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Most people have a preconceived notion that there will be a clear winner and loser from any war. In their view, the world economy will go on, much as before, after the war is “won” by one side or the other. In my view, we are basically dealing with a no-win situation. No matter what the outcome, the world economy will be worse off after the fighting stops.
The problem the world economy is up against is the depletion of many kinds of resources simultaneously. This depletion is made worse by rising population, meaning that the resources available need to provide an adequate living for an increasing number of world inhabitants. Because of depletion, the world economy is reaching a point where it can no longer grow in the way it has in the past. Inflation, food shortages and rolling blackouts are likely to become increasing problems in many parts of the world. Eventually, the population is likely to fall.
We are living in a world that is beginning to behave like the players scrambling for seats in a game of musical chairs. In each round of a musical chairs game, one chair is removed from the circle. The players in the game must walk around the outside of the circle. When the music stops, all the players scramble for the remaining chairs. Someone gets left out.
In this post, I will try to explain some of the issues.
[1] In a world with inadequate resources relative to population, conflicts are likely to become increasingly common.
The Russia-Ukraine conflict is one example of a resource-associated conflict. The allies underlying the NATO organization have chosen to escalate the Russia-Ukraine conflict, in part, because the existence of the conflict helps to hide resource shortages and accompanying high prices that are already taking place. No matter how the war is stopped, the underlying resource shortage issue will continue to exist. Therefore, the conflict cannot end well.
If sanctions lead to less trade with Russia (or even worse, less trade with Russia and China), the world economy will have an even greater problem with inadequate resources after the war is over. In fact, many parts of the current economic system are in danger of failing, primarily because depletion is leading to too little energy and other resources per capita. For example, the US dollar may lose its reserve currency status, the world debt bubble may pop, and globalization may take a major step backward.
[2] There is a huge resource depletion issue that authorities in many countries have known about for a very long time. The issue is so frightening that authorities have chosen not to explain it to the general population.
Mainstream media (MSM) practically never mentions that there is a major issue with resource depletion. Instead, MSM tells a narrative about “transitioning to a lower carbon economy,” without mentioning that this transition is out of necessity: The world is up against extraction limits for many kinds of resources. Besides oil, coal and natural gas, resources with limits include many other minerals, such as copper, lithium, and nickel. Other resources, including fresh water and minerals used for fertilizer are also only available in limited supply. MSM fails to tell us that there is no evidence that a transition to a low carbon economy can actually be made.
[3] The big depletion issue is affordability of end products made with high priced resources. The cost of extraction rises, but the ability of the world’s citizens to pay for end products made using these high-cost resources doesn’t rise. Commodity prices do not rise enough to cover the rising cost of extraction. When this affordability limit is hit, it is the resource extracting countries, such as Russia, that find themselves in a terrible situation with respect to the financial well-being of their populations.
The big issue that hits because of depletion is a price conflict. Businesses extracting resources need high prices so that they can reinvest in new mines, in ever more costly locations, but consumers cannot afford these high prices.
In a sense, the higher cost is because of “inefficiency.” As a result of depletion, it takes more hours of labor, more machine time, and a greater use of energy products to extract the same quantity of a given resource that was previously extracted elsewhere. Growing efficiency tends to help wages, but growing inefficiency tends to work the opposite way: Wages don’t rise, certainly not as rapidly as prices of end products.
As a result, commodity exporters, such as Russia, are caught in a bind: They cannot raise prices enough to make new investments profitable. The problem is that the world’s consumers cannot afford the resulting high prices of essentials such as food, electricity and transportation. Russia reports very high reserve amounts, especially for natural gas and coal. It is doubtful, however, that these reserves can actually be extracted. Over the long term, selling prices cannot be maintained at a sufficiently high level to cover the huge cost of extracting, transporting and refining these resources.
The success of a country’s economy can, in some sense, be measured by the country’s per capita GDP. Russia’s GDP per capita has tended to lag far behind that of the US (Figure 2).
Russia’s inflation-adjusted GDP per capita fell after the collapse of the central government of the Soviet Union in 1991. It was able to grow again, once oil prices began to rise in the early 2000s. Since 2013, Russia’s GDP per capita growth has again fallen behind that of the US, as increases in oil and other commodity prices again lagged the rising cost of production. Given these difficulties with depletion, Russia is becoming increasingly unwilling to ignore poor treatment it receives from Ukraine.
There may be another factor, as well, leading especially to the escalation of the conflict. The US seems to covet Russia’s resources. Some powers behind the throne seem to believe that Western forces supporting Ukraine can quickly win in this conflict. If such an early win occurs, the aim is for Western forces to step in and inexpensively ramp up Russian resource extraction, allowing the world a new source of cheap-to-produce fossil fuels and other minerals.
In this context, Russia launched an attack on Ukraine on February 24, 2022. Ukraine has presented Russia with problems for many years. One issue has been transit fees for natural gas passing through the country; is Ukraine taking too much gas out? Another problem area has been the rise of the far-right Azov regiment. Russia has also expressed concern that NATO has been training soldiers within Ukraine, even though Ukraine is not a member of NATO. Russia doesn’t want military, trained by NATO, at its doorstep.
[4] World economic growth very much depends on growing energy consumption.
There are two ways of measuring world GDP. The standard one is with the production of each country measured in inflation-adjusted US$, with the changing relative value to the US$ considered. The other approach uses “Purchasing Power Parity” GDP. The latter is supposedly not affected by the changing level of the dollar, relative to other currencies. Inflation-Adjusted Purchasing Power Parity GDP is only available for 1990 and subsequent years. Figure 3 shows the high correlation between energy consumption and PPP GDP during the period from 1990 through 2020.
The reason for a strong association between GDP growth with energy consumption growth is a physics-based reason. Producing goods and providing services requires the “dissipation” of energy products because the laws of physics tell us that energy is required to move any object from one place to another, or to heat any object. In the latter case, it is the individual molecules within a substance that move faster and faster as they get hotter. The economy is a “dissipative structure” in physics terms because of the need for energy dissipation to provide the work needed to make the system operate.
Human beings are also dissipative structures. The energy that humans get comes from the dissipation of the energy found in foods of every kind. Food energy is commonly measured in Calories (technically, kilocalories).
[5] World economic growth also seems to depend on factors besides energy consumption.
The fitted equation on Figure 3 (the equation beginning with “y”) implies that GDP is rising much more rapidly than energy consumption, almost twice as rapidly. Over the entire 30-year period, the actual growth rate in energy consumption averages about 1.8% a year. If energy consumption growth had really been 1.8% per year, the fitted equation implies that growth in GDP would have greatly sped up over the period. (In fact, the growth rate in energy consumption was falling over the 30-year period, but GDP grew at closer to a constant rate. In terms of the fitted equation, these two conditions are equivalent.)
How can GDP rise so much more rapidly than energy dissipation? There seem to be several ways such a higher rate of increase can occur, on a temporary basis:
[a] A worldwide trend toward an economy using more services. The production of services tends to require less energy consumption than the production of essential goods, such as food, water, housing and local transportation. As the world economy gets wealthier, it can afford to add more services, such as education, healthcare, and childcare.
[b] A worldwide trend toward more wage and wealth disparity. Such a trend tends to happen with more specialization and more globalization. Strangely enough, a trend to more wage disparity allows the world economy to continue to grow without adding a proportionately greater amount of energy consumption use because of the different spending patterns between low-paid workers and high-paid workers.
Analyzing the situation, the world is filled mostly with low-paid workers. To the extent that the pay of these low-paid workers can be squeezed down, it can prevent these workers from buying goods that tend to use relatively high amounts of energy products, such as automobiles, motorcycles and modern homes. At the same time, growing wage disparity allows the higher-paid workers to be paid more. These higher-paid workers tend to spend a disproportionate share of their income on services, such as education and healthcare, which tend to consume less energy.
Thus, greater wage disparity tends to shift spending away from goods and toward services. The main beneficiaries are the top 1% of workers (who buy mostly services, requiring little energy consumption), rather than the remaining 99% (who would really like goods such as a car and their own home, which require much more energy consumption).
[c] Improvements in technology. Improvements in technology are helpful in raising GDP because technological improvements tend to make finished goods and services more affordable. With greater affordability, more people can afford goods and services. This effect is favorable for allowing the economy, as measured by GDP, to grow more quickly than energy consumption.
There is a catch associated with using improved technology to make goods and services more affordable. Improved technology tends to increase wage disparity because it nearly always leads to owners and a few highly educated workers being paid more, while workers doing the more routine parts of processes are paid less. Thus, it tends to lead to the problem discussed above: [b] A trend toward wage and wealth disparity.
Also, with improved technology, available resources tend to be depleted more quickly than without improved technology. This happens because finished goods are less expensive, so more people can afford them. Once resources start getting exhausted, improved technology can’t fix the situation because resource extraction costs are likely to rise more rapidly than can be offset with the impact of new technology.
[d] A worldwide trend toward more debt at ever-lower interest rates.
We all know that the monthly payment required to purchase a car or home is lower if the interest rate on the debt used to finance the purchase is lower. Thus, falling interest rates can make paychecks go further. Both businesses and citizens can afford to purchase more goods and services using credit, so the overall level of debt tends to rise with falling interest rates.
