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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.
Are you ready?
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Regarding the efficacy of the covid ‘vaccines’…
It takes a very stoooopid MOREON to argue that the vaccines are effective at all…
The thing is…
The vaccines do oppose the virus for a few months — but they are leaky — so the virus wins… the vaccine MUST impede the virus to some extent – otherwise the virus would not mutate….
So the efficacy refers to the period where the vaccine prevents you from dying — but all that does is cause another variant of the virus to emerge … you can shoot more joy juice at it but the period of protection wanes even more rapidly …. then you get another mutation and as we are seeing now — the vaccine has almost zero effect on it …
Meanwhile your immune system is being wrecked by the injection making you more susceptible to the mutations — and eventually we will get a mutation that kills all who injected the vaccine…
Let’s put this in perspective — the average age of a person who dies from covid is 82 with 3+ comorbidities … the survival rate – even in that at risk community is well over 99%…. in young healthy communities the survival rate is basically 100%
Remind me of why anyone would inject this experimental sh it into their bodies….
Oh right — they are Stooooopid MOREONS…. makes perfect sense if you are a stooooopid MOREON.
Remember how they were told this hahaha – I never get tired of watching this https://twitter.com/Lukewearechange/status/1463932846570192901 then they went out and got more injections hahahahaha
Like you did right mike?
I see the finger prints of the UEP PR Team … all over this ‘war’ in ukraine
Putin to test terrifying ‘Doomsday’ plane tomorrow in horror warning to West
https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1607109/putin-doomsday-plane-victory-day-moscow-russia-red-square
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/escobar-megalopolis-x-russia-total-war
western woketards don’t get that they are losing the Total War.
“So yes, this is Totalen Krieg, Total War – as Glazyev spells it out with no attenuation, and how Russia denounced it this week at the UN: “Russia needs to stand up to the United States and NATO in its confrontation, bringing it to its logical conclusion, so as not to be torn between them and China, which is irrevocably becoming the leader of the world economy.”
“History may eventually register, 77 years after the end of WWII, that neocon/neoliberalcon psyychos in Washington silos instigating an inter-Slavic war by ordering Kiev to launch a blitzkrieg against Donbass was the spark that led to the Fall of the U.S. Empire.”
a commenter:
“Here’s a Ukrainian who explains how she and her family were used by Azov at Azovstal as human shields, and she’s devastated by her own Ukraine government doing such a thing. She then adds that she told Western Press (as it were) of this, and they reworked her words to make it appear as if she’d accused Russia instead, which really upset her.”
it seems all of the human shields may have finally been removed from Azovstal.
so now the Azov natzeee soldiers either surrender or die.
I hope they don’t surrender.
Sounds like an awesome fantasy … never any video of actual fighting though…
Oh and given the UEP why bother to fight a real war – to what end?
A fake war makes sense… it removes Covid from the headlines and gets the MOREONS to focus on some other BS — while we wait on Devil Covid.
Oh I see – it’s total pregnancy…
Amping up the fear…. final preparations are underway to get the hordes ready for the Extinction Event…
Why else would they do this? https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/just-a-reminder
More final preps….
Electricity Shortage Warnings Across U.S.
https://hiddencomplexity.substack.com/p/electricity-shortage-warnings-across
final preparations for the CEP!
(what? the CEP is dead? but weren’t they preparing for over a year? oh, it was really the UEP, okay, carry on then.)
the intentional release of gain-of-function SARS2 in late 2019 has now killed billions!
(what? it hasn’t? okay, carry on then.)
the toxic “vaccines” have now killed billions!
(what? it hasn’t? okay, carry on then.)
something is gonna kill billions, and like really soon!
Enjoy your happy moments.. they won’t last
Yes, doom is vastly over rated. We humans have conquered the planet, we have conquered space, we have conquered ourselves; we are by definition resilient, our numbers continue to increase.
Even to the dismay of some, most of the vaxxed will go on as before; life is what it is, we are along for the ride, a smile goes a long way.
Dennis L.
We are more resilient than cock roaches…. but those fuel ponds… oh those fuel ponds…
https://twitter.com/apexworldnews/status/1522277619974217729
“VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA: Premier Dan Andrews is passing a bill that prohibits people from growing their own food.
The Agriculture Legislation Amendment Bill 2022 has had its second reading in parliament. Biosecurity is stated as the reason for changes.”
How has humanity managed to get by these last 6,000 years without “biosecurity”?
Strange! People will believe anything.
…and so it begins.
No sense in there being scraps of food for the unvaxxed who survive Devil Covid… to fight over.
What other reason could there be for this policy?
He’s knocking a little harder now…
VegSwat teams turning up to spray lettuces with weed killer? Puncture water storage butts? Shred netting? Cut irrigation hose?
Drone attacks?
As Ugo Bardi foresaw, it’s time to eliminate the Kulaks…..
There is a simple explanation to this. Government’s role is to have it’s citizens rely on them. Over the past 50-60 years governments around the world have systemically domesticated its citizens. This has been done on purpose to control the people.
Smartphones are killing kids.
https://americanfreedomnews.us/smartphones-are-killing-kids
A mental health crisis has been raging among today’s teens, especially teenage girls. In a recent essay in the New York Times, writer Matt Richter explores this disturbing trend, focusing on the story of M, an otherwise bright girl with potential who eventually suffers from gender dysphoria, anxiety, depression, and self-harm.
M’s problems began at the end of elementary school and quickly worsened as she began middle school. One of her peers, Elaniv, experienced the same thing, and eventually committed suicide at 15 years old. Understandably worried by this, M’s parents tried all kinds of interventions, including medication and therapy, because as one psychologist puts it, “it’s life or death for these kids.”
It is a sad story and one that has become all too common. For all the apparent advantages enjoyed by young people today–they are safer, richer, and much more comfortable than previous generations–they seem to be the most miserable.
So what happened? Why are young people breaking down like this? For me as a teacher and anyone else who works with young people, it is quite simple: screens and social media. Kids are given a smartphone or tablet and they spend more and more time on it. They consume immoral and harmful content that warps their understanding of the world and encourages them to be self-destructive. Consequently, they retreat from everyone around them, suffer extreme loneliness, and increasingly become untethered from reality.
A steady diet of hard co re p o rn … kim .. and social media — what could go wrong?
Idiocracy 2.0 would have everyone on their phone or at the tee vee 16 hours per day.. and the economic system would be communism
Denmark Pandemic of the Vaccinated
Amazing work by Kristoffer Torbjørn Bæk reveals the vaccinated in Denmark account for more cases, hospitalisations and deaths than the unvaccinated and have done all year.
It’s almost like a pattern we’ve seen literally everywhere else in the world… The vaccine has no impact whatsoever on transmission, severe disease or death but all-cause mortality is substantially worse in the post-vax era.
https://metatron.substack.com/p/denmark-pandemic-of-the-vaccinated
I am not impressed by the statements given, because they simply reflect that there are a lot of vaccinated people. I would rather look at rates per 100,000, which are show.
If you look at the charts, you will see that with respect to deaths per 100,000, those with three vaccinations do substantially better than those with no vaccinations or two vaccinations. (Dode per 100.000)
With respect to positive COVID test results per 100,000, all three groups (unvaccinated, vaccinated with 2 shots, and vaccinated with 3 shots) come out substantially the same. Thus, the vaccines have no impact on transmission.
With respect to hospitalizations per 100,000, the result is similar to that with deaths: those with three vaccinations do substantially better than those with no vaccinations or two vaccinations.
Thus, three vaccinations seem to be helpful with respect to COVID deaths and hospitalizations in Denmark, so far. But there does seem to be a problem with the overall “death from all causes.” It seems to be too high, and not explained by the COVID deaths. In fact, the high points don’t necessarily agree with the COVID boost to deaths.
The overall death rate does seem to be higher since the vaccinations, based on the charts shown, but not nearly so high as in the United States.
Using Our World in Data charts:
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/excess-mortality-p-scores-projected-baseline?country=DNK~USA
Denmark has four vaccines approved, only two of which are mRNA vaccines. A different mix of vaccines may help Denmark’s overall results. Or Denmark could have higher vitamin D levels, thanks to fish eating.
Yes, the figures do appear to show benefit from the vaccines, with regard to deaths and hospitalisations. With regard to transmission, it is very hard to get a feel for the impact from case numbers. With hospitalisations and deaths, the figures are more accurate (a hospital admission or a death is pretty hard to miscount) but case numbers are totally dependent on (unless you’re in China) people coming forward to get a test and, in the case of self administered tests, on people registering their result. Though I’ve seen research suggesting that unvaccinated are less likely to seek a test, I’m not convinced that we can say much about whether the case numbers are undercounting or overcounting in total or in relation to vaccination status.
transmission?
what we know for certain about case numbers is that ALL of the many millions of jabbed AND unjabbed who continue to get covid do so because the global toxic “vaccine” program is a total failure.
I think a good metaphor here is that you can’t see the forest for the trees.
1. there has never been a successful coronavirus vaccine.
2. there never ever will be.
What does this show mike https://www.headsupster.com/forumthread?shortId=1621
mike – the OFW pariah
Your comment appears to show you are a govt stooge with denial of any data not to your liking/govt narrative being a feature of your contributions here.
‘95% effective’
hmmmmm
Is it possible that Denmark has a low vaccination rate on people below 50?
As far as I’m looking on the news in Italy lately, it is full of people under 50 who die unexpectedly.
In Italy vaccination had great success on young people…
And it is also full of adverse events on young people.
While old people report few adverse events.
Although they could interpret them as ‘signs of age’.
For instance my father has a great decrease on vision and sudden shot of rheumatism lately, but he goes on saying ‘it is normal at my age’ (over 80).
Is COVID-19 injection-induced myocarditis mild and transient?
Nope.
John Su works for the Immunization Safety Office Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Tom Shimabukuro works for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the CDC. They both make the claim in their Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) presentations that myocarditis (sometimes called myopericarditis) is not a problem, despite its prevalence in the context of the COVID-injectable products. Especially in children.
Just to give my readers an idea of the above-background reporting per age group, here’s a slide from Shimabukuro’s presentation. And yes, he really did present this to the FDA and yes, they still said everything’s fine. I didn’t even have to highlight anything: he did it for us. This chart indicates that even if we take the highest expected value for males, the observed value is still 11 times higher. If we take the lowest value it’s 132 times higher. On average, the observed rate is 20 times the expected in boys ages 12-17. You get the drift.
I made the following slide that anyone and everyone can use. As I have explained in many of my interviews, myocarditis is inflammation of the myocardium of the heart. This is the muscly part of the heart that allows the heart to beat. Beating is important for the movement of blood throughout the circulatory system. It is as yet unclear to me as to whether the blood pumps the heart of the heart pumps the blood. I tend to think it is the former, but I digress.
The myocardium contains specialized cells called cardiomyocytes or myocardiocytes. Or cytecardiomyos or cardiB-o-cytes. Just kidding about the last 2. Cardi-B-omyocytes are some of the first cells to terminally-differentiate in human development, which is why we can detect a heart beat on an ultrasound of a human fetus. These cells are interconnected, elongated, cylindrical and striated with contractile proteins and most have a single nucleus. Below is a photo! Are they not the most beautiful things you’ve ever seen. Aw, immuno-staining. Where would be without you.¹
Immunostaining of human cardiomyocytes with antibodies for actin (red), myomesin (green), and nuclei (blue).
https://www.fujifilmcdi.com/products/cardiac-cells/icell-cardiomyocytes
Some people are trying to make it possible to regenerate cardiomyocytes, but it is generally accepted that once damaged, they do not regenerate.² ³
While cardiomyocytes appear to continue to renew throughout life, the quantitatively dominant mechanism of growth in the mammalian postnatal heart is an increase in cardiomyocyte size (reviewed in Heineke et al).⁴
It is well known now via peer-reviewed literature⁵ (footnote 4 gives 31 reference sources – pretty up-to-date) that the COVID-19 injectable products are heavily-associated with (that code for caused by) [autoimmune] myocarditis. This would be the result of foreign proteins embedded or displayed on cell surfaces by MHC-class I and II molecules for presentation to specific immune cells designed to target and destroy cells flagged with such foreign proteins. This is a really good paper to read about this subject. They discuss Sarcoidosis which everyone knows about because of House M.D..⁶
COVID-19 injection-induced myocarditis results in scar tissue replacing the damaged myocytes and this scar tissue does not have contractile function. This is what Su and Shimabukuro refer to as recovery. You know, the kid is still alive, it’s just that their heart has fewer functional myocytes now. Imagine you blew up a balloon after putting small pieces of tape on the surface. Those spots where the tape are would not be able to stretch and that would put extra strain an pressure on the rubbery or contractile parts of the balloon surface. Eventually, the strain would be too much and the balloon would pop from additional pressure.
Popping of heart. Where have I heard of that happening before?
In any case, I could ramble on about this, but my new paper’s coming soon so you can read my ramblings then. And the slide says it all.
This is NOT mild and NOT transient. They are LYING.
https://jessicar.substack.com/p/is-covid-19-injection-induced-myocarditis
This is by Jessica, who has a playful way with words but is also a wizard with statistics and knows what’s she’s talking about.
I was strongly impressed by the image of the myocytes she published with this Substack article. They look incredibly beautiful.
Pierre Kory and Jessica may have a thing going
Nice chart:
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You’d think she’d have a bit more security https://thebfd.co.nz/2022/05/09/cindy-slinks-in-to-arrowtown-skulks-out/
Russia has taken the Donbass city of Popasna, which is said to be the first and strongest Ukrainian line of defence. It is a major development in the Donbass ‘grind’.
> Ukraine troops retreat from Popasna, Luhansk governor confirms
May 8 (Reuters) – Ukrainian troops retreated from the eastern Ukrainian city of Popasna, the governor of Luhansk region said on Sunday, confirming previous reports that it had been taken.
I expect Zelenskyy is not happy.
Zelensky used (in 2014) to protest laws outlawing Russian language, since it is the only one he spoke. In 2015 he became a spearhead for the imposition of western values, through some gay videos documented here. Now he is relaying the unhappiness of those who control him.
https://youtu.be/Uo0KjdDJr1c
Neutralizing Activity and SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine mRNA Persistence in Serum and Breast milk After BNT162b2 Vaccination in Lactating Women
“Vaccine mRNA was detected in 20 serum samples from 15 mothers, out of 74 samples from 21 mothers tested. A total of 10/16 (63%) and 10/25(40%) mothers had detectable vaccine mRNA at day 1-3 of dose 1 and day 7-10 of dose 2 respectively… Five breast milk samples from 4 mothers had detectable vaccine mRNA, out of 309 samples from 31 mothers tested… The median vaccine mRNA amount in both sample types were comparable: 14ng / 100ml (IQR 8-23) in serum compared to 7ng / 100ml (IQR 6-7) in breast milk (p=0.2).”
