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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.
Cumulative Excess Life Years Lost 2020 to 2022, England & Wales
The COVID cure is worse than the disease.
https://metatron.substack.com/p/excess-life-years-lost-2020-to-2022?s=r
“U.S. banks are facing body blows from Ukraine war and a slump in investment banking activity.
“Hit by the slowest quarter for initial public offerings since 2016, efforts to curb business with Russia and jitters about an economic slowdown tied to inflation, the financial powerhouses faced headwinds in the three months ended March 31.”
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/u-s-banks-are-facing-body-blows-from-ukraine-war-and-a-slump-in-investment-banking-activity-11649356237
“US imposes ‘severe’ sanctions on Russian banks after Bucha atrocities.
“The US has imposed its most severe level of sanctions on Sberbank, Russia’s largest financial institution, and Alfa-Bank, the country’s biggest private bank, escalating its economic punishment of Moscow in response to atrocities committed by Russian forces in Ukraine.”
https://www.ft.com/content/a0865d3b-1557-44d4-b23d-c9f9cf170bf9
Sounds like a good way to lead into a recession!
“The race is on to declare a paradigm shift in the world economy toward higher inflation and interest rates and the jolt to public borrowing costs could compound the dizzying shocks that led to this…
“A report released by asset manager Janus Henderson on Wednesday detailed how global government debt has almost tripled in the past decade even though easy monetary policy associated with successive crises meant that the interest cost has only increased by a third. The latter part of the equation was now about to adjust sharply, they warned.”
https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/felling-magic-money-tree-central-banks-call-time-2022-04-06/
“Global regulatory body warns on liquidity risks in corporate debt…
“The warning by Iosco comes amid mounting concerns that the multi-decade bull market for bonds, which dates back to 1981, has ended, with the Federal Reserve and other major central banks starting to raise interest rates in response to strong inflationary pressures.”
https://www.ft.com/content/5b804e1f-f023-427f-adb7-09e5c6d4f6b9
Rising interest rates with the current level of debt is a real concern.
“Fallout from Ukraine threatens the G20’s future…
“…on Wednesday Janet Yellen, the US Treasury secretary, told Congress that “we will not be participating in a number of [G20] meetings if the Russians are there”. This is in protest at Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine and means that she might boycott the April 20 event.”
https://www.ft.com/content/b4b335a1-f999-46ad-bbe1-1e5576152a2b
“The chief executive of Levi’s has declared globalisation “dead” following months of supply chain chaos and rising freight costs…
““I think globalisation is dead, and this trend where this [apparel] industry has habitually chased the lowest-cost manufacturing base around the world over the last couple of centuries, I think it’s coming to an end,” said Chip Bergh.”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2022/04/08/globalisation-dead-declares-levis-boss/
It sure is… as is the human species
We can’t keep our current level of globalization up!
Measles vax https://t.me/robinmg/18362
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hahahahaha – it’s almost too good to be true hahahahaha but it is true hahahaha
hahahaha … more boosters please – this is what I want:
Record breaking wave of Covid-19 across Australia sees deaths 1700% higher than the start of the Pandemic; & the Fully Vaccinated account for 4 in every 5 of them
“Why is it that Covid-19 deaths are currently 18 times higher two years on from the beginning of the pandemic?
And why is it that the vaccinated population account for 84% of the record breaking number of Covid-19 deaths in Australia?”
https://dailyexpose.uk/2022/04/07/australia-record-breaking-wave-deaths-4-in-5-vaccinated/
“Why Japan’s long fight against deflation looks doomed to fail. Unlike its peers, Japan’s central bank has stuck to aggressive government debt purchases, rock-bottom interest rates and near-zero long-term bond yields.
“The costs of this approach keep rising, though, as a weak yen is at odds with the need for more consumer spending and ending the deflationary mindset.”
https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3173366/why-japans-long-fight-against-deflation-looks-doomed-fail
“Japan plans to gradually reduce coal imports from Russia…
“Japan, the world’s third-largest coal importer, plans to reduce Russian imports of the fuel gradually while looking for alternative suppliers in the wake of sanctions against Moscow, the industry minister has said.”
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2022/4/8/japan-plans-to-gradually-reduce-coal-imports-from-russia
Good luck in finding alternative suppliers to Russia for coal!
“Keeping U.K. Coal Plants Open Just Got Harder With Russian Ban…
“Talks to safeguard U.K. energy security by keeping some coal-fired power plants open through next winter have just got a lot harder after Prime Minister Boris Johnson decided to ban Russian supplies.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-07/russian-ban-just-made-keeping-u-k-coal-plants-open-a-lot-harder
“France faces winter supply “disaster” amid nuclear slump.
“France faces a power supply “disaster” next winter with EDF vastly overestimating its likely nuclear output, analysts said this week. The country may have to resort to supply cuts early in the season…”
https://www.montelnews.com/news/1311638/france-faces-winter-supply-disaster-amid-nuclear-slump
“Sweden’s Surprise GDP Contraction Dents Full-Year Growth Outlook.
“The Swedish economy unexpectedly shrank for a second straight month in February, raising doubts about whether the largest Nordic economy can brush off the effect of rising energy costs and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-06/sweden-s-surprise-gdp-contraction-dents-full-year-growth-outlook
UK gets 7% of its electrcity from France via aun undersea cable
Not for long, I am afraid.
It’s easier to understand a concept if one gives it context…. ideally a real world example … that people can relate to… Rat Snatch Cindy
peru!!! https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1511890646193569796
https://twitter.com/i/status/1511238225850888194
https://youtu.be/T3wIKrPOfr0
More good watchin there than the entire Ukelely fake war to date…
More uk lockdowns? https://t.me/robinmg/18359
hahahahaha https://t.me/chiefnerd/3140
The exchange rate of Russian rouble is more fictitious than real. Russia will become a vassal of China, says the expert of the Slovak VUB bank Andrej Hronec
https://finweb.hnonline.sk/financie-a-burzy/25365152-ekonom-kurz-rubla-je-viac-fiktivny-ako-realny-rusko-sa-stane-vazalom-ciny
The same website links to articles with the following headlines (translated to English via google-translate):
* “The penalty bubble burst. The ruble is strengthening to the pre-war level, which is quite a shocking development”
* “The ruble is strong to order. Gold reserves, oil and natural gas are just tinsel”
It seems the website has taken all sides of the argument. Anyway, if the official exchange rate isn’t real, why did everyone crow about it falling in the immediate aftermath?
The exchange rate is indeed – banning foreign currency use within Russia is a political decision that has real impacts on the real exchange rate. It doesn’t make the exchange rate “fake”, it simply shows that exchange rates do not exist in some vacuum of idyllic ivory tower capitalism.
typo in the last paragraph – meant to say “The exchange rate is indeed *real*”
I wolud love for a Russian living in Russia to say what they are having to pay to acquire dolalrs, and if gold is for sale in local shops and at what price
Physical gold is for sale at Sberbank, you can buy it from your phone, then pass by your local branch to pick it up if you want to bury it somewhere. Otherwise, there is strong demand for safety boxes.Other banks also sell physical. It is plentiful.
But it has changed the level at which the rouble is trading.
The real estate bubble in Central Europe is bursting. The mortgages are inaccessible for the half of the Czechs.
https://www.trend.sk/ekonomika/realitny-trh-mrzne-bublina-praska-hypoteky-nedosiahne-polovica-cechov-slovaci-su-strehu?itm_modul=trend_topbox&itm_brand=trend&itm_template=hp&itm_position=3
If we have high energy prices, what is the real price of the homes that lag behind in efficiency?
The real estate bubble in Central Europe bursting could be a real problem. I am sure that there are drafty homes outside central Europe that will be adversely affected, if the cost of heating them becomes impossibly high.
Kinda too late for most of them https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/jpmorgan-resume-hiring-unvaccinated-individuals-memo-2022-03-14/
The total number of deaths associated with the Covid-19 vaccines in the CDC’s Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) is 26,396 which is nearly triple the 9,619 deaths associated with all other vaccines combined over the last 32-years.
There have been a total of 1,205,753 reports associated with the covid-19 vaccines in VAERS including:
•145,781 hospitalizations
•125,791 urgent care
•48,852 permanently disabled
•41,320 severe allergic reactions
•37,579 myocarditis/pericarditis
•26,396 deaths
•14,949 bell’s palsy
•13,527 heart attacks
•13,224 shingles
•9,533 anaphylaxis
•6,256 thrombocytopenia
•4,423 miscarriages
The CDC claims that none of these deaths were caused by the Covid-19 vaccines, but their own data shows that 50 percent of deaths occur within 48-hours of getting vaccinated with a direct correlation between the number of deaths and the number of days after vaccination.
https://t.me/PeterMcCullough/684
If I add the serious consequences together I arrive at some 210K people. USA has 330M people. We are looking at a 0.06% effect. Can this really be considered extinction?
Patience… that comes with Devil Covid…
“I SERIOUSLY expect that a series of new highly virulent and highly infectious SARS-CoV-2 (SC-2) variants will now rapidly and independently emerge in highly vaccinated countries all over the world and that they will soon spread at high pace. I expect the current pattern of repetitive infections and relatively mild disease in vaccinees to soon aggravate and be replaced by severe disease and death. Unfortunately, there is no way vaccinees can rely on assistance from their innate immune system to protect against coronaviruses as their relevant innate IgM antibodies are increasingly being outcompeted by infection-enhancing vaccinal Abs, which are continuously recalled due to the circulation of highly infectious Omicron variants. In contrast, Omicron’s high infectiousness would enable the non-vaccinated to train their innate immune defense against SC-2 while the infectious and pathogenic capacity of the new SC-2 variants would be debilitated in the non-vaccinated for lack of infection-enhancing Abs in their blood. Unless…”
https://voiceforscienceandsolidarity.substack.com/p/geert-vanden-bossche-predictions?s=r
The numbers in VAERS represent somewhere between 1 and 10 percent of the true figure. i.e. 0.06% becomes somewhere between 0.6% and 6%. Most of the rest of the vaxxed might be badly damaged, they just don’t know it yet. Not extinction though.
I can buy 0.6% based on my survey of people in Italy. I do not buy 6%, not possible even in the land of land whales. This program was a dud. People who die of vaccines die sooner rather than later. Order of magnitude wise, what you see is what you will get. But food shortages are just around the corner.
If I look at the euromomo data, even 0.6% is problematic, or better, unacceptable. Even 0.06% is too high for euromomo though not outrageous. But it is possible that the US is experiencing much higher rates. The CDC site is not particularly user friendly so I do not know. it is also possible that the euromomo data are faked, but I do have some experience with large collaborations (euromomo is 27 institutions), and faking data in that environment is very hard.
The problem is not so much faking as that they are passive reporting systems, and there is strong pressure within health bureaucracies not to report, etc.
Also, we have seen medics reusing to acknowledge obvious vaxx-causation.
I get that. But in principle all deaths are reported. euromomo is about total mortality.
Bear in mind also the under reporting factor, which is at a conservative minimum 10; and also that most of the injured have an average of 3 conditions.
The figure for permanently disabled is horrific!
Suppose that all double vaccinees have a 50% chance of contracting a rapidly fatal disease in the next five years, and a 100% chance in the next ten. Wouldn’t this mean a gigantic cull in a ten-year interval, remembering that so far there are almost 6 billion injected?
That may well be the master plan, to reach ~2030 with 20% of the current population.Well, it certainly would increase, for the first time in the last 50 years, the global amount of energy and resources per capita..
Hopefully, there will be more companies dropping their vaccine mandates.
VAIDS? 🙂
heart problems – blood clots hahaha
West Yorkshire Association of Acute Trusts, which covers 2.5million people, said its casualty units were “extremely busy”. Figures show there has been a “sharp uplift” in patients attending over A&E over the past fortnight, with the total number of visits up 14% on the same time last year.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-10691541/Millions-patients-told-dont-E-unless-youre-dying.html
Peru is facing a financial meltdown, now grocery stores are being looted…
https://twitter.com/WallStreetSilv/status/1512279315676733440
Peru is facing a financial meltdown, now grocery stores are being looted…
Continue further… it will be face ripping. Let us see what is in store for everyone…
Eventually the cops just say f789 this .. inflation is crushing them too… and then those hordes completely unhinge… and they will look for the people they see as being responsible for this (as will the cops)….
Better to kill them all now – they are all going to die anyway
Keep your food stocks up — can your guns and ammo close… we’re going down soon (where is the bloody DC!)
Bus drivers in Sydney are having “medical episodes” and crashing their bus.
https://twitter.com/Tiberius_007/status/1511990640791359493
Please suh can we have some more clips like this!
And still… the MOREONS boost… hahahahahahahahaahhaha…
White House insiders say internal reports predict a complete economic collapse in EU within months.
https://twitter.com/GarlandNixon/status/1512034274731610124
“but Russia oughta be pretty much ok… exactly as planned.”
Perfect… late April works for me… early May is ok as well
“a complete economic collapse in EU within months,” is not too hard to believe, unfortunately.
which is exactly what i wrote four years ago
https://medium.com/p/7a401c225171
Quotes from your article in 2018:
We have moved into a situation where we are in an overall energy deficit position (relative to what is needed to maintain the status quo), rather than an overall energy surplus position now. This is what produces the musical chairs problem.
The world changes in strange ways as it heads toward collapse. There is a great deal more dispute about everything, for example, even comments on OFW. Governments are motivated to start telling stories to their citizens that are based on wishful thinking or bizarre causation narratives to cover up their true problems, for example. They can encourage the press to publish these narratives. If those who are close to the situation publish articles on the internet contradicting the stories encouraged by the powers that be, the owners of these internet sites can ban these articles as spreading “conspiracy theories.”
This seems to be where we are now. People don’t realize how the world changes as we move from an overall energy surplus to an overall energy deficit. We can no longer trust the powers that be, in the way we could before. This is what ultimately leads to the fragmentation of the EU and the United States, I expect.
as i see it—each region, of whatever state, will seek ‘autonomy’, on the promise of political gain
ie—tell people they well be better off ‘going it alone’, because the rest of the world is responsible for their misfortune
hence the stupidity of ‘brexit’ in the uk. Le Pen in France is promising the same thing .
here, we are not ‘fully armed’ as in the USA—the situation there will be very different i fear.
Trump convinced 70 m Americans that ‘prosperity’ was being denied to them by ‘others’, followed by the ‘steal’ of his second term.
unique in american history (an attempt to overthrow an election)–but coinciding with the obvious ‘energy collapse’ of the american dream—which could only be sustained with cheap surplus energy—— but that reality is beyond the grasp of millions.
instead, prosperity can and must be restored by force of arms.
hence the rise of wacky politicians with unreal promises.
when those promises are not met, violence will become inevitable, driven on by petty regional dictators, who recognise that Washington ultimately cannot control the vast territory of the USA
“each region, of whatever state, will seek ‘autonomy’, on the promise of political gain”
I think that you are right about this.
I hadn’t thought about “tell people they well be better off ‘going it alone’, because the rest of the world is responsible for their misfortune.” I had thought more about the high taxes that are being imposed by the top-level governments.
Also, the inability to continue to attract as many imports as the country would like needs to be explained away as “intentional.” This will allow the country to develop new industries.
At some point, the pensions and health care being promised to the elderly will become an issue. To the extent that these are being paid by the top level government, there will be a tendency to dissolve to the next lower level of government, it would seem to me. The next lower level can impose taxes to pay for these, if it chooses to.
‘taxation’ at whatever level and for whatever purpose, can only be sustained by the SURPLUS energy of the people being taxed.
that is the critical factor that seems to be beyond the wit of those set in governance over us.
pensions and healthcare must eventually collapse under its own weght, because live longer thanks to the ‘surplus’ we create.
i am long past my sell by date, thanks to a comfortable lifestyle provided by my wage surpluses of previous years., and a reasonably stable government.
Medical procedures looked on as science fiction when i was born, are now routine. But are ultimately unaffordable to the nation at large, in energy terms. Luckily, i don’t need any as yet.
nations can’t develop ‘new industries’ without the inputs of base energy sources.
Space exploration cannot bring ‘new revenue’, because ultimately it has no profitable purpose. (ie delivering more energy in return than was initially expended). This applies to all ‘industry’. No exceptions.
Yet the insistence is there–that ‘new industry’ (and wealth) will be created by states within themselves.
no industry is viable unless the products of it can be sold to someone else. Selling and consuming within fixed borders is ultimately the definition of an agricultural peasant economy. (most likely a theocracy).
Rumors that the military is taking over Shanghai are circulating on social media. State media debunked the rumors, but unverified surveillance footage showed troops are entering Shanghai by train. Netizens on Weibo confirmed that their community was already taken over.
https://twitter.com/ChuYang_Journ/status/1512125264234528770
It seems like it would take military to provide enough workers, in this situation.
Large Israeli Study Finds That Protection Against COVID From 4th Shot Drops Quickly
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/large-israeli-study-finds-protection-against-covid-4th-shot-drops-quickly
Anyone suffering from COVID exhaustion? It is like grinding down on purpose towards
1. Those who are aware and unvax… you are helpless because you will never be understood
2. Those who took the jab, it will be a decline in heath leading to an “untimely” demise.
It is probably karma that I have to live through this “charade” of life. I am not of retirement age and I still need to work. I do envy those who are retired and living alone with little or no interaction with the outside world of insanity and stoopi.dity. It has come to a point that even the word “stoop,i,dity” is banned by WordPress and will send this post to moderation. That is how crazy our world is.
I have interact with world-class IYI (intellectual Yet Idiot) top dollar professionals every day. Triple-masked, quadruple-jabbed virtue signaler. Ditto for my family and extended family. I have to plan ahead for family as well, planning decades into the future.
Having a totally different mindset or even a totally different mental level is a torture. I cannot fathom how fast we have dropped in stoop.diity to the point that I realize that I am perhaps, very likely to be in a simulation where there is a change in global parameter on stoopi.dity. Even those who used to have critical thinking are 2-masked, 3-jabbed. Together with unbelievable coincidences and synchronicities that happened in my life, it is hard for someone with an extremely curious and critical mind to wave that off as “coincidences”.
So, yes this “grinding down” is tiring and no, I am not suicidal. We have like-minded people here but each is on their own plane of beliefs. All of them are not into resource depletion, which is very read indeed.
In my corner of reality here, everything goes away when I die. Someone reminded me a year ago that we don’t actually sense (see, touch, hear, smell and taste) things. These are just electrical signals from our organs to our brain and our brain, based on the signals let us perceive them.
So, can someone empirically convince me that perhaps ” I ” am nothing more than a brain connected with wires and located in a lab somewhere in the universe and what I am reading is nothing more than inputs of electrical signals from a computer nearby?
hi CTG, this is God (I’m using david’s account for convenience and to express Myself clearly).
yes indeed you are merely a simulation which I am running on My personal computer.
hope that helps!
love and peace to you.
and shalom.
hey, CTG.
wow that’s pretty wild that God was using my account to answer you.
and how cool is that?
anyway, I think we should doubt His answer, and rebel against the idea that we are all simulations.
sckrew that.
we can reject that, and go on living our lives as if we are real beings in a real environment.
that’s very BOLD and DARING, you know?
but maybe we should give it a shot?
Can I empirically say that you are not God or Elon Musk is the Creator? I cannot unfortunately. I have no evidence that you are not God.
I am already at a stage of critical and empirical thinking. So, it is this “extreme” thinking that leads me to question many things on resource depletion, COVID, consciousness, etc.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Noble_Truths
Buddhism says … seek truth and be liberated (achieve nirvana). Grossly simplified version.. Perhaps the truth is just in front of our eyes. What we see as reality is perhaps not.
“What we see as reality is perhaps not.”
Instead of demanding the ultimate reality where the universe can be proven, and matter consists of indivisible particles of “stuff”, why not simply accept that such a deterministic universe likely would be stale and boring.
You see; in self referential and chaotic systems, there’s so much more possibilities. One could even reach the conclusion that no other universe, self-contained, with reflections in and of itself can possibly manifest.
So; what is that which runs the simulation that is “our” simulation? If one is to accept the simulation hypothesis, then it follows that the simulators themselves must be simulated. And it is a plunge down the rabbit hole from there. Then it’s about time to whip out Occam’s razor and trim it short.
Yup; chill out, accept reality as is. How about a hike or bike ride in the Malaysian countryside? If it’s a simulation; not too shabby, huh?
Yes, most people are obsessed by their egotistical fantasy. They are crafting a delusional ‘simulation’ that isn’t in “tune” with the ‘ultimate’ simulation and therefore in conflict with your observations and reasoning ability.
Indeed; they bore and stress the living crap out of me too.
I would guess that ‘synchronicity’ is a mere appearance because you’re not in severe conflict with ultimate reality (simulation if you so wish?).
The Tao dissonances with dumb shit and fantasy. Cringe is also the Tao, however not very pleasant.
A few “words” of advice:
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I am hoping that death will not be some black hole .. rather it will be the Great Unveiling of the Big Secrets… or at least an endless techno party with High Grade Bolivian blow and the other obvious accoutrements
If you have children you have no choice but endure and move forward. No one said life was easy. it definitely throws things at you that you are not prepared for. but that is in large part because we are born and raised in cultural bubbles that have little to do with reality.
and it is not good to think that your family and friends are merely simulations.
I never bought the “brain the vat” theory.
We are more than our brains. Even if you dismiss any idea of soul or spirit – and you shouldn’t simply out of intellectual modesty knowing our limitations – we are our bodies and our environment too.
Only spoiled rich people can pretend there is a dualism mind/body. If you spend any time in nature, around animals or simply trying to know thyself you quickly realize that.
If you don’t believe me, try to fast for a couple of days and then talk about the matrix or brain in a vat or Descartes – if you can think of anything else other than food.
I am very much in to consciousness and other stuff but this is not the forum to discuss this.
Watch one or two Donald Hoffman videos on YouTube. You’d find them interesting if nothing else.
Truth is, no one has the faintest idea of the true nature of reality. It’s doubtful we are even capable of knowing this.
If someone’s skull is removed and they poke and prod the brain they feel real sensations throughout their bodies… end of the day it’s just chemicals and receptors… pump in some chems and it sure feels real… but really – is it real? What does real even mean?
A sailboat would be ideal — I’d definitely have done that — but M Fast suffers from seasickness and no way she’d be on for it.
I wonder how those people she knows who sold everything – learned to sail — and set off recently on an endless voyage. I need to remember to ask her about that
What would be more efficient:
Building a “real”computer simulating a sphere in a huge void with some creatures running around doing stupid things
Creating a “real” rock in the void and let these creatures run on that as they like ?
You see the topic of “real” here?…
I mean, I can not answer that empirically but I could make a guess.
From the point of wires: the religious people say if you sincerely want to talk to god, you can do so and “he” will answer the request. I think this is an individual topic.
From the point of Karma, if you look at what human have done to the earth and to themselves, it is no wonder that we live in a strange place.
Everbybody may have some riddle to solve here. Maybe some people are lucky and solve a piece of it but then they may realize how many are stuck in the riddle. That is hard but you at least can see some of it. Funny , isn’t it?
I’ve tried that ‘are we biological robots in a meaningless universe’ stuff, and Buddhist stuff, and some vaguely druidic stuff.
Ultimately i didn’t find any of it very helpful.
Rather boringly it’s my ancestral religion that, in the end, proved most satisfying.
In anyway we are indeed brains connected with nerves to sensors somewhere in the universe. We perceive an image of reality through the electric flow though those sensors nerves and brain cells that are also part of the universe.
CTG,
Life is real, you exist; worry about what you can affect(control is an illusion, we react to what we experience,) tomorrow is another day. Be gentle with yourself, you are a child of God.
It has always been thus.
We are a wonderful spaceship, earth; there is an endless supply of stuff all around us and we are in a gravity well. It will be done when it needs to be done.
Personally, I worry about nothing which I cannot affect. I have faced my end, received a deferment, think I have enough points to go up, not down, careful not to screw that up now. In engineering terms, perfection is the enemy of good enough. We are here, we are real.
Dennis L.
Wasn’t it addressing a conspiracy theory about germ theory and antibiotics because some trolls were pushing the absurd idea that viruses and bacterium don’t exist or at least don’t cause disease and that it is all about terrain. Catching an STD and treating it is a very empirical way of showing that the idea is billshut.
It would appear that Eddy really likes to belittle you but then you don’t actually ever address his straight forward questions about vaccines and the mounting scientific evidence that they are dangerous, so until you do he will probably keep attacking you. He seems bored with the pace of collapse and I can’t blame him for wanting a massive dose of shadenfruede from bad outcomes on those that behaved stupidly or with malicious intent (not suggesting you did Norm) regarding vaccines.
At least with Eddy there are links to new info, you Norm seem to just repeat the usual “less is more” argument (which was a great article by the way) which is fine but not adding anything new.
Personally I think this comment section strayed into just link sharing a long time ago. At first it really annoyed me that Harry would dump loads of news items but now I appreciate his efforts to gather and distribute. As with everyone else’s efforts to share.
However, maybe this comment section will collapse before IC does. Either way it shouldn’t affect the quality of the outstanding articles that Gail writes. A good example is JHK’s blog. The articles are great but the pool of comments is not worth wading into.
> The Dollar Devours the Euro
It is now clear that today’s escalation of the New Cold War was planned over a year ago, with serious strategy associated with America’s plan to block Nord Stream 2 as part of its aim of blocking Western Europe (“NATO”) from seeking prosperity by mutual trade and investment with China and Russia.
As President Biden and U.S. national-security reports announced, China was seen as the major enemy. Despite China’s helpful role in enabling corporate America to drive down labor’s wage rates by de-industrializing the U.S. economy in favor of Chinese industrialization, China’s growth was recognized as posing the Ultimate Terror: prosperity through socialism. Socialist industrialization always has been perceived to be the great enemy of the rentier economy that has taken over most nations in the century since World War I ended, and especially since the 1980s. The result today is a clash of economic systems – socialist industrialization vs. neoliberal finance capitalism.
That makes the New Cold War against China an implicit opening act of what threatens to be a long-drawn-out World War III. The U.S. strategy is to pry away China’s most likely economic allies, especially Russia, Central Asia, South Asia and East Asia. The question was, where to start the carve-up and isolation.
Russia was seen as presenting the greatest opportunity to begin isolating, both from China and from the NATO Eurozone. A sequence of increasingly severe – and hopefully fatal – sanctions against Russia was drawn up to block NATO from trading with it. All that was needed to ignite the geopolitical earthquake was a casus belli.
That was arranged easily enough. The escalating New Cold War could have been launched in the Near East – over resistance to America’s grabbing of Iraqi oil fields, or against Iran and countries helping it survive economically, or in East Africa. Plans for coups, color revolutions and regime change have been drawn up for all these areas, and America’s African army has been built up especially fast over the past year or two. But Ukraine has been subjected to a U.S.-backed civil war for eight years, since the 2014 Maidan coup, and offered the chance for the greatest first victory in this confrontation against China, Russia and their allies.
So the Russian-speaking Donetsk and Luhansk regions were shelled with increasing intensity, and when Russia still refrained from responding, plans reportedly were drawn up for a great showdown to commence in late February – beginning with a blitzkrieg Western Ukrainian attack organized by U.S. advisors and armed by NATO.
Russia’s preemptive defense of the two Eastern Ukrainian provinces and its subsequent military destruction of the Ukrainian army, navy and air force over the past two months has been used as the excuse to start imposing the U.S.-designed sanctions program that we are seeing unfolding today. Western Europe has dutifully gone along whole-hog. Instead of buying Russian gas, oil and food grains, it will buy these from the United States, along with sharply increased arms imports.
The prospective fall in the Euro/Dollar exchange rate
It therefore is appropriate to look at how this is likely to affect Western Europe’s balance of payments and hence the euro’s exchange rate against the dollar.
European trade and investment prior to the War to Impose Sanctions had promised a rising mutual prosperity between Germany, France and other NATO countries vis-à-vis Russia and China. Russia was providing abundant energy at a competitive price, and this energy was to make a quantum leap with Nord Stream 2. Europe was to earn the foreign exchange to pay for this rising import trade by a combination of exporting more industrial manufactures to Russia and capital investment in developing the Russian economy, e.g. by German auto companies and financial investment. This bilateral trade and investment is now stopped – and will remain stopped for many, many years, given NATO’s confiscation of Russia’s foreign reserves kept in euros and British sterling, and the European Russophobia being fanned by U.S. propaganda media.
In its place, NATO countries will purchase U.S. LNG – but they will need to spend billions of dollars building sufficient port capacity, which may take until perhaps 2024. (Good luck until then.) The energy shortage will sharply raise the world price of gas and oil. NATO countries also will step up their purchases of arms from the U.S. military-industrial complex. The near-panic buying will also raise the price for arms. And food prices also will rise as a result of the desperate grain shortfalls resulting from a cessation of imports from Russia and Ukraine on the one hand, and the shortage of ammonia fertilizer made from gas.
All three of these trade dynamics will strengthen the dollar vis-à-vis the euro. The question is, how will Europe balance its international payments with the United States? What does it have to export that the U.S. economy will accept as its own protectionist interests gain influence, now that global free trade is dying quickly?
The answer is, not much. So what will Europe do?
I could make a modest proposal. Now that Europe has pretty much ceased to be a politically independent state, it is beginning to look more like Panama and Liberia – “flag of convenience” offshore banking centers that are not real “states” because they don’t issue their own currency, but use the U.S. dollar. Since the eurozone has been created with monetary handcuffs limiting its ability to create money to spend into the economy beyond the limit of 3 percent of GDP, why not simply throw in the financial towel and adopt the U.S. dollar, like Ecuador, Somalia and the Turks and Caicos Islands? That would give foreign investors security against currency depreciation in their rising trade with Europe and its export financing.
For Europe, the alternative is that the dollar-cost of its foreign debt taken on to finance its widening trade deficit with the United States for oil, arms and food will explode. The cost in euros will be even greater as the currency falls against the dollar. Interest rates will rise, slowing investment and making Europe even more dependent on imports. The eurozone will turn into an economic dead zone.
For the United States, this is Dollar Hegemony on steroids – at least vis-à-vis Europe. The continent would become a somewhat larger version of Puerto Rico.
The dollar vis-à-vis Global South currencies
The full-blown version of the New Cold War triggered by the “Ukraine War” risks turning into the opening salvo of World War III, and is likely to last at least a decade, perhaps two, as the U.S. extends the fight between neoliberalism and socialism to encompass a worldwide conflict. Apart from the U.S. economic conquest of Europe, its strategists are seeking to lock in African, South American and Asian countries along similar lines to what has been planned for Europe.
The sharp rise in energy and food prices will hit food-deficit and oil-deficit economies hard – at the same time that their foreign dollar-denominated debts to bondholders and banks are falling due and the dollar’s exchange rate is rising against their own currency. Many African and Latin American countries – especially North Africa – face a choice between going hungry, cutting back their gasoline and electricity use, or borrowing the dollars to cover their dependency on U.S.-shaped trade.
There has been talk of IMF issues of new SDRs to finance the rising trade and payments deficits. But such credit always comes with strings attached. The IMF has its own policy of sanctioning countries that do not obey U.S. policy. The first U.S. demand will be that these countries boycott Russia, China and their emerging trade and currency self-help alliance. “Why should we give you SDRs or extend new dollar loans to you, if you are simply going to spend these in Russia, China and other countries that we have declared to be enemies,” the U.S. officials will ask.
At least, this is the plan. I would not be surprised to see some African country become the “next Ukraine,” with U.S. proxy troops (there are still plenty of Wahabi advocates and mercenaries) fighting against the armies and populations of countries seeking to feed themselves with grain from Russian farms, and power their economies with oil or gas from Russian wells – not to speak of participating in China’s Belt and Road Initiative that was, after all, the trigger to America’s launching of its new war for global neoliberal hegemony.
The world economy is being enflamed, and the United States has prepared for a military response and weaponization of its own oil and agricultural export trade, arms trade and demands for countries to choose which side of the New Iron Curtain they wish to join.
But what is in this for Europe? Greek labor unions already are demonstrating against the sanctions being imposed. And in Hungary, Prime Minister Viktor Orban has just won an election on what is basically an anti-EU and anti-U.S. worldview, starting with paying for Russian gas in roubles. How many other countries will break ranks – and how long will it take?
What is in this for the Global South countries being squeezed – not merely as “collateral damage” to the deep shortages and soaring prices for energy and food, but as the very objective of U.S. strategy as it inaugurates the great splitting of the world economy in two? India has already told U.S. diplomats that its economy is naturally connected with those of Russia and China. Pakistan finds the same calculus at work.
From the U.S. vantage point, all that needs to be answered is, “What’s in it for the local politicians and client oligarchies that we reward for delivering their countries?”
From its planning stages, U.S. diplomatic strategists viewed the looming World War III as a war of economic systems. What side will countries choose: their own economic interest and social cohesion, or submission to local political leaders installed by U.S. meddling like the $5 billion that Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland bragged of having invested in Ukraine’s neo-Nazi parties eight years ago to initiate the fighting that has erupted into today’s war?
In the face of all this political meddling and media propaganda, how long will it take the rest of the world to realize that there’s a global war underway, with World War III on the horizon? The real problem is that by the time the world understands what is going on, the global fracture will already have enabled Russia, China and Eurasia to create a real non-neoliberal New World Order that does not need NATO countries and which has lost trust and hope for mutual economic gains with them. The military battlefield will be littered with economic corpses.
https://thesaker.is/the-dollar-devours-the-euro/
This is a Michael Hudson article, according to the link.
I do agree that the world older is fracturing. I think that there is a real possibility that at least part of this will happen:
I am not sure that the US can really provide these things. And, as Hudson mentions, that Western Europe will have a way of paying for these things.
There may be parts of the US, Canada, Mexico and Western Europe that continue, with some trade with each other. The big issue seems to be too many people for the resources now available.
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missing blockquote: “The real problem is that by the time the world understands what is going on, the global fracture will already have enabled Russia, China and Eurasia to create a real non-neoliberal New World Order that does not need NATO countries and which has lost trust and hope for mutual economic gains with them.”
“US, Canada, Mexico and Western Europe”
This seems like a good consortium, but there are so many nuances as to how to work the trading that it’s daunting to consider. Central America, as a whole, could be in there with Mexico, primarily using Mexico as the conduit for trade with the US Southwest? And what about shipping via the Gulf of Mexico through Texas, Louisiana, and Florida?
“US, Canada, Mexico and Western Europe”
one of these is an outlier here.
London and German and Swiss banks etc are going to devolve as actual physical resources aka commodities take center stage.
Western Europe doesn’t have much.
I would guess North America will align far more with South America than with Europe.
what will have severe consequences for Europe?
the Great Russian Reset, baby.
Does anyone realize that if Euro burns, everyone burns? We are so interconnected….
Like on a boat, the person at the stern is laughing at the guy at the bow for using the fingers to plug a leak in the boat. Eventually the boat sinks.
Quite. I’m trying to figure out how we keep Europe standing. There’s a right way and a wrong way to do it though. I think the right way is through an enlightened relationship with Africa.
Not so fast. Russia still has to extract itself and it cant. Zelansky will never agree to peace even if he is in exile. Russia needs the black sea region to function badly to get the silk road up and running. When Zelansky get anti ship missles the black sea becomes a shooting gallery with no repercussions because its a war zone. Commercial shipping ceases. Every Ukrainian Russia kills creates martyrs. How long would have the USA stayed in Afghanistan if the Taliban had stingers and Javelins? Sure Russia can paste the Ukrainian military in the east but that is pasting your neighbor. This is basically a domestic dispute a lovers quarrel and they are the stinkiest and the nastiest. Any force russia uses will not make the black sea more functional but less. If they pull out any Ukrainian Russian speakers start to have bad fates where the Ukes rule. Aint no ship going to dock once the black sea goes hot.
These are not small problems.
Speaking of which what happens first time USN sails a destroyer into the black sea in this new warmish cold war which they are so fond of doing? A destroyer fits its WWII name much better nowadays as it is basically a missile frigate with 40 or so cruise missiles each with the capability of being nuclear armed. Would any nation sail a 40 nuclear capable missile firebase into the gulf of mexico? Not even Canada. What would happen if a nation even came close to that area?
Now russia knows. It has no friends in the EU. Its on its own. Russia is basically North Korea now. Thats not going to change in our lifetimes. So Russia turns east but that is not going to just happen so easy now.
China is not going to get in the thick of this as they well shouldnt since we are talking about some probability of thermonuclear war. There first duty is to their citizens. Good luck Russia let us know how it goes. China is not going to go all in and sign up for isolation with developing the silk road disregarding sanctions. But Russia needs it eastern friend now it knows it has none in the west. India will go all in with Russia I think. They really love Russia and Idolized it prior to the wall falling. But what do they have to trade for Russian energy?
Face it. Putin got played. Russia faces enormous difficulties in abandoning the west and cultivating the east now. How it ends is anyones guess but Russia has a very tough road ahead as a autonomous isolated black flag particularly since its citizens have had a good taste of the pleasures of the west now. moscow is going to have to go mid-evil on its citizens asses to get through this. Will it fly? I sure dont know.
China decides. The west goes nonfunctional without their manufacturing. Full stop. If they sit on the fence post I think Russia will either launch or fold. If they embrace Russia and discard the west the west cant function- western launch. Which is why that fence post is so attractive. If russia cuts off EU gas which the EU is begging it to do- western launch. That fence post China is sitting on is a sweet spot.
Face it. Europe got played.
the USA can play Europe vs Russia because the USA has some good FF resources.
Russia can burn its bridges to the West because Russia has some good FF resources AND billions of customers in the East.
that won’t be an easy combination for Russia + Asia, but it will be better for those countries inside that loop rather than outside.
some Russian higherup was recently quoted saying that what really matters is commodities AND the first derivative of commodities which he said is military power.
interesting the correlation between the USA and Russia both having abundant resources and big militaries.
what does pathetic wackko weak Europe have?
sorry to all of my European friends out there, but the wackko sickko bully USA agenda is moving forward, and “they” don’t really care if Europe is caught in the economic crossfire.
boof!
Eu has nothing to trade for Russian energy. But the gas still flows. Because cutting it off means EU stops. Collapse. Russia is in the charity business big time no what they say. They must be sadists because they are getting a nice kick in the nads for it.
Cutting off EU energy means WWIII so Russia doesnt do it. Its not because they love the EU the mostest. Especially now. USA LNG can not provide what the russian natural gas can. not now not next year. And fracking is omost over. Depletion. Just like every oil field thats on its last legs. EU didnt get played they are a welfare state. They dont function without pretense that they get energy just cause they are special. Just like the USA. It is not USA s pitiful soon to be depleted energy reserves that make the relationship a natural but the fundamental belief that their exceptionalism entitles them to consume. Or else. Russias energy has to be available for consumption. Or else. EU accepting that Russians own the oil in their geography is fundamentally apposed to the EU belief system. EU represents a blending of nation states. Your oils is our oils. This is the essence of all this conflict. Time is up. Your oils must be our oils.
Time elapsing in the pretend world where russia wasnt going to get its energy assimilated one way or another was in Russias favor. Putin got played. Or he said its time for the Alamo now. Im open to that possibility.
One might wonder if there is even free will or decision occurring in this process. Organisms acquire and consume energy or they die and that includes political nation constructs. Is the reserve currency nation status a blessing or a curse? Is a geopolitical energy rich area a blessing or a curse?
“Eu has nothing to trade for Russian energy.”
Er…not exactly. Aren’t you forgeting those beautiful products of 500 years of empire and exploitation called objets d’art? How many oil barrels are worth the Louvre or the Uffizi museums? Probably enough to supply France and Italy for many months, if not years, depending on the influence of aesthetics on the Russian elite and of art connoisseurs in the Kremlin! 🙂
a work of art is worth only what someone is willing to pay for it. After it has been sold/bought, it remains what it always was, valued eventually by what someone else might be persuade to pay for it
the value of a barrel of oil is defined by what it can be converted into at the point of use.’
trading oil for artworks, no matter how fine, is ultimately an economic dead end.
There’s something to that. I think the U.S. (Government) primarily knows beneficiaries instead of allies.
The world as a whole is in a very tight spot right now. It is looking increasingly like a question of, “Which parts of which countries can continue?”
The Americas are a bit separate from the Eurasia continent. Perhaps some of the Americas can continue for a while, as well.
Covid Raises Blood Clot, DVT Risks for Months After Even Mild Infection
Danger of pulmonary embolism higher for almost four months
Results support use of blood thinners, underscores vaccination
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-07/covid-raises-clotting-risks-for-months-after-even-mild-infection?srnd=premium-asia
You likey??? So the MOREONS will blame the vax injuries (that are becoming difficult to ignore) on Covid … hahahaha…
And what will they do?
Yes sirreee they will boost boost boost… even though surely they are aware that the shots don’t stop them from getting covid.
Now this … is master propaganda…and utter f789ing stooopidity on display hahahahaha
This is a link to the BMJ article.
https://www.bmj.com/content/377/bmj-2021-069590
I expect that there are multiple clotting risks:
1. After the vaccine or booster
2. During the COVID illness
3. After the COVID illness
An earlier article seemed to suggest that Ivermectin could break up the clots.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8910562/
If this is true, treating cases immediately with ivermectin might be a solution. Or giving a low dose of ivermectin to people, after they have had COVID, to keep down future problems with blood clots.
Bar-On et al. Israeli study on 4th dose (2nd booster), shows that protection declines rapidly; protection against confirmed infection with OMI variant reaches a maximum in 4th week post shot
Included persons who, on January 1, 2022, were 60 years of age or older and had received three doses of BNT162b2 at least 4 months before the end of the study period (March 2).
https://palexander.substack.com/p/bar-on-et-al-israeli-study-on-4th
This is a link to the study as published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2201570#
In the Discussion Section it says:
So, we are back to the same story as elsewhere. The vaccines don’t give much protection against catching COVID; what they do do is reduce the severity.
The British are now officially hiding Covid vaccine data
As of today, they have stopped releasing it, and they are lying about the reason why.
Until last week, the British government offered the best source of raw data on the efficacy of the Covid vaccines. Each Thursday, the UK Health Security Agency reported the number of new infections, hospitalizations, and deaths by vaccine status.
Since last fall, and especially since the Omicron variant hit, the reports have presented an increasingly dismal picture of vaccine efficacy. Last week’s report showed that in March, nearly 90 percent of adults hospitalized for Covid were vaccinated. And OVER 90 percent of deaths were in the vaccinated
The importance of these reports is hard to overstate.
They were the single best source of raw data about how well the Covid vaccines were or were not working anywhere in the world. It was a long-running sequential series with clearly defined rules from a large country with high vaccine coverage.
Plus, because the British have national health insurance, the government could determine with near-certainty who had been vaccinated. As you can see, fewer than 1 percent of the people in the reports are called “unlinked” – meaning their vaccine status was undetermined.
https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/the-british-are-now-officially-hiding
norm – why would they hide the data?
COVID OUTBREAK DC, PELOSI INFECTED; with her age, she is at risk of hospitalization and death, so we must pray now for her to get through this, regardless of your politics, pray for her; STOP the vax!
If Pelosi was vaccinated and boosted, this is why it has to be stopped; these morons, these reckless fools do not seem to understand the vaccine is driving infection and she can get very sick and die
https://palexander.substack.com/p/covid-outbreak-dc-pelosi-infected
Apparently there are a lot of other folks in Washington DC who are testing positive as well.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/07/politics/nancy-pelosi-has-covid/index.html
According to the above CNN link:
So, off we go again, with another round of COVID cases, apparently hitting the heavily vaccinated Washington crowd.
Yes let us all pray for these dear honest non divisive souls. I did. I prayed for a positive outcome.
Every single one of them will probably be fine as they are all on Ivermectin and oxy to the last one.
World War 3 has started
Soon many from this planet will be parted
Was fun while it lasted
No food all will be fasted
No fuel for heating
Gangs will be beating
And taking all they can
Killing all to the last man
The time to die is coming …
UBI. “Universal basic income.” I love hearing individuals, groups, countries, etc calling for that. They also seem to be the ones who are for green energy and climate change restrictions on commerce. They are so naive and so ignorant about the way the world functions. I’m not sure if they are clueless or vengeful. There is nothing to universally share if there is no production of “stuff”. One wonders if they think that stuff just appears out of nowhere. If no one works, (miners, farmers, truck drivers, truck manufacturers, oil drillers, factory workers, technicians at drug companies, etc) there is no stuff. So, people who do nothing to contribute to the production and distribution of stuff demand a share of it.?????? They should be grateful for modern farmers who work hard and grow enough food to feed the 7billion+ people on the planet. Anyone who is not directly connected to the production and distribution of stuff is alive only because of the fossil fuel energy that magnifies the work of the producers. When the oil, natural gas, and coal are gone, this 7billion+ world population will collapse. Sadly it is inevitable.
Gail, you are the best. We all love your blog.
Wait till they realize UBI does not include a new iphone and gaming software every year….
Wait till they find out that UBI is the noose that the Plebs will be hung with. You say you don’t want to get vaxxed? Well then, no UBI for you so how will you eat. You say you don’t want to get vaxxed? Well you won’t have access to your funds if you decide to move out of town, state, province etc.
It will be 100% total control. I am SO glad i’m in my 60’s because the younger generation is looking at the Hunger Games. It all happened slowly because the politicians were not stopped, so they kept upping the ante until the Plebs found themselves painting themselves into a corner.
But will all this really matter when fossil fuels and natural resources are massively in decline and IC is collapsing?
Aren’t we really looking at the hunger games because we wouldn’t stop breeding a larger population?
It really is a good idea to have a pirate chest with cash and gold … cuz.
BTW – bought 4 pallets of coal today 1700+ kg hahahaha ….think of the beautiful black smoke from that heap of rock.
Anyway the Mitre 10 guy told me the coal didn’t go up so much rather it’s the shipping – it was under $2 per bag last year – and now it’s $5!
He stockpiled 32 pallets cuz Ohai Coal was closing — I mentioned there is a global coal shortage (he was aware of that) – wonder why they’d close… seems odd.
He said that next winter is going to be worse — Solid Energy currently has 20kg sacks for $18 bucks… I bought 40kg high grade stuff for $30 ($2 buck per bag discount cuz of bulk).. Once Ohai stocks are gone there’s no other choice but Solid Energy in terms of a quality polluter.
We need Devil Covid to wipe us out before next winter… surely BAU cannot go on for another year????
It seems like All economies are contracting! How long before they start adding everything up and see that entitlements can’t be given out anymore? When the U.S economy crashes what will the Federal reserve do? I know they are saying that h gasoline demand is down but by summer it will be way up again because of road building that has already been allocated…it’s going to be interesting to see this summer if production doesn’t get halted because of lack of resources
We definitely are encountering a big bump in the road. I don’t know how it will play out. I expect that there will be more supply chain problems: You will need to wait a while until a given airport has enough fuel to service planes landing there, or all of the materials needed complete road resurfacing are available.
Prices may be choppy–up and down.
The real story will never be told to the public. It will just be, “This is a temporary problem.” Or this is the result of the Ukraine problem. Or perhaps a new version of COVID is viewed as the problem.
Ruble soars to wartime high!!!
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/USDRUB%3DX?fr=sycsrp_catchall
77 per dollar tonight, baby.
“sanctions” produce winners and losers.
who’s winning?
Nobody is winning. Russia jacked up it’s interest rate to 20pc, remember? Otherwise the ruble is indirectly pegged to the dollar via crude oil prices, and ruble discount rate further supports the ruble because the indirect ruble peg is inversely proportional related to the barrel price. The larger the ruble discount on oil, the more it puts upward pressure on ruble value.
Again it has nothing to do with who’s winning or losing an economic war. It’s just the structural fallout from a hard decoupling.
Fiat currencies are losing. They are based on promises that won’t be fullfilled. Monetary permaculture is staring at us, until a new equilibrium is reached. And then, the High Priests of certain interests will come up with something ‘better’ like cbdc’s; more control to save a failing system.
Because, if we are all equal, we should all die at the same age, don’t we.
What I said.
Woudhuysen has an article on spiked, arguing for ‘energy security’ (yes, that phrase has enjoyed a slight renaissance over past weeks). That ‘hope’ is likely a bit anachronistic now. Anyone?
> We need energy security – not Net Zero
The government is too beholden to green fantasies to take our energy needs seriously.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has prompted a major rethink in the West. We have suddenly found ourselves vulnerable not just to rising prices in oil and gas, but also to inflation in other commodities – such as food and fertiliser. Of all these problems, the security of our energy supply has most exercised minds.
Last week, the EU and the US agreed to establish a joint task force on energy security. Its aim is for the US and EU to meet Net Zero objectives, and for the EU to become independent from Russian fuels. The headline promise from Washington was to send an extra 15 billion cubic metres of liquified natural gas (LNG) to the EU this year, so as to help the EU begin to replace Russian hydrocarbons with other supplies.
After many setbacks, the UK is finally set to publish its own energy-security strategy today. As we’ve come to expect from Boris Johnson’s chaotic administration, for weeks the government has vacillated over a number of key issues. But we now know that the government wants nuclear, onshore wind, solar and hydrogen all to play a much larger role. And for the short term, new North Sea oil and gas projects are set to be given the go-ahead. The government describes its strategy as a ‘major acceleration’ of ‘homegrown power’, which will put us on a path to ‘energy independence’.
The government has explicitly tied its strategy to the Ukraine crisis. Though, as it happens, Britain only relies on Russia for eight per cent of its oil and less than four per cent of its gas – unlike the EU, which, in 2020, took 37 per cent of its oil, 41 per cent of its gas and even 19 per cent of its coal from Moscow.
Even so, replacing just those small amounts of oil and gas has so far proved a challenge for the UK. Johnson didn’t have much joy in persuading oil-rich Saudi Arabia to boost its supplies on his visit in March, for instance.
Where the UK has more exposure to Russia is through our diesel imports. Russia is our biggest foreign supplier, supplying 18 per cent of diesel in 2020.
For much of the commentariat the answer to our problems is simple. If we just double down on Net Zero, they say, we can end our ‘addiction’ to Russian fossil fuels and decarbonise our energy supply, transport and home heating all at once. And although the UK government has made concessions to open new oil and gas fields, it still sees Net Zero as key to energy security.
We have been here before. In the US there have been worries about foreign oil putting the country ‘deep into the hands of Arabian and Latin American politicians’ since the 1960s. Faced with the energy crisis of 1973, US president Richard Nixon promised, in a style that ought now to be familiar to everyone, ‘new sources of energy which will give us the capacity to meet our needs without relying on any foreign nation’. Among other sources, he mentioned shale oil. The shale boom did eventually transform US energy production – but not until the mid-2000s.
So what’s different in 2022? Net Zero advocates assure us that unlike in the 1970s oil shock the new technology is already there to take advantage of. As an article in the Atlantic argues, renewables and electric vehicles (EVs) are ‘mature technologies that could be deployed immediately to cut oil demand’.
Can a woman have a penis?
However, the same writer concedes that there’s a snag there, too:
‘Although pilloried as little more than a “big gas station”, Russia is a major supplier of copper, platinum and other minerals needed for the energy transition. (One Russian company, for instance, produced 17 per cent of the world’s Class 1 nickel, the type used in EV batteries.) Whatever their merits, the West’s sanctions have sent the price of these metals soaring worldwide. Retaliatory sanctions could eventually make it impossible for American and European firms to buy these raw goods.’
In other words, the green utopia of the energy transition depends on commodities that have been just as affected as fossil fuels by the war.
What then should our energy policy be in the UK? The war has certainly woken many up to the dangers of depending on energy imports from despotic, unstable regimes – even if our direct reliance on Russia is not as bad as elsewhere.
Domestically developed energy supplies, such as nuclear power and shale gas, will take time to grow. Unfortunately, prior to the Russian invasion, the government’s attitude to both had been lukewarm at best. Fracking has been suspended since 2019, and it does not play a role in the new strategy. Small modular reactors (SMRs), now set to become a ‘key part of the nuclear project pipeline’, have actually been on the cards since at least 2015, though none has been built yet. Neither can provide the instant fix today’s energy inflation urgently demands. But there are good reasons to start developing them now for the future.
Nuclear and shale are high-tech, IT-intensive industries. The jobs attached to them will likely be well paid and secure (unlike the imagined ‘green’ jobs that have never materialised despite Britain’s interminable succession of Green New Deals and Green Industrial Revolutions).
Shale gas might not be a panacea. It might only supply perhaps five per cent of Britain’s energy needs. And Britain’s geology isn’t the same as America’s, so we shouldn’t get our hopes up too high for a fracking boom as large as theirs.
However, all the hope officialdom is placing in renewable electricity will come to nothing if it is not backed up by nuclear power and gas-fired energy, which are much more reliable. Clearly, the case for fracking and for nuclear power is overwhelming.
The problem, as the new energy announcements make clear, is that the UK is still too wedded to Net Zero dogma to put energy production first. Unless we drop the green fantasies, we will not achieve the energy security we need.
James Woudhuysen is visiting professor of forecasting and innovation at London South Bank University.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/04/07/we-need-energy-security-not-net-zero/
Maybe someone is starting to see the picture. The UK certainly does need energy supplies of its own. The problem is that even the ones mentioned in this article are not very available. They are likely to be high cost and, at best, take years to develop. They are likely to be plagued by broken supply lines. For example, nuclear needs fuel; long-term supplies are not certain.
Looks like only hyper conservation (and using whatever energy supply has its own supply line) is reasonable.
“Economic freefall
Just how bad is Britain’s current economic collapse?
One indicator can be found in the monthly registration of new vehicles, which are generally higher in September and March when new registration plates are introduced. Nevertheless, total registrations were down 14.3 percent on this time last year – when the UK was still subject to lockdown. . . . the bigger concern is in the 27.6 percent fall in light commercial vehicle (LCV) registrations.” ?
https://consciousnessofsheep.co.uk/2022/04/06/in-brief-economic-freefall-peak-foodbank-electricity-first-fracking-back-there-were-no-clever-people-after-all/?fbclid=IwAR2MO7RM07XI1cgrkArWM5oK9B70AucIaMYWM58RwIQLWn_nXhFJ9jhYkL0
gawd — he’s mostly clueless… hahaha… communism is the answer!
https://mobile.twitter.com/limits_stop/status/1511086759467225096
The Devil COVID
The XD variant a recombinant of Delta and Omicron
All the infected mice died
What comes next?
1. Someone “accidentally” releasing the XD variant to see what happens when people are affected?
2. Vaccine companies start work on new mRNA vaccine against XD variant, which they hope to sell without testing.
Replenish
Following up on the Jerusalem prediction, we have to remember that the elders are OT capitalists, and part of their religious theater is self-fulfilling prophecy. Nothing makes them feel more like demigods that making the future echo scripture. I don’t doubt that they take that very seriously.
Tribulations calls for Jerusalem’s destruction just like the Temple’s destruction in 70 AD. It’s an eschatological time fractal in historical rhyme. Temple Knesset and Jerusalem is slated to be destroyed 3.5yrs into the seven year period of tribulations.
My HTOE has probably been subsconsciously influenced by christian eschatology. Not obviously because Im a Christian which I’m not but I have quite a few evangelical friends, good people. But on the conscious level my HTOE is purely about triangulating politics, geoeopolitics, and energy, and the Elders’ eschatological goals naturally are going to run parallel to the HTOE of their own accord. And so it is that when I mentioned evangelicals in an earlier comment this morning my memory was jogged into eschatology and the book of revelations in particular since my evangelical friends see current events in that context.
Here’s a couple relevant links if anyone’s interested.
https://sljinstitute.net/eschatology-in-general/the-great-tribulation/israel-and-the-tribulation/
Little Rothschild shoutout here:
https://m.knesset.gov.il/en/about/pages/building/knessetbuildingstory.aspx
Very interesting reante! We are in agreement on the role of eschatology and the fulfillment of ancient prophecy in central planning. Thanks!
“Look mom, I smashed Humpty Dumpty, will I get a cookie now ?”
It is the same crazy idea as blowing oneself up in a market and thinking doing god’s work and going straight to heaven.
So why dou you need army everywhere in Israel to shoot anybody suspicious when it is just a good thing when someone goes to heaven? Or do we talk of different heavens here ? So what is the “real” heaven here?
I do not get it but I might want to learn something about that…
It’s not really crazy … if you are oppressed enough … and have exhausted all other options to obtain a fair outcome… if your life is so hopeless because of the oppression — why not end it — but why not take a few of the oppressors with you?
Robert Fisk wrote a very good book that explored this phenomenon — he spoke to a sooicide bom ber and it was described like this – imagine you are in a very hot sauna and you cannot escape… so hot you are burning up … strapping on the vest and doing the deed is like opening the door of the sauna and being handed an ice cold drink…
I think most problems have more than one solution but I get the point.
I read a story about a woman in Syria that exploded herself under a turkish tank. I thought hard if I could ever do that. I think, it is a high price for a small victory.
My topic was on the belief that you can be rewarded for killing.
I personally do not accept it but I have no say in “these rules”.
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The March to Enslavement continues.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FPv0j2_VkAoYrbf?format=jpg&name=medium
Forced Covid lockdowns led to furlough schemes, which were a form of UBI. That worked out quite nicely
The World Economic Forum says, “Universal basic income is the answer to the inequalities exposed by COVID-19.”
Also Draghi agreed with the policy introduced in the Country of Draghistan (also named as Italy) by the fake revolutionary party called ‘Movimento Cinque Stelle’, which is very similar to the universal basic income.
In fact ‘Movimento Cinque Stelle’ is supporting at the moment the emergency governement ruled by the not elected prime minister Draghi.
All the pieces of the puzzle now seems to fit together.
https://www.globalist.it/politics/2021/08/06/draghi-a-sorpresa-condivido-il-concetto-base-del-reddito-di-cittadinanza/
Italy would like UBI as Germany willpay for it
It reminds a person of bread and circuses in Ancient Rome, near the end.
UBI is the day we will all turn into sheep, with earmarks. The butcher decides who will live and who will die. But the predators will be gone, and we will graze in love and peace far beyond our horizon. Until the butcher pulls his knife and tells you to bow your head and crawl upon the fence.
The WEF fears tribalism, it would undermine its powerbase.
Commodity based money needs tribalism, not centralized socialism. The days of promises are over.
Not a bad idea to have a chunk of change on hand — if we go UBI down the final stretch … it could make things a bit uncomfortable if the ATMs and banks are shuttered – and accounts frozen.
I recently ordered in another chunk of NZD to go into the Pirate Chest with some gold doubloons and USD … Probably futile but there’s no downside.
From that article,
“Finally, good arguments can be made for having very selective conditions [for receiving UBI] – for instance, some that relate to public goods, like vaccinating all children and ensuring they attend school. “
…. ensuring they attend proper education. D$43,- will be withdrawn from your account Mrs S
Die without UBI; or die with it……
Well, Xabier, the Universal Basic Injections didn’t make it. So why not try it again?
What would be the sense of going to school in the long run if you will have UBI anyhow?
And of what use should those pupils be for anyone in the end?
Did you read these words: “in the long run”?
It can only be a temporary fix for can kicking without riots.
The UBI/CBDC is in my view more of a rationing system.
A very narrow path I would say, but I can understand that some people might want to try that.
Yeah it’s just a rationing system. I think they’ll be national treasury digital greenbacks though. Not CBDC but digital Greenbacks. I guess they might start out as CBDC but then they’ll end the Fed.
The MOREONS are thinking – wow – no need to work – and I get paid.
Forgot to read the fine print … $2/day … hahahahaha
A European embargo on Russian energy would destroy the EU. The Eurozone would collapse. Europe would default on its dollar debt and collapse the Eurodollar market.
The Fed would print trillions of dollars into that black hole? That would be the end of the dollar as the world reserve currency?
The sign is when Germany gives its blessing for an energy embargo? The phoenix will rise from the ashes ones more after this?
Certainly a bizarre world we live in!
“Global population is crashing, soaring and moving…
“From Japan to Yemen, India to Ukraine, rates of births, deaths and displacement are reshaping nations.”
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00926-6
I am fairly sure that it is the Anglo countries, and northern and western European countries, that are experiencing a major ethnic shift in the population, rather than all countries generally.
For instance, the only ‘majorish’ (really quite minor) ethnic shift in Asia, that I am aware of, is the flight of Christians in western Asia in the face of Islamic militancy, which is largely blow back from the ‘war on terror’.
Also, the wealthy nations of the Middle East like Saudi and UAE attract large amounts of workers from all over Asia, although they are on work visas and their social and cultural integration is often limited.
This is a pretty comprehensive overview, as things stand (obviously trends are about to be shaken up; will we be seeing a huge outflow from Sri Lanka, example? How are wealthier nations going to adjust their immigration policies as their circumstances at home become more straitened?):
https://worldmigrationreport.iom.int/wmr-2022-interactive/
Harry, a guess. “How are wealthier nations going to adjust their immigration policies as their circumstances at home become more straitened?:
They won’t, these things seem to happen of their own volition.
While doing public service dentistry, I observed a couple of patients whose origins were Iran. I recall mother and daughter, father was in cities, engineer, starting a new life, they would follow. Both dressed in traditional wear for Muslim women. Frankly, it was more appropriate and, maybe I sensed things which weren’t true, more comfortable for the women than some of the garb I saw where everything was hanging out.
As JMG points out, there was culture before western culture dominated. Life moves on and we are along for the ride.
Dennis L.
“They won’t, these things seem to happen of their own volition.” I’m not 100% sure I’m following you there, Dennis.
I think it stands to reason that if economies like those of the UK and Germany are contracting, with key inputs like energy products, metals, semiconductors, food and fertilizer scarce or unsupportably expensive, there will be less need for immigrant workers to service them.
Also, public sentiment seems likely to turn against the notion of immigration, perhaps whipped up by demagogues, as economic prospects at home feel increasingly threatened. I noticed that Le Pen is doing well in the French elections:
“French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen vowed Thursday to issue fines to Muslims who wear headscarves in public, as candidates made a final push for votes three days ahead of an election seen as increasingly close.”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/04/07/marine-le-pen-vows-fine-muslims-wear-headscarves-public/
PS Do your own damned research, Mirror. 😁
The NF in France has tried many times in the elections, and they have never stood a chance in the second round. Macron is ahead in the polls for the first round, and Le Pen does not stand a chance if she gets into the second. We have all seen that repeat in the past. Her potential support base is well passed its prime, and it shrinks at each attempt.
The far right in Britain collapsed several years ago, and they are at their weakest electorally since before the 1970s. They basically do not have a party now. They shifted away from explicit ethnic politics to Islamophobia, which was a bust for them, and more recently to activism around lockdown, and now a ‘fake war’ narrative. They are basically back to the dead end David Icke sort of conspiracy nonsense of the late 1980s, and they have lost all of the ground that they had gained in the meantime. That is over. The EDL and then Brexit were basically the end of the British far right.
As for after the collapse, whenever that will be in NW Europe, it seems likely that representative ‘democracy’ will become more constrained as economic conditions worsen. The entire point of bourgeois ‘democracy’ is to maintain the illusion of ‘consent’ and even popular ‘control’ of the society. It is a luxury that states have allowed themselves under conditions of relatively stable growth. So, you can likely forget about any meaningful elections as conditions worsen. And the British State is certainly not going to allow some far right faction to take over. It is a small island, and the state is extremely strong here, and well organised and resourced.
In terms of population management in energetically declining conditions, there is no evidence that the British State will favour a reversion to an ethnically homogenous population. They have shown no inclination toward that ideology, and they are further from it now than they have ever been. British State ‘nationalists’ tend to struggle with the idea that the British State is not an ‘ethno nationalist’ state, and it never has been. All of the ‘arguments’ that anyone might make about why an homogenous population would be a ‘good’ thing would likely amount to an argument why the British State would not favour that. They certainly would not be aiming at any ‘utopia’, and you only have to look at Britain in the past. Their main concerns will be a strong state and a harshly coerced population if need be. That certainly is the historical pattern in Britain.
So, no one can produce crystal balls to say exactly what will happen, but there certainly are grounds to doubt an assured narrative that so and so ‘will happen’. There is a tendency for some to always assert a ‘positive’ (in their view) narrative, but that in no way implies that it will come to pass. That is just their own subjectivity, and neither here nor there to the reality, which presumably even they can grasp.
On current trends, white British births will be a minority within 10 years, and maybe about a third within 20 years – if Britain staves off collapse for that long. With the drastic collapse in the white British birth rate over the past decade, it may still happen even if immigration is stopped during that time. Only time will tell.
Btw, Harry I do my own research, I just thought that you might want to do some, as you raised the subject and then posted to material, which presumably was of some relevance. 🙂
My tongue was in cheek, Mirror, hence the silly face. 😘
I agree that France will have to be in worse shape before Le Pen is elected, and also that rising authoritarianism is likely as economic conditions worsen, although we may be differing on our definitions of collapse here.
The curtailment of migration is one thing and the pursuit of ethnic homogeneity quite another. I’m only confident, as one can reasonably be about the future, in predicting the former. Brexit suggests we are already on that journey.
As for the possibility of white Brits being a minority in the UK ten years from now, I give it zero headspace. It just doesn’t matter to me one way or the other.
But it still matters to you whether the British State loses Scotland?
Of course it matters to me whether Scotland breaks away from the UK. That actually has detrimental, real world impacts on me and my loved ones and heaps yet more risk on the global economy.
I am all about the practicalities, Mirror, and my analysis is not clouded by revenge fantasies. I made you a handy list:
United Ireland – somewhat unnerved by the prospect for the reasons above, although to a much lesser degree and tbh I haven’t looked deeply into the potential economic fallout
More Commonwealth nations disengage – don’t care
UK monarchy dissolves – don’t care
White Brits no longer exceed 50% total UK pop. by 2032 – don’t care
How do we incite the Irish to revive the attacks on the Brits in Belfast?
Of course you are not interested in ‘revenge’, as that implies personality and manhood, and the serf naturally finds his petty interest in quiet work with his head down.
Be careful that your lord does not hear of your pretensions to autonomy and calculation, as he has not bred his flock for thousands of years so that you can scheme in dark corners.
/s
“Of course you are not interested in ‘revenge’, as that implies personality and manhood.”
No. I just don’t feel grievously wronged by anyone or any entity. And thank goodness! I’d hate to spend my days in bitterness, taking the ebb and flow of geopolitics personally, desperately hoping its endgame will mete out justice to those who have wronged me.
/s
That is your fantasy interpretation, because you project yourself onto others, as if they are your ‘type’.
Your corny slander just reveals you for the spiteful, gossiping, little Eastender that you are.
No, I do not ‘care’ whether your type disappears either – good riddance to bad rubbish?
If no one has ever ‘wronged’ you then it is only because you know to keep your mouth shut, and to keep your gossip and slander to the internet.
Otherwise that particular instance of your type would be gone a lot quicker.
/s
Are you going to give some statistical overview based on that, or just plonk it there?
Da/mn lazy! /s
Reply to Harry,
“They won’t, these things seem to happen of their own volition.” I’m not 100% sure I’m following you there, Dennis.”
A guess is a civilization is held together by a common set of values which work for the civilization as a whole. While if a small percentage of the population some can do their own thing; civilization is a group effort and requires cohesion for some generally accepted common goals and rules.
In the US, much of Mexico was bought, conquered whatever; now Mexico, south is walking across the river and basically saying, “This looks about right.”
Making a life is a tough job and we generally don’t get the rule book until the end of it. Those rules were passed in church when I was a kid, understanding was a distant second, etc. It was the song, “Second verse the same as the first.” Year after year, sermon after sermon; same message, preachers looked after their flock, it was close to home and personal. It was simple, it worked.
Dennis L.
Big up the England posse.
The 2021 UK fertility rate is slightly up on 2020, the year of lockdown, but still down on 2019 and still declining in line with a decade-long trend. The white British birth rate has particularly collapsed over the past decade.
The ONS has published the fertility rate for 2021 in England and Wales at 1.61. That is down from a UK rate of 2.93 in 1964, just before abortion and contraception were made legal and widely available, and from 1.92 10 years ago in 2012. Over 10 million legal abortions have been performed in Britain since 1968. 1.61 is a replacement rate of 76.66%, so a drop of 41.33% of the number of births over two generations.
According to the ONS, the number of white British births fell from 476,328 in 2011 to 359,519 in 2020, a drop of almost 25% in 9 years; and thus from 66.25% of all births in 2010 to 58.62% in 2020, which is a decline of 7.63 points of the sum or 0.763 per year, at which rate they would be a minority of births in 12 years from 2020 or in 2032 at 49.46%
> Fertility rates in England and Wales rise for first time in decade – ONS
Fertility rates in England and Wales have increased slightly for the first time in a decade, driven by women at older ages, figures show. There were 625,008 live births in 2021, an increase of 1.5% from 615,557 live births in 2020, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
This is the first year-on-year increase since 2015, but live births in 2021 still remain “well below” the 2019 number, it said. The majority of the increase in live births occurred during the second half of the year.
The number of births increased year-on-year for the first time since 2015. However, the total number remains in line with the long-term trend of decreasing births observed in pre-coronavirus years
The total fertility rate (TFR) in 2021 was an estimated 1.61 children per woman, compared with 1.58 in 2020 – the first annual rise since 2012. This is the average number of live children that a woman would bear if they experienced the age-specific fertility rates of 2021 throughout their childbearing years.
Despite the slight annual increase, the TFR in 2021 was still lower than in 2019 and in the previous 10 years.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/england-wales-b2041175.html
…..and queue economic collapse 2.0, which will no bound cause birth rates to plummet even further
Without birth control and antibiotics, it is possible that births per mother will rise as collapse proceeds. I know that the 1972 Limits to Growth model seems to show this effect.
This is a link to US CDC births and deaths by month, including 12 month totals, through September 30, 2021. US births seemed to be trending down in 2020, even before the impact of the COVID lockdown would be expected to hit (9 months after March or April 2020). The low month for births was about March 2021, or 9 months after the round of lockdowns. After this, births seem to be slightly trending up.
The same chart shows deaths as well. The thing that is striking is that the advent of the vaccines did not seem to have a favorable impact on deaths. Deaths are still very high, up through September 30, 2021.
https://mobile.twitter.com/abyczewska/status/1512012081054298119
The European Parliament calls on a full embargo on Russian energy
We are course for suicide
Bizarre!
Oh so that’s why Putin doesn’t threaten to turn off the gas… the E-Us would just laugh at him…
Calls for..Seems like virtue signaling with no real effect..
Let it be said that there were many European politicians over the course of the last 60 years who tried hard to avoid all this and paid with their life. In Italy Enrico Mattei, Aldo Moro, and Enrico Berlinguer. In Germany there were way more. But compare with Donbass. In 5 years they lost Mozgovoy, Givi, Motorola, Zakarchenko to similar deaths, plus of course many more civilians and foot soldiers than were lost in the civilian bombings Europe suffered in the 1960-1980. But theirs was a political project for the people by the people, and many were ready to take their place, and now they are on the verge of winning. In Europe, at some point the CIA won, and here we are.
Actually what is being called the EU Parliament is not a Parliament as in “having any effect in the real world”. The effect is brought about by the commission that is not elected.
The parliament can make a proposal to the commission and it will take action or not.
The news item is hot but may also only be an item in the manufactured war propaganda against the enemy being Russia as we read yesterday H/T but dunno wanna look up the reference here.
This war is being fought in and upon all humans but not with kinetic but psychological weapons.
For example:
Put this s*t out and see if people start rioting?
No? Ok, what is the next topic on the agenda?
This war is probably being driven by exact monitoring of the psychological state of the people using any communication devices globally.
People I try to tell this say: no, there can not exist such a computer system to collect that many data. Boy I can tell you, collecting data means extracting “key properties” of any human being on actual raw data (maybe even 10.000 datapoints for any human on this planet) and then tracking its historical changes.
From that “a perdiction” is being made and that is being re-evaluted.
And herein lies the key:
Be unpredictable!
Thins may just be leaving little traces online.
I bet global mental state is constantly being held just about at the edge before the people go insane. That will crush just about any resistance because everybody is just exhausted.
As CTG mentioned yesterday: Very tiresome.
The thing to keep in mind is: a real collapse can not occur. It must always be plausibly deniable. So simply deny that what you read is a fact and you will feel much better immediately.
Example: mandatory vaccination was a topic in Germany for months. Gone! Poof!
Could be that resistance played a role but the effect is the same: people just went nuts about it being talked about only. Your actions were analyzed and your datamodel improved, next step!
Mad rulers used to think they could attain immortality in this world or the next through prayers, sacrifices, potions, odd diets, alchemy and bedding virgins.
Now, it’s big data and the manipulation of models – so dreary, deluded and even darkly funny.
They seek eternal power, and are not even alive themselves in any really worthwhile sense.
“Poland vetoes EU tax reform again, dismisses ulterior motives…
“”No, this is just about tax,” Magdalena Rzeczkowska, Poland’s secretary of state said when questioned whether Warsaw was holding the initiative hostage due to rule-of-law disputes with the European Commission, which has taken Warsaw to court over its controversial disciplinary procedure for judges.”
https://www.politico.eu/article/poland-vetoes-eu-tax-reform-again-dismisses-alternative-motives/
“EU Triggers Mechanism to Strip Hungary of Billions Worth of Budget Funds…
“Hungary is desperately in need of the EU cash. It is likely, therefore, that the EU’s rule-of-law punishment will strengthen Orban‘s anti-EU course, especially after the massive political backing the prime minister feels he was given by the electorate at Sunday’s election.”
https://balkaninsight.com/2022/04/05/eu-triggers-mechanism-to-strip-hungary-of-billions-worth-of-budget-funds/
Lots of things for the EU to fight about.
The “rule-of-law” punishment is going to play out over months. What I’m not clear on is whether the money is withheld the entire time until a verdict is reached. Also, the punishment is for something like “violating European values” … intentionally open-ended and up to the bureaucrats’ discretion.
This supposedly is in opposition to the EU being the first to adopt the planned worldwide corporate minimum tax of 15%. I am not sure what exactly is wrong; the proposed rules are complex.
My first guess is that indirectly, the minimum tax would somehow hit Poland’s use of coal. It all depends on how the accounting calculation is performed. How is the need for reinvestment taken into account, for example?
The legislation sounds like it might increase employment for tax accountants. It may also lead to changes in local laws to work around the effect of the new law.
eugyppius reports from Germany:
What started out as a proposal to force vaccines on everyone 18 and older, was revised first to an Italian-style 50+ mandate, and then to today’s 60+ proposal. It has just been defeated by a vote of 378 to 296 – the victim both of Omicron and of the political manoeuvring of the CDU/CSU. Eager to deny the coalition government a political victory, the Christian Democrats fielded their own vaccine registry proposal, which failed even more decisively.
After four months of competing proposals, vacuous debate and skyrocketing infections across the already widely jabbed German population, the German vaccine mandate has gone down in flames. The vaccinators still dominate mainstream politics and the establishment press, but this is the beginning of the end for them, and they know it too.
https://www.eugyppius.com/p/vaccine-mandate-decisively-defeated?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo1OTA5ODEwNSwicG9zdF9pZCI6NTE3ODExNDcsIl8iOiJNM0diLyIsImlhdCI6MTY0OTMzMjU0OSwiZXhwIjoxNjQ5MzM2MTQ5LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItMjY4NjIxIiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.G4WQirg1UgofTCyIF8VEqN9N96aRZ0RPhqxdFQGQyGg&s=r
Those 296 who voted FOR should be voted out ASAP
And in the country of Draghistan (also called Italy) fines are coming with letters at home to people over 50 who didn’t accept the experimental jab.
And the mandate over 50 is about THREE jabs!
Ministry of Health collected data and gave it to the Ministry of Finance.
Here we are.
The fines are not high, but that is not the point.
Without mentioning that many people lost their jobs or didn’t receive the salary for this mandate.
My impression is that this game is not over, otherwise it means that Italians are really unable to get out of this hypnosis to accept this.
https://www.byoblu.com/2022/04/07/arrivano-le-sanzioni-agli-ultra-cinqunatenni-non-vaccinati-partiti-e-associazioni-suggeriscono-cosa-fare/
When will this happen
https://youtu.be/x1-axqBZdNk
Only that?
“Thieves have stolen more than £250,000 worth of diesel from a Royal Navy warship in one of the UK’s biggest ever fuel heists…
“The crooks responsible took off with tankers intended to power HMS Bulwark in a heist that ran for weeks…”
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/250k-diesel-royal-navy-ship-fuel-heist/
Putin dun it!
At least, I wouldn’t put it past him.
“UK-wide, fuel-related crime has increased by almost 90 per cent in the first three months of 2022. And police say the majority of these crimes occur at commercial properties and in more rural areas of the county.”
https://www.lancs.live/news/local-news/callous-thieves-steal-10000-worth-23585633
The benefits of stealing the fuel have increased as well.
241 – snatch the catalytic convertors + the fuel tank…. (snatch — Rat Snatch … hu … huhuhuhu right norm)
did they Snatch the fuel?
Na, the Navy sent the fuel to Ukraina and reported it stolen.
Rumsfeld said something like “whereabouts unknown” in Irak.
Leaves no questions. Very professional indeed.
“Global energy upheaval threatens years of natural gas shortages… The natural gas market’s delicate balance is crumbling, putting the global economy under further strain as nations struggle to secure enough fuel…
“Natural gas is a key component in the global economy that keeps factories buzzing, lights on and houses warm. The competition for a finite supply of the fuel will only get worse if current conditions persist…”
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2022/04/07/business/energy-crunch-gas-shortage/
“‘There is nothing else out there’: why Europe is hooked on Russian gas…
“…an analysis of the top 10 global producers shows just how difficult it would be to remove Russian gas from the European energy mix without imposing stringent curbs on industrial consumption that could crush economic growth… Europe will need to cut consumption…”
https://www.ft.com/content/20987a87-1b87-4f45-ab00-722f9ddcd2eb
“Europe’s thirst for gas could shock energy prices in Asia…
“The countries that will really feel a fresh squeeze in prices lie in Asia, because they were less dependent on Russian energy supplies and because they will now vie with Europe for a limited pool of US LNG. This is especially so because, as Quartz found, the US is already exporting all the LNG it can pump.”
https://qz.com/2151536/europes-thirst-for-us-gas-could-shock-energy-prices-in-asia/
It sounds like the Financial Times is reporting on the lack of world supply of natural gas.
“‘Total disaster’: Shanghai lockdown puts livelihoods under strain…
“When more than 26 million Shanghai residents were sent into lockdown last week, restaurateur Cotton Ding’s heart sank…”
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2022/4/7/total-disaster-shanghai-lockdown-hammers-small-businesses
“Some residents under lockdown in Shanghai say they are running out of food, amid the city’s biggest-ever Covid outbreak…
“Officials have admitted the city is facing “difficulties” but say they are trying to improve this.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-61019975
“Shanghai Party Members Urged to ‘Draw Swords’ in Covid Fight.
“China’s Communist Party issued a rare call imploring rank-and-file members to help contain the coronavirus in Shanghai, showing the strain the locked-down financial hub is under as its worst outbreak to date spreads.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-07/shanghai-calls-on-party-members-to-draw-swords-in-covid-fight
Gosh lock down 20M+ people cuz of a cold… makes sense
Trying to improve this!?
Have you seen what’s going on in Shanghai?
I’d say they are only about five missed meals away from face ripping.
China is a total shi t hole… a polluted sh it hole
Which is why the ‘glorious Asian future free of the Western empire’ propagandists are ridiculous when not knowingly mendacious.
Same for Iran: utterly corrupt and lawless, resource-depleted, highly degraded farmland and imperilled water supply.
Teheran is one of the nastiest polluted cities in the world: they love their cars……
This behaviour is not new. China in Focus has been posting articles with such violence probably weekly for the last two years. Not so different from some of those Aussie and Canadian police officers we have seen recently, being a bit over enthusiastic with putting in the boot, fists and truncheons. And then there are the Ukrainian Nazis whose level of violence often leads to death (of regular citizens), fully supported by western govts.
Similar clips came out of Australia during their many lockdowns
Starvation is involved in the final phase of the CEP… all we need know is Devil Covid and we are Ready to Rumble… the pieces are all falling into place
Ironic that the likes of the BBC were hell bent on a Chinese style lockdown for the UK
The WSJ is reporting:
Manufacturers Grind to a Halt in China as Lockdowns Expand
Suppliers to Apple and Tesla among companies seeing production halted by Covid-19 curbs, adding more pressure on the global supply chain
“Tesla, which suspended work at its factory in Shanghai on March 28, still hasn’t set a date for restarting production, according to people familiar with the matter.”
“Even companies that have brought workers to live onsite to keep operations going are experiencing production difficulties because suppliers have shut down or component deliveries can’t get through, . . .”
“Shipping and trucking companies are suffering long delays and the volume of goods moving through the port of Shanghai has fallen around 40% compared with prelockdown levels”
“More than half of U.S. multinational companies in China have reduced their annual revenue projections following the latest outbreak in Shanghai”
Jeez. How many spectacular own goals can the global economy score?!
So who is the wag and who is the dog?
Lockdown in Shanghai seems to be insane.
If you look at the US supply chains it makes perfect sense.
“Containers Stack Up at China’s Ports as Lockdown Blocks Trucks.
“Containers full of frozen food and chemicals are piling up at China’s biggest port in Shanghai as the lock down of the city and virus testing means truckers can’t get to the docks to pick up boxes.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-07/containers-stack-up-at-china-s-ports-as-lockdown-blocks-trucks
“Trucking is the main issue we have,” said Mads Ravn, executive vice-president and global head of air freight procurement at DSV, one of the world’s largest freight brokerages…
““Basically everything else is not moving but is being diverted away from Shanghai to other parts of China. It’s affecting every commodity you can think of,” he said. “It will have a global effect on almost every trade.””
https://www.ft.com/content/572eae5f-d47b-4e1b-a7c2-be63bd45000a
“Shipyards forced to shut down amid Shanghai lockdown.
“Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding, Jiangnan Shipyard and Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding were said to have suspended operations since the middle of March due to stringent virus control rules.”
https://lloydslist.maritimeintelligence.informa.com/LL1140443/Shipyards-forced-to-shut-down-amid-Shanghai-lockdown
Sounds terrible!
Successful early treatments of Covid with medicines.
Scientific work made on 390 cases with Covid-19 at different stages, treated with various medicines according to cases, but with same general approach. Study published on Medriv.
https://www.byoblu.com/2022/04/07/riduzione-della-letalita-i-risultati-del-primo-studio-di-ippocrateorg-sulle-cure-precoci/
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.04.04.22273356v1
https://ippocrateorg.org/
The medrxiv.og report seems to be a report on a study of COVID patients with very good mortality outcome. The average age of patients was 48.5 years and treatment was started early in the course of the disease. The article reports:
“Drugs most frequently prescribed included: vitamins and supplements (98,7%), aspirin (66,1%), antibiotics (62%), glucocorticoids (41,8%), hydroxychloroquine (29,6%), enoxaparin (28,6%), colchicine (8,9%), oxygen therapy (6,9%), ivermectin (2,8%). Hospitalization occurred in 5,8% of total cases, mainly in patients taken care of when in stage 2b (27,3%). Altogether, 390 patients (99,6%) recovered, one patient (0,2%) was lost at follow up, and one patient (0,2%) died after hospitalization.”
Personally take a number of supplements, don’t have a clue how most of them work, Huberman, etc. I am well past the age of risk, have two comorbidities and am out among people in various settings, no mask. Greater than five pcrs, a box full of flow tests, all negative. Every time I get a runny nose I test and anxiously wait to see if I have the holy grail, natural immunity, the best.
Who knows? At Sam’s I see people in electric carts, obese, huge bags of junk food. We eat crap, we don’t sleep regularly(Huberman), we don’t exercise, we don’t socialize. I dance, we don’t talk, worry, about the world. Moving the feet and body with another body to music takes too much thought for trivialities.
Have a continuing ed. course today, first speaker is a world expert in vaccines, publicly has tinnitus secondary or immediately after jab. He will not be presenting, bummer.
Dennis L.
In the latest Hunter Biden Laptop related article there is an interesting photo – https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/hunter%20crack%20pipe%20naked%20pic_0.jpg?itok=LbLOY5XZ
First I thought Hunter got some back scratches or dirt but it is a tattoo. What an ugly tattoo was my next thought. I sent it to a friend of mine so that he can have a laugh too. He sent me back google map coordinates which show something called The Finger Lakes – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_Lakes
Can someone from USA elaborate on this place? What are those lakes and do they have any importance? I am hearing about those for first time
In your link I find interesting correlation with the places around name ‘Seneca’ which recalls the name of the company ‘Rosemond Seneca’ and the ‘Seneca partners’.
Maybe someone can add on this or something else.
‘Major Iroquois towns in the Finger Lakes region included the Seneca town of Gen-nis-he-yo (present-day Geneseo), Kanadaseaga (Seneca Castle, near present-day Geneva), Goiogouen (Cayuga Castle, east of Cayuga Lake), Chonodote (Cayuga town, present-day Aurora), Catherine’s Town (near present-day Watkins Glen) and Ganondagan State Historic Site in Victor, New York.’
https://ho1.us/2021/06/rosemont-seneca-technology-partners-a-firm-led-by-hunter-biden-invested-in-metabiota/
https://www.fingerlakes.org/explore/lakes/seneca
I searched strip bar and vip room … nothing … how good can it be if they don’t have either?
We were discussing ‘ the Senate city’ yesterday. Now ‘Seneca.’
sen- is latin prefix for ‘old’ (testament). meaning ‘elder.’
We’re way down the rabbit hole now, Watson.
Heavily previously glaciated rural area in upstate NY. Now mostly wineries, bed and breakfasts and other things touristy. At the top of Cayuga lake stands Cornell University.
Finger Lakes region is gorgeous. We camped out on Seneca Lake and found driftwood way up in the forest at a number of secluded areas. We were told that the Native Americans revered driftwood as a resting place for spirits. My Irish and English ancestors are from this part of the country. My 2nd cousin living along the PA/NY border is mixed Seneca blood. There was a village near our family cabin that I would like to investigate someday.
I concur that the area is quite pretty. I spent more than one year in Ithaca over 10 summers.
Some kind of place full of inspiration it seems
NEW ZEALAND DICTATOR PM, JACINDA ARDERN’S “fiancé and baby daddy” arrested for Money Laundering and Drug Smuggling.
Sources close to the investigation have confirmed to @GEORGENEWS that CLARKE GAYFORD, the PM’s (ex?) fiancé, has been in custody for weeks now, pending trial/sentencing regarding a massive drug bust that took place in New Zealand late last year.
GAYFORD is no stranger to the law in New Zealand, and has made no attempt to hide his use of recreational drugs in the past.
It’s also noted that New Zealand went into an impromptu “red light” lockdown just days before the PM and GAYFORD were to be married.
Wedding plans have been cancelled, not postponed as reported by many media outlets locally.
More to come on this story
hmmmm….. she was supposed to get hitched but the lockdown hit … but the lockdown has been over for quite some time now …
Well, I won’t believe it until I read it in the Daily Mail. I suppose it’s the NZ equivalent of the Hunter Biden laptop.
If true, it was a bit drastic, but if it keeps him away from the altar, he gets a gold star for creative thinking.
If this turns out to be true — and as I have mentioned previously – I know a senior cop who was mandated out and he told me the cops have had Gayford in and they have his black book of client names… but at that point were not acting …
Then NZ is a joke… Ardern is a joke… and the cops are a joke…
Well.. a bigger joke than they already are… they are a disgrace