I frequently write that the world economy is, in physics terms, a dissipative structure that is powered by energy. It can grow for a time, but eventually it reaches limits of many kinds. Ultimately, it can be expected to stop growing and collapse.
It seems to me that the world economy is showing signs that it has reached a turning point. Economic growth stopped in 2020 and is having trouble restarting in 2021. Fossil fuel energy of all types (oil, coal and natural gas) is in short supply, relative to the world’s huge population. Ultimately, this inadequate energy supply can be expected to pull the world economy toward collapse.
The world economy doesn’t behave the way most people would expect. Standard modeling approaches miss the point that economies require adequate supplies of energy products of the right kinds, provided at the right times of day and year, if they are to keep from collapsing. Shortages are not necessarily marked by high prices; prices that are too low for producers will bring down the energy supply quickly. A collapse may occur due to inadequate demand; in fact, such a scenario is described in Revelation 18.
As strange as it may seem, we may be approaching what some of us would think of as end times, if our economy collapses for lack of cheap-to-produce energy supplies. In this post, I will try to explain what is happening.
[1] In some ways, the self-organizing economy is like a child’s building toy that, with the use of human energy, can be built up to higher and higher levels.
The economy is gradually built up by the addition of new customers, new businesses and new products. Governments play a role as well, adding new infrastructure, laws and taxes. Adequate wages for employees are important because, to a significant extent, employees are also consumers of goods and services made by the economy.
Adequate energy supplies of the right types are terribly important because every process used by the economy requires energy, even if the only energy used is electricity to light a light bulb or operate a computer. Heating and cooling require energy, as does transportation.
Human energy is an important part of the economy, as well. Humans eat food to provide them with energy. An individual human’s own energy output is relatively tiny; it is about equal to the output of a 100-watt light bulb. With the use of supplemental energy of various kinds, humans can do many tasks that would not be possible otherwise, such as cooking food, creating metals from ores, heating homes, and building cars and trucks.
The economy cannot “go backwards” because, if a product is no longer needed, it will no longer be produced. The economy represented by Figure 1 is in some sense hollow inside. For example, once people started using automobiles, buggy whips were no longer made. If cities went back to using horses as their main means of transport, we would need manure removal services. These, too, would be missing.
[2] Another way of thinking about the world economy is that it is somewhat like a rocket that needs fuel. It also has waste outputs. Both of these limit the growth of the world economy.
The economy uses a wide array of inputs. At the same time, it produces a whole host of undesirable outputs. Inputs need to be inexpensive to produce, or citizens will not be able to afford the goods and services made by the system. The waste outputs cannot become too significant, or they can lead the economy to fail. In fact, with the world’s growing population, we seem to be reaching many limits with respect to both inputs and undesirable outputs, simultaneously.
[3] Strangely enough, the major energy limit that the world economy is hitting seems to be “energy prices that do not rise high enough for producers.”
This energy limit is exactly the opposite of what most people are looking for. They assume that “demand” will always rise. In fact, the cost of production of energy products keeps rising because the easy to produce energy products are produced first. It is the market prices that energy products can be sold for that do not rise adequately.
When we trace the problem back, we discover that the problem with prices arises from the equivalence between producers of goods and services and consumers of goods and services indicated on Figure 1. In order to have enough “demand” to keep energy prices high enough for providers, it turns out that even the very low wage people in the world economy need to be able to afford necessities such as food, water, clothing, basic housing and transportation. In fact, if the cost of extracting fossil fuels rises too quickly because of depletion, or if the cost of getting renewable electricity into a form in which it is useful for society rises too much, there may be a situation when even a price based on full demand from all consumers is too low for energy producers.
Let’s define “return on human labor” as what a person without advanced training can earn by selling his physical labor as unskilled labor. Rather than dollar or euro terms, wages need to be thought of in terms of the physical goods and services that these wages can purchase. If supplemental energy per capita is rising rapidly, the return on human labor tends to rise. This happens because with higher energy consumption, humans can have more tools and technology requiring energy at their command. For example, the period between 1950 and 1970 was a time when energy consumption was rising rapidly. It was also a time of rising standards of living, even for workers without advanced training.
The world economy can be expected to run into a major problem once supplemental energy consumption per capita starts falling because then human labor is necessarily less leveraged by fewer machines, such as trucks and airplanes. In total, fewer goods and services can be produced.
If energy supply is inadequate, businesses often find it advantageous to substitute computers or other machines for some work previously done by low paid workers. While these machines use a little energy in their operation, they do not need food, housing or transportation the way human workers do. With fewer actual workers, demand for finished goods and services tends to fall, pushing commodity prices, including those for fossil fuels, down. This further adds to the low-price problem.
It is the lack of jobs that pay well that tends to hold down commodity prices below the prices producers require. Ultimately, it is the lack of sufficient jobs that pay well that tends to bring the whole economy down. Most researchers have missed this important point.
[4] In the period leading up to collapse, wages fail to rise with the cost of required services. This leads to increasingly unhappy workers. Healthcare costs and college costs are especially problematic, because their costs have been rising faster than costs in general.
Figure 4. Illustrates the issue that seems to be occurring:
When energy consumption per capita is growing rapidly, the economy adds items that were not previously considered necessary. Instead of a basic education for all being sufficient, advanced education (often paid for by the student) becomes necessary for many jobs. Healthcare costs keep rising rapidly, making it more difficult to make wages cover all necessary expenses (Figure 4).
We can see additional evidence that workers have been tending to get poorer in recent years by looking at the trend in the number of light vehicles purchased. With rising population, a person would expect the number of automobiles sold to increase, year after year, if citizens found their incomes as adequate as in the past. Instead, we see a pattern of falling automobile sales, practically everywhere, starting well before 2020. For example, peak light vehicle sales in China occurred in 2017.
[5] An increase in debt can temporarily be used to hide both inadequate inexpensive-to-produce energy supply and inadequate wages of workers, but we seem to be reaching limits using this approach to hide energy problems.
The last time the world had relatively stable low oil prices was in the years prior to 1973. As noted previously, low energy prices tend to make finished goods, such as homes and cars, inexpensive to buy and operate. Thus, they tend to be affordable.
The big issue if oil and other prices rise very high is that the selling prices of goods and services tend to rise too high to be affordable to consumers. The workaround that was developed to fix this unaffordability problem was to change the economy to use more debt. To be affordable, interest rates had to fall lower and lower. Peak interest rates occurred in 1981; they have been trending downward since then.
If debt at ever-lower interest rates is available, assets such as homes, farmland, factories and shares of stock become more affordable, allowing prices of these assets to rise. Owners of these assets feel wealthier. In fact, they may borrow more money against the inflated price of these assets and use this money to buy more goods and services made with commodities, thus helping to raise commodity prices. The lower interest rates make the purchase of automobiles more affordable as well, helping to raise the price of commodities used to make and operate automobiles.
There is a limit on how low these interest rates can go, however, especially if inflation is a problem. Current interest rates seem to be down near where they were during the Great Depression of the 1930s. This suggests that the economy is truly doing very poorly.
Today, Brent oil prices are about $69 per barrel. This price is not high enough for producers to want to prepare more fields for drilling. As far as I can see, the price needs to be up in the range of $120 per barrel, and stay there for many years, for oil producers to consider putting major effort into developing more fields. Natural gas and coal have similar low-price problems.
While governments cannot seem to be able to fix the low-price problem for fossil fuels, they can find ways to pay their citizens money for doing nothing, or next to nothing. These payments will add to a government’s debt, but they don’t really produce more goods and services. What these payments tend to produce is inflation in the prices of goods and services that are available.
Over time, we can expect the lack of growth in energy supply to lead to an increasing number of broken supply lines. Without long-term high-price guarantees, producers will not be willing to increase production. Without adequate fuel supply, an increasing number of products will disappear from the shelves of stores. A smaller number of people will have jobs, especially jobs that pay well. The economy can be expected to head in the direction of collapse.
We can think of debt as a promise of future goods and services, made with future energy production. If energy supplies are rising rapidly and can be expected to continue to rise rapidly in the future, this promise can be expected to hold. Of course, if energy supplies start falling, all bets are off. Supply lines are likely to break. We consider money and other securities issued by governments to be a “store of value,” but, if there is little to buy (for example, all international flights are cancelled and automobiles of the desired type are permanently out of stock), its ability to act as a store of value will start to disappear. If the economy collapses completely, neither stocks nor bonds will have value.
[6] Nothing happens for a single reason in a self-organizing economy. Lack of energy affects every part of the economy, from jobs to finished output, almost simultaneously.
In a self-organizing economy, everything is interconnected. Inadequate energy per capita leads to low selling prices for commodities of all kinds. Inadequate energy per capita also leads to low wages for workers, low benefits provided by governments, and uprisings to protest these low wages and benefits. These uprisings began in 2019 or even earlier.
The unhappiness of workers leads to the election of increasingly radical politicians, in the hope that something can be done to fix the problems. There are basically not enough goods and services to go around, but no one wants to admit that this could be a problem.
[7] Citizens cannot imagine a declining and eventually collapsing economy. Businesses, governments and individual citizens all demand “happily ever after futures.”
If there is a history of growth, nearly everyone is happier if forecasts pretend that economic growth can continue forever. Newspapers want such stories, because this is what their advertisers, such as automakers, want. Automobiles need to be usable for a long period in the future. Universities want favorable forecasts because they want their students to believe that their degrees will have great future value. Politicians want a story of growth forever, because this is what voters want and expect. They have come to believe that governments can save them from all problems; there is no longer any need for religion.
As energy supplies get scarce, the rich tend to become richer and the poor tend to become poorer. François Roddier explains that this is because of the physics of the situation. Wealthy individuals and corporations discover that they have a rapidly growing ability to influence the narrative provided by Mainstream Media. If influential citizens and groups want citizens to hear a “happily ever after ending” to our current problems, they can make certain that this is the predominant narrative of Mainstream Media. It is only people who are willing to hear sources outside of the mainstream who can learn what is really happening.
The fact that the world economy would run into energy limits about now has been known for a very long time. For example, US Navy Rear Admiral Hyman Rickover talks about the close connection between energy and the economy in this 1957 speech. He points out that the world is likely to run short of fossil fuel by 2050. Later modeling documented in the 1972 book The Limits to Growth indicated that the world economy was likely to collapse in a similar timeframe. The modeling done in that analysis considered rising population relative to total resources, without looking at energy resources separately.
[8] It is easy to create models that predict growth will continue forever, even if the physics of the situation says this is not possible.
Economists provide their work to politicians. They certainly cannot provide forecasts of a coming calamity such as economic collapse. They also are unaware of the physics of the situation, even though many researchers have been writing about the issue from a physics point of view since at least the mid-1980s.
