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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.
Here’s Anne coming back from the dead
https://www.bitchute.com/video/DXWQQesDJ1f8/?fbclid=IwAR2ZLBHjfnZ2UGsJSF-EdxKI38dV8zFEeh7xiW0N0feP6x1jsWkX8F1Ix9U
So… got some bad news that an old mate back in Canada has been diagnosed with Turbo Cancer.
He was told a month to go – max two. This is coming from another mate who said it would be a good idea to call asap (we have not spoken for years)
The thing is … he was a very health conscious person – always very particular about eating healthy food – competitive long distance runner…
I’ll betcha this is a product of the jab… but he’ll never connect it … nobody will.
The circle is closing in … when does a close family member get taken by the injection reaper… the odds increase with every booster
These videos allegedly show, in graphic detail, the clotting effects of the vax. What is not clear is whether it affects all of those vaxxed, or just some. If all, the vax is simply a poison (as stated by Jan in an earlier post). If some, what are the conditions under which clotting develops? Of course, we will not know for some time (if ever) as the normal testing and trialling of a novel pharmaceutical product have been forgone, and two-thirds of humanity is now partaking, out of ignorance or stupidity, in history’s largest medical experiment.
https://rense.com/general97/clotted-heart.mp4
https://www.bitchute.com/video/a5Gtoo0JxRpr/
Peter McCollough – these are the riskiest products ever conceived for mass administration.
https://rumble.com/v1fffdn-dr.-mccullough-these-are-the-riskiest-products-ever-conceived-for-mass-admi.html
These clots are just bizarre!
UK is headed into economic and social crisis due to… the energy crisis.
Oh dear….
I can see why UK residents would be worried.
Very many are not prepared to weather it, they do not have fixed energy contracts or healthy bank accounts, and they will go further into debt and poverty. It is an awful situation.
It is also likely to further tank the birth rate, as young adults will feel ever less ready to commit to funding kids. That is still not back to 2019 levels, and indeed in long-term decline. It is looking pretty grim.
Hopefully the economy can be kept going for as long as possible. Labour shortages are pushing up wage demands, and inflation may spiral. Over a million entered the country last year, and that sort of figure may be needed for some time to come to keep the economy ticking.
till they get fed into the meat grinder hahaha
Yes, maybe Liz Truss will ‘man up’ and declare war on Russia for invading UKR, like WC did over Poland in WWII? That would likely speed things up. LOL
4200 pounds for energy bills – hahahaha… and remember – all segments of business will be eating these high costs too – so inflation blows through the roof – it’s not only your home energy costs that spike.
What cannot continue – WILL STOP. Q4 Boom?
BTW – update on the fish counter — there was a sign today saying most of our time is isolating so the counter is closed… There was almost no selection of fish on the cold shelves either.
VAIDS VAIDS VAIDS.
Hey norm … look at this on the bright side… that Extra Strength Shot you’ll receive in the next couple of months … might ensure that you avoid these disastrous energy bills.
UKR forces are nearly exhausted with a reported 200,000 losses. They are under constant bombardment with little to reply with. Russian mortars are taking out the UKR ammo dumps, and USA is refusing to send more. USA has already sent 1/3 of its HIMARS artillery. An estimated 70% of western weaponry sent to UKR went straight onto the black market. It has been a complete shambles from the start.
The talk now is about how NATO will handle the inevitable defeat in UKR, the same as in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria etc. The debacles are piling up. Gail suggested long ago that the best bet for UKR is to surrender, but they have left it very late. They stand to lose all of the east and the south, and possibly more.
But that is how the world works, dissipative structures compete to order their environment to themselves, for their own maintenance and expansion, and life is thus based on violation and exploitation. Moral posturing is for the nursery. The balance of power and the flow of energy is clearly shifting away from western Europe and toward Eurasia. It is physics in action, and the world is a constant flux.
Really?
What a grown up comment.
‘Nah, nah, nah.’
How old are you btw.
Even a pseudo-Nietzschean should enjoy a little real-life macabre humor like that. Lighten up, Amber!
You sound about 5 years old. I am not sure what you are even doing on a website like this. Gail?
Don’t worry. I’ll send you to Ukraine. You can get trophied by the drunken Russkies. I’m sure they’d love you yo have their babies. 😉
You go on like a mouthy chav… easy on the internet, less easy in real life. But that is where it counts… like in UKR…
I am afraid you are probably correct, Mirror. We are seeing how the physics of the world really works.
“The balance of power and the flow of energy is clearly shifting away from western Europe and toward Eurasia.”
Good for the poor schmucks in Asia.
And the appalling sanctimonious hypocrisy living in delusional altruistic fantasy la-la land will face a crashing housing market, soaring energy costs and a persistent shortage of everything.
Good for the sanctimony.
I.e. a crumbling tyranny of the inept, aka the cruelty of absurd egotistical fantasy.
Diverging from evolutionary “best practices”, I.e. fair advantage always ends in the same predictable way. Death. Irrelevance. Collapse.
It is a disaster having a species competing in fictive hierarchies based on archaic traits which no longer serve an useful purpose.
Climbing down from the trees plumes implies leaving the monkey business behind. However, apparently not. The tree of imaginary competence, apparent status and hierarchy of the inept is “easier” to climb, because acquiring competence is mired in actual effort.
So what have we?
UKR attaboys in their 20’s being ground to the gore by russkie artillery. And for what? So that the sanctimony can post yet another picture in IG and FB of their “righteous” egotistical fantasies.
No surprises then.
I’ve seen this historical map of Ukraine, showing the tranche of territory that Lenin supposedly gave it in 1922. That tranche more or less corresponds to Donetsk, Donbass, etc.
But why did Lenin give it? Apparently his prime aim was to define Russia within the USSR, since the borders of Russia proper had never been officially defined within the Russian Empire. The map of Ukraine therefore came about by default. It represented what the Ukrainian forces had occupied after the revolution. Or so it seems.
sounds about right the spoils of war lenin simply agreed with the winners i also heard that lenin stalin churchhill all members of the illuminati aka the elders all part of a long range plan to take over eventually.
So Putin is wrong about Ukraine.
It’s sure a complex situation, tho. Some Southern Ukrainians who consider themselves ethnically Ukrainian speak only Russian.
Near the end of this series, what do you all think of this idea?
“Life itself acquires the form of merchandise (…) the difference between culture and commerce disappears. Institutions of culture are presented as profitable brands.”
The most toxic consequence is that “total commercialization and mercantilization of culture had the effect of destroying the community (…) Community as merchandise is the end of community.”
I tend to agree, short for “too damn much stuff.” More is not better, it is simply more.
Dennis L.
i agree more is not better thats why de – growth system may be the world’s saviour less stuff less pollution less taxes less everything people coming together to help each other. This could be the future we shall keep our fingers crossed.
Ironic.
‘Forbid not the little ones to come unto me.’
> CAIRO, Aug 14 (Reuters) – An electrical fire swept through an Egyptian Coptic Christian church during Mass on Sunday, causing a stampede and killing at least 41 people, most of them children and many suffering from smoke inhalation.
The blaze started just before 9 a.m. in the Abu Sifin church in the city of Giza where about up to 1,000 people had gathered.
The fire blocked an entrance to the church, causing the stampede, the two sources said, adding that most of those killed were children.
Reset the system… hahahahaha
Think of it like this.
Imagine a spoiled child playing a board game, and rather than admit he is losing, he flips the board.
When I think of that I think of Korowicz….. I think of Humpty Dumpty…. I think of the Devil is in the Detail….
Just push a button and start over …. I don’t think so… but then the author is unaware of the energy situation
https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/its-game-over-fed-expect-monetary-rug-pull-soon
It’s the delusion of confusing money with prosperity. Or mistaking the word “stone” with the actual lump of rock.
Everything is possible in representational fantasy land. Everything will be just hunky dory without having to do anything of significance.
It’s enough to do some symbol manipulations; may it be some reshuffling of digits inside a computer system, or the fantastic ideas of utilitarianism and altruism inside the heads of hyper Tryhards and hyper MOARons.
“Let’s just forgive the debt and hug each other”
It Just Works.
Don’t Worry
👍
However in objective reality:
https://youtu.be/dsx2vdn7gpY
In short, the Fed is trapped… Raising interest rates high enough to dent inflation would bankrupt the US government…
https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/its-game-over-fed-expect-monetary-rug-pull-soon
I am worried about whether there will be a near-term “rug pull,” as well. I could be wrong.
True. If a rise in interest immediately increased the interest rate paid on all government debt. However, the interest rate paid on past debt is fixed {the coupon}.
It is only when this debt is ‘rolled over’ that a higher interest payment will be required. That may take a number of years. In the meantime current interest payments and the debt are being reduced, in real terms, by the rate of inflation.
There is new debt being taken on every day – at the higher rates… + a lot of debt will be reset at the higher rates e.g. those with one year fixed mortgages…. it also impacts credit cards and other loans in the near term…
There are basically four types of economys in the world
Financial- USA EU
Manufacturing- China, Vietnam
Energy- Saudi, Iran
Mad max- Somalia
The name of the game for the manufacturing countries is to keep the value of their currency as low as possible so their products are competitive. Germany for instance adopting the Euro. Germanys currency would be maybe three times as high if it didnt have the southern EU members in a artificial currency bloc to keep the Euro low. They get paid in dollars and trade those high valued dollars for energy and raw materials. This allows reinvestment in more manufacturing and continuous expansion
This has been a tremendously successful economic system. The manufacturing countries are very hesitant to rock this boat. It has been the only way to build productivity and create facilities in these countries.
Now we have multiple phenomena threatening the system.
USA unpayable massive debt and fiscal insanity threatening the dollar value
lessening of trade – less demand for dollars threatening dollar value
resource depletion threatening dollar value- dollar buys less
First time ever a energy producer refuses to trade in dollars without getting blown up
High inflation- dollar buys less
The energy countries dont care about the dollar value because they are sellers of resources not buyers. The manufacturing countries need the dollar to buy energy and raw materials. They cant let their currency rise by using it financially or their manufacturing is not competitive. The manufacturing countries may well be more scared of the dollar not buying the resources they need than the USA.
Basket of currency proposals still mean the manufacturing countries currency rises. This is why they are so hesitant to implement it.
The dollar stays high as long as its used for trade. It will continue to be used for trade by the manufacturing nations as long as it stays high. A self reinforcing loop that has proven very resilient. But the five factors listed above threaten dollar hegemony. Just as a self reinforcing loop exists to keep the dollar high if it turns it will reinforce to the negative. Manufacturing countries can not buy the resources they need with the dollar and stop using it. Since they stop using it there is no demand and dollar sinks even lower. When and if it turns it will be a self reinforcing negative loop.
The dollar can stay high for a long time because manufacturing countries must keep their currency low. In spite of the incredible debt there is no end in sight. Its not that a alternative system of trade can not be created its that the manufacturing countries dont want it. They wont bring on a dollar collapse. The question remains about relatively new factors outside of the actions of the manufacturing countries.. If they drop the value of the dollar the negative feed backloop begins.Honestly I think thats could well be a while. No one wants to ruin this party on purpose. Thats why USA debt can be ran up. Where is the limit? 30 trillion is already impossible to pay. 50 trillion? 150 trillion? Actually that is far from impossible.
The manufacturing countries have trouble with a high dollar because energy resources and many other resources are priced in US$. If their currencies are low, they cannot afford to buy oil for transport. They may have problems with buying other resources as well. Thus, manufacturing tends to fall low. Look at the problems that Germany is encountering. China hasn’t been doing too well, either.
Also, any country that does not use the US$ that borrows in US$ has a big problem when the US$ rises, because they need to pay even more to repay the debt than they had expected, at the time the loan was taken out. This can be a problem for manufacturing countries borrowing in US$.
>> “First time ever a energy producer refuses to trade in dollars without getting blown up”
I would point out that there is still time! Libya didn’t get bombed overnight and neither did Iraq. There was a delay between the discussions of a gold-backed Dinar (Libya) and selling oil in Euros (Iraq) before their leaders met their demise.
>> “The dollar can stay high for a long time because manufacturing countries must keep their currency low.”
I don’t buy your logic at all. Any manufacturing country can devalue its currency to whatever extent it desires, period. What the dollar does is irrelevant. What matters is the price charged to convert raw materials into finished products versus the price of those raw materials to begin with. Essentially, what fraction of the finished goods price is taken by the respective parties.
Manufacturers can print enough to keep their take low (and make it up on volume), regardless of whether the dollar is strong or not.
To clarify, I’m pointing out that the value is in the raw materials and their conversion through industrial processes, of which the US is doing neither. The value of each unit of account (USD) is unimportant; all parties involved price their services or materials in terms of the real value being traded, not in a long term contract with a fixed amount of USD.
“To clarify, I’m pointing out that the value is in the raw materials and their conversion through industrial processes, of which the US is doing neither. ”
A few years i would have agreed with you. You cant assert the value is all in those things and simultaneously acknowledge that the dollar does have value. Nor is it all in asserting “interests with military. So if thats your assertion why does the dollar have value?
“all parties involved price their services or materials in terms of the real value being traded,”
Not necesarily. Dumping can and does occur to corner a market. Creating conditions favorable to facilitation may in the long run be beneficial even if the trade is a poor one from the standpoint of the two things being exchanged.
So once again I ask. If your assertion is true why does china continue to trade for US dollars? If you say China already owns the USA so it doesnt matter its a gift to oneself Im right there with you. But your original statement that the currencys have value because of the value of the raw materials and manufacturing process does not match what we are observing. The dollar is still a desired currency. Why?
“Any manufacturing country can devalue its currency to whatever extent it desires, period.”
Well if i was a ass i would say oh really Germany but its a exception. Please clarify “devalue” Are you talking about devaluing to raw materials and energy or other currencys? The traditional method of devaluing- if there is not a official exchange rate- is to lower interest. But if a country has manufactured goods or energy and excepts its own currency for those goods its currencys value will float. Oil is one of the reasons. If im china and i say of 20 yuan to the dollar now all of those manufactured goods just became discounted embodied energy. Fire sale. And they cant replace the goods because the energy cant be paid for. Its well known China pegs its currency to the dollar and the reasons for that are as I outlined. Not too cheap not too expensive just right. Now get rid of the dollar. You dont know how hot the porridge is. If you dont like burning your mouth or cold porridge the dollar has value. Reserve currency is not just a title. It has function. Like software code. You need it to operate.
Ive told you why i think the dollar has value and why i think its not going to zero in the short or medium time line. Because it would have already done so long ago if your assertions were true. Why is the USA getting away with putting it in Chinas face with Taiwan? Why is the USA getting away with trillion dollar deficits? USA GDP numbers are omost exclusivly financial transactions.
But enough of my jabbering. Why do you think the dollar holds value? What timeline do you see it continuing to hold value and why? Based on your assertions dollar would have no value. But it does. And IMO it will continue to. THey abuse its status unbeliavably. Yet it still holds value. Whats your take?
You see ive been expecting the dollar to lose all value for twenty years. But it doesnt. So why?
Interesting thoughts. I particularly like:
” Its well known China pegs its currency to the dollar and the reasons for that are as I outlined. Not too cheap not too expensive just right. Now get rid of the dollar. You dont know how hot the porridge is. If you dont like burning your mouth or cold porridge the dollar has value. Reserve currency is not just a title. It has function.”
The US dollar is in long-term decline as a reserve currency according to IMF data.
https://wolfstreet.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Global-Reserve-Currencies-2021-07-05-USD-share-annual-.png
The difference now is that USA has frozen Russia’s share, which has sent out a message to the world that $ can no longer be trusted, and USA can freeze them any time; and there is now a concerted effort to shift trade away from it and to other currencies. Russia, China and others have stepped up their plans, you have probably seen the details. China is due in Saudi this week, and the likely outcome will be that Saudi and Opec shift away from exclusive use of the petro dollar. Everything is in motion for the terminal decline of $. It only works if countries use it, and they are planning to opt out.
Nice insight.
Dennis L.
“I would point out that there is still time! Libya didn’t get bombed overnight and neither did Iraq.”
Well i hope i dont come off as unpatriotic. I really do love this place in spite of it being a basket case.
Along time ago I was in India. 82 or so. A beautiful child of maybe 4 or 6 came up to me and with big bright eyes and a huge smile radiating, you know child, and said in poor english “what country”. USA i said with a big smile of my own- reflecting child back. It was if I told him i was a vampire. He recoiled the smile gone and horror on his face. India really didnt like the USA much. I would constantly get accused of being CIA. Uh like Im a poor smelly hippy in your slum. CIA has no interest.
I really do wish we stop being such a ass. That child hurt me.
I dont think we can take Russia. They have prepared. I sure hope we are not planning on smacking them down like Iraq or Libya because frankly were going to get our asses kicked. Those techniques certainly wont work. Russia is quite clear. If it gets overun it will launch the nukes. Its not rusty old junk anymore. I know your not supposed to say these things. No Russia isnt bat shit crazy like the USA. They are plenty crazy enough to launch.
Its pretty clear now. Ukraine was the staging area like saudi was for Iraq.
Not going to happen. There is no plan B and plan A was flat ass stupid. There was a intervention. Aparantly blue clowns thought it was 1991 again. Or maybe Russias in on the WEF deal. I sure dont know. Crazy times.
I really hate this shit. Its the worst way to give up power. Finding the middle ground is far preferable. I sure wish we had chosen that path. Frankly i find all Europeans wierd. Including Russia. Hey i like hanging with them. I had a ball in Europe. I find much more in common with the countries south of us all the way down to patagonia. I consider them the USAs natural allies culturally. Unfortunately we have abused them too. I dont dislike Europe. Tad too civilized for my taste. nice going to civilization but dont want to live there. I like the USA. One big ghetto compared to Europe. Caveman says “UGH”. Hell yes!
Sooner or later there is always a faster gun. Its no way to live. There is so many things more beautiful. Best to give it up before karma comes knocking. Better yet give it up before you start. Not our fate. Yippie kay yay. Deep in the karmic shit.
At least we could go out with a little style. Injections. EWWWW.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/oXWd8sD43JvH/
“Deep in the karmic shit.”
As the taoists claim:
If shit happens; is it really shit?
Furthermore, good shit grow in shit.
Ask any crop (and dope) farmer.
Where would my internet and microprocessors be if the cavemen didn’t go big instead of going home (to Europe)? I know I’m a bit egotistic about those tech gadgets and gizmos. And anybody that disagrees with that is free to hand it all back starting with their internet connection. Yes indeed.
GIVE IT BACK!
THE MIC WANTS IT BACK!
THE ENGINEERS WANT IT BACK!
YOU UNGRATEFUL SANCTIMONIOUS HYPOCRITES
Who’s to judge what the ultimate effect is from its causes? Nobody knows. However, liberally applying the golden rule is avoiding the unpleasantness of pissing in the headwind. And pissing is real compared with ranting and that is the difference that makes a difference.
But I digress.
Unless ‘things’ have changed?
“By the time you got to the first Bush administration, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, they came out with a national defense policy and strategic policy. What they basically said is that we’re going to have wars against what they called much weaker enemies and these have to be carried out quickly and decisively or else there will be embarrassment—a way of saying that popular reaction is going to set in. And that’s the way it’s been. It’s not pretty, but it’s some kind of constraint.”
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2018/03/noam-chomsky-populist-groundswell-u-s-elections-future-humanity.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NakedCapitalism+%28naked+capitalism%29
I am not sure if this has been posted before.
There are situations where there is no “earthly”, logical explanations. No matter how hard one try to give reasons, excuses or explanations on “how can this ever happen”, there are still events that defy “earthly”, rational, logical explanations.
So, at times, you have to think out of the box and try them via “unearthly” explanations.
Case of point :
From MSM :
Expert demonstrates efficacy of double masks in cold weather
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fPfGU1MizY
Check out the comments if you have time
I say there is no “earthly” rational explanation for this.
The fact that this system is still working like it is is shocking. We have been saying that oil needs to be at 120$ And it’s not. But oil industry still chugs along
Do you want to justify its continuity using earthly logical reasoning or not?
No, logical reasoning has never worked globally, only locally and then for very short periods of time and then not on very small dimensions.
It is comforting to reason this way but in the end looking at the universe, it does not appear to be finite, it appears to be expanding at an ever increasing rate. So RIP entropy on a sufficiently large scale. Entropy isolates externalities, include the universe and calculation is meaningless, so by extension, RIP economics.
Dennis L.
Entropy only makes sense with a control volume. What is even control volume mean in the context of the universe?
An expanding universe is pure imaginary conjecture. Myth.
CBs feeding them $$$? Just like they have been feeding zombie companies $$$ to allow them to service gargantuan debts…..
We see at best the tip of the berg in terms of the policies keeping BAU on life support
They will NEVER disclose the truth. Nobody would want to hear it anyway
There are a lot of parts of the system that are not working. All around the world, not enough development is being done on (high-priced) oil that might replace the oil that is currently being extracted. When the current oil depletes, we are out of luck.
Also, Saudi Arabia and other Middle Eastern Countries have not been able to afford projects that might keep their population employed, such as hospitals and office parks. They are increasingly unable to provide the food subsidies that their populations require. The likely outcome in such a situation is more civil unrest and eventual overthrown governments.
In the US, we can expect oil production to gradually deplete, from lack of adequate new investment.
Gail,
I am starting to think hydrogen, batteries as such seem simpler than lithium, Toyota has a hx of manufacturing looms which are now used to make carbon fiber H tanks – embrittlement has always been a problem with steel. Toyota does not seem very not on electric cars with batteries, they are very good at autos.
Hydrogen can be made from the, sun, inefficient but probably more efficient overall than waiting for millions years to have sunlight produced organic molecules be cooked off.
Zeihan has some interesting ideas regarding the US, not much to lose by betting here as compared to elsewhere.
Elon will mine what is necessary off the nearest passing asteroid.
Dennis L.
“In that update, I provide those ROSY Major Oil Company news results. Indeed, the Majors are making big profits. However, one important factor that is overlooked as the Oil Companies laugh all the way to the bank is that their CAPEX investment is in the TOILET.
So, what we have now is the MAJOR OIL INDUSTRY Going Out Of Business Sale. They are no longer interested in being a long-term ongoing concern as they see the writing on the wall. The collapse in CAPEX spending suggests the END IS NIGH…”
https://srsroccoreport.com/global-oil-industry-sleep-walking-over-the-energy-cliff-killing-the-oil-industry-10-million-barrels-at-a-time/
Let us consider the close to 100% water saturation of exhalation at approx +30C temperature. This humid air is now blown through a respirator and as expected the saturated water vapor condensates into tiny water droplets as it exits the membrane and into the cold air outside and it is readily observable in the video.
Yes, a water molecule is much smaller than a virus particle, therefore it passes through the respirator membrane.
This video explains absolutely nothing about the efficacy of respirators.
A proper laboratory test setup is required.
https://youtu.be/Wow-qck7WRg
Ridiculous.
🤦♂️
Nanotechnology will allow us to manufacture water with larger molecules.
No more drought.
We’ll 3D print water and oil and the ship will be righted
For me, day in, day out, people do weird stuff and simple logic and scientific explanation is getting stale… captured, corrupted, mass formation, cannot see it happening, nothing between the ears…
How many more excuses must be give ourselves that the above are the only reasons.
Perhaps like Dennis mentioned in his comment when he mentioned Titan’s sloshing methane in the ASPO meeting.
Then I decide to step out of the box and look at it from a different perspective………..
The original Elders experienced this … and they realized that most humans are MOREONS… and that they could be easily controlled.
If there is no provable therapeutic effect of the jabs (ref to Prof. Sönnichsen), the so called sideeffects become their main effect. It means the jabs are nothing else than a poison. As it is properly proven and judicially accepted that the jabs can cause death and severe illness, I wonder where is the public prosecutor or the district attorney. Our institutions including our parliaments seem to promote the distribution of poison to the citizens. And all without causing an outcry? If they don’t stop now, when will they finally stop? After doubling the number of victims? The higher the damage and the later our institutions stop the less legitimation they have in the future.
The Austrian empire was destroyed after WW1 because the state could not mitigate the hunger. In fact there was enough food but they failed to distribute it. I am worried democratic and constitutional institutions could loose their legitimacy similarly after damaging the citizens against all warnings.
There is no outcry because this is for the best… it is crucial that 8B be exterminated.
https://www.headsupster.com/forumthread?shortId=220
It all makes sense
And if it was about $$$ why poison your customers????
Amazing that all these circus animals think this is about $$$ – that is utterly illogical
Physicians around Andreas Christian Sönnichsen, who was professor for general medicine at the Medical University of Vienna and president of the German Network for Evidence Based Medicine (DNEbM), have published an alarming evaluation of the Covid vaccinations. There is no evidence that the shots would prevent disease, reduce contagion or mitigate the disease. All studies with comparable claims are based on extremely unreliable statistical methods. Urgently needed studies are not made. The admission studies do not meet any scientific standards. There is no scientificly based justification to prescribe these medications except in some cases of multimorbide seniors at the end of their lives after careful considerations.
In German only, pdf-download:
https://gesundheit-österreich.at/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/2022-07-26-Evidenzzusammenfassung-COVID-Impfung.pdf
Why do energy prices overshoot while oil and gas exploration is unprofitable?
In last weeks testimony before the corona Investigative Committee we got some clues: The German gas storage facilities are still empty, so Commerce Secretary Habeck buys overpriced gas at the spot markets which boosts prices. As it seems the speculators are reaping the profits. It could be connected to the lately established gas exchange of the EU.
Meanwhile the regional chamber of economy of Lower Austria has cried havoc. Prices of flour have increased by 40-50%. High gasoline prices make delivery of bread and bread rolls to the supermarkets unprofitable.
Electricity costs have multiplied by ten.
A lot of entrepreneurs seem to consider properly closing their business to avoid bankruptcy.
https://corona-ausschuss.de/
https://www.heute.at/s/alarmstufe-rot-lebensmittelversorger-sind-am-limit-100222624
Guess: inertia of investment, sunk costs cannot be recovered, but something is better than nothing; or live to fight another day, hope as it were.
Dennis L.
Insightful new post from Ugo Bardi on the current European plight.
Europe: the Empire that wasn’t
https://thesenecaeffect.blogspot.com/2022/08/europe-empire-that-wasnt.html
“One of the fascinating things about history is how people tend to repeat the same mistakes over and over.” Bardi.
Guess: this is the way societies have to be, it is a universal law unseen. Reality trumps wishful thinking even when such thinking is humane, ie. humanitarianism.
Dennis L.
Every new generation is born absolutely ignorant, and with a penchant to ignore centuries old wisdom. we were like that too, even more than prior generations. Those who want to control society are keenly aware of this fact.
Dr. Fauci makes a Freudian slip.
https://2ndsmartestguyintheworld.substack.com/p/dr-mengele-20-aka-dr-fauci-calls?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
Also recall St Obama: when arguing for the ‘safety’ of the pseudo-vaxxes he said
‘We’ve just run a global trial with billions of doses!’
13 billion doses and counting!
hahahahaha
The link says: “page not found”.
Bret and Heather have a lighthearted chat about Yuri Bezmenov’s 1984 ideological subversion lecture and Mattias Desmet’s Mass Formation theory. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ya5dkeIr8FU
Why don’t politicians & CEO’s don’t lead by example?
Well spoken Neil
He speaks well, and has been doing so for the last two years.
Now, this might help foment and inspire an effective resistance in Britain, but if not he’s just another Celtic windbag.
Good speeches to a restricted audience on the net won’t end this.
Most people – the Normans of this world, and they are the majority – won’t realise that they have been fooled and poisoned until they see it as a giant headline in the MSM – and that’s never going to happen, is it?
“The 2020 US election was free and fair.”
“Would you care to see vast quantities of unimpeachable evidence to the contrary?”
“No.”
Commie depletionistas or capitalist depletionistas.
Pick your poison and then cast your vote.
Depletion and collapse will happen nonetheless.
Hope is for suckers
— Alan Watts
The midterms will tell the story. If the blue clowns sweep the senate in spite of a real approval rating of 20%- it means-the polls are wrong of course! The filibuster must go if a vibrant liberal democracy is to be created. The red clowns will go along. Their power is that they are needed in the kabuki theatre. If the filibuster goes hold on to your hats!
Congress ultimately holds the power of the pork purse and thats a hard hand to beat with a printing press that has no limit in the short term. Pork is as necessary in a red clowns diet as a blue clowns diet.
The strategy at play here is:
“Fight a war against humanity but simply check that it does not go nuclear”
You have a real war with a nuclear power as an example.
The shock therapy just adds one shock after the other but it just so well dosed that the beans won’t spill.
In Berlin at the demonstration 2 weeks ago there were not even 20.000 people. You can not change anything before that number increases 1000 fold.
And even if you look at the “resistance” there exists zilch strategy to go ahead besides “I won’t accept your strategy”.
The people produce videos after videos “explaining” things because “we” are just always lightyears behind the curve. We try to make sense of it all but before we have, a new shock comes down the pipe.
I stopped watching videos that have more than 30 minutes. It is simply a waste of time.
All of the actions after March 2020, literally all of them starting with:
“Death from or with Corona”
should immediately have made the entire operation impossible but it is still going on.
I said a long time ago the truckers in Ottawa would have needed to erect an entire new city and declare it the new capital. Every single organisation now is corrupt but the people in them need to make a living and everybody knows that they can not do that if they destroy all organisations.
Some talk (Mercola is good here) go in the direction of building a parallel structure but there is simply too little density to create a second structure against the existing structure that is everywhere in our lives be it water, electricity, money and so on.
In principle you would need to end this one institution at a time but even in these institutions you will encounter severe resistance because the people there also depend on their paycheck.
Not even talking about “We declare this organisation defunct because…..”
Because of what ? There is not “what” here.
Before the paycheck is in danger nothing will ever happen. That is also the reason why I think that a lot of the alt’s fear mongering is just useless.
It keeps up the fear but does not propose any solution to build back better. It won’t happen. Your chains are already with you and the people claim:
“There are no chains!”
The video has been taken down that is a good sign because it points at some content…
I hear endless talk… and ZERO action.
I try to set an example – but they recoil in horror — they prefer to give speeches — and march about demanding Freedom – they don’t even march around anymore — here in QT they’ve stopped the street protests because nobody was showing up …
I see there is a potluck dinner organized this weekend. The potluck dinner revolution. I am sure it will succeed.
This is apparently .. rude behaviour… if I was serious the fizer families would need body guards (I ain’t serious though — I am just a bit bored and like to take the wooden spoon and rattle in the barrel to see if I can stir the MOREONS to action)
They’ll go down with barely a whimper … enjoying potluck dinner parties… f789 me. Pathetic cowards… ‘the totalitarians are coming’ – and they’re eating potluck while watching Steve Kirsch interviews …
One might suspect that all these SSs are in play to occupy the MOREONS and keep them from taking any serious action …
Let’s see what Taking Action looks like (again):
https://i.postimg.cc/1XbM5kXH/Giant-Fat-Bastard-On-the-Ground.png
https://i.postimg.cc/gkdH4HRr/Giant-Fat-Bastard-Having-the-Rules-Explained.png
What was the name of the scottish dude? Video removed.
Niel Oliver
Think the unthinkable
https://twitter.com/Arwenstar/status/1558516891727134722?s=20&t=hqvmZO-5UatGhkXhM5FcgQ
Thank you!
Oh come now Neil… we’ve been treated like barnyard animals for a very long time – this is nothing new.
And that is because most people are barnyard animals… with a few circus animals mixed in …
It cracks me up that these people think there has ever been democracy … hahahaha…
Dr. Mikolaj Raszek: Studies Show Vaccine Imprinting May Have “Long-Lasting Detrimental Effects”
“We potentially might have inadvertently been ignoring natural immunity in favor of vaccination when we are now learning that such natural immunity might have been better to be left intact.
Triple vaccinated individuals [had] pretty much almost completely nullified their ability to mount immune response, which might explain why so many vaccinated individuals are being reinfected.
Some of the triple vaccinated individuals were not even able to mount any T-Cell response.”
Clip: https://rumble.com/v1fuv87–dr.-mikolaj-raszek-studies-show-vaccine-imprinting-may-have-long-lasting-d.html
Studies:
– Vaccine nucleocapsid response: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.04.18.22271936v1.full
– Swedish triple vaxx study: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(22)00362-0/fulltext
– UK triple vaxx study: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abq1841
According to Djemayley’s family, the 16-year-old began having seizures all of a sudden on Wednesday of last week.
“He was coughing up blood, and then they called the ambulance and on the way to the hospital he had two more seizures so then they put him in a coma to see what was going on,” Metayer told News12.
He was rushed to Stanford Hospital and was put into a medically induced coma “until the doctors could figure out why the seizures persisted and caused his troubled breathing.”
On Saturday morning, he passed away. His family and doctors are still trying to determine what happened to him.
What could it be norm?
Let’s look on the bright side, at least he’s not a tennis player.
The vax allegedly causes organic cells – heart, liver, brain, lung – to produce a protein on their outside that makes them look to their immune system as being a virus. The immune system now tears this assumed virus out of their network and kills it, which is anchallenge for the liver to filter out these toxic dead waste. Now as the first line of cells are eliminated the vax can go inside the cells of the next line thus tearing out line by line. These cells are eliminated as clusters of some hundreds which means the process is perforating the organ. This was shown very clearly by the work of Arne Burkhardt. Now there is a “hole” in the organ and the vax is sipping into the intercellular space which causes strong inflammation and further “holes”. There is a point when the organ is unable to function properly. What is more the body tries to fix the “holes” by ordering clotting compounds to the rips as you know from cutting your finger. These compounds may be too little on other areas where needed and cause sudden inbleedings. He threw blood. The whole mechanism depends on a few factors: perhaps the boy already had strong antibodies that attacked the virus at once. Perhaps he had a bit too little clotting factors, which might come as a predisposition. Perhaps he had large veins from sports that enhance the chance to inject him the vax directly into the blood. As we know from howbadisyourbatch there are batches that cause more or less problems. As Mike Yeadon takes it the industry is playing with different dosis.
The only way to prove what has happend is an authopsy plus samples send to Arne Burkardt who is the most experienced professional related to Covid at the moment.
To produce the antigen, not the antibody in the cells should have alarmed any thinking individual from the beginning.
Family and Doctors are Baffled by the Sudden and Unexplained Death of a 16-Year-Old Stamford High School Football Player
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/08/family-doctors-baffled-sudden-unexplained-death-16-year-old-stamford-high-school-football-player/
RECORD NUMBER OF AMBULANCE CALL OUTS FOR SERIOUS EMERGENCY SITUATIONS IN UK…
Why?
The article mutes “the heat wave” as the cause.
Not
one
mention
of
the
elephant
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-62504401
I don’t doubt the stats, but hardly any sirens here. Most odd.
I was talking to my medic prof friend and he says the NHS will never catch up on the missed operations, etc, caused by lock-downs. – most operations were cancelled for 2 years. His unit, multi-organ transplants, kept going though.
Many are therefore doomed to a untreated death, unless they can afford private operations.
Elders 10, useless eater schmucks 0……..
I’m among the oldsters who see that their lives have been radically shortened due to the the infamy and resulting distrust of the medical industry. That was probably self organized, and so be it.
What’s amusing is more than one person said they were ok with people not vaxxing but if they got sick from covid they should be denied care…
One person who said this is obese — at 50+ — it would be wonderful if she had a stroke or some other serious illness — and was unable to get care hahahahahahaaha
BTW – I know a doctor who enjoys a drink or 6 from time to time… he apparently had some ‘issues’ after a big bender some months ago — heart issues to be specific … last two times I’ve encountered him he’s been on the wagon… no doubt believing drinking causes his problems…
Here’s my interpretation — drinking has zero to do with it — he’s almost certainly 4x jabbed… has Pfizer damaged heart… does not want to accept it’s Pfizer…. he’s probably been told by a cardiologist that it’s anxiety / drinking … so he doesn’t indulge in any binge sessions… he may not drink at all.
He’s f789ed himself. Wonder if he’ll connect dots or if he’ll take the next shot… which could be the kill shot.
Some crazy observations on what happened to Anne Heche
What looked like just another bloody “vaxxident” may actually have been a hit, as in the case of Michael Hastings, after he brought down Gen. Stanley McChrystal (and was surely probing something else)
https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/some-crazy-observations-on-what-happened
BREAKING: A new study has found cardiovascular adverse effects in around a third of teenagers following Pfizer vaccination, and heart inflammation in one in 43, raising fresh concerns about the risks of vaccination for young people.
This is beyond concerning.
https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202208.0151/v1
Oh but it’s just a flutter… nothing to be concerned about hahaha
Japan hahaha https://live2fightanotherday.substack.com/p/japan-boldly-jabs-away
https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F37818e36-dab3-47fb-9907-01b9ac5f2e84_764x498.png
There was some discussion earlier about the potential of nicotine to disrupt/block the actions of the c19 bioweapon…..
Back in spring/early summer of 2020….some French researchers noticed that smokers were under represented amongst the hospitalised and dead….
IIRC….it was postulated that nicotine was binding to certain receptors in the brain associated with control of the diaphragm/breathing…..blocking the spike protein from doing so….
My own experience with the c19……I smoke 50g of rolling tobacco per week….for decades I’ve worked on building sites….cutting up tanalised timber/MDF/chipboard/ply/cement fibreboard…even asbestos….seldom if ever wearing a mask….
If the c19 was an aggressive respiratory virus….I think I would’ve been a prime candidate to get smashed by it…..
But when I experienced the c19 in early 2020…..all the symptoms were above the neck…..my lungs were fine….intense head cold….floaters in the eyes….ringing in the ears…loss of smell…..
Just an anecdote…..not promoting smoking…..but maybe nicotine products (patches etc.) have a place in the home medicine cabinet?
Nicotine receptors (nAChRs) when binded with nicotine have regulating function toward ACE2 receptors (those are the ones that C19 uses for entry point) namwly they decrease the expression of ACE2 thus acting as inhibitors to ACE2 related inflammatory processes.
I wonder if this is partly why smoking became so popular originally(apart from the addictive effect) – people experienced a reduction in inflammation?
Nicotine is very interesting and powerful alkaloid. And our specie’s evolution is basically revolving around the adoption and systemic use of alkaloids. Our receptors systems are all primed to bind with alkaloids in all kind of crazy manners and even our bodies itself have evolved to produce so called endogenous alkaloids. Interesting thing is that the effects that alkaloids cause in cells, tissues, organs and systems (especially in the nervous system) are more or less ‘quantum’ effects. Certain alkaloids can make a body to expand an energy which is not available, others can twitch the transportation protein chanels in the cell membranes to actively transport (against a gradient) molecules without consuming ATP (this is the smallest quantized unit of energy in vertebral organisms), we have even observed alkoloids which block the electrical and chemical interaction between neurons but where the information exchange still occurs.
Thanks Geno….are there plants other than tobacco which contain nicotine?
Solonaceae family plants (tobacco is part of it) contain nicotine in higher quantities. Lota of vegetables also contain small amounts of nicotine – green peppers, tomatoes, egg plants, potatoes.
“Nicotine is an alkaloid found in the nightshade family of plants (Solanaceae), predominantly in tobacco, and in lower quantities in tomato, potato, eggplant (aubergine), and green pepper.”
That’s from Wikipedia, and it should say “in much lower quantities”.
The alleged downsides of nicotine preclude me from taking as a regular supplement, but a lot of people I know can’t get enough of it.
Very interesting! The right dosis should be found – then there could be even a market for patches or inhalators.
https://openres.ersjournals.com/content/7/2/00713-2020
https://erj.ersjournals.com/content/early/2020/04/27/13993003.01261-2020
There seem to be also other indications (hypoxic ischemic events, trauma, and Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases)
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19714494/
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My friend Prof Sucharit Bhakdi has published over three hundred articles in the fields of virology, immunology, bacteriology, and parasitology. He has received 11 scientific awards as well as the Order of Merit of Rhineland-Palatinate. From 1990 to 2012, Prof Bhakdi was Editor-in-Chief of the journal Medical Microbiology and Immunology.
Here is his latest concise 2 minute warning to us all, and a specific call to physicians to wake up and end all cooperation in the covid agenda and genetic injections.
https://drtrozzi.org/2022/08/13/dr-bhakdi-warning-the-world-and-admonishing-physicians
I discuss a variety of topics with Ryan Cole related to his expertise as a pathologist who specializes in COVID injuries and death.
The most shocking thing revealed in this video is that the CDC could easily determine how many people have likely been killed by the vaccine, but they are not interested in instructing the medical examiners in how to look for vaccine-related deaths both during the exam and after the exam.
We have 14,000 deaths that should be investigated and the government should compensate those victims. It’s a simple test. They won’t do it.
Why isn’t the CDC having 100 cases stained as specified by Dr. Cole? Then we can find out for sure if none of these deaths was vaccine related or all of them. Doesn’t the CDC want to know?
They are not interested in contacting Dr. Cole for details.
Their mission is to vaccinate people and to look the other way when it comes to safety.
We talk about vaccine injury, what causes it, how to treat it, and why doctors cannot see it. All their tests come up negative. Dr. Cole explains why.
https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/my-interviews-with-ryan-cole-deb
At Rumble, apparently Mike Yeadon commented on Dr. Bhakdi’s video:
This two minute video from my friend Sucharit Bhakdi is arguably one of the most important statements made during the covid19 era.
He is correct. Repeated injections with mRNA which are sequences encoding foreign proteins. Even if they were not inherently toxic, as “spike protein” is.
Merely causing cells in our body to make proteins that are non-self is GUARANTEED to lead to autoimmune disorders.
This means your own immune system attacks your otherwise healthy body. You can set aside the theoretical benefits, even if there were any.
You’re certain to place an increasing fraction of the population in a situation where they will relentlessly attack themselves. If you accept an open-ended series of mRNA injections encoding foreign proteins, you will get ill & eventually, an increasing fraction of the population will die.
By the way, there are NO BENEFITS from these injections. They don’t prevent you from getting ill, going to hospital or dying. They simply do not work.
Now, the people who lied to us about a virus? Then lied about how people must behave, what they were required to do & not to do? Then cooked up so-called vaccines & lied about their clinical findings? Then menaced & coerced is to roll up our sleeves?
It is unequivocally the case that this entire event has been managed from an organisation operating above the level of each country. It’s not going to “get better”. You’re living with the consequences of just part of their plan. We cannot know for sure where they intend the to take us.
It looks though like the direction of travel is a cross between The Great Reset (digital dystopia) & the Club of Rome (Malthusian, anti-human depopulation obsessed).
Consider what Bill Gates & his father (head of the Eugenic orientated Planned Parenthood) have aimed at for decades. I’m drawn to the conclusion that this is about removing human freedoms and to markedly reduce the population.
Best wishes, Mike
Dr Mike Yeadon
https://rumble.com/v1f0lqt-dr.-bhakdi-warns-of-greatest-conceivable-manmade-catastrophe-of-all-time.html
I struggle with reduce the population … starvation due to collapsed supply chains concerns me
“this entire event has been managed from an organisation operating above the level of each country.”
Does he mean the WHO? Member countries were required to follow their program in the event of a pandemic. Puny pandemic tho. And Gates is on there (WHO).
Congresswoman Lauren Boebert seems a bit upset. Calm down girl. So excitable. It is a bit curious. How exactly will 87,000 new IRS agents hired “willing to use deadly force” under the “Inflation reduction act” reduce inflation? Im sure Im missing something. This will make the IRS larger than all other armed Federal law enforcement agencies combined. 87,000 new IRS employees at a paltry $75k a year is only 6.5 billion a year a tiny fraction of the 750 billion spent in the “inflation reduction act” so Im sure its a cost efficient way to reduce inflation however it does it.
87,000 is more than the number of service men on average the USA deployed to Afghanistan but only about 10% of that number were actually armed in the field most provided logistics. Luckily the new “inflation fighters” provide their own logistics with their salaries so all of them can be armed in the field. A even bigger bargain! Money well spent. Such a cost effective and massive mobilization of armed law enforcement is sure to make a “dent” in “inflation”.
Im not sure where they will find 87k “inflation fighters”. The army seems to be having trouble recruiting offering up to a $50k signing bonus. Im sure they will find competent and professional “inflation fighters”. Where there is a will there is a way. The “inflation reduction act” certainly proves that. Thank goodness we have our priorities straight not spending any money on silly border security or other such nonsense. That wouldnt reduce inflation one bit! And just think this is only 6.5 billion of 750 billion spent to reduce inflation! Inflation doesnt stand a chance.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/Olq4cV4yxmPJ/
Good question! Perhaps pay higher wages than everyone else. Let folks work at home, wherever they are.
The IRS agents won’t be able to shoot people working from home.
Unless…….drones?
‘Filing error: terminate with extreme prejudice!’
Can the US become any more decadent and surreal?
Here is some decadence and surreality for you that may be hard to beat.
https://www.unz.com/jderbyshire/the-brunswick-three-monstrous-miscarriage-of-justice-shows-civil-rights-now-just-means-anti-white-spite/
Volunteer enforcers. They brought the guns to the party. They approached the guy and yes it was based on his race. His intent has no bearing and cant be determined any how. Criminal history is not allowed to be presented in evidence in court regardless. Double life sentences for all federal and state. Maybe they can get their attorneys to get them to do all their time(life) in the federal prison. Better food. Their ex cop status did not matter. This was considered murder and all were considered collaborators no matter who pulled the trigger-same as a bank robbery. Do not bring weapons to the street. They are of no use.Do not hang with people who are armed. Do not hang with volunteer enforcers. Stay fit enough to run. Keep $200 in a packet $20 on top rest ones secured with rubber band in upper shirt pocket. THrow it to the ground prior to running. Thats the best $200 you ever spent. Thats a half hour of attorney time. A beating is better than a life incarcerated. But this was not a conflict. They made it a conflict.These guys approached him three to one armed. morons. Conflict avoidance is the name of the game and it really always was. Ex cops they should have known better but they didnt realize their get out of jail card didnt exist anymore. Their not the first but they may be the last with sentences like that. . Double life sentences is excessive but DAs send messages all the time. Do not bring weapons to the street. Its about winning not losing. These guys lost. Take note.
It really was a very harsh sentence. I would have expected a plea bargain on the state charges.
The Federal charges are a different animal. They probably would have paroled out on the state murder charges after ten years or so. Especially the one that didnt pull the trigger or the guy on the phone calling the police. That definitely should have been a plea bargain.
Federal time is real time. No paroling out. Some time off for good behavior.
Federal life sentences, convictions coming in after the state convictions. They will all spend the rest of their lives incarcerated. I must say very harsh. Especially for the guy on the phone calling the police. They wanted to set a example and I must say they sure did.
Whitey must learn. He must never defend himself or his community against the Mau Mau.
“Whitey must learn. He must never defend himself or his community against the Mau Mau.”
You know Kim theres a lot of BS out there from both sides. I can assure you ive had a taste of it from very pragmatic multiple experiences.
Three dudes came up and started acting wierd . A pistol was produced he got scared and it went bad. You could paint the bad guys white or black like a coloring book.
I dont know how the USA is f****** up so bad. They dont have this shit in the Canadian cities. The Canadian rural areas- they are far more bigoted than southern USA from what ive experienced. THe south gets a very misconstrued rap. They actually get along better . In the Canadian cities people get along. Ive know people from Africa that i would trust with my life in a heartbeat. I dont know how its gone so bad here but its f***** up.
Volunteer enforcement… What are the people like who do it? You know the answer. EGO. getting off on power. Well these guys had a idea about how it was going to go down. But it didnt go down that way. Because they were unskilled unsure amateurs. It takes training and skills to enforce. And talent. Maybe they would try brain surgery next. So yea it went bad. Sorry not a lot of respect for people getting off on amateur night.
Even protecting your home is hard if a real predator shows up. A cougar in your living room is no joke. Yea train up. You know who rises to the occasion. Momma bear. She might overdue it a bit. The gun locks open empty. Thats where true amateur night defense occurs. The home. Its still hard. The street everyone is out there. All sorts of folks and situation. You try to enforce. The bad guys try to enforce. Big f****** mess. Better to try to get along. Intent is powerful.
And now…You put yourself at risk going forth armed. Thanks for posting that. Ill just leave all those tools in the safe now. They will never go outside home again except for training and recreation. If I have to take a beating I will. Its been a long while but it wont be the first time. But guess what I wont because im focusing my intent on getting along and conflict avoidance. If I smell a cougar im getting on down the road. Having a ball and experiencing not worried about a enforcement movie in my brain. Not to mention- federal life sentence- no thanks. Seriously? As DR Carrie Madej said recently- “not my movie”.
Doubtless, some volunteers will stay home after this, but that will only encourage more crime. And so the need for volunteers will actually increase over time. And so some volunteers will always be out on the streets to defend against crime.
And they are, I would expect, as a result of the verdict in this tragedy, more likely to shoot to kill, dispose of the bodies, and remain silent.
In more and more cases, what happened to so-and-so is going to be a mystery and will remain so.
Isn’t this cultural pattern the norm in Latin America?
Isn’t this the reason why the Spanish word “vigilante” came into general use in English?
When you live in a banana republic, you have to adapt some of the practices of people in banana republics in order to survive.
Its actually 80 billion allocated to the IRS hiring not 6.5 billion I stated. My mistake. Steer your kids toward federal jobs.
Posh? Posh Beckham is a woman. Fast Eddy is doing standup! Don’t tell me Norm is transgender? Transgender is no problem if they’re purdy, but gerontophilia? No way! 😉
and some say that keeping up with this comments section is exhausting.
for example, just look at the above.
I mean, just look at it okay?
you don’t even have to read it.
you don’t even have to read this comment, but you did, didn’t you?
Twas a response an FE jokey comment that Gail deleted.
I find it strange that nobody stabs tommy robinson
Somebody tweeted to JK Rowling “You’re next” after she sympathised with Rushdie.
Somehow reminded me of “Angel’s next!”, the terrorist threat to the President’s plane on 9/11. Press reported it, US govt confirmed it. Then govt denied it, started backing off previous confirmations. Gradually the story was changed, little by little. I wonder why.
Nah, they’re only interested if you insult their religion. I was curious about ISIL, tho, who never once dissed the Israelis. Why? Were they being paid by Israel to destabilize certain Arab countries?
Keeping up with the comments section is exhausting.
Fun tho. Sometimes theatrical. I find Amber entertaining. I hear she’s a pussycat in real life tho.
Snatch of entertainment for ya’ll. Sums the world up nicely right now.
I spy, with my eye, a word beginning with the letter “e”.
“Home » Political Analysis » “Hell No” to Any CV19 Vax – Lt. Col. Theresa Long MD
“Hell No” to Any CV19 Vax – Lt. Col. Theresa Long MD“
https://usawatchdog.com/hell-no-to-any-cv19-vax-lt-col-theresa-long-md/?unapproved=1766534&moderation-hash=e1240a4ea9aa3f19355ed6fa91083e7a#comment-1766534
And if an Army pilot walked into Dr. Long’s office and asked if the CV19 vax was safe? What would she tell them? Dr. Long says, “I would tell them, ‘Hell no, I don’t think it’s safe.’”
What is Dr Long seeing first hand after the CV19 injections? Dr. Long says, “I have seen everything from strokes, to clots in the spleen and liver, cancers, testicular pain, infertility, miscarriages, menstrual irregularity, lung issues, thyroid disfunction, erratic heart rates . . . a lot of things that I don’t see in someone flying an aircraft. . . . You can see myocarditis and pericarditis weeks and months after vaccines.”
Ive got a friend who is a retired commercial pilot. Of course he still knows all the boys still flying. Its not they are reluctant to play in the loyalty lottery. Its that its unfair for pilots. They are constantly tested for heart function. If its not tip top then they lose their certification to fly. If they are good experimentation participants they quite possibly could get the injection to keep their career then lose it because they get decertified when it f**** up their heart. So they are asked to f*** up their heart to keep their job- everyone understands that its a loyalty lottery- but its not ok because they probably will lose their job when it f**** up their heart. Not OK! They are not rewarded by their participation in the loyalty lottery! Whats a lottery without a jackpot? And they are pilots. Captains. Wheres the respect?
Any pilot who gets the injection should not have to be tested for heart problems to keep their certification. Then their f****** up their heart would be fair just like everyone else. Theres a copilot there after all.
Trouble in Tijuana. No not a title of a B western movie. It appears the cartels are having a bit of a power struggle. Not quite mad max IC continues around the carnage. This is one reason IC is so resilient. Homeless people? You walk around. Cartel war? You walk around. Everyday a new normal. The brain cant quite upload but it knows how to walk around. USA embassy and border closed.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/IXs1vxoSU7ZW/
Doomies – that… on steroids
With all of the earth’s wealth being concentrated in the hands of a few people who will strive to advance to the space, a final attempt for Singularity will be held.
I have said that Woodrow Wilson should have honored the Brest Litovsk treaty ,which would have eliminated USSR becoming ever relevant. He didn’t because Poles and Czechs had to have their own country. I would rather have seen no Poland and no Czechia than see today’s Russia.
Empires are more efficient on using resources, simply because it leaves virtually nothing for the subjects and colonials whose utility, I have to say, is very low. A much more efficient use of limited resources.
The roles played by the Empires of yesteryears are now played by the tech giants who virtually control the entire world , leaving not too much for the rest.
A gentrified, technofeudal world which leaves nothing for the people with less utility is necessary for the advancement of civilization. We don’t need third worlders driving cars and eating meat and watching streaming media, frankly speaking.
The drastic reduction of the standard of living for more than half of the world’s population is, in a utilitarian way , for the Greater Good since it concentrates the resources on the hands of these who will advance Civilization.
Time is up for the world’s weaker countries, groups and populations. Business is business, and no more wastages of valuable resources for the sake of maintaining the standard of life of peoples who didn’t really contribute to where the world is now. In other words, the wild animals of Serengeti are more valuable than the people who live near it.
That’s what i thought the message from maurice strong was where in one of his interviews he stated that all the fundamentals would be in in place by 2020 meaning that time had run out for everyone and the screws would be tightened to force in their plan for the world . So yes the elders had a backup plan to save a portion of humanity but our rights would be taken away in the process.
Well, my my,… I dare say the “ pinnacles of humanity” are in for a bit of a shock as they are about to experience the gatekeeper of the holography. Maybe a very few of them might begin to question their “ efficient control of civilization” over the next decade as the true nature of unraveling complexity begins to reveal the laughable nature of singularity delusions or lololololololol……..space colonization…….. oh please !
It is literally so funny as to be embarrassing.
The super elite know the reality……. they might well try the wearing of sack cloth or the abandonment of their “worldly goods”…… some indeed might even try?
The master program knows who they are, …… they are prey.
Our precious technology is about to riven asunder and our great shining cities plunged under the waves and beneath the heaving crust of “ the planet”.
I remember a time when I thought ecology mattered. When I thought economies could be made rational. When I thought humans were the top of the food chain.
Not anymore.
Vulcanoes, crustal liquefaction, cosmic bombardment care little for human feelings of superiority. Scurry about little hominids, be all you can be,.. it won’t be nearly enough.
I would tend to agree that the idea that we are ‘stewards’ of the ecosystem is vain and deluded.
Some human behaviours are more prudent than others, but we are masters of nothing.
Are we about to be overwhelmed by forces that make the pretensions of the technocrats and bio-digital freaks like Noah Hariri look foolish and laughable ? Perhaps.
It has happened every,….. single,….. time,…… before,……..
High tech/ high societal avarice…….. to low tech and barbarism…..
First event takes the elites, second event takes most of the peasants.
“Human Reality” is torn. We must go through the looking glass. We can only hope that the necessary data accrues.
First event on the level of Krakatoa,………second event on the level of Younger/Dryas or Toba……
“The box is clean, the lights are green”…….
Yes: ..”I dare say the “ pinnacles of humanity” are in for a bit of a shock as they are about to experience the gatekeeper of the holography.”
As an old fart, I am starting to think there is much truth in that. I think I have enough points for a ride up, I am very careful not to lose any of them; not enough to spare.
Dennis L.
That is a bit as if the elite of the Roman Reich had planned to build the personal computer!
The Roman military elite certainly witnessed “ real world” effects of holographic devastation. They were hammered many times with “inexplicable events” from the heavens when facing off against Mithraditis.
The Roman elite stoic philosopher Seneca ( “the road to ruin is rapid”) was almost certainly aware of Vulcan/Phoenix effects upon the Roman world.
The ancients were much more aware of the holography than moderns are.
The irony of this makes the “Old Gods” irritated. The sentience managing this stage show enjoys positive reinforcement.
Of course,…..maybe stupidity is admirable?…. the Anunna figured it out and we are not really sure where they went?
Maybe to spiritual debriefing? Maybe just to a downgrade into base human avatars…… the horror of that lol!
Here is how stooopid the average person is — when Trump was the puppet — recall the theatre act where he was caging the illegal immigrants and separating parents from children… then sending them back….
It was all a farce of course — but for MOREONS it’s real.
An American I know who is an intense Democrat informed me that ‘it’s only fair that the illegal immigrants be allowed in’
I look at him and I’m like — but the country will be overrun with millions of people if you open up the border – there will be no work for them — and that will turn into a disaster…
Doesn’t matter — they are poor therefore they should be given the same chance as everyone he said.
Of course now that his puppet is in the seat — he would insist that letting millions of illegal immigrants in is ridiculous. I try to avoid him but I am sure this is what he thinks now
It’s almost as if there is a switch in the heads of people. If I had the chance to ask him why he changed his mind — I’d get a wall of silence. He would not be able to answer. Even if I recorded him saying the poor must be allowed in he’d go silent.
Just as the CDC pretends to have backed off, the NHS reveals (to just a few) what’s really coming at us in the fall: “The biggest vaccination drive in history”
https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/just-as-the-cdc-pretends-to-have
With enough $$$ for pr and advertising … anything is possible —when you are dealing with MOEONS… you just need to tweak things
It is my conclusion that we were put on Planet Green in order to save the plants from poisoning the planet with too much Oxygen. We are here to release the captured Carbon back for use by the plants.
When we reach the pearly gates we will be judged on our service to the plants.
Greta will be surprised to find her place with greenpeace, Al Bore, decrappio (He burnt plenty but led many others astray) and members of various green coalitions, down deep where the sun don’t shine.
Keep calm, carry on burning!
@Kim
Regarding your comment on rice farming, systemic rice farming not involving lots of farmers are feasible and were practiced in USA for quite a long time.
Yes, in the USA and Australia rice can be grown in a mechanized fashion where there are vast tracts of flat land not broken up into individual farms and where there are large centralized irrigation projects.
But in Asia rice farming employs millions with the acreage rice farm being just one hectare. And large-machine mechanized rice farming requires extensive flat areas of land so it is not suitable for mountainous places like Indonesia and the Philippines or many parts of China and of course Japan.
And then there are issues of irrigation. These places are not all suitable for vast dam schemes. Instead, they depend on one annual season of regular monsoon rainfall and then perhaps a second season of planting and irrigation using millions of individual, petrol-driven pumps to bring up ground water.
Of course, it may be true that if only we had the will, we could exterminate all of those people, their families, their lifestyles, their villages, their values and beliefs so that…so that what?
German Researchers Examine Covid “Vaccines” and Vaccinated People’s Blood and Say Stop Vaccinations Immediately
The German Working Group for Covid Vaccine Analysis has made its ‘Summary of Preliminary Findings’ publicly available. In a wide-ranging report dated 6 July, the Group described the toxic substances found in all Covid “vaccine” samples analysed and the marked changes seen in blood samples taken from vaccinated people. The Group also found that the greater the stability of the envelope of lipid nanoparticles, the more frequent the vaccine side effects.
“In order to avert a direct and imminent danger to human life and public safety, we ask that the Covid-19 vaccination programmes be discontinued immediately,” the Group’s report stated.
https://expose-news.com/2022/08/13/german-researchers-stop-vaccines-immediately/
MEDSCAPE editor: 43-Year-Old Medical Doctor, Author and Editor Dies Suddenly After Seizure…why? what do you think?
His wife has no idea what may have killed him…do you think vaccine? Word is he vaccinated his 1 year old child…why? this is horrible, sad, so many things…what will it take for them to realize?
https://palexander.substack.com/p/medscape-editor-43-year-old-medical
What do I think? I think…. I think… f789 him … I hope his kid is next
Even before COVID, there were a surprising number of young people dying suddenly. My husband’s nephew died suddenly when he was not much over 40, back about 2016. My husband tells me that his grandfather (mother’s father) also died suddenly in his early 40s. In both cases, the cause of death was thought to be a heart ailment of some sort, but no one knows certain.
With 47 ketchup variaties, you never know what’s in it. Labels should include major stockholders instead of ‘E’ numbers. Duh…
Most people I associate with are under 40 — mostly involved in the various sports I play — similarly with M Fast. We have contact with 100’s of these people. I do not know of a single person who has died in all these years in that age group — I know of at least half a dozen with vax injuries.
The thing is … when an under 40 person died pre covid — it was from a specified illness… or accident. There are plenty of gigantic slobs who have no control over what they shove into their Big Holes… so ya – they die.
But now when they die there is never a cause of death mentioned. That means they died from the vax.
I generally try to avoid old people… most of them are burned out carcasses with zero energy and they tend to be the most captured by the Matrix. And they bleat on about the same things all the time … their medical woes in particular after a life of cramming garbage down the maw (what other outcome did they expect????) I stay as far away as possible from the ones in adult diapers… they smell really bad – but they don’t notice it cuz they are used to the smell – it smells like roses to them
I knew two women in their late 30s/early 40s who died in their sleep10-15 yrs ago. Both were diabetic….
If you have a heart attack at 40, you will most likely die. If you have one at 50, you will most likely survive. And this was well before the micro-pandemic came along.
Soaring gas prices, inflation not seen in four decades and a push for cleaner, environmentally friendly technology have all combined to make EVs more appealing than ever to consumers.
Now, there is legislation headed toward the home stretch that will give EVs not only new legitimacy in the eyes of the auto market, but potentially lucrative perks to automakers and consumers who decide to bet on electric vehicles as their chosen mode of transportation — and investment.
AUG 12, 2022 8:53 PM EDT
You’ll Almost Have to Buy an Electric Vehicle if Climate Bill Passes
You can find savings on everything from EVs to solar panels in the Inflation Reduction Act.
BY TST STAFF
If lawmakers make it official, the legislation is chock full of rebates, tax deductions, subsidies and incentives to move everything from their house’s power source to their toaster to a more climate-friendly energy source.
This climate spending includes $60 billion for solar panel and wind turbine manufacturing (and $30 billion in credits for new projects), $60 billion for disadvantaged communities that bear the brunt of climate impacts, $27 billion for clean tech R&D, $20 billion to reduce agricultural emissions, $5 billion for forest conservation, $4 billion for drought funding in Western states, new battery manufacturing credits and many more climate-related priorities,” EV site Elektrek reports.
Both new and used electric vehicles will be eligible for tax credits, up to $7,500 for new cars, and $4,000 for use ones. The bill also ends the 200,000 cap on the number of cars that can be sold by a manufacturer that qualify for rebates. That’s good news for Tesla (TSLA) , which reached the cap long ago. But the flip side is that the bill limits the rebates to lower priced vehicles and families with relatively low incomes, so many high-end cars and trucks won’t qualify
Go Braden, go to the moon
I expect that “the devil is in the details.”
This article gives some details. I am not sure if they are final details.
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/10/inflation-reduction-act-extends-7500-tax-credit-for-electric-cars.html
These are some excerpts:
Like I told Edwin, there will be a lot of pork to be carved out in this scheme of combatting climate change that will only make things worse.
Gives the illusion we still are in control. Well, perhaps we are in regard to the gravey train….natural laws are the ones steer the course…
These “tax credits” are most likely not really credits. They’re deductions. You don’t get the deduction if you don’t have a high income. $50-60k is not enough, as I found out when I bought shares in a local solar farm, If I’d been in a higher tax bracket, it would have cost me 30% less. As it is, I paid full price, subsidizing my richer friends and neighbors.
What do people here think about the desire of most people to “forgive and forget”?
Segregationist authoritarians have blocked us from museums, restaurants and hospitals. They also killed millions. But now at least some of the victims say that we should be “nice” and go back to all those places and support them (see ecosophia.dreamwidth.org).
My perspective is that logically, if people and institutions are not punished for being evil, they will do so again and again.
Most of the replies focused on “feelings” and pushed the “turn the other cheek” policy.
Since at least some people here are honest, I wonder what do you think?
Forgive and forget, the past cannot be changed, one can only live in the present and plan for the future as is possible.
A guess, this is part of the basis of the Christian faith, not to be holier than thou, but to live life with a minimum of regret and stress.
Dennis L.
This is a temporary reprieve. Never go back unless you have to. Find the other outcasts and support them because when the next idiocracy comes along you will again be excluded.
The best thing about this recent segregation, the masks and the jab is that it has outed the idiots and identified the adults.
I avoid most social events with the zombies in favour of doing my own thing and spending time with like minded people. Some of these have been jabbed (mandated/coerced) and are just now realising the impications. Interesting red pill stories.
The thing is …
Even the red-pilled are not fully red pilled… they are unaware/reject the oil story so they still see this as a $$$ making exercise or a NWO or whatever explanation has been dumped on them by the PR team…. they figure out one delusion but then they bounce on to 10 more…
They still trust the MSM – even though they say they don’t. They are unaware that they are in a matrix.
There’s nothing to forgive or forget… they are MOREONS – they do what MOREONS do.
We need to thank them for stepping up and taking the injections — if they had refused we’d get ROF instead of UEP.
You do not want ROF – trust me
I forgive the dog when he acts up because I love him. I value our interaction and want to continue it. He doesnt know better Dysfunctional humans not so much.
Dogs dont use “justice” “victim” “perpetrator” and “forgiveness” to manipulate and continue dysfunction. Children really dont either. This is learned dysfunction. There are F***** up people. Their job to get their shit square.
And Gods forgiveness. In one aspect of this I think it is true. We are imperfect. Acknowledging we are imperfect is healthy. We make mistakes. That DOES NOT negate our ownership of our hearts and our actions. You screw up you CHANGE YOUR HEART AND ACTIONS. You do that because you want to get square with the world. You get square with the world THROUGH YOUR HEART AND ACTIONS not some BS called forgiveness.
Start with yourself.
👈 There’s the oats and bicycle.
Do you live with your parents?
Have you sold your car?
I’m not likely to forgive most people. I will “forget” to the extent that it’s too difficult and painful to remain enraged 24/7, thus purely selfish.
People are who they are. If they could be different, they would be, but they aren’t, so they can’t.
Once such persons have broken my trust and respect, it’s not for me to forgive or forget. It’s for them to try to restore that trust and respect — a very difficult task, as they are qualities that take much effort to cultivate but can be destroyed in an instant. Most of those who have committed evil, never recognize they have done so, and of those who do, very few try to make amends. Groups/organizations/institutions never make amends, so I will never forgive or forget what they have done. I agree with you NomadicBeer. Fool me once, shame on you …
‘I couldn’t believe I got it’: Six Flags worker suspects he got monkeypox at work
ATLANTA — It’s a diagnosis a 28-year-old Georgia resident, who didn’t want to be identified, says he’s still wrapping his head around.
“I couldn’t believe I got it,” he said.
He spoke to Channel 2’s Ashli Lincoln exclusively through Zoom after being diagnosed with the monkeypox virus by doctors at Emory.
“Now I’m here, and now I have to get treated,” he said.
He says he suspects he got the virus from his job at Six Flags Over Georgia.
“It’s just the fact that there are a lot of people that work there. There are a lot of guests that come in and out of the park every day that we operate,” he said.
Channel 2 confirmed the man is, in fact, an employee with Six Flags Over Georgia.
https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/atlanta/atlanta-man-says-he-contracted-monkeypox-by-touching-surface-job/OKEAHPXVT5ABZBW57ZDKEEGL3Y/
So, the new narrative is clearly: ‘Monkeypox can get you anywhere, at any time!’ and, of course: ‘Covid will come back unless you all get injected with the triple-dose boosters before the winter!’
The Sea of Lies has no tides, it will never recede…..
The tides of The Sea of Lies rise and fall in response to the gravitational pull of The Moon of Institutionalized Stupidity.
https://www.amren.com/news/2022/08/racism-tied-to-later-life-cognitive-dysfunction/
When the institutions – which are not cheap to run and are central to the modern reward system – are giving their imprimatur to nonsense of this kind, then I worry that the Moon of Stupidity may soon fall out of its orbit and destroy us all.
Just think, there was a conference and a roomful of people sat and listened to this nonsense. I’ll bet that at the end of the presentation, they clapped.
Last time it was luxury cruiseships. This time amusement-parks?
Target Demographic???
Whole Cities Are Under Siege by Narcos in Mexico
Cartel violence has wracked Mexico since the reported arrest of cartel leader Ricardo Ruiz, or “Doble R.” Now AMLO is claiming Doble R was never arrested.
CIUDAD JUAREZ — Over the past four days multiple Mexican cities faced an onslaught of attacks from drug cartel militias, showing the government’s continued inability to stop criminal groups from causing chaos in some of the country’s largest cities.
The western states of Jalisco and Guanajuato were under siege for around 10 hours on August 9 reportedly after Mexican authorities busted up a meeting between several important leaders of factions of the hyper violent Jalisco New Generation Cartel, or CJNG. The cities of Guadalajara, Irapuato, Celaya and Leon saw numerous cars and buses engulfed in flames to block off traffic arteries, while a reported 25 convenience stores were also set on fire.
Rumors swirled throughout the following day about the capture of Ricardo Ruiz, alias “RR” or “Doble R,” one of the top leaders of the CJNG in western Mexico. But on Thursday, Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador denied the arrest took place after being pressed by journalists during his morning news conference.
He said that 16 people were arrested during the attacks, without providing their identities, “but they [the arrested] are supposed to be influential people, because that is why there was such a strong reaction.”
https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7ze4q/mexico-cjng-siege-doble-r
Mexico is a country whose peak energy consumption per capita occurred in 2011. This is the underlying problem for the problems that are being seen in Mexico. Wages cannot stay high enough. Citizens increasingly turn to crime.
Mexico’s oil production peaked way back in 2004. Its 2021 oil production was roughly half of the 2004 amount.
Mexico’s natural gas production reached a bumpy plateau in 2009, and stayed there until 2014. The rising natural gas production somewhat helped offset the falling oil supply. Also, rising natural gas imports from the US helped. But these things are not enough.
The country has been doing increasingly poorly, for a long time.
Oh this can’t happen where the doomie preppers are
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/tijuana-under-attack-sudden-eruption-cartel-violence-leaves-cars-burned-across-border
Mexico is becoming more and more like sad new zealand. Hope the Mexicans turn things around but will only happen when drugs legalised in the USA and elsewhere.
Legalization of drugs would just spread the use of drugs.
The drug problem can best be combatted by executing drug dealers. Hang a sufficient number each year and they would soon lose their enthusiasm for their of job poisoning and killing people and communities.
Currently, the USA loses 60,000 – 100,000 people a year to overdoses. Let’s execute an equal number of dealers and smugglers annually and then see what kind of effect that has on the drug plague.
Wrong. Drug dealers don’t poison and kill people. People poison and kill themselves by taking the drugs.
Telling people what they can’t put in their bodies and telling people what they have to put in their bodies are two sides of the same coin.
After the Floyd event one thing allows law enforcement to continue in the USA. Body cams. With body cams if a cop gets attacked by some one snarling and frothing at the mouth with a weed whacker the cop can prove he wasnt just trimming his hedge humming a tune. Body cam is like a radio now. You dont go forth without it.
Without body cams police would not venture into public.
Like it or not a DA not pressing charges was always contrary to the criminal justice system. The DAs job is not to determine innocence or guilt. The DAs job is to get every conviction he possibly can. You have an angel and a devil. The prosecuting attorney and the defense attorney. Which is which depends which side you are on. They present- the judge or jury decides innocence or guilt. That is the premise of the criminal justice system.
Thus a DA deciding any particular use of force is justified and not pressing charges was and is contrary to the criminal justice system unless there is irrefutable evidence to the contrary. Body cameras. The footage is released to the public so everyone understands.
It was never the DAs job to not prosecute. The DA must prosecute in liu of irrefutable evidence that force is justified. Whether good or bad, right or wrong the DAs decisions in the past to not press charges for use of force was contrary to the criminal justice system. And yes subject to abuse.
This is why outside of areas where use of force is allowed- ones home but not property in many states- self defense using substantial force is a bad idea. Even in places self defense is allowed prosecution is far from precluded. A citizen does not wear a body cam. Without that irrefutable evidence a DA WILL prosecute now. If he doesnt he is opening himself to legal consequences. Whoever gets hurt is the victim now, the survivor is the aggressor. Even if a verdict is found of innocence by self defense bail must be posted, a period of a couple years where the outcome is unknown, and a minimum of $50k in lawyer fees. In most cases a plea bargain is arranged with lessor attorney fees a felony conviction and some prison time say 3-6 years.
Ive discussed this with many individuals familiar with the criminal justice system. We all agree. A black eye or some broken ribs are far preferable to charges. We also agree getting raped shot or stabbed is not preferable however. None of us has $50k for a attorney. Negotiating that reality is what self defense on the street constitutes now. Conflict avoidance becomes the utmost value in that skill. I can promise you one thing. If they are prosecuting law enforcement officers for use of force they most certainly will prosecute citizens in regard to use of force. The days of the DA not pressing charges without irrefutable evidence are dead and gone. Well maybe still if your the mayor … That too shall pass.
Interesting ideas!
There is, on the one hand, the thermodynamic imperative to consume and destroy, and on the other, the injunction to be good stewards of the Earth.
We humans need to keep the economy going as long as possible. Resources need to be used efficiently as possible. To do this, we need to be good stewards of what has been given to us. We shouldn’t be killing whole herds of buffalo, to get a little meat. Burning down whole forests to give more wide-open spaces, where more easily caught game can be found is a “no-no,” as well. Thus, the practices of hunters and gatherers need to be given up.
Perhaps once humans started getting more abundant than a few hunter-gathers, being good stewards of what was given became more important.
Idiocracy won. We call it intelligence… progress
Also, “Be fruitful and multiply” has to do with the need for using as much energy as is available. Having many children would help overall population to grow for a while, until inevitable bottlenecks occurred when population grew faster than available resources. The pattern that humans were instructed to follow is basically the one that all plants and animals follow: They have lots of offspring, but not all of them live. The best adapted tend to survive and grow.
We now think that we can work around this by “saving” every premature infant and many children with real problems that are likely to be passed on to later generations. We are confident that when we are in charge, we can develop a new world order in conflict with the way the system was set up to operate.
Gail,
God will make it well, perhaps God is reality and His way ultimately prevails.
We have changed our reality, but the universe has its own reality, that one trumps ours.
It will be as it is meant to be.
Dennis L.
As you all know, I am not ‘religious’, although I accept that some people go in for tradition expressions like ‘god’.
‘God’ was historically seen as ‘reality’ or more precisely ‘ens realissimum’ or the ‘fullest reality’, which expresses the idea that there are ‘degrees of being’, and that creatures participate more or less fully in the divine being and thus possess ‘being’ to a greater or lesser degree. That tied in with the aristocratic ‘chain of being’ in which some persons more fully participate in the divine being, eg. reason, responsibility, organisational capacity, authority, power and force, law-making. It would rash to suppose that traditional ‘metaphysics’ and ‘theology’ were always ‘disinterested’ or without – even if not fully conscious – practical human, social motives. ‘God’, the divine relation to the world, is thus often conceived fundamentally in terms that produce a narrative that helps humans to ‘understand’, and that reinforces, an historical hierarchical social pattern (which is not to suggest that modern ‘democracy’ has really changed matters.)
But that is not really what we are talking in terms of dissipative or physical perspectives. The cosmos is as it is and it is subject to physical ‘principles’ that govern its movement and development, and the coming to be and passing away of ‘forms’ like species. The basic tendency of the cosmos is toward the concentration of power (or energy) toward the construction, maintenance, and expansion of dissipative structures. They compete to do that. So species are that; it is the ‘will to power’ or the tendency toward dissipative structures that creates ‘forms’. Humans are generated, like all else in the cosmos, entirely in accordance with the ‘principles’ of dissipative structural generation and competition. Now, if ‘God’ (or noumenon) is the ’cause’ (in some non-literal sense, strict ‘causality’ is within the cosmos) or ‘first cause’ as Aristotle put it, then humans cannot, and indeed do not, ‘change reality’ and things are always as they are ‘meant to be’.
So, the concept in play here is not a subjectively loaded ‘ens realissimum’ so much as ‘first cause’ (or, just, physical principles). There are certain consequences to that. All is inevitable. All forms are inevitable. Humans are inevitable. They are all generated entirely by the principles of the cosmos. Moreover, the entire course taken by the forms, indeed their specificity of form, their development, and their eventual passing away, is inevitable. It is all generated and comes to pass in accordance with the physical principles of the cosmos. And some very important points… There is not really any ‘problem’ with anything that happens. That is not what a ‘problem’ is. It is a human concept that relates purely to the dissipative motives of humans. It is purely subjective and relative. It does not apply to the existence of the species as a whole in the sense that a species can be a ‘problem’ either ‘in itself’ or to the planet or the cosmos. Humans are entirely the planet and the cosmos; they are a part of it, and they are not apart from it, which is an important point to grasp. And the same goes for ‘morality’ and judgemental perspectives generally.
So, Gail has the philosophical standpoint, which largely accords, incidentally, with traditional Lutheranism, but in a more developed, scientific form. Lutheranism harked back to the NT, which in turn expressed the deterministic and fatalistic perspectives of antiquity in SE Europe and the near east, eg. the Stoics. Some others on here are more taken by the subjective, political and moralistic aspects of ‘metaphysics’, and their dispositions are not really philosophical. Some on here end up frankly barking, going on about a ‘failed species’ or ‘evil humans’. They do not really get what is being said, and it may simply be that their brains are not ‘wired’ for philosophical insights or dispositions. That does not really matter, as the perspective has already been developed and people either get it or they do not. If Gail wants to tolerate the ugly angst and wailing of the hoi polloi, for whatever sympathetic motive, then that is entirely up to her and her prerogative. But never let it be said or pretended that that ugly nonsense in any sense represents what I have ever said.
A failed species is that which cannot align with evolutionary process. In essence, enables fair advantage.
Furthermore a failed “sapient” species is that which responds to various forms of collective projections without regard if they are beneficial for the species survival or not.
But you’re right; in essence there is nothing wrong with a failed species. That’s how evolution “works”, or doesn’t work as in most cases, with the most obvious exemplar – the Rapacious Primate, Homo Sapiens Sapiens. Aptly scheduled to extinction from self inflicted finite world predicaments.
Yes it is a species exploitative and corrupt to the core. A hodgepodge of whims and wishes which frantically bothers itself with various forms of fictive status hierarchies and symbols of wealth while attempting to climb them to achieve “success”, and in doing so crafts its collective (sub)conscious projections, causing yet more of the same, ultimately until it all spirals out of control from corruption, or the inevitable collapse from depletion if it’s archaic pathology could be factored out by using a suitable economic basis.
And how is a species embedded within the universe not part of the very process of the universe itself? That is just plain reductionist nonsense. Any ten year old could figure that one out without too much “CPU” effort, but apparently not.
No hate, just sayin.
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Humans will get into the book of records for the species that went extinct in the shortest period of time hahahahahaaha
‘intelligent’ hahaha MOREONS.
I can see how that joke would not fly with most humans. In fact they’d want to beat me to death if I told it.
Isn’t it a rather amazing fail streak to stomp into every conceivable evolutionary trap?
How is it even possible to squeeze reasonably long term evolutionary “progress” from the rapacious primate?
At least “we” seem to have gotten some 200k years. Not much in the grand scheme of things. Rather nothing at all.
But hey, not all is lost. We got to listen to George Carlin, Club of Rome, and read comments from a few hilarious misanthropes in the process. Etc.
Always something of curiosity for the history books of the universe.
In the mean time:
🪵🪓😑💦.
☮️☯️
FE: “Humans will get into the book of records for the species that went extinct in the shortest period of time ”
But that IS the success of it.. the MPP/MEPP crown: the breaking down of energy gradients faster and more thoroughly than any other species.The ‘failure’ and the ‘success’ are inextricable one from the other.
I thought the joke was that there is no species called human.
“If the rules of distinction customarily applied to other animals were extended with equal rigor to our kind, we should be classified as Pan sapiens, the third chimpanzee.”
Pan paniscus
Pan troglodytes
Pan sapiens
Hmmm, if ‘God’ is the maximum power and the organising, dominational principle, then that does tend to suggest that those with the most power and who exercise the most of organisational domination are the closest in being to God. ‘Ens realissimum’ and the ‘chain of being’ are interesting ideas that provide a narrative to consciously orientate human motivation. The only idea of God that is really needed is ‘power’. One could also think of the sun as the most powerful local organisational center of force, with its gravity and energy. Indeed the sun has often been used as an icon of ‘god’. Likely there is no absolute center of force in the cosmos, just local and relative centers. Ultimately the interconnected and self-inter-determining cosmos is One and the entirety has its necessity.
Except that there is some source of continuously expending power for the Universe as a whole. The universe keeps expanding, and at an ever-faster rate. Creation is a continuous process, through self-organizing systems. The whole situation may look chaotic, but there is a hidden organization behind everything that happens.
The sun is temporary; it too is a dissipative structures. It grows in size and then collapses at the end. It is not permanent, just as stars in general are not permanent. From our point of view as temporary humans, for an even shorter time than the sun, I suppose the sun could be thought of the highest power that we can see. It is terribly difficult to capture the energy of the sun without the use of fossil fuels (except indirectly, such as in growing food).
“Hmmm, if ‘God’ is the maximum power and the organising, dominational principle, then that does tend to suggest that those with the most power and who exercise the most of organisational domination are the closest in being to God.”
Just because some schmucks clawed their way to ‘power’ doesn’t mean they would know shit from shinola. Isn’t it reasonable to think of “God” as an all powerful and all knowing entity?
Can’t have one without the other. Then you’re merely a transgressive despot or an adept/sage.
Being “godlike” simply means to lay claim to both. Which is all right. I guess we all got that “in us”. After all, “we” want to be in control of our destinies and figure shit out in the process.
Claiming power over others seem redundant unless they’re an obstacle. However, the golden rule is not subject to compromise, unless “they” transgress themselves which invalidates this.
@Gail Tverberg
Hebrews 1:3
“3The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of His nature, upholding all things by His powerful word. After He had provided purification for sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high. “
If it works for you great, it took a great number of words.
For me, a holy place is peaceful, helps me deal with what is in my area of influence and accept that over which I have no control.
Mirror, it is simple, the remainder seems to be renationalizing. Many things are not rational, they are.
All the best,
Dennis L.
Just a subjective response: I’m sympathetic with every form of life, unless it “bothers” me past what I’m able, willing of disposed to bear. Some kinds of deformity in the womb “bother” me and I have no qualms about putting it out of (my) misery. Same with very small ants in very large numbers. Barring that, it’s enough for me that women who don’t want babies are allowed to affordably abort them (if having them bothers women past what they are able, willing of disposed to bear). This is a very unscientific and rough way to deal with population, but it seems as natural and principled as anything else I know. It is possible that self organization will align women’s decisions or abortion outcomes with their societies’ population needs.
Yeah, life (sans hoomans) consumes and destroys dead mineral and forms complexity powered by sunlight.
The only thing hoomans (the abomination!) competently destroy is themselves.
Big difference from life in general.
99.99% of all species that have ever lived are now extinct. If humans do destroy themselves (or somehow get outcompeted), we will have lots and lots of company.
In a finite world, no species can expect to last forever. The idea is one that humans developed on their own. “It is our right to live forever on this earth.” “It is our right for climate to stay the same.” “We can model what will happen in the future, because the future will replicate the past.”
Yes, all species eventually go extinct by various means.
A somewhat “palatable” way to go extinct is by favorable mutations. A gradual adaptation to the circumstances and closer alignment with evolutionary process itself.
But that is of course delusional with boom-bust evolutionary dynamics. The very traits that cause the predicament in the first place will “pass through the bottleneck” and get stuck in the eternal recurrence of maladaptive behaviors and traits.
“favorable mutations”
The Darwinist fairy tale. Any old style sideshow could show you rows of glass jars full of the freaks of mutation but nary a one proving the existence of “favorable” mutations.
Lactose tolerance among pastoralists, no?
Pale skin of people living closer to the poles, no?
Etc.
@ kowalainen
There is no reason to believe that the capacity for lactose tolerance or intolerance did not already exist in the human genome and has merely been turned on or off epigenetically in certain groups.
This is a far cry from the mathematically enormous unlikelihood that a beneficial mutation should have arisen to make milk drinking easier.
@ kowalainen
My longer reply may be lost. Here is my short reply.
Epigenetics.
I see where this is going.
I must clarify that my concept of evolutionary process is rather nonspecific.
For example; I consider GMO food as evolved. I also consider all the different breeds of domesticated animals as evolved.
The process which is doing the (beneficial) mutations is fundamentally insignificant. And by process I mean natural selection, random mutation and laboratory “jobbies” by hoomans, or our almighty gods that terrorize us with their tantalizing absence.
But the simplest explanation is that the earth and the life on this blue ball is way older than what currently is being understood.
Like, obscenely old. And that is plenty of time for nature to put a lot of curious hypothesis into embodiments.
Putting an age on earth and the universe is merely imaginary conjecture. Myth basically.
Yeah; something like that.
Happy?
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Sane words, Gail.
Somehow, part of our predicament is that we still believe humans are directly in charge. But what if, even when it’s compelling to believe this, we don’t see that humans are not “directly” in charge. Human influence seems to morph into the objects and systems humans create, which then have a life of their own. The religion of building–you’re not doing anything or getting anywhere if you don’t build buildings–might be a case in point…
Stars do the same thing and it is doubtful they are sentient.
Dennis L.
That is a bold claim. What is your evidence for that?
Coming on Xabier’s remarks of Germans being “short fused”, my friends who were aware said “Yes the people surrounding all of us and took the jab lack a human soul and warmth.” They are like zombies. Not able to think and will not even respond angrily if you say “You f678king idi.ot”. It seems he has the experience on this and that guy sort of like “looked at him”.
Spiritually, perhaps the vaccine has drained that person’s soul away. Mass formation is just an explanination of what happened.
Only those who are not vaccinated are “normal” and out of that number, perhaps 99% are delusional on what really comes next (I.e. delusional as in still believes that gold will help or i can make a killing when stocks crashes)
What else can I deduce from all the mess that we are seeing?
All along for close to a decade, I had a feeling that perhaps only a handful of people (like 70 plus people) really know what is going and what will happen. Perhaps all these 70+ people are all here on OFW. Those who need to work 3 jobs, they will never be aware….
They never had one to begin with if you observe them carefully. 99.9% of rapacious primates are mentally ill.
A person can’t claim consciousness (sapience) if the neocortex is fully occupied with manifesting the egotistical fantasies of the ego.
If the myelin sheaths are eroded between the lobes and archaic regions, well, that’s sort of a mRNA lobotomy.
Just a thought.
A good thought. Yes mentally ill… 99.99999999999999999999999999%
I wonder if it isn’t lack of a simple faith, a religion. Life is very complex and yet our individual lives are for the most part extremely simple; most of us do mundane jobs which give us some meaning and a livelihood. A cathedral is a wonderful place, add some good music and it lifts the soul.
Perhaps atheist, left wing professors who have never seen a sunbeam without a cloud around it are the most miserable of all. All their philosophy is circular, self referential and when the self is found to have no soul, meaningless. I think most humanities departments exist to make every student as miserable as they are. This has seeped out into general society, the pandemic gave some lives meaning for a brief period; CDC now says forget all the precautions, live life. Amazing.
Dennis L.
No left wing professors are truly atheist, they devoutly believe in the goodness of the human condition. A belief system doesn’t necessarily include a pantheon of supreme beings. Just about any imagined idol would do. Preferably their self idealization and projection of that into the self entitled hoi-polloi in general. Birds of a feather flock together.
Watching the rabble behave like the rabble surely must be extremely discouraging for YOLO Tryhards like Chomsky. Most atheist right wingers would just meme about the absurdities and rightly so. It is deeply tragicomic.
I haven’t met a single atheist or agnostic in my life that seem generally miserable, People usually turn to faith for therapeutic reasons. Most (sane) people in Scandinavia just shoved their hands in the soil and graces the Tao, inadvertently or not.
There’s a reason why fit people in general stand on solid ground spiritually, it has to do with engaging with nature through sport/exercise and accepting risk.
Perhaps that’s something you should do instead of looking for meaning inside sermon and outside of evolutionary process?
Just saying, no hate.
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Let’s face it — most people who are religious need to believe there is something after this … they crave immortality. They fear the abyss.
The successful religions have great sales pitches.
The sun god did not offer immortality — so when better pitches came along … he was discarded.
We are seeing a similar phenomenon with the Injections…. they are seen as our saviours… and as with religion — all logic goes out the window when humans encounter fear — they will do just about anything to avoid death. Even inject themselves with an experiment … or get on their knees and pray to something that does not exist (there is zero evidence that ‘god’ exists… other than FE .. but then FE does not ask for $$$ so he is different).
70 is optimistic
Hopefully everyone involved ends up vax injured…
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/129405803/doctor-who-prescribed-ivermectin-for-covid19-says-questions-over-practise-witch-hunt
Seriously – end the empathy for these vile f789ers.
Every vax injury – is a good vax injury. A well deserved vax injury.
I urge you to encourage everyone you know to take the next booster.
You can beat them to the ground and kick them in the face — or you can drive them to the the clinic.
Salman Rushdie Stabbed in New York
Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses, has been stabbed by an attacker who rushed the stage at an event in Chautauqua, about 55 miles southwest of Buffalo in a rural corner of New York. After The Satanic Verses was published in 1988, Iran’s late leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa calling for Rushdie’s death and a semi-official Iranian religious foundation offered a bounty of $3 million for anyone who manages to murder him. Dailymail.com has more.
Author Salman Rushdie has been airlifted to hospital after being stabbed in the neck on stage ahead of a speech he was due to give in Chautauqua, near Buffalo.
The writer, 75, was attacked as he was being introduced to the stage for the CHQ 2022 event before giving a lecture on Friday morning.
He was attending for a discussion of the United States as asylum for writers and other artists in exile and as a home for freedom of creative expression.
Witnesses claimed that he managed to walk off stage with assistance and the attacker was restrained.
Blood appeared to be spattered on the wall behind where Rushdie had been attacked, with some also seen on a chair.
https://dailysceptic.org/2022/08/12/salman-rushdie-stabbed-in-new-york/
Ak-Bar is Great…
Hey do you think if someone opened a bar and called it Ak-Bar — they’d be stabbed?
and what if I renamed Hoolio … let’s call him Allah… or Jesus hahaha
There was a chain of bars in Jakarta that recently tweeted a couple of new cocktails called Mary and Jesus. They were shut down inside 24 hours and won’t reopen. Hundreds lost their jobs.
The management wanted to FA and the trendy sacreligious fools very quickly FO.
It is right there in the Constitution. Pancasila. Start sectarian trouble and the army – through the police – will fall on you like a ton of bricks.
Last year, Salman was opining in the Washington Post in May of last year about Covid, quoting Susan Sontag on illness, and blaming Donald Trump for everything wrong with the world. The Washington Post loves anyone who blames Trump. I reckon Norman could get a gig there:
We are not the dominant species on the planet by accident. We have great survival skills. And we will survive. But I doubt that a social revolution will follow because of the lessons of the pandemic. But yes, sure, one can hope for betterment, and fight for it, and maybe our children will see — will make — that better world.
It is a part of our tragedy that in this time of crisis we have been cursed, in many countries, including all three of those I have most cared about in my life, with leaders of astonishing cynicism and bad faith. In India, Narendra Modi’s government used the pandemic to put the blame on Muslims. In the United Kingdom, Boris Johnson (despite having had and recovered from the virus himself) handled the crisis with stunning incompetence, at first downplaying the dangers, reacting too little and too late and continuing to play the Brexiteers’ anti-immigrant card, in spite of the fact that both the primary caregivers who looked after him in the hospital were immigrants and the British National Health Service as a whole depends on their skills and courage.
And in Donald Trump’s America, where nothing was unthinkable, no matter how low he and his followers sank, there was always a lower level to sink to — in Trumpistan, the virus (like everything else) was politicized, minimized, called a Democrat trick; the science was derided, the administration’s lamentable response to the pandemic was obscured by a blizzard of lies, wearers of masks were abused by wearers of red hats, and the mountain of the dead went on growing, unmourned by the self-obsessed charlatan who claimed, in the face of all the evidence, that he was making America great again.
To repair the damage done by these people in these times will not be easy. I may not see the wounds mended in my lifetime. It may take a generation or more. The social damage of the pandemic itself, the fear of our old social lives, in bars and restaurants and dance halls and sports stadiums, will take time to heal (although a percentage of people seem to know no fear already). We will hug and kiss again. But will there still be movie theaters? Will there be bookstores? Will we feel okay in crowded subway cars?
Indeed, Salmon, perhaps you may not see the wounds mended in your lifetime. But if they manage to stitch you back together and you heal up enough to give interviews, which I sincerely hope they do, I also hope you are not going to find some clever way of blaming Trump and “these people” for the grievous bodily harm you’ve suffered at the hands of an Islamist at an institution that prohibits criticism of Islamism. Why you were willing to grace the current Chautauqua Christian Fellowship (CCF) with your presence in the first place is a mystery to me. You would have been far safer at a MAGA rally calling out the Don as a crook.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/08/the_tragic_irony_of_the_rushdie_stabbing_at_chautauqua_.html
The Corona End Game. Addendum
The Olympics Rituals of 1992/2012 “Predicted” The Corona Operation
https://lionessofjudah.substack.com/p/the-corona-end-game-addendum
Bit creepy…
BTW – the dogs are going a bit wild .. there’s a light in the bush/vineyards next to us… and a dog barking… maybe I should turn off the power to create a full ROF effect…
And take the bolts out of the safe… insert them into the high powered rifles… and fire off some warning shots…
Imagine the power was off… and you heard dogs barked … and saw lights approaching your doomsday house… assume they’ll have high powered weapons… and seeking food … and wimmin.
Then what?
Hubbs – I need Fentanyl – that would be my solution … first I’d let rip with a few dozen rounds… if they kept coming (of course they would – we’d Jimmy Jones it… self termination .. f789 em… I’d also fling petrol everywhere and burn the shit down …
We Burn? You F789ing Burn. YOU>.. F789ing Burn.
Think not?
Fast Eddy does not mess around
https://i.postimg.cc/1XbM5kXH/Giant-Fat-Bastard-On-the-Ground.png
What do you mean by “You lost your way?”
I just f789in took a lethal dose of Fentanyl ?!?!?
This ends:
There is definitely something very strange about an O Games ceremony involving viruses and a dead baby — decades before UEP was launched… what is the purpose of that — other than to entertain the Elders …. but why would that entertain them?
Why has this never been addressed? It’s almost as if there was a glitch in the software…. or a lizard inside her… Essentially it never happened because nothing was said. It’s like – oh that’s completely normal – nothing to see.
https://youtu.be/jtU5nMbEsQ4