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The years between 1981 and 2020 were very special years for the world economy because interest rates were generally falling:
In some sense, falling interest rates meant that debt was becoming increasingly affordable. The monthly out-of-pocket expense for a new $500,000 mortgage was falling lower and lower. Automobile payments for a new $30,000 vehicle could more easily be accommodated into a person’s budget. A business would find it more affordable to add $5,000,000 in new debt to open at an additional location. With these beneficial effects, it would be no surprise if a debt bubble were to form.
With an ever-lower cost of debt, the economy has had a hidden tailwind pushing it long between 1981 to 2020. Now that interest rates are again rising, the danger is that a substantial portion of this debt bubble may collapse. My concern is that the economy may be heading for an incredibly hard landing because of the inter-relationship between interest rates and energy prices (Figure 2), and the important role energy plays in powering the economy.
In this post, I will try to explain my concerns.
[1] Ever since civilization began, a combination of (a) energy consumption and (b) debt has been required to power the economy.
Under the laws of physics, energy is required to power the economy. This happens because it takes the “dissipation” of energy to perform any activity that contributes to GDP. The energy dissipated can be the food energy that a person eats, or it can be wood or coal or another material burned to provide energy. Sometimes the energy dissipated is in the form of electricity. Looking back, we can see the close relationship between total energy consumption and world total GDP.
The need for debt or some other approach that acts as a funding mechanism for capital expenditures (sale of shares of stock, for example), comes from the fact that humans make investments that will not produce a return for many years. For example, ever since civilization began, people have been planting crops. In some cases, there is a delay of a few months before a crop is produced; in other cases, such as with fruit or nut trees, there can be a delay of years before the investment pays back. Even the purchase by an individual of a home or a vehicle is, in a sense, an investment that will offer a return over a period of years.
With all parts of the economy benefiting from the lower interest rates (except, perhaps, banks and others lending the funds, who are making less profit from the lower interest rates), it is easy to see why lower interest rates would tend to stimulate new investment and drive up demand for commodities.
Commodities are used in great quantity, but the supply available at any one time is tiny by comparison. A sudden increase in demand will tend to send the commodity price higher because the quantity of the commodity available will need to be rationed among more would-be purchasers. A sudden decrease in the demand for a commodity (for example, crude oil, or wheat) will tend to send prices lower. Therefore, we see the strange sharp corners in Figure 2 that seem to be related to changing debt levels and higher or lower interest rates.
[2] The current plan of central banks is to raise interest rates aggressively. My concern is that this approach will leave commodity prices too low for producers. They will be tempted to decrease or stop production.
Politicians are concerned about the price of food and fuel being too high for consumers. Lenders are concerned about interest rates being too low to properly compensate for the loss of value of their investments due to inflation. The plan, which is already being implemented in the United States, is to raise interest rates and to significantly reverse Quantitative Easing (QE). Some people call the latter Quantitative Tightening (QT).
The concern that I have is that aggressively raising interest rates and reversing QE will lead to commodity prices that are too low for producers. There are likely to be many other impacts as well, such as the following:
- Lower energy supply, due to cutbacks in production and lack of new investment
- Lower food supply, due to inadequate fertilizer and broken supply lines
- Much defaulting of debt
- Pension plans that reduce or stop payments because of debt-related problems
- Falling prices of stock
- Defaults on derivatives
[3] My analysis shows how important increased energy consumption has been to economic growth over the last 200 years. Energy consumption per capita has been growing during this entire period, except during times of serious economic distress.
Figure 4 shows the amazing growth in world energy consumption between 1820 and 2010. In the early part of the period, the energy used was mostly wood burned as fuel. In some parts of the world, animal dung was also used as fuel. Gradually, other fuels were added to the mix.
Figure 5 takes the same information shown in Figure 4 and calculates the average approximate annual increase in world energy consumption over 10-year periods. A person can see from this chart that the periods from 1951-1960 and from 1961-1970 were outliers on the high side. This was the time of rebuilding after World War II. Many families were able to own a car for the first time. The US highway interstate system was begun. Many pipelines and electricity transmission lines were built. This building continued into the 1971-1980 period.
Figure 6 displays the same information as Figure 5, except that each column is divided into two pieces. The lower (blue) portion represents the average annual growth in population during each period. The part left over at the top (in red) represents the growth in energy consumption that was available for increases in standard of living.
Figure 7 shows the same information as Figure 6, displayed as an area chart. I have also shown some of the distressing events that happened when growth in population was, in effect, taking up essentially all of energy consumption growth. The world economy could not grow normally. There was a tendency toward conflict. Unusual events would happen during these periods, including the collapse of the central government of the Soviet Union and the restrictions associated with the COVID pandemic.
The economy is a self-organizing system that behaves strangely when there is not enough inexpensive energy of the right types available to the system. Wars tend to start. Layers of government may disappear. Strange lockdowns may occur, such as the current restrictions in China.
[4] The energy situation at the time of rising interest rates in the 1960 to 1980 period was very different from today.
If we define years with high inflation rates as those with inflation rates of 5% or higher, Figure 8 shows that the period with high US inflation rates included nearly all the years from 1969 through 1982. Using a 5% inflation cutoff, the year 2021 would not qualify as a high inflation rate year.
It is only when we look at annualized quarterly data that inflation rates start spiking to high levels. Inflation rates have been above 5% in each of the four quarters ended 2022-Q1. Trade problems related to the Ukraine Conflict have tended to add to price pressures recently.
Underlying these price spikes are increases in the prices of many commodities. Some of this represents a bounce back from artificially low prices that began in late 2014, probably related to the discontinuation of US QE3 (See Figure 2). These prices were far too low for producers. Coal and natural gas prices have also needed to rise, as a result of depletion and prior low prices. Food prices are also rising rapidly, since food is grown and transported using considerable quantities of fossil fuels.
The main differences between that period leading up to 1980 and now are the following:
[a] The big problem in the 1970s was spiking crude oil prices. Now, our problems seem to be spiking crude oil, natural gas and coal prices. In fact, nuclear power may also be a problem because a significant portion of uranium processing is performed in Russia. Thus, we now seem to be verging on losing nearly all our energy supplies to conflict or high prices!
[b] In the 1970s, there were many solutions to the crude oil problem, which were easily implemented. Electricity production could be switched from crude oil to coal or nuclear, with little problem, apart from building the new infrastructure. US cars were very large and fuel inefficient in the early 1970s. These could be replaced with smaller, more fuel-efficient vehicles that were already being manufactured in Europe and Japan. Home heating could be transferred to natural gas or propane, to save crude oil for places where energy density was really needed.
Today, we are told that a transition to green energy is a solution. Unfortunately, this is mostly wishful thinking. At best, a transition to green energy will need a huge investment of fossil fuels (which are increasingly unavailable) over a period of at least 30 to 50 years if it is to be successful. See my article, Limits to Green Energy Are Becoming Much Clearer. Vaclav Smil, in his book Energy Transitions: History, Requirements and Prospects, discusses the need for very long transitions because energy supply needs to match the devices using it. Furthermore, new energy types are generally only add-ons to other supply, not replacements for those supplies.
[c] The types of economic growth in (a) the 1960 to 1980 period and (b) the period since 2008 are very different. In the earlier of these periods (especially prior to 1973), it was easy to extract oil, coal and natural gas inexpensively. Inflation-adjusted oil prices of less than $20 per barrel were typical. An ever-increasing supply of this oil seemed to be available. New machines (created with fossil fuels) made workers increasingly efficient. The economy tended to “overheat” if interest rates were not repeatedly raised (Figure 1). While higher interest rates could be expected to slow the economy, this was of little concern because rapid growth seemed to be inevitable. The supply of finished goods and services made by the economy was growing rapidly, even with headwinds from the higher interest rates.
On the other hand, in the 2008 to 2020 period, economic growth is largely the result of financial manipulation. The system has been flooded with increasing amounts of debt at ever lower interest rates. By the time of the lockdowns of 2020, would-be workers were being paid for doing nothing. World production of finished goods and services declined in 2020, and it has had difficulty rising since. In the first quarter of 2022, the US economy contracted by -1.4%. If headwinds from higher interest rates and QT are added, the economic system is likely to encounter substantial debt defaults and increasing breakdowns of supply lines.
[5] Today’s spiking energy prices appear to be much more closely related to the problems of the 1913 to 1945 era than they are to the problems of the late 1970s.
Looking back at Figure 7, our current period is more like the period between the two world wars than the period in the 1970s that we often associate with high inflation. In both periods, the “red” portion of the chart (the portion I identify with rising standard of living), has pretty much disappeared. In both the 1913 to 1945 period and today, it is nearly all the energy supplies other than biofuels that are disappearing.
In the 1913 to 1945 period, the problem was coal. Mines were becoming increasingly depleted, but raising coal prices to pay for the higher cost of extracting coal from depleted mines tended to make the coal prohibitively expensive. Mine operators tried to reduce wages, but this was not a solution either. Fighting broke out among countries, almost certainly related to inadequate coal supplies. Countries wanted coal to supply to their citizens so that industry could continue, and so that citizens could continue heating their homes.
As stated at the beginning of this section, today’s problem is that nearly all our energy supplies are becoming unaffordable. In some sense, wind and solar may look better, but this is because of mandates and subsidies. They are not suitable for operating the world economy within any reasonable time frame.
There are other parallels to the 1913 to 1945 period. One of the big problems of the 1930s was prices that would not rise high enough for farmers to make a profit. Oil prices in the United States were extraordinarily low then. BP 2021 Statistical Review of World Energy reports that the average oil price in 1931, in 2020 US$, was $11.08. This is the lowest inflation-adjusted price of any year back to 1865. Such a price was almost certainly too low for producers to make a profit. Low prices, relative to rising costs, have recently been problems for both farmers and oil producers.
Another major problem of the 1930s was huge income disparity. Wide income disparity is again an issue today, thanks to increased specialization. Competition with unskilled workers in low wage countries is also an issue.
It is important to note that the big problem of the 1930s was deflation rather than inflation, as the debt bubble started popping in 1929.
[6] If a person looks only at the outcome of raising interest rates in the 1960s to 1980 timeframe, it is easy to get a misleading idea of the impact of increased interest rates now.
If people look only at what happened in the 1980s, the longer-term impact of the spike in interest rates doesn’t seem too severe. The world economy was growing well before the interest rates were raised. After the peak in interest rates, the world economy generally continued to grow. As a result of the high oil prices and the spiking interest rates, the world hastened its transition to using a bit less crude oil per person.
At the same time, the world economy was able to expand the use of other energy products, at least through 2018.
Since 2019, our problem has been that the total energy supply has not been keeping up with the rising population. The cost of extraction of all kinds of oil, coal and natural gas keeps rising due to depletion, but the ability of customers to afford the higher prices of finished goods and services made with those energy products does not rise to match these higher costs. Energy prices probably would have spiked in 2020 if it were not for COVID-related restrictions. Production of oil, coal and natural gas has not been able to rise sufficiently after the lockdowns for economies to fully re-open. This is the primary reason for the recent spiking of energy prices.
Turning to inflation rates, the relationship between higher interest rates (Figure 1) and annual inflation rates (Figure 8) is surprisingly not very close. Inflation rates rose during the 1960 to 1973 period despite rising interest rates, mostly likely because of the rapid growth of the economy from an increased per-capita supply of inexpensive energy.
Figure 8 shows that inflation rates did not come down immediately after interest rates were raised to a high level in 1980, either. There was a decline in the inflation rate to 4% in 1983, but it was not until the collapse of the central government of the Soviet Union in 1991 that inflation rates have tended to stay close to 2% per year.
[7] A more relevant recent example with respect to the expected impact of rising interest rates is the impact of the increase in US short-term interest rates in the 2004 to 2007 period. This led to the subprime debt collapse in the US, associated with the Great Recession of 2008-2009.
Looking back at Figure 1, one can see the effect of raising short-term interest rates in the 2004 to 2007 era. This eventually led to the Great Recession of 2008-2009. I wrote about this in my academic paper, Oil Supply Limits and the Continuing Financial Crisis, published in the journal Energy in 2010.
The situation we are facing today is much more severe than in 2008. The debt bubble is much larger. The shortage of energy products has spread beyond oil to coal and natural gas, as well. The idea of raising interest rates today is very much like going into the Great Depression and deciding to raise interest rates because bankers don’t feel like they are getting an adequate share of the goods and services produced by the economy. If there really aren’t enough goods and services for everyone, giving lenders a larger share of the total supply cannot work out well.
[8] The problems we are encountering have been hidden for many years by an outdated understanding of how the economy operates.
Because of the physics of the economy, it behaves very differently than most people assume. People almost invariably assume that all aspects of the economy can “stay together” regardless of whether there are shortages of energy or of other products. People also assume that shortages will be immediately become obvious through high prices, without realizing the huge role interest rates and debt levels play. People further assume that these spiking prices will somehow bring about greater supply, and the whole system will go on as before. Furthermore, they expect that whatever resources are in the ground, which we have the technical capability to extract, can be extracted.
It is important to note that prices are not necessarily a good indicator of shortages. Just as a fever can have many causes, high prices can have many causes.
The economy can only continue as long as all of its important parts continue. We cannot assume that reported reserves of anything can really be extracted, even if the reserves have been audited by a reliable auditor. What actually can be extracted depends on prices staying high enough to generate funds for additional investment as required. The amount that can be extracted also depends on the continuation of international supply lines providing goods such as steel pipe. The continued existence of governments that can keep order in the areas where extraction is to take place is important, as well.
What we should be most concerned about is a very rapidly shrinking economic system that cannot accommodate very many people. It seems that such a situation might occur if the debt bubble is popped and too many supply lines are broken. There may be a time lag between when interest rates are raised and when the adverse impacts on the economy are seen. This is a reason why central bankers should be very cautious about the increases in interest rates they make as well as QT. The situation may turn out much worse than planned!
Let’s not forget – the college of physicians have also been threatened
https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/theyve-officially-forbidden-the-practice
They are just like the doctors who cave – they realize resistance is futile
Same almost everywhere: Totalitarian mans TOTALITARIAN.
Conform, or be destroyed.
There has never, anywhere, whatever the culture, been a shortage of people willing to enforce such a system as doctors, psychologists, journalists, guards, judges, police, soldiers, spies and executioners. Artists, writers and philosophers, too.
The worst love the power and the infliction of harm: the best hope they can get away without doing any direct injury, or convince themselves it is justifiable or in some way deserved.
The irony is that they too are dominated, as enslaved as anyone else, and often eventually disposed like trash,of by the system they maintained.
Introduction
Dr. Ira Bernstein who practices medicine in Ontario, Canada is about to have his license to practice medicine revoked soon. Currently he is required by the authorities to operate under the following restrictions:
Dr. Bernstein will not provide medical exemptions in relation to vaccines for COVID-19;
Dr. Bernstein will not provide medical exemptions in relation to mask requirements for COVID-19;
Dr. Bernstein will not provide medical exemptions in relation to diagnostic testing for COVID-19; and
Dr. Bernstein will not prescribe ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine.
Furthermore, Dr. Bernstein is now required to post a sign in his waiting room that says this:
Dr. Bernstein must not provide medical exemptions in relation to vaccines, mask requirements or diagnostic testing for COVID-19. Dr. Bernstein must not prescribe ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine. Further information may be found on the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario website at http://www.cpso.on.ca
What was his crime?
None of his patients complained. None of his patients were hospitalized or died from COVID. Nobody was harmed.
What was his crime? He didn’t toe the line and treat COVID patients like the College thinks they should be treated.
https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/theyve-officially-forbidden-the-practice
Israeli Data Explains Why Pfizer Excluded Vaccinated People from Trials
Paxlovid Works much WORSE in the Vaccinated and NOT AT ALL in the younger ones!
https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/israeli-data-explains-why-pfizer
https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Faf1edeff-347e-49d4-a51d-33775c802189_724x1172.png
Double the dose – MORE!
So, if unvaccinated folks catch COVID, perhaps Paxlovid will actually work, at least somewhat.
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CEO of large Spanish pharma company bought a fake vaccine card
Why would someone pay $200,000 and risk a long prison sentence to avoid taking a perfectly safe vaccine that will keep him from dying from COVID? Answer: to avoid dying from the vaccine.
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/covid-vaccine-driven-immune-fixationorgan
norm – you could have taken his shots and undercut that to 100k!
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Let me put something across….
If a tree falls in a forest, and there’s no one around to hear it, does it make a sound?
If Sri Lanka collapses, and there’s no one around to report it, does it collapse?
Substitute “Sri Langka” with anything. All we are right now is just reading the news from the internet. How real is real?
China
Right now, those who are in China are not allowed to leave their country. Only certain waivers are given. Now, I am thinking. If it releases the border, there will be massive amount of people pouring out and some of them may be on a one-way trip. With it a lot of money flowing out (yes there are capital restrictions but I think there are some ways to over come it), is it even possible? What if the top 10% of people in Shanghai had it enough and want to leave permanently? What would happen?
Just thinking out aloud and share with you all. It seems to involve a lot of pain (commodity prices increase, oil usage increase?) chaos?
Kinda like Ukraine… no photo journalists feeding us combat video — no citizens shooting the war with smart phones…
Ya of course there is some killing – seems to be mostly the Nazis killing Donbassers… then they are feeding the MOREONS who volunteer to fight to the meat grinder… makes for good photo opp.
What’s the point of fighting a real war when the world is about to collapse…
it makes perfect sense to fight a staged war to provide an excuse for expensive energy – as we await UEP to complete
sounds are created in the brain when soundwaves strike the relevant membrane within the anatomy of the ear itself.
if the soundwave strikes nothing, then it just fades away
analagous with eddys comments if you stop to think about it
Sounds are caused by vibrations propagating through solid, liquid or gaseous materials. What you think you “hear” in the brain are not the actual sounds themselves but perceptions— a kind of “facsimile” or “reproduction” of the sounds that enter the ear. Essentially, it’s as if there was a little man listening to an audio system in your head. He is, of course, a virtual little man in a simulation. Let’s call him “The Listener”.
Your differentiation between sounds as perceived phenomena and sound waves as physical phenomena is a valid way of describing how we might distinguish these two things, but doesn’t capture how most people think about sound. The sound really is out there in the physical world and not just inside our brains, unless we happen to be Buddhist monks, in which case we ourselves are the sound, the ear, the brain, the listener and the Universe.
Q. What did the Dalai Lama say when he went into the pizza parlor? A. Make me one with everything.
We speak of “the speed of sound” and not “the speed of sound waves”.
Just because a person may be dead, it doesn’t follow that there are no sounds around to hear.
Birds wouldn’t go to all the trouble of twittering and chirping and tweeting and crowing and hooting all the time if there were no sounds to be made. They earnestly want to be heard.
