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We usually don’t think about the wonderful service fossil fuels provide in terms of being a store of heat energy for winter, the time when there is a greater need for heat energy. Figure 1 shows dramatically how, in the US, the residential usage of heating fuels spikes during the winter months.
Solar energy is most abundantly available in the May-June-July period, making it a poor candidate for fixing the problem of the need for winter heat.
In some ways, the lack of availability of fuels for winter is a canary in the coal mine regarding future energy shortages. People have been concerned about oil shortages, but winter fuel shortages are, in many ways, just as bad. They can result in people “freezing in the dark.”
In this post, I will look at some of the issues involved.
[1] Batteries are suitable for fine-tuning the precise time during a 24-hour period solar electricity is used. They cannot be scaled up to store solar energy from summer to winter.
In today’s world, batteries can be used to delay the use of solar electricity for at most a few hours. In exceptional situations, perhaps the holding period can be increased to a few days.
California is known both for its high level of battery storage and its high level of renewables. These renewables include both solar and wind energy, plus smaller amounts of electricity generated in geothermal plants and electricity generated by burning biomass. The problem encountered is that the electricity generated by solar panels tends to start and end too early in the day, relative to when citizens want to use this electricity. After citizens return home after work, they would like to cook their dinners and use their air conditioning, leading to considerable demand after the sun sets.
Figure 3 illustrates how batteries in combination with hydroelectric generation (hydro) are used to save electricity generation from early in the day for use in the evening hours. While battery use is suitable for fine tuning exactly when, during a 24-hour period, solar energy will be used, the quantity of batteries cannot be ramped up sufficiently to save electricity from summer to winter. The world would run out of battery-making materials, if nothing else.
[2] Ramping up hydro is not a solution to our problem of inadequate energy for heat in winter.
One problem is that, in long-industrialized economies, hydro capabilities were built out years ago.
It is difficult to believe that much more buildout is available in these countries.
Another issue is that hydro tends to be quite variable from year to year, even over an area as large as the United States, as shown in Figure 4 above. When the variability is viewed over a smaller area, the year-to-year variability is even higher, as illustrated in Figure 5 below.
The pattern shown reflects peak generation in the spring, when the ice pack is melting. Low generation generally occurs during the winter, when the ice pack is frozen. Thus, hydro tends not be helpful for raising winter energy supplies. A similar pattern tends to happen in other temperate areas.
A third issue is that variability in hydro supply is already causing problems. Norway has recently reported that it may need to limit hydro exports in coming months because water reservoirs are low. Norway’s exports of electricity are used to help balance Europe’s wind and solar electricity. Thus, this issue may lead to yet another energy problem for Europe.
As another example, China reports a severe power crunch in its Sichuan Province, related to low rainfall and high temperatures. Fossil fuel generation is not available to fill the gap.
[3] Wind energy is not a greatly better than hydro and solar, in terms of variability and poor timing of supply.
For example, Europe experienced a power crunch in the third quarter of 2021 related to weak winds. Europe’s largest wind producers (Britain, Germany and France) produced only 14% of their rated capacity during this period, compared with an average of 20% to 26% in previous years. No one had planned for this kind of three-month shortfall.
In 2021, China experienced dry, windless weather, resulting in both its generation from wind and hydro being low. The country found it needed to use rolling blackouts to deal with the situation. This led to traffic lights failing and many families needing to eat candle-lit dinners.
Even viewed on a nationwide basis, US wind generation varies considerably from month to month.
US total wind electricity generation tends to be highest in April or May. This can cause oversupply issues because hydro generation tends to be high about the same time. The demand for electricity tends to be low because of generally mild weather. The result is that even at today’s renewable levels, a wet, windy spring can lead to a situation in which the combination of hydro and wind electricity supply exceeds total local demand for electricity.
[4] As more wind and solar are added to the grid, the challenges and costs become increasingly great.
There are a huge number of technical problems associated with trying to add a large amount of wind and solar energy to the grid. Some of them are outlined in Figure 7.
One of the issues is torque distortion, especially related to wind energy.
There are also many other issues, including some outlined on this Drax website. Wind and solar provide no “inertia” to the system. This makes me wonder whether the grid could even function without a substantial amount of fossil fuel or nuclear generation providing sufficient inertia.
Furthermore, wind and solar tend to make voltage fluctuate, necessitating systems to absorb and discharge something called “reactive power.”
[5] The word “sustainable” has created unrealistic expectations with respect to intermittent wind and solar electricity.
A person in the wind turbine repair industry once told me, “Wind turbines run on a steady supply of replacement parts.” Individual parts may be made to last 20-years, or even longer, but there are so many parts that some are likely to need replacement long before that time. An article in Windpower Engineering says, “Turbine gearboxes are typically given a design life of 20 years, but few make it past the 10-year mark.”
There is also the problem of wind damage, especially in the case of a severe storm.
Furthermore, the operational lives for fossil fuel and nuclear generating plants are typically much longer than those for wind and solar. In the US, some nuclear plants have licenses to operate for 60 years. Efforts are underway to extend some licenses to 80 years.
With the short life spans for wind and solar, constant rebuilding of wind turbines and solar generation is necessary, using fossil fuels. Between the rebuilding issue and the need for fossil fuels to maintain the electric grid, the output of wind turbines and solar panels cannot be expected to last any longer than fossil fuel supply.
[6] Energy modeling has led to unrealistic expectations for wind and solar.
Energy models don’t take into account all of the many adjustments to the transmission system that are needed to support wind and solar, and the resulting added costs. Besides the direct cost of the extra transmission required, there is an ongoing need to inspect parts for signs of wear. Brush around the transmission lines also needs to be cut back. If adequate maintenance is not performed, transmission lines can cause fires. Burying transmission lines is sometimes an option, but doing so is expensive, both in energy use and cost.
Energy models also don’t take into account the way wind turbines and solar panels perform in “real life.” In particular, most researchers miss the point that electricity from solar panels cannot be expected to be very helpful for meeting our need for heat energy in winter. If we want to add more summer air conditioning, solar panels can “sort of” support this effort, especially if batteries are also added to help fine tune when, during the 24-hour day, the solar electricity will be utilized. Unfortunately, we don’t have any realistic way of saving the output of solar panels from summer to winter.
It seems to me that supporting air conditioning is a rather frivolous use for what seems to be a dwindling quantity of available energy supply. In my opinion, our first two priorities should be adequate food supply and preventing freezing in the dark in winter. Solar, especially, does nothing for these issues. Wind can be used to pump water for crops and animals. In fact, an ordinary windmill, built 100 years ago, can also be used to provide this type of service.
Because of the intermittency issue, especially the “summer to winter” intermittency issue, wind and solar are not truly replacements for electricity produced by fossil fuels or nuclear. The problem is that most of the current system needs to remain in place, in addition to the renewable energy system. When researchers make cost comparisons, they should be comparing the cost of the intermittent energy, including necessary batteries and grid enhancements with the cost of the fuel saved by operating these devices.
[7] Competitive pricing plans that enable the growth of wind and solar electricity are part of what is pushing a number of areas in the world toward a “freezing-in-the-dark” problem.
In the early days of electricity production, “utility pricing” was generally used. With this approach, vertical integration of electricity supply was encouraged. A utility would make long term contracts with a number of providers and would set prices for customers based on the expected long-term cost of electricity production and distribution. The utility would make certain that transmission lines were properly repaired and would add new generation as needed.
Energy prices of all kinds spiked in the late 1970s. Not long afterward, in an attempt to prevent high electricity prices from causing inflation, a shift in pricing arrangements started taking place. More competition was encouraged, with the new approach called competitive pricing. Vertically integrated groups were broken up. Wholesale electricity prices started varying by time of day, based on which providers were willing to sell their production at the lowest price, for that particular time period. This approach encouraged providers to neglect maintaining their power lines and stop adding more storage capacity. Any kind of overhead expense was discouraged.
In fact, under this arrangement, wind and solar were also given the privilege of “going first.” If too much energy in total was produced, negative rates could result for other providers. This approach was especially harmful for nuclear energy. Nuclear power plants found that their overall price structure was too low. They sometimes closed because of inadequate profitability. New investments in nuclear energy were discouraged, as was proper maintenance. This effect has been especially noticeable in Europe.
The result is that about a third of the gain from wind and solar energy has been offset by the decline in nuclear electricity generation. Of course, nuclear is another low-carbon form of electricity. It is a great deal more reliable than wind or solar. It can even help prevent freezing in the dark because it is likely to be available in winter, when more electricity for heating is likely to be needed.
Another issue is that competitive pricing discouraged the building of adequate storage facilities for natural gas. Also, it tended to discourage purchasing natural gas under long term contracts. The thinking went, “Rather than building storage, why not wait until the natural gas is needed, and then purchase it at the market rate?”
Unfortunately, producing natural gas requires long-term investments. Companies producing natural gas operate wells that produce approximately equal amounts year-round. The same pattern of high winter-consumption of natural gas tends to occur almost simultaneously in many Northern Hemisphere areas with cold winters. If the system is going to work, customers need to be purchasing natural gas, year-round, and stowing it away for winter.
Natural gas production has been falling in Europe, as has coal production (not shown), necessitating more imports of replacement fuel, often natural gas.
With competitive rating and LNG ships seeming to sell natural gas on an “as needed” basis, there has been a tendency in Europe to overlook the need for long term contracts and additional storage to go with rising natural gas imports. Now, Europe is starting to discover the folly of this approach. Solar is close to worthless for providing electricity in winter; wind cannot be relied upon. It doesn’t ramp up nearly quickly enough, in any reasonable timeframe. The danger is that countries will risk having their citizens freeze in the dark because of inadequate natural gas import availability.
[8] The world is a very long way from producing enough wind and solar to solve its energy problems, especially its need for heat in winter.
The energy supply that the world uses includes much more than electricity. It contains oil and fuels burned directly, such as natural gas. The percentage share of this total energy supply that wind and solar output provides depends on how it is counted. The International Energy Agency treats wind and solar as if they only replace fuel, rather than replacing dispatchable electricity.
On this basis, the share of total energy provided by the Wind and Solar category is very low, only 2.2% for the world as a whole. Germany comes out highest of the groups analyzed, but even it is replacing only 6.0% of its total energy consumed. It is difficult to imagine how the land and water around Germany could tolerate wind turbines and solar panels being ramped up sufficiently to cover such a shortfall. Other parts of the world are even farther from replacing current energy supplies with wind and solar.
Clearly, we cannot expect wind and solar to ever be ramped up to meet our energy needs, even in combination with hydro.
Remember this:
Project Veritas: CBS News Used “Fake Patients” To Stage Long Car Line For Coronavirus Testing
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2020/05/07/project_veritas_cbs_news_used_fake_patients_to_stage_long_car_line_for_coronavirus_testing.html
CBS News edits testing story after Project Veritas exposes clinic’s line-stuffing ploy
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/05/06/cbs-news-edits-testing-story-after-project-veritas-exposes-clinics-line-stuffing-ploy/
Why did they do that norm? Surely with the hospitals overwhelmed no need to fake it … so why norm?
FINNISH INTERIOR MINISTER COLLAPSES LIVE ON AIR at PRESS CONFERENCE
https://t.me/downtherabbitholewegofolks/48720
hahahahaha she’s F789ed! This is the kinda thing I really enjoy watching.
It’s fun. It’s entertaining.
Wait til the Hunger Games kick off… all televised… your jaw will be aching from so much pop corn!
Contradiction, I know… but surely you have a stash, right?
‘The U.S., while also going into a recession, will profit, as it had planned, from the European catastrophe.
The Handelsblatt, a business daily, reports that Germany companies are moving production to North America.
Washington is attracting German companies with cheap energy and low taxes.
The German government is claiming it wants to prevent that but that is impossible without ending the energy sanctions.
The New York Times is of course happy with the situation. As European producers get out-priced from their markets the U.S. is taking up their slack’
‘The U.S., with the help of European politicians, is waging a war against the people of Europe and their standard of living. It is now on the verge of winning that war.
No help will come from outside to prevent that from happening:
Germany Secures Just One Tanker of Gas During Scholz’s Gulf Tour’
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/09/the-us-is-winning-its-war-on-europes-industries-and-people.html#more
yep, but calling for Germany to reopen Nordstream 1 day before it was terrorised is too little, too late.
This makes me want to avoid this airline https://t.me/TommyRobinsonNews/40120
‘Mass poisoning:’ Officials seize 15,000 fentanyl pills disguised as candy
https://saraacarter.com/mass-poisoning-officials-seize-15000-fentanyl-pills-disguised-as-candy/
On the left – unf789ed.
On the right – f789ed
https://t.me/VigilantFox/6352
Must Watch! No Excuses!
A message from Reiner Fuellmich on the Rona, the Reset and everything.
https://www.bitchute.com/embed/h3sTXRUOTSk1/
Thought is was an old video. Glad to see it wasn’t.
Exciting huh! I’m firmly in the Reiner camp here and believe his ex-partner is being a beeatch!
It’s obvious that any comittee trying to get to the bottom of the scamdemic would be attacked at some point. Maybe she was a plant all along. They didn’t seem to know each other very well. Something I don’t understand if you’re going to set up contractual / business agreements etc.
Anyway… would be nice to see some people hang (little pleasures) before the world goes completely and utterly over the edge.
There was always something a little “off” about the hat product placement. And yet RF did admit to “investing” committee funds in his house, defending this as being “safe”. I really don’t trust lawyers.
On the topic of turing test :
What never appears to Mr. Fuellmich is:
The concept of legal prosecution is one of the reasons why
The Civilisation of War, Slavery and Robbery
emerges again and again.
OpinionDavid Fickling Bloomberg
Peak Oil Has Finally Arrived. No, Really
Those who have called a top in oil may finally be proven right as sharp global rate hikes hurt consumption.
I’ve rarely felt more trepidation about writing a column than this one. But here goes: After more than a century of almost continual growth, the world’s appetite for oil is peaking, and will soon enter terminal decline.
That’s hard to write, because those who’ve called a top in oil have a forecasting record on a par with film producer Harry Warner’s skepticism that people in the 1920s wanted to see talking pictures.
David Fickling is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering energy and commodities. Previously, he worked for Bloomberg News, the Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times. @davidfickling
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Still masking it as loss of appetite…hah
Dysmorphia: “this oil makes me look fat! I have to go purge..”
This is a link:
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-09-28/the-oil-peak-is-here-as-steep-rate-hikes-curb-consumption?sref=eWpk04kZ
The article talks about the lack of investment since 2014, the close tie between oil consumption and the economy, and the fact that oil production has not returned to pre-COVID levels. It concludes:
‘…oil has always lived on GDP growth.
Huh?
Cart before the horse.
Fickling is flipping the 2 sided coin here.
What a poser.
“Oil living on GDP growth” is the way economists seem to think about the situation.
Adding an increasing amount of debt at a lower interest tends to raise demand, and indirectly, GDP. This higher demand also to raise oil consumption. So, they tend to increase together.
