these things away from people. They won’t even notice. It will seem as if they don’t notice that they are losing a lot of things that are personally important to them, … by a simple hypnotic procedure, you can make someone so insensitive to pain that you can cut straight through his flesh, that even you can carry out… perform surgical operations in which you cut straight through [to?] the breastbone. It’s very strange, but a simple hypnotic procedure in which the hypnotist focuses the attention on something positive, for instance, will often make people completely insensitive to physical pain, and in the same way, they are also insensitive to psychological pain, because their attention remains focused on the solidarity and the shared narrative. They will not notice that they are losing the wealth and the well-being of themselves, or even their children… people will be able to take it away without the population noticing it.
So that’s one of the most problematic effects, which was also described when the totalitarian states of the first half of the 20th century emerged, in the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. One of the most striking observations was that, in a strange way, all these people seem to be willing to really sacrifice everything that was precious to them, as if they didn’t notice it. And then Stalin, for instance, he liquidated 50 percent of the members of his own Communist party. And the strange thing was that these communist leaders, even, did not object or did not protest—they accepted their, uh, the death penalty, as if they admitted that they had done something wrong. but while they actually haven’t been doing anything wrong. The strange way in which people are insensitive to personal losses is one of the most striking consequences of mass formation. And also shows that actually mass formation does not… that you cannot compare the emotional insensitivity that manifests during mass formation with a kind of ordinary egoism. It’s something completely different. People are not egoistic at all in the masses. To the contrary, they are willing to sacrifice all their individual freedom and all their individual advantages in favor of the collective well-being and of this new kind of extreme solidarity.
https://odysee.com/@pandemicpodcast:c/compliance:2
The current situation does seem a lot like the result of hypnosis.
https://i.postimg.cc/zB58gZ7j/E4f-WP08-Xo-AIQi-UE.jpg
What’s taking place today would make Josef Mengele blush.
Electricity Bills In Italy Rise By Almost 30 Percent From Friday
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/electricity-bills-italy-rise-almost-30-percent-friday
30% is not little…
No it’s not … this will drive inflation through the roof if it keeps up …
norm dunc mike can you please get your boosters and do your part in hurrying Devil Covid and the CEP along…. I’d take one for the team as well but Fast Eddy is far too important to drop dead after the shot and miss the Big Show.
gods cannot die as long as two worshippers remain
two are essential, because each must reassure the other that god exists
The gathered meeting, Quakers, exists outside of place and time. If all sentient being are removed from existence the gathered meeting still exists.
That is quite an apt posture for a church that in the UK has seen its members half just in the past 20 years to about 15,000 today. They have loads of properties and investments left by previous generations – successful capitalist families were drawn to them. They would have shut down by now otherwise.
Empty meeting halls offering their own ‘worship’ to the ‘light within’? What else is there left to them?
Full on totalitarian woke, the mass walk outs of the 1960s… I am not going into it all.
It’s all right–their worship is silent anyway.
Inflation only applies to products you need to purchase.
yes, read it agein…
Discretionary spending will fall, causing recession. There may also be follow-on effects in the debt markets (defaults). So the spike in prices may not last very long.
https://youtu.be/h6PobXQ-af8
COVID vaccine humor.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1444507973082963976
More COVID vaccine humor.
Hmmm… wrong link… I meant to send everyone to a gay p-orn site with a 3some involving mike norm and dunc…
Please god… deliver myocarditis to this man
https://twitter.com/i/status/1444165245786808324
One thing he is correct about — yes I am afraid… https://www.openvaers.com/covid-data
A sentiment I heartily endorse: he fully deserves it, and worse.
Vaxxed vermin, when they get aggressive towards those of us who can think, I lose all patience with them.
This is why one must rejoice whenever one reads a first hand account of one of these vermin dying or being maimed by the injection (dispensation for those who were forced into it)
I particularly enjoy reading about pregnant women who birth a shuddering deviant… I’d feel pity for the child except that I know it won’t make it to it’s first birthday so the suffering will be minimal
Haha, I second the Keith Obermann reference.
@Fast Eddy:
I am utterly disappointed by you making claims that you wish death to people.
You seem to have no idea what people go throuh that do not have
– high speed internet as you have
– mental skills to do the process of resolving cognitive dissonance.
