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Anyone got updates from Kosovo? How are rolling blackouts affecting day-to-day life?
https://www.espn.com/golf/story/_/id/33009330/steve-stricker-details-battle-mysterious-illness-captaining-us-ryder-cup-triumph
“Stricker’s heart also jumped out of rhythm, and doctors found inflammation around it.”
“I had a hard time just getting up and walking because of the heart. I took a few steps to the bathroom in my room and I’d be out of breath.”
“Doctors still don’t know what the illness was…”
“The inflammation around his heart has decreased but is still there… he said his cardiologist told him it likely will be six months before he can play professionally again.”
so many medical MYSTERIES lately!
poor Steve, the doctors just have no clue what this MYSTERIOUS ILLNESS could be.
I could give him a suggestion, but he hasn’t asked me.
“The inflammation around his heart has decreased but is still there…”
when vaccine induced toxic spike proteins damage a person’s heart, there is no cure.
imagine being doctors in today’s world, and to protect their medical licenses, they MUST say that a vax injury is a MYSTERY.
I think you’d be amazed at how many doctors are true believers and don’t even realize they’re a part of evil. Many are midwits and many more actually have a religious belief in medical science and Pharma.
I talked to my doctor a few days ago. He did not even know what ivermectin is. Amazing.
When I told my GP about my experiments with doses of the steroid I used to deal with air pollution – looking to establish the lowest effective dose – he said:
‘Really? Well, if it works at that dose that’s great. We just sign prescriptions, we don’t know about the drugs really.’
I lost any respect for him at that point. Probably more interested in investments and his pension.
I suspect doctors frequently go to google to diagnose a malady… then they google to find the drug options … then they choose the one that gets them the most frequent flyer points with their preferred Big Pharma… and they write a scrip.
I am sure one could self-diagnose at least as well as an MD… they are rushing because they have so many patients so won’t be as thorough… the prescription part is an obstacle
…many more actually have a religious belief in medical science and Pharma.
Not too surprising when they see their job as matching a pharmaceutical product to an ailment. One doctor even told me he viewed his job in this way. They give little thought as to how lifestyle changes might effect a cure.
Most of my fellow physicians are dumber than a cob stones.
They are circus animals… they have a certain skill set… but that does not mean they are intelligent…
IQ is they way they measure themselves…
We use the HP (Horse Power) to measure our cognitive abilities… although it is possible to convert… 1HP = 200IQ
The average non-MOREON has an average HP of 500… even a mentally r e tard ed non-MOREON has a 50HP….
I quite enjoy confronting and trouncing doctors… as I recently did… I doubt they get many people like Fast Eddy make appointments with the primary purpose being to attack them … hahahahaha… worth every penny of the $60 hahahaha…
Husband has an MD brother, an MD nephew, and another PhD nephew in medical research. All jabbed. All unquestioning. They think we should get jabbed in order to protect others, “like wearing a condom”. !?!?
Hmmm. Last time I checked, condoms didn’t provoke heart damage, stroke, or alter your DNA.
*potentially* alter.. but still.
Every day I wake up and in my mind’s eye I see that autistic CVS pharmacist unfurling the blank packet information folder for the satanic injection and think to myself, “how stupid do you really have to be?”
I bet that there is a cure in fact…
other than a heart transplant?
The body has a lot of regenerative power. You have to start by not taking shots anymore. I think it is reasonable to expect that autophagy will be able to identify and destroy infected (=genetically modified) cells. This will be debilitating, long, and you have to go through many prolonged fasts, but if you have for whatever reason taken a shot or two this is the only way out.
Pfizer Heart! hahahahahahahaha
More boosters will cure it
He could try Brawndo?….y’know…..electrolytes? I hear that it mends broken hearts….
Who told me that?
Mary Ellen Moffatt….
“Why Don’t We Cut Out the Middleman and Just Elect Pfizer and Merck? by CHS
If we no longer have the capacity to distinguish between moral legitimacy and self-serving corruption, then we might as well eliminate the Middleman and vote directly for Pfizer or Merck.”
http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2022/01/why-dont-we-cut-out-middleman-and-just.html
“What is the hall-mark of a politic of Civilization today, in contrast to a politic of Culture yesterday?
It is, for the Classical rhetoric, and for the Western journalism, both serving that abstract which represents the power of Civilization…..Money.
It is the money-spirit which penetrates unremarked the historical forms of the people’s existence, often without destroying or even in the least disturbing these forms…..though forms subsist, the great political parties nevertheless cease to be more than reputed centres of decision. The decisions in fact lie elsewhere.
A small number of superior heads, whose names are very likely not the best known….
….settle everything…..”
Oswald Spengler, “Decline of the West”
https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/w_1100,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd07367c4-4e3b-4aaf-8aae-108dec6b83e6_2016x2122.jpeg
U.K. Health Security Agency first “COVID-19 vaccine surveillance report” of 2022, which collates infection rate data for the final weeks of 2021 (weeks 49-52); a DEVASTATING REPORT
https://palexander.substack.com/p/uk-health-security-agency-first-covid
100% this is definitely negative vaccine efficacy!
coming soon to NZ!!
hahahahhahahahhahahhahahahahhahahahahhahahahhahaha!!!!
“… there is no harm in getting vaccinated in order to fit in with the governmental views and be able to get around more easily than the unvaccinated.”
Mexico has easy entry options https://www.tripsavvy.com/what-is-a-mexican-tourist-card-1588733
UK has given us clear, detailed, granular data all along, better than all other nations.
It is clear from above that the vaccinated is being infected at far greater levels than the unvaccinated. Except < 18 years old. This is disastrous. We have to urgently study the extent that they can transmit to both vaccinated and unvaccinated persons, and how much they can get sick.
I have computed the vaccine efficacy in the following table and see all 18 years old and above, they are all significantly negative…this is catastrophic for the vaccine in the era of OMICRON….
https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/w_1100,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F39ca40f2-f114-4578-bf2b-240dbce1ac5e_1920x1020.png
Watch: McDonald’s Kiosk Denies Man Service Over Vaccine Status
As a glaring case in point, Israelis apparently can’t even order a Big Mac from an automatic kiosk at McDonald’s unless their Green Pass status is up to date. Most recently, this means a citizen has to have not just been double-jabbed, but they have to have received the booster. This also as Israel has approved a second booster for the immunocompromised and elderly. Watch the absurdity unfold:
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/watch-mcdonalds-kiosk-denies-man-service-over-vaccine-status
hahaha vaxxideath https://globalnews.ca/news/8495762/candice-murley-tiktok-dies/
Or drug overdose or suicide. There are quite a few reasons why familiies may not want to share a person’s cause of death.
yes very sad but true.
in this case “But her love for TikTok was second to her son, Maxwell, whom Murley loved “more than anything in this world.””
the evidence I see points to vaxicide.
That’s the old normal.. the new normal is if they look healthy and they die … it’s the vax
She was a prominent influencer.. she’d never commit suicide!
“she’d never commit suicide!”
Unless she was severely ill from the Vaxx and could not deal with the physical pain and trauma. A UK funeral director has said he’s been seeing more deaths from suicide since the Scam-demic. He believes that those who committed suicide could not deal with the vaccine injuries.
Things are getting… more than insane in Quebec
TVA nouvelle say that the government are looking to push the measure against unvaccinated a bit further!
1-Now they are looking to put the vaccine passport in essentials services where they offer delivery,
2-Curfew for unvaccinated only!
Perhaps they are trying to reduce the population of Quebec. Quebec is short of energy supplies.
Strange, Quebec City is very livable, Montreal is a bit much but overall a charming province. They have a great deal of hydro, much is exported to the US.
Dennis L.
While the province is close to reaching its goal of 100,000 vaccinations a day, Dubé says Quebec will also broaden its vaccine passport in the coming months and extend it to three shots of a vaccine.
https://dailyhive.com/montreal/quebec-vaccine-passport-three-doses
Who were the fools who thought that Omicron would end all of this? Such delusion.
There is no logic or reason behind government policies except to coerce everyone into the vaxx passport scheme.
The global scheme.
Spot the lie:
Covid 19 Omicron outbreak UK: Fourth vaccine booster shots won’t be necessary, experts say
Fourth Covid vaccines are not currently needed, British government scientific advisers have said, amid increasing evidence the Omicron strain is much milder than previous variants.
“For this reason, the committee has concluded there is no immediate need to introduce a second booster dose, though this will continue to be reviewed.”
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/covid-19-omicron-outbreak-uk-fourth-vaccine-booster-shots-wont-be-necessary-experts-say/ZM7HIY5TXG3IHM7KFZSQFMGM5Y/
A lie indeed: they always play it like this.
‘No current need for vaxxing kids, but under review’ etc, and the next month…….
I could feel norm’s disappointment when he read that headline… but then he read the rest of the story and that was comforting…
See how harmless the Vaccines are!
man in India says he has received up to 12 coronavirus vaccine doses and believes the shots have helped with his backaches and other health issues, according to multiple reports.
Brahmdeo Mandal, a retired postman from the Indian state of Bihar, says he received nine of the shots he registered for using a national identity card. To receive additional jabs, he used identification such as his wife’s phone number and a voting card.
Mandal told The New York Times he is 85 years old and received his first COVID-19 vaccine last February.
“I felt that it was helping my general health,” he told the newspaper. “My backache has improved, my general weakness improved, and my appetite improved.”
“I was always looking for new vaccine camps and would go there,” he added. “Nobody would recognize me.”
There is no evidence that additional COVID-19 vaccines provide benefits for health conditions unrelated to protection against the virus that causes COVID-19.
Mandal also noted that he hasn’t been convinced that he should stop receiving COVID-19 vaccines, telling the Times “I still want more.”
Usa today.com
Fast Eddy Covid Champ Award💉🎯🧠
PR Team sending the message – vax is good for you — don’t worry about taking them ever 3 months … or every month …. they are a tonic…
And you know what — the f789ing MOREONS will believe it — and they’ll be laughing at the unvaxxed saying they are afraid of a prick…
REVEALED: Pfizer’s Link to the Wuhan Lab.
