I frequently write that the world economy is, in physics terms, a dissipative structure that is powered by energy. It can grow for a time, but eventually it reaches limits of many kinds. Ultimately, it can be expected to stop growing and collapse.
It seems to me that the world economy is showing signs that it has reached a turning point. Economic growth stopped in 2020 and is having trouble restarting in 2021. Fossil fuel energy of all types (oil, coal and natural gas) is in short supply, relative to the world’s huge population. Ultimately, this inadequate energy supply can be expected to pull the world economy toward collapse.
The world economy doesn’t behave the way most people would expect. Standard modeling approaches miss the point that economies require adequate supplies of energy products of the right kinds, provided at the right times of day and year, if they are to keep from collapsing. Shortages are not necessarily marked by high prices; prices that are too low for producers will bring down the energy supply quickly. A collapse may occur due to inadequate demand; in fact, such a scenario is described in Revelation 18.
As strange as it may seem, we may be approaching what some of us would think of as end times, if our economy collapses for lack of cheap-to-produce energy supplies. In this post, I will try to explain what is happening.
[1] In some ways, the self-organizing economy is like a child’s building toy that, with the use of human energy, can be built up to higher and higher levels.
The economy is gradually built up by the addition of new customers, new businesses and new products. Governments play a role as well, adding new infrastructure, laws and taxes. Adequate wages for employees are important because, to a significant extent, employees are also consumers of goods and services made by the economy.
Adequate energy supplies of the right types are terribly important because every process used by the economy requires energy, even if the only energy used is electricity to light a light bulb or operate a computer. Heating and cooling require energy, as does transportation.
Human energy is an important part of the economy, as well. Humans eat food to provide them with energy. An individual human’s own energy output is relatively tiny; it is about equal to the output of a 100-watt light bulb. With the use of supplemental energy of various kinds, humans can do many tasks that would not be possible otherwise, such as cooking food, creating metals from ores, heating homes, and building cars and trucks.
The economy cannot “go backwards” because, if a product is no longer needed, it will no longer be produced. The economy represented by Figure 1 is in some sense hollow inside. For example, once people started using automobiles, buggy whips were no longer made. If cities went back to using horses as their main means of transport, we would need manure removal services. These, too, would be missing.
[2] Another way of thinking about the world economy is that it is somewhat like a rocket that needs fuel. It also has waste outputs. Both of these limit the growth of the world economy.
The economy uses a wide array of inputs. At the same time, it produces a whole host of undesirable outputs. Inputs need to be inexpensive to produce, or citizens will not be able to afford the goods and services made by the system. The waste outputs cannot become too significant, or they can lead the economy to fail. In fact, with the world’s growing population, we seem to be reaching many limits with respect to both inputs and undesirable outputs, simultaneously.
[3] Strangely enough, the major energy limit that the world economy is hitting seems to be “energy prices that do not rise high enough for producers.”
This energy limit is exactly the opposite of what most people are looking for. They assume that “demand” will always rise. In fact, the cost of production of energy products keeps rising because the easy to produce energy products are produced first. It is the market prices that energy products can be sold for that do not rise adequately.
When we trace the problem back, we discover that the problem with prices arises from the equivalence between producers of goods and services and consumers of goods and services indicated on Figure 1. In order to have enough “demand” to keep energy prices high enough for providers, it turns out that even the very low wage people in the world economy need to be able to afford necessities such as food, water, clothing, basic housing and transportation. In fact, if the cost of extracting fossil fuels rises too quickly because of depletion, or if the cost of getting renewable electricity into a form in which it is useful for society rises too much, there may be a situation when even a price based on full demand from all consumers is too low for energy producers.
Let’s define “return on human labor” as what a person without advanced training can earn by selling his physical labor as unskilled labor. Rather than dollar or euro terms, wages need to be thought of in terms of the physical goods and services that these wages can purchase. If supplemental energy per capita is rising rapidly, the return on human labor tends to rise. This happens because with higher energy consumption, humans can have more tools and technology requiring energy at their command. For example, the period between 1950 and 1970 was a time when energy consumption was rising rapidly. It was also a time of rising standards of living, even for workers without advanced training.
The world economy can be expected to run into a major problem once supplemental energy consumption per capita starts falling because then human labor is necessarily less leveraged by fewer machines, such as trucks and airplanes. In total, fewer goods and services can be produced.
If energy supply is inadequate, businesses often find it advantageous to substitute computers or other machines for some work previously done by low paid workers. While these machines use a little energy in their operation, they do not need food, housing or transportation the way human workers do. With fewer actual workers, demand for finished goods and services tends to fall, pushing commodity prices, including those for fossil fuels, down. This further adds to the low-price problem.
It is the lack of jobs that pay well that tends to hold down commodity prices below the prices producers require. Ultimately, it is the lack of sufficient jobs that pay well that tends to bring the whole economy down. Most researchers have missed this important point.
[4] In the period leading up to collapse, wages fail to rise with the cost of required services. This leads to increasingly unhappy workers. Healthcare costs and college costs are especially problematic, because their costs have been rising faster than costs in general.
Figure 4. Illustrates the issue that seems to be occurring:
When energy consumption per capita is growing rapidly, the economy adds items that were not previously considered necessary. Instead of a basic education for all being sufficient, advanced education (often paid for by the student) becomes necessary for many jobs. Healthcare costs keep rising rapidly, making it more difficult to make wages cover all necessary expenses (Figure 4).
We can see additional evidence that workers have been tending to get poorer in recent years by looking at the trend in the number of light vehicles purchased. With rising population, a person would expect the number of automobiles sold to increase, year after year, if citizens found their incomes as adequate as in the past. Instead, we see a pattern of falling automobile sales, practically everywhere, starting well before 2020. For example, peak light vehicle sales in China occurred in 2017.
[5] An increase in debt can temporarily be used to hide both inadequate inexpensive-to-produce energy supply and inadequate wages of workers, but we seem to be reaching limits using this approach to hide energy problems.
The last time the world had relatively stable low oil prices was in the years prior to 1973. As noted previously, low energy prices tend to make finished goods, such as homes and cars, inexpensive to buy and operate. Thus, they tend to be affordable.
The big issue if oil and other prices rise very high is that the selling prices of goods and services tend to rise too high to be affordable to consumers. The workaround that was developed to fix this unaffordability problem was to change the economy to use more debt. To be affordable, interest rates had to fall lower and lower. Peak interest rates occurred in 1981; they have been trending downward since then.
If debt at ever-lower interest rates is available, assets such as homes, farmland, factories and shares of stock become more affordable, allowing prices of these assets to rise. Owners of these assets feel wealthier. In fact, they may borrow more money against the inflated price of these assets and use this money to buy more goods and services made with commodities, thus helping to raise commodity prices. The lower interest rates make the purchase of automobiles more affordable as well, helping to raise the price of commodities used to make and operate automobiles.
There is a limit on how low these interest rates can go, however, especially if inflation is a problem. Current interest rates seem to be down near where they were during the Great Depression of the 1930s. This suggests that the economy is truly doing very poorly.
Today, Brent oil prices are about $69 per barrel. This price is not high enough for producers to want to prepare more fields for drilling. As far as I can see, the price needs to be up in the range of $120 per barrel, and stay there for many years, for oil producers to consider putting major effort into developing more fields. Natural gas and coal have similar low-price problems.
While governments cannot seem to be able to fix the low-price problem for fossil fuels, they can find ways to pay their citizens money for doing nothing, or next to nothing. These payments will add to a government’s debt, but they don’t really produce more goods and services. What these payments tend to produce is inflation in the prices of goods and services that are available.
Over time, we can expect the lack of growth in energy supply to lead to an increasing number of broken supply lines. Without long-term high-price guarantees, producers will not be willing to increase production. Without adequate fuel supply, an increasing number of products will disappear from the shelves of stores. A smaller number of people will have jobs, especially jobs that pay well. The economy can be expected to head in the direction of collapse.
We can think of debt as a promise of future goods and services, made with future energy production. If energy supplies are rising rapidly and can be expected to continue to rise rapidly in the future, this promise can be expected to hold. Of course, if energy supplies start falling, all bets are off. Supply lines are likely to break. We consider money and other securities issued by governments to be a “store of value,” but, if there is little to buy (for example, all international flights are cancelled and automobiles of the desired type are permanently out of stock), its ability to act as a store of value will start to disappear. If the economy collapses completely, neither stocks nor bonds will have value.
[6] Nothing happens for a single reason in a self-organizing economy. Lack of energy affects every part of the economy, from jobs to finished output, almost simultaneously.
In a self-organizing economy, everything is interconnected. Inadequate energy per capita leads to low selling prices for commodities of all kinds. Inadequate energy per capita also leads to low wages for workers, low benefits provided by governments, and uprisings to protest these low wages and benefits. These uprisings began in 2019 or even earlier.
The unhappiness of workers leads to the election of increasingly radical politicians, in the hope that something can be done to fix the problems. There are basically not enough goods and services to go around, but no one wants to admit that this could be a problem.
[7] Citizens cannot imagine a declining and eventually collapsing economy. Businesses, governments and individual citizens all demand “happily ever after futures.”
If there is a history of growth, nearly everyone is happier if forecasts pretend that economic growth can continue forever. Newspapers want such stories, because this is what their advertisers, such as automakers, want. Automobiles need to be usable for a long period in the future. Universities want favorable forecasts because they want their students to believe that their degrees will have great future value. Politicians want a story of growth forever, because this is what voters want and expect. They have come to believe that governments can save them from all problems; there is no longer any need for religion.
As energy supplies get scarce, the rich tend to become richer and the poor tend to become poorer. François Roddier explains that this is because of the physics of the situation. Wealthy individuals and corporations discover that they have a rapidly growing ability to influence the narrative provided by Mainstream Media. If influential citizens and groups want citizens to hear a “happily ever after ending” to our current problems, they can make certain that this is the predominant narrative of Mainstream Media. It is only people who are willing to hear sources outside of the mainstream who can learn what is really happening.
The fact that the world economy would run into energy limits about now has been known for a very long time. For example, US Navy Rear Admiral Hyman Rickover talks about the close connection between energy and the economy in this 1957 speech. He points out that the world is likely to run short of fossil fuel by 2050. Later modeling documented in the 1972 book The Limits to Growth indicated that the world economy was likely to collapse in a similar timeframe. The modeling done in that analysis considered rising population relative to total resources, without looking at energy resources separately.