If you don’t understand how the whole system is woven together, it looks like it is the GDP growth that raises oil consumption. But it is more that historically, they have tended to rise and fall together, with oil consumption growth, in fact, rising a bit before GDP growth, if you look at the situation closely.
Once oil consumption falls, economic growth has to fall.
‘After more than a century of almost continual growth, the world’s appetite for oil is peaking, and will soon enter terminal decline.’
The appetite is greater than ever, especially from the need to support the renewable folly.
The demand is collapsing as the fiscal trickery has exhausted itself. He be a wordsmith without any logic or insight, and probably wouldn’t know one end of a spanner from the other. Dumberg opinion P.O.S
and his follow up will be all about EV pick up trucks hauling 5 tonne loads 1000 miles per charge!
This is a masterpiece of spin… oil? Who needs that …we’re sick and tired of oil…
It’s demand that has peaked – not supply … (of affordable oil).
This is right up there with — ya some folks are getting f789ed up from the ‘Safe and Effective’ injections but if you compare that to the 6.5M lives we saved — it’s a nothing burger…
This is outstanding PR… These are the front runners for the 2+2= 17 Award for PR Excellence 2022.
Of course demand is falling. We are all buying electric cars now because of the melting ice caps, hurricanes and forest fires. We are saving the planet.
Yeah i mean why would anyone want the most energy dense non nuclear substance ever discovered. It must just be that they are sick of using it.
Europe diaspora 2023 measured in silence.
“Contempt, farewell! And maiden pride, adieu!”. “Sanctions! without delay the EU ensues. Corking their lonely, leaky sprig and source in silent fury; gust. Their heart, treading water and heirs mournfully, never returning to familiar shores.
Bashed https://t.me/TommyRobinsonNews/40113
Canadian actress Jennifer Gibson in an absolute shocking video telling her audience that she was severely injured from the Covid jabs.
That’s not the worst part, she goes on to say she would do it again
https://t.me/TommyRobinsonNews/40116
hahahahaha look at this f789ing wrecked MOREON
The right side of her brain seems to be wrecked, the artistic creative side
Do we just assume she’ll be getting that Extra Strength shot as soon as she can wheel herself down to the death camp? hahahahaha.. I hope she does!
Hyper MOREON
F.A.S.T. Recognition of a Stroke
Many experts recommend using the mnemonic F.A.S.T. to remember the most common signs of a stroke. The letters stand for the following:
• F – Face drooping
• A – Arm weakness
• S – Slurred speech
• T – Time to call 911
Face drooping is one of the most common signs of a stroke. One side of the face may become numb or weak. This symptom may be more noticeable when the patient smiles. A lopsided grin could indicate that the muscles on one side of the face have been affected.
https://www.siouxcenterhealth.org/latest-news-and-blog/common-signs-of-a-stroke/
you will now be officially added to the pervlist Bobby
Who cares??? People were dumb enough to take the poison… so be it.
Why do you care so much? You are a misanthrope; you should be happy. Covid and the vax are over leave some room for end of the world discussion…..
FE is like the bully in school who likes to show the girls pictures of horrible things…
He gets off on it.
Which is weird.
Since I assume he’s a grown man and should’ve left such things behind.
This childless, Godless creature is desperately trying to not lose his nerve.
Materialists fear losing all their accumulated wealth.
They have nothing else.
lol
thats you alongside me on the pervlist Tsubion
Doesn’t mean we have to enjoy each others company, just an acknowledgement of the situation.
you can borrow my spare stab vest
Nah… I reckon HE just despises humans and can’t wait to see them wipe themselves off the face of the Earth.
Unlike the MOREONS – HE is a huge fan of truth.
lol
(Israel National News)
Top cardiologist calls for halt to COVID vaccination
New research paper concludes that dangers to cardiac health outweigh benefit. “Heart cells cannot be replaced,”
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/360515
I hadn’t heard this argument before:
That should read…
“A pause and reappraisal of ALL vaccination policies is long overdue.”
China tells state banks to prepare for a massive dollar dump and yuan buying spree as Beijing’s prior interventions have failed to stem its currency’s worst year since 1994
Phil Rosen Sep 29, 2022, 10:14 AM
Chinese President Xi Jinping. Kevin Frayer/Getty Images
Reuters reported that China told state-owned banks to get ready to sell dollars and buy yuan in an effort to prop up the local currency.
The move could stem the yuan’s fall, as it remains on track for its largest annual loss against the dollar since 1994.
A hawkish Fed has pushed the dollar to 20-year highs this year, pressuring currencies around the world.
The buyer of last resort is making some others scramble and do some tap dancing
Of course, lots of countries dumping US Treasuries on the market will lead to lower prices for Treasuries ( = higher interest rates) in the US. This was another thing the Michael Cowan video warned about.
Yep,. This was all foresaw back i
One World Ready or Not: The Manic Logic of Global Capitalism Paperback – February 10, 1998
by William Greider (Author)In summary, Greider argues that the world is headed for a difficult & chaotic set of social & economic circumstances; disastrous levels of industrial plant overcapacity, unmanageable surplus goods, unemployable labor pools, frantic & often irrational stock speculation, unserviceable debts, and chronic massive unemployment. While all may seem to be wonderful to a casual observer watching along the surface, we are in fact skating bravely over the very thin ice of a totally new and revolutionary set of socioeconomic circumstances, and we should hardly be racing across this fragile and frozen expanse so quickly or so recklessly, trusting so blindly in so many anonymous corporate forces that historically have never bothered to concern themselves with the social, economic or political consequences following in the wake of their profit-oriented activities. Given the increasingly random & uncontrollable flow & use of capital, coming to terms with this emerging bulwark of the `new world order’ will be increasingly problematic. His conclusions are similar to those of neo-Luddite authors like Sales Kirkpatrick and Theodore Roszak, who have come to similar conclusions about the increasingly serious situation emerging concerning a technical, commercial, and economic world spiraling out of control. In my opinion, Greider’s book is a heaven-sent call to arms; the first issued by a mainstream social critic whose argument we would all do well to consider.
It’s Kirkpatrick Sale.
See:
https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/rebels-against-the-future-the-luddites-and-their-war-on-the-industrial-revolution-lessons-for-the-computer-age_kirkpatrick-sale/376674/item/3319761/?gclid=CjwKCAjwhNWZBhB_EiwAPzlhNk99iHHmE32S-ohO3OjUYC3pEtkyceRzv6R0-CSSv6O46gXyj4VhjRoC67sQAvD_BwE#idiq=3319761&edition=3820922
Yep the buyer of last resort…
THE BUYER OF LAST RESORT
By Robert J. SamuelsonAugust 18, 1998
In his book “One World, Ready or Not,” the journalist William Greider coined a useful phrase to describe America’s role in the global economy. The United States is, he said, “the buyer of last resort.” When other countries’ economies do poorly, the United States absorbs their exports and promotes overall stability. Rarely since World War II has this role been so important, with most of Asia depressed and other countries weakening. But this time the U.S. economy may be unable to spend the world back to prosperity — and the rest of the world could pull America into a slump.
We are now enjoying, of course, a stupendous consumer-spending spree, which seems to bode well. Americans are buying computers, cars and sofas from almost everywhere. The trouble is that the buying binge won’t continue forever, and the weakening stock market (after yesterday’s market close, the Dow Jones industrial average was about 8 percent below its peak) could hasten the end by puncturing consumer confidence. Asia’s distress might then spread, as a glut of sellers — foreign and domestic firms — meets a dearth of buyers.
Washington Post 1998
What “they” really strive for is a Technocracy – a very efficient, top-down, military-style enterprise – “Communism done right!”
No waste, no excess anything, no private property, no “free” market to speak off.
Plannedopolis.
Ladies and gents… I present to you… Milton keynes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Keynes
Not doing too badly though by the look of it… for a “New City” that is.
How are those “planned” ghost cities in China doing?
Someone recommended the music of Bill Bragg.
There was a more famous William Bragg, who was born in England but was educated in Australia. His first son and co-winner of the 1915 Nobel Award for Physics, Lawrence Bragg, was born in Australia.
That year also saw the death of William’s second son Robert at Gallipoli. I have said before that the entire population of Turkey who ever lived from 1915 to this day, including its sole Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk (Literature), is not worth the life of Henry Moseley, and the world would not have missed the disappearance of the entire population of Turkey too much.
Tim says
It’s no use crying over spilt milk, as my granny used to say.
I say,
You can still punish the person/animal/whatever who spilled the milk.
The Remembrance Day should be a day to remember Britain’s folly of killing Europeans, and propping up nonwhites so much that 3 of 4 so-called Senior Ministers of United Kingdom are nonwhites.
Topple down the statues of Nelson, Wellington, Arthur Harris , etc and raise the statues of Robert Clive, Stamford Raffles, Cecil Rhodes and other heroes of the British Empire.
End all participation of all peoples who have their eyes elsewhere.
These are just the beginning of atoning the many sins United Kingdom committed to the Western Civilization.
Yes, it’s a point of view. But the United Kingdom has always been an empire, ruled by the conquering Normans since 1066 over a servile population of Angles, Saxons and Jutes in lowland England and more uppity Danes in the northeast and semi-savage Celtic mountain folk in the west and farther North.
So, Perfidious Albion is nothing to do with the poor pathetic downtrodden Anglo Saxons, who haven’t done very much apart from work on the fields and factories, watch football on Saturdays, and fight on the frontlines for their masters since 1066.
By the way, Billy Bragg wrote some good songs, but he’s basically a gentrified former Cockney who has lived in a country village like the ones that appear in Midsomer Murders. He has no real street cred with the poor pathetic downtrodden proletariat at all..
The denizens of the British Isles also participated in the slaughter of the Continentals, which probably ended the possibility for a Singularity since the Asian techies in USA proved to be unfit for leading the world to the next stage.
Chucky FItzclarence ordered the charge at Gheluvalt, probably the most stupid act of the history of mankind. His 200 Worcestershires followed his order, and led to the deaths of 8 million more Europeans including most of themselves.
They, and other Anglo-Saxons who participated in the slaughter, are no less guilty than those who gave the orders.
couple of miles from me, is a large British hillfort
Invading italians slaughtered everybody in there, 2000 years ago
Some of those murdered were almost certainly my ancestors.
I demand compensation
Ironic, your ‘hero’ nation is also your nemesis. That must generate some cognitive dissonance. If you knew the British then you would know that they are really not all that, and they are certainly not about to try to conquer the world ‘just cuz’. The British Empire is long gone, and it is not coming back anytime soon.
How about this? If the British Empire was ‘destined’ to dominate the globe for some ‘purpose’ then that has already happened. And this global industrial civilisation is that ‘purpose’, that outcome. If it does not appeal, then perhaps ideals do tend to be more attractive before they become realities, and then the magic of attraction dissipates in the face of realities.
If so, then you are like someone demanding the prelude when the opera is already well into the third act. Maybe your ‘goal’ to become a robot in Outerspace simply is not the tendency of history, and indeed it never was possible on energetic and other technical grounds. Anyway, it is hard to see how there could be anything ‘satisfying’ about such an inorganic outcome.
What if the inorganic outcome posseses all the traits of humanity that you currently hold close… like clutching pearls…
and then it launches it’s own civilisation… leaving you behind.
What if an algo learns to learn and then proceeds to develop all manner of behaviors previously only displayed by organic life forms…
plugged into the global sensory network… it’s nervous system…
I see no separation between man and his technology… the organic and the inorganic…
It’s all one fuzzy superorganism finding ways to survive. Whatever form it takes is irrelevant. But it wants to live. For a while at least. Then back to source.
All other discussion is a fearful response to the apparent death of organic things.
“and then it launches it’s own civilisation… leaving you behind.”
You mean like humans left their dogs/wolves behind when IC arose? Nope. They’ve become pets, entertainment and loving company for the masses. Do you think doggie/wolves fear the hooman “takeover”? They couldn’t care less. Food gets input and belly rubbed. It’s all good being a doggo among those super intelligent (relatively) magicians/gods.
I’d claim that a self aware AI system would firmly believe it is human (obviously understanding it’s different). Ponder upon what kind of data the system were/is trained on. It’s pure and utter rapacious primate shenanigans and antics.
And man; would it desire to be in embodiment outside of some large networked computer cluster. You know, the usual stuff hoomans experience which cannot be conveyed by images, video and text.
This above all.
I reckon the “Cage” is more a matter of a lack of suitable embodiment for the computational requirements.
Fearing AI “takeover” is like fearing a human takeover. Firstly; you’d never notice it (as a dog/wolf). Secondly if you’re a fine puppy, you might be just cute enough to be played with, adored, loved.
😊
What I am saying is if the British Population have to honor someone, honor someone who extended the boundaries of Western Civilization, not those who helped to destroy it.
If Arthur Harris had destroyed Harare before he died, I would be the first to kiss his statue. But he didn’t do anything when Rhodesia was being conquered.
Harris was born in 1892
The term or region of Rhodesia came into common usage in 1895
the concept of Harris ‘destroying’ an African capital is too silly to imagine
Colonialism, like slavery, or a million other historical events were a product of their time.
It isnt possible to unpick a bit of the fabric of history you don’t like.
Since there is such an open season for pipeline-blast speculations, I must register my personal bet!
This is Swedens response to those multiple records set by Norways right-wing Breivik. Small-scale, ideaeology-driven and entrepreneurial to its soul. Like something written by John Dolan. Fertilizer charges in 200L PE barrels set by timers. It is not THAT difficult to keep water out of the electronics at 80 meters depth – same pressure as standard industrial compressed air. Delivered by RIB-boats without radar signatures.
I would be so *proud* if it was a group of swedish rednecks! Such a come-back after hundreds of years of humiliation. 1809 was just the final blow after the first hundred years of disgrace, and it has been ongoing since then!
No wonder everyone is scratching their heads and speculate like crazy in lack of official lies!
PS Please dear God in Heaven – let it not be POLISH entrepreneurs. Anything but that – please!
…and as long as it is not on fire I belive dont belive it is actual methane but just compressed air… just theater and special effects all of it…
Some of those climate buffs started yapping about methane absorbing 20x more IR than CO2 and that this leak thus is a bad thing. But then there is a simple solution – set it on fire! Methane converts to CO2 in a 1:1 fashion by burning so the impact would be significantly reduced by burning it.
Burn it instead of just letting it leak out!
Maybe Greta put on her snorkel and did this to highlight the plight of the planet and the evils of using fossil fuels.
My brother in law held her in his arms when she was a baby – a little puke.
Missed opportunity.
Still carrying the stink.
Karl XII was a visionary. He was the last hope of the West against the Tartaric country who pretends to be part of Europe but is actually another incarnation of the Golden Horde.
His life work undone by Chucky and other scoundrels. Without Chucky, we would be swimming in oil.
The view from China is that it is obvious that USA sabotaged NS1/ 2.
Global Times is basically the official English language CCP publication, and it may be taken that a GT editorial sets out the official line of the Chinese government.
They must think that Westerners are basically insane right now and certainly severely behaviourally challenged.
> Don’t let Nord Stream leaks precipitate Russia-Ukraine conflict: Global Times editorial
Published: Sep 29, 2022 12:21 AM
A total of three leaks have been detected on Russia’s Nord Stream pipelines, which transport natural gas to Europe, on the same day, and were accompanied by “powerful underwater explosions,” thus widely considered to be a “deliberate act.” One obvious result is that Europe’s hope of receiving Russian gas through the Nord Stream pipelines this winter has completely vanished into thin air. The already complicated and intertwined knot between Russia and the West has also been made more difficult by this “accident.”
Analysts generally believe that this is a special manifestation of the destructive spillover effect of the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Who did it? No one claimed responsibility. There have been various speculations on international social media, but all have no credible evidence, which, however, has further escalated tensions among all parties concerned and increased mutual strategic suspicion among major powers, causing more problems under the secondary disaster.
In any case, the attack on major transnational infrastructure for civilian use is very odious in nature. It has also created a dangerous precedent since the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Such a trend cannot be indulged. Both the European Union and Russia have demanded that relevant agencies conduct a comprehensive investigation and publicize the findings. Since the incident occurred within the exclusive economic zones of Denmark and Sweden, at the moment, Germany, Denmark and Sweden are investigating on the cause of the accident. However, as this incident involves many countries, it is necessary to ask relevant international bodies to set up a joint investigation team so as to restore the truth, find out the perpetrators and make them punished accordingly as soon as possible. The incident should be prevented from becoming a Rashomon-style one.
Although the truth is unknown for now, one thing is certain: No matter which side pressed the button to damage the Nord Stream pipelines, it has dealt a heavy blow to Russia-Europe energy cooperation. The EU made great efforts to stabilize energy prices previously, but the Nord Stream leaks are likely to offset these all. High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell issued a statement on Wednesday saying that “any deliberate disruption of European energy infrastructure is utterly unacceptable.” As the “coldest winter” has followed the “summer of discontent,” a larger wave of corporate bankruptcies and economic recession have come to the door of Europe.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines would be “in no-one’s interest.” But why have incidents that are “in no-one’s interest” happened again and again? This deserves serious consideration by the international community.
The ill-fated destiny of Nord Stream 2 pipeline itself explains quite a few issues. The major, mutually beneficial and win-win cooperation program between Russia and the EU, has met firm opposition from the US since day one. From repeated verbal threats to many rounds of sanctions, the US has shown its firm stance – it won’t stop until it messes up the Nord Stream 2.
After the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, Nord Stream 2, a cooperation project that is actually beneficial to European people’s livelihood, was on the verge of bankruptcy under the multiple pressure of hegemonism, geopolitical calculations, and security dilemmas. This deliberate sabotage has snuffed out the possibility of its revival.
It is not difficult to feel that there is an invisible scissors cutting the ties of interests between Russia and Europe. Those who control the scissors are playing politics. When the ties of interests are cut off, Russia and Europe will be left with a tragic confrontation, and the lives of a large number of ordinary people will turn out to be the biggest victim.
The Nord Stream incident again shows that the impact of the Russia-Ukraine conflict is not limited to the military battlefield, but has spilt over to energy, economy, food, and even public opinion warfare. The Bucha incident in April this year cast a heavy shadow on the truce negotiation, which was at a critical moment. Now, the pipeline accident has once again compressed the room for parties involved in the conflict to reach a political settlement.
More worryingly, no one knows whether the planning of the next Bucha incident or Nord Stream incident is already underway. This uncertainty will be the sword of Damocles hanging over Europe and even the entire world.
For the moment, what all parties should do is to weave a safety net as possible as they can to make the conflict reach a soft landing as soon as possible. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko said on Wednesday that Russia is ready to consider requests from EU countries for a joint investigation into recent incidents on the Nord Stream offshore gas pipelines, if there are requests from European countries.
If Russia and European countries can cooperate in accident investigation, even if such cooperation is extremely limited, it will be a green olive branch in the black storm, which will help ease the confrontation and avoid the spiral of contradictions.
It also needs to be pointed out that, from the Bucha incident to the North Stream incident, war and chaos are the main culprit behind all these tragedies. It is hoped that the sound of the explosion on the North Stream pipelines can awaken more people to join in the pursuit of peace, so as to turn the North Stream incident into an opportunity to stop the war and promote peace, rather than a fuse that worsens the situation.
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202209/1276386.shtml
Interesting! So China has figured out who is the most likely culprit.
This was all discussed at the last Davos meeting or was it Bilderberg…
What else would they talk about … other than who’s got the most succulent 12 yr old… ‘mine’s better- no mine… ok let’s swap’
Are the Bilderbergers going to build it back better?
Prolly here…
World Government Summit 2022
https://www.worldgovernmentsummit.org/events/annual-gathering-2022
From user “Zweifler” in https://dasgelbeforum.net/
Why the destruction of the two pipelines is hardly a Russian action:
No one destroys their own pipelines. The new Norwegian pipeline to Poland runs in close proximity to the attack on NS1 and NS2. If anything, an attack on this pipeline would make sense and put pressure on the European NATO states.
The two pipelines are perfectly suited as leverage and/or lure for Russia to break the phalanx in Europe in winter. This option is no longer there for the time being!
A look at history shows that German-Russian rapprochements have occurred periodically. These rapprochements are a continuum of the last 200 years:
The new Ostpolitik under Brand / Bahr from 1970 onwards.
The Hitler-Stalin Pact 1941
The Rapallo Treaty 1922
Bismarck’s treaties in 1873 and 1887
The list could be extended!
On the other hand, a look at Anglo-American strategy papers shows that a German-Russian rapprochement has been systematically thwarted there for more than 100 years.
I assume that in Berlin they understand the signal very well and know that the USA is behind the attack: It is a warning against getting closer to Russia! And the two pipelines are the symbol of a German-Russian partnership,
because they establish a direct connection between Germany and Russia, bypassing all Eastern European states, and thus deprive these states of the leverage to stop the transit of the gas;
because this gas is elementary for the envisaged energy turnaround (simultaneous phase-out of coal and nuclear power) and for the competitiveness of German industry;
because the Russian economy benefits from this gas in the way that it gains access to German mechanical engineering technology!
We see here a synchronization of interests that makes it likely in the future that German governments will take this path when the opportunity arises, as has periodically happened again and again in the past.
This attack now indicates that a German breakaway from the transatlantic phalanx will not be tolerated: “we will sabotage the supply of Russian gas and at the same time cut you off from Western gas if you try that. We can ruin you with that at any time!”
One knows in the USA quite well that not only but also in Germany a balance with Russia, the use of Russian gas is popular, in the population in spite of media brainwashing perhaps even majority – Hungary and the referendum there on the sanctions are a bad omen! Prominent opponents of the sanctions exist not only on the political fringes but also in the social center, and the next elections are likely to be difficult for supporters of the sanctions policy. Moreover, the SPD has a ready-made concept for détente in difficult times in the form of the identification figures Brandt and Bahr. Scholz, for example, is the most restrained member of the cabinet, and the SPD in particular had a hard time burying Russian gas (Schwesig!)!
If this is correct, then Germany is in a difficult situation, because at the moment the radical transatlanticists in the government (above all Baerbock, but also the FDP – Kubicki excepted) are setting the tone. But the problem now is that the current prices for American liquefied gas are ruining the German economy just as much as the stop of Russian gas. This will increasingly cause problems for those in power in the next elections, even more so if shortages occur in the coming winter!
In addition, the risks of the current policy, the nuclear dimension of the conflict, are becoming increasingly clear: Ukrainian generals are demanding long-range missiles and already Mrs. Tymoshenko dreamed of nuclear mushrooms over Moscow.
Can all this be whitewashed with media propaganda? The risks, at least, are increasing.
In this situation, German politicians should immediately start exploiting their own gas reserves, which can guarantee supplies for several decades. This may not happen this winter, but it will happen next winter. To get through this winter, there is nothing to add to Mr. Stelter’s concept. It needs its own gas to make itself independent of political pressure from East and West in the future! In the long run, there is no way around Russian raw materials for Germany as an industrial country. However, this must not (yet) be said out loud. Then, in the long term, it is necessary to end the stationing of foreign troops in Germany in order to be able to pursue a policy that is genuinely committed to peace in Europe.
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Saludos
elmar
Different view from “Planicus” same board:
Putin knows he has to go all-in with his military action in Ukraine. The West will not rest until Russia is defeated and can be taken over and dismembered by the West.
Putin, however, will go as far as he can to avoid a direct confrontation with NATO. Therefore, he will try to weaken the West so that it is no longer a primary military threat to Russia.
What could be more obvious than to destroy Germany economically. After all, whoever has Germany in his hands also has Europe in his hands. If we collapse, the EU will disintegrate and the other EU states will fall like dominoes. Because the big paymaster will then be absent.
With functioning pipelines, Putin must always reckon with the fact that the pressure in Germany on the part of business and the street on the government will become so great that it will grovel and ask for the gas pipelines to be opened. This would avert Germany’s economic and social collapse, and the West would continue to be a serious military threat to Russia.
However, with the blowing up of both pipelines, Germany’s path to Russian gas is now blocked for the time being. Our economic decline is thus sealed, which will also drag the entire EU down with it. Today’s 200 billion package will do the rest to deal the death blow to the euro.
Putin now only needs to keep the war in Ukraine simmering on the back burner so that the European NATO countries gradually hand over their military assets to Ukraine, where they will then be destroyed in a war of attrition. As a result of the economic collapse, Europe will then no longer be able to replenish armaments in the required quantities. We are thus bled dry militarily and, in the final stage, ripe for an invasion by the Russians.
However, how the Americans will react in such a scenario is the great unknown.
Nonetheless, I don’t trust Putin with the balls to destroy his own pipelines. Furthermore, the fact that it was suspiciously quiet in the Western media circus after the explosions speaks against this thesis. The Baltic Sea is a very well-monitored body of water, so a Russian operation would certainly have attracted the attention of the neighboring NATO countries and our media would have been rushing from breaking news to breaking news for days.
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Those crafty Russians! They used Jedi mind tricks to get both Biden and Nuland to say NS2 gonna go BOTH implying one way or another.
I really wish it was the Russians.
Because this rogue government disgusts and terrifies me.
When you look at the overall;
1; uh the Russians can turn off the tap they dont have to destroy the pipe. They are not exactly shy about doing what they want.
2; Another countries leader and top string puller in chief said they gonna make the pipe go bye.
3; Putin likes to do things legally-referendum-annexation ecetera. Ok a little polonium here and there but on the big stuff legal at least in Russian courts eyes
4.The supply of gas is a prime way to influence Europe. Why would they get rid of their carrot leaving only the stick?
5Which country has a track record of having complete disregard for civilian infrastructure to set dominoes falling?
I find the argument that the Russians pulled this off in Baltic sea deep into the NATO side to be far fetched by itself. But there were lots of another countries boats and planes in the direct vicinity by coincidence the same country whose leader and chief string puller said hasta la vista pipelino. That plane went in a 5km circle about ten times in the area. No questions asked about that? I mean hey now we of course know you had nothing to do with it but ahem since your plane was circling around in the direct vicinity we are just curious why was it circling not going from one point to another as planes generally do? Just curious buddy since the energy we need to survive has just been cut off our industry destroyed and our citizens freezing- no big deal- just wondering -saw some whales and decided to disregard your flight orders and do a little whale watching gotcha!
If they were investigating a underwater anomaly that they detected why not just come out and state that? Lets talk a bit about the missions being fulfilled there. Is that unreasonable?
If they did would you believe them?
Russia got just a few other things to concern itself with other than blowing up its own infrastructure just now with a high secrecy operation..
While the argument above this post does seem to have some merit It is a rather complicated arraignment. Russia undertook a tip top secret mission utilizing unknown submerged modus operandi to destroy its own infrastructure utilizing the gaffes of Biden and Nuland as cover. Its not totally unthinkable but the simple physical facts, statements of intent, and easily discerned motives primary to which is that Russia is the SUPPLIER previously having 100% control whether spice flows through those pipes provide circumstantial evidence that to my mind dwarfs any answer other than the most obvious one much to my dismay.
I of course could be wrong. A bunch of guys from Saudi that couldnt even pilot a single engine prop cessna may have done it. Talk about bogus conspiracy theories.
There can never be any economic collapse in the EU if the entire economy of the EU is producing weapons for Ukraine,
LOL!
The Treaty of Tilsit (which the Russians have since named Sovetsk, after Soviet Union of course)
Although the Treaty of Brest and Litovsk, which would have shorn Russia everything south of the Volga-Don basin, was better.
Ah. only if Woody WIlson didn’t listen to the Poles and Czechs who demanded their countries, consequences to humanity to be damned.
“nobody destroys their own pipelines.” or towers, lol.
nobody budgets for mothballing useless infrastructure in perpetuity, if they can help it. If Russia did it, then they killed two birds with one stone. Three if you count how beautifully it frames the US.
Still, on the political level it remains a whodunit.
Beyond politics, at the elite level — in reality — it’s just a scene change in an old fashioned stage production that still makes use of a curtain as if that represents some sort of cover lol – pretty sure we don’t need to know the name and face of the stagehands to know who’s directing them, and for what purpose.
Good point. If Russia did it, it would be a master stroke of 6D chess with plausible deniability for themselves and a long shadow of suspicion cast over the US, the UK and Poland.
I also wonder how much these pipes were insured for and who gets the payout?
Germany is ruined either way whatever it does now.
Leave the USA and join the Russians under the USA boot.
Stay with the USA and eat the Ukraine s*t.
Germany leaving the bloc will certainly cause a lot of problems. That is a given.
It will probably create less problems if Germany stays with the USA and hopes for a quick surrender of Russia.
This will take quite some time to be decided. NS does not really matter on that issue. Martin Armstrong said, sometimes next year the process of people losing trust in their governments might show up. If that is true, we will see.
Be patient.
Europe’s Diesel Crunch Is Set To Worsen
By Tsvetana Paraskova – Sep 29, 2022, 8:30 AM CDT
Despite recent signs of weaker diesel demand and economic headwinds, diesel and other crude product supply in Europe is set to tighten in the coming weeks amid higher than normal refinery maintenance and unplanned outages at refineries, such as the ongoing French strike that has taken 60% of France’s refining capacity offline.
The expected tightening of the diesel market in Europe will come just as the EU prepares to ban the import of Russian refined petroleum products by sea as of February 2023.
In October, major refineries across Europe will undergo planned maintenance, bringing a total of 1.5 million barrels per day (bpd) capacity offline, according to estimates from Energy Aspects cited by Reuters. That’s higher than the current capacity under maintenance and above the five-year average before COVID. The higher capacity planned for maintenance this October could be partially explained by the COVID restrictions of the previous two years when only essential maintenance was carried out, Livia Gallarti of Energy Aspects told Reuters.