Sound is defined as “(a) Oscillation in pressure, stress, particle displacement, particle velocity, etc., propagated in a medium with internal forces (e.g., elastic or viscous), or the superposition of such propagated oscillation. (b) Auditory sensation evoked by the oscillation described in (a).”
Sound can be viewed as a wave motion in air or other elastic media. In this case, sound is a stimulus. Sound can also be viewed as an excitation of the hearing mechanism that results in the perception of sound. In this case, sound is a sensation.
i think i said much the same thing—only shorter.
I could have found an entire treatise on the sciences of sound
the postman knocks on my door—he hears his own knocking, but if i’m out, the sound thats meant for ‘me’ dissipates into nowhere and is lost forever as far as i am concerned.
of course birds make sounds for other birds to pick up–that is the whole point of it
The confusion of what we mean …
I suppose hearing (and other experiences) indicate that something indeed goes on (inside our heads) instead of nothing.
That something is a real mystery. What kind of (mind) process associates subjective experience (qualia/suchness) with perception (sensory input)?
And what is that something (the universe) supplying stimuli which makes that previous something (qualia) an experience of objective reality (whatever that is)?
To make it extra confusing; the mind exist seem to be embedded within that something which gives rise to subjective experience by causing sensory input in the first place.
Mind boggling self referential systems…
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The world is what we make of it and teaches us (our minds) lessons we desperately need.
Reflections, reflections everywhere. 🪞
I wouldn’t worry too much about people leaving Shanghai. First, Shanghai has a population density of 3900/km2 (10000/sq mi). Second, from what I’ve heard, living in Shanghai is a matter of high social status, and Shanghainese are known for their superiority complex.
Unfortunately it looks like the Elders will drip feed the periphery for as long as possible..
So we may not get to see our future.
Makes sense – don’t want to spook the MOREONS
https://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2022/06/01/sri-lanka-in-talks-with-imf-to-borrow-at-least-3b-sources/
https://twitter.com/RedPhoenix1978/status/1531994251902472194
“I happen to be in the morbidity business; I’m the CEO of a large insurance group, and we underwrite morbidity risk … Based on what it is we are seeing, the rates right now, excess mortality at 84%, and excess every kind of disease at 1100%”
now over to you, Marjorie Norman Greene.
Great – let’s allocate 50 billion more $$$ of our tax money to add more boosters and kill more MOREONS!
This guy is full of crap. He’s not a “CEO of a large insurance group” – in a rumble video he says he’s an attorney. So, which is it?
In the rumble video he also makes a lot of ridiculous claims, for example that the vaccines have microchips and people begin emitting bluetooth signals after being injected.
People like him that just make stuff up to stir the pot do a disservice to the rest of us who have legitimate concerns about vast government overreach and medical discrimination. By saying crazy stuff he paints us as crazy and also distracts from the real concerns.
I agree, ivanislav: the facts of the situation are bad enough without wild allegations.
Please don’t destroy 50% of the work of Fast Eddy in a single sentence.
The bluetooth thing can be tested by everybody in the forrest.
Either it shows no device or it shows a device.
But I agree: people tryig to get a message out should not blow it. It is hard enough to bring anybody in that area anyways. And it is an easy point made by fact checkers to just ridicule it away completely.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/auto-armageddon-may-sales-data-shows-dramatic-slowdown-us-new-car-sales
Auto-Armageddon: May Sales Data Shows Dramatic Slowdown In US New Car Sales
*HONDA MAY U.S. AUTO SALES -57.3%
*TOYOTA US MAY SALES 175,990, -27.3% Y/Y
*MAZDA N. AMERICA MAY SALES DOWN 63.7%
*NISSAN APRIL GLOBAL SALES -29.1%
I tried to help a friend buy a new car.
He was going for compact cars, and the dealership promptly added a $5,000 “Economic Adjustment” or some BS like that.
He decided to wait for a better day to buy his car.
Magnificent! I don’t think we’ve ever seen such a disastrous situation in the auto industry.
I assume the factory workers are being kept on the payroll as we are not hearing about massive layoffs…
Fed secretly feeding $$$ to keep these TBTF companies alive?
Yes nothing being made nothing being bought… what is going on? How can the FED keep it up??
Steve St Angelo comments on global car production in this recent video:
https://youtu.be/qQjGOx5Wg9Y
Starting at the 31 minute mark approx.
– peaked in 2018 at 97 million units
– fell to 92 million in 2019
– fell again in 2020 to 78 million units
– bounced up to 80 million units in 2021
– SP Global forecast 2022 production to be 83-84 million units but issued an updated
forecast in April….down to 80.6….possibly downgraded further as the year progresses.
He then looks at the years in and around the GFC….
– Global sales in 2007 were 73 million
– Fell to 71 million in 2008 and 62 million in 2009
– Bounced back to 77 million in 2010
A little confusing…he talks production…then sales…I assume all his data is production data…..anyway, 2022 production numbers are going to be in the region of 17 million units below 2018!….peak oil production Nov 2018?…..hmmmm…….
This pretty much agrees with what I saw, through 2020 I haven’t looked at 2021. China, especially, has seen a fall in auto sales. Thanks!
You’re welcome Gail. He covers a lot of ground…energy, debt, EROEI, cars, semiconductors, mining, renewables, complex supply chains…..he’s one of the best analysts out there at weaving it all together….with energy being the common thread.
Have you met Steve?
Tesla to cut 10% of employees.
Wow! https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/03/feeling-super-bad-about-economy-musk-wants-to-cut-10percent-of-tesla-jobs.html
I see that the price of the stock is down 8.74% so far today.
Two-Thirds of the Country Face the Prospect of Blackouts this Summer
The tough news keeps coming for Americans struggling with high energy prices. Not only have gas prices broken records for the past several weeks, now a good portion of the country is being told they should expect rolling blackouts, as we enter the hot summer months. The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) officially released its summer report last week and almost two-thirds of the country should prepare for a possible blackout.
The report from NERC includes a harrowing map that shows most of the nation should stand ready for possible blackouts this summer.
The reason for these coming blackouts is clear: a mandated transition to clean energy. The Wall Street Journal editorial board writes:
“Welcome to the “green energy transition.” We’ve been warning for years that climate policies would make the grid more vulnerable to vacillations in supply and demand. And here we are. Some of the mainstream press are belatedly catching on that blackouts are coming, but they still don’t grasp the real problem: The forced transition to green energy is distorting energy markets and destabilizing the grid.”
https://powerthefuture.com/two-thirds-of-the-country-face-the-prospect-of-blackouts-this-summer/
This is a link to the map that goes along with this.
https://powerthefuture.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/risk-area-910×456.png
i just posted the same comment about electricity breakdown in Karachi
that industrial/commercial civilisation is becoming unsupportable
It seems to be kicking off world wide simultaneously
norm – instead of posting your usual rubbish – why don’t you help harry with posting links to grim energy situations with a focus on riots and random violence.
Make yourself useful
the prime source of random violence would appear to be based in your land of fantasy eddy–and i really don’t want to go there.
i point this out because you regale us with it so often—screaming at med staff—waiters–me–anyone who doesn’t meet your demands of submission.
highly amusing—but you are oblivious to that.–so certain of being ‘right’.
am reminded of the driver who is determined to show everyone on the road how good a driver he is, and prove that everyone else is an idiot–feels the need to show off his driving ‘skills’ at every opportunity.
oblivious to his own inadequacy.
What other use is there for MOREONS other than to abuse them?
If the laws would permit it we could use them for target practice using the High Powered Rifles…
Zombie Shooting — step right up — shoot yourselves a real live zombie! Take the head home and mount it above the fire place… Zombie Shooting – step right up — just costs the price of a bullet
Anyone who injects an experiment into their body is brain dead. So this should not be classified as murder…
at least we know that ‘abuse’ is just your sustaining fantasy eddy
if it was more than that you would hve been arrested a long time ago
so i think we are all safe
The problem of ‘suffering’-as-a-‘problem’?
‘Suffering’ is a subjective experience, an appearance and not reality. Humans, perhaps like some other animals, have evolved to have the subjective experience of suffering (eg. pain) because it facilitates their existence, it warns them of situations and conditions to avoid. The capacity to suffer in particular circumstances has been selected as a beneficial trait that is useful to their survival. The whole purpose of ‘suffering’ is to facilitate life. Pleasure, likewise.
What then of those who see ‘suffering’ as an ‘objection’ to life? LOL The obvious explanation is that it is symptomatic of their pre-existing organic and psychological disorder, their loss of inherited healthy instincts. Life is not an argument, and those who feel that it needs ‘justifying’ are simply on their way out. They should be encouraged not to breed if they feel that way. Fortunately not everyone is quite so daft, and plenty of people still have healthy organic instincts that dispose them to life and its enjoyment.
“a problem” is a subjective experience.
“healthy instincts” are subjective also.
“encouragement” is purely subjective.
“enjoyment” is a subjective experience.
“subjectivity” is also entirely subjective.
it is what it is.
que sera sera.
“healthy instincts are subjective also.”
Are they? Could you explain that? How are health or instincts dependent on the mind?
Seriously?
Try using your mind instead of reveling in some Nietzsche WtP hallucination and egotistical fantasy.
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Then answer the question properly.
If you cannot, then this discussion also is over.
Yes, it is pretty handy to have a system that gives negative feedback a subjective experience.
Since when did pain default to suffering?
Temporary pain is obnoxious. Good thing it can be muted out simply by putting down the iron or stop turning the cranks.
Suffering is pain that won’t leave the mind.
It is caused either by mental illness or disease.