I must say that I have encounterered several people of your kind that think mental weakness is a problem for people having less mental capabilities tham you savage people talking and they just deserve desthh.
The unfortunate thing about our civ is exactly that the savage people do not have ANY concerns for “weaker brained”.or “less wealthy because they did not manage to gather a lot of money as I did because they weree just too stupid”
It is completely disgusting, sorry.
the only mistake you made there MM is saying sorry at the end
the constant need to put down those perceived of lesser stature, mental or physical, is inherent personal insecurity and confidence in ‘self’.
the constant need to have an unquestioning audience around the barstool.
we can take a few inspired guesses at the cause of that problem
‘perceived’ …. hahaha…. that’s a good one!
Next thing you’ll be insisting dogs can talk
if i happen to be a lesser human being (by eddystandards that is)—i have a leg missing, or I am blind, or I am mentally below par, or i am forced to use a wheelchair, or I am elderly and infirm for any reason, my dog will not judge me, and will still love me unconditionally.
FYI – the guy in the video is a well known sports presenter in America and makes $4M per year.
I see nothing wrong with wishing he dies from the vaccine — he is calling me a MOREON for refusing the vaccine… so he clearly has zero concern for my well being because he wants me to take a vaccine that is useless — and that could kill me. So ya – hopefully he dies before his message reaches too many people and he commits mass murder.
As for MOREONS… I am just off a 3 hour call with a good mate in Hong Kong … he’s a barrister Hong Kong and a dedicated anti-Covid vaxx guy — in his profession he deals with many ‘smart people’… and he estimates that at least 97% of them are MOREONS.
As he was saying — the problem with the MOREONS is that they don’t know they are MOREONS rather they think they are very intelligent and informed… and they are unwilling to learn … because they are so intelligent and informed… they are not open to any thoughts except those that are fed to them by the MSM…
He said the problem is more acute when you are dealing with ‘smart people’ of the current generation … Super MOREONS…. he puts that down to social media and how your MORONIC thoughts get like by other MOREONS… and group think develops… and you truly believe your MORONIC ideas … are brilliant….
Of course I completely agree with him and as I pointed out … if they’d just shut the f789 up and behave like the barnyard animals that they basically are… we could easily co-exist with them…
They’d understand that they are dummmb beasts and that we are the masters and they’d know their place….
We are both aware of the fact that these sentiments… are not … political correct… but we don’t care.
I didn’t turn the sound on but I see Olbermann is foaming at the mouth as usual.
Rather than a Covid shot, he is in desperate need of a rabies injection.
I don’t pray for him to be injured or killed, but I’m not against others doing it. I also note that the jab has been known to make the obnoxiously aggressive even more obnoxiously aggressive. Could be a side effect.
Take the case of Willie Garson, which is documented at The COVID Blog:
LOS ANGELES — A 57-year-old actor is dead, in another near-term, post-injection death being classified as cancer.
Mr. Willie Garson, whose real name is William Paszamant, received his second Pfizer mRNA injection on April 14, according to his Twitter account.
It’s unclear when he received his first injection. But his vaxx zealotry mushroomed in March. This blogger has covered unpleasant individuals whose entire existences revolved around mask and vaxx-worshiping, regurgitating mainstream media and government propaganda, and belittling the non-vaxxed. But it was genuinely difficult and stressful reading through Mr. Garson’s Twitter history. He was very angry and bitter on social media.
Willie Garson on Twitter
The hostility and contempt for the non-vaxxed and non-masked started in late March, after his first injection. Mr. Garson said everyone will be wearing masks “for the rest of our lives” and referred to non-masked people as “f***ing idiots.”
He then tried to blatantly coerce someone with preexisting medical issues to get the mRNA or viral vector DNA injections despite the obvious risks to their health and well-being.
Mr. Garson continued attacking non-vaxxed people, calling then “selfish and irresponsible.”
By July, Mr. Garson went into full attack dog mode. He first gloated about being Jewish and being a good Jew compared to other Jewish people.
Mr. Garson was also the self-anointed number-1 troll of Congressman Glenn Grothman, R-Wisconsin. Granted Grothman does not strike this blogger as a decent human being by any stretch of the imagination. But speak once and let it be done. Grothman lived rent-free in Mr. Garson’s head for much of 2021. The following is just one of at least one hundred vitriolic tweets directed at Grothman. [In this tweet, Garson calls Grothman “a sniveling lying piece of s**t.”
