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My background is as a casualty actuary. I am used to looking at data from standard sources and trying to make some sense of it. I am hesitant to take someone else’s word for what the data show because I know that it is easy for mistakes to creep in. In this post, I will provide observations based on data from the databases of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Johns Hopkins University. Hopefully, some of these observations will prove insightful.
I am aware that the proper reference for COVID is “COVID-19.” In this post, I have elected to use the shorter reference, except when shown in an exhibit prepared using software developed by someone else (Figure 3).
[1] Recent data show that COVID vaccines don’t really prevent a person from catching and passing along the virus that causes COVID. The CDC has recently changed its guidance to reflect the fact that the vaccines mostly reduce the chance of severe illness. Vaccines are still recommended by the CDC, not because they reduce transmission, but because they may reduce COVID-related healthcare costs.
It is clear from Figure 1 that the big initial push for vaccine delivery peaked around April 2021. The rollout was substantially accomplished by July 2021. Then there was a second, lower peak, related primarily to boosters in the November 2021 to January 2022 period.
Figure 2 shows the pattern of newly reported COVID cases, relative to the first round of COVID vaccinations, based on data reported to the Johns Hopkins University database.
Clearly, the first round of vaccinations did not put an end to new COVID cases. In fact, the CDC started becoming concerned about transmission among the vaccinated as early as July 2021. At that time, it started recommending that everyone wear a mask in conditions that represented high transmission. It also began using the term breakthrough infection to describe the (hopefully uncommon) condition of coming down with COVID after being vaccinated.
In fact, back when the Delta wave hit in the fall of 2021, it was possible to blame at least part of the problem on the lesser-vaccinated Southern part of the US. The well-vaccinated Northeast seemed to fare relatively much better (Figure 3).
Figure 3 indicates that a quite different situation occurred when the Omicron variant hit close to the beginning of 2022. The heavily vaccinated Northeast clearly led the way, both in timing and in the number of COVID cases relative to population. The relatively less vaccinated South was much lower, close to the Midwest in its number of cases, relative to population.
The Omicron variant is very different from the original Wuhan version of the virus. This difference between virus variants is at least part reason that current mRNA vaccines fail to block transmission of the Omicron virus. Instead, current vaccines mostly reduce severe symptoms. This is very similar to the explanation we have heard when getting influenza vaccines each year. Researchers make a guess with respect to which particular strains will be circulating the following year. The level of protection will vary, depending upon whether the researchers’ guesses prove to be accurate the following year.
There are also indications from patterns elsewhere (and from theory) that it is not good practice to vaccinate at the time a virus is already starting to circulate widely. The booster vaccinations that took place in November and December 2021 (Figure 1) may have inadvertently raised, rather than lowered, their recipients’ chances of catching COVID. But, of course, the illness would be (on average) relatively mild. This lower severity of outcome is to be expected, partly because the mutated virus seems to be less virulent than the Wuhan COVID virus, and partly because the vaccines tend to reduce the severity of the disease.
The CDC started moving in the direction of treating vaccinated and unvaccinated people alike back in July 2021. Now, with the evidence from the Omicron wave coming in, it has had no choice but to move even further in the direction of treating everyone alike. For example, for domestic travel, the CDC recommends tests for both vaccinated and unvaccinated travelers if there is a concern about COVID. Recent CDC recommendations with respect to the wearing of masks do not depend upon vaccine status, either.
The idea of requiring everyone to be vaccinated likely originated from the cost-savings and profits that were expected to occur if people could be vaccinated and kept out of hospitals. Employers were very much in favor of such cost-savings because their workers likely would be able to stay on the job more of the time. Insurance companies were in favor of such an approach as well, because it would lower health care claim costs. Hospitals and physicians were in favor of the recommended COVID vaccines because physicians could perform more elective surgery (and thus make more money) if the hospitals were not full of COVID patients. Of course, the drug companies selling vaccines were in favor of selling more vaccines, too.
Furthermore, we know from prior experience with viruses that the ability to stop transmission with a vaccine varies greatly from virus to virus. Forecasting that any proposed vaccine will prevent transmission is a very “iffy” proposition. The viruses that cause the common cold, HIV and SARS are related (in some way) to the virus that causes COVID. Despite decades of research, none of these viruses has a successful vaccine. This suggests that COVID cannot be stopped by a vaccine, either. We also know, in general, that if a virus jumps from an animal to human hosts, transmission can only be stopped if all of the animal hosts are successfully vaccinated, as well.
[2] COVID vaccines used in the US do not seem to have done much to reduce total COVID deaths.
Vaccinations started in December of 2020, but there were about 20% more COVID deaths in 2021 than in 2020. Part of the problem is that after the Delta peak in deaths in September, deaths never retreated to zero, or close to zero. COVID deaths immediately began increasing with the Omicron peak. While there was a lull during March 2022 in reported cases (Figures 2 and 3), data for April and May seem to indicate that reported cases are again on an upward path.
If today’s vaccines really worked as people initially hoped, I would expect to see a lot more progress in reducing new cases than shown to date.
[3] Data from OurWorldInData.org provides excess mortality indications for five age groupings. This data indicates that Ages 15-64 were particularly hard hit by the last two waves of COVID (Delta and Omicron). Ages 85+ were hit very lightly.
Since these charts are for all causes of death combined, they will reflect deaths that might have occurred due to other problems of the 2020 to 2022 period, in addition to COVID deaths. For example, increased suicides and homicides would be included, as would a rise in drug overdoses and motor vehicle accidents. If there are deaths stemming from the use of vaccines, these deaths would be included in the total deaths from all causes, as well.
The rise in deaths in the Ages 15-64 grouping is particularly striking. This group is known for being more likely to be depressed by the events of the day. The base number of expected deaths is relatively lower than for the older ages. This allows the deaths from newly increased causes to magnify the total death rate of the period by a greater factor. Life insurance companies have been complaining about the high numbers of deaths experienced on their policies, predominantly for this age group.
The strikingly low deaths in the Ages 85+ group in 2021 may reflect the working of the vaccine. There might be other causes as well. Some of the weaker members of this group likely died in 2020, leaving fewer to die in 2021. This lower death rate may also reflect the impact of antibodies gained from catching COVID in 2020. People included in Ages 85+, more frequently than younger age groups, lived in care homes of various kinds during 2020. In this setting, they were more exposed to the early rounds of COVID than those living in home settings. Thus, they had more of a chance to develop antibodies from catching the illness.
[4] If we prepare charts showing provisional mortality data for 2021, together with similar indications for prior years, we can see how US mortality rates have been changing for different age groups. We can also see the relative role of COVID cases in these changes.
The CDC data show mortality rates based on deaths from all causes. For the years 2020 and 2021, it gives a separate indication of mortality associated with COVID. The orange line represents what the mortality would be if all COVID deaths (using a broad definition of COVID death, based on COVID appearing as “any cause” on the death certificate) were removed.
COVID vaccines were not available until mid-December 2020, and then for only a very small group, so the difference in the orange and blue lines at the 2020 point represents the number of COVID deaths for the age group, before the vaccines became available. The 2021 difference between the two lines represents the number of deaths from COVID taking into account whatever vaccines were used for this age group. We might expect the gap between the blue and orange lines to become smaller in 2021 than in 2020 if the vaccines given to the particular age group (or the prior antibodies from catching the illness) were making a significant change in reducing COVID cases in 2021.
Looking at Figure 6, COVID has essentially no impact on babies under Age 1. The total number of deaths seemed to drop more than usual in 2020, perhaps partly because mothers were at home more. For Ages 1-4, death rates are up in 2021, but not because of COVID. COVID seems to play practically no role in the mortality of Ages 5-14 and at most a very minor role for Ages 15-24. For the latter group, mortality is significantly up in both 2020 and 2021, perhaps because of more suicides and risky behavior resulting in death (such as car accidents and drug overdoses).
We can see similar patterns to what we saw for Ages 15-24 in the chart above, but with progressively more COVID in the mix of causes leading to the uptick in the overall death rates. The share of COVID cases in the mix rises in 2021 relative to 2020 for all of these age groupings, despite the vaccines and prior immunity which should start building up (if immunity is truly “durable,” something that is not always the case).
It is only when we get to these oldest ages that death rates stop increasing in 2021. In fact, when the impact of COVID deaths is removed, the death rates seem to be improving. These age groups tended to get the vaccine early. They also lost quite a few sickly members in 2020, when the first round of COVID hit. The remaining group may be in somewhat better health than the original mix. Also, as mentioned in Section [3], they may also have more antibodies from actually catching COVID during 202o, while living in a care home.
[5] We can perhaps get an inkling of what is going wrong with death rates by comparing deaths by cause for January 2020, January 2021, and January 2022, based on monthly provisional death data.
A sample of one month is not very much, but January tends to be bad for mortality because the cold weather encourages dry indoor conditions, especially in the colder parts of the country. People tend to stay inside more because of cold weather. Vitamin D levels tend to be low because of lower sunlight exposure. Communicable disease deaths, including those of COVID, tend to be high at this time of year.
Looking at Figure 9, the first thing we notice is that total January 2022 deaths from natural causes are still outrageously high compared with January 2020 deaths. These deaths exclude deaths from suicides, drug overdoses, car accidents and many other unnatural causes that we know are trending up substantially, so the overall situation is probably even worse than natural death indications would suggest.
One thing we notice is that heart disease deaths seem to be trending higher. This could be a fluke, or it might be caused by COVID or the vaccines (or both). Investigation might be useful.
Cancer deaths, at least based on this tiny sample, seem to be flat. This suggests that fears of a rapid rise in cancer deaths because of vaccine-related issues may be unwarranted.
COVID deaths in January 2022 are down from their very elevated level in January 2021.
Cerebrovascular diseases, diabetes and kidney disease deaths all are higher, in this very small sample. These diseases would all seem to possibly be influenced by a greater number of COVID cases or perhaps by side effects associated with vaccines or with treatments. Researchers interested in these topics should be aware that data are being collected that might give insight into changes in the number of deaths associated with these causes.
