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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.
How erroneous is the world: The economists write things like “The rising inflation dictates the purchase of tangible things, which, unlike money, do not lose price.”
Without the energy, all loses price… Real estate, bitcoins, tokens etc.
This philosophy of “Choke yourself with stuff;” makes one very sad… You see more and more crazy people jumping around and wanting you to participate, promising you impossible, damaging and hurting, killing…
One wishes them to choke themselves with stuff as soon as possible.
Japan Reports More Suspected Cases Of Unexplained Acute Hepatitis In Children
https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/japan-reports-more-suspected-cases-unexplained-acute-hepatitis-children#comment-stream
Read the above article if you have time. This last paragraph seems interesting :
“There are fewer than five older case-patients recorded as having had a COVID-19 vaccination prior to hepatitis onset,” the report said, adding that most of the impacted children are too young to receive the shot. “There is no evidence of a link between COVID-19 vaccination and the acute hepatic syndrome.”
Perhaps it is due to shedding?
On May 8, John Day wrote this:
Here is something that just got put up, from a source in the UK which digs up dirt. I am not yet able to confirm it.
Perhaps it will be confirmed or refuted soon.
The World Health Organization recently issued a ‘global alert’ about a new form of severe hepatitis affecting children.
The news came after the UK Government announced it was launching an urgent investigation after detecting higher than usual rates of liver inflammation (hepatitis) among children, after having ruled out the common viruses that cause the condition.
The current publicised, but not watertight theory is that this is due to an adenovirus. But not just any adenovirus. , an “attenuated” adenovirus variant in both the AstraZeneca and Janssen Covid-19 vaccines that has gone rogue.
https://dailyexpose.uk/2022/05/07/medicine-regulators-blame-covid-jabs-hepatitis-children/
In Japan, according to the Health Ministry, three Covid-19 vaccines are available: Pfizer, Moderna, and AstraZeneca. So if the above hypothesis holds, there is a potential vector.
OMINOUS….
I have covered BA. 4, and BA. 5 for a few weeks now, and I warned if Omicron acquired a specific mutation, L452R it would go off, skyrocketing and dominating the field, because it enables high glycolysis, meaning it will use everything sugar related inside you at an alarming pace, enabling replication like nothing else too.
Another of the reasons it will “breakthrough”, vaccinated or not. One thing I mentioned a couple of times was, that the newer variants would cause severe fatigue, and would cause severe weakness in a lot of the infected (regardless of immunity status btw).
Sadly I can’t find the tweet a nice follower tagged me, but it was a EMS worker from Africa commenting exactly this.
BA. 4 and 5 infected are developing severe weakness, their bodies feel like ragdolls.
https://hiddencomplexity.substack.com/p/omicron-ba-4-ba-5-and-the-road-ahead
With each mutation … the sickness will worsen… because the MOREONS have damaged their immune systems
hahahahaha
The linked article is a difficult article for me to understand.
“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
This imperative to reduce consumption is beginning to irritate me. Less driving, less shopping, less eating. What’s next: less breathing?
Down with boring moralistic pessimism – and up with the happy hardcore!
Maybe it is fortunate that we don’t know. Enjoy every day available to you.
Apple workers storm barriers and fight guards keeping them locked at work
https://metro.co.uk/2022/05/09/macbook-pro-workers-storm-through-coronavirus-barriers-in-china-16609336/
Real? Movie? Who knows…
Bitcoin’s price is now 50% down from its peak as the crypto plunge continues
https://fortune.com/2022/05/09/bitcoins-price-half-down-from-peak-crypto-plunge-continues/
All those folks who kept buying at the peak — cuz it was still cheap (that’s what someone told me – around the peak – urging me to buy… so assume he was buying)… are burned…
That’s a tax that is levied on DelusiSTANIS… but it’s nothing compared to the price the DelusiSTANIS pay for injecting the experiment (ITE)
I sold all my Bitcoin as it reached peak, and wisely reinvested the proceeds in tulip bulbs!
The COVID Vaccine Adverse Reactions Telegram group posted a story of a 7-year-old boy who died within 13 days of his first P-fizer injection.
I looked into VAERS and found him. They had also posted his VAERS ID which is a beautiful rarity so I wanted to see if I could determine what killed him by his listed symptoms. He had as his listed symptoms: Atrioventricular block, Blood glucose normal, Blood lactic acid, Brain natriuretic peptide increased and Carbon dioxide decreased. He suffered a cardiac arrest. They tried to resuscitate him but it didn’t work. He died in the emergency department. They said he had arrived at there listless and lethargic. You can read what his labs revealed below.
https://jessicar.substack.com/p/silly-adults-this-ones-for-kids
South Africa cases on the rise; graph shows the huge problem of what the non-sterilizing vaccine is doing (non-neutralizing antibodies) i)higher peaks ii) rapid/faster curves ii) not back to baseline
So South Africa is having a surge in cases…let us see if the hospitalization and death curve will follow but we are seeing that infections and deaths are now unlocked; not good…
This virus is not usual and the behaviour is troubling and we are arguing it is the non-neutralizing Abs that can bind to the virus but not neutralize/eliminate it, putting selection pressure, to ‘select’ the variants that are fittest and can overcome the immune pressure and infect (immune escape)…
https://palexander.substack.com/p/south-africa-cases-on-the-rise-graph
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%2Fa906765d-cf8a-4326-a47b-866cefa4ab06_3400x2400.png
A tsunami of bankruptcies could batter Europe’s largest manufacturing hub as stagflation risks mount due to the conflict in Ukraine and resulting Western sanctions on Russian fossil fuels.
“The energy supply in Germany is at risk, supply chains are breaking down, we have high inflation,” said Commerzbank Chief Executive Officer Manfred Knof, who German newspaper Handelsblatt recently quoted.
The threat of stagflation in Germany is elevated as soaring energy prices increase inflation and wreak havoc on businesses. Germany could experience a downturn if an embargo on Russian fossil fuels, such as natural gas, crude, and coal, is enforced.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/germanys-top-banking-chief-warns-bankruptcy-tsunami-amid-stagflation-threats
The Booster Campaign Has Been A Stupid Thing
A look at the German efficacy data, which show temporary effectiveness against symptomatic infection and severe outcome, collapsing to the same baseline after a few months.
https://www.eugyppius.com/p/the-booster-campaign-has-been-a-stupid
no problem – just keep taking boosters… at decreasing intervals…. forever till you either get a vax injury or till you reach immune exhaustion and wreck your immune system hahaha
human extinction is the Singularity.
Possibly, but pre-humans and humans made it through the ice ages. Some people know how to be hunter gathers.
Yeah, some do. Not many, though.
And those with healthy enough instincts to survive come what may, rather than be mollycoddled into existence by ‘civilisation’ each day.
Sound physiology will prevail as pessimism is lost to the winds of fate!
Humanity will be reborn fresh as Adam!
where i’m sitting right now was under 1000 ft of ice 20000 years ago
15000 years ago it started melting
10000 years ago it could support human hunter/gatherers
maybe 4/5000 years ago it supported primitive farmers
that is how climate change has happened in the past….It is not happening like that now.
20k years ago, ppm carbon count was about 250. now the count has shot to about 420ppm over the last 200 years or so. That has been the speed of the current episode of climate change—200 years—not 20000 years.
100x faster
we last had a carbon count this high 200m years ago.
https://earth.org/data_visualization/a-brief-history-of-co2/
My point is, people who lived right here 10k years ago knew no other way of living. They didn’t think any other way was possible. he hunted with flint arrowheads because ‘what other way could there be?’ Iron was still 6000 years in the future.
We cannot ‘adapt’ to another way of living because we only know this one.
People 10/15k years ago knew only their way as ‘permanent.—they had no awareness of what we know. Our knowledge is within us–we cannot unlearn it. We fantasise about ‘adaptation’—but we think adaptation will be BAU with a few minor inconveniences..
we won’t slip easily into any other era of existence, without the constant fight to regain the one we had.
Very well put, Norman. Very few people seem to understand what you’ve written.
Yes, Gibberish, Bilge and Poppycock are s incomprehensible to all but the cognoscenti.
feel free to point out all the errors in my comment tim
in detail.
i am always eager to absorb alternative facts
norm responds in invisible ink each time I ask him about this https://www.headsupster.com/forumthread?shortId=1621
eddy
i admire your stamina (which i assume is focussed entirely on OFW and nowhere else.)
but i get caught with clickbait once
not twice if i can help it
Fast Eddy is all over substack winning support for the UEP…
don’t spread yourself too thin eddy
you might become invisible
invisible clothes on an invisible emperor–whoever heard of such a thing?
people will see right through you
oops—they already do. Silly me.
Ya and Al Gore said coastal cities would be submerged now!!!
And remember how they used to call it Global Warming …but when many locations were showing cooling they changed it to Climate Change… and then they said that … oh and then Leo built a big fat resort 2mm above sea level… and Al Gore bought a 10M house that will be submerged in a few years… and they all fly around on private jets – even though there is a Climate Emergency….
I betcha the correlation is perfect if you compare those who believe in Global Warming to those who fully vax…
MOREONS can be made to believe anything.
Remember this https://twitter.com/Lukewearechange/status/1463932846570192901 You’d think a MOREON would watch that and think … hmmmm…. they lied to me … covid is tearing through everyone I know who did what they asked…. and not take boosters.
But nope – they take boosters. MOREONS.
Don’t forget that Al Gore was running up electric bills north of $8000 per month.
the ability to spell moron would be a good place to start eddy
without caps
Your comment assumes that CO2 is the controller/main driver of our climate when it’s just a minor player. The big kahuna is the sun and our climate models are unable to capture the complexity of the larger cycles given current methods. We don’t even account for military emissions or geoengineering in the models. We seem to be headed for a grand solar minimum as our magnetosphere weakens. Carbon is not the problem! Follow the money, it’s a massive scam for money and total control of populations. Funny how all these chosen narratives go back to power, money, and control.
