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‘Perhaps, the Higher Power, has a plan that most of us cannot understand.’
Interesting, Gail. Just because we do not understand a ‘plan’, does not mean that there is none. As Nietzsche says, just because we see no ‘meaning’ does not imply there is none. For us to know something and for something to be are not in every sense equivalent. Our ‘knowledge’ of the cosmos is always expanding, and it would very naive to think that new ‘facts’ or ‘principles’ became real when we grasp them – and there is no reason to think that we are capable of grasping everything that may exist whether we grasp it or not.
If we accept that our brains have evolved to allow us to navigate our environment in a useful way that benefits our survival, then that is not to say that the human brain is able to deduce everything with certainty or to ‘understand’ it. There may be some things that our brains are not ‘wired’ to ‘get’ or to ascertain or confirm, and which are radically unknowable.
Modern philosophy starts off with Descartes where ancient philosophy left off with the ‘skepticism’ of Pyrrhonism – what can we really ‘know’ for sure.
I will keep it brief, but our ‘knowledge’ of efficient ’causes’ (causes in the usual sense), just like even that of the ‘outside world’ or ‘other people’, is intuitive, really, rather than ‘provable’. Hume is famous for pointing that out about efficient causes, and about the ‘outside world’ beyond the senses – none of it is provable.
They are ‘interpretations’ of the ‘data of the senses’, and even that is assuming a lot – it is ‘just phenomena in consciousness’ (presumably).
‘We’ are likely projecting our own subjective structures, our own interpretations, firstly of ourselves, onto the world – the abiding ‘ego’ as the ‘substance’ that endures beneath ‘changes in consciousness’, projected as ‘things’ ‘in the world’ with ‘properties’ (as if there is any ‘thing’ ‘under’, or besides the ‘properties’); our interpretation of ourselves as ‘willing’ projected as ‘causality’, the ‘doer’ and the ‘deed’, the ‘actor’ and the ‘passive subject’ (the affected) – it is all interpretation rather than ‘provable’ from the series of bare ‘phenomena’.
So, we can say that ‘purposes’ (‘end causes’) are ‘imposed’ on the data, that there is simply a ‘point’ identified in the series, or in the ‘development’, among many others that might be, rather than something that is truly ‘aimed at’, but the same can be said of efficient causes (causes in the usual sense), and of everything else that we say to interpret events – it is all ‘interpretation’ of the data.
And likewise with ‘intentionality’ – we can say that we are projecting our own subjective structures onto reality (and we are, that is what all interpretation is), to speak of a ‘plan’ to the cosmos (if that is understood in the sense of an intentionality and a ‘purpose’ or ‘goal’ or some ‘pattern’ that is ‘deliberately aimed at’) but our own ‘intentionality’ is itself an interpretation. Our own ‘intentionality’ that we ‘experience’ in consciousness is mere ‘phenomena’, an interpretation, the same as the ‘ego’ (the person or I), that is given to consciousness – just the same as ‘external impressions’ are ‘phenomena in consciousness’. The interpretation that ‘we intend’ also needs to be interpreted, and it may well be a structural myth – ‘our intentionality’ is internal phenomena that needs to interpreted.
Science would interpret all change, motion, in a mechanical way, in terms of efficient causes that prepare the way for the change, and that is also true of personal activities. Then, there is no ‘will’ as a ‘faculty’ of the ‘soul’ or ‘conscious agent’, there is simply the responses of a biological organism to internal and external stimuli – and ‘intention’ is epiphenomenal (acausal), it is a ‘narrative’ that is given to appear in consciousness, that ‘I intend to do that’. We have simply evolved to respond in certain ways to changing stimuli, and natural selection has selected beneficial traits toward certain responses – and then it is purely efficient causes in play in human actions (the selective mechanism is not itself intentional but ‘blind’) and there is no ‘purposeful intentionality’, no ‘intention’ just a chain of efficient causes and an accompanying ‘narrative’ of ‘intention’ that appears in consciousness.
So, our own ‘intentionality’ is no more certain than any other that may or may not exist – let alone the intentionality of other ‘persons’ (or even their existence beyond our ‘sense impressions’), which is all habitual interpretation to which we are ‘disposed’ (if the world and its evolution, or even the past before this moment, even exist/ed to ‘dispose’ us) – and yet humans are generally happy to work with those assumptions and interpretations even though they are unprovable.
We cannot prove ‘our own intentionality’, or that of ‘other persons’ behind the ‘phenomena’ of our consciousness, but that does not mean that it does not exist (strictly speaking no personal ‘intentionality’ would to seem to exist). And neither can we ‘prove’ any ‘intentionality’ or ‘plan’ to the cosmos – some of us are happy to work with the assumption (God or whatever) and some of us are not. It is all in the ‘same boat’ of uncertainty.
Personally I am consciously skeptical but I am nevertheless happy to ‘work with’ the assumptions, or illusions, of my own ‘intentionality’ and that of ‘other persons’. ‘My life’ may be ‘a dream’ with structural illusions of a ‘self’ and ‘other selves’, and of ‘intentionality’ and ‘meaning’, but that does not really bother me (or it is not a part of the ‘dream’ that it bothers ‘me’). This organism is not particularly bothered by the dissection of ‘illusions’ that goes on in ‘consciousness’. It is like, ‘whatever, we all need to relax sometimes’. The organism ‘gets on with life’.
Whether most people entirely ‘disbelieve’ in cosmic intentionality and ‘meaning’ is another matter – they may ‘work’ with the implications of that world view, and not really realise how essential the assumption is to their other assumptions, and they may assume that they can have ‘meaning’ without an underlying intentionality to events. I mean, how many assert a ‘meaningless’ and therefore amoral world? Or they (the other organisms) may be like me with my illusions – they are happy to ‘work’ with them, or perhaps they just feel that it is prudent not to talk about it. A lot of life is simply ‘instinctive’, and a lot of Westerners are not that bothered about religious questions. I cannot say that I have done a survey, or that I am aware of any survey, on the attitudes of persons generally to metaphysical assumptions about reality.
Anyway, my perspective is skeptical and therefore agnostic on the matter of an intentionality or a ‘plan’ to the cosmos. My own ‘intentionality’ may be an illusion but that does not mean that there is no other Being with genuine intentionality (me in the mere ‘image’ of it, but not actually it). Or it may just be a projection of my own illusion about ‘myself’.
I may not be able to prove an intentionality behind the cosmos, or even to ‘intuit’ one, but that does mean that there is none. Perhaps some can, whether we would accept that as ‘knowledge’ or not – if they think it is so and it happens to actually be so, then perhaps it does count as ‘knowledge’, if not ‘certain knowledge’ (as if that exists about anything). There is the whole issue of ‘faith’, and ‘knowledge’ is arguably no better ‘faculty’ of ascertaining anything.
As the Pyrrhonists pointed out, to prove the possibility of ‘proof’ in general would be circular and to assume the point in question. The intellect cannot evaluate itself without circularity, nor can the senses – or the one ‘faculty’ the other without the assumption of the one. The intellect cannot prove itself, but neither can the senses prove it, for they cannot prove themselves and neither can the intellect prove them without completing the circle – and vice versa. There is no ‘certain’ ‘criterion’ (instrument or measure) of ‘truth’. No proof or certain knowledge seems to be possible – and that seems to be logically ‘proved’, logic undermines itself or else it is just assumed as possible.
Ultimately we may be able to say only that ‘we know nothing’ (for sure), and even that smacks of paradox. ‘I do not know even that I do not know anything’. And then there is a complete and utter ‘suspension of judgement’, as the Pyrrhonists said, as the end result of human ‘logical’ enquiry. It is the pleasant state of ‘ataraxy’ (calm unperturbedness) as the ‘aimed at state’ of ‘wisdom’ (or ‘un-wisdom’), the ‘summum bonum’ (highest good) of the ancients as understood by the Pyrrhonists. If nothing can be known, or even that we cannot know, then there is nothing known to be anxious about, no imperative to any investigation or other task.
So, Nietzsche suggests that ‘Western civilisation’ (whatever that is, or means, or if it did or still does exist) is headed for a passive ‘nihilism’ or a ‘new Western Buddhism’, a complete collapse of ‘meaning’ – and he seeks to restore the organic drives and ‘health’ as ‘meaning’ with all of the implications of that (which brings him up against other moral and political philosophies) – and he toys with the ‘Will to power’ as an ‘intentionality’ that underlies all changes in the world and which provides ‘meaning’. It is kind of close to Lutheran hard predestinarianism but without a ‘supernatural’ destiny in ‘another world’ that ‘works differently’ (which may or may not exist).
Arguably he attempted to restore something (the Will of Schopenhauer but worked out more fully) analogous to God – ‘God is dead’ and that may be a really ‘bad’ situation that is headed our way, sort of thing – but focused strictly on ‘this world’ and ‘reality’ in so far as we can ‘understand’ it. He does not seem to think that we really can ‘know’ reality, in a strict sense, but we have to work with what we have (our subjective structures and ‘intentionality’ as humans, this species of organism with its own perspectives) – and anything beyond those perspectives is just as unprovable anyway.
We ‘project’ our subjective structures onto reality all the time, which is what produces ‘things’, ‘causality’, ‘aim’ (from the ego, the doer and deed, the intention), and that structures our ‘interpretation’ of the world. There would be no ‘world’ for us without that – just as there would be no ‘ego’ or ‘inner world’ without those structural illusions in the first place. And it is not like we have any other ‘structures’ to use to interpret reality, it is simply how our brains have evolved. And the projection of our ‘will’ and ‘intentionality’ onto reality is an ‘integral’ part of those projected human structures. An ‘intentional’ cosmos is a part of the human construction of reality, the same as all the other facets that structure reality for us (things, cause and effect) are subjective projections. He argues that we cannot really do without the projection of intentionality onto reality and neither do we have any substitute for it, any more than we can do without the other facets of the projection.
So, it is sort of ‘yes, we have become insightful and perhaps even cynical and skeptical as a civilisation, but let’s be human with all that implies and make society work better, and that likely involves projecting intention onto reality, whether you call it the Will or God’. Arguably it ‘opens up’ afresh the entirety of human concerns, in opposition to a ‘shutting down’ that atheism can imply or at least dispose toward (which is debatable, as I have said of myself, I ‘work’ with the illusions – and maybe that is all that he is really after – but I am not everyone, maybe some or even most people need to consciously ‘believe’).
I remain open to all views, even if I personally favour some more than others, perhaps by instinct (assuming that ‘I’ exist etc. lol) – or at least, that is what seems to happen most of the time in this ‘dream’ that is ‘me’ and ‘my life’. Maybe there is a God, or a Will, maybe there is not. ‘Likelihood’ does not really come into it – it either exists or it does not, and I doubt that we could ‘prove’ it either way.
“I will keep it brief”
Is that like referring to that biker as “tiny”?
Hey I read it, enjoyed it. Appreciate the effort.
Happy New Year.
Awesome post mirror. Let me try to unpack it into hoi-polloi lingo. 🤔
What is this desire to prove anything than blatant will to power? Knowing what besides a knower that is aware of it’s own existence. I’m good with that mystery alone.
It certainly seems to be an associated experience to that which manifests as I, that’s all I’m fundamentally certain of.
Something is definitely going on wether it is an illusion or reality is irrelevant. If one doubts ‘reality’, then the obvious question is in what medium the ‘illusion’ is “implemented” in?
I think it is safe to assume that there is a correspondence, mapping, between that which is observing and that which is observed.
It makes the mystery of objective reality graspable. Doubting the phenomena that which manifests as you seem entirely redundant as the ‘abyss’ of self reference stares you right back in the face.
It is all process. The highest order of mystery in this universe seem to be that of how a process can manifest any subjective experience (suchness, qualia) at all? I mean; what does it mean to process information at its most fundamental level and why is there an associated experience with it?
Perhaps the universe just wants to ponder upon the mystery that is itself, and that reflects right back upon us wondering about the phenomena of suchness, however blinded we are by the myopia of ordinary.
Part of what influences my thinking is the fact that there seems to be more complexity in the universe than chance variation would suggest could happen. On earth, life forms arose far too early, to be explained simply by chance combinations of materials. I am not entirely certain where I read this. Probably Rare Earth by Peter Ward and Donald Brownlee, published in 2003.
There is a definite bias toward the building up of more complex forms. It is almost the opposite of the idea that the universe is headed for a heat death because of the operation of entropy. Entropy tends to increase in an isolated system. But maybe entropy doesn’t increase, if there is a God providing ever more power to the universe. In fact, the universe seems to be expanding at an ever-faster rate.
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/mystery-of-the-universe-s-expansion-rate-widens-with-new-hubble-data
Comforting words. So almost the only sin is not to try, in accordance with a personal sense of wellbeing. God may well depend on or need us to be extenders of the power. Greater than us, but dependent on us at the same time. If so, most of us do that without being consciously aware of it.
Perhaps it does explain at least somewhat the way the world operates. There is a “will to power,” but it is a will to power that is built into the system.
Hard to think of “God” depending on the things it created.
Perhaps the God is enabling the things he created to do ever-greater things, within constraints.
The happy days are gone forever.
Only the top 1% or so will have any kind of abundance.
The next 2-10% will get by.
The rest will only have a life of penury before them.