One thing that alarmed me when I looked at the CDC’s list of “selected” natural causes is that the list of diseases for which data is given is not very complete. One grouping that clearly has been omitted is diseases of the liver. I would strongly suspect that deaths from diseases of the liver are rising, if people have been staying at home and drinking more alcoholic beverages.
[6] Conclusions and ideas for further examination.
Clearly, the CDC has a huge quantity of data that can be examined if anyone wants to put the time and energy into looking at it. Too often researchers coming from the biological sciences do not stop and think about using whatever data is available to support or refute their ideas, at least based on the evidence to date.
The significant increases in mortality for the many age groups between 15 and 64 would seem to suggest that something is going badly wrong. Someone should be examining these changes. If part of the problem is that vaccines are having serious side effects, this can perhaps be seen by analyzing deaths by cause for these age groups.
The lack of COVID cases in the youngest age groupings (babies and Ages 1-4) would suggest that vaccines are not really needed for these age groupings. Babies don’t excessively fill hospitals with COVID cases. Training their immune systems to look for a long-extinct version of the virus cannot be very helpful in the long run.
If the underlying purpose of vaccines is to help the profitability of big companies, hospitals, doctors and vaccine-makers, this makes a big difference in our understanding of what we are being told. Clearly, the government is also a big employer; its ability to stay within its budget is enhanced by holding down the hospital and other medical costs of its employees. For example, if the government wants the hospitalization costs and work lost by those in the US Army and US Navy to be as low as possible, it will mandate vaccines for these employees. The CDC, being a government agency, cannot help but be at least somewhat influenced by what government leaders are demanding when interpreting scientific evidence.
The government cannot explain that the reason it wants everyone to be vaccinated has essentially nothing to do with disease transmission, without upsetting many people, so it publicizes its change in stance with respect to vaccines as little as possible. Businesses do not want it known that their reason for demanding vaccines is to hold down their own COVID healthcare costs, so they are not anxious to publicize the underlying reason, either. Thus, the vast majority of citizens are not aware of the fact that even with boosters, their chance of catching COVID and passing it along to others is still very high. Studies seem to indicate that boosters may provide an individual person with a short window (6 weeks, or so) of lower likelihood of catching COVID, but the overall effect is not enough to reduce the overall pattern of disease transmission.
If a vaccine against Omicron is developed, we need to be aware that there is a high probability that by the time the vaccine is widely distributed, the virus will have mutated sufficiently that its only benefit will be to somewhat reduce the severity of whatever version of COVID is prevalent at the time the next wave of cases appears. Thus, we cannot hope that with a better-directed vaccine, it will make any substantial difference in disease transmission. Thus, we should expect that the major benefit will always be “reduced healthcare costs with respect to COVID.”
There are quite a few people who have discovered from reading on-line articles that there are ways of potentially reducing the severity of COVID besides receiving the vaccine. These include raising vitamin D levels in advance of contracting COVID and taking any number of common, inexpensive drugs (including aspirin) if the disease does hit. They also recognize that the long-term effects of the vaccines are unknown. For example, if repeated too many times, the vaccines may damage the immune system, according to some analyses. The views of these vaccine-refusers need to be respected. The vaccine-refusers can easily be turned into scapegoats.
“Germany, Austria, Italy and the Netherlands announced their plans to step up the use of coal for power generation”
https://www.rt.com/news/557940-european-country-warns-collapse/
How DARE THEY! people are suffering, people are dying!
The drama could escalate. Finland boasts that it is totally up for a lengthy war with Russia just like that in the east of UKR. That really would be something to see. LOL Russia would no doubt take the gloves off unlike in UKR.
> Finns are ready to fight any Russian attack, says armed forces chief
Finland has prepared for decades for a Russian attack and would put up stiff resistance should one occur, its armed forces chief has said. The Nordic country has built up a substantial arsenal. But aside from the military hardware, Gen Timo Kivinen said, a crucial factor is that Finns would be motivated to fight. “The most important line of defence is between one’s ears, as the war in Ukraine proves at the moment,” Kivinen said in an interview.
“We have systematically developed our military defence precisely for this type of warfare that is being waged there [in Ukraine], with a massive use of firepower, armoured forces and also air forces,” Kivinen said. “Ukraine has been a tough bite to chew [for Russia], and so would be Finland.“
A hundred thousand Finns were killed during the two wars Finland fought against the Soviet Union, and it lost a tenth of its territory.
The nation of 5.5 million has a wartime troop strength of 280,000, with 870,000 trained as reservists. It did not abolish military conscription for males as many other western nations did after the end of the cold war.
It has also built one of Europe’s strongest artillery arsenals and stocked up on cruise missiles with a range of up to 370km (230 miles). It spends 2% of its GDP on defence, a level higher than many Nato countries.
82% of respondents in an 18 May poll by the defence ministry said they would be willing to participate in national defence if Finland was attacked.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/22/finns-are-ready-to-fight-any-russian-attack-says-its-armed-forces-chief
I just leave this one here.
“Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.”
— Sun Tzu
I think that everyone already knows what is liable to happen to Finland if it insists on joining NATO. There is not going to be any pretence about what happens next.
The ‘self-referential’ system that is reality is going bear down hard on the Finns. But hey, r/pacious primates are gonna do what they gonna do, and the self-entitled Finnish princesses are just going to have to cope with that.
Russia agreed to allow Finland to independently exist after WWII only in so far as it committed itself to neutrality in perpetuity. I truly hope that the Finns make a noble and lengthy stand for their sovereignty, and show the world what they are made of.
The Finns in 2022 are not the Finns of 1939
Yup; the Finns and Swedes gonna Finn and Swede.
Btw; didn’t Churchill and Stalin cut a deal making northern Sweden part of Russia (in Jalta)?
‘Belarusify’ the cap of the north?
Or total demilitarization perhaps?
The mind boggles.
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the Finnish soldiers will start their days eating oats.
the princesses in the Russian army will have no chance.
Finland will lead NATZO to worldwide glory.
the Finnish r/pacious primates gonna primate all the way to Moscow, then beyond.
Finland soon will have a Pacific coastline.
just wait and see.
que sera sera.
Good news: I saved one Heineken from yesterday.
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Well; let’s wish them the best of luck and no complaining once the first firecrackers cancels the little luxuries and conveniences from the lives of the Finnish and Swedish self entitled rapacious primate princesses.
Question is; how far is far away from the loonie house. Reckon there is an alien spaceship that could beam me up?
https://youtu.be/WB27bqr7kJQ
one day you’re cranking oats and munching pedals, and the next day the Russian army has crossed the border into your country.
your English is good.
how about Alaska?
Is the Bering strait properly demilitarized?
Anything apart from gnarly polar bears and bone chilling winters that slap my princess rear end (year) around?
However, does one need to be vaxxed for entering the US?
Ask Novak Djokovic
Show me the people who have chosen war? Not one have the people chosen war. The so called leaders choose war. “finland”. What is “finland”. It is a place where people live. Perhaps they hate Russia. Perhaps they have good reason. That doesnt matter. War exists only because their is a us and a them. Let all who embrace that go to war. THe thing called justice is abused very much. Grow food. Help the children. Live your life.
I have a friend who is Ukrainian. He dislikes Russians very much. He is all for the USA going all in. I have no disrespect for him but him first. Him first. I will wish him all the luck of the blood and sword and it will be sincere. He is a quite large and plucky individual. I will labor and grow food. But guess what. He will not go. These things… Ancient feuds. I know not.
Having native blood should I seek revenge? Revenge is a endless cycle. We have our lives. We place our energy. Spook central. MRNA vendors. Dual purpose biological developers. They do not have my trust. Is every evil ok to create if it is directed at “them”? Every filthy nasty thing that is is not dark for darkness is natural but filthy beyond the idea of dark? Gatling guns. Directed at “their” children. Them first! Spooks first! I wish them much blood and glory! Is their gom jabber sharp? OH Yes. How can i harm you? Let me count the ways. Cut and the blade is not even seen. Very very sharp.
Let them go. Every last spook. Who is stopping them? Not me. Let them express what is in their hearts. As men not wraiths in shadow. Mano au mano. Their is honor in that. A willing foe exists. Men can look in their childrens eyes. Wraiths can not.
Men develop hardness. They develop honor. If it goes awry they become what they hate. They become something much worse than what they hate. It is all they are. Honor is lost. But ha ha the gom jabber is sharp. A million gom jabbers. Every floor every wall gom jabbers. For them! Traps for THEM! Is that honor? Is “ha ha” honor? Explain this to me.
True justice is not in mans hands.
I have absolutely zero interest in your moral posturing. And I could not care less whether you are native American. I imagine that you welcome that frankness.
The Finns are up for it, so let them get on with it.
“82% of respondents in an 18 May poll by the defence ministry said they would be willing to participate in national defence if Finland was attacked.”
Popcorn time!
I have a lot of interest in your moral posturing. But that’s just me. I am this literal boiling caldron of interest in other people’s moral posturing. So posture away, and please don’t mind Mirror.
I’m such a boiling caldron of interest that I’m even interested in Mirror’s moral posturing—you know, the moral posturing he doesn’t even realize he’s indulging in because he doesn’t “believe” in morality. After all, it’s just a social construct, right?
Here, Mirror’s moral posture is one of letting the Finns get on with it. Not only will he not attempt to dissuade them from going to war, he will happily hold their coats while they do it. He is in the position of a man who can an accident waiting to happen—the bridge is down, the railway tracks are broken. The train is coming around the bend.
But Mirror is not bothered. He won’t throw the stop signal, or make a phone call, or run onto the tracks waving a red flag. He’s only interested in the spectacle. And he wants to see it with popcorn. He has no heart. He is unconcerned. He doesn’t give two hoots about the suffering of others. That’s all that needs to be said about Mirror.
Re. opinion polls, a good PR company can get any result they want out of them. But 80% in favor of defending their country if it is attacked sounds a credible figure. After all, the Finns are reasonably ethnically homogeneous and living under Russian rule isn’t very a attractive proposition for them. I imagine the Irish would have an even larger majority in favor of resisting the British if the latter invaded again.