What is a healthy organic drive?
Perhaps manifesting a shred of survival instinct on a finite world? No?
If your instincts tell you that you personally should not breed then I entirely endorse that.
If you are saying that your instincts tell you to continue to live regardless of suffering, then that is your choice as I have told you before.
Btw. pain is not always temporary and it is not wholly distinct from suffering as used in the English language. But you are always getting stuff wrong because you are not as smart as you seem to think.
A healthy organic drive is the urge to grow your own vegetables and raise your own chickens without resorting to anything produced by Monsanto.
I must agree.
Getting sufficient calories in the cookie hole tops reproductive instinct by far.
Maslow and his pyramid, etc.
However I’m a sucker for tech.
Gotta follow the rabbit down another hole.
Likely the Seneca into oblivion.
Who’s Going to Fix What’s Broken? by CHS
http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2022/06/whos-going-to-fix-whats-broken.html
“Who fixes systems when they break down? The answer appears to be: nobody. Here are three everyday examples from my own life, breakdowns which may be random and rare but which the odds suggest are systemic. Let’s assume I’m not an unlucky one in a million but just another recipient of systemic breakdown.”
Roddie, Thank you for posting this👍and 100% agree with his experiences.
Dealt with the IRS and DMV and things have broken down
Another angle on the Ukraine war. A fight between GMO (the west) and non-GMO (Russia) food. It’s a long read, but interesting.
The IMF set loan conditions stipulating that Ukraine must open up to GMO seeds and foreign purchases of farmland. Zelensky signed these into law 10 months before Russia invaded.
https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/05/31/war-within-the-war-over-land-and-genetically-engineered-agriculture/
I don’t know about that war angle.
but certainly this shows some of the depth of the corrruption of the West in general and Zelensky in particular.
while the USA has its own puppet, the Ukraine has theirs, one main difference being that the USA puppet is a case of dementia/sunsetting.
I Stand With Russia.
Children used to fall asleep to a parent’s lullaby in new zealand.
No longer.
It’s the sound of gunfire that the children hear as they huddle terrified in their beds at night.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckland-shootings-flatmates-shot-at-eating-dinner-one-injured-as-manukau-home-targeted-in-tribesman-killer-beez-gang-feud/Z7SGKWBNDHKCV6SS6ZW3AJ742A/
The police have largely given up.
The daily horror of diversity and it’s violence is plain for all to see.
Polynesians killing whites, maoris killing each other and children bashed to death in the crossfire.
Once rated as a safe and prosperous country, sad new zealand is but a shadow of its former self.
Tens of thousands of citizens are fighting for a place on the limited flights out of this hell.
Most will never return.
Oh, Hope you know who doesn’t need to flee again…that would be too bad
This is the sort of people who will be on the loose come collapse..
Looking for dinner… looking for rape… looking for murder…
See why UEP is good. If you believe in prayer — pray that UEP completes before we collapse
I know that deep down most OFWers acknowledge that UEP is a good thing … hard to admit it though… loss of all hope of their being a tomorrow — is stressful.
Large US egg factory “torched in the middle of the night,” US grain silo explodes in “dramatic fireball”—and where is DHS, and “our free press’?
The state and media would be all over these attempts to bring on FAMINE in the USA, if they weren’t both (somehow) complicit in this flagrant war on all the rest of us
https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/large-us-egg-factory-torched-in-the/
If there’s nothing left to fight over… there will no fighting.
Demolish the food supply chain …as you prepare for Global Holodomor
I wonder if they are rebuilding any of these burned out food production facilities – I suspect not
If arson is going on, it would be good to know about it.
On May 12, the House’s select subcommittee on the coronavirus released a scathing report that outlined how several of the country’s largest meatpacking companies worked with political appointees in the Trump administration to keep their workforces on the job — even as a deadly pandemic raged through the country. As meatpacking workers were publicly touted as essential to the country, the report found, they were treated as disposable by their employers and by the federal agency charged with regulating them.
During the first year of the pandemic, over 59,000 meatpacking workers were infected with the coronavirus and at least 269 lost their lives to it, according to lawmakers. These infections spilled over into workers’ homes, driving deadly spikes in their communities. According to a study last year from the University of California, Davis, coronavirus transmission rates were double the national average in counties with large beef and pork processing plants and 20 percent higher in counties with large poultry processors. Another study, from 2020, estimated that 3 percent to 4 percent of all Covid-19 deaths in the U.S. from March to July 2020 were tied to meat or poultry plants.
All told, the virus has taken a significant toll on the hundreds of thousands of women and men who kill, cut, debone and package America’s meat. But the exhaustive investigation conducted by the House subcommittee reveals that it didn’t have to be this way
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/think/amp/rcna30164
Murderers!
🙂 https://twitter.com/awilliamscomedy/status/1531650303719882752?s=20&t=lw5YUN8Tr8OtZz0OwG2Y2Q
Fighter Pilot Speaks Out on Discrimination Against Unvaccinated in US Military – Pilots Forced to Perform Janitorial Work
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/05/case-missed-fighter-pilot-speaks-discrimination-unvaccinated-us-military-pilots-forced-perform-janitorial-work-video/
Gasoline crack spread futures hit a new all time high…
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FUMdJrBWYAMqGIh?format=jpg&name=large
beautiful graph.
I truly adore higher prices.
Henry Hub (US gas) since ‘10.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FUMvJvgXsAANfDv?format=jpg&name=large
awe inspiring!
what a great time to be alive!
Is that a design for a new roller coaster?
Shall we assume Geta the Sneering Hyper MOREON is enjoying the higher prices… people are buying far less stuff … huge collapse in auto sales…
Being a MOREON she is no doubt smiling that MOREONIC smile and dancing around to the latest Bieber tune…. clueless imbecile… full of hate of MORE … but at the same time embracing MORE…
Not sure which one is more disgusting Geta vs AOC vs HRC… all vile
UK Tories reckon that UK is going to fight and defeat Russia in the Black Sea.
UK’s Nato envoy warns Royal Navy may have to battle Russia
‘High risk’ of death of UK personnel if Britain joins force to break Black Sea blockade, says Tory MP
Royal Navy ships could be sent into action against Russia’s Black Sea blockade of Ukraine, a Tory MP who leads the UK’s parliamentary delegation to Nato has suggested.
Alec Shelbrooke said that British warships could have to use “lethal defensive force” against Russia’s forces as part of a mission to escort vital grain supplies out of Ukrainian ports, at the “high risk” of deaths of UK personnel and the escalation of war in Europe.
In a message to constituents, Mr Shelbrooke said that a challenge to Boris Johnson’s leadership would be “an indulgence” at a time when the prime minister is playing a prominent role in the global response to Vladimir Putin’s invasion.
He said that the possibility of a Joint Expeditionary Force of naval vessels to break the Black Sea blockade was being actively discussed at the Nato parliamentary assembly, which brings together lawmakers from all member states within the military alliance.
Because of Ukraine’s status as a “breadbasket” nation that supplies a major proportion of the world’s grain, Mr Shelbrooke warned that, unless a way is found to export its crops, poor countries will face starvation, and Britain will see “limitless” food inflation.
“In the Nato assembly, my conversations are now focusing on the possible need to put together a Joint Expeditionary Force of naval vessels, potentially made up from the Royal Navy, allies and non-Nato allies, to escort the grain out of Ukraine,” said the MP for Elmet and Rothwell in West Yorkshire.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/russia-royal-navy-nato-uk-b2091839.html
studying history
—joint expeditionary force always has an ominous ring to it–think crimea and gallipoli—The Black sea is a bathtub sea with a tiny outlet
political leaders facing troubles at home have a nasty habit of diverting attention to foreign wars
They are pretty transparent.
When the Romans wanted to have a war they just went and conquered an area simply to extend their power and everyone was satisfied. The Tories want to do battle as a ‘moral posture’ and hidden in the crowd of accomplices. Their weakness is pathetic, embarrassing and nauseating. One almost expects Bob Geldof to come on the TV and sing, ‘feed the world’. It is a massive cringe.
The problem is that the Ukrainians are housing Neo-Nazis. That’s the part the West doesn’t want getting out. That is who the Russians are targeting primarily.
‘Morality’ is always a posture, a will to power.
Posers gonna pose Will to Power.
A primate gonna primate, now and forever.
🤣👍👍
What you mean is that posers are always going to pose ‘morality’.
Take yours, it is entirely a ‘justification’ of your own lifestyle, riding about aimlessly on a bicycle like a child all day. If you have to do that then fair enough, do it, but your attempt to make it ‘moral truth’ is plain ridiculous. You have the self-insight of a goldfish.
As my favorite trends forecaster, Gerald Celente likes to say: “Trade wars, currency wars, world wars. When all else fails, they take you to war”.
That sounds like a good quote. If nothing else, wars distract the population from the problems taking place.
(Reuters) – Power demand in Texas reached the highest level ever recorded in the month of May on Tuesday and will likely break the record for June on Wednesday as economic growth boosts overall usage and hot weather causes homes and businesses to crank up their air conditioners.
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), which operates the grid for most of the state, said it had enough resources available to meet forecast demand.
That was not the case on May 13 when ERCOT was forced to urge customers to conserve energy after several power plants shut unexpectedly, causing real-time prices to briefly soar to over $4,000 per megawatt hour (MWh).
Extreme weather reminds Texans of the 2021 February freeze that left millions without power, water and heat for days during a deadly storm as ERCOT scrambled to prevent a grid collapse after an unusually large amount of generation was shut.
