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
Why no one can seem to hire workers anymore—and what workers are doing instead to pay the bills
https://fortune.com/2021/11/12/labor-shortage-us-labor-force-workers/
Thousands of Double-Jabbed Over 50s Have Died From COVID in Last 4 Weeks
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/revealed-thousands-of-double-jabbed-over-50-s-have-died-in-the-last-4-weeks-190548036.html?guccounter=1
Again the real numbers from your link show a great advantage for the vaccinated…
70-79 age group
103.8 per 100,000 unvaccinated have died
16.2 per 100,000 vaccinated have died.
Once again a huge advantage for the vaccinated. There is 6 times the chance of from dying of Covid for the unvaccinated.
Why do you persist to show links that prove exactly the opposite of what you claim??
Thousands of double jabbed over 50s have died from COVID in the last 4 weeks
how is that possible?
This is simply not an intelligent line of argument, Hideaway.
The more pertinent and well-informed question is:
How many would have died without the vaxx but with effective cheap, primary care of those who fall sick. Vitamins, antibiotics, steroids, aspirin, ivermectin, etc.
This is NOT a very dangerous infectious disease, unless left entirely untreated in stage 1 and 2, which is what is being imposed on us by the, politicians health bureaucrats and compliant doctors.
People now turn up, vaxxed or not, very sick at hospitals with Stage 3 Covid due to the effective closure of primary care and home-treatment packs, which bloody well work.
Xabier, this is a factoid raised by FE to show vaccines are bad, but a simple look at the numbers clearly indicate the vaccines have saved lives.
FE is misrepresenting what the numbers show, it’s that simple.
Whether ivermectin is better or not is a different argument.
Mass infection prevention and mass vaccination with leaky Covid-19 vaccines in the midst of the pandemic can only breed highly infectious variants. https://www.geertvandenbossche.org/
The vaccinated are creating mutations that prevent herd immunity.
The vaccines are killing people.
https://youtu.be/neOJdj1jVPc
Xabier, I’d like to use a locution I learnt in this blog:
You nailed it
🙂
This is quite true. Part of the problem is that people are not being informed about how covid works. Its really quite different from other diseases. For the 1% or so where it progresses to attack the lungs its a rather insidious disease. Covid topples dominoes by the time it gets there the viral load is already very low. The symptoms leading up to the lung destruction are not that bad.
Why no understanding of the disease communicated?
WE should have a barrage of this information and information about supplements and theraputics entering our lives. Instead all we are told is get the injection. What if we started a push to end tobacco use giving people tools to do so. In itself that would save far more lives than the virus takes just by itself. No just get the injection. The barrage of information I would consider a necessity from authorities genuinely concerned about the public health and standard of living is in itself considered counterproductive even to the extent that normal literature about a drugs risks are not available.
We are told trust the science but what we are being directed to do is contrary to medical science as practiced for the last 70 years. What is being demanded is blind faith by entities whose actions demonstrate that neither trust nor faith is appropriate.
Its self evident that you make decisions about your own body and health. That is the mother all chasms that we approach. On one side self evident truth on the other blind faith.
What people need to keep in mind … is that unless you are riddled with disease and/or old… the odds of you dying from covid are nearly 0.
If you are healthy — you should fear covid as much as you would the flu.
That said … as the mutations improve… this will change… Marek’s is a fearful disease … because it kills at a 100% rate.
One would think that a CovDIOT might pause for thought after listening to top doctors like McCullough and Kori explain how they have used drugs like Ivermectin to successfully treat Covid … and seeing that governments have banned the use of Ivermectin….
You might think the CovIDIOTS would have a hmmmmm … moment…
But nope. They are MOREONS (did I mention that earlier?)… total utter MOREONS…. so this would not trouble them at all….
The injections provide a brief period of relative safety from the covid virus at the cost of exposing the body to experimental therapy. Prophylactic ivermectin also provides a briefer period of higher safety from the virus when administered monthly.
Ivermectin stops transmission of the virus lowering R0 and fufilling the legacy of a “vaccine” of the distinct possibility ofd ending the pandemic. It does so with high levels of safety as defined by the medical standards of the last 70 years.
With countries not eradicating the virus with percentages of those fully injected of over 70% its demonstrable that the injections do not stop transmission and have no capability to lower R0 enough to do so. The manufacturers never claimed to do so. It is not just the minority uninjected providing a habitat that the virus can live in. On top of this failure to provide the legacy of a vaccine the injections possibly quite probably create virus mutations because of their narrow band selectivity. The injections have no cabability to end the pandemic and their manufacturers never claimed they did developed them for that purpouse or tested if they might do so.
injection
unsafe as defined by medical science the past 70 years
Emergency use authorization bypassing medical science standards
possibility/probability of mutation creation
does not stop virus infection or transmission
Self evident right to care for ones own being denied
Violent injection method of administration
unable to effect R0 enough to eradicate virus
No benefits as associated with vaccines
Endless injection with no end and no questioning of injections
No solution
Ivermectin
Overwhelmingly safe as defined by clinical trials the standard of safety as defined by medical science the past 70 years
Overwhelmingly safe sold over the counter in Africa 40 year record of safety
Wide spectrum no history or potential of mutation creation
Benign oral method of administration
Stops infection and transmission of virus
Probability of eradicating virus by lowering R0 high
Vaccine legacy of eradicating virus met
Virus ends prophylatic use ends- pandemic in rear view mirror.
Solution.
Once you’re injected, the lifesaving vaccination process has already begun. You can’t unring a bell. It’s just not physically possible,” said Angela Rasmussen, a virologist and adjunct professor at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada.
…..“The transaction process for the mRNA vaccine is fairly quick. Basically, by the time you get out to your car, sorry, the magic has already started,” she said.
The newfound virality of “vaccine detoxes” is also a strategy by anti-vaccine influencers and groups to steel themselves for a reality in which 70 percent of Americans have been fully vaccinated against the coronavirus — even though their dire warnings of mass death and infertility never came to fruition.
“This illustrates how these anti-vaccine communities are shifting and pushing these claims toward vaccinated people,” said Ciaran O’Connor, a disinformation researcher for the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, an anti-extremism nonprofit group based in London.
….Without the borax, Rasmussen said the bath is not a harmful idea after receiving the vaccine, but it won’t do anything for the nonexistent “radiation” or “nanotechnologies.”
“Take the bath and kick back and relax with a glass of wine, knowing that I’m safe from a potentially lethal viral infection,” she said.
Still, not all anti-vaccine communities are giving in, even with the false promise of a detox. In anti-vaccine Facebook groups like “Educate Before You Vaccinate,” comments still largely and incorrectly tell users that the vaccine is an irreversible path to government tracking, infertility or death.
Some provided hope with false cures. One user, who told the group her boyfriend “HAD to get a covid shot” and wondered how to “detox his body” was told to follow Madej’s borax bath instructions. Another user told her to look into drinking “Miracle Mineral Solution,” which is bleach and can be fatal if ingested
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna4859
How about a coffee enema?
Mainstream media. We can’t expect too much!
Do you think the vaccine can be removed, Gail? If not, I’m not sure what your comment is about.
The point is that the mainstream media is trying to make anyone that thinks the jab is a looney tune.
Sorry skipped a word or two.
Meant anyone who thinks the jab isn’t manna from heaven.
The only possible way of potentially affecting the vaccine I think is through IVM being taken at strong doses before (about 2 weeks) and immediately after injection. Then continuing for a month till after the final injection. The mechanisms of action for IVM include adhering to the spike protein and therefore potentially rendering it useless. This could also change the level of immune response to the spike as less would be presented to react against to form antibodies. It is a theory at any rate. I do not wish to enact it.
I purchased a deworm tab for our new dog yesterday — asked the lady what the active ingredient was … hoping it would Iver… it wasn’t… maybe next time I ask for another option
use the horsewormer product. then just look up dog dosage rates/
To answer your questions, Mike: if the payload within the lipid droplets can be exposed to the immune system, the mRNA will disappear in minutes.
norm … dunc… mike… FYI… it’s not possible to unf789 yourself.
Or should that be de-f789?
However you can definitely re-f789 yourself… if you enjoyed the first 3 … you have a date with 4 soon!
I tried to find definitions of “unf789”, “de-f789” and “re-f789” without success so “FYI” doesn’t seem to be about information. However, much of your commenting isn’t in English, so I shouldn’t expect too much.
By admitting you had to try to find definitions… is an indication of something being at the very low end… if ya know what I mean…
I suggest that Mike is invaluable here as a kind of resident Jester, his dogged cluelessness is a welcome diversion from grim reality.
