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.
“Afghan currency slides on bank collapse fears.
“Afghanistan’s currency hit 100 to the US dollar Tuesday, losing five percent of its value in one day in a panic triggered by fears that one of the country’s biggest banks could collapse, traders said.”
https://www.brecorder.com/news/40138406
“Yemen replaces central bank governor, deputy amid currency crash.
“Yemen is split between an internationally recognised government in the south, backed by a Saudi-led military coalition, and the Iran-aligned Houthi movement that controls most of the north. Each side has a central bank with opposing policies.”
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2021/12/6/yemen-replaces-central-bank-governor-deputy-amid-currency-crash
“Refugees in Shatila camp pushed to the brink amid aid crisis
“As Lebanon plunges deeper into one of the world’s worst economic meltdowns, Palestinian refugee agency sounds alarm about major funding gap.”
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2021/12/6/hold-refugees-in-shatila-camp-pushed-to-the-brink-amid-aid
We can see from this why the CEP is a must… this situation is a microcosm of what is coming for you … of course when BAU collapses would be nothing to buy.
We do not want to go there.
That’s why every single country on the planet is executing the CEP – even sweden
Quite a few countries are doing very, very poorly now, including the ones Harry has quotes about.
“Japan to give massive tax breaks to companies that lift wages – draft plan.
“Japan will deny certain tax breaks to big companies that don’t hike wages and boost deductions for those that do, as part of efforts to raise salaries in the country, a final draft of the ruling party’s annual tax reform plan showed on Wednesday.”
https://kfgo.com/2021/12/08/japan-to-give-massive-tax-breaks-to-companies-that-lift-wages-draft-plan/
“As global costs soar, Japan’s ‘shrinkflation’ gets harder to swallow…
“There are now signs that even Japan Inc may be nearing a tipping point, as soaring raw material costs and a weak yen drive up what companies pay for fuel, coffee beans and beef.”
https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/as-global-costs-soar-japans-shrinkflation-gets-harder-to-swallow
A few years ago the diameter of our Pringles potato chips shrank by a centimeter. And now rumor has it, from next year our Polo mints are going to have bigger holes and our mini Toblerone bars are going to have only one peak, just like the Eiger.
I am currently in Japan where the mini-roast beefs from Australia have both become smaller and dearer. I started keeping track of prices at a certain butcher in 2015, heading there this week end. I will also check the local Costco.
Why do companies shrink the size of the packaging vs raising the price? The cost of changing the packaging and production line must be something. Wouldn’t it be more efficient to keep it all the same and raise the price instead? Does it really fool anyone? It annoys me so much I’ve stopped buying products which have changed too much from what I’m use to. Putting additional smaller packages in my basket just get too tiresome.
When every penny count, when you don’t have enough money, it makes a difference if the price is the same but lesser contents.
For some people, they can be fooled.
This is interesting, I wonder what Gail thinks about this? If you raise wages then they will have to raise cost of goods. Seems like a treadmill
It will lead to hyperinflation
Eventually, the system will likely break.
But I think that the hope is that this approach will allow goods made almost entirely in Japan, with Japanese materials, to fare relatively well, relative goods made in the rest of the world.
This is the case because this approach will add debt to Japan’s already high government debt, and the yen will likely fall relative to other currencies. Citizens will have more money to buy things. Japanese made goods will be relatively cheaper than imported goods, forcing Japanese citizens to favor Japanese producers.
I don’t know whether there really are many goods, made mostly with Japanese materials and labor.
Eventually, this approach is likely to fail, probably with a breakdown in international trade. It might look like hyperinflation.
Japan’s aging and declining population is a strong deflationary force. Older people tend to have all the big ticket items they need and are less willing to shell out for new stuff since pensions pay considerably less than their previous salaries did. Anyone who wants to sell to this huge demographic needs to be quite creative in their marketing activities.
All around me I see older people living not so much in as on the past.
This sounds like a way to increase the debt of Japan and cause the yen to fare even more poorly.
Australia is vying with Canada, Austria and Germany for the status of the West’s worst totalitarian hellhole, although almost every other Western nation is fully engaged in the competition.
Betty Pezzimenti is an Australian who has severe allergies to certain components of the COVID^19 vaccines but she is being refused an exemption from vaccination, although one of the ostensible purposes of mass vaccination is to protect vulnerable individuals like her who are unable to get vaccinated for medical reasons.
Her GP refuses to write her an exemption for fear of “legal repercussions”, meaning the Vazi Gestapo would soon be knocking on the door. And Betty can’t get to see a specialist who might be able to help with an exemption for at least eleven months. Without an exemption she is not allowed to work and is virtually a prisoner in her own home—a sort of Downunder version of Aung San Suu Kyi. Here case demonstrates the Kakfaesque situation than now exists in Australia.
Betty explains her predicament in this 15-minute interview with Bret Weinstein posted on December 7.
In a 10-minute follow-up interview published on December 8 (but perhaps recorded in the same session as the earlier vid), Bette relates the case of a family doctor in Melbourne who was raided the previous day by seven jackbooted (I’m imagining their footwear) Vazi thugs from the Department of Health and Human Services, who bullied his receptionist and took away all his patient records and notebooks, apparently because he had been granting too many vaccine exceptions.
This doctor is a combination of Oskar Schindler and Chiune Sugihara, and the thugs who raided his surgery are low-level goons who are just obeying orders. They can’t help it if they love their work.
It is reported that sensitive people are scrambling to leave the prison continent—Bret knows two of them personally, and one of my best Japanese friends has a daughter who has lived in Melbourne for fifteen years and has an excellent job there but is now planning to abandon it and return to Japan— and Poland is now offering “refuge” to any of its dual nationals living in Australia who want to evacuate.
This video well worth seeing for Bret’s closing remarks, restrained but at the same time very serious and sombre, about where the West collectively is heading.
In terms of respect for the unvaxxed Japan looks best. But a lot depends on implementation. In Russia, which I left 10 days ago, those exemptions are oh so easy to get. And there are other things one can do, as you can imagine. And, if your admin protects you, you will just forego the whole charade, sit tight at your desk, and no one will bother you. The sky is high, and the czar far away.
“This Chemical [urea] Is in Short Supply, and the Whole World Feels It: Farmers in India are desperate. Trucks in South Korea had to be idled. Food prices, already high, could rise even further…
“…urea links up several disparate-looking strands of global economic disruption, showing how easily extreme weather and shipping turmoil can cause supply shortfalls to radiate. People and industries of all kinds are feeling the shocks.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/06/business/urea-fertilizer-food-prices.html
“Looking ahead to the new year, many farmers worry global supply chain disruptions could bring shortages of critical supplies.
“Dairy farmer Mark Petersen in Appleton, Wisconsin said he’s having trouble finding pharmaceuticals for his cows. He told WLUK it could affect the quality of their milk.”
https://klewtv.com/news/nation-world/farmers-brace-for-supply-shortages-in-2022
It is easy overlook the importance of urea to the way the world economy works. This is a different supply line that cannot keep up with demand.
The Rise of Moronism. An Evolutionary Adaptation to Energy-Abundant Living
This is a long post. It can be an article. I will follow up with another long comment where I try to complement Desmet’s mass formation. Please read it in its entirety if you have time. If not, this is the summary:
Imagine if you captured some non-dangerous wild animals like raccoons or some other small animals. Rear the animal and let them breed. Take the offspring away after weaning and keep them close to humans. Repeat for another generation or two. After two or three generations, the animal lost some of its ability to survive in the wild. They are very dependent on humans for everything and will think that humans are the perfect host. I am feeding stray cats around my house. Initially, they were wary but after some time, they became close and the next few generations of cats think I am their God. Domesticated. Stupid as well because they don’t have to worry about the next meal. Laze around and wait for me to feed them. Sometimes, even laying down in the middle of the road (the road has very little traffic). A few year ago, before I feed them, the cats do not sleep in the middle of the road, and they are more active and aware that they may not be able to have their next meal. The cats trusted me because I am their source of food. The second and subsequent generation of cats, I doubt they have the capability to hunt for their own food.
Familiar? I am the “energy abundance” and they are dumbing down.
“Moronism”, if ever there is this word is a fast-track evolutionary adaptation to energy abundance. Energy abundance leads to excessive convenience, simplification, detachment from reality which eventually leads to degeneration of critical thinking. For those who are older and know what a rotary telephone is, they knew the need to remember phone numbers, otherwise, they have to use a book to write down the phone number. There was a reason to select a phone number that is easy to remember. Right now, with an electronic phone, is there is a need to memorize phone numbers?
