Why No Politician Is Willing to Tell Us the Real Energy Story

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No politician wants to tell us the real story of fossil fuel depletion. The real story is that we are already running short of oil, coal and natural gas because the direct and indirect costs of extraction are reaching a point where the selling price of food and other basic necessities needs to be unacceptably high to make the overall economic system work. At the same time, wind and solar and other “clean energy” sources are nowhere nearly able to substitute for the quantity of fossil fuels being lost.

This unfortunate energy story is essentially a physics problem. Energy per capita and, in fact, resources per capita, must stay high enough for an economy’s growing population. When this does not happen, history shows that civilizations tend to collapse.

Figure 1. World fossil fuel energy consumption per capita, based on data of BP’s 2022 Statistical Review of World Energy.

Politicians cannot possibly admit that today’s world economy is headed for collapse, in a way similar to that of prior civilizations. Instead, they need to provide the illusion that they are in charge. The self-organizing system somehow leads politicians to put forward reasons why the changes ahead might be desirable (to avert climate change), or at least temporary (because of sanctions against Russia).

In this post, I will try to try to explain at least a few of the issues involved.

[1] Citizens around the world can sense that something is very wrong. It looks like the economy may be headed for a serious recession in the near term.

Figure 2. Index of consumer sentiment and news heard of company changes as reported by the University of Michigan Survey of Consumers, based on preliminary indications for August 2022.

Consumer sentiment is at an extraordinarily low level, worse than during the 2008-2009 great recession according to a chart (Figure 2) shown on the University of Michigan Survey of Consumers website. According to the same website, nearly 48% of consumers blame inflation for eroding their standard of living. Food prices have risen significantly. Over the past year, the cost of car ownership has escalated, as has the cost of buying or renting a home.

The situation in Europe is at least as bad, or worse. Citizens are worried about possibly “freezing in the dark” this winter if electricity generation cannot be maintained at an adequate level. Natural gas supplies, mostly purchased from Russia by pipeline, are less available and high-priced. Coal is also high-priced. Because of the fall of the Euro relative to the US dollar, the price of oil in euros is as high as it was in 2008 and 2012.

Figure 3. Inflation-adjusted Brent crude oil price in US dollars and euros, in chart by the US Energy Information Administration, as published in EIA’s August 2022 Short Term Energy Outlook.

Many other countries, besides those in the Eurozone, are experiencing low currencies relative to the dollar. Some examples include Argentina, India, Pakistan, Nigeria, Turkey, Japan, and South Korea.

China has problems with developers of condominium homes for its citizen. Many of these homes cannot be delivered to purchasers as promised. As a protest, buyers are withholding payments on their unfinished homes. To make matters worse, the prices of condominium homes have started to fall, leading to a loss of value of these would-be investments. All of this could lead to serious problems for the Chinese banking industry.

Even with these major problems, central banks in the US, the UK and the Eurozone are raising target interest rates. The US is also implementing Quantitative Tightening, which also tends to raise interest rates. Thus, central banks are intentionally raising the cost of borrowing. It doesn’t take much insight to see that the combination of price inflation and higher borrowing costs is likely to force consumers to cut back on spending, leading to recession.

[2] Politicians will avoid talking about possible future economic problems related to inadequate energy supply.

Politicians want to get re-elected. They want citizens to think that everything is OK. If there are energy supply problems, they need to be framed as being temporary, perhaps related to the war in Ukraine. Alternatively, any issue that arises will be discussed as if it can easily be fixed with new legislation and perhaps a little more debt.

Businesses also want to minimize problems. They want citizens to place orders for their goods and services, without the fear of being laid off. They would like the news media to publish stories saying that any economic dip is likely to be very mild and temporary.

Universities don’t mind problems, but they want the problems to be framed as solvable ones that will offer their students opportunities for jobs that will pay well. A near-term, unsolvable predicament is not helpful at all.

[3] What is wrong is a physics problem. The operation of our economy requires energy of the correct type and the right quantity.

The economy is something that grows through the “dissipation” of energy. Examples of dissipation of energy include the digestion of food to give energy to humans, the burning of fossil fuels, and the use of electricity to power a light bulb. A rise in world energy consumption is highly correlated with growth in the world economy. Falling energy consumption is associated with economic contraction.

Figure 4. Correlation between world GDP measured in “Purchasing Power Parity” (PPP) 2017 International $ and world energy consumption, including both fossil fuels and renewables. GDP is as reported by the World Bank for 1990 through 2021 as of July 26, 2022; total energy consumption is as reported by BP in its 2022 Statistical Review of World Energy.

In physics terms, the world economy is a dissipative structure, just as all plants, animals and ecosystems are. All dissipative structures have finite lifespans, including the world economy.

This finding is not well known because academic researchers seem to operate in ivory towers. Researchers in economic departments aren’t expected to understand physics and how it applies to the economy. In fairness to academia, the discovery that the economy is a dissipative structure did not occur until 1996. It takes a long time for findings to filter through from one department to another. Even now, I am one of a very small number of people in the world writing about this issue.

Also, economic researchers are not expected to study the history of the many smaller, more-localized civilizations that have collapsed in the past. Typically, the population of these smaller civilizations increased at the same time as the resources used by the population started to degrade. The use of technology, such as dams to redirect water flows, may have helped for a while, but eventually this was not enough. The combination of declining availability of high quality resources and increasing population tended to leave these civilizations with little margin for dealing with the bad times that can be expected to occur by chance. In many cases, such civilizations collapsed after disease epidemics, a military invasion, or a climate fluctuation that led to a series of crop failures.

[4] Many people have been confused by common misunderstandings regarding how an economy really works.

[a] Standard economics models foster the belief that the economy can continue to grow without a corresponding increase in energy supply.

When economic models are designed with labor and capital being the important inputs, energy supply doesn’t seem to be needed, at all.

[b] People seem to understand that legislation capping apartment rents will stop the building of new apartments, but they do not make the same connection with steps taken to hold down fossil fuel prices.

If efforts are made to bring down the prices of fossil fuels (such as raising interest rates and adding oil from the US petroleum reserves to increase total oil supply), we need to expect that extraction will be adversely affected. One article reports that Saudi Arabia does not seem to be using recent record profits to quickly raise reinvestment to the level that seemed to be required a few years ago. This suggests that Saudi Arabia needs prices that are quite a bit higher than $100 per barrel in order to take significant steps toward extracting the country’s remaining resources. This would seem to contradict published reserves that, in theory, take current prices into consideration.

Reuters reports that Venezuela has reneged on its promise to send more oil to Europe, under an oil for debt deal. It wants oil product swaps instead, since it is lacking in its ability to make finished products from its oil itself. It would take a long run of prices much higher than today’s level for Venezuela to be able to sufficiently invest in infrastructure to do such refining. Venezuela reports the highest oil reserves in the world (303.8 thousand million barrels), even higher than Saudi Arabia’s reported 297.5 thousand million barrels, but neither country can be counted on to take major steps to raise supply.

Similarly, there have been reports that US shale drillers are not investing to keep production growing, despite what seem to be sufficiently high prices. There are simply too many issues. The cost of new investment is very high, outside of the already drilled sweet spots. Also, there is no guarantee the price will stay high. There are also supply line issues, such as whether appropriate steel drilling pipes and fracking sand will be available, when needed.

[c] Published information suggests that there is a huge amount of fossil fuels remaining to be extracted, given today’s level of technology. If we assume that technology will get better and better, it is easy to believe that any fossil fuel limit is hundreds of years in the future.

The way the economy works, the extraction limit is really an affordability issue. If the cost of extraction rises too high, relative to what people around the world have for spendable income, production will stop because demand (in terms of what people can afford) will drop too low. People will tend to cut back on discretionary spending, such as vacation travel and meals in restaurants, cutting back on demand for fossil fuels.

[d] How “demand” works is poorly understood. Very often, researchers and the general public assume that demand for energy products will automatically remain high.

A surprisingly large share of demand is tied to the need for food, water, and basic services such as schools, roads, and bus service. Poor people require these basics just as much as rich people do. There are literally billions of poor people in the world. If the wages of poor people fall too low relative to the wages of rich people, the system cannot work. Poor people find that they must spend nearly all their income on food, water and housing. As a result, they have little left to pay taxes to support basic governmental services. Without adequate demand from poor people, the prices of commodities tend to fall too low to encourage reinvestment.

The majority of fossil fuel use is by commercial and industrial users. For example, natural gas is often used in making nitrogen fertilizer. If the price of natural gas is high, the price of fertilizer will rise higher than farmers are willing to pay for the fertilizer. Farmers will cut back on fertilizer use, reducing yields for their crops. The farmers’ own costs will be lower, but there will be less of the desired crops grown, perhaps indirectly raising overall food prices. This is not a connection that economic modelers build into their models.

The lockdowns of 2020 show that governments can indeed ramp up demand (and thus prices) for energy products by sending out checks to citizens. We are now seeing that the approach seems to produce inflation rather than more energy production. Also, countries without energy resources of their own may see their currencies fall with respect to the US dollar.

[e] It is not true that energy types can easily be substituted for one another.

In energy modeling, such as in calculating “Energy Return on Energy Invested,” a popular assumption is that all energy is substitutable for other energy. This isn’t true, unless a person accounts for all of the details of the transition, and the energy needed to make such a transition possible.

For example, intermittent electricity, such as that generated by wind turbines or solar panels, is not substitutable for load-following electricity. Such intermittent electricity is not always available when people need it. Some of this intermittency is very long-term. For example, wind-generated electricity may be low for more than a month at a time. In the case of solar energy, the problem tends to be storing up enough electricity during summer months for use in winter. A naive person might assume that adding a few hours of battery backup would fix intermittency problems, but such a fix turns out to be very inadequate.

If people are not to freeze in the dark in winter, longer-term solutions are needed. One standard approach is to use a fossil fuel system to fill in the gaps when wind and solar are not available. The catch, then, is that the fossil fuel system really needs to be a year-around system, with trained staffing, pipelines and adequate fuel storage. A modeler needs to consider the need to build a whole double system instead of a single system.

Because of intermittency issues, electricity from wind and solar only substitute for fuels (coal, natural gas, uranium) that operate our current system. Publications often talk about the cost of intermittent electricity being at “grid parity” when its temporary cost seems to match the cost of grid electricity, but this is matching “apples and oranges.” The cost comparison needs to be in comparison to the average cost of fuel for plants producing electricity, rather than to electricity prices.

Another popular assumption is that electricity can be substituted for liquid fuels. For example, in theory, every piece of farm equipment could be redesigned and rebuilt to be based on electricity, rather than diesel, which is typically used today. The catch is that there would need to be an enormous number of batteries built and eventually disposed of for this transition to work. There would need also need to be factories to build all this new equipment. We would need an international trade system operating extraordinarily well, to find all the raw materials. Likely, there would still not be enough raw materials to make the system work.

[f] There is a great deal of confusion about expected oil and other energy prices, as an economy reaches energy limits.

This issue is closely related to [4][d], with respect to the confusion about how energy demand works. A common assumption among analysts is that “of course” oil prices will rise, as limits are approached. This assumption is based on the standard supply and demand curve used by economists.

Figure 5. Standard economic supply and demand curve from Wikipedia. Description of how this curve works: The price P of a product is determined by a balance between production at each price (supply S) and the desires of those with purchasing power at each price (demand D). The diagram shows a positive shift in demand from D1 to D2, resulting in an increase in price (P) and quantity sold (Q) of the product.

The issue is that the availability of inexpensive energy products very much affects demand as well as supply. Jobs that pay well are only available if inexpensive energy products can leverage human labor. For example, surgeons today perform robotic surgery, requiring, at a minimum, a stable source of electricity for each operation. Furthermore, the equipment used in the surgery is created using fossil fuels. Surgeons also use anesthetic products that require fossil fuels. Without today’s fancy equipment, surgeons would not be able to charge nearly as much they do for their services.

Thus, it is not immediately obvious whether demand or supply would tend to fall faster, if energy supply should hit limits. We know that Revelation 18:11-13 in the Bible provides a list of a number of commodities, including humans sold as slaves, for which prices dropped very low at the time of the collapse of ancient Babylon. This suggests that at least sometimes during prior collapses, the problem was too low demand (and too low prices), rather than too low supply of energy products.

[5] The International Energy Agency and politicians around the world have recommended a transition to the use of wind and solar to try to prevent climate change for quite a few years. This approach seemed to have the approval of both those concerned about too much burning of fossil fuels causing climate change and those concerned about too little fossil fuel energy causing economic collapse.

A rough estimate of what the decline in energy supply might look like under the rapid shift to renewables proposed by politicians is shown in Figure 6.

Figure 6. Estimate by Gail Tverberg of World Energy Consumption from 1820 to 2050. Amounts for earliest years based on estimates in Vaclav Smil’s book Energy Transitions: History, Requirements and Prospectsand BP’s 2020 Statistical Review of World Energy for the years 1965 to 2019. Energy consumption for 2020 is estimated to be 5% below that for 2019. Energy for years after 2020 is assumed to fall by 6.6% per year, so that the amount reaches a level similar to renewables only by 2050. Amounts shown include more use of local energy products (wood and animal dung) than BP includes.

If a person understands the connection between energy consumption and the economy, such a rapid drop in energy supply looks like something that would likely be associated with economic collapse. The goal of politicians seems to be to keep citizens from understanding how awful the situation really is by reframing the story of the decline in energy supply as something politicians and economists have chosen to do, to try to prevent climate change for the sake of future generations.

The rich and powerful can see this change as a good thing if they themselves can profit from it. When there is not enough energy, the physics of the situation tends to lead to increasing wage and wealth disparities. Wealthy individuals see this outcome as a good thing: They can perhaps personally profit. For example, Bill Gates has amassed about 270,000 acres of farmland in the United States, including newly purchased farmland in North Dakota.

Furthermore, politicians see that they can have more control over populations if they can direct citizens in a way that will use less energy. For example, bank accounts can be linked to some type of social credit score. Politicians will explain that this is for people’s own good–to prevent the spread of disease or to prevent undesirables from using too much of the available resources.

One way of dramatically reducing energy consumption is by mandating shutdowns in an area, purportedly to prevent the spread of Covid-19, as China has been doing recently. Such shutdowns can be explained as being needed to stop the spread of disease. These shutdowns can also help hide other problems, such as not having enough fuels to prevent rolling blackouts of electricity.

[6] We are living in a truly unusual time, with a major energy problem being hidden from view.

Politicians cannot tell the world how bad the energy situation really is. The problem with near-term energy limits has been known since at least 1956 (M. King Hubbert) and 1957 (Hyman Rickover). The problem was confirmed in the modeling performed for the 1972 book, The Limits to Growth by Donella Meadows and others.

Most high-level politicians are aware of the energy supply issue, but they cannot possibly talk about it. Instead, they choose to talk about what would happen if the economy were allowed to speed ahead without limits, and how bad the consequences of that might be.

Militaries around the world are no doubt well aware of the fact that there will not be enough energy supplies to go around. This means that the world will be in a contest for who gets how much. In a war-like setting, we should not be surprised if communications are carefully controlled. The views we can expect to hear loudly and repeatedly are the ones governments and influential individuals want ordinary citizens to hear.

About Gail Tverberg

My name is Gail Tverberg. I am an actuary interested in finite world issues - oil depletion, natural gas depletion, water shortages, and climate change. Oil limits look very different from what most expect, with high prices leading to recession, and low prices leading to financial problems for oil producers and for oil exporting countries. We are really dealing with a physics problem that affects many parts of the economy at once, including wages and the financial system. I try to look at the overall problem.
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4,427 Responses to Why No Politician Is Willing to Tell Us the Real Energy Story

  1. Fast Eddy says:

    53:00 mark …. https://gettr.com/streaming/p1paie5ef4d

    Vax is wrecking the vascular system

  2. Fast Eddy says:

    UK: Births in England COLLAPSED and are NOT Coming Back Up
    Births Declined by 14%. Should we call it INFERTILITY?

    https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/uk-births-in-england-collapsed-and

  3. Fast Eddy says:

    38:00 mark https://gettr.com/streaming/p1paie5ef4d

    The Pfizer Vaccine Is A Better Abortion Pill Than The Abortion Pill

    Dr. Jim Thorp: Pfizer themselves are telling you they’re killing and murdering women and children, pregnant women and babies: Out of 270 pregnant women, they didn’t follow up 238 of them; the miscarriage rate there was way north of 70%

    The abortion pill, Mifepristone (RU-486), has a block box warning; you’re not allowed to use that drug without extreme surveillance, yet we’re pushing the vaccine!

    The British Government just republished a document (that’s been sitting around for almost a year) where they said that the vaccine should not be used in pregnant and lactating women

  4. banned says:

    Well the CEP isnt moving things along. Looks like plan B is needed.

  5. Fast Eddy says:

    THE MORTALITY BOMB

    The vaccines have a delayed effect. Analysis by state shows massive increase in mortality in 7 states in the third quarter of 2021 (Q3)

    So the vaccines act like a bomb with a 100 day fuse.

    Pharma tested this delayed effect in 7 states only on working age adults – not on the aged.

    https://www.bitchute.com/video/1MoeYFS4OSoA/

  6. Fast Eddy says:

    1,255 ADVERSE EVENTS FOR BABIES 6 MONTHS- 4 YEARS
    AFTER COVID SHOTS; VAERS

    Side effects recorded in VAERS for babies and toddlers who are injected with the COVID-19 vaccines include:

    anaphylactic shock, dementia, depression, lupus, pancreatitis, colitis, Guillain-Barre syndrome, encephalitis, seizures, meningitis, and rashes.

    VAERS (https://medalerts.org/vaersdb/findfield.php?TABLE=ON&GROUP1=CAT&EVENTS=ON&PERPAGE=500&VAX=COVID19&WhichAge=range&LOWAGE=.5&HIGHAGE=5&VAX_YEAR_LOW=2022&VAX_MONTH_LOW=06)

    norm?

  7. Slowly at first says:

    It is widely believed that we exist to accomplish something and that at some point we accomplish it.

    • davidinamonthorayearoradecade says:

      and then we die, and enter the nothingness of eternal death.

      mission accomplished.

      (oh, what if your above comment was what you were meant to accomplish?)

    • Mirror on the wall says:

      Willing always has some object, it is a willing _something_. That could give the impression that ‘something’ grand is willed. It is like saying that all thinking is a thinking something and thus there is ‘something’ grand to think. Religions can get started on that sort of stuff. (lol)

  8. Fast Eddy says:

    More celebs!!! Excellent … enjoy:

    Beto O’Rourke halts campaign; UFO cancels tour; Grigor Dimitrov quits Winston Salem Open; Dr. Dre has “brain aneurysm scare”; iJustine has “blood clot scare,” Tony La Russa has “heart issue,” & more

    A ferry crash in Canada; a truck careens into a Costco in Nebraska; three badly hurt in weird mishaps in Germany; a Chilean runner goes into cardiac arrest for 22 minutes; and more NON-fatal oddities

    https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/beto-orourke-halts-campaign-ufo-cancels

  9. CTG says:

    OK. A very simple quiz for EU

    Weakened Immunity + little or no food/water + cold = ??

    Worldwide :

    Financial collapse in EU + no supplies/parts from EU + burgeoning debts + restless natives = ???

    Happening soon (maybe next week when the price of gas/energy/oil explodes) due to the shutdown of NS1.

    What did Ernest Hemingway say about bankruptcy?

    • Fast Eddy says:

      I smell the stench of Extinction ….

    • davidinamonthorayearoradecade says:

      2030.

    • NS1 was only at 20% before. There is some natural gas in storage in Europe, right now. Europe has hope that the US will somehow come up with more gas for them. Price of gas may go up next week, but it won’t explode this soon. Businesses will start closing down. This will help keep prices from exploding, as well.

      • CTG says:

        Business closing down will certainly cause a financial crisis. It is the financial crisis that will being down all connected parts of this world. No gas/energy will only destroy EU.

        Let us wait and see how interconnected we are

        • davidinamonthorayearoradecade says:

          the misery will definitely get more interconnected.

          misery, poverty, poor nutrition, less sanitation, poor heating, etc etc.

          it seems to me that there is a long way down before masses begin to die off.

          by the middle of this winter, perhaps millions will wish they were dead, but probably will still be here, and suffering through it.

          it’s actually not all good, but the Universe doesn’t seem to care.

        • Tsubion says:

          I would say we’re highly interconnected and extremely dependent on China’s (and others) manufacturing for products and parts that grease the wheels at all levels of our comfortable existence.

          So yeah… I think we know which way the cookie crumbles when the financial system goes off the cliff.

          I still see some rejigging of all the parts going on, but it all looks like a desperate attempt to hang on by our fingernails when the cliff has already fallen away beneath.

          How long can the BRICS pretend that they’ll be the new kings of the world?

          Can America save itself by shrinking back into its own walled garden?

          Will Europe descend into madness and be invaded by hordes of “barbarians?”

          Or…

          Are we witnessing a Hollywood production (a reality TV show on steroids) where the “globalists” step in at the last minute with tea and biscuits for all the “winners?”

    • CTG says:

      It is always the shock and sudden (but massive) deceleration that kills. An electricity bill that goes from £100 to £600 over a 6-year period is not an issue as compared to the same increase in 1 month.

      Normalcy bias happens all the time to humans and that csn bw its downfall. People still think that it will not be an issue this winter and Russia will supply gas and things will be fine and dandy. It is when the sudden reality hits the face hard that will jolt some people up. How these people react is a scene to behold. Markets will react differently now since literally winter is going to be at the door steps. If NS1 somehow exploded, the markets will be chaotic and those who are still asleep may be jolted up.

      I am running a business and I can tell you that an increase in 5x energy prices is totally unsustainable. All my profits are gone and that is I assume I can still sell the same amount of good at the same price.

      Imagine all the businesses in UK gets the shocking bill end of this month or if they decide to close down even before the bill arrives, then what happened to all the businesses? The jobs?

      When UK goes, the financial world collapses and it will bring the whole edifice down. We may not know about this unless MSM reports it (i e. See what happens to Sri Lanka). Did the tree fall if no one was there to hear it fall?

      • JesseJames says:

        Not to worry…Sri Lanka got an IMF bailout package. Same pack of leaders still running things. The military is still funded. This is our collapse future.

  10. Rodster says:

    Global CV19 Vax Propaganda Means Mass Casualties – Dr. Pierre Kory
    https://usawatchdog.com/global-cv19-vax-propaganda-means-mass-casualties-dr-pierre-kory/

    “World renowned CV19 critical care and pulmonary expert Dr. Pierre Kory thinks the CV19 vax is a “humanitarian catastrophe,” and it is being “ignored . . .suppressed and censored” through a well-organized global propaganda campaign. This propaganda will be responsible for millions of deaths that have already happened and many more millions of CV19 vax deaths in the future. Dr. Kory explains, “We have data screaming at us everywhere we look. You can start with the life insurance data, India’s data, Germany’s data, and we know people are dying at unprecedented rates. That is one thing. We know that disability is through the roof. No one has seen VAERS (Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System) with the numbers it is screaming. Now, we . . . are seeing buried miscarriage rates and spontaneous abortion rates 70% and up to 90% in pregnant women.”

    • Fast Eddy says:

      I don’t get why people are so afraid of Extinction … it means everybody dies… what’s the big deal about death when everyone else is dying too?

      • Kim says:

        “what’s the big deal about death when everyone else is dying too?”

        The viewpoint of the perfect herd animal.

        Herd animal #1: “Oh, look, he’s walking straight into the rotating blades. How bad can it be?”

        Herd animal #2: “Yeees. It’s like the stunbolt at the abbatoir. They say is no different than getting flicked with a finger but they make such a fuss about it.”

      • banned says:

        Its not the horror of death that is the bother of extinction. Its the end of the beauty of life. Even hoolio knows that! Especially hoolio as he is the supreme omniscient being that was sent to save us!
        Hoolio!
        Hoolio!
        Hoolio!

        • Fast Eddy says:

          He’s a very humble saviour – if he is… he can run the 100 in about 6 seconds… and he doesn’t brag about it.

    • Alex says:

      “Now, we . . . are seeing buried miscarriage rates and spontaneous abortion rates 70% and up to 90% in pregnant women.”

      Another alt celebrity bites the dust.

      • The number of live births seems stable in the US, however. The number in rose in 2021, compared to a very low 2020.

        https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/vsrr/vsrr020.pdf

        Also, in 2022, the number of live births is higher in 2022 than the corresponding births for 2021, for January, February, and March, which is all that is available.

        https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/provisional-tables.htm

        I think that a much higher miscarriage rate is nonsense. It would show up in the birth data.

        • Jan says:

          Interesting. Minus 10-15% in Europe, high correlation with the start of the injections.

          If it is a bioweapon we should see differences between the USA and Europe.

          —–

          Background info for the link:

          MGF is a new party in Austria founded to reject the vaxx mandate and with a lot of regional scuccess. They managed to break conservative dominance in the regions which led to another course of the conservative party on the federal level, too. They support one of seven candidates for directly elected president. Their candidate promised in case of vicitory to demiss the government and thus initiate reelections for parliament, too. Meanwhile 5? of 7 candidates have promised the same.

          Fiala is gynecologist and medical researcher in Vienna with an undoubted reputation.

          https://www.mfg-oe.at/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Geburtenrueckgang2022.pdf

        • T.Y. says:

          Thanks Gail. I think you are correct. On a different note: the article you wrote shows a 6pc energy decline rate if understood correctly; how did you arrive at that number ? And what range is most likely for that metric ?
          Finally; assuming some near perfectly allocating techno communism system would be imposed with overnight transition for majority to 3rd world personal energy consumption levels ( not saying it can be done but what if ) how much energy would this free up theoretically before any further diminishment would only be met through population reduction.from starvation etc ?
          Although this goes against all odds, perhaps there may be insights tot be had approaching it from this Angle ? If the results ,ould show that it only saves a few years then that would in itself be interesting data Point ?

          • Jan says:

            It would mean a crash of all industry that is related to mass productions, above all chemistry, steel, metals, glass, semiconductors. Such a crash would stabilize on a lower level of complexity. This would have effects on delivery, food production, military security, communication, housing, finance and governing. And this would have an effect on the exploration, extraction, raffination and distribution of oil as much as on gasoline driven machinery.

            And a war economy leads to a deficit of all after some time.

            Some areas might do better than others, if they are quite self-sufficient.

            • Xabier says:

              There is no lower level of complexity: it has been erased nearly everywhere.

              Without those industries we all die rather quickly.

        • Student says:

          Gail, I’m not sure that miscarriages are precisely reported.
          They are different than live births.
          I think about poor people or people living in deprived backgrounds (but also people for other various reasons they don’t want to report), it is difficult they take the trouble to report the data to authorities…

    • Germany doesn’t seem to be doing as poorly as the US with respect to excess deaths since the beginning of COVID.

      https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/excess-mortality-p-scores-projected-baseline-by-age?country=USA~DEU

      Recently, (Since mim-March 2022), the US seems to be doing a bit better than expected in terms of excess death. It looks to me as if deaths in the 85+ group are a little below average, perhaps because so many died off before. Germany is doing less well in recent months than the US, however.

  11. Mirror on the wall says:

    lol

    The punchline:

    “On Friday, Russia said its key Nord Stream 1 pipeline to Europe would not reopen as planned.”

    > Britain will be forced to buy back gas shipped to Europe

    Fuel piped to the Continent to fill stores over summer will have to be returned at a high price, experts warn

    Britain will be forced to buy back gas exported to Europe to keep the lights on this winter after supplying about 15pc of supplies stored on the Continent.

    The UK’s lack of storage means that gas which was shipped to terminals this side of the Channel and then piped abroad will have to be pumped back into the country as temperatures fall.

    Unprecedented volumes of the fuel have been sent to the European Union via the UK in recent months, as countries race to fill up their storage sites after Russia strangled supplies.

    With little storage of its own, Britain typically buys gas back from the Continent during winter.

    This year, it will leave the country exposed to higher prices and market havoc if Russia goes further.

    Peter Thompson, a gas market expert at the consultancy Baringa, said: “Effectively the UK’s market stores gas in continental Europe storage, and then it’s pulled back out in the winter.

    “That’s normally what happens. But I think there is a question entering this winter – there’s no business as usual position.

    The extent to which that happens is going to depend on all sorts of things – Russian supply, how cold the winter is.”

    On Friday, Russia said its key Nord Stream 1 pipeline to Europe would not reopen as planned.

    Aurora Energy Research says that in a normal winter, the UK can get as much as 25-30pc of its gas supplies from the EU.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2022/09/03/britain-will-forced-buy-back-gas-shipped-europe/

    • Kim says:

      I wonder what will happen to the figures for housefires in metropolitan areas.

      And how long until having a wooden fence is labelled anti-social and selfish when so many people urgently need firewood.?Or having a wooden verandah. Or wooden steps. After all, it is much more social if we all huddle together in the cold in one room downstairs.

      Oh, look, here comes Officer Plod:

      “Oi, you! Do you have loicense for that body temperature?”

    • postkey says:

      “Britain will be forced to buy back gas shipped to Europe”
      Will the gas be available?

  12. Mirror on the wall says:

    LOL

    ‘Hey, that is what democracy is for!’

  13. Yoshua says:

    https://mobile.twitter.com/WallStreetSilv/status/1565704584747749382

    Vladimir Putin talks about Western monetary policies…global shortages…and inflation

    • Putin makes the point that all of the additional money supply of the US and the EU had the effect of inflating world commodity prices. This practice disproportionately hurt the smaller, poorer countries that could not inflate their currencies.

      • houtskool says:

        Inflating currencies is the problem in the first place. Why did we change money for currency? Greed.

        Brain quantity is no guarantee for succes.

        • Kowalainen says:

          For sure you can find yourself a local maxima where you’re better off than everybody else. The problem with primates is the perceived status within the herd and not that of the success of a species as a whole.

          I guess nobody would like to change their lifestyle for the despots of olden days. It doesn’t matter if you’re the richest man on earth without electricity and the internet. Etc.

          • Kim says:

            It doesn’t matter if you’re the richest man on earth without electricity and the internet.

            The internet was a disaster for the human race. And we would all be much better off without it. (Although, of course, I sincerely would miss you all.)

            • Kowalainen says:

              You are free to hand back all the technology you take for granted, yet despise, any day of the week.

              But that will happen as little as you’re going to return your other little conveniences and luxuries such as the comfy Mc Mansion and that gas guzzler of yours.

              Because it signals status and prestige within the herd and life would also inconvenience you without them.

              Innit so?
              🤣👍👍

            • Fast Eddy says:

              OFW would not exist.

              Therefore Fast Eddy would not exist.

            • Kowalainen says:

              All hail tech and what it enables, except for the sanctimonious Hypers jacked on egotistical fantasy, copiates and hopiums.

              “Only a sucker put hope in the future.”
              — Alan Watts

  14. hillcountry says:

    Good article at Unz Review the other day on CDC’s ‘walk-back’.

    Amusing comment just below it:

    “In short, by the time the jabs became available, people had plenty of time to do the exam prep for a #OneQuestionIQTest.

    IQ Test

    Background.

    A corporation with a long history of proved criminal behaviour, in an industry rife with corrupt trial design and selective publication of results, claims to have perfected a treatment for a usually-minor respiratory virus of a type for which no vaccine has never been successfully developed, using a technology that has never worked in 15 years of attempts. They went to court to argue that you not be allowed to see the raw data from their trial, for 75 years.

    Questions

    1. Do you want an injection of their new product? (Y/N)

    End of IQ Test

    https://www.unz.com/article/cdc-vaxxed-and-unvaxxed-on-equal-footing/

  15. el mar says:

    A hymn for Fast Eddy:
    Herd Culling
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l420X9T1a6E

    Saludos

    el mar

  16. CTG says:

    I remembered a few weeks ago, the price of electricity shot up tremendously as UK has to buy electricity from EU.

    OK. Tell me how this will work this winter when EU itself is already short of electricity.

    Plus UK non-existent gas storage

    • Tim Groves says:

      I suspect it will work by collapsing economies across the continent and causing millions of people to die before their time of famine, disease, and cold.

      MAP OF THE DAY: Wholesale day-ahead electricity prices breaching the €700 per MWh barrier in multiple European countries today. Two years ago, the typical price was leas than €50 per MWh. These are prices paid for **today’s electricity*

      https://twitter.com/JavierBlas/status/1564147030955593728/photo/1

      • Why is Norway charging its customers such high price for electricity? Or, am I not reading this map correctly? Norway, Sweden and Finland all have very high prices for electricity. Maybe not quite as high as most of the EU, but certainly unacceptably high for places where electricity is used for everything.

        • Jan says:

          It is said to be EU law binding the electricity price on the price for gas generated electricity. Countries with a high level of ecological electricitiy cannot use their advantage.

          Norway is a European exporter of gas and oil and no member of EU. Usually they are somehow dependend to EU law, too.

          Very specifc question, I cannot answer.

        • Kailash says:

          Norway is nominally charging market prices, as all of Northern Europe is connected to a common electricity market through Nord Pool. However, in Norway the Government is subsidizing 90% of the cost above NOK 0.70/kWh, paid directly to the supplier.

          A new cable was just laid that connects Norway to England. This and other export cables allow Norwegian energy producers to get much higher prices than they otherwise would have been able to charge. This has led to protests and the Government has signaled they may restrict exports. Since Norway exports both gas and electricity, the crisis is bringing in lots of income — but it’s not of course a long-term advantage to have you main trading partners collapse.

          • Slow Paul says:

            This subsidy is limited to households for now. Industry is paying the full charge and there is a lot of debate on what to do going forward.

    • Jane says:

      Global warming or global cooling?
      Today my Russian correspondent, a senior analyst in a large financial institute, writes this:
      “Russian scientists studying global warming include, besides climatologists, also glaciologists, oceanographers, geophysicists, etc. They have different views on this issue. Many recognize the fact of global warming, but point out a cyclical nature of climate changes in the very long term. They do not deny the anthropogenic impact, but think that it is much less important than the natural factors of climate change. They, for example, emphasize the key role of the World Ocean in the exchange of CO2 and other processes, especially the role of deep layers of the Ocean that essentially have not been properly examined.
      They also suggest that the effects of Antarctica on climate change is not well understood. For example, the volume of ice extent that is being accumulated in Antarctica is very huge because of the snowfalls in its eastern part that has increased due to global warming. The ice melt in Greenland is very small compared to the accumulation of ice in Antarctica.
      The view of Russian scientists on the dynamic of Arctic sea ice coincides with Daily Sceptic: ice melting reached maximum in 2012 and then the tendency reversed. *****That is why Russia continues to build new ice breakers to be used in the North sea way! ***** [ding ding ding]
      Some Russian scientists deny the phenomenon of global warming at all and prefer to talk about the tendency of global cooling. They predict that a new ice Age will come and it may happen quite soon instead of global warming.”
      ++++++++++++++++++++++++

      A Google search on the subject produced, basically, hits of articles that equated “climate doubt/denial” (totally absurd terms) with either right-wing politicians or some kind of psychopathology. Of course Russians who remember the USSR are tuned in to labeling dissent of any kind as schizophrenia, and incarcerating the dissidents to “cure” them of their “delusions.”

      I did find a link to a website called Extroverse, with the below story (links to further “cooling not warming” updates at the bottom of the page).

      https://electroverse.net/top-russian-scientist-we-should-fear-a-deep-temperature-drop-not-global-warming/

      Curious as to what the “expert denizens” of OFW think of this site and these articles and the news in the links from Down Under.

      P.S. I had sent my friend a link to an article at Daily Sceptic, here?

      https://dailysceptic.org/2022/09/01/the-real-inconvenient-truth-arctic-sea-ice-has-grown-since-2012/

      • Jon F says:

        I have no expertise in this field…FWIW the only scientist I know of who has spoken publicly in recent years on the global cooling/GSM is Dr Valentina Zharkova….if you search her name on Bitchute you will find presentations in which she walks the audience through the process whereby she figured out the relationship between particular solar activity and global warming/cooling….

      • Fred says:

        I’ve been following the Electroverse guy for a while. Seems to me he talks sense and usually backs his statements e.g. ice build up in Antarctica with data.

        Contrast that with the pseudo-religious ravings of the climate change crowd.

        Historical solar cycles and their effects on climate are well documented. We’re heading into a major solar minimum, so no surprise that likely means global cooling.

        According to Electroverse, diminishing solar activity also means disruption to the Earth’s normal air flows. E.g. weakening upper atmosphere streams means ‘blobs’ of hot or cold air can move to areas the don’t usually appear and thus you get heat or cold waves in places that don’t normally get them.

        • Fast Eddy says:

          That’s cuz the GW (oh right they change to CC when some places got cooler)… is ..

          Mentally Ill.

        • Halfvard says:

          You can also think of this less stable climate during diminished solar activity from the perspective of the global climate as a dissipative structure. With decreased solar activity, there is less energy flux through the system and so it loses some of its complex, stable structure.

      • Jan says:

        We are at the beginning of an ice age, both poles are covered with ice. Within that are we are in a warming period. Due to sun activity we are approaching a Grand solar minimum which historically leads to more precipitaion and droughts, to dry rivers and floods, famine and vulcanism.

        The planetary system is not in a perfect equilibrilum, changes in gravity have effects as much as complex planetary routes.

        But, hey, good news, if you buy a Tesla or two and give up warm showers you could change all that!

    • Perhaps hope for lots of global warming hitting the UK quickly.

      • Jane says:

        This doesn’t seem to be a reply to the item that I posted. Which is about global cooling.

        • I was (trying to) responding to CTG, talking about what the UK can do about how the UK will get along without EU electricity this winter. It needs to hope/pray for very rapid warming.

    • Jan says:

      Fiber producer Lenzing in Austria cuts production in Heiligenkreuz (340 workers) due to high gas prices.
      Rumours say car parts producer Magna in Graz has annouced to release 9.000 workers.

      Supply and demand will fall and production facilities get lost after some time.

      https://www.wienerzeitung.at/nachrichten/wirtschaft/oesterreich/2160287-Lenzing-Standort-im-Burgenland-muss-wohl-Produktion-zurueckfahren.html

  17. Mirror on the wall says:

    > G7, Russian oil price cap. EU, gas price cap. Nord Stream 1 goes to ZERO, indefinitely

    • Global price cap come up by G-7 members– no details on how to come up with the cap and how they would enforce it.

      Janet Yellen supports this. Thinks it will push prices down without adversely affecting supply.

      Russia says it will not supply at this lower price. It will de-stablize the system.

      Hoping to get the price down to $50 or $60, and that Russia will actually supply at this price.

      EU has its own version of this, to become effective about January.

      This only related to the first 6 minutes of the 38 minute video.

      • Mirror on the wall says:

        As the discrepancy widens between a) the ‘higher’ price that producer countries need for energy production to stay profitable and to maintain their societies with the income and b) the ‘lower’ price that consumer countries need for their companies to ‘remain’ profitable and to maintain their societies, then it would suit the consumer countries to enforce price caps.

        But it is not as easy as that. It would no doubt suit consumer countries for producer countries to collapse bar the energy production as that would remove the cost of supporting those societies from the price of energy for consumer countries. But the global economy has not developed in that way, and there is no obvious reason why those countries would favour that.

        Nevertheless, we can see that issue on the horizon as the aforementioned price discrepancy widens, and we may take this present development as suggestive of future potential conflicts of interests on energy price. G7 would love to control the price of energy, and that is a broader issue than the UKR conflict.

        Obviously OPEC+ will resist that tendency to price control shifting to consumers, so the present attempt is obviously destined to failure. No one is short-sighted enough to endorse that precedent. G7 seems to be assuming a stupidity of energy producers that does not exist. Those consumer countries that try to enforce a cap are probably about to be cut off, so the stupidity may actually lie elsewhere right now.

        • Kowalainen says:

          The “consumer” (allowed to consume) countries sit on pieces of crucial tech which is needed by “low-tech” producer countries (India, China, etc), which aren’t keen on joining any ridiculous embargoes.

          Say ASML and EU/US MIC gear on top of my head.

          They’ll start selling off the Crown Jewels one by one to maintain the status quo. This will simply be a matter of “back channel” work and some clever book keeping operations. Sell they will – lock, stock and barrel.

          Don’t expect the russkies and Chinese to be on the back burner so much longer.

          This is of course “problematic” for the US MIC (semiconductor industry in extension), since lots of that tech can be found sprinkled about in energy starved Europe.

          Of course there exists other valuable assets in a country that could be put on a fire sale. Say hydro power stations, mines, forests, etc.

          The nation states will seize productive assets from the populace and then flip them to the highest bidder. And one doesn’t simply seize assets (one more time) from large multinationals based in the US. Just wait for it.

          And once it’s all gone, nobody of any significance cares anymore. Just another inevitability in the grand scheme of things given the pathology of primates.

          • CTG says:

            Kow… you assume that the social fabric will stay intact and that the engineers of ASML and others companies will not starve or freeze…

            There will be, at one point time, money will be useless when there is social upheaval

            • Kim says:

              In the now fissiparous-by-design Europe and United States, social upheaval will not overthrow the rulers but in fact accelerate destruction of the middle classes and every value and outlook and inclination of the heritage populations.

              That is why the “migrants” were imported. Migrants from the least likely and most dysfunctional places in the world. They could have filled Europe with Koreas – if they were indeed concerned for the financial health or stability of their states – but instead Europe got Somalians and sub-Saharan Africans and in the USA people from countries with the highest homicide rates in the world like Honduras, Jamaica, and Haiti.

              Now only to the most blinkered and propagandized idiot is it not perfectly clear that these imports are not tomorrow’s doctors and engineers and that they will never care for granny in the nursing home or contribute to “paying our pensions”. The very notion is an insult to our intelligence.

              So why have they been brought in?

              Well, one reason – the most benign – is simply for growth. The population of Sydney alone, for example, increased from 4 million to 5 million in the period 2010-2020, and that was the result of mass immigration. The banks and the developers and government and low wage employers made money on that of course. And that may be to some degree the case in the UK as well, although 16,000 “refugees” and unskilled, low-iq, culturally hostile, unassimilable “immigrants” are arriving there daily and this is hardly likely to be the fruit of a well-thought-out strategy of national “growth”.

              But there are other reasons too. One is for the simple sadistic enjoyment of seeing the European genome destroyed. Why, otherwise, the drive to blacken Dublin? Or Norway?

              But with reference to social upheaval, like you I do expect to see some of that, but we will not see any unified social upheaval against the ruling class bcs any chance of social unity and class resistance has been utterly destroyed by the destruction of the racial profile of Europe.

              Further to that, I fully expect that if or when such upheaval arises – here or there – various racial and ethnic groups will be armed and provided the needed information to deal with it. In short, the ruling class will make use of local – and ethnically cohesive – mercenaries to control unruly peasants.

              So I now pray daily for meterorites to arrive with all of their power and force to obliterate Washington, London, New York and Brussels. That might at least slow these monsters down a little.

            • Kowalainen says:

              If everybody dies from the virus/vax I guess further elaboration is redundant.

              However, I’m expecting a scrappy “game” going ahead. A low-econ high tech grind in the best case.

              My perversion is such that I want the sanctimonious Hypers to squirm and twitch as the little conveniences and luxuries are ripped from their self entitled lack of soul, ah how I would glee.

            • Fast Eddy says:

              That’s the best part … the twitching … imagine you are an Influencer… with 2M mostly fake followers… you get free stuff all the time …

              Then suddenly Boom … no internet… imagine the twitching!! no more free stuff haha

        • Jane says:

          Consumers = buyers
          Producers = sellers.

          It is ridiculous to think that in a seller’s market, buyers can force sellers to lower prices. Same goes in the real estate market. It would be nice if buyers could force prices down to what they can afford! Jeez, I sure would like that!! But it ain’t gonna happen to suit me! Prices come down when market conditions change.

          I can’t see what oil consumers can actually do change the market conditions, except actually freeze and cancel their economies.

  18. Student says:

    Y 2022. Jane Fonda reveals ‘treatable’ cancer diagnosis, began chemotherapy
    The 84-year-old Academy Award-winning actress disclosed her diagnosis of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in an Instagram post on Friday.

    https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-716214

    Y 2021. Jane Fonda gets her first dose of coronavirus vaccine.
    https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/magazines/panache/jane-fonda-gets-her-first-dose-of-coronavirus-vaccine/articleshow/80630083.cms

    Y 2021. Jane Fonda Urges People To Get The Coronavirus Vaccine If They’re Able To After Having Both Doses Herself: ‘It Certainly Doesn’t Hurt’.
    https://etcanada.com/news/750844/jane-fonda-urges-people-to-get-the-coronavirus-vaccine-if-theyre-able-to-after-having-both-doses-herself-it-certainly-doesnt-hurt/

    It is obviously only a coincidence.

    • Tim Groves says:

      If the turbo cancer doesn’t get her, the chemo should do the trick.

    • Tim Groves says:

      From that last link:

      DeGeneres compliments Fonda, 83, on her stunning appearance and her grey locks, to which the actress replies: “I do [like it] too, I tell you I’m so happy I let it go grey.

      “Enough already, so much time wasted, so much money spent, so many chemicals. I’m through with that.”

      TG: It seems she spoke too soon there.

    • Tim Groves says:

      Jane is always entertaining, I’ll say that for her.

      “I will not let any of this interfere with my climate activism,” she said.

      While Fonda has been a long-time activist for a host of liberal causes, in recent years she’s been focusing her efforts on climate change.

      She’s been a regular at protests on Capitol Hill, donning a red coat and calling for more attention to the world’s climate crisis.

      Cancer and the climate crisis are linked, according to Fonda.

      “We also need to be talking much more not just about cures but about causes so we can eliminate them,” she added. “For example, people need to know that fossil fuels cause cancer.”

      https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/jane-fonda-announces-diagnosed-non-hodgkins-lymphoma-rcna46157

    • Cancer rates in older people are, unfortunately, quite high, with or without the vaccine.

    • Alex says:

      In what ways must old people die so that we can be sure neither Al Bourla, Tony Fauci, Bill Gates, nor Klaus Schwab interfered?

    • Jan says:

      Jane Fonda is a great idea though to fight freezing in European households!

      The only problem is that flexing activities might result in higher breathe frequences which could catapult earth into outer space or at least lead to wildfires.

      I am sure a microgenius will provide us with breath dampeners that provides electroshocks if we want to breathe. Modern technology will keep us warm!!!

  19. Dennis L. says:

    Maybe net zero is worth a look. Everyone here is convinced it cannot work, big money is not ignoring it, go with the flow?

    https://www.blackrock.com/corporate/investor-relations/transition-investing

    What would Blackrock know about money?

    Dennis L.

    • gpdawson2016 says:

      YouTube Makes Major Changes to COVID-19 ‘Misinformation Policies’

      I just watched this on The Pulse.

      • Social distancing and self-isolation advocated at one time; now this doesn’t matter.

        Masks now not emphasized. Can now point out problems with masks.

        Claims that COVID vaccines do not prevent transmission can now be made, since CDC is saying the same.

        More as well.

      • Kowalainen says:

        Next steps in the ladder of ultimate grief (extinction):

        Bargaining into depression (turbo cancer, VAIDS in MSM).

        It’s all good (failed species).

        • drb753 says:

          so bargaining, depression, extinction?

          • Kowalainen says:

            Depression, violence, chaos, disease, acceptance, extinction. Perhaps a few more squeezed in, you tell me.

            It’s all boilerplate evolutionary process for unfettered sentient (sapient?) embodiments striving for the unattainable, indeed.

            You don’t observe many dinosaurs walking the earth I reckon and they weren’t even Tryharding or MOARoning their future prospects into a puff of CO2 and hot air, yes?

            The existential angst is real – don’t get me wrong. I reckon both of us fancy life, no? It’s just a matter of how embroiled we are in egotistical fantasy (cope and hope), no?

            It is what it is.

          • Fast Eddy says:

            We need to add Extinction to the stages of grief.

    • There cannot be a net zero transition, as far as I can see. But if it will get Blackrock more investment, they will advertise it.

  20. CTG says:

    This is a few days old

    https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/chinas-top-developer-slides-rapidly-severe-depression-property-crisis-worsens

    Money does not buy happiness. Money is the root of all evil.

    Perhaps printed money is even worse

    • Oddys says:

      It is the LOVE for money that is the root of all evil.

      • Jon F says:

        I agree…in my world, trade comes as naturally to people as breathing…..at any level of societal development money becomes a necessity….a medium of exchange, a unit of account, a store of value….

        In a healthy society, money would be a means to an end….not an end in itself….banking would just be another unremarkable sector of the economy….no one would GAF about the opinions of moneychangers or speculators…..

        But here we are…..money knows no bounds….Moby Dick springs to mind….if the whale is money…..aren’t a lot of us Captain Ahab to one extent or another?

        It can’t last so it won’t….

        • Jane says:

          The legend of Midas made this totally clear. It was the LOVE of gold that destroyed him, and destroyed his human values and took over his emotional life.

      • Xabier says:

        The love of money is often rooted in fear.

        For those born in real poverty, the fear of one day returning.

        For the very rich, the fear of becoming ‘ordinary’, the loss of prestige and power or, believe it or not, of actually ‘dying poor’.

        The very rich will say something like ‘I’m feeling poor today’, and be downcast, when they have had a minor loss of a few millions which they can well bear. Emotionally, for them, it’s like the thought of losing our life savings which would be a real problem.

        In other words,a loss of perspective. It’s rather pitiful.

        • Oddys says:

          Interesting observation. What looks like “Love” is really an expression of “Fear”. The two are kind of mutually excluding opposites.

        • Dennis L. says:

          X,

          Maybe not. Money can be a way of keeping score, a non curved grading system; how does the world value your efforts. Also money as a store of value can mean you give more than you take. Doubt is? Matthew 25:14-30.

          Dennis L.

        • Fast Eddy says:

          Blue Jasmine – Woody Allen

    • Fast Eddy says:

      Q4 Boom… looking better by the minute

    • cassandraclub says:

      You’ll like this song by my favorite Australian

  21. Jon F says:

    Recent data from SMMT regarding UK vehicle manufacturing/sales……

    Manufacturing:

    https://www.smmt.co.uk/vehicle-data/manufacturing/

    – Car production down 16.5% year on year…..scroll down and take a look at the
    chart…production down over 50% since 2017!! The diesel emissions scandal has no
    doubt played a part in this.

    – Commercial vehicle production up 47% year on year, a multi-year high. A positive
    story amidst the UK doom and gloom.

    Sales:

    https://www.smmt.co.uk/vehicle-data/car-registrations/

    https://www.smmt.co.uk/vehicle-data/lcv-registrations/

    – New car registrations: Private sales up 4%, Fleet sales down 25% year on year. In
    July 2022, EVs outsold diesel cars 2:1

    – Light commercial vehicle registrations: Total regs down 24% year on year. I would
    guess that, like cars. fleet sales have cratered in 2022.

  22. Fast Eddy says:

    Buy Now, Pay Later Apps Surge in Popularity as Americans Struggle to Make Ends Meet

    Jack Posobiec: (http://t.me/jack_posobiec)”Zip reported a … 95% rise in the purchase of groceries using their service in the United States with restaurant bills up 64%.”

    “They want to find ways to be able to make ends meet. That’s the fault of our leaders. That’s the fault of the people that we put in charge.”

    Source

    Rumble (https://rumble.com/v1idrnx-buy-now-pay-later-apps-surge-in-popularity-as-americans-struggle-to-pay-for.html)

    • Jon F says:

      There’s an Aussie plc called Afterpay….operates in this arena….revenue was booming throughout 2020….haven’t kept up since…

      I have noticed that the big name retailers in the UK such as Argos and Clarks are offering this payment option…..buy a pair of shoes now…spread the payments over 12 -24 months….

  23. Fast Eddy says:

    MURDER for Profit: Perverse Hospital Incentives for COVID Deaths and Diagnoses

    • On March 24, 2020, the CDC and NVSS changed death certificate reporting in violation of federal law. Two days later, HHS tells Medicare, Medicare, hospitals, and doctors that they’ll get a MUCH HIGHER reimbursement for anything COVID.

    • The payout for a COVID death was substantially larger than it would have been otherwise.

    • Anyone who didn’t have insurance would qualify for Medicare or Medicaid if they agreed to the diagnosis of COVID and the subsequent protocols.

    • Families were separated from their loved ones, allowing abusive practices like starvation and Remdesivir in order to claim a COVID death.

    • Dr. Henry Ealy (http://t.me/covidcon21) believes the percentage of fraudulent COVID deaths is somewhere between 88.6% and 94.0%.

    • Per Dr. Scott Jensen, hospitals could be reimbursed as much as $39,000 for the use of a ventilator.

    • And hospitals were ultimately set up to fail unless they went along with the COVID protocols.

    Rumble (https://rumble.com/v1iarpp-murder-for-profit-perverse-hospital-incentives-for-covid-deaths-and-diagnos.html)

    • Jane says:

      This was all known at the time.

      Not that it doesn’t bear repeating.

      But it is remarkable that no one seemed to be paying attention.
      When I pointed out the suspicious changes in instructions for filling out death certificates, I was dissed. Ditto the other items on this list. It is just incredible that people’s shit detectors were simply disabled by the covid operation.

  24. Fast Eddy says:

    As if… (unless someone wanted this) https://t.me/TommyRobinsonNews/39194

    We won’t pay! https://t.me/TommyRobinsonNews/39195

    Colleagues

    Please see this concerning development involving C19 hero Dr. Flavio Cadegiani:

    https://www.trialsitenews.com/a/politicization-of-the-pandemic-intensifies-brazilian-researchers-data-seized-by-federal-police-4e2b7868

    Join 👉 @PeterMcCullough

    Trialsitenews (https://www.trialsitenews.com/a/politicization-of-the-pandemic-intensifies-brazilian-researchers-data-seized-by-federal-police-4e2b7868)
    Politicization of the Pandemic Intensifies: Brazilian Researcher’s Data Seized by Federal Police

    A prominent Brazilian physician-investigator and endocrinologist, Dr. Flávio Cadegiani, reports the seizure of vital scientific documen

  25. Tim Groves says:

    This video is an introduction to catastrophism and how the earth is due for some catastrophic changes soon.

    The wandering magnetic poles and the weakening magnetic field and the galactic plane and how the sun goes bang! every ten thousand years. And how the last time this happened was about ten thousand years ago.

    “When she goes, she is going to go fast. A 5% loss per year: 1% ever 72 days. When she goes, it’s going to be a couple of yeas at most. That’s not a joke.”

    I am agnostic on this. But on the other hand, it wouldn’t surprise me at all if we’re living in the last days of civilization. Velikovsky might have been right, after all. You may scoff at all this, but you will certainly enjoy the computer graphics.

    • Cromagnon says:

      The simacrulum is being reset. The facts are pouring in from many disparate sources.
      2040 and 2046

      The parasite class ( elites) take the brunt of the first hit. That why they have been building massive underground complexes worldwide for decades. It’s an old repeated tale.
      Then earth experiences a true full on apocalypse on the level of the biblical flood,… although this time the primary forces may well be inferno.

      Of populations remaining after the next 18 years of tribulations we will lose 75% of that.

      We are about to experience a near extinction level event.

      The simacrulum wants a clean slate.

      • >>>>>The parasite class ( elites) take the brunt of the first hit. That why they have been building massive underground complexes worldwide for decades.<<<<

        who have they been using for labour?

        unless it was a self build project?

        • Kowalainen says:

          Pointing the finger of blame is oh so convenient.
          Innit?

          But hey; who blew through a copious amount of finite resources attempting ‘da Hyper?

          Nobody walks the earth with blisters on the feet and skid marks in the underwear anymore. Yeah, Siddhartha is long gone.

  26. Fast Eddy says:

    Unprecedented Number of RARE CANCERS; Never seen before with any other vaccines

    ▪️Breast cancer in males

    ▪️Acute lymphocytic Leukaemia
    Is a childhood cancer and now being reported mostly in adults (average age 54 yrs)

    Dr. Jessica Rose; When you hear an oncologist say I’m seeing 50X more people per day with cancer you have to open your eyes

    WATCH HERE (https://soniaelijah.substack.com/p/the-many-lies-we-were-told-my-explosive)

  27. Lastcall says:

    ‘209 Quintillion Calculations per Second and the World’s Most Secure Computer Network.’

    Just had the above arrive in my junk box. Article claims that a barrier to fraud re-Bitcoin is the energy required to hack it.

    hmm, really?
    ‘The amount of electricity required to run the Bitcoin network makes it the most secure computer network in the world.’

    Need a few more windmills/hot air methinks!

  28. Fast Eddy says:

    And the latest update The Great Corn-Hoolio:

    https://i.postimg.cc/rz6TgN80/Hoolio-in-Bed.jpg

  29. Fast Eddy says:

    Thursday night, “Joe Biden” heralded a US economy firing on a gazillion cylinders. “American manufacturing has come alive across the heartland, and the future will be made in America, no matter what the white supremacists and the extremists say,” he declared. Is that so? Of course not. The country is verging on an economic catastrophe more consequential than the Great Depression of the 1930s, and the harbinger of it, a financial market crash, is sure to occur before November 8th. Everybody and his uncle on Wall Street knows that. The shadow regime behind “JB” knows that. He didn’t dare mention the word inflation, as if no one has noticed it. (Anyway, white supremacists did that.)

    https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/soul-man/

    Hey… November is Q4… (boom)

    The regime is backpeddling so hard on its Covid-19 bullshit that it has burst clean through the looking-glass it rode into in 2021, when, in the name of “choice,” it mandated that millions of Americans submit to forced shots of unsafe and ineffective pharmaceuticals. They know we are entering another flu season with those millions of people tragically left with wrecked immune systems courtesy of the vaxxes.

    VAIDS Cometh

  30. Fast Eddy says:

    I knew we were in for the business with that “soul of the nation” build-up ballyhoo, but I didn’t exactly expect Independence Hall to be decorated in blood red and sepulchral black à la the-mouth-of-hell for a sermon by the Lord of the Flies himself. Somehow his staff managed to get the Old Trickster to the fiery podium on-time, where, in his trademark inside-out and upside-down mode of argument, he inveighed wrathfully against the “grave threat to democracy” posed by an opposition laboring to undermine “our personal rights…the pursuit of justice [and] the rule of law.” Roger that, Kemosabe.

    I confess, I was hoping to see MAGA superhero Homey D. Clown materialize in a puff of rainbow-colored smoke right up there beside the sulfurous incarnation of “Joe Biden.”

    “MAGA Republicans have made their choice,” the hypothetical president shouted. “They embrace anger… they live, not in the light of truth, but in the shadow of lies.”

    “I don’t think so,” Homey would have surely retorted. Upon which, Homey whaps the Party of Chaos’s front-man upside his hair-plugged noggin with a sock full of Milk Duds. “Homey don’t play that.”

    So much for reveries of true righteousness….

    https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/soul-man/

  31. davidinamonthorayearoradecade says:

    Natural Gas Plant Liquids NGPL has reached huge daily volumes, more than 5 mbpd in the US.

    https://ourfiniteworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/US-oil-production-EIA-data-Sept.-1-2022-1024×272.png

    so much that more than 2,000 miles of NGPL pipelines are in the works:

    https://www.ogj.com/general-interest/economics-markets/article/14235568/eia-new-ngpl-pipelines-increase-us-natural-gas-processing

    “Natural gas plant liquids must be extracted from raw natural gas streams so the processed natural gas can be sold into the natural gas market. After these NGPLs—a mixture of ethane, propane, butanes, and natural gasoline known as the Y-grade mix—are separated from raw natural gas (primarily methane), they are shipped by pipeline for further processing.”

    • davidinamonthorayearoradecade says:

      https://www.investopedia.com/terms/n/natural-gas-liquids.asp#:~:text=Natural%20gas%20liquids%20%28NGL%29%20are%20components%20of%20natural,liquids%20and%20many%20different%20applications%20for%20NGL%20products.

      the methane is the main gaseous product, but:

      “Natural gas liquids are valuable as separate products, and it is profitable to remove NGL from the natural gas.”

      “Applications for NGLs can vary widely and include cooking, heating, plastics, and fuels.”

      about half of the NGL is ethane:

      “Ethane
      Applications of ethane include plastics production and petrochemical feedstock—raw materials fed into an industrial production process to yield a different end product. End-use products include plastics, plastic bags, antifreeze, and detergent.”

      most of the rest is propane and butane:

      “Propane
      Applications and uses of propane include residential and commercial heating, cooking fuel, small stoves, and petrochemical feedstock. Some vehicles also use propane as fuel.

      Butanes
      Butanes can be blended with gasoline and propane. Products include synthetic rubber for tires and lighter fuel. In its purest form, butane is useful as a refrigerant. Combined with propane, butane becomes liquified petroleum gas (LPG).”

      such is life in the Core, where the hydrocarbons flow in rates of about 20 MILLION barrels per day in just US production alone.

      NGPL tonight, baby!

      • Lastcall says:

        My 30 yr old, carburated ute, is dual fuel; LPG or petrol.
        I love that LPG sells at half the price of petrol.
        LPG for ME…now…baby!

        • davidinamonthorayearoradecade says:

          cool.

          some smokers carry around those small butane cigarette lighters.

          so they are carrying a small amount of NGPL.

          driving in this area, it’s easy to see a propane tank near many houses.

          the usual use is for a gas stove which many people prefer over electric for cooking.

          also for a propane “fireplace” for supplemental heating.

          I knew a guy who built a house and put in a huge underground propane tank to heat the whole house, but I don’t know if that’s economical or not.

        • davidinamonthorayearoradecade says:

          does LPG give the same miles per gallon as petrol?

          • Lastcall says:

            10% less power, 10% fewer miles.
            On an older vehicle that is.
            But I am 20% less power now, and have 50% more time so its all good.
            Open road speeds in NZ have been lgetting legislated down over the last few years so who cares.
            The roads over here (NZ) have deteriorated noticeably with the ‘Virus’. They need to inject more tarseal into them, so my old ute has no problem keeping up.
            Unlike the All Blacks …hahaha
            Go Argentina!

            • Fast Eddy says:

              My neighbour invited me over to watch – I’ve got a light blue and white striped polo shirt pressed and ready hahaha.

            • Lastcall says:

              I go to such places to watch the people watching the game; so much emotional investment in a team that doesn’t at all matter.
              Programming of the crowd.
              Lot of domestic violence around if there is a loss.
              Zombie world.

            • Fast Eddy says:

              I have long been amazed at adults who watch sports and take a win or a loss as if it matters. Why would anyone give f789s?

              Something about sport that taps into a primordial passion to kill kill kill that is lying dormant in MOREONS.

              It’s actually why I was hoping NZ would lose — the pleasure of watching people become distressed because their team failed to get a ball over the line as if that mattered… I enjoy that.

              I’ll watch a sport for entertainment value and all that I hope for is that it’s a close game – I do not care if one team or another wins or loses.

              It’s similar when I play hockey — I generally play with zero passion because I do not care about winning — the only time I actually put serious effort in is if some asshole pisses me off… then I’ll step up a few gears… otherwise who cares.

              And then there are the adults who ask for autographs… how pathetic is that… did I mention that I once went to an NHL game in Philly — was with a mate and we had tickets in one of the boxes where they have food and booze packages — we’re having a bite between the periods and some guy is proudly telling us about his niece who babysat for one of the players and she shagged him…. as if that was a badge of honour. I was like wow that’s awesome – good for her!

              Mates of mine were at an NHL game in Montreal — the opposing team was staying in the same hotel … over breakfast my mates watched as two 50+ year old men approached a couple of the players at a table and were fawning over them like love-struck 14 yr olds… they signed the autographs and let them take their photos…

              When the old boys left my mates overheard to players saying ‘f789ing losers… time to grow up’

              Hahhahahahaha….

              And then there was a player for Montreal — I know this because I played with his older brother — and he’d go to watch games from time to time … after the game he’d drive with him back to his home — and on the way out of the arena there’d be teen girls playing the groopie role waiting outside hoping to be chosen — the players don’t generally stoop to that level as that would get them into trouble — he was also telling them how girls send them nude or semi nude photos with their phone numbers… call me anytime…

              One final anecdote — when concerts came through our town they’d hire a bunch of us from a gym to keep people from trying to rush onto the stage… I think it was a Metallica concert — show ends – two young girls maybe 16? approach — they ask the Roadies if they can go back stage to meet the band… the Roadie says — only if you show us your ___s…. The two of the girls confer for a moment …then say no we won’t do that. But they seriously considered it.

              Humans are both MOREONS … and Losers. And Stooopid.

              Why would we be surprised that they are willing to inject an experiment into their bodies?

      • The value of most of these things is pretty low, I understand. It does make the all liquids amounts look good, even if it simply gets burned for fuel.

    • davidinamonthorayearoradecade says:

      “Natural gas liquids are hydrocarbons. A hydrocarbon is a molecule composed exclusively of carbon and hydrogen. As hydrocarbons, NGLs belong in the same family of molecules as do natural gas and crude oil.”

  32. CTG says:

    In response to Gail’s need for data as evidence, I find it strange that insurance industry is denying the need to “do something” about the premiums.

    There are many anecdotal evidence of increased death (my area – the ambulance sirens are plentiful everyday). I have seen someone take a snapshot via camera phone of the increase in payouts.

    In a real world, people might explain that it is a konspiracy that the government worldwide is asking insurance companies to hush up and “here is the money foe being hush hush”.

    In a reality of simulation, this is nothing more than a simulation to see how people react.

    Look at the red backdrop of Biden’s speech… it is meant to scare people but did anyone in USA felt scared and rise up? Nope.

    With all the evidence being presented that Pfizer cheated (the data dump), why is it no one sued the company?

    It is indeed strange that no one is doing anything at all. Sri Lanka – what is going on there NOW?

    We are indeed in a simulation.
    https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/confirmed-we-live-in-a-simulation/

    • Rodster says:

      The vaccine makers cannot be sued because governments from around the world have given them total indemnity. Although, they can sue each other which Moderna has begun to do because it feels the others are encroaching on their $55 billion dollar cash cow. Expect that figure to balloon with all the booster shots and the new ways to scare the public to get more vaccines in their bodies.

      So it’s all profit and no liability for Big Pharma.

      • CTG says:

        Someone said that if it is fraud, then thr shield is gone… so, why no one even bother to try to disarm the shield?

        • Rodster says:

          Because governments from around the world gave Big Pharma a free pass with total indemnity. Big Pharma saw a huge cash cow with their vaccines and told the governments, we will only give you these vaccines if we are not held liable if anything bad happens. The governments agreed to their terms.

          So the drug companies can injure you with their vaccines, send you to hospital and you are then stuck with all medical bills. You can’t even get Big Pharma to reimburse you. Nice business model, huh?

          That’s like a car company knowingly building a faulty car, people get injured or killed on the road and the car maker can’t be held liable.

  33. Rodster says:

    This is just awesome. Moderna is suing Pfizer and BioNTech over the mRNA patents. And these companies raked in billions in profits but the best quote was from a Tweet. “They can each other but we can’t sue them” 😔

    https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/moderna-sues-pfizer-biontech-over-covid-19-vaccines

  34. banned says:

    If I talk with neighbor MAGA X. He is quite sure that if conservative values were to predominate he would have all the diesel he needs. If I talk with neighbor PERMY green he is quite sure that solar panels and his garden will provide and conservatives are racist old codgers. What neither will acknowledge is a the most self evident thing that we live in a world that has finite resources. They are quite on edge about this subject. If you bring it up they will start to look at you funny. If you threaten consumption models you are instantly placed in the “them” category. Its far more easy to get excluded by asserting finite resources than talking religion. It is THE most divisive issue. Neighbor PERMY GREEN has six kids. Implying finite resources means I question his kids future. Neighbor MAGA X can not make it without diesel. No diesel means his way of living and supporting his family ends. Neither can see the commonality with the other. They both work hard. But they self define as opposites. Neither sees the commonality that they are humans on a planet that is running out. Each has totally bought in to their consumption model and judges the others consumption model as wrong. They trust and surround themselves with others that share the same consumption model. Each are human and have positive and negative qualities. Each believes a solution is possible and the others consumption paradigm works against that solution. In effect they believe the other is threatening their and their families future with their consumption model but their consumption model is benevolent. In the short term divisiveness is our greatest problem. Yet our so called leaders power comes from opposite consumption models that drive this divisiveness. I am truly scared. Normal people have fanatical beliefs.

    • denial is our greatest danger

    • Hemorrhagic Fever says:

      New father mid career engineer, left leaning fellow, foisted him two charts the other day, chart 1 population growth the last 500 years and chart 2 energy use for the last 500 years. Told him hydrocarbon energy is mostly responsible for this population spike, trillions of years of human labor equivalent utilized so far, asked him if he knows how much recoverable is left in the earth.

      He laughed and shook his head side to side, “Actually the lightbulb is what caused that population spike. That allowed businesses to add night shifts etc..”.

      In my mind in that moment, was hoping eugenicists were dumping UEP in the water supply and spraying it overhead in real time.

      Some other common reactions when I bring up energy decline-

      Blank stare, will not engage.
      “That’s oil company propaganda”
      “Really smart people have it under control, we don’t have to worry about energy.”
      “Nuclear, hydrogen are gonna save us whether you like it or not.”
      ” They just want to control us. We have X hundred amount of years of oil left”

      Was at a tint shop 6 months ago, one other customer there waiting so I brought up energy and guy happened to know exactly what is occurring.

      I’m expecting more volatile divisiveness going forward but also a few more people here and there beginning to think critically.

      • Fast Eddy says:

        It’s like to explain to a barnyard animal that they are being farmed and will be send to the abattoir once they are fattened… murdered … then roasted and eaten…

        You’ll get a similar blank stare and then they will lower their heads and continue eating….

        This is what the Elders figured out a century ago — they are farming the MOREONS.

        The MOREONS are expandable so who cares if they want to eat Doritos for dinner…

        The only thing that really matters to them is cheap energy… that gets their attention

      • Alex says:

        “In my mind in that moment, was hoping eugenicists were dumping UEP in the water supply and spraying it overhead in real time.”

        LMAO.

    • Fast Eddy says:

      99.99999% of all people are mentally ill and or stoooopid

      Really.

      • Kowalainen says:

        Not necessarily stoopid, but rather mentally Ill from being embroiled in egotistical fantasy, copium and hopium.

        “Only (mentally ill) suckers put hope in the future”
        — Alan Watts

  35. Mirror on the wall says:

    G7 has approved a price cap on Russian oil. Russia has said no more Russian oil for them or for any country that supports the cap.

    > Russia says it will stop selling oil to countries that set price caps

    MOSCOW, Sept 2 (Reuters) – The Kremlin said on Friday that Russia would stop selling oil to countries that impose price caps on Russia’s energy resources – caps that Moscow said would lead to significant destabilisation of the global oil market.

    “Companies that impose a price cap will not be among the recipients of Russian oil,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters in a conference call, endorsing comments made on Thursday by Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak. read more

    “We simply will not cooperate with them on non-market principles,” Peskov said.

    https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/russia-says-it-will-stop-selling-oil-countries-that-impose-price-caps-2022-09-02/

    • This sounds like a good way to reduce the quantity of oil the G7 members are able to purchase.

      • Fast Eddy says:

        The thing is …

        Just about everything we know about the world — is conveyed to us by the MSM.

        We know the MSM lies.. it creates what we refer to as the Matrix… a false reality. But most people are completely unaware of this … for them .. the Matrix is reality.. most who are aware of it … go along with it and assume some of the Matrix is actually real… otherwise one may as well take up knitting because what’s the point of discussing and debating anything if it’s all fake.

        How do we know that any of the energy numbers we receive provide us with the actual state of affairs? When KSA says they have x reserves – how can we confirm that?

        Did anything believe there would be what appears to a s shortfall in natural gas in 2022? The common perception has been that there is a lot of gas but that oil was a bigger problem as shale depleted.

        How do we know that Russia simply does not have the resources to continue to export — we don’t.

        But we do know that energy prices are out of control and threatening to collapse Europe… we are told that is because of Putin … that it’s temporary.

        Would the EU commit suicide to support Z? No god damn way… he’s a clown. Ukraine does not matter.

        It seems more likely that Russia is at a tipping point and can’t supply the markets.

        Impossible to know definitively though.

        If only I knew how to knit… M Fast knows… perhaps she can teach me

    • davidinamonthorayearoradecade says:

      the Girly7 are mostly Eurotards.

  36. Slowly at first says:

    It has long been held that we exist solely to worship an omnipotent intelligence. His name is Fast Eddy.

    • davidinamonthorayearoradecade says:

      It has long been held that the human imagination has invented a long series of gods.

      add one more to the long list.

      the CEP is coming!

      Q4?

      que sera sera.

  37. Fast Eddy says:

    Preparing you for the Extreme Lockdowns… the Global Holodomor … The Extermination:

    https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/philadelphia-brandon-and-the-template

  38. Fast Eddy says:

    Officially listed polio cases went from some 25,000 in 1943 before US civilian use of DDT, to over 280,000 cases in 1952 at the peak, more than a tenfold increase.

    The Rockefeller Institute operatives and the AMA, via their agents in the US Government, created the 1946-1952 USA health emergency called polio. They did so by knowingly promoting the highly toxic DDT as a safe way to control the mythical insect spreaders of the feared disease

    https://georgiedonny.substack.com/p/toxicology-vs-virology-the-rockefeller

    • This is really a William Engdahl article.

      The article is about not being able to isolate the virus that causes polio, and similarly not being able to isolate the virus that causes Covid-19 and a lot of other viruses.

      I don’t think that this is a major issue. At one point in the article he says,

      They proclaimed that the Rockefeller Institute doctors had thus proven poliomyelitis virus causality for the mysterious disease. They hadn’t done anything of the sort. Flexner and Lewis even admitted that: “We failed utterly to discover bacteria, either in film preparations or in cultures, that could account for the disease; and, since among our long series of propagations of the virus in monkeys not one animal showed, in the lesions, the cocci described by some previous investigators, and we had failed to obtain any such bacteria from the human material studied by us, we felt that they could be excluded from consideration.” What they then did was to make a bizarre supposition, a leap of faith, not a scientific claim. They took their hypothesis of viral exogenous agency and made it fact, with no proof whatever. They asserted: “Therefore, …the infecting agent of epidemic poliomyelitis belongs to the class of the minute and filterable viruses that have not thus far been demonstrated with certainty under the microscope.“ Therefore?

      Simon Flexner simply asserted it “must” be a polio virus killing the monkeys, because they could find no other explanation. In fact he did not look for another source of the illnesses. This was not scientific isolation.

      I don’t think that this is a major issue.

      • hillcountry says:

        I’m not sure I understand the part about it being a major issue (or not) but in fairly recent work by Lida Mattman, Lawrence Broxmeyer, Alan Cantwell, et.al. we read papers at Pubmed with abstracts like the following from 2008:

        Abstract
        Acid-fast tuberculous mycobacterial infections are common in AIDS and are regarded as secondary “opportunistic infections.” According to the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, TB is the major attributable cause of death in AIDS patients. Could such bacteria play a primary or causative role in AIDS? Certainly, In screening tests for HIV, there is frequent, up to 70%, cross-reactivity, between the gag and pol proteins of HIV and patients with mycobacterial infections such as tuberculosis. By 1972, five years before gays started dying in the U.S., Rolland wrote Genital Tuberculosis, a Forgotten Disease? And ironically, in 1979, on the eve of AIDS recognition, Gondzik and Jasiewicz showed that even in the laboratory, genitally infected tubercular male guinea pigs could infect healthy females through their semen by an HIV-compatible ratio of 1 in 6 or 17%, prompting him to warn his patients that not only was tuberculosis a sexually transmitted disease, but also the necessity of the application of suitable contraceptives, such as condoms, to avoid it. Gondzik’s solution and date of publication are chilling; his findings significant. Since 1982 Cantwell et al found acid-fast bacteria closely related to tuberculosis (TB) and atypical tuberculosis in AIDS tissue. On the other hand molecular biologist and virologist Duesberg, who originally defined retroviral ultrastructure, has made it clear that HIV is not the cause of AIDS and that the so-called AIDS retrovirus has never been isolated in its pure state. Dr. Etienne de Harven, first to examine retroviruses under the electron, agrees. In 1993 HIV co-discoverer Luc Montagnier reported on cell-wall-deficient (CWD) bacteria which he called “mycoplasma” in AIDS tissue. He suspected these as a necessary “co-factor” for AIDS. Remarkably, Montagnier remained silent on Cantwell’s reports of acid-fast bacteria which could simulate “mycoplasma” in AIDS tissue. Mattman makes clear that the differentiation between mycoplasma and CWD bacteria is difficult at best and cites Pachas’s 1985 study wherein one mycoplasma was actually mistaken for a CWD form of a bacterium closely related to the mycobacteria. It is important to realize that the statement “HIV is the sole cause of AIDS” is just a hypothesis. There are unanswered questions and controversy concerning the role of HIV “as the sole cause of AIDS.” And until they are resolved, a cure is not possible. This paper explores the possible role of acid-fast tuberculous mycobacteria as “primary agents” in AIDS.

        Pubmed ID: 18691828
        November, 2008

        Much may be answered via awareness of the century-long investigation into Microbial Pleomorphism and Cell-Wall Deficient forms of BACTERIA (that are proven to be filterable – meaning they pass THROUGH a ceramic filter), and as such have been mistakenly considered VIRAL entities, likely due to a misconstrued definition long ago. The battles over this continuing dilemma or misunderstanding were openly and vigorously fought in the 1920’s and before and there is no better historian of those than Lawrence Broxmeyer. I guess where things really matter and are an “issue” is on the question of effective treatment for illness. If one misidentifies causation, how is successful treatment accomplished?

  39. banned says:

    The (bluescreen?) red and black surroundings of the presidents MAGA= extreme threat speech are IMO worthy of note as is the flanking of the two marines at attention given the meaning of extreme threat in context of the commander and chief and military. Largely all the rest of the words were ambiguous virtue signalling The red and black surroundings and the marines accent the only non ambiguous words of the communication. Non ambiguous as they are defined by the military as a authorization and command to use force to end threats. The surroundings and the marines lay to rest any idea that this was a mis speak- words intended for civilians, a mistaken authorization of force not intended for the military. This communication was first and foremost a authorization and command to the military to use force in regard to a threat in public with a heaping helping of the usual terms used to attempt to create moral authority amongst civilians that the military does not concern themselves with. The communication while it may only registered with civilians intuitively was understood as a absolute by all with a military background.

    This is of course is unprecedented. Declaring a portion of the domestic opposition party to be a “extreme threat” to the military. It just so happens that those same individuals are the same individuals bringing evidence forth of extreme acts of corruption by Joe Biden and his son. The constitution specifically prohibits military from campaigns against domestic civilian populations but all “enemy’s” are fair game both foreign and domestic. I would say that this speech defines MAGA as a enemy to the republic. The speech defined MAGA as a minority fringe element of the republican party and this raises a obvious question one asked by reporters to the press secretary. MAGA was and is far from being a minority part of the republican party. How can 74 million people who voted for trump be considered a minority? While her answer was “we hit a nerve” a vague civilian phrase it is clear what is trying to be achieved. A command that MAGA be a minority that the republican party disavow it so the individuals bringing forth evidence of the Bidens corruption can be persecuted as enemies while those who avert their eyes are given a pass from the clear authorization of force by the commander in chief.

    The civilians who identify as republicans still have very favorable opinions of the MAGA philosophy honestly believing that the USA can return to a place where it enjoyed energy consumption, freedoms and a standard of living in the past. It is key that it is this concept that was identified as a example of the “extreme threat” not Trump support itself.. MAGA is in fact a anti thesis to the ideas that we are entering a different time where the consumption of the past is not appropriate BUT new “green” consumption can occur. I can tell you that regardless of political or religious beliefs advocating less consumption is not popular in the extreme. This communication is clever as it directly declares one basis for consumption the enemy in the strongest possible way while leaving the other predominant paradigm that justifies consumption the “green” paradigm unscathed. Of course both paradigms are completely delusional. The hows and whys of consumption define the political parties and the beliefs around this are quite strong. To command the republican party to abandon its particular delusions is in effect dissolving the consumption rationale that binds the party. The demand made is one of seppeku -or else. The leaders of the party could not get their constituents to abandon their consumption paradigm even if they wanted to. They do not wield that power and he power that they do wield is directly dependent on that consumption paradigm.

    The Republican base can no more discard its paradigm of consumption than the democrat base can discard its green basis of consumption. In each cases the beliefs are core to the identity of the party. While the Biden organism claims this is merely a request that a minority part of the party come into compliance (or else) its command attacks the consumption basis that binds the party. As such it is a escalation of divisiveness of unprecedented degree. While both parties have implied the consumption paradigm that binds the other is delusional while asserting that their own is sound until now there has never been a demand that one or the other consumption paradigm be dissolved or force will be used. In fact neither party is capable of discarding their consumption paradigm so it is absolutely clear that this unprecedented action will result in the use of force. This is completely understood by all parties. What Biden has commanded is not possible. The pretext for conflict where there is no middle ground is initiated and both parties are unaware of the commonality of the delusion of both the consumption paradigms -in fact have fanatical ideas supporting the paradigms. So it begins.

    This was a pivotal moment. Face tearing begins momentarily. Maybe Eddy is right. A little strawberry F in the cabinet.

    • I agree that neither party’s position really represents a solution for allowing America as a whole to continue to grow and prosper.

      I suppose that there is a chance the America will fracture into two (or more) pieces, with Democrats in some parts, and Republicans in other pieces. The Democrats will be mostly in big cities, on the West Coast, and in the US Northeast. The Republicans will mostly be in more rural areas.

      The Republicans will end up where most of the resources are: the farmland and rivers, and what fossil fuel extraction remains. The Democrats will end up mostly in big cities. These big cities will tend to lose out in the war for resources, If there are not enough to go around, they will tend to stay in the rural areas, where the workers who did the work to obtain the resource stay. So, if there is hope for some parts of the US to continue longer than others, I would think it would be the more rural areas. Of course, this is where the Republicans will dominate.

      • banned says:

        Its a recipe for disaster. The two differing belief systems are geographically inseparable . The cities cant just let the resources be separated from them. The rural is plenty sick of being demonized. And now!!! A extreme threat??? What they are going to have the military stand over the farmers and make them grow food? Shoot them if they dont? Biden is a madman. Hes gone off the deep end. Some one wants conflict in the USA. Now all respect is gone. I see signs all the time people are putting up on their farms and homes. Joe n Hoe. Thats where people are at. Both sides have abandoned respect. What send people with those signs to camps? People are losing it saying nasty things. Someone like Tulsi who represents the middle ground is shunned by both partys. She was our only hope and she never had a chance. You know what the extreme threat is? The divisiveness. Tulsi got it. Are people blind? Has everyone gone mad? There is no them. There is only us. The enemy is divisiveness. We are all just trying to make it. Every single one of us. just trying to make it.

      • Xabier says:

        It depends on what coercive force governments still have, and if road communications are kept in repair.

        Historically, the experience of rural communities is of more powerful government forces turning up and stripping them of their foodstuffs, and often women and children.

        If you can’t defend it, or escape with it to a safer place, it isn’t yours.

        This was the experience of peasants everywhere, sometimes even those who were tough mountaineers.

        So it all depends on what force can be brought to bear at the point of conflict over food.

        Nomads and herders were always the ones who could literally ride away – for example, the weak governments of Iran in the 19th and early 20th centuries found it very hard to control them – they moved fast, took their food with them, and could also launch serious raids.

        Ancient China had much the same trouble with nomads. but made sure to crush its peasants hard. Peasants would often be robbed and tortured by both sides.

        The peasant is just as vulnerable as the landless city-dweller, and more likely to be robbed than given rations to keep him quiet.

    • drb753 says:

      This is one of the best posts here in a long time

  40. Fast Eddy says:

    Dr. Wolf summarized a video interview in which Dr. Thorp presented a picture of a placenta of a woman who was in her third trimester of pregnancy and had received the Pfizer Covid vaccine 8 weeks prior. He said this is not uncommon in placentas 8 weeks post-vaccination, and he’s noticing a pattern of this state of the placenta. There’s a netting of calcification that’s not meant to be there. The white area surrounding the placenta lobes represents calcifications from serious inflammation. Typically this finding is associated with the slowing of the growth of the fetus, reduced amniotic fluid volume, and abnormal fetal surveillance testing. The dark circle on the right may be indicative of a blood clot.

    https://etana.substack.com/p/vaccinated-placentas

    It’s a god damn horror show out there!!!

    Fortunately most of us are not MOREONS nor Mentally Ill … so we’re not vaxxed…
    haahahahahahahahaha … so this is all white noise

    I sleep well – very well indeed

  41. Fast Eddy says:

    Watch this closely — it’s a dry run for what is coming … https://twitter.com/WallStreetSilv/status/1565572804732395520

    UEP better succeed – cuz otherwise… once they strip the shelves bare and rip up the doomie prepper farms… the hordes will go for the children … skin them alive… and boil them

    Anyone who thinks otherwise — is living in a dream world of koombaya and other nonsense

    • Agamemnon says:

      How dare you! Pray , repent , reform!
      You don’t understand humans. I’ll help you. Lezzee now:

      https://www.rfi.fr/en/asia-pacific/20160522-cannibalism-china-publication-official-records-50-years-after-cultural-revolut

      “ Their bodies were stripped of flesh, which was taken back to the front of the brigade office to be boiled in two big pots. Twenty or thirty people participated in the cannibalism. Right out in the open, they boiled human flesh in front of the local government offices.”
      “And they just kill those victims and they cut their chests they prise the hearts and livers out and just eat them. At least 10.000 people participated.”

      Bbbbbbutt hunger hunger distorts our real good nature annndd…
      The cases of cannibalism had nothing to do with a lack of food, and recorded cases differ from those written up during the ‘three years of disaster’ after the Great Leap Forward (1958-61) when China had fallen into famine and starving people ate human flesh out of desperation.

      https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/15496287/china-cannibalism-flesh-banquets-ripped-hearts-victims/

    • JMS says:

      Muscular management of scarcity in a techno-dictatorship is what i see there, which to me btw seems a veritable BAU lite portrait. China is pointing the way since Wuan Episode.
      And there’s no denying that the Chinese civilization has at least three times the experience of any other in the technique of controlling large masses. 2500 years of it. I’m sure our elders envy the ease and confidence with which Chinese elders control their 1.4 billions.

      • Tim Groves says:

        Controlling large masses, often through massacre, according to Seki Hei—although he may be biased as a traitor to the race.

        https://www.sdh-fact.com/book-article/216/

        CHAPTER 1: HOW THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY AROSE
        OUT OF MASS KILLING 7
        Revolution is “Killing in Conspiracy with Scoundrels” 7
        The Horrendous Reality of Yicun Yishao Yisha 11
        To Kill the “Enemy,” Start with a Friend 14
        The “Great Purge of the Red Army”?The Execution of 10,000 Men by Mao 18
        How 70,000 “Revolutionary Comrades” were Slaughtered 22
        “Starvation Tactics” that Caused 330,000 Residents of Changchun to Die of Hunger
        23
                                        
        CHAPTER 2: THE COMMUNIST GOVERNMENT AMUSING
        ITSELF BY SLAUGHTERING ITS OWN PEOPLE 26
        “Land Reform Activity” That Took the Lives of Two Million People 26
        The Zhenfan Massacre Involving the Immediate Execution of 710,000 People 27
        The Sad Fate of a University Professor Shot to Death for a Preposterous Reason 32
        The Sufan Campaign?Slaughter as “Entertainment” 35
        The Great Famine Claiming Tens of Millions of Lives Caused by a “Policy” 38
        “Food Exportation amid Starvation”?the Crime of the Century 42
        CHAPTER 3: HOW THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION PERIOD
        CREATED A “MURDERER’S PARADISE” 47
        Mao Zedong’s Last “Dipi Liumang Revolution” 47
        Pohai Zhisi?Mass Slaughter on a National Scale 49
        Middle School Teachers Beaten to Death 52
        Pre-Holiday “Murder Festivals” Became Customary 55
        Mass Murder of Incidents for the Sake of Exterminating “Class Enemies” 61
        CHAPTER 4: CRUEL TALES OF MASSACRES MAKING THE
        PAGES OF THE IMPERIAL HISTORY OF CHINA 66
        The Tyranny of the Qin Empire That Carried out “Three Types of Massacres” 66
        The Han Empire’s 400-year History Filled with Intrigue and Killings 70
        Bloodthirsty Power Holders in Turbulent Times 77
        Great Blood Purges Reiterated in the Ming Empire 84
        CHAPTER 5: BLOODCURDLING INDISCRIMINATE MASSACRES
        IN THE HISTORY OF CHINA 89
        The “Great Sichuan Massacre” Began with the Killing of a Million People 89
        “Murder Competition” Within Zhang Xianzhong’s Army Brought About the
        Annihilation of the Population 93
        The Manchus’ War of Conquest Garnished with “Castle Slaughter” 99
        The Taiping Rebellion and the Genuine “Nanking Massacre” 105
        The Tiananmen Incident: A “Beijing Massacre” of Only 18 Years Ago 108
        AFTERWORD: THE LOGIC OF MASSACRE BORN OUT OF THE
        CHINESE DYNASTIES 114

  42. Fast Eddy says:

    Why is #PedoHitler Trending On Twitter? Hint: Senile Diaper Soiling Ice Cream Eating Pedo Criminal Puppet

    Having the marines in the background flanking the sicko puppet at his pulpit was also a conscious hyper-politicization of hate.

    Biden’s One World Government handlers are blatantly messaging that the military is ready, willing and able to take the current full spectrum soft war that the illegitimate Federal government is waging against We the People into full on kinetic war.

    https://2ndsmartestguyintheworld.substack.com/p/why-is-pedohitler-trending-on-twitter

    norm … diaper soiling … you and joe could be best mates

    The PR Team is really pushing this One World Govt / Slave society hard now… we are getting close to the end game …. which is anything but a one world govt…

    (UEP awaits – Q4 Boom?)

    https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcd904432-8fee-4bfd-9174-78b8c173d2d3_1170x1775.jpeg

  43. Fast Eddy says:

    From my friend, Mike Yeadon.

    I believe Mike, not just because I’ve looked him straight in the eyes and trust his honesty, integrity and wisdom but because the vast amounts of data I have studied for myself fully support his rhetoric.

    Over to Mike:

    The most important single message I’ve ever written.

    It was prompted by this superb expose of malfeasance in UK government.

    https://metatron.substack.com/p/an-important-message-from-dr-mike

    • fromoasa says:

      “the media, controlled by just six global corporations, all allied to a single global organisation you’ve all heard of”

      Could you spell out the names for us, Fast?

    • fromoasa says:

      But it doesn’t explain what his malfeasance is. And if it would cause trouble with WHO, well, WHO is hardly a model of rectitude in these times.

      • Fast Eddy says:

        mike goes from one mass delusion to another… he’s flailing … as are most people who can see that the injections are dodgy…

        Anything but UEP is the way they roll.

        I can see why UEP has about as much appeal as a roll in the sack with that festering ball of puss, SSS…

  44. Fast Eddy says:

    Speaking of norm….

    The elderly aren’t dying quickly enough.

    Plans undertaken by the NHS in the UK are designed to accelerate their slaughter this autumn.

    The financial incentive (blood money) will be “outcomes based”:

    £150 for each ‘small care home’ of 1-10 residents

    £275 for each ‘medium care home’ of 11-49 residents

    £400 for each ‘large care home’ of 50-149 residents

    £525 for each ‘very large care home of 150-250 residents

    £2500 for each ‘very old goat living in the attic who wears adult diapers’

    https://metatron.substack.com/p/the-elderly-arent-dying-quickly-enough

    • Rodster says:

      £2500 for each ‘very old goat living in the attic who wears adult diapers’

      I wouldn’t pay that much for Old Joe Bidet. 🤪

    • lol eddy

      desperation shows you know

      do try originality—that shows too

    • houtskool says:

      You’re overdue Fast. You’re blowing up a great website.

      Stop it.

      • Fast Eddy says:

        Fast Makes OFW Great!

        FMOFWG!

        norm and his refusal to answer questions — is blowing up OFW. He makes a mockery of OFW.

        Alternatively norm completes us. Either way… who cares.

        The Show… Must… Go … On.

        More Boosters — Tally Ho!!!

    • The headline you link to says:

      GPs to receive incentive payments to deliver ‘accelerated’ care home Covid boosters

      As a practical matter, COVID vaccines seem to be most harmful to the young. If there is a group that they are neutral or somewhat positive on, it is the very old. In fact, it is the group that is most likely in care homes of various kinds that is most likely to benefit. Older folks in good health may receive less benefit.

    • Xabier says:

      GP’s live for the pensions and bonuses, they’ll be very excited about this I’m sure.

      In the early 18th century they mocked the greedy doctors of the day, saying their slogan was ‘Shut up, just take the medicine and give me my 2 guineas a day!’

      Even then it was said they preferred permanent invalids to cured patients.

      What’s changed in 250 years?

    • Rodster says:

      Supposedly there’s a meme making the rounds that if Bidet had used the word Jews instead of MAGA, it would be a throwback to 1933.

      • You might be right!

      • Kim says:

        Except jews were in fact a direct internationalist threat to Germany while MAGA is a (somewhat) patriotic and nationalist American movement.

        People may not be aware of it, but Germans were perfectly reasonable and justified in their suspicions and resentment of jews and in their desire to enforce their emigration and even to very generously fund it (see the Haarvara agreement, 1934 -1941).

        After all, Jews were the senior figures in the German Communist Party and the Comintern who had been organizing and implementing a strategy of civil war and rebellion in Germany from 1917 right through the 1920s. Need I refer anyone to the Bavarian Soviet, or Bela Kun in Hungary or the Judeo-Bolshevik, Wall Street funded revolution in Russia, or the endless street fighting in 1920s Germany, or to the 1933 declaration “Judea Declares War on Germany”?

        https://fromthetrenchesworldreport.com/the-jews-declare-war-on-germany-1933/146397

        Germans were perfectly aware that the Versailles Treaty that almost destroyed them was a creation of the jews with jews being key advisors on every side of the table.

        https://www.realjewnews.com/?p=40

        Yet the USA today is indeed in many ways a throwback to Weimar Germany in that it is completely in the hands of the jews, media, education, the courts and judiciary, finance, the CDC, the FDA, Big Pharma, and it is being deliberately driven into a ditch of social decay, perversion, porn, goyslop food, dependency, Bi Pharma drug addiction, cartelization, kleptocracy, mismanagement, chronic illness for constant profit, subversion, deliberate neglect, and the sacrifice of national interests to international interests.

        This can be demonstrated on numerous metrics. Simple headcounts demonstrate it.
        Consider the abundance of newly-appointed jews in Biden’s administration to add to the already numerous jews in such positions.

        https://www.jta.org/2021/01/20/politics/all-the-jews-joe-biden-has-tapped-for-top-roles-in-his-administration

        And don’t talk to me about merit. This is like appointing an Indian to control hiring for your IT team. I can guarantee you the outcome won’t be “diverse”.

        Not that it was any better under Trump, where it was also wall-to-wall jews. His children all married jews. Biden’s children all married jews. Pelosi’s grandchildren are all jewish.

        So today is like 1933. Yes, I can agree. Unfortunately, it is not like 1933 in a good way.

        • I have some doubt that the case against the Jews was as strong as you think, but I have been letting posters offer their views.

          What I do know is that both the time around 1933 and the current time are periods of serious energy shortages. Germany did not have enough food to feed everyone. It somehow needed an out-group. The world is now reaching the same point. World energy per capita is falling, and soon there will not be enough food for everyone, given fertilizer shortages and many other issues, including countries around the world not being able to afford to import energy products.

          It is the shortage of goods and services (indirectly related to inadequate per capita energy supply) that pushes governments to strange, extreme measures. We know that everyone needs something like 2,000 calories per day. If the economy is only producing, say, 1,500 calories a day of food, then even distribution will mean that everyone will be come weaker and weaker, and eventually die. If the distribution of calories can be made uneven (which is the way the physics of the economy normally workers), then “survival of the best adapted” will take place. This is the economy’s way of behaving, even if its distasteful to use. The way our self-organizing economy seems to work is that it pushes leaders to identify out-groups to push this natural tendency along.

          • Kowalainen says:

            A scapegoat is always convenient, problem is that the entire species is pathological. Jews are no exception.

            And people still believe the problem is political, even here at OFW.

            I mean, seriously. People need to get on terms with having their egotistical fantasies crumbling into a pile of despair and poverty. Therefore the copium of scapegoating.

            How do you like typing long articles read by people severely blinded by the myopia of ordinary.

            A predicament is a problem without solutions. Blowing through finite resources trying to attain the unattainable given the pathology of a primate yields the same result Every. Single. Time. the wheel of folly turns in eternity.

            Expect no different outcomes the next time around, and the next after that, ad nauseum, in perpetuity all retch and no vomit until “we” backpedal up into the trees from where we once came from.

            One does not simply strap on a huge neocortex on a primate frame without repercussions. Q.E.D.

      • Xabier says:

        And that meme would be almost entirely correct, although Biden did exempt non-MAGA republicans from his insults, and Adolf gave no exemptions.

        We could also reference Communist attacks on the bourgeoisie and anti-revolutionary reactionaries, or medieval Catholic condemnation of heretics: Totalitarianism has many faces.

  45. The WSJ is now reporting
    https://www.wsj.com/articles/russia-to-keep-nord-stream-pipeline-shut-citing-mechanical-problems-11662137957

    Russia to Keep Nord Stream Pipeline Shut, Citing Mechanical Problems
    Move raises the pressure on Europe as governments race to avoid energy shortages this winter

    No expected restart date is given.

    I notice that the US stock market immediately dived, after this was announced. The Dow had been at about 32,000. It now is at about 31,200. The drop from yesterday is -440.

    • Mirror on the wall says:

      Wow.

      “The energy giant said the pipeline would not restart until repairs were fully implemented.”

      And

      “On Wednesday, Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller said Siemens Energy, a pipeline equipment supplier, could not carry out regular maintenance because of sanctions.”

      _If_ those two propositions form a syllogism then the NS1 may not be back up for a while/ at all.

      “Last month, Robert Habeck, Germany’s Economy Minister, said, ‘They don’t even have the guts to say “we are in an economic war with you.”‘”

      Bob, do you remember when it was openly stated that the sanctions on Russia were intended to collapse the Russian economy and the Russian state?

      What is it to Russia if the very same sanctions distress the German economy and state? You want a ‘declaration’ about your own ‘sanctions’ now?

      • Sort of like, “We will turn the pipeline back on when we are good and ready to.”

        • Kowalainen says:

          What could be more irritating than squeezing a “fart” though the pipeline every now and then just to check that the gear still is in working order.

          A tit for tat game.

          Let ‘em Hypers feel the whiff from energetic gasses.

    • houtskool says:

      Monetary plane -/- 300 feet
      Physical plane + 340 feet

    • CTG says:

      I need someone to correct me. I read somewhere sometime ago that storage for energy (be it gas or liquid) is being demolished for good in UK. They are not just merely shutdown but demolished as well.

      At that time, I did not think much about it since I am here in a country that has plenty of everything. Now, I think it is either stoopid, incompetent or downright eviil.

      So, if that is true, UK better prepare for the last winter.

      • davidinamonthorayearoradecade says:

        I recall a story recently that the UK has a max of about 1 DAY of storage capacity for natural gas.

        Britards are very much Eurotards.

      • Kim says:

        How can possibly still think that this reflects incompetence?

    • all wars are fought over energy resources

      this one is just panning out a little differently, in ways no one anticipated

      the winner will be the one who can utilize energy most effectively

  46. Mirror on the wall says:

    The UKR ‘counter-offensive’ has been a complete disaster with hospitals overflowing. A day of mourning has been declared. The UKR general turned out to be right when he warned against it. They had neither the artillery nor the manpower to pull it off. Absolutely nothing has been achieved with horrific losses. It is a criminal debacle. Complete media blackout. It remains to be seen whether the Zelensky government will survive this or the UKR military will do a coup.

    • Somehow, this story is completely believable. Ukraine cannot possibly win.

      • Fast Eddy says:

        Just like the hospitals were falsely overflowing with Covids?

        • TIm Groves says:

          This is a good point. I can’t find any videos of hospitals overcrowded with limbless and bandaged soldiers. It’s surprising, given the amount of carnage reported.

          • Kowalainen says:

            Media blackout could be an explanation.

            No internet provider would host that kind of content.

            And let us not forget which country invented the internet.

            Videos of Ukie Tryhard attaboys ground to the gore by russkie artillery would “intensify” the peace talks in no time flat.

            Obviously that would be crazy talk. The choices are two.

            1. Uke war, or
            2. Everybody’s gonna get injected

            CHOOSE!
            (wisely?)

            🤣👍👍

    • Fast Eddy says:

      Media blackout = no videos right? Now I get it

    • davidinamonthorayearoradecade says:

      COUP! COUP! COUP! COUP! COUP!

  47. Minority of One says:

    Interesting post on Harry’s Economic News yesterday. Seems like the west is no longer capable of building nuclear power stations that actually work:

    “Finland’s ‘very pricy’ nuclear reactor in trouble again.
    “Finland’s fifth and largest nuclear power reactor, Olkiluoto 3, saw its output drop to zero due to a turbine failure on Monday, yet another setback for the reactor still in the trial phase but already supplying the country’s grid. Built by the French-led Areva-Siemens AG consortium, the 1.6 Gigawatt reactor was supposed to be operational in 2009.”

    “was supposed to be operational in 2009.” and still not working

    https://www.euractiv.com/section/energy-environment/news/finlands-very-pricy-nuclear-reactor-in-trouble-again/

    Meanwhile BoJo in one of his last statements as PM of the UK is promoting nuclear:
    Boris Johnson: Go nuclear, go large and go with Sizewell C
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-politics-62753340

    Judging by the Fins experience, if we start development next year, the plant might be operational by 2050. And FE thinks we have until Xmas (2022), maybe.

    • ivanislav says:

      >> “was supposed to be operational in 2009.” and still not working

      But think of all the good jobs it created!

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