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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.
SOUTH AFRICAN POLITICIAN, BLAMES THE WEST FOR THE WAR IN UKRAINE
https://www.bitchute.com/video/cGrOyDPtK25d/
I don’t think that the South African politician is the first one with this view.
Heat wave scorches India’s wheat crop, snags export plans
NEW DELHI – An unusually early, record-shattering heat wave in India has reduced wheat yields, raising questions about how the country will balance its domestic needs with ambitions to increase exports and make up for shortfalls due to Russia’s war in Ukraine.
Gigantic landfills in India’s capital New Delhi have caught fire in recent weeks. Schools in eastern Indian state Odisha have been shut for a week and in neighboring West Bengal, schools are stocking up on oral rehydration salts for kids. On Tuesday, Rajgarh, a city of over 1.5 million people in central India, was the country’s hottest, with daytime temperatures peaking at 46.5 degrees Celsius (114.08 Fahrenheit). Temperatures breached the 45 C (113 F) mark in nine other cities.
But it was the heat in March — the hottest in India since records first started being kept in 1901 — that stunted crops. Wheat is very sensitive to heat, especially during the final stage when its kernels mature and ripen. Indian farmers time their planting so that this stage coincides with India’s usually cooler spring.
https://www.click2houston.com/news/world/2022/04/29/heat-wave-scorches-indias-wheat-crop-snags-export-plans/
Lots of upper class Indians moving to their London mansions while India enters a Famine.
From one Titanic to another
But another factor could prove lethal for India as the severity and frequency of extreme heat worsens: Wet bulb conditions.
Wet bulb temperature is a metric that accounts for both heat and humidity—it’s technically measured by the read of a thermometer covered in a water soaked cloth, but can perhaps most intuitively be thought of as a representation of “how effectively a person sheds heat by sweating.”
It’s the reason that dry heat is commonly thought of as more comfortable than humid heat.
When there’s enough moisture in the air, the body can’t perform one of its primary cooling functions: Sweating. Our bodies regulate heat by eliminating it in the form of water, which evaporates on the surface of the skin; this water must move in a gradient from high to low vapor pressure for it to evaporate into the atmosphere. Sweating alone does not cool the body off: It must evaporate in order for heat to be released from the body. When there’s enough water vapor in the atmosphere, the pressure differential that would normally allow the evaporation of sweat isn’t there. Without a conduit, sweat lingers on the body and heats up infinitely, increasing the likelihood that the body overheats and its essential functions cease to, well, function.
There is a point at which wet bulb temperatures become, as Radley Horton, Lamont Research Professor at the Columbia Climate School put it in a 2020 paper in the peer-reviewed journal Science Advances, “too severe for human tolerance.” A wet bulb temperature of 35 degrees celsius (95 degrees fahrenheit) is the upper physiological limit, his paper notes. An exceedance of 35 degrees celsius would be deadly.
https://www.vice.com/amp/en/article/qjbq5p/indias-heat-wave-is-a-grim-warning-for-deadly-wet-bulb-temperatures
we set fire to the planet
so now we’re cooking
Reminds me of something a Banana Republic regime would do….
White House proposes plan to sell Russian yachts for Ukraine aid
The White House unveiled a proposed legislative package on Thursday that would allow the federal government to sell assets seized from Russian oligarchs over the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine and use the proceeds for military and humanitarian aid to Ukraine.
Why it matters: The U.S. has already seized million of dollars in assets from wealthy Russians with close ties to President Vladimir Putin. It and other governments are hoping that financial pressure on those individuals will translate into political pressure on Putin, potentially curtailing his power.
https://www.axios.com/white-house-russian-assets-ukraine-aid-1db28a96-c31b-48b9-bf3f-23f034b26884.html
I would think that the total revenue received from the sale of confiscated oversized yachts would not be very much.
I am not sure how this would curtail Putin’s power.
Early-season heatwave grips India, causing worst energy crisis in 6 years
Dangerous heatwave conditions are affecting vast swathes of India since mid-April, bringing temperatures 4.5 – 8.5 C (8 to 15 F) above average in east, central and northwest India.
The heatwave comes after the country recorded its hottest March on record.
The country as a whole recorded 8.9 mm (0.35 inches) of rainfall in March, which was 71% less than its long period average rainfall of 30.4 mm (1.19 inches). It was also the third-lowest precipitation in March since 1901 after 7.2 mm (0.28 inches) in 1909 and 8.7 mm (0.34 inches) in 1908.
An energy crisis is now affecting portions of the country as coal supplies have run out amid record consumption.
A change in temperatures is expected around May 4 with a cyclonic circulation system developing in the Andaman Sea followed by low pressure by May 5.
India’s peak power demand in a day touched the all-time high of 204.65 GW on Thursday while various states warned they are lacking enough coal to maintain power production. Delhi Minister Satyendar Jain, for example, said the national capital had only one day’s worth of coal supply left.
https://watchers.news/2022/04/29/early-season-heatwave-grips-india-causing-worst-energy-crisis-in-6-years/
Burn More Coal (BMC)
yes but there is no more coal – and what there is is up 25% in price!!!
First Shipment Of Russian Coal Paid In Yuan On Its Way To China
Fenwei Energy Information Service Co., China’s leading information and service provider to the coal and coke industries, revealed that several Chinese companies purchased Russian coal in Chinese currency in March, and the first shipment would be made in April. This is also the first shipment of Russian commodities paid in yuan to arrive in China after Russia was sanctioned by Western countries.
Fenwei did not specify on which date the shipment was expected to arrive.
In addition to coal, Chinese buyers also used yuan to purchase Russian crude oil. The first ESPO (Eastern Siberia Pacific Ocean) crude oil will be delivered in May, according to a commentary published in early April on Cngold.org, a Chinese online media outlet about investing.
Citing the purchases from Fenwei, the article stated that payments in U.S. dollars will become less popular.
“Russia announced that it would only accept payments in rubles for Russian oil and natural gas, which turned the United States and European countries from those who impose sanctions to those who are subjected to sanctions,” the commentary said. “Chinese yuan seized the opportunity and began to reveal its potential in global trade payments. Now that coal and oil paid for in yuan will arrive in China, the international community [will] become green-eyed [at our success].”
https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/first-shipment-russian-coal-paid-yuan-its-way-china
Barclays suspends all its commodities funds…
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FRfCVA-XsAIqdYM?format=png&name=900×900
Probably a good choice. Prices are too unstable. Derivatives may not pay off as planned.
Suspending equals not paying off as well ?
OOPS! Inflation pressure intensifies in Germany. Import Price jumps to 31.2% in March, highest since Sep 1974 during the first oil crisis. The current data are beginning to reflect the impact of the war in Ukraine.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FRfYQfbWUAEX2hK?format=png&name=4096×4096
COVID UPDATE: What is the truth?
Russell L. Blaylock
Retired Neurosurgeon, Theoretical Neuroscience Research, LLC, Ridgeland, Mississippi, United States.
https://surgicalneurologyint.com/surgicalint-articles/covid-update-what-is-the-truth/
I am not sure that it is possible to get very far by outlining the whole crazy situation. I notice up on top of the article it says:
Date of Publication
22-Apr-2022
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It is clearly not getting much readership, since it was published a week ago.
It is inevitable that 90% of the existing population will be price out of existence.
Costs of food, intangibles, rent and insurance will rise without mercy.
There will be no quarters and companies will collect, without any concern for the poor.
As most people are evicted and will perish on the streets, back alley or some wilderness, often by drones, today’s winners will live in their comfort since with less people the resource will be better conserved.
It might be possible that the only air travel will be done by company-owned jets, and ordinary people might have to ride in steamships again. Companies like Boeing introduced flying to the masses; big, big mistake.
It is inevitable that discretionary spending will fall and spending on basics will rise as a share of income.
Some people will be priced out of existence. They may die of many different related causes: local warfare, lack of treatment for easily treated diseases, increased susceptibility to communicable diseases, problems associated with fresh water supply, or actual starvation.
Very balanced response
It might come to some of those who are discretionary are at the end of the demographic age distribution; they require more care and effort than they contribute to the group.
Another observation is excess males were gathered into armies and sent off to fight the enemy whoever or whatever than may have been. They too may have served a purpose as they helped balance the core group.
We are self organizing, what works is right. The future is seldom as bad as one fears nor as bright as one hopes.
Dennis L.
Easy for you to say ….. tell that to someone In Venezuela or Africa Or Lebanon. I’m sure they all thought the future was bright
Do you live in any of those places? We can do very little other than in our own small place on this beautiful planet. Take what is available and move forward; there is almost always a tomorrow.
Worrying and other emotions regarding the plights of our fellow man might be more of a coping mechanism to rationalize our having it good.
As for “I’m sure they all thought the future was bright.” What do they have to lose, look down on the ground constantly and when opportunity comes along it will be missed.
Dennis L.
The writer Anais Nin said that we each have a different “God.” So trying to figure out the whole in a rational way makes little sense. The situation is, by definition, hopelessly confusing. We do the best we can to find little bits of coherence. Trying to go beyond our narrow limits, we concoct very bad ideas.
Yes … Gail you are right again unfortunately. Some people look at this predicament as something that will happen to “other” people but I think it will happen everywhere. I am trying to come to peace with it. My only question now is how far off is it?! 15 years? 20 years?
BAU continues with no problems until 2100. There is enough food and resorces for 10 B. Peak oilers were never right with their timings and never will be, including Gail Tverberg.
They weren’t, were they?
Dennis L.
I’ll never live to see if your date of 2100 is correct.
One thing for sure, for many that are or should I say WERE alive …peak oil HAS arrived and are now no longer with us ..or are struggling to stay alive on meager resources and desperate destitute existence.
Hard to describe as “living”….maybe better off not…
Just read some of Harry’s posts
One post pointed out we are living on last year’s harvest…we shall see what the food reserves are for next year and the year after that machival66…
yes–we can probably produce enough food for 10bn people
the problem lies in moving it to where it’s needed.
Food is an energy-commodity—just like oil. Therefore it has ‘value’–but only at the point of conversion/consumption.
the farmer produces wheat–but effectively does not get paid until someone buys a loaf of bread. Yes, money changes hands all down the line, but it is that bread-purchase that makes it all work.
if a farmer in the USA produces 000s of tons of when, but the means does not exist to ship it to where hungry people are, then production of the wheat is pointless.—-our immediate future seems to suggest a collapse of transport systems.
in any event, the USA farmer cannot produce wheat as a charity, any more than the owner of an oilwell can deliver oil as a charity.—-both are opposite sides of the same coin.
And even if energy could be delivered as a charity, it would ultimately destroy the donor and recipient, because the recipient would increase his dependent offspring through increased food availability.—a reality that no donor could sustain.
messy, ain’t it?—especially as humankind has the propensity to go to war every few years.
but i admire your optimism out to 2100
Optimism? That’s assuming I want BAU to continue. No, I long for the collapse, I crave it. There is no higher blessing than to bear witness to the destruction of modern society. But wishing for something doesn’t magically make it happen.
i think you’d be doing rather more than bearing witness
you might be hired as a crisis actor
for real
What are you mixing with the Xanax to achieve this state?
I kindly ask you to provide the basis of your projection.
Sure thing! Well the thing is that BAU mostly needs food and water. All other things are basically luxuries that enable the gadgets and obscene wealth we see today in the so called “civilised” world. Through desalinisation, water is virtually infinite. Yes, the process is power hungry but there is enough power to create the water. Food is not and can’t be a problem. Absurd? Not if you think about how right this very moment there are 3 B people which are grossly overweight or obese. Food is extremely cheap otherwise there would not be an obesity epidemic. Peak oilers ignore these facts and only talk about their religion which is the price of oil. Oil is also extremely cheap. For what it can provide, 100$ is a bargain. The world can sustain even 500$ oil, it is just that those obscene wealth like each person in a family owning a car – that has to go. It is dumb anyway. There will be many societal changes to the better. Obesity will be a thing reserved only for the 1% rich. Streets will be filled with bikes instead of stupid cars and as a result hundreds of people will not die in accidents each day over the world. Downshifting and Minimalism will become mainstream lidestyles. Make no mistake, people will be still dumb af but overall if luxury goes away, that will be a good thing. Hope this helps.
hahahahahaahha….. hahhahah… HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA…
I’m laughing so hard at this tripe that my guts are coming out my butt (which can cause Baboon Butt if not checked) hahaha… M Fast… please get the gut plunger device and force them back in would you….
hahahaha…
Some food types maybe plentiful and cause obesity – true. However, they are calorie rich and nutrient poor. The obese still get many of the nutrients they need because they eat a lot. Reduce the amount they eat and share it out may result in mostly malnourished populations.
Food for thought.
Collapse denialism manifests itself in two forms:
1) It will happen right, but far from where i live
2) It will happen right, but only after I’m gone (like in 2100)
plus alcoholism, crime, and suicide.
Ninety percent of the population is probably already living at that level, certainly at least seventy percent.
Predictions are almost impossible, this doom and gloom has been predicted since forever; this site thought 2016 would be the end of the world, we are still here.
Looking at reality which group of “significant” others recently lost their sinecures? Were they ordinary people? It seems their incomes were about $300K, gone, gone, gone. Who will miss them most? Those with similar “important” jobs making $300K. The serpent is eating its tail.
Bragging: I called inflation, a rising stock market; done, done, done. It’s all good, so many missed opportunities while certain all is lost. Look for the positives, look for what works, what works is right. Also, don’t hate or wish ill on your fellow man, it does not help.
Dennis L.
Maybe you are right Dennis this site tends to lead one down to that scenario, especially when there is the monthly discussion of eating babies. That being said I don’t really want my children to have children as I don’t expect are very bright future for them.
Yehz but my main concern is the vaccination mandate..I have been Eddiesized and am now a Zomddie that only has one thing on my little bittie brain….Covitzed!
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Too funny🤪…too funny . com on Edwin post another individual horror story bring it on bro
Here’s one for you from the New York Times
What an Unvaccinated Sergeant Who Nearly Died of Covid Wants You to Know
Frank Talarico, a 47-year-old police sergeant, was hospitalized for 49 days with the coronavirus. “If I was vaccinated,” he said, “I have to think I wouldn’t have gotten as sick as I did.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/26/nyregion/police-vaccine-nj.html
CAMDEN, N.J. — No one thought Frank Talarico Jr. was going to live. Not his doctors, his nurses or his wife, a physician assistant who works part time at the Camden, N.J., hospital where he spent 49 days fighting to survive Covid-19.
A 47-year-old police sergeant, he was not vaccinated against the coronavirus. Unconvinced of the vaccine’s merits, he figured he was young and fit enough to handle whatever illness the virus might cause.
He was wrong.
“If it’s an eye opener for somebody — so be it,” Sergeant Talarico said recently at his home in Pennsauken, N.J., about five miles northeast of Camden. He plans to get the vaccine as soon as the doctors he credits with saving his Life at Virtua Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital give….. him final medical clearance.
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But over the next year, as some police unions tried to block vaccine mandates, at least 301 police, sheriff and correction officers died of complications from Covid-19, according to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial, a nonprofit that tracks line-of-duty fatalities. Since January, Covid has continued to outpace other top causes of line-of-duty deaths.
Before it was over, the patrol officer who was less than a year away from retirement after 24 years on the job was hospitalized twice.
After being rushed to the hospital the second time, he had a foot-long blood clot removed from his lung, a procedure that prevented certain death but caused his heart to nearly stop beating. He was placed on advanced life-support while still on the operating table. For two days a machine did the work of his heart and lungs.
It wasn’t long before his kidneys began to fail, requiring dialysis.
One of the many hard moments was the day his daughter, a 19-year-old college freshman, visited him for what they both feared could be a final goodbye. Conscious but hooked to a ventilator, Sergeant Talarico was unable to speak.
“He would try and mouth words around the breathing tube,” said Jackie Whitby, a cardiac care nurse who was also in the room. “He had tears in his eyes. She had tears in her eyes.”
Retelling the story more than two months later, Sergeant Talarico started to cry again.
About half of the 14 officers in his police department, in Merchantville, N.J., have been vaccinated, he said. The department’s chief of police did not return calls.
Sergeant Talarico said he had tried to persuade reluctant colleagues to get vaccinated.
“I say, ‘Just look at me and look what I went through,’” he said.
Like Gail and Norm pointed …for some it may MAKE sense…
Public Must Accept Energy and Food Will Be Much More Expensive From Now On, Says (Well-Paid) Senior EU Official
https://dailysceptic.org/2022/04/28/public-must-accept-energy-and-food-will-be-much-more-expensive-from-now-on-says-well-paid-senior-eu-official/
The Truth About Heat Pumps
https://dailysceptic.org/2022/04/28/the-truth-about-heat-pumps/
“Beijing orders schools closed in tightening of virus rules” – Beijing is closing all city schools in a further tightening of COVID-19 restrictions, as China’s capital seeks to prevent a wider outbreak
https://apnews.com/article/covid-business-health-china-beijing-31ceb93765be067616bb287b5cfaf5e6
“Taiwan’s daily Covid cases top 10,000 for first time” – Taiwan reported on Thursday that the daily number of confirmed domestic COVID-19 cases had topped 10,000 for the first time, in line with predictions, and the Health Minister said infections would continue to rise
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/taiwans-daily-covid-cases-top-10000-first-time-2022-04-28/
“Epidemic: German and Austrian Mayors Under 60 Are ‘Suddenly and Unexpectedly’ Dropping Dead” – When did so many young and healthy middle-aged people, described as healthy and sporty, drop dead before 2020 – wow that is a LONG list!
https://rairfoundation.com/epidemic-german-and-austrian-mayors-under-60-aresuddenly-and-unexpectedly-dropping-dead/
Regarding:
https://dailysceptic.org/2022/04/28/the-truth-about-heat-pumps/
This takes a 2010 report about heat pumps and translates it to what it really means. For example:
I know that we have an air-source heat pump heating and cooling the finished part of our basement. The cost has been very high relative to gas heating/cooling.
The report mentions that newer heat pumps may be better. Maybe, but buyer beware!
If the energy gain from the difference in ambient temperature and indoor temperature is less than the overall efficiency of a gas turbine plant, transmission and delivery power, it is a loser. With gas after transmission energy loss, it is very efficient as all is turned into heat, well almost.
They work best in ground loop which requires digging up the yard or installing two wells with incumbent issues of transmission medium leakage or freezing.
Maintenance, maintenance, maintenance.
Also, R22 is a better refrigerant than 134a or whatever is used. It is the ozone thing with this. I think R12 was best of all, gone, gone, gone.
Yes, I have done installations, only one case made sense, an electrically heated house as long as ambient > 32F.
Dennis L.
Thanks for the explanation. Ground loop doesn’t work here. Ground rock just below the surface. Often need to blast.
China has been replacing “co-generation” (using piped heat from nearby coal-fired plants) with air source heat pumps. This represents a huge rise in energy costs, which citizens end up paying. Co-generation is essentially free.
Its not overly difficult to install an air source heat pump. Here in eastern canada the utilities and governments have been pushing heat pumps (ductless and otherwise) as a way to lower heating bills. There is an added benefit that around here many of homes still heat with oil so this reduce fuel use.
Strictly looking at the dollars my pump paid for itself in 2 heating seasons because I was able to put it in myself. While my elec bill rose somewhat the furnace oil consumption was nearly cut in half.
If you are heating with oil, then doing anything else will typically reduce your bill. Oil tends to be terribly expensive compared to other fuels.
If your other option is cheap natural gas, as it has been in recent years in the United States, then switching to an air source heat pump, operated used relatively higher cost electricity, the result comes out quite badly.
Deaths in Iceland Jump 30% in First Quarter of 2022 – Just as Vaccine Boosters Were Rolled Out
https://dailysceptic.org/2022/04/28/deaths-in-iceland-jump-30-in-first-quarter-of-2022-just-as-vaccine-boosters-were-rolled-out/
This is strange. It seems to fit with a pattern found elsewhere.
This article talks about boosters in Iceland:
https://www.covid.is/covid-19-booster-vaccinations
It is the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, in particular, that seem to send the death rates soaring. There are actually five different vaccines authorized in Iceland now. If they had stayed away from these vaccines, or not done boosters in the first place, they likely would have been better off.
And meanwhile Denmark is stopping … yet others are boosting — and the little children are about to get jacked up in the UK – and elsewhere….
Seems if the Danes had figured out the injections were garbage – everyone would – given the lock step nature of the CovCON…
Something has always been rotten in Denmark — hard to identify the stench …but I suspect they are gonna use this to enhance uptake of the boosters and child shots — blame the vax injuries on the decision to stop injecting… SEE what happens!!!! — and the MOREONS will cockatoo-like repeat — SEE What happens! See what happens!!
https://youtu.be/aWsSKRh9QTw hahahaha !!!!!!!
https://m.facebook.com/watch/?v=264093315595600&_rdr
A very fine book
Civilization was born 8,000 years ago, between the floodplains of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, when migrants from the surrounding mountains and deserts began to create increasingly sophisticated urban societies. In the cities that they built, half of human history took place.
In Babylon, Paul Kriwaczek tells the story of Mesopotamia from the earliest settlements seven thousand years ago to the eclipse of Babylon in the sixth century BCE. Bringing the people of this land to life in vibrant detail, the author chronicles the rise and fall of power during this period and explores the political and social systems, as well as the technical and cultural innovations, which made this land extraordinary. At the heart of this book is the story of Babylon, which rose to prominence under the Amorite king Hammurabi from about 1800 BCE. Even as Babylon’s fortunes waxed and waned, it never lost its allure as the ancient world’s greatest city.
Engaging and compelling, Babylon reveals the splendor of the ancient world that laid the foundation for civilization itself.
https://www.audible.com/pd/Babylon-Audiobook/1541404580?ref=a_library_t_c5_libItem_&pf_rd_p=80765e81-b10a-4f33-b1d3-ffb87793d047&pf_rd_r=A85QXQXJ5KNZ1MHZRSHC
Interesting. Thanks.
I haven’t listed to the audio book, but the overview sounds like the “Garden of Eden” story, set in the same location. Flooding of the rivers could be used for irrigation. It made the land very productive. The location was also very good for fishing and for trade with neighbors.
It seems that the use of agriculture allowed for the support of more people than were involved in the acquisition of food, which allowed for the support of people, including slaves, employed in other matters, the division of labour, and the development of various crafts and a more complex culture. Agriculture provided the basic economic foundation for the development of what we now think of as ‘civilisation’.
It is striking that it seems to have taken so long for humans to develop agriculture, otherwise ‘civilisation’ could have happened a long time before. Perhaps the local environmental conditions were vital to its initial success – but even so, it seems odd that it took so long.
Agriculture is possible in very many areas, where it does not seem to have initially taken off. It is quite possible, eg. on Britain and farmers invaded here 6000 years ago. The prior hunter-gathers seem to have never worked it out, or at least never sustained it. Perhaps it was all down to the flood plains in Iraq.
The local grains were important. The Neolithic crops all originated in the fertile crescent. They were also necessary for farming?
agriculture follows the logical path from hunter-gathering:
first off—–humankind figures out how to control fire.
fire is set at the entrance to caves–keeps animals out, and some warmth in without filling the cave with smoke. but some smoke comes into the cave.
animal parts are hung up in the cave, for safe storage…bingo–you have smoked meat which doesn’t go bad like fresh meat–and tastes rather good.
so then humankind has the prime survival tool–a controlled supply of year round food. so the cave becomes a fixed centre of living.
humankind also ‘gathers’ edible foods, grains etc.
grains are ground up—some seeds fall to the sides of the grinding stones–and sprout. Mrs Flintstone soon figures out that planting grains is less work than roaming about gathering them.
in no time at all you have fields. notice that in many societies ‘field work’ is womens work,
the link seems obvious.
if you have fields you need walls/fences around them.—ie farms.
surplus food is produced. with surplus food you can employ ‘workers/buy slaves to look after your fields. and pay soldiers to guard them.
you can also invent writing and money to make the system work, and with massive surpluses you can build cities, fund armies, fight wars. (wars of the last 100 years have been colossal–but only due to available vast energy surpluses.)
all the above would have coalesced very quickly, once it got started.
Good points!
It almost seems a certain threshold of intelligence was required, that which would allow making tools to hunt and fire to cook. Did this come as a result of genetic mutation selecting for larger cranial capacity or due to an increase in brain cell synapse/connectivity?
The next intelligence threshold to be surmounted would be required to start farming, which as you indicate was sufficient in the fertile crescent.
The question then becomes, was there yet another genetic threshold required to be overcome to migrate to the northern European climates and survive? Or are cause and effect reversed?
It was the easy to chew, more energy dense food supply that became available that permitted the brain changes.
Perhaps the earliest change (well over 2 million Years ago) was learning to break the thigh bones of already dead animals and eat the marrow out of them. (Somewhat speculative)
After that seems to have come control of fire and cooking of part of food supply (well over 1 million years ago). The body no longer needed a big teeth and jaws and digestive system. The extra energy available could be used to develop the brain instead.
Chimpanzees literally spend half of their days chewing their food supply. A big thing that control of fire did is free up time, so that it could be used to make tools. Other animals use tools, too.
The control of fire also allowed the ability of fire to sculpt areas in chosen ways: burn down whole forests, if more open areas gave better food supply.
Hubbs
fire would have been developed by flint bashers;—–easiest way to control flint is to put it on your lap—i would have thought—but thats painful
so next logical step–cushion it with a sheepskin
which would be dry and oily
sparks from the flint knapping would ignite the wool, or at least cause it to smoulder
the first knuckle dragger to figure out how to make/control fire would suddenly be the most important guy in the community.
his knowlege would be critical, and have to be kept safe.
so what’s the most important thing with regard to fire?
keeping it alight, which requires a roof over it–suddnly that becomes a ‘holy place’,,,,and the fire maker a ‘high priest.’—nobody actually ‘sees’ how fire is produced.
notice how many churches today do funny things with fire–behind a ‘rood screen’ away from prying eyes. –churches go back much further than we know.
brain power increase come in fractional increments–i dont think there is a threshold—migrations would maybe in only 20 mile increments, people driven to find fresh resources through social pressure–moving into the next valley and so on.
natural disaster would drive this too. We can never know.
all animals do this. The chicks just hatched on my local pond will be driven off by their parents at the end of the summer
northern migration would have been influenced by the ebb and flow of climate–ice ages, warm periods etc..
if you can make fire and steal another animal’s coat, you’re well set up to survive
we can’t know all the little details, but that i think was the broad outline of our past.
“Chimpanzees literally spend half of their days chewing their food supply.’
Cutting down on chewing time has provided the opportunity for much more talking!
now some, who shall remain un named, spend all their days chewing online
Plenty of discussion of how kkklimate cccchange impacted civilizations over short time frames (decades)…
Apparently they were burning a lot of coal to provide electricity for their EVs and AC’s… and their server farms were immense… those farms use lots of energy!
Moreover, the early Mesopotamian civilisation could construct buildings and walls with mud bricks, baked hard in the sun – a great advantage one would have thought!
Reconstruction and renewal wold have been comparatively easy, too.
Kilns fed with fuel were only needed to harden glazed tiles, which were used in abundance on important structures, usually to express the ideology/theology of the state.
America, this is the guy the Neocons wanted to be President. The world laughs at you, I laugh at you. This is what’s referred to as Karma baby.
https://twitter.com/townhallcom/status/1519698983513432065
I wonder if the powers that be deliberately want to make Biden’s mental decline so “in-your-face” that there will be little opposition across the political spectrum to “25th” him at the right time. The probem is, what to do with Kamala? It’s like Biden being a flat tire but only to find out when you open the trunk that your spare is even worse.
Of course Biden is not running the country, so it could be argued that the PTB would love to keep him there as long as possible because he is so easily controlled.
I say, put Kamala in charge. America has become a crime syndicate a broken down, on the way out Empire. It has become too obvious. The Neocons wanted Bidet, let’s finish the job by putting an incompetent buffoon in charge. Let’s show the world how the mighty has fallen. Nero fiddled, while Rome burned.
100% they put Biden in there and they flaunt him to create a Clown Show perception … it destabilizes the society …
faking it again https://t.me/robinmg/19054
NHS EXPAND COVID PASS FOR 5-11 YEAR OLDS
They always (and only ever) wanted to get to our children
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/nhs-covid-pass/children-under-18-and-the-nhs-covid-pass/
Less kids means less greenhouse gases.
Or,
Fewer parents = enslaved, modified and brainwashed orphaned children.
Excellent experimental subjects, too: Mengele’s victims grew fond of him. …..
This is UK approval. This vaccine is still in the authorization stage in the US:
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/28/moderna-asks-fda-to-authorize-covid-vaccine-for-kids-under-6-years-old.html
THE KISSINGER REPORT, 1974
“ACTION TO CREATE CONDITIONS FOR FERTILITY DECLINE”
“Since inception of the program in 1965, AID has obligated nearly $625 million for population activities. These funds have been used primarily to (1) draw attention to the population problem, (2) encourage multilateral and other donor support for the world wide population effort, and (3) help create and maintain the means for attacking the problem, including the development of LDC capabilities to do so.”
National Security Study Memorandum
NSSM 200
“Implications of Worldwide Population Growth For U.S. Security and Overseas Interests
December 10, 1974”
CLASSIFIED BY Harry C. Blaney, III
SUBJECT TO GENERAL DECLASSIFICATION SCHEDULE
OF EXECUTIVE ORDER 11652 AUTOMATICALLY DOWN-
GRADED AT TWO YEAR INTERVALS AND DECLASSIFIED
ON DECEMBER 31, 1980.
https://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/Pcaab500.pdf
The big drop in US birth rates seems to have started in 1958 and hit a peak (trough?) in 1968.
https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/birth-rate
By 1974, everyone was concerned that oil supplies would “run out.” Exporting the idea of lower birth rates to other countries seemed like a good idea to many, I am certain.
Birth control pills became widely available in the US in the 1960s. I am sure that exporting this idea seemed to make sense as well.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/pill-timeline/
They would have started working on the UEP around this time as well….
France Introduces Digital ID Days After Macron’s Re-election
“Just days after winning the federal election, President Emmanuel Macron authorized the creation of a digital ID for France.
The ‘Digital ID Guarantee Service’ (SGIN (https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/jorf/id/JORFSCTA000043246718)) was signed into decree following his victory over Marine Le Pen, which will allow France to be ‘compliant’ with the European Union’s digital ID (https://ec.europa.eu/info/strategy/priorities-2019-2024/europe-fit-digital-age/european-digital-identity_en).
The backlash from the ‘Les Patriots’ group (https://les-patriotes.fr/), which seeks independence from the EU, was immediate.
‘Just after the election, the government announces the launch of a digital identity application …’ said (https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1602547/macron-news-french-backlash-president-s-digital-id-launch) leader Florian Philippot. ‘The goal: to put social credit in the Chinese way …’
Macron’s election victory has set off massive protests (https://ca.news.yahoo.com/protests-erupt-france-following-macron-103142022.html), wherein Macron has been pelted with tomatoes (https://twitter.com/PrisonPlanet/status/1519606700688527360).
France’s move towards a centralized digital ID, and the corresponding resistance from people concerned with a Chinese-style social credit system (https://thecountersignal.com/why-is-a-digital-id-so-dangerous/https://thecountersignal.com/why-is-a-digital-id-so-dangerous/), is a conflict that’s intensifying in many countries throughout the world.”
👉 Read more: The Counter Signal (https://thecountersignal.com/france-introduces-digital-id-days-after-macron-election/)
Hahaha… MOREONS
Governments everywhere can see that the world economy is rapidly going downhill. They need a way to control the population, if there is not enough to go around. Social credit scoring sounds like a good idea.
Full court press as we approach the end game — twist and distort the norms of society to throw everyone off balance — pound them with masks and repetitive lockdowns — enforce social scores — all of this is aimed at creating total compliance… the psychology of this is described here
Whipnosis
Mass psychosis is real. Its purpose: to facilitate the creation of a pseudo-reality, supplanting the actual world and drawing humanity into its fictions, to unleash mass demoralisation and compliance.
https://johnwaters.substack.com/p/whipnosis-part-3-of-3?s=r
This prepares us to go to the abattoir without kicking and screaming…
What we are witnessing is no more or less than the destruction of the nuclear family unit. And with it, society.
It’s said, rightly in my view, that it takes a village to raise a child.
I know people my daughters age, mid 20s, who are openly questioning whether, even if they could, to have kids. It’s all so dystopian & broken. How could optimism thrive in such a setting? And unlike any other period in human history, there’s nowhere to go.
A convicted psychopath was once asked by a researcher why they had done the evil things they did. They replied “nobody ever fought back”.
Almost nobody is now, either.
So few see the danger, enough to motivate them to even get involved, let alone lead.
Be in no doubt, there truly are psychopaths running the globe. They don’t intend it to be a place you’ll want to be, that much is apparent.
Are you planning to do anything about it, or just float along until the virtual prison gates close?
Mike Yeason
https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/the-death-of-san-francisco
That happened many many decades ago. That trend began when the State did their best to remove God from peoples lives and replace it with mommy and daddy government. Now we have little kids who don’t know what gender they should be. We have little kids who are being sexualized before they hit 10 yrs old. If you want to break up the nuclear family and royally screw up society you start with the young and the innocent.
How come Putin is the only leader who is preaching that there are only two genders? That each play a role. Meanwhile the “Pup Handler” is watching over the nuclear waste and spent fuel rods.
Homosexuality “works” in an overpopulated world, where fewer children are needed and most jobs can be done equally well by men and women. Sperm donors can solve the problem if two women want an occasional child. We also now have the myth that the government can solve all problems, so we don’t need God.
But once we hit limits, this shift works less well. We need some way to navigate through the change.
