There is more to the fossil fuel energy predicament than we usually hear about.
Strangely enough, a big part of the confusion regarding the nature of our energy problem comes from the fact that virtually everyone wants to hear good news, even when the news isn’t very good. We end up seeing information in the Mainstream Media mostly from the perspective of what people want to hear, rather than from the perspective of what the story really is. In this post, I explain why this situation tends to occur. I also explain why our current energy situation is starting to look more and more like an energy shortage situation that could lead to economic collapse.
This post is a write-up of a presentation I gave recently. A PDF of my talk can be found at this link. An mp4 video of my talk can be found at this link: Gail Tverberg’s Nov. 9 presentation–Our Fossil Fuel Energy Predicament.
Most people attending my talk reported that they had mostly heard about the issue on the right end of Slide 2: the problem of using too much fossil fuel and related climate change.
I think the real issue is the one shown on the left side of Slide 2. This is a physics issue. Without fossil fuels, we would find it necessary to go back to using older renewables, such as oxen or horses for plowing, burned wood and other biomass for heat, and wind-powered sail boats for international transport.
Needless to say, these older renewables are only available in tiny quantities today, if they are available at all. They wouldn’t provide many jobs other than those depending on manual labor, such as subsistence agriculture. Nuclear and modern renewables would not be available because they depend on fossil fuels for their production, maintenance and long distance transmission lines.
On Slide 4, note that M. King Hubbert was a physicist. This seems to be the academic specialty that finds holes in other people’s wishful thinking.
Another thing to note is Hubbert’s willingness to speculate about the future of nuclear energy. He seemed to believe that nuclear energy could take over, when other energy fails. Needless to say, this hasn’t happened. Today, nuclear energy comprises only 4% of the world’s total energy supply.
The transcript of the entire talk by Rear Admiral Hyman Rickover is worth reading. I have excerpted a few sentences from his talk. His talk took place only a year after Hubbert published his research.
Rickover clearly understood the important role that fossil fuels played in the economy. At that early date, it looked as if fossil fuels would become too expensive to extract between 2000 and 2050. A doubling of unit costs for energy may not sound like much, but it is, if a person thinks about how much poor people in poor countries spend on food and other energy products. If the price of these goods rises from 25% of their income to 50% of their income, there is not enough left over for other goods and services.
Regarding Slide 6, the book The Limits to Growth by Donella Meadows and others provided early computer modeling of how population growth and extraction of resources might play out. The base model seemed to indicate that economic decline would start about now. Various other scenarios were considered, including a doubling of the resources. Without very unrealistic assumptions, the economy always headed downward before 2100.
Another way of approaching the problem is to analyze historical civilizations that have collapsed. Peter Turchin and Sergey Nefedov analyzed eight economies that collapsed in their book Secular Cycles. There have been many examples of economies encountering a new source of energy (conquering a new land, or developing a new way of producing more energy), growing for a time, reaching a time where growth is more limited, and finally discovering that the economy that had been built up could no longer be supported by the resources available. Both population and production of goods and services tended to crash.
We can think of the current economy, based on the use of fossil fuels, as likely following a similar path. Coal began to be used in quantity about 200 years ago, in 1820. The economy grew, as oil and natural gas production was added. We seem to have hit a period of “Stagflation,” about 1970, which is 50 years ago. The timing might be right to enter the “Crisis” period, about now.
We don’t know how long such a Crisis Period might last this time. Early economies were very different from today’s economy. They didn’t depend on electricity, international trade or international finance in the same way that today’s world economy does. It is possible (in fact, fairly likely) that the downslope might occur more rapidly this time.
Past Crisis Periods seem to feature a high level of conflict because rising population leads to a situation where there are no longer enough goods and services to go around. According to Turchin and Nefedov, some features of the Crisis Periods included increased wage disparity, collapsing or overturned governments, debt defaults, inadequate tax revenue and epidemics. Economists tell us that there is a physics reason for the rich to get richer and the poor to get poorer during Crisis Periods; in some sense, the poor get “frozen out” and the wealth rises to the top, like steam.
Slide 9 is a chart I prepared several years ago, showing the growth in the world production of fuels of various types. What little wind and solar was available at that time was included in the biofuels section at the bottom. Early biofuels consisted largely of wood and charcoal used for heat.
Slide 10 shows average annual increases for 10-year periods corresponding to the periods shown on Slide 9. This chart goes to 2020, so it covers a full 200-year period. Note that the increases in energy consumption shown are especially high in the 1951-1960 and 1961-1970 periods. These periods occurred after World War II when the economy was growing especially rapidly.
Slide 11 is similar to Slide 10, except I divide the bars into two pieces. The bottom, blue part corresponds to the amount that population grew, on average, during this ten-year period. Whatever is left over I have referred to as the amount available to increase the standard of living, shown in red. A person can see that when the overall growth in energy consumption is high, population tends to rise rapidly. With more energy, it is possible to feed and clothe larger families.
Slide 12 is like Slide 11, except that it is an area chart. I have also added some notes regarding what went wrong when energy consumption growth was low or negative. An early dip occurred at the time of the US Civil War. There was a very long, low period later that corresponded to the period of World War I, World War II and the Depression. The collapse of the central government of the Soviet Union occurred in 1991, so it is part of the 10-year period ended 2000. Most recently, we have encountered COVID shutdowns.
The peaks, on the other hand, tended to be good times. The period leading up to 1910 corresponded to the time of early electrification. The period after World War II was a period of growth and rebuilding. Most recently, China and its large coal resources helped pull the world economy forward. China’s coal supply stopped growing about 2013. I have written that we can no longer depend on China’s economy to pull the world economy forward. With recent rolling blackouts in China (mentioned in the next section), this is becoming more evident.
Without enough energy, the current period is beginning to look more and more like the period that included World War I and II and the Great Depression. Strange outcomes can occur when there basically are not enough resources to go around.
Slide 14 shows recent energy production. A person can see from this slide that wind and solar aren’t really ramping up very much. A major problem is caused by the fact that wind and solar are given the subsidy of “going first” and prices paid to other electricity producers are adjusted downward, to reflect the fact that their electricity is no longer needed by the grid. This approach tends to drive nuclear out of business because wholesale electricity rates tend to fall to very low levels, or become negative, when unneeded wind and solar are added. Nuclear power plants cannot easily shut down. Instead, the low prices tend to drive the nuclear power plants out of business. This is sad, because electricity from nuclear is far more stable, and thus more helpful to the grid, than electricity from wind or solar.
Fossil fuel producers need quite high energy prices for a variety of reasons. One of these reasons is simply because the easiest-to-extract resources were removed first. In recent years, producers have needed to move on to resources with a higher cost of extraction, thus raising their required selling prices. Wages of ordinary citizens haven’t kept up, making it hard for selling prices to rise sufficiently to cover the new higher costs.
Another issue is that fossil fuel energy prices need to cover far more than the cost of drilling the current well. Producers need to start to develop new areas to drill, years in advance of actually getting production from those sites. They need extra funds to work on these new sites.
Also, oil companies, especially, have historically paid high taxes. Besides regular income taxes, oil companies pay state taxes and royalty taxes. These taxes are a way of passing the “surplus energy” that is produced back to the rest of the economy, in the form of taxes. This is exactly the opposite of wind and solar that need subsidies of many kinds, especially the subsidy of “going first,” that drives other electricity providers out of business.
Prices for oil, coal and natural gas have been far lower than producers need, for a long time. The COVID shutdowns in 2020 made the problem worse. Now, with producers quitting at the same time the economy is trying to reopen, it is not surprising that some prices are spiking.
Most local US papers don’t tell much about world energy prices, but these are increasingly becoming a big problem. Natural gas is expensive to ship and store, so prices vary greatly around the world. US natural gas prices have roughly doubled from a year ago, but this is a far lower increase than many other parts of the world are experiencing. In fact, the bills that most US natural gas residential customers will receive will increase by far less than 100% because at the historic low price, over half of the price for residential service is distribution expenses, and such expenses don’t change very much.
