An analysis of what is going terribly wrong in the world economy
The world economy requires stability. People living in the world economy need stability, as well. They need food every day and a place to live. Children need a home situation that they can count on.
Back in the 1950 to 1979 era, when energy supplies of many kinds were growing rapidly, it was possible to build stability into the economic system: Jobs with a company were often long-time careers; pensions after retirement were offered; electricity was sold through regulated “utilities” that charged prices that wrapped in long-term maintenance of the electric grid and the cost of fuel, among other things.
But as high energy prices hit in the 1970s, the system became more and more strained. The mood changed. Margaret Thatcher became the Prime Minister of the UK in 1979, and Ronald Reagan became President of the United States in 1981. Under their leadership, debt was increasingly used to cover longer-term costs, and competition was encouraged. A person might say that a move toward greater complexity, but less stability, of the economic system had begun.
Now, through several iterations, the economy has become increasingly complex, with less and less redundancy to provide stability. The energy price spike that is being experienced today is a warning that something is very, very wrong. As I see the situation, the trend toward complexity has gone too far; the economic system is starting to break down. Sharp changes appear to be ahead. The world economy is shifting into contraction mode, with more and more parts of the system failing.
In this post, I will discuss some of the issues involved. It turns out that energy modelers haven’t understood how detrimental intermittency really is. They modeled intermittent electricity from renewables (wind, water and solar) as far more helpful than it really is. This has been confusing to everyone. The sharp changes that the title of this post refers to represent an early stage of economic collapse.
[1] If energy supplies are inexpensive and widely available, it is easy to build an economy.
I have written in the past about the need for energy supplies to keep the economy functioning properly being analogous to the need for food, to keep humans functioning properly.
The economy doesn’t operate on a single type of energy, any more than a human lives on a single type of food. The economy uses a portfolio of energy types. These include human labor, energy directly from sunlight, and energy from burning various types of fuels, including biomass and fossil fuels.
As long as energy sources are inexpensive and readily available, an economy can grow and provide goods and services for an increasing number of citizens. We can think of this as being analogous to, “As long as buying and preparing food takes little of our wages (or time, if we are growing it ourselves), then there are plenty of wages (or time) left over for other activities.”
But once energy prices start spiking, it looks like there is not enough to go around. In the absence of ways to hide the problem, citizens need to cut back on non-essentials, pushing the economy into recession. Or businesses stop making essential products that require natural gas or coal, such as fertilizer or fuel additives to hold emissions down. The lack of such products can, by itself, be very disruptive to an economy.
[2] Once energy supplies become constrained, energy prices tend to spike. In the early stages of these price spikes, adding complexity allows the economy to better tolerate higher energy costs.
There are many ways to work around the problem of rising energy prices, at least temporarily. For example:
- Build vehicles, such as cars, that are smaller and more fuel efficient.
- Extend fossil fuel supplies by building nuclear power plants, hydroelectric generating plants, wind turbines, solar panels, and geothermal electricity generation.
- Make factories more efficient.
- Add insulation to buildings; eliminate any cracks that might allow outside air into buildings.
- Instead of pre-funding capital costs, use debt to transfer these costs to later purchasers of energy products.
- Encourage competition in providing different parts of electricity production and distribution.
- Develop time-of-day pricing for electricity, so as to keep prices down to the marginal cost of production, even though this does not, in total, repay all costs of production and distribution.
- Cut back on routine maintenance of electricity transmission systems.
- Purchase coal and natural gas imports using spot pricing, rather than long term contracts, as long as these seem to be lower-priced than long-term commitments.
- Throughout the economy, take advantage of economies of scale and mechanization. Build huge companies. Replace human labor wherever possible.
- Stimulate the economy by increasing debt availability and lowering interest rates. This is helpful because a more rapidly growing economy can withstand higher energy prices.
- Use global supply chains to source as large a share of manufacturing inputs as possible from countries with low wages and low energy costs.
- Build very “lean” just-in-time supply chains.
- Create complex financial systems, with debt resold and repackaged in different ways, futures contracts, and exchange traded funds.
Together, these approaches comprise “complexity.” They tend to make the economic system less resilient. At least temporarily, they pass fewer of the higher costs of energy products through to current citizens. As a result, the economy can temporarily withstand a higher price of energy. But the system tends to become brittle and prone to failure.
[3] There are limits to added complexity. In fact, complexity limits are what are likely to make the economic system fail.
Joseph Tainter, in The Collapse of Complex Societies, makes the point that there are diminishing returns to added complexity. For example, the changes that result in the biggest gains in fuel savings for vehicles are the ones added first.
Another drawback of added complexity is the extreme wage disparity that tends to result. Instead of everyone earning close to the same amount, those at the top of the hierarchy get a disproportionate share of the wages. This is what leads to many of the problems we are seeing today. Would-be workers don’t want to apply for jobs, even when they seem to be available. Citizens become unhappy and rebellious. Lower-paid workers may not eat well, so that pandemics spread more easily.
The underlying problem is that population tends to rise, but it becomes harder and harder to produce food and other necessities with the arable land and energy resources available. Ugo Bardi uses Figure 1 to show the shape of the expected decline in goods and services produced in such a situation:
According to Bardi, Seneca in the title refers to a statement written by Lucius Annaeus Seneca in 91 CE, “It would be of some consolation for the feebleness of ourselves and our works if all things should perish as slowly as they come into being. As it is, increases are of sluggish growth, but the way to ruin is rapid.” In fact, this shape seems to approximate the type of cycle Turchin and Nefedov observed when analyzing several agricultural civilizations that collapsed in their book Secular Cycles.
[4] An increasing amount of complexity has been added since 1981 to help compensate for rising oil and other energy prices.
The prices of commodities, including oil, tend to be extremely variable because storage is very limited, relative to the large quantities used every day. There needs to be a very close match between supply and demand, or prices will rise very high or fall very low.
Oil is exceptionally important because it is the single largest source of energy for the world economy. It is heavily used in food production and in the extraction of minerals of all types. If the price of oil increases, the price of food tends to rise, as does the price of metals of many types. Oil is also important as a transportation fuel.
In the early days, before depletion led to higher extraction costs, oil prices remained stable and low (Figure 2), as a result of utility-type pricing by the Texas Railroad Commission. Oil prices started to spike, once depletion became more of a problem.
Economists tell us that oil and other commodity prices depend on “supply and demand.” When we look at turning points for oil prices, it becomes clear that financial manipulations play a significant role in determining oil demand. Such manipulations lead to prices that have practically nothing to do with the underlying cost of producing commodities. The huge changes in prices seem to reflect actions by central bankers to encourage or discourage lending (QE on Figure 3).
Quantitative easing (QE) makes it cheaper to borrow money. Adding QE tends to raise oil prices; deleting QE seems to reduce oil prices. These prices have little direct connection with the cost of extracting oil from the ground. Instead, prices are closely related to the amount of complexity being added to the system and whether it is having its intended impact on energy prices.
At the time of the 1973-1974 oil crisis, many people thought that the world was truly running out of oil. The petroleum industry did, indeed, succeed in extracting more. The 2005 to 2008 period was another period of concern that the world might be running out of oil. Then, in 2014, when oil prices suddenly fell, the dominant story suddenly became, “There is plenty of oil. The world’s biggest problem is climate change.”
In fact, there was no real reason to believe that the shortage situation had changed. US oil from shale had a brief run-up in production in the 2007 to 2019 period, but this production was unprofitable for producers, especially after oil prices dropped in 2014 (Figures 2 and 3). Producers of oil from shale are no longer investing very much in new production. With the sweet spots of fields depleted and this low level of investment, it will not be surprising if oil production from shale continues to fall.
The real story is that the supply of oil, coal and natural gas is limited by the extent to which additional complexity can be added to the economy, to keep selling prices so that they are both:
- High enough for producers of these products, so that they can both pay adequate taxes and make adequate reinvestment.
- Low enough for consumers, especially for the many consumers around the world with very low wages.
Many people have missed the point that, at least since 2014, financial manipulations have not kept prices for fossil fuels high enough for producers. Low prices are driving them out of business. This is the case for oil, coal and natural gas. In fact, low prices caused by giving wind and solar priority on the electric grid are driving producers of nuclear electricity out of business, as well.
Oil producers require a price of $120 a barrel or more to cover all of their costs. Without a much higher price than available today (even with oil prices over $80 per barrel), shale oil production can be expected to fall. In fact, OPEC and its affiliates won’t ramp up production by very large amounts either because they, too, need much higher prices to cover all their costs.
[5] Economists and analysts of many types put together models that give misleading results because they missed several important points.
After oil prices fell in late 2014, it became fashionable to believe that vast amounts of fossil fuels are available for extraction, and that our biggest problem in the future would be climate change. Besides low prices, one reason for this concern was the high level of fossil fuel proven reserves reported by many countries around the world.
Even fossil fuel companies started to invest in renewables because of the poor returns experienced from fossil fuel investments. It looked to them as if investment in renewables would be more profitable than continued investment in fossil fuel production. Of course, the profits of renewables were largely the result of government subsidies, particularly the subsidy of “going first.” Giving wind and solar first access when they happen to be available tends to lead to very low, and even negative, wholesale prices for other electricity producers. This drives these other producers of electricity out of business, even though they are really needed to correct for the intermittency of renewables.
There were many things that hardly anyone understood:
- Energy prices in today’s financially manipulated economy bear little relationship to the true cost of production.
- Fossil fuel producers need to be guaranteed long-term high prices, if there is to be any chance of ramping up production.
- Intermittent renewables (including wind, solar, and hydroelectric) have little value in a modern economy unless they are backed up with a great deal of fossil fuels and nuclear electricity.
- Our real problem with fossil fuels is a shortage problem. Price signals are very misleading.
- The models of economists are mostly wrong. The use of carbon pricing and intermittent renewables will simply disadvantage the countries adopting them.
The reason why geologists and fossil fuel producers give misleading information about the amount of oil, coal and natural gas available to be extracted is because it is not something they can be expected to know. In a sense, the question is, “How much complexity can the economy withstand before it becomes too brittle to handle a temporary shock, such as a pandemic shutdown?” It isn’t the amount of fossil fuels in the ground that matters; it is the follow-on effects of the high level of complexity on the rest of the economy that matters.
[6] At this point, ramping up fossil fuel production would be very difficult because of the long-term low prices for fossil fuels. Unfortunately, the economy cannot get along with only today’s small quantity of renewables.
Most people don’t realize just how slowly renewables have been ramping up as a share of world energy supplies. For 2020, wind and solar together amounted to only 5% of world energy supplies and hydroelectric amounted to 7% of world energy supplies. The world economy cannot function on 12% (or perhaps 20%, if more items are included) of its current energy supply any more than a person’s body can function on 12% or 20% of its current calorie intake.
Also, the world’s reaction to the pandemic acted, in many ways, like oil rationing. Figure 6 shows that consumption was reduced for oil, coal and natural gas. An even bigger impact was on the prices of these fuels. Prices fell, even though the cost of production was not falling. (See, for example, Figure 2 for the fall in oil prices.)
These lower prices left fossil fuel providers even worse off financially than they were previously. Some providers went out of business. They certainly do not have reserve funds set aside to develop the new fields that they would need to develop, if they were to ramp up production for oil, coal and natural gas now. Because of this, it is virtually impossible to ramp up fossil fuel production now. A lead time of at least several years is needed, besides a clear way of funding the higher production.
[7] Every plant and animal and, in fact, every growing thing, needs to win the battle against intermittency.
As mentioned in the introduction, humans need to eat on a regular basis. Hunter-gatherers solved the problem of intermittency of harvests by moving from area to area, so that their own location would match the location of food availability. Early agriculture and cities became possible when the growing of grain was perfected. Grain was both storable and portable, so it could be used year around. It could also be brought to cities, allowing people to live in a different location from where the crops were stored.