But sure let’s all impoverish ourselves and thrust millions more into poverty because carbon=bad.
Time to wake up folks.
Carbon is awesome for the planet — it is necessary for plant growth — there are some that suggest Mother put us on the planet to release carbon … and now that she is back in equilibrium — she is evicted us.
And in another 10/15k it will probably be back to permafrost again in Yorkshire, regardless of the see oh two level.
Endurance writes:
Anybody who tells you that man’s use of fossil fuels is driving catastrophic global warming is a liar. There is no evidence for that assertion and I don’t mean that in the usual political way, where a cause and effect is blindingly obvious but inconvenient, so nobody is going to volunteer to even look for the evidence. I mean that there is no evidence that there is catastrophic global warming, firstly, and also no way of knowing how much of our CO2 stays in the atmosphere and, in any event, the relationship between temperature and CO2 is increased heat first, followed by more CO2, not the other way around. And that makes sense, because colder oceans store more CO2, so when they heat slightly, they release the gas into the atmosphere.
So, first and foremost, the only argument against fossil fuels is the fact that, as a finite resource, they will run out at some point. It would, therefore, be wise to husband these resources before it’s too late and to reduce our dependency – enter nuclear power. And that is the argument right there – nothing more.
https://endurancea71.substack.com/p/putins-price-hike-and-other-modern?
dunno why i bother
but
>>>>>From about 3,000 years ago to about 100 years ago, sea levels naturally rose and declined slightly, with little change in the overall trend. Over the past 100 years, global temperatures have risen about 1 degree C (1.8 degrees F), with sea level response to that warming totaling about 160 to 210 mm (with about half of that amount occurring since 1993), or about 6 to 8 inches. And the current rate of sea-level rise is unprecedented over the past several millennia.<<<<
https://sealevel.nasa.gov/faq/13/how-long-have-sea-levels-been-rising-how-does-recent-sea-level-rise-compare-to-that-over-the-previous/
I don’t know why I bother either, but…
There is a huge fuzziness about sea level readings because land rises and falls too. Earthquakes, volcanoes, land subsidence, post-glacial rebound, the changing shape of the earth, the tides….
For instance, the land around the Baltic Sea and Hudson Bay is still rising— by 1cm per year in the case of the Baltic and probably more in the case of Hudson Bay. That’s a metre per century or ten metres per millennium—not to be sneezed at. And for this reason—and not a lot of people outside Finland know this—the total area of Finland is growing by about seven square kilometers per year.
For a given amount of water in the global bathtub, if one area rises, another area must sink; no ifs or buts.
Finally, NASA successfully faked the Apollo Moon landings, so I wouldn’t put it past them to try to push dodgy sea level data.
But the figures they quote in the link you provide is that sea level rose by 130 meters or 430 feet between 21,000 years ago and 3,000 years ago, while over the last 100 years sea level has risen by 160 to 210 mm (or about 6 to 8 inches).
So the quoted rise over the past century is on the order of 1/700th of the rise over the earlier 18,000 year period. What that tells me is that we seem to be living in remarkably stable times climatically.
By the way, the NASA article was simplified to the point of being simplistic and it left out the inconvenient fact that the overall climate was warmer and the sea level was higher than at present almost everywhere on earth around 5,000 to 8,000 years ago in the period known as the Holocene Optimum.
If you want to learn anything worthwhile, you’ve got to go to the source materials. Follow the science, Norman, not the Janet & John summaries. Here’s a good place to start.
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jaqua1957/30/3/30_3_187/_pdf
ah well tim
if all this focusses on Appollo moon landings as your version of truth
then i must, regrettably, leave you to revel in your alternative facts, and follow your suggestion for participation in the market for baby parts.
you serve only to desecrate your own mind with such nonsenses.
all i can do is point out to others who might be inclined to believe you, that your pile of BS is getting higher by the day
They’ll have their hands full gathering the spent fuel and trying to work out what to do with this hehehehe….
Maybe they can put small amounts in holes with banana leaves and stones … and use it to cook?
Or maybe the bourgeois states will finally get around to deep bury all the cr/p before the lights are switched off. Only time will tell!
Actually you are right since only transhumans and beyond will remain by then.
sheeshhh
not transhumans again
I think the big question he is what public lavatories will they use?
the door with the outline of a bull on it
what else?
Ukraine is looking more and more like a false flap opp as part of the UEP to launch the missiles Horseman as we head into the Apocalypse https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/russia-state-tv-world-war/2022/05/08/id/1068944/
And what an Apocalypse this will be!!!! Epic Apocalypse…. Biblical… something for everyone!
“Fast Eddy says:
May 8, 2022 at 11:19 pm
Enjoy your happy moments.. they won’t last”
Headline says,
“Russia State TV: Putin More Likely to Start WWIII Than Accept Defeat.”
Newsmax seems to be a US news publication with a Republican slant. It likely has the version of the truth that the publishers want you to believe.
Health chiefs are now probing whether DOGS are to blame for mysterious hepatitis outbreak as another 18 British children are struck down with unusual type of liver disease.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-10789789/Health-chiefs-probing-DOGS-blame-mysterious-hepatitis-outbreak.html
You will come to learn how deadly the mRNA injections are & that the mRNA trials & data were bogus & fraudulent; yes, Pfizer and Moderna engaged in fraud; omitted data, RRR over ARR, unblinding
Pfizer removed over 3,000 people from relative risk calculations (when included RRR drops to 20%); used RRR and not the needed ARR; gave vaccine to placebo so no more study is possible
https://palexander.substack.com/p/you-will-come-to-learn-how-deadly
The thing is …
The MSM is not reporting any of this …. so it doesn’t exist… now THAT… is real power.
You control the MSM – you make reality (for the MOREONS)
Last couple of weeks that has been a shortage of HRT drugs in the UK.
What is HRT and why are there shortages in the UK?
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/apr/25/hrt-shortage-uk-why-hormone-replacement-therapy
“Britain is experiencing an acute shortage of hormone replacement therapy, which is used by about 1 million women in the UK”
This week, it is hay-fever pills.
Hay-fever pill shortage hits High Street chemists
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-61377521
‘High Street chemists have run out of some hay-fever medicine, as a UK industry-wide shortage hits supplies.
…A Boots official said: “There are a very small number of lines that are currently out of stock due to a current, industry-wide shortage of the active ingredient.
“However, we are expecting this to be resolved soon and new deliveries are expected in the coming weeks.”
Boots says it has over 90 hay fever relief products – four are impacted by the shortage.’
If it is not one product, it is the next. Somehow, people overlook the issue that there is a more general problem, and that the general problem is likely getting worse.
And the more such medications fade away, the more we may come to understand, or remember, how evolution works.
100s of Brits are burning their houses down trying to keep warm – and it is not even winter.
> Brits burn wood due to energy prices, increase number of fires – fire chief
Rising energy bills have prompted Brits to burn timber in their living rooms
Rising energy bills may result in a surge of domestic fires as more people are forced to turn to alternative ways to heat their homes, the London Fire Brigade (LFB) said on Monday.
The stark warning was prompted by a severe house fire in New Malden at the end of April, which occurred as the result of “an open fire being used instead of gas central heating,” meaning a resident was apparently burning timber on an open fire in his living room.
“With over 100 fires involving open fires, log burners and heaters in just the last few months alone, the Brigade fears that costly energy bills could result in a surge of fires as people resort to alternative means to heat their homes throughout the colder spells of the year,” the LFB said in a statement.
Admitting that people are living through “difficult times,” the firefighters issued a set of recommendations for those who choose to use log burners or open fire for heating. They include using a fire guard, keeping inflammable items away, and ensuring the presence of carbon monoxide alarms.
“You can’t taste, see, or smell carbon monoxide fumes, but it can kill in minutes. Please also don’t take the risk by using treated wood on fires. Not only can they produce toxic fumes, but they are also more likely to spit embers when burnt, which could set alight to nearby objects,” Deputy Assistant Commissioner for Fire Safety Charlie Pugsley said.
The advice came as the CEO of Scottish Power, Keith Anderson, said that energy bills could increase over the next few months by another £1,000 ($1,200) to almost £3,000 (almost $3,700) in October, which might result in a “massive increase in debt levels.”
“We are heading to a really horrible place where none of us want to be,” he said.
https://www.rt.com/news/555201-domestic-fires-rising-prices/
This seems to be the New Malden house fire referenced in the article.
I wonder how soon municipalities will cut back in fire protection services.
Don’t know where you are Mirror, but here in the UK our internet access to RT has been removed once more. It’d never do for us to have balanced reports on the Ukraine situation.
I can still access RT via TOR.
I don’t understand how someone could openly burn things in their house to keep warm? Don’t they know about carbon monoxide and the risk of starting a house fire? These people are too stupid to live and are a danger to everyone around them. Wow.
I too cannot understand how anyone could be so stupid as to start a fire on their living room floor!
At least get a brazier or something, put sheet metal or tiles under it, keep a bucket of water nearby.
i think he was using an old fireplace
Collapse may be very eugenic.
It sounds like they are preparing the Brit’s minds for next Winter. By then they will be programmed not to do this.
One can live in hope, but I expect that it will be a new genre of funny YT vids come winter.
You can’t taste, see, or smell carbon monoxide fumes, but it can kill in minutes.
When the starvation begins…. there’s the way out
When ever Socialism is brought up in conversation inevitably someone regurgitates the mandated pronouncement;
“The system needs to reward those who work. Otherwise, it is hard to get anyone to work.”.