[8] It is easy to create models that predict growth will continue forever, even if the physics of the situation says this is not possible.
Economists provide their work to politicians. They certainly cannot provide forecasts of a coming calamity such as economic collapse. They also are unaware of the physics of the situation, even though many researchers have been writing about the issue from a physics point of view since at least the mid-1980s.
Economists have chosen instead to make models that assume no limits are ahead. They seem to assume that all problems will be fixed by innovation, substitution and the pricing mechanism. They produce forecasts suggesting that the economy can grow endlessly in the future. Based on these forecasts, they provide input to models that reach the conclusion that amazingly large amounts of fossil fuels will be extracted in the future. Based on these nonsensical models, our problem is not the near-term limits that we are reaching; instead, our chief problem is climate change. Its impacts occur mostly in the future.
A corollary to this belief system is that it is we humans who are in charge and not the laws of physics. We can expect governments to protect us. We don’t need any outside help from a literal Higher Power who created the laws of physics. We need to listen to what the authorities on earth tell us. In fact, in troubled times, governments need more authority over their citizens. The many concerns regarding COVID-19 make it easy for governments to increase their control over citizens. We are told that it is only by following the mandates of governments that we will get through this strange time.
With nearly everyone on board with the idea that somehow the story of near-term collapse must be avoided at all costs, every part of the economy bases its actions on the narrative that the world economy is voluntarily moving away from fossil fuels. In this narrative, renewables will save us; electric vehicles are the way of the future; the world economy can continue to grow, but in a new way.
In fact, we are colliding with resource limits, right now. This seems to be what produced the bizarre situation experienced in 2020.
[9] As 2020 began, many sectors of the world economy were squeezed simultaneously. With limited energy resources, large parts of the economy needed to be cut back. The self-organizing economy acted in a very strange way. Shutdowns supposedly aimed at stopping COVID-19 from spreading acted very much like energy rationing, without mentioning the world’s energy problem.
Several years before 2020, it should have been clear that the world economy was doing very poorly based on the continued need for very low interest rates (Figure 7) and Quantitative Easing. China, in particular, was doing poorly, as indicated by its low sales of automobiles (Figure 5). Of course, China doesn’t broadcast its problems to the rest of the world, so few people were aware of this issue.
China had been able to boost the world’s per capita supply of inexpensive-to-produce energy by ramping up its coal production after it joined the World Trade Organization in 2001. (Note the world ramp-up in coal, starting after 2001, on Figure 9.) Unfortunately, because of depletion, China’s coal production since 2013 has been close to flat. Furthermore, China had had a big recycling business, but discontinued it effective January 1, 2018. Discontinuation of this program was necessary because oil prices had fallen in 2014 and had never recovered to their former level. With low oil prices, most recycling in China made no sense economically. The loss of jobs from recycling and cutbacks in coal operations no doubt contributed to the declining sale of vehicles in China.
In the years before 2020, another big issue was that the wages of many workers were not keeping up with the rising cost of living. Figure 4 illustrates this issue for the US. The problem was especially acute for lower wage workers. During this period, the prices of many commodities were too low for producers. This led to layoffs and low wages for workers.
In early 2020, the world became aware of a new coronavirus that had been identified in China. The response to this new illness was very strange, compared to how previous pandemics had been handled. The response looked a great deal like intentionally scaring people (especially older people) into staying at home. If this were done, much less oil could be used. Natural gas and coal consumption could be reduced, as well.
This story is perhaps not so strange if we look at it in context. On January 8, 2020, I wrote that we should be expecting recession and low oil prices in 2020. I included this oil price chart.
On January 29, I wrote, It is easy to overreact to a coronavirus. In this article, I pointed out that the economy already seemed to be headed in the direction of recession. Shutdowns would only make the problem worse.
Politicians choosing to shut down their economies in early 2020 were likely not aware that the real underlying problem within their economy was inadequate availability of inexpensive-to-produce energy. They were aware that China had decided to shut down part of its economy, so perhaps there might be some usefulness to such an action. Local leaders outside of China knew that their own factories were underutilized. If their own factories could be shut down temporarily, perhaps they could operate at closer to capacity, once they reopened.
Furthermore, a shutdown would give an excuse to keep workers protesting low wages inside. After the shutdown, there would be an excuse to raise the debt level, perhaps keeping the financial part of the economy going for a while longer. So, a shutdown would have many benefits, apart from any potential benefit from (sort of) containing the virus.
It became apparent as time went on that the vaccine story for COVID-19 was playing multiple roles, as well. The healthcare industry was becoming very large in the US. In fact, the size of the healthcare industry was beginning to interfere with the economy as a whole (Figure 4). Furthermore, manufacturers of medicines and vaccines were having problems with diminishing returns because the big, important drug finds had been discovered years ago. It was becoming difficult to profitably fund all of the research needed for new drugs.
Behind the scenes, the vaccine industry had been working for years on creating new viruses and preparing vaccines for these same viruses. The theory was that the same approaches that delivered vaccines might be helpful in treating diseases of various kinds. Vaccines might also be helpful in responding to bioweapon attacks. If drug manufacturers could market a blockbuster vaccine, the manufacturers, as well as the individuals holding the vaccine patents, could become rich.
The US was not alone in the research with respect to viruses and vaccines for these viruses. Many major countries, including Canada, France, Italy, Australia and China had funded this research, partly through their budgets for health research and partly through military budgets. There was virtually no chance that anyone would figure out the source of any problematic virus because so many major countries had had a part in funding this research. If citizens could be convinced that the virus was extremely dangerous and mandate the use of vaccines, the vaccine industry could greatly profit from vaccine sales. The vaccine could be created and marketed quickly because all of the research (but not enough testing) had been performed earlier.
A great deal of planning had been done before the pandemic appeared, based to a significant extent upon what outcome vaccine makers would prefer. Johns Hopkins University completed a SPARS Pandemic Scenario in October 2017, rehearsing responses to a pandemic. A training exercise called Event 201 was held on October 18, 2019, for the purpose of training high level government officials and news writers what their responses should be.
The sponsors of Event 201 were “The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security in partnership with the World Economic Forum and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.” The latter two organizations are representatives of the very wealthy individuals and very large corporations. The primary interest of these organizations is enriching those who are already wealthy. The World Economic Forum is known for proclaiming, “You’ll own nothing and you’ll be happy.”
As time went on, it became very clear that the true nature of the COVID-19 epidemic was being hidden from citizens. It was, and is, not a terribly dangerous illness if it is treated properly with any number of inexpensive medications including aspirin, ivermectin, antihistamine and steroids. In fact, the severity of the disease could also be lessened by taking vitamin D in advance. There really was not a great deal of point to the vaccines, except to enrich the vaccine manufacturers and those who would benefit from the sale of the vaccines, including Anthony Fauci and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
It also became clear that the vaccines don’t really do what a person might expect a vaccine to do. They do tend to stop severe illness, but taking vitamin D in advance would provide pretty much the same benefit. They don’t stop COVID-19 from circulating because vaccinated people can still catch COVID-19. The vaccines seem to have any number of side effects, including raising the risk of heart attacks.
The historical period most similar to the current period, in terms of shortage of energy supply, is that between World War I and World War II. At that time, the Jews were persecuted. Now, there is an attempt to divide the world into Vaccinated and Unvaccinated, with the Unvaccinated persecuted. When the economy cannot produce enough goods and services for all members of the economy, the economy seems to divide into almost warring parts.
We are basically trying to deal with an energy scenario that looks a lot like Figure 8, and the self-organizing economy comes up with very strange solutions. If people can convince themselves that it is OK to ostracize the unvaccinated, then maybe the move down the collapse will go more smoothly. For example, the military can be cut back in size by dismissing the unvaccinated, without admitting that with current resources, there is a need to reduce the size of the military.
Europe is the part of the world where the push for vaccinations is now highest. It is also in terrible shape with respect to energy supply. By ostracizing the unvaccinated, European countries can attempt to cut back their economies to the size that their energy supply will support, without admitting the real problem.
[10] The world economy is increasingly acting like economies that have collapsed in the past. In fact, there seems to be a connection with some of the strange statements from the book of Revelation.
We are living in a world now in which even if there are temporary price spikes, there is little chance that fossil fuel providers will ramp up their production. In order to ramp up supplies, they would need to start several years in advance, preparing new fields. Oil, coal and gas prices have stayed so low, for so long, that there is no belief that prices can rise to a high enough level and stay there, as the fuels are extracted. Thus, the fossil fuel will stay in the ground.
At the same time, it is becoming increasingly clear that renewables cannot be depended upon. In fact, low generation of electricity by wind turbines is part of the reason Europe is having to import the large quantity of natural gas and coal supplies it now requires. There is concern that rolling blackouts may be necessary during the winter in Europe, if not this year, sometime in the next few years.
It is becoming increasingly clear that the future energy scenario will look something like Figure 8, causing world population to fall dramatically within the next thirty years. This is the kind of situation most of us would associate with collapse. I think of it as being equivalent to end times, since our modern civilization will be disappearing. It is possible that there will be a remnant of people left, but they will be living a much simpler life, without fossil fuels or modern renewables.
There are several parts to what is happening that remind me of Old Testament writings in general, and of the book of Revelation (from the New Testament), in particular.
First, the willingness of the ultra-rich to look out for themselves and keep what look like perfectly good, cheap cures for COVID-19 from the world population seems to be precisely the kind of despicable behavior that Old Testament prophets despised. For example, in Amos 5:21-24, Amos tells the Jews that God despises their prior behavior. In verse 24 (NIV), he says, “But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream!”
As I noted in the introduction, Revelation 18 talks about lack of demand being an issue in the collapse of Babylon, and presumably in any future collapse that occurs. Revelation 18:11-13 reads:
11 The merchants of the earth will weep and mourn over her because no one buys their cargoes anymore— 12 cargoes of gold, silver, precious stones and pearls; fine linen, purple, silk and scarlet cloth; every sort of citron wood, and articles of every kind made of ivory, costly wood, bronze, iron and marble;13 cargoes of cinnamon and spice, of incense, myrrh and frankincense, of wine and olive oil, of fine flour and wheat; cattle and sheep; horses and carriages; and human beings sold as slaves.
The need for vaccine passports in some countries reminds a person of Revelation 13:17, “they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of its name.” In fact, people in Sweden are getting microchip implants after its latest COVID passport mandate.
Some people believe that Revelation 12 describes the Antichrist; that is, the polar opposite of Christ. Before the world comes to an end, Revelation 12 seems to predict a great fight against this Antichrist, which Christ wins. I could imagine Anthony Fauci being the Antichrist.
We are not used to living in a world where very little that is published by the Mainstream Media makes sense. But when we live in a time where no one wants to hear what is true, the system changes in a bizarre way, so that a great deal that is published is false.
It is disturbing to think that we may be living near the end of the world economy, but there is an upside to this situation. We have had the opportunity to live at a time with more conveniences than any other civilization. We can appreciate the many conveniences we have.
We also have the opportunity to decide how we want to live the rest of our lives. We have been led for many years down the path of believing that economic growth will last forever; all we need to do is have faith in the government and our educational institutions. If we figure out that this really isn’t the path to follow, we can change course now. If we want to choose a more spiritual approach, this is a choice we can still make.
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Ha! Ha! Now that Gail is asleep I can finally comment without getting sabotage 🤪
Search Sam – Delete
Texas sheriff deputy who sued for ivermectin is out of a coma, tells wife ‘I love you’
https://www.emilypostnews.com/p/texas-sheriff-deputy-who-sued-for?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Operation Extermination–the Plan to Decimate the Human Immune System with a Lab-Generated Pathogen
https://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=246849
eye rolling time again
OFWers are rolling their eyes every time norm refuses to respond to – Why Vax the Kids (WVK)
Hahahahaha!
Victoria Derbyshire reveals her triple-vaccinated brother has caught Covid after a Christmas meal with friends – with 17 out of 21 of them testing positive
BBC presenter Ms Derbyshire, 53, revealed the news of her brother on Twitter
She said he ‘feels rough’ and is in isolation following a meal with pals last Friday
She said the booster jab three to four weeks ago was minimising his symptoms
Presenter added that ‘it shows how rapid transmission can be with Omicron’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10299077/Victoria-Derbyshire-reveals-triple-vaccinated-brother-caught-Covid-Christmas-meal.html
“She said the booster jab three to four weeks ago was minimising his symptoms.”
That’s good to know. Perhaps he should take another booster now and minimise them even more? Everybody knows you can’t have too many boosters.
Bulk Boost
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Dr Fast Eddy prescribes a daily Booster for a Triple Boosted CovIDIOT who ends up hospitalized with Covid.
The protocol should be Day 1: Pfizer Day 2: J&J Day 3: Astra ….. repeat this until the CovIDIOT recovers or dies.
More is Better.
Better start peeing in a bottle
Zero Day’ for California water? Not yet, but unprecedented water restrictions send a sharp warning
Lara B. Fowler, Senior Lecturer in Law and Assistant Director for Outreach and Engagement, Penn State Institutes of Energy and the Environment, Penn StateSee more
Fri, December 10, 2021, 8:38 AM
into a third straight year of drought, and water supplies are limited.
On Dec. 1, 2021, California triggered headlines heard around the world when officials announced how much water suppliers would be getting from the State Water Project. “California water districts to get 0% of requested supplies in an unprecedented decision,” one headline proclaimed. “No state water for California farms,” read another.
The headlines suggested a comparison with the “Zero Day” announcement in Cape Town, South Africa, during a drought in 2018. That was the projected date when water would no longer be available at household taps without significant conservation. Cape Town avoided a water shutoff, barely.
While California’s announcement represents uncharted territory and is meant to promote water conservation in what is already a dry water year, there is more to the story
observed that California is now in a dry pattern “interspersed with an occasional wet year.” The state suffered a three-year drought from 2007 to 2009, a five-year drought from 2012 to 2016, and now two dry years in a row; 2020 was the fifth-driest year on record, and 2021 was the second-driest.
Coming into the 2022 water year – which began Oct. 1 – the ground is dry, reservoirs are low and the prediction is for another dry year.
Over a century ago, well before climate change became evident, officials began planning ways to keep California’s growing cities and farms supplied with water. They developed a complex system of reservoirs and canals that funnel water from where it’s plentiful to where it’s needed.
,.,nder the current plan, there will be no water from the State Water Project for roughly 10% of California’s irrigated land. As a result, both municipal and agricultural suppliers will be seeking to conserve water, looking elsewhere for water supplies, or not delivering water. None are easy solutions.
Probably more people wanting to move out of the State of California, too.
Russia’s most prominent ecologists, Evgeny Shvarts of the Russian Academy of Sciences Institute for Geography in Moscow, told Inside Climate News he is convinced from long experience as an environmental advocate in Russia that people can’t rely on the government for environmental protection.
Barren forests, dirty rivers, unbreathable air: Inside an Arctic city’s vast pollution problem
Marianne Lavelle, Inside Climate News
Fri, December 10, 2021, 4:20 PM·17 min read
Norilsk, the northernmost city in the world. The city of 176,000 has long been recognized by environmentalists — and even by the Russian government — as one of the most polluted places on Earth, because of one business: Norilsk Nickel, the world’s biggest producer of palladium and high-grade nickel and a top producer of platinum, cobalt and copper
https://www.yahoo.com/news/norilsk-russian-arctic-became-one-100429053.html
But we need all that hot the green economy!
The New York Times
Omicron-Fueled Drive for Boosters May Hurt Access to First Shots in Poor Nation
Marc Santora
Fri, December 10, 2021, 8:10 AM
As the emergence of the omicron variant of the coronavirus has spurred governments of wealthy nations to step up booster-shot campaigns, the World Health Organization again expressed concern Thursday that the push could further undermine global vaccine equiTy
Richard Mihigo, coordinator for the WHO’s Immunization and Vaccines Development Program in Africa, said: “If we looked at the data today, even before omicron, we are seeing high-income countries administering more booster doses than even vaccines that are being given in developing countries.”
Because most current infections, which are still overwhelmingly being driven by the delta variant, are affecting unvaccinated people, the WHO said, getting vaccines to those who have no protection should be the priority.
“Remember that we only have 8% — 8% — of people who have been fully vaccinated in this region,” Mihigo said of Africa. “This represents around 103 million people in a continent of 1.3 billion.”
Worldwide, about 73% of shots that have gone into arms have been administered in high- and upper-middle-income countries, according to the Our World in Data project at the University of Oxford. Only 0.8% of doses have been administered in low-income countries.
The WHO’s reticence on boosters has put it out of step with governments around the world. Data from both Israel and Britain has shown that an extra vaccine dose can sharply lower a person’s likelihood of catching the coronavirus and getting sick, leading many countries to expand their booster programs.
The WHO advisory group said Thursday that preliminary data has suggested that extra shots could be useful if administered to older or immunosuppressed people. However, Mihigo said that, at the moment, there appeared to be “very little benefit of the booster dose for the younger population.”
Now scientists are racing to understand how omicron might affect the pandemic and to determine the effectiveness of vaccines in combating its spread and preventing serious illness and death.
Pfizer and BioNTech said Wednesday that laboratory tests suggested a booster shot of their coronavirus vaccine offered significant protection against the fast-spreading variant.
Suspicious about the CEP
Maybe this is really a positive development for the poor countries, if the vaccines “train” the immune system to look for the Wuhan version of the virus, and the Wuhan version of the virus is no longer circulating.
Believe me, if they weren’t poor they would be getting the toxic jab
Less than one percent in low income countries!!!
Sure, we have a crisis situation with this pandemic and utmost urgency for vaccinations….please.stop
One time being destitute is a life saver
The hypocrisy of the Tory Party knows no bounds – and the London police are covering for them. It is one law us and another law for them.
> Met Police threatened with legal action over failure to investigate No10 Xmas party
The Good Law Project has written to the Metropolitan Police asking it to justify its failure to investigate reports of an unlawful party being held at No 10 Downing Street
The Metropolitan Police has been threatened with legal action for its refusal to investigate the alleged Downing Street Christmas parties.
Earlier this week Scotland Yard said it would not probe the gathering in Number 10 in December last year due to a lack of evidence.
Boris Johnson has always insisted all Covid measures would have been followed if there had been a Christmas party.
Now the Good Law Project has written to the Met asking it to justify its failure to investigate reports of an unlawful party being held at No 10 Downing Street on 18 December 2020 – and threatening legal proceedings if it does not do so.
A spokesperson for the organisation said: “There have been multiple reports from people who say they were in attendance on the night that a party of 40 – 50 people took place in the Prime Minister’s own home.
“This would have been a clear breach of the “tier 3” restrictions in place at the time.
“Yet – unbelievably – the Met claims there isn’t enough evidence to open a criminal investigation.
“Apparently this wasn’t even the only unlawful gathering held at Boris Johnson’s home during this period.
“Further reports have now emerged alleging there were gatherings at the Prime Minister’s flat on 13 November 2020, a leaving party at No. 10 held on 27 November 2020 for former aide Cleo Watson, and a party at the Department for Education on 10 December 2020.”
The Good Law Project’s lawyers have sent a pre-action protocol letter to the Met asking it to open an investigation, or to set out the full and detailed reasons behind its refusal to do so.
“If the Met refuses, Good Law Project will consider suing,” the spokesperson added.
Separately, a quarter of a million Brits have demanded that the Met are investigated over their failure to look into the Downing Street party allegations.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/met-police-threatened-legal-action-25666076
The ‘police’ reckon that there is not enough evidence of a party at no. 10 – even though there were ‘police officers’ posted outside the front door the entire time. Go figure! The Tories can break laws, that they impose on us, right in front of the police’s face and the ‘police’ say that there is ‘no evidence’. They can even film themselves, talking and laughing about it, and it gets leaked on the TV news – and still there is ‘no evidence’! It is one law for us and another for them. The entire state is playing the British people for complete mugs now.
300,000 have signed the petition here to have the police investigated.
https://www.change.org/p/iopc-policeconduct-investigate-the-metropolitan-police-for-allowing-the-2020-downing-street-party
> IOPC Investigate Met Police For Failing to Stop/investigate 2020 Downing Street party
While U.K. Citizens were locked down & while London was in “tier 3” a Christmas party took place at 10 Downing Street on the night of 18th December through to early hours of the morning on 19th December 2020, several accounts have confirmed, including former chief of staff, Dominic Cummings.