We can think of any number of adaptations in the plant and animal kingdom to intermittency. Some birds migrate. Bears hibernate. Deciduous trees lose their leaves each fall and grow them back again each spring.
Our supply of any of our energy products is in some sense intermittent. Oil wells deplete, so new ones need to be drilled. Biomass burned for fuel grows for a while, before it is cut down (or falls down) and is burned for fuel. Solar energy is available only until a cloud comes in front of the sun. In winter, solar energy is mostly absent.
[8] Any modeling of the cost of energy needs to take into account the full system needed to “bridge the intermittency gap.”
As far as I can see, the only pricing system that generates enough funds is one that takes into account the full system needs, including the need to overcome intermittency and the need for transportation of the energy to the user. In fact, I would argue that even more than this needs to be included. Good roads are generally required if the system is to be kept in good repair. Good schools are needed for would-be workers in the energy system. Any costs associated with pollution should be wrapped into the required price. Thus, the true cost of energy generation really should include a fairly substantial load for taxes for all of the governmental services that the system requires. And, of course, all parts of the system should pay their workers a living wage.
This high level of pricing can only be provided by utility type pricing of fossil fuels and electricity. The use of long-term contracts to purchase fossil fuels, uranium or electricity can also build in most of these costs. The alternative approach, buying fuels using spot contracts or pricing based on time of day electricity supply, looks appealing when costs are low. But such systems don’t build in sufficient funding for replacement of depleted fields or the full cost of a 24/7/365 electrical system.
Modelers didn’t understand that the “low prices now, higher prices later” approaches that were being advocated don’t really work for the long term. As limits are approached, prices tend to spike badly. Modelers had assumed that the economic system could handle such spikes in prices, and that the spikes in prices would quickly lead to new supply or adaptation. In fact, huge spikes in prices are very disruptive to the system. New supply is what is really needed, but providers tend to be too damaged by previous long periods of artificially low prices to provide this supply. The approach looks great in academic papers, but it leads to rolling blackouts and unfilled natural gas reservoirs for winter.
[9] Major changes for the worse seem to be ahead for the world economy.
At this point, it seems as if complexity has gone too far. The pandemic moved the world economy in the direction of contraction but prices of fossil fuels tend to spike as the economy opens up.
The recent spikes in prices are highly unlikely to produce the natural gas, coal and oil that is required. They are more likely to cause recession. Fossil fuel suppliers need high prices guaranteed for the long term. Even if such guarantees could be provided, it would still take several years to ramp up production to the level needed.
The general trend of the economy is likely to be in the direction of the Seneca Cliff (Figure 1). Everything won’t collapse all at once, but big “chunks” may start breaking away.
The debt system is a very vulnerable part. Debt is, in effect, a promise of goods or services made with energy in the future. If the energy isn’t there, the promised goods and services won’t be available. Governments may try to hide this problem with new debt, but governments can’t solve the underlying problem of missing goods and services.
Pension systems of all kinds are also vulnerable. If fewer goods and services are being made in total, they will need to be divided up differently. Pensioners are likely to get a reduced share, or nothing at all.
Importers of fossil fuels seem likely to be especially affected by price spikes because exporters have the ability to cut back in the quantity available for export, if total supply is inadequate. Europe is one part of the world that is especially dependent on oil, natural gas and coal imports.
The combined production of hydroelectric, wind and solar and biofuels (in Figure 9) amounts to only 19% of Europe’s total energy consumption (shown in Figure 8). There is no possible way that Europe can get along only with renewable energy, at any foreseeable time in the future.
European economists should have told European citizens, “There is no way you can get along using renewables alone for many, many years. Treat the countries that are exporting fossil fuels to you very well. Sign long term contracts with them. If they want to use a new pipeline, raise no objection. Your bargaining power is very low.” Instead, European economists talked about saving the planet from carbon dioxide. It is an interesting idea, but the sad truth is that if Europe takes itself out of the contest for energy imports, it mostly leaves more fossil fuels for exporters to sell to others.
China stands out as well, as the world’s largest consumer of energy, and as the world’s largest importer of oil, coal and natural gas. It is already encountering electricity shortages that are leading to rolling blackouts. In fact, rolling blackouts in China started almost a year ago in late 2020. China is, of course, a major exporter of goods to the rest of the world. If China has major energy problems, the rest of the world will no longer be able to count on China’s exports. Lack of China’s exports, by itself, could be a huge problem for the rest of the world.
I could continue speculating on the changes ahead. The basic problem, as I see it, is that we have reached limits on oil, coal and natural gas extraction, pretty much simultaneously. The limits are really complexity limits. The renewables that we have today aren’t able to save us, regardless of what the models of Mark Jacobson and others might say.
In the next few years, I am afraid that we will find out how collapse actually proceeds in a very interconnected world economy.
Fear monger!!!
Here’s a wonderfull opportunity to get rich overnight. Any poor virologists here?
“An amount of one million euro collected by a German journalist Samuel Eckert’s fund will be paid for a virologist who provides scientific evidence of the existence of a corona virus, including documented control attempts of all steps taken to provide the evidence.
Samuel Eckert stated that all virologists have deceived themselves and the public when they claim the existence of disease-causing viruses such as SARS-CoV-2. Virologists inadvertently kill cells in test tubes, believing that this is proof of the presence and isolation of a virus. Only from fragments of dying cells do virologists mentally construct a gene sequence and pass it off as fact. Therefore, the test procedures do not offer any significance or meaning. Typical structures of dying cells in the electron microscope are passed off as viruses. Such structures could never be detected or recognized in a human being so far.”
https://whomtosupport.com/isolat-truth-fund/
We have heard enough about this topic.
Thank you, Gail. This isn’t the forum for this.
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Why not? Isn’t the scientific approach to question everything? OFW is probably the most open blog in the world to speculations that in other forums are considered well beyond the pale, and thank god (Gail) for that. So why isn’t this the place to question germ theory?
Not this. Take it to a different forum.
Got it.
Gail, I don’t get why we can question the science of so-called pandemic, of the covid injections, of moon landings, globalwarming, nine-eleven, etc, but can’t question the science of germ theory. Do you believe this one is more sound than the sciences that claim the planet is warming (by human action) and that two planes can pulverize three skyscrapers? I’m affraid it isn’t. I also believed that until January 2020. Everything I’ve readsince then has made me radically change my mind.
But of course this is your blog, and i respect you very much, so no more comments about the mother of all scams (virology) if that’s your wish.
(Viking clap)
(But for the opposite reason)
The Vikings must have caught it when they went raping and pillaging.
Gail, now we know how to bring out the trolls when there is any discussion about Covid, jabs etc – just ban the conversation and Normal, Boo and their ilk will come out clapping.
Good job!
Carl Denninger at the Market Ticker, for one, is much less tolerant of off-topic subjects than Gail is. He has a rule—”No Tin”, which refers to the trusty tinfoil hat subjects that Norman and the Normies love to ridicule. “Tin” would include alternative nine-eleven ideas, questioning the moon landings, and questioning germ theory. It is restrictive for some commenters, and it tends to make his blog an echo chamber of dittoheads, but it keeps the discussions more focused.
In fact, most male bloggers are much less tolerant of off-topic subjects than Gail is. I think their overweening male egos are the main factor in their moderation policies. I haven’t been very impressed with female presidents and prime ministers down the years, but female bloggers rock. We’re very lucky to have a host as patient and good-natured as Gail is.
UK is running out of tin foil – so pies are in danger. (I have been waiting for the moment to post this one.)
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10101163/Britain-facing-pie-crisis-amid-perfect-storm-foil-tins-running-low.html
> Britain is now facing a pie crisis amid ‘perfect storm’ of foil tins running low due to rising global aluminium prices, labour shortages and inflation
Another very interesting overview.
“The basic problem, as I see it, is that we have reached limits on oil, coal and natural gas extraction, pretty much simultaneously.”
Spot on. The UK and Europe can wish for all the gas they want, and make as many silly accusations as they like (Putin holding back on lots of available gas). But society just does not want to face up to reality – global production of oil, coal and gas has its limits. The version of events from politicians and economists is much more palatable.
“In fact, OPEC and its affiliates won’t ramp up production by very large amounts either because they, too, need much higher prices to cover all their costs.”
I suspect it is now physically not possible for OPEC to ramp up production under any circumstances.
France has just released a report simulating 6 scenarios for our future energy consumption and this his hilarious.
They don’t even explain how to reduce the annual energy consumption from 1 600 TWh (this is actually 1 800 but they don’t care) to 930 TWh in 2050, with absolutely 0 fossil fuels.
The full report is here for those who read french : https://assets.rte-france.com/prod/public/2021-10/Futurs-Energetiques-2050-principaux-resultats_0.pdf
Too bad they did not read Simon Michaux whose report is a must read and his conclusion the following: (by the way, Gail is among the people who are acknowledged)
https://mcusercontent.com/72459de8ffe7657f347608c49/files/be87ecb0-46b0-9c31-886a-6202ba5a9b63/Assessment_to_phase_out_fossil_fuels_Summary.pdf
“Current expectations are that global industrial businesses will replace a complex industrial energy ecosystem that took more than a century to build. The current system was built with the support of the highest calorifically dense source of energy the world has ever known (oil), in cheap abundant quantities, with easily available credit, and seemingly unlimited mineral resources. The replacement needs to be done at a time when there is comparatively very expensive energy, a fragile finance system saturated in debt, not enough minerals, and an unprecedented world population, embedded in a deteriorating natural environment. Most challenging of all, this has to be done within a few decades. It is the author’s opinion, based on the new calculations presented here, that this will likely not go fully to as planned. In conclusion, this report suggests that replacing the existing fossil fuel powered system (oil, gas, and coal), using renewable technologies, such as solar panels or wind turbines, will not be possible for the entire global human population. There is simply just not enough time, nor resources to do this by the current target set by the World’s most influential nations. What may be required, therefore, is a significant reduction of societal demand for all resources, of all kinds. This implies a very different social contract and a radically different system of governance to what is in place today. Inevitably, this leads to the conclusion that the existing renewable energy sectors and the EV technology systems are merely steppingstones to something else, rather than the final solution. It is recommended that some thought be given to this and what that something else might be.”
I’m tired with France, is there another country where I could live?
If is impossible for politicians to talk about any possible adverse outcome.
This implies a very different social contract and a radically different system of governance to what is in place today.
Simon either misunderstands the implications… or he prefers not to state the obvious
I think we can drudge along for another decade or two, with exponentially increasing problems for all energy and economic systems. In the end, we will get too many blackouts and SFP fires to cope with. We would need a quite exceptional leader that both understand our predicament AND is popular enough to stay in a position of power. I guess that is part of our predicament.
“I’m tired with France, is there another country where I could live?”
Mother Earth is pretty much borked. Where you gonna go? Here’s an idea: How about Mars? I’m hearing good things about the conditions over there. Not much man made pollution, depletion and overpopulation.
Right; I got no children so… Not really worrying that much truth be told… How about you?
Still shoveling your self entitled princess ass around in that epitome of waste (car) of yours? Yes of course you are. The myopia and conveniences of ‘ordinary’ is that enthralling. You see; children is a manifestation of hope for a better tomorrow and that promise of a glorious ‘tomorrow’ is heading down the Seneca. Fast.
Btw… Hope… Yeah… Let me tell you about it…
Hope is for suckers.
— Alan Watts
But what do I know, I just chuck in the oats and turn the cranks. Zero cars, zero children, zero albatross sized living. Yes, I consider my future as bleak and grim and within (my) temptation is truth. So… Why bother? Because.