We would miss him if the booster got him…..
norm is in danger of losing his position … he may be relegated to the dumpster… kinda like dunc…
Notice how dunc seldom makes an appearance… he’s in the dumpster… or perhaps he’s the greeter at the local Walmart… which is what retired jesters do….
One does wonder if dunc has been injured by a booster… he’d never tell us… right norm?
You want to have an idea of what half the world will look like in 10 years, energy shortages and all?
Look at the tweety bird in the mine: Haiti.
Haiti does seem to be ahead of quite a few other places on the road to collapse.
according to United States think tank Fund for Peace, it is 13th on this list. US is 143th. Scandinavian countries have 5 of the 10 best rankings (170-179). Fully droned Yemen is la creme de la creme of failed…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Fragile_States_Index
The UK polls this weekend have finally shown the ‘sleazy’ Tories fall behind Labour, as 99% of Brits polled say that British politics is ‘corrupt’.
With 2.5 years to go to the next general election, polls would likely return a hung parliament, with LP reliant on SNP to form a government – and that would likely entail the Indyref2.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html
> Now Boris Johnson pays price at the polls: Labour race ahead of the Tories by SIX points as survey reveals scale of public anger over PM’s handling of sleaze scandal
Now Boris Johnson pays price at the polls: Labour race ahead of the Tories by SIX points
The survey for the Daily Mail revealed the scale of public anger over Boris Johnson’s handling of the [corruption] crisis. According to the Savanta ComRes survey, a three-point Conservative lead last week has become a six-point deficit.
The poll found that voters overwhelmingly believe Mr Johnson should apologise for his botched handling of the scandal. He has stubbornly refused to do so.
Ironically the latest polls show that a majority of Brits now want to reverse Brexit and to rejoin the EU, and 40% would even support a second referendum within the next five years – but no UK political party would dare to stand on that platform after the 2019 GE results. So it looks like Brits may be stuck with the regret of it all for the foreseeable.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-rejoin-eu-shortages-polls-b1956786.html
> Voters want to reverse Brexit amid shortages and EU clashes, polls show
‘Momentum shifting towards a majority who would now vote to rejoin the EU’ – including one in ten Leavers
Voters now want to rejoin the EU, polls show, in evidence that goods shortages and spats with Brussels are fuelling disillusionment with Brexit.
A four-point surge in support for reversing the 2016 referendum means 53 per cent back membership in a survey by Savanta ComRes, with 47 per cent wanting to stay out of the EU.
One in ten Leave voters want to rejoin the bloc, as do one in five Conservative supporters, the poll found – while 40 per cent of adults back a fresh referendum within the next five years.
Strikingly, it is the second survey in recent days to have produced the same six-point margin in favour of EU membership – nearly one year after Brexit was completed.
Savanta ComRes pointed to “momentum shifting towards a majority who would now vote to rejoin the EU”, despite no political party advocating the policy.
Art Berman tweeted https://twitter.com/aeberman12/status/1456653996102504458 about an article in Fortune https://fortune.com/2021/11/04/energy-crisis-food-shortage-security-fertilizer-prices-yara-ceo-madagascar-cop26/ wherein the CEO of an ammonia manufacturer is warning about shortages of and high prices for food in 2022 due to shortages and high prices of natural gas causing shortages of and high prices for fertiliser. This is happening at the same time as Covid-19 and the whole tragic vaccine debacle, the lockdowns and border closures… how much more can people take?
Norway is a natural gas exporter. In theory, it could sell natural gas to its own companies, such as the company making fertilizer, at a cost related to its cost of production.
I doubt Russia is charging its own people the high price it is charging for exported natural gas for natural gas for its own people. The US is a natural gas exporter. The price US citizens is nothing like LNG marketed to Europe is selling for. Of course, the cost of export is high and the ability to export is limited.
The time may come when LNS exporting countries like Norway decide that they would do better to keep their gas for their own companies? Otherwise Norway may find that the communal pool of fossil fuel proceeds (money) that it has accumulated is not much use when there is not a lot of stuff to import in the future.
UK relies heavily on Norway for most of its LNS imports, so that would not bode well for UK. That is if Norway can keep its own FF production going while the gas importing economies decline – networking, supply lines and all that? If it can, then it may regret all the gas exports as production declines.
I suspect that Norway is going to be better placed than UK at least for a time. But UK is liable to cast its eyes on Norwegian energy and Irish agricultural land – it could get ‘hot’. Severe resource shortages do not make for ‘good neighbours’. Norway is in NATO but that would likely become irrelevant.
* LNG
When the collapse comes, it might well be in the interests of LNG exporters for their historically belligerent importing neighbours’ economy and population to crash as fast and as hard as possible, otherwise they are liable to invade. All of the continent may decide that Britain is a bit too ‘unpredictable’. It is striking how collapse scenarios alter the ‘logic’ of relations. It remains to be seen how it will all play out as the concrete circumstances develop in the future (if we are still here.) I wonder whether any departments think about this stuff in advance.
This is correct. Comparing notes with family in Italy, here (Russia) heating and electricity are a factor ten less expensive.
Energy distribution chain is broken into several layers of sub contractors on purpose (EU law – mandate). The stated theory was to foster competition and build “market” but in fact it only jumped prices as each placeholder parasitic entity on the supply chain wants profit. While countries which happen to own / dominate their (vertically integrated) energy sector are enjoying on the consumer side way lower pricing across the board..
Finally some positive news on OFW…
A newly released document shows that drug giant Pfizer added a “secret” heart attack drug to the children’s version of its Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Advisory Committee that voted 17-0 to approve the jabs for children as young as five was notified that the children’s formulation of the drug contains tromethamine (Tris), a chemical that reduces blood acidity and stabilizes people who have suffered a heart attack.
“Each dose of this formulation contains 10 ?g (micrograms) of a nucleoside-modified messenger RNA (mRNA) encoding the viral spike (S) glycoprotein of SARS-CoV-2 that is formulated in lipid particles and supplied as a frozen suspension in multiple dose vials,” the “vaccine formulation” page of the document explains.
“To provide a vaccine with an improved stability profile, the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine for use in children 5-11 years of age uses tromethamine (Tris) buffer instead of the phosphate-buffered saline (PBS) as used in the previous formulation and excludes sodium chloride and potassium chloride.”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/pfizer-secretly-added-heart-attack-drug-children-covid-vaccines/5761342
Perhaps Pfizer should be making a similar change in formulation for all of its vaccines.
I doubt it stops the damage… likely just stops people from dropping dead in the immediate term… so it allows them to claim it was not the vax…
https://www.thelocal.com/20211105/rsv-warning-in-sweden-keep-your-children-at-home-if-they-have-baby-siblings/
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210913-the-little-known-virus-that-surged-in-children-this-summer
https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/mobile/unprecedented-surge-in-pediatric-admissions-for-respiratory-virus-continues-to-tax-quebec-hospitals-1.5648772
Just signs that the anti-health measures taken since March 2020 are having the expected and desired effects. The plan proceeds. The sheeple will have as their last words the “I can’t breath” popularized by that human meme called George Loyd.
Breathing is becoming a luxury that only the most intelligence-rich people can afford.
George FLOYD, close but no cigar.
People don’t understand that some mild exposure to viruses is needed to make the immunity system work. Without it, there is a problem.
In some ways, it seems to be related to the need to give a baby peanuts or peanut butter early, so he or she won’t be allergic later on.
It also helps the babies immune system if it’s not kept too clean! A little dirt, exposure to pets & not such a sterile environment is what they need.
We also need far fewer babies!
On the other hand the experts and doctors who suggest frequent cleaning of nose & throat explain that also the dosage of the ~viral attack~ plays a huge role. So you are not denying contact between the immune system and the newly incoming external ~information (virus) but the possible overload issue is therefor somewhat lessened..
https://www.thailandmedical.news/news/world-health-organization-warns-europe-could-see-more-than-500,000-new-covid-19-deaths-by-february-2022-as-new-variants-wreak-havoc-in-europe
NURSE SPEAKS OUT ABOUT HIGH NUMBER OF VAX INJURIES, AS 3,000 S.A. HEALTH WORKERS TO LOSE JOBS
→ 3000 South Australian health worker’s protest.
→ 30 out of 38 patients in hospital at Flinders in ICU are vaccinated
→ Hospitals full of serious adverse reaction victims
→ Myocarditis affecting many younger people vaxxed.
→ Massive government/ media coverup.
→ Ambulances all the time now, that is the adverse reactions
→ This is NOT a safe vaccine.
ORIGINAL SOURCE: cofaux.cc
https://rumble.com/vonoen-2021-nov-03-the-south-australian-nurses-tell-the-truth-hospitals-full-of-va.htmlf
Emergence and spread of a sub-lineage of SARS-CoV-2 Alpha variant B.1.1.7 in Europe, and with further evolution of spike mutation accumulations shared with the Beta and Gamma variants
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.11.01.21265749v1
Dear Dr. Marks and Dr. Shimabukuro,
As a physician, I am compelled by conscience to write this letter. I am fully vaccinated for Covid-19, but my experience this year treating patients in a busy ICU does not comport with claims made by federal health authorities regarding the safety of Covid-19 vaccines.
I am a licensed physician practicing in the state of California. I obtained my medical degree from University of Southern California and received my post-graduate training at Georgetown University and Harvard-affiliated hospitals. I have been a doctor for more than twenty years and I have never witnessed so many vaccine-related injuries until this year. As a fully vaccinated physician, I feel pained in admitting this. But I am compelled by conscience to state the facts as I observe them on the frontlines.
The following are a few illustrative examples of Covid-19 vaccine related injuries I have observed firsthand. While causation is difficult to prove definitively, it is my clinical judgment that each of these injuries were caused by a Covid-19 vaccine, because there was no other plausible explanation for these injuries other than the fact that the patients had recently been vaccinated. I had a direct doctor-patient relationship for each of the patient accounts below and have removed all personal identifiable information. To further assure patient anonymity, certain medical but inconsequential details have been withheld or changed to ensure the absence of any Pll.
https://www.sirillp.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Letter-Regarding-Covid-19-Vaccine-Injuries-Dr-Patricia-Lee.pdf
Re: Firsthand Reports of COVID-19 Vaccine Injuries
Dear Dr. Marks and Dr. Shimabukuro:
We write with regard to the September 28, 2021 letter sent to you by Dr. Patricia Lee (copy
attached), an ICU physician and surgeon who has observed and treated numerous COVID-19
vaccine injured patients. Despite the serious harms from the COVID-19 vaccines detailed by Dr.
Lee, you have failed to respond to Dr. Lee’s concerning letter nor has anyone reached out to her
for additional information regarding these harms, the patients, or her concerns.
Dr. Lee’s experience does not comport with your agencies’ claims of safety regarding
COVID-19 vaccines. She has been an ICU physician and surgeon for over 15 years and, in that time, has not seen vaccine injuries at the rate she has seen from COVID-19 vaccines. Dr. Lee did not reach out about redness at the injection site. The injuries she is observing include entirely healthy individuals suffering serious, often fatal, injuries including transverse myelitis resulting in
quadriplegia, pneumocystis pneumonia, multi-system organ failure, cerebral venous sinus thrombosis, post-partum hemorrhagic shock and septic shock, and disseminated CMV and CMV viremia.
Dr. Lee’s clinical observations are particularly troubling because, as she explains, “it
appears statistically improbable that any one physician should witness this many Covid-19 vaccine
injuries if the federal health authority claims regarding Covid-19 vaccine safety were accurate” and
that she has “spoken with colleagues who have also had similar experiences.”
Your failure to respond is highly concerning. Please contact us forthwith so we can arrange
a discussion and information gathering session between Dr. Lee and the appropriate representatives at the CDC and FDA. As noted by Dr. Lee, we hope the focus will not be on her but rather on the harms to her patients. We look forward to your immediate reply.
Very truly yours,
/s/ Aaron Siri
Aaron Siri, Esq.
Elizabeth A. Brehm, Esq.
https://www.sirillp.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Letter-Regarding-Covid-19-Vaccine-Injuries-Dr-Patricia-Lee.pdf
Siri/Glimstad is a New York law firm.
The lead title on their website reads: “Experienced Attorneys, Customized Strategies, Proven Results.
https://www.sirillp.com
The USC Trojans will not be playing football this weekend. After a massive outbreak with the Cal Golden Bears football team, the game was postponed, with Jon Wilner initially saying the game was “off.”
https://trojanswire.usatoday.com/2021/11/09/usc-cal-rescheduled-for-december-4-no-cancellation-or-forfeit/
Double-jabbed Brits suffering ‘worst colds ever’ could have Covid without realising
Many Brits are currently suffering with intense cold like symptoms – including a runny nose, a sore throat, headaches, coughs and a loss of smell – which have been hard to shift even several weeks later
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/double-jabbed-brits-suffering-worst-25179317
Immunized may be passing COVID around, thinking it is a cold.
Exactly what the doctor ordered… great way to breed mutations. That and the boosters…
I look forward to winter arriving in the northern hemi….
https://sd.keepcalms.com/i/keep-calm-and-exterminate-exterminate-23.png
collapse
kə-lăps′
intransitive verb
To fall down or inward suddenly; cave in.
To break down suddenly in strength or health and thereby cease to function.
To fold compactly.
By this definition … I am not so sure we have been collapsing… collapsing is what happens when the Elders lose control and are unable to keep BAU operational… when that moment arrives … things will be functioning … then in a very short time period (literally seconds)… it will quickly unravel.
It will all begin when the power goes off – permanently. We go from a techno world — to the stone age. Like flicking a switch.
One can only imagine how 8B will react to that…
Hopefully we don’t have to … and we are all dead before that happens.
On the deaths front, things are going from bad to worse. 82.49% of all deaths are in double vaccinated.
https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc45357fb-6cb4-4fe5-bde4-aadbe482fa2b_1032x561.jpeg
Hospitals full of vaccinated patients
https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/hospitals-full-of-vaccinated-patients
You won’t believe this….
https://youtu.be/e8whdNLdf88
No point in clicking on it, then.
You wouldn’t like the clip, Mike. It threatens to shatter the widely-held and foolish belief that government statistics are sacrosanct:
“…So then you have to ask how someone who sustains these types of injuries and then died ends up as part of our COVID-19 death tally.
Now the Ministry of Health says that’s because under the World Health Organization guidelines, anyone who dies while also having an acute COVID-19 infection, is recorded as part of a nation’s [COVID-19] death tally – whatever the cause of death might be.”
Homicide case…
Marked as a COVID-19 death…
We live in clown world.
So you believe the clip, do you? Feddy said you wouldn’t believe it. Ah well, I guess you can’t believe everything Fast Eddy writes.
What is amazing is that this is the MSM admitting this…
If you die in a car accident, after testing positive for COVID, it is counted as a COVID death in New Zealand.
Yes, our ministry of “health” don’t seem to understand the WHO guidelines on recording COVID-19 deaths. Looks like we’ll have to rely on research based on excess deaths.
Some government statistics are cleaner than others, eh?
This is why we need our “fact checkers”: to tell us what is clean and what is unclean, like the priests of old.
They have been doing this in at least parts of the US since the beginning. April 2020:
“If You Die of a Clear Alternative Cause, It’s Still Listed As A COVID Death” – Dr. Ngozi Ezike
According to Ezike,
“If you were in hospice and had already been given a few weeks to live and then you were also found to have COVID, that would be counted as COVID death, despite if you died of a clear alternative cause it’s still listed as a COVID death. So, everyone who is listed as a COVID death that doesn’t mean that was the cause of the death, but they had COVID at the time of death.” (source)
https://web.archive.org/web/20200426023201/https://www.collective-evolution.com/2020/04/25/if-you-die-of-a-clear-alternative-cause-its-still-listed-as-a-covid-death-illinois-department-of-public-health-director/
There is an interesting development: while already negative protection from illness is further deteriorating in 18-69 year olds, it showed marked improvement in 70+ year olds. Those older people become less likely to get sick now, although they are still MORE likely to get sick than their unvaccinated counterparts, but less so than before.
This may be because older people are prioritized for booster shots. There is little doubt that booster shots will give a short term “boost” to the recipients’ immunity, just as a cocaine boost provides a short term happiness jolt. The long term effects of endless boosters are not yet known and are left to your imagination.
https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/uk-death-protection-accelerates-downward
Fully vaccinated Britons were “responsible” for 81.83% of all Covid cases. Again, vaccines are now “worse than ineffective” and invite disease. The “negative effectiveness”, shown in red, means that the vaccinated are more likely to catch Covid than the unvaccinated.
https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/uk-death-protection-accelerates-downward
UK: death protection downward slide accelerates
A couple of my UK readers appreciate my weekly articles on UKHSA vaccine effectiveness reports. The first one, “UK’s Vaccine Hell gets worse every week”, somehow went around social networks and garnered 18k views. The subsequent weekly reports provided some updates as the UK situation continued to deteriorate, especially with regards to “death protection”.
https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/uk-death-protection-accelerates-downward
norm… take care… Keep Calm… and Get More Boosters
The boosters will continue until mortality improves!
Cardiologist dies suddenly after third jab: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/sohrab-lutchmedial-cardiac-surgeon-obituary-1.6242359
Apparently he posted that he got the booster 3 weeks ago:
Sohrab Lutchmedial
about 3 weeks ago
Vax Shot 3 : Electric Flu-Galoo. No lineups, great plot and direction, average special effects. I give it two thumbs up.
hahahahahahahahahahahaha
And so now all those authorities are bent on “vaccinating” every last human — which is absolutely the last thing you would rationally do in the midst of the pandemic event, since it only provokes new iterations of the virus that are immune to the “vaccines.” What’s more, the “vaccines” are so ineffective in the first place, and so toxic in the second place, that the damage they cause is arguably worse than the disease.
But that quandary affords another opportunity for the self-designated “good” people (the vaxxed) to distinguish themselves from the “bad” people (the unvaxxed), and hence another way to persecute them. (Do you suppose it’s a mere coincidence that the people who refuse to get agitated by the climate change panic are often the very same people skeptical of the “vaccines”?)
https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/the-recognition/
Worldwide vaccine failure
From Singapore to the Netherlands to Iceland to Vermont. And coming soon to the entire northern half of the United States.
https://www.headsupster.com/forumthread?shortId=335
I have a crush on 2G citizens. Male or non male. Scan my avatar for freedom and more.
Diary of a MOREON
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/11/the-worlds-only-normal-until-you-test-positive/620653/
https://s.hdnux.com/photos/01/16/13/56/20495239/3/2300×0.jpg
https://s.hdnux.com/photos/01/16/13/53/20495054/3/2300×0.jpg
Taken from:
As a psychologist, that was seriously painful to read. This is not ok, guys. It is not normal to live like this and RAISE CHILDREN like this. As a society we have to have a huge wakeup call. What you read in this article is what is treated in psychologists’ offices, NOT a normal way to go about life.
https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/what-with-all-the-bad-news-about/comments
The New Gilded Age for today’s winners
http://greyenlightenment.com/2021/11/05/23754/.
>A reason why this expansion over the past decade has proven so enduring and why it will likely continue, is, unlike the ’20s, there is little speculation or leverage in this boom. It’s just people coasting off safe, huge investments and incomes, whether large salaries, index funds, trillion-dollar tech companies, and or pricey real estate, not using massive leverage on speculative bets, which is why the start of the Great Depression was so sudden and severe. Instead of using 10-1 leverage to speculate like during the ’20s, it’s more like getting millions of dollars in tech stocks options plus salary, and or having your home go up a lot but without the risks of subprime. It’s the opposite of past speculative booms, in which the general public gets involved, which always ends suddenly and badly (such as Las Vegas real estate in 2005, dotcoms in 1999, etc). There is some speculation in crypto, but it is small relative to safer investments.
Tl, dr, prosperity among the world’s upper crust will exponentially increase. (He has said about a thousand times that the middle class, etc, will all be impoverished and work in menial jobs, but they can still buy FAANG stocks with their savings and do better.)
Neither after three doses you are safe.
(So far) they are already 10.600 people those who contracted C°vd after three doses in /srael.
The main point is this, the rest of the article tries to fix it with some tape.
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https://www.jpost.com/health-and-wellness/coronavirus/more-than-10000-covid-19-booster-breakthroughs-in-israel-684832
> (So far) they are already 10.600 people those who contracted C°vd after three doses in /srael.
Another set of measures done with the o so reliable PCR “test” I presume?
B4 (Booster 4) – coming soon
So prices for hydrocarbon products will not come down in countries that do not have nationalized oil industries, until they come down on the global market, since they are not subsidized?
Is this why gasoline prices here in the states will not come down, since the price is determined on a global market? The EIA reports that the US has exported a record amount of gasoline to foreign buyers, so this means the US has plenty of supply.
I suppose natural gas in North America is the same. It has not gone up as much because it is mostly stranded on Island North America. It can only be sold overseas by converting to LNG and shipping, so the global price has to be high to make that profitable.
If, as some are calling for in DC, exports are made illegal, would that lower gasoline prices? Or would that just shut in a lot of production that was too light to crack middle distillates from?
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/covid-19-new-cases-deaths-weekly-infection-growth-rate-nov-12-2309191
The trust is gone although to begin with, it is already low. We just need to wait and see how things turn out
Check out my previous comment on Evergrande. It certainly looks like meida are cooperating to lie (except that DmGA or whatever German outfit that decided not play ball and all seems to collapse in a heap now. Even Bloomberg is picking up on this. Kinda like salvaging what is left of the mess and also CYA (cover your ass) by atsting we did also carry this news even though on 29-10, Bloomberg also covered that the news that coupon payment by Evergrande was made.
“The Recognition” by JHK
“So, the net result of this year’s Glasgow Climate Summit is to pledge gobs of money from the “rich” nations to protect the poor nations, while mandating the reduction of oil, natgas, and coal in all nations, i.e., the global economy. Apropos of those “rich” nations, guess what: all of our modern money rests on promises to deliver future volumes of energy (and products of value made from it) and those promises are without basis in reality, so the money itself is increasingly worthless. Thus, the cost of getting that future energy exceeds the promises embedded in the money based on the energy. How’s that for a paradox? We’re the proverbial snake eating its own tail and now we’ve bitten off more than we can swallow.”
https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/the-recognition/
I enjoyed his opening line as well:
“The climate change agitation is based on a central grandiose fallacy of our wobbling technocratic age: the idea that if you can measure enough stuff, you can control it.”
Jim Kunstler makes the assertion that current leaders are going to fall very soon “because dishonesty undermines the entire scaffold of their ‘narrative’.”
Timing is the thing that is hard for me to see. I don’t like to be in the position of saying, “The economy is going to crash tomorrow,” when it really hangs on for a while longer. Also, even if the economy crashes, it is not clear that those in power will immediately be removed. It seems like the whole scenario could take longer to unwind.
Jim Kunstler makes the assertion that current leaders are going to fall very soon “because dishonesty undermines the entire scaffold of their ‘narrative’.”
I think where Jim is coming is that he is concluding that The Plebs will wakeup to the fact that they have been lied to about everything. That’s usually when anger boils over and civil unrest begins.
James has made a lot of forecasts that I have found very appealing over the last couple of years, but I cannot think of one that actually happened.
The exponential function. First slowly, then suddenly.
Woe, woe and thrice woe!
Looking into my crystal ball, I see economies crashing and leaders falling.
And yes, I see scaffolding too.
Austria to lockdown the unvaccinated. There’s something wrong with the vaccinated. The vaccinated now needs to be protected.
Pink line unvaccinated hospitalised
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FD8xCCpXEAch3Ca?format=jpg&name=large
I see what they did … they added Un in front of vaccinated…. diabolical!!! Brilliant. white is now black up is down left is right….
Hahahahahhahahahahahaha (ha) hahaha ha (hahahaha)
“Without fossil fuels, we would find it necessary to go back to using older renewables, such as oxen or horses for plowing, burned wood . . . .”
The problem with burning wood is that, with current world populations being 8-fold what they were during the world’s wood-burning era, we would burn down all the world’s wood supply in just over one year.
How much climate change would result from burning all the wood? None. Volcanoes cause more climate change. How much change to the world’s populations from burning up all the wood? All.
Good points!
Overshoot and behind the curve have more in common than we think. We ain’t the same though, but that would be racist.
” A fatal feedback loop”
The virus spike binds to ACE2 receptors. An infection shortens the telomeres.
The cells respond to telomere shortening with upregulation of ACE2 receptors…which makes us more susceptible to a new infection…
The virus isn’t turning more infectious…we are
https://mobile.twitter.com/Parsifaler/status/1458936725527572481
sure looks like the “vaccines” are damaging peoples natural immunity and thus excess mortality is rising.
wooooooo!!!!!!!
How awesome would that be!
An entire winter hearing about how the Injected CovIDIOTS are succumbing to severe illness.
Hahahahahahahaha… a superb outcome!
that works for me as well… and the CEP…
My my, UK in the frontline against a Russian advance? That would be so funny. Putin has massed troops near its borders several times in the past few years, and only time will tell whether this is anything different. Biden will milk any drama to try to reinforce EU submission to USA geopolitical strategies and interests. Russia could simply cut the gas, as EU gets 50% of its gas imports from Russia – but I doubt that will happen. Tempest in a teapot?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10195079/Russia-deploys-paratroopers-Belarus-border-region-amid-fears-conflict.html
> East and West go toe-to-toe: Russian paratroopers are deployed to Belarus close to Poland border as ‘Britain sends soldiers to strengthen Polish defences’ after White House warned Putin could invade Ukraine ‘imminently’
Russia deploys paratroopers to Belarus border region amid fears of conflict
Russia and Belarus said paratroopers from both countries are taking part in unannounced military drills (right) just 20 miles from the Polish border today (left), to test the ‘combat readiness’ of their soldiers. Troops will parachute into the Gozhsky range, close to where thousands of migrants are gathered trying to enter Poland, and will practice capturing bridges as well as hunting down enemy patrols, Russia’s defence ministry said.
