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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.
China’s debt cataclysm threatens US real estate projects
Chinese developers on brink of bankruptcy struggle to keep stateside assets
Desperate real estate firms across the Pacific are scrambling for funds. To wit:
Greenland USA, a developer partly owned by the Shanghai government, is looking to sell a chunk of its $1 billion Downtown Los Angeles tower complex.
The parent company of Chinese developer Oceanwide estimates it will lose $340 million in the second half of this year and is in default on a loan connected to a Manhattan 1,500-foot supertall site that it bought for $390 million in 2016.
Vanke US, a Shenzhen-based affiliate of China Vanke, is slashing prices at a swanky Midtown condo high-rise.
In China, firms with assets larger than some countries’ GDP are facing bankruptcy thanks to Beijing’s crackdown on excessive borrowing and a residential property crisis. Evergrande, the poster child for beleaguered Chinese developers, has already defaulted on $22.7 billion worth of offshore debt.
These problems in China are spilling over to the U.S.
The Chinese were once the most aggressive foreign buyers of real estate in the U.S., acquiring $17.4 billion in real estate by 2016.
“All these Chinese companies were successful in their own markets and they all had the same mentality: build, build, build, and build big,” said a former employee at Greenland USA. “But they overpaid for assets.”
Chinese investment has since nearly disappeared, falling to less than $1 billion in 2020. The country’s monied interests turned their focus to other sectors, leaving Chinese developers hard-pressed to raise cash for existing projects.
“For a lot of investors linked to state-owned enterprises, it is very difficult to pump additional money into deals,” said Joel Rothstein, chair of the Asia real estate practice at Greenberg Traurig.
https://therealdeal.com/2022/07/29/chinas-debt-cataclysm-reaches-american-shores/
Same thing happened with the japanese in the 1990s.
The Fed is raising rates, not just to beat inflation but to drive up the dollar.
Now we will see who is the boss.
Hey I know! Lets fight inflation by printing 3/4 trillion for a rebranded “build back better” climate change “inflation reduction” spending bill! Sheer genius. Yuppers. Printing money fights inflation its a win -win! Money for nothing AND inflation reduction to boot! And luckily we are guaranteed that this particular trillion dollars of unpayable debt WILL reduce inflation after all thats what its titled! Hell yes! Hey wheres that damn quadrillion slowpokes? Were lagging behind. We need to print a quadrillion! Just think how THAT would combat inflation.
https://phys.org/news/2022-07-inflation-reduction-major-effort-climate.html
China’s Gen Z and millennials have a word for their disaffection with the economy and life in general. Evolution is dead, meet ‘involution’
Beijing is facing a ticking time bomb: a generation of disenchanted and unemployed youth amid the biggest economic slowdown the country has seen in years.
BY YVONNE LAU
July 31, 2022 7:30 AM EDT
When Lily, a 27-year-old from central China’s Henan province, left her hometown for Hong Kong five years ago, she was full of hope for her future. A Big Four accounting firm had offered her a job in its Hong Kong office, located in a swanky building in the city’s bustling financial district.
But the daily grind frequently turned into late nights with no overtime pay. It ate into her weekends, leaving little time for sleep, exercise, dating, or hobbies like painting. Then, the COVID-19 pandemic struck at the same time Lily’s doting grandmother, who had raised her as a child, suffered a stroke. “My lao lao [grandma] was unwell, my parents were getting older and I wasn’t getting happier, just more exhausted,” Lily says.
The turn of events prompted her to resign and move back to her mainland China hometown last August, where she thought the pace of life might be slower than Hong Kong and the job search easier because of her English language skills and experience at an international company.
She discovered the opposite. Lily sent out at least 100 resumes in a six-month time span, for jobs located nationwide, with no results. “I studied so hard for so many years. I made it to Hong Kong, which is a dream for many young people, and worked so hard. So I decided to just lie flat and let it rot,” she says.
Lily’s sentiments echo that of many young Chinese. In recent years, a large number of them have embraced ‘lying flat’ (doing the bare minimum to get by), ‘letting it rot’ (making the best of a bad situation), and ‘involution’ (becoming stagnant rather than evolving). These fatalistic movements epitomize young people’s growing rejection of China’s cutthroat education system and work culture in which rewards in exchange for hard work have become increasingly illusory. The number of university graduates in China has surged, but white-collar jobs haven’t kept up. Nearly 11 million Chinese students will graduate from university this summer, but many of them may not be able to find a job.
Now, China faces a ticking time bomb: a generation of disenchanted and unemployed youth amid the biggest economic slowdown the country has seen in years, caused by the global slowdown and COVID lockdowns.
China’s unprecedented development and urbanization spree of the last four decades included plans for a great educational leap forward. China had become a manufacturing powerhouse, but Beijing needed to educate the millions of new young urbanites to build a sophisticated workforce and advanced economy. The government’s annual public education spending grew from 1.7% of GDP to around 4% in 2021, or $557 billion.
China may have been too successful in reaching its educational goals. In 1990, China minted half a million college graduates. This summer, a record 10.8 million will graduate from university—only to enter the worst labor market in decades. Earlier this month, China’s youth unemployment rate hit an all-time high of 19%.
China’s job market has fallen behind the number of graduates the country is now producing. “There simply aren’t enough white-collar jobs for white-collar workers,” Zak Dychtwald, founder of Young China Group, a research firm focused on Chinese youth, and author of Young China: How the Restless Generational Will Change Their Country and the World, told Fortune. This imbalance allows “employees [to] treat entry-level applicants like they’re disposable,” he says.
https://fortune.com/2022/07/31/china-gen-z-millennials-unemployment-jobs-college-graduates-white-collar-education/amp/
Meanwhile, the nation has more manufacturing jobs than it can fill. As China pursues its plan to become a high-tech manufacturing leader, it’ll need 62 million total manufacturing workers by 2025, but will be short 30 million. Young people are shunning manufacturing work and sectors like traditional automobiles and energy, Vivien Zhang, associate director of southern China at recruitment firm Robert Walters, told Fortune. Victor, a 25-year-old master’s student in business from Guangdong, said: “We didn’t study so hard just to work at a factory like the earlier generations.”
Fascinating..this is a follow up from Gails previous comment about youth aspirations
He Wanted a Home and a Wife. China’s Property Crisis Left Him With Neither.
To prepare for his wedding, Zhong Qichao last year bought a two-bedroom apartment along the coast of Lianyungang, a third-tier city in northeastern China.
It almost took a village to come up with the 300,000 yuan ($44,500) in down payment—about 45 times his monthly salary. The 27-year-old restaurant manager pooled his own earnings and the entire savings of his farmer parents. He borrowed from his relatives and took a loan from a bank for the rest. Since he closed the deal last March, he had spent a third of his paycheck on mortgage payments every month. It was a stretch for him financially, but he knew that all would be OK when he moved with his new wife into their new flat overlooking the sea in May next year, when the development is set to complete.
Unfortunately for Zhong, things didn’t go as planned. In November, construction of his new home, part of a 32-building project called Yuelongfu, ground to a halt as the developer ran out of cash.
Eight months onward, bare concrete frames and exposed steel bars stand in the place of what should be a luxury residential complex surrounded by lush greenery, as Zhong had seen in rendered images. Wild grass now grows over the abandoned plot and rainwater has flooded the underground carpark, turning it into a pond.
Unwilling to marry their daughter to a man without a shelter of his own, his fiancée’s parents called off the wedding. “Now I have no house, no wife, and twenty years of loans,” Zhong told VICE World News.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgyd9n/china-property-crisis-mortgage-boycott
He needs some Fentanyl …
“When people lose everything they have left to lose, they lose it!”
Puts on oligarch lifespans. (for those non-finance types among you, “puts” as in the financial contract)
We live in the world where the growth stops.
Instead of getting agitated, the best strategy is to adapt: slow your movements, lay down and wait for the end.
Do you practice a deliberate slowing your movements which drives growth-oriented people crazy?
You have a right to be slow. Let them rush against the wall…
Everything goes towards the end, but some people think that they should hit the end faster. Let them fulfill their wishes… Anyway, you do not have energy to stop them.
Imagine that your bed is a coffin. What a heavenly feeling…
Imagine that your bed is a coffin already burried in the ground: as you breathe, the oxygen levels go down and the carbon dioxide rises. You can fight, but why should you?
That is what our whole life on Earth is about as a species.
imagine that it is still bAU tonight, baby!
I live in the present, not the past or the future.
imagine that.
No, it is not BAU for the increasing number of the people.
Hey FE… your good friend is in the news…
“Give Up Your Yacht Before Lecturing”: Bolsonaro Sinks DiCaprio In Titanic Twitter Thread
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/give-your-yacht-lecturing-bolsonaro-sinks-dicaprio-titanic-twitter-thread
Brazilian President Jair Bonsonaro gave Leonardo DiCaprio a lecture in hypocrisy, telling the virtue-signaling actor that he should ‘give up his yacht before lecturing the world’ about the environment.
Of note, in January DiCaprio was pictured vacationing with friends on the $150 miullion “Vava II,” the largest yacht manufactured in Britain, which is estimated to produce 238kg of carbon dioxide per mile – as much as the average British car emits in two months.
Bolsonaro was responding to DiCaprio, who tweeted that the Amazon rainforest has “faced an onslaught of illegal deforestation at the hands of extractive industry over the last 3 years.”
“You again, Leo?” Tweeted Bolsonaro. “I could tell you, again, to give up your yacht before lecturing the world, but I know progressives: you want to change the entire world but never yourselves, so I will let you off the hook.”
“Between us, it’s weird to see a dude who pretends to love the Planet paying more attention to Brazil than to the fires harming Europe and his own country,” he continued.
If he only knew about Leo’s concrete eco resort a few inches about sea level…
In spite of all this + the fact that without FF burning we’d quickly be extinct… the MOREONS remain captured. They are no different that the MOREONS who chant More Boosters – Boosters Safe Effective
And good luck convincing either of them that they are both wrong + MOREONS
The Strong Dollar Is Wreaking Havoc Globally— And It’s Just Getting Started
(Bloomberg) — George Boubouras was at his home in east Melbourne, taking in a cricket match, when his phone suddenly blew up.
It was late on July 13, about 10:45 p.m., and there was an urgency to the texts and calls that came flooding in. The euro had just crashed through parity against the dollar, a level once almost unthinkable, and everyone — clients, fund managers, traders — wanted to know what Boubouras, the head of research at K2 Asset Management, recommend they do. His response was simple: “Don’t fight the dollar right now.”
Just over an hour later, another jolt came. The Bank of Canada, struggling like the European Central Bank and other central banks to keep its currency steady against the dollar, delivered a full percentage-point increase in interest rates. Almost no one saw it coming. Ten hours later, another shock: the Monetary Authority of Singapore jumped into the foreign-exchange market, announcing a bid to push its currency back higher against the dollar.
At this point, Mitul Kotecha’s phone began buzzing alerts non-stop, too. A Singapore-based strategist at TD Securities, Kotecha was vacationing with his wife at a resort in Thailand. It was their 25th anniversary and he was lounging on the beach and the whole scene seemed a little surreal to him. “It was all happening in a crazy short period,” he says. “I couldn’t believe the mayhem.”
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/the-strong-dollar-is-wreaking-havoc-globally-and-it-s-just-getting-started-1.1797993
Emerging markets hit a record series of withdrawals by foreign investors
Foreign investors have withdrawn money from emerging markets for five consecutive months in the longest series of withdrawals ever, highlighting how recession fears and rising interest rates are shaking developing economies.
Cross-border outflows by international investors in emerging market stocks and local bonds totaled $10.5 billion this month, according to interim data compiled by the Institute of International Finance. This has increased outflows over the past five months to more than $38 billion – the longest period of net outflows since records began in 2005.
Outflows may exacerbate the escalating financial crisis across developing economies. In the past three months, Sri Lanka has defaulted on its sovereign debt, and Bangladesh and Pakistan alike have defaulted. Closer to the International Monetary Fund for help. Investors fear that a growing number of other emerging market issuers are also at risk.
Many low- and middle-income developing countries are suffering from currency depreciation and rising borrowing costs, driven by interest rate hikes by the US Federal Reserve and fears of a recession in major advanced economies. United States this week registered The second consecutive quarterly contraction.
https://www.townoflaronge.ca/emerging-markets-hit-a-record-series-of-withdrawals-by-foreign-investors/
BLAST! THAT WAS A DOCUMENTARY
This should be the performance.
China’s Gen Z and millennials have a word for their disaffection with the economy and life in general. Evolution is dead, meet ‘involution’
When Lily, a 27-year-old from central China’s Henan province, left her hometown for Hong Kong five years ago, she was full of hope for her future. A Big Four accounting firm had offered her a job in its Hong Kong office, located in a swanky building in the city’s bustling financial district.
But the daily grind frequently turned into late nights with no overtime pay. It ate into her weekends, leaving little time for sleep, exercise, dating, or hobbies like painting. Then, the COVID-19 pandemic struck at the same time Lily’s doting grandmother, who had raised her as a child, suffered a stroke. “My lao lao [grandma] was unwell, my parents were getting older and I wasn’t getting happier, just more exhausted,” Lily says.