Tough to predict tomorrow let alone any time out.
My guess: stocks continue to go up, no alternative until need to liquidate for real, consumable necessities.
Non sarcastic question: What does one have to lose in being optimistic? If one tries and it fails, well assuming the world is going to end anyway, loss is essentially zero, there is chance things get better.
Dennis L.
Better penury than slowly die with countless doses of fake vaccines
Student,
Sort of a reply. Assume the vaccines have as many side effects as mentioned on this site. In a year one might be able to charge labor rates whatever one wanted, idle capital is worthless, ability to use that capital priceless.
Always a positivist.
Dennis L.
I recently prepared acorns for the first time in my life. Not as good as the few chestnuts I also picked during my foray, but edible. I peeled every nut to minimize tannins. It was like eating mild coffee beans. Anyway, acorns are still much better than the grains most of you eat. More K, more fat of good quality, no gluten and other immune irritants.
What are the mechanisms that have gotten the world to march in lockstep? There must be a very long list of them. I’m looking for a dozen or so organizations that I can post elsewhere and that “ignorant” people won’t have too much trouble recognizing. A very cursory beginning (to which corrections and additions will be gratefully received):
WHO
WEF
IMF
The World Bank
MSM
John Hopkins Center for Health Security
DARPA
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Palantir
Wellcome Trust
Rockefeller Foundation
https://principia-scientific.com/2010-rockefellers-operation-lockstep-predicted-2020-lockdown/
“What are the mechanisms that have gotten the world to march in lockstep?”
First and foremost: Lack of knowledge.
Lack of energy. It takes energy for governments and individual people to think for themselves. It is a lot less expensive to teach a class using rote memorization than in a way that encourages each member of the class to develop to his/her own potential. “Following the crowd” is the low-energy way of responding to problems.
Thanks Replenish, Jarle, Gail. Gail, that’s getting at the root of it. I’m sure most people would have problems unpacking that one.
ICL; Imperial College London
‘While 2020 was a bumper year for ICL, Gates had long been
grooming ICL, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation having provided it with grants
since 2002 totalling US$302,164,640, or around US$16,000,000 per year for the last
19 years.’
The alliance between Mastercard and, of all things, GAVI, the vaccine alliance, should make people think about exactly what is going on.
Vaccines and a payment system? Why?
CDC
The lack of locomotive drivers forces Slovak railways to cancel the regular rains:
https://ekonomika.pravda.sk/krajina/clanok/612923-v-okoli-bratislavy-budu-mimoriadne-vypadky-vlakovych-spojov-chybaju-rusnovodici/
Without workers, railways can’t run.
Markets are starting to crash in the U.S. Covid has run its course and will morph into a less virulent virus. The next phase will be depression for 4 years
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/10/goldman-predicts-the-fed-while-hike-rates-four-times-this-year-more-than-previously-expected.html
Ha! Ha! This is hilarious how can they raise interest rates ?
Getting as much mileage as they can from jawboning with threat of interest rate hikes, hoping that the markets will once again react “benignly” to the call of the boy who cried wolf, hoping that this alone will slow inflation.Thus people may wait to buy things if they think there will be deflation due to a collpse in the economy and markets from these threatened interest rate “hikes.” Once things start falling, the FED will then back off the hikes. A very curious, if not comical game of cat and mouse we have. entered. Or an impromptu card game:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GsQYT-btPA @ 00:55
‘I didn’t hear what the bet was .”
Clint Eastwood: “Your life.”
This is in the realm of “crazy ideas,” I am afraid. Hiking interest rates besides Quantitative Tightening? This is a formula for disaster. According to the article:
I see the US stock market is down today, especially tech stocks (NASDAQ -1.67%) and smaller company stocks (Russel 2000 -1.88%).
Why do you say “depression for 4 years”? Why not permanently?
Welcome to 2022, here’s a Rose Parade float aimed to “encourage equity and global vaccination,” featuring an animatronic nurse with a giant needle, and a sign that says “Vaccinate Our World.”
“The robot nurse is ready to administer vaccines,” says the host.
https://twitter.com/SteveKrak/status/1477345172589400065
Sick to the nth degree.
‘Spain is setting up a system to monitor covid as a common flu.
Comprehensive case reporting will give way to a network of sentinel doctors and hospitals’:
https://elpais.com/sociedad/2022-01-10/espana-ultima-un-plan-para-crear-un-sistema-de-vigilancia-para-la-covid-como-una-gripe-comun.html
And also:
https://www.lantidiplomatico.it/dettnews-la_svolta_in_spagna_il_covid_verr_curato_come_una_normale_influenza/38822_44695/
Sounds more sensible.
My daughter lives in Madrid, and yes, compared to the rest of Europe Madrid in particular is an oasis.
DEMOCIDE IN THE PHILIPPINES
https://supersally.substack.com/p/democide-in-the-philippines?r=l1r7e
This is an article about the rise in deaths in the Philippines, about the time COVID vaccines were introduced.
The thing that becomes problematic in analyzing this situation is the fact that COVID deaths started spiking about the same time. This seems to account for about a rise in deaths of 179 deaths per day. Admittedly, that doesn’t explain a rise in deaths from 1700 per day to 3000 per day, but it is at least part of it.
We also don’t know if COVID deaths are badly under-counted.
Although unstated in the text, the graphical conclusion is that where the “stable from month to month” pre 2020 5 year average birth rate minus death rate was ~+2800/day this net population growth rate had trended downward in 2020 to approximately “only” +1000/day in March 2021 (almost entirely due to a birth rate reduction – NOT death rate increase) and then to ~ 0 net births in September 2021 (trending from the start of Covid Gene “Therapy” Jabs in Phillipines 6 month earlier) entirely due to increased all-cause death rates (birth rates March 2021-Sept 2021 slightly increased) with a trendline slope of ~-200 net births per day per month.
Per their official numbers, Phillipines has transitioned to DEPOPULATION mode in, first a slower birth reduction move accompanied by relatively minor 2020 covid & lockdown increased deaths and then a more rapid death mode (March 2021 vaccine & lockdown related deaths during a time of slightly higher, fairly stable but below average, birth rate)
Combine this with the info from the Cockney cab driver “interview” of London cancer Clinician who relayed: yes some of the increased cancers are due to lockdown neglect – we all know what the majority of new cases particularly in 30 & 40 yo are due to (implicitly refering to the jab)… it is clear to any who want to open their eyes to what the effect of Covid policies (Jab + outpatient therapy denial + lockdown residuals) entails.
Official numbers only attribute a non-majority portion of this major change to overstated Covid infection attributed deaths – If we take them at their word, then the rest must be due to other major changes in societal behavior or environmental conditions – The obvious answer is lockdowns & Jabs causing increased deaths – Those who deny this need to point to what otherwise changed in March 2021 in the Phillipines to have the causal capability to effect such a drastic change.
“Innocent until proven guilty” is meaningless now.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FIumWuRXwAQz_es?format=jpg&name=large
This is a great read, cuts through a lot of the propaganda and reminds us of what has really been going on, although Norman should ignore it as it is bound to send up his blood pressure.
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Who Are The Real Insurrectionists?
Recently, Democrats have been despondent over President Joe Biden’s sinking poll numbers. His policies on the economy, energy, foreign policy, the border and COVID-19 all have lost majority support.
As a result, the Left now variously alleges that either in 2022, when they expect to lose the Congress, or in 2024, when they fear losing the presidency, Republicans will “destroy democracy” or stage a coup.
A cynic might suggest that they praise democracy when they get elected, only to claim it is broken when they lose. Or they hope to avoid their defeat by trying to terrify the electorate. Or they mask their own revolutionary propensities by projecting them onto their opponents.
After all, who is trying to federalize election laws in national elections contrary to the spirit of the Constitution? Who wishes to repeal or circumvent the Electoral College? Who wishes to destroy the more than 180-year-old Senate filibuster, the over 150-year-old nine-justice Supreme Court and the more than 60-year-old 50-state union?
Who is attacking the founding constitutional idea of two senators per state?
The Constitution also clearly states that “When the President of the United States is tried, the Chief Justice shall preside.” Who slammed through the impeachment of former president Donald Trump without a presiding chief justice?
Never had a president been either impeached twice or tried in the Senate as a private citizen. Who did both?
The Left further broke prior precedent by impeaching Trump without a special counsel’s report, formal hearings, witnesses and cross-examinations.
Who exactly is violating federal civil rights legislation?
New York City’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene in December decided to ration potentially lifesaving new COVID-19 medicines, partially on the basis of race, in the name of “equity.”
The agency also allegedly used racial preferences to determine who would be first tested for COVID-19. Yet such racial discrimination seems in direct violation of various title clauses of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
That law makes it clear that no public agency can use race to deny “equal utilization of any public facility which is owned, operated, or managed by or on behalf of any State or subdivision thereof.” Who is behind the new racial discrimination?
In summer 2020, many local and state-mandated quarantines and bans on public assemblies were simply ignored with impunity – if demonstrators were associated with Black Lives Matter or protesting the police.
Currently, the Biden administration is also flagrantly embracing the neo-Confederate idea of nullifying federal law.
The Biden administration has allowed nearly 2 million foreign nationals to enter the United States illegally across the southern border – in hopes they will soon be loyal constituents.
The administration has not asked illegal entrants either to be tested for or vaccinated against COVID-19. Yet all U.S. citizens in the military and employed by the federal government are threatened with dismissal if they fail to become vaccinated.
Such selective exemption of lawbreaking non-U.S. citizens, but not millions of U.S. citizens, seems in conflict with the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment.
After entering the United States illegally, millions of immigrants are protected by some 550 “sanctuary city” jurisdictions. These revolutionary areas all brazenly nullify immigration law by refusing to allow federal immigration authorities to deport illegal immigrant lawbreakers.
At various times in our nation’s history – 1832, 1861-65, and 1961-63 – America was either racked by internal violence or fought a civil war over similar state nullification of federal laws.
In the last five years, we have indeed seen many internal threats to democracy.
Hillary Clinton hired a foreign national to concoct a dossier of dirt against her presidential opponent. She disguised her own role by projecting her efforts to use Russian sources onto Trump. She used her contacts in government and media to seed the dossier to create a national hysteria about “Russian collusion.”
The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff has violated rules governing the chain of command. Some retired officers violated Article 88 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice by slandering their commander-in-chief. Others publicly were on record calling for the military to intervene to remove an elected president.
Some of the nation’s top officials in the FBI and intelligence committee have misled or lied under oath either to federal investigators or the U.S. Congress, again, mostly with impunity.
All these sustained revolutionary activities were justified as necessary to achieve the supposedly noble ends of removing Trump.
The result is Third World-like jurisprudence in America aimed at rewarding friends and punishing enemies, masked by service to social justice.
We are in a dangerous revolutionary cycle. But the threat is not so much from loud, buffoonish one-day rioters on January 6. Such clownish characters did not for 120 days loot, burn, attack courthouses and police precincts, cause over 30 deaths, injure 2,000 policemen, and destroy at least $2 billion in property – all under the banner of revolutionary justice.
Even more ominously, stone-cold sober elites are systematically waging an insidious revolution in the shadows that seeks to dismantle America’s institutions and the rule of law as we have known them.
https://dailycaller.com/2022/01/06/victor-davis-hanson-who-are-the-real-insurrectionists/
Sorry for being so Bold there. I only meant to do that to the title.
I fixed it for you. You need an “exit” from the bold. Start it with [b], except with these brackets < and >. End it with [/b], also inside pointed brackets.
Thanks, Gail! And sorry for giving you extra work.
The Jan.6, 2021 Photo Op also called “The Deadly Insurrection” is right up there with the Omigod variant surge and the rest of the fear mongering.
Do they really expect us to believe that the US cannot provide security for its Capitol?
The American People need to stand up and demand better writers for this nonsense.
It’s the CEP alright….. Cruel Extinction Program. Let the plebs suffer to the max.
And four suicides among the Capitol police seems a bit much.
Failure to cower can be a lethal condition.
“Howard Liebengood died by suicide three days after responding to the attacks. He was 51 and was a 15-year veteran of the U.S. Capitol Police. About a week after the attacks, Jeffrey Smith, a 12-year veteran of the Metropolitan Police, died by suicide at 35. Later in the year, Metropolitan Police officers Gunther Hashida, 43, and Kyle DeFreytag, 26, also died by suicide.
Brian Sicknick (July 1978-Jan. 7, 2021)
Howard Liebengood (March 1969-Jan. 9, 2021)
Jeffrey Smith (April 1985-Jan. 15, 2021)
Kyle DeFreytag (October 1994-July 10, 2021)
Gunther Hashida (August 1977-July 29, 2021)”
https://www.npr.org/2021/12/30/1068322276/notable-deaths-2021
We seem to have reached a point where “nothing works.”
The Democrats had an agenda, which they thought would fix the world economy and COVID, but it didn’t. They temporarily drove the Republicans out.
The question is what comes next, and how soon? It would seem like some crisis would need to push the economy over in a new direction. One potential problem would seem to be selling all of the US debt, with a lessened quantity of QE. The result would seems to be rising interest rates, falling stock markets, and increasing debt defaults.
Europe and China also seem to be headed in the direction of recession, with high energy prices and COVID requirements reducing economic output.