Meanwhile Poland’s defence minister revealed that British engineers are being deployed to help strengthen the border defences, amid warnings from all sides that the situation risks spilling over into a conflict.
Separately, the White House warned European leaders that Putin appears to be readying for an attack on eastern Ukraine in an attempt to annex territory after moving thousands of troops, tanks and artillery pieces to the border. Ukraine has moved 8,500 extra troops to its border regions, where it has been fighting a years-long insurgency against Russian-backed separatist rebel groups (map showing all troop movements.
Demolition of a Wind Turbine April, 2021
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=N3lxm-l5SSY
So much for renewable energy and another comment..thank God for Coal plants.
One commenter mentioned many will be ending their service
Ife soon and we’ll see more of these going down
Thermally damaged probably means “hit by lightning.”
Stopping subsidies for renewable generation (including the subsidy of generated electricity going first on the electric grid, distorting the wholesale prices of other producers) will put an end to these devices, as well.
So will their failure to deliver on their promises!
China is back to mining COAL & they said their going to build more COAL FIRED PLANTS to generate electricity. I guess their discovering that “renewables” are just another way to PROFIT by burning MORE OIL!
How long will it take the rest of us & our RULERS to accept that “renewables” cannot replace DECLINING RESOURCES?
Not too much longer I expect, then the “demand” for EV’s, solar panels & wind turbines will drop like a rock & even more $$$ will be wasted trying to find & drill/mine for more fossil resources.
We are floating on a shrinking iceburg, some idiots believe that if we just jump over to those other bergs, all will be fine.
They fail to notice that there melting even faster than the one their on!
There us no way we can avoid this civilization & populations collapse.
Now it’s best if we just accept that the “party” is over & that billions of us will never get to join the “fun”, may as well party like it’s 1999!
The last song is on the turntable, there is time enough for one last dance.
Take my hand & let’s do a nice, slow waltz, the last dance is the best dance.
Meanwhile in Norway:
Yesterday an “ordførar” (chief of a commune) up north called for “Corona passes”. More than 80 % vaccinated are way to few he said with a grave face to go with it. If we let these unvaccinated people run free we’re in for all sorts.
I remember when an average “ordførar” had way more working brain cells than that. The end is nigh, comrades, nigh.
And if they won’t submit? Tie them down or to a stake and burn them?
Very primitive patterns are emerging.
The Catholic church used to preach total conformity to orthodox doctrine – ie the narrative – for the sake not just of the community, but their very souls.
“Very primitive patterns are emerging.”
Scary times.
Fire is the tradition means to deal with both disease and none conformists .
“Very primitive patterns are emerging.”
Yes … I’m scared.
Harry, I read somewhere on the internet late October that Evergrande actually defaulted and the bond holders did NOT get any payment but the media decide to report otherwise. I did not follow up as I had too many things to do. However, today my friend told me that the bankruptcy proceedings has started in Germany. I was curious and decided to do some research.
I came across that article and it seems that the “rumours” seems to be true.
https://www.dmsa-agentur.de/pressemitteilungen
There are press releases on 25/10 and 29/10. Do read and correct me if I am wrong.
Look at the CNBC report and its date
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/29/evergrande-makes-coupon-payment-ahead-of-friday-deadline-reuters.html
So, would you trust MSM or this company’s press release?
CTG, it is certainly a murky situation and I don’t have any special insight here. It does appear that Evergrande is cutting it so fine with its repayment deadlines that investors start to cry default.
This time around it was media outlet “Morning Brew” which first announced, Wednesday morning, that Evergrande was in default, triggering an avalanche of Evergrande default stories in the press:
“Evergrande, the second largest real estate developer in China, has officially defaulted on its bonds. It was unable to make the required interest payments in time.”
They then quickly updated, “UPDATE: Evergrande has made at least two overdue bond interest payments, per Bloomberg.”
https://twitter.com/MorningBrew/status/1458546802567811075
Re DMSA not retracting their statement, a commenter says, “Yes, random German-based consulting agency with zero full time employees (and apparently looking to profit from some kind of group / class action) has not yet, uh, retracted their press release. Must mean something.”
Whether that is fair comment or not, I do not know, as I had literally never heard of DMSA up until today.
Harry.. it is now that you have to decide if you believe in MSM or not.
However, if you are, check this out
https://www.bloomberg.com/press-releases/2021-11-10/evergrande-officially-defaulted-dmsa-is-preparing-bankruptcy-proceedings-against-evergrande-group
I guess they could not hide it anymore (??)
CTG, I think we have to take a “wait and see” approach to this one.
As for believing in MSM generally, that is a complex issue. It’s not totally deceitful. There is information there that is helpful.
I think you just have to read it intelligently and try to bear in mind the varying biases and agendas of publications. Not always easy and getting less so, I think. The pandemic has really brought out the worst in the MSM.
The pace of collapse seems to be accelerating if you refer to the posts here. Much faster than previously , especially before COVID.
There are many people whom I know (who also know what is happening worldwide) is thinking of a very bad winter (which has already started) and from now until end of year certainly seems very very very tough.
Yep, for example the stories about worried W Europeans not having enough fertilizer come next season is the likely smack down (out of many more)..
“Record-high fertiliser prices in Australia could disrupt global food supplies.
“Surging energy costs and export restrictions from usual overseas suppliers are leading to record high fertiliser prices in Australia, with analysts predicting farmers could be forced to ration its use, potentially disrupting global food supply.”
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/nov/12/record-high-fertiliser-prices-in-australia-could-disrupt-food-supplies
It is always the importers who are left out, when there is not enough to go around:
Is it? The irish starved as Ireland exported food.
The swedes starved as Sweden exported oats to Englands horses.
This time it will be England which will starve.
England also tore Norway from Sweden.
Singapore Cancels Free Healthcare For Those “Unvaccinated By Choice”
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/singapore-cancels-free-healthcare-those-unvaccinated-choice
Reading between the lines and utilizing the “brain”, I find this to be “not correct”. The narrative is that the jab helps in reducing hospitalization.
Echoing what the commenter “Monykey Business” was saying “why did Singapore not disclosing the number of people who died are vax or unvaxxed?” I find it hard to believe that it is those who are not vaxx that are in hospital.
If the vaccination rate is so high, then the number of unvax is negligible, then how can it be a burden to the hospital.
https://www.moh.gov.sg/news-highlights/details/calibrated-adjustments-in-stabilisation-phase_8Nov2021
If you look at this link, #16 –
Currently, unvaccinated persons make up a sizeable majority of those who require intensive inpatient care, and disproportionately contribute to the strain on our healthcare resources.
Why not give the exact number rather than “sizeable” ?
FE – I think without the high brain horsepower, the sheep would just swallow this line, hook and sinker.
I call BS on this one.
Singapore 7 day moving average of hospitalizations as of 11/11/21 …..
Unvaccinated 5.3 per 100,000 of population in ICU
Vaccinated 0.5 per 100,000 of population in ICU
In other words the rate of ICU is 10 times higher for unvaccinated, all stats available from the web pages you linked to…
https://www.moh.gov.sg/
Deaths 0.9 per 100,000 for unvaccinated
Deaths 0.1 per 100,000 for vaccinated
‘Only’ a factor of 9 protection for the vaccinated…
Hideaway… no point weiting or arguing. I see all data coming out from Singapore with suspicion.
I trust the data about as much as I trust the assertion that the vaccines stop people from getting covid.
What I do trust is that 85%+ are vaxxed in Singapore … in light of that it is impossible for the country to be seeing record infections and deaths — involving primarily the unvaxxed.
Not Possible = Im-possible
For what it is worth, the Singapore new case per 100,000 rate is about equal to that of the UK.
Both the Singapore and the UK rates are about double the current US 7-day average case rate, per 100,000.
The US rate for new cases is now very low in the US South (including Georgia, where I live). Elsewhere, the number of new cases is trending upward, particularly in the US Midwest).
I found a test kit which had been poked under my front gate this morning: the UK government seems rather desperate to get some more positive test results!
I must confess my first response was not exactly joy and delight at a chance to join in the great fight against the Delta of Doom.
Fill it with dog shit and send it back?