Slide 17 shows another way of looking at data that is similar to that in Slide 14. This slide shows amounts on a per capita basis, with groupings I have chosen. I think of coal and oil as being pretty much the only energy resources that can “stand on their own.” The recent peak year for combined coal and oil, on a per capita basis, was 2008.
Natural gas, nuclear, and hydroelectric were the first add-ons. If a person looks closely, it can be seen that the growth rate of this group has slowed, at least in part because of the pricing problems caused by wind and solar.
The “green” sources at the bottom are growing, but from a very low base. The main reason for their growth is the subsidies they receive. If fossil fuels falter in any major way, it will adversely affect the growth of wind and solar. Already, there are articles about supply chain problems for the big wind turbines. Any cutback in subsidies is also harmful to their production.
US papers don’t tell us much about these problems, but they are getting to be very serious problems in other parts of the world. The countries with the biggest problems are the ones trying to import natural gas or coal. If an exporting country finds its own production falling short, it is likely to make certain that its own citizens are adequately supplied first, before providing exports to others. Thus, importing countries may find very high prices, or supplies simply not available.
This slide got a lot of laughs. The university does have some sort of agricultural plot, but teaching subsistence farming is not its goal.
My point about “scientists who are not pressured by the need for research grants or acceptance of written papers are the ones trying to tell the whole truth” got quite a few laughs. As a practical matter, this means that retired scientists tend to be disproportionately involved in trying to discern the truth.
With the military understanding the need to work around energy limits, one change has been to move away from preparation for “hot wars” to more interest in biological weapons, such as viruses. Thus, governments of many countries, including the United States, Canada, France, Italy, Australia and China, have funded research on making viruses more virulent. The vaccine-making industry also supported this effort because it might enhance the industry’s ability to make and sell more vaccines. It was believed that there might even be new techniques that would develop from this new technology that would increase the overall revenue generated by the healthcare industry.
Questions came up, both during the talk and later, about what other changes have taken place because of the need for much of the audience to hear a story with a happily ever after ending, and because of the known likely decline of the economy for physics reasons. Clearly one thing that happens is successful entrepreneurs, such as Elon Musk, aim their production in areas where subsidies will be available. With fossil fuel production not making money, fossil fuel producers are even willing to undertake renewable projects if subsidies seem to be high enough. The issue isn’t really, “What is sustainable?” It is much more, “Where will the profits be, given where subsidies will be, and what people are being taught about how to perceive today’s problems?”
In fact, what has been happening in recent years is that a great deal of debt has been added to the world economy. Mostly, this added debt seems to be creating added inflation. It definitely is not leading to the rapid extraction of a great deal more fossil fuels, which is what really would allow the production of more goods and services. If inflation leads to higher interest rates, this, by itself, could destabilize the financial system.
I tried to explain, as I have in the past, how a self-organizing economy works. New citizens are born, and old ones pass away. New businesses are formed, and they add new products, keeping in mind what products citizens want and can afford. Governments add laws and taxes, as situations change. Energy is needed at every step in production, so availability of inexpensive energy is important in the operation of the economy, as well. There are equivalences, such as employees tend also to be customers. If the wages of employees are high, they can afford to buy many goods and services; if wages are low, employees will be very restricted in what they can afford.
In some sense, the economy is hollow inside, because the economy will stop manufacturing unneeded products. If an economy starts making cars, for example, it will phase out products associated with transportation using horse and buggy.
A self-organizing economy clearly does not operate in the simple way economists seem to model the economy. Low prices can be just as big a problem as high prices, for example.
Another issue is that the energy needs of an economy seem to depend on its population and how far it has already been built up. For example, roads, bridges, water distribution pipelines and electricity transmission infrastructure must all be maintained, even if the population falls. We know humans need something like 2000 calories a day of food. Economies seem to have a similar constant need for energy, based on both the number of people in the economy and the amount of infrastructure that has been built up. There is no way to cut back very much, without the economy collapsing.
I am not exactly certain when the first discussion of the economy as a dissipative structure (self-organizing system powered by energy) started. When I prepared this slide, I was thinking that perhaps it was in 1996, when Yoshinori Shizoawa wrote a paper called Economy as a Dissipative Structure. However, when I did a search today, I encountered an earlier paper by Robert Ayres, written in 1988, also discussing the economy as a dissipative structure. So, the idea has been around for a very long time. But getting ideas from one part of academia to other parts of academia seems to be a very slow process.
Debt cannot grow indefinitely, either, because there needs to be a way for it to be paid back in a way that produces real goods and services. Without adequate energy supplies, it becomes impossible to produce the goods and services that consumers need.
Attendees asked about earlier posts that might be helpful in understanding our current predicament. This is the list I provided:
Humans Left Sustainability Behind as Hunter Gatherers – Dec. 2, 2020
How the World’s Energy Problem Has Been Hidden – June 21, 2021
Energy Is the Economy; Shrinkage in Energy Supply Leads to Conflict – Nov. 9, 2020
Why a Great Reset Based on Green Energy Isn’t Possible – July 17, 2020
The “Wind and Solar Will Save Us” Delusion – Jan. 30, 2017
https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/rolling-blackouts-possible-texas-midwest-if-extreme-cold-winter
Rolling Blackouts Possible In Texas, Midwest As Cold Blast Looms
The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), a nonprofit corporation responsible for overseeing US’ power grid, published a new report on the risk of rolling blackouts if persistent cold weather is observed this winter.
https://www.nerc.com/pa/RAPA/ra/Reliability%20Assessments%20DL/NERC_WRA_2021.pdf
The report identifies Texas as having the weakest power grid if extreme cold weather were to strike.
In the case of extreme weather, the report warns about coal delivery problems:
And outside of the fuel issue, we had a 3-day outage here in Michigan a few weeks ago and DTE reported they were reaching out to 5 surrounding states for parts as well as manpower. Is there a way to ‘go-long’ transformers at this stage of the game?
I do remember the long Michigan outages, mostly due to the fact I was living in a wooded area. I did heat with wood for 12 years, and a centrally located wood stove can keep your pipes from freezing.
Pipes – that’s one big problem in Texas. It’s really common where builders didn’t bury them very deep from the well to the house and also where pipes underneath and alongside country houses are often pretty exposed. Learned that the hard way after one 20-degree night when I dribbled the faucets but forgot to turn the hot water supply on too. 18″ clearance under pier-n-beam, ouch!
No free lunch. Have to invest in the electric system.
For Texas say one trillion of batteries, one trillion of transmission lines, one trillion pv panels, and one trillion wind turbines. The Fed can print the money and lend it at 0.1% to Elon and problem solved in five years.
Speaking of “really good entertainment” – check this one out.
Hey, btw, Fast Eddy, you’re the best geographically-positioned poster I know, who could verify the December solstice sunrise-and-sunset angles. Wondered if y’all could start taking a peek at how far south that baby’s going and particularly if it continues southwards AFTER the solstice, like it did northwards up here. I’d sure like to have more direct eye-witness evidence for the idea that the previous Axis-shifts and their consequences are what’s driving the weird. Locking-down North America (if they do) would surely free-up a lot of planes that could be deployed to try and save Antarctic glaciers from the rising-temps of the southern ocean. And how many pilots refused that vaccine again?
did a little digging and came up with a bit of back-story.
IMDB for Steve Quayle
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6183925/
Steve Quayle also produced 9-episodes of the Jim Bakker Show from 2016-2014
(haven’t watched it yet but noted the “Cascadia”-doom shows)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Bakker
working up a bit of CT on this
Are you sure you are not worried about the analemma? This phenomenon has been noted for thousands of years, and yes, the lowest and highest points are not exactly as solstice.
interesting thing that analemma. I’m more puzzled that the definition of the Tropic of Cancer at Wiki may no longer be the case. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropic_of_Cancer
From one of the greats in the CT-universe – Ken in Dallas (so he says) – @redefinggod dot com
Ken is the “Stan Lee” of CT. Endless stream-of-consciousness scanning the “Alt-scene”, fitting it pane-by-pane into an evolving genre. If the super-organism dreams, Ken’s a dream-catcher.