Economists have chosen instead to make models that assume no limits are ahead. They seem to assume that all problems will be fixed by innovation, substitution and the pricing mechanism. They produce forecasts suggesting that the economy can grow endlessly in the future. Based on these forecasts, they provide input to models that reach the conclusion that amazingly large amounts of fossil fuels will be extracted in the future. Based on these nonsensical models, our problem is not the near-term limits that we are reaching; instead, our chief problem is climate change. Its impacts occur mostly in the future.
A corollary to this belief system is that it is we humans who are in charge and not the laws of physics. We can expect governments to protect us. We don’t need any outside help from a literal Higher Power who created the laws of physics. We need to listen to what the authorities on earth tell us. In fact, in troubled times, governments need more authority over their citizens. The many concerns regarding COVID-19 make it easy for governments to increase their control over citizens. We are told that it is only by following the mandates of governments that we will get through this strange time.
With nearly everyone on board with the idea that somehow the story of near-term collapse must be avoided at all costs, every part of the economy bases its actions on the narrative that the world economy is voluntarily moving away from fossil fuels. In this narrative, renewables will save us; electric vehicles are the way of the future; the world economy can continue to grow, but in a new way.
In fact, we are colliding with resource limits, right now. This seems to be what produced the bizarre situation experienced in 2020.
[9] As 2020 began, many sectors of the world economy were squeezed simultaneously. With limited energy resources, large parts of the economy needed to be cut back. The self-organizing economy acted in a very strange way. Shutdowns supposedly aimed at stopping COVID-19 from spreading acted very much like energy rationing, without mentioning the world’s energy problem.
Several years before 2020, it should have been clear that the world economy was doing very poorly based on the continued need for very low interest rates (Figure 7) and Quantitative Easing. China, in particular, was doing poorly, as indicated by its low sales of automobiles (Figure 5). Of course, China doesn’t broadcast its problems to the rest of the world, so few people were aware of this issue.
China had been able to boost the world’s per capita supply of inexpensive-to-produce energy by ramping up its coal production after it joined the World Trade Organization in 2001. (Note the world ramp-up in coal, starting after 2001, on Figure 9.) Unfortunately, because of depletion, China’s coal production since 2013 has been close to flat. Furthermore, China had had a big recycling business, but discontinued it effective January 1, 2018. Discontinuation of this program was necessary because oil prices had fallen in 2014 and had never recovered to their former level. With low oil prices, most recycling in China made no sense economically. The loss of jobs from recycling and cutbacks in coal operations no doubt contributed to the declining sale of vehicles in China.
In the years before 2020, another big issue was that the wages of many workers were not keeping up with the rising cost of living. Figure 4 illustrates this issue for the US. The problem was especially acute for lower wage workers. During this period, the prices of many commodities were too low for producers. This led to layoffs and low wages for workers.
In early 2020, the world became aware of a new coronavirus that had been identified in China. The response to this new illness was very strange, compared to how previous pandemics had been handled. The response looked a great deal like intentionally scaring people (especially older people) into staying at home. If this were done, much less oil could be used. Natural gas and coal consumption could be reduced, as well.
This story is perhaps not so strange if we look at it in context. On January 8, 2020, I wrote that we should be expecting recession and low oil prices in 2020. I included this oil price chart.
On January 29, I wrote, It is easy to overreact to a coronavirus. In this article, I pointed out that the economy already seemed to be headed in the direction of recession. Shutdowns would only make the problem worse.
Politicians choosing to shut down their economies in early 2020 were likely not aware that the real underlying problem within their economy was inadequate availability of inexpensive-to-produce energy. They were aware that China had decided to shut down part of its economy, so perhaps there might be some usefulness to such an action. Local leaders outside of China knew that their own factories were underutilized. If their own factories could be shut down temporarily, perhaps they could operate at closer to capacity, once they reopened.
Furthermore, a shutdown would give an excuse to keep workers protesting low wages inside. After the shutdown, there would be an excuse to raise the debt level, perhaps keeping the financial part of the economy going for a while longer. So, a shutdown would have many benefits, apart from any potential benefit from (sort of) containing the virus.
It became apparent as time went on that the vaccine story for COVID-19 was playing multiple roles, as well. The healthcare industry was becoming very large in the US. In fact, the size of the healthcare industry was beginning to interfere with the economy as a whole (Figure 4). Furthermore, manufacturers of medicines and vaccines were having problems with diminishing returns because the big, important drug finds had been discovered years ago. It was becoming difficult to profitably fund all of the research needed for new drugs.
Behind the scenes, the vaccine industry had been working for years on creating new viruses and preparing vaccines for these same viruses. The theory was that the same approaches that delivered vaccines might be helpful in treating diseases of various kinds. Vaccines might also be helpful in responding to bioweapon attacks. If drug manufacturers could market a blockbuster vaccine, the manufacturers, as well as the individuals holding the vaccine patents, could become rich.
The US was not alone in the research with respect to viruses and vaccines for these viruses. Many major countries, including Canada, France, Italy, Australia and China had funded this research, partly through their budgets for health research and partly through military budgets. There was virtually no chance that anyone would figure out the source of any problematic virus because so many major countries had had a part in funding this research. If citizens could be convinced that the virus was extremely dangerous and mandate the use of vaccines, the vaccine industry could greatly profit from vaccine sales. The vaccine could be created and marketed quickly because all of the research (but not enough testing) had been performed earlier.
A great deal of planning had been done before the pandemic appeared, based to a significant extent upon what outcome vaccine makers would prefer. Johns Hopkins University completed a SPARS Pandemic Scenario in October 2017, rehearsing responses to a pandemic. A training exercise called Event 201 was held on October 18, 2019, for the purpose of training high level government officials and news writers what their responses should be.
The sponsors of Event 201 were “The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security in partnership with the World Economic Forum and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.” The latter two organizations are representatives of the very wealthy individuals and very large corporations. The primary interest of these organizations is enriching those who are already wealthy. The World Economic Forum is known for proclaiming, “You’ll own nothing and you’ll be happy.”
As time went on, it became very clear that the true nature of the COVID-19 epidemic was being hidden from citizens. It was, and is, not a terribly dangerous illness if it is treated properly with any number of inexpensive medications including aspirin, ivermectin, antihistamine and steroids. In fact, the severity of the disease could also be lessened by taking vitamin D in advance. There really was not a great deal of point to the vaccines, except to enrich the vaccine manufacturers and those who would benefit from the sale of the vaccines, including Anthony Fauci and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
It also became clear that the vaccines don’t really do what a person might expect a vaccine to do. They do tend to stop severe illness, but taking vitamin D in advance would provide pretty much the same benefit. They don’t stop COVID-19 from circulating because vaccinated people can still catch COVID-19. The vaccines seem to have any number of side effects, including raising the risk of heart attacks.
The historical period most similar to the current period, in terms of shortage of energy supply, is that between World War I and World War II. At that time, the Jews were persecuted. Now, there is an attempt to divide the world into Vaccinated and Unvaccinated, with the Unvaccinated persecuted. When the economy cannot produce enough goods and services for all members of the economy, the economy seems to divide into almost warring parts.
We are basically trying to deal with an energy scenario that looks a lot like Figure 8, and the self-organizing economy comes up with very strange solutions. If people can convince themselves that it is OK to ostracize the unvaccinated, then maybe the move down the collapse will go more smoothly. For example, the military can be cut back in size by dismissing the unvaccinated, without admitting that with current resources, there is a need to reduce the size of the military.
Europe is the part of the world where the push for vaccinations is now highest. It is also in terrible shape with respect to energy supply. By ostracizing the unvaccinated, European countries can attempt to cut back their economies to the size that their energy supply will support, without admitting the real problem.
[10] The world economy is increasingly acting like economies that have collapsed in the past. In fact, there seems to be a connection with some of the strange statements from the book of Revelation.
We are living in a world now in which even if there are temporary price spikes, there is little chance that fossil fuel providers will ramp up their production. In order to ramp up supplies, they would need to start several years in advance, preparing new fields. Oil, coal and gas prices have stayed so low, for so long, that there is no belief that prices can rise to a high enough level and stay there, as the fuels are extracted. Thus, the fossil fuel will stay in the ground.
At the same time, it is becoming increasingly clear that renewables cannot be depended upon. In fact, low generation of electricity by wind turbines is part of the reason Europe is having to import the large quantity of natural gas and coal supplies it now requires. There is concern that rolling blackouts may be necessary during the winter in Europe, if not this year, sometime in the next few years.
It is becoming increasingly clear that the future energy scenario will look something like Figure 8, causing world population to fall dramatically within the next thirty years. This is the kind of situation most of us would associate with collapse. I think of it as being equivalent to end times, since our modern civilization will be disappearing. It is possible that there will be a remnant of people left, but they will be living a much simpler life, without fossil fuels or modern renewables.
There are several parts to what is happening that remind me of Old Testament writings in general, and of the book of Revelation (from the New Testament), in particular.
First, the willingness of the ultra-rich to look out for themselves and keep what look like perfectly good, cheap cures for COVID-19 from the world population seems to be precisely the kind of despicable behavior that Old Testament prophets despised. For example, in Amos 5:21-24, Amos tells the Jews that God despises their prior behavior. In verse 24 (NIV), he says, “But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream!”
As I noted in the introduction, Revelation 18 talks about lack of demand being an issue in the collapse of Babylon, and presumably in any future collapse that occurs. Revelation 18:11-13 reads:
11 The merchants of the earth will weep and mourn over her because no one buys their cargoes anymore— 12 cargoes of gold, silver, precious stones and pearls; fine linen, purple, silk and scarlet cloth; every sort of citron wood, and articles of every kind made of ivory, costly wood, bronze, iron and marble;13 cargoes of cinnamon and spice, of incense, myrrh and frankincense, of wine and olive oil, of fine flour and wheat; cattle and sheep; horses and carriages; and human beings sold as slaves.
The need for vaccine passports in some countries reminds a person of Revelation 13:17, “they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of its name.” In fact, people in Sweden are getting microchip implants after its latest COVID passport mandate.
Some people believe that Revelation 12 describes the Antichrist; that is, the polar opposite of Christ. Before the world comes to an end, Revelation 12 seems to predict a great fight against this Antichrist, which Christ wins. I could imagine Anthony Fauci being the Antichrist.
We are not used to living in a world where very little that is published by the Mainstream Media makes sense. But when we live in a time where no one wants to hear what is true, the system changes in a bizarre way, so that a great deal that is published is false.
It is disturbing to think that we may be living near the end of the world economy, but there is an upside to this situation. We have had the opportunity to live at a time with more conveniences than any other civilization. We can appreciate the many conveniences we have.
We also have the opportunity to decide how we want to live the rest of our lives. We have been led for many years down the path of believing that economic growth will last forever; all we need to do is have faith in the government and our educational institutions. If we figure out that this really isn’t the path to follow, we can change course now. If we want to choose a more spiritual approach, this is a choice we can still make.