Of course, I am sort of in the middle of it. I have a sister who is married to another woman in Seattle and a daughter who is married to another woman in the Boston area. Both of these cities, as well as San Francisco, are urban areas that are very accepting of the gay community. The married-in women are very fine people. It is hard to find fault with them. There is no sex change involved.
i’m a paid up atheist—but i fully accept the old soldier’s saying that there are no atheists in trenches.
and when you have 3 kids, then 7 grands, then 6 greats, you find yourself doing something like praying because the odds are getting shorter and shorter against each one of them being ok
Twitter? You’re welcome to it, Mr Musk – Tom Penn
“The sceptical community are falling over each other in a fawning attempt to crown Musk the king of free speech, mayor of the global, digital town square. Have they learnt nothing from the past two years?
How convenient for the man that his takeover of Twitter will probably increase his popularity a hundredfold and propel expansion of his stable of multifarious nerdy pursuits, and hence universal adoption of the technologies they spawn. Or conversely, perhaps governments around the world already fully focused on total regulation of the online world in order to crush the infodemic will make it impossible for renegade Musk to trigger a pesky social media revolution; his takeover then all for nothing.
Either way, who cares? Let’s be crystal clear on something: Twitter is not the real world and ultimately Musk’s takeover is naught but a part of his ploy to become ruler not necessarily of people, but their avatars. It’s a handy acquisition for a man whose company Neuralink is on the brink of perfecting a brain-chip to help humans navigate what looks set to be an AI-dominated future. Handy indeed.
Having played around for the first time with Twitter last winter, I found the detrimental effect on mental health and thought patterns frighteningly swift. No matter what innocent excuse I dreamed up for using the platform – research, rapid news access, contributing to a push-back against our government’s crippling pandemic response – the resulting feeling remained consistently one of nauseous unease: consequence of the undignified, narcissistic creation of a totally unnecessary alter ego. I’m almost ashamed of myself.”
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/twitter-youre-welcome-to-it-mr-musk/
It enhances the propaganda image of Elon as the eccentric but trustworthy Good Guy, working for humanity’s future….
If speech is freer on twitter it won’t matter a bit, as the cage is being built round us, by Musk among others.
Twitter is just a medium and a tool, not inherently sinister: it could do good in disseminating good information, hence the censorship.
Fresh hell https://t.me/TommyRobinsonNews/35080 I reckon next we normalize peddlefailia… complete gut society
Andrew Torba of Gab on Elon Musk buying twitter:
“Unlike Mr. Musk I don’t answer to anyone outside of God almighty, especially not moneychangers.”
https://news.gab.com/2022/04/26/gab-responds-elon-buys-twitter-now-what/
“Just a few days ago Morgan Stanley was praising Elon’s Boring Company to CNBC (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/22/morgan-stanley-theorizes-how-elon-musks-tunnel-company-will-one-day-work-together-with-tesla-.html). A few weeks before that they were praising his other company Tesla (https://www.barrons.com/articles/juniper-network-stock-earnings-51651075220). Morgan Stanley owns 3.7 million Tesla shares equal to about $3.9 billion in value so it should come as no surprise to learn that they are backing Elon’s $44 billion Twitter takeover and praising every company Elon runs.
Many people wrongfully believe that Elon pulled $44 billion out of his bank account and bought Twitter, but that’s not how any of this works. Elon’s moneychanger friends financed over $20 billion of the deal (https://www.forbes.com/sites/abrambrown/2022/04/21/elon-musk-has-secured-465-billion-in-financing-for-twitter-bid-considers-tender-offer/?sh=60914c8516a4). The moneychangers don’t just throw around $20 billion for no reason.
So who really bought Twitter and who will really be in control? God only knows.
We quickly realized back in 2019 that the vast majority of people in the United States are simply not on Twitter. The first issue is that over half of Twitter’s “users” are bots (https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/05/20/859814085/researchers-nearly-half-of-accounts-tweeting-about-coronavirus-are-likely-bots). The other half are young inner-city Democrats and journalists (https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2019/04/24/sizing-up-twitter-users/), but let’s be honest these people are basically robots too.
The entire value proposition of Parler, Gettr, and Truth Social was being “not Twitter.” None of them even offer a free speech Terms of Service. In Parler’s case, they bent the knee to Apple (https://news.gab.com/2021/04/19/parler-bends-the-knee-to-big-tech/) and started censoring to get back on the App Store. In Gettr’s case, they ruined their reputation on day one by censoring right-wing political dissidents (https://trends.gab.com/item/626785091f105f6625eaf9c9). Truth Social is a disaster that uses Silicon Valley AI to censor (https://trends.gab.com/item/626785aa6e59406c283b2b8e). Its main attraction–President Donald Trump–doesn’t even use his own platform (https://trends.gab.com/item/626785726e59406c283b2b46).
I predict that Elon Musk buying Twitter will force the left to balkanize into niche platforms of shared values like the right has. We will see the Gab, Parler, and Gettr of the left pop up. I’ve been talking about the fragmentation and decentralization of social media (https://news.gab.com/2020/07/01/the-balkanization-of-social-media/) into smaller niche communities for several years now and things are about to accelerate in this area. That’s a good thing. It means Silicon Valley is losing power and fast.
Bloomberg is reporting (https://gab.com/disclosetv/posts/108194637092707517) that Twitter’s source code has now been locked down to make it harder for current employees to make unauthorized changes to the platform. This tells us that Twitter’s Board recognizes the total and complete internal meltdown that is happening right now.
We’ve seen rogue employees and contractors at Twitter before. Remember the time a random contractor, not even an employee, deactivated the account of the President of the United States (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-twitter-trump/ex-contractor-says-he-shut-trumps-twitter-account-by-accident-idUSKBN1E51WH)? Or how about the former Twitter employees who ended up being spies for Saudi Arabia (https://trends.gab.com/item/62677d6f6e59406c283b1eb3)?
The media will give Elon the Trump treatment and call him a “racist bigot nazi white supremacist hater.” They will go after all of his other businesses. There will be leaks from Twitter employees to the press constantly. The ADL and SPLC will create bogus “studies” to show how “toxic” and “harmful” Twitter is and then feed that to the press.
Today the Biden administration said they would support “reforming Section 230, enacting anti-trust reforms,” and “requiring more transparency” on social media to combat COVID-19 “misinformation.” So now Elon will have to deal with regulators, lawmakers, and the Executive branch.
Then there is the fact that Twitter is totally and completely dependent on third-party infrastructure. They will be attacked at every level of the tech stack from DNS, to hosting providers, app stores, email services, and more. Some of the top investors in Silicon Valley are already predicting this (https://twitter.com/pmarca/status/1518869056480157697?s=20&t=NpRmZlNck8JOHBe-Soa6yA), as if to say they already have these wheels in motion!”
https://news.gab.com/2022/04/26/gab-responds-elon-buys-twitter-now-what/
Priceless https://t.me/TommyRobinsonNews/35075
Covid conspiracies come true https://t.me/TheHealthForumNZch/876
Death everywhere https://t.me/TheHealthForumNZch/878
Heart issues? Too much Xanax? https://t.me/TommyRobinsonNews/35050
15yr old boy took his own life after being bullied relentlessly over his vaccination status.
https://nypost.com/2022/04/27/student-died-by-suicide-after-bullying-about-his-vaccination-status-suit/
ya https://t.me/TommyRobinsonNews/35056
nope https://t.me/TommyRobinsonNews/35062
Truth Social (also stylized as TRUTH Social) is a social media platform created by Trump Media & Technology Group, an American media and technology company founded in October 2021 by former U.S. president Donald Trump. The Truth Social platform is based on Mastodon, a free and open-source distributed social network.[1] The service is only accessible via an iPhone app,[2] and access is currently limited to users in the United States and Canada.[3] The platform has been described as a competitor in the alt-tech field that includes Parler and Gab.[4][5]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_Social
Deaths in January were a shocking 2,965 (22%) above the baseline for Australia. COVID-19 infections are being blamed but only 442 COVID deaths were recorded in January. What is the explanation for the remaining 2,443 deaths above baseline?
Data and source https://malcolmrobertsqld.com.au/shocking-death-spike-shows-something-wrong/
COVID DATA PORTAL NZ TO THE 27TH APRIL…
Some interesting things here
CASES PER 100,000 (rolling 7 day average)
Unvaccinated 63
One dose 102
Two dose 149
Booster 160 (!!!)
(this means Boosted are almost 3 times more likely to catch covid than unvaccinated. These are the same figures seen in UK by the end of March this year).
HOSPITALISATIONS PER 100,000 (rolling 7 day average)
Unvaccinated 2.3
One dose 3.2
two dose 2.7
Booster 1.7
(this means in terms of hospitalisation rates only the boosted are faring better than the unvaccinated…and not by much, only 0.6 difference. The gap between booster and unvaccinated in hospitalisation is closing week by week. This will be partly because many of those who are boosted are now into the “waning” phase of their “protection”.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-depth/450874/covid-19-data-visualisations-nz-in-numbers
Hey mike … maybe if you get a booster every month you can stay ahead of the hospitalization curve..
hahahahaha
hahahahaha https://rumble.com/v12uiln-nfl-draft-kicks-off-with-tribute-to-ukraine.html
oooohh ahhhh https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=3188281521432088
WOW:
VFF HAVE BILLBOARDS ORDERED TO BE TAKEN DOWN…
“Breaching Social Responsibility”….that’s a catch all phrase that seemingly could be used to rule against anything that does not support the Government narrative of vax for all and “safe and effective”
I posted this article only to discover that VFF themselves have stated that their billboards were removed BEFORE this ruling as their rental lease had come to an end.
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has found multiple Voices For Freedom billboards were misleading and socially irresponsible.
Complaints about three Voices For Freedom billboards were upheld and one was not in the latest round of ASA decisions, released to the public on Thursday.
A prominent anti-vaccination group, Voices For Freedom claims to be non-political and focused on free speech issues. However, they have actively campaigned against the COVID-19 vaccine, mandates and lockdowns, and have repeatedly been accused of spreading misinformation.
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The man’s image and cause of death are on billboards across the country being paid for by Voices for Freedom.
Advertising Standards Authority investigating billboard using image of man who died after COVID vaccine
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Every claim about COVID-19 made by anti-lockdown group Voices for Freedom debunked by scientists
The group’s billboards have been taken down in the past after the company that ran the advertisements heard the group was harassing people trying to get vaccines. However, this time it was the content of the ads that caused the billboards to be pulled down.
The three main issues found in the billboards were breaching social responsibility, truthful presentation and advocacy advertising.
One of the billboards ordered to be taken down showed a photo of a child wearing a face mask overlaid with the text: “Masks for kids: Safe? Effective? Yeah, Nah.”
Voices For Freedom billboards taken down after Advertising Standards Authority deems them ‘misleading and irresponsible’
Photo credit: Advertising Standards Authority
The billboard was located in Auckland, Christchurch and Wellington and received 11 complaints from people concerned the message was portraying dangerous and false information.
“The billboard showing the child presents information that I believe to be factually inaccurate. Masks have been shown worldwide to be safe and effective, including for children,” one complainant said.
“I am particularly concerned that these billboards are erected outside of work and income New Zealand/Oranga Tamariki. These are agencies to which members of extremely vulnerable populations are likely to attend in person in order to see these boards.”
The ASA said while it acknowledged the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990 protection of freedom of expression, the public health implications of the pandemic justified a higher-level approach. The authority agreed the advertisement could discourage consumers, especially children, from wearing masks.