“So as you can see, the globalists are…initiating draconian measures based on a “COVID surge” instead of a “new, more deadly COVID variant” or “smallpox” (so far), using the term “national emergency” for ordering lockdowns and vaccine mandates for all citizens (instilling rage in the “far-right” citizenry), indicating that the measures will spread (“Germany warned it may follow suit” / “The decision comes as a warning sign to other Western countries, including the US“), and having their controlled opposition leaders organize populist demonstrations (setting the stage for Operation Blackjack on the 28th/29th). It is important to note that the Austrian lockdown will take effect on Monday the 22nd, the day I’m expecting Biden to make a similar move in advance of the Thanksgiving travel surge (see the 14 November update), so watch the weekend news for the rationale they’ll use to lock down America.”
@redefininggod dot com
What is “CT”?
Oh wait, never mind. I got it. Took me a minute…
Yeah, this guy is a hoot.
“so watch the weekend news for the rationale they’ll use to lock down America.”
I see mass rejection of lockdowns in the US…. will they back this up with guns and ammo?
I like to watch.
States rights will make the US more complex than unified nations.
More trail of tears than riots in cities. As the clean bloods are exiled to the free states.
With domestic air travel shutdown after the great Thanksgiving debacle of 2021 we clean bloods will pack every thing into our car and drive to Florida and Texas.
From Yeadon’s telegram page https://t.me/s/robinmg
I am writing to you with great urgency over a grave matter which has not been highlighted anywhere I have seen. It looks like the MHRA are holding back on vast numbers of death and injury reports for the booster shots.
In their Yellow Card Summary, the MHRA have recently stated that the 9 million or so booster jabs have generated 5566 adverse drug reactions. This didn’t look right so ploughing into historical data, I went into the early figures of the initial rollout which would have included large numbers of the elderly and some health workers, so fairly like for like conditions. What I found was that the first 10.1 million jabs up to early February actually produced 102,000 ADR’s, a rate of ADR’s over 16 times higher that what we are seeing here. So what’s going on, are the vaccines safer this time around?
Well buried in the MHRA Yellow Card Summary are these paragraphs:
“As of 3 November 2021, an estimated 9,012,676 people had received their booster or third vaccination in the UK”
“However, due to ongoing work on the presentation of the latest data on numbers of vaccines administered, suspected adverse event reporting and incidence rates will be updated as soon as the vaccines administered dataset is available”
Because death reports have “only” risen by very roughly 200 or so in the last 7 weeks compared with a total of 1645 before, I’d assumed the booster rollout was going slowly but to my surprise 9 million have had the booster vaccine.
The UK Column graph data highlights this anomaly further, rises in death remain consistent with the rollout – except the rollout shown has zero data for the boosters.
https://yellowcard.ukcolumn.org/yellow-card-graphs
Subsequent vaccinations are expected in our camp to rise the severity of adverse reactions. With the statement by the MHRA this raises a troubling scenario. The substantial rises in death reports in the past couple of weeks may not be from the booster shots at all. And how many are really dying from the boosters? Why the redesign?
What could happen with these vaccines with no longer any feedback of death and injury?
I hope we can get to the bottom of it right away. Are you able to put something out there on this?
Thanks
In case people think that Yeadon is a paranoid nut for entertaining such suspicions,Prof Spector of the ZOE survey project and an ardent jabber, some months ago estimated injuries of all kinds to be in the region of 20% per shot. So harm caused will be on a huge scale.
This, of course, doesn’t take into account micro-clots which apparently can have no symptoms at all, but accumulate until one has a stroke or heart attack maybe weeks or months after injection (and be plausibly deniable).
What we really need now are studies of micro-clotting to gain a true notion of the exact scale of damage caused, and assess the dangers of mulitiple boosters.
It is very clear that the MHRA will continue to excuse all harm caused under the justification of ‘Benefits outweigh risk’.
As I’ve suggested before, this is more military/political thinking than medical.
Hold The Line. No Clot Shots. Ever.
Let norm dunc mike represent OFW at the Clot Shot Olympics
Informally, the Canadian Dr. Hoffe’s sampling among his jabbed patients showed that over 60% appeared to have the micro-clotting. Not sure who is going to be funding further study in that space, but I hope someone will.
https://covidcalltohumanity.org/2021/09/08/dr-charles-hoffe-mrna-vaccines-will-kill-most-people-through-heart-failure-62-already-have-microscopic-blood-clots/
Yes, we have Hoffe who seems trustworthy, but wider studies are clearly needed.
Regulators should be testing now the issue has been raised – a sick joke to suggest it.
Not to worry – Ivor Cummins will be on the case shortly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3odjlEn8qXY
[Gail’s edit – I took off quotation markets. The video doesn’t work with them.]
Interesting 22 minute video.
With respect to mortality for the UK and Sweden, the year 2019 seems to be the year that is an anomaly, with a lower death rate than most years.
COVID deaths were highest in the first pass through; fall in each succeeding time the virus comes through, like a skipping stone. But winter is coming. Don’t know for sure about next pass through.
Does the vaccine prevent transmission? Vaccines have no major effect on transmission; they weren’t expected to be. Become super spreaders because symptoms low. Nordic countries have dropped vaccine passports.
Places in Ireland with the highest vaccination rates have the highest incidence of cases. [This seems to be true in general. – Gail]
With respect to vaccinations, it only makes sense to focus on the susceptible. Don’t need to prevent hospitals from becoming overloaded. Didn’t have a big problem with overload before. Requirement of vaccines for all makes no sense.
Without pre-existing conditions, even older people have very low risk of dying. Also, immunity from the disease is much better than that from the vaccine.
We have lost the plot. Media is trying to cram Covid-19 down our throats. Without a free press, anything can happen. Potential for mass psychosis.
Lots of nice charts.
“UK government knew these drugs would permanently reduce immunity to all disease & yet used fear propaganda to push them on the majority of Brits. There is now data showing all cause mortality is up 30% in UK. Among those who took the drugs. . . . ”
https://twitter.com/msnorthcott/status/1462046024281714689?s=20
Just ignoring all of the injuries/deaths from boosters is hardly right. It would be interesting to know how the adverse events from the boosters compare to earlier rounds.
Nurse Sarah, ”For the first time in my career, i took care of an 8 year old little boy with myocarditis in the ER. It has begun….”
https://skirsch.com/covid/VaccineEssentials.pdf
I know this is going to come off as cruel but I don’t sorry for that 8 yr old boy. This is what happens when people put their trust in corrupt, criminal politicians, media and health organizations. This is now all about the money.
In the US the military sector has squeezed taxpayers for roughly one trillion dollars a year with little justification. So now the military gets the politicians to create a boogeyman so they can try and justify their one trillion dollar budget.
Now Big Pharma has joined in with US taxpayers footing the costs for these BS drugs i.e. vaccines. Do people not see a trend here? Big Pharma has created their own version of a boogeyman i.e. Covid.
When people put their trust in criminals, this is what happens, an 8 yr old with heart problems and the criminal gang just wants more customers.
Think of the growing puberty-blocker market.