As if this is an argument against socialism.
The problem is it is more applicable to capitalism. The vast majority of the working class are extremely poorly paid and much of the world where we have “made it safe for democracy” workers are paid pennies.
TPTB in the capitalist West have stated very clearly that the majority of the population must be kept poor, insecure, and ignorant in order for employers to have a steady supply of workers willing to work for the lowest wages.
So I guess you could restate that mandated pronouncement this way;
“The system needs to minimally reward those who work. Otherwise, it is hard to get anyone to work for the minimum pay.”.
Or for capitalism;
“The system needs to allow individuals to exploit others paying those who work the bare minimum. Otherwise, it is hard to get anyone to become morbidly rich.”.
Socialism rewards everyone with a humane environment to live in with healthcare, education, housing, infrastructure, etc. Within this environment everyone is free and inspired to do their best for themselves and the good of their community.
The USSR had a 20 to 30 year run where it advanced faster and better than any other country while helping dozens of other countries such as Afghanistan develop also. Cuba has developed one of the best healthcare systems in the world even under 50 years of the harshest sanctions. China has brought more people out of poverty than any other.
Imagine people actually working because they want to rather thanking forced to or they and their loved ones will get sick and die.
Capitalist have brainwashed so many into believing a bunch of lies and the net effect is 80% of the global population lives on $10 a day or less, half of them on $2 or less, and 1.4 BILLION starving to death right now. Of the 20% that is left half of them are at or near poverty level and falling fast. Does that sound like the best possible system? The most rewarding?
The real reason is
Whenever socialism is implemented, the landowner , his family members and his retainers are killed or at least driven out.
My family was at the tail end of Soviet expansion in 1945 and I know that very well even though I was not around back then. It sticks in the family forever.
So they will fight socialism to death since it is a life and death matter for them.
Interesting history, Kulm. That might go some way to explain your affection for the status quo during the European Age of Empires.
If Britannia hadn’t ruled the waves and financed the destruction of the German, Austrian and Russian Empires, it would have been perfect.
no ‘ism’ can ever work, unless there is an ‘ism’ that applies to huner-gatherer societies
there the concept of ‘land ownership’ is absent.
whereas we fight endlessly, and have done for millennia over who owns which parcel of land, and the right to tear apart that land as part of an extractive economy.
that’s the reason we are in the current mess. Effectively we set fire to the planet to make ourselves rich.
We mortgaged one half of the planet, then looted the other half to pay off that mortgage.
we boosted our population through extraction of resources, now we are at the point where our resources are running out, but the population continues to rise. Clever huh?
very simple to understand–yet most fix other reasons on it.
Even covid is the result of land grab.
we appropriated the territory of critters who had more right to it than we did. We herded them together with ourselves, and the virus jumped species. We suffer from a range of diseases that are zoonotic as a result. History is littered with plagues. This is the first one aided and abetted by social media.
But that was OK. We wrote ‘holy books’ to say it was our ‘god given’ right to do so.
“China has brought more people out of poverty than any other. ”
Why did none of that happen before about 1980. What caused the sudden reduction in poverty in China, beginning about then?
I would add that those people have not been ‘brought out of poverty’, but have themselves through their work improved their own condition.
China has perhaps been impacted by western sanctions more than even USSR, Iran, Cuba,…..
Then in the 80’s the west started to move all of its manufacturing to china. China then got smart and have used that to become the MFG to the world.
Capitalism has been very very good to me.
A luxurious lifestyle like mine simply eats capital.
So what you gonna do? Buy everything at Walmart?!
“The Communist Party authorities carried out the market reforms in two stages. The first stage, in the late 1970s and early 1980s, involved the de-collectivization of agriculture, the opening up of the country to foreign investment, and permission for entrepreneurs to start businesses. However, a large percentage of industries remained state-owned. The second stage of reform, in the late 1980s and 1990s, involved the privatization and contracting out of much state-owned industry. The 1985 lifting of price controls[14] was a major reform, and the lifting of protectionist policies and regulations soon followed, although state monopolies in sectors such as banking and petroleum remained. ”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_economic_reform
Allowing entrepreneurs to start businesses.
Lifting of price controls
Lifting of regulation.
“China initially had a soviet-style
40:48 economy but in 1978 a new leader came to
40:53 power in China Deng Xiaoping and he
40:56 analyzed the situation and he concluded
40:58 that the Soviet system is doomed to
41:01 failure and that’s of course dangerous
41:04 he concluded for you know for the
41:08 country and it’s better to abandon this
41:10 system and instead he looked at other
41:14 countries that had a more successful
41:16 monetary system such as Japan and
41:19 Germany and the US and he concluded well
41:23 we need to decentralize banking and so
41:26 when he came to power 1978 what what was
41:28 the key one of the key things he
41:30 introduced was he found it thousands of
41:34 banks thousands of new banks local banks
41:36 small banks regional banks specialized
41:40 banks all across China and the rest is
41:43 history that’s how you get high economic
41:44 growth “
China is ‘stagist’, as was the USSR.
In orthodox Marxism, socialism is not an ahistorical politico-moral or ‘ideal’ political economy that can be attained in all historical circumstances. Rather its inception relies on the prior development of the economic base under capitalism, just as capitalism relied on feudal development.
Revolutions were undertaken in Russia and China in lieu of an emergent bourgeoisie to undertake the tasks of bourgeois development.
CCP articulates that by saying that China is in the ‘early stages of socialism’ rather than that it enjoys ‘socialism proper’. China would become more capable of a fuller socialism when it is technologically developed.
So, the CCP and USSR use of market capitalism is entirely orthodox Marxism.
It is often spun in the West as an abandonment, or a ‘failure’ of Marxism, but that fails to understand orthodox Marxist theory and the role of capitalist development on the path to socialism.
Marxism is an ‘historical materialist’ ideology, and it is not to be confused with moralistic or ‘idealistic’ socialist philosophies.
Marx and Engels theorised that capitalism would give way to socialism only once capitalism was no longer able to develop the economic base, and it had become an hindrance to its further development.
Productivity growth in all ‘mature’ capitalist societies has converged toward zero since the 1970s, and it has flatlined at zero since 2008. Now, theoretically, would be the time to think about a transition to socialism.
But Marx was wrong that capitalism would ‘immiserate’ (impoverish) the masses in advanced countries. Rather they have never been better off (even if they are now getting no better off). And so there is no class ‘agent’ to undertake the transition.
And energy limits are liable to thwart any further development anyway.
Capitalist societies may well have to resort to massive state intervention (virtual state ownership by the back door) to manage the systemic decline in profitability that unaffordable energy implies, and to keep things going for a little bit longer – but that is not what Marx and Engels had in mind.
The west offshored manufacturing to China … the west made China.
China agreed – but the devil had his price — a destroyed environment.
I lived in Shanghai for a year — the ‘air’ is horrific – and it is not much better in Hong Kong.
I live about 1,300 km west of Shanghai, and when the wind blows from the east, I can smell the metallic, chemical, garbage, sewer odor of the place.
I know an American who manages a brewery in a medium-size Chinese City, but his contract stipulates that he can reside outside the country for six-months of the year. He insisted on that point for reasons of survival.
You live in western China?
Sorry about that! I meant East of Shanghai. Very Far East.
Hollywood once made the same mistake and didn’t correct it.
Remember that movie, Krakatoa East of Java?
The actual Krakatoa is west of Java, east of Sumatra.
But you know Hollywood. They are never embarrassed!
Cuba was not doing well when my husband and I visited in 2015, and it is doing even worse now. We were told by the citizens, “They pretend to pay us, and we pretend to work.” Whatever successes they were having at the time when we visited seemed to come through allowing elements of capitalism.
Cuba had beautiful roads, but essentially no vehicles suitable for driving on them, outside of old vehicles used to give tourists rides in Havana. There were very few farm or industrial vehicles. No one could afford such vehicles. The country didn’t have oil imports to operate such vehicles.
This is a photo I took in 2015, in a rural area:
https://ourfiniteworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/example-of-road-2.jpg
Again Cuba has been absolutely hammered by the west in every way possible for 50 to 60 years yet they refuse to cave in to the inhumane western system.
For a long time, anyone who “escaped” from Cuba was allowed to immigrate to the United States. This, plus the lack of home building and the expectation that all families will have a home, has kept population relatively low, compared to Haiti, for example.
It is the low population relative to resources that has greatly helped Cuba over the years, as far as I can see.
But what expectations for a home do Haitians have?
Haitians have not been brought up with the expectation of a nice bungalow or townhouse (or at least reasonable apartment, with plumbing and electricity) for everyone. It gets crowded with three generations in a townhouse. Without new ones being built, people have a tendency to have very small families.
This is a photo I took during my visit of a typical home we saw in rural areas of Cuba, built by the government. These are nicer than a lot of homes I see while driving through rural Alabama (a nearby US state that is fairly poor).
https://ourfiniteworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Bungalo-1-built-by-state-1024×768.jpg
If the expectation is that each family builds a little shack for itself with local materials, perhaps with the help of a few friends, then anyone can start a new family. I expect that Haiti follows this pattern.
I went to Haiti after the quake — it was very unsafe after dark – you did not go out on your own… gangs were active in all the tent camps …
I met a photographer for a German paper who came back with photos of two young kids (early teens I’d say) who had been shot dead and were lying on the road… he was told they’d been killed for trying to steal food.
Thanks for the Cuban photo. Very solid cottage with some taste, and wonderful landscape.
Of course it will be hammered… communism is anathema to humans… because humans were not born equal … they will never accept any attempt to force them to be equal….