Dr. Charles Hoffe speech
https://www.bitchute.com/video/azW4ahVjF9jq/
New email dump showing Anthony Fauci and Francis Collins coordinating a propaganda campaign to attack the Great Barrington declaration last October.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FG1wxHVWUAIhdSw?format=jpg&name=large
Geert Vanden Bossche speaks about Omicron andMass Vaccination at Dana Show
https://www.voiceforscienceandsolidarity.org/videos-and-interviews/geert-vanden-bossche-speaks-about-omicron-and-mass-vaccination-at-dana-show
I wonder if Geert gets fan mail from groupies?
Recent article in Nature may be of interest and comments are appreciated. Seems to cover the state of play with fusion.
https://click.fourhourmail.com/r8ukdd823wcohol3d5s2/8ghqhohg95gqk0tk/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubmF0dXJlLmNvbS9pbW1lcnNpdmUvZDQxNTg2LTAyMS0wMzQwMS13L2luZGV4Lmh0bWw=
Comments can only be negative. I get that many people are getting into this Hail Mary type of activities, but even if the Chinese are successful in getting gains above 1, it will be only for milliseconds. We have always been 30 years away, and we will always be (using fusion as a source of electricity).
Fusion adds to the con that is ‘The Narrative’; The Green New Steal, renewable oil-based Solar and Wind, Diversity in Action, gay left handed whaels rock, etc etc.
Con-fusion adds another string to the Big Con. Still just trying to play Bach using a Banjo at ‘The End Of The Day’.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35nh7qkPYXo
Let the Banjo spek to the beak about da fusion; the answer to our energy needs won’t come from a campsite in the Appalachia’s, but maybe the sequel will know no other music.
I’m full of confusion about the fusion illusion. Without fusion to save us children will eventually become just easy walking protein edibles. A horrible thought indeed.
Here is the private company that has gone the futhest in Fusion using a much smaller scale reactor design and an alternative means of achieving the plasma field needed to contain fusion temperatures Focus fusion – highest achieved temperature of any fusion experiment and greatest wall plug efficiency of any private fusion effort (but still not there yet).
Have achieved their results w/ only ~$8 million (not billion) in research effort
watch from 1min to 2min & 9:00-end to get a quick take on what they are doing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8P7KatR__Po&t=54s
longer video on how dense plasma focus works:
https://youtu.be/6ajqD0hoOMw
https://lppfusion.com/technology/fusion-energy-generator
They have been getting both accredited investors and also annual crowdfunding investors
All – let me point out again on future energy sources like fusion. I have posted this many times here but for the sake of newcomers, I will do it again.
We have gone past the point of no return when it comes to new energy sources. Any new energy source has to be introduced and fully implemented before the previous one goes away. For us, that implementation will be 1960s-1970s.
We have already used debt to replace it. Debts were issued to allow the extraction of unprofitable oil. Any energy source that has low EROEI will be worthless to any society. It cannot support all the “useless eaters”.
Useless eaters on the olden days are – tax collector, artisans, courtesans and other people not related to the production of food. That is the reason why there might be only 1-2 blacksmiths, weavers, artisans per village. As the wealth grew, more and more people become useless eaters. Until one day the EROEI cannot support the civilization.
Even if Saudi Arabia found a new spot in the ground where the oil is so plentiful that all you need is a straw in the ground and oil shoots up, what will happen? Do you think our predicament will go away? It will only hasten the collapse of society and the price of oil, when this announcement is made drops to $20/barrel and all our existing oil infrasture, oil companies will just go bankrupt before the new oil can be extracted. Can all the consumer of the oil use the oil? Can the oil actually help to “cure” the supply chain problem? Can the interconnected financial world and economy withstand the shock?
There are no solutions as of today even if a very cheap source of oil is found today.
Fast eddie if the elders knew it was all going to end Wouldn’t they have built an underground city somewhere or is this delusional
they did. Look up D.U.M.B.
I will call it now collapse and die off within 3 months compassionate extinction plan looks to be the goal of the elders remember the ad blue story the additive that makes engines in trucks not work a mate of mine reckons its not true trucks can still run this can only mean one thing expect the end of food delivery in February next year for Australia now you know why They’re pushing for the jab because bau is coming to an end in 2022 it all makes sence now if you’re jabbed you’re immune system won’t work if theirs no food
The only reason trucks NEED AdBlue (Urea solution) to run is because the ECU is programmed not to start without it for emissions control reasons.
Yeah but the news story on tv and newspapers and internet is stating food will not be on shelves .
You see at the end of the day no one likes depressing news that is why the elders probably had no other options no one would listen limits to growth was shunned when released to the public back in the 70s so a back up plan was quietly formulated .
I believe this guy may contribute some to our understanding to way the west in particular seems to be losing its wit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMR8RjQlqHM
Of course, he seems to be totally unaware of the energy predicament. But, I’ve always thought something else has been going on as well. Energy is certainly the main driver. But there may be some biological selection pressure changing the general quality of the population. People of today appear qualitatively very different from my grandparents’s generation, they were all born in the 1920ies. In their view, the present society with its wokeism, dysfunctional schools, unconditional mass migration, mindless consumerism etc must all look like a cultural collapse, if they would still have been alive.
It looks like the collapse of culture precedes the collapse of energy and the collapse of culture is not caused by the energy predicament. There are other mechanisms working as well. Of course, possibly this cultural collapse can be considered as part of the pollution variable in the LtG-runs, so it may still be connected to the energi variable in some sense.
The combination of brother cheap fossil fuels and his sister (debt), made us all mothers from hell.
Now take your booster. Daddy’s hungry.
Increased energy use has many intuitive effects on factors that lower infant mortality, eg. from 1/3 in 1870 to near zero in Britain today. ‘Natural selection’ (or something like it) has been almost entirely bypassed for a century and a half here. It is estimated that the average IQ (g) has fallen by the equivalent of 15 points since then.
‘Dysgenic’ tendencies relate to increased energy use pretty much in the same way as they relate to industrialisation and the improvement of welfare, medical care, hygiene, safety etc., as they have all been basically entirely driven by fossil fuel consumption.
Ideological tendencies like ‘woke’ are also traceable to post-imperialist capitalism and prosperity – the shift to an ‘inclusive’ workforce, and the material and social comfort space to identify with the ‘sufferings’ (real or imaginary) of others.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2665972719300157
> The effects of energy use on infant mortality rates in Africa
…. This paper examines the effects of energy use on the infant mortality rate in Africa by using a panel of 23 African countries for the period from 1999 and 2014. The Gary Becker hypothesis and the Grossman models are used to examine the relationship between energy related predictors and infant mortality fundamentals. The results of the study show that energy predictors have a negative and significant impact on infant mortality rates among the African countries examined.
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/57a08ca3e5274a31e0001336/R8346_mdg_goal4.pdf
> Energy as a key variable in reducing child mortality: A gender and energy perspective on empirical evidence on MDG 4
Some months ago I sent him a super chat asking about depletion issues and running out of oil back when Woodley was cohosting his show and he deferred to Woodley who gave a basic b!tch Cornucopian take.
FE; “ And then there’s dunc.. he’s on his disability scooter motoring towards the Injection centre for his booster… dunc is not well.. he’s very old but is desperate to continue living in misery”
My vains opened up, my left nut just dropped on the floor from laughing. No need for a booster.
I agree this forum is a welcome refuge of sanity. I own a small business so am fortunate that no one is forcing me to get jabbed. But the daily interactions with all the Karens takes its toll.
No one can force anyone to enforce anything. Jabs and boosters are nothing more than continuation of failure. ‘Boosters’
Stupidity of more. There isn’t more. There’s only less from now on. Desl with it
Extermination
Pfizer said its 2-shot vaccine didn’t perform produce an adequate immune response in children 2 to 5, so it is expanding the clinical trial to test a three-dose series.
Pfizer said Friday it was changing plans and testing three doses of its COVID-19 vaccine in babies and preschoolers after the usual two shots didn’t appear strong enough for some of the children.
Pfizer announced the change after a preliminary analysis found 2- to 4-year-olds didn’t have as strong an immune response as expected to the very low-dose shots the company is testing in the youngest children.
It’s disappointing news for families anxious to vaccinate their tots. Pfizer had expected data on how well the vaccines were working in children under 5 by year’s end, and it’s not clear how long the change will delay a final answer.
Pfizer and its partner BioNTech said if the three-dose study is successful, they plan to apply for emergency authorization sometime in the first half of 2022.
https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-science-business-health-coronavirus-vaccine-918bd56aa429e7755242b92f49dd7b41
EUA for preschoolers and children?!! WTF!!
They are taking the proverbial for sure.
Share/stakeholders like Fraudci, Aunty Ardern, Bloomfelled, Norm, Idunno, Anna Maginot and Spike must be ecstatic!
BUT……Guess there is no harm in getting the shot, etc etc…
So long as mike is allowed into the pie shop it’s worth the risk….
norm… continues chewing his cud…
So it didn’t maim enough kids so they need to up the toxin?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FCVNfpAVgAQN9KE?format=jpg&name=small
It’s a war of attrition .. and the MOREONS are hell bent on losing
President Joe Biden speaks while meeting with members of the White House Covid-19 Response Team on the Omicron variant in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Thursday, Dec. 16, 2021. Vaccines and boosters are becoming increasingly important as omicron spreads across across the world while delta remains the dominant strain in the U.S.
President Biden, during a meeting of his coronavirus task force, issued a dire warning to Americans who haven’t yet received their vaccine as the nation prepares to battle the omicron variant.
“For [the] unvaccinated, we are looking at a winter of severe illness and death,” Biden said.
Biden urged Americans to get their coronavirus shots, whether it is their first one or a booster. The omicron variant, he said, is in the nation, and it is “going to start to spread much more rapidly at the beginning of the year, and the only real protection is to get your shot.”
“… since we won’t be allowing you to get your hands on ivermectin…” he ranted.
And yet markets in the US are having tantrums at the prospect of the Fed rasing rates by a measly quarter percent.
Bank of Russia sharply raises key rate by 1 percentage point to 8.5% per annum
MOSCOW, December 17. /TASS/. The Bank of Russia raised its key rate for the seventh time in a row, this time by 1 percentage point to 8.5% per annum, the regulator reported following a meeting of the Board of Directors.
“On December 17, 2021, the Bank of Russia Board of Directors decided to increase the key rate by 100 b.p. to 8.50% per annum. Inflation is developing above the Bank of Russia’s October forecast. The contribution of persistent factors to inflation remains considerable on the back of faster growth in demand relative to output expansion capacity. In this environment, given rising inflation expectations, the balance of risks for inflation is markedly tilted to the upside. This may bring about a more substantial and prolonged upward deviation of inflation from the target. The Bank of Russia’s monetary policy stance is aimed to limit this risk and return inflation to 4%,” the statement said.
https://tass.com/economy/137713
Baltic Dry Index:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FG1BQqrXsAYedS8?format=png&name=900×900
Baltic Dry Index Marks Worst Week in Nearly Three Years
The Baltic Exchange’s dry bulk sea freight index declined on Friday, posting its biggest weekly fall since early February 2019, as demand waned across its vessel segments.