But as to the question of whether they should they join NATO and poke the Russian bear and ultimately take part in a war to invade and dismember Russia. At this point in time, I imagine that the Finns would be a lot more reticent to endorse that.
The Finns have no clue what life is when the little conveniences and luxuries goes up in a fury of sparks, fire and smoke as the first shells and missiles hits the transformers.
I guess the egotistical fantasies will follow the same destiny as the iron cores collapsing on themselves. Hungry, cold, miserable and embroiled in war.
80% wants to defend against the russkies and 80% wants to join NATO.
The problem isn’t the Will to Sovereignty. The problem here is a clash between the russkie and the Finn WtP.
Shouldn’t have shipped the armaments to ukulele in hindsight…
‘Upper Vodka Belt’ broads are quite hot if they don’t end up as obese rear end miss piggies, which happens more frequently than princesses insisting on turning the cranks and chucking in the oats. Which is extremely rare these days.
Repeat after me:
SELF ENTITLED RAPACIOUS PRIMATE PRINCESSES!
YOLO!
MOAR!
TRYHARD!
PERKELE!
Finland FTW!
🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮
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Door-is for norm! let me arrange that one for norm … poor norm….
Would be terrible to see another world war fought in continental Europe. Participants scrapping simply to diminish themselves and each other while third parties elsewhere watching the spectacle chime into the aftermath at the right moment to do the meaningful mopping up. It’s when a winner of the initial conflict gets raped scenario. Both lose.
If a third party is far enough removed or undamaged they’ll be able to gain from any conflict, That’s the trick isn’t it. Of course the whole thing could go nuclear. Guess that’s always on the cards.
A late geography teacher I remember with some respect had a favourite meme, He’d stretch out his arms and say ‘As long as there is a nice fire happening somewhere else in the world, and we can sell some nice lines of arms, Ahhhh, nice and warm, just right! Big smile on his face.
In reality, those encouraging such conflict externally are the truer villains and are playing a gambit with everyone involved. Someone on OFW once wisely put it like this, When we analyse the reasons conflicts are being encouraged we must ask ‘Who benefits?
We should also perhaps ask, which groups are simply being conditioned to act out of fear and insecurity, in other words ‘played’
We should be able to see this process clearly by now and procure an antidote, which usually involves something like whistle blowing or questioning our collective sanity.
Maybe that’s a sub function of places like OFW. One that hopefully sends the procurers of evil intents back to the drawing board or provides opportunity to challenge or have challenged one’s own thoughts and views.
There always has been insecurity at play and being exploited in our world. Today it’s increasing and affecting more more of us, so we’re getting to a dangerous place.
I like to consider this a precept, When human sentients put energy into creating perceived security out of their actual insecurity it creates even more insecurity.
Building a large arsenal might make it more unlikely others risk an attack, but it also makes others insecure and therefore directly creates an adversary. It also reveals you have something others might want. So a show of strength can be a show of something else too.
Conflict is natural, it happens all the time on a smaller scale in the threads, here on OFW with all the ‘discussions’ we get into, very intertwining for us all, It’s a kind of juicy entertainment, yes?
What are the alternative more beneficial characteristics that a human sentient can develop within themselves AND others, that don’t lead to destroying themselves and each other? Would that be too boring. I Love Peace and Peace is as boring as.
Hmmm, Timmy is obsessed with me. The tension keeps building. I suppose that I should take it as a compliment. I knew when I hit ‘post’ that Timmy would be on my coattails and trying to verbally ravage me.
“Here, Mirror’s moral posture is one of letting the Finns get on with it. Not only will he not attempt to dissuade them from going to war”
Oh right, maybe I ‘should’ moral posture on this thread, maybe post a coke advert, and you know what, NATO and Russia will just desist from war, cuz… Mirror posted a coke ad.
No, what I should do is ‘throw the stop signal, or make a phone call, or run onto the tracks waving a red flag”. I could post a link to a ‘stop sign’, or get on that phone to Biden and Putin, get over to Finland and warn them that there is a war ahead. That should sort it!
No, you know what, I am not completely daft, and I will do the rational thing, and let them get on with it. If they want to fight each other, then that is their choice, and none of my business. If it concerns me then it is as a spectacle.
And that is not a ‘moral posture’, not every act of will is ‘moral’ – otherwise nothing would be ‘immoral’. Rather my act is amoral, and the illusion of ‘morality’ does not come into it.
“He has no heart. He is unconcerned. He doesn’t give two hoots about the suffering of others. That’s all that needs to be said about Mirror.”
That is quite a passionate crescendo that Timmy has worked himself up to. Feel better now, does he?
everyone’s morals are improved through the certainty that nobody else has any.
“What are the alternative more beneficial characteristics that a human sentient can develop within themselves AND others, that don’t lead to destroying themselves and each other”
Yes,
Curiosity, calculated risk and making short work of primate insecurities.
But how is that to happen in a species where the Tryhards are placating the MOARons? A monkey world where the perceived statuses and prestige’s is of more ‘importance’ than that which is weird and wonderful.
It’s all retch and no vomit in perpetuity.
🤢
The “war” problem has been solved since the dawn of time. It is called a game.
Let ‘em ‘western’ kiddos play simulated wars against ‘eastern’ kiddos. Paintball and air soft on a grander scale.
“Neutral” observers/game masters disables the equipment and “respawns” soldiers/equipment according to the agreed upon rules of the game.
That would be fun to watch on YouTube and to follow the twitch live stream from your favorite tank crew bantering in ‘murican or russkie.
Losing a “game” means paying or giving up territory/assets IRL.
Timmy on his moral crusade to avert the evils of the world. He will be storming the ‘holy land’ next to set them right.
And when I get myself over to Finland, I will be sure to take my ‘stop’ sign with me!
Cuz… that is the ‘moral’ act according to Timmy.
‘STOP!’
Peace and Love are boring and it takes shit loads of fossil fuels or other abundant energy to drive the conditions that cultivate these qualities. People having not experienced the alternative waste such states and resources or get bored and start conflicts., that’s ironic yes?
I guess I try to remember that when behind the wheel zooming about.
Peace is a product that requires inputs, not something good to squander or misplace because of idle thoughts. When it’s miss placed is when we know we just stepped into some dodo. Not having any is when possibilities diminish and the big Happy goes away.
Politicians are good at stepping in da bad stuff or running out of the possibilities that allow it or exploit insecurity that it might or will run out and they promise it all the time..the ‘it’ being peace.
We know everything eventually changes, ‘suffers entropy’ When things are good, just knowing it can be suffering. In such states cherish , cherish, cherish every moment.
It’s all fun and games until someone runs out of gas. Kind of the moto of OFW
quite correct Bobby
Europe had a war every generation, (sometimes more than one) until 1945
what changed in 1945?
abundance for all–supplied by fossil fuels.
Now Russia sees energy running out, so must grab the food resource of Ukraine, before anyone else does.
Hit ler invaded Ukraine for the same reason in 1940.
Update from Geert:
Start listening at the 20 minute mark if you don’t have much time. He states that BA 4&5 is still evolving and that in 6 to 7 weeks we will see it evolve into a much more deadlier variant crashing the healthcare systems of the world. He said in two months we will be living in a different world.
You really need to listen from the 38:45 minute mark down to the 52 minute mark where he’s predicting the end of western civilization.
Well, others are also predicting trouble starting in the fall. but he states that the crisis will start with hospitals collapse. I suggest that coming october he is either a true seer or perhaps someone who this forum needs to ignore. I think the real trouble starts in spring 2023.
In spring 2023, shortfall of harvest in 2022 will start becoming evident. It seems like that would lead to indirect economic problems.
mid 2020s drb. Covid has little to do with it.
like it or not, the world still pivots on the US dollar.
but the dollar, like all units of currency is a token of energy exchange.
It is an energy crisis, not a political crisis, or a money crisis. Not enough surplus energy is being pumped into the system to keep it viable. (ie to pay sufficient wages)
Biden, while well meaning, does not possess the means to ‘fix’ what’s wrong with the USA. (neither does anyone else). He knows though, that spreading wealth around more equably will keep things going a while longer.
But that of course is ‘socialism’.
So the unthinkers are likely to vote right wing in 2024— might be Trump, or some other wingnut, on the ‘promise’ that all can be made well again. After all–didn’t ‘capitalism’ create the ‘American dream?’
Er—no it didn’t, oil did.
It will take a year or so for reality to sink in that the US economic system can’t be fixed, particularly as fuel gets too expensive to use .
that will start to affect food supplies, much more than now, and kick off social unrest at a serious level,
that will seriously destabilise the country, and thus the dollar currency.
i might be out by a few years (I might even be totally wrong)
But I think 2030 would be pushing the absolute limit
I agree, this was all building up even before Covid came on the scene. We have been warned repeatedly, that natural resources are on the decline as well as energy. We didn’t listen, we kept kicking the can down the road, pretending the problem did not exist.
Covid was the Black Swan that set the wheels into motion much faster than previously thought. Then we saw how stoopid world leaders reacted and began beating the war drums. You have a clown like BoJo leading Britain, the US has a senile old man who needs cue cards just so he can function in public. Canada has it’s own idi.ot, while Ukraine is being run by the class clown.
This never ends well. If History has taught us anything, it ends in civil unrest, revolutions and war.
More like DeSantis who they will think represents Gen X.
wild and wacky beliefs seem to be endemic in politics of any stripe
Hospitals are already on the edge at least here in NZ… same happening in UK… and that’s without the deadly mutation … it will go to pieces very quickly if GVB is correct.
Hard to have sympathy for sad new zealand. If you are planning to visit this decaying wreck of a country try not to stand or sit towards the front of a shop or cafe. Ram-raids are happening constantly. There is no reliable medical treatment for you even if you have insurance.
Scribble faces are everywhere and they are extremely violent. I hear whispers of re-emerging cannibalism in some of the provinces [to be verified]. Food prices are so high.
Powdered fentanyl has been found here and many hospitalised as a result as they try to escape the reality of daily life.
Sad.
Did I mention that the new private hospital in QT was closed when I tried to go there on Sunday…
I was at the doors on the right — and there was not a soul in that big lobby area
https://453388-1419636-raikfcquaxqncofqfm.stackpathdns.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/SCH-Sub-hero-169-1280×720.jpg
Geert is “sticking his neck out” with a forecast such as this. If hospitals don’t become overfilled, then his forecast is clearly wrong.
There are “experts”, real or fictitious who like to dramatize. Yes, it is clear that something is wrong. I hear a lot of ambulance sirens lately. It is clear that there is a large crowd at the hospitals. It is clear that we see more wake/funerals in my place. We see there is an increase in insurance claims (medical and death).
Every country will proceed at different pace.
One simple bottom line … If EU does not start filling the gas these few weeks, they will never have the time to fill it in time for winter.
Geert may be right but the timing may be off.
Mass V-ing into a pandemic is like Mass P-ing into the wind.
It always comes right back to you.
Never mass V during a pandemic.
Here7s eight minutes of Geert Vanden Bossche talking with Bret Weinstein in that Bath hotel room with the Union Jack cushion and the big window overlooking the trees at the time of the COVID Better Way Conference 2022.
Besides not vaccinating into a pandemic, we will also learn the basics about clonal selection, the hypothesis which states that an individual lymphocyte (specifically, a B cell) expresses receptors specific to the distinct antigen, determined before the antibody ever encounters the antigen. Clonal selection one way your body manages to keep up with fast evolving pathogens and keep you safe.
Here you can find the latest interesting article from Antonio Turiel
‘new from the chaos’
He talks about the future ‘rationing’ system we will have in Europe that it is perfectly covered by Putin’s guiltiness. Ukraine war is the perfect excuse to cover worldwide limits of energy.
https://crashoil.blogspot.com/2022/06/cronica-del-caos-junio-de-2022.html
It is interesting to see that his previous article was a quote to Hyman G. Rickover speech. If I remember well it is a speech often quoted by Gail. I hope I’m not making a mistake.
https://crashoil.blogspot.com/2022/05/discurso-del-almirante-hyman-g-rickover.html
Yes, I do refer to Hyman Rickover’s speeches quite often. He recognized that there would be problems associated with higher cost of drilling. The issue was not simply prices rising endlessly, so all of the energy products could be expectorated.
I have had the impression, in the past, that Antonio Turiel has followed the standard “peak oil” view of prices rising endlessly, so that quite a bit more oil can be extracted. He may be moving more in the direction of, “Oops, we are having real problems now. These are being covered up by the Ukraine war.”
Thanks for your feedback.
Crack spreads failing to react to drop in crude price
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FWQGJHQXEAINSpG?format=jpg&name=small
Strange! The drop in price indirectly affecting the price the producers get more than the price the the refiners get.
WTI 109
Brent 115
so are they just failing to react to a temporary drop?
business/companies seem to always be slow to drop prices.
and then perhaps finally eventually reluctantly act.
why bother?
better to wait a bit.
110
116
The imbalance in crack spread is coming from the SPR releases keeping the price of oil low relative to demand for its refined product which can’t be released from a reserve like the SPR.
Good point! I hadn’t thought about it.
and SPR releases are due to end in a few months?
so refineries know this, and won’t react to short term WTI price drops, because they think higher prices are probably on the way?
111
117
Basically, refineries have zero incentive to slow down. They cannot meet consumer demand. So fuel margins are at record highs. As long as this persists, refiners, the main buyer of crude, have a historic incentive to not only buy, but to bring more capacity online. Anything.
The other factor, low VLCC rates, combined with big backwardation in the futures structure, shows that floating storage is low and supply of crude is insufficient.
Usually, VLCCs do best in an over supplied market, especially a contango structure, where on shore storage fills.
VLCCs are paradoxically a great hedge to a weakening oil macro. When market moves into contango, VLCC earnings improve as tonnage is taken out of the trading fleet for storage.
Anyway, of course there are other factors, but these are two things you can look at which are easy to verify and impossible to manipulate, both representing a hyper competitive, global, and mostly physical market, as opposed to oil futures or equities which are largely financial.
Here are some charts which illustrate oil market dynamics well.
Tonne miles for VLCCs are still close to the lows – this means supply crashed during covid and still hasn’t recovered.
Fleet has grown, but this has nothing to do with export activity.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FWH5xEoWQAIZ68h?format=jpg&name=medium
VLCCs carry bulk goods, like grain or ores or oil, don’t they?
I was thinking that trade in these cargos might have recovered since 2020, but it doesn’t look like this has happened based on your chart.
VLCC = Very Large Crude Carrier
So it is just crude that VLCCs carry. Good point. I sometimes forget what the acronyms stand for.
(The BMJ)
‘Infertility, recurrent pregnancy loss, and risk of stroke: pooled analysis of individual patient data of 618 851 women’
https://www.bmj.com/content/377/bmj-2022-070603
The variable ‘Covid–19 vaccine’ seems that has not been considered in the equation.
Too new a variable; not well tracked. Variable not politically correct.
glyphosate and glufosinate, another widely used herbicide sold under the brand Liberty, jumped more than 50% from last year, dealers said, padding profit at companies like Bayer AG, BASF SE and Corteva Inc.
The U.S. Agriculture Department said it heard from farmers and food companies concerned about whether agribusinesses are hiking prices for goods like chemicals, seeds and fertilizer to boost profit, not simply because of supply and demand factors. The agency has launched an inquiry into competition in the sector, and some watchdog groups said it is moving too slowly.
Agrichemical companies blame the COVID-19 pandemic, transportation delays, a lack of workers and extreme weather for shortages. Fertilizer and some seeds are also in short supply globally.
SUPPLY CHAIN STALLED
Off the charts’ chemical shortages hit U.S. farms
By Tom Polansek
CHICAGO (Reuters) – U.S. farmers have cut back on using common weedkillers, hunted for substitutes to popular fungicides and changed planting plans over persistent shortages of agricultural chemicals that threaten to trim harvests.
Spraying smaller volumes of herbicides and turning to less-effective fungicides increase the risk for weeds and diseases to dent crop production at a time when global grain supplies are already tight because the Ukraine war is reducing the country’s exports.
Interviews with more than a dozen chemical dealers, manufacturers, farmers and weed specialists showed shortages disrupted U.S. growers’ production strategies and raised their costs.
Shawn Inman, owner of distributor Spinner Ag Incorporated in Zionsville, Indiana, said supplies are the tightest in his 24-year career.
“This is off the charts,” Inman said. “Everything was delayed, delayed, delayed.”
Shortages further reduce options for farmers battling weeds that developed resistance to glyphosate, the key ingredient in the commonly used Roundup herbicide, after decades of overuse in the United Sates.
More difficulties are on the horizon, as BASF, which formulates glufosinate, told Reuters the supply situation will not improve significantly next year.
“It’s going to take more time than what our customers, farmers and retailers would have thought,” said Scott Kay, vice president of U.S. crops for BASF.
Tennessee farmer Jason Birdsong said he abandoned plans to plant soybeans on 100 acres after waiting months to receive Liberty he ordered from Nutrien Ag Solutions. He ultimately received less than half his order for 125 gallons and planted corn on the land instead. Birdsong said he is better able to control weeds in corn than soybeans.
Nutrien said numerous events stalled the supply chain during the pandemic and the company provided alternate solutions to customer
Let them eat weeds or green grass
Cows often prefer weeds. Sheep or goats will always prefer weeds. there are ways to reform agriculture, for a smaller population.
Hope PeeWee Edwin volunteers to be the one to make the population smaller
Weeds chock full of radioactive toxins…
Of course, corn need more fertilizer than soy beans. So, the farmer is trading one problem for another. Some farmers are going to get low production.
Famous Italian entrepreneur, Leonardo Dal Vecchio, has just died.
He hase been hospitalized one week ago for a pneumonia… not Covid-19 related of course…
https://www.iltempo.it/adnkronos/2022/06/27/news/-del-vecchio-era-ricoverato-al-san-raffaele-per-una-polmonite-non-covid–32183450/
I knew of a couple where both got vaxxed and both were hospitalized for pneumonia. The girl was ok but the guy almost died.
Interesting.
One co-worker that is rarely ill had a case of severe flu this winter, compounded with secondary infection that only got under control with serious anti-biotics…Many have caught covid, some multiple times in-spite of being vaccinated.
Another triple-jabbed colleague was ill 3 times this winter (though always something else than covid). His daughter was recently born with severe heart-related birth defect and already has surgery twice in her first 6 months. Not sure if the mother was also triple jabbed, but seems likely.
In addition I know of 3 instances of cancer-like onset in wider acquaintances circle: one elderly friend of my mum who already had cancer which was under control but accelerated and died recently. Dad of a friend needed colon surgery recently – no known previous cancer issues. Another one in his early forties were also cancer was recently diagnosed.
Could be coincidence, could be confirmation bias on my part,… there seem to be more sickness issues, but the real tell-tale will be if this continuous and increases next winter especially if another round of jabs is pushed….
Last heard is one out of three of us will come down with cancer of some form…
Still rather live here and now …going back to the Middle Ages soon
Why did people die young in the Middle Ages Shocking!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=buHKepz2cU0&t=40s
What till we return to those times and I can here you all 😱
Screaming.”I wish we had a Vaccine for that!’
GREENIES https://t.me/TommyRobinsonNews/36921
I presume Greta is not getting many speaking engagements this year.
How DARE THEY!!!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xVlRompc1yE&t=23s
Poor thing, wait till the real suffering, dying cones about because we ain’t got nuttin to eat
https://archive.ph/seCHl/805e250bea0e8640e33c39d50cab0ee2dd022f20.avif
What is the last date on this chart? My impression was that many commodity costs had recently taken a downward turn in June.
