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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
“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…”
Pray tell sir, if Revelations was written in approx 90 AD, when has Babylon fallen, in one hour made desolate, and burning since 90AD?
Revelations was written future tense.
I appreciate your article, but this is poorly referenced. It has yet to occur. It is coming. It is great Babylon that will fall, not ancient Babylon. Her plagues will come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine, and she shall be utterly burned with fire. Rev 18:8 & 18:19. Furthermore, there will be no remains. It will cease from existence. Think nuclear extermination of a city beyond Nagasaki etc. More like Pompeii or Ninaveh, Sodom or Gomorrah. Obliteration.
So again, to speak of the collapse of Babylon is all wrong. When the Medes and Persians conquered Babylon under Belshazzar (Daniel 5), Bablyon was NOT made desolate, burned or destroyed. It was infiltrated and taken over. Darius the Median took the kingdom.
It remains to be seen.
Revelation is written in 90 AD in a very cryptic way. As today, there was a problem with censorship. No one dared say that the future would be much worse that the present. It is probably intended to be prophetic, perhaps about near term events, but perhaps also about later events. Thus, the future tense.
According to Wikipedia, Jewish leaders went into exile in two waves, one occurring about 605 BCE; the other occurring about 597 BCE. The fall of Babylon to the Persians occurred in 539 BCE, and the Jews were allowed to return in 538 BCE. So the Jews had as long as 67 years in Babylon. During their time there, they learned to read and write. The must also have figured out a way of writing Hebrew, so that they could write down some of Jewish oral tradition.
When Babylon fell to the Persians, at least part of the problem must have been that the defenses of Babylon had declined over the years. We know that in cases of declining civilizations (too many people for resources, basically), these civilizations start finding that they need to cut back in many ways, partly because citizens are poorer. Governments cannot collect enough tax revenue. They cannot maintain an adequate army.
If citizens were poorer, what we would expect is “demand” to fall. The price of goods would tend to fall below the cost of production, leading to the end of production of many things, including (quite possibly) those things needed to wage wars. I would expect the problem to be one of falling demand, especially if a debt bubble collapsed at the same time.
The “John” who is the author of Revelation is no doubt a Jew who is aware of the oral (and perhaps written) history of the time. He would be aware of Babylon and its collapse. The story of populations outgrowing their resource base is a frequent one. We seem to be encountering the same issue now.
Sorry, Gail, this is so much speculation and circular reasoning that I’m not able to buy in this.
Inflation/deflation?
TM has a new post out this AM; looking at his graphs, deflation in the discretionary sector. What does that mean for essentials?
Has the price of oil gone up or or down since the Ukraine project? Seems it is down, natural gas is up but not in Russia. Would it be down in US were liquified not be “given” to Europe?
Isolationist here: what did the US get from Europe in the twentieth century? Two wars, Camus and Sartre. Blood, destruction and god awful literature.
We could sit this one out and be no worse for wear.
Dennis L.
Uncle Sam is almost always among the masterminds behind the scenes!
For the past 100 years, yes; laws of physics are coming into play, physics trumps politics. Looking for answers, possibly some here have insights; listening is good.
Dennis L.
Arsonists love to watch their fires. Even more so if they can profit from them.
“Fuck the EU. Yats is the man.” — Nudelman
“If Russia invades, there will be no longer a Nord Stream 2. We will bring an end to it.” — O’Biden
I expect that you are correct. Russia is not happy about the outcome of Nord Stream 2 so far.
Translating the cryptic first sentence. Tim Morgan has a new post up this morning. # 238. Money and the end of abundance. https://surplusenergyeconomics.wordpress.com
Excerpts:
Also:
I notice that one WSJ headline today is “U. S. Stocks Continue Sell-Off.” So perhaps we are hitting this point.
He also says, “what we’re witnessing now is an unfolding affordability crisis.”
No kidding.
Tim’s charts 2 and 3 shows a somewhat scary outcome, but not a too-scary. The economy falls between now and 2040, but quite slowly, even in Europe and Japan. What is squeezed out is discretionary spending. This pattern is consistent with the story that Tim has been telling all along.
He shows two charts related to Financial Assets: charts 1 and 4, both on a pre-implosion basis. Later, he talks about the real danger of an implosion of these assets.
He concludes:
Tim seems to be saying what I am saying, apart from his optimistic charts to 2040.
Dr Tim’s old fault if not wishing to be thought a ‘catastrophist’ perhaps influences that chart.
Given how many are employed in discretionary sectors, their sheer scale, etc, even his guarded optimism of the course we might take until 2040 seems somewhat misplaced.
Dr. Tim’s models seem to be based on the assumption that all that goes wrong is that the “Energy Cost of Energy” (Defined slightly differently than Dr. Charles Hall’s EROEI) goes down, and thus the quantity of fossil fuels recoverable falls. He seems to model a situation in which all of the technically recoverable resources can be extracted; they are simply reduced by the loss of energy on extraction.
Of course, this doesn’t get to the way the overall system is put together, and the fact that growing debt is part of growing demand. If you understand this, you model the collapse of debt as occurring fairly soon. With this result, the quantity of goods and services produced tends to fall much more quickly. It all depends on how well the system can hang together, once the financial system collapses. Perhaps Russia + China + a few others can hang together for a while. Perhaps the US can produce a little on its own.
Tim used to quote IEA figures saying FF production would decline 10% by 2040. I used to comment “Tim, you’re a little optimistic old chap”.
The tone of his commentariat is much more polite than on here. Fine, upstanding, British academic types.
Over time he’s moved to become more doomer, but until recently voiced the belief that “the right policy setting will correct things”.
We also got the CIA via links with MI6 and the OSS during WW2!
All these scientists whom you adore.
Greta’s ancestor Svante Arrhenius and the family business
Thunberg was born on 3 January 2003, in Stockholm, Sweden,[16][17] the daughter of opera singer Malena Ernman and actor Svante Thunberg.[18][19] Her paternal grandfather was actor and director Olof Thunberg.[20][21][22] She has a younger sister, Beata.[19]
Ernman was born in Uppsala, Sweden, spent her childhood and school years in Sandviken, and was educated at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, the Music Conservatory in Orléans, France, and the school of the Royal Swedish Opera.[2] She is married to actor Svante Thunberg, with whom she had appeared in a 2000 Swedish television musical documentary about the composer Joseph Martin Kraus, played by Thunberg.[3] Together they have two daughters: singer Beata Ernman [4] and climate activist Greta Thunberg.
Fritz-Olof Thunberg (21 May 1925 – 24 February 2020) was a Swedish actor and director, perhaps best known as the voice of the cartoon character Bamse.
Svante Thunberg was born on June 10, 1969 in Sweden. He is an actor, known for Skärgårdsdoktorn (1997), Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World (2021) and I Am Greta (2020). He has been married to Malena Ernman since 2004. They have two children.
Oh my, Tim I couldn’t resist…you and Edwin sure keep things here amusing
Quite. All you say was well known to some of us from early on in the Greata Psy-Op, although Snopes and other “fack checkers” made an effort to deny it at the time.
All the world’s a stage and the Thunbergs—Greta included—are a veritable tribe of thespians and entertainers, with a sprinkling of several distinguished scientists, academics and artists. They appear to be well connected to if not actually inside that Big Club mentioned by George Carlin.
In 2019, Vigilant Citizen wrote the following:
Although many are ready to deny this fact with great vigor (because it goes against their agenda), Greta is merely a pawn. She is controlled by powerful people and big money to promote a specific agenda. The agenda is not merely about climate change – it is about climate change through a very specific angle.
Her role was perfectly defined by Greta herself during a speech at the (very elite) World Economic Forum:
Adults keep saying we owe it to the young people, to give them hope. But I don’t want your hope. I don’t want you to be hopeful. I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day.”
Panic and fear: Two words that lead to hasty and irrational responses based on negative emotions. And this fear and panic is being thoroughly ingrained into the youth, creating a generation that is convinced that the world is burning.
Greta is the face of a massive push across mass media and the education system to convince children that their “house in on fire”. Since children absorb the information that is given to them without any kind of questioning, this push has created a new worrying phenomenon: Eco-anxiety.
https://vigilantcitizen.com/latestnews/the-elite-machine-behind-greta-thunberg/
I can’t verify this but there are numerous articles on Greta being related to the Rothschilds.
https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/vtgc07/the_house_of_the_rothschild_bankers_reluctantly/
The house of the Rothschild bankers reluctantly confirms the undeniable. Greta Thunberg is a blood relative of the notorious Rothschild chain of nation-buyers
https://www.winterwatch.net/2022/02/greta-thunbergs-handler-luisa-marie-neubauer-is-a-rothschild/
Also articles claiming payments were/are made to her parents accounts.
Usually, nothing like this kind of thing (like Greta) is not staged and made.
The PR Team is active
Today’s Automatic Earth’s ‘Debt Rattle’ has multiple v. short videos of Tucker Carlson telling the Europeans just how grim this winter is going to be, more candid than anything I have seen here in the UK. Cannot find the original video, so link is to the ones in Debt Rattle:
https://www.theautomaticearth.com/2022/08/debt-rattle-august-30-2022/
Your granny is much more likely to die from cold this coming winter than too much heat in any summer.
Here it is! And worth a watch too.
Gail, you could go on Tucker’s show if you like. He’d definitely love to have you on as an expert guest. Of course, you’d need a new frock!
Thank you. Perhaps there is not as much ff available as assumed. Much of this simply does not make sense.
Dennis L.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FbZzVrPXEAIWGXo?format=jpg&name=small
Preparing for my next energy bill here in Germany
Tucker Carlson saying “Europe is Moving Backward at High Speed.” The title of the talk seems to be “Back to the Dark Ages.” I didn’t listen to all 40 minutes, however.
The frozen granny is certainly not the issue in winter.
El Mar,
Saludos!