Brrr…
New Analysis of ONS Data Finds that Vaccine Effectiveness Against Death Has Been Overestimated and Uncovers an Alarming Spike in Covid Deaths Post-Vaccination
https://dailysceptic.org/2021/11/19/new-analysis-of-ons-data-finds-that-vaccine-effectiveness-against-death-has-been-overestimated-and-uncovers-an-alarming-spike-in-covid-deaths-post-vaccination/
The Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has announced that, from Monday, the unvaccinated (even if they have recently tested negative for Covid) will be prohibited from entering indoor spaces such as restaurants, cinemas, and gyms. In addition, Mitsotakis declared that the country is suffering from “a pandemic of the unvaccinated”, with the elderly encouraged to receive booster jabs as their vaccination certificates are set to expire after seven months.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/11/18/greece-to-slap-further-restrictions-on-unvaccinated
The French Academy of Medicine has advised against vaccinating healthy children, claiming that the benefits do not outweigh the risks. A similar stance was taken by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation in the U.K., but the Government ignored this advice.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1523707/covid-news-France-vaccine-warning-doctors-against-jabs-healthy-children
Strange! Listen to the voters, not the doctors!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6umArFc-fdc
NOTE error at end of conclusions: should say “proportion of unvaccinated underestimated” – not vaccinated. In this lecture I talk about our ongoing analysis of the latest data published by the Office for Nat Statistics on mortality by vaccine status. The reason this data is incredibly important is because it potentially provides us with the simplest and most objective way to determine the overall risk-benefit of the Covid vaccines, namely the comparison of all-cause mortality between the vaccinated and unvaccinated.
What I will show you is that there are so many inconsistencies and missing information in the data – as is the case for most studies into covid vaccine effectiveness – that few conclusions can be drawn other than that it provides no real evidence that the benefits outweigh the risks.
But before I present these results I provide some background and context for thw work we have been doing on Covid stats
Has Vaccine Effectiveness Against Death Been Overestimated?
https://dailysceptic.org/2021/11/19/has-vaccine-effectiveness-against-death-been-overestimated/
This shows a chart showing that Israels total mortality underwent a spike recently. COVID deaths aren’t reported as being high. I would assume that something else is wrong.
https://dailysceptic.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Israel-Excess.png
Welsh Cinema Shut Down After Refusing to Impose Vaccine Passports Receives Over £34,000 in Donations in Less Than 24 Hours
https://dailysceptic.org/2021/11/19/welsh-cinema-shut-down-after-refusing-to-impose-vaccine-passports-receives-over-34000-in-donations-in-less-than-24-hours/
World War I gave us Wilfred Owen, Earnest Hemingway, It’s a Long Way from Tipperary, and All Quiet on the Western Front.
World War II gave us A Bridge Too Far,The Dam Busters, Catch 22 and The White Cliffs of Dover.
The Vietnam War gave us The Deer Hunter, Apocolypse Now and War! What is is good for? Say it again.
And now, in or own time, in our own little finite world, World War V (for Virus, Vax and Vice) is yielding its own crop of classics, beginning with this toe-tapper called Sad Little Man by Five Times August. Warning! Once you hear it, you won’t be able to get it out of your head.
Nice! This one goes straight into the hymnal of the revolution to come (or not,as is more likely)
Tim – remember this one – Hearts and Minds. Had the “dubious” honor of printing the advertising flyers for it on an old Gestetner for Elliot Wilhelm who ran the indie-movies at the Detroit Institute of Arts. It was a Russian montage film-technique where for example one scene has Westmoreland on the Banks of the Potomac waxing philosophic about Asians not having the same emotions as we do and the next scene a distraught woman who just had her village blown-up, tears down her cheeks, searching for her son. Man, it was like going 15-rounds with George Foreman. People walked out of there somber and stunned, as if years of low-intensity trauma in our working-class neighborhoods hadn’t adequately prepared us. I say “dubious” in light of later understanding that the profiteers helped turn the legal-oriented antiwar movement into a clown-show; e.g., Abbie and his crew; and a drug-addled, guru-seeking, narcissistic milieu. That’s how their abc-pretorians roll.
“https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcE6CdR60NY”
This is it without quotation marks.
norm dunc… pay attention
https://youtu.be/A-_NZ_ES7Ug
We are killing our kids. Does anyone care?
Kids that would have never died from COVID are now dying after getting the vaccine. Will it ever end?
https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/we-are-killing-our-kids-does-anyone
Knew deep down you cared more than you admit
Doesn’t bother me that they are injecting young kids… any parent who does that to their kid has bad genes so best to cleanse the pool of MOREONS
That’s more like the Eddy we all know and love.
It’s called “brake-torqueing” – saw a buddy do it once with his straight-eight black-on-black Chrysler. He coulda parked it, got out, and walked from the cloud like Houdini.
You want it darker?
German doctor commits suicide rather than give vaccines
Dr. Thomas Jendges committed suicide saying he no longer could be part of the genocide happening via the COVID vaccine.
His final video he made before he killed himself is on YouTube, but they censor comments. Here’s the comment I wrote that YouTube removed just minutes after I posted it:
He killed himself after making this video. He wanted his suicide note to be published, but they are withholding that. Please see this article to learn more.
He died in order to try to send a message to the world. Thanks to the German government and YouTube, his message will not be heard.
https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/german-doctor-commits-suicide-rather
https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdbda630c-5d1d-49e5-b8df-8d640892a0aa_542x562.png
https://youtu.be/XQOpeJ8YHrE
The problem with suicide to send a message is that he can just be dismissed as a nut.
He should have taken the Yeadon/Malone route, poor man.
In time he would have got over the initial shock of realising what is going on.
He might have stumbled across OFW…realized we are f789ed … and taken an early exit.
He might have been Arkancided like Epstein.
The owner has messages M Fast asking if the Teen who refuses to inject is ok… We are friends with them – we like them… M Fast asks what she should say … Fast says — say that he will need to take a break from work as he is not keen on the injection … he’ll let it blow over then revisit the situation …
or just say He is Holding the Line with Fast Eddy … we are dug in hard… we are prepared to fix bayonets…
Hopefully we’ll get more of the same overnight in Holland and elsewhere…
Hopefully this escalates to serious violence
I like to watch.
love it https://twitter.com/i/status/1461853379370655752
Looks like fun
https://twitter.com/i/status/1461807095137947656
Shot https://twitter.com/i/status/1461884738424250371
https://youtu.be/1r52XipAwhw
https://www.lifesitenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/image_(12)_3-810×500-810×500.jpg
Practice on that?
Biden admin asks businesses to proceed with vaccine mandate despite court order
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/biden-admin-asks-businesses-to-proceed-with-vaccine-mandate-despite-court-order/
when are americans going to send a lead-filled message?
The super-organism is sprouting warts like cordyceps Eddy, no need for violence.
https://www.unz.com/estriker/michigan-lead-fbi-agent-in-gretchen-whitmer-kidnapping-case-gets-arrested-for-felony-domestic-violence/
Jeez, they’re still milking donations from their Leonard Peltier operation. He’s been eligible for parole since 1993!!!
https://tinyurl.com/4k3m6ctd
And “oh, the humanity” when another A-List Actor denied Leonard “clemency” on January 18, 2017.
Strange!
People who refuse to comply with next February’s mandate could face a fine of up to 3,600 Euros (roughly $4,000) or a 4 weeks prison sentence, if numbers found in a draft bill for health professionals are applied to the entire population. A fine of up to 1,450 euros (roughly $1,600 USD) or a prison sentence of 4 weeks could also be applied to those who fail to receive booster shots.
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/breaking-austrian-govt-announces-mandatory-covid-vaccination-for-all-citizens/
4 weeks in prison? Big deal… another form of lockdown… go for it.
If they do this in NZ I’ll pay the fines till I go bankrupt … and then…. and then.
I bet one wouldn’t be allowed to take vitamins, etc, in prison, so could turn into a death sentence. l those vaxxed regular inmates and guards…..
But what if you do it and still refuse to bend on release? Life imprisonment? Total bankruptcy?
Four weeks in prison would be enough to lose any job, I should have thought and precipitate most into bankruptcy.
Exactly, it’s about full spectrum herding dominance..