My guess is that various shortages of physical stuff like food, shoes and clothes and shortages of healthcare staff will be the next emergency. Often mentioned from the Soviet collapse was also shortages of cosmetics and female hygien as drivers for discontent.
When Germany and Italy went barking mad in the late 1930’s the madness was enhanced, validated and consolidated by dramatic improvements in employment, economy and standard of living. Now it is the other way around, giving severe friction to the sell-in of totaliarism .
“Now it is the other way around, giving severe friction to the sell-in of totaliarism .”
i WAS FOLLOWING YOU AVIDLY TILL i GOT TO THE ABOVE. I would sincerely like to understand it better.
Germany experienced an economic “miracle” in the late 1930’s. From poverty, depression and starvation to full employment in just a couple of years. Adolf Hitler was appointed to “Man of the Year” by Time Magazine in 1937 because of this miracle.
Now we are going into depression-style economy. Outright lack of food in the UK, Canada and Australia. Unemployment still hidden but creeping in. Inflation like we have not seen since the 1970’s. Many necessities drying up. Many hospitals lacking staff, semiconductor shortages, new car shortages, and top up with eye-watering gas and electricity bills and looming blackots.
The general emotions are becoming more and more grumpy. The last time a western society tried to build autoritarianism on a grumpy population was the Soviet Union in the 1970’s to 1980’s, and we know how succesful they were.
Thanks Oddyss! Drying up is whatI too sense is going on. But I prefer that scenario to others I’ve heard of. It forces people to do more for themselves. I still don’t know what happens to those who won’t or can’t help themselves. Perhaps the great majority. Local governance worldwide had better hop to to it, or else…
Check out the article “Meet Ray Epps, Part 2: Damning New Details Emerge Exposing Massive Web Of Unindicted Operators At The Heart Of January 6” on Revolver.news.
The FBI has left its smelly carcass at an obvious false flag setup to enable the capitol trespass to occur.
The FBI is not even looking for their agents that removed the fencing and barricades!
Wonder why…
Bob Saget: long-time standup comic and television actor dead four weeks after receiving booster shot
Saget received booster shot in early December
Mr. Saget launched a podcast called “Bob Saget Here For You” in April 2020. He started the podcast because he wanted to connect to his fans after the world shut down when the so-called pandemic commenced in March 2020. He broadcast Episode 125 called “Bob Calls Some People” on December 13.
Here is what Mr. Saget said in the episode:
“I went to the pharmacy the other day and got a booster shot. I should have gotten it in my arm, but I got it in my butt.”
Mr. Saget also said, “I try not to preach. I got my booster shot. I got my booster shot the day before yesterday” near the end of the full podcast linked above (around the 1:35:30 mark). Thus he received the injection on December 11.
He was also a borderline vaxx zealot throughout 2021.
+++
John Stamos, Saget’s co-star in Full House, released a statement saying he is “gutted and broken” by the news. Comedian Gilbert Gottfried said he is “still shocked” by the news. Billy Crystal, Norman Lear, Whoopi Goldberg and many other Hollywood types expressed condolence as well.
Those who know this blogger (or just follow his other website) know that he loves 1980s and early 1990s television, movies and music. As Generation X ages, the people we grew up watching are dying. Granted millions are dying unexpectedly now, of all generations, due to COVID “vaccine” dystopia. But it’s sad that Mr. Bob Saget went out like this; and that he had to be a story on this blog. Respect for his work notwithstanding, Mr. Saget did in fact push this dystopian agenda. Unfortunately, as a journalist, that’s how the story must be told.
https://thecovidblog.com/2022/01/09/bob-saget-long-time-standup-comic-and-television-actor-dead-weeks-after-receiving-booster-shot/
Update – seems Celine is paralyzed hahahaahaha
https://www.public.fr/News/Celine-Dion-paralysee-Les-dernieres-nouvelles-concernant-l-etat-de-sante-de-la-star-sont-tres-inquietantes-1689583
Our colleagues here have had news of the singer thanks to one of her relatives. “She can no longer get out of bed, move or walk, reveals a relative. She suffers from pain in her legs and feet which paralyzes her. She is very weak and has lost much weight.”
An output that may further worry its audience, who hope that his idol will get back on his feet as soon as possible. In the meantime, Celine Dion, in this very complicated period can count on the presence of those around her! Her sister Linda takes care of her three children as revealed by Claudette at Paris Match.
Apparently she’s been shipped to Europe and is hanging out with Michael Schumacher.
his hereditary disease of which she was always afraid and …
Search domain new.in-24.comhttps://new.in-24.com › entertainment › News › 272471.html
Yet Claudette Dion assured Paris Match: « What is happening is painful. But there is nothing serious, otherwise she would have told me. Céline doesn’t hesitate to open up and ask for advice when something goes wrong. I know she’s in good spirits ». Also to discover: Celine Dion ill … the causes of her deteriorated health revealed
Page gone https://new.i-n24.com/entertainment/News/272471.html
Notice that even the tabloids are not touching this…. normally a photo or a leaked story would be worth Big Money…
Here we go …
Gala identifies an article published in France Dimanche , on newsstands this Friday, January 7, which returns to one of Celine Dion’s fears … That of being affected by a hereditary disease. It was in 2017 that the Quebec singer made the following confidence in a Quebec show: “ We come from a large family and genes, it circulates, it spreads. I have seen things, we have experienced things … ”. She sheds light on her fears and her experience: “
My father came from an alcoholic and abusive family, it was my mother who saved him. We were very protected ”. A striking episode which conditioned his way of life and his outlook: “ I’m afraid of drugs. I’m afraid to let myself go”. Experts point out that the alcoholic disease gene has not yet been identified, however, family history risk factors must be taken into account.
A mysterious evil
For now, the mystery remains as to the evil affecting Celine Dion . Published last October, the official press release announcing the cancellation of her show states: “ Celine suffers from severe and persistent muscle spasms which prevent her from performing on stage. Her medical team continues to assess and treat her, but the symptoms she is experiencing do not allow her to participate in rehearsals for the new show. ”
https://www.femina.fr/article/celine-dion-souffre-en-silence-cette-maladie-hereditaire-dont-elle-a-toujours-eu-peur-et-qui-a-touche-son-pere-de-pres
Oh so her family has a lot of genes and papa was a boozer … and that’s why she’s suddenly f789ed hahahaha….
Mysterious Evil… haha… good luck Celine … their ain’t know UN-f789ing yourself…
I wonder if she feels like offing herself?
I bet the Aussies would stone Novak to death if they got the chance
A very good interview with a Slovak energy expert describing the situation on the natural gas market:
https://ekonomika.pravda.sk/energetika/clanok/612808-expert-na-energetiku-hirman-rusky-gazprom-neplni-zasobniky-plynu-pokles-dodavok-je-nevidany-a-bezprecedentny/?utm_source=pravda&utm_medium=hp-box-najcitanejsie&utm_campaign=shp_rightbox
Some parts translated with http://www.DeepL.com:
“Additional LNG tankers from the United States have recently stabilized the situation. Is this a long-term solution?
LNG supplies, not only from the US, have been playing an increasingly important role in the European market for several years and compete with pipeline gas. Their volume has grown quite significantly as the originally small national monopolized markets within the EU have become relaxed and interconnected. We have also seen in our region, in Poland and Lithuania, that after the launch of new terminals to receive LNG tankers, the initially high prices of pipeline gas from Russia have fallen sharply. The last mentioned example from the recent Christmas about the fleet of tankers heading to Europe confirms this. We are in a situation where, in addition to traditional gas supplies through transit pipelines from Russia, Norway, Algeria and, most recently, Azerbaijan, our consumption is also covered by LNG.
Can Europe replace Russian supplies with American gas?
Our European problem is the sharply and irreversibly declining production in the EU, especially in the Netherlands and northern Germany, which should be replaced by LNG supplies or increased pipeline gas supplies. And this is the source of the growing competition. We know that in the coming years, LNG production, not only in the US but also elsewhere in the world, will continue to grow and this gas will be looking for a customer. After all, only the United States, which in recent years has become the largest gas producer in the world and overtaken Russia, will have to deal with its overproduction, which it must necessarily export to either Europe or Asia.
How is Russia?
Russia needs to raise large financial resources to bring new fields on stream. It is not just the Yamal Peninsula, but also new producing horizons in the giant original deposits in Western Siberia, such as Urengoy. However, these are much deeper and their geological structure is more complex than the current ones, which requires huge financial resources to be spent on opening and extracting them. That is why we are hearing such urgent offers from Moscow in Europe to sign new long-term contracts for the purchase of Russian gas. Because these could be immediately pledged by Gazprom and other Russian producers against new favourable loans from European banks. That would still have its mutual advantage.”
I don’t think it is lack of money that is preventing Russia from developing gas fields. As Putin keeps telling us, it is customers in Europe, and probably elsewhere, unwilling to commit to long-term contracts at a price that justifies the investment. And the huge field that is as yet not developed at all, Shtokman, that will take years between agreeing to develop and first delivery of gas.
Thanks for your translation.
I think that one place this article goes wrong is in saying:
“We know that in the coming years, LNG production, not only in the US but also elsewhere in the world, will continue to grow and this gas will be looking for a customer.”
LNG production is reaching affordability limits. There certainly is more natural gas available. But, by the time the LNG is extracted and sent to the destinations where it is needed, the cost becomes unaffordably high for consumers. This is why consumers refuse to sign long-term high priced contracts to buy this LNG.
Adding more money supply does not fix this problem. It simply raises the prices of all goods and services. The LNG is still unaffordable.
And there’s nowhere near enough LNG to really make a difference. Even 20 tankers worth is a pinprick compared to Europe’s annual gas consumption. It’s nothing.
Good points!
She’s nockin at the door … I’ll go there tomorrow and see if I can find some virus …
Passengers on a jetboat ride operated by Shotover Jet Queenstown on 2 January, between 9am and midday, need to isolate until they return a negative test result, the Ministry of Health said.
https://www.odt.co.nz/regions/queenstown/shotover-passengers-considered-close-contacts
You watch how quickly business evaporates even without a lockdown in QT if this spreads… no lockdown no subsidies…
hahahahaha… burn baby burn … all those jabs … for nuthin….
BTW the + testing jack ass who asked for his 800 bucks back after cancelling his stay in our shack … is appealing to Airbnb… hahaha f789 him … the policy … is the policy … he gets ZERO … pay the price for believing the jabs stop transmission
hahahahaha… 800 bucks…. I’d blow it all in the VIP room but I’ve not pass so can’t go….
To facilitate this 2016 drilling binge the tight oil sector hammered its core areas, its sweet spots with pad drilling, rig walking and zipper frac’ing. According the Journal of Petroleum Technology (SPE) it is likely that thousands of wells were drilled unnecessarily, simply to increase extraction rate of proven, developed reserves. In a feeding frenzy, wells were drilled 330 feet apart, lateral to lateral, and interfered with each other during the frac’ing process thereby reducing, not increasing, recovery rates of oil in place.
Ensuing pressure depletion occurred, gas to oil ratios increased, well productivity has declined since 2016, even with longer laterals and more proppant loading, decline rates of shale oil wells appears to be accelerating and billions of cubic feet of associated gas has been wasted up flare stacks. All for the sake of exports.
Sweet spots, or core areas in America’s major shale oil basins comprise less than 20% of the total areal extent of the basin itself (Hughes 2021) Those sweet spots now have wells crammed into them like sardines in a can. Shale oil operators now face moving onto the flanks of core areas, where the best rock is, and drilling inferior wells, with higher costs, higher decline rates and worse IRR’s and ROI’s.
In a panic to grow production as fast as possible, proper well spacing standards were abandoned, reservoir pressure was allowed to be flared off and literally the sweet spots in all of America’s shale basins have been over drilled.
https://www.oilystuffblog.com/single-post/the-binge
https://youtu.be/gmQuIpM4h6A
CEP Now!
Thanks! This is a good article. Indeed, overproduction of sweet spots in US shale is a problem.
I notice that this analysis leaves out the Marcellus basin and perhaps other basins that are primarily natural gas. Thus, natural gas extraction may fare less badly than tight oil extraction.
Todays anecdote; friends daughter in Sydney put in an order for nearly $200 groceries and recieved barely $50 worth.
Shops are out of stock because drivers have disappeared, abbatiors are closed by a cough and absenteeism due to injection mandates have thinned the herd.
Accelerating collapse anyone
BAU is gasping for air now…
Not like that here in the UK, yet. But it is perfectly possible over the next couple of weeks as people in their millions are diagnosed with CV19 and told to stay off work while self-isolating.
Daily testing of critical staff starts in England
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-59934070
“Some 100,000 critical staff in sectors including food processing, transport and the border force will start to receive lateral flow tests from today.
The government scheme aims to reduce the spread of Covid between colleagues and alleviate staffing shortages…”
I thought it was increased testing that caused staffing shortages? This cannot end well.
Increased testing leads to increased positives. Increased positives leads to increased contact tracing. Increased contact tracing leads to increased testing. This is, if nothing else, a recipe for creating big spikes in the data.
and thus, shortages of all sorts of staff, and goods.
Transparently designed to cause the very problem it pretends to alleviate – this is not accidental.
Malice aforethought defines the UK govt these days.
