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Russia’s attack on Ukraine represents a demand for a new world order that, over the long term, will support higher prices for fossil fuels, especially oil. Such an economy would probably be centered on Russia and China. The rest of the world economy, to the extent that it continues to exist, will largely have to get along without fossil fuels, other than the fossil fuels that countries continue to produce for themselves. Population and living standards will fall in most of the world.
If a Russia-and-China-centric economy can be developed, the US dollar will no longer be the world’s reserve currency. Trade will be in the currency of the new Russia-China block. Outside of this block, local currencies will play a dominant role. Most of today’s debt will ultimately be defaulted upon; to the extent that this debt is replaced, it will be replaced with debt in local currencies.
As I see the situation, the underlying problem is the fact that, on a world basis, energy consumption per capita is shrinking. Energy consumption is essential for creating goods and services.
The shrinking amount of energy per person means that, on average, fewer and fewer finished goods and services can be produced for each person. Some countries do better than average; others do worse. With low fossil fuel prices, Russia has been faring worse than average; it wants to remedy the situation with long-term higher energy prices. If Russia can start transferring its energy exports to China, perhaps the new Russia-China economy, with limited support from the rest of the world, can afford to pay Russia the high prices for fossil fuels that Russia requires to maintain its economy.
In this post, I will try to explain what I see is happening.
[1] It appears that Russia now fears that it is near collapse, not too different from the collapse of the central government of the Soviet Union in 1991. Such a collapse would lead to a huge drop in Russia’s living standards, even from today’s relatively low level.
If we look back at the Soviet Union’s energy consumption, we see a strange pattern. The Soviet Union’s energy consumption rose rapidly in the period after World War II. It became a military rival of the US, as its energy consumption grew in the 1965 to 1985 period. Its energy consumption leveled off before the central government collapsed in 1991. In fact, energy consumption has never gotten back to its level in the late 1980s.
[2] The thing that seems to have been behind the 1991 collapse is the same thing that seems to be behind Russia’s current fear of collapse: continued low oil prices.
When we look back at inflation-adjusted oil prices, we see that a long period of low prices preceded this collapse. These low prices were harmful in many ways. They reduced funds for reinvestment, which led to the collapse in oil supply. They reduced the funds available to pay wages. They also reduced the tax revenue that the Soviet Union could collect.
I believe that these chronically low oil prices ultimately brought down the top layer of the government of the Soviet Union. This is because of the physics of the situation. It takes energy to provide the services of the top level of the government. As the total energy that could be purchased by the system fell because of low prices received for exports, it became impossible to support this top level of governmental services. This top layer was less essential than the lower levels of government, so it fell away.
In recent times, there has also been a long period of low prices, since about 2013:
Unless this pattern of low prices can be reversed quickly, Russia as a political entity could collapse. Exports of all of the goods it now produces would likely fall.
[3] While oil prices depend on “supply and demand,” as a practical matter, demand is very dependent on interest rates and debt levels. The higher the debt level and the lower the interest rate, the higher the price of oil can rise.
If we look back at Figure 4, we can see that before the US subprime housing bubble popped in 2008, inflation-adjusted oil prices were able to rise to $157 per barrel, adjusted to the 2020 price level. Once the debt bubble popped, inflation-adjusted oil prices fell to $49 per barrel. It was at this low point (and correspondingly low prices for many other commodities) that the US started its program of Quantitative Easing (QE) to lower interest rates.
After two years of QE, oil prices were back above $140 per barrel, in inflation-adjusted prices, but these soon started sliding down. By the time oil prices dropped to $120 per barrel, oil companies started to complain that prices were falling too low to meet all of their needs, including the need to drill in ever less productive areas. Now we are at a point where interest rates are about as low as they can go. Short-term interest rates are near zero, which is where they were in the late 1930s.
The quantity of funds in people’s checking and savings accounts is at an extraordinarily high level, as well. This is partly because of the availability of debt at these low interest rates.
Thus, even before the Ukrainian invasion, oil prices were raised about as high as they could go, through low interest rates and generous debt availability. With all this stimulus, Brent Spot Oil prices averaged $86.51 in January 2022. Even now, with all the disruption of the attack by Russia against Ukraine, oil prices are below the $120 threshold that producers seem to need. This price issue, plus the corresponding low-price issues for natural gas and coal, is the problem that Russia is concerned about.
Prices for imported coal and natural gas have bounced very high in the last few months, but no one expects these high prices to last. For one thing, they are too high for the European manufacturers that use imported coal or natural gas to stay in business. For example, producers that create urea fertilizer using natural gas find that the price of fertilizer produced in this way is way too high for farmers to afford. For another, the electricity produced by burning the high-priced natural gas or coal tends to be too expensive for European households to afford.
[4] The fundamental problem behind recent low oil prices is the fact that the current mix of consumers cannot afford goods and services produced using the high oil prices that producers, such as Russia, need to operate, pay high enough wages, and do adequate reinvestment.
When the price of oil was very low, back before 1970 (see Figure 3), it was relatively easy for consumers to afford goods and services made with oil. This was the period when the world economy was growing rapidly, and many people could afford to purchase automobiles and buy the oil products needed to operate them.
Once the cost of oil extraction started rising because of depletion, it became more and more difficult to keep prices both:
- High enough for oil producers, such as Russia, and
- Low enough to make affordable goods for consumers, as was possible prior to 1970
To try to hide the increasingly difficult problem of keeping prices both high enough for producers and low enough for consumers, central banks have lowered interest rates and encouraged the use of more debt. The idea is that if a person can buy a fuel-efficient car at a low enough interest rate and over a long enough term, perhaps this will make the vehicle more affordable. Similarly, interest rates on home mortgages have fallen to very low levels. All of this, plus the fact that debt is used to finance new factories and mines, leads to the relationship we saw in Figure 4 between oil prices and debt availability, related to interest rates.
[5] No one knows precisely how much oil, coal and natural gas can be extracted because the quantity that can be extracted depends on the extent of the price rise that can be tolerated without plunging the economy into recession.
If prices of these fossil fuels can rise very high (say, $300 per barrel for oil, and correspondingly high prices for other fossil fuels), a huge amount of fossil fuel can be extracted. Conversely, if energy prices cannot stay above the equivalent of $80 per barrel oil for very long without a serious recession, then we may already be very close to the end of available fossil fuel extraction. Both oil and gas producers and coal producers can be expected to go out of business because prices do not leave a sufficient margin for the required investment in new fields to offset the depletion of existing fields. Renewables will falter, as well, because both building and maintaining renewables requires fossil fuels.
The amount of resources of any kind (fossil fuels and minerals such as lithium, uranium, copper and zinc) that can be extracted depends upon the extent of depletion that the economy can tolerate. Depletion of any kind of resource means that a bigger effort (more workers, more machinery, more energy products) is required to extract a given quantity of each resource. It is clear that the entire economy cannot be transferred to the extraction of fossil fuels and mineral resources. For example, some workers and resources are needed for growing and transporting food. This puts a limit on how much depletion can be tolerated.
What Russia (as well as every other oil producer) would like is a way to get the tolerable oil price up significantly higher, for example, to $150 per barrel, so that more oil can be extracted. The hope is that a Russia-and-China-centric economy might be able to do this. Ideally, the tolerable maximum price for coal and natural gas would rise, as well.
[6] Europe, in particular, cannot afford high oil prices. If interest rates are increased soon, this will make the problem even worse. China seems to have definite advantages as an economic partner.
Europe is already having difficulty tolerating very high prices of imported natural gas and coal. Rising oil prices will add even more stress. Central banks are planning to raise interest rates. These higher interest rates will make loan payments more expensive. These higher interest rates will tend to push Europe’s economy further toward recession.
Given the problems with Europe as an energy importer, China would seem to have the possibility of being a better customer that can perhaps tolerate higher prices. For one thing, China is more efficient in its use of energy products than Europe. For example, many homes in the southern half of China are not heated in winter. People instead dress warmly inside their homes in winter. Also, homes and businesses in northern China are sometimes heated with waste heat from nearby coal-fired electricity plants. This is a very efficient approach to heating.
China also uses more coal in its energy mix than Europe. Historically, coal has been much less expensive than oil. What is needed is a low average price of energy. A small amount of high-priced oil can be tolerated in an economy that uses mostly coal in its energy mix. When all costs are counted, wind and solar are very high-priced energy sources, which contributes to Europe’s problems.
In recent years, China’s consumption of energy products has been growing very rapidly. Perhaps, in the view of Russia, China can use high-priced fossil fuel better than other parts of the world.
[7] Russia realized that the rest of the world is utterly dependent upon its fossil fuel exports. Because of this dependency, as well as the physics-based connection between the burning of fossil fuels and the making of finished goods and services, Russia holds huge power over the world economy.
The world economy should have known about the importance of fossil fuels and the likelihood that the world economy would face depletion issues in the first half of the 21st century, ever since a speech by Rear Admiral Hyman Rickover in 1957. In this speech, Rickover said,
We live in what historians may someday call the Fossil Fuel Age. . .With high energy consumption goes a high standard of living. . . A reduction of per capita energy consumption has always in the past led to a decline in civilization and a reversion to a more primitive way of life.
Current estimates of fossil fuel reserves vary to an astonishing degree. In part this is because the results differ greatly if cost of extraction is disregarded or if in calculating how long reserves will last, population growth is not taken into consideration; or, equally important, not enough weight is given to increased fuel consumption required to process inferior or substitute metals. We are rapidly approaching the time when exhaustion of better grade metals will force us to turn to poorer grades requiring in most cases greater expenditure of energy per unit of metal.
. . . it is an unpleasant fact that according to our best estimates, total fossil fuel reserves recoverable at not over twice today’s unit cost are likely to run out at sometime between the years 2000 and 2050, if present standards of living and population growth rates are taken into account.
I suggest that this is a good time to think soberly about our responsibilities to our descendants – those who will ring out the Fossil Fuel Age. Our greatest responsibility, as parents and as citizens, is to give America’s youngsters the best possible education [including the energy problem of a world with finite resources].
Many people today would conclude that world leaders have done their best to ignore this advice. The likely problem with fossil fuels has been hidden behind an imaginative, but false, narrative that our biggest problem is climate change caused primarily by fossil fuel extraction that can be expected to extend until at least 2100, unless positive steps are made to hold back this extraction.
In this false narrative, all the world needs to do is to move to wind and solar for its energy needs. As I discussed in my most recent post, titled Limits to Green Energy Are Becoming Much Clearer, this narrative of success is completely false. Instead, we seem to be hitting energy limits in the near term because of chronically low prices. Wind and solar are doing very little to help because they cannot be depended upon when needed. Furthermore, the quantity of wind and solar available is far too low to replace fossil fuels.
Few people in America and Europe realize that the world economy is entirely dependent upon Russia’s exports of oil, coal and natural gas. This dependency can be seen in many ways. For example, in 2020, 41% of world natural gas exports came from Russia. Natural gas is especially important for balancing electricity from wind and solar.
North America has historically played only a very small role in natural gas exports; it is questionable whether North America can ramp up its total natural gas production in the future, given the depletion problems being experienced with respect to the extraction of oil and the associated natural gas from shale formations. Continuously high oil prices are necessary to justify ramping up production outside of sweet spots. If drillers consider long-term prospects for oil prices to be too low, the associated natural gas will not be collected.
Europe is especially dependent upon natural gas imports (Figure 9). Its imports of natural gas exceed the exports of Russia and its affiliated countries in the Commonwealth of Independent States, referred to as Russia+ in Figures 8 and 9.
Without the natural gas exports of Russia and its close affiliates, there is no possibility of supplying adequate natural gas exports to the rest of the world.
Diesel fuel, created by refining oil, is another energy product that is in critically short supply, especially in Europe. Diesel fuel is used to power trucks and farm tractors, as well as many European automobiles. An Argus Media report indicates that Russian supplies account for 50% to 60% of Europe’s seaborne imports of diesel and other gasoil, amounting to 4 to 6 million tons of fuel per month. It likely would be impossible to replace these imports, using supplies from elsewhere, without bidding the price of these imported fuels up to a much higher price level than today. Even then, countries outside Europe would be left with inadequate diesel supplies.
[8] Russia’s attack on Ukraine seems to have been made for many reasons.
Russia was clearly frustrated with the current situation, with NATO becoming increasingly assertive within Ukraine itself, even though Ukraine is not itself a NATO member. Russia is also aware that in some sense, it has far more power over the world economy than most people realize because the world economy is utterly dependent on Russia’s fossil fuel exports (Section 7). Sanctions against Russia will likely hurt the countries making the sanctions as much or more than they hurt Russia.
There were also several concerns that were specifically Ukrainian giving rise to the attack on Ukraine. There had been long standing conflicts about natural gas pipelines. Was Ukraine taking too much natural gas out as a transit fee? Was it paying the correct fee for the natural gas it used? Ukraine also seems to have mistreated quite a few Russian-speaking Ukrainians over the years.
Russia has become increasingly frustrated with the small share of the world’s output of goods and services that it receives. The way the economic system works today, those who provide “services” seem to receive a disproportionate share of the world’s output of goods and services. Russia, with its extraction of minerals of many kinds, including fossil fuels, has not been well compensated for the great wealth that it brings to the world as a whole.
Over the years, Russia’s great strength has been its military. Perhaps Ukraine would not be too large a country to do battle over. Russia might be able to eliminate some of its irritations with Ukraine. At the same time, it might be able to make changes that would help to raise what have become chronically low fossil fuel prices. The sanctions that other countries would make would tend to push the required changes along more quickly.
If the sanctions really did push Russia down, the result would tend to push the whole world economy toward collapse, because the rest of the world is extremely dependent upon Russia’s fossil fuel exports. In Figure 1, the laws of physics say that there is a proportional response to the quantity of energy “dissipated”; if a greater output of goods and services is desired, more energy input is required. Efficiency changes can somewhat help, but efficiency savings tend to be offset by the higher energetic needs of the more complex system required to achieve these savings.
If energy prices do not rise high enough, we will somehow need to get along with very little or no fossil fuels. It is doubtful that renewables will last very long either because they depend upon fossil fuels for their maintenance and repair.
[9] If higher energy prices cannot be achieved, there is a significant chance that the change in the world order will be in the direction of pushing the world economy toward collapse.
We are living in a world today with shrinking energy resources per capita. We should be aware that we are reaching the limits of fossil fuels and other minerals that we can extract, unless we can somehow figure out a way to get the economy to tolerate higher prices.
The danger that we are approaching is that the top levels of governments, everywhere in the world, will either collapse or be overthrown by their unhappy citizens. The reduced amounts of energy available will push governments in this way. At the same time, programs such as government-funded pension plans and unemployment plans will disappear. Electricity is likely to become intermittent and then fail completely. International trade will shrink back; economies will become much more local.
We were warned that we would be reaching a time period with serious energy problems about now. The first time came in the 1957 Rickover speech discussed in Section 7. The second warning came from the 1972 book, The Limits to Growth by Donella Meadows and others, which documented a computer modeling approach to the problem of limits of a finite world. The Ukraine invasion may be a push in the direction of more serious energy problems, emerging primarily from the fact that other countries will want to punish Russia. Few people will realize that punishing Russia is a dangerous path; a serious concern is that today’s economy cannot continue in its current form without Russia’s fossil fuel exports.
Have You Taken Your HIV Booster Yet?
https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/have-you-taken-your-hiv-booster-yet
Another disaster waiting to happen?
Utopia Update — the vaccine does not work against the lethal Russian flu but it genetically engineered to protect only those with Roma genes. All others die (rather than be sterilized).
Adjust that for the CovCON and all vaxxed die… unvaxxed are the chosen ones… and live.
IQ Test? MOREON Cull?
If it’s all a simulation then this is a possibility
foreigners going to eastern Ukraine to prepare to fight, then were blasted by Russian missiles after disclosing their location by posting photos on the internet.
https://anti-empire.com/shaken-foreign-volunteers-flee-ukraine-after-base-hit-by-russian-cruise-missiles-ex-marine-reports/
“Shaken Foreign Volunteers Flee Ukraine After Base Hit by Russian Cruise Missiles — Ex-Marine Reports”
“Bro I had freakcking thirteen cruise missiles drop on me this morning. We were at the mercy of Russian warplanes.”
changed their minds quite quick:
“The Ukrainian training center near Lviv where NATO instructors used to train Ukrainian troops is now where Ukrainians are training foreign volunteers (for up to 14 days) before they are sent into battle.
Yesterday the Russians struck the base with cruise missiles. About 35 people were killed. According to an American volunteer and ex-Marine who was there this caused another 60 foreigners to leave immediately.”
bye bye.
(“real” war videos at the end of the link.)
Reminds me of the US invasion of Syria where the Fit-Bit craze (IIRC) revealed the military base in the oil rich part of the back of beyond.
Twitter turned into splatter.
“Being absolutely defenseless and in the open with three aircraft just shitting all over you with such heavy ordinance was a whole new level of helplessness.’
Bit different when the skies are not full of friends!
Vietnam, Cambodia, Yemen, Libya, Syria, various south American countries etc etc all had same unnerving situation with unfriendly US planes doing much the same.
Foreign Fodder
Eight minutes of strategic analysis on the Ukraine conflict from a guy who sounds American, living somewhere in Kharkiv, who can hear the big guns getting closer.
Apologies if this was posted earlier. With the thousands of comments, it is sometimes hard for me to keep up.
Spoiler for Norman: There isn’t much of Jen in the video—just a few seconds of that still image. Mostly it’s just a rather amiable forty-ish bearded guy in a room in a t-shirt and cap, speaking into a smartphone.
“world’s deadliest sniper” killed in 20 minutes in Ukraine:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRP36Nu1Jek&ab_channel=itiswhatitis
next!
boof!
Bullet goes Smack – head explodes hahaha
Too bad no video
Is this crisis going to end with ‘Ze’ doing a comedy dance routine on YT – his actual profession?
We are all going to be laughing at Biden and Boris, when that happens, and no one more than Putin and Xi.
> Bill Roggio:
Previously Zelensky said he cooled to the idea of joining NATO. Now NATO membership is completely off the table.
1) Stating the obvious here. Zelensky just conceded a key demand to Putin, without receiving anything in return. At the least, this is something you concede during negotiations, not to the press.
2) If your response is “well that was never going to happen anyway,” you still don’t concede it in the press. I’m no diplomat, but I’m certain that is taught at diplomat school.
The Elders are not even bothering to pretend they are not in control .. Zelensky, Biden, Trudunce, Ardern, Macron, Boris… are cases in point…. across the board fools
the “West” just needs to concede to the original reasonable Russian terms which were offered in January.
some might say that conclusion would mean the war was useless and unnecessary.
but this war has served a higher purpose.
to bring in the Great Russian Reset.
the “West” will put their propaganda spin on the tail end of this war, probably saying the “sanctions” have severely weakened Russia.
not.
as 2022 heads to 2023, many Europeans are going to be in for a shocking surprise about how those “sanctions” have blown back on their economies.
the blowback will hit the USA as well.
it’s all good.
Great Russian Reset tonight, baby!
We ‘care so much’ about Ukrainians – because we just ‘care so much’. /s
Eeeeuuuu gross — norm has some of these in his brain …
Dr. Cole goes into a nightmare fuel description of what happens with the clots inside the body as blood tries to work its way around the obstruction.
Morticians usually use a dissolving fluid to break up clots and the like. However, the fluid could not make it through these new monstrosities and were backing up. Thus they were forced to go into the body and manually pull them out.
…ended up pulling out six inch clots, twelve inch clots, two, three foot clots…
Dr. Cole says that he takes a “trust, but verify” approach to phenomena.
I’ll believe it when I see it. And now I’ve seen it.
Kirsch asks about timing. The injections have been out for a year. Are we only seeing it now, or have people been afraid to report the new clots?
Cole:
I think it’s that fear factor.
Cole also theorizes that it is the result of the cumulative factor of getting repeated jabs.
https://sagehana.substack.com/p/steve-kirsch-and-dr-ryan-cole-discuss?s=r
Big clots!
Oh look – a war! hahahahaha https://t.me/TommyRobinsonNews/33696
Maybe they can borrow these guys and send them to Ukraine to blow some stuff up
Shutting off the gas — I’d say things are heating up … but if you are in Europe … it’s more like your about to freeze… and your bills are going higher hahahaha
I hope this is real
https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/russias-yamal-europe-gas-pipeline-halts-westbound-flows-data
Or cooling down.
My in-laws in Germany are seeing their home utility bills go up with higher NG prices now.
hahahaha https://t.me/TommyRobinsonNews/33685
hahaha
https://t.me/TommyRobinsonNews/33681
Cocaine? https://t.me/VigilantFox/3354
A few tidbits from the incoherent ramblings from the crumbling fantasy of racketeering of Ukraine.
1. Let’s have a “no fly zone”.
2. How are we going to supply sieged cities?
3. By flying in supples.
4. Syntax error.
S300/400/450, MIG’s and Sukhoi’s anyone? I can’t see a problem with this so called plan.