Similarly, another billboard about the COVID vaccine for children was told not to be used again after it alleged a child was harmed by the vaccine, without evidence to back the claim.
The billboard showed a child in hospital with the text stating “Maddie de Garay/12 years old/Pfizer trial participant/Injured 2021” and “COVID VAX FOR KIDS: THE RISKS ARE REAL”.
Two people complained about the advertisement and the ASA upheld the complaints after finding there wasn’t sufficient evidence that Maddie de Garay was harmed by the vaccine and the billboard presented “selective, unsubstantiated information likely to cause fear”.
A third billboard about the COVID vaccine was upheld in part and settled in part after a person complained it was misleading.
The advertisement provided a link to CARM, a database that provides information on adverse reactions to medicines and vaccines.
“Have you reported your vaccine to CARM,” the billboard stated.
Voices For Freedom billboards taken down after Advertising Standards Authority deems them ‘misleading and irresponsible’
Photo credit: Advertising Standards Authority
The ASA found the ad misleading because it did not provide the Voice For Freedom logo or website and may lead people to think the two groups were affiliated.
All three billboards were ordered not to be used again.
However, complaints about a billboard that caused concern in February over the use of an image of a Dunedin man who died from the vaccine were not upheld, meaning no further action was taken.
Rory Nairn died in November last year, less than two weeks after receiving his first dose of the Pfizer vaccine.
The billboard shows Nairn holding a dog with the test on the image stating “Rory Nairn/26 years old/Died: 17th Nov 2021/Myocarditis after/Pfizer jab” and “COVID VAX: THE RISKS ARE REAL”.
The ASA found the advertisement reflected information reported in a statement from the Ministry of Health and did not reach the threshold to breach the social responsibility or misleading principles of the Advertising Standards Code.
It found the likely takeout from the ad is that myocarditis is a risk from the vaccine, which is a known adverse reaction to vaccines.
Health experts say the risks of myocarditis after COVID vaccination is very rare.
Where is Tiffany Dover ?
‘Social Irresponsibility’ as an offence sounds rather Maoist.
‘Give a dog a bad name before you kill it’, etc……
‘Pfizer: reward for the boss and cuts for the workers’
https://www.laverita.info/premio-al-gran-capo-pfizer-tagli-per-i-lavoratori-2657233841.html
Just like the USSR: get people to do the dirty work, then ditch them ruthlessly.
Translation of headline:
Pfizer Tagle Chief Executive Award for Workers
Bourla earned 181 times more than his subjects in 2019. After the Covid 19 vaccine he earned 262 times more than them
”Uncle Sam’s spectacular biological weapons” (in Ukraine):
excerpt:
“In other words, the Russian invasion triggered panic in the labs where these killer pathogens were being stored. Researchers had to quickly dispose of the evidence before the Russians could arrive and figure out what was going on. Lab personnel had to engage in the same, macabre ritual as a serial killer painstakingly wiping bloody fingerprints off the murder weapon before the cops arrived. In other words, they had to “cover their tracks.” At the same time, the researchers were told to place all the blame on “Russian propaganda.” (You probably already knew this).”
https://comedonchisciotte.org/le-spettacolari-armi-biologiche-dello-zio-sam/
HOLY F789 https://t.me/chiefnerd/3360
Health authorities preparing plan for Covid-19 resurgence
Health officials are drafting a plan on how the country will cope if it is hit with a new Covid-19 variant that is more infectious or severe than Omicron.
The plan could see the reintroduction of vaccine passes and QR scanning – but there is a warning public compliance could wane because of pandemic fatigue.
While the government has eased Covid-19 restrictions for now, it is keeping QR scanning and vaccine passes in reserve.
With the threat of future variants looming, health officials have been told to come up with a plan.
Associate Minister of Health Ayesha Verrall told RNZ it would outline how the government should respond if the virus mutated into something more infectious or dangerous than Omicron, that is likely to put more people in hospital.
“We need a systematic way of assessing the threat they pose and what our response should be,” Verrall said.
She anticipated the plan would set thresholds for reintroducing things like vaccine passes and QR scanning.
But those measures could become less effective in the future, she said.
“Either due to decreasing adherence to them, or because higher transmissibility viruses are more capable of escaping those interventions, whether that’s social distancing, lockdowns, or MIQ.”
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/466105/health-authorities-preparing-plan-for-covid-19-resurgence
I notice that this is with respect to New Zealand.
Good luck to those who have travelled overseas if MIQ is reinstated… it will be a long long long long time before you get a spot
I miss bucket listing … https://www.sidetracked.com/el-miedo/
Very nice places.
Sorry for my digression, but I would like to say that this is the instinct of humans to be hunter-gatherers.
Personally when I’m at home I feel good and I collect a lot of things in order to live in a comfortable way, but when sometimes I fill a backpack with the ‘absolute minimum’ and I start walking in the Countryside, I feel strangely better.
I hope to stay healthy for a while to go on walking in the Countryside.
In case some of you don’t know the story of famous man called ‘Oetzi’ who lived about 5.300 years ago (in a period of passage from hunther and gatherers and farmers):
https://www.nationalgeographic.it/storia-e-civilta/2019/11/cinque-sorprendenti-curiosita-su-otzi-luomo-venuto-dal-ghiaccio
https://www.merano-suedtirol.it/it/val-senales/natura-cultura/il-territorio-le-persone/oetzi.html
“We Are On The Precipice Of A Global Food Crisis,” Goya Foods CEO Warns
https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/we-are-precipice-global-food-crisis-goya-foods-ceo-warns
This is a very real problem! It is not making the front page of papers yet, however.
https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/ominously-denmark-halts-covid-vaccination
Disagree
This is a ploy to increase booster uptake… As the sickness explodes in Denmark we’ll get ‘I told you so’ MSM stuff – see what happens (in reality it’s vax injuries and VAIDS not the halting of boosters)…
We need to boost or we all die — like those stooopid Danes!
This is why Fast Eddy is the Messiah … HE sees what nobody else can (UEP)
Stopping getting new people “hooked” on vaccines that sort of work for shorter and shorter periods is a step in the right direction.
A different reason than COVID being under control needs to be given.
Maybe we can hope that other countries will starts stepping out in different directions. For example, the US perhaps could not approve vaccines for those under 6 years of age. Countries still act like they are under the thumb of big pharmaceutical companies.
That would require the suspension of logic and the adoption of the assumption that Covid (the flu) was not a Con from day 1 — and that the injections were purposed to kill.
It would require that we conveniently forget that they banned drugs that would defeat covid – stuffed covid infected sickies in old age homes — and blocked scientist / doctor who tried to call them out on this.
I am not ready to forget or suspend any of that….
Oh – and I would also require that we reject the fact that global production of oil has peaked… and BAU was beginning to collapse just as Covid arrived.
hahaha shit piss and drug addicts
https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/the-death-of-san-francisco
Could we get a rundown on the likelihood of newclear hollowcost [sic] in the near future?
famine, economic meldown leading to face ripping or newclear…. anyone can be the contender
nuclear war = very low probability for now.
all other types of human conflicts, conventional war, border clashes, terrrrorism, trade wars, water wars, famine, disease, disappearing jobs, poverty = increasing amounts.
hey, have a nice day!
I concur. The comment by Rodster above shows that the decider in chief is not able to decide anything. and no one will stick their necks out to push for nuclear war. incremental steps towards it, yes. but they will be easily turned into scapegoats. world security depends ultimately on neocons cowardice. fortunately, they are quite the cowards.
Announcement: The President today confued the light switch for the toilet in the White House with the nuclear attack facility in the suitcase he placed to the side but could not navigate in the dark.
The exchange lastet for 3 hours and took about 10.000 nuclear warheads.
We applogize for this unconveninency but rest assured, we did not want it and our experts say it is just a transitionary problem.
We hope you will all get over it soon.
BAU baby!!! It’s great in the U.S.A!!!
Denmark becomes the first country to halt its Covid vaccination program.
Key Points:
Denmark has become the first country to halt its Covid vaccination program, saying it is doing so because the virus has been brought under control.
“Spring has arrived, vaccine coverage in the Danish population is high, and the epidemic has reversed,” Danish Health Authority said in a statement Wednesday announcing the move.
Far from scrapping its vaccination program altogether, however, the Danish Health and Medicines Authority said there will probably be a need to vaccinate against Covid-19 again in the fall.
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/28/denmark-the-first-country-to-halt-its-covid-vaccination-program.html
One problem with that rosy prognosis is that there are more new cases and more deaths in Denmark now than there were at this time last year, and yet back then they were trying to jab every arm in sight.
This move doesn’t make if they think the vaccines are safe and effective. Why not keep jabbing away just to make sure?
https://www.google.com/search?q=covid+denmark+cases
Stopping vaccines for the season is a step in the right direction.
Maybe we can hope that other countries will starts stepping out in different directions. For example, the US perhaps could not approve vaccines for those under 6 years of age. Countries still act like they are under the thumb of big pharmaceutical companies.
Abandoning UEP? Gosh – that’s a lot of hard work being tossed in the bin … perhaps Keith’s Hail Mary worked and we’ve got a new cheap source of energy … so no need to exterminate everyone!!!
Hallelujah … Keith to the rescue!!!
Col. Richard Black: U.S. Leading World to Nuclear War
Interesting. Col. Black makes clear that USA State has no scruples whatsoever.
Of course they don’t … See The Prince… that’s the play book….
Many years ago i a conversation with friends I mentioned that ISIS is a creation of the USA.
I was completely dismissed not even wanting more evidence. Completely rejected but when you had sources (internet?) you could easily conclude that at the time (“rat line Libya”).
I thank this man for mentioning it even if it is not genuine “official”.
On the topic of westphalian peace I would say this topic is spoiled from NWO dreams.
It is possible, but has quite a bitter taste.
Same with climate change, you should adress it but not with ESG…
And many more topics. They have all been deliberately “poisoned”.
Beyond Mathematical Odds – Food, Grains, and the coming container tsunami
It is gonna be biblical
The theme for this entire piece is coming to terms with hard choices, and how some nations and politicians are, and some are not. And the massive supply shock the world is about to experience.
https://hiddencomplexity.substack.com/p/beyond-mathematical-odds-food-grains
First came the Devil Covid… and then the Starvation….. best to wreck the food supply chain just prior to the DC because the sooner the humans run out of food the less chance there is that they murder each other for what’s left.
Makes sense.. huh? Why else would they PURPOSELY destroy the supply chain?
The fake foreign trade surpluses
What the rising income from energy exports for Russia is for, when the Russian population is poor and the warmer countries reject to provide supplies for this company of Russia that operates in cold areas. Because every country is a company.
More precisely, the headquarters of this global group of companies is in the most favourable place for the development of the human civilization.
There is no such thing as no globalization. Today’s world is only partially deglobalizing, as I have read recently. The human world was always globalised. Without the globalization, there are only scattered competing companies that are dying out.
The notion of the nation based language is often based on the false view that a certain one nation rules the world, without needing the inputs from other nations.
The decision of some countries to stop in eating into a country that stops to be a profitable bussines is totally o.k.
You can not rely on an idiot who switches levers of energy supplies to its investors at his will. He (Vladimir Putin) is simply insane or not able to provide required resources because of too high costs for the supplying nation.
All of the oligarchs of Russia were happy to leave Russia and live in the so called “decadent West”. Now they can enjoy the life in the cold Russia again. The reaction of the warmer countries to the Russian aggression is irreversible: a bad investment that must be reduced or totally abandoned.
That is why we witness the suicides of the whole families of the Russian oligarchs: the bussines is failing.
Putin rocks!
almost all Western leaders are innnnsane psssycccho woketards.
many Europeans will be freezing in the dark next winter.
since Russian energy supplies are immmoral, at least the Europeans can take comfort in their “high” morals when they have “low” temps.
Russians will continue to have plenty of heating resources next winter.
Yep….’The human world was always globalised’….even when the church said it was flat, it was indeed, a globe.
Lot of ‘suicides’ due to Clinton regime. It happens.
….’who switches levers of energy supplies’…..maybe because they not paying? Previous payments swindled by Biden regime. Even decadent West understands how markets work.
Mou seem to be taking the role that Duncan Idunno use to excel in.
Go Russia!
MURA! Make Ukraine Russia Again!
Jorge Vilches explains it all (the ascent of the ruble) to you:
http://thesaker.is/the-schrodinger-euros/
RUB has rocketed exploded (war!) blasted to 72 per USD lately.
that’s happening with a background of the dollar index DXY reaching a 20 year high above 103.
meanwhile the USD and Euro are heading to parity at only $1.05 per Euro.
so the RUB is way up and the Euro is way down.
I wonder what the markets are saying to us here?
That MG is delusional and my baby son is better in economic forecasting than him. Yeah, nailed it (play barnie stinson gif here)
> That MG is delusional …
Hear, hear!
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/whistleblower-cdc-fda-altered-covid-guidance-and-suppressed-findings-amid-political
Whistleblowers: CDC, FDA “Altered” Covid Guidance And Suppressed Findings Amid Political Pressure
https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-22-104613
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-10759403/CDC-FDA-altered-Covid-guidance-pressure-bombshell-report-claims.html
Modern humans need hopium to survive. Without it, they are lost and would not survive for long. They need to have something to look forward to like better days in the future.
In the olden days a mother can have a lot of children and many of them would die before the age of 5. I am inclined to believe, based on observations and reading from history books that the mothers are strong and resilient. They will pick up and continue even if 5 out of the 10 children die. Sad she may be but life goes on and probably within days or weeks, their grief will be over. Contrast this to the fragile modern home sapiens that are born after 1980s (just an arbitrary date). They need “protection” even from the smallest thing. These cry babies are totally useless to a robust and resilient civilization. In fact, it acts a pull (negatively) to the civilization as it they subtract value (they still need to eat)
They cannot accept a scenario where there is “no future”. Just look at the melt down from Musk taking over Twitter. Seriously, what happens when collapse sets in.
In days past, we talk about renewables, right now, the choice is clear – collapse by famine? total economic melthdown? Nuclear bombs?
Take your pick. It would not be long.
I am always amazed that so many young could have been lost in childhood yet the families still produced cultural stars. Truly, Nature is profligate in her bounty.
Edward Gibbon of (ironically on this blog) “Decline and Fall of Rome” fame:
> Edward Gibbon was born in 1737, the son of Edward and Judith Gibbon at Lime Grove, in the town of Putney, Surrey. He had six siblings, five brothers and one sister, all of whom died in infancy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Gibbon
> His grandfather, also named Edward, had lost his assets as a result of the South Sea bubble stock-market collapse in 1720, but eventually regained much of his wealth. Gibbon’s father was thus able to inherit a substantial estate. One of his grandparents, Catherine Acton, descended from Sir Walter Acton, 2nd Baronet.
Fast Eddy …are you paying attention …in times past Death and Illness and poor health was BAU…and most were poor and the upper crust had their difficulties…just normal….that’s why I chuckle 🤭 …we’ve seen nothing yet
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WCApDCdIRdY
The Grim Realities of Life before Medicine
Suffering was common to all, only the rich usually escaped famines.
I restored a very fine old Bible owned by one of Scotland’s great families in the 18th century.
The owners recorded births and deaths as was customary at the back of the book.
Deaths of babies, teenagers, and 20-somethings, from fevers, TB, deaths of daughters in child-birth, etc: I think only 2 or 3 survived past 30 out of a dozen children from one couple.
“deaths of daughters in child-birth”
Hygiene and nutrition really helped.
That book (series of books) was too bloody long. Of note, he was home schooled because of illness.
Had he been exposed to the American public education system (he was not American) he life’s work would have been somewhat less ambitious. Perhaps lines for Marvel comics.
My English great-grandmother lost 3 out of her 9 children before they reached 21yrs (infectious disease, food poisoning and TB) and suffered other terrible misfortunes, but she retained her courage and faith in God – being a typical 19th century lady – until the end of a long life.
‘If I’m unhappy, it will be my own fault’ was her favourite saying. What a woman!
As New Zealand starts running out of food many children are stealing cars and ram-raiding shops for products they can then sell too get funds for food.
Such is the inflation by the time the products are sold the.money won’t buy the same amount of food.
Children are giving up on the (third rate) schools and bringing home the bacon for their hungry families.
In many cases their parents are vaccine injured and can’t work.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/ram-raid-five-youths-arrested-3-charged-after-birkenhead-burglary/4SNG77SOZ3BYQOYQKYS5P2HVUE/
Good luck to them.
They must have read Fast’s book on Mr.DNA. As the saying goes: “Whenn people lose everything and have nothing else to lose, THEY LOSE IT”
“many children”? This article mentions five “youths” aged 13-15. Who are out and about stealing cars at 3 a.m.
And their parents are vaccine injured and can’t work? So these young paragons of filial piety decide to ramraid the liquor store, having perhaps already done over a number of jewellery stores…to get a crust of bread and maybe a drop of soup for poor old granny.
I am going to assume you are pulling our legs.
> Five youths have been arrested after a North Shore bottle store was the target of a ram raid; one of many incidents in recent months which have seen thieves cause widespread damage amongst the country’s businesses.
> Eight different Michael Hill Jeweller businesses have been struck across the North Island, while Stirling Sports in Cambridge has been hit many times over several years.
> The five teenagers, aged between 13 and 15, arrived at Liquorland Birkenhead on Mokoia Rd in two different vehicles about 3am Monday morning.
> One of the stolen vehicles was used to smash their way inside, where a police spokesperson said “a quantity of alcohol” was taken before they all fled in the second vehicle.
Hundreds of the poor little blighters are doing this if you check the news. Big one in Wellington last night. Videos of the little Robin Hoods perhaps 20 of them hitting a shopping mall. Young as 10.
Granny ain’t got heating either. They trade blankets for the alcohol to adult gangs so granny doesn’t freeze (grandad died of vaccine illness).
Bless their little hearts!
All we have to do to fix this is identify the Fagins who are manipulating these precious darlings.
Or perhaps take away their meth.
Yes, new zealand’s full of twisted Oliver’s.
Bad news. Granny was cooking meth in the spare bedroom in a last ditch attempt to pay the power bill.
There was an explosion and granny is now blind.
There is no money to buy a seeing-eye dog so the kids are off tonight to hit a jewelry store in Hamilton.
Godspeed little brave hearts!!!
Very funny Kim: a friend in London unfortunately lives next to a low-life criminal family – protected in public housing – and that’s just how they are.
We are insulated from this in QT… it’s the land of perfect people… no real poverty… never seen a beggar or a street sleeper…. Council probably would incinerate them
But I’ve seen this in most other places in NZ – including the west coast and nelson surrounds.. meth rotted teeth is a sight to behold…
Here’s a video of the ‘Little Treasures Gang’ in action.
https://youtu.be/Qq5Iz9SPpE0
Vidjo? There’s vidjo? Where to watching?
I like… to watch!
Anyone got any new sri lanka or peru or lebanon riot stuff? I enjoy that
Chances are they are Maori.
NATO is making preparations to grab Transnistria, the independent Russian region in Moldova. Romanian NATO troops, nominally under Moldovan command, are to front it. Poland and Ukraine are also moving troops and equipment toward the region, presumably to participate in an invasion. Bulgaria has officially warned its citizens to leave the area.
(machine translation)
> NATO special operation called “Bloody Maya”
Earlier, the Wargonzo project reported that Romania was preparing an invasion of Transnistria and promised details.
So, our high-ranking insiders in Chisinau, who are really concerned about the security of ordinary people, report that the head of Moldova, Maia Sandu, is holding closed meetings with parliamentarians in order to convince them to publicly advocate for Moldova’s participation in hostilities against the PMR and the Russian military contingent deployed there. .
Naturally, Sandu does this not out of a personal militaristic nature, but on the orders of his immediate supervisors – German citizen Hans Martin Sieg and American political strategist Jason Smart, who act on instructions and direct instructions from NATO generals who cut up the corresponding tasks.
In the scenarios proposed by the curators, the Moldovan military themselves will allegedly participate nominally, direct participation in hostilities and their deployment, as well as further military planning, will fall on the shoulders of the Romanian Armed Forces. Thus, the NATO bloc is working out another scheme based on the “proxy” principle – the Romanians are fighting, but under the flag of Moldova. In general, according to the classics.
The reconnaissance has already been carried out, heavy weapons and manpower are being pulled together, but there is a problem – Sandu’s loyal associates, realizing the possible targeted consequences for their own persons, do not want to share with her the title of “bloody Maya” and the fate of the comedian Zelensky’s team, which, as we all understand, long ago decided.
The Moldavian deputies, due to their historical nature, understand this even better than you and me and are definitely not such ideological warriors as to put their lives on the line. However, they are not going to just leave them. Sandu has already informed the curators about who specifically refuses to meet the NATO initiatives, and the Sibovtsy and the Romanian special services are starting to work with the people’s representatives. By exerting pressure in all conceivable, and sometimes inconceivable ways. A kind of 37-year in Moldavian.
Where all this will lead is anyone’s guess. At the same time, I really want to believe that the people of Moldova will have enough wisdom and strength to prevent that the government chosen by ordinary people has drawn the country into a bloody and fratricidal war. Otherwise, it will be a disaster for the entire region. There are enough examples.
https://zen.yandex.ru/media/wargonzoya/specoperaciia-nato-pod-nazvaniem-krovavaia-maiia-626abccc35423263458fed48
Ukrainian elements shot up the ministry building in the Transnistrian capital Tiraspol with rocket-propelled grenade launchers on Monday. Video:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/ydX1GZlR9PY6/
Ukrainian elements took out radio masts in Transnistria with explosives on Tuesday.
The conflict spreads!
Just what the Neocons in Washington were hoping for. Light another bag of dog poop on Putin’s front door.
Romanian forces are moving toward the Ukrainian border area near Transnistria ‘for planned exercises’. Video:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/g9WHPYB5PcZv/
A thought just dawned on me. (Doh!) It seems that having divided these countries up, i.e., “Balkinizing” them, it makes it easier to use them as stepping stones to incrementally invade other countries- first through political destabilization,followed by proxy war. It works both ways I guess no matter which “side” you are on. I have to look on Google earth 5 times a day to keep track of all these countries. All I know is that a lot of young men’s lives from both sides, Ukranian and Russian, are being wasted, leaving distraught families. I feel especially for the conscripts. OK, maybe no sympathy for the Azovs and foreign mercaneries.
I remember when I turned 18 in 1972 and had to go register for the selective service. I had absolutely no F-ing idea what was going on- about anything- war, politics,the FED. I was just a rich spoiled comfortable New England college kid. But Vietnam was winding down, and my number was 254. But to think, if had been 5 years older, it could have been death by lottery. How I have changed! Angry as hell, and armed to the teeth.
Calm and contemptuous and armed to the teeth (within legal limits!) is even more satisfying and less stressful…..
Moldova was a country which had no reason to exist.
Same reason Greece was not allowed to annex Cyprus , ‘to protect the rights of the minority’.
Well, now, minority rights will be a dead luxury.
Wow!
Thank you Mirror
Poland plans to grab land in the west of Ukraine.
> Poland has secret plan for Ukraine, Moscow claims
Intelligence obtained by Russia suggests that Poland and the US are working on a plan for Warsaw to regain control of Ukrainian areas that Warsaw considers as “historically belonging” to it, Moscow’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) chief Sergey Naryshkin has said.
According to the alleged plan, the first stage of this “reunification” will see Polish “peacekeepers” deployed in western Ukraine under the pretext of “protection from Russian aggression,” Naryshkin outlined in a statement on Thursday.
The details of the operation are now being discussed between Warsaw and the US government, he claimed, adding that the operation is designed to be executed without a NATO mandate, and only volunteer states taking part.
Warsaw has so far been unable to find any other nations to join its cause, he added. But the Polish authorities are unconcerned by this, as they want to minimize the number of “unnecessary witnesses” to their actions, Naryshkin said.
Despite their publicly declared goal of countering Moscow, the Polish troops would be deployed in parts of Ukraine where they’ll have almost no chance of engaging Russian forces, he explained.
According to Russian data, the actual “tactical objective” of the Polish troops will be taking control of strategic facilities from the Ukrainian National Guard. Poland’s intelligence services are apparently now searching for “reliable” members of the Kiev elite, who would be willing to form a pro-Warsaw counterbalance to Ukrainian nationalists.
The Polish government assumes that entrenching its forces in western Ukraine would, with a high probability, lead to the split of the country, he claimed. In this case, control over the territories where the peacekeepers are set to be deployed would remain in the hands of Warsaw, the spy chief continued.
The plan appears to be an attempt, he pointed out, to repeat an historic deal that was struck after World War I and saw Western nations accept Warsaw’s right to occupy, in the first instance, parts of Ukraine to protect its people from the “Bolshevik threat” and, later, to include those areas into the Polish state.
Ukraine’s western frontiers were last redrawn after World War II when Poland agreed to part with the Eastern Galicia region and most of Volhynia, which were incorporated into the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. Warsaw was compensated with land which had previously been part of Germany, most notably gaining the port city of Gdansk (Danzig).
https://www.rt.com/russia/554671-poland-ukraine-spy-split/
So much for Ukrainian ‘sovereignty’ and ‘how much’ NATO cares about that. Of course, there will be no massive sanctions for Poland. Transparent.
“Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them… well, I have others.”
NATO has no ‘principles’ whatsoever. All that the West cares about is the expansion of its own power, like against Russia.
So, according to Russia, Poland will do its own invasion of Ukraine to get land back in the west of Ukraine.
What is there in the west of Ukraine? Farmland?
It would extend NATO land, bases and equipment closer to Russia. It raises the question of whether Russia will tolerate that or if it will seek to demilitarise the area as part of a ‘buffer zone’, between it and NATO, like in east Ukraine. It is another potential point of conflict.
Good point!
Lvov.
I take this report with a grain of salt as it comes from the Ruskies and there is a war on.
However, I would like to note that when Germany Invaded Czechoslovakia in 1939 and absorbed Bohemia and Moravia, creating “an independent” protectorate in Slovakia, Poland occupied and annexed an area of 801.5 km2 with a population of 227,399 people known as Zaolzie or Trans-Olza Silesia, which was largely Polish speaking, with the permission of the collapsing Czech (some say) to stop it from falling into German hands.
The area is Czech now. The population was mostly Polish before WW1 and has been mostly Czech since then, The German population was totally ethnically cleansed in 1945 and in the postwar years a sizable Slovak population became established.
Interesting history of a small “backwater” of Mitteleuropa.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Olza#Since_1945
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Olza#Since_1945
Ask this question of a Bitcoiner and you might receive a face full of jargon like “hash” and “nonce”, which is a Bitcoiner’s way of telling you how smart they are. But even the attempts at simple explanation have not yet settled to the economically optimal. The Investopedia explanation is a common one:
Bitcoin mining is the process by which new bitcoins are entered into circulation. It is also the way the network confirms new transactions and is a critical component of the blockchain ledger’s maintenance and development. “Mining” is performed using sophisticated hardware that solves an extremely complex computational math problem. The first computer to find the solution to the problem receives the next block of bitcoins and the process begins again.
I recall first hearing about how miners “solved complex computational math problems” and thinking this had something to do with factoring massive integers into large primes or performing operations associated with elliptic curves. These are the computations associated with the “trap door functions” (easier to compute one way than in reverse) that allow for the most common forms of modern cryptography. And while Bitcoin uses a modern form of cryptographic protection known as SHA-256, you can understand the basic idea of mining without knowing anything at all about the mathematics of cryptography.
https://roundingtheearth.substack.com/p/bitcoin-beginners-mining-is-a-lottery
I recommend for the FWOT (future warlords of tomorrow) to create a new “crypto currence” based on how much you can burn energy. Same concept, just cut out the middle man. We should really just use ashes as a currency.
It is hard to understand what future value a crypto currency has. It burned energy when it was created. That energy is no longer available. It has no particular claim on any other future energy yet to be “dissipated.”
Well said. Lately, I’ve been feeling a bit like crypto currency myself.
It was of course tongue and cheek – but my suspicion has been that gold worked as a currency in the past because it took a lot of energy to mine and produce – thus signifying a strong/growing nation. This is in addition to other practical factors such as being shiny and long-lasting.
A nation that no longer had enough surplus energy couldn’t really produce more gold, among other things.
So, to your point Gail, the idea of “claim on future energy” would in this sense just be an extrapolation from past results. The u.s. dollar seems to me to be in this situation in some ways.
Also all new “transaction blocks” aka “send money” need to encrypted with the key obtained at the current hash rate = use a lot of energy!
I mean in principle it is anticipated that the hash rate will go down after al coins have been mined because it will no longer be profitable.
“Go down because no longer profitable” meaning cease to exist?
I dunno the current price of a bitcoin transaction but I bet it is very costly in money and energy terms.
Hey norm mike — does any of this make you pause for thought…
On one hand we can see that there is a near perfect correlation between injections and excess deaths… https://www.headsupster.com/forumthread?shortId=1621
The injections are killing huge numbers of people… far more than die from Covid (remember covid is nearly 100% survivable without treatment)….
Yet if a doctor says anything .. anything at all… that might be considered anti covid vax… if he/she were to show that link above (data comes from the health agencies of all the countries!)… the doctor ends up on the street – jobless… broke (at least Sam Bailey can get a pole dancing gig… the others are not so fortunate)…
Doctors Could Be Struck Off For Questioning Government Line on Lockdowns and Vaccines Under New Guidance https://dailysceptic.org/2022/04/27/doctors-could-be-struck-off-for-questioning-government-line-on-lockdowns-and-vaccines-under-new-guidance/
How deep is the mass psychosis in both of you .. are you in the say 50% who are rabid Pro Cov Vaxxers … are on you in the middle group say 40% who just go with the majority cuz you are feeble minded and just want to get along (no harm done…) ….
Surely if you are not in the hard core MOREON Group who – even if experienced a vicious side-effect would want to take more boosters and would definitely recommend a 1 yr old get the jab….
Then you look at the above …and you have a WTF moment.
What is is norm mike — where do you stand?
Where do they stand?
Nowhere. In my humble opinion, they really haven’t got a leg to stand on.
Every week (as you know well, although many people don’t) Mark Crispin Miller is publishing lists of news reports on mostly supposedly healthy people who have died suddenly, unexpectedly and inexplicably over the last week. These lists make absolutely shocking reading.
The reader must feel like the gawkers who gather around the scene of a disaster, knowing it is unseemly to do so, but attracted to the tragedy out of a mixture of curiosity and ghoulishness.
This is this week’s list for Europe. There are other lists for the US (parts 1 & 2 because there are so many of the), the rest of the Americas, and the rest of the world.
https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/in-memory-of-those-who-died-suddenly-c52?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo1OTA5ODEwNSwicG9zdF9pZCI6NTI5Njk4ODksIl8iOiI1V1J1aCIsImlhdCI6MTY1MTE5MTQwMSwiZXhwIjoxNjUxMTk1MDAxLCJpc3MiOiJwdWItMzgzMDg1Iiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.rg69wVmUeHMFrkoK0hnadL2oziIOAhBg8iaPDyHl3rU&s=r
My mate from hockey with the Pfizer heart is not spoken of at the ice rink …
I popped by to see him in his lair yesterday to drop off some stuff from the garden (it’s a rather grim existence – zero improvement – in fact he mentioned new symptoms yesterday – dizziness in the middle of the night… he almost never leaves his apartment so in in their all day on his own till his partner finishes work… going on 6 months like that now)…
I mentioned to a couple of guys at the rink that I’d visited — nobody asked how’s he doing. Nothing.
It’s like some dark dirty family secret that must remain unspoken.
Moving on to other thoughts.. I was biking this morning and it occurred to me — all humans are psychopaths… you know how people accuse neocons of that… well we are no different.
If you eat meat, eggs, cheese — use shampoo – makeup – soap — if you have ever had a medical procedure or used medication … (I think we’ve got everyone covered)…. then animal suffering and death was involved. Often extremely horrible suffering…
We all know it – but do we get upset about it? Nope. We justify it by insisting it’s necessary — yes shampoo that does not sting the eyes is necessary so we need to first test it on the animals prying their eyes open and sloshing it in … then there are those Fauci dog experiments.. oh well…
Now we know what neocon feels like. They don’t do anything nearly has horrible as what we do to animals — all they do is conduct war — that kills some folks.. wounds some — but why would they give a f789 — humans are just faceless animals…
It’s not as if they know any of these people….
Would it not be different if Fauci experimented on YOUR dog??? You betcha!
We are all neocons now hahahaha..
Truth.
I don’t agree with that. Life eats life. Cruelty is another matter. If you enjoy the killing then that is different. I understand and agree with your disgust of industrial farming and animal testing.
Perhaps though some animals do like killing – chimps, orcas, cats, dogs, dolphins just to name a few. Perhaps everything is a psychopath.
It is an interesting question. The way that I see it is as follows.
Species evolve affects (like emotional states), through natural selection, that facilitate its survival, and that includes the ‘enjoyment’ of killing, which is foundational to the survival of very many species. Their enjoyment is ‘good’ (for them) in so far as it disposes them to perform acts that satisfy their organic drives.
It could also be argued that the conscious affects of animals (including humans) are epiphenomenal and they are a reflection of the physiological well-orderedness, the healthy instincts and constitution of the animal, in regard to the acts that satisfy its drives. In any case, they are indicative of their disposition to instinctive acts.
Obviously, ‘good and evil’ are imaginary and I am using those terms in an ironic sense. The acts of an animal have no ‘meaning’ beyond the scope of its satisfaction of its organic drives. It is ‘good’ for the animal to enjoy killing in the same sense that the animal is simply well-disposed to perform acts that satisfy its drives.
Animals (and humans) have evolved affects of sympathy in so far as they contribute to their social life and thus to their survival. Arguably human sympathy for animals is simply a disorder of the affects, or else it disposes humans to somewhat care for animals that are useful to it. Animal husbandry has been used for about 15,000 years, so the latter is possible.
Yes, good and evil do not apply to animals maybe. But as we humans can diffenernciate between “harm to another sentient beings” or no harm and we can also communicate it to others so they can also “understand” it, good and evil for humans applies.
Yes there is a machine at work, you may call it evolution as to make you indifferent about your harms you apply. I call it logos and I am not indifferent.
But in the long run, you are right it makes no difference.
Killing in the end is the more successful evolutionary strategy because the killed remain where they are. The survivors inherit the earth.
So long as I have tear-free shampoo I don’t care if we had to pry open the eyes of monkeys to get it that way.
To remain consistent — if we have to pry open the eyes of children to test the shampoo let’s do it.
As long as I don’t know them I feel nothing
The thing is…
My point was that there are those that refer to neocons etc… as psychopaths… at least they kill and maim to keep their country on top…
We kill and maim and torture — for shampoo hahahahahaha
Who’s the villain here? If there is such a thing
The difference between you and I, on this subject, is very likely simply that you ‘believe’ in an imaginary ‘moral world’ and I do not. No one in our modern civilisation pretends that a moral world can be demonstrated. We live in a post-moral world.
Of course societies still try to socialise people into a ‘belief’ in that because it supposedly makes it easier to control people and to shape them in ways that are useful to society.
But vast swathes of society do not ‘believe’ in a moral world, and they still function perfectly well. There does not seem to be any evidence that ‘beliefs’ affect behaviour, at least in terms of crime stats. So, there is no need to personalise the discussion.
For the fun of it, you believe in moral relativism. So belief makes no difference in principle.
If it was available, I wanted to live in a society adhering to a morality of “do no harm”. If I “believe” in it would not matter a lot. The outcome would be my goal.
I am not sure that it is correct to say that I ‘believe’ in a relativity of morals. Rather the variety of morals, and their accordance with time and place, and with the material and social conditions of life, is largely factual. The point is that I do not ‘believe’ that there are moral facts independent of culture, nor that they become actually ‘imperative’ by culture. That is simply not what morals are. They simply help society to function.
A society without harm is imaginary, one neither exists nor is it possible. ‘Harm’ would have to be defined, in any case, and it would be a matter of making up ‘principles’ to allow for its existence. Arguably wage-labour is ‘harm’ in that surplus profit is made from one’s labour. Or if ‘harm’ is defined in the sense that nothing at all is given in return, then even murder spares the victim from further suffering in life. It is all made up nonsense, like any moral ‘principles’.
People simply have to ‘balls up’, accept the world the way that it is, and live in the society in which they live. Or they can move, if that is possible. Some used to resort to caves in the desert to pursue the ‘pure life’. Whether you could convince locals of your ‘holiness’, and get them to feed you, in their charity, these days, is another matter. MENA is mainly Islamic now, and they do not really go in for that sort of thing. There may be somewhere else, these days that would go for that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simeon_Stylites
Orcas do not torture other animals …
If they did then we’d put a bounty on them and kill every last one of them
But humans torture animals (many millions are being tortured and kept in the most horrific gulags waiting to be butchered and fed to all of us right this minute)… do we kill the industrial famers?
Do we kill the scientists? Nah — we happily allow the torture to happen so we can have shampoo that does not irritate our eyes… and enough food to feed 8B ravenous beasts.
We are complicit – but it does not bother us — we justify it. But make no mistake – this is psychopathic behaviour.
The thinking is the exact same as that of the neocons — they justify what they do for exactly the same reasons (although they do not send men off to die for shampoo….)
Psychopathy is defined as a disorder of social behaviour not as inter-species behaviour. You are likely proceeding from a morality that has no real foundation in psychology or in reality. The psychiatric category that you are using does not actually exist. You have simply misunderstood the category, and likely all of the reasoning around it.
How convenient …
Do you mind if I skin your dog alive — then roast it and eat it? Do you think I have something wrong with me if I could do that without feeling?
BTW – if I was given the choice of skinning a MOREON alive – or Hoolio … without question – I’d skin the MOREON… how do we define that?
I see Hoolio as my son … I am so proud of him – he could be the 100m champion – easily
You seem to be using ‘torture’ in a very free, undefined way. The scientists that you impugn are involved in practical activity to which suffering is a side effect and not the aim of the activity. Classically, ‘torture’ is a practical activity anyway, for all of the same reasons that punishment generally is used.
But if you are you talking about the inflicting of suffering ‘just for fun’ or whatever, then there are loads of animals that are known to do that. It is not evidently in any way a disordered act that implies any kind of psychological or ‘moral’ disorder. There is nothing unnatural or ‘wrong’ with ‘torture’.
We have simply constructed societies in which we try to avoid suffering for fun, for our own benefit. The human disdain of the torture of humans is purely for human benefit, nothing else. On the other hand, society does use imposed suffering, like imprisonment in small cells for years. It is all about what helps society to function. Basic instincts like cruelty are sublimated into socially useful forms.
> 11 Animals That Kill For No Perceivable Reason
It’s often said that man is the only animal that kills for fun, but that’s not true. Animals that thrill kill are fairly common, and scientists call the behavior “surplus killing.” Animals that kill for no reason are usually mammals, but include a wide range of sizes, from tiny stoats to towering elephants. So, which animals kill for sport, and how do they do it? The subject is just as fascinating as it is horrifying.
Over centuries of study, scientists have seen animals use tools like humans and animals use disguises like humans, and now we know that they sometimes kill for fun like humans, too. By fun, we mean they don’t do it over territorial disputes, in self-defense, to get food, or to move up in the pack hierarchy. Instead, these animals kill for seemingly no reason at all other than enjoyment.
1. Bottlenose Dolphins Enjoy Causing Other Animals’ Painful Deaths…..
https://www.ranker.com/list/animals-that-hunt-for-sport/laura-allan
There ain’t nuthin like humans… so a white shark flings a seal in the air before munching it..
What animal does this? https://www.rt.com/usa/538654-fauci-experiments-beagle-freedom-project/
Or this https://youtu.be/JYVaEqoobCU
And then this just dropped – how do you feel when you read this? I feel nothing – just chickens…cuz I am like you – a psychopath
US egg factory roasts alive 5.3m chickens in avian flu cull – then fires almost every worker
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/apr/28/egg-factory-avian-flu-chickens-culled-workers-fired-iowa
https://youtu.be/bk1VdQxeTn4?t=154
Poor old Norman will never address such ethical questions. One wonders why?
The GMC is now demonstrably utterly corrupt. Perhaps not a great surprise, but dismaying to read nonetheless.
Notice how norm and particularly mike remain silent on this data https://www.headsupster.com/forumthread?shortId=1621
High vax countries = massive excess death
Low vax countries = no excess death
mike?? mike???? your thoughts…
hahahahahahaha
Or are you joining dunc in the junk heap of discredited fools… and no longer commenting?
New York, who the hell would live in New York? Is Hochul insane? “Bronx teen who was let out of jail only to allegedly commit murder is out again”; let out, murdered someone, let out again????????????
New York is insane…so let me see if I understand this situation, this person was in jail, let out, committed murder, then let out again? why would he be let out? Who the hell wants to live in NY?
https://palexander.substack.com/p/new-york-who-the-hell-would-live
Aimed at destroying the fabric and stability of society to further confuse the MOREONS
#defundthepolice
if you watch this you will not only see excess deaths exploding and tracking injection rates… but you will see countries with very low vax rates experiencing no excess deaths.
why?
https://metatron.substack.com/p/covid-requiem-aeternam?s=r
Enjoy the sound track.
Ken Follett wrote a dime novel called The Man from St. Petersburg.
tl, dr, it is a 1914 espionage novel in which an agent tries to kill some Russian diplomat in London to break the Anglo-Russian alliance and keep Russia out of war.
The heroine , a Russian who married some English aristo, tries to prevent it . Long story sort, she succeeds persuading the man to stop because she convinced her daughter, being raised as a fine English lady, is actually the agent’s daughter. He kills himself , Winston Churchill buries the plan and Russia jumps into the Great war, fucking up both the German Empire and itself.
Hey , Ken, if he succeeded Great Britain would still own India and mankind would be closer to Singularity.
And the British patriots still think what they did was great when I judge what they did back then probably will keep mankind from reaching Type I Civilization (space conquest and all that.).
We will all be ruined by 2050, and we wasted too many years because too many peoples were empowered through the Great War which led to their independences after WW2 and their massive consumption, which will keep mankind from reaching Singualrity.
Closer to Singularity
What’s this referring to?
A) AI expansion, automation and mechanisation (robotics) to provide work (therefore energy or manpower) and both substitute limited FF resources and provide a basis for a new way to build a ‘more sustainable economy’ based on machine labour.
B) falling across an event horizon and being spaghettified by an actual singularity. 🤣
We’re creating the causes and conditions for the latter at the moment.
My idea of Singularity is mankind entering a new phase because of enhanced AI advancement and no longer dependent upon FF, although there will be a bottleneck which will screen out those who do not belong.
I have hoped it would be possible to make such a transition. there is significant fear of AI within society particularly of autonomous machines/robot/drones
AI could do many things for or against us organics.
It just depends on who is controlling the code.
It quickly becomes a them or us scenario
Before you know it it’s scrap those toasters
Humans fear AI and AI sentience too much.
The perceived fear of lost labour, independence and the military applications are not without merit.
I do not see those controlling the code to have too much mercy on the rest since the latter always tried to undermine the progress of AI by citing the reasons you have pointed out.
We fear AI because we rightly mistrust our fellow humans.
The events of the last two years have show how even those in supposedly benevolent professions, guided by high ethical codes, can be cowards, corrupt and killers.
> Pepe Escobar and Danny Haiphong; Russia, China, and the Post-Dollar World
Somewhere near the beginning, Pepe Escobar talks about Russia being able to base its currency on a basket of commodities it produces, including energy. I imagine this is, in his view, the new currency of the world.
I’m not sure that this works. Russia can’t get its resources out, and transport them to where they are needed, inexpensively enough to make the whole system work.
Great article about John Kempf and his regenerative agriculture company.
https://agfundernews.com/regenerative-agriculture-business-advancing-eco-agriculture-raises-4-7m-john-kempf?utm_medium=email&_hsmi=211450069&utm_content=211450069&utm_source=hs_email
Didn’t read it Hill, if it made money it would be used; a guess is something like solar, solar can’t make solar.
Dennis L.
Great link.
Very impressive.
I had not heard of Kempf.
Love the “Amish” logo!
This sounds very “high tech” to me:
“AEA analyzes the health of farmers’ crops mainly through plant sap analysis”
“AEA also utilizes soil microbiome analysis, and several types of soil nutritional testing to accurately evaluate a soil’s capacity to deliver nutrients and suppress potential pathogens. Growers commonly reduce fertilizer applications by as much as 30-40% while maintaining or increasing yields, as a result of deeper agronomic insights.”
All of this involves a very high-tech society, utilizing international trade and training many people to a high level of expertise.
We are not headed in this direction.
A hundred years ago, or less in many places in Europe, farmers judged when it was the right time to sow by taking their trousers down and testing the soil temperature with their bare bottoms.
My father told me that our family was known for being able to predict weather by holding out our hands and ‘feeling’ the air. I passed his test, my cousin didn’t.
That, if anyone survives, is where mankind is heading.