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8787073/
CovIDIOTS will see this as a good outcome. cuz
Have People Been Given the Wrong Vaccine?
“Randomized controlled trials show all-cause mortality reduction from the Covid adenovirus-vector vaccines but not from the mRNA vaccines.”
https://brownstone.org/articles/have-people-been-given-the-wrong-vaccine/
This points to the same article I have mentioned before, and nicely summarizes the results of that article. The title of the academic article it points to, is
“Randomised Clinical Trials of COVID-19 Vaccines: Do Adenovirus-Vector Vaccines Have Beneficial Non-Specific Effects?”
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4072489
The mRNA vaccines seem to have a lot of side effects (heart attacks, etc . . ) that the others seem not to have, at least that is how I interpreted the tables shown in the academic paper.
If the mRNA vaccines reduced deaths from COVID, but the overall death rate stayed the same (or was actually slightly higher than the no-vaccine control group), it implies that there were a lot of extra deaths from other causes.
The 95% confidence interval is quite wide in this analysis, because of the small number of observed and expected deaths, but it is still disturbing to me.
As Freightwaves shows the US truckload index is slowly collapsing as fuel prices increase
Independent truck drivers will have no margin. Ton of bankruptcies coming.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FSRAcUdX0AA23f1?format=jpg&name=900×900
Stab BAU in the heart. Kill it.
Lots of independent truckers own their own vehicles. Higher interest rates, or higher oil prices, or fewer loads would squeeze their profits, I expect.
Global recession is coming. The two biggest export economies in the world – Germany (blue) & China (black) – are seeing their new export orders in the manufacturing PMIs fall sharply.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FSPtHDkXoAEwiM8?format=png&name=small
Export orders falling isn’t good. The US and Germany are already in recession. China doesn’t say it is in recession, but it probably is, too.
https://www.estrategiaynegocios.net/lasclavesdeldia/rodrigo-chaves-elimina-obligatoriedad-de-vacunacion-anticovid-y-mascarilla-en-costa-rica-DJ8038599
Costa Rican’s newly sworn-in president Rodrigo Chavez in his first decree, made wearing of masks in public places and taking the vacks completely voluntary. The only exception is health-care employees are still required to be vaxd. Employers cannot fire any worker for not being vaccinated. This decree came as a complete surprise and is a welcome breath of fresh air!!
Interesting!
Thoughts on the Geert interview with Del Bigtree:
Geert is saying that the virus has now (after the introduction of the V turning this into an unnatural pandemic) mutated to become as contagious as possible. He said rather then the variant figuring out how to get ahead or do it’s natural thing, it’s actually nature or evolution taking over. It will now work a way round getting into the lower respiratory tract, the lungs etc (as omicron was known not to do that) it will then become as contagious as possible, which we are seeing. Then mutate to become fatal. Very fatal. Basically specifically targeting the programmed immune response of the vaxxed. Not the innate immune response of those unvaxxed conversely.
This is unprecedented in pandemics. He couldn’t give figures of death rates into the future due to this, only saying it’ll be unprecedentedly terrible.
Through following the breadcrumbs of preconditioning via the media, we know that the final stage will have a death rate on par with Ebola. So what’s that? 30-80% could we say? Obviously much worse than the original covid. Which if left alone would have become endemic and fizzled out after herd immunity. It won’t do that. He said only when the unvaxxed outnumber the vaxxed and the unvaxxed herd immunity can override this. Will we see an end to this.
Only way for that balance to shift, is for a colossal amount of the vaxxed to die, then changing the ratio. The only answer he said to avert this, was to provide things like ivermectin en masse to the vaxxed. I’m safely assuming this won’t be done. So nature will readdress the balance. What this would become is comparable to air borne Ebola for the vaxxed. Will we jump straight into the higher figures seen in Ebola like 80%? Or will it work it’s way risers this with each variant? There’s a slight unknown but absolutely it can go star hut into that scenario imo.
While Geert has this down as a gross miscalculation by governments. Insinuating that they messed up by carelessness. We know this isn’t the case. This was the plan all along to get a pandemic which has the dramatic infectiousness taken care of, while also being able to be deadly at the same time. Normally the two are incompatible. You either have Ebola say, which strikes people down so quick it just cannot get around nowhere near as much. Or you have a flu like virus that can spread well, but just isn’t deadly.
What we have is a creation of a binary bioweapon that deals with all this. The only conundrum was getting the V into people all at once. This has been mostly achieved to now set the ball in motion.
So they have created this perfect storm to create the disease x scenario that they’ve preprogrammed peoples psyche with over recent years.
It has to be a tangible event that is experienced by all. Not people dropping here and there from side effects. It needs to be widely recognized for them to then utilize in the overall agenda.
Again two options await. The admission that the V has caused this situation , which results in pandemonium (unpredictable/hard to control) or they’ll spin it into its the unvaxxed’s fault. Which can then maintain the narrative and control, also paving the way for mandatory efforts and the martial law conditions.
Surely you’d think if so many vaxxed are dropping people in general would see through this? Well if you don’t know already? People’s/the general public’s wherewithal is at monumental lows. It’s ridiculous. Don’t forget. We are talking millions of people who are still not vaxxed. Although the majority are, abstainers still account for millions of people. That’s a lot. Many may not have taken it for reasons such as why do that for such a low death rate (originally) for example. When these people see and experience the perceived plague as I’ve referred to it, which is disease x etc, at least it seems logical atm the media would spin this as being a real pandemic affecting all, then a large contingent of abstainers will get the fear and take the V.
Think about this. As an abstainer you will have your metal properly tested this time round. You will, we will, all see the results around us of this now tangible pandemic. Across the media it will be plastered. You knowing the real truth will have to override feelings to stand strong. It’ll be testing certainly.
Also I’ll squeeze in again that I believe the nasopharyngeal test played a role that has yet to be seen. Whereby it may have technically vaxxed more people than the actual V figures. Many of them young kids. The percentage I know here of perhaps the 5 year old range uptake is low. BUT I do know vast amounts took the test. This is very plausible to me. It will contribute to muddying the waters in the perceived plague.
I’ll hold my hands up. Think I have already. I was anticipating this final phase in February. We learn all the time. Day by day gaining more insight. I’ve always stuck to my guns about my prognosis for the final phase, even though it didn’t occur in February. I still stand by this. And after watching Geerts video. He has to me confirmed, although I knew already, that this is how it will go down. It has to be like this.
So it now comes back to timing. It’s natural to have a need to know. For those that follow this kind of thing overall, what is happening all over seems slow roll. It’s all happening though. But when we reach this tipping point there will be no way back, some would argue we are there already. We aren’t in the sense I foresee. When this pinnacle moment is reached. Things decend into chaos in the most rapid way, ever accelerating.
Real panic is coming to the masses whatever way the media spin this. And even if you didn’t partake in the experiment. Don’t think or assume you’ll get away scot free. It’ll affect us all somehow. The idea here and the reason we discuss what we do, is to either minimize that fallout, or try as best to come out on top.
Geert was asked when will this final phase begin? He said it could be within a couple of months. Certainly if we don’t see a change in summer, I’d have fall working into winter as a time of expectation.
One more thing I’ll say. There is a timeline. A strict one that is being kept to. There is no time wasted in fact. Whatever let up we have seen was part of this roadmap. It did not delay, but was all intended.
By introducing the V of course this had added an unnatural element. But it has given the string pullers absolute control of the timeline. They know when every phase will occur and in what manner and they made it so to have this control. Normally In such a situation (pandemic) there are variables out of control and down to nature. They’ve essentially played God and gained this control-giving them the power to mold the overall Situation in their Favour.
Highly recommend Geerts video if anyone hasn’t seen it. To me it certified what will happen. We have all been thrown a curve ball in some way. Omicron was one such thing. But it was all part of the roadmap. But what I heard seals the deal after some time to digest this. Devil Covid will become a reality. It’s just a case of pinning down this timeframe.
What is GVB’s view on the large part of the population, which must been exposed to the virus before injection?
I’ve seen figures for example that 80% of Africans show evidence of antibodies, even though only around 20% have been injected. Surely, this indicates, given that much of rural Africa is relatively isolated, that large sections of populations in the core western countries were similarly exposed pre-injection?
There is exidence from Spain, Italy, Brazil and the US that the virus was already circulating in 2019. So, it’s been around long enough.
Have you managed to gather GVB’s opinion on this.
He doesn’t opine on that…
But I will — BAU implodes when billions sicken and die…. supply chains vapourize… anyone left alive starves… remote tribes linger but are killed by the spent fuel ponds.
They are already dismantling the supply chains… they won’t want anything left for people to fight over….
There is no sense in stuffing vicious hungry animals in a lock box — with one kg of meat.
Perhaps some people don’t want nightmares.
Your summary is concerning: “He said only when the unvaxxed outnumber the vaxxed and the unvaxxed herd immunity can override this. Will we see an end to this.”
I am wondering if there are animal hosts, as well as human hosts, will it work this way?
Also, there are different parts of the world, with quite different vaccination rates. Many areas did not use mRNA vaccines. Will the process really work the same everywhere? Africa is little vaccinated, for example. The use of mRNA vaccines seems to be mostly in the richer countries.
Are Geert’s calculations for mRNA vaccinating areas, or for areas using vaccines other types.
My back-of-the-envelope calculation is that the countries which have used mRNA account for roughly half of world crude oil consumption.
I could see people having nightmares after reading Michael’s post…. that’s why I gave tips for people do deal with extinction thoughts….
I suspect the situation will be little different in low vax countries… the unvaxxed will be terrified (and as Michael suggests be begging for the jab)… they are unlikely to venture out into the disease infested world… there will be no food – they will starve and die.
For those who are experiencing feelings of dread — repeat after me — it’s either this — or face ripping ..it’s either this .. or face ripping… it’s either this … or face ripping.
I posted UEP on a substack and someone responded indicating they’d fight against anyone trying to impose extermination on him .. fight to his very last breath…. to which FE responded… that is understood by those executing the UEP…. and that is why they are exterminating us.
Doom is forever just weeks away yet here we are year after year. The perma doom gets exhausting and the tension lately has been too much for me. I’m not seeing any evidene of anything happening in real life other than a slight uptick in people out sick at work. At this point I just wish the weather was better so I could enjoy BAU while it last. So cold and windy lately
It’s real close now… real f789ing close….
Doom is forever just weeks away yet here we are year after year….
Like Xabier said – looking at an obese kid gulping soda – you predict he will have a short life. You are right in the end but how short. Some people can analyse and see better into the future but the timing may be off.
Like you have said – enjoy BAU as much as you can because it will not last. Eventually moving the goalposts (like in financial regulations) or kicking the can (use debt as a proxy for energy) will not help anymore and that day is approaching.
Bravo … bravo …. a masterpiece… this should be printed framed and placed in the Loooov. And a copy for the british museum.
Nobody wants to believe GVB has exposed the plan … but we all know — somewhere deep down… he is right … there can be no other logical explanation for what we are witnessing here…
We are being exterminated. Obviously… exterminated.
Now look what you have done — you’ve got norm and mike worried… they are both hitting speed dial to find out when the next booster will be released… make sure you guys tell the hotline people that you are seniors and at risk… you get to go to the front of the queue.
8B are about to be shoved over the cliff… it’s definitely an odd feeling to know death is outside the door… any day now — he’ll start knocking…. if he’s not let in … he’ll bash the door down…
Nobody escapes Death.
Here’s a trick… if fear starts to creep in … or worse – despair — think of the dogs in the box with the biting insects who cannot even protest because they’ve had their vocal cords sliced out… or think of that cattle being tortured in Indonesia — while his mates watch — and shudder in terror…
Our reign of terror — is ending…. the movie DOES have a happy ending after all – the super villain dies 🙂
This takes the edge off … but if it doesn’t it’s time to start taking Xanax every few hours… yes you will become addicted but that’s the whole point….
I hope the megadeath phase comes before we run out of diesel because I would hate to have to dig eight billion graves without a power shovel.
I don’t know it sounds like too much wishful thinking to me . I think omicron gave a lot of people natural immunity. I just don’t see it happening
Epic logic .. truly epic
Bossche seems to imply that immunity from the vaccines is somehow a specific type of immunity which will only make the virus worse, whilst immunity from infection will have no impact on how the virus would have mutated, apart from, perhaps, toning it down to an endemic virus. That is the wishful thinking. But, you’re right, Sam, so many people have some of that good old natural immunity that Bossche’s scenario is impossible, unless the deadly form of immunity from vaccines is somehow overriding the natural immunity.
Still, by the end of the year, Bossche will probably be still shouting his theories and some will still be enthralled, despite his predictions obviously being false. Or I’ll be wrong and dead. Either way, I win.
UK data seemed to show that if you receive the vaccine first, you never develop the “right” kind of antibodies.
There are some variations on this that I am not certain about:
1. If you already have had COVID, and then get the vaccine, I know that you are more likely to get a bad reaction when you get the vaccine, especially if you get a second dose. But I don’t know if anything adverse happens to the antibodies you have.
2. We probably aren’t far enough away from the vaccines to see if the effect wears off over time. If it does, especially, if there are mutations, maybe a vaccinated person can get good antibodies if they catch COVID later. (Someone may have a good reason why this doesn’t happen.)
I’m not sure what you mean by the “right kind of antibodies” but, yes, there is still a lot to learn about this. As far as I’m aware, though, all sorts of immune system activity ensues from the body being presented with a foreign substance. Maybe some of those responses react with other ones in some way but I doubt so-called natural immunity can interfere with so-called unnatural immunity, or vice-versa.
Watch Geert Vanden Bossche – he’ll learn you what you’ve done to yourself
https://www.bitchute.com/video/v8A7TM6MmK57/
Or read these:
WARNING: If we keep vaccinating with COVID vax that is non-sterilizing-non-neutralizing antibodies, we will drive natural selection to select ‘fittest variants’; the non-neutralizing Abs is the key https://palexander.substack.com/p/warning-if-we-keep-vaccinating-with?s=r
You need sterilizing immunity to control pandemic & to get to herd immunity; COVID mRNA vax are non-sterilizing, & enhances infectiousness of the virus; peaks are higher, waves faster, above baseline https://palexander.substack.com/p/you-need-sterilizing-immunity-to?s=r
Van Egeren et al.: “Risk of rapid evolutionary escape from biomedical interventions targeting SARS-CoV-2 spike protein”; this one study by Van Egeren was pivotal and scientific community ignored it https://palexander.substack.com/p/van-egeren-et-al-risk-of-rapid-evolutionary?s=r
I posted a paper earlier – 2 months is all you get out of dose 3 (if I recall correctly)…
In the meantime you wreck your immune system and expose yourself to vax injuries.
”THE NEW BATCH OF 80,000-PAGES OF PFIZER DOCUMENTS IS A NIGHTMARE.
More than 1,200 vaccine-related deaths in the first 90 days after the release of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID vaccine.
Of 3410 total suspected but unconfirmed cases (?) of Covid-19 in the study, 1594 occurred in the vaccinated group, while 1816 occurred in the placebo group.” Calculating vaccine efficacy based on these numbers shows a rate of 12%.
https://www.eventiavversinews.it/il-nuovo-lotto-di-80-000-pagine-di-documenti-pfizer-e-un-incubo/
I don’t think that they were doing PCR tests, at least not consistently, in the early days of the trial. The issue that the vaccines was expected to lessen was severe cases that might require hospitalization. No one really cared very much if there were light cases.
The missing detail here is the occurences within 2 weeks of the Injection that were counted as un-vaxxed.
This information tends to re-orient the data somewhat.
– In the Pfizer documents report, a $ 2.875 million transfer to the US Treasury from pfizer, dated May 2021, is revealed
– Pfizer’s COVID vaccine was NOT 95% effective as they claimed. The data shows it has an effectiveness rate of 12% for the first 7 days … then it drops to less than 1% (0.84%)
– No clinical studies have been conducted to determine whether investigational COVID19 vaccines are safe for pregnant women. They were excluded from all trials. Instead, they tested it on 44 rats before claiming it was “safe”.
– There are a total of 9 out of 158 sites revealed to date. Less than 6.6% of patients undergoing trials are counted. Where did the data for the hundreds of other test subjects go? Where are the 25,706 missing patients from Pfizer data?
– Lipid nanoparticles are distributed throughout the body – in the liver, ovaries and other vital organs 48 hours after injection
https://www.eventiavversinews.it/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/msg441692452-450359.jpg
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To facilitate the Singularity and enter the Type I Civilization (space conquest and all that), it is necessary for Russia to lose this war, Putin and his friends executed, and all of Russia’s resources appropriated so cheaper materials are available to fuel and fund the advance to Singularity.
It is very important to leave nothing to the lesser productive part of the world so everything can be thrown to advance civilization.
Woody Wilson robbed Germany what it won from Russia, because the Poles and Czechs had to have their own country.
They say the Atomic Bomb was a hungarian school project. but where is Hungary? It has remained relatively poor, backward and insignificant. They were all educated under the education system of Austria-Hungary, and their most famous teacher, Laslow Ratz (who taught many of the people mentioned with the Atomic Project), was Swabian.
It would have been more beneficial to civilization that Hungary remained under the rule of Vienna, rather than the Magyars take over and create the worst inflation in Western history in 1945-46.
I can go on but in short, to reach Singularity and achieve Type I Civilization, the whole world, particularly those who produce resources but lack the ‘stuff’ to advance the civilization, must sacrifice. It is cruel and unjust, and would create an unimaginable suffering and deprivation in countries not mentioned in Charles Murray’s Human Achievement, but it is utilitarianically beneficial for they to suffer so the world reaches Type I Civilization and bring unimaginable benefits although the denizens of the countries not in Murray’s book will probably not enjoy them.
Or maybe Russia+China will take the torch of humanity, achieve the singularity, and leave the rest of the world and their progeny to squabble over the dwindling resources on this planet. As far as I can tell, the part of the world that you deem has “the ‘stuff’ to advance the civilization” is now retrograde and devolving.
Friendly ask the natives to sacrifice or pay well and there will never be any problem with that. The Russians have a Cosmodrom and it was running pretty well for “the other guys”
Dominate the natives and resource extraction will only be a good business after all native population is extinguished. Look at the History of the Americas.
Another part of it is “urban sprawl”. Did some people resist it for the better goof of reaching Type I ? Did anybody really sacrifice anything to keep our natural heritage ? Is that mindset life supporting and good for the universe per se ? I do not see it, so why should anybody help this mindset in the long run ?
Obviously the domination strategy was developped in a time where space exploration was not in vogue. I have the impression that some folks do not want to give it up.
Some sort of a world consciousness would be required for it, but the “unifying” meme being used by the Schwabians let’s say starting with the c9/11 blunder will not prevail.
OK, it is not yet proven. Given their Nazi ideology and their military and domintion Idea, our brothers in the Galaxy will make sure they will not succeed…
Sorry for them. It is supposed that you get only one shot at Type I…
all wishful thinking. Hungary in ten years will be much better off than the UK. also, define singularity.
UK is 36th in GDP PPP per capita. It is not doing as well as some might think. It certainly is not a ‘world leader’.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)_per_capita
I imagine that there are people thinking as you describe. With the natural resources from Russia and virtually no competition from elsewhere, to may be possible to do many things. This is closely related to Science Fiction.
I am not very familiar with all of these things, so I looked up some things..
According to Wikipedia,
Charles Murray’s book Human Civilization: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950 is a 2003 book by the political scientist Charles Murray. Surveying outstanding contributions to the arts and sciences from ancient times to the mid-twentieth century, Murray attempts to quantify and explain human accomplishment worldwide in the fields of arts and sciences by calculating the amount of space allocated to them in reference works, an area of research sometimes referred to as historiometry.
Murray argued that the world’s per capita progress in the sciences and especially the arts have declined, usually starting sometimes in the nineteenth century. In part this is due to diminishing returns. In the final chapters he abandons empirical analysis, writing “I cannot supply quantitative measures”, and the analysis is “less quantitative, more speculative, and definitely more opinionated.”
The Technological Singularity is a hypothetical point in time at which technological growth becomes uncontrollable and irreversible, resulting in unforeseeable changes to human civilization.
A Type I Civilization is on the Kardashev Scale.
Physicist Michio Kako will be teaching a course on the physics underlying this theory at City College of New York this fall.
Kulm’s narrative of ‘civilisation’ seems to depend on huge quantities of affordable energy, and it falls on that?
I wonder if he is unrealistically conceptualising ‘Singularity’ as a way around that.
Over the last 100 years the US and its allies have so completely repressed the vast majority of the population of the planet in the name “spreading democracy” aka killing off socialism, that “The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences” can not be measured.
Everywhere that socialism has thrived, even if only briefly, enormous numbers of prodigies in Arts and Sciences of all ages have come out of the woodwork.
The world has no idea what could have been. I weep for humanity!
Socialism… hahaha…. Mr DNA don’t seem to like that system… the only way to maintain it is to build extensive gulags to cage those who are not keen on accepting the fact that people are not equal
Socialism is a great system for the incompetent, stupid and lazy – so long as there are lots of resources to keep them warm and fed.
See Animal Farm hahahaaha
Somehow, the system needs to reward those who work. Otherwise, it is hard to get anyone to work.
And it has to reward those who create the businesses that employ the workers… who take the risks… and do the hard yards… who do not check out at 5pm and head home to lay on the sofa and watch reality tee vee…
Of course these entrepreneurial types are the villains who are paving over the planet …. but that’s another story
“These people completely disregard absolutely everythnng they destroyed”
Charles Murray’s book Human Civilization: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950 is a 2003 book by the political scientist Charles Murray. Surveying outstanding contributions to the arts and sciences from ancient times to the mid-twentieth century, Murray attempts to quantify and explain human accomplishment worldwide in the fields of arts and sciences
I need to write a book detailing human atrocities against innocent animals – and other humans with the thesis of — any positives out of humans (and there are very few) are negated by the horror show we’ve unleashed on the planet…
Oh and btw – the ‘accomplishments’ are what got us to the point to extinction
Thinking through life forms on a planet
1. If there is no external energy, a cat will a cat, a dinosaur will be a dinosaur and a plant will be a plant forever. Still a life form but not possible to evolve.
2. If there is external energy like burning wood or any other sources of energy, then the life form, trying to maximize its reproduuction and propagation of species) will eventually destroy itself very quickly.
Ultimately, there seems to seems to be external energy that keeps the whole Universe expanding. Thus, “creation” and evolution are continuous processes. The external energy is really external to the Universe. I think of it as the God Force.
Of course, the need for external energy to keep all systems evolving exists on Earth, as well. Such a source of external energy exists as long as the Sun keeps shining. Very slowly, over time, the Sun can be expected to get brighter and larger. Eventually it is expected to implode.
i think the record shows that all life forms evolve into something else, within the confines of their animate strata, or go extinct according to pressures of their immediate environment
whales and elephants i believe, evolved from the same species stock.
2000 Mules – Full Documentary
https://www.bitchute.com/video/oUxVva4yWsuu/
Trump, like every other politician, is a growth oriented guy.
I am no fan of Biden but he is the first US president, ever, who did not promise growth. What ever his faults are (and there are a lot), he was at least honest on that aspect.
I’m pretty sure he promised growth to someone (e.g. green-tech moguls?), just not your average US Joe Six-Pack…
Cheers,
-GBV
Some here have expressed the wish or thought of nuclear annihilation..
From the writing chronicle of Thomas Merton on the first use of atomic bombs, this just may we’ll be in the cards…
Hiroshima – “Original Child Bomb” by Thomas Merton
August 6, 2012 in Current Comment, Thomas Merton | Tags: “Original Child Bomb”, Hiroshima, Thomas Merton
In 1961 Thomas Merton published a long prose poem called “Original Child Bomb”.
The title of Merton’s poem is a translation of the name the Japanese gave to the nuclear bomb used against them in Hiroshima.
The poem is based on events leading up to the bombing of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. Merton said “Original Child Bomb” was an “anti-poem”. It is made up of 41 numbered sections written in a detached, bureaucratic style. Merton used irony and understatement to emphasize the horror of the events he described.
“Original Child Bomb” was published with the sub-title “Points for meditation to be scratched on the walls of a cave.” Merton seems to suggest here that the bombing of Hiroshima risks returning humanity to the primitive condition of pre-historic cave dwellers.
The 41 sections of the poem contain 2,480 words. But it needs to be read in its entirety. Merton sets a chilling tone with his terse style and his compact use of language. It would not be a bad way to spend a few moments on this August 6, using Merton’s words to reflect on a painful and horrific event in our history.
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for a thoughtful introduction to the poem and a powerful recording go here: https://thegoldenecho.wordpress.com/2016/08/09/original-child-bomb/
The author goes to the heart of Merton’s writing and poses some of the troubling questions raised by this disturbing piece of literature:
When have we looked at bombed cities and noticed only smoke and ruins and ignored the broken bodies? When have we promoted an “atmosphere of devotion” for destructive power?
Or, worst of all, when have we become “fatigued by the whole question” of “What is going to happen?”
….line 40
As to the Original Child that was now born, President Truman summed up the philosophy of the situation in a few words, “We found the bomb” he said “and we used it.”
We just seem can’t help ourselves…
In a utilitarian term, a nuclear war is a good thing, since the victims will probably be the lesser productive part of population and today’s winners will largely be spared.
Kennedy should not have read that stupid book from Barbara Tuchman, and let USSR launch the missiles. That would have killed the Civil Rights Movement, the Green Revolution , the aid to the Third World and a lot of woes which led the world closer to where we are now.
Stanislaw Petrov, who supposedly prevented a nuclear war in 1982, joins the ranks of Chucky Fitzclrence and other morons who helped to prop up the Third World in the end by doing their ‘duty’. If they didn’t do there ‘duty, the world would be closer to Singularity now.
“since the victims will probably be the lesser productive part of population and today’s winners will largely be spared”
Absolutely bonkers statement, both immoral and incorrect. War spares no one. Having lived through war myself, both the “lesser productive” and the “winners” suffered. The “winners” do not go around with an invisible defence shield. Disaster can strike at random. The “winners” are no more valuable as humans than “lesser productive”. Using that term leads me to believe you are a proponent of eugenics.
In a complex society, I think my “lesser productive” garbage man is more useful to me than my “winner” intellectual. I’d love to see who you’d prefer to have survive a war when you are knee deep in rotten food and faeces.
agreed
the brain surgeon gets paid 50 x the garbage collector–but who is more valuable to society?
I’d say both have a valuabe role in society; what I disagee with entirely is that a human being can be valued by their intellect or salary. Lets cull the low paid and keep the highly paid! What an abhorrent comment!
You might have recognised my question as rhetorical
but as you did not—-
i assume you would be happy to have your local rates rise to cover the cost of raising the garbage collectors wages to those of a brain surgeon?
let me know, on that question.
Or are you of the opinion that money can just be printed as required, to pay anyone what they want?
if you stopped to think about the real world, instead of leaping onto your keyboard, you might have worked that out for yourself.
unfortunately the garbage collector cannot be paid brain surgeons wages
my question was–who is the more valuable to society. If we had no brain surgeons, a few would die. If we had no garbage collectors–eventually we would all die. That thought hadn’t occurred to you i suppose?
i said nothing about culling the low paid—try reading comments slowly, instead fixing your own interpretations on them.
while the use of the A bomb was in itself horrific, we cannot detach ourselves from the time in which it was used, and the psyche of the Japanese people
Their military were determined not to surrender, and intended to mobilise the entire able population in defence of the homeland
the record of the Japanese from 1931 0n was horrific. They did not concern themselves with who they bombed
had they had the bomb they would have used it without scruple multiple times
had they won the war, they would have used it to keep nations in total subjection. They would have dominated the world with it. (As would the Germans of course.) WW2 was a war of resource grab. Everything was subject to that end. they would not have put it away in the hope that it would never need to be used again.
after 75 years, we cannot look back and somehow unwind unfortunate aspects of history—much as we might like to
As the Rubiayat neatly puts it:
The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.
But they would probably not have tolerated SJWism.
SJWism–you lost me there
Social Justice Warrior. This preceded Wokism.
ah ok Gail
thanks
wonder if i could be one of those
Yorchichan
you seriously seriously expect me to watch the ramblings of David Icke???????
Even by the loonytoon elements of OFW that really is scraping the bottom of the barrel—but at least it defines where the bottom of the barrel is.
(I still want to think you are winding me up.)
Icke has been off his trolley for years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1w2dMekIJLw
About 2 minutes in—he’s the son of god, the world is controlled by lizard me, the moon is a hollowed out sphere, from which aliens are controlling us. (Or maybe you belive that too?)
please, for your own sake of self imposed ridicule, don’t dont start quoting David Icke. He gives fruitcakes a bad name—he seriously does.
The moon may very well be hollow:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Gouqy4OghyY
Apparently it is discussed around the 40 minute mark of the video. The Electric Universe concept provides for a lot of fascinating possibilities on what is otherwise considered “settled science”.
Cheers,
GBV
rrrrrrriggghhhhtttttt
thank you for putting my mind at rest
with that much information i don’t think i shall need it anymore
Norman,
David Icke’s voice is only used as the track intro and, in this instance, he doesn’t say anything I would consider controversial. I’m not familiar with his beliefs, only that he is mocked by the MSM. I’ll have a look at your link tomorrow.
Of course, knowing your dislike of conspiracy theories, asking you to listen to this track was a wind-up!
Icke has been mocked by everybody
he brings it on himself, the man is mentally ill, that much is obvious, my problem lies with those who trot him out, knowing he’s going to be outrageous, then use him to make the audience laugh
that is the really sick part.
to my mind its no different to people who used to pay a shilling to visit bedlam asylum to watch the lunatics.
I watched your video, Norman. Interesting! Icke’s revelation that the human race is led by shape shifting reptilians makes a lot of sense to me. It explains why when I once shook my MP’s hand it was unusually cold. Also, the pupils of his eyes were vertical slits rather than the normal round shape.
Tell me this is normal:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnL9TbfeEsc
I’ve now downloaded Icke’s book “The Biggest Secret”. I’ll let you know when I’ve evaluated his evidence but, so far, everything he says seems to check out.
good to know you are one of them Yorchican
next time I’m in york, I shall do a check on my taxi driver
It’s a conspiracy theory? https://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/news/video-1319564/Conspiracy-theory-video-claiming-Hillary-having-seizure.html
Ya it’s not a seizure… it’s her inner reptile trying to get out
Ok, I couldn’t get more than a few pages into Icke’s book. Didn’t get as far as any shape shifting reptilians, but the idea that our ancestors were visited by and bred with space aliens is too incredible for me. I believe rather the distances involved prohibit interstellar travel.
But never fear, given I am a believer in most of what you would term conspiracy theories [holocorst=hoax, Kennedy=inside job, Moon landing=hoax, 9/11=inside job, vaccines=depopulation], I deserve to be right up there in your list of OFW loons.
conspiraholism is a common complaint
brought on by association with other conspiraholics.
I dont think theres a cure.
ever noticed, that whenever any kind of national problem crops up–there’s always a conspiracy behind it?
last year–i used to ask the question—-i wonder what it will be for 2022?
And right on cue–Ukraine comes up–with eddys crisis actors.
Maybe you need to reframe the issue as “several different people working in different directions based on many different perceived issues whose efforts together produce the result we see.”
Right now we see China acting pretty much alone to shut in its economy. This, by itself, is enough to disturb the world economy.
“several different people working in different directions based on many different perceived issues whose efforts together produce the result we see.”
that is exactly how i see it, and what it is Gail.
but unfortunately, we seem to be surrounded by individuals determined to find ‘conspiracy’ behind every major event—that somehow, there are people engaged in dark collusion behind closed doors, to the detriment of all of us. Covid has not been released to get rid of us. We released it on ourselves.
the only conspiracy that exists is to turn the planet into an increasingly profitable enterprise. that is all ‘the elites’ and ‘elders’ are interested in. That is ultimately futile of course, but the billionaire’s main incentive is turning the next billion.
that cannot be done without people, because it is people who ultimately drive the engine of commerce
yet the truly weird notion persists, that the world can still be a profitable enterprise with 90% of us missing
Take out the word conspiracy and call it something else: self-organizing systems that behave in strange ways.
i agree
but ‘conspiracy’ persists
take any national or international event and people will assert that there is conspiracy behind it—it is driven by the ‘fact’ that conspracy cannot be disproved, no matter how overwhelming the evidence against it
hence my term—conspiraholism
What you are asking is far beyond what norm is capable of… nuanced thought is not norm
Perhaps true of most people.
The problem with not accepting conspiracies… even when they are staring you in the face — is that you take 4 shots.
hahahahaha….
As Mirror likes to write, states do not do morality. In practice there was the afterwar period looming, and a need to intimidate the USSR and establish the dominance of the new superpower. so please, restrict yourself to singing the praise of life-saving vaccines.
you must impart your gift of hindsight to me
up to now, i’ve only been attempting to deal in foresight. Sometimes unsuccessfully—but often spot on.
i generally leave hindsight to others who find it easy to accomplish. Thought even the facts of hindsight get bent to suit immediate need.
and—if you care to avoid the customary conclusional leap—i have never praised vaccines in respect of other people. What I do myself, affects me.
I have never advocated vaxxing–or not, for others.
Do read comments carefully
What I have done is pointed out a few loonytoon diversions in that respect, after being offered ‘truth’ about vaxxing by people who, in the past, have offered absolute ‘truth’ on a range of other topics discussed at different times.
which i am expected to accept without question
All of which are nonsense
A song for you, Norman:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2frJ3e0hxPE
Every word of the lyrics is easily proven true.
you just attempted to enter moral considerations into the A bomb choice. It is not very smart, it is not appropriate, and it is not reality based.
Attempting to morally justifying baby killing, child jabbing and now city nuking in one week, Norman.
I’m surprised you didn’t add euthanasia for the geriatrics suspected of entering second childhood; the economic benefits to someone else would be incalculable.
More than that, I am impressed that you you feel able to look down on other people from the not very great heights you are standing on. You are a living breathing example of the Dunning–Kruger effect in action.
tim
find someone else’s speech balloons to fit your words into
dont delete mine to find spaces for yours
check it out https://metatron.substack.com/p/covid-requiem-aeternam?s=r
first law of OFW
never open eddylinks
you should know that by now eddy
> Support for independence referendum rises to 55 per cent, says poll
Nicola Sturgeon will be buoyed by the results of a Panelbase poll showing most people are in favour of a fresh referendum
A NEW poll has suggested support for a Scottish independence referendum has risen to 55% as Nicola Sturgeon looks set to make a fresh push to leave the UK.
The SNP secured their 11th election win in a row on Friday and the First Minister is preparing to publish a referendum bill and a series of papers making the case for independence.
And the latest Panelbase survey of 1,009 voters for The Sunday Times suggests she has more than enough backing for a vote.
It found almost a quarter of those polled (24%) favour one within the next 12 months – up five points from 19% last November.
Meanwhile, 31% backed a referendum within the next two to five years, while 45% of those polled said that a fresh vote should not be held in the next few years.
The poll has support for independence itself unchanged since November at 49% among those likely to vote and when undecideds are excluded.
https://www.thenational.scot/news/20122931.support-independence-referendum-rises-55-per-cent-says-poll/
Gonzalo Lira reckons the Polish army is about to enter Ukraine and try and reclaim Galicia, most of which is now in Ukraine (looks like) but used to be wholly part of Poland.
Galicia (Eastern Europe) [contains map showing exactly where Galicia is in both countries]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galicia_(Eastern_Europe)
Poland Will Take A Bite Out Of Ukraine (Gonzalo)
https://youtu.be/KPqCMZu8Wrk
Gonzalo suggests that Poland will enter Ukraine with Russia’s blessing.
It was either yesterday or Friday that Alex Christoforou in one of his daily YT videos discussed the same theme – Poland entering Ukraine as ‘peace keepers’. Alex take is completely different from Gonzalo’s. Alex suggests that Poland will enter Ukraine with Volodymyr Zelensky’s blessing.
Whatever happens, I doubt it will go ‘according to plan’.
The movie Volyn(Volhynia) was made to describe what happened to the Poles there later
The Poles can try to repeat that experience if they want
Perhaps Germany will reciprocate by taking back East Prussia and Silesia from Poland?
Make Gdańsk Danzig Again!
Charles Hugh Smith often refers to the Landfill Economy. What happens when the landfill stops working?
In my area recently, garbage transfer stations closed down. People go to these stations to dump their garbage. Trucks take the garbage in shipping containers (“intermodal containers”) to train depots, and then trains take the containers to landfills. The explanation for the closures was that there was a shortage of containers as well as staffing problems for the railroad. On OFW, we often discuss shortages of _getting_ stuff. I thought it was funny and interesting that one of the first complete shutdowns in my area (apart from partial stock outs and long delays in obtaining some items) was related to a shortage of being able to _throw away_ stuff. Many of the transfer stations have since reopened, but I wonder how long it will be until they close again …
The world is short of containers everywhere (and also short of pallets). Interesting to see that this affects also the garbage industry.
Yes, rather richly ironic, isn’t it?
Can’t afford, make, distribute, repair, or even throw away: full-spectrum Collapse of Complexity!
Drunk on fossil fuels, mankind drowned in its own vomit…..
The Perverse Panic over Plastic
The campaign against disposable bags and other products is harming the planet and the public.
John Tierney
Winter 2020
https://www.city-journal.org/needless-panic-over-disposable-plastic
Why do our political leaders want to take away our plastic bags and straws? This question is even more puzzling than a related one that I’ve been studying for decades: Why do they want us to recycle our garbage?
The two obsessions have some common roots, but the moral panic over plastic is especially perverse. The recycling movement had a superficial logic, at least at the outset. Municipal officials expected to save money by recycling trash instead of burying or burning it. Now that recycling has turned out to be ruinously expensive while achieving little or no environmental benefit, some local officials—the pragmatic ones, anyway—are once again sending trash straight to landfills and incinerators.
The plastic panic has never made any sense, and it’s intensifying even as evidence mounts that it’s not only a waste of money but also harmful to the environment, not to mention humans. It’s been a movement in search of a rationale for half a century. During the 1970s, environmentalists like Barry Commoner wanted the government to restrict the use of plastic because it was made from petroleum, which we needed to hoard because we would soon run out of it. When the “energy crisis” proved a false alarm, environmentalists looked for new reasons to panic.
…..
If our goals are to reduce carbon emissions and plastic pollution, we can take some obvious steps. Stop forcing consumers to use grocery bags and other products that increase emissions. Stop exporting plastic waste to countries that allow it to leak into the ocean. Help those countries establish modern systems for collecting and processing their own plastic waste. Send plastic waste straight to landfills and incinerators. Step up the enforcement of laws and treaties that restrict nations from polluting the ocean and that prohibit mariners from littering the seas.
But politicians and environmentalists have other ideas. They’re doubling down on their mistakes by banning more plastic products and demanding alternatives that are more expensive, less convenient, and worse for the environment. Even experts familiar with the facts succumb to magical thinking. Yes, they acknowledge, we shouldn’t be exporting our plastic waste to Asia, but the solution is to recycle it at home. And yes, that’s impractical today, but everything will change after we create a “circular economy,” which merely requires a transformation of society. Guided by wise central planners, manufacturers will redesign their products and retool their factories so that everything can be reused or recycled, and consumers will painstakingly sort everything into just the right recycling bin, and we will all live happily ever after in a world with “zero waste.”
This fantasy isn’t merely a waste of time and money. It is interfering with practical solutions to dealing with plastic pollution. Improving sanitation systems was traditionally a top priority for public-health officials and foreign-aid donors, but it has been neglected as they’ve redirected money and attention to “sustainable development” schemes for recycling and conserving water and energy. This shift in priorities has hampered the development of effective waste-management systems that would keep plastic out of the oceans, according to Mikko Paunio, an epidemiologist in Finland who has studied public-health programs in rich and poor countries around the world.
Xabier….found this rather long article….just goes to show you the tricks our human thoughts can play on us..
We can argue and justify each side of the issue till the cows come home…BAU likes it that way…and do we…we call it exercising our God given rights!
The more hands are in a transaction the better for GDP.
At least while it’s going up.
I put plastic in boxes and wad it around with paper pulp to keep contents firm. But there’s no support to take it further (like using the boxes the way they do strawbale for building), and I’m not cut out to push it further myself. To make such a venture “succeed” in such a vicious system seems impossible anyway.
Interesting! Many parts of the chain of events that we expect that can break.
how many years have i been saying—when fresh water stops coming in and waste stops going out —civilisation is finished
check it out norm https://rumble.com/v13x6nq-jim-breuer-likens-the-clintonbush-years-to-professional-wrestling.html?mref=7ju1&mrefc=3
https://rumble.com/v13x618-jim-breuer-on-the-transgender-movement-and-michelle-obama-.html
https://rumble.com/v13x6nq-jim-breuer-likens-the-clintonbush-years-to-professional-wrestling.html
https://rumble.com/v13x7lm-jim-breuer-believes-president-trump-is-playing-a-key-role-in-the-great-awak.html
https://t.me/DowdEdward/365
California (Clown World) has COMPLETELY LOST it’s mind given they are about to commit the most unconscionable bioethical violation in COVID yet (so many unjust, innumerable & cruel violations but this is beyond insane). 12 year-olds. Terrifying. WTF
https://m.theepochtimes.com/california-bill-allowing-minors-to-receive-vaccines-without-parent-consent-advances_4451455.htm
cmpalmer75Dec 19, 2021
Mathew Crawford posted an analysis of inter and intranational rates following vaxx campaigns last night. The results are shocking. I looked at Vietnam on Our World in Data. It’s terrible. Something is very, very wrong.
On June 4, Vietnam had 51 deaths. They now have 28,616. Started mRNA vaxxes in July.
https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus/country/vietnam
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_vaccination_in_Vietnam
Killing Russians is net positive for sustainable dvelopment according to earlier referenced article by Pete Lincoln.
https://pete843.substack.com/p/the-greatest-heist-of-all-time?s=r
ESG—Environment, Social values and Governance.
‘For example a company gets positive ratings for the seriousness of its hiring gender diverse management and employees, or takes measures to eliminate their carbon “footprint” by making their energy sources green or sustainable to use the UN term.
How corporations contribute to a global sustainable governance is the most vague of the ESG, and could include anything from corporate donations to Black Lives Matter to supporting UN agencies such as WHO. Recently they added weapon manufacturers to ESG investments since they kill Russians. Totally arbitrary.’
Time for the EMF Vlad.
M1 has hit launch velocity
https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe25b0244-5b54-423e-94ef-01d6fa7986bd_1125x2001.png
Wow…to the moon ….oh, and back eventually…
Now that is more than a J curve…what are they doing or thinking?
Out of control
hahahaha… https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/two-tv-journalists-flip-out-as-dominique
About as uniformative a “discussion” that it would be possible to stage.
“No, no, I am going to talk over the top of you and I can bcs my mike is turned up and yours isn’t.”
The real purpose of this “discussion” is clearly to make people not want to hear any more discussion.
Why I have not watched tv for the last 50 years.
Awesome. We don’t often get good news items here.
Ugo Bardi had it really good….
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/whole-planet-pot-and-were-all-frogs
Definitely a dry run for the end game — martial law + starvation.
Shanghai has always been seen as the most “civilized” city in China. Shanghai is often called Le Paris de l’Orient, it is an “international” first tier city… probably the top Chinese city in terms of openness, quality of life and access to medical care.
Nobody expected to see such levels of insanity in Shanghai… in other areas of the country, yes, but not here. Looking at the conditions in the quarantine centers… Containers without doors in a field, tents set on a highway, toilets flooded with feces… open air zoo.
They come take positive cases in big buses and ambulances almost daily. The police is patrolling streets at all times and we are unable to even set foot on the sidewalk. Every building that had a positive case is either: shut down with barriers OR has 1-2 men in a tent monitoring 24/7 (imagine all the manpower required.) Currently there are 3-4 of those tents in my compound. It’s basically Martial Law.
The psychological toll is quite high. The monetary one must be hard of lower classes. Some neighbors have mental breakdowns. Some people spray alcohol in the air while walking to get tested… You’d think the Plague is upon us.
Some people were getting messages in group chat about “foreign spies” and “foreign media fueling anti-China conspiracies.” Good ol’ shift the blame tricks.
I have been in lockdown since mid-March, got tested 35 times, and lost about 12 pounds. The local governmental commune gave us a little bit of food, but barely enough to survive.
Luckily we had some preps and were able to order some food. Now most delivery guys are not allowed to deliver to our address. We can get a bit of food, but we need to get imaginative to create new recipes (boiled/sweet and sour/spicy/fermented cabbage.)
Ugo: It could be a test for something much bigger (ie., war, energy crisis) or they are truly afraid of the unrest if lots of old people were to die. Chinese people tend to get emotional and the last thing the authorities want to deal with is mobs lynching doctors in the streets.
Is the frog slowly boiling in the pot?
I think so.
Except the whole planet is pot and we’re all frogs.
FE – it’s about extermination — when the dying begins they want people locked down and starving. Not ripping faces. Not skinning Xi and the Elders alive … after sticking them in the arse knives… (see Gaddafi…)
If anyone cannot see what is coming — they are blind — this is epic stuff … truly epic… it dwarfs all history
This is such a good soundtrack https://metatron.substack.com/p/covid-requiem-aeternam?s=r
Very creepy … very appropriate… imagine hosting a gathering and putting that on as the ‘mood music’….. hahahahahahaha…. Music to Prep for Extinction.
Meanwhile … the MOERONS think that Covid is over hahahahaahahaha…
A triple-vaxxed idiot friend said to me: ‘You know, think this all going to go away anyway.’
Once someone has had three injections, without any compulsion, it is impossible to retain any respect for them.
One of my mates with heart damage joined us for a BBQ with his partner on the weekend… one of the few times he has left his apartment since the fateful day.
He’s concerned that he has now added dizziness to the list of symptoms he is experiencing… the only one he doesn’t have is edema…
It is not easy trying to keep a 4+ hour conversation positive when you know previously fit 30+ year old is 6 months post injection (and was forced into it by mandates) and not improving… hope is a fragile thing .. without it there is only despair … cracks must be sealed up quickly….
If Bossche is right … it’s all moot. Few will admit it but everyone wants their nightmare to end… they’ve wanted a way out of the shit show for years now … the way out is at hand….
general weakness and fatigue
shortness of breath, particularly during exertion or exercise
lightheadedness or dizziness
chest pain
heart palpitations
fainting spells
high blood pressure
a bloated abdomen
coughing when lying down
edema, or swelling, of your feet, ankles, legs, or other body parts
https://www.healthline.com/health/heart-disease/cardiomyopathy#symptoms
There is no insanity in the UEP — it is a perfectly logical plan. A good plan. A necessary plan. A … kind plan.
The speed at which nAb resistance develops in the population increases substantially as the number of infected individuals increases, suggesting that complementary strategies to prevent SARS-CoV-2 transmission that exert specific pressure on other proteins (e.g., antiviral prophylactics) or that do not exert a specific selective pressure on the virus (e.g., high-efficiency air filtration, masking, ultraviolet air purification) are key to reducing the risk of immune escape.
In this context, vaccines that do not provide sterilizing immunity (and therefore continue to permit transmission) will lead to the buildup of large standing populations of virus [47], greatly increasing the risk of immune escape.”
https://palexander.substack.com/p/van-egeren-et-al-risk-of-rapid-evolutionary
https://youtu.be/3KgB-sI2H-c
“U.S. Senator Says It ‘May Be True’ COVID Vaccine Gives People AIDS“
https://www.yahoo.com/news/u-senator-says-may-true-233002349.html
Risk of rapid evolutionary escape from biomedical interventions targeting SARS-CoV-2 spike protein
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33909660/
I am not sure if this is the paper GVB referenced in his Final Warning video from the other day…he did mention research that indicated that in a 70+ day period the virus when put under pressure will mutate to completely evade both the vaccine and innate immunity (which the vaccine wrecks…) leaving the MOREONS who are jacked on the garbage — completely defenceless to the mutation.
He was basing his one to two month lethal mutation emergence on the 70+ day research paper….
Then as we know the extreme sickness and dying begin. i.e. The Time of Schadenfreude is what the Pure Bloods will call this phase of the CovCON …
The Pure Bloods will still get sick from this mutation but because we actually have functioning immune systems + many of us have had covid already (and other coronavirus infections throughout our lives)… this will be like another version of the flu.
Congratulations to the MOREONS — you get to die early – and fast. We Pure Bloods will be left to deal with a collapsed global supply chain – empty super markets and darkness – we get to starve to death.
We are in the eye of the hurricane now…. it’s eerily calm…. except for the moaning demons in the distance… and the sound of metal on stone … as the grim reaper methodically hones his blade to razor sharpness….
https://youtu.be/3KgB-sI2H-c
I watched the full interview with GVB and it is pretty depressing. I mean for the f789d.
I admit that during the last 2 years I suffered tremendously by the compliance of the f789d.
In Austria it started with the hairdressers.
If the people just refused to go to the hairdressers, this could have been at least slowed down or altered course (maybe). Then they applied it to the coffee shops and more.
In February this year I spent a day in Munich and I could not get anthing “inside food” I had to eat a meatball bread in the cold streets while walking and I litterally felt like an expelled person like in biblical terms. It was so awful and sad.
I have not been to a hairdresser, coffee shop, a bar, a concert, a theater, a restaurant since march 2020.
I suffered severe sadness and despair not due to the c9/11 scare but due to the state of the world and Del said, we should all pray for mercy.
I must say, that after all that “society” did to me, I can not really feel a lot of solidarity.
I had to pick fines, a guy shouted at me “put on your mask asshole”, I was deemed a nazi, the city was plastered with vaccine ads. I mean It was like being locked up in a psychatric asylum.
Well speaking about the past, I am done with it. It’s spring time.
The Sirotkins posted “go out this sunday, the world is falling apart right this very moment”.
I do not have the impresseion that this will get better from here on.
Here is the recombinant attenuated Adenovirus thread from Reddit if you want (to take) more of f789d:
https://boards.4chan.org/pol/thread/376465081
If you mix this with the polio story and the Sirotkin story and the GVB story, you have quite a brew. It is unclear how this develops. As I stated long time ago: this is an ongoing situation.
Stay calm and water your garden.
This was my favorite comment on the 4chan thread.
“Then maybe a few heads “leak” a document showing the truth. NPCs would never believe it, but it’s not meant for them. It’s meant for a separate group of people to find out. What if they’re trying to cultivate that group of people for something? Like cultivating fruit, but with people.”
My take on the past 2 years.. fast-tracking gene therapy to find cures for common diseases while subjecting the population to well-known behavioral science techniques for testing emergency compliance and selection priority ahead of a plotted geological and/or celestial event.
Deep Impact movie – Lottery system for the bunkers, selection process for high value survivors, student scientist Elijah Wood as Leo Biederman. Albert Biderman, “The Manipulation of Human Behavior.” Recent movie “Don’t Look Up” continues this special operation on the human psyche.
According to David Martin, the original Moderna funding was for developing a way to re-write DNA post-extinction level event.
Coronacircus.com gives an interesting assessment of the situation.
In the event of a complete breakdown of society to pre-Industrial civilization you will hope for a healthy, self-organizing population of critical thinkers who have made preparations with the tools/skills/know-how to invent, maintain, repair and/or re-purpose existing technology to run on remaining raw materials and energy sources.
There are several possible futures.. 1) CT-based urban pod life, digital ID for rationing and global collectivism according to the WEF/China model and 2) quick collapse or high impact probability with elite bunkers/enclaves, military protection of critical infrastructure (ff reserves/nuclear plants and spent fuel) and pockets of self-sustaining community in rural areas.
I must admit that some things “them” did pushed me out of my “lazyness”.
I said it in previous posts as well: The question is what exactly the resetters want to reset…
I mean, after what they did I will never comply or engage with “them” again.
I made a plan in september 2020 if they executed a mandatory vaccine I will leave my old country of residence .In September 2021 they pulled it off and thus I pulled it off as well.
I am done with it.
I realize that a lot of people in “videos” (attention fixation in most cases) say “prepare, prepare”. So either you act or you do not act. That is the way I see it going forward: Have a plan ready and execute it should the time come.
The message was out all the time if you engaged in thinking it through.
Thanks MM.
Speaking of preparing — having a plan… rewind this to pre-Fast Eddy when I was living in the prepper DelusiSTAN …. I recall a conversation with one of my brothers urging him to get ready for the end of the world was nigh…
His response was – they won’t let that happen…..
Correct – although not in the way I am sure he intended… he surely meant they would not allow civilization to collapse…
But he did not foresee that they would prevent the collapse and the mayhem that would bring — by murdering 8B humans…..
Nope they won’t allow civilization to collapse — they are exterminating us before that point it reached
Impossible.
But if it gives people hope – feel free to believe that’s possible
The thing is …
Billions are injected… as much as I want this to be a Cull of MOREONS… and the future to be utopian with green energy powered disco balls in VIP rooms …. I cannot convince myself of this…
The injected are the useful idiots who are the delivery system for Devil Covid… I don’t see a happy ending for the unjabbed… we won’t die of DC because our immune systems are not f789ed by the injections… so we starve…
Again … Shanghai looks to be a dry run for what they are gonna do when DC strikes…. the police and military will enforce martial law for as long as possible (until DC kills them.. as most are injected)… but for the most part there will be no need to enforce lockdowns when DC hits — fear will do the job + there will be no food available so why go out of your home… you just find a comfortable corner to lie down … and die.
This lull – the Great Relaxation – is rather like being an officer with plenty of cash on the town in Paris, on leave from the trenches of the Western Front: it’s ALL available still, enjoy it! The wine, the girls, music, restaurants, galleries, the open air – everything…..
But try to avoid committing any really serious mortal sins, however tempting – sodomy, murder, etc – as a certain day looms and one wouldn’t really want a stern look from St Peter at the final, golden, gate…….
This winter, I think, they will renew their attack on us, having gathered a lot of data over the last two years.
Are those ‘temptations’ that you struggle with?
https://media.giphy.com/media/l4hLT6kXPi9js7xFC/giphy.gif
Van Egeren et al.: “Risk of rapid evolutionary escape from biomedical interventions targeting SARS-CoV-2 spike protein”; this one study by Van Egeren was pivotal and scientific community ignored it
Let me ask a simple question: Why would the epidemic waves be coming so close together across nations after successive waves? Why are the declines not getting back to baseline? Why are the omicron waves staying above baseline? We should be getting back to baseline after each curve declines. Why also are the peaks higher than the prior peak? How can a vaccine protect against severe illness but not mild illness? How can you be susceptible to infection yet protected against severe illness?
We can never ever get to control this pandemic if we do not get to herd immunity. Ever! We failed! I do not care what press idiot or moron or scientists attacks me, I said day 1. Natural immunity is superior and key. We allow the infant, kids, young and healthy to be exposed naturally and harmlessly, the healthy with robust immune systems, to live normal lives and be exposed so as to develop natural immunity. Their strong robust immune system would be able to handle the variants. This is not changed.
How can you tell me we have a vaccine that does not stop infection but protects you against serious disease?
Truth is Omicron proved us right, Geert, Malone, myself, Bridle etc. We have been saying one year now that if you use a non-sterilizing vaccine (with non-neutralizing antibodies) that does not cut transmission (neutralization/elimination of the virus), you will drive variants. The pandemic will never end if this failed vaccine is not stopped.
If we prime the population massively and especially children, we will damage and subvert the natural INNATE immune system (suppressing INNATE while the natural acquired-adaptive immunity antibodies are sub-optimal and worthless, miss-matched to the present variants) and this can be catastrophic for humanity. We are preventing the population from getting to population-level herd immunity with these non-sterilizing vaccines; we will never ever get to herd immunity.
https://palexander.substack.com/p/van-egeren-et-al-risk-of-rapid-evolutionary
WARNING: If we keep vaccinating with COVID vax that is non-sterilizing-non-neutralizing antibodies, we will drive natural selection to select ‘fittest variants’; the non-neutralizing Abs is the key
https://palexander.substack.com/p/warning-if-we-keep-vaccinating-with
Of course they know this — but they keep on injecting… now why would they do that?
When Omicron arrived they could have declared victory – see – the lockdowns and injections saved the day — now Covid is like a cold … or a mild flu (which it actually never was – the death rates with this version are through the roof in high vax countries — but that does not matter — the MSM creates the reality for the MOREONS)
But they didn’t — instead it’s more boosters — and now it’s inject the babies…
why would they do this norm? mike maybe you know?
I know – cuz they want a Lethal Mutation to emerge — to extinct humans before the energy situation implodes and we left in the dark without food – and we tear each other to bits — and eat each other.
That’s why.
What they are doing — is a good thing.
You need sterilizing immunity to control pandemic & to get to herd immunity; COVID mRNA vax are non-sterilizing, & enhances infectiousness of the virus; peaks are higher, waves faster, above baseline
https://palexander.substack.com/p/you-need-sterilizing-immunity-to
norm why do you think they lied about the injections leading to herd immunity?
Why didn’t they just go to the second lie immediately — the one where they insist the injections prevent serious illness and death?
https://twitter.com/Lukewearechange/status/1463932846570192901
I think we should right a wrong here, a great injustice.
even while it is quite too late to observe a solemn thread for the demise of the Canadian Leak in 2021.
enough time has passed for those mourning and grieving the demise of the CEP in 2022.
let us cling to this special moment in time to reflect fondly on the short and futile life of the CEP.
it seems like it was barely here and now is dead and gone.
gone too soon!
so sad!
though difficult to endure in times like these, Life does go on, and we must continue to do our best in spite of this great loss.
in lieu of flowers, please add your fond memories below.
I expect that whatever comes our way…..the pain will be unevenly distributed….
How many high speed vehicle collisions happen….where some people involved walk away with minor injuries….while others end up dead?
Good fortune? Destiny?
Pretty much everything in the leak has transpired… from the border lockdowns, martial law, to money for nothing….
Of course they never leaked the end game — because they were not informed of the end game.
They’d have lost their shit if they were told extinction was the plan.
Hold tight – the end game is very close https://www.headsupster.com/forumthread?shortId=2636
That ‘leak’ simply mapped all the elements of the plan on to a false chronology.
As it didn’t come true as per the advertised scheduled, it served to discredit those few who have observed what has been going on globally, the various phases and options being tried out in different regions.
the Elites are a pathetic bunch of old brain atrophying crazzzzy stooooopid corrrrupt innsane psyyycho woketards who can’t even devise an effective plan to reduce the world’s population.
what’s the problem? do they really need plausible deniability?
the gain of function virus hardly made a dent, though it seems the toxic “vaccines” are a bit more effective.
that tiny war in the Ukraine is doing nada.
perhaps the consequences of reduced food production will knock off the continuing population growth.
if not, there’s always WW3 but I doubt the Elites would be able to get that up and running.
if any of their minions read this site, hey, you guys sukc.
THE LAST DITCH IS POLAND – RUSSIA’S PHASE-3 PLAN FOR WESTERN UKRAINE
“In any case the Russians must plan to attack these lines from Belarus,” says the Donbass source. “It’s impossible to fight in the west without a full-scale attack from the north to cut the Lublin-Kiev lines.” North means Belarus.
“The US is directing all anti-aircraft operations and monitoring all major ground movements with their satellites and AWACS. Technologically speaking, they may have a better view of Ukraine and everything that moves than the Russians. If there were to be a qualitative escalation of the combined US and Ukrainian forces, such as deployment of long-range missiles along the Polish side of the western front and long-range mobile artillery moving into Ukraine to fire and then back to Poland for safety, then you can be sure the Russians would see that as a new strategic capability or differential. They will counter-attack, possibly against US satellite and aerospace reconnaissance assets.”
http://johnhelmer.net/the-last-ditch-is-poland-russias-phase-3-plan-for-western-ukraine/
or not.
It has been called.
Some firsts. Republican vote: 40.7%, Unionist vote: 40.5% (I don’t know if that includes the Republican PBP.) 250k+ first preference votes for Sinn Fein seems to be a record number (by about 10%) for any party at Stormont since 1998. SF largest party in NI, SNP largest party in Scotland.
> NI election results 2022: Sinn Féin wins most seats in historic election
Sinn Féin will be the largest party in the Northern Ireland Assembly for the first time, pushing the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) into second place.
Sinn Féin has 27 seats, compared to the Democratic Unionist Party’s (DUP) 24.
The result means Michelle O’Neill will be entitled to become first minister, an unprecedented move for a nationalist.
A unionist party has had the most seats at Stormont since Northern Ireland was formed in 1921.
The most seats the DUP can return with is 25.
Earlier, Ms O’Neill described the results as a “defining moment for our politics and for our people”.
“Today ushers in a new era which I believe presents us all with an opportunity to reimagine relationships in this society on the basis of fairness, on the basis of equality and on the basis of social justice,” she continued.
The Alliance Party has returned 17 MLAs, more than doubling its previous number in 2017.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-61355419
Kids of a ‘CNR’ (catholic/ nationalist/ republican) (Irish) background are now 58% of the school intake, and they have been a majority for 20 years, so the constitutional question is likely moving in only one direction now. ‘PULs’ are heavily represented in the oldest generations.
PULs were 2:1 in 1921, now it is about 1:1 overall, and less in the younger. It took 100 years. To some extent, a people makes its bed and it lies in it. A statelet that relies on an ‘inbuilt’ majority is liable to depend on that.
The result means Michelle O’Neill will be entitled to become first minister, an unprecedented move for a nationalist.
Earlier, Ms O’Neill described the results as a “defining moment for our politics and for our people”.
“Today ushers in a new era which I believe presents us all with an opportunity to reimagine relationships in this society on the basis of fairness, on the basis of equality and on the basis of social justice,” she continued.
I previously thought it might be a little bit of grosssly exaggerated caricature, but is every European leader an innnsane psyyycho woketard?
It certainly beats NI blowing itself up.
yes.
blowing up countries is what the innnsane psyyycho woketard USA leadership is for.
though perhaps your use of “blowing itself up” is not literal.
Why not blow up countries and take their resources?
Well, in the end they decided that it was more effective to just hit the London financial sector and to hit it hard. They were able to do a billion’s damage in a single day. LLoyd’s of London insurers came close to collapse. The British State had enough, and the GFA was agreed.
This is the fuse; explosions to come.
Doubtful. Certainly no Unionist factions in NI are making those noises. And I am pretty sure that no one else speaks for them.
She is a nationalist?
Doubt.
And who are her “people”?
Mainly she is talking about equality between the Irish and the British in NI. In the 1970s that meant things like equal political representation and access to homes and jobs. These days it means things like official recognition of the Irish language, along side English, in the north of Ireland. Maybe you have a problem with that?
I “have a problem” with importing Africans and other non-Whites into Europe in general.
I doubt that she believes that she has a “people” at all.
These issues you mention are just sentimental toasts to distract the punters as they go about their real agendas of race replacement and murdering the country’s racial identity.
When I read about a “defining moment for our politics and for our people”, my first thought was “who are Ms. O’Neil’s people? The people of NI, the Republicans/Nationalists, the Catholics, or the members and alumni of the WEF?
I disagree with Mirror’s breakdown of the people of NI into British and Irish. They are all both British and Irish—in the sense of being British citizens and inhabiting the island of Ireland—although the citizenship might change if Ireland becomes a unified state.
Ah, so you are the same Kim.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-61371123
Is nothing sacred? (Answer = No)
Never mind, we’ll all be dead soon.
Anyone who says ‘reimagining’ is both utterly empty and dishonest.
One of the most shop-worn, exhausted cliches in circulation.
Seat tallies are still being finalised in the NI Stormont elections.
This is a positive message from SF.
> Michelle O’Neill, set to become the first nationalist first minister of Northern Ireland, delivers a speech at the Magherafelt count.
She opens congratulating everyone elected to the assembly from “across all parties and of all constituencies”.
“I really look forward to working with all of you, each and every one of you, in the days and weeks ahead,” she says, adding that the results represent a “defining moment for our politics and for our people”.
“Today ushers in a new era which I believe presents us all with an opportunity to reimagine relationships in this society on the basis of fairness, on the basis of equality, and on the basis of social justice,” she says.
“Irrespective of religious, political, or social backgrounds, my commitment is to make politics work. My commitment is to work through partnership, not division.
“We will work with those who serve, of all other political perspectives. We will work together. We will show respect and we expect to be shown respect. There is a space in this place for everyone.
“I will provide leadership which is inclusive, which celebrates diversity, which guarantees rights and equality for those who have been excluded, discriminated against, or ignored in the past.”
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2022/may/07/local-elections-2022-johnson-under-pressure-after-tories-lose-hundreds-of-seats-sinn-fein-on-track-to-be-largest-party-in-ni-elections-live
It is about cooperation rather than domination. The constitutional question has to go one way or the other, and that is for the majority to decide, which is how democracy works.
I don’t wish to sound impolite, but given the meaning of what we discuss here, does it really matter?
I look at all the platitudes you quote from the lady’s speech, droning on about inclusion and diversity, and I think: “well, really, those words could have come from about 80% of political leaders in the West”.
Against the background of the injections, of the energy predicament, of the monetary crisis, all of these people are just chaff in the wind.
Here, here Clickkid. The question remains for all of us: how does this relate to the Energy Cliff?
we are way down the energy cliff
but telling ourselves its just a fairground ride
That is where it gets interesting. Gail’s position is that the UK is primarily a dissipative structure, and as such it has developed complexity to dissipate a relatively high flow of energy. Dissipative structures grow in complexity as the flow of energy increases, and they simplify as the energy flow subsides.
Social dissipative structures develop layers of centralisation, of administration, as they grow in complexity, and those layers are liable to give way with less energy flow. ‘Unions’ like UK, EU, USA represent complex, layered, social dissipative structures that rely on energy for their complexity and existence.
Now, energy consumption per capita in UK has been in decline for decades, and that decline is liable to accelerate as energy becomes less affordable. Thus it is to be expected that UK will break up as its layers of centralisation give way. Indeed that seems to already be happening in NI and in Scotland, or at least trends already appear to be going that way.
Ireland may well have better access to energy from the EU in the future, or it may find itself cut off. Modern ‘national states’ are liable to break up into regions too as the energy flow subsides. Historically Ireland was several local kingdoms, and it may well eventually end up back like that.
So, on a physics economics blog like this, we spot trends that might commonly be understood as being primarily of political or ideological circumstance and we trace that back to thermodynamic principles. The UK is an interesting case study for Gail’s theories, and we keep an eye on it over years.
Whether that interests or ‘concerns’ anyone who visits her comments section does not “really matter”. The blog does not exist primarily to entertain this or that visitor. It is to discuss the issues. Whether all visitors understand or agree with the blog’s physical perspective is another matter.
The possible unification is interesting. I have never been to either North Ireland or to the Republic of Ireland to understand the situation, and I haven’t read much about it.
I understand that per capita income is very much lower in North Ireland than in Ireland. Presumably, a lot of the income for Ireland comes from it being a tax haven. If people in Ireland feel rich, I suppose that they can be predisposed toward treating the North Ireland folks well, especially if those in North Ireland might supply them with food.
This situation is different from when Ireland was partitioned in 1921, when the country was facing civil war. I would expect both sides were very poor then because the UK was past peak coal.
this is why southern Ireland is rich
https://t.co/FDZGhdaiq1
(https://twitter.com/donie/status/1522657143308136448?t=ubF8E5okQ3KuI5yiHdJJog&s=03)
I know this place well–and the people.
And was deeply moved when a lady from Tennessee said to me, here I feel safe and free and I don’t want to be anywhere else.
It is a real place, and a rare place.
“does it really matter?”
Nothing “really matters” without a subject to whom it matters. Things often ‘matter’ to people, not in themselves but insofar as they contribute to something else that matters to them. They concern themselves with the one in so far as they are concerned with the other. That is to say that ‘concern’ is primarily practical, otherwise it is more ‘interest’ than concern.
If we are to take the line that civilisation is headed toward total collapse, and that nothing can be done about that, then absolutely nothing “really matters” in so far as there is no possibility that we might concern ourselves with one thing, any thing, in a practical way, in so far as it concerns any other thing in the outcome in question.
Gail does this website because it interests her, not because she thinks that anything that she says, or anyone else, is going to make any difference to the outcome. In that sense, it is more a matter of interest, really, than anything of any practical concern, as if anything said here is going to make any difference or it “matters”.
Maybe NI could do with some liberal “platitudes” as it was founded on ethno-religious fragmentation, and that remains structural to it. Normal Western societies are not structured in that way. What may be a ‘platitude’ in one context may be an urgent practicality in another. In that sense, those “platitudes” “matter” in NI – maybe only for time, but everything is only for a time.
“Normal Western societies are not structured in that way.”
Normal Wesetern societies are not structured in any way, They are merely atomized individuals/nuclear families who happen to inhabit the same geographical area.
In the future that is likely it seems to be that close-knit groups based on ethnicity/religion will have the greatest chance of survival – perhaps groups like the Amish or similar.
It is certainly possible that the past can tell us more than the present about the future. Humans will be returning to less flush energetic conditions, and their societies are liable to revert to previous structures. No crystals balls, but that does seem likely.
https://s3-eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/centaur-wp/theengineer/prod/content/uploads/2017/04/26122430/Ong-recAGR.jpg
wow, beautiful, the blues and the yellows.
I wonder if all of these sites have such beauty.
Yes mirror on the wall:
nothing matters any more.
First I realized it is “them” for whom 2500 years of reasoning and civilization did not matter any more.
Now it is me.
Pretty hard state of affairs.
Anyhow as Fast said, I am calm now.
European civilisation has never been based on reasoning, although ‘reasoning’ (quotes intended) has often been used to justify the status quo. Science has certainly played an important role in capitalism.
It’s just trivial provincial politics, after all – Ireland, Scotland, England, etc.
Of no interest to a global audience, unless one can infer general principles.
One more point, and I am from an Irish Catholic background myself.
What was the point of hundreds of years of Irsh Nationalist struggle against rule from London and absentee British landlords, only to bend the knee to the grey-suited bureaucrats of Brussels?
Thanks for the info anyway. It would probably have passed me by otherwise.
You are always welcome.
That is OK, you do not have to identify your ethno-religious background on here or to ‘speak’ from any such ‘perspective’. All voices are ‘legitimate’ here.
We are not really concerned with bourgeois politico-moral concepts like ‘sovereignty’ on here. We are more interested in understanding the energetic predicament and how energetic conditions inform societies and trends.
There is no politico-moral ‘truth’ about whether NI ‘should be’ Irish or British – or perhaps somehow both (maybe joint jurisdiction). I am certainly not arguing any such thing. That is for the people of the place to decide for themselves.
People are free to say what they think about sovereignty and the EU on here. Certainly no one is going to stop them, and certainly not me. We chat about fish, and all sorts lol.
Thanks.
So gracious in your permissions, you are.
Nearly as ‘gracious’ as you?
Can you convince your team to resume the attacks on the British…. that’s fantastic watching
“What Happens When Complexity Unravels?” by CHS
http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2022/05/what-happens-when-complexity-unravels.html
This raises a question few seem to ask: what happens when complexity unravels?
Why will complexity unravel? The answer is simple: it costs too much, and supply-side and labor costs are rising. Something’s gotta give, and that something will be complexity.
We have built layers upon layers of conplexity; s set of systems of procedures to check on a system or set of procedures. Nothing that I know of gets simplified. Government grows bigger, corporations adds layers of managers and things norepinephrine complicated. We use Wordstar in the 1980s and I believe we can still use it to do our word processing work instead of the hundreds of gigabytes of Ms Word.
This is a really excellent post by Charles Hugh Smith, in my opinion. He makes many fine observations, including
“all the complexity will remain firmly in place because somebody somewhere will wage ruthless political warfare to keep it, making it impossible to resize the system to fit available resources.”
The number of administrators will continue to stay high. No one will consider the idea of cutting these positions. Instead, the number of real workers doing the jobs will be cut and the price of services will rise.
The big increase in debt related to COVID shutdowns has indirectly pumped up state and local revenues. This has allowed state and local governments to increase their tax revenue and keep complexity in place.
I am guessing that capitalism does not really work well with a project of ‘downsizing’. The profit mechanism does not really fit with that. It would likely take a command economy to effect ‘downsizing’, and it would be a massive and very difficult project even then.
It is sometime said that ‘it is easier to destroy than to build up’. The situation may be somewhat the reverse for complex economies. Adding to what is, is a lot easier than rethinking the entire thing.
The tax angle is an interesting one. Well described here:
The Greatest Heist of All Time
https://pete843.substack.com/
This is a very insightful, long paper describing how the rich have gotten richer and the rest of us are getting poorer, thanks to Jerome Powell, Larry Fink, Klaus Schwab and others. The author, Pete Lincoln, says,
Pete Lincoln concludes:
I am afraid Pete Lincoln may be correct.
A juicy essay, worth reading.
After reading about these dreadful conspirators, the Fed, Black Rock & Co., one has to do something purifying.
Huxley could barely see the hand in front of his face, but his prediction regarding a permanent (or so they hope) tyranny based on pharmacology and brainwashing seems ever more accurate. We are seeing this unfold now.
He made a dreadfully mistaken prediction about WW2, though, saying there would be no land warfare, it would all be bombing – but this was not an original idea at the time. He might have asked why the Germans were training tank crews……
How long will that last ? We often talk about the dollar losing reserve currency status but it does not seem to be happening
The dollar losing its reserve currency is a given. We have been warned now for at least 10 yrs that day was coming. Nations are starting to trade in their own currencies and bypassing the dollar altogether. Israel has also bypassed the dollar with certain nations.
Every reserve currency throughout history has met the same fate and the dollar will be NO exception. The day will come in the future when the dollar gets replaced with another currency and all bets are on a digital currency issued and backed by the IMF.
No currency is viable without corresponding inputs of tangible energy. As far as we are concerned, that is fossil fuel.
our currency is a construct of oil coal and gas—the IMF just a manifestation of that. The IMF does not possess the means to back any form of currency. Money can never be anything other than a token of energy exchange. Most people refuse to accept that.
Money cannot be transposed into energy itself.
digital currency is worth only what someone will pay you for it, which also happens to be the definition of a ponzi scheme.
if it was anything else, we would all be getting wages paid in crypto. We are not, that’s why. ‘Digital’ has morphed into a collective fantasy that it will somehow give us an ‘alternative’. It won’t.
yes, the dollar will cease to be the reserve currency—just as the pound did. And all previous currencies.
that happened because the energy base effectively transposed itself into a debt base as our energy surplus went into depletion. No issue of ‘crypto’ can change that. We are now in an increasing wedge of debt. We do not possess sufficient energy to extract ourselves for that debt.
Instead of being in an energy-credit system (ie BAU), we are now in an energy deficit system. We are also in denial of that.
Wealth cannot be printed or stored in ATM machines.
Those who imagine that it can, should take their fantasy to the n’th degree, and print money on rolls and hang those rolls in public lavatories.
just tear off what you need—–that will define its value.
I would expect the change to occur slowly at first, then very quickly.
The slow part is already beginning, as countries are discovering that their holdings in treasuries may not do them much good. They might be better off using alternate currencies to get supplies they need from sanctioned countries.
Then, all at once, something will happen to make a much quicker change. There will be a sharp break in the system. We will no longer be able to buy goods internationally, except perhaps from a few closely affiliated countries. There may be sharp changes within the US–perhaps break into regional pieces. The banking system will change.
That’s very interesting 🤔. I would like to play that out more
Alex from the Duran made a video where he informs about the stealing of the football club Chelsea from the russian billinaire Abramovic.
Also the confiscation of super yachts is under way.
If I were an international Billionaire, I would slowly but definitively pull out all my money from the reach of the West (TM).
But it will take some travel and lawyers works meaning time.
As Gail said: slow first but rapidly later.
(luxury real estate in London?….)
This question at the moment is very hard to anser!
Here is a post by Tom Luogo about loss of value against resources and the benefit for developing c:
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2022/05/thomas-luongo/the-great-currency-reset-and-why-europe-is-trapped/
Here is a post by Michael Hudson for a stronger Dollar:
https://michael-hudson.com/2022/05/ukraine-4-steps-on/
I see both points as valid but I bet on complete default of everything (M1 (DISCONTINUED) haha)…
In the short term I see an uptick of the Dollar because I saw an interview with the German investor Max Otte who basically said that money from Europe will just move to the USA except the money for international huge corporations, that are able to kick the european leg of their chair and have other legs in other continents.
In the long run, well, yeah, this is OFW guys…
I work in a place (in Fremont, CA, “silicon valley”) where they make equipment which makes microchips — the vacuum-chamber assemblies (tended by robots), in which the wafers are fabricated, are said to last between 3 & 10 years (depending on the process for which they’re used), so we keep making new ones to replace the old ones (a very energy-intensive process) — what will happen with the depletion of fossil fuels, & other resoueces?
Very few microchips will be made because supply lines for making them will break. We will need to reimagine our economy without microchips and devices that use microchips.
In the intermediate they may have to buy chips made in Russia or China lol.
‘ “Corporations have built the most efficient system of production the world has ever seen, perfectly calibrated to a world in which nothing bad ever happens.”
Recalibrating every corporate supply chain for all the bad things that are happening will cost a fortune.’
cost a fortune – in other words, cash and resources that many corporations simply do not and will not have. All part of the down-sizing plan presumably.
Off topic.
During the worst period of the pandemic I tried to think to something different following a nice youtube channel made by a canadian guy (‘the outsider’) who lives in the wild and teaches how to make things in autonomy in the countryside
He is really a nice guy and he is also a Pastor.
He has a wife with a cancer and a child.
In his channel, among various things, he also shows the story of the building of his family cabin in the wood, with the help of this father.
It was a long time since I visited that channel and now I find him saying that his father has just died of a sudden heart attack.
His father was healthy and he had no news of heart problems.
Please listed to it.
It is very short.
I wish all the best to my friend ‘the outsider’.
No news of what we are thinking about…
The WHO has released figures for excess deaths in the first two years of covid. The big question is why Sweden, which did not lock down, did so well. That question would be interrogated in an ideal world, but so many officials and professionals have invested in lock down narratives that would be difficult.
So, what is with Sweden? Compare it with neighbouring Lithuania, a mere 400 miles across the Baltic. On the other hand, Ireland, which locked down, did really well too. I think that Norway did as well. So, it is a very mixed picture.
Excess deaths associated with the Covid pandemic from all-causes per 100,000
Bulgaria 415
Lithuania 319
Romania 279
Slovakia 223
Croatia 210
Poland 208
Latvia 204
Hungary 189
Czechia 173
Slovenia 134
Italy 133
Estonia 127
Germany 116
Spain 111
UK 109
Portugal 100
Greece 93
Netherlands 85
Belgium 77
Austria 66
France 63
Sweden 56
Malta 54
Cyprus 42
Denmark 32
Ireland 29
Finland 26
Luxembourg 6
Norway -1 LOL Whatever.
Norway is reported to have high vitamin D levels, thanks to its high intake of fatty fish and cod liver oil.
I have taken a leaf out of the Norwegian book and included a spoon of cod liver oil per day to my diet.
I also take d tablets. My family all supplement d, and some of us eat a lot of fish anyway.
It is an island, and fish is easily available and inexpensive here. It is like 1 or 2 £ per fish portion frozen, and about double that fresh (a lot more wastage with fresh food).
Men often prefer to take it battered or breaded, which is fine, while the ladies are often happier with naked fish (less calories).
I am happiest with cod or haddock, while some others prefer the ‘posher’ fish like salmon. Each to their own, it is all good. I am OK with smoked salmon, but I would prefer a white fish, cooked, any day.
Cod, chips, eggs, a slice of buttered bread and a glass of milk, and I am in ‘heaven’. The body loves it.
I use the air frier with minimal oil spray, and I do eggs in the microwave. Others microwave naked fish, like 2 minutes, and veg like broccoli sprouts and green beans. Everyone can take it as they like it these days.
I hope you don’t mind, it is just a Saturday thought 🙂
Tverberget, Norway.
I’ve heard about that mountain in a book on Norway.
For the moment I’ve just visited Denmark and Sweden.
I’m not sure if I will be able to go to Scandinavia again in the future..
Have a nice weekend.
https://www.google.it/maps/place/Tverberget/@62.0769021,6.0060832,1397m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x4616fb8770431dc1:0xc034ee5c693567e4!8m2!3d62.0768928!4d6.014838
My father’s side of the family lived up in the mountains of Norway on a 7 acre farm. Needless to say, the farm could not support a large family. My grandfather decided to leave, even if he was the oldest of the children, and thus in line to inherit the small farm. The last I heard, the farm eventually became a hang gliding tourist attraction.
Thank you for your story. Very kind of you.
In Dark Age Scandinavia, a father would give his son a weapon saying ‘This is all your inheritance, go and use it well.’
Hence the wide dispersion of Vikings throughout Europe: Italy, England, France, Ireland, and what became Russia.
Going off to find work in the US was the more peaceful later version…..
It is difficult to me to talk about my surname as I prefer to use a nickname.
But I can tell you that my father’s surname has a clear origin from ‘Normanni’ people.
They arrived in the South with vessels when the Roman Empire collapsed and they probably decided to stay as it is a beautiful place 🙂
Unfortunately I don’t live in the South due to my work.
Normanni in the South of Italy:
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normanni
If you look up the history – if you don’t know it already – ‘the Alexiad’ written by Anna Comnena, the Byzantine princess, Student, you will found a lot about the Normans of Southern Italy, and what the Greeks thought about them. There is a cheap Penguin paperback edition.
Interesting that their traces still survive in family names in Italy. Any fair or red hair and blue eyes, too?
In Malta, at least one village is named after the German nobleman who owned it in the 13th century, and so Maltese people bear his name after all these centuries – but no descent obviously.
Scandinavian origins still show in some common English surnames, mostly from northern England.
And there are a few, very rare, surnames indicating Saxon tribes or clans, mostly in eastern England (my English great-grandfather bore one) and the first names of some of those settlers are preserved in some villages where they built their farmsteads, 500- 1000 AD.
Federal projections show Lake Mead and Lake Powell, the country’s two largest reservoirs, will keep on declining in the coming months, reaching a shortage level likely to trigger larger water cuts in 2023 for Arizona, Nevada and Mexico — and which could also eventually force similar reductions in California.
“The gravity of the immediate situation is serious,” said Tom Buschatzke, director of the Arizona Department of Water Resources. “We expect further significant actions to reduce water use will be required
In another sign of trouble for California’s scarce water supplies, Arizona’s top water officials said the worsening depletion of the Colorado River’s reservoirs will require serious action to combat the effects of a 22-year megadrought that shows no sign of letting up.
Federal projections show Lake Mead and Lake Powell, the country’s two largest reservoirs, will keep on declining in the coming months, reaching a shortage level likely to trigger larger water cuts in 2023 for Arizona, Nevada and Mexico — and which could also eventually force similar reductions in California.
“The gravity of the immediate situation is serious,” said Tom Buschatzke, director of the Arizona Department of Water Resources. “We expect further significant actions to reduce water use will be required.”
The Colorado River supplies water to nearly 40 million people, flowing to cities, farmlands and tribal nations from the Rocky Mountains to Southern California. The river has for decades been chronically overused. So much water is diverted that the river’s delta in Mexico largely dried up decades ago, leaving only scattered natural wetlands in an otherwise dry river channel that runs through farmland.
State and federal officials spoke at a meeting in Phoenix on Friday, three days after the federal Bureau of Reclamation announced plans to reduce the amount of water released from Lake Powell this year to reduce risks of the reservoir’s water level falling too low at Glen Canyon Dam. Last year, the dam generated enough power to meet the needs of more than 300,000 homes — something it would not be able to do if the water levels plummet so badly that it can no longer generate electricity.
Buschatzke added that more needs to be done to protect water levels in Lake Mead, which releases water that flows to Arizona, Nevada, California and Mexico.
Lake Powell, which straddles the Arizona-Utah state line, has declined to just 24% of full capacity, the lowest point since it was filled in the 1960s following the construction of Glen Canyon Dam.
The water that is released from Lake Powell flows through the Grand Canyon and reaches Lake Mead near Las Vegas. Lake Mead has dropped to 30% of full capacity, its lowest level since it was filled in the 1930s during the Great Depression.
The latest projections, Buschatzke said, show the reduced releases of water from Lake Powell will result in a roughly 22-foot drop in Lake Mead’s level.
“It’s about maintaining flows in the Colorado River, including through the Grand Canyon,” Buschatzke said. Because if the flows were to be severely restricted, the declines in Lake Mead would accelerate.
Buschatzke noted that the surface of Lake Mead now sits just under 1,054 feet above sea level. If the reservoir were to drop to 895 feet, he pointed out, it would reach “dead pool” — the point at which water would no longer pass through Hoover Dam.
The federal government’s latest plan will involve releasing about 500,000 acre-feet of water from Flaming Gorge Reservoir, which is located upstream, and holding back an additional 480,000 acre-feet in Lake Powell.
California, Arizona and Nevada used 6.8 million acre-feet of Colorado River water in 2020. (Each acre-foot is enough water to cover a football field about 1 foot deep.)
If Lake Powell were to drop to lower levels, below elevation 3,490 feet, water could still be routed through four 8-foot-wide pipes, the dam’s river outlet works.
“However, if the lake were to decline, that capacity to release water lessens,” said Daniel Bunk, chief of the Boulder Canyon Operations Office for the federal Bureau of Reclamation. “There’s a lot of uncertainty with operating below that level.”
Over the last several years, state and federal officials have repeatedly negotiated deals to try to reduce risks of the Colorado River’s reservoirs falling to critically low levels.
Yep, well TRY as hell to keep those lawns and pools and golf greens afloat
We should have figured out that at some point, we were likely to reach this situation.
Water versus electricity becomes a big issue. The dry West can’t really support a high population.
“California’s power grid operator is predicting an energy shortage for the hot summer months. The California Independent System Operator said the state could be 1,700 megawatts short of what it needs for the grid to function properly.”
https://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2022/05/06/ca-potential-outages-concerns/
What a crisis that is unfolding regardless of the reason, Hun, Harry?
Also, another quiet crisis that is largely ignored is the
by Kellan Heavican
May 5, 2022 | 10:26 AM
Farmers and ranchers in parts of Kansas are trying to secure access to water while others face the threat of floods.
Governor Laura Kelly says producers in Western Kansas are running out of water because the Ogallala Aquifer is being depleted. “We’ve been working with our farmers and ranchers over the last few years to really help them find modified ways to produce crops so that they lessen the need and use of water.”
She tells Brownfield she’s fully funded the state’s water plan to sustain the Aquifer.
Yep, sure the plan will set things right… sarcasm
If we irrigate the area over the Ogallala Aquifer, farmers can grow corn to make ethanol to act as an extender for gasoline to power our vehicles. What is not to like?
If we irrigate the Walhalla Aquifer, believers can grow crypto currencies, so miners can grow profit to make people believe there’s more to power out vehicles.
What’s not to like?
The Pope could travel by the masses at 92 mph so no one sees He shit his pants every day for the last seven years.
I’ve been through Dodge City KS several times, during the summer. Dodge City is in a very dry part of the state. I would call it a semi- desert. Here in MO, the corn grows tall without supplemental watering. In that part of KS, they have to use sprinkling systems hooked to wellheads siphoning the Ogallalla aquifier. It really seems like a waste of water, trying to grow a crop in a climate not suitable for it.
I am afraid that this is not a surprise. Everyone, quick, get an electric vehicle!
Lake Mead has dropped to 30% of full capacity, its lowest level since it was filled in the 1930s during the Great Depression.
looks like climate change is just shutting us down, whether we believe in it or not
Or the people who built the dam did not understand the normal variability of precipitation in the Southwest. They assumed the most recent 50 years was representative of the long-term situation.
i have a much treasured 120 year old school atlas—it is complete, though falling to bits.
it is really useful for looking up where and what countries used to be–pre ww1 etc
the USA has 2 pages, one showing the states and towns
the other one the geology-topography—it just labels the entire South West as ‘The Great American desert.’
though i think its the overuse of the Colorado river thats caused the problem, linked to the snowpack depletion
I would like to point out that the population of California has grown eightfold over the past century, from around 5 million when Laurel and Hardy began entertaining us with their antics to 40 million today.
Similarly, the population of Arizona has risen more than twentyfold from 340,000 in 1920 to over 7.3 million now.
Since today’s water supply is barely meeting demand, it seems reasonable to assume that it would have been more than adequate to meet the needs of the much smaller population in the US Southwest a century ago, so that we do not in fact have a “megadrought” but rather an excessive population for the available water resources.
A “megadrought” sounds sexier though!
as Bartlett used to say–very few people understand and accept the arithmetic of the exponential function..
simple common sense says building cities in desrts in a stupid thing to do, but people do things ‘because they can’—ie turning the planet into cash
the current dry period seems to be 20 years +—just what is a mega drought?
obviously increase in population is the killer factor in this, I’m fully aware of pop growth, but folks like making babies—it’s why we are here after all (not i hasten to add–on OFW itself, perish the thought))
Logic and Facts are unacceptable to the Klimate CChange Groopies
The US Southwest and California in particular are not in a “megadrought”. A megadrought (or mega-drought) is a prolonged drought lasting two decades or longer.
And yet it wasn’t two decades ago or longer that we were all watching in awe to see if the Lake Orville Dam was going to collapse. It was five years ago.
We were all having a grand time watching the videos as I recall. Let me jog your memory.
“In February 2017, heavy rainfall damaged Oroville Dam’s main and emergency spillways, prompting the evacuation of more than 180,000 people living downstream along the Feather River and the relocation of a fish hatchery.
“Heavy rainfall during the 2017 California floods damaged the main spillway on February 7, so the California Department of Water Resources stopped the spillway flow to assess the damage and contemplate its next steps. The rain eventually raised the lake level until it flowed over the emergency spillway, even after the damaged main spillway was reopened. As water flowed over the emergency spillway, headward erosion threatened to undermine and collapse the concrete weir, which could have sent a 30-foot (10 m) wall of water into the Feather River below and flooded communities downstream. No collapse occurred, but the water further damaged the main spillway and eroded the bare slope of the emergency spillway.”
Rainfall heavy enough to cause the dam to overflow and require use of the emergency spillway has occurred only once since the dam was constructed in 1968. By definition, such heavy rainfall does not occur in times of “megadrought”.
For the past few years, the MSM has been using the term “megadrought” in place of the correct word “drought”. And the permanently hypnotized normies are regurgitating that error, as they generally do whenever the MSM presents them with a piece of disinformation over and over again.
David Icke in that video clip was quite correct about the mass hypnosis we are all exposed to and many of us live under constantly. One doesn’t necessarily see eye to eye with him about Queen Elizabeth II being a shape-shifting lizard person, but he is correct in identifying the mass media as being there to program the masses.
Incidentally, back in the early 1960s when TV was becoming popularized in Japan, my wife’s father refused to have one in the house, parroting a popular slogan at the time Ichiokusōhakuchika, literally, “the complete moronization of a hundred million people”, meaning “the transformation of the entire population of Japan into idiots because of television.” And he was right.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-05-06/colorado-rivers-california-arizona-powell-mead-risk
(from above)
>>>>In another sign of trouble for California’s scarce water supplies, Arizona’s top water officials said the worsening depletion of the Colorado River’s reservoirs will require serious action to combat the effects of a 22-year megadrought that shows no sign of letting up.<<<<
one of us has been given the wrong hymn sheet
It’s you, Norman, obviously, if you are using the LA Times as your hymn sheet.
“The complete moronization of a hundred million people” — some Japanese people were well aware of that phenomenon as far back as the 1950s and 60s. This was one of the reasons why Mishima topped himself. True, he couldn’t stand being surrounded by people woh didn’t appreciate his genius. but he was also aghast at the ongoing moronization of the country.
But it isn’t confined to Japan alone. There’s “the complete moronization of three hundred million people”in the US, “the complete moronization of five hundred million people” in Europe, and so on. The entire industrialized world has been dumbed down considerably over the past half century.
To quote one off my favorite Carl Sagan observations again, “One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle.”
This is you, Norman. You simply reject any evidence of anything you don’t wish to be the case. And it is appallingly sad for me as a compassionate human being to witness a potentially great intellectual mind such as yours moronized to extent yours has been.
I know it’s a fool’s errand to tell the moronized that they are moronized, the bamboozled that they are bamboozled, or the brainwashed that they are brainwashed. But eventually one gets to the point where no other plausible explanation can account for the facts.
the bathtub ring around Mead is a reasonable indicator
ive posted many links from many sources on ofw—i try not to make the mistake of using just one
the other day i posted the CO2 levels from several million years, and that ppm levels hadn’t been this high for 200m years.–put obviously people make that up.
And that sea levels had risen 6 – 8” in a century (warming sea water expands)
but what do i know.? all another hoax—of course.
Nations never agree on anything—yet all 195 nations agree on climate change.—but you stand firm and insist its all a hoax–or something. Thousands of scientists in hundreds of different disciplines have reached the same conclusion.
whereas you, tim, add words and embellish comments to suit your own preconditioned thinking (as does your mentor—-selling baby parts?–really?)
The climate keeps changing. This is something that we, unfortunately, have to live with.
it does
but as i’ve tried to point out—over 0000s of years
not 100 years
How do we know?
well–we know the peak of the last ice age was 20k years ago, we are now not in an ice age we also know about previous ice ages, fluctuations between warm and cold,
Google CO2 levels in history–there are too many charts to list here–all showing the same thing
>>>>>Global annual mean CO 2 concentration has increased by 50% since the start of the Industrial Revolution, from 280 ppm during the 10,000 years up to the mid-18th century to 420 ppm as of April 2021. The present concentration is the highest for 14 million years.<<<<<<
https://earth.org/data_visualization/a-brief-history-of-co2/
Haha! That’s hilarious, Gail. 😁
I’ve always wondered if the pumping of water from California aquafers has delayed the next big earthquake. Wouldn’t removal of water relieve the pressure build-up of the tectonic plates. And delay the next one. It is a cyclical process. Just a thought.
my tectonics knowledge is limited, but quakes are caused by plates attempting to move past each other, and building up stress over many years until they move suddenly
hence an ‘earthquake.’
i would have thought removing water in vast quantities, would effectively be removing a lubricant, thus creating an even bigger stress build up, so when the quake eventually happens, as it must, it will have greater force.
maybe somebody knows about this in more technical detail
Following CHS post discussed above, one can be sure that casinos in Vegas will wage a ruthless political battle to keep the lawns watered until there is no more water.
Probably true. Need to keep the tourists coming!
https://www.blick.ch/ausland/top-stratege-warnt-davor-die-russische-armee-zu-unterschaetzen-die-bittere-wahrheit-ist-putin-kann-den-krieg-gewinnen-id17459588.html
Austria is not a NATO member and can therefore speak the truth
Russian media was banned in the West when the war started
We are now living in a propaganda bubble where Ukraine is winning the war…while Russia is winning on the battlefield
The article is translated into English
The US has the world’s reserve currency and now the Minister of Truth. Yes, it’s Orwellian but the US controls what the Media is allowed to say. NATO = Good, Russia = Bad
been saying it for years:
>>>“Being the arsenal of democracy means good-paying jobs for the American people,” Joe Biden, Lockheed missile assembly plant, May 2022.<<<
now there's an 'ouch' comment to conjure with.
Biden keeps plagiarising me—it's got to stop!!
Doubt he will stop..he’s been doing it for decades now and even got elected after being tossed out of they primaries decades ago
Sept. 23, 1987, Joe Biden stood before a crowd of reporters and ended his first presidential campaign amid questions about a value he’d worked hard to convince voters he had: authenticity.
The collapse had begun 11 days earlier, with news that Biden had lifted phrases and mannerisms from a British Labour Party politician while making closing remarks at a debate. Examples soon surfaced of Biden using material from other politicians without attribution, and he acknowledged he had been accused of plagiarism in law school. To make matters worse, a video emerged of Biden exaggerating his academic record while speaking angrily to a voter in New Hampshire.
“I made some mistakes,” Biden, then a U.S. senator, told the press as he announced the end of his candidacy, in a speech that was by turns regretful and defiant. “But now, the exaggerated shadow of those mistakes has begun to obscure the essence of my candidacy and the essence of Joe Biden.”
Washington Post
well–I put a comment on here a couple of days ago that Biden had plagiarised me—without so much as a by-your-leave, or even an invite to dinner with Ms Psaki
Each “side” needs to develop its own narrative. The other “side” is bad; their side is “good.” Put in a scapegoat or two.
The Pope has weighed in, and surprisingly, even shockingly, His Holiness has blamed NATO for the fighting in Ukraine:
Few would describe Pope Francis as a Russia apologist or a puppet of Vladimir Putin, yet the pontiff recently adopted the same line as many who HAVE been so accused, arguing that the Ukraine war was the fault of NATO and not simply an act of aggression from Russia. In fact, Pope Francis went so far as to describe NATO as having been “barking at Putin’s door.”
Jimmy Dore and American comedian Kurt Metzger discuss this surprise revelation from His Holiness and his labeling as a “conspiracy theorist” by American media outlets.
Do you all have the feeling that the present “I support the current…” is getting less effective? COVID seems to get the attention of the masses for 2 years, UKR just 2-3months and now Roe vs. Wade is almost fading. So, what is next?
There was an amusing spectacle in town today, a pro-Ukraine gathering. I’d say about 25 people, surrounded by hundreds of tourists and others just chilling and completely uninterested.
I only noticed it because of the flag and the manic, amplified, voice of a deranged middle-aged female who seemed to be the leader.
She put a brave face on the tiny audience:
‘There are more of us here than last week! We’ll do fund raising and awareness raising and just grow and grow!’
Still, it was a larger audience than the regular ‘Jesus Saves’ preachers in the market square, I’ll give her that.
they haven’t had eddy there yet
Devil Covid
“Turkey’s inflation rate soars to almost 70 percent.
“Turkey’s official inflation rate has spiralled to nearly 70 percent in April, posing a huge challenge to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, whose unconventional economic policies are often blamed for the economic turmoil.”
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/5/5/turkeys-inflation-rate-soars-to-almost-70-percent-in-april
“As Bread Costs Skyrocket In Iran, So Does The Risk Of Social Unrest.
“A dramatic rise in the price of flour in Iran is leading to concerns that the authorities’ recent decision to end subsidies for imported wheat could come at the cost of social unrest.”
https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-bread-costs-skyrocket-unrest/31838051.html
“Sri Lanka ‘risks running out of food and fuel’ and could descend into ‘anarchy’, former energy minister says…
“President Gotabaya Rajapaksa declared a state of emergency across the country on Friday evening effective from midnight. It comes amid widespread protests calling for the resignation of Mr Rajapaksa and his brother Mahinda, who is prime minister, as Sri Lanka faces its worst economic crisis in recent memory.”
https://news.sky.com/story/sri-lanka-could-descend-into-anarchy-as-it-risks-running-out-of-food-and-fuel-former-energy-minister-says-12606983
You guys here should be thankful that you have struck a lifetime lottery because you are born into a family that allows you to have a first class seats in the grand finale of “modern human civilization”. If you are born into a family in Sri Lanka, you are merely the actor playing out the grand finale and not watching it from a safe distance, safe and sound and with a full stomach
To a degree we do have a ‘view from the castle window’ on the unfolding scene.
But the defences have been breached, there are traitors within, and we will all be unwilling stage-extras before long……
Which are the policies that you want to kill people for?
agree 100% CTG
They need to hold out for another month or two … Devil Covid will be here by then .. and finish them off
It feels very dark now… everything is dark…
I just word from work the masks will be coming back because cases are rising and my county is now in the
red danger zone. The vaccinated are really upset they have to wear masks too. They did everything right. Previously only the unvaccinated had to wear them in the office.
https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#county-view?list_select_state=all_states&list_select_county=all_counties&data-type=CommunityLevels
Cases, Hospitalizations, and even deaths are slowly creeping up according to the ‘At A Glance’ section near the top of that link.
I know several people who are very sick right now and resting at home. Thankfully they are fully vaccinated/boosted so I’m sure they’ll be fine. I offered to pick them up groceries if they need it to stop the spread.
The mask wearing and the vaccines will never end because Tony Fauci and Big Pharma sees that as bad if it does ever go away permanently.
There needs to be a way to cut back oil and other energy consumption. Reduced travel to the office is one such way.
Which state/county do you live in?
Walgreen’s report is showing very high positivity rates in quite a few states, as well.
https://www.walgreens.com/businesssolutions/covid-19-index.jsp
Gail, I’m in Maskachusetts and we’re turning red along with the rest of the northeast. I don’t understand. Most everyone did what they were told here yet we’re doing the worst.
Unfortunately, all of the mRNA vaccines help enhance the spread of the virus. They really don’t stop it.
All that the mRNA vaccines “sort of” do is reduce the severity of the illness, so that if a person catches the illness, they will be hospitalized a shorter time and less likely to die from it. But if many more vaccinated people really catch the virus, it defeats the whole purpose of the vaccine.
Yes – congratulate them on their decision to boost… if not they might be dead… cuz it’s so much worse for those who are not vaxxed.
Hahahahahahhahahaha…. the MOREONS are so Dummb (how dummmb are they Fast?) They are so dummmb that you can booster mock them … and they will lie there festering with disease… and they will think you are serious
hahaha… dummmb like mules… hahahaha
I really do hope this is a Cull vs Extermination
The PM and President are brothers? Wow. Mom must be very proud.
Big changes tend to happen when food prices skyrocket. Figure out how to keep people inside?
Do Medicine Regulators believe attenuated viruses in AstraZeneca & Janssen COVID Vaccines are to blame for rise in deadly Hepatitis among Children?
“The Science shows it’s perfectly possible…
The UK was the first country to roll-out the adenovirus based AstraZeneca Covid-19 injection en masse in January 2021, and it was also the first country to report an unusual increase in hepatitis cases of unknown cause among children…”
https://dailyexpose.uk/2022/05/07/medicine-regulators-blame-covid-jabs-hepatitis-children/
Was it being given to children? Here in OZ it was not recommended for those under 45 or so.