Professor Guo Peixuan – a recipient of Pfizer’s Distinguished Faculty Award – lectured at the Wuhan Institute of Virology: the Chinese Communist Party-run lab believed by many to be the epicenter of COVID-19.
Guo, an Ohio State University Professor, visited the lab on October 24th, 2016 to deliver a lecture entitled the “Discovery of a Third Type of Biomotor.”
The unearthed lecture follows the American pharmaceutical giant drastically increasing its lobbying efforts amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, appearing to be responsible for nationwide COVID-19 vaccine mandates.
The National Pulse can reveal a link between Pfizer and the Wuhan Institute of Virology, adding to the company’s existing conflicts of interest with mainstream media and big technology platforms. The Chinese lab’s manipulation of “killer” coronaviruses capable of “direct human infection” has led many intelligence and public health officials to believe it spawned COVID-19 with funds from Anthony Fauci’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
https://thenationalpulse.com/2022/01/07/pfizer-professor-lectured-at-wuhan-lab/
Novak Djokovic saga a complete psyop. Just another WEF alumni.
https://twitter.com/Bobby_Network/status/1479101704100478986
Don’t think so, Novax is an alternative dude, even did an interview with Wim Hof, discussing cold showers, breathing techniques etc. He comes across as a guy who’s very into health and well-being.
Sadhguru lobbies for a “spiritual” Great Reset in India with our beloved Prof Klaus Schwab at WEF
https://twitter.com/Bobby_Network/status/1399808074756538368
‘Like being in solitary confinement’: Residents, families angry at return of strict lockdowns in long-term care
Eighty-three year old Jennifer Brown is triple vaccinated and doesn’t have COVID-19. But she can’t leave her room.
“I feel depressed […], anxious and angry, because they could have learned lessons from the last time around and they did not,” Brown said.
Speaking to CTV News over Zoom, she panned the camera around her empty room.
“I have no family so I have no one coming to see me,” she said. “It is like being in solitary confinement.”
https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/like-being-in-solitary-confinement-residents-families-angry-at-return-of-strict-lockdowns-in-long-term-care-1.5730999
The “long term care industry” is a relatively recent “industry,” which is on the edge of being wiped out by the belief that elderly people need to be protected at all costs from any communicable disease. No one will be willing to move into one of these facilities. Many people who might have joined the workforce will be forced to stay at home, taking care of elderly relatives.
If I was in charge I would wipe out the elderly… just put them on a bus … drive to the end of the line … and shove them into a snow bank.. and leave them there to freeze or be eaten by wolves.
What’s with these selfish sacks of festering disease (SSOFD) burning up all our tax dollars on colostomy bags… diabetes drugs and forcing Pretty Young Things to shower them and wipe their arses?
Just f789ing die would ya!
Your comments are amusing. Being dumped in a snow bank sounds cruel but it would be an improvement over what a lot of elders go through near the end. Hopefully those places go away and families can arrange a dignified death for elders who require too much care if any manage to survive that long.
It was part of my plan to move to the Pyrenees: find a suitable snow bank at the appropriate time.
Not a bad way to go: a friend almost died of hypothermia on an army expedition and says he’d choose that any day.
We had an aunt who got stuffed into one of those places… M Fast and I went to visit and they wheeled her into the ‘social area’… I recall the place stinking of fresh piss and shit… couldn’t wait to get out of there… fortunately she died before our next trip back to Canada…
Now we know why vax ruined athletes say nothing… they pay them… they tell them speaking out will damage the injection uptake … and they threaten them
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/545394-novak-djokovic-hotel-australia-refugees/
Look at everyone’s expression… They are literally afraid to answer for fear of losing their job
https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1479532922952732672
Shocking Consumer Credit Numbers: US Credit Card Debt Soars Most On Record With Savings Long Gone
While it is traditionally viewed as a B-grade indicator, the November consumer credit report from the Federal Reserve was an absolute stunner and confirmed what we have been saying for month: any excess savings accumulated by the US middle class are long gone, and in their place Americans have unleashed a credit-card fueled spending spree.
Here are the shocking numbers: in November, consumer credit exploded by a whopping $40 billion, double the expected $20 billion print, more than double the $16 billion October number, and the highest on record!
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/shocking-consumer-credit-numbers-us-credit-card-debt-soars-most-record-savings-long-gone
There was a big jump in credit use in November, according to this article. I expect that the jump in December was also high, since this is the month Christmas appears.
Some of the programs that are helping citizens are starting to go away. Debt is an easy substitute, as long as it is available.
Bullshit countries like Kazakhstan are bound to disappear.
Kazakh never really had any history. Even the name Kazakh is not Kazakh ; it was a name which was used to call the Cossacks, a people which has nothing to do with the Central Asian country.
Countless nomadic tribes passed through there, and no tribes had a lasting mark. After USSR was formed they just called the dominant tribe at that region Kazakhs, to denigrate the Cossack many of them loyal to the Czar.
They have no history and tradition to speak about, and it is just an artificial construction. Its tribes will go their own way and it will return to where it was, just a pass through ground of nomads, like it was for all of its existence.
At least Uzbekistan has something which could be called a history , and a dominant tribe, the Uzbegs, which will make it a bit more stable.
I know a guy (met him a few times – friend of a friend) who was a senior guy at an oil installation in that country… I think he was the CFO…..
He was fired for bringing back to Very Hot (apparently) Kazaki chicks … to the base (I understand all the employees live in com-pound)… Rule is – you can bring chicks back — but only one at a time.
I guess it’s some kinda Muslim thing? Anyway — that was it for him. Probably a good thing given what’s going on there now… Hot Girls have brothers…. with guns
You get to keep only those rights you will fight for and if you will not fight, your subjugation is assured.
choose.
find the strength to stand and to become ungovernable or accept that holding your prerogative to go outside hostage as an “incentive” to force you to comply is now the remit of your rulers.
and it will not satisfy them.
and if you think that sucks, wait until you see what comes next.
these are the digital shackles from which you will never escape. it’s been the goal of the top-down social planners for decades. this will be linked to everything and become a social credit system like the chinese one that the davos technocrats so desperately envy.
this has been the plan all along. they just broke it down into bite sized chunks to get you to swallow them and not put up a fuss because no inch they took ever quite seemed worth it at the time.
in every single place that has imposed vaccine requirements to socialize, the ratchet has been one way. have they given you freedom in return? removed masks? allowed normal life?
has a single one even MENTIONED a process or standard by which this restriction could one day be removed?
because i sure have not seen it.
instead, they move the definitions again. “up to date” replaces “fully vaxxed.” this was never supposed to be temporary. ever. it was sold as a one time thing to get your life back. they knew damn well that this was a lie when they told it.
then they gave you nothing and demanded more.
can you seriously not see the pattern? can you not see what’s coming?
this will be the affirmative requirement for you to gain permission every 6 months from the state to be able to have a life, work, socialize, or go to school.
just wait until they start linking everything to this and your snarky joke on facebook gets you denied for a car loan AND renders you unable to ride the bus.
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/if-its-not-inalienable-its-not-a/comments
When there aren’t enough resources to go around, any excuse is a good excuse to take away resources and close in part of the economy.
In the mindset of more
There’s no room for less
We will try of course
Without doubt or remorse
Create a true and utter mess
Even in the comment section
Gasping like a true Covid
On ventilators and vitamin D
Looking for the final erection
To be or not to be
Cleary he is unaware of the energy issues…
A bit strange given the MSM is actually running continuous stories on energy deficiencies/price spikes
one small problem with that concept
‘decades’ ago, the current ‘digital shackles’ did not exist and could not be foreseen.
Even 30 years ago, who could foresee that the use of cash would start to diminish?
I think you have taken our current situation, somehow backdated it, and overlaid it onto some kind of premeditated ‘plot’ that was hatched before the egg of our ‘digital existence’ was laid.
‘Rulers’ by and large, take advantage of ‘situations in which the currently find themselves. They do not lay down ‘schemes’ decades ahead by which they might somehow profit.
If on the other hand situations arise by which profit might be gained–they grab the opportunity with both hands.
A perfect example is Trump
He put himself forward for POTUS in 2016 as a publicity stunt.
To his amazement he found that millions of voters were as bonkers as he was.
The USA is now facing the real threat of extreme right wing authoritarian rule, a
thre was no ‘decades long plan’ involved–it was opportunism, pure and simple.
Another worthless comment on American politics.
fascinating you should think so, i like knowing the minds of others.
especially when my comments reflects what others are saying–and much more loudly than me
Noam Chomsky for one, no doubt he is worthless too—I can supply a list of others.
but perhaps you desire a totalitarian state,
Perhaps it should be normal that a president elect should have to settle a $25m lawsuit for fraud before taking office?
Or brag on record about his sexual imaginings?
Or phone around after losing, instructing someone to find ‘11000 votes from somewhere’.
Do bring me up to date on those and a few other points
please.
Tell us more about your hero biden hahaha…
Got any new photos of his son smoking crack with the ho okers?
eddy
your comments reveal only yourself
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2020/10/15/09/34418592-8842709-In_some_of_the_images_Hunter_Biden_is_seen_with_a_crack_pipe_han-a-1_1602749569849.jpg
Yes, Noam Chomsky is currently worthless. From the once-civil libertarian of “Manufacturing Consent”, he now wants The State to block the unvacxed in their homes and starve them.
chomsky is a clown — he needs to die — hopefully of covid or a vax injury.
he is long past his use by date
“Donald Trump as president” had been bruited about since 1980 at the latest.
i know, along with dozens of others i daresay
it was even in a simpsons episode back then sometime
but no one foresaw extreme right wing fascism becoming a real threat , and i dont think civil war was being taken seriously
There is zero threat of “extreme right wing fascism” in the US.. that is 100% Fake News.
They have to keep ginning up fake “insurrections” and fake “hate crimes” (Bubba Wallace, Juicy Smollett) just to give the thinnest veil of credence to their projection-based claims (accuse your enemy of what you are doing yourself).
The FBI created the ridiculous “shoe bomber”; they have their fingers in almost everything currently deemed “terrorism”, domestic or otherwise.
lets hope youre right
but when organised socieities are facing collapse, it seems an inflexible rule that they ‘demand’–extreme measures to regain BAU
and are prepared to put up with whatever that entails
for a while
All the world’s a stage, and what we see on teevee is theater. The specter of “extreme left-wing fascism” has been playing to a spellbound audience ever since 2016, and this is reaching a crescendo now with the Biden Administration’s war on sane people.
As a result, the Dems will be voted out and the Reps will usher in a decade of “extreme right-wing fascism,” corporate welfare and apple pie in the guise of decency and conservative American values. Surely we can all see this coming?
agreed
i cant wait to see a POTUS with people standing round him, laying their hands on him
while Paula White dances around speaking in tongues–great stuff.
and those tweets at 3am—such stuff as statesmen are made on.
These are the ‘sane people’ Biden declared war on and got rid of?
Biden doesn’t tweet at 3am—take a look at his missis and ask yourself why.
Take a look at Trumps missis and ask yourself the same question
No wonder Putin wanted him kept in office
VAERS reports have been pouring in for over a year now in the context of the COVID-19 injectable products and there a lot of reports of eye issues, that includes blindness. There are currently (as of January 7th, 2022), 74,080 eye adverse event reports in VAERS in the context of the COVID-19 products.
Below is a bar graph showing distribution of the eye problems reported to VAERS according to age by CDC age stratification classification.
So what kinds of issues are being reported? Well you can probably guess that some of these problems are related to clotting issues. The eyes are vascular and require proper blood supply to live. Eyeballs need to eat too. ‘Eye swelling’ and ‘Eye movement disorder’ are 2 big ones reported for 0-5 year olds. 0-5 years olds. Ahem. Wait now. Why are there 334 reports for babies aged 0-5 years old? (Age data is available for 273 of them.) Again, someone needs to explain this to me.
In the 10-20 year olds we also have ‘Eye swelling’ and ‘Eye movement disorder’. We also see Conjunctivitis, Blindness unilateral, Eye contusion, Eye pain, Blindness and Vision blurred.
1036 people reported blindess and this adverse event is reported along with other types of adverse events like ‘Vision blurred’ and ‘Retinal vein thrombosis’.
https://jessicar.substack.com/p/der-bees-eyeball-problems-abound?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo1ODg2NDEyOSwicG9zdF9pZCI6NDY3Njg0OTIsIl8iOiJrQnNKMCIsImlhdCI6MTY0MTU5MTUyMCwiZXhwIjoxNjQxNTk1MTIwLCJpc3MiOiJwdWItNTE2ODk2Iiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.PKnjlJyK5_NNaxttalS_XQNk1tnvN28TNS2ePK-71DA
Provinces should consider mandating COVID-19 vaccines, federal health minister says
With health-care capacity stretched ‘too thin’ in the face of an unrelenting wave of COVID-19 infections, Canada’s health minister says provinces and territories should be considering mandating vaccinations. ‘What we see now is that our health care system in Canada is fragile, our people are tired. And, the only way that we know to get through COVID-19, this variant and any future variant, is through vaccination,’ Duclos told reporters on Friday.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/provinces-should-consider-mandating-covid-19-vaccines-federal-health-minister-says-1.5731666
Will the frog get out of the pot before it’s too late….
I had a dream
Driving through Nurnberg
In a taxi to nowhere
I heard them scream
As i knew i was there
https://twitter.com/nietzsche_1984/status/1479572831432290306
Go out in a blaze of glory ….
Or relocate and go out like this
http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/9/2010/05/500x_scarface.jpg
https://cdn.locals.com/images/posts/originals/1123075/1123075_y53beeq8sxxrtbi.jpeg
Prepared for the ever more frequent vaccinations.
The president of Kazakhstan gives his view of the chaos in Kazakhstan
https://mobile.twitter.com/TokayevKZ/status/1479521559245201412
Kazakhstan would still like more foreign direct investment. Not a surprise.
Kazakhstan is disappearing
Kazakhstan is a huge country. The central government has lost control of the nation. Organised crime is taking control of their territories. Locals are left to defend them selves.
There are looted and burned out buildings everywhere. Burned out cars with dead bodies.
It’s hard to tell what is really going on though, since there’s a total internet blackout.
Internet and cell phone servbice are just a kill switch away–except for “necessary and essential ” communications to ensure public “safety,” assuming they even allow access to your bank accounts.
The next question is who will be blamed?
Got High Freguency Radio coms?
In the land of Bitcoin and windmills
What keeps it up are the thrills
Finally!! We Burn – You Burn… is not just an empty threat hahahahaha Burn Baby Burn!
Meanwhile https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/provinces-should-consider-mandating-covid-19-vaccines-federal-health-minister-says-1.5731666
A lecture that helps explain why most educated and intelligent people are incapable of questioning anything they perceive as socially or scientifically consensual.
The Psychology and Rise of the Midwit.
Makes me think of all this climate-change stuff, & the “need” to “socially engineer” the elimination of fossil fuels, & “transition” to “intermittent renewables”
— But: don’t edeecational institutions tend to reflect the dominant mentalities of the societies which support them? Wouldn’t the popular mentality regard such as is expressed on OFW as defeatist crepe-hangerism?
Thanks, good to have a word for naming this kind of people. They have conquered at least the west. MSM, politics, corporate management and academia are all governed by mid-wits. It made me really sad to see the conquest of my old STEM-field university by these mid-wits. For some time the main topic of the uni-management is pc-stuff, like gender eguality and gender quotas etc. Most people with a brain find the atmosphere suffocating.
In fact, I fear it may even be worse, to some extent we are governed by sub mid-wits. A sub mid-wit is almost the same thing as a mid-wit, the only difference is the lower intelligence of the sub mid-wit…
“Student success” is now the big emphasis in the university where my husband teaches. In the “hard sciences,” this is not necessarily a big problem. But in the softer subjects, it comes close to, “Lower your grading standards.”
No, Gail, I assure you it is a big problem in the hard sciences too…
It’s a really big problem in the hard sciences. I’ve had personal experience from math departments, still several friends remaining there. The lowering of grading standards has been dramatic for 20+ years.
Agree. And now younger faculties, obviously worrying about the future, are particularly aggressive about demolishing the last vestiges of normal grading. Having visited many countries, I can tell there is only one place where grading standards in academia are lower, and that is Saudi Arabia. The psychology of younger faculties is also interesting to watch. The better ones feel ashamed but understand they have no choice (I agree). The worse ones are so full of equity and social justice it is a wonder they have not died of constipation yet.
” the lower intelligence of the sub mid-wit…”
And the corresponding higher level of resentment.
I seem to remember there was an informal division into highbrow, middlebrow and lowbrow.
Ah, here it is:
When Editor Russell Lyns published his light-hearted analysis in the February 1949 Harper’s, Harry S. Truman had just been elected President in his own right, Gerald Ford was a freshman in Congress, and the median U.S. family income was $3,107. At the top of the best-seller list were Lloyd Douglas’s religious novel, The Big Fisherman, and Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Crusade in Europe. Television was still a novelty.
Tongue in cheek, Lynes sought to gauge the social significance of “taste” in the postwar era. He gave Americans a shorthand way of classifying themselves according to cultural consumption, and “Highbrow, Lowbrow, Middlebrow” remains part of the language “Apparently, I touched a nerve,” Lynes wrote later, “and that is precisely what I meant to do.” Life, the 1949 king of the visual media, quickly rebroadcast Lynes’s assessment, adding a pictor al
chart.
We present in 1976 a slightly condensed version of the Harper’s article and the April 11, 1949 Life socio-diagram. Lynes adds a postscript; he suggests that competitive American taste, however changed in many outward aspects, has left the rules of the game much as they were in 1949.
(The link leads only to the preview page. The rest is behind a paywall.)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/40255171
So, are today’s mid-wits the equivalent of the postwar middlebrows? Or have we sunk even lower?
Lower, because the middle- and low-brows are now more militant and with a destructive Agenda.
https://i0.wp.com/ourfiniteworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/inflation-adjusted-weekly-average-oil-price.png?resize=640%2C373&ssl=1
This graph, of the “Price Trend” in the “Inflation-Adjusted Oil Price”, makes such a statement — as oil prices (http://oil-price.net/) struggle up to current affordability limits, the world oil supply dwindles (http://davecoop.net/seneca.htm).
Right! We probably will see a big drop in oil supply, as oil becomes more unaffordable. I expect coal and natural gas will be somewhat similar.
“Europe’s sky is filling up with near-empty polluting planes that serve little other purpose than safeguarding airlines’ valuable time slots at some of the world’s most important airports.
“The highly contagious Omicron variant of Covid-19 has put many off flying, and because of it, getting people and goods from point A to point B has become an afterthought for thousands of flights.”
https://www.irishnews.com/news/worldnews/2022/01/07/news/near-empty-flights-crisscross-europe-to-secure-landing-slots-2554594/
this virus has put a spoke in the wheel of our human antics.
perhaps this is the end of it all
perhaps only the beginiing of the end–we will only know in hindsight
but there is no plot—except that we have inflicted on ourselves
Norm,
“but there is no plot—except that we have inflicted on ourselves”
Perhaps assumption of more control than we actually have.
Dennis L.
greed has driven us to usurp territory to which humankind was not entitled.
the resulting release of pestilence has removed any control we might have had
Perhaps there is a plot, and we have lost it?
we might well have lost it
but we never understood what it was in the first place
There is no ‘plot’ ‘against’ civilisation, and there is no ‘plot’ ‘to’ it, either. Without any inherent ‘meaning’, it is beyond ‘criticism’ – the ‘innocence of becoming’.
It does not look like anyone or anything is close to ‘in control’ of this, it ‘just is’. Humans have simply pursued their basic organic drives, the same as any species, in a finite world.
Humans are ‘gonna do what they are gonna do’, and a ‘finite world’ simply ‘is what it is’. The ‘outcome’ was always a matter of time. Whether there is any ‘point’ to any of it is anyone’s guess.
we are just the species that got lucky
fire–tools–wheels–greed–unique to us
the seeds of our destruction
A species that the planet would have done better without, luckily we won’t be here forever …
I am not really comfortable with dysdaemonistic (yes, I just wanted to use that word) perspectives in which humans are headed for ‘nothingness’ and that is ‘for the best’. It assumes a teleological ‘world process’ and unhappy ‘value’ judgements. And I am not really comfortable with being unhappy.
The planet produced humans, and we are a part it, the same as it is constantly producing species that impact on others and eventually they too pass. There is no living ‘planet’ without that process. The alternative would not be ‘no humans’ but ‘no planet’.
The planet has no inherent ‘meaning’ and therefore it is besides ‘criticism’, as are all of the species that it produces. So, there is no ‘reason’ to be unhappy with humans or with the course that the planet takes or how it ‘works’. There is nothing ‘wrong’ with ‘being human’. Indeed, ‘meaning’ tends to be species specific in terms of its own maintenance.
The cosmos functions through the ‘maximum power principle’ in which dissipative structures are always competing to concentrate more power to their own maintenance and expansion in order to survive the others, and in that sense the planet would be ‘well pleased’ with humans and their societies (if it had some central sentience or intention, which it does not seem to).
All reality is will to power, a ceaseless flux – humans are that ‘incarnate’, but they are generally not entirely comfortable with it. They tend to want a world in which everything is safe and permanent (ultimate power?), but the planet is not like that – it lives by consuming itself.
Religions tend to satisfy those psychological ‘needs’ – arguably humans want to be God, and some ‘God’ serves as a proxy for that. It is not merely that humans ‘create’ God in their own image, as that humans want absolute power so that they exist forever and the world, on which their existence depends, is never diminished. But that is an imaginary, and arguably self-contradictory, world.
Species have durability in so far as they have the power to maintain themselves, otherwise they pass away – as they all tend to in the end.
Arguably the entire process is ‘blind’ as Schopenhauer argues, as well as ‘meaningless’ and ‘necessary’ (unavoidable). To concentrate power, as species must, is to dissipate it, and it at least runs out in the end, in a finite world. They may then adapt to less power and they may find ways to sustain themselves with new structures, and it goes on.
If I were to give ‘advice’, it would likely be to be happy with the world as it is – to ‘affirm’ it. But I am not suggesting that ‘pleasure’ is the ‘purpose’ of existence, rather pleasure is ordered, as is displeasure, to the extension of the organic functions and to energy dissipation.
In eternity it does not really ‘matter’ whether we were happy or not, any more than anything else ‘matters’. It is, and then it is not, any more than if it had never been at all. And the cosmos and planet continue on – until or unless they do not.
So, we might as well enjoy it while we can. I enjoy the constant struggle to reach and to maintain an understanding of ‘what is going on’ lol.
One of my ‘organic’ functions is to bring the ‘organic’ functions under control.
I.e. will to self power.
It is better to choose voluntary extinction than to allow for the (flawed) genetically ‘bugged out’ offspring to endure severe depletion and misery. That’s just cruel and redundant in an evolutionary context.
However, if the ball5 suddenly start to malfunction on the vaxxed, I might change my mind and provide some useful “service” to mankind.
🤣👍👍
That is fine with me. Our lot are happy and all getting on well with life. We have a marriage next month. Self-selection according to happy or dire subjective dispositions is likely a good way forward. Those who want to opt out are free to do so. They will receive neither encouragement nor discouragement from me in their chosen course. In return they are free to abstain from sharing their sentiments with me.
dinosaurs hung around for 100m years
we’ve been here maybe 1m, it seems unlikely we’ll see the 2n million
They’re still around.
As birds.
That’s just evolution in action.
at least we agree on something
Humans are a very resilient and highly adaptable species, and there in no way of telling how long we will survive.
It seems possible that some persons sometimes assert extinction scenarios as no more than an attempt to ‘morally’ condemn the species, and they merely express their subjective dispositions. The same tendency is perhaps present in apocalyptic scenarios – the destruction of the world for human ‘wickedness’ is a hard condemnation to argue with – and so would be extinction.
Perhaps the underlying psychological tendency that leads to condemnation is ‘dissatisfaction’, which perhaps reflects the human drive onwards to improve themselves and their condition. Condemnation looks like a depressive trait, but perhaps it actually reflects a very progressive trait. I suspect that humans do not always understand what motivates them and what the effects of their dispositions are.
When they say, ‘oh, humans are awful and they are going extinct soon’, what they really mean is, ‘you know what, humans are a very resilient and adaptable species, they are often very harsh toward themselves, and they are always trying to improve themselves and their lot, and very likely they have a very long, progressive future ahead of them.’ If so, then the apparent condemnation of the species is actually an unconscious affirmation.
It would be a very odd species that was ill-disposed to itself, unless that ill disposition played some progressive role in the preservation and improvement of the species. The theory of the selection of adaptive traits would tend to imply that. So, even the gloominess itself, in its own way, reflects traits that contributes to the perpetuation of the species. The dramatic condemnations to extinction or eternal punishment are themselves reflective of adaptive traits.
If nothing else, the gloomy types are an exhortation to the others not to end up like them lol!
”If nothing else, the gloomy types are an exhortation to the others not to end up like them lol!”
Exactly.
Carry on blowing through the finite resources. It’s all gonna be fine. Just sort your waste and buy an electric car. Don’t forget to squeeze out a football team of cloners while at it.
Remember; the world “need” more of “‘ya”.
What could possibly go wr…?
Oh right…
Aww; a gloomy and rather depressing thought just struck me. Anyway, just fuck it and lie to yourself.
Load up the hopiates in the ‘boosters’ and I’m all smiles.
https://memegenerator.net/img/instances/74055461.jpg
🤣👍👍
My Israeli neighbour flew there in December: only 15 passengers in total.
In the same way, entirely empty buses ran on schedule here all through the months of the lock-downs – surreal sight.
The word that keeps coming to mind these days is hyper-normalisation….
it was the name of a documentary by Adam Curtis from about 6 years ago.
I can’t recall who coined the word….but it came to describe the last days of the Soviet Union….people intuited that nothing made sense but continued to go through the daily motions anyway….
Re: airlines….I think that Ryanair has been running at approx. 80% occupancy July 21 -Dec 21….pretty good….better than a lot, I would say…
Not surprised…Jeremy Rifkin in his 1980s book Entropy A New World View, stated the Airline Industry would be the first causality of the power down.
Remarkable that the Industry is unaware of it’s downfall. By in large, Airports are always upgrading, expanding even today with plans for fleet expansion…some investing in electric flight craft or so called biofuels! Wishful thinking 🤔 until BAU lets us know the party is over.
Yes, I was one of the lucky peasants that had it pretty good for the most part!
Airlines were close to the last industry to be added; they will be close to the first one to disappear.
Universal electricity, with electricity to every rural home was one of the last industries to be added. I expect that universal electricity will be one of the first to go away. In fact, some places (Kosovo, for example) are already experiencing rolling blackouts. China has recently been struggling with rolling blackouts, and parts of Europe are concerned that rolling blackouts may not be far away. In fact, outages may last a week or more.
Even I can recall when the far end of where I live did not have electric power. Finally they got up the last lines in I think ca. 1953.
The planes still use fuel, even if few take use of the seats available for flying.
I am wondering whether Omicron is reducing the vacation travel to North Florida, right now. It seems like every restaurant we have been to has been very empty. We practically never encounter another person on a hotel elevator. January is a fairly low season for tourists, but this would seem to be unusually low.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1479137921001213956
Here is a new variat of the Laughing Guy
Read about the circus surrounding the funeral of the late Dr Firth.
He wrote extensively about the ‘achievements’ of the British Forces, and said they did ‘their duty’, and I continued to say that they fucked up.
I wonder how he would have thought about the public servants treating his funeral. I would say that they are fucking up. I wonder whether he would have said ‘they did their duty’.
This is a link to a comment made by Tim Groves regarding the problems associated with Robert Firth’s death.
https://ourfiniteworld.com/2021/12/23/merry-christmas-to-all/comment-page-16/#comment-339235
Tim Groves links to this article:
https://simonmercieca.com/2022/01/02/a-current-tug-of-war-between-germany-and-britain-over-the-issue-of-a-death-certificate-has-a-maltese-sequel/
This is a link to an earlier comment made by “Minority of One” on October 17, 2021.
https://ourfiniteworld.com/2021/09/25/could-we-be-hitting-natural-gas-limits-already/comment-page-10/#comment-317579
This comment links to a news article:
https://funeral-notices.co.uk/notice/FIRTH/4971546
Robert Firth’s last comment on OurFiniteWorld.com was on May 30, 2021.
I was speaking to a guy at the Mitre 10 the other day … said he was Robert Firth and was looking for Fast Eddy…
One has to be careful as there are hit squads out there looking for Fast Eddy as well … so I played ‘norm’
Let’s see if he resurfaces here in the coming weeks.
Norm will be so disappointed that there are no hit squads out there looking for him.
Duty was already going out of fashion in the UK by the time I was a youngster—along with concepts such as honour, dignity, decency, pride (in the positive sense), loyalty, faithfulness, self respect, and a bunch of other concepts that many people these days laugh at and most would be incapable of defining.
But it was because virtually an entire nation “did their duty” they were able to succeed in ruling the waves and creating an empire on which the sun never set, etc., etc. Moreover, in most parts of the former empire, you can still find old people who remember the days of empire and count them as better days either than what preceded the empire or than what has followed it.
Without wishing to criticize you or to act as a language policeman, I would guess that Robert would have never used the kind of foul language you do in describing anything. And certainly not in a blog run by a lady. He was a gentleman and a scholar. But he was a gentleman first. He could distinguish between speech appropriate for the bar or the locker-room and speech appropriate for family and close friends and speech appropriate for social settings where ladies were present. He knew the meaning and the importance of politeness, decorum, propriety and social etiquette. I’m pretty sure he also know how to use a knife, fork and assorted spoons and which end of the asparagus to eat first.
There are several idioms and adjectives that sum up how out of place Robert was in the contemporary world. Some would call him old fashioned or anachronistic. Others might say he was “out of the ark”. Certainly, he preferred the world of half a century ago when it made more sense to him. He would not have been impressed with the way the authorities have handled his death and he would have been angered at the anguish and distress and inconvenience they have caused his family. But I doubt that it would have surprised him. It’s just one more sign that social decadence in the West has proceeded past the point o no return.
Learning how to use all the 18th century silver cutlery is one of the principal purposes of a Cambridge education, if you didn’t know upon arrival….
My tutor’s bizarre party piece was demonstrating the correct way to eat a banana. But he was a mathematician, they are more than a bit odd.
I did like the medieval bowl of rose water ceremony, to refresh oneself mid-feast, but that’s now banned due to….Covid!
Things ain’t wot they used to be, even here, Tim.
Dr Firth, our presumed first Vaxx Martyr on OWF, was remarkably well-read for a scientist, as his apposite Classical quotes demonstrated time and again.
An engineer friend of mine was an object of wonder among the other engineers for actually reading Shakespeare. – preferably in a punt on the river.
They went and fought the evil NAZI’s so that there children can now be transgenders, queers, homosexuals, and not be evil RACIST.
Yes, the british forces along with the allies are the biggest rubes and dupes imaginable. The lot of them got hosed over.
I do not support the troops whatsoever….they are the enforcement arm and deserve to be treated like the rubes that they are.
China’s real estate problems are spreading even to once-healthy developers
Shimao, one of China’s healthiest real estate developers, has reportedly defaulted — a sign of how more pain is ahead for the heavily indebted industry.
“The reason that the market is a bit more worried about this case compared to the other developers that [fell] into trouble [is] because Shimao is considered … a relatively healthy name,” Gary Ng, Asia-Pacific economist at Natixis, said in a phone interview Friday.
He noted that Shimao met all three of Beijing’s main requirements for developers’ debt levels, and said the company’s struggles reflected broader pressure for business transformation in the current environment.
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/07/chinas-property-problems-spread-to-once-healthy-developers-like-shimao.html
In 2008, it was the housing bubble of the US that burst. It is looking more and more like China’s housing bubble is bursting this time around. China housing bubble seems to be a whole lot bigger.
I read about the dangers of the Chinese housing bubble at least seven or eight years ago.
Support for ditching the British monarchy is strengthening in Canada, with those opposed to monarchy the majority by a 2:1 margin. A full 2/3 oppose a continuation of the monarchy in Canada under Charles and only 25% support it.
Barbados recently went republican, and a ‘domino effect’ seems to be building. Indeed, only a slim plurality supports the continuation of it in Britain, with the younger less supportive. The court antics of ‘Prince’ Andrew have likely swung it further.
https://angusreid.org/canada-queen-elizabeth-constitutional-monarchy-republic/
> For many Canadians, interest in remaining a constitutional monarchy will die with Queen Elizabeth
With the health of Queen Elizabeth, who turned 95 this year, under increasing scrutiny, questions about the long-term future of Canada’s place as a constitutional monarchy are subject to more discussion.
Now, a new study from the non-profit Angus Reid Institute finds people in this country disinclined to maintain the status quo for generations to come by a margin of two-to-one: just over half (52%) say Canada should not remain a constitutional monarchy indefinitely, while one-quarter (25%) say it should.
These data reflect a significant decline in support for the system as Canadians grow increasingly weary of their relationship with the crown. Indeed, a little over five years ago, the number saying the country should remain a constitutional monarchy for generations to come stood at over 40 percent.
Were Queen Elizabeth II to die, or step down, her son, Prince Charles, is next in the line of succession. Canadians are far less supportive of the notion of “King Charles” as head of state. Two-thirds (66%) say they are opposed to recognizing him, a number that has grown from the more than half (54%) who said so in 2016.
https://globalnews.ca/news/8469493/should-canada-break-from-the-royal-family/
> It’s the right time for Canada to give the Royal Family the royal wave
It’s time for Canada to sever its constitutional ties to the British Royal Family.
The time is right. With a popular Queen nearing the end of her reign, a widely respected and exceptionally symbolic governor general now in office, and a majority of Canadians eager for this historic change, the federal government should set the wheels of reform in motion.
The results of an Angus Reid poll, published on Nov. 30, showed that 52 per cent of Canadians don’t believe Canada should remain a constitutional monarchy for much longer, while only 25 per cent supported the status quo indefinitely — a 15-percentage-point drop of that perspective since 2016.
We shouldn’t be surprised. It gets harder by the year — in an increasingly multicultural country like Canada — to justify a political system that’s nominally headed by a British dynasty with deep ancestral links to global imperialism and colonial oppression.
Witness what’s happening, belatedly, across Canada’s commemorative landscape: the felling of statues paying too much tribute to problematic patriarchs, the renaming of streets and buildings and more to de-venerate 19th-century slave owners, architects of the residential school system and other figures from the past who are now paying a price for their long-overlooked racist attitudes and policies.
But just as the time eventually came for the patriation of Canada’s constitution in 1982, the time has come to take the final, definitive step to end the formal connection between Canada and the British Crown.
We’re more than ready for that.
A huge majority of Australians support a republic. The Australian Labour Party campaigns elections on a platform of the abolition of the monarchy, and it is ahead in polls for the May 2022 general election.
Bipartisan support with the Liberal Party could be important to gain the support that is needed in a majority of states to win the referendum – or their support might not be needed. Australia could well break with the monarchy within five years.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1352601/royal-news-australia-republic-queen-elizabeth-ii-royal-family-palace-letters-spt
> Queen crisis: ‘Inevitable’ Australia will remove monarchy – ‘there’s always been support’
According to a recent poll by YouGov, 62 percent of Australians support ditching the British monarch as their head of state and having an Australian head of state instead.
The Australian Labour Party has supported constitutional change to become a republic since 1991 and has incorporated republicanism into its platform. It is also the only party that proposes a series of plebiscites to start the republican process.
In the 2019 federal election, Labour’s platform included a two-stage referendum on the republic to be held during the next parliamentary term. However, they were defeated in the election.
The Liberal Party is a conservative and classical liberal party with no official position on the monarchy.
Both republicans and monarchists have held prominent positions within the party, with republicans including former prime ministers Malcolm Fraser and Malcolm Turnball, who was previously the leader of the Australian Republican Movement.
The National Party, who are currently in coalition with the Liberals, officially supports the monarchy, but there are some republicans within the party, such as former leader Tim Fischer.
Meanwhile, the Australian Greens are strong proponents for an Australian republic, as are the Australian Democrats.
Hahaha… well what they got instead is a police state. And most of them are ok with that
Very many are happy to be ruled over. Presumably they instinctively sense their benefit in that course. Perhaps it is at base no more than the feudal exchange of service for protection, an acceptable arrangement that has proved and reinforced itself over thousands of years until it has become instinct and barely detected for what it is.
Likely it still disguises and hides itself under all sorts of ‘narratives’, and it is posited as ‘virtue’, ‘common sense’ and even as ‘nobility’ and ‘freedom’. The ‘well functioning’ society affords that opposites should habitually appear in switched places. The situation ‘works’ in so far as it ‘works’.
“The fact is that the average man’s love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth. He is not actually happy when free; he is uncomfortable, a bit alarmed, and intolerably lonely. Liberty is not a thing for the great masses of men. It is the exclusive possession of a small and disreputable minority, like knowledge, courage and honor. It takes a special sort of man to understand and enjoy liberty — and he is usually an outlaw in democratic societies.”
H.L. Mencken
The gap between support and opposition to the monarchy is narrowing in NZ, with support down from 70% to 47% in a decade. Support for republicanism has risen to 33%. It might take another few years before a republic has the majority support in NZ.
http://www.republic.org.nz/latestblog/2021/11/21/colmar-brunton-poll-monarchy-support-falls-from-70-to-47
> Colmar Brunton Poll: Monarchy Support Falls From 70% to 47%
Colmar Brunton / One News have released a poll finding 33% of New Zealanders want a republic once the Queen dies, and 47% want to keep the monarchy, with the rest undecided.
This is a significant drop in support for the monarchy in Colmar Brunton’s polling – back in 2012, the same firm found 70% of NZers wanted to keep the monarchy.
The drop in support is fairly easily explained, the Queen is popular and public opinion is really focused on that, and has been for some time. As the end of the Queen’s reign approaches, it’s inevitable that support for the institution will drop. Colmar Brunton has traditionally been the highest polling survey for the monarchy. This drop is a major blow for the institution.
With the prospect of King Charles III coming into view, and with Ma’am doing nothing to protect the fundamental human rights of Her remaining subjects but instead acting as an unpaid endorser of inoculations for everybody, the “Royal Windsor” brand is tarnished beyond repair. Andy’s sordid antics and Harry’s sad saga are, of course, the icing on the cake.
Still, with the Monarchy gone, something far worse could take its place.
what difference can it possibly make?
Quite, it is quite the unobjectionable proposal.
A brilliant analysis with the obligatory happy ending option.
I’ve always felt that ‘happy endings’ are for massage parlours, not real life…
He’s got offspring and is properly injected with hopiates “thanks” to MSM, pop culture and pop science. Plus all the little conveniences and luxuries of IC.
What did you expect? Doom and gloom from a spoilt bourgeoisie? I guess not.
Thierry Malleret and Klaus Schwab did it again ! After “the great reset” they have published “the great reset part two” which title is…. “the great narrative”. They have a great sense of humour, as it seems. I am reading the book and I will try to grasp a few ideas.
Ah, the darlings, just trying to ‘win hearts and minds’ again…….
This is rather difficult when your target audience know you to be both heartless and perverted in mind.
Look forward to some choice quotes!
Kazakhstan needs high oil prices. Oil production in Kazakhstan is expensive. In 2015 the oil price crashed and the Kazakh GDP tanked in dollar terms.
They had to devalue the currency. People became poor overnight.
The corporate foreign debt is $100B while the GDP is $160B. The corporates had to now service the debt with smaller revenues. They couldn’t raise salaries for the workers. The foreign debt trap.
The people thought that the corrupt government allowed the plunder of their natural resources with little to no benefit for them. People were slaving for nothing. Kazakhstan was now running large current account deficits. With the global rise in food prices life started to become unbearable for the people.
It only took a spark…and all hell was loose.
This may well force the entire Eurasian bloc to price hydrocarbons in their own currencies. What could possibly go wrong?
More Danish vaccine efficacy data:
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/more-danish-vaccine-efficacy-data
For those who like to play with ideas, ‘Eugyppius’ has a new piece on ‘Self-organising complexity in complex systems’.
He applies this to bureaucracies, which he loathes, and how the pandemic narrative has taken on a life of its own among the lower echelons of power, while the Cabal try to move on to Stage 2.
Well worth reading.
Very good! Very, very good! Thanks for the tip! About as informed and balanced as Gail is about energy.
No mention of Novak Djokovic will be allowed in the Rod Laver arena.
For those that enjoy the theatre of it all, watch the official (Mr don’t point your finger at me) when he realises that he is on film🤔
https://twitter.com/lex6m/status/1479231440780996608?s=20
Time for Novak to tell the relevant authorities where they can go, and head home. He does not need the money, but then again, if Nadal won, Nadal would have won one more Grand Slam titles than Novak.
The Aussie authorities have made themselves a laughing stock, caused at least a minor international incident and are now hopelessly pilling more shame on themselves, in a vain attempt to cover their self inflicted political mess.
The Serbian government are less than happy with a national hero being treated in such a childish and demeaning way.
https://twitter.com/James_Townsend9/status/1479513871803113478?s=20
In a vain attempt to hide their hypocrisy they have now detained another player they let in A MONTH AGO with the same visa as Djokovic, in what appears no more than a pathetic attempt at covering their tracks.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-01-07/australian-open-renata-vorackova-visa-border-force/100745226?utm_campaign=abc_news_web&utm_content=link&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_source=abc_news_web
I’m assuming that the crowd have to have taken the experimental therapeutic to get in, so how worried were they about the boos turning to cheers?
Of course it’s all the fault of Djokovic. It’s not as if there are any jabbed up players having issues.
https://thecovidworld.com/fully-vaccinated-tennis-star-nikoloz-basilashivili-forced-to-quit-game-after-chest-pains-breathing-difficulties/
On Nadal, he’s made very dismissive comments on Djokovic’s stance.
Maybe he has friend who has a long history of buying the results he wants, that’s happy to help out 😂
https://twitter.com/cordeliers/status/1479372431034888193?s=20
Voráčová is believed to have entered Australia last month with a vaccine exemption granted by Tennis Australia because she had recently contracted and recovered from COVID-19.
Fast Eddy’s comment is a quote from a news article. I’ve seen it in a couple of such articles. It’s nice when his comments aren’t laced with insults and grammatical errors but he should at least acknowledge the source.
Would you like some .. pie?
back on form eddy
A pretty good discussion…the current state of the energy markets/policies:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DH9eTmukarQ
Some ideas from the video:
“…eventually, the price of physics has to be paid…in the war between platitudes and physics…physics is undefeated…”
43% of world uranium supply currently comes from Kazakhstan
When food+energy costs swallow up 40% of monthly income…this is the tipping point for social unrest.
FYI…..it’s Doomberg being interviewed on Palisades Gold Radio
I’ll watch that!
Another quote:
“…energy is life….and we’ve delegated control of our lives, to people who don’t like us…”
Inevitably obsolescent human capital’ as the Rothschilds say.
Well, at least they allow that we are human, sort of…….
And that is a direct quote from a recent Rothschild promotional video, not made up!
43% of the world’s uranium supply comes from Kazakhstan. The country may look small and unimportant, but it is not. It is important for uranium supply.
It doesn’t look small to me on the map. Vary large country with a small population.
Small population, so black water will be able to keep the goods oil, natural gas, uranium flowing.
What to say to a vaxed friend who is contemplating another booster?
I’m afraid there’s nothing you can do. The overwhelming majority of people are simply not persuadable through logic, facts or any kind of rational argument. That is, either the person feels deeply that there is something wrong with the official narrative, or they don’t. Those who start from that inner distrust, look for reasons that might justify or invalidate it, and those who don’t distrust anything can only follow the opinion of authorities.
And the authorities have largely betrayed us, JMS.
Here it gets them knighthoods and the female equivalent: 2 years of lies and statistical manipulation, a long slog.
I find that here people cannot believe that the regulators, the MHRA, could be anything other than utterly honest guardians. I mean, dishonesty could kill, they wouldn’t do that…..
Personally I don’t feel particularly betrayed since I learned long ago to distrust all kinds of authorities, but I get your point.
I myself though was surprised at the magnitude of intellectual and moral corruption (which conflates with cowardice) in the scientific sphere.
The sheer scale is what shocks me, like you, JMS.
That so many doctors and academics should have turned out to be spineless rats is no surprise, of course.
It’s like being one of those new arrivals at Auschwitz and realising that not only the guards but all the other prisoners are also your enemies.
Has Covid vaccine efficacy turned negative?
Data from highly vaccinated countries suggests strongly that the answer is yes; vaccinated people are at higher risk of infection from Omicron.
https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/has-covid-vaccine-efficacy-turned
What a shame for them.
Perhaps with weekly jabs and triple masking and not letting the vax-free come out to play, they’ll feel a bit safer.
And Tim, suffocating and terrorising the kids, the infectious little vermin.
Mask ’em up in the streets, too – I’ m seeing more and more of that here.
Really, one only sees the evil in a child’s eyes when they are peeping tearfully out from above a mask.
Cut out the cuteness and smiles, and what is left: the eyes of a biological menace, rat-like and dangerous…..
Yes… vermin … wicked vile creatures.. birthed by MOREONS… destined to become MOREONS
Inject them… Inject every last one of them
In other news… we have guests staying from Auckland … they indicated they were vaxxed (and very much aware that the vaxxes are useless) so I was trying to stay as far away from them as possible when greeting as they are probably diseased….
Anyway … they were telling me that Auckland is in shell shock after the long lockdown… people are on edge and angry — they see it in the way people are driving … very aggressive…
I was thinking — great … probably pissed about getting jacked up on the Kill Juice but still getting locked down hahaha
Just wait till the omicron spreads and they go down again hahaahahahahaha no pies for mike!
Among other things, this post shows that Iceland is seeing the same kind of results as the UK and Denmark.
https://rumble.com/vrsggl-reiner-fuellmich-dr.-wodarg-new-findings-are-enough-evidence-to-dismantle-t.html
“Reiner Fuellmich + Dr. Wodarg – new findings are enough evidence to dismantle the vax covid industry”
“Premeditated attempt to kill and maim people.”
I am afraid this will be a difficult idea to sell.
The Cfb clmt, covering the whole Western Europe and less present in the Eastern Europe is the explanation for the economic success of the West. The mild summers and the mild winters with sufficient precipitation distributed evenly throughout the year provide an equilibrium state suitable for the development of the human civilization based on the industrial mass production of the goods.
Despite the coal, oil or natural gas depletion of these areas, they continue to be industrial hubs thanks to the energy inflows from the areas with extreme clmts.
It’s the climate modulation (heating, air conditioning, water supply, the control of other species) which firstly needs to consume energy, so that the actual industrial production can start. The areas with the mild climate do not need much energy for clmt modulation, they are immediately suitable for industrial production.
That is why the Cfb climate is superior to the humid subtropical climate, as the energy needed for the control of other species is lower. The recent Wuhan virus story confirms this, as when the freezing temperatures start, the incidence of the virus spread lowers.
I am not convinced what you are saying is true. Now that we are clearly short of energy supplies, perhaps areas with more moderate climates have an advantage, but I don’t think that this has been the case all along.
Strangely enough, historically, it seems to have been countries that required a lot of wood for heating (so ran short of wood) that led the industrial revolution. Once they needed to turn to coal for heating, they learned to use coal for industrial processes as well.
These early industrialization areas were fairly cold. In Europe, it was the UK and Germany that particularly led the industrial revolution. The warmer countries of Spain, Italy, and Greece were less involved. In the US, it was the Northeast, extending down to Chicago that led the build up of industry. In China, early industrialization occurred in the Northeast, again a fairly cold area.
All of these areas had good transportation to them. I think that this has been terribly important. Landlocked countries tend to do very poorly, because of the high cost of shipping goods over land, rather than over the sea.
The Cfb clmt is an oceanic temperate climate, which is in line with your description: temperate climate and access to the sea
The lack of water evaporation caused by the strong sun radiation makes these areas rich in water supplies which are crucial for the existence of the industry.
That is why humid subtropical clmt was not the clmt suitable for the industry. Without the industrial production, our civilization collapses. That is why countries like Venezuela, Libya or now Kazakhstan collapse, as they can not afford enough products from the industrial countries.
the fundamental element of the industrial revolution was iron.
until the 1700s, the heat source for iron was wood ==charcoal
that was clearly unsustainable because ships were made of wood too
Luckily in uk iron and coal were in abundance in the same places–the third lucky factor was having navigable rivers to get the iron goods out to the rest of the world.
also, ample falling water provided the power to ‘blow’ iron furnaces.
without those four factors in place in the same place at the same time, an ‘industrial revolution’ in the size and context we understand it, wouldn’t have got started.
once iron became cheap as chips, then ships could be made with it, together with bigger and better cannon.
Hence the British Empire was really an accident of geology. Just as the USA was, a century later.
https://extranewsfeed.com/the-day-that-made-your-life-possible-42f6a56c0705
Yes, the engine could be created which propelled the extraction of the resources and their processing and consumption.
What is so unique about the Cfb climate:
“In summer, only the Oceanic climate is affected by the jet stream, with the Mediterranean unaffected and remaining dry”
https://geodiode.com/climate/oceanic
Merging with the humid subtropical:
“Hot summers, cool winters, and plenty of rain. You could live in a place like this, right? Well millions would agree with you. Because out of all the climate zones on earth, this is the one with the largest number of highly developed world cities.”
“What defines this climate is the generous presence of rain and a hot and humid summer where temperatures approach that of the tropics. But to distinguish it from such tropical zones, it has a cool winter where temperatures typically drop to between zero and ten degrees celsius. This seasonal variation is due to the increased latitude compared to the tropics. In summer the sun is close to overhead at noon, whereas in winter, it is much closer to the horizon, and so sunlight strikes the earth at an angle, spreading its heat over a wider area and diluting its power.”
https://geodiode.com/climate/humid-subtropical
Robert Firth’s ashes lie cremated in an urn.
But the battle over his death certificate goes matching on.
This is very unfortunate for his family, who are currently in a legal limbo due to the UK, German and Maltese governments all being mean at the same time. Mankind will never be free until the last bureaucrat is strangled by the last length of red tape.
Incidentally, the Telegraph article (behind a paywall but reproduced at the site linked to below) tells us that Robert needed dialysis and was being flown to Cambridge. This is consistent with clot shot damage. I personally know a woman aged eighty who almost died of kidney failure two weeks after her second jab but pulled through.
In 2018, Mr. Robert Firth, who was originally from Manchester, decided to retire in Malta. Mr. Firth, a widower, was a former professor at the Royal Military College of Science and settled in Malta where he seems to have continued working as a software engineer.
He died last year while being flown on a German-registered ambulance plane to Cambridge to receive medical treatment. To his family chagrin, they found that neither the UK nor Germany were ready to issue his death certificate. The UK authorities argued that Germany should issue such a certificate as Mr. Firth died on a German-registered plane. The Germans argued that it was the responsibility of Britain to issue such a certificate as his death occurred while the ambulance airplane was flying over Kent, which is a UK territory.
This tug of war between bureaucrats of both countries has created financial problems for his family. The bank in Malta, where Mr. Firth had his deposits, cannot release the deceased money without the presentation of a death certificate. This means that his heirs are having difficulties paying for his funeral expenses. The family is also risking having to pay a fine of 13,000 euro to the Maltese government for failing to complete the causa mortis within the legal six months period prescribed by Maltese law. The six-month time lap expires on January 15. This story caught the attention of the Telegraph UK. One can read more about this whole saga in the article below.
https://simonmercieca.com/2022/01/02/a-current-tug-of-war-between-germany-and-britain-over-the-issue-of-a-death-certificate-has-a-maltese-sequel/
Is this the same Robert Firth that used to comment on here?
Yes… What a very sad story, Tim, and an undignified ending for him who seemed to be a dignified gentleman. Thanks for sharing it, anyway.
Thanks for posting this Tim…..the Maltese bureaucrats would rather punish the family than help them resolve this matter? Such a shame….
Just imagine the petty mind of a Maltese bureaucrat, particularly when dealing with the family of a foreigner……
If I look through enough old articles…. Robert has probably made a comment or a literary reference, which perfectly captures the emotions of the current situation…
Does anyone know why he (presumably) got the jab? He seemed like the kind of person who would oppose it, especially when mandated. Perhaps he got the jab so he could go see his children in the UK or US?
I haven’t seen any confirmation that he was jabbed. But if he wanted to travel outside Malta at that time, he would have needed to do so.
According to the Telegraph article. “He became unwell at the end of June and was taken to Gozo Hospital, but needed dialysis to survive.”
What would make a previously healthy person become unwell enough to require dialysis? Kidney disease usually progresses slowly. If it is rapid onset, that’s a possible indication of damage due to ingesting powerful drugs. There are a long list of them, both medical drugs and street drugs. There are also foods that can damage the kidneys, but I think they do so more slowly, and there is an even longer list of foods that it is inadvisable to take if you have kidney disease.
In Robert’s case, I don’t suppose will ever know for sure what caused his kidney failure. But if I was writing the death certificate I would be tempted to put down “kidney failure due to inflammation probably as a result of Covid-19 vaccination in response to the patient being victimized by coercive official policies and receiving deceptive medical advice.”
And since he was being flown in a German helicopter bound for the UK, he must have been jabbed in order to be cleared to get on the flight.
Thank you, Tim, for thoughtful analysis of the situation. Rest in peace, Robert.
WHAT IS ANTIBODY-DEPENDENT ENHANCEMENT?
From http://www.preearth.net/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=1184
When your body is alerted to a virus, it produces antibodies against it. These are large Y-shaped molecules that have variable regions in the tips of the arms of the Y. Different amino acid sequences in the tips, form different antibodies, that are able to bind to different regions/parts of the virus. Billions of copies of each of these distinct antibodies are created, and this mass of antibodies circulates in the body, with each looking for the piece of virus that it matches, and can bind to. On finding the requisite piece, it binds to it, tagging the virus, so that specialist cells can locate, and destroy it.
One such specialist cell is the macrophage. These have a (surface) receptor, called an Fcγ-receptor, that attaches to antibodies that are attached to a virus. The tips of the antibody attach to the virus while the lower section of the antibody attaches to the Fcγ-receptor. Once attached, the cell engulfs the virus + antibody + Fcγ-receptor, i.e., the cell wraps the virus + antibody + Fcγ-receptor in a membrane, and brings it inside the cell, as a bubble, called an endosome. Hydrogen ions, and proteases (enzymes that cut up proteins) are pumped into the endosome, turning it into a acid bath where the virus is destroyed (i.e., broken down into harmless bits and pieces). Generally, this works, the virus is digested, and its bits, and pieces, recycled.
The covid-virus infects a cell by first attaching to a particular cell receptor, called an ACE2-receptor. In the presence of certain proteases, the viral membrane merges directly with the cell membrane, and the viral RNA is dumped into the cell cytoplasm, infecting the cell. In the absence of any of these proteases, the virus + receptor is bought into the cell in an endosome. As before, hydrogen ions, and proteases, are pumped into the endosome to digest the virus. However, in the newly acidic environment, the protease cathepsin-L is able to prime the spikes of the virus, and when one of these bumps into the endosome membrane, it harpoons the membrane, and merges both viral, and endosome membranes. Again, this dumps the viral RNA into the cell cytoplasm, infecting the cell.
The process of enveloping a virus attached to a receptor with a membrane, and bringing it inside a cell, as a endosome, is known as receptor-mediated endocytosis. Henceforth, we will restrict our attention to the covid-virus. The first mentioned instance of receptor-mediated endocytosis, leads to the covid-virus + antibody + Fcγ-receptor being enclosed in an endosome, inside one of your cells. The second instance leads to the covid-virus + ACE2-receptor being enclosed in an endosome, inside one of your cells. However, the first route leads to the destruction of the virus, whereas the second route leads to infection of the surrounding cell, and the replication of the virus. Why the difference?
How is it that the viral RNA is able to escape the endosome, and infect the surrounding cell, in one case, and not the other. Of course, the answer is the presence of antibodies. When enough antibodies cling to the spike proteins, and cling for a long enough time, their physical presence prevents cathepsin-L from priming the spikes, and even if a few spikes are primed, the antibodies attached to other spikes physically prevent them from approaching the endosome membrane, and infecting the surrounding cell. Antibodies that cling to the virus long enough to prevent infection of the surrounding cell, are called neutralizing antibodies.
However, there are also non-neutralizing antibodies. Some antibodies do not attach to the virus strongly, and can dissociate from it before it is disabled. If enough antibodies dissociate from the virus, cathepsin-L is able to prime some of the spikes, and some of these may then push up against the endosome membrane, merge with it, and infect the surrounding cell. Such antibodies are called non-neutralizing antibodies. Non-neutralizing antibodies are dangerous as they open up a new way for the covid-virus to infect your cells. This opening up of a new route of infection, is called antibody-dependent enhancement (of infection) or ADE. It is worth noting that hydroxychloroquine prevents the acidification of endosomes, which prevents the action of cathepsin-L, and thus may prevent ADE in covid.
Here is a diagram from [44]. It illustrates two types of ADE. One being via the Fcγ-receptor (called FcR in the diagram), the other being via the C3b-receptor. Macrophages, monocytes, and dendritic cells have Fcγ-receptors. The Y-shaped molecules represent antibodies. They are labeled IgG. Ig stands for immunoglobulin (another name for an antibody). IgG is the most common variety of antibody. One of the pathways leading to covid-virus infection is illustrated on the left. The pathway via endosomes is strangely missing. The ACE2 (angiotensin-converting enzyme 2) receptor is represented by an orange oval. Outside the cell is brown, inside is green.
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Below, I picture the two examples of receptor-mediated endocytosis mentioned above.
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Inside an endosome is brown. Inside the cell, but outside the endosomes, is green. The middle diagram illustrates the situation with neutralizing antibodies. The antibodies physically prevent the spikes from being primed, and keep the spikes away from the endosome wall. The diagram on the right illustrates the situation with non-neutralizing antibodies. Here a few antibodies have separated from the virus, and allowed some spikes to be primed. These spikes have approached the endosome wall, and will shortly merge the viral, and endosome membranes, infecting the cell. The left diagram illustrates the situation after ACE2-mediated endocytosis. Here, there nothing to prevent cathepsin-L from priming the spikes, and nothing to prevent the spikes from merging the viral, and endosome membranes, infecting the cell.