UK’s local builders disappearing in their thousands as costs soar
https://archive.ph/seCHl#selection-1475.0-1475.65
Sales volumes of building materials for April 2022 down 15% from April 2021
https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/news/view/strip-out-inflation-and-merchant-sales-are-now-falling
I am wondering if part of the problem of UK builders is related to the UK currency falling relative to other currencies.
World War Z was recommended to me – have started watching
This seems to be another hint (as is Utopia – came out around the same time) as to what is coming… and why UEP is necessary….
Plot – zombies are unleashed on the world and when the bite people they become zombies… who rampage ripping faces off… nobody is safe including the top govt officials… exactly what will happen if UEP fails and BAU collapses… they even mention no fuel or food … interesting how the Elders use the media to toy with us like this
Pay particular attention to “The Eighth Man”. I thought that was excellent, and something which should be widely adopted.
Other than the zombie hordes.. Z is a rather shite movie … I skipped through most of it
I believe parts of the movie were filmed in Auckland. The locals didn’t need make-up to play the zombies.
Eat bugs – or die? https://t.me/TommyRobinsonNews/36916
That is no doubt exactly what they plan, and quite soon – the pace is really picking up as they attack the food chain so obviously and crudely.
Except that the new foodstuffs will themselves be designed to weaken, sicken and kill a good % of the population.
Like the German camps and Russian gulag: enough to get some work/data out of us, but not enough for real health or much of a life.
Self-spreading ‘vaccines’ in this pseudo-food? You bet!
In an upcoming video Angelina will show how simple and economical it is to cook infant thighs in a solar oven.
Normalcy Bias and Cognitive Dissonance is something that people use to describe what is happening now.
Mass psychosis or mass formation can be used as well.
If you know the Titanic is sinking, will you leave the warm and comfortable dining area or staterooms and board the lifeboats? Shiver in cold and hope that people don’t laugh at you? Perhaps you are wrong, Titanic is unsinkable.
Vaccines. Perhaps it was a wrong decision in 2020/2021 to skip the vaccine. Perhaps we should take it. Unfortunately hind sight is 20/20
What if you are so fully invested in the vaccines and masks that you just “cannot comprehend” otherwise? Is that cognitive dissonance?
It is all a game/simulation.
Assume 30 years is one generation. How many ancestors do you have? 30 generations is 900 years. 30 generation means that you need to have 2^30 ancestors so that you can walk on earth today. What is 2^30? That is ONE BILLION people. If you go back until the time of Christ, 0BC, then what will that be 65 generations ? 36 quintillion people must be present at the time of Christ so that you can be walking day,
Possible?
Is it possible for a village/town/settlement to have constant population? Say 1000 in the village for 1000 years? I did a mathematical simulation to answer this question. Short answer, it is not possible. Either it goes exponential (when there is a lot of food and low death rate) or it goes bust and the entire village disappears. It is like a certainty that settlement grows in size until it hits a point where it is just to expensive to maintain that settlement and it goes downhill all the way until it disappears.
I am talking about organic growth/collapse, not like Rome/Istanbul/Constantinople/Changan where there were invaders and “foreigners” changing the dynamics.
People invade, move into and move out of villages too.
There are undoubtedly negative feedbacks at work to keep population from going exponential in either direction. They don’t always work though.
The number of ancestors we have is going to be less than the number of ancestors we theoretically could have because some of our ancestors procreated with their cousins, and probably with their parents, siblings, uncles, aunts too.
And even when distant cousins make children, those children will have less ancestors than the children of people who are totally unrelated.
And.. And… And… If we go back far enough, we are all each other’s cousins. Richard Dawkins even admits to having a cousin who is a chimpanzee.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg13818764-100-meet-my-cousin-the-chimpanzee/
As does Richard Lewin.
https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/science.3116670
Procreate with cousins. Let me share a story. We have a group of stray cats in our area where I feed them. They seem to be have children among themselves. The third generation cats were were odd. Their eyes were not really good and their features a little weird.
There are many studies being carried out the the genetic fitness of those who have “in-breeding”. It is bad. In my part of South East Asia, it is common for first or second cousin marriage. Genetic problem is common.
I felt that
(1) Genetic disease will be so prevalent after 5 generations that future generations is not possible.
(2) first cousin marriage is just a “convenient” way to try to explain away the impossible problem. I did another simulation/calculation where I state that every single generation, there is a first-cousin marriage (every single set of parents). It just reduce a little. IIRC, for a 30-generation calculation, it reduces from 2^30 to 2^24. It is still a lot of people.
(3) if we were to calculate back to the times of Toba volcano at 75,000 years, 2500 generations? 2^2500 ? Even if we were to reduce it via extreme first-cousin marriage, we reduce the number from 2^2500 to 2^500 ? 2^100, is it still too big a number?
First cousin marriage is just a convenient way of directly confronting the problem. There is no solution to this. It is just not possible. We have no ancestors.
I’ve seen suggestions that humans are an alien species that landed on Earth around 10,000 years ago (when civilization began).
We certainly do not resemble any other species on this planet
Really?
How about our “cousins”, you know the relatives monkey branching between trees?
A primate gonna primate.
It is what it is.
I think we are the defective offspring of an alien species. Rather than exterminate us, they simply sent all the stupid ones here.
Kinda like how Castro emptied the prisons and dumped them all on America hahaha
Nah, they just fiddled with an existing primate species to produce a tryhard/MOARon genetic hodgepodge doing their bidding, got what they wanted, and then they GTFO’d.
🛸 💨 💨 💨 🌍
CYA SUCKAHS!
But nah, the ‘aliens’ is just cope. We’ve been booming, busting, collapsing and bottlenecked in perpetuity.
THE ETERNAL RECURRENCE!
Of a failed species.
Stuck in the quagmire of limbo forever and ever.
🤣👍👍
More likely that.
Mother Nature never intended things to remain static, and has forced all living things into playing the genetic mutation game to adapt. If you get a bad gene, your offspring won’t make it. If you get a good gene then your reproductive fitness improves relative to all the other players. It’s like a sand dune which in aggregate may appear to move slowly, while all the time sand is being added and sand is being blown away.
If you get a bad gene, your offspring won’t make it. If you get a good gene then your reproductive fitness improves relative to all the other players.
So what you’re saying is it’s ALL in the genes BECAUSE IF you get a BAD one, no matter what efforts you make, you’re not going to leave decedents. BUT IF you get a GOOD one, you will leave more of them.
Which begs the question of what is a BAD gene and what is a GOOD gene? And the answer is, a BAD one is one that is going to stop you from leaving decedents and a GOOD one is one that is going to help you leave more of them.
Which is, of course, circular reasoning, explaining nothing.
If somebody leaves decedents, we say they have good genes, because the definition of good genes is genes that allow people to leave decedents.
Everyone alive today has ancestors (unless CTG is correct on this), which means we all must have good genes!
yup
i sometimes stop and think what my ancestors went through to put me here.
I think the flaw in that logic is that the ancestors you mention N generations ago caused a whole lot more people to exist than just you.
I think the flaw in that logic is that the ancestors you mention N generations ago caused a whole lot more people to exist than just you.
Make no sense. right?
You need billions of people before you so that you are here.. How can that be?
This will explain it to you. 🙂
Uh-Oh, what is happening in Canada? Access to information (FOI) request Shows the More Covid Injections, then the More Hospitalizations and the More Deaths; supports Trudeau’s 4 shots yet infection
https://palexander.substack.com/p/uh-oh-what-is-happening-in-canada
I have mentioned in the past that COVID is a medical Ponzi. The CDC/ NIH/ FDA/ Big Pharma need an expanding number of new “ injectees” to sustain the spike protein disease ( and whatever any other hitchhikers like graphene, nanolipids etc that are also injected). If new injectees are not found, then the natural course of SArsCov2 would be for it to burn out from the overpowering herd immunity.
“Germany Green Energy Crisis: Warning of “Lehman Like” Contagion” – Eric Worrall also reports in Watts Up With That? that Germany’s renewable policy-inspired energy insecurity has reached crisis levels, with the country’s Vice Chancellor warning of “Lehman like” economic contagion if energy prices rise any further.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/06/26/germany-green-energy-crisis-warns-of-lehman-like-contagion/
“Coal Burning Germany: Pay Poor Countries to Switch to Renewables” – Eric Worrall in Watts Up With That? says it’s difficult to cajole developing countries to abandon coal while reopening your own coal-fired power plants.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/06/25/coal-burning-germany-pay-poor-countries-to-switch-to-renewables/
Coal works (if it is available at a reasonable price), renewables do not.
“Dutch join Germany, Austria, in reverting to coal” – The Dutch joined Germany and Austria in reverting to coal power on Monday following an energy crisis provoked by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20220620-dutch-join-germany-austria-in-reverting-to-coal
Geeta the Troll angry!
If the Dutch an find coal (usually from Russia), it works!
https://youtu.be/v9QF-7VRsxA
Nah – it’s all or nothing
‘This’ was ‘predicted’?
DR RIMA LAIBOW VACCINE DEPOPULATION (AIRED IN 2009) (brandnewtube.com)
“100% PROOF THE SCAMDEMIC WAS PREPLANNED {30/12/2009} TO VACCINATE MAIM AND KILL YOU” ?
https://www.bitchute.com/video/s30mcUt7usxm/
Start around 05:27.
“Nearly 1M patients speak to pharmacists as surgery wait lists hit 4.3M” – The Mail reports that pharmacists saw a rise of 44% more patients turning to them for advice after failing to get a GP appointment, as another study reveals 4.3 million people are currently awaiting invasive surgery.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10954031/Nearly-1M-people-week-consult-pharmacist-GP-surgery-wait-lists-hit-4-3M.html
Same situation as NZ … best not to get sick.
What will the next slogan be in the UK?
‘Save pharmacists – get jabbed!’?
GP’s are only the 2nd/3rd class medical graduates anyway, and in many instances one might get better advice from an intelligent pharmacist.
This will all be very convenient, as cancer deaths arising from the vaxxes can all be blamed on GP-overload, leading to delays in referrals to consultants and ops.