ERCOT said demand peaked at a preliminary 71,688 megawatts (MW) on Tuesday, which would top the prior record for May of 71,160 MW on May 19.
ERCOT forecast that demand would reach 70,398 MW on Wednesday, which would top the June record of 70,257 MW set in 2021, and would keep breaking that monthly high on June 5-7.
The 74,757 MW peak expected on June 7 would fall just shy of the grid’s all-time high of 74,820 MW in August 2019.
One megawatt can power around 1,000 U.S. homes on a typical day, but only about 200 homes on a hot summer day in Texas.
ERCOT expects to have about 91,392 MW of resources available to meet a projected peak of 77,317 MW this summer.
(Reporting by Scott DiSavino; Editing by Will Dunham)
I noticed in a recent article about population growth in the US:
https://www.usnews.com/news/healthiest-communities/slideshows/fastest-growing-counties-in-america
These counties have seen the greatest percentage growth in population from 2020 to 2021, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. The counties with highest population growth were
1. Kaufman County, Texas Population Growth: 8.57%
2. Comal County, Texas Population Growth: 8.35%
3. Rockwall County, Texas Population Growth: 7.94%
4. St. Johns County, Florida Population Growth: 6.96%
5. Liberty County, Texas Population Growth: 6.54%
6. Dawson County, Georgia Population Growth: 6.34%
7. Walton County, Florida Population Growth: 6.33%
8. Washington County, Utah Population Growth: 6.07%
9. Hays County, Texas Population Growth: 5.94%
10. Jackson County, Georgia Population Growth: 5.77%
So, Texas has 5 of the 10 fastest growing counties, including 4 of the 5 fastest growing counties.
There don’t seem to be recently updated state population growth estimates. Ones from December showed a 1.1% increase in Texas’s population between 2020 and 2021. https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2021/2021-population-estimates.html
Allow a million or two new people in, and of course demand will increase.
From the Atacama Desert to Patagonia, a 13-year megadrought is straining Chile’s freshwater resources to breaking point.
By the end of 2021, the fourth driest year on record, more than half of Chile’s 19 million population lived in an area suffering from “severe water scarcity”, and in April an unprecedented water rationing plan was announced for the capital, Santiago.
In hundreds of rural communities in the centre and north of the country, Chileans are forced to rely on emergency tankers to deliver drinking water.
Water has become a national security issue – it’s that serious,” said Pablo García-Chevesich, a Chilean hydrologist working at the University of Arizona. “It’s the biggest problem facing the country economically, socially and environmentally. If we don’t solve this, then water will be the cause of the next uprising.”
Chile’s water crisis was high on the agenda when, in 2019, millions of protesters took to the streets to demand that the country confront its entrenched inequalities.
Among their demands – which ranged from better pensions to healthcare reform – the slogan “it’s not drought, it’s theft” was a common refrain.
Many called for a rewrite of Chile’s 1981 water code, a relic of Gen Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship (1973-1990) which enshrines one of the most privatised water systems in the world, allowing people to buy and sell water allocations like stocks.
Chile is also the only country in the world that specifically says in its constitution that water rights are treated as private property.
Before his election last year, Gabriel Boric, Chile’s progressive new president, promised a green future for the country, emphasising the protection and restoration of hydrological cycles.
Chile’s economy, South America’s largest by per-capita GDP, is built on water-intensive, extractivist industries principally mining, forestry and agriculture.
But its growth has come at a price.
Supported by the private rights system, about 59% of the country’s water resources are dedicated to forestry, despite it making up just 3% of Chile’s GDP.
Another 37% is destined for the agricultural sector, meaning only 2% of Chile’s water is set aside for human consumption.
Consequences will be dire’: Chile’s water crisis is reaching breaking point
John Bartlett in Pintué
Wed, June 1, 2022, 5:30 AM
The Guardian
Cut the tree allotment in half and give it to human use.
in the supermarket, i notice a pack of veg, with Chile as the country of origin.
I know that 90% of that veg is water
And it has been stolen from a desert country
I know I’m in the minority
https://mobile.twitter.com/karim__fawaz/status/1531713619939012608
The destruction of the European Banana Republic has been initiated. The EU will put an embargo on Russian oil.
The Anglo-Americans knew that when they trained and armed the Nazi battalions in Ukraine that Russia would have to act at some point and invade Ukraine.
The war would then force the EU to impose sanctions that would destroy the EU and the Eurozone.
Russia will take the bait and invade Ukraine!
then we will place massive sanctions on them!
so Russia will be destroyed!
we EU leaders are geniuses!
we do whatever the Woketard Elite F789ers say!
we will then do a Great Green Reset in the EU!
and we will dominate the world forever!
LOL
It’s worth a try, no?
Observe if the EU primates can adapt to a different operating regimen.
Yeah, I want to observe the egotistical fantasy embodiments squirm from chucking in the oats and turning the cranks.
Schadenfreude is such a powerful drug for a primate.
🥳🎉🎊👯♀️🍾🎈🎊
Can we keep this going any longer?!?
This = “the economy”?
We will find out. Perhaps parts of it, for a little while.
Hi Gail,
How do you see the situation this summer in Europe and the US? With the start of the high-mobility summer season, oil prices can go through the roof, more problems, more inflation. Suspicious problems are beginning to be seen that cause flight cancellations, the system begins to work very badly
I have been sufficiently worried about the US situation that I have tried to schedule flights as soon as possible, in the hopes that somehow I can avoid excessive flight problems. I have tried to include a day “buffer,” as well, in case things get messed up. My husband and I are planning to fly to Alaska for a little over a week later in June. In mid-July, we plan to attend a wedding in the Minneapolis area and then visit my daughter, her spouse and our grandson in the Boston area.
I am not sure about other problems, besides the flights. I expect more US electricity outages this summer, probably blamed on climate change, but mostly related on too much intermittent electricity and too little nuclear and coal. I am also expecting a lot of debt defaults and higher interest rate problems. I understand that US quantitative tightening is starting today, June 1. QT should bring the stock market down, and probably oil prices. Hopefully, the food situation will remain OK for another year in the US.
The European situation is worrisome. I suppose that Monkey Pox (or something similar) will be needed to cover up the disastrous fossil fuel energy situation. If people stay home and fly very little, it will cover up some of the energy problems. Europe is likely to have debt defaults, too.
Only when we finally realize there are no legal, political, legislative, or constitutional remedies to address what awaits us. Then it will be a matter of having to determine how much destruction of our current society will be required to eradicate the parasitic monster of goverment, central banks, and MIC that will consume us all. Kind of like having to kill the patient to cure the cancer. While societies have always seemed to recover or relocate after huge wars, the difference this time may be that there will be no readily available materials, energy, water, or even trained people to “restore” things.
We are supporting an incredible parasitic load. Non productive people flock to the government money trough. Government produces no value added wealth. It only takes from productive people, takes its cut and redisributes the rest of the loot in exchange for votes. Government handouts are doled out in one hand to buy votes, while the other hand stabs the productive people in the back. Currency debasement and economic decline provide a source and incentive for military enlistment as the only alternative to otherwise productive lives.
Even worse, consider the time, energy, materials that go into making a missile, paid for at exorbitant prices to the MIC, not just to enable another parasitic activity (wealth extraction by the MIC), but even worse, to destroy the target which cost the same materials, energy, time and materials to make as the missile. A double depletion. Matter and antimatter. Poof! And it’s gone.
Parasitic load + shrinking resources getting harder to take,
The M777 howitzer “smart” munitions are apparently $63,000 per shell as of a few years ago.
Edit: $113,000 dollars per shell FY2021.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M982_Excalibur
The margin is about 99% on the price. It ain’t easy to develop, test and produce this stuff. Lots of high tech test gear and manufacturing equipment used. Takes a lot of investment to get one of these shells flying.
Good thing is that the know-how and mfg equipment can be used for other, friendlier, applications.
You embody the primates myopia of ordinary everyday linear thought process. It is why we have wars in the first place. We can’t develop shit without a gun pointing at our collective heads.
Just too busy with the rapacious primates egotistical fantasy.
And if you’re not satisfied with the causes and effects; feel free to hand back your computing devices and internet connection. That would take care of the whining in no time flat.
YOLO!
MOAR!
You are correct in noting how dependent we’ve become on the internet for our emotional self-regulation, as Thomas Metzinger notes in his book The Ego Tunnel.
So the UK government have drawn up plans for electricity rationing this winter in the UK. How does that work? Do all pubs, restaurants and supermarkets get cut off as well?
“The government would have to ration supplies, likely during weekday peak times of between 7am and 10am, and 4pm and 9pm.”
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/millions-of-homes-warned-of-winter-blackouts/ar-AAXRLmH
Theatre of the Absurd, Mrs S.
As I’m redecorating the house, 1970’s orange and brown might help to get into that blackout vibe.
But, but…. didn’t Boris say the other week that ‘the UK has an absolutely brilliant future’?
We need to go long on candles, polo-neck jumpers and Buckeroo.
Hard to cook dinner with the electricity off, if a home has electric appliances.
Implementing this plan would bring down the government and cause civil unrest.
I can’t see people putting up with it.
There’s a saying: “what’s the difference between order and anarchy? Three square meals”. It’s what started the Arab Spring and brought down 6 governments.
Another saying is: “When people lose everything and have nothing else to lose, THEY LOSE IT”.
Throughout History, governments have used force against their own people, much like it’s being done today although today it seems to be a global phenomenon. When happens in due time is that people tend to snap and it usually happens all at once. They then don’t care about the repercussions and vent at those in charge regardless of their military might. They’d rather die than keep taking it from their governments.