The losers of the society will not resist because they are lazy stupid imbeciles and they want the capable to subsidize them…. the capable will accept this to a certain point … but if pushed to far they will crush the imbeciles…
Example – M Fast works as casual labour in a boutique… there are two full time staff and a manager… when the manager is not there the other full time staff spent their time hiding in the back on their phones… It got to a tipping point recently when the shop was very busy and the other two were chatting and ignoring customers… (this is their default if the manager is not there)
M Fast’s sales that week were 2.5x higher than the sales of those two combined… to put it in perspective.
M Fast only does this work because she enjoys having something to do other than massage my feet and feed me canapes … she likes to get out and interact (I absolutely hate interacting cuz MOREONS are everywhere) … so she was going to quit — I told her to speak to the manager — which she did – she also said — she will only work when the manager works…. done.
Another eg. In Bali we had a property manager and 4 gardeners… When I would leave (and I’d leave for 2 months+ at times)…. the garden would go to pieces… I’d crack the whip on return and it would be fixed…. We had a horse and I came back and the horse was literally starving to death – I was beside myself — why was nobody feeding the horse????
After much digging I was told that the manager did f789 all when I was away (sleeping most of the time) so the 4 other guys did f789 all too… I fired the manager and never had a problem again
With communism this doesn’t happen… the performers don’t get rewarded and everyone settles in pretending to work… if some are lazy stupid the others will drop to their level…
Communism / Socialism is a great system if you are a loser lazy imbecile…. and that’s why it always fails.
You simply repeat the messages of standard propaganda.
Socialism is a tool that allowed certain peripheral imperial countries of the world-system (such as Russia) not to be left behind in the struggle for industrialization and development against the central capitalist countries (USA + Europe). It was a question of survival of the nation-state.
Russia: feudalism of 1917
Russia 1957: second world superpower
That is why today has the power to claim Ukraine. That is why Russia survived and was not Balkanized as the Western world would have wanted.
Hahahahaha…
Socialism is a system of governance for losers by losers.
By loser I mean those who lack intelligence – are lazy … and were born without the competitive gene — these are the people who want to do as little as possible… this is why every communist nation had empty shelves and ultimately failed — they tried there best to sustain their disastrous model by dumping millions into gulags…
But as expected — they failed… cuz the majority are not lazy imbeciles… the circus and barnyard animals want to be rewarded for hard work.
How many did the Soviets starve to death in Ukraine – cuz they refused to collectivize?
When we visited I was struck by the total incompetence of people in charge…
For instance … when I purchased an internet coupon — yes a coupon… for $200 I was not told I had to log off… so I assumed like in the real world… if you turned off the laptop you were not wasting your coupon (coupon – WTF is that anyway).
So I burn through the $200 in no time and ask if there is a problem with their coupon… no it’s working fine… I buy another one and burn through that … so I’m now like WTF here… I barely used any data both times… apparently it works off of time that you remain logged in.
Escalate this — finally some ‘manager’ asks if I am logging off… I wasn’t told that I had to and there were no instructions advising that in the room.
In a non commie world where you are likely to have non imbeciles in charge… they’d work out some form of compensation … but nope — nothing… we’ll sell you another coupon — that’s it….
Try ranting and raving against a brick wall and you’ll get the same response that I did when I tried to reason with these MOREONS…
This is communism. It rewards those who do not question … it promotes those who are dumb as mules… that ‘manager’ had no concept of logic… of how to conduct business… cuz it’s not a business…
I would NEVER return to Cuba … so long as it is run by lazy stupid imbeciles…
That said that Tropicana Show was pleasant …
http://cigarmonkeys.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Mundialmente-famoso-Cabaret-Tropicana-La-Habana-The-Cigarmonkeys-13.jpg
The people aren’t getting paid much, I am afraid.
When you stifle competency and ambition… this is what can be expected…. you end up with monkeys… and they get paid peanuts
The problem is it is more applicable to capitalism. The vast majority of the working class are extremely poorly paid and much of the world where we have “made it safe for democracy” workers are paid pennies.
Actually no — most of the working class have done quite well for many decades – but now with cheap energy mostly burned up — they are struggling…
The poor are for the most part lazy – low IQ – imbeciles… in most western countries there has been a way out of this for those born to imbeciles — education grants – or loans… anyone with ambition could get out …
Under socialism it is often these people who rise to the top — anyone with ambition is thrown into the gulag.
Socialism is the system of Losers. There is a reason almost everyone lives in poverty under socialism… why when you visit the supermarket there is so little on the shelves… it’s because it’s run by Losers.
The world has a choice.
Either about 50 million of the current humanity enter the Singularity, Type I Civ, space travel and all that and the rest buried in the dustbin of history,
or the world hits an iceberg and the whole civilization regresses to the tech level of Jeanne d’Arc.
One way or the other. St. Elon or St. Joan.
space travel must have purpose
there isn’t one
The ‘singularity’ is maybe a substitute for God and an afterlife.
There ‘has’ to be some singular state that ‘justifies’ existence and all of life/ history, and otherwise it is all ‘meaningless’.
All of human history has to chase after a single moment that is its ‘purpose’ or else it was ‘pointless’.
It is like the Big Carrot in front of the donkey.
Life just is what it is, it is about the living of it, and it does not need any ‘justification’.
life is ultimately pointless
or so it seems to me
we get born, most of us live long enough to reproduce
then we die.
all species function on the same basis if you think about it
we are the only species able to think about it–maybe thats the problem
Maybe it is the journey that is as important as the end point. We do what we can to help our families and perhaps the overall economy.
Or merely self actualization.
seems to me that each generation beats the path for the next one
or has up to now.
if we manage to screw things up, the next generation won’t have a path, at least not on our terms
Quite possibly a collapse of industrial civilisation is exactly what is needed, and it was always going to happen in the end.
In that sense, this generation has prepared the way for the ground to be cleared for whatever comes next. There is a certain historical ‘continuity’ there, even if the unusual, abrupt discontinuity tends to stand out when we look at it.
It is all the same timeline, and it could not get to where it is going without the present. Capitalism prepared the way for whatever follows it, be that more energy or less. It is still historical development either way, and it just takes a slight shift of perspective to bring that into focus.
x 4000
https://network.bellona.org/content/uploads/sites/3/2015/06/ingressimage_fuel_pond1.jpeg
The meaning of life can be found in a VIP room
Hanging out at a Golf Club?
I apparently swam hard and beat out millions getting to the egg first. I won that race so i could enter a dying world and watch my offspring perish as well. Now I look forward to a painful death by starvation or violence. A truly blessed life
serves you right for being top sperm
i have the same problem—i should have held back and allowed my competitors to get there first
but think what OFW’ers would be missing out on.
“One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.”
Joan of Arc
I
The world has a choice.
Listen to the deranged ranting’s of worshipers of the robot god and sacrifice everything for their star trek fantasies.
Or literally do anything else.
We will be lucky to attain the lifestyle of Joan of Arc, who lived in the 1400s. We don’t have the necessary skills or built infrastructure to make the situation work. We have too many people relative to arable land.
“Got the Heebie-Jeebies?” by JHK
https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/got-the-heebie-jeebies/
Excerpt:
Everyone I know is walking around in a baseline state of nervous agitation. Are they beset by “disinformation” or is it rather the reality of a cratering nation run by idiots and maniacs? Everywhere you look, calamities gather speed while the klaxons of alarm blare from all compass points. Got money? Looks like soon it will be worthless. Wondering if Mr. Putin has had enough of “Joe Biden’s” brainless effrontery to lob some hypersonic Big Ones in our collective face? Relying on that retirement account you have no direct control over while the financial markets wobble? Need to fill up the gas tank of your pickup truck twice a week? Can’t find a new condenser to fix the failing fridge? Entertaining rumors of looming famine. Credit cards maxed out? Sheriff stapling an eviction notice on your door? Beloved younger brother declaring that henceforward they are your sister? Hearing that all those vaxxes and boosters you obediently submitted to might rearrange your DNA?
It is not possible for authorities to cancel all methods of free speech. Now 2000 Mules is out in theaters across the country.
An interesting article published by Italian newspaper ‘Comedonchisciotte’ translated by an original US scientific article published on ‘Surgical Neurology International’:
– The coup de grace to covid fiction
Excerpt: ”With an article published on the scientific journal Surgical Neurology International, U.S. brain surgeon Dr. Blaylock exposed all the contradictions, lies, and probably crimes related to Covid-19 health management globally.”
Link: https://comedonchisciotte.org/il-colpo-di-grazia-alla-narrativa-covid/
Original US article here:
https://surgicalneurologyint.com/surgicalint-articles/covid-update-what-is-the-truth/#ref3
The original article hasn’t gotten many page views where it was originally published. Perhaps translating and recopying it into the popular press will give it more readership.
Russia and China won’t take the torch of humanity.
USSR’s boom in the 1950s and 60s was because of the seizure of a lot of scientists and technicians from Central Europe following WW2. For example, Lise Meitner’s brother was taken to USSR and ended his days in Novosibirsk (more accurately, Akademgorodok, a town near the SIberian city to imprison scientists seized during the WW2) along with many others whose fates are poorly documented.
Most of their residents and descendants (if any) left after 1991. Russia’s average IQ is now 95. Even during the Tsarist era, Russian science and tech were dominated by the Germans Yekaterine II had invited to Petersburg, most of their progeny leaving after 1918.
Talents from the ‘ordinary ranks’ are a one time boast. USA had something like that in 1940s-1960s after the GI bill gave opportunities to a lot of people who didn’t have college ambitions. Now it has dried up and STEM is dominated by Asians , who appear to have their one time boast now.
Konstantin Ciolkowski was not a Russian.
