Is it possible that the world is approaching end times?

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.

Figure 1. Thought map by Gail Tverberg.

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.

Figure 2. Chart by Gail Tverberg.

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.

Figure 3. World per capita energy consumption, with the 1950-1980 period of rapid growth highlighted. World Energy Consumption by Source, based on Vaclav Smil’s estimates from Energy Transitions: History, Requirements and Prospects (Appendix) together with BP Statistical Data for 1965 and subsequent years, divided by population estimates by Angus Maddison.

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:

Figure 4. Chart from Washington Post based on a Cost-of-Thriving analysis by Oren Cass.

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.

Figure 5. Auto sales by country based on data of VDA.de.

[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.

Figure 6. Inflation-adjusted oil prices based on data of BP’s 2021 Statistical Review of World Energy.

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.

Figure 7. 10-Year US Treasury and 3-Month Treasury yields, through November 2021. Chart by St. Louis Federal Reserve (FRED).

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.”

Figure 8. Chart by Gail Tverberg. Amounts through 2020 based on an analysis of historical energy consumption using the same sources as those used in Figure 3.

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.

Figure 9. World per capita energy supply by type of fuel, based on BP 2021 Statistical Review of World Energy data.

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.

Figure 10. Inflation adjusted weekly average Brent oil price, based on EIA oil spot prices and US CPI-urban inflation.

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.

About Gail Tverberg

My name is Gail Tverberg. I am an actuary interested in finite world issues - oil depletion, natural gas depletion, water shortages, and climate change. Oil limits look very different from what most expect, with high prices leading to recession, and low prices leading to financial problems for oil producers and for oil exporting countries. We are really dealing with a physics problem that affects many parts of the economy at once, including wages and the financial system. I try to look at the overall problem.
This entry was posted in Financial Implications and tagged , , , . Bookmark the permalink.

6,123 Responses to Is it possible that the world is approaching end times?

  1. Jason A Carter says:

    Simulations help pilots become better and safer. It’s a training tool. Our experience is a spiritual training tool.

  2. Michael Le Merchant says:

    Putin tells Boris Johnson urgent talks needed over Nato’s plans for Ukraine

    “Vladimir Putin has told Boris Johnson that he wants immediate talks to secure clear legal agreements that Nato will not expand eastwards. According to a Kremlin readout of the two leaders’ phone call on Monday, Putin said talks were needed to discuss Nato’s future intentions, and to clarify Ukraine’s plans for the east of the country”

    “Putin said he wanted clear international legal agreements that would exclude any further Nato advance to the east, and the removal of weapons that threaten Russia in neighbouring states, primarily in Ukraine. He added that Russia was preparing clear legal documents to support its demands.”
    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/13/putin-demands-talks-over-natos-plans-for-eastern-ukraine

  3. Michael Le Merchant says:

    No English Subtitles yet:

    Here is Marc Doyer’s testimony on the side effects of the injection.

    He said … “I have 13 cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob (Mad Cow) that were reported to me in the space of 3 weeks, occurring 15 days after second injection …
    https://www.bitchute.com/video/xypJsHK1bkZs/

  4. Fast Eddy says:

    Hey dunc – enjoy!!!

    Most Reported U.S. Omicron Cases Have Hit the Fully Vaccinated

    https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/covid-nw-most-reported-u-s-omicron-cases-hit-fully-vaccinated

    I’d recommend getting more boosters… but that is obviously likely to increase your risk.

    I would actually recommend trying to suck that sh it that you injected and remove it from your cells…

    You can buy one of these and try to un-F789 yourself hahahaha

    https://cleaningbeasts.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/most-powerful-shop-vac.png

  5. Michael Le Merchant says:

    China Property selloff continues
    Shimao -8%
    Aoyuan -5%
    Evergrande -6%
    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FGiFuNwVIAEgS94?format=jpg&name=large

  6. Lidia17 says:

    Where is Fauci going / being allowed to go with this?

    “This would not be the first time, if it happened, that a vaccine that looked good in initial safety actually made people worse.”

    (27 sec. clip)
    https://twitter.com/VigilantFox/status/1470455120513142792

    • Mike Roberts says:

      Gosh, this can be so tedious. Why do you think this is a short clip? Could it be that this is a very old interview and that the comment was taken out of context? Well, that certainly would cross my mind. It turns out that the interview was in March 2020 and he was discussing how the safety trials of vaccines would work. About 23 minutes in: https://youtu.be/p1jLKNPxJuQ

      • Fast Eddy says:

        mike likes to use the phrase ‘taken out of context’

        Ever since mike said he took the jabs because he wanted to go to the pie shop for his favourite mince pie…

  7. Mike Roberts says:

    That link doesn’t work – need to go to the original article. I didn’t see ivermectin mentioned there. Did you mean indomethacin?

  8. Fast Eddy says:

    cmpalmer755 hr agoLiked by Igor Chudov
    I’ve heard a few people suggest that Omicron evolved in an HIV patient, but I’ve not heard anyone explain how an immunocompromised person could survive a long term infection with SCV2 without treatment? I get why an HIV patient would have trouble clearing the virus…any virus…but how did he survive for 15 months? Wouldn’t this have implications for the virulence of the variant? Do we have any data on HCQ and Ivermectin us in South Africa and Botswana? How could this happen?

    1Reply

    BartramWrites Bartram’s Folly ·4 hr agoLiked by Igor Chudov
    It is due to a mix of those with HIV having a compromised immune system but also taking antivirals. The antivirals suppress any viral infection but the compromised immune system means that viral clearance isn’t complete.

    2Reply

  9. Fast Eddy says:

    BartramWrites Bartram’s Folly ·7 hr ago
    We’re not sure about T-cell immune escape, but it certainly is a possibility.

    The insertion at 214 is a bit odd. Normally you see deletions and changes — these are ‘easy’ to happen for an RNA virus. Insertions take a bit more effort. The odd things about ins214EPE is that it actually matches some parts of the human genome. Alternatively, it might have come from a co-infection with a ‘cold’ type coronavirus. Anyway, there are mechanisms to this type of insertion to occur, only it is much less likely than the normal sets of mutations. I it does code for t-cell immune escape then there’s certainly some evolutionary pressure to keep it around once it has evolved… There’s some more info here: https://osf.io/f7txy/

    I’d suggest that it is most likely that this has mutated within a human with HIV. I’d suggest that they were likely vaccinated, but that’s not essential for these things to occur. I’d state that it is very important to note that this ‘isn’t their fault’ — SA has a terrible problem with HIV and they’ve got enough problems to deal with without any ‘blame’.

    It isn’t out of the question to suggest that it came from a lab. If it did then I don’t have the information as to why they’d want to do it (ie, I don’t know if it is a 12-monkeys scenario or it was the Chinese releasing a ‘solve the problem and save humanity’ variant).

    https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/boris-johnsons-biggest-blunder/comments

  10. jj says:

    Had three friends who are unrelated get the virus in the last month. All were unvaccinated fit and late 60s. One was hospitalized. No IVM or synthetic antibodies. Came pretty close to death. Made it but wont be running a marathon again- or anything like it. Two went to great trouble to get doctor prescribed IVM and synthetic antibodies. It wasnt easy to get any of it. The IVM was particularly hard to get prescribed and filled. Those two are pretty much recovered. It still knocked them out of commission for two weeks. I cant help but wonder if they had the IVM on hand earlier would it have sped their recovery. Pony paste not on the agenda for them human grade only.

    Another friend mid 30s got it two weeks ago. Unvaccinated. Got the synthetic antibodies no IVM. pretty mild for him but he is complaining of “brain fog”.

    Ive said it before. Ill say it again. This aint the flu. The virus is no joke. Be vigilant with your vit D, zinc and sunlight. Im taking quercetin now too. and 4 grams of C a day. No guarantees in any of that but anything you can do to get better odds…

    • Jarle says:

      “The virus is no joke.”

      Since this “pandemic” started not one person I know has died.

      The virus is a joke!

      • Fast Eddy says:

        Average age of death from covid is 82 – with multiple co-morbidities.

        Off hand I know of only one person over 80 — and she is extremely healthy.

        So the odds of me knowing someone who died of Covid would be pretty much ZERO.

        Hold on – norm dunc are over 80 … they are brain dead but alive

      • rufustiresias999 says:

        I know one person who “maybe” died from COVID. Actually, I don’t really know her. She was the mother of a cousin of my wife. 92 years old suffering from lunge problems Since years. Went to hospital and died. She was registered as drying from COVID.

      • rufustiresias999 says:

        My wife had appendicitis last Easter. She had pain in the belly. A doctor came, she had fever, so he said she had COVID. That’s all, job done, over. I said “don’t you think it might be appendicitis?“.” why do you say so? “”because when she walks she bends exactly the same way our son did when he had appendicitis and she complains she has pain in the belly, so why don’t you do you you’re f*g job as a physician and examine her properly?” (I didn’t say the last part). He did, and finally sent her to hospital, where it happened to be peritonitis (we already had lost 24 hours). The hospital was almost desert, and the story ended well.
        I had a second bad experience with a slightly competent physician, I’d suggest we’d should all be vigilant.

    • Jarle says:

      “Had three friends who are unrelated get the virus in the last month.”

      How do you know? Because the o so reliable “test” said so?

      • jj says:

        All four of my friends had classic symptoms and were tested.

        Jarle I was of your mindset. Whole things a fraud. The first time i got it was feburary . I still thought it might be a normal sickness I sometimes get respiratory illnesses in winter. Then i got It again in July. I in my whole life have never had a respiratory illness in the summer previously.

        The second time I got it i had gone to a big city and done a lot of shopping. So I had lots of exposure to now vaccvinated carriers. On the way home my nose started watering like a faucet. Never experienced anything like that. It moved very fast down to my respiratory track but not my lungs.

        I could feel a weight or a presence in my upper respiratory track. The Phlem was very very sticky. It felt different than illnesses that i have had in the past from a spiritual as well as physical illness perspective

        Notable was the miraculous way the second dose of pony paste on day three totally stopped all symptoms and coughing in hours! Unless pony paste works on the flu that was a big indicator that yes this is the dreaded covid. At this point I abandoned the possibility that it was a total fraud and became a believer in its existence.

