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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.
The latest news from South Africa (a country not of much of interest to the world since post-anti-apartheid movements, yet a canary in the coalmine? No puns intended, of course).
“Public enterprises minister Pravin Gordhan addressed the media regarding the country’s power situation on Tuesday, 28 June 2022, and he revealed some of the damage caused by the ongoing illegal strike at Eskom’s power stations.
Employees have had their car tyres slashed, their homes petrol-bombed, and, in some cases, their vehicles set alight.
Gordhan said that protestors had also dumped loads of coal on the roads leading to the Camden power stations and had tampered with the electricity supply to the homes of Eskom staff.”
https://mybroadband.co.za/news/energy/450540-eskom-under-attack-photos.html
Is anyone else seeing really bad summer colds? They are all vax people and they seem to get pretty sick.???
I heard a woman say her and her husband had the “super colds” that are going around.
most of the fully Jabbed are totally unaware of what they have done to their immune systems.
Yes, yes yes….I got one with a cough….my mother got one too and was prescribed antibiotics..she tested negative for Covid with a at home tested…my sister came up positive and has been 🤢 sick for over a week coughing up green flem.
Our neighbor, who is up in Cape Cod, called got Covid and needed to be be admitted to the Hospital….
I think I got my cough from someone at work….he coughed a lot too but was Non Covid..fully boasted and loaded up..
Went to the store and the cough medicine section was wiped out..Heard it was going around..
Be careful
VAIDS
I feel great, PeeWee Edwin….did my half marathon and trek a10k everyday..button wrong with me .did not have a temperature at all.
Sorry,. But just a variant of a😆🤪😷 a common COVID
A young vaxxed 26ish gal I work with has a bad cold right now.
Nothing here, although it is a very bad hay-fever season, I’ve never known one like it.
Last early October in London there were lots of people coughing everywhere on public transport, and I caught that before zapping it with zinc, gone in 24 hours.
All I have noted is more people using sticks to get around, and looking like death; but that could well be due to waiting lists for NHS ops.
Yes, some friends, acquaintances and work colleagues currently have Covid. All vaccinated (and boosted) and in fact most of them have more severe symptoms and they last longer than my girlfriend and I (without vaccination).
But no one has a dramatic course. It’s like a summer flu.
Scientific Study:
‘Intramyocardial Inflammation after COVID-19 Vaccination: An Endomyocardial Biopsy-Proven Case Series’
‘Myocarditis in response to COVID-19 vaccination has been reported since early 2021. In particular, young male individuals have been identified to exhibit an increased risk of myocardial inflammation following the administration of mRNA-based vaccines. Even though the first epidemiological analyses and numerous case reports investigated potential relationships, endomyocardial biopsy (EMB)-proven cases are limited. Here, we present a comprehensive histopathological analysis of EMBs from 15 patients with reduced ejection fraction (LVEF = 30 (14–39)%) and the clinical suspicion of myocarditis following vaccination with Comirnaty® (Pfizer-BioNTech) (n = 11), Vaxzevria® (AstraZenica) (n = 2) and Janssen® (Johnson & Johnson) (n = 2). Immunohistochemical EMB analyses reveal myocardial inflammation in 14 of 15 patients’
[…]
‘The expression of SARS-CoV-2 spike protein within the heart and the dominance of CD4+ lymphocytic infiltrates indicate an autoimmunological response to the vaccination.’
https://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/23/13/6940/html
Why is Sri Lanka in an economic crisis?
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-61028138 (excerpts)
“Sri Lanka doesn’t have enough foreign currency to pay for imports, including petrol and diesel. The government blames the Covid pandemic, which affected Sri Lanka’s tourist trade – one of its biggest foreign currency earners.
However, many experts say economic mismanagement is to blame. At the end of its civil war in 2009, Sri Lanka chose to focus more on providing goods to the domestic market, instead of trying to break into foreign ones. So income from exports remained low, while the bill for imports kept growing.
The government also has also racked up huge debts with countries including China, to fund what critics have called unnecessary infrastructure projects. President Rajapaksa has been criticised for big tax cuts he introduced in 2019.
When Sri Lanka’s foreign currency shortages became a serious problem in early 2021, the government tried to limit them by banning imports of chemical fertiliser. It told farmers to use locally sourced organic fertilisers instead. This led to widespread crop failure. Sri Lanka had to supplement its food stocks from abroad, which made its foreign currency shortage even worse. An IMF report in March this year said the fertiliser ban (reversed in November 2021) also hurt tea and rubber exports.
Prime Minister Wickremesinghe has said the government is now so short of funds that it will be printing money to pay employees’ salaries.”
A simpler explanation is that the US, every five years or so, has to pick up a small country and slam it against the wall. Multiple disobediences by Sri Lanka sealed its fate. It refused to give a huge tract of land (thousands of square km) for US military installations. It bought fuel and wheat from Russia for years. Those food savings will now go to more pliable countries, after the IMF duly favors them.
I’m not sure about that. Slamming against the wall must happen publicly in order to have the desired effect. This one is not the case.
I’m not seeing countries like India, China, or Russia falling over themselves to help the potentially flourishing Sri Lankan economy.
mismanagement + external shock = crisis
Without enough tourism, Sri Lanka couldn’t pay for imports, including petroleum related imports. It also couldn’t afford to import fertilizer. The situation sounds like where most countries will be, if the world economy continues to fall apart.
Ohhh, are we really watching collapse as it unfolds in real time!?
I’ve been waiting for this for a long, long time ….
No more kicking the can down the road this time?
Oh, what’s next that can happen???
No way
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yfgs9FRD25M
Just for fun
More on Monarch, check out the founders:
https://www.monarchtractor.com/leadership.html
Incredible! Anything strike you about the group?
One member could probably supply a good wine for meetings.
Industry changer?
It is green, what could go wrong?
Dennis L.
and look at that big group of young people.
I bet they have about a combined zero years of farming experience.
just a wild grass guess.
Maybe:
“Carlo Mondavi
Chief Farming Officer
Carlo is an expert viticulturist with experience in Organic, Bio dynamic, and Permaculture Farming. He is a fourth generation winegrower from the world-renowned Mondavi family…”
https://www.monarchtractor.com/leadership.html
Sounds okay to me.
Dennis L.
is he the token farmer?
“diversity” gotta include one farmer.
He buys grapes in Fresno, and processes them in Napa. that is the farmer. no need for tractors for that business.
He was born rich.
It is a nice condition.
If you make good wine from generations with a big farm it is difficult to ruin your business when it is your turn to manage.
It is like to be seated on a gold mine.
Trust an Italian 🙂
Then of course he can be smart, but he started very well.
https://www.repubblica.it/il-gusto/2022/01/13/news/carlo_mondavi_guru_climate_change_dalla_california_a_diano_d_alba-333443822/
Thanks Student…
Hope he also does the Fast Eddie Challenge after the electricity turns off
. So, non-plowing of the land, biodiversity, and then another thing that I think is indispensable is the Monarch tractor (Mondavi with his brother founded the movement The Monarch Challenge, ed ). It is a smart, electric tractorand autonomous driving, which will allow us to bridge the gap in terms of ecological footprint between conventional and organic farming practices. Being an electric tractor, it allows you to use wind, geothermal, water and solar energy (the most common, which we use most often). Thus it becomes possible to use only renewable energy on one’s estate, eliminating fossil fuel. It is a really important result because just one compact tractor of this size (the Monarch has 40 to 70 horsepower) equals 17 cars.. So every time you use one of these 100% electric tractors it’s like taking 17 cars off the road. To conclude, use the Monarch tractor, adopt agricultural principles that go beyond organic, non-plowing systems, and focus on biodiversity: in this way winemakers can protect the planet “.
Eliminate Fossil Fuels..good luck with that one!
Oh, really like the Republica
I would like to know how it is possible to make the electric tractors and the batteries without lots of fossil fuels and international supply lines operating on those fossil fuels.
I have not seen many vineyards plowing up their fields every year. Vineyard experience is exactly what the idiots in silicon valley would think passes for farming. There appears to be no one in that group at Monarch that has ever set foot on a real farm.They all are wearing athletic shoes. Farmers wear work boots.
Really…this silicon valley concept they can transform everything with their digital expertise is just comical.
Give them a break. A couple of them would have practiced the Hindu way of farming, namely making the lower caste do all the work.
The “diversity is our strength” and “diversity increases productivity” mantras now infiltrate most of corporate america. There is absolutely no evidence of this and it apparently stems from one faulty Forbes article that made unsubstantiated bogus claims..
Not that there is anything wrong with diverse thought in solving problems, etc.
I’ll take a womans point of view anytime…many times they are better than mine!
It is an engineering practice to design and produce any product with the aim of failing everything at the same time because the part that does not fail is an inefficiently consumed resource. Engineering looks for multi-organ failure. Those in charge of economic design are probably looking for the same thing.
you have your best life if you also have multi-organ failure at the end of life. A long active span, brief decline with just enough time to impart whatever wisdom you have.
A solution:
1. Electric tractors, no driver, 24/7 use of capital.
2. Crops only grow in sunny seasons, photovoltaic charging on site, no transmission loss.
3. The startup guys appear to have had experience at Tesla – a field is a piece of cake.
4. Multiple smaller tractors, exchangeable battery packs.
5. Anyone aware of a very large landowner in MN and now ND?
https://www.monarchtractor.com/
Dennis L.
When “diversity” is a primary hiring focus for an engineering team, you know they are doomed to failure and not serious about getting shit done. See “Astra” the rocket company as a case study.
From their “leadership” page
“Farmers face big challenges and we believe a team with diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences is the only way to tackle them.”
Anything involving Hindus will make something fall to the level of india.
Hmm, as opposed to the mostly closely-related, mono-cultural people who really knew their land and didn’t travel more than 6 miles if they could help it (longer distances meant war) who did most of the farming in the past?
Diversity isn’t a problem, diversity-as-hiring-criteria is a problem. The two are very different things and the people pushing the latter are degenerates.
Trannies know all about carrots. Need some trannies on the operations team
Try it on a large scale without testing. What could go wrong?
Tomi Kilgore
Pfizer booster improved to fight omicron, as hospitalizations rise to 3-month high
Mon, June 27, 2022, 11:52 AM
Pfizer Inc. and partner BioNTech SE said the update to their COVID-19 booster shot showed a “high immune response” against the omicron variant, in time for an FDA meeting and as the daily average of COVID-19-related hospitalizations rose to a 3-month high.
New and Improved…yes ….it is really, it is…get it now…
https://youtu.be/gCMzjJjuxQI
Outstanding! I am sure this version will be The One….
We’ve never had a Safe and Effective coronavirus vaccine so no surprise that the Covid shots failed and maimed and killed millions….
This is The One for me… I am confident all these glitches have been overcome and I’ll be first in the queue when it’s available in NZ
I’ll be fighting with mike to be first!!!
According to the official, fuel will only be supplied to essential services, such as healthcare, agriculture, and food transportation. …
Gunawardane also warned of a potential public transportation shutdown in the coming days
https://www.rt.com/business/557976-sri-lanka-fuel-sales-halt/
Will the water system and the sewage system get fuel to operate?
Will garbage removal get fuel to operate?
‘G-7 Weighs Russia Oil-Price Cap Via Insurance and Shipping Ban’
In my view it is difficult to impose a price cap related to an insurance and shipping ban.
It could be mean that if the price reaches a price cap for a group of Countries that group could be obliged to make rationing if it is not possible to obtain additional oil (?).
In addition I don’t know if a price cap could be negative for other producing Countries, such as Saudi Arabia or even US itself.
Maybe ‘they’ think to fix the situation with another lockdown in the next months…
https://gcaptain.com/g7-oil-price-cap-shipping-ban/
https://theautomaticearth.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/MyBodyMyChoice2.jpg
I agree!
(TrasportoEuropa)
10.000 Daimler trucks not delivered due to lacking of spare parts. Microchips are not available…
https://www.trasportoeuropa.it/notizie/mercato/diecimila-camion-daimler-non-consegnati-per-carenza-di-componenti/
Does ‘this’ ‘ring a bell’ with ‘someone?
“But I abhor humanity, I wish it was swept away. It
could go, and there would be no ABSOLUTE loss, if every human being
perished tomorrow. The reality would be untouched. Nay, it would be
better. The real tree of life would then be rid of the most ghastly, heavy
crop of Dead Sea Fruit, the intolerable burden of myriad simulacra of
people, an infinite weight of mortal lies.’
‘So you’d like everybody in the world destroyed?’ said Ursula.
‘I should indeed.’
‘And the world empty of people?’
‘Yes truly. You yourself, don’t you find it a beautiful clean thought, a
world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?’ ”
file:///C:/Users/jc726/Downloads/women-in-love.pdf
It sounds like a typical misanthropic Malthusian-Covidian.
D. H Lawrence, best known for writing Chatterley, modeled this story upon himself, his wife, Catherine Mansfield and her husband.
inevitable human extinction will end all human suffering.
the end of human suffering will be good.
que sera sera.
far be it from me to deny you your plotfocus eddy
Various newspapers are reporting that Russian strike to shopping center seems to be in reality a strike to a weapons warehouse which was inside or adjacent to it.
The weapons that we (from Western Countries) are sending to Zelensky.
https://www.jpost.com/international/article-710578
Thank god at least some reasonable information is getting through. Meanwhile what reporting do we get about Ukraine’s strikes on civilian centers in Donetsk? Crickets.
Money ain’y what it should be, and it sure ain’t what it used to be.
The wokesters where I sometimes wander due to my job are getting a bit confused.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFZP8zQ5kzk
The overton window of acceptable topics of conversation is getting so small its positively claustrophobic to be around these people. The absence of truth and cold hard facts in their lives’ is now bearing the rotten fruit of bad conse’quinces.
Questions work wonders, much along the lines of the videos of the pro-choice being questioned about their stance on the Jab mandates. As confused as a puppy.
Fascinating to watch; yep, I too, like watching!
Should I still be working, or is time to kick back and go fully indulgent and join the indigent?
An article on ZH recently…mentioned that central banks collectively have “printed” up $10T of new money since the scamdemic began…..store of value eh?
One year ago, 1oz of gold = £1300 approx……today 1oz of gold = £1500 approx….a 15% loss of purchasing power in one year…..
But there are so many topics of conversation!
New car or bike, sports, holiday plans, home improvements, career problems and ambitions – I hear little else.
Just don’t mention Collapse, black-outs, engineered famine or mass poisoning.
People are stressed and depressed enough without someone intentionally raining on their parade of consumerism & success. One thing I learned living in an elite liberal area is that all of my thoughts are ‘problematic’ so it’s best to show no original or controversial thoughts. Simply follow the NPR script and all will be well. It’s claustrophobic and I have no authentic friends who truly know me but that’s unimportant compared to maintaining good social standing.
Same for me. My solution was to come to Russia. I have many more friends here in four months, already well tested, than I ever had in said elite liberal areas in 25 years. There, my friends were anyway various types of working class italian immigrants, some of whom had done well.
“…that’s unimportant compared to maintaining good social standing.”
Forgot the irony tag?
I let go of my social standing, my so-called friends and even life in the blue city. I am now a proud deplorable redneck working in the muck, far from “civilized” (ha!) people.
I do feel much happier.
“Emergency care is at breaking point” – Delays in urgent care are causing needless deaths
https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/06/27/emergency-care-is-at-breaking-point/
“Rise in long-term sickness” – HART observes a marked rise in people signed off work with long-term sickness in the U.K. which began not with the pandemic in 2020 but with the vaccine rollout in 2021. https://www.hartgroup.org/rise-in-long-term-sickness/
“Beijing declares Zero-Covid policy will last another five years then backtracks” – Anxiety and outrage erupts after a state newspaper publishes statement that its President claims was a “mistake” https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/06/27/chinas-zero-covid-policy-could-last-another-five-years/
“No. 10 confirms it’s watching emergence of two Omicron sub-variants” – Boris Johnson’s official spokesman said the situation was being monitored “very closely” amid early signs that hospitalisations are also starting to rise in the U.K
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-10957071/No10-confirms-watching-emergence-two-Omicron-sub-variants-responsible-UK-Covid-comeback.html
The final moments of Calhoun Mouse Utopia…. Enjoy while you can… Are you all entertained?
FE, stop poking Norm…. As long as MSM does not carry it, it is not true
Remember, however, that for a large share of the population, not just Norm, “As long as MSM does not carry it, it is not true.”
It makes life simple.
we must accept that FE never lies
how do we know that?
why, he told us so himself.
But he does tell stories that are not necessarily intended to be believed.
norm???
https://t.me/robinmg/21011
hahahaha – norm are you excited?
Playing With Fire: Pfizer Seeks to Double Their Dose for the Next Round of Boosters
James Roguski: “The FDA has changed the rules because they changed the definition [of vaccine]. The only thing that was tested was whether or not an immune response could be measured, not clinical outcomes.”
“What Pfizer has done is actually seek to double their dose. Rather than Moderna admitting that [their doses] are causing problems, Pfizer did experiments with 60 micrograms.”
jamesroguski.substack.com/
@VigilantFox | Rumble (https://rumble.com/v1a8khj-playing-with-fire-pfizer-seeks-to-double-their-dose-for-the-next-round-of-b.html) | Full Video (https://www.redvoicemedia.com/video/2022/06/james-roguski-fda-meeting-on-next-round-of-boosters-video/ref/8/)
Hospitals Paid to Kill: Dr. Russell Blaylock
– $39,000 per patient on a ventilator
– $12,000 per patient in the intensive care unit
Dr. Russell Blaylock: “If you’ve ever seen anybody in respiratory distress, they’re in [a] severe panic, but these people were just calm, [speaking in] complete sentences, and they just said, ‘I’m short of breath.’ And so they would give them a drug, paralyze them, and put them on a respirator, and a high percentage, in some cases, 80% died.”
@VigilantFox | Rumble (https://rumble.com/v1a7xwr-hospitals-paid-big-money-to-kill-dr.-russell-blaylock.html) | Source (https://rumble.com/v1a5jvt-hospitals-paid-to-kill-russell-blaylock-m.d..html)
Thank you FE for all your updates.
norm???
Whoopsie: The FDA Green-Lighted the Moderna Jab for Babies After Losing the Placebo Group
Rachel Zhang, Team Leader, Clinical Review Staff, FDA: “I guess it [data on durability] will have to come from real-world effectiveness.”
thevigilantfox.locals.com
@VigilantFox | Rumble (https://rumble.com/v1a6lxs-whoopsie-the-fda-green-lighted-the-moderna-jab-for-babies-after-losing-the-.html) | Ep. 273 (https://www.redvoicemedia.com/video/2022/06/the-highwire-episode-273-sacrificing-science-featuring-dr-clare-craig-video/ref/8/)
Rachel Zhang: the feminists assured us life would be s much better and nicer with women in charge, didn’t they?
All that so-called ’emotional intelligence’, instead of crudely competitive, ambitious men.
But, as in the 1940’s camps, they seem today to be some of the leaders in the lies, corruption, psychopathy and cruelty.
norm??
‘The Data Is Clear’: Not One Healthy Child Should Take These Vaccines
Dr. Marty Makary investigated child COVID deaths across the world and discovered how many healthy children died because of it.
– United States: 0
– Sweden: 0
– Germany: 0
Dr. Paul Alexander: “The data is clear across the world. Healthy children, normal children with a proper potent innate natural immunity, do not need these vaccines.”
truthsocial.com/@VigilantFox/108550496472341554
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“What Are We Doing?!” – Del Bigtree Gives an Impassioned Plea to All Parents to Stop Jabbing Their Kids
“The statement that 18 million kids have been waiting for almost two years for this vaccine —WAITING! Playing in parks, swimming in pools, perfectly freakin’ healthy. Okay? Obviously, not having this vaccine has not been a problem for them whatsoever.”
“Any parent out there. I’m sorry. At this point, you should know better. You are seeing the injuries. The stories are everywhere. Have you lost your freakin’ minds?! Your child [was] perfectly healthy before you did this to them.”
truthsocial.com/@VigilantFox/108550283888578956
@VigilantFox | Rumble (https://rumble.com/v1a63ny-what-are-we-doing-del-bigtree-gives-an-impassioned-plea-to-all-parents-to-s.html) | Ep. 273 (https://www.redvoicemedia.com/video/2022/06/the-highwire-episode-273-sacrificing-science-featuring-dr-clare-craig-video/ref/8/)
Latest survey shows the COVID vaccines are a disaster: ~750,000 dead in US
In US, ~5M people who got the vaccine are now unable to work and ~750,000 are dead. The rate of heart issues is 6.6%, far more than they claimed. No wonder our government isn’t doing these surveys!
https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/latest-survey-shows-the-covid-vaccines
I suspect that the survey represents a biased sample. The people answering the survey are more likely to be concerned about adverse reactions to the vaccines (and have such an adverse reaction themself) than the general population.
I’m not impressed by Kirsch’s surveys, due to the inherent bias.
Much more interesting are the revelations from the Pfizer trial docs release; the data from VAERS and other passive systems; the US military whistle-blowers; the Berlin Charite hospital and the very few other active surveys looking in detail at what actually happened to a cohort of vaccinated people.
Quite enough to make the case for withdrawing the pseudo-vaccines and ditching the whole suite of mRNA+nano-lipid technologies!
I agree the survey is biased.
The most obvious part was that only 25% of the people said they would take another vaccine even if it hurts them
In real life that number is about 50% for US and 80-90% for Europe and diaspora.
In order to get as low as 25% you have to go to Africa or (maybe) the poorer parts of Eastern Europe.
Gail, what do you think these numbers mean for the future of the countries above? Is it a death wish? Is it just people getting soft and stupid after 3 generations of the good life?
People trust those in power. They imagine that they will do whatever is needed to protect them against potential harm. They cannot imagine that the people in power would tell them anything other than the truth.
Another error in the West has been supposing them to be mostly just clowns, maybe a little corrupt, BS merchants, having an eye out for some nice corporate position when they leave office, but on the whole not criminals, not actively malicious.
We have learned (some of us) that they – together with other formerly more trusted professions – are capable of real harm, and not just directed at poorer, darker, people far, far away.
NEJM: Global Warming Causes Stillbirths, Birth Defects, Infant Heart problems
https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/nejm-global-warming-causes-stillbirths
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hahaha… they’ve mated two of the biggest cons in history hahaha
Really, it IS worth living on just to see how imbecilic and ludicrous the propaganda gets.
What next? ‘Global warming inhibits critical thinking, making people into anti-vaxxers’?
TENNIS SHOCK Novak Djokovic win over with Kwon Soon-woo delayed TWICE with medical emergencies on Centre Court as BBC viewers worried
NOVAK DJOKOVIC’S first match of his Wimbledon defence was suspended briefly twice due to medical emergencies for fans in the Centre Court crowd.
But the reigning champ, 35, survived a bit of a scare to progress into round two.
Djokovic was preparing to serve at 1-0 down in the second set when play was temporarily halted for the first time.
At the change of ends, a spectator was taken ill with FOUR medics darting into the stands to help.
The Serbian had been walking into position to serve when it became apparent there was a serious issue in the 15,000-seater stadium.
Both Djokovic and opponent Kwon Soon-woo returned to their seats at the side of the famous lawn.
The emergency services treated the individual and there was warm applause as they were taken away from the stand.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/19014092/novak-djokovic-wimbledon-match-suspended-medical-emergency/
Hahaha… and still.. and STILL … the MOREONS cannot see
Highlights
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mRNA vaccines promote sustained synthesis of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein.
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The spike protein is neurotoxic, and it impairs DNA repair mechanisms.
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Suppression of type I interferon responses results in impaired innate immunity.
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The mRNA vaccines potentially cause increased risk to infectious diseases and cancer.
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Codon optimization results in G-rich mRNA that has unpredictable complex effects.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S027869152200206X
I went into the pharmacy to buy some heat rub cream… must wear a mask even if have exemption… they have erected a soft plastic curtain around the service counter… yet the pharmacist came out to advise which product to buy… and like viruses don’t go around plastic curtains and through the area where you pay.. (they need a bubble with an air lock… )
And to cap it off… some fat old hag is in the queue in front of me asking ‘when can I book my next booster shot?’ She was so eager… And I was so disgusted I wanted to spit upon her…. but then I realized… she is a MOREON… and another Booster is exactly what she needs!
The fat old gal probably just recovered from a VAIDS induced encounter with the flu … and she thinks boosting is the magic elixir…
It’s surreal to hear someone request a booster — you’d think by now they’d have wind of all the injuries.. but nope… the PR Team is in command of their puny minds
An article by Stephanie Sneff and Peter McCullough published in Food and Chemical Toxicology, so it is not really a medical journal.
The article may very well be correct, however.
Unfortunately, even it were a medical journal, we would still have every reason to doubt it.
“Global Famine Is Not Just A Theoretical Scenario Anymore“
http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/global-famine-is-not-a-theoretical-scenario-any-longer/
Excerpt: “The world faces the prospect of a mass starvation “catastrophe” driven by unprecedented food shortages, U.N. chief Antonio Guterres warned Friday.“
I am afraid that Michael Snyder is probably right about the food shortages.
It won’t just be Africa either. It will be other places as well.
We discovered in Anchorage that an awfully lot of the restaurants serving tourists had shut down. Some have not reopened at all. When we went to the zoo today, we were told that the cafe had been closed in 2020 for COVID and not reopened. We could buy (over-salted) popcorn at the ticket counter as a substitute for lunch, however. Most of the restaurants that remain (in the touristy area of the city) are bars that serve some food on the side.
zoos always become the protein resource of (not quite) last resort
I can believe that.
I wonder how Alaska can afford to keep the zoo operating. I suppose the Cafe was considered a “profit center,” and it wasn’t making money. Now, there is difficulty finding workers, too.
Oh, so humanity is just retreating back to the normal of the past….imagine that..what a surprise! But I was told that we were on a path of development and progress through our hard work, smarts and kabutz…we took chances and it paid off in our comfortable civilized
Way of life.
People Who Grew Up Poor Are Sharing The “Small Things” In Life That They Now View As Luxuries, And It’s A Good Reminder To Not Take Anything For Granted
Reddit user u/Jensey311 asked, “If you grew up poor, what item do you buy now that feels like a luxury?” and a lot of the responses are pretty surprising. Here are some of them.
1.”Nice towels. There are seriously 30-year-old towels at my mom’s house. You can imagine how thin and useless they are.”
“Fruit. We only had apples or bananas growing up. Now we’re able to try all different kinds of fruit. I just discovered how much I love mangos at the age of 28.”
3.”Any meal at a restaurant. Growing up, even eating at McDonald’s was a special thing.”
4.”Literally just normal food, no off-brand shit or little-to-no food in the pantry. I’ve never seen my pantry full before; now it’s so full that it’s hard to choose.”
5.”It’s the little things, right? Trashcan liners. Body soap AND bar soap. Shaving cream. Fresh razor blades. Washing machine cleaning tabs. The heavy-duty scrubbing brush for the really caked-on stuff. Detangling spray for my hair. Separate toothbrush and toothpaste for the counter AND for the shower. Air freshener. A pretty candle. Fabric softener. Non-cardboard tampons or a quality menstruation cup.
6.”Bedding. Having sheets that aren’t torn. A blanket that’s not scratchy and pilling. Pillows that aren’t flat or useless. I always had a lot of sensory issues, and I swear I didn’t get a good night’s sleep my whole childhood.”
8.”Any heating or cooling system; most of the time I had to sit in a freezing cold or extremely hot trailer. It wasn’t enjoyable. So ACs and heaters feel like a luxury.”
9.”Good shampoo and conditioner that’s specific for my hair type. Growing up, everyone used the same cheap brand. Same bottle for the whole family. Since I had the longest hair, I would always catch shit for ‘using too much.’ Now I can buy whatever brand or type I want, and it makes me feel like a princess.”
10.”Whole coffee beans. My family either drank instant or the cheapest grounds they could find, nothing more than a stimulant to suffer through. I now have the funds to enjoy coffee as a beverage, with preparation steps.”
.”I leave my thermostat at whatever temperature is comfortable. Growing up we hardly ever used air conditioning or heat because it was too expensive. I counteract the extra cost by never eating out.”
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/people-grew-poor-sharing-small-051603055.html
Hmmm… Fascinating…there more?
Let me count the sands in the hourglass as the world turns
A green groupie once lectured me on how much $$$ was wasted on people buying tools that they almost never used…
His idea was to create an online sharing business.. where you can lend tools to people near where you live…
This is a truly delusional world these people inhabit … I mentioned that there might be some issues with this including the person damaging your expensive pc of equipment — or not returning it and you having to chase them…
I also mentioned that it is already possible to rent most tools https://www.kennardshire.co.nz/tools.html
This is the basic problem of huge communities with “know your business partner”. It seems we have solved this by using contracts.
If you created something like a community fund for tools and share them among the same members that paid for them the quality will possibly be maintained.
This is the basic problem with communist takeover: Steal the productive capital from the “bosses” who built them and then simply wear them down.
The communists are very bad in building up their own productive capital.
Sri Lanka halts fuel to non-essential services
https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/world/2022/06/28/sri-lanka-halts-fuel-to-non-essential-services/
Hahaha… what now?
Sri Lanka – let us see what the simulation brings us. Is it Mad Max or nothingburger?
Stay tuned to the feeds from the Matrix….
perhaps Russia thru India will provide some needed FF.
to most of us in the Core, even the total collapse of Sri Lanka will be a nothingburger.
those who live there will feel differently.
The question is, “What are essential services?”
The article says,
How about fuels for farmers? And fuel for trucks carrying food to markets?
Public transport police firebrigade grocery stores ambulance hospital
In 1800 Sri Lanka was self sufficient in everything, there were 1.2m people on the island.
In 2022 the population is 22m. Sri Lanka is in deep overshoot. Eventually the rest of the world will follow their example as we are in overshoot everywhere.
They might get ‘bailed out’ in the short term, but eventually there will not be anyone ‘bailing out’ anyone else.
Java had 5 million in 1805. Today, 140 million.
Insane Ripping of Faces there if UEP fails… insane .. beyond insane…
Absolutely no rules… the absolute worst atrocities will happen… the worst of the worst of the worst…
UEP is very important
the uk was and is in much the same situation over the same period of time
nobody is being forced to admit it yet
It’s what happens when a species applies finite fossil fuel derived chemicals to their farmland… lots and lots of food .. but when the inputs are no longer affordable…
uh-oh…. there is no way to revert to 5m … no way in hell… the soil is ruined and the 20m+ will eat each other till there’s just one man standing (literally) .. and he’d starve.
I’m kinda hoping nobody bails SL … it would be fascinating to see how this plays out while we still might get some vidjo of the Mad Max show…
I don’t know anyone in SL so it’s just anonymous faces being ripped… it’s ok…
So, is the vaccine safe and effective based on the evidence in the public data? Have thousands of lives been saved?
If this is true, how come more than 3,000 more people aged between 40 and 64 have died in each full year since the mRNA injections were administered when we would naturally expect fewer deaths?
https://metatron.substack.com/p/covid-19-was-the-cure-worse-than
Chemical giant may close plant due to gas shortage – WSJ
Germany’s BASF may shut down its biggest facility due to reduced Russian energy supply, the newspaper reports
German chemicals major BASF may be forced to halt production at the world’s biggest chemicals plant in Ludwigshafen, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, citing shortages of cheap and abundant Russian gas.
According to the report, BASF has used Russian natural gas for years to generate power and as feedstock for products that make it into toothpaste, medicine, and cars. However, dwindling Russian gas supplies are proving a threat to the company’s vast manufacturing hub, it says.
“Cutting down production at this site will be a huge task,” said BASF senior economist Peter Westerheide, as quoted by the WSJ. “We’ve never seen situations like this before. It’s hard to imagine.”
https://www.rt.com/business/557936-germany-basf-russia-gas/
Lots of workers will need to be laid off, I would expect.
It’s temporary .. once the Uke war is done it will all be ok
Perhaps… just perhaps… there is actually no gas ?
If it really is closing then I’d go with the there is no gas … and that’s not cuz Putin
Biden was counting on Arab nations to produce more oil but a few hours ago French President Macron was overheard telling Biden that the United Arab Emirates is at max capacity & the Saudis can’t produce much more. It appears to be a direct appeal to Biden to produce more oil.
https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/1541555413535145988
Perhaps this will convince Biden that if we want oil, we need to produce it ourselves. Cutting back prices for producers (such as letting oil out of the strategic oil reserve) is a temporary band-aid that will backfire in the long run.
EIA is claiming server problems and delaying data reports. Like the dog that ate the homework.
This is strange!
Tragically, this may undercut the initiative to hard cap oil prices worldwide, taken by a bunch of senile, immature guys in a room, all sporting no jacket and no tie. I was counting on the comic relief as I struggle with neverending Russian bureaucratic requirements.
“neverending Russian bureaucratic requirements.” – they like their big government, too?
(Bloomberg) — Taiwan’s industrial sector, including the world’s largest contract chipmaker, will be hit with the island’s first power price increase in four years as the state-owned utility grapples with soaring fuel costs.
Taiwan Power Co. has proposed increasing electricity costs by at least 8% for industrial users, the Taipei-based Commercial Times reported, without saying where it got the information. The Ministry of Economic Affairs is set to hold a meeting Monday to review electricity rates.
Taiwan relies on imported coal and natural gas for most of its power, and the price of both fuels has soared this year after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine upended global trade flows. At the same time, electricity use in Taiwan has hit new records in recent days amid hot weather and a strong industrial rebound after the pandemic.
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/global-chip-hub-taiwan-to-raise-power-prices-as-fuel-costs-soar-1.1784265
Will an 8% increase in electricity price be anywhere near enough?
‘….after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine upended global trade flows…’
Yep, narrative control. Sanctions and embargoes are the cause.
Nose
Cut
Spite
Face
Ha de ha ha
Uke War is an excuse for everything…
Heat Wave to Test China’s Ability to Stabilize Its Coal Market
(Bloomberg) — China’s effort to stabilize its coal market will meet its biggest test so far this year as a heat wave grips the country and power consumption hits record levels across many northern and central provinces.
The air-conditioning has been switched on just as industrial demand for electricity revives after the reopening of Shanghai and easing of virus curbs elsewhere in the country. According to Fengkuang Coal Logistics, the power grid in the major coal-consuming province of Jiangsu dispatched more than 100 million kilowatts of electricity for the first time this summer on June 17 — nineteen days ahead of last year’s pace.
Generators are effectively on the hook for a couple of related promises made by China’s leadership: that power shortfalls won’t be allowed to cause factory shutdowns like they did in 2021, and that this year’s economic growth target — thought by many to be out of reach — will be met.
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/heat-wave-to-test-china-s-ability-to-stabilize-its-coal-market-1.1784231
We will see if the plan actually works. Can’t China just limit air conditioning use, to keep the system from overloading? I suppose that might be too much of an admission of not having enough electricity for the appliances people buy.
Control freaks: G7 leaders push to cap oil prices
ELMAU, Germany — Behind the free-trading façade of the G7, there’s now more than a whiff of Gosplan, the old Soviet central planning committee.
Like price-fixing apparatchiks, leaders of the G7, the world’s industrialized democracies, convened in the Bavarian Alps for their annual meeting with a plan to impose a price cap on Russian oil. Their goal was to cut off revenues that are bankrolling President Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine, while also aiming to limit inflation for their own citizens.
French President Emmanuel Macron, however, decided that such targeted market manipulation was not the way to go. Instead, he rolled out a head-spinning alternative on Monday — calling for a worldwide cap on oil prices that would require the cooperation, or coercion, of major suppliers, including countries such as Saudi Arabia and Nigeria that belong to the OPEC producers’ cartel.
The U.S., which originally proposed the narrower Russian price cap and is currently the world’s biggest oil producer, was blindsided by the French plan. U.S. officials at the summit were exasperated, but not surprised by Macron’s plan, and said they believed the French president would ultimately come round but that it might take a while to hash through details and get a deal.
Germany, which is more accustomed to Macron’s pie-in-the-sky proposals, reacted skeptically to the French idea, fearing it would likely trigger artificially-created shortages. It was unclear how France’s negotiation-led approach would convince the kingpins of crude to open the spigots. Problematically, OPEC has already agreed to pump nearly 650,000 more barrels per day in July and August, but that has done little to douse market fears that energy-stoked inflation is now blazing out of control.
https://www.politico.eu/article/g7-summit-leaders-olaf-scholz-emmanuel-macron-ursula-von-der-leyen-france-eu-germany-want-to-cap-oil-prices/
Selling what oil is available at too low a price will:
(1) Will greatly increase demand for vacation travel, paving roads and many other oil-related uses that are related to prices.
(2) Mandating low prices for all producers will quickly reduce world oil production. This is not the effect that people really want.
Companies call for energy rationing
EDF, TotalEnergies and ENGIE have said energy price hikes “threaten political and social cohesion”
The bosses of EDF, TotalEnergies and ENGIE have come together to launch an appeal to French customers to limit their energy consumption.
In a joint statement, Jean-Bernard Lévy, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of EDF, Patrick Pouyanné, Chairman and CEO of TotalEnergies and Catherine MacGregor, CEO of ENGIE, said: “More than ever the best energy is still the one we do not consume.
“We must collectively, act on energy demand by reducing our consumption to give us room for manoeuvre.
“We will need it to manage future consumption peaks and to cushion technical hazards or geopolitical shocks that we may have to face. Acting this summer will allow us to be better prepared to tackle next winter and in particular to preserve our gas reserves.”
https://www.energylivenews.com/2022/06/27/companies-call-for-energy-rationing/
Good luck on getting people to voluntarily reduce their energy consumption. Having a huge share of nuclear power unavailable is at least part of the problem.
They will be shrieking in lanka about rationing… total rationing except for essential businesses…
Not sure how people are supposed to earn money to live… this goes till July 10 (at least)…
Foreign reserves are drying up in Asia as Central Banks keep struggling to fight the strength of the dollar
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FWTDCaCWYAAjVrZ?format=jpg&name=medium
With the higher dollar, exports from the US are more expensive, as well.
If they had had their reserves in Rubles instead of dollars they would be much better off right now.
Monkeypox may have undergone ‘accelerated evolution,’ scientists say
https://hiddencomplexity.substack.com/p/monkeypox-may-have-undergone-accelerated
“John Paul” give use his view of why the virus is evolving as quickly as it seems to be.
The fact that the MSM has given so much attention to monkey pox…. fuels suspicions…
If anyone has a spare hour…. in honour of the pox:
https://youtu.be/yq88AqJsQUQ
URGENT: I told you this, did I not? WHO, CDC & Fauci et al. are causing monkeypox to expand into the general population, now look here: “CDC Eyes Monkeypox Vaccine for Kids as Outbreak Spreads”
I will share the initial points I have as I learn more but this tells you what Geert and I have been sharing is correct, we know what will happen, these people at CDC and NIH etc. are dangerous
https://palexander.substack.com/p/urgent-i-told-you-this-did-i-not
Well Joe Bidet did admit Pandemic #2 was on its way.
One of the points Paul Alexander makes is that if the number of monkeypox cases is growing, an appeal should be made to the male homosexual community to close all sex clubs, and in general end male-male sexual encounters for two or three weeks, or perhaps more. This should stop the rapid spread, in his view.
Good luck with that haha… men will be men…
The active gays can’t help themselves: close their clubs and stop cruising and cottaging? Ha!
There’s a park here I’d never go walking in at night, I can assure you – assignations are also fixed up at the little antiques shop by the museum.
A couple of years ago the Guardian – they should know – ran a piece on how the gay scene was getting ever more decadent, with deaths and hospitalisations arising from new drugs used to heighten sensations.
This is not a ‘community’ inclined to self-denial or public-spirited actions, to say the least…….
I think I saw that… apps like Grindr used to invite people for drug fuelled mayhem…
If women were like men…. the world would collapse…
Walking down the street — hmmm.. you look good .. so do you … let’s go behind the dumpster!!!
About as subtle as that.
Women like that exist, of course, but are – thank God! – outliers.
Even the one or two true nymphos I’ve known haven’t been quite as free and easy as the average gay on the prowl.
Now, now NOT all of THEM are like that, at least not in the Roman Catholic Church!
Just joking that is..honest..
but he doesn’t believe the MSM on energy issues.
oh well, the consequences of the Bidet “victory” are already severely damaging Europe, and likely will only get worse.
He needs to stick to energy issues because he lags way behind on other subjects
hahaha
MANY OF OUR VACCINE INJURED ARE NOW DIAGNOSED WITH “POTS”…
Simply standing up can be a challenge for affected people as their body is unable to adjust to gravity.
PoTS is due to an abnormal response by the autonomic (automatic) nervous system and is characterised by orthostatic intolerance (the development of symptoms when upright that are mostly relieved by lying down).
Symptoms include palpitations, lightheadedness, fatigue, sweating, nausea, fainting and headaches, and are associated with a persistent increase in heart rate from the lying to upright position.
https://www.potsuk.org/
“The Age of Discord” by CHS https://www.oftwominds.com/blogjun22/age-discord6-22.html
Excerpt: “Clearly, we’re in a disintegrative stage.
Fischer proposed a repeating cycle of history in which humans expand their numbers and economy to consume all available resources.
Once all the low-hanging fruit has been consumed, scarcities arise, pushing prices above what commoners can afford, and the result is economic stagnation and social/political revolution.
Either humans exploit a new energy source at scale to provide for the larger population and higher consumption per person, or the population and consumption decline to fit available resources.”
David Hackett Fischer: “The Great Wave: Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History”
https://www.amazon.com/Great-Wave-Revolutions-Rhythm-History/dp/019512121X/ref=sr_1_6?crid=TG8B76CQ9ZXA&keywords=david+hackett+fischer&qid=1656376847&sprefix=david+ha%2Caps%2C255&sr=8-6
Came out in1996 or ’97….looks at price trends vs societal trends over the previous 800 years or so….an enjoyable read…lots of fascinating details….worth a look if you’ve read the Strauss & Howe/Turchin/Colhoun stuff….
Sounds interesting. Transportation became much less expensive in the 1950s and 1960s. Families could afford their first car, or even two cars. It it made it possible for women to work outside the home, among other things.
The accepted wisdom is that when women gain access to education, birth rates begin to fall….Fischer has a different perspective on this…..in times of stable low prices (rent, food, energy), low inequality and widespread opportunity, people in general tend to marry young and have larger families….
….in contrast to our current times…we have rising inequality, stagnant wages for most, chronic resource and population pressures….under these conditions people will delay marriage or not get married at all, the birth rates fall….the prevailing societal mood is one of pessimism and despair….
If he is right, then declining birth rates in the western nations will not be reversed by govt incentives….only when people sense that the world has “turned” for the better…will they start having larger families again….
We could be waiting a while….
cheap contraception is the product of western industrial factory systems
an educated woman, in general terms, has easier access to it, and so reduces conception.
she does not have less sex.
when factory systems can no longer supply cheap contraception, (which is an energy form) birthrates will start to rise again.
But our current industrial systems also allow higher survival rates in children, so that will start to fall as well.
So population will rebalance itself to the mean level of pre-industrial times.
I think Fischer is right. When times look good (and improving) families tend to have a lot of children. When the situation is very insecure, families have few children. In fact, many do not marry.
I’m not so sure he’s right. I’m fairly sure I’ve read that the opposite is true. It’s often the way.
If you look at Peter Turchin’s analysis in Secular Cycles, there is the Growth Phase, which is quite long-lasting (200 years+), when population increases to match the availability of the new resources (land, energy, minerals).
The second phase is Stagflation, when there is little real growth. Instead, more and more complexity is added. This phase seems to have started in the 1970s. Based on the example Turchin gives, this phase seems to last 50 to 60 years.
At some point, things start going downhill badly. There are diminishing returns to added complexity (Joe Tainter). Cheap energy is no longer available. This is what pushes the economy downward. We have definitely hit this point. Perhaps we call 2020 the starting point for this phase.
We are talking about laws of physics and historical research. If you have read something else, it likely is related to wishful thinking. Politicians are fond of wishful thinking.
I would agree we are in a disintegrative state. One of the things CHS says is
It seems like this approach can put a lot of pressure within families. If one spouse believes one way and the other believe the opposite way, there becomes a tug of war.
The Age of Discord
June 27, 2022
It’s very difficult to find common ground that supports cooperation in the disintegrative stage of scarcities, rising prices, catastrophically centralized power and social discord.
Today’s topic echoes Peter Turchin’s 2016 book, Ages of Discord, which I have often referenced in blog posts.
I’ll also discuss two other books I’ve often referenced, Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century by Geoffrey Parker and The Great Wave: Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History by David Hackett Fischer.
Hang on … 17th century???? Impossible!!!!
The other peculiar thing that happened which should have raised eyebrows is that Trump was crushing Bidet. Then “all of a sudden, the voting stopped for Trump” while Bidet was getting tens of thousands of votes in certain key swing states.
Greg Hunter who was journalists for ABC News and CNN many years ago covered the elections on his website USAWatchdog.com. He commented how Bidet was getting his rump handed to him by Trump and declared him the winner. Then he was shocked as he watched the vote count stop for Trump and Bidet was now getting 10’s of thousands of votes at a very fast clip.
The other questionable events was Bidet’s popularity. During his campaign he had a few thousand supporters at his rallies.Meanwhile Trump’s rallies were jam packed with supporters.
I voted for neither but there is no question that major shenanigans occurred on election night.
I also voted for neither.
someone seems to think that Trump is the fascsist and the ones who stole a national election to install a corrrupt puppet are not fascsists.
that is clearly cognitive dissonance.
(ps: the USA fascsists also control the MSM, which is 100% typical fascsist behavior.)
The US government is a “Crime Syndicate”. There motto is how can we light a bag of dog poop on a country and let them clean up the mess when they try to put it out?
The cognitive dissonance is in those who believe that an election won by 7 million votes was stolen.
you obviously don’t understand the US election system.
Trump lost the popular vote by 4 million in 2016.
the election only needed to be riggged in 5 or 6 large blue cities in the swing states.
Phoenix, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Detroit, Philadelphia, Atlanta.
the 20 or so blue states who almost always vote D were going to be D again in 2020, even if the Ds ran a half demmented corrrrupt olde geeeezer.
Thanks for clarifying that for mike
Of course mike votes for Ardern… he thinks she’s his kind auntie hahahaha
Donkey Faced Pig … hey mike what happened to the wedding?
heresy Mike
they burn heretics around here, for refusing to play in the loonytoons orchestra
POTUS has ZERO power. Read my lips… There is nothing to steal. Democracy is a mirage.
Do as you are told mike – get that f789ing 4th shot now! I was in the pharmacy and I overheard a fat old sack of disease asking when she could book her shot… she had a 3pm clot shot appointment cuz the hang man was out of office till then
I know I went to bed, fairly certain that Trump had won.
I thought I’d tripled my $$$ on my wager 🙁
Qanon is back
“Do you want to play a game once again?”
No.
F*** Q and the horse he rode in on.
That ‘Q’ thing makes it impossible to talk about anything not mainstream because you’ll be dismissed as a Q-nutter.
the 2020 POTUS election was clearly stolen by the Demoncrats.
not in all 50 states, just in the handful of swing states.
not in every city and town in the swing states, just in the major cities in each state, where the Demoncrats count the votes.
not in every voting place, just in the ballot drop boxes, where many mules were going to them many times per day for many weeks ahead of Nov. 3.
not mules dropping off their one ballot, but stuffing the drop boxes full with hundreds of illegitimate duplicated ballots per trip.
the Demoncrat controlled MSM completely ignores all of these relevant facts.
most likely NOTHING can be done to reverse this fraud, but at least the Demoncrats have been exposed.
all they needed was an innncommpetent duuumb CORRRUPT candidate, so they stole their D primary from all the women candidates and gave it to Bidet in March 2020 on so-called Super Tuesday when going-nowhere candidate Bidet all of a sudden from way behind surged ahead of the pack.
Jimmy Carter has now handed over his trophy for worst POTUS ever to Joe Bidet.
I bet, Joe Bidet doesn’t even know he’s POTUS. My feeling on this is that he was possibly blackmailed into taking the job with Hunter Biden as the pawn in all of this.
how dyou dream all this stuff up?
The swing-state democrat districts all just stopped counting at the same time, against decades of historical precedent. Strange.
thanks, it’s good to see that some non USA citizens can see the truth from outside of this country.
the willfully blind will never see it.
anyone with a “right” brain can see clearly that the USA election was not right. Unfortunately, the same group of people who took the jab are the same group of people who does not have the right brain (they have the left brain) – get the joke?
Would the head of the state election commission (if a Dem) be aware of the ballot stuffing and irregularities or would this be hush between the party operatives, mules and vote counters? No Dem or moderate I’ve spoken to is the least bit convinced of voter fraud. They won’t hear anything related to it including the pandemic being used as a way to favor the D’s through media propaganda and mail in voting campaigns.
someone high up concocted this multi state plan, so it’s definitely treason.
of course most will not be convinced.
here’s more of what someone would call a “dream”:
over 90% of USA journalists are liberals and Ds.
why? because they happen to graduate with their journalism degrees from the various radddical leffftists universities.
so, as the majority of USA citizens are cluueeless sheep, they would have no idea that the majority of their “news”, MSM, is mostly biased in favor of Ds and at times is outright propaganda.
as a side note, then it’s obvious that only Ds could pull off a stolen national election because they are almost fully covered by the compromised immmmoral MSM.
the demographics which concentrates Ds in the large cities also makes it almost impossible for Rs to steal a national election, but way more doable by Demoncrats.
what has followed directly from the stolen election is the domino consequences of war and “sanctions” that are totally blowing up in the faces of the EU sanctioners.
ironically, those radddical wacckko European so-called leaders definitely preferred the Bidet “victory”.
be careful what you wish for.
i was under the impression that the vote thing had been thrown out by about 30 courts—including by judges appointed by Trump
doesn’t that seem strange too?
Actually none of them allowed it to go forward to presenting evidence. Judges decision. Best money can buy.
even the judges appointed bt Trump?
that seems weird
And not a single MSM outlet reported on the Hunter Biden laptop filled with incriminating evidence of corruption involving Joe…
All those videos of Hunter banging anna and other prosties.. while smoking crack… nope — can’t find them anywhere (there were at least a dozen that I saw… vile stuff)….
This was explosive stuff… much bigger than Watergate — a presidential candidate taking payoffs…
Completely ignored .. by the MSM.. and FBI…
Strange huh
as i agreed in a previous comment
eddy never tells lies, fantasises or engages in outright BS
he told us so himself
We can all thank the mysterious water pipe leak in the Pennsylvania democrat voting precinct for the pattern of ballot fraud….sneaked in suitcase full of ballots,…electronic voter machine manipulation…
the above facts have nothing to do with Qanon.
norm, if you think those above facts are a “dream”, you must be totally cluueless as to how the voting and counting process happens in the USA and the demographic distribution which concentrates a vast majority of D voters into a very few counties which are dominated by the big blue city within each.
by the way, don’t tell your kids and gkids, but a direct consequence of the Bidet stolen election is the Ukraine war and the subsequent “sanctions” which will be making the decline of Europe much swifter.
if your relatives are literally freezing in the dark this winter, you can thank the puppeteers behind old geeeezer Bidet.
go back to energy issues, norm, you’re safe there.
These guys make me feel embarrassed reading this stuff!
do you live in the USA and/or fully understand the nuances of election demographics?
Bidet is my president.
I feel embarrassed!
(apparently many people around the world can see what a corrrupt buffffoon this demenntia patient is.)
it is what it is.
If anything I feel embarrassed by those who have been played like a fiddle and don’t even notice they’ve been taken for a 3000 mile ride.
There’s nothing embarrassing about debating the issues and airing grievances. Pick the low hanging fruit or help someone climb the tree. Enjoy the action from the peanut gallery and take a few swipes at someone messing up their lines. My personal failure is a lack of patience and tolerance and respect for the host in situations where someone here rubs me the wrong way. Let’s hear your thoughts on the matter or not.
Yes, it’s incredible, isn’t it, Norman? Even though some of that inveterate liar’s own close aids tried to till him the election wasn’t stolen, he still puts out this made up story and some here actually believe it (as does JHK). Now they aren’t even trying to hide that Biden (not “Bidet” – that’s just puerile) won by 7 million votes, instead saying that democracy should operate in the US and it can be stolen in a few “swing” states, and that it should have been!
Sadly, there are a significant minority of folks here who will simply refuse to believe any story that is reflected in the MSM, regardless of whether it is true or not.
yes, it’s incredible, isn’t it, mike? that norm can’t counter even a single point of fact so he starts rannnting about FEs secks fixxxations.
and you have one irrelevant fact about 7 million votes, when the founding fathers set up our constitution with very excellent reasons for the way state electoral votes should decide the POTUS election.
you should quit while you’re behind.
Bidet on his note card given to him by his puppeteers when he had to enter a room to give a short speech:
3. YOU take YOUR seat.
his obvious deeementia is all over the MSM, and his corrrruption is well documented.
“Bidet” is funny, and nowhere near enough of a full expression of that mans decades of incommpetence and corrruption.
just the kind of man who rises to the top in the D party.
puppeteers desire coorrrupt and not smart puppets.
And when norm fails to respond to real questions instead focusing on FE’s contextual secks discussions… that only encourages Fast Eddy to post more pointless secks discussions cuz that’s what resonates with norm…
Here’s a good one norm… Fast once dated a HK female who was on a math scholarship at Cambridge U.. when she’d come to visit Fast would quiz her with stuff like.. 7 x 987 + 19 x 39.876 – 4789 divided by 29.8876 + 1.
She was a wild that one… name escapes Fast
sure, to you she was just a “number”.
We’re talking 20 years ago or more… I think it started with a V…
I take it then that your preference would be for the Don, who had to settle a $25m fraud lawsuit before taking office in 2016—or maybe thats fake news too?
Or his antics on Jan 6th?
If you want a dictatorship—then vote him in again. The man is clearly deranged, yet you are happy to have his finger on the nuclear codes?
You actually want a POTUS with jesusfreaks dancing round his desk?
Biden isn’t perfect, who is? But his doesn’t tweet at 3 am—or perhaps that’s ‘normal’
You missed the point I think, that to answer one question from eddy would be to open the sluicegate for hundreds more–all fatuous.
As ive said many times–I was vaxxed myself, but have never offered opinion or persuasion either way to others. Take that in any way you wish. Not my problem
I do point out the ‘Bill Gates is stalking you” and other BS for what it is.
looks like eddys se xrant stream got deleted
You mean the videos of Hunter with the drugs and who res?
Check out the videos on the source
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/hunter-biden-russian-escorts-joe-payments
you know my rule eddy
never open eddylinks
Check the numbers in the swing states mike…
It’s very entertaining to see you and norm low-fiving each other….
If you could Biden to agree we could have the 3 stooges 3.0!
not as much fun as spotting low flying eddywits
Ready… set… GO! https://www.tiktok.com/@youvegot2bekidding/video/7052092917552516398
“Bidet”, “Demoncrat”, “CORRRUPT”, “innncommpetent”, “duuumb”. Do you expect to be taken seriously?
with every post, you keep illuminating your iggnorance of US election processes and demographics.
you should quit while you’re behind.
“iggnorance”? You keep illustrating my point.
this blog often holds comments in moderation if there is an offending word, which can be avoided by missssspelllling.
your cluueelessness tonight is dialed up to 11.
you really should quit while you’re behind.
When your level of ignorance involved it should be iggggggnorance
Look at mike – he’s been made a fool of yet again — watcha gonna say now mike – ‘you took it out of context’ hahahahaha
clown show.
More Boosters mike… the 4th shot is waiting for you — + a free donut!
add that to mike’s most ignorant duncey comments ever
i thought it was down to sticky keyboard syndrome
well david—feel free to explain the demographics of US election processes etc.
I am genuinely interested because it affects me indirectly.
Not joking there.
Please explain the part of the process that calls for the POTUS to phone somebody and tell them to ‘just find’ 11000 votes.
Or explain the part of the electoral process that involves witnesses to Trump’s Jan 6th antics now being physically threatened if they testify?.
Or Mike Flynn, when asked (on record) whether power should be handed over ‘peacefully’ says, quite clearly: ”I claim the 5th”
I could go on ad infinitum, without over stretching my supply of vowels and consonants. But you get my drift.
Explain please. I seriously want to know. US politics is infinitely fascinating.
Especially as the nation itself seems to be plunging over the cliff of theo-fascism. Half the population has just been rendered into 2nd class citizens.
Covid is a minor issue. Covid has been an attention diverter. But it wasn’t made in Chinese laboratory in order to kill off all first born children. Which is why I don’t answer BS questions from proven fantasists.
As fuel gets too expensive to use to survive, the result will be a ‘totalitarian state’, based on the mirage of MAGA. I think that will kick in after 2024, over the following few years.
When MAGA doesn’t improve things, the USA will tear itself apart in denial. The cracks are already there.
Carry on eddywit spotting if you wish. Your choice.
But bear in mind a few forecasts I’ve made over the past 10 years.
fascsists always take over most all media.
you know that.
USA fascsism is clearly coming from the left, where the demographics of US journalists is that they are more than 90% lefties and Ds.
this naturally would lead to a coverup of a stolen national election, if it did occur.
the MSM is trying to not report the facts of the steal which have come out in the past few months.
it’s now much too late to change the fascsist regime which now holds the office.
Trump had NOTHING to do with the recent exposure of the detailed facts of the steal.
you won’t find the facts on hufffpo MSM etc, and I doubt you will change your mind, and it’s not important that you change your mind.
and in my opinion, it’s too late to undo the damage that this fascsist regime has done to Europe, though Europe seems to have willingly gone along with its own accelerated decline.
with Trump, certainly there would have been no Ukraine war and no “sanctions” that are rebounding to a severe damage of Europe.
too late.
enjoy the USA/NATZO fascsist boot on the neck of Europe.
interesting exchange of concept David.
left or right is irrelevant with regard to ‘fascism’.
fascism is a concept that can arise from any quarter. Fascism is the imposition of political rule by a minority upon a subject majority, usually by brutal enforcement.
Using that definition, the medieval states of Europe were all fascists orientated.
Left or right didn’t enter into it. You did as you were told or got executed’ (sound familiar?)
A group seized power and held it until they were displaced by a stronger force.
‘workers’ were routinely oppressed by a ruling elite. Those workers were engaged in producing basic energy—ie food.
All that changed in 1709 when the industrial revolution kicked off.
Workers suddenly had power. (the means to withold labour in factories.) They were producing more than food.
To placate the workers, they were given democracy. They were deluded it would last forever. It lasted until our fossil fuels began to run out—ie, now.
Which is why our ‘democratic systems’ are falling apart. We no longer have sufficient energy to hold them together.
Scream about individual politicians and regimes as much as you want. It wont alter that reality.
Fascism is returning because democracies are collapsing. The USA is one of them. Trump was a trial run.
Putin is expanding because he sees his resource base collapsing, and with it the Russian state. That has nothing to do with Trump. He is trying to save his own neck.
Biden is aware of all this, but he is powerless to prevent it. Note he is the first POTUS not to have promised ‘growth’—why? because there isn’t going to be any. He is not weak—just a realist.
He knows that some form of socialist redistribution of wealth might slow down collapse.
Left or right wont change that.
Neither will hysterical ranting about ‘media’. Their main business is to stay in business.
‘Capitalism’ created the American way of Life–therefore ‘capitalism’ will go on supporting it into the future. Unfortunately the correct word should be ‘oilism’.
political left or right isn’t going to change anything of any consequence. We decided to set fire to the planet to turn a profit. That was our big mistake.
“Fascism is returning because democracies are collapsing. The USA is one of them.”
yes, we agree on that.
it just happens to be that in the here and now in the USA, fascsism is firmly entrenched on the left.
in my opinion.
David
I’ve tried to explain as clearly as possible that left or right is a relatively new concept
It originated in the UK parliament I think, where one body of opinion sat on the left, and another on the right
neither has any bearing on our current situation. Fascism isn’t the politics of right or left, it is the politics of ‘self’, and the preservation of the status quo at all costs.
Hence there is obs cene wealth among a limited few, and (eg) 40 million people in the USA on food aid—that means wealth is unevenly distributed.
Government is contrived to keep things that way. Left or right has little to do with it. Socialism has become a panic word.
If you were a medieval peasant and stole a sheep in order to eat–you got executed for it. Extremist political views have always been with us. Ruling elites made sure of that..
The law was basically one of terror and total subjection, backed up by the church, who could execute you for heresy.–exactly what the extremists want right now.. This why Trump had the jesusfreaks dancing round his desk. He needed their votes. (an utter charlatan)
Biden kicked them all out.
Biden isnt weak–he has no more idea of what to do than you or me.
When full on fascism comes into force, the political factions in the USA will have no trouble in staffing concentration camps. Taylor Greene and others confirm that.
Too extreme for you?
Wait till there’s no functioning source of cheap surplus energy. Then you’ll see a return to medieval law enforcement and serfdom.
This is why i dismiss this covidrama–it’s a trivial sideshow in comparison to what’s coming.
Whatever political point of view you hold, remember we dont have a political problem, we have an energy problem. Nothing is going to change that.
You don’t think Biden is incompetent??? hahahahahahahaha WTF….
All he has to do is read off a teleprompter text provided by the Elder’s PR Team — and act dignified… how hard can it be????
I am no fan of Joe, but at least he (or whoever put him in) understands there is no more growth. For that one thing he is better than Trump. I won’t comment on Joe’s many failings.
When Joe is given cue cards on basic protocol such as where to enter a room and when to sit, I don’t think Ol’ Joe understands much these days. He may not even be aware that he’s the POTUS.
Joe belongs with anna in the asylum
eddy
it would appear that a woman must disagree with you in order to make an impression on you
scary creatures aren’t they?
universal law eddy:-
those who can, do.
those who can’t, talk about it all the time.
which category would you put yourself in eddy? (Based on years of archived commenting?)
some free advice—stop talking about it all the time, you might eventually make yourself believable. Constant innuendo about pedos, inflatable people, ‘hot’ women, denigration of women not up to your ‘standards’ (lol) makes you an open book.
You don’t insult me, you insult yourself.
embarrassing to read–yet there is a compulsion to read it. Schadenfreude probably. I shouldn’t do it.. but we all have our weaknesses.
I’d put Fast Eddy in the category of a ‘doer’… and I’d put you in the category of ‘wannabe’…
sorry eddy
i thought some of your (se x obsessed) comments online over the years had gone about as low as they could.
But no one—literally no one, has posted a pic of an ‘ex gf’ for some kind of approval by the assembled throng of OFW inmates.
That really was something else, beyond belief. Yet you managed it—anything to ‘score’ eddy???
No wonder ‘scoring’ is a favourite word. The most important page so far in your ‘lifebook’.
I imagine, if the lady in question was made aware of your bringing her to our attention, in relation to you, she would be utterly thrilled by the ensuing fame in such low places.
Any comment there eddy?
I imagine not—there never is.
Just how self obsessed does a man have to be, to post a pic of a woman online in such circumstances? One with whom you said you were in a ‘relationship’ with?
It certainly reflects your total lack of respect eddy—Been saying it for years.
I’ve certainly never come across anything like it.
And there’s one more ‘fact of life’ you’ve never learned eddy:
It’s the lady who puts a gentleman in a specific ‘category’.
Only the failure categorises himself.
I may have lived beyond my sellby date, but I learned that 60 odd years ago. One does not, under any circumstances, put forward a woman for approval.
It is she who does the choosing—always.
But norm… you have been suggesting that FE has an issue with women based on his degrading anna to the level of a dumpster level street walker… so FE decided he’d have a little fun with you … nothing inappropriate…
Do you want the intro or not… come on norm …
Alas this has taken us off the main topic — why the babies norm?
norm is very close to joining anna in the asylum… he’s getting more unhinged by the day … hahahahaha…
Oh Gosh … anna needs your help norm!!!
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/09/25/17/44B498EC00000578-4918364-image-a-75_1506356184392.jpg
eddy
a year or so ago we were regaled with the spectacle of you screaming at the staff at your local medical centre that they were trying to kill you.
then–um–you didn’t do that… but would have, if……..
which designated you as a liar.
now we have you posting a pic of your ‘ex girlfriend’…which I didn’t believe in the first place, but online everything must be taken at face value. The nuances of physical presence are not there to pick up on.
if the pic of the lady was your ex, then putting her pic online was disrespectful, (to say the least) and fitted in with your use of the word ‘scoring’ and japanese references which we will not bother to translate. (your words, not mine eddy)
Your attitude to the opposite sex does seem to have that common thread eddy.
if the lady in question was not connected in any sense with you, then once again that puts you in the category of self obsessed liar. (see above).
With that clearly established, you somehow expect all the other BS you put out to be accepted as ‘truth’—and get extremely annoyed when I or anyone else says so.
Hence Anna, and others are consigned to the ‘dumpster’, and we get the ‘pedo’ stream, and all the rest. Ad nauseam.
You need to understand FE as an entertainer. You don’t get his jokes, but other people do.
The thing is…
The Fast Eddy Brand is just about ready to go mainstream … movie deals.. recording contracts… books… a Fast Eddy GI Joe doll… a clothing line… a restaurant chain (Fast Eddy Burger Joints)… speaking gigs 2M $$$ a pop… etc…
Except that the world is ending … so what’s the point…
We’ll just keep FE here on OFW with forays onto SS… and think about what could have been.
norm won’t understand that… he’s the Maytag Repair Man in his district
must be my brit sense of humour missing a few essential components
when a person of the female persuasion disagrees with FE, and she is consigned to –wherever–then neither she or i see the joke. The lady in question left—most do if you notice.
maybe not just me who doesn’t ‘get it’.
another favourite condemnatory thread–a variance of opinion brings accusations of pedo philia.
Must be something wrong with me–Does anyone else get that joke?
In case you hadn’t noticed… that photo was already online… and she was on buses magazine ads etc etc etc… she was the first ‘face of Cathay Pacific’ in a campaign for that airline… so I don’t think posting a link to the photo would be disrespectful.
The fact that I ditched her is probably more of a big deal… BTW – I picked her up while waiting for the light to change on Hollywood Road in HK hahahahaha… how’s that for a score normie old boy!!!
So do you want me to make the intro norm… or might you be too intimidated… after all… your only experience of late is with your blow up doll and Super Snatch SINdy… and then there’s the adult diaper issue…
Perhaps an intro to a nurse would be more appropriate… I’d need to go through my rolodex to and look if there’s anything under ‘hot nurse…’ Keep in mind these photos are over 10 years old so there will be some aging involved.
see previous comment made eddy
it answers your self obsessed drivel more than adequately i think
I see what you are doing — you are projecting your inadequacies with women onto Fast Eddy.
Tell us more!
after posting the pic of your ‘ex girlfriend’ eddy—reverse commenting doesn’t work anymore
Let’s move off of FE’s Grand History and discuss current affairs…
Babies norm. Why do you support murdering and maiming babies whilst experimenting on them???
Why norm? You are worse than all the mass murderers of all time because you are supporting this so you can mistakenly protect yourself from the Vid.
You are a wicked person norm.. Shame on you norm…
I won’t introduce you to Doris because of that norm… if I told her you were a baby killer she’d not be interested… who would?
Selfish norm… in his diapers
sorry Yosh.
my comments about these stolen election facts have nothing to do with Qanon.
my apologies.
Iran and Argentina have applied to be part of the emerging BRICS economies. Hey Deep State and Neocons, how’s that welt on your forehead coming along from the returning boomerang hitting you in the head?
https://www.rt.com/news/557941-iran-brics-argentina-membership/
Iran and Argentina would be joining Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. This sounds like fairly good company.
https://www.wltx.com/article/news/nation-world/ukraine/russian-rocket-crowded-shopping-mall-ukraine/101-4ed33dbc-82b3-4f9b-9ad5-a8e9de069a8f
NATO goes in?
Who (besides the US) has troops to volunteer? Would the US go in, to solve a problem that is basically European?
Looks fake… There should be a big hoohah around the world as it is “Russia’s fault” but I did not hear about this in any major MSM
Never let a crisis demonizing Putin go to waste
Definitely fake – keep in mind … two very large towers were knocked down in the NYC false flag… what’s what looks like a very old crap mall… just light it up
Show me the dead bodies
https://t.me/VanessaBeeley/6604 Kredmash factory for heavy machinery right next door
could it be that everyone in your life ‘fakes it’ eddy?
I have been saying it for over 10 years now.
If we don’t all accept the limites to growth, end population growth now, do 75% less of everything, stay home and do art, read, garden nap…
If we don’t make the change THEY will make it for us and it will be much worse.
Only 10 years?
True to some extent perhaps, but that doesn’t put food on the table and keep people sheltered in reasonable fashion. Those things things take enormous and coordinated effort that the species appears not ready to make. This allows unnecessary bad things to happen that come with a long chain of succeeding bad things.
Nature has a way of rebalancing itself out over time without any intervention. I remember growing up as a boy in NYC and hearing stories about how polluted the Hudson River was that fish avoided the river. NYC was dumping raw sewage into the River as early as the 1930-40’s. Once the sewage stopped making its way into the river, the fish came back and the river essentially took care of business all on its own
“If we don’t make the change THEY will make it for us and it will be much worse.”
then it’s going to be much worse.
I’m okay with that.
“we” are not going to change willingly.
WtP, maximum power principle, gathering all possible resources and expending all possible energy.
what humans did, what humans do, what humans will do.
it will continue until it comes to an end.
oh look, I can see Q3 2022 coming down the road.
“end population growth now”
The population in Sweden is way higher than it could possibly support without fossil fuels. The population level is fine so long as FFs continue. Then it will make no difference whether you have personally laid in bed all day or not.
“If we don’t make the change THEY will make it for us and it will be much worse”
‘We must reduce our vitality to a minimum or the powerful will harm us’ has been a cowardly refrain of the subjugated for millennia, but that is not what is really going on here. It is simply an energetic problem. Meek moral posturing is not going to solve that one.
“I have been saying it for over 10 years now.”
Gail’s articles have explained many times why that is all a lot of nonsense. The energetic problem cannot be solved, and your moralistic posturing has got absolutely nothing to do with it.
What makes reducing energy consumption so difficult is the fact that a large share of energy consumption is hidden in ways consumers cannot easily see. Paving roads and maintaining them is a big use of energy. Simply making cars (including EV cars with huge EV batteries) is a big user of fossil fuel energy. Growing food, processing it and transporting it to market is a big energy consumer.
Cutting back in the miles we travel in our cars doesn’t do nearly enough to fix much of anything.
The impact of indulging with excesses such as cars, etc., for sure is placing a much higher strain on the system overall.
Excusing oneself is merely coping from wittingly blowing through finite resources when it’s ultimate effects are blatantly obvious to deduce for anyone with half a brain.
Or put simply – bad Karma from personal irresponsibility.
No hate; just sayin.
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