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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.
Beijing responds by announcing that live ammunition military drills will take place around the island from Thursday until Sunday
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3187478/us-house-speaker-nancy-pelosi-arrives-taiwan-defying-beijings?module=lead_hero_story&pgtype=homepage
Paper tiger
“Paper tiger”
Yup, the school yard bully is now emboldened. Many have warned that after Russia, China would be next on the US hit list.
I’d like nothing more than for the Elders to pound the shit out of the CCP and hang Xi like they did Saddam – before UEP finishes up.
That would complete me.
The Wicked Witch of the West?
I see that Nancy. Pelosi didn’t travel over the South China Sea. That area is heavily armed. China would like control, but so would other countries on the perimeter.
When we return to the Eden ..all this insanity excess will cease..
US Billions $ Aircraft Carrier Is Finally Ready For Action
Jul 31
US Billions $ Aircraft Carrier Is Finally Ready For Action
At $13 billion, the USS Gerald Ford Supercarrier is the most expensive aircraft carrier ever built. The leader of the largest, heaviest, most powerful aircraft carrier class in history, it is now ready for deployment, to project the might of the United States military across the globe, and to take on any adversary that might consider themselves near-peer – including aircraft carriers from Russia and China. And so, no one ever dares. This has been the case of total dominance for the USS Ford over the last decade, until now – as China has just launched a new aircraft carrier that’s certain to be more lethal and more advanced than any aircraft carrier that isn’t of the US. Here, we find out if the American Supercarrier now has a Chinese contender – and what exactly is this new aircraft carrier that China has just launched?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FCNovMM9528
We’ll go back to smaller engagements that produce less damaging ripples …
It seems like any aircraft carrier is just asking to be bombed, expensive or not. The direction the US has gone has been toward more expensive, but fewer, military jets and aircraft carriers.
Having a few, closer to disposable ones, might be better.
The construction cost of the aircraft carrier is just a part of the larger expense of manning it with personal…a floating city so to speak, maintenance, supplying and arming it’s strike force…the other vessels of support.
Future generations will be in awe of this display of excess.
PELOSI: MY TRIP TO TAIWAN REFLECTS MY COMMITMENT TO A VIBRANT DEMOCRACY
I know I feel better knowing that he trip is defined in substantive terms! Nothing elusive like “USA must not be single sourced from China like the EU is from Russia.”
Are the shipping containers still rolling out of the CCP ports to their subsidiary the USA? Why yes they are. Wake me up when shipping from China -USA goes to 20% like LNG from Russia to Germany.
China- USA very very very very bad!
USA- China very very very very bad!
Just look at those containers ship! If you didnt know better you would think it was trade between two cozy partners.
Love/Hate relationships last the longest.
https://youtu.be/Jp1yJAYXU8M
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You are right! The US can’t get along without China. Fortunately, China (at this point) needs the US as well.
The Russia-Europe situation is more one way. Europe needs what Russia sells, and Europe doesn’t seem to sell a lot to Russia. Russia has options for other trading partners besides Europe.
The people in the property ponzi will be happy to have income producing products for the USA for millenia. And the CCP too.
Italy used to sell a lot of Italian food and machinery, plus plants and installations of various type to Russia, but Italian élite has happily decided to sacrife the Country
Student, that’s because Italy had a collapsing economy for the last 20 years.
Which makes me realize – just like in Ukr, both combatants have the same interest.
Russia and US both agreed to throw EU off the island and it’s working out beautifully (especially for the Russians).
In regards to Taiwan, China needs something to distract from the RE crisis and war would work. Plus they have energy issues and lockdowns work only for a short while. Do your part for the war and freeze in the dark will work, just like it does in EU.
US is too dependent of China and the best way to stop the money outflow is sanctions – justified by a war.
Will it be a real war or a theatre production? I have no idea if Ukr is real so who knows?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/as-new-alzheimer-s-drugs-have-failed-scientists-are-shifting-focus-to-other-potential-causes/ar-AA10ewmZ?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=f07d01366f3e4149922f17590d9e892c
as new drugs have failed…
a bit of truth leaks out from the MSM.
Exercise seems to be helpful. Perhaps even diet as well. But these don’t make drug companies money.
Brain quantity is no guarantee for succes. Suppression is.
Best just to chill and let it happen, nothing is worth worrying about !!
thanks
I suspect that there is indeed something very important to worry about.
I’m worried that I can’t think what it is.
oh wait, WW3!
no, that’s not it.
que sera sera, just chill.
Honestly they are probably right. They have better mental gymnastics than me. To each his own.
Pelosi Emerged from the plane. WW3 averted ….
Modern human civilization to continue another day
The Taiwanese surely master the subtle art of annoying the living crap of the CCP crony club.
🤣👍👍
https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/labor-market-cracks-job-openings-suffer-third-biggest-plunge-record
Labor Market Cracks As Job Openings Suffer Third Biggest Plunge On Record
Now just get those tanks across 100 miles of water!
The ICBMs not so much.
https://twitter.com/yin_sura/status/1554444506610765827
This thread certainly has a lot of links in it. Thanks!
The tanks rolling by are certainly ominous looking!
See how easy it is to create the matrix… a few fake warnings… some video of military vehicles ‘massing’ on border…
And just like that — people will believe China is about to invade Taiwan…
“Chinese Jets Buzz Taiwan Strait, Govt Websites Hit By Cyberattack With Pelosi Plane En Route”
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/pelosis-plane-avoiding-south-china-sea-taiwan-pla-surges-forces-just-across-strait
Maybe the reaction is in a different way than some people expected.
“Germany Vows “Will Help Taiwan” If China Attacks, While Russia Blasts “Purely Provocative” Pelosi Visit”
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/germany-vows-will-help-taiwan-if-china-attacks-while-russia-blasts-purely-provocative
They are sending some of their spare LNG?
But lets get down to brass tacks.
Does Germany support Taiwans inclusion in the EU and NATO?
Meanwhile the shipping containers are still rolling out of China to USA.
the German “leaders” want everyone to know that they haven’t learned a single thing since 2/24/2022.
woketards gonna woketard.
Germorons.
Euretards.
Eurotards sounds better.
what’s in a name?
a rose is a rose is a rose.
John Ioannidis about Covid and vaccinations interview.
https://sensiblemed.substack.com/p/john-ioannidis-the-pandemic-as-of
Interesting summary of what happened:
The paper was later published in a fairly unknown peer-reviewed journal.
Thank you. Very interesting.
Hi Gail – yesterday we got 2 unsolicited packages in the mail, we opened them to find 4 boxes of Covid tests, presumably from the US.gov. Has anyone else gotten Covid tests in the mail? It seems that the govt wants to keep the panic going. Dear US gov. – we filed your tests in the trash. What a waste of taxpayer funds.
Perhaps they came from your local health care provider. I am not aware of the Federal Government sending them out, unless you requested them. I believe that local providers were required to have some as well.
The return address on the unwanted Covid tests was Topeka KS, which is 160 miles from Boonville MO.
Sell them next yard sale.
I’d just drive down a highway and chuck the box out the window — f789 the rules.. f789 the laws… f789 everything. Reject everything. Tell a doctor to f789 off just for the fun of it
I’m definitely pro-vaccinations – for vaccinations that provide immunity. However, I am chronically allergic to government BS and especially when lives are on the line. My wife and I both had two Pfizer CV-19 vaccinations. We both had mini-stroke symptoms there after with some apparent permanent damage. Given the fatal risks involved – I still believe our vaccination decision was correct from a risk analysis standpoint. We did not get the boosters and will not.
The very classification of a biological agent that does not prevent infection as a “vaccine” – is the opposite of a “vaccine.”
“A vaccine is a biological preparation that provides active acquired immunity to a particular infectious disease.” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccine)
The definition of biological agent that activates the immune systems diminishing symptoms and shortening a disease – best fits the term “immunostimulant” of which there are many types – most of which are comparatively inexpensive, well understood, and very effective at limiting many diseases and their symptoms. They do not prevent infection or transmission.
Many immunostimulants also act as “adjuvants” – increasing he effectiveness of biological agents like antibiotics. (In pharmacology, an adjuvant is a drug or other substance, or a combination of substances, that is used to increase the efficacy or potency of certain drugs.) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adjuvant).
It appears the vaccines had limited – if any full immunization ability and were not effective against transmission since at least the second variant. Whereupon they acted like very expensive immunostimulants. For the vaccine companies and the governments to admit what is obvious deceit and likely fraud – just isn’t going to happen. Just as you experienced – Gail, they will fight tooth and nail anyone who shows proof that the vaccines – really were not actually vaccines that actually conveyed immunity.
Flu vaccines don’t work very well, either, but they don’t have the horrible side effects that the mRNA vaccines seem to have.
Furthermore, we don’t yet know what the long term side effects of multiple vaccinations of the mRNA vaccines will be. It looks like they may damage the immune system, among other things. It makes no sense to mandate “vaccines” that don’t really work, and seem likely to cause long-term damage.
Seems you made a really bad decision. You believed the lies. You failed to do proper research
https://www.wired.com/2003/05/feds-race-to-make-sars-vaccine/
Lay off! The commenter is nice enough to tell us about his bad experience. Not everyone figured out in advance what the problems were.
I stepped on a rusty nail the other day. Just a little one, but I figure it must have vaccinated me against tetanus.
Do you reckon getting shot with a 22LR will activate the immune defense against severe lead poisoning, say from a 30-06?
Many questions; few answers.
It is difficult to accept, but not your fault. I hope you make a full recovery. No longer hijacked by fear, but with a whole mind. The body will follow in time. Have a little faith in life and it’s resilience.