Moreover, it will ensure high testing rates, heaps of ‘cases’, and a ‘wave of infection’ to justify moving to harder measures than Plan B: probably extending venues requiring vaxx passports, the return of QR code logging in, etc. More venom directed at the non-vaxxed.
Who said Omicron signalled the imminent collapse of the pandemic narrative?
It’s a narrative detached from facts, so can never collapse while they have the power to force it on us.
>>It’s a narrative detached from facts
Yes. The narrative is whatever the BBC says it is, and with about 90% of the population being sucked in, they can / will keep this going indefinitely.
The BBC would like to announce that as per govt advice, jumping off a tall building, say minimum 10 floors high, will be acceptable as a substitute for any more boosters, guaranteed to solve all your problems. Not.
Hahahahhaha… surely this has to be a relief to the parents???
Sebastian Moroney passed away peacefully his home in Campbelltown on January 7, 15 days after he was diagnosed with Covid.
Born with a rare genetic condition known as Niemann-Pick, Sebastian was not expected to live beyond a few years, his mother Jordana Moroney said.
“He was palliative with the existing condition so we knew we were on borrowed time,” she told NCA NewsWire.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/covid-ripped-through-him-nsw-mums-heartbreak-as-child-dies-with-covid/XHWFDXTBNRFDXZUD2G5MT6IJHM/
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/resizer/l3nL8daDkGa07JQlD-kb1de8dpo=/1440×805/smart/filters:quality(70)/cloudfront-ap-southeast-2.images.arcpublishing.com/nzme/PVVW5JUSKAJHDZOCAPGXYWDS4M.png
It sounds like Australia is doing very poorly in terms of attracting required food imports. Before you know it, the government will be closing schools and other venues that serve food, to try to make whatever supplies are available “go farther.” They may not explain what the real problem is, however. Likely “COVID” is the explanation.
https://www.the-sun.com/news/4268778/i-make-70000-by-selling-my-farts-to-strangers-stephanie-matto/
The world needs to end …
Why not sell poop nuggets
Ok… norm how many bottles do you have?
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/woman-who-made-50000week-selling-farts-retires-after-heart-attack-scare-caused-eating-too
On a lighter note?
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/woman-who-made-50000week-selling-farts-retires-after-heart-attack-scare-caused-eating-too
some of the comments beyond those sub-sophmoric are humorous
I do expect Norm to explain the relationship between money and energy as extolled herein.
Upon reflection, it certainly does seem that WWIII or CEP are well within bounds. The current crop is overdue for a thinning.
A thread from yesterday – lights going out in EU due to short Coal supply
Unfortunately lights may go out before run out of economic coal:
https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/ukraine-president-zelensky-implicated-with-mi-6-in-kazakhstan-overthrow-attempt
With the agreement of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, a group of opposition figures from Kazakhstan was formed and a team of MI6 specialists from the United Kingdom was placed in Kiev.
On special bases in Kiev up to two thousand “fighters” were concentrated from the ten thousand “mujahideen” who had previously been brought from Afghanistan to Kosovo by the Americans.
At the beginning of events in Kazakhstan last week, when security was lifted at Alma-Ata airport and attempts were made to occupy it, four planes carrying opposition members and fighters were ready to take off from Kiev’s Boryspol airport, to announce on landing the transfer of power in the country to the opposition government led by Ablyazov.
https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/only-hours-after-us-russia-preliminary-talks-news-goes-from-bad-to-worse-russia-says-may-deploy-intermediate-range-nukes-in-europe
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov raised the risk of a new arms build-up on the continent, just hours after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken seemed to deliberately sabotage the scheduled talks by saying on U.S. television, “the US will continue arming Ukraine” with lethal weapons.
Later Sunday night, in an interview with Russia’s RIA news agency, Ryabkov said lack of a diplomatic solution would lead Russia to respond in a military way, with military technology. “It will be a confrontation, this will be the next round,” he said, referring to the potential deployment by Russia.
Also, from the first link you give:
It sounds like outside forces are involved in the Kazakhstan transfer of power.
For Yorchichan, our resident cabbie, no?
3 min., anecdote from the back of a ‘motor’. as related by a friend of the cabbie.
https://gab.com/BeachMilk/posts/107585273194149610
• Passenger a London “clinician” (sounds like what we would call a physician’s assistant or a nurse practitioner).
• Hospitals now primarily staffed by clinicians because most MDs won’t have the jab.
• Crying. Cancer ward now filled with 30-40-year-olds. Spike proteins turning cells cancerous.
• Mass genocide, it’s going to continue to snowball and grow.
• In the hospitals, “we all know that’s what it is.”
Just one information point…
A wild guess….when the numbers of dead/injured/disabled due to the jabs…starts to become apparent to the public…..financial markets will crash big time…..I expect this to be the distraction…..of course it might be war or something else….
Hahahaha… hopefully that’s all true
“Mass genocide”?
There’s some redundancy there.
These are just regular people in a horrifying situation at the ‘coal face’. We are further removed and can nit-pick at leisure, for now.
Anyway, this taxi driver is genuine, as in straight as a die. These Cockneys are my people, and I can usually tell when they are on the level and when they are telling porkies.
By the way, here in Kyoto, I am not seeing any serious COVID-19 but people around me have been coming down with lots of illnesses.
My friend who runs the liquor store went in to hospital last month and emerged sans gall bladder, and my elderly accountant suffered a stroke around the same time. A bit before that Mrs. Tim’s koto teacher was in hospital with kidney inflammation, and now the man who makes the rice seedlings that I plant every year in May is experienced moderate kidney failure and may need to start on dialysis.
The woman living nearby who drives drives me to the veterinarian if one of my pets is in trouble suffered a triple bereavement, losing her mother, her elder sister, and her cousin last year. None of these deaths or illnesses were COVID-19-related. All the people involved were or are double-jabbed.
I am looking forward reading to the 2021 all-cause mortality and illness figures. They should reveal whether my little corner of Japan is exceptional or if we are seeing a general pattern of higher disease and death rates.
That accent almost made me miss – English – London.
Nostalgia……
If he’s an actor, which I doubt, it was a brilliant, totally convincing delivery.
Mass Genocide = Extinction 🙂
Thanks Lidia. You can always trust a taxi driver. I must learn to be more devious to get more information from my passengers.
Nurses are amongst my most frequent passengers. It seems like every other person in the UK is employed by our NHS in some capacity. If the conversation gets around to covid, as it sometimes does because I am so blasé about mask wearing, they are often annoyed by my attitude and invite me to go and see the horrors of the covid wards. I’ve taken to saying “Ok, when can you show me round” at which point they invariably back down. But my point is the majority of those on the front line seem fine with government restrictions and mandatory vaccinations. There is another side to what we unbelievers see or hear on bitchute.
I’ve just started reading this sciency science paper.
There are lots of provocative assertions in it.
The upshot of the thesis is “it’s all a humbug, I say!”
Dr. Sam Bailey has published it on her website—which gives it street cred in my book, but she isn’t the author.
Here’s the abstract.
COVID-19 is a fraud because its alleged causal agent, a purported novel coronavirus called SARS-CoV-2, has not been proven to exist in nature and therefore has not been established as the cause of COVID-19, the disease and pandemic invented by the World Health Organisation (WHO). For the selfsame reason there are no variants of the “virus”, which likewise exist only hypothetically in computers, cloud-based gene banks and in the minds of innocent people who have been comprehensively gulled by their governments.
The COVID-19 fraud, with its numerous preposterous claims, constitutes nothing less than a war on humanity by organisations such as Anser, Fors Marsh, and Palantir that conduct the scam through Big Pharma, with its backers and enablers, including the World Economic Forum, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the WHO, technology conglomerates, the mainstream media, complicit governments, and COVID “pirates” such as UNC Chapel Hill and Imperial College London, to a one beneficiaries of the fraud.
COVID-19 is a war on humanity because politicians and their governments continue to use this imaginary disease to terrorise and imprison their citizens, denying them guaranteed human rights and freedoms, and violating their once inviolable bodies with highly experimental and hazardous injections that contain a computer-generated spike protein mRNA sequence that instructs the body to poison itself. These nefarious injections, which also contain undeclared non-biological objects for undeclared purposes, are injuring millions and killing many thousands of people around the world, including up to 245 New Zealanders as at 5 November 2021.
A virological fraud lies at the heart of these crimes against humanity – that SARS-CoV-2 has never been physically isolated or shown to be the aetiological (causal) agent of COVID-19. In this article, the authors examine the illusory world of virology to explain how a virus that no one has seen or knows where it has come from, that no one knows what it does or where it is going, is, according to the fraudsters, stealing across borders and boundaries and coming to get you no matter where you are. How can it be, the authors ask, that this phantasmagorical madness has morphed into a world redolent with fear in which democratic governments have abandoned democratic principles to engage in the control and “deletion of human beings” that may be just a “variant” away from turning into World War III?
https://drsambailey.com/2021/11/11/the-covid-19-fraud-war-on-humanity/
The current Supreme Court hearing on vacx mandates elicited this gem from Sotomayor:
“Why is the human being not like a machine if it’s spewing a virus?”
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/justice-sotomayor-how-are-unvaccinated-workers-different-from-machinery-spewing-toxins/
Bizarrely, this woman hid away during the arguments (because covid), but was just seen out hob-nobbing in public at a restaurant with Dems
She also claims not to understand why states have different powers than the federal government. If we didn’t have everything else to deal with, this alone would represent a constitutional crisis.
https://news.yahoo.com/justice-sotomayor-claims-not-understand-170137034.html
In the US, every major employer has to employ a certain number of people with disabilities. I doubt if this woman even qualifies as a midwit. But you’d expect that of an Obama appointee.
“132:48 next slide please this is
132:52 what source code v2 looks like and if
132:54 and i will i will send you the video so
132:55 you can show it
132:57 of the side on the right shows it goes
132:59 up and down and you can see the actual
133:01 source corona
133:02 cov2 virus uh with its spiked proteins
133:06 in its corona shape i’ll send that to
133:08 you so you can play that
133:10 it’s it’s incredibly important because
133:13 there are people out there that are
133:14 actually of the opinion that
133:16 sars cov2 doesn’t exist and has not been
133:19 isolated
133:20 these individuals not only have
133:22 demonstrated they don’t understand
133:23 viruses
133:24 but they interfere with the with the
133:26 serious discussion going on with this
133:28 virus “
Yes, this comment wasn’t unexpected.
Well, here are some possibilities that demand consideration.
1. SARS-CoV-2 exists.
2. Virus exist but SARS-CoV-2 does not exist.
3. Viruses do not exist.
4. SARS-CoV-2 may exist but its existence has not been proven.
5. SARS-CoV-2 may exist but its virulence has not been proven.
I don’t know if any of the above statements are true. I just like to read what others are claiming, explaining and speculating about.
I enjoyed watching this video of Dr. Fleming several months ago. It’s the one where his head intermittently grows black appendages that may be a video artefact or, alternately, may indicate that he is a shape-shifting reptilian who can’t take the cold chai.
norm:
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%2F89c1fe52-f72a-49cd-a01e-04c33cbdba86_749x674.jpeg
hahahahahahahahahaha…
Obviously this is Booster related hahaha
https://www.ctvnews.ca/entertainment/bob-saget-beloved-tv-dad-of-full-house-dead-at-65-1.5733592
If he gets the visa it will be interesting to see how the crowds react when he takes the court https://www.ctvnews.ca/sports/judge-asks-what-more-djokovic-could-have-done-for-a-visa-1.5733541
“Numerous psychologists have also told Reuters that such a condition is not officially recognized.
“I have never heard of this concept,” John Drury, Professor of Social Psychology and Director of Research and Knowledge Exchange at the University of Sussex, wrote in an email to Reuters.
Jay Van Bavel, Associate Professor of Psychology and Neural Science at New York University, said the term “doesn’t exist as a real academic concept”, adding: “I’ve been studying group identity and collective behaviour for nearly two decades and just published a book on the topic and not once have I come across this term.”
hahahahahaa
They are now wheeling out experts in the pseudo-sciences to fact-check the ‘mass formation’ academic and call it ‘pseudo-science’. Very funny.
‘I am the Master of Balliol College-
And what I don’t know just isn’t knowledge!’
it has become a near perfect heuristic that any “fact check” by reuters or AP is a lie.
i mean, you’d think they’d at least pick a few to play it straight every once in a while to mix it up.
but they don’t.
and frankly, the hilarity of it is beginning to beggar belief.
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/fact-checking-is-the-new-propaganda
https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F53849e10-841c-450b-ba9d-cfd4d611850a_2864x670.jpeg
hahahahahahaaha
If the fact checkers told norm that a circle is not a circle … it’s a square… norm would believe it hahahaha
SEXUAL and PHYSICAL abuse of children skyrockets when we close schools; FAUCI & BIRX lockdowns & school closures killed people, suffered children; CDC and TEACHERS unions are SPOONING each other
https://palexander.substack.com/p/sexual-and-physical-abuse-of-children
Yeadon https://odysee.com/@Corona-Investigative-Committee:5/Mike-Session-86-en:0
Are there any particular sections you would recommend? This video is over two hours long.
That’s the same video I linked earlier on a different Odysee account.