Would they notice?
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/15614601/covid-testing-firm-dumping-kits/
US mass vaxxed later… patience
In Singapore, as in most places, a punter isn’t considered “vaccinated” until two weeks after the second dose of injectable mRNA cocktail is injected, which gives the brew five or six weeks to score a death or injury and have it counted in the “Unvaccinated” column.
Until they count the “Unvaccinated” and the “Vaccinated but not Yet Protected” separately, the figures are worse than meaningless. They are fraudulent.
I’ve made this very important and simple point several times now, and I haven’t seen any response from either Hideaway or anyone else who cheerleads for the Clot Shot. So I’m assuming they get it and don’t dispute it but would rather not have to acknowledge it for fear of … what precisely? Cognitive dissonance? Loss of shill privileges? “Oh no, I’ve been jabbed three times now and I never thought of that!—What am I gonna do now?” Or just intellectually challenged to the point where the thinking is never properly joined up? It’s a genuine mystery.
Those who have refused the booster are not vaccinated as well.
And when the next booster comes out … if the CovIDIOTS don’t bare the shoulder… they are lumped in with us Unvaxxed… but they do not qualify for Pure Blood status
Lose-Lose
I am offering my services to the CovIDIOTS who have realized the folly of the vaccines…
If you have a very smoking hot family member and are looking for some Pure Blood to enter the genetics… send a recent photo in a swimsuit to http://www.FEPureBloodGenetics.co.nz…. and a first class ticket on an airline that allows Pure Bloods
Here are some numbers from RKI in Germany for % of cases in various categories that are vaccinated.
October 14
Symptomatic COVID cases: 55.4%
In Hospital: 39.6%
ICU: 28.8%
Death: 34.7%
November 11, 2021
Symptomatic COVID cases: 60.9%
In Hospital: 45.1%
ICU: 36%
Death: 41.7%
IMHO it doesn’t matter anymore what the numbers show. MSM controls the narrative via marching orders from their handlers.
A country could have 100% triple vaccination rates for their entire population (including babies)… record covid infections, hospitalizations and deaths…
And their MSM would continue to call it an epidemic of the unvaxxed…
And the CovIDIOTS… would believe it.
Remember the CovIDIOTS were told they needed to get the injections because we’d achieve herd immunity? It does not trouble them in the least that the CDC admits that was a lie.
That’s what makes them CovIDIOTS
Catabolic collapse or outright collapsed? JMG or Gail? How about both are correct?
1. Collapse happened some time ago. Depending on how you look at things. Collapse could have happened when they ran out of whale oil or 1913 when Feds form or 1970 when Nixon left the gold standard or 2007 when QE infinity started.
2. Many people equate technology to advancement. Is it? Do you think the life in the 1950s, 1960s where one breadwinner can support the whole family and everyone is happy and there are not really many poor people around is the peak of human civilization? How about the time where a man is a man and a woman is a woman? So segregation by race in 1950s is bad but it is OK in 2020? A virus would not impact the population in 1950s and they are generally fit and healthy? So, if you view that 1950s, 1060s is the peak of human civilization, then catabolic collapse has already happened.
3. Is 2020 the final collapse after a series of collapse? Perhaps life is so much better, morally, civilly, economically in the early 1900? Remember that exploitation happens all the time in history. ALL THE TIME. Segregation happens too. Right now, it is the vax and unvaxxed. So, through what lens does one see that we are better off now than last time?
4. Those who are on OFW are those who are financially quite ok. If we are not financially ok, we will be working 3 shifts just to make ends meet. We don’t worry about society collapse. We worry about food on the table or what happens to our next meal.
5. People don’t mix beyond their social strata. We don’t know how the rich really think or how the poor suffer. We can only guess what they are thinking or doing. We say many times that the elites are out of touch with reality. Perhaps we are out of touch with our reality as well if you compared to those who are staying in Bangladesh where they are waiting for work so that they can get their next meal. It is all relative and through what lens are we using to judge or see.
So, bottom line is that there is no right or wrong. It is through what lens we use to see things.
“Do you think the life in the 1950s, 1960s where one breadwinner can support the whole family and everyone is happy and there are not really many poor people around is the peak of human civilization? ”
Good times … in U$A. But the world is and was more than U$A …
But the reasoning about reaching such distinct periods is sound, similarly some Scandinavians (I personally know) would say 1930-40s was the peak of ~shared affluence and happiness across the society (or even up to 1970s)..
And if we go back to history it’s the same, peaks of affluent times are often remembered and mused upon for centuries to come..
My grandfathers in Malaya in the 1950s could support the family of 5-6 kids with a meager salary. Simple but happy life. No real pollution and society is not filled with toxic stuff or toxic morals
I think that you are right. There has been a big drop since the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s.
I think part of the strength of this site is the fact that commenters come from around the world. A few are old enough to provide insights as to what happened in the past. This is part of the reason I don’t like people making fun of older commenters.
Somehow or another, I personally have had a lot of experiences, or have been able to read the memoirs of my parents and grandparents with respect to their experiences.
You say, “People don’t mix beyond their social strata.” I agree that this is generally true, but I know that I have managed to mix (at least a little) with folks in higher social strata, and I have traveled around the world a great deal more than most people.
I have managed to mix with a lot of energy researchers over the years. Some of this has been over the internet; some of this has been in person.
I know that office accommodations have been going downhill over the years. At one time, I had a large office with a sofa and table and full length view of Lake Michigan. Things gradually got downsized, partly with different employers.
Did you take afternoon naps on the sofa?
I think the very rich believe the same things as most other people — that ‘they’ have everything under control … and ‘they’ would not allow BAU to collapse…. If anything their convictions are more intense than any other group because they have more to lose so cannot fathom being thrown onto the street with nothing but the clothes on their backs…
I recommend:
https://youtu.be/iZ8t31LhNl0
Evergrande officially defaulted – DMSA is preparing bankruptcy proceedings against Evergrande Group
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/evergrande-officially-defaulted-dmsa-preparing-161200818.html
Read the posts of Harry on all other property developers in China
Is it the end of the road and the mother of all defaults?
Now, the question remains, is it “organic default from known excess” and likely onset of further escalating econ crisis or “merely” the end of specific chapter manifested through internal Chinese (politburo) powerplay how to smack down their int/globalist faction at home (and in its wake also the little indiv speculator) for good..
If the latter is the ~correct perspective, in next development expect quite rapid repudiation of US paper, even more pronounced switch to long term barter like contracts in commodities and energy etc.. and obviously carnage on the global supply chain in many products.. plus some regional war-skirmish (at the minimum) as well to cover that up on both sides..
CTG, there were conflicting reports but I gather that Evergrande has not actually defaulted.
I quote from the press release dated 29-10
Today, the grace period for overdue interest of $47.5 million on an off-shore bond issued by the second largest real estate developer in China ended. But there has been no official confirmation of any payment of that interest by the close of business at Hong Kong banks. There are only unconfirmed media reports about an interest payment that is said to have been instructed today. However, Evergrande has not officially confirmed this payment yet. No wonder, for example, that a recent report in the Financial Times today doubts that the money has actually paid to creditors. “This is basically the same game as a week ago,” notes DMSA senior analyst Dr. Marco Metzler.
**It even states that “There are only unconfirmed media reports”
https://www.dmsa-agentur.de/download/20211029_DMSA_EVG_PM_dt.pdf
Scotland planning to outdo Boris in virtue-signalling itself back to the stone age, it appears:
“Scotland is in talks with a Europe-dominated alliance seeking to end oil and gas production that has been snubbed by the UK…
“Speaking at COP26, Denmark’s climate minister Dan Jorgensen said the Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance (BOGA) was in “close dialogue” with Scotland, where most of the UK oil and gas is concentrated in surrounding waters… Sturgeon on Thursday confirmed Scotland was in “active discussions” to join BOGA…”
https://www.ft.com/content/bbeab19e-f965-497f-98ab-3775b4d5a6f4
“Climate activists have deflated the tyres of “gas-guzzling luxury cars” parked on city streets as part of action to raise awareness about carbon emissions.
“The Group ‘Tyred of SUVs’ said the tyres of around 60 4x4s in the west end of Glasgow were deflated in the action… Activists placed “climate violation” flyers on the windscreens.”
https://www.thejournal.ie/climate-activists-deflate-tyres-in-glasgow-5599494-Nov2021/
The group is likely not to come back to Scotland, with this kind of reception.
There is likely class resentment and hostility involved. SUVs are associated with the middle classes. These ‘actions’ allow the perps to pose as ‘morally superior’ to them. The city is full of cars but these ones are singled out.
‘Direct action’ tends to have ‘anarchist’ trappings in UK, which is largely class based here, but reports have found that the eco activists tend to be middle class themselves. They likely have some personal, psychological drama going on, some class dysphoria.
These ‘actions’ tend to be performative psychodramas of identity dysphoria – which is not to say that there are no serious issues involved, but those can be the occasion of personal dramas. Some of the press here has alluded to the apparent pattern of late. Sociologists are no doubt taking an interest.
See what I mean when I state that we are surrounded by oceans of MOREONS.
These are the same fools who buy the latest smart phone .. spent there days uploading kitten photos to the www and dreaming of living large …. I guarantee you if you offered one of them 50M $$$… they’d gleefully accept … they’d plant a few trees to feel good but then they’d rush off to buy a Tesla.. a new phone… book a private jet holiday…. (offset with carbon credits – of course)… and so on….
Bugger BOGA?
This is terribly amusing: a fundamental proposition of Scottish nationalism, as sold to the electorate, was being able to take back (no doubt ‘proudly’) control of their oil and gas resources.
Well, one supposes they can be proud of their truly Scottish windmills, solar panels and tidal turbines as they freeze and die in the dark.
Good point! Taking back control of oil and gas resources, when these resources have negative value, is not terribly helpful.
I expect that Scotland is having problems losing money on the oil and gas that is currently being extracted. Trying to close down existing wells will be an expensive (energy-intensive) operation. Producers will want to get out, so that they are not left with this major task. If the wells are not properly capped, there is likely to be a lot of leakage of oil into the water and methane into the air. Methane is, of course, a global warming gas.
I wonder to what extent the wells will be properly capped.
I am not sure that the oil fields will leak very much. The large majority are old or very old and require pumping in of CO2 or water for example to get the oil out. Stop pumping CO2 in and likely nothing will come out, with a short time delay.
What is expensive and difficult to do is remove the platforms. I think most of them will not be removed – we are out of time/money/resources.
I suspect the Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance is more about preparing for the oil and gas running out rather than deliberately leaving economic supplies in the ground. Europe / Scotland / England have hardly any oil and gas left.
Oil fields generally speaking, offshore Scotland, gas fields offshore England, off the coasts of Norfolk and Suffolk.
Oh BTW – had dinner with my mate from Romania earlier this week and asked him if he thought Romania was better during or after communism…
He laughed and said if anyone things life was better under the commies… that person has obviously never lived under the commies.
Good for him.
On the next very occasion, perhaps over dinner again ask him, how he would score their performance during that episode as 3rd Reich ally, was it better than under commies as well when (some of them) marched East in summer uniforms (never to be seen again), chances are some of his relatives shared juicy stories. Please don’t come back with silly diversion opt outs like “..that doesn’t count, ..it was too long ago, ..or only few Romanians actually merged with Nazis..” etc..
I can give some details as I still have ties to Romania.
The leadership there always copied the latest fashions in whatever imperial capital was closest.
Yes Romania was a proud ally of the Nazi until the Russians showed up. Then they “saw the light” and they fought alongside Russians toward Germany. As a result, Romania lost a million people (almost 5% of its population)
You see the same pattern repeating again and again. During communism, Romania had the worst type of stalinism under Ceausescu, rivaling North Korea.
Now, they are following all the orders from EU and provoke and attack Russia. They will probably crash and burn into another disaster and lose another X million people.
It is what it is.
Thanks for your insights. There is a lot of pressure in smaller countries to go along with what seems to be popular at the time. This may apply to vaccination requirements today.
Thanks for the account, confirming the point about FE’s unwise pursuit of selecting Romania as an outlier – specific case.
Nothing personal, I knew couple of capable hardworking blokes from that country.
I often think about pre-deterministic forces in these kind of debates. It seems countries, cultures, peoplez are indeed heavily shaped by their peculiar geographic placement and all the derived historical (interactions) sequencing out of such deal.. etc. Sort of to be locked eternally into a dream affecting your daylight decisions though..
https://www.cheapflights.com/flights-to-cuba/
The verdict has been announced. There is no court of appeal. You will have to live with it.
That was a bit grotesque face saving “victory lap”..
Not sure what you are alluding to as the “game score” on the argument or if you prefer verdict on this very board thread doesn’t evidently support your Romanian (-derived) theory..
It’s more along the lines of the only good commie is a dead commie.
Seems people loved communism so much that a vast network of snitches and gulags were required because….
Plenty of people will say that some things were better in the USSR here in Russia. Consensus is things are better now, but not by much. They are better for the rich and upper middle class, and worse for the lower 10% or so probably.
Yes, if you are not familiar with this peculiar petty interest of FE, he often cites only outliers like Romania, which obviously got bump-pump in the 2000s in FDI to re-export into EU core.. so veneer of ~prosperity is there.
But the bottom line and wider context, Romania was botched for other reasons (not able to pay out 1970s we$tern credit they foolishly accepted)..
Different attitudes in former E Germany etc.
I gather Russia is on mixed model now (capitalist to a degree), where the capital structure is somewhat taxed and (policy lobbying-) restricted, and in many segments pushed down to service role ONLY, in order to fill up the state budget coffers and thus provide for the country at least something.
It does not take a Nobel prize to understand all this. During the USSR, its population grew continuously, except in 1917-1918 and 1941-1945. People want to have children. Russia’s population has not done as well, disastrously in the 1990s, but even under Putin it has only stabilized.
Yes, that’s a great point, after partial collapse fixing and rearranging, maintaining temporary lower plateau – till the next big event..
Yet, most countries won’t be as lucky and fall directly into way deeper collapse sequence..
The transition out of a gulag state operated by commie apparatchiks … is a difficult one.
Weaklings and failures love communism… and it is these types who are considered the cream and rise to the top … I get it…
Man, you are intellectually weak. If a country manages to increase its population, that’s one of the most significant, if not the most significant, data. And it was done despite the constant money draw from 14 satellite republics (some empire! the money was flowing from Russia to nearly everywhere).
The only good commie … is a dead commie.
The End.
drb> exactly, I did not want to push it, but when on the wave of victory the Soviets had all the momentum to wipe (for ever) all these formerly attacking parties of that invading coalition, instead they send grain, fuel, ..
And now we have southern hemi professor Silverspooner de FE explaining to us how the underdog commies supposedly on their volition ruined everything, lolz. Yes, as demonstrated numerous times in this sub thread only it’s evidently sign of very stumbling 10 000hp brain – perhaps very needed “oil change” is long overdue, lolz..
https://www.cheapflights.com/flights-to-cuba/
1. Enter your departure city
2. Enter Havana
3. Enter your name
4. Pay with a credit card (because you live in a non-commie country — you should have one of those … and you will I assume also have a bank account with some money)
5. Start your new life in commie sh it hole Cuba!!!
There is a reason why commie countries are police states… it’s because humans are – like all animals – competitive… (see Darwin)…. if you try to stamp out that competitive nature … they will rebel (except for the weaklings perhaps … because they realize the benefits of beating down everyone)… they are not interested in working in the collective…
This is what the gulags are for… it is why neighbour must be turned against neighbour… because so many resent this garbage system.
Most people do not like eating pumpkins and potatoes for every meal.
The stronger = the smart … and they do not want to subsidize the lazy super moreons… so they look to overturn this unnatural state… which they eventually do because what cannot continue will stop…. and because the communist state is always run by Ultra Moreons .. thugs… (who as we know feast on hypocrisy … enjoying the products of capitalism… while feeding their proletariat pumpkins and potatoes).
Communism is an utter failure… it is a ridiculous .. but dangerous idea.
Death to communists. Skin them alive and throw them into a pit of rats.
Or give them a one-way ticket to Cuba… of course the armchair QBs on OFW will not take up the offer… they enjoy their capitalist way of life… they like having money … and buying stuff… and not eating pumpkin and potatoes for every meal…
Talk the talk… but walk the walk? nope.
Yours truly,
https://miro.medium.com/max/670/1*qPVEG5x6iR1qd5VXYvLs3w.png
This one is a simple concept too: during times of constant or declining resources, capitalism is just about the worst possible system of socio-economic organization. It is a system that does well at a time of rapidly expanding resources. It is resources that make the system and not the other way around.
I’m not seeing capitalism going anywhere. Rather a stratification where the gatekeepers are energy and high-tech.
Look, you’ve chosen BAU despite full well knowing fossil fuels being finite. Haven’t you?
And now what? I’m not sure there exist a political popularity contest that will top up Ghawar. How about riots, sticks, stones and pitch forks.
Yes indeed. I’m expecting that. Rapacious primate gonna rapacious when the myopia of ordinary turns vivid and lucid.
Try it on a massive scale and watch “spicier” GoF variants being portioned out together with the “vaxxes”.
Oil and fossil fuels being a finite resource have been known since Hubbert.
Yes indeed.
DESPITE THIS. OH YES INDEED!
Let’s sing along.
MOAR!1!1!1! Yay!1!1!!!
And I am all:
🤣👍👍
No kidding.
Death to Commies! And Farmers! And Inventors!
Long live Hunter Gatherers!
https://ih1.redbubble.net/image.612136680.7520/raf,750×1000,075,t,fafafa:ca443f4786.jpg
It’s always bad for the bottom 10% … or even 30%…. they failed… most people are MOREONS but they are usually Super Moreons… with no ambition … lazy …and they expect the government to give them more …
I know first hand about this as I have relatives who hang precariously on the lower rungs of society… even though the government will provide the cash to pursue a trade or a better education.. it’s too hard… so they wallow in the swamp..
Of course there are all sorts of other reasons that contribute… but at the end of the day unless one is in a third world country there are opportunities to exit the swamp.
I have no doubt such people prefer communism… a) they are guaranteed a certain low standard of living but more importantly b) they don’t like to see others seizing opportunities and distancing themselves from the swamp dwellers. They prefer to drag them back down to the bottom of the barrel.
You have even the basic nomenclature wrong, funnily enough and contrary to your misunderstanding the socialist countries (actually did not claim to achieve communism) – moreover to some degree still nurtured a informal class system, way less oppressive and venal but it served its purpose..
Feel free to move to Cuba…. and walk the walk.
Depressing article from Mercola: https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2021/11/12/world-economic-forum-prediction-global-takeover.aspx?
I hope we get a “Goldilocks, just right” collapse that leaves my farm and locale intact before all the scary, digital ID/social credit stuff gets traction. Long way for the zombies to come to pillage here.
All cause death rates still up across Europe. Scotland is leading the charge @ 24% above 5 year avg. Prob cos they’re obese, terrible diet and no sunshine/vit D. Let’s see if the forecast cold winter meshes with decaying immune systems and gas shortages to get those nos up.
Aus only a piddling 6% so far. That’s cos we only have real men here.
World Economic Forum propaganda. You will own nothing and be happy. Whatever you want will be rented and delivered by drone.
They never say from whom you will rent things.
One does wonder if we are ruled by aliens or lizards.. or it’s all a virtual reality….there is obviously something very wrong going on here…
Isn’t it amazing that this is pretty much totally ignored… a glitch in the matrix?
https://youtu.be/QzCQg94oOmk
London — The coronavirus has been resurging across Europe, including in some places where it was thought to be well under control. A top world health official tells CBS News the trend shows that success today does not necessarily mean success tomorrow, and the United States should pay close attention.
Europe has seen a jump of more than 50% in new coronavirus cases over the last month, and the World Health Organization has warned the continent could see another half of a million deaths by February. CBS News senior foreign correspondent Charlie D’Agata spoke with the top official ringing those alarm bells, who told him there’s “grave concern” as Europe is once again under siege by COVID-19.
“If you look at the last four weeks, the hospitalizations have doubled,” Dr. Hans Kluge, the World Health Organization’s Regional Director for Europe, told CBS News
Kluge called Europe “the epicenter” of a new global COVID-19 outbreak, fuelled by the highly transmissible Delta variant of the virus.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-europe-cases-surge-deaths-vaccination-vaccine-hesitancy/
If you scroll down on the Worldometers site, you can see charts of world reported cases and world reported deaths.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
It becomes clear that the world is adding yet another “hump” of new COVID cases. The size of the death humps keeps getting smaller, however, and it is too soon to see the extent to which the new cases are actually leading to deaths.
We know that case counts were under-reported very significantly early on, and probably continues in some parts of the world. I suppose with do-it-youself tests for COVID, reported COVID counts may again be understated.
“High Energy Prices Likely to Mean Less Oil Demand This Year, OPEC Says.
“Soaring energy prices are likely to crimp demand for oil in some of the world’s fastest-growing economies this year, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries said Thursday.”
https://www.wsj.com/articles/high-energy-prices-likely-to-mean-less-oil-demand-this-year-opec-says-11636635602
Higher prices seem to always reduce consumption. This brings prices back down again.
“If you look into people’s eyes, you can see the loss,” she said. “People live like drugged people, hopeless, without solutions.” https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/lebanon-crisis-tripoli-faces-growing-hunger
This is why we need the lies about EVs solar energy Mars colonies Moon Landings etc….
Lebanon people have a more believable lie they can more easily reach : Europe is a heaven where you can find a bright future. So when the machiavelic president of Bielarussia offers them a free ticket, they jump in…
Stuff Mars: from what I’ve observed just telling people they can ski in Switzerland, or get drunk in the Med again, is enough to give them hope…..
From the article:
“People don’t have food, don’t have jobs, don’t have gas,” he says. “So if you don’t have these things, you fight.”
Doomie Preppers….. take note.
You will not be left alone to tend your garden. And it will not only be the most vile men who come for your food and your women … and children…
It will be the formerly friendly neighour… we all have this in us… when we are hungry… and there is no authority to stop us… we are predators… and once we get a taste for it… we enjoy it.
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/4c/04/99/4c0499ed31c632f5ce18b9cd7d0c8187.png
“Bond ructions intensify risk of ‘downward spiral’ for Chinese property groups…
“A bout of selling this week in junk bonds issued by riskier Chinese property developers has sent their borrowing costs soaring to the highest level in a decade and imperilled companies’ ability to access an important funding source.”
https://www.ft.com/content/4dce1e1e-0517-4b96-8c62-65139401af31
“Furious Investors Test China’s Resolve to Crack Down on Property…
“The cracks that have appeared in China’s property market have panicked not only homeowners but also the many investors who were lured to developers’ wealth-management products, or WMPs…”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-11-11/china-evergrande-crisis-furious-property-investors-demand-government-action
Does WMP = Ponzi scheme? Or was it an attempt to be something else? Honestly asking….
Higher interest rates do lead to a downward spiral for those trying to borrow money to build new homes. This is especially the case if prices of raw materials are rising, as well.
“Iron ore price rally is over, prices to follow multi-year downtrend… Chinese demand for iron ore, stemming from the country’s V-shaped economic recovery and the government’s major stimulus plan in supporting the construction industry peaked in H121, Fitch says…
“Fitch also sees rising risks to the Chinese property market and thus iron ore demand from the construction sector, following Evergrande’s financial difficulties.”
https://www.mining.com/iron-ore-price-rally-is-over-prices-to-follow-multi-year-downtrend-report/
“Curbs on power use imposed by China have cut around 7% of domestic aluminium annual capacity so far this year, consultancy Wood Mackenzie said on Friday.
“The restrictions also hurt output of some copper wire rod and tube producers, and downstream wire and cable makers…”
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/china-power-curbs-cut-7-annual-aluminium-capacity-wood-mackenzie-2021-11-12/
Curbs on electricity means less demand for the raw materials used in factories. Thus, prices for other commodities fall.
“A cross-party group of MPs has conditionally backed a government bill giving ministers control over the downstream oil industry.
“The Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) committee has lent its support to government plans allowing ministers to take control of importing, storing and supplying petroleum products in the UK.
“Powers include the right to request key financial information from oil refiners potentially facing insolvency, and the ability to direct companies to send oil to areas or industries most desperate for supply.”
https://www.cityam.com/ministers-could-have-fuel-power-over-downstream-oil-industries-amid-petrol-price-crisis/
“Petrol and diesel prices hit new record high as drivers urged to remain ‘cautious’
“Fuel prices in the UK have hit another record high as the RAC reports the average price of a litre of petrol to be 145.72p.”
https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/cars/1519931/petrol-diesel-record-fuel-prices-supermarkets
Isn’t this a formula for keeping all of the refiners at the brink of bankruptcy?
Isn’t that where most refineries are already?
Sparsely populated Canadian territory with a total of 10 COVID deaths declares state of emergency
A recent spike in cases came as almost 90 percent of the population of the territory has been fully vaccinated with an abortion-tainted COVID jab.
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/sparsely-populated-canadian-territory-with-a-total-of-10-covid-deaths-declares-state-of-emergency/
normdunc
Tried to call the covid hotline but i was 17 in the q… will try again later.
My new angle is going to be that I’ve had the jab and have heart pains but the doctors are telling me it’s anxiety and sending me away.
hahaha… Jordan P is smart… but he can’t hold a candle to FE…
https://twitter.com/i/status/1458462822522753025
36 hours and we are already at 50 0comments…
499.
correction: 500 😉