Now; who’s exaggerating the choices and outlook in life? You or I? But don’t get me wrong, I wish you the best. I’m sure we all eventually will meet again in the perpetual wheel of time (or idiocy). Karma, reincarnation and all that…
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K, what about Russia? I can hear Putin laughing when reading what our so called elites can produce. Western countries have lost any sense of reality. We live in La La Land, until reality catches us and we crash against the laws of physics.
But please don’t draw conclusions too fast about what I hope. You would be surprised if I told you.
Thierry, you know I’m merely inferring and being obnoxious. 😉
Isn’t there countries not too far from France that is better adapted for softening the Seneca plunge?
It’s up to each and every one to decide.
Well, you talked about hope which was a wrong deduction. I hope nothing. I am just doing what I can do and I accept that what happens, just happens. Though I am not a perfect human being and sometimes I lose my patience when confronted with a greater stupidity than mine.
Your point with having a child is worthless. This not hope, this is biological. My biology told me to have a child. It happened because it had to happen, you see?
And you are not supposed to be obnoxious all the time, this not good for you!
You might be correct.
However, I’m not sure “children” merely “happens”. I think those are the consequence of an act.
Choices – outcomes
Actions – reactions
Causes – effects
etc.
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Maybe not choices. In some parts of the world, in some time periods, a woman may have no way to support herself if she doesn’t marry and have children.
This is generally easier for men to chose to have children or not, as a social construction. In my case, I did not chose, I was chosen. Maybe because I have good genes, who knows, but overall that was a consequence of an unbelievable series of events that lasted 20 years. Call it karma if you believe in it.
I’d choose a dog every time… instead of a child…
equality of IQs eddy?
no competition?
GUARDIAN ARTICLE BY SIMON JENKINS.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/26/nhs-money-hyper-centralised-local-authorities
EXTRACT:
“The NHS’s age-old rivalry with local government has blinded it to local elderly care as critical to its performance. Yet, in the early stages of the pandemic, it simply cleared elderly hospital patients into care homes, where thousands died and thousands more had to return to hospital. The pain – and cost – must have been enormous. As for the seven Nightingale hospitals created to treat Covid victims last year in a blaze of political publicity, they were largely unused.”
This was published in the GUARDIAN?!!!
Now watch this video from the 15:04 point. Has FE of the CEP already seen it? It seems to tie in with the points made in the article above.
https://www.richplanet.net/richp_genre.php?ref=292&part=1&gen=99
“Prepare yourself – you know it’s a must”
10 infectious diseases that could be the next pandemic
https://www.gavi.org/vaccineswork/10-infectious-diseases-could-be-next-pandemic
(The name “Marburg” is coming up a lot. Is that a prediction?)
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz……..
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E7ZqVqaWUAY_zSn?format=jpg&name=small
Pandemics are something the media likes to write about.
Fear sells, right, but it’s not only that.
“From 1997 through 2016, spending on medical marketing of drugs, disease awareness campaigns, health services, and laboratory testing increased from $17.7 to $29.9 billion. The most rapid increase was in direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertising, which increased from $2.1 billion (11.9%) of total spending in 1997 to $9.6 billion (32.0%) of total spending in 2016. DTC prescription drug advertising increased from $1.3 billion (79 000 ads) to $6 billion (4.6 million ads [including 663 000 TV commercials])”
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2720029
The video mentions Midazolam.
https://www.drugs.com/mtm/midazolam.html
In the early days of the pandemic, private individuals were telling us that the stories of overflowing hospitals were untrue. Now the Guardian, in Simon Jenkins’ article (see my comment post above) essentially confirms that they were RIGHT!
He continues that the NHS “simply cleared elderly hospital patients into care homes, where thousands died and thousands more had to return to hospital”.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/26/nhs-money-hyper-centralised-local-authorities
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The Richplanet video I referenced shows an interview with a UK funeral care director – the unfortunately named John O’Looney, who tells of suspiciously high death rates in UK care homes at the time, coinciding with an increase in the use of Midazolam – a sedative. He is essentially speaking of eu than asia – scarcely credible. Yet part of it does corroborate what the Guardian (!) complained of yesterday in Simon Jenkins’ article. Is Mr. Jenkins hinting under the radar that he does not believe the propaganda?
Is Fast Eddy correct in his accusations of the CEP? I do begin to wonder.
See the Milton Keynes funeral care director talk of his experience and voice his suspicions. Click on the screen in the link and watch the video from the 15:04 point
https://www.richplanet.net/richp_genre.php?ref=292&part=1&gen=99
Fast Eddy, had you already alerted us to this video? It is hosted on two or three different websites.
I’ve seen the funeral guy… the US did the same thing jamming covid patients into old aged homes purposely driving up the deaths to frighten people
The only reason anyone will reject the CEP is because the do not want the truth
Scary. Who will lift our Normal when he becomes a deadweight? I saw from that piano video, though, that he’s more the size of a Munchkin, so he can’t be too heavy. I did like his shock of Albert Einstein hair, though. 😉
Mal
try to find your own chalk and wall
eddy’s is getting full
I’ll bring the Midazolam. 🙁
very thoughtful Mal
but even in my advanced years—I take no medication at all
That’s because there is no cure for what you have….
oh there is eddy
but hopefully it’s a few years off yet.
The Boosters might bring the cure sooner than you think
am off to swim my mile in a bit
if you don’t hear from me i will have sunk without trace
or done it deliberately to get the kiss of life from a sweet young lady lifeguard at the pool.
(she says I’m a regular)
Don’t be gross norm…
After you get rejected by the life guard (again) … you can take a nap … then spruce up and put on some Oh de Toilet … wander down to the school in your trench coat and hang around the entrance… with your sack of candy…
pretty much all you say on here confirms that this is the only place you have to say it.
I think I can safely say that if you were brave enough to say that to anyone face to face, the result would be violently predictable.
I here you can rant at who you like. Can’t you?
Just like medical receptionists, who are forced to deal with people of your unpleasant ilk on a daily basis. Or the paralympians, who are also worth nothing but your scorn.
One occasionally has the misfortuntune to meet people like you in real life. Not often though.
The hallmark of the online abuser. Nothing of substance beyond the keyboard. No doubt your valet and your tailor must think as you do.
you really are desperate to find something in your scrabble bag ‘smart’ to say.
No wonder Gail removes so much of your unpleasantness
You are correct … Fast Eddy is rather neutral when outside of OFW…. because outside of OFW Fast Eddy is surrounded by MOREONS…. so what would be the point of antagonizing them…
Whereas on OFW the majority are not MOREONS…. and the majority support Fast Eddy ridiculing the MOREONS.
I am looking out my window right now at a person who is in our rental accommodation … he is sitting outside enjoying the view… with a mask on…. there is nobody within 100metres of him… he is a MOREON… there are also sheep on one of the adjoining properties… Fast Eddy will ignore all of them
But norm…. cannot be ignored
i can imagine your neighbours, nodding twards you:
” that guy over there refers to himself in the third person”
” hmm weird. better keep well clear”
We’ve got some of the neighbours coming over in a couple of hours for drinks … I’ll be sure to ask them for you norm….
well
don’t forget to tell them all that you insist on telling everyone in here eddy
and in caps too of course.
Or do you behave ‘normally’?
oh—surely not ‘that’ word??—eddy? normal?–this must not, cannot be.
eddy must deliver ‘the word’ to normal people, those beyond the pale who lack his depth of understanding of the world around us.
eddy who screams at ‘lesser people’ about their inadequacies. (as long as they are perceived as weaker than he is of course)
or is eddy, as i’ve so often said, a fantasiser and BS merchant, whose only audience is OFW, and who would not dare utter a controversial word outside the safety zone of his keyboard?
eddy, who uses his keyboard to shout down any adverse opinion….where ‘normal’ people just shrug and walk away. Who needs conspiratorial daftness repeated ad nauseam?
Calm yourself norm… at your age when your blood pressure rises you could blow a gasket… and that would leave a major void in OFW….
To answer your question — FE exists only on OFW… in fact He is a product of OFW… no OFW no FE…. He does not exist outside of OFW…
https://static3.srcdn.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Batman-Quitting-Comic-Bruce-Wayne.jpg
unwittingly or not eddy
you just confirmed what i’ve been saying since the aliens returned you after the abduction
you are a complete BS merchant and fantasiser
And the God of Logic…. in case you forgot
American Moon?
moonloon too
i forgot that
norm… when you are relegated to laughing stock on OFW … does that damage your self-esteem?
keep your comments of desperation coming eddy
they are my feedstock
As we can see… norm does not realize that he is the clown of OFW… norm The Imbecile of OFW….
IN his parallel universe — he sees himself as … hahaha… intelligent? hahahahaaha
You are the clown norm… it’s nearly unanimous
by all means, enjoy your mirth eddy, i need your feedstock.
but by all accounts, my comments are not the ones that get removed more than anyone else’s
Not before everyone gets to see them though… because mother is sleeping …
Piano video?
Ed
Here’s the link. At the end of the thread is a link to the paper.
https://mobile.twitter.com/Parsifaler/status/1452453247755632642
I am going to call B.s on this. I have had Covid and feel no different. It’s like a flu… papers like these are meant to scare people into getting the vaccine.
This is about telomere shortening perhaps being part of the COVID-19 problem. The linked study seems to be this one.
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.09.08.459535v1.full.pdf
i forgot India
11 October
Why India is on the brink of an unprecedented power crisis
More than half of the country’s 135 coal-fired power plants are running on fumes – as coal stocks run critically low.
In a country where 70% of the electricity is generated using coal, this is a major cause for concern as it threatens to derail India’s post-pandemic economic recovery.
“We have seen shortages in the past, but what’s unprecedented this time is coal is really expensive now,” said Dr Aurodeep Nandi, India Economist and Vice President at Nomura.
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-58824804
China’s coal futures hit record high as floods worsen energy crisis
https://www.ft.com/content/2b986dca-bfdb-48f7-ba37-4a5e9a3d1412
https://www.ft.com/__origami/service/image/v2/images/raw/https%3A%2F%2Fd6c748xw2pzm8.cloudfront.net%2Fprod%2Fb8aac250-2a58-11ec-bb41-99ac96ecd7ff-standard.png?dpr=1&fit=scale-down&quality=highest&source=next&width=700
Most of India’s coal-fired power plants have critically low levels of coal inventory at a time when the economy is picking up and fueling electricity demand.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/12/coal-shortage-india-could-soon-be-on-the-brink-of-a-power-crisis.html#:~:text=70%25%20of%20India%E2%80%99s%20electricity%20generation.
China and India both having low supplies of coal becomes a major problem, especially when natural gas is in short supply also.
We have seen comments about low level of coal supplies in India before, in the past few days. World supplies seem to be very short. Coal plays an outsized role in manufacturing of all kinds. It also is important in electricity production.
Hi Gail, An interesting post. It highlights the differences you and I have on the meaning of the word Complexity.
To me Complexity begins with a field of agents, all identical, with identical, or very similar, interactions and rules. There are similarities in logic systems, ecology and biology.
Hence when I read
“Together, these approaches comprise “complexity.”
I have to recalibrate language to parse this. It seems to me this is more like a chain of weak links with little similarity between actors, indeed, the actors are forced to specialise, and to narrow their links and interactions.
As such it becomes very difficult to look at any one actor and thus deduce the response of the whole.
I can agree that the fine tuning is on its way to falling apart. Insulate a building and increase its efficiency but there are hidden costs. What if the bulding is designed for ten occupants and more are added? will it overheat? What about services? they need moved and increased and in fact it may not be possible under present legislation to increase the numbers, or perhaps only with significant inefficiences.
Here I’m only dealing with rational change, never mind the Dutch government’s decision to go down the Hydrogen path, for example.
I suspect more irrationality is on its way, and nothing whatsoever to do with complexity.
Again, thanks for the interesting post.