        We are genome mapping all over the world now. Whether you believe in genome mapping or not the results are consistent. When one genome mapper constructs a genome profile from test results other mappers start having the same results and constructing the same genome map. This indicates to me also there is a real virus and the science for mapping its genome is real also. We can see variants occur and the spread. I dont believe that so many different testers and mappers could be involved in a faking of these test results and consistent genome maps. I could be wrong. The Omicron has so many abrupt genome changes with no history that the mappers had to give each other hints to identify it correctly. Omicron is a very very strange phenomena. From a genome mapping perspective its like it was dropped from outer space. Whether it gestated in a HIV patient for a year before “hatching” as suggested , the official explanation of its unprecedented total lack of history in developing its 32 genome changes or had helping hands Im not keen to be infected by it. Nor would I be if I happened to be injected which does not stop infection or transmission just severe outcomes.

        I am mid 60s. Jarle perhaps you are younger? The people hit hardest by the bioweapon are my age and older. If you have younger friends perhaps that explains why no one you know has died. Many of my young friends share your sceptacism.

        These reasons are why i believe the bioweapon to be quite real and quite dangerous. Its largely this dangerous because of the suppression of early treatment and therapeutics such as Ivermectin are not being administered IMO.

        It is a desirable characteristics in bioweapons to have a incubation period where the the infected person is alive and spreads the virus. This is a characteristic of covid 19. It explains why really the only effective treatment if for people to have safe therapeutics on hand when they experience symptoms. If the virus is unchecked in early stages the treatments are basically dealing with damage in later stages including the bodies own immune response. This is different than the majority of diseases and part of the reason that the rona is indeed something very different than what the world has seen before.

        By the way i forgot to mention. Im rinsing my nasal passages with $2 saline spray quite frequently now when in public. This is based not just on medical advice but my own experience of how it entered my body and multiplied in my nasal passages last time. Not offering medical advice these are just my perceptions of what i have experienced and observed. It seems the medical world is not allowed to advocate the common sense measures of VIT D K C zinc along with other easily done preventative measures for fear that it will be perceived as a substitute to the injection that they apparently find quite appealing.

        • Fast Eddy says:

          How much horse paste did you take? I have a big tube that is meant for a 700kg horse … I have not read the instructions and not sure if this is meant to be a single dose for a horse or multiple….

          It’s flavoured so will be putting it on toast

    • Student says:

      I completely agree with you

    • JMS says:

      If the virus that no one has isolated or identified (and that PCR tests don’t detect) is not a joke, I wonder what you consider a joke. It’s a joke and a pretty funny one. I’ve been laughing for almost two years now.

  11. jj says:

    LT Colonel DR with Masters in medicine testifies under whistleblower act that

    The vaccine is more dangerous to armed forces readiness than the virus.

    Nuremburg code is being violated

    She was pulled from seeing acute patients after grounding pilots with vaccine injury. Now she can only give routine physicals. Sees risk of aircraft accidents from vaccine injury very high.

    https://www.bitchute.com/video/kIoYwTfxDtYU/

    • jj says:

      I would also like to mention that this very brave Lt Colonel with a masters in medicine entered the military as soon as age permitted. She belives in the military and the troops safety. She has been advising people that are considering the injection ” you have everthing to lose and nothing to gain”. She also testified her superiors ordered her “get everyone injected so we can see if it is safe” . This is a clear admission of medical experimentation on humans.

  12. Michael Le Merchant says:

    I worked in the energy market for almost a decade and have NEVER seen this happen before.

    The media has recently started warning New England about upcoming blackouts this winter, due to high natural gas prices and a lack of supply.

    I’m warning you now that if New England experiences a blackout(s) as severe as Texas’ in February 2021, we should all be worried. Here’s why…
    https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/rfbo75/i_worked_in_the_energy_market_for_almost_a_decade/

    • Ed says:

      I did not know the extensive lengths the New England grid goes to to insure supply no matter what. So yes, if it goes out it is collapse or corruption and we likely have both. 10% for the big guy

    • When I used Google to find articles about possible rolling blackouts in New England this winter, I found several. These are two:

      https://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local/grid-operator-warns-of-winter-power-outages/2669154/

      If New England has a prolonged cold snap this winter, the operator of the electric grid warned they may have to shut off the power to homes and businesses.
      “NOAA is predicting better than average temperatures so things are looking good for this winter, if it’s a mild season we should be fine,” ISO New England President and CEO Gordon Van Welie said.

      https://bangordailynews.com/2021/12/07/business/new-england-could-see-rolling-power-outages-for-the-1st-time-this-winter/

      There have been no grid-wide rolling outages in New England to date, but if they are required this winter, ISO New England would give each utility in the region a percentage by which to lower electricity supply, said ISO New England spokesperson Matt Kakley. The grid operator would inform consumers of any outages via news outlets and its website.

      I imagine that there are a number of ways that things could go wrong. One issue I am aware of that has happened in the past is that the total capacity of natural gas pipelines is not very high. If relatively more natural gas is required (perhaps because more nuclear is off line, or because it is very cold, or because it is not very windy), then it may not be possible to ramp up natural gas deliveries to the area as much as required.

      One problem that takes place is that the same pipelines deliver natural gas for generating electricity and natural gas for heating homes and businesses. There is also some industrial use of natural gas. At least at one time, it was fairly easy to overwhelm the capacity of the natural gas pipeline system, if both heating and electricity usage (some of which is for heating) required large amounts at the same time.

      One solution in the past has been to cut out some industrial users of natural gas. Another solution has been to close some schools for a day or two. Some electricity producers have added oil generation (and stored oil) to try to prevent outages. Homes are the last to be cut, because there is likely to be a problem with relighting all of the pilot lights in home furnaces, water heating, clothes driers and stoves.

      I don’t know what the situation is now, but the distribution part of the system is the part that tends to get overlooked. This happens with both natural gas and electricity (and its need for more grid), I am afraid. It is “sort of” easy to add wind and solar, or to remove coal, but it is easy to overlook the fact that more natural gas balancing may be needed. This will require infrastructure besides actual natural gas supply.

      • hillcountry says:

        from the comment section over there:

        Blackouts are possible, every grid has a quality of supply standard they are suppose to follow that dictates the biggest trip they can mitigate if there is a problem at a power station. For example where I live 1000MW is suppose to be the biggest trip in terms of frequency swing within parameters, and 1800MW is biggest trip with only mitigation from Frequency reserves (e.g. LFSM).

        Anything bigger than 1800MW will mean they need to rely on load shedding which progressively removes loads from the network based on a pre-set schedule.That is most likely what they mean by risk of blackouts, it isn’t that they are running out of fuel but that they are running the grid without adequate intertia (frequency reserve) most likely caused by new wind farms being brought online.

        • Thanks! It is the kinds of things that we lay people would not think about that cause the grid to fail. It can be inadequate quality of electricity supply caused by too much wind in the mix, or it can be problems with the natural gas supply, or it can be other things. In the UK, we have seen many electricity providers go bankrupt because they guaranteed electricity at a price that turned out to be too low. It becomes impossible to find other providers to place these customers with. This could easily happen in the US Northeast, if wholesale prices spike too much. The same kind of thing could happen in the US Northeast.

          • hillcountry says:

            add these from same poster for more color on that:

            For the grid operator one of the mitigating meaures for this is to reduce capacty at thermal power stations, so the grid operators will pay thermal stations to run below capacity (e.g. a 1000MW station will typically run at 700MW). Some of those stations will be allocated as spinning reserve so will maintain a certain thermal capacity for a fast ramp based on loss of frequency. This way if a big 1400MW wind farm trips in the north sea, the thermal generators will instantaneously pickup the slack and stop a blackout from being generated. This depends on how much spare thermal generation you have available however and if it isn’t adequate there is the risk of load shedding.

            The downside is you are effectively paying for the energy twice, once from the wind farm and again for the thermal station “NOT” to generate the energy.So the risk of blackouts isn’t due to low amounts of gas, but due to so much new wind farm generation being added to the grid without having adequate mitigations measures in place to handle the loss of a big generator or wind farm.

  13. Michael Le Merchant says:

    OUR REALITY IS A SIMULATION – DAVID ICKE
    https://www.bitchute.com/video/y4p5a0Ph1UCH/?list=subscriptions

    • Fred says:

      I’ve considered it too, but at the end of the day, experientially for this life here it doesn’t really matter.

      However, if it’s true the big downer is it posits no spiritual progression to higher realms [sigh].

      “There must be someway outta here . . . “

    • Lidia17 says:

      In most simulations, though, nobody ever seems to have to poop or pee. So why do we have to poop and pee all the time if this is only a simulation?

      In Zork nobody had to poop or pee. AFAIK you could sometimes eat, but not poop.

  14. Michael Le Merchant says:

    San Francisco Drug Overdose Deaths Nearly Triple COVID

    “Bad is an understatement. I would say it’s horrific, it is negligent, it is an epidemic in and of itself, and it was not always this way,” Jenny Shao, a freelance multimedia video journalist and San Francisco native, told NTD Television.

    She says drug overdoses have been an ongoing crisis for the city but have gotten much worse over the last five years.

    “Before, you were able to walk through the streets … and you did not have to try and tiptoe over bodies not knowing whether they were dead or alive.” Shao said.

    Shao continued, “And, also, you did not have to hopscotch through anything like drug paraphernalia … and you were not literally walking through a scene, of say, ‘The Night of the Living Dead,’” Shao said.

    One drug addict’s mother has described it as a “Zombie Apocalypse.” Her 32-year-old son is addicted to fentanyl, which has left him homeless and physically “bent over” so that he “walks like an old man.”
    https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/san-francisco-drug-overdose-deaths-nearly-triple-covid

    • Ed says:

      Yeah the videos of the fentanyl addicts in Philadelphia are like a horror movie.

      But hey, payback for the opium brought in by Yankee clippers is fair enough.

    • Fast Eddy says:

      If Fast Eddy was in Sanfran he’d put all these addicts into a zoo and charge Big Money for viewings… this is also where HE would put anna if he won the auction

  15. Fast Eddy says:

    “Illinois bill proposes to strip the unvaccinated of their health insurance” – “Illinois Representative Jonathan Carroll wants to push through a change to the state’s insurance law that would mean health insurers no longer have to cover unvaccinated people who get Covid

    https://off-guardian.org/2021/12/08/illinois-bill-proposes-to-strip-unvaxxed-of-their-health-insurance/

    • There seem to be a lot of things proposed that never get anywhere. This may be one of them.

    • drb says:

      Given the quality of American health care, it does not matter. They would save themselves some money.

    • Student says:

      Considering this absurd reasoning, they should strip of their health insurance also people who smoke, people who don’t stop at traffic lights and make an accident, people going for a ride on a bike or a horse without an helmet, people who drink whiskey, people who go bathing in the sea after eating and turn very bad, people who eat too much and get fat and so on.
      Practically only an ascetic monk could have an health insurance.
      But with a special clause avoiding Shaolin monks because they practice King Fu and it is dangerous.

      • Fast Eddy says:

        As previously stated — I would support Death Panels…. I would also support non-MOREONS being allowed to open carry and open fire on MOREONS who fail to know their place and talk back

        • hillcountry says:

          I’m tellin’ ya – Michigan’s the place to be – Gretchen Whitmer would hire you sight-unseen for her Death Panel Planning Board – PLUS we have Open Carry. What’s not to like??

          • Fast Eddy says:

            It’s not that hard to get one’s mind around why Albright said it was justified to starve 500k Iraqi children to death….. we need the spice

  16. Fast Eddy says:

    Devil Covid hahahaha…

    It’s actually not so dangerous it seems … unless you are vaxxed…

    Again rejecting the vax is not a great idea… Fast Eddy only does so because HE fears the short term side effects… HE needs to be in play when this goes down .. it was in HIS Messiah Contract… (‘no vaccines allowed – no sky diving or other dangerous sports or you void the contract).

  17. Fast Eddy says:

    BOOM!!!

    hahahahaahaha

    BartramWrites Bartram’s Folly ·5 hr agoLiked by Igor Chudov
    Thanks very much for the link, Igor — I’d not seen it.

    Anyway, It is very much worse than you’ve suggested. Hospitalisation takes about 5-7 days following infection (I think it is possibly longer for the vaccinated, but we’ll stick with about a week for now).

    Thus the number hospitalised (37) should be compared with the number of Omicron cases 5-7 days ago — this was 171-703… That’ makes 5-20%…

    Now, I’d assume (frankly, I hope) that actually there were rather more cases and it was just that they weren’t so good at identifying Omicron at that point… But it really doesn’t look too good right now.

    It also looks like Omicron has achieved near complete vaccine escape. (it actually looks like there are more vaccinated-infected than you’d expect given the %age vaccinated in the population).

    • Michael Le Merchant says:

      Seems like the whole enchilada will culminate around New Years. Hoping we get nice nuclear fireworks display to send us to oblivion. Hoorah!

    • Lidia17 says:

      Has anyone come across anything that says how they are ID’ing these “Omicron” cases? Because back when it was “Delta”, we knew they were only doing spot sampling (actual sequencing) and then extrapolating what they thought should be “Delta” cases to the majority. There was never any commercial-type test to individuate “Delta” in particular.

      Given that, I’m sure it’s not the case that they are doing full sequencing to ID every “Omicron” instance, so what gives?

      What’s their explanation, if they have one?

      • Ed says:

        Lidia, my understanding is three components are tested for when testing for covid alpha and when covid omicron is tested for only two of the three components with the third missing. I have no idea how often anyone is actually testing. Certainly my impression media is happy to wing it.

      • Fred says:

        Sure, your local pharmacy takes your swab and sticks it in their di-lithium powered, $10M gene sequencing machine in the back room. /sarc off.

        Actually I searched on “Israeli booster shots” this morning and was astounded by the amount of Omicron = Get Your Booster propaganda that came back.

        The conclusion was it’s all about getting the sheeple to line up for their boosters.

  18. Fast Eddy says:

    Vaccine Side Effects Are More Common in Those Who’ve Already Had Covid

    https://dailysceptic.org/2021/12/08/vaccine-side-effects-are-more-common-in-those-whove-already-had-covid/

  19. Herbie R Ficklestein says:

    Wow. What a purchase …lots of paper being tossed around in the wall street casino!
    PS Dave Stockman is warming of a CRASH …get out! 😂

    Pfizer to Buy Arena Pharmaceuticals in $6.7 Billion Deal. Arena Stock Soars.
    By Callum Keown
    Updated Dec. 13, 2021 8:40 am ET / Original Dec. 13, 2021 6:49 am ET
    Pfizer has agreed to buy U.S. biotech company Arena Pharmaceuticals in a deal valued at about $6.7 billion.

    The U.S. pharma giant said the acquisition would expand its cancer and inflammatory disease drug pipeline.

    Shares in Arena Pharmaceuticals (ticker: ARNA) surged 93% to $96.45 in premarket trading, while Pfizer (PFE) stock climbed 1.6

    Looks like big Pharma has it all locked 🔐 up Fast Eddy…

    You better get your sleeve rolled up Eddie…

  20. Michael Le Merchant says:

    Collapse In Shimao Bonds Could Be “More Devastating Than Debt Crises At Evergrande And Kaisa”
    https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/collapse-shimao-bonds-could-be-more-devastating-debt-crises-evergrande-and-kaisa

    • Fast Eddy says:

      I dropped this onto the Anti Covid Vax telegraph group — https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/boris-johnsons-biggest-blunder

      they are mostly chatting about where you can get your hair styled outside of the salons which are vax only… home schooling kids… someone is selling organic soap today…. etc..

      https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/boris-johnsons-biggest-blunder

      It’s kinda like dropping a bomb isn’t it? They will dismiss it… it’s too dark… it’s way too much for them to handle…

      And it definitely will not mobilize them to take serious action … they cannot believe that this is about exterminating them.

      There are quite a few on OFW who would understand the oil situation is critical… and still reject that extermination is imminent … fair enough — it’s quite a bit to chew…

      But that’s what this is…. don’t you feel the scalding water?

      • Fast Eddy says:

        Consider why Ivermectin etc… are being blocked…

        They are actually doing everyone a favour … when Human Marek’s gets into high gear … most people will be dead…

        You might think using these medicines to survive is a good thing … but this ain’t no hollywood movie… being one of the last persons standing is not winning …

        No food … no civilization … it would just prolong the misery … then the spent fuel ponds will come….

    • It sounds like Shimao had a better credit rating, so it was not as expected. The sales prices of their bonds are way down.

      According to the report:

      “A major price collapse or a downfall of Shimao will cause lapse in confidence in cross-over investment grade names in China property, which acts as the final refuge for the sector,” according to Anthony Leung, head of fixed income at Metropoly Capital HK. The impact could be more devastating than debt crises at Evergrande or Kaisa because they were of much lower credit quality, he added.

  21. Fast Eddy says:

    The Impact of Fear and Anxiety on the Human Immune System: Part I

    https://voiceforscienceandsolidarity.substack.com/p/the-impact-of-fear-and-anxiety-on-d06

    • It is hard for people to imagine that groups would set out to make an illness seem more threatening than it would normally be. One section in this report says:

      Public health’s seven-step recipe for project fear

      “As long as not everybody is vaccinated, nobody will be safe”. Klaus Schwab

      The recipe is entitled the ‘Seven-Step Recipe for Generating Interest in, and Demand for, Flu (or any other) Vaccination’. The recipe aimed to foster public interest and high vaccine demand was discussed at the National Influenza Vaccine Summit 2004, sponsored by the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the American Medical Association (AMA) and devised by Glen Nowak Acting Director of Media Relations, CDC.

      • Lidia17 says:

        Thanks for highlighting that pronouncement by Schwab. Of course it makes no sense, as we have never said “as long as not everybody is vaccinated for tuberculosis, nobody will be safe”.

        But it has a sort of “truthiness” ring to it that the neurotic will latch onto.

  22. Mirror on the wall says:

    There are two and a half years to go yet, and a lot could change, but this is an intriguing scenario.

    SNP would presumably stand May 2024 on the platform of a mandate for Indy2 according to a predetermined form and timescale. It would be practically impossible for Labour to form a government without conceding that mandate if LP failed to gain an overall majority, which is very likely. And it would be ‘morally impossible’ were SNP to get anything close to every seat in Scotland on that platform.

    LP is dreaming if it thinks that it will ‘change the options’ on the ballot or delay until it has implemented its own policies. If they think that SNP would not refuse to allow Labour to form a government then they would be in for a shock. It would either be Indy2 entirely on the terms of the Scottish parliament or no Labour government. LP could have its own ballot on those terms and ‘get back’ to the SNP.

    https://www.thenational.scot/news/19781525.westminster-poll-predicts-snp-win-every-seat-scotland-general-election/

    > Westminster poll predicts SNP to win every seat in Scotland at General Election

    Find Out Now and Electoral Calculus conducted the research using a technique aimed at providing results that would be more accurate at a constituency level.

    The poll, run on behalf of the Daily Telegraph, predicted the SNP to receive a UK-wide vote share of 5% – meaning the party would take all 59 Scottish seats.

    READ MORE: Questions over indyref2 timing as pandemic ‘could last until 2025’

    This would see the party gaining 11 seats, mostly at the expense of the Tories and LibDems, though Labour’s Ian Murray would lose out in Edinburgh South.

    The poll put Labour at 35%, translating to 271 seats, with the Tories on 36%, losing 77 seats and falling to a total of 288.

    Labour’s Keir Starmer would need the support of the SNP to form a government in that scenario.

  23. hillcountry says:

    http://mileswmathis.com/div.pdf

    There are two revolutions going on simultaneously now, both of them hidden by mainstream noise. I just showed you the first and primary one, which is a revolution of the middle and lower classes. General strikes, marches, lawsuits, and civil disobedience. But there is a second one, and it worries the Phoenician Navy just as much or more. This is the revolution of the second tier against them. As we know, there is a huge amount of wealth and power at the top of the pyramid, but there is also a huge amount of wealth and power just beneath that, in the second level. In fact, that segment has greater wealth and potential power than ever before.

    In order to soak the middle class like never before, the Phoenicians have required the assistance of an ever-expanding upper-class of managers and viceroys, through whom the trillions must funnel. Without their complicity, the Phoenicians would not have been able to do what they have done. While the Phoenicians were becoming quadrillionaires, this underclass was becoming billionaires and centi-millionaires.

    The problem for the Phoenicians is always numbers: only ten thousand, say, can exist at the top of the pyramid, being the closest relatives of the ruling families. Their more distant cousins then inhabit the second level, but they now comprise millions of skilled insiders with huge wealth of their own. And being from the families, they figure they have as much right to the top level as anyone. Many are as pure of blood as the top level, or more so, and have been bumped into the second level only due to prior bad marriages or other “accidents of history”. Being of Phoenician blood and extraction, they have been brought up on the same amoral belief system, which teaches that all is fair in business and war, and everything is business and war for them.

    Sure, the Phoenicians have their own rules, but in the Modern world, all rules, even those, are hard to enforce. They can’t be enforced with ideas of right and wrong, since the Phoenicians don’t have those. They can only be enforced with force: with terror, pain, fear, and threats.

    [skipped some text in here]

    For all these reasons, the Phoenician Navy is in danger of an unprecedented collapse. The Phoenix is stepping on its own planted landmines. The rest of the world should unite in crushing it forever, even if it means supporting this second tier. The second tier will likely just replace the Phoenician Navy with near cousins, but something may have been learned in the event.

    • I think a person needs to go back to the link and read the whole thing, to get the gist of what this is saying. The name of this is, “The Real Divisions.”

      It starts out,

      As difficult as the past two years have been, I believe it was a necessary rough patch we had to move through. It has been extremely clarifying. To me, everything before March of 2020 now looks a bit misty, since you really didn’t know where people stood then. You really didn’t know for sure how smart or honest they were, or who they worked for. Thanks to the big Covid fake, we now know. Hundreds of millions of people have now outed themselves in spectacular fashion, including almost all the most famous ones, which is very useful moving forward.

    • drb says:

      Interestingly, this is the same exact problem facing the bloated Saudi Royal family. They, too, are crypto-Phoenicians.

  24. Fast Eddy says:

    NZ Doctor presents on the failure of the vaccines

    https://m.facebook.com/anne.fitzsimon/posts/4856728414358583

    • This doctor originally had faith that the vaccines would put an end to the COVID problem, but she discovered after investigation that the original story wasn’t true (COVID didn’t really kill very many) and there were early treatments available that we aren’t being told about.

  25. Fast Eddy says:

    hydrochorliquine … available OTC in Hong Kong … does anyone have experience shipping something like this specifically what to label the package so it does not get seized?

  26. Michael Le Merchant says:

    Russia May Be “Forced” To Deploy Intermediate Nuclear Missiles In Europe If NATO Refuses Dialogue
    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russia-may-be-forced-deploy-intermediate-nuclear-missiles-europe-if-nato-refuses

    • correct me if i’m wrong, but no weapon of war has ever been produced without it being used

      • Mirror on the wall says:

        There is some encouraging news on that front.

        https://www.state.gov/transparency-in-the-u-s-nuclear-weapons-stockpile/

        > From fiscal years 1994 through 2020, the United States dismantled 11,683 nuclear warheads. Since September 30, 2017, the United States has dismantled 711 nuclear warheads. Approximately 2,000 additional nuclear warheads are currently retired and awaiting dismantlement.

        https://www.discovermagazine.com/technology/russias-decommissioned-nuclear-bombs-provide-10-of-us-electricity

        > Russia’s Decommissioned Nuclear Bombs Provide 10% of U.S. Electricity

        …. When the Cold War ended, the Russian and U.S. governments struck a deal: Russia would turn the uranium from its decommissioned warheads into nuclear fuel. The U.S. would buy this fuel and sell it to commercial nuclear power plants back home. The exchange was a way for the former Soviet Union to clean up its military facilities and get paid to do it. Anton Khlopkov, the director of Russia’s Center for Energy and Security Studies told NPR, “This is the only time in history when disarmament was actually profitable.”

        From Bombs to Light Bulbs

        Since the deal was struck in 1993, 500 metric tons of low-enriched uranium have made their way to the U.S. That’s been enough fuel to provide about a tenth of the United States’ electricity consumption over the years. In fact, U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz said in a statement today, nearly every commercial nuclear reactor in the United States has received nuclear fuel under the program. Today the very last shipment of this repurposed uranium arrived at a port in Baltimore. It will be converted into fuel rods and shipped out to nuclear power plants across the country over the next few years. According to the Verge, “Matthew Bunn, professor at Harvard University, called the deal one of the greatest diplomatic achievements ever.”

        • much of the danger seems to boil down to male ego and posturing.

          the leader of this country or that can’t be perceived as weak—it matters to present ‘self’ as all powerful and ‘right’.–to negotiate is ‘weak’

          no matter that millions might die to ‘prove it’. God is always on their side. Which makes it OK.

          ww1 was a case in point, wars almost always are–always ‘masculine pride’ and dominance of others. One nation desires what the other has.

          ‘reducing’ the number of warheads is laughable–all it takes is a few–a dozen at most, and the global economic system is finished for good.

          both sides know this but leaders cannot back down and get rid of all of them—or all weapons for that matter.

          if women ran things–it would be different.

          women produce kids and therefore have the ultimate stake in the future.

          that is something men miss out on.

      • Anton Chekhov said that. He said when there is a weapon in a play (a movie, a show, whatever), it has to be used.

      • Ed says:

        General Sline : When we commissioned the Schmectel Corporation to research this precise event sequence scenario, it was determined that the continual stockpiling and development of our nuclear arsenal was becoming self-defeating. A weapon unused is a useless weapon.

        Spies Like Us (1985) – Steve Forrest as General Sline – IMDb

      • Fast Eddy says:

        MVK?

    • Mirror on the wall says:

      Russia seems to be saying, ‘you don’t do it and we will not need to either. Stick to the agreement.’ That sounds like a good deal.

      I certainly will not be waving any poms poms for nukes in Europe. If this is the outcome of the Trump presidency then we could do without it.

      It is not much fun being stuck between two nuclear powers intent on waving them about. And secondary ‘powers’ (basically proxies) stirring things are not much welcome either. (No, they are not ‘plucky’, they are a d/mn nuisance.) There is ‘will to power’ and there is ‘will to cretinous posturing that we can all do without’.

      Ibid. > “Russia said on Monday it may be forced to deploy intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Europe in response to what it sees as NATO’s plans to do the same,” Reuters reports of the new remarks by Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov. He told Russia’s RIA news agency in a fresh interview that “Moscow would have to take the step if NATO refused to engage with it on preventing such an escalation.”

      Ryabkov said that Russia believes NATO has been signaling it is moving closer to its own redeployment of intermediate-range nuclear forces in Europe. The INF Treaty, signed in 1987 between Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan, was designed to prevent just such a nuclear weapons standoff scenario on European soil. The United States formally suspended its participation in the INF Treaty under Trump on February 2 2019 amid Russian and as well as global warnings that Washington’s exit would trigger a new post-Cold War era ‘arms race’.

      The Kremlin is now citing a “complete lack of trust” and specific indicators of NATO preparing to build-up previously banned weapons in Europe:

      Ryabkov said there were “indirect indications” that NATO was moving closer to re-deploying INF, including its restoration last month of the 56th Artillery Command which operated nuclear-capable Pershing missiles during the Cold War.

      He added: “Lack of progress towards a political and diplomatic solution to this problem will lead to our response being of a military and technical military nature.”

      “That is, it will be a confrontation, this will the next round, the appearance of such resources on our side. Right now there aren’t any, we have a unilateral moratorium. We call for NATO and the US to join this moratorium.”

      So for now this fresh threat coming from the Kremlin appears geared toward building greater leverage to bring NATO back into direct dialogue at the negotiating table, following the recent Biden-Putin two hour summit wherein the Russian leader pressed Biden on “legal guarantees” that NATO would not conduct any further eastward expansion.

      • Ed says:

        The US never sticks to its agreements.

      • Mirror on the wall says:

        I do not think that I believe myself there. If USA and Russia want to ‘man up’ then that is up to them. I certainly do not imagine that they await my permission. My point was mainly that I personally would not support USA.

    • The article says,

      ” the Kremlin has issued it’s biggest threat yet, on Monday saying it might now be forced to deploy nuclear missiles in Europe.”

      Isn’t Russia down-wind from Europe? Wouldn’t this be an extraordinarily stupid thing to do?

  27. Michael Le Merchant says:

    Biden Won’t Extend Student Loan Relief And Confirms Student Loan Payments Restart February 1
    https://www.forbes.com/sites/zackfriedman/2021/12/13/biden-administration-wont-extend-student-loan-relief-confirms-student-loan-payments-restart-february-1/

    • Of course not – Biden was primary sponsor of late ’90s legislation that made Student Loan non-dischargable in Bankruptcy – he has been long captured by Delaware/Corporate Banking interests and large private Student Loan Lenders who are some of the most predatory lenders of all time.

      • Ed says:

        Lets say 10 million debtors each pony up $1000 for the big guy. He will be happy to extend the no pay for three years.

    • Not extending the moratorium on loan repayments sounds like it could trip up the economy. If this is done at the same time as QE unwinding, I can see a major economic problem.

  28. Michael Le Merchant says:

    In court filing, Facebook admits ‘fact checks’ are nothing more than opinion
    https://wattsupwiththat.com/2021/12/09/bombshell-in-court-filing-facebook-admits-fact-checks-are-nothing-more-than-opinion/

    • From the article,

      “In its response to Stossel’s defamation claim, Facebook responds on Page 2, Line 8 in the court document (download it below) that Facebook cannot be sued for defamation (which is making a false and harmful assertion) because its ‘fact checks’ are mere statements of opinion rather than factual assertions.”

  29. To reach the next stage of civilization, resource shortage has to be mitigated.

    Destroying consumer is the fastest way to solve this issue.

  30. Michael Le Merchant says:

    Covid pass exemption to be changed from two vaccines to three “once all adults have had a reasonable chance to get their booster jab”, says Sajid Javid
    https://twitter.com/BBCPolitics/status/1470432396990464004

  31. At the right time, today’s winners will simply kill those who are not really necessary.

    It is inevitable.

    I am sorry, but time is up for the world’s poor.

    Today’s winners, with their militarized police and other paramilitary groups, will simply kill the poor outright. Tenements will be demolished with the residents in , protestors will simply be gunned down or run over with heavy trucks, etc.

    In utilitarianian terms, that is a good thing since those who are more likely to contribute to civilization and create more value will be reducing those who are less likely to do so.

    • I think the thing that makes this plan not work is the fact the poor are involved in so many supply lines. The rich needs quite a few poor people to support them, but they don’t know precisely which ones.

      I don’t think that we really know what is ahead. Perhaps things will turn out less badly than we imagine.

  32. Michael Le Merchant says:

    What’s in the jabs they’re so desperate to give us?
    https://www.anhinternational.org/news/what-s-in-the-jabs-they-re-so-desperate-to-give-us/

    • Hubbs says:

      I dunno. But my cynical conspiracy theories about the US Military’s obsession to VAXX its the soldiers are running wild.

      Those who refuse the VAXX are effectively being screened out as the possible future resistance after they leave the military. Therefore, get them out now. A Stalin like purge, only COVID style. The remaining forces will be unable to face against real enemies – only domestic civilian rabble- as in the early stages of WWII the Russians were unable to resist the German Barabarosa invasion as their trained experienced officers had been executed.

      Those soldiers who comply with the VAXX are more likely to obey orders when it comes to controling the civilian population if it ever comes to open (armed) revolt. Plus, those who consent to the VAXX may later acquire long haul sequela that phsyically incapacitate them in the future preventing them from posing any threats. Kind of like the Pharohs entombing the slaves who built the pyramids.

      Have faith in your VA Medical System/s.

    • This article, among other things, refers to a preprint analyzing potential problems with the UK data. This preprint is called: Latest statistics on England mortality data suggest systematic mis-categorisation of vaccine status and uncertain effectiveness of Covid-19 vaccination

      It can be downloaded at this link:

      https://www.researchgate.net/publication/356756711_Latest_statistics_on_England_mortality_data_suggest_systematic_mis-categorisation_of_vaccine_status_and_uncertain_effectiveness_of_Covid-19_vaccination

      • Thanks Gail – excellent analysis of UK data

        well reasoned data corrections to account for anomalies (mis-categories) and data offsets (registration date offsets)

        “…Hence, after our offset adjustment we observe no significant benefit of the vaccines in the short term. They appear to expose the vaccinee to an increased mortality, in line with what we know about immune exposure or pre-infection risks, but with perhaps a small protective benefit accruing post second vaccination (although we do not see this in the offset adjusted results).

        An excellent analogy for what we are observing is made in [15] where the challenge is to get from a foxhole to a bunker, which is protective against artillery but to get to the bunker you must cross a minefield where
        you are exposed to accurate and deadly sniper fire. The second vaccine is like the bunker, while those in the foxhole are like the unvaccinated; those who die when crossing the minefield are classified as fox-hole
        deaths. ..”

        Rather MIS-classified as fox-hole deaths.
        more risk in running for bunker than in just staying in the foxhole

        no significant extra safety from the Vaccine given the pre-infection risk (have new (1-3d) symptomless covid at time of jab (when supposed to wait until 3-4 weeks after contracting) or immune exposure (very weak immune at/after jab higher risk infection & death)

        Looks like UK poorly timed vaccines as well – given as peak infection was falling – vaccinees had their strongest immunity during the summer – exactly the time that had the lowest chance of getting an infection and by time natural wave reappear in fall the immune advantage of the vaccine had waned – would have made more sense to forgo vaccination in spring 2021 and wait to give first vaccine until mid-late summer 2021 so that peak immunity in vaccinated would correspond to anticipated peak virus season. Looks like if go ahead with Omicron vaccine may make the same mistake again.

    • Ed says:

      This is the 100 trillion dollar question.

  33. Michael Le Merchant says:

    A DOCTOR HIDES HIS IDENTITY TO SAFELY SPEAK OUT
    https://www.bitchute.com/video/sIWI9b5x8Jyt/

  34. Herbie R Ficklestein says:

    New Amazon warehouse in Pembroke Park employs robots to do the heavy lifting
    At the new Amazon robotics delivery station, hundreds of machines are loaded up with thousands of pounds of packages

    Amazon opens facility in South Florida with more robots than workers
    Local 10 gets a first look inside 200,000-square-foot delivery station
    Saira Anwer, Reporter

    PEMBROKE PARK, Fla. – A new Amazon robotics delivery station is the first in Florida and Local 10 got an exclusive tour inside the prime location on Hallandale Beach Boulevard.

    “This is a totally different system from what we’ve ever had,” said Paul Clemons, the operations manager. “That’s exciting,” he added.

    In a streamlined process, the familiar gray vehicles roll in around 8 a.m. and are ready for the first wave to be loaded on a cuing pad. Then the drivers head in to get their designated packages to be delivered within a 45 miles radius of the site.

    But how do all those packages get organized? That’s where the robots come in. More than 300 machines called “drives” can be loaded up with as much as a thousand pounds of packages.

    We get to activate the robots by pushing a button to release the pod. Then it looks like the drives go dancing, but it isn’t freestyle. It’s a highly organized system to get the packages where they need to go.

    Currently, there are 60 employees in this 24/7 operation taking up a 200,000 square foot space and they are hiring.

    The Town of Pembroke Park Mayor Geoffrey Jacobs said that Pembroke Park has had no new developments in a long time.

    “Having Amazon in Pembroke Park is a blessing as it brings much needed jobs to our diverse community.

  35. Michael Le Merchant says:

    Trust the science:

    Germany: “Booster” injections are now offered as early as 4 weeks after the last vaccination in the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia

  36. hillcountry says:

    Ron Unz gets a rebuttal from Dumbo in Comment #24

    Ron wrote: ↑
    Our global Covid catastrophe is probably the most important historical event since the end of World War II

    Dumbo replied:
    Ron, you provide a valuable service with your site, but “Covid” is not a catastrophe, at least, not as much as the “fight against Covid”.

    Think about it. The main problems were not caused by Covid itself, but by the deranged attempt to “control it”. Even lots of deaths were caused by the “fight against Covid” and not by Covid itself. From lockdowns to old people abandoned in nurse homes, from the incorrect use of ventilators to the “stay home and don’t see anyone until it gets serious” treatment approach, thousands of people died. And that not including those caused by suicide, desperation, isolation or simply other diseases that were not treated during the lockdowns.

    From the beginning, mRNA vaccines and “vaccine passports” were sold as the global “solution”, even though they don’t seem to be really “solving” anything, do they? And how good can be a vaccine that needs to be taken every five months, anyway?

    But from their perspective, a perennial pandemic and a world of “vaccine passports” is ideal. It’s what they want. Hell, even before the pandemic started, those “solutions” were already in the works. Just check the papers by WEF, Rockefeller Foundation, Gates Foundation, whatever. It’s obvious all this was planned in advance.

    The disease itself, I won’t say it’s not a big deal, but it’s also not that terrible. If nothing was done about it, we probably wouldn’t even have noticed it so much — like the Hong Kong flu of the 70s, it would barely have registered with most people. There’s nothing all that remarkable about “Covid” that is different from other respiratory diseases. What’s insane and novel is the global approach against it.

    https://www.unz.com/runz/american-pravda-confronting-covid-crimestop/

    • NomadicBeer says:

      And yet, John Michael Greer (which I read and respect) allowed a comment through that said (paraphrased) “this can’t be a conspiracy, if it was they would just let people die, instead they are helping them but they are misguided”.
      My comment pointing out that covid is nothing as a disease and the whole conversation is about the overreaction – was not published, presumably since it’s a “conspiracy theory”.

      So thank you Gail and people here – at least it’s okay to question the narrative here, which apparently it’s too much for such countercultural icons as the archdruid.

      • JonF says:

        I really admire Gail’s generosity of spirit…letting the conversation run…

      • Fred says:

        I had a comment pinged too recently. I’m supportive of JMG though. His forum gives a chance to people who are starting to wake up to ease into a different conversation/reality.

        You can almost see them rubbing their eyes in disbelief. “What they recommended a treatment that’s not good for me . . . !!?”.

        People contribute solutions too.

        Whereas here you need a thicker skin and the alternative reality smacks you relentlessly right between the eyes.

      • Jarle says:

        JMG is a archdruid – what did you, a simple no one, expect?

  37. Yorchichan says:

    Sergio Aguero set to announce his retirement on Wednesday”

    His career has been cut short by a few years; I wonder how many years have been taken off his life. If he’s retired is he free to speak his mind? Wouldn’t it be great if when he officially announces his retirement he gives a scathing attack on that which ended his career.

    The number of footballers with heart problems is increasing. Manchester United player Victor Lindelof had to be substituted on Saturday after chest pains and a racing heartbeat. Same for Napoli footballer Piotr Zielinski on Sunday. Both are only 27 years old. How many more early retirements will be announced before the end of the season?

    • JonF says:

      Sergio is a living legend, known by tens of millions of people, so if he spoke out, he will get a lot of the world’s attention…but if it is only him, the propaganda machine will go into overdrive…

      But if him spilling the beans leads to a stream of other “injured” pros coming forward with their stories….there’s a chance…

      • Yorchichan says:

        We can but hope. Given the importance of football to so many western men, a star like Sergio speaking out could really make a difference.

        Someone I spoke to last night was already aware of the heart problems amongst footballers (and football crowds), and said “no way” was he having a booster.

        Messed up that hyperlink, damn it!

        Sergio Aguero set to announce his retirement on Wednesday

        • Fast Eddy says:

          He has either been told to say nothing because it will dissuade people from boosting (he may be a Hyper CovIDIOT so buys into that)…

          Or he has been told — say nothing – and you get paid.

    • Rodster says:

      It won’t matter until someone like Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi or Kylian Mbappe collapses or dies before players begin to give the middle finger to The Jab. Unfortunately they make millions playing a game to entertain so there will be others lining up, taking a risk with The Jab.

      • JonF says:

        Yes, if Sergio was in his prime and still playing for city, the truth would be hard to stifle…

        Without wishing harm on anyone, to wake up the UK it will probably take an England international collapsing on the pitch.

      • Yorchichan says:

        I suppose Sergio Aguero is not so well known in the United States, but he is very famous in the UK, Spain and (doubtless) his home country of Argentina. Believe me, what’s happened to him will be noted by many people in these countries. In these places he’s for sure more famous than Mbappe, though he’s not as universally famous as Ronaldo or Messi. As you say, It would be very interesting if either of these two superstars were to develop problems.

        • JonF says:

          I would be very surprised if individuals like Roy Keane, Rafa Benitez, David Walsh the sports journalist are not quietly learning everything they can about these “injuries”…

          Maybe Lance Armstrong’s rise and fall provides lessons for how the scamdemic will play out?

  38. Z says:

    Anna makes me laugh. These people or literal paid agents/bots are the biggest dupes imaginable. These are the types that are the most fervent cult adherents. They love jimjones-19 and they love getting injected with the jimjones kool-aid. They slurp it up like it is going out of style.

    Thank you Anna. Keep knocking em out of the park.

    • Rodster says:

      The problem with the likes of Anna is that the available data already shows these drugs aka vaccines are not safe for human consumption. In the 1980’s Tylenol was pulled from store shelves because fewer than 50 died from tampering. Yet with the Covid 1984 vaccines we are well into millions of severe injuries and tens of thousand deaths. Yet the propaganda machines from all sides doesn’t want any dissent so more shots are in order.

      Alternative medicines have been banned from discussion and in some cases prescriptions; with doctors being threatened with their license to practice medicine.

    • Fast Eddy says:

      We want anna!
      We want anna!
      We want anna!
      We want anna!
      We want anna!
      We want anna!
      We want anna!
      We want anna!
      We want anna!
      We want anna!

  39. Pingback: Daily Bookmarks to GAVNet 12/13/2021 | Greener Acres Value Network News

  40. hillcountry says:

    General Motors is sailing full-steam ahead with a third battery-plant in the works for Lansing, MI

    https://www.americanmachinist.com/news/article/21183540/automaker-to-build-new-ev-battery-plant-in-michigan-general-motors

    • I hope that they find working supply chains to provide the materials that they need.

      • Lidia17 says:

        Gail, it’s hard to imagine management committing to these projects without a firm sense of there being a future in them. We see oil companies pulling back on investment because they apparently do not see a future in it. so what do you think is the difference here?

        Is it all being subsidized by the gov… ?

        • I don’t think that GM has adequately analyzed the situation. One question is whether the lithium price can stay high enough, long enough for a ramp up in extraction to actually take place. The price looks quite variable.

          https://ycharts.com/companies/LTUM/price

          Another question is whether problems associated with inadequate fossil fuel supplies (including high prices for coal, natural gas and electricity in many parts of the world) will provide an obstacle to the extraction of lithium.

    • Fast Eddy says:

      Keep pumping in the hopium to the very last second

      • hillcountry says:

        Calling James Dean

        http://www.bloodshedmotors.com/

        Zombie 222

        Zero to 60 in 1.79 seconds

        1/4 mile in 9.89 seconds

        1 mile – 177.8 mph

        Think they had Don “Big Daddy” Garlits’ battery-packs on-board for that record-breaking run.

        GM needs a Carroll Shelby right about now and somebody to fly Air America shipments of Lithium from Afghanistan.

        • Fast Eddy says:

          Zero to 60 in 1.79 seconds

          Battery sucked dry in less than 2 seconds requiring 12 hours to recharge hahahaha

          Also — try stopping a vehicle with a 500kg battery at high speed — have a friend with a Tesla and he was telling me it’s hairy….

  41. Michael Le Merchant says:

    Lira Craters To New Record Low As Turkish Central Bank Burns Billions In Futile Attempts To Halt Collapse
    https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/turkish-lira-craters-new-record-low-central-bank-burns-billions-futile-attempts-halt-crash

  42. Michael Le Merchant says:

    New all-time high for UK natural gas futures, surging, up more than 10% today.
    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FGfKvjnXEAk1Us8?format=png&name=large

    • Minority of One says:

      Those LNG deliveries we got from the Middle East must be running low.

    • Someone should have thought about this issue, when they decided to go all-in for wind and solar.

      • Ed says:

        Lawrence Livermore National Labs proposed doing a study to determine the cost of each and every energy system. They were denied funding. It appears Washington D.C. did not want to know the answer to that question. This was about ten years ago.

  43. Pingback: Por qué ocurre el colapso; Por qué puede que no esté muy lejos

  44. Michael Le Merchant says:

    Julian Assange Suffers Stroke; Father Says He Was Vaxxed In Prison

    Julian Assange’s father, John Shipton, has told a French interviewer that his son has been given a Covid-19 vaccine in Belmarsh Prison.

    “He has been vaccinated, of course,” Shipton told the show Thinkerview, live-streamed on Monday. “So he has no choice in this. No choice about anything. He has no control over his body.”

    Shipton said every medicine Assange accepted in prison would go on his record and wind up in court. Likewise any medicine he refused would also be reported.

    There is “not a mandated Vax” in the prison, Shipton told Consortium News in an email. “I was attempting to illustrate that Julian’s body is not under his control. All actions, as I understand it, are noted and available to [the] prosecution. The psychiatric staff and medical staff write reports which are available.”

    Shipton told CN that “if [the] Vax [is] not taken, I presume prison administration, no less than other institutions …” would report it. “Thus a freedom which in practice does not exist,” he said.

    Shipton told the French interviewer: “He only has choice about what he might think about from this minute to the next minute. What his thoughts are, are his. The rest is in the complete control of the jail administration because it is a maximum security prison. Everything … is supervised. ”
    http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=62735

  45. Herbie R Ficklestein says:

    GOP senator calls for Biden administration to recognize ‘natural immunity’
    Sun, December 12, 2021, 1:44 PM
    Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kas.)
    Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kas.)

    Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) called on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Biden administration on Sunday to recognize natural immunity when combating the COVID-19 pandemic.

    Appearing on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Marshall, a physician, voiced support for ongoing coronavirus immunizations but appeared to also argue that not everyone needs a booster shot. He said protection offered by natural immunity from having contracted COVID-19 should also be taken into consideration.

    “If the CDC could have pivoted sooner, we would have saved thousands of lives. I think being honest with people, the CDC needs to acknowledge natural immunity,” said Marshall. “Look, as a physician, I was never able to talk anybody into stopping smoking by a mandate or by trying to argue with them. It was by being honest and communicating with them.”

    “Ninety-two percent of Americans have some level of immunity to this virus based upon the CDC website. So let’s start there. And, really, the messaging coming out of the White House has to acknowledge natural immunity and be honest with America,” he added.

    Noting Marshall’s repeated calls for natural immunity to be acknowledged, host Chuck Todd asked if Marshall would recommend people get the virus instead of the vaccine.

    “Of course not. But if you’ve had the virus, that needs to be acknowledged and then a decision made with the patient and the doctor deciding if they should get the booster or not. Maybe check their level of antibodies. Take into account what their health care situation is,” Marshall said.

    But Tony Pony Fauci claims that the data from Pfizer clearly shows you need to be fully vaxxidated
    to be safe…at least for a few months…

    • Hubbs says:

      As a retired surgeon but not a virologist, MPH, or immunologist, infectious disease expert, I simply ask to boil this COVID thing down to the following:

      Can we get a prospective, randomized, double blind study with good controls for age, morbilty, sex as we can (although ethics would preclude somne of these arms and a good retrospective meta anaylsis inbstead as the best we can get) and compare outcomes between the following:

      1.) People who are injected with purified/isolated spike proteins only. The purified in vitro proteins only, no mRNA, no lipid nano particles, no graphene oxide, etc.

      2.) People who are injected with “vaccines” containing the mRNA, lipid nano particles- the whole enchildada.

      3.) Unvaccinated people who are exposed to SarsCoV2, and its delta/lamda/omicron iterations, and who either recover with short haul or long haul signs/symptoms/ sequela or else die from it.

      People tend to conflate the fact that if you disagree with getting vaxxed then you must be in denial of the potential lethality of COVID. Indeed COVID can kill some people ( but a very low percentage) and has demonstrated lethality in some seemingly healthy low risk profile people, but what is the causitive factor? Is it the native virus itself or is it the lethality of the engineered spike protein, or is it from what is included in the delivery system ( certain ingredients not disclosed by the big pharma)- the graphene, lipid nano particles, hidden codes for prions, etc.?

      The CDC, Fauci, WHO, and NIH, GAVI, Gates have been able to sustain this charade by maintaining a stream of disinformation and confusion.

      • hillcountry says:

        Good points Hubbs. One can hope that such might occur. That’s a critical delineation you lay-out there. Seems like it would be easy enough to do, even this late in the game. It’s not like there aren’t the resources. I check PubMed for “Covid-19”. It’s up to 206,619 as of today.

        I spent much of my life troubleshooting circuits, systems, and related manufacturing processes of industrial, medical and security products, so I share the frustration of the seeming lack of intelligent isolation of problem(s); a charade, as you say.

      • Lidia17 says:

        I find going down this route terribly unproductive, and here’s why: when I first heard of the Pfizer trials and how *they unblinded their own study* in the middle of it, I knew they were unserious about understanding the activity of this substance in humans. Like the fact of people dying with covid being older than the average age of death, this is just a non-starter: a “Do Not Pass Go” moment

        Either they already know too well (from animal trials on related substances, or from their own internal knowledge) that the injection is damaging, or they don’t care.

        Since “they don’t care” doesn’t compute in the “normie” understanding of science, politics, or other realms of human endeavor, we are at an impasse.

        Because those in charge already don’t care whether they are killing people, what is the point of more studies, **about which they ALSO will not care?**

      • Fred says:

        Not a chance.

        Again read RKF Jr’s book to understand the totally entrenched corruption between FDA/CDC/NIH and Big Pharma.

        Health outcomes since Fauci took over in the late 80s are N times worse.

    • One thing the article says is this:

      Negative Effectiveness of Boosters

      The main problem is that vaccinees, after a shot, have a several week period when they are uniquely vulnerable to infection. This is the reason why the “fully vaccinated” status is given two weeks after the second or third vaccine dose.

      Conveniently, infections during first two weeks post-dose are not counted as infections in “fully vaccinated” by health authorities, as if the vaccine should be “forgiven” for making its recipients uniquely prone to infection within the first two weeks. Since these recent vaccinees are not considered “fully vaccinated”, their infections and deaths are, bizarrely, NOT counted against vaccine effectiveness. This was extensively discussed.

      .

      He summarizes the problem by saying that recommending boosters, while Omicron is circulating by saying: “It will put gasoline on fire.

    • Fast Eddy says:

      Ah I see.. over the past year we have shown that vaccines are the key to beating covid…

      Yet Covid cases continue to rage — and now boosters are required…

      hahahahaahahahaha

      norm… does it feel like:

      https://pics.me.me/winning-charlie-sheen-winning-duh-53992921.png

    • Fast Eddy says:

      hahahaha… this is a great paper:

      Applications of boosters during periods of explosive growth of Omicron is likely to make people more prone to infection, and supercharge this growth, as opposed to slowing it.

      https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/boris-johnsons-biggest-blunder

    • Fast Eddy says:

      On a few occasions ADE has resulted from vaccination:

      Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) — RSV is a virus that commonly causes pneumonia in children. A vaccine was made by growing RSV, purifying it, and inactivating it with the chemical formaldehyde. In clinical trials, children who were given the vaccine were more likely to develop or die from pneumonia after infection with RSV. As a result of this finding, the vaccine trials stopped, and the vaccine was never submitted for approval or released to the public.

      Measles — An early version of measles vaccine was made by inactivating measles virus using formaldehyde. Children who were vaccinated and later became infected with measles in the community developed high fevers, unusual rash, and an atypical form of pneumonia. Upon seeing these results, the vaccine was withdrawn from use, and those who received this version of the vaccine were recommended to be vaccinated again using the live, weakened measles vaccine, which does not cause ADE and is still in use today.

      norm — check it out …

      WVK.

    • Fast Eddy says:

      YES!! We likely have our Human Mareks!!!

      Makes sense – BAU is looking very precarious right now .. everything is going wrong… there is very little time remaining …

      Are you ready — to Die?

      Is this Fear Porn and Lockdown Advocacy?

      No. I do not believe that a lockdown will help much against a virus as contagious as Omicron. Unless we are willing to nail our homes shut from the inside, and tape all cracks, and let the economy collapse completely, at least 50-60% of the population will have to work, getting infected and bringing illness to their households. If Omicron is truly airborne, persons living in multifamily housing will not have a chance.

      The masks are totally worthless as well and there is no point belaboring this.

    • Fast Eddy says:

      After reading Igor’s excellent article Fast Eddy was hyperventilating … do you know how hard it is to find a paper bag these days!!!

      It feels like we are weeks away … maybe days away … from the Beginning of the End of Humans hahahaha…

      This is something I agree with FE on … extinction is a good thing.

  46. Michael Le Merchant says:

    Text of talk give by Dr. Robert Malone
    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FGdrbUrX0AAge4K?format=jpg&name=large

    • This is the text that is given (as an image):

      Before you inject your child – a decision that is irreversible, I wanted to let you know the scientific facts about this genetic vaccine, which is based on the mRNA vaccine technology I created:

      There are three issues parents need to understand:

      1. The first is that a viral gene will be injected into your childrens cells. This gene forces your child’s body to make toxic spike proteins. These proteins often cause permanent damage in children’s critical organs, including

      -Their brain and nervous system
      -their heart and blood vessels, including blood clots
      -their reproductive system

      And this vaccine can trigger fundamental changes to their immune system. The most alarming point about this is that once these damages have occurred, they are irreparable:

      -You can’t fix the lesions within their brain
      -You can’t repair heart tissue scarring
      -You can’t repair a genetically reset immune system, and
      -The reproductive damage could affect future generations of your family.

      2. The second thing you need to know about is the fact that this novel technology has not been adequately tested. We need at least 5 years of testing/research before we can really understand the risks.

      -Harms and risks from new medicines often become revealed many years later
      -Ask yourself if you want your own child to be part of the most radical medical experiment in recent history

      3. One Final point: the reason they’re giving you to vaccinate your child is a lie.

      -Your children represent no danger to their parents or grandparents.
      – It’s actually the opposite. Their immunity, after getting Covid, is critical to save your family if not the world from this disease.

      4. In summary: there is no benefit for your children or your family to be vaccinating your children against the small risks of the virus, given the known health risks of the vaccine that as a parent that you and your children may have to live with for the rest or their lives.

      – The risk/benefit analysis isn’t even close.
      – As a parent and grandparent, my recommendation to you is to resist and fight to protect your children.

  47. Michael Le Merchant says:

    Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Ryabkov: If NATO and the United States do not respond to Russia’s demand for security guarantees, a military response will follow, there will be a new round of confrontation

    • HerbHere says:

      ….they don’t F*#$ing care. As though the Russians are dealing with rational actors–NOT!
      Thats the problem. Our “leaders” don’t care what logic or reason are presented to them. They will push through with their agenda regardless!

      I’m becoming more convinced that storming the castle with pitchforks, torches and ropes is the only thing that will bring our leaders to their senses.

      • Hubbs says:

        As long as the miltarized enforcers- whether police, national guard, or the formal military -collect paychecks and pensions with currency through which they can purchase goods and services, they will toe the line for the elites.

        “Peaceful” demonstrations are absolutely meaningless and in my VERY cynical way of looking at things, the larger these peaceful protests, the greater the indication that people will resort to these instead of guillotines, firing squads, and yard arms. Canadians, NZers, Australians have been defanged by gun control. Large, “polite” protests with a few burning oil drums, broken windows, or firebombed cars Portalnd style are meaningless.

        On the otherhand, many Americans are totally deluded and smug in their belief, ” oh I going to do something about this- I’m going to get a gun and get armed- “except, for the most part, we Americans are all spineless and will do nothing about it anyway. Being “armed” is a false assurance and becomes a paradoxical cop out for passivity.

        And the problem with violence is that even if a revolt is “successful” what fills the vacuum (Robespierre and Reign of Terror) may be worse. The result could be the ultimate “be careful what you wish for.”

    • Fast Eddy says:

      Unleash the nukes just as omicron hits the fan????

      That would actually make a great deal of sense … if the plan was to exterminate all humans…

      As mentioned they’ll all be nailing the doors and windows shut and not going outside for anything… starvation begins… then you hit the lot with 20,000 nuclear missiles…

      Maybe we can get some fireworks and a rendition of the star spangled banner to give it all a bit of surreal flavour…

      Perhaps anna can have a starring role … dress her up in spandex with norm and dunc and they gyrate to Rod Stewarts Do Ya Think I’m Se.xy… anna does a bit of twerking … dunc pulls a rabbit out of a hat and eats it alive… norm deadlifts 100lb x 3 times and shouts look at me LOOK AT ME…. mike can jump up and down shouting More More More — Bravo …

      And Fast Eddy … sits back .. munching popcorn … sipping a bit of whiskey … and smiles… as the CEP …. concludes….

      hahahahaha!!!!

    • Fast Eddy says:

      Did I mention a CovIDIOT sent me a story called ‘All I want for Christmas is omicron’…

      Yes they did … it was a video from a SA doctor telling us we should welcome this mild version … and that it signalled the end of Covid

      hahahahahaha … they lie.

      It’s likely the end of something though … hahaha…

  48. Michael Le Merchant says:

    WOW!

    German power price jumps >200/MWh for first time ever.
    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FGfMgI-XsAAH2XI?format=png&name=4096×4096

    • Duncan Idaho says:

      Wow?
      Another grim Covid-19 milestone: <b)At least 800,000 Americans have died
      The country’s first coronavirus deaths were traced to Northern California in February 2020.

      On the bright side, at least the US is first at something—

      • Fast Eddy says:

        Wow – check this out .. 6 in 10 American adults have a chronic disease – 4 in 10 have multiple

        hahahahahahahahahahaha….

        https://www.cdc.gov/chronicdisease/resources/infographic/chronic-diseases.htm

        BTW – most of those 800k did not die from covid … they died with a false positive… and who gives a shit when the average age of death is 82 with multiple co-morbidities…

        Good riddance… if FE was running the CDC HE would immediately introduce Death Panels… you either get your shit together or we deny you medical care… and if you are past the point of no return .. put someone with the flu or covid in a bed next to you in the Death Ward.

        You don’t get it do you dunc… when it’s time to die … it’s time to die… why do people insist on spending their final years suffering and being prodded by doctors and nurses

        Have some F789ing respect … and die with a bit of dignity… and thing of those poor nurses having to wipe your arse…. and shower you… disgusting!!!

      • Fast Eddy says:

        nearly 4 trillion dollars wasted on dying old goats…

        THE LEADING CAUSES OF DEATH AND DISABILITY
        and Leading Drivers of the Nation’s $3.8 Trillion in Annual Health Care Costs

        https://www.cdc.gov/chronicdisease/resources/infographic/images/chronic-disease/chronic-disease-leading.JPG

        I have a cheap and easy solution … erect gallows in every city and every Saturday hang obese diseased people (extra strength gallows – of course)… Sunday can be reserved for hanging smokers… Monday for Boozers…

        People will soon get the message….

    • The 200 seems to be the year-ahead power price, so it is even more alarming than a short-term outage.

      • Duncan Idaho says:

        COVID has killed 1 of every 100 older Americans as U.S. nears grim milestone

        https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/as-u-s-nears-800000-virus-deaths-1-of-every-100-older-americans-has-perished/

        Better than 200

        • Fast Eddy says:

          Notice how deaths from cancer, heart disease and other terminal illnesses have plummeted during the Time of Covid…

          Of course that is because if you test positive (even though you don’t have Covid) and you die within a month….

          Ringy Dingy — you died From covid

          hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahaha

          MOREONS will be MOREONS.

          And btw – f789 the old people dunc. Ya’ll are skin sacks filled with disease and long past the use by date (if we opened up the sack it would smell like month old milk mixed with rotten eggs) — anyone over 80 should go lick a covid infected door knob and save the health care system some $$$.

          We all gotta go sometime… I am all for letting covid rip … kill off the weak… the diseased … the useless geriatric feeders who are wasting our limited health care dollars…

          And as an added bonus — nobody has to make those despised trips out to the homes for the aged to see if grandpa remembers anyone’s name … as he wallows in his shit and urine stinking like a sewer… Let’s be honest… everyone just wants grandpa to f789 off and die already… (but they keep going because grandpa might leave them some munny!!! hahahahaah)

        • Fast Eddy says:

          hahahahaha… apparently thousands of these were insert into Queenstown mailboxes yesterday hahahahaha

          Hey dunc – what’s your take on this?

          https://i.postimg.cc/9MMftKTd/Microsoft-Teams-image-2.png

          • Fast Eddy says:

            Fed Loses Control As Consumers Now Expect 10% Inflation For Key Staples

            https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/fed-loses-control-consumers-now-expect-10-inflation-key-staples

            hahahahaha… get your wheelbarrows ready

            • Fast Eddy says:

              Boris then said, correctly, that Omicron doubles every two to three days. For you, my dear reader, it means that you can model this outbreak easily by multiplying this week’s data by about 10, to figure out what next week’s numbers will be.

              For example, the UK had 3,137 cases as of today, so next Sunday, we can expect there to be about 30,000 cases, and a week after that, roughly 300,000 cases. So in two weeks, at around Christmas, we could have 300,000 total cases and 120,000 daily cases or so. This exponential behavior applies to the beginning of the epidemic curve, which will of course eventually flatten, but unlikely any time soon.

              Bartlett Lives!!

        • Lidia17 says:

          I’d rather die with covid at the average age of 80 than die without covid at the average age of 78.

          • Duncan Idaho says:

            Atheists are among the most likely to be vaccinated for COVID — and white evangelicals are among the least

            https://www.alternet.org/2021/12/anti-vaxxers/

            So, are you a Cabbage For Christ?

            • Lidia17 says:

              No, I am an atheist.. so sorry!

              I do believe in natural forces larger than ourselves, so more of a Daoist if I were to have to indicate a religious home.

              Things are as they are.

              The vacx is a lie.

              This is how nature is.

              Seems as though most atheists, however, haven’t escaped the need to believe in something larger than themselves: believing in The State, or in “The Science” as a (political) truth. The largest group of purchasers of Fauci votive candles are probably atheists.

              Many atheists in the US appear just as likely as evangelicals to believe in the supernatural: that men can have periods and give birth, but that virgins giving birth is nutty. Just look at that recent “women’s” swimming “champion” who beat the real ladies by 38 seconds. In a swim meet. That’s a long time in a swim meet. For the shorter lengths, the entire thing from beginning to end is over well before 38 seconds.

              Tick, tick, tick…..

              So, pardon me if I do not give the nod to politicized atheists when it comes to “the science” and their own twisted beliefs and ends.

              They “believe” what they hear from Paul Krugman, or Sarah Silverman, or NPR or the NYT or Chris Whitty or Adern or Fauci or whomever, and they are extremely smug in their beliefs, just as smug as any Church Lady. They “believe” that socialism will scare away the bad orange man and spur a new utopian supremacy of the physically-, cognitively-, and spiritually-defective.

              Really, the CEP may very well be a blessing in disguise, and not only because of the spent-fuel pools.

            • Fast Eddy says:

              Keep in mind… dunc has severe illness…and he is very old…. he is very frightened of the flu.. as he should be

              The problem is … the boosters are eternal… you either drop dead from the poison or immune exhaustion kicks in and you die….

              dunc demands immortality… not sure why … if I was living in misery I’d put the business end of a barrel in my mouth and go click BOOM

            • Fast Eddy says:

              Oh? I thought it was the MOREONS who were most likely to get the endless series of UNTESTED covid vaccines believing that they would only need two and this would be over?

              https://www.headsupster.com/forumthread?shortId=397

              You really have to be stoooopid (or forced) to inject this garbage into your body hahaha

              Or you enjoy the thrill of Vaccine Roulette hahahaahaha. Duummmb as Stumps

            • Lidia17 says:

              To be more precise, it seems the majority need to believe in something larger than themselves to which they think (wrongly) that they can actually appeal, or in which they can actively participate. The difference is that I don’t think what I do particularly matters, and to most people that is too painful a scenario to contemplate.

              They need to belong, and to “matter”, and to be seen as “doing the right thing”, and so the covid hoax is a perfect recruitment scheme for those actively being disenfranchised by the Elders from more traditional life roles.

              As Desmet points out, it’s not only fear that motivates the 30% true-believer group, but also the fact that they are offered the false “carrot” of being seen as the “good person”, the “helpful, saving” person, the “righteous” person.

            • JMS says:

              Great posts. Lidia..
              One thing that doesn’t convince me about Prof Desmet is his percentage of 30% true believers, 50% who go with the flow and 20% rationalist heretics. That can’t be true. My experience tells me that at least 85-90% of people are born followers, who only use their neo cortex to assimilate orders and rules and gratify their reptilian brain, as you would expect in hard-working wishing machines.
              In short, prof. Desmett is being awfully optimistic…

            • Lidia17 says:

              Well, he’s a well-meaning European, so you could give him a fudge factor.

              In the interview I listened to most closely, he used figures of 30-40-30. I tend to think that’s fairly close, since when you look at jab-compliance figures there has seemed to be a threshold in the US at 30% or so, depending on the area and profession. And that’s what’s being reported, which could even be exaggerated down. I think rates of 90+% jabulation are nonsense, but I doubt we’ll really ever know for sure.

              From the whopping number of five jabbed people I’ve actually spoken with (extremely briefly and superficially) on this score, I think it would only take an hour or so of chatting, a couple of handouts, and a week or three without television or other institutional scolds or influences to re-program them. All this middle group really wants is reassurance, support, and relief to the ego, it seems.

              They don’t want to be seen as being “out of step”, which is most of the battle, as far as I can tell. Being “out of step” creates anxiety that needs to be resolved.

              If/when the tide turns decisively against the jab, most will turn back with the tide, no? .. whether they got it or not. Have you come across any Americans lately who admit nowadays to being in favor of the Iraq war? Granted, the jab has a more personal level of sunken cost, in most cases.

              Let’s say you think 80% are followers. Maybe that’s true, but the followers need someone to lead them. They can be led in one direction, but also led in the other at some future point, theoretically speaking, possibly by you.

            • JMS says:

              Perhaps my view is biased by the fact that I live in a country of certified conformists, who mentally never got beyond a state of infantile providentialism (as demonstrated by the massive cult of Fatima), and therefore trust authorities much more than their experience, knowledge or instincts, whereas you live in a country that has developed under the banner of individualism and self-reliance. Here it’s useless to use logical arguments against the pandemic narrative, and there’s no more than a dozen public figures that dare to question it in any meaningful way.

          • Fast Eddy says:

            Covid actually increases life span … I have no idea why dunc is getting all these shots…

          • hillcountry says:

            you are just nailin’ it on those bumper-stickers

            “I’d rather die ….”

            and

            “Just because your aunt’s getting chemo…”

            your comment about how many people admit they were for destroying Iraq opens up a huge can of worms on what happens over time… to memory, the inclination to even discuss previous opinions and actions or lack thereof, to accept any responsibility at all for action or non-action, and so on. It’s pretty easy to hypothesize a virtual-reality chock full of mostly NPC’s, little mini will-to-power wind-up bunnies, oblivious to their past thoughts. I guess that was Huxley’s thing about the memory-hole. I was puzzled for years at Mother Jones type “liberals” who were ostensibly snookered by Colin Powell, yellow-cake and all that jazz; not to mention their prior somnambulance, during the Clinton medieval-siege; when Bush Sr.’s “embargo” morphed to “sanctions” and Iraqi surgeons were performing amputations without anesthetics. Later, during the next phase of the Bush Dynasty, there was a Million Musician March for Peace that was a yearly thing in Austin. One year it landed on St. Patrick’s day and as it wound through town, revelers on balconies were cheering us on. The next year Obama took office and the MMMP went instantly down the Memory Hole for good. You couldn’t get long-time participants to talk about that sudden shift if you had ’em strapped down on truth serum. Drone-strikes on wedding parties; no problem, makes for good Hollywood ‘art-imitating-life’ you know. Sublimate violence or some such.

        • jj says:

          “better than 200”

          One in 200 deaths would be half of one in 100.

          So halfing the deaths would not be a good thing?

          Or has the last booster left you unable to comprehend the most simple arithmetic?

          • Fast Eddy says:

            The problem with the MOREONs stats – is that if you tested positive for Covid (even false positive) and you died from a gun shot wound…. car accident … or cancer… you get recorded as a covid death

            But MORENS are not MOREONS for nothing….

Comments are closed.