We used to walk to shops and carry the bags back, cycling around the neighbourhood, chasing after small animals, have fun in the sun and making and playing with simple toys. We were not that rich, but we had a fulfilling childhood. We were not that rich because we do not have access to abundant energy and debts. We used our brains to think. We don’t rely on others. We were cheated by others, bullied by students but we learned from it. Right now, with abundant energy and debt, we drive to the shop even if it is just 1km away. Everything is freshly cleaned, packed and all we need to do is to put in into oven or cook it. We don’t need messy kitchens. With all the fanciful electronic gadgets, kitchen appliances, high tech toys, our needs and desires rise accordingly. Desire. That is the one word you need to remember. I will talk more about it in my next comment.
As children or even college student, we need to go to the library, thumb through the encyclopaedias, books, papers, magazine, microfilm and ask the librarian for help on how to get a book from another library. Now, turn on the power and information are instantaneously available on the internet. Very easy. Too easy and too convenient. Remember that all these high-tech equipment require tremendous amount of energy and debts to manufacture and maintain. This is not the natural environment for humans.
Dumbing down started in the 1960s when appliances and gadgets that saves effort and time were mass produced. Do we ever hear any of our grandparents going to the gym to work out and stay fit? They are already fit because of their lifestyle. They have strong bodies, better mental acuity when they were younger. They used their hands, feet and brain. There are many studies linking mental fitness to physical fitness. They can remember their bank account numbers, bus routes and at least 10 phone numbers of relatives and friends. They mark on calendars important dates, and they keep tracked of many things in their brain. Trickling down the generational ladder, comes to our parents and then our children and their children. There is a distinctive “mental and physical laziness” between generations. Some people say it is “generation gap” but as stated in my second paragraph, it is the dumbing down.
Trust
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With each passing generation, as there is no external evolutionary stress (war, starvation, disease), the trust on the government gets higher and higher until a point where the latest generation will say “Why would the government want to harm us”? This is exactly the same as the stray cats would say “Why would I harm them since I am giving them food twice a day for 4 years”. They trusted me and they got closer and closer to me while I pour kibbles for them on the road. I have seen one “new” stray cat which came to me just recently. He was naturally suspicious as he is a new stray. After 2 months of feeding, he is now more and more comfortable with me. See the similarity?
Laziness
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With each gadget, app or appliance, we get lazier and lazier. We used to go out to buy our food and with apps, we get them delivered. I was jokingly telling people that inside Star Trek, there is this replicator where one can ask for food or anything, the replicator can build it molecule by molecule. Isn’t this the same as a computer where you log on to buy stuff and have them delivered to you instead of building one molecule at a time.
Laziness includes “intellectual laziness”. After 2-3 generations of easy living due to energy abundance, people do not want to think. They just want to do the easiest job with the high pay. Everything is easily available and with Google, whatever information you want, it is available on the first page and you don’t even have to click on it to see what it is. News is fed in; calculations are made for you (tell me which of the younger kids are good at mental calculations?) and so on and so forth. With a higher trust that no one is going to harm you, with everything so easy, convenient, is there even a need to use your brain anymore. Like the cats, if I were to continue feeding them twice a day, the third or fourth generation cats will not know how to hunt. They have lost their ability to do what a normal cat should do. If I am an evil person, all I need is to put poison in the food and the entire population dies.
I believe there are studies being made that you need to use your brain so that you are mentally fit. See https://www.brainhq.com/news/use-it-or-lose-it-the-principles-of-brain-plasticity/ So, energy abundance is not helping out.
So, how about media and television? They are brainwashing tools. Yes they are but to me, they are not the ultimate ones. I know people who don’t watch TV but are brainwashed as well on the COVID thing. I will discuss this in the next segment. The people who are strong believer of vaccines, they do know that there are harmful effects and there is cognitive dissonance but like the cats, they would like to believe that I am not evil and will not harm them.
It is the abundance of energy and debt that caused people to lose their mental capability and thus are easily “brain washed”.
What I have written also explains in Asia (I am not sure about the western world) where there are professionals or highly educated people falling for love scams, internet scams, Nigerian scams or get-rich-quick scams. It is like “What the f678 are they thinking?” Well, those are the same people who will line up to take the fifth booster.
Desire – I mentioned it above. I will talk about it in the next comment which is another long comment.
Watch out for the next long comment where I will complement what I see with Desmet’s mass formation
I agree that these things are indeed happening. Having television and other media on most of the time prevents thinking and discourages all but the most necessary conversation. Having air conditioning on in the summer keeps people inside, instead of outside, visiting with their neighbors and having fun with them. People develop a great deal more connections with their neighbors. In fact, in many simpler societies, many of their neighbors were also relatives. If something would happen to one of the parents on a child, other villagers would step in.
Also, businesses have divided up jobs so that there is now a supervisor and many pieces, which can be added or taken away as needed. This leads to a lot of contract jobs and people being added and laid off as suits the employer. This is very disruptive as well.
Young people today recognize that something is wrong, but they don’t know what it is. This is part of what causes the huge amount of depression among young people.
Very interesting post, coincidentally have a rant on similar general thrust under moderation now, called the ~process an exhaustion.
Tangent: in terms of stray/alley cats have the strict policy of not feeding, but firstly inviting them by planting that psychoactive plant for them, and as they are lured walk-in around they also keep mice / voles in check a bit, the negative side for some reason (revenge) poop very near the doorway steps.
Excellent post!
I recall when we brought the two kids from the Philippines and enrolling them in an international school in Bali – they were not teaching them multiplication tables … they told me that was not in curriculum anymore… we ended up teaching basic skills like this at home…
One wonders if policies like that — and I understand this is global because I have nephews in Canada who have never been taught these skills — are implemented with the goal of creating dependency and control …
This takes us back to Freud’s comments in Century of Self…
Email it… dump it onto Vaxxer FB pages… print it and post it or hand it out…
norm this could give you a purpose in your otherwise sad life
https://pdfhost.io/v/pZig3jgly_VAERS_Heart_Damage_V2
This virus was made in a lab. It was a mistake that it got out . I don’t think it was planning but I do think it gave cover for a lot of crazy things to happen. If it was all planned then wow I would be impressed because on t.v and in person they seem like bumbling idiots.
I want to believe that it is just the way our system works. It seems like a plan, but it is really just the concentrated power of our banks, governments and corps that attempt to monetize everything to the absolute maximum.
Writes Lee J’s Newsletter ·17 hr ago
Sounds like the best way to get Covid or have a heart attack is to get fully “vaccinated”!
Feel free to pass this around … print it and mail it … whatever… just for fun
https://pdfhost.io/v/pZig3jgly_VAERS_Heart_Damage_V2
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hahaha ha ha … hahahaha ha ha…
Yet another reason vaccines don’t have a prayer of ending Covid
SARS-Cov-2 has animal hosts (which probably makes it a rare case of reverse zoonotic transmission, yay! Thanks Bat Lady.)
Alex Berenson
From a reader. Also, check out those hospital statistics from Wales. Even among people under 60, the vaccinated are three in five of inpatients (and nine in ten of inpatients over 60). The shots are doing a tremendous job at stopping severe disease!
https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/yet-another-reason-vaccines-dont
Hmmm… i guess they can’t ‘get around’ even though they injected hahahahahahaahahaha
MOREONS!
“Most indoor events to be cancelled amid new Covid restrictions” – “Hundreds of sold-out events are expected to be cancelled at venues across the Republic of Ireland this week as new public health restrictions for the Christmas period came into effect today,” https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/most-indoor-events-to-be-cancelled-amid-new-covid-restrictions-nnj720f2z
Yet the South African Government imposed one of the longest and most severe lockdowns, supported by a baying national and social media. The decision has proved inappropriate in nature, premature in timing and catastrophic in impact. In a country where many depend on ad hoc daily or weekly subsistence wages, the sudden cessation of economic activity wreaked havoc amongst the poor and self-employed. A failing state was unable to deliver on its promise of subsidies, responsible policing or effective containment.
“South Africa’s economy shrank for the first time in a year in the third quarter as the country was hit by riots and tighter Covid restrictions, official statistics showed Tuesday.”
https://www.modernghana.com/news/1124065/safrica-economy-shrinks-after-riots-covid-measur.html
In common with the rest of the world, South African epidemiological estimates of fatalities at the outset of the coronavirus outbreak verged on the fantastical. Initial predictions were for between 87,000 and 350,000 fatalities in the first phase. There were 103.
“South Africa’s looming vaccine revolt” – Lockdown division could destroy the fragile nation
https://unherd.com/2021/12/south-africas-looming-vaccine-revolt/
Quite a good article. Not mentioned in it is that to very many South Africans this whole thing suspiciously smells of … waaaaiiiiit for iiiiiit … a return to APARTHEID (but just worse). Imagine trying to impose a new ‘dompas’ (the names of the apartheid-era passes) on the population of South Africa, of all countries (the mind boggles). Well let’s see what happens when this IS actually imposed – so far it’s not official yet.
For my friend .. anna… we hope she gets better soon!
The Vaccines Don’t Reduce Transmission
https://eugyppius.substack.com/p/the-vaccines-dont-reduce-transmission
As the article says:
How much difference seems to depend on local policies for testing the unvaccinated.
The injections are very effective at spreading the virus … to the CovIDIOTS ensuring Marek’s at some point
Get on a plane – test negative — and off you go hahahahaah
No it’s really real I have had and know if two people to die from it. You can beat it but it is tough. Go to a Covid ward and lick it up if you don’t believe me. That being said I don’t think you need a vaxc to survive it. I know of a lot of people that are getting sick from the vac$
Sorry, I don’t believe it.
https://youtu.be/ZJ0MYmKY8_U?t=8002
listen to this for 1 minute
FE also posted paper yester day prison study – that used PCR in correct role as an identifier but also cultured Virus (old school pre-PCR methods of virus ID)
I have seen more than one researcher publish results that incorporated virus cultures from infected individuals – so doesn’t help to deny existance of virus – just as bad as vaccine cult denying the possiblity of therapeutics being able to treat Covid and suppressing research/alternative treatments
Go ahead and get it… it is probably a good thing to have it out of the way. I had it and later was getting my haircut and the women that was cutting my hair was sick with Covid. She died I didn’t get sick. Natural immunity works!
‘Hospital death camps’: Attorney says COVID patients are trapped and receiving harmful treatments
The attorney said federally-funded hospitals are ‘economically incentivized’ to keep patients hospitalized and on potentially harmful drugs, even against their will.
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/hospital-death-camps-attorney-says-covid-patients-are-trapped-and-receiving-harmful-treatments/
Doctors are being forced to use ‘toxic medication’ to treat COVID: Respiratory specialist
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/doctors-are-being-forced-to-use-toxic-medication-to-treat-covid-respiratory-specialist/
haha… he should change the subject of the article https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/more-bad-news-on-omicron/comments
Igor Chudov liked your comment
Actually – this is good news.
South Africa’s Covid cases TRIPLE in a week: Daily infections hit level 15 times higher than a fortnight ago as Omicron continues to sweep across the country
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10285041/Covid-cases-South-Africa-TRIPLE-week-official-figures-show.html
Ooooh… this is good! Today … is a good day
Yes, but how many people in South Africa actually take these numbers seriously? Huge scepticism prevails here regarding official figures, which is one of the reasons why injection rates are so low.
Severe Omicron cases in Gauteng hospitals are accelerating, increasing by over 25% in the last 24 hours.
Patients in ICU:
139 Dec 6
177 Dec 7 (+27%)
Patients currently ventilated:
41 Dec 6
51 Dec 7 (+25%)
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FGAcG1-VQAE2uOJ?format=jpg&name=900×900
And .. we have lift off!
And because hospitalizations and deaths lag….
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Bad link
South Africa is very much less vaccinated than the United States. It is only 34% fully vaccinated, compared to the 60% of population in the USA. Likely, the percentage of Covid recovered is much higher in South Africa than in the USA. As I explained above, Omicron may be milder for the naturally immune.
Additionally, South Africans are much younger than the US population, with obvious negative implications for us.
So, there is a chance that the effect of Omicron in the US may be more severe for Americans.
“Additionally, South Africans are much younger than the US population”
Why do you think that is?
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hahahahaha
More BAD News on Omicron
Omicron leads to more hospitalizations than Delta
https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/more-bad-news-on-omicron
Ooowh, I don’t like the sound of this:
The reason for immune evasion is that Omicron’s spike protein is different from the original Wuhan spike protein by no less than 30 mutations. Thus, spike antibodies react much less effectively to it, leading to 41x less effective neutralization compared to original Pfizer trials.
Covid recovered persons have numerous other types of antibodies, thus Omicron likely is milder in the naturally immune, who abound in Gauteng.
It is far worse for the vaccinated, however, as their spike antibodies is literally all they have — their immune systems never saw the complete virus and, thus, cannot react to the rest of the virus at all.
Perhaps it should be renamed the Ominous variant?
I can’t say I won’t enjoy watching the vaxxed drop like flies hahahahahahahahaha
he said “anna-phylactically”
Exactly what Geert and Del were saying earlier in the year:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/LlghfiOCsfdH/
hahahaha great!
norm – why are we vaxxing healthy kids? DAMN?
You’d think that sort of thing would bring out the guns and ammo .. but nope.. nothing .. take it like a beaten dog
Wooooooah!!!
Just read this on another channel…infuriating
I just got this in an email this morning
Hi all, I know the mother of these two children, ages 7 and 8.
On Nov 24th or 25th, she received a phone call from the school and she was told her that her two boys, aged 7 and 8, were “refusing” to take the jab. They told school staff that their mom did not want them to take the jab. She rushed down to the school so she could bring them home, but the school doors were locked, and they refused to let her inside. After waiting for them outside, finally, the boys were let out, and they had been vaxxed by the school.
The boys told her that the school staff tried to bribe them into taking the jab with candy and trinkets, and told them they wouldn’t be able to play tag with their friends, or play with them at recess. And on top of everything, after vaxxing the boys, the school placed them on 1-week suspension for “refusing” to take the vaxx.
I have no words. If you are as angry as I am, please let the school / school board / superintendent know how you feel.
School: George Webster elementary school. 50 Chapman Ave. Toronto M4B 1C5
https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/stories-that-the-press-will-not-cover
The people doing the jabbing, and the people ordering it, and the people organizing it also deserve to receive mandatory double shots, and I don’t mean from syringes. They have effectively painted targets on their backs.
As these incidents pile up, it is inevitable there will be blowback or retaliation, whether legal or vigilante or whether proportionate or disproportionate. The human thirst for justice or vengeance can wait to be quenched for years or even decades if need be. I’m feeling very relieved at not having kids or grandkids of my own.
Forgive me if this has been posted already:
COVID-19 Mortality Risk Correlates Inversely with Vitamin D3 Status, and a Mortality Rate Close to Zero Could Theoretically Be Achieved at 50 ng/mL 25(OH)D3: Results of a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Background: Much research shows that blood calcidiol (25(OH)D3) levels correlate strongly with SARS-CoV-2 infection severity. There is open discussion regarding whether low D3 is caused by the infection or if deficiency negatively affects immune defense. The aim of this study was to collect further evidence on this topic. Methods: Systematic literature search was performed to identify retrospective cohort as well as clinical studies on COVID-19 mortality rates versus D3 blood levels. Mortality rates from clinical studies were corrected for age, sex, and diabetes. Data were analyzed using correlation and linear regression. Results: One population study and seven clinical studies were identified, which reported D3 blood levels preinfection or on the day of hospital admission. The two independent datasets showed a negative Pearson correlation of D3 levels and mortality risk (r(17) = −0.4154, p = 0.0770/r(13) = −0.4886, p = 0.0646). For the combined data, median (IQR) D3 levels were 23.2 ng/mL (17.4–26.8), and a significant Pearson correlation was observed (r(32) = −0.3989, p = 0.0194). Regression suggested a theoretical point of zero mortality at approximately 50 ng/mL D3. Conclusions: The datasets provide strong evidence that low D3 is a predictor rather than just a side effect of the infection. Despite ongoing vaccinations, we recommend raising serum 25(OH)D levels to above 50 ng/mL to prevent or mitigate new outbreaks due to escape mutations or decreasing antibody activity.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8541492/
Thanks for posting the link again.
Hahahaha… Double Dose of Death …
Neighbor is proud to get vaxed; 4 weeks later loses both her husband and her baby
Caroline Stepovich wrote me on Dec 7, 2021:
This has got to stop!!!!
I had a dentist appt today. My hygienist said her neighbor and her neighbor’s husband both got vax. The neighbor was pregnant at the time. Her baby was stillborn and her husband died a few weeks after the vax. Yet no one is reporting this…..
Of course, this could all be just “bad luck” but I’m seeing a lot of Black Swans and they are all vaccine related (and consistent with those pesky VAERS reports that nobody wants to look at).
More good stuff here https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/stories-that-the-press-will-not-cover
This is a reply to Normana few pages back on this thread on the difference between weather and climate.
Norman: “i think you are splitting hairs finer than usual Tim”
Perhaps, but please humor me on this.
If there was no weather, there would be no climate.
Weather consists of in your face, directly experienced, happening right now atmospheric phenomena. It isn’t animal, vegetable or mineral, but it is a set of physically real phenomena.