If we are only considering the period from 1990 to the present, the trend is clearly toward lower interest rates. These lower interest rates are part of what is making the GDP growth higher than what would be expected if interest rates and debt levels remained constant.
[6] The world economy now seems to be reaching limits with respect to many of the variables allowing world economic growth to continue as it has in the past, as discussed in Sections [4] and [5], above.
Figure 6 shows that there have been two major step-downs in world inflation-adjusted per capita PPP GDP. The first one occurred in the 2008-2009 period; the second one occurred in 2020. Figure 7 shows the sharp dips in energy consumption occurring in the same time periods.
In 2021, energy prices started to rise rapidly when the world economy tried to reopen. This rapid rise in prices strongly suggests that energy extraction limits are being reached.
Another clue that energy production limits are being reached comes from the fact that the group of oil exporters, OPEC+, found that they couldn’t actually ramp up their oil production as quickly as they promised. Once oil production is cut back because of inadequate prices, it is hard to get production to rise again, even if prices temporarily rise because the many pieces of the chain supporting this extraction are broken. For example, trained workers leave and find jobs elsewhere, and contractors go out of business because of inadequate profits.
If we think about it, Items [5a], [5b], [5c] and [5d] are all reaching limits as well. Item [5d] is probably clearest: Interest rates can no longer be lowered. In fact, nearly everyone says that interest rates should now be raised because of the high inflation rates. If interest rates are raised, commodity prices, including prices for fossil fuels, will fall.
With lower fossil fuel prices, there will be pressure for oil, gas and coal producers to reduce their production, even from today’s lower levels. Because of the tight connection between energy and GDP, lower energy production will tend to push economies further toward contraction. Of course, this will make resource exporters, such as Russia, worse off.
As the world economy enters recession, we can expect that Item [5a], the shift from goods toward services, to turn around. People with barely enough money for necessities will reduce their use of services such as haircuts and music lessons. Item [5b], globalization and related wage disparity, is already under pressure. Countries are finding that with broken supply chains, more local production is needed. In the US, recent wage gains have tended to go to the lowest-paid workers. Item [5c], technology growth, cannot ramp up as resources needed from around the world are increasingly unavailable, due to broken supply chains and depletion.
[7] We are likely facing a collapsing world economy because of the limits being reached. Adding sanctions against Russia will further push the world economy in the direction of collapse.
Many sources report that Russian exports of wheat, aluminum, nickel, and fertilizers will be “temporarily” disrupted. A few sources note that Russia plays an important role in the processing of uranium fuel used in nuclear power plants. According to the Conversation:
Most of the 32 countries that use nuclear power rely on Russia for some part of their nuclear fuel supply chain.
We have become used to efficient air travel, but sanctions against Russia make this less possible, especially for flights to Southeast Asia. A Bloomberg article called Siberian Detour Requires Airlines to Retrace Cold War Era Routes gives the example of direct flights from Finland to Southeast Asia being canceled because they have become too expensive and are too time-consuming with the required detours. It becomes necessary to fly indirect connecting routes if a person wants to travel. Many other routes have similar problems.
US President Joseph Biden is warning that food shortages are likely in many parts of the world as a result of the sanctions placed against Russia.
According to a video shown on Zerohedge,
“It’s going to be real. The price of the sanctions is not just imposed upon Russia. It’s imposed upon an awful lot of countries as well, including European countries and our country as well.”
If the world economy were doing well, and if Russia were a tiny part of the world economy, perhaps the sanctions could be tolerated by the world economy. As it is, the Russia-Ukraine conflict acts to hide the underlying resource shortage problem. This is possible because, with the conflict, the resource shortages can be described as “temporary” and “necessary” in the context of the terrible things the Russians are doing. The way the West frames the problem provides a scapegoat to deflect anger toward, but it doesn’t fix the problem.
Russia started out being very disadvantaged because commodity prices, in recent years, have not been rising high enough to ensure an adequate living for Russian citizens and high enough tax revenue for the Russian government. Adding sanctions against Russia will simply make Russia’s problems worse.
[8] There is little reason to believe that Russia will “give up” in response to sanctions imposed by the United States and other countries.
The attacks by Russia of Ukrainian sites seems to be occurring for many related reasons. Russia can no longer tolerate being inadequately compensated for the resources it is extracting and selling to Ukraine and the rest of the world. It is tired of being “pushed around” by the rich economies, especially the United States, as NATO adds more countries. It is also tired of NATO training Ukrainian soldiers. Russia seems to have no plan to gain the entire territory of Ukraine; it is more of a temporary police action.
Russia’s underlying problem is that it can no longer produce commodities that the world wants as inexpensively as the world demands. Building all the infrastructure needed to extract and ship more fossil fuel resources would take more capital spending than Russia can afford. The selling price will never rise high enough to justify these investments, including the cost of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline. Russia has nothing to lose at this point. The current situation is not working; going back to it is no incentive for stopping the current conflict.
Russia is in some ways like a heavily armed, suicidal old man, who can no longer earn an adequate living. The economic system of Russia is no longer working as it should. Russia is incredibly well-armed. The situation reminds a person of the story of Samson, in his old age, taking down the temple of the Philistines and losing his own life at the same time. Russia has no reason to back down in response to sanctions.
[9] Leaders of the world, including Joe Biden, appear to be oblivious to the situation we are facing.
Leaders of the world have created ridiculous narratives that overlook the critical role commodities play. They seem to believe that it is possible to cut off purchases from Russia with, at most, temporary harm to the rest of the world economy.
The history of the world shows that the populations of many civilizations have outgrown their resource bases and have collapsed. Physics points out that this outcome is almost inevitable because of the way the Universe is constructed. Everything is constantly evolving, even economies. The climate is constantly evolving, as are the species inhabiting the Earth.
Elected leaders need a story of everlasting growth that they can tell their citizens. They cannot even consider the physics-based way the world economy operates, and the resulting expected pattern of overshoot and collapse. Modelers of what are intended to be long-lasting structures cannot accept this outcome either.
Limits which are defined based on affordability of end products are incredibly difficult to model, so creative narratives have been developed suggesting that humans can move away from fossil fuels if they so desire. No one stops to think that economies cannot continue to exist using a much lower quantity of energy, any more than an adult human can get along on 500 calories a day. Both are dissipative structures; the ongoing energy requirement is built in. Factories close when electricity, diesel and other energy products are cut off.
[10] The sanctions and the Russia-Ukraine conflict cannot end well.
The world economy is already on the edge of collapse because of the resource limits it is hitting. Intentionally stopping Russia’s output of resources like fertilizer and processed uranium is certain to make the situation worse, not better. Once Russia’s output is stopped, it is likely to be impossible to restart Russia’s production at the same level. Trained workers who lose their jobs will likely find jobs elsewhere, for one thing. The shortfall in output will affect countries around the world.
The United States dollar is now the world’s reserve currency. The sanctions being applied indirectly encourage countries to use other currencies to work around the sanctions. There seems to be a substantial chance that the US economy will lose its role as the center of international trade. If such a change takes place, the US will no longer be able to import far more than it exports, year after year.
A major issue is the huge amount of debt most countries of the world have. With a rapidly slowing world economy, repaying debt with interest will become impossible. Debt defaults will further wreak havoc with the world economic system.
We don’t know the exact timing of how this will play out, but the situation does not look good.
“UK food industry faces risk of ‘permanent shrinkage’, MPs warn.
“The UK food industry may shrink permanently if ministers fail to address labour shortages from Brexit and coronavirus that have already resulted in mass pig culling and crops being left to rot, MPs have warned.”
https://www.ft.com/content/55fa323f-d65f-4bbc-bbc1-55617c5b2288
“Why Rishi’s ‘roaring twenties’ dream risks turning into a rationing nightmare.
“…half of adults are already cutting back on non-essentials. One-third used less gas and electricity at home in January and February, and three in 10 spent less on food and essentials. For the wider economy, it raises the dread possibility: another recession hot on the heels of the Covid crunch.”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2022/04/04/belt-tightening-raises-spectre-another-uk-recession-hot-heels/
A recession is a surprise?
“the **Covid** crunch” :-/
“Russia moves closer to default as Washington blocks debt payments through US banks.
“The US Treasury said it would halt Russia’s ability to make debt payments in dollars through American banks, bringing Moscow a step closer to a possible default on its obligations to international investors.”
https://www.ft.com/content/81f59d57-0b59-4d54-a21f-6f0d8d43353e
“A Russian default would stack risks onto a stressed world.
“The global economy is facing a combination of challenges seldom seen before, and Russia’s war against Ukraine piles a host of new risks onto the pre-existing ones created or exacerbated by a once-in-a-century pandemic.”
https://blogs.worldbank.org/voices/russian-default-would-stack-risks-stressed-world
I do not know the technical term for it but “not being allowed to pay” for me does not match with “default”.
But of course it would make a great news item.
They payed in rubles per Bloomberg.
It seems Russia has payed the due coupons in rubles. In a way Russia has created conditions to serve its debts in national currency which is controled (printed) by them, didn’t they?