The overall index, which factors in rates for capesize, panamax and supramax vessels, was down 119 points, or 4.8%, to its lowest level since mid-April at 2,379.
The main index lost 27.3% this week.
The capesize index shed 167 points, or 5.8%, to an over six-month low of 2,727. It posted a 43.5% weekly decline, its worst week since May-end 2020.
https://www.marinelink.com/news/baltic-dry-index-marks-worst-week-nearly-492943
‘A sudden cardiac arrest can affect anyone’: Vancouver to place 1,000 AEDs throughout city
Emily Silva
The City of Vancouver approved a motion earlier this month that will place 1,000 Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs), as well as first aid supplies, throughout the city.
According to a news release, the motion was brought forward by St. John Ambulance B.C. & Yukon as part of their Start Me Up B.C. Program, which seeks to fill the gap when it comes to the accessibility of AEDs and other first aid supplies.
AEDs are electronic devices that can help restart someone’s heart if they’re experiencing cardiac arrest.
The group said that each stand installed throughout the city will include an AED, as well as a naloxone kit and a first aid kit.
https://bc.ctvnews.ca/a-sudden-cardiac-arrest-can-affect-anyone-vancouver-to-place-1-000-aeds-throughout-city-1.5705376
Evil is winning
South Korea has fallen and I cannot fight on anymore… Help me friends to prepare for the shot…
https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/rhgx6h/south_korea_has_fallen_and_i_cannot_fight_on/
What a miserable dilemma this young man has. There was a lot of advice offered in the comments though. Anyone contemplating getting a shot should check that out.
In South Korea, as in many places, Covid-19 cases are rising in tandem with vaccine booster doses. That nation prided itself in keeping the plague in check for over a year, but their efforts seem to be going south now. Next door in Japan, the boosters have not started yet and Covid-19 cases are very few and far between. I’m fully expecting January and February to yield a sixth wave in Japan and possibly the biggest wave yet, since it’s the middle of the flu season AND the old folks will be queuing up for their boosters.
The first and second rounds of the jabs have slowed to a trickle now with 64.9% of people under 65 double-jabbed and 65.3% single-jabbed. The one third who haven’t been jabbed are either children who aren’t allowed to be, or members of the intellectual misfit elite—that small minority who distrust Big Government and Big Pharma campaigns and care more about their health than about conformity.
One thing the Covid phenomena is proving beyond all reasonable doubt is that you can’t stop people from catching colds. And Covid-19, while it may be a cold on steroids, is still a cold. Two things you can’t successfully vaccinate against are stoopidity and colds. And it is stoopid verging on the moreonic to even try.
The above figures are for Japan, by the way.
The overall fully vaccinated rate for Japan is 78.1% and for South Korea it is 81%.
A friend who was not keen on the vax but got shot 1 to keep his job … watched this after I sent it … he told me today he will not get shot 2… he is the top guy in his company so unless the gestapo come and check.. I suppose nobody will know https://open.spotify.com/episode/0aZte37vtFTkYT7b0b04Qz
Stopped by my other friends place to drop off some veg from our garden (the hockey guy with Pfizer heart – who also opposed the jab but had to get it to keep his job) on the way into town for an illegal lunch at an anti-vax establishment … he was unable to join us because he cannot walk more than 20 steps or so without his heart rate spiking … so has been told to do nothing for two weeks and see if there is any improvement…
So he lays on the sofa … waiting …. and hoping … and no doubt in despair…. he says he wakes up thinking he’ll be back to normal .. but if anything he’s worse… and he’s not sure if ACC government insurance is going to pay him (he’s been waiting almost a week … normally they process in a day or two)… unf789ingbelievable… 32 years old.
I’d prefer to wash dishes at minimum wage before I’d take this shot
Can’t fix stupid
Pregnant women angry at long waits for Covid boosters
Valerie van Mulukom, who lives in Oxford, and is 32 weeks pregnant, cycled 30 minutes to her nearest walk-in centre this week because she was worried boosters would run out.
She was left “absolutely despondent” by having to queue outside for one-and-a-half hours, while suffering with pelvic pain and feeling increasingly thirsty and hungry.
She was then allowed to wait in line indoors which made her tense because of the risk of infection.
“I’ve only eaten inside a restaurant twice in the past two years,” she says.
“I’m so worried about my own health and the health of my baby. I feel like I constantly need to fight to be looked after.
“We are clinically vulnerable – why are we being ignored?” Valerie asks.
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-59658701
Steve Kirsch has joined the rebellion and is now fighting the battle 27-7-365.
If today’s post is accurate, I wonder if we’ll be witnessing a collapse in birthrates where jab-uptake is high.
“IVF clinics started having serious problems right after the vaccines started rolling out
I’m hearing stories of weird things happening in IVF clinics starting in March of this year. They can’t figure out the cause.”
https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/ivf-clinics-started-having-serious?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo1OTA5ODEwNSwicG9zdF9pZCI6NDU1NTc4NTMsIl8iOiJvRCt3QiIsImlhdCI6MTYzOTc5NTQxOSwiZXhwIjoxNjM5Nzk5MDE5LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItNTQ4MzU0Iiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.oU8YxStG0lnRQktFsdkFhLUbW2mj27gYYC8JEa9myow
Let’s hope she gets her wish! And it ends in tears and guilt
Evolution has no bias and no malice. It just is.
I wonder how norm would react if the baby girl was wrecked from the vax?
Probably with ‘it was for the greater good’
eddy
if you got a bag of confetti
wrote 1 letter at random on each piece
shook the confetti out of its bag into the airstream of a moving fan
then wrote down the letters in sequence as they came to rest on the floor
the ensuing ‘comment’ would have more chance of making sense than that one
UK natural gas prices hit a new all time high…
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FG1DJJTWYAYUGfk?format=jpg&name=large
When I opened that I experienced an enormous surge of dopamine and a feeling of general euphoria… I’ll keep opening it throughout the day till I OD.
77 COUNTERPARTIES TAKE $1.705 TLN AT FED REVERSE REPO OP.
Another record high
With all the excitement over omincron I had forgotten about the repos… 1 trillion+… more dopamine…
Sweden-based Epicenter proudly presents an implanted chip that can “conveniently” hold your vaccination status “always accessible.”
https://twitter.com/SCMPNews/status/1471797322531049472
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
I thought I would take a deeper look at this paper and practice my integration (area under curve) skills using diminishing eyesight and old HP32s + handcalcs
Looking at Figures 12-14 Author’s description:
“Each figure shows the percentage uptake of the first and second dose of the vaccine (these are the dotted lines and the right-hand side vertical axis show the percentage of the age group vaccinated during that week). These lines show increasing uptake of the first and second doses of the vaccine. Each clearly envelops the period within which the majority of the first and second vaccinations were administered to each age group. Again, we have removed Covid mortality to isolate the signal of interest.”
OK so first I integrate % Vaxed 1st dose & 2nd dose
I get 60-69yo 1st ~100% 2nd ~80%; 70-79yo 1st ~100% 2nd ~90% ; 80+ 1st 100% 2nd ~95% when include little bump in week 0-3
OK – so these look semi-realistic so in my accelerating dotage at least it looks like I can still do manual integration.
Now the fun part not sure if LHS ordinate units unlabled. If is deaths/week then can calculate # of people died as area under curve. Text however makes it sound like the ordinate units are mortality rates (assume #/100k/wk) so would have to integrate and divide by # wks to get back to a net average step change in death rate or percentage of those taking shot that died and were allocated to the unvaccinated non-covid death because within 21 day window.
I also looked at projecting recessional curve for Dose2 deaths at prevailing slope to get back to baseline mortality rate for each wave beyond week 38. This approximates to 60-69 yrs ~8 weeks to go from 60 back to baseline 20; 70-79yo 5 weeks to go from 150 back to baseline 50; 80+ 10 weeks to go from 400 back to baseline 100.
My results for area under curves through week 38 for dose 1 & dose 2 & beyond:
60-69yo D1= 440 D2 = 1020 sum = 1460 d2>38wk 160 grand total 1620
70-79yo D1= 1725 D2= 5750 sum= 7475 d2>38wk 250 grand total 7725
80+yo D1= 6000 D2= 15300 sum 21300 d2>38wk 1500 grand total 21300
So if these are total death units/wk then total deaths were ~30600 that were vaccine related but miscategorized as unvaccinated non-covid deaths (weighted average age using 65, 75 & 85yo calculates as 82yo which is in the ballpark)
If these units are deaths/100k then calculate an average step change increase of mortality rate = addl deaths/100k for # weeks until recessional curve returns to background rate:
60-69 yo 67/100k (used projected grand total over 24 weeks) or 91/100k (for1460/16wks)
70-79yo 275/100k (used projected grand total over 28 weeks) of 325/100k (for 7475/23wks)
80+ 650 650/100k (used projected grand total over 35 weeks) or 852/100k (for 21300/25wks)
or
60-69yo vax 0.07% deaths
70-79jyo vax 0.28% deaths
80+ yo vac 0.65% deaths
These are only acute, short term consequences <6 mos that were miscategorized as unvaccinated deaths – does not include any long term risk or properly counted excess non-covid deaths in the vaccinated population.not attributed to the vaccine.
Any comments, correction, thoughts – I know I should go back to the original UKHSA reports through week 38 to look at population number used, should be able to figure out what the correct Ordinate units are and double check the order of magnitude of the results correspond to the reports and that Neil,Fenton & Craigs curves in FIgs 12-14 make sense.
Business Insider
Airfares are plummeting for early 2022 travel and it shows how terrified airlines are of the Omicron varient
Thomas Pallini
Fri, December 17, 2021, 6:51 AM
Los Angeles Airport
Airlines are enticing Americans to travel with cheap fares cities across the Western Hemisphere.Kit Leong / Shutterstock.com
Airlines are dropping fares as the Omicron coronavirus variant spreads and business travelers stay home.
Discounted fares can be had to popular vacation destinations including Hawaii and Latin America.
Unadvertised fare sales can also lead to better savings than published fare sales.
Major airlines have unveiled sales throughout December and discounted airfares in the hopes that more Americans will take to the skies after the holidays. And while flight sales are common, what makes the most recent offerings stand out to experts is how much some airlines are willing to discount.
“The airline industry is one of the business world’s most perfect examples of the fundamental laws of supply and demand in action,” Henry Harteveldt, a travel analyst and president of Atmosphere Research Group, told Insider of the recent sales. “It’s a very soft period for the airlines between, say, January 5 and Presidents’ Day weekend.”
Airlines now also have to contend with the Omicron coronavirus variant and the fact that fewer than expected business travelers will be filling their aircraft cabins. Domestic flights, as a result, are seeing some of the best deals since there are limited testing and vaccination requirements when traveling between states with no chance of being stranded abroad.
“Airlines know that January and February are two of the least popular months to travel out of the whole year,” Scott Keyes, a professional flight deal tracker and founder of Scott’s Cheap Flights, told Insider. “If I’m an airline executive, I am terrified that I am not going to be able to sell these seats come early January.”
One of the best sales that Keyes has seen in recent weeks was from Hawaiian Airlines in which round-trip airfares between Hawaii and the West Coast were going for as little as $123. Even as of writing, fares to Hawaii can be had for less than $200 from cities throughout California.
Ultra-low-cost airlines that are already known for bargain fares are also jumping on the sale bandwagon. Frontier Airlines is currently running a buy-one, get-one promotion for members of its Discount Den subscription program through December 17 and Avelo Airlines is offering a 50% off discount code that’s only valid on December 16.
But great deals have been easier to come by in recent weeks regardless of whether a sale is running.
I can see the CEOs now…we need another round of bailout money from Sleepy Joe!
Yes, Joey we will enforce your JAB mandates!
Well. There is a pilot shortage coming..no big deal
The End – Doors
Interpretation by Marilyn Manson
And thx to Dennis L who informed us that the poem starts as a farewell letter to a girl friend and then transcends into the unknown
https://youtu.be/6tHy8QPXwUg
LOCAL NEWS
Florida lawmakers ask Gov. DeSantis to declare a state of emergency on housing
Rep. Guillermo-Smith said Floridians are facing unconscionable rent hikes
Nicky Zizaza, Reporter
Published: December 16, 2021, 9:25 PM
Rep. Carlos Guillermo-Smith said he is fighting for renters desperate to stop their rent from rising. Nearly 24 Florida House and Senate Democrats are calling for Gov. Ron DeSantis to declare a state of emergency on housing.
Guillermo-Smith said the price of rent is soaring and by the turn of the new calendar year some renters in Central Florida could lose their homes.
“Floridians are facing unconscionable rent hikes,” Guillermo-Smith said.
In a letter from the group of Florida democrats, they requested the governor to take immediate action.
“We are calling on Gov. DeSantis to declare a housing state of emergency and use his authority to direct the Attorney General to use the existing statutory consumer protection against price gouging to offer renters relief,” Guillermo-Smith said.
Cities across the nation are dealing with this issue.
Well, lots of folks moving here and the costs are going threw the sky with insurance and taxes and the Covid rent Holiday 😜.
Of course. It’s going up…
Doubt they will do much about it. Homeless folks will adapt…see many storage building being built in my city. They will rent one of those and move in a unit.
Ever sizeable building lot in !y City has under construction High Rise Apartments being built.
They want RENTS…investors.
You will own nothing!
I can see why Florida would be popular. Mild climate. Major food production area. Welcomes retirees. Not as “over the top” about vaccinations as a lot of places. Less likely to close up shop in response to epidemics.
Also a couple of coal plants, a few nuke plants & lots of nuke power from nearby GA & SC (maybe even Al). FPL is building some large solar farms but dont think they have done enough to screw things up yet – no wind.
Maybe things get desperate enough Florida will rescind off-shore drilling ban – not sure how much in shallow offshore. Certainly might “help” with increased pollution to align w/ either BAU2 or CT future pollution curves. lol
Check out
https://www.rintrah.nl/before-the-vaccine-vs-after-the-vaccine/
Interesting read
😉
😂 I like that! Funny but also sad. It’s concrete reasoning that you can’t do with anyone anymore. They still won’t talk about natural immunity!! Nope got to get booster! It doesn’t make sense arguing about makes me a crazy person too. That’s why I’m done discussing vazx. It’s a waste of time. I am now interested in how long this sh$$ show going on. That’s all that is left… if we have one year then or we have 10 years is all that matters at this point in time.
FYI it’s definitely 10. 😉
How the maskless, unvaxxed get treated in Ontario
https://twitter.com/CanadianApe83/status/1471590680703246342
No Vax, No Food: Spokane Christmas Food Pantry Requires Proof of Vaccination or COVID Test to Get Food
In Spokane, they’re turning people away from the Christmas Bureau food assistance.
People in need have to show proof of Covid-19 vaccination or proof of a negative COVID test no more than 72 hours old.
If you don’t have the vax or show proof of a COVID test you are turned away.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/12/no-vax-no-food-spokane-christmas-food-pantry-requires-proof-vaccination-covid-test-get-food/?ff_source=Twitter&ff_medium=PostBottomSharingButtons&ff_campaign=websitesharingbuttons
Good grief!
From the times when Christians helped lepers to now asking covid-test it has been a deep downward path.
In misery there is opportunity….
Anyone seeking a surrogate injector… needs to get to Spokane NOW…. search for a starving homeless person … and offer them a few tins of cat food if they will take that shot for you…
Proof of vaccination expands to children in New Orleans starting in new year
Starting Jan. 3, 2022, proof of vaccination or a negative test will be required for everyone ages 5 and up at restaurants and public places.
Children will have to show proof of at least one dose, and proof of two doses in February.
“Starting in January you need to start getting your children vaccinated,” said Cantrell.
Cantrell said that the move was made to keep people safe ahead of the holiday seasons as well as for Carnival Season. This as the Omicron variant continues to spread across the city of New Orleans. Over the last few days, Dr. Jennifer Avegno with New Orleans Department of Health said average cases have nearly doubled. Omicron is expected to become the dominate strain here locally by the New Year.
https://www.wdsu.com/article/beau-tidwell-holds-conference-on-omicron-variant-other-city-updates-1639670406/38539366
This is how insane it’s gotten in Canada:
In New Brunswick, all children are required to be tested every couple days when at home during the Christmas vacation. Can you believe that?
From the provincial press release;
“Families are reminded that rapid test kits for use during the holidays are being sent home with students. Students in kindergarten to Grade 6 will receive two kits, containing five tests per kit. Students in Grades 7-12 will be given one rapid test kit since they will not be out of school as long as the younger children. Students should rapid test every two to three days while on break, including Jan. 9, the Sunday before they return to school.”
Talk about a psyop. Not only are they making them mask up all the time (and have been for over a year) and get the mystery juice shots, but now you are supposed to keep testing them every few days during a holiday? What do they think is going to do to a kids mental health?
Oh, and it’s illegal to not report a positive test result if you get one. That’s per the provincial ’emergency measures act’. But, and get this, they clearly don’t think these rapid tests are very accurate because if you get a negative result following a positive, the negative isn’t counted as meaning you are clear. You can’t use a negative result to get out of quarantine, for example.
Imagine, your kid gets a positive result on Dec 24th, which means you are legally required to schedule a ‘gold standard pcr test’ asap. Next day, the kid gets a negative using the same shitty rapid test kit, but who cares, because you can’t trust that right? What kind of mess are these evil bastards trying to make of the kids heads and their Christmas?
They are clearly bent on disconnecting children from normality at a very tender and highly impressionable age.
As the Jesuits used to boast: ‘Give us a child at 7, and we will give you the man!’ (or sexless, digitised trans-thing, these days, I suppose).
It’s very good to have you back with us, Xabier. I hope you’ve been well and productive in the interim and not sick with anything.
What we are witnessing is a campaign to terrorize the masses, and one, btw in which certain signs of sadism are pretty evident. They have to constantly remind people that there is a dangerous terrorist, sorry, virus on the loose, otherwise people might not notice it. And it’s necessary to keep fear levels high, because fear devours the soul and blocks the ability to add 2+2.
And still // and STILL.. the CovIDIOTS will continue to comply … in fact they will more intensely and rabidly comply … because the more ridiculous the rules are … the more dangerous the virus is….that’s why the rules are becoming more extreme by the week
We are being swamped by a tide of MOREONS…
Europe’s Energy Crisis Just Got Worse
The outage at the French nuclear plants comes just as temperatures in Europe started to fall and amid the ongoing natural gas crunch with gas in storage sites at the lowest levels in a decade.
Without part of the French electricity exports, some countries in northwest Europe could see their own power supply constrained.
If winter weather is colder than usual, this would mean no relief in the skyrocketing power prices and energy bills for consumers. This could also raise the possibility of rolling blackouts, Bloomberg notes.
“Now it would only take 2-3 degrees Celsius below the seasonal normal to get into trouble,” Emeric de Vigan, CEO of energy analysis firm COR-e, told Bloomberg.
Following the French halt to some of its nuclear plants, European power prices surged to record on Thursday.
https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Europes-Energy-Crisis-Just-Got-Worse.html
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2021-12-17/blackouts-could-darken-europe-this-winter
> Blackouts Could Darken Europe This Winter
Get ready for a cold and dark winter, with the risk of rolling blackouts in Europe growing after some of France’s nuclear reactors were halted in yet another blow to the region’s embattled energy markets. It’s set to leave citizens across the bloc facing soaring electricity costs as they attempt to heat their homes during the coldest part of the year. It also poses a political challenge to national leaders and the EU, which is trying to sell a green overhaul of the economy. With electricity prices showing little sign of stabilizing, member states will have to depend on domestic measures to blunt the impact of rising prices in the short term. EU leaders clashed over how to address the energy crunch at their Brussels summit, urging deeper carbon and power market supervision, but unable to agree on new measures. And all the while the issue of whether to give final approval to Nord Stream 2 — a gas pipeline connecting Russia to Germany — looms large amid the escalating military activity on the Ukrainian border.
According to the article:
Of course, France will keep what it needs for itself. Exports will take a much bigger hit.
France relies on its nuclear for 75% of its energy.
This comes just as UK is tight on electricity (see below).
We had all better keep everything well charged just in case.
Lebanon cancer patients living in fear after drug subsidies lift
“During the war at least people had money,” said Marhij, 63. “We’ve never experienced anything like this.”
Adding to the fear of not surviving cancer, the mother of four worries she will not be able to secure the medication needed to complete the treatment amid soaring prices and drug shortages.
“My son takes care of my medicines, he asks friends and acquaintances to search pharmacies around them,” Marhij said. “I’m dependent on him, I have no choice. If prices go up, I don’t know how he will be able to afford it.”
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/12/17/cancer-patients-in-lebanon-living-in-fear-as-drug-subsidies-lift
It is not just those who don’t get the drugs who suffer. It is difficult for drug companies to sell as many of their high-priced drugs when citizens are poor. The industry fights increasingly for mandated vaccines with no liability attached, so that they can make the money that they feel they feel they are entitled to. If drug companies can keep up their operations, it helps keep open the job pipeline for young people in universities.
Imagine the entire world being like Lebanon … then the power goes off permanently… and the super market shelves empty … permanently…
Try really hard to overcome your normalcy bias… and imagine what that would be like.
If the CEP fails… that is what is going to happen
So far I am disappointed by CEP we need Ebola now! EN!
I know exactly what it will be like
The Cannibal Generals of Liberia
An EPIC post by JHK: “Where Do You Stand?”
https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/where-do-you-stand/
If there are citizens of a Country able to stop this are only US people.