This is one of my favorite traditional British folksongs. It’s about a young named Willy who has been conscripted into the army and has to leave his girl Polly to go and fight in the war(s) in High Germany—most likely either the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714) or the Seven Years War (1756-1763). There are many versions of this song from England, Ireland, Scotland and probably Wales.
Kulm is quite correct. The British have long been getting involved in European wars to try to keep the continental powers fighting each other and preventing a single great power from coalescing. And it seems that they are still at it.
This version by the quintessential English traditional folk singer Martin Carthy, was recorded in 1965 and did much to popularize the song in the modern era.
This is a very different version of the same song, sung in 1981 by the John Renbourn Group featuring the amazing voice of Jacqui McShee in the female role and accompanied by a very sombre flute.
I suppose every power wants its opponents to fight and wear out, nothing particular for the british.
The picture of video depicts the death of the Swedish king Gustav II Adolf during the battle of Lützen in 1632. This was in the middle of the thirty years war, probably one of the most apocalyptic periods of central europe. Sweden had some imperial ambitions for a while and gained from this destruction of central Europe. The swedish state would gladly have played every dirty trick to reach the same succes as the UK.
My point is if UK hadn’t been succesfully manipulating the powers of continental Europe, some other state would have done it instead. A european empire was never possible. Kulm is not very realistic… (then I am not even mentioning all of this talk of a space faring civilization )
Notice how people will believe just about anything — but if you tell them the truth they get upset?
https://youtu.be/hGoGeEZH1d0
Another great video to share!!!
YouTube (https://youtu.be/hGoGeEZH1d0)
Why our Politicians are 100% To Blame for the Energy Crisis
I examine why its is our politicians and their pursuit of absurd green energy policies that has led us to this energy crisis.
I answer any comments and ask you to share this video vas wid
” I examine why its is our politicians and their pursuit of absurd green energy policies that has led us to this energy crisis.”
Of course, if energy is becoming unaffordable, the problem is inevitable.
https://static.wixstatic.com/media/62bf21_0317f6df37f248fa851e12f3f5e10bd9~mv2.png/v1/fill/w_982,h_657,al_c,q_90,usm_1.20_1.00_0.01,enc_auto/Why%20No%20Politican%20Is%20Willing%20To%20Tell%20the%20Truth.png
https://www.oilystuffblog.com/
Mike Shellman must have really liked my article.
no explanation …
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Dimitrov+&iar=news&ia=news
Let’s see how he gets on today in his US Open 1st round match.
Dimitrov won convincingly. Intermittent heart problems?
Tick Tock… I hope he dies in his sleep
Nasa’s most powerful rocket ever aims to send uncrewed capsule to moon and back in preparation for human landing by 2025.
Bush Outlines Plan for 2015 Moon Landing
http://english.china.org.cn/english/international/84745.htm
Hmmm…. norm? why didn’t we land on the moon in 2015? Can you find an explanation?
First there was Russia..Russia..Russia and now we have Ukraine..Ukraine..Ukraine. In the US gun owners know better than to give up their guns but now in Miami, the Police have come up with a clever way for residents to give up their guns.
“Guns 4 Ukraine” 😏
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/guns-4-ukraine-miamis-gun-buyback-program-preys-residents-hand-over-firearms-support
Clever!
Watch till the end …. https://t.me/TommyRobinsonNews/39070 and people think democracy is a good thing sheeesh
Very funny https://t.me/TommyRobinsonNews/39075
eddy
for once i broke my rule about not opening eddylinks—I always like to check, every so often that my thinking is correct on certain matters. After all, nobody can be right 100% of the time. Not even me.
so i looked at your ‘Tommy robinson’ nonsenses. (for the first time)
And was my self-certainty reassured? You bet it was.
Wow–you look at that stuff, think that it has intellectual depth, and decide to post it.
Really?
There you were , eddy personified in the second one—just so ‘you’. (the first one was just a group of stupid people doing something stupid), so you again i guess. (and i can even spell stupid)
Are you really so devoid of something worthwhile to say eddy?
Perhaps you could illuminate me, as to the ‘point’? I’d seriously like to know?
Just clickbait, as always i guess.
We know – you prefer the BBC …. trusted news… for dunces
but eddy
i needed an explanation of what the ‘Robinson’ thing was all about
You posted the videos–and keep posting his videos.
so you must know.
there’s obviously something Im missing. Do tell.
Coronavirus: 90 per cent student third-jab rate needed for Hong Kong secondary schools to hold full-day classes on campus, as city logs 8,848 cases
•Education Bureau sends letter to schools announcing move that marks tightening of existing two-jab requirement
•Separately, Miss Hong Kong pageant suspended for first time amid pandemic, with five contestants infected
https://archive.ph/bscgI#selection-827.13-849.105
I guess Covid is not over … even though the CovIDIOTS insist it is…
Q4 it ends? With a BOOM? Hope so
The COVID-19 epidemic is around as long as countries need it to conceal their energy-related problems. It can be used to keep people at home. It can be used to encourage the use of vaccines that seem to be worse than not taking them.
I found an article saying that Sinovac vaccine is the most widely used vaccine in Hong Kong. A vaccine from Germany equivalent to the Pfizer mRNA vaccine seems also to be available. Perhaps the Sinovac vaccine has less cumulative adverse impact.
Europe Records a 691% Increase in Excess Deaths Among Children Since Approval of Covid Vaccine
▪️Official mortality figures for Europe show that there has been a shocking 691% increase in excess deaths among children since the European Medicines Agency (EMA) extended the emergency use authorisation (EUA) of the Pfizer vaccine for children aged 12 to 15 in May 2021
▪️Before this decision deaths among children in 2021 were below the expected rate but following the EUA, excess deaths among children by the end of the year had risen by 1,599% compared to the 2017 to 2020 average
▪️This trend has continued into 2022, with Europe officially recording a 381% increase in excess deaths among children this year so far, compared to the 2018 to 2021 average
▪️What’s interesting about the fact excess deaths began to be recorded among children in week 22 of 2021 is that it coincides with the week the EMA granted extension of Pfizer vaccine use in children aged 12-15
READ HERE (https://expose-news.com/2022/08/29/europe-691percent-increase-excess-deaths-children/)
Check out the visual – very powerful
This website is indirectly where this analysis came from.
https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps
The years 2020 and 2021 were unusually low for childhood deaths, partly because they were in fewer car accidents, if their parents were home all of the time. They also didn’t get the normal vaccines in 2020 (or as early), reducing mortality somewhat. So the 2022 numbers are being compared to a low base. Compared to a range of years, they are up, but not nearly as much as claimed.
MAD MAX! They are firing 50 cals into the Green Zone hahahaha Love it. Funny – I never see clips like this of UKEY on Telegram… never
Baghdad Descends into Chaos
Rumble (https://rumble.com/v1hw7xb-baghdad-descends-into-chaos-but-theres-more-going-on-than-just-shia-sunni-a.html)
Q4 Boom looking more likely by the day … only a month to go… brace brace brace
hahaha… when do I get my Candied F????
https://www.lynalden.com/august-2022-newsletter/
Interesting newsletter from Lyn Alden – About investing – also about energy. Maybe her conclusions about future energy prices are wrong. But in general, great work.
Saludos
el mar
https://t.me/RVvoenkor
https://t.me/rtrdonetsk
https://t.me/sashakots
These seem to be in Russian.
So some tanks are in a field…
I prefer the videos from libya and iraq – action videos
I think that this is an important illustration in the article:
https://www.lynalden.com/wp-content/uploads/newsletter-2022-8-oil-capex.png
The article says it is from here:
https://horizonkinetics.com/app/uploads/INFL_SemiAnnual-Commentary_FINAL.pdf
Global investment in oil production seems to have peaked way back in 2013.
Shi’ites Storm the Presidential Palace in Baghdad, Iraq
“Reuters shared photos of civilians enjoying the spoils of the Presidential Palace after breaching its defenses.”
Rumble (https://rumble.com/v1hu597-shiites-storm-the-presidential-palace-in-baghdad-iraq.html)
Iraq Is Falling, Panama Is Dissolving, Severe Implications on Energy and Migration
Michael Yon: (http://t.me/michaelyon) “Secretary Mayorkas flew down to Panama months ago … [He and the ‘U.S. government’ are] banning the pathway from South America through Panama up through Costa Rica up eventually through, as you [Bannon] say many times, every city in the United States is the frontline. Every city is a border city, is what you say, and this is absolutely coming to pass.”
Rumble (https://rumble.com/v1huidx-iraq-is-falling-panama-is-dissolving-severe-implications-on-energy-and-migr.html)
A poor country with severe problems.
What this paper is telling you (in a way that allows it to be published) is that the clots are being caused by the spike protein (present in large quantities post vaccination) and not the virus.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35974404/
I suspect the pregnancy disaster will blow up but expect the typical “we didn’t know”. Except they did. We have a record of the warning letters sent to the colleges explaining that their overselling of the untested therapy was premature and potentially dangerous. These warnings were ignored.
https://twitter.com/1979pop/status/1564351151025405958?t
Absolutely riveting rundown of the amazing coincidences in the UK “pandemic” scenario strongly suggesting that it was entirely synthetic. This would be consistent with the Johns Hopkins dashboard being run by a PhD in data modelling and an unknown PhD student from mainland China, apparently verifying millions of cases in real time (and no break for Christmas Day 😊).
OMG! I didn’t know about the 2018 Haslemare simulation of an epidemic or the “coincidence” of it being “exactly duplicated now” in the presenters words in the same town two years later.
Reminds me of the way an episode from the TV drama “The Lone Gunman” was replicated six months later on nine eleven,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lone_Gunmen_(TV_series)
Or the way in which the 7 July 2005 London bombings, often referred to as 7/7, piggybacked onto a security exercise talking place on the same day in the same underground stations.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbC_B3BWCwo
Coincidences will never cease, will they, Norman?
(Il Paragone)
In this article it is described one of the many cases of people who commited suicide after a serious adverse event caused by the Covid-19 vaccine.
Giulia, after the first dose, was very sick with many different pains.
No doctors wanted to listen to her and recognize the negative effects.
She felt terribly bad with no hope to regain her health and decided to die.
https://www.ilparagone.it/attualita/si-e-uccisa-dopo-la-seconda-dose-la-disperazione-della-madre-di-giulia-il-terribile-racconto-del-calvario-della-figlia/
Sad!
Cowards.
In the past there were people that committed suicide so their torturers cannot find their friends (see many cases in the French Resistance).
Anybody that is tricked by evil has three choices:
– Remain a slave
– Choose the easy way out (like the one above)
– Fight
We all know what most people have chosen.
Wanna see what F789ed beyond repair looks like? click this https://t.me/chiefnerd/4736‘
https://jessicar.substack.com/p/veteran-encouraged-to-end-his-own
Government-assisted sui–cide is being normalized in Canada
Let’s connect some dots… Candied Fentanyl… misery/despair/suffering… normalizing and enabling the solution … conditioning the MOREONS…
cold? hungry? food van didn’t arrive again today? no $$$? kids wailing? lockdown shanghai-style? VAIDSing? Vax Injured?
Off yourself – it’s trending.
I see Hollywood promoting this … normalizing it…
I see celebs like Celine Dion blowing her brains out while someone films and loads it to Tik Tok…
The PR Team is active.
I reckon they’ve gotta have “posthumous” legal grounds covering for Hypers accepting the turbo cancerous clot shot labeling that as “assisted suicide”.
/Sinister mode off
What does one think of? Ah,yes! That last concert in wartime Berlin, when the audience, The German elite, were given suicide pills as they left….
Cue Wagner and ‘Siegfried’s Rhine Journey!’ Cue our very own ‘Mirror’ and a suitable quote from Nitsky!
The front page of today’s London Times has this heading:
Rush to drill more oil in North Sea
Truss will give licences the green light
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-the-papers-62719141
The (Glasgow-based) Herald, one of two of Scotland’s main broadsheet newspapers, had a similar heading last week, except it was the Scottish National Party (currently running the Scottish govt and fairly popular) that was implying we could get out of this mess by drilling more.
There is just one issue with this. There is pretty much no new oil left. The first drilling license for UK offshore was issued over 50 years ago. And the amount of oil found over the last 25-30 years has been trivial. Now we are going to have a renaissance? A pipedream for the electorate, who know nothing and care little about UK oil production.
It’s fascinating to see how all the UK papers run with the same stories. Today it’s new North Sea oil leases, statins are good for you, and Harry says he’s lost his father over latest Megan spat.
On the oil story, maybe there is a modest amount of recoverable oil still lurking under the North Sea, but how long would it take to discover and start pumping it and how much would it cost? It certainly isn’t going to keep the lights on this Christmas.
Harry, your dad is probably in the garden – look there.
Old folks so easy to misplace them.
Maybe an electric fence will help.
The municipal power supplier “Wien Energie” of Vienna (1,9 Mio inhabitants), Austria (8.9 mio population, 480 bio GDP), urgently needs up to 10.000.000.000 EURs to survive.
The sudden financial demand is explained differently. In the state owned paper an expert says: “These are no standard transactions.” The expert is former head of the state owned regulator. He says he supposes they have taken inappropriate risks.
https://www.wienerzeitung.at/nachrichten/wirtschaft/oesterreich/2159821-Normal-waren-die-Geschaefte-nicht.html
Well it is very opaque. The utility company says it is due to rising margins caused by sudden spike in electricity prices.
Could be.
Could also be that they made a bet on long term low prices and lost it.
It is very difficult to judge from outside but it is obvious that they have troubles explaining it to the public. They even say that there is noting to be seen here if the electricity traded in the financial report for the authoriiy is three times too much in the books “because it is just a sale between branches of one and the same company”.
As of today, some margins of yesterday seem to have been paid off and the need for money has suddenly gone down to “none”.
But the government is preparing some sort of umbrella.
Betting on the spot market is a risky business. I you have to handle long running positions on the spot you are in for a ride. In Austria most other utilities use OTC trades, so they are less affected.
Chinese scientists successfully create world’s first mammal with fully reprogrammed genes
https://www.yahoo.com/news/chinese-scientists-successfully-create-world-211245172.html
Chinese scientists have successfully recombined a mouse’s chromosomes to create the world’s first mammal with fully reprogrammed genes.
Using the gene-editing tool CRISPR, researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in Beijing broke down the chromosomes into different segments and rearranged them in different combinations to create a new package of genes, resulting in the mouse called “Xiao Zhu” (Little Bamboo).
The paper, published in the academic journal Science on Thursday, revealed that the research team accomplished the first-ever modification of genes in mammals on a scale big as chromosomes.
Chromosomes, which hold DNA in a cell’s nuclei, break apart and recombine naturally via a complicated and delicate process. In the past, humans have only succeeded in replicating the process in a lab with single-cell organisms like yeast
“Mammalian genomes are much more complex than yeast genomes, and complete chromosomal rearrangements in mammals have remained unsuccessful,” Li Wei, study lead author and Institute of Zoology researcher at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, was quoted as saying.
Errors during such separation and fusion of chromosomes in natural conditions occasionally result in cancer and other serious conditions.
When Li and his colleagues manipulated the chromosomes by stitching together two very long pieces of a chromosome, they also made some mistakes that resulted in either death in the produced mice or specimens with deformities or weird behaviors.
Using shorter chromosomes and reducing the total number of chromosomes from 20 pairs to 19 enabled them to create a new karyotype in mice that appeared healthy and normal despite having completely different chromosomes from mice in nature.
“For the first time in the world, we have achieved complete chromosomal rearrangement in mammals, making a new breakthrough in synthetic biology,” Li was quoted as saying. “This research is a breakthrough in bioengineering technology, helping to understand the impact of large-scale remodeling of mammalian chromosomes, and to gain a deeper understanding of the molecular mechanisms behind growth and development, reproductive evolution, and even the creation of a species.”
The reprogrammed mice were able to mate and bear offspring with normal mice, suggesting that artificial changes can be passed through generations.
As Gail predicted…mutants will be created to pass through the bottleneck
Photo of the Day – Hoolio hiding in the forest …
https://i.postimg.cc/qRkq2Dm6/Hooliojungledog.jpg
The Dogs of War
https://postimg.cc/VdD2BFPH
hahaha… norm … maybe you could load some similar pics of SSS with clients …
It’s easy https://postimages.org/
Entertain us with something norm… maybe a selfie at the injection centre?
“Harrison Ford frequent flier on private jets despite climate change activism” – The famous actor’s private jet has made several trips since late June, stretching more than 5,000 miles and emitting 35 metric tons of carbon, despite Ford being a climate activist who said people must “cry out for justice” during a climate conference last year
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/harrison-ford-frequent-flier-private-jets-despite-climate-change-activism
Cuz it’s an emergency!
“Almost one in four say they won’t turn heating on this winter” – The Telegraph reports on the concerning responses when pollsters asked more than 2,000 U.K. adults how they will respond to increasing energy prices over the winter.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/08/29/almost-one-four-say-wont-turn-heating-winter/
hahahaha… as if!!! HK would be a no go zone in summer without AC hahaha…
It’s time to switch off to save the planet, former director of the Observatory Lam Chiu-ying tells aircon-addicted Hongkongers
https://hongkongfp.com/2022/08/28/its-time-to-switch-off-to-save-the-planet-lam-chiu-ying-tells-aircon-addicted-hongkongers/
China’s Largest Developer Sees Record 96% Interim Profit Slump
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-30/china-s-largest-developer-sees-record-96-interim-profit-slump?srnd=premium-asia
BTW – the power just came back on … been off for 9 hours… just as the sun goes down and the cold creeps in … those with heat pumps would have been feeling a bit anxious… kinda like how Brits feel about November hehe.
“U.K. Government says vaccine not safe for pregnant or breastfeeding women” – Norman Fenton on the strange fact that the U.K. Government has a web page with a document titled “Information for Healthcare Professionals on COVID-19 Vaccine Pfizer/BioNTech” which says it was “updated on August 16th 2022” and which appears to tell pregnant women they should not be vaccinated.
https://www.normanfenton.com/post/breaking-news-uk-government-says-vaccine-not-safe-for-pregnant-or-breastfeeding-women
That’s actually hilarious
Three quarters of a million gallons of cryogenic propellents!!!!
That’s how much combustable fuel is being loaded into the Space Launch System moon rocket…..
Yes, the collective we are going back to the moon… eventually… after a few more test flights. And this time with a more diverse crew that promises to take us where no black man or woman has gone before.
No, wait….. Now they are draining it again. Three quarters of a million gallons of cryogenic propellents are now heading back into the freezer!!!!
The countdown clock continues holding at T-minus 40 minutes. This hold was expected to last about 10 minutes, but the clock has now been stopped more than 25 minutes.
NASA says the issue with the crack found in the intertank section of the SLS core stage has been resolved. The crack, and associated frost accumulation, is in the foam insulation, and not in the core stage tank structure.
This is mind-numbingly interesting. I haven’t had this much fun since being forced to sit through back to back performances of Evita, Cats and Jesus Christ Superstar.
I have to admit, the technology is on a spectacular scale. But would Greta approve?
https://spaceflightnow.com/2022/08/29/artemis-1-launch-live-coverage/
CGI has come a long way… long enough to make people believe we can now fly to the moon … those damn Van Allen belts though – they damage equipment including on board computers
At 3.40; ‘…we must solve this problem before we send people through this region of space…’
Referencing the extreme radiation of the Van Allen Belts.
But we have solved it; duct tape and aluminium foil.
These guys are wasting my time. Get them astro’s up there asap.
We need entertaining. Video of the occupants getting microwaved will do it.