Haven’t watched.. was hoping someone else might find the key new points
I watched it yesterday and posted a few points on here:
https://ourfiniteworld.com/2021/12/23/merry-christmas-to-all/comment-page-17/#comment-339669
Thanks!
The double-vaccinated are almost twice as likely to be infected as unvaccinated people, data from Iceland shows. This is the same pattern as found in data from the U.K. Thorsteinn Siglaugsson has written about the trend in Morgunbladid, the main national newspaper in Iceland, and put up a translation on his website.
https://dailysceptic.org/2022/01/09/double-vaccinated-have-double-the-infection-rate-data-from-iceland-shows/
hahaha… and … there is no way to UN-F789 yourself norm
“Covid Vaccination and Pregnancy” – According to a preliminary analysis of British data, Covid vaccination during pregnancy might be associated with a 33% increased risk of stillbirth, reports the Swiss Doctor.
https://swprs.org/covid-vaccination-and-pregnancy/
Ardern sucks — she should be cleaning toilets
https://www.tiktok.com/@hyperiondrive/video/7051138406671273218
Neighbour just dropped by for a quickie…
She told me this was a heart attack shortly after booster … no previous heart issues… perfectly healthy — the family is in shock:
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300486108/queenstown-developer-and-heritage-saviour-john-martin-has-died
https://groundnews.b-cdn.net/extMedia/244f49b3f76289a3d7a723b5043b8999e01495a5.jpg
hahahahaha… f789 him…. who takes a booster hahahaah
I just posted this in Igor Chudov’s substack:
Greeting from South East Asia where it is always sunny and only a few people have insufficient Vitamin D. Let me give you my 2 cents. Feel free to correct me.
I am still pretty surprised that hospitalization data is still available and in the spirit of covering up, why don’t they just hide it or manipulate it. Personally, I am wary of any data that comes out from hospital because there is always a high possibility that it is skewed towards the narrative that they want to show. I have also personal experience that bad scientific papers (i.e. found to be inaccurate) still being quoted and cited again and again, thus, fulfilling the prophecy of “If a lie is repeated many times, it will be the truth”.
Throughout the history of evolution, virus and bacteria played an important role. If I recall correctly from the biology that I took for A-Levels in the 1990s (pretty advanced), our cell’s mitochondria is perhaps a foreign body. We need to live with the virus. That is a fact that we cannot escape. Kary Mullis (inventor of PCR) even said that if you dial up the amplification, you can get dinosaur DNA from PCR.
Coming to the death and hospitalization of patients that is being discussed in this article. It is a large grain of salt to consume assuming that the data presented is truthful. Whether it is hospitalization/death due to COVID-19 is an impossible task. Why so? If someone has a flu or some other ailments that has the symptoms of fever, difficulty in breathing, etc (or any symptoms that is similar to COVID), it will be classified as COVID eventhough it is not the case. At this juncture, I would not even tread into “with or due to COVID” as it is pointless. The most important is “hospitalization or death”.
Any lovers of science-fiction would know that it is suicidal for a captain of a star ship to venture into the unknown without a function shield. No one can argue with me on that. Also do note that our body is like the star ship and it is a common sense thing to know that our body is constantly being attacked from all fronts by virus and bacteria. 24/7/365 be it from our eyes, guts, breath, cuts/wounds, etc.
There are so many immune-compromised people outside now due to vaccination, especially mRNA/DNA vaccines, which has altered the way our body works. It is not surprising at all if the DNA of the vaccinated have been changed and thus are a ticking evolutionary time bomb.
What I posit – the hospitalization is not due to Omicron but “being sick due to compromised immunity”. It could be Omicron (which could be benign to those who still have an intact immunity), normal flu, delta or even other viruses or bacteria that lay dormant in the body (that was kept in checked due to a strong immune system). just because it was tested positive for COVID or Omicron does not mean that he/she suffers from it. As Mullis used to say, finding the DNA of the virus in your bloodstream does not mean that you are infected.
In my country, SINOVAC is used here and it is supposedly a deactivated virus. Based on my rusty biology knowledge, it takes a long time and a lot of medium (like eggs or horse or whatever animal that I can recall from my biology textbook) to deactivate a virus and production quantity is not a lot like in millions or billions of vials in a matter of months. So, assuming that it is deactivated virus, will we see a divergence in terms of death/hospitalization if we break down by vaccine type? We will never know this because no Western country will ever find this out.
So, to conclude, Omicron is just a benign virus (probably a mutated flu). It has already been more than one year since the first injection of novel vaccine into the body. Perhaps it is the time to see the unknown effects of this virus?
Perhaps the shields of the vaccinated are down or even the cargo doors are open for aliens to come in and destroy the star ship inside out? We will know very soon.
” I have also personal experience that bad scientific papers (i.e. found to be inaccurate) still being quoted and cited again and again, thus, fulfilling the prophecy of “If a lie is repeated many times, it will be the truth”. ”
Even outside of specific papers, scientific narratives that have been proven untrue persist years and years continue to be believed by the general public as well as scientists and doctors. The Cholesterol Hypothesis of Coronary Disease was disproven almost 3 decades ago and yet most doctors still believe it, media push it, and doctors act as if it is still true. Hence we still get promotion of low fat diets avoiding animal foods, particularly saturated fat, and continued prescriptions of statins to all comers with a high LDL level regardless of HDL and triglyceride levels.
This example is simply one amongst many.
“A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. . . . An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: it rarely happens that Saul becomes Paul. What does happen is that its opponents gradually die out, and that the growing generation is familiarized with the ideas from the beginning: another instance of the fact that the future lies with the youth.”
— Max Planck, Scientific autobiography, 1950, p. 33, 97
One wonders, however, whether Paul could ever revert to Saul… whether it would behoove him to do so.
Good points…
I’ll say this though… in the first half of December I was thinking … we’ll know if this is as the MSM claims … a harmless cold… and because we were told it was spreading rapidly… if it was not mild (and by not mild I mean similar to Covid 1… which was similar to the flu)…. hospitalization would spike followed by deaths…
We are about a month in … and that is indeed happening — assuming the data does not lie…
Let’s give this another month … it will either be nothing … or all hell will start to break loose.
One thing we do know — is that governments are not about to declare this over… they are going in the complete opposite direction — it’s as bad as it has ever been in terms of response
FE, give it another month or so has no material impact. From now on, it will be a high rate of hospitalization and death unless
(1) many of the vaccines are placebo or saline
(2) cover up.
Everyone knows never to install the latest Windows software until some suckers have used it and tested it.
So, it boggles mind why this is not followed for vaccines.
“Everyone knows never to install the latest Windows software until some suckers have used it and tested it.”
I guess Gates should’ve figured out that scary viruses push people to try something new when he was still hocking software.
And then of course… we are all hoping that Bossche is ultimately correct and this virus mutates and rips hahaha…
Well at least Fast Eddy is…
So when Igor posts this — we should be hopeful
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%2Fb66ddc52-0444-4afa-b514-f39e900eb170_1138x596.jpeg
‘You can’t keep making endless antibodies!’ Dr Clive Dix urges end to mass vaccinations
THE former head of the country’s vaccine taskforce has urged an end to mass vaccinations after the current booster campaign, telling Sky News that COVID-19 should be treated as a “normal endemic disease” like the flu.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1547278/Covid-news-cases-Clive-Dix-endemic-pandemic-booster-latest-updates-vn
Maybe, if we get several people saying the same thing, the repeated vaccinations and counting up every case will stop.
The catch, however, is that there is an energy problem which government officials cannot admit to. It is convenient to blame shutdowns to save fuel on COVID cases.
Yes – that is why we should not oppose the Vax Mandates… we need to die asap
But even the flu has vaccines made for the dominant strains every year. And every year, a lot of people get jabbed to minimise the likelihood of being infected or badly hurt by those strains.
I wonder which country will be the first to take Dr Dix’s advice, and stick to it.
The “lot of people ” who get flu vaccine is disproportionately older people who worry about catching a bad case of the flu, it seems to me. In the US, it seems to be about half of the population who get this vaccine. It comes with a warning that the vaccine may not do very much, if researchers targeted the wrong viruses this year. Perhaps the vaccine will make the case you get a little less severe.
Mike, since one of the selling points of the mRNA platform was that companies could pivot more quickly to design subsequent versions of their nostrums.. why is it that they still are giving out the very same original covid-jab version?
If they are able to come up with new flu-jab recipes every year, why can’t they come up with new covid jabs?
You yourself raise a question that can’t be answered without understanding that the point of the jabs isn’t to cure a single damn thing.
mike never answers questions… he can’t
Exactly! It’s the same jab with a new name! People actually get the bo@ster thinking IT’s something Different
Just waiting on Immune Exhaustion to kick in 🙂
BREAKING NEWS.
BREAKING NEWS.
BREAKING NEWS.
A randomized controlled trial (43,548 participants) has shown that the Pfizer “vaccine” increases sickness, and death, relative to those in the placebo group. This trial shows that the Pfizer “vaccine” should have never received emergency use authorization, and that the PFIZER PEOPLE ARE A BUNCH OF CRIMINALS.
This video discuses the trial. 50 MB.
http://www.preearth.net/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=1184
It’s not breaking news, Pierre, you’ve already commented on this is this thread:
https://ourfiniteworld.com/2021/12/23/merry-christmas-to-all/comment-page-15/#comment-339095
Breaking News “mike takes another jab so he can get around (and go to the pie shop”
Yesterday he was doing it to be able to get around more easily than the unvaccinated. Today, it’s in order to fit in with the governmental views,
Damn good pie. “its to die for”.
Old News
Old News
Old News
🙂
Follow up on the last post…about his girlfriend, Brette Harrington, and a short clip on her
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=c2_RVIu0IGg
Amazing 🤩 that people are able and willing to follow their bliss all because BAU
It is estimated that between 50% and 80% of the genes in the human genome were acquired from viruses. Virus genes seem to be largely responsible for the differences between the human face and that of the chimpanzee, and possibly for our higher brain power, but also for conditions like memory loss and schizophrenia, and also diseases.
This is the first comprehensive study on gene flow between viruses and plants and animals etc. generally (which raises the question of whether viruses sometimes transmit genes between those species) and how it drives their evolution. (Coronaviruses do not seem to be involved.)
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/01/220105111420.htm
> Research shows gene exchange between viruses and hosts drives evolution
The first comprehensive analysis of viral horizontal gene transfer (HGT) illustrates the extent to which viruses pick up genes from their hosts to hone their infection process, while at the same time hosts also co-opt useful viral genes.
HGT is the movement of genetic material between disparate groups of organisms, rather than by the “vertical” transmission of DNA from parent to offspring. Previous studies have looked at HGT between bacteria and their viruses and have shown that it plays a major role in the movement of genes between bacterial species. However the new study, published in Nature Microbiology, looks at interactions between viruses and eukaryotes, which include animals, plants, fungi, protists and most algae.
“We knew from individual examples that viral genes have played a role in the evolution of eukaryotes. Even humans have viral genes, which are important for our development and brain function,” said the study’s lead author, Dr. Nicholas Irwin, a Junior Research Fellow at Merton College, University of Oxford, and former PhD student at the University of British Columbia (UBC). “We wanted to understand more broadly how HGT has affected viruses and eukaryotes from across the tree of life.”
To tackle this problem, the authors examined viral-eukaryotic gene transfer in the genomes of hundreds of eukaryotic species and thousands of viruses. They identified many genes that had been transferred and found that HGT from eukaryotes to viruses was twice as frequent as the reverse direction.
“We were interested to find that certain groups of viruses, especially those that infect single-celled eukaryotes, acquire a lot of genes from their hosts,” said the study’s senior author, Dr. Patrick Keeling, a professor in the Department of Botany at UBC. “By studying the function of these genes we were able to make predictions about how these viruses affect their hosts during infection.”
In contrast to viruses, eukaryotic organisms retained fewer viral genes, although the ones that were kept appear to have had a major impact on host biology over evolutionary time.
“Many of these viral-derived genes appear to have repeatedly affected the structure and form of different organisms, from the cell walls of algae to the tissues of animals,” said Dr. Irwin. “This suggests that host-virus interactions may have played an important role in driving the diversity of life we see today.”
…. HGT allows genes to jump between species including viruses and their hosts. If the gene does something useful, it can sweep through the population and become a feature of that species. This can lead to a rapid emergence of new abilities, as opposed to the more incremental changes that result from smaller mutations.
Although viruses such as Zika and coronaviruses do not appear to participate in these gene transfers, they often manipulate similar genes in their hosts through complex mechanisms.
We can’t understand in advance what changes are beneficial. Evolution seems to take place awfully quickly. It could even be the case the man-made viruses are beneficial from an evolutionary point of view. Perhaps, the Higher Power, has a plan that most of us cannot understand.
“most of us”? Does anyone understand a plan of the Higher Power? If so, I hope they post here.
What’s mysterious about the drama and comedy of life? All species eventually reach a point of trying out evolutionary combinatorics for the shits and giggles.
The problem is credit assignment and evolutionary dead ends coupled with existential angst. I guess few species can manage tat before their inevitable demise.
There must be uncountable numbers of species in the universe which is stuck in their own suck. Species like Homo sapiens sapiens.
As father; as son.
Take that message to the ‘higher powers’
🤣👍👍
Looks like the plan for us is to liberate carbon.
So agency is just a human illusion. When rapture comes, we are all going to the same place?
Perhaps, but perhaps not. To suppose that the Higher Power operates in terms of plans is to engage in a form of anthropomorphism. Planning is a human activity. It does not necessarily apply to the Higher Power. To suppose that humans could understand what the Higher Power might be planning is something else entirely.
I think the Indo-European concept of an impersonal force of fate is more accurate to our experiences than an omnipotent designer god with a plan.
“Gǣð ā Wyrd swā hīo scel!”
Damn, this doesn’t come across my attention spammy too often!
I award this Dude the Fast Eddy Don’t Give A Hoot Award about the Elders or What you think about me!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=b6r8VygsOtQ
Marc-André Leclerc wanted to be brave in a world he never entirely fitted into. Diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, there were few forms of expression he could choose from to demonstrate his worth, but when he was eight years old he began to read books about adventure and climbing and decided that he wanted to be an alpinist. In his case, it was the only door open to him: a world without rules, without limits, wild, and a way of life where he would not need anybody else and in which solitude could prove to be his best friend.
Curiously, the best climber of the century had flown under the majority of radars. Leclerc’s brief passage through the world of mountaineering leaves behind it an astonishing intensity that has been masterfully captured in a documentary titled The Alpinist, directed by Peter Mortimer,
His ability to live in line with the bare necessities of climbing led him to sleep in an apartment stairwell, or in a tent, to hitchhike from A to B or to seek solace in the woods of Squamish, a hotbed of climbing in the western Canadian province of British Columbia. Lacking cash to travel, he started to fill the voids between one climb and another with cheap drugs, becoming lost until he was rescued by another climber, Brette Harrington, whom he met in Squamish in 2012. Harrington, herself an accomplished alpinist, helped Leclerc to rediscover what he loved and they traveled the world together, hand in hand, from wall to wall.
To live a life as full as it was simple, basic. He could have been famous; he could have earned a lot of money; he could have thrust out his chest and shouted to the world how exceptional his ascents were. He could have, but he wouldn’t, because weighing these angles didn’t even occur to him.
What for, if he was already happy? Less is more, he understood. His example is a breath of fresh air, as unexpected as it was necessary for an activity that is subject to more and more posturing and false modesty than genuine passion. It has become necessary to look beyond Instagram for what really matters in the world of mountaineering. The images that open the documentary or those of him climbing at Stanley Headwall are as beautiful as they are terrifying. Hours after watching you can still hear the sound of his ice axe and crampons on the rock and feel the fragility of those anchors while imagining the calmness and dexterity required not to make a mistake when climbing without ropes.
Leclerc’s story is much more than just another story of climbing: it is a story of his commitment to life, a much simpler life that will inspire some and confound others
Alright BRO…RIP on the other side of the Mountain..the one no tourist ever sees!
I’ve had more than enough fun in the snow this year shoveling tons of it off of the roof.
I do believe I’ve developed biceps.
Did Marc-André Leclerc Die?
On the 5th of March 2018 Marc-André Leclerc and Ryan Johnson had completed a new route on the north face of the Main Tower of the Mendenhall Towers, Alaska. It was previously unclimbed and the pair had texted friends and partners of their topping out as well as posting views from the peak to Instagram.
Their descent route started down the East ridge and then required them to rappel down the fourth tower. After friends and family realized they hadn’t made contact by the evening of the 7th when they were expected, they contacted local search and rescue teams who started a search on the 8th. They were stopped from serious efforts using helicopters until the weather cleared on the 13th.
Has Marc-André Leclerc’s Body Been Found?
Two teams of helicopters located what looked like the orange climbing rope the pair had been using. It was buried underneath snow and ice in a gulley crevasse part of the way down the fourth tower. Apparently, an avalanche overtook them.
One helicopter also used a Recco system. This is a piece of gear is a harmonic radar system that can pick up Recco tags built into outdoor gear, as well as metal and electronics. According to the scans made, the climbing partner’s bodies were buried 15 feet under snow at the position of the rope.
The bodies are essentially unrecoverable as a team would have to climb into their position and dig into now hard and compacted snow which is most likely now ice. This digging would move snow and would be very likely to cause an avalanche at their position.
Their bodies may be recovered years in the future if there is significant thawing. Marc-André died on his birthday at 25 years old, Ryan was 34. Marc-André Leclerc and Ryan Johnson are now part of the mountain.
How Did Marc-André Leclerc Die?
The circumstances that lead to their death aren’t known but a few things are likely. Knowing the pair made it to the top and the position they were in means they were very likely rappelling back down to the base of the mountain.
Rappeling requires building an anchor, either by screwing holes into ice and threading a rope through, or leaving gear in the rock or ice to rappel from. It could have been that while the pair were rappelling the anchor failed – for a multitude of reasons. Rock and ice can break, gear can slip, or ice and rock fall can push gear out. They were both very experienced climbers but gear can always fail.
Another possibility is that ice or rock fell, causing one or both of them to fall. Another very likely situation is an avalanche, where a weak patch of snow slips and triggers a larger wave of snow to cascade down a mountain. This could have overcome the two causing them and their rope and anchor to come down with them. At this point, they’d be buried in snow.
Thank for the additional feed…I did not want to have a too long post.
One thing that was mentioned by the speaker in my post was Marc was NOT going SOLO in his last climb and was with a very experienced partner using ROPES and other safety gear and the most likely event was an unexpected and random avalanche that swept them under the snow.
Just unlucky, but then again, Marc was very lucky until then!
Read an article recently, more and more people are taking up this sport and because of various reasons there is a spike in fatalities.
Oh, here is another story
Ms Perkins was killed after being caught and fully buried in a slide in the Madison mountain range beneath a peak called Mt Imp on Saturday 7 October.
The Gallatin National Forest Avalanche Center reported that the slide occurred at around 10,000ft (3,048m) above sea level as the two were skiing uphill using climbing skins on the bottoms of their skis.
Mr Kennedy managed to dig himself out after being partially buried, but was unable to find Ms Perkins, who rescuers later discovered buried beneath 3ft (92cm) of snow.
The alpinist couple had recently moved to Bozeman, Montana, near to where the accident occurred, so Ms Perkins could complete her studies of mathematics and education at the Montana State University.
A Bozeman native, Ms Perkins had won multiple skiing and rock climbing competitions.
“I grew up bushwhacking around the Montana and Norwegian mountains with my parents, constantly whimpering from fear and discomfort, but always wanting to go out again,” she wrote on her sponsored athlete profile.
Mr Kennedy, the son of well-known rock climbers, was studying to be an emergency medical technician, and had skipped university to pursue climbing.
He had recently climbed a new route on K7 in Pakistan, attracting the attention of the international alpinist community.
In September – only a week before his death – he wrote for the blog Evening Sends about the loss of friends in the wilderness.
“It’s not just the memorable summits and crux moves that are fleeting,” he wrote, describing a climb in Mexico with three friends who have all since died in the mountains.
“Friends and climbing partners are fleeting, too.”
“This is the painful reality of our sport, and I’m unsure what to make of it.”
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41584896
RIP Brave Adventurous Souls…
Climbers are a different breed. Reinhold Messner accomplishments… Solo ascents- man that takes some huevos. I admire Anatoli Boukreev too. RIP
“Mountains are not stadiums where I satisfy my ambition to achieve, they are the cathedrals where I practice my religion.” Anatoli Boukreev
Dugout Dick and Dirtbag Fred Beckey ….are breed apart
Here is a clip of the movie about Fred Beckey
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zRfJGmXg4Yg
jj thanks for the posts and quote
There is nothing massively counterintuitive in this new study. Premodern humans spend a lot more energy getting energy, like food, than other apes, but they acquire a lot more energy per hour, and that makes our larger brains and stuff possible. Humans are harder workers with higher returns. The same patterns obviously apply to modern societies, we often work full days, we expend a lot of energy and we get a lot of energy (as money) as a result. Humans have always been a pro-active, high energy ape – we spend a lot and we get a lot, and that makes it all possible. (The sort of statements that human women like to hear.)
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/01/220103145553.htm
> Anthropologists study the energetics of uniquely human subsistence strategies
Among our closest living relatives — the great apes — we humans are unique: We have larger brains, reproduce more quickly and have longer life spans. These traits are obviously valuable, but the extra energy required to sustain them is quite significant. So how did we manage to afford them?
A group of anthropologists from UC Santa Barbara, the University of Utah and Duke University have teamed up on a research study to understand the strategies humans developed for obtaining that extra energy. Their findings are published in the current issue of Science.
Evolutionary success is largely determined by the extent to which an organism is effective at extracting energy (i.e. calories) from the environment and converting that energy into offspring. But energy acquisition is constrained by a number of factors, the primary being how much time and energy one can spend in the pursuit of food. Energy budgets represent the balance between energy intake and expenditure that all organisms must navigate in order to survive and reproduce.
…. Warm-blooded animals tend to use a lot more energy each day but are able to successfully channel that energy into activities that ultimately lead to successful reproduction.”
The researchers began by comparing the amount of energy and time humans and other great apes expend in order to obtain all the foods they typically include in their diets. “We studied contemporary subsistence societies of hunter-gatherers and farmers in order to examine the kinds of energetic strategies that have existed for millennia, including those after the advent of plant domestication,” said Kraft.
…. Compared to chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans, human hunter-gatherers are not particularly efficient at acquiring food. “It turns out we spend a surprising amount of energy getting food because we walk very long distances and engage in intense activities such as digging tubers or clearing trees,” explained Kraft. “Other great apes, in contrast, don’t need to go very far each day. Most of their food shopping involves leisurely picking fruit and vegetation.”
However, humans do benefit from earning a lot more food energy per hour. While other great apes don’t cook their food and they spend exorbitant amounts of time chewing and digesting, humans’ high-intensity subsistence activities yield many calories quickly.
“This is like saying that despite the intensity of the work, humans earn a much higher energetic ‘salary’ than do other apes,” said Kraft. “This ability to attain a higher return rate is what makes hunter-gatherers so successful.” Add farming to the mix and that rate of return — or ‘salary’ — only increases. “Those who mix farming with foraging double or triple what hunter-gatherers earn,” Kraft continued. But high throughput human strategies, which involve expending a lot of energy to get more food faster, can also be quite risky if you fail to get food on a given day. “Yet humans seem uniquely able to overcome this by cooperating and sharing and storing foods to avoid dangerous shortfalls.”
…. On the other hand, he continued, the research findings suggest humans also evolved to be highly physically active, at least to attain food. “This doesn’t mean we need to be vigorously active all the time,” he said. “The lesson from subsistence populations is instead to just be less sedentary.”
One finding from the study that surprised the researchers involved the high energetic costs of human subsistence strategies. Walking in an upright/bipedal form makes humans move more efficiently than the other great apes, and we use sophisticated tools to make tasks easier to accomplish. However, humans (both hunter-gatherers and farmers) actually expend more energy per day on activities related to acquiring food than do chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans. This makes our subsistence strategies not very efficient overall.
…. “We didn’t expect that our cross-cultural database would reveal minimal difference in the amount of time spent working between hunter-gatherers and farming populations,” he continued. As exemplified by James Suzman’s recent book, “Work: A Deep History from the Stone Age to the Age of Robots,” many anthropologists have long argued that hunter-gatherers spend very little time working as compared to other human societies. After compiling an exhaustive list of studies, the researchers found no evidence to support the idea that contemporary subsistence farmers spend more time working on average than hunter-gatherers….
“After compiling an exhaustive list of studies, the researchers found no evidence to support the idea that contemporary subsistence farmers spend more time working on average than hunter-gatherers”
Missing the target by a mile…
It is not about the time working, it is all about the effort.
What is true then is also true today. Very few actually does any productive, actual, work. It’s _usually_ the middle aged, oh so hated, (white/blue collar) male that gets Shit Done™.
In hunter gather societies such as the khan of Botswana it was the women whom did most of the domestic tasks collecting wood and tubers, Men only hunted occasionally and enjoyed having three wives . Hunting two days a week at times. Also when nearing child birth women of those peoples were simply expected to wonder into the wilderness and go through the motions in complete isolation… so not just white blue collar dudes that get shit done, just to give some perspective.
Well, I wrote _usually_. As in slapping down the code, driving the trucks, firing the weapons, operating the oil rigs, etc.
Exceptions always exists. Usually those are females with proper father/male figures in their lives giving them no excuses and exceptions.
As for the exploitation of females in certain tribes? Well, I’ve got nothing but contempt for that.
You see; the problem isn’t the females per se, but rather the mollycoddling.
Anything else on your mind?
Thanks! The article you quote is interesting.
One article I read earlier pointed out that chimpanzees spend about half of their waking hours chewing their food. This activity, by itself, keeps chimpanzees from using their time to make crafts and tools. This difference matters in terms of what humans can accomplish, compared to chimpanzees.
That’s interesting. Chewing food that long would help enormously with digestion of that food. It could make them ultra healthy. Perhaps humans should have taken the same tack.
There used to be a restaurant in my current general area once operating by a woman who was an avid proselyte of a man named Fletcher. Chewing each bite 50x (or whatever exaggerated amount) was called “Fletcherizing”.
It was a soup restaurant.
I read a couple of books by George Ohsawa years ago…printed late 50s/early 60s….on Macrobiotics…..
chewing thoroughly was emphasized. 50x rings a bell…
Anthropologists come up with all sorts of theories about how humans lived long before the dawn of history, and each new generation of anthropologists comes up with new ones that attempt to invalidate the previous generation’s ones. This has been going on for generations!
Now, unlike gorillas and chimpanzees, humans live in a huge range of environments all over the world from the tropics to close to the poles, in wet lands and dry, at high elevation and low, etc., etc. Some of these environments require more effort to make a living in than others do. Gorillas and chimpanzees make an easy living in a few places that they are well adapted to, but can’t make a living at all in most other places. And this was also the case well before humans invented civilisation and began to monopolize vast tracts of the planet.
In short, they are specialists and we are generalists, jacks of all trades and masters of some.
Do we have excess mortality?
Why yes, we most certainly do..
Well.. What are the numbers?
As so far Covid mortality worldwide = 5,48 M people..
Hmm.. interesting.. aand.. what is the excess mortality that can not be explained worldwide?
Uhmm.. well.. some 20 M people have died in 2021 in excess mortlity. Meaning.. 20 M people should be alive today. But for some unexplained and unknown reason.. 20 M just happened to drop dead in 2021.
https://ourworldindata.org/excess-mortality-covid
This is a very interesting report. Thanks for providing a link.
The way I am reading the report, over the two years, 2020 and 2021, a total of about 20 million people have died, more than would have been expected based on past trends. This would amount to about an extra 10 million a year.
If we believe the UN population estimates, world population, without COVID, would increase by a little over 80 million per year. So COVID and related issues cut back the increase in world population by about 1/8, relative to what it would have been. This is nothing like the big pandemics of the past, where 25% or more of the population died. It is a tiny decrease in the rate of increase, caused to a significant extent by poor treatment of those who catch COVID.
OurWorldInData also has an all cause mortality page, which shows over 57 million deaths up to 2020, though this seems to be just reported deaths, so not subject to any kind of corrections. So I think the above article is talking about 20 million excess deaths. That would cut back the increase by 1/4 which you may still think is a tiny decrease in the increase but I’m not sure what you’re trying to point out. We need good analysis for what may have caused these excess deaths, though there have been some attempts at that (e.g. the Economist’s model). Maybe COVID-19, perhaps including vaccine related deaths, is responsible for 20 million deaths worldwide, so far. But that’s just a drop in the ocean, right?
pie
Yes, pie it is. And mash. And liquor.
Maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe….
Maybe, just maybe, COVID-19 doesn’t exist at all and all those deaths and illnesses were from something else.
No lab and no health authority seems to have an actual COVID-19 virus in their possession. Not for research and not even for the purposes of show and tell. Let alone a full set of variants.
Mike, please contemplate that as you chew on your next pie.
Retired CIA officer: The Roswell UFO crash. There was a craft. There were bodies. The occupants had DNA that is found in human genome.
https://mobile.twitter.com/TTProductions14/status/1479910687715561475
I sense a new ET narrative taking shape:
“The aliens forced us to instigate the “vaxxing” program”
(And we bought it because… profits, duh…)
🤣👍👍
I’ve been following “Rare” on Twitter, which is full of anecdotes about vaccine injuries. I like this lady’s response to the dyslexic doctor (my god, the regular docs are bad enough!):
https://twitter.com/systole/status/1480269238409613320
She knows that she’s on borrowed Twitter time:
https://twitter.com/theysayitsrare
Why use Twitter?
Fast Eddy, she apparently is using Twitter in order to gain attention quickly from a huge audience. Her material is being collected on her database.
https://twitter.com/theysayitsrare/status/1478330784817758210
Only to be wiped out…
Nigel Farage (UK) with a short update on the Djokovic saga. Apparently, Djokovic has been arrested, and had his wallet and mobile phone confiscated.
And if Djokovic just leaves Oz now, he will be banned from returning for three years. Not sure if I was Djokovic I would ever want to return. Leave, asap, before you get stitched up for causing a new outbreak.
The truth about Novak Djokovic
Very sad what has happened to Australia. But at least there are serious protests going on. The population is not just rolling over like in sad backward new zealand. Hardly any protesting at all. Kiwis happy to be told what to do and nearly all of them follow government instructions no matter how ridiculous. I doubt sad nz will open its borders for all practical purposes this year. new zealand is a classic example of what happens when a country dumbs down its education system to a level where graduates struggle with reading and writing.
The so-called Green Party should be fighting back against the injections but they are green in name only. Actually, they are a neo-marxist ethno-focused party obsessed with climate change.
It is horrible to consider what lies ahead for this backward isolated country of crazies. Make no mistake, the time has come for skilled people to leave this corrupt land permanently.
NZ will never open the borders.
That bloke Max Igan was apparently able to get out of Australia a few months ago because he had an overseas contact who offered him “business” abroad. Is there nothing comparable in NZ?
Here’s just the Nth way—MIKE ROBERTS—that the official narrative breaks down into nonsense. The narrative supports blocking people coming in, but why not allow anyone of any status to LEAVE??? One less potentially-infectious person to worry about, no?
All it takes is identifying one illogical point (there are dozens, but it just takes one), to understand that the official narrative is evil, false, corrupt, and designed by our enemies to kill and to break us.
It is easy to leave — it’s just extremely difficult to get a quarantine room upon return https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/covid-19-omicron-scare-interest-in-miq-lottery-triples-but-most-lose-out/W3WHROVS5FBCBMAGTIF6Q2XLJE/
I asked a mate who is the GM of a hotel in QT why the government does not designate more hotels for quarantine (so many of them are dying with no tourism so surely there would be takers)… he has no idea.
I am thinking they don’t because they don’t want people to leave because that wastes oil.
NZ can’t open their borders now; the whole population will get sick and die as their immune systems are no longer challenged
Correct. No pre-existing immunity. Possibly a good thing to empty the country and start again from scratch.
Did NZ reduce the standards in their education system to increase successful results for the Maori like the US did for the African American population?
The Green Party in every country is simply a trap for idealistic fools to think they’re saving the environment while they promote everything the Oligarchic Plutocrats actually desire in policy. Conservative parties are meant to comfort those who want the status quo and exist as a controlled opposite.
mike wanted to be king… that’s why
I’m not sure the reason but your average young person can hardly read or write. Conversation is what I would describe as ‘gruntspeak’. Possibly the dysgenics program which has run for half a century in new zealand has been an important factor in the decline of educational standards.
new zealand is also an incredibly violent place where young males in particular pride themselves on their aggression and physical violence.
Sensitive and intelligent individuals will generally either commit suicide or leave the country.
NZ has more sheep than humans. No? Perhaps that explains residents being docile.
There is a sport that involves rugby players jacked on steroids wandering the streets and punching people in the face… then going home and beating their wives and girlfriends…
Apparently they are enraged because they see American Football players on salaries of USD40M+ per year.. and they believe they are better athletes .. but whenever they try their hands at Gridiron they realize that the descendants of slaves are bigger and faster than them… and they get cut from the team… and have to go back to rugby making a few hundred k per year …
This leads to despair, frustration, disappointment and anger. Which manifests in acts of violence.
Interesting review of Turkey’s energy requirements (coal, gas, hydro, ‘renewables’). They are now in the world’s top 10 consumers of natural gas, but produce very little of their own. And have little left in the way of foreign exchange to pay for their imports. Not none, but obvious a crisis a la blackouts and / or riots may not be far off.
TURKEY ENERGY CRISIS PUSHES ECONOMY CLOSER TO COLLAPSE – $3.4BN on GAS in Dec as FOREX runs out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSfo5kcz_Ig
Looks to me like much of Europe is not that different from Turkey.
Good point about Turkey’s high natural gas consumption, with nearly all of it imported. This is similar to Europe’s situation.
Coal and natural gas importers are especially in a poor situation. Import prices are already headed very high.
Does it all unravel in Feb?
Ideally The Titanic goes down during the winter in the north hemi cuz most of the population is up there… and because the Elders will choose to have their folks suffer the least so will want them dead …
Imagine being in London – omicron raging … most people living in utter fear of infection – then the power goes off… permanently — and then the heat… and the super markets go dark…
Holy shit! People would just lock themselves in and freeze/starve
Zero face ripping
They could burn some tyres to create a really eerie effect
If one is honest with oneself… one must admit … this cannot go on much longer… and I don’t mean the covid story … I mean the energy story and the general economy… inflation is really hammering away at the gate now….. the hordes are going to bust through any day now
This feels far worse than 2019
https://youtu.be/t-33w1Kf0Mg
Omicron Severity, Absenteeism, Death Lag
https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/omicron-severity-absenteeism-death
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hahahahhahahaahahaha GREAT!!!
It does look like there will be quite a few cases and probably a fair number of deaths. The disruption of all of the people out sick is a huge problem, even apart from other issues.
Remember Winter is Coming…. well.. it’s here (not actually here here… because here it’s nearly 30 degrees today)… it’s there…
Energy costs up there… are unsustainable …. the china property market is teetering… etc etc etc
It would make sense for the virus story to reach a crescendo in a month or so … are we looking at the beginning of the end?
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%2F7387fa9c-71d0-4477-bba9-355fb4b3aa96_934x902.jpeg
Hey mike … just thinking… in America hot dog eating contests are a thing… are there pie eating contests in NZ? Have you entered one?
Customers walk by products locked in security cabinets at a Walgreens store in San Francisco, California.Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
Walgreens’ shrink rate, or items lost to theft and damage, is 40-50% higher than it was prior to 2020.
“These are gangs that actually go in and empty our stores of beauty products,” the company’s CFO said.
Retailers lost a record $61 billion to theft in 2020, according to a National Retail Federation survey.
Walgreens lost more income to theft and damaged items in 2021 than it did in 2020 and is ” absorbing a 52% increase in shrink
Business Insider.com
“If oil producers were hoping for a quiet 2022, they may be disappointed. There are two very different schools of thought emerging on what the oil market is going to look like this year. The one thing they agree on: It’s not going to be serene.
“The bears see supply running ahead of demand, rising inventories and the OPEC+ producer group perhaps needing to consider another round of output cuts. The bulls focus on low stockpiles, dwindling spare production capacity amid a dearth of investment, and the prospect of triple-digit prices before 2022 is out. Unless demand growth slows dramatically, the latter argument looks more convincing.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-01-09/2022-is-when-oil-supply-and-prices-panic-replaces-fears-about-demand
““The bears see supply running ahead of demand, rising inventories and the OPEC+ producer group perhaps needing to consider another round of output cuts.”
Are there people in positions of power and narrative creation that actually believe this or is this a DON’T PANIC PEOPLE NOTHING TO SEE HERE narrative?
“Unless demand growth slows dramatically, the latter argument looks more convincing.”
What growth?
Economic contraction will continue via higher prices driving demand destruction.
Recession would seem to be a likely outcome, indirectly as a result of less oil production. Prices may bounce high, but will come down quickly. High energy prices will cut back manufacturing, especially in countries dependent on imported fossil fuels. Expect Europe, in including the UK, to do especially poorly.
Here is a list of states that have legislated to put injection passports in place, states that have banned injection passports by governor executive order and states that have legislated bans of injection passports. The legislated bans seem the most secure to me. Looks like the supreme court is going to say no go on the OSHA businesses over 100 injection mandate but uphold mandates for medical personnel. Knock on wood. Thats going to put everyone terminated for injection non compliance in a decent position for compensation if they didnt get pressured into quitting IMO. Expensive for employers that chose to terminate for this. Pain is a good teacher.
I still have confidence in governments that recognize self evident rights. Thats important to me. I will move if my state shows any sign of mandating dna/rna experimental drugs into my body or coercion to do so.
https://ballotpedia.org/State_government_policies_about_vaccine_requirements_(vaccine_passports)
The US does look to be one of the tougher nuts to crack in the imposition of this global, clearly co-ordinated, plan. Good luck!
There is a big difference between states with Democratic and Republican governors, There are only a handful of states with Democratic Governors that treat full vaccinated individuals better than other individuals. These states are New York, Washington State, Oregon, California, and Hawaii. Quite a few of the other states have either legislation of governor’s orders forbidding such requirements.
The city of Berlin (Germany) is experiencing a blackout right now.
370.000 families without electricity and heating.
The Telegram channel of L’Antidiplomatico is a reliable source of news.
I think other developments will come out.
https://t.me/lantidiplomatico/13950
On local newspaper they talk about malfunction of an energy source and from 370.000 families the problem now involves only 90.000 families.
https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/news/37000-berliner-haushalte-ohne-heizung-und-warmwasser-li.205038
In the US, we seem to have local electricity blackouts quite often. I know I have my computer connected to a battery, so that if the power goes out, I will not lose what I am working on.
California, with its dependence on intermittent electricity and electricity imported from other states to have more blackouts than other states.
Thank you Gail
It seems that the more a Country vaccinates the population, the worse it is.
As you know, bynow in Israel they are already at the fourth dose for those who are above 60, those who are immunosuppressed and for Doctors and Nurses.
All the others have 3 doses or two.
Maybe a very tiny part is still not vaccinated people.
‘COVID-19: Israel sees surge in serious patients, 115,000 active cases.
As of Sunday there were 205 serious patients, 37 more than on the previous day.
In the two years since the beginning of the pandemic, the country had never experienced such high figures.’
https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-691948
I think developments in Israel need to be followed carefully.
Insanity : injecting the same shit that failed multiple times before and expecting it to stop covid hahaha
Bossche said – watch Israel.. that’s our future
The E.T’s are interested in our beautiful solar system and our blue planet. They are interested in nature. Our DNA is part of nature. They are upgrading our DNA. The perfectly looking hybrids who will inherit our world are highly intelligent and telepathic.
Life of earth will be beyond our wildest imagination…when we have gone quietly into the dark.
I only need to get me one of those hottie alien broads contaminating the ‘perfection’ with obnoxious rapacious primate traits that I keep under close observation while being annoyed.
So when do we get ET-tinder?
Many questions; few answers, less hottie alien broads.
😞
Hey stud you could practice on some lowly human girls while you wait. Practice makes perfect. Unjected. Dating for those that actually dont think swearing servitude with a dangerous blood ritual necessary for romance.
kicked off the apple fascist play store but still on the google fascist play store.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.app.unjected&hl=en_IN&gl=US
Thanks, I’ll check it out while meditating upon my failings as a hot-headed 70% Finn.
Goddamnit.
😞
Hey man you live in Sweden. Sweden. Not exactly terrible hunting. Last time I was there was a huge amount of boinking going on in the open dorm youth hostel. Not exactly an inhibited place.
Whats the worst most humiliating dating scenario you can imagine? Now wouldnt that be kinda fun…? Get your mind in the gutter.
Had a buddy who went to Sweden to play hockey when he was 23 — he was telling me it was normal to pick up 17ish year old hotties and they’d bring him back to their home and the parents thought nothing of it….
Went for walk this afternoon around the grounds of Crathes Castle today, a 30 minute drive each way from Aberdeen. Driving in the car is usually the only time I listen to the radio these days. At least 4 times, in-between music, there was a propaganda item along the lines of – get vaxxinated, now!
Meanwhile, the main news item was: (UK) government experts now advising a stop to vaxxing everyone, and focusing on the vulnerable. Followed by a carefully selected academic / professor saying – but we might get another nasty variant. I am sure it can be arranged.
Free tests will soon be ending in the UK: so they will try to break the resistance simply by ordering regular testing at a cost most cannot afford – as has been done in other countries.
This is of course coercion to take a medical procedure, and therefore a breach of basic human riots and bio-ethics.
Yes time for the at risk to the jab 4… norm…
Then in two weeks they’ll open it up to everyone…
It’s a formula
My stratagem throughout the Corobolleaux Crisis has been to maximise my exposure to the (partly artificial) virus. And not to have anything to do with vaccines/gene therapies.
I was fortunate to be an early adopter and catch it in the first months of 2020. Must have been infected at least twice since then. Keep my D3 level high and remain fit and unstressed. So far so good, and my natural immunity is strengthening all the time.
I have no trust in MSM, and little in UK Gov/medics. The suffer from Déformation Professionnelle. As others have written, in particular Chris Martenson, little or no effort is made to improve public health, or to promote a multi-factored approach based on individual risk.
And I have rarely felt better, even as someone in their late ‘60’s, and have no concerns about potential virus evolution.
The global central banks balance sheets have stopped expanding and so has the market cap for the global stock market. No more free money? They have decided to cull us?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FIn9zTGXsAI8Txv?format=jpg&name=medium
I dont doubt that a lot of the people who live in the world of money can become mentally detached from the physical world and foster delusions about how their money can buy them anything they want. Their minds may be detached but I promise that their bodies need the physical world in order to stay alive!
I think it was Colin Campbell who made the connection that the only way to convert money to oil was to stuff dollar bills down the borehole of an empty oil well and then wait a couple of hundred thousand years until time, temperature and pressure had converted the bills to oil again.
It does not matter if you have a ton of gold or a ton of hundred dollar bills if there is nobody there to provide you with the stuff you need. If the supply chains and the intricate web of professional specialization are broken. Money alone can not create oil, food, shoes, pizza or beer from sheer vacuum.
Great point! The more money people have the more they seem disconnected from what is happening
glad somebody else has figured that out
Yes, that’s true about the very rich, or even the lower tier of financial gamblers.
They do know, even if disconnected from our ‘real’ life, that money can usually buy almost anyone – and it will continue to do so until money – however formulated – itself can no longer purchase necessities.
Money is a powerful god, until proven to be a figment of the human brain.
Right! It is not possible to print goods and services. Lots more debt doesn’t fix the problem the world economy is in.
Nor could a global ‘debt jubilee’ do so: the energy and resource crisis remains fundamental and unchangeable.
Despite current fantasies about creating new foodstuffs, energy sources and materials with bio-engineering.
But those who entertain such delusions are acting, we should have no doubt.
This is just baseless poor man’s idealism. Money buys everything. There will never come a point in time in which money becomes irrelevant. Even in a collapse scenario, having money allows one to prepare for it, having backup resources and tools ready. And during the collapse, it allows one to buy mercenaries and guns. However global collapse is almost impossible in the next hundred years at least. There are countries that are too big to fail. Only the small ones can collapse, case in which, guess what? money allows the rich in those areas to move elsewhere Money always makes the world spin. Always. There is no problem that can’t be solved by throwing enough money at it.
If a problem doesn’t have a (practical) solution, then no amount of money will help.
Money is only useful if someone else will accept it for goods or services. Can you really imagine no situation when that will not be true?
There is no such thing as “too big to fail”. That phrase simply justifies why some companies keep getting bailed out, until they fail.
mike – you’ve hit your comment limit… collect your troll fee and go to the pie shop now
my financial future rests on you getting to comment parity by the end if feb eddy
In DelusiSTAN.. yes
This is a very interesting and relevant comment. The entire subject of “money” is infinitely interesting.
Let me give an example of something money can not buy: Life. No team of doctors in the world can extend a persons life beyond the limits of natural ageing.
Another thing money can not do is create energy from vacuum. En empty oil well is as empty as it is, no matter how much money is used to drill new holes. The recent fracking mania is an excellent example.
Money can not stop earthquakes, volcanoes or tsunamis either.
George Soros is the exception … that guy looks dead 10x over
https://dailyentertainmentnews.com/wpgo/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/George-soros-Tamiko-Bolto_wedding.jpg
Hahaha, he sure looks like a pope… or was it poop..?
There is this sweet irony in the whole thing – all that money could get him a young and beautiful wife, but beside her he look even older and uglier. And very pathetic to that…
If he had some sense he would have married someone older and uglier than himself to make HIM look younger in comparison. At least that is the rationale my wife used to marry this ugly guy…
Good point! If I was George I’d have a wrinkly old bag for ‘show’… but behind the scenes I’d have a stable of fillies…
But that said .. how old is George? 134 or something like that?
Why would he need the fillies… surely he’s a eunuch by now??? And even if he is not … the fillies would have zero interest in getting with a wrinkled sack of bones … wouldn’t it be a turn off knowing they are only with you for cha-ching $$$$$???
The fillies would be doing a star fish and staring at the ceiling waiting for George to finish up…
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-lJAVQKArlb4/UN3u7cTSCkI/AAAAAAAAATI/rfv5LLAKAcw/s1600/speedos.jpg
how did you do a selfie from behind eddy
unless you have a stalker?
What you say is true but I will have to point out that even in the face of death a person with money will suffer less because he can afford pain reducing drugs and treatments. Against earthquakes it helps because a rich guy lives in his own mansion and not a 10 story building that might collspse. Basically you can not give even one example where having money does not help you considerably compared to if you were poor. Only poor people trash talk money, let’s face it. Sour grapes. I am also poor as f but I don’t see the point in lying to myself.
If supply lines are broken, then money might look like it will buy goods and services, but they won’t really be there.
If pain reducing drugs are based on imports from around the world, there is a very real possibility that the pain reducing drugs won’t be available when required. We have far too much faith in “money.”
My point is that until money becomes worthless, it can be used to make stockpiles of all the important stuff. food, drugs, gadgets, land, etc. Having a stockpile of goods makes all the difference in a survival scenario.
You need something in the kit to protect you from radiation poisoning… remember the 4000 spent fuel ponds?
Hi – now it is getting far into the unknown – and even more relevant. This is a kind of discussion I think we should have more of.
Many years ago I worked as a nurse assistant in a big hospital and experienced death and suffering up close. I sat with several patients while they died and met many more who were on their way. Some hade terrible pains and some suffered terrible anxiety and agony.
In my humble opinion it was not the drugs that made the big difference for the ease in passing by but something else. Call it “peace with G*d” or something like that.
Those experiences shaped me until today, and I’m not the least afraid of death.
Fear of Death drives the profits of the medical industrial complex. Consider the 80 yr old sacks of disease who are chewing through our tax $$$ so they can continue their miserable lives a few months longer… who insist that the world roll over so that they don’t contract covid.
I vote to cull everyone over 60 with one or more comorbidities.
Oddys, generally speaking you are correct. But I don’t think you are figuring the lengths to which people are willing to go in order to attempt appropriation in the short term, even if there is no realistic long-term resolution.
Today and tomorrow, money still buys food and crack.
Today and tomorrow, money still buys sexual services.
Today and tomorrow, money still buys power.
Today and tomorrow, money still secures the Israeli state and their fixation on their third temple.
Today and tomorrow, money still buys adrenochrome.
Look at Nancy Pelosi’s eyebrows.
Look at Kim Kardashian’s ass.
Earthquakes, volcanoes, and tsunamis are next-to-nothing confronted with the artificial power of Nancy’s $6 trillion eyebrows and Kim’s multi-billion-dollar ass.
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You think doctors cannot prolong life, yet chinese and other un-nameables rob organs for transplant. A short-term ‘solution’ for sure, but that doesn’t mean they won’t exhaust all avenues they’re conceded.
I think I wrote in the past in this space of an acquaintance who wanted his head frozen so that he might be eventually be resurrected, like Ted Williams, the famous US baseball player. My friend was really sincere, both in the wish to be resurrected and even more so in the conviction that “science” would have the capacity to carry his belief to its realization some decades or even millennia into the future, and that somehow his head’s interests would be protected in a far-off future full of thousands of times the number of human heads available as when he’d put his own on ice.
Interesting comments, thanks. I see people with similar desires as Kim Kardashian and Nancy Pelosi and it strikes me that they never get enough. Was it Nils Lofgren who sang “I miss love like water, when all there is is Coke..” ? Very grim all of it.
Apparently they only keep your head in the ‘high tech’ contraption for show … after a week they transfer the head to the deep freeze cold storage and leave it there in a styrofoam box… This type of cold storage damages the cells of the head making it virtually impossible to bring the person back to life… or if they can be rekindled… they are a vegetable…
norm volunteered to test this tech … they pulled the plug when they realized what was happening (due to ethics violations as norm was still alive)… we are seeing the effects on a daily basis.
norm – how much did you get paid to participate in the trial? Hopefully more than you are getting for the boosters
While we have you norm — do you mind to tell us what a Day in the Life of norm looks like? How do you spend your time when away from OFW?
And where’s dunc? Booster-itis?
“After Adani: whatever happened to Queensland’s Galilee basin coal boom?
“Only the controversial Carmichael mine has opened, while a dozen other projects are shelved, lapsed or discontinued.. All the mines are greenfield sites – largely undeveloped land still covered in scrub or fields – with high costs to develop the infrastructure needed.”
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/jan/09/after-adani-whatever-happened-to-queenslands-galilee-basin-coal-boom
“Indonesia is yet to reach a decision on lifting its coal export ban as authorities discussed overcoming logistic issues that have slowed efforts to distribute coal to domestic power plants, a mining group executive said on Sunday.
“The world’s biggest thermal coal exporter suspended coal exports on Jan. 1 after Indonesia’s state power utility reported dangerously low inventory levels of the fuel, putting Southeast Asia’s biggest economy on the brink of widespread power outages.”
https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/indonesia-holds-talks-with-industry-coal-distribution-problems-export-ban-2022-01-09/
Indonesia cutting off coal exports, even for a month, is a problem for the world economy. Coal has historically been a relatively low-cost fuel that is easy to store. Because of its low cost, it is in some ways better than oil.
Infrastructure cost, and the high cost of coal transport over land, that is the deal killer. Even if the infrastructure can be built, the price of delivered coal tends to be too high for the consumer.
“The Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) says that the operation of [Sri Lanka’s] coal power plants has also become problematic due to the current dollar shortage.
“CEB chairman, MMC Ferdinando has said that the immediate reason was the lack of dollars to buy coal. He said that when tenders were called for the importation of coal, no one would come forward.”
http://www.colombopage.com/archive_22A/Jan09_1641710788CH.php
“Sri Lanka seeks Chinese debt restructuring amid crisis.
“The president of debt-ridden Sri Lanka on Sunday asked China for the restructuring of its loans and access to preferential credit for imports of essential goods, as the island nation struggles in the throes of its worst economic crisis, partly due to Beijing-financed projects that don’t generate revenue.”
https://apnews.com/article/business-china-beijing-sri-lanka-africa-e6b1e60b2a1aab035bcc6e65ebe507b7
Maybe Beijing should be the loser on this investment that doesn’t pay back adequately.
Another country that cannot afford imported fuel.