I don’t think it is this way in the US. It may depend on the payment plan. Some people are eliminated because they cannot afford the deductible. Our health care system is terribly expensive.
Student Awarded £60,000 of Taxpayers’ Money to Research Whether Puppets are Racist
https://dailysceptic.org/2022/06/26/student-awarded-60000-of-taxpayers-money-to-research-whether-puppets-are-racist/
Covid’s Infection Fatality Rate Now Same as Seasonal Flu
https://dailysceptic.org/2022/06/26/new-analysis-covids-infection-fatality-rate-now-same-as-seasonal-flu/
I suppose this could be. We ask people to get vaccines for the seasonal flu, too. They don’t work very well, either.
this is priceless…
the hockey guy who urged me to get the covid vax – then urged me to get the flu vax… has been MIA for a few weeks — apparently he’s had a really serious flu infection (cuz VAIDS)… but he’s vaxxed right… hahaha unreal
Our teacher in Indonesia responded with this when I suggested avoiding the injections:
Here in Indonesia we must take the vaccine.
The first shot I was sick for 1 week but second shot I could not get up and couldn’t walk just sick like a dog l thought I was dying for nearly 30 days. Sweating so much I couldn’t even sleep my head hurt just so unbelievably with a cough that hurt so much I could not imagine it. I couldn’t even take food just water and some fruit and vitamins
Sounds like she’s been poisoned. Oh right – she has! I wonder what it feels like each time they force you to inject another dose….
Madness.
“Damn Barbarians” – New York Pride Celebration Inspires Twerking on a Traffic Light
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norm will enjoy that — like the good ol days right norm?
Just been reading an article praising the UK’s leading LGBTQ+ fire brigade.
Award-winning for their ‘inclusiveness’, apparently: no mention of professional competence or exceptional bravery in saving someone. Just being ‘inclusive’.
Imagine, a life-and-death situation, and a load of trannies and queers turn up in a truck painted all over with rainbows…..
This IS the film ‘Idiocracy’, is it not?
How strange… first you force the military to inject the experiment and deaths and injuries go through the roof… and now this…
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10951825/Army-Guard-troops-risk-dismissal-vaccine-deadline-looms.html
Surely you’d give them all exemptions if the plan was not extermination…
If the plan was extermination no one gets a free pass now lets say there is no extermination plan and it is all about profits the mrna is cheap and nasty and to hell with the consequences we just want da money.
Or, in the alternative, this VAXX enforcement, if carried through, could be a deliberate plan to thin the ranks of the National Guard so that when civil unrest breaks out, the fire will rage unchecked- exactly what the globalists want ( like defund the police) which is why I don’t dismiss all this “gun control” as a psyop – to scare people into buying even more guns and ammo. In the face of food shortages they will kill each other off while the Globalists will just sit in the cock fighting arena and view the spectacle from the safety of their yachts, bunkers, or private islands.
Russia Defaults on Foreign Debt for First Time Since 1918
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-06-26/russia-defaults-on-foreign-debt-for-first-time-since-1918?srnd=premium-asia
“defaults”
USA: “we blocked your bank account and declared you a deadbeat”
The Ruble rallied 1% on the news. No one gives a crap, everyone knows it’s a scam.
Here we go again …
We fund a small school in Indonesia that helps village kids get basic skills including English that will allow them to secure jobs overseas.
The head teacher has been down for a month sick after her latest jab.
Told her to stop getting these f789ing shots.
Do ya think covid would put a healthy 40 year old down for a month???
Tip for eating cheap in Alaska. Safeway food bars. It takes about $250k a year to make it in AK. Of course subsistence fishing and hunting licenses are available if you have the gumption. And if your making 250k why not spend your time off in Hawaii ? Most do.
Thanks for the tip about cheap food. I think we might have gone past one of these establishments, after we found a place that sells halibut tacos. We will be coming home on the red-eye tomorrow night, so we don’t have much time to try it out.
Generally when travelling (which no longer happens) … I bring some nuts and fruit and eat that for breakfast … The problem with the buffets is one generally ends up eating more than one normally would… cuz it’s there .. and cuz it’s not worth paying for the buffet if one only eats a handful of nuts and a banana…
The problem when having a hotel breakfast outside of Scandinavia is the total and utter lack of oat porridge.
One does not simply start the day without oats.
******* savages. 🤬
Actually, we have found oatmeal at every breakfast place we visited in Alaska. Oats seem to grow in cold places.
When a person goes farther south, sometimes a person gets corn grits or a rice gruel.
Ok, adding Alaska to the list of civilized places.
👍
Halibut Tacos. YUM! Halibut is a fantastic food. I prefer it to king or red salmon by far. I havnt been able to afford any for several decades. For that matter salmon either although cod is not a bad fish. Not at all! I used to know guys who would make the trip to AK for recreation but a large motivation is they would hang on the docks buy halibut and salmon and smoke it into jerky and bring down to the lower 48 and that would last them a year. If you work it you eat good in AK halibut salmon and some nice moose road kill.
New Disease X could arrive in Britain any day as expert warns of signs ‘major’ outbreak ‘on the horizon’
https://www.thesun.co.uk/health/19004331/new-disease-x-arrive-britain-any-day/
Could it be SADS? or SIDS… what about VAIDS? … how about Devil Covid?
“Last year they warned the next pandemic could be on the scale of the Black Death, which killed an estimated 75 million people.”
the Jabbed should be very afraid of Disease X.
but they are universally unaware.
Black Deaths Matter!
Simply too funny.
‘Disease X’, oh my…….
I do like the images with the article: particularly dear old Norm, in his flat cap and mask, with the Covid planet looming up behind him – terrifying!
“Can’t take it any longer”: 217 midwives are loud against gene injections
217 Austrian midwives are no longer silent about abuses in dealing with Covid-19 gene treatments for pregnant and breastfeeding women. Under the motto “Midwives are loud” they address their open letter to the Austrian Midwives Committee, political decision-makers and the media. They sometimes report miscarriages, growth-retarded fetuses and premature births that they have observed in pregnant women with gene therapy and, among other things, call for the systematic monitoring of the state of health of mRNA-treated mothers and children. The midwives insist on their fundamental rights and freedoms and the right to physical integrity.
https://www.headsupster.com/forumthread?shortId=2693
hahaha ukraine https://t.me/DowdEdward/662
Because they are nothing but highly trained circus animals… they cannot understand that they are being UEPed…. https://rumble.com/vq6w9z-steve-kirsch-warns-of-incomprehensible-conspiracy-among-government.html?mref=9qiox&mc=7i756
Why kill/maim your military?
Latest survey shows the COVID vaccines are a disaster: ~871,000 dead
https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/latest-survey-shows-the-covid-vaccines?r=o7iqo&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
https://t.me/PeterMcCullough/1261
“Polio”: NHS starts contacting parents of unvaccinated children
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10943987/NHS-plan-contain-polio-contacting-parents-unvaccinated-children-source-search-continues.html
Let’s discuss an example of how symptoms could be laundered. Below is a side-by-side photo of what a smallpox (Variola virus (Pox Virus)) and a chicken pox (Varicella Zoster Virus (Herpes Virus)) outbreak might look like. Notice the distribution patterns of the pock marks in the schematic on the left. How many people know that this is a distinguishing feature between these very different infections? Not many. By the way, Smallpox was eradicated. If it comes back, it was brought back.
And what of monkeypox? How many people could really discern between a shingles outbreak (varicella-zoster virus reactivation) and a monkeypox rash? By the way, as I will detail below, varicella-zoster virus (herpes zoster) reactivation is very commonly associated with the COVID-19 shots. Generally, people tend to think of rashes as ‘rashes’ and don’t even let their mind go to viral injection let alone let their mind go to which virus is the causative agent.
Without qualified and experienced professionals and proper lab testing, it would be almost impossible to discern between many rashes. Blistering, scabbing, duration, location, incubation period, exposures, age… it all matters with regard to diagnosis. And the differential diagnosis list is a long one, for rashes.
https://jessicar.substack.com/p/symptom-laundering
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/cnn-host-cites-her-own-autistic-special-needs-family-members-making-case-abortion
Why can’t we just kill all the folks on welfare… then get the lazy ones…. the hyper MOREONS… then we should exterminate the obese people…. how about left-handed people … sign of the devil right?… and then anyone with too many freckles… anyone too tall – or too short….. and then there are the naggers… ya kill them too… and….
gingers..yeah, the gingers…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IeMvUlxXyz8
https://youtu.be/IeMvUlxXyz8
“CDC Confirmed Post-Vaxx Death From Blood-Clotting Two Weeks Before Alerting Public: Emails”
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/cdc-confirmed-post-vaccination-death-blood-clotting-two-weeks-alerting-public-emails
Yet another problem, that people are not being warned about.
Only shortly after the corona pandemic was more or less declared over by politicians and the media in Sweden, the country was ravaged by a mysterious cough disease. On social media in particular, there are more and more posts from users reporting severe coughing fits. “It’s hard to say what it could be,” explains Swedish vaccine researcher Matti Sällberg.
“Why is everyone in Sweden sick and coughing the worst at the same time?” asks a Swede via TikTok. It is a very painful cough that will not stop, other users describe the symptoms. The Swedish health hotline “1177” also reports numerous questions about such symptoms.
https://todaytimeslive.com/world/66396.html
Same thing M Fast’s 30ish year old healthy friends reported + 104 fever — when they checked into the hospital
excellent!
and yet it doesn’t seem anywhere near to being a deadly disease.
“Why is everyone in Sweden sick and coughing the worst at the same time?”
why is everyone in Sweden not getting a deadly disease at the same time?
(they’re not testing for BA.4 and BA.5 so gee wizzzzz.)
let’s see how the story unfolds in July.
a summertime epidemic.
oh really.
It leads to liver failure.
ohno!!!! hahahahaha… bring it on – MORE BOOSTERS please hahaha
Apparently, in Israel, BA.5.1 is bypassing antibodies and partially evading T-cells, making it the most immune evasive variant to date. ICU admissions are very similar to 2020, before vaccines, treatments or natural immunity.
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%2F5b4e9751-0f75-47bb-b9e1-d789b0335649_1041x1572.jpeg
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%2Fc72b0324-2b03-4edc-872f-3d44fce271cb_1028x1584.jpeg
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%2Fd353c2d5-650f-4166-97d5-883561269334_4096x1625.jpeg
Twitter suspends doctor for sharing peer-reviewed study on vaccine
https://americasfrontlinenews.com/post/twitter-suspends-doctor-for-sharing-peer-reviewed-study-on-vaccine
Good greif!
Depopulation of Taiwan
Birth Rate Dropped by 23% in ONE YEAR — And it is NOT Covid
https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/depopulation-of-taiwan
good article about lower fertility, potentially permanent.
but I don’t like the use of the word “depopulation”.
what is to be looked for is when annual births drop below annual deaths.
he has not explained that this is happening yet.
I would estimate this to happen closer to 2030.
we’ll see.
que sera sera.
I am afraid that in not too long, depopulation will be a problem many places.
Deaths more than births have been happening in Japan for over a decade now, and they started to happen in South Korea in 2020. The South Korean slope looks like it’s going to be steeper though—unless the jabs finish everyone off in short order.
I hadn’t noticed the decline in population in South Korea.
Sounds concerning.
FE, it cannot be the vaccines. Trust me… I know it is always 100% safe and effective. Perhaps they don’t know how to make babies, you know, after locking down, they forgot the process … no?
Taiwanese girls are hot… I volunteer to fix this
See the monster https://t.me/TommyRobinsonNews/36900 (lizard?)
This is OUTSTANDING… except that I support abortion of all MOREONS regardless of age — but that’s another matter https://t.me/TommyRobinsonNews/36902
wow… https://t.me/TommyRobinsonNews/36903
And the MOREONS keep on jabbing – jab addicts https://t.me/TommyRobinsonNews/36905
foour tommy robinson links
are you his agent eddy?
He’s doing god’s work.
never had you listed as a godbotherer eddy
– Thought of the Day:
people are surprised because according to the Left you only have power over your body if it deals with abortion or assisted suicide, but not with vaccines.
And they think there is a contradiction in that.
But there isn’t.
All three things go towards the direction of decreasing population.
US active job listings
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FWM_B97WQAEUzaw?format=jpg&name=medium
recession ahead, followed by a likely 2023 weak (only partial) “recovery”, or maybe not until 2024.
(I suspect we already entered a recession months ago, but “they” won’t say so, yet.)
then probably a series of recession years followed by partial recovery years.
which would be a bumpy downslope through this decade.
que sera sera.
Link to some of the Deagel forecasts for 2025. They looked a bit shocking a few years back but might not be that far out the way things are going.
https://astediscovery.com/COVID/DEPOPULATION.htm
“Take into account that the forecast is nothing more than a model, whether it is wrong or correct.”
so they are trying to model an incredibly complex system of world economies and populations.
this is such a difficult task that it is highly unlikely that there will be much accuracy within the model.
I would expect that many smaller weaker Periphery countries would begin to show population declines before it happens in the Core.
I’m still waiting for up to date estimates for any 2022 population declines, but I have seen no reports, so then it will be on to 2023 for this data.
The only shocking thing about Deagel is that people can find totally unsubstantiated claims made by totally unknown people shocking.
But… but… the site has some nice pictures of military airplanes and charts showing open source data – therefore all their claims must be true!
“Take into account that the forecast is nothing more than a model whether flawed or correct.”
— Deagel.com
There is no information about the model or the data fed into it. There is no evidence of existence of such model. And the authors are saying: “Our forecast might be right, or it might as well be wrong.”
Give me a break.
https://www.corbettreport.com/qfc080-deagel/
If the data fed into the model included EU banning fossil fuels from Russia; or Russian fossil fuel terminally declining….
Primary organisms – those that directly use the energy of the Sun: plants
Secondary organisms – those that exist on what the primary organism create: animals, humans
Use the glyphosate as a foliar spray: inhibit the photosynthesis of the weeds
Use the photosynthesis promoting foliar spray substances: support the cultural plants
It was the plants that created the humans.
The control of the plants is the key message of the Bible story about the first sin of the man: the humans got the knowledge of the control over the plants and created the agriculture.
are you an unreformed weedist?
weeds have equal rights too.
it’s their planet as much as any other group.
well, WtP, of course the planet is primarily for humans to dominate, shape and configure to whatever we can manage for our benefit.
but weeds will prevail long after human extinction, so who really wins?
‘Look at the lilies of the field, they neither toil nor spin!’
Weed power!
and “weed” uh, cannabis, is now legal in much of the USA.
some people just love weed.
far out, man.
right on.
The weeds are the plants are of no direct benefit for the humans and steal the nutrients and the sun energy determined by the humans for the cultivated plants.
oh okay so let’s just get rid of all the weeds.
or human extinction, and then weeds will no longer be a problem.
which is easier?
You can fight against the weeds or extinct the humans. Putin chose to extinct the humans. He fights for the weeds.
Is fighting for the weeds which grow independently from the will of the humans ok? I think it is a kind of superfluous work.
Such pro-weed behaviour is insane. Why not using the army for killing the weeds in Russia? The spread of the weeds is the real hallmark of the human species decline.
okay let’s get real now.
how many weeds have you eliminated this week?
I have to eliminate the weeds very often druing the growing season. Been doing it also today.
The humans cover themselves with the PV panels like Adam and Eve with the fig leaves:
“Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.”
The humans want to be like plants.
I hadn’t thought about it that way. Of course, we need fossil fuels (especially coal) to make the solar panels. Solar panels don’t make themselves. We need to manufacture them with many types of raw materials.
Interesting!
Divide and rule.
Inflation is causing more people to skimp on tips, hitting service workers hard
Elisabeth Buchwald, USA TODAY
Sun, June 26, 2022, 9:00 AM
When Daniel Westwood, who bartends at a daiquiri bar along the Las Vegas Strip, hands customers their checks he tells them: “I appreciate tips. That’s how I pay my wife’s Amazon card.”
Such remarks are frowned upon in the bartending community, he said. But with so many customers leaving paltry tips this summer or stiffing him altogether, his not-so-subtle reminder feels like a necessity.
“I have people look me directly in the eyes and hit ‘no tip’ on the credit card processing machine, and they just don’t care,” Westwood, 35, said.
He has been bartending across Las Vegas for almost two decades through multiple recessions. But even during those tough times, customers tipped him adequately, he said.
The shift nowadays “100% has to do with inflation,” he said. “I’m hearing customers all the time going: ‘It’s too expensive. We can’t tip.'” One customer recently left a handful of coins as a tip on a $120 bill they racked up, he added.
I was a Skycap for a spell in college…sweet tips at the curbside at the Airport..
It’s all changed now with baggage fees…suppose now they have to pay a “wage”.
This may have to done with bars and restaurants now too.
Boy, the service industry employee a ton of people
Time to call jabs for what they are ‘Kill shots’
mostly immune system wrecking shots, but sure they do kill a wee tiny itty bitty little portion.
so far, they are quite disappointing as kill shots.
there is always hope that there will be an exponential increase in deaths going forward through this year and next.
hope springs eternal.
Oh, the jabs have been called names like that for maybe one and a half years. Which is of course perfectly consistent with the available data showing that countries with high vaccination rates are now completely depopulated.
Go express your sentiments to families who’ve lost loved ones or now care for individuals living with permanent damage as a result to the ‘treatments’ Don’t forget to include those who originally trusted the system and now regret ever considering the shots. Good luck convincing them their jabs were safe and effective preventatives. Maybe even suggest to the medical authorities that ‘participants’ signing compulsory liability forms is unnecessary. Interested to hear about the reactions you get form all of the above.
Even rats figure things out pretty quickly if they see a few of the clan go down unexpectedly munching some new novel nosh. More cerebral primates have a bad habit of rationalising such events with statistics, conceit or follow the herd mentality. Don’t think your brain makes a difference if you don’t use it. The more cerebral only necessitates more conditioning, it’s just a longer process and Humans are already highly conditioned beings. Just keep taking your regime and try not to, worry a good poison infusers into an entire system before it takes effect. The term kill shot’(s) was used for a reason. Thin…I mean don’t think about it.
Very true, rats figure things out rather quickly.
Guess what: they OBSERVE…….
And they start from the wise premise that you are out to kill them if possible.
Only humans will sleep-walk to their doom, repeating brainwashed slogans like ‘Safe and Effective’, trusting very obvious liars like Gates, Walensky, Bourla, and Fauci.
Well, then maybe the people you talk about should have done the same as I did – rather becoming a second-class citizen that being jabbed.
I may have some sympathy for people whose hand was pushed, but it was still their hand and their decision to go with the push. Some of them unfortunately became a rounding error in medical statistics.
On the other hand, I have zero sympathy for individuals who need to pity themselves a dozen times a day in some internet echo chamber.
Alex, I have the sense that you are attempting to refine the argument similar to Brian Mowery “Unglossed” helping to call out low quality information. Mowery is a researcher providing plausible scenarios based on evidence which often contradicts popular conclusions on the reason for breakthrough infections and worsening clinical outcomes in well-vaccinated populations. Check out his technical articles.
I don’t think a war between UK and Ireland this winter is avoidable.
The Unionists in Ulster have a siege mentality which won’t be really rooted out, ever, and UK needs a distraction to vent the internal anger as food gets scarcer and petrol becomes unobtainable.
What they will do is invade Ireland, cleanse all nonProtestants from Ulster, and advance to Connacht, once again engaging in massive ethnic cleansing.
In my honest opinion, the Unionists are the most f’d up people in Europe, and they know it fully and know no one really loves them which makes them even more militant and hostile.
No solutions involving them will end happily.
that would be cool if BoJo (rhymes with Bozo) invaded Ireland.
Putin would be laughing his noski off.
Yes it would be good if they would just settle this once and for all.
Bring it on
MREA experience, cumbia.
You can look up MREA, Stevens Point, have gone in past years, visited this year.
Spent time with a master electrician, solar guy, his best defense was a $70K bass boat and a fish costing $4k/season, done for the right social reasons, it will get better. Nice guy, he makes his money on solar, follow the money, end of story.
Visited all the booths, more political this year, inquired where the “Trump” booth was, interesting facial reactions, really wasn’t looking. bored, sometimes fun to just throw something out to see what happens.
Wind turbine is down, mechanical death I guess; wanted to climb the tower, missed that one. Turbine was lying on the ground, repair expense even with “paid labor by students” apparently not worth it.
What works: masonry heaters. Fellow who presented some years back was there, mason, asked current price, still $30K and that is without the wood. Always wanted one, things take up half the house, wife wanted a wall unit, entertaining, she won. Third house a solution?
Many Teslas present, range seems to be about 200 miles, running from full charge to empty is apparently hard on the battery. NIce cars, for $60K and up, changing the battery on a Toyota is now supposedly $2.7K, up from $1K or so when I changed one out; looking at the Tesla, if you have to ask, well you can’t afford one.
Solar tractors were there: my guess is this works if charge with photovoltaics and multiple battery packs.
Some discussion on net metering, I skipped that one, wouldn’t have been welcome after a few minutes.
Overall impression, a hippy reunion for baby boomers. I really like going, always an optimist, keep looking for something that works. Composting toilets might work, sell that one to the little woman. Yes, looked at that idea about 30 years back, wouldn’t sell now either, walked by that booth also.
Dennis L.
“wife wanted a wall unit, entertaining, she won”
At last a man who understands marriage. You can stop playing up and snuggle up with her on the sofa. I would highly recommend the approach.
‘A happy wife is a happy life.’
of course when heating will become scarce she will be less happy. I do recommend everyone, look into these beasts. I have one, and warms two floors.
Envious, smiling.
Dennis L.
Pleasing a short-sighted female: if married – ie trapped under threat of severe financial penalties – there are both pros and cons.
Oddly enough, an Appalachian homestead blog I follow is full in the comments of women complaining their dumb husbands won’t put their backs into prepping.
Fine women with good heads on their shoulders – a treasure indeed, as the Bible reminds us.
Thanks for your observations. I visited a couple of “transition homesteads” quite a few years ago. They really did’t work then. Most of the money of the couple came from teaching permaculture courses. Another group had interns who practically provided slave labor. I couldn’t see how these systems were sustainable. The goal seemed to be “using less” energy, rather than setting up a much less complex system that might be long-lasting.
I guarantee you none of them would ever consider the Fast Eddy Challenge… The Horror The Horror…
It would end in despair… I tried it … and I quickly realized the futility of doomy prepping… but then I am well past the despair phase and many years into acceptance that I die early…
The thing is … even if one could survive… it would be a life to utter misery… enslaved on one’s plantation
Those still desperate to survive need hopium…
There was that chap from Canada, Jan Steinman ? – who used to turn up here and on other blogs looking for cheap/free young labour on his homestead.
Haven’t seen him post anywhere for ages.
His basic idea was to eventually hand-over when too old but live off the next generation, and in the meantime milk them.
Old Jan… up there in Salt Water Island building his DelusiSTAN.
https://peakmoment.tv/journal/visiting-ecoreality-co-op-on-salt-spring-island-bc/
But these young folks were too poor to pay for the homestead. It is doubtful that the crops raised that would produce enough revenue to buy the goods needed and pay taxes in the future. Somehow, the workers need to be paid enough to buy clothing, and there needs to be enough resources for heating building and maintaining automobiles or trucks. If there is a need for fertilizes and weed killer, this will have to come out of future revenue (assuming it still can be purchased).
Fixing fences or any unexpected expenses are likely to be a problem as well.
Prepping is ‘fun’.
I do it because it’s more enjoyable and healthier than living in surburbia. Being in the middle of nowhere certainly helped in the middle of the lockdowns. Our zone of restriction was 5,000sqkms
Realistically though, if full on collapse happens we’re as f–d as everybody else, we’ll just be a bit later arriving at f—ville.
If we lurch around from crisis to crisis for the next 10-15 years though, we’ll be better off here. Can’t beat the taste of fresh picked fruit and veggies and the smell of a woodfire.
Good luck!
Definitely … I’m still growing food and living rural … cuz I like growing food and living rural.
The best way to hit is a fireplace that holds large logs… as they had in castles… you just keep pushing the logs in further as they burn … saves having to split the wood
that said … I suspect you’d nullify your house insurance in the event you burned it down
It’s my husband who hates the idea of a composting toilet. I sold him on a “Separett” compromise that supposedly needs emptying only once every few months. Downside is that it has a desiccating fan (low wattage) that needs to run all the time. Ours is not yet installed but if OFW is still around at the time, I’ll give a report.
I’m glad you’re working on it. I don’t know that name, but superficial browsing shows that type of change-cycling generally. I toy with the idea of proposing it to municipalities, in that it might get past zoning rules and still (temporarily) require a lessening need for utility (pipes) that developers demand at community expense. I would like to get past that type of arrangement and get to longer term stability. It’s important to treat the waste like regular compost, mixing (layering) it every way possible with leaves, soil and other stuff that composts easily. Properly bagged and isolated the “humanure” could be NEATLY stacked and last forever. (But I firmly believe a hummanure making industry will spring up if we can hold on long enough.) The big trick is finding a place to demonstrate these ideas. A parallel problem is getting water without central plumbing.
We don’t think about all of these issues.
I’m working on this too, but more for low income municipalities. I see a way to get beyond complex compost equipment, but it needs a level inscrutability that’s hard to find, and very disciplined management. It helps folks like me to have cardboard boxes and tin foil and plastic bags, (all of which I’m only guessing will be here for this stage of the game whatever is the next)
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/german-vice-chancellor-drastically-reduces-time-shower-cope-energy-crisis
There might be incidences in the history of humans that leaders micromanage there subjects.. cardigans anyone?
Let me find my brain first…
Let us recall what is the biggest threat to Russia. It is the aggressive invasive plants:
https://youtu.be/u5NxuEoXHn8
I think I planted a little bit of hogweed (or something very closely related to it) several years ago. It was supposed to be the next best thing. It reseeds prolifically. I am now rid of it. You are supposed to be able to harvest the seeds for food, but as a practical matter, they get all over.
These forbs are all excellent for cows and other ruminants in the pasture.
The youtube link says the variety taking over in Russia is genotoxic and phototoxic.
I doubt it survives haying, and in hay some of the time those toxins degrade. there is none of those here, of course.
Don’t worry, they will mutate with the domestic species. Evolution creates weird and wonderful stuff, because why not.
I like thunderbolts project take on ‘complexity’ as intricacy and how it r lares to electromagnetism and evolution.
https://youtu.be/-Et5Cg3VFgM
(Power to Will)
*“ r lares”
Relates
(I had a couple of beers) 🍻
.. and some LSD…??
Who needs psychedelics when the mind hallucinates fantasies (experiences) of Ultimate Reality.
Just because we’re “used” to it doesn’t make it less true. Such is the myopia of “ordinary”.
Brexit is reviving the dispute over sovereignty over Gibraltar. It is on the UN list of colonised areas and non-self-governing territories. UK insists on keeping it nevertheless, for strategic reasons, and it tries to invoke a self-governance on the part of Gibraltans that the UN does not recognise. It remains to be seen whether Spain can leverage Brexit to change the status quo.
“The United Nations did not recognise either referendum, with the 1967 referendum being declared in contravention of previous UN resolutions.[13] The Spanish government does not recognize any right of the current Gibraltar inhabitants to self-determination, on the grounds that they are not the original population of the territory, but residents transferred by the colonial power, the United Kingdom.” (wiki)
Quite possibly the conflicting power claims will eventually dissipate or be settled in the old fashioned way. Spain pursued its own geopolitical strategy, which led to many Spanish colonies in south America in north Africa, but the loss of part of its own territory. That would not have happened if Spain had been stronger than the British Empire.
> ‘Colonial situation’ Massive Gibraltar row breaks out as Spain DEMANDS Britain renegotiate
SPAIN has insisted the only way to end a “colonial situation” in Gibraltar is through negotiation with the UK.
Gibraltar ‘not willing to negotiate an inch’ with Spain says expert
Unlike other British Overseas Territories, Gibraltar was a part of the EU prior to Brexit. The heavily militarised island, which has become a symbol of British naval power and has gained the nickname “the Rock”, voted overwhelmingly to remain in the EU, with 95 percent of voters choosing this option.
Since the referendum, Spain’s acting Foreign Minister, José Manuel García-Margallo, renewed calls for joint Spanish–British control of the peninsula, and now the country insists the UK come to the negotiating table over Gibraltar.
In his annual address to the UN Decolonisation Committee yesterday, the Spanish ambassador, Agustín Santos, repeated that only negotiations between Madrid and London can overcome Gibraltar’s “colonial” status.
He added they would always take into account “the interests of the population of the territory”.
Gibraltar’s chief minister, Fabián Picardo, insisted that “the Gibraltarian people” would not accept any solution proposed in their name and without their participation.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1625423/gibraltar-news-spain-uk-brexit-colonial-united-nations
Every country wants power over others.
A state is a center of force and it naturally seeks to express its force, the same as any other center of force in the cosmos, be it human or otherwise.
Even single cellular organisms seek to order their environment to their own growth and multiplication. Violation and exploitation are essential to life, even that of the porridge eaters, just as inorganic forces overcome others according to their measure of force.
It is what it is and my will affirms the real situation.
(It also functions as a ‘theodicy’: there is no ‘problem of evil’ if ‘evil’ is just an illusion of the ‘sufferer’. The moon might as well call it ‘evil’ that it is trapped in the earth’s orbit. The simple fact is that a greater force has prevailed as it must and that imposes order.)
🥣 🍽🌾
😅👍👍
UK patriots will go berserk about this when their own country is being conquered by Hindus, even now.