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We have been told that intermittent electricity from wind and solar, perhaps along with hydroelectric generation (hydro), can be the basis of a green economy. Things are increasingly not working out as planned, however. Natural gas or coal used for balancing the intermittent output of renewables is increasingly high-priced or not available. It is becoming clear that modelers who encouraged the view that a smooth transition to wind, solar, and hydro is possible have missed some important points.
Let’s look at some of the issues:
[1] It is becoming clear that intermittent wind and solar cannot be counted on to provide adequate electricity supply when the electrical distribution system needs them.
Early modelers did not expect that the variability of wind and solar would be a huge problem. They seemed to believe that, with the use of enough intermittent renewables, their variability would cancel out. Alternatively, long transmission lines would allow enough transfer of electricity between locations to largely offset variability.
In practice, variability is still a major problem. For example, in the third quarter of 2021, weak winds were a significant contributor to Europe’s power crunch. Europe’s largest wind producers (Britain, Germany and France) produced only 14% of installed capacity during this period, compared with an average of 20% to 26% in previous years. No one had planned for this kind of three-month shortfall.
In 2021, China experienced dry, windless weather so that both its generation from wind and hydro were low. The country found it needed to use rolling blackouts to deal with the situation. This led to traffic lights failing and many families needing to eat candle-lit dinners.
In Europe, with low electricity supply, Kosovo has needed to use rolling blackouts. There is real concern that the need for rolling blackouts will spread to other parts of Europe, as well, either later this winter, or in a future winter. Winters are of special concern because, then, solar energy is low while heating needs are high.
[2] Adequate storage for electricity is not feasible in any reasonable timeframe. This means that if cold countries are not to “freeze in the dark” during winter, fossil fuel backup is likely to be needed for many years in the future.
One workaround for electricity variability is storage. A recent Reuters article is titled Weak winds worsened Europe’s power crunch; utilities need better storage. The article quotes Matthew Jones, lead analyst for EU Power, as saying that low or zero-emissions backup-capacity is “still more than a decade away from being available at scale.” Thus, having huge batteries or hydrogen storage at the scale needed for months of storage is not something that can reasonably be created now or in the next several years.
Today, the amount of electricity storage that is available can be measured in minutes or hours. It is mostly used to buffer short-term changes, such as the wind temporarily ceasing to blow or the rapid transition created when the sun sets and citizens are in the midst of cooking dinner. What is needed is the capacity for multiple months of electricity storage. Such storage would require an amazingly large quantity of materials to produce. Needless to say, if such storage were included, the cost of the overall electrical system would be substantially higher than we have been led to believe. All major types of cost analyses (including the levelized cost of energy, energy return on energy invested, and energy payback period) leave out the need for storage (both short- and long-term) if balancing with other electricity production is not available.
If no solution to inadequate electricity supply can be found, then demand must be reduced by one means or another. One approach is to close businesses or schools. Another approach is rolling blackouts. A third approach is to permit astronomically high electricity prices, squeezing out some buyers of electricity. A fourth balancing approach is to introduce recession, perhaps by raising interest rates; recessions cut back on demand for all non-essential goods and services. Recessions tend to lead to significant job losses, besides cutting back on electricity demand. None of these things are attractive options.
[3] After many years of subsidies and mandates, today’s green electricity is only a tiny fraction of what is needed to keep our current economy operating.
Early modelers did not consider how difficult it would be to ramp up green electricity.
Compared to today’s total world energy consumption (electricity and non-electricity energy, such as oil, combined), wind and solar are truly insignificant. In 2020, wind accounted for 3% of the world’s total energy consumption and solar amounted to 1% of total energy, using BP’s generous way of counting electricity, relative to other types of energy. Thus, the combination of wind and solar produced 4% of world energy in 2020.
The International Energy Agency (IEA) uses a less generous approach for crediting electricity; it only gives credit for the heat energy supplied by the renewable energy. The IEA does not show wind and solar separately in its recent reports. Instead, it shows an “Other” category that includes more than wind and solar. This broader category amounted to 2% of the world’s energy supply in 2018.
Hydro is another type of green electricity that is sometimes considered alongside wind and solar. It is quite a bit larger than either wind or solar; it amounted to 7% of the world’s energy supply in 2020. Taken together, hydro + wind + solar amounted to 11% of the world’s energy supply in 2020, using BP’s methodology. This still isn’t much of the world’s total energy consumption.
Of course, different parts of the world vary with respect to the share of energy created using wind, hydro and solar. Figure 1 shows the percentage of total energy generated by these three renewables combined.
As expected, the world average is about 11%. The European Union is highest at 14%; Russia+ (that is, Russia and its Affiliates, which is equivalent to the members of the Commonwealth of Independent States) is lowest at 6.5%.
[4] Even as a percentage of electricity, rather than total energy, renewables still comprised a relatively small share in 2020.
Wind and solar don’t replace “dispatchable” generation; they provide some temporary electricity supply, but they tend to make the overall electrical system more difficult to operate because of the variability introduced. Renewables are available only part of the time, so other types of electricity suppliers are still needed when supply temporarily isn’t available. In a sense, all they are replacing is part of the fuel required to make electricity. The fixed costs of backup electricity providers are not adequately compensated, nor are the costs of the added complexity introduced into the system.
If analysts give wind and solar full credit for replacing electricity, as BP does, then, on a world basis, wind electricity replaced 6% of total electricity consumed in 2020. Solar electricity replaced 3% of total electricity provided, and hydro replaced 16% of world electricity. On a combined basis, wind and solar provided 9% of world electricity. With hydro included as well, these renewables amounted to 25% of world electricity supply in 2020.
The share of electricity supply provided by wind, solar and hydro varies across the world, as shown in Figure 2. The European Union is highest at 32%; Japan is lowest at 17%.
The “All Other” grouping of countries shown in Figure 2 includes many of the poorer countries. These countries often use quite a bit of hydro, even though the availability of hydro tends to fluctuate a great deal, depending on weather conditions. If an area is subject to wet seasons and dry seasons, there is likely to be very limited electricity supply during the dry season. In areas with snow melt, very large supplies are often available in spring, and much smaller supplies during the rest of the year.
Thus, while hydro is often thought of as being a reliable source of power, this may or may not be the case. Like wind and solar, hydro often needs fossil fuel back-up if industry is to be able to depend upon having electricity year-around.
[5] Most modelers have not understood that reserve to production ratios greatly overstate the amount of fossil fuels and other minerals that the economy will be able to extract.
Most modelers have not understood how the world economy operates. They have assumed that as long as we have the technical capability to extract fossil fuels or other minerals, we will be able to do so. A popular way of looking at resource availability is as reserve to production ratios. These ratios represent an estimate of how many years of production might continue, if extraction is continued at the same rate as in the most recent year, considering known resources and current technology.
A common belief is that these ratios understate how much of each resource is available, partly because technology keeps improving and partly because exploration for these minerals may not be complete.
In fact, this model of future resource availability greatly overstates the quantity of future resources that can actually be extracted. The problem is that the world economy tends to run short of many types of resources simultaneously. For example, World Bank Commodities Price Data shows that prices were high in January 2022 for many materials, including fossil fuels, fertilizers, aluminum, copper, iron ore, nickel, tin and zinc. Even though prices have run up very high, this is not an indication that producers will be able to use these high prices to extract more of these required materials.
In order to produce more fossil fuels or more minerals of any kind, preparation must be started years in advance. New oil wells must be built in suitable locations; new mines for copper or lithium or rare earth minerals must be built; workers must be trained for all of these areas. High prices for many commodities can be a sign of temporarily high demand, or it can be a sign that something is seriously wrong with the system. There is no way the system can ramp up needed production in a huge number of areas at once. Supply lines will break. Recession is likely to set in.
The problem underlying the recent spike in prices seems to be “diminishing returns.” Such diminishing returns affect nearly all parts of the economy simultaneously. For each type of mineral, miners produced the easiest-t0-extract materials first. They later moved on to deeper oil wells and minerals from lower grade ores. Pollution gradually grew, so it too needed greater investment. At the same time, world population has been growing, so the economy has required more food, fresh water and goods of many kinds; these, too, require the investment of resources of many kinds.
The problem that eventually hits the economy is that it cannot maintain economic growth. Too many areas of the economy require investment, simultaneously, because diminishing returns keeps ramping up investment needs. This investment is not simply a financial investment; it is an investment of physical resources (oil, coal, steel, copper, etc.) and an investment of people’s time.
The way in which the economy would run short of investment materials was simulated in the 1972 book, The Limits to Growth, by Donella Meadows and others. The book gave the results of a number of simulations regarding how the world economy would behave in the future. Virtually all of the simulations indicated that eventually the economy would reach limits to growth. A major problem was that too large a share of the output of the economy was needed for reinvestment, leaving too little for other uses. In the base model, such limits to growth came about now, in the middle of the first half of the 21st century. The economy would stop growing and gradually start to collapse.
[6] The world economy seems already to be reaching limits on the extraction of coal and natural gas to be used for balancing electricity provided by intermittent renewables.
Coal and natural gas are expensive to transport, so if they are exported, they primarily tend to be exported to countries that are nearby. For this reason, my analysis groups together exports and imports into large regions where trade is most likely to take place.
If we analyze natural gas imports by part of the world, two regions stand out as having the most out-of-region natural gas imports: Europe and Asia-Pacific. Figure 4 shows that Europe’s out-of-region natural gas imports reached peaks in 2007 and 2010, after which they dipped. In recent years, Europe’s imports have barely surpassed their prior peaks. Asia-Pacific’s out-of-region imports have shown a far more consistent growth pattern over the long term.
The reason why Asia-Pacific’s imports have been growing is to support its growing manufacturing output. Manufacturing output has increasingly been shifted to the Asia-Pacific Region, partly because this region can perform this manufacturing cheaply, and partly because rich countries have wanted to reduce their carbon footprint. Moving heavy industry abroad reduces a country’s reported CO2 generation, even if the manufactured items are imported as finished products.
Figure 5 shows that Europe’s own natural gas supply has been falling. This is a major reason for its import requirements from outside the region.
Figure 6, below, shows that Asia-Pacific’s total energy consumption per capita has been growing. The new manufacturing jobs transferred to this region have raised standards of living for many workers. Europe, on the other hand, has reduced its local manufacturing. Its people have tended to get poorer, in terms of energy consumption per capita. Service jobs necessitated by reduced energy consumption per capita have tended to pay less well than the manufacturing jobs they have replaced.
Europe has recently been having conflicts with Russia over natural gas. The world seems to be reaching a situation where there are not enough natural gas exports to go around. The Asia-Pacific Region (or at least the more productive parts of the Asia-Pacific Region) seems to be able to outbid Europe, when local natural gas supply is inadequate.
Figure 7, below, gives a rough idea of the quantity of exports available from Russia+ compared to Europe’s import needs. (In this chart, I compare Europe’s total natural gas imports (including pipeline imports from North Africa and LNG from North Africa) with the natural gas exports of Russia+ (to all nations, not just to Europe, including both by pipeline and as LNG).) On this rough basis, we find that Europe’s natural gas imports are greater than the total natural gas exports of Russia+.
Europe is already encountering multiple natural gas problems. Its supply from North Africa is not as reliable as in the past. The countries of Russia+ are not delivering as much natural gas as Europe would like, and spot prices, especially, seem to be way too high. There are also pipeline disagreements. Bloomberg reports that Russia will be increasing its exports to China in future years. Unless Russia finds a way to ramp up its gas supplies, greater exports to China are likely to leave less natural gas for Russia to export to Europe in the years ahead.
If we look around the world to see what other sources of natural gas exports are available for Europe, we discover that the choices are limited.
The United States is presented as a possible choice for increasing natural gas imports to Europe. One of the catches with growing natural gas exports from the United States is the fact that historically, the US has been a natural gas importer; it is not clear how much exports can rise above the 2022 level. Furthermore, part of US natural gas is co-produced with oil from shale. Oil from shale is not likely to be growing much in future years; in fact, it very likely will be declining because of depleted wells. This may limit the US’s growth in natural gas supplies available for export.
The Rest of the World category on Figure 8 doesn’t seem to have many possibilities for growth in imports to Europe, either, because total exports have been drifting downward. (The Rest of the World includes Africa, the Middle East, and the Americas excluding the United States.) There are many reports of countries, including Iraq and Turkey, not being able to buy the natural gas they would like. There doesn’t seem to be enough natural gas on the market now. There are few reports of supplies ramping up to replace depleted supplies.
With respect to coal, the situation in Europe is only a little different. Figure 9 shows that Europe’s coal supply has been depleting, and imports have not been able to offset this depletion.
If a person looks around the world for places to get more imports for Europe, there aren’t many choices.
Figure 10 shows that most coal production is in the Asia-Pacific Region. With China, India and Japan located in the Asia-Pacific Region, and high transit costs, this coal is unlikely to leave the region. The United States has been a big coal producer, but its production has declined in recent years. It still exports a relatively small amount of coal. The most likely possibility for increased coal imports would be from Russia and its affiliates. Here, too, Europe is likely to need to outbid China to purchase this coal. A better relationship with Russia would be helpful, as well.
Figure 10 shows that world coal production has been essentially flat since 2011. A country will only export coal that it doesn’t need itself. Thus, a shortfall in export capability is an early warning sign of inadequate overall supply. With the economies of many Asia-Pacific countries still growing rapidly, demand for coal imports is likely to grow for this region. While modelers may think that there is close to 150 years’ worth of coal supply available, real-world experience suggests that coal limits are being reached already.
[7] Conclusion. Modelers and leaders everywhere have had a basic misunderstanding of how the economy operates and what limits we are up against. This misunderstanding has allowed scientists to put together models that are far from the situation we are actually facing.
The economy operates as an integrated whole, just as the body of a human being operates as an integrated whole, rather than a collection of cells of different types. This is something most modelers don’t understand, and their techniques are not equipped to deal with.
The economy is facing many limits simultaneously: too many people, too much pollution, too few fish in the ocean, more difficult to extract fossil fuels and many others. The way these limits play out seems to be the way the models in the 1972 book, The Limits to Growth, suggest: They play out on a combined basis. The real problem is that diminishing returns leads to huge investment needs in many areas simultaneously. One or two of these investment needs could perhaps be handled, but not all of them, all at once.
The approach of modelers, practically everywhere, is to break down a problem into small parts, and assume that each part of the problem can be solved independently. Thus, those concerned about “Peak Oil” have been concerned about running out of oil. Finding substitutes seemed to be important. Those concerned about climate change were convinced that huge amounts of fossil fuels remain to be extracted, even more than the amounts indicated by reserve to production ratios. Their concern was finding substitutes for the huge amount of fossil fuels that they believed remained to be extracted, which could cause climate change.
Politicians could see that there was some sort of huge problem on the horizon, but they didn’t understand what it was. The idea of substituting renewables for fossil fuels seemed to be a solution that would make both Peak Oilers and those concerned about climate change happy. Models based on the substitution of renewables for fossil fuels seemed to please almost everyone. The renewables approach suggested that we have a very long timeframe to deal with, putting the problem off, as long into the future as possible.
Today, we are starting to see that renewables are not able to live up to the promise modelers hoped they would have. Exactly how the situation will play out is not entirely clear, but it looks like we will all have front row seats in finding out.
UK police are now to launch an investigation into ‘prince’ Charles selling titles, and even citizenship, for money, which is completely illegal under UK law. Charles was reported to the police last year by the Lib Dem MP Norman Baker, and by the campaign group Republic. Charles is hiding behind others, and denying that he knows anything about it, and he will expect to get off like his brother Andy.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-9958453/NORMAN-BAKER-Charles-hide-aides-fingerprints-mess.html
> Charles can’t hide behind aides. His fingerprints are all over this mess
Norman Baker
Cash for access. Cash for honours. And even cash for citizenship. It has long been normal practice for Charles to accept cash – on behalf of his charities – in return for favours.
Charles has repeatedly shown he is willing to accept cheques from almost anybody and everybody, without ever seeming to realise – or, perhaps, to care – that the large cheques have been forthcoming because the donors want something back for themselves.
His own father, Prince Philip, once described Charles as ‘rent-a-Royal’. And the greater the sum, the shadier the donor.
Yet today’s revelations – that Michael Fawcett offered to help a Saudi sheik obtain both a knighthood and a British passport – takes the issue to a whole new level.
It is a criminal offence to sell an honour under the Honours (Prevention of Abuses) Act 1925. Tomorrow, I shall be writing to the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Cressida Dick, to ask her to open an investigation.
As for helping to obtain citizenship in return for cash, that was the sort of link – which I uncovered through a parliamentary answer back in 2001 – that forced Trade Secretary Peter Mandelson to resign from the Labour Government.
But let’s be clear – this is no rogue operation. Mr Fawcett is doing exactly what Prince Charles wants.
And it is the Prince of Wales, not Michael Fawcett, who has to answer questions now. His royal fingerprints are all over this.
The UK police are refusing to investigate claims that ‘prince’ Andy r/ped and battered a trafficked minor in London, despite him paying an estimated 12 million to stop the NY court case.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10518921/Met-Police-WONT-reopen-Prince-Andrew-sex-abuse-probe.html
> Met Police WON’T reopen Prince Andrew sex abuse probe despite calls for officers to re-examine evidence after Duke agreed ‘£12million deal’ with his accuser Virginia Giuffre
The Met Police today said it has no plans to reopen the Prince Andrew sex abuse probe despite calls for officers to re-examine evidence following the Duke’s deal with Virginia Giuffre.
Britain’s biggest force dropped its investigation into Andrew last October, saying they would take ‘no further action’ – but the latest development raised questions over whether he would still be quizzed.
The Met ruled this out today, with a spokesman telling MailOnline: ‘There is no change to our previous position.’ FBI officials in the US still want to talk to Andrew as a witness to Epstein and his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell’s crimes.
Among those renewing calls for the UK case to be reopened today was Nigel Cawthorne, Andrew’s biographer.
He told Newsweek: ‘There should be a police investigation into Prince Andrew. There are a couple of outstanding matters.
‘One is that the US Department of Justice has asked the British Government for their co-operation in interviewing Prince Andrew.
‘The other is whether the new commissioner of the Metropolitan Police will investigate this matter.’
He added: ‘There’s no mention of how much money is involved or where he’s going to get it from. He’s not a wealthy man. As taxpayers we have the right to know. We want to know, is it coming out of my pocket?’
And former BBC royal correspondent Peter Hunt tweeted: ‘With the Giuffre case settled, Prince Andrew can now focus on talking to the FBI about his friend Epstein – 818 days after he first promised to do so.’
Mrs Giuffre had alleged she was forced to have sex with the duke three times when she was 17 under the orders of the late paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein.
Only last month, she was given the go-ahead to sue Andrew, 61, for unspecified damages in a New York civil court.
But despite vowing to fight the claims and repeatedly protesting his innocence, the prince yesterday agreed to pay a huge sum to settle the case before it ever reaches a jury.
It has been suggested that the Queen has used her private income to help her second son with his legal bills, and last night the Daily Telegraph reported that she would contribute to the settlement using income from her private Duchy of Lancaster estate.
Wow – she hit the jackpot – 12M!! Too bad the world is ending heheh….
The ‘queen’ and the ‘palace’ is refusing to strip ‘prince’ Andy of titles like ‘Duke of York’ and his honorary military titles. They have no shame whatsoever, and absolutely no respect for the people of York. The mood on the street in York is that the ‘prince’ had better not show his face around there or he will be asking for it.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10519353/York-politicians-join-growing-calls-Prince-Andrew-stripped-Duke-title.html
> Nearly two-thirds of Britons believe Prince Andrew should lose his Duke of York title after settling US sex assault lawsuit, YouGov poll reveals as Palace says it has NO plans to strip him of it
The survey, of 2,658 adults in Great Britain today, found some 62 per cent felt he should lose the title, despite Buckingham Palace saying earlier it has no plans to strip him of it.
It comes as a palace source today told MailOnline the situation regarding his remaining titles ‘remained unchanged’.
A number of locals in the city of York told MailOnline their views today, with an overwhelming majority feeling he should lose the title.
Bernard Oglesbee, 74, said: ‘He should be stripped off his title definitely. He must be be guilty, or why pay all that money out?’
Wife Val, also 74, stormed: ‘He should be stripped of everything. I have never liked him. I always thought he was a waste of space.’
James Green, 65, said: ‘He absolutely should be stripped of all his titles including Duke of York. I don’t think there is any doubt he is guilty. He has put his foot in it good and proper and he only has himself to blame.’
Annie Wells, 85, who is disabled, said: ‘It is a good job he is the Queen’s son. He would be locked up if he was anyone else. But if ever shows his face in York I will beat him with my stick.’
Rachael Maskell, MP for York Central, has called on Andrew to withdraw his Duke of York title to ‘show respect’ for its people.
The MP’s calls comes after Prince Andrew today settled the sexual abuse lawsuit with Virginia Giuffre after he agreed an undisclosed deal said to be worth £12million with his accuser.
Meanwhile, despite the settlement, it is feared that the scandal could still overshadow poignant Platinum Jubilee celebrations for the UK in the coming months. Also today, the Metropolitan Police said they have no plans to reopen their own probe into Andrew despite calls for officers to re-examine evidence after the deal.
I am afraid the British Monarchy is reaching the end of the line. People will get fed up with the strange goings ons,
They have a future in Reality TV… one angle is we have the old bat inviting in gigolos and they vie to be chosen to spend a night with her… that would be huge….
Does she choose … or does the audience????
The Big Money for comes from the pay per view of The Event — on P–orn— hub….. gotta pay the for the butlers and footmen somehow….
Keep the titles .. it just makes the family look like an even bigger joke…
What more can be expected when you have dozens of generations of inbreeding .. frankly I’m surprised that any of them can even tie their shoes at this point….
Tie their shoes? Don’t they have valets to do that sort of thing?
http://www.avictorian.com/servants/servants_valet.html
Ah of course! And someone cuts their food and feeds them too because they lack coordination
His good friend Klaus Schwab won’t like it
“However, ‘Michael’, 59, has long been dogged by controversy and was twice before forced to resign after being accused of bullying staff and selling on unwanted royal gifts – earning him the nickname ‘Fawcett The Fence’.”
Gail thank you for keeping the info going…
When I read this I realized that a lot of people are still confused.
The comments section is littered with ignorance
https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/global-oil-inventories-are-exceptionally-tight-kemp
I agree.
The article says,
The decades of underinvestment and civil unrest came from many years of too low oil prices. This is what everyone is afraid of going forward as well. This is why countries elsewhere, when prices are higher, give dividends back to the shareholders, rather than invest in more new production.
Depletion, raising the cost production is another related issue. If prices weren’t high enough in the past, they won’t be in the future.
What a surprise!
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLutCGQXMAQmqU7?format=jpg&name=medium
More insight into EU/Gazprom/Russian gas from Tom Luongo:
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/will-lagarde-ecb-survive-inflection-point-geopolitics
Excerpt:
In summary:
Good grief! Without adequate energy supplies! Old European money seems to be behind all of the very old leaders we have in the US and Europe. Somehow, they think they can be in charge and own everything.
I’m not sure I agree with Luongo regarding Old European money, or even exactly what he means by this. But I think there is some kind of fight going on between European actors and the US/UK. At least Luongo shines a light on some of the moves being made in a more nuanced way than our ham-fisted MSM!!
I agree with Jane. I consider this misdirection. The Ukraine “crisis” is simply the US manufacturing a crisis to force NATO states to take a political position and to keep them in line, forcing a separation from Russia.
End of pandemic emergency management in Switzerland.
“Bern has decided: from tomorrow everyone is free. SWITZERLAND The time has come, here is the “freedom day”: from Thursday, February 17, 2022 goodbye to the COVID certificate, mask only on public transport and in health facilities – Stop telecommuting – Cassis: “It is a decisive step” – Berset: “It is not over, but an important phase comes to an end”.”
https://www.cdt.ch/svizzera/berna-ha-deciso-da-domani-liberi-tutti-NL5195348
In Switzerland there are no mandates, they have a vaccination rate of 67% but it is made by ‘only’ two doses. They stopped the booster campaign on 04.02.22.
https://www.rsi.ch/la1/programmi/informazione/telegiornale/04.02.2022-Basta-campagna-pro-booster-15066323.html
I wonder if there is any canadian trucker reading this news…
Great!
Two days ago the Austrain chancellor Nehammer said, mandatory vaccination need not to come if not necessary. Today I saw a tabloid headline that everything will be cancelled March 5th.
I see, it is official:
https://orf.at/stories/3247635/
…vulnerable spaces, as in Switzerland…
Vaccination will continue, Mandatory vaccination is not yet decided….
The city of Vienna just this week startet “vaccination of school children in schools” I have no details on that about parental consent….
Yes, they need to go on killing some more children…
At a certain point maybe people will weak up from their dreams (nightmares).
“12 years old child suddenly dies after Covid-19 vaccination in Tirol (Austria)”
https://www.heute.at/s/12-jaehriger-nach-corona-impfung-in-tirol-tot-100190534
sorry, ‘wake’ instead of ‘weak’
What happens when 3 billion people get (mis) diagnosed with AIDS because of the jab?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLtYps2XsAIxitU?format=jpg&name=large
Oh, we have a drug for that!
Really…zits just part of what I am the commercial guy says…
Life is good…chemicals make it possible!
What is BIKTARVY®?
BIKTARVY® is a complete, 1-pill, once-a-day prescription medicine used to treat HIV-1 in adults and children who weigh at least 55 pounds. It can either be used in people who have never taken HIV-1 medicines before, or people who are replacing their current HIV-1 medicines and whose healthcare provider determines they meet certain requirements.
BIKTARVY does not cure HIV-1 or AIDS. HIV-1 is the virus that causes AIDS
Great not a cure…ensures repeat customers… applause
What’s wrong with good ol AZT, which has done so well in the “treatment” of HIV/AIDS (TM) patients?
I recommend anyone make a backup of “the” last post by Luc Montagnier on Twitter..
… and this news came out just a couple of weeks ago from Switzerland:
“A vaccine for HIV is being tested.
The International Aids Vaccine Initiative and ‘Moderna’ are launching a study of an mRNA preparation against HIV.”
https://www.rsi.ch/news/vita-quotidiana/eta-beta/Si-sperimenta-un-vaccino-per-lHIV-15047856.html
“Decade-High Food Prices Drive Poverty and Unrest in Africa… compounding the plight of some 40 million people thrown into poverty by the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and its accompanying lockdowns…
“That is creating a food crisis that threatens to spill over into unrest. In some places, it is already driving people to emigrate.”
https://www.wsj.com/articles/decade-high-food-prices-drive-poverty-and-unrest-in-africa-11644932613
“What’s driving up food prices worldwide?
“The UN’s food agency warns that higher prices are putting people in developing countries at risk.” [video; full disclosure – I haven’t watched it 😃]
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/inside-story/2022/2/15/whats-driving-up-food-prices-worldwide
The video seems to be 24:30.
I have it on in the background. The first talking head basically boils it down to three drivers: covid, conflict and the six letter word beginning with “c” and ending in “e”, which will get caught in the filter if I spell it out entirely… 😆
He also says food supply is too globalised and just-in-time, and that it’s already starting to undergo an enforced re-localising process. My own view is that it is rapidly heading for a near total re-localisation in abrupt and chaotic fashion.
This is why I do not get airtime on Al Jazeera, I suppose.
Al Jazeera should realise that, from your feudal eerie in the Far North, you can survey the whole world with a keen and dispassionate eye.
Thank you, Xabier – excellent point. Like a marginally less menacing, Hebridean Sauron…
I cannot enter into details of my work, but there is an on-going relocalising process of supplies concerning various business to business basic products.
Chinese products have been assigned with higher standard costs due to increased freigh costs assigned inside the product itself.
On the other hand China and Germany are trying to increase train trasports without making much noise.
A lot of shortage anyway.
And big price increases for final consumers.
In this big chaos some could make even more money as it happens during wars.
Very difficult moments.
Let’s hope to stand and go on.
All the best.
“Let’s hope to stand and go on.”
Amen to that, Student. Seeing globalisation start to “unknit” under these pressures is alarming, given that the global economy does not have an effective reverse gear.
Global labour arbitrage, globalisation of supply-chains etc. were really one-way processes and we’ve become reliant on such advantages as they afforded.
“the six letter word beginning with “c” and ending in “e”,”
???
I need more hints. Make it into an anagram?
Meatlic. Discussions on the subject go nowhere productive on OFW and just wind up annoying everyone on all sides of the debate, which is why, I’m assuming, Gail has imposed the filter.
Harry, I suspect you meant a SEVEN-letter word there. Am I right?
Jane, the only complete anagram of the word in question in the English language is METICAL.
For those of you who’ve never heard of it, it’s the currency of Mozambique. The plural of metical is meticals or meticais. The Mozambique metical subdivides into 100 centavos and is represented by the symbol MTn or MT.
Currently there are 63.83 meticals to the US dollar.
One big problem in Africa is overpopulation.
The article mentions the effects of the continuing COVID restrictions:
Seems that overshoot is a worldwide problem
Just reading Catton’s Overshoot.
About 2/3 through it.
Brilliant.
Wish he were still with us.
The per-capita consumption rate of 90% of Africans is a tiny fraction of the West. Same with India, Indonesia, Latin America, much of Asia.
Where over population is a real thing is in America and the EU.
You could eliminate the lower half of the population of the planet and only make a small blip of a difference but you could eliminate the top 1 billion and we would buy humanity an additional 100 years.
So are you realistically implying no one has starved in Africa because their population consumes little?
Is this why food was/is sent to Africa?
Is this why I see commercials for “Save the African Children”?
Perhaps their total consumption is high, while per capita consumption is low.
Don’t know and really don’t think the answer is important.
People in Egypt and South Africa are close to starving.
The reason that Africans are starving is because of 2 or 3 hundred years of violent opression by just about every European country and then America.
Read up on King Leopold of Belgium as just one tiny example.
“King Leopold II: The Man Responsible for The Worst Genocide in African History
The man who was responsible for approximately 15 million Congolese deaths. The biggest genocide in modern history that is never recognized by the vast majority of the world”
https://www.thefreedomofthought.com/why-isnt-history-cruel-towards-king-leopold-ii-13675d10220d
Great book – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Leopold%27s_Ghost
Yeah, and give the Africans the same opportunity and temptations. Guess what would happen?
No; that’s not an excuse for exploitation and genocide. Just sayin.
I’m merely wishing everybody to express their primate tendencies to the inevitable logical conclusion – full tilt collective subconscious until it all goes up in a puff of tryhard, fire and smoke.
Yes; let’s do this. Put the oh-so-contempted, by the absurd sanctimonious hypocrites, Mr. Maximum Power Principle back in “charge”. Yes, you know who I am thinking about.
Who wants to observe Normal ‘experience’ the 7 stages of grief as Sodom and Gomorrah takes a nosedive down the Seneca?
No hopium, no future. Just despair, clouds of dust and ash laced with radioactive isotopes from thermonuclear devices and burning Nuke ponds.
Now that is _the_ proper ‘reset’. Only the most hardened forms of life survives. Typically cockroaches (maybe), grass, bacteria and fungi.
The “bottleneck” is as absurd as the people wishing to pass through it. Ain’t gonna happen brother and sister.
🤣👍👍
quite correct Jef
“The reason that Africans are starving is because of 2 or 3 hundred years of violent oppression by just about every European country and then America.”
Jef, you are implying that prior to the arrival of the Europeans, nobody starved in Africa.
This comes as shocking news to me. I thought people were starving there for about as long as people have existed.
Arguably, Europeans eased the misery of Africans by supplying them with a steady trickle of missionaries to cook.
Norman, you are just as bad! You are an incorrigible rogue, sir! Don’t encourage Jef in his blame games.
people have always ‘starved’–regionally eg–uk 1315 and 1816, parts of ireland 1840
thats the nature of life
Jefs point was quite corrct about european mass interference
China is certainly growing food in Africa, on purchased lands, and then shipping it back to China.
“World Bank Group report warns of looming debt crisis in Jordan.
“According to the report, the global public health crisis triggered by COVID-19 quickly turned into the “largest global economic crisis in more than a century”, resulting in major setbacks to growth, increased poverty rates and deepened inequality.”
https://www.zawya.com/mena/en/economy/story/World_Bank_Group_report_warns_of_looming_debt_crisis_in_Jordan-SNG_68676330/
I am afraid that we will see an increasing number of debt default crises. The article references a report by the World Bank called “World Development Report 2022.”
It feels like we are sitting on a powderkeg, Gail. This was the situation pre-pandemic. I can see no reason why it won’t pick up from there and then worsen exponentially over the next year or two:
“The dramatic surge in protests in 2019 has swept up a quarter of countries in its tide and sent unprepared governments across all continents reeling.”
https://www.maplecroft.com/insights/analysis/47-countries-witness-surge-in-civil-unrest/
Wow! Forty-seven countries. I notice that this is a January 2020 report. It may explain the extreme response to COVID in many poor countries, however, even when cases were minimal.
In many countries, as in Europe pre-democracy, the only way to register discontent is street protest – the only voice the mas of people have.
Autocratic rulers have to pay attention to riots in the capital.
“Civilians despair as Idlib hospitals [Syria shut down due to budget cuts…
““I can’t buy medicine for my children,” al-Jadou said, with tears in his eyes. “I’m barely able to get bread, how am I going to pay for healthcare?””
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/2/16/hospitals-in-syria-northwest-shut-down-due-to-budget-cuts
“Economic woes pile pressure on Tunisian democracy… With a huge public spending bill, Tunisia has a gaping budget deficit and its debts have soared to nearly 100 percent of gross domestic product.
“The COVID-19 pandemic greatly exacerbated an existing cost of living crisis, while the same unemployment that pushed its youths on to the streets more than a decade ago remains a chronic problem.”
https://www.arabnews.com/node/2025406
The story about the closing of hospitals in Idlib reminds me of a story I saw in the WSJ recently:
How a Small Alabama Company Fueled Private Equity’s Push Into Hospitals
The new financing trend seems to be that small, rural hospitals (and perhaps others) sell their properties to outfits like this one, and lease them back. They use the substantial equity that they are able to pull out to pay out to pay current bills. At some point, this approach can’t work anymore. The Alabama company is figuring this out.
There have been a whole lot of properties of different types that have been bought up by financial organizations: retail malls, prisons, toll roads, parking lots, and now hospitals. At some point these financial institutions will figure out that they really cannot get the income they need. The assets are not really salable to anyone else. Local governments need to take them over, if anyone is able to.
They are going all out for income streams: but what if they prove to be just a trickle or dry?
We’ll have nothing, and so will they……
The problem is cost of services and the specialized talent required to run and maintain modern equipment, e.g. MRI, the old way was often exploratory surgery. Anyone wish to go back to the old way?
Dennis L.
Excerpts from this remarkable Broxmeyer-Cantwell paper (2008)
It’s only 8-pages and chock-full of surprises.
https://mednat.news/aids/AIDS_its_the_bacteria_stupid.pdf
Virus-like forms of mycobacteria in AIDS
Lost in the history of microbiology is the concept of a ‘‘tuberculosis virus.’’ A century ago, in 1908, Hans Much [16] first described the tiniest virus-like granules of TB bacteria, which eventually became known as ‘‘Much’s granules,’’ the precise nature of which remains controversial to this day. Two years later, A. Fontes proved the granules were filterable, meaning they were able to pass through laboratory filters designed to hold back bacteria.[17] As they were too small to be seen microscopically, they became known as the TB ‘virus’.
When injected into guinea pigs the granules and other forms of the filterable TB bacteria reverted and transformed back into their classic acid-fast, rod-shaped bacillus form and produced immune system disease, and even tuberculosis in the animals. Mellon and Fisher [18], appearing in The Journal of Infectious Diseases had actually warned that such filterable forms of M. Avium and M.Tuberculosis could easily be mistaken for both viruses and mycoplasmic-like forms, citing ‘the common finding by French workers of acid-fast bacilli in the glands of guinea pigs into which viral like (cell free) filtrates of tuberculosis material had been injected’. It is these tiny granular and coccal forms (not the typical bright-red-stained rod-shaped bacillus characteristic of the TB germ) that can be observed in acid-fast-stained AIDS tissue.
Physician Virginia Wuerthele-Caspe Livingston [19] was the first to discover that the virus-like tuberculous CWD forms of pleomorphic bacteria that she found in cancer and other immunologic diseases were ‘‘acid-fast’’ at some stage of their growth, and that this staining reaction was the key to identifying these ‘‘cancer microbes’’ in cancer and in tissue. To the extent that she also understood that these organisms could be sexually transmitted, she suspected the same type of organisms were implicated in AIDS.
Interesting!
uhm, what about bats and TB ?
“Argentina’s Debt Deal Promises No Salvation…
“The bitter truth is that unless a true economic miracle takes place (not Joseph Stiglitz’s much-criticized version of a miracle), Argentina will struggle to pay back lenders. Argentine bond yields reflect such pessimism.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-02-16/argentina-s-debt-deal-with-imf-promises-no-salvation
“China’s MMG faces Peru whack-a-mole as mining protests splinter…
“The split underscored a major and growing problem for Las Bambas and other mining firms in Peru and around the Andes. Amid rising protests, local communities are splintering into ever smaller factions, often with varied demands and agendas, complicating talks and leading to more production downtime.”
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/chinas-mmg-faces-peru-whack-a-mole-mining-protests-splinter-2022-02-16/
“Eurozone trade deficit hits 13-year high as energy crisis rages.
“The value of imported goods jumped 37pc year-on-year in December as energy prices rocketed and a trade deficit with China widened. The seasonally adjusted trade gap was at its biggest since mid-2008.”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2022/02/15/eurozone-trade-deficit-hits-13-year-high-energy-crisis-rages/
“European Central Bank member says its bond buying could end in the third quarter.
“A prominent member of the European Central Bank’s Governing Council has said its net asset purchases could end in the third quarter of this year, but tweaks to the bank’s monetary policy could mean that rate hikes might not immediately follow.”
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/16/european-central-bank-bond-buying-could-end-in-q3-frances-villeroy.html
“Italian gas, electricity prices surge despite government interventions.
“Electricity and gas prices have rocketed 94% and 131% in the first quarter of 2022, compared to the same quarter last year, the Italian regulatory authority for energy, networks and environment (ARERA) told the Senate on Tuesday.”
https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/short_news/italian-gas-electricity-prices-surge-despite-government-interventions/
“This week British bankers will start collecting the biggest bonuses since before the 2008 global financial crisis as their employers fight an “increasingly intense war for talent”.
“As most Britons face the biggest squeeze on their incomes since at least 1990, already very highly paid bankers are celebrating “particularly obscene” bonuses in the City’s pubs and wine bars.”
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/feb/16/weve-had-a-run-on-champagne-biggest-uk-banker-bonuses-since-financial-crash
“‘People are desperate’: Kent food bank and families hit hard by inflation… UK inflation rises to 30-year high of 5.5%…
“…soaring inflation is not just hurting the finances of local residents, it is having a dramatic impact on those of the food bank. Demand for its food parcels is at a record high…”
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/feb/16/people-are-desperate-kent-food-bank-and-families-hit-hard-by-inflation
“UK landlords demand rent guarantees as living cost crisis hits tenants.
“Soaring rental costs, tumbling availability, and economic uncertainty is fuelling the increasing demand for rent guarantees as cautious landlords seek to protect their revenues from the knock-on effects of the cost of living crisis.”
https://www.independent.co.uk/money/landlords-demand-rent-guarantees-as-tenants-face-crippling-price-hikes-b2015164.html
“Britain’s young face a poorer future… Stealth tax rises will see recent graduates’ real disposable incomes decline…
“…the government is freezing the income level at which graduates will be asked to start paying back their student loans. Inflation will therefore draw many, not very well-paid, graduates into repayment…”
https://www.ft.com/content/9a4c672f-a7c2-49ad-9743-519cf7e688b6
Repay loans from inadequate income. What could go wrong?
Just a random thought Harry; Pretty soon landlords won’t be able to get any tenants, at least those who can reliably pay and at some point somethings gotta give. Increasing numbers of tenants – will default with no means of rent payment. Thus, landlords will run out of qualified, reliable tenants as people are forced onto the streets or cram more into each housing (storage) unit. But I think this may eventually force rents in real terms to drop to more manageable levels – eventually. Renters, reliable ones who can afford rent, like raw materials, will become increasingly scarce. The new supply side dynamic.
Or perhaps governments will come up with another excuse to allow people to live in their homes without paying their rent (or their mortgage payment).
Financial problems for a few people with lots of assets are less concerning to politicians than hoards of homeless people.
Really?
Do the homeless lobby?
Dennis L.
Dennis,
No, but their supposed advocates do. Just read the news from LA, San Francisco, Seattle, and Portland to get a taste for how these things work. In the upside down political worlds of such places, the highest crime is to do anything to inconvenience the homeless.
More evidence of a K shaped recovery.
“The Fight Against Inflation Is Becoming a Class War.
“Central banks have decided that heads, the rich win—tails, the poor lose.”
https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/02/16/the-fight-against-inflation-is-becoming-a-class-war/
I listened to an interesting interview on the radio a couple of days ago (was on Isle of Mull, no wi-fi). Someone who ran a food bank somewhere in England said that their policy is to give everyone that needs the food an equal share. Used to be that when they started everyone got enough to keep them and their family going. But so many people using food banks now, in particular because of the recent jump in electricity/gas prices, no-one gets enough, and the amount of food given per person is dropping as the numbers collecting increase. Seems the UK is headed for famine, and an increase in spin-off diseases, amongst the less well-off members of society. On top of the health hazards relating to getting vaxxed.
Persistent malnutrition, if not actual famine.
Back to the 1920’s and 30’s, and at worst the 1830’s.
People can keep going for a long time in that state, if 0ore and more diseased – which will affect everyone else, eventually.
Rural workers here, in the hard times, filled up on dumplings,suet puddings and porridge.
Probably few know the old recipes now,
Good to see the MOREONS suffering.
Always remember – the odds of encountering a non-MOREON outside of OFW are effectively nil.
I have more empathy for a dog whose owner forgot to feed him…
BTW – M Fast informs me that Hoolio bagged an extra large rabbit today. And he was on the law gnawing on it all day… if anyone tried to take his kill he raced off with it and continued to feast.
I prefer Hoolio over just about all humans… he’s the real deal… Hoolio – Foolio … he’ll be excited to see papa tomorrow
So far, the financial sector is doing very well. If interest rates are raised, the party may be over, because of widespread debt defaults.
Not a sarcastic comment: If low interest rates are good for the rich and if they have hedged inflation, why would interest rates go down?
Dennis L.
Because falling interest rates raise asset prices. At say $100,000, the monthly mortgage payment will be a whole lot lower at an interest rate of 3% than at an interest rate of 15%. At a lower interest rate, more people can afford the assets. Furthermore, they can afford a higher asset price. So, wealthy owners come out ahead at a lower interest rate because asset appreciation is greater than that loss of interest income. Often, rents don’t go down correspondingly, either.
My error, rates go up, not down.
Back in the good old days, when oil, coal and natural gas supply were extremely cheap and growing very rapidly, the economy needed “brakes” to keep it from overheating. Raising interest rates didn’t seem to be a problem, during at least some of the period between World War II and 1973.
After oil prices started rising very high in the 1970s, there was a need to choke back economic growth, to get the oil prices back down. This is how we got to the absurdly high prices of the 1980-1981 period.
Also, interest rates were raised after oil prices started skyrocketing in the early 2000s. Politicians were afraid high oil prices would lead to high food prices and people would be very unhappy. These higher rates eventually led to the 2008 recession. I talk about this somewhat in https://ourfiniteworld.com/oil-supply-limits-and-the-continuing-financial-crisis/
“Climate Action Faces Reality Check In The Energy Crisis…
“”We’re going to have a multi-year stress test of political will to impose costly transition policies,” Bob McNally, president of U.S. consultant Rapidan Energy Group and a former White House official, told Bloomberg.”
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Climate-Action-Faces-Reality-Check-In-The-Energy-Crisis.html
“China will help its coal-fired power plants run at full capacity, the government has announced, raising further alarm about the fate of Beijing’s climate pledges.
“Swathes of the world’s second-biggest economy were paralysed last year because of power shortages, partly caused by a drop in coal supply as global prices of the fossil fuel soared.”
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20220216-china-govt-to-help-run-coal-power-plants-at-full-capacity
Who cares about climate pledges? The issue is keeping the economy going.
MORE
https://gifimage.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/humo-gif-8.gif
Any country or organization that wants to transition to wind and solar should be encouraged to do so. Their economy will collapse and leave more for the rest of us.
… we start to sound like a certain Kiwi here in the comment section …
Rapid Widening of Key Oil [Brent’s prompt] Spread Signals Tightening Crude Market…
“While American producers are boosting output as futures near $100 a barrel, OPEC+ suppliers are consistently falling behind their output targets.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-16/rapid-widening-of-key-oil-spread-signals-tightening-crude-market
“Global petroleum inventories are the tightest for years in a sign the market is overheating…
“Continued depletion of petroleum inventories is clearly unsustainable and will have to be arrested in the near future by faster increases in production, slower increases in consumption, or both… Slower consumption growth could come from the effects of higher oil prices restraining demand…”
https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/global-oil-inventories-are-exceptionally-tight-kemp-2022-02-15/
“As oil prices soar, U.S. drillers scramble to find sand for fracking.
“With crude prices at their highest levels in years, U.S. oil drillers are trying to boost output fast, but their efforts have been hit by a shortage of sand to use for fracking operations.”
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/oil-prices-soar-us-drillers-scramble-find-sand-fracking-2022-02-15/
“Workers Threaten To Close 200,000-Bpd Libyan Oil Export Terminal.
“Oil workers threaten to shut down at the end of February an oil export terminal in eastern Libya, which typically ships out nearly 200,000 barrels per day (bpd) of crude if workers’ pay demands are not met by a unit of the state oil corporation.”
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Workers-Threaten-To-Close-200000-Bpd-Libyan-Oil-Export-Terminal.html
Low pay in the oil industry gets workers angry; they can stop the whole process.
Sand for fracking is just another limit to the whole supply chain problem!
Correct me if I am wrong but isn’t that the same sand used for cement?
I wonder what the qualifications are for a CDL (commercial driver’s license) to haul sand as opposed to flammable liquids like refined petroleum? I might even be allowed to haul ( but not pound) sand at age 67.
Sand is the most used material from nature. When we run out of sand the end is very close …
Running short of supplies is what the “Peak Oil” folks have always worried about. Of course, pricing of crude oil futures makes it appear that this is considered to be a temporary shortage. In fact, it is, if it sends the world economy into a major recession.
Gail,
Something I never saw mentioned was the distribution of wealth; some are doing very, very well; or them there don’t appear to be shortages. Front men may be hung, those who pull the strings, maybe not.
Dennis L.
The US is still behind its peak crude oil production back in November 2019, but it so far is still seeing growing production from this lower level. I am sure that part of this is from using “Drilled but uncompleted wells.”
OPEC+ is consistently behind its goals. It doesn’t have the DUCs to benefit from. Even Iraq is dealing with depletion problems, an earlier article discussed. Lower well pressure and a higher water cut. Not enough built infrastructure to handle all of the water issues.
I concur… she is very close to a nervous breakdown…
anna… meet your soon to be new room mate
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/kitten-corner-davos
Look at these rough beasts that NZ breeds… reminds me of the Fat Bastard… the big dumb fat ox….
I reckon these 3 vermin be rounded up — and put on a one way flight to Bangkok — sold to a bro-thel… and the money donated to the girl so she can buy a new hijab and a bicycle…
Am I extreme in my views? I think not. The time for being polite to MOREONS… is long over.
https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/my-hijab-everything-me-oghs-pupil-speaks-out-after-attack
Hello, can anyone explain this to me? With all the fertilizer problems, corn futures are damn near flat up to Dec. 2023. What am I missing? Are we overreacting like we do on vaccines?
https://www.cmegroup.com/markets/agriculture/grains/corn.quotes.html
I’m wondering more and more about many of these anomalies. Could it be that much of this “market” stuff is just made up stories? That in reality prices are managed? And shortages are covered up with various excuses rather than increased prices?
I blame it on production problems and equipment failure. How about component shortages?
Hackers are the reason for shortages. We totally have all the oil and food the world needs but those dang hackers crashed the release valves. Will be fixed soon.
Hackers of course! Russian hackers to that!
Seems strange to me. Some people expect farmers to plant extra acres of soy and less corn, with less fertilizer. That would seem to make for short supplies.
I have been pondering on a question for quite some time and know no better place than this to ask it. Please apologize if it has been answered before and in that case I would appreciate a link or two.
All this flurry about “Ukraine” and “Nord Stream 2” is rather incomprehensible and I have a strong feeling that some important piece of information is missing. What *is* this about? What information is missing?
The people with power (and especially the British) do NEVER state their real goals – everything is pretended to be something it is not, and the really important stuff is always kept out of the light. What could it all be about this time?
Could it be that the Russians are not orderly and compliant and refuse to “recycle” their incomes from oil and gas into US bonds or the stock market? Thus threathening the stability of the global financial system?
Could it be that the payment of gas trough Nord Stream is to be made in € rather than US$? This was mentioned as important factors behind the dethroning of both Saddam and Gadhaffi.
Could it be old imperial ambitions by the power cluster in London? The Nord Stream pipelines go directly to Germany, not to “the EU” in any form. A private pipeline to the almost infinite gas fields in Russia would provide Germany with enormous power, both economically and industrially, and an even more dominating position within the EU.
Some historians refer to the Berlin-Baghdad railway as the primary driving cause for WW1. The power center in London would do anything to stop Germany from getting oil directly trough an inland route. The same claim has been made for the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact and WW2 – it would give Germay all the oil and gas they could ask for directly from the bordering Soviet Union, and that was totally unacceptable to the London cluster. Could it be the the third installment of the same old story? (As a curiosity Joachim von Ribbentrop was the first to be hanged after the Nuremberg trials.)
we have elected to put ourselves in a society where the planet itself is a profitable enterprise, so all ends are focussed on that
wars, deaths, all your social ills are secondary to it.
stands to reason that a few will be extremely good at planetary profiteering, Venetian merchants, Rothhschilds Rockefeller, Carnegies, Gates, Bezos et al. The rest of us just ‘get by’ relativly speaking.
But their ‘system’ can only work, and has worked till now, if the planet is constantly delivering ‘more’ of everything.We seem to have reached the endgame where that is no longer the case. The planet is effectively running on empty.
But the profit makers cannot accept this, (none of us can) so go on scrambling to make profit by tried methods which no longer work. We give ourselves debt as a substitute for wages. That can only work for just so long, because debt is a draw on future energy conversions. If theres no future energy conversion then the ponzi scheme of debt must collapse.
We’ve been doing that for the last 50 years.
Ripping the planet apart in a desperate frenzy to get hold of more resources to burn.
This is why violence is breaking out everywhere, as a frantic reaction to an inevitable future collapse.
What you wrote reminds me of the funny cartoon captions Charles Hugh Smith uses in some of his blog posts.
https://www.oftwominds.com/photos2021/cartoon-profit.png
https://www.oftwominds.com/photos2021/alien-cartoon2.jpg
https://www.oftwominds.com/photos2019/cartoon-value.jpg
All of that, plus continental Europe being defined as “not imperial core”, and being the sacrificial lamb for consumption reduction purposes. There are a lot of savings to be had from ruining Europe.
Someone at Peak Prosperity raised the point that the greatest threat to American dominance is an alliance between Russia and Germany.
It was in reference to an interview Brzezinski gave decades ago.
It is probably true.
Istead of a threat I would say that it would be an opportunity for a better balance in the world.
A multilateral balance which would probably push people to be a litte bit wiser and do not think to be superman.
That would be probably good also in respect of China which is becoming more powerful thanks to our stupid attitude to push Russia in its arms.
But it is really funny that Germans do not understand what is is better for them.
Bull’s eye!
I have doubts about the flurry for information on the western media about Ukraine and Russia. I checked a few forums with people who claim to be in Ukraine and they say things are fairly normal in Ukraine. Unsure if they are disinfo agents or if maybe the danger is being exaggerated to trigger more stress response, funding, and emergency measures.
I reckon there are no Russian T14’s on the streets yet?
Considering only seven or so currently exist, it would be like spotting a unicorn.
Have you counted them?
🤔
Oddys,
Get yourself a copy of “The Hidden History….” by Gerry Docherty and Jim Macgregor. You are warm, maybe not exactly correct, but warm.
Dennis L.
Thanks, will have a look..
Found the thing online. Downloaded and reading. This will take a week or three to digest. Extremely interesting all of it!
https://pdfcoffee.com/hidden-history-the-secret-origins-of-the-first-world-war-1-pdf-free.html
Found some of the main references also online and free:
http://www.carrollquigley.net/books.htm
Oddys,
Short answer: You are basically right.
UK / US (still) trying to prevent Germany-Russia trade and political bloc.
News item: Schroeder just named to Gazprom board of directors.
WOW!
RCMP orders blacklist of 34 crypto wallets under Trudeau’s authoritarian prerogative
The Counter Signal has exclusively obtained an order sent by Trudeau’s federal police force, which demands that all FINTRAC regulated companies in Canada cease transacting with 34 cryptocurrency wallets.
The wallets are alleged to be associated with the Freedom Convoy in Ottawa. The Counter Signal has confirmed at least one wallet which had contained over $1 million worth of Bitcoin as being a part of the HonkHonkHodl campaign to support truckers via cryptocurrency.
Whether this demand from police will hamper access to the funds is still unclear.
The police order comes via Trudeau’s extraordinary and self-prescribed emergency powers, and affects over 25 Bitcoin, worth approximately $1.4 million dollars.
https://www.thecountersignal.com/news/rcmp-ban-34-crypto-wallets-from-working-in-canada
But I thought crypto was impossible to track… hahahahaha
The Canadian truckers should just plan to travel to the United States by air, where they can be gifted with a brand new Mack truck worth $100K which they can then drive back across the border. No secret bank accounts needed. The governments have just revealed how they will deal with dissent…with financial teeth.
Please read the following:
https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/ba2-variant-loves-lungs-and-forms?r=ymz7z
‘Devil Covid’ at last?
So what?
To Satan we should say, like Christ: ‘Get thee behind me, Satan!’
Also, Igor never talks about prompt early treatment, re-purposed drugs, and an immune system bolstered by Vit D, etc. (Nor whether it is only dangerous for people with immune systems screwed up by the miracle injections).
I’d want to know if Devil Covid can evade those, too.
If so then, yes, it might possibly be alarming for some people, but most likely not all. And perhaps not at all for the unvaxxed.
Unfortunately, the health bureaucracies and Big Harmer are in collusion and still suppressing such protective measures, in our third year of this farce, which is criminal.
That remains the greatest danger, surely?
Thanks!
I read the paper Igor references. I wonder where they do that chimeric work. Makes Omicron B.2 sound troubling, contrary to what’s on PubMed presently. It’s so hot off the pre-press it’s not over there yet.
An interesting comment under that article (by Sandokhan) led to this paper from 2008 by Alan Cantwell and Lawrence Broxmeyer.
AIDS: ‘‘It’s the bacteria, stupid!’’.
https://mednat.news/aids/AIDS_its_the_bacteria_stupid.pdf
I had missed the Tuberculosis angle back then (too much Jon Rappaport probably – can’t recall if he ever zeroed-in on TB or just popularized the Duesberg controversy) but I just spent a few hours looking into TB per Covid after the heads-up from El Mar linking CoronaCircus.
Was going to add some thoughts later today summarizing a few things from PubMed queries since last posting; papers that touch on the TB subject. Here’s what I found so far. And thanks to Gail who pointed out Vitamin D again in her last reply; a productive thread I pulled-on regarding TB (just out of curiosity) and it’s a big, big thing TB-wise.
Here goes: (this just hit the Feb 2022 issue of Infection)
TITLE
Key summary of German national treatment guidance for hospitalized COVID-19 patients : Key pharmacologic recommendations from a national German living guideline using an Evidence to Decision Framework (last updated 17.05.2021) – PubMed (nih.gov)
Purpose: This executive summary of a national living guideline aims to provide rapid evidence based recommendations on the role of drug interventions in the treatment of hospitalized patients with COVID-19.
Check out the Conflict of Interest section.
These authors, 27 of them from all over Germany, recommend AGAINST using Vitamin D, Ivermectin, Azithromycin for Covid-19 care.
What is so amazing about their conclusion is how robust the literature is on the need for adequate Vitamin D levels in both Covid-19 and Tuberculosis cases. Literally hundreds of papers documenting it. Again, check out that voluminous Conflict of Interest section.
After reading hours-worth of titles and abstracts overnight on PubMed queries regarding Tuberculosis and Covid-19 a few things stand out.
One: they are close enough symptom-wise to require whole papers devoted to that problem and issues of poor nations having the capacity to do the necessary differential diagnosis and whether wealthier nations are paying enough attention to sort them out and treat them appropriately. (I think the Cantwell-Broxmeyer paper reveals something that is pretty esoteric biologically-speaking and that is Cell-Wall Deficient bacteria. It mentions “Mattman”, referencing Lida Mattman, who chased Pleomorphic bacteria for almost 70 years. She wrote the textbook on them – Stealth Pathogens).
Two: there’s quite a bit of concern out there that lockdown responses to Covid-19 have exacerbated the spread of Tuberculosis.
Three: a declared need for more vaccines against Tuberculosis and a few other nasty infectious diseases (some already in Phase 3 trials).
Four: a sense of confusion as to how to assess a viable approach to solving related problems, illustrated in a recent paper published in Lancet (linked below).
Five: the difficulties presented by various mycobacterial infections as noted in papers found on a PubMed query of “Azithromycin and Pulmonary Tuberculosis”.
Lancet paper: Why has the incidence of tuberculosis not reduced in London during the COVID-19 pandemic? – PMC (nih.gov)
BTW – also ran across a neat site that compiles FDA and CDC data on Adverse Events of Vaccines – very up to date and easy access on one page.
https://www.ehealthme.com/covid-vaccine-list/
Very interesting points. Thank you.
A very exciting development! Hopefully this is Devil Covid … patience grasshopper
We can only watch.
It seems to me that we wouldn’t have the – very sudden – Great Relaxation (in reality minor changes in just a few countries, but still full-on in others like Italy) if they didn’t hope to reap some advantage from it, and to come back in full force soon.
They must be praying a kid-killer variant turns up, or something to really panic Boomers (is that possible, they look like wrecks here, still masked-up?).
I think that ‘they’ are hoping for a nightmare outcome like that.
In which people pray ‘them’ to be injected (and their children too) with whatever killer jab in order to have some chance to survive a litte bit.
– You want my baby for an experiment together with monkeys? Oh, please take him, he is at school now and go on.
Neurolink for your child in exchange for a few more months of life and the right to work (sorry, privilege) ?
Might happen: they are running out of the poor bloody monkeys and that disgusting freak Elon needs his experimental subjects.
An nightmare outcome would be a godsend.
From that post I went on to Thailand medical what I stopped watching quite a while ago because their news style is very dreadful. Anyhow, they quote real academic papers, not peer reveiwed all of them however.
I warn you, these two items are not for the faint hearted:
https://www.thailandmedical.news/news/warning-the-omicron-is-evolving-rapidly-and-big-pharma-is-providing-opportunities-for-it-to-do-so-new-york-study-shows-ba-1-1-and-ba-2-evolved-as-such
https://www.thailandmedical.news/news/what-is-going-on-many-countries-planning-to-drop-covid-19-testing-and-trying-to-downplay-long-covid-giving-up-concealing-data-bad-times-coming
I mean, yeah, I have survived 2 years of the deadliest pandemic ever and the sun is getting stronger, Will get some tomorrow.
With Trudeau’s move to seize bank accounts, it looks like, at minimum, we are partially on step 8.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLsElGkXEAUksWN?format=png&name=small
They need to police and/or the military to turn in significant numbers.
I am informed from someone who would know that there is serious levels of dissent within the ranks of the NZ police. They know they are being lied to with respect to the protest movement because they can see that there are no extremists…. (well Fast Eddy is a bit extreme… but HE hides that quite well)
New Zealand is fining people for not wanting to get tested for covid. If you don’t pay the fine you can get arrested, have your accounts and property seized, and be put on a no fly list.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLssuIRVUAI7GWp?format=jpg&name=medium
Perfectly sensible: people who won’t take tests might obviously wish to blow up jets as suicide bombers…..
Apparently the Canadian führer got wind of the protests in Ottawa.
He is not pleased.
https://youtu.be/2OyczQW07Rk
🤔
From the dept of the blindingly obvious:
https://futurism.com/scientists-warn-terrorists-virus/amp
“In her new book “The Genesis Machine,” futurist and founder of the Future Today Institute Amy Webb warns that terrorists could create synthesized viruses in a lab and use them for nefarious purposes.”
Wow, no shit Sherlock. What a genius, who’d have thought about that idea. Give this woman the Nobel prize or two. Fuck it. All of them!
“Any potential answers to weaken the threat would be far from straightforward.”
Orly?
🤣👍👍
Chris Martenson talks about how the mRNA vaccines work and he has some new data that suggest not all is good. Such as some people were found to have spike proteins “8 weeks” after their injections. It’s 35 minutes long but Chris has a knack for making complex subjects easy to understand.
https://www.peakprosperity.com/decoding-mrna-research-findings/
Someone posted this story in the comments section which says two high school students collapsed and died from “sudden cardiac arrest” on the same day.
https://www.thedesertreview.com/opinion/columnists/lightning-strikes-twice-two-high-schools-sudden-deaths-on-the-same-day/article_d5375cdc-8dbb-11ec-ac07-73af1dfa9c96.html
In Italy today 500 thousand unvaccinated citizens over 50 will be suspended from work and left without salary. Mario Draghi: “The unvaccinated are not part of our society.”
https://www.rintrah.nl/genocidal-rhetoric/
True?
I don’t think vaccinated people are very considerate. If they were they would die faster.
Italy has been stuffed since the Roman Empire fell apart. Their mafia-run kiddie-fiddling business, the Catholic Church, has done well though.
It’s common practice in some parts of Italy to perform buggery on dogs… after football its the most popular hobby for the Italian men of distinction …. but I still rank Italy many notches above NZ – at least the food is really good.
Here boiled meat and vegetables is considering haute cuisine .. and mike is considered an intellectual…
Do you notice how mike actually believes he is .. he tries his best to appear intelligent on OFW… but then he exposes himself with clangers every few days.
That’s probably just a rumour spread by North Italians about Southerners.
In Spain, it’s not dogs, but chickens: I have a story about that, but it’s too obscene for OFW……
A NZ girlfriend told me I’d be thought queer for reading a lot and painting – but that’s the same everywhere now, except France which still pays lip-service to art and culture.
I have made an interesting and very reliable contact here in Wellington .. who has contacts in the govt and police … who informs me that:
– J’ASSinda snorts some sort of drug – similar to Ritalin (I was told the name but forget) .. that’s why she’s high strung… and she barely eats… she loses her shit at least once a day (remember she has protection .. and the protection knows..) — she is also terrified of catching covid. She is much worse than we could imagine
– the drug assertions against Clarke are true – the cops have his black book but don’t do anything because it’s small fry involved and of course he is protected
– I have info on various other info on her inner circle… it truly is clown show
After reviewing the assault video, we will not go public with the Fat Bastard – partially because it depicts the Fat F789 on the ground at the end and because we decided we do not want to put his face onto the interwebs as that would have long term repercussions for him… We will instead ask the police to issue him a warning if they are able to find him.
“The unvaccinated are not part of our society.”
I would say yes. It is quite clear that they’ve got some fundamental psychological differences. Perhaps some mutations that could be beneficial for individuation. And, dunno, for logical thinking.
Not sure if it is beneficial in an evolutionary context though. Perhaps it is just something different and that is by default a good thing in evolution.
Of course some form of ostracism can be expected to shake chaff from the wheat. After all; “they’re” without meaning and purpose sans the herd and their role, status within it as the foul primates they are.
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Oil-Refining-Industry-Cant-Keep-Up-With-Demand.html
Not sure but this must mean we are getting closer to the end
I decided to look at some US data, to maybe see what role the US is playing in all of this.
According to EIA data, US operable refinery capacity is down to where it was in 2015, in January 2022. In fact, refinery capacity had been rising between 1995 and 2015. The addition of new refinery space slowed down, before it started falling.
https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=MOCLEUS2&f=M
Lower operable refinery capacity makes it harder for the US to refine as much oil.
EIA data shows that recent US crude oil production is somewhat similar to its 2018 level. The highest single month of US crude oil production was November 2019, several months before the COVID shutdowns began in March 2020. US crude oil production is still down 9% from its highest level.
https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=MCRFPUS2&f=M
If we look at US net imports of crude oil and products, these peaked way back in 2006. In 2021, they were getting down to about 0. In other words, imports and exports balance out.
https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=MTTNTUS2&f=M
US Crude Oil imports, looked back at by themselves, peaked way back in 2006. This is about the time world production of crude oil peaked.
https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=pet&s=mcrimus2&f=a
US consumption is now getting back to the 2019 level, at least looking at data through November 2021.
https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=MTTUPUS2&f=M
With US consumption rising and US production down, it is not surprising that weekly data indicates that the US is moving back toward being a net importer of crude oil and crude products. https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=WTTNTUS2&f=W
I imagine that this is part of what is causing the tightness in the world markets.
Why are you still even arguing regarding covid?
It has been a scam since day one.
The entire medical establishment has completely discredited itself here. It has been a death cult for sometime but this was the official coming out party.
The goal of the medical establishment is not to cure anything and the same goes for the vaccine makers, the goal is to make you sick and return to the medical establishment so they can extract as much profit as possible from you until you succumb from the treatments. There is no profit in a cure to any disease.
common cold = no cure
HIV = no cure
cancer = no cure
Yet, hundreds billions are funneled through various scam charity groups dedicated to curing these terrible diseases and yet there is still no cure.
There will never be a cure for these ailments either.
The biggest problem is that the majority of people believe in complete illusions and hoaxes like COVID, moon landings, “muslims” did 9/11, etc. This world is mired in complete illusions that are sold to the masses so they can be exploited and they never realize it. Quite amazing. I have to say the puppet masters are quite skilled.
I spoke to a doctor earlier at the protest here in NZ – he would be in his mid-30’s… he has been stood down due to his refusal to inject…
We spoke about how his colleagues are 100% committed to the cult — they truly believe all they are told. He is disgusted with the lot of them.
An intelligence level far beyond the average circus or barnyard animal… refreshing in world populated by norms and mikes… close-minded .. drones … MSM imbibers…
The induced cringes are out of this world from these so called ‘people’. Or let’s be frank; contemptible peddlers of the rancid primate collective subconscious.
The worst thing is that they breed like experimental gene therapy stricken raccoons on Viagra® brought to you by Pfizer™
https://youtu.be/K9hkXJvDlPU
🤢🤮
“These variants … are they in the room with us right now?”
https://i.ibb.co/JvgT4CV/variants.jpg
Gail, I’m posting this here since it begins with the Atlanta area, and because the issue of sprawl tends to be underrated for its relationship to energy (as this video seems to somewhat be). Both farming and real estate development are past their pull date.
Metro areas are growing rapidly, taking away the farmland that is needed.
When my husband and I moved to Atlanta in the 1980s, the sprawl did not extend nearly as far as today.
At 33 mins, for 5 mins more, we see farmers who appreciate being in or close to urban sprawl, since they are close to their market and can, for eg., use hops from beer production to feed the cattle. They therefore need less acreage for feeding cattle. But there is also a tangle of other benefits and disadvantage to proximity to sprawl, depending on the location.
Generally peaking, though, farmers near cities do better. This was true already 1900-1930, when my mother’s family started prospering. It was all due to their ability to cover 8-10 km by horse buggy weekly, delivering produce, fruits, eggs, rabbits and pullets to people in the city.
In plans for the hideous new town, Edington, on the western fringe of Cambridge (secret mission to house thousands of high-paying Chink science grads), a so-called ‘market square’ was built with retail units.
It is now an ugly, wind-blown and desolate site, most of the units empty (why on earth take a shop there when the town centre is so near?)
Market squares arose to meet the need for a place to sell fresh produce and goods: the space responds to a need, it cannot not create it…..
Same here in South Florida….when we first came there were cow pasture ranches owned by milk producers like MacArthur Farms and gradually the acres were chipped away by developments. Remember a buddy pointing at the cows shaking his finger as we drove by saying…You won’t be there much longer.
Also, a small town Davie was know as a Cowboy village with a rodeo every year and a large Western clothing store…ain’t like that anymore.
Known for growing strawberries there…don’t recognize it at all from the 1970s.
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New Construction? S. Fla. Is Almost Out of Land
By Amber Randall
A South Florida Sun Sentinel study found that less than 1% of vacant land can be developed in Broward and Palm Beach counties – mainly scattered individual lots.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Very little vacant land is left for building homes in South Florida, but just how scarce are the options? As the region struggles with a housing shortage, the amount of vacant land zoned for residences is down to less than 1% in parts of the region.
The South Florida Sun Sentinel requested the amount of all vacant land parcels that are currently zoned “vacant residential” or “vacant commercial” from the Palm Beach County and Broward County property appraiser’s office.
According to an analysis of the data, there are only about 20 square miles, or less than 1%, of land that remains vacant and zoned for residential use. For perspective, Palm Beach County is 2,383 square miles. On top of that, those 20 square miles are fractured into hundreds of lots all over the place.
It’s even worse in Broward County. Of the county’s 1,323 square miles, only 5 square miles, or less than 1%, remain vacant and zoned for residential use.
Miami-Dade County did not return the request for information.
Much of the vacant land in Palm Beach County is parceled in the western parts of the county, such as Belle Glade, Clewiston and in areas such as Westlake and Loxahatchee. For Broward County, the land is more scattered, with areas of remaining land concentrated in the areas of Southwest Ranches, Davie and west of Sunrise.
“Broward County is a sought-after place to live as people from all over the world are making it their home. Although impossible to say for certain, it is my belief that the lack of vacant land is a contributing factor in the increase in value for the existing homes and properties and likely will be for the foreseeable future,” said Marty Kiar with the Broward County Property Appraiser’s Office.
South Florida is in the midst of a real estate boom fueled in part by record low inventory and an influx of new residents. One of the most important factors in the housing shortage, however, is the scarcity of land on which to build. Developers are having a hard time finding vacant land zoned for residential commercial use, as each county is braced by the ocean on one side and the Everglades on the other.
“Broward County is one of the most land-constrained markets in the country,” said Brent Baker, division president with Pulte Group, who builds homes throughout Palm Beach County and Broward County. “Palm Beach County is slightly better.”
Many of Pulte’s projects are reflective of the land constraints that South Florida is facing. They’ve had to turn to land-use conversions, building on areas that were once golf courses or flea markets.
Pulte isn’t the only developer turning to outlying areas in a quest to find land.
AKAI Estates turned to Southwest Ranches, out in the western part of Broward County, and Symphony at Jupiter, a new housing community, is built on one of the few remaining parcels of land in Jupiter, that was at one point a nursery.
Crazy, what can happen in 50 years.
When we came here it was cheap!!!!!
The EIA’s Drilling Productivity Report also showed another decrease in the number of Drilled but Uncompleted wells (DUCs). In January’s report, the EIA had estimated that the number of DUCs had fallen to 4,616 in December from 4,830 in November. The EIA’s current report shows that January’s DUC count has fallen even further, slipping 191 to 4,466.
This is down from 7,449 DUCs at the beginning of last year, and 8,547 at the beginning of 2020.
Some have suggested that the oil markets could be in for hard times ahead, as all indications that our future will include increased future oil demand growth while oil and gas investments have failed to rebound as quickly.
New drilling acitivity as reported by Baker Hughes is on the upswing, but oil companies appaear to be significantly more interested in completing wells rather than drilling new ones. The number of active oil-directed drilling rigs has increased 206 over the last year. While this is an impressive 12-month gain, active rigs are still down 162 from the level seen two years ago.
By Julianne Geiger for Oilprice.com
U.S. DUC Count Drops 48% In Two Years
By Julianne Geiger – Feb 14, 2022, 5:30 PM CST
Crude oil production is set for another increase next month, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s latest edition of the Drilling Productivity Report released on Monday.
According to the EIA, crude oil production in the seven most prolific U.S. shale basins is set to increase to 8.707 million barrels per day in March—a 109,000 bpd increase (1.3%)from February’s 8.598 million bpd, and an increase of 271,000 bpd from January’s tally.
This does sound worrying. Our oil production would be down quite a bit more compared to the 2019 peak, if it weren’t for all of the recently completed “drilled but uncompleted” wells that producers have been finishing and using. I imagine this is cheaper than drilling all of the needed new wells. If drilling rigs stop being used as extensively, the companies operating them take them out of service. After some point, it is not possible to ramp up drilling capability to the level it was previously.
A future variant of Covid-19 could be much more dangerous and cause far higher numbers of deaths and cases of serious illness than Omicron, leading UK scientists have warned.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/12/scientists-plead-caution-covid-restrictions-lifted-england
“could be” sure anything “could be” leading scientists at what university or government agency? Fear mongering.
Dishonest scientists could be “fill in the blank”
Insert: “A future variant of Covid-19 could be much more dangerous and cause far higher numbers of deaths and cases of serious illness than Omicron,” in place of “Russia plans an imminent invasion of Ukraine”.
All of these agencies have lost all credibility with me.
replace with “every one needs to “get tested for AIDS NOW!”
‘But, but I only had carnal knowledge of an alien! Intergalactic AIDS?!’
(That’s for you, K.)
Yeah, those hottie alien broads might carry some nasty intergalactic buggers. And let’s be real; humans are aliens ravaging earth. What a bunch of boundless loonies on a “mission” to destroy. Sorta like space itself, a limitless vastness for egomaniacs to “prosper” by ruining life and ecosystem after ecosystem.
🤢🤮
I better stick to purely synthetic low maintenance sweet and smart ass AGI robots, ‘screwing’ literally taken to a new level.
🥰👍👍
It’s only a matter of time now.
🤣👍👍
Hopefully, Robo-babe won’t have ‘a screw loose’, which is likely if the imitation is perfect…….
NZ Herald asked for The Video:
Alex – I’ve had some rather unpleasant experiences with the MSM in my professional capacity and I generally do not engage on any level with this industry — so there are some conditions:
I was attacked by a someone who opposes the protest movement while I was on a main street in Wellington.
The video is 7+ minutes long – it depicts a very imposing older man (I’d say 120kg) assaulting me multiple times (he has a mask I do not) and making angry comments about the protests at parliament. At one point he rams me against a wall and attempts to strangle me. I throw him off and to the ground — he flees the scene on a bus before the police arrive
If I give you the video you must agree in writing to publish it in its entirety – zero editing. You will provide this commitment in contract form and this goes to my company lawyer in Hong Kong for review
I get final say on any editorial content – if I don’t like it it doesn’t get published — again this goes into a contract and counsel reviews it before we do or say anything further.
I’ve seen how your hacks twist and cherry pick to kowtow to your masters in the government. You want your ‘terrorist story’ I have one of them on video. I know that is not the spin you are looking for but it’s the truth.
You either are fully agreeable to my terms or you get nothing.
You can reach me on xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx. If any of those terms are a problem for you – don’t bother calling and wasting my time.
Needless to day .. my phone is not ringing off the hook… I’ll send one last blast at Alex calling him a hack hahaha
Hey Alex – I was hoping to hear from you this morning – this video is explosive!
It could be your ticket to the Pulitzer mate.
The offer still stands — if you don’t accept then I’ll take that as acknowledgement that you are pathetic hack.
I honestly don’t know how the likes of you shows up for work every day — to a job that requires that you lie — in this instance your lies are killing and maiming huge numbers of people.
I have multiple mates in Queenstown with heart damage from this garbage ‘vaccine’ that the MSM is pimping.
Redemption is still possible Alex — but you need to meet my conditions… I’ll keep my phone near so I don’t miss your call
Hmmmm .. anyone with half a brain would conclude the ‘vaccines’ are not working as advertised… Israel also has record infections and hospitalizations.
https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explorer?facet=none&Interval=7-day+rolling+average&Relative+to+Population=true&Color+by+test+positivity=false&country=~ISR&Metric=Confirmed+deaths
– Ey, are you realizing that with what is happening with Covid lately, people are thinking that it will become a sort of influenza in the future ? And they could also not make next ‘vaccines’ simply thinking they could treat themselves with drugs !
– oh my gosh ! Really ? We run the risk to lose a lot of money and the control of people !
– I will put another shovel of fear through my media friends.
– Oh yes, please do it.
It seems like these were the same folks who were talking earlier about how to scare citizens.
Or… they are predicting what is expected to happen soon:
1. Billions are now vaxxed
2. Let er Rip is the strategy across virtually all countries
3. No focused protection anywhere
4. Highly contagious variant in circulation infecting record numbers
5. This create huge numbers of variant factories as the virus mutates when impacted by the leaky vaccines
6. Next mutation – out of control contagious + deadly?
7. Billions of injected MOREONS with damaged immune systems.
8. Perfect Storm conditions.
Just because it has not happened yet… does not mean it is not going to happen
The Great Relaxation is clearly an internationally co-ordinated policy, not a shame-faced retreat in the face of protests, etc.
So, we must ask what IS the intention behind it?
Setting the stage for a renewed vaxx assault on us seems more and more likely.
Absolutely. Ardern is looking increasingly to be under immense stress…
I have a feeling of unease… tension is in the air…
I was meant to return to QT on Monday but I will move that up to Friday if I pass my Covid RAT test tomorrow… the protest has serious momentum now – there is now a permanent tent city in place with plenty of people ensconced for the long haul – so many of them have been mandated out of their jobs — they get free rent free food and concerts day and night …. (while the jabbed hide away..) — they aren’t going anywhere.
But the vaccine doesn’t hang around after it’s done the initial training, it leaves your immune system to take care of the rest. So when the authorities state that the effectiveness of the vaccines weaken over time, what they really mean is that the performance of your immune system weakens over time.
The problem we’re seeing here is that the immune system isn’t returning to its original and natural state. If it was then the outcomes of infection with Covid-19 would be similar to the outcomes among the not-vaccinated population.
Instead, it continues to decline at a rate that means the not-vaccinated population have a better performing immune system, so this means the Covid-19 injections are decimating the immune systems of the fully vaccinated.
But to work out immune system performance we have to alter the calculation used to work out vaccine effectiveness slightly and divide our answer by either the largest of the vaccinated or unvaccinated case rate.
Unvaccinated case rate – Vaccinated case rate / largest of the unvaccinated / vaccinated case rate = Immune System Performancee.g. Double Vaccinated 18-80+: 1,846.38 – 5,226.1 / 5,226.1 = minus-65%
This means on average, fully vaccinated Brits currently have a 65% lower immune response than the unvaccinated have to Covid-19, but the following chart shows the true extent of the damage by age group as well
https://dailyexpose.uk/2022/02/08/uk-gov-data-suggests-fully-vaccinated-have-developed-vaids/
Darth Vaids
hahahahaha I so f789ing hope this is where we are headed… I want these CovIDIOT MOREONS to be riddled with disease.. to suffer… to die….
The hard part to figure out is, are we very near one minute to noon or are in the last minute?
Of what?
Doomsday Clock?
They say 100 seconds.
https://thebulletin.org/doomsday-clock/current-time/
This started out as being the risk of nuclear conflict, now updated to include climate change. When reviewed overall, it’s a little silly,
https://thebulletin.org/doomsday-clock/timeline/
The concept of the number of “minutes” or “seconds” left is by definition a product of how long the “day” is to start out with. From the site, I could not see where the beginning of the period has ever been defined, so how are we to evaluate… ??
No peak cheap oil ticker? Funny that….
… to midnight.
Guilty as charged? It certainly looks that way, and we do not know if he has admitted guilt as part of the settlement. He had the opportunity to defend himself in court, and he chose to offer her untold millions to avoid that. The guilt looks clear. We will have to wait and see if there is some other avenue to prosecute him, but I doubt that this will be the end of it.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10515637/Prince-Andrew-reached-settlement-principle-Virginia-Giuffre.html
> Andy Pays Up
A senior palace source told MailOnline today that the compensation figure is believed to be around $10million (£7.5million) – and the deal might only be a ‘settlement in principle’ at the moment because the sale of his Swiss chalet has not yet gone through. The source said the settlement will then likely be made when the property sale is completed – adding that he would expect Andrew to be at the service for Philip on March 29.
Emily Baker, former Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney, told MailOnline the settlement would be ‘at least’ seven-figures and ‘sizeable’, while London-based criminal lawyer Anna Rothwell said it was ‘not surprising’ Andrew had settled because the BBC interview had provided such a ‘wealth of material to use in cross examination’.
But royal author Nigel Cawthorne told the BBC: ‘We don’t have much of the details yet about how much money is involved and of course who is going to pay for it. He’s not a particularly wealthy man. Where is this money coming from? I’m sure all taxpayers in this country would like to know that.’ And the Queen’s former press secretary Dickie Arbiter told MailOnline today: ‘Where’s the money coming from? Your guess is as good as mine. ‘From the ”Bank of Mummy”? Pure speculation. It’s not just the settlement but the legal fees as well.’
And MailOnline columnist Dan Wootton said: ‘Hard to see how Prince Andrew will ever clear his name in the court of public opinion now he’s settled – and presumably paid huge money – to Virginia Giuffre. He said he’d cooperate with the FBI. He didn’t. He said he’d fight Virginia in court. He didn’t. What’s he hiding?’
The Metropolitan Police dropped their investigation into Andrew last October, saying they would take ‘no further action’ – but the latest development raises questions over whether he could still be quizzed in the future.
‘Worth noting that this deal comes just weeks before Andrew was scheduled to sit for an intense deposition, in which he would have been questioned under oath by Giuffre’s lawyers.
Mrs Giuffre, who is now 38, alleges that Andrew sexually assaulted her at the London home of socialite and Epstein’s close friend Ghislaine Maxwell after a night out dancing in March 2001. Last December, Maxwell was convicted of recruiting and grooming young girls to be sexually abused by Epstein, exposing a murky world of sex trafficking among the rich and powerful.
As well as the London allegations, Mrs Giuffre also said Andrew assaulted her at Epstein’s home in New York, and on Epstein’s private island in the US Virgin Islands.
A spokesman for anti-monarchy group Republic said: ‘Andrew has settled the civil case brought against him by Virginia Giuffre. People will draw own conclusions about what that means, but it’s unlikely to repair to substantial damage done to the monarchy. It’s been more than 11 years since this came to light. It’s good that Virginia Giuffre has achieved a favourable outcome.
‘However, this leaves a lot of questions that the British public deserve answers to, such as: has Andrew admitted guilt to a criminal offence? Will he now cooperate with the FBI?’
So Giuffre gets ten million dollars and the pig goes free to continue his crimes. The FBI LMAO, UK justice LMAO.
I am in no way condoning his actions but.
Anyone want to have sex with me for 10M? Im pretty cute for a old man!
Im not sure i could have sex with a 25 year old without feeling guilty. Would I. Of course not. Scouts honor. There are morons all the time who have consensual sex with 17 year olds.If they are 18 no problem. It cost some prison and life sex offender status. It cost others a pretty penny. The question is this. If that was a random 22 year old she met at the club would she still be a victim? If so would she have gone after him if he was a bum?
Every honest person knows the answers.
Most state laws acknowledge this specifying a different age of consent depending on the difference between the two participants ages.
Pedophila is of the most discusting acts there is. Yet we have a suicided epstein and johns unidentified. The trafficking it makes andrews crime much worse in my mind. His crime however pales compared to pedophiliac rape. One could say that trafficking always creates rape. The age line has to be drawn somewhere. That line says that a individual of a certain age can not make a appropriate decision to have consensual sex. That Its horrific to introduce child innocence to the carnal is not disputable . I would agree. None the less i think there are issues here because the circumstances determine the degree of horror.
Why was andrew such a moron? why would he not just pay a prostitute? Why would he not get on a jet to bancok? He couldnt find anyone of age? A prince? Pathetic. The answer is that sex without attraction from both parties in the other is meaningless. Like I said the fact that she was trafficked makes his crime much worse. Its not even comparable to raping a 12 year old IMO.
In the USA sex offenders are regarded as a mental illness. I know this because have had a job related to the criminal justice system. The reason is that the degree of punishment creates no deterrent. I see it both ways. One part of me says hang em. The other side realizes that may not be a moral decision. I say let the victim decide. Thums up or thums down. Of course thats fantasy. Regardless there are sex offenders that get omost no prison and counseling for much more serious sexual offenses.
A deputy friend described booking a rapist one time to me. It was his third rape offense. He had gotten out of prison for the second rape offense less than a month before. ” i hope they kept my cell for me. I told them to keep my cell for me”.
How does Trumps Liason with Smoky daniels compare? She was obviously above the age of consent. It could be argued that as a porn star there was no corrupting of innocence occurred. These things were not casual factors in trumps choice to have a sexual liasion with her IMO. Does that make it ok? In my opinion it makes the issue very different. Certainly you wouldnt want your pastor doing that. Anyone else. Meh. consulting adults. What did smoky get out of the deal? 2m? 5m?
I really am pretty cute. Omost comparable to smoky IMO. Scouts honor.
Does andrews behavior deserve condemnation? I wouldnt have him over for tea. Is a 10M fine appropriate punishment? Its completely excessive in regard to the standard of which punishments for sexual offenses are commonly given and obviously only because of his status and wealth.
The much more disturbing issue is the sex trafficking ring that allowed this and appears to have participants from omost all political parties that are serving to this day with no investigation. These are our leaders? Good god. Some conclusions might be drawn whether they are susceptible to gang psychosis. After all everyones taking a ride on the jet.
Sex offenders are required to be registered and publically mapped in the USA. That map only gives me the most general of information. Is there a hyena three blocks down or someone that screwed up at a party. No way to tell.
IMO healthy sex practices are best created from a motive of love and respect by both participants coming from a mature perspective that is able to identify how the decision will effect both of them. Others just call it fun and consider me a prude.. Different strokes for different folks
The moron award of the year goes to ….. TADA Prince A.
The focus on this particular coupling seems to push aside the vastly more concerning and dangerous likelihood that most, if not all, people in “high places” are compromised through sexual blackmail or worse.
Ancient kings seemed to have harems. Men in power have always had control over a number of women. That seems to be part of the “perks” that go with the job.
I have had a few strange experiences over the years. For example, at a convention, the president of the actuarial organization sponsoring the meeting wanted to invite himself back to my room after the sessions were over. We were both married to other people. I declined. Another time, many years ago, I traveled to New York City with the president of the company I worked for. The man taking both of our luggage upstairs to the hotel we were staying in acted as if it was very strange that we were staying in two different rooms.
Good point, Lidia.
Whitney Web suggests that was the main purpose of the Epstein ‘Lolita Express’ operation – lots of compromising, career-destroying, material.
I am not defending Andrew — who is a Hyper MOREON because he is descended from a very long history of inbreeding … the royal family coat of arms should say My Cousin is My Sister (or something like that)
But back in the day I did a bit of supply teaching to make a few bucks… and I had one class for quite a few weeks due to the teacher having surgery … one of the female students (15 years old) offed herself by taking her fathers heart meds…
Here’s the back story … she probably had self-esteem issues (I recall her being hyper active.. maybe too many morning donuts)… as she had doodled pretty much every player on the school ice hockey team… I believe her nickname was Pig.
Anyhow… one student thought he’d play a joke and pretend to be a real boyfriend… and then he was part of a group that put up lewd drawings on the lockers including hers of a pig being doodled by multiple guys…
So she ended it.
The thing is…
That was a rather sad outcome .. she was not a bad person… but at 15 she’d been around a few blocks already…
And might I suggest … by 13 many students are getting doodled out back of the dumpster at the back of the school during recess…
And by 17 a big number of the girls are having 3-somes … I’ve read that if a guy has blow and goes on a date with a girl of high school age… that’s a guaranteed score…
Any girl who has not had multiple men doodle her by 18 is seen as a bit of a weirdo…
So again Andrew is an Inbred Hyper MOREON… but I doubt Virgin-ia … was innocent to begin with … she knew exactly what she was doing … and had probably plenty of experience… the money .. the jets … the parties… living large … she doesn’t exactly look to be cringing in the photo with the MOREON….
The age of legal consent should be reduced to 15 or 16 to reflect the MTV Twerking Generation .. nobody should get done for doodling a willing 17 year old. That’s so 1950s…
Ed, too right. He was accused of repeated r/pe and battery of a trafficked minor. Anyone who tries to diminish that in any way had better keep their mouth shut in public.
“UK justice LMAO.”
Personally I think castration is about the mark for Andrew but to be fair this was a civil case generated by Virginia Giuffre in a New York court. The outcome was always going to be financial.
The UK has no statute of limitations for serious criminal offences, so had Virginia Giuffre wished to pursue justice via the UK’s criminal courts she could have done so.
Royal family members are not covered by the Queen’s sovereign immunity from prosecution. Princess Anne is currently the only royal to have a criminal record. She was convicted and fined under the Dangerous Dogs Act in 2002, after her English bull terrier attacked two children.
I had a long term relationship with a woman who was violently raped and omost killed. She dealt with it very well well much better than some of my other friends who i found after some time being their friend had been raped. I noted in some of them tendencies toward self destructive behavior.
My feelings in these matters involved ideas of training with force up to and including lethal force in self defense to prevent forcible rape and to some extent still do. I question whether these Ideas are really realistic solutions or a product of my culture.
Later I met a counselor who worked with sex offenders. I asked very quickly “how can you stand to work with them?” She expressed some surprise perhaps anger at my attitude and explained to me that they were humans and that they had often been subject to a great deal of abuse. She expressed to me that she was looking for solutions. After some time I decided that she was quite brave and that her actions were extremely more meaningful and more appropriate toward real solutions than my ideas about extreme force in self defense.
A john participating in prostitution is different than violent rape. Masking political hate by associating it with despicable acts does not work towards solutions or respect victims. Holding hate in your heart does not ever work toward solutions. I got pulled into this out of reaction to pretense. I have strong reactivity in regard to pretense. You teach what you practice. MY communication was not of balance but reactivity. If I appeared glib in this matter I sincerely apologize. Why did i choose to involve myself in someones pretense? I do not feel these extreme publicized monetary settlements work toward deterring individuals initially choosing to work in the sex trade. The pimp or trafficker usually has a particularly nasty way of emotionally forcing the individual to continue servicing the johns and it is a horrible thing absolutely contrary to love. THe force/abuse applied is applied by the trafficker or pimp and the john enables that and bears responsibility for it. Sexual offence is a extremely difficult topic with very few desirable outcomes in terms of solutions and I am sorry I addressed it in the manner I did. My comments were not from my true heart but reactivity to pretense. Not my place or my duty. My comments were inappropriate in the extreme and I will consider myself banned from this forum to indicate some meaning in this matter. My participation here has been excessive. Hopefully I have comunicated somthing other than reactivity here.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11365186/
A little corny but a Christian story about a girl who found her way out.
Is that the life story of Ardern? I heard that she was a bit of a wild thing then she found the DJ booth and that got her off the streets… and look at her know … snorting Ritalin and running ButtF789iSTAN…
Anything is possible … look at mike
Moral for Randy Andy: don’t sleep with a girl someone else has paid for……….
Now Randy Andy gotta pay up for all the other children and young women he… You know…
Gunna get expensive for mommy…
🤔
Ukraines relationship with russia goes back aways. THe Russian orthodox church is said to have emerged from Kiev around 1100AC.
Its a fiery relationship in recent times. The kiev side of the country has strong nationalistic views resulting in their siding with the nazis in WWII inflicting losses on the soviet union. After WWII during the cold war these nationlistic remnants were supported by western intelligence agencies. The events of 2014 were the culmination of this support. Whether it was wise to proceed in this manner may not have been evaluated the path set in motion during earlier times. The conflict is not solely of western creation nor would it have escalated without the monkey wrenching.
The actual mechanism of the conflict is more conventional IMO. With Russian natural gas transiting through ukraine ukraine took its cut in both official and unofficial manner. Like all cuts in the reality of depleting natural resources nether side was happy but the stormy relationship allowed a continuance.
The kiev politician see ownership of the pie not just a cut in autonomy. Russia sees it s a bunch of outlaws turning a good girl bad.
The people on both sides that dont have strong views see the conflict as insane. The nieces nephews demonstrate that the real diferences as a people between ukraine and russia are quite small.
Russia will fight to retain its only cold weather military port in crimea. I think its clear they will commit significant resources to retaining crimea. IMO neither sides goals are going to be easily achieved. I dont see russia backed off with western oil companies extracting NG out of the black sea and ukraine fat and happy. I dont see ukraine returning to a faithful if temperamental vassal state of moldy old russia. None of this spells good things for ukraines future. Ukraine having interests seperate from the west and russias, what a bizaare concept.
Is it better to rock the boat for more pie? Ask Syria. Thats Ukraines fate in 3 2 1. THe resemblence is eerie with the providing of mobile anti tank and MANPADS to ukraine. MANPADS were not provided in syria due to the very high chance that they would cross the border to iraq and be used in naughty ways. Implementing The minsk accords negotiated by france and germany who are reasonable players in this matter would avoid syrias bombed into the stone age fate but no pie redistribution so its syria. Infrastructure that takes decades to create is simply not replaced after its blown to bits in a time of depleting resources. There is no marshall plans. Things that are disassembled remain disassembled. Implementing the minsk accords is the only reasonable path. It means a return to the status quo of everyone unhappy with the pie slices so it is unacceptable. WE WANT OUR PIE!
IMO all countries including my own would be wise to regard syrias fate. While detente seems painful and unnatural the smell of napalm in the morning has certain disadvantages.
WE WANT OUR PIE!
Didn’t Stalin intentionally starve millions of Ukrainians to death in the 1930s? Probably every Ukrainian has relatives that were killed by Stalin.Do you think this might make many Ukrainians dislike Russians?
Stalin was a Georgian, not a Russian. He was followed by Khrushchev, who was a Ukrainian.
Stalin was responsible for the deaths of more Russians than any other ethnic group.Do you think this might make many Russians dislike Georgians? Asking for a friend. I would never ask such a dumb question on my own behalf.
It was Khrushchev who arbitrarily awarded the Russian Crimea to Ukraine. Do you think this might make many Russians dislike Ukranians? Once again, asking for a friend.
Khrushchev was born in Russia 3km from the present Ukrainian border, moved to Ukraine proper as a child, and eventually worked himself up to become the head of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic before going on to rule the USSR.
Lenin was a Russian, albeit with some Jewish (maternal grandfather), German, Swedish, German and Kalmyk ancestry.
Another aspect to whether this conflict can be escalated is the Taiwan issue. It would seem to be unlikely that the US could simultaneously fight against China for Taiwan and against Russia for Ukraine. Anyone can see that the US would give greater priority to keeping Taiwan out of China’s control. This issue, by itself, would give the US an interest in de-escalating the Ukraine problem. Even if Taiwan isn’t currently a major source of conflict, the area could heat up.
“7 Facts about Ukraine
Deadly Men in Funny Hats
by Greg Palast”
https://mailchi.mp/gregpalast/ukraine-deadly-men-in-funny-hats
WTI is about to fall from 92 to 62?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLgcr0pXIAY3_fS?format=jpg&name=large
$62 sounds like a reasonable guess.
Yes but not yet… how if you still have low inventory??
Norway and Russia are both cold countries. But Norway does not subsidize the energy prices for its citizens in general, while Russia does:
https://www.thelocal.no/20220207/norwegian-energy-agency-warns-high-prices-could-last-until-next-winter/
Norway is a part of the oceanic west coast, but Russia is a continental country, which means that Norway bathes in the salt water comming from the warmer zone of the Earth, while Russia not.
The Southern part of Norway isn’t terribly cold, because it is near the ocean breezes. Its hydroelectric power seems to be enough to heat homes in Norway.
Norway is very difficult to traverse because of the mountains; building roads (and tunnels) is a huge problem in Norway. I can understand why Norway would discourage road travel. If a few people can ride trains, that would be better. Allowing high prices seems to work in Norway.
Russia uses a huge amount of energy products for heating homes. I imagine the homes are not necessarily very energy efficient. Taking down these homes and rebuilding them would be impossible. About all it can do is subsidize the cost of fuel for heating them.
Russia’s roads aren’t very good. This, plus low wages for most, may discourage auto ownership.
You are right in a way about russia’s homes. what was built in the ussr years is not very efficient in keeping the heat inside. on the other hand everything which is built as per specifics for country houses from monarchy times is very, very efficient. those houses has something like central fireplace which heatens the whole house, i believe it is called Russian Furnace. Check it up on Google, some serious engineer though and brutal efficiency. The new builds in Russia are now centered around such concept of central furnace (with variety of fuel intake) which can heat up the house and keep the hat inside.
As long as you can fill the sucker with coal and one use plastic grocery bags — it gets my vote!
A little dioxin never hurt the MOREONS… even it it makes them a little more stooopid … what does it matter?
The central fireplace is a very good idea!
I have a centrally situated chimney for my central wood heating with conventional radiators which has a standard thermal insulation (like this one https://spokopredajna.sk/kominove-systemy/schiedel-stabil-o200mm.html?gclid=Cj0KCQiA3rKQBhCNARIsACUEW_aeoOZd408oFU3lHNtz2IIbNG2gOUfj7cQoIl5vHuIyvpvKtjCj1yUaAvCPEALw_wcB#/27-jednotka-bm) in its zone which is exposed to the outside air (from the ceiling of the rooms through the unheated attic to the outside), but the original brick, uninsulated chimney is preserved inside the rooms, which radiates a comfortable heat.
The upper part of the chimney was originally made from uninsulated bricks, too, but it deteriorated and cracked because of the contact with the cold air, so I have to dismantle it and replace with the modern insulated chimney.
I also have a natural gas boiler connected to the system, but due to the rising natural gas prices and Slovakia developing its nuclear power capacity, I will probably switch to something like below, which can provide an additional benefit of air conditioning during the unbearable humid summers which we experience more and more:
“The hybrid heat pump is the definitive solution for spaces that require heating, air-conditioning and hot water as it produces almost 8 units of heat energy for every 1 unit of energy consumed (COP: 7.95).”
https://termo-plus.com/products/hybrid-air-source-heat-pumps/
Historically, there are concepts of heating which are proven:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypocaust
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ondol
https://mobile.twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1491172452432777216
This is a strange virus. It activities ancient virus genome that we incorporated in our DNA.
19 and the injections reek of non human tech. Peas in a pod. (pun unintended)
Mendel is happily dancing in his grave 🙂
I recall Dr. Fiegl-Ding was very early out of the gate hyping the Infection Fatality Rate of SARS-CoV-2. I think he said 3. Here’s a paper that brings in the TB-angle on HERV-W.
Pathogens
2021 Sep 3
HERV-W and Mycobacteriumavium subspecies paratuberculosis Are at Play in Pediatric Patients at Onset of Type 1 Diabetes
PMID: 34578167
Abstract
The etiology of T1D remains unknown, although a variety of etiological agents have been proposed as potential candidates to trigger autoimmunity in susceptible individuals. Emerging evidence has indicated that endogenous human retrovirus (HERV) may play a role in the disease etiopathogenesis; although several epigenetic mechanisms keep most HERVs silenced, environmental stimuli such as infections may contribute to the transcriptional reactivation of HERV-Wand thus promote pathological conditions.
Previous studies have indicated that Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis (MAP) could be a potential risk factor for T1D, particularly in the Sardinian population. In the present study, the humoral response against HERV-W envelope and MAP-derived peptides was analyzed to investigate their potential role in T1D etiopathogenesis, in a Sardinian population at T1D onset (n = 26), T1D (45) and an age-matched healthy population (n = 45).
For the first time, a high serum-prevalence of anti-Map and anti-HERV-W Abs was observed in pediatric patients at onset of T1D compared to T1D patients and healthy controls. Our results support the hypothesis that external infections and internal reactivations are involved in the etiology of T1D, and that HERV-W activation may be induced by infectious agents such as MAP. [Mycobacterium Avium Paratuberculosis]
Would you trust someone with the name Feigl-Ding?
Better still … would you dingle her from behind?
Opinion: State officials consider mandating COVID vaccines for child care and school children
‘Health nightmare’: Dr. Robert Malone spotlights study on mRNA spike protein
‘Health nightmare’: Dr. Robert Malone spotlights study on mRNA spike protein
Posted by ClarkCountyToday.comDate: Monday, February 14, 2022in: COVID-19, News
‘Criminal’ that public is only now learning about impact of COVID vaccines
Art Moore
WND News Center
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention assures Americans that the mRNA and the spike protein it produces in COVID-19 vaccines to create an immune response “don’t last long in the body.”
On its website, the agency states: “Our cells break down mRNA and get rid of it within a few days after vaccination. Scientists estimate that the spike protein, like other proteins our bodies create, may stay in the body up to a few weeks.”
However, a new peer-reviewed study by researchers at Stanford University finds that the spike protein created by the COVID vaccines remains in the body much longer than believed and at levels higher than those of severely ill COVID-19 patients.
‘Criminal’ that public is only now learning about impact of COVID vaccines.
File photo
The Stanford researchers tested the duration of the protein in the body for 60 days and found that it lasted at least that long.
Dr. Robert Malone, the key developer of the mRNA technology in the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines, said the findings were “buried” in the study, which was published by the journal Cell.
He described the results as a potential “health public policy nightmare” in an analysis on his Substack page.
Unlike typical vaccines, which use a live virus that has been attenuated, or weakened, the messenger RNA vaccines carry genetic material that instruct cells how to produce the spike protein, which activates the body’s immune response and produces antibodies.
Malone said that having worked with mRNA for decades, he found the persistence of the synthetic spike protein in lymph node germinal centers to be “highly unusual.”
The study quantitatively measured spike protein levels in plasma after vaccination. And it turned out that the levels are higher than the levels observed in a person with a severe COVID-19 infection.
Malone wrote that “the fact that this (is) only now being discovered, or if it was known, released to the public is criminal in my opinion.”
“This should have been characterized long ago, including prior to beginning human clinical trials,” he said.
The mRNA vaccines, he further explained, use a modified chemical called pseudouridine to encode the spike protein and unique nanoparticles to deliver it. It’s a system, he said, that was approved “without fully understanding the implications and without the FDA requiring a complete pre-clinical toxicology regulatory package, including long-term follow-up, as is done with any other unique chemical or adjuvant additive.”
Prominent cardiologist Dr. Peter McCullough, an epidemiologist, said in a recent podcast it’s known that the vaccines have a “dangerous mechanism of action,” which is “the production of the spike protein.”
“The spike protein is what make the respiratory infection lethal, and it follows that in some people excessive production of the spike protein in a vulnerable person would lethal after a vaccine,” he said.
McCullough has found from his review of studies that the lipid nanoparticles — which deliver the spike protein in the mRNA system — “go right into the heart.” He believes that’s why studies indicate a higher-than-expected rate of myocarditis, particularly in boys, associated with the vaccines. And the studies show that the myocarditis produced by a COVID-19 infection tends to be mild and “inconsequential” while the myocarditis caused by the vaccine can be severe.
“When the kids get myocarditis after the vaccine, 90% have to be hospitalized,” McCullough said in a podcast interview in December. “They have dramatic EKG changes, chest pain, early heart failure, they need echocardiograms.”
Malone said it’s possible that the chemical pseudouridine in the vaccines is causing a reaction that allows mRNA to migrate to the lymph nodes and throughout the body, as non-clinical Pfizer data from Japan suggests.
“I do not know how to write this more strongly,” Malone said. “This technology is immature.”
He noted the World Health Organization has approved six COVID-19 vaccines that are more traditional, all of which the U.S. government could license.
“These genetic vaccines are not the only option.”
Surprised to see this on the web from a newspaper outlet
And I’m sure most people don’t know what a virus is different from a bacterium. They certainly don’t know what a spike protein is either. So what is criminal is talking above the heads of average people.
Maybe so, it’s not their fault they are uneducated and if so, Artleads, they were not paying much attention in highschool… actually, the web can answer these inquiries…more likely the individuals approving these are the criminals and are more than capable of understanding what they are allowing.
But if it is not on the front page of the paper, quite a few people think that it couldn’t have happened.
Yes. I want Sputnik V, a traditional vaccine.
interesting info
https://sputnikvaccine.com/
You do not actually. Go and listen to Whitney Webbs latest interview. Its not what you think it is.
Unlimited Hangout
It is probably a bad idea to get injected with anything these days.
Agree
Except Hopium – one should aim for an over-dose, perhaps?
An adeno vector “vaccine” is far from conventional. Sinopharm would fit the bill much better. I know it doesnt come with autographed picture of putin riding his pet bear like sputnik.
Given the efficiency of Ivermectin, hydroxyclorquinine and the decreasing of risk observed in Omicron i feel its quite appropriate to evaluate the risk vs reward presented by injecting any experimental drug into ones body.
Most people choosing to inject this experimental drug have zero knowledge about even the most basic of background. What constitutes the term efficiency as used by the drug manufacturers? Do the injections prevent transmission and infection?
No clue. Those questions do not even exist in their mind. They have no capacity to form the questions let alone ask them least of all answer them. If they catch a whiff of those questions a quick fact check effectively vaccinates them against the dreaded cognitive dissonance. You see the injections are referred to as a “vaccine”. Everyone knows what a vaccine is. No clarification is needed. Clarification might bring pain in the form of cognitive dissonance in the form of a fundamental conflict in the failure of a word to hold meaning. They would rather inject a experimental drug than experience cognitive dissonance as they fundamentally are unable to discern the difference between words denoting reality and reality itself. Their discernment is only in the discernment of the realities presented deemed to be appropriate and they see their creativeness as being expressed by selecting between those presented “appropriate” realities that are actually a representations. They may find the other supposed antithesis in the appropriate presented reality to be distasteful but there is no comparison to the extreme range of emotions they feel upon encountering a representation that creates cognitive dissonance. Like someone who does not exercised asked to jog for 100 meters whatever causes the request is discarded and a retreat to safe territory where words are reality without separation is quickly executed after expressing appropriate anger as a function of fear.
Those that have experienced a earthquake have often expressed that we fundamentally trust the earth does not move and the fear that it doing so creates is quite extrodinary. The first questioning of the misperceptions caused by the use of language are the same way. It is not entirely trust in the government that causes rejection of questions. It is not entirely trust in google that causes rejection of questions. It is not entirely trust of MSM that causes rejection of questions. It is not entirly trust of our medical providers that causes rejection of questions.
When first encountered the understanding of language as somthing other than reality shakes the emotional ground and is very discomcerting as the self is associated with the perceived solidarity of word relationships. Later the incorporation of the true nature of language becomes greatly comforting as things now make sense because it can be understood that there are flaws in the road map and our intuitive and emotional essence is weighted heavier in our perception of self..
Its so simple so apparent. Yet when somone says “your mom wears army boots” we still punch them in the nose. Even if we refrain for various reason our first emotional and truth is to harm the source of the words. This reflects a fundamental dysfunction in our relation ship to reality yet we give it no attention only giving it peripheral attention. WHY? Its discomforting to feel our misperception about words being reality and that misperception is associated with our essence on our emotional basis.
Its quite the paradox. The truth is that words deserve less association with our notions about our essence. Yet our primary communicative tool for concepts (if not communicating thats body language) is language. How can you truly communicate somthing creates misperception if you are using it for the communication?
Whatever one thinks of the validity of Gails work it has tremendous value in allowing individuals to experience cognitive dissonance in a controlled manner so they can experience it without reacting and rejecting it as a threatening experience. If we were taught to regard words as representations instead of having substance in itself the possibility of our species being much more able to cope with our situation might exist. The understanding and creation of language is a complex and intense undertaking but like a ring of power the degree to which the individual partaking in the creation of language and participating in communication is bound by the ring not visa versa is not readily perceived. IMO Gails work creates the ability to start to perceive the extent which misperception exists associated with our comprehension of our very essence in relationship to our use of language. Whether Gails soothing tone the same used to coax a dog out of the street before it gets flattened is specifically created to allow greater perception without fear I do not know but it serves the purpose well. To truly try to understand this matter one must expose themselves to material that fundamentally communicates the difference between reality and language until the human creature understands it intuitively and emotionally. Korzybskis writings are not so much a communication but fundamental method to try to teach this truth in a manner that the human creature can encompass it in its emotional, intuitive, creative nexus.
In the Buddhist tradition there is a thing refereed to as a transmission in which a communication is performed perhaps including words but not solely dependent on them. This is another way in which the way participation in language creation results in significant and deep essence misconceptions can be perceived. Music is another means in which our fundamental unsanity in this matter can be perceived as truth.
Faith is a very tricky thing with it being able to encompass all sorts of things. Yet we know beauty and grace when we encounter it we can identify it without fail. AS we often identify here the problems we face seem without solution. Thats very disconcerting and I am not asserting thats a non truth. I am asserting that our word creations are obviously not a exclusive truth and that assertion is backed by the process of scientific observation IMO.
For many, to realise that a ‘vaccine’ could be fatal would be quite as shattering as an actual earthquake.
That it wasn’t even a vaccine, but a novel gene therapy, would be a further destabilising blow.
When I tentatively raise some issues, in a kind way, with people, they don’t argue or get upset, but a very odd look comes into their eyes.
Yes criminal. Teach the slaves their position. We can kill you without any legal backlash. Just hope we allow you to live anther year.
Psycho Horseface
https://twitter.com/RealDeniseWelch/status/1493226434655047686
She looks like she’s back on the meth … I heard that she promised Clarke that once she stopped spinning she’s give up the meth when she was elected PM… she realized it would be difficult to go from DJ to PM having zero experience and that smoking the pipe would not help matters
What sort of people elect something like this … Wet Beak… I am relatively new to NZ so perhaps my understanding is not there of how this could happen — can you bring me up to speed on this
There are demons afoot in sad new zealand. They affected the voting public who fell for the weasel words of this meth-headed succubus.
One has to remember that a high school graduate in nz has the education of the average 12 year old in Canada. Brain sizes are shrinking here and there is no questioning of the powers that be.
I blame the state-sponsored dysgenics programme now in its sixth decade.
This is fascinating stuff… I knew from the first day we landed that something was… off.. about this place …it was quite backwards compared to other countries… initially it’s quaint… then it’s just … off…
And they vote for the Donkey Face DJ meth addict and call her by her first name when talking about her… as if they know her… as if she gives a f789 about them
Agree – a 12 year old MOREON is about the level of the average NZer
Then we have mike … he jabs up so he can he can go to the pie shop… what?????
I had a new sign today- same Israel message – another old guy comes up and wants to engage (without trying to kill me) … he got his jabs so he could socialize… (mike’s brother?)…. I said I’m no about to inject an experiment so I can socialize (I don’t like to socialize to begin with so this is perfect)… but hey mate if you feel that’s a good enough reason keeping the getting the boosters
Then he told me he did it for the sake of his volunteer work with the half dead in the old aged homes… I informed him that he can still bring the plague to them even if jabbed… that cracked a gear in the old box ..
I was walking with a fireman who stood down over the mandates and he invited the old guy to come have a look at the protest area — no no – there are no toilets and if there are nobody is using them .. so its not sanitary …
Yep … you watch – a cholera epidemic is imminent at parliament….
I heard that demon country passed its third reading of a bill banning conversion therapy.
I am confused. Although tries are admittedly five pointers a conversion is still two points. If your kicker is missing then some therapy on technique is surely acceptable.
New Zealand’s police commissioner made a plea for tow truck companies to move the convoy for freedom, they ignored.
He went as far as asking the military to tow them, they also ignored
https://twitter.com/backtolife_2022/status/1493597123908186115
Of course Tow Truck companies are going to disobey orders. Those are their customers. 😀
Fast Eddy may have made a few anonymous calls giving the companies in NZ a heads up about what happened to the two towing companies in Ottawa who shifted a few vehicles…
At first they accused FE of threatening them .. cuz nobody likes to be told what to do … but then after they received a ‘few calls’ also warning them… from good people who respond to Fast Eddy’s call on various sites to help them understand … the implications… by giving them a taste….
Tis good to hear the message has gotten through to them… very pleased with that.
Actually there are not that many vehicles here – it’s just one street out front of the parliament — this is barely affecting the city … none of the maintain downtown areas are impacted. It is nothing like what you see in Ottawa
Hey mike … are you here for a counter protest? Maybe we can catch up for… a pie hahahahaha… surely you know the Best Pie Shops 🙂
This thread from JJ from about a week ago – Thanks for relating your experience with using insulated sub-foundations as thermal mass for passive solar heating storage.
https://ourfiniteworld.com/2022/02/09/limits-to-green-energy-are-becoming-much-clearer/comment-page-1/#comment-346070
Being from Florida w/ high water tables not as practical as in other regions (although heating needs are less) but also some recent experience living in Colorado – home stayed in had basement – even without insulated earth the moderation of temperature extremes both winter and summer was significant.
Ran across this about a year ago – passive solar winter heating of workshop in Montana winter
Thermo-siphon passive air heating combined with JJ’s thermal mass concept may do the trick. While not FF level 1st world percapita energy certainly above what available to hunter-gatherers or pre-industrial crude uses of biomass energy storage. (Rocket stove efficiencies another story – future biomass use could be significantly less per capita compared to pre-industial with a little combustion engineering knowledge preservation) I also recently saw a youtuber that compared ) $0.50/watt photovoltaic vs tubular solar hot water panel for direct (non-grid connected heat generation – in this cas hot water) PV was most $ efficient but required larger area while Tubular flat panel more efficient on SF basis but approx twice cost – so heating of thermal mass with load shedding might be feasible way of increasing storage of energy from off-grid PV systems until prices of PV rise back above 1 to 2 $/watt.
Note economic payback of approx 1 year at current economies – since ratio of energy cost to materials (costs dependent on energy) I would expect somewhat similar even under energy scarcity inflation pressures on supply chain/materials prices.
https://youtu.be/N6QOZGgbj-g?t=81
Additional research on this general panel design found comparison of black plastic screen and aluminum – the plastic was actually more efficient. (two layers spaced 1″ apart). Polycarbonate outer longer life and shear strength or can also use shorter life plastic film if no need for shear reinforce. Development of plastics (preferably organic) closed Carbon cycle industries targeted towards such applications might make this a preservable technology for a lower energy future (Knowledge perhaps worth spending energy on retaining for a post-collapse rebuild of lower energy “civilizations/villages” in the next iteration of sentient organisms – need a religious myths or monasteries that would last 1000 years???) If Yanomami can be happy on 8,000 to 10,000 food + fuel Kcals per day perhaps similar might be possible in more temperate climates without burning all the forests down…assuming some “rational”/effective (one man’s rational is another’s crazy/evil) population control is implemented after collapse dieoff…(and, as always, we do something with the spent fuel storage ponds..hoping Russia will last long enough to collect and reprocess most of it after they become the future Energy Superpower – much as US took a large portion of excess weapons grade Plutonium after USSR collapse – until then need as much dry casking as possible)
Thanks for the links ill take a look.
For structure heating its hard to beat passive solar from a power perspective. Pv is just too puny. But it does but the heat exactly where you want it say the thermal mass on the north side. If the panels are up and the batteries are full why not dump the load into some mass. As a minimalist i love using PV with impedance matches straight into dc loads. Less wear on batteries than dc off batteries. PV is a current not voltage source and requires impedance matching when used without batteries and electronics. I feel DC straight off the panels is underutilized consider supply chain probability for batteries.
Water is placed easily. It has high rate of energy transfer. field expedient containers for water are commonly found. A water heater impedance matched to the PVs current sourced power is shake and bake container made for energy transfer once the AC components are replaced with DC. If you try to run AC components with DC there will be smoke because of arcing.
https://windandsolar.com/dc-water-heating-elements/
For those not young looking to retrofit PV can be used to bring heat into a much smaller mass in a small super insulated space. I love ghetto rigs. A old trailer with straw bales stacked on the sides and precious foam board used on top. Moisture control always needs to be evaluated when adding insulation. A vented attic is a marvelous thing. Blowing in cellulose seldom results in moisture problems. Small sheds are often better than trailers in this regard and may help with code issues. eliminating passive solar does eliminate breakage issues and the loss at night through the glass. I am a fan of the great room concept where a small space is retro insulated. Sanitation and bathing is elsewhere.
Mom is not going to let you make a great room in the pad. Your man cave is a different story.
If its small enough and insulated enough PV dumping into 55 gallons of water may be enough for some relative comfort. I consider bathing a necessity for a decent life. Your going to have to have some hot water anyway. Once you realize resistance load impedance matching capabilites possibilities become clear for cooking food with hot water.
Just a hobby. Perhaps it will be useful.
I cant imagine spending a lot of time in a space without natural light. As long as you establish that it might as well be south facing.
Once you get the life boat bug your eye starts to look for insulation. Its around. I see it all the time sitting. I dont create ownership of it because if I did Id have to build some more and I dont have the desire. Dogs to walk. fish to catch. Straw is always available. Right now I know where there is material for two three nice houses just sitting. My mind identifies it and stores its location in my memory. Habit. Of course the good old days are truly gone. People want a penny for their real stuff and with good reason. Young folk with families will find that they will be blessed with materials if they look. Abundance belongs to the young. Seek and ye shall find. The vast majority have better things to do with their time.
Getting old is not easy. Physically and otherwise. Often the young have their own thoughts. Best to learn to give up forced communication. Im still learning this and hope I dont impose on this forum too much.
jj, I always appreciate and learn something from your comments. Keep it up. I wish I had “met” you before beginning construction on our (still unfinished) house project.
jj, I enjoy your comments.
Even the Vikings made a point of having a hot bath once a week, and in consequence proved very attractive, it seems, to the English girls.
Thanks for a great article Gail with illustration of the relatively large predicament EU has in relation to other sources and flows of energy it “needs”
(been away as this old modeler has been trying to redo a neglected roof – 1.5 years of laying around reading blogs has not left this 60+ yo body in optimum shape for such activities lol) (us modelers sometimes get handson when we arent being directed how to limit studies by administrators, CEOs or politicians who want a particular answer – but agree too much hopium on renewable energy side without practical proof of concept and without analysis of systems effects. I would redirect the finger pointing toward (Political) Economists and short sighted linear thinkers in general; Economic theory’s dismissal of energy’s primary importance is large hurdle to overcome – Political corruption w/ huge funds going into boondoggles such as Solyndra or even larger Carbon credits baloney is also a major driving force/impediment to rational analysis being recognized)
Would love to see import export flows of total energy from political coalitions Russia+Stans+China vs EU vs NAmerica and look at on a per Capita basis and model (horrors) the effect on percapita availability when/if cutoff. Looks like we did Russia a favor by 1990s collapse – lowered their per capita expectations keeping them at relatively lower level of complexity with sanctions making them the most independent/self sufficient of countries in the globalized. An interesting modeling study would be to see if how much per capita availability would change in 1st world energy importing regions/political units if US loses hegemony and other powers continue to restrict or stop import/export flows. Another question would be how much population would need to be reduced in energy poor regions or coalitions to stay above 2nd World energy/capita levels if isolated.
Started to compile total production and reserves for 1 year but looks like you have in some form for mulitiple years. Are the data for the graphs you posted in spreadsheet form still discretized by countries or are your graphs created directly from database queries?
It is odd the whole world commits to transition from FF to PV/wind at a price tag of about 100 trillion dollars without ever doing a demo project at 10 million dollars or 100 million or 1 billion or 10 billion. Or better 100 demos each at 10 billion dollars a piece.
Not only multiple sizes or populations for various capitalizations/capita but also a variety of targeted energy/capita or land/capita constraints. Many more thoughts on this but tend to overcomplicate replies.
The data I used in my graphs is pretty much entirely from the BP Excel spreadsheets that are freely downloadable from their website. The spreadsheet has dozens of tabs relating to different types of data. The spreadsheet doesn’t give separate information for every small country in the world, but it does try to give data for large countries and aggregate data that is useful.
https://www.bp.com/en/global/corporate/energy-economics/statistical-review-of-world-energy/downloads.html
I just “copy” and “paste” data from the BP spreadsheet I download into an Excel worksheet, and use it to make my charts. An updated spreadsheet is published each year, about early June, I believe.
The King’s Man, a prequel to the Kingsman series, is another stupid movie lauding the British Empire.
It is not well received, which is a good thing, but in the movie there is a sequence where an agent brings a critical evidence which leads Woodrow Wilson to enter the Great War.
The movie’s premise is
“One man must race against time to stop history’s worst tyrants and criminal masterminds as they get together to plot a war that could wipe out millions of people and destroy humanity”
And, lo and behold, what the person did is to introduce humanity’s worst tyrants, and eventually led to the destruction of humanity.
I have said several times that if Chucky Fitzclarence’s 200 men from Worcestershire (nonwhite population 5% now) .didn’t do their ‘duty’ and ran we would be in the space by 2000, a few times.
The late Dr Robert Firth lauded their ‘duty’ and I denigrated them and said they f**ked up, a premise I will stick for my life.
What the Kingsmen did in the King’s Man led to the creation of several failed states and led to a century of chaos , and eventually to the independence of the colonies which I have said repeatedly was what doomed humanity.
Thanks to the King’s Man, or Kingsman, the world reached where we are now, and we are supposed to appreciate their foulup of the world. No way.
All of Britain’s achievement is cancelled out by its killing of Europeans which led the Americans, who even now do not produce great scientific minds and have to import it from other countries, and the Asians, who cannot create anything to save their own lives, to dominate science and tech which basically precludes any chance of going to the space.
Thanks King’s Man, from the counties which became independent after 1918 and from the former colonies, for your effort to prop up peoples who do not exactly belong to the future.
@el mar – did you read the CoronaCircus article about Tuberculosis as the real Covid crisis?
short story here:
FURTHER EVIDENCE TUBERCULOSIS BACTERIUM MASQUERADES AS COVID-19 CORONAVIRUS By Bill Sardi with Lawrence Broxmeyer MD, by exclusive interview
https://coronacircus.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/FURTHER_EVIDENCE_TUBERCULOSIS_BACTERIUM.pdf
Longer story here (with more links to details)
https://coronacircus.com/2020/05/03/coronacircus-revisionism-chapter-three-pulmonary-tuberculosis/
Got me thinking about all the contributory angles in TB and after seeing the Cell-Wall Deficient thing (i.e., looks viral) I wondered if there was any connection between Ivermectin and TB.
go to PubMed and query – “ivermectin and tuberculosis” and you’ll see it right off.
Wondering why the establishment would play it this way if the coronavirus is just a passenger virus and not causal. Could be that if people realized it was Tuberculosis they’d demand a stop to immigration and that would foil the plans to take-down the USA (among others).
The bar-chart at the bottom of this article is a real eye-opener; with Tuberculosis as the mighty infectious killer compared to everything else.
https://coronacircus.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Promising_Antimicrobial_Hope_for_Coronav.pdf
It all dovetails nicely with the pollution-evidence per covid; evidence that also underlies expression of latent TB; from a variety of vectors including micro-particulates, solar radiation management elements, increased hydrogen cyanide per Jim West’s work (identical symptoms as covid) as resulting from refining and burning fracked-fuels. It’s kind of like we’re polluting ourselves right out of existence; enabling an ancient disease to emerge with scythe in hand.
That’s way scarier than all of the “variant” BS.
I’m reading coronacircus, what it says it is interesting, but it is strange that it is excluding vaccinations from its explanations.
Therefore, as it is very clever and prepared in its analysis, that blog might be also a clever way to divert attention from dangers created by mass vaccinations.
I would go cautious with Coronacircus.
But I will go on reading it.
Sure thing; but it’s a neat new thread to pull on, I’ll give it that, especially with the Ivermectin-connection. In fact, it reminds me of going down the Ivermectin rabbit-hole here a few months ago. Maybe there’s something there in the sense of conflation. Wouldn’t be the first time “science” at large mistook effect for cause.
Here’s one linking PM2.5 pollution to Tuberculosis and T-Cell dysfunction.
Urban Air Pollution Particulates Suppress Human T-Cell Responses to Mycobacterium Tuberculosis
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31731429/
A weakened immune system, for lack of vitamin D, a poor diet, or any other reason is a problem. It could be very well that latent tuberculosis is working with COVID-19 to cause severe disease and death. This might be a reason that an antibiotic, such as azithromycin, is helpful.
It is evident that these articles were written back in 2020, just as the pandemic was starting. The incidence of cases has changed. I am not sure that death rates are any higher in already with high background levels if TB. Someone would have to look into this. I understand that early cases in Italy were in the industrial northern part of Italy, where Chinese immigrants live. I suppose they could have brought TB with them.
Now, a high death rate seems to occur most often when there are a lot of dark-skinned people living away from the equator. This suggests that vitamin D is very much involved in the process.
Thank you Gail for your considerations.
If I have understood well, in coronacircus blog is still missing the point about weaking the immune system by repetitive vaccinations with new technology mRNA vaccines every 4 months..
Which is bynow well know the down-regulation of the immune system by lowering interferon levels in order to let spike protein to act.
But I agree with you with all the points you expressed.
Just to give some more info about the place where I live (Italy): the area where Covid in Italy first started it is the most crowded area of the Country (for instance Milan more 2.000 citizens by Kmq and Bergamo 3.000 https://ugeo.urbistat.com/AdminStat/it/it/demografia/dati-sintesi/bergamo/16024/4 ) , it is also the one where there is the most intensive travels arrivals and departures in the Country with three important airports for people coming and going out for business intensively.
Then it is also correct, as you indicated, it is one of the most important area for the Chinese community.
And I want to say that I don’t have anything against them, as they behave in a very good way in comparison with all the others big waves of immigrants we have been experiencing lately.
By the way there was the famous discussion at the beginning of the pandemic about stopping people coming from China (after Lunar holidays) and of course Italian government made the wrong decision which was: ‘DO NOT DISCRIMINATE’ foreign people by imposing bans…
Here you can see governor of Lombardia Attilio Fontana going in a chinese restaurant in Feb. 2020 to promote chinese restaurants and don’t discriminate them
https://milano.corriere.it/notizie/cronaca/20_febbraio_08/politica-ravioli-sorrisifontana-chinatowndopo-caso-quarantena-7f666072-49df-11ea-8e62-fcd8bfe20a1c.shtml
And here president M. (better to make auto censorship*) going in school in Rome where many chinese children are present, in order not discriminate Chinese people. Again in Feb. 2020.
https://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/mattarella-visita-scuola-piu-cinese-roma-gesto-anti-discriminazioni-AC4sLaHB
* many people have been accused in Italy lately to attack the president using an old law in the civil code, so it is better to avoid to mention him…
Interesting date for this multi-national study
TITLE – Vitamin D status and risk of incident tuberculosis disease: A nested case-control study, systematic review, and individual-participant data meta-analysis
PLoS Med
2019 Sep 11
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31509529/
Conclusion: Our findings suggest vitamin D predicts TB disease risk in a dose-dependent manner and that the risk of TB disease is highest among HIV-positive individuals with severe vitamin D deficiency. Randomized control trials are needed to evaluate the possible role of vitamin D supplementation on reducing TB disease risk.
Whoa!
I have a friend in Hong Kong who is African American .. he had TB a few years ago … I was like WTF you have TB??? Who gets that???
Dark skin = low D… + in HK people don’t get much sun because the buildings block it out so it’s like perpetual winter unless you go to the beach or hiking.
How can I post a picture here? It is something can be seen also by people under 6.. Many thanks!
It used to be possible but I believe it was changed possibly because in the past some NSFW or disturbing pics were taken down. Now it appears only links will display. Gail, might further shed some info on this.
I prefer no pictures or videos posted. Links to images hosted else where is preferred. Keeps the site clean and fast loading having only text.
I think there are two different issues:
1. How to post a link to an image.
2. How to get WordPress to actually display the link, without someone clicking on it.
With respect to posting a link to an image, the problem is that you first need to upload the picture to a website (or find a place where the picture is already shown on a website), so that you can provide a link to that image by “copying” the link and placing it in your comment.
If the image is something you made, clearly you will have to upload it to a website. To do this, you need some website to use that will allow you to do this. Opening your own “free” blog, even if you use it for nothing other posting images, is a way of doing this. I think you can also use an image hosting site for this purpose, but I haven’t done this. https://makeawebsitehub.com/free-photo-hosting/
With respect to the links you copy, you want them to end in .png, .jpg, or .jpeg. Sometimes there is various other instructions for display, such as 350×500, at the end, which you don’t want. The links will generally start with https. Just “paste” the link into your comment.
With respect to getting WordPress to actually display the image (without clicking on a link), WordPress seems to have stopped doing this at the same time it changed to a different program it uses for me to use for creating posts. My impression is that WordPress is trying to make the site more responsive to users. They don’t want the site to use a lot of bandwidth that some users do not have available, especially on small devices. I suppose I could ask tech support about whether there is a way for users to be able to “turn on” the feature of automatically displaying images in comments again.
You may have noticed that in my posts, images do not all load simultaneously. They load as the reader gets down to that area. This is a way of allowing the site to load more quickly.
Many thanks Gail for your explanation.
It is just an interesting picture about the purpose of green pass, in line with what we say here, unfortunately it was not present in a website, but I received it with e-mail.
I will try to follow one of those ways.
I use imgur . com for storing/managing non-personal images.
Google drive allows you to store files, including images, in the cloud. https://www.google.com/drive/
Brent’s backwardation is at the highest level ever seen
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLoVLWkWUAEuOmT?format=jpg&name=small
Why isn’t this translating into higher gasoline prices?
I’m seeing higher gasoline prices, about 10% higher in the last month or two.
It certainly is here in the UK.
To some extent, prices depend upon what buyers can afford. This is one force holding prices down. I mentioned a couple of other possible issues earlier:
1. The company operating the gasoline stations may have bought a derivative earlier that provided a top price that they would pay for oil products. It is the derivative holder that is facing a loss.
2. If affordability is really the issue (what I am talking about earlier in this comment), then it is not really possible to fully pass along the higher prices to customers. The “crack spread” falls. The company refining the oil into gasoline and distributing it to gas stations may find that it becomes less profitable (or unprofitable) to perform its portion of the supply chain.
I hear what you are saying but I believe it to be more nefarious. In the United States I believe Biden is holding prices down somehow if price of gasoline go up it would be the end of their party. I don’t think oil is part of the free market. They can be issued debt and then the Fed can monotize that debt in the future making it disappear.
The oil market in the gasoline market just don’t appear to be open. If there is shortages of oil in the future then oil prices should rise. I am watching it carefully because I believe that is the straw that will break the camels back.
Where I live I have not seen gasoline go up normally it will go up about five cents here six cents there and it is not moving at all. I assume the same is happening in the Georgia region.
the real value of energy isn’t subject to political shenanigans
politicians can cause temporary fluctuations
but no more than that, long term
Maybe so Norm
https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/democrats-mull-gas-tax-holiday-alleviate-americans-pain-pump
Gail you estimate a crash sooner than later but for th U.S it is probably later. If shale can increase production, along with Iran and Venezuela then maybe we do have enough on the market for the future. Couple that with declining countries and there you have it easily another 4 years.
it’s impossible to be specific on this, there’s an infinite number of variables.
but in general terms we are having to run faster and faster to stay in the same commercial (BAU) place.
there are some who try to persuade us that this can go on , if not forever, then for many years.
whatever, we are still scrambling around for more and more (essentially diffuse) forms of energy, blaming politicians for our problems, when in fact it is us, all of us, to blame.
This suggests that the market expects that the spike in prices is a temporary phenomenon. While prices are high now, this will not last. Thus, there is no point in companies investing in new oil wells, because by the time they become operational, the price will be down again.
hahahahhahaaha diseased MOREONS hahahahaha norm what do you think of Fast Eddy slamming that MOREON to the ground today hahahahaa… f789 him huh
https://dailyexpose.uk/2022/02/08/uk-gov-data-suggests-fully-vaccinated-have-developed-vaids/
eye rolling time
Is there anything that has not yet happened at this point Norman? Here we are in Canada {CANADA!!} with a brand new totalitarian government.
We have learned so much about how gawd awful this treatment is, evidenced by football players dropping to the field like flies. There are many more.
In this context, your quips come across as nothing more than pithy… which aligns you quite nicely with what you have come to despise.
you should read comments in context. i do not despire or hate anyone–waste of time. Some of it is worth little more than laughter—spoons sticking to foreheads—Gates injecting us with iron filings. Millions of dead and maimed
sheesh.
my eye rolling was in response to eddys eternal haha —ing, and pseudo swearing. nothing more than that. It counts as rationality.
his eternal ‘fantasy-action’, daydreaming and wishful thinking
Some of my comments are short and hopefully to the point.
some are long and as detailed as i can make them—if you see any serious errors, feel free to point them out.—but with more than just–you’re wrong. Please?
i reject conspiracies—”they want to kill us all”—etc etc–that upsets a lot of people who thrive on them.
you havent got a totalitarian govt in canada. try to stop convincing yourself that you have. I have many canadian relatives—I exchange thoughts with them all the time on this.
they remain, as most of you are–sane, normal, uncrazy—as opposed to some south of the 49th who seem hell bent on welcoming the delights of a fascist state in the not too distant future.
You should be more worried by that.
norm … you do understand that Fast Eddy is… dangerous … I have some control over him … but HE does exhibit extreme rage at times… but it is all rational … it is all carefully considered…
Whatever HE does… is done.. for a reason … sometimes multiple reasons… we must defer to HIS judgment on everything … because HE is … as we know… the Messiah…
HE is Everything. An All Star Entity .. a Super Hero .. and a god… all in one…
Bow down norm.. kiss the ring
sticking to the third person—out of awe of course.
eddy is a danger only to himself
over inflated ego
This is a report saying that not only is the incidence of reported COVID cases higher among the vaccinated, but the death rates from COVID are higher among the vaccinated.
I would like to see some other researcher come to this conclusion before I am willing to accept it. This is at odds with what previous studies have shown. Alternatively, I would need to make the calculation myself.
i didn’t open it, but i’d be suspicious of any link that has ‘dailyexpose’ or something similar in it
Quite right, Norman: just keep to the ‘Trusted News’ network – why risk disturbing your mental equilibrium by exposure to unwelcome suggestions.?
Not long now to wait for the Omicron vaxx in March: can you contain your excitement?
It must be so reassuring to be loved by Big Pharma and the government, and to have regular proof in the form of these unsolicited gifts of ‘miracle’ drugs.
yup
i am a walking test bed
but feel free to do clickalink as much as you please
Clicking som random links on the web won’t get you haxored.
It is not how “hacking” works.
Nobody cares about a Normal nobody like you Normal.
Here’s a forbes link for your MSM ‘myopia of the ordinary’ palate:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/moorinsights/2022/02/14/how-cyberark-manages-privileged-access/?sh=6dec28945cd2
“How about the supply chain attack on SolarWinds? This attack’s global impact ended up costing north of $90B (about $12M per affected organization).”
Any hacker worth his salt could hack into your mundanities in no time flat, no link “clicking” required on your behalf.
Don’t be so fucking cringe.
did i mention hacking?
checked back—couldnt find anything
seems you are a bit over-quick in ‘finding something’ to say
much like your mentor i think
I read things and decide for myself if they are consistent with other things I have read. A person has to do a lot of reading and be willing to look at a lot of different websites.
Get yourself an antivirus program if you are worried about this issue. Not reading and understanding what is happening leaves you vulnerable to all kinds of mis-information from the main street media. MSM has many things to sell. Truth is not at all high on its list of products. It provides stories that it thinks advertisers and readers will find pleasing. There is no virus program that fixes its problems, however.
my problem isn’t ‘anti virus’
it’s that there are hundreds–thousands of clickbait grabbers out there who make money out of ludicrous headlines
thats why i try to avoid them, or at least recognise the places they emanate from
Logic, common sense, experience, contrast, comparison, jugement, intuition are all useful in sifting through this most puzzling onslaught of information ever experienced by civilization.
Yes, Artleads, well put: and intuition is often over-looked – because so few have it, I wonder?
I’ve learnt by hard experience never to ignore mine, and its cousin, the so-called Sixth Sense.
I’m relived not to have 2nd-sight, though, which sounds almost a burden.
Check out some German history from:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_Funnel
Actually the meaning in the german page is better described as “carefully use your time for studying like using a funnel for filling wine from barrel to bottle. Not using a funnel will spill costly liquid meaning is a waste of time”
Actually later it was misinterpreted that using a funnel will bring effortless studying results…
hand held media is far more dangerous in the wrong hands, than viruses.
I wonder how the Fat Bastard is feeling this morning.
The cure is worse than the disease
Analysis of side effects of 3rd dose of COVID vaccine shows they are worse than COVID itself.
My friend, Galileo has very kindly shared a Translated Israeli MOH survey of reported adverse events after the third Pfizer vaccine shot for Covid-19 and asked us to judge if the results demonstrate that the vaccine is safe and effective.
Here is my “judgement”.
https://metatron.substack.com/p/the-cure-is-worse-than-the-disease
I am not convinced that this “analysis” proves very much. There are a lot of bad side effects, and this suggests that there are even more.
But I would like a report that says more specifically, “On February xx to yy, the Such and Such group surveyed xx,xxx individuals. This survey provided the following indications, broken down by age group and so forth. This compares to the following outcomes among COVID Omicron cases, based on . . ..
Maybe there is a real report underlying this blog post that says more than this blog post.