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It is my view that when energy supply falls, it falls not because reserves “run out.” It falls because economies around the world cannot afford to purchase goods and services made with energy products and using energy products in their operation. It is really a price problem. Prices cannot be simultaneously high enough for oil producers (such as Russia and Saudi Arabia) to ramp up production and remain low enough for consumers around the world to buy the goods and services that they are accustomed to buying.
We are now in a period of price conflict. Oil and other energy prices have remained too low for producers since at least mid-2014. At the same time, depletion of fossil fuels has led to higher costs of extraction. Often, the tax needs of governments of oil exporting countries are higher as well, leading to even higher required prices for producers if they are to continue to produce oil and raise their production. Thus, producers truly require higher prices.
Governments of countries affected by this inflation in price are quite disturbed: Higher prices for energy products mean higher prices for all goods and services. This makes citizens very unhappy because wages do not rise to compensate for this inflation. Prices today are high enough to cause significant inflation (about $107 per barrel for Brent oil (Europe) and $97 for WTI (US)), but still not high enough to satisfy the high-price needs of energy producers.
It is my expectation that these and other issues will lead to a very strangely behaving world economy in the months and years ahead. The world economy we know today is, in fact, a self-organizing system operating under the laws of physics. With less energy, it will start “coming apart.” World trade will increasingly falter. Fossil fuel prices will be volatile, but not necessarily very high. In this post, I will try to explain some of the issues I see.
[1] The issue causing the price conflict can be described as reduced productivity of the economy. The ultimate outcome of reduced productivity of the economy is fewer total goods and services produced by the economy.
Figure 2 shows that, historically, there is an extremely high correlation between world energy consumption and the total quantity of goods and services produced by the world economy. In my analysis, I use Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) GDP because it is not distorted by the rise and fall of the US dollar relative to other currencies.
The reason such a high correlation exists is because it takes energy to perform each activity that contributes to GDP, such as lighting a room or transporting goods. Energy consumption which is cheap to produce and growing rapidly in quantity is ideal for increasing energy productivity, since it allows factories to be built cheaply and raw materials and finished goods to be transported at low cost.
Humans are part of the economy. Food is the energy product that humans require. Reducing food supply by 20% or 40% or 50% cannot be expected to work well. The economy suffers the same difficulty.
In recent years, depletion has been making the extraction of fossil fuel resources increasingly expensive. One issue is that the resources that were easiest to extract and closest to where they were needed were extracted first, leaving the highest cost resources for extraction later. Another issue is that with a growing population, the governments of oil exporting countries require higher tax revenue to support the overall needs of their countries.
Intermittent wind and solar are not substitutes for fossil fuels because they are not available when they are needed. If several months’ worth of storage could be added, the total cost would be so high that these energy sources would have no chance of being competitive. I recently wrote about some of the issues with renewables in Limits to Green Energy Are Becoming Much Clearer.
Rising population is a second problem leading to falling efficiency. In order to feed, clothe and house a rising population, a growing quantity of food must be produced from essentially the same amount of arable land. More water for the rising population is required for the rising population, often obtained by deeper wells or desalination. Clearly, the need to use increased materials and labor to work around problems caused by rising world population adds another layer of inefficiency.
If we also add the cost of attempting to work around pollution issues, this further adds another layer of inefficiency in the use of energy supplies.
More technology is not a solution, either, because adding any type of complexity requires energy to implement. For example, adding machines to replace current workers requires the use of energy products to make and operate the machines. Moving production to cheaper locations overseas (another form of complexity) requires energy for the transport of goods from where they are transported to where they are used.
Figure 2 shows that the world economy still requires more energy to produce increasing GDP, even with the gains achieved in technology and efficiency.
Because of energy limits, the world economy is trying to change from a “growth mode” to a “shrinkage mode.” This is something very much like the collapse of many ancient civilizations, including the fall of Rome in 165 to 197 CE. Historically, such collapses have unfolded over a period of years or decades.
[2] In the past, the growth rate of GDP has exceeded that of energy consumption. As the economy changes from growth to shrinkage, we should expect this situation to reverse: The rate of shrinkage of GDP will be greater than the rate of shrinkage of energy consumption.
Figure 3 shows that, historically, world economic growth has been slightly higher than the growth in energy consumption. This growth in energy consumption is based on total consumption of fossil fuels and renewables, as calculated by BP.
In fact, based on the discussion in Section [1], this is precisely the situation we should expect: GDP growth should exceed energy consumption growth when the economy is growing. Unfortunately, Section [1] also suggests that we can expect this favorable relationship to disappear as energy supply begins to shrink because of growing inefficiencies in the system. In such a case, GDP is likely to shrink even more quickly than energy supply shrinks. One reason this happens is because complexity of many types cannot be maintained as energy supply shrinks. For example, international supply lines are likely to break if energy supplies fall too low.
[3] Interest rates play an important role in encouraging the development of energy resources. Generally falling interest rates are very beneficial; rising interest rates are quite detrimental. As the economy shifts toward shrinkage, the pattern we can expect is higher interest rates, rather than lower. As the limits of energy extraction are hit, these higher rates will tend to make the economy shrink even faster than it would otherwise shrink.
Part of what has allowed growing energy consumption in the period shown in Figures 2 and 3 is rising debt levels at generally lower interest rates. Falling interest rates together with debt availability make investment in factories and mines more affordable. They also help citizens seeking to buy a new car or home because the lower monthly payments make these items more affordable. Demand for energy products tends to rise, allowing the prices of commodities to rise higher than they would otherwise rise, thus making their production more profitable. This encourages more fossil fuel extraction and more development of renewables.
Once the economy starts to shrink, debt levels seem likely to shrink because of defaults and because of reluctance of lenders to lend, for fear of defaults. Interest rates will tend to rise, partly because of the higher inflation rates and partly because of the higher level of expected defaults. This debt pattern in turn will reinforce the tendency toward lower GDP growth compared to energy consumption growth. This is a major reason that raising interest rates now is likely to push the economy downward.
[4] With fewer goods and services produced by the economy, the world economy must eventually shrink. We should not be surprised if this shrinkage in some ways echoes the shrinkage that took place in the 2008-2009 recession and the 2020 shutdowns.
The GDP of the world economy is the goods and services produced by the world economy. If the economy starts to shrink, total world GDP will necessarily fall.
What happens in the future may echo what has happened in the past.
Central bank officials felt it was important to stop inflation in oil prices (and indirectly in food prices) back in the 2004 to 2006 period. This indirectly led to the 2008-2009 recession as parts of the world debt bubble started to collapse and many jobs were lost. We should not be surprised if a much worse version of this happens in the future.
The 2020 shutdowns were characterized in most news media as a response to Covid-19. Viewed on an overall system basis, however, they really were a response to many simultaneous problems:
- Covid-19
- A hidden shortage of fossil fuels that was not reflected as high enough prices for producers to ramp up production
- Hidden financial problems that threatened a new version of the 2008 financial collapse
- Factories in many parts of the world that were operating at far less than capacity
- Workers demonstrating in the streets with respect to low wages and low pensions
- Airlines with financial problems
- Citizens frustrated by long commutes
- Very many old, sick people in care homes of various types, passing around illnesses
- An outsized medical system that still desired to increase profits
- Politicians who wanted a way to better control their populations–perhaps rationing of output would work around an inadequate total supply of goods and services
Shutting down non-essential activities for a while would temporarily reduce demand for oil and other energy products, making it easier for the rest of the system to appear profitable. It would give an excuse to increase borrowing (and money printing) to hide the financial problems for a while longer. It would keep people at home, reducing the need for oil and other energy products, hiding the fossil fuel shortage for a while longer. It would force the medical system to reorganize, offering more telephone visits and laying off non-essential workers. Many individual citizens could reduce time lost to commuting, thanks to new work-from-home rules and internet connections. The homebuilding and home remodeling industries were stimulated, offering work to those who had been laid off.
The impacts of the shutdowns were greatest on poor people in poor countries, such as those in Central and South America. For example, many people in the vacation and travel industries were laid off in poor countries. People making fancy clothing for people going to conferences and weddings were laid off, as were people raising flowers for fancy events. These people had trouble finding new employment. They are at increased risk of dying, either from Covid-19 or inadequate nutrition, making them susceptible to other illnesses.
We should not be surprised if some near-term problems echo what has happened in the past. Debt defaults and falling home prices are very real possibilities, for example. Also, making a new crisis a huge focal point and scaring the population into staying at home has proven to be a huge success in temporarily reducing energy consumption without actual rationing. Some people believe that monkeypox or a climate change crisis will be the next area of focus in an attempt to reduce energy consumption, and thus lower oil prices.
[5] There is likely to be more conflict in a world with not enough goods and services to go around.
With a shrinking amount of finished goods and services, we should not be surprised if we see more conflict in the world. Many wars are resource wars. The conflict between Russia and Ukraine, with other countries indirectly involved, certainly could be considered a resource war. Russia wants higher prices for its exports of many kinds, including energy exports. I wrote about the conflict issue in a post I wrote in April 2022: The world has a major crude oil problem; expect conflict ahead.
World War I and World War II were almost certainly about energy resources. Peak coal in the UK seems to be closely related to World War I. Inadequate coal in Germany and lack of oil in Japan (and elsewhere) seem to be related to World War II.
[6] We seem to be facing a new set of problems in addition to the problems that gave rise to the Covid-19 shutdowns. These are likely to shape how any new crisis plays out.
Some recently added problems include the following:
- Debt has risen to a high level, relative to 2008. This debt will be harder to repay with higher interest rates.
- The US dollar is very high relative to other currencies. The high level of the US dollar causes problems for borrowers from outside the US in repaying their loans. It also makes energy prices very high outside the US.
- Oil, coal and natural gas are all in short supply world-wide, leading to falling productivity of the overall system Item 1. If extraction is to continue, prices need to be much higher.
- Difficulties with broken supply lines make it hard to ramp up production of manufactured goods of many kinds.
- Inadequate labor supply is an increasing problem. Baby boomers are now retiring; not enough young people are available to take their place. Increased illness, associated with Covid-19 and its vaccines, is also an issue.
These issues point to a situation where rising interest rates seem likely to send the world economy downward because of debt defaults and failing businesses of many kinds.
The high dollar relative to other currencies leads to the potential for the system to break apart under stress. Alternatively, the US dollar may play a smaller role in international trade than in the past.
[7] Many parts of the economy are likely to find that the promised payments to be made to them cannot really take place.
We have been taught that money is a store of value. We have also been taught that government promises, such as pensions, unemployment insurance and health insurance can be counted on. If there are fewer goods and services available in total, the whole system must change to reflect the fact that there are no longer enough goods and services to go around. There may not even be enough food to go around.
As the world economy hits limits, we cannot assume that the money we have in the bank will really be able to purchase the goods we want in the future. The goods may not be available to purchase, or the government may put a restriction (such as $200 per week) on how much we can withdraw from our account each week, or inflation may make goods we currently buy unaffordable.
If we think about the situation, the world will be producing fewer goods and services each year, regardless of what promises that have been made in the past might say. For example, the number of bushels of wheat available worldwide will start falling, as will the number of new cars and the number of computers. Somehow, the goods and services people expected to be available will start disappearing. If the problem is inflation, the affordable quantity will start to fall.
We don’t know precisely what will happen, but these are some ideas, especially as higher interest rates become a problem:
- Many businesses will fail. They will default on their debt; the value of their stock will go to zero. They will lay off their employees.
- Employees and governments will also default on debts. Banks will have difficulty remaining solvent.
- Pension plans will have nowhere nearly enough money to pay promised pensions. Either they will default or prices will rise so high that the pensions do not really purchase the goods that recipients hoped for.
- The international system of trade is likely to start withering away. Eventually, most goods will be locally produced with whatever resources are available.
- Many government agencies will become inadequately funded and fail. Intergovernmental agencies, such as the European Union and the United Nations, are especially vulnerable.
- Governments are likely to reduce services provided because tax revenues are too low. Even if more money is printed, it cannot buy goods that are not there.
- Citizens may become so unhappy with their governments that they overthrow them. Simpler, cheaper governmental systems, offering fewer services, may follow.
[8] It is likely that, in inflation-adjusted dollars, energy prices will not rise very high, for very long.
We are likely dealing with an economy that is basically falling apart. Factories will produce less because they cannot obtain financing. Purchasers of finished goods and services will have difficulty finding jobs that pay well and loans based on this employment. These effects will tend to keep commodity prices too low for producers. While there may be temporary spurts of higher prices, finished goods made with high-cost energy products will be too expensive for most citizens to afford. This will tend to push prices back down again.
[9] Conclusion.
We are dealing with a situation that economists, politicians and central banks are ill-equipped to handle. Raising interest rates may squeeze out a huge share of the economy. The economy was already “at the edge.” We can’t know for certain.
Virtually no one looks at the economy from a physics point of view. For one thing, the result is too distressing to explain to citizens. For another, it is fashionable for scientists of all types to produce papers and have them peer reviewed by others within their own ivory towers. Economists, politicians and central bankers don’t care about the physics of the situation. Even those basing their analysis on Energy Return on Energy Invested (EROEI) tend to focus on only a narrow portion of what I explained in Section [1]. Once researchers have invested a huge amount of time and effort in one direction, they cannot consider the possibility that their approach may be seriously incomplete.
Unfortunately, the physics-based approach I am using indicates that the world’s economy is likely to change dramatically for the worse in the months and years ahead. Economies, in general, cannot last forever. Populations outgrow their resource bases; resources become too depleted. In physics terms, economies are dissipative structures, not unlike ecosystems, plants and animals. They can only exist for a limited time before they die or end their operation. They tend to be replaced by new, similar dissipative structures.
While the current world economy cannot last indefinitely, humans have continued to exist through many bottlenecks in the past, including ice ages. It is likely that some humans, perhaps in mutated form, will make it through the current bottleneck. These humans will likely create a new economy that is better adapted to the Earth as it changes.
Time to assume that health research is fraudulent until proven otherwise?
“Health professionals and journal editors reading the results of a clinical trial assume that the trial happened and that the results were honestly reported. But about 20% of the time, said Ben Mol, professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at Monash Health, they would be wrong. As I’ve been concerned about research fraud for 40 years, I wasn’t that surprised as many would be by this figure, but it led me to think that the time may have come to stop assuming that research actually happened and is honestly reported, and assume that the research is fraudulent until there is some evidence to support it having happened and been honestly reported. The Cochrane Collaboration, which purveys “trusted information,” has now taken a step in that direction.
Stephen Lock, my predecessor as editor of The BMJ, became worried about research fraud in the 1980s, but people thought his concerns eccentric. Research authorities insisted that fraud was rare, didn’t matter because science was self-correcting, and that no patients had suffered because of scientific fraud. All those reasons for not taking research fraud seriously have proved to be false, and, 40 years on from Lock’s concerns, we are realising that the problem is huge, the system encourages fraud, and we have no adequate way to respond. It may be time to move from assuming that research has been honestly conducted and reported to assuming it to be untrustworthy until there is some evidence to the contrary.”
https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021/07/05/time-to-assume-that-health-research-is-fraudulent-until-proved-otherwise/
Superb article.
What can be trusted now? The idea that science is ‘self-correcting’ would be true, if so much money and so many reputations were not at stake. Add the sheer power of the state and the MIC into the mix, the total corruption of the MSM, and we have a dreadful situation.
The editors of the BMJ have made many good points since this nonsense began – Norman would do well to read them (but won’t of course) – but they are still tip-toeing around the bush.
Afraid, I suppose, of loosing professional status and of being shut down/replaced and silenced for good – and given the state of things these are reasonable grounds for caution.
Superb article.
What can be trusted now?
As I have mentioned… nothing.. I mean nothing including every single piece of research paper, articles, theories (say many times and it becomes true), news, TV, everything cannot be trusted.
Perhaps smoking is good? Who knows?
Sri Lanka? Panama? Ukraine? I was not there. Even if I were there, do I trust what I see? Perhaps that is the reason why I cannot be there (my family will never allow me).
Carpe Diem is the only thing I trust
Add in Wuhan virus video, flood in China (that is fake videos), and so many things that cannot be easily and logically confirmed
There is so much fakery it’s impossible to know what is fake and what is real.
For the fun of it here are 2 german links that say smokers have lower risk of severe c9/11. (Especially due to nicotine)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXzRWEXgRE0
https://netzwerk-rauchen.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/PM_01_2020_Raucher_seltener_durch_Corona_krank.pdf
The problem here is that the combination of “smoking” and “positive” is not applicable in this world.
Strong evidence in favor of an auto-immune effect. Smoking affects the human body mostly by suppressing the immune system (which in turn favors the development of cancer and other diseases). a less strongly reacting system creates less damage.
Inhaling smoke from any burning substance is likely a bad idea. One doesn’t have to be a scientist to figure out that which causes coughing is not good for your organism.
STEM fields with directly verifiable theory through experimentation likely is quite truthful.
I doubt there are a few EE’s that are doubtful of the theory of Georg Simon Ohm, Maxwell, etc.
But yeah, that is rather old ‘science’, and these days mainstream“science” such as “cosmology” is nothing but imaginary conjecture. I.e. a bunch of crackpots profusely funded by halfwits who can’t figure out shit from shinola.
There have been a fair number of studies that purport to show smoking worsens COVID-19. However, an Iranian paper from 2020 came to the opposite conclusion. Both nicotine and caffeine show promise in therapeutic treatment of SARS-CoV-2 infection.
Conclusions
In summary, we theoretically evaluated (using MD simulations) the interactions of two crucial active sites of the S protein (i.e., 6LZG, 6VW1) when it is complexed with the ACE2 receptor using two accessible natural bioactive alkaloids, i.e., nicotine and caffeine. Then, the combination of nicotine and caffeine with antiviral drugs—including favipiravir, ribavirin, remdesivir, chloroquine, hydroxychloroquine, oseltamivir, and valganciclovir—were investigated as potential complimentary agents of the ACE2 receptor. The results of the MD simulations revealed a promising binding tendency in caffeine/nicotine with the ACE2 receptor; consequently, the blocking of the ACE2 receptor against SARS-CoV-2 can occur. The results indicate that the molar ratio of caffeine and nicotine with 6LZG and 6VW1 also has a major impact on the blocking activities of the ACE2 receptor. We have shown that, in the case of the 6VW1 complex, caffeine with favipiravir and ribavirin form a more permeant structure against SARS-CoV-2 in term of non-bonding interaction energy. Also, we show that the combination of nicotine and favipiravir in blocking 6LZG and the combination of caffeine and ribavirin in blocking 6VW1 were more successful. In conclusion, our results suggest that nicotine and caffeine compounds have the capability to interact with the S protein and ACE2 and interfere with their binding through blocking the active sites. The results might have significant applications in considering them as drug candidates in therapeutic treatment of SARS-CoV-2 infection.
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2607/8/10/1600/htm
More Vaccines Lead to More COVID-19 Infections
“This study demonstrates exactly how the repeat vaccinations are causing people to be more susceptible to COVID-19. Initial doses of the vaccine brought about classic inflammatory immune responses. Inflammation is a fundamental part of an immune response (to a vaccine or to an infection), and is responsible for most of what you feel when you are sick: fever, aches, lethargy, etc. This inflammation is why you may feel sick if you get a flu shot, and why the COVID-19 vaccine has become famous for making people feel so sick for a few days. Your body is producing an inflammatory response to the COVID-19 proteins.
But what happens in the body after you have had two vaccines and then you are given a third? The scientists found that successive doses of the mRNA vaccines start to habituate or desensitize the subjects to the COVID-19 proteins, migrating their immune response over to being dominated by the IgG4 form, which essentially teaches the body to tolerate the proteins.
The participants’ response to COVID-19 had actually been turned off, making them even more vulnerable to infection and less likely to mount a response to it than those who had never been vaccinated.”
https://www.theepochtimes.com/new-science-shows-vaccines-help-omicron-spread-peer-reviewed-study_4645812.html
Winning!
Scotland cut down 14 million trees to make way for wind turbines
“The tree removal seems especially ironic given that world leaders supposedly agreed to end deforestation by 2030 at the recent COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland.”
https://www.cfact.org/2021/11/22/scotland-cut-down-14-million-trees-to-make-way-for-wind-power/
hahahaha – YES!!! — hang ’em high!!!
This post isn’t gratuitously frightening.
Sooner or later, given the appalling toll of c19 vaccines (which have killed millions & injured tens of millions of other people, some of whom will never recover), relatives of the dead & injured are going to work it out: that this is a plot to take down the modern world, that things are never going back to the old normal and worst of all, those involved in the murder if their loves ones are going to be made to pay.
Note: I am ANTICIPATING significant outrage & carnage. I do not encourage it & am not inciting anything.
How can it not end like this? What is to be expected people do, once they realise their loves ones have died because the vaccinators choose to remain blind & dumb.
If I was involved anywhere in the medical system, I would genuinely be terrified. The Vax damaged, dying & bereaved are not going to get the senior perpetrators. They’re going to come for you.
A very experienced nurse of 30 years experience said to a friend of mine that:
“These people stood on footsteps, banging on saucepans for us. When they realise we’ve murdered their loved ones, they are going to stone us to death”.
I think there’s still a sliver of opportunity: if a group of senior doctors were to publicly & clearly state that all c19 vaccinations must stop right now, they’ve a slight chance they can point out the active perpetrators. It could still turn out very badly. All I can say is, it’s cannot be avoided indefinitely.
Best wishes
Mike
https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/b/doctor-hanging-herself-stethoscope-22441887.jpg
You may have already seen this one, but there’s no denying that she’s speaking out(do listen to the end).
“If you ask me, this isn’t a hospital, it’s a concentration camp”
https://twitter.com/unswerve/status/1557833463579004929?s=20&t=AOPh9BRXcTmT0UxziulTLA
norm is our barometer… norm could watch this but the MSM told him what to think — yes a few people die but many more would die without the injections.
This… is what we are dealing with.
There is no winning. No changing what they think.
The only recourse is to encourage them to take more boosters and hope more of them die or are maimed. I reckon if we get to 1 of 2 getting wrecked… they might start to wake up
Let’s say half your family died or was damaged in the next month norm — would that make you stop injecting?
Personally I’d like to get Norman on side. Say what you like about him, but when he gets a subject, he words it well.
If that one fails to raise any questions, here’s an old one from our own country and Bob makes an excellent point that’s easily verifiable.
https://twitter.com/earth_marine15/status/1536302397026336769?s=20&t=jTs006JKU7NuN73xGSHlZQ
All so called advanced nations had plans for a real pandemic and if you read them there’s always a list of thing that you just don’t do, because of the destruction it will cause.
Someone in the relevant position of power, in each so called advanced nation, appears to have read it back to front. Maybe Norman could explain the mathematical probability of that happening?
Norman makes a lot of good contributions. We need people who see things differently. The site cannot be an echo chamber with only one view expressed.
I’d like to echo that sentiment.
norm is the only OFWer on 5 injections — he’s our very own experiment!
It keeps us guessing — will norm survive another day? When norm doesn’t post for a few days we speculate – did the injections catch up with him….
It makes life worth living. kinda.
This recording is, in my view, a REALLY important piece of documentary evidence showing that Wales Police chose to ignore a peaceful, serious-minded & courageous gentleman, who was attempting to execute a warrant to close a centre for injecting citizens with a bio weapon without they’d fully informed consent, contrary to the Nuremberg Code (1947) & several other notable international agreements, all expressly forbidding human medical experimentation. Additionally, vials should have been seized as evidence, subject to independent analysis.
Now, I don’t kid myself that the police should have been expected to take their word for it. There are several matters that the police could have checked, TFH point being that, if they could confirm certain matters & find no errors of process, then in my view, they should either have assisted as requested or stood down. The two gentlemen were openly peaceful, courteous & clear in what assistance they sought in executing that warrant.
The police swear to uphold the law, not to get heavy with law abiding citizens on the say so of politicians & senior line orders.
The policeman who declared the entire affair was “bunkum”, without even checking anything is behaving exactly as did the “Good Germans” between 1933 & 1945. They are unequivocally accessories to crimes against humanity.
Now, I understand the seniormost police officer questioning the warrant. But the filing of the legal complaint to the International Criminal Court (ICC) is real & that legal packet was confirmed as received by the ICC. I know this because my opinions & affidavits (witnessed statements) from me & others together with our credentials & finally swearing under penalties of I was to have lied & that that these are my opinions arrived at with no conflicts of interest.
Though I inferred long ago that all institutions were corrupted & this won’t progress, it’s important to lay down some markers for posterity.
We might quibble on the odd detail, but I say again that at its core, I fully endorse the central crime of it all.
I salute these two gentlemen & add my sincere thanks to them for their courage & decisiveness.
My adult daughter (30, a humanities graduate of University of Cardiff, often tells me that you don’t need my credentials in order to deduce that things are seriously wrong.
In view of this sharp observation, I’m most terribly disappointed in my fellow man / woman.
Cont/
https://www.voiceofwales.com/voice-of-wales-cwmbran-arrest-and-court-footage/
Ya think???
“Oops, Sorry!” – The CDC ADMITS Defeat, Rolls Over With Radical Changes to COVID Guidelines
It may be over now, but never forget the two-tiered society they put in place based on CDC guidelines.
Dr. Naomi Wolf: (https://gettr.com/user/drnaomirwolf) “It’s like the end of the Wizard of Oz. It all vanishes in a puff of smoke, and nothing’s changed. The science hasn’t changed. Vaccinated and unvaccinated people were always exactly identically a threat or not a threat to everyone else. There was no difference.”
Full Video: tinyurl.com/Naomi-CDC
Follow @VigilantFox 🦊
Rumble (https://rumble.com/v1frwxr-oops-sorry-the-cdc-admits-defeat-rolls-over-with-radical-changes-to-covid-p.html)
And then I woke up. It was all just a dream!
I am sure lots of CovIDIOTS are thinking the worst is over… that it was a dream … (but not those with permanent vax damage or dead family members)
The worst is yet to come — surely nobody thinks they moved heaven and earth to jam as much of this garbage into billions upon billions … just to drive the share price higher
hahahahaha…
That’s what I enjoy the most about this — the constant beatings … then small acts of kindness … followed by more beatings… and more small acts… the MOREONS become grateful for the small acts and accept more beatings..
The best beating is yet to come — I gain energy and power from their misery… it makes life worth living. They are so hopeful at the moment — how quaint!
Just waiting for the next shoe to drop – smashing everything to bits. Dream >>> Nightmare.
Substack Founder & CEO: Why I Created The Platform
“… we started with this really strong commitment to free speech… we’re making a platform for writers that … can be a positive force in our intellectual climate… that’s an important principle.”
https://unga.substack.com/p/substack-founder-and-ceo-why-i-created
norm
Ambulance calls for most serious conditions hit record
“Last month saw the highest number of ambulance callouts for life-threatening conditions since records began, NHS England officials say.
There were more than 85,000 category one calls, for situations like cardiac arrests and people stopping breathing.”
The tick up started in mid-2021 🤔
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-62504401
They discovered BAU will not continue, checked out Gail’s blog, read the comments, and went into cardiac arrest from the stress of it all. They need to learn to enjoy and savor it.
That would make sense…
In the meantime, on one of my old notebook computers, I have decided to download Windows 11, the latest version that has yet to be debugged and try it out.
I am sure they have done a good job like what they have done on C19 vaccine Fully tested and deployed on billions of people worldwide. Safe and effective. How cute!
I’m rejecting 11. F789 everything
Still using 7 Professional, and also getting regular updates, which is surprising. Fingers crossed…….
Only a failed species would ever develop misanthropy.
Only a failed species would ever promote copium peddlers.
Only a failed species would relentlessly burn through finite resources.
Only a failed species would indulge in hopiates and copium
Only a failed species would prefer egotistical fantasies than the bleak and ugly truth
Only a failed species would entertain compartmentalization and cognitive dissonance
Only a failed species would empower sanctimonious hypocrites
Only a failed species would empower hyper MOARons
Only a failed species would empower hyper Tryhard attaboys
Failed species.
Let it sink in and revel in it.
But part of it is because primary care in Britain is completely broken.
Nobody can get a GP appointment. So in the end people deteriorate and the only recourse is to call an ambulance.
Vax Injuries.
I’m getting bored.
Yes I know lots of sick and dying people… but that’s become the new normal… therefore it is normal .. and normal is dull…
We had sri lanka for a bit .. then panama… but they never turn into the mass mayhem I need to keep the adrenaline machine pumping…
I hate these lulls… bring on the storm.
Q4? Mad Max ROF? UEP?
How about some ROF — then UEP. That would be ideal
Encouraging people to stockpile food…. seems he’s not thought about what happens when that runs out…
What he suggests is dangerous — anyone with food will be targeted and will suffer horribly if they attempt to resist the mob
https://hiddencomplexity.substack.com/p/facing-the-laws-of-entropy/comments
https://palexander.substack.com/p/monkeypox-warning-spread-of-mpv-is/comments
Heyreeder
2 hr ago
I work for an elderly woman. She broke out with this exact condition after her covid booster. (3rd Pfizer shot) it was mainly located on her feet and toes. Eventually the lack of circulation (due to her newly diagnosed heart condition) made it so the wounds were open and unable to heal properly. She’s now unable to walk. Soon after she would have outbreaks of blisters on/in her mouth.
Anyway… my point is I think you’re onto something.
Think about all the medical or caring jobs the vaccines have created vaccinees need permanent care all planned for the low energy future
Hey norm … let us know when you get the M Pox
Your antic with Super Snatch SINdy ‘out back the dumpster’ puts you at high risk…. SINdy will be encountering the bi-se-xxes who attend Birthday Orgis who come seeking a bit of feminine wiles from time to time… she may get some Tranny Action ….
It is after all… a very sordid profession … and Money Talks….and M Pox walks…
The more you inject – the more susceptible you will be to The Sickness(es)
MONKEYPOX warning!: spread of MPV is now particularly expanding in countries with elevated COVID-19 vaccine coverage rates; we argue there is link between the type of population immunity in high C-19
https://palexander.substack.com/p/monkeypox-warning-spread-of-mpv-is
Re: global warming comments below
This crowd knows it is political when it became CC.
When I 1st saw sun cycle args it was dismissed in some sci forums so I just assumed the experts know. But then I found this gem:
This model was 97% accurate over a small time frame but it stunned these researchers to verify (before becoming laughingstocks) it hasn’t been retracted but you can be sure mighty brains tried.
It’s one thing To disprove GW but astounding that this is saying just the opposite:
We’re entering a grand solar minimum!
right now and we don’t have to wait a thousand yrs!
Heartbeat of the Sun from Principal Component Analysis and prediction of solar activity on a millenium timescale
V. V. Zharkova, S. J. Shepherd, …S. I. Zharkov
https://www.nature.com/articles/srep15689
So oil depletion and mini ice age.
” . . . solar scientists have criticized this model as being overly simple and flawed. For example, Ilya Usoskin, head of the Oulu Cosmic Ray Station in Finland and vice-director of the country’s ReSoLVE Center of Excellence in Research, published a critique of Zharkova’s solar model, noting that it was created based on just 35 years of data and fails to accurately reproduce past solar activity. And if it cannot accurately reproduce past solar activity, then how can it be expected to accurately predict future activity?”
https://skepticalscience.com/little-ice-age-try-big-warming-age.html
Thx I ’ll look closer if the page loads. 35yrs??
spectacular accuracy of the historical fit in the past 800 years gave us the confidence to extrapolate the data into the future for a similar epoch of 1200 years
Too simplistic? That’s probably why it’s so accurate.
Most climate models don’t seem worth much because they are complicated but this isn’t a climate model. It looks like we’re entering a gsm & I wouldn’t bet on CO2 overriding the lower solar output
Time will tell on that GSM thing.
http://milesmathis.com/goody2.pdf
“The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.”
— Ernest Hemingway (Notes on the Next War, 1935)
To make all these wondrous things technology can do, we do need technocracy.
Basically nothing for the unnecessariats. Giving food to them would be considered a capital crime.
Something similar to North Korean lifestyle for the people who are not exactly needed. No smartphones for those who are not deemed to need it. No autos. No electricity.
A strict, computerized tech which can oversea the expenditure of resources to the miligram is possible in todays tech.
By using the resources and energy of the space, humanity will expand forever, although that won’t really benefit the people who will be written off.
Entire peoples and races will be exterminated on the way for this. That is inevitable.
Democracy in USA will die. A violent death. Politicians famous today won’t be relevant since they don’t have the brains to do suit themselves in the new , inimical, merciless and super efficient world which takes no prisoners and will have absolutely zero mercy against those who are not suitable to it.
WE are going to the Stars, but to be able to do that a massive reduction of unnecessary consumption is needed.
Not the solution I would choose. Perhaps you listen to the WEF folks.
Kulm is a German—or at least a Mitteleuropean. The kind of thinking he displays is par for the course in that part of the world.
I have a feeling that Kulm would get on very well with Klaus Schwab and Henry Kissinger.
“WE are going to the Stars, but to be able to do that a massive reduction of unnecessary consumption is needed.”
and yet your very own “unnecessary consumption” proves you wrong.
stop using the internet, and show us you can reduce your consumption.
you are a member of a species heading for certain extinction.
extinction is the singularity hahahahaha.
Yes, the notion that “going to the stars” is not “unnecessary consumption” is absurd.
mike — is that you mike??? mike lives
But where’s Dunc?
Let us do a thought experiment why has bill gates built nuclear bunkers at each one of residences
Let us do a thought experiment why has bill gates built nuclear bunkers at each one of his residences
UEP makes perfect sense if the end is nigh.
He’ll be imprisoned in one of them till he dies… if this is correct… spent fuel ponds spew for centuries
If I’d have the money, I’d ask Putin to aim a big one directly on top of my residence and pay for it.
A worthy Grande Finale so to speak. Billy’s been a really good tryhard attaboy and deserves only the best. After all; I wonder what his personal wastrel footprint is, excluding any necessary business trips?
And he want to squeeze his rear end through the “bottleneck” in some asinine bunker?
Let’s check in on Billy and ask him what’s up with this:
*knock, knock*…
“Hello?”
“Somebody home?”
*Silence*
Nope, nobody there, but the light surely was on.
🤔
How are you going to grow food in Asia without peasants? Rice in Asia is not grown using huge machines. It is planted, harvested and processed by hand.
And I think that you may need to famikiarize yourself with what is known as “The Economic Calculation Problem”.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_calculation_problem
(Il Paragone)
“”Covid used to impose Green on us.” The scientific study that shines a new light on the pandemic.
A surprising confirmation of how functional it is to draw on the pandemic repertoire, to endorse environmentalist policies, comes from a study just published in Environmental science & policy, reported and explained in today’s edition of ‘La Verità’. Indeed, the authors put in black and white the thesis that the self-styled experts, sneeringly, attributed to paranoid conspiracy theorists: “Covid-19 and other future crises may offer a promising opportunity for European governments to accelerate their efforts in climate protection, in terms of social legitimacy.” But let’s see specifically what this is all about…”
We can well say that it is something we have thought about on this blog…
https://www.ilparagone.it/attualita/covid-usato-per-imporci-il-green-lo-studio-scientifico-che-accende-una-nuova-luce-sulla-pandemia/
Penn State Votes to Stop Injecting Fluoride into State College’s Water Supply Due to “Possible Adverse Health Effects”
“Brennan said fluoride’s efficacy is not in question, but that the board was concerned about several health issues.
‘There’s been a lot more research over the past decade that raises red flags for fluoridated water and that’s a big part of my decision here,’ Grottini said. ‘I was on the fence about this two years ago when we started the committee and it’s taken a lot to get me over to one side of the aisle from the other. I don’t feel it’s our role to medicate people in this case with a substance that is being shown to be harmful in a lot of peer-reviewed literature.’”
https://www.statecollege.com/state-college-borough-water-authority-board-votes-to-stop-fluoridation/
According to Google:
“The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has set a maximum amount of fluoride allowable in drinking water of 4.0 mg/L. Long-term exposure to levels higher than this can cause a condition called skeletal fluorosis, in which fluoride builds up in the bones.”
An article in 2021 in Nature says:
Pennsylvania seems to be in a location where there is little fluoride naturally in the ground water, so it would need to be added, if it is desired. Apparently those who are worried about it have outnumbered those who would like it.
Fluorosis can show up in the form of mottled enamel. At a local event, I was casually speaking with an expert on dioxin pollution. He looked at my teeth and suggested that I have dental fluorosis. I also have a 10% scoliosis and a few musculoskeletal deposits. Nothing debilitating. I grew up on City water, took the suggested childhood treatments of fluoride at the dentist’s office and used fluoride toothpaste. Now I use aluminum-free deodorant and fluoride-free paste.
Dr. Charles Hoffe;
The college of physicians and surgeons is the one organisation that could have and should have stopped this madness
How many people need to die and be maimed…before health Canada acknowledge this is a disastrously failed experiment?
The Hippocratic oath says do no harm and yet they keep going telling you to get another booster
WATCH HERE (https://rumble.com/v1fhy3v–biggest-disaster-in-medical-history-dr-charles-hoffe-gives-riveting-speech.html)
@childcovidvaccineinjuriesuk
Hippocratic oath turning into a hypocritic oath
One in Three Vaccinated Teenagers Suffer Cardiovascular Side-Effects; One in 43 Suffer Heart Inflammation
A study (https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202208.0151/v1) finds cardiovascular adverse effects in a third of teenagers following Pfizer vaccination and heart inflammation in one in 43
The study enrolled 314 Thai adolescents aged 13-18, of which 301 were monitored following vaccination:
▪️It found cardiovascular effects in 29.24% including tachycardia, palpitation and myopericarditis
▪️Two patients had pericarditis and four had subclinical myocarditis
▪️The most common cardiovascular effects were tachycardia (7.64%), shortness of breath (6.64%), palpitation (4.32%), chest pain (4.32%) and hypertension (3.99%)
▪️7 instances of heart inflammation out of 301 people gives an incidence rate of 2.3% (1 in 43)
▪️Instances of cardiovascular adverse events more broadly were almost 1 in 3
The mechanism ‘may be related to the mRNA sequence for the spike protein or the immune response following vaccination’
READ HERE (https://dailysceptic.org/2022/08/12/one-in-three-vaccinated-teenagers-suffer-cardiovascular-side-effects-one-in-43-suffer-heart-inflammation-study/)
@childcovidvaccineinjuriesuk
I suspect most of them say nothing — pretend there is nothing wrong …. this is a normal reaction to fear of death… you deny it’s happening to you
One does not simply pronounce Thai names.
However I like them.
best thai name ever – Pookchai Pookingkorn
are you pooking kidding me?
Notice how that guy who asked what we should do about the situation – when informed gold was not going to save him — has disappeared.
I sometimes wonder if people conclude we are f789ed… and off themselves.
Me? As I told you, I’m taking up alcoholism. I got drunk yesterday. Gonna drink tonight. And going to AC to get drunk and blow cash at the same time. Maybe a good steak dinner if I have room.
BAU tonight, baby!
Booze As Usual?
Very wise choices
Try running down some CovIDIOTS…
Fsck dope and booze, face the process of extinction sober. Just have a bottle of OxyContin ready if shit turns seriously dicy.
Can’t handle your little hopiums and copiates being yanked from your egotistical fantasies? Just grow a pair of 🥜 or have some 🐱 (if you’re female).
Holy oats these precious snowflakes…
🤢🤮
My guy Kow.. first you wrote me trying to figure out best investments to potentially come out on top of this shitty world and called me out for being a Tryhard. Ok, now I accept the inevitable and decide to drink my way through the end of the world and you call me precious snowflake. What do?
From a purely egotistical viewpoint, I might just like to read your comments (no sarcasm).
How could you get out on top of the world if you’re vested in those Rapacious Primate antics of the monkey ego?
Perhaps you’re good with money and other symbolic representations of wealth, or perhaps you’re like me, more into the tangible, physical, aspects of objective reality? Both seem entirely reasonable.
Thank “god” we are different. No?
Just enjoy the process without any unrealistic expectations whatsoever. I.e. obstinately desiring to remain in the egotistical fantasy la-la land – coping and hoping.
Just do your “thing”. I.e. shove your hand in the soil feeling the Tao grace your skin.
I guess whoever of us that crank the oats is rather insignificant to any outside observer. The oh noes of maximum effort still is the same.
Go figure.
🤣👍👍
Look the date of this post is a numerical palindrome
Our finite world is what it is no matter how we read it
_/\_
…Ahhh timing, not quite Bobby, alway in a rush you are, never this mind on what it is doing right now, always looking ahead, but not in Thee moment
We are so much more than these flesh things . Made of light and thought we are
Just in:
https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/karl-lauterbach-is-evil-and-not-stupid
But check this out:
https://www.bundesregierung.de/breg-de/aktuelles/digitaler-impfnachweis-1924940
“…you get a code that you may enter into your own app yourself any time…”
Igor needs to be more careful. This is a 2 min Internet search.
sigh.
I am pretty sure the system is very difficult to hack, even for the admin.
Just show the (digital or printed) cert tomorrow and everything will be ok.
(same Pass Id, please)
…….
If Karl had his second booster but didn’t bother to enter it, what does that say about his role as the system’s promoter and about the system itself? Obviously, he has never been refused entry or service for not being up to date—or that would have prompted him to be up to date.
What’s the color code again. Green for OK, Amber for Dodgy, Red for No Good and Must Wear a Muzzle?
This obsession with segregating people and labeling them in order to tell them apart is getting far too close to Pink Triangles and Yellow Stars for my liking. But Karl is wetting his pants in anticipation about it.
Let’s apply some logic here:
I am not sure if there exists any place at the moment in Germany where you need to show vaccination status (clinics?)… Anyhow:
If you want to enter shop and you can not show a certificate you are “officially unvaxxed”
Even if you have a certificate at home, you are “officially unvaxxed”, no entry. Criminal.
So now the German Ministry of health comes up saying “Mr L. is actually vaxxed on 03/22”, but not showing a proof of certificate, Mr. L is “officially unvaxxed”.
If now “officially unvaxxed” is now officially declared not being a problem without proof there is no more proof or none proof of “officially unvaxxed” because anybody can declare anything.
Mr. L has to come up with some sort of proof. Even when for the moment the thing might be swept under the rug, this will nag on the whole shabang.
Of course a minister of health showing proof of vaxxination in public is some sort of kotau being a huge PR disaster for the public.
This looks like a lose lose situation to me and the people must continue to call for that. (is there a twitter meme?…Fast to the rescue!)
In any way, there is some fuse burning here until we have proof.
(could be fake but that does not even matter: the logic applied here is time invariant).
I do not think that a non vaxxed status can be faked” later. This thingy has been made quite bullet proof because they want this bullet in every head.
If I were the German Ministry of health, I would have sent Mr. L home, have him apply the certificate to his app, make a screenshot and publish that.
For some reason that was not possible, so for this reason the fuse is still lit.
Sup OFW’s
What’s going on with Harry, his site has not been updated for a while now, anyone know if he’s okay?
https://climateandeconomy.com/
Some earlier said that he was expecting company this summer. He may be vacationing. There could be other explanations as well, but in August, I would expect vacation.
Harry’s with Duncan?
“his site has not been updated for a while now”
6 days?
Everybody takes a holiday. This is the second last week of the school summer holidays. He is chilling out with his family (I don’t know Harry personally but he needs a break).
yes he writes that it is a vacation until Monday the 15th.
can’t wait for his Economic News to restart.
every other day it is Cliimate News, which in my opinion is mostly about weather events.
I mean, extreme weather is sometimes interesting.
though relatively so very insignificant.
Harry? Who’s Harry.
Michael the Merchant is the new kid in town.
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And very nice riches, they are, too…. very nice!
(And thanx for already paying both for the war and for the following reconstruction of ‘UKR’! xx)
> How Ukraine Lost Its Riches
On February 24, the day Russian troops crossed the borders to Ukraine, I wrote about the potential end state of the operation:
On March 19 I revisited the question and added Kryvyi Rih (Kriwoi Rog in Russian), the yellow part of the map, to the list:
“Novorossiya roughly includes the red and yellow areas in the above map. It also includes the valuable Soviet developed iron ore mines and factories of Kryvyi Rih west of the Dnieper river.”
I especially want to point out that I spoke of a “mostly agricultural state, disarmed and too poor to be build up to a new threat to Russia anytime soon.”
I could say that because nearly all of Ukraine’s resources and industries are in the south and east. If Russia takes those or creates the new state of Novorossiya the ‘rest of Ukraine’ will be mostly de-industrialized. Also of note is that the south and east include most of the famous black soil areas, which consists of a half meter deep humus layer that allows for good agricultural results without using much fertilizers.
Much of the steel and heavy machine industries in the south and east have been neglected over the last 30 years under Ukrainian rule or were destroyed during the wars that are raging since 2014. It will require very large investments to revive them but the potential profits will be great.
Nearly half a year after I wrote about it, the Washington Post, with the help of some Canadians, is catching up on the issue:
I believe that the natural gas share Russia already holds is higher as there are several sub-sea gas fields around Crimea and off the eastern coast.
If the Russian forces also take Kryvyi Rih and Dnipro they will have about 75-80% of Ukraine’s pre-war GDP under their control.
Russia’s war effort is currently financed by the ‘west’ which pays for it through record energy prices created by its own sanctions on Russia.
As the Russian Interfax agency reported yesterday (machine translation):
If the ‘west’ really wants to deprive Russia of money it must immediately lift the sanctions and restart importing oil, gas and coal from Russia at then much lower prices.
Russia will not lack money to finance the rebuilding of Novorossiya’s great industries. Once that is done those areas are evidently able to support themselves and to guarantee a high standard of living. They will also have enough money to militarily defend themselves against anything the poor rest of Ukraine will be able to finance.
At the end of March, after negotiations between Russia and Ukraine in Turkey, there was nearly an agreement on a ceasefire and on the end of the war. Joe Biden then tasked Boris Johnson with telling Zelensky to continue the war. The ‘west’ would otherwise stop paying him. Zelensky did as he was told and stopped all negotiations with Russia.
An agreement with Russia at that time would have kept the Ukraine mostly as one state with only minor losses in the Donbas. But the decision to continue the hopeless war also ended all chances for Ukraine to keep its riches.
It will be poor and helpless while its ‘western’ neighbors will feast on it.
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/08/how-ukraine-lost-its-riches.html
Funny to see lovely civilized Russia excoriating the Ukies for being naizies. I saw a documentary around 1992, after the USSR had fallen apart. A former Gulag prison camp officer was reminiscing. Ethnically, he looked like Kazakh or similar. Back in 1950, he did colored drawings of his work as a personal hobby. He was an excellent artist. One drawing he showed was of roll call. Haggard looking women were lined up naked at 5 a.m. in front of the male prison guards. I noticed that in the drawing each naked woman seemed to have a sort of long balloon dangling between her legs. The former guard explained that this was a prolapsed uterus, the typical result of the hard labor. I was horrified. Commies and naizies – where is the difference?
Yes, support the Russkies and be proud. I remember reading a book about the Spanish civil war. The author wrote that there were no good guys in that war. And so it does seem with this war too.
Kind of like a reversed baboon’s arse?
I won’t even bother to look for a photo of that
The good guys in the Spanish Civil War were without question the Francoists.
When one side or the other makes a practise of digging out the mummified corpses of nuns in order to carry out mock firing squads…or explodes cathedrals with dynamite…
This is an interesting book. The execution of a fifth column that did not in fact exist.
“The Red Terror and the Spanish Civil War: Revolutionary Violence in Madrid”
https://en.id1lib.org/book/2489292/121003
“The good guys in the Spanish Civil War were without question the Francoists.”
Franco was from a lower middle class background but revered aristocrats. He was a disgusting reactionary and as blood-thirsty as any tyrant and should never be admired.
I adopt rhetorical styles in so far as they convey information, which is what is language is for. I am not in a perpetual mode of moral posturing or virtue-signalling, which is not really what this website is about. If you are not comfortable here, then that is not really my problem. Maybe you should get to know people, ie. understand them, before you start to criticise them? Criticise by all means, if that is what does it for you, but at least understand first who and what you are supposedly criticising. If your perpetual mode is to micromanage ‘moral’ attitudes, then maybe you should go and get a job in a nursery instead?
Very defensive, these sub-Nietzschean sociopaths. And weird too. 😉
Name calling? You would fit right in the nursery….
How old are you btw. I do not want to get into one with a teenager…
Calm down, lassie. Go and have a drink.
I limit my comments to one or two complete sentences.
If you keep those sentences under 30 words, i would tend to agree.
Everything has been said. Many times over. Now its time to listen.
“I limit my comments to one or two complete sentences.”
we should all do our part to conserve natural resources.
I did it too, that was just one sentence.
and it was so easy.
do you see what I am saying?
do you get it?
let’s not overfill the internet with wasted words.
otherwise someone somewhere would have to delete words.
that would be wasted effort.
wasted words and wasted effort.
and then We would be unable to go “to the stars”!
The power of less
Keeps the devil away
In a world a mess
For those to stay
Here’s a tip. If you replace most of your periods with semicolons, you can fit several pages of text into each sentence. Just remember to de-capitalize the first word after each semicolon.
I’m being facetious, but the fact is, educated people up until the end of the nineteenth century often used to write looooooong cumbersome sentences of this kind Take, for instance Charles Darwin, who penned this little beauty:
Passing over allusions to the subject in the classical writers (Aristotle, in his “Physicae Auscultationes” (lib.2, cap.8, s.2), after remarking that rain does not fall in order to make the corn grow, any more than it falls to spoil the farmer’s corn when threshed out of doors, applies the same argument to organisation; and adds (as translated by Mr. Clair Grece, who first pointed out the passage to me), “So what hinders the different parts (of the body) from having this merely accidental relation in nature? as the teeth, for example, grow by necessity, the front ones sharp, adapted for dividing, and the grinders flat, and serviceable for masticating the food; since they were not made for the sake of this, but it was the result of accident.
It is long yet it is perfectly readable. The old saw that readability is related to sentence word counts is quite wrong.
Most people could greatly improve their readability if they just kept their subjects and verbs closer together. You will observe that in most of the clauses of the sentence Darwin does precisely that.
The exception would appear to be the long phrase and clause separating “Aristotle” from “applies”, but even in those phrases and clauses, Aristotle is the doer of the parallel speech acts “remarking” and “adds” while the other clauses within the interpolation maintain very tight subject-verb closeness.
Really pretty good writing, for which the basic test is “Did I have to re-read the sentence or mentally rearrange it in order to understand it?”
Yes, I agree. And it is even more of an achievement in that Darwin didn’t have Grammarly to help him! 🙂
In order to grasp this kind of writing, we have to practice making our mind a bigger container and holding more words and phrases simultaneously in our consciousness. I would have had trouble doing this in primary school, but by the age of 12 or 13 I was starting to enjoy things like the novels of Dostoyevsky (the Constance Garnet translations) and Hardy, and even Gibbon’s Decline and Fall—all of which I would find it hard to concentrate on now that my faculties have atrophied due to decades of lack of use.
As the Rhine dries up in Germany, these pop up again
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunger_stone
From Wikipedia:
“Hunger stones serve as famine memorials and warnings and were erected in Germany and in ethnic German settlements throughout Europe in the 15th through 19th centuries.
These stones were embedded into a river during droughts to mark the water level as a warning to future generations that they will have to endure famine-related hardships if the water sinks to this level again.”
Thanks. I will add the additional info next time.
In fact, isn’t this kind of a “mini Georgia guide stone”? I thought of it that way. How many warnings did we get?
Near Fukushima, (above where the flooding took place), there is a rock inscribed with the words, “Build nothing below this level because flooding may occur.” (Or something similar.)
This was a different, similar, kind of warning.
Higher grounds, melting glaciers. Thanks Gail.
booster time for the goobal wermers
https://www.tiktok.com/@rachel_youvegot2bkidding/video/7052092917552516398
Electricity-prices going up and staying up (Germany & the Netherlands)
https://www.epexspot.com/en/market-data?market_area=DE&trading_date=&delivery_date=2022-08-13&underlying_year=&modality=Continuous&sub_modality=&product=60&data_mode=graph&period=year
Almost as good as a fat line of Bolivian Blow … I can barely type after reading that
The entire fortune of humanity is on balance.
There are only two fates for humanity remaining.
1. The WEF crowd wins. Most people lose most of what they have. freedom of movement, etc, all gone. Technofeudalism reigns and if one doesn’t have the wealth and intelligence, one simply lives as a serf. All the resources of the earth are used to prop up tech which will bring some portion of humanity to the space while Singularity occurs. Today’s winners shed their human bodies and venture to the space , treating the aliens no differently from how the Conquistadors treated the aztecs.
2. The WEF crowd loses. Russia becomes dominant. BAU continues, but the poorer countries have a slightly bigger share. Resources not apportioned correctly and countries not likely to advance civilization still continue to consume resources as of now. The whole edifice falls around 2030, and mankind , if there is any remaining, is stuck on earth forever, living not much better than an average Chinese, Mughal or Persian peasant lived in 1600.
I am afraid that there are a lot of other alternatives, as well. For example, perhaps central parts of certain economies can be sustained until 2021.
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I meant 2030. I should have looked at this after it went up.
Yip. I cannot read a crystal ball, just as well, but however bad things get this autumn / winter, and they will be bad, I prefer to think that it won’t be collapse time. Not yet anyway. Currently touring SW Scotland with my teenage daughter, best weather we have had since1976 (22 – 30 degrees where 18 – 20 degrees is more usual, and we like that).
That was funny…
Painful, but funny.
Russia becomes dominant?
Russia is strong in propaganda, but weak in the reality.
More and more people are noticing that the globalists project their own flaws and crimes onto others.
“Russia is strong in propaganda, but weak in the reality.”
Can you give more detail?
Did you read my post?
I presented two scenarios. One or another.
“Today’s winners shed their human bodies and venture to the space”
Going into the heavens, a transformed body, the elect are saved, the world is destroyed (by fire?), and preach all of that everyday…. where have we heard all of that before?
Some Europeans never really get religious until they lose they lose their religion?
‘Be true to the earth, my brothers, and believe not those who speak to you of otherworldly hopes.’
Earth seem perfectly fine. I reckon the problem is elsewhere, now where could that be?
Let me caress my CPU… 🤔
Nope; I just can’t figure out what the problem might be. Specially taking into consideration an earthly primate species that wants to shed their bodies and escape into the pitch black nothingness of space and rip into another habitable planet they won’t find.
Beats me…
Maybe you should get back to molesting reindeer instead of pretending that you can think?
I’m happy you’re here to slap down the blunt truth about my dimwit and unsavory sexual tendencies.
But don’t worry, I love you too.
Yep; you’re right. I just can’t figure it out. Try another number; this line is busy with the usual egotistical fantasies of escapism into fantastic projections.
Btw; nice music video.
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If only we were cockroaches, the future would be much rosier.
Good thing about animals with a smaller neocortex is that it won’t be used as a magnifying mirror on the wall for tragicomic egotistical fantasies, compartmentalizations, hopiates and copium.
But hey, rapacious primates gonna rapacious in the past, now and forever. All retch and no vomit in perpetuity.
But don’t worry, continue to project the hyper MOARon and be subject to hyper Tryhards projecting their attaboy (sub)conscious antics. Yes indeed, be “selective”. It’s all good.
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There is nothing inherently wrong with a failed species. That’s just how evolution works. If you’re in doubt? By all means, have a look in the fossil records and various ruins of the past. Spot a trend there?
ALL SPECIES WITHOUT EXCEPTION BECOME EXTINCT.
ALL CIVILIZATIONS RUN BY HYPER MOARONS AND HYPER TRYHARDS WILL COLLAPSE.
Finite world issues will make that definitive, absolute and inescapable.
If you’re in doubt. Why frequent this blog to begin with? Grasping for hay in a pile of needles perhaps? Hopium and copium with other words? No? it’s just an egotistical fantasy of some imaginary path through a predicament set in motion by various psychosocial and genetic traits.
Of course the gradual extinction from beneficial mutations is to be preferred. However; that is not the path you personally have chosen and “us” as a species.
Because, you see, with a rather substantial neocortex there is simply no excuse for running amok with those absurd emotions of yours. Absolutely none. But it’s so darned irresistible, isn’t it? Repeat after me:
WITHIN TEMPTATION IS TRUTH.
Hope is for suckers
— Alan Watts
Failed species.
Let it sink in and revel in it.
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“molesting reindeer” ?
Libelous accusations from Amber Mirror again?
Some gals just don’t change. Why our hostess tolerates it, I know not.
It’s difficult to jolt an oat munching, crank turning Laplander I suppose.
Zero shits given.
I really find it rather adorable.
“No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.”
— Plato
He is happy to perpetually go on about humans and their culture and I am happy to take an occasional swipe at him in kind. His ‘ego’ is his limit btw…. he knows what I am saying there. There are no ‘princesses’ here. I do not expect you to understand anything that goes on here, and I do not really care what you think. And neither does Gail. Just so that you know.
The proof is, as always, in the pudding, and not in the recipes.
Some cleverly crafted shenanigans doesn’t move the needle one millimeter on this particular embodiment of the hooman “experiment”.
At best; they’re just chucked on the pile of imaginary conjecture, absurd game theory, unsubstantiated fantasies, unrealistic expectations and unverifiable hypotheses.
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At worst; just plainly ignored.
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In the mean time.
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☯️☮️
Try harder!
I want MOAR!
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Came across this, hydrogen cars:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5gufTQb_5U
The add can be skipped.
I now have two Toyotas, a 2007 and a 2022, both hybrids. Toyota seems to do things well, 2007 had battery pack replaced at 100K miles, but has been bullet proof so to speak. 2022 has too much “stuff” for me, distracting while driving compared to simpler 2007 system.
I have noted DYI efforts at hydrogen, home solar cells with hydrogen produced might be an idea, not impressed with battery storage, the composite hydrogen tank sounds good, steel becomes embrittled as I understand it.
I continue to think we will make it, but it will not be a straight path and some of the detours will be a pain.
Dennis L.
I wouldn’t count on hydrogen.
Hydrogen is an energy carrier, not a source of energy. It takes a whole lot of energy to break apart the water molecule.
Storage and transport of hydrogen is a major problem. The small size of the molecules mean they tend to escape easily. Explosions can be a problem.
No argument, something of a light hearted comment.
For the little woman carrying water from the well to the house it was a pain, they guy with the inefficient solar cells, hydrogen, etc. will get the best gal, the best children, und so weiter.
I try and look for trends, put aside that which does not work. Batteries look too damn heavy and too large. No matter what, bucket, battery or hydrogen, it won’t be easy.
Dennis L.
What is and what is not possible, what should and should not EVER be allowed.
The dangers of hydrogen burning systems, if even possible are dire.
They would make the key essential for life molecule’ fresh WATER; an even more sort and valuable commodity. If water becomes too valuable for the wrong reason, it will kill the planet.
Such engines would likely be extremely inefficient in that significant H2 would absolutely be lost very easily from the system.
H2, If it escapes from the system, because it’s ‘THEE’ smallest existing molecule in the Universe, may in fact be lost from Earths atmosphere and therefore lost to space.
Liberated H2 that remains un-combusted or recombinant with O2 represents permanent water losses from the entire planet.
Watching the transit of Venus across the limb of the Sun we should reflect on what the Transit of Earth might look like from Mars. We’re loosing atmosphere all the time as the blue marble precesses around Sol
WATER not a fuel
Essential for Life
Essential for Life
Essential for Life
More likely, he will be branded as a warlock, and his whole installation will burn down under a torrent of fire-arrows.
Mark Twain wrote about the scenario you described a long, long time ago. It is called A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court.
I’ve read that about 95% of commercial hydrogen is produced from natural gas (fossil-fuel based?).
Here in Fremont, CA (“silicon valley”), there is a place where they do a lot of glass welding, for which they use hydrogen as torch fuel — they truck it hundreds of miles from east of LA, as a liquid (down near absolute zero).
EROEI of hydrogen as a fuel for cars is probably miserable
Energy-density of hydrogen is too low for heavy machinery (tractors, tanks, jets)
How do we ever replace diesel?
Hello Hindenburg! It’s been a while, hasn’t it?
But all kidding aside, follow the energy pedigree- from the H+ production, the storage, and delivery etc. Those vehicles will be equivalent of the $$$$ Rolls Royce’s in the future- affordable and “practical” only to the novelty car collector Jay Lenos of the world, or the Jeff Bezos and Richard Bransons who have run out of things by which they can amuse themselves.
Hubbs… what about my Fentanyl… can you make it happen? Or would you recommend Oxycontin or something else? I hear good things about Midazolam but I don’t thing there’s any euphoria with that?
Does vaccination against Covid-19 promote the development of cancer?
http://www.francesoir.fr/la-vaccination-contre-le-sars-cov-2-favorise-t-elle-le-developpement-du-cancer
This seems to be a fairly technical article talking about ways in which the “vaccine” might facilitate cancer growth. One issue seems to be something called P53 protein:
Another issue seems to be something that could be caused either by the injections or by having the disease itself:
My reading of this is that rising cancer rates could come either in response to the injections, or in response to the disease itself.
Yes, thank you for your analysis.
It would be interesting to understand if having the disease and – at the same time – be treated immediately can avoid that consequence.
If it is like that, one could have the bad consequence about cancer only with the vaccine…
It is no secret that chronic infections cause cancer.
If only low IQ would cause brain inoperable brain tumours
More of our modern problems can be laid at the door of the over-140 iqs rather than the under-140s.
Chemistry – a science of the over-140s – is the foundation of modernity. Without that, we would never have got past 2 billion people.
We needed to execute anyone who exhibited any sort of what we call ‘intelligence’ tens of thousands of years ago …
We needed to breed that mutation out of the species
Alas it’s too late … now we go Extinct.
Good riddance. Good god damn riddance. Vile animal
This is ..the best of times…
It is bad idea to strap a large neocortex on a primate frame. All that CPU horsepower will simply be used and abused to manifest various forms of egotistical fantasies to the detriment of general well being and the biosphere in extension.
But hey; everybody’s free to return to a life as a hunter gatherer or subsistence farmer. Just drop the egotistical fantasies, cut that internet connection, hand back all the conveniences and luxuries, and off you go into eternal irrelevance.
I reckon Tim got an IQ of 140+ and that doesn’t seem to cause civilizational upheaval in the same manner as IQ 100 – 130 hyper MOARons and hyper Tryhards bring about with their tragicomic antics.
You see, it takes 140+ IQ to be able to cut through a primates archaic whims and wishes, that is if such a principe and desire exist in the mind in the first place, which is rare, perhaps a “defect” even. Yes, isn’t it funny how 140+ IQ people seem quite reluctant to reproduce. Ever wondered why?
“My reading of this is that rising cancer rates could come either in response to the injections, or in response to the disease itself.”
Yes, however it should be noted that the vaccine route generates systemic expression of S protein (the disease does not), for longer.
All of this is way out of my area of expertise, I am afraid.
Found this interesting:
https://thesaker.is/samarkand-at-the-crossroads-from-timur-to-the-bri-and-sco/
Basically about central Asia, eternal fight for survival, perhaps genetic expression. We seem to always worry about materials, Timur was inventive:
“…bombed Christian armies in Smyrna (today’s Izmir) with cannonballs made of severed heads.”
Even in the heat of battle one can recycle and reduce waste.
FE is worried about ponds, it would appear, perhaps US ordinance bombarding a nuclear plant in the Ukraine could cause this scenario.
It will be all fine, everything is as it is supposed to be; life will go on in spite of it all.
Dennis L.
I agree that people can be inventive and recycle. The article you linked has as its premise, “Uzbekistan is set to remain an important geo-economic hub in Central Asia.” I am doubtful about this.
Uzbekistan and other central Asian provinces are landlocked. As a result, transportation tends to be very energy-intensive. Unless there is truly a lot of very low-cost energy available, it is difficult for these provinces to be self-supporting. Workers tend to migrate to places where jobs are more available at higher prices.
“Reuse” and “upcycle” take precedence over recycling in the value system that widespread art education has engendered. (But I doubt that this means much given the amount and convenience of stuff that we discard.) By contrast, recycling seems like a cop out where human involvement is relinquished to “the system.” .
I agree that people can be inventive and recycle.
Looking at current modern generation… i doubt any purple-haired wonder will be of any help. The technical guys are all old and will die off soon especially post collapse. Leaving behind those who are less than 59byears old who knows nothing except things related to technology. Those who really know something will be too few to be of any help…
Knowledge lost is knowledge lost. No other explanations
FE, have you no heart, don’t you cherish dear old Norman?
‘Keeping Great-Grandad Safe!’
‘Ninety For Norm!’
Even over the piled up corpses and crippled bodies of children, it seems……..
Let’s incinerate a million children — so norm can make 90!
It’s all about norm… Super Snatch would go out of business without norm
Shares in Sanofi, GSK, and Haleon have lost a combined $40 billion in market cap since Tuesday’s close, amid a flurry of US personal-injury lawsuits claiming that Zantac – a once-popular antacid – causes cancer.
https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/sanofi-gsk-plummet-after-zantac-lawsuit-concerns-wipe-out-40-billion-value
People are prescribed antacids on the assumption that they are producing excessive stomach acid (HCl) when in fact people who have chronic digestive troubles are much more likely to be deficient in HCl.
The best response to insufficient HCl is to take a course of over-the-counter HCl for a few weeks. Betaine HCl is the usual form. No dependency develops bcs it doesnt take long for the system to stabilize and we recycle our HCL so you can stop with the capsules.
The cheapest way to get Betaine HCl is to order it online. It is used as a supplement in animals to stimulate their appetites so that they add meat. It was been used since the 1940s and is safe for all animals, (although – don’t quote me on this – but I did read where the FDA banned it OTC in the 1980s bcs it was a competitor for the antacids, which are a $5 bn a year industry just in the USA.)
Anyway, it should cost about $5 a kilo online, which will last a lifetime, and you can put it into your own capsules, also very cheap.
Once your HCl is normalized, so is your production of the enzymes protease and papase, which are produced by the stimulation of rising HCl levels in the stomach (feelings of hunger).
My testimony – it solved my problems and I now have a stomach both quiescent and as flat as a board.
Dr Berg – the importance of stomach acid
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SWvvnKqNmNA
Thank you for this. It is very anti-intuitive. Personally, I don’t experience stomach problems but I know a few people who do and who may benefit from this.
M Fast had gastro pain … she went to a dietician who introduced her to https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/fodmaps-101
She narrowed down the problem to – garlic and onion.
She eliminated those and she eliminated her stomach pain.
I also eliminated them — and I’ve not had a single nice big fart since… raw onion is particularly evil stuff.
If M Fast nags me I threaten to eat a whole raw onion — that shuts her down Real Quick
“If M Fast nags me I threaten to eat a whole raw onion — that shuts her down Real Quick”
She wants your attention and you threaten to blast her down with rectal eruptions from ingesting Allium cepa?
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Such rapacious primate shenanigans.
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Unfortunately, those are both essential to good health – says the 2-3 cloves of garlic and one whole onion (cooked) a day man.
No flatulance problem either. Maybe it helps to be partly Southern European? We’ve adapted.
Could you beam over a few of those genes? While at it do you got any hot coding sequences for my obnoxious?
I’m sure Fizer could slap those into a mRNA jab and smooth over some of the worst antics?
Guys… I need some help here.
Why is it that people are so emotional and passionate (literally don’t mind dying for it) in defending what they know when the topic/subject is something that they are barely knowledgeable in?
These people seems to be so arrogant. Not humble at all.
Example :
Climate change, Green Energy, COVID, Vaccine, Peak Energy, so on and so on and so on
They are not knowledgeable in that topic, do not bother to read more from all sides, not just one side.
Intellectually lazy and yes, of course physically lazy as well most of the time. Usually resort to videos like those found in YT or TikTok.
** Usually do not read and when challenged, asked you to send link and information but never open the link to read and always revert back to his old views ** This is an important one and this characteristics spans across the globe/culture/religion/education background/geography/values/beliefs etc
Does not like to do independent research (always asks for links), does not counter check the claims (too difficult, no time to do it and better let the :”experts” do it and tell them what to believe)
My story :
Climate Change – initially believe that humans are releasing green house gases that caused climate change. Yeah.. we should do something… I remember watching the ice pack thickness dat every week. One day, did so research and reading – (1) one volcanic eruption released so much more GHG than what the humans released (2) Climate has been changing from hot to cold to hot again way before humans became a viable liable.
OK. How stupid of me. New facts arrive. my stand change.
Did it ever cross my mind that I will stand in front of everyone and proclaiming that I will defend this thought even if I were to risk my life for it?
Nah….
Abiotic Oil – What nonsense? Oil comes from dead dinosaurs and plant matter. That was what the book wrote and we were told about it by our primary school teachers. It is must be 100% correct. What else can it be? Until one day, I read that the one of Saturn’s moon Titan is sloshing with hydrocarbon especially methane. This “claim”, is just a claim but whoa…. pull the reins…. Do they have dinosaurs on Titan? I don’t think so. OK. Carbon, Hydrogen and Oxygen are just molecules. So, why must crude oil be coming only from decaying plant matter? Perhaps not. Oh gosh! Don’t tell me what my teachers told all of us are not correct. What the F678! Methane are just a jumble or naturally occurring molecules and why must it be from dead dinosaurs. Perhaps there is some truth in abiotic oil. OK, my view changed… So, maybe abiotic oil is possible but the replenishment rate is so low. Dinosaurs and plant matters help by accelerating the creation of oil. Perhaps 10% is abiotic and 90% is from ancient plant matter? Maybe but I am open to discussion
However, should I stand in front of everyone and say that Abiotic oil is pure nonsense like what many will do when confronted with something that they disagree? (i.e. I stand by Ukraine – when they don’t even know where Ukraine is. Anyone tested the public by showing a world map to those showing solidarity and asking them to point to where UKR is?)
Moon Landing – yah… science has managed to get humans to the moon… until one day I was doing maths (advanced level maths) at home and we were not allowed to use calculators. Using logarithmic tables, slide rules, etc. Difficult….. fast forward 10 years from that point where I used computers. Hold on… hold on…. You need so many decimal places in order not to overshoot moon landing and there was just way too many variables for scientists and engineers to calculate it correctly and precisely in a timely manner. Hold on hold on… there were no pocket calculators or Excel spreasheets. Anyone here – don’t correct me. I am an engineer and very good at mathematics. Slide rules are good for construction on earth but not for moon landing. Too many variables that needs to be calculated at a very high precision and in a timely manner…
So, decades ago, I had doubts that moon landing is possible. It was not until a few years ago when I was introduced to YT videos that looked at other possibilities – Van Allen Belt (which I know about this belt but did not connect it to the fact that everything is fried when one passed through this belt)
* Well, all these things – I did my own research, I am not intellectually lazy, find answers on the internet or library, trying to refute what I know as status quo, challenging myself to make myself understand that topic/subject better. I don’t rely on links given by others (isn’t this the same as scams where they asked you to call the “relevant authorities” to check on the authenticity of the call when the phone number they asked you to call is nothing more than their own phone number manned by their own people?)
There is only one thing that I cannot wrap my head around
LTG – Club of Rome. In the early 1970s, it was said that Meadows et al, ran a “simulation” and manage to find almost precise dates (i.e. 2020) that we will face sever problems?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCxPOqwCr1I
Look at the YT video. The best super computer by IBM (I try to find and time the introduction of the best IBM super computer) is only like what 64kb RAM and the processor is like a 10 times better than calculator ?
**I know some people who cannot go past the lichens on the tree will correct me on the processing power and RAM of the IBM super computer, which is totally irrelevant at this point of discussion
It certainly looks more like a “calculation” rather than a simulation. To run a simulation, you need to have tons of memory and processing power. The smaller the cell, the more boundary conditions you introduce, the better the simulated results. So, what can a 64kb powerful calculator do?
Yet… it manage to hit it exactly at 2020 to be time where problems emerge.
Anyone care to explain?
p.s. after all this long comment, I still think humans should be humble especially when talking a bout subjects/topics they are not familiar with and should change their mindset when facts change.
Perhaps being arrogant and willing to stay and defend an idea blindly is another meaning of “sheep” ? That is why we have sheep in our society?
Abiotic oil is interesting. Once in darkened conference room, long, long ago I did mention hydrocarbons on Titan(seas of methane?), the silence at ASPO was deafening; I sat down.
Dennis L.
I am not surprised at their silence – they were probably shocked that someone in their midst does not know the difference between CH4 (easily generated in the reducing atmosphere of non-living planets) and the complex chemical mix of petroleum or even natural gas bearing unmistakable traces of their biological origin.
Of course there is some abiotic methane (and even some fractions of oil) on Earth. The question is: what is the generation rate?
Most discussions today are like this: people take 2 extreme views and don’t bother with the “details” like the fact that irrespective of the source of oil we know that old wells don’t refill at anywhere close to the rate that would allow us to use them forever.
The Limits to Growth analysis looks at a range of different scenarios. It doesn’t pretend to be a simulation in the sense, the some people would use the word today.
If it is just a calculation, it is surely impossibly amazing to get it so correct when models now are totally useless. All current models from financial to weather and everything in between is hopelessly inaccurate
They first tried to make a best estimate of a number of variables involved. They ran this as their base case (or perhaps they called it something a little different). Then they tried changing their estimates of each variable by rather large amounts, one at a time. For example, the amount of resources available was doubled. It didn’t really change the shape of the pattern; It affected the timing a little. They also varied something closely related to efficiency, separately, with a similar result. They came up with an idea of capping population (which I don’t think can be done) and this seemed to be more helpful.
Based on this analysis, they came to the conclusion that the result was likely to be somewhat of the type shown. They authors strongly advocated keeping population low.
We just needed more consumers until we didn’t.
More likely it was pre-determined… I think 2008 was also meant to be a key milestone?
I have contacted Ugo Bardi ont the topic of population reduction from LTG.
He tried not to be too explicit but I bet it is true when he says:
“There are many ways to keep population in check and nothing was determined and nothing was ruled out”
From what he writes at his blog I would not say that he is an eugenicist.
Some people only need some sort of an argument for their evil intentions and LTG could serve that purpose. As does climate change and many more.
Oil is definitely abiotic… but as you point out … it forms much more slowly than we burn it…
Similarly I once believed in GW and moon shots… but now I realize I was a f789ing idiot … and I was a f789ing idiot….
Most people are f789ing idiots. And they will remain idiots… cuz they are idiots.
You’d think they’d welcome someone helping them not be idiots. But nope. They like being idiots
Perhaps Club of Rome was formed to work out what to do about the fact that cheap energy was going to run out — and they pegged 2020 as the year to start to do something about it (UEP) They only had to work out when KSA was expected to peak.
The researchers working on Limits to Growth looked at mineral resources, together, without breaking out energy resources. They were not looking at oil at all.
LTG does not say anything about the year 2020, or any other specific year prior to 2100.
“[W]e have made the horizontal time scale somewhat vague because we want to emphasize the general behavior modes of these computer outputs, not the numerical values, which are only approximately known.”
“The exact timing of these events is not meaningful, given the great aggregation and many uncertainties in the model. It is significant, however, that growth is stopped well before the year 2100.”
“We can thus say with some confidence that, under the assumption of no major change in the present system, population and industrial growth will certainly stop within the next century, at the latest.”
https://www.clubofrome.org/publication/the-limits-to-growth/
Alex appreciate the detail. I know about it as it is from a chart. I spent some time trying to find out that point.
However, in this discussion, it is not relevant. What I am trying to show is that compared to the “models” of climate change and rising sea levels, LTG is so accurate, too accurate. That is just based on a simple calculation on an expensive calculator.
See how far we have gone astray with all the money spent on supercomputers modelling climate change…. (either that or it is so corrupted and used as a way to force their ideology)
Added complexity doesn’t necessarily yield better results.
The Limits to Growth model is only valid when looked at from a global perspective. As soon as one looks at resource availability outside of the globalization model, the model fails.
Simulation
Nothing explains it better than a simulation theory.. Everything from the Grand Unified Theory to everything else are all explained easily and logically under the simulation theory….
Limits to Growth may have been written as a warning, like Nineteen Eighty-Four and the Protocols?
But the people running the show—TPTB—whoever they are—may have decided to use all three of these documents as scenarios, game plans, or operation manuals?
As very obviously those Olympic Games ceremonies I just posted were obvious warnings…
How much more obvious can it get — viruses — as part of an opening ceremony? Dead people – dead babies… dancing nurses?????
Then we have Utopia…. nearly exactly what’s going on right this minute — including the use of PCR tests to drive up numbers to scare people into shooting up….
You’d have to be in massive denial, mentally re t arded … or norm… to not see all the warnings.
They’ve been toying with us for decades
All telegraphed ahead.
Don’t forget the Gotthard Tunnel opening show, most sinister – it was explained away as ‘just some Swiss folklore’. And the semi-naked dancers on sado-masochistic display to the assembled dignitaries, like decadent Romans leering at slaves?
Like true psychos, they couldn’t resist playing with us and showing the instruments of torture ahead of their being used.
The thing is…
They see almost all humans as nothing more than cattle… duumb MOREONS.
And they would be correct.
They have no respect for humans… I would imagine they respect cattle more – who wouldn’t.
But the other thing is …
I see the Elders as MOREONS as well… at the end of the day… they are part of a machine that dings a bell when a stock gets listed — celebrating another step in the direction of Extinction.
The LTG ‘Normal Run Scenario” points to peak-resources between more or less the years 2020 and 2025 – that was the original general estimate:
https://apocalottimismo.it/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/limits-to-growth-scenario-base.jpg
Shoppers paid 47% more for eggs last month compared to what they shelled out a year ago, according to the retail analytics firm Information Resources Inc. The average cost of a dozen grade A large eggs was $2.94 in July.
The surge in egg prices was attributed to a mass outbreak of bird flu, which forced American farmers to cull some 30 million birds, including egg-laying hens and turkeys.
The price of poultry has shot up nearly 11% since last year, according to the Consumer Price Index released Wednesday.
Eggs aren’t the only supermarket staple to skyrocket in price since last year. according to the analytics firm. Butter has shot up 26%, packaged bread is up 15% and frozen meals were 23% more expensive, data shows
Consumers of frozen pizza were forced to pay 18% more in July, according to the data cited by Bloomberg News.
Overall, the cost of food rose 10.9% in July compared to the same month last year — the biggest spike since 1979.
https://nypost.com/2022/08/10/egg-prices-rise-47-butter-up-26-as-food-inflation-persists-report/
Sometimes, I feel like the price increase is more than 10.9%, relative to the amount paid last year. I suppose it depends on the mix of groceries purchased by an individual customer. CPI calculations sometimes seem to assume that substitutions will be made for cheaper items.
It’s always more – they always lie about inflation. I’d say closer to 20% basing that on what I am paying for coal – and the supplier says most of the cost is related to increases in fuel costs to transport it + wage increases
The person I trust most re inflation figures for the UK is Neil McCoy-Ward. So far his estimates are that true inflation is about double what the UK govt says it is, i.e. about 10/20%. This shafts the least wealthy / poorest the most because they have to spend so much on food , rent and energy. I mentioned this last week, but council employees are amongst the (legally) poorest paid in Britain, and currently they are being offered an annual pay rise of 2%. Inflation 20%, pay rise 2%. This is effectively a pay cut of almost 20%. For the poorest paid. This winter is going to be grim. The masses are clueless about what is coming – but I don’t see the cooling ponds exploding yet. Soon enough in the grand scheme of history
Yes, clueless.
This will be a disaster in the care sector for one thing, already very badly paid indeed.
But thanks to the extraordinarily sunny weather here most seem to getting on with enjoying the summer and not thinking of the winter at all, which is perhaps wise. I can’t sense any anxiety in the air.
I’ve been hauling in the firewood I cut last winter from its hiding place in the woods, as if anyone discovers it on a trip to the woods to find fuel they will certainly clean it out! Beautifully seasoned with the heat.
Then in the winter cutting more will keep me very warm during the day.
Such an air of normality here too. We are still very busy. Not quite as busy as last summer, but not down very much. Traffic is slightly less, probably due to the increased cost of petrol/diesel. The bars and restaurants remain as full in York as you say they are in Cambridge. I don’t see how this will still be the case in winter, when heating costs will drastically reduce the amount of discretionary spending of many. I would not like to be the owner of a hospitality business come winter.
I’m currently replacing all the seals on my wooden double glazed windows as the old ones were worn. I’ve resisted getting a wood burner because supplies of wood will soon be in short supply. I’d never charge rent to my children unless I was desperate. I’ve never asked my family for contributions to bills either as I’ve always seen these as my responsibility. Now we are five wage earners living here (me, wife, son, daughter and son’s girlfriend), so plenty of untapped income for the time being if I really needed it.
Got any good vax stories from passengers?
Got any good vax stories from passengers?
Sorry, the subject never comes up anymore. Inflation is the main concern at the moment. I never did see again the girl who was a regular passenger until she got vaxxed. Of course it could be she decided to switch to a private hire company without that crazy anti-vax driver!
When talking about why York is so busy with my first passenger yesterday, she said it was because everyone was trying to spend all their money before the collapse. Don’t think only ofwers are collapse aware. There are far more awake people out there than you imagine. Second fare was almost certainly acting as drug mule, because I was given a package to deliver from one dodgy household to another, together with unlikely explanation. At least they tipped well.
I like these stories… more please.
Perhaps you can provide a daily synopsis of the more interesting fares.
If you get any hotties can you snap photos – you can use this to put them on a path and load them https://postimages.org/
We may tire of photos of Hoolio — hotties would be a nice change
Here’s Hoolio as a pup…
https://i.postimg.cc/fRxSVpdw/Baby-hoolio.jpg
Hoolio sounds somewhat like “hullu” in Finnish.
I leave the rest as an exercise.
😑
Unfortunately, to provide you with interesting stories I’d have to go back on nights, and since covid I’ve got used to the quiet life working days. I can provide pictures of Doris with her Morrisons shopping if you like?
I’ll reconsider working nights when freshers week comes around (mid September).
Anything you can get load it up https://postimages.org/
Preparing for Q4 Boom? https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/downtown-toronto-hit-large-power-outage
https://www.cp24.com/news/power-restored-for-all-customers-impacted-by-downtown-toronto-outage-caused-by-crane-that-hit-hydro-lines-1.6023351
Power restored for all customers impacted by downtown Toronto outage caused by crane that hit hydro lines
hahahaha – that’s a lot of holes in the ground!
Excess Non-Covid Deaths Top 12,500 in 14 Weeks As Oxford Professor Joins Call for Government to Investigate Alarming Trend
https://dailysceptic.org/2022/08/10/excess-non-covid-deaths-top-12500-in-14-weeks-as-oxford-professor-joins-call-for-government-to-investigate-alarming-trend/
There is smallish upsurge in deaths that corresponds to the giving of COVID-19 boosters in England and Wales. The article notes:
Heart problems do make the problem sound like a “vaccine” problem. But no one wants to investigate the problem.
The lack of excess cancer deaths goes along with what I saw previously. Death data don’t yet seem to give much evidence of vaccines having a big impact on cancer.
Fun and games await:
https://www.businessinsider.co.za/trending/the-uk-is-just-starting-to-learn-about-load-shedding-2022-8
Further explanation of the term can be found here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_African_energy_crisis#Loadshedding
The full title is, The UK is getting a crash course in load shedding – and the despair it means in South Africa.
The current plan in the UK seems to be for up to 4 days without electricity, starting in January. The plan is the electricity providers to pay households without electricity a specified amount for the lack of electricity, depending on the length of the outage.
I wonder whether the electricity providers will actually have the funds to do this.
Everything that’s happening in South Africa is seems to be copied and pasted onto the first world (who brough South Africa’s woes about in the first place through sanctions and regime change). Perhaps it’s ‘planned karma’ (?). Well, it’s the perfect model for destruction.
German energy prices https://t.me/goddek/2003
21 civilians and 6 police officers killed in the last few days in Sierra Leone as the people riot against the government as the cost of living rises, fuel, energy and food prices skyrocketing.
https://t.me/TommyRobinsonNews/38398 Doomie preppers… doomie preppers yoo hoo
Sierra Leone population:
1950: 2.0 M
Now: 8.6 M
Sierra Leone Population 1950-2022
https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/SLE/sierra-leone/population
Kill the pig bash his face slit his throat.
Q4 Boom?
Wow – 10 yr old heart attack and torture in the hospitals – nurse speaks: https://t.me/c/1588731774/13583
Safe and effective? Effective, certainly, but safe?
Here are some spectacular collapses on stage.
It’s got a “ring a ring a roses” look to it.
https://twitter.com/DottFanculo/status/1555120936399126528?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
I sent this video to a British mate who’s been jabbed three times and then got Covid, and this was his reply. And I quote:
“Public speaking is known to be one of the most stressful situations we experience. No wonder that fainting or heart attacks occur. And of course many public speeches are recorded on camera, hence, in this social media era, it is not so difficult to compile a collection and pass it off as something sinister…”
So, I replied, diplomatically:
“Could be! Could be! There is that, certainly.”
And sent him this one::
Meanwhile, in New Zealand, dozens of fresh graves—92 to be exact—in one small town cemetry. Nothing sinister in that…? https://twitter.com/roller2426/status/1557676354703081472?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
“Public speaking is known to be one of the most stressful situations we experience”
Clearly the level of stress has reached a level globally where it now kills. Coincidentally, along with many other causes.
For danger public speaking is up there with being a truck driver in Iraq, a skydiver, or a pizza delivery man in Detroit.
Thanks, but I prefer to watch him cook slowly over the coming months or if he’s lucky, years. He’s always been very trusting of the narrative and has scoffed smugly at “con-spira-cy” theories and theorists.
At a subconscious level, most people align their views with those of the establishment, the state and the MSM because they are sure it’s a safer strategy than diverging. This is probably the case a lot of the time, but on occasion, it makes them run off the cliff like the proverbial lemmings.
And we outcasts get to watch from the sidelines. Every vax-related injury and death is equivalent to one more lemming going over the cliff.
As for those of us who refuse to jump for Covid, no doubt there will be all sorts of other hoops we’ll be prodded into jumping through in due course.
How good would it be if he was to get a serious vax injury … a blood clot… brain damage… heart problems… not bad enough to die .. cuz you want him knowing you are thinking – I told you so…
In a tribal context – with the usual cruel and hideous death penalty for transgression – obeying established tribal law and the consensus is the safest policy.
the airplane pilot was great!
when there are two people on camera, try to guess who will fall.
fun times!
This looks like something out of the Far Side—dozens of dead cows.
The original is in Italian, but the English translation reads:
THIS IS HAPPENING!
ITALY. Sudden Sickness, in several farms!
This is neither plague, nor the weather.
It is evident that there is something more SINISTER.
IT’S CALLED PROGRAMMED HUNGER.
But this 👇 is not news!!!!
https://twitter.com/dejanirasilveir/status/1556742551620689923
Arhh, it seems these cows were poisoned by mold in their diet. We can put that down to globbly wobbly. It’s been a long, hot, dry summer in Italy.
https://www.ansa.it/english/news/2022/08/08/50-grazing-cows-fatally-poisoned-by-sorghum_9522541c-f190-4ad7-8ec4-c41abc104aa4.html
prussic acid. I am getting into the cattle business here, and it is well known. What is less known is that sorghum can produce it under all types of stresses, in this case drought, although the vast majority of poisonings happen when animals are grazing a patch that was just frosted or frozen (PA dissipates in about 4 days). Best to use one of the millets, or teff, under extreme conditions.
GW sounds so much better though.
Eliminate the food … and the people stay home and wait for the delivery vans… knowing there is nothing to be had in the shops.
Global Holodomor. Obviously coming — soon.
My friends, when you have a question mark about Italy, please ask 🙂
It was a sorghum poisoning.
https://www.msn.com/it-it/notizie/other/cuneo-lautopsia-conferma-e-stato-il-sorgo-reso-pi-c3-b9-tossico-dalla-siccit-c3-a0-a-uccidere-le-mucche-al-pascolo/ar-AA10APUf
I have a question about Italy.
Would you like Silvio Berlusconi to return as Prime Minister?
He may have been a corrupt buffoon, but at least he made the Supermarkets open on time.
What I personally like doesn’t bring an interesting contribute to this blog.
I can tell you what I think in general about Italy and Silvio:
he is at the end of his political career and he is desperately trying to be on the stage otherwise he will be covered by legal cases for what he has been doing so far.
I think he can have bynow some appeal on people over 70, for all the others he is considered burst.
On the contrary I think it will be interesting to see what will be born after his complete political collapse, which I think it is not far.
I think we are in a period of great changes.
What’s Heartbreaker Ruby the gypsy girl these days?
The controlled press suddenly discovered that Silvio was pursuing 17 years olds when he tried to exit the euro and have one moe pipeline towards russia. it’s all water under the bridge now, that nothing can be done anymore.
I saw a documentary on him — he is one truly f789ed up weirdo. A bit Liberace + a lot of Michael Jackson + some Freak happening there…. Ruby earned every penny
wow that is Great Karma.
https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/fourteen-young-canadian-docs-die?r=gjogf&s=r&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
14 young Canadian doctors dead!
Oh Wow Herbie – Al Gore said:
https://t.me/VigilantFox/5577
Must I repeat it again, I care not what Albert said, because I do not get my science from him, but actual academic and scientific organizations. Get over it, will you!
Academic and scientific organizations are “knowledge” cartels. They lie to you. 150 years of the absurdities and denials of Darwinism should have shown you that.
Pretty much everything is a lie…..
The only way to avoid this is to live in a shack in the middle of nowhere — ideally with a view – lots of game to hunt and fish … and have enough $$$ to organize a helicopter drop of food and wine every 3 months
You also need lots of books… a harem would be a bonus but eventually you get old and that doesn’t matter so much.
To live in a pristine land unchanged by man…to roam a wilderness through which few other humans have passed…to choose an idyllic site, cut trees and build a log cabin…to be a self-sufficient craftsman, making what is needed from materials available…to be not at odds with the world but content with one’s own thoughts and company.
Thousands have had such dreams, but Richard Proenneke lived them. He found a place, built a cabin, and stayed to become part of the country. One Man’s Wilderness is a simple account of the day-to-day explorations and activities he carried out alone, and the constant chain of nature’s events that kept him company.
From Proenneke’s journals, and with first-hand knowledge of his subject and the setting, Sam Keith has woven a tribute to a man who carved his masterpiece out of the beyond.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/124718.One_Man_s_Wilderness
That kid in Into the Wild … blew it.. but he had the right idea …
Also a very interesting book – I was searching for mental effects of solitude over the long term and found this https://www.amazon.com/Solitude-Seeking-Extremes-Patagonia-Wilderness/dp/1577316746
I recommend a dog.
Now we get into serious unhinging of society… this surely drives most people out of their minds…
Licensed Counselor and Sex Therapist Advocates for “MAPS” (Minor Attracted Persons)
She says they are “vilified” and “marginalized” and shouldn’t be referred to as pedophiles.
Credit: LibsofTiktok (https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1557439495187881984?s=20)
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New career for young people, I suppose. When energy is not providing profits to spread through the economy, all kinds of strange career choices seem to pop up.
Seriously Stoopid Stuff… SSS — and they think UEP is absurd hahahahaha
‘These Guys Can Print Money’ — What They Really Want Is Your Kids
Catherine Austin Fitts: (https://home.solari.com/) “If you look at the people who are running this operation, they are slavers. They practice slavery; they believe in slavery. Slavery is the single most profitable business ever to date in the history of man on the planet.”
“These guys can print money. They don’t need your money. They want your land, they want your gold, and they want your kids. Those are the real assets they’re after.”
Video via t.me/childrenshd/3273
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This is Where “Green Energy” Batteries Come From
“China has control of most of the global supply chain for cobalt, from mining and refining to the production of lithium ion batteries.”
https://rumble.com/v1fow5z-this-is-where-green-energy-batteries-come-from.html
Broken supply chains become a big problem.
He lies about everything covid-related… therefore…
You can begin to see how the whole thing is a massive charade… theatre… manipulation
Dr. Scott Gottlieb Addresses Carcinogens Found in Certain Medications: “They Shouldn’t Be There”
“It’s the cumulative risk and prolonged exposure where you start to have the health concerns. They shouldn’t be there, that’s the bottom line. And there are ways to formulate medicines where you can get these substances out.
We don’t know the clinical significance. I think the absolute risk to patients is exceedingly low.”
https://rumble.com/v1fmr69-dr.-scott-gottlieb-addresses-carcinogens-found-in-certain-medications-they-.html
No need to buy a car in ethno-marxist terror state new zealand.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckland-gun-violence-doctor-carjacked-at-gunpoint-in-remuera/EC6DYLEY6SH2EK6P5MU3HTBSFM/
Just steal it at gun point. Doctor car jacked on way to work in leafy suburb. Private police will be coming soon to protect wealthier citizens.
Hard to do with a gun but I agree with the sentiment. No doubt this new zealand doctor has destroyed many lives in his drug-peddling career.
Karma can be very distressing for individuals who hide behind professional etiquette in their normal day-to-day lives.
He might ponder on the idea that death may be preferable to the slow torture of living out one’s life in the violent angry spiritual vacuum that is new zealand.
Trust Big Pharma! hahahahaha
Shares in Sanofi, GSK, and Haleon have lost a combined $40 billion in market cap since Tuesday’s close, amid a flurry of US personal-injury lawsuits claiming that Zantac – a once-popular antacid – causes cancer.
https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/sanofi-gsk-plummet-after-zantac-lawsuit-concerns-wipe-out-40-billion-value