In contrast, on the 17th December 2020 the Metropolitan Police posted on their Twitter account that they had “shut down” a wedding where 40 guests were gathered. In the same tweet they pointed out the risk to public health of such gatherings using these words: “holding large gatherings could mean the difference between life & death to someone else”. Why is it one rule for those in Downing Street and another for everyone else?
In March 2021 the Metropolitan Police used Covid-19 restrictions to break up public gatherings, including using force against women to break up a peaceful vigil following the murder of Sarah Everard on that occasion the risk to public health was cited when they stated: “we were placed into this position because of the overriding need to protect peoples safety”
It seems safety is only of concern to the Metropolitan Police when ordinary citizens gather but not when our Government puts public safety at risk.
The police are supposed to record every person entering 10 Downing Street. Did they on the night of the 18th? If not, why not?
Since, Cressida Dick, amongst others have refused to investigate the evidence that parties took place at Downing Street, the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) must investigate why they have made this choice.
Please investigate why party goers at number 10 Downing Street were exempt from rules imposed on the general public & why Metropolitan Police considered the large gathering at 10 Downing Street to pose less of a risk to public health than other gatherings.
Did Boris manage to avoid spilling claret all over the furnishings this time?
The plandemic will continue until you turn off the media, destroy the power they have over you then life gets back to normal. You cannot comply your way out of the mess we are in.
https://odysee.com/@Misery-of-truth:3/The_Gov_and_Media_Are_The_Virus:2?r=EAJ1o4xTQX2tRLzwb5kWKK4fKbZT13yo
I’m SURPRISED 🙀! Not to Worry it is RARE…and the benefits outweigh the zrisks!
Fauci says do and Billie Gates too!
BNT162b2 and mRNA-1273 are both administered primarily as double-doses, with a third booster shot that has recently been approved after six months. The Ad.26.COV2.S is a replication-incompetent adenoviral vector vaccine and is primarily administered as a single dose; however, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has recently advised Ad.26.COV2.S recipients to receive a booster dose of any approved COVID-19 vaccine after two months.
Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) is a rare neurological disorder with an incidence rate of 1-2 per 100,000 person-years. In July 2021, data from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) indicated that more cases of GBS were being reported after vaccination with Ad.26.COV2.S in comparison to other mRNA vaccines.
On July 12, 2021, the U.S. FDA added a warning about GBS to the Ad.26.COV2.S vaccine fact sheet. GBS is being monitored in the Vaccine Safety Datalink as part of ongoing rapid and prospective COVID-19 vaccine safety surveillance efforts
https://www.news-medical.net/amp/news/20211208/CDC-study-shows-risk-of-Guillain-Barre-syndrome-elevated-after-Ad26COV2S-COVID-vaccination.aspx
This Serum is toxic and can not believe it has not been suspended by the FDA and CDC.
Maybe it’s time for Fauci to sell his stock!
Scientists were watching for increased incidents of Guillain-Barré syndrome since GBS has been associated in the past with vaccines, especially the swine flu vaccines of the 1970s. I have a friend who had a bad case of Guillain-Barré syndrome a number of years ago. He since recovered, but was a bit hesitant to get the Covid vaccine. He discussed it with his doctor who told him the risk was small. My friend is now double vaccinated and boostered and has had absolutely no issues with these vaccines. So yes, EVERY vaccine carries a risk.
But Anne this is NOT, I repeat NOT a vaccine.
The reason why the Government used that term was to escape red tape regulations for it’s so called emergency approval.
Lot of rule bending and evasive !measures being applied.
It’s been all posted here for your examination…
https://pdfhost.io/v/pZig3jgly_VAERS_Heart_Damage_V2
https://www.naturalnews.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/91/2019/03/ECT_therapy.jpg
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/covid-19-pandemic-fear-manufactured-authorities-yale-epidemiologist
Surely fear is subject to diminishing returns just as much as physical resources?
Post 911 in the US, the fear and confusion were palpable; the PTB took big time advantage of this…changing the laws….the war on terror narrative developed….Saddam and his WMD became public enemy no 1…. relentless propaganda….must invade Afghanistan….must invade Iraq….hunt down the terrorists…save the world from evil Saddam and his WMD….he’s sheltering terrorists….
Any public figure who questioned the narrative was mercilessly attacked…
Remember when France baulked at joining the invasions?
BAD FRANCE!! The media were pushing the meme: “Rename french fries to freedom fries!”
Eventually though, the mood changed…
I think it was around 2004, when the governor of Vermont – Howard Dean – publicly called out GWB, demanding to know why American lives were still being lost in the Middle East….
Granted, he didn’t part the seas, but he precipitated a change in the narrative….more public figures voiced their concerns…even openly criticized GWB et al….
The Emperor’s New Clothes is also a good analogy…
Bottom line… the right person at the right time saying the right thing will shatter this b.s. narrative…who knows?…it could be YOU….
Let’s shake things up a bit on OFW… as we wait for norm to explain WVK…
First year uni…for some reason the school had the bright idea of stuffing people with similar interests onto one floor — so Fast ended up on a jock floor… lots of football and hockey guys … + one… ball room dancer haha…
Nothing wrong with ball room dancing except that you do not bring your ball room dance trophies and display them in your room… that’s kinda like putting your peewee MVP trophy in your room..
Anyhow … there was a bit of a hazing thing at that school (which is not technically allowed in Canadian Uni)… lots of drinking then a cold water dunking … anyone who opted out…
Well the senior floor guys served up revenge cold… they waited a week.. maybe two… and then they would pounce like a CIA snatch squad… strip you naked — tie you to a rolly chair splatter you with shaving cream — into the lift — then heave you into the lobby of an all girl floor
So one day they capture the ball room guy… he’s a slight guy maybe 170cm 55kg or so… but boy oh boy did he put up a fight — like a cornered badger he was …. but the seniors eventually pinned him … and stripped him … and lo and behold they discovered the reason for his valiant effort…
He had a hockey jock down his pants in an effort to enhance his ‘package’… he tried to explain it away saying he was playing ice hockey that afternoon and forgot to remove it… hahahahaha
Of course nobody was believing that… they chucked him onto the girls floor and soon after that he disappeared from the dorm….
Crazy huh?
The other big thing on that floor was ‘leaners’… you take a big plastic waste bin and fill it with all sorts of nasty stuff… rotten food… particularly old fish… urine .. poop … let it fester for a few days… then with the sensitivity of a bomb squad disarming car bomb … you place it in the lift .. angled against the door… and hit the button … you have to do it just right so it doesn’t tip into your lobby and so the door closes …
We are on an upper floor and the target was the 3rd floor… so we’d have maybe 20 seconds to wait and then listen for a wap… as the can hit the floor and spewed guts all over the floor….
It was quite the war between the two floors.
Fast left that school to attend Harvard the next year … and he heard that admissions stopped putting like-minded people on that floor … which is probably a good thing… and the hazing was terminated
“Following through on President Biden’s January executive order calling for the US to develop a plan to help flow capital toward climate aligned investments, the Biden administration has told US embassies to stem support for carbon-intensive energy projects internationally.
“The new interim guidance “rules out any US government engagement” related to unabated or partially abated coal generation, according to a cable sent to US embassies overseas earlier in December.”
https://www.spglobal.com/platts/en/market-insights/latest-news/natural-gas/121021-biden-team-begins-carrying-out-curbs-on-overseas-fossil-fuel-project-support
“Nicola Sturgeon has demolished the chimney on Scotland’s last remaining coal-fired power station. The move has been described as a “historic moment” in the UK’s transition away from fossil fuels and towards achieving net-zero climate goals…
“The first minister hit the button to ignite 700kg of explosives to blow up its chimney, bringing down the curtain on the site more than 50 years after it was first opened.”
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/nicola-sturgeon-scotland-coal-power-station-b1972976.html%3famp
If coal imports are unavailable to the UK, the coal-fired power station won’t do much good either. Unfortunately, wind and solar are horrible substitutes.
Maybe the US is in such poor condition that it can’t really support capital investments of any kind, internationally.
No not yet but close…
norm .. no need to vax if you have this
https://s.hdnux.com/photos/01/16/13/56/20495239/3/2300×0.jpg
anna has a thing for old goats in covid helmets
WVK? (why vaccinate kids)
Read all the comments … this is indicative of what is happening everywhere – there is minimal awakening https://eugyppius.substack.com/p/containment-across-the-world-reader/comments
Thank you, Eugyppius, for sharing this information! I live in Colorado, U.S., and most people here have been hypnotized by the official narrative and trapped in the mass psychosis (see Dr. Robert Malone’s https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/mass-formation-psychosis). They do not question the official story, act as obedient sheep, wear masks even on hiking trails, listen to CNN, BBC and National Public Radio (NPR) and follow Fauci/CDC despite the fact that the CDC has been funding gain-of-function research in China (via EcoHealth Alliance) and consistently represents Big Pharma’s economical interests.
The hypnotized masses are now running to get their boosters and will gladly get a monthly or weekly shot, if necessary, just to feel “safe”. They are not even considering that the current injections are based on the Alpha (wild) variant, long gone.
Theaters and concert venues have been requiring proof of vaccination, and have no remorse implementing “medical apartheid”, even if they outwardly preach ED&I (Equity, Diversity and Inclusion). Even Rotary Clubs are asking members to “stay away” if they are not vaxxed (the sociopath and vaccine funder Bill Gates is one of their largest donors).
Medical apartheid is also taking place at hospitals. Doctors and nurses have become automatons is a mechanized Borg-like structure. When patients are hospitalized due to Covid (as determined by the still unreliable PCR test) they are literally “pushed” to take a drug called remdisivir, well-known to cause kidney and liver failure (as per the CDC’s own website). They do this because the national medical administration here is giving hospitals a very attractive “bonus” if they use this particular drug, regardless of the potentially deadly side effects. The degree of corruption in the hospital administration is monumental
And here we have Bob… slightly wasted away … but confident his 76th Pfizer shot will provide immunity to omicron
https://media.pri.org/s3fs-public/styles/open_graph/public/story/images/heroinimage.jpg
The comments section is really interesting https://eugyppius.substack.com/p/containment-across-the-world-reader/comments
Eddy thank you for this link. Yes, it is fascinating world wide reporting.
I wonder if there is the equivalent of a norm dunc in NZ…. oh yes… mike – you are in NZ right?