Mr. Garson could not help himself when it came to virtue signaling and attacking the non-vaxxed. He re-tweeted someone calling the non-vaxxed “selfish” and “stupid” with the hashtag #TRUTH.
He then called the non-vaxxed “idiots” and blamed them for, apparently, his bad investments on the stock market.
More here: (Xabier and Eddy will enjoy it.)
https://thecovidblog.com/2021/09/29/willie-garson-sex-and-the-city-actor-calls-non-vaxxed-people-ignorant-morons-dead-five-months-after-potential-pfizer-mrna-induced-cancer/
The world is a far better place without Willie… I hope his final months involved plenty of pain and misery…
https://twitter.com/i/status/1442643358430662659
She will never do that in a synagogue. Mocking the goy is a vote getter in NY.
After watching this … you will understand why the CEP must not fail
https://twitter.com/i/status/1443036050859962381
COVID Vaccine humor
BTW — Notice how MOREONS flock to late night tee vee shows like Colbert… and find them amusing…
Anyone who finds themselves thinking Colbert is amusing… that is confirmation that you are a MOREON.
the prime requisite for being a moreon, is not being fast eddy
Not quite..but close… there are other non-MOREONS on OFW… less than 20 …
Gas Crisis Hits Food as Giant Dutch Greenhouses Go Dark
“Europe’s soaring energy prices are having a “massive impact” on the sector, said Cindy van Rijswick, a senior analyst at Rabobank. That’s driving some producers to cut back on lighting, end the growing season early or plan to start later next spring.”
https://www.bloombergquint.com/onweb/your-tomatoes-may-cost-more-as-gas-prices-hit-dutch-greenhouses
More food problems in Europe!
Finland is going Vaxx its 500,000 minks against an airborne, highly infections, immune escape, bat virus… that infects minks, cats, mice and humans…but not bats.
The virus is what Montagnier says a chimera, a lab created virus with inserts of HIV genome.
A HIV infection leads to flu like symptoms…and then nothing for years until you develop AIDS.
Another fun experiment!
Oh dear! I wonder if the vaccines will allow the minks to become less ill, so they won’t fill up hospitals.
Bravo, Gail! Minks on ventilators must be avoided at any cost!
Mind you, it would make for great news footage. A stressed, gasping mink could hold a little sign between its paws:
‘I thought mink Covid was a fraud. Get your shot!’
Silicon Metal’s 300% Price Surge Throws Another Wrench In Global Supply Chains
https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/silicon-metals-300-price-surge-throws-another-wrench-global-supply-chain
I know that someone has posted this before (as part of Chris Martenson’s YT).
Goodness…. it seems that everything seems to happen all at the same time…..
Of course, none of this ends up on the front page of US papers. They are filled with stories about the availability of COVID boosters shots, how full some intensive care facilities are, and how little of the COVID 19 stimulus has been spent to date.
Pictures of destitute Brazilians searching scraps for food lay bare scale of economic and social crisis
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/03/outcry-in-brazil-over-photos-of-people-scavenging-through-animal-carcasses
This will be YOU – if the CEP fails:
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Last link does not work for me.
If I recall it was a child digging through discarded bits of animal parts hoping to find something edible… unfortunately all the edible parts were eaten by feral dogs….
This is happening with BAU intact (sort of)… people need to ditch the normalcy bias and realize this is what awaits no matter where you are … and much worse…
Embrace the CEP… Trudeau did… Ardern did… they are willing to bash your face in to save you from the alternative.
But then they’ve no doubt watched a full feature film sponsored by the Elders that demonstrates EXACTLY what happens if BAU is allowed to implode without the CEP…
8B without food – clean water – medicine – electricity – petrol …. They would not be thumping tambourines and strumming geetars…. and singing koombaya….
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“While the news about the energy crisis focuses in on Europe right now, the truth is that this is rapidly becoming a global crisis impacting global markets…
“The stark reality is that there will be no quick fixes from here, for the simple fact that none are available… winter is coming, and potential energy disaster is coming with it.” [apologies for the picture – I couldn’t resist.]