IMHO, it boils down to balance between complexity which is derived from specialization (or vise versa?) or generalization, or less specialization. Someone who knows a little about farming, medicine, repairing cars, solar panels etc has a more generalized skill set, and may rely on less complex systems as a result. “I know I don’t know how to fix that engine . I’ll have to take the car to the dealership.” Someone who is ultra specialized often is dealing with a single skill set in a complex system and knows very little about anything else.
Bottom line, specialization requires dependency on other specialists and their specialized tools. When everything is working, it’s great, but when just one thing goes bad, the collective falls apart.
It is similar in many ways to hybrid GMO seeds, which require special fertilizer, herbicides, and pesticides. If the conditons are right, then you get a huge harvest. In contrast, plain old heriloom seeds produce but a fraction of the harvest as GMO seeds, but at least you’re more likely to have something to eat in the event of exogenous stressors like drought, insect infestation, or fungus.
Good point!
Perhaps I was influenced by Joseph Tainter’s use of the word “complexity.” If there is not enough energy, society turns to complexity, and there are diminishing returns to complexity.
If we think of complexity as redundancy, as in the way nature builds truly sustainable systems, then the result is much different.
In systems built by humans, the complexity I am talking about is stripping away redundancy.
Mind-boggling. “Why won’t our planter work?”
(And yes, they unplugged it and plugged it back in..)
We shot the magnificent plough horses after WW2 – the product of centuries of intelligent breeding – and will therefore die starved by the side of cold and useless machines.
You’re free to take up ploughing by horses and maintaining them.
Can’t comment much on OFW with the yokes of drudgery, now can you?
🤔
A multi millionaire driving a tractor. Ownership of the means of production is were it is at.
Data I would like to see for each nation
% pop with anti bodies
% pop that had cv
% pop that died of cv
% pop that had cv twice, thrice….
% pop with vitamin D level over 90ng/ml
% pop with vitamin D level below 20ng/ml
% pop with no diseases/morbidities
breakdown by race within a nation
The immune cells can’t digest the spike protein…the vaccines that produce the spike protein all over the body…causes the same reaction by the immune system…the immune cells try to burn away the spike protein with chemicals…and this causes heart inflammation and other inflammations thought out the body.
This is a nasty virus with a nasty spike protein.
The virus is no worse than the flu .. it’s the injections that are nasty… and useless
That sounds like fear tactics to get people vaccinated!!
The virus attacks and destroys our DNA
The telomeres are non coding DNA at the ends of the chromosomes. They disappear with aging and when they are gone, the cells can no longer divide into new cells.
A Covid infection reduces the telomeres by half. The violent reaction by the immune system, as the immune cells try to burn the virus away with chemicals, which causes cell destruction and inflammation, is the immune system trying to protect the DNA.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FB8E_tHWQAA9XRc?format=png&name=small
Yoshua, what is your source for this info? This means the remaining life span of the victim is reduce in half. So a 20 year old expecting 60 more years gets only 30 more years, age 50.
I think we saw an earlier study that claimed that telomere length was reduced by the equivalent of 10 years in people who had recovered from COVID.
Telomere length is in itself a response to genetic damage to conserve time between cell mitosis. Sort of like conserving the genetic fuel of an organism and stretching out the Hayfleck limit. Whiter skinned folk tend to have longer telomeres. Children born to older couples tend to inherit longer telomeres from their parents, but also perhaps more genetic faults (interestingly all people from all races get whiter as they get older, a good wake up call to see our inherent sameness and how civilisations change over time). There is a shelf life on everyone’s telomeres and probably an optimal telomere length, beyond which the benefits don’t return benefit/longevity for the energy investment, so back we go to the old limits of growth and inevitable … no matter how the genetic lolly rappers at the end of our DNA unravel. Likewise, you can only charge a capacitor so much before you get diminished returns.
On that note, picture a band of rappers standing at the end of your last genetically divisible cell, un-rapping and trying to eat lollies while simultaneously rhyming their tune live. If they make a mistake, drop a fruit loop, or the demo tape jams during the lip synch, milli vanillie style…everything comes to a screeching halt and you disappear in a puff of logic.
Puffffffffff! ;—) goodnight All
Oh no, I meant dancing (not standing dah!;—)
Children are speaking up:
https://images.dailykos.com/images/1001576/story_image/covidbreathonkitty.jpg?1635221333
Sometimes they can be quite clear.
dunc… don’t you have some terrible disease? Is that what makes you such a miserable moreonic asxhole?
You are a seriously vile person
as defined by one who knows of such things
I’m rather chuffed to see that comment was not removed…
China is now injecting 3 yr olds… the world will follow…. how’s that new grandchild norm…. Mengele has infants in his sights….
does it not concern you that you have to be concerned about comments being removed?
i asked a while ago, to let me have the link to your rhino hide supplier.
“Modern Land becomes latest Chinese developer to miss a bond payment…
“Modern Land said that principal and interest payments on a bond worth $250m were “not met” by a Monday deadline. Earlier this month the company had asked for a three-month extension to the maturity on the bond, a proposal it later withdrew, saying its liquidity issues had not been resolved.”
https://www.ft.com/content/5248fe9d-c7e2-46dc-964a-7b8307183e6b
With not enough energy, China really can’t keep up all of this building activity. Some of the builders need to close down or cut back remarkably.
“Chinese real estate firms long prospered by selling a lot of dollar-denominated debt. This year hasn’t been as kind: Their dollar bonds have lost about one-third of their value…
“…developers turned to the vast pool of money in the global dollar bond market, which was hungry for higher yields. Debt piled up as Chinese builders kept going back to refinance…
“If defaults start spreading… that could send shock waves across regional financial markets… Social unrest could erupt if houses that people have put money down on don’t get built.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-10-25/why-china-s-developers-have-so-much-dollar-debt-quicktake
If the “dollar bonds have lost about one-third of their value,” this means that to issue any new debt, the bonds will have to pay a very much higher interest rate. Even at that, they may not find a market.
How many of these bonds are held by US insurance companies? Any ideas?
Dennis L.
It’s very unclear to me why China is selling dollar bonds and investors are buying them. This news from a week ago. Maybe investors assume that China will not default on these bonds. https://www.yahoo.com/now/china-begins-dollar-bond-sale-031723639.html
Here is a list of investor exposure in banking industry. https://www.reuters.com/business/what-analysts-have-say-about-evergrande-default-risks-rise-2021-09-21/
Difficult to predict how widely the failure of Evergrande and other property developers could spread. https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-evergrande-sends-funds-trustee-bond-coupon-due-sept-23-source-2021-10-22/
“A leaked 2020 document, branded a fake by Evergrande but taken seriously by analysts, showed the company’s liabilities extended to more than 128 banks and over 121 non-banking institutions.”
“Given that we have little clarity on how bank financing is going for stalled real estate projects, but we know that project pre-sales are down a lot, the onshore business is unlikely to be supplying cash to Evergrande near-term,” said Quiddity’s Lundy.
“Mexico’s economic activity unexpectedly contracted in August as the services sector sputtered, calling into question the strength of the nation’s recovery…
““This is bad news,” central bank deputy governor Jonathan Heath wrote in a Twitter post after the data was released. “It’s primarily the result of a 2.5% decline in tertiary activities (commerce and services).””
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-10-25/mexico-s-august-economic-contraction-bodes-ill-for-recovery
COVID cases were high in August, according to the article. Didn’t help these figures.
“Emboldened drug traffickers, hundreds of deaths in prisons, a government dogged by scandal, and an economy ravaged by Covid have Ecuador staring into the abyss…
“The violence has prompted President Lasso to declare a state of emergency for 60 days, sending the military into the streets in support of the police.”
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20211025-drugs-crime-and-protests-ecuador-stares-into-the-abyss
Ecuador is like Nigeria: It is beyond peak oil, and it is suffering from very low oil prices. No wonder it is having problems!
“Nigeria becomes first African nation to roll out digital currency…
“The Central Bank of Nigeria joined a growing list of emerging markets betting on digital money to cut transaction costs and boost participation in the formal financial system.”
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2021/10/25/nigeria-becomes-first-african-nation-to-roll-out-digital-money
We will see how well this works.
Who else is thinking about buying some digital (looks it up)…naira?
Maybe we can ran nations by current percentage of peak external income.
“Fuel goes up in Brazil amid international surge in crude oil.
“Brazil’s oil company Petrobras Monday decreed an increase in the price of gasoline of 7.04% at refineries and 9.15% in the case of diesel fuel, it was announced. These adjustments were to impact the price consumers pay at pumps as of Tuesday.”
https://en.mercopress.com/2021/10/25/fuel-goes-up-in-brazil-amid-international-surge-in-crude-oil
It is interesting to see what the prior prices were
$1.14 per liter translates to $4.32 per gallon; $.91 per liter translates to $3.44 per gallon. This is more than we pay in the US (perhaps similar for diesel), but less than people in Europe pay.
Brazil’s oil production is growing. I imagine that Brazil would like to export as much of this higher production as possible to other countries.
“Iran says cyberattack closes gas stations across country.
“A cyberattack targeted gas stations Tuesday across Iran, shutting down a government system that manages fuel subsidies and leaving angry motorists stranded in long lines at shuttered stations.”
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/cyberattack-hits-iranian-gas-stations-nation-80786605
“South African state power utility Eskom said it was extending scheduled power cuts until Saturday because of a shortage of generation capacity.
“Eskom regularly enforces outages over faults at its coal-fired power stations that hold back economic growth in Africa’s most industrialised nation.”
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/south-africas-eskom-extends-power-outages-until-saturday-2021-10-26/
South Africa seems to be at peak coal. Its production hasn’t been increasing. Its exports are dropping. I expect its cost are rising.
According to the article:
I always wonder how safe from attacks any kind of crypto currency will really be.
“Blackstone Inc. co-founder Stephen Schwarzman said the world is facing energy shortages so severe they could cause social unrest.
““We’re going to end up with a real shortage of energy,” he said at a conference in Saudi Arabia.” …His comments were echoed by Larry Fink, who said there’s a high probability of oil soon reaching $100 a barrel…”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-10-26/blackstone-s-schwarzman-says-energy-squeeze-will-trigger-unrest
“Aramco Warns That World’s Spare Oil Supplies Falling Rapidly…
“It’s a “huge concern,” Chief Executive Officer Amin Nasser said in an interview in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia’s capital. “The spare capacity is shrinking.””
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-10-26/aramco-says-fall-in-global-oil-supply-capacity-is-huge-concern
We read earlier that most OPEC countries cannot really increase supplies. This article notes:
This likely as much as they can really increase supply.
Need more investment in fossil fuel. Prices need to be much higher for this to happen.
Instead though:
“French lender Credit Mutuel Alliance Federale said on Tuesday it will stop financing new petrol and gas projects in a move to protect the environment and curb climate change.”
https://www.reuters.com/business/cop/french-lender-credit-mutuel-stops-financing-new-oil-gas-projects-2021-10-26/
“…leaders in Scotland have today announced they’ll pull their funds from fossil fuels as they join the largest ever faith divestment. Every Catholic diocese in the country is joining the action.”
https://www.thenational.scot/news/19673208.scottish-catholic-leaders-cut-oil-gas-ties-3-1bn-global-action/
Hard to know what to do. Higher prices will likely cause the world economy to contract greatly, bringing the (inflation adjusted) prices right back down again.
I have said for a long time that high prices cannot really stick around for long.
“Hard to know what to do.”
Our predicament looks pretty all-encompassing to me and industrial civilisation inherently self-terminating. We just have to hope there’s still a few miles left in the old jalopy.
I’m waiting to hear “In a move to avoid starving cold and in the dark, leading thinkers choose to maintain, or even increase, investments in fossil fuels.”
“in a move to avoid slowing the green transition exploration and production of FF will be increased 50% as directed by executive order.”