Would significant numbers in the military turn?
Jim Kunstler says:
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I would point out that the doctors have “rolled over” for a long time.
First, there has been the huge deterioration of the food industry, including the restaurant industry, that has allowed US citizens to become very overweight. The US Food and Drug Administration has done nothing, and individual physicians have not done much. Of course, their training is all about the use of pharmaceutical products and surgery to solve problems. The head of Food and Drug Administration likely comes from one of the groups it is regulating.
Next, we had the opioid scandal. Hospitals were anxious to get their ratings up. They started asking patients for 1 to 10 scores on pain, and handing out opioid pain pills if there was an slight indication of pain. Doctors did something similar. Many of these pain patients became addicted to these pain pills. Physicians could have started complaining about the problem, early on, but I don’t think that many did.
Now, we have the vaccines and the bad effects from the vaccines, and the coverup of the cheap easy solutions for treating COVID. This is just beyond believable. But perhaps there had been enough groundwork laid that doctors felt that they needed to go along with whatever nonsense was said by industry leaders. They are so busy filling out needless paperwork that they no long have time to keep up to date on what is really going on, I am afraid.
Thank you Gail for this in-depth analysis.
It is the perfect explanation of our current nightmare.
I would add that we have so thoroughly polluted our environment with toxic chemicals that virtually everyone is negatively effected. Every one is immune compromised to a certain degree even if you “eat well”.
This is affecting all facets of human health from fertility, obesity, all chronic disease, and now they are discovering this accumulation of toxins is having a direct effect on our psyche.
Turkey Halts All Stock Trading As Currency Disintegrates, Central Bank Powerless To Halt Collapse
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/turkey-halts-all-stock-trading-currency-disintegrates-central-bank-powerless-halt-collapse
This sounds terrible!
I wonder what other countries are in similar shape. Is there stock trading in Venezuela, or Lebanon, or Yemen, for example?
Venezuela’s Stock Market is the same central bank fueled casino like the US
https://tradingeconomics.com/venezuela/stock-market
Frankly, I don’t buy that they would allow ~important NATO country self destruct like that completely. But if true – another big threshold in overall collapse has been breached be it Brandonesque mismanagement or triage (Turkey no longer needed).
How are the banks position regarding Turkey? A few years ago their exposure was alot. Now? Not sure. Will this Turkish collapse bring down financials in EU?
Things haven’t changed for the european banks. This time though they haven’t reacted in any way. Very strange and fiahy.
Turkey’s currency crisis and the threat of contagion
https://www.ft.com/content/ddce395c-b4c5-47c6-b253-9c1dd0fdc7e2
Pure Evil Psycopath
https://twitter.com/SquawkCNBC/status/1471813973238550540
There are various ways to say similar things, for instance one could say that it is not correct to say someone has to be killed and it is more correct to say someone needs to be discontinued.
I read so many replies and i didn’t see even one pro-vaccine. Even the ones who stated they are vaccinated are anti vaccine mandates and the fraud fauci and friends represent as science.
Those 50M are likely to have a high % of gun ownership…. it could be like the Arab Spring when that Tunisian guy lit himself on fire… all it takes is one to … and it could light a spark:
https://youtu.be/E73RM9gS7bU?t=71
Many turks can’t afford bread, and bakers can’t afford to make it
Turks are grappling with soaring inflation, watching prices rise daily as the lira has plunged against the dollar and their salaries and pensions no longer cover even the staples of life
A line of glum-faced people wrapped up against the rain stood along the street outside a government bread bank in a suburb of Istanbul.
“People cannot manage,” said Sengul Essen, 57. “I worked 21 years as a cleaner at the university and now I am waiting in a bread queue.”
Turks are grappling with soaring inflation, watching prices rise daily as the lira has plunged against the dollar and their salaries and pensions no longer cover even the staples of life. Bread lines have started to appear in neighborhoods as growing numbers of people are turning to cheap, government-issued bread to fill their tables.
On a cold, wet afternoon this week, the mood in the bread line was bleak. Most people did not want to be interviewed for fear of getting into trouble for criticizing the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, which frequently detains his critics. Those who spoke declined to give their names.
https://indianexpress.com/article/world/lira-currency-turkey-food-fuel-prices-many-turks-cant-afford-bread-and-bakers-cant-afford-to-make-it-7675785/
The periphery sloughs off … then the disease spreads into the core…. as the Beast is starved of spice
Germany:
PPI – 19.2 – highest increase since November 1951.
CPI – 6.2
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FGy08pwWUAknm1g?format=png&name=4096×4096
A 19.2% increase in Producer Prices in Germany! Wow! It is hard to see how these higher costs will be passed on buyers of finished goods. Expect Germany’s economy to contract.
So predictable you’ve got to laugh
First person to die with Omicron in UK was ‘vaccine conspiracy theorist’
https://metro.co.uk/2021/12/16/first-brit-to-die-with-omicron-was-vaccine-conspiracy-theorist-15781753/
“He was a recluse to be honest with you, he never went out, he had his shopping brought to him.”
Potentially fatal mistake. The immune system needs constant exposure to pathogens to stay at a healthy level.
The “vaccine conspiracy theorist” who was too afraid of the virus to leave his house. LOL. These screenwriters are getting lazy. Or maybe they feel they don’t need to try hard, knowing that MSM followers will believe anything.
That was exactly my first thought.
Then as a taxi driver, you should be the picture of health.
However, sitting down all day year after year and living on chips would put you in danger of what used to be termed “adult” diseases such as stroke, heart disease, and diabetes.
Have you considered pulling a rickshaw?
“…sitting down all day year after year and living on chips would put you in danger…”
It would, but I’ve yet to buy a takeaway whilst working. The handful of times I’ve accepted food from passengers I’ve inevitably regretted it. Can’t speak for other tax drivers, who often are overweight.
When you have a late night fit bird in the back… you can hint that you are up for barter…
I believe there is an entire p or n site dedicated to filming this sort of interaction… I suspect the women are not ‘innocent’.. rather they probably troll back alleys looking for bad girls going ‘off duty’…
This is propaganda in its most sublime form
To all… the first Omicron dealh in UK. James got it correct. Those who oppose the vax are the healthier ones who will go about makes. So the story is totally untrue and JMS said it correct. The script writers are too lazy
From Rabbi Chananya Weissman, the founder of EndTheMadness and a prolific author and blogger:
In case you haven’t heard, Merriam-Webster recently revised its definition of the term “anti-vaxxer”. This has generated a great deal of backlash about what changes they made, presumably to suit the establishment agenda.
That, in turn, generated the predictable condescending response from the establishment and its horde of spin-doctors and “fact-checkers”, who employed their usual tactics to conclude that those sounding alarms about this change are fools and agenda-driven liars spreading false information. This will be sanctified as irrefutable fact by their colleagues in the establishment media and the technocrats for whom they work, who will instruct their platforms to censor the opposition. Not long after, they will issue calls for their co-workers in government to persecute those who express the now-debunked position.
Lost in all the hoopla is a close look at Merriam-Webster’s actual definitions of “anti-vaxxer” and “vaccine” at present, irrespective of what they did or didn’t change. Here they are in full, followed by my commentary:
In case you haven’t heard, Merriam-Webster recently revised its definition of the term “anti-vaxxer”. This has generated a great deal of backlash about what changes they made, presumably to suit the establishment agenda.
That, in turn, generated the predictable condescending response from the establishment and its horde of spin-doctors and “fact-checkers”, who employed their usual tactics to conclude that those sounding alarms about this change are fools and agenda-driven liars spreading false information. This will be sanctified as irrefutable fact by their colleagues in the establishment media and the technocrats for whom they work, who will instruct their platforms to censor the opposition. Not long after, they will issue calls for their co-workers in government to persecute those who express the now-debunked position.
Lost in all the hoopla is a close look at Merriam-Webster’s actual definitions of “anti-vaxxer” and “vaccine” at present, irrespective of what they did or didn’t change. Here they are in full, followed by my commentary:
Definition of anti-vaxxer: a person who opposes the use of vaccines or regulations mandating vaccination
All the fuss has been focused around whether and when Merriam-Webster introduced the last part into their definition of “anti-vaxxer”. To me, while interesting, that is less important.
The real significance is that, according to Merriam-Webster, everyone who supports the Nuremberg Code and the principle of informed consent is, by definition, an anti-vaxxer! Even if one has shot himself and his children up with every concoction declared by the pharmaceutical overlords to be a vaccine, even if they have gladly signed up for a lifetime subscription of every new “vaccine” they churn out, if they are against forcing people to take it, they are “anti-vaxxers”!
This is wonderful news. I would hereby like to welcome the overwhelming majority of the human race, who should now declare loudly and proudly that they are anti-vaxxers, and confidently challenge anyone who isn’t.
The tables have officially been turned. The term “anti-vaxxer” is no longer a pejorative to slander and mock those who are against any or all “vaccines”. It is no longer a sword of Damocles swinging over those who express reservations about taking an injection of idolatry, lest one face the angry god of covid, or, far worse, be declared an anti-vaxxer. The term now means anyone who is against forcing people to kneel.
Perhaps the establishment believes their spell is so powerful that those who already live in terror of being called an “anti-vaxxer” will go along with this part of the definition as well. They will support forcing people to be injected with any and all crap, or at least look the other way, to protect themselves from having the dreaded “anti-vaxxer” tag slapped on them, with all that entails.
If the establishment is right, the f-a-s-c-i-s-t takeover is essentially complete. If not, now is the time to welcome the new hordes of “anti-vaxxers” and enlist them in the fight against evil. After all, those who support forcing people to get injected with something today will inevitably be forced to get injected with something they don’t want tomorrow.
Thank you, Merriam-Webster.
https://www.jewishpress.com/author/chananyaweissman/
Cracks in the nuclear reactors and the coal mines.
https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/frances-edf-shutters-two-nuclear-power-plants-after-cracks-found
https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/flood-traps-21people-illegal-chinese-coal-mine-production-hits-record
China’s coal problems continue. It looks as if coal prices are still fairly elevated, even with many marginal mines back online. This is good for coal production, but accidents happen.
This news is wonderful. Big pharma is blocking vaccination to migrants arriving in Italy, because they are asking: ‘who takes responsibility for side effects?’ and there is no answer.
In other words the situation is the following: since countries of origin have not signed contracts with pharmaceutical companies; since pharmaceutical companies do not want to take responsibility; since NGOs also do not want to take responsibility; since migrants don’t want to sign informed consent; vaccinations to migrants are blocked because if something happens, one cannot say:
‘sorry it’s your problem’.
https://www.iltempo.it/politica/2021/12/17/news/effetti-collaterali-vaccino-responsabilita-covax-frena-chi-si-assume-rischi-migranti-caso-alessandro-rico-verita–29817871/
But if they aren’t all vaxed pronto, Anna and her granny haven’t got long to live!!
Worse, they might pass a cold on to Norman, which his tripple-jabbed immune system might mistake for the Black Death!!!
It’s a good thing for Norman that the UK is out of the EU and viruses can’t cross the Channel.
That is a good point about the vaccine companies needing the liability for bad outcomes waived.
This is also why illegal border crossers at US south can not be vaxxed their country of origin is not defined and the pharma company might be liable. A strange obedience to the law at the highest global level.
More lightbulbs are starting to go off regarding Covid. This Sports beat writer worked for the Miami Herald covering the Miami Dolphins for decades. In the beginning he was ALL for vaccination in the NFL. Now he is beginning to ask questions. Just as Fast Eddy continues to ask the question, if vaccinations work, why are so many of the vaccinated still getting Covid?
“ARMANDO SALGUERO: IT’S TIME TO RETHINK HOW WE VIEW COVID IN THE NFL”
https://www.outkick.com/its-time-to-rethink-how-we-view-covid-in-the-nfl/
Browns tight end David Njoku, for example, shared how he felt Thursday after his stint on the COVID-19 list.
“I feel amazing,” he said. “Through my COVID experience, I had no symptoms so I feel perfectly normal.”
Cuz he doesn’t actually have covid….
A lot of people have known that the vaxxes dont stop you from getting covid – and it does not seem to trouble them that they were lied to https://www.headsupster.com/forumthread?shortId=397
They still believe it stops them from getting severely ill … but they are starting to understand that this is the future
https://i.postimg.cc/9MMftKTd/Microsoft-Teams-image-2.png
https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/552938ede4b04239f607bb72/acbc63b7-eb56-4ec1-8542-301d56ea28d8/Screen+Shot+2021-12-16+at+7.03.16+AM.png?format=1500w
So, it’s in the budget—jabs all the way until 2027 for Canadians. Even at two a year, that would mean 14 injections.
I couldn’t find the source image for this, but didn’t look very hard. This is a Department of Finance Canada press release type document that lays out the strategy and makes it all sound so reasonable—free boosters, vaccines for children, rapid tests, support for proof of vaccination, making travel safer…..
https://www.canada.ca/en/department-finance/news/2021/12/protecting-our-recovery-by-finishing-the-fight-against-covid-19.html
UK grid could be going down tonight. As of noon gas is pretty much maxed out and generating 60% of our electricity, wind 1.5%, solar 1.5%. Wind is forecast to drop to zero across Scotland at rush hour tonight so as the sun sets we are going to have to find 10GW from somewhere.
Thanks for your assessment of the situation.
People don’t realize that electricity from natural gas is limited by several things:
1. Amount that can come through existing pipelines at a given time.
2. Amount that can affordably be bought from foreign suppliers.
3. Amount that can be locally produced, per day.
4. Amount remaining in storage.
5. Number and size of storage units.
6. Various other technical issues.
I understand that UK policy has made it uneconomic to build natural gas storage. The problem you are talking about now may very well be related to Limit (1) above.
It is the fact that people don’t understand the many limits involved that allows them to forge ahead with plans that are just crazy, when it comes to implementing them. We will be watching the news. Sometimes “a picture is worth a thousand words.” The crazy move toward wind and solar has to stop at some point.
As of 1500 UK time the national grid have already brought in 2GW of mothballed coal plants, asked major users to cut back demand and are running the French and Dutch interconnectors at capacity. On the supply side reserves now seem to be limited to 0.5GW coal, 0.75GW OCGT and 1GW of pumped storage. A ridiculous situation where we are now hoping that the wind picks up.
So, does it roughly stand from your 7:45am post that ~6GW is missing or way less ???
The wind for the next 6 days is close to zero, it looks like for the whole of the UK, because we have high pressure system sat right over us.
What bad luck!! So there won’t be many Christmas lights this year?
In recent days the ratio of energy generated by solar vs traditional plants in Germany was ~1:80x, lol. Obviously, the wind tends to score a bit better and these are shortest daylight weeks but still..
“As of noon gas is pretty much maxed out and generating 60% of our electricity”
Can you share with us – where do you get that info from, the maxed out bit, if it is not confidential?
In the meantime, time to put the central heating on.
These utilities publish up to date online performance statistics..
Have you ever seen anything nearly this extreme in your past observations of these online stats?
Well I don’t follow it regularly, but it has been posted here and on other sites occasionally.
I guess the situation seems now more ~dire because several factors got almost ripe in sync: North Sea sector depleting (for several countries), UK’s mismanagement getting naked (storage), French NPPs output on low, Russian pipeline stalled, and return of winter weather during winter season for a change (vs prior yrs), .. , plus the Chinese behemoth of sucking all resources from the global..markets..
In order to avoid blackouts Italy is resurrecting Coal.
Where is Greta ?
https://t.me/In_Telegram_Veritas/1426
Where will the coal come from? It is not possible to ramp up coal supply quickly, even with high prices. There needs to be infrastructure in place and trained workers. Also, a way of economically transporting the coal to coal-powered electricity generating plants, with trained workers and transmission lines in good repair. All of this takes a lot of long term investment.
They are just trying to patch it up, it is a power plant in ‘La Spezia’ which was about to close.
The great change ‘they’ want to do is to open ‘new generation’ nuclear power plants, but for the moment they haven’t done anything.
It is a quite weird argument for Italians, because nobody here has ever talked about society running on energy, so there must be a great suprise for people to suddenly realize this.
People till now probably thought that it was just a matter of choice, like for cloths, one can chose oil and another can chose wind, just depending on the mood..
Sorry for sarcasm, but I’m very disappointed by the level of debate here.
Student, the level of understanding is no better in the U.S. People think electric for cars comes out of wall outlets completely clean no smoke or pollution coming out of the outlet.
In Italy, DE, and other countries this is so-called coal powerplants on the (last) reserve, incl. some coal stored for it (days, weeks). Don’t know if at all and how large similar system happens to be inside the US though..
There is a lot of coal in Serbia (largest deposit in europe I think) just across the Adriatic. Too bad Serbia does not have access to a port. I bet Italy would be glas to purchase some of it.
They will change the definition of “fully vaccinated” to include the latest “booster.” My county in California provides a weekly tracker on the percentage of “fully vaccinated” citizens. That tracker will reset once the definition of “fully vaccinated” is changed. Those who had been enthused about the increasing number of “fully vaccinated” citizens in my county will soon bear witness as we’re all collectively thrown back into the pit and told by our “leaders” that we must try to climb out again.
Adverse events and deaths following two-dose mRNA injections will be obscured following the changed definition of “fully vaccinated.” No longer will sufferers belonging to this group be categorized as “fully vaccinated.” They didn’t have their “boosters” so they’ll be categorized as “unvaccinated.”
So it shall come to pass. Our great prophet Fauci indicated as much recently when he said that changing the definition of “fully vaccinated” was a matter of when not if.
Authorities should make it clear once and for all that the only way to achieve full protection is to die, IOW, that fully vaccinated = dead.
LOL!
‘Scientists say that stone dead is 100% safe from Omicron – guaranteed!’
Dr. Massimo Zollo, Genetist of University Federico II, says these new kind of vaccines may have started the process of Covid variants.
It is better to come back to traditional vaccines.
https://www.iltempo.it/attualita/2021/12/16/news/il-genetista-mauro-zollo-vaccini-hanno-incoraggiato-nascita-nuove-varianti-covid-29816789/
https://t.me/rossobruni/14217
I didn’t see any link to an academic paper supporting this assertion in the article, however.
You are right, it is just an interview to Dr. Zollo. In case other information will come about his position I will post it.
To all optimists out there who is saying we will have a go until 2030, she with us your thoughts… (1) comparing 2008, 2019, 2021 and 2022, are we doing better? (2) are we accelerating downhill with more bad news? (3) kindly provide me with some good news other than Omicron is mild (4) I saw from Harry’s excellent summary that there are now physical protests in mining areas. As though we have not enough unrest or supply chain disruption (4) inflation getting worse or improving?
I try to be an optimist but I find it hard.
Perhaps parts of today’s economy will survive until 2030. A self-organizing economy behaves strangely. Perhaps some parts of the US, together with some parts of China and Russia, can survive. Also, some parts of Canada and Africa. I don’t understand how all of this will work.
I expect many areas of various sizes will still exist in some form in 2030. I am not saying they will have the same population density could be a remnant of 10% or 1%. I expect the areas in Africa in 2030 will be just as irrelevant to the global system as today. I expect Japan will do better than most areas that is not to say will do well. I expect parts of US/Russia/China will still have functioning ICBMs. I expect the oilfields of Iran/KSA will still have 5% production could be 30% if they had no social breakdown and “unrest” unlikely. I expect Cuba will be little changed still real poor. US bread basket will be shutdown due to lack of most every thing.
“… comparing 2008, 2019, 2021 and 2022, are we doing better?”
most of the Core easily sailed through the past 14 years.
if the pattern continues, then there may be one or more Lebanon (weren’t they doing well as recently as 2020?) types of decline nearing failed state status among the smaller weaker peripheral countries.
but yes the chances for discontinuity in the Core increase every year.
oh look, only 14 days until 2022.
the Centre holds!
wooooooo!!!!!!!
Reiner Fuellmich Interviews Naomi Wolf. This was posted in July 2021, but I’ve only just watched it. Naomi is a brilliant speaker and a much-needed voice of sanity. Here she talks about the ten steps any open society has to go through to get to tyranny, and concludes that we are now at step ten. This is the stage where the courts don’t stop the illegal and treasonous actions of governments.
Naomi is an “anti-vaxer” in the New Normal sense that she opposes mandatory inoculations. She’s very into the civil liberties side of things. She also gets into Catherine Austin Fitts territory talking about how the pandemic and the reaction to it are being used to destroy small businesses so big ones can crush the competition and buy up a lot of cheap real estate. And she gets into Big Tech’s plans to make sure everyone carries their smartphone around with them like good girls and boys, and introduces the notion that these huge digital companies have gotten together to try to destroy, fracture, and damage the analog real-world society most of us would prefer to live in by promoting isolation, segregation, masks and passports to make it more difficult for people to meet others physically. They want to mediate our experience, keep us flooded with ads, and profit on the deal.
Interesting stuff! About an hour long.
https://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2021/07/dr-reiner-fuellmich-interviews-naomi-wolf-3754698.html
Thanks! This way of living is horrible, but it probably uses less energy. It also moves more of what little is available to the already very rich.
Writing from Berlin, C.J. Hopkins is in great form letting off steam and f-bombs, some beginning with “fu..” and others with “fa…..” While we needn’t yet equate modern times with what was happening almost a century ago, we have to admit that the Third Reich bequeathed the world a rich vocabulary with which to describe or caricature authoritarians, so why not make use of it? In this essay, Hopkins has mined this vein deeply.