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidblackmon/2021/10/03/winter-is-coming-can-energy-catastrophe-be-averted/
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superb Forbes article Harry, thanks for that.
definitely confirms that we’re screwed if we do—and screwed if we don’t kinda thing.
You are most welcome, Norman. Hopefully we won’t see too many cold snaps around the NH this winter exacerbating the situation, although one suspects we might.
“A Deep Freeze This Winter Hinges on La Nina and the Polar Vortex… With the energy crunch worsening, scientists hunt for insights into how low the Northern Hemisphere’s temps will go.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-10-01/how-cold-will-winter-2021-2022-get-la-nina-polar-vortex-are-signs-to-watch
Ooohhh.. a polar vortex is just what the doctor ordered!
“…a cold snap this winter will be enough to create serious problems, according to James Huckstepp, head of Emea Gas Analytics.
““We’re not talking about a one-in-100-year bad weather event, we’re really talking about a one-in-three,” he says. “We are still very much uncertain how we will make it through this winter without the UK running into very severe supply issues.””
https://www.ft.com/content/1e93fab0-916e-4697-be8a-af02bde94411
Hmmmm… another element to add to the CEP?
1. Devil Covid results in mass death and sickness… rapidly spreading …
2. That creates epic fear — people welcome total lockdown — in fact they impose self-lockdowns because they fear contact with anyone outside their home…
3. Supply chains collapse — people are in such a state of fear that they don’t even venture out to kill the neighbour’s child and eat it for dinner.
4. The gas shuts off… leaving the masses huddled in fear — freezing … hungry — wanting death…(the current shortages are prepping them)
5. For the few that survive all of this… spent fuel ponds will deliver the axe blow to the neck
It all seems a bit… surreal…. but there is no denying it… the cataclysm edges closer by the day … you can feel it … but there is absolutely nothing that anyone can do to stop it….. the Rubicon is barely visible in the rear view mirror… (of course some are unaware of any of this… they are sitting in dark rooms muttering More Boosters.. More Boosters…)
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/8LFAOU8h9Jw/maxresdefault.jpg
Look there is one of those survivors Hudson Valley Ed. What is he doing with the bulldozer? He is pushing spent fuel assemblies into the Hudson River where they can safely cool. In exchange for his work he is being given a dry cask storage unit which will give him and his family 300 years of winter heating.
Ed, you could set up a nice little thermal spa operation (strictly for the short term, of course).
A summary of what models tend to predict:
“The stark reality is that there will be no quick fixes from here, for the simple fact that none are available”
I think that this is why the story is not on the front page of US papers. In fact, it is hidden.
A really good article. Thanks for sharing.
“China Relaxes Coal Mine Safety Efforts on Electricity Crisis…
“The National Development and Reform Commission told miners at a meeting on Thursday that accidents will no longer result in the shutdown of nearby mines for safety inspections…”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-10-04/china-relaxes-coal-mine-safety-efforts-on-electricity-crisis?srnd=economics-vp
“China’s Zhejiang province imports first thermal coal from Kazakhstan…
“Coal from the landlocked central Asian nation is more costly than from rival suppliers as it has to be transported by rail, and China imported almost no Kazakh thermal coal in the first eights months of the year, according to customs data.”
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/chinas-zhejiang-province-imports-first-thermal-coal-kazakhstan-state-media-2021-10-04/
It is the transport cost, as much as anything, that affects the usefulness of coal reserves.
If the trains are oil operated, then the cost and availability of the diesel fuel is important. If trains are electric, then keeping the electricity operating is important, also.
China does what it can to keep the lights on. More coal, regardless of the problems.
Household electricity bills will rise by 29.8% for the typical family and gas bills will go up by 14.4%, Italy’s energy regulatory authority Arera confirmed in a press release last week. The new national tariffs came into effect on Friday, the start of the fourth quarter of 2021. The increase comes amid surging energy costs across Europe, and beyond.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/electricity-bills-italy-rise-almost-30-percent-friday
I am sure that the electricity rate hike will cut back on discretionary spending.
First they inject people with mRNA and now Merck’s miracle Covid pill will alter people’s DNA.
It’s a fun and interesting medical experiment!
Do we have any volunteers?
Does it hurt? It looks painful
https://intermountainhealthcare.org/~/media/Images/Modules/Blog/Posts/2015/exploding-head-syndrome.jpg
On Oct 15th there will unfold events in different places in the world and from then on the chaos will increase according to Loop.
Well… let’s see if anything happens…
https://mobile.twitter.com/00Lo_oP00/status/1444857407822303235
The end is nigh. Just like last week, two years ago etc.
It’s a good business model Jarle.
Mentioning dates is an important part of it, as when nothing happens you can blame the faithful for not showing enough faith and demand more.
That said, the first place I looked after reading the comments here, had this in their comments.
https://twitter.com/hieropunk/status/1444942639560790016?s=20
Divine intervention?
😂
Well another ambulance just went past. I live near a traffic hub in my small NZ township. Ambulances have never been so frequent.
There are no fire engines or police to assist, which is normal for fires, car crashes or industrial accidents.
Any ambulance drivers/medics out there?
Increased incidence of ambulances?
Might be the Vaccine Miracle: you should feel blessed, and really lucky!
The more adverse effects, the safer everyone is!
Another reason for increased ambulance activity could also be people collapsing at home with late-stage conditions, having been denied proper and timely treatment for 18 months. This appears to be occurring in the UK.
Well, this is a rather bad sign… I guess I just wasn’t expecting things like this to happen so soon.
The USPS said on its website that it was temporarily suspending international mail acceptance for a number of destinations.
It said this was due to “impacts related to the Covid-19 pandemic and other unrelated service disruptions”.
New Zealand and 21 other countries were listed as being suspended due to “unavailability of transportation”.
Australia and Samoa were also among the suspended destinations.
The USPS asked customers to “please refrain from mailing items addressed to the countries listed here, until further notice”.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/452764/united-states-postal-service-suspends-mail-deliveries-to-new-zealand
A UPS shipment took almost 2 months to reach me …. funny – Fedex is not having the same problems
I haven’t checked international rates, but for US service, the US Postal Service tends to be less expensive than other carriers. Big shippers can negotiate lower rates with other shippers.
The US postal service probably cannot find transport transport to those places at a price it can afford.
The aim is for us to be immobilised, medicated and isolated, asap.
The only movement permitted being to ‘essential’ work locations and injection camps.
Also, all alternative forms of communication are subject to “their” scrutiny and control.
Includes Germany, Belgium, India, Brazil, Australia, Thailand, Malaysia, and Vietnam.
This is sort of old news. In late March 2020, to console my locked down daughter in Madrid, I sent her her violin from Michigan. The violin then sat in a Chicago warehouse until July, then it was sent to Madrid despite many calls asking that it be returned. With my daughter vacationing, then unable to come up with paperwork in September, it was sent back to Chicago, from there to Charlotte and Atlanta, and then to Detroit in late October. I had moved in the meanwhile, but fortunately my excellent relations with the landlord paid off when he was able to intercept it. I then sent a friend to pick it up, and eventually it was transported as cabin luggage to Madrid. The many hours I spent on the phone with customer support were nothing short ofat n Kafkian.
Well my viewing now comprises some of the following;
Asch conformity experiment
Nietzsche and Psychology
Allan Watts; Road to Hell is paved with Good Intentions
Jordan Pederson; The Collapse of our values is a greater threat than Climax Change
Psychology of Conformity
Dunning Kruger Effect
Mass Pyschosis – How an Entire Population becomes Mentally Ill.
Have I missed anything/everything?
“Climax Change”… yeah, Ive been going through that too
I’ve been waiting for the Second Coming!
It took about three hours for that to sink in. Tim you are evil.
‘Hotel Terminus’, about the torturer Klaus Schwab, sorry, Barbie in Lyons during WW2.
The interview with the son of Dr Mengele,
Those would fit in very nicely with your cheery list. We are facing Nazism 2.0 after all, digitised version.
Oh, and anything by that Davos sycophant Noah Juval Hariri, telling you that you are just ‘a hackable animal’ now……
Yes–it’s Alan Watts, Jordan Peterson, and Mass Psychosis.
(Spelling conventions rely on the psychology of conformity.)
I actually had Alan Watts as a guest professor for a year (weekly).
But that was the 60’s, a land far, far away——-
WP @ Diane Palombi
“…The amount of ‘acceptable’ deaths went from a few dozen a year to thousands. It’s over 15K and not even a year on VAERS, but check out the CMS data on Medicare members. That tells part of the bigger story. The FDA is monitoring the site as well. 22 adverse outcomes are listed. They know. 48,465 Medicare patients dead after vaccine administration within 14 days. The adverse event tracking is state by state. Why are we not being shown these numbers? 59.4 million people are in that data base as of 2019.”
Diane Palombi
“A large decline in the senior population would free up Medicare and Social Security money.”
Beverly Pokorski @ WP
“May I ask where the 48,465 number comes from?”
WP @ Beverly Pokorski
“CMS 2021 database for Medicare patients.”
“Diane Palombi
“I can confirm Beverly’s numbers. I read the same report. In addition, it happened within 14 days, so they were counted as unvaccinated since they died before meeting the fully vaccinated criteria.”
https://www.medscape.com/sites/public/covid-19/vaccine-insights/how-concerned-are-you-about-vaccine-related-adverse-events
I gave it a shot. Perhaps someone else will have better luck finding this CMS data:
Medicare Enrollment Dashboard
“Update: The Medicare Enrollment Dashboard is temporarily unavailable; however, will continue to post monthly updates to the enrollment figures used in the dashboard at the link below. If you have feedback on the Medicare enrollment data included, please email CMSProgramStatistics@cms.hhs.gov.”
https://www.cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems/Statistics-Trends-and-Reports/CMSProgramStatistics/Dashboard
Total enrollment numbers by year, from 2014 – 2019, are available here:
https://www.cms.gov/files/document/2019cpsmdcrenrollab1.pdf
Vaccine Effectiveness Hits as Low as Minus-66% in the Over-40s, New PHE Data Shows
With infection rates now, on this data, much higher in the vaccinated than the unvaccinated, what remaining justification can there be for vaccine passports, vaccine mandates, and any other policy based on the assumption that vaccines protect other people? When will the Government face up to the reality that vaccines provide poor protection against infection, poor protection against transmission, and thus poor protection of others, and so there is no justification for continuing to build-up the infrastructure of a two-tier, discriminatory state?
https://dailysceptic.org/2021/10/03/vaccine-effectiveness-hits-as-low-as-minus-66-in-the-over-40s-new-phe-data-shows/
CDC Director: Vaccines No Longer Prevent You From Spreading COVID
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2021/08/06/cdc_director_vaccines_no_longer_prevent_you_from_spreading_covid.html#!
What is the purpose of vaccine mandates if the vaccines do not stop you from getting and spreading covid – and almost ZERO healthy people get very sick from covid?
We will now see that the reality of vaxx ineffectiveness, and vaxxed super-spreaders, rendering ‘passports’ absurd, will have absolutely no effect on government policy, anywhere
‘Passports’ are – quite obviously – the global Digital ID in thin disguise; and that is a non-negotiable policy aim, a foundation stone for the introduction of CBDC’s and ESG controls.
Reasoning and pointing to the data will not stop this: only mass peaceful rebellion and refusal to comply in any way (not utterly useless fun walks in the park).
Vaccine passports… hmmmm…. least we forget (I may start selling poppies if I can’t get the CovIDIOTS to respond)
CDC Director: Vaccines No Longer Prevent You From Spreading COVID
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2021/08/06/cdc_director_vaccines_no_longer_prevent_you_from_spreading_covid.html#!
What is the purpose of vaccine mandates if the vaccines do not stop you from getting and spreading covid – and almost ZERO healthy people get very sick from covid?
This is from August 6, 2021. It seems like the message should start sinking in.
Xabier, organize, organize organize! The good people have no organization without it we will continue to lose.
THE QUESTION takes on more relevance following the earlier posts:
CDC Director: Vaccines No Longer Prevent You From Spreading COVID
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2021/08/06/cdc_director_vaccines_no_longer_prevent_you_from_spreading_covid.html#!
What is the purpose of vaccine mandates if the vaccines do not stop you from getting and spreading covid – and almost ZERO healthy people get very sick from covid?
It is a killshot….I have been saying this since this b/s began.
Well done!!! Rather obvious inn’t it (except to norm dunc mike)
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And you also get a free trip to:
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