That’s the confusing part… we’ve got NASA saying it’s currently not possible…
But then we’ve got multiple missions to the moon that seem to have solved the problem of the intense radiation…
Maybe the belts are a new thing? But we know that is not correct because James Van Allen was featured in American Moon and in the late 50’s he sent a probe up into space and the radiation counter was fried — and they named the radiation belts that surround the Earth after him…. and that was before the lunar missions.
Then not many years after they discovered these belts they were able to overcome them and fly to the moon – even though they did not mention how they were able to do that…
I know! Let’s just do that again — f789 the astronauts… let’s Let er Rip … strap on the rocket and blast them up up and away … if they fry who gives a sh&t… if they make it through we’ll just say nothing…
The utter stoooopidity of people who believe we have landed on the moon is astonishing… truly astonishing!
And these would be the same MOREONS who demand democracy… WTF is wrong with them?
Mentally ill. Of course.
Good timing – we are running out of energy and the planet is ‘burning’ — so let’s take a joy ride to the moon… makes sense (cept it ain’t happening in real life)
Of course this is meant as a distraction … the MOREONS need constant stimulus
Suspend your skepticism and cynicism for four minutes and watch the following.
“We are going…..”
https://www.nasa.gov/specials/artemis/
Personally, I think these guys have The Wrong Stuff when it comes to going beyond lower Earth orbit and they would do better to stick with computer graphics. They also write on their website that they are going back to the moon for three reasons: Discovery, Economic Opportunity, and Inspiration for a New Generation. I would read that last one as code for “Distraction for the masses.”
We are entering an age when “the masses” are being herded into metaverses where they will experience the bulk of their entertainment and social interaction virtually, and encouraged not to go out and waste precious energy on moving around in physical space. Meanwhile, they will get to vicariously visit the moon by following the Artemis program, either via some metaverse or or at least some more conventional media. For consumers of “the experience”, it will hardly matter if it is real or fake.
Regarding, ” I would read that last one as code for ‘Distraction for the masses,'” I am afraid that you are correct.
norm – will you volunteer to be on board? If you don’t survive the belts then what does it matter… you’re so old … or would you prefer to nominate a child?
the age level of your comments would put you neatly into that category eddy
my nomination is in the post to NASA
With Artemis missions, NASA will land the first woman and first person of color on the Moon, using innovative technologies to explore more of the lunar surface than ever before. We will collaborate with commercial and international partners and establish the first long-term presence on the Moon. Then, we will use what we learn on and around the Moon to take the next giant leap: sending the first astronauts to Mars.
And the best part… the rocket will be solar powered!
Part of the Great Reset
no eddy
it will be CGI powered
Scratch those ridiculous so called “plans”. This planet doesn’t even got a rudimentary space rock defense shield up yet and we’re going to put a man on the freaking moon?
Anyway, I’m expecting to buy a hottie AGI robot broad any day soon. Not a shred of Hyper MOARon in the code.
A man on the moon … hahahahahahahahahahaha…. how silly!
all those aitches and a’s again
must be an endless supply somewhere i dont know about
It never rains, but it pours!
Heat-weary Chongqing, Sichuan now on flood alert amid torrential rain
BEIJING, Aug 29 (Reuters) – A southwestern part of China that has suffered scorching temperatures this month is now on alert for flooding amid days of torrential rain.
Downpours in the sprawling manufacturing hub of Chongqing and nearby areas of Sichuan province follow severe power shortages in the same localities caused by heavy use of air conditioning and falling reservoir levels.
The rain began on Sunday and is forecast to extend into Tuesday. The government initiated an emergency flood-prevention response in Sichuan and Chongqing at 6 p.m. (1000 GMT) on Sunday.
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/heat-weary-chongqing-sichuan-now-flood-alert-amid-torrential-rain-2022-08-29/
It is either we are
1. In a turbo propaganda
2. The Gods are angry
3. The simulation is crashing
There’s much more at Harry’s blog, Tim..keep posting here
Has your mouse suffered a malfunction, Herbie?
If not, you are as free as I am to cut and past as much as you like.
Sorry, I can’t because I don’t want to upstage your partner, Edwin!
That would push him over to the other side, Bud.
The thing is … when all the predictions go wrong … a person who is not mentally comes to his senses…
I used to believe in GW and that we went to the moon… but I am not mentally ill therefore…
Conclusion:
Updated C-19 vaccines comprising new mRNA- or protein-derived S-associated sequences of one or more Omicron (sub)variants will only further deteriorate the already dire consequences of C-19 mass vaccination—abundant cell surface-expressed and/ or free circulating S protein will cause a unilateral and potentially protracted recall of IEABs without priming neutralizing Abs against new Omicron-specific antigenic sequences in the vast majority of healthy vaccinees.
Whereas the purpose of these novel vaccines is to enhance protection against continuously evolving variants, they will have exactly the opposite effect, in that they will enhance the evolutionary dynamics of the virus. Continued mass vaccination with novel Omicron-adapted vaccines will only increase population-level immune pressure on viral virulence by the IEABs (which currently have a virulence-inhibiting effect at the level of the lower respiratory tract).
Large scale vaccination with these updated vaccines will merely expedite natural selection and expansion of SC-2 variants that will exhibit a high level of virulence and infectiousness in vaccinees, while sparing the unvaccinated from this impact.
https://voiceforscienceandsolidarity.substack.com/p/novel-bivalent-c-19-vaccines-what
norm: https://www.tiktok.com/@youvegot2bekidding/video/7052092917552516398
I suspect this is what one of my mates – or perhaps both – with circulatory issues… is experiencing — the usual tests show no damage… but the usual tests do not pick up this sort of damage:
SPED (Spike Protein Endothelial Disease) AS CAUSE OF THE VAST MAJORITY OF THE RECENT SUDDEN CARDIAC DEATHS: DESTRUCTION OF THE BRAINSTEM AND THE CARDIAC MICROVASCULATURE
https://wmcresearch.substack.com/p/sped-spike-protein-endothelial-disease
But the good news is — it doesn’t matter – cuz we are all dead men walking
Another CovIDIOT insisted Covid is over earlier today. It’s almost as if they think that if they insist really vehemently… that it will come true.
I wanted to say … ya — it’s the beginning of the end… but I didn’t
The sub stack article says:
I was told the other day by a vax damaged… that any exertion results in him seeing stars and feeling like he’s going to faint. This is nearly a year out from the injury.
I guess scarred arteries and veins is causing this
A funeral director in Australia tells of the sharp uptick in his business—50% in the last seven months:
https://www.warroomforum.com/threads/funeral-director-sounds-the-alarm%E2%80%A6.32292/
https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/everybody-please-unclose-your-eyes
Funeral Director, John O’Looney from the UK was saying the same thing last year. He was eventually censored and lost his license.
Incredible! To lose one’s license as an undertaker, I would have thought you’d need to be into necrophilia, organ-legging or body-snatching at least—especially at a time when funeral services are in such great demand.
Sounds like a job norm would enjoy…. lots of young fit women dying these days… think of the opportunities!
Not sure what you mean by “lost his license”. He is still an operational Funeral Director:
https://www.mkffs.co.uk
John Paul, who writes Things Hidden in Complexity, has an article about how Niacinamide, a popular non-flushing form of vitamin B3, works to help prevent and treat serious infection with SARS-CoV-2.
As is often the case with this entire subject, the details are indeed hidden in complexity, but it is reassuring to read that yet another simple substance that is harmless and available cheaply as a dietary supplement can make a huge difference to the outcome of an encounter with the ‘rona.
John Paul links to this paper:
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.08.26.505399v2.full.pdf?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
Niacinamide enhances cathelicidin mediated SARS-CoV-2 membrane disruption
The continual emergence of new SARS-CoV-2 variants threatens the effectiveness
of worldwide vaccination programs and highlights the need for complementary
strategies for a sustainable containment plan. A promising approach is to mobilize
the body&s own antimicrobial peptides (AMPs), to combat SARS-CoV-2 infection
and propagation. We have found that human cathelicidin (LL37), an AMP found at
epithelial barriers as well as in various bodily fluids, has the capacity to neutralise
multiple strains of SARS-CoV-2. Biophysical and computational studies indicate
that ILL37ls mechanism of action is through the disruption of the viral membrane.
This antiviral activity of LL37 is enhanced by the hydrotropic action of
niacinamide, which may increase the bioavailability of the AMP. Interestingly, we
observed inverse correlation between LL37 levels and disease severity of COVID-
19 positive patients, suggesting enhancement of AMP response would be an
effective therapeutic avenue to mitigate disease severity and overcome vaccine
John Paul also writes in rather exasperated tones, but who can blame him:
“As the writing on the wall is ever so more evident for anyone with a shred of common sense, or in the case of scientists with a little spark of honesty left, many scientists are looking into alternative interventions to deal with SARS-CoV-2 since vaccine escape is now undeniable, and won’t change anytime soon. ”
https://hiddencomplexity.substack.com/p/antimicrobial-peptide-ll37-niacinamide?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
Sensationalism the average price in July 2022 was 300 euros a mw
This is quite an impressive stranded asset!
(Did someone already post this?)
World’s largest floating LNG factory remains in shutdown — at just three years old
Shell’s massive floating LNG factory off the Kimberley coast has been in shutdown since February and industry analysts are divided on whether the $12-17 billion facility has a future.
Prelude FLNG is the largest floating object ever built and billed as the solution to getting gas out of Australia’s most remote undersea gas fields.
With five times the steel of the Sydney Harbour Bridge and half a kilometre long, it certainly is big.
But as it sits idle 400 kilometres north of Broome, it risks becoming the world’s biggest white elephant.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-08-21/worlds-largest-floating-lng-factory-remains-in-shutdown/12565490
Worth checking out the pix at link.. quite an object.
It’s earning more money by being idle as the NG price runs up than if they tried to fix it in a timely fashion.
Think of it as one of those Easter Island statues
‘Dangerous occurrences’ led to shutdown
Shell declined to be interviewed by the ABC, but said in a statement that the facility was shut down in February this year due to “an electrical trip”.
I think it’s now… almost September… and they’ve not sorted it out… they won’t sort it out
Maybe they can restart it and it will explode — that would be cool!
Haven’t had a satisfying explosion since the Challenger Shuttle – that was totally awesome… better than fireworks!
As a result of repeated environmental and safety mishaps, NOPSEMA ordered the supermajor to not resume production for an indefinite period of time, pending Shell’s ability to prove updated practices. According to NOPSEMA, Shell “did not have a sufficient understanding of the risks of the power system on the facility, including failure mechanisms, interdependencies, and recovery”, adding that “power loss directly impacted critical safety systems along with the ability to safely evacuate crew by boat or helicopter.”
In April 2022 the vessel resumed operations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prelude_FLNG
According to Wikipedia,
Also:
I know someone in this country try who is a German. He said no issues in EU at the present moment and will also have no issues in future. Yeah things are little expensive but it will be be over (goes back to normal soon). So, am I lied to by everyone here?
/#dontknowwhattosay
Everything you here or read can be changed so this German may be telling the truth
Your German friend could be one of the 1per centres of the world Heinrich
Ofwers are smarter than your German friend
Just need to end the UKEY war… it’s quite obvious that the UKEY war is … all about … providing an excuse … for the slow motion implosion…
We are already dead.
The ukey war may be part of insane elders plan to bring in green deal
Well the commenters here have been wrong before. What would you consider a realistic time frame to see change and what would you consider a change that would consider expresses the truth or lack there of at OFW? Its good to question any particular set of beliefs if you sense deception in it.
Now. If OFW is wrong its not because we are lieing. If we are wrong it would be fair to say we are delusional. Because there is no possible way Germany can continue as it was with the energy reduction it is seeing.
Its actually a good question. What is a metric that we can look at in Germany? How about a reduction of production in German auto manufacturing by 50% comparing 2018 and 2023. Assuming the factories are not converted to war time manufacturing. I use 2018 because its a good base pre covid. Is that fair? Germany either gets the gas shut back on or auto manufacturing falls at least 50%. Is that fair? True OFW is spot on. False OFW is delusional. Fair enough?
In a sea of people, only those who are different are lonely. It is by destiny that you become aware. People may say it is a curse but it is not for I savour every moment in this fleeting existence.
I find it hard to communicate with people, not an issue 20 years ago but now, it is impossible to engage with anyone in an intelligent and great conversation.
Certainly lonely.
You have come to the right place CTG
Reality can only be found here the outside or real world is a confidence game which soon will be exposed
Loneliness carry negative connotations. Solitude on the other hand, I wouldn’t know what to do without it. Just the regular 1h weekly meeting makes me fatigued. And these embodiments aren’t the Hyper’s, just the ordinary laid back Tryhards.
I just can’t stand the rapacious primate personas, machinations and theatrics.
Pure. Cringe.
Sends me reeling.
I wish I had an AGI avatar to do my bidding.
But that would be cruel to the AGI.
Which is of course – apart from Gail’s perceptive articles – we are all here.
Not quite alone in the Wilderness…..even if most of us are some sort of amiable fruitcake.
You should get out more. I had a great conversation with a woman last night who told me about her shotgun, crossbow, attic full of food and vax damaged neighbours. Also how to meet up with like-minded people if I ever feel the need.
Viking blood in York, of course…….
Glad you have found some like-minded people, it’s desolate here – too prosperous, too ‘educated’ to see what’s under their noses.
Is he as “German” as Sucharit Bakhdi?
I am answering you from southern Sweden, which is in a similar situation as Germany, things have gotten significantly more expensive. But if your friend had financial margins he is probably doing fine still. The big problem is what lies ahead. Your friend assumes that things will go back to normal soon, while most of us here ssumes the opposite. German politicians and media are probably optimists like the swedish ones, and if he trusts them, his answer makes sense.
Bottled gas just went up 10% here in NZ…. that’s the second increase within 6 months — the squeeze is on.
Coal went up roughly 25% year on year…..
Expect more increases. Expect riots and mayhem if UEP does not happen
I am a German as well.
This is a fact, no guess: Without cheap energy we are f……
Together with the EU, which is dependend on our money-transfers, we will face a terrible depression.
The europeans are energy blind. We Germans a sleepwalking into a desaster. Third time within more ore less a 100 years.
Unbelievable!
Tim`s three dogs above are representing our situation perfectly.
Saludos
el mar
Does anyone else have some photos to upload – the view from your front door — a street scene… your dog – cat… mistress… I’d get some shots of the VIP room Featured Dancers but they are not keen on the publicity… all i can offer is Hoolio
https://www.achgut.com/artikel/lieber_gaspreis_prophet_als_wirtschaftsminister
Rather gas price prophet than economics minister?
News reports on Monday said that Robert Habeck expects gas prices to fall soon. A glimmer of hope? For a gas price prophet, perhaps. An economics minister had better be alarmed.
While Germany is shivering, if not yet from the cold, then already from not being able to pay for heating when the cold sets in, the German Economics Minister is suddenly spreading optimism. “Habeck expects gas prices to fall,” are suddenly the headlines. How so? Didn’t the minister just recently unleash a flurry of regulations ranging from room temperature ceilings to the forced shutdown of various outdoor lighting fixtures to a ban on heating water for swimming pools? Should there really be more than enough gas again soon, because there could be no other way for prices to fall? Or does the minister just want to reassure people so that they don’t suddenly start demanding the continued operation of the last nuclear power plants so shortly before the forced shutdown?
After all, he does provide a reason for his forecast. Deutschlandfunk describes it this way:
“Better progress than expected has been made in filling the storage facilities, Habeck said at an event in Hamburg, explaining the reason. Already at the beginning of September, the value of 85 percent, which is actually only prescribed for October, had been reached. This would mean that gas would no longer be purchased at any price. This, in turn, will help calm the markets, Habeck said.”
So no panic, the sympathetic Robert makes it already, even if it ran now with the gas apportionment not completely optimally?
After all, it’s amazing that the gas storage facilities could be filled ahead of schedule, even though much less gas is flowing from Russia. This may be due to the fact that a lot of gas is already being saved in the meantime. But such savings are not achieved by turning off the heating, or taking cold showers, or reaching for the washcloth. It is German industry that has already saved – it has been reported – 20 percent of natural gas. For a responsible Minister of Economics, however, this should not be a reason for rejoicing, but for concern, because he should actually know the reason for the new thriftiness. A few days ago, one could read it in various news reports:
“German industry consumed around 20 percent less gas in July than in the same month last year, reports rnd.de. However, this is not a real savings success, but according to the Association of German Chambers of Industry and Commerce mainly the result of curbs on production due to high energy prices.
The decline in gas consumption in industry has come at a high price. It is based to a considerable extent on now worrying developments in energy-intensive industries,’ DIHK Deputy Managing Director Achim Dercks had told RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland (RND). ‘A frighteningly high number of companies, especially in industry, see themselves forced to react to the high energy prices by curbing production or even shutting down. That shows our current inquiries and references from IHK and enterprises very drastically’, Dercks is quoted further.
Experts from the DIHK had calculated the energy price-related loss of value added. ‘We assume that the high gas prices have already led to around 20 billion euros of value-added loss in industry alone. In addition to this, there are then sales losses at service providers and buyers, as well as the loss of purchasing power at private households,’ Dercks is quoted as saying. Many companies could disappear permanently.”
Twenty billion euros in lost value added in German industry, and the minister responsible is looking forward to perhaps falling natural gas prices? Or did his colleagues just not report this correctly and overhear the determination with which he now wants to promote industry, which his party in particular has so far only wanted to shackle as far as possible?
Translated with http://www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)
Saludos
el mar
Dutch TTF is down from 340 to 270 in the last 8 days.
As far as I understand, Germany has managed to fill it’s gas caverns to nearly 100%. So I think for this year consumers will be fine.
The industry is a different issue because they feel the combined upticks of all commodities and shipping. We will see. The curve is cool….
Baghdad green zone experiencing a little turbulence.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/IkNOAle1AHr4/
Soccer fans celebrating awin.
Seems they have mobile phones in iraq just like libya… more please.
I wish I was there! (I really do…)
HK Mayhem courtesy Fast Eddy Media Corp
https://i.postimg.cc/jSbbWw3L/Mayhem-TST.png
This is right after the student was shot…
https://i.postimg.cc/W4yYkxpX/Shooting.png
Now that’s real war.
Allah Akbar!
Hungry Italians at the food bank to collect bread and milk in the economic capital of Italy. Milan, 27 August. This is Mario Draghi’s Italy.
https://twitter.com/RadioGenova/status/1563904672460595200
Isn’t it amazing that the MOREONS are like deer caught in the headlights…
They know that there is a massive issue with energy — but it does not occur to them that Cassandra (and Malthus btw) was eventually right… we are running out of affordable energy…
Nope. It’s that f789ing Pooteen guy… he did this…. or maybe it’s Trump — or Biden…
Anything but peak energy.
Anything but the vax.
Hahaha… now why is my power still off??? How can I watch Telegram videos on a tether???? I’ll burn through my data… Bit of FE Challenge… for FE… but I still have heat and a gas cooker – and it’s day time…
M Fast is trying to source a few things for her work…
She went to Bunnings for pots — returning to her car she opened the door and a geriatric insisted she banged her door — M Fast says she got out and informed the old bat that she did not – M Fast then opened her door fully and showed the coot that it still did not reach the door of the stooopid MOREON. The Imbecile still insisted… M Fast ignored her and left…
I told me Fast that she should have told the MOREON that she should stop boosting cuz she’s losing her mind (that’s what I would have said… but keep in mind the last person who pissed me off ended up in a heap on the floor… M Fast is .. much more pleasant … she likes people — I am dismissive of almost everyone).
4th shots are well under way so the old goat will have had hers.
Then M Fast had to go to another shop — owned by a couple of my buddies from hockey — they have 4 staff — sign on the door – Closed Due to Covid.