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And so, as 2021 goose-steps toward its fanatical finish, it is time for my traditional year-end wrap-up. It’s “The Year of the Ox” in the Chinese zodiac, but I’m christening it “The Year of the New Normal F*scist.”
And what a phenomenally f*scist year it has been!
I’m not talking amateur f*scism. I am talking professional Class-A f*scism. Government and corporate sanctified f*scism. Bug-eyed, spittle-flecked, hate-drunk f*scism. I’m talking mobs of New Normal f*scists shrieking hatred and threats at “the Unvaccinated” as they are dragged off “Vaccinated Only” trains, painting Nazi-era messages on their windows of their stores, leaders of government fomenting mass hatred, TV commentators literally quoting sadistic Nazi SS doctors, leftists going full-f*scist on Facebook, concentration camps, Goebbelsian propaganda, censorship of dissent … the whole nine yards.
Here in Europe, things are particularly f*scist. One by one, New Normal countries are rolling out social-segregation systems, ordering “lockdowns” of “the Unvaccinated,” and otherwise persecuting those who refuse to conform to official New Normal ideology. Austria has made “vaccinations” mandatory. Germany is about to follow suit. “Covid passes” have been approved in the UK. Greece is fining “Unvaccinated” pensioners by reducing the amount of their state-pension payments. Swedes are “chipping” themselves. And so on.
In New Normal Germany, “the Unvaccinated” are under de facto house arrest. We are banned from society. We are banned from traveling. We are banned from protesting. Our writings are censored. We’re demonized and dehumanized by the New Normal government, the state and corporate media, and the New Normal masses on a daily basis. New Normal goon squads roam the streets, brutalizing pensioners, raiding barber shops, checking “papers,” measuring social distances, literally, as in with measuring sticks. The Gestapo even arrested Santa Claus for not wearing a mask at a Christmas market. In the schools, f*scist New Normal teachers ritually humiliate “Unvaccinated” children, forcing them to stand in front of the class and justify their “Unvaccinated” status, while the “Vaccinated” children and their parents are applauded, like some New Normal version of the Hitler Youth. When New Normal Germany’s new Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, announced that, “for my government there are no more red lines as far as doing what needs to be done,” apparently he wasn’t joking. It’s only a matter of time until he orders New Normal Propaganda Minister Karl Lauterbach to make his big Sportpalast speech, where he will ask the New Normals if they want “total war” … and I think you know the rest of this story.
https://cjhopkins.substack.com/p/the-year-of-the-new-normal-fascist?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo1OTA5ODEwNSwicG9zdF9pZCI6NDU1ODM0MzksIl8iOiJYZnhHWSIsImlhdCI6MTYzOTY2OTU1MSwiZXhwIjoxNjM5NjczMTUxLCJpc3MiOiJwdWItMjk4MDU3Iiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.xBd6LgGRs_Xa4YqpJ5DIVCfx5mCoRMXmARfCx-IhWiw
It sounds like a way to divert attention from today’s energy problems. It also may be a way keep people in line when the lights go off and the heating stops. These problems are not far away.
I read a headline yesterday that said the German government is planning to devote a quarter of the country’s land area to wind farms. In these crazy times and knowing the Germans, I don’t put this totally beyond the bounds of possibility.
Re, the heat going off, the further east you go in Europe, the colder it gets. I’ve been in Berlin in April and it felt as cold as the UK in January. Those Siberian winds….
Auch du lieber!!! Are you sure I think we have about 2 more years before things really start to happen!! Currency manipulation and just don’t right lying can keep it going a little longer!!
The late Prof. David MacKay said that if you cover the UK in 1/3 wind farms, 1/3 biomass and 1/3 solar you will generate 1/3 of the energy we currently use.
LOL!
I expect that 1/3 of the energy will come mostly in the summer time, when it is least needed.
Tim, does Germany use any of the land for food?
I have seen only corn fields and vineyards in Germany. But i have been in the country side of just 2 states. Btw i don’t recommend german wine, perhaps only as a gift to someone who you really dislike.
We were in Burma and the wine offerings were 1 from Burma 1 from France (possibly fake)… the Burmese wine was MORE expensive… Fast asks the waitress why the Burmese is so expensive … she says … cuz some people like to try Burmese wine because they are in Burma…
We had beer
Without energy nobody will be able to show his digital green pass.
And a thunderous laugh will resound in the sky…. 🙂
Of course, without electricity, businesses will not have any products to sell. Restaurants won’t be able to buy or cook food. Trains won’t run. There really won’t be any need for a green pass.
“Highly Vaccinated South Korea Can’t Slow Down Covid-19. More than 80% of the country has received two doses, but officials are now reinstituting restrictions they had vowed to relax…
“In recent days, health officials accelerated the timetable for adults to get a booster shot, down to three months from a prior wait of five months. Teens now must get vaccinated by February or face penalties. Starting next month, one South Korean city will use facial-recognition technology to automate contact tracing, as a way to speed up investigations”
https://www.wsj.com/articles/highly-vaccinated-south-korea-cant-slow-down-covid-19-11639652626
“Covid-19 protests: Vienna considers daytime ban on demonstrations. From this weekend, the City of Vienna is considering a new rule that will ban protests or demonstrations from taking place in the city centre until after 6pm.
“The reason is to ensure businesses are not interrupted during the last weekend of trade before Christmas, with Vienna city centre expected to be busy with shoppers and motorists.”
https://www.thelocal.at/20211216/covid-19-protests-vienna-considers-daytime-ban-on-demonstrations/
This sounds like as good an excuse as any to ban protests. Night time is a more difficult time to do protests, anyhow.
“Power generation from coal set to hit record level.
“In its annual coal report, the Paris-based [International Energy Agency] said global power generation from coal was set to jump by 9 per cent in 2021 to an all-time high of 10,350 terawatt-hours, after falling in 2019 and 2020.”
https://www.ft.com/content/ab8933bc-84f3-43dc-b5ef-cd259ef77a11
“China coal output hits record in Nov to ensure winter supply.
” China’s coal output hit a record high in November as Beijing urged miners to ramp up production to ensure sufficient energy supplies in the winter heating season.”
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-nov-coal-output-strikes-new-high-ensure-winter-supply-2021-12-15/
China is probably one place that can produce more coal if prices are high enough. There is a lot of infrastructure in place. Low prices are what have capped production.
hahahahahahaha… join the party!! Burn … MORE… Coal
Reality trumps ideology (pun intended).
I was shocked to discover Japan is building 22 new coal fired power stations.
Do you know – where they plan to the coal from? I guess if they can out-bid others, they will get it and others will lose out.
Japan intends to replace expensive gas with cheap Australian coal.
The penal colony known as Australia
Perhaps someone figured out that wind, solar, and even natural gas cannot be relied upon for generation. Natural gas, with its need for constant supply as LNG, is likely to be terribly high cost. If coal is available, it has worked for many countries for generations.
The city of Columbia MO had all the infrastructure in place, and generated electricity in their own coal fired power plant for decades. About ten years ago they shut the coal plant down, and went to natgas. I’ll bet the city .gov will regret that decision.
I wonder whether this 9% increase in global coal power generation will actually take place. A lot of parts to supply lines need to be in place for this to actually happen.
Part in the high plateau of the Himalayas in western China. Where many new coal fired electrical generators are being built cooled by liquid metal and air. The liquid metal allows very high temperature operation which gives high efficiency for electric generation and air cooling get around the fact that there is virtually zero water on the high plateau. Electric is shipped to the east coast of China by extremely high voltage DC transmission lines.
It seems Japan is taking up buying Australian coal now that China will not.
“Pakistan is ‘bankrupt’, says former chairman of apex tax authority.
“The former chairman of Pakistan’s Federal Board of Revenue Shabbar Zaidi has said that the country is “bankrupt” and it is better to recognise the reality than “living in illusion”.”
https://www.dailyexcelsior.com/pakistan-is-bankrupt-says-former-chairman-of-apex-tax-authority/
“Pakistan warns any economic collapse in Afghanistan will affect entire world…
“Shah Mahmood Qureshi said Pakistan has been reaching out diplomatically, sensitizing the world about the impending humanitarian situation; and hosting the OIC Foreign Ministers conference is an important step to this objective.”
https://radio.gov.pk/16-12-2021/fm-calls-for-collective-strategy-at-intl-level-to-address-humanitarian-situation-in-afghanistan
With covid going and everyone fearing for their own lives few/no one will care about Pakistand.
Unless they decide to blackmail the rest of the world by threatening to lanch their Nuclear Veapons (as Chekov would say)
They will only be able to cause regional mahem because they haven’t got any nuclear wessels to launch those veapons from.
Too many people relative to resources, when the world energy supply is constrained, I am afraid. Of the Asian countries shown separately, the ones with the lowest energy consumption per capita in 2020 are
Bangladesh 9.7 gigajoule per capita
Sri Lanka 15.3
Pakistan 15.7
Phillipines 16.7
India 23.2
BP does not include locally gathered fuel, such as animal dung and wood, so the actual energy consumption could be higher than this. It would seem like all of these countries could have problems. Only Bangladesh has 2020 per capita energy consumption higher than it was in 2018.
“Clashes in Rawson [Argentina] after Chubut Legislature approves mega-mining project.
“Lawmakers in Chubut approve controversial project by 14 to 11; Arrests and injuries after police clamp down on protesters in Rawson; Legislation authorises mining – without the use of cyanide – in the region’s central plateau.”
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/economy/clashes-in-rawson-after-chubut-legislature-approves-mega-mining-project.phtml
“Mining protests grow in areas of Peru that heavily backed Castillo…
“A total of 42 socio-environmental conflicts – most of them related to the mining industry – are ongoing in that southern Andes region, where Castillo obtained more than 90 percent of the vote in some districts.”
https://www.laprensalatina.com/mining-protests-grow-in-areas-of-peru-that-heavily-backed-castillo/
“Indonesians protesting against mines run growing risk of ‘criminalization’.
“…the Kali Progo People’s Collective (PMKP)… says the mining operations have exacerbated the freshwater crisis in the district and created noise pollution. They also accuse the mining companies of forging their community consent documents…”
https://news.mongabay.com/2021/12/indonesians-protesting-against-mines-run-growing-risk-of-criminalization/
Mining is now pressing up against humans in life and death kind of impacts. We really are at LTG
Looks like the protests in Serbia have had the desired effect:
“Local authorities in western Serbia have suspended plans to operate a lithium mine after widespread environmental protests.”
https://www.euronews.com/2021/12/16/serbia-suspends-plans-for-lithium-mine-after-environmental-protests
Good point!
At least part of this relates to depleted gold mines.
https://londonminingnetwork.org/2020/12/indigenous-communities-under-pressure-by-corporate-mining-in-chubut-argentina/
The three companies all of “gold”in their names.
Another article says,
https://lab.org.uk/argentina-to-mine-or-not-to-mine-in-patagonia/
So, silver may be another mineral of interest.