Most likely there is something very wobbly underneath the engine bay of the global economy they had to resort to such measures and testing ground in such relatively rich country soon ~Q1 2022. Furthermore, perhaps it has been selected for docility mainly, they don’t have real army force (outwards / expeditionary) etc..
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New study from Germany confirms higher vax coverage –> higher excess mortality
The Harvard study showed vaccination makes things worse as far as cases goes. This new study from German shows that the more you vaccinate the more people get killed. Not a surprise to me.
https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/new-study-from-germany-confirms-higher
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Hold. The. Line.
I suppose the argument might be that places that have high COVID rates seek out more vaccinations.
I haven’t actually reviewed the study itself. It seems like cause/effect would need to be shown as well. Or that COVID rates rose, after vaccination rates rose.
Same effect by part of Ireland. Highest cases where most vaccinations.
https://s.hdnux.com/photos/01/16/13/56/20495239/3/2300×0.jpg
???
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/africa-avoids-covid-disaster-scientists-are-mystified-and-wary/GW6C434H326YUJ6EMCCPIAMUGM/
This is what alerted me in the first place to the Great Lie, the Africa question.
Gates was asked in a very friendly interview ,at the end of last year why people weren’t yet dying like flies in Africa if Covid was so deadly and they lacked 1st-class health services, ventilators,etc?
He waffled, threw his hands around, and failed to give a coherent answer. It was an easy question, and a very poor show.
So I started to question everything about the vaxx and Gates from that point on – although I had already concluded that lock-downs were mostly about breaking SME’s and disrupting the economy as a whole.
I am UNVACCINATED.
They already sent me an ultimatum brochure in the mail last week.
They will be sorry they messed with me.
This is a great way to go down…
https://youtu.be/AVQ8byG2mY8
As long as you bring one CovIDIOT with you … it’s a good result. Perhaps it is as simple as agreeing to the coercion … and entering the injection room.. with I dunno… something that might result in you coming out alone?
I’ve taken my bows,
And my curtain calls.
You brought me fame and fortune, and everything that goes with it.
I thank you MOREONS all.
But it’s been no bed of roses,
No pleasure cruise.
I consider it a challenge before the whole human race,
And I ain’t gonna lose.
We are the champions, my friends,
And we’ll keep on fighting ’til the end.
We are the UNVACCINATED.
We are the UNVACCINATED.
No time for losers
‘Cause we are the champions.
I’ve paid my dues
Time after time.
I’ve done my sentence
But committed no crime.
And bad mistakes‒
I’ve made a few.
I’ve had my share of sand kicked in my face
But I’ve come through.
We are the champions, my friends.
And we’ll keep on fighting ’til the end.
We are the UNVACCINATED.
We are the UNVACCINATED.
No time for losers
‘Cause we are the champions of the world.
Just gotta get out
Just gotta get right out of here
Nothing really matters, anyone can see
Nothing really matters, nothing really matters, to me
Anyway the wind blows
Just got off Steve St Angelo’s site (behind paywall). Rapid depletion of shale wells (some 55% decline in BPD output in just 5 months), drillers currently have refinanced existing debt, are relying on drilling uncompleted wells (DUC) which saves 40% over cost of fresh de novo wells, reducing capex to improve bottom line, all of which means an energy crunch in a just a few years. No significant number of new wells for now, and those that will get drilled in the future will deplete more quickly than ever. All the low hanging oil has been siphoned off.
Meanwhile, legacy drillers in no hurry to drill, pump, or explore for future oil as relative currently high oil prices have given them a temporary breather. Cheaspeake Oil, second largest shale driller, out of bankruptcy and the NYSE now listed on NASDAC.
He didn’t discuss it, but energy costs of mining for base and precious metals will hit a wall, from the sound of it in one year, maybe two tops. Like the grim estimation of the Titanic could remain afloat with 6 flooded compartments when the limit was five. “So how much time do we have? 1 hour, maybe two, tops.”
No wonder they want to shut the world economy down.
“… all of which means an energy crunch in a just a few years.”
and yet, in a few years the demand/affordability of products will also be reduced.
so the FF supply/demand balance which is intact today could continue for many years.
a little less supply each year, a corresponding decrease in demand each year.
people in the Periphery will more and more be frozen out of the prosperity loop, sooner rather than later.
eventually the Core will have its day of doom.
just later rather than sooner.
CEP… the only good option …
But anyway.. Hold the Line … don’t want this to end with a whimper.
Thanks for the update.
Bay tonight baby. I got me some stuff to eat and drink. Collapse is at least two years away! I’m not sure why folks are getting so worked up. Have a beer, kick back. Stop typing!!!!
“Precipitation had decreased by almost 50 percent in the last year, leaving dams with dwindling water supplies to fuel the country,” an Associated Press report from last summer emphasized.
Maybe they should try a mass rain dance.
8B = Too Much Peeple
I was looking for the issue with the cover saying “The World Needs Ten Billion People” but found this one that was close in time to it.
https://tinyurl.com/4nbp34pd
https://twitter.com/i/status/1461742783954305033
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/iranians-hold-huge-anti-government-protest-after-key-river-completely-dries
We demand that you refill the river!
It is really impossible to fix a long-standing problem with drought. New leaders can’t fix the problem. It takes a huge amount of energy to desalinate water to try to make up for the shortage. That energy isn’t available.
Gail, thank you for re-posting all of this information. A lot of it was found on the oildrum fifteen years ago. I like to revisit all of that information from time to time.
High intensity conflict over energy supplies can lead to unintended consequences since high-technology weapons are available to target oil infrastructure and fields that were not available in World War II – another example of when energy infrastructure was heavily contested.
The fight over the capacity to sustain human life is, in many respects, not a direct fight over oil and natural gas. Human carrying capacity potential really points to basic crop yields and capacity to distribute. For example, the population density of ancient Rome and some cities in China and India rival those of today. There may be a beef shortage, or a potato famine, but there should be enough rice and wheat for everyone if we keep cool heads.
The real risk is a destructive contest over energy supplies that are going to deplete over time anyway.
Its like smokers fighting over the last pack of cigarettes. A single targeting office with a parabolic fractal graph of oil fields could take town half the worlds oil capacity with 20 missiles with conventional warheads.
And here’s the re tard in the Whitehouse… ‘good!’
https://twitter.com/i/status/1461782143504367616
ya Baby … go for IT
https://twitter.com/i/status/1461802141333565440
Let’s Go Brandon
https://twitter.com/i/status/1461792209183911936
Hold the Line … Fire in the Hole …
https://s.hdnux.com/photos/01/22/72/56/21736373/3/1200×0.jpg
“We’re talking … your aunt and uncle type-people using language like Nuremberg 2.0, common law trials, like ‘the prime minister is a Nazi’ – these are quite extreme terms and terminologies,” says Kate Hannah, a research fellow at Te Pūnaha Matatini’s disinformation project, a research institute that monitors online extremism and rhetoric. Hannah says the team observed an incredibly rapid shift in both the volume and tone of disinformation circulating in New Zealand’s online communities since the Delta outbreak and level 4 lockdown began.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/19/dissent-threats-and-fury-mood-darkens-in-new-zealand-as-covid-restrictions-bite
I bet these MOREONS are wondering why this ‘Fast Eddy’ character keeps posting hack saw references
Maybe we should call them ‘Stalins’, or ‘Berias’?
Of course, these “tightened measures” at the expense of the unvaccinated have not had the slightest effect on “the numbers,” which, according to the press, are once again “exploding.” They have finally, and totally predictably, resulted in this “lockdown for all.” Perhaps they intended this from the beginning, and were merely waiting for a dramatic spike to cause emotions to boil over.
This renewed “lockdown for all” will make a lot of people who have dutifully gone along with everything to this point extremely angry, and so the political and the media establishment have already provided a target for this anger and frustration: The blame for everything – for the lockdown, the high incidences, the high ICU occupancy, the alleged triage, the corpses piling up in the corridors, and so forth – lies with the well-poisoners, the “vaccine refuseniks”, the “hesitants,” the “Querdenker”², etc. No few people are now openly wishing death upon these noncompliants.
Yep… hopefully Christmas sees the skies lit up across the world… yeee hawwwww!!!
This is what we paid the Big Money for….
Querdenker–eccentric
Coming to town squares across Europe anytime now!
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FEkg9WpVcAU8i3Y?format=jpg&name=medium
In Vienna, the state has already embarked on the next stage of psychological terror, by removing the power to decide from the hands of the unvaccinated entirely, and booking “vaccine appointments” against their will. They will be informed of these by mail. This means that the names of the unvaccinated are already registered in databases. They will probably also record the names of everyone who doesn’t come to his appointment or cancels it. At least cancellation is still possible – but for how long?
When will the police be at the door? When will vaccine refusal have criminal consequences?
https://eugyppius.substack.com/p/martin-lichtmesz-on-the-dystopic
Hmmm…. imagine trying that one in America hahahaha…. ding dong… who’s there? it’s the vaxx police… oh .. hang on I’m in my boxers… door opens .. face full of lead ensues.
I guess people will start to understand the reason why people want to own weapons
Back to 1933, it seems.
First four shots through the closed door.
They might even come round through the back door… and deliver a lead surprise from the rear hahaha…
We may be in for some really good entertainment just prior to extinction.
Leon the hitman: great film.
WTI 76 and Brent 79
down from mid 80s just last month.
the (inflation adjusted) prices around $120 in 2011-2014 are a long way off.
oil supply and demand are fairly well balanced.
the economy is energy based, and this gives it much resilience.
Whenever the world “shut-down” is mentioned, oil prices seem to fall. If people are kept inside, or even simply discouraged from travel, it tends to hold down oil prices.
No this is a bad thing… this means more reason not to invest or develop oil wells. Go to the oily stuff blog written by oil drillers. They are losing tons of money…but hey drink up buddy! We are still alive today!
no no no no no.
it’s ALL good.
this is the best of all possible worlds.
the future is so bright, I gotta wear shades.
to the stars!
Yup
Austria Imposes Lockdown and Vaccine Dictatorship
It looks like I was too optimistic last month.
Unfortunately, there can be no talk of any “Corona twilight” in Austria right now. Our government, under the leadership of the unelected shadow chancellor Alexander Schallenberg, has now ordered, in rapid succession, an escalating series of “tightened measures,” and their repressive character dwarfs all that that has preceded them. I published a detailed account for the magazine Freilich.
This escalation reached its climax today: All of a sudden, the government has announced a “full lockdown” beginning on Monday for all of Austria, as well as a “fixed” general vaccine mandate from February 2022 (coincidentally corresponding to the end of flu season). This also means forced “boosters” for everyone who thought they were finished after the first two jabs.
Although this style of governance has been ongoing since March 2020, the brazen authoritarianism of these decisions and their attendant massive assault on the liberty of the people – unchecked by any constitutional concerns or even rational considerations – has become deeply frightening. Our country can now justly be called a dictatorship.
https://eugyppius.substack.com/p/martin-lichtmesz-on-the-dystopic
hahahaha… this is a tough sell given Gibraltar is 100% vaxxed.. and people are getting wind of that
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/covid-19-no-vaccinated-people-are-not-just-as-infectious-as-unvaccinated/F2NWA45RBCICYMPP6ECHM2MJJY/
Of course, the problem is that vaccinated people get such light cases of the disease that they don’t realize they have it. Instead of staying home, they visit with many other people and spread the virus all over.
I think it’s worse than spreading COVID 19. I think the Vaxed are spreading variants. Some more severe some less severe.
Wouldn’t it be fantastic if at some point the MSM acknowledged that that Vaxxed are Disease Breeders hahahahahahaha…
They’d lose their tiny minds…
Hold The Line Pure Bloods.. Winter is Coming … it will all be over soon
I like the term Naturals better..( not sure if this is the correct way to spell it though?
Gail why would you say the vaccinated get light cases? Didn’t Israel show that almost all serious hospitalizations for Covid are vaccinated?
76% of September Covid-19 deaths are vax breakthroughs
https://vermontdailychronicle.com/2021/09/30/76-of-september-covid-19-deaths-are-vaxxed-breakthroughs/
Why would it be any different?
But of course governments lied when they told the Covidiots they could not catch covid if they injected…
They’d only lie once.. right?
The vaccinated get light cases on average, but some will still do poorly. What benefit the vaccinated obtain gradually wears off. In fact, I have seen reference to it changing from a benefit to a liability over a long enough time period. I presume this has to do with the new “vaccine” generally damaging a person’s immune system and overall health. As whatever benefit it initially provided wears off, the net effect is negative.
The elderly and the immune suppressed get less benefits from vaccines of all kinds, including the new mRNA vaccines. They still get some damage from the new vaccines. They are most likely to be hospitalized, I would expect.
I will take great pleasure when the geriatrics make the headlines in NZ … dead.
That will be… satisfaction … satisfaction
I hate when people smoke ciggies and toss their damn buts into dry tinder. They should get the death penalty!!! They say that was a big cause of the wild fires in California
Except that as their limited protection wears thin… they then end up in hospital … because they’ve f789ed their bodies by injecting this toxic garbage.
Because… they are …. Stoooopid … MOREONS
Kyle Rittenhouse not guilty on ALL changes!!!! Hurray.
I expect five US cities will burn tonight and at least ten Americans will be killed in the next three days in the riots and burning.
Remember the black riots in the US…. they burned a lot of sh it.
It’s an interesting strategy…
Burning continents is an interesting strategy. Wallmart is just ‘sneeker grabbing’. The former needs a bit more energy though.
Strategically… transmission lines and relay stations for electricity could cause a lot more damage.
A high powered rifle would do the trick… there are so many things people could do to tip this over… I wonder what contingencies are in place should people get ideas like this in their heads
Watching Rambo 1 is enough to get you any ideas to tip the boat over. Especially when the captains focus is on the kitchen maid instead of the iceberg.
The sooner we ban all firearms in the US, the sooner we can enjoy the true fruits of freedom – Australia, Austria, China are just a few wonderful examples of the utopia that could be ours…
(No self defense, no freedom of speech, no freedom of assembly, no redress for grievances, etc – glorious, I say..glorious)
Unfortunately.
you forgot canada, I know it’s easy to do . . .
Unrestricted and restricted guns are still available for purchase by anyone willing to spend 8 to 16 hours in a classroom.
https://i.gifer.com/origin/32/32b358fbf147cebe798b5f44597484be_w200.gif
Currently, there’s a push to centralize power. Amazon pushing out local players, corona apps, corona passports, banking apps throwing up push messages to use Apple pay, Gates buying up farmland etc etc. Why is that? Because, indeed norm (may i call you norm), anarchiy is all fun and games, until you end up with anarchy on a 8 billion people jit planet asking for an ever rising S&P.
Currently, in the Netherlands, several 5G locations started catching fire over concerns of too much power in too few hands… already.
I see diminishing returns on a horizon manifesting as a fata morgana.
The regimes are working on damage control. Too little, too late.
I see that there were a lot of stories in April and May of last year about 5G cell towers being set on fire in UK, Netherlands, and Belgium. One article says “Conspiracy theorists burn 5G towers claiming link to virus.”
It sounds like these fires were happened at the time of the shut downs. Are you saying that there are more fires again now, as a form of protest?
setting fire to 5g towers is one of the inevitable results of uncontrolled conspirathons
I was reading in the UK press today, about a US doctor, running a vaccine centre in the USA has had to move himself and his family to safety through the same irrationality.
conspironuts assert that this perfectly acceptable
Do you think it might be taking away peoples freedoms with nonsensical passports that is driving such reactions?
Gail, Norm,
The fact that 5G is under attack already, by conspiricy nuts or people truely worried about ‘Arbeit macht Frei’ tells us the more ‘growth’ fails, the more regime changes will happen. In our finances, our believes and our mindsets. And, there’s the problem, within the minsets of our political leaders voted in by the masses looking for consolidation. Instead of more. And after that, less instead of consolidation. That won’t work of course. They know. Centralize power and control or ‘premature’ collapse.
Extend & pretend. Or die.
You guys teached me, i’m only drawing conclusions here.
Irrational? You ain’t seen nothing yet normie. You are way out of line. Nothing to lose, nothing to add. Nothing to live for, nothing to fight for. Nothing to adore, and nothing to die for.
fire = friend = GOOD
Norm, imagine if you were lied to that the vaccines were ‘safe and effective’, and your baby ended up like this:
https://gab.com/Dftw21/posts/106920538239548546
What if your grandchildren were on a plane piloted by a jab-impaired captain?
https://www.theburningplatform.com/2021/11/06/vaccine-injured-speak-out-feel-abandoned-by-government-who-told-them-covid-shot-was-safe/
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Maybe Norm can’t muster up much emotion for those situations. He’s more protective of the Jabb-er than the Jab-ee for some reason.
A while ago, I found out something interesting about leftists: they tend to have greater empathy for those further away from them than for those close to them. See these concern “heat” maps:
While people across the ideological spectrum all likely experience both centripetal and centrifugal forces in their ambits of concern, liberals [US political definition] are more likely to distribute concern to outer circles and conservatives are more likely to distribute concern to inner circles.
https://unherd.com/thepost/who-matters-more-your-family-or-the-wider-world/
It would be very difficult for most people to recommend that pregnant women get injected … after seeing this https://gab.com/Dftw21/posts/106920538239548546
It reminds me of the scene “Apocalypse Now” – Colonel Kurtz’s Monologue http://allartlakke.com/?p=568
Horror and moral terror are your friends. If they are not then they are enemies to be feared. They are truly enemies. I remember when I was with Special Forces. Seems a thousand centuries ago. We went into a camp to inoculate the children.
We left the camp after we had inoculated the children for Polio, and this old man came running after us and he was crying. He couldn’t see. We went back there and they had come and hacked off every inoculated arm. There they were in a pile. A pile of little arms. And I remember… I… I… I cried. I wept like some grandmother.
I wanted to tear my teeth out. I didn’t know what I wanted to do. And I want to remember it. I never want to forget it. I never want to forget. And then I realized… like I was shot… like I was shot with a diamond… a diamond bullet right through my forehead. And I thought: My God… the genius of that.
The genius. The will to do that. Perfect, genuine, complete, crystalline, pure.
Lidia
in 1920 a virus kicked back at humankind against our encroachment into their territory—we herded chickens too close together, and it jumped into us.
this happened in the US midwest somewhere.
it killed 50 million of us (out of 2 billion)
no plot, no conspiracy, no vaccine, no mass media to panic everybody–eddy probably wasn’t even born then.
fast forward to now.
the same thing has happened again. only this time we are able to help the virus on its way with mass transport systems.
There’s now 7.5 billion of us.
Governments, understandably panicked—the arithmetic pointed to 200 million dead if they did nothing.
Whatever the right or wrongs of what was done, it looks like about 1 million dead, give or take.
But this time, mass media has given voice to silliness which insists that ‘they’ are using covid to take over the world—kill us all off—dead people littering the streets—profiting from jabbing everybody—maiming babies—medical experiments by mad doctors—you name it.
Weird and wacky links to blogs by ‘doctors’–most of whom turn out to be suspect.
The reality is that no medical intervention is ‘safe’. Adverse reactions are certain. I had minor eye surgery recently–the doc was required to read the list of risks to me–i signed on the dotted line. I wasn’t concerned that the risk was extreme.
As i’ve mentioned before–we came to within a breath of thalidomide maiming my youngest in the 60s.
If that happened now—it would be an eddyplot to reduce humankind to ‘dependence’ of some kind.
it was a medical error. no plot, no conspiracy, no evil doctors.
We have created a ‘medical industry’–by and large, it works. Errors, though. are certain because of its complexity.
What we do not have is Bill Gates trying to inject us all with iron filings. (an OFW classic)
That is the lunacy circulated by the idiocy of plot-driven mass media. Hence we get the hysteria of: suppose your grandchildren were on a plane with a jab-impaired pilot.
Is it too much to ask that you re-read stuff before you press ‘post’?
What Bill Gates and company are trying to inject us with includes, among other things, are chemicals that are close relatives of Vitamin A (retinoic acid). These are very toxic substances. Use of these chemicals sends the death rate up of those who get the vaccines because of heart problems and other issues. We are starting to see this in the overall rising death rates in the UK and elsewhere.
The use of these ingredients is hidden, but detective work by Grant Genereux and HillCountry indicate that chemicals closely related to vitamin A are used as hidden adjuvants in the three vaccines used in the US. If the use of vitamin A relatives had been properly disclosed, it is hard to image that the vaccines could have been even temporarily approved for general use. The strange low temperatures at which the vaccines need to be stored is part of what gives away the use of chemicals closely related to vitamin A. See this long series of comments by HillCountry:
https://ourfiniteworld.com/2021/11/10/our-fossil-fuel-energy-predicament-including-why-the-correct-story-is-rarely-told/comment-page-6/#comment-325746
Part of the problem is that the marketing departments and the scientific parts of these pharmaceutical companies are separate. The marketing department sees great opportunity if the vaccines can be mandated because the cost of producing the vaccines is very low and the sales price disproportionately high. The companies have a huge financial incentive to hide problems as much as possible. It is possible to slightly reduce deaths from COVID-19 with the vaccines, but it is beginning to look like deaths from other causes rise by a greater amounts than the trivial reduction in COVID-19 deaths.
I saw a presentation by Joseph Tainter this weekend in which he showed how the pharmaceutical industry is reaching diminishing returns. Nearly all of the very productive drugs/vaccines were discovered years ago. The pharmaceutical industry is like the oil industry; it needs to keep making big profits, if it is to reinvest to produce new drugs. It has not been earning enough recently. I would not be surprised if it is getting more and more desperate; it cannot continue to operate if it cannot make better profits.
We also know that US government agencies regulating the drug industry are significantly funded (50% or so) by the drug industry.
https://odysee.com/@corbettreport:0/rfkjr-fauci720p:e
We also know that WHO is funded to a significant extent by Bill Gates Foundation and perhaps other big foundations. (I would need to go back and check the details).
If all of these organizations are like the insurance industry that I was in, the regulators generally come from the industry they regulate, since no one else understands the industry very well. They are also interested in allowing the industry to do well, since this is where they make their living as well. They need jobs if they ever leave government work. Thus, getting these regulators not to look closely at what they are approving is a very easy task.
I think you you need to spend more time figuring out how diminishing returns affects industries other than energy industry. Desperate companies seem to do strange things, in the hope that they can continue to get a rising share of what energy is available for their own needs. Otherwise, the musical chairs game we are now playing with energy availability leaves out the pharmaceutical industry.
About Netherlands I can tell you that there are huge protests in Rotterdam right now.
I don’t know if also about 5G, but they are protesting against new restrictions.
Please see:
https://t.me/rossobruni/12905
https://t.me/giuseppemasala/8530
“Sounds of explosions and gunfire” in second link.
Is that… fire … that I see…
Oh say can you see… by the dawn’s early light … cars burning and bo…mbs bursting in air…
Imagine if each person decided to light a few parked cars on fire…. or maybe they tossed petrol filled bottles into buildings…. that would force martial law… that would make things interesting… entertaining… and Fun!
There is definitely some magic in watching cars burn…. all that plastic and rubber… burns so nicely
Wow – AWESOME!
That’s more like it!!!!
This is what one would expect when the end of the world is coming to an end…
Keep this feeds coming … hopefully we’ll see this go to the next level… lead and petrol… leaded petrol… surely that’s gotta be the direction this will take… Be Water… and lead and petrol too….
Placards are of no use in a war
Gloves are off now … shooting protesters now … as expected… let’s see how far they are willing to go …
2 wounded after shots fired at Covid protest in Netherlands
At least two people were wounded by police gunfire in the Dutch city of Rotterdam after a protest over renewed Covid-19 restrictions spiraled into a violent riot, seeing demonstrators torch a squad car and clash with officers.
https://www.rt.com/news/540809-netherlands-lockdown-protest-injuries/
https://cdni.rt.com/files/2021.11/xxl/61982f032030276f937b9172.png
Perfect for the Elders: they need evidence that ‘anti-vaxxers’ are violent nuts, not just a bit barmy or stupid.
Our 21st-century ‘Catch 22’: resist and they call you mad, but accept and you ARE truly insane.
good video here too… this looks like the city centre is overrun
https://www.rt.com/news/540809-netherlands-lockdown-protest-injuries/
I don’t want to spoil this party, but these vids look like any other typical “rowdies” excitation – limited outburst. Basically, the largest revolt has been taking place in France so far. And that consists of strictly weekend only marches (of ordinary people not rowdies). Essentially, the nurtured docility has reached certain threshold, there will be no mass repudiation of the mandates in the affluent countries. The PTB won already.
Yes they are futile… but I still enjoy watching.
I like to watch.
They need to allow people to blow off steam and think they have a possibility of winning back their stolen freedom.
Australia is a very dry place… in the summer…
In Iraq the US military used road graders to bury alive enemy soldiers in their own trenches. Be creative Australia.
Comment halted. Suspect non vaxed.
I did put up a serious comment. WTF is wrong ?
I don’t think I am holding any comment of yours.
A % of comments just seem to go missing, even reasonable and inoffensive ones. System fault. Just post again later.
houtskool, word press is flaky don’t take it personally
“Disney to ban unvaccinated kids on cruises” – “Children as young as five years-old will need to be vaccinated to travel on Disney Cruise Line ships, the company has announced, in an expansion of its vaccine mandate. It is the first major passenger liner to require jabs for kids,”
https://www.rt.com/usa/540649-disney-cruise-children-covid/
We’re publishing an original piece today by Rudolph Kalveks, a retired executive with a PhD in theoretical physics, about the shortcomings of climate change models. The reason their predictions are so off, according to Dr. Kovacs, is because the modellers don’t know enough about physics. Dr. Kovacs is the author of a series of articles for the Daily Sceptic called “Canaries in the Mine”. (Read the first of those here.) Here is the introduction to his latest piece:
https://dailysceptic.org/2021/11/18/ipcc-climate-models-keep-failing-because-they-dont-respect-physics/
https://dailysceptic.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Screenshot-2021-11-17-at-23.23.26-1536×1093.png
Unfortunately it is impossible to cure Stoopid… the MSM owns the Stooopid… it creates the Stoooopid
And then… https://dailysceptic.org/2021/11/18/scotland-urged-to-abandon-vaccine-passports-after-research-showing-vaccinated-just-as-infectious-as-unvaccinated/
Perhaps someone will figure out what is happening.
Shock! The lockdown of the unvaccinated made zero impact on rising case numbers in Austria so now the country is on the brink of imposing a full lockdown – not that that will make the slightest bit of difference either. The Telegraph has more.
Austria could become the first place in Europe to see full Covid lockdowns reintroduced since widespread vaccination campaigns were rolled out as the continent faces a wave of new restrictions amid a winter surge.
The country’s worst-hit provinces said they would adopt the measure for themselves since infections are still rising despite the current controversial lockdown for the unvaccinated.
Roughly 66% of Austria’s population is fully vaccinated, one of the lowest rates in western Europe. Its infections are among the highest on the continent, with a seven-day incidence of 971.5 per 100,000 people.
As winter approaches, cases have surged across Europe, prompting governments to consider reimposing unpopular lockdowns. The Netherlands has imposed a partial lockdown that applies to all, but Austria has sought not to impose extra restrictions on the fully vaccinated.
Daily infections on Thursday reached a new record of 15,145. The biggest wave before this peaked at 9,586 a year ago, when Austria went into full lockdown. Hospitals in Austria are overloaded and there are unconfirmed reports of bodies being stored in the corridors.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2021/11/18/coronavirus-latest-news-germany-sends-patients-abroad-hospitals/
Oh I see… the vaccines are useless. I see….
CovIDIOTS … what do YOU see?
Hasn’t anyone told them about taking 5 to 10,000 IU of Vitamin D daily?
We all know how obedient the Austrians are, as Julie Andrews found out.
An Austrian friend did indeed bring up his son to stand respectfully to attention when addressed by an adult. No whistles though. I have to add he’s gone off the rails a bit now!
BAU! Steak and Cabernet Sauvignon tonight baby! Collapse at lest two years away. I think that I did mention when this COVID thing started that they had the vaccine and the variants ready. Just waiting until they have most people Vaxxed. Then they will release the mother of all variants that is harmless to the unvaxxed but kills all vaxxed folks. A simple but effective plan.
harmless to us Purebloods?
wooooooo!!!!!!!
I expect a new variant outbreak or equivalent ramping up of fear to cement the compulsory vaccine push. Gates gleefully promised a deadlier bioterror attack within the next 5 yesrs that will get our attention. Add in his recent warning about smallpox followed by the recent news of an investigation at Merck labs and the repeated use of the phrase “dark winter” referring to the pre-9/11 smallpox pandemic drill.. we should stay vigilant.
We should stay cool and refuse to be terrorized. Be prepared to die in agony if need be, but also bear in mind that these folks prefer theater and deception to all-out deadly bio-terror attacks. It is less messy for them when the manipulate victims into consenting to their own demise.
We Hold the Line. We Reject the Edicts. We Die with Dignity.
Not like some diseased dog riddled with puncture holes. That’s what people like norm dunc mike do… No matter what happens — Hold The Line. Melt down the f789ing barrel.
Quite so, Tim.
They would much prefer their victims to die quietly at home, as many are conveniently doing as they peg out from heart attacks and so on.
It makes me think of a friend’s comment about butchering an animal for steaks and the rest of the herd not being spooked if done in the right way – he used to run a ranch in Oz.
That Australia One post Lidia put up was quite effective. It never mentioned COVID once, but barring being comatose, one got the idea. So I think OFW is doing a fine job, stirring up s..t. It means that enough people know what the issue is without it having to be mentioned directly.
Here you can find an interesting article written by a reader living in Austria of the relative on-line newspaper.
It is interesting to see that the reader mentions the coming Austrian forecasted energy blackout (of which we’ve already talked about in this blog), the problem about the reduction of beds in Austrian hospitals happened in the recent years and also the sudden change of the leader of the government arrived without elections.
https://www.databaseitalia.it/lettera-dall-austria-la-situazione-raccontata-da-un-lettore/
One issue I see (in the translation)
“There are rumors of the expected blackout in March. (when the snow usually falls here the last time and it is too early to turn off the heating)”
If there is not enough energy to make it through the winter without freezing people, a lockdown would save energy since schools and factories could be closed. This would be a big reason for a lockdown, as I see the situation. Any excuse is a good excuse.
Many thanks Gail, you go directly to the key points of an article.
Yes, Austria is a very cold Country in winter.
For example we went a couple of times there in order to enjoy a fresh summer.
By the way, it was like an Italian spring..
It may also be a good way of stopping tourism and their energy demands. My daughter and friends have just cancelled their new year ski holiday to Austria before they had to pay in full. They are not jabbed and even if they were not much of a holiday being lockdown. Not worth the risk.
You are completely right HDUK, Austria is normally fully crowded during winter for ski holidays