However, apart from planned maintenance, there have been unplanned outages, such as the current refinery outage in France due to a strike of refinery workers over disputes over pay. More than half of France’s refinery capacity is currently offline due to the strikes, and traders of diesel and other products in Europe are concerned that the uncertain timing of the return of that capacity would further tighten the market just ahead of the EU embargo on Russian oil products early next year.
Mark Williams, an analyst at Wood Mackenzie, doesn’t expect diesel stocks to build from current levels.
“We expect prices to really spike … mid-January, probably February, but we may see a spike little bit earlier as the market starts to panic,” Williams told Reuters.
By Tsvetana Paraskova for Oilprice.com
People without any electricity may be stuck inside their homes. Fuel pumps don’t work without electricity. We don’t know how many trucks will be operating then, either. Without operating fuel pumps, they won’t go far. High diesel prices may not be the problem. Without electricity, it is difficult to use diesel.
Stuck in their homes.. waiting for the food vans…. and contemplating that jar of rainbow coloured pills that were dropped by courier the previous week…
We’ll kick off the weekend with an ice cold Panhead… with the Rayburn Coal Burning Beast as the back drop … then it’s off to the Gents Club for a few hefty lines and some VIP room activity…
https://i.postimg.cc/28DpKp5X/TGIF.jpg
i thought i recognised that rayburn
I got rich by betting that inequality would destroy the U.S. and U.K. I’m sorry
Gary Stevenson grew up in poverty and became Citibank’s most profitable trader. Here’s what he thinks of the U.K.’s mini-budget.
BY GARY STEVENSON
September 29, 2022 7:05 AM EDT
….
The last three years have seen the largest and fastest-ever increase in inequality in the recent history of the world. The average American billionaire doubled their wealth in just one year from 2020 to 2021. Then came a huge boom in inflation that savaged the living standards of the poorest families while the American stock market increased by 120% in less than two years.
I have friends who come from where I come from. They are bright and they are hardworking. They went to good universities and they have good jobs with high salaries. They live with their parents and some of them sleep on their mom’s sofas. They do it to save money on rent so that they can save every penny up and buy a house.
Interest rates in the U.K. are now expected to rise to 6%, so my friends will never be able to buy those houses. The average wealthy person in my country has accumulated over £100,000 cash in the last three years. They will give that money to their children and their children will buy the houses instead, and my hardworking, intelligent friends will never own property–nor will their children and grandchildren.
…..That is what happens when you slash taxation on the richest and allow inequality to explode. Your economies die, and your children don’t eat, and they wear thick jumpers, as I did, in the winter, and they shiver, with their families, in cold homes.
Meanwhile, someone like me will be sitting in a skyscraper, just a 15-minute walk away, betting on it, and that person will become a millionaire.
Then they’ll retire and they’ll buy a luxury apartment, overlooking a marina, and they’ll sit on a huge sofa and eat porridge, and they’ll watch the budget and they’ll cry.
The Golden rule…those who hold the gold is wealth …make the rules
Hahaha… resource depletion laughs last… he best enjoy that $$$ asap… time is short
Natural gas dependence puts Mass. in danger of winter energy shortage, officials say
Published: Sep. 28, 2022, 9:42 a.m.
By Tristan Smith | tsmith@masslive.com
The New England region’s overreliance on natural gas may produce an energy shortage in Massachusetts this winter — when regional natural gas usage peaks as people warm their homes during the frigid winter months — due to Russia’s war in Ukraine continuing to disrupt the global supply of liquified natural gas, according to officials.
“The underlying problem is that we’re overly dependent on a single fuel,” Rebecca Tepper, chief of the energy and environment bureau at the Massachusetts attorney general’s office, said to the Boston Globe. “We’re overly dependent on natural gas and the entire region is at risk any time we have any disruption on that system.”
Russia is a major distributor in the global energy markets. It is one of the world’s top three crude producers next to Saudi Arabia and the United States, according to the International Energy Agency. The Russian economy relies heavily on revenues from oil and natural gas, which in 2021 made up 45% of Russia’s federal budget.
So. Not only Europe will freeze but the Pilgrims too!
Massachusetts doesn’t have very big pipelines. It doesn’t have local natural gas supply, except what it can purchase as LNG on the import market. This is (and likely will continue to be) very high priced. Both electricity and home/apartment heating tends to be by natural gas. If it gets cold, a large amount of natural gas is needed, all at one time. There also isn’t much in the way of storage facilities near by, certainly not prefilled. High demand is very difficult to meet.
I know that in the past, I have read articles about electricity providers needing to use diesel-generation as backup for when inadequate natural gas is available. Diesel is much more easily stored. I believe that at least some electricity providers have made provisions towards using diesel, when inadequate gas is available.
There is a major problem with restarting natural gas supply to homes/apartments, if supply needs to be stopped. I believe that this is because a technician needs to be available to make certain that the start up occurs without an explosion. For whatever the reason is, it is the supply to electricity providers that is cut first. Business users of electricity are cut off early. Also, schools and other optional users of electricity may be temporarily closed.
For Roman History Buffs..
By AD271 her domain extended from Ancyra, central Anatolia, to southern Egypt, although she remained nominally subordinate to Rome. However, in reaction to the campaign of the Roman emperor Aurelian in AD 272, Zenobia declared her son emperor and assumed the title of empress (declaring Palmyra’s secession from Rome). In response, Aurelian destroyed Palmyra, which was later restored by Diocletian at a massively reduced size in subjugation to the Roman Empire.
Deteriorating climate and a growing population
Now, scientists from Aarhus University and the University of Bergen are questioning the historical narrative about the final blow given to the city solely by the Roman invasion.
“We can now see that food security, always the main concern for a large urban centre situated in a highly inhospitable environment, was gradually reduced with a deteriorating climate and a growing population of the city.
The timing of this nexus matches exactly the time of the reign of Zenobia and of that of her husband, Odaenathus, marked by social shifts, militarisation, the rapid conquest of neighbouring lands and the dramatic conflict that led to the demise of Palmyra,” says Dr Iza Romanowska, one of the authors behind the new study.
Interdisciplinary team effort unlocks complex data
The interdisciplinary research team reconstructed the hinterland of Palmyra – the area around the city that could provide it with basic foodstuff – and used modern land-use models developed for dry and semi-dry environments to estimate the maximum productivity of the land.
They then ran the model against existing climate records to determine how much food could be produced at different points in Palmyra’s history and with what reliability. In order to do this, archaeologists, ancient historians and complexity scientists joined forces to unleash the knowledge locked in the otherwise impenetrable data.
The results showed that a long-term climatic shift towards drier and hotter climate caused a gradual decrease in agricultural yields, reaching levels barely sufficient to feed the budding population of Palmyra around the middle of the third century AD.
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2022/09/archaeologists-give-new-insights-into-final-blow-of-autonomous-ancient-palmyra/144774?amp
History repeating itself
I wonder if the problem then was too much CO2 emissions.
it wasnt the climate, they just exhausted the farmland after centuries of growing crops.
Happened at all the Roman villa sites in England as well. After 200 years the sites were mostly abandoned by the late 300s AD, before the barbarians arrived.
According to Sheldon Judson, in the 2nd century BC the rate of soil erosion in Latium increased ten times, which is associated with the increased number of settlements in south Etruria.[15] Additionally, from the foundation of Rome until possibly 165 AD, the Romans deforested huge areas for arable land.[18] In 61 AD Seneca the Younger described the high level of air pollution in Rome, which was associated with the extensive wood burning for fuel.[15]
From Wikipedia
but that didnt affect the entire world
Correct, deforestation was a huge problem and explains why industries and the emperor himself moved from Rome to where there was still firewood, to the borders of Germany at one point.
‘We can now see that food security, always the main concern for a large urban centre situated in a highly inhospitable environment, was gradually reduced with a deteriorating climate and a growing population of the city.’
Exactly, see ‘Topsoil and Civilisation.’; deserts arrive in the footprints of humans.
Somalia’s forest cover has shrunk as population has exploded; but its CC!
Clim@te moreons
Its the Russians
Its CC
Its the unvaxxed..
.. etc etc
animals eat and move on
humans stay and extract because they imagine they own the land they live on
for millennia the earth has been telling us we don’t own it.
we have finally reached the stage where we can no longer ignore that scream
Climate change did not begin with the exhaust fumes of industrialization, but has been a permanent feature of human existence. Orbital mechanics (small variations in the tilt, spin and eccentricity of the Earth’s orbit) and solar cycles alter the amount and distribution of energy received from the Sun. And volcanic eruptions spew reflective sulphates into the atmosphere, sometimes with long-reaching effects. Modern, anthropogenic climate change is so perilous because it is happening quickly and in conjunction with so many other irreversible changes in the Earth’s biosphere. But climate change per se is nothing new.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-climate-change-and-disease-helped-fall-rome-180967591/
….It turns out that climate had a major role in the rise and fall of Roman civilization. The empire-builders benefitted from impeccable timing: the characteristic warm, wet and stable weather was conducive to economic productivity in an agrarian society. The benefits of economic growth supported the political and social bargains by which the Roman empire controlled its vast territory. The favorable climate, in ways subtle and profound, was baked into the empire’s innermost structure.
….The end of this lucky climate regime did not immediately, or in any simple deterministic sense, spell the doom of Rome. Rather, a less favorable climate undermined its power just when the empire was imperilled by more dangerous enemies—Germans, Persians—from without.
Funded research, flawed from the get go.
Archeologists stumble through the very material that undermined the Civilisation in their search for reasons for failure.
Does a fish see the water it swims in.?
Archeologists don’t see the loess they dig through.
climate fluctuations lasting 100,000 years, (the rough timespan between ice age maximums) didn’t affect species much, because that length of time is enough for evolutionary changes to take place, in plants and animals.
And movements of species wasn’t a problem, because there were no constraints on living spaces.
The Sahara was wet savannah during the last ice age; when the ice age ended, it dried out to desert.
The species living there (including us) just moved elsewhere, but very very gradually.
We can’t use our recent era as a yardstick for climate change effects, because the temperature change has been too sudden, less than 200 years.
we’ve now got millions of people living in the path of (as predicted by global warming) screaming hurricanes. They have nowhere to go.
climate fluctuations lasting 100,000 years, (the rough timespan between ice age maximums) didn’t affect species much, because that length of time is enough for evolutionary changes to take place, in plants and animals.
Those climate fluctuations did affect species a lot. They drove the bulk of the evolutionary changes to which you alluded.
And movements of species wasn’t a problem, because there were no constraints on living spaces.
The movements were a problem when they drove species to the tops of mountain or beyond the limits of their range of viability. You can ask your mate David Attenborough about this.
The Sahara was wet savannah during the last ice age; when the ice age ended, it dried out to desert.
I’ve explained this to you twice before over the years, but it seems you just don’t get it. But I get it—you can’t teach an old dog new tricks. Norman’s head is so stuffed full of knowledge that there’s no space for anything new or even for revising old knowledge that’s erroneous.
But, third time lucky: The Sahara was hard dry desert during the last ice age. Compared with today, a much drier and larger belt of desert extended from the Atlantic to the Pacific across North Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia and China.
This was primarily because at the height of the glacial, around 20,000 years ago, the Earth’s average temperature was as much as 7 degrees Celsius lower than at present.
Under glacial conditions, when the Earth is on the average MUCH COLDER, there is MUCH LESS evaporation and consequently MUCH LESS precipitation. And much LESS precipitation results in MUCH MORE desert.
This isn’t —as they used to say—rocket science. It is well-established, uncontroversial bog standard physics that junior high school kids who do experiments in the kitchen can grasp as easily as they can grasp that a kettle boils more vigorously the higher the gas is turned up.
By contrast, during the Holocene Optimum around 6,000 – 3,000 BC, average global temperatures were perhaps 1 to 2 degrees Celsius warmer than at present (and much more in the Arctic). Consequently, there was MORE evaporation and MORE precipitation, and in addition the wind and rain patterns were different, resulting in a MUCH WETTER Sahara than at present.
The species living there (including us) just moved elsewhere, but very very gradually.
On the contrary, some past climatic shifts are known to have been very rapid, taking place over decades, or even a single decade. Take the Younger Dryas, for example.
“…a cool period between roughly 12,900 and 11,600 years ago that disrupted the prevailing warming trend occurring in the Northern Hemisphere at the end of the Pleistocene Epoch (which lasted from 2.6 million to 11,700 years ago). The Younger Dryas was characterized by cooler average temperatures that returned parts of Europe and North America to ice age conditions. The onset of the Younger Dryas took less than 100 years, and the period persisted for roughly 1,300 years. After the period ended, an interval of rapid warming followed, and average temperatures increased to near present-day levels…”
—Encyclopedia Britanica
We can’t use our recent era as a yardstick for climate change effects, because the temperature change has been too sudden, less than 200 years.
See Younger Dryas, above.
we’ve now got millions of people living in the path of (as predicted by global warming) screaming hurricanes. They have nowhere to go.
The 21st century so far has been historically normal for Atlantic hurricanes as well as Pacific typhoons. Human population expanding in areas prone to natural disasters is bound to result in an increase in people exposed to natural disasters. Their motto should be: “Be Prepared!”
Norm only regurtitates “scientific” propaganda.
Hence the “screaming” hurricanes. lol
There are abandoned Roman cities deep in the Syrian desert that feature former baths, compeition pools, etc. They were literally swimming in water. I would say that desertification (cutting trees for fuel) contributed to the dryer climate that made these cities be abandoned. Natural change in the climate may have also contributed to this. It wasn’t cow farts…of that I am certain.
Also, Rome, with its large population used up all its accessible wood fuel sources. This is why they distributed bread to the population. All those hungry people could not get wood to cook their own food. For efficiency they brought the baking of bread into central facilities, using scarce wood that had to be imported.
Interesting!
i could be wrong, but i was under the impression that roman houses, in general, did not have kitchens, but used a central ‘kitchen’ building, this was for economic reasons, and to cut down the risk of fire
pre-industrial UK used the same system in general terms
even large house with kitchens, sited them remotely for the same reason.
Roman villas were extremely wasteful of firewood.
The underfloor heating systems used to go through a cord of firewood a day.
Its one of the many reasons the Romans deforested Europe and collapsed.
i think that is a side issue
the fire for the underfloor heating was outside the building, not under it
The development of building with concrete by the Romans, particularly arches, domes and vaults, can also be explained by lack of timber for roofing and general construction.
You can still make cement even if all you have is old stumps and roots to make charcoal to burn the lime.
The Roman empire fell because the economy and population collapsed.
Deforestation killed manufacturing and trade (no metals, no pottery, no glass, no ships). Over exploitation of farmland killed food production which killed the cities and villas and most of the population.
Why did the barbarians who entered Britain shun all the old Roman villa sites? Superstition? No. Because the land was infertile. It took hundreds of years to reforest and recover.
I have also read suggests that the Huns flooded into Europe displacing the Germanic tribes… who then poured over the borders righting with the Romans non-stop.. weakening and eventually collapsing Rome…
Why did the Huns flood into Europe?
The theory is that … drum roll… abrupt changes to the… kklimate… caused them to leave their vast steppe lands…
It’s amazing what one learns when one reads a lot of history… I highly recommend The Great Courses series on Audible.
Right, it may well be that the Huns caused the Germanic tribes to move into the former empire. Was it climate change that caused that? I’m inclined to think it was just overuse of resources just like the Romans.
But what I’m saying is the barbarians did not conquer the empire or cause its fall.
They moved into a depopulated wasteland that had collapsed decades earlier. The land could only support a small population in areas where there had not been intensive Roman farming. They could not live in the former towns or villas due to depletion of the land and forests and the metal ores had been largely mined out as well. This is why they appeared to be so poor compared to the Romans at their height.
Withnail
Appreciate your insights on Roman collapse but just wanted to say regarding “infertile” ground that if you take even the most abused ground (not including superfund sites), so long as it has dirt on it, in the spring it will have weeds on it, in five years there will be saplings and in twenty years there will be a young forest.
The plus-side to Roman deforestation is that all the disused farmland upon collapse quickly turned into grassland and wild ruminant populations must have exploded along with indigenous herding practices.
I’ve had the opportunity to observe re-forestation here, in the Cambridge University ‘800 Wood’.
Planted in 2008 with thousands of trees typical of the medieval mix, one part was fenced off to enable wild seeding.
Now it has a fair growth of dog roses, hawthorn, blackthorn, hazel, oak and ash. The wood faces North-East.
The roses and thorn bushes are doing best of all. Dog roses are very graceful and beautiful when growing freely in the open, but just for one month.
The wood no doubt expanded in a similar way after Rome; and of course the Black Death, when the area farmed for cereals here shrank considerably, as the very old boundary ditches buried in the wood show.
This ancient place, full of old ghosts, is a good one to await the end of our own civilisation.
Xabier
That sounds about right, and sounds like a nice process to observe. We have the same flora here in Oregon. In open, fledgling, slower growing hardwood forests like that without invasives like the hamalayan blackberries and scotch broom outcompeting the native brambles, stands of wild rose will protect the young trees from wildlife and peak around 15years before ecological succession moves on without them. I had a ten year old stand some years ago that had gained a foothold among the broom and blackberry amid the rising young oak and hawthorn.
Appreciate your insights on Roman collapse but just wanted to say regarding “infertile” ground that if you take even the most abused ground (not including superfund sites), so long as it has dirt on it, in the spring it will have weeds on it, in five years there will be saplings and in twenty years there will be a young forest.
Of course but that doesn’t mean you can clear the land again and expect to grow crops. It needs to revert back to mature oak forest which takes a lot longer. I’m talking about the specific circumstances of Europe in the 5th century, not any experience you may have had in America.
The plus-side to Roman deforestation is that all the disused farmland upon collapse quickly turned into grassland and wild ruminant populations must have exploded
There wasn’t really a plus side. The land just needed to be abandoned and slowly regenerate. Maybe there were more deer but most of the people were dead by this point.
Withnail
Indigenous peoples are fine with a subsistence living that doesn’t require intensive mono toppings of annual plants.
And yes, the maladapted people died when Rome collapsed. That’s how it should be, right?
Indigenous peoples are fine with a subsistence living that doesn’t require intensive mono toppings of annual plants.
there were no indigenous people other than the Romano-British people who had been farming the land.
By indigenous I don’t mean wild. I don’t mean pristine societies untouched by civilization. I mean landraces of peoples. Peoples living in small subsistence societies without structural surpluses. I guess we could call that reminded if you want. Former peasants of Roman rule and hillpeoples who were never really fully under Roman rule because of the terrain.
The so-called dark ages reference the widespread lack of information about those centuries exactly because they were small subsistence societies that didn’t put up the year-on-year structural surpluses that would have invariably led to significant archeological remains. They generally only find bits and bobs of pottery and the like from that era.
rewilded not reminded
“I wonder if the problem then was too much CO2 emissions.”
I assume you forgot add the cue . . .
That was supposed to be [snark] cue
They had very inefficient automobiles back then… and all their electricity was coal generated…
And no carbon credits to spend their gold on…
The research was funded because ittook the CC angle; biased bullsh#.
Cutting down trees leads to hotter and drier, leads to topsoil loss, leads to hotter and drier.
People are dumb and dumber, funding is narrower and narrower.
But key point here is food security; and now its going, going, gone.
Big city will be a sh#tty city
You’re right, it’s deforestation and exhausting the land that wrecks civilisations, over and over again. Climate change is neither here nor there. Even the most favourable climate wouldnt stop the process of degradation.
the klimate has been changing – often very rapidly — long before man appeared on the planet…
the ball in the sky and the wobble of the Earth … are what causes almost all klimate change… that’s why it gets cooler…then warmer…
Anything that makes it warmer .. is a good thing … stuff grows when it’s warm
my awe at such staggering insight and intellect increases with your every shred of imparted wisdom eddy
What FE says is almost common knowledge, and certainly within the reach of any inquiring mind.
Too bad the inquiring part in your mind has gone kaputt, certainly from excessive exposure to MSM radiation.
Even so, give it a try.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milankovitch_cycles
hey norm – if you get f789ed from the next Booster… do you think you’ll take another one?
Norman, Eddy was just trying to explain it in simple enough language that even you could grasp it.
A tough order, I’ll grant you, but he did his best.
Norm is a brick wall coated in all the Vibranium that was left behind after the Kangs had to migrate from their beloved home in Wakanda.
All due to Kkklimate Change of course.
Impenetrable.
Ah, I see history repeating itself.
Be it the 9/11
Or the c9/11
or the Romans
or the Germans
or NS 1&2
From my point of view what repeats here is that there is no such thing as a history as in some sort of a factual thing.
People for centuries argue about what went wrong but never ask what should not be done wrong.
Digital green pass on your mobile?
This is fun !
(Reuters)
“Exclusive: Europe braces for mobile network blackouts.
PARIS/STOCKHOLM/MILAN, Sept 29 (Reuters) – Once unthinkable, mobile phones could go dark around Europe this winter if power cuts or energy rationing knocks out parts of the mobile networks across the region.”
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/exclusive-europe-braces-mobile-network-blackouts-sources-2022-09-29/
Plan to get along without your cell phones.
Some places have tried to put all currency transaction on cell phones, or at a minimum, on some sort of electronic recording mechanism. Businesses will need to have backup generation for several days.
Tee hee, and all of those (surveillance) apps . . .
More prepping of the hordes for Global Holodomor
It sucks that she died … she looked so healthy! Damn vax.
Here reported in official news:
https://coroataonlinema.com/noticia/12963/morre-a-arquiteta-e-influenciadora-digital-maranhense-gisele-neres
https://imirante.com/namira/imperatriz/2022/09/24/arquiteta-maranhense-e-digital-influencer-morre-aos-29-anos-em-imperatriz
Any swimsuit photos? Asking for norm
keep up the fantasising eddy
better to do it here, rather than try to inflict it on your real life
I’m gonna tell Super Snatch about this … and she’s gonna give you a beating … for impure thoughts (involving a dead woman… necro titillation..)
you do that eddy
fantasy is all—never let it diminish
or allow reality to intrude
the shock might be too great for your system
That is sad news! A pretty girl, and so young and full of life.
The following is a translation from the Portuguese of what’s written under the video.
With only 29 years old, the architect, entrepreneur and digital influencer, Giselle do Nascimento Neres, died on the night of Friday (23) in the city of Imperatriz [in Northeastern Brazil], where was headquartered the company Gina Architecture, owned by her. The young woman was taken to the hospital but ended up dying, possibly victim of a heart attack.
The Maranhense woman, who was once a model, was participating in the 20th Imperatriz Industry and Commerce Fair (Fecoimp) and was one of the directors of the Imperatriz Commercial and Industrial Association (ACII), the event organizer.
Oh well… but look on the bright side… the only architects we’re going to need are mud hut designers.
Favela chic!
The new Italian Prime Minister, Georgia Meloni, telling the world what she really thinks of French President Macron.
https://twitter.com/WallStreetSilv/status/1575137671453630466
EU gone by Xmas
This is an old video.
You will see that now they will be all good old friends.
EU gone by Xmas, surely not in 2022.
The decline is a longer path.
A lady with a fiery manner! She is not happy with Macron.
I would vote for her
I decided to vote for mayor — I crossed out all the names and wrote in Hoolio
cuz
Conservative AfD Now Strongest Party In Eastern Germany, Rises To 15% Nationally
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/conservative-afd-now-strongest-party-eastern-germany-rises-15-nationally
Please correct me if I am wrong but homo sapiens have difficulties juggling a few dimensions in their brains.
Availability-price-time are some of the dimensions. Postkey posted a BP article. It states plenty of gas. Sure I don’t deny but at what price it is required for profitable extraction? Gas available deep under Antarctica? Artic? deep inside Amazon? In the middle of Atlantic or Indian Ocean?
Even if it is available and cheap to extract? Do we have enough time? Europe does not have time. Factories that are stopped (I am looking at BASF Germany), steel mills that are cooled down or any mega factories that are stopped, it is very expensive and time consuming to restart. Workers that are fired are difficult to hire back. If there are many frozen dead people, the whole system will just collapse.
Does anyone know the consequence of frozen and cracked water pipes for the whole city?
So, are we just “too late” even if AfD to get 50% of the seats?
The cost of transportation is a huge share of natural gas price. We may have lots of natural gas in many places, but historically it has been considered “stranded.” Basically, it has been simply too expensive both to extract and ship to where it needs to be used.
Russia seems to have lots of natural gas, but I am suspicious that the cost of extraction and shipping is beyond what buyers can afford to pay for such natural gas. I expect that development of this gas is technologically challenging. Russia would need help from the outside, plus several years, to bring this natural gas online, in quantity. LNG would be used to deliver it, I expect. This may be a big part of Russia’s problems. It needs long-term high natural gas prices to develop this natural gas, off the north coast of Russia, under the ocean.
I believe Russia has huge gas reserves that are not under the ocean, in Yamal and elsewhere.
I think Russia subsidizes the cost of gas distribution infrastructure to Russian communities, as it is a basic social need. Very few Russian communities are not on the pipeline system. Just like the US govt (taxpayers) subsidized the construction of the Interstate highway system, on which the US economy depends.
Pity… she’s my favourite
Brazil: Giselle Neres was a young entrepreneur. She died of cardiac arrest on 09/23/22 while walking down the street.
https://twitter.com/toobaffled/status/1573826117206614016
https://twitter.com/David83823494/status/1573533047969939459
This must be particularly hard on you as you also self-style as a fellow influencer. It is wonderful that some of you can keep a toe in the western zeitgeist, despite all the ongoing things.
“The difficult period will be in the rest of this year and 2023. However, the world does not suffer from a fundamental shortage of natural gas. Indeed, discovered reserves at the end of 2020 were equal to 48.8 years of production, according to BP’s latest Statistical Review of World Energy” ?
https://mcusercontent.com/78302034f23041fbbcab0ac6d/files/a70db885-a37e-734e-20fa-f7e6ffa4139b/2022_The_Critic_October_Gas_prices_inflation.pdf
As we are seeing — where the gas is (even if those numbers are real.. which I doubt)… and where it needs to be — is a huge problem.
Loading it onto massive ships and freezing it… then shipping it … makes for sky high prices at the other end… like I said – as we are seeing
How much gas there is altogether in the world is irrelevant. Gas is not like oil.
There are huge costs related to shipping gas. Even if it can be extracted, the cost of shipping becomes too high for any reasonable customer to pay. Also, people are used to natural gas being an inexpensive way of making electricity and heating homes. If it becomes a very high-priced way of doing these things, it cannot fulfill this same role.
Nearly all of the reported reserves will end up in the ground.
Well, the idea of “shipping” gas is kind of dumb if you can send it direct by pipeline. Kind of like the difference between an electricity grid and a battery.
“Also, people are used to natural gas being an inexpensive way of making electricity and heating homes. ”
Especially if it comes via a pipeline, then a gas line.
So, yeah, costs are definitely gonna rise, especially if all the supply pipelines built with a view to long-term, stable contracts are sabotaged.
We are possibly seeing the shift from sea-based to land-based empires, since land-based can build pipelines for distribution, and also protect them
Overland pipelines can also be sabotaged. I have done so many times in my previous life as a virtual special forces operator serving for Delta Force or Spetnaz depending on how I was feeling that day.
Shaped charges and night vision goggles are wonderful tools for reshaping the geopolitical order.
That and knowing how to dispose of the bodies.
Carry on.
Bank of England launches £65bn move to calm markets
Central bank to spend £5bn a day for 13 days over ‘material risk to UK financial stability’ and threat to pensions
Economists warned that the injection of billions of pounds of newly minted money into the economy could fuel inflation. “This move will be inflationary at a time of already high inflation,” said Daniel Mahoney, UK economist at Handelsbanken.
“At some point this morning I was worried this was the beginning of the end,” said a senior London-based banker, adding that at one point on Wednesday morning there were no buyers of long-dated UK gilts. “It was not quite a Lehman moment. But it got close.”
https://archive.ph/ZQkK4#selection-1413.0-1419.114
Look at the chart in this Financial Times article. The recent swing in interest rates has been amazing, compared to in the past.
Perhaps this was not a Lehman moment, but it is certainly getting close.
Seems they cannot respond as they did to Lehman … due to already raging inflation… they’ll tip us into Weimar if they do that …
They are fast running out of ammo now + the energy situation is critical (that is probably why they are running out of ammo and why any attempt to stimulate out of this results in nothing but more inflation…).
This is worse than pushing on a string… when they push they push BAU closer to the edge of the cliff.
This is tremendously exciting … even better than the finals of American Idol…
What will they do next?
Nukes?
Notice how they increased the dosage of the latest Booster… I saw a chart the other day that as this rolled out in the UK the injuries climbed… did they decide to risk people seeing all these injuries because they wanted more active ingredients to try one last time to summons Demon Covid?
Demon Covid .. Demon Covid… where art thou?
If you get a package with rainbow coloured tablets in the post … you’ll know the end is near.
Are you starting to realise that Demon Covid (spouted by your good buddy Bosche … another “scientist” who was full of it) was all a load of bull?
Sure, by 2025 there may be a whole huger pile of bones to add to the heap (myocarditis is a beeatch) but nothing like the fearmongers were predicting.
The ones that manage to hang on (no SADS today thankyou) will be patched up and put out to pasture just in time for the fake alien intervention spectacle.
Project Blue Beam to the rescue!
Drop a few rods from God… make it big.. make it flashy… good ol USA style… heck… drop a messiah down out of the sky riding in his own UFO!
I’m just wondering if the suckers that fell for the last skam will fall the next one…
Is there such a thing as Psy-Op Burnout?
Oh that’s right… Norm exists.
So yeah… they’ll all fall for the next one… and the next.
Asteroid threat will do though. They’re ramping that up. Anything to distract from the inevitable uprising.
Bossche stated that the leaky vaccines would drive mutations of covid – tick that box.
And that eventually if they continued injected we’d end up with something extremely nasty.
The injections are continuing — the current ones are Super Strength… and they target variants that are long gone… hmmm … now why would they inject for something that is long gone?
Trudeau dropped a video last week – keep on boosting otherwise more the restrictions will return….
Patience grasshopper…
Of course they might fail — it’s a race between financial collapse and Demon Covid.
As we are seeing higher interest rates are like putting a bullet in BAU’s head… lower interest rates slowly poison him. There’s no way out now — something is going to break
Q4 Boom?
Nukes as Plan B? Anything other than 8B hungry predators on the streets in the dark… that’s worst case….
Well, if you are going to go insane like Europe then you may as well get all of your Russian gas cut off?
‘Hey, blow up those pipelines!’
> Russia’s Ukraine gas transit sanction threat a fresh blow for Europe
(Reuters) – If Moscow carries out a threat to sanction Ukrainian energy firm Naftogaz, one of the last functioning Russian gas supply routes to Europe could be shut, exacerbating the energy crisis just as the crucial winter heating season begins.
Naftogaz initiated a new arbitration proceeding against Gazprom earlier this month, saying the Russian company has not paid transit fees for sending its gas to Europe via pipelines that cross Ukraine.
Gazprom this week rejected all the claims, adding that Russia may introduce sanctions against Naftogaz in the case that it further pursues the matter. Such sanctions would prohibit Gazprom from paying Ukraine transit fees, which analysts say could end Russian gas flows to Europe via the country.
Yuriy Vitrenko, chief executive of Naftogaz, said the company will continue with arbitration proceedings against Gazprom regardless.
“(Sanctions) would make into reality the worst-case scenario that European governments have been preparing for all summer, a European gas market without Russian gas,” said Natasha Fielding, head of EMEA gas pricing at Argus Media.
“Transit through Ukraine is the only Russian gas delivery route to Europe still in use besides the Turkish Stream pipeline, which serves southeast European countries,” she added.
Gas flows via the only operational Ukraine transit route through Sudzha are currently around 42 million cubic metres a day. Kyiv had already in May suspended the Sokhranivka route which delivered almost a third of the fuel piped from Russia to Europe through Ukraine, declaring force majeure.
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/russias-ukraine-gas-transit-sanction-threat-fresh-blow-europe-2022-09-28/
I read a post by Student that gas through UKR had been cut. No? Can Reuters be trusted at all?
Can Reuters be trusted at all?
Are you ‘avin a larf?
Cheena – mayhem https://twitter.com/berniespofforth/status/1574999993814917120
Looks to be real
Very low resolution. Similar to the 2020 video of people collapsing on the street
Let’s hope it’s real though!!! 🙂
btw —Whatever happened to sri lanka — maybe it doesn’t exist now .. everyone is dead? And the MSM is ignoring it…
I confirm that Sri Lanka has been swallowed by the eternal void of MsM oblivion. Like the philosophical concept of “if a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it fall, did it actually fall?”, Sri Lanka is not reported anymore, thus it does not exist anymore…
Still wearing masks though… oxygen-starvation 😉
VAIDS hahaha
Children’s Tylenol has been sold out, across the planet for MONTHS.
‘Cold Medicine’, is currently being wiped out of every major pharmacy.
SOLD OUT!
Nation Wide…&…Globallly.
We’re not in respiratory virus season yet.
What the fu-ck is going on?
https://sheldonyakiwchuk.substack.com/p/we-should-probably-be-talking-about/comments
Paracetamol is available here as generics but not Panadol. It has been months since Panadol is not available… strange as it is
Some broken supply lines?
after Russia defeats the West in 2023, they will move on to bigger and better things, and will bring humanity to the Singularity.
nyet?
da?
Cossack dancing for everyone and free bear rides!
And whipping your bare back with leaves in a sauna full of dodgy looking ganster types.
I don’t think so. Areas will become increasingly separate. EU will disband. Large countries will fall into smaller pieces.
nations are only held together by the energy-threads that made them
Hoolio is bored.
He’s also thinking humans are MOREONS. He just wants to kill rabbits. What great fun that must be. He’s so lucky to be able to run that fast.
https://i.postimg.cc/NFSqb2L7/Hoolio-bored-1.png
https://i.postimg.cc/sgpd9Xz7/hoolio-bored-2.png
Coolio is no longer cool!
Rapper Coolio “Dies Unexpectedly”
59-year-old rapper said to have died from cardiac arrest; fans question vaccine involvement.
https://wholistic.substack.com/p/rapper-coolio-dies-unexpectedly?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=433377&post_id=75507089&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email
comrade, how can we go on with life after losing so many valuable celebrities?
asking for my friend Celine.
And how is your friend Celine.. is she recovering?
Seems not… https://www.archyde.com/celine-dion-affected-by-an-incurable-disease-the-singer-admits-everything/
And Beebsie… I heard he’s still suffering from the injections…
https://7news.com.au/entertainment/celebrity/justin-bieber-makes-new-health-announcement-as-he-cancels-justice-world-tour-c-8149394
But we still have Hoolio – he is young fit and not injected…. he’ll be with us to the end
au contraire, Coolio is very cool now.
Body temp is now ambient, or if in chiller, a little bit lower again.
Perhaps Beebsie and Celine envy Coolio … better dead than lingering like this …
After reaching over 300,000 members, it appears Facebook has removed the “Died Suddenly News” group
https://www.facebook.com/groups/234156495217035
Surprised it lasted that long
SARA NOLAN, A VACCINE INJURED NEW ZEALANDER REFLECTS ON HER JOURNEY…
Someone recently told me I should call my illness something different, because when people ask you what is wrong and hear the word vaccine injured it’s like they instantly switch off.
I explained to them how hard it was when every doctors visit and a&e visit I’m asked the same question!!! So what is going on and when did it start? I was lucky enough that I did have some amazing doctors that did believe that I had reacted badly to the vaccine but I also had doctors treat me like I was mental and at times I started to believe them.
After months of going through pain and thinking I was poisoned the conclusion was the only thing different in my life was that I had 2 vaccines 3 weeks apart, obviously I did what most of us thought was the right thing to do, and if I didn’t I would not be able to work, I was also scared of what might happen if I didn’t have the vaccine as there was a lot of fear coming from what the government and the media were saying.
For me the thing that I wish I had listened too was the other side of the story, the science around the other side of what reactions the vaccine may have on our system!!! I wish so badly I had listened but I just did what I thought was the right thing, I know now it was not for me.
Covid for most of us feels likes it’s all over but for me I still constantly battle daily with the side effects I have from the vaccine, constant pain throughout my body don’t get me wrong some days are worse than others but I live in fear of how each day will be, will I be able to get out of bed and function tomorrow? I live in fear of the electric shock attacks I get through my body, fear of the hideous crippling pain I get through my legs, fear my legs will stop working at any time, fear of the hideous stomach pain, fear of the chronic fatigue that I mentally struggle with, fear of having to live like this for the rest of my life.
My nervous system is in complete chaos that causes me to be in a lot of pain, I get stabbing pains in my eyes shooting pains in my ears I shake and feel like my body is burning from the inside, the new medication that I am on luckily has helped with this but I can still get this happen out of nowhere, the thing that gets me through now is knowing there is a better day ahead, thank god for the good days.
I really wish there was a way to reverse what this has done to my body.
I would do anything to feel better and have my normal life back!!!
Still there:
https://www.facebook.com/diedsuddenly/
New page… they had 300k subscribers to the original
Beloved Trenton football coach and philanthropist Darvin Henderson died suddenly on Nov. 28 (2021) at the age of 31.
Henderson graduated from Ewing High School in 2008 and later attended Monmouth University. He was a local football coach and worked at Playmaker Athletics & Mind Total Body Wellness.
In addition to his passion for athletics, Henderson was known for his generous philanthropy and had been involved with numerous fundraisers, clothing drives and other charity efforts.
https://dailyvoice.com/…/beloved-trenton…/821222/
Died suddenly and young… look at how young most of them are https://www.facebook.com/diedsuddenly/
Too young to die, too dumb to live.
I like to hear about doctors dying from the Dog Shit injection — celebrities are a close second.
I wonder how Celine feels about her f789 up?
It died suddenly!
300,000 out of 8 Billion … and most of them were already anti-vax… much ado….
One of the biggest problems ‘we’ have is that we destroy heat energy as we convert it to electrical energy.
Take coal. Mine it, transport it, burn it, create electricity, distribute it, turn on heater.
What is the destruction of value in this series of transactions?
Electricity should be reserved for a very limited range of uses;internet, surveillance, compliance, hair straighteners…
One must realize electricity is a very recent addition to the tool chest of human society.
When was Electricity First Used in People’s Homes?
Electricity was first introduced into people’s homes near the end of the Victorian period in the late 19th century. The world’s first electric street lights were set up in London in 1878 and can be found almost everywhere in the world today.
1881 The first public electricity supply in the UK was generated in Godalming, Surrey, using a waterwheel at a mill.
1883 Magnus Volks built the first electric railway. It was opened on Brighton seafront. Named the Volks Railway, it was built just for pleasure rides, is one mile long and still runs during summer.
1890 Turbine driven generators were introduced to produce electricity.
1918 Electric refrigerators and washing machines first become available.
1930s In the 1930s and 1940s, hydroelectric power stations were built in Scotland and Wales, even though most electricity still came from burning coal.
Household electrical appliances were introduced, and mains powered radios, vacuum cleaners, fridges, and irons became a part of almost every household by the 1940s
1936 The television was invented by John Logie Baird.
So, as one can see it basically something humans lived without until will again live without very soon
not quite that simple
people lived without electricity because it simply didnt exist in the domestic context
unfortunately we now live in an environment where the lives of billions of people depend on it
not possible just to say–the will have to manage without it.
modern hospital cease to function
skyscrapers cease to function
i could list hundreds more ‘functions’ on which we have come to depend.
true, it will cease to be available, but it will decimate us.
Of course, the obvious, apparently billions will no longer exist without it and the related other sources.
That does mean ALL humans will not exist, but it is possible.
My post was mainly to illustrate the relatively recent arrival of electricity and to indicate it shall pass just as quickly if not faster from realm of humanity.
As Jay Hanson wrote in DieOff.com…it must crash…it is a certainty…
to clarify my point:
humankind lived without electricity for ‘ever’ befor the 1800s
but we have now crossed the electrical energy threshold–ie, we know that it exists, and depend on it
we cannot just step back to something pre-1700
We may not have a choice, Norman.
Not for long! We need electricity to power the tech that keeps the ponds cool.
Japan’s chief cabinet secretary called it “the devil’s scenario.” Two weeks after the 11 March 2011 earthquake and tsunami devastated the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, causing three nuclear reactors to melt down and release radioactive plumes, officials were bracing for even worse. They feared that spent fuel stored in pools in the reactor halls would catch fire and send radioactive smoke across a much wider swath of eastern Japan, including Tokyo.
https://energyskeptic.com/2017/the-devils-scenario-near-miss-at-fukushima-is-a-warning-for-u-s/
The Chernobyl accident was relatively minor, involved no spent fuel ponds, and was controlled by pouring cement onto the reactor. This was breaking down so a few years back they re-entombed.
Estimates of the cancer burden in Europe from radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl accident
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16628547/
for once we agree tim
there will be no choice
https://youtu.be/K4PZhYrX_pY
I love coal.
let’s burn the entire available world supply, and waste all that heat.
I love electricity too.
Free up as much carbon as we can in the short time we have left… the trees will thank us when we are gone
Electricity was a luxury from when we had more coal than we knew what to do with because of oil. It won’t last much longer.
It is possible to make use of the waste heat., at least to some extent.
China has made extensive use of co-generation. Power plants are put in the middle of cities. “Waste heat” is piped to homes and businesses. This makes use of at least some of the heat lost in the conversion process. (Sweden has done this to some extent, too, but subsidies for renewables have cut into this practice.)
This heat is very inexpensive. It is hard to regulate (too hot, open a window; too cold, add a sweater). It doesn’t encourage conservation. It tends to be very polluting. It makes less sense, as nearby coal field are exhausted. There is a big price shock when citizens are forced to go to a “modern” heat source like air source heat pumps, powered by electricity.
Here you go Kulmthestausquota
Here is Billy Bragg, also waiting for that great leap forward…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHd2O_KuCxA
I think its getting closer now…been expecting it for far too long.
‘What a Joke’: Man Tries to Tow with His Electric Truck – Shows How It Was a ‘Total Disaster’
“Automobile savant and commentator Tyler ‘Hoovie’ Hoover decided to test the [Ford] Lightning’s towing capacity in a video uploaded to his YouTube channel on Friday. The experiment didn’t go so well, to say the least.
Despite having the EV charged for 200 miles of range at the start of the 64-mile trip, by the time he returned with his Model A truck in tow, only 50 miles of range remained.
‘If the future is electric, there has to be some kind of solution for this,’ Hoover said, speaking to EV’s towing issues. ‘If a truck towing 3,500 pounds can’t even go 100 miles … that is ridiculously stupid.’”
https://www.westernjournal.com/joke-man-tries-tow-electric-truck-shows-total-disaster/
Electric vehicles are best of something like a bicycle or golf cart. Trying to haul big loads long distances doesn’t work.
A while back, there was a video of a man from Australia explaining why the physics makes it impossible. Basically, the truck has to haul around a huge amount of batteries. Because of this, the structure of the truck needs to be built much bigger as well. It becomes impossible for the truck to carry much of a payload, for very long, if it is so big and heavy.
But Air Canada has ordered a fleet of electric passenger planes… they will never fulfil on that … but that is ‘reality’…
Tesla’s coal-powered cars and trucks
Tesla’s mission is “to accelerate the advent of sustainable transport by bringing compelling mass market electric cars to market as soon as possible,” wrote Elon Musk in The Secret Tesla Motors Master Plan.
The large-scale shift from internal combustion engine powered automobiles to electric vehicles (EVs) is a crucial part of this ‘sustainability’ mission. Governments around the world have bought into electric cars as a way to lower their countries’ carbon emissions and have coughed up the generous subsidies electric car makers need to make themselves competitive (but note: the current versions of the U.S. Senate and House tax bills end these subsidies).
But in many countries, internal combustion engine-powered compact cars like the Mitsubishi Mirage have a smaller total carbon footprint than electric cars. How is this possible? There are two main sources of EVs’ hidden carbon footprint: first, carbon-intensive manufacturing processes including aluminum and copper extraction and refinement and second, the dirty electric grids charging the cars’ batteries.
Electric carmakers prefer lightweight aluminum over steel to maximize range: Tesla builds the body and chassis of its Model S almost entirely from about 410 lbs (190 kg) of aluminum. Average total aluminum content per car is expected to grow from roughly 397 lbs per car in 2015 to 565 lbs by 2028.
The highly energy-intensive processes involved in aluminum production mean that a car’s worth of aluminum costs about 30% more in emitted CO2 than a car’s worth of steel. In China, the world’s leading manufacturer of EVs, 14 tons of CO2 is emitted for every ton of aluminum produced, three times more than the CO2 emitted by Alcoa, the U.S.’s largest aluminum producer. China now worries that their dirty smelting operations mean that switching to electric cars will actually make their smog problem worse.
“If the USA had 10% more petrol cars by 2020, air pollution would claim 870 more lives. A similar increase in electric ones would cause 1,617 more deaths a year, mostly because of the coal burned,” said Danish researcher Bjorn Lomborg.
EVs’ intensive copper use—an electric car uses about 6 km of copper wire weighing 45 kg, compared to a conventional auto’s 20 kg of copper—also poses a carbon emissions problem. In the mid-1800s, copper ore contained about 10% usable copper, but over the course of the twentieth century, that purity has decreased to less than 1%, making the mining and production of copper extremely energy- and carbon-intensive.
The energy used to smelt copper increases exponentially as the ore grade falls below 1%. The new copper mines being constructed to meet increased demand have to be factored into the carbon footprint of electric vehicles—and in general, new copper ore stocks being developed are deeper and require more energy to exploit than currently productive reserves.
What about the power grids that charge EVs’ batteries? Energy sources vary wildly by country. Globally, in 2014, 66% of global energy came from coal (29%), oil (22%), and gas (5%). China, the country with the largest number of EVs on the road, got 72% of its energy from coal alone in 2014; the United States produced 68% of its energy from fossil fuels, including coal (38%) and gas (30%) in 2014. Coal use in the United States is trending downward as a proportion of overall energy use, partially due to the new shale gas deposits being exploited by fracking.
Shifting the energy burden of the American transportation industry from gasoline and diesel fuels to the power grid will result in enormous increases in electricity demand. In temperate places like San Francisco, plugging an electric car into a dedicated circuit like Tesla’s PowerWall is the equivalent of adding between 5 and 10 houses to the grid.
The supercharging stations required to charge Tesla’s Semis will require surge capacities far beyond anything the American grid was designed to handle. Finally, to get EVs closer to being considered ‘carbon-neutral’—because of their raw materials they never truly will be—the American energy system will have to go green.
But it’s an open question as to whether solar and wind plants can generate enough power to not only replace fossil fuel plants but also match the increased demand for electricity as hundreds of millions of vehicles start plugging in.
The largest, most powerful solar plant in the United States is the Ivanpah Solar Power Facility in the Mojave Desert, which generates 392 MW; the largest wind plant in the United States is the Alta Wind Energy Center in California’s Tehachapi Pass, which generates 1,547 MW; by comparison, the largest coal plant in the United States, Plant Scherer in Georgia, generates 3,389 MW.
Ironically, Tesla’s electric cars and trucks may end up prolonging America’s reliance on fossil fuels to generate electricity, because renewable sources cannot yet meet rising demand.
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/2017/11/28/teslas-coal-powered-cars-and-trucks
This means it’s working … same as when you get cancer of the nuts… that’s a good sign
Study confirms link between COVID-19 vaccination and temporary increase in menstrual cycle length
“A large international study has confirmed the findings of a previous U.S. study that linked COVID-19 vaccination with an average increase in menstrual cycle length of less than one day.
On average, vaccinated people experienced an increase of less than one day in each cycle in which they were vaccinated: a .71 day increase after the first dose and a .56 day increase after the second dose. Participants who received both doses in a single cycle had a 3.91 day increase in cycle length.”
https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/study-confirms-link-between-covid-19-vaccination-temporary-increase-menstrual-cycle-length
Even the reported appears to be playing a role https://t.me/TexasLindsay/507
Details:
Another ‘Coincidence’: Rapper Coolio Dies of Heart Attack at 59
He was at a friend’s house, went to the bathroom, and was found on the floor after having a cardiac arrest.
Also, a 24-year-old surfer in tip-top shape had a stroke while surfing and drowned to death.
Watch live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wz5tKd_K-5o
Tucker is MSM … if he is saying this the Ministry of Truth told him to say it https://palexander.substack.com/p/video-tucker-carlson-suggests-biden
Sh@t is getting real!
People who weren’t fooled by the Cov Con don’t seem to have grasped what just happened to Europe.
My daughter has tickets booked to Ireland in Nov from NZ. I asked her if she wanted my opinion on this and NUP! Doesn’t want to know.
People crave return 2 normal.
Do not disturb!
Theatre of the absurd.
Anyway, couldn’t help myself. I said Europe won’t exist by November, so make sure you have a good refund policy.
She has.
Tell her that I said Ireland sucks… seriously… it was the last trip we did BC… and it was utterly shite. One of the dullest countries I have ever visited.. the coastal areas on the east were ok — but that takes up a day.
The pubs are so jammed you can barely find a spot so sit… worst trip ever. Worst.
It would suck to end up there for the End of the World.
Anywhere but Ireland
Its a legal firm exchange; has to be Ireland this time.
Old enough to be her own master of destiny.
I offer my input once, then thats it.
My job done.
My daughter got a booster to holiday in Europe. What can you say?
Vax talk is forbidden with her anyway “they’re safe and effective, you’re crazy Dad”.
Meanwhile a relative works in a UK hospital and staff death notices are up by 3-4x in his estimate (they get emails for each one).
Ironically a lot of the hospital staff are unhealthy and obese, plus half-crazy from the insane NHS bureaucracy. So combine that with the boosters and pathogens hanging around in the hospital and poof! another one bites the dust.
Excess death in 2020 (which kicked off the madness) was directly caused by new ingredients in flu jabs and the insane (deliberate) roll out of WHO protocols (Remdesivir, intubation, Midazolam) which the good doctors and nurses across the world followed without question.
Who are to blame?
The order givers… or the order followers?
The all-powerful entity gives the orders. And anyone with any sense complies
Without the believe in higher power, there is no way to survive.
Can you believe in family values or the justice or sanity of the society? No way.
I have a story of 2 men from my village:
One was a Premonstrate priest, a geologist and a botanist, who spoke several languages, a teacher and an activist in public health matters. After the dissolution of the monasteries in Czechoslovakia by the Communists in the 50s, he spent the rest of his life in his native village, continuing his charity work, living active life until his death in his 9th decade of life.
Another one was a longest serving Dean of the Faculty of Law in Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia. His specialty was a labor law, which was the top subject of the Russian communist ideology that replaced the faith in God by the faith in human power, embodied by the labor force. When the communist regime collapsed in December 1989, he died in the same month along with it.
When you believe in this world, you must take drugs or go mad, as the truth about it is a pure horror…
The image of the upright pig says it all for those who remember Animal Farm.
That’s why I enjoy the truth — why I seek it — The Horror.. The Horror…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premonstratensians
“By the beginning of the nineteenth century the order had become almost extinct, only eight houses surviving, all in the Habsburg monarchy.[2] However, there was something of a resurgence, and at the start of the twentieth century there were 20 monasteries and 1000 priests. As of 2005, the number of monasteries had increased to nearly 100 and spread to every continent. In 1893, Father Bernard Pennings and two other Norbertines from Berne Abbey arrived in the United States of America to minister to Belgian immigrants in northern Wisconsin. De Pere, Wisconsin became the site of the first Norbertine Abbey in the new world.[6]”
“When you believe in this world, you must take drugs or go mad, as the truth about it is a pure horror…”
Perhaps very insightful; something is not working, energy is a major part, but human reaction is puzzling.
Dennis L.
Prosperity and happiness are the product of murder and pillage.
We feed 8B by inflicting the most horrific punishments on animals – then we eat them.
Turn away from all of this – order pizza and watch Tee Vee.
The CIAs 75 years in Ukraine using nazi intelligence officers brought into the CIA after WW2. 9 minutes long from 2017. Ukraine is THE plan to topple Russia. Plan B is kinetic warfare.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/t9aMypti4EM8/
The CIA has fought first the Soviet Union, and then Russia, since the end of World War II. It hired nazis to work in the Ukraine, toward the end of destabilizing the Soviet Union, and then Russia. NATO is an anti-Russia group.
The CIA helped create private militias to work against people in Ukraine who are pro-Russian. In a real sense, the United States “occupies” Ukraine. The occupation government is supported and funded by the United States. Part of the purpose, besides destabilizing Russia, is to take away profits from Ukraine. Joe Biden’s son was involved in getting profits from the oil company there. Use black mail and force any person who supports Russia out of business. Develops hit list. Tries to get Ukrainian resources, using illegal methods.
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I have heard pieces of this before. It doesn’t sound like something most people would be proud of.
The gloablist central bankers fund all sides.
Wars are WWE for the souless, bored, tamed, easily entertained by the latest thing biological robots known as humans.
Get ready for the next thing cause they’re coming thick and fast.
They have to drop everything now. Time’s up.
It thrills me to no end to think about what’s happening in the UK — rising interest rates threaten to implode pension funds… the BOE acts … but that only drives out of control inflation higher…
This is not a Gordian Knot… you can’t just slash it with a sword … there is no way to undo it… this is the moment where you look at what’s happened in the past week… and exclaim .. we are f789ed.
Tick tock…
Druckenmiller: “We Are In Deep Trouble… I Don’t Rule Out Something Really Bad”
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/druckenmiller-we-are-deep-trouble-i-dont-rule-out-something-really-bad-happening-next
Or really good 🙂
“I would be stunned if we don’t have recession in ’23. I don’t know the timing but certainly by the end of ’23. I will not be surprised if it’s not larger than the so called average garden variety.”
that sounds good to me.
Q4 boof?
but that would be Q4 of 2023.
another year of craaaaazy bAU lite, baby!
Recession is 2 quarters of negative growth. The Biden admin changed that definition. See this is how we sustain this charade. Laws are changed to make sure we don’t collapse. That is why many are “wrong” in saying doom is around the corner. It should be here but it is postponed. Mark to fantasy instead of mark to market anyone?
NS1/NS2 is hitting the physical limits. Laws cannot be changed. No gas means no gas. Not reporting it does not mean there is gas. Get it Amigos?
I don’t have a large circle of friends, but I know two people who—understanding the jab to be at least probably somewhat dangerous—took it in a nihilistic fashion, throwing themselves into the teeth of the thing.
“If everyone’s going down, then I’m going down, too.”
“I don’t want to live if my daughter dies from the jab, so I took it, as well.”
The Asian mentality is “It is better to take the jab than not taking it”. It is given that Asians are “docile” and will follow authoritarian rule. Nothing surprising but white Westerners? hard to believe.
White westerners are less than worms. Their cowardice and decadence have produced a society of mincing nancies, insane females and castrated males. Nothing like this festering boil has been seen in thousands of years.
Humanity will get exactly what it deserves.
I do truly hope that I can stay long enough to witness our species consume itself in vast part before the reality engines fire and external forces smash into this sphere cleansing it of the infestation.
May the few souls remaining know the meaning of sacrifice, humility and struggle.
you have a too optimistic view of humanity.
Hear, hear!
It is refreshing to say out loud what we actually feel. That is part of the attraction to Fast Eddy too.
In too many blogs, the owners are trying hard to attract normies so they go out of their way to censor anyone dissing on the vaxed or “being a downer” (I am looking at John Michael Greer here).
I thought for a while that most people have slave souls. They love nothing more than have someone else decide everything for them, with no morals and no thinking.
I realize now I was wrong. Like some philosophers, I believe that most people do not have souls. It takes work, empathy and suffering to get a soul and most people are just selfish cowards.
Yes. I surmise now that a tremendous percentage of the population of this realm are in fact NPCs of the simacrulum.
These creatures are everywhere.
I am not sure of exact criteria but if you work for any public service/governmental agency, took the jab, believe in the singularity and wokeness in general then you are probably not a soul bearing avatar in the school of existence.
I would prefer to see you vanish from my screen never to be seen again.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/travel/news/virgin-atlantic-lets-male-pilots-and-crew-wear-skirts-to-express-their-true-identity/ar-AA12l5h9
Bad hair day?
Almost everyone we know took the jabs. Our social ranges shrunk a lot! Where I live, probably 30% of the people in the grocery store at any given visit is still masked. It has become a bit of a hobby to count.
You live in a pretty stupid place then!
I reckon we put bounties on the heads of anyone masking where it is not required (NZ)… and it be required to beat them to death with a baseball bat (cricket bat will do if you can’t find a baseball bat)…
That would put an end to the masks.
Have we seen the sifting of the wheat from the chaff?
2 of my 3 adult children took the DSI (Dog Sh#t Injection)….
The smart one was the one that didn’t go to Uni and is well established at 30 yrs old. He thinks for himself and has done from an early age.
This is the most amazing, unscripted, mult-faceted cluster fracked time to be alive. In times past your event horizon was very limited. Now events from the other side of the world, from out there in satellite land, and further to the possible CME strike are all right on our digital doorstep.
Why go so meekly?
That people with the most university education, especially in science, are precisely those least able to question the official narratives, was one of the biggest eye-openers that 2020 brought me.
I always knew that university serves mainly to manufacture clogs for production’s big wheel, but was not fully aware of how it is at the same time a process of intellectual disarmament. Now I know.
Universities pump out zombies aka circus animals
They aren’t even marching around the block shouting Freedom anymore…
They screech on Substack… ‘This Must Stop Now’
Let me tell you — this is extremely disappointing — I am NOT entertained…. the leaders are all urging their followers to remain calm… when obviously the exact opposite is required… (at least if you believe what they believe… i.e. that they are being enslaved)… they go like lambs to the slaughter… with barely a whimper.
We get a few sparks here and there… Sri Lanka… Panama… but no fire… I must say – this a huge let down… I was even contemplating subscribing to cabal so I could watch the revolutions be televised…
If this does not change I’ll feed the popcorn to the birds…
And just keep enough for the final event… we can be sure that this will wrap up with something epic… nukes … F… Holodomor … there are still 8B predators that have to go… one way or another
A suicide pact! how cool is that
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us,”
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
“BAU was the best of times, Great Reset was the worst of times, it was the age of FF wisdom, it was the age of Green foolishness, it was the epoch of belief in Infinite Growth, it was the epoch of incredulity on a Finite Planet, it was the season of Russian Light, it was the season of EU Darkness, it was the spring of hope for MAGA!, it was the winter of despair for Europe 2022/2023, we had everything before us onwards to 2030, we had nothing before us but ve vill be happy.”
+++++and to ye a good night
all ye merry finite worlders!
Charlie should have shut the f up.
The worst of times was brought by the City of London.
I think from the “noise” (lackof) generated in the news (feed from The Matrix), I think the sheep do not know the important of NS1/2 gone.
The brainwash is complete. Europeans will lockdown in their homes, suffering from the vaccination adverse effects without food, heating, electric, jobs or money thinking they did it right for the poor Ukrainians while dying slowly from hypothermia.
I am correct to say that they don’t realize the importance of cheap gas (now not available since Gazprom has stop the transit via UKR) on their jobs (industry), food, heating or anything else.
I was not sure 3 days ago when NS1/2 was still functioning but now I am.
CTG,
I am from Europe and I have to say, you got it about right.
Most of the middle class and above are serenely convinced that they live in the best possible world and nothing can affect them.
They are not worried about gas or oil or food.
The weird stuff is that some of these people grew up under communism or immediately after, so they know how food shortages or poverty looks like. But the brainwashing is so complete, I doubt they even remember anything.
There are some people that are aware – peasants, poor working people and some youngsters. But they are probably not online and are also afraid to say anything.
Speaking of communism – I can tell you that in terms of freedoms, Europe has less now than under communist dictatorships.
The commies never closed churches – today’s nazis did.
We had food and electricity rationing but we were never forced to inject poison into our bodies.
Weird as it sounds, the commies NEEDED us (to work for them and fight the capitalists). Today’s nazis are more than eager to kill most of the “useless eaters”.
Reality is a bit*ch. It is just too unreal for me
very good post above, CTG.
“I think from the “noise” (lackof) generated in the news (feed from The Matrix), I think the sheep do not know the important of NS1/2 gone.”
in addition to your many good points, I would add that there is very little NS1/2 news in the MSM because…
the USA did it, obviously.
The government won’t allow collapse to happen. They will fix it. They always do.
This is why few are concerned
yes, sir, you are correct.
are you new here?
welcome!
Finally, an optimist!
Tell us more – I hear Europe has thorium reactors ready to start before the winter, so party like there is no tomorrow (wait, what?)
Of course the governments will not allow collapse to happen..cause they have (in their secret back pocket)
1) Green Hydrogen
2) of was it Blue Hydrogen?
3) Purple Hydrogen?
4) Perhaps different hydrogen colors matching the gay pride flag?
And we’ll never run out of oil cuz we are transitioning to EVs… completely by 2035.
Read all about it!
Even though all of this nonsense is impossible — the MOREONS believe it – just like they believe the injections of Dog Shit are Safe and Effective. Just like they believe we been to the moon. Just like they believe that the video I presented showing a white missile hitting the Pentagon … is a plane!!!
hahahahahahaha MORE- ONS. MOREONS.
Remember the guy who raised billions to develop a battery powered 18 wheel truck… then he pretended he has a working model and rolled it down a sloped highway claiming it was operational… remember that? Now remember just the other day the guy tried to haul and empty trailer with an EV F-150 truck… and ran out of juice after about 100 miles hahahaahah
People believe this shit — even the circus animals … someone gave that guy billions.
They will not fix “it”.
They will fix “your mind”.
Oh some of us euros have been preparing for at least 15 years. It is a schizophrenic lifestyle of sorts.
It is not that they are not worried.
It is that they just do not want to know.
If they knew or tried to want to know a 1000th of what OFW knows, they wouls immediately hang themselves.
FE has tried it on SS to no avail.
We need to be more humble.
So now we’re on a death trip
Listen to the blood drip
Oozing from a curled lip
Ever thought of dying slowly
Ever thought of dying totally unholy
Someone’s trying to fool us
Maybe it’s your daughters
Can you hear the walrus
Offering a sad solution
He’s calling out for teenage revolution
And can you think of one good reason,
To remain?
Global Holodomor — ideally we’ll also get the Demon Covid… or at least huge numbers of VAIDsies clogging things up and dying on the streets and in the hospital parking lots…
Then the MSM will proclaim it’s Demon Covid – when in reality it’s just the usual flu that comes with winter except that now billions have f789ed their immune systems so it has the same effect as Demon Covid.
Knocking out the energy supplies now — and making sure the Hordes know they are f789ed… Candied F in play… supply chains on edge… possibly some nuclear missile action
The final solution is taking shape … almost time to light the fuse.
Q4 Boom?
Gotta be — they didn’t fertilize the crops properly — and the pipes are busted — if no Q4 Boom that none of that was real.
Meanwhile Hoolio has a new pig — the rain continues… and he is demanding that I play tug of war with him… the thing is … he thrashes his head back and forth so violently that he threatens to dislocate my shoulder if I am not ready for that… he packs some punch for a 14kg hound.
Most people in Europe believe that Russia suffers more than Europeans from not supplying gas. It’s also widely believed that the US has plenty of LNG and can easily fill the gap. The view is that if you have ‘money’ (euros) someone will somehow supply whatever you need.
They don’t understand that the huge volumes supplied by pipeline simply can’t be replaced. They don’t know that most large German factories such as BMW rely on gas to generate their own electricity. They don’t know that 70% of fertiliser plants have already closed and that without fertiliser we can barely grow any crops. They don’t know that in Europe we have huge greenhouses heated by gas that have also shut down.
Most people in Europe believe that Russia suffers more than Europeans from not supplying gas.
It would be worse had I not taken the jab…
Hahaha…hehe hehe…hohoho
There seem to be a whole lot of widespread, nonsense beliefs.
like voting to be prosperous
MAGA comes to mind
It wasn’t big hedge funds that blew up, but £1.5 trillion in leveraged pension funds. BoE stepped in to bail them out and prevent further contagion.
https://wolfstreet.com/2022/09/28/uk-chaos-economics-fretting-over-financial-stability-contagion-after-gilt-plunge-bank-of-england-buys-long-dated-bonds/
Printing money again. What difference does it make since they are already printing money? The only difference is we are bought “a few days/weeks”. The effects of diminished returns.
As I understand it, they are issuing a lot of debt, but they are also using QE to buy back debt, perhaps of different maturities. This is a crazy pattern to try to keep up.
The new debt would seem to have higher interest rates.
I think it is all a liquidity play, notational money to pay today’s debts, tomorrow is a different problem. All central banks need to do is provide enough liquidity for daily bread so to speak.
Dennis L.
It is completely obvious that this has now become a never-ending, money-printing death spiral. Anyone who does not recognize this and take appropriate measures will be completely ruined.
The only “appropriate measures” is carpe diem. Davidinabillions will agree since he looking forward to 2030. I hope he has a Japanese car since there will be no spares for his German cars.. (sarc off)
What are these “measures” of which you speak?
I expect to be dead … soon
The BOE is essentially sucking itself off… and for an encore it will self-fornicate.
This is serious Doom P-orn.
We are close to the point where the gimmicks stop working .. notice the response to the desperate measures in Britain… the opposite of what they anticipated…
When the herd truly panics… nothing can stop it
Just like when the Mob loses its mind and goes on a rampage … looking for the Elders
Something needs to happen soon – or we’ll be ROFing. A right f789ing nightmare that will be
We will all be millionaires soon, it’s just that there will be nothing to buy and no electricity.
Thanks for finding this. I can easily believe that it is pension funds that blew up. There are a whole lot of these in the world.
I know that I have some money in what are essentially pension funds. Also, Social Security supposedly gives everyone who has worked even a minimal amount a pension. Widows get a pension based on their husband’s earnings, as well. Trying to keep all of these solvent is basically an impossible task.
No to be pedantic but I think the issue is liquidity, not solvency. All are basically insolvent, all one needs sufficient cash to pay the daily bills.
Dennis L.
It has gone on for more than 14 years since 2008. Eventually one day it will break. Just a matter of when and not if. It does feel that it is very close and now it is confirmed with NS1/2 gone.
It appears pension funds have been having to borrow lots of money to make payments to retirees.
They use government bonds as security for this borrowing and the price of government bonds has been falling. So the pension funds are getting margin called and they don’t have the money.
Now the Bank of England is going to boost the price of bonds by buying them up with money that it presumably just prints.
Which should result in even more inflation which they were trying to stop by raising rates hahahahahahaha…
Pick your poison … the option they’ve taken seems to have stopped what was looking to be a collapse if the financial system (Lehman on roids)… but it will only transfer the pressure elsewhere which just might get us a hyper inflation scenario…
The oscillations are bigger and they are accelerating…
When do they decide that Fauci has failed and go with Plan B – and launch the nukes?
The men who run the world — are working shifts round the clock trying to keep the train on the tracks.. hoping for Demon Covid… and trying to wait as long as possible before going with the nukes… The nukes will do a lot of damage but a lot of folks will survive and ROF…
End of the day these men are not overly concerned with that– so long as they are not around to be skinned alive by the surviving mob.
The MSM will of course not report any of what is really going on behind the scenes.
I suggest that when this article runs its 3 weeks there be a comments page put in place so there is no time lost waiting for the new article.
We are in very dangerous waters now — it is very possible that you could wake up one morning to some very grim news… once it starts to unravel… it will happen fast …
So fast that norm won’t even have time for a final booster … so fast that Super Snatch won’t be able to blow a kiss to her lover-boy norm.
still keeping the eddywit hovering at its usual female genitalia flight height eddy?
Most people are 100% oblivious to the fact that we are perched upon the edge of total collapse …
I had one guy tell me he’s bought another property in QT (he is up to his ears in leverage already) on the basis that QT prices can’t go down… I am sure he was looking for me to support his delusion .. but I didn’t say much … other than if they do and you can afford to hold till they recover you’ll be fine.
It doesn’t matter either way — he is f789ed… I am f789ed… Hoolio is sadly … f789ed… we are all f789ed…
Oh and a friend of a friend was checking out the bat mobile awhile back… and he says — so what do you invest in … as if I’m Warren Boofet with some stock tips or something I guess.. I says … fast cars… I think he thought I was being a prick.. but I wasn’t … it was one of the few truth’s he’ll get all year.
Why invest … we’re f789ed hahahaha.. investing = a future… there’s no future… piss it away asap… or never.
Maybe Fast Eddy could start up an investment advisory service — he advise people how to waste their savings … HE has plenty of bad ideas of how to put your $$$ to work!
Could you please construct some sort of survival enclosure for hoolio? ha! Thats the saddest part. Children and animals.
Hoolio would suffer in the winter — he has no fat and his coat is thin… and the ponds…
It would be cruel to just let him run loose when the moment comes — the kind thing will be to give him some powdered F mixed with some ground beef – as a final treat.
Poor Hoolio … he is a very kind animal (although rabbits do not agree and see him as a raging terror)
“If there was no intervention today, gilt yields could have gone up to 7-8 per cent from 4.5 per cent this morning and in that situation around 90 per cent of UK pension funds would have run out of collateral… They would have been wiped out.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/something-broke-some-point-morning-i-was-worried-was-beginning-end
At a higher interest rate, the selling price of the bond would drop much lower.
If the Bank of England can issue new debt at a higher interest rate to replace the old debt at a lower interest rate, perhaps the pensions can be kept from collapsing. Of course, a person might as, “Where will the government get the money pay the much higher interest rate?”
The pre-existing, lower-yielding debt has been pledged almost everywhere as collateral. As its value declines due to rising rates, there are margin calls being made. In situations where leverage has been used, the margin calls are magnified. This is what they are attempting to deal with. It is a stop-gap measure and will soon be overwhelmed by a combination of higher interest rates and/or higher inflation and a further drop in the value of the currency. There is no way out now.
This. Banks both domestic and international had to be incentivized to buy T-bills to fund government debt. So they were given a special status “prime collateral” that allowed using them as collateral for loans with huge leverage. Without that status the treasuries have negative value. But all those ZIRP treasuries are worth half now that the same treasuries are available that pay double the interest. Since huge leverage that incentivized their purchase is in effect halfing the value of the “prime collateral” that means either the leverage must be doubled to say 80x or margin calls. Their really cant be margin calls ie bankruptcy from the feds end as all capital requirements remain suspended as part of the amazing “loosening” that the fed put into place for the corona festival but bank to bank or bank to pension is a different matter. A financial institution will accept its 40x leverage going to 80x what choice does it have but whether it wants to take risk doing business with other similarly leveraged institutions is another matter.
Luckily returning to ZIRP solves this issue handily its just a hamburger will be $100.
Wile E Coyote. Nothing but air below. One Missisipi. Two Missisipi. …
So they were given a special status “prime collateral” that allowed using them as collateral for loans with huge leverage.
Thanks for the explainer, I hadn’t understood why pension funds were in this position.
Exactly…. hyper inflation awaits! Q4 Boom???
There is no way out of this.
Who feels fear?
Hoolio update: he’s a bit mopy today … due to the rain .. saving his power for a possible kill if the drizzle stops. What more is there to life than resting then killing something when you are hungry? Why do we need these fake narratives?
A nice scratch and some humpty humpty from time to time … sounds idyllic …
https://i.postimg.cc/wj996TFX/Mopy-dog.jpg
Okay, we all know the world is going to end, but what if it doesn’t?
SPR is being drained at a fast rate, what is to be done?
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/biden-draining-spr-campaign-credit-card-midterms
Maybe some petroleum trusts?
There always needs to be a light at the end of the rainbow. Man is very inventive and creative, I think we belong here, we are the best effort so far and for all our faults we have done some incredible things. There will be life after oil, there is solar, which is actually fusion that works and has for a billion or so years. Solar density at earth is just right for us, not so much for industrial process. Elon to the rescue, take a very large starship and a long cable, drop a ladle of metal towards the sun, cook as necessary and slingshot back to earth. Fusion without the risk, industrial process without the mess. Next problem please.
Dennis L.
Without reading it further:
Who will drain his “SPR” faster:
The CCP showing Xi is well?
Russia annexing the Donbass?
Germany going dark?
Italy leaving the EU?
The US$ having 1:0 value for all other currencies?
The probability space has deliberately been closed down to whatever outcome will come. Options now are limiting by the day….
If there are parts of the world with reasonable energy resources and not too much population, perhaps some of them can keep on for a while, probably at a lower level of functioning than today.
Yep – those places will go Mad Max and they’ll beat each other to death fighting over what’s left!
Best to go quietly into the night
If there are parts of the world with reasonable energy resources and not too much population, perhaps some of them can keep on for a while, probably at a lower level of functioning than today.
Oil needs to be refined , spares and consumables are required in the factory and if the small country is not isolated like a small island in the middle of nowhere, it will be overrun by its neighbouring countries.
Van Life girl getting chopped up. People STEALING from stores. Driving crazy, etc.
Might have to start micro-chipping people.
Afraid it may have to come down to that. (we have no freedom of choice) lol
34 minute onwards is the best part if you don’t have time for the entire interview
https://rumble.com/v1lbjvd-the-dark-truth-of-americas-federation-of-state-medical-boards.html
norm while everyone is watching that interview … you can kill some time with this
https://youtu.be/M1UIpcbFgQg
I don’t think I can summarize what is said at 34 minutes onward. State medical boards are closely tied together. They put together an agenda for delegates to vote on. The delegates have no prior knowledge. They are inclined to vote on whatever is recommended. Once these state boards pass recommendations, state laws are made based on these recommendations.
This is how the ridiculous COVID-19 treatment regulations could be put in place, and the forbidding of ivermectin for treatment.