It has happened time and time again. It will happen again in due course as governments continue to turn the screws on their own people until the people sense their backs are up against a wall and cornered. That’s typically when the blowback starts and the Plebs become unpredictable.
I dont think that will happen – once DC or The Pox arrive they’ll do the exact opposite — the Fear will be Off the Charts… they will look to their governments for more totalitarian measures to save them from the Evil. They will not dare take to the Dangerous Streets — the Disease is on the streets… and the military….
I imagine if there are blackouts and rationing people are going to become upset and rage at whoever they think is to blame but what if the energy simply isn’t there? Would the people understand and accept energy might really be in short supply? I doubt it.
I doubt it as well. Because up until the last election things looked semi normal compared too today.
Notice how they always start with ’caused by the Ukraine war’.
Very useful that ‘war’
Just think of how things change if you remove Ukraine from that story…. it would alert to the MOREONS to the fact that the problem is structural .. i.e. we are running out of cheap energy…
And that would trigger despair… panic… and that opens Pandora’s Box… all sorts of bad stuff happens when the MOREONS lose hope that the George Jetson Future and the opportunity to buy more shit that they do not need ….
A world without MORE >>>>>>> angry MOREONS … their prime directive is to have MORE… strip that away and what do you have? 8B depressed/angry predators….
Watch from this point for a few minutes
https://youtu.be/DnPmg0R1M04?t=230
The rage of people who can’t take their fat families on a £50 return flight to ‘Mayorka’ will know no bounds.
I sometimes think this is their definition of basic human rights……
And I recall my upper middle-class customers going nuts because their regular weekends away and multiple foreign holidays were stopped by Covid lock-downs.
And these are people with very nice lives here, not the masses eager to escape for a bit.
They will direct their frustration anger against Putin — some might join up to be cannon fodder for the cameras in Ukraine… you need to kill some folks if you are going to have a credible excuse for why petrol is $3.30 a litre (that’s what I paid earlier filling up the gas guzzling Bat Mobile — but I don’t mind the high price — cuz I know it signals that extinction is imminent)
So we can expect the Ukraine ‘war’ to continue into winter… you’d think that by now the Russians – would have finished off backwards Ukraine …
I am not clear – what exactly is the objective of the Russians… I did see them blowing up blown up buildings just for fun…. is this about fun? Surely if they want Big Z outta there.. that would be easy…
But we need Big Z and the Entourage of Actors… they are part of the show … it’s actually better to have experienced actors playing the roles — they tend to be very convincing …
Ukraine is cover for ‘we are out of oil and gas’…. so far so good
MOREONS love being told their future is awesome … just that Putin guy is in the way… the grand kids will definitely have bigger better tee vees — the size of a wall … and cheap… and lots of gadgets… and other stuff… mega mansions – ya.. oh ya…. go Ukraine go! — did you see they sold the trophy from the music awards to donate to buy weapons for ukraine…
Wake up folks… Ukraine is a staged ‘war’…
Famous Italian Conte Manfredi della Gherdesca has just died in his sleep.
He was 61 and posted about the importance of being Covid-19 vaccinated.
https://www.lanazione.it/cronaca/manfredi-della-gherardesca-morte-1.7737711
You can find also in second news on the left of today updates from ‘esclusacorrelazione.it’ where his previous post is also present.
https://esclusacorrelazione.it/
I suppose this helps the world overpopulation problem.
Silver lining. These people have exploited us for at least 10 centuries. Much better him than the descendants of rural Padania people (he is Tuscan of course, but I had interactions with Florence nobility).
Poor Count.
Not ‘elite’ enough to get the placebo or pay for a false card?
Ah, I remember now, the late Count’s London house was in World of Interiors – very nice indeed, exquisite finishes, luxurious materials. Family portraits from the 16th century, etc.
Good. This makes me feel happy. Almost as happy as a VIP lap dance done with feeling.
Great polemics about the request by the councilor of the municipality of Trapani, who forwarded a request from the Hospital for no-covid-19-vaxxed blood.
The Hospital now is denying…
https://www.tp24.it/2022/06/01/politica/serve-sangue-no-vax-polemiche-a-trapani-sull-appello-dell-assessore-vassallo/177858
The price of mRNA-free blood can only go up. When it reaches 5000 euros per liter, I might quit my job and go into the pure blood supply business. Yea.
Wouldn’t it be hilarious if the reproductive secretions got thrown into the list of shortages.
“Wanna donate?”
“How about no?”
“I wanna buy!”
“Show me your IQ, job duties and finally let me interview you.”
🤣👍👍
Like in the good old fashioned times when being of “substance” made a difference. At the end of the day; somebody’s gotta get shiet done, either producing tools, shooting rifles or dragging the plough.
I watched an interview with a severely vax damaged women — she had a pint of blood taken out because they had so many tests to run they just went for a bulk buy…
She reported a major improvement in her condition — eventually she relapsed but if her doctor was prescribing more of the same
I wonder what would happen if a Pure Blood made a donation to a vax-damaged person?
You might enjoy this, sort of getting the monkey off your back.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4E6cD-VWhQY
Nice to see them ahead of the problems, isn’t it?
Spoiler alert, Wuhan, NIH are mentioned.
Dennis L.
Dr. John Campbell talking about the NIH and Wuhan Institute of Virology being involved in investigations on monkey pox three months ago.
Same guy who pretends he’s a medical doctor?
Not sure why he’d want to pretend to be an MD — they are out of favour at the moment
Time to go back to free-range?
One Of The Largest Egg Factories In US Torched In The Middle Of The Night Amid Outbreak Of Fires In Food Processing Facilities Across The Nation
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/05/one-largest-egg-factories-us-torched-middle-night-amid-outbreak-fires-food-processing-facilities-across-nation/
Are we at the point where we can say these events are NO longer a coincidence?
https://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/accidental-fires-continue-to-happen-at-food-processing-facilities-all-over-the-united-states/
Coincidence or conspiracy, there’s no third option.
Third option: This is how a self-organizing system works. When there is not enough “energy” flowing through the system, management is forced to cut back on maintenance. This leads to a higher risk of fires and a higher risk of injuries to employees.
OK, I grant that’s a third option. Although it doesn’t seem very plausible to me that you would cut maintenance to the point of jeopardizing production and the industrial facilities themselves, when you have the option to reduce costs by laying off staff, etc.
laid off staff are thrown onto the people-pile that must be supported by everyone else.
everyone expects to be clothed housed and fed.
if the energy pile is drastically depleted, they can’t be.
not saying this is ‘wrong’–just pointing out ‘what is’
Someone suggested that poor maintenance, indirectly related to trying to cut costs to a minimum or inadequate staffing, could be causing these fires. The huge conveyer belts and related machinery most be in optimal condition, or they get stuck. This is especially a problem if they get stuck in an oven, for example.
Not cleaning up spills quickly could be another issue, I would image.
Your thoughts are consistent. Maintenance cost is high, parts come but take time to arrive, help is hard to find; those of us working are working pretty hard, time is the problem.
Dennis L.
Poor maintenance was what caused recently famous ‘ponte Morandi’ collapse.
https://tg24.sky.it/cronaca/approfondimenti/ponte-morandi-genova#09
Specifically, lack of maintenance. Italian autostrade were managed by the Benetton Group, which was taking the money from the tolls and moving them to some London bank. And when the bridge collapsed it was italian taxpayers who paid for the new bridge. The wonders of privatization!
Monkeypox outbreak ‘rapidly evolving’ and action needed to curb spread, warns WHO
The UK has seen 82 new monkeypox cases this week and a total of 190 cases so far. The rise in cases also comes ahead of the Platinum Jubilee, where thousands will attend street parties or watch the royal celebrations in groups.
Europe’s monkeypox outbreak is a “rapidly evolving event” which will spread more widely in the community if action isn’t taken, according to the World Health Organisation.
Monkeypox cases in the UK are rising particularly quickly, which has prompted Dr Catherine Smallwood of the WHO’s European emergencies team to warn: “We’re clearly seeing quite rapid ongoing spread.”
Although mass gatherings present monkeypox with opportunities to spread, festivals are a perfect opportunity to raise awareness, she said, adding: “We can really use those events to provide targeted information and advice to people.”
The UK has seen 82 new cases this week and a total of 190 cases so far – the highest number of confirmed cases outside of countries where the disease is endemic.
https://news.sky.com/story/monkeypox-outbreak-rapidly-evolving-and-action-needed-to-curb-spread-warns-who-12625249
Monkeypox Airborne?
https://i.imgur.com/3t8Yzww.jpeg
I am willing to throw Bossche under the bus if the Pox can really lift off….
Devil Covid – Pox —- same outcome … extinction trigger… and extinction is WINNING!
It’s winning for the misanthropes but it is also winning for those who prefer not to participate in face ripping..
https://www.azquotes.com/picture-quotes/quote-when-the-facts-change-i-change-my-mind-john-maynard-keynes-52-12-54.jpg
Nelly Korda opens up on the funny feeling that sidelined her for months
SOUTHERN PINES, North Carolina – It started as a funny feeling in her arm. Nelly Korda, who was in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, on March 11 for a photoshoot and commercial appearance, listened to her body, went to the ER for an ultrasound and, after finding a specialist in Sarasota, Florida, underwent surgery for a blood clot in a subclavian vein in her left arm. She’s fuzzy on the exact date of surgery, but first posted about it on social media on April 8.
A Tuesday morning press conference at the 77th U.S. Women’s Open at Pine Needles Lodge and Golf Club in Southern Pines, North Carolina, marked her first time in front of the media since the health scare occurred.
“Obviously I did a lot, a lot of rehab,” she said, “went actually out to California for a month, did rehab there, worked with my coach Jamie Mulligan. Wanted him to be there for when I first started hitting balls.”
“When asked if doctors had given her any indication on the cause of the blood clot, Korda said yes, but that she’d like to keep that information private.”
https://golfweek.usatoday.com/2022/05/31/nelly-korda-us-womens-open-surgery-blood-clot/
She might be wanting to “hit the balls” of her doctor along with her coach for recommending she gets vaxxed.
Assume no more injections for Nelly!
‘The Defender Show’ Episode 53 Should We Fear Monkeypox? Dr Robert Malone Gives Us the Update
https://live.childrenshealthdefense.org/shows/the-defender-show
This seems to be the headline of a related article:
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/monkeypox-fear-porn-robert-malone-rfk-jr-podcast/
Don’t Listen to Monkeypox ‘Fear Porn,’ Dr. Robert Malone Tells RFK, Jr.
During a discussion about monkeypox origins and “disinformation” on a recent episode of “RFK Jr. The Defender Podcast,” Dr. Robert Malone warned against allowing others to “weaponize fear.”
The Pox could be all about keeping the CovIDIOTS on edge — till Devil Covid presents…
Or it could be Devil Covid – in disguise….
Fertilizer shortages guarantee starvation – so if there are the shortages we are hearing about — the End Game cannot be far off… they will want this to finish up before lack of food causes and uncontrolled collapse…. hard to imagine the Final Act not arriving before winter up north… energy prices are already a problem
Devil Covid vs The Pox…. what’s it gonna be?
I prefer the Pox… we can sit back and smugly watched the CovIDIOTS suffering from the Mark of the Beast… they won’t acknowledge it … that’s ok … we’ll know… and that’s good enough
Birmingham student, 18, went to sleep and never woke up as mum left devastated
John Nesbitt had just finished his A-Levels when he died suddenly in his sleep from a rare heart condition that didn’t show any signs or symptoms.
An 18 year old who was looking forward to starting at the University of Birmingham has tragically died in his sleep. John Nesbitt had just finished his A-Levels when he died suddenly in his sleep from a rare heart condition that didn’t show any signs or symptoms.
John’s heart stopped beating as a result of an arrhythmia caused by myocarditis – a condition where the body’s immune system causes inflammation in response to an infection. The condition is extremely rare and can be triggered from something just like a common cold.
His mum Sheila paid tribute to the Liverpool Echo. She called John “lovely” and “happy”, saying he loved playing Sunday friendly cricket as “he loved the diversity of the players and all the different ages”.
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/birmingham-student-18-went-sleep-24030639
It definitely wasn’t due to the Covid vaccines. We all know how safe and effective they truly are with no side effects. There must be a plausible explanation to this. I say, they need to call Scotland Yard to proceed with a full investigation.
The vaccines are an elixir … of destruction of all bodily functions including the immune system … and ultimate death.
baaaaaahhhh….https://www.tiktok.com/@youvegot2bekidding/video/7052092917552516398
It’s best when young people are involved… people who had ZERO Risk of severe illness or death from Covid — YET they Shot that Shit (STS) into their bodies…
And proudly proclaimed what they had done on social media – Hey look everyone – I just injected myself with this poison hahahaha
What’s the f789ing retar d guy who makes a living off this – Jack Ass? How about he does a show where he takes 25 shots in one go… I am sure the PR Team would pay him Big Money to do that
Too bad Steve Irwin is already dead — this would be perfect for him
Don’t you just love happy endings?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FUJgKY7VUAE4mmV?format=png&name=small
A jolt of joy is surging through my entire body … is this what injecting heroin feels like?
Woweee
Retail sales in Germany (MoM)
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FUJf6TaX0AAkond?format=jpg&name=medium
In Germany, for the month of April, sales for total ex cars were -5.4% on an inflation adjusted basis.
Pharmaceutical, cosmetics are practically the only area of increase at +2.5%. Keep up the scare!
All that discretionary spending … has been reallocated … to purchasing fuel and electricity at much higher prices…
The math is beginning not to work…
BTW – the MOREONS mostly do not understand this — they think — higher priced energy does not destroy the economy… cuz stooopid are they… soon they’ll be eating Kraft Dinner with Ketchup for their only meal per day … and paying $300 to fill up the tanks … and still they will not acknowledge sumting wong… maybe we are peaked out on oil…
Nah – oil is abiotic… they are mass psychosised big time on that … peak oil is a conspiracy theory …. how many times have we been told it’s peaking!!!
Venezuela alone has trillions of barrels – and then there’s flammable ice! BBC said
Greek restaurants feel the heat as Souvlaki prices soar
ATHENS (Reuters) – As Greek restaurateurs gear up for the summer season, they are keeping a wary eye on the potentially damaging impact of inflation – amply illustrated by the soaring price of a signature snack popular with both locals and visitors.
Averages prices for souvlaki have risen far faster than headline measures of inflation – hovering at a 28-year high around 10% in Greece – trotted out by national statistics agencies.
The classic meal of grilled meat wrapped in flatbread with salad and garlic yogurt now costs 3.30 euros ($3.55) on average in an around Athens, up an eye-watering 30% from last summer.
With the cost of its main ingredients – meat, vegetables and sunflower oil – all up sharply along with energy prices as war and pandemic disrupt supply chains, the surge lays bare some of the main pressures facing the world economy at grassroots level.
“The war in Ukraine has affected us a lot,” said 79 year-old Thanasis Golas, owner of one of the oldest kebab shop in Monastiraki district in the shadow of the Acropolis as he sliced off pieces of pork for his mainly foreign clientele.
“Greek customers have been reduced substantially.”
https://wtvbam.com/2022/06/01/greek-restaurants-feel-the-heat-as-souvlaki-prices-soar/
Small UK businesses struggle to absorb soaring costs
https://www.ft.com/content/b786a25c-fdd7-4ef5-91a3-42dfd06a190d
Europe’s Unquenchable Natural Gas Thirst Is Sending Prices Soaring
The Henry Hub gas benchmark hit the highest in 14 years on Friday. If this was oil, everyone would be yelling about it. But gas has yet to garner the sort of attention oil receives on a regular basis. Maybe it will soon.
Natural gas prices in the United States are breaking record after record without losing momentum as factors serving to push them higher remain active and multiply. The surge in liquefied natural gas exports to Europe is one big reason, and rising demand as the weather becomes hotter is another. Meanwhile, drought has joined the list of factors at play.
The drought that began earlier this year is still gripping the Southwest, compromising hydropower generation and expanding, indicating that even less hydropower will be available as summer advances and with it, demand for air conditioning.
Swathes of the Southwest and the West Coast and the Pacific Northwest were in a state of drought ranging from severe to exceptional as of May 24, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor, and while some parts of this region have gotten some precipitation, the situation remains challenging.
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Europes-Unquenchable-Natural-Gas-Thirst-Is-Sending-Prices-Soaring.html
I expect that a big part of the problem is this one:
“According to the report, gas feed deliveries to liquefaction trains along the Gulf Coast rose by 900 million cu ft daily to 11.7 billion cu ft in the week to May 25.”
Also, US natural gas production isn’t doing very well.
Natural gas exports are something that Biden could, in theory, cut off. This would work a whole lot better than cutting off oil exports, because natural gas is more uniform in quality than oil.
The US will likely have trouble filling its natural gas storage this year.
Perhaps, electricity producers will start thinking more about the problem of over-dependence on natural gas.
We desperately need the world’s nuclear generation, some of which is being closed because of the artificially low wholesale prices that wind and solar create. No one talks about this issue, either.
The boys in Texas are popping champagne. And yes they will export fracked natural gas over the needs of domestic US market. Great war plan: divorce Russia from Europe – its best and lowest priced provider and offer them “freedom gas”
Maybe at a high enough price, shale gas from non-core areas will be worth extracting.
Energy crisis HELL: Bills could surge even higher as millions of Brits face hydrogen tax
AS UK households suffer from the crippling household bills brought about by the energy crisis, experts have warned that the move to switch to hydrogen could risk putting more strain on the taxpayer.
Ofgem’s most recent announcement of raising the price cap for household energy bills to around £2,800 a year has risked putting millions of British families in a state of fuel poverty. Last week, a senior executive from the industry regulator admitted that this move, combined with their decision last winter to raise it to £1,971, put 12 million households in a position where their energy bills ate up a major part of their income. In a bid to tackle the global fossil fuel energy crisis, countries, including the UK, have begun turning towards alternative sources of energy, including hydrogen.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1619114/energy-crisis-hell-bills-hiked-hydrogen-tax-warning-fuel-poverty-ofgem
Hilarious.
“When powered by renewable electricity, the hydrogen produced is labelled as “green”, however, when generated using natural gas, the hydrogen subsequently formed is labelled “blue”.
It currently takes around 30 percent more natural gas to produce the equivalent blue hydrogen than if the fossil fuel was used directly.”
Hydrogen = hilarious
Im actually currently Involved in a hydrogen project. Fortunately the hydrogen project is just part of a wider portfolio of projects that my company works on. Also attended a few scientific conferences one on hydrogen and one on carbon capture. On both occassions of the dozens of presentations only a few were critical and no one was making any ‘big picture’ analysis that would totally rock the overall concept to it’s core. The premise that both were usefull and necessary was left largely unchallenged or if challenged then usually focused on specific technical parts. No one seemed to wonder – at least not out loud- if we actually have the resources to do this or what it would do to nett energy for the rest of society. Everybody always calculates in USD or EuR per ton when they arrive at the boundary of their part of the system that they are considering….