$2500 x 2… you need to impersonate FE and then a few days later (if you are still alive) you go to another popup drive-through and you get one for our young lad…
That’s 5k cash mike … then in 6 weeks or whenever the second one is due – you repeat and get 5k more… Fast says HE will also throw in a box of cream filled donuts…
Don’t spend it too quickly though cuz it’s 6 … er… 3 months till the next tranche of cash is coming your way…
Do you know of a female who would be willing to rep M Fast and our young teen gal?
mike you could run a serious business if you get organized… FE is happy to build the website and broker you out… HE would keep $500 of each injection and give it to me (currently I get no compensation for all this hard work) and I’d blow it in the VIP room … perhaps you have a daughter working in the room that I am unaware of — if so they the cash would circle back into your family coffers so it’s win win all the way baby!).
Sorry to cut you out norm … but ideally I work with a NZ based M-N.
norm btw – WVK?
Notice how Sweden – despite their huge success in defeating Covid … is now fully on board the Catastrophe Express Train https://eugyppius.substack.com/p/containment-across-the-world-reader
Phocas11 hr agoLiked by eugyppius
Forgot one more thing: unknown amoun of vaccine certificates are forged. People simply buy a certificate from doctors, who write off a vaccine dose and register the fake vaccination in the governemnt medical system, thus giving people QR codes.
OH CANADA!!!
https://cdn.locals.com/images/posts/originals/463322/463322_r3gxicxwgtqgx1k.jpeg
It would seem like a bribe could help this happen:
“unknown amoun of vaccine certificates are forged. People simply buy a certificate from doctors, who write off a vaccine dose and register the fake vaccination in the governemnt medical system, thus giving people QR codes.”
Employers in Germany can now terminate employees “on suspicion” of forged vaccine passports
As long as the doctor squirts the dose down the drain there is zero evidence. It is not forged it is complete and correct with batch id number and all. It just is not in the person.
Time for every three month testing of vaxxed to prove two things that they are really vaxxed and that it is still effective. It is for their own good.
No need for that … there are plenty of CovIDIOTS who want extra doses… they’ll pay you to stand in…
The way to find the good CovIDIOTS is to watch for older ones driving around in expensive cars… with masks on…
Just follow them home then pull up … knock on the door (make sure you are masked cuz you are dealing with Hyper CovIDIOTS)… and let them know you have some injections to sell…
I will never comply with this shit and for that I will also not comply with a fake vaccine passport because that kind of access system is the goal.
Whatever way is available outside this access system, I will support but faking access is the worst form of collaboration.
The Canada stories are fascinating … how is it that people cannot realize that they are being CEPed? It’s global….
https://eugyppius.substack.com/p/containment-across-the-world-reader
Nuremburg lives
https://twitter.com/notonmywatchnz1/status/1469220766583377921?s=12
If that’s real, it’s shoddy work. Like the great majority of idiots in this country they don’t know the PMs real name (Alexander), just his stage name.
I’ll even spring for the cost of the rope!
“The healthcare system in Pennsylvania is at the brink of collapse,” said Dr. Gerald Maloney, Chief Medical Officer of Geisinger Health System.
Geisinger Health System, one of the state’s largest health systems, says it’s running out of beds across its nine hospitals in central and northeastern Pennsylvania.
“People continue to come with strokes, heart attacks, car accidents and it is hard to get them out of the ambulance because we don’t have a place in the emergency department to put them,” said Dr. Maloney.
https://6abc.com/covid-cases-coronavirus-hospital-rates-new-jersey-pennsylvania-delaware-philadelphia-omicron-updates/11317195/
They better get that hospital ship — they are going to need it hahahaah
https://ijr.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/2020-03-30T153415Z_1_LYNXMPEG2T1MM_RTROPTP_4_HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS-USA-NEW-YORK-1024×682.jpg
One of those Covid patients in Pennsylvania is an older unvaccinated man who the Doctor told to stay home until symptoms developed further. He stayed home with no early treatment until he couldnt breath and was in ICU on a ventilator. The ER Doctor was ready to pull the plug until his daughter intervened and had him moved to another hospital. He might be dead by now I haven’t heard any news. No early treatment options just vax ’em or intubate ’em. His friend’s first thought was to blame stupid Americans for not getting the vax, no idea that early treatment is key or that the hosoitals only get paid for certain medical procedures. PA governor still holds the option of instituting vax passports but he lost a referendum(53% vs. 47%) on emergency powers. I can imagine his admin is still trying to cook up something. I told Dad the only way this ends is if people stop complying or the vaxxed start dying due to AEs or ADE. We shall see. Thanks!
The CDC has a site that gives data by county, but less data by state. I looked up Philadelphia County in Pennsylvania. (This is not the hot spot.) It shows 6.35% of beds used for COVID cases. I also looked up Lycoming County in North Central Pennsylvania. It shows 27% of regular beds and 37% of ICU beds being used for COVID.
This is a link to the CDC website: https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#county-view
SCIENTISTS ARE BUILDING A “BLACK BOX” TO RECORD THE END OF CIVILIZATION
“IT’S BUILT TO OUTLIVE US ALL.”
Apocalypse Cam
“If — or when — human civilization collapses, what will remain? Maybe parts of some cities. Or the Statue of Liberty, a la “Planet of the Apes.” Overall, though, there might not be a lot of evidence left behind about what humanity accomplished — or what resulted in its downfall. ”
“One team of researchers wants to change that. Their solution? A massive, indestructible box that’ll record scientific data to give future civilizations insight on how exactly humanity fell.”
“The project, dubbed Earth’s Black Box, will be an immense steel monolith installed in a remote location in Tasmania. It’s akin to the black boxes that are designed to survive airplane crashes and provide investigators valuable data on what led to the disaster — except on a planetary scale.”
“The team is designing the box to record climate data such as atmospheric CO2 levels, sea temperatures, and energy consumption levels. It’ll also gather contextual information like news headlines and social media posts. ”
https://futurism.com/the-byte/earth-black-box-civilization
Clearly, the moon is the correct location for humankind’s black box.
“Scientists”
The beginning of the end?
Most reported U.S. Omicron cases have hit the fully vaccinated – CDC
https://news.yahoo.com/most-reported-u-omicron-cases-182642515.html
R0 of Omicron, >4.0 against Delta ~1.0 this is worse than Delta at anytime. Omicron is currently doubling every 2.5days.
the “worse” R0 might be because the vaxed have damaged their natural immune systems and are just more susceptible to getting any kind of viral infection.
and in first world countries, vaxed adults are the majority, so there is a large population with weakened immune systems for the Omicron to spread through.
also:
it is possible that the Omicron might actually be a weaker variant than Delta but because of those damaged immune systems, the Omicron might begin to appear to be more virulent, when it might just be that the Omicron has much weaker targets to hit.
then:
it might mean that the Purebloods will be less affected by the Omicron if it is indeed less virulent than Delta.
very inconclusive, but there are early signs that the vaxed will be suffering much more from current and future viruses than Purebloods.
we may see soon enough.
the Omicron might have been purposely released at this time for these very reasons.
I would like to add in. No scientific papers please. Although Omicron may not be that deadly, because of weakened immunity, it may linger longer in the body of the vaxxed. Two potential issues (1) it has plenty of time to mutate to something that might deadlier to the vaxxed, namely ADE and someone has mentioned before since all the vaxxed have same antibodies dot the spike protein, this new and deadlier variant may spread like wildfire among the vaxx and possibly harm the unvaxxed as well . Namely Mark. (2) the long period of Omicron staying in the bodies of the vaxx may cause long COVID
Even a cold can be fatal for people with AIDS, and in the old days I recall lots of people caught AIDS by getting injected with dodgy substances.
And a well-functioning immune system is a terrible thing to FUBAR.
On the other hand, “there is no harm in getting vaccinated in order to fit in with the governmental views and be able to get around more easily than the unvaccinated.”
norm … why inject the children and give them AIDS?
no harm in that at all… entering the pie shop is worth the risk…
mike was thinking we’d forgot about that
“Even a cold can be fatal for people with AIDS, and in the old days I recall lots of people caught AIDS by getting injected with dodgy substances.”
Some of now believe that AIDS is as much a rebrand of misc illnesses as Covid …
We need Albert Bartlett to work out the exponential function … how many days till Moronic has filled the stadium with disease
hahahahahaahaha…
https://gvn.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/gvnslide-1500×524.png
I love that lecture Albert did on the exponential function and our complete lack of ability to understand it in practice.
Of course have vaxx and carrying mutant — can travel!!!
hahahahahaha The chickens are roosting ….
norm – WVK (why vax kids) … we are running short on time … you should answer otherwise you will die with everyone thinking (and knowing) you are a M-ON.
hahahahaha quite the legacy norm
Fast Eddy, many thanks for this update. It is very important.
It is something to follow closely.
All the best.
Japan Places Myocarditis Warning on ‘Vaccines’ – Requires Informed Consent
Japan announces that public and private sectors can not discriminate against those who refuse the experimental mRNA gene therapy injections.
Japan is now labeling Covid “vaccines” to warn of dangerous and potentially deadly side effects such as myocarditis. In addition, the country is reaffirming its commitment to adverse event reporting requirements to ensure all possible side effects are documented.
These efforts from Japan’s health authority are in stark contrast to the deceptive measures taken by other countries to coerce citizens into taking the injection, downplaying side effects, and discouraging proper adverse event reporting.
Additionally, Japan is emphasizing informed consent and bodily autonomy. Until the coronavirus pandemic, the concept of “informed consent” was considered sacred to healthcare professionals in the West.
Japan is particularly raising concerns about the risks of myocarditis in young men injected with Pfizer or Moderna’s gene–therapy treatment. The country is enforcing a strict legal reporting requirement of side effects that must take place within 28 days of the injections.
https://rairfoundation.com/alert-japan-places-myocarditis-warning-on-vaccines-requires-informed-consent/
Japan is the best among developed nations when it comes to protecting its people against this attack. Surely two changes of prime minister since august 2019 are due to that.
As a foreign resident in Japan, I am absolutely chuffed that nobody is coming to take me away or cancel my visa for not subjecting myself to a dangerous and unnecessary medical intervention.
It seems Japan is not a priority target for whoever is running the COVID-19 racket. Why that would be I can only speculate. Perhaps because there are few enough healthy youngsters here already that the country can’t afford to lose them. Perhaps thee NEW decided it needs Japan’s manufacturing genius to keep turning out new tech for the Chinese factories so they can keep making things smaller, cheaper and more productively. Or perhaps—and this is a bit of a stretch— this whole scam is a plan by the Pan-Asians to bring down the West and create a global empire under the rule of the Mikado and Dr. Fu Manchu.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJvRvCmk1mE
Be that as it may, NHK has reported on their English website:
Japan’s health ministry has listed inflammation of the heart muscle and of the outer lining of the heart in younger males as possible serious side effects of the Moderna and Pfizer COVID vaccines.
It says that as of November 14, out of every one million males who had the Moderna vaccine, such side effects were reported in 81.79 males aged 10 to 19 and 48.76 males in their 20s.
The figures were 15.66 and 13.32 respectively for those who had the Pfizer vaccine.
The ministry held a panel of expert on Saturday and proposed warning of the risk by printing “serious side effects” on the documents attached to the vaccines.
It will also require hospitals to report in detail incidents involving people who developed the symptoms within 28 days after being vaccinated, according to the law.
The plan was approved by the panel, and the ministry will notify municipalities.
My impression is that those Countries having a very cohesive group of population who obey without imposing fake stories, have another approach on virus and vaccination.
In other words governments can impose to population rules to save energy without creating fake terror:
government: ‘you have to stay at home and not use your car simply because I tell you. OK?
– citizen: ‘OK’
The secret is in the local ethos. Throughout the administrative cadres there are people who care about Japan above all. TPTB had to fire Abe in August 2019 because he would not go along with this charade. They had to fire the new guy because under him Japan had been blocking five vaccine lots in 3 days. The reason why Japan is resisting vaccines (because, let’s face it, if the payload is graphene, it has been effectively blocked by Japanese quality controls) is the same why no statins are prescribed here, ever.
In my view, some reasons why Japan is resisting to vaccines and general narrative are:
– it is an island made of cohesive people who feel strong cultural links of mutual respect.
– they have their own currency, but a great debt, but that debt is mainly own by themselves (they don’t depend from foreign buccaneers who give orders about to do or not).
– in case things about energy and food will become problematic, people in power know that citizens will not go outside looting, but they will obey to restrictive rules with a sense of mutual respect.
They will be able to stay at home, not use the car, make long queues for bread or water and so on.
While in the western world, people in power need to frighten population.
Western governments know (or think to know) that, in case of need, if they made straight and direct restrictions about energy and food, the population would probably make an insurrection against them.
In other words, Japanese government probably doesn’t need to fool citizens.
And I agree with you drb
Student, yes, Japan has what every nation that wants to survive needs citizens that want the best for each other. That is nationalism. Good for Japan and they are now using Ivermectin.
Jacinda: “We’ve also seen the spread of misinformation on COVID…so we made it a priority to establish a ‘public interest journalism fund’…to keep New Zealanders informed”
https://twitter.com/MichaelPSenger/status/1469341942819418113
Containment Across the World: Reader Reports. Now Considerably Expanded: See Many Additions, Most Importantly on Sweden
https://eugyppius.substack.com/p/containment-across-the-world-reader
Fast Eddy is advising the parents from the primary school where vax bullying is taking place to call the principal and raise hell or better still to make an appointment to discuss the situation.
They were talking about writing a letter and signing it as a form of protest….
https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8uzOaZiBZmM/WCnhXl_rczI/AAAAAAAA_pY/08_VV7-wvpEbitxrWAcKaeQ4-_-Rwuj5gCLcB/s1600/BarnStirringMoulage.gif
BUSINESS IDEA!!!!
1. Find a MOREON (hahaha.. ask pretty much anyone)
2. Give then $100 and ask them to attend a popup clinic (staffed by untrained MOREONS)
3. Ask the MOREON to give your name and health number… and take the shot for you.
4. Ministry of Health sends you a vaxxie cert – and you are good to go.
Fast Eddy will be setting up a website matching MOREONS with anti-vaxxers taking a $10 cut on each intro….
“Court-Ordered Pfizer Documents Show 1223 Deaths, 158,000 Adverse Events in 90 Days Post EUA Release of the Murderous “vaccine”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/court-ordered-pfizer-documents-they-tried-sealed-55-years-show-1223-deaths-158000-adverse-events-90-days-post-eua-release/5764094
I was informed yesterday that since the traffic light bs came into play the ice rink has been seeing a maximum of SIX paid ice skaters per day. Yes 6… as in 6. And that some parents are lashing the staff because they are rejecting unvaxxed children.
The daily losses would be monumental.
J’ASSinda rocks!
FE is responding to FE
looks like I’m on track for February
WVK?
Let’s go Brandon…
W.. V… K…..
How fascinating – I met someone today who is rabidly anti-vaxx… but she has vaxxed her children….
She mentioned that if the vaxxed are not allowed into the super market her kids can go.
Hahhahaahahaha… secretly appalled I said — if it gets to that they can charge $50 to shop for me and I’ll wait for them in the parking lot.
We cannot and should not take advantage of other living beings disadvantage.
People accepting these sinister shots are ignorant, not stupid. They NEED our Compassion and help not contempt. We should set up pop clinics and give away vitamin D3 and Zinc
I agree.
A man who was vaccinated against Covid-19 up to 10 times in one day on behalf of other people has prompted a warning from the Ministry of Health about the dangerous behaviour.
Police confirm probe into actions of Canterbury GP
Astrid Koornneef, group manager operations for the Covid-19 vaccine and immunisation programme, said the ministry was aware of the issue and taking the matter very seriously.
“We are very concerned about this situation and are working with the appropriate agencies,” she said.
The ministry would not say where the incidents took place.
It is believed the man, who is understood to have visited several vaccination centres, was paid for the jabs, according to Stuff.
https://www.odt.co.nz/news/national/investigation-man-getting-10-shots-one-day
mike – I think you are in NZ … I can pass you my health ID number… Last Call I think is also in country – do you want his as well? I am on an anti vax telegram group — I can ask for more donations from there ….
hahahahahahahaha… norm have you tried?
That does sound like something Norm would do, lol. 😂
dunc would be keen on that too… he is a True Believer.
right dunc… dunc? are you still alive dunc?
DR BHAKDI
THE WORLD HAS BEEN TRICKED
EACH BOOSTER WILL MAKE YOU SICKER BY LEAPS & BOUNDS
THE HOLOCAUST TO COME
A CRIME ON HUMANITY, AND ON CIVILISATION
https://rumble.com/vq7420-dr.-sucharit-bhakdi-speaks-on-the-lies-and-propaganda-surrounding-the-pande.html
In this episode, I interview Stephanie Seneff, PhD, on her hypothesis about glyphosate, deuterium, and COVID.
This is a brilliant hypothesis that suggests that in the absence of glyphosate and other stresses that hurt our ability to clear deuterium out of our system, the COVID virus could actually have a positive deuterium-depleting effect that could leave us healthier after recovering from the illness, but that being glyphosate-toxic and deuterium-loaded makes us vulnerable to dying from the disease or developing long-haul symptoms. She suggests deuterium-depleted water, low-deuterium foods, and glyphosate avoidance are all protective.
https://chrismasterjohnphd.com/covid-19/2021/12/10/stephanie-seneff
RFK, JR. DISCUSSES THE REAL ANTHONY FAUCI
https://www.bitchute.com/video/6H5WumhgFqfC/
The most interesting finding is this. Omicron’s cases involve only 177 unvaccinated persons, and 1,103 vaccinated persons. So, 87% of Omicron cases are vaccinated fully or partially.
Of note, 13% of Omicron cases are unvaccinated, whereas 17% of Danes in general are are unvaccinated. Even fewer of younger Danes received vaccines. So, the vaccinated are represented disproportionately among Omicron cases, and the unvaccinated are underrepresented. Put in another way, being unvaccinated is an advantage for Danes exposed to Omicron.
This aligns with other news, such as 11 out of 12 Omicron cases in Oakland being vaccinated and boosted:
Kaiser Permanente said Wednesday that 11 of its vaccinated and boosted Oakland Medical Center workers were among a cluster of East Bay COVID-19 cases linked to the omicron variant — and that at least 16 patients and other staff members were exposed to them before the discovery.
Kaiser said Wednesday that the 11 infected members of its Oakland Medical Center staff were fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and had received booster shots.
hahahahahaahah… hahahaa… so funny … isn’t it funny norm?????
Only 18 out of 1,280 were hospitalized. This is great, right? Not quite.
Hospitalizations lag cases by about one week, and cases are rising rapidly. There are important caveats to this, that I list below, but read on. The overall tendency for hospitalization graphs is to trail case graphs by a week. So, to see how many people end up hospitalized, we need to look at the number of cases from a week ago, and compare to the number of hospitalizations now.
The total number of cases as of Dec 3 is 139. (1+1+1+4+7+3+10+10+26+76 = 139) (see Table 2)
This means that the number of hospitalized as of Dec 10, related to the number of cases as of Dec 3, is: Hospitalization rate = 18/139 = 12.9%.
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hahahahahahaahahaha…. norm dunc.. where’s dunc? anyone seen dunc???? hey dunc… check it out bruther…
Omicron variant “prefers” the vaxxed in Denmark
Hospitalization rate is 13% of cases taken with a week lag
A great “Omikronvarianten” report just came out of Denmark. A very interesting report and a lot of data. It is dated today, December 10. I will analyze hospitalization data and show that hospitalizations as percentage of relevant cases can be estimated as 12.9%. This compares to the relevant overall historical rate of 15% in the US based on “positive tests”, and compared to 6% historical rate in the US based on “all estimated symptomatic cases” in denominator.
https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/omicron-variant-prefers-the-vaxxed
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This link that FE posted, Make it a “must read”. The comments section is fantastic.
https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/omicron-variant-prefers-the-vaxxed
Please read all the comments if possible.
Some ominous developments discussed in the comments…
We’re looking good .. Omicron might be IT. If it is then it won’t be long … viruses are like that.
Most reported US Omicron cases have hit the fully vaccinated -CDC
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that of the 43 cases attributed to the Omicron variant, 34 people had been fully vaccinated.
https://www.jpost.com/health-and-wellness/coronavirus/most-reported-us-omicron-cases-have-hit-the-fully-vaccinated-cdc-688433
hahahahaahahaha… I am suddenly delighted.
No! It can’t be true! Remember, “this is a pandemic of the unvaccinated!”
Hahahaha… funny that
I am thinking since this is the end … shall we just open the flood gates and have a free for all with no removing comments? Bare knuckles with knives glocks machine guns baseball bats … no rules no nothing… ooo ooo ooo ooo…. hahahahaha
I am putting spikes into the end of a baseball bat to prepare for the OFW cage match
Something a little more subtle than baseball bats at this point Eddy. How about a congressional hearings with Fauci set up in such a way that he decides honesty is his best bet. The below would work I believe.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eiWQQ8MMQ8o
hahahha https://t.me/TommyRobinsonNews/30101
GVB https://voiceforscienceandsolidarity.substack.com/p/vss-science-updates-during-pandemic-897
……………BOOM https://twitter.com/i/status/1469393153434304518
Gov. Inslee stoops to new low, says COVID unvaccinated are domestic terrorists
https://mynorthwest.com/3269333/rantz-gov-inslee-stoops-to-new-low-says-covid-unvaccinated-are-domestic-terrorists/
Definition of fully vaccinated may change with booster shots rolling out: Ontario top doc
Ontario’s top doctor says the definition of who is considered fully vaccinated against COVID-19 may change with booster shots rolling out.
Dr. Kieran Moore made the remarks in response to a reporter question at a press conference Friday where new measures were announced amid concerns about rising case numbers and the spread of the Omicron variant.
https://globalnews.ca/news/8441457/definition-of-fully-vaccinated-may-change-ontario-covid/
Bulk offer should be made to Canadians
https://i.postimg.cc/9MMftKTd/Microsoft-Teams-image-2.png
Hey norm… we can make one for kids so that all your grand kids can be sure to get all their Clot Shots… you likey?
Vax injuries.. of course
norm – will you protect your grand kids or will you invite the Injection Squad in and hold their hands as they are exterminated?
All-cause mortality in Germany is rapidly rising
Alex Berenson 6 hr ago
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During the second half of November Germany – the largest country in Europe – had a death rate almost 25% above normal, compared to 17% above normal in the first half of the month.
These extra deaths are mostly NOT from Covid.
For all of November, Germany reported almost 15,000 extra deaths. Excess deaths were almost normal in the spring and early summer; they have sharply risen since then.
Germany’s mass vaccination campaign for most adults began late. On May 1, only 8 percent of German adults were fully vaccinated. On September 1, 61 percent were.
Is anyone even going to start asking questions, or are the public health authorities just too scared of what the answers might be?
https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/all-cause-mortality-in-germany-is
SOURCE: https://www.destatis.de/EN/Themes/Society-Environment/Population/Deaths-Life-Expectancy/mortality.html;jsessionid=B6BDB79CE179B8A7D692A3EAE236B20D.live741
This is killing 2 out of 1000 per year far far too low we need 200 out of 1000 per year.
true!
it’s just basic math, if the 2 per thousand goes up 25%, then it’s 2.5 per thousand.
should I tell my Elite contacts that this is unacceptably low?
don’t they know we want massive death numbers?
and we want them NOW.
You are completely right Ed.
And it is a very evil clever rate, because it goes in the ‘right’ direction without making too much noise.
In the “right” direction, yes, but 14 M deaths per year is too slow for any meaningful purpose. The “ideal” would be thirty times that, say 400M excess mortality per year. Depop. wise, that would be an effective and safe progression. Safe as in slow enough not to terrify the herd, since it’s vital the people continue to trust and obey their leaders. Fear is an indispensable tool in the political toolbox, everybody knows that, but in a social species, if fear degenerates into panic (lack of hope/trust), the result is stampede, chaos, etc.
Telegram Group NZ:
[12/11/2021 8:07 AM]
Where can people with vaccine reaction report it please? My dear friend lost her baby straight after the second vaccine, she started to feel really sick. But as she was just 9 weeks, she got told it happens by the doctors. Her, as many other pregnant, got assured by midwives it’s absolutely safe and there is nothing to worry about.
This is what happens when you have the intelligence level of norm…
Applause for the MOREONS
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Just back from an anti vax restaurant … they have been reported but as the owner told me the cops do nothing other than ask if they are checking … they say ‘we are’ and that’s it….
Bloomfield is on record as saying no system is perfect… so they expect mistakes …
M Fast and I enjoyed a relaxing breakfast… I guess they sometimes forget to come back and make sure…or maybe they were busy and when we showed our phones they didnt see clearly?
As the owner suggested – they likely know this is unenforceable (and she’s ready to fight it)… so they just rely on business owners to try to enforce because they fear a find (that cannot be enforced).
She also mentioned that a pub in Aussie appealed a fine and won
Are we living in a Simulation?
A new thought or theory has occurred to me in relation to the plandemic the elders may be acting out their subconscious desires so if in their subconscious the elders want a s sustainable world with a sustainable population than unconsciously they will project their desires on to the world that is why we will have vaccine mandates for a long time they are not killing people on purpose or by design but acting out their unfulfilled desires they probably think they are doing nothing wrong and they are rolling out agenda 2030 to save humanity from themselves
I wonder what rate of death for the vax people are willing to accept?
1 out of 2
1 out of 4
1 our of 10
1 out of 100
1 out of 1000
1 out of 10000
1 out of 100000
Are we at 1 out of 10000 currently? I am talking shortish term 180 days not ten years.
Inflation of the jab is a distraction. In the Metaverse i got 72 boosters for BTC 00,00000998.
This is how incredibly things have devolved. On one hand, the dealer can get fined? On the other hand, the buyer must consent to verification- starting from jabs, then purchases, then eventual outright control of his bank account?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Zlaa7wrc90
Note to self: Keep hidden cash on hand. Be ready to video the act of payment. As I have mentioned on previous posts, when traveling long distances preferably keep NATO Jerry cans so that you can reach your destination non stop. And for the first time ever, I carried my Glock 21 (45 ACP) with me in the car when I had to drive two hours to the Charlotte NC Amtrak station ( not so nice section of town) to pick up my daughter from college in Raleigh at 9:00 PM at night.
My paranoia and alertness increase. Maybe too much of FE? No way.
https://americansuppressorassociation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Glock-21-4.jpg
Nice! Wishing I could own a couple of these… Not Allowed in NZ.
Get two and practice quick draw.
I have one …..having two doesn’t work, you can’t focus enough on one hand….then you want a rifle as well and a shotgun. It will be a lot of fun chasing down rich trustfunders!!! Sorry Kulm…..
However when there are MOREONS gathered … no need to focus… just open up on the crowd… hard to miss
Oh no…. What if the Austrian MaxxVaxx closes down the Glock factory?
Just like the days of Sundown Laws when blacks could only stay on certain locations.
Using a handgun for defense in public “bad neighborhoods” while law is still in place is a near impossible task.
Consider these things.
You cant have your gun out and give verbal commands for people to stay 20 feet away from you. You have to establish that there is a lethal threat before you can deploy the gun and the distance at which you will determine that is about a yard. The reality is the distance at which a lethal threat is determined significantly lessens the chances of deploying the handgun successfully. FBI statistic- most gunfights occur at under 2 yards and are over in 2 seconds. Because of this I strongly believe all handgun training should focus on close quarters techniques. Look at southnarc on youtube.
The circumstances you note are one of the few where i might carry a handgun. To defend against the possibility of a loved one being murdered/raped. For my personal defense- not worth the risk of prison. Rather take a beating. Hell id rather take ten.
This is the reality of handguns in public for self defense. It takes training. A lot. Training takes money. It takes time. It still guarantees nothing. Your trading one risk for another. Now other people carrying them? Oh hell yes. As many as possible. That keeps me safer and the risk all on them.
THe best way to protect your daughter is to train her to defend herself. She may not want to. I caught my girlfriends daughter hitchiking once. I got her home got her mom there and told her what the risks were. Some stories. She started sobbing. She didnt want the world to be like that. There is nothing you can do about that. She still trained up pretty good. Most people only get serious about self defense after they are a victim. That f***** college has probably put some real silly thoughts in your daughters head. None the less you can offer it to her and advocate it. She may even have aptitude. (hope springs eternal)
When I say self defense I am not necessarily talking about using force. Awareness of surroundings and conflict avoidance are usually much more valuable.
So what can you do and what should you do?
Communicate with your daughter. “Sweetness its a bad neighborhood I am scared. I want you off the train and in the car promptly. How can we do this?” Get her creativity going. Hopefully she will scare you.
This should be your focus. Get to the car. Once you get to the car you have control of a ton of mobile escape potential. Its key. learn escape driving. No not running people over. That can mess up your car effect your chances of escape negatively. Oh and hello criminal justice. LOSING.
Where will she exit the train? What is the route she must take between the train and the car? How can she minimize the time? Scout. Thugs around? Pay extra to keep the car where there are taxis public-no thugs. You gassed up out in the burbs right? Why not you out front engine running?
Shes thinking about these things RIGHT? Your a team on this RIGHT? Oh shes dressed in baggy clothes right not tight sexy ones? RIGHT? No hot dark eye makeup? RIGHT?
You never know what you will catch with your bait.
Your very very best bet for risk mitigation is to stay in around people and minimize the time in the high crime neighborhood.
There is a martial artist i like. A lot. Marc “the animal” Mcyoung I think. He writes. “you want to be like fluffy the cat. What happens when fluffy the cat gets scared? Fluffy is all claws but she is getting the f*** out of dodge. If you get inbetween her and the exit you are getting hurt” 8lb cat. It will jack you up if you dont let it leave
Everyone understands that. That commitment to be like fluffy to only destroy what prevents you from leaving is key to effective self defense. Not destroy the person. That elbow that ankle. ONLY what is in your path. This is the power of intent.This is self defense. Your intent is to leave. The whole universe supports you and your daughter in this. Do your best. scout the area. stay where their are people. Dont go where the thugs are. Get to the car. Get the f*** out of dodge. You dont just stride in thinking your John Wayne automatically protected with your glock. (pun not intended). That may well put you at MORE risk. Certainly more risk of learning just how pleasant the criminal justice system is. Will a couple of glocks help you with your intent? Perhaps. Perhaps not. Your trading risks. More important is to be fluffy.
Your moving your LEAVING BABY your not standing ground for a millisecond. Your daughter is with you s**T shes leaving you behind she gets it. Oh S*** somthing got in her way- so sad. Fluffy is scared. Fluffy doesnt want a fight. Fluffy gets called names. Fluffy is doing one thing and one thing only LEAVING BABY. Get in the way of fluffy you may end up on your ass, you may end up scratched but only because you got in the way of fluffy leaving. Fluffy will go around or maybe not fluffy is scared. maybe a broken wrist a broken ankle or two. Fluffy is leaving baby. Fluffy is a winner.
But perhaps against all odds someone stomps fluffy injures poor fluffy so she can not leave. Then perhaps fluffy deploys some Austrian steel.
Above all fluffy does not move to a place of trouble. Fluffy always avoids places of trouble. Fluffy is really a rather boring feline.
I highly recommend the book “the gift of fear” for your daughter and you to read. Its a couple of bucks at thriftbooks.com. The principles in it will serve your daughter well. Understanding “forced teaming” is incredibly valuable for a young woman.
A lot of young women are raped. It often effects their life in a very negative fashion but not always. Better to be fluffy. Call me a fluffy freak. Before or after collapse. Fluffy is always the correct approach.
Fluffy concept entirely owned by Marc “the animal” Mcyoung “Taking it to the street”. A superb read if you can find it.
Sadly another Columbia University student was murder this past month. She was walking in the park where the feral animals play. I as a six foot male knew never go in the park, avoid the animals and stay alive.
I reckon everyone should be allowed to own a Glock and open carry. Society would be much more civilized as that would eliminate almost all bullying.
I support very minimal rules for guns.. such as nobody under 12 should have one… if someone shows disrespect or you perceive an insult it should be legally acceptable to shoot them in the head.
Again – think of how much civil people would be… it would put a quick end to those irritating neibhours who bitch about everything… it would reduce divorce rates to virtually zero…
Thats silly. everyone would be dead or hiding in a hole forthwith.
That would be like the episode of simpsons where homer simpson uses his pistol as remote on the tv. I have no problem with open carry but it causes problems. People feel threataned and uncomfortable. People who are unfamilar with firearms see it as a power object not a tool.
The best is a high percentage of trained responsible adults from all walks of society with concealed carry permits. Predators dont know who it is. Well actually they do. its not hard to spot. The vast majority of CCW carry on right side. Their body language gives them away. They will keep the gun away from people angling their body unaturally. Cops and crooks can spot CCW with high degrees of accuracy. I somtimes observe who is carrying in the supermarket. Most times I am trying to remember what i wanted to buy… Neverthe less a significant amount of people carrying makes for a safer society.
I generally like interacting with people and dont carry a pistol. It changes the interaction for me. I dont like the responsibility and liability of carrying. If i was going to take that and protecting the public on I would want to get paid and have a get out of jail free card.
I know a lot of people who carry. I support their right to do so absolutely. Some of them are terrible shots. The ones that can shoot usually havent any close quarters, retention, or ground combat training. Lots of people have learned ground techniques now. If the interaction starts with someone putting your ass on the ground were they feel more comfortable using their techniques is that pistol a asset or liability?
Thats the trouble. The firearm becomes the focus. It hinders you in finding other more appropriate solutions that flow freely.
A broken thumb. an arm bar, a elbow placed a somwhere that really gets someones attention. Instead of having a world of options now you got one. It steals most possibilities for creativity, flowing with the moment. And that one path is very undesirable to boot!
Fast Eddy is open to compromise … how about this … the Non-MOREONS get guns and they are permitted to shoot the MOREONS for sport?
Before you get upset about that … remember .. there are billions of MOREONS… and they are MOREONS… we kill barnyard animals for fun… what’s wrong with shooting MOREONS?
Plus they are irritating.
I bet norm is getting uppity (again) after reading that… he is feeling threatened … and insulted
WVK?
More than a yard. One must interpret when deadly force is warranted to use your gun in self defense. This can occur when you determine that someone is intending to threaten you with deadly harm, this could happen when they are 20 ft away. A man with a knife can close on you from 20 ft in seconds. If a man is approaching you and you feel your life is in danger, then you are allowed to defend. Let’s put it this way. If you let a man that is threatening you with potentially lethal force, get within a yard, you were poorly trained.
If threatened in close quarters, one can always implement self defense tactics such as Krav Maga. engage your opponent and try to impart physiological pain to him such that you can then escape the situation and report it to police. That is the goal.
Why not bring back duelling .. or even better … a pro gunfight circuit?
Sure if it happens to be a madman waving a knife around.
The really dangerous people are not going to deploy the knife until close. ALA weapons should be felt not seen. Why would you show a opponent a short range weapon at range? Usually really dangerous people are carrying a screwdriver. Legal for a felon to carry. Go ahead explain to the jury why you shot someone with a screwdriver.
Anyone who has done role playing exercises with simunitions or other less expensive methods understands that to insure safety you must observe open hands at at least 20 feet. Even at that it touch and go. You cant walk down the street giving people verbal commands that their hands must be open and visible or you will shoot them if they approach closer than 20 feet. Even if you could would this behavior work toward your safety, the publics safety, your need to express and receive love and for personal interaction?
Im explaining my position. As I mentioned I absolutely support others decision to CCW. I admire their dedication to their personal and families safety.
I have known civilians who have used firearms in self defense and who charges were not pressed against. They were young and it profoundly changed their entire life. If you live in a small community you interact with the family and friends of the human- yes human- whose life you have ended. Regardless of whether his actions warranted legal lethal force, regardless whether moral and ethical standards were met in the shooters decision a profound shock runs through that community and effects it for decades. I have also known many many veterans who have taken life in war and observed the effect it had on them. Many of them were close friends.
When one takes actions one must determine whether it truly represents ones essence IMO. IMO that is the path of the warrior. Lets say X exists. You decide you are “not x”. X has defined you. What are you? What is your identity other than “not x”?
IMO the decision to carry a handgun in public has profound implications. I believe that people should feel safe. I believe that it is everyone’s interest to cultivate a fair civil society. I choose the risk and actions I feel appropriate to work towards this. I try to work toward these ideas with my actions. I strongly feel these ideas have merit.
There are actions that better work toward this other than joining the SWAT team IMO. Just my opinion and my personal choice. IMO I feel this is especially worthy of consideration when polarization is clearly being used to keep good citizens from uniting. Such a important decision certainly warrants a exploration of what is the desired outcome and whether that decision creates opportunities for a desired outcome.
I know where I stand. I know what lies in my heart. What happens when someone deploys a handgun who doesnt? Most usually one of two things. 1. they choke. THe gun gets shoved up their a***. 2. THey press the trigger until the gun locks open empty. They are judged.
These are not desirable outcomes. The decision to not have what is clearly the most effective tool ever created for self defense around if the gravest extreme should occur is not a desirable outcome eithor. This is why great caution and contemplation is appropriate before choosing to carry a handgun. IMO it is certainly not wise to choose to carry a handgun and not cultivate situation awareness, and conflict avoidance skills, skills that in many instances are vastly more effective in creating favorable outcomes.
JJ-Thank you for some very thoughtful posts
Lots of people running on auto-pilot without an understanding of what is or could be going on around them (be it the world energy situation, ecological overshoot, or a trip to the downtown train station)
Awareness of risk and how to handle re one part of life can be accompanied by pollyannish thinking re another
Good reminder that moderated thoughtful & active anticipation/planning probably better than blind uninformed belief in security or fear-driven reactionary extremism and must balance both short and long term consequences
That was a wise response. You never want to deploy a gun unless you have to use it. Walking around you must be self aware and constantly cognizant of your surroundings and potential threats. If any stranger approaches you, perhaps to pull out a screwdriver at the last minute, you cannot allow yourself to be in a position where he could stab you. If it means dodging him and trotting away, running, or even blocking him with with both hands, you can’t let him stab you. Assuming you have your wits about you, at that point you will have dodged the stab and can run, engage him or if armed, defend yourself.
No easy answers in our dangerous but litigious society.
Shoot first … and ask questions later… it’s ok to ask a corpse questions btw
norm WVK?
4-year-old gets hypothermia after school isolates him outside for suspected COVID symptoms
A four-year-old British boy developed hypothermia after his school isolated him outside in a “shed” due to a mild cold suspected of being COVID.
Chloé Wilby told News & Star last week that Wigton Infant School put her son, Mason, in an “outdoor shed” after seeing that he had a runny nose and slight cough. She said the school called her to pick up the boy as soon as possible, without informing her that he was being held outside in 40-degree weather with no heating.
When she arrived, Wilby found her four-year-old with “hands red raw, eyes watering like mad, snotty nose down his face.”
“He couldn’t talk” and was “shivering like mad,” she said. “They even made him eat his lunch outside, no toys, no games, nothing.”
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/4-year-old-gets-hypothermia-after-school-isolates-him-in-outside-for-suspected-covid/?fbclid=IwAR0KmuLl9SyQCuEZnLSs28LiQz-A7UckOsItgLVgYG9dLRtrJNA24Dsi_GA
Just a suggestion: have you considered ‘nesting’ your many excellent links together by posting them in ‘reply’ to each other, to group them, and to save pages keep ‘turning’. It just might help sustained discussion if pages do not keep turning and burying discussions. Maybe group all of your links together on any given page. Thanks for all your stuff, and it is just a suggestion. 🙂
Will do, thanks!
Soon we will all be outside, no toys, no games, nothing.
The boy is an early adopter and we should all be proud and croudfund his future obesity.
Australian Dictator Daniel Andrews Declares MARTIAL LAW for December 15th for the whole state of Victoria. Many thousands in the state are already fleeing across state borders.
https://i.redd.it/487teyq5ro481.jpg
hahahahaha… so when do we get to the point where they have had enough of this … and there is a general uprising?
I’m thinking … never
As long as they have food and TV there will be no uprising
A small number of Brits enslaved hundreds of millions of Indians for many years before they hit back…
It’s quite easy if you know what you are doing and understand that most people are as easily manipulated as rats… cuz they are MOREONS
At a certain point, won’t declarations like this be interpreted by the public as government failure?
Yes, and at a certain point the Plebs tend to go ballistic. If history has taught us anything, is that these types of authoritarian controls never end well for any government. Eventually people snap and get highly violent and unpredictable. It just takes time for the violence to begin.