People would not have consciously taken jabs had they known they were doing self harm. They were tricked. The mischief was that of the promoters and enablers. The truth was hidden from many, but not anymore.
In someways the emergence of the reality of what just took place is the silence before the somber response. This may be truly an awesome moment to witness. No one deserves to be left abandoned or ignored, forgotten or shunned.
We should find common ground, Humanoids are a competitive and excluding bunch, We exclude each other because there are limits on what our world can provide. We judge ourselves and each other because of gender and race or age, even though we can’t do that much about those types of things ourselves. We judge ourselves and others choice’s and mistakes even though we all know that’s how we all learn, just watch a kid grow up, experiment and experience life.
The goal for the jabs was likely to make money and gain quick fix political notoriety or perhaps lock us into a socially engineered holding pattern of fear. The effect was to injure countless individuals and polarise otherwise close nit communities, damage our relationships, trust and respect for each other, then destroy the economy, healthcare system, tourist and service industries. Create supply demand disruptions, financial insecurity and social upheaval.
Perhaps the intention was to hide imminent limitations on growth and resource depletion or exclude by design to conserve the remaining resources deliberately. No one’s going to ever admit these pathways of thinking and want to be held to account. The karma alone as a sort of law opposes such thinking in the end anyway. No one can destroy the world without themselves being also destroyed.
I think we would’ve faced this better as a civilisation had there been enough mutual goodwill, love and harmony. A world without masks. A world of open faces.
_/\_
EU sanctions on China may have unprecedented consequences for cheap commodities but also for electric and electronic devices, computers and smartphones:
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has prompted European policymakers to mull over the previously unimaginable consequences of imposing economic sanctions on the world’s second-biggest economy, should Beijing make a military move against Taiwan.
“In the event of a military invasion, we have made it very clear that the EU, with the United States and its allies, will impose similar or even greater measures than we have now taken against Russia,” the EU’s incoming ambassador to China, Jorge Toledo, said earlier this month.
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-braces-for-china-us-escalation-risk-as-taiwan-tensions-rise/
The measures didn’t work against Russia. What makes us think that we can make sanctions against China work? We are hugely dependent on China for many things.
THe sanctions will work. To curb consumption. Credit line limited.
The public demands reserve currency status not just the swamp. People pour across the border to get reserve currency status. Abandoning the curse of reserve currency status is not a option. A curse because domestic productivity is destroyed because it can not compete. It cant compete to imports because the currency has a very high financial value not value from organic productivity. Even if there was easy to extract energy the public demands printing. They would hang anyone who stopped printing. USA fate is sealed. Bankruptcy then signing with IMF. Digital currency.
Sanctions are one of the “strange” ways the bankruptcy manifests. Supposedly to punish in reality because our credit line is getting limited. Do you really think the Russia currency reserves went poof? Do you really think Chinas trillion in treasuries will go poof? These markers will get replaced with IMF markers. USA signs with IMF to get those markers or its left with nothing no organic economy , no energy, no currency to import.
Neithor Russia or China want the reserve currency curse. Yeah its nice for a while I suppose. The swamp swims in it. The public demands it. Quid pro quo deals use it. The effects of credit without merit are deleterious in multiple ways not just economically. Our deep desire to belong to the physical world and planet is denied by credit without merit. Of course its relative. I am of course a optimist. I believe the possibility our species can return to hunter gatherer exists. Call me a dreamer.
You may be right:
“Sanctions are one of the “strange” ways the bankruptcy manifests.”
“Neithor Russia or China want the reserve currency curse.”
I keep thinking that the US dollar will get (or, already is) too high, and the system will break apart. But maybe there will be an IMF currency for much of the world, plus various other currencies including those of the US, Russia and China. The sanctions will keep the US from trying to buy too much with its currency.
How do you see this?
Your asking me? Im flattered.
To some extent I post here to sort things out. Many of the things I post contradict other things I post. This is the only place i have to do this. If i do it with friends then i run into problems. People like a sense of security.
I would be pretty foolish if I didnt acknowledge I have my own set of bias and perspective and it has limits.
Its much like a MC Escher drawing. Their is the fish in the pond. There is the surface of the pond. There is the air above the pond. They seem totally separate. We know they are connected but the worlds are completely different.
The US$ has proven surprisingly resilient. People are very hesitant to leave its perceived security. This is on multiple levels. The permie with a 401k. China dragging feet on currency basket proposals. Look what using the reserve currency with their own non financial productivity based currency has done for China. A very successful technique indeed! Abandoning that technique has uncertainty. As you mention China is not Russia.
IMO Russias quiet investments into its military hardware have yielded a military second to none in the world. I mean seriously. They have fielded hypersonics for four decades. Hypersonics are standard issue on all naval and military installations. Even their bottom tier doesnt deploy subsonic junk. Thats got to make China just a tad nervous. Nor does China want to get into a arms race. Not their style. And their style like all styles has advantages and disadvantages.
China is amazing place. I dont like the CCP. I dont like authoritarian governments. i see bodily autonomy as the issue of our time. In one part of the pond. Perhaps I am ungrateful to industrial civilization for these are clear actions to fold humans into industrial civilization?
Biological. Financial. digital I ask where China would be without IC , where would I be without it?
You cant teach an old dog new tricks.
Industrial civilization has proven surprisingly resilient. Looking forward we can see many possibilities for systematic failure. Know one knows. The “system” is proven robust in spite of these possibilities. What will be will be, These are huge mountains moving and we are ants.
IMO its all about Gwahar. Thats the connection inbetween the three parts of the pond. Production will fall. The question is how fast. Considering historic depletion rates i think it will be fast over a decade or so.
I guess im not that concerned with materialistic things. I say that but i like having a home and food. I have lived overseas. I know how lucky I am and how poor most of the world is. The “sanctions” limiting consumption is not a horrendous thing.
If I had one wish it would be that we were more united. We seem not to have realized our potential as a species. We have the capability of grace. All we know is war and power that is really not power. I am attracted to the ideas of Hudson and Escobar. I am also very suspicious. A alternative always looks great on paper. Claiming victim status to foster abuse is the oldest trick in the book.
About 15 years ago I was at the epitomy of my career. I was much sharper then. I worked with engineers from all over the world. I was the dumbest individual there but I made myself useful. There was a engineer they would bring in from a outside consulting firm. High dollar the elite amongst the elite. I was just starting to explore the conundrum we explore here. Just a toe in the rabbit hole. Hmm this doesnt make sense. I brought a rabbit hole issue up to this consultant. He was a very personable individual.
His whole demeanor changed. A look of uncertainty he became. He looked straight at me and said “the epitomy of human civilization was tribal and hunter gatherer.” Then walked away. He avoided non business conversation with me after that. He had a beautiful wife and two kids.
Fifteen years later I am very inclined to agree with him.
How to wreck the companies that supply your energy https://t.me/TommyRobinsonNews/38053
This is a UK video. The person says that not paying a person’s energy bills doesn’t really work to hurt the companies, because it badly hurts your own credit rating. Instead he suggest filing a complaint against an energy company and using it as an excuse not to pay.
Each complaint costs the company 500 pounds …. and ties up their admin people … he is advising that everyone dispute their bills to muck up the system… which of course would drive up costs even further — and possibly put the supplier out of business.
Similar to the Chinese refusing to pay their mortgages….if this gets out of hand there is not much that can be done … it could bring down BAU
She sounds like she’s got a touch of mental re tar dation when she speaks https://t.me/TommyRobinsonNews/38052
‘The vaccine wuurks……the virus is literally finding unvaccinated people’.
What tosh! Anyone who falls for this embarassingly crude stuff truly deserves their fate.
How awful, though, to be actually stuck on a island ruled by her…..
In my view, at the moment she is one of the worst leaders in the world.
my guy turdeau is definitely in the running
Quite possibly to be outdone by Grandpa Joe Bidet.
Theres only one world leader worthy of respect. I forget his name…
I Stand With Putin. 😉
does that ring any bells?
Tsar Bell III was created in 1735 by Ivan Feodorovich Motorin represents the largest and heaviest bell in Russia. It is not functioning, because large fire damaged it shortly after its casting. It is currently placed on Moscow Kremlin as one of the most popular tourist destination in the city.
Draghi is no better. He just looks better.
Draghi resigned over nothing. Sees where the EU is going. Probably heading to Australia.
But not before he was a main actor in the looting of italian economy, starting in 1992. He headed for the exits so that blame for what is coming could be assigned to someone else.
Oh no…My Love, It finds us it dose, It sees the unvaccinated it dose. it knows, The grate virus is always watching, always watching, The virus wants people to get vaccinated against it.
Jackie didn’t get memo, viruses don’t think and don’t plan. Bit like her administration really.
Many will experience nightmares from this. The common theme, The New Zealander prime minister chasing free thinkers around with a giant needle, desperate to be re-elected.
JAB FOR ME. Vote Kindlessness
Be afraid, Be afraid, Be afraid
@Food restrictions result of an arbitrary inscenation or of real energy shortages?
“CF Industries Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CF), a leading global manufacturer of hydrogen and nitrogen products, today [ April 8, 2022, ] informed customers it serves by Union Pacific rail lines that railroad-mandated shipping reductions would result in nitrogen fertilizer shipment delays during the spring application season”
https://www.cfindustries.com/newsroom/2022/union-pacific-shipping-restrictions
It is difficult to find good, recent forecasts of grain production in the US.
Back in May, World-Grain.com published an article called
Bullish outlook for most 2022-23 crops in US
https://www.world-grain.com/articles/16902-bullish-outlook-for-most-2022-23-crops-in-us
I would think that if nitrogen fertilizer is expensive or unavailable, farmers would plant more soybeans and less corn, but this doesn’t seem to be the way the USDA sees things.
If they want the USAs wheat and corn they will have to pay in ruples.
Were no fools.
As you said in another article, about finite resources: ‘Exactly how the situation will play out is not entirely clear…’ Back in the 70’s authors Rocks and Runyan wrote: ‘The Energy Crisis’. It had a appendix full of dire predictions about energy shortages, a global water shortage, famine, etc. none of which actually came true as they suggested. Of course, they were writing about the global fossil fuel dependent economy ten years before the the first lithium battery prototype was invented.
If something like 25% of the world’s energy today comes from non-fossil sources, that would at least seem to be a trend that would put less demand on the declining fossil resources you reference. I’m also puzzled by the concern about issue of “intermittence” with wind and solar. For as long as power companies have existed, they have had to take power generation offline every evening and then restore it every morning, because power usage every night falls off significantly.
And, certainly weather affects demand for fossil fuel generated power, during very hot and very cold days. So, the system in place has been designed to throttle up or throttle down power as needed. I find it hard to believe that “intermittence” encountered with wind and solar presents such an insurmountable problem. Today, Germany, the 4th largest economy in the world, is supplying half of its power from non-fossil sources. Are there problems associated with it? Of course. But battery storage is not the only solution to “intermittence”. 3 storms in one month shutdown large portions of the Texas power grid, which was not due to wind and solar intermittence. Weather has always posed a challenge to power generation.
Hydrogen, the most plentiful element in the universe, has barely been exploited as an energy source. It has a higher energy density than natural gas (which is actually 4/5’s hydrogen). Whether the world has time to procure new energy sources without facing high costs is a valid concern. But, today, fossil fuels have competition; their use is becoming a matter of choice. But I think it’s actually a lot easier to correct today’s problems associated with energy and physics, than it is to be an accurate futurist.
You have to understand that there are several problems associated with wind and solar:
(1) The big power need is in the winter, in many parts of the world. The big output of solar is in the summer. The need for storage is for months, not hours or days. Wind is also very variable over long periods.
(2) Both wind and solar are made with fossil fuels. So are batteries. In fact, the international supply lines that allow making electrical equipment depend on fossil fuels. They are simply add-ons to a fossil fuel based system. They cannot be replacements.
(3) The big need for food production is diesel fuel. It is what runs most trucks and most farm equipment. It also powers a lot of irrigation equipment. Electricity does not substitute for diesel fuel.
(4) Fossil fuels are what allow the production and transportation of fertilizers. We are already running in to this issue now, with a world shortage for fertilizer.
(5) Wind and solar cannot be scaled up adequately. The “best” areas have already been taken.
(6) There are huge pollution problems in the disposal of solar panels, wind turbine blades, and batteries. Recycling doesn’t really work, making them not “renewable.”
These are just a few of the issues with wind and solar. Hydrogen is simply a carrier for energy. Hydrogen easily leaks out of pipelines. Its use also easily leads to explosions. I would not hold my breath for hydrogen doing anything useful. Gathering hydrogen is energy-intensive. It requires the use of fossil fuels.
Modern humanity can not grasp the simple metrics by which the similacrum currently dictates operations.
Trying to explain energy metrics is a hopeless case. Believe me I have tried.
It does not matter one whit. I intuit that we passed the point of no return in the 1920s regardless, when we fully committed to using fossil fuel energy to “ treat the world as though it belonged to us”.
It does not,.
It is merely a training area that humans repeated fail in en masse.
We are now entering the time of tribulations, the 6 seals of the apocalypse will now sequentially be broken.
The 5 horseman ( yes 5) of the said apocalypse will now ride rampant for the next 18 years. We will now see billions begin the dieback from energy restriction and the horseman of disease, famine, war, etc…..
The mathematics and objective historical data shows that we will plunge into a full dark age. The Bronze Age Collapse is the only “allowed” reference for modern “non occult “ researchers.
In 2040, in the month of May, something will be unleashed on a planetary scale. The hidden machinery of the heavens will activate.
Dark Age denizens including surviving elites, will face the full force of a “ true” reset.
This will be compounded soon after, in 2046, by something even worse.
Bizarre physical, geological and ecological upturnings will occur.
“ Impossible things”…..true pole shifts, lithospheric displacements, continental tsunami, mini nova and the blackening of Sol…..the erasure of the works of civilized man
Then, for the few that remain unscathed,….the true outliers, the herdsman of the hills and wastes, an age of heroes
May the Old Gods grant them glory.
and….
on July 7, 2077 at 7:07 pm, the Thingie now flying through intergalactic space will arrive.
if I am still alive, I will save the world from “it”.
if I am dead, well, how do you spell doom?
don’t believe me?
just wait and see!
que sera sera.
“Que sera sera”…….
That oh so very human philosophy, I suspect, is exactly what the demiurge ( or the AI controlling the simulation) depends on. Thus we continue the resets and the trials.
I am merely a conveyer of observations to be clear. I long who gave up trying to convince any human of anything.
Re: my fingers in soil…….lol, I type this from a hay field where pounding rain has stopped operations. My fingers are black from dust and dirt. The demiurge cared not one whit for my admonitions for the thunderheads to pass us by.
I have had several dogs who think I am quite impressive however.
You should perhaps cut down on those occult texts and do as the Buddha recommends:
Stick your hand in the soil and feel the Tao flow through your fingers. It’s as real as it ever will be for you.
In the mean time; let me cite Aristotle:
“For it is the mark of an educated person to search for the same kind of clarity in each topic to the extent that the nature of the matter accepts it. For it is similar to expect a mathematician to speak persuasively or for an orator to furnish clear proofs!”
Worrying about incomprehensible stuff is as useful as worrying about overpopulation on mars. Don’t you worry your little head about it. Rather continue doing what primates do the best:
YOLO!
TRYHARD!
MOAR!
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The elites generally do not survive…e.g. the French monarchy had their heads removed.
We’ve also touched on this with the situation in sri lanka… sure they can run … but eventually the stern goes under water too…
5th horseman… waiting for the water to boil off.. then he rides.. and rides… and rides… and rides — sprinkling cancer everywhere
https://s3-eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/centaur-wp/theengineer/prod/content/uploads/2017/04/26122430/Ong-recAGR.jpg
Do you reckon we can sneak them out of there without anybody noticing and dumping them in the salty grave?
I reckon not.
Burn they will.
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I think it’s not possible to get them to the salty grave …
And I think the salty grave would not be a solution — we’d poison the oceans…
most reactors are near a water body. So probably most will get dumped into that.
Really not a big job if you have the man/slave power. Really not an issue to worry about. It will either happen or it won’t. Regardless population reduction will be in full swing by numerous means.
poisoning the oceans for centuries….
never said it was a good solution.
“And I think the salty grave would not be a solution — we’d poison the oceans…”
70% of earths surface is covered in oceans. You’d need an incredible amount of highly radioactive and toxic materials for it to be a serious threat, let alone if dumped in some deep sea trench.
Besides, there’s basically no water currents in the Mariana Trench. The dissolving rods would go nowhere so to speak.
But that’s just theoretical nonsense. No rods would get dumped at sea with rapacious primates high on their own hopiate product.
And they would cling on to it until the last dying breath from inadvertently inhaling or consuming radioactive materials.
“Hope is the last thing that dies in man; and though it be exceedingly deceitful, yet it is of this good use to us, that while we are traveling through life it conducts us in an easier and more pleasant way to our journey’s end.”
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
If it was for me; I’d have them placed in decommissioned oil tankers ready for departure at a moments notice. When the tankers no longer receive planned maintenance and a crew on payroll…
Off they go.
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The atmosphere is many times larger than the oceans… and both are constantly circulating…. and the stuff in those ponds remains deadly for thousands of years…
The Chernobyl accident was relatively minor, involved no spent fuel ponds, and was controlled by pouring cement onto the reactor. This was breaking down so a few years back they re-entombed.
Estimates of the cancer burden in Europe from radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl accident
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16628547/
Bow down to Fast Eddy – the Logic Machine.
I think that this estimate may be overstated. There has been a great deal of controversy about how dangerous radioactivity really is.
The abstract says:
It won’t be possible to see much of anything in the data, if the cancer deaths only make up 0.01% of total cancer deaths. At this point, it is long enough past Chernobyl and Fukushima that we should be seeing big jumps in cancer deaths, if the high radiation really made a difference. In fact, in theory, we should be able to go back to the atomic bombs that were dropped in Japan.
I talked to a researcher yesterday who claimed that the oil and gas industry wanted to discourage the nuclear industry from building more nuclear reactors, so it encouraged (secretly funded) reports that modeled high death rates from nuclear. I don’t know if this allegation is true. With models, it is easy to “prove” almost anything the researcher wants to prove.
It is easy to assume that nuclear is the worst in terms of being dangerous. In many ways, nuclear is the safest form of electricity generation. The big danger of the radiation after an accident may be that a wider range of mutations is produced in the children born in areas that have high radiation. If we are going through an energy bottleneck, having a wider range of mutations for the self-organizing system to select the best-adapted from might be an advantage, rather than a disadvantage.
I think the jury is still out on the spent fuel pools, and the other nuclear-related problems. After seeing how the Covid-19 issue could be blown up out of proportion, I am willing to believe that the dangers of nuclear could easily be distorted by those who felt that their own industry would profit by discouraging the growth of nuclear.
There are no models for cancer rates should 4000 ponds burn out of control for literally thousands of years….
Recall I put this question to a cousin who is the head safety engineer at a nuclear plant in Ontario — and he refused to answer saying only ‘that cannot happen because we have safety measures to prevent that’
It can’t happen cuz it’s unthinkable…
The stuff coming out of those ponds does not dilute or become inert after a short period… they’d keep cycling through the food and water for a very long time…
You are aware of the difference between mass and volume? Let me put it simple:
The distance between molecules/atoms in a gas is ginormous. For a liquid or a solid is merely far.
Try compressing air and then water. Notice any difference? Try it on your bicycle pump. Report your findings on density.
Someone already did the calculations:
The mass of earth is:
Land: 99.98%
Water: 0.02%
Air: 0.00008%
Yeah; the oil tanker strategy would totally work in a world where people weren’t high (or depressed) on their own product, but then again, we would not be having these problems to begin with, all right?
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If you are refering to getting it from water it takes more energy to break the covalent bonds to the O than is in the H. Now the question of whether using Photovoltaic to break those bonds as a means of storing the PV s energy is feasable. A plethora of issues arise, the energy needed for the PV panels and the substantial infrastructure needed to deal with H. H is a tiny molecule and it leaks through microscopic holes. Its rather volatile and this leads to very relavent safety issues in storage and transport. If there were large hydrogen transport vehicles n the highway I would pull over. When the sum of the EROI and safety issues are addressed batteries storing the energy as electricity always comes out way ahead.
We had a fellow here for quite a time who was a advocate of power satellites- harvesting the solar energy in space and beaming it to the surface- who argued that hydrogen could be then produced and used to create liquid fuels. He apparently had interest but most of it was military. Death star. To his credit after quite a period of time he acknowledged that the power satellite- beam to earth- hydrogen production from water- creation of liquid fuel was not feasible eithor financially or EROI. He was also a advocate of downloading the species to a virtual reality that consumed much less energy. Until he actually acknowledged the truth in these matters he was a real PIA constantly going back and forth from energy units to dollars as if they were interchangeable in his avocation.
I have been dealing with the free energy crowd for a long time. The idea that “they” are supressing technology to use only fossil fuel which they control. When any specifics are asked about there are none because if they knew then they would be in danger from “them”. Usually however i will encounter anger at even a gentle inquiry into specifics so i just skip it nowadays. These are the same people who think a car can be “printed” with 3d printers. A lot of time wealthy from crypto. A lot more wealthy than me so theres that.
It gets tiring. People saying there is a fossil fuel replacement that will sustain industrial civilization. Nowadays i just say yup. Exist stage left. Sustainable. When i hear sustainable i know that there is a con job occurring. Someone is being dishonest. They may well be a lovely person but dishonest. Sustainability and things like a circular economy are very desirable concepts- belonging to the planet in a real way and you can have a lot of great sex and money by labeling this or that as sustainable. Even if its not money or sex people want to believe that its possible. Its omost religous and its not wise to deny peoples religion. Get in the way of someones religion, money, and sex and you are toast.
It’s rude… to intrude… on someone’s Delusion (otherwise known as mass psychosis).
And it is impossible to turn a MOREON. Literally impossible. You could lock them in a cage — pin their eyelids open and present facts and data non stop for 20 years — forcing them to watch and listen.. and they would NOT change their mind.
He’s a ‘bit of an enigma’
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/129453318/gang-member-punches-man-repeatedly-in-the-head-brandishes-a-knife-and-threatens-to-kill-him
These people need to be put down … like rabid dogs… I betcha the police asked him to ‘please come with us… pretty please’
What a pathetic country this is … and it all starts with the woke former DJ at the top…
@Correlation of fossile fuels with economy:
“Governments have a very clear understanding that there is a clear link between diesel and GDP, because almost everything that goes into and out of a factory goes using diesel,” John Cooper director general of Fuels Europe, a division of the European Petroleum Refiners Association.
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/diesel-shortage-europe-threatens-slow-economic-growth-2022-03-24/
I don’t think that Europeans have understood the fact that there is a limit to the amount of diesel that Europe can import.
According to BP, for 2021, 28.6%of the world’s oil supply was diesel. For Europe, diesel amounted to 46.7% of its oil supply. Thus, Europe with its diesel cars and diesel trucks, the percentage of diesel is way higher. If its diesel percentage equalled that of the world total, it would use only 61% as much diesel as today.
Let’s go for a drive in Gary, Indiana.
Gary is on the outskirts of Chicago.
All that’s missing is the guy pushing the trolley with his son and you’ve got The Road
I thought the place looked familiar
You are posting this as if it was a special place. There is tons of places like that in the Midwest. Calumet City.
But Gary is the Most Miserable Town in America. It’s almost an official title. And yet, back in the sixties, it was a magical place filled with huge automobiles, a brand new shopping center, bright lights, and neatly trimmed lawns. The full American Dream in fact.
I expected much worse. That doesnt look bad. What yall live in Beverly hills?
“I’m kind of old and worn out inside. I worked my whole life in the steel mills near Gary…”
I did a year of school at a border town and would often go across on weekends to fuel up and sometimes smuggle cheap vodka across…
It was depressing entering the towns in upstate NY… particularly in the winter months.. everything seemed worn out … potholed roads… something about it was just depressing … no doubt far worse now.
Phoenix_Ikki
Aug 1, 2022 at 8:25 pm
Btw, to all the companies hyping battery or nitrogen power big rig as the next big thing and replacement to ICE trucks, the science is simply not there. Common sense skeptics and Thunderfoot did some wonderful reporting on debunking Tesla electric trucks that came out in 2017, oh wait…maybe in an alternate universe it debuted. The energy density and weight simply are so far off from ROI and operating cost perspective, anyone buying into the vision it’s just wanting to believe in fairy tale.
You would think people piling any amount of serious into this stuff can at least hire science teachers or professors to do some basic math crunching and come to the conclusion of WTF..
Wolf Richter
Aug 1, 2022 at 8:59 pm
Phoenix_Ikki,
You can keep your “science” and the BS you cited to yourself, and let fleet customers — these are the pros — decide what they want to buy. Understood?
https://wolfstreet.com/2022/08/01/spac-zombie-mergers-nikola-whose-shares-collapsed-92-buys-battery-pack-maker-romeo-whose-shares-collapsed-98/#comment-456041
It amazes me that anyone still comments on this site
It amazes me that anyone still comments on this site
Look FE, this world is beyond repair. It amazes me that anyone can still think there is hope. Deep inside me, I think it is best that Pelosi stop in Taiwan, let a few bombs drop and end all the suffering in this world
WE WERE JUST LUCKY TO HAVE A PLANET THIS BIG. Or we would have wrecked it sooner. Humans are not adapted to survive here.
100% agree with that… the sooner we end this shit show the better….
Particularly negative after watching What is a Woman.
Wolf R is terrified of Covid, loves the Vaxx, hates Putin and adores EV’s. Risible.
And all those positions are stock market/share price positive. Risible indeed.
In all fairness, EV’s aren’t all that bad.
If one means vehicle as a bicycle with a 6-700Wh (replaceable) battery and sub one kW motor. Or a behemoth locomotive pulling cargo powered by 16kV overhead lines.
But those aren’t exactly revolutionary. Neither are electric cars and rockets. Difficult to produce in quantity and quality; yes. Revolutionary? No.
Full autonomous cars? Sure; if you’re willing to pay at least $1M a pop (affordability anyone?). A good sensor suite and/or adequate processing power isn’t on the cheap. The false positives, etc., are a problem in any decision loop with inadequate processing power and sensors.
Which probably is why the head of AI at Tesla got fired. The schmuck probably pointed out that the cars equipped with “Autopilot” was grossly computationally underpowered for true autonomy when asked by the authorities.
Furthermore, I’m sure the “software stack” is an oozing heap of white/black lists of conditional logic trying to bring the hallucinations and misclassifications from the underpowered neural nets in control.
/Speculation off
Id be all for evs if they would wave the safety requirements. Safety equals eithor steel (weight) or airbags (cost). have a EV lane with 45mph speed limit. Then all we need is a copper meteorite to (gently) plummet to earth. Damn aliens never there when you need them.
Some people have expressed concern that EV bicycles make riding unsafe for regular bicycles on the road. The need a separate lane.
A person can even make a case for small electric vehicle, operating out of a central location, making lots of deliveries a day to a limited area. The economics falls apart as you move over a wider area, with bigger vehicles. EVs don’t make sense for retirees, driving 2,000 miles per year, either.
Electric cars are rather comfortable and easy to drive though. Good for old people.
The real EV “revolution” is happening with bicycles. ~30M ebikes sold annually. 40M projected for 2023.
The (electric) cars is just a silly parenthesis that will be wound down as the energy situation goes from bad to worse.
Its cold where I live. I remember trying to get to work one day on my old 750 motorbike. It wasnt even that cold just below freezing. I had on insulated coveralls and every other bit of insulating clothing on. five miles Bout killed me. I was 21 then. Just a tad older now.
I gave up on two wheels and motorbikes after seeing a friend with a head injury. Wasnt operators fault car didnt see him and he couldnt get out of the way. Broke his back. His girl was on the back. Sweet girl. She was never the same. Sold my liter plus rocket soon after. It did 0-60 in 3+ seconds. 17 MPG. I think gas was about $2 a gallon then.
I need four wheels a enclosure and 60 mile total range. Doesnt even have to be heated just out of the cold air at speed. A decent battery pack that I can feed with PV not a bit of battery strapped to a frame. Basically what we call a “two seater” atv in the USA only street legal and electric. I could import a electric tuk tuk off alibaba but it wouldnt be legal. Most law enforcement wouldnt care but it only takes one. What we need is a standard electric “volkswagon”. Standard parts Light. Unsafe. Still way safer than a bike. We would still need that copper meteorite.
All “farm equipment” is legal on the public motorways. Wonder if a stenciled “xxx farm” painted on a bootleg alibaba tuk tuk would do it. I could keep a bucket of manure in the back. Tell it to the judge.
My father was a general practice doctor. He patched up a lot of motorcycle riders, including some of my high school classmates. He told me to never ride on a motor cycle; it is too dangerous.
Motorcycles are dangerous mixed with cars in traffic. Bicycles, sure, you can fall off a bike bombing down a hill at 80kp/h. But realistically, how many people gets seriously injured from bicycle accidents where there are no cars involved?
Besides, one does not simply ride a motorcycle all throughout winter without being fit. Bicycles are a different matter since they provide the fitness required for adverse conditions. After all, people enjoy cross country/alpine skiing during blistering winter, same thing really. Spike tires exist for a reason.
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Excusing using cars is just another coping mechanism for remaining unfit. The overweight/obese princes and princesses “need” the comfort and convenience. Rite?
I gave up driving my crotch rockets on the streets after being introduced to track day “racing”. Haven’t ridden it at all for more than a decade now…
It’s a serious challenge to wield a super bike somehow competently around a racing track. I reckon nobody wrestle those on tracks for the thrills, they’re just too insane and being jacked on adrenaline/nondrenaline is fatiguing.
The “reward” is to slap down a couple of hot laps nailing all the ‘sections’ while the unhinged beast tries to shake one off at the slightest hint of operator error.
But I digress.
Other than two feet, the only long term alternative in this reality is four. Horses, camels, yaks, oxen, even moose… why do humans always make things difficult lol.
Faster horses, younger women, older whiskey, more money…Tom T was a god, but Willie sang it best.
The similacrum favours the cowboy.
Or six, or eight, or dozens. Insects (385 million years), spiders 400 million years), and centipedes (430 million years) have all been around longer than our four-legged friends, the amphibians (368 million years), reptiles (315 million years), and mammals (178 million years).
And before centipedes rule the earth…. for the first 90% of its existence, the planet apparently supported no plants on its land surface. All the partying and excitement was going on beneath the waves!
Was there any land to begin with?
Didn’t something enormous slap into earth badly damaging the crust and forming the land mass (continental plates), moon and asteroid belt? After all, it looks quite “crinkled” sans the water.
Now what is the probability of two planet sized objects colliding? Not even infinitesimal.
The “aliens” probably needed somewhere to land that wasn’t water. No problems; just haul together some space rock and accelerate the living crap out of it for a few millennia. The solar system planets provide ample “pull” if you’re in no rush.
Just a straight shot through the planet with part of the iron core spitted out into orbit as the moon, which is probably why it rings like a bell.
https://youtu.be/fogo9NQ1g6A
It’s how I would do it if I needed some land on a watery planet and was in no rush.
/Speculation off
China New Home Sales Crater 40% As Mortgage Revolt Spreads
With just 12 hours to go until Nancy Pelosi is reportedly scheduled to land in Taiwan (around 10:20pm local time on Tuesday), prevailing consensus is that for all the posturing and heated rhetoric, nothing much will happen. Consider the following quote from General Frank Kearny:
“The Chinese have stated that they would attempt to deter her flight using Chinese aircraft creating a threatening situation which could escalate. I seriously doubt they would shoot it down as also threatened. I suspect the Taiwanese would be threatened as well with provocative demonstrations of air and naval actions. I don’t believe these are just threats. I believe some action will occur with the potential for unintended consequences.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/china-new-home-sales-crater-40-mortgage-revolt-spreads
*Why a war is in the works because every country in the world is in deep dodo
Only 40%? Who are the MOREONS who continue to buy? Maybe the CCP has a plunge protection team for housing and they are stepping in?
Australia’s Housing Downturn Accelerates: In Sydney, Sharpest Price Drops “in Almost 40 Years”
https://wolfstreet.com/2022/08/01/australias-housing-downturn-accelerates-in-sydney-sharpest-price-drops-in-almost-40-years/
I expect that there will be lots of declines in housing prices around the world, unless the debt bubble can stay inflated.
“A catastrophic energy crisis will fuel a revolt against our failed elites” – “Politicians cannot shirk responsibility now for the extreme hardship millions of people are about to face,”
https://archive.ph/nAkyN
Yup.
UEP.
UTI… Ultimate Transhuman Implosion.
or that Urinary acronym, perhaps.
or CEP.
hard to say.
but Q4 for sure, or at least probably, or maybe possibly.
as below, very interesting article.
the clouds of Doom are thickening over the British Isles.
by early 2023, we should have many reports of how bad the winter has been.
some or many freezing in the dark, much illness, some death.
rioting might be limited, by cold weather and lack of calories for rioters.
weak and sick people don’t riot much.
eating or heating, tough choice.
That’s pretty much how UEP finishes up … no bangs… barely a whimper
It’s an excellent plan — I am sure as this progresses more will see how wise the Elders have been… how kind
Thank you. Interesting article from Mainstream media…
Interesting yes, the problem is not well understood as we can see from this line in the middle of the article:
“People are left wondering why their leaders failed to make contingency plans, given that they sit on vast untapped reserves of gas, oil and coal.”
All leaders? these vast untapped that we are saving for later??
The vast untapped reserves are the illusion that many people have regarding where we are with respect to fuels.
We can’t operate a system that gets them out.
“‘kkkklimate Emergency’: Ireland Set to Ban Private Cars” – Breitbart takes a look at Ireland’s new climate strategy, which involves making private car ownership prohibitively expensive
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/06/20/ireland-ban-cars-climate-mass-migration/
GW = proxy for fossil fuels…. running out? Never admit it … we’re having to reduce (not ration) to save the kllimate…
Get it?
hahahah https://www.rebelnews.com/teens_stalked_and_abused_for_reporting_the_truthf
bravery.
(the f at the end of truthf needs to be deleted to make the link work.)
https://www.rebelnews.com/teens_stalked_and_abused_for_reporting_the_truth
There appears to be a huge level of underreporting in DAEN. This issue is not new and has been documented before. This article attempts to discover the level of underreporting for a serious issue (seizures/convulsions) and finds a possible underreporting factor ranging from 21 to 39 for children/teenagers. An alternative way of looking at this that DAEN only records around 2.6% to 4.8% of seizure/convulsion adverse events in children/teenagers. The Therapeutics Goods Administration should be giving serious consideration to the level of underreporting for other issues such as Myocarditis.
https://accaen.substack.com/p/estimating-underreporting-in-adverse
The injection fans simply claim “anecdotal evidence”. Any “reporting” gets attacked on a statistical basis. A occaisonal individual fanilar with statistics debates them. They get body slammed by well paid “health professionals” characterized and attacked. All injected breathe a sigh of relief. The well paid perpetrators of science are in charge. All is well. Science trumps questions like why would anyone inject a experimental genetic therapy into their body. Science explains this. The rona is the mostest dangerous ever. The rare and unproven non statistically verifiable vaccine injuries are well worth the (non) risk. All is well. Your neighbor had a heart attack at 28. Anecdotal fear mongering. Celebrities with bells palsy. Anecdotal fear mongering. What your a Appalachian hillbilly? Dont believe in vaccination? We are the voice of science. They didnt get those salaries by bucking the matrix.
Look how Jessica Rose has been attacked. Her credentials attacked. Her methodology attacked. Her avocation of every individual downloading the Vaers data into excel or R attacked. WE cant have people doing that! Vaers itself attacked as non evidence. Any and every evidence of injection injury attacked with “science” with a large helping of sneering conspiracy labels. Jessica Rose on the other hand completely humble. Completely transparent about her methods. Questioning her own findings and belief as she proceeds. Checking her own work questioning her own work. The epitomy of real science. Compared to high salaried priests saying only I decide. Death rates up like twenty sigma outside normal. Statistics 101 pulls a fire alarm at three sigma. Nothing to see here say the priests. WE tell you whats statistically significant. YOU dont. Yes fire alarms going off everywhere. Nothing to see here say the highly paid priests.
What is a Woman – full documentary https://thepiratebay0.org/torrent/59590436/What.Is.A.Woman.2022.1080p.H264.AAC.WEBRip.mp4
IVOR CUMMINGS SPENDS 2 MINUTES DEMONSTRATING EXPECTED SEASONALITY OF RESPIRATORY VIRUSES…
and effectively shows that lockdowns etc did nothing to disrupt the known seasonality association
Thanks! This is an interesting analysis of viral seasonal dynamics. I think I saw something about it before, but I didn’t really keep track of it. I am not sure it works as well recently.
Time for an amusing anecdote…
I had an account with Vimeo costing around $250 per year to upload and store videos… I stopped using it over a year ago – and did not realize it defaulted to auto-renew.
For one reason or another I checked the account the other day and saw it had renewed in May for another year… I did not receive an email notice.
Customer support refused to refund me even though they can see there has been no activity in the channel…
So I ring up Fast Eddy and I says FE what do I do about this … Fast advises that I find tech mags etc where Vimeo is reviewed / mentioned… and post a review.
I pull up the first review – an article discussing Vimeo with a Disquss forum below for comments… I post my experience and warn users to avoid Vimeo … hit submit — then send a screen shot to the CS… with a warning that this will continue non-stop if they do not provide me with a refund by Monday NYC time…
What fantastic CS Vimeo has! They know not to F789 with The Jesus.
My name is Brady and I’m a customer support lead here at Vimeo. Your ticket was sent my way for further assistance.
I apologize for the unintended renewal. I’ve made an exception to our usual policy and issued a refund for the amount of $276.00. Please allow up to 10 business days for the refund to appear on your billing statement.
https://youtu.be/F1SfzV67Bqw?t=65
Thanks for the laugh!
The Repeal:
In religious communities in America, resistance to medical innovation is still prevalent. Despite campaigns in recent years to repeal religious exemption to vaccination, many Amish people still resist change. In 2019, New York state governor Andrew Cuomo ended religious exemption to vaccination after a widespread measles outbreak. ‘The more I read about these vaccinations, the more I know it is not right in the eyes of God’, says one Amish man, whose children were banned from taking the school bus after refusing vaccination. ‘We are being told that the state feels they have a right in our churches and schools. It scares us’, says another.
In my view, communities like Amish represent an example of how we could live without fossil fuels or with a very low amount of that.
Of course there will be less population on the planet.
But I respect a lot how they live.
Keep in mind they farm using chems… I spoke to an Amish man some years ago and he informed me that they cannot get financing for land etc if they don’t spray.
Here Are The 5 Chinese Military Response Scenarios If Pelosi Visits Taiwan
Scenario 1: The minimalist approach. The PLA occupies Jinmen or Matsu islands, as well as Taiwan’s islands in the South China Sea, and maybe even the Penghu Islands. They also declare part or all of the Taiwan Strait a “no go” zone to foreign military shipping. This would probably be fairly easy for the PLA, and Taiwan would probably not want to overcommit to naval action against the huge PLA Navy (PLAN) if it didn’t directly approach the main island.
Scenario 2: Hybrid warfare. Some sort of partial naval and aerial blockade of Taiwan intended to interfere with the economy, combined with stepped-up harassment, such as direct flyovers of Taiwan’s territory by PLA Air Force (PLAAF) jets, or incursions into Taiwan’s maritime space by China’s naval militia, protected by PLAN warships. This might also be accompanied by cyberattacks designed to shut down the internet and other infrastructure for days at a time. Taiwan would have no choice to assert a stiff defensive posture, resulting in real engagements between Taiwanese and Chinese forces, posing a serious risk of escalation.
Scenario 3: A serious attack but no invasion. This would involve air and sea warfare only, no boots on the ground. A full aerial and naval blockade, a protracted set of naval and aerial battles dehttps://www.zerohedge.com/markets/stocks-sink-pelosi-taiwan-headlinessigned to degrade Taiwan’s military, combined with ballistic missile attacks on military targets. Aggressive cyberattacks turning off the internet and shutting down critical infrastructure for days or weeks. Once air and naval superiority were established, China could pick off targets at will, ratcheting up the threat until the government breaks.
Scenario 4: The Full Monty – a proper invasion. Total air and sea blockade, massive ballistic missile attacks on military targets, massive cyberattacks to paralyze virtually all military, governmental, and civilian communication and shut down critical infrastructure. Aggressive naval and aerial engagements to degrade Taiwan’s forces and achieve battlespace superiority, followed by sustained aerial assaults by fighters and bombers on military targets. A decapitation strike at Taipei by special forces units to try to seize key leadership personnel. Well-coordinated insider treason and sabotage actions by gangsters, planted CCP agents, and other groups sympathetic to China – the so-called “5th column”. An amphibious assault with close air support from fighters, helicopters, and battle drones at one or more locations in Taiwan, and very possibly a move to seize a major port, such as Keelung, Taipei Port, Taichung, or Kaohsiung. Then hundreds of thousands of troops would start rolling in until the island was occupied. That would be the plan, anyway. PLA success in such an endeavor is very unclear. But they could do a hell of a lot of damage trying. And yes, they might actually succeed, at least partially, such as in seizing and holding the region around Taipei.
Scenario 5: Worst Case (short of nuclear) scenario. Full air and sea blockade, massive ballistic missile attacks on military targets, massive cyberattack, aggressive naval and aerial attacks to degrade Taiwan’s forces and achieve battlefield superiority, followed by aerial assaults by fighters and bomber on military targets and area bombing of civilian targets. There are massive casualties, and Taiwan is crushed by brute force, surrenders, and then the occupiers enter the country and take it over.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/stocks-sink-pelosi-taiwan-headlines
I’m not clear as to why it would bother China that Pelosi visits Taiwan… unless she were to during the visit state that the US supports independence… otherwise who cares…
Maybe they think she is a wicked bitch and Queen of the reptile people so this is there one chance to incinerate her?
I suspect this is just another attempt to up the anxiety levels of the masses… as they prepare the meat grinder
Hmmm…. https://t.me/robinmg/21977
EXCLUSIVE NEWS!
STARTING TODAY, ALL PATIENTS THAT ATTEND A HOSPITAL A&E (emergency room) IN THE UK WILL BE TESTED FOR HIV. NEXT MONTH HEPATHISIS B & C WILL ALSO BE TESTED.
SOURCE: A FRIEND IN AN A&E DEPARTMENT.
https://t.me/robinmg/21976
We will see whether this will happen.
Miscarriages and a medical conspiracy of silence
ByNiall McCrae
“Doctor Luke McLindon, head of fertility services at Mater Hospital in Brisbane, startlingly claimed that 74 per cent of pregnancies are ending in miscarriage (the normal rate is around 10-15 per cent). McLindon was running clinical trials on pregnant women, the majority of whom have received the Covid vaccine (largely due to the trumping of consent by coercion in Australia).”
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/miscarriages-and-a-medical-conspiracy-of-silence/
Oooooh… hahaha https://t.me/chiefnerd/4347 https://gettr.com/post/p1kobot9c80
Donkey Face
https://youtu.be/5OGsLAxPVCE
Hmmm… Fast Eddy has been banned from substack – after trying to post:
China’s Mortgage Crisis, Banks are Failing, Protests Everywhere. China’s financial crisis is Here…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBBnQmRcRI4
Rather odd given FE does not ridicule SS people — it’s kinda like how the mob generally leaves citizens alone and only whacks others who are in the same game (OFW is the genius mob — all fools get clobbered).
I’ve submitted a ticket to appeal – alternatively maybe they (or someone on high) didn’t like UEP…. cuz UEP is The Plan…
Perhaps SS exists to direct the sceptics towards Anything But UEP.
It would not surprise me…. not one bit
Are you sure Norm isn’t the webmaster?
which SS in particular?
Banned from all SSs….
However that seems to be lifted on appeal – I was able to post a test on Igor’s.
At this late stage of collapse, it does not matter if Pelosi (the real one or the fake one) visits Taiwan and set up WW3. It will collapse, it is just a matter of when and how (trigger). However, I do notice that humans make opinions based on historical “facts” or events that happened. People say that it will be a nothingburger based on how Russia reacted and how it happened in the past.
Like the small print “Past performance does not guarantee future performance”, peak oil is a nothingburger, etc. I think that breeds complacency.
Perhaps China and USA are at loggerheads and since both sides have horrible economy at home, they might just want to start a war. Or alternatively, perhaps this is a setup for a limited war (i.e. planned by both sides) so as to make a big distraction for the sheeple? Why would Pelosi visit Asia now? She has no reason to do it. Is she going to Taiwan to “do something so big” that it cannot be done via telephone call and must be there personally? That is if that is the real Pelosi
Either way it goes within 12 hours we will know.
I’m glancing outside my window ever so often hoping to see a nuclear missile touching down
Behind a war with China is to squeeze out a rival for resources – and weaken the Russian partner!
The shortness of resources results to a concentration of reserves within a few places and that leads to a raising power of the respective countries. The last one having energy can attract all knowhow and will win all wars – if he is not destroyed beforehand. To win over failed states is for nothing of course.
Any war is good.
It make profits and keeps the military industry up.
You would want to protect certain assets and it’s beholders…
Attorney Michael Bowe Says Visa’s CEO Knowingly Financed Child Porn & Trafficking Through MindGeek
“Visa knew that MindGeek’s sites were teeming with monetized child porn, intended to help MindGeek monetize that child porn, and knowingly provided the tools to complete the crime.”
https://rumble.com/v1edohv–attorney-michael-bowe-says-visas-ceo-knowingly-financed-child-porn-and-tra.html
Salacious stuff entertains and distracts the mob
‘Old’ , but interesting?
https://www.unz.com/article/pizzagate/?showcomments#comment-1718722
Australia https://t.me/PeterMcCullough/1644
Anecdote time: Have friend with outdoor Ice bath & Sauna set up. Has what are called fire & ice sessions where you go back and forth (35 degrees to 190 degrees) Have four vaccinated friends that can’t hang with us anymore as it causes dizziness and their heart rate shoots up beyond normal.
This is just ridiculous and the subtle decline in health is picking up speed IMHO and becoming visible especially with this situation.
@DowdEdward
Good summary of China’s mortgage crisis.
This is a good video. One thing I didn’t realize was that these builders greatly inflated their asset value by including the homes that they had already sold and collected money on, even though the property really should have been the asset of the homeowner.
I hadn’t seen videos of some buildings being demolished.
One thing that this video doesn’t go into much is the extent to which these problems create problems for local governments and their finances. It mentions that 50% of the tax revenue of these governments has, in the past, come from the sale of the 99 year leases to the developers of the land. With sales way down, this is a problem. Also, these local governments are now being called upon to run Covid-19 closures, and they have high debt loads, which they need to continue to repay. The total amount of local government debt is hard to measure because quite a bit of it is done through off-budget channels. This local debt would not be counted in the debt ratios of China’s central government.
This video can lead to deep despair after watching.
I’d assumed that we are all well past mere despair here?
I’ve certainly now reached the sunny uplands of total indifference, and am enjoying every day as it comes.
All still hanging together for another 24 hours? Splendid! Something rather nice to uncork for lunch? Not quite reduced to an emergency diet of raw oats ? Fantastic!
Agreed. I have food in the pantry for weeks or months, I don’t feel any pain, the day is beautiful, the bees are buzzing and the dog is barking.
To worry about tomorrow would be to worry about something I have no power over, IOW, it would be stupid.The coming year worries me as much as the leg I broke in 1980
Nec spe nec metu.
Mutually beneficial war to cover financial and energy problems?
CCP- The yankee dogs have done this. We must sacrifice for victory.
CCPUSA The wieger hating Chinese government has done this. We must sacrifice for victory.
WE have been weaned into “supply chain” shortages from various contrived events. Theres still booze on the table but uncle fred is kicking all the kids out of the party to keep a few swigs for himself.
The whole thing is a freaking joke. Why would Russia sell the EU any energy? Why would China sell the USA any manufactured goods? But they do. And they will. Just enough to keep it from mad max. What does that tell you? We are about to hit the wall. They are braking instead. Fireworks in Taiwan. But there will still be goods in walmart. Just every tuesday and wed. If your digital ID ends in a zero you shop on tue. If your digital ID ends in a one you shop on Wed. But yup a trickle of trade will continue even as we are informed of what went boom everyday. Eddy wil get his footage. The people will believe this or that. Whatever they see as getting them the most. Every student I know with student debt is quite open about this. Ill vote for whoever cancels my student debt. In fact if their was not widespread faith in student debt cancellation college enrollment would fall off the charts. Politicians will run on having two walmart days not just one. An no one will ask if we are at war with China why are they still making stuff for us? Why now? Why tomorow? Why next week? Why next year? THe answer is simple. USA is a subsidiary of the CCP. The USA is getting food stamps from China. Has been for some time.
What dont people understand? Without China manufacturing agriculture stops. Without agriculture there is no food. So its not going to stop. But its going to get slow like molasses in a Calgary winter. CCP is not happy with its subsidiary. No digital ID. No mandatory injections. Individuals still burning fuel. They need a event. Pelosi and Taiwan is that event. China is telling its subsidiary its got to get its s*** under control. If they really dont then food stamps end. Do people really care where the food stamps come from?
Things get introduced with hints. Nuance. The nuance becomes opaqueness. The opaqueness becomes translucent. Then it just the way it is. In the mean time the players get rich. People learn. Your a structural engineer. You dont talk about free fall collapse. Reality is malleable. Otherwise the mortgage payment doesnt get made. You are cooking up some nice cardboard on the sterno for the kids. Just like all those people you see every day. How many tents? 100? 1000?
You know why Gary looks so good? All those people are in California. Oregon. States with social services available for cardboard eaters.
What we are observing is mutually beneficial in that it provides cover for the fact that we are in the final innings of BAU…. and governments do not want their people to realize the cheap stuff is mostly burned up … cuz if they did they’d unhinge and BAU would end prematurely.
Blaming war = temporary situation … that calms the hordes… it’s like giving them Xanax
We have been put into a holding pattern (limbo) as we wait for the injections to exterminate the human species
I understand that there is resistance to this theory … but it won’t change anything
Stopping payments is not the right decision in a ponzi scheme.
Trust us… we are pharma https://t.me/arkmedic/4507
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Mark Rutte’s Government Deploys the Beating Crew on Peaceful Dutch Farmers in Almelo
Comparable to how choking protesters during the peak of COVID was “for our “health,” Dutch police officers are now beating farmers with batons to “save the planet.”
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Little by little they lose their fear of the batons… once all fear is lost — the batons will not and cannot protect the elites.
Agreed, you can only do that so long before people just snap. What’s working against the Dutch authorities is that the Dutch farmers saw how Canada treated the peaceful truckers protests. The truckers got throttled by the Canadian government. They see the same thing happening to them. I expect lots of violence on both sides because people are starting to piece together a global agenda that’s taking place.
After watching that video on the china property market… I suspect people will snap before the end of the year…
We need UEP to happen in Q4.
The financial situation is grave.
“The financial situation is grave.“
That’s probably why plastic surgery lady is going to Taiwan. They want to bring down the system. If China takes its ball and goes home the US is finished because no goods or pharmaceuticals will come to the US. Pretty much everything comes from China.
So where will Apple get its iToys? The same for Microsoft and Google. They would be F789ed if China refused to ship them their products. And China can reverse engineer all of it.
You are grossly underestimating how dire the situation is … 8B are staring ROF in the face.
We need UEP – or else
Those Dutch police weren’t very impressive, easily rattled by some push-back.
One always notices, though, the vicious little bitch policewomen, pepper-spraying and now just loving using the baton. As long as they have some tall men around them. The real 1940’s camp guard type.
Ah, feminism has really set some types of women free……
“the real 1940s camp guard type”
Perhaps but where was the camp? In 1940 Britain already had 1,050 interment camps and they were quite full of dissenters against the war.
Vaccine Injured Healthcare Worker Says Her Unvaxxed Friends “Were the Smart Ones”
https://rumble.com/v1eds7t-vaccine-injured-healthcare-worker-says-her-unvaxxed-friends-were-the-smart-.html
BOISE, Idaho (LifeSiteNews) — A doctor has found an increase in cancers since the COVID-19 inoculation rollout.
On March 18, Dr. Ryan Cole, a board-certified pathologist and owner and operator of a diagnostics lab, reported to the public in a video produced by Idaho state government’s “Capitol Clarity” project, that he is seeing a massive ‘uptick’ in various autoimmune diseases and cancers in patients who have been vaccinated.
This doctor trained at the Mayo Clinic and runs the largest independent testing laboratory in Idaho.
Listen to what his lab testing is showing: pic.twitter.com/VtdjQMluzF
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/idaho-doctor-reports-a-20-times-increase-of-cancer-in-vaccinated-patients/
Well you know… Idaho. Western appalachia.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXmnmvDl-ao
You guys are a bunch of Debby Downers! Look at the bright side. No Chinese imports will solve the inflation problem. Nothing to buy no inflation. The empty Walmarts can be solely dedicated to injection now. Maybe a miniature golf course with a Mcdonalds and a injection at the end? WE can be creative with this. A quarter pounder with cheese and the omicron deluxe formula injection. Ronald Mcdonald with a huge syringe posters and television ads. The walmart employees can rapidly (and safely of course) be trained to inject and dress like Ronald. Those big floppy feet! Great fun for the kids! They’ll want to go every week. And why not? Plus those employees are pretrained for political office if they choose to serve.
Will they repeat the omicron deluxe formula a half dozen times also? Six free quarter pounders with cheese and miniature golf? Hell yes! Who gives a damn about Taiwan?
Speaking of which. Is unacceptable Jessica Rose going to stay in Israel for another half dozen jabs? Im sorry staying in a country that requires a plethora of injections for a green pass, getting those injections, while simultaneously you put out great information about how terribly dangerous they are is a bummer. Love the girl but you vote with your feet. Id rather she protect herself and not put out the info although i love the info.
A huge problem particularly with RNA viruses, like the flu and coronaviruses, is that our bodies will continually and rapidly mutate these viruses so that they CAN continue to spread through the population. So, by the time manufacturers can get a product on the market, warp speed or not, the naturally occurring virus has been mutated so much that it will not be inactivated by the antibodies created from the injection. The antibodies are created for a version of the virus that does not exist anymore.
RNA viruses are mutated by our bodies so frequently that it is impossible to keep up with a “vaccine” that will be able to make antibodies to perfectly match the proteins on the viruses. This is why drug manufacturers and government health officials have a meeting each year to guess what the mystery virus will be BEFORE the next flu season. Most of the time they get it wrong. Here’s a published article on how they try to predict the next flu strain: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29337643/
With the covid shot, they definitely have it wrong. The original Wuhan spike protein has been mutated by our bodies into numerous identifiable strains. So, they keep on insisting on injecting you with mRNA that makes something similar to the original Wuhan spike protein. Besides the fact that it results in the production of a worthless antibody, there are several other consequences to doing this.
https://drkevinstillwagon.substack.com/p/the-silent-killers-968
Sincere question: should the global civilization even bother with vaccines at all? Should we not instead accept viruses as a legitimate part of nature and simply deal with the consequences?
By way of analogy, I find mosquitoes, ticks, fleas, and other parasitic organisms to be intolerable and potentially dangerous nuisances. Yet they serve important purposes in nature. The mosquito, for example, is a source of food for fish in its larval state and for birds, bats and frogs as an adult. The mosquito is also an important pollinator, with males feeding solely on flower nectar. Female mosquitoes only go looking for a blood meal, instead of flower nectar, when they’re attempting to produce eggs. And what will hatch from those eggs? Future blood-sucking female mosquitoes, yes, but more importantly pollinators and food sources for other animals – the bigger picture. Biting humans and animals is but a small part of the female mosquitoes’ lifecycle, though it is a very important one. Without making blood withdrawals from animals and humans, these pollinators could not continue their contribution to the natural world. Should you be bitten by a mosquito, consider this: the irritating, itchy wound signifies your contribution to the food web. Your blood sample will assist in the birth of more pollinators, more food sources for fish, birds, bats, frogs, and, in turn the larger creatures that eat them – all the way up to humans.
Should we attempt to eradicate mosquitoes?
Should we attempt to eradicate viruses?
Vaccination increasingly appears to me as the global civilization’s war against nature. It’s a business model based on exploiting people’s fear of death. “I’m not supposed to decay. I’m not supposed to become part of the earth. ‘I’ – this physical body, this shell in which my conscious self, my soul is temporarily housed – belongs to ‘ME.’ It’s my possession; I own it. The earth doesn’t!”
“A huge problem particularly with RNA viruses, like the flu and coronaviruses, is that our bodies will continually and rapidly mutate these viruses so that they CAN continue to spread through the population.”
There is an essential purpose behind this, even if the global civilization doesn’t understand it.
yes but humans are stooopid — they are constantly trying to f789 Mother Nature…
And now we’ve got 8B ‘rapacious primates’ roaming the planet always demanding MORE.
Mother Nature has a surprise for us – coming soon hahahahaha
Eradicating viruses depends on eradicating from our minds 120 years of bigpharma propaganda and pseudo-science.
A scientist would look at time scales and reach the same conclusion. We know viruses evolve over months time scales. Occasionally in a single winter we get two viral waves, but mostly it is one. The immune system is highly adaptive, and adapts over days or less. A good immune system wins every time. It is just a matter of keeping your immune system in good shape.
I wish someone would explain to me slowly, since I’m very stupid, how a non-living thing, that is not made of cells, that cannot maintain homeostasis nor grow, can evolve and mutate and replicate.
But i know i’m asking to much.
a virus cannot exist, because humans can’t fully understand how it can exist.
consciousness cannot exist, because humans can’t fully understand how it can exist.
the universe cannot exist, because humans can’t fully understand how it can exist.
yes you are asking poorly.
literally, it is what it is, literally.
Are you comparing abstract entities like consciousness or the universe, with a supposedly concrete entity like a virus? Really? I’d bet you’re not too familiar with Aristotelian logic or the problem of universals.
Your whataboutist remark would have some validity if I was asking about the sex life of dragons or Mickey Mouse. But that’s not the case. I’m just asking a logical question, perhaps too logical: how can a being be supposedly alive and dead at the same time?
I agree its all there: infinite progress myth, man as master, now drugs are someones career and business model.
I like the technosphere interpretation: that our system cannot allow natural systems to run in their own way if we have a technological intervention that we can utilize.
A more important question is why do supermarkets sell individual bananas packaged in shrink-wrap? Anyone know.
When vaccine manufacturers grow viruses (allow them to replicate), they provide the ideal medium, the proper nutrients, and the proper environment for the cultivation of OTHER viruses and bacteria. These undesirable microbes might contaminate the vaccine. So, there is always the danger that if a vaccine batch is contaminated, the other microbes may do their thing in your body. Here’s just one confirmed report of a flu shot contaminated with bacteria: https://www.webmd.com/cold-and-flu/news/20041015/fda-all-contaminated-flu-vaccine-unusable
Contamination by other things like metals or other materials from the manufacturing process can happen as well. This happened with the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine that was shipped to Japan. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/26/japan-pulls-1point6-million-moderna-vaccine-doses-over-contamination-concerns-.html
https://drkevinstillwagon.substack.com/p/the-silent-killers-458/
Are the vax injuries a result of poor quality control?
The usual toxins create similar symptoms in all affected people. In medicine a specific symptom is usually caused by one or a very limited number of causes. The ‘shots’ create a bunch of different unwanted effects that could have multiple other causes as well. We don’t see cause and effect so easily.
This might also apply to the quality control aspect. We know from the Pfizer papers that quality control was not in the center of their work. On the other hand the basic declared concept of the ‘vaccines’ is to produce the antigen in an uncontrolled way in the human body – not the antibody. That alone is inacceptable. In Germany Prof. Sucharit Bhakdi wasbone of the first and most respected warners. He called the concept “satanic”.
To me there seem to exist a lot of preformed childish excuses to distract from a planned and intentional violation of the health and freedom of millions of people. Those that took the shots in good faith have to learn that they were bittery betrayed.
That is a religious thing, of course. On the other hand it has been argued that there could also be an eugenicist selection behind it. It is assumed that he refusers share a special genetic disposition. I won’t link that here to keep Gails site appropriate.
In my view, lack of quality checks it is just a terrible aggravating issue of those terrible experimental treatments
I believe an expert witness told the German lawyer Reiner F. that setting up the manufacturing for the vaccines alone (and testing it) should have taken one year.
We’ve seen confirmed examples of contamination, and the real story is no doubt much worse.
So, when you get your shot of viruses in the vaccine, you also get the toxins from these media right along with the viruses. These foreign toxins are antigens as well as the proteins on the viruses and they will cause different antibodies to be formed. Also, foreign toxins injected with the desired virus proteins may sensitize the person being vaccinated, resulting in allergy problems later in life.
Sometimes foreign toxins are put in the shots on purpose. These are called ADJUVANTS. Since the actual virus has been weakened, adjuvants such as aluminum and thimerosal are added to kick up the immune response. Unfortunately, adjuvants such as these have been linked to autism in children and Alzheimer’s disease in adults. Not everyone will experience these maladies, for some people have the ability to remove these toxins quickly from their bodies, others do not.
https://drkevinstillwagon.substack.com/p/the-silent-killers-cd4
My sports teacher always used to say: What does not kill you, will improve you!
Yes, that is an ancient recipe for permanent injuries in the sports world and many of the tyrants, perverts and lunatics who so often coach junior sport certainly subscribe to it.
It is is a pretty good scheme for identifying “potential” and “excellence” bcs it can weed out unsuitable players. They go away injured and don’t return and only the bullet proof remain.
I’d recommend reading all 5 Silent Killer articles https://drkevinstillwagon.substack.com/
I’ve taken a lot of heat and even been censored for publicly announcing that none of the shots called vaccines can provide any protection of infection, nor can they stop the spread of viruses. I’ll get more flack for writing this preamble, but I welcome it. I am willing to openly discuss any of this any time anywhere with anybody.
Here is the truth: All these shots have one goal: create antibodies. Antibodies also have one goal: REACT to an infection. Antibodies created from shots are called serum antibodies, because they are always INSIDE of you, circulating in your blood and lymph. The only time these antibodies can do anything for you is AFTER you have become infected, and the virus is INSIDE of you.
They cannot stop a virus from getting from the outside to the inside. I hope this is not too confusing, but there is one type of antibody than CAN stop viruses from getting inside of you. This is called a secretory IgA antibody because it is secreted from the inside of you to the outside, into your mucus membranes, and can disable viruses before they can get in. But secretory IgA can only result from natural infections coming through the mucosal lining, never from a shot that bypasses that mucosal lining and injects the virus, part of the virus, or the message to make part of the virus directly inside of you.
https://drkevinstillwagon.substack.com/p/the-silent-killers-366
This sounds like a good explanation of why the antibodies from the mRNA vaccines don’t work properly. All the do is make the illness less “intense.” They don’t prevent it.
Where is the proof that the shots ‘make the illness less intense’? It is what the producers claim, based on a very weak if not fraudulent study.
The PCR-test might be fraudulent (cormandrostenreview.com). That means statistics needn’t be reliable. Statistics about ICU use are very doubtable due to definition problems (what means infection, treatment and vaccination).
In my personal environment people with and without the shots that were obviously infected by the same source and tested positive had very similar symptoms in the same time frame and similarily heavy. This experience is why the official narrative is more and more doubted.
The shots officially shuts down the immune system to be able to deliver modRNA into the cells. The effects of this shutdowns have never been properly studied.
It is still possible that the shots are not effective against Covid but only risky concerning side effects. That for sure is the case with shots for children.
One of the world’s unsung heroes is Leon Weckstein, who saved the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
During the US advance, some US generals wanted to blast off the Tower of Pisa because they feared some snipers were hiding in there.
Out of the many in the signal corps, they sent Weckstein, who had a college education and knew the value of the tower.
We will never know whether there was a sniper hiding in there when Weckstein went to observe it, but he reported there were no snipers and the plan to destroy the tower was abandoned.
I have debated it with some people, and they all said they would gladly have destroyed it to save the lives of their comrades. I had said that the lives of their comrades are , I have to say, not worth too much . We don’t get to rebuild the Leaning Tower of Pisa which is historically, scientifically (whether it was Galileo or not, someone did have the famous experiment there) and culturally significant. More important than a few GIs who couldn’t spell to save their lives.
A lot of famous castles in Japan were destroyed by US bombs. The Hiroshima Castle became the first Japanese castle to be nuked, and the castles of Nagoya and several others were destroyed as well. The famous castle of Himeji was also hit directly, but for whatever reason the bomb failed to explode, which is why it was spared.
Sure, sometimes there are strategic reasons to destroy such cultural relics. I can understand the Shuri castle in Okinawa, which WAS used as a battlefield, being destroyed. (It was rebuilt in 2019 and burnt down less than a month after that.)
However, you don’t build them again (any attempt to rebuild them will end up as cheapo replica because the materials will be hard to come by), and usually the lives which were saved because these things were destroyed are not worth too much.
At the start of WW2 there were 150 medieval towns in existence in Germany with an average population of 100,000. By the end of the war they were all gone, victims of the Allied bombing policy that specifically targeted civilian housing with the goal of reducing 40% of it to rubble. Because the Allies fought a total war from Day One.
Those medieval towns too and the people who lived in them were also culturally significant. If only someone with a college degree had recognized that before they were turned to dust.
i beleive Lubeck and a few others were mostly spared.
I’m waiting for the Panama Moment … when the horde stop giving f789s and 10,000 of them are willing to overwhelm riot police and beating them to death… They will not do this because of covid rules … they will do it when inflation is so painful they cannot pay their bills and put enough food on the table … then … and only then…
https://t.me/VigilantFox/5449
If a sniper kills the first few who breaches theline, the crowd tends to run away.
A classic way of crowd control.
I just think waiting is the exact right thing to do!
“When people lose everything and have nothing else to lose, THEY LOSE IT”
-Gerald Celente