Because of morons like Chucky Fitzclarence, the natives were armed during the Great War and they demanded their share of blood after the war was over. The Germans only had the handful of Askaris(native soldiers helping the Germans) in Tanzania to deal with,
(The British, rather than ignoring the handful of Germans causing trouble in bushland, raised a huge force of more than 300,000 , from India and all of British held Africa, to deal with it. They failed to capture the German general leading the ambushes (he only surrendered after he learned Imperial Germany had collapsed), while making Hussain Onyango Obama a sergeant , for consequences I won’t go further. It armed a lot of Africans who began to become restive.)
while the British and the French had a lot of natives who demanded their share. Working the natives to death and paying them next to nothing was imperative for advancing civilization, but now the natives wanted better lives for themselves and which is why the world has reached where we are now and we will probably not make Singularity.
I fully say the Germans should have won the Great War, simply because it would have owed nothing to what eventually became the third world except for a few hundred Askaris, and Woody Wilson honoring the agreements with the Poles and Czechs were wrong, since Poland (despite of the accord of Marie Curie, who did all of her work in France) and Czechoslovakia are inconsequential in terms of Singuarlity.
To become a spacefaring civilization, every single resource on earth has to be used. Ironically, Japan (which became a world power by levying a 50% tax on the people during the Russo-Japanese War) and North Korea (which still uses oxcarts and steam engine but also has hypersonic missiles) show that fact very well.
As the world’s resources are becoming unaffordable for the many, whatever we have should be concentrated on the segment of pop most likely to achieve Singularity, whether you like or not, or we will go back to living the lifestyle Napoleon , or even, Charlemagne would not have envied.
Singulaterians – the worshipers of the Robot God – have got to be the most deranged and selfish jack wagons around. “Everything must be sacrificed for my priorities!!! and you don’t get to have a say in it! Because i know better.”
Seriously dude your derangement is clearly evil. (and you sound like you are maybe 13 years old)
Deal:
First we must burn down the entire civilisation to understand each and every aspect what we did wrong.
After some 1000 years of dark age we may be ready to have it rebuilt to a level for a try of Type I.
Without bruning down just about every institution filled with couch farts working nothing besides commanding others araound there will be no avail, as you comment shows.
neonazi propaganda.
We cannot accept the idea that we are likely reaching the end of the line for this civilization, so dream up ways that it may be possible to work our way around this bottleneck.
I strongly suspect that we are kidding ourselves, but I suppose that there may be a way that some people will live through this bottleneck, and some way the descendants of these people will mutate enough so that they can find new ways to dissipate energy and “grow” the economy. Many things may be possible, but not necessarily the things that Science Fiction writers imaging.
After all, humans and pre-humans lived through several ice ages. If they could do that without fossil fuels, there may be some way that descendants of today’s humans can live through whatever is ahead.
They weren’t pampered f789tards who threw tantrums when the food delivery came 5 minutes late…
See https://youtu.be/Uo0KjdDJr1c
It’s nice to give people a sliver of hope — but to be realistic sans spent fuel ponds the only folks with a hope in hell of surviving UEP… are the remote primitive tribes…
Everyone else dies.
I don’t think we any primitive tribesmen in the OFW audience… so ya’ll gonna die soon
Unless somehow the spent fuel pools are instrumental in helping today’s humans mutate in a way that allows them to somehow find more energy supplies to dissipate. Some global warming or cooling might be helpful in this effort as well, because it would move oceans around. Fossil fuels that are difficult to access might become accessible, helping the effort along.
For all of the conspiracy theorists.
“Johnson & Johnson Vaccine Recall”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/vaccine/johnson-johnson-vaccine-recall/
This is the cartoon:
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/manufacturerimmunitybigpharma.png
Is this the beginning of the Great Depression? Or is it a ways out?
I think we are already on the downslope of the Great Depression. Some areas get hit harder than others early on (Sri Lanka, Lebanon and Venezuela, for example). Also, shutdowns were really part of the downslope. They are a way of conserving energy, whether labeled as such, or not.
The question is how steeply the economy will fall, how soon. We don’t really know, but it looks like major changes come in the next few months. Some places will do worse than others.
I think that you touched a very interesting point Gail.
Actually I was thinking in these days that the way has been decided to face Covid-19 and the way has been decided to face Ukraine war are parts of a single plan to separate Europe from China and then from Russia, trying to link Europe to US and other western Countries in a very subordinate position.
If you remember Covid-19 started when ‘the belt and road’ initiative was about to enter in place in Europe, expecially from logistics point of view.
It is a plan to reduce energy consumption in the world.
I don’t know if there are other episodes of this plan and I’m not sure that the strategists will be able to face all the unexpected situations and consequences of what is happening.
It is also a plan to try to remain in control of the power with all the superstructures of the big institutions (world wide or regionals).
If they had wanted to let things go alone, they would have explained to people that shale oil was just a flash in the pan and that people had to prepare in the best way as possible for a very difficul future.
Following for instance these indications (actually the program was not broadcasted anymore and it had success in UK before shale oil ‘revolution’…)
Maybe Mirror or other readers from UK know it.
A Great Depression is the best case scenario after which things will get worse.
A depression will also slow consumption down … a convenience if resources are running thin. I just wonder if the people in power know this or are they just full of themselves
everyone, rich and poor alike, owe their living standards to the forward demand of continual consumption.
an economic depression of a few years won’t affect the wealthy very much
but a permanent depression will remove the economic driving force of the world.
and that will cut off everybody’s source of wealth
resources’ has bot very little to do with it
resources have no value until they are converted into saleable goods
Of course, we need energy of the right kind to convert resources to salable goods.
Go Russia!
Just from musical point of you, it is a very nice song (as it is full of nice song of every Country of the world).
It is a song with a long history.
It was also used in Italy with different words, because of its nice melody.
I hope we can talk about music 🙂
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katju%C5%A1a_(brano_musicale)
My all time favorite song, from the same author, written in Moscow in 1944. If one can produce such a beauty at such a miserable time, the human spirit will survive. Link below.
By the by, today I was in the Immortal Regiment march in Moscow. Extremely moving, spiritual experience, and surely we were more than a million. The organizers distributed hundreds of thousands of small national tricolor flags. But for those who had brought large flags from home, the red flags with sickle and hammer outnumbered religious, imperial, and national flags 10 to 1, easily. It’s hard to cancel Stalin from the hearts of all these people, when he fully integrated them into the economy, with equal rights, after 40 generations of serfdom.
Most of us know a bit about the immune system, but here’s a good opportunity to learn a bit more.
How the Covid “Vaccines” Cripple the Immune System
Part 1 of 5: Understanding the Immune System
12-minute presentation by Dr. Mark Trozzi
https://drtrozzi.org/2022/05/07/how-the-covid-vaccines-cripple-the-immune-system-part-1-of-5-understanding-the-immune-system/
Good watching subscribed to his Telegram
An EU-UK trade war is back on the agenda. That would worsen the cost of living crisis in UK. Tories are prepared to take unilateral action to ignore the NI Protocol, and to use the DUP refusal to re-enter Stormont as cover, and the EU is prepared to slap tariffs on UK goods. It is liable to lead to a full blown trade war.
> Government threatening to ditch Northern Ireland protocol unless EU backs down
Liz Truss pushing for unilateral action to tear up deal, despite warnings of trade war ahead
Boris Johnson’s government is threatening to tear up the Northern Ireland protocol unless the EU agrees to ditch border checks soon, despite warnings the row could spark a “horrific” trade war.
The Independent understands that foreign secretary Liz Truss is pushing for unilateral action unless there is a quick and significant change in stance by Brussels to remove checks on goods agreed in the Brexit withdrawal deal.
A Foreign Office source said a compromise appeared unlikely after European Commission negotiator Maros Sefcovic recently made clear in a call to Ms Truss that the EU could not go beyond its existing proposals to ease only some checks.
Northern Ireland secretary Brandon Lewis – who heads to Stormont on Monday for crisis talks after Sinn Fein’s historic election victory – suggested that the government was ready to “do what we need to do” to override the protocol.
Mr Lewis denied that the government was “dancing to the DUP’s tune”, with the unionist party refusing to enter into power-sharing arrangements with Sinn Fein until Downing Street scraps the protocol checks on goods coming from Great Britain into Northern Ireland.
With the EU unlikely to give into threats, UK food industry bosses told The Independent they fear that a trade war would lead to a further spike in supermarket prices, just as families are struggling to cope with soaring living costs.
The EU Commission is prepared to take retaliatory trade action if No 10 tears up its commitment to uphold the protocol, say legal experts – including moves to slap tariffs on British goods.
“The EU might take legal action initially, but there could be some punitive measures. If we end up with tariffs being applied on goods then that would be horrific. It will push up costs and prices,” said the British Meat Processors Association’s trade policy adviser Peter Hardwick.
Shane Brennan, chief executive of the Cold Chain Federation, said he expected a “ratcheting up” in the UK-EU row. “Tariffs would be a huge step backwards. They would add significant inflationary pressure to costs at all levels, through to the end consumer.”
He and Mr Lewis refused to say whether a bill to tear up the protocol would be included in Tuesday’s Queen’s Speech. But The Independent understands the legislation could be introduced later in the parliamentary session.
Meanwhile, Sinn Fein president Mary Lou McDonald stepped up her push for a referendum on the reunification of Ireland, a move which would require the consent of the UK and Republic of Ireland governments.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/northern-ireland-protocol-eu-liz-truss-b2074208.html
The cost of living crisis in UK is already a disaster for many families.
> More than 2m adults in UK cannot afford to eat every day, survey finds
One in seven adults estimated to be food-insecure, up 57% from January, owing to rising cost of living
More than 2 million adults in the UK have gone without food for a whole day over the past month because they cannot afford to eat, according to a survey revealing the “catastrophic” impact of the cost of living crisis.