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-06/russia-says-foreign-banks-rejected-649-2-million-bond-payment
It raises questions over the very nature of a default:
““The default issue is tricky,” Abdul Kadir Hussain, the head of fixed-income asset management at Dubai-based Arqaam Capital. “Russia can claim we are willing to pay, we have the money to pay, but banks are not letting us pay. I’m not sure how the courts would handle that.””
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/russia-says-foreign-banks-rejected-094325950.html
Fact is there was a payment which reached the concerned parties.
The ‘legality’ of it is a moot point.
Russia tried to make a payment in Rubles, which foreign banks then declined as a breach of contract, and we are now in the 30-day grace period prior to a technical default being ratified – or not.
So, surely the legality of it is important? Or am I missing something?
From the bloomberg article it seems the rubles weren’t rejected/returned to sender. They were deposited. So for now I think it is safe to call it payment, isn’t it? Lets see what will happen at the end of the month.
As far as I can make out, the Rubles are stuck at Russia’s National Settlement Depository because the foreign banks would not process these payments, so I don’t think we can say that the funds have been deposited.
Let us indeed see what the month holds. The legality of the banks’ actions at the behest of the US looks pretty sketchy to me but the article I posted says that, “The cost of insuring Russia’s government debt now signals a record 99% chance of default within a year,” so who knows?
Harry,
Something is better than nothing. There is a great deal of discretionary labor in banks, per TM, we are leaving discretionary and going to essential. Some money in a bank account is better than none, cut the discretionary overhead in a bank and a one time rebalancing of net profit. Legality aside, if it can be spent it is useful.
Next problem,
Dennis L.
This sounds like “Escrow”.
At least can kicked at the wall at the end of the road again.
What did people expect, with the sanctions against Russia? This seems like a problem created by those putting sanctions in place.
The Russian government has much less debt than most countries. Russia’s fossil fuel companies have the debt.
So if the assets(coal, NNR, etc.) are in Russia and the debt documents are not in Russia, who has the better asset?
Our energy surplus seems to have allowed too many very intelligent people time and resources to dream up problems they can solve and then present solutions.
Consider paying for those solutions in in Rubles, that would have a sort of humor.
Sounds like TM to me.
Dennis L.
“Why are the Chinese losing their minds over Omicron?
“We’ve spent many months speculating about Chinese reasons for locking down Hubei and then promoting lockdowns to the rest of us. While malicious ends shouldn’t be excluded, their behaviour in Shanghai points increasingly to official incompetence and stupidity.”
https://www.eugyppius.com/p/why-are-the-chinese-losing-their?s=r
“China food security: farmers in Jilin leave fields fallow as lockdown threatens corn supply…
“In some parts of the province like Lishu county, an important corn production area that President Xi Jinping inspected last year, crop-straws from the previous harvest litter the ground because farmers have not been allowed to leave their houses.”
https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3173149/china-food-security-farmers-jilin-leave-fields-fallow
“China’s services sector activity hit hard by Omicron surge…
“The Caixin services Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) dived to 42.0 in March from 50.2 in February, dropping below the 50-point mark that separates growth from contraction on a monthly basis.”
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinas-services-sector-activity-squeezed-by-omicron-surge-caixin-pmi-2022-04-06/
Maybe the country is doing worse than we have been told, thanks to peak coal, peak oil, and a one-child policy for 35 years.
This is a 12 minute video, talking about the country perhaps doing more poorly than we think. For one thing, the population is falling faster than they had been estimating. There will be utter demographic collapse in less than 10 years. China is already facing power rationing and warning about food supplies.
Is it possible there is not enough stuff, NNR, to run some portions of the economy?
Locally, an auction house in the Cities reported directly to me large corporations are purchasing machinery at auction rather new because of availability. This was not done in the past, now orders from above are basically, ” Just get it.” Auction prices are going up dramatically.
Tried to purchase some heavy lifts, at bid time there was myself and one other, a large steel fabricator from TX. Selling price was >3x what same items sold for last year. This was not small stuff, move it on a flat bed semi. They needed the equipment for a job, cost was much less an issue than availability.
Dennis L.
Sounds like “bunker-in crack up boom in used machinery”…
All my machinery orders have been delivered about 18 months ago.
The EV is probably not going to be delivered any more.
Does not matter. Horses and carts are in stock.
Klausi stated: the reset is coming if you like it or not.
I heared that on OFW before….
and still top of the comment deletion table eddy?
you must find that hilarious
i certainly do.
It should be clear by now that our problem is not lack of oil. Our problem is lack of censorship. This case of just allowing sarcasm and differences of opinion to go unchecked will surely bring on human extinction. Use of the “hahahahahaha” should be a capital offense. The Dept. of Homeland Security can become The Dept. of Homeland Censorship Enforcement. God Bless America.
Hahaha!
norm loves it … otherwise he’d search ‘Fast Eddy’ and delete…
Funny – norm posts pointless replies to FE but he never answers any of FE’s questions..
Why is that norm? You have the opportunity to bring a unique perspective to OFW … not everyone can be a Brainiac… you and mike could serve a very useful purpose… we struggle to walk in your shoes.. so please help us by responding to our questions – we are very much interested in what you think
almost as funny as forecasting throughout 2021 that emperor eddy would reach comment parity by February 2022
then, Gail’s March ’22 post appears
and right on cue (not queue eddy)—12 comments appear
6 from eddy
6 from everybody else
still finding it funny eddy?
It’s actually about 36 out of the last 44 posts belong to FE, it defeats the purpose of trying to have a decent conversation or discussion about any topic as they quickly get buried under a mountain of BS from FE.
This was a good place for informed discussion a few years ago, but now the lunatics really have taken over the asylum. Gail’s message gets dragged down by all the con.spiracy nonsense and thousands of worthless posts. Just going to undenial.com you can read about how many posters there just don’t bother with the comments section here any more..
Shame really…
glad you’ve pointed it out Hideaway–I’ve been saying the same thing for years now, as have others.
People just roll their eyes, and move on, just like you do with the attention seeker on his soap box in the market square.
Because that’s all it is—attention seeking. There is certainly something ‘wrong’.
As you say, time was when there could be discussion and argument and disagreement–but kept on an adult level, without all the faux-obscenity.
glad you’ve taken the trouble to count the comments though—I didn’t, after the first 12.
though a while ago, I did make the point that once eddy was past parity, he would be talking to himself, as few people would hang around to listen.
36 out of 44 would certainly bear that out. My point about it being 1 to 1 was way out.
still, take comfort in the fact that he is top of gail’s delete table.
i went to undenial.com and could find any references there?
The following from the comments section, under the Bill Rees post at undenial.com, from different posters….
“Yes, I can’t participate in the OFW gong show. I feel bad for Gail. She’s pretty much the only person doing original research on the economic implications of energy depletion and anyone visiting her site will immediately conclude her ideas belong to whack jobs.”
“Gail is finally telling off Fast Eddy LOL.”
“She’s not doing it on her own initiative. Somebody complained earlier in the day. Has happened in the past and things become sane for a few days and then it goes back to “normal”. Really is a shame the damage that is done to Gail’s good work.”
“Honestly her blog would be helped immensely if he was just banned. It would probably help him too, it can’t be healthy the amount of time he spends looking at all those links and writing all those comments.
JMG shared this article about how to spot forum spies and forum disrupters. I’m all for having differing view points, but Fast Eddy and his ilk are disrupting the discourse, whether intentionally or not.”
It gets talked about on and off over there, but is clearly a reason why some of those people just avoid any discussion here…
We are right in the middle of collapse picking up speed and both of you are shit ty that the discussion isn’t being held under conditions that you like. That’s collapse! You just don’t get what you want.
We are running out of resources – what exactly are we to do about it? Everything here is valid because it represents every angle of the maelstrom we are experiencing. If you don’t like it – leave. Whining is pathetic.
Hahaha that’s par for the course for this small crew of clowns… the bombs are falling and they are complaining about what’s for dinner hahahahahahaha
I don’t get it … it’s so easy to choose a Username – search — and delete the lot — I do it all the time…
norm – can you write a user manual for this? Write it so a 5 year old could follow it
From my standpoint the more comments the better… it sucks when I hit zero in the late afternoon… what’s left to do other than surf p-orn? Or go to the VIP room
His ‘procedure’ seems to be to give some theoretical entity a name (eg. cep, devil covid, fake war) and if it has a name then it _must_ exist (eddie’s unicorns); and if only he can see that it exists (delusion) then he must go on about it endlessly (obsessive-compulsive) as the ‘prophet crying the wilderness’ (john the baptist complex); and his jabbering on ad neauseum is ‘proof’ of the theory (if it is repeated endlessly then it must be true, self-reinforcement).
It is a broken mind. His ‘followers’ are hilarious (you know someone by their friends.) If it is inherited then we can guess why his ancestors were sent to the other end of the world. Thankfully that line ends with him, which is one of the many benefits of late industrialism. Who needs eugenics when you have NZ to send them to?
Self-organizing systems behave strangely. It takes a different way of understanding system to see how the extra energy of the system is put to use. These are not really conspiracies; they are how the system works. Fast Eddy sees things that many others do not. That is really the way the world operates.