Imagine being a reasonably competent person in the MIC trying to explain this to an embodiment of the egoic fantasy.
Nope, no, nope. Can’t be done. Won’t do that. Estimated losses will be disastrous. Tactical nukes, cruise missiles, tanks, artillery, spetsnaz, hypersonic missiles, subs, Etc.
Here’s a better plan:
“Hey Nancy’ look at this cat on YT”
🤣👉😸
“Nancy, look, somebody’s got a nicer house and more money than you”
🤔👉🏡 💵
*Shoo*
🤣👍👍
You have to think, these people did deals with Hunter Biden, so it’s not like it’s a meritocracy…
hahaha avoid the MOREONS https://t.me/VigilantFox/3343
https://youtu.be/aPFweiO44xo
eddy—me old mate
i think, by way of a comment, you just copied and pasted the opening paragraph of Gail’s post.—I read it again and thought ‘surely not?’ Eddy would never just copy someone else’s words?
i know i’m the plagiarists plagiarist, but isn’t that taking things to extremes in that respect?
we all learn from each other…(you’d be surprised at how much I learn from you)—but when copying what someone else has written, if you can’t reword it, it is at least courteous to make at attempt at pinning something original on the end of it by way of meaningful comment.
There’s risk, and then there’s Russian Roulette!
This is a lengthy article, with two important videos. It is worth your while to read and assimilate the information I am sharing here. Please share with others you care about.
Last week I had the pleasure of speaking to a pharma executive who has recently retired. We had both worked for two top 10 pharmas. Naturally, we spent some time swapping stories, and seeing who we knew in common. Towards the end of a very pleasant, hour-long conversation, in making an argument for the pharmaceutical industry to improve its image, I mentioned the experimental genetic injections. The point I wanted to make was that the pharmaceutical industry has failed to provide appropriate leadership during the Sars-Cov-2 crisis, in relation to the experimental genetic injections. Immediately, I sensed defensiveness and push-back. I almost wished, I had not raised the subject. However, that feeling did not last long.
I have seen too much suffering to care about the feelings of a pharma executive, who lives in a bubble. Afterall, we are almost a year and a half into the roll out of, what are easily, the most disastrous medical products, since the Thalidomide crisis. Yet, he knew nothing, and cared even less about the injuries caused by these injections. When I began to tell him about the catastrophic injuries experienced by many, he immediately began to justify their safety profile in relation to the hundreds of millions who had received the injections.
https://escapefrom1984.substack.com/p/there-is-risk-and-then-there-is-russian?s=r
Complex life is likely rare in the universe
https://energyskeptic.com/2022/rare-earth-updates-the-latest-research-on-why-complex-intelligent-life-is-likely-rare-in-the-universe/
Interesting reading
“One solution to the Fermi paradox is that it is not possible to run a world that has the power to destroy itself and that needs global collaborative solutions to prevent that,”… “It may be that the growth of science and engineering inevitably outstrips the development of political expertise, leading to disaster. We could be approaching that position.”
Maybe too anthropocentric. But I find comfort and piece of mind that ” we might be the only intelligent life in the universe”. No multitudes of crusades, empires, crucifixions, holy inquisition, Auschwitz, Stalin, Pol Pot, Syrian civil war, …
Looking at the issue of human survival a slightly different way…
THE PLACE OF HUMANS
– Putting humans first does not help humans. Humans need to be subservient to something that is above them.
– Humans can probably evolve, given that we evolved from something else to become human. For humans to evolve might require a small mental shift: a) humans don’t come before place; b) every place on earth is managed and under some kind of jurisdiction or other; c) managing the totally of places more wisely might be the next evolutionary step for humans; d) place is the source for food, shelter, identity and organization for humans.
– For some human entities to aim to manage the totality of places from a privileged, central stage is mightily presumptuous, and equally wasteful of resources.
– Although new skills and technologies are unprecedented and useful, many age-old values, skills and behaviors have energy-saving significance and should be valued for that at least.
– Aesthetic intuition is a a way of understanding and maneuvering through the above.
– It is next to futile to attempt to closely manage areas outside of one’s immediate surroundings. The priority should be the optimal governance of the place where you live (with an eye to how all decentralized places are, and might be better, coordinated).
– We give ourselves endless trouble with the assumption that human behavior is a fact of life that cannot change (a negative fulfilling prophecy). Human behavior today is low and stupid, and can or must improve. Humans must evolve away from the idea that “this is what nature does.” It isn’t clear that nature is in a hot hurry to destroy itself on the human timeline. How do we know that we can’t behave differently toward nature when we have not tried? How can humanity rise to the appropriate level when expectation for it are set so low?
ALL ROADS LEAD TO “AFRICA”
BATTERIES
– Africa is a continent and not a nation.
– Through the pathway of battery storage the world’s electricity resources depend on the African continent.
– The means and ramifications of acquiring and distributing these battery resources are complex and difficult, thus requiring immediate consideration. The African continent must play a top role in the necessary philosophizing and negotiations around the acquisition and distribution of battery resources.
WILDLIFE
– Africa is the repository of the largest store of so called megafauna in the world. Since this megafauna was here before humans, it is again presumptuous for humans to believe that megafauna are dispensable. Thoughtlessly removing megafauna habitat is consistent with humans running out of needed resources, so we might be more careful about what natural environment we destroy. Destroying nature at the rate and with the mindless abandon in which we do it is not acceptable. There are workable alternatives.
DARK NIGHT SKIES
– Dark night skies, for which Africa leads the world, is indispensable for proper functioning of nocturnal species as well as stable circadian rhythm (and even sanity) for humans.
– Dark night sky can be effected anywhere on earth, setting up the means for the global powers-that-be to emulate (and therefore support) the maintenance of Africa’s dark night sky. There are workable alternatives to lighting up the whole planet like a Christmas tree. And although the energy to do so is likely to run out midway, it will do so in a needlessly painful and chaotic manner without humans choosing those workable alternatives first.
French Infectious Disease Specialist makes some uncomfortable claims to the Luxembourg Parliament
https://nakedemperor.substack.com/p/french-infectious-disease-specialist?s=r
Outstanding summary of the CovCON
Yes, outstanding testimony from Prof Peronne.
One new observation which I haven’t encountered before: he states that vaxxes should in commercial use for 10 years -after trials of approx the same length of time – before venturing to give them to pregnant women.
Why then the insane push,everywhere, to get them in the pregnant? Above all when toxicity is now clearly evident.
And why are doctors so cowardly and unethical as not to speak up over so blatant a violation of basic standards?
Here we even had a doctor claiming to be 7-months gone and getting vaxxed, encouraging all other women to do the same.
Tantalising!
> In two weeks, China, Russia, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan will reveal a new, independent, international monetary and financial system.
It will be based on a new international currency, calculated from an index of national currencies of the participating countries and international commodity prices. [Mar. 14, 2022, Sputnik News].
Russia and China will also reveal their Unfriendly Nation Lists.
https://thesaker.is/sitrep-sanctions-and-quite-major-economic-news/
Great!
3.6 million Hong Kong residents infected with Covid-19, university study says
https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3170502/coronavirus-mainland-chinese-health-professionals?module=lead_hero_story&pgtype=homepage
That’s nearly half the population … and the boosters continue…
I wonder what Bossche is thinking about this
Hong Kong seems to be in trouble. Chinese people have no souls in the Western sense. They do not display individuality or originality. Great for their government, not great for the country.
But it is concerning for the sad state of new zealand because it has followed a similar covid/kill shot trajectory.
I would assume that within a few months the hospitals here will be overflowing. Many will be ferried across the River Styx. Families invoiced for the trip of course.
Pure evil has a karmic price which new zealand will soon be paying.
Can’t wait for the hospitals to burst at the seams hahaha…
The MOREONS will demand more boosters — cuz it could be worse without. haahahahaha
What do you get when you cross an Idi ot with a Donkey? a MOREON. bahahahahahaha…
Possible redemption for NZ with 1M not boosting … watch Donkey pull the restrictions next week — otherwise economy implodes as they lose their passports.
Hey mike — all for nothing hahahahaha
Boat Propeller Kills Billionaire’s Son as He Tries to Save Fiancée Who Fell from Boat
Jason Hahn
Mon, March 14, 2022, 9:51 PM
Banesco USA
The 31-year-old son of a billionaire banker died while trying to save his fiancée during a fishing competition in Florida over the weekend.
According to the Miami Herald, Juan Carlos Escotet Alviarez died after he attempted to rescue his fiancée, Andrea Montero, when she fell off the stern of their 60-foot boat on Saturday. The two were catching sailfish as part of an event hosted by the Ocean Reef Club in north Key Largo.
After entering the water, Alviarez was struck by a boat propeller and died from his injuries, the outlet said. Journalist Angela Oraa of Venezuela said Montero was able to get out of the water “without consequences,” according to a translated tweet.
Citing the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, The Independent said the accident occurred about six miles from the private community, Ocean Reef Club. The FWC did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.
Alviarez is the son of billionaire Juan Carlos Escotet Rodriguez, the Venezuelan newspaper, El Nacional, reported.
Suppose the hand of Lady Luck did not hold his hand…no matter how rich you are …never know when the grim reaper grabs you…same will happen when BAU stops
Old song about it
I am amused. Any video?
The fiancée of a billionaire banker’s son who died while trying to save her when she went overboard during a Florida fishing tournament doesn’t remember moments of the deadly accident, officials said.
Andrea Montero, 30, hit her head at some point when she went overboard as she and her fiancé, Juan Carlos Escotet Alviarez, 31, tried to snag a sailfish from a 60-foot boat — but she doesn’t recall if the injury occurred when she fell or when she was rescued by the crew, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officials told the Miami Herald.
“Rough as it was, she couldn’t say whether it was when she went over or coming back in,” FWC spokesman Jason Rafter told the newspaper. “She doesn’t remember when it happened.”
Montero and Escotet Alviarez — the youngest son of Banesco founder and president Juan Carlos Escotet Rodriguez — had been taking part in a fishing tournament organized in Key Largo when she fell from the vessel’s stern as it moved backward, FWC officials said.
https://nypost.com/2022/03/15/juan-carlos-escotet-alviarezs-fiancee-speaks-after-accident/
Fast Eddie…sounds suspicious to me…can’t remember?
I demand an investigation
Note to self: don’t try to save clumsy fiance!
Billionaires should have minions on hand to do that kind of thing.
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/15/oil-shell-directors-sued-for-failing-to-prepare-for-energy-transition.html
They want to destroy all oil companies… such children
Oh brother 🙄
Don’t be fooled…all you need is to be a shareholder and you can sue just about anyone for just about anything….Betcha it’s a ploy to blame greenies for the fall off the cliff.
Oh, BTW , Rex Tillerson already did full disclosure when he was CEO of ExxonMobil..
Said humans will adapt to CC and pass proper measures to survive…move crops around, build sea walls ect….via public expense naturally
Silly me, doodle and lots of hugs and kisses with the bundle of joy!
Your baby 💞 Grandson!
Don’t mention children … norm is like a Grim Reaper character — he will immediately try to inject them with the poison – cuz norm is selfish
Strange times we live in.
I will be Boston, leaving this afternoon, returning on Saturday. Hopefully I will be able to comment as usual, but there may be interruptions. My new grandson lives in a suburb.
Wonderful,
In the end our only connection with the future are the descendants we leave behind us as they are those going forward.
Enjoy your weekend,
Dennis L.
It’s only Tuesday here .,,,
Gail, Was a resident in the Boston area for 17 years and loved it.
You will have a splendid time there. The Subway system is the best and if you don’t mind doing a little walking around…don’t need a car.
So much to see can’t mention it all…you can pick and choose yourselves.
Looked up the weather for your stay and it looks good for this time of year…may reach 69 degrees on Friday!
Some historic places, Cambridge with Harvard University on the Red line having a nice museum along with the Boston Museum on the Green line
Nice place to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day…
We have visited Boston many times. Our daughter has lived in the area for quite a few years.
Any good VIP lounges?
Think Puritans you are lucky if they serve alcohol.
Back in the day, drive up route 1, quality
Ha ha.. the Hilltop Steakhouse!
The end is nigh…repent…repent…
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/petrodollar-cracks-saudi-arabia-considers-accepting-yuan-chinese-oil-sales
When USD breaks, all interconnection breaks….
Right. Saudi Arabia selling oil in yuan is not a good sign.
So much for US sanctions.
So much for “breaking contracts at will”.
That is why we ‘care so much’ about Ukraine, and refuse Russian fossil fuels – because we just ‘care so much’. /s
Pretending that we ‘care so much’ is just another way of being a pushy biological machine.
Do I care? Not really. Do I care that I am expected to care or at least to pretend that I care? It is a bit annoying, to be honest. Do I care that it is a bit annoying? Obviously. All this war propaganda is very annoying.
No wonder no one likes wars these days, all the propaganda is potentially depressing and indeed annoying. It is not people dying that bothers me – people do that all the time – it is states pretending that they care that is depressing.
The propaganda is so transparent that it is itself depressing. They may as well keep repeating on a loop, ‘I am an idiot, talking bare-faced nonsense!’ OK, I believe you, now just end it.
How did states manage to turn wars into something so annoying and depressing? Presumably they suppose that it advances their interests to do so. ‘Oh yes, we care so much!’ War – yawn!
I enjoy a good war. A good war is one with bodies and bombed out cities and fire fights.
Cognitive dissonance, blatant hypocrisy and compartmentalizations on a state level.
That sounds so…
Bourgeoisie.
For some reason.
MOARons vested in a fantasy.
ANY fantasy.
🤔
Icona sounds so extremely sweet and warm to a portuguese ear that I am sure the song could never live up to such high expectations. So I’ll pass… 😎
That was some introductory Swedish for you.
90’s biatches are so cringe ‘ok boomer’ these days.
🤢🤮
00’s where’s it at.
It is the job of the 70’s to disillusion that generation:
“Hey have a look at Jevons “paradox”, these M.K. Hubbert and R.A.H. Rickover quotes”!
“Happy?”
‘Oorah to the death of an egoic fantasy.
They’ll gonna need it. Badly.
🤣👍👍
Fast Eddy would repent for mocking mike norm anna and dunc… but HE won’t cuz HE prefers to end up in Hell with all the hot loose women… gear… disco balls and techno music… so HE will continue to double down right to the very end
mike — did you hear that Donkey is going to drop the passports and mandates next week? Of course that’s a bit of a trojan horse that is… meant to encourage DC …
4 months of not being able to go to a restaurant — to avoid being poisoned… that’s a tough price to pay… hahaha… remember Two Shots for Summer and all the concerts and shit that were promised hahahaha… how’d that work out?
4 measly months of ‘restrictions’ (and btw – M Fast had a friends pass on her phone and has been going to restaurants no questions asked hahahahahaahhaaha)… so no restrictions … and nobody checks hahahahaahha….
Sucker!
And how is Selfish norm today? Inject any children norm? I heard you were driving the Bus of Death – gathering up all the children and bringing them to the injection centre… cuz _____
hahaha – a montage of fake video and photos pretending to be the Ukraine war hahahaahha
It’s F789ING all fake
https://t.me/TommyRobinsonNews/33680
So this former Wrestler Scott Hall (63) died from multiple heart attacks and blood clots. We are told he died following a planned hip surgery. Okay let me raise my hand and ask if this guy was Vaxxed?
https://www.cbssports.com/wwe/news/wrestling-legend-scott-hall-dies-at-63-two-time-wwe-hall-of-famer-taken-off-life-support-after-heart-attacks/
ACTIVE SURVEILLANCE SURVEY OF BOOSTER ADVERSE EVENTS IN ISRAEL…
THE RESULTS ARE TRULY SHOCKING
In contrast to the passive surveillance system in NZ, a subset of over 2,000 Israeli’s were actively surveyed following their booster shot. There response showed:
Among other findings, the Israeli survey shows that:
Two thirds of the respondents (66%) reported at least one side effect within three to four weeks after the booster (women: 75%).
Close to one third of respondents (29%) reported that they had “difficulty performing daily activities” due to the booster side effects (women: 51%).
Close to one in three hundred respondents (0.3%) reported actual hospitalization (i.e. not just medical care) as a result of the side effects.
Nearly 10% of women under the age of 54 reported disruptions to their menstrual cycle after the booster. Half of these women reported ongoing menstrual symptoms in a follow-up survey two to three months after the initial survey.
5.5% of the respondents reported chest pain (women: 7%), and 4.2% reported enlarged lymph nodes (i.e. lymphadenopathy; women: 6%).
One person reported confirmed post-booster myocarditis (heart inflammation); assuming this was a male person in the youngest of the three age groups of the survey (18-39), one in about 350 young males (0.3%) would be affected.
Close to 5% reported neurological problems (women: 6.9%), including Bell’s palsy (i.e. facial paralysis; 0.5%), eye disorders (0.5%), memory issues (0.4%), hearing issues (0.4%), convulsions (0.2%), and loss of consciousness (0.2%).
Close to 4% reported allergic reactions (women: 5.3%), including a rash, itching, difficulty breathing, and swelling of the face or throat.
About 25% of people with pre-existing auto-immune disorders, depression or anxiety reported a worsening of their symptoms following the booster.
5% to 10% of people with diabetes, hypertension, and lung & heart disease also reported a worsening of their condition.
Finally, 0.2% of respondents reported an outbreak of herpes simplex (women: 0.4%), and 0.2% of respondents reported an outbreak of herpes zoster (i.e. shingles; women: 0.3%).
https://swprs.org/covid-vaccines-the-next-vioxx/
Sounds like a worthwhile list of side effects for people to consider before getting a booster.
Because we all knew that Boosters are too lucrative of a business for Big Pharma and Tony Fauci agrees.
“Fauci Says More Vaccines Will Be Needed; “We’re Not Done With This”
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/fauci-says-more-vaccines-will-be-needed-were-not-done
Moreover, these Israeli figures are very much in line with figures estimated by other investigators from other countries: and in some instances even worse.
There is, therefore, persuasive consistency across the different regions: EU, US, Israel, UK.
These demolishes the notion that ‘anti-vaxxers’ are making it all up – co-ordinating on such a scale? I think not!
Thousands of people kept the Manhattan Project secret for years.
And thousands more kept the Moonhoax Project secret for decades.
Neil Armstrong maintained his silence up to the end. And NineEleven—need I say more?
And nobody in the Royal Household has ever said anything about Andrew being Porchester’s lad or Harry being the Hewitt boy.
https://www.quora.com/Is-Lord-Porchester-Prince-Andrews-real-father
So, why not? Millions of “anti-vaxers” in a gigantic con-spir-acy to make it all up about jabbicide, VAIDS and adverse reactions! Sounds totally reasonable to me/
It’s amazing how easily a secret can be kept when you can threaten someone if they try to expose it — and you order the MSM to ignore that person.
Why would anyone even bother to try to expose something? Zero upside. Massive downside
I mentioned this to a MOREON who is planning to swap Pfizer for AZ… for his second shot …
He dismisses this ‘stuff’… stating ‘I just want to get back to a normal life’
You can see why I don’t give any f789s when it goes sideways for people… push yourself around in the wheelchair…
They should change the name of this to Broken Promises
new zealand of course. Degenerating as per plan.
WHO would have thought that Covid could so suddenly become irrelevant or that a million people travelling across Europe regardless of vaccination status are no longer deemed a pestilential threat? Well, just like PartyGate bust the myth of the need for lockdown, the Ukraine war has exposed the vaccine myth. It makes no difference to infection or transmission or hospitalisation.
The trouble is that we still have to live with the fallout of its mass imposition on the people of the world.
One of the big questions to which we will learn the answer only from world data over time is the vaccine’s effect on our longer-term immunity.
In this Epoch TV film Dr Peter MCullough discusses data which he says shows that the vaccination causes the spike protein to linger in the body over twelve months, potentially weakening the immune system. You can watch it here.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/dr-peter-mccullough-and-the-question-of-vaccine-weakened-immune-systems%ef%bf%bc/
So the real big question, if the v causes VAIDS in recipients, and they still transmit the disease does it mean they transmit VAIDS too, cos if so we’re all ##UKnowWhat
You don’t want to have s e xual relations with an injected CovIDIOT… big no no ….
If I want to volunteer to fight the Ruskies in the Ukrainian foreign legion, do I need to show proof of vaccination before they let me in, or will a brain scan be sufficient and then I can get my shots later on the frontline?
Askin’ for a friend.
if you enjoy bad news click here https://worldedge.substack.com/p/beyond-mathematical-odds-viii-full/
This is a long list of what is going wrong around the world as the result of inadequate natural gas and coal supplies and, as a result, spiking prices. Includes fertilizer, crops, semi-conductor chips and many other things. He concludes:
“this will be a rough year, and we will experience different levels of a Everything Shortage. I often said there would not be a recovery by 2022. Now I can safely tell you, no recovery at all till 2024.”
It’s now time to consider stocking the pantry and spare bedrooms with food because right now it’s inflation, which could quite possibly be followed by severe shortages.
food is inflating like crazy
i feel bad for those without any spare financial capacity
Rather fill the spare bedroom with food than with Ukrainians.
Apparently (MSM) 40,000 Brits have signed up for the latter.
Pretty foolish – if they even come – as it raises many legal questions as to their continued right of residence as ‘tenants’/guests.
‘Like fish, guests stink after three days’. (Heart-warming Spanish proverb).
Some states encourage the taking in of refugees, in time of war, as a way of pretending that ‘we are the good guys’ in the conflict. It is a staple of war propaganda. ‘Look how much we care!’ Last month it was ‘bleeding refugees coming in boats!’ every day in the MSM.
It keeps the debt and housing rackets ticking over. After all, the frivolous consumerism racket seem to be on the brink.
Some UK special forces under cover has been killed during the Russians’ strike of hidden Nato base in Ukraine.
The base was close to the Polish border.
It seems also that Zelensky will be obliged to give up to the so called ukranian ‘légion étrangère’, at least for a while, as soldiers suffered big losses during strike at the military base.
(the news on the following website are not confirmed on mainstream media. Also I think because mainstream media would be obliged to admit that a Nato base was really there)
https://voxnews.info/2022/03/14/forze-speciali-gb-morte-in-bombardamento-russo-erano-in-base-nato-occulta/
https://voxnews.info/2022/03/14/zelensky-rinuncia-alla-legione-straniera-dopo-le-bombe-di-putin-200-europei-morti/
Issues that were hidden are now being revealed.
Utopia Update — on x date fertilizer runs out … on x date gas runs out .. on x date oil runs out… and that means no food – we have no choice… we must act before it is too late
Enter a third man — tell him what you do — what you really do — when I am called upon I proceed to a vehicle and I release an extremely deadly variant of the Russian flu virus – I will release it over a 35 square mile area on the people below… I will repeat at 4 other locations around the world.
Hmmm… a bit close for comfort? Obviously they could not state the plan exactly … but without a doubt this was intended as a bit of an inside joke — a bit of fun with the MOREONS… they’ll never connect it… and they wont
Europe Is Getting Caught by a Covid Resurgence After Rushed Exit
Accelerated by the emergence of BA.2 — a more-transmissible strain of the omicron variant — the virus has spread rapidly. Germany has set fresh records for infection rates for four straight days. Austria has also reached new highs, while cases in the Netherlands have doubled since lifting curbs on Feb. 25.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-15/europe-is-getting-caught-by-a-covid-resurgence-after-rushed-exit?srnd=premium-europe
More transmissible? hahaha… as if Omicron wasn’t enough — all those billions of jabbed Moreons getting infected with this latest mutant…
Surely DC can’t be far off hahahahaha … it’s getting more deadly too as we are seeing in high vaxxed asian countries…
I see the rate in Austria is very high. Not so good!
It would be interesting to see if it is more deadly and severe to to the ultra jabb…versus natural immun .. but I don’t think they want that information out. From what I am seeing on the ground natural is doing much better and jabs are getting more sick. The jab makes it like you are on steroids for a long time and then go off and back on. Not healthy
Utopia Update – ‘we have manufactured a world wide flu scare – and have enough vaccine to inoculate the entire population of the planet’
Hmmmm…
More cracks happening… papering over will only do so much….
Credit Has Cracked, And Now The CLO Defaults Begin
Last Friday we reported that credit is “cracking”, quoting from the ominous words of BofA strategist Michael Hartnett who chose to describe the bond markets currently, and as we noted, “it is a very ugly picture indeed – for both price… and flows.”
Since then, credit has only gone from bad to worse, and amid Monday’s rout, junk bonds (HYG) finally took out the psychological level of 80, a level last hit during the depths of the covid crash (just before the Fed stepped in and started buying bonds).
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/credit-has-cracked-and-now-cdo-defaults-begin
CLOs are repackaged loans resold to investors. These are now showing huge signs of stress: Higher interest rates, lower selling prices, more defaults. Shades of 2008, all over again!
Ever opened a golf ball skin and looked inside – it’s elastic bands wrapped around a core… if you snip the bangs it unravels and bounces all over the place
It’s a great party trick
Could be real https://t.me/robinmg/17199
Isn’t it obvious that the US/EU/NATO needs the “goodies” in Russia and Ukraine to continue the debt festivities fueled by:
🛢⛽️
I suppose the “special tactics” were a bit more “special” than expected, obviously caused by the usual dimwit western involvement in Donetsk.
It is just the typical shenanigans of halfwits for reasons nobody with a mind in a reasonably coherent working order would even consider and less to bother with.
Let’s call the unfolding events as “karma” playing out.
Depression is such a powerful drug.
The seven stages of grief leading to it, that is.
It’s all good.
Greetings Kowalainen,
I have always found your comments deeply illuminating. In a recent comment, you mentioned the perils of having too many attachments to BAU, e.g. wife, children, McMansion, etc. What would you say constitutes a genuinely rational lifestyle, one that is informed through and through by the physical sciences and evolutionary theory? How are we to organize meaningfully a finite lifespan in the face of the problematic cognitive capacities we have inherited from our ancestors?
Thank you
Thanks. I’m happy to be of service despite my comments being appalling for people deeply immersed in the egoic fantasy.
One has to conclude that they’re merely destructive when the usual growth paradigm is concluding. What point is there having MOARon and tryhard ‘optimizers’, doing the Yin Yang ‘dance’ when there isn’t enough to go around?
After all; we’re an evolutionary species/system. Stagnation through decadence, unfair advantage, (and WtP) is failure as I have pointed out. The destruction and ruins of the past should give a nice point of reference.
Let’s use the Russian cauldron tactic as an analogy for sieging up the worst aspects of the egoic fantasy embodiments. Let “them” have a field day in dating and mating fantasy ultimately ending up in nothing.
The female is likely the best subject due to the hypergamy nature. Hacking dating sites must be trivial these days and with the “lockdowns” reducing other possibilities for meeting. It isn’t particularly sinister since they already get what they crave. Let’s go from 80% to 99% of “marketplace” imbalance. Porn and sex robots for the tryhards that isn’t quite up to “spec”.
After all; very few of sufficient mental fortitude can see through the game and just refuse to play. Which of course is a problem to dealt with. Say, with a cauldron of different sort.
😉
All women of sufficient mental clarity understands that prosperity and wealth is a generational project. Furthermore that the comedy and drama of the offspring is qualitatively superior than one’s own. It is when life becomes priority over the fantasies in it. Nobody with a clear mind wants to have their offspring to perish at the feet of parents egoic fantasy.
It must be close to trivial deducing who’s who (in psychological terms) in IC by merely observing the information flows. Emails, tweets, comments, video calls, dating sites, etc.
What’s the point of A(G)I if it isn’t used for impersonal eugenics (without egoic fantasy), advancement of technology and military strategy/tactics?
But first it is imperative to figure out what is to be optimized without ending up in some ridiculous side effect. You could likely list a few virtues that is appealing to your brethren H.S. Empirico.
How about having a few original thoughts? A sense of survival instinct perhaps? Creativity and art and of course? Minor and major contributions to a steady progression of the technologies that eventually will supplant us the “natural” way of freely adapting to the ecosystem, rather than the cruel way of the ecosystem (Mother Earth) adapting the egoic fantasies to its circumstances?
That is ultimately what all truly sapients species does knowingly or unwittingly do. If that stops it inevitably ends the “ancient” way and thus the wheel of time takes another cruel stir in the human genomic quagmire. And so it spins in perpetuity.
I do my part, however insignificant it is despite some obvious hypocrisy, however minor when put into perspective. I guess I’m all right to just be around, to exist, to crave for more attachments seem counterproductive to a general sense of well being.
But WTF do I know.
It is what it is.
Thank you for your very generous reply. If only there were some means by which to placate this primal acquisitiveness artificially and with minimal cost?
How about semi-artificial shortages and an eugenics program that is pseudo-voluntary and not based on any other metric than survival instinct, raw intellect and a capacity of unfazed rational thought despite the egotistic (thanks Norman) jostling’s from the hypothetical loss of prestige and status within the ‘herd’.
That should about catch the worst offenders in one gargantuan swoop.
It shall be interesting to observe the effects from this experiment. Is it even “recoverable” at this point?
LTG Scenario: “Hardcore”.
Which brings us to the current events. It is not pretty, rather is what it is. In the mean time:
firewood, axe, water, something…
my comments being appalling for people deeply immersed in the egoic fantasy.
I don’t see why people would be appalled… after all … it is … what it is…. they need to get over their resistance (and delusions)
Humans are disgusting
the word is ‘egotistic’
Thanks Norman. I know my English leaves more to be desired.
Igor Chudov has been ferreting about in the statistics for childhood vaccinations and infant mortality in the great state of Florida and uncovered a fascinating correlation. In short, they both dropped “very significantly” in 2021, even as overall mortality for proud Floridians rose.
Can we think of Florida in 2021 as one big experiment? In 2021, parents who were alarmed by general social developments, randomly decided to NOT give their babies the “scheduled shots”. Coincidentally, mortality among precious Florida babies actually DECREASED very significantly.
14 percent decrease in vaccination coverage, is associated with 9 percent decrease in infant mortality.
In plain language, it means that ABOUT HALF THE INFANT DEATHS IN FLORIDA MAY BE CAUSED BY VACCINATIONS.
https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/florida-vaccine-hesitancy-reduced?r=z6oe1&s=r&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
1. Healthy baby is born
2. Mom takes him to doctor
3. Doctor gives him vaccines
4. Child develops ear infections and other issues
5. Doctor prescribes antibiotics and Tylenol
6. Child continues to develop infections and illness
7. Doctor prescribes more antibiotics and Tylenol
8. Child develops food allergies and eczema
9. Doctor gives him more vaccines
10. Child develops asthma and ADHD
11. Doctor prescribes steroids and Ritalin
12. Mom thanks doctor for helping her child
Vaccines set children up for a lifetime of health issues. I hope the covid vaccine scam has woken many people up to this.
Really intelligent post. You left out the part where they convince mother and child to forego salt, red meat, cholesterol, saturated fat, and to use “healthy” seed oils for cooking, and eat plenty of vegetables and “healthy” grains which are actually trying to kill you as they have done for millions of years.
Agree for the most part, but for me at least the “Plant Paradox” diet seems to work best, the theory being that we have immunity to the toxins of plants that have been part of the human diet for a sufficiently long time.
In: Root vegetables, Leafy Greens, Cruciferous vegetables
Out: Grains, Legumes, Nightshades
Grains and seed oils are absolutely the worst offenders. Eliminating these two only would bring a vast improvement to most peoples’ health.
Three! … and sugar.
I almost included that too!
To that, we should add the part where they convince mother and child to avoid sunlight as if they were vampires, on the grounds that “it causes skin cancer and prematurely ages the skin.”
I love my daily bread and my rice, but everything in moderation, and bread at least should be real bread. We bake our own with butter and millk.
Then we have the issue of “organic” vs. “factory farmed”. That pork, beef, chicken, salmon, egg, milk, fruit, nut or grain may be good for you or not so good for you, depending on how it was produced.
High 5 to that!
This is most probably a correct description of the current situation. We certainly need both a reset and then build back better in terms of health advice and treatments. The entire House of Medicine is down.
The good side of scamdemic was to make me a rabid antivaxer and an opponent of germ theory. And now I suspect that the terrible bouts of asthma I suffered in infancy were due to vaccines.
Might well be, JMS: there was a strong temporal connection between my receiving several shots at once, and the appearance of allergies and asthma (thankfully not too bad).
Before that I was, it seems, an ‘almost frighteningly’ healthy and energetic toddler.
Luckily, that basic initial genetic endowment of energy still helped me with the chronic ill-health.
But how many had their lives utterly ruined?
‘Anti-vaxxers’ are probably quite correct about the burying of the side-effects on a massive scale, even of ‘traditional’ vaxxes.
It is worth remembering that the children of our generation received six or seven different vaccines, while today’s children receive many more. I hear that in the USA the recommendation is already in the dozens!
US childhood vax schedule is currently 72 shots.
They’re currently trying to add the COVID jab to that list.
Wow.
I can remember sitting with a towel over my head inhaling hot water vapour as a child due to having breathing difficulties too. Might have been caused by vaccines. I never really gave the matter any thought until I had children of my own. A look at the ingredients in vaccines was enough to persuade me my children were not going to be injected.
Whilst not dismissing terrain theory out of hand, without the existence of transmissible biological pathogens, how is it possible to explain the spread of bubonic plague through Europe or smallpox across the Americas?
In “The Myth of Contagion”, Tom Cowan mentions some non-viral hypotheses for the origin of the disease known as bubonic plague: ionizing radiation released by comets, anthrax or some kind of hemorrhagic fever. He mentions an also highly relevant fact: “Black Death killed over half of Iceland’s population, but rats [the alleged culprits], didn’t reach Iceland until the ninenteenth century”.
Regarding smallpox, Tom Cowan, based on the work of Dr. Charles A. R. Campbell, attributes it to bedbug bites. So no virus nor contagion involved.
The good thing is that the MOREONS will take every vax offered to them … and as we know almost all people are MOREONS…
So it does not matter if you vax or don’t vax… you won’t likely encounter any of the diseases cuz everyone else is vaxxed … hahahaha… let them suffer all the brutal side-effects…
I’m all for other people selflessly sacrificing their children so my own can benefit from herd immunity.
Had a power cut here for four hours this evening. Only a few streets so I knew it wasn’t WW3 starting. Convinced me I’m not ready for the Fast Eddy challenge yet… and never will be.
We had a power cut the other day — lasted for 7 hours – I stopped waiting for it to come back on and crashed at 1130… so it may have been much longer than that… in the morning it was on… then it went off again for another 2 hours
New Zealand is better than the UK in terms of climate and population, but it is at the end of long supply lines for lots of things.
We’ll be the last — along with southern Chile… to be touched by the spent fuel pond tentacles of death
Well, it’s good that some skeptics here at least acknowledge that the vaccines work.
Work as in damage and destroy the f789ing fools who take them?
Or work as in
9 OUT OF 10 COVID DEATHS ARE FULLY VACCINATED – UK
https://www.headsupster.com/forumthread?shortId=1537
There is no curing stooopidity… we try day after day on OFW .. but it persists
your last line is spot on eddy
Domestic smoke and Indoor LPG gas burners are another insidious cause of asthma
Curiously, I can breathe in heavy smoke from a wood fire without provoking asthma, but the air pollution is just deadly above a certain threshhold.
I like to experiment on myself, and eliminating the wood stove as a possible cause was a surprising result.
One of the main reasons I left Hong Kong was the air pollution … I was able to spend extended periods in the city later on when we installed air purifiers in our office.
This is the same story we saw in 2020, after the March 15 lock in. Babies couldn’t get their “normal” package of vaccines. Infant mortality went way down, as mortality rose is many other areas, particularly over age 75 or 80. I an not sure I can find the link now. There was an analysis of mortality by age group by some researcher. It was not a CDC report.
Ouch https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/florida-vaccine-hesitancy-reduced
You beat me to it by seven minutes! Being men of taste, we are hooked up to the same top-quality Substack news feeds. Not for us the crud and fodder that Norman and Mike love to munch on.
norm is a fan of The National Enquirer (being an enquiring mind) and mike is on the list to receive updates on Hello Mag!
To be very honest, I find it really “XXX” (I just don’t know what word to use) that there ARE people who sincerely believe in MSM and anything that is not reported in MSM are all konspirasi or not true. This has nothing to do with education level., be id uneducated or PhD, they have this mentality.
I am really really “YYY” about this. It is just so unreal. There is ABSOLUTELY no brain power used to even think about it, not even a nano-gram brain matter or nano-joule of energy used to think.
I have met many of this type of people.
Help me fill in the words XXX and YYY. Perhaps it is beyond any word could describe.
perhaps it is the algorithm of the simulation ?
Correct – there is no excuse for this — they are either MOREONS … or as you suggest this is a simulation and they are programmed this way (programmed to be stooopid)
There is no other explanation that I can think of.
The trick is to undo the default program of the herd and run your own ‘supervisory’ hot coding sequences in the ‘metal’.
Surely it’s going to have bugs that needs ironing out. But hey, nothing is perfect.
It’s a process of individuation as Jung would have put it if I understand him correctly.
The herd is just hoping and coping while mired in fantasy projections of this and that embodied as the absurdities of primate psychology.
Karma with other words.
NPCs, NPCs everywhere one looks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-player_character
Xxxx = bewildering? Yyyy = uncomprehending?
Anyway, I think I know what you mean. It’s like your brain has pulled a muscle when you try to wrap your head around how this can be so.
Assume yourself living the “good” life with all the bells and whistles of BAU. Your “career” going smoothly. Kids attending the right schools and beautiful wife pregnant with the third one. You’re living in a nice house with all the amenities. Yes; you’ve been an attaboy tryhard indeed.
Suddenly one gloomy day you’re required to take the vax for continuing your lucrative career, or business, delivered either as a subvert threat or risk of being ostracized by the ‘community’ or guild. Then it hits you; you’ve gotta pay bills and your debts require a steady income. Just the cars alone…
Now, picture yourself in that situation. How would you have done despite knowing, or say having an intuition, about the risk?
Of course a reasonable person wouldn’t expose themselves to attachments of that magnitude. It is insane to be tied down to an egoic fantasy.
The next day you’re scheduled for receiving the first injection.
Imagine your boss put a pistol on your desk — with one bullet in a chamber… and said — put this to your head and pull the trigger – or you are fired.
The obvious thing to do is to is to toss the gun in the trashcan and ask what they offer. If they refuse to negotiate – you bring the gun to the next scheduled meeting which is mandated by law.
It is called labor law in most civilized countries.
It goes both way in fact. You’re supposed to put your employer (the company) before yourself and not some halfwitted tryhard schmuck “boss”, since ultimately it is the company and the owners that puts food on your table.
It has gotten myself into “trouble” a couple of times (can you believe it? 🤣). But it’s jolly good drama and comedy.
Of course I’m not subject to fold from petty pressure because of basic survival instinct and a lack of absurd attachments.
XXX = intolerable? YYY = outraged?
Or
XXX = mind-boggling? YYY = dumbfounded?
XXX, YYY all correct. It is just “beyond words”
I first observed this with air pollution, CTG.
Having been rather badly affected by increasing levels here, I was eventually able to predict bad days by observing the weather, cloud cover, wind speed and direction – mostly the pollution clouds blow up from London, not the neighbouring city.
My observations had very high predictive power.
The Meteorolgical Office site always says ‘low pollution’, however.
But when I told people about the raised levels, the origin, and the danger to health, they refused to believe it until…… it was on the BBC.
Then they’d say ‘You know, you were right after all’. Showing they thought me mad – because it wasn’t on the bloody BBC! And all highly educated.
No surprise that all these people got vaxxed multiple times. Whereas I, being more observant, analytical, and also BBC-free, didn’t.
If a wolf decides to dress up as a sheep, these people are its ideal dinner…..
If a wolf decides to dress up as a sheep, these people are its ideal dinner…..
Not wise to spike proteins….
Here at the Form Follows Function Institute (FFFI) our model refers to the MOREONS as Homo Sapiens Politico, a subvariant of Homo Sapiens. HS Politico evolved from its co-subvariant, Homo Sapiens Empirico.
Throughout the past, most life forms have succeeded through their empirical observations of their environment.
As populations increased, it became necessary to recognize the Alpha individuals and adhere to their positions.
If an individual’s empirical observation contributed to a failure to convince the Alpha of a being’s support, the observation could be fatal.
The ability to act like something that you are not evolved. Today’s humans hold the ability to act like something that you are not as a highly esteemed art form.
There was also a selection for not making an empirical observation at all.
The truth was not what the individual observed.
The truth was whatever the Alpha declared.
In the urban setting, life was less stressful if there was no empirical observation to cloud one’s projection of adherence to the position of the Alpha and the herd.
It appears that the human population has become majority HS Politico, aka Moreons. HS Empirico asks why these people can’t see what is clearly observable.
The answer is that their brains are not “wired” for observation. They have evolved a successful response for the life in the urban condition.
They do not respond to other than the declaration of the Alpha.
Interesting, but it seems to be framed as a ‘fall from grace’ or ‘from innocence’, and to imply that there is some ‘better’ condition, which likely involves ‘honesty’ and some enhanced practical outcome.
‘The truth will set you free.’
It reminds me of Sunday school. and the promise of another world, in which the productive principles of this world do not apply, and everything has some ‘perfect’ outcome, including ‘human nature’.
‘You shall be like unto the angels.’
Humans have relied on dominance hierarchies since before some of our ancestors became chimps, and we have evolved, as we have, precisely because it ‘works’ for us.
(Even the ‘angels’ are hierarchical.)
The same goes for our brains and our cognitive ‘deficits’. The aim of the ‘mind’ is not ‘truth’ but existence, and our ‘minds’ have evolved in this way precisely because it does facilitate our existence.
‘And behold, ye shall live forever!’
Nothing might be more dangerous to life than ‘truth’ and ‘honesty’. We might realise, or even take on board, that we are just pushy biological machines, like the rest, and that nothing really ‘matters’.
‘From dust you come, and to dust you shall return.’
We would have evolved differently, and become cows or sheep, if that had ‘worked’ for us. It clearly ‘works’ for them. But ‘the pure angels’ are imaginary, even if they are sometimes taken as some ‘ideal’.
‘Mooo.’
So, humans simply are what they are, the same as all species just are what they are. There is no ‘overarching’ criteria of evaluation beyond the selective mechanisms that brought species to be what they are in the first place.
‘Man and woman, He made them.’
Existence itself is ‘success’ in the game of life. The rest of it is an illusion that keeps the game going. That too, including the ‘angels’, has ‘value’ for life, .
‘Believe, and ye shall live forever!’
Fundamentally ‘it just is what it is’, and humans just are what they are, with all of their quirks and self-dissatisfactions. Self-criticism is an important way that humans keep the game going.
‘And great shall be your reward.’
Nevertheless, it does make some interesting points, so thanks for posting that.
If HS Empirico specimen #1 – of competence rating ‘N’ gives a relevant remark to HS Empirico specimen #2 – of competence rating ‘N-1’. #2 naturally ponders upon the remark because it is what defines the HS Empirico. The capacity to think unmoved by the jostling and fantasies of the primate ego.
Is it a dominance hierarchy? Perhaps. It depends on what one means with dominance.
I suppose objective reality “dominates” us all, which makes the whole “dominance” scheme superfluous.
Obviously IC amplifies up the collective unconscious (and corresponding ego fantasies) of susceptible schmucks devolving them into vested HS Politicos totally incapable of cutting the losses even with the suspicions of being under existential threat.
It is similar to aliens, AGI’s or, say angels trying to “communicate” with a HS Politico specimen. It is not even wrong. Being wrong is a level up from the absurd.
So when do we get to see some spiffy spaceships and technowizardry?
🤣👍👍
So… we’ve got this guy https://steinhardt.nyu.edu/people/mark-crispin-miller
Saying to Fast Eddy – ‘Peak Oil – is that a thing?’
https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/mcm-on-the-propaganda-madness-of/comments?s=r#comment-5545612
Miller cowrote Propaganda with the old goat Bernays … and he’s asking of Peak Oil is a thing????
WTF… Let’s see how he reacts to Fast Eddy’s very measured response … to be honest Fast Eddy wanted to ask him if he feels he is qualified to teach that course and to write a book on propaganda… but HE held back…
One would have thought someone like this would have seen through the obvious Cons… GW.. Oil.. Renewables…. etc…
MCM is another ‘over-shoot’ denier, I see. Energy-blind.
The comforting delusion that, but for the wicked, scheming super-rich, 8 billion + could still live on a little plot of land each, scattering their seeds and waiting to be over-whelmed with the resulting abundance…..
The complete randomness of the vaxx deaths and mass poisonings is a key issue: the perhaps irreplaceable highly-trained specialist with valuable experience and years left to contribute is as likely to be crippled as Debbie the nail parlour girl, a hapless old pensioner, or yours truly.
One could say that they grossly miscalculated, and that Big Pharma promised more than they could reliably deliver; the main aim being sterilisation of many, not deaths and mass injuries, and the side effects have simply got out of hand.
If so, why then press on so relentlessly with the injections once the fact that Pfizer et al screwed up so royally has become clear?
The vaxxes are evidently more like cluster-bombs than precision missiles.
1 in 300 ending up in hospital with severe side-effects, in just the first year, is ominous from the point of view of continuity of functioning.
MCM does not respond to FE.
This incident puts FE in perspective… here is a man who spent his life studying propaganda .. and media … who cowrote a book with Bernays… and with minimal effort FE has smashed his face in … busted his head open … and stuffed shit down his throat… leaving him lying in the dirt… unable to comprehend what just happened.
There is a big divide in this world… a chasm actually…. that’s the best they can send into the ring????
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/24/56/f5/2456f57950b4b3431413511ad1e6f14e.gif
what a scintillating turn of phrase eddy
i am in awe of your originality
i can see you aspire to be up there with the great
Miller wasn’t even born when Bernays wrote Propaganda in 1928.
Propaganda
By Edward Bernays; Mark Crispin Miller [Introduction]
https://biblio.co.nz/9780970312594
He wrote the intro
No one likes to think they are the victim of propaganda, even those aware of it – part of the beauty of it I suppose.
Imagine the sheer sensation of power: to create propaganda, and then see it spread everywhere, people repeating it as if it were their own thought, getting enraged when the new truth is questioned by those not brain-washed……
This is the plot of Inception. Film 2010 cast and production quite notorious.
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Mayor Lori Lightfoot will put Chicago Police officers and other city workers who don’t get their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine by Sunday on non-disciplinary no-pay status, her administration said late Friday.
The city will also consider disciplining workers, though it will be dealt with on a case-by-case basis as the Lightfoot administration balances its public health policies with staffing problems in the police department.
Lightfoot’s latest pronouncement comes after the city won another round in court this week in its legal battle with the Chicago Fraternal Order of Police over the vaccine mandate. But she faces pressure not just from the police union — which has appealed the latest legal ruling and claims the mandate will results in an exodus of officers — but also from a group of aldermen still seeking to undo the rule.
DuckDuckGo Updates Search Engine, Will Penalize Sites ‘Associated With Disinformation’
The Epoch Times reported:
The search engine DuckDuckGo has begun penalizing sites linked to “Russian disinformation” amid the Russia–Ukraine war, according to the company’s CEO.
DuckDuckGo is an alternative to Google that has been growing in popularity in recent years in part because it doesn’t track users. Weinberg has in the past promised “unbiased results” as part of his pitch to people to switch from Google.
Some users quickly questioned the CEO’s update, including Tom Fitton, president of the Judicial Watch nonprofit. DuckDuckGo, “contrary to its implicit promises to the contrary, is now in the censorship business,” he wrote on Twitter. “Are there any search engines that respect users?”
I figured once DDG had sold out to be default search with major browsers, “optimising results” (censorship) was just a matter of time. As I’ve used DDG for many years I’d started looking around at alternatives. Two other privacy focussed search engines I’ve come up with are search.brave.com and swisscows.com
Anyone have comments on these?
DuckDuck……Gone!
Further thought – Epoch Times is a heavily anti-CCP biased site and would have an obvious incentive in discrediting anti-Western narrative in these days. Any further corroboration of DDG move?
What’s to corroborate – they stated they are manipulating their results
MainScreamMedia has always been under narrative management we should not be surprised. Thanks 4da doduckandcover.pseudounbiased.com tip
Suggest
Swisscows.com search engine as alternative.
And get ya selves a VPN unless you wannabe led around the internet by the nose
I had never heard of Swisscows, but I’ve just visited there and I like the feel and look of the place. Thanks for the recommendation.
Added that as default engine…
WTF is a duck duck go anyway…and dont they know that the only reason anyone uses that is that they supposedly were not google… if they are gonna engage in the same shit I’d just use google… or something else
Millions of Pounds of Pesticides Sprayed on Crops to Feed Animals in Factory Farms
Millions of pounds of toxic pesticides sprayed on feed crops for factory farm animals in the U.S. are threatening human health and wildlife and plants by destroying their native habitats, according to a new report by World Animal Protection and the Center for Biological Diversity.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/pesticides-sprayed-crops-feed-animals-factory-farms/
May as well just eat that farmed salmon … hahahahaha….
France lifted most COVID-19 restrictions on Monday, abolishing the need to wear face masks in most settings and allowing people who aren’t vaccinated back into restaurants, sports arenas and other venues.
Starting from Monday, people aren’t required anymore to show proof of vaccination to enter places like restaurants and bars, cinemas, theaters, fairs and to use interregional transport. The so-called vaccine pass had taken effect at the end of January.
In hospitals and nursing homes, unvaccinated people must provide a recent negative test or proof of recent recovery to enter. Wearing masks are no longer required in schools, businesses and offices. They remain mandatory on public transportation and at hospitals and other health facilities.
Seems a bit of an odd decision given we have record numbers across the board at the moment … huh?… well maybe not — once you have jabbed those who are gonna jab… you want to spread Covid… that’s how you get Mutations
Hopefully those pesky pesticides will be priced out of the market; then we will see some crop carnage!
The GMO crops may be quite vulnerable without their ‘nuclear umbrella of toxic sprays.’
German Insurance Company Fires CEO Who Released Data on COVID Vaccine Injuries, Scrubs Data From Website
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/german-insurance-fires-andreas-schofbeck-covid-vaccine-injuries-data/
Sooooo — no conspiracy there right?
Pfizer heart https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-15/norwegian-cruise-ship-runs-aground-leaving-port-in-puerto-plata?srnd=premium-europe
Another Evergreen has run aground, as well.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-14/evergreen-ship-gets-stuck-near-u-s-port-a-year-post-suez-fiascoI
China tech rout: Hong Kong market sinks after JPMorgan calls stocks ‘uninvestable’ as global funds prepare to flee crisis
Losses are snowballing as JPMorgan says macro and geopolitical risks as global funds are expected to flee China internet risks without valuation support
Hang Seng Index slides to a six-year low as US$460 billion of market value from tech stocks has evaporated this year
https://www.scmp.com/business/markets/article/3170474/china-tech-rout-hong-kong-market-sinks-after-jpmorgan-calls-stocks?module=lead_hero_story&pgtype=homepage
Goes along with other stories saying that China is doing very poorly now.
would you mind detailing your point?
I’d like to hear your point of view.
https://thehighwire.com/videos/are-high-gas-prices-just-the-beginning/
Can’t be sure but it looks like the countries that receive wheat imports from Ukraine are mostly third world countries that vaxxed little or not at all. No need to vaxx with the bioweapon because hunger, disease and related issues are coming?
Ed Dowd: “Millennial age group, 25 to 44 experienced an 84% increase in excess mortality”
“It’s the worst-ever excess mortality, I think, in history.” Can you guess what caused it? I think I know…
https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/ed-dowd-millennial-age-group-25-to
https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9bafd973-bf2c-4c4a-98b0-3427af78b94c_2048x1304.jpeg
hahahahahaahahahaha how amusing … you take a miracle cure – and it kills you — now that sucks — but it doesn’t – cuz you’re dead!
high excess mortality is here!
CARDIAC and CANCER.
my weekend anecdotes:
a person saying their 70ish bro in law had a sudden diagnosis of a rare and rapidly spreading cancer.
another person saying their 50ish relative just diagnosed with cancer.
another person, a cancer “survivor”, saying she hasn’t been feeling well lately.
let’s create some new words:
Vaccicancer.
Vaxicide.
Yes in my reality here in my country, I had a first case of vaccine death. A healthy lady 40+ years old die from cancer. Fast spreading. This lady is health conscious and does health checks frequently.
So people have been talking that how it is so fast and evade detection and they they should do more checks. It does not occur to them that (1) cancer does not kill within 6 months (2) it is the vaccine causing the cancer to grow fast.
Health-conscious sheep are the first to line up for the jab because they always think that being jabbed is better than not. So, when they get cancer, they just don’t know what to do or say
“Health-conscious sheep are the first to line up for the jab because they always think that being jabbed is better than not.”
How about health conscious sheep dressed up in wolves clothes?
Obviously possessing a healthy “dose” of rudimentary reasoning ability and survival instinct. Wolves are by their nature shy of humans, for very good reason.
Young people seldom die so even a doubling is hardly noticeable.
Old people dont seem to die in higher numbers.
Not visible in excess mortality.
That is pretty dreadful excess mortality rates!
I’m starting to wonder if the various national statistics offices are fiddling the death rates. Loads of countries had accelerating death rates towards the end of last year, incl. Australia and were outside the 5 year moving average band.
Then the rates all headed back into the 5 year average band. That seems counter to all the reports of extra deaths e.g. from Insurance Cos etc. We know the US DoD suddenly ‘adjusted’ their stats once the vax injuries and deaths showed up.
The only explanation I can think of apart from data fiddling is that the excess deaths from the early COVID killed the pool of ready to die.
SPORTS
Tom Brady’s ‘last’ TD ball sold for over $500K right before QB returned
By Ryan Glasspiegel
March 14, 2022 | 6:48pm
One of the worst beats in memorabilia collecting history took place over the weekend.
Right before Tom Brady un-retired, an undisclosed collector purchased the ball from Brady’s final touchdown pass for $518,628.
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The ball in question came from Brady’s 55-yard touchdown pass to Mike Evans in the Buccaneers’ loss to the Rams in the second round of the NFL playoffs.
There were 23 different bids for the ball, which in all likelihood will not be the final touchdown pass thrown by Brady in his career.
The one silver lining for the collector here is that the bidding on the football only reached about half of the auction house’s estimate.
Jordan Gilroy, the director of acquisitions at auction site Leland’s, told USA Today that he thought the ball would fetch a million dollars.
Ah, not to worry…if you couldn’t afford a half a million football.. you should have bid on Antonio Browns gloves he threw in the Stands when he disrobed at the Jets ga
Tony Romo just signed a new deal for USD one million per game… he’s a former player turned broadcaster. He makes more than the entire All Blacks team hahahahahaha…
Ridiculing American Football is the national sport of NZ and Australia — Jarryd Hayne was Rugby Leagues MVP and tried out with the 49ers:
“The pro personnel director of an AFC team that scouted Hayne told me this week that Hayne has good hands but he might be too slow for the NFL.”
Home Page NZ Stuff.com
https://resources.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/4/y/x/n/1/k/image.related.StuffThumbnailSquare.1000×1000.4yxmyl.11ys6n.png/1647305103553.jpg
Potemkin War… actually it’s not even that.. with a Potemkin War you have to actually blow a bit of stuff up to make it look good… this looks like people jumping on a bus to go for a weekend break
Trio jailed for rape of mostly unconscious 14-year-old girl — recorded on video because ‘it was funny’ — given probation
https://www.theblaze.com/news/trio-jailed-for-rape-of-mostly-unconscious-14-year-old-girl-given-probation
Hmmm….
The crisis is unlikely to ease soon. After falling last week, new infections rose again Monday, to 26,000 – the equivalent of more than 1 million in the United States. Authorities predict thousands more deaths through April.
The death toll is especially stunning because the cases are essentially all Omicron, which is milder that earlier variants. Also, Hong Kong has almost no obesity, which trails only age as a risk factor for Covid. About 3 percent of adults in Hong Kong are obese, compared to 40 percent of Americans.
Further, physicians have the benefit of two years of treating Covid cases. They are no longer killing patients by putting them on ventilators too aggressively, a mistake that significantly increased the death total in New York in 2020.
https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/hong-kong-learns-the-hard-way-virus
I bet they give them Rem Death Is Near
hahahahaha https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/when-ukraine-supporter-is-your-new?s=r
This is an interesting overview on how geopolitics has evolved over the past century, and in recent decades, vis-a-vis Russia, China and USA. I would highly recommend it. Western MSM have perpetrated a tsunami of stark obvious, and ridiculous, propaganda over the past fortnight, and the ‘hopes’ that MSM have raised, that Xi might side against Putin, very much miss the ‘big picture’. Western MSM is 100% unreliable right now.
> Russia and China, Together at Last
At the core of recent conflicts is an entente between China and Russia that the world hasn’t seen since the start of the Cold War.
Just as the relentless grinding of the earth’s tectonic plates produces earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, so the endless superpower struggle for dominance over Eurasia is fraught with tensions and armed conflict. Beneath the visible outbreak of war in Ukraine and the US-Chinese naval standoff in the South China Sea, there is now an underlying shift in geopolitical power in process across the vast Eurasian landmass—the epicenter of global power on a fast-changing, overheating planet. Take a moment to step back with me to try to understand what’s now happening on this increasingly embattled globe of ours.
…. WHEN PUTIN MET XI
Last month, when Vladimir Putin met Xi Jinping in Beijing at the start of the Winter Olympics, it proved a stunning reversal of the Stalin-Mao moment 70 years earlier. While Russia’s post-Soviet economy remains smaller than Canada’s and overly dependent on petroleum exports, China has become the planet’s industrial powerhouse with the world’s largest economy (as measured in purchasing power) and 10 times the population of Russia. Moscow’s heavy-metal military still relies on Soviet-style tanks and its nuclear arsenal. China, on the other hand, has built the world’s largest navy, its most secure global satellite system, and its most agile missile armada, capped by cutting-edge hypersonic missiles whose 4,000 miles-per-hour speed can defeat any defense.
This time, therefore, it was the Russian leader who came to China’s capital as the supplicant. With Russian troops massing at Ukraine’s borders and US economic sanctions looming, Putin desperately needed Beijing’s diplomatic backing. After years of cultivating China by offering shared petroleum and natural-gas pipelines and joint military maneuvers in the Pacific, Putin was now cashing in his political chips.
At their February 4 meeting, Putin and Xi drew on 37 prior encounters to proclaim nothing less than an ad-hoc alliance meant to shake the world. As the foundation for their new “global governance system,” they promised to “enhance transport infrastructure connectivity to keep logistics on the Eurasian continent smooth and…make steady progress on major oil and gas cooperation projects.” These words gained weight with the announcement that Russia would spend another $118 billion on new oil and gas pipelines to China. (Four-hundred billion dollars had already been invested in 2014 when Russia faced European sanctions over its seizure of Crimea from Ukraine.) The result: an integrated Sino-Russian oil-and-gas infrastructure is being built from the North Sea to the South China Sea.
In a landmark 5,300-word statement, Xi and Putin proclaimed that the “world is going through momentous changes,” creating a “redistribution of power” and “a growing demand for…leadership” (which Beijing and Moscow clearly intended to provide). After denouncing Washington’s ill-concealed “attempts at hegemony,” the two sides agreed to “oppose the…interference in the internal affairs of sovereign states under the pretext of protecting democracy and human rights.”
To build an alternative system for global economic growth in Eurasia, the leaders planned to merge Putin’s projected “Eurasian Economic Union” with Xi’s already ongoing trillion-dollar Belt and Road Initiative to promote “greater interconnectedness between the Asia Pacific and Eurasian regions.” Proclaiming their relations “superior to political and military alliances of the Cold War era,” an oblique reference to the tense Mao-Stalin relationship, the two leaders asserted that their entente has “no limits…no ‘forbidden’ areas of cooperation.” On strategic issues, the two parties were adamantly opposed to the expansion of NATO, any move toward independence for Taiwan, and “color revolutions” such as the one that had ousted Moscow’s Ukrainian client in 2014.
Given the Ukraine invasion just three weeks later, Putin got what he so desperately needed. In exchange for feeding China’s voracious appetite for energy (on a planet already in a climate crisis of the first order), Putin got a condemnation of US interference in “his” sphere. In addition, he won Beijing’s diplomatic support —however hesitant China’s leadership might actually be about events in Ukraine—once the invasion started. Although China has been Ukraine’s main trading partner since 2019, Beijing set aside those ties and its own advocacy of inviolable sovereignty to avoid calling Putin’s intervention an “invasion.”
A PLANET MACKINDER WOULD HARDLY RECOGNIZE
In fact, even before the invasion of Ukraine, Russia and China were pursuing a strategy of ratcheting up slow, relentless pressure at both ends of Eurasia, hoping the US chains of steel ringing that vast continent would sooner or later snap. Think of it as a strategy of push-push-punch.
For the past 15 years, Putin has been responding to NATO in just that manner….
…. Should Beijing attack Taiwan, Washington might find itself hamstrung to do anything militarily except express admiration for the island’s heroic yet futile resistance. Should Washington send its aircraft carriers into the Taiwan Straits, they would be sunk within hours by China’s formidable DF-21D “carrier-killer” missiles or its unstoppable hypersonic ones. And once Taiwan was gone, Washington’s position on the Pacific littoral could be effectively broken and a retreat to the mid-Pacific preordained….
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/russia-and-china-together-at-last/
I object to the repeated use of “desperate” in the article.
I know mate, do they not realise that we are just pushy biological machines, endlessly going on with nonsense like anything really matters, shoving for our ‘interests’ and pretending that we ‘care’ – because it is what we do?
Humans LOL
Hong Kong learns the hard way: Virus gonna virus, and Zero Covid just makes it virus harder
The clearest proof yet of the failure of lockdowns and Zero Covid as a long-term strategy against the coronavirus is now unfolding in Hong Kong. The territory is suffering the worst coronavirus epidemic anywhere since New York City in April 2020. For two weeks straight Hong Kong has had the equivalent of 10,000 American deaths a day.
The crisis in Hong Kong carries serious implications for China, which after two years of chasing zero Covid is seeing the start of an outbreak that it may not be able to control no matter how hard it locks down………………………
https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/hong-kong-learns-the-hard-way-virus