For the covid-virus, it should be obvious that even neutralizing antibodies will lead to ADE, if there are not enough of them. Thus the waning of antibody levels will leave you liable to covid infection, and possibly open to more serious disease. For Fcγ-mediated endocytosis to work (against viruses that can escape endosomes) there needs to be a generous coating of the spike proteins by antibodies. Generally, whether ADE occurs, or not, depends on the balance between the concentrations of neutralizing antibodies, and non-neutralizing antibodies.
The current vaccinations have been a big mistake. Another mistake is to think that boosters will help. Since a booster is designed to induce antibodies which bind tightly to one variety of the covid-virus, they are likely to be non-neutralizing for most other varieties. Thus, the boosters, like the current vaccines themselves, are likely to leave you worse off than you were before.
Pierre this is great effort and explication, would/could you make any further elaboration on zincs prophylactic effects within a healthy cell to prevent Covid infection when augmented by hydrochloroquine if possible please.
I don’t know if zinc adds much to the effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine.
But what is known is that;
Viruses known to be inhibited by chloroquine and/or hydroxychloroquine, include:
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
SARS-CoV-2
SARS-CoV
Influenza viruses
Flaviviruses
including yellow fever virus
Rubella virus
Hepatitis A virus (HAV)
Hepatitis B virus (HBV)
Hepatitis C virus (HCV)
Arenavirus
Lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus
Rabies virus
Varicella-Zoster virus
Respiratory syncytial virus
Sindbis virus
Herpes simplex viruses
Epstein-Barr virus
Polioviruses
Newcastle disease virus
Borna disease virus
Vesicular stomatitis virus
Vaccinia virus
Murine RNA tumour virus
Foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV)
Mayaro virus
Feline calicivirus
African swine fever virus
Bovine leukaemia virus
Canine parvovirus
Murine Minute Virus.
Most data is vitro.
Many illnesses, I see.
Hi Gail,
I forgot Ebola.
The paper “A Systematic Screen of FDA-Approved Drugs for Inhibitors of Biological Threat Agents” (2013) says:
“The most noteworthy antiviral compound identified was chloroquine, which disrupted entry and replication of two or more viruses in vitro and protected mice against Ebola virus challenge in vivo.”
Zinc is intergral to cell structure integrety but is not very easily taken in by the cell. Hydroxychloroquine, in addition to other benefits, is an ionophore which carries the zinc into cells. Quercetin is also a very effective ionophore.
Dont forget Green Tea Extract – No prescription & similar or lower cost than Quercetin depending on dose & supplier
https://foodcures.news/2020-08-14-green-tea-zinc-and-hydroxychloroquine-coronavirus-cure.html
A medicinal daily drink in Afghanistan is green tea with honey and saffron.
Saffron isn’t too expensive if bought in large packs.
Their doctors also recommend cardamoms, chewed or in coffee. Utterly delicious!
Saffron gives a fast and massive push to the neurotransmitter dopamine.
Interesting, Ed.
Saffron was a staple ingredient in medieval European medicine as well as meals, if you could afford it.
Then fell out of favour in the ‘rational’ 18th century
Now, while we are swapping tips on essential nutrients, let’s just think about the diet the Cabal wish to put us on: Israeli fake meat, ‘impossible’ burgers and all kinds of processed to death ‘plant’ junk and insects.
All backed up by ‘The Science’ of course – how could we possibly object?
Groves’s First Law of Nutrition: Never eat anything out of a packet if the label says it gas more ingredients than calories.
A Louisiana nurse last month told state lawmakers her hospital is seeing “terrifying” reactions to COVID vaccines, but hospital officials are failing to report them.
Colette Martin, R.N., a practicing nurse for 17 years, said her Louisiana hospital is witnessing blood clots, heart attacks, strokes, encephalopathy and heart arrhythmia following COVID vaccination, and staff are failing to report anything to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS).
Martin, testifying at a Louisiana House Health and Welfare Committee hearing, told State Rep. Lawrence Bagley that most medical professionals in her hospital aren’t even aware VAERS exists.
“The majority of our nurses, nurse managers and some doctors do not even know what VAERS is,” Martin said. “I’ve spoken to our chief medicine managers and other nurses on why we’re not reporting to VAERS, and the most common response is: ‘What is VAERS?’”
Martin said she raised concerns about adverse reactions to COVID vaccines and the failure to report them to hospital administrators, but she was “repeatedly dismissed.”
Martin made clear to the legislators that VAERS was reporting, at the time of her testimony, more than 18,000 deaths post-COVID vaccination, and how it’s her belief only a fraction of deaths are being reported because her hospital and other hospitals in the area “are not reporting anything.”
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/kids-dying-vaccines-colette-martin-nurse-louisiana
Fascist Canada Is Here
Make no mistake about it. The frog has been cooked. Welcome to 2022!
The fascist Canada is here. If you do not submit your bodily autonomy to the bureaucrats of every stripe and colour, you deserve to be squashed like a vermin.
No one in the media or the government even mentions “informed consent“ and the right to accept or decline any medical treatment, enshrined in the Canadian Constitution and confirmed by multiple Supreme Court of Canada rulings. If they don’t shoot people in the streets yet, it’s because they haven’t gotten around to it, but there nothing to prevent this from happening. As the rule of law has been abolished across the board. This is what they do:
https://live2fightanotherday.substack.com/p/fascist-canada-is-here?r=o0tj3&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
It’s no surprise that politicians, bureaucrat, police, and corporations should seek to destroy basic human rights – built slowly since the 17th century – which pose an obstacle to their freedom of action: but what is astonishing is that so few ordinary people care about them.
Probably the majority simply cannot think in terms of abstract concepts and examine matters from first principles, nor can they grasp mid and long-term consequences.
After all, in evolutionary terms this intellectual capacity can have made no difference to survival and the ability to perform basic tasks.
Xabier, yes, most humans are weak at abstract reasoning. The few who can see what is happening have no power, no organization. It will take the same 300 years it took the first time right were pried from the ruling class.
When people have enjoyed unprecedented prosperity, conveniences, food, medical care, technologic advancements, energy, transportation, etc., like we have in this once in in human history confluence of fortuitous events during the last century, they get complacent, lazy, and dependent. Kind of like if you live in a bubble, you don’t develop any resistance to common viral or bacterial infections. As the old cliche goes: Freedom isn’t free any more than energy is free.
People won’t fight, or even care who gets elected, except to “protest” or have a keyboard tantrum. Too busy drinking their favorite beer, online shopping and watching sports on TV.
This apathy is the great enabler for a takeover. Then throw in a sudden withdrawal of all of this largesse, and the results can be devastating.
Japan asks Indonesia to revoke coal export ban as China, South Korea shrug off supply worries for now
“The crisis was the culmination of various factors: Indonesia’s slower production of coal last year; spikes in demand as economies like China recovered from the pandemic and suffered extreme weather; and Jakarta’s policy of capping domestic prices at US$70 a tonne, well below the market level.”
“Indonesia’s DMO policy requires coal miners to supply 25 per cent of their annual production to PLN at no more than US$70 a tonne before exports.”
“The price cap is a deterrent to miners, especially at a time when coal sold overseas fetches about US$170 a tonne. The sting was even sharper last year when coal prices reached more than US$250 a tonne due to booming demand for electricity generation in China and India.”
“At the same time, Indonesia’s coal production last year, at just over 611 million tonnes, fell short of its target of 625 million tonnes due to bad weather and a shortage of heavy mining equipment.”
https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/economics/article/3162271/japan-asks-indonesia-revoke-coal-export-ban-china-south-korea
Time for Indonesia to sign LONG terms contracts for coal at $250 per ton with strong inflation/demand correction factor included.
Polish miners threaten energy crisis if wage demands go unmet
“A possible suspension of coal supplies to the power plants may result in a difficult situation for the power system. Deputy Minister of State Assets, Piotr Pyzik, called the protest “playing with energy security”.
“Polish power plants are already exposed to coal shortages. In mid-December, the Energy Regulatory Office reported that many power plants reported shortages of raw material – including the two largest hard coal-based power plants in Opole and Kozienice.”
https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/short_news/polish-miners-threaten-energy-crisis-if-wage-demands-go-unmet/
When Peak Coal hit the UK back at the time of World War I, low wages was precisely the problem experienced.
The cost of coal extraction grew (more worker hours to extract the same amount of coal), but the ability of workers to pay for the coal did not grow. Producers tended to cut workers wages, so as to try to maintain at least a bit profitability. This is a standard problem as peak coal hits.
Well, just a week after I commented to worldofahumanotg that Kazakhstan looks bad, and we are in this mess. But in my opinion this one is fixable, in theory, as the country is a net gas exporter. They only have to beat the local oligarchs, and reduce exports. It is not the absolute lack that will soon be experienced by non-producing countries. The real question is how will this play out in Russia, since it is Russia that will call the shots in the short term in Kazakhsta. and in Russia the local oligarchs have been flexing their muscles.
I expect that they also need a high enough price for the natural gas, whoever they sell it to. This necessary high price gets to be part of the problem as well.
It is more complicated… it must have struck you, and others, how violent demonstrations have been from the get go. These were no Yellow Vests. Someone brought a number of well armed fundamentalists into position ahead of time. I am in this blog because I agree on the root causes, but this was aided (and planned). So using it as further proof of the global energy predicament may be inexact.
I have to wonder why Kazakhstan… by any reasonable standard, a hostile power should have targeted Kyrgyzstan first… though, I know, the Russian military presence there was a factor. Well, now there will be a military presence there AND in Kazakhstan.
All that matters is they beheaded a cop — I only wish there was some video of that … cuz…
I like chaos…
And
I like to watch.
Now who are the guys who like to behead their enemies… I seem to remember a bunch of guys in white Toyota pick up trucks…
I remember the USA leaving an arsenal behind when they left The Ghan… how kind of them
hahahaahahahahahahahahahaha
I wondered also why Astana needed a name change after all that investment. Frank Albo has done some fascinating interviews on the subject.
https://www.frankalbo.com/