If we want to learn things, we need to be able to listen to people with many different types of insights. The fact that the insights of Fast Eddy do not appeal to you makes absolutely no difference to me. I do not like you berating Fast Eddy, any more than I like Fast Eddy berating Mike. We all have different ways of seeing things. It is the diversity of the views that makes the system work.
We are now in a time of stress. People in the UK and Russia are particularly in a time of stress. Try to be tolerant of others.
Fast Eddy’s comment volume is increasing because Fast Eddy is monitoring some excellent Telegram groups and posting the links to the best of the best from the likes of Yeadon, McCullough, NZ Health Forum, Vigilant Fox, Edward Dowd etc…
These are all ‘conspiracy theorists’ so it is understandable that the MOREONS will not appreciate this content … but why would anyone give f789s about what MOREONS like or don’t like.
You do know you’ve just insulted 90% of the audience on OFW…. hahahahahahaha…
How many people do you think visit OFW to read FE and how many to read Mirror?
This place is a morgue without FE.
Mirror; I feel left out. How about the obnoxious ‘refugees’ from the freezing hellholes of the north?
Obviously something must have gone horribly wrong with the embodiments that were shoved “up there”, dismissed by the gods ‘gulag style’, awfully enough a few crackpots managed to survive and reproduce despite the icy horrors.
Unfortunately “they” seem all too eager to breed, with a few notable exceptions. 🤔
Oh, well.
🤣👍👍
This blog does not need groupthink.
There are those … who desire MOREON-Think… they don’t see the contradiction in that.
The DelusiSTANIS are not happy – they are screeching at Mother G… they are begging for censorship….
We really need more Boosters asap … we want them to end up like Bruce Willis… blubbering im b eciles… the good thing about the injections – is it cross the blood brain barrier — hahahahaahaha
End of the day MOREONS = White Noise… they are worse than worthless… ideally we’d gather them together — douse them with 5000 litres of petrol… and count 321… click.
And the world would be so much better
That is fine, but my point would be that an ‘open mind’ involves the critical evaluation, and refinement and development, of insights, and that banging on with a decayed, obnoxious version of an insight, always got from others, hinders understanding more than it helps.
It just generates parodies of insights, smothers everything hopelessly in grime, and turns everyone off. It is not needed, and it is not helpful. If you think that he is ‘contributing’, then you are giving him way too much credit, and you need to pay to more attention to what is going on.
Are you referring to Fast Eddy? if so … hahahahahahahahaaha.. Gawd… what are you thinking?
If this Islam … and you said that…. you’d need body guards
Yes but will we surpass 6000 comments on this article?
Anyone notice that Zero Hedge has been offline for nearly 24 hours now…
Oh boy, you hit the nail on the head there, Gail.
Perhaps some of those on un-denial.com stopped posting, not only because of FE and his hangers on post nonsense and vitriol, but also because Gail often seems to be one of his hangers on, despite her clear insights most of the time.
The only person I can think of who is missed who no longer comments … is Robert Firth.
Otherwise … MOREONS come … and MOREONS go… they had little or nothing … they are not missed. In fact if you get too many MOREONS on here… the stench becomes unbearable.
Try a month break from commenting mike…. just lurk… you aren’t likely to see anyone post anything wondering where you are at… we’ll just assume you got that 4th shot and it all went sideways for you…
Pay attention to the comments that are posted about Dunc…. in his absence…
Nobody wants people here who refuse to engage – who will not respond to questions — we send them back to DelusiSTAN… where they belong…
BTW – where is Kowalainen? He’s what we refer to as Core Contributor.
Commenters often disappear and reappear. I believe that he disappeared for a while before.
And many of them change their names… men of mystery
“anyone visiting her site will immediately conclude her ideas belong to whack jobs.””
Does this sound realistic to anyone normal? Read the articles for the articles. Scrimmage in the comments for the scrimmage. This is Internet 101.
I think it’s odd that certain pearl-clutchers feel the need to weigh in on a regular basis. It’s particularly notable that they never seem to contribute anything themselves to “raise the tone” or increase the quality as they might deem it.
Feh.
“Yes, I can’t participate in the OFW gong show”
Of course not — we gong all the MOREONS… so she’d not last a week …
Hey I didn’t know the Gong Show was back… but no Chucky 🙁
https://youtu.be/ZEbBtp_KxOE
You don’t enjoy the Telegram posts? They are quite amusing – if you are not a CovIDIOT
And what a relief
And here we have what we can generously refer to as another super lightweight of OFW…
Gawd … imagine if we all did a John Galt thing … and left these clowns here to play … actually – no — I can’t imagine how bad it would be … it would be a good ol MOREON-Fest
The world is a massive conspiracy — we can refer to it as The Matrix
You are quite wrong there: I’ve had innumerable good leads to information-rich articles from FE’s posts
The final arbiter here is our host, Gail: so do stop whinging, it’s a dreadful bore!
I very much appreciate his posts and links.
FE’s humor is a welcome tonic for those aware of the skullduggery afoot.
Sometimes, only the crudest black humour will do, to relieve the tension….
“Primitive” caveman do not care about wokeism. Neither do nature. Wokeism is an artefact of fossil fuel. Once FF is gone, sk will wokeism.
Do I give a sh*t about wokeism, no. I abhore it.
The thing is…
As I was saying to M Fast last night as we returned to the Restaurant Circuit now that the Vax Pass has been binned… people think of these vax injuries — if they think of them at all (like mike who refuses to acknowledge them)…. as numbers… as data…
But when you know someone who has been f789ed up … you recognize The Horror … and it is truly horrifying… one day you are healthy — and the next you are permanently wrecked…
Imagine you are excited about getting The Shot … the euphoria of the needle in … and then within hours you are feeling sicker than you have ever felt in your life… shock of that… then you fail to recover and the tests show that you are f789ed… (no unf789ing).
We’re talking sooeeside potential here…
Anyhow … too bad for them… who injects an experimental substance into their brain.
That’s what frogs are for
norm – instead of moaning – why don’t you answer some of the questions I left for you?
eddy
i cannot bring myself to engage with a mind that denigrates paralympians and calls 7 m ukrainia refugees ‘crisis actors
to list just two of your mental problems
But you just engaged norm… multiple times… 2 of the first threads I opened involved you engaging
We should ban norm from OFW for not answering questions hahahahhaha…
You know, there is some sort of content limit on this wordpress site that we hit for every one of Gail’s posts. After that, no more comments. So your using up half the comments means we have half as much original content from visitors and that’s besides the annoyance of seeing the same general idea posted 100 times a day.
Actually I don’t think we have ever reached that limit.
Usually the 20 days runs out first.
If you have an issue with posts just use that arrow key.
It is what I did for Norm and Hideaway’s discourse.
The limit on comments is a limit on days.
Actually there is no comment limit — the comments shut down once an article has been up for 3 weeks… watch what I do next
Let’s see if we can get 10,000 comments this time
We don’t want 10,000 comments.
The quality goes down with too many.
Gail, you are a kind and even-handed mother to all the wayward children here… 🙂
But if norm would just answer the questions … we could remove around 1000 repeat comments…
It’s all norm’s fault!
Kazakhstan to restrict exports of grain/flour – one of TOP 10 grain exporters in world.
70 nations depend on imports from Kazakhstan.
This breakdown in global food trade is exactly what was foreseen by John Podesta’s Food Chain Reaction Game in 2005. (In fact it was even slated to happen in 2022).
#FoodPrices #wheat
https://www.rt.com/business/553255-global-breadbasket-grain-export-halt/
As I accumulate more info about local conditions, wheat exports are restricted in Russia too. This has the effect of discouraging people here from planting wheat (I have been discouraged by people whose advice I value), because prices will be controlled, and encouraging people in Europe and elsewhere to plant it (several people I know in Italy). So supply chains are becoming more localized, probably for good. This impacts me, as I might need to buy butchering equipment instead of a seeder and combine.
Russia still has plenty wheat, even if no one plants in the next month, just from last winter planting. Near Samara (51N) farmers now regularly harvest wheat twice a year for example. There are even vineyards there now. What is going to really suffer is the food sector that depends on cheap grains (poultry, eggs, and pork). This will be true worldwide.
Interesting points!
Limiting exports indirectly limits how much will be planted locally. I hadn’t thought of that. Of course, if weather conditions turn out adversely, there may not even be enough locally.
Perhaps exporting countries should be building more storage, and saying that grain not required this year will be stored for the inevitable “rainy day.”
Thank you FE
I didn’t realize that there was a Food Chain Reaction Game that predicted a breakdown a trade in 2022.
I ran across something with a similar name that was performed in 2015, and the game was set between 2020 and 2030. https://www.cna.org/cna_files/pdf/IQR-2015-U-012427.pdf
https://www.worldwildlife.org/magazine/issues/spring-2016/articles/how-a-new-game-helped-us-understand-the-future-of-food
I found some wikileaks email from John Podesta.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/663
Do you have any links?
The iceagefarmer.com talks a lot about these issues.
He is quite like HarryMcGibbs in the food arena.
I posted this before and it has a lot of other links inside:
https://www.cargill.com/story/food-chain-reaction-simulation-ends-with-global-carbon-tax
Thanks! This is a more complete write up of the 2015 version of the game that I found.
10 years ago i said mid 2020s
https://youtu.be/Q-csSWSMGb8
https://t.me/chiefnerd/3124
It would save time if you linked to the video in rumble or where ever it is. Telegram won’t play most of the media unless you are running telegram. The JP Sears swimming was gold. thanks
Most Telegrams dont have links to other sources… but this one does
JP Sears is the Best Female Swimmer in the World! 🤣
Clip: https://rumble.com/vzweod-jp-sears-is-the-best-female-swimmer-in-the-world.html
Full Video: https://youtu.be/_sgjc29QCGo
I don’t use t.me.
It’s worth installing — it’s where all the best content re Covid and Ukraine is being distributed.
No censorship – Facebook etc is useless
https://twitter.com/talkRADIO/status/1511349037450076163
The reason the injections have an impact on the virus for a few weeks — is because that’s the period where the virus is looking at the injection and working out how to defeat it … i.e. mutate.
Of course that period reduces every time you injection …
Of course we also know that viruses don’t think or plan, they are rampant RNA /DNA.
Self perpetuating, non living blueprints or building blocks and yet at the same time ultimately a form of the deathless that naturally assimilates or changes so they might appear to think and yet are a reaction. In some ways viruses (wether natural or artificially augmented) have more in common with cancer than we might realise. The human genome is made up of trillions of mutating RNA/ DNA that’s somehow working in sympathy like symbionts. Not something to play with, claim to fully understand or exploit lightly.
Yet, the people who made the vaccines thought that it was OK to test them out worldwide, without the kinds of limited testing that had taken place on vaccines in the past. A person wonders what they were thinking.
Proposal for thoughts:
Why do you assume that DNA/RNA can not “think” aka “process information”?
How would a molecule encode for example an insect to build out some wings to make it a fly?
If it took trial and error probably a billion random mutations will not encode something to lift that thing up. Not only the wing but also the mechanism to operate the wings.
The mechanism will probably happen randomly but no wings and vice versa. What does a molecule in a cell “know” about “air to fly in”.
I do not say that I know how that works but I assume no person can come up with a scientific proof of that by applying random mutations to DNA/RNA
On the topic of a virus if we assume all the things we read about the code of that alledged thing exists and is the thing, random mutations could not make vaccine evading sequence in such a short time or leave omicron 1.5 years hidden breeding out some cool shit and jump out in the open without any trial?
https://t.me/VigilantFox/3800
“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities” -Voltaire
This is being done on purpose
Voltaire was of course referring to the Catholic church, which even as late as the 18th century could inflict terrible punishments on those guilty of a nonsensical charge of ‘sacrilege’, and get popular support for doing so.
The end of that century saw the insane wave of mass murders of the ‘Terror’ during the French Revolution; and the last century furnishes any number of examples of the truth of his observation in the making of the German, Chinese and Russian versions of Utopia – whatever the ideology concerned.
People are conditioned by the acceptance of absurdities not only to commit atrocities, but to accept suffering themselves, to become willing victims: this is just what we have seen since the advent of universal masking, ‘containment’, and the utterly phoney ‘vaccines’, which are in effect just disguised poisons.
The narratives we are told keep mutating and changing, to fit the circumstances. At one time, sacrilege was the big thing. Then we had witches. Strange world we live in.
Draggy will need what TruDUNCE and Donkey-Face are taking to allow them to participate in mass murder – they are aware of the suffering caused by the injections — I am sure it causes them mental anguish …
If only they had reached out to Fast Eddy — HE would have 00000 qualms about executing the CEP… HE requires not meds to help him through the process because 1. HE is happy to exterminate MOREONS 2. HE understands that this is for the benefit of all humans 3. HE is a hard core misanthrope and pities the animals…so the sooner humans go the better
https://t.me/VigilantFox/3798
norm – what about the children – and big berd the terd?
https://t.me/VigilantFox/3797
the more you shoot the more you get covid — but it would be worse if you don’t shoot – so you shoot some more – and some more – and some more
do I have that right norm?
https://t.me/VigilantFox/3796
Here’s a great video – but it’s not war — so they do have cameras
https://t.me/TommyRobinsonNews/34321
https://t.me/TommyRobinsonNews/34319
FE with about 20 comments in a row.
his streak ends right here.
Bugger.
It’s ok – I am down to 26 unread Telegram messages so all good things were soon to end anyway
Drugged to allow him to assist with the CEP?
Ardern looks out of her mind most of the time — and Biden — well he has no mind – he’s similar to norm
https://t.me/TommyRobinsonNews/34318
Bulgaria and Greece are neighbors on the map. Very similar people.
Bulgaria is 29% vaccinated.
Greece is 69% vaccinated.
What is the result? Who is doing better? Find for yourself.
https://twitter.com/ichudov/status/1510778187176976389
hahahahaha
If you look down the twitter thread, you will see the death rates for Bulgaria and Greece.
In the past, the death rates were clearly a lot higher for Bulgaria than Greece. This is what the vaccine people have been saying is a success.
Recently, the number of cases is a lot higher in Greece than Bulgaria. So far, the higher cases in Greece have translated into a death rate that is slightly higher in Greece than Bulgaria. Until the death rate in Greece actually rises much higher than Bulgaria, it is hard to say for certain that Bulgaria is really coming out ahead.
So, you might be right. But I think there needs to be more time to truly evaluate what is happening.
Israel and Palestine are neighbors on the map. Same climate.
Palestine is 37% vaccinated.
Israel is 73% vaccinated.
What is the result? Who is doing better? Are vaccines helping?
https://twitter.com/ichudov/status/1511453766012194819
hahahaha
Your twitter feed relates to Greece and Bulgaria, not Israel and Palestine.
I think that the big issue is deaths, rather than cases.
https://ourworldindata.org/covid-deaths
Put in Israel and Palestine into the choice of countries.
When I look at deaths from COVID, whether on a 7-day average basis or on a cumulative rises, the deaths for Israel and Palestine, relative to population, seem to be about the same. Israel’s overall death rate is a little higher, even with all the vaccinations. In the last 6 months, they are definitely higher. At a minimum, we can say that the vaccinations are not helpful in preventing deaths.
There is indeed a big rise in cases In Israel starting about January 1, 2022. The death rate on these cases was not very high, which why the cumulative numbers are similar. If the new cases had a very high death rate, we would be hearing more concern.
If the situation gets worse (more cases, more deaths), perhaps we will hear more about this.
There is another one further down with Bulgaria on that feed
A 12 YEAR OLD DIES SUDDENLY AT SCHOOL AFTER PLAYING WITH FRIENDS AT LUNCH TIME…
The death is “unexplained”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10672055/PICTURED-Tragic-schoolboy-Ryan-Heffernan-died-Shoeburyness-High-School.html
Mail Online (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10672055/PICTURED-Tragic-schoolboy-Ryan-Heffernan-died-Shoeburyness-High-School.html)
PICTURED: Boy, 12, who died suddenly at school of suspected heart attack and whose last words to his family were ‘I love you’
Ryan Heffernan, pictured, died after he collapsed at Shoeburyness High School, Southend-on–Sea on Monday. Med
This is normal — now.
Of course it’s normal because 12 yr olds are susceptible to heart attacks. And Mike says you are taking things out of context. I’m sure we could dig deep and read between the lines to explain away the vaccine not being responsible for a 12 yr old dying from a heart attack. Btw, technically if it was 14 days after the vaccine shot it wasn’t the vaccine according to the CDC. So I guess it sucks to be him but hey at least his parents can make another baby and offer him or her to more vaccine jabs. Nothing like being a GOOD and obedient government citizen.
The kid probably did a gram of High Grade Bolivian Blow in the shitter before recess… ran out into the playground and was sprinting around off his face screaming I’m so f789ing high!!!
He over-revved his heart — and had a heart attack.
Happens all the time – right mike?
How are you feeling after that epic Fast Eddy lashing yesterday mike? are you in your hole licking your arse?
PARENTS MISLEAD BY GOVERNMENT AND MEDIA MESSAGING IN UK?
https://twitter.com/i/status/1511349037450076163
Twitter (https://twitter.com/i/status/1511349037450076163)
talkRADIO
All children in England aged between five and 11 are now eligible for a Covid vaccine. Diagnostic pathologist Dr Clare Craig: “I’ve jabbed my children with all sorts of things but there’s no way I’m …
Are any of his kids named Dunce, Mike or Norm? 😜
Sounds gross — probly painful 🙂
POST COVID VACCINE IGA MEDIATED VASCULITIS IN ADULT
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8652641/
PubMed Central (PMC) (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8652641/)
Post‐COVID‐19 vaccination IgA vasculitis in an adult
Leukocytoclastic vasculitis has been reported in the setting of COVID‐19 infection and post‐COVID‐19
Leukocytoclastic vasculitis (LCV) refers to small blood vessel inflammation. It’s also known as hypersensitivity vasculitis and hypersensitivity angiitis. The word “leukocytoclastic” comes from leukocytoclasia, a process where neutrophils (immune cells) break down and release debris.
Covered with this, from the waist down:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8652641/bin/CUP-9999-0-g002.jpg
Who wants a job – I’d love this job hahahaha… I’d go to work with a smile every single day
https://twitter.com/akheriaty/status/1510997946531135493
Pfizer has a huge number of adverse reaction reports to process.
A NEW PRE PRINT LOOKS AT TRIPLE VACCINATION, VIRAL LOAD…AND SPREAD…
Conclusion: We report high incidence of Omicron infections despite a recent booster vaccination in triple vaccinated individuals. Vaccine-induced antibody titres seem to play a limited role in infection risk prediction. High viral load and detection of live virus for up to nine days enables spread in a triple vaccinated population.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.04.02.22273333v1
I want the world of the boosted… to turn ugly … endless covid infections … cancers… herpes … etc etc etc…. I will enjoy their suffering … but will they say anything – probly not – they will suffer in silence… as you should — when you caused the suffering
hahahahahahahahaha
Diseased rats the lot of them
This is an impressive study. It is by 15 authors in Sweden, looking at healthcare workers who had recently received booster doses. This is the Abstract:
Abstract
Background Booster vaccine doses offer protection against severe COVID-19 caused by omicron but are less effective against infection. Characteristics such as serological correlates of protection, viral abundance and clearance of omicron infections in triple vaccinated individuals are scarce.
Methods We conducted a 4-week twice-weekly SARS-CoV-2 qPCR screening shortly after an mRNA vaccine booster in 375 healthcare workers. Anti-Spike IgG levels and neutralization titers were determined at study start. qPCR-positive participants were sampled repeatedly for two weeks and monitored for symptoms.
Result In total 82 (cumulative incidence 22%) omicron infections were detected, divided between BA.1, BA.1.1 and BA.2. Only 10% of infected participants remained asymptomatic. Viral load peaked at day 3 and live virus could be detected for up to 9 days after first PCR-positive sample. Presence of symptoms correlated to elevated viral load (p<0.0001), but despite resolution of symptoms most participants showed Ct levels <30 at day 9. While post-booster antibody titers were similar in those with and without subsequent breakthrough infection (p>0.05), high antibody titers were linked to reduced viral load (p<0.01) and time to viral clearance (p<0.01). No significant differences were observed for viral load and time to viral clearance between BA.1, BA.1.1 and BA.2 infected individuals.
Conclusion We report high incidence of omicron infections despite recent booster vaccination in triple vaccinated individuals. Vaccine-induced antibody titres seem to play a limited role in risk of omicron infection. High viral load and secretion of live virus for up to nine days may increase transmission in a triple vaccinated population.
Gail’s Thoughts The report itself says,
“Remarkably, 22% of study participants became infected during the study period, with no significant impact of pre-infection antibody titers. Viral RNA trajectories were similar and suggestive of infectivity by all omicron sublineages, implying that three vaccine doses offer limited protection against BA.1, BA.1.1 and BA.2 infections and onward transmission.”
Ct levels <30 means that the PCR test showed relatively high level of virus present, even our to day 9. Thus, these people were infectious. The report remarks that a "5 day after symptom" quarantine period is too short.
The report mentions that some of the 10% of those who tested positive who didn't show symptoms had relatively high levels of the virus, implying that they could spread the virus.
implying that three vaccine doses offer limited protection against BA.1, BA.1.1 and BA.2 infections
This period of limited protection is the point where the vaccine encounters the virus — the vaccine dances around a bit — does a few fancy head fakes… throws a few feeble punches…. raises it’s hands in the air and blows a kiss to the crowd believing it’s won the gold medal….
The virus snarls…. winds up … and throws a vicious haymaker… that knocks the vaccine into the cheap seats… unconscious…
And the next time the vaccine shows up in the form of a booster the same thing happens … only that haymaker happens while the vaccine is doing the fancy dance… the virus says – ah you again….
italy – when will the realize We Burn You Burn … is the only way
italy https://t.me/robinmg/18240 https://t.me/robinmg/18241
Everyone has mobile phones – except the Ukeleles
Unfortunately the President of Draghistan was in a hurry and didn’t have the time to stop and sign autographs.
so norm if you take say 7 shots will this turn around?
People are so stoooopid – even if you show them this – they will take more boosts
Official Government data shows real-world Vaccine Effectiveness has now fallen to MINUS-391%; indicating the Triple Vaccinated have suffered 80% Immune System Degradation
“This is nowhere near the claimed 95% effectiveness by Pfizer is it? But one of the more concerning declines in vaccine effectivness has been recorded among 18-29-year-olds, falling to minus-231% by Week 12 of 2022 from +10.19% in Week 3…”
https://dailyexpose.uk/2022/04/05/official-gov-data-triple-vaccinated-acquired-immunodeficiency/
Good grief and here I thought the US dollar had lost all its value. It’s got nothing on those safe and effective vaccines.
Taking a bit of time with the family before extinction
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/director-general-of-health-ashley-bloomfield-resigns/UQXM6X2XRTHIINQMPWYDEKDSWU/
Enjoy!!! hahahahha https://t.me/c/1588731774/10682
https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0b36a566-d009-4503-b03d-87480142d3bf_1173x871.png
Why are the Chinese losing their minds over Omicron?
https://www.eugyppius.com/p/why-are-the-chinese-losing-their
‘University of Toronto (UoT) drops vaccine mandate after being hit with human rights complaint’; Why? Because they had nothing and could not go through the full process for could not defend it
https://palexander.substack.com/p/university-of-toronto-uot-drops-vaccine
Funny how the MOREONS think that Musk buying into Twitter is going to change the world hahaha
Given he is a fabrication of the Elders… (the techno messiah)
It’s incredible, what do they expect to change?
Believing in the goodness of Elon Musk is like having faith in Stalin: people convinced themselves in the USSR that he was a good man all along, only the corrupt lower officials were the problem.
Are Youngsters really having more Heart Attacks?
https://nakedemperor.substack.com/p/are-youngsters-really-having-more?s=r
Killing everyone makes sense
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/pitchforks-coming-iversen-predicts-public-unrest-inflation-continues
The Arab Spring got its start from rising and out of control food prices so I can envision when the Plebs decide to lash out and go full bore BLM on the authorities.
At a certain point you have nothing left to lose… and all hell can break lose.
I am banking popcorn on it….
But I also expect the TG and rubber bullets to quell the hordes…if not then it’s live ammo time.
The CEP is… very important… it must happen.
Hmmm… why not masks?
Oh right cuz it’s the CovCON…
https://twitter.com/i/status/1511481594963701760
Re Terrain Theory — I am working through the info on this … if viruses and bacteria don’t cause disease what does — other than poor ‘terrain’ or health…
Let’s take a real world example … norm trots down to the ‘vip’ room at the most vile hooerhowse in town… he pounds back 8 pints and till he’s all slurry-worded… and he grunts to the madam — where’s old Rat’s Nest Sue??? where is sheee…. Madam says she’s out back with the footie team – she’ll be back in a bit … i’ll av another pint whiles I waits…
Rat Nest Sue comes back with her make up all smudged and says oh norm you old geezer its you again — come out back ere and we’ll fix you up … old norm (the geezer) stumbles out the door into the alley — eh norm I’m outta wrappers cuz we used em all up with the footie boys … you ok with that /// er argh… whatever says norm… fumbling with his belt… push push in the bush…
norm crawls ome … and the next days he’s leakin The Puss…. and e goes to the doctor for some antibiotics… to fix it….
So ow did norm get The Festering Puss? If it weren’t a bacteria from Rat Next Sue… what caused it … and why did the antibiotics kills it?
norm if you know please advise … but I am more looking for the contrarian view on this …. and give our best to Rat Nest Sue when you see her…
Tuberculosis was a massive killer in tne 19th and earlier 20th centuries. But it has not been a problem since WW2, even in crowded places.
It is spread aerosol. I suppose that well fed people are not so susceptible.
There is no worthwhile vaccine.
Yes I suspect that poor diets and terrible sanitation result in disease — but what is the disease if it’s not a virus or bacterium — how does it work? Is there things that exist in the body continuously but that do no harm if someone maintains good health?
And what about norm and Rat Next — what is the mechanism for her to pass on those vile dripping diseases after norm go at that rat nest without any protection? What’s being passed from Rat Nest to norm?
as someone else pointed out
OFW is full of whack jobs now
this would appear to confirm that
If everyone was like norm — the world would still be flat… we’d be applying leeches to cure diseases… and anyone who tried to post evidence that the world is not flat and the leeches cure f789 all… would be censored by the MSM… ridiculed… and blocked by social media and all search engines.
And everyone would be queuing for the 5th shot – hahahahahahahaha cuz it’s Safe and Effective hahahaaha
According to the version of the terrain theory expounded by reante, old norm in the tale must have dipped his wick in a well that was oxygen deficient. Yes, that would explain it.
Thanks for tagging me Tim. Im just a dumb blonde and haven’t figured out a good way to efficiently navigate the thousands of comments in the nested format. And can’t quite keep up with them all.
Eddy I gotta go do stuff but I’ll get back to you on this.
In Peru they have mobile phones with cameras …
See – https://twitter.com/i/status/1511252454356275204
But in Ukraine all we get is satellite ‘photos’ of dead bodies on the streets… cuz no mobile phones there
Hmmmm
On the bright side, the situation is not as bad as Sudan….yet
Sudan: Police and militias attack civilian protesters with knives and machetes
Police and security forces shoot and kill protester and stab four others at Khartoum protest on Thursday
Sudanese security forces used knives and machetes to stab protesters at a demonstration in Khartoum yesterday, hospital data obtained by Middle East Eye shows, as the country’s military government continues its crackdown on civilian opposition.
A doctor in the Sudanese capital, who requested anonymity for security reasons, told MEE she had seen four protesters, all young men, treated for stab and cut wounds in the capital’s hospitals. All had been attacked by police or security officers. Two of the victims are in a critical condition.
Images and video footage circulating on social media show police and soldiers wielding knives and machetes, as well as carrying arms. One photograph, verified by Middle East Eye and citizen journalist Khalid Taha, shows a Sudanese soldier holding a massive machete. MEE contacted the soldier on Facebook but received no response.
Taha said that police and militia forces “are sending a clear message that teargas, snipers’ rifles and shotguns are not bloody enough to terrorise peaceful protesters. They used machetes and combat knives in the march.”
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is contributing to an increasingly dire economic situation, with the Sudanese pound plummeting against the dollar as prices of food, fuel and basic commodities soar. Both Russia and Ukraine are major exporters of wheat.
One Khartoum-based analyst, who asked not to be named, said that “the regime has been getting more brutal as economic woes look set to bring even more people out onto the street. This is especially true with Ramadan starting tomorrow.”
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/sudan-police-militias-attack-civilian-demonstration-knives-machetes
Rwanda 2.0!!!
Being hacked by a machete is the worst nightmare. The protestors need some big long sticks, very effective against blades. That would probably be called escalation, and result in live rounds….
Proof that governments will always find enough people willing to harm others for pay: ‘basic decency’ is a myth.
That’s where the Canadian truckers miscalculated, in thinking that the police are just decent citizens and family men and women in uniform – and there isn’t even any starvation there!
Looked to me like the Canadian truckers scared the sh*t out of the Overlords. When the protest got so much support, all these countries started dropping their “mandates”. The Overlords could see that this pleb uprising could get out of hand so they gave in to stop movement.
It’s probably just a coincidence. They had been planning to drop the mandates. It had nothing to do with the truckers.
They’d injected all of the willing — so they dropped everything as the next phase of the CEP involves spreading a highly contagious Covid variant as widely as possible to encourage a lethal mutation to emerge.
In case nobody noticed… TruDUNCE cleared the truckers out simply by not allowing anyone to bring them petrol… if they don’t leave they freeze.
The truckers had zero impact on the CEP and those executing the plan.
And marching around the block won’t either … nothing will.
Although We Burn You Burn … literally … and with scale…. could cause some very serious problems and might trigger Ripping of Faces…
I do not recommend this course of action … (let me reiterate for the NSA and others – I do NOT recommend that course of action)
What’s causing all these cardiac arrests, and is there a vaccine to fix the issue?
Defibrillators to be rolled out across Melbourne’s north in effort to curb dire cardiac arrest figures
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-04-03/victorian-fatal-cardiac-arrest-cases-rising/100948022
Hahaha… I did a 90 minute bike this morning with lots of hills — I didn’t have a heart attack hahahaha…
Oh right – I didn’t get injected with the Pfizer Death Shot though …. dodged some bullets there hahahaahaha
These f789ing fools will never make the connection — and they will keep dropping.
And keep boosting! Hurrah for MOREONS
Gosh, how come those defibrillators weren’t needed before 2022?
Such a dreadful oversight by the health authorities – someone should sue!
LOL! Poor Brandon gets no attention
https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1511481594963701760
https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1511472060333060100
These are the sorts of minions you want in high office… Obama you pay lots of $$$ and he provides gravitas… but as things go critical you want a Biden-type… a man who doesn’t know where he is most of the time… a total figurehead… you don’t want anyone getting in the way as you exterminate
An obviously senile President also mocks the public every time he appears: they do enjoy doing that sort of thing just to rub faces in it…..
The panic to secure business loans before the depression hits is real:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FPn1UyWXEAMPNGv?format=jpg&name=large
Aggregated oil stockpiles:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FPhw8KKUcAAdgmp?format=jpg&name=large
Oil theft warning issued for rural residents as prices soar
Residents with oil storage tanks are being warned of potential thefts due to soaring prices
William Nicholl, client director at rural insurance broker Lycetts, said people are stockpiling oil supplies before the sanctions imposed on Russia cause even greater price increases. He said: “Storage tanks can contain hundreds – and sometimes thousands – of pounds of oil, so they are an obvious target.
“In recent weeks there have been a number of nationwide thefts by organised gangs who have siphoned-off oil. This is no hi-tech, difficult to organise crime – a 1,000-litre tank can be drained within minutes.”
https://www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/news/local-news/oil-theft-warning-issued-rural-6908098
Gawsh … I hope doomies don’t have diesel stored… that would be Bonus Time for the bad guys who come to raid the garden rape the wimmin and toast the kids
There are some very nasty folks in the world … even the nice folks will turn real nasty when their families are hungry … they’ll slit your throat for a can of tuna
I am not looking forward to the desperate struggle in a dark and freezing house over the last cans of baked beans…..
twentysix eddyisms in a row, out of about thirty five
far above par, wouldn’t you say?
does your typing finger ever get repetitive strain injury eddy?
IEA states still discussing coordinated oil release
A Reuters analysis of IEA data showed government-controlled oil stocks among member states was at its lowest since 2005 even before the March 1 release, while U.S. SPR levels have dropped to their lowest since 2002, government data showed.
Global oil supply disruptions are approaching 5-6 million barrels per day (bpd), according to Reuters’ calculations, as sanctions, conflicts and infrastructure failures bite.
https://boereport.com/2022/04/05/iea-states-still-discussing-coordinated-oil-release/
Once it is released, it is gone.
It won’t do much to fix the price, I am afraid.
LOL!
Rep. Jeffries says oil execs must show ‘patriotism’ and cut prices, as GOP says Dems ‘own this energy crisis’
House Democrats Tuesday doubled down on blaming Russian President Vladimir Putin and “price gouging” oil executives for high gas prices, as Republicans said President Biden’s energy policies are at fault.
New York Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, urged oil and gas executives to “show some patriotism” by passing some of their “record profits” down to the everyday consumers with lower gas prices.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/democrats-republicans-oil-execs-patriotism-energy-crisis
But we need higher prices, for oil companies to be encouraged to find more.
That’s like back in 2007-08 when gas was hitting $4-5gallon, Bill O’Reilly was imploring the oil companies NOT to be so GREEDY about record profits and to lower the price of their products for Americans. He along with politicians don’t understand that those profits are put back into oil exploration.
‘They’re all unhinged!’ Just Stop Oil sparks fury as he ‘D-locks’ himself to fuel tanker
CLIMATE activist Cameron Ford and his fellow protesters were branded as “unhinged” after he shared footage of himself using a D-lock to chain himself to an oil tanker.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1590461/Just-Stop-Oil-protest-oil-tanker-video-Essex-oil-terminals-blocked-climate-change-VN
Eco mob glue themselves to road outside oil terminal in Warwickshire on FIFTH day of chaos – as total arrested in UK fuel protests tops 275
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10687479/Just-Stop-Oil-glue-road-outside-oil-terminal-Warwickshire.html
We saw a big anti-oil protest here, mostly by females.
I considered asking one how she expected to eat, keep warm, have clothes , etc, – let alone have remunerative employment – without fossil fuels of any kind. But why bother?
Drivers queue for hours as Kenya reels from fuel shortage
Kenyan motorists endured another day of major fuel shortages on Monday, with hours-long queues and strict rationing at petrol stations as pumps across the country ran dry. The government blamed hoarding and panic buying for the snaking lines at bowsers that worsened over the weekend, but oil dealers said they were owed outstanding subsidy payments from the state. FRANCE 24’s Caroline Kimeu reports from Nairobi, Kenya.
https://www.france24.com/en/video/20220405-drivers-queue-for-hours-as-kenya-reels-from-fuel-shortage
Sitting in lines for hours likely makes the situation worse.
nations cannot go on subsidising energy consumption indefinitely.
problem is, people see it as some kind of ‘right’, but fail to understand where their underpriced energy comes from
when it stops, violent unrest is certain.
There will be many more places throughout the world with this problem.
Reante says:
“Ivermectin is no ones friend”
“…Colds are generally a wintertime disease because the plant kingdom generates our oxygen supply for us and the plant kingdom is largely dormant in winter so we naturally have less margin for error in the winter.
And the ‘error’ is all the ways in which we can suffer oxidative stress other than from lower wintertime atmospheric oygen levels…”
“it’s a toxic chemical that suppresses symptoms of hypoxia. Symptom suppression is the stopping of healing, because symptoms are what we get when our intelligent body is clearing disease. The unpleasantness of experience symptoms is our intelligent body telling us to knock it off, whatever trauma it is that we exposed ourself to…”
Wow!?! – Didn’t know there was a measurable change in wintertime atmospheric O2 concentrations due to plant dormancy ..wonder why they dont report that on the Weather Channel so that we can avoid such deleterious conditions (they report high Ozone so why not low O2 health endangerment) Never seen the literature on that one!!!
As for symptom suppression not being advisable, well I daresay when someone has gone 10 days post-Covid infection with no treatment and their symptoms are lungs filled with fluid and truely apoxic bloodstreams they might wish they had done something to prevent said symptoms- I guess if they had been smart they would have migrated to the opposing hemisphere (presumably summertime with non-dormant plants & thus adequate atmospheric 02 – oh wait lots of people got covid during the summertime – what am I missing?)
I noticed Reante attempting to talk finite energy/resources scenarios implications during my lurking over at MOA & smoothie’s blogs and was suprised at the derision he generally encountered – then he disappeared and shows up over here on OFW – the lightbulb is slowly turning on:
What is missing is that FE is slacking on Troll Patrol – Eddy how can you allow this to stand without comment?
I am ok with people rejecting Ivermectin … in fact I encourage it … not taking it can cure stooopidity
Reante is perfectly right about O2. There is nothing in litterature because we have been misled by wrong science. I know people working on this topic, of course they are under the radars. The best thing one can do is walking in a forest with softwoods at a high altitude enough to escape pollution (800 to 1000 m high is ok)
Appreciate that, Thierry. We live in timber hillcountry surrounded by the evergreen doug fir, and definitely value the benefits of that despite the intensive monocropping.
I didn’t disappear from MOA I was disappeared. No surprise of course, not after Misotheist lost his shit and said I was going to get the whole site shut down lol. Was never at smoothie place, is that martynov? All those pro Russian guys are terrible analysts. Still miss reading Mr P’s work over at the Saker’s joint but I refuse to even visit anywhere I’ve been booted from, which is most places I’ve visited lol. Gail, judging from my track record, this here reante is testing your territorialism.
Of course there’s a measurable change in winter. Everybody knows that cities have lower oxygen levels than the countryside. And everybody knows why. Same goes for vegetative winter compared to the growing season, and for the exact same reason – less local plant respiration. How about you rub two brain cells together and think before you speak illl of someone and try and sic Eddy on me cause you can’t get the job done yourself.
Here’s another little known fact for you. If we don’t have our colons all bunged-up with candidate families from eating too much grain, we can get 20pc of our calorie intake from eating leafy greens, even though they themselves have very few calories. Healthy colons harbor certain families of anaerobic bacteria that eat the cellulose in the leaves and produce metabolites of Short Chain Fatty Acids (SCFAs) that we can absorb directly into our bloodstream, which is a great, low, long, smooth burning energy for sleeping on. Like a nice big stick of oakwood in the stove for running a fire overnight. But that can’t be true because you’ve never heard it before and they don’t talk about it on the fake news.
Here’s another one while we’re at it. Ruminants aren’t vegetarians. The grass is just feedstock. Their actual diet is a high ‘animal’ fat, high ‘animal’ protein diet. The fat being the same SCFAs that we get but as a much greater percentage of their caloric intake (over half), and the protein being trillions of protozoa per meal. These can be considered animal foods because the molecular structure of the bacterial metabolites are the same as animal fats and protozoa are basically microscopic little insect meatbags with all the amino acids. The grass feeds the fermentation bacteria, the protozoa eat the bacteria, the sheep eats the protozoa by digestiing them in a true stomach just like ours, absorbing the protein in their small intestine, and sending the cellulose to their colon for the SCFAs. But that can’t be true either because the Matrix says they’re vegetarians.
How about you take an interest in your surroundings brother.
candidae families…
Of course there’s a measurable change in winter. Everybody knows that cities have lower oxygen levels than the countryside. And everybody knows why. Same goes for vegetative winter compared to the growing season, and for the exact same reason – less local plant respiration. How about you rub two brain cells together and think before you speak illl of someone and try and sic Eddy on me cause you can’t get the job done yourself.
Perhaps you can give us some figures? For instance, how much do CO2 levels vary between winter and summer in (a) the UK, (b) New Zealand, (c) Newfoundland?
We see from the Keeling Curve what’s happening in Hawaii. The curve shows a cyclic variation of about 5 ppmv each year corresponding (according to some sources) to the seasonal change in the uptake of CO2 by the world’s land vegetation.
We should expect a larger change at higher latitudes in the Northern hemisphere. Is this measured? How big is it? On the order of 10 ppmv?
And you claim this is a big enough difference to cause symptoms associated with colds in winter?
OK, what if I told you that the Keeling Curve shows an uptick of close 100 ppmv between 1960 and 2020? How does that sit with your hypothesis? If you are right, shouldn’t everybody be experiencing a bad cold all the time at these levels?
Then again, people who work in poorly ventilated office buildings often find themselves breathing air with a CO2 concentration of over 100 ppmv, which is on the order of 6 times bigger than the difference in overall CO2 increase since 1960 and 60 times bigger than the difference in CO2 between summer and winter. Why aren’t all those people dead?
Tim, we were talking about wintertime oxygen levels relating to respiratory disease. You are talking about carbon dioxide. I did bring up the 420ppm CO2 example as a background low-level toxicity that further lowers the margin of error beyond the seasonal stressor.
As far as the oxygen levels in urban locales, it’s a simple search away
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.1c00553#
Reante, I agree with most things you say and unfortunately most people cannot see how valuable your contribution is here. I would be interested to know where your knowledge come from because this is not the usual stuff we can read on a blog. I have been lucky to meet an extraordinary friend in my life who taught me a similar knowledge but I am still a very young and not so talented student, so I am progressing very slowly. Thanks again anyway and keep posting, no matter what others may think or tell you, some remain silent and benefit from you.
To answer your question, everybody’s not dead because the average CO2 background level of the least exposed humans isn’t at deadly levels…
You touch on an important point. Spending time indoors with windows closed isn’t a good idea if you’re into being a robust human being. Period. But that can’t be true cause we send our masked kids to be edumacated in hermetically sealed buildings.
FE is not for hire… If HE was in this for $$$ HE would be writing best selling literature. cuz.
How about the MOREONS who wear N95 masks… esp the preggo women — who are birthing semi-re tar ds because they have been oxygen deprived for 9 months — that is if they don’t birth Pfizer two-headed monsters… or Pfizer dead hunks of meat (that get fed to the dogs out back the hospitals)…
What about all that!!!
And why doesn’t norm (and mike) answer questions???
We’ve seen the unbelievable microscopy images of the experimental jabs from other investigators around the world, but we wanted to see it for ourselves! There are now 4 teams working on this in New Zealand and Dr Robin Wakeling has agreed to go public with his findings.
He compares the Pfizer jab to other vaccines and discusses the startling findings with Dr Mark Bailey
Don’t believe it? See it for yourself…
https://drsambailey.com/videos/nz-scientist-examines-pfizer-jab-under-the-microscope/
She is hot….
Ya but she’s spoken for….
https://odysee.com/@VirusManiaFilms:b/Podcast_01:0
She reminds of that babe off the Russian Find a Bride site… hey I wonder if Mark Bailey drafted her out of Russia right out of med school — then put her into University of Otago med school to get her NZ qualifications?
It would make sense cuz what are the odds of her being born in NZ the land of Plough Hogs?
She did a great job ditching the Russian accent
British bloodline explains it, FE: Brits are, like Germans, just not that good-looking on the whole, neither in face nor figure, occasionally a real beauty appears, and a scattering of pretty faces – my theory being that an historic injection of Viking or Irish blood helps to improve the stock.
I did see the strange graphene oxide crystals she showed, by scrolling through the video. They don’t look like something a person would want inside their body.
In a talk recently Dr. Fleming said his colleagues analyzed those crystals and thought that they were made of sodium chloride. I wonder how that got in there?
Canada’s vaccine advisory board recommends ‘rapid deployment’ of fourth COVID-19 shot
Canada should prepare for “the rapid deployment” of a second COVID-19 booster program over the coming weeks prioritizing adults 80 and over and residents of long-term care or other congregate settings, the National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI) said Tuesday.
The advisory body also advised that the aim be to provide a second booster dose six months after the previous booster dose.
“While the greatest benefit is expected in adults 80 years of age and older, jurisdictions may also consider offering a second COVID-19 booster dose to adults 70-79 years of age living in the community,” NACI said in its updated guidance.
NACI previously recommended that people who are “moderately to severely immunocompromised” receive a fourth dose of a COVID-19 vaccine six months after getting their third shot.
https://globalnews.ca/news/8725404/covid-fourth-booster-dose-recommendation-canada/
I’ve got a family member back there who refuses to acknowledge that people are being maimed and dying from the injections … he asks ‘how come you seem to know so many people like this’…
He’ll be rolling up that sleeve (and his kids sleeves) — even though he is aware that we’ve had the Plague and it was nothing more than a mild flu.
Cuz.
The more you play the more your chances of winning – in the dangerous sport of Vaccine Roulette.
Do I care… actually I don’t … it’s too late anyway… and end of the day … extinction = everyone…
But it would suck to spend the final days in agony as many of these vaxxed MOREONS are…
I imagine that if there is a vax injury back there… that will be hushed up Big Time…
The WSJ had an editorial recently called,
FDA Shuts Out Its Own Experts in Authorizing Another Vaccine Booster
Decisions like this only reinforce the perception that Covid policy is driven by groupthink and politics.
The article goes on to mention others who object. It then says: