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.
One of the most galling aspects of the scamdemic is that govt actions the world over have been financed by money which didn’t exist back in 2019. 3D “printing”…
What’s it gonna take for all these debt bubbles to explode?
Energy shocks?
Increasing shortages/price inflation?
Only when de-globalization, balkanization, and large long term barter deals in energy and food cross some unknown threshold barrier. The world is evidently on this trajectory already but moving ahead very slowly: OPEC+, long term fixed deals ala NordStream, .. that India deal few days ago etc..
The closer to the implosion and loss of control – obviously you can expect more desperate counter move / derailing / stalling tactics – *rona (and forced mandates) is probably one of them..
Update…
My mate has attempted to get an exemption but was told sorry – that is only available if you experience Anaphylaxis shock or myocarditis after injection one.
He has been offered the AZ vaccine (needs two shots) — I guess the thinking is that is safer hahaha (or maybe they really want him dead so the heart shot is followed by the clot shot)…
He was prescribed anti-inflam meds… (to reduce the inflammation in his heart of course)
He has many of the symptoms https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/myocarditis/symptoms-causes/syc-20352539
Chest pain
Rapid or irregular heartbeat (arrhythmias)
Shortness of breath, at rest or during activity
Headache, body aches, joint pain
But apparently he does not have myocarditis…
If he was a CovIDIOT (remember he was forced to get this)… he’d not question any of this … take the second shot and probably die.
Fast Eddy advises:
1. Get the diagnosis in writing (if it ain’t myo what is it)
2. Get the test results
3. Inform you are getting a second opinion
If all fails . hack saw the son of a bitch
Norman, can you see this?
https://www.reddit.com/r/TheRightCantMeme/comments/r91wmj/eye_of_the_beholder/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3
https://i.redd.it/ft23dco20m381.jpg
She looks a bit rough after taking a few weeks off with the vax injury…
If she was in the fishbowl she’d starve
Oh cmon, they’ve both got their charm looks-wise. I’m not sure why they would like to work for Brandon or Orange Man Bad though. 🤔
Not altogether sure of your point tim
something to do with comparing Psaki to the other
woman…for whatever reason?
Psaki gets under Biden’s desk.
What about the kids norm – inject? Why?
Fast, you keep asking why. Because they are sadists.
In Roman times people cleaned their anus after a bowl movement by wiping it with a sponge that was stored in vinegar so it would not rot as fast. So when the Roman soldier offers Jesus a sponge of vinegar he is offering the anus wiping sponge. That same sadism is why they vax kids today. They enjoy inflicting pain and suffering and death.
Fast, they enjoy the death of the child and they enjoy the life long suffering of the parents.
Bryant was/is right this is more than a fight for liberty it is a fight for humanity.
Yes of course some parents regret breeding and producing vermin spawn… and this is a way out (although they risk a Maddie outcome … which makes the problem worse)
But the question for norm is not why the parents do this… but why are governments pushing the injections on healthy young people.
norm?????
norm – do you agree with that?
If that can be useful for those who don’t know, this is the hystorical reference about what said above:
https://www.focus.it/cultura/storia/roma-antica-che-cosa-si-usava-come-carta-igienica
I can only say that vaccine to children is really non sense as they don’t get the disease in a severe way and expecially if they are correctly treated.
It is a very tragic moment of our history.
I think that we can go on only in 2 ways:
a) we will deeply enter in this dystopian society and everything will go well for those who are in power. Those who will remain of us will be so brain washed that we will never put under discussion this (only maybe in sort of Roman catacombs).
b) we will get out from this, with a (let’s say) deep and lively discussion with those who are in power.
p.s. and those who are in power are currently play it all, make it or break it.
Thanks
norm it’s your turn — why vaccinate kids (WVK)
“Pfizer Safety Data Released, And It’s Not Good”
https://www.peakprosperity.com/pfizer-safety-data-released-and-its-not-good/
“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 “<24 hours” for many types of AEs."
From a comment section:
As a farmer of 30 acres. Our farm can not run with out DEF. Even worse states like California have completely outlawed the use of pre def tractors. This is not new purchases. This means that If you have one you can not use it. This paired with a shortage of round up. 2-4x fert prices. Crop yields are going to be abysmal.
I would be so very interested if the chicken wrote a piece about something so severely prevalent, yet no one talks about. Majority of all farmers outside of the mega farms are near bankruptcy. They plant their corn or soy and let it ride. No sprays, no fertilizer, nothing. All just to collect crop insurance because they cant compete in the market. Why can they not compete with the market?
– Maybe something that is outside of the realm of what the average farmer would know, Chemical fertilizers, fungicides, pesticides, etc. RUIN the soil and over time it is unaffordable. Trust me I had to restore a 30 acre field that was conventionally farmed for 30+ yrs. Im not going to bore with details but if you are interested in finding out more read, dirt to soil by Gabe brown.
– smaller farms simply are not as efficient and cost of capital to compete is so extremely high
– Chemical inputs are not getting cheaper and mega farms get huge discounts from bulk buying
Simply put, even in a perfect world with no gov deficits or subsides, food prices will be much higher. Also smalls farms will be eaten by mega farms.
The next crisis in 10-20 years will be one of soil.
strong and clear comments, thanks.
it would be fantastic if the next crisis was delayed beyond 2030.
Yes, that’s very interesting topic, but sadly as FE chased out bang-bang style quality posters on the regen ag / “permie” angle such as Don Stewart (now domiciled at Surplus) we get seldom discussion about it here anymore..
Please do bore us with details, for starters did you mean it like restoring the full 30 acres field into crops again or did you opt instead for some partially mixed setup from now on: grazing, perennials, green manures / different crops, ..etc.. ?
And my question is, will all these new land owners like Gates merely let their land lie fallow? In one way, the soil would recover if allowed to lie fallow– thereby passively increasing its value. Secondly, depopulation can be acheived through starvation.
I guess it’s a general direction counter pivot from all thing digital in over heated market.
Secondly, it’s very likely sign some elite factions are pro-actively preparing for some sort of neo-feudal setting in which the land will be offered for very high rent to “settlers”, and depending on the future, digital or not, produce based payments only. So, lets say Billy gets xy amount of potatoes from one acre, and certain % is retain to the farmer, some % goes for local and central goons, and some % is traded outside the region again depending on the context either for money or in barter like deals..
Presumably, as we exited the Middle ages going from feudalism to sharecropping, now we are going to go back to sharecropping on our way to feudalism. On three out of four branches of my family, I am 3 or 4 generations removed from sharecropping. That did not last long.
What I got from regen farming folks that if just ignore & allow to go fallow will revert to wild relatively unproductive state & yes will restore but on natures timeline (100s of years – multiple successional cycles – random processes) To restore soil on timeline useful to human would need active management of the fallow cycle to increase soil fertility and organic carbon accumulation (mob grazing, management & balance of synergistic organisms & directed processes)
From the limited exposure Ive seen the model seems to be: must reduce extraction with some of productivity directed back to soil (savings account) and diversity so that reduce energy intensive inputs (fertilizer & high hp equipment)- this builds resilience/redundancy. This model only works if the farmer vertically integrates to recapture some of the processing & marketing revenue that is surrendered by current model of /selling only in commodity market. Thus individual farmer makes more profit & farm is more “sustainable” economically.
What I don’t see is clear numbers on the net productivity out of this system – how big of a population can it support and at what level of consumer income does this fail – currently this model relies on customers willing to pay a premium for higher quality food. Right now this approach is “cherry picking” and I dont mean the fruit and while works well for first acceptors & promoters, those converting in future may be late to the party either get little (markets saturatated) or they bring down average income for the entire industry.
What happens when, as Tim Morgan projects overall prosperity declines accelerate (more income to essentials & less to discretionary) and all discretionary income is gone by 2030/35?? (if we get that far) (recognizing of course, part of increase in essential expenses will be/allow for increases in cost of food.
Of course with regen the land is less productive, in terms of calories, though probably more productive in terms of micro-nutrients. Regen will work in countries which have the space. It will not work in Japan. there is no other choice but reduction of population.
In the old days we grew one crop every four years on a given patch of land. the other three were pasture. some trees were kept so that composting could be done with leaves and branches. cover crops, at least in the mediterranean, were a yearly occurrence in the form of fava beans. we are going to go back to that, except that monoultures will disappear also. From ten years onward, it will be no more pasta or bread, but rather mixed grains and legumes gruel, possibly sprouted and/or fermented before cooking.
It will recover some. But surprisingly, it recovers much more fertility if it is used by ruminants, compared to leaving it fallow.
Doomie Preppers? I’d avoid that topic… keep in mind the reactor was entombed and the spent fuel ponds remained intact…
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sj08HhAhCbI/U5fonU1VlFI/AAAAAAAAAu4/_t36SAYS5cc/s1600/Chernobyl+Plume.jpg
Thanks.
I suspect you are right about ruining the soil, I own a fair amount of soil; I suspect you are right about efficiency, watched a 300-400 hp tractor tilling the soil, conclusion, not big enough.
The cost of capital is off the map, margins are not that great.
Used machinery and used semi tractors pre def go for a premium in the midwest, have a feeling DEF prices have gone off the wall as well.
CTG seems to have it right, part of the problem is so much has been dumbed down, what counts now is very difficult to learn.
I follow Andrew Huberman, those of us who are working to stay in the game are using every mental trick in the book to maximize mental and physical efficiency, we block time. Attended a family function recently, they live time, very pleasant.
There don’t seem to be many other games other than financial monopoly.
Dennis L.
We are losing, in a game of financial monopoly, I fear.
Exactly my thoughts HC. It is the seemingly most insidious and unnoticed transformation that is going to bite us.
-> small farmer -> larger farmer -> oligarch -> neo feudalist ->
(insert crash / fallow cycle usually always at different place)
..the grand historical cycle..
I am afraid our soil crisis is coming sooner than 10 to 20 years. The urea problem this year is pushing the world in that direction. Lack of spare parts on machinery will be a problem as well.
M Fast attempted a click and collect at a restaurant the other day – and was told ‘we don’t serve the unvaxxed you need to find someone with a vax certificate to do this for you’ She hung up the phone.
Then she made the mistake of telling Fast – who as you can imagine completely unhinged — and sent and email that I believe included the words ‘You can go f789 yourselves – I will never spent a dime with you again… and informing them that the good word would be spread on the various social media apps used by the unvaxxed’
Today Fast followed up with a call pretending to want to take away food as an unvaxxed – was not told to find a vaxxed but was told they were re-evaluating the policy … he then mentioned they had received an email from a very irate customer (they were rattled by the vitriol)….
Fast then divulged that he read about this on the app – and was just calling to confirm that this the unvaxxed were not welcome … and that HE would now report back … letting thousands know.
The guy then tried to change policy over the phone saying click and collect was ok … Fast said oh but you said it wasnt – and now it is — only because you now realize that people are hearing about your policy…. he got really flustered — then Fast said – I have recorded this and will share it on social media … he said I didn’t authorize you to record… Fast said — too bad — you said what you said so maybe you need to think before you speak going forward…
They’ve shown their colours… Fast is in the process of burning them alive hahahahahaha
norm – children – vax – why?
Fast please give their international phone number. I want to give them a call and let them know the recording of their hostile policy has made it to New York.
I just called them on Skype so they cannot connect me with the earlier call…
And I used my ‘greek immigrant voice’ …you no takeaway vaxxed? no they dont (hmmm earlier he said they would change that)…. you no take the money on internet I pick up? no can’t do that… why you no can do that? We can’t. Oh – you no like unvaxxed? why you not? then he said – is this a joke? No no joke you no like unvaxxed what wrong with you … i no come there spend the money you…
He hung up.
I need to think of a new voice for tomorrows call.
Are you inspired by the “Jerky Boys?” Business calls, street theatre routines and faux-adverting campaigns to inform the public with humor are effective forms of erratic retaliation. However, it doesn’t take too long for the spooks and enforcers to show up when you start messing with their racket. Plan it out and work with a group. It’s more fun and effective and you’re not such an easy target. When one or two new people show up trying to divide the leadership or encouraging a more direct action that is possibly illegal or immoral then you will know you are making an impact. You should have rules of order in place before you start the activities to protect the group.
” However, it doesn’t take too long for the spooks and enforcers to show up when you start messing with their racket.”
No worries, Fast has his guns and ammo …
If it were me I would be constantly wearing my orange Amnesty New Zealand “Free Guantanamo Bay” jumpsuit or as a dark ages Flagellate while picketing in favor of harsher penalties for the unvaxxed. Destroy the narrative by presenting the hyoocrisy. If not just perfect the foreign accents and wait for the goon squad, lol.
+643-442 2900 abuse
There is a business here “Clean Blood Communications”,.
And a slasher movie… involving hack saws…
+643-442 2900
Feel free to hurl abuse at them… there is nothing they can do about it.
They are open for dinner now
It might be more effective to tell them you are local and you read that they told someone ‘we don’t serve unvaxxed so find someone who is vaxxed to pick up your order’
They will say it is a misunderstanding… then you can launch into them and say it aint no misunderstanding … it’s what you said – own it. Then explode with expletives and tell them you will NEVER spend a penny with them again and will tell everyone you know
From my mate with the Pfizer Heart after jab 1:
[10:55 am, 9/12/2021] xxxxxx: Got this from a friend today haha. Craziness
[10:55 am, 9/12/2021] xxxxxx: “2 wont be as bad tho! your immune system will be used to it (a little more) by then haha youve done 80% of the hard work!”
I am completely disgusted by everyone’s insistence on being ignorant. When challenged on any of the important issues, like say any of the life and death issues happening all around the world thanks to “American interests” they then insist that their ignorance be respected. Phuck That.
Peace on Earth, Goodwill towards Man? Where? The “holidays” are a time when the West can safely ramp up the killing of children and innocent civilians as everyone is looking elsewhere, primarily at what to buy.
Cheers!
Hahaha so true!!!
But then we’re really good at that … we live large by slaughtering and pillaging then drop a few coins in the Oxfam box while checking through $500 of food for the holidays (+ booze) and we feel good about ourselves.
This is why the CEP is a welcome policy – it exterminates every single human 🙂
I am afraid the vast majority of people cannot deal with the issue of the world being at limits now. So they imagine that the world will go on as before.
At least understanding the situation helps see why things are going as poorly as they are.
My old uncle was a psychologist and psychiatrist and once replied to me to the following question:
– when you understand that people behave badly often in a unconscious way and deceive themselves in order to give themselves justification for what they do, you are deeply heartbroken and sometimes you think that it would be better not to understand, do you think so?
– Life for those who understand better what is behind what is happening is maybe more difficult, but it is more aware.
It is better to be aware, because when you already know what you can expect from people, you will be less sad.
Well… it’s quite difficult to pretend to be a MOREON… eventually it slips out
Jef, I love John Crossen understanding of Jesus. First Jesus followed John The Baptist and his message of immanent apocalypse and destruction of Roman oppression. But John was killed and nothing happened. Jesus chose a new path. Radical egalitarianism with a “simple” mission go bring a miracle and accept whatever food they offer. Go and heal those driven mad by Rome sadistic perversions. Power is not attacked in the new movement it is simply ignored.
Jef, the Kingdom of God is spread out upon the world. It is our choice to see it or ignore it. Jesus is just as hated by Rome today as 2000 years ago. Goodwill and peace are just as dangerous and unacceptable to TPTB now as then.
Jef it is you and me and Gail and Fast and Tim and Xabier and all the people of goodwill as it has always been and always will be.
“Jef it is you and me and Gail and Fast and Tim and Xabier and all the people of goodwill as it has always been and always will be.”
What, no mention of nice Norwegians?!
Oh shut up, you already got all the fish, salt water, oil, gas and hydro power. You need blessings as well?
Just take your Tesla and… *shoo*, begone back to socialist utopia.
🤣👍👍
Yes, it’s possible the world is approaching the end times.
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1468327122133467143
“On Fox News, Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS) floats the idea of bombing Russian military assets — and says he wouldn’t even rule out a nuclear strike”
Once we’ve exchanged a number of nuclear weapons, every problem will be solved.
Strange world we live in.
I have toyed with he idea of adding nuclear obliteration to the CEP….
It’s not a bad idea actually … you’ve got all these people dying from Devil Covid… others are locking down in mortal fear of being infected… that keeps the peace….as you wait for everyone to starve to death…
But then you drop 10,000+ nuclear war heads into the mix…. why not – given the amount of radiation that is going to be released when 4000 spent fuel ponds boil…
Who said that Peak Oil was going to be pretty hahaha…
BTW – Fast Eddy predicted years ago that the Elders would not just allow BAU to implode and leave 8B high and dry …. HE said they needed to do something about that — Oxycontin was the theory… but this is far more comprehensive … and final
Yea he will probably die from a heart attack 3 months from now
Wicker is an evil sh**. Nuclear bomb Russian military assets hahahahahah then Russia bombs US military assets and the world dies of nuclear poison. That is if neither side takes it to the next step and bombs all major cities and ports. Then most humans in the northern hemisphere die in a year.
This evil basta** has no hardship in his life why has he lost his mind? his soul? I see a woman in Australia set herself on fire in protest to the TPTB evil. Igor at Crowhouse has stepped over the line of what can be said on TPTB social media platforms. I expect they will hunt him down.
We are talking here on a platform of TPTB we are not free to speak truth as they will kill any who say too much.
Comment from “Cutting Through the Fog”:
Allow me to post a link to cluesforum-post 1087
16 books available about the Omicron, just 5 days after it was named.
https://www.cluesforum.info/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=2132&hilit=corona+circus&start=1020
Bots can write really fast!
They were pre-written and the word processing program changed all the instances of name_flag to omicron.
https://doomberg.substack.com/p/how-to-brick-an-entire-economy/comments
HOW TO BRICK AN ENTIRE ECONOMY
Urea and DEF shortage vis a vis Australian trucking
I wonder if there is a workaround for not enough DEF to use in diesel trucks and perhaps other vehicles. We may find out soon.
Sure there is. You just re-program the motherboard. I mean it will be a nuisance to take all those trucks to the shop, and it will contribute to the economy becoming ever less efficient. But no show stopper here.
and it will ramp up air pollution killing millions and causing chronic disease for hundreds of millions but yea… things will go on.
no show stopper. The air in the Midwest for example, will stay much cleaner than the air in say Bejing. Despite all those polluting trucks and tractors.
There is a very good discussion on Urea and how Russia and China both have cut off exports of Urea. Visit Gold, Goats n Guns podcast episode #90. Talking about a supply chain disruption!
Recall Korowicz – Tradeoff…
Here we have constraints on a single item – and BAU is faced with implosion.
I am reminded of CTG’s virtual reality theory — how can it be possible when there are so many items that if in short supply would blow the top off of this thing… it all points to some sort of controlling force ….
Recall Murphy’s Law… well then how is it something has not gone wrong with all these moving parts .. over the years
“it all points to some sort of controlling force” it sure as hell does!
But we are left blind with no idea who or what?
Icke’s 6000 year old death cult?
Clif High’s bug aliens?
the house of the red shield?
the elders?
the 13 families?
global version of 13 families including the white dragon and …
the CIA+CCP?
The Elders… and their minions
And then the people who operate the virtual reality … I cannot identify them .. just like you will not be able to identify how the Universe came to be … from nothing.
Like what conspiracy theorists say… some one is in control and they will let it fall when it is time to fall. Well, that some one is the creator of the simulation. In religious terms, it is known as “God”
Just like the fish which is running out but our local markets are full and Fukushima is going to spread the radiation. It does not show up.
What happens in the simulation is the simulation itself, what you are seeing is a window in to the simulation.
See this magnificent hunting simulator, The Call of the Wild.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Exc2b_AZJ7U
If you shoot the deer in this game, did the deer die?
Fukushima … that is a good point… how did that magically just stop?
Within the simulation there are laws… rules… something like Fukushima cannot be allowed to terminate the simulation … that violates the rules of the game… nothing random like that can be allowed. Therefore it is not allowed. So the programmers implement some code to solve the problem
The game needs to play out … as per the programming.
When you try to buy petrol in Australia.
https://twitter.com/TheJuggernaut88/status/1468494462531690498
One angry man is a martyr, 10,000 ORGANIZED angry men is a winning army.
Haha… I’d go completely unhinged and scream and rant and not stop till he let me pay ….
Some nice Grunting noises … 121212121212121212…. then repeat f789 f789 f789 over and over … crawl around on the floor… take my shirt off an do push ups… jumping jacks… more grunting… some disco dancing moves… 121212121211212121212121… more grunting… some break dancing …back to the monkey grunting… and so on …
Totally unhinged…
God help us …
Gail – All of those names you list have said in so many words “don’t stop going to work in the morning”. In fact most of them talk about how to profit in this situation of end times and that that is the best thing one can do to “prepare”. This is from the hard core pessimist who bang the drum of LTG the most. The other 99% of information people get is the same message.
How could we even talk about change in that environment?
There are some people who write about the energy problem who do it to sell physical gold or to sell preparation supplies.These people are like everyone else: They need to earn a living.
I think we need to make the best of the time we have left. We have to be flexible, as things change. We probably need strong connections with family and friends. There may be some jobs that continue for several years; we don’t really know how things will play out.
The U.S and 5 NATO members will meet with Russia for talks over Ukraine.
There’s an energy crisis stretching from Europe, Ukraine, Central Asia to China. Russia wants to talk.
Russia is a much better position than the others.
From what I can tell they export at least half of their current oil production so that even with steep decline curves and no new discoveries they can maintain internal supply of 4M bpd fairly far into future simply by slowing/eliminating exports – haven’t looked at the gas numbers but imagine they are similar. Does Russia have self-sufficient refining capacity?
Europe is toast without energy resources from Russia-think I saw couple days ago table showing 40%+ from Russia/Krygistan/***stan
Between live drills in population reduction & hard living of 1990s
Forces Semi-isolation/self-sufficiency due to sanctions, excess agricultural capacity and last of the vast natural resources they seem to be in best position to deal w/ end of globalization – not a positive having 1.4 billion under resourced Chinese to the south and all those energy hungry Europeans to the West – they are surrounded by what could be a lot of cold, hungry folks .
What is it that EU/US want? The coal in Donbas is gone not theirs any more oh boo woo. Russia does not need them it has a ideal customer and supplier in China and India and Brazil.
Q&A with Geert Vanden Bossche #4: The Coming Crisis?
https://www.voiceforscienceandsolidarity.org/scientific-blog/q-a-4-the-coming-crisis
Quote: In other words, I fear that protection of vaccinees who recovered from C-19 disease and are re-exposed to the virus will be much less efficacious than the immune protection acquired by a nonvaccinated person who recovered from C-19 disease.
I dearly hope so.
And I hope that he is right hahahaahaha
norm – why vax healthy kids?
What if Covid-19 is just flu/cold rebranded?
Biden demands MSM fall into line: White House holds secret meetings with news organizations
Three senior White House officials have embarked on a campaign to persuade newsroom executives to be more favorable in their coverage of President Joe Biden, according to a report on Tuesday night.
The trio – National Economic Council Deputy Directors David Kamin and Bharat Ramamurti, along with Ports Envoy John Porcari – have been ‘briefing major newsrooms over the past week,’ according to CNN’s media correspondent, Oliver Darcy.
Darcy, in his newsletter, said that their outreach was sparked by concern that Biden was not being treated fairly.
Darcy wrote: ‘The officials have been discussing with newsrooms trends pertaining to job creation, economic growth, supply chains, and more.
‘The basic argument that has been made: That the country’s economy is in much better shape than it was last year.
‘I’m told the conversations have been productive, with anchors and reporters and producers getting to talk with the officials.’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10286723/Biden-demands-MSM-fall-line-White-House-holds-secret-meetings-news-organizations.html
Perhaps Biden’s approach will slightly change what reporters say. I wonder whether it will much affect what citizens think.
Update on Pfizer Heart… my mate in NZ is not getting proper care – he was sent away with tylenol… and is feeling nauseous and generally not well… I have suggested he visit the emergency unit of the little hospital in town on a regular basis until they do something … even better – I have offered to drive him and play ‘bad cop’ with the staff…
He is well aware of Fast Eddy’s love of confrontation…
Not good. Sorry to hear of his plight!
Yoshua’s Mother also had issues and he’s been absent of late from this venue.
Hope nothing serious is going on with both and it’s just a passing event that time will heal.
My Mother Sister and myself are so far OK. They had the boosters, I did not.
Crossing my fingers that we dogged a bullet, but seems Fauci and Company are hell bent to make the Jabs a regular maintenance requirement to be fully vaccinated.
If I disappear from OFW. Take it I went down to the Jab while training for my half marathon.
Don’t feel sorry 😔 because I felt that if they were administrating the shot to children knowing the hazards. Zi couldn’t allow !myself to be standing as a bystander, rather be a victim too
Herbie, I wish you and our family the best of luck. After all, it’s quite possible you all got placebos, or that your constitutions can handle these jabs with no problems. At the end of the day, we all face hundreds of hazards to our health and eventually one of them is going to get us.
When I find myself in times of trouble, I like to go down to the karaoke bar and sing “Let it Be”. And I also bear in mind the words of Dale Carnegie—corny but helpful—to live our lives a day at a time in “watertight compartments” so that even if one compartment springs a leak, or in other words you have a rotten day, your entire ship of life doesn’t necessarily sink. This echos the advice of Jesus, the Buddha and the Greek Stoics, and I think they were all onto something.
I hope things to well for you. Aspirin may be helpful in preventing clots, if vaccination cannot be avoided.
I see Yoshua is back, with a comment shortly after yours.
Thanks Gail and Tim.🐻I feel fine and Hopefully will be fortunate enough to remain unaffected.
Seems the MSM are pushing the idea of boosters to be fully vaccinated.
My news feed indicates the many lawsuits that are being brought to court may detail this madness.
I just received a call from American Freedom Flyer’s
https://www.usfreedomflyers.org/how-you-can-help/
They are seeking plaintiffs for their case against mandates.
I’ll keep updates…
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Herbie, jab and half marathon, how about giving faith some help have a d-dimer test done by your doctor.
fate not faith
Ed, as you are an engineer and so am I, you will find it hard to believe that I subscribed to “Don’t check , don’t know”. To me, doing these test are like Schrödinger’s Cat. All possibilities are present and they are indeterminate. However, once you check, all the probabilities collapses into one – you are either OK or not OK. So, to me, why don’t I just leave it as indeterministically probable?
This is the basic reason why I don’t do tests for cancer. Once you observe the system, you never know whether the wave function will collapse into something you would rather not have to deal with.
I suspect that 99.9% of people will not “get” this however much you try to explain it to them.
I test for nothing… gotta die from something and not keen on being jabbed and poked and getting blood sucked out … although Dr Viv did test me BP the other day 170 over 80 she said … very good…
‘do you mind if I jiggle your nuts to make sure they are still there’ said she after the BP test…
Fast said — funny that’s what they say in the VIP room – wonder where they learned that … does one of your daughters work there? It all turned a bit ugly after that … as you would expect.
Fast fears pain and is not keen on death — instead of going to doctors HE eats properly – exercises frequently – avoids stress – does not smoke and drinks minimally (except in the VIP lounge)…
Why would HE go to the doctor – unless something was broken…. and even then — Fast busted the joint on his right pinky in a bar room brawl many years ago – and because The Party Had to Go On… he just left it hanging and never got the tendon repaired… It’s a great topic of conversation at dinner parties…
All this people running to the test stations, why don’t they ask for a test to see if they have any functioning brain cells left?
I am thinking … I may just get tested once/week till it comes up false +++++
Surely that’s a good thing?
Herbie, it was my mother who was in hospital. She is out now. She was diagnosed with a blocked artery around her heart. She has had a heart monitor implanted. She still maintains nothing to do with the booster.
Yorchichan, thanks, I got mixed up on that one.
Suspicious on the timing, like mine with a stroke, and hope she’s Ok. They may put her her on blood thinners too?
Yes, they also do not blame it on the Pfizer shot but old age.
After seeing all the evidence otherwise, it is in question.
Been reading now there are trials going on
When will kids under 5 be able to get a COVID-19 vaccine?
Here’s the latest on pediatric COVID-19 vaccine clinical trials.
NBC Today
https://www.today.com/health/health/will-kids-5-able-get-covid-19-vaccine-rcna7761
They are hell bent to create a perpetual vaccine industry these corporations. Evil
Thank you ❤️ can only hope their plan is exposed and derailed.
Stay well, bye
norm doesn’t appear to have a problem with injecting healthy children .. but he refuses to explain why
If you’re able to run half a marathon, why did you think you need the “vaccine”?
That’s a good point. People that are going down from it have weak lung capacity.
And are Overweight
The Coronavirus Attacks Fat Tissue, Scientists Find
The research may help explain why people who are overweight and obese have been at higher risk of severe illness and death from Covid.
New York Times
Hahaha… I like this virus!
Perhaps he’s mixed things up … you need steroids… blood boosters … HGH etc… to win a marathon … not a poisonous vaccine…
Ask Lance Armstrong
Because it’s a mandate….for your own good!
Stop being so good to me Boss
Cool Hand Luke
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BurnIuSY6hw&t=883s
We know it’s about control and profits
https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/houston-oil-conference-speakers-pull-out-over-omicron-worries-2021-12-06/
“The world is facing an even more chaotic energy transition,” said Saudi Aramco CEO Amin Nasser. “They assume that the right transition strategy is in place. It’s not. Energy security, economic development and affordability are clearly not receiving enough attention. Until they are, and we clear the gaps in the transition strategy, the chaos will only intensify.”
“… Large global majors, especially those based in Europe, are limiting exploration and production in attempt to shift to renewable power development and as governments promote efforts to cut carbon emissions to deal with rising worldwide temperatures.
Anders Opedal, CEO of Norway’s Equinor (EQNR.OL), said energy companies have a responsibility to bring down emissions and provide energy. “We will need oil and gas for many years to come but with reduced emissions,” he said.
“The fact remains, under most credible scenarios, including net zero pathways, oil and natural gas will continue to play a significant role in meeting society’s need,” Exxon CEO Darren Woods said at the conference…… ”
Oil companies have a hard time convincing investors to invest, convincing everyone fossil fuels will still be needed despite green narrative, while pretending they’ll become carbon neutral.
Predicament you said.?
when did the Rockefeller trust dump its fossil fuel holdings? was that 10 years ago?
When it gets serious (as in we are big time depleted) you have to lie:
“… Large global majors, especially those based in Europe, are limiting exploration and production in attempt to shift to renewable power development and as governments promote efforts to cut carbon emissions to deal with rising worldwide temperatures.
Saudi Aramco: “…the chaos will only intensify.”
aka “..you all out there be it public, private players, whomever, have been clearly pre-warned, don’t come back to me/us complying and begging.. ”
If I’m not mistaken this admission is a step up in topical rhetoric there.
reads: [complaining] obviously..
UK PM Johnson says “we will need to have a national conversation” when asked about mandatory vaccination like in some EU countries.
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1468651203290701827
Every politician or journalist in the western world is now talking about mandatory vaccination for population.
But all of us should remember that the correct issue is:
will the world population agree about a mandatory subscription of a perennial vaccination every six months?
And unfortunately the answer is, yes they will. Homo moronicus can’t help it. It can’t go without hope and belief. Or, as dr. Mattias Desmet explains, the more absurd the narrative, the more people believe it.
“will the world population agree about a mandatory subscription of a perennial vaccination every six months?”
Yes. None functional brains buy this charade lock, stock etc.
Fauci: “I would prefer, and we all would prefer that people would be voluntarily getting vaccinated, but if they’re not gonna do that, sometimes you’ve got to do things that are unpopular, but that clearly supersede individual choices…”
https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1468635333961175040
Wow – the Picture of Dorian Gray in the flesh
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! That’s fu#&ing hilarious!
CDC: COVID vaccines won’t stop transmission; Fully vaccinated can still get, spread Delta strain
*** August 5, 2021 ***
“COVID-19 vaccine will not stop transmission of the virus, U.S. Centers for Disease Control Rochelle Walensky said Thursday.
“’Our vaccines are working exceptionally well,’ Walensky told CNN in an interview on Thursday, Aug. 5. ‘They continue to work well for Delta, with regard to severe illness and death – they prevent it. But what they can’t do anymore is prevent transmission.’
“Walensky said fully vaccinated persons can still get COVID and transmit it to others.”
https://www.stardem.com/news/national/cdc-covid-vaccines-won-t-stop-transmission-fully-vaccinated-can-still-get-spread-delta-strain/article_5f83d0cb-8b0a-535d-bbad-3f571754e5ae.html
Executive Order on Requiring Coronavirus Disease 2019 Vaccination for Federal Employees
*** September 9, 2021 ***
“The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) within the Department of Health and Human Services has determined that the best way to slow the spread of COVID-19 and to prevent infection by the Delta variant or other variants is to be vaccinated.
“COVID-19 vaccines are widely available in the United States. They protect people from getting infected and severely ill, and they significantly reduce the likelihood of hospitalization and death.
“It is essential that Federal employees take all available steps to protect themselves and avoid spreading COVID-19 to their co-workers and members of the public. The CDC has found that the best way to do so is to be vaccinated.”
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/09/09/executive-order-on-requiring-coronavirus-disease-2019-vaccination-for-federal-employees/
anna – we’ll save this for you and show it to you when you check out of the nut house… and we’ll have the orderlies standing by to check you back in hahahahaahahahah
an-na… hahahaha
norm – why inject healthy kids?
With the spirit of freedom under which US are born, I cannot understand why people in US can bear him.
I can understand in Europe, because we are get used to submission, but in US not.
I really don’t understand.
That was then and this is now, student. But there is close to a stampede out of blue states and into red states. Vaccination policy will play a large role in the breakup of the US.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/great-realignment-countless-more-americans-will-be-moving-blue-states-red-states-2022
I can imagine the United States breaking up, but perhaps not entirely along state lines. It is the big cities that are particularly blue. The suburbs and rural areas tend to be red.
The blue areas depend on imports from the red areas, I am afraid.
Gail, William Jennings Bryant speech July 1896 at the democratic convention was about this.
https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/williamjenningsbryan1896dnc.htm
“…The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error. I come to speak to you in defense of a cause as holy as the cause of liberty — the cause of humanity.”
“… You come to us and tell us that the great cities are in favor of the gold standard; we reply that the great cities rest upon our broad and fertile prairies. Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms, and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country.”
“If they dare to come out in the open field and defend the gold standard as a good thing we will fight them to the uttermost. Having behind us the producing masses of this nation and the world, supported by the commercial interests, the laboring interests, and the toilers everywhere, we will answer their demand for a gold standard by saying to them: You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns; you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.”
Could there be an issue beyond energy? 1896 was before the fossil fuel craze.
Agree on all counts. I can’t imagine, for example, that Southern Illinois or 95% of Michigan would stay with the blue states, if and when a breakup happens. It would be extremely messy of course, specially near the fault lines. Places like South Dakota, deeply imbedded in the red part, would be relatively safe. 100 miles from Chicago, not so much. Chicago itself would be even worse.
= “balkanization”
Student I am as dumb struck as you. What happened to American values, ideals? I also really don’t understand. There is a strict tight limit to what I can say here on this platform owned and monitored by TPTB. I have no special knowledge but I could believe a military coup is possible with the pro freedom folks being the coup.
Student as Gail says it is more city versus country. I live 100 miles north of NYC. NYC is a major center of woke anti American craziness but here upstate we are republicans. Apple farmers, dairy farmers, people who work and own.
Thank you all for replies coming from everyone.
Ed, the one you describe is the classic and traditional America that I’ve always deeply loved,
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Los Angeles has turned into ‘The Purge,’ detective warns
HOLLYWOOD (CBSLA) – With many people feeling Southern California is experiencing a violent crime wave, even prompting the head of the Los Angeles Police Department’s union to warn tourists away, LAPD Chief Michel Moore tried to assure people that crime is not out of control in the city.
“My message to anyone thinking about coming to Los Angeles, especially during the holiday season, is don’t,” Jamie McBride, the head of the LA Police Protective League, the union representing LAPD officers, said in a television interview.
The message from McBride comes as what many residents and business owners view as a wave of crime slamming the city and surrounding areas.
“We can’t guarantee your safety. It is really, really out of control. I said it to people before, it’s like that movie ‘Purge,’ you know, instead of 24 hours to commit your crime, these people have 365 days days to commit whatever they want,” McBride said.
His warning seems to resonate with some residents.
“It’s pretty scary walking at night,” said Sarah Veenstra, who moved to LA from Wisconsin about six months ago. She said she didn’t realize crime and safety would be such an issue.
https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2021/12/07/we-cant-guarantee-your-safety-head-of-lapds-police-officers-union-warns-tourists-away/
Welcome to the CLUB !!! “Climate” Refugees anyone?
HOT OFF THE PRESS YESTERDAY
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/12/07/chicago-black-population-decline-523563
ENGLEWOOD, CHICAGO — By the time Eugene Sawyer became Chicago’s mayor in 1987 following the sudden death of the first African American to hold the office, Black residents were already leaving.
For decades, long before Sawyer’s ascension, the Englewood neighborhood had been a center of Black life in Chicago, boasting one of the city’s busiest commercial districts and a growing middle class. And it was a true power base, a center of political gravity: Sawyer launched his political career near here, in the 6th Ward of Chicago’s City Council.
But there were signs of change, even then. It seemed that just as soon as Black people made the neighborhood their own, its fortunes turned. Houses started falling into disrepair, thanks to disinvestment. Stores closed up shop — including the massive Sears store that left the neighborhood in 1976.
Now that trickle is a flood. Englewood, one of Chicago’s 77 community areas, boasted nearly 100,000 people in 1960 but is now home to about 22,000. Like a tide going out, it has left relics of decades of decline: more abandoned buildings, shuttered schools and boarded-up storefronts. Its remaining residents face a seemingly intractable level of street violence.
Year to Date
Shot & Killed: 757
Shot & Wounded: 3560
Total Shot: 4317
Total Homicides: 805
heyjackass.com
Ironic, I listen to house/ techno music all the time, and it is all rooted in 80s Chicago (modern techno is much closer to some 80s Chicago house than to 80s Detroit techno). House is the third most popular genre in the world, second in Britain after pop, and first in London according to Spotify. It is spread all over the world. But we never really hear about what is going on Chicago. Hip hop eclipses all in USA, but that never really took off in Britain (which has a breakbeat/ drum and bass scene but not rap.)
I am listening to this new Iranian house label this evening. Sadly they have not uploaded in HQ to YT, which is probably a mistake, their FLACS are gorgeous.
Thanks for the music history. One of the Prodigy drummers (“Bongo Massif”) played solo at a bar in our town in the early 2000’s. I did a half decent job of playing his stand up drum set for set break while he was traipsing around. I’m a big fan of electronic music.. especially like dancing to deep house and breakbeat. I used to play my African drum live with DJ’s a couple times a month in the big city.
Very cool. You are a living part of our history. 🙂
Replenish, neat story, here’s a cat you might like
https://www.allmusic.com/album/available-space-mw0001139652
Ironic, yes. My nostalgia has atrophied at this point. Hung my hat over here back in the day.
There is nothing ‘nostalgic’ about house music. Floods of it are released everyday all over the world.
House is consciously and deliberately not a ‘culture’ and it does not have the cultural trappings of any set time or place. Sub-cultures generally soon pass with fashions.
‘For the fashion of this world passeth away.’ 1 Cor. 7:31 lol
House is simply a music genre, which is part of why it is still proliferating after 30 years. The approach was well thought out in the early 90s when the name and culture of ‘acid house’ was abandon for a cultural ‘neutrality’ for the ‘long haul’.
It is just music, and anyone can make or enjoy house regardless of their personal culture. Its appeal is pretty universal, everyone ‘gets’ a 4/4 beat. House belongs to everyone everywhere.
Ah, good to see a lover of electronic music at OFW!
Fatih Kosar sounds good, will try to find some torrents.
How about ambient? If so, how about some 1997 stuff from Northern Norway?
Add this torrent link:
E4AA33CA0FCE504558453740C3B672279BCC3DE2
Cheers!
Crime seems to be a problem in all of the big cities. There is huge wage disparity in the cities and many very poor people. This makes for a bad mix.
Haha … like this but all the time
https://youtu.be/A2bVeqhzuSs
cool
Australian Football Player Diagnosed with Pericarditis After Receiving First Pfizer Shot – Team Director Quits and Slams Leagues “Forceful” Jab Policy
https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/rbtsaq/australian_football_player_diagnosed_with/
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/halliburton-says-world-is-entering-period-oil-scarcity-2021-12-06/
Halliburton says the world is entering a period of oil scarcity
Oilfield services firm Halliburton (HAL.N) on Monday said the world was headed for a period of oil scarcity following years of underinvestment in fossil fuel development.
I agree with Halliburton. I think that this means bad times economically, not necessarily high prices.
I would have thought if one company knew what they were talking about re oil scarcity it would be Haliburton. They are an oil field services company with fingers in all sorts of oil field pies all over the world. They can see better than most what is going on.
sure Haliburton has expertise on the supply side, but what about the affordability/demand side?
I doubt that there would be any people there who would have an OFW level understanding of the ongoing “demand destruction” being caused by irreversible declining net (surplus) energy.
I agree that supply has peaked and that there generally will be less year after year.
but “scarcity” may not be the apt term.
less supply yearly and less demand yearly.
it’s a race.
all in all, I would guess that these would roughly balance as it plays out throughout this decade and perhaps the next.
Halliburton knows that the oil price keeps staying too low for oil companies. The price has been so low for so long that it is no longer possible to expect change to come.
“There is roughly as much oil – including the source rock – beneath the Earth than humans have extracted during the industrial revolution. But almost all of what is left is beyond geological and technological reach. This said, there are still enough supposedly proven reserves to allow us to raise the global temperature by another couple of degrees before we’re done. The trouble is that these calculations – included in the IPCC’s worst-case scenarios for climate change – ignore the economic – energy – limits on oil extraction. Much of the oil that is being treated as recoverable is locked up in small and difficult fields like Cambo, which are simply too expensive and too risky to ever be recovered. This, in turn, means that the entire world economy now depends upon bigger, cheaper, older and depleting oil deposits. This, in turn, tells us that we will indeed, be transitioning to a “net zero” economy… just not in the way the World Economic Forum and the bright green crowd imagined.” ?
https://consciousnessofsheep.co.uk/2021/12/03/in-brief-cambo-crunch-blue-wall-blues-economic-headwinds-and-then-all-the-chairs-were-facing-backward/?fbclid=IwAR35MC6BDtBYpYW1aESZf9YGJkLwRYM_z4FvhTYLywLgUhJnD19Pi-7y3iA
UK races to deliver booster jabs before Omicron takes hold
NHS halves wait for third jab for over-40s from six to three months in ‘boost to booster programme’
Millions of people in England will be able to book their Covid booster vaccine on Wednesday as the NHS cuts the qualifying time from six months after a second dose to three.
Every adult aged 40 and over and all those in high-risk groups will be able to arrange their Covid booster jab to take place three months after their second dose as the vaccine programme widens significantly today.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/08/uk-races-to-deliver-booster-jabs-before-omicron-takes-hold
Business Insider
Jeff Bezos donates over $400 million to help save the planet he blasted off from just months ago
Ayelet Sheffey
Mon, December 6, 2021, 12:55 PM·3 min read
Jeff Bezos laughs wearing a cowboy hat
Jeff Bezos laughs as he speaks about his flight on Blue Origin’s New Shepard
Jeff Bezos’ Earth Fund donated $443 million to 44 climate groups on Monday.
This is part of his commitment to spend $10 billion by 2030 to fight the climate crisis.
Bezos recently used his fortune to send himself to space and has been criticized for focusing too much on space travel.
Jeff Bezos left his fellow humans on Earth for about 15 minutes in July when he shot himself up to the edge of space. But that doesn’t mean he’s leaving his home planet behind.
On Monday, the founder of Amazon announced a $443 million donation to organizations focused on climate justice, nature conservation, and tracking climate goals. Bezos’ organization, the Bezos Earth Fund, wrote in a press release that it awarded 44 grants to organizations that fit that criteria, including $140 million to President Joe Biden’s Justice40 initiative, which helps fight climate change in disadvantaged communities, along with $51 million to support land restoration in the US and Africa.
These grants are part of Bezos’ $10 billion commitment to his Earth Fund to fight climate change — funds of which he promised would be fully disbursed by 2030.
“The goal of the Bezos Earth Fund is to support change agents who are seizing the challenges that this decisive decade presents,” Andrew Steer, President and CEO of the Bezos Earth Fund, said in a statement. “Through these grants, we are advancing climate justice and the protection of nature, two areas that demand stronger action.”
As the world’s second richest person, Bezos has been using his money to not only fight the climate crisis — his fund gave $791 million to 16 climate organizations last year — but to venture into space. On July 20, Bezos boarded a rocket made by his aerospace company Blue Origin and spent about three minutes in outer space — a form of travel, and way of life, he anticipates will become the norm.
“Over centuries, many people will be born in space. It will be their first home,” Bezos said during a recent conference. “They will be born on these colonies, live on these colonies. Then, they’ll visit Earth the way you would visit, you know, Yellowstone National Park.”
The man’s intellectual honesty is astonishing….equals Sir Richard Branson, Billy Gates, and Former President Obamie
More money = more energy expenditure to try to save the planet. Not likely, I am afraid.
Spot on Gail👍
Throwing money at the predicament will product a HaPpY ending
NOT
Paul Hawken
You can’t get there if you’re destroying the world’s local economies. You can’t get there if you’re McDonald’s and spend $2 billion a year to get our children to eat junk food. We cannot correct environmental problems if we don’t correct the assumptions that cause them. Most of the world’s economy and the behavior of the world’s governments are under the control of corporations, and they are striving to increase that control. At the same time, have you noticed that the world is getting out of control? There is a direct connection between the two.
A highly placed government official from the Clinton administration recently met with his counterpart in the Bush administration. After that meeting, his conclusion was this: They are not governing. They are preventing governance in order to serve their masters: corporations. Even if a large corporation does not engage in that activity, why are they mute in the face of this liquidation sale of government to private interests?
What was that P.T. Barnum quote?
This comment is about the Bank for International Settlements and their Financial Stability Board.
I read their White Papers back in 2010, mostly on Derivative Counter-Party Clearance issues.
imo – word-salad is their proficiency, obfuscation their craft.
IF, PERHAPS, LIKELY, PROJECTED, ANTICIPATED, GIVEN XYZ, CONSENSUS, YADA,
Page after page of saying nothing of substance. It’s like they never saw a vague-qualifier that couldn’t be wedged into their so-called analysis. Sometimes, qualifiers on qualifiers, Managing derivatives must scramble brain cells. Maybe it’s something about translating all those Quant-equations you see on those mad blackboards in movies. Seems like they’re still looking for a Rosetta Stone buried by Norbert Wiener or something.
Here’s a good example of what a BIS-connected guy can get away with.
Mark Carney lauds Lloyd’s of London in this 2015 address to attendees in “The Room” in “The City” at the invitation of Lloyd’s of London. You know; “The City”, where by tradition the Queen Bee herself needs permission to enter. One thing I noticed Carney left out of his praise-narrative was back when Lloyd’s craftily set-up independent insurance-brokers in a scheme, the fine-print of which off-loaded Lloyd’s asbestos liabilities, unbeknownst to said very-suckered brokers, many of whom suffered bankruptcy as a result. BAU?
After reading this speech, I wonder who will be left holding the bag for Lloyd’s Climate Derivatives.
https://www.bis.org/review/r151009a.pdf
QUOTES FROM CARNEY’S ADDRESS:
“While there is always room for scientific disagreement about climate change (as there is with any scientific issue) I have found that insurers are amongst the most determined advocates for tackling it sooner rather than later. And little wonder. While others have been debating the theory, you have been dealing with the reality”
“The challenges currently posed by climate change pale in significance compared with what might come. The far-sighted amongst you are anticipating broader global impacts on property, migration and political stability, as well as food and water security”
“A classic problem in environmental economics is the tragedy of the commons. The solution to it lies in property rights and supply management”
“Climate change is the Tragedy of the Horizon”
[wonder if that’s In-the-Lodge code-speak]
“This paradox is deeper, as Lord Stern and others have amply demonstrated. As risks are a function of cumulative emissions, earlier action will mean less costly adjustment. The desirability of restricting climate change to 2 degrees above pre-industrial levels leads to the notion of a carbon “budget”, an assessment of the amount of emissions the world can “afford”. [his quotes, not mine]
“As Chair of the FSB [Financial Stability Board – a BIS unit] I hosted a meeting last week where the private and public sectors discussed the current and prospective financial stability risks from climate change and what might be done to mitigate them”
MARK CARNEY SUGGESTS A “NEW SYNTHETIC HEGEMONIC CURRENCY”
WIKI informs us about what Mark Carney has later opined:
In his 23 August 2019 speech delivered at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City’s 2019 annual Jackson Hole Economic Symposium at Jackson Lake Lodge, entitled “The Growing Challenges for Monetary Policy in the current International Monetary and Financial System”, Carney said that the “widespread use of the US dollar—the dominant currency pricing—in “trade invoicing, in place of the currency of either the producer or the importer” has had a “destablilizing” effect on the global economy, according to Reuters.
About 50 percent of international trade relies on the US dollar as the “currency of choice.” This represents “five times greater than the US’s share in world goods imports, and three times its share in world exports.” Dominant currency pricing is not problematic when there is “synchronised growth” globally, Carney said. When “the tide is rising in America while receding elsewhere”, the system needs to be revamped. Carney cited an article by Markus K. Brunnermeier, Harold James, and Jean-Pierre Landau on the potential role of digital currency area (DCA) in redefining the international monetary system.
Speaking only hours after US President Donald Trump had posted on Twitter that he blamed Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell’s policies creating fears of an economic recession—and then threatened China with more retaliatory tariffs—Carney urged central banks to work together to replace the US dollar as reserve currency. He cautioned against choosing another new hegemonic reserve currency like the Renminbi and suggested instead, a “new Synthetic Hegemonic Currency (SHC), such as Libra, which could potentially be provided “through a network of central bank digital currencies,” that would decrease the US dollar’s “domineering influence” on trade worldwide.
It is possible to “sort of” solve BIS problems if your underlying assumption is, “All problems will be small and relate to one or two countries at a time.” This is the assumption used to solve insurance and banking problems in general.
As long as the world economy is a long distance from limits, this assumption works. It doesn’t work as limits are hit.
In fact, assuming all problems are small seems to increase the value and the needed staffing of the regulator.
Libra = Zuckerborg
A booster dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine appears to provide strong protection against the omicron variant, the companies announced Wednesday.
They said lab study results show a third dose of their vaccine provides a similar level of neutralizing antibodies to omicron, comparable to two doses against the original coronavirus and other variants that have emerged.
Blood samples from those who received only the primary series of the vaccine, on average, did see a 25-fold drop in antibodies against the new variant. That may indicate that two doses of the vaccine may not be sufficient to protect against infection with omicron, although they may still prevent severe disease, the companies said.
“If these data hold then these are good signs,” said Ali Ellebedy, an associate professor of pathology and immunology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. “It means that on the very least fully vaccinated individuals … will likely be protected from severe disease.”
As the highly mutated omicron variant, first identified in South Africa, spreads around the globe, scientists are racing to determine how the available vaccines will work against it.
NBC “News”
It’s probably a good idea to get a third, fourth booster to keep ahead of the variants🤔
Temporarily strong (in some sense). But not necessarily safe. Won’t stop transmission for long, if at all.
They’re desperately trying to fit more fingers in the dyke. Just let it rip. COVID-19 is endemic and soon everyone on the street will know it. Accept and embrace nature – there’s no stopping it, no matter how many times they inject people.
Yesterday, a coworker told me that her brother and his wife came back from a cruise last week. Requirements for boarding the cruise ship: proof of full “vaccination” and a negative test result. Both the brother and his wife leave the cruise ship, then take a train and a plane flight to get home. Both end up sick, stay home from work, and test positive for COVID-19.
Finally, my coworker tells me that none of this is going to end until we get everyone “vaccinated.”
Sure. What else can one say in reply to delusion?
How can people think that can be possible to get everyone vaccinated all over the world (I repeat all over the world) and every 6 months?
That is complete non sense.
I agree.
How can people think that can be possible to get everyone vaccinated all over the world (I repeat all over the world) and every 6 months?
That is complete non sense.
They will try. Throw out the “sense” in the nonsense. It is a mad world now.
As stated in my long post, there will be people who will take it every month
norm will DEMAND it…. all MOREONS will
norm – why are we vaxxing the kids?
Florida Gov. DeSantis proposes plan to fight rising seas without any ‘left-wing stuff’
David Fleshler, South Florida Sun Sentinel
Tue, December 7, 2021, 6:25 PM
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Gov. Ron DeSantis announced a series of steps to defend Florida against rising sea levels Tuesday, even as he denounced the use of the term “global warming” as a “pretext to do a bunch of left-wing things.”
The governor submitted 76 projects to the state Legislature to improve drainage, raise sea walls and take other steps to fight flooding across the state. The state would spend about $270 million, with local matches typically required.
“We’re a low-lying state, we’re a storm-prone state, and we’re a flood-prone state,” DeSantis said at a news conference in Oldsmar, just outside Tampa. “And so we worked with the Legislature to say, OK how are we going to address this in a way that’s going to protect Florida’s communities, protect our economic livelihood and make sure we’re doing what we need to do.”
The projects include new pump stations, stormwater sewers, sea walls, canal bank improvements, the elevation of fire stations and other steps to cope with the increased risk of flooding.
Just DON’T EVER mention those leftist Words🙄
Lots of ways to use energy products and other resources to provide jobs for individuals.
Florida has had these problems, almost forever. Providing jobs for citizens, funding either by the government or by insurers (after a storm), are very popular.
Associated Press
Mandatory food recycling to begin in California
Wed, December 8, 2021, 12:59 AM
Starting in January, banana peels, chicken bones and leftover veggies won’t be allowed in most California trash bins under a mandatory food recycling program designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from landfills. (Dec. 8)
Good luck with that..;Maybe feed all the Homeless from the leftovers
Sounds like something that will require a fair amount of energy to make work (picking up this left-over food, finding a place to do this process, adding heat (if necessary) to speed up the process, hiring workers, etc.)
Used to eat a couple meals a day at Whole Foods in North Austin. Had to laugh at their waste-bin and recycle-bin system – 4 different bins. On average, each bin pretty much looked the same. Tried to picture the conveyor-line mess. Ended up assuming that there’s really little true recycling going on from those sources. Heard the same from an old guy working a recycle-center where you took your glass and cardboard and such. He said a lot of stuff goes to the landfill. It’s all about the money.
Operation Swill Barrel
We know the ocean can play a role in carbon removal efforts because it is already doing so — about 40% of human-made CO2 emissions since the start of the industrial age have been absorbed by the ocean, slowing the pace at which warming would otherwise occur.
Since the ocean takes up more than two-thirds of the planet’s surface, there is far more room to try carbon removal projects than on land.
How it works: One possibility involves harnessing nature by planting mangrove forests and kelp that can pull carbon out of the ocean and store it.
Another option would involve fertilizing the oceans with dissolved iron, which stimulates the growth of phytoplankton that can feed on CO2 in the water.
The catch: “The nature of both governance and science in the ocean presents a lot of challenges to that scale of development that would be needed,” says Michael Conathan, senior policy fellow for ocean and climate with the Aspen Institute’s Energy and Environment Program.
Nations claim an exclusive economic zone (EEZs) — the territory where they can control living and nonliving marine resources — only for the 230 miles beyond their coastlines. EEZs often overlap, and further on lies the open sea, which has even fuzzier international governance.
“How do you manage those transboundary effects, where action taken in one state ends up affecting others?” says Conathan.
What’s next: The Aspen report suggests clarifying national and international governance structures that need to be established before ocean-based carbon removal can move beyond the experimental stage.
That includes ensuring carbon removal projects respect the rights of the indigenous coastal people who depend most of all on the health of the oceans — something that hasn’t always been the case in past
Sure we are! We’ll discuss this and all agree to make a pledge at the next Climate Summit 🎉 Party!
Boy. Are we imaginative…
From Adios.com
We don’t understand second, third, and fourth order effects well enough, either.
Aussie knocks out man checking Covid passes at mall, sends him rolling down an escalator.
Two other checkers assaulted at the same mall.
Aussie stores are going to need US or even Israeli levels of security if this sort of thing keeps up.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FFiL-r4XwAQh4QO.jpg
This is what works – not marching down the street and getting beaten up by cops.
When every nazi-pass checker, every policeman, every politician are afraid to walk down the street, they will think twice about what they are doing.
The reality is, most humans are more than happy to be evil – only when there are repercussions, they magically find their “morality”.
We need a lot more of that!
Here in NZ we have picnics…
United States alone purchases $8.6 billion worth of sand a year for construction and beach repairs.
Countries are simply running out of sand and they need it badly. Because of this, organized crime groups in India, Italy and other countries are illegally trading sand and making huge profits. The operation consists of bribing politicians, violent conflicts and even murder. The countries of Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia and Cambodia are all getting into heated conflicts … over sand.
You may think about the deserts full of what seems to be limitless sand and wonder what the problem is. The problem is that desert sand is created by wind erosion. Wind-created sand is very round. It is so round that it cannot hold up in construction or beach applications. Therefore, desert sand is not a usable resource for the applications countries are begging for.
So what is the solution? Nobody really knows. Sand has always been thought of as such a limitless resource that nobody has really considered what to do when it runs out. People are now starting to think about it, but they are way behind as the problem is already here and will get worse over time.
Next time you need to fill that sandbox with sand, expect the price to cost a bit more over the next few years. At least in this country we don’t have to buy it from the mafia — yet.
Mike Szydlowski is science coordinator for Columbia Public Schools.
Columbia Tribune.com
Another we are running out…like Gail points out, it’s not only fossil fuels…
Hope we can kick the can till 2030!
Sand-derivatives to the rescue? Shall we arbitrage Sand-Credits?
Thanks for the article snips Herbie.
Fracking has used a lot of a particular kind of sand. There were articles earlier about sand depletion because of fracking.
French documentary on this subject came out several years ago:
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/sandwars/92037705
This is a terror spiral:
‘Vaccination against Covid-19: Jean-François Delfraissy opens the door to a fourth dose’
https://www.liberation.fr/societe/sante/vaccination-contre-le-covid-19-jean-francois-delfraissy-entrouvre-la-porte-dune-quatrieme-dose-20211208_U3NSDFLIZ5DPFGSHWAUXDXEI4U/
And, at the same time: ‘Covid-19: Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine adapted to the omicron variant expected in March’
https://www.lefigaro.fr/sciences/covid-19-un-vaccin-pfizer-biontech-adapte-au-variant-omicron-attendu-en-mars-20211208
Will Omicron be gone by March? It moves sufficiently quickly that a person wonders.
Why not just go with a monthly shot for everyone? Few will resist.
anna is in the asylum
anna is in the asylum
anna is in the asylum
anna is in the asylum
anna is in the asylum
anna is in the asylum
anna is in the asylum
anna is in the asylum
End times for about 98% of the world’s population, who will be deemed unnecessary and will be on the chopping block.
SIngularity, Space Travel and Civilization 2.0 for the world’s elites and smarter people, with unlimited luxury for eternity.
However, unnecessariats do not need to apply
Really? We still have not ever been to the moon.
Who is going to take us? Conman Musk? Conman Bezos?….lol
Try getting to the moon and outer space with the degraded humanity you have now…..
While I agree that largely a massive amount of the population is no longer needed it is also obvious we will not be a space traveling people any time soon, if ever.
For a little while, it seemed we would be. What a fantastic time it would have been for humanity, if that could have been our guiding mission statement.
Now what are we left with? Trying to decide how best to ask psychopaths to please stop killing us.
humanity is addicted to illusions and going to outer space is one of them.
haha … Van Allan Belts… this is part of the virtual reality — the makers put those into the game for no real purpose other than to stop us from leaving the planet…
2% of our population cannot maintain a high technology system like ours.
Expanding Desmet’s Mass Formation
This is the second part of the long write up. Please read the first part – The Rise of Moronism first and then this one.
In the first part, I touched about how abundant energy caused humans to be totally detached from reality and in the process, dumbing down. In this second part, I will expand on Desmet’s mass formation while adding in some interesting points that are hidden from the Western world.
What happened in our society was previewed in the 1960s. Many years ago, in previous articles of OFW, Calhoun’s Rat Experiment was discussed but at that point of time, what happened in the rat experiment was not very clear cut. Now, the correlation is almost 100%. In the rat experiment, at the terminal phase, the rats do not care for the young, fight among each other, the males love grooming and did not participant in normal rat social behaviour. What is happening in the rat experiment is what we are seeing now. Left/right, vaccinated/unvaccinated, mothers enrolling babies for vaccination trials, wokeism, etc. Here is the link : https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-mouse-utopias-1960s-led-grim-predictions-humans-180954423/
This is the model for humans, and we were foretold 60 years ago. Referring to my previous writeup, the 1960s was the time when abundant energy came into our live and we just blew through the entire cache of high-density energy (petroleum) with no regards the future.
I would like to add in something about Desmet’s “mass formation”. I agree with him, but I believe what he said is just part of a bigger picture. I see it as “developed country-centric” or “western-centric”. There are many factors that come in to play. I have experience in both Western and Eastern culture, religion, thoughts, ethics and mentality. So, let me try to add in something. Feel free to debate on this topic. It is just not possible for me, in my reality here to share this out easily to anyone. So, my virtual friends here in OFW are my only friends who have the same wavelength.
I find that the underlying root cause for mass formation, which is true across all cultures, religions, family backgrounds, education, family background, values, etc – THEY DON’T THINK. I have covered this in my previous article and the second root cause – AFRAID OF DEATH.
Here in Malaysia, there are illiterate people. They cannot read newspaper. They may not understand the news on TV as they know understand dialects. They are not on social media and when they are using contact-tracing apps in the phone, they barely know how to operate a smartphone. That is why it is very difficult to enforce COVID restrictions in Malaysia stringently. There are still books for people to sign in. So, the only way they can be “brain washed” is by other people (relatives, friends, neighbours). As they are illiterate, they don’t understand what is going on and thus they will TRUST whatever information provided to them. Since there were no serious natural disasters that befall them, their trust in government is high. So, when their friends/relatives asked the illiterate to take the jab, he will take the jab. However, if the TRUST is low, then he will be suspicious and may not take the jab. It is this trust that allowed them to have the thoughts that the government is not going to harm them, and it is impossible be that everyone (the thousands outside) is wrong on this and he is the only one who is right.
Don’t mix up ignorant/illiterate and stupidity. One may be ignorant but one may not be stupid.
There is one major ethnic group in Malaysia, let us just name it as “Ethnic X” and they are fatalistic. They believe in fate and that fate governs everything. If a child dies, even if it is due to negligence, it is fated that the child died, and he will be replaced with another child. However, the Chinese (here in Malaysia, Singapore and perhaps generally in the whole world) are the opposite. Most of them believe that they can influence fate and will try their best to do it. It is in their culture that longevity is very important and there are people seeking the elixir of immortality. The contrast could not be more glaring between Chinese and Ethnic X.
I met with a very rich Ethic X father in a hospital. Money is nothing to him. We chatted. He told me a few years earlier that his new born was not healthy and needed surgery. The doctor said to him that the chances of survival if the surgery is done is 50% and the other option was “do nothing”. Believing in fate, the father did not do anything. The child survived and was healthy. This triggered me to think hard and I asked around the same question to the Chinese. I rephrased the question into 2 sections. One section I said that the cost of the surgery was high and could be 30% of the savings of the parents. The other section was – what if money was not a problem at all. The answer from my survey – all of them, when money is not a problem, will say “I will go for the surgery”. Even if the surgery is painful for the new born, the answer is always “I will go for the surgery”. There is only one reason – if the child dies, the parents can say “I have done my very best and could not save the child”. They are trying to beat destiny but failed. Chinese cannot stand “do nothing”. They must do something so that when bad things happen, they can console themselves that “They have done all the best” even though the success rate is exactly 50%-50%.
So, I am not surprised that when I met up with my friends and told them that I am not vaccinated, the response, which I have come to expect – please take the jab. Taking the jab is better than not taking the jab. Even if they realize that there are side effects, the risk of dying from COVID is higher than the risk of side effects and taking the jab is better. This is similar to “beat destiny”. Doing nothing is not acceptable since you are relying on fate to swing into your favour. This type of mentality is prevalent. I have friends who slept at 2am in the morning even though the exam will start at 9am. I asked if he can understand what is in the book since the mind was tired at 2am. The response “At least I am holding the book and trying to read”. A false sense of security, no doubt at all.
Guess which ethnic group will take the jab? The Chinese will line up and take the tenth booster. Ethnic X has a lot of vaccine-hesitant people and one of the reasons, which is now proven correct, is that the vaccine contains religion-incompatible substances.
The AFRAID OF DEATH is general across humans regardless of geography, culture and religion. This fear is the only fear that can be used to turn humans into slaves or anything that you want them to be. There are many papers and literature on this topic but it is the combination of TRUST, FEAR OF DEATH and DEGRADED MENTAL CAPABILITY that is causing the chaos today. Unfortunately, there is NO way out of this mess because once it started, it will never end. There will be no revolt, etc. It will only end when collapse happens.
Putting in piece of information from the first write up on abundant energy and trust, here are some points to take note
#1
Wokeism goes well with climate change, renewables, EV and of course vaccines. It is this same group of people who will embrace all of them. They are the most detached from reality. They enjoyed the most from the abundance of energy. They are the ones who fly and spent money on things that are perhaps not necessary for survival (energy, water, food). They are not down to earth, and they will believe in going to Mars for holidays. The Chinese are also detached from reality, thinking there is an elixir of immortality, thinking that taking the jab is better than none. There are many examples that I can put in showing their stupidity. Because of abundant energy, their thinking skills have degraded tremendously. Like Gail has mentioned before, the doctors of the olden days are so much better than the current doctors in diagnosis. I will tell you that the next generation of doctors will be totally useless and they just following instructions given by the computer. It is not because the syllabus does not encourage thinking, the syllabus was designed that way because the students cannot think anymore. Spoon feeding. Their mental capability has degraded significantly, especially after the introduction of smartphones where a thinking mind is not required to use it. Those living in poor conditions or hard life are the ones who has more thinking ability.
#2
How about the older people who seem to be better off with their thinking capability (watching little or no TV) but still be brainwashed? – Trust. They have seen their children grew up in a very secure and safe environment, they lead good life, abundant energy, wealth and their kids are telling them the vaccines are good and take them to save the children. So, since their cognitive skills have degraded, they do not want to think anymore.
#3
SARs of 2003 was worse off than COVID-19 but why did it not blow up? The very simple reason – instant communication. Internet was still not widespread and there were no Whatsapp, Messenger, Telegram, WeChat, Facebook, Twitter and others. I would personally place the entire COVID-19 fiasco on them. I have met up with so many people who trusted 100% the materials they received from their friends via WhatsApp. Even if I say to them that “I can easily create one and send out”, they seem to be oblivious because they have a high TRUST. They TRUST that their friends and government will not harm them. This leads to the reason why HK and Eastern Europe has low vaccination rates. The TRUST is not there. See Denmark and Singapore, their citizens have high TRUST of their government and thus, the vaccination rate are high. Coupled with the fact that there are many Chinese in Singapore, they don’t need a lot of encouraging for people to take up the vaccines.
#4
It can be generalized that those who are pro jab are those who utilise the abundant energy, i.e. higher energy footprint than those who are not pro jab. They are more detached because they have many virtual energy slaves to help them to all the physical and mental work. Imagine if you have a few personal assistants to help you with your work and daily life. What kind of brain do you need? A shrunk and degenerated brain perhaps. So, do you think you can think critically about COVID?
#5
Desire, lust and greed. High expectations of better life in future. They just don’t want to believe there is a bad future. The basis of desire, lust and greed is abundant energy. You want more. You cannot really think straight when your mind is just full of those expectations.
#6
It is a known fact (do your own research) that the brain size has shrunk since measurement started hundreds of years ago. Is this something surprising?
Conclusion
The Calhoun rat experiment, when I first read that years ago, it was not obvious, now it is 100% correlated. People being moronic is not something that I am surprised. Abundant energy, like the stray cats I am feeding, have dumbed people down. Fossil fuel is toxic to us. From the first petroleum well in Trinidad in 1857 or 1869 in Pennsylvania till now, it is less than 200 years, but it has finally poisoned the world with physical and mental toxin.
Desmet’s mass formation is something that cannot be reversed or slowed. It has already happened and it will only worsen in future. Even if we were to continue this way, where we find another source of abundant energy, the ending of the Calhoun Rat Experiment is final and epic. No way out. That is why it is a predicament.
What a magnificent piece of thinking. Thank you, CTG. Reading this, I feel like my sagging, deflated brain has been pumped up again.
Perhaps Malay fatalism is a survival trait?
Thanks for your comments. It is kinda late in Japan now. Isn’t it.
Fatalism is actually a good survival trait. It weans you off guilt and lets you avoid depression. You move along because what happened to you is not your fault (basically guilt-free living). This is critical in the olden days when mortality is high.
That’s a good read, thanks CTG.
Wonder if Fatalism is at all connected to celebrations like Day of the Dead and New Orleans style funerals.
Wonder if Fatalism is at all connected to celebrations like Day of the Dead and New Orleans style funerals.
Not really for the Chinese version of Day of Th Dead. Chinese does not believe in Fatalism. I am not sure about Latin Americans
Tour de force series of articles.
On the decay and predicament trajectory, lets say ~15-35% of pop can generally assume the correcting vector what to do in severe crisis, but if you zoom in on direct step by step action this shrinks bellow 10% and if the pillars / crutches of techno civ are also no longer available it shrinks perhaps way bellow 1% .. That’s how civilizations are ultimately always swallowed back by the jungle, desert, ocean, ice cap or whatever.
I think that you are correct about the huge “Afraid of Death” problem. Governments insurance companies, and the healthcare industry have promised to save us from all earthly problems, but there is still the “fear of death.”
Religions of the world have dealt with the issue of death for a long time, but now most earthly uncertainties have transferred to governments, insurance companies and the healthcare industry. Somehow, many people need the religious element to come back. As long as a bad outcome is virtually impossible (hell or purgatory, or reincarnation as a lower form of life), this can be comforting. There are any number of people with near-death experiences who claim to have seen comforting experiences.
CTG – I have written this many times although possibly not here so…
Some are truly ignorant
Some choose to be ignorant
Others have ignorance thrust upon them
The truth is we all are one or more of these on certain issues. There is plenty that we do not have the information on and so we are ignorant. There are times when we just don’t care to get or have the information and so are ignorant. Each and everyone of us has acquired information one way or another that is incorrect and so we are ignorant.
This simple truth should be talked about often and forever because any or all of these can happen to anyone at any time. The trick is to understand this, not get angry, defensive, or dismissive of it an always try and figure which one is happening …to you and to those around you. It is really not that difficult and if you do not …bad things happen.
The first one and the last can be forgiven and we must have great compassion in dealing with them. Being willfully ignorant is the worst and yet it would seem that in our present situation it is all too common. People who choose to be ignorant believe they are exercising their free will but they are not, they are abdicating their free will and choosing to be a victim and they should be told as much. In truth choosing to be ignorant, and again we all do it at times, is a defense mechanism, it’s used for self preservation purposes especially when the truth hurts or the information is just dreadful. Still…not good.
I agree with some of you comments on death. Over the last 15 – 20 years of researching the Peakishness of Everything everyone eventually asks “why does everyone not do something, why do they all just keep doing what they are doing”, and I always say “because they all have to go to work in the morning”. A bit flipp I know but it is absolutely true.
The #1 motivator, the most powerful driver of human behavior is fear of death. No one I don’t care how brave they may act is immune from this fact.
The #1 universal thing that everyone knows with absolut certainity that will stave off death for you and your loved ones is………MONEY! Which is why most humans will do just about anything to get some and getting some is not enough because money is always going away a lot easier/faster than it is coming.
There you have it. The root of all evil is not money, it is knowing that when you don’t have any money you and your loved ones WILL suffer and die!
as funny as it is practical, whatever the person thinks about their fate
“because they all have to go to work in the morning”
Great writeup CTG. Thanks for the insight into the two cultures there.
All evidence supports your hypothesis.
We are dummed down to ridiculous concepts and moronic behaviors.
Interestingly, here in the US, the dumming down has been in full swing since the 60s, when we kind of neared our peak in oil/energy use. We used to teach Latin in schools as a basis for understanding Western and world history.
In Utah I visited a water powered mill operation built by hand by the pioneers. As an engineer I could appreciate the knowledge that went into the design of the power transfer of various gear combinations, etc. They were smart people, with surprising mathematics capabilities. I have a copy of a Harvard entrance exam from the 1890s. Let’s put it politely….I would have failed it miserably, and the descent to where we are now in education is stunning.
I could post it if shown how to post an image.
This has been presented previously … but it ties in….
If governments wanted to end obesity and the various diseases associated with a poor lifestyle … they could launch Operation Sparta… gradually tax all garbage food out of existence… coupled with a mass PR and advertising campaign extolling the ultra fit lifestyle….
The role models would not be pro athletes rather the average person who is dedicated to a high level of fitness… take for example the Les Mills trainers… some are as fit as a pro athlete … so this is something anyone can achieve…
The propaganda machine could be repurposed to create a ‘spartan society’…
This would result a dramatic reduction of health costs … the medical lobby would resist but they could easily be dealt with — retirement age would need to be boosted to prevent pensions from blowing up … but then healthy people can and will work longer.
So why don’t governments do this? I believe that this is all part of what you discuss above — they don’t want fit healthy people – they want sloths who are unhealthy – who watch teevee and do as they are told …
And for the most part that is what they have… Zoolander is mainstream… idiocracy is celebrated… remember Spicoli?
https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/445475725953359872/kMCMC77p.jpeg
There is a small core of top minions who do the important work… they are kept under control by paying them very high salaries…
It’s quite the system… but it all hinges on cheap energy and resources.
And those are running out… so best way to deal with that is extermination.
Ideally before the House of Cards collapses
still partially done in “antsy” secluded societies like Korea(s)/Japan/..
I look forward to your comments. This is your best yet.
Fatalism reduces stress and thus allowing people to move on from any death. It is positive from the evolutionary perspective. No need to be depressed and there is no need to save everyone. There are no participation trophy. You cannot make it, you die and people move on.
Spike-Only Vaccine a Colossal Blunder: University of Michigan Study Shows SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine Escape is Due to Vaccination
https://popularrationalism.substack.com/p/spike-only-vaccine-a-colossal-blunder
“Natural immunity is multi-epitope immunity. It’s time we start testing for t-cells immunity to SARS-CoV-2 proteins other than spike. We urgently need to know who is immune and who is not so people who are naturally immune can stay productive with far less concern over infection.
“Those with natural immunity will be a valuable asset to society as we try to recover from the pandemic and the vaccination program that has made it much worse.
“Stop blaming the unvaccinated for the rise of variants. Science says you’re wrong, and that the vaccinated who accepted spike-only vaccines are making things more difficult than they need to be.
“I’m an evolutionary biologist, so I don’t pray much. But my hope is that pathogenic priming in the vaccinated can be minimized by the Brownstein protocol.”
WILL PUREBLOODS COMMAND HIGHER WAGES AS A RESULT?
Have a relative who sees Dr. Brownstein. She’s very satisfied. Nice little study there.
The parts of the article you quote are by Dr. Brownstein, talking about the paper by the Michigan State University authors. The quoted article also says:
Thus, the academic paper itself is giving out bad advice, if you want to lessen the severity of the illness and stop it. This is an obstacle to fixing the increased severity problem.
Don’t know where you get that – the article was written by James Lyons-Wheeler. He merely suggested the Brownstein protocol at the end.
As for the paper referenced; note that Lyons-Wheeler puts a “(!)” after his sentence about the authors of the paper calling for use of this information in vaccine programs. That “bad advice” you note is inherent in the last sentence of that excerpt.
I think the main point; disregarding the authors advice; and disregarding who wrote what; is that what was reported as a blunder (spike-only vaccine) gets to an extremely significant distinction about natural immunity and multiple epitopes.
Would you disagree that:
Quote: “We urgently need to know who is immune and who is not so people who are naturally immune can stay productive with far less concern over infection”.
Sorry, I didn’t look back to see who wrote the article.
I would definitely agree that the quote:
We urgently need to know who is immune and who is not so people who are naturally immune can stay productive with far less concern over infection”.
What we need to do is expose the vaxxed to all the variants so that they get extremely ill and die.
Yes, but as with all “we need to…” exhortations, this is the last thing that will happen, because all of this is quite clearly *not* about truly understanding immunity to “covid” or anything even vaguely like that.
The idea is not to “recover from the pandemic”.
That is not the agenda (imo).
Is it possible instead that large groups will fall off the agenda by attrition? Gail and others have suggested that the agenda (for the whole world) is not affordable.
Like CEP-lite ?, possible.
Mechanisms of SARS-CoV-2 Evolution Revealing Vaccine-Resistant Mutations in Europe and America
Abstract
The importance of understanding SARS-CoV-2 evolution cannot be overlooked. Recent studies confirm that natural selection is the dominating mechanism of SARS-CoV-2 evolution, which favors mutations that strengthen viral infectivity. Here, we demonstrate that vaccine-breakthrough or antibody-resistant mutations provide a new mechanism of viral evolution. Specifically, vaccine-resistant mutation Y449S in the spike (S) protein receptor-binding domain, which occurred in co-mutations Y449S and N501Y, has reduced infectivity compared to that of the original SARS-CoV-2 but can disrupt existing antibodies that neutralize the virus. By tracking the evolutionary trajectories of vaccine-resistant mutations in more than 2.2 million SARS-CoV-2 genomes, we reveal that the occurrence and frequency of vaccine-resistant mutations correlate strongly with the vaccination rates in Europe and America. We anticipate that as a complementary transmission pathway, vaccine-breakthrough or antibody-resistant mutations, like those in Omicron, will become a dominating mechanism of SARS-CoV-2 evolution when most of the world’s population is either vaccinated or infected. Our study sheds light on SARS-CoV-2 evolution and transmission and enables the design of the next-generation mutation-proof vaccines and antibody drugs.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34873910/
I can understand how the article got published. It ends:
“Our study . . . enables the design of the next-generation mutation-proof vaccines and antibody drugs.”
Global supply chain constraints halt iPhone production for the first time in 10 years
One of the sources told Nikkei that the production line was halted due to shortage of components and chips. Therefore, it does not make any sense for workers to work overtime ahead of the festive season. “That has never happened before. The Chinese golden holiday in the past was always the most hustling time when all of the assemblers were gearing up for production,” the supply chain source said.
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/technology/iphone-13-pro-max-production-halted-chip-shortage-price-in-india-specifications-7803591.html
More supply chain problems!
French 1-year forward electricity jumps to a record high of almost €200 per MWh.
German 1-year forward also close at a record high today.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FGBepqcX0AMjEJt?format=png&name=medium
And without or curbed natgas imports in winter it could jump from there 5x further up easily.. €1k MWh here we come just in order for not completely freezing out..
That would be funny, firstly natgas 10x and then (soonish) electricity 10x spike, ..
Who knew, quite lunatic series of events unfolding as seen from the prior times.
Or maybe not, it European economy collapses, and Euro no longer used.
yes that could follow in its wake, it was meant as seasonal spike in case of acute natgas import flow disruption, ..
good
norm – why vaccinate healthy children?
In Memoriam Airline Pilot’s Association. Deaths 2019, 2020 and 2021.
See anything concerning?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FGDeo2EXEAARoLx?format=jpg&name=large
Wow – deaths really picked up July, August, September 2021
Now the question is how many of them were vaxxed & when or were they Covid infections
For deaths in 2020 were they Covid related or lockdown inactivity related?
For a study group probably not very diverse – probably mostly white males – middle to upper middle class affluent so significant difference from general pop
Going to look for data number/demographics of pilots and calc some death rates
upon review looks like this 2021 more or less in-line total us mortality all cases for 45-65 demographic on order of 0.15% per year
thinking short lists for 2019 & 2020 are just to publish updates for those years that were not published in previous ’19 & ’20 listings (late notifications)
This is utterly amazing, unless this is just an update to a previously published list.
There was only one death of the American Pilot’s Association in 2019. There were six in 2020. There were quite a few more in the first six months of 2021. Starting in June 2021, monthly deaths increased dramatically. It is hard to tell from the partial photo of the list of deaths exactly how many deaths there are in those months.
The US administration of vaccines occurred mostly in the period December 2020 through June 2020. Thus, the big uptick in deaths occurred after the vaccines were nearly all administered. These were fairly young, healthy men (mostly), if they were pilots. A person does need more information to interpret this correctly.
Bank of Canada suspends unvaccinated employee who works from home
A work-from-home Bank of Canada employee who asked for a religious exemption from the COVID-19 vaccine has been suspended without pay, according to Blacklock’s Reporter.
“It hurt so badly,” former Bank of Canada IT project manager Evelyn Egboye told Blacklock’s Reporter. “I just wanted to work. How can someone tell me I cannot work?”
Egboye, who has been working at the Bank of Canada for four years, was suspended last week.
https://tnc.news/2021/12/07/bank-of-canada-suspends-unvaccinated-employee-who-works-from-home/
Dystopian Nightmare
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FGEJEY-VUAE_4yw?format=jpg&name=900×900
Love it! And there are those that call the Aztecs barbarians….
https://d.ibtimes.co.uk/en/full/1607951/aztec-sacrifice.jpg
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/asia.201700554
Graphene Oxide Conjugated Magnetic Beads for RNA Extraction
This link was posted in comments Steve Kirsch substack
Pure speculation but could Pharma be using these in a process to extract RNA from growth media before encapsulating in nano-lipids? If so, and they have poor production quality control may be randomly contaminating batches/lots – variability in production runs could account for reports of of clustered injuries while other shot lots seem to be injury free. Some people have magnetic Graphene in them and others dont? Nah could never happen? But then Japanese did find metal particles which were traced back to incorrectly maintained equipment in some of their lots. Perhaps some of these GO beads are contaminating/getting incorporated into nanolipids during encapsulation? We will never know because FDA/Pfiser not looking to be transparent.
When news of German class action lawsuit came out one of main concerns discussed was that Clinical Trials were conducted using small scale highly controlled processes to produced very refined and controlled Vaccine. Full scale production methods were not going to be the same processes & approval was given without full description/qualification/testing of full scale production (in normal Vaccine development apparently not unusual to take several years to scale up from lab/pilot scale to full scale production and document/test/prove equivalency of full scale production)
Scaling up of processes is often a problem. Remember the vaccine manufacturing location that had been put in place in the US that cross contaminated a Johnson & Johnson with a batch from a different manufacturer, and a large number of doses needed to be thrown out.
TV show deletes poll after 89% oppose mandatory vaccination
Notice the way Good Morning Britain phrased the question:
“With Omicron cases doubling every two days, is it time to make vaccines mandatory?”,
yet still they didn’t get the result they wanted.
If it were me, I’d have asked:
“With vaccines killing and maiming millions and failing to protect against illness or transmission, is it time to make vaccines mandatory?”,
then see what the result of the poll would be.
If it were me, I’d have asked:
“With vaccines killing and maiming millions and failing to protect against illness or transmission, is it time to make vaccines mandatory?”
But then you would make Norm, Dunce and Mike upset. Dunce and Mike actually believe the vaccines are totally 100% safe and that no one has died or suffered any injuries. That’s what happens when people are gullible.
Even with the leading question asked, the headline says, TV show deletes poll after 89% oppose mandatory vaccination. This survey was in the UK.
That’s a good question too – that DAMN won’t answer
This is the terrible low level reached by Italy today!
An old lady is not allowed to take the public transportation because, although she says she had the vaccine, she cannot show the digital green pass (she only has an old mobile) and she didn’t know she had to bring with her a print copy of her vaccination status.
Go on foot my dear.
https://t.me/RossellaFidanza/18818
Until the people get together and oppose this tyranny through militant noncompliance, things will only get worse.
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One more time:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FFiL-r4XwAQh4QO.jpg
That’s more like it.
You have too look at them all from longer term (bird’s eye) perspective.
There won’t be any serious noncompliance mounted ever.
It’s like slow bleeding out process, these societies are now completely exhausted. Basically the 1950-60s revival was brief and largely superficial blow out. And the recent decades only plastered over progressing stagnation or even de-growth proper (PIGS).
In previous rounds they ecstatically marched on Moscow or earlier during WWI their dead bodies overflowed the dug out trenches.
The same for France, Germany applied also disastrous migrant influx policies but as long gullible CEE ~slave workforce manned the factories it temporarily masked the decay as well..
Europe is finished and the WEFers hoping for neo feudal boltholes will be eventually bulldozed over by this rolling motion of self immolation – exhaustion giga trend taking all things to freezing stop as well.
I think that you are probbly right.
If that will happen, it will be a slow and painful process.
I think you are correct that Europe has had its day and the future there will be grim. But preventing old ladies from getting on buses isn’t going to change that one iota. If anything, the vax passport policies are going to hasten the decline and make the crash harder and nastier that it need have been.
If you are going to have a passport system, by all means do so. But there is no need to build it on a foundation of lies. The North Koreans have had internal passports for decades but they don’t lie about why the system is necessary. Also, people survive at a miserably low level of affluence, but they do survive and on about a fifth of the energy input per capita of places like Italy or the UK.
With this in mind, and baring in mind COVID-19 is not a serious enough disease to warrant this level of attention, and baring in mind that the international bankers are anything but stoopid, Occam’s Razor suggests that the lockdowns and mandates are part of a sinister and diabolical plan to kill many if not most Europeans.
It is this sinister and diabolical plan that can be resisted if the majority refused to conform. For instance, if everybody refused to use buses unless the passport system was stopped. If everybody stopped working until the entire system of mandates was ended, it would end this entire coup and people as a whole would be less worse off. But no, on the whole, ordinary people are going along with the BS and in doing so they are digging their own graves.
“If everybody did x”, “if everybody did y”. This isn’t how society works. Large numbers of people almost never use the power of boycott so this is mostly utopian thinking that is detached from reality.
DID DR. kING’S BUS BOYCOTT IN THE SOUTH NOT HELP TO END BUS SEGREGATION?
Yes, it IS utopian and society doesn’t usually work like that. But it sometimes does.
Artleads is correct. It worked for Dr. M.L. King. It also worked for M.K. Gandhi and friends. Emily Pankhurst and also had a measure of success with it.
But if it doesn’t work, then violence is another option.
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But beyond that, we have almost 8 billion people to feed these days while our endowment of non-renewable resources from Gaia is running down and profitability is getting tighter and tighter. Any manager worth his stock options can see that letting a lot of people go can only be good for the bottom line in the short to medium term.
And in the meantime, grannies will continue to be banned from riding the bus because they don’t have a smartphone and the ordinary people, the conformists, the normies, who are OK with that, will continue to dig their own graves.
I recall during the HK protests a wild one kicked off in the CBD over lunch … plenty of tear gas flying … there were quite a few office workers gathered on the overpass on Des Voeux Rd … while the protesters below were mainly black clad students…
I watched from maybe 10m away as a young women – she was around 20 years old — implored the office workers to come down and join them — there were tears running down her face as she screamed at them — if you would join us we could win…. it was a powerful situation to witness and something I will never forget …
The office workers just stood their watching.. ambivalent … none of them came down.
If the people of Hong Kong would have been willing to come down … and organize rolling mass general strikes… they might have been able to get their way with the CCP…
But they did nothing… they left those students hung out to dry — and now many of them are in the gulag doing major time.
I don’t see a different outcome with the injections … in fact most of the HK office workers probably supported the students … with the injections most people are like DAMN … utter MOREONS… they would cheer if the police arrested an anti vaxxer.
“The office workers” had portfolio$ dear to their hearths but “she” apparently did not..
Nice story, thanks for sharing.
Although lets not be beyond-naive the student protests were US/UK intel infiltrated to begin with..
In terms of playground of influence it’s always a mixed bag.
There were 2M on the streets when this started… who did not want to be governed by a totalitarian regime… I don’t think the western governments were required to incite… although I don’t doubt they provided advice and direction …
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– UK took over HK
– HK partly inhaled W/UK’s culture
– UK agreed to leave HK
– W/UK incited pop – process won’t be exactly smooth
– Chinese made the take-over and beyond as in the new governship on their terms
– W/UK continued meddling
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Who is to blame principally?
“Half of All Global Financial Assets Need Tighter Rules, BIS Says.
“Investment activity that takes place outside the banking system requires a new, broad-based set of global regulations to tackle inherent instability, the Bank for International Settlements said.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-06/half-of-all-global-financial-assets-need-tighter-rules-bis-says
There is a bigger role for regulators, if “Half of All Global Financial Assets Need Tighter Rules.” Growing their empire will perhaps save the world. Not really, if everything is failing at once.
It’s the old “we’ll make it up in volume” thing? Till we don’t. Maybe they think they need more hands-on-deck to catch the hot-potato US Dollar?
A financially astute commenter with the handle ‘Victor the Cleaner’ once answered a BIS-query of mine (I’d been reading their counter-party derivative clearance white-papers). He wrote – “what made you think they were trying to solve problems”?
I’m hoping the tail-end of Musical Chairs on the Titanic has that ‘molasses’ pace of HAL singing “Daisy, daaisssy…..”
“Like a natural system, democracy faces collapse as polarization leads to loss of diversity.
“Much like an overexploited ecosystem, the increasingly polarized political landscape in the United States—and much of the world—is experiencing a catastrophic loss of diversity that threatens the resilience not only of democracy, but also of society…”
https://phys.org/news/2021-12-natural-democracy-collapse-polarization-loss.html
“The rise of Latin America’s anti-politicians.
“While Latin America’s centrist parties collapsed, people lost faith in democracy. Now, autocrats are rising across the continent…”
https://www.ips-journal.eu/topics/democracy-and-society/the-rise-of-latin-americas-anti-politicians-5587/
Loss of diversity is likely related to too little energy per capita. There are two different non-solutions for fixing the problem. Everyone is interested in one or the other.
“Cameroon Says New Clashes Kill at Least 10, Displace Hundreds.
“Cameroonian authorities say clashes between ranchers and fishers have left at least ten people dead and scores wounded Monday, forcing hundreds to flee into neighboring Chad. The clashes in Cameroon’s north broke out over water scarcity…”
https://www.voanews.com/a/cameroon-says-new-clashes-kill-at-least-10-displace-hundreds-/6342586.html
“Darfur clashes displace thousands.
“UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is deeply concerned about escalating violence in Sudan’s Darfur region, which has displaced thousands of people since November, including across the border into Chad.”
https://www.unhcr.org/news/briefing/2021/12/61af220d4/darfur-clashes-displace-thousands.html
“Mali has indefinitely suspended exports of rice, maize and other grains to protect its food supply as the United Nations warned of worsening hunger in West Africa, the minister of trade and industry said on Tuesday.
“Mali is a major producer and exporter of grains to neighbouring countries… The suspension is due to a bad growing season this year and a shortage of rice and other grains on the international market…”
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/mali-suspends-grain-exports-amid-fears-food-shortages-2021-12-07/
Africa is doing very poorly!
Harry – if you can get some videos of this
I like to watch
norm – why vax healthy kids?
“Aramco CEO: Rushed Energy Transition Could Spark Social Unrest… “I understand that publicly admitting that oil and gas will play an essential and significant role during the transition and beyond will be hard for some,” Amin Nasser said as quoted by the Financial Times.
““But admitting this reality will be far easier than dealing with energy insecurity, rampant inflation, and social unrest as the prices become intolerably high and seeing net-zero commitments by countries start to unravel,” the executive added.”
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil/Aramco-CEO-Rushed-Energy-Transition-Could-Spark-Social-Unrest.html
“Need for investment is critical for oil, gas industry…
Oil and gas investment declined in 2020 and 2021 because of the pandemic, which is a “recipe for more volatility,” Joseph McMonigle, secretary-general for the International Energy Forum, said on a panel at the World Petroleum Congress.
“”Capex cuts by international oil companies and national oil companies in 2020 was about 35%,” he said. “We’re now showing another 23% reduction in capex levels” from pre-pandemic levels this year…. “I’m afraid what we’re seeing with the energy crisis is on our doorstep,” McMonigle said.”
https://www.spglobal.com/platts/en/market-insights/podcasts/oil/120121-omicron-covid-crude-oil-jet-fuel-prices-flights
Cuts in capital expenditures will bring down oil supply!
Whooo hoo!
How do you read that? Total of 58% capex-reduction?
I wasn’t quite sure, but it doesn’t sound like it is going in the right direction.