Feels like everything is going to pieces here – even the power is out yet AGAIN… that must be 4x in less than 6 months.
soon NZ will no longer be in the Core.
Q4?
New Zealand is not self sufficient in food so a lot of importing
Australia IS the core. New Zealand is close. Those six reactors in Ukaine get their guts spilled soon. It gets real then.
Q4 Boom – let’s hope.
Portuguese redditor dasza79 replied:
The small Portuguese village we have lived on for over a year now is experiencing a huge rise of deaths, I hear similar reports from other places. Now, I’m not “local” enough yet to try and find out what the locals think about it, only one lady (a nurse) who have suffered adverse reaction after her 2 doses, and whose father had a heart attack after his 1st one, but even she didn’t seem to question the policies, just resigned herself to whatever fate will be bestowed on her.
I would love to know whether medical professionals are starting to see beyond Safe and Effective mantra? Do they have enough integrity left to start worrying about their patients? I see obituaries for young people in local papers too often, bombeiros dying on duty or after “short illness”, in the spring this year a number of my previously active and bubbly elderly neighbours had sudden falls resulting in months of hospital stay and physiotherapy.
I kid not – our parish has around 2000 people in it. 2-3 funerals a week now. How is that normal?
No, it is certainly not normal, or at least it was not normal prior to the DEATHVAX™ rollout and the normalization of coverup absurdities like SADS.
https://2ndsmartestguyintheworld.substack.com/p/a-redditor-responds-to-just-in-vaids
European villages generally have a very old demographic, as the young don’t want to live in them or can’t find work and everyone prefers to crowd into town. That particular village sounds rather too large for that, though.
This village is now full of young families as the elderly died off over the last few years: all on the hook for their £600k + houses purchased at the height of the bubble, mostly builders and plumbers and people in Bio-tech, the only ones who can afford it these days.
I look out eagerly for extra ambulance activity, but nothing doing. Rather a dull kind of Apocalypse, so far…….
The Five Energy Sectors, Explained
It’s true. Wind and solar comprised just 4.7% of total energy consumption in the United States in 2021. However, “energy” and “electricity” are not the same thing in this context.
Total energy consumption spans electricity (the power sector), liquid fuels (the transportation sector), and heat (across industrial, commercial, and residential sectors). Wind and solar farms generate electricity and contribute to the power sector. Therefore, it’s misleading to gauge market share or viability by factoring in transportation and heating, too.
Indeed, the United States leaned on renewable energy for 25.3% of total electricity generation in the first six months of 2022. A record 16.5% of electricity generation was sourced from wind and solar alone in that span.
That’s not to say renewable energy will never grab a majority share of total energy consumption. Rather, the energy transition may look different in each sector
Power: Electric utilities and power generators must plan grid changes years in advance to ensure stability. Almost all new capacity being added for the next decade comprises wind and solar, while almost all old capacity being retired comprises fossil fuels. It all comes down to economics. Wind and solar farms don’t require ongoing fuel expenses, which results in low-cost energy output for the life of the asset. Meanwhile, older coal-fired and gas-fired facilities have fuel expenses and higher maintenance costs. Current trends suggest wind and solar could supply at least 40% of the nation’s electricity by 2030. The power sector represents 38% of total energy consumption in the United States today.
Transportation: Several emerging technologies will shift energy demand to the power sector. For example, the energy transition in the transportation sector will see liquid fuels (petroleum) displaced by electric fuels (electricity). Keep in mind the transportation sector spans passenger vehicles, heavy-duty trucks, ships, and airplanes – not all of which can be electrified soon. That’s where renewable liquid fuels, such as renewable diesel or emerging electrofuels, could make an impact. The transportation sector represents 28% of total energy consumption in the United States today.
Industrial: Some industrial processes can be electrified, too. Newer steelmaking processes use electric arc furnace technology to replace older blast furnace processes. It’s more efficient with respect to time, energy use, and cost. Similarly, many industrial processes could theoretically lower their carbon footprint by using hydrogen or biomass instead of dirtier inputs. The industrial sector represents 23% of total energy consumption in the United States today.
Heating: Large parts of the United States rely on natural gas or liquid fuels for heating. These could be decarbonized by switching to electric heat, although dropping in renewable natural gas or renewable liquid fuels might be easier. Some utilities are even exploring mixing hydrogen into their natural gas supply, but that’s unlikely to become a meaningful decarbonization tool due to the limitations of steel pipelines.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.thestreet.com/.amp/investing/the-most-misleading-stat-in-renewable-energy
This sounds like wishful thinking to me. It is not written by anyone familiar with knowledge of actual costs and quantities involved.
Also, the statement, “The power sector represents 38% of total energy consumption in the United States today” depends on counting electricity from non-fossil fuel sources in a generous way. They are counted as replacing the fossil fuel that would have been burned in creating the particular quantity of electricity. (This quantity is about 2.5 times as much as it would be if this adjustment were not made.) I don’t think it should be counted this way. The IEA does not use this generous counting approach. Neither does Vaclav Smil. If the electricity produced by wind and solar were available when needed (rather than being an intermittent replacement for fossil fuels), and lots and lots of heat pumps could be used for heating, perhaps this approach would make sense, but it doesn’t in the real world.
The cheapest heat is that from “co-generation.” In other words, the waste heat energy from creating electricity by burning a fossil fuel or, by operating a nuclear power plant. We in the US have simply discarded such energy, but China has used it extensively. Also Sweden has used it. The disadvantage is that people need to live very near power plants. They also have little control over the level of heat the obtain. China has been switching from co-generation (based on coal) to electricity from coal, operating heat pumps. The latter is more expensive for customers and requires a greater quantity of coal to be burned.
Renewable liquid fuels take land to grow. They interfere with food production.
Renewable natural gas is not cheap or abundant. What we need is cheap and abundant substitutes.
Burning coal or natural gas directly tends to be very cheap as well, if the coal or natural gas is cheap. If coal or natural gas is expensive, heating a home with it directly will be expensive. But making electricity from the expensive fuel will be expensive, too.
The person who wrote this is Dunc (Duncan) Kruger.
“Exhaustive study of German mortality data finds excess deaths tightly correlated with mass vaccination”
https://www.eugyppius.com/p/exhaustive-study-of-german-mortality?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&triedSigningIn=true
Clearly because more people chose to get vaccinated during the height of COVID cases! 🙂
mike – what do you make of this?
Will you go for the SS Booster?
It’s BACK! Surprise, Surprise…NOT
In Europe, energy crisis drives growing cutbacks
Matt Phillips author of Axios Market
What it means: The impact of Russia’s war in Ukraine — and the combination of sanctions and embargoes drastically curbing Russian gas supplies — is beginning to have real effects on the West’s standard (and cost) of living.
Big picture: In late July, the European Union’s 27 member states agreed to voluntarily cut gas consumption by 15% between August and March 2023.
As part of the agreement, mandatory cuts could be imposed if the energy supply situation worsens.
What’s happening: A range of government-imposed restrictions, akin to the kind of restraints during wartime, here is a sampling.
In Germany:
Cologne’s magnificent cathedral — normally lit throughout the night — now goes dark over night. Public buildings, museums and other landmarks — such as the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin — will no longer be illuminated overnight either.
In Hanover last month, hot water was cut off at public buildings, as the city seeks to cut consumption by 15%.
The southern city of Augsburg decided to turn off traffic lights.
Spain
Congress agreed to temperature limitations — air conditioning no cooler than 27 degrees Celsius, or nearly 81 degrees Fahrenheit.
After 10 p.m. shop windows and unoccupied public buildings won’t be lit.
Italy:
Air conditioning in schools and public buildings has already been limited in what the government labeled “Operation Thermostat,” starting in May.
Italy is one of the European countries most reliant on Russian energy.
France:
While roughly 70% of its energy comes from nuclear power, France has committed to cutting natural gas consumption as well.
Shopkeepers will now be fined for keeping doors open and air conditioning running,common practice.
Illuminated signs will be banned between 1 a.m. and 6 a.m.
What we’re watching: Whether the discomfort of the energy crisis — which could worsen during winter — reduces public and political support for sanctions on Russia in response to its brutal invasion of a smaller neighbor.
Analysts say Vladimir Putin hopes the strain of the energy crisis could split Europe’s nations, weakening its unified response to the Ukraine war. That might help Russia to wriggle out of some painful sanctions.
The European general public were never properly informed that this energy crisis would happen, so they are going to badly traumatized as many of them will go through the next winter with the basic necessities for human life such as food and heat in short supply.
But the governments, the authorities, they must have known this situation was on the cards. Indeed, they’ve one could argue contributed to it through their various decisions on energy policy and relations with Russia over the past two decades.
To all those normies who trusted the authorities and supported the renewables agenda and the phasing out of coal and nuclear power, applauded Greta, and called those of us who opposed those measures D-E-N-I-E-R-S or C-O-N-S-P-I-R-A-C-Y T-H-E-O-R-I-S-T-S; well, congratulations, you’ve effectively killed Granny and Grandad and damned your grandchildren to a life of sustainable deindustrialization, deprivation, drudgery and despair that will make them envy the North Koreans, who at least have enough practical commonsense and realism to Keep Burning Coal for their base-load power.
“I don’t represent any financial or political interest,” said Greta to the US Congress last year. ” I am not a lobbyist. So I can’t negotiate, compromise or make deals. I have nothing to offer you. All I can do is to urge you to listen to and act on the science, and to use your common sense.
I am not even going to explain why fossil fuel subsidies are bad. It is the year 2021. The fact we are still having this discussion and even more that we are still supporting fossil fuels directly or indirectly using taxpayer money is a disgrace. It is proof that we have not understood the climate emergency at all.
If you compare the current so-called ‘climate policies’ to the overall current best available science you clearly see that there’s a huge gap. This gap between what needs to be done in order to stay below the 1,5°C target and what we are actually doing is widening by the second. There are several decades missing.
The simple fact is that if we are to live up to our promises and commitments in Paris, we have to end fossil fuel subsidies. Now. And that is not my “opinion”.
And yet, this is just the very minimum amount of effort that is needed to start the rapid sustainable transition. It may seem like we’re asking for a lot. And you will of course say that we are naive. And that’s fine. But at least we’re not so naive that we believe that things will be solved by countries and companies making vague, distant insufficient targets without any real pressure from the media and the general public.
So either you do this or you’re going to have to explain to your children and the most affected people why you are surrendering on the 1.5-degree target. Giving up without even trying. Well I’m here to tell you that unlike you, my generation will not give up without a fight. We will never give up the fight to safeguard present and future living conditions.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PenPOqEN0I
So there you have it, folks, your hardship, your poverty, hunger, malnutrition, chilblains (that’s an old word that is going to make a comeback), and possible hypothermia and early death are all for the sake safeguarding present and future living conditions. Remember that as you shiver in the dark next winter.
I find it extremely gratifying to watch the MOREONS and Green Groopies squeal like stuck pigs as their energy bills explode higher.
They will never work out what hit them… but that’s ok. I just want to enjoy rubber necking the train wreck hahaha
Ya Hooo!!!!
Europe will go back to Russia when winter hits and the common man loses it
I very much doubt it
Once the German Greenies see that high prices are a permanent feature of any renewables and winter begins killing people then you will see Europe beg Russia for her gas
Noted children’s book author Robert Habeck, who is somehow also the German Minister of the Economy, turns out to know very little about his job or the industries he proposes to regulate. His gas surcharge scheme, conceived to keep the importer Uniper solvent in the face of skyrocketing prices, has now imploded and must be redrafted. It has emerged that, under the current proposal, many businesses not in danger of insolvency would have had a claim on the funds. This is probably because the bill was co-authored by the major energy companies themselves. In an extremely awkward speech, Habeck admitted that the problems with the law reflected his own ignorance of the gas industry and its internal complexities.
Meanwhile, our lunatic Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, who like Habeck also from the economic sabotage collective known as the Green Party, has spoken out against keeping our three remaining nuclear plants open beyond 2022. This would be “crazy” in her conception, because Germany has fought so long and invested so much in getting out of nuclear power. Sensible commentary on German affairs is often to be found only beyond our borders. As an editorial in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung puts it: “If the Federal Republic shuts down its last three nuclear power plants, this winter of all times, then the country is beyond all help.”
Indeed, electricity is looking increasingly scarce across the entire continent. German power futures for January 2023 surged more than threefold towards the end of last week, as planners directed all spare natural gas into reserves for the winter. Prices have since fallen somewhat, but the essential scarcity of energy remains. There looms a devastating macroeconomic shock, which threatens not only to crush many private finances, but also to devastate large sectors of German industry. It seems increasingly possible that we’ll see measures like managed brown-outs, with bizarre shortages of everyday products like toilet paper, as manufacturing is scaled back. Electricity prices have finally come to the notice of our political class, who have promised to remedy the problem with regulatory tinkering that will do nothing, because the problem is not regulation but the simple unavailability of a key commodity. Unless they can conjure natural gas from the ether, the technocrats cannot help us.
https://www.eugyppius.com/p/german-energy-apocalypse-update-ii/comments
Baerbock, whose main qualification is to have won a local competition in trampolining, and who finished a strange 1-year-Masters degree in law, which is not the regular juridical education in Germany, once said about Habeck: While I am more the human rights girl, Robert knows how to milk cows and feed pigs.
He helds a PhD in literature though like his wife Andrea Paluch.
Thinking about Annalena, get to know also husband Daniel Holeflesch, partner in a spin-off of publicis groupe. He is registered as a lobbyist, managing contacts to the industry.
Hilarious they are definitely qualified to usher in mad Max world
Biden’s guy in charge of spent fuel ponds advocates copulation with dogs… and is a tranny freak.
At least when the zombies come hunting for the guilty parties as they will once conditions become intolerable they will teach Biden and his buddies a lesson about something a bit more real to home how to stay alive
Discovery of Separate Monkeypox Strain Suggests Two Outbreaks Are Happening
“A monkeypox strain has been spotted that is different from the one behind the ongoing outbreak in the West, raising questions about just how long the virus could have been around.”
https://www.newsweek.com/monkeypox-new-strain-two-outbreaks-1730155
Children in London Offered Polio Boosters After Virus is Detected in Sewage
While most of the samples contained vaccine-like virus, some showed “sufficient mutations to be classified as vaccine derived poliovirus.” The UKHSA said this was more concerning as such virus behaves more similarly to “wild polio and may, on rare occasions, lead to cases of paralysis in unvaccinated individuals.”
https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/10/europe/polio-vaccine-children-london-intl/index.html
Novel bivalent C-19 vaccines: What does common immunological sense predict in regard to their impact on the C-19 pandemic?
Geert Vanden Bossche
Bivalent mRNA booster candidates[1] have been developed as a next step in the development of C-19 vaccines to combat the virus; these new vaccines target the induction of a broader immune response than the original vaccines and have to some extent already been approved by regulatory authorities (e.g., FDA, MHRA).
https://voiceforscienceandsolidarity.substack.com/p/novel-bivalent-c-19-vaccines-what
Soon the Plebs will be given around the clock vaccines and boosters for every ailment.
Hahaha… stooopid dun ces … they will never work out that taking 27 shots for Covid is what caused their skin to rot and fall off … and their brains to turn to pudding.
And they think they are a smart species hahahahahahaahahaha. Im Be Sils.
Fortunately, as I am not a Pleb-Schmuck, but the ruler (and total population) of a sovereign Republic – although currently not recognised by UK HMG – I shall not be injected to death as they plan.
CDC Confirms First Human Infection with Flu Virus from Pigs During 2022
From Geert: In my recent article, I explained how C-19 vaccinated populations will soon serve as a reservoir for zoonotic viral disease not only for Monkeypox but also for zoonotic flu. Although I thought avian flu would be the most likely candidate, swine flu should obviously be considered too! Like the situation with Monkeypox, I expect to see more and more cases of zoonotic flu occurring and spreading in the human population. If this is the case, we can conclude that asymptomatic human-to-human transmission is happening! We’ll know very soon…
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/swineflu/spotlights/first-human-infection-2022.htm
I would suppose some researcher is working on making the virus more transmissible, so that we indeed will be seeing more of these diseases. Or, perhaps, simply the poor state of the immune systems of the vaccinated will cause these illnesses to become greater problems.
norm … do you feel an impulse to make oink noises yet?
Guinea pigs squeak and grunt, don’t they? Poor old Norm…..
Given the UK energy crisis, should we not perhaps crowd-fund Norm so that he can drive to the vaxx centre, and continue to give lifts to his friends, too?
nooooo
i’m much too busy at my day job of being a mass murderer
much more satisfying than bumping off one at a time
Did you volunteer to inject babies – or do you get paid?
Anyone who supports injecting children is …. you got it – mentally ill.
Let’s ask SSS if norm squeaks and grunts…
21 40 uk time
time to file another eddywit sighting for Sir Savid
I guess this is very difficult. Gain of function experiments have always been aiming at it and it had never worked. As it seems a very deadly virus does not spread, as people contain it, and a successful virus is harmless. A virus causing asymptomatic infection might be a break through but it is unclear if this exists. It needed to start with a very low impact, so people wouldn’t realise, and become deadly later.
Critics are suspicious that the vaccines are the true bioweapon. They could work a) like rat poison, so their deadly effect comes later (which still seems not to have happend) or b) follow the 5% each year model to stay unter the radar (but every 1000th shot a severe sideeffect is not 5%).
As the vaccines come from the USA or Europe, and data seem to be similar in the USA and Europe we have to ask what could be the strategy behind killing their own people. If you look to the Deagel-list, there is an analysis of Paardemaaker, the main affected countries are the G7. True, Deagels needn’t be mirror worldwide vaccination rates, but I think, Paardemaakers checked that.
Of course there is a range of answers starting from Great Reset to religious fanatism. Deagel wrote it is a way the 1% hope to keep control.
In my idea, I have a strong focus on a kind of religious motivation out of own experiences, it is hard to explain, why powerful enterprises, that must see what is going on, don’t intervene.
From my point of view the energy based stagnation might be a trigger, which leads to alternative ways of money making. It might be that the players involved are so extremely powerful that resistence seems futile.
The bioweapon thesis and in fact also the malthusian answer thesis does not make sense under these circumstances. Of course it is possible that powerful people are idiots. Or that there is another threat to come for the rest of the world.
There has been outspoken the idea that the last 200 years supported a genetical selection process that strenghtened the obedient citizen, if you consider that a genetic trait. The vaccine as a bioweapon would turn that into the opposite. The Hitlerian fascism tried too breed the Herrenmensch.
You have to bend your mind into very strange assumptions to make the bioweapon thesis work!
I have not run across “Paardemaaker.” In fact, Google didn’t find it. There are a number of European languages it could represent.
The thing that makes sense to me is that there may be two different outcomes (at the same time) from the combination of the virus causing COVID and the vaccines:
1. There is likely to be a direct impact on life expectancy and birth rates. Life expectancy will tend to become shorter and birth rates lower as more of the mRNA shots are delivered. This is at least part of what the elite seem to want because of overpopulation. Some of the more vulnerable will tend to be removed from the world’s population, making energy per capita fall less rapidly than otherwise would be the case.
2. In terms of the self-organizing system, the virus and its vaccine could be enabling a higher level of variability into genetic outcomes, to enable a transition to a different type of human who can make better use of energy sources that are today hard to extract. The result will be a continued move toward more energy extraction and more energy density. The remaining fossil fuels and perhaps other types of energy (fusion?) may eventually enable another civilization, built many years later on the ashes of the current civilization.
I don’t see the vaccines or the viruses killing everyone. I know that viruses can enable changes in genes. The current system works on “survival of the best adapted.” With this outcome, the net effect of increased variability of genes is likely to be favorable for avoiding new problems such as higher radiation levels. Also the new form of humans could be better adapted to higher or more variable temperatures.
As a depopulation tool, COVID and the vaxxes are a hopeless failure so far. World population has grown something like 200M since early 2020.
Now a genetic modification plan to create a new type of human is an interesting angle.
However, given the people in charge are good at dreaming up Dr Evil type plans, but absolutely effin’ hopeless at implementing them, the hopes of a new, improved human 2.0 emerging as planned seem slim.
More likely, per usual something completely unexpected will derail everything and the Gods will say “are you not entertained?”
The injections are not the primary kill method… they are purposed to create mutations … eventually you get a deadly one that rips through the VAIDS-damaged MOREONS.
That has not happened yet.
When it does there will be epic fear and we will be locked down — there will be troops on the streets with shoot to kill orders – the only food source will be the delivery vans – and they will stop delivering.
Then everyone not already dead will starve.
You obviously have not read UEP https://www.headsupster.com/forumthread?shortId=220
there is no ‘alternative way of moneymaking’
money is and can only ever be, a token of energy exchange
if you have no energy to exchange (in whatever form), then no money, in any real sense can be made.
That’s just the way things are.
(Crypto isn’t money–its a ponzi scheme)
Not sure why gov doesn’t just say we need to ration just like 70s.
If we added millions of mopeds we might extend life with oil?
Shellman posted below. I found his interesting comment.
Seems like he gives a glimmer of hope with shallow sands(is that in Texas?
He says LTO is crap; bc it’s not profitable or less used?
MIKE SHELLMAN
08/26/2022 at 8:29 pm
Mr. Avocado, I really appreciate you reading my stuff; thank you. I don’t want you to be confused.
My colleagues and I, all oil men working from a checkbook, and ‘truthful’ petroleum engineers (save one “token” economist who doesn’t know shit about oil economics), believe there are 3-5 years of Tier 1 and 2 drillable locations left in both sub basins of the Permian; probably closer to 3. That is what I meant by that.
Far too many analysts put far too much emphasis on probable and technically “recoverable” resources; they believe because somebody SAYS its in the ground it will actually come OUT of the ground. Historically that has NEVER been the case. So, I prefer to focus on proven reserves; a bird in the hand is worth more than three in the bush, and all that.
I wrote that little piece on OSB because of the distortion of facts regarding the contention that US and World reserves keep growing. That is not true. Proven producing reserves (PDP) from 2019-2020 in the US were DOWN 19%. PDP reserves in the US only provide our great nation with 5 years of consumption levels. By the way, everybody lies about reserves; nobody more so that the US tight oil industry. So it’s really a silly argument. I can declare tomorrow morning over coffee and donuts with little sprinkles that my reserves doubled overnight. It doesn’t mean anything. The KSA does that all the time, over donuts. We caught the US tight oil industry oily handed four years ago lying about its EUR’s. Don’t believe ANYTHING you read on the internet. A big portion of estimate reserves throughout the world is dung heap. Reserve Growth May Rulz, but only if you embrace the lying.
My industry has been awfully efficient over the past 80 years with squeezing oil, or blood, out the turnip. But when we have depleted the reservoir’s drive mechanism (like gas), the oil left in the rock becomes stuck, imobile, and is stranded. That’s all she wrote. We can sometimes think of something a little new and ring a few more BO out of it; its insignificant in the big scheme of things. Many conventional reservoirs can be drained 60%, even more, of oil in place; in spite of the bullshit only about 4-5% of OOIP in tight shale reservoirs can be recovered.
The commenter is correct, however… in the end, on the tail end of the fossil fuel era, it won’t be expensive, marginally unprofitable shale that will take us home…it will be left behind oil in old, depleted reservoirs that will be all we need. Good oil, the <35 API stuff, not the LTO crap. Like the stuff that Shallow Sand produces, the 1-3 BOPD stuff that's profitable, paid for, and steady as a rock…THAT's America's long term oil future! Tight oil was never anything but a short little speed bump in the fast lane to depletion. So, the next time you meet a stripper well operator, shake his hand; he, or she, is your future. Not Pioneer.
I hope this helps. Thanks again for visiting.
The odd even rationing of the 1970s didn’t save a lot of gasoline consumption, as far as I know. The day you could buy gas for your vehicle was determined by the last number of your license plate. If it was odd, you could only buy on odd days; if it was even, you could only buy on even days. It perhaps reduced the length of lines at the gasoline stations.
Wages were rising in the 1970s, in part because employers wanted wages to keep up with inflation. Also, an increasing share of women were entering the work force in the US, adding to demand. Energy demand kept growing, despite the rationing. It wasn’t until interest rates were raised to “nosebleed” levels in 1979-1980 that demand and prices went down. Central banks are looking at the situation now and saying that the thing that worked wasn’t rationing; it was higher interest rates.
That means the central banks may be lying
20 percent interest rates the good ole days maybe the central banks are correct I know I caved in in buying house which would have used energy
A lot of gas wasted waiting in long lines at the gas stations or idling in traffic jams.
ya but I need to fill up every single day cuz I drive 500km per day … hahahaha..
Many smaller businesses increased their debt to cope with lock-downs: higher rates will surely eliminate them, one body-blow too many….
Germany paid €1000 MWh today…up from €40 MWh a year ago
The price is a bit crazy…but it’s cheap in comparison to shutting down the economy and dying
The electricity price in Europe is capped for households…but businesses pay the whole fare
Now we just wait…
BAU is dying.
Oh Gosh – but they already injected themselves hahahaha
THE UK GOVERNMENT PERFORMS AN ABSOLUTELY STUNNING TURN AROUND ON ITS RECOMMENDATIONS RE MRNA INJECTIONS AND PREGNANCY AND LACTATION…
This is MASSIVE folks…
After millions of women have received all their Pfizer and Moderna doses during their pregnancy and while feeding their babies…
Scroll down to Pt 3.4 in the Government document
Toxicity conclusions
The absence of reproductive toxicity data is a reflection of the speed of development to first identify and select COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine BNT162b2 for clinical testing and its rapid development to meet the ongoing urgent health need. In principle, a decision on licensing a vaccine could be taken in these circumstances without data from reproductive toxicity studies animals, but there are studies ongoing and these will be provided when available. In the context of supply under Regulation 174, IT IS CONSIDERED THAT SUFFICIENT REASSURANCE OF SAFE USE OF THE VACCINE IN PREGNANT WOMEN CANNOT BE PROVIDED AT THE PRESENT TIME;
Use in women of CHILDBEARING POTENTIAL childbearing potential could be supported provided healthcare professionals are advised to RULE OUT KNOWN OR SUSPECTED PREGNANCY PRIOR TO VACCINATION.
WOMEN WHO ARE BREASTFEEDING SHOULD ALSO NOT BE VACCINATED.
These judgements reflect the absence of data at the present time and do not reflect a specific finding of concern. Adequate advice with regard to women of childbearing potential, pregnant women and breastfeeding women has been provided in both the Information for UK Healthcare Professionals and the Information for UK recipients.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/regulatory-approval-of-pfizer-biontech-vaccine-for-covid-19/summary-public-assessment-report-for-pfizerbiontech-covid-19-vaccine
Sounds like a good move.
“Use in women of CHILDBEARING POTENTIAL childbearing potential could be supported provided healthcare professionals are advised to RULE OUT KNOWN OR SUSPECTED PREGNANCY PRIOR TO VACCINATION.
WOMEN WHO ARE BREASTFEEDING SHOULD ALSO NOT BE VACCINATED.”
Norm?
Your (female) progeny?
🤣👍👍👍👍
the vaccines should be labelled POISON. Cuz they are poison
Saying that they didn’t bother about toxicity data, as they were just so eager to save lives, develop the vaxxes and get them out there,
Doesn’t really wash, does it?
By their own – false and mendacious – logic concerning protection against infection and transmission, vaccinating others but not the pregnant would have done just as well to safeguard them.
Instead, there was a huge drive to get it into them, with assorted professors and the Royal College of Obstetricians falling over themselves to assure women of their total safety and necessity, until only just last week.
Criminal negligence at least, surely?
The implies that the situation regarding miscarriages and injured babies must be quite grave for them to back-track in this way.
All the so-called sensationalist anti-vaxxers such as Yeadon have been completely vindicated by this.
Not sure why they are admitting this … perhaps want to unhinge a little more…
This must surely unhinge the folks who done birthed dead hunks of meat (that were fed to the rats and feral dogs Out Back the Dumpster where SSS plies her trade)
Always liked this one written by Sabino Cortez, Jr in Acres USA back in 2010.
Serengeti Style Grazing – African Method Achieves High Success in South
https://nebula.wsimg.com/3312bb570f029b7eb9866dc9a54cbefa?AccessKeyId=EB8CC95A0CE5D7DCFCF4&disposition=0&alloworigin=1
Very interesting. Thanks for posting.
I think that a fellow named Alan Savory is also working with similar ideas in Africa, but I don’t think he uses Bermuda grass.
Inflation/Deflation:
It appears oil production peaked in 2018(correct if wrong). Let’s look at something simple, a strip mall and a similar vacant piece of land next to that mall.
In Rochester most such malls are suffering high vacancy rates, their cash flow and salvage value are diminished – simple NPV problem.
If a similar new mall were built adjacent to existing mall, it would cost more, become a sunk cost and immediately upon completion decline in value to that of the older mall, more or less.
So, inflation/deflation? I say deflation, in both cases sunk funds will yield less cashflow.
This is not dissimilar to housing during the S&L bust. Anything that requires energy to use is worth less, there energy usage diminishes the free cashflow.
Look at gold/silver. They are dead in the water, stuff is deflating and as such can carry less debt. The nominal numbers are cooked, the real representational value of stuff is going down; raise the price of gas 2x, for a dollar can only drive half as far, the asset has less value, deflated. Cashflow and value are two separate ideas.
Looks like a step future to me, deflationary.
Dennis L.