Exactly! Specialization is important for today’s scientific work. Academic papers get published on specialized topics and grant money comes to study specialized topics. Researchers live in ivory towers. They get rewarded for “progress” on whatever the wishful thinking approach of the day is being studied.
It’s easy to get people to believe that they are working on something that is not a delusion … if there are big enough government grants involved..
I suspect most people who work in the solar and wind industry actually believe they are saving the planet…
Of course if you pay the people they will believe whatever they are asked to believe.
All alternative energy is one Big Fat Mass Psychosis
Australia on the ‘precipice’ of a UK-style energy crisis as soaring costs push retailers out
Australia is on the “precipice” of a UK-style energy crisis that could send many of its power retailers broke and fuel a surge of households unable to pay their bills, a leading expert has warned.
The soaring cost of wholesale energy has triggered widespread alarm among observers and there are fears a significant chunk of Australia’s retail electricity market will be wiped out in the crunch.
Among those expressing their concern was new Federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers, who used a speech today to say Australia was facing a “perfect storm” of challenges in energy.
Mr Chalmers pointed to revelations yesterday that gas prices in Victoria has jumped more than 50 times higher than normal levels, prompting an intervention from the body that runs the energy market.
He said Australia was paying a price — at least partly — for almost a decade of energy policy uncertainty under the previous Coalition government.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-06-01/australia-on-brink-of-energy-crisis/101115924
Just when the Aussie’s decide to start getting angry, they’ll be greeted with more lockdowns. No more freedoms for you.
The article seems to be (at least partially) about the layer of energy resellers that looks likely to go out of business.
The US also added energy resellers to “improve competitiveness” starting in the early 1980s, IIRC. (This was about the time more debt and more leverage was considered ideal.) These resellers were added for both natural gas and electricity.
It is these “middle men” that are getting squeezed out first. They tried to provide price caps on natural gas in the US. These can’t hold, if the purchase price rises greatly. They may have provided other guarantees elsewhere. If nothing else, they can’t sell their product, if the purchase price of the fossil fuels is too high for consumers.
“The owner of one of the UK’s six nuclear power plants [[Hinkley Point B in Somerset] has said it will not extend its life beyond a planned shutdown in summer, despite officials raising concerns over the danger of blackouts in the months that follow…
“The closure of the plant will remove nearly a gigawatt of power generation capacity from the UK’s system – enough to supply 1.5m homes – before a winter in which the war in Ukraine is expected to weigh heavily on electricity supplies.”
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/may/30/extend-life-hinkley-point-b-reactor-avert-blackout-risk
“The number of formal reports documenting security issues at the UK’s civil nuclear facilities has hit its highest level in at least 12 years amid a decline in inspections, the Guardian can reveal.
“Experts said the news raised concerns about the regulator’s capacity to cope with planned expansion in the sector.”
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/may/26/security-warnings-at-uk-nuclear-energy-facilities-hit-12-year-high
“Corrosion in [France’s] ageing reactors hits output just as president revives atomic energy programme…
““There’s a whole series of problems that have led to an absolutely unprecedented level of difficulties and shutdowns in France’s nuclear industry,” said Yves Marignac, a nuclear energy specialist at think-tank négaWatt.”
https://www.ft.com/content/0df04c06-83c0-4080-a68b-c00fd4bc4a11
“Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has said Japan will take firm steps to restart idled NPPs to make maximum use of nuclear power to stabilise energy prices and supply, Jiji Press reported…
“In the wake of the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami which destroyed three reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi NPP, Japan closed all 54 of its nuclear power units and introduced more stringent safety requirements for their restart. Some have been permanently closed ready for decommissioning and 33 are currently considered to be operable.”
https://www.neimagazine.com/news/newsjapans-prime-minister-promises-firm-action-to-restart-npps-9733957
Good idea, especially if uranium can be obtained (indirectly through Russia) to operate these reactors.
Another Fukushima would be thrilling about now
My guess is that part of the problem is that not enough was charged for nuclear power historically to provide proper maintenance. Now it is time to pay the piper.
It would be useful if France could have a fuel pond accident and release a few million tonnes of radiation on densely populated Europe — just to demonstrate to Doomies the futility of their endeavours…
Well maybe not a pond – how about a reactor disaster — fuel pond would end BAU… reactor could be contained with cement.
“Russia pauses nuclear safety cooperation with Norway in the north.
“No grants – no cooperation: After giving more than €2 billion over the last 27 years to help Russia secure its nuclear dump sites and improve safety at icebreakers and power plants, Rosatom this week closed the door for further cooperation with Norway.”
https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/nuclear-safety/2022/06/russia-pauses-nuclear-safety-cooperation-norway-north
all wars are ultimately about acquisition of energy and resources
this one is taking a form that no one anticipated
all wars are ultimately about acquisition of energy and resources
this one is taking a form that no one anticipated
all wars are ultimately about acquisition of energy and resources
this one is taking a form that no one anticipated
all wars are ultimately about acquisition of energy and resources
this one is taking a form that no one anticipated
all wars are ultimately about acquisition of energy and resources
this one is taking a form that no one anticipated
all wars are ultimately about acquisition of energy and resources
this one is taking a form that no one anticipated
all wars are ultimately about acquisition of energy and resources
this one is taking a form that no one anticipated
all wars are ultimately about acquisition of energy and resources
this one is taking a form that no one anticipated
Got it!
why inject babies?
why inject babies?
why inject babies?
why inject babies?
why inject babies?
at least you’ve figure out cut and paste eddy
well done
I guess Gail will delete that comment when she spots it
At this point we have to conclude Gail must enjoy watching you two bickering.
Her version of FE’s “I like to watch”?
Not caring is the third option.
well Kow—if you think it has literary merit
who am I to argue?
Correct – norm has acknowledged the comment — therefore I know he has read it.
Mission Accomplished.
Is the war Russia against Ukraine then also about energy/resources?
As far as that is concerned, Russia actually has the best starting position of all.
Perhaps it is not “every” war after all.
I would guess that it is rather a kind of “preventive war” for Russia in order not to end up in a significantly worse situation in the future. (in which it is possibly then again about resources).
But with all the misinformation these days, it’s hard to form a reasonable opinion anymore anyway.
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Russia not cooperating with Norway? Perhaps Russia doesn’t have the spare manpower and other things needed to help Norway any more. Russia doesn’t need the products Norway wants to sell, particularly, either.
Seems BAU will not exist come winter… it’s being unplugged
https://i0.wp.com/expose-news.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/image-208.png
“Confirmed: 70K people dead within 28 Days of Covid-19 Vaccination in England and 179K dead within 60 Days” – The Daily Exposé summarises the ONS data on deaths following Covid vaccination.
https://expose-news.com/2022/05/29/70k-dead-28-days-covid-vaccination-2/
hahahahaha
There must be another explanation to these 70K deaths. We all know those vaccines are safe to use, with no side effects.
“We do not know if monkeypox can be contained, warns WHO” – Europe is the “epicentre of the largest and most geographically widespread monkeypox outbreak ever reported” outside of Africa, say the scaremongers at the WHO
https://archive.ph/IWP8X
Over 4,000 Non-Covid Excess Deaths in England and Wales in Last Four Weeks, ONS Data Show
https://dailysceptic.org/2022/05/31/over-4000-non-covid-excess-deaths-in-england-and-wales-in-last-four-weeks-ons-data-show/
https://dailysceptic.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/image-92.png
I estimate that at this rate the UEP will generate 2 million posts by Eddy. At 100 posts a day, that is about 30 years.
he’ll manage that by about 2025
just cut down a bit on zedding time
Additional signs that the world is going to face this like another pandemics, with all details included.
Although port states are suggesting calm, it will probably happen the opposite.
(Splash)
”Port states urged to avoid ‘knee-jerk’ reactions in wake of spread of monkeypox.”
https://splash247.com/port-states-urged-to-avoid-knee-jerk-reactions-in-wake-of-spread-of-monkeypox/
(Splash)
Pedal power: Colombo (Sri Lanka) dockworkers issued with bicycles as fuel shortages cripple local economy
https://splash247.com/pedal-power-colombo-dockworkers-issued-with-bicycles-as-fuel-shortages-cripple-local-economy/
Looks like the days of Chairman Mao in China ….maybe a bicycle, a radio and one set of clothing and a flat with two bowels of rice and something veggie and you will be HaPpY.
When it comes to America, please let me know…
It didn’t say anything about oats.
(TrasportoEuropa)
Container shipping will worsen this summer, worse than 2021.
https://www.trasportoeuropa.it/notizie/marittimo/in-estate-peggiorera-il-trasporto-marittimo-di-container/
Nothing to ship back from Europe?
Italian ship sized.
Of course it is a sad news for Italy, but we could not expect that if we size their ships, they don’t.
https://www.ship2shore.it/it/shipping/putin-mette-le-mani-sulla-nave-di-cosulich_81196.htm
seized
On the heels of Iran seizing Greek-flagged ships in retaliation for the seizure of their own ships and oil.
What happens when ships stop moving oil? Time to turn it up to 11.
Comprehensive analysis of mortality in Florida proves the COVID mass vaccination program must be stopped immediately.
https://metatron.substack.com/p/an-important-message-for-governor