Stranded assets
“UK Budget: the crippling shortages and rising prices hitting the economy. From hospitality to logistics, industry chiefs are warning the chancellor Rishi Sunak that the recovery pains will not be shortlived…
“The toxic combination of local labour shortages, supply chain crunches and record energy prices is now creating persistent inflationary pressures.”
https://www.ft.com/content/47582a7a-7370-4e2e-9d2e-fa1ea4a3db6c
“UK faces medicine shortages.
“Ninety percent of the UK’s medicines are imported from abroad meaning disruptions caused by the outcomes of Brexit and a lack of HGV drivers has caused a significant problem in transporting drugs into the country.”
https://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/articles/uk-medicine-shortages
I blame the NIP. /s
Where are the other ten percent imported from?
“EU countries splinter ahead of crisis talks on energy price spike… Divisions have deepened among European Union countries ahead of an emergency meeting of ministers on Tuesday…
“Countries are struggling to agree… on a longer term plan to cushion against fossil-fuel price swings, which Spain, France, the Czech Republic and Greece say warrant a bigger shake-up of the way EU energy markets work.”
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/eu-countries-splinter-ahead-crisis-talks-energy-price-spike-2021-10-26/
“France threatens to block ports and slow-down customs checks as fishing row [with UK] reaches boiling point.
“Jean Castex, France’s prime minister, will unveil a series of retaliatory measures if French fishermen are not provided greater access to the UK’s coastal waters.”
https://www.cityam.com/france-threatens-to-block-ports-and-slow-down-customs-checks-as-fishing-row-reaches-boiling-point/
By saying it for years now
As long as everyone was prosperous, Europe could be held together for the common good. When things start to fall apart, Europe falls apart.
Cheap Surplus energy held Europe together post WW2. Now there isn’t any.
Nations are now finding old animosities.
Written in 2018:
https://medium.com/future-vision/the-european-union-was-a-construct-of-infinite-prosperity-7a401c225171
And the USA will go exactly the same way.
Cheap surplus energy brought the USA into being.
Now there’s none left.
Good point!
Excellent read
thanks Ilias
i sometimes think I’m running out of walls to bang my head against
Norm, despite the personal attacks by a handful of folks around here, you remain my favorite OFW commenter. Please stick around. The problem is that peak oil / finite world issues are the one “crazy” idea that happen to be factually/logically true. The initial superficial appearance of absurdity just happens to also attract the conspiracy theorists.
I have had to explain this to my brother, “no, I don’t believe in aliens, I don’t think the Illuminati want to microchip me, and the world is really round. Despite that, resource limits are real and will dramatically alter life in the short to intermediate future”. It’s our cross to bear….
lol–thanks Karl
the attacks you read, just reveal weaknesses in those who feel the need to do it. They have ‘certainties’. Those certainties are being drawn into question. (That is a grave insult).
If I don’t know what those certainties are I can’t undermine them.
Personally i find it fascinating, because it reveals their version of reality and shows the weird workings of the human mind, which is exactly what i need to base my thinking on.
The more desperately childish (chalk and wall? rubber dolls?) the comments become, the more certain i am that ammunition is running out.
I sense a man/MOREON crush…
Karl is going to stick the blow up doll with a pin and usurp her.
Norm sends you a love message:
https://media.giphy.com/media/5xtDarIIYsYnlBPNwnC/giphy.gif
Come on Norman. You have more certainties than the people you are accusing. You are certain we’ve reached the end of more, certain there is no God, certain Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, certain there are no hidden controllers who run the world and call the shots from the shadows. The list goes on and on. Your comment about other people being certain is a classic exercise in projection; the pot calling the kettle black. Have you learned nothing since you were a jedi in training?
Tim
I am now a qualified jedi trainer
“MMT Isn’t Going Anywhere. What Investors Need to Know…
“,,,the widespread and enduring use of quantitative easing (QE) by central banks without stoking inflation has nurtured the idea that central bank underwriting of public sector debts and deficits is a viable option… MMT—at least in some form—is probably here to stay.”
https://www.barrons.com/articles/mmt-isnt-going-anywhere-what-investors-need-to-know-51635169796
“Is Hyperinflation Coming?
“I am a long-term lowflationist [because there] …are huge long-term forces at work that explain why countries like the USA and Japan, despite having spent trillions of dollars in recent decades, seem to be having trouble creating high inflation…
“The major risk to this long-term outlook is political in nature. For instance, if we adopted a true MMT style policy regime with a full blown government Job Guarantee and permanent procyclical deficit spending, I would reconsider.”
https://seekingalpha.com/article/4461845-is-hyperinflation-coming
“Bond Market Sends a Warning on Growth to Hawkish Central Banks…
“The bond market’s age-old measure of growth is flashing an ominous warning as the world’s central banks move closer to boosting interest rates from near record lows.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-10-25/bond-market-is-sending-growth-warning-for-hawkish-central-banks
“Sales in European Collateralized Loan Obligations Hit Post Financial-Crisis Record.
“Annual sales of new collateralized loan obligations reached a post-financial crisis record in Europe, a symbolic milestone for the asset class that was once seen as a niche corner of the debt market.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-10-26/sales-in-european-clos-hit-record-thanks-to-buyout-debt-surge
“European carmakers warn industry risks a repeat of chip shortage crisis… Car sales across Europe fell 23 per cent last month to their lowest level since 1995 as carmakers were unable to meet demand.
“Oliver Zipse, who is chair of European carmakers’ lobby group ACEA and also chief executive of BMW, warned the industry is facing “severe and immediate consequences” of its inability to buy parts needed for its vehicles.”
https://www.ft.com/content/4fda08e3-6bc1-4ae8-9f80-83c48ac2b40e
“Supply chain warnings intensify. German recovery under threat; Warehouse space runs short; Retailers scramble to adapt…
““Sand in the wheels of the economy is holding back the recovery” was how today’s closely watched Ifo survey characterised a six-month low in German business confidence.”
https://www.ft.com/content/abe672e8-43d4-451d-aa70-f01927dd70c2
Things we don’t think about: It is possible to work around supply chain shortages by holding more inventory in warehouses. The new problem is that warehouse space runs short.
Warehouse space runs out because the warehouse establishment is thinking in silo terms. There’s plenty of space for inventory if regular establishment businesses and the rest of us could cooperate. I’m trying to make warehouse function in boxes outside my house. My wife isn’t delighted, being basically in denial of our predicament. Denialism is the basic obstacle we face.
When businesses are will to take lots of risk, Collateralized Loan Obligations look like they might be helpful.
“New companies raising cash swell US junk bond market to record size. Outstanding debt rises above $1.5tn as nearly 150 issuers borrow from investors seeking yield…
“A generation of new arrivals to the US junk bond market have propelled it to a record size, with debut issuers borrowing cash cheaply from investors eager for yield…
“The IMF recently warned that rising financial leverage, driven by investors’ search for yield, could “exacerbate existing vulnerabilities” in the financial system.”
https://www.ft.com/content/b76e2d6f-5e40-479a-bcf9-1e27181a9d67
“America’s National Mood Disorder… America is in a bad mood…
“If you ask why Americans might have become more negative about politics, there is a ready answer: It is the combined effects of 9/11, the failures of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the financial crisis and Great Recession, and the arrival of a major pandemic…
“In all of these cases, the political class failed to respond adequately to crises.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-10-25/america-s-negative-politics-are-creating-a-national-mood-disorder
It doesn’t matter which political party is in power.
More willingness to take on risk.
Multifarious Beneficial Effect of Nonessential Amino Acid, Glycine: A Review
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5350494/
might come in handy and it tastes good right out of the jar
The Role of Glycine in Regulated Cell Death
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4955867/
From the abstract of the first article
This website give a list of foods high in glycine:
https://drianstern.com/blogs/learn/foods-high-in-glycine
Telegraphic summary: drink your bone broth daily. The Western population is sorely deficient in this thing. It has to be gluey when cold.
“Unprecedented” power outages in China have triggered factory shutdowns and hampered production for companies supplying Apple and Tesla.
Surging prices for coal and gas — as well as strict orders from Beijing to cut emissions — are being blamed for the power supply shock.
Aluminium smelters, textiles producers and soybean processing plants have been ordered to slow activity or shut altogether, Bloomberg reports.
https://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/unprecedented-power-crunch-the-next-big-economic-shock-for-china/news-story/1bb382dfe071b4170fcc04ccc10f74ea
Did peak coal or climate change, or both of them cause that shock?
According to article: “Nearly 60 per cent of the Chinese economy is powered by coal, but supply has been disrupted by the pandemic, put under pressure by tough emissions targets and squeezed by a drop in coal imports amid a trade tiff with Australia.”
https://content.api.news/v3/images/bin/b8f709cbbd0269c63b9979f571f802d3
“And China’s thermal coal inventory – which is used to generate electricity – is at a record low.
China’s total coal inventory is at 11.31 million tonnes, according to South China Morning Post. That’s only enough to meet demand for only about two weeks.
The power outages are threatening to further disrupt strained global supply chains for semiconductors and other vital goods, the Wall Street Journal reported.”
“Analysts at Nomura said on Monday a number of factories had been forced to cease operations due to either government mandates to meet carbon targets or surging prices and coal shortages.”
Thanks for the links.
My analysis says that China has been struggling with peak coal for several years. The shutdowns around the world somewhat hid the problem last year, but even at that, there were rolling blackouts in parts of China from November to Chinese New Year almost a year ago. Now they are hitting much harder.
Climate change is simply a convenient cover for “becoming too expensive to extract.”
China uses 3B tonnes of coal per year, so this bit ….
“China’s total coal inventory is at 11.31 million tonnes, according to South China Morning Post. That’s only enough to meet demand for only about two weeks.”
… is obviously incorrect.
They would use about 150m tonnes in 2 weeks. 11.3m tonnes is enough for about 1.5 days!!
It is interesting to see that as Russians lived Bolshevik brain wash and consequent various cultural distructions (among them family values), they indicate that what is happening in the western world is something similar to what they have already experienced.
It comes form Mr. P.’s words, I hope that this reasoning can be accepted anyway.
Actually I think that this great change in western society is coming with some aspects of élite capitalism and some aspects of old-style totaliltarian communist controls.
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/bordering-on-absurdity-russian-president-blasts-cancel-culture-of-the-west/
The Bolshevik brain wash was back when energy supplies per capita were in terrible shape, due to peak coal.
The article says:
“The President of the Russian Federation severely criticized the West for having allowed woke culture to introduce ‘reversed discrimination’ through critical race theory and the destruction of traditional family values through gender ideology.”
I think you right. And I remember your analysis about China. Thank you for your brillant analysis.
From New York Times:
“We will make every effort to increase coal production and supply,” said Zhao Chenxin.” October 13 2021
The electricity crunch has also laid bare one of China’s strategic weaknesses: It is a voracious, and increasingly hungry, energy hog.
The world’s No. 2 economy relies on energy-intensive industries like steel, cement and chemicals to power growth.
With the arrival of the winter heating season, which will require China to dig up and burn still more coal, Beijing must confront whether to allow factories to continue running full tilt producing industrial materials for global supply chains.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/13/business/china-electricity-shortage.html
How serious is the coal problem in China? If there is a really very serious problem, as it seems, the situation looks dire when all this is taken together with your analysis above. And the other point is that we don’t seem to have much time.
There may be a few years ahead of us rather than decades.
We may be have less time left than we thought.
In this respect, China and Europe could play a triggering role in the overthrow of its highly interconnected economic system.
The articles “debunking” ivermectin are out there hot and heavy. They of course associate with the ever popular “right wing” and ” conspiracy theorist” ad hominid attacks. To a T the first thing they misinform about disregard is Ivermectins effectiveness used prophylactic. Ivermectin is quite useful in early stage treatment but really where it performs spectacularly is in covid 19 prevention! Late stage treatment with covid is really non existent for any drug just damage control. The slam pieces ( ive read quite a few) are consistant in not defining the diferences between prophylactic use, early stage treatment, and late stage treatment. They will cite late stage treatment data to try to say that ivermectin is ineffective. Not defining the stages of the treatment itself is misinformation IMO and a a huge diservice to the public.
Really the “stages” should not all lumped together as “stages” Prevention, treatment, and damage control is much more accurate.
The second thing the hit pieces ignore completely is Indias spectacular results! What works works! Its important to note that India distributed Ivermectin along with VIT D , zinc and doxcycline!
The third thing all the hit pieces ignore is Ivermectins incredible safety. I think thats really important. If you are going to let the public administer a drug as a prophylactic it must be safe. Not only is that not mentioned but many of the slam pieces refer to “horse paste overdoses” with no specifics given, no cases cited, no specifics whatso ever Is india overrun with Overdoses. No. You know what happens if you ingest about 30mg a massive overdose? You poop your bowels out with one big squirt of diarrhea. Just one. Thats it. Oh and guess what? If the public was allowed pills not animal meds where they didnt have to calculate dosing off a horse applicator there would be no overdoses.
Ivermectin is put in the same class of drugs as much more serious drugs and it doesnt deserve that any more than aspirin or tylenol. Its not chemo therapy. The pony paste cowboys know what it is and what it isnt but if you havnt any experience you would think its something strong and nasty like bleach or something.
All the slam pieces of course talk about it as a horse dewormer to turn people off. Who wants to be thought of as having cooties?
THe heartworm medication for dogs is ivermectin. My dog once got into a years supply after i got it from the vet and ate the whole thing. I was terrified but it didnt phase him one bit.
These slam pieces are well done. If you didnt know about Ivermectin and read one or two of them a reasonable person might well believe they are what the experimental gene therapy injections actually are- unsafe and ineffective. The hit pieces are IMO the true misinformation.
You make very good points. Ivermectin is truly outstanding for prevention, pretty good for early treatment, and not very good and all for late treatment.
The dose has to be right is another issue. I don’t think you mentioned that. I would be willing to bet that some early tests did not use enough ivermectin.
You are right about the overdose articles not really citing cases where this happened.
When Marek’s arrives… caused by the CovIDIOTS being injected with leaky vaccines… and people are dying in the streets … and the CovIDIOTS are horrified…
Then I will laugh.. and laugh… and laugh… and laugh… till I piss my pants
I really can’t wait for the dying to begin … hahahahaha… chuckling just thinking about it
MOREONS DIE. Good
The culling has a li ready started. It is just not that serious only. We never had a confluence of so many bad things happening at the same time. Energy, shortages, virus, etc. Perhaps not a coincidence
“I am a nurse in Oncology/Hematology, and I’m seeing that we are experiencing an increase in hospitalizations/referrals for clotting and bleeding disorders. For one example, in one week, we had two patients in the hospital who were diagnosed with a rare clotting disorder that is normally only seen in 4 percent of the general population. And this happened twice in one week in rural central Maine. The only common factor, a COVID shot three days prior in each case. Was this reported to the CDC? I do not know.
“Only 4 of the roughly 20 to 25 people I’ve known personally who have tested positive for COVID recently have been unvaccinated. Yes, unvaccinated. The majority of the people around me who have tested positive in the past three months have been fully vaccinated.
Why would I want to risk side effects or long-term effects of the shot if I can still contract and spread this virus? It’s just not logical. Those two examples clearly blow their theory that ‘it’s safe and effective’ out of the water,” Sadler said.
“I am in constant communication with other health care workers in the state of Maine and none of us are seeing the ‘surges’ that the general public is told is happening.”
https://www.headsupster.com/forumthread?shortId=260
This is what sounds amazing to me:
“Only 4 of the roughly 20 to 25 people I’ve known personally who have tested positive for COVID recently have been unvaccinated.”
This nurse is older, so perhaps most of the people she knows are older, but it still seems unusual. Maine, where this took place, is a highly vaccinated state.
Not surprised…
76% of September Covid-19 deaths are vax breakthroughs
https://vermontdailychronicle.com/2021/09/30/76-of-september-covid-19-deaths-are-vaxxed-breakthroughs/
Math is hard, isn’t it?
8 deaths out of 77,000 unvaccinated = 0.01%
25 deaths out of 571,000 vaccinated = 0.004%
2.5 times more likely to die if unvaccinated. The unvaccinated also tend to be younger and more healthy than vaccinated to start with.
The statistics from everywhere clearly show an advantage for being vaccinated, you have not yet produced any evidence contrary to this.
The vaccines also clearly wane over time, so the longer the time period from receiving full vaccination, the more likely to be infected.
The same appears to be the case from those getting the virus, with people turning up re-infected after getting it last year, like the nurse that spread Covid to the aged care home in Israel.
23/09/2021 — “What I would predict will happen is that the immune response to that … lead to a phenomenon called “immune exhaustion,” Dr. Pepper said.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/15/health/covid-booster-shot-data.html
https://www.headsupster.com/forumthread?shortId=163
Record Deaths – Record Infections
Most Vaxxed Country in the World!!
Record Disaster!
Well done!
https://static.mothership.sg/1/2016/08/Screen-Shot-2016-08-13-at-10.01.04.png
Hideaway, it’s you who are incorrect, I believe.
The article states that “the vaccinated population [is] nearly 450,000″
25/450,000 (to be generous) = what??
.01%.. in other words..
just the same ratio as the 8/77k figure.Seems to me that demonstrates NO BENEFIT TO BEING INJECTED.
The total pop. of VT is about 623k. Where on earth did you get your spurious figure of 571k vaccinated??
Apologies as my calculator was rounding to four decimal places… Hideaway still has the “vaxxed” population way too high, though, and we still have no idea what the long-term repercussions are of these gene-modifying substances.
Figures come out to 0.0104% vs. 0.0055%. That appears to me to be a pretty minimal difference especially in the context of such small numbers. Could easily be statistical noise… and that’s IF you believe these individuals really did die “of” covid and not from other causes but “with” a positive PCR test (as has been the deceptive praxis from the start). Garbage in, garbage out… confusion and obfuscation has been the protocol from day one of this staged event.
It’s easy for a layman to miscalculate these things on a machine. That’s why I always use a pencil and paper. The pencil is very good for scratching my head as I try to remember how to divide big numbers to yield percentages.
The bigger point is statistics, in the way Hideaway uses them, are a form of lying IMHO. I say this because these statistics are “built on foundations of sand” and he/she is using them to make confident claims about things that we don’t have enough data to be confident about. We come across this same play all the time in politics, whether it’s politics in the guise of science, or education, or economics, or, as in this case, in the guise of medicine.
One anecdotal case of someone getting vaxed and then dropping dead within minutes—or even better a video of the event—is worth more to me than all the statistics the government and MSM masters of discourse can pull out of their hats or their a-holes. Because that one case proves to me unequivocally that the COVID-19 vaccines can be deadly. They aren’t as effective in causing death as a shot of cyanide, but that doesn’t mean they are safe. The long-term health effects are at present unknown, but already a lot of people getting jabbed and bragging about it online have had the smiles wiped permanently off their faces.
Fauci Predicts U.S. Could See Signs Of Herd Immunity By Late March Or Early April
https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/12/15/946714505/fauci-predicts-u-s-could-see-signs-of-herd-immunity-by-late-march-or-early-april
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#
“The vaccines have been developed very quickly but without taking any shortcuts in the necessary processes or compromising safety.”
It amazes me that anyone would trust anything – including stats — related to covid — coming from any government.
Tim, if you haven’t hd time to read it yet, the article FE linked to here:
https://www.headsupster.com/forumthread?shortId=264
(“10 Red Flags in FDA’s Risk-Benefit Analysis of Pfizer’s Plan to Inject Young American Children With COVID ‘Vaccine’”) is great at exposing how they squidge things.
Lidia, “gene-modifying substances”?
Tim,
Are you saying that the anecdotal case retains its information value to you regardless of whether it is investigated? If it is investigated, do you not look at the overall risk (e.g. people dies all the time, what is the risk of some causative event versus living life?)? Lots of activities can be deadly but should people avoid all such activities?
Yes, Mike. RNA can transcribed into DNA. The J&J and AZ are DNA-based. “Science” says that much of our genetic code is already the product of ancient incorporated viral genes.. (just not synthetic ones so far).
https://www.livescience.com/61627-ancient-virus-brain.html
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/virus-genes-human-dna-may-surprisingly-help-us-fight-infections-180958276/
Lidia, those two articles are interesting but say nothing about how a virus alters the DNA. Vaccines are not the virus. Here is an article which explains in detail about why the Pfizer vaccine can’t alter our DNA. https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/rna-vaccines-against-covid-19-will-not-permanently-alter-your-dna/
So, your opinion that the vaccines alter our DNA is just an opinion, yet stated as fact.
The virus and vaxx doesn’t need to “change” our DNA, it merely need to:
1. Cause epigenetic “changes”
2. Mutate together with our genomes to another organism
🤔
Mike, I skimmed that article, which I found quite ridiculous and desperate in tone.
“… the new mRNA vaccines developed by Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna likely to be available soon” … “will not “permanently alter your DNA”. Well, how the hell does he know that?
He starts explaining some cell stuff but then hand-waves and tells us that the details (which are the heart of the issue,, the “exceptions” to what he calls the “dogma”) are “too gory” to go into. That kind of snotty, flippant, language raises red flags for me. His tone then gets more and more hysterical as the piece continues.
His explanation for why we “need” scantly-tested mRNA vaccines boils down to “money”.
Then he launches long personal attacks on a couple of high-profile skeptics. He says “this not-so-dynamic duo seem utterly oblivious to the difference between somatic cells and germ line cells.” Yeah, well, the Japanese found the jab contents concentrated in the ovaries, which I do believe contain germ cells, and one of the many awful side effects of the jabs is swollen testicles. Mr. “Science-based” couldn’t wait for “science” to actually play out, could he?
He still hasn’t explained anything important about possibilities of reverse transcription that I can see.
Listen to this language: “Surely Dr. Mercola must know the central dogma of molecular biology? (Maybe he doesn’t.) Again, remember that paragraph I quoted before this section. mRNA like that found in the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna vaccines simply can’t alter your DNA. ”
This is not scientific language. I never learned this “dogma” in college. He keeps going back to this “dogma” as his crutch.
There’s nothing I can find in this article that actually addresses the issue.. it’s all just him being big and scary and puffing himself up and making a lot of noise. He can FRO, and you along with him. Mike.
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Just a link found at random…ThermoFisher:
Reverse transcriptases have been identified in many organisms, including viruses, bacteria, animals, and plants. In these organisms, the general role of reverse transcriptase is to convert RNA sequences to cDNA sequences that are capable of inserting into different areas of the genome. In this manner, reverse transcription contributes to:
Propagation of retroviruses—e.g., human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), Moloney murine leukemia virus (M-MuLV), and avian myeloblastosis virus (AMV) [1,2]
Genetic diversity in eukaryotes [that’s us!!] via mobile transposable elements called retrotransposons [4]
Replication of chromosomal ends called telomeres [5,6]
Synthesis of extrachromosomal DNA/RNA chimeric elements called multicopy single-stranded DNA (msDNA) in bacteria [7,8]
https://www.thermofisher.com/us/en/home/life-science/cloning/cloning-learning-center/invitrogen-school-of-molecular-biology/rt-education/reverse-transcription-basics.html
(this is funny.. they are currently having a 26%-off sale on DNA fragments!!)
It’s easier (and fun!) to just Delete mike… time is too short
Let’s delete mike
Let’s delete mike
https://www.bitchute.com/video/1biBd8GjMn2F/
Lidia, according to this article, humans don’t have the reverse transcriptase enzyme.
Yes, I agree about the language used in that article in science based medicine – it doesn’t help when discussing with those who raised the argument in the first place. There are plenty of other articles that rebut the argument without using inflammatory language.
inflammatory … big word eh mike … congrats
Hi Mike:
Are you saying that the anecdotal case retains its information value to you regardless of whether it is investigated?
Good question. I don’t think I’m saying that. But as a practical matter, and writing off the top of my head, I am unable to investigate anecdotal cases personally and moreover the last I heard was that in many cases autopsies are not being performed on people who drop dead after getting jabbed. So in the absence of proper investigation, anecdotal cases must be deemed to have “information value” as concrete examples that suggest a cause and effect link between the jab and death.
If it is investigated, do you not look at the overall risk (e.g. people dies all the time, what is the risk of some causative event versus living life?)? Lots of activities can be deadly but should people avoid all such activities?
By all means, one should investigate each case in the context of overall risk. Diabetic old man with dicky heart dies from heart attack a week after receiving a positive PCR test. Let’s mark that down as COVID-19. Diabetic old man with dicky heart dies from heart attack a week after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine. That’s easy! Heart attack. He was old and he would have died anyway.
Isn’t that how this game is played, Mike?
And now they are coming for the children, the innocent ones, with jabs for seven year olds, five year olds, three year olds…. Are you cheerleading for that as well, like Norman and Duncan are? Or are you going to become a dissident on this one? How many kids with damaged hearts is it going to take to ween you off your support for this form of coerced human vivisection?
I don’t have a number, Tim. How many deaths from crossing the road does it take to wean you off the idea that crossing the road can sometimes be a good thing?
By the way, here in New Zealand, this is from the latest vaccine safety report:
(That may not format well.) CARM is similar to VAERS. Note that the single death is awaiting a coroner’s investigation. Interestingly, the report also compares deaths with expected deaths, regardless of vaccination. It’s a bit lower down in the report. The expected number of deaths for the number of people who received a vaccination is higher than the number of deaths observed in the vaccinated people. One could almost say that the vaccine is protecting people from all cause deaths but I wouldn’t go that far. It just means that the vaccine doesn’t seem to be appreciably increasing the risk of death in the 3 weeks following vaccination.
This is blog post that someone sent to me:
https://luis46pr.wordpress.com/2021/07/14/dr-charles-hoffe-mrna-vaccines-will-kill-most-people-through-heart-failure-62-already-have-microscopic-blood-clots/
Dr. Charles Hoffe: mRNA Vaccines ‘Will Kill Most People’ Through Heart Failure & 62% Already Have Microscopic Blood Clots
He links to this banned video:
https://www.brighteon.com/b03d1a4e-1cf7-4db5-ab18-2dd5fe6426fa
We really don’t know the long-term effects of the vaccines now. Maybe this report is true; maybe it isn’t. Doing an experiment on most of the world’s population doesn’t sound like a good idea.
Deaths in the three weeks following vaccination is not the issue, however. It may be a small part of the issue, but the problems with the vaccine are far, far deeper.
saw the name mike — immediately deleted
Tim, I did respond but it hasn’t shown up yet. There are sometimes delays. I’ll try to remember to repost if it doesn’t show up.
“I have a master’s degree in nursing and am employed as a professor of nursing research and evidence-based practice. I am skilled in collecting and analyzing data and in drawing conclusions. I did not rely on the media, government, or Big Tech for any of my health care decisions prior to COVID-19 and I have no plans to change course. The data speaks for itself related to the harm these experimental vaccines have caused and the lack of studies that have been conducted.
“What I have seen as a nurse and what others have shared post-vaccination seals the deal. The virus, like the cold and flu, does not have a cure. However, it has an almost 100 percent survival rate. Those pushing the vaccine are following the money. I am following the science. Health care workers do not walk away from their passion or stable salary to be difficult. The amount of people willing to be fired should be cause for alarm in and of itself,” she said.
https://www.headsupster.com/forumthread?shortId=260
Right: “The amount of people willing to be fired should be cause for alarm in and of itself.”
Great post!
I forgot the part where all the other nurses and doctors cheered when she was fired for refusing the poison.
dunc has that bit…
Health Care Workers Explain Why They Would Rather Lose Their Jobs Than Take a COVID-19 Vaccine
“Health care workers are not taking it because they know that the side effects are real. In urgent care, I have seen myocarditis, cellulitis, [and] unusual neurological symptoms, among a variety of other side effects. I have seen people very ill post-vaccine, and then go on to test positive.
The positivity rate for contracting COVID on the vaccinated is very high per the recent studies and what I am seeing in my clinic. A vaccine should work, and it is not working. It should be tested for years on something other than humans before we call it ‘safe and effective.’
There have been over 15,000 deaths from the vaccine that the media is not talking about. I will never take that risk on myself,” Zubiate said.
https://www.headsupster.com/forumthread?shortId=260
The ‘sickness’
https://fntalk.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Piers-Morgan-Katie-Couric-deserves-a-ringside-seat-in-Hell-for-her-treatment-of-female-colleagues-931×400.jpg
A government scientific advisor has warned that a Christmas lockdown is becoming more likely as the government drags its heels over spiralling Covid cases.
Professor Peter Openshaw said he is “very fearful” that families could once again be forced to spend the festive period apart, saying case numbers and death rates are currently “unacceptable”.
More than 330,000 people have tested positive for the virus in a week across the UK – an 18 per cent week-on-week rise, while 947 lives have been lost in that time.
Prof Openshaw, a member of the New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag), said that the government’s Plan B – which includes mandatory mask wearing and advice to work from home – must be brought in “right now”.
The expert’s warning comes after the Prime Minister resisted calls from health leaders for tighter restrictions despite the rising levels of infections.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/fears-another-lockdown-christmas-scientists-25283050
norm… get out of the closet and stop hiding away!!!
https://express-images.franklymedia.com/6616/sites/356/2019/12/18132510/Santa-Closet1.jpg
Maybe a 4th injection will be the lucky one??????
MORE. ONS
Nervtag? How very Soviet-sounding!
Were we afraid of respiratory viruses before 2020? Hardly. But along come the lying professors and modellers, and here we are……
Crudely orchestrated propaganda, designed to make it look as though Boris will be bowing to ‘expert’ pressure instead of implementing a Plan laid long ago.
Unvaccinated will be non-persons excluded from everything by the spring of 2022 at the latest.
I’ll be a non person come December… no summer league hockey .. no restaurants… basically same as being locked down…
I cannot wait for the dying to begin… I really can’t.
Hopefully by Q1
There might be a certain grim satisfaction in it, FE, I agree.
If they lock us up, let those who approve it and applaud die – just desserts.
Reading between the lines, though, not only do there seem to be a lot of people still holding out against the jab, but some reluctance to get the boosters. And I don’t think it’s going too well in schools.
It’s not going as well as they planned: booster-resisters could be our allies in 2022.
I’m prepare to forgive the idiots if they repent.
Repent 🙂 nicely put
Isolation will protect against Marek’s … silver lining .. we get to watch the CovIDIOTS experience death… and the awesome thing is … they will be stunned because they firmly believe the injections stop them from dying … just like they believed the injections would stop them from getting covid.
I’d really like to see The Nightmare Scenario kick in before the end of the year.
The shadenfreud is going to be orgiastic …think Maddie’s parents on steroids.
Hahaha…. the anticipation makes every remaining day a good day… I live for Marek’s now…
I also long for the exit of the sanctimonious.
That sounds like every living specimen of the Rapacious Primate. To a varying degree.
Just like in March of last year when Boris wanted to leave the country open and go for natural herd immunity, but had to go into lockdown under pressure from his advisors. It must be true because that is what we were told.
It’s obvious to anyone paying attention that we are being prepped for Plan B (vaccine passports and lockdowns), which was always really Plan A.
Yes. It’s so obvious, so crude.
They can’t even be bothered to be a little bit more inventive, just the same role for Boris as in March 2020.
The prof needn’t be ‘fearful’.
Families can just him and his like to go to Hell and do as they please.
This is almost funny, although it is actually tragic.
Mainstream media ‘La Repubblica’, one of the strongest supporter of vaccines, as it cannot simply say that vitamin D could be useful to combat a Covid infection, it says that vitamin D could be useful to help the vaccine to combat a Covid infection.
https://www.repubblica.it/salute/2021/09/20/news/covid_vitamina_d_potrebbe_potenziare_l_effetto_del_vaccino-318658517/
The virtues of The Vaccine (TM), like the divinity of Caesar, cannot be questioned.
Even if Caesar is a useless puppet controlled by the Praetorian Guard.
Never have so many human beings passed through formal education.
Never have they been so bloody stupid and gullible.
No wonder the psychopaths in power despise us!
World’s Most Vaccinated Country Update!!!
Singapore ICU Beds Fill Up as Severe Covid Cases Rise
https://www.headsupster.com/forumthread?shortId=144
Singapores rate of COVID cases (relative to population) is nearly as high as the UK’s now. They are well over twice the US rate.
Isn’t that hilarious!!!
norm dunc… what are your ‘thoughts’ (not sure if we can refer to regurgitated MSM garbage as thoughts…)
Attention MOREONS
If you thought two doses of vaccine meant you’d rolled up your sleeve for the last time, you might have to reconsider.
Australians will soon get more certainty about booster shots for added COVID-19 protection, with an update from the vaccine advisory group ATAGI imminent and experts likely to recommend Australians receive a third shot of the vaccine.
Here’s what we know so far about booster shots, who’ll need one and when.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-10-26/covid-booster-shots-when-will-australians-get-them/100569686
“Arkansas Governor: Covid vaccine mandates are increasing resistance to vaccines” – “Covid vaccine mandates are increasing resistance to Covid vaccines, Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson said,” Zachary Steiber reports on the Arkansas Governor’s recent attack on mandatory vaccination measures in the Epoch Times.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/arkansas-governor-covid-19-vaccine-mandates-are-increasing-resistance-to-vaccines_4067158.html
China to Begin Vaccinating Three Year-Olds
https://www.headsupster.com/forumthread?shortId=154
Hmmm…. surely NZ will be embarking on a similar Gates of Hell policy soon …
What will I eat when BAU is gone?
Following the recent enforcement of Scotland’s vaccine passport scheme, members of staff have had to turn away potential customers at the door if they fail to show the correct documentation required for entry. This has led to a severe decrease in footfall, with some businesses electing to close early. BBC News has the story.
Venue staff refused entry to revellers without vaccine passports more than 550 times, and some staff were abused, the Scottish Hospitality Group said.
It said some venues decided to close early and footfall was down by up to 40%.
The Scottish Government said the scheme was a “proportionate” health measure.
Ministers say it will encourage more people to get vaccinated against Covid and ensure late-night venues can remain open during a “potentially very difficult” winter.
The vaccine certification scheme was introduced on October 1st but there was no enforcement during a 17-day “grace period” as venues adjusted to the new requirements.
The Scottish Hospitality Group, which opposes the scheme, said the first real test this weekend had been “one of unmitigated disaster”.
“The Scottish Hospitality Group has been warning the Government for weeks that their vaccine passports scheme is not ready, but the Government’s attitude has been to tell us to ‘get on with it’ whilst offering no safety net of support for businesses or our hard working staff”.
https://dailysceptic.org/2021/10/25/scottish-hospitality-venues-closing-early-due-to-vaccine-passport-scheme/
Some people will take the jabs and revel into the small hours, with the myriad consequent negative health impacts this combo will entail, leading many of them to an early grave.
Other people will remain pure-blooded, go early to bed and early to rise, read poetry, classical literature, detective stories, the Bible/Koran/Bhagavad Gita/Lotus Sutra, or other inspirational books such as Kevin Kegan’s life story My Life in Football: The Autobiography (only joking!), and accustom themselves to a healthier lifestyle that will allow them to live long and prosper while owning nothing and being happy.
I found the autobiography of Basil Brush, the puppet, on a bookstall the other day. I snapped it up.
This week I’m escaping into Mary Renault’s ‘Funeral Games’ the death of Alexander the Great and the plotting that ensued.
Psychopathy in the Ancient World: but at least they were honest about their desire for raw power, none of this pseudo-medical, caring, claptrap.
“I found the autobiography of Basil Brush, the puppet, on a bookstall the other day. I snapped it up.”
Boom boom! Good for you, Xabier. Do you know, there are still people trying to say he couldn’t really talk?
Basil Brush couldn’t really talk?!! CT denialists!
The cleverest and best-dressed puppet ever. You’d certainly see him in a miniature mask like Campbell’s ruddy dog…..
Boom Boom!
‘NOT see him in a mask’, I meant.
Of course he could talk. When Mr. Derek spoke, you could see Basil’s lips move.
Dancing kills you? Better to read the Bible and have an early night? LOL
It seems like anyone could have figured out that the big result would be a loss of customers for businesses. The businesses would close early, so that there would be a loss of jobs too.
Here in NZ because there are so many sheep… Donkey Face will get away with this because the injection rate is likely to surge over 90% so businesses will not take a huge hit.
What I am waiting for is for NZ to get a nice fat spike — as happens when the injection rate picks up,
Wonder how those Auckland CovIDIOTS are enjoying their eternal lockdown.
Australian Cartoonist Sacked after Linking Mandatory Vaccination to Tiananmen Square
https://www.headsupster.com/forumthread?shortId=257
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Listen to the covIDIOTS howl https://twitter.com/i/status/1451172896957612032
Serious adverse reaction risks behind those child jab invitations
https://www.headsupster.com/forumthread?shortId=256
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All through the pandemic, truckers endured hardships to keep America’s infrastructure running. They waited in line for hours in sight of bathrooms they weren’t allowed to use. On the road, some died alone of COVID-19.
Now, with supply chains disrupted, Americans need them more than ever.
But faced with the prospect of a forced vaccination, many drivers are considering quitting.
“I’d fight it,” said veteran trucker Mike Widdins, referring to vaccine mandates.
“I think a lot of us will be quitting. Who likes to be forced to do stuff you don’t want to do?”
Widdins isn’t alone in his willingness to leave trucking if forced to vaccinate. Polls by trucking publications Commercial Carrier Journal and OverDrive indicate that up to 30 percent of truckers will seriously consider quitting if forced to vaccinate. If they quit, the consequences for America may be massive. US Transport estimates that 70 percent of American freight goes by truck.
“It would hurt shipping big-time,” Widdins said.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/biden-plays-chicken-semitruck-drivers
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This would be a big problem:
“up to 30 percent of truckers will seriously consider quitting if forced to vaccinate.”
In a statement on Friday, the White House announced that long-classified documents regarding the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy “shall be withheld from full public disclosure” until Dec. 15, 2022 — over 59 years after Kennedy was killed in Dallas, Texas.
According to CBS News, despite federal law which mandates all records on the event “should be eventually disclosed to enable the public to become fully informed about the history surrounding the assassination,” Biden said the federal archivist needs one more year to make appropriate redactions to minimize “identifiable harm.”
While former President Donald Trump released several thousand pages of files under the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992, he held back others, citing national security concerns.
According to a Friday statement from Biden, the federal government has been reviewing these redactions since 2018. They apparently need more time, because this is the federal government under the Biden administration and did we, like, expect them to do their job in an expedient manner?
The statement noted the act allowed a postponement of record release when it “remains necessary to protect against an identifiable harm to the military defense, intelligence operations, law enforcement, or the conduct of foreign relations that is of such gravity that it outweighs the public interest in disclosure.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/identifiable-harm-biden-kills-jfk-file-release-issues-baffling-statement
What they cannot say is that releasing this would explode the brains of MOREONS.
hahahahahahahahahahaha
Can solar power solve Lebanon’s energy crisis?
https://news.trust.org/item/20211022130438-vu65d
Quote: The Thomson Reuters Foundation spoke to six solar companies who said they charged between $4,500 and $8,000 for the simplest set-ups that could power a house for six to 18 hours a day.
Expensive but even a little power is a lot better than no power. Pay upfront and hope you get a supply for years before something breaks. As grid power gets more unreliable I wonder if home sized microgrids will become more common which will probably take funding away from the main grid accelerating its demise.
I’ve heard people say we’re not running low on energy, we’re just wasting so much of it and can’t be so wasteful anymore but the way it’s mined and distributed relies on that waste otherwise the economics of it don’t work. Strange situation. It’s like we’re trapped in a race to waste every resource as fast as possible. Hopefully someone can collapse the system and build it back better.
Hahahahhahahahahahaha… hahahahahahahahahahaha..
Don’t be silly….
being a hopeless typist, I would have trouble finding the letters h and a on your keyboard eddy
the letters having worn off.
Fast Eddie uses Speech to Text
ah—thanks for telling me.
The neighbours must get worried sometimes though.
(eddy’s stirring the cauldron again)
Fast Eddy transmits his thoughts directly to OFW without speaking or typing.
that explains more than you know eddy.
i think bad persons are hacking your transmissions
booster norm… your new name
eddy
when dealing with difficult children, (of any age) i invariably refer back the Herod book of childcare
very easy to follow
in fact it only has one page.
With one line on it.
People are wedded to the idea of the ‘house as machine’, which was born in the 20th-century.
Formerly it was the house as shelter (humans and animals in the same space), clan fortress, displayer of status.
One day, the machine just stops.
House as a machine? I had to look that up because I’m not familiar with the concept. Looks like it came about when indoor plumbing and electricity started to become common. Time to switch to harth for cooking, a dry sink, and an outhouse.
Le Corbusier the architect claimed he built ‘machines for living in’.
But I coined it for myself after the experience of lots of things breaking down in a short time-frame and not being able to repair them due to lack of skills and money.
A house needs a supply of spare parts, repairs, and so does the system which serves it, but, due to time-scales, and the ready availability of parts and components like the fridge, cooker, etc, we fail to observe this crucial fact.
I would like the businesses to stay open. Giving all of the solar to homes of rich people doesn’t seem like a worthwhile expenditure of funds.
The try it on https://duckduckgo.com/?t=hg
try to google this
patrick and stephanie degray
This could be an awesome Black Mirror episode… parents enrol kid in experiment… kid gets wrecked… parents try to fight a faceless corporation hahaha
‘Make Maddie Better’ hahahahahaha… Build Back Better…
https://soundcloud.com/user-668575910/dr-frank-unblinding-medical-bills
The investigator from Pfizer should just say what he really wants to say ‘F789 off and stop hassling me buddy’
The mother jumps in around half way https://soundcloud.com/user-668575910/dr-frank-unblinding-medical-bills
The Monster Mother
https://gifimage.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/joker-laughing-gif-10.gif
That mother is just a poor gullible victim of medical propaganda. The real monsters are guys like this and the poisoners they work for:
Here’s the MOREON father who entered his daughter into the Pfizer trial hahaha…. he’s speaking to Pfizer …. hahahahaha…. this is GREAT … it’s super entertaining … his daughter can no longer walk and this guy is giving him corporate speak hahahahahaha….
But papa… papa… I can’t walk anymore… and my heart is pumping blood out my ears….
https://soundcloud.com/user-668575910/dr-frank-unblinding-medical-bills
I award this father A Blue Hacksaw!!! A Blue HACKSAW!!!
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“My niece works at a hospital. The day that they announced on the intercom that every employee had to get a vaccine or would be terminated, she said a cheer went up that could be heard throughout all the corridors.
Don’t feel bad about cheering when one of these crackpots gets sacked. It’s only human to want to survive.”
sandyhh, Oct 24 Crooks & Liars
But if you want to refuse the vaccine, more power to you.
Getting rid of the less fit will be good for the population.
How I wish a member of your family experiences what Maddie is going through…
I would find that extremely amusing.
But hark… it’s time for the Boosters in America… hope springs eternal.
BTW – I just sent an email to the two Wards of Fast Eddy …. with links to a few topics related to the massive carnage that these poisons are causing… because ultimately I cannot force them to reject the poison…
This is what I call… informed consent… I want them to watch that video of Maddie…
Because Fast Eddy is not a monster and he will not send kids to Mengele… there will be no ruined hearts… no clotted blood… in Fast Eddy’s domain.
Duncan told us last year that he lost a niece to COVID-19, or with a positive PCR test, or something like that. I can’t keep track of my own relatives, let alone Duncan’s.
I won’t be showing this to my good mate who can no longer walk up the slightest slope without gasping for air — a guy who ran 20k the week before the Pfizer injection
Viral myocarditis results in 2 in 10 people dead after 2 years and 5 in 10 after 5 years. It’s not mild. It’s dead heart muscle.
Neil Oliver
@thecoastguy
· Oct 21
You can’t have “mild myocarditis” – in the same way you can’t be “a little bit pregnant”.
https://twitter.com/TonyHinton2016/status/1450939790455619586
I dunno but if this happened to me … and when I concluded my health was ruined permanently… I might reach for the hack saw. But it won’t happen to me ….
I am not sure this is really true. Do you have links with respect to this? It seems like I looked it up a long time ago and wasn’t convinced it was necessarily a long-term serious disease.
Viral myocarditis results in 2 in 10 people dead after 2 years and 5 in 10 after 5 years. It’s not mild. It’s dead heart muscle.
You can’t have “mild myocarditis” – in the same way you can’t be “a little bit pregnant”.
https://twitter.com/TonyHinton2016/status/1450939790455619586
AgentChorange
@Mikeparkerz
·
Oct 21
Replying to
@TonyHinton2016
and
@thecoastguy
Have you seen the Wikipedia article about Myocarditis. It states “Myocarditis can’t be caused by vaccination against Covid-19; so, the risk of myocarditis due to vaccination does not exist”. It’s wild someone can write something so false
hahahaha
I hope they pay attention, FE.
It’s hard to warn the young, as they instinctively believe in a hopeful future and almost automatically reject anything darker.
That governments and doctors are prepared to poison recklessly and lie on this scale is totally incredible, unless one is very well informed.
The letter sent to teenagers in the UK is disgusting: ‘Get vaccinated so as to stop hospitalisation and death’. An invitation to be a hero! And of course no mention at all of any risks.
I’ve embarked on my own PR campaign using scare tactics to convince the two kids to Reject the Injections…
They will fear the injection as much as CovIDIOTS fear covid.
World’s Most Vaccinated Country Update!!!
Singapore ICU Beds Fill Up as Severe Covid Cases Rise
The number of seriously ill Covid-19 patients in Singapore has risen to such an extent that 83.6% of intensive care unit beds in government-run hospitals have been taken up, and only 60 are currently vacant.
Of the 366 ICU beds in public hospitals, 306 have occupants, according to a statement from the Ministry of Health on Monday. Of that total, 171 patients were being treated for Covid and 135 for non-Covid ailments.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-10-26/singapore-has-60-more-icu-beds-left-as-severe-covid-cases-rise
Do you have a source for this … oh right … it’s a comment from a troll on a MOREON website that your visit… I hardly think anyone would be cheering when they have seen the results of poisoning people with this garbage.
“My niece works at a hospital. The day that they announced on the intercom that every employee had to get a vaccine or would be terminated, she said a cheer went up that could be heard throughout all the corridors.
I can’t fathom what parents like these don’t understand in the words ‘drug trial’?
They practically flash a red warning light to any sane person!
Perhaps it’s a form of vicarious narcissism?