The latest survey of the nation’s food intake shows a 57% jump in the proportion of households cutting back on food or skipping meals over the first three months of this year, with one in seven adults (7.3 million) estimated to be food-insecure, up from 4.7 million in January.
The shadow work and pensions secretary, Jonathan Ashworth, described the findings as devastating, saying they exposed how families were being left in desperate hardship. “Boris Johnson is responsible for this crisis and has no solutions to fix it,” he said.
The survey came as one of Britain’s biggest energy suppliers called for urgent government action to help households cope with an anticipated £1,000 rise in bills this winter. The London fire brigade, meanwhile, was forced to issue an urgent safety warning against improvising fires at home, after a man set fire to his house by burning timber in his living room to keep warm.
The research by the Food Foundation thinktank found millions more people – including 2.6 million children – report they now have smaller meals than usual, regularly skip meals altogether or do not eat when they are hungry, as food insecurity returns to levels last seen at the start of the first national lockdown.
However, while many reported missing out on meals or eating irregularly during the first months of the pandemic because of food scarcity caused by panic buying and supply problems, the latest increase is put down to rising costs and poverty.
Food banks are reporting that energy costs are so prohibitive for some people they request that charity food parcels that contain no food that has to be cooked using a cooker or that needs to be stored in a fridge or freezer.
The rapid deterioration in food security reflects soaring energy, food and petrol prices coupled with below-inflation benefit rises. The Food Foundation said it was so shocked by its initial findings that it reran the survey on a wider basis, only to get the same results.
It predicted food insecurity figures were likely to get worse over the next few months as inflation continues to rise and the full impact of April’s national insurance rise hits family budgets along with the lifting of the energy price cap.
Anna Taylor, the foundation’s executive director, said: “The extremely rapid rise in food insecurity since January points to a catastrophic situation for families. Food insecurity puts families under extreme mental stress and forces people to survive on the cheapest calories, which lead to health problems.”
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/may/09/more-than-2m-adults-in-uk-cannot-afford-to-eat-every-day-survey-finds
One could add that British ‘cuisine’ largely consists of a lump of meat in some form, with some potatoes or other such stodge ( looking at you, Scotland!).
And very nice it is on a cold and damp winter’s day. British meat and fruit pies are wonderful things – but expensive even to make at home.
But this is a real problem if one can’t afford to buy or cook the meat – and it IS very expensive now.
Continental popular cooking is much more inventive with somewhat cheaper ingredients: pasta, tomatoes, beans, rice (paella, risotto, etc) onions, garlic and lentils. Delicious cheap sauces, too – not just ‘gravy’.
And they do all sorts of wonderful things with potatoes.
So, cooking classes?
I’m eating a delicious chicken-leg paella, a la Basque, as I type, as I can’t afford breasts anymore: a succulent breast is now forever out of reach, I fear…..
Pease porridge hot, pease porridge cold,
Pease porridge in the pot, nine days old;
Some like it hot, some like it cold,
Some like it in the pot, nine days old
In NZ it’s boiled meat – boiled veg… with a sprinkle of salt.
You can get a ready cooked whole chicken from many of the supermarkets for about 5 pound. They may well reduce the price and leave them on the counter later in the day.
I got one on Sunday, had a leg/ thigh off it, and put the rest in the fridge. I have just had a large breast off it, with salt and ground black pepper added, and some sliced jalapeno out of a jar in the fridge.
It is inexpensive and very healthy. High protein, low carb, which is how I often go, particularly for a late supper.
Air friers (small fan ovens) and microwave ovens are a lot cheaper to run than normal ovens and hobs. They are about 30£ (or upwards) an item to buy. Anyone who ‘cannot afford’ to cook, needs some basic contemporary ‘home economics’.
* ground pink Hamalian salt, obvs.
We bought one of these
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Taylor-Swoden-Steamer-Electric-Aluminium/dp/B094R6VQLY/
earlier this year and dinner has never been so tasty.
Wow, that looks nifty, very ergonomic!
Also, it prompts you to steam some veg while you are cooking, very healthy.
Well done.
I have bookmarked the page, and I will have to think about that one.
Can a 6 month old baby fit?
“Can a six month old baby fit?”
No, and there isn’t a space underneath to heat with wood either.
“Wow, that looks nifty, very ergonomic!”
I wanted to buy an expensive new oven, but my wife persuaded me this would be more useful. Sort of thing that is popular in East Asia.
One of my better purchases, for sure.
Most of the MOREONS prefer to buy what they were told to buy by the TEE VEE…. they like easy to make stuff out of a packet…. or better still skip the cooking part and go for a 4.99 Big Meal with the super size fries… lunch and dinner solved.. breakfast is a donut + a Pepsi…
They see cooking something healthy as too much work … and boring…. that time is better spent watching Reality TEE VEE or gaming…
Food insecurity is actually collapse in the real sense (not getting your Starbucks is not collapse) .So, in essence, UK has collapsed for some of its citizens.
> As of April 2022, 49 percent of people in Great Britain thought that it was wrong to leave the European Union, compared with 38 percent who thought it was the right decision.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/987347/brexit-opinion-poll/
The NIP has majority support in the Stormont elections. Democracy is supposed to empower the winners of elections, not the losers.
NI voted against Brexit, and for the NIP. But DUP and the Tories still get to control the agenda.
When exactly does NI get a democracy? When do the people of NI get a say in their own future?
Vote against Brexit, get Brexit. Vote for NIP, get a trade war with EU. That needs to stop.
> Protocol has majority support
Alliance of course strongly supports the protocol, meaning that the measure has the backing of a decisive total of MLAs and any attempt by Boris Johnson to drop it would be profoundly undemocratic.
It is designed to protect a community which rejected Brexit from the political and financial disasters which could easily have followed, and those unionists who campaigned enthusiastically to leave the EU without thinking through the consequences should accept their responsibility for the inevitable emergence of the present structures.
https://www.irishnews.com/opinion/leadingarticle/2022/05/09/news/protocol-has-majority-support-2665623/
Hahahaha… https://t.me/TommyRobinsonNews/35387
Oh so double vaxxed and covid almost killed them …. so get boosted???? Cuz. hahahahaha
Preparing them for extermination https://dailysceptic.org/2022/05/06/the-toxic-perfectionism-young-people-have-learned-from-social-media-and-covid-conformity/
MOREONS
There follows a guest post by dental student Tom Shaw, who says the paralysing atmosphere of conformity that young people have learned from social media has been made much worse by the last two years.
From early on in dental school, it stumped me why I was one of the few people willing to answer questions in university lectures or practical classes, let alone volunteer my own questions. Why would I, or anyone else, waste £9,250 a year to sit in an awkward silence when it was either reasonably clear what the answer was or I could at least have a stab at answering it and learn something new if I was wrong.
Particularly in practical classes, with the answer often being on the handouts we’d been given or available in the session’s pre-reading, it seemed silly to waste time in pointless silence that could otherwise be spent learning the necessary technical skills that make a good dentist. Yet it seemed many of my peers did not subscribe to such a view on their higher education or, if they did, did not do a very public job of acting upon it.
https://dailysceptic.org/2022/05/06/the-toxic-perfectionism-young-people-have-learned-from-social-media-and-covid-conformity/
Fourth Vaccine Dose Offers No Protection Against Infection After Just Two Months, Israeli Study Finds https://dailysceptic.org/2022/05/08/fourth-vaccine-dose-offers-no-protection-against-infection-in-just-two-months-israeli-study-finds/
Keep boosting!
“Increased deaths in England for the age-range given the spring booster dose of Covid vaccine” – Once again the rollout of a dose of vaccine has been associated with an increase in excess deaths, writes Amanuensis on Bartram’s Folly. https://bartram.substack.com/p/increased-deaths-in-england-for-the?s=r
More boosters!
Vaccinated Hospitalised for Non-Covid Reasons at FIVE Times the Rate of the Unvaccinated, U.K. Government Data Show https://dailysceptic.org/2022/05/07/vaccinated-hospitalised-for-non-covid-reasons-at-five-times-the-rate-of-the-unvaccinated-u-k-government-data-show/
This is to be expected given https://www.headsupster.com/forumthread?shortId=1621
More boosters!
The two obvious apex technologies were the Anglo-French Concorde – the only supersonic passenger aircraft to operate commercially – and the USA’s Saturn Five rocket and associated technologies which propelled three men at a time to the Moon and back. We didn’t forget how to do those things, and theoretically we could repeat them given enough time and resources. But energetically, they are now beyond us – the energy cost of doing them is far greater than any benefits they might offer in return.
https://consciousnessofsheep.co.uk/2022/05/08/the-age-of-dissonance/
Bullshit … it doesn’t take that much energy to blast off — we blast satellites off all the time …
We don’t go because we can’t go – cuz we never did go
Well actually, it might actually be an “energetic” problem. /s. The capsule would have to be encased with tons of lead shielding to protect the astronauts from lethal radiation encountered on the outbound and return Tripp by the high orbit Van Allen radiation belt. It would be too heavy a payload for tge Saturn rocket.
In view of the massive amount of disinformation and propaganda pumped out over the past century against a background of corruption- the FED, WWI and II, VietNam, JFK, Iraq, 9-11, NSA and Patriot Act, climate change, COVID, etc., it’s hard not to believe the moon landing wasn’t a hoax as well. Moisture caked footprints, audible sound transmission through the lunar “atmosphere” , divergent shadows, inability to replicate the landings performed not just once but several times because of “ lost data” etc. I mean, come on. The scary thing is my three brothers are mechanical engineers two which graduated from Rennsalaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) and they still believe all these moon landings occurred.