The turn of events prompted her to resign and move back to her mainland China hometown last August, where she thought the pace of life might be slower than Hong Kong and the job search easier because of her English language skills and experience at an international company.
She discovered the opposite. Lily sent out at least 100 resumes in a six-month time span, for jobs located nationwide, with no results. “I studied so hard for so many years. I made it to Hong Kong, which is a dream for many young people, and worked so hard. So I decided to just lie flat and let it rot,” she says.
Lily’s sentiments echo that of many young Chinese. In recent years, a large number of them have embraced ‘lying flat’ (doing the bare minimum to get by), ‘letting it rot’ (making the best of a bad situation), and ‘involution’ (becoming stagnant rather than evolving). These fatalistic movements epitomize young people’s growing rejection of China’s cutthroat education system and work culture in which rewards in exchange for hard work have become increasingly illusory. The number of university graduates in China has surged, but white-collar jobs haven’t kept up. Nearly 11 million Chinese students will graduate from university this summer, but many of them may not be able to find a job.
https://fortune.com/2022/07/31/china-gen-z-millennials-unemployment-jobs-college-graduates-white-collar-education/
Involution for me!!!!!
I reckon China needs to revive the opium trade… dull the senses and increase the rot of the younger generations
To be frank, Lily sounds like an idiot.
Lily has now found a job working in a sleazy karaoke lounge servicing fat balding Chinese farm hands who stink of stale piss and cigarette smoke….
A Hollywood ending to her travails.
the lesser spotted eddywit is flying around at its usual height
norm is taking singing lessons… between boosters … so he can impress lily.
attenborough relies on me to report regular sightings of the lesser spotted eddywit—he likes to know it hasn’t gone extinct
I thought Hawaii relies on Geothermal energy?
“Hawaii Electricity Prices To Skyrocket As Final Shipment Of Coal Arrives. Another brilliantly executed “green” revolution”.
https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/hawaii-electricity-prices-skyrocket-final-shipment-coal-arrives
Each island in the Hawaiian Islands needs to have its own electricity supply. This article is about Oahu, which is where Honolulu is located. It has had a coal-fired plant that has provided part of its electricity. This is an article I found about the situation there. Most of its electricity is from oil. Oil is a very high-priced way of making electricity. I am sure that imported coal prices have been skyrocketing as well.
The Big Island uses some geothermal energy. This island is larger in area but smaller in population than Oahu. It has something called the Puna Geothermal Venture, which according the Wikipedia article, generated up to 10% of the island’s electricity in 2018. The geothermal site is built very close to an active volcano. When the volcano erupted in May 2018, it was necessary to close this generating facility. The linked Wikipedia article says that it resumed operation in November 2020. The possibility of eruption is a risk a geothermal generating unit may run because geothermal works best when it is next to an active volcano.
I ran across a different article about a different problem, this one on the island in Maui. https://www.civilbeat.org/2022/05/maui-may-build-a-new-oil-fired-power-plant/
Hawaiian Electric May Have To Build A New Oil-Fired Power Plant On Maui
The shutdown of a spare parts supplier in Japan is threatening the ability of Maui’s electric utility to keep a series of 1980s generators firing.
This is a chart I put together several years ago, showing electricity generation by source for the state of Hawaii as a whole.
https://ourfiniteworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/hawaii-electricity-generation-equals-consumption1.png
The shutdown of a spare parts supplier in Japan is threatening the ability of Maui’s electric utility to keep a series of 1980s generators firing.
ahem…….we are so interconnected and using very machines, at times it is not possible to duplicate the parts. If you are into electronics, you will know that the latest standalone gadgets or cars, you cannot duplicate the part. One of the part inside is the CPU and the codes (or software) that runs is hardcoded into the chip or any programmable logic chips. The software inside is proprietary and it cannot be easily duplicated and you have to get it from the supplier.
Unlike the olden days where cars are cars and the parts can be easily duplicated. Nothing high tech……
The interesting thing about this is that is being done deliberately by many manufacturers to protect their profit/revenue streams–and also to impose political control on its customers through “interdependence”.
https://reports.weforum.org/building-resilience-in-supply-chains-info/?doing_wp_cron=1660107295.9010438919067382812500
“. The Forum’s report ‘Building Supply Chain Resilience’ being published in collaboration with Accenture offers a blueprint for resilience through public private partnerships, policy, strategy and IT and calls for an institution to implement it.”
I wonder what this public/private partnership looks like. Does it look like public institutions mandating masks while the private sector couldn’t provide them because they reduced production?
yes but russia will be fine .. they are different from maui … they have billions of spare parts in storage for everything
Farmville … where you pay real money — for digital animals…
I am thinking … Poshville… where you can shop for luxury brands… clothing cars etc.. by private jets… cliffside villas etc… with real money … but at a fraction of the actual cost….. you enter the world of Poshville via special computerized virtual reality helmets…
While in the world you rub shoulders with other Posh people — lots of celebs will be there…. you attend parties with Paris and Kim (you pay more real money to invite A listers!!!)… you have virtual s ex with super hot models (again you pay… not a lot but it all adds up).
This could be huge…
Serbia/ Kosovo to kick off at midnight tonight?
Woooooo!
(popcorn at the ready….)
> Kosovo army plans to attack northern Serbia at midnight – Serbian President Vucic
BAKU, Azerbaijan, July 31. Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said that the Kosovo army plans to attack the country at midnight, Danas edition says, Trend reports.
According to him, detachments of Albanian police have already gone to Yarinya and Brnak.
“I think that we have never been in a more difficult and tough situation than today. Why did I say this? The Pristina regime is trying to use the mood in the world by presenting itself as a victim,” he said.
Earlier it was reported that shots and air raids were heard on the border of Kosovo and Serbia.
Kosovo Albanians gather in groups in the southern part of the city of Kosovska Mitrovica near the bridge leading to the northern, “Serbian” side, where local Serbs gather.
After 18.00 local time, air raid sirens sounded in the city, Serbs build barricades in the north of Kosovo, roads are blocked.
https://en.trend.az/world/europe/3627487.html
Clashes have started?
Oh, dear! More conflict.
“Kosovo army plans to attack northern Serbia at midnight”
NORTHERN Serbia? How long does the train take?
Russia must punish Na. .zi-Albania-Kosovo to protect its brother Slavs.
Japan: Dying alone is becoming a bigger and bigger problem
https://youtu.be/SORthIsoLP0
China: We are the last generation
https://youtu.be/9va91RAiNIc
China: Lying flat and Let it rot
https://youtu.be/wgl-45gmoDE
The movies show three versions of despair hitting, in today’s world.
People have been told that if they go to advance schooling and work hard, they can succeed. The are increasingly finding that this doesn’t really work. In fact, in the US they are also likely to find that they have a lot of debt to pay back, but their wages aren’t high enough to actually repay the debt.
Not too surprisingly, there is a lot of despair and loss of hope. Giving up. Lying flat. If the world economy were growing rapidly, this situation would not be happening. We now have too much population and too little resources. Pollution is already a big problem.
The egotistical fantasies stipulates it’s either nothing or the full blown luxuries and conveniences experience of IC.
The YOLO mindset clashes with depletion predicaments.
If their great grandparents toiling away in the rice paddies or potato field could observe them from the great beyond.
The shame.
😳👎👎
Interesting I beg to differ somewhat in your interpretation of todays events across the board ;
1) The primary problem is and has been since the shift from capitalism to Hyper verging on Anachro Capitalism is the reality that COVID has revealed so clearly . That being …. the entire global economy has become nothing more than a pathetic Potemkin Village ..e.g. .. all facade .. zero substance kept afloat by unsustainable levels of debt
2) The secondary issue … one that unfortunately very few including yourself truly comprehend ( oh dear … history and philosophy about to enter the fray .. oh dear ) is the simple fact that we are in a TRANSITIONAL age . Not the industrial which passed decades ago … not the technological which never truly existed being nothing more than the dying shadow of the industrial age .. but a TRANSITIONAL age .
e.g. We’re in between what was and what nay be ,, and in that transitional no mans land chaos ensues .. ( check ) desperate leaders do desperate things to maintain their waning power ( check ) words and language temporarily lose all meaning ( check ) truth is no longer the gold standard ( check ) and the general public desperate to maintain a semblance of control they never had in the first place .. look to ‘ saviors ‘ despots and autocrats to rule ( check and check again )
And for the record .. we’ve been thru multiple transitional ages over the centuries etc … each all too similar to the previous .
Now I know for most this is a lot to ask .. but here’s a little reading material that might just shed light on the world we’re currently living in . A demanding read requiring a reasonable level of higher education .
” At the End of an Age ” by John Lukacs
Read it … and completely revise your view of the world at large as it pertains to this present age . Because and I say this with all respect … your view/opinion/agenda on the best of days is deafly flawed
In some ways, we are in an age that is like the World War I, the Depression, and World War II. The age of the US civil war was similar. It is an age of too little energy.
When I look up “At the End of an Age” by Jon Lukas, I find,
https://www.amazon.com/At-End-Age-John-Lukacs/dp/0300101619
The final paragraph of the blurb summarizing the book says,
I would agree with Lucas. The Universe seems to have been created by a god-like higher power. As far as we know, humans are the only higher life form in the universe. In that sense, the earth is the center of the Universe. Scientists on Earth have put together theories of all sorts, trying to prove that we humans are in charge. We are not really in charge. The self-organizing system sets very tight limits that we are required to operate within. This is what makes everything look as if it is a conspiracy.
I don’t see humans as a higher life form…. we are bottom dwellers … a complete failure because we are hardwired to fail as a species… and we are failing
Yes.
Some relentless introspection, experiment and observation makes that an indisputable fact.
Only a fool high on their own product (most are) or OxyContin could believe otherwise.
But don’t worry; there’s ample hydrogen left in the sun for another few rounds in the ringer.
In the mean time:
YOLO!
MOAR!
🤣👍👍
As a younger man I would have agreed completely with you. Today I think we are failures as “ civilized” beings.
I was a hardcore atheist and pragmatic hard head. Maybe time has softened my head,…. but,…..
Conscious creation of an informed field seems to work in accomplishing personal goals. Objective analysis of the archeological and geological record seems to indicate we humans achieved “ high tech” civilization at least once and perhaps multiple times in deep historical record.
Aliens seem to be rather scant but artifacts that could be holographic observers seem rather common.
The world really is not what we think it is.
I think many civilizations have fallen simply by the flawed decisions and psychopathy of human decisions,….., but I also think there is more at work here.
Pliny the elders quote about recurrent disaster was meant to imply external agency…. someone else was hammering our species…, and he totally understand human caused ecological degradation…,,,
Something else was triggering apocalypse.
Unfair advantage exploited to the maximum causing stagnation which is directly in contradiction with evolution.
The complexity gets torn down until there is no possibility left for egotistical fantasies manifesting unfair advantage.
Every. Single. Time.
But don’t you worry. Just go on Living Large. It’s all good. The universe got all the time it needs to explore all possible combinations. Because why not.
A failed species is just another data point in the causal trajectory of the universe.
It is what it is.
😑
The humans are more and more sophisticated, finally achieving the state of being complete idiots eaten by the lowest forms of life.
The plants are laughing, as they have more space with the demise of the carbon releasing humans.
“I was a hardcore atheist and pragmatic hard head.”
To ‘me’ the ‘default position’ is ‘nothingness’ {no universe}.
Yet, ‘I’ am ‘here’.
I don’t know about ‘you lot’ {‘you’ may be the product of my ‘imagination’ :-)}.
‘Anything’ is possible?
At the end of the day what difference does it make?
Isn’t it simpler to accept ‘as is’ than getting lost in belief systems and imaginary conjecture.
Something is clearly “going on” which is different from nothing. Whatever that “something” is somehow beggars belief. It is an astonishing manifestation of cause and effect playing out by some form of unfathomable “rule book” (physics).
Assume for a second we’re in a “simulation”, now, would that be even more astonishing that some greater entity exist within a realm that is capable of pulling this kind of shenanigans?
And by the merit of recursion, those “higher beings” being simulated by the next level of “even higher beings” in perpetuity.
Quite frankly, it is nothing more than a mere curiosity for a shallow being such as the rapacious primate.
Do you seriously consider a primate species concerned with expressing vanities, statuses and prestiges got anything of significance in the unfathomable?
It is not even absurd in the philosophical-technical sense.
But don’t you worry; species go extinct all the time. It is what it is.
In the mean time go on Living Large and:
YOLO!
MOAR!
🤣👍👍
The last great adventure might be death… maybe when it comes we’ll be saying to ourselves – this is awesome — If I’d have known I’d have done more climbing up sheer cliff faces… I would have tried to jump the Grand Canyon on a motorbike…
Failing what purpose? Maybe the gods are like Fast Eddy, they just want to be entertained!
Not much else to do with a defunct species than squeezing out the last bit of absurdity and tragicomedy from the hot mess.
I reckon it isn’t even funny anymore. It’s just too predictable. Tryhards gonna try and MOARons gonna moar. Shit deplete as a consequence of this and that’s all she wrote.
Meh.
🤷♂️
Humans turn very nasty when the Tap of More is turned off…
lol eddy
The Tap of More? smells of Plagiarism to me
be careful—you might just find yourself plugging my book
and that would never do
would it?
“At the end of the day what difference does it make?”
‘You’ are definitely the product of my ‘imagination’ 🙂
Norman;
“be careful—you might just find yourself plugging my book”
You should add a chapter. “My years with Eddy”
We live in the era of the accumulation of lies, which the young generation is a victim of:
You must simultaneously:
– work longer
– work faster
– work for less
– care for your ageing predecessors
– care for your genetically mutated progeny
– await lower pension
– save more for pension
– be more inventive
– live greener
– be more sophisticated
– be young forever
– etc.
This insane multitasking superhero image leads to total paralysis of the individuals, as it is not possible to achieve these goals with less and less energy and higher and higher population.
The logical result is giving up being a part of such insane society and the people withdraw from the social life.
https://gifimage.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/hysterical-laughing-gif-10.gif
T. Martin, what is this “Anachro Capitalism” of which you write?
Is it anything to do with “anarcho-capitalism”—you know, the political philosophy and economic theory that seeks to abolish centralized states in favor of stateless societies with systems of private property enforced by private agencies, the non-aggression principle, free markets and the right-libertarian interpretation of self-ownership, which extends the concept to include control of private property as part of the self?
Or is it an abbreviation of “anachronistic capitalism”, as in capitalism that belongs or is appropriate to an earlier age, especially so as to seem conspicuously old-fashioned?
Now I know for most this is a lot to ask .. but before waltzing into here and pontificating like the head of the economics department at an Ivy League college talking down to a bunch of recalcitrant delinquents with bad attitudes and acne and hanging out in front of the drug store, would it be too much for you to check your spelling, particularly on important points of technical jargon?
You can get away with one, or the other, but surely not both.
People have been told that if they go to advance schooling and work hard, they can succeed.
that’s the purpose of crypto….
Crypto is a Ponzi scheme and a lottery in one.
I’ve informed Matt Crawford (when I used to be able to comment on SS) that crypto is the lottery for the educated….
They won’t accept pure luck in their quest to succeed – in a world where it is almost impossible to get to the land of More.
They need to believe their hard work and smarts got them there. There is nothing smart about investing in a Ponze… it’s the same as ‘investing’ in the lottery.
Matt doesn’t get it. But then I suppose he thinks I don’t get it.
But then I have 1500HP behind me and FE advising … my money is on me.
Reports that The Kosovo army plans to ATTACK the northern part of Serbia at midnight
Sirens sound in northern Kosovo, background unclear – report
The Serbian president had stated Serbia has “never been in a more complex and difficult situation [with Kosovo] than it is today.”
The sirens come as Kosovo officials prepared to require Serbians visiting Kosovo to replace their Serbian passports with a temporary ID while in the country and to require Serbian license plates in the country to be replaced with Kosovar license plates.
On Sunday, Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić stated that Serbia has “never been in a more complex and difficult situation [regarding Kosovo] than it is today,” according to N1 TV.
Vučić asked for all sides to keep the peace, but warned that “If they don’t want to keep the peace, I’m telling you – Serbia will win.”
Additionally on Sunday, Serbian politician Vladimir Đukanović wrote on Twitter that “Everything seems to me that Serbia will be forced to begin the denazification of the Balkans. I’d like to be wrong.”
Later in the day, Đukanović tweeted “Lord, help our people in Kosovo and Metohija. The information coming in is terrible,” without clarifying what was happening.
https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-713567
When there are not enough energy supplies to go around, this seems to be what we get:
“Kosovo’s plan to require temporary documents for Serbs” ; a plan to exclude part of the population
Let’s make a small nullifying exercise here and see how high the stakes go.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/mounting-unrest-as-key-border-crossings-between-serbia-and-kosovo-are-closed/ar-AA10a8XO
Maybe unlike Ukele we will get some good watchin
MOL CEO said there would be fuel shortages in Hungary without import
Zsolt Hernádi, the chairman-CEO of Hungarian oil and gas company MOL, on Friday said he informed the government of possible motor fuel supply problems without support to bring imported fuel to Hungary.
If the government’s price caps on fuel remain in place in their current form, there will be no fuel imports coming in to Hungary, Hernádi told the press after meeting Antal Rogán, the head of the cabinet office, and Gergely Gulyás, the prime minister’s chief of staff.
This is important because Hungary is facing a shortage of diesel, and MOL’s refinery in Száhalombatta, near Budapest, is unable to satisfy domestic demand even under normal circumstances, Hernadi said. But, he added, MOL will have to close the refinery for scheduled maintenance work on Monday, which the company could no longer postpone.
https://dailynewshungary.com/mol-ceo-said-there-would-be-fuel-shortages-in-hungary-without-import/
A low price for diesel may look good to customers, but it doesn’t work when costs are really rising.Price caps cannot be a solution for this reason.
VIDEO: Truckie Shortage: Ongoing worker shortage slows supply chains
Without trucks Australia stops, but those behind the wheels of this essential industry say they’re being squeezed on all sides. Soaring fuel diesel prices, changes to tax fuel credits and an ongoing worker shortage are pushing some to burnout and slowing supply chains across the country.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/programs/landline/2022-07-30/truckie-shortage:-ongoing-worker-shortage-slows/13996506
It’s all part of the global takedown of the economies by the WEF.
why?
Agenda 2030 UN/WEF Sustainable Development Goals. It’s precisely what caused the riots in Sri Lanka and had the Plebs overthrow their government. Sri Lanka’s government followed the WEF playbook by buying farmers land, and going green by cutting fertilizer use.
If you seriously interested and willing to learn it’s all here
https://www.theepochtimes.com/un-and-world-economic-forum-behind-global-war-on-farmers-experts_4622598.html?utm_source=partner&utm_campaign=ZeroHedge
thanks for that link
most informative
it appears to be about promoting sustainability (as opposed to profligacy) of dwindling resources, through ‘control’.
Which of course is a ‘good thing’, but it also means increasing levels of government control of world food and water at every stage of consumption—which of course comes under the heading of ‘bad thing’.
Socialism!!!!–Whereas it was capitalism that got us into this fine mess in the first place.
World control of food is of course inevitable–but unfortunately it comes under ‘plot and conspiracy’—ie elites are trying to kill off the world’s excess in order to stretch dwindling resources into the future
So the elite can enjoy their lifestyles a little longer. I’ve worn callouses on my typing finger explaining how that doesn’t work.
Sri Lanka appears to have too many people in too small a space. (dress it up how you like)..hence it’s unsustainable and they find themselves queuing for petrol for days on end.–in other words they have an energy supply problem, rather than a money problem.
Whatever ‘sustainable goals’ are on offer–they clearly are not. But it is human incompetence, not part of a ‘plot’ to reduce the population.
According to the article,
Minimal energy use comes when a tiny fraction of the population has all of the wealth (and ongoing income), and everyone else has virtually nothing. These leaders seem to sense this, but it is bizarre way to go.
i think there is some kind of fantasy that wealthy people can live in fortified castles, while we peasants toil in the fields outside
the bizarre bit lies in the certainty that their castles can still have helicopter landing pads
It is a bizarre ending to a long story. When faced with a lack of power or control to address the situation I can understand the tendency to blame others, appeal to authority, align with groupthink, resort to addiction and escape and/or completely abandon the territory and retreat to safe spaces like maps, victory flags and memories of simpler times. What a trip!
“i think there is some kind of fantasy that wealthy people can live in fortified castles, while we peasants toil in the fields outside”
Norm, it has been precisely like that many places at many times in the past. Humans can adapt to a lot – the key problem for the hoi oligoi is making such a transition while there is still memory of how things were, previously.
But the kings of Sri Lanka had their castles burned down… and they fled… I guess they don’ make kings … and castles… like they used to
It is basically communism, which we learned in primary school was BAD. Big bureaucracy, command economy, the production level in society, the yields of the farms, will drop. If you will own nothing, just show up for work, you will have less incentive to compete with your peers or take care of your former property and lands.
I guess it’s a cycle of society.
Burning down their empire?
Actually … burning down the empire of the Elders… it’s their empire not the WEF’s….
Elders must be rather pissed off
funny how when someone says the Elders run the world they are laughed at.. but when the MSM informs us that the WEF actually runs the world… they’re like — ya they run the world – of course… and they’re destroying the global economy because they want to control the world …
But they already control the world … hmmmm
There are a whole lot of truckers in the world. At least at one time, “trucker” was the most common US occupation for men without advanced education. It seemed to pay reasonably well. When I grew up, the occupation of the fathers of many of the fathers if many my “city” classmates was “trucker.” Those in the country were more likely farmers.
When the truckers are getting squeezed, we are squeezing a whole lot of “middle American” families. We also cannot live without the truckers, for transporting goods.
My dream job would be working as a trucker … I’d just listen to Audible books while driving.
Kazakhstan To Slash Coal Exports Ahead Of Winter
Kazakhstan plans to ban the export of coal via road transportation for six months to avoid a repeat occurrence of the rush-buying-provoked shortage during last year’s heating season. The Industry and Infrastructure Development Ministry has said in a decree that the ban on taking coal out of the country in trucks and cars will begin on August 1. Other forms of fuel used for heating homes, such as briquettes and pellets, are also covered by the ban.
In introducing the ban, the ministry specifically harked back to events in September, when a sharp unseasonal cooling in temperatures sparked a sudden spike in demands for coal and caused a deficit.
“Unscrupulous traders exploited this situation during the peak period of coal purchases and ‘topped up’ their prices. They bought at 13,000 tenge ($27) per ton and resold at up to 30,000 tenge per ton. That had a negative impact on the population,” an explanatory note attached to the decree read.
The cold conditions of September drove many to desperate acts. People waited in line for hours on end in the hope of getting enough supplies to keep their families warm. In October, a local resident in the eastern city of Oskemen threatened to set himself on fire after failing to buy any coal for days on end. Two weeks later, again in the same city, a man attempted to ram-raid the gates of a coal sale depot.
It remains to be seen whether the export restriction will be enough to avoid a repeat though, since there is no consensus on what caused the problem in the first place.
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Coal/Kazakhstan-To-Slash-Coal-Exports-Ahead-Of-Winter.html
In my opinion, there is not enough coal in the world now, for all of the people who want to burn it. It is a cheap source of heat. When people are poor, cheap is the most important characteristic. Pollution is a minor issue. Coal is better than cutting down all of the trees in an area and burning the trees for heat.
Do you know whether Haiti could have had better access to coal? How does charcoal compare with coal? Haiti is notorious for cutting down trees for heating. Someone said this occurred near the capital and was not universal. To what extent was making charcoal an issue?
First they would require access to iqs over 65.
Or maybe they were saddled with many billions of debt by the French and US because they had the temerity to rise up … and had to be made an example of. Essentially f789ing them permanently.
But then one would have to have an IQ of above 65 to know that.
During COVID, diagnoses were delayed. Now there’s been a huge spike in demand for palliative care
Demand for palliative care services has risen by up to 40 per cent since the pandemic began, putting strain on health workers and patients.
Experts say delayed or disrupted access to healthcare services during lockdowns has contributed to many people being diagnosed later, particularly with cancer.
In many cases this meant a more advanced or later stage diagnosis.
During the pandemic Eva Menelaws spent time in palliative care.
At just 36, she was diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer. She underwent a bilateral mastectomy, chemotherapy, radiotherapy and had her ovaries removed.
Nearly a year ago, Simon Menelaws lost his wife Eva to metastatic breast cancer.
“We had a couple of children by that point. Our son was eight months old, my daughter was four,” he said.
“We had about a year where we thought she was in remission and then we discovered she had stage 4 or metastatic breast cancer.
“At that point we knew she was incurable.”
In Eva’s last few months the family accessed palliative care to help keep on top of her symptoms, such as pain and fatigue.
As a GP, Dr Menelaws knew specialist palliative care could make a difference to her quality of life.
And there were times they needed acute hospital care too.
But with the country in the grip of the pandemic, accessing healthcare had its challenges, as they realised when late one night they went to emergency for pain Eva was experiencing due to liver metastasis.
“At that point visitors were not allowed in the hospital — that was probably the hardest situation for us,” he said.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-07-29/palliative-care-covid/101280966
Everyone will soon be dead anyway… now is the time to engage in reckless activities…
Ever try rock climb up the face of a cliff?
How Wikipedia defames and delegitimizes anybody raising concerns against the WHO narrative on Covid
How the ‘official’ covid narrative goes unchallenged on Wikipedia
If you look at the Wikipedia entries of any senior scientist, clinician or ‘influencer’ who has talked positively about early covid treatments or who has raised legitimate concerns about the vaccine efficacy or safety, you will discover that they have been delegitimized and labelled as promoters of ‘misinformation’. Their entries have also been heavily edited to downplay their credentials and research record. In many cases there are blatant lies and critical omissions made to frame these people as untrustworthy oddballs.
It turns out that a very small clique of Wikipedia ‘editors’ have been responsible for ensuring that any member of the public looking to Wikipedia for information on the many legitimate concerns about the ‘official’ covid narrative will find nothing other than smears against those raising such concerns. This clique act as ‘gatekeepers’ of the covid narrative, and have free reign to edit these personal pages. Not only do they insert complete lies, but they then delete any attempts to correct the lies and are able to block all attempts by others to provide corrections.
https://www.normanfenton.com/post/how-wikipedia-defames-and-delegitimizes-anybody-raising-concerns-against-the-who-narrative-on-covid
I know that back when I worked in the insurance industry, entries on subjects such as “tort reform” were written from a point of view that not everyone would agree with.
I expect any controversial subject has some of this problem. The editors, or pressure from the CDC, or something similar, will lead to a particular point of view being expressed, and all other views being shut out.
Wikipedia has been doing the same sort of thing on climatology ever since it was set up, much to the chagrin of real climatologists. It’s a powerful arm of the Globalists’ Ministry of Truth, very useful for keeping normies within the boundaries of goodthink, which is a word we would do well to have a good think about.
https://fictionencyclopedia.fandom.com/wiki/Goodthink
US 5-year inflation expectations bounced during this week.
The FED is not doing enough to slay inflation.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FZAWmd8XwAA53kY?format=jpg&name=large
Just keep raising interest rates – I’m in USD and I love it when they do that!
It doesn’t seem like a rising dollar can go on indefinitely. At some point, the countries with falling currencies cannot produce the goods and services that the US industries need to import.
That’s ok – up until then I benefit…. not that I have any use for USD changed into NZD… I suppose I could buy more coal to burn….
Raising interest rates seems to be a great way to ensure the world’s economy takes a crack on the jaw. Perhaps this might even be the coup de grace… which would explain why they keep bumping it up.
Being in USD always seems like the place to be under these circumstances…. but what after that? There is no value in anything as far as I can tell. If there were, they would simply make the markets determines its value to be minimal…. as they scoop up everything of any actual value.
Any thoughts on where to head from the USD in a few months time? I suppose it doesnt really matter once all the food runs out.
The graveyard?
Here comes a ‘flurry’ of retail bankruptcies, former retail CEO warns
Brian Sozzi·Anchor, Editor-at-Large
Tue, July 26, 2022 at 6:52 AM
Retailers on life support may go the way of the dinosaur in early 2023 should the economic slowdown cause a lackluster holiday shopping season.
“I think we will see a flurry of bankruptcies likely in the first quarter of 2023 if this holiday season is anything less than completely robust,” Mark Cohen, former longtime CEO of Sear Canada and current Columbia University professor of retail studies, warned on Yahoo Finance Live (video above). “I don’t think it will be, by the way.”
Retail bankruptcies — which picked up in droves at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic — have fallen by the wayside as consumers returned to stores to stock up on apparel and other items coming out of the pandemic.
Only three retailers filed for bankruptcy in the second half of 2021 versus 20 in the same period in 2020, according to a report from BDO. There were no new retail bankruptcies filed from mid-September 2021 through mid-February 2022, the report found.
“There is no question as business becomes tougher to manage, weak players fall by the wayside,” Cohen said. “They are particularly vulnerable to inflationary pricing and inflationary costs.”
The bad news in retail continues to mount as the economy slows, calling into question how even the strongest in the sector would navigate a potential recession in 2023.
In early June, Target kicked off concerns about the retail sector’s health with a shocking decision to liquidate massive amounts of slow-moving inventory and take a more cautious view on near-term profits.
Since then, discretionary retailers such as RH, Bed Bath & Beyond, and Kohl’s have issued financial warnings for their second-quarter results.
Cohen said he is particularly concerned about the outlook for Bed Bath & Beyond, which he said is “in a world of hurt.”
Other retailers are also indicating trouble. Nike took a more measured approach to its full-year financial outlook when it reported quarterly earnings. Bath & Body Works issued a second-quarter earnings warning as shoppers cut back on discretionary scented candles and hand sanitizer. And Gap just fired its CEO after another brutal quarter.
“I have never — maybe I don’t remember — seen as much discounting with as much merchandise with high percents off,” retail legend and former CEO of Gap and J. Crew Mickey Drexler told Yahoo Finance Live last week.
Drexler, who now helms high-end apparel player Alex Mill, added: “Our business is quite small but growing rapidly. So we are doing pretty well. But I think we are all being affected by the tough economy, inflation, and so on and so forth.”
Brian Sozzi is an editor-at-large and anchor at Yahoo Finance. Follow Sozzi on Twitter @BrianSozzi and on LinkedIn.
If we keep going in the current direction, there are going to be a lot of retail bankruptcies, I am afraid. Banks will have difficulties as well, and perhaps derivatives markets.
When demand cannot be met by supply the producing countries can decide wheather to deliver to whom instead of selling to the free market. It means the resource countries can easily acquire all knowhow needed to produce the goods they want or get them manufactured by a strategic partner. There is no need to sell and buy on the world markets. That means we can get into a situation similar to imperialism – with changed algebraic sign. The balance of powers will shift. But that will be only for a short time of contraction while the resource states are able to maintain production. If they decide to use that powers to control the now powerless industrial states, what advantage could they hopefully get? Who wants to control failing states?
The idea of the Great Reset aims to control the diminishing demand of energy and end the Bretton Woods system in support of a monetary system based on electronic money emitted by the central banks. Such a system is highly dependent on a working digital infrastructure. The infrastructure is under threat of blackouts, supply chain problems and eroding legitimacy of the state and the respective global players. Doesn’t sound very promising.
The current system cannot be scaled down like going back in history. We cannot replace cars by horses because they are a competitioner in food. If we want to boost up biological gardening the land is competing with the high house price bubble. We still have knowledge on how our ancestors solved a lot of problems but it is mostly stored and accessed digitally. In the moment the digital services fail they won’t be of any help. Our main interests as a society is the buttocks of the Kardashians and not how to process metal ore to create a useful knife. Metals will be oxided away within a few years without proper care.
That said, I doubt the possibility of scaling down to meet diminished resources. The problem will neither be solved with a smaller population. A little village of farmers will not be able to extract oil from under the North sea.
There is a possibility to start a parallel system, paid by the current system as a backup technology. There is though an ideologic barrier to start it. We are the crown of creation and not willing to work the fields by getting our hands dirty.
Those regions with remaining resources might be able to attract engineering talent as the situation becomes clear. Although much of Europe is anti-Russian, if that’s where the resources are and Europe is rapidly going from a toilet-bowl to hell-on-earth, at least some might be grateful for the opportunity to emigrate.
Industrialized society can go on for a while longer, just not for everybody.
You are definitely right about the current system not being able to be scaled down.
I am not convinced that we could set up a parallel system now, if we wanted to. We don’t have the resources. We don’t have the spare land and people to work on the system. If we can’t make the current system work, I am afraid we cannot make any parallel system work.
I’m building tiny shelters out of “nothing.” Some of this nothing is mass produced cardboard. There is so much cardboard in the system that its supply is for the moment not a concern. I use no power tools and depend on blades that are cheap for now. Were there the will (which there is not) everyone in industrial society could be supplied with virtually free shelter of this kind. This would represent either a near-term parallel system or a system that works with less.
What do you do when it rains?
My work has been to test my procedure (lining protection) against fire and rain for months and getting to be years. I see the mistakes and figure out how to prevent them. Tin foil is cheap for now, and house painters can supply miscolored paint for free.
What are the people in the cardboard shelters going to eat?
What will they do when the temperature drops below freezing?
My studio is the size of a small RV. I work alone, and have poor work skills. I have yet to make a complete shelter, which I think could be roughly 8’x10′. Cardboard has good thermal protection against cold, but I figure an 80 sq ft space can be kept warm with a propane camping heater.
When food runs out at the supermarket, everybody starves. I’m here to provide cheap shelter, not to provide food.
OK, well at least you’re solving one problem.
Cardboard like renewable energy provides solutions! Cardboard is surprisingly pleasing to the palate when prepared properly. It takes very little energy to cook. Cardboard is relatively stiff compared to mashed potatoes and it can be used in liu of shovels to dig wells for water if they are less than 400 feet deep.
It can be used to transport water but one must move quickly!
Cardboard provides a plethora of sanitation needs. Modern waste water treatment is not needed if one has cardboard. Simply fold cardboard around the feces and fling it like a frisbee.
In fact all Industrial societies needs are contained within this simple material and it is sustainable being easily produced on cardboard farms.
Interesting. I’m thinking at scale for unimaginative communities. So I double bag the human waste combined with leaves and other things compostable, then put in well waterproofed cardboard boxes and stack them. Far as I can tell, it could last, without offense, for years like this (or till a humanure compost business will take the contents). I know of no city council that would even go for this.
There will be no Great Reset. I guarantee it.
You sound like a used car salesman, how can we not trust you?
Cuz I am not part of the trusted news initiative … (and Fast Eddy has 1500HP under the hood)
New York City store locks up Spam in plastic case amid crime spike
The New York City Duane Reade location also locked up Starkist tuna
By Andrew Mark Miller | Fox News
Some of these things are pretty ridiculous,” said Jenny Kenny, a 43-year-old visiting town from Kentucky who says she was aware of the crime spike in the city but still couldn’t believe there were “so many” items in boxes.
NYPD OFFICER OF 40 YEARS: I’VE NEVER SEEN NYC CRIME AS BAD AS IT IS RIGHT NOW
“I have 40 years on this police department and I’ve never seen it as bad as it is now. The criminal element is empowered, is emboldened, and they feel they could do whatever they want to do with no consequence,” he said.
Other shoppers wondered why Spam, along with $1.89 cans of Starkist tuna, were locked up while more expensive products like $5.49 cans of Amy’s soup were not.
Crime in New York City is up this year in six of seven major categories and the New York Post reported that petty larceny complaints are up 52% in the precinct where the Port Authority is located compared to last year.
Get ready to RUMBLE…Fast Eddie your vision is turning to reality!
WOW!
NYC will become a less and less attractive city for people to move to. It is suffering from some of the same problems as San Francisco and some other cities in California.
This will definitely keep the Vikings away. They love Spam!
It’s just natural plan folks…
Scientists Unlock the Secrets of Cellular Aging: What Happens After You Turn 70?
By Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute on Jul 27, 2022
https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-unlock-the-secrets-of-cellular-aging-what-happens-after-you-turn-70/amp/
A new explanation for aging has been developed by researchers who have shown that genetic abnormalities that develop gradually over a lifetime cause substantial alterations in how blood is generated beyond the age of 70.
According to recent research, the drastic reduction in blood production beyond the age of 70 is likely caused by genetic alterations that steadily accumulate in blood stem cells throughout life.
Somatic mutations, or alterations to the genetic code, occur in all human cells during the course of a lifetime. Aging is most likely caused by the accumulation of numerous sorts of damage to our cells over time, with one hypothesis proposing that the accumulation of somatic mutations causes cells to gradually lose functional reserve. However, it is still unknown how such slow-building molecular damage may result in the rapid decline in organ performance around the age of 70.
After the age of 70 years, the researchers discovered that these “family trees” underwent significant change. In adults under the age of 65, 20,000 to 200,000 stem cells contributed roughly equal amounts to the creation of blood cells. In contrast, blood production was exceedingly uneven in those above the age of 70.
In every elderly person investigated, a small number of enlarged stem cell clones—as few as 10 to 20—contributed as much as half of the total blood output. Because of an uncommon class of somatic mutations known as “driver mutations,” these highly active stem cells have gradually increased in number during that person’s life.
…..“Factors such as chronic inflammation, smoking, infection, and chemotherapy cause earlier growth of clones with cancer-driving mutations. We predict that these factors also bring forward the decline in blood stem cell diversity associated with aging. It is possible that there are factors that might slow this process down, too. We now have the exciting task of figuring out how these newly discovered mutations affect blood function in the elderly, so we can learn how to minimize disease risk and promote healthy aging.”
The study was funded by Wellcome and the William B Harrison Foundation.
So, I took the liberty to look up William B Harrison….
William B. Harrison Jr., in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, is the former CEO and chairman of JPMorgan Chase. He attended high school at Virginia Episcopal School, where he was a basketball star. He attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was admitted to the Zeta Psi fraternity. Wikipedia
Born: August 12, 1943 (age 78 years), Rocky Mount, NC
Seems “The Elders” as what we like to call them here, are struggling to find the key for fountain of youth, so to speak.
I posted here another article some months ago regarding the same by other Elders…
With so much money at their disposal, it only makes sense the likes of Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos would fund such ventures as above.
It must be distressing to have obtained all the marbles, so to speak, and find they themselves are trapped in a MOREONS body, using FE lingo…
I did not look up the Welcome Trust Sanger Institute.
Must be hard to accept we are NOT GODS…only temporarily can pretend to act like one because of the vast energy, resource reserve at our disposal making us a little crazy…as the late Randy Udall wrote.
It is even harder for people to accept the fact the economies are like humans, in that they are only temporary in nature.
Insulin resistance,
Low insulin sensitivity.
Always strive for high insulin sensitivity, which mean that the insulin receptors are fully operational and ready to open up the gates when the oats (glycogen) hit the blood stream.
A high insulin sensitivity is easy to observe by spiking the morning juice/smoothie with sugar from sugar crane. If no ‘sugar high’ happens you’re all good.
Furthermore it’s a good idea to spike the juice with some sugar before unleashing a fit of obnoxious turning the cranks. The suck is real, but in a good way without the fatigue characterized by these halfwitted and simpleton high fat low carb so called “diets”.
And if some blob of redundant protoplasm think they know “better”; here’s the stats:
68kg
185cm
And; skin, bones, mean, stubborn and obnoxious.
As per specification (hooman 1.0)
😈
If one’s life’s work hasn’t been accomplished by 60 (in fact I would say 50 or so – look at the biographies of the greatest men and women) …….you were just idling.
Ursula Haverbeck is still doing great work at age 93.
I must look her up!
Given that you will use google, or Yandex, now headquartered in Tel Aviv, expect very negative links.
Yup. They were not flattering.
Once we reach about 40 more or less the natural life force cares not if we exist or perish….beyond child bearing and raising …humans seem to be the exception regarding having very old and dependent elders being cared for by the younger generation.
As Gail has pointed out before, this is something that has sprung up due to excess energy and resource empowerment…a luxury that we are in the midst of being taken away…
Xabier, by and large, if by 50 at the latest your life dreams should be wrapped up…not to say there are no exceptions.as noted.
One thing that we all just accept…Life is very random and unfair..
There may be a higher power, what control it has over our individual lives is in question..
Body Bizarre is a TV Program and here is an episode that will make just about all here grateful for the lives we have till now!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CrHTngwqeiA
Makes me wonder of a personalized God
At what point does one start to inject HGH and cheat aging…
And where does one get HGH?
“Why the kids?”
“This global health DARPA, known as Wellcome Leap, seeks to achieve “breakthrough scientific and technological solutions” by or before 2030, with a focus on “complex global health challenges.” The Wellcome Trust is open about how Wellcome Leap will apply the approaches of Silicon Valley and venture capital firms to the health and life science sector. Unsurprisingly, their three current programs are poised to develop incredibly invasive tech-focused, and in some cases overtly transhumanist, medical technologies, including a program exclusively focused on using artificial intelligence (AI), mobile sensors, and wearable brain-mapping tech for children three years old and younger.”
https://unlimitedhangout.com/2021/06/investigative-reports/a-leap-toward-humanitys-destruction/
I sometimes think that scientists don’t have enough useful/non-harmful projects to work on.
“Those the gods wish to destroy first they drive mad”.
It is ironic that the super rich do not grasp the true nature of reality.
We appear to be avatars in a very very complex simulation.
Recurrent disastrous “ resets” are the norm.
Example: few years back engineers trying to bridge a river in downtown Edmonton Canada ( a country not even 200 years old) hit an obstacle. A CONCRETE man made block the size of several cars 9 meters UNDER the river bed.
Modern civilization is simply the latest running of the simulation.
We are rapidly approaching the Great reset ( and WEF has nothing to do with it).
The elites are fools…… and they always. always, always are. The Tower of Babel was real and now it’s gone. Do you really not intuit that a rapidly migrating magnetic field, the acknowledgement by astronomers that stars can recurrently nova, the discovery that this world has had nuclear detonations on its surface in “ distant past” are not related?
Ongoing serious degeneration in all civilized life planet wide for next 20 years into serious dark age followed by hard reset. Only a few hunter gatherers and herdsmen left.
Good news is, we may well enter another “age of heros” at that time. Homers Iliad was real also.
Enjoy the reception area of the simacrulum, you be getting jacked back into an avatar of choice for a very very different planet.
Walk along riparian area and enter the rock opening in the cliff. Make your way up the pitchblack tunnel with trickling water and follow the torch bearing guide. Wellcome to Simacrulum reception (white light permeates a round stone temple with nice views of the ocean). Usher dressed in pure white garments and no person suggests you gaze upon your reflection in central fountain, a simple pool of water with a fish swimming. You pick up the fish and hand it to what appears to be chief haint who sacrifices it as a symbol of Ego dissolution. Walk to the window and see the ocean (it may evaporate, take a deep breath) the sun rises on the horizln and you return to your current 3D person. Good training for the moment of death. Simulation may be tailored to your religious or science–based belief system. Have a safe journey and a safe return!
We are in a simulation…. it takes two produce a child. 4 grandparents and 8 great grandparents. 2 to the power N. How many ancestors do you have if one generation is 30 years? 65 generations since the time of Christ. 2^65 ?
we are all related to each other
i am the g x 50 grandson of genghis khan
and eddy is my cousiin 100 times removed
the long lost uncle that we speak of in whispers… if at all… the one who is terminating the line by bringing all the offspring to the lethal injection centre… we keep trying to have uncle norm locked up but he resists
You can remove cousin eddy a thousand times but he always keeps roaring back.
i’ve noticed that
i’m only polite to him cos he’s family
Simulation or god … I’d go with simulation … but then they could be one and the same
Perhaps instead of Xbox they have a gaming console called God?
The 2^N formula calculates the number of ‘roles’ in a family tree, not the number of distinct individuals.
“In genealogy, ‘pedigree collapse’ describes how reproduction between two individuals who knowingly or unknowingly share an ancestor causes the family tree of their offspring to be smaller than it would otherwise be.
Small, isolated populations such as those of remote islands represent extreme examples of pedigree collapse, but the common historical tendency to marry those within walking distance, due to the relative immobility of the population before modern transport, meant that most marriage partners were at least distantly related. Even in America around the 19th century, the tendency of immigrants to marry among their ethnic, language or cultural group produced many cousin marriages.”
https://isogg.org/wiki/Pedigree_collapse
I have read through tons of write up about pedigree collapse. It is just a write up. No critical thinking involved.
It was like the building of pyramid and other great wonders of the world like Great Wall of China. I was there a decade ago looking at the crumbled ruins and running through what it takes to build this wall on thop of hills, some very steep. Until today, I felt that it was not possible to do it even with modern technology.
Pyramids – imagine a a block of granite the size of a car (10 tons). It is in front of me. What it takes for me to move this block 5 miles down a straight road? With fossil fuel and modern tech, I still need at least half a day to get it done and to coordinate with a crane and a truck and then arrive on site and another crane to lift the block. If I were to use traditional methods (logs, pulley, grease, etc), how many people do I need and how many days do I need to do it done?
I realized that some “experts” penned an article and paper putting in some assumptions on how it is done. Slaves, etc. and since no one questions them, it become a “fact”.
10,000 slaves – how much food is required? Were there enough food surplus to feed the slaves? NOPE.
Great Wall of China – the peasants do it. There were reportedly a lot of wars going on. All these require manpower, actual human males to do to agriculture, the building of walls and fighting a war.
Does anyone care how to work out (1) if there is enough manpower to do agriculture, war and walls? (2) have enough surplus of food and resources
Let us not talk about whether it is possible or impossible. Just the basic idea that “oh.. slaves can do the work”. yeah right.. slaves need food and resources”. No food, slaves die.
So, like the “safe and effective”, those articles claiming that vaccines are good and COVID mostly kills the unvaccinated, eventually, it will be known in future as the truth if no one fights it tooth and nail (or it does not matter a bit as this is just a simulation)
p.s. This pedigree thing is crap. No critical thinking. it takes about sharing ancestors. It does not even explain “me alone”. How can one explain it properly?
I know my parents and my 4 grandparents. My grandparents “sort of know” their parents”. So, going back 10 generations, I have 1024 ancestors. (2^10). Year… these ancestors were also shared with a few thousand other people in the whole of Asia but it does not explain that I still have 1024 ancestors 300 years ago (30 years/generation). So, going back 30 generations, that will be 2^30. Yeah… the sharing of ancestors will be bigger and wider but it still does not explain that it is 2^30.
Those who do not think hard will only think… we must have not a lot of children because exponential growth. I have 3 kids, before long, earth will be too populated. Why is it that this person never think about it the other way? How can you be here if not for your billions of ancestors?
Please feel free to correct me. I am more than happy to admit that I am wrong.
I have not been to machu pichu but I know it at some serious elevation … and that some of the stones are many tonnes — and had to be hauled up the side of a mountain from the quarry…
Not sure how that was done by slaves….
What’s the point of correcting you again and again? You will say that you ‘feel’ it is impossible and call yourself a ‘critical thinker’.
There’s good ole concrete with rebar, sacks filled with concrete/gravel slurry, steel, plastics and wood left to petrify/calcify over the eons.
The occasional volcano eruption and planetary upheaval provide ample water, ash and dust to complete the process and leave imprints and behemoth “stones” scattered about.
https://youtu.be/CFSUkfyHMnc
From mineral, through life and it’s artifacts back to mineral. It’s how nature “recycles” failed species and civilizations.
https://youtube.com/c/WISEUPchannel
Believing someone carved and cut out megaliths for construction purposes is delusional after considering the evidence.
What’s the point of correcting you again and again? You will say that you ‘feel’ it is impossible and call yourself a ‘critical thinker’.
Alex.. let us put this to rest. It is not feeling.. it is mathematics. Have talked to a few mathematicians…. they could not answer…
75,000 years ago, Yoba Supervolcano exploded. Volcanic winter. Indeed very cold. Many lifeforms died and went extinct. It is said (by “experts”) that there are around 10,000 humans left on earth and somehow we manage to predated until today 8b people without any genetic issues.
1 Say 1,000,000 humans left instead of 10,000. Spread them over hundreds of thousands of square miles of cold and unproductive land. What are the chance of them meeting and have babies? At the same time trying find food, make clothes and footwear, avoid predators, e during the cold and poisonous volcanic ash. Spread that one million people just over the area of UK (not the entire earth) and see how with all the unsurmountable challenges of surviving, these humans can prosper. I find it hard to believe.
2. 75,000 years divide by 30 years per generation. In order for me or you to be around today 75,000 years later, you need 2^2500 ancestors.
3.it is to clear in this part of the world where we can see it around us as some ethnic groups in South East Asia practice in-breeding or first cousin marriage. The genetic defects are easily seen after just 1-2 generations. For for 2500 generations, in-breeding is possible?
Too many mysterious questions that o one can answer for just too inconvenient to answer……
give it a rest, CTG. You are the most obsessive of all my 100th degree cousins, and they are a lot.
Keep pouring it on CTG…. more is better — we need to keep the ration of us to norm at a minimum of 100:1 to keep OFW in balance
if 1m humans were left, they would be in isolated groups–a few 00s or 000s
they would interact sporadically, as random incidents
inter group violence would be inevitable, and women are always the spoils of battle, with all that that infers.
Though unpleasant at the time, it is positive in genetic/evolutionary terms.
But ultimate survival and re-expansion of numbers depends on availability of surplus energy
Without that, humankind is reduced to no more than flora and fauna.
https://youtu.be/u77qc2zBwC8
Simulation reception area is gonna be getting really really hectic. Whether from result of jab pressure or from the horseman derived from oil energy loss.
The elites hiding in their deep subterranean redoubts will be so surprised when the Niburu nemesis object is not the only worry facing them lol.
How much flak do you think William Shatner took when he let slip a bit of reality after his little rocket parabola into the lower levels of the simulated firmament?
What is coming Bill? Tell us more!
you lost me on that one Cromagnon
Cro is rambling on about earth being some type of Terry Pratchett-esque “habitat” in some larger world system/planet.
When hoomans start to behave extremely “badly” the whole shebang gets flooded by opening the bottom “plugs”.
Yeah, the firmament is basically a cupola of some technowizardry magic.
Of course some hyper advanced “aliens” could pull such a stunt. However; then one is forced to ponder upon the purpose of such shenanigans.
However; wouldn’t that have been wicked awesome if true. Let’s keep that hypothesis for entertainment purposes.
In the mean time:
YOLO!
MOAR!
🤣👍👍
Viral and bacterial caused mutations could provide some variability.
Furthermore, “survivors” would be quite clear of recessive genes causing defects in population scenarios where inbreeding is inevitable. Genetic “weaklings” just wouldn’t cut it.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inbreeding
“However, increased homozygosity increases probability of fixing beneficial alleles and also slightly decreases probability of fixing deleterious alleles in population. Inbreeding can result in purging of deleterious alleles from a population through purifying selection.”
Stigmatizing inbreeding seems like a thing of the past with todays DNA sequencing. Avoid having offspring with your relatives if you’re carrying a plethora of recessive genes. Otherwise there shouldn’t be a problem.
Besides, hoomans are more or less a cloner herd of hardcore inbreeding from the past “bottleneck”. It’s how the “trash” gets deleted from the gene pool.
Trust the science.
🤣👍👍
ER Physician Dr. Kelly Victory Says ‘Sudden Adult Death Syndrome’ is the Cover Story for Vaccines
https://rumble.com/v1e5shr-er-physician-dr.-kelly-victory-says-sudden-adult-death-syndrome-is-the-cove.html
Dead https://www.wkow.com/news/coach-whitewater-basketball-players-sudden-death-cardiac-related/article_95bbf726-0e07-11ed-a5de-233e74827dab.html
And you noticed there was NO mention of the vaccine or boosters? I know, because they are 100% safe and effective. So they can be ruled out.
There are so safe and effective that there’s no longer even the need to mention them…. it’s just assumed now…. that’s damn good propaganda — you repeat the lie enough that you don’t even have to bother anymore!!!
This is a two part story:
1. you hammer in the propaganda until all brains have been formatted.
2. you delete the evidence.
Blank inlets for vaccines ? Did you ask for your inlet ?
Do you have it? Do you have a doctor’s name ?
This is pretty cool stuff, you could not make it up:
https://bailiwicknews.substack.com/p/american-domestic-bioterrorism-program
Ch. Austin-Fitts calls it the in-group and the out-group.
To be more precise it is a below-law group and an above-law group.
This will make some screaming sessions in courts….
I support R. Fuelmich but he is completely unaware what “a law” means in 2022….
A nice indication of how the transition to renewables may fizzle out as the fossil fuels needed for mining and the ore grades themselves continue to decline:
“After many years of declines, PV module costs jumped an estimated 57% in 2021 as the cost of raw materials increased sharply”
https://www.ren21.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/GSR2022_Full_Report.pdf
So much for the story that PV modules are getting ever cheaper!
that was for 2021, presumably it will be even worse this year
Dr. Afzal Niaz, CEO of CellGen Lab in New York, tweeted in November that he was observing cancer rates 20 times higher since the injections were rolled out. His Twitter account was suspended 48 hours later. Dr. Ryan Cole said in an interview with Dr. Joseph Mercola earlier this month, “I have seen more cancer in my young patients ever since the shots rolled out than I have ever seen in my entire career.” He’s been relentlessly attacked by the medical establishment since 2020.
https://thecovidblog.com/2022/07/26/prue-car-39-year-old-australian-mp-takes-leave-of-absence-after-shocking-post-injection-kidney-cancer-diagnosis/
I’m seeing a lot of cancers and a lot of sudden death popping up among the people around me. And strangely, not a hint of Covid-19 death. It will be interesting in a morbid sort of way to see how much the illness and death statistics reflect this when they come out over the next few years.
In the meantime, I read a lot of stuff like this (I might not be totally persuaded by it, but I read it notwithstanding) :
Doctors are allegedly baffled at what is causing a sudden uptick in what they have dubbed ‘Sudden Adult Death Syndrome’ among adults under the age of 40 over the past year, and are now urging all under 40’s to go and get their heart checked.
But these doctors need not remain “baffled” any longer because we have rock-solid evidence that the Covid-19 vaccine is to blame.
Official UK Office for National Statistics data shows vaccinated adults aged 18 to 39 have a 92% higher mortality rate (per 100,000) than unvaccinated adults.
Official Public Health Scotland data reveals there has been a 67% increase compared to the historical average in the number of 15 to 44-year-olds suffering heart attacks, cardiac arrest, myocarditis, stroke, and other cardiovascular diseases since this age group was first offered the Covid-19 injection.
And figures published by NHS England in response to a freedom of information request show that ambulance call-outs for heart illness have doubled among all age groups including the under 30’s since the beginning of the Covid-19 vaccination campaign.
https://expose-news.com/2022/07/31/gov-reports-covid-vaccine-blame-sads/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
New Data From the Netherlands Reveals Link Between Higher Vaccine Uptake and Higher Mortality
https://dailysceptic.org/2022/07/30/new-data-from-the-netherlands-reveals-link-between-higher-vaccine-uptake-and-higher-mortality/
Austrian political leaders have expressed shock over the death of a doctor who closed her practice after she reported receiving death threats from opponents of COVID-19 restrictions and vaccines.
The body of Dr. Lisa-Maria Kellermayr, a general practitioner who had publicly stressed the effectiveness of vaccination, was found at her practice office in a rural area of northern Austria on Friday, Austrian media said.
https://apnews.com/article/covid-health-austria-086a3e9095670afcdae5194f3e7c8b4b
The Kellermayr story is pretty significant.
I have been informed that increasing energy costs are not a problem — just increase wages…
That of course does not solve the problem because that just drives inflation even higher solving nothing.
Silence.
Hmmm…. A lot of the politicians who supposedly took a devil vaccine jab in front of the camera were all staged.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/gWdDwp8fQGwa/
Hmmm… seems they did hit the nail on the head and the authors are not pleased with the retraction…
norm – you do know you are opening yourself up to cancer with those shots… well you’ve already lived past the average….
Retractionwatch or Retractionbotch?
Dr Ah Kahn Syed
Following feedback on yesterday’s blockbuster article a reader forwarded me the Retraction Watch coverage of this retraction – which completely misses the point of what happened here.
Retraction Watch pride themselves on identifying fraud in scientific papers yet they knew that this was not a fraudulent paper. The reply from Ya-Fang Mei is copied below and confirms (with evidence) that the His-tag method used was not only an established method but differentiated spike protein from the other proteins in its location in the nucleus.
By supporting Freed and Schildgen in this politically motivated witch-hunt Retraction Watch have massively undermined their probity and have potentially contributed to this oncological catastrophe. It is of little surprise to me, as I have followed their blind-eye-turning since their incredibly weak reporting on the Lancetgate scandal.
If you work at retraction watch and you don’t agree, feel free to post in the comments.
[Below: Ya-Fang Mei’s response as published by Retraction Watch, the text to the right of the confocal picture is a clarification of Mei’s text accompanying this picture]
https://arkmedic.substack.com/p/retractionwatch-or-retractionbotch/comments
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A baggage handler at one of Europe’s busiest airports said they were too ‘petrified’ to go on vacation because of ongoing travel disruption
baggage handler at one of Europe’s busiest airports said they were “petrified” to go on vacation because of travel disruptions.
Speaking anonymously, the baggage handler told the BBC they were afraid to travel in case airlines lost their luggage.
The baggage handler said they would not want to be “transferring now” because the chances of luggage reaching their destination travelers’ destination are “very slim.”
Baggage handlers are employed by airlines rather than airports, a representative for London Heathrow told Insider. The employee interviewed by the BBC had been based in the UK airport for more than a decade.
They told the BBC they had never seen travel as disrupted as it currently is.
“This is like a really bad snow day, but three months of it,” they said. “The school holidays will be worse.”
There have been widespread reports of lost luggage in recent months.
Earlier this month, Bloomberg reported that the number of passengers making claims for lost luggage had risen 30% from 2019, according to a European insurance company, Mapfre SA.
A representative for London Heathrow told Insider airlines needed to invest in their ground handlers to fix the luggage backlog.
They said: “The main constraint on capacity at Heathrow is a lack of airline ground handlers, the people contracted to airlines to provide check-in, load, and offload bags and turnaround aircraft. ”
The spokesperson also said they had warned some airlines months earlier that this capacity constraint needed to be addressed.
Earlier this month, Heathrow put in place a limit on daily departing passengers. A “passenger cap” is also in place in other European airports such as Amsterdam, Frankfurt, and London Gatwick.
Read the original article on Business Insider
I got the solution…travel light and carry a bag on the plane…what I do is purchase undergarments, socks and toiletries at my destination and just leave them there.
Better than paying extra fee for check in luggage
Big jump here… gotta be injection damage https://t.me/DowdEdward/828
“It is incomprehensible that most people still believe that all these illogical measures were introduced to the benefit of their health and well-being.”
— Dr. Simon (https://t.me/goddek)
“How might the Covid vaccines be affecting the innate immune response of those who have received them? Stephanie Seneff is a senior research scientist at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.”
@RedVoiceMedia
https://www.redvoicemedia.com/video/2022/07/how-do-covid-vaccines-affect-the-immune-system-dr-stephanie-seneff-with-alison-morrow-video-interview/
NomandicBeer, let us agree to disagree and not talk about this anymore. It is confirmed that we are not at the same level of awareness. It is you are either satirical or you are not at the level of awareness that I am expecting from you.
Free t-shirts has nothing to do with what I am talking about. I am talking about the skills they need to survive post collapse without any help from BAU. Do these Bushmen have any knowledge at all to make shirts, shoes, learn to hunt or stay alive in the wild without any help from BAU. T-shirts are just a metaphor to explain that if they are wearing t-shirts, then why would they bother to make one from scratch using only locally available materials like wood, cactus, animal skin, etc. Within 1-2 generations, this skill of shoe or shirt-making will be gone forever as they will get use free t-shirts. Again, it has nothing to do with oligarchs wearing nice shirts and thus, they will survive.
As for the Russian who lived in isolation, there will always be people who can survive without BAU like what I have mentioned earlier on. The natives in Irian Jaya or Amazon. There will also be hundreds, if you thousands of preppers scattered throughout the world.
Extinction of a species means that the species is gone. No future generation and it just disappears. It need not be at the present moment but within 1-2 generations, it will be gone for good.
1. Preppers are mostly old and male. Females are all past their child-bearing age. Even if there are young ones, they do not want to have any children. So, these preppers will be the last generation.
2. The remote tribes in Amazon and Irian Jaya numbers only a few thousands and at most tens of thousands. Some hardy ones in Siberia, Africa and Asia survive but they have no chance to breed as their numbers are so small and eventually, they will just die out in a few generations. Natural disasters, inclement weather, pests, disease will eventually take the out. I am not talking about spent fuel ponds.
Human populations incredibly smaller than that today are quite normal for Europe. There were just a few thousand humans here for most of our history. Humans survive and breed perfectly well in very sparse populations. It will be OK. Europe today has a population of 750 million, but that has got nothing to do with how humans usually survive.
The modern European genome is mainly descended from two groups in and around Europe that went as low as a few hundred persons each for thousands of years.
> The genomic origins of the world’s first farmers
…. Thus, the [Anatolian] ancestors of western EFs [early farmers] are the product of repeated episodes of gene flow [~30%] from the Western metapopulation [European HGs]. These populations have then diverged from Caucasus HGs due to an intense period of genetic drift between 12.9 and 9.1 kya (Figures 3 and 4). Indeed, we find that their effective population size was reduced to 620 individuals (95% CI 72–2,150) during this relatively long period of drift, which caused them to not only diverge genetically from their ancestral population but also from Caucasus and European HGs, and from Iranian EFs (Figure 4).
…. In our initial model, the LGM divergence is immediately followed by a bottleneck of very strong intensity in the population ancestral to European HGs. The modeled intensity I of this bottleneck depends on the bottleneck duration (t) and its size (Nbot) as I = t/(2Nbot). If the bottleneck had lasted 4,000 years (corresponding to 138 generations of 29 years), our estimated intensity I = 0.18 would correspond to an effective bottleneck population size of 383 individuals. This low number is in line with the archaeological record suggesting a 60% decline in census population size in the latter part of the Gravettian, 14C-dated to 29,000–25,000 cal. BP, with total population size in Europe as low as 700–1,550 individuals (Maier, 2017).
https://www.cell.com/cell/pdf/S0092-8674(22)00455-X.pdf
To be honest… I am now very skeptical of any literature hat I read especially after “safe and effective”. The simulations that I ran on population shows that small population is not sustainable. Famines specially to consecutive years is more than enough to destroy the entire village
Hunter/fisher gatherers/pastoralists with a green thumb would be quite resilient toward starvation.
“If we all reacted the same way, we’d be predictable, and there’s always more than one way to view a situation… It’s simple: overspecialize, and you breed in weakness. It’s slow death.”
— Major Motoko Kusanagi
Old world slipping away
All around, the temples crumble
Rome didn’t fall in a day
First lightning
Then thunder
We’re living in the last days
— Erin Corday
nice.
I still think that Europe needs to go through this upcoming winter from he!! to show us how much the slow collapse can accelerate.
Rome didn’t fall in one winter, but could 22/23 Rome?
London? Brussels? Berlin? Paris?
exciting days are just ahead.
Not just the upcoming winter.
The next winter will be just a little bit worse.
The winter after the first two will be even worse.
And by 2030….
I like your positive thinking.
Those preppers will share their resources with young couples that are strong enough to pass on life and knowledge. There won’t be any proplems with tiny communities. They will be able to connect. It is a very special character type you might not know. Just imagine the opposite of the Kardashians. That knowledge is still told within the families. These girls know they are no sex bombs – but they can make a child survive ice age.
Or the preppers will be murdered and raped… and their bodies eaten… but the bad guys with the alpha personalities — and the guns.
If you resist it will piss them off… and they will torture you ….
Recall what the hordes would do when they sacked cities — if the city surrendered they did not rape and murder everyone… but if they tried to defend the city… the Horror the Horror…
Good work Mark — the fact that Canada will stop publishing the data indicates Show Time is imminent https://drtrozzi.org/2022/07/30/burying-the-evidence/
How ridiculous is this https://t.me/TommyRobinsonNews/37961
How funny is this https://t.me/TommyRobinsonNews/37967
Even funnier https://regina.ctvnews.ca/sask-health-care-staff-mourning-the-sudden-death-of-melville-doctor-1.6007545
Poor fella!
OMG — this is the best yet — keep in mind these are FREAKS that attend piss or gies… etc… https://t.me/TommyRobinsonNews/37977
Dying of joy is pretty creative, and the best is that it opens the door to myriads of other options:
Die of laughter, of sadness, of astonishment, of pleasure, of breathing too deeply, of too much sleep, of thinking too much, of blinking too hard….
Everything goes now, the only limit is the imagination of the spin doctor on duty.
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-07-29/european-energy-crisis-paris-may-be-first-to-suffer-blackouts-this-winter?sref=eWpk04kZ
Paris Faces an Even Colder, Darker Winter Than Berlin
France is more vulnerable than Germany to blackouts once the weather turns colder.
“As winter approaches, the outlook in France is increasingly dire. Electricite de France SA, the state-owned utility, is running only 26 of its 57 reactors, with more than half of its chain undergoing emergency maintenance after the discovery of cracked pipes.”
“Although the French economy is smaller than Germany’s, Gallic power demand surges well above that of its neighbor during the winter as households there rely more on electricity for heating and hot water.”
“France has been importing electricity, on a net basis, by a growing number of days per year as its nuclear fleet couldn’t deliver enough electricity.”
the great UK prog band National Health:
The Collapso (oh yes really):
Reminds me of this one from 1981
Tuxedomoon – Jinx
Now that’s what I call great music! Congratulations on your excellent taste.
Few people seem to know this. A big part of Paris is heated from a huge underground geothermal source.
When I lived in Paris (XVI), I could not work out the source of the heating of my apartment. They charge by the volume of hot water that flows through the radiators. It is metered.
𝗚𝗲𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗹 – 𝗚𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗮 𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗯𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗯𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗲𝗻𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗽𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗹
https://www.thinkgeoenergy.com/geothermal-greater-paris-area-making-better-and-better-use-of-enormous-potential/
I doubt it will be much different for the UK.
UK is far from Russian supply and no longer has much natural gas of its own.
“Ukraine Downgraded by S&P as Default Becomes ‘Virtual Certainty’
“Ukraine was downgraded by Fitch Ratings to C from CCC last week, with the company saying the government’s request constitutes a “default-like process.” Ukraine is rated Caa3 by Moody’s Investors Service.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-29/ukraine-downgraded-by-s-p-as-default-becomes-virtually-certain
Dr Ryan Cole. The World Has Been Spiked
Detailed and concise exposition of the spike protein poisoning of mankind by injection.
Dr Cole is unquestionably one of the world’s top experts on the effects of the so-called covid “vaccines” on the human body. He is a devote pathologist who has been studying this intensely through the microscope. Here is his exceptional and up-to-date exposition of the details which he presented to the General Assembly of the World Council for Health 4 days ago on July 25th, 2022. Drs Pierre Kory and Paul Marik are world experts on treating this poisoning; they join Dr Cole in the Q and A.
https://drtrozzi.org/2022/07/29/dr-ryan-cole-the-world-has-been-spiked/
Note his comments why an effective vaccine is impossible a few minutes in
Hats off to the Elders and their minions… they have done a thorough job in putting together UEP!
It’s a fail proof plan… every angle is covered…. I stand in AWE of their accomplishment.
We are being – exterminated. Sing along with FE…..WE … are … being… Exterminated.
And I can guarantee you – Fast Eddy is the only person on this entire planet who recognized this. How amazing is that – 8B people – and only one has seen through the matrix.
Let’s not rule out that Fast Eddy is the Messiah… I do not rule that out… and remember – Fast Eddy is not me… I am nothing more than his typist…
Remember Ryan Cole pathologist says cancers – often very aggressive ones – are off the charts… so this anecdotal stuff below is backed up by hard data
https://metatron.substack.com/p/scientific-proof-that-the-mrna-causes/comments
Jessica Funk
As a dentist, I update the medical histories of all of our patients daily. After 25 years of serving my patients, I have never seen the number of cancers that I have in the last 18 months. I am wondering if there can be a more immediate presentation of cancer versus seeing the safety signal 5-10 years from now.
In one day, back to back patients that I cared for this is what I heard:
Patient 1: her mother has aggressive lung cancer stage 4, never smoked a day in her life. She follows up by telling me that she has two friends under the age of 50 also with stage 4 lung cancer and they too were not smokers. She queried the likely cause to be cleaning agents 🙄
Patient 2: shared that three friends under the age of 60 died suddenly Oct/Nov 2021. One was mowing the lawn, one was bending over to get a beer while fishing with his buddies and the other in his sleep.
I have had three patients diagnosed with brain tumors, one has already passed away within 4 months of diagnosis (Jan 2022).
I have many blood cancers and rare leukemias. Also two with kidney cancer and I could go on and on…..
yes your UTI will be here Q4.
que sera sera.
UEP … let’s all make sure we are on the same page
the CEP will be here by Q4.
Anyone who is really honest must concede that Fast Eddy has been much more correct in his projections and forecasts, than “the authorities”, “the experts”, and the great bulk of people who fell for the fear, the the masks, the lockdowns and the jabs in the expectation that going along with those measures would keep them safe and sound.
Whether this leads to short-term human extinction or to some brave new world that still has people in it, I have no idea. But the controlled demolition of Western Civilization, or Industrial Society As We Knew it, is now well and truly underway, and in true democratic fashion it has proceeded thus far with the consent of the majority.
https://comicsandmemes.com/wp-content/uploads/omicron-memes-the-imicron-variant-and-war-on-covid-explained-jim-with-whiteboard.jpg
we know we’re the minority.
FE is a great contributor of this fundamental blog.
He shared many interesting and precious news.
https://metatron.substack.com/p/scientific-proof-that-the-mrna-causes/comments
Aliss Terpstra
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A close relative, big jab believer, healthy and active, not quite senior, doesn’t use RoundUp, gets lymphoma. Mere weeks – not years – after the booster. A close friend, prime of life and pinnacle of career, became severely fatigued and anemic within weeks. Acute leukemia. Gets chemo and goes into remission quickly, with prognosis of many years of life ahead. “Great!” the docs say. “Now you can get your second dose.” Explosive recurrence. Dead in seven months. A noted advocate of integrative and holistic breast cancer treatment, herself cancer free for almost 30 years, gets the jib jabs and suddenly – as in SUDDENLY – has metastatic disease everywhere. Another friend gets the jabs and his prostate quickly doubles in size with cancer. Another gets severe midback pain after booster and it’s pancreatic cancer. Sounds to me like cancer can be an acute result.
Quinn
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I know five people with esophageal cancer. One a relative. All in 60’s/70’s. Previously active, healthy. Relative just had second nasty operation. One just began chemo. All at least stage 3 when found. Brother had operation last year for intense recurrence of colon cancer that had metastasized. Father-in-law with slow early stage prostate cancer under observation now stage four (quadruple jabbed). Mother’s healthy tech person got thyroid cancer and teenage son has brain tumor (not sure if malignant). Colleague got melanoma, her partner has recurrence of thyroid cancer and leukemia. Every single one of these people still gets boosted and believes in the jabs. Not saying causation, but this is over the top…
Question is whether or not it is just m R N A jabs that cause cancer increasing or can getting covid and having spike exposure also cause these issues? Though one would think at a much lesser degree and hopefully something that fasting and diet can correct.
Time will tell.
Moot. Anyone who survives this multi-pronged assault on humans … starves. Or dies from radioactive particles that will spread cancer across the planet.
We are in limbo-land… awaiting extinction. Once it gets started it will be a rapid process.
We’ll get a lot of VAIDS deaths which will trigger the lockdowns and shortly after that the vans won’t arrive with the food and Global Holodomor will commence.
One wonders if Sri Lanka was allowed to happen to justify the coming lockdowns — see what happens if we don’t keep control over the situation….. this is for the good of the community.
The food is coming … we promise
Remember – the Team behind this is the best … very thorough — very professional … very creative… extremely dedicated. They are motivated by fear of failure leading to ROF.
FE…. they have to come out with chants like “It could be worse had it not for the vaccine”.. Put it into a rap type and sign like what happened during lockdown when people come out and do the pot bangingand chanting. How surreal….
These catch phrases could be the basis for an entire album of techno songs…
Yes Folks all the classics right here “flatten the curve” , “six feet, buddy”, “wheres yer mask” and who could forget everyones favourite “safe and effective”.
I get confused.
What is the main slogan these days?
“Two more years to flatten the herd”?
I’ve heard people in the street say that, relieved at their ‘lucky escape’……
Never before have I witnessed MSM propaganda appearing in daily speech with such frequency – rather spooky.
Whole phrases repeated verbatim, beginning with ‘It’s such a terrible, terrible disease/way to die!’
It has proved the saying of the ancient Masters correct:
‘Mankind is asleep and needs to awaken!’
No awareness, self-knowledge or basic reasoning…..
Humans are Zombies broken down into Circus Zombies and Barnyard Zombies…
They think they are aware — but they are not.
You can take the mast majority of the most highly educated Zombies… and they are of nothing.
The viral spike protein was so toxic to this pathway that it knocked 90% of it out. If the whole spike protein got into the nucleus (in the ovaries), and enough of it was produced and hung around long enough before the body was able to get rid of it all, it would cause cancer. Fortunately, in the case of natural infection, this is unlikely to occur.
Unfortunately, the experimental mRNA toxshot induces spike protein to be produced (the full length spike exactly matching – amino acid for amino acid – the full length of the viral spike protein1) in and around the cell nucleus2 and is produced for at least 60 days and almost certainly longer3.
“Fact checkers” said the viral spike protein doesn’t get in the nucleus despite the expert scientists showing that it absolutely does.
Public health authorities and regulators said the vaccinal spike protein doesn’t get in the nucleus despite the mRNA manufacturers submitting pictures of it doing so to them as part of their emergency use application.
OK, so it gets into the nucleus but the official narrative says it doesn’t stay in the body for more than a few hours. But, a huge study by one of the most respected molecular biology groups in the world at Stanford university4 showed that the mRNA (producing the vaccinal spike antigen) was still present and active in the body after 60 days.
Jiang and Mei, quite logically and reasonably, cautioned that the mRNA spike protein would likely have the same effect as the viral spike protein on p53 and therefore cause cancer.
Two months after this revelation was highlighted by my friend, Jikky the Mouse, the Jiang and Mei paper was retracted due to spurious “expressions of concern” (EOC) about the methods of the study despite them being standard practice.
https://metatron.substack.com/p/scientific-proof-that-the-mrna-causes
Well well well… again we see a paper that is suddenly retracted…. clearly they’ve nailed it.
The Covid Injections are the most dangerous and deadly substances ever invented.
In addition to the vax injuries (I’d expect nothing less when something this toxic is shot right into the blood stream) they are a trojan horse that guts the defences of the body… but the magic is in the delayed impact… most people are fine post jab … but over time the spike is tearing down their immune system … their defences against cancer etc… + they are at the same time brewing up more deadly variants.
Clearly this will end very badly.
Scientific proof that the mRNA causes cancer.
But we haven’t even seen the tip of the iceberg. The worst is yet to come for the young women who succumbed.
The homologous recombination DNA repair pathway is one of the mechanisms that the body uses to stop your cells turning cancerous in response to environmental stress.
One of the most important components of this pathway is Tumor protein P53 (p53), the “guardian of the genome”. It protects our cells from cellular damage. Under cellular stress, p53 jumps into action, regulating gene expression to control DNA repair, cell division and cell death. It is the most commonly mutated gene in cancer.
In October 2021, two revered scientists, called Jiang and Mei, had a paper published, after peer review, in MDPI, showing that the SARS-Cov-2 spike protein obliterated the DNA repair mechanism in lymphocytes.
https://metatron.substack.com/p/scientific-proof-that-the-mrna-causes
C’mon: How should Mr. Daszak know all of this in advance?
There seems to be a problem with your data.
The vaccines are safe and effective.
And we already admitted that we know this from the intensive research of Mr. Daszak.
There is actually no proof whatsoever that there was a 30 years trial of a SARS-CoV2 Virus in some reloaction facilities for Uighurs in China.
Yes Daszak is a individual of great foresight. Too bad his idea of introducing humanized SARS into the wild mouse population to expose human populations a year before covid “outbreak” was denied as too dangerous to the population by the traditionally overcautious pentagon. Daszak a true visionary in this brave new world! If vision results in milking a cash cow so much the better! I know i trust Fauci and his right hand man Daszak implicitly.
https://drasticresearch.org/2021/09/20/1583/
Chimeric virii have been added to the US list of “public health threats of concern” in addition to just plain ole stupid bioweapons.
I would think that if the vaccines cause cancer, it would show up in the excess mortality data. When I looked at the excess mortality data for the US earlier, cancer deaths were not yet higher. This may change. Very recent US mortality data seems to be better than expected. Perhaps the earlier deaths killed off some of the vulnerable. Or else it is incomplete. Recent mortality is higher than expected in the UK, I notice.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/excess-mortality-p-scores-projected-baseline-by-age?country=GBR~USA
Cole runs a big pathology lab:
Dr. Ryan Cole: COVID-19 Vaccines Causing An Alarming Uptick In Cancers
https://rumble.com/vwvq3m-dr.-ryan-cole-covid-19-vaccines-causing-an-alarming-uptick-in-cancers.html
My biggest question that is actually the blue whale of the room (bigger than the usual elephant) – CAN the data published by government can be TRUSTED?
I would not publish the right data (i.e. like the job numbers or GDP growth) if it does not fit the narrative of if there is a direct order from my boss..
Scratch that. Not only government data but private ones, published papers, articles, etc, can they all be trusted?
The govt would not want to publish cancer rates if they were off the charts…
At least not until they prepped the MOREONS with a bunch of MSM articles explaining how long covid causes cancer.
A few weeks ago, I posted in the comments about a report that deaths from essentially all cancers had increased substantially and abruptly in 2021 in Massachusetts. Here’s the link again:
https://coquindechien.substack.com/p/neoplasm-to-ectoplasm-in-months?utm_source=substack&utm_campaign=post_embed&utm_medium=email&s=r
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Yep – I can see why THEY have forced the retraction of that paper
Do you really trust their data?
Do you really think that the economy of Russia is smaller than that of Germany?
Do you really believe the US inflation numbers?
http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/inflation-charts
My analysis uses PPP GDP. With PPP GDP, China has the biggest economy. Wikipedia shows Germany as just a little bigger than Russia, using PPP GDP.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)
Agreed. Remember debt is now an “asset” that grows the economy and expands GDP. How insane is that. Capitalism without capital.
https://palexander.substack.com/p/read-et-al-imperfect-vaccination-871
Maybe we don’t starve after all!!! (but we still die)
The case for Reverse Marek’s
You see, the problem is not merely that the vaccines immuno suppress you, or turning you into a super-spreader, or even helping the landscape of highly adapted viral mutation. The real issue is that now we have a Reverse Marek’s scenario, where the vaccinated create supercharged, high transmissible viral swarms, which their compromised immune system can’t deal with, in turn infecting and creating a cascade in vaccinated individuals.
https://hiddencomplexity.substack.com/p/the-case-for-reverse-mareks
How’s this for a Perfect Storm…
The CovIDIOTS are currently brewing up a Bosschian Nightmare Mutation — it’s a numbers game – th more they inject the sooner we hit the Jack Pot of Death.
Unlike with Marek’s if you keep vaccinating your chickens they survive the disease – with the Covid vaccines you are spiking the bodies of the victims and destroying their immune system (VAIDS)…
When the Bosschian Nightmare arrives it is lethal to both the vaxxed and unvaxxed. Nobody survives.
I know this is not an outcome that the unvaxxed will be happy with — but keep in mind — we were always going to follow the vaxxed to the grave … killing billions or even hundreds of millions of them … will collapse the supply chain..
And the survivors would starve.
I understand that all unvaxxed chickens that encounter Marek’s are dead within a few days… probably a better way to go than starvation.
Extinction is imminent https://www.headsupster.com/forumthread?shortId=220
Actually I keep chickens and have had mareks come into my flock from store bought vaxxed birds. A couple of the vaxxed birds got sick and died from it (the symptoms are very specific). I think only one bird from my unvaxxed flock got it and died. So maybe it won’t be so bad for the unvaxxed.
We all need to prime our immune systems to be at their best.
Hiya Fast.
About your Bosschian Nightmare comment.
Is that a ‘duh’ moment, something the elites overlooked and they’re screwed too, or do they have a cunning plan and are off the hook?
Asking for a friend, for true.
This work by Read et al. on chickens as it relates to Marek’s, has heavy bearing on what we are seeing with the COVID injections, especially as to the sub-optimal immune pressure on the antigen that is driving selection pressure for more infectious (and more virulent) sub-variants/clades. You read this research and take the nuggets that can help explain what we are seeing re COVID injections.
‘Could some vaccines drive the evolution of more virulent pathogens? Conventional wisdom is that natural selection will remove highly lethal pathogens if host death greatly reduces transmission.
https://palexander.substack.com/p/read-et-al-imperfect-vaccination-871
It seems that enough youtube videos have just proven that a c9/11 virus exists and you are perfectly on right track to seal your bunker now if you want to escape a deadly non-existant threat.
Stay safe!
Safe and Effective Becoming More Effective: Israel and UK
https://live2fightanotherday.substack.com/p/safe-and-effective-becoming-more
VAIDS + Vax Injuries haha
“What is remarkable in the last two mortality bumps is how much less “shots in the arms” it is taking to whip up a significant jump in “Covid-19” mortality. How much longer will it take until a “jab in the arm” becomes an outright lethal injection? It seems like we are closing in on that stage as we speak.”
the 4th and 5th jabs are much deadlier.
I suspect soon after this the UEP will enter the acute phase which they have called The Final Reckoning.
UEP could be a book … up there with Dune in terms of a grand tale. I think I’ll listen to Dune a second time… once I’ve done with the second visit to the French Revolution lectures.
BTW – in the early days of the revolution the King attempted to secretly leave the country… but they caught him…. the elites will have nowhere to exit to at some point… hence UEP.
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/nhs-covid-vaccine-flu-jab-24564803
FE… which will come first?
1. Collapse of EU
2. Collapse of USA
3. Collapse of China
4. VAIDS + Adverse Events + new and deadly variant?
5. Hyperinflation + civil unrest?
It is getting exciting by the day
4. the UTI
this is getting VERY exciting.
slow collapse will be accelerating in the upcoming northern hemisphere winter.
about 4 months to go.
I don’t think we’ll see #1 Collapse of EU, but this winter should be a spectacular mess in Europe.
one of the best parts:
it will be “filmed”, all over the internet.
for those who “like to watch” right?
exciting!
6. Collapse of NZ
I reckon the Elders can hold the key economies together long enough for UEP to complete… heaven help us if they fail.. (ROF … and I can’t get that thought of the guy being castrated with a straight razor — f789 I should not have opened that clip — we definitely don’t want to risk an ending so horrific… imagine being raped and beaten to death — or worse – tortured if you resisted…. time to ditch the normalcy bias)
I vote and hope for Option 4. Epic death totals — Shanghai style lockdown (voluntary though)… Global Holodomor for those who avoid The Sickness(es)
“How much longer will it take until a “jab in the arm” becomes an outright lethal injection?”
9 seems to be the final solution.
When the French COVID pass came out it had 9 slots for jabs. Around the same time an Israeli official, when asked how many, said “7, 8 or even 9” and my own government(British) released a paper with “up to 9” on it.
Not sure how they are going to keep people playing along, as their friends and family drop all around them, but the last 2 years point to it not being that hard to do(constant repetition on the screen seems to be enough). Coincidence?
Well this is getting interesting rather quick.
“China Launches Live-Fire Drills Off Taiwan With US Carrier Group Nearby, As Pelosi’s Plane En Route To Asia”
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/china-holds-live-fire-drills-taiwan-us-carrier-group-nearby-pelosis-plane-en-route
All we need is a “hot war” in Taiwan!
My guess if Pelosi goes she will escape intact but PLA will commence “reunification”. Who knows what will happen with that carrier group. Chinese destroyers are shadowing it. Will that carrier group sit idle while PLA commences reunification? Will the PLA just let it sit idle? We have flights of USA strategic bombers now over the carrier group with fighter escorts. Strategic bombers out of Japan I would guess. Reports of both armor and missiles being moved to opposite Taiwan in China. Im guessing China views Pelosi as a symbol of what they consider the true USA government thus her visit is far more of a slap in the face by their judgment. Who knows but it looks like both sides ready to rock. My guess. Pelosi cancels visit. She is in Hawaii now. Probably leaves tomorrow. If first stop is Taiwan I say it goes hot.
Unless ‘policy’ has 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
If they nuke Washington and New York it will be well worth it. Is there some way to encourage the Chinese to nuke London, Brussels, Basel, Ottawa and Tel Aviv as well?
The whole thing now appears to be a staged kabuki clown show to remind everyone that the USA is owned by China. Pelosi is in Singapore. Since when do individual congresspersons take it upon themselves to wheeling and dealing internationally anyway? Quid pro Quo goes international. New international swamp cuisine. Thought that was the sole responsibility of executive branch? Silly constitution. Everything is malleable. Declaring war- the sole owner of which is congress- is now executive puppet owned. International treaties- the sole owner of which is executive branch- now quid pro quo congress owned. Business a little slow at home for Lindsey Grahm or AOC. Just hop on a plane! Lets make a deal! Presto chango diplomat hamburger helper! These hamburger helper printed dollars go A LOT further overseas making for some truly tasty quid pro quo dishes! No true congressperson is truly a galloping gourmet without some international quid pro quo nowadays.
BREAKING NEWS:
live footage of Pelosi flying over Taiwan.
https://twitter.com/bidishalolo/status/1553446423877734400
I saw another zerohedge article on the same subject:
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/china-issuing-same-red-line-warnings-about-taiwan-russia-issued-about-ukraine
China Is Issuing The Same “Red Line” Warnings About Taiwan That Russia Issued About Ukraine
Also:
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/kremlin-expresses-solidarity-china-calls-pelosi-taiwan-visit-provocation
Kremlin Expresses “Solidarity” With China, Calls Pelosi Taiwan Visit A “Provocation”
So now we have Russia and China on the side agains Pelosi visiting Taiwan.
They should reconsider that. Chinese fire drills are famously disorganized.
Re – 3 dead doctors in one hospital:
David replied to Aimee’s comment
Exactly. I mentioned this to a friend in conversation yesterday. She has had 4 shots. Her reaction? They must have caught a virus in the hospital.
California, here they go.
Right back where they started from
https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/california-here-they-go
This world is gone… there’s no going back… we burned up the energy that made it possible
Surely someone with a 4.0 grade average (perfect) should be able to understand that?
Nope. cuz
Circus Animal…
We’ve burned up the brains that made it possible.
Precisely!
The fantasies (of IC) is an intoxicant supplied by the egos hopium and copium defense mechanism circuitry.
Indeed; they’re high on their own product (dopamines, endorphins, etc.). The effect is irregardless of IQ and grades. It is likely inversely correlated. Smart asses can lie to themselves pretty convincingly.
Try explaining to a high IQ person why we should not celebrate a rising standard of living and GDP growth.
They will think you are a madman.
I am surrounded by a sea of stoooopidity …
I hope that my consent to host Fast Eddy is appreciated by the community … it comes with a heavy burden.
My notion of “increased living standard” is appalling to the princes and princesses of IC, developing countries included.
Specially the princesses, oh yes indeed. They want the good ole convenient life motoring their overweight rear ends in between the “sessions” of trite drivel, vanity and frippery.
Whenever there is the slightest hint of pain and physical discomfort in the daily “routine”, people generally form a cauldron of bad excuses around their delusional egos.
It is simply weakness from laziness and ‘pent up’ statuses and prestiges from the very items that enable sloth. A double whammy of egotistical fantasies on a finite world.
Even if, yes, even if it would be an infinite world, I’d still chuck in the oats and turn the cranks. Why you might wonder?
I reckon we got arms, legs, lungs and brains to be self propelled ‘agents’ originating from a finite world.
The bland taste of oats and burn from the turn is good for yer psyche.
🤣👍👍
Toasted oats are far from bland: with some fat milk, almonds and sultanas one of the most delicious culinary experiences!
I might have to try that. My uncle swear by his holy oats.
Some things of IC refuse to get old; bikes, trains and oats. Electrons, carbon fiber and fine mechanical components powered by obnoxious burning the oats (and kerosene) with a clean blue flame.
https://64.media.tumblr.com/06cd0e88a4814d6b8c921ef14cb1460f/tumblr_og7ki6iYmf1vaiv1co1_500.gifv
Unfortunately bikes need repair parts, trains need fuel and repair parts. I am not sure what oats needs. Fertilizer? Harvesting using a suitable mechanical system? We won’t have much oats, unless we have a full system that provides oats.
Lower energy doesn’t really make a difference, until it fills the full cycle. You need hunter gathers who know the ins and outs of gathering the food they need and staying away from problems. If health problems come up, there needs to be redundancy in the systems.
Living a life style using less energy is less helpful than a person would think. For one thing, it is hard to reduce energy consumption by, say, 25%.
Please note there will be packets of powder (fruit flavoured) with the final food deliveries…
These will be the Final Solution
Yes, oats are not bland if you add various fatteners and sweeteners.
Here’s to the ladies you describe: