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Media outlets tend to make it sound as if all our economic problems are temporary problems, related to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. In fact, world crude oil production has been falling behind needed levels since 2019. This problem, by itself, encourages the world economy to contract in unexpected ways, including in the form of economic lockdowns and aggression between countries. This crude oil shortfall seems likely to become greater in the years ahead, pushing the world economy toward conflict and the elimination of inefficient players.
To me, crude oil production is of particular importance because this form of oil is especially useful. With refining, it can operate tractors used to cultivate crops, and it can operate trucks to bring food to stores to sell. With refining, it can be used to make jet fuel. It can also be refined to make fuel for earth moving equipment used in road building. In recent years, it has become common to publish “all liquids” amounts, which include liquid fuels such as ethanol and natural gas liquids. These fuels have uses when energy density is not important, but they do not operate the heavy machinery needed to maintain today’s economy.
In this post, I provide an overview of the crude oil situation as I see it. In my analysis, I utilize crude oil production data by the US Energy Information Agency (EIA) that has only recently become available for the full year of 2021. In some exhibits, I also make estimates for the first quarter of 2022 based on preliminary information for this period.
[1] World crude oil production grew marginally in 2021.
Crude oil production for the year 2021 was a disappointment for those hoping that production would rapidly bounce back to at least the 2019 level. World crude oil production increased by 1.4% in 2021, to 77.0 million barrels per day, after a decrease of -7.5% in 2020. If we look back, we can see that the highest year of crude oil production was in 2018, not 2019. Oil production in 2021 was still 5.9 million barrels per day below the 2018 level.
With respect to the overall increase in crude oil production of 1.4% in 2021, OPEC helped bring this average up with an increase of 3.0% in 2021. Russia also helped, with an increase of 2.5%. The United States helped pull the world crude increase down, with a decrease in production of -1.1% in 2021. In Section [5], more information will be provided with respect to crude production for these groupings.
[2] The growth in world crude oil production shows an amazingly steady relationship to the growth in world population since 1991. The major exception is the decrease in consumption that took place in 2020, with the lockdowns that changed consumption patterns.
Figure 2 indicates that, up through 2018, each person in the world consumed an average of around 4.0 barrels of crude oil. This equates to 168 US gallons or 636 liters of crude per year. Much of this crude is used by businesses and governments to produce the basic goods we expect from our economy, including food and roads.
A big downshift occurred in 2020 with the COVID lockdowns. Many people began working from home; international travel was scaled back. The reduction of these uses of oil helped bring down total world usage. Changes such as these explain the big dip in crude oil production (and consumption) in 2020, which continued into 2021.
Even in 2019, the world economy was starting to scale back. Beginning in early 2018, China banned the importation of many types of materials for recycling, and other countries soon followed suit. As a result, less oil was used for transporting materials across the ocean for recycling. (Subsidies for recycling were helping to pay for this oil.) Loss of recycling and other cutbacks (especially in China and India) led to fewer people in these countries being able to afford automobiles and smartphones. Lower production of these devices contributed to the lower use of crude oil.
On Figure 2, there is a slight year-to-year variation in crude oil per capita. The single highest year over the time period shown is 2005, with 2004 not far behind. This was about the time many people think that conventional oil production “peaked,” reducing the availability of inexpensive-to-produce oil.
[3] Crude oil prices dropped dramatically when economies were shut in, beginning in March 2020. Prices began spiking the summer and fall of 2021, as the world economy attempted to open up. This pattern suggests that the real problem is tight crude oil supply when the economy is not artificially constrained by COVID restrictions.
An analysis of price trends suggests that most of the recent spike in crude prices is due to the tightness of the crude oil supply, rather than the Ukraine conflict. The Brent oil price dropped to an average of $14.24 in the week ending April 24, 2020, not long after COVID restrictions were enacted. When the economy started to reopen, in the week ending July 2, 2021, the average price rose to $76.26. By the week ending January 28, 2022, the average price had risen to $90.22.
Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022. The Brent spot price on February 23, 2022, was $99.29. Brent prices briefly spiked higher, with weekly average prices rising as high as $123.60, for the week ending March 25, 2022. The current Brent oil price is about $107. If we compare the current price to the price the day before the invasion began, the price is only $8 higher. Even compared to the January 28 weekly average of $90.22, the current price is $17 higher.
Saying that the Ukraine invasion is causing the current high price is mostly a convenient excuse, suggesting that the high prices will suddenly disappear if this conflict disappears. The sad truth is that depletion is causing the cost of extraction to rise. Governments of oil exporting countries also need high prices to enable high taxes on exported oil. We are increasingly experiencing a conflict between the prices that the customers can afford and the prices that those doing the extraction require. In my view, most oil exporting countries need a price in excess of $120 per barrel to meet all of their needs, including reinvestment and taxes. Consumers would prefer oil prices under $50 per barrel to keep the price of food and transportation low.
[4] Food prices tend to rise when oil prices are high because products made from crude oil are used in the production and transport of food.
History shows that bad things tend to happen when food prices are very high, including riots by unhappy citizens. This is a major reason that high oil prices tend to lead to conflict.
[5] Quarterly crude oil data suggests that few opportunities exist to raise crude oil production to the level needed for the world economy to operate at the level it operated at in 2018 or 2019.
Figure 5 shows quarterly world crude oil production broken down into four groupings: OPEC, US, Russia, and “All Other.”
Figure 5 shows four very different patterns of past growth in crude oil supply. The All Other grouping is generally trending a bit downward in terms of quantity supplied. If world per capita crude oil production is to stay at least level, the total production of the other three groupings (OPEC, US, and Russia) needs to be rising to offset this decline. In fact, it needs to rise enough that overall crude production growth keeps up with population growth.
Russian Crude Oil Production
The data underlying Figure 5 shows that up until the COVID restrictions, Russia’s crude oil production was increasing by 1.4% per year between early 2005 and early 2020. During the same period, world population was increasing by about 1.2%. Thus, Russia’s oil production has been part of what has helped keep world crude production about level, on a per capita basis. Also, Russia seems to have made up most of its temporary decrease in production related to COVID restrictions by the first quarter of 2022.
US Crude Oil Production
Growth in US crude oil production has been more of a “feast or famine” situation. This can be seen both in Figure 5 above and in Figure 6 below.
US crude oil production spurted up rapidly in the 2011 to 2014 period, when oil prices were high (Figure 3). When oil prices fell in late 2014, US crude production fell for about two years. US oil production began to rise again in late 2016, as oil prices rose again. By early 2019 (when oil prices were again lower), US crude oil growth began to slow down.
In early 2020, COVID lockdowns brought a 15% drop in crude oil production (considering quarterly production), most of which has not been made up. In fact, growth after the lockdowns has been slow, similar to the level of growth during the “growth slowdown” circled in Figure 6. We hear reports that the sweet spots in shale formations have largely been drilled. This leaves mostly high-cost areas left to drill. Also, investors would like better financial discipline. Ramping up greatly, and then cutting back, is no way to operate a successful company.
Thus, while growth in US crude oil production greatly supported world growth in crude oil production in the 2009 to 2018 period, it is impossible to see this pattern continuing. Getting crude oil production back up to the level of 12 million barrels a day where it was before the COVID restrictions would be extremely difficult. Further production growth, to support the growing needs of an expanding world population, is likely impossible.
OPEC Crude Oil Production
Figure 7 shows EIA crude oil production estimates for the total group of countries that are now members of OPEC. It also shows crude oil production excluding the two countries which have recently been subject to sanctions: Iran and Venezuela.
If Iran and Venezuela are removed, OPEC’s long-term production is surprisingly “flat.” The “peak” period of production is the fourth quarter of 2018. The fourth quarter of 2018 was the time when the OPEC countries were producing as much oil as they could, to get their production quotas as high as possible after the planned cutbacks that took effect at the beginning of 2019.
Strangely, EIA data indicates that production didn’t fall very much for this group of countries (OPEC excluding Iran and Venezuela), starting in early 2019. The 2019 cutback seems mostly to have affected the production of Iran and Venezuela. It was only later, in the first three quarters of 2020, when COVID restrictions were affecting worldwide production, that crude oil production for OPEC excluding Iran and Venezuela fell by 4 million barrels per day. Production for this group then began to rise, leaving a shortfall of about 900,000 barrels a day, relative to where it had been before the 2020 lockdowns.
It seems to me that, at most, production for the group of OPEC countries excluding Iran and Venezuela can be ramped up by 900,000 barrels a day, and even this is “iffy.” Iraq is reported to be having difficulty with its production; it needs more investment, or its production will fall. Nigeria is past peak, and it is also having difficulty with its production. The high reported crude oil reserves are meaningless; the question is, “How much can these countries produce when it is required?” It doesn’t look like production can be ramped up very much. Furthermore, we cannot count on continued long-term growth in production from these countries, such as would be needed to keep pace with rising world population.
Figure 8 suggests that, indeed, Iran might be able to raise its production by perhaps 1.0 million barrels a day when sanctions are lifted.
Venezuela looks like a country whose crude oil production was already declining before sanctions were imposed. The cost of production there was likely far higher than the world oil price. Also, Venezuela has oil debts to China that it needs to repay. At most, we might expect that Venezuela’s production could be raised by 300,000 barrels per day in the absence of sanctions.
Putting the three estimates of amounts that crude oil production can perhaps be raised together, we have:
- OPEC ex Iran and Venezuela: 900,000 bpd
- Iran: 1,000,000 bpd
- Venezuela: 300,000 bpd
- Total: 2.2 million bpd
The shortfall of crude oil production in 2021, relative to 2018 production, was 5.9 million bpd, as mentioned in Section [1]. The 2.2 million barrels per day possibly available from this analysis gets us nowhere near the 2018 level. Furthermore, we have nowhere to go to obtain the rising crude oil production required to support the rising population with enough crude oil to supply food and industrial goods at today’s consumption level.
[6] Eliminating, or even reducing, Russia’s crude oil production is certain to have an adverse impact on the world economy.
Figure 9 shows the step-down in crude oil production that occurred in early 2020 and indicates that the world’s oil supply is having difficulty getting back up to pre-COVID levels. If Russia’s crude oil production were to be eliminated, it would make for another step-down of comparable magnitude. Major segments of the economy would likely need to be eliminated.
[7] When there isn’t enough crude oil to go around, the naive belief is that oil prices will rise and either more oil will be found, or substitutes will take its place. In fact, the result may be conflict and elimination of segments of the economy.
Our self-organizing economy will tend to adapt in its own way to inadequate crude oil supplies. Eventually, the economy may collapse completely, but before that happens, changes are likely to happen to try to preserve the “better functioning” parts of the economy. In this way, perhaps parts of the world economy can continue to function for a while longer while getting rid of less productive parts of the economy.
The following is a partial list of ways the economy might adapt:
- Fighting may take place over the remaining crude oil supplies. This may be the underlying reason for the conflict between NATO and Russia, with respect to Ukraine.
- COVID lockdowns indirectly reduce demand for crude oil. A person might wonder whether the current COVID lockdowns in China are partly aimed at preventing oil and other commodity prices from rising to absurd levels.
- Some organizations may disappear from the world economy because of inadequate funding or lack of profitability.
- Additional supply lines are likely to break, allowing fewer types of goods and services to be made.
- The world economy may subdivide into multiple pieces, with each piece able to make a much more limited array of goods and services than is provided today. A shift toward the use of other currencies instead of the US dollar may be part of this shift.
- World population may shrink for multiple reasons, including poor nutrition and epidemics.
- The poor, the elderly and the disabled may be increasingly cut off from government programs, as total goods and services (including total food supplies) fall too low.
- Europe could be cut off from Russian fossil fuel exports, leaving relatively more for the rest of the world.
[8] Countries that are major importers of crude oil and crude oil products would seem to be at significant risk of reduced supply if there is not enough crude oil to go around.
Figure 10 shows a rough estimate of the ratio of crude oil produced to crude oil products consumed in 2019, the last full year before the pandemic. On an “All Liquids” basis, the US ratio of crude oil production to consumption would appear higher than shown on Figure 10 because of its unusually high share of natural gas liquids, ethanol, and “refinery gain” in its liquids production. If these types of production are omitted, the US still seems to have a deficit in producing the crude oil it consumes.
Perhaps all that is needed is the general idea. If inadequate crude oil is available, all of the countries at the left of Figure 10 are quite vulnerable because they are very dependent on imports. Russia and the Middle East are prime targets for countries that are desperate for crude oil.
[9] Conclusion: We are likely entering a period of conflict and confusion because of the way the world’s self-organizing economy behaves when there is an inadequate supply of crude oil.
The issue of how important crude oil is to the world economy has been left out of most textbooks for years. Instead, we were taught creative myths covering several topics:
- Huge amounts of fossil fuels will be available in the future
- Climate change is our worst problem
- Wind and solar will save us
- A fast transition to an all-electric economy is possible
- Electric cars are the future
- The economy will grow forever
Now we are running into a serious shortfall of crude oil. We can expect a new set of problems, including far more conflict. Wars are likely. Debt defaults are likely. Political parties will take increasingly divergent positions on how to work around current problems. News media will increasingly tell the narrative that their owners and advertisers want told, with little regard for the real situation.
About all we can do is enjoy each day we have and try not to be disturbed by the increasing conflict around us. It becomes clear that many of us will not live as long or well as we previously expected, regardless of savings or supposed government programs. There is no real way to fix this issue, except perhaps to make religion and the possibility of life after death more of a focus.
“EU Rejects Russia’s Ruble-For-Gas Scheme, Warns Of Supply Shock.
“At the conclusion of its Monday meeting, the European Union has said it will not heed Russian demands to pay for gas in rubles, with a mid-May deadline for payment looming. The bloc also warned its member states to prepare for Russia to cut off gas to all members.”
https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/EU-Rejects-Russias-Ruble-For-Gas-Scheme-Warns-Of-Supply-Shock.html
“Yet Polish …Minister Anna Moskwa told Bloomberg News in an interview that remarks by ministers at the meeting indicated the EU was still short of unity.
“While many countries — including Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Denmark and Finland — endorsed the prohibition to pay in euros, some opted not to comment on the issue. Others, such as Italy and Austria, stressed their concerns over the risk of potential gas supply disruptions on the economy, she said.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-02/eu-to-issue-detailed-guidance-on-russia-s-rubles-for-gas-demand
“European Port Workers Are Refusing To Unload Russian Diesel.
“Russia is finding it increasingly difficult to sell its diesel in Western Europe, after port workers in Sweden and the Netherlands have refused to unload a Russian cargo in recent days despite the fact that the vessel isn’t sailing under a Russian flag.”
https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/European-Port-Workers-Are-Refusing-To-Unload-Russian-Diesel.html
These folks don’t understand how important diesel is to the economy and how impossible it is to obtain substitute supplies elsewhere.
I’m very sorry to say that these kind of situations remind me the movie ‘Dumb & Dumber’.
We are living in a tragicomic situation…
“China’s Economy Appears to Be Stalling, Threatening to Drag Down Global Growth… On Saturday, purchasing manager indexes released by China’s government showed contractions in factory and service-sector activity for a second straight month in April…
“Cement production in mid-April was less than 40% of full capacity. Shipments of smartphones dropped 18% from a year earlier in the first quarter. Excavator sales within China were down 61% in April compared with the previous year.
“China’s challenges go beyond the latest lockdowns… Any sustained slowdown in China will be felt globally, depriving the world economy of one of its most dependable engines.”
https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-economy-recession-covid-lockdowns-11651434168
“Beijing teeters on edge of Covid lockdown… Beijing is tightening coronavirus restrictions after reporting 41 cases on Sunday. Officials… closed gyms and cinemas…
“The new wave of social and health controls in Beijing marked the latest sign that China’s leadership remained committed to the heavy-handed implementation of President Xi Jinping’s zero-Covid policy. That is despite indications that the policy is wreaking widespread economic damage within and beyond China’s borders.”
https://www.ft.com/content/ed8bc95c-612b-4847-b555-bc6bd9a0d623
41 people have a cold so they will lockdown a city of 20M people….
Hahahahaha… how absurd! Except it’s not….
UEP …
I agree that it makes perfect sense. Restrictions preceded war… a simple rule of thumb.
War…you can feel it in your gut.
Wow!
On a PPP basis, China’s economy is easily the world’s largest. If it stalls, the world as a whole is in big trouble.
“The global stagflation shock of 2022: How bad could it get?
“The prospect of stagflation’s return strikes fear into policymakers because there are few monetary tools to address it. Raising interest rates may help reduce inflation, but increased borrowing costs would further depress growth. Keeping monetary policies loose, meanwhile, risks pushing prices higher.”
https://www.ft.com/content/d490ef4e-3187-471e-84ff-9c065871a1a5
“End of Easy Money Brings a $410 Billion Global Financial Shock.
“The global shift away from easy money is poised to accelerate as a pandemic bond-buying blitz by central banks swings into reverse, threatening another shock to the world’s economies and financial markets.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-01/global-economy-faces-410b-financial-shock-as-central-banks-pull-back
Interest rates on property loans have doubled in NZ… can you hear the sucking sound?
If our problem is only stagflation, we will be doing well. I expect the closure of a lot of businesses and many debt defaults. Loss of jobs. Stock market cannot do well either. Some governments will have problems.
BA.4’s arrival: Could it trigger a new Omicron wave in New Zealand?
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/explained/300578797/ba4s-arrival-could-it-trigger-a-new-omicron-wave-in-new-zealand
(Il Fatto Quotidiano)
”Adverse events caused by Covid-19 vaccines, the list is long.
Neurodegenerative diseases, myocarditis, immune thrombocytopenia, paralysis, liver disease, reduced immunity and response to DNA failures…”
https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/in-edicola/articoli/2022/05/03/danni-e-vaccinola-lista-e-lunga/6577713/
P.s. Il Fatto Quotidiano is a well known Italian mainstream media. Althought the article is present in a separate part of the newspaper.
So the story is starting to get out in Italy.
norm – mike???
For the souls that suffered COVID, authoritarian government interventions, and the unsafe and ineffective vaccines.
Must Watch https://metatron.substack.com/p/covid-requiem-aeternam?s=r
If UEP fails – this: https://t.me/TommyRobinsonNews/35198
hahaha https://t.me/TommyRobinsonNews/35209
sounds good https://ecori.org/sewage-sludge-repackaged-as-garden-fertilizer-tests-positive-for-toxic-chemicals/
Bridle https://t.me/TommyRobinsonNews/35220
One can savour the cynical names for all that toxic sludge, just pick from:
‘Green- Sunshine- Natural- Eco- Bio’ etc.
I’ve definitely bought packaged compost from the hardware store that made my plants sad.
” I have added two videos featuring Dr. Robin Wakeling, who has, independently, been trying to figure out the jabs purpose.”
https://www.richplanet.net/richp_guest.php?ref=735&part=1&person=20
“……because according to the official figures, two thirds of the world’s population now have this technology inside their bodies.”
That sounds a few billion high to me, from postkey’s note.
Dennis L.
According to the video:
Abstract of key findings
• Ongoing self assembly of:
1. Lipid Nano Particles (LPs) into highly varied colloidal structures
2. Deposition of right angled sheets and “wires” at interfaces
3. Highly ordered complex structures of sheets and “wires”: nanotech?
Is this “stuff” something that non-vaccinated family members can catch from vaccinated family members?
International Energy Agency demands Worldwide Lockdowns to meet Climate Goals
“The Bill Gates influenced International Energy Agency has demanded Governments worldwide essentially ‘lockdown’ the public to cut down the use of oil and meet “climate change” targets”
https://dailyexpose.uk/2022/05/02/iea-demands-climate-lockdowns
(= we need to reduce our energy burn — to buy time for UEP)
mike norm!!! for you https://t.me/robinmg/19147
Doctors could be struck off for “spreading fake news on vaccines and lockdowns”
Update to Hippocratic Oath covers rules on “posting misleading information” to social media
“Doctors who criticise vaccines or lockdown policies on social media could face being struck off if regulators rule they are guilty of spreading fake news, in an update to the “Hippocratic Oath”.
The core guidance for medics has been updated for the first time in almost a decade to cover media such as Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/04/27/doctors-could-struck-spreading-fake-news-vaccines-lockdowns/
MIKE NORM MIKE NORM MIKE NORM
Study of Canadian Figures suggests Triple Vaccinated are suffering Vaccine-Associated Enhanced Disease / Antibody-Dependent Enhancement
“A study of official data published by the Government of Canada has found the triple vaccinated are now four times more likely to be infected with Covid-19, 2 times more likely to be hospitalised with Covid-19, and 2 times more likely to die of Covid-19 than the unvaccinated.”
https://dailyexpose.uk/2022/05/01/study-triple-jabbed-suffering-ade-aids-canada
and more:
ADE? The Vaccine Antibodies May Actually Make Things Worse: Dr. Peter McCullough
“There’s three large worldwide analyses… all showing the more heavily vaccinated countries have more COVID, and I think, finally, the countries are learning [that the jab may make things worse and are dropping mandates].”
Video via: https://t.me/PeterMcCulloughMD/1776
This is a link to the chart from the Daily Expose “Study Triple Jabbed Suffering ADE, AIDS, in Canada:
https://i0.wp.com/dailyexpose.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/image-388.png
This is a link to a chart that I found in an analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola:
https://ourfiniteworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Mercola-all-cause-mortality-relative-risk.jpeg
The chart is reported to be a screenshot from an analysis by the organization “Jaxen.” Mercola did not provide a link to where he found it.
These charts both show a rise in deaths, not just cases.
The Mercola article (which is only up temporarily) also links to an unpublished study called “COVID-19 and All-Cause Mortality Data by Age Group Reveals Risk of COVID Vaccine-Induced Fatality is Equal to or Greater than the Risk of a COVID death for all Age Groups Under 80 Years Old as of 6 February 2022,” by Kathy Dopp and Stephanie Seneff.
https://www.skirsch.com/covid/Seneff_costBenefit.pdf
The Mercola article can only temporarily be found at this link.
This is a link to the IEA report that Bill Gates supposedly influenced.
https://www.iea.org/reports/a-10-point-plan-to-cut-oil-use
Within the plan, the following graphic is given with respect to its plan to reduce oil demand:
https://iea.blob.core.windows.net/assets/faeb3d2d-35b9-4e70-b162-800c32a5866a/10-Point-Plan-to-Cut-Oil-Use_Summaryinfographic_English.pdf
It has various ways that oil consumption might be cut back.
1. Reduce speed limits on highways by at least 10 km/h
2. Make public transport cheaper; incentivize walking and cycling
3. Car-free Sundays in large cities
4. Work from home up to three days a week where possible
5. Permit only half the private cars to operate in large cities, by odd/even system
6. Urge care sharing and practices the decrease fuel use
7. Promote efficient use of freight trucks and goods delivery
8. Prefer high-speed and night trains to planes where possible
9. Avoid business travel when alternatives exist
10. Hasten adoption of electric and more efficient vehicles
That’s a chapter in UEP — how to prevent the collapse of BAU if the energy situation is becoming untenable and the Devil Covid is delayed.
Also in that chapter is a few pages on how to use various drugs to try to accelerate Devil Covid including https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/did-pfizer-know-that-paxlovid-will?s=r
I assume there is a final chapter that recommends the launch of every nuclear missile on the planet should the Devil Covid not emerge… obviously loads of people would survive that and Rip Faces… but it’s better than nothing.
FDA & CDC Claims Are Horsesh*t: Ivermectin Is One of the Safest and Most Essential Medicines in the World
Dr. Paul Marik: “After penicillin, this is probably the most important medication ever developed by the medical science. It’s had a greater impact on humanity than almost any other drug except penicillin… You’re more likely to die from aspirin or Tylenol than taking ivermectin. It’s, in fact, impossible almost to kill someone with Ivermectin [because] it’s so safe.”
@VigilantFox | Rumble (https://rumble.com/v13bhle-fda-and-cdc-claims-are-horsesht-ivermectin-is-one-of-the-safest-and-most-es.html) | Full Episodes (https://cvdsecrets.com/own/)
He’s not qualified – but Bosshy is hahaha https://youtu.be/JgT80plJc9Y
Tony Fauci and Bill Gates hopes this doesn’t get out to the public. You know, bad for business.
Strange world we live in.
Bill Gates Warns of a More Transmissive and Fatal COVID Variant Yet to Come
Luke Rudkowski: (http://t.me/news4achange) “What’s the best way to sell some vaccines? Scare the sh*t out of people… Fake meat is not the only thing he wants inside of you. He wants you jabbed with a rushed experimental gene therapy that has had some negative consequences for a lot of people… and his latest fear-mongering efforts are really to try to shore up profit, power, and control over the population as he believes that there’s too many people in this world.”
Full Video: https://wearechange.org/will-you-put-bill-gates-fake-meat-in-your-mouth/
It is a worry when someone who seems to have his hand in all kinds of activities (to further his financial interests and likely to reduce population) warns of ” a More Transmissive and Fatal COVID Variant Yet to Come.”
I suspect Bill’s involvement in this is unrelated to $$$… it’s more about realizing we are doomed and saving him and his family from being skinned alive as well as a bit of philanthropy … investing his time in ensuring we avoid Ripping of Faces… and that we are put down in a manner that involves minimal suffering (I was going to say in a humane manner — but Ripping of Faces would be the ‘humane’ way)
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Vaccine Shedding Finally Proven!
Statistically Significant Vaccine Shedding from Parents to Children
https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/vaccine-shedding-finally-proven
I would think that there would be vaccine shedding from a vaccinated spouse to an unvaccinated spouse, as well.
I wonder what the implications of such shedding would be.
Everyone knows that this is confirmation of extinction – right?
“We’re working with farmers to also increase their production so you actually have more supply brought on the market.
“Fertilizer shortages are real now because Russia’s a big exporter of fertilizer, and even though fertilizer is not sanctioned, less fertilizer is coming out of Russia.
“As a result, we’re working with countries to think about natural solutions like manure and compost, and this may hasten transitions that would have been in the interest of farmers to make eventually, anyway”
https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/never-let-crisis-go-waste-biden-official-says-fertilizer-shortage-will-spark-green
Preparation for a much lower population. TPTB are not interested in extinction, although that might well occur anyway.
All this was written down hundreds of years ago and parts of it became law. You ought to have animals on agricultural land 3 years out of 4, return everything to the land, and rotate. I note that in the past yields were then reduced by the crop competition with other plants (“weeds”). We now have access to much better smothering crops, which animals will then eat, so it can be done much better now. population reduction by a factor 10 probable but a factor of only 4 could be doable (this assumes nuclear fuel ponds are managed).
Sri Lanka’s switch to organic fertilizer hasn’t been so good.
There often seems to be concern about drugs and hormones coming through the composting process, with the things fed to animals today. Also, from human manure.
“Sri Lanka’s switch to organic fertilizer hasn’t been so good.”
This is true, but it is important to consider the following: if an area of arable land has been exposed to this form of modern cultivation for decades, then it will take a correspondingly long time to convert it again. Especially in the first years, the yield is likely to decrease significantly. It simply takes time for the ecosystem under the surface to regenerate. There are incredibly exciting findings in this area, e.g. by the microbiologist Dr. Elaine Ingham.
There is an urgent need for large-scale research in this area.
We recently discussed cruelty, and that toward animals in particular. We found that animals are exceedingly cruel, and indeed many of them indulge in ‘torture’ just ‘for the fun of it.’ Moreover, we found that society sublimates cruelty into everyday socially useful shapes, like socialisation and legal punishments (not to mention wars.)
I am chewing through Nietzsche’s Genealogy of Morals, essay 2, and he makes the interesting claim that ‘bad conscience’, the tendency for humans to accuse and to condemn themselves for their natural inclination and acts, is actually the instinct of cruelty turned inward against the self, for want of outward expression in modern society.
It is, he writes, an act of cruelty against the self, and particularly against the animal within the self. So who knew, when humans condemn ‘cruelty’ toward animals, like farming, they are actually engaging in animal cruelty, specifically against their own animal nature, for want of opportunities for more open cruelty. It is animal cruelty posing as its opposite LOL.
> We moderns have inherited millennia of conscience-vivisection and animal-torture inflicted on ourselves: we have had most practice in it, are perhaps artists in the field, in any case it is our raffinement and the indulgence of our taste. For too long, man has viewed his natural inclinations with an ‘evil eye’, so that they finally came to be intertwined with ‘bad conscience’ in him. A reverse experiment should be possible in principle – but who has sufficient strength? – by this, I mean [the reverse of] an intertwining of bad conscience with perverse inclinations, all those other-worldly aspirations, alien to the senses, the instincts, to nature, to animals, in short all the ideals which up to now have been hostile to life and have defamed the world. To whom should we turn with such hopes and claims today? …. When he emerges into the light again, he can return with the redemption of this reality: redeem it from the curse which its ideal has placed on it up till now. This man of the future will redeem us, not just from the ideal held up till now, but also from those things which had to arise from it, from the great nausea, the will to nothingness, from nihilism. – TGOM 2, 24
* Actually, the square parentheses are not needed!
If you look how homesteaders treat their animals there is some sort of limited cruelty involved.
In my observation it increases by the amount of “money extracting” that is to be achieved by animal husbandry.
Or as the recent example with the trucked bees shows: when money making does not include a stake in the life of the stock that you have to take care of.
No bee keeper would have done that but an employee is fine with that. I admit that the poor trucker would not have known what to do with 5mln bees even if he wanted. It is somewhat unclear but the situation occured because people make money from trucking bees and the people that “need” the bees do not engage in a local solution because it is uneconomical to have a beekeeper year round that only needs to work for 3 weeky a year… Actually I think this is a huge business in the USA.
On the other hand, if you keep animals only to kill them one day, it is not far to not treat them well untill they die. I would call it lazyness.
Maintaining a good life in a good civilization is hard work. Everybody has to do his own little things to improve everything. If the government is deemed the improver of last resort, things come down pretty quick…
Marx called this:alienation
And I want to say that the psychological part that you touched of inversion, projection what have you is very interesting but I have far too little knowledge of that. Humans have a very complex psyche. Something that you deem insane might be perfectly normal for somebody else. I think we humans know far to little about our psychological “mechanisms” as mirror might call them. There I would admit that I am with him. Growing up is a lifelong process, eh ?
Yes: “Maintaining a good life in a good civilization is hard work.”
Yes: “Growing up is a lifelong process, eh ?”
The function of elders is in part to transmit the lessons learned so the new generation can make their own.
Dennis L.
I would agree that our money civilisation (capitalism) impacts on the ‘conscience’.
To try to start at the beginning, the ‘good’ is presumably our perspective as living organisms, so our minds are attuned to the organic, to its ‘order’ and functionality. We have an eye for the ‘good’ in other organic species because we are organic ourselves. So, eg. our teleology, our perception of a tendency toward ‘ends’ is structured by our own life cycle, and our development toward maturity, and our health. ‘Health’ is the key concept. We think of ‘ends’ in the cosmos only as a projection of our own organic development.
The ‘good’ is not primarily about rules, in the first place it is a property of Being, as the medieval scholastics understood it. The ‘good’ is a synonym of ‘being’. Nevertheless, ‘the good’ is a human perception, a human concept that reflects our own organic being. So, it includes ideas like ‘order’ (which is what an organism internally is, and also the ordering of our activities and the environment to sustain our organic lives), and even existence itself (which is what we do in living) can be included in the ‘good’.
The ‘good’ (even if it is a human projection) then is not primarily about human behaviour, it is something that already exists in the world (as we see it). It depends on our perception, but as such it simply is, prior to our physical or social activity upon it. The cow, the grass, the tree are all ‘good’ in their organic order, which is what the human perception of the ‘good’ is all about, and they exist independently of our action (even if their organic ‘order’ and their existence is ‘good’ only to our perception as organic beings.) And then there is the evolved human perception of ‘beauty’, aesthetics, which is closely related to the organic perception of the ‘good’, anyway.
So, what would ‘conscience’ be in that context? It is tempting to distinguish from it bigotry, socialisation and virtue signalling in our capitalist society, which is more about the social conformity of appearances to the prevailing social norms. ‘Conscience’ may typically be simply about virtue signalling and lying to everyone – and about what helps a society to function. Beyond that, there would have to be the perception of the ‘good’ as ‘being’ in the first place. Arguably ‘conscience’ can be conceived as the ordering of action that facilitates the ‘good’, as described above, in a general sense in the ‘being’ that is.
To my mind that would imply a very different sort of society, one that sought to facilitate and to maintain the health of species. ‘Good’ rules or acts are secondary to the ‘good’ of being and they are properly aimed at its facilitation. Eugenics would be an obvious corollary (health, organic order, perfection, full development, the good). A smaller human population would be another corollary. Society would be ordered toward the facilitation of human organic health while avoiding the decimation of other species. That does not imply that we cannot farm them (a minor matter in the broader perspective), just that we do not wipe them out as we are.
Obviously capitalist society is all about money, the accumulation of capital, the growth of the economy and of the population/ workforce, the multiplication of commodities that support and facilitate the needs and wants of a massive population. Its approach is very different. I am not denying that it also facilitates the ‘good’ of humans but it arguably does so in a very disordered and destructive way. Our societies have historically developed on the basis of economic development rather than philosophy, and we have sort of ended up with whatever we have ended up with, without any real overall consideration or design.
Anyway, that is the perspective that imposed itself upon me this morning. I suppose that capitalism will collapse when it collapses, and until then society is best left to just get on with its ways. It would be a really bad idea to try to intervene in it as it has all sorts of social self-protection mechanisms that it is wise not to fall foul of. Maybe humans will find a ‘better’ way after the collapse, when the capitalist economy, its way of life, and all of its social structures are gone. Humans in the future will have to decide for themselves ‘what it is all about’ and ‘what is to be done’.
But ultimately, it is all human perspectives anyway, and nothing really matters without the (organic) subject to whom it matters. And the planet, and all species including humans, is always in flux anyway. They come and go all the time. Life on earth maybe has a billion years left, and 100,000 years might seem like a ‘long time’ to humans but that is just our own evolved perception of time frames. And our engagement with the ‘being’ and the ‘good’ of the planet is just human self-indulgence, our indulgence of our own perspectives, of our own being and activity, humans being human. It does not ‘really’ ‘mean’ anything (beyond what we think it does.)
Bionic Mosquito on Lew Rockwell has done some good articles on the topic of “Natural Law”.
Yes, it correlates to religion but it is not exactly that.
To me it is a much broader approach in the sense of “good” as you describe it.
I would just claim that I try to be good. But how do I know ???
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2022/04/bionic-mosquito/gods-law-vs-natural-law/
Interesting, thanks. It is not my opinion, but I am happy for people to have their own, according to their own inclinations.
The whole system that produces meat seems to involve cruelty, especially the way it is done today.
My mother’s father raised sheep and also kept bees. She used to tell about keeping one or two of the little lambs in the house, and bottle feeding them with milk, if the mother was unable to keep them. I presume they must have had a few cows, as well, to get cows milk from. I know that she named one or two of these little lambs. Later, she was unhappy when they ended up on the dinner table.
I had NO idea that Putin has cancer and is undergoing surgery. It appears those who will replace Putin are extreme hardliners much like the Neocons in Washington.
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/russia/boris-johnsons-stupidity-who-is-the-only-statesman-standing/
The article says,
This is a link to a NY Post article on the subject:
https://nypost.com/2022/05/02/vladimir-putin-to-undergo-cancer-surgery-transfer-power/
It shows a photo and comments on his sickly appearance and fidgety behavior. It also refers to a report which claims that Putin has been seen by a cancer doctor 35 times.
https://www.proekt.media/en/investigation-en/putin-health/
What’s #happening nearby, @neighbor?
Mitzi
Sheridan Beach • 6 hr ago
Just got my lease renewal letter. I will have to move because I can not afford this 50%increase.I was paying $1600. This is so ridiculous. If anyone knows of any 1 or 2 bedrooms for rent.
😧 Crazy…this just posted about rent increases in Broward County by Mitzi…
Everywhere Apartment buildings are being built on any plot they can fit…never mind the traffic gridlock it’s all going to cause….Cash and grab here in South Florida..this is not going to end well.
IMOO. #South Florida is be of the worse locations to relocate and when collapse continues will fall apart and require Marshall Law and the National Guard….good luck with that.
Crossing my fingers a Major Hurricane does not hit the area…we are due for one…
Remember tourism is still the major driver of the economy here!
Given our predicament, how do you feel about long-term goals and being emotionally invested in the outcomes of your projects, endeavours, etc.?
how old are you?
I’m mid 60s.
I just closed out my sports gambling accounts, it was getting stale and not so fun.
plus it seems likely to me that the entire sports industry will be having major discretionary sector problems in the near future, so there’s that.
perhaps some random slice of life will gather my attention and I will take up another hobby or pastime. it’s happened a few times over the decades.
or not.
Doom might be my main interest from here until the end.
Doom is often entertaining and sometimes quite fun.
otherwise, for younger folks, I would say just keep on going and hope for another decade or two of quasi semi bAU. (who says hope is for sukcers?)
though the bAU scenario has been severely shaken in these early months of 2022.
there are slowly declining slopes and there are steeper cliffs.
“slowly at first”, which could be a decade or two, but you seem to know that.
Hopefully we do have a decade or two but if events are happening randomly now instead of planned we may only have half a decade at best if all events are planned than we are talking many generations
Im in my mid 50s and still working full-time for a public transport company so most of my time is spent working sleeping reading on the computer hanging out with family members and talking to any family members or friends that believe of the coming end days along with OFW time emotionally im quite content financially im quite cautious don’t believe in to much debt and just sticking to what i know that’s why i come to this place it is good to hear from fellow believers on what they know and hearing what They’ve got to say
I am the same; I tried to educate family and friends but they don’t wanna hear it they would rather hear the NPR stories much easier to eat with breakfast. When you say BAU do you mean no great depression? I wish all this was planned but unfortunately I don’t think it is it’s just random chaos. If we have a great depression it could be really bad and the United States could lose its reserve currency status. Then David will go to the bank and look for his pension fund and it would not be there….or it would be there just not worth anything.. Like Monopoly money
There is no upside to realizing we are headed for extinction — other than doing a bit of bucket listing
I’m with David, being the same age, and still active and hoping to do some outdoor exploring, hiking, camping and climbing before kicking the bucket.
Mainly out Western North American and Europe…hope to do it all before 2030, if we are able to kick the can down the road till then🤔.
Not too concerned after that and really lost interest in my hobbies, sports (really a business now), and been following peak oil since 2008 and an OFW commentator for years under different Names…
Before in my younger years hoped that solutions were possible to resource and environmental challenges…as Gail and others pointed out not so….may delay but the outcomes will come…
I come here mainly out of habit and visit Energy Skeptic and Climate and Economy, Harry’s blog site. He doesn’t post CC here because it ain’t about that…just about the Eddie’s Jab.haha.
So, advice to young folks….it’s a good time to be OLD….and enjoy what you can and don’t worry about tomorrow and for God’s Sake don’t get caught in the Matrix…
Heck of a read on imminent collapse of the housing market as a result of a different set of financials than 2008. Hat tip to 2ndsmartestguy substacker for relaying this Reddit thread. Looking forward to plowing into the thousands of comments on it.
https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/uflx06/the_2022_real_estate_collapse_is_going_to_be/
if you find even one worthy comment, please share. 😉
I’m sure he’s correct, that lots of paper wealth is going to plunge.
summer or autumn, we’ll see.
That’s funny, I didn’t know what to expect, haven’t “gone Reddit” before. Did get to a few way down the thread. One person asks:
“How does this work, you go to the bank and say “here’s my vanguard account with 5 million, give me a loan for a 2 million dollar house”? And since you have assets they give you a low interest rate since it’s safe?
I guess I don’t understand how to a seller it’s cash that way as opposed to a traditional home loan.”
lovejangles89 replies:
“Look up Pledged Asset Loans. If you have $5 million of Vanguard ETF at, say, Charles Schwab, they will give you $5 million in an instant loan at insanely low interest (like 1.9% compared to 3.5% mortgage rates for example) that you can use to buy anything except more financial instruments/investments. If you’re that rich, it’s actually by far the easiest/best way to get cash to buy a house; somewhat surprised it wasn’t the norm before COVID for rich people. Maybe the extreme FED printer COVID times was so wild it just inflated normal people’s accounts to levels where taking these PALs out became viable (brokers don’t really offer these loans to poor people…minimum is definitely $100k minimum, and the interest rates suck at that level, it’s only close to $2 million that interest is really low). So brokers just didn’t update their minimums on PALs while wild FED money printer brrrr suddenly made millions of normal people have $100k minimums to get the PALs maybe? Or, just imagine these same type of loans are what can be accessed by big corporations to buy tons and tons of houses at even more crazier scale, like Blackrock could theoretically take out hundreds of billions or something…etc… This is how tons and tons of houses could be selling for super high prices with all cash buyers because in terms of the housing deals, they are cash purchases since PALs are non-purposeful loans, the brokers just deposit a ton of cash into your bank account and you can use it however you want (except buying financial investments). Also look up the Buy, Borrow, Die strategy of most super rich people, PALs are how they accomplish that strategy, most of them literally spend PAL cash to live on instead of selling growing assets or ever paying taxes. If you’re rich enough, it’s always better to live off of PALs and never pay taxes obviously since 1.9% interest per year is way less than 37% max tax rates… However, the thing with PALs is that they also do operate just like margin loans in that the brokerage basically takes ownership of your equities and can sell them automatically at any time they want; if your Vanguard funds drop 30-90% in a bear market, the brokers are probably going to sell all of your equities and leave you with nothing but a massive amount of debt from the leftover portion of the PAL.”
There’s more back-and-forth on these PAL maneuvers and the implications of a falling stock market generating margin calls that put housing assets at risk, leading to a vicious spiral in that market. Sounds like the billionaires are going to be eating the millionaires by the boatload if this scenario occurs. Guess we’ll know soon enough.
The story given about the commercial mortgage market and CMBS certainly sounds believable. I don’t know whether all of the partially occupied malls are included in this category. They certainly should be. But also, the great amount of unoccupied office space.
Gail, 10 yr treasury hits 3%.
the first time since 2018.
of course, inflation was below 3% back then, and now is probably double digits.
should we laugh or cry?
AN AMAZINGLY BLATANT FRAUD BY UKHSA (United Kingdom Health Security Agency)
Read about it here:
http://www.preearth.net/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=1184
Week 3, 2022, of the UKHSA covid-19 surveillance report introduces an amazingly blatant fraud. Here, manipulation of the data presented in Table 11(b) reduces the number of covid-19 deaths reported among vaccinated individuals by a minimum of 48%. The fraud is effected by splitting the reported deaths into two groups, and simply ignoring the deaths in one group.
In the age group 18-29 the fraud reduces 9 deaths to 1 death (a 89% reduction in deaths)
In the age group 30-39 the fraud reduces 40 deaths to 6 deaths (a 85% reduction in deaths)
In the age group 40-49 the fraud reduces 59 deaths to 11 deaths (a 81% reduction in deaths)
In the age group 50-59 the fraud reduces 186 deaths to 44 deaths (a 76% reduction in deaths)
In the age group 60-69 the fraud reduces 418 deaths to 140 deaths (a 67% reduction in deaths)
In the age group 70-79 the fraud reduces 751 deaths to 325 deaths (a 57% reduction in deaths)
In the age group ≥80 the fraud reduces 1882 deaths to 982 deaths (a 48% reduction in deaths)
Previous to Week 3 the last column of Table 11(b) was the 7th column and it was labeled “Second dose ≥14 days before specimen date”. After Week 3, what would have previously been the 7th column was divided into two columns, columns 7 and 8. These were labeled “Second dose ≥14 days before specimen date” and “Third dose ≥14 days before specimen date”. Using the Week 3 data we can easily reconstruct the last column of Table 11(b) as it would have been before the fraud. We obtain;
Age
18-29 9 = (8 + 1)
30-39 40 = (34 + 6)
40-49 59 = (48 + 11)
50-59 186 = (142 + 44)
60-69 418 = (278 + 140)
70-79 751 = (426 + 325)
≥80 1882 = (900 + 982)
From this data the number of deaths, per 100,000, among the vaccinated was calculated for each age group, and recorded as the second to last column of Table 12. This column is next to the last column of Table 12, which records the number of deaths, per 100,000, among the un-vaccinated, for the purpose of comparison.
With the fraud in operation the number of deaths among “suitably triple jabbed” individuals, now reads:
Age
18-29 1
30-39 6
40-49 11
50-59 44
60-69 140
70-79 325
≥80 982
The deaths of vaccinated individuals who are “suitably double jabbed” but not “suitably triple jabbed”, i.e., the deaths recorded in the new column 7, are simply ignored, even though they form the majority of the deaths. As before, the last (the 8th) column of Table 11(b) is fed into the second to last column of Table 12, where the (now much reduced) numbers of deaths, per 100,000, among the vaccinated, are compared with the number of deaths, per 100,000, among the un-vaccinated.
This fraud is quite outrageous. In fact, this fraud is so egregious that those responsible for it should be fired and never allowed to work in the public sector again.
Weeks 2, and 3, 2022, of the surveillance report can be found here and here.
Tables 11(b) and 12 from Week 2 can be found here.
Tables 11(b) and 12 from Week 3 can be found here.
I put up a link to this earlier. It is from a long website. You have to scroll down to find it.
Record Fuel Exports From U.S. Gulf Coast Drain Tanks at Home
(Bloomberg) — Record fuel exports from the U.S. Gulf Coast are eating into domestic supplies, leaving gasoline and diesel tanks on the East Coast emptier than they have been in decades.
As much as 2.09 million barrels a day of gasoline, diesel and jet fuel shipped out of the refining hub in April, the highest level since oil analytics firm Vortexa began tracking the data in 2016. The bulk of the exports went to Latin America.
The strong pull from overseas shows the world needs U.S. Gulf Coast refiners more than ever. But producers there will have to balance lucrative exports with domestic demand heading into the peak travel season this summer, with pump prices already at record highs for diesel and hovering just shy of peak for gasoline.
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/record-fuel-exports-from-u-s-gulf-coast-drain-tanks-at-home-1.1760079
Record fuel exports cause problems in the US. This really should be no surprise. If there is a cutback in Russia’s exports of diesel and of crude oil, the result will be felt around the world, including the US. At some point, the US may have to say “no” to diesel exports, or put a tax on them.
SPECIAL MILITARY OPERATION (LIVE) W/ANDREI MARTYANOV & GONZALO LIRA
https://www.bitchute.com/video/IPrDl414AFM/
One point made near the beginning is that at one time, the people who were mapping out US foreign policy were people experienced in that area, including George H. W. Bush and James Baker. Now, starting with the Clinton administration, the people who get ahead have only academic experience. For example, Jake Sullivan is National Security Advisor, even though he has only academic experience. People coming through the ranks also have this limitation.
It is hard to find time for a 2 hour and 30 minute video.
In other words no conspiracy just diminishing returns in human intelligence levels we are staring now at a crossroads for the superpowers is it war or peace a sign i saw on a local church in my neck of the woods provided the answer it read Armageddon and then Peace.
One definition of Armageddon is
“(in the New Testament) the last battle between good and evil before the Day of Judgment.”
Another is
“The place where the last battle between good and evil will be fought.”
‘According to the Book of Revelations, the final battle in the history of the future will be fought on an ancient battlefield in northern Israel called Armageddon.’
It was also a pathetic Hollywood movie starring the vax injured guy…
Washington & Moscow Have Combined to Make the Ukrainian Situation into Armageddon
“It is now clear that the Kremlin’s limited military operation was a serious mistake. There was no reason for the Russians to believe that Washington would not use the larger part of Ukraine not under attack to force the Russians into a wider war on the West’s terms, a wider war that could have been avoided if the Kremlin had not been so anxious to minimize the use of force. As the situation spirals out of control, we might now be living in our last days.”
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2022/05/02/washington-moscow-have-combined-to-make-the-ukrainian-situation-into-armageddon/
PRC needs to stfu!
Russia has effectively stop the ethnic cleansing killing of Russians in eastern Ukraine and secured the region from any further threat. Massive job successfully done.
They have also seriously weakened, critically weakened the neo- nazi forces.
Russia can now very effectively sweep over Ukraine ending the western influenced government and hold careful elections to secure a neutral gov. Unless the west steps in to ramp up conflict which would be a declaration of war obvious to all of the world and which the west, mostly the EU, would lose and they know it so I doubt it will happen.
The only way things would go that extreme is if things are way worse wrt environment and resources than is publicly acknowledged.
Bottom line is Russia knows what it is doing and PCR is a clueless buffoon.
Why do you keep posting that rubbish?
Why don’t you delete it – like I delete most of your rubbish without reading?
Extinction = Awesome hahaha
I have read several times that the reason Russia invaded Ukraine when it did, versus waiting until later, was because 10,000s of Ukraine troops headed by nazees were building up close to the border with the Donbas region, held by so-called separatists, and that an invasion was imminent. We know what the nazees do when they catch pow’s (and civilians) and it ain’t pretty. Next – global famine.
The post is fine by me, Michael. Taking on a broad spectrum of views is important if we are to have any chance of seeing through the fog of war.
Michael – Mirror is not right in his head… kinda like norm and mike but more malicious .. mike and norm and doddering old men … Mirror is a closet psycho killer…
Ignore him… I just deleted all of his comments — purged 12 — I don’t generally read anything he posts if it’s more than a couple of lines – or he is addressing Fast Eddy.
On the other hand … your posts are to be look forward to … as are Harry’s.
Mirror – humans are vile garbage and we should celebrate the fact that they are all being exterminated. Agree? hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha …
Feel free to unhinge… smash the walls and throw stuff… if you feel like cutting then go for it…
“Peak oil – and thus peak energy – seems to have occurred in November 2018. Global oil consumption in 2022 is now four million barrels a day below that high point. And since oil is essential in the production of coal and gas – and, indeed, of non-renewable renewable energy-harvesting technologies – shortages and the ensuing rise in prices have triggered rises in the cost of energy as a whole. And since everything in the economy depends upon the exergy derived from surplus energy, the result is growing shortages and rising prices across the economy… a situation, by the way, which cannot be resolved by raising interest rates.”
“It is not just that the poor are going to go cold and hungry this winter or that some – particularly among the elderly – unable to afford external heat and lacking the calories to generate enough internally, are going to die of hypothermia. No Tory government – nor, truth be told, recent Labour ones – has been overly exercised about the hardships inflicted on the poor. But the realisation that the pent-up financial wealth of the godzillionaires and corporations at the top is about to disappear via a stagflationary collapse of the currency itself, is enough to have the bought and paid for politicians lying awake at night. And the more they come to realise that what they thought of as wealth is but a claim on future energy which no longer exists, the more their minds recoil in horror.”
https://consciousnessofsheep.co.uk/2022/05/02/the-sound-of-distant-violins/
Perhaps Europe is starting to figure out the true nature of the energy problem it has!
The energy problem it has? Or the energy problem we have?
Thanks, I keep forgetting to visit his blog. What a masterful summation.
“But the realisation that the pent-up financial wealth of the godzillionaires and corporations at the top is about to disappear via a stagflationary collapse of the currency itself, is enough to have the bought and paid for politicians lying awake at night. And the more they come to realise that what they thought of as wealth is but a claim on future energy which no longer exists, the more their minds recoil in horror.”
Seems I’ve got this wrong – some countries are now allowed into nz
New Zealand welcomes back tourists – but not from India or China
The country reopened on Monday to about 60 visa-waiver countries, including Singapore, Malaysia and Japan. Most tourists from India, China and other non-waiver countries are still not allowed to enter.
https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/australasia/article/3176243/coronavirus-new-zealand-reopens-welcomes-back-tourists-not?module=storypackage&pgtype=homepage
I thought I had seen a recent advertisement to people in the US for vacations in New Zealand.
It’s a safe destination – if they’ll let you take an M16 and rounds through customs.
Otherwise, be sure to make a legal Will before entry.
There is also the possibility fast Eddie that that the elders need people to be flying to other countries so when the vaccinated start dropping like flies everyone can say ‘oh look its all the governments fault they opened up the borders to tourists and look what happened ‘
Also they want Devil Covid to spread very fast when it arrives… we need this to go global within days once it hits somewhere…
We do NOT want just one or a few countries being hit by DC… the problem with that is if any core countries are involved (and it will be a high vax core country where this kicks off)…. that will shred BAU — and There Will Be Face Ripping as supply chains and the financial system die.
What they will do is try to hide DC (and the deaths) and continue to operate flights…. because DC will be both Mega Contagious and Deadly — literally within days it will go global….
As we can see loads of countries are welcoming in tourists… Japan is one of the few that has not made a move… although business travellers can enter… maybe we need to watch Japan … when they open does that indicate Devil Covid is imminent?
Funny .. we’ve got record infections hospitalizations and deaths — far more than during the Wuhan Vid… why aren’t the hospitals overwhelmed and health care systems imploding?
Oh – and then you throw in all these vax injuries… seems we should be experiencing a Perfect Storm no?
norm mike — help us to understand… we so want to understand
Moderna will be ready to roll out Omicron-specific booster this fall as US Covid cases surged 51% over the past two weeks, with more than 56,000 cases a day
Moderna’s chief medical officer Dr Paul Burton said an ‘even more superior’ shot would be available in fall
All vaccines are currently based on the Wuhan strain, because of concerns another variant may emerge soon
Fourth vaccines are now being rolled out to all over-50s in the U.S., but uptake of the shots has been slow
More top scientists are raising concerns, saying that further booster doses may not be needed at present
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-10775005/Moderna-ready-roll-Omicron-specific-booster-fall-chief-medical-officer-says.html
There are a number of state maps with this article, showing COVID rates and share of the population with vaccinations.
I get the distinct impression that the COVID rates are higher in the high vaccination states than they are in the low vaccination states.
“All vaccines are currently based on the Wuhan strain, because of concerns another variant may emerge soon”
I can’t follow the logic here . . .
Like, what is the point ?
I would guess that somehow it means that the Wuhan version would somehow be closer to the new variant than Omicron but, of course, the Wuhan version is now gone. Omicron now predominates. So it means the person writing the article doesn’t understand the situation.
https://onceblindstudios.com/wp-content/uploads/obs_BLOG_POST_new_improved2-01.jpg
As neo-marxist state sad new zealand struggles to feed its uneducated feral population (most of them) shopping with a stolen car and entering shops after hours is becoming the norm:
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2022/05/three-break-ins-across-auckland-overnight-as-spike-in-burglaries-continue.html
The fruits of the country’s dysgenics program are becoming obvious to all. Low IQs combined with high risk-seeking behaviour are a deadly mix for this backward (think Appalachians with frontal labotomies) land.
It could have been so different but now it’s too late.
Social workers are spending their days explaining to fourth generation welfare raised families that it’s not ok for brothers to sleep with sisters or daddys to sleep with daughters.
Children are being born with little pigs tails (thanks Gabriel Garcia Marquez) which have to be covered at kindergarten before surgical removal later on.
I weep for this broken near communist collection of islands.
Defender (Kennedy’s publication) discusses how improved sanitation better than vaccines in improving children health; here is the underpinning research study out of India/BMJ
India: researchers from University of California, Irvine (UCI) modestly propose sanitation improvements “may play a role in strengthening [young] children’s immune response”; vaccines cannot say same
https://palexander.substack.com/p/defender-kennedys-publication-discusses
hahahaha….
The local diesel servicing place is two people down and they have to close their doors when their lone worker goes out on a job. The most popular local cafe is having to close one day a week because they can’t find workers. The building supply place, apart from not having any materials, is short of delivery drivers. Everywhere, it seems, there are staff shortages, in a place which never had staff shortages until recently.
But why?
One diner quoted her niece, a 19-year-old, who spends 11 hours a day on Instagram. She is not actually looking for a job. Maybe she is hoping to become an internet influencer, but in the meantime, her only income is the dole. Others talked about friends and family who spend most of the day drugged out, usually on weed or meth. I didn’t ask where the money for the drugs came from. It seems that, in this small West Coast town, there are a lot of people who are capable of working but are not even trying to find a job.
https://thebfd.co.nz/2022/05/03/old-is-gold/
hahahaahahaha — your average nzer is like this:
https://youtu.be/OwDmg74rhCw
Unwatchable. Full of ads.
MMR and Autism
Pharma’s £billion cash cow we’re not allowed to mention
https://georgiedonny.substack.com/p/mmr-and-autism
Mothers of autistic children have been concerned about this possible link for a long time.
Vaxxed would indicate that the link is certain — apparently stuffing 3 in 1 ain’t such a good idea…
Wakefield says if you space them out the incidence of autism decreases dramatically.
So why don’t they space them out?
U.S. Director, Oliver Stone, warns of possible False Flag Nuke in Ukraine
https://nakedemperor.substack.com/p/us-director-oliver-stone-warns-of
If this happens … the facts change…
The last two paragraphs of this False Flag Nuclear article are
I remember that the list of 100 forecasts for 2022 based on the dream analysis from the Middle East, mentioned that something like this might happen in 2022.
Thank you Gail for this further explanation.
Maybe he’s become blind from the vaccines so he can’t read what you write? 😀
“Many People Fully Vaccinated for COVID Are Now Going Blind”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/many-people-fully-vaccinated-covid-now-going-blind/5778951
I know two people who were temporarily blind after the vax:
1. For some hours he was blind – he now has permanent heart damage
2. For about 15 minutes she was totally blind — immediately upon injection – she stayed at the chemist to wait it out … and her sight returned.
So mike – there is hope… it may not be permanent.
That other pre-existing condition is permanent though … it also stops you from seeing
I suppose that if you imagine that in the absence of the vaccine, some large share of people catching COVID will die (say 10% or 20%) then a few hundred people going blind is not too terrible. If you assume the COVID is a treatable disease and very few ill die, it is quite different.
Musk… is an invention … and no – there will be no Great Reset…
A Picture is worth a Thousand Words
NE – nakedemperor.substack.com
Freedom of speech saviour or WEF controlled opposition?
Elon said 2008 was the “worst year of my life”. His companies were nearly dead and he was broke and in debt.
What else happened in 2008?
WEF Young Global Leaders list and article.
Since 2008, Elon hasn’t looked back.
When purchasing Twitter, Musk said he wanted to authenticate all Twitter users as human. Digital Identification?
Neuralink, another Musk company, wants to connect human brains to computers. Transhumanism is a key goal of the WEF.
I have still not made up my mind but I will certainly remain sceptical for the foreseeable future. Obviously he was an immensely successful entrepreneur before 2008 but often with these successful entrepreneurs there is a hidden helping hand allowing the success to become possible.
https://nakedemperor.substack.com/p/a-picture-is-worth-a-thousand-words-7bc
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He says vax is safe the only side effect is allergic and can be treated with an epi pen.
There is no doubt he is smart enough to know the many bad effects of the vax. This means he is part of the system.
Although he and his countless number of children were not vaccinated.
Pretty obvious to me thay his success is important to US Miller tary; sateliites, rockets, electronics, software.
Teslas are basically printed from reserve currency strength; no important business need fail.
BREAKING: Judicial Watch FOIA: Pfizer/BioNTech Study Found Lipid Nanoparticles Materials Outside Injection Site in Test Animals; MATCHES the Japanese biodistribution findings
This supports what we have been saying all along, that the vaccine and its content leave the injection site (we were told it would not) & DANGEROUSLY enters the blood stream and goes all over the body
https://palexander.substack.com/p/breaking-judicial-watch-foia-pfizerbiontech
James Howard Kunstler likes to refer to it as the Covid vaccine “fun factory”.
Good grief! A person would think that the vaccines would be recalled by now, but that doesn’t happen.
> Russia’s oil revenues expected to soar
The state budget will get 45% more in taxes than last year
Russia will see its income from the oil sector rise sharply this year and reach more than $180 billion, despite production cuts related to international sanctions, suggests a report published by independent research house Rystad Energy on Monday.
Thanks to the rising oil prices, Russia’s tax revenues will be 45% higher than last year and a whopping 181% higher than in 2020, Rystad Energy says.
“Europe’s dependence on Russian energy has been a deliberate and decades-long and mutually beneficial relationship. In this early phase of sanctions and embargoes, Russia will benefit as higher prices mean tax revenues are significantly higher than in recent years.” says Daria Melnik, a senior analyst at Rystad Energy.
According to the firm, the initial issues Russia had with its oil exports when European customers started shunning its oil were quickly resolved and loadings began to recover in late March, supported by orders from China and India. Russian crude exports remained resilient in April.
The EU, the US and their allies imposed sanctions against Russia with the aim of starving the country of cash and forcing it to abandon its military operation in Ukraine. However, Europe’s high dependence on Russian oil and gas has meant that turning away from it has proven problematic. The EU has pledged to phase out Russian gas by 2030.
https://www.rt.com/business/554854-russia-oil-revenues-soar/
It has been correctly said that a respect for the truth is the basis for all morality, so a war against the truth is a war against morality, against all that is good and decent. Without an ability to see reality and detect lies, without a moral compass, people are literally no more than dumb beasts, mules to be worked and exploited by their owners, or sheep to be led to the slaughter. “Fake news” is a term a bit too cute and cozy for the black art of intentionally erasing the very intellect and morality that makes us human. It seeks to dumb down and degrade Humanity to the point to where people are no longer human. And that point is fast approaching, and for many, is already here.
https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/no-its-not-fake-news-its-nazi-propaganda
A different way of framing the situation–probably right.
Everyone keeps saying “nazi” this and “nazi” that.
Apparently, everybody thinks that mass propaganda in the West is a new thing, only one or two decades old.
But that is not so.
Let me give readers here just a little pinch to see if it wakes any of them up.
1. Ukraine is not run or owned by “nazis”. It is in fact run by people whose propaganda identity has traditionally been strongly juxtaposed to that of nazis. These people have a very nasty record of ethnic cleansing in their current homeland.
2. The situation of Putin/Donbass/ethnic cleansing/deliberate Western European (City of London) trouble making and war provocation is almost identical to what was done to Hitler and Germany via Poland, Prussia and Czechoslovakia in the 1930s.
3. The Germans did not in fact do 95% of the things that they have been charged with doing in WW2 – that what they did do was entirely within established international norms and precedents – and no reliable (or even common sense) evidence has ever been brought forth that they did commit the dastardly crimes with which they have been slandered these last 70 years.
Their chief crime was to not want to be governed out of Wall Street and the City of London and that they declined to use the international lending system (SWIFT avant la lettre)
4. The crimes of the “good guys”, whether the Red Army, Bomber Command, or the Allied Occupation forces, rank among the worst in history and are well established with every kind of evidence that can be commanded
5. The lies began long ago. Must we become their echo chambers?
When I was young I worked some years in Sales for a multinational company.
Our coordinator sometimes said during sales meeting: ”there is nothing wrong with doing a bit of ‘healthy terrorism’ towards the customer.
After all, we sell products for their own good, and if they don’t understand, it’s not wrong to scare them a little bit..”
https://youtu.be/-h3i9jNHfz4
I expected the usual ‘youtube preview’, but as there is not a preview, I anticipate to you that the above is a link to last Bill Gates’ words about doing the ‘right investments’ to avoid a next phase of pandemic deaths…
It is short, I suggest you.
FUD fear uncertainty and doubt Make them want your produce to save themselves.
(machine translation)
> What happened in Ukraine on May 2
Statements of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation
In the morning briefing, the representative of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation , Igor Konashenkov , said that over the previous day, 38 military facilities of Ukraine were hit by high-precision air-launched missiles of the Russian Aerospace Forces. Among them: 4 control points, 30 strongholds and areas of concentration of manpower and military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, 3 warehouses of missile and artillery weapons in the areas of Pervomaisky and Ilyichevka. The Osa AKM anti-aircraft missile system (SAM) and a battery of multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS) in the Arkhangelovka area were also destroyed.
Operational-tactical and army aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces hit 27 strongholds and areas of accumulation of manpower and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as well as a weapons and ammunition depot near the village of Chervonoe (Zaporozhye region). Up to 160 personnel and 26 units of Ukrainian armored vehicles were liquidated.
The missile troops hit 9 strongholds and areas of concentration of manpower and equipment, as well as a BM-21 Grad MLRS battery and an artillery battery in firing positions.
Artillery units hit 26 command posts, 78 strongholds, 359 manpower and equipment concentration areas, and 67 artillery firing positions. Six ammunition depots, up to 280 personnel and 43 units of weapons and military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed.
10 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) were destroyed by means of air defense (air defense) in the areas of the settlements of Vesele, Borshchevo and Balakliya (Kharkiv region), Kiselevka (Kherson region), Mayak (Zaporozhye region), Dokuchaevsk, Korsun and Khanzhinkovo ( Donetsk People’s Republic, DPR), as well as in the Lugansk region. Two Tochka-U tactical missiles were shot down in the area of the settlement of Petrovskoe (Lugansk People’s Republic, LPR), and a Smerch rocket was eliminated in the Donetsk region.
A MiG-29 fighter of the Ukrainian Air Force was shot down in an air battle over Slavyansk.
In an evening briefing, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported that 36 Ukrainian military facilities were hit by high-precision air-launched missiles during the day. Among them: 5 command and control posts, including the command and observation posts of the battalions of the 95th air assault and 81st airmobile brigades; 25 strongholds and areas of concentration of manpower and military equipment – including the banned Nazi battalion “Aidar” * in the Aleksandrovka area.
In the area of N. p. Pokrovskoe (Dnepropetrovsk region) destroyed a warehouse of rocket and artillery weapons and ammunition. Also, in the area of Mezheva, 4 launchers of the S-300 air defense system and a reconnaissance and guidance radar were destroyed.
The operational-tactical and army aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces hit 13 strongholds and areas of concentration of manpower and military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. During the day, the missile troops hit 4 areas of accumulation of equipment, as well as 2 control points – including in the Podalovka area.
Artillery units hit 2 command posts, 8 artillery batteries, 12 strongholds and 28 areas of concentration of manpower and military equipment. Up to 170 nationalists were destroyed, as well as 36 units of weapons and military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Air defense systems in the area of Snake Island destroyed 3 Bayraktar-TB2 UAVs. Also, 4 Ukrainian UAVs were shot down in the areas of the settlement. Chervony Oskol and Nevskoye in the Kharkiv region, as well as Veseloe (DPR). In addition, 5 Smerch rockets were intercepted in the areas of Izyum, Topolsky and Malaya Kamyshevakha.
In total, 146 aircraft, 112 helicopters, 690 UAVs, 285 air defense systems, 2,760 tanks and other combat armored vehicles, 316 MLRS, 1,246 field artillery pieces and mortars, as well as 2,578 units of special military vehicles have been destroyed since the beginning of the operation.
https://riafan.ru/23162051-chto_proizoshlo_na_ukraine_2_maya_bairaktari_nad_zmeinim_pozhar_na_azovstali
They have settled into a safe style of war. Find the enemy by satellite, air surveillance, drone surveillance then bomb them from ship at sea, from aircraft, from missile launcher on ground. All by remote action.
Blow up a few old buildings while the drones are filming… kills a handful of people….
Call it war
Russia calls it a special military operation.
Nevertheless, it is likely that 10s of thousands of Ukrainian military will be dead by the end of it.
crisis actors must make a good living
in eddyworld
is there a crisis-acting agency?
where do i sign up?
> They have settled into a safe style of war. Find the enemy by satellite, air surveillance, drone surveillance then bomb them from ship at sea, from aircraft, from missile launcher on ground. All by remote action.
The US way – all happy now?
Go Russia!
Here’s another one about Zelensky and Kolomoisky. The excerpt below makes sense of Kolomoisky’s financial interest in Michigan Tubular Steel not so long ago.
https://pete843.substack.com/p/zelensky-and-kolomoisky?s=r
Ihor Kolomoisky “also managed to seize the largest reserves of natural gas in Ukraine. A 2012 study of Burisma Holdings done in Ukraine by the AntiCorruption Action Centre (ANTAC), an investigative nonprofit co-funded by American billionaire George Soros and the U.S. State Department, found that the true owner of Burisma Holdings was none other than Ukrainian billionaire-oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky.
https://archive.ph/HYr3k
The study, which was funded to dig up corruption on the Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, instead found that Ihor Kolomoisky “managed to seize the largest reserves of natural gas in Ukraine”
A strange story of extensive corruption.
‘Italy open to pay temporarily for Russian gas with rubles
Roberto Cingolani, Italy’s green transition minister, wants a transition where utilities could pay in Russian currency without violating sanctions.’
https://www.politico.eu/article/italy-eu-energy-pay-russia-gas-rubles/
Finally a “temporary” measure I can agree with! flatten the curve!
Describing a situation as “temporary” seems to make it more palatable.
Count on the Italians to finesse it!
Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov gave an interview to Al Arabiya TV in Saudi on Friday.
He discusses Russia’ security needs, and the aggressive expansion of NATO onto Russia’s doorstep. NATO has reneged on guarantees that were given to Russia when the USSR was dissolved that NATO would not expand eastward. NATO has built bases and weapons systems in Ukraine that are capable of reaching Russia.
Ukraine suffered a bloody coup to install a regime that is hostile to Russia, and that has constantly attacked Russian speakers in the east for 8 years. Russia had no choice but to recognise and to defend the republics in the east. Russia’s position remains that Ukraine must desist from expanding NATO.
Lavrov is very concise and focused, and the interview is conducted entirely in English. He sounds very reasonable. NATO really needs to back off.
> Full interview with Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov
The show host is quite dense and the audio quality for Lavrov is poor. I would recommend the India Today interview with Lavrov (below) over this one. The only downside is Indian channels tend to have distracting visuals.
India TV I now have epilepsy how can anyone watch that?
Think of Indian art: they just transposed the jarring contrasts and vivid colours to TV. But even better – flashing!
Thanks! The audio is much better. There has been a long history of poor relations with the EU, it sound like.
Lavrov’s English is better than 90% of native English speakers.
He is an extremely polished Statesman, both he and Putin appear to be the only two grownups in the room.
You MUST understand that NATO needs and WANTS a war with Russia because the global economy is collapsing. TPTB need a cover to reset the system so hence they are using Ukraine as an excuse.
They will certainly use it as cover, but I doubt that was the original plan. I think they thought coordinated “shock-and-awe” sanctions on top of war related expenses would collapse Russia’s banking system and economy, paving the way for resource pillaging in the aftermath and thus preservation of the western status quo.
Instead, they slit their own throats and are only now, very slowly, beginning to realize it. You can tell from the hysteria that their system is in jeopardy.
Yes, USA has suffered failures and defeats going back to Vietnam. More recently it failed in Libya, Iraq, Syria, and most recently in Afghanistan. We have come to expect a complete debacle from USA and NATO, and it continues to deliver, now in the Ukraine.
The global economy is indeed about to reconfigure, but it will not be going back to anything that suits USA hegemony, let alone Western Europe. This NATO debacle is the turning point, and energy flows, and power balances will shift toward Eurasia.
The economic and financial structure for that shift is being put in place right now, and the trend will only accelerate going forward. USA really blew it this time. Anyone who imagines that USA is some omnipotent ‘god’ or something has not being paying attention.
How should NATO defend Europe when they accidentially bombed the chinese embassy in Belgrade ?
“accidentally”
The Chinese haven’t forgotten, by the way.
Did the US really fail in Iraq? Plenty of oil were being pumped and sold from Iraq. Cheap pil, the kind of oil the world economy needs.
Libya did not add as much oil as Iraq, maybe a failure.
Regardning Afgahnistan, leaving Afgahnistan must have been a relief for the military budgets so not necessarrilly a failure.
Scott discusses the rise of the ‘ministry of truth’ in USA, and the collapse of the ‘free speech’ that is structural to USA’s self-perception.
And the real situation in the Ukraine where Russia is gradually ‘grinding down’ Ukrainian forces in the east to zero with a kill rate of 15:1.
Scott is joined by Ray McGovern, who is also a former CIA officer. They also discuss Poland, Moldova, Transnistria.
> Scott Ritter Updated Ukraine/Russia War
Starts with discussion of “Ministry of Truth.” “Ministry of Truth” implies the US government determines what is “true.” This is opposite of the constitution.
Now in Phase 2 of the Russian invasion. There are 10 to 15 Ukrainian casualties to 1 Russian casualties. Russia is clearly winning.
Yep.
Like I said . . .
Boris Johnson has been mouthing off about he is going to nuke Russia.
We don’t need irresponsible statements like this from Boris Johnson.
Boris is denying it:
“Downing Street last night rejected claims on Russian state TV that Boris Johnson threatened to carry out a nuclear strike against Russia… last night Downing Street said these claims were ‘another example of disinformation peddled by the Kremlin’.
“A statement added: ‘The UK Government is entirely united with its Nato allies in supporting Ukraine against Russia’s illegal invasion.’”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10753035/Russia-Ukraine-war-No10-dismisses-baseless-Moscow-claims-Boris-Johnson-nuclear-threat.html
No country is going to nuke another country – it’s never going to happen. It’s a ridiculous threatening narrative meant to put everyone on their heels. Contemplating the prospect of sudden annihilation is a form of naval gazing and is disempowering. Governments love playing the nuclear threat card but it is simply more of their empty “Great and Powerful Oz” posturing. They’ll sell you fear in a dozen different ways (e.g. terrorism, viral pandemic, nuclear war, global temperature increases, etc.) – it doesn’t mean you have to buy it.
Never say never
One country bombing another country with conventional explosives? Sure, that happens.
One country nuking another country? Nope. Never going to happen.
You can add Kim Jong Un to the list of paper tigers:
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/kim-jong-un-warns-preemptive-nuclear-strike-if-north-korea-threatened
Your confidence is sweet.
But the reality comes down to one thing:
How the jackasses in DC conduct themselves.
I just finished reading the speech by Rear Admiral Hyman Rickover. Incredibly articulate, well-reasoned, and shockingly accurate. Incredible to see such intelligence from a military officer as most of my experience with the officer class of the military made me believe that they are merely concerned with blindly following and giving orders until their military pension kicks in and they can leave for a “veterans” job at some corporation looking to fill a quota and appear patriotic.
Times perhaps have changed. This speech took place about a year after M. King Hubbert delivered his talk about the finiteness of fossil fuels. But M. King Hubbert did not draw the many conclusions that Rickover did. I think both of these people thought that nuclear energy might be a solution.
I know that I was invited to participate in a symposium at the Naval War College in 2010 on the topic of what problems the Navy would be pulled into as limits would be hit in the coming years. The war college was trying to develop “games” to simulate what might be ahead. I talked about inadequate funding for the Navy as one of the issues. I probably should have mentioned breaking supply lines as being an issue.
Rickover seems to have been a forceful personality, too.
On visiting the British navy, he started by telling the C-in-C, Mountbatten, that ‘Your organisation is awful!’
He had the reputation of cutting right to the heart of the matter.
They called Rickover ‘the stormy petrel’.
I bet he got things done…..
I agree, saw him being interviewed on 60 minutes with Mike Wallace decades ago.
Just remember sadly responding he would more than willing to give up all his accomplishments and honors/awards if we never created nuclear weapons..remember he is known as the father of the US Nuclear Navy, and he predicted that we will destroy ourselves in the end. Seems we are right in course….that should make some here happy.
Renowned Doctors such as Dr. Pierre Kory, Dr. Peter McCullough and mRNA creator Dr. Robert Malone have strongly warned of the potential consequence to infants and toddlers.
“Moderna Poised to Commit Infanticide”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/vaccine/moderna-poised-to-commit-infanticide/
Moderna is officially coming for toddlers and infants under five. The company submitted a formal request with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), claiming the vaccine is 51% effective among toddlers under two and 37% effective in the two to five-year-old range. Instead of the standard two-100 microgram doses, the youngest among the population will receive two 25-microgram doses.
“I think it is likely that over time they will need additional doses. But we’re working on that,” Moderna’s Chief Medical Officer Dr. Paul Burton stated.
They will continue to force vaccines on everyone in the population. There is no telling the long-term effects of injecting a gene-altering medication into a baby, but Big Pharma is willing to risk lives for profits and government is will risk lives to retain control over a scared and uninformed population. Only 475 children under five have died from COVID, according to the Associated Press. There is absolutely no need for a vaccination for this demographic.
There are reports of babies dying through breast milk contaminated with the vaccination. Countless top doctors have warned against vaccinating children in general. Even the World Health Organization has even admitted that healthy adolescents do not need boosters, despite Pfizer filing a claim to have theirs approved for the five to twelve-year-old kids. Not to be outdone, Pfizer said it will have a vaccine for babies by the summer.
Since parents are reluctant to destroy their child’s development, the powers that be will continue to force mandates. They will push for universal passports to document everyone, including the youngest, most vulnerable members of society. They want us to inject ourselves repeatedly from birth until death for a virus that even Fauci no longer calls a pandemic.
They probably also seek – horrible as it is to contemplate – significant infant deaths which they can mis-portray as due to Covid, and use to justify mandates and turn the masses against he un-vaxxed.
There can be no doubt about that. Remember – they murdered 500k children in Iraq… and said ‘it was worth it’.
End of the day … if we are all going to die — and to accomplish that and at the same time avoid Face Ripping —- it is necessary to sacrifice a few thousand babies…
The ‘Just Do It’…
This is they way ‘they’ think… it’s all very mechanical… they have learned to shut off emotions… because emotions can get you in big trouble…
Kinda like how we wash our hair with shampoo… that was tested by prying open the eyes of monkeys and sloshing a wide range of chemicals onto the eyeballs… and observing how loudly the monkeys howled in pain… and we don’t give that a second thought… it’s… normal.
Real Estate Roundup: South Florida rents up 58% in two years, report says
Housing crisis.
Single family 4 bed 3 bath house next to us was sold few months ago. New owner has purchased it for income property-rental. She transformed this house to one- one bedroom unit, studio and one two bedroom apartment Seems like whoever leaves on one the side of the house has no AC, kitchen or may be even bathroom, they hang their clothes to dry on the fence. Freshly cut-in exterior door is always open. So we end up with many people entering this house from all different sides, no proper renovation, no lawn care…Now we are raising kids next to this house and now I am concerned for safety…
City doesn’t care.
Can anyone recommend what to do? Or am I overly concerned?
Same thing next door to me.
Converted single family home into split unit AND enlarged in-law quarters in back yard.
Tapped all this into one septic system that failed shortly thereafter.
Code enforcement can’t/won’t do anything. Not allowed on property to investigate allegations.
Hialeah mentality has run rampant in So Fla. “ Do what ever you want, rules don’t apply to us “
AND
“Eees sokay my freeng”
Good luck trying to reverse this
This was from my neighborhood city blog posts….seems BAU doesn’t work anymore..
Gentrification of the city and slumification of the suburbs while BAU struggles on? It’s unclear where this was in Florida but didn’t Kunstler talk about about the suburbs turning into future slums because we can’t maintain them.
I am doubtful that the cities do any better than the suburbs. They are dependent on everything from outside. With little energy consumption per capita, it is not possible to maintain big hubs of energy consumption.
We’ve been seeing city gentrification in recent years while the suburbs decline. Maybe that trend will end very soon and everyone will collapse. I suppose it depends if BAU can stagger for a few more years or if things will break suddenly if the power grid goes down or some other big show stopper black-swan.
I have been saying that cities and suburbs will be equally bad. only rural communities will survive.
it’s part of the dynamic of ‘living’—the struggle to maintain BAU in the face of inevitable collapse.
so the wealthy acquire more and more wealth producing assets—but that means acquiring property, because that is where most of the transferable wealth now lies. Houses are recognised as ‘valuable’.
this is temporary, because the ‘value’ of a house is defined only by what someone else will pay for it.
that property is rented out to those lower down the property ladder, who have no option but to try to retain a roof over their heads, at any cost. We are re-establishing the rentier economy.
but their real income (from other sources) is in depletion, because its base-source, (fossil fuel) is also in depletion.
those lower down the income scale are thus in a vice, screwed between diminishing income in real terms, and increasing demand on that income by those in possession of essential resources—housing and food.
which is exactly the situation we were in 300 years ago.
the minority of landowners screwed over the peasants. They ‘owned’ everything, and rented it out in return for labour.
in 50 years time—100 at most, that is where most of us, and our descendants, will be.
by that time, ‘property’ will be owned by the minority—-the rest of us will be granted the privelege of working on it.
It’s in South Florida/Broward County…on my block this is happening and it seems the local government is not overseeing it at all.
Real Estate has gone up 20% in one year…
Close to a thousand of people are moving to Florida every day.
That’s a 15% population increase across the state over the last 10 years, according to the most recent census data.
Once travel restrictions stopped, we lost a few homes because they would rather isolate in paradise. I mean, why not?” Carter told WPTV. “But the past couple of years, I think, it’s grown pretty exponentially.”
Snowbirds come with a lot of spending power, money that keeps local economies churning.
RELATED: New York City companies continue to relocate to Palm Beach County
“A few of them said their house up north, because of where they were located, had got such a high price that they just sold it,” Carter said. “They said it was time, and they figured they’d make this their home.”
Experts like Sofia Johan, an associate professor of finance at Florida Atlantic University, said snowbirds are only one part of the problem.
“It’s not just the snowbirds that are moving here,” Johan said. “There are many educated people who are following the jobs. And the jobs are created because we’re not only creating an educated workforce but an educated workforce that’s dedicated to living here because they love the lifestyle, the low taxes, the friendliness of businesses, the diversity of industry.”
Larger companies like hedge fund Elliott Management, Goldman Sachs and Virtu Financial are finding fertile ground for relocation in Florida.
“More importantly, the outside investors are now investing in the real estate here unlike before institutional investors,” Johan said.
Those highly-skilled jobs are attracting high-wage earners who are contributing to increased housing demands and pricing. But they’re coming to Florida with pockets that can more than foot the bill.
“It makes you worry,” Carter said. “It definitely makes you worry.”
It may seem out of reach, but many people are hoping not impossible.
“It would be interesting to see whether the wages are increasing in line with the higher payments to be made,” Johan said. “When we talk about interest rates, remember it’s car payments, it’s credit card payments, it’s systemic. Everybody’s talking about the house prices but let’s not forget your credit card rates will go up, your car loan rates will go up. It’s going to continue to be painful.”
In the meantime, demand is far outpacing supply, driving up the pressure on your pocket in more ways than one.
I should add many from surrounding countries are moving and relocating here to South Florida….see it everyday
“Protests erupt across Europe as tens of thousands rally to honor workers on May Day…
“Tensions erupted in Paris, as some demonstrators smashed windows at some banks, a fast-food restaurant and a real estate agency. French police moved in, firing rounds of tear gas…
“Turkish police detained 164 people for demonstrating without permits and resisting police… Rising inflation and fears of upcoming food shortages from the war in Ukraine are feeding discontent around the world.”
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2022/05/01/may-day-protests-europe-workers/9608397002/
“Three people were wounded by gunfire and two arrested in clashes at May Day demonstrations in Chile, police said.
“The shooting occurred during a Sunday march called by a union in the capital Santiago as some protesters erected barricades and entered commercial premises, clashing with merchants.”
https://www.brecorder.com/news/amp/40170715
“At the end of May Day, protests continued to rage across Colombia, and a couple of months after the one-year anniversary of the initial lockdown marking the COVID-19 pandemic.”
https://thecitypaperbogota.com/opinion/opinion-human-rights-violations-mount-with-colombia-protests/
“Peru’s annual inflation rate hit 7.96% in April, its highest level in 24 years, as the copper-producing Andean nation grapples with protests over rising food and energy costs…”
https://leaderpost.com/pmn/business-pmn/perus-annual-inflation-rate-hits-24-year-high-in-april
“Nigeria: May Day Amid Strike Fevers…. Already, Nigerian workers and their counterparts in the informal sector are struggling to cope with low purchasing power…
“This year’s May Day comes at a time when the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and other organised Labour groups are in a “war” mood.”
https://allafrica.com/stories/202205020065.html
War Mood…..
This is bound to compound the food inflation rate which is currently at 17.2 per cent.
Inflation is no doubt much higher than what the hordes are being told…. at some point they hit a breaking point … they simply won’t be able to live on what their income can purchase…
Then .. War Mood becomes Face Ripping Mood.
They will loot… and kill … and when that only makes the situation worse — they will be looking to blame …
Who will they blame? The elites — the politicians… and/or whoever they are told to blame…
If I am a minion of the Elders — and the hordes are coming… would I not try to convey a message that I am not responsible…. it’s those money lenders at the Fed… THEY are the ones… those greedy bastards who sacrifice Christian children to make their Passover bread — yes THEM – they are the ones!!!
It would suck to be an Elder (or a family member of an Elder!) when the horde arrives… who would protect you from the hordes? Why would they even try… What’s the upside — the hordes are many … and if anyone tries to stop them then they (and their families) are targeted.
If I am expected to protect the Elders… as soon as I realize this is the end of BAU — I’m like f789 this .. I’m not gonna shoot at the horde… I’m gonna Step Aside and open the gate… and I am going to join the horde…
They’re in there! Yes in there! With Champagne and Caviar — while you eat rat meat this is how they live — in opulence …. The mob will be unhinged as they open the inner sanctum door and see the fat old men with their heaps of delicious food … their stacks of gold bars… their young mistresses…
The Elders will be in shock — for they have never had any interaction anyone but their minions — what is this rabble???? How dare they – guards! GUARDS!!! But there will be no guards…
Recall how Gaddafi died – have a look:
https://youtu.be/ZLGY5czS1XQ
Anyone not understand why the Elders would want to kill everyone before it comes to Ripping of Faces?
Fast Eddy opens the floor to questions and comments… mike?
A person might think that higher copper prices would help offset the rising food and energy prices. Peru only produces 2.2 million tons of copper, compared to 5.7 million tons for Chile. Perhaps the amount of copper produced isn’t enough to uplift the whole economy.
Nice photo … Mad Maxish
https://i.brecorder.com/large/2022/05/0210422696063a7.jpg?r=104433
Millions March on May Day, from France to Turkey to Chile
In Chile, three people were wounded by gunfire at a rally in the capital Santiago after vigilante street vendors opened fire on May Day protesters. Elsewhere in Santiago, thousands marched to celebrate a 12.5% increase in the minimum wage approved by the … https://www.democracynow.org/2022/5/2/headlines/millions_march_on_may_day_from_france_to_turkey_to_chile
How much is that cup of coffee gonna cost now?
I called it and told Fast, this is what I saw coming and this is only the beginning. This will end with the pissed off Plebs storming the Castle Gates around the world with pitchforks and torches once they figure out their leaders have intentionally lied to them and screwed up their lives.
This always ends in violence because as the saying goes: “When People Lose Everything And Have Nothing Else To Lose….THEY LOSE IT”
Yes of course at some point we get Ripping of Faces….
So far that has been kept in check… and I only see that happening if the UEP fails….
UEP was created specifically to pre-empt ripping of faces — to make sure we go with a whimper rather than in an 8B person vicious dog fight.
If UEP is failing or delayed … and the hordes begin to Rip… I suspect we’ll get a full on response from governments — the troops will shoot to kill to force the MOREONS back into their homes
Higher wages for workers would be greatly appreciated by many, but this is difficult to do with high energy costs leading to high costs of production, even apart from the wages of workers.
I hadn’t bought a coffee in over a year due to the lockdowns and passports.. there has been a bump in minimum wage here… all that did (along with the price of beans) was drive the price of the coffee up by a dollar+ Call it 20%…
There are no solutions to this.
The supermarkets remain full … the power on … petrol is available…. but we can see how Mr DNA reacts when he senses danger… the fangs are unsheathing…
What would it take for him to start Ripping Faces? A single missed meal – cuz the cupboard was bare? Or even sooner — as soon as he realizes that the supply chain is rupturing… and what’s in the cupboard is the last of the food…
Unless… unless… he takes food from others… unless … he captures a child and roasts it….
The UEP is incredibly necessary…. we cannot allow Mr DNA to get wind of the collapse of BAU…
We must exterminate. We must. We have to.
Go Fauci Go! Do whatever it takes… Inject the babies…
I was thinking that Chinese ‘zero Covid’ strategy is also a message for who can be behind the next lab pandemic:
– ”in case of another lab pandemic we (Chinese) could decide not to follow your strategy of ‘jabs’ and, in contrast, follow again our strategy of ‘zero virus’ and inflict great pain to us, but also to you with supply chain destruction for long time”.
I don’t understand how the “zero virus” policy makes sense as a health measure. Letting the virus rip would cause less death and destruction than locking down cities full of people. It looks like this is being done to reduce energy consumption, but I’m open to other explanations such as to collapse the West by emptying the shelves of Walmart and Home Depot as part of a fiendish and inscrutable plan.
In my view it is not a health measure for them, but a conflict measure or an economic and social measure.
Maybe all of them, but surely not a health measure.
Perhaps it is a way to hide some of the other problems occurring, such as defaults by property developers. It seems like banks would be heading for difficulty as well. It definitely helps push the problems to other parts of the world.
When tested against the hypothesis: “Peak Oil has happened but must be denied”, just everything makes sense.
Pandemic (w lockdowns), war, “boycott” of Russian oil and gas, China lockdowns, Great Reset… Everything fits as a glove to desperate attempts to maintain the current socioeconomic system despite declining energy resources.
In the runup to PeakOil all that “climate” thing also makes sense as a futile attempt to acheive volountary reductions of energy consumtion under altruistic labels.
I dont think anyone is planning this, more than Carl Jungs Collective Unconscious.
No nobody invented the CovCON… it just happened… and the same people didn’t tell the MSM and social media to block anyone who opposed the CovCON… just happened…
Meanwhile NYC is upping the ante hahaha https://t.me/chiefnerd/3399
hahaha… gotta stop people from flying https://t.me/c/1588731774/11230
Friends just booked flights from NZ to the UK — NZD14,000+ per ticket — front of the plane but WTF …. that’s more than double what it was in 2019…. hahahaha…. BAU no longer being feasible… that is insane
People will think twice about taking a two week vacation to New Zealand.
Not allowed. Only citizens and Aussies allowed to come into the country.
Still!? What are you waiting for????
Wrong. Over sixty countries allowed entry since this Monday.
It will be a brief opening…
‘Sad’ NZ doesn’t want to lose its sad-sters and their money to overseas destinations.