Climate, on the other hand, consists of our expectations of what the weather at a certain place at a certain time of year should correspond to. It isn’t a set of physically real phenomena. It is merely an abstract conception that exists only in the minds of people who believe or assume it exists.
Everything people ascribe to Climate as well as a lot of what people ascribe to as acts of God is actually the result of Weather.
Climate is no more or no less real than this God being that you are so annoyed that so many people believe exists and influences our world while you yourself have worked out to your own satisfaction that He doesn’t.
Don’t you think I might be onto something there.
I think what is strange is the view that humans, by their own planning, think that they can actually change weather/climate. People use fossil fuels because they require food to eat and transportation to make the whole system work. Cutting back on fossil fuels is not possible without collapsing the whole system. The system is, indeed, collapsing by itself.
But if people can be convinced that collapsing the system is a good idea, their belief system keeps them from worrying about the outcome. Surely anything planned by leaders is good for everyone. After all, it provides lots of (subsidized, mostly low paying) jobs. It gives hope to people. Maybe we need other types of hope as well.
Tim
I don’t get annoyed with ‘believers’ until they want to shove it down my throat, and worse–disturb political/economic stability in doing so.–I’ve consistently made that clear.
there are individuals and sects who would righteously kill in the name of their particular belief system. Heretics have always made pretty pyres.
Certain people within the US body politic would eagerly embrace that if circumstances allowed. The Texas taliban is no exaggeration–check out some of the unhinged speeches—Taylor Green for one. These people were voted into office by people of like mind.
Supposedly sane politicos screaming ‘terrorist’ across the aisle.
Doesn’t that scare you?
i was watching/listerning to Mike Flynn on uktv last night. His intentions are patently obvious–whipping up a bunch of deadheads about peadophile rings in the US government–Trump being cheated, –qanon is going to ‘fix it’ and make things as they ‘should be’.— and all to an audience of eager jesusfreaks.
Flynn sees a power grab in the making–it may of course come to nothing, but that is not the point
The audience is there, and available. Someone like Flynn will always be there. Trump was of the same ilk It is the language of the aspiring dictator. Flynn, and others, sees what I see—secession and regional autonomy. No one knows yet how it will play out.
perhaps you thought Trump’s ‘lock her up’ chants were harmless fun. The woman trying to bring some order to Burma (a basket case country anyway) is now locked up. Doubt if she’s laughing.
I offer my comments as a warning for the future-
-trivialities from certain individuals–are just that, which is why i brush them off like annoying ticks.
The USA is certain to disintegrate. 20–30–50 years? I doubt it will be that long.
Cheap surplus Energy stitched the nation together–without it, the nation will come apart. Literally everything pivots on that.
And that affects me.
When that happens millions will start screaming that their particular god is displeased (choose your god, choose your reason) gods demand sacrifices, and the godbotherers will be eager to find them.
Sinners are always necessary to confirm righteousness. Therein lies your danger–few recognise it.
atheists do not kill in the name of atheismt– and not ‘Stalin’ please–he was a political opportunistic dictator–his atheism was incidental–Putin and Trump are atheists, they embrace ‘religion’ because its suits their purpose for the moment.
Religions are harmless enough until power beckons, then they become dangerous–check the loonies who used to pollute the oval office, laying hands on their ‘chosen one.’—bonkers, every one of them. Thankfully they are gone for the moment.
They will be back—like all dedicated terminators.
Why inject healthy children with the Clot Shot norm?
Tim
on climate–I will indulge you a few words more
>>>>>>If there was no weather, there would be no climate<<<<<
forgive my mystification—on that premise there would be no 'us' either.
I explained and clarified weather vs climate earlier.
weather is the here and now–or next week
climate is the physical manifestion of what supports our very existence–our staple crops, basic animal species, whatever we look upon as 'benign' in the latitude in which we live.
If we alter it–we must move or die.
I live a 52 deg N of the equator. It is very pleasant here. A goldilocks climate on my terms. It is unlikely to kill me unless i am very stupid. (with a single u)
If temperature variations disturb the polar vortex, and the N Atlantic current get disturbed— I get the climate of Labrador, also at 52 N.
Which can very easily kill me.
And these disturbances are happening right now, and have been shown to be happening. It is not a conspiracy.
yes–such changes have always taken place, but over millions of years–not tens of years.—and at a time when the earth had maybe a few hundred thousand–not 8 bn people.
8bn people have nowhere to move to–or hasn't that occurred to you?
Why inject healthy children with the Clot Shot norm?
“climate is the physical manifestion of what supports our very existence”
No, Norman. You’ve really got to get rid of this idea that climate is physical. It is abstract, as Dennis Norden would have said.
That flood, that drought, that heatwave, that snowstorm that you blamed on globbly wobbly and your great great grandmother would have called an act of God? No, it was weather—meteorological phenomena—that did all that.
You and me talking about American politics and which side are the biggest Nasties doesn’t seem a very productive use of either of us’s times. Let’s change the subject.
There are now more than 22 books about the horrific “Omicron Variant” to be found – on Amazon alone…
These books were researched, written, edited, published and marketed between 27 November and 2 December 2021. The name “Omicron” was assigned by the WHO on 26 November 2021.
https://www.cluesforum.info/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=2132&hilit=corona+circus&start=1020
on thje omicron variant or whatever
indulge me a little more on my scepticism–but on OFW I read and am required to accept, that there are ‘millions ‘ of dead and maimed people everywhere, that mad doctors are seeing to inject my offspring
that as you say–22 books have been written on the subject–fair enough. To me that seems like jumping on the bandwagon.
but
where are these ‘millions of dead and maimed’ people?
i absorb local–national–international news outside OFW (excluding dubious youtubes)
I’m sure by now there would be a national outcry about all these bodies littering the streets. There are none. Not my streets anyway.
I took an elderly wealthy friend (older than me) for his 3rd booster.
I was hoping for a legacy, but the old cuss seems fit as a flea, as of yesterday.
I’ve heard of nothing worse than an achey arm–which is probably a lesser symptom that eddy’s cut n pasting repetitive strain injury.
*****
Potatoes grow in my back garden because the ‘climate’ at 52 N allows then to…abstract or not is irrelevant–i eat said potatoes..
I like sweet potatoes–the climate at 52N does not allow them to grow here.
if i lived at 65/70 N, they would not–the climate would not allow me to grow potatoes.
‘Climate’ may be ‘abstract’–its effects are very physical
In case you missed this earlier…
Any idea why we are injecting healthy children?
Fast Eddy, you wrote:
“norm… mike… anna…dunc….
I am waiting for your responses to Why are we injecting healthy young people?”
I’m convinced you have just rearranged them as Dunc – Anna – Mike – Norm, or the acronym DAMN, as into DAMN MOREONS.
Norm is adept at energy issues, though from across the pond, he lacks the nuances of US politics and can’t see that despite numerous boggus CTs, the one obviously true theeeory that clearly separates itself from the others is that there is massive evidence that many hundreds of thousands of fraudulent votes were added to Slow Joe’s totals overnight even though these major D cities claimed that they were postponing any further counting until the next morning. Huge cities where the Ds control the vote COUNTING.
hey Norm.
interestingly, and quite ironically, it seems lately that at least half of your many daily comments are free of any meaningful content, though I like some of the humour.
see the irony? Though it does add a lot to the 20 day blog totals. 5,000+ yes?
I should win something for pointing that out. Hahahahaha. 😉
norm is suffering from cognitive decline due to covid injections … cut him a break.
Hey norm — before you turn into a total babbly id iot (that will come with jab 4)… can you tell us why governments are injecting healthy young people with covid vaccines.
David
if you view the ‘return–reinstatement’ of Trump as the saviour of you esteemed nation–then god–if you have one—help you.
i follow US politics because, like it or not, it affects me.
i wish it didn’t.
I write about politics for no better reason that setting it down helps to clarify things–rightly or wrongly. Other people on OFW and elsewhere seem to agree with me.
Most of my comments are aimed at the broader audience, not the individual i reply to,
the ‘nuances’ of US politics??
quote:
>>>>>Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene aggressively confronted Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Wednesday and falsely accused her of supporting “terrorists,” leading the New York congresswoman’s office to call on leadership to ensure that Congress remains “a safe, civil place for all Members and staff.<<<<
very subtle, I must say.”
Biden may leave something to be desired—but is that the sort of 'politics' you have in mind?
Like almost everyone else, i sense you may have the certainty that the future stability of your nation (and mine) is just a matter of voting for it.
This POTUS or that will 'fix things" We have the same foolish thinking in UK
My forecast for your future, when push comes to shove, is that you will eagerly vote for right wing extremism.
you will see no alternative.
already 'voter fraud' is fixed in your mind, when every court in the land has thrown it out.
But no–that is all part of the 'grand plan'–the conspiracy.
You see perhaps where my attitude to all the other conspiracies on OFW comes from.
Every one is somebodys 'certainty'
All are without substance.
Why inject healthy children with the Clot Shot norm?
Good idea… that will save time … and allow for more FE comments.
DAMN – why are we vaccinating healthy children?
Children Are the Faultline in the COVID Vaccine Narrative that Exposes the Fraud
https://tapnewswire.com/2021/12/children-are-the-faultline-in-the-covid-vaccine-narrative-that-exposes-the-fraud/
Researchers Develop Wireless Networks That Allow Brain Circuits to Be Controlled Remotely Through the Internet
A new study shows that researchers can remotely control the brain circuits of numerous animals simultaneously and independently through the internet. The scientists believe this newly developed technology can speed up brain research and various neuroscience studies to uncover basic brain functions as well as the underpinnings of various neuropsychiatric and neurological disorders.
A multidisciplinary team of researchers at KAIST, Washington University in St. Louis, and the University of Colorado, Boulder, created a wireless ecosystem with its own wireless implantable devices and Internet of Things (IoT) infrastructure to enable high-throughput neuroscience experiments over the internet. This innovative technology could enable scientists to manipulate the brains of animals from anywhere around the world.
https://neurosciencenews.com/wireless-brain-network-19720/
First look at Ameca , most advanced humanoid robot from Engineered Arts Designed as a platform for AI and human robot interaction (HRI)
Finally it looks like my hottie AGI robot broad is taking shape.
I’ll save up for it.
☺️
Mom Says Son Vaccinated in Exchange for Pizza at LAUSD Without Her Consent
Jennifer Kennedy, an attorney who is following closely the two cases against the LAUSD over the vaccine mandate currently making their way through court, said the problem is that kids in California can’t consent to vaccination.
https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/mom-says-son-vaccinated-in-exchange-for-pizza-at-lausd-without-her-consent/2773619/
norm did it for nothing x 3 hahaha… hey norm … do you feel cheated??? hahahaha
DR. TENPENNY – “PEOPLE WILL START TO WAKE UP WHEN THEIR MILLIONS OF DEAD 6 AND 7 YEAR-OLDS”
https://www.bitchute.com/video/Q2TXLfMDVERz/
how about a mere million 5 to 17 year-olds?
when, oh when?
soon?
In a month or a year or a decade.
I fully expect it to happen, but we must give the jabs time to work.
That’s just my tenpence worth. 😉
yeah sure.
it’s just that the slow dull slow slog of IC declining very slowly is happening all too slowly.
how about half a million, but twice as fast?
can the Grim Reaper be prodded along?
and in 2022, is that too much to ask for?
Different game. Same playbook.
I’ve been waiting for something to happen
For a week or a month or a year
With the blood in the ink of the headlines
And the sound of the crowd in my ear
You might ask what it takes to remember
When you know that you’ve seen it before
Where a government lies to a people
And a country is drifting to war…
There’s a shadow on the faces
Of the men who fan the flames…
And there are lives in the balance
There are people under fire
There are children at the cannons
And there is blood on the wire…
That would never happen as mere single event to cautiously ponder about.
Thus only happening within wider realm as covered / obfuscated by overall maelstrom of concurrently evolving giga trends: huge econ downturn / crash, war, fuel – food and services ~non availability..
Republican senator mentions nuclear strikes when asked about possible US action against Russia
Mississippi senator and Armed Forces panel member suggests massive war with Russia
During his remarks, which echoed others he made on CNN, Mr Wicker said that US policy is to keep all options on the table when the potential for military conflict arises, including the use of nuclear weapons.
“Well, military action could mean that we stand off with our ships in the Black Sea and we rain destruction … on Russia military capability. It could mean that we participate, and I would not rule that out, I would not rule out American troops on the ground. Do you know we don’t rule out first-use nuclear action,” Mr Wicker says.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/roger-wicker-ukraine-russia-nuclear-b1971691.html
New video from Chris Martenson:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCbohvmiigY
This episode reviews a previously hidden report by Pfizer to the FDA covering the first 90 days of ‘post authorization’ vaccine safety data. A judge ordered its release and, perhaps not surprisingly, no major news outlet has dared to cover the story.
Within that first 90- day window, over 1,200 deaths were reported, with a significant number appearing to happen within the first 24 hours after vaccination. We can’t say for sure because the report lacks critical details that would allow us to align the specific deaths with the reported observation that the median elapsed time between vaccination and the adverse event was “less than 24 hours” for many types of AEs.
This report is a ‘second go’ by Pfizer after the first report was deemed wholly insufficient and lacking detail. This one isn’t actually all that much better, as it is entirely passive (no active data collection undertaken – it relies entirely on “spontaneously” reported events, and no inquiry into the adverse events is part of this version of the report), there’s no attempt made to define the incidence of events, and there is no visible effort made to compare the levels of events to an expected baseline of such events.
It is also impossible to determine first vs second vaccination injections (not reported) and the age brackets are not even age brackets (“child, adult and elderly”).
Besides the 1,223 spontaneously reported deaths, there is an overwhelming tilt towards women reporting AE’s often on the order of 4x or more. None of these were deemed to be worthy of modifying either the administration of the vaccines or the collection of new data in more useful detail.
Further, I track down the actual state of knowledge of what is and is not known about pregnancy and the vaccines to uncover the fact that no providers can say, one way or the other, if the vaccines are safe.
In the most current language available to vaccine and health care providers, Pfizer says “Available data on COMIRNATY administered to pregnant women are insufficient to inform vaccine-associated risks in pregnancy.”
Naturally, without being able to articulate the actual risk, true informed consent is not possible for pregnant women seeking to understand what the risks might be to their unborn child. All that can truthfully be said is “we don’t know.”
If more robust data does exist, it is not yet been made public. We may have to wait up to 55 years for that.
anna ‘completely safe’
hahahahahahaha
We shouldnt have to wait the 55 years – Judge ordered the release -cant remember how long thing several month – remember saying something like same interval of time that FDA had to review during the EAU approval process which was only several months. He figured if they can review it in that period to authorize then they ought to be able to review it for public distribution in the same time interval.
Seasonality or Vaccinality
https://live2fightanotherday.substack.com/p/seasonality-or-vaccinality
From the report:
WestJet flight diverted back to Calgary after pilot medical emergency
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/westjet-flight-diverted-back-to-calgary-after-pilot-medical-emergency/ar-AARzIe3?ocid=mailsignout&li=AAggNb9
“… flight attendants, one of whom brought a first-aid kit and a defibrillator into the cockpit.”
sure, just your everyday routine need for a defibrillator for the pilot.
Edmontonian John White was a passenger on the flight, sitting four rows from the front of the plane. He first realized something was awry on the flight after noticing concern among flight attendants, one of whom brought a first-aid kit and a defibrillator into the cockpit.
Pfizer heart 100%
hahahaha…. A Giant Swill Barrel for the Poor!
From tomorrow all table scraps and expired food from participating cafes in Queenstown will be collected and dumped into barrels. Salt and pepper will be mixed in and the riff raff will be invited for a Daily Feed in the Pak N Save car park. Large bowls will be provided but no cutlery as the Council would like to have the feeders eat with their fingers.
Mayor Jim Boult when asked about this said – we want a real circus type atmosphere in the car park because we will be charging the public $10 to come and watch the Daily Feed. We feel that dehumanizing the feeders will encourage more people to attend. We’ve got family packs for $35 bucks + Free Boosters.
This is a Big Deal for the struggling tourism operators and we think the Daily Feed will attract Aucklanders when they are allowed to fly and spread their disease in another week.
Organizer Kayleigh Simons-Smith said that she was speaking to local super markets to see if they would be willing to donate rotting but still edible fruit and vegetables as well as expired canned and packaged goods to Project Swill.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/457445/leftover-food-from-queenstown-cafes-to-be-saved-from-waste
I think you are “pulling our leg.” The article talks about collecting the food, not the items you talk about.
Breaking News!
The Queenstown medical fraternity has joined ranks and have agreed to make a generous donation of all the still birthed babies in the Queenstown Lakes District. A spokesperson said that there has been an unexplained uptick in dead babies over the past couple of months and rather than throwing the hunks of greying meat into the street for feral dogs to eat, they valuable protein will now be ground up, cooked and mixed into the Swill Barrels.
Project Swill founder Kaleigh welcomed the development stating that there are health benefits including high levels of collagen to be realized with this additive.
More Breaking News!
The SPCA has just announced that all pets that are put down will now be donated to Project Swill. Concerns were raised about the lethal injections seeping into the Swill but head of Queenstown Medical Dr Richard Mengele said we believe that the poison will be diluted sufficiently to ensure that the Swill is safe to eat. But we won’t know until we test it out on the rabble.
Anna
The statement “I believe in science” has become a oxymoron.
To many people “i believe in science” means they believe in magic. Amazingly they will disregard any science such as physics if it stands in the way of their belief in a infinite world with infinite toys for them. A extension of this is the degree to which we see people willing to just discard the methods that we have developed to test drugs for safety. Hey its “SCIENCE” If they put it in the syringe it must be safe. Eight decades of developing scientific standards for drug testing. Poof gone in the words “trust the science”.
The assertion “trust the science” is in fact a demand not to question. I consider the basis of science, scientific discovery is a method of questioning. In the past if one individual or another was to assert “trust the science” as a demand to accept a particular paradigm he would be considered anything but a scientist. Einstein didn’t believe in quantum physics. What he did not do is demand that his views were absolute. He knew that the principle of informed questioning was the heart of all science. He could no more demand scientific orthodoxy than to cut off his own leg.
The demand “trust the science” is a demand for orthodoxy that is contrary to the principles of science. What we see occurring has little to do with science but everything to do with tyranny. Science is being held above principles of human rights and above the law starting with the principles of the magna Carta. In this meaning of science, science becomes a magic/religion/politics with what appears to be a very frenzied group of followers. This is also works against the principles of science.
The struggle to keep science true has largely been one to try to keep the influence of money and profits from warping it in recent decades. Thus peer reviewed research. A struggle that has alas only been partially successful. Now we see both the publishers of peer reviewed research themselves succumbing to “obey” with censorship along with the already omost overwhelming warping and channeling of science through the funding of research and personal financial gain.
What we see occurring where politics/magic/religion become a tyrannical authority that must be obeyed is not science. This is contrary to science and spells the death of science. It really could not be more apparent. Those that have always kept a pair of stormtrooper boots and shot filled truncheon in the closet are enthusiastically demanding trust the science when they could care less about science. What they care about is establishing a rigid othodoxy that is no more science than a episode of sponge bob square pants. “Trust the science” becomes a far better truncheon than that piece of leather and lead in the closet.
If you”believe in science” as practiced for the last hundred years as I do you are vehemently apposed to science being above the law and apparatchik tool of magic/religion/politics. I submit that by proclaiming that you “believe in science” in the manner and context of your posts that you are absolutely apposed to science.
Hey boy, close your eyes and put your head in this box. Dont you believe in science? YALL know what happens to nonbelievers…
As I have gotten involved with the energy problem over the last 16 years, I have discovered a lot about how the system really works, at least in today’s world. I have both written and peer reviewed a number of papers for various journals. I also know a little about the need for funding for research and today’s requirement for university faculty to publish peer reviewed papers. A few of the things that go wrong are the following:
1. The most G-whiz, great, save-the-world models tend to rise to the highest acclaim, whether or not there is any possible sense to them. This is true for climate change models. It is true for the nonsense about how renewables can save us, such as this one, underlying the Green New Deal plan to go to 100% renewables by 2030. Mark Jacobson’s model: https://web.stanford.edu/group/efmh/jacobson/Articles/I/USStatesWWS.pdf (Other versions available also.)
2. Models have lots and lots of inputs. If they require inputs regarding how the economy works, they are almost certain to pick up wrong thinking of economists. There are also any number of places where apples = oranges equivalences can be claimed to work.
3. People working on the same question tend to peer review each other’s papers. This leads to the same wrong assumption being used, pretty much everywhere. If the wrong assumptions come from earlier papers, this makes it even easier to pick up wrong assumptions and equivalences.
4. A standard assumption is that there will never be a shortage of resources of any kind. Prices will rise. If necessary, substitution will take place. We can transition to a different type of economy, at will. Broken supply lines will never become a problem.
5. Nearly everyone doing research (except a few retirees, mostly working on the internet) needs funding for their studies. The funding for the studies either comes from a corporation, looking for a particular result (a new vaccine to sell at a profit, for example) or from a governmental agency trying to prove that there will be a happily ever after ending to the world’s energy and resource problems. Results that advance the particular narrative of the corporation looking for a particular result, or help “prove” what the government is claiming regarding “no problems ahead, except perhaps climate change” are the ones that get funding. Universities are getting less and less funding from the government, making them more and more depending on grants from corporations, governmental agencies, and groups wanting to advance a particular agenda.
6. Any medicine or vaccine has a combination of benefits and adverse effects, some of which will not be determined immediately. From a corporation’s (marketing department’s) point of view, the ideal situation is to ignore adverse effects, especially for vaccines which obtain exemption of suits asking the vaccine-maker to pay for harm the vaccine is causing.
7. For every industry, (insurance and medicine alike), regulators necessarily come from the industry they regulate. They need to help the industry along, if they are to get a job back in the industry, after their term as a regulator ends. There is a strong tendency of these individuals to overlook problems. If problems do arise (for example, insolvencies of pension plans), there is a tendency to create “band-aid solutions” that will sort of work, if a tiny percentage of plans fail, but they do not look at the issue of what would happen with a more global failure. In the vaccine industry, a slight change in formula might be a band-aid solution, if a huge number of bad results are found.
8. There are diminishing returns to scientific research. The truly important things to be discovered with respect to medicine were discovered years ago (such as drugs to treat big diseases and the need for better sanitation, to keep bacteria out of the water supply). Whether or not the research is truly productive, faculty members of universities are under great pressure to get grants and publish papers funded by those grants. Otherwise, they are likely not to “get tenure” or pass “post-tenure review”.
Thank you for your clarification about the specifics of all the factors you addressed about “science”. Your knowledge is far greater than mine.
Most of my first hand knowledge about some of the disconnects with science is frustration with people who want the “magic” and dont want to understand the technology enough to make informed choices.
Its not that hard. If your going shopping certain things need to happen. There needs to be enough gas in the car. You need to know where your keys are (big one for me). You need to have money.
Everyone would understand that if there is not enough gas in the car the shopping is not going to happen. Yet when “science” is involved when you explain the the choices if it doesnt happen you are not a good enough magician. “just make it happen”. If you explain that their is not enough gas in the car you are considered a obstacle to the goal. Yet everyone understands that if you dont have the car keys you are not going to the supermarket.
To some extent this is a function of specialization. People dont need to know how things work just that they do. I can actually see when they turn off listening to explanations. They make a decision that understanding is not needed. Silly magician talking again.
Coupled with this is other ideas that are more generalized that people think have real existence. People consider these things more absolute than the physical laws that make science and technology work. Examples “democracy” “earning” “owning” “freedom”. These ideas may have real merit or not but they are not functions of the physical world like science and technology. Yet people believe that they are more real and important than the magic. If those ideas are not yielding correct results than someone is botching or withholding the magic. This understanding that has arisen out of specialization is what has allowed special interests to manipulate people to serve their purposes. Promise a magic wand and you will be liked. Say its just a stick and you will not be liked.
Madison avenue has made a lot of money understanding “advertising” which could certainly be defined as “propaganda”. There is a large body of knowledge in existence that is very sophisticated and practical that is basically manipulation of people to get them to do what you want and to get quite excited about it! Chevy rocks! Ford sucks! This body of knowledge permeates every aspect of our society. Since people have learned that a certain way of operating in a fossil fuel society yields results they employ their cognitive filter to screen out data that conflicts with their operating system. As humans we discard huge amounts of data. We simply can not process it all. Truth can and will leak through. Often our intuition will not allow our “logical” screening of data to obliterate certain truths. When there is a bear in the living room the logical mind is rendered useless. The body/intuition takes control of the rudder. We are truly amazing creatures!
Their used to be teachers in the educational system that believed in humans more than concepts. They saw their job not to instruct students in one particular set of knowledge but to teach them how to use their innate functioning in determining the truth. They trusted the students to find truth. Those days are past.
norm – why inject the healthy kids?
mike – help norm
dunc – help mike
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Fast Eddy put her there
hahahahaha
eddy
don’t you get embarrassed when reading back over your comments before you ‘post’?
the skoolyard wall is covered in your 5 year old level comments–i daresay Gail will delete that one–but nevertheless it is truly one of your most cringeworthy comments yet.—-which is saying something.
instead of adult discussions–people just walk away….and who can blame them, faced with infantile cut n paste.
i realise there’s something wrong eddy, and i sympathise, particularly with anyone having to deal with such ravings in RL
Ive watched the deterioration over time. This last year seems to have accelerated your personal seneca downslope. (please don’t think I’m trying to be sarcastic or something. I’m not).
I see it as a situation akin to repeated attacks of road rage by someone who has yet to take the trainer wheels off his kiddy bike.
If there is any increase then it is due to an increase in MOREONIC comments that Fast Eddy is facing … HE can delete them (as he does almost all of mike’s) or HE can make light of them
As mentioned previously if Fast Eddy spends too much time with MOREONS HE risks joining anna in the asylum … previously FE would take a break from OFW because HIS Great Mind was being poisoned by MOREONICS. But HE used those breaks to engage in Motorcycle Maintenance…
And HE is now even Greater of Mind. HE has strategies for dealing with the MOREONS. Therefore HE does not require a Time Out.
Mocking the MOREONS contrary to what you think provides entertainment value for the non-MOREONS.
Fast is certain that the Christians thought the Romans … a bit much … as well… but the Ticket Holders … well they just sat back and enjoyed the show… much as OFWers enjoy watching The Great White Mind… toy with the MOREONS… and every so often bite a hunk off one of them… (and spit it in the ocean because it tastes of Pfizer poison)….
First they came for norm … and he went gleefully to the injection drive through…
Then they came for norm again — and he went again …
Then they came for norm once more — and norm went …
And when they came the 4th time … norm joyfully went…
And so on ….
And then they came for norm’s infant grand child….
Why norm? Why would they want to inject an infant with the Pfizer…. please norm… there must be some reason?????
yes some are in the stands in their togas — lol or is it haaaahahaaaa
Norm find you inner Sparticus or withdraw from the ring
all hail FE?
I would like hear why vaccinate children?
Japanese report was 2 vax deaths for every child saved – and Bossche latest warning Omicron tidal wave seems could aim straight for the youngest among us if vaccinated!
Introducing norm…
And now norm will explain to the OFW audience … why children are being injected.
norm … FE says to give you a fill in the blanks option – if that doesn’t work HE will give you a multiple choice option (the only choice will be CEP though) ….
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The courier just dropped off my NZ passport — what am I supposed to do with this?
Sell it to someone who think everything will go back to normal …
See mike didn’t get my point… but you did… because mike is thick.
I should auction on the dark web hahahaahahaa
You must have applied for it for a reason.
I never applied – I already have a passport — why would I need another?
Do you think it will get me into the pie shop???
BTW mike – you are not permitted to speak or comment until you answer:
Why are healthy children being given the covid vax?
https://nwmphn.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/covax-safe-effective-free-1024×614.png
Trust me .. I’d never rip you off!!
https://comfortabledisorientation.typepad.com/my_weblog/images/2007/07/16/used_car_salesman.jpg
Oilprice might go up and down, but remember depletion never sleeps. BAU is doomed. Covid1984 narrative is doomed. So much shait is doomed. Mother earth will prevail. Thank Thor for that! Lets get our hands in the compost, take back those resilient skills. Burn those FF so this whole thing goes a little faster. Thank uyou gail and all the people on here for the camraderie. This place is a oasis of sanity in a crazy world. Bless! Keep at it! Get out in nature!
wooooooo!!!!!!!
bAU rocks, maybe I’ll turn up the thermostat tonight.
tomorrow when I’m out driving, I’ll try to remember to accelerate quicker and get a little worse gas mileage. Burn baby burn that petrol.
IC is doomed, but really who cares?
it’s either bAU for my few remaining years, or some short experience with Collapse before I enter the nothingness of eternal death.
wooooooo!!!!!!!
no prepping for me, so it’s 90% full store shelves for now, until they’re empty.
wooooooo!!!!!!!
hey look, is that 2022 just 25 days from now?
let’s do a celebratory countdown.
like that wierdo always says:
bAU tonight, baby!
I think you would be right except that now that the Covid excuse is gone what are you going to do keep oil prices down. Oil prices will climb and then crash 💥. But maybe a depression will keep BAU going a little bit longer.
WTI hit 84 this year and Brent 86.
get back to me if/when they get that high again.
recession/depression, it’s all good.
bAU is ongoing today, and that’s all that matters for IC.
did you notice it’s 24 days until 2022?
It’s called, Plandemic #2 is small pox. Look up this stock/co: SIGA. And others like it. Then check “uvxy”
There does not seem to be any statistical justification to continue with booster programs in view of these stats.
> Pfizer vaccine provides FORTY times fewer antibodies to fight Omicron than it does other Covid variants, study finds
Researchers at AHRI found that recipients of the Pfizer vaccine have less available antibodies to prevent infection from the Omicron variant as they have other variants.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-10285891/Pfizer-BioNTech-vaccine-provides-FORTY-times-antibodies-fight-Omicron-variants.html
So it’s now like forcing people to take a measles vaccine to fight small pox…
Or a mild cold to which one is not even likely to be susceptible?
They have new ones!
I will not be putting myself through these jabs.
> New Covid drug can work against all mutations of Omicron variant, latest data suggests
The UK Government has already ordered around 100,000 doses.
The MHRA authorisation means it has now approved two antibody treatments, Ronapreve and Xevudy, and one antiviral, Lagevrio, also known as molnupiravir.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10286055/New-Covid-drug-work-against-mutations-Omicron-variant-latest-data-suggests.html
What about “STEALTH” Omicron!!?!?
Different from regular Omicron…
Scientists find ‘stealth’ version of Omicron that may be harder to track
Variant lacks feature that allows probable cases to be distinguished among positive PCR tests
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/07/scientists-find-stealth-version-of-omicron-not-identifiable-with-pcr-test-covid-variant
Look you guys should have figured out this scam a long time ago. Back in March of 2020, the NY Post posted a story of Tigers in the Bronx Zoo being tested for COVID-19 and at the same time the doctors, politicians, etc. were all claiming there were not enough “tests” in order to test people.
At that moment I realized this was a scam. First, why test tigers in the bronx zoo that makes no sense whatsoever and why does it matter? Second, if there were not enough tests and there were concerns about having enough then why test tigers in the zoo?
Next, Tom Hanks came out and said he had tested positive for COVID around March 2020 and made a video about it. He stated that it was a case of the “blahs” and the guy was perfectly fine. Here he is a “state actor” on the payroll of the small hats, CIA, NWO, etc. and it was no big deal. His whole testimony confirmed the scam to me.
Lastly, the medical industry rebrands illnesses all the time and has done so throughout the years.
Has anyone here actually viewed or seen an actual scientific assessment under the microscope of COVID-19? Has any Public University done a public assessment of COVID-19 that is available to the public that shows COVID-19 under a microscope and identifies its markers?
My question, how can you even state it exists if you haven’t seen it under a microscope or identified it in any way and actually proven it to the public? As of today I would speculate that not a single person on this board has seen what is currently called COVID-19 in real life. How can anyone here even claim it is real? The only thing you all have seen is a computer based generation of what is currently claimed to exist as COVID-19 that was created by the authorities. How about the public views the real virus under the microscope?
Why hasn’t the CDC sent samples of COVID-19 that they have isolated to public universities for further studies?
Why haven’t private doctors gathered samples in order to show the public or to create better treatment protocols?
At this current time, I do not even believe that COVID-19 is actually real due to lack of any kind of evidence, complete contradiction in the narrative, insane/psychotic measures, etc. I think the entire COVID-19 saga is a massive Psychological Operation being waged and executed from the highest levels to the lowest levels.
I think COVID-19 should be renamed Jim Jones-19 as this has evolved into a massive cult of insanity.
They cant release pictures because its proprietary, they will be sued /s
It would be very easy to portray the normal flu as ‘Covid’… the symptoms are the same … they result in pretty much the same number of deaths…. most deaths involved old/already very sick people….
It walks like the flu – it talks like the flu …
Did I mention Penang (I suspect the long story got censored)… anyway when we asked where the good clubs for meeting hotties were (early 90’s) he says I dunno la… I like ladyboys… I says oh ya why’s that… he says walks like a woman talks like a woman … I pause to think about that and I says … why don’t you just get women then if that’s what you like…. he says….. Cheap La!!! (boom tsss).
Hey CTG – maybe you’ve come across this character in your travels? He’d be mid 60’s … maybe 70 if he’s still alive
I am staying in Penang right now. In 1990s you can find them here…. now probably not…
The thing is…
Fast Eddy told the guy that in Canada if we want cheap we for dogs… he thought about that … and he said but dogs don’t like that unless they are in heat… and Fast Eddy said — well yes of course… you need to time it….
So watch for a taxi driver who keeps a lot of female dogs on his property… that’s the guy!!!
And ask him if he remembers who gave him the tip. Tell him Fast is well and sends his regards.
norm – why inject your grand child with the Pfizer?
Z, I congratulate you on your skepticism and your powers of reasoning.
There may or may not be Covid-19 viruses and variants out there, but there is a “bug” of some sort doing the rounds. There is a disease vector of some kind associated with at least some of the illnesses and deaths that are chalked up to Covid-19. As laymen, we can call this a “virus” provisionally without claiming to know anything about what it actually is. We can let the experts argue over that one, just as they argued over the existence of phlogiston, or ice ages, or continental drift for decades or longer.
However, the PCR testing is fatally flawed according to its inventor; the mRNA injections should not be being rolled out at this time and in this way according to one of their principal inventors and several other experts in virology, epidemiology and vaccine development; and the naming of new variants is getting to be a bit like the naming of new subatomic particles in the latter half of the last century, where a profusion of greek letters was also in evidence, going all the way to the omega-minus particle, so that by the time they reached the Higgs boson, they named it after the proposer of a theoretical mechanism to explain why some particles have mass, probably because they had run out of Greek letters by then.
Also, as Ed declared in the comments at OFW in the spring of 2020, perhaps Covid-19 is just the flu. Just perhaps. Based on symptoms, severity and mortality, you could certainly make a case for that. Has anyone proved Ed wrong yet?
I’m thinking that the coronaviruses is a better candidate for GoF research. There must be loads of spiffy coding sequences from previous outbreaks in this family of viruses.
Perhaps the virus contain some blatant cut ‘n pasted “features” of other viruses that would make it just a bit too blatant for any virologist worthy of some salt.
I’m thinking this could be a simple matter of circumstantial reasoning rather than obtaining hard evidence.
I guess my question is if SARS-CoV allows for more degrees of freedom than, say, simpler viruses and yet isn’t intractable to “modify”?
“There may or may not be Covid-19 viruses and variants out there, but there is a “bug” of some sort doing the rounds. ”
How do you know?
I don’t know for certain. I’m making an educated guess from anecdotes I’ve heard at first hand. Friends, neighbors and relatives have reported getting ill with symptoms that were flue-like but an order of magnitude worse than anything they’ve ever experienced before—particularly the “I can’t breathe” symptom, the “dead tired” symptom, and the low blood oxygen symptom. In my social circle, these people have included diabetics as young as fifty, but no previously “healthy” or “non-co-morbid” people to my knowledge.
My younger sixty-year-old brother’s case: him, his forty-five year old partner and her two teenage children all came down with flu-like symptoms. The kids got over it in three or four days, the partner in three weeks, and my brother, who is overweight and was until recently a lifelong smoker, still hasn’t got back to full health after ten months. In my experience, a normal flu will tend to do this to an eighty-year-old, but not to a sixty-year-old.
Also, by most accounts I’ve heard, the symptoms of serious COVID-19 are vascular in addition to respiratory. The vascular symptoms are, apparently, being caused by by the spike protein or by the body’s out-of-control immune response to it.
The disease often appears in clusters, usually among people sharing accommodation. This indicates an infectious agent is at work. But it is possible that a poison is being surreptitiously given to people that mimics an infectious disease. I don’t rule that out at this stage.
I’m ready to consider that the disease is a re-branded flu and a windup to scare people into getting jabbed. But a bioweapon in the shape of a lab-engineered virus developed in the course gain-of-function research seems to account well for what we are seeing and hearing.
Yes, that’s the most level headed approach given the ~depth of information at the moment..
“132:48 next slide please this is
132:52 what source code v2 looks like and if
132:54 and i will i will send you the video so
132:55 you can show it
132:57 of the side on the right shows it goes
132:59 up and down and you can see the actual
133:01 source corona
133:02 cov2 virus uh with its spiked proteins
133:06 in its corona shape i’ll send that to
133:08 you so you can play that
133:10 it’s it’s incredibly important because
133:13 there are people out there that are
133:14 actually of the opinion that
133:16 sars cov2 doesn’t exist and has not been
133:19 isolated
133:20 these individuals not only have
133:22 demonstrated they don’t understand
133:23 viruses
133:24 but they interfere with the with the
133:26 serious discussion going on with this
133:28 virus “
for those of you who misread/miscomputed the above as 1:33 not 2:13 here is video starting at point showing virus
https://youtu.be/ZJ0MYmKY8_U?t=8002
thanks Postkey
looks like Fleming is going with a multi-drug treatment based on Cloroquines or analog anti-malarials with steriod and antibiotic – vitamins including injection of active form of Vit D (not needing liver processing like oral supplements) – did a screening study with multiple drug substitutions and a way of monitoring severity/infection response so as to interactively modify treatment until finding a combination that worked within an individual patient
This guy is MD JD Phd innovator – at one point made mention of how reprehensible it was that hospitals not allowing support of family members visits as in his clinical experience that was often only explain he could come up with for survival of some of patients. He also mentioned mystified that Covid patients not getting standard breathing (nebulizer) treatments that typically given to respiratory patients and recommended blood thinner (heparin) as they are being kept on bed rest (back in 80’s med school time that was standard protocol for all bed rest patients to prevent blood clots)
Fast Eddy posted this link not long ago. Thanks FE
Transmission potential of vaccinated and unvaccinated persons infected with the SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant in a federal prison, July—August 2021
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.11.12.21265796v1.full
As part of procedure they did both PCR and viral culture to indicate/confirm active infection;
Ct greater than >35 not a viable virus in the 25/25 samples tested
“Finally, we did not attempt viral culture for 561 specimens with Ct>35 and classified them as presumptively negative. This decision was based on negative viral culture results from 25/25 specimens with Ct>35 for which viral culture was performed during this investigation, as well as previously published findings demonstrating an inability to recover viable virus from specimens that were RT-PCR negative.23”
NO DIFFENCE TRANSMISSION POTENTIAL VAXXED or NOT-VAXXED
“In this investigation, we found no statistically significant difference in transmission potential between vaccinated persons and persons who were not fully vaccinated. Therefore, our findings indicate that prevention and mitigation measures should be applied without regard to vaccination status for persons in high-risk settings or those with significant exposures”
Thank you Fast Eddy and thank you nostraightpath60, I had missed it.
I like uncensored comment fields but I also like a reasonable signal-to-noise ratio …
I think Fast Eddy has dropped enough onto OFW for the moment … my fingers are bleeding from typing out his dictation … time for a coffee break…
Enjoy this musical interlude… anna – I hear they are looking for female back up dancers….
https://youtu.be/Zqzex7OAUoQ?list=OLAK5uy_nU8tK2DOzFA512pvtB_GMJ65QGh1jbOgY
I have seen them live several times 🙂
…in the good old days.
I wonder if it will ever happen again?
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/07/omicron-significantly-reduces-covid-antibody-protection-in-small-study-of-pfizer-vaccine-recipients.html
translation:
Pfizer vaccine damages immune systems, thus reducing the ability of the human body to fight off an omicron infection.
I thought the issue was simply that there is mismatch between what the antibodies are looking for and the shape of the spike protein of the current mutated virus, not that the immune system was damaged.
you could be correct, or that might be propaganda put out to manipulate people to believe that the problem is the variant.
so then oh look we need NEW vaccines in 2022.
but I think it’s conclusive now that many people get damaged immune systems from the jabs, and surely a damaged immune system would be less effective against this “current mutated virus”.
A resolution … to the situation … may be approaching… A very unwelcome one hahaha
https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/w_%5Bobject%20Object%5D,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fccb1f5c0-5245-4f7e-8047-58503e00b9dc_1424x1026.png
this posted by eppigius
effectiveness going below 0 with time
practical implication = immunity worse than if hadn’t been vaccinated = more likely to get infection ?
Russia, India abandon US dollar in mutual settlements
Alexander Mikheev, Director General of Russia’s state arms exporter, Rosoboronexport, announced, on Tuesday, that Russia and India have abandoned the use of the US dollar in mutual settlements, with all payments made in rubles and rupees.
Mikheev told reporters in New Delhi, “By tradition, we name all transactions in dollars for ease of calculation. In real work, Rosoboronexport has moved away almost 100% from settlements in the US currency. As for India, all settlements are carried out in rubles and rupees. In addition, we are actively practicing offset projects, which are also present in the contracts signed today. This is normal modern practice, one of the trends in the world market.”
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/russia-india-abandon-us-dollar-in-mutual-settlements
This is why the US shouldn’t want to cut off Russia’s use of dollars. It will only encourage more agreements not to use US dollars.
Have you considered that this is all by design, just like 9-11 to cv-119?
CEP
This is not the first case and this deal concerns only few dozens $B or few hundreds at max if you recalculate for pp parity vs the W – block economies.. This is peanuts, but avalanche is vvvveerrryy slowly building up. And obviously such deals matter more in fractured de-globalized world setting anyway, also not there yet fully.
The bottom line remains, the private (everywhere) decides, and they are as in majority sticking to the USD for the moment.. and near future for sure.