For me, everything the government puts out is a lie until proven otherwise. I am always willing to change my opinion , even if it means having to dealing with my cognitive dissonance.
“American Moon” being without a doubt the best dissenting moon landing documentary.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/Qz3euXfN4OHq/
I suspect that it would be physically impossible to boost a capsule into space that had sufficient shielding to prevent the men inside from being fried by the Van Allan Belts….
The entire concept of a man walking on the moon in that ridiculous contraption is just ridiculous.
But most people believe it hahaha…. cuz most people are .. f789ing…. MOREONS
Consider that people were promised this https://twitter.com/Lukewearechange/status/1463932846570192901 they injected an experiment with no long term safety trials (wait … it gets better) …. when they all still got Covid (confirming they were lied to)… what did they do?
They raced to the clinic for … a Booster… then another Booster… and many of them cannot wait to get a 5th shot hahahaha
Same people believe we have walked on the moon. hahahahaha
I saw Concorde, though, many times, and I have the commemorative medal!
That will go in the time capsule with the note ‘No, I never thought I’d be back to dig this up…’
Concorde died because the slum dwellers near the airports complained about broken windows
Which is why the voices of slum dwellers have to be ignored to advance tech.
Gail, Alasdair McLeod said this on a tweet:
Convincing people rising prices are due to falling purchasing power of a currency and not changes in supply/demand is the most difficult but necessary task. Not even those in charge of monetary policy understand it. Until they do there can be no solution to the current crisis.
So we dont even have to be short of something for its price to go up.
I think that for many countries, the problems go hand in hand:
1. Falling purchasing power of their currency.
2. Not enough total fossil fuels, so that total demand is tending to bid up prices to a high level.
In the US, at least at this time, the dollar has been appreciating. Even with the appreciating dollar, prices of all fossil fuels and of food is rising. At this point, it is really a worldwide problem.
If people become convinced that the problem is the falling purchasing power of their currency, they may choose to buy resources directly from Russia, in rubles. Or they may decide to buy more goods from China in yuan. Ultimately, this concern may lead to the end of the US dollar as the reserve currency.
Harry… you are slacking…
Protesters torch leaders’ homes in night of unrest
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/466812/sri-lanka-protesters-torch-leaders-homes-in-night-of-unrest
https://www.ibtimes.com/sri-lanka-pm-quits-violence-kills-5-injures-180-3499610
nice https://twitter.com/i/status/1523703349811421185
Uber reported a net loss of $5.93 billion for Q1 and its shares initially tanked 11%
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001543151/000154315122000012/uberq122earningspressrelea.htm
How does your stock tank only 11% when it’s worth 0.
Grab: $1.9 billion loss (biggest SPAC deal ever)
Aurora Innovation: $1.7 billion loss
Didi: $1.4 billion loss (biggest listing mess ever)
Zomato: $462 million loss.
How do they manage to make enormous losses when all they do is provide an app and take a 25% cut of all fares?
I also wonder how they lose money.
The company I drive for maintain a walk-in office in the city centre manned by staff to take in-person/telephone bookings, plus a fleet of modern cars. Compared to this, Uber’s expenses seem trivial.
No idea…
UBER has been creating a mass formation for techno fantasy investors… their major cost is of course the drivers… if they can eliminate the drivers with self driving then the hit the jack pot…
Of course that is impossible. AI cannot even work out ticking cross walks in Captcha … AI is a f789ing joke. It’s all A … and zero I….
But techno fantasy MOREONS will believe that a self driving car is just around the corner… and UBER does whatever it takes to make that delusion seem real… they test drive their AI cars… invest in self drive software…
They likely know it is impossible — but they continue to push the lie — cuz otherwise their business is a dead end — the losses will continue forever. And the techno fantasy crowd will shift their focus… and that’s the end of UBER.
The mass formation — if fed by a good PR Team — can go on for quite some time… UBER should have vapourized long ago… it is – like BAU – not viable.
Difficult to quantify exactly, but together fuel, insurance and vehicle cost and maintenance make up about a quarter of a taxi fare. If the driver cost were eliminated whilst keeping fares the same, Uber’s cut would increase from 25% to 75%. I expect even they could turn a profit on triple the income.
Believing as I do that consciousness is fundamental rather than the material world, AI (conscious machines) is an impossibility.
I see NASDAQ is down about 2%, and other indices are down by lesser percentages, so far this AM on US stock exchanges.
5 DOSES IN 17 MONTHS?
https://sheldonyakiwchuk.substack.com/p/vaccines-that-work-so-well-ontario?s=w
THE BEHAVIOUR OF THIS VIRUS HAS BEEN CHANGED BY MASS VACCINATION INTO A PANDEMIC…
We clearly have a “non neutralising” vaccine (e.g. the jabbed can still become infected AND THEN pass it on to the next person).
What we are observing now in the heavily vaccinated countries defies the usual wave pattern of viral respiratory infections. Instead we are seeing peaks of infection peaking higher; a lack of return to baseline between waves; and peaks coming closer and closer together.
The virus is mutating rapidly to evade the pressure of vaccination…
Now we are seeing (in the vaccinated) a situation where the vaccine is driving massively increased rates of infection (in NZ currently the boosted are 3 times more likely to be infected than the unvaccinated)…
While at the same time (for now at least) reducing serious illness with deep lung invasion.
https://palexander.substack.com/p/you-need-sterilizing-immunity-to?utm_medium=email&s=r
A good article on cheap oil exhaustion, much in line with Gail’s views:
https://consciousnessofsheep.co.uk/2022/05/08/the-age-of-dissonance/
The blog’s articles are generally emphasize the UK’s situation as that’s presumably where the author resides.
Interesting article!
Excerpt:
NZ PSYCHIATRIST EMANUAL GARCIA SHARES HIS WISDOM AROUND WHY HE DECLINED THE PFIZER…
https://odysee.com/@NZDSOS:2/EmanualGarcia:9
I bet people on other websites are wondering why Saudi Arabia doesn’t flood the oil market giving us prices like 50 $ a barrel.
What do we think?
SA is forced to be defensive by the USA!
They already got in a war for market share with Russia, which hurt their budget, and now they’ve declared a ceasefire because it was unsustainable.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Russia%E2%80%93Saudi_Arabia_oil_price_war
Currency war?
https://twitter.com/TOzgokmen/status/1522626572573884418
THE PFIZER TRIALS WERE IRRETRIEVABLY CORRUPTED…
https://www.theepochtimes.com/whistleblower-exposes-3-big-issues-in-pfizers-covid-vaccine-clinical-trials_4440371.html?
http://www.theepochtimes.com (https://www.theepochtimes.com/whistleblower-exposes-3-big-issues-in-pfizers-covid-vaccine-clinical-trials_4440371.html)
Whistleblower Exposes 3 Big Issues in Pfizer’s COVID Vaccine Clinical Trials
On Nov. 2, 2021 British Medical Journal (BMJ) published an article that revealed three big issues in Pfizer’s …
FROM THE PFIZER DATA DUMP…
The Post authorisation cumulative analysis looked at the reports of Adverse Events in the 3 months post roll out of the Pfizer.
People from all over the world reported their adverse events…. over 42,000 in the first 12 weeks of use!!
Of these reports 274 were of women who had become incidentally pregnant around the time of their vaccination.
So what happened to these women, their pregnancies and their babies?
Well for a start off Pfizer recorded 238 of these pregnancies as “no outcome” (e.g. they had not followed up to record the outcome of the pregnancy at the full term status of the pregnancy).
5 pregnancies were recorded as “pending outcome” at the time of the document publication.
That leaves 27 pregnancies…
Of these 26 ended with miscarriages, spontaneous abortions, still births and neonatal deaths.
THERE WAS ONE LIVE BIRTH OUT OF THE 27 PREGNANCIES THAT WERE TRACKED TO THE END.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1522692207945428996
Twitter (https://twitter.com/i/status/1522692207945428996)
Dr. Anastasia Maria Loupis
https://t.co/cVwAV8FTHY
Near the top, the article says:
PFIZER DATA DUMP AND THE “SAFE AND EFFECTIVE” IN PREGNANCY SCAM…
https://www.trialsitenews.com/p/sonia_elijah/on-what-basis-are-pregnant-women-being-encouraged-to-take-the-pfizer-vaccine-6e3730c1
Trialsitenews (https://www.trialsitenews.com/p/sonia_elijah/on-what-basis-are-pregnant-women-being-encouraged-to-take-the-pfizer-vaccine-6e3730c1)
On what basis are pregnant women being encouraged to take the Pfizer vaccine?
Public furor has arisen over the FDA-release of Pfizer’s documents, not simply because the FDA and Pfizer wanted to …
mike …. 95% effective … huh…. keep piling on the boosters one after another after another….
RADIO NZ COVID DATA PORTAL TO 6 MAY…
All stats per 100,000 of each vaccination demographic…
CASES
Unvaccinated 63 cases per 100,000
1 dose 86
2 dose 150
BOOSTED 175 (3 times more likely to catch covid as a boosted vs unvaccinated. This same stat is now showing up in databases around the world)
HOSPITALISATION
Unvaccinated 2.9 hospitalisations per 100,000
1 dose 3.5
2 dose 2.6
BOOSTED 1.7
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-depth/450874/covid-19-data-visualisations-nz-in-numbers
As Mike Yeadon observed, pregnant women are the very last group one puts any novel drug in to, after children.
And yet, without any safety evidence at all from trials, there has been a big push to inject just that group – why?
Gotta be cuz UEP. Why put this garbage into babies unless you believe extinction is imminent…
Again it’s a numbers game … the more injections the more mutant factories… no sense is leaving babies and young children out …
Everyone has to do their part… for the greater good… if some die in the process… collateral damage… in fact that might be a bonus outcome — checking out early ensures avoidance of Devil Covid — or Starvation….
And given the rather shitty current situation — masks injections fear + all the previous shit (bieber kim metaverse alexa reality tee vee ….) + a world filled with MOREONS… it’s not as if anyone who departs is missing much….
Looks kinda staged https://t.me/TommyRobinsonNews/35376 hard to know what is matrix and what is not
Here’s some fresh hell https://t.me/TommyRobinsonNews/35377
Funny https://t.me/TommyRobinsonNews/35379 I actually agree – we don’t need more MOREONS
YES!!! https://t.me/TheHealthForumNZch/972
Pity she wasn’t spat back out…or had hit the curtain….
The Expose (https://dailyexpose.uk/2022/04/18/19milllion-unvaccinated-31million-not-boosted-england/)
UK Gov. report admits 19.2 million people in England have not had a single dose of a Covid-19 Vaccine, and another 12 million have refused a 2nd or 3rd Dose
For months the British public have been deceived with tales that there are just 5 million people in the United Kingdom
Is this evidence the Covid-19 Injections cause severe degradation of the Natural Immune System?
“Diseases, Cancers and Infections associated with AIDS increased between 1,145% and 33,715% in 2021 following the introduction of the Covid-19 Injections”
https://dailyexpose.uk/2022/05/08/usa-gov-data-fully-vaccinated-have-a-id-s/
These Shots Aren’t Good For Anything, Not Even Hospitalization and Death: Dr. Ryan Cole
“We know that those who’ve been vaccinated can equally carry high volumes of virus and transmit [them], so the vaccine doesn’t prevent acquisition, doesn’t prevent carriage of the virus, doesn’t prevent transmission of the virus, doesn’t prevent disease from the virus. [People say], ‘Well, at least it decreases hospitalizations and death,’ but the data out of Denmark just showed, no it doesn’t.”
@VigilantFox | Rumble (https://rumble.com/v1408ql-these-shots-arent-good-for-anything-not-even-hospitalization-and-death-dr.-.html) | Full Interview (https://www.redvoicemedia.com/video/2022/05/mass-covid-vaccination-is-a-poor-policy-based-on-poor-science-dr-ryan-cole-video-interview/)
“This Is a Smoking Gun” That Can No Longer Be Ignored: The Left Ruined Election Day [2000 MULES]
Larry Elder: “This is OJ Simpson being seen leaving the scene of the crime. I don’t care how partisan you are; you can’t dismiss all of this. How do you explain somebody going to a whole bunch of different drop boxes with a whole bunch of different ballots on the same night at 3:57 am in the morning? How do you explain that? That alone? I’m sorry, I think a whole bunch of people in this country are gonna go, ‘Oh,
my God!’ ”
Full Documentary: https://dinesh.locals.com/?showPosts=1
@VigilantFox is putting together great work on clips from the 2000 Mules movie! Please share these clips everywhere!
Geo Tracking: Apps Are Selling Your Data to Brokers Without You Even (https://t.me/VigilantFox/4339)Knowing (https://t.me/VigilantFox/4339)
From One Drop Box to Another to a Nonprofit to Another Drop Box: What’s Up With Atlanta’s Activity (https://t.me/VigilantFox/4340)? (https://t.me/VigilantFox/4340)
100% Intentional Activity: One Doesn’t Visit 28 Drop Boxes in a Single Day on (https://t.me/VigilantFox/4341)Accident (https://t.me/VigilantFox/4341)
Where’s the Investigation? Bad Actors in Just 3 Key States Is Enough to Sway an (https://t.me/VigilantFox/4342)Election (https://t.me/VigilantFox/4342)
That’s Suspicious: South Carolina Woman Detects Georgia Trash Can Without (https://t.me/VigilantFox/4343)Looking (https://t.me/VigilantFox/4343)
Caught on Film: Biker Gets Frustrated After Dropping Ballots and Returns to Take a (https://t.me/VigilantFox/4344)Picture (https://t.me/VigilantFox/4344)
Stolen Election? It Appears So—Trump Wins Just By Removing the Worst (https://t.me/VigilantFox/4347)Offenders (https://t.me/VigilantFox/4347)
Fixed Elections at the Local Level? San Luis, AZ Insider Blows the (https://t.me/VigilantFox/4348)Whistle (https://t.me/VigilantFox/4348)
Pushing Votes on the Infirm: The Extortion of Nursing Home Residents for Political (https://t.me/VigilantFox/4349)Gain (https://t.me/VigilantFox/4349)
”This Is a Smoking Gun” That Can No Longer Be Ignored: The Left Ruined Election (https://t.me/VigilantFox/4350)Day (https://t.me/VigilantFox/4350)
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As the childhood hepatitis outbreak advances concerns that the pandemic respiratory illness or genetic Rx or both have set up the liver for a “second hit” from adeno-, roto-, entero-, etc viruses. Need prompt serologies and outbreak exposure assessment.
https://www.americaoutloud.com/the-mccullough-report/
https://t.me/PeterMcCullough/844
Other data also show that COVID mortality rates are far higher in areas with high vaccination rates, and risk-benefit analyses reveal the jabs do more harm than good in most age groups.
#TheDefender
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/mortality-rates-rise-covid-vaccines-cola/
“The Losses Will Be Unprecedented” – Dr. Geert Vanden Bossche Delivers a Dire Warning Against the Vaccine Program
“This is, from a public health viewpoint, a disaster… The more children we will vaccinate, the more we will, of course, expedite this immune escape and get to this kind of variant that will not only be highly infectious, fully resistant to the vaccines, [but] also highly virulent… If you would ask me to set up an experiment where I can induce this resistance and generate a highly infectious SARS-CoV-2 virus with a high level of virulence that is completely resistant against the COVID-19 vaccines, the experiment that we are doing is exactly what I would do… It’s criminal; it’s not going to have a happy end.”
Video via t.me/childcovidvaccineinjuriesuk
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Caught on Film: Biker Gets Frustrated After Dropping Ballots and Returns to Take a Picture [2000 MULES]
Catherine Engelbrecht: “So if you were there just casting your own ballot, what reason in the world would you have to come back and take a picture of the box?”
Full Documentary: https://dinesh.locals.com/upost/2083099/2000-mules
To those who is staying in NZ… I received a WhatsApp image of a letter from NZ Ministry of Health stating that vaccine is mandatory from 1st June 2022. True?
Interesting, concerning, not surprising. Mike would approve so we can all get along swimmingly….
I saw a letter on ministry letterhead indicating this – 15k fine if no shot – I doubt this is real – have not seen anything more on it
I am afraid it is coming all purebloods must be infected or else how would it look if the purebloods were completely fine when the UEP finally takes effect on the victims or vaccinated a planned genocide must not be suspected the elders wish to rule the world without the purebloods calling the shots remember the plan is a totalitarian world where you would be forced to accept the new world order it is a better choice than face ripping the elders are simply doing what is necessary in order for a portion of humanity to survive
Just because you surrendered your body’s sovereignty Adonis doesn’t mean those of us who haven’t will in the future.
Covid revealed our true nature. Sheep or Lion.
When people have faced mandates demanding ‘either jab or work’ one can’t really criticise them for weakness, surely?
I have never been so grateful to be both self-employed and in a country without mandates.
Resistance for me has been easy, so far…..
I know plenty of people who all lost their jobs. What is the point of keeping a job if you might be dead or injured from being vaxxed?
where do you get this stuff from?
purebloods, elders, planned genocide, face ripping,
(Well i know where face ripping originated)
stop believing social media, and think.
Poor old Norman: try your own advice!
But I very much doubt your mental equipment is quite up to it.
Four-times injected without compulsion, and happy to see your grand and great-grandchildren done with these poisons, tells us everything about you.
Now tell us, why are they pumping Remdesivir into babies without trials and for no reason?
Why approving Paxlovid for kids with no trials at all? etc
Come on, show us the quality of your thought processes!
We are ready to be amused……
norm won’t respond. hahahaha
Let’s check in on norm
https://youtu.be/IU28GHMcYxM
Dr Keith Moran on Israel’s Increase in Emergency Cardiac Events Post-Vaccination
https://rumble.com/v1419de-dr-keith-moran-on-israels-increase-in-emergency-cardiac-events-post-vaccina.html
Study: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-10928-z
Casket maker Matthews international saw 7.1% growth in Q1 2022 & 4.7% sequential growth from Q4. Business is good in the United States of Death. $MATW
GoFundMe has shut down a campaign to raise money for an 8-year-old girl injured shortly after taking Pfizer’s COVID-19 shot.
This is a new low for GoFundMe.
Protect the children. https://www.aflds.org/videos/post/protectthechildren-the-story-of-emma-burkey/
Maybe he’s going to off himself to avoid the UEP? Makes sense – if he’s not injected why would want to starve to death? Private jet into a mountain? https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1523465632502906880
https://sheldonyakiwchuk.substack.com/p/full-sitrep-on-the-health-canada
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I use to say the following on OFW since it started more than a decade ago
Picture a tub full of water and a little paper boat on it. Pull the plug. Water flows out, boat seems to be going in the direction of the drain plug. Some people who are more sensitive or keen seem to notice the movement of the boat and he started to tell people. The people surrounding him brushed him off and said ” you are wrong and will be wrong all the time in future”. Nothing will happen.
As time passes, the water level dropped but he realized it was dropping. The rest of the people are like frogs in boiling water, did not realize it. The boat moved faster and faster and more and more people sensed something was not right. As it swirled down the whirlpool created by the fast moving water, the boat spiraled quickly and all of the sudden, plop!
The boat is gone and so is the water. No one else can document what happen after this point.