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Time and time again, financial approaches have worked to fix economic problems. Raising interest rates has acted to slow the economy and lowering them has acted to speed up the economy. Governments overspending their incomes also acts to push the economy ahead; doing the reverse seems to slow economies down.
What could possibly go wrong? The issue is a physics problem. The economy doesn’t run simply on money and debt. It operates on resources of many kinds, including energy-related resources. As the population grows, the need for energy-related resources grows. The bottleneck that occurs is something that is hard to see in advance; it is an affordability bottleneck.
For a very long time, financial manipulations have been able to adjust affordability in a way that is optimal for most players. At some point, resources, especially energy resources, get stretched too thin, relative to the rising population and all the commitments that have been made, such as pension commitments. As a result, there is no way for the quantity of goods and services produced to grow sufficiently to match the promises that the financial system has made. This is the real bottleneck that the world economy reaches.
I believe that we are closely approaching this bottleneck today. I recently gave a talk to a group of European officials at the 2nd Luxembourg Strategy Conference, discussing the issue from the European point of view. Europeans seem to be especially vulnerable because Europe, with its early entry into the Industrial Revolution, substantially depleted its fossil fuel resources many years ago. The topic I was asked to discuss was, “Energy: The interconnection of energy limits and the economy and what this means for the future.”
In this post, I write about this presentation.
The major issue is that money, by itself, cannot operate the economy, because we cannot eat money. Any model of the economy must include energy and other resources. In a finite world, these resources tend to deplete. Also, human population tends to grow. At some point, not enough goods and services are produced for the growing population.
I believe that the major reason we have not been told about how the economy really works is because it would simply be too disturbing to understand the real situation. If today’s economy is dependent on finite fossil fuel supplies, it becomes clear that, at some point, these will run short. Then the world economy is likely to face a very difficult time.
A secondary reason for the confusion about how the economy operates is too much specialization by researchers studying the issue. Physicists (who are concerned about energy) don’t study economics; politicians and economists don’t study physics. As a result, neither group has a very broad understanding of the situation.
I am an actuary. I come from a different perspective: Will physical resources be adequate to meet financial promises being made? I have had the privilege of learning a little from both economic and physics sides of the discussion. I have also learned about the issue from a historical perspective.
World energy consumption has been growing very rapidly at the same time that the world economy has been growing. This makes it hard to tell whether the growing energy supply enabled the economic growth, or whether the higher demand created by the growing economy encouraged the world economy to use more resources, including energy resources.
Physics says that it is energy resources that enable economic growth.
The R-squared of GDP as a function of energy is .98, relative to the equation shown.
Physicists talk about the “dissipation” of energy. In this process, the ability of an energy product to do “useful work” is depleted. For example, food is an energy product. When food is digested, its ability to do useful work (provide energy for our body) is used up. Cooking food, whether using a campfire or electricity or by burning natural gas, is another way of dissipating energy.
Humans are clearly part of the economy. Every type of work that is done depends upon energy dissipation. If energy supplies deplete, the form of the economy must change to match.
There are a huge number of systems that seem to grow by themselves using a process called self-organization. I have listed a few of these on Slide 8. Some of these things are alive; most are not. They are all called “dissipative structures.”
The key input that allows these systems to stay in a “non-dead” state is dissipation of energy of the appropriate type. For example, we know that humans need about 2,000 calories a day to continue to function properly. The mix of food must be approximately correct, too. Humans probably could not live on a diet of lettuce alone, for example.
Economies have their own need for energy supplies of the proper kind, or they don’t function properly. For example, today’s agricultural equipment, as well as today’s long-distance trucks, operate on diesel fuel. Without enough diesel fuel, it becomes impossible to plant and harvest crops and bring them to market. A transition to an all-electric system would take many, many years, if it could be done at all.
I think of an economy as being like a child’s building toy. Gradually, new participants are added, both in the form of new citizens and new businesses. Businesses are formed in response to expected changes in the markets. Governments gradually add new laws and new taxes. Supply and demand seem to set market prices. When the system seems to be operating poorly, regulators step in, typically adjusting interest rates and the availability of debt.
One key to keeping the economy working well is the fact that those who are “consumers” closely overlap those who are “employees.” The consumers (= employees) need to be paid well enough, or they cannot purchase the goods and services made by the economy.
A less obvious key to keeping the economy working well is that the whole system needs to be growing. This is necessary so that there are enough goods and services available for the growing population. A growing economy is also needed so that debt can be repaid with interest, and so that pension obligations can be paid as promised.
World population has been growing year after year, but arable land stays close to constant. To provide enough food for this rising population, more intensive agriculture is required, often including irrigation, fertilizers, herbicides and pesticides.
Furthermore, an increasing amount of fresh water is needed, leading to a need for deeper wells and, in some places, desalination to supplement other water sources. All these additional efforts add energy usage, as well as costs.
In addition, mineral ores and energy supplies of all kinds tend to become depleted because the best resources are accessed first. This leaves the more expensive-to-extract resources for later.
The issues in Slide 11 are a continuation of the issues described on Slide 10. The result is that the cost of energy production eventually rises so much that its higher costs spill over into the cost of all other goods and services. Workers find that their paychecks are not high enough to cover the items they usually purchased in the past. Some poor people cannot even afford food and fresh water.
Increasing debt is helpful as an economy grows. A farmer can borrow money for seed to grow a crop, and he can repay the debt, once the crop has grown. Or an entrepreneur can finance a factory using debt.
On the consumer side, debt at a sufficiently low interest rate can be used to make the purchase of a home or vehicle affordable.
Central banks and others involved in the financial world figured out many years ago that if they manipulate interest rates and the availability of credit, they are generally able to get the economy to grow as fast as they would like.
It is hard for most people to imagine how much interest rates have varied over the last century. Back during the Great Depression of the 1930s and the early 1940s, interest rates were very close to zero. As large amounts of inexpensive energy were added to the economy in the post-World War II period, the world economy raced ahead. It was possible to hold back growth by raising interest rates.
Oil supply was constrained in the 1970s, but demand and prices kept rising. US Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volker is known for raising interest rates to unheard of heights (over 15%) with a peak in 1981 to end inflation brought on by high oil prices. This high inflation rate brought on a huge recession from which the economy eventually recovered, as the higher prices brought more oil supply online (Alaska, North Sea, and Mexico), and as substitution was made for some oil use. For example, home heating was moved away from burning oil; electricity-production was mostly moved from oil to nuclear, coal and natural gas.
Another thing that has helped the economy since 1981 has been the ability to stimulate demand by lowering interest rates, making monthly payments more affordable. In 2008, the US added Quantitative Easing as a way of further holding interest rates down. A huge debt bubble has thus been built up since 1981, as the world economy has increasingly been operated with an increasing amount of debt at ever-lower interest rates. (See 3-month and 10 year interest rates shown on Slide 14.) This cheap debt has allowed rapidly rising asset prices.
The world economy starts hitting major obstacles when energy supply stops growing faster than population because the supply of finished goods and services (such as new automobile, new homes, paved roads, and airplane trips for passengers) produced stops growing as rapidly as population. These obstacles take the form of affordability obstacles. The physics of the situation somehow causes the wages and wealth to be increasingly concentrated among the top 10% or 1%. Lower-paid individuals are increasingly left out. While goods are still produced, ever-fewer workers can afford more than basic necessities. Such a situation makes for unhappy workers.
World energy consumption per capita hit a peak in 2018 and began to slide in 2019, with an even bigger drop in 2020. With less energy consumption, world automobile sales began to slide in 2019 and fell even lower in 2020. Protests, often indirectly related to inadequate wages or benefits, became an increasing problem in 2019. The year 2020 is known for Covid-19 related shutdowns and flight cancellations, but the indirect effect was to reduce energy consumption by less travel and by broken supply lines leading to unavailable goods. Prices of fossil fuels dropped far too low for producers.
Governments tried to get their own economies growing by various techniques, including spending more than the tax revenue they took in, leading to a need for more government debt, and by Quantitative Easing, acting to hold down interest rates. The result was a big increase in the money supply in many countries. This increased money supply was often distributed to individual citizens as subsidies of various kinds.
The higher demand caused by this additional money tended to cause inflation. It tended to raise fossil fuel prices because the inexpensive-to-extract fuels have mostly been extracted. In the days of Paul Volker, more energy supply at a little higher price was available within a few years. This seems extremely unlikely today because of diminishing returns. The problem is that there is little new oil supply available unless prices can stay above at least $120 per barrel on a consistent basis, and prices this high, or higher, do not seem to be available.
Oil prices are not rising this high, even with all of the stimulus funds because of the physics-based wage disparity problem mentioned previously. Also, those with political power try to keep fuel prices down so that the standards of living of citizens will not fall. Because of these low oil prices, OPEC+ continues to make cuts in production. The existence of chronically low prices for fossil fuels is likely the reason why Russia behaves in as belligerent a manner as it does today.
Today, with rising interest rates and Quantitative Tightening instead of Quantitative Easing, a major concern is that the debt bubble that has grown since in 1981 will start to collapse. With falling debt levels, prices of assets, such as homes, farms, and shares of stock, can be expected to fall. Many borrowers will be unable to repay their loans.
If this combination of events occurs, deflation is a likely outcome because banks and pension funds are likely to fail. If, somehow, local governments are able to bail out banks and pension funds, then there is a substantial likelihood of local hyperinflation. In such a case, people will have huge quantities of money, but practically nothing available to buy. In either case, the world economy will shrink because of inadequate energy supply.
Most people have a “normalcy bias.” They assume that if economic growth has continued for a long time in the past, it necessarily will occur in the future. Yet, we all know that all dissipative structures somehow come to an end. Humans can come to an end in many ways: They can get hit by a car; they can catch an illness and succumb to it; they can die of old age; they can starve to death.
History tells us that economies nearly always collapse, usually over a period of years. Sometimes, population rises so high that the food production margin becomes tight; it becomes difficult to set aside enough food if the cycle of weather should turn for the worse. Thus, population drops when crops fail.
In the years leading up to collapse, it is common that the wages of ordinary citizens fall too low for them to be able to afford an adequate diet. In such a situation, epidemics can spread easily and kill many citizens. With so much poverty, it becomes impossible for governments to collect enough taxes to maintain services they have promised. Sometimes, nations lose at war because they cannot afford a suitable army. Very often, governmental debt becomes non-repayable.
The world economy today seems to be approaching some of the same bottlenecks that more local economies hit in the past.
The basic problem is that with inadequate energy supplies, the total quantity of goods and services provided by the economy must shrink. Thus, on average, people must become poorer. Most individual citizens, as well as most governments, will not be happy about this situation.
The situation becomes very much like the game of musical chairs. In this game, one chair at a time is removed. The players walk around the chairs while music plays. When the music stops, all participants grab for a chair. Someone gets left out. In the case of energy supplies, the stronger countries will try to push aside the weaker competitors.
Countries that understand the importance of adequate energy supplies recognize that Europe is relatively weak because of its dependence on imported fuel. However, Europe seems to be oblivious to its poor position, attempting to dictate to others how important it is to prevent climate change by eliminating fossil fuels. With this view, it can easily keep its high opinion of itself.
If we think about the musical chairs’ situation and not enough energy supplies to go around, everyone in the world (except Europe) would be better off if Europe were to be forced out of its high imports of fossil fuels. Russia could perhaps obtain higher energy export prices in Asia and the Far East. The whole situation becomes very strange. Europe tells itself it is cutting off imports to punish Russia. But, if Europe’s imports can remain very low, everyone else, from the US, to Russia, to China, to Japan would benefit.
The benefits of wind and solar energy are glorified in Europe, with people being led to believe that it would be easy to transition from fossil fuels, and perhaps leave nuclear, as well. The problem is that wind, solar, and even hydroelectric energy supply are very undependable. They cannot ever be ramped up to provide year-round heat. They are poorly adapted for agricultural use (except for sunshine helping crops grow).
Few people realize that the benefits that wind and solar provide are tiny. They cannot be depended on, so companies providing electricity need to maintain duplicate generating capacity. Wind and solar require far more transmission than fossil-fuel-generated electricity because the best sources are often far from population centers. When all costs are included (without subsidy), wind and solar electricity tend to be more expensive than fossil-fuel generated electricity. They are especially difficult to rely on in winter. Therefore, many people in Europe are concerned about possibly “freezing in the dark,” as soon as this winter.
There is no possibility of ever transitioning to a system that operates only on intermittent electricity with the population that Europe has today, or that the world has today. Wind turbines and solar panels are built and maintained using fossil fuel energy. Transmission lines cannot be maintained using intermittent electricity alone.
Basically, Europe must use very much less fossil fuel energy, for the long term. Citizens cannot assume that the war with Ukraine will soon be over, and everything will be back to the way it was several years ago. It is much more likely that the freeze-in-the-dark problem will be present every winter, from now on. In fact, European citizens might actually be happier if the climate would warm up a bit.
With this as background, there is a need to figure out how to use less energy without hurting lifestyles too badly. To some extent, changes from the Covid-19 shutdowns can be used, since these indirectly were ways of saving energy. Furthermore, if families can move in together, fewer buildings in total will need to be heated. Cooking can perhaps be done for larger groups at a time, saving on fuel.
If families can home-school their children, this saves both the energy for transportation to school and the energy for heating the school. If families can keep younger children at home, instead of sending them to daycare, this saves energy, as well.
A major issue that I do not point out directly in this presentation is the high energy cost of supporting the elderly in the lifestyles to which they have become accustomed. One issue is the huge amount and cost of healthcare. Another is the cost of separate residences. These costs can be reduced if the elderly can be persuaded to move in with family members, as was done in the past. Pension programs worldwide are running into financial difficulty now, with interest rates rising. Countries with large elderly populations are likely to be especially affected.
Besides conserving energy, the other thing people in Europe can do is attempt to understand the dynamics of our current situation. We are in a different world now, with not enough energy of the right kinds to go around.
The dynamics in a world of energy shortages are like those of the musical chairs’ game. We can expect more fighting. We cannot expect that countries that have been on our side in the past will necessarily be on our side in the future. It is more like being in an undeclared war with many participants.
Under ideal circumstances, Europe would be on good terms with energy exporters, even Russia. I suppose at this late date, nothing can be done.
A major issue is that if Europe attempts to hold down fossil fuel prices, the indirect result will be to reduce supply. Oil, natural gas and coal producers will all reduce supply before they will accept a price that they consider too low. Given the dependence of the world economy on energy supplies, especially fossil fuel energy supplies, this will make the situation worse, rather than better.
Wind and solar are not replacements for fossil fuels. They are made with fossil fuels. We don’t have the ability to store up solar energy from summer to winter. Wind is also too undependable, and battery capacity too low, to compensate for need for storage from season to season. Thus, without a growing supply of fossil fuels, it is impossible for today’s economy to continue in its current form.
We have a Sri Lankan couple staying with us who were back home visiting family last month.
They say things weren’t back to normal there e.g. you have to queue for petrol, but they definitely weren’t Mad Max.
So was it a “testing the limits” experiment? As Sri Lanka is more bankrupt than most, interesting how they got back into the game of Peak Oil musical chairs.
How do we follow along with Sri Lanka? How do we follow what is really happening there?
Sri Lanka recently received an IMF loan. This bailout give temporary respite.
Now if the UK and Switzerland and Japan and Germany could get IMF loans, along with perhaps Italy and France, perhaps things would be OK for a while.
it appears the Elders will not allow Mad Max to happen in any of the peripheral countries… they will allocate just enough energy to them to prevent collapse.
I’ve put the pop corn back into the cupboard… we will not be entertained.
Steiner saw it coming 100 years ago: “Austrian philosopher Rudolf Steiner predicted that vaccines would be used by the global elite to destroy people’s souls in order to leave them in a state of fear, helplessness, despair and anxiety.”
https://shiftfrequency.com/in-1917-rudolf-steiner-predicted-vaccines-will-destroy-peoples-souls/
How did he do that?
he made lots of predictions and a few panned out?
or, “the global elite” read his idea and thought it was good enough to give it a try?
cause and effect much more than clairvoyance?
Steiner was brilliant but he was also a new age kook. As is the author of the article. There is no literal vaccine against ‘spirituality.’ Obviously. Vaccines do both cause and amplify existibg disease, and disease is a monster headwind to putting your true, animist heart in the ecology.
The materialist vs anti-materialist dialectic is a false one of traditional vs new age religiosities. The truth is beyond that dialectic.
He was a master of sympathetic magic like many hunter gatherer cultures
He could intuit the simacrulum. Anyone can do it to some degree.
I’ve been wondering what you mean by simacrulum. I’m familiar with the word simulacrum but not simacrulum. If you mean simulacrum – that reality is some sort of (watered-down) simulation being simulated by some hyperreality then you’re barking up the wrong tree because there’s zero reasonable justification for that belief.
Cumulative biological evolution is nothing more than the cumulative intelligent reasonings of collective biology over 4B years or whatever. Reason simply emerges (is an emergent phenomenon) out of the intelligent patterning of ‘five-sense’ cause and effect in the ecology. The worm learned to best pattern its locomotion through the soil, for grazing purposes, by basing it on temperature gradients – by patterning cause and effect. There is zero basis in cause and effect, in Reason, to justify the belief that this is a simulation. But I’m all ears if you want to attempt to Reason it out for us.
Just because this reality is holographic (‘consciousness’/’spirit’ in animated symbiosis with energy) does not mean that the hologram(s) is some sort of projection emanating from a separate ‘spirit.’ That’s a dualistic, civilized religious belief. It’s a hierarchical, supremacist placement of ‘spirit’ born of the dark, scheming agricultural dominance of the human mind over the ecology.
Mind/spirit/consciousness is a nondual, emergent phenomenon of a nondual MindBody. There is no ‘materialism’ and there is no ‘anti-materialism.’ There’s only holism and the holistic holography of consciousness and energy in symbiosis.
Neither symbiont exists in separation in holographic reality. My contention (my reasoning) is that outside of holographic reality, consciousness is sourced in dark matter and energy in dark energy, but their is no hierarchy because holography requires both.
🙂
The period around 1917 was the time of peak coal in the UK. It was a very dark time for Europe, similar to the situation now.
Rudolf Steiner said the following, among other things:
The issue we have today is that what the government tells us increasingly diverges from the truth, based on science. Science finds itself in the need of additional funds. Politicians desperately want a happily ever after ending. It is easy to make such an ending if scientists are willing to put together models that leave out important aspected of how the economy actually behaves. The story of “COVID vaccines will save us” is only the latest incarnation of the way this works.
Way back when, people thought that they needed to work in order to have enough food and other necessities for their families. They thought that they needed children to help them in the fields and to help them in their old age. They thought that they needed religions of various kinds to give them a sense of order and a sense of how to behave toward one another.
As governments became stronger, they wanted to put together the myth that the only thing that people needed was to believe in is the state and its programs. The government, and its pensions and unemployment insurance will take care of you. The medical system will handle all of your health needs. We don’t really need fossil fuels. Our biggest worry is climate change, brought on by too much burning of fossil fuels.
Actually, our biggest problems are too many people and too much government. Many governments will collapse. Pensions cannot be paid because the resources to pay them are not there. Our healthcare system is very much dependent on globalization; most of it will disappear at the same time that international trade heads downward. Electricity cannot last much/any longer than fossil fuel. Electricity generation of all kinds is very much dependent on fossil fuels.
No one dared explain that the world’s good fortune could not possibly last. That is why we get to the period with conflicting versions of what is supposed to be truth.
Like I said, Steiner was a sharp cookie. If he was alive today he would have had good shot at putting it all together, as an animist, because he would have had a mature field of cultural anthropology available to his brilliant mind, but as it was, he didn’t.
It’s an illuminating quote: by including the humorous ‘slip of the tongue’ in “presumption,” he is ridiculing germ theory. Look again. 🙂
It must have been a trip back then, being a smart cookie and seeing it all play out. Kinda like today. He in the front end, us on the back end. He on the back end, us on the front end.
We are living in a complete fabrication that mimics a “real world”. We are living recurrent life sims that go back into deep antiquity. This phenomena has been known by elites and sages and inquisitive historians for a very long time. Our world is subject to recurrent cataclysms of varying degrees on a 138 year timeline. There have been at least 4 and perhaps many more planetary level cataclysms during the human tenure within the sphere of the reality engines. The Flood of Noah was one.
We are scheduled for another planetary level impact in 2040. Our science that manages to survive it will claim a solar micronova and lithospheric displacement
The reality is a preplanned reset driving humanity back into the Stone Age yet again.
My only real confusion other than the obvious WHY? Is, what was the energy source made available to the vast civilizations of South America 350,000 bp, or the sophisticated Vedic civilizations of 200,000 bp
What were they using for energy,..was it oil?
Jerichos walls were not built to keep out people,..they are massive….. were they using diesel loaders and heavy lift dirigibles? Or did they have antigravity tech?
The world is not what we think.
Appreciate you sharing further, Cromagnon. I would be asking myself WHY, too. I wouldn’t be too bothered about the which technology question myself though. You seen one abuse of power you seen em all.
Hey, Cromagnon, where do you place Ben Davidson in the matrix?
Davidson is a secular type A personality ( just like I used to be) who is very, very rapidly coming around to the same conclusions I did. He “ is correct” about much of the astronomical data just is struggling with the increasingly obvious perfect cyclicity ( too perfect) of these phenomena.
I had the simulation concept figured a long time ago. I was secular, then a reluctant mild convert to Norse paganism ( because the chaos inherent in Norse metaphysics seems to mirror “ reality”) then finally I had a discussion with Jason Breshears (archaix) and much became clear.
My surreal experience dealing with “old gods” was explained by Breshears onbservation of an intelligent and malignant AI operating within the confines of a much larger even more sophisticated neutral field similacrum/simacrulum
This is the demiurge. It is best not to interact with it. The larger construct can be manipulated slightly to advantage every time we possess avatars and central nervous system filters.
For secular, evolution minded folks I would just say,…..the vast majority of our DNA seems redundant and “ junk”.
It ain’t, we are much much much more than we think we are, both inside avatars and outside them.
At least a certain minority of humanity is.
Special shaman status to bypass those silly laws is a familiar human habit. Up the steps for a little advante gard cardial exploration. Demonstrating the law is malleable as mashed potatoes for the regime participants but hard as a rock for you now and then is always fun for those who pull the strings but sometimes you need a authority that supersedes law. Insertion of doctrinational training in both the medical and quasi psychological education systems has been significant for some time and recipients are taught their role in society is that of the all powerful shaman not just a technician. Those that buy in to this power structure create the shaman sub culture.
A Orwellian society needs laws but needs a structure outside of the law also. If laws are just circumvented than they lose meaning to the commoners other than the punishment and a large part of that control system is lost. Pretty much everyone including common law violators realize the law is necessary to function and to everyone’s benefit. In order to violate the law where they choose to blatantly disregard law en masse in regard to the commoners a shaman authority is required in order to not have the people rise up and demand the law be applied. A Enron stinks but something that effects the people directly is a entirely different matter. “trust the shaman”. The people are trained to accept shamans as authority so it supersedes their love of self evident value of law/order that allows them decent lives.
The political conflict we are witnessing now is one of shaman conditioning belief colliding with belief in law and order. Those that attended higher education really believe in their shaman authority. They have considerable ego and investment in their higher education that creates their own particular role. No different than someone who enrolls in the military they are not going to discard that investment and subculture easily. Where belief in law conflicts with shaman authority we see standards for subculture participation changing so that those that value law over shaman authority are excluded. Shaman authority is represented as a function of law even as it disregards it and people are unable to separate their innate knowledge that order is in their benefit from what is demanded.
Belief that models “work” is very much ingrained in those studying science.
The statement, “All models are wrong but some are useful,” is often attributed to British statistician George E. P. Box.
The simple model, “The future will be like the past,” is a simple model ingrained in everyone. Most of us don’t stop to think that in a finite world, nothing can go on indefinitely as it has in the past. Workers die or become disabled. Mineral ores become of ever-lower grade, when the best ones are used first. The climate has been changing, as far back as we can ascertain what the climate must have been like. For example, the Garden of Eden in Iraq must has been warm and wet, unlike it is today, at the time the Garden of Eden myth was created.
It is the fact that people believe that models are correct that seems to lead scientists and others astray. The people who put together the models don’t stop to think about the aspects that are being left out. They make assumptions that might be right in some cases, but are ridiculous over the long term.
The definition of shaman is truth teller. Truth telling requires seeing.
All shamans are seers but not all seers are shamans.
All shamans are doers because seeing is sequential. Do, see, do, see, do, see. You stop doing you stop seeing. You stop seeing you stop doing. Because reality is a nondual MindBody deal.
In high-functioning animist societies true seeing and doing was just part of the fabric of society. Wisdom was the operating system. It wasn’t until animist societies faced chronic ecological compaction that individualized shamanism emerged. This formal leadership became more necessary because the margins for ecological error were a lot smaller, and thus the stakes were higher. The creative tension between the urge to reproduce and the equally powerful urge to have one’s heart in the ecology was amplified. The animist society that found itself in a chronically compacted (with humans) ecology, due to no fault of its own, and remained high-functioning, was imo the highest expression of human culture that has ever existed. I’d give my right arm to live in such a society.
Perhaps. They can still be found. In whats wild thats left. bits and pieces. Countries that haven’t been open long.
I was in no way suggesting there are not things outside of what we perceive. There are and their are people who have knowledge. I still aint walking up the steps if I can help it.
Its very lonely to leave your simulcrom. I wasnt strong enough to pull it off.
Hi Gail. Driving home from a trip today enjoyed listening to your interview with Robert Bryce on the Power Hungry Broadcast. Thanks for your good work in its many forms!
You are welcome! I put up a link to that video here, a while ago.
This is a link to the video version.
Very nice to see you Gail.
Always interesting, thank you.
From Zerohedge:
Florida Official Warns: Thousands Of Flooded Electric Vehicles “At Risk Of Fire” After Hurricane
Someone brought that to my attention, last week. I wasn’t aware the fire hazards posed by EeeVee’s
Saw a lady sitting in her Volvo, plugged in as I drove in the station and gassed my car. Went in, purchased a few items, returned to my car and drove past her still sitting.
EV may be good for short trips, but it appears to me the life time cost will be huge as well as inconvenient in many cases.
Hybrids work moderately well, driving more slowly in a conventional, sensible vehicle works better and cheaper.
Done both, recently purchased a new hybrid just in case; not an entirely logical, financial decision.
Dennis L.
If battery materials are limited, hybrids extend oil supply much better than plug-in hybrids. This was shown to be true back in my days at The Oil Drum; I am sure it is equally true now.
There is a need for something different and new to save us, however. I think that that is the main attraction of plug-in EVs. The other attraction is the belief that wind turbines and solar panels can provide the world economy all of the electricity we need, with few problems.
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hahaha… exterminate everyone
There has always been an abundance of suckers in this world. The difference between the suckers of 1942 and those of 2022 is that the former had some redeeming virtues, such as courage, tenacity and a spirit of sacrifice.
Today’s young suckers are utterly useless, a sad bunch of disempowered cripples. But isn’t really their fault, since they are just the end product, inevitably decadent, of an era and a species in accelerated decline.
You might have Crohn’s disease, rheumatoid arthritis or lupus because your ancestor survived the Black Death, study says
A team examined ancient DNA from the bones of Black Death survivors and found four genes associated with modern disorders.
BY LAURA UNGAR AND THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
October 19, 2022 5:08 PM EDT
Our Medieval ancestors left us with a biological legacy: Genes that may have helped them survive the Black Death make us more susceptible to certain diseases today.
It’s a prime example of the way germs shape us over time, scientists say in a new study published Wednesday in the journal Nature.
They found that what helped people in Medieval times led to problems generations later — raising the frequency of mutations detrimental in modern times. Some of the same genetic variants identified as protective against the plague are associated with certain autoimmune disorders, such as Crohn’s disease, rheumatoid arthritis and lupus. In these sorts of diseases, the immune system that defends the body against disease and infection attacks the body’s own healthy tissues.
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All of this begs the question: Will the COVID-19 pandemic have a big impact on human evolution? Barreiro said he doesn’t think so because the death rate is so much lower and the majority of people who have died had already had children.
Snap reported – in addition to its huge net loss – that revenues rose only 6% year-over-year, the slowest ever. And it said the Q4 holiday shopping quarter, where advertising normally explodes, would look similarly dreary.
Snap is trying to make a go of augmented reality (AR) and calls itself a “camera company.” With its AR spectacles, users of its app can “reimagine” the reality around them, what they might look in this or that dress or whatever. The idea is that a retailer will work with Snap to allow AR users to try on clothes virtually, for example, and Snap would get paid for this form of advertising with various fees.
https://wolfstreet.com/2022/10/20/snap-makes-mess-afterhours-splatters-again-on-meta-pinterest-alphabet-online-advertising-in-the-holiday-quarter-oh-deary/
Glasses that make you look skinny when you are 50lbs overweight don’t make the skinny clothes fit though.
Any hope for fusion, or other wonderful techs, died on the day Kennedy chose not to launch nukes against USSR.
He read a stupid book called Guns of August. How misguided idiots like Princip, Galieni and Chucky Fitzclarence ruined the old world. So JFK did nothing and got shot the year after.
At that time the pop of the world was about 3.0bil. Asia 1.67B. Africa 285M. Latin America 149M. Total about 2.1Bil, 70% of the world.
Now, as of 2021, world pop 7.9B, Asia 4.9B, Lat. Am 434M, Africa 1.393M Total 6.73B, total 85%. (Mexico and central America are considered to be ‘North America” according to the sources I used here.)
The pop of the Third World increased by 4.63 billion and quite a lot of them are using smartphones now.
Some people are afraid of cow farts and believe they cause global warming . I am afraid of the increases of third world pop, whose resource usage has essentially killed any chance for a new civilization arising because they consumed all these essential resources humans needed for advancing civ.
“Any hope for fusion, or other wonderful techs, died on the day Kennedy chose not to launch nukes against USSR.”
So the world would have been a better place and we would have fusion by now if Kennedy had nuked the USSR? Well 10/10 for novel ideas.
If we get busy nuking stuff now will the world become a better place?
“If we get busy nuking stuff now will the world become a better place?”
We may be about to find out Fred and Kulm can be thankful that there appear to be no men like Kennedy left in western politics.
Imagine the confusion of the masses, if a well respected leader talked like this today
“I speak of peace because of the new face of war. Total war makes no sense in an age when great powers can maintain large and relatively invulnerable nuclear forces and refuse to surrender without resort to those forces. It makes no sense in an age when a single nuclear weapon contains almost ten times the explosive force delivered by all the allied air forces in the Second World War. It makes no sense in an age when the deadly poisons produced by a nuclear exchange would be carried by wind and water and soil and seed to the far corners of the globe and to generations yet unborn.”
https://peacecorpsworldwide.org/speech-on-peace-delivered-by-president-john-f-kennedy/
Five months after making that speech Kennedy was dead.
“We may be about to find out Fred and Kulm can be thankful that there appear to be no men like Kennedy left in western politics.”
And it seems, no men like Oleg Penkovsky either.
https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP75-00149R000600240016-6.pdf
“I am afraid of the increases of third world pop, whose resource usage has essentially killed any chance for a new civilization arising because they consumed all these essential resources humans needed for advancing civ.”
yes! awesome!
no advanced civ for you!
onward to the stars! hahahahaha.
overpopulated world bAU tonight, baby!
Because, you see nuclear fusion (or lack thereof) does not depend on the fact that two protons in contact with one another repel each other with a force equivalent to a 25 kg weight (250N). Had Kennedy stayed alive, he would have taken us to the singularity where we can create our own physics laws.
69 year old with no heart issues gets first Pfizer vax. Four weeks later, she has a heart attack and gets 6 stents put in.
Her doctor has been practicing medicine for 30 years. He’s never seen 6 stents in his career before the vaccines rolled out. Now he’s seen two cases of 6 stents. Before the vax, 3 was the max.
https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/69-year-old-with-no-heart-issues
ya but the vax saved 20m! It was 6.5m a few weeks ago … as the vax injuries increase they can increase that to say 2B? Or how about they claim everyone who has had at least 1 shot would have died so that’s nearly 6B lives saved!
Relax. It’s the after party.
“Dr. Fauci: These 2 new fast-spreading omicron Covid subvariants are pretty troublesome, BQ.1 and BQ.1.1”; of course Fauci, it’s the vaccine, stupid! NOT the virus; the VAX is causing the variants
https://palexander.substack.com/p/dr-fauci-these-2-new-fast-spreading
And you just wait till that one from the lab gets released!
(Comedonchisciotte)
Interview with Italian cardiologist Dr. Giuseppe Barbaro, Hospital-based medical director, specialist in internal medicine and cardiology at polyclinic hospital in Rome.
Please find here an excerpt of the interview about the main mRNA Covid vaccine adverse events, but these are ONLY about cardiovascular problems…
1. Increased blood pressure (average increase of 15-20% in 25-30% of vaccinated subjects) due to ACE-2 receptor blockade and reduced inactivation of angiotensin II and angiotensin II/angiotensin ratio 1,7;
2. Increased adrenergic activity related to chronic inflammatory state with increased risk of tachyarrhythmic manifestations especially in subjects with abnormal re-entry pathways or ventricular pre-excitation syndrome (WPW);
3. Direct activation by the spike protein of the anticoagulant protein S and platelets inducing, also by different mechanisms depending on the type of vaccine administered, to tromobocytopenic thrombosis and related cardiovascular complications (hemorrhagic manifestations, cerebral strokes, myocardial ischemia) with prevalent microcirculatory involvement. In the past year, a significant reduction in the average age of admission to coronary care unit has been observed, especially of vaccinated young people without specific comorbidities.
4. The specific action of the spike protein on the vessel endothelium and the development of antiendothelial antibodies (Gundry,Circulation 2021), is responsible for 11% to 25% acute coronary events and myopericarditis (direct and/or immune-mediated effect on myocardial tissue) with increased access to the Emergency Department, for cardiac problems, by 25% in vaccinated individuals younger than 40 years of age, as reported in Israel;
5. Systemic inflammation induced by the spike protein may cause stress cardiomyopathy (takotsubo syndrome) by activation of the adrenergic system (and hyperactivity of the subepicardial small vessels) and the hemocoagulative system;
6. Neuropathy of small nerve fibers (either immune-mediated or due to ischemia of vasa nervorum) due to involvement of the autonomic nervous system with associated alterations in heart rate and blood pressure (absence of respiratory phasic variability of heart rate,tachyarrhythmia and/or bradyarrhythmia up to asystole).
(DeepL translation)
https://comedonchisciotte.org/il-cardiologo-giuseppe-barbaro-il-cuore-dei-giovani-vaccinati-e-a-rischio/
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Hinting that they need to take up arms???
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Maybe the covid distraction got you distracted.
(Azgeopolitics + Voxnews)
”The Lithuanian military, under the cover of the “Iron Wolf 2022″ exercise, arrived at the border with Belarus with identification marks used by Belarusians and Russians.”
Those are not official news channels and they are often criticized, but it is also true that in the past they have reported news that appeared then to be real…
https://voxnews.info/2022/10/21/ad-un-passo-dalla-terza-guerra-mondiale-nato-ammassa-soldati-a-confine-biuelorusso-video/
https://twitter.com/AZgeopolitics/status/1583542122048733184
Are they opening a new front?
The Lithuanian military?
Where did they park their bicycles?
“COVID Rates Back Above 20% in Parts of Manhattan as Virus Rebounds”; but Vanden Bossche & I & others have been warning, as long as you mass vaccinate across multiple age-groups, into a pandemic using a non-sterilizing, non-neutralizing vaccine that induces antigen-specific, high-affinity vaccinal Abs that don’t stop infection like these, then natural selection will select for infectious variants
Two new COVID-19 variants that quietly emerged on the scene over the last few weeks — ones that Dr. Anthony Fauci has described as “pretty troublesome” — are becoming increasingly prevalent in the New York area and stoking fresh concerns as the nation braces for yet another potential winter surge, the latest CDC data shows.
https://palexander.substack.com/p/covid-rates-back-above-20-in-parts
Finally! A perpetual motion machine!
People get vaxxed — that drives more variants — people get boosted because they are afraid of the variants.. that drives more variants… people get boosted again … being afraid of the new variants… and so on forever.
All we need to do is harness the stupidity and we’d have free energy!
Falling down man video in China, falling down dead from COVID: did China also stage this video to spook & lie to the world to force lockdowns of US to damage the US economy? I say YES, 100%
China lied, with WHO & Fauci, to spook Trump, together with Birx, to coerce him to lockdown and damage the greatest economy the world had ever seen, & to topple him; they toppled him
Even more fake than the moon landings hahaha
https://palexander.substack.com/p/falling-down-man-video-in-china-falling
Fast Eddy, I have had COVID twice. I am not vaccinated. In both cases, it was like catching the flu. I decided against taking the vaccine after my wife took the first dose. It caused inner ear damage that made it difficult for her to walk for six months. Having had COVID once already and having natural immunity, I knew that taking the vaccine was not a good risk balance.
COVID is a lot like flu, in fact flu made me more ill in the past. But it is far far more contagious. In an average year, only a small percentage of the population will catch flu. In the UK, typical annual flu fatalities run into the low thousands. Mostly the elderly. Without the flu vaccine, there would be a lot more. COVID is far more contagious, will infect far more people and contrary to propaganda, there is no effective vaccine. Even a mild infection will kill a lot of elderly and sick, if it infects enough people. And COVID is one of the most infectious agents ever discovered. But these were mostly people who were not long for this world in any event.
In hindsight, the lockdowns were a terrible idea. Shutting people in their homes did bad things for metabolic health. And poor metabolic health is a strong driver of mortality with COVID.
Shock and Awe https://www.headsupster.com/forumthread?shortId=220
The worst part of it all was you had really safe and effective alternative treatments that were banned by those wanting to either play God or wanted to cull the herd.
If you want to kill off a virus pretty quick, you let it burn itself out via natural immunity. That’s what should have been done but Tony “motherf789er” Fauci wanted to play God and saw dollar signs. Now look at the Big Pharma industry. It’s now going to charge the US Gov’t $130 per dose. Multiply that by the tens of millions. It was a scam all along started by sinister Tony Fauci.
My Dear Mr. Cassidy, well why don’t we just call it ‘the flu’? After all none of us has heard the term ‘Covid’ before 2020, had we? Let’s have a laugh… before 2020 your sentence would go something like this: Fast Eddy, I have had the flu twice. I am not vaccinated. In both cases, it was like catching the flu. 🙂
The lockdowns were nothing to do with public health. They were perfect for their intended purpose.
On page 62 of the paper’s 68-page appendix, in Table S26, Moderna charts all the side effects reported in the trial, serious or not. The footnotes to the Table S26 contain this note:
“the other SAE [serious adverse event] considered related was new-onset Type 1 diabetes mellitus and diabetic ketoacidosis in a 1-year-old female reported 37 days post dose 2.”
i see 2 reasons to find this incredibly worrying.
this information was not disclosed nor considered in approving these drugs for kids. the PAPER in which it was buried was released 4 months AFTER the kiddos started getting jabbed. draw your own conclusions about process, safeguards, intention, and ethics therefrom.
type 1 diabetes is an auto-immune disease. your body attacks the beta cells in your pancreas and kills them rendering you unable to make insulin. like pretty much all auto-immune diseases, it has no cure and will last lifelong. it typically manifests around 13-14 years of age, but there is also an “early peak” in the 4-7 range. seeing it in a 1 year old is very rare.
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/moderna-trial-shows-type-1-diabetes
hahaha people are injecting this dog shit into their infants!!!
Then again humans built nuclear power plants knowing the spent fuel needed to be cooled forever.
‘Then again humans built nuclear power plants knowing the spent fuel needed to be cooled forever.’
Fast Eddy, spent nuclear fuel must be stored in fuel ponds until decay heat levels are low enough to allow dry cask storage. This is typically about one year, although the exact time required will depend upon the fuel burnup.
Wrong
Oh and btw dry casks are not infallible – they need to be closely monitored …
Don’t spent fuel rods need to be cooled and monitored for thousands of years?
This info is about as reliable as Fast Eddy’s other pronunciations. Spent rods need more than one year typically, but there are ways to shorten that. After that, they only need a dry place underground.
That’s in DelusiSTAN though… in the real world it’s at least 5 years…
Funny how they generally don’t bother … I suppose that’s cuz it’s $$$ + they know that in that 5 year window loads of new spent fuel is being dumped in the ponds – more than enough to kill anyone who survives UEP … so why bother
Plus they know that the casks need to be maintained and monitored – and Mad Max savages don’t know how to do that
Palisades in Covert, MI is being shut down as we speak, and spent fuel is being dry casked. I mentioned that before, but FE didn’t see or didn’t care. I guess if you don’t want to think spending the majority of your time raving about face ripping and feeling ecstatic about societal implosion (“I like to watch”) is pathetic and morally repulsive, you don’t want to hear things like that.
By the way, I have lived the Fast Eddy challenge for over a decade. I hew my own timbers and terraced 8 levels into a massive hillside with nothing but a pickaxe, shovel and rake this summer.
I am 47, and all 4 of my children have followed in my footsteps.
We live in a place where the face ripping hordes will be quite small, and we will take time out from singing Kumbaya to turn them into useful compost.
There are people in this world who stand a very good chance of surviving this bottleneck, and this world still has a reasonable chance of being liveable.
The 2008 NRC guideline calls for fuels to have spent at least five years in a storage pool before being moved to dry casks. The industry norm is about 10 years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_cask_storage
There’s always the alternative of just making stuff up … and assuming nobody will check
Dry casks need management as well ..
How are dry storage systems inspected?
Nondestructive examination (NDE) methods for the inspection of canisters already exist and have been used in the nuclear industry for decades. These NDE methods include visual testing (VT), Eddy current testing (ECT), and Ultrasonic testing (UT). ECT utilizes magnetic fields to identify cracks and defects. Similarly, UT utilizes sound waves as the method for detection. Together, the three methods can detect and characterize potential aging effects like localized corrosion. Methods to apply existing NDE techniques to stainless steel canisters have been developed, and currently are being tested by both the Electrical Power Research Institute (EPRI) and dry storage system manufacturers.
What can remote visual testing be used to detect?
Remote visual testing (RVT) is a nondestructive way to detect cracking, corrosion, wear and component failures. The ability of RVT methods to detect cracking was reviewed and documented in NUREG/CR-7246. Crack size was found to be an important feature that limits the detection of cracks by RVT. Very small cracks are harder to detect using RVT. Detection by RVT is also challenged when cracks are located in the proximity of surface features, such as grinding marks or weld ripples. RVT is still a viable inspection method despite its limitations. Because the detection of CISCC cracks on canisters using RVT could be challenging, the example aging management programs developed by NRC staff and aging management guidance developed by the Electrical Power Research Institute (EPRI) have relied on indications of localized corrosion, such as pitting, that can be reliably detected using visual testing methods
https://www.nrc.gov/waste/spent-fuel-storage/faqs.html#dry10
Eddy, you do not know anything about any of these things. Give it a rest. A lot of countries cut corners when it comes to this, and no one is worse off for it. Once buried, no one does ultrasonic testing, so long as they do not melt. Plus, when you have a minute look up ADS or ADTR for ways to rapidly burn long lived isotopes. I happen to have some cross field expertise and consider this quite doable with modest (and visible from here) accelerator advances.
Oh I see – this is like the moon landings and Uke war and ‘get the jab and you won’t get covid’ … we just make stuff up and expect everyone to believe it.
The 5 year thing is just made up … how about we just dump the rods on the ground and push some dirt over them…
Or better still we bust pieces off and gift wrap them and distribute them to homes in Europe to use for heating in the coming months!
Eddie, you are confusing US regulations with real life. Even hyper-PC Germany dumped barrels of waste in a salt mine and forgot about it.
Waste and spent fuel are different
The decay heat produced by spent fuel is the result of radioactive fission products decaying and releasing heat. If a light water reactor trips from full power, decay heat at that instant is about 7% of full power. After 1 week, it has declined to 0.2%. After 1 year, 0.03%, or 10kW/t. The fuel must remain in water until decay heat has declined enough such that radiated heat is a sufficient cooling mechanism without overheating the cladding. The amount of time will depend on fuel burnup. But typically, 1 year if dry cask storage is to be used.
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It’s good to pin down some of relevant the facts accurately. Thanks, Peter for trying to do that.
Even if the end of civilization comes at us like a thief in the night, there are going to be of “hot” spent fuel and not-yet-spent fuel rods laying around or in use at hundreds of nuclear power plants around the world, and any adults in charge should have a plan in place to keep them from overheating and contaminating the biosphere with high levels of dangerous radionuclides.
But Oregon will be safe…the easterly winds are stopped by the mountains.
Peter
The vast majority of spent fuel is in pools. My understanding is that most of these fuel pools are stuffed to the gills; almost as densely packed as reactors. And if the power goes out the water will boil off and the fallout from each pool will be worse than Chernobyl. That’s the general position of the union of concerned scientists. Do you disagree? If so, why?
All off the engineering supposed a centralized safe underground storage of the spent fuel. The ponds were and are short term solutions. The safe underground storage never got built. I will never understand why Harry Reid vetoed the proposed Nevada facility. We are left with a unsafe situation that no one seems to make a priority. Dry casking is also not a solution but its of course preferable. Only 25% of the spent fuel is dry casked.
So only the rods removed in the last year will burn up if water no longer encloses them? Thats supposed to be reassuring? We cant spare anything from the one trillion “defense” budget to create underground storage? Please explain to me why the situation is tolerable? I suspect the situation is because the power produced by the nuclear power plants is many times the cost of power from other sources if the cost of trying to mitigate the hazard of the waste is included. If the goverment steps in to secure the waste on its dime that the power is unaffordable becomes apparent. So we just keep on down a path that is completely unsafe everyone knows it and watches whatever their favorite cartoon is.
IMO the nuclear energy is just a scam to produce weapons material. Like we dont have enough. Please correct me if Im wrong.
What’s the problem? 5,000 years of 24×7 grid availability and the spent fuel issue goes away.
Dieoff Jay Hanson website gone RIP. Hopefully archived somewhere
A digital seed vault, somewhere in the Arctic, accessible only with digital currency. Isn’t that what killed us in the first place?
and someday all websites will be extinct.
Dieoff indeed.
Just two observations. First of all, also energy exporters have big and booming domestic problems, so they eventually can be forced to export at a low price for sometime. The second is the military solution: to invade producers; very dangerous as Iraq invasion demonstrate, but possible if desperate.
In the medium term (10-30 years?) the global economy will surely collapse and human population will start to degrovth. Until? Quien sabe?
I am not sure about the energy exporters with big and booming domestic problems being able to export at low prices for a long time.
We have Venezuela. It certainly has big and booming domestic problems. It needs a lot higher prices than are available. In fact, it needs a lot of help. If prices were any lower than they are now, they certainly would not produce their heavy oil.
We have Russia. It is a big exporter of coal, natural gas and oil. It is belligerent, right now. Russia has been forced to export at a low price for a long time. It is really unhappy with the situation.
Not selling energy cheep is a way of adding value to reserves in the future, that’s a type of tactic, Usually it only works until the weakest oil producer gets desperate. Things might be different this time, Consumers are desperate, supply is lower and broken, desperate producers have bleed dry by selling out cheep. Therefore used up produces can’t raise supply enough to effect standing conditions globally. For producers with good reserves and resolve future sales will be a grate counterweight to current depicts/debt. This is the game a foot now perhaps. You don’t need to blink first when you got sunglasses and the futures looking rosy.
Affordibility. There it is again. Fossil fuels and fiat currencies, oh, and voting, did stave off reality for a hundred years.
As the wolves return
On their property of sheep
Razor wire snapping
We can smell the burn
Of life getting steep
Jaco – You and all other analysis have it wrong. Iraq has been a huge success. Before invasion Iraq was a strong and growing economy set to consume 75% of their production of oil by now, nationalising their production, and pricing oil in other currencies. Now they are a failed state without reliable electricity and the US is still there in full control of the oil. Same as Libya, Syria, and working on control of Africa.
Look up “Export Land Model” but know that wikipedia is controlled info and not totally accurate and with no way to correct it.
Jef you are so right.
I remember people in “theoildrum” website talking about ELM (export land model).
What nobody dared suggest is that US govt will not just let it happen.
I have to hand it to the current US empire – unlike many previous empires they are really proactive about maintaining the status quo.
I wonder how many thousands of CIA novices scan this (and other websites) everyday to identify threats and come up with solutions.
Think about it – maybe we are contributing in part to the next war, invasion, pandemic or other psyop.
Isn’t that something?
Thankyou, Nomadic Beer for bringing up the LEM! I’m replying to you because Nafeez Ahmad of Byline Times put out an article just yesterday on this exact topic as applied to Brittain today. He said that he(sic) had uncovered the relationship between resource depletion and collapse and there was a roughly 15 year interval involved. Check it out.
“I wonder how many thousands of CIA novices scan this (and other websites) everyday to identify threats and come up with solutions.”
Like shadows the ghosts are everywhere and yes we unknowingly contribute.
Anyone fancy joining up?
https://youtu.be/VA4e0NqyYMw
Yep dead right. Saudis must be on the hit list too.
Lattice confinement fusion. An interesting technology to watch.
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20210026340
The promise of this technology is not so much as a stand alone energy source. The fusion reactions are driven by neutrons and it is highly unlikely that LTC could ever reach breakeven. But embedded in a nuclear reactor, LCF modules would function as neutron multiplier modules. Such modules would allow reactors to be fuelled with natural or even depleted uranium. Such reactors could achieve high fuel burnup and efficient fuel utilisation without needing enrichment or reprocessing. This could be a revolutionary development for nuclear power.
So let me get this straight. Two physicists, at Utah IIRC, invent cold fusion by squeezing deuterium and tritium into a palladium lattice. They then get vilified all over the press and repeated experiments fail to show any effect, and now NASA has patented it? A dump truck of salt is not sufficient for this.
Yeah, the cheek of it! For years cold water was poured all over Fleischmann and Pons’ work and now something very similar has been proven to work. In fairness, what NASA achieved was different. They bombarded the lattice with high energy electrons. But the scientific community was less than open minded about the work carried out in the late 80s. Careers were ruined by association with cold fusion. Scientific investigation should always be approached with an open mind.
Two chemists. I recall a part of this story was that because they weren’t physicists, that hindered their plight.
Semantic nazi here:
“hindered their plight.”
You mean hindered their success or worsened their plight.
thank you for the correction. still, the male cow byproduct index very high on this one.
It has been proven to work at a physical level. That does not mean that it will work as an energy source. The NASA research used an electron source to produce photoneutrons by splitting deuterium nuclei, which then transfer energy to deuterons. The deuterons then fuse with neighbouring deuterons.
This method may demonstrate the concept, but it has no hope of producing net energy. But in a nuclear reactor, with lots of free fission neutrons passing through the lattice, fission neutrons will impact the deuterons. If fusion reactions occur, they will produce more fast neutrons, increasing the neutron flux. Neutron multipler modules would allow fast reactors to operate using non-enriched fuel. That is a game changer for nuclear fission.
‘game changer’ Gets a bit trite after awhile
Sounds like techno fantasy to me.
You can’t build stuff like this in a collapsing economy, even if it works, which it probably doesn’t.
Heard of Helion’s materials, methods, and fusion approach?
It’s nicer, no naaaasty neutrons.
Hopetology reborn!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4GJtGpvE1sQ
I think fusion is like mass immigration. It looks nice, but it kills the core.
All the Metals We Mined in 2021
“If you can’t grow it, you have to mine it” is a famous saying that encapsulates the importance of minerals and metals in the modern world.
From every building we enter to every device we use, virtually everything around us contains some amount of metal.
The above infographic visualizes all 2.8 billion tonnes of metals mined in 2021 and highlights each metal’s largest end-use using data from the United States Geological Survey (USGS).
https://elements.visualcapitalist.com/all-the-metals-mined-in-2021/?utm_source=Visual+Capitalist+Infographics+%28All%29&utm_campaign=e566777f44-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2022_10_21&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_31b4d09e8a-e566777f44-45053570
The world’s material consumption has grown significantly over the last few decades, with growing economies and cities demanding more resources.
Global production of both iron ore and aluminum has more than tripled relative to the mid-1990s. Other metals, including copper and steel, have also seen significant consumption growth.
Today, economies are not only growing and urbanizing but also adopting mineral-intensive clean energy technologies, pointing towards further increases in metal production and consumption.
Good luck on this happening:
“Today, economies are not only growing and urbanizing but also adopting mineral-intensive clean energy technologies, pointing towards further increases in metal production and consumption.”
“The Authorities Are Our Enemies” by JHK https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/the-authorities-are-our-enemies/
Excerpt: “Welcome to the New Age, where authority has no authority and does not deserve to act with any authority, but will act as if it does, anyway, and then lie to you about it. Nowhere is this quandary more vivid than in the racketeering operation formerly known as medicine.
As if there has not already been enough official fuckery over the lab-birthed Covid-19 virus, the CDC’s Vaccine Advisory Committee voted on Thursday to add Pfizer’s and Moderna’s mRNA shots to its childhood vaccine schedule. The vote was 15 to 0 — a final supreme gesture of contempt for the people of this land.
Had none of the committee members seen reports of mRNA-vaccinated children dropping dead from myocarditis induced by the vaccines? Or read about the effect of the vaxxes on the reproductive organs? Or the enhanced incidence of cancer? Or heard about the damage that the shots instigate in human immune systems? If not, that would be astounding. The news is all over the place (if not in the mainstream news media). Was any of this discussed in their deliberations? I don’t think so, but we may never know.”
It is a strange world we live in.
The troubling thing in all of this is the DATA. There’s enough already available to at least ask questions regarding the safety aspect but nope, just ignore it all and full steam ahead.
What even makes less sense is that you are potentially hurting the new recruits who have to make a living to pay for us old farts with an upside down federal pension system.
“makes less sense” from the point of view of “old farts”.
I know we had this debate before but the only way to understand this situation is to put yourself in the shoes of psychopathic trillionaires that treat the world like their sandbox and people like their slaves (with good reason, most people DO behave like slaves).
We might not believe it’s possible to get rid of the slaves and have a fully automated psychopathic utopia – I sure don’t.
But in their world, everything is possible. They are able to bend people, government and whole societies to their will so they imagine they can do the same with the laws of physics.
As for Gail’s saying “complex systems behave in weird ways”, I am sorry but that’s just another way of saying “is God’s will” or “God works in mysterious ways”.
If it explains everything while predicting nothing – it’s worse than useless.
My hypothesis is very simple and has predictive power: Imagine you own the money printers in a world where most people will literally KILL OR DIE for $1000 dollars. Now run with it.
Spot on NormadicBeer, both on the casual narcissism of the conflation of manipulation of man with the control over natural laws and physics, and the other on the thought stopping cliches that people use as a cope rather than simply admit they don’t understand at all what’s going on. Post hoc dismissals as an anxiety sedating security blanket, much like the “all by design” mantra of Truthers and Libertarians who seem to conflate “explanation” with “telling myself a story that fits in with my over simplistic metanarrative”.
ya but 20m were saved! https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/were-20m-deaths-averted-due-to-the
Here’s an interesting short documentary complete with spectacular “savage earth” type scenes and NASA computer graphics, about the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcanic eruption that took place in January 2022.
Guess what NASA means in Hebrew,……lol
Says it all.
The world is not what you think it is.
Some references claim that NASA means “to deceive.”
It sort of reminds a person of the Chevy Nova, where “Nova” means “won’t go” in Spanish.
נסה means to try
in some translators it just means Nasa
NASA = No Astronauts Sent Aloft?
!!!
That’s likely what all the NASA engineers call it hahaha…
Interesting part of American Moon – the pro photographers mention they’d seen the moon photos many times over the years — but it did not occur to them to question where the lighting was coming from – given there was only one source of light and they admit not using the reflective screens…
As they point out — if the sun is at the back of the astronaut how is it possible to have both the fore and background lit??? The astronauts front would be dark….
This demonstrates the power of the mass formation … what would normally be immediately obvious to experts in the field .. is overlooked … because the mind has been convinced of a ‘truth’.
Look at this pc of junk – seriously???? hahahahahaha… yet people believe that made it to the moon – then flew back hahahaha… F789!!!!
https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/as16-113-18335sm.jpg
The volcano eruption was on an uninhabited island. How will this big ash cloud affect world? Claims indirect problem might be acid rain. I would wonder whether the world’s weather could be affected, making the weather less suitable for crops.
Island has only has existed since 2014. Eruption that year merged two islands that were close to each other.
The Adapt2030 channel has done some worthwhile reports on Tonga. Here in Australia there has been nothing but rain since the eruption and I mean many record breaking floods. To give you an idea- large river valleys up the coast of NSW have been flooded multiple homes; the govt has proposed buying back the housing due to the crisis.
No official news source to my knowledge is linking this to Tonga….doesn’t fit the narrative?
It has been quite dry in parts of the US. We keep reading about the Mississippi River being at an unusually low level. It is quite dry in the Atlanta, GA area where I live.
Yep I live in NSW and it’s done nothing but rain since the end of the drought 2 years ago.
Probably got a bit worse since the eruption and it’s certainly more cloudy even if it isn’t raining. Also got colder, this winter was a doozy and no proper spring so far.
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/traders-divert-europe-bound-diesel-us-race-re-stock-2022-10-14/
Disel is diverted from Europe to the U.S. because of shortages
Can US outbid Europe for diesel?
Barter – diesel for LNG.
Diesel Prices are rising fast.
good news!
no diesel is way worse than expensive diesel.
Inexpensive diesel guarantees no diesel later.
Below is a link to the 2015 US Quartenial energy review.
https://www.energy.gov/quadrennial-technology-review-2015-omnibus
Chapter 10 provides a set of tables detailing the quantity of different materials required for different energy technologies. One of the tables covers ICE, BEV and FCE passenger vehicles. Another covers different methods for generating electric power. Hopefully these will be useful in supporting future analyses.
The problem with any intermittent energy supply is that humans are rarely able or prepared to adapt energy demand to match supply. This means that in practice, a solar power plant ends up being a natural gas powerplant, with the solar power output displacing the NG plant when it is available. But the capital cost and operating cost of the NG plant must still be paid for. It must be manned and maintained even if it is not used. And the thermal stresses resulting from rapid cycling of power output may reduce its life. The only economic benefit to arise from the integration of intermittent renewable energy, is to reduce the fuel consumed in the NG plant. This is why adding intermittent electricity to a country’s grid usually pushes up the price of power.
Judging from the materials budgets shown in Chapter 10, the case for adding intermittent renewables to national grids is weak from an environmental perspective as well. The quantities of steel and concrete needed for low power density intermittent energy sources makes their environmental footprint considerable. They depend entirely on fossil fuels for their manufacture and assembly and only marginally reduce fossil fuel consumption by displacing natural gas consumption in the backup plant. Given the inadequacy of existing metal resources to the task of scaling up intermittent renewables, their sustainability and suitability for displacing fossil fuel energy supplies is questionable. We would do well looking at other options in the drive to reducing fossil fuel dependance.
I agree with you 100%.
Wind and solar, plus the huge amount of transmission that they require and the controls to keep their intermittent electricity from damaging the grid electricity, only replace natural gas, or perhaps coal.
There is a tendency of groups to claim that if the generating cost of wind or solar is equal or less than the retail price of electricity, wind or solar has reached “grid parity.” No way! Their costs, including all of their peripheral costs, need to be compared to the cost of the fuel they are replacing. In a few places that burn oil as their primary source of electricity (usually relatively small islands), it makes sense to try to offset some of the oil cost by adding wind or solar. But, in most of the world, it makes no sense at all.
Use solar/wind at source, no transmission costs/losses.
Small islands, drop the tourist costs; implies a population/energy usage adjustment.
Move manufacturing/smelting to space, give a uba to the world’s population.
Thought, there is very little basic innovation, the wealth disparity is secondary to too much skim.
Something is better than nothing.
Dennis L.
I suppose a bit sarcastic, not meant to be.
We depend entirely on fusion energy for our energy, it is intermittent in that a star needs to be formed, and eventually that battery literally blows up or expands and burns earth to nothing. It seems to be a universal law. Coal, etc. ultimately came from fusion, took a bit of time to charge.
Our, my goal is to take what is, what I can deal with and make the best use of it I can during my lifetime.
We see all of the problems, we humans adapt, we will deal with what comes; we are the best there is in the universe. So think of us God’s work in progress, He isn’t done with us yet.
Dennis L.
You are right about us being “God’s work in progress. He isn’t done with us yet,” in my opinion.
I see your point, Dennis. Life on Earth depends on a fairly constant inflow of energy from the Sun, which is the product of nuclear fusion.
However, it could be argued that stellar fusion is driven by gravitational contraction. The hydrogen won’t fuse if it just hangs out in diffuse clouds or in the interstellar voids.
Another source of energy many living things rely on is the tides, which are mediated by the force of gravity with no role for nuclear fusion. Billions and billions of years ago, as Carl Sagan should have put it if he held true to his caricature, the moon was much loser to the earth and the tides it raised must have been absolutely awesome, hundreds of meters high and moving around the planet much faster than they do today turning our planet into the equivalent of a huge wash tub.
Did these conditions help living things to evolve, or did they retard the evolution of any living things that were present? We just don’t know, but I guess we are free to speculate.
On the topic of magnetic confinement fusion, technology has advanced to the point where a number of groups around the world have now demonstrated stable plasmas with lifetimes of several minutes. The JET group based in Oxford, recently demonstrated breakeven. The problem is, to produce useful net energy given energy conversion inefficiencies, fusion plasma must generate at least 30 times as much energy as needed to sustain the plasma. This is not a near term prospect. And the limitations placed on plasma density by achievable magnetic field strength would make fusion reactors capital intensive, with huge low power density cores.
However, such reactors have now developed sufficiently to serve as neutron sources for fissile fuel breeding. The 14MeV fast neutrons released from De-T reactions will fast-fission 238U, releasing 3-4 additional neutrons in the process. A hybrid fusion reactor, with depleted or natural uranium blankets, will generate power through fission and would produce sufficient fissile material to fuel several additional light water nuclear reactors.
If a country wishes to build a nuclear power capacity and has difficulty sourcing fuel, this is definitely a technology that they could use.
Listen and weep.
Suzanna Newell went from triathlons, long distance biking, a full time job in Corporate America to needing a walker or a wheelchair to go more than 2 blocks after her second Pfizer shot. Since then she has been advocating for research of reactions and support for the vaccine injured with Minnesota Team Humanity and React19.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/3FM89N6zXVVU4RZb3E9Hic
Why not listen and laugh?
I am not mean but I think we should psychologically prepare for a world where death is commonplace (think of the plague or the witch hunts).
Like many people have said – we really need to increase our psychological resilience. Part of that is to return to normal human behavior: we care about family and friends and actively ignore the rest.
Did you cry about the many thousands killed by Ukr in Donbass?
What about the 500,000 kids killed in Iraq by USA?
I could go on.
The reason I enjoy Fast Eddy’s contributions here is because he is uninhibited. Most people even online are trying to be nice and polite – even to nazis and murderers (you know who you are). But Fast Eddy laughs at their plight which is the normal and expected human reaction.
So stop pretending to be Jesus and turn the other cheek – this will just encourage the evil.
As for the woman above – she took the jab out of fear, to fit in or following authority. Either way, she behaved like a slave, and slaves are expendable.
And Fast Eddy is the only one who would do such a thing…
https://www.mixcloud.com/fasteddynz/chemist/
‘The time for being polite … is over’ (FE TM 2022)
Ping ping ping calling Earth. Your sun’s being diverted starting 2424. Your Et advocates lost your endangered species case. The intergalactic eminent domain committee decided against Earth due to this exhibit.
But there should be ample time to build an Arc.
Ping ping ping out.
– Being an ancient dead king I was privy to this msg.
Ps my wife was kinda like her… stupid me.
“So stop pretending to be Jesus and turn the other cheek – this will just encourage the evil.”
Truth, right here. Universal law that our emasculated, beta-ised civilization doesn’t even have an instinct for anymore.
Thank you for your insightful, fearless truth speaking NB.
(Trasporto Europa)
”Container ships return to anchorage”
‘[…] Container shipping freight rates between Asia and Europe continue to fall, with some shipping lines returning to stop container ships to reduce ship hold supply”
https://www.trasportoeuropa.it/notizie/marittimo/le-portacontainer-tornano-alla-fonda/
(same issue as oil production. If prices go too low or also if one tries to control the price artificially (see EU), production will stop in order to avoid that producers will lose money)
The too-low-rates issue fixes oversupply fairly quickly, quite often.
Does anyone else notice something odd going on with the comments?
Not seeing comments posted or appear in the list leads paranoid people to believe they’ve been banned (as happens almost everywhere else these days).
Apologies for knee jerk reactions. There’s a war for our minds going on you know.
They do seem to come in waves sometimes, as though they’re held up or batched somehow, but I’m not sure what the underlying reason is.
I have to “approve” quite a few comments. I don’t do this when I am sleeping, or eating, or out on a walk, or getting groceries, or busy researching an idea that interests me. By the time I get around to it, there are often quite a few comments that need to be approved, all about the same time.
Being in that queue probably increases the chances that I will respond directly to your comment, so it is not all bad.
Appreciate the efforts you put in Gail. Very time consuming for you.
Thanks!
Looks like I’ve been banned by Gail for telling the truth.
Ooops! Everything’s working again. Looks like Gail is more lenient with the banhammer than I thought. Other bloggers would definitely be reaching for it by now!
Top docs like Lee Merritt have been demonetised on Substack simply for providing an alternative view of the situation. It’s sensitive. I get it. But it needs to happen somewhere.
Even so… I will refrain from mentioning youknowwhat here from now on. Gail has made it clear that that discussion should happen elsewhere.
Meanwhile… FE gets free reign reguritating propaganda from known shills.
People seem to like it.
And round and round it goes…
Until everything grinds to a halt.
FE = Mega Rock Star. He also gets bowls of red M&Ms + Smarties
I know it’s not fair — but it is .. what it is…
FE also gets a lot of his posts deleted.
And worst of all … HE doesn’t get the groopies that HE so desires..
I am sure M Fast has had a word with the Board of Directors of OFW and the thousands of emails that are sent to OFW with photos of Very Hot Hotties in slinky outfits with phone numbers and offers of tremendous opportunities.. are directed to the junk box.
So, we are only getting the edited highlights?
It’s a shame there isn’t an uncensored X-rated edition of the OFW comments especially for subscribers like me who never quite outgrew their adolescence. But if there was, I suppose WordPress might close down the site.
Thank you so much, Gail, for keeping FE relatively moderate while letting him continue to express himself with total abandon. I know you need to exercise a lot of patience and good judgement in order to do this, and it must be a lot of work for you as you don’t relish playing the censor.
Might I suggest that if there was democracy on OFW… all FE posts would be approved.
We have so little to look forward to in these days of tribulation.
Thank god Gail keeps us all in line. Thanks Gail! Love yah Eddy.
Think of the joy you are all missing out on… I transcribe all of FE’s material so I don’t get affected by the censors
Ioannidis: The median IFR for kids is just 0.0003%
If you kid gets COVID, the risk is 3 in 1 million that your child will die from COVID. And that is likely an over-estimate because today all early treatment protocols are suppressed worldwide.
https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/ioannidis-the-median-ifr-for-kids
And if a kid is not already deadly ill with cancer or some other terrible disease… the risk of death from covid is… ZERO. As in absolute 0.0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
This is news from two years ago, FE. And those who haven’t heard it yet, they suffer from voluntary deafness, also known as moronitis, which is a most serious and incurable neurological disease. In short, no use flogging a dead horse.
But flog it he must. Like a bot. Non stop.
This is all just the self-organising system taking care of things.
No bias, no prejudice. Just organisms selecting their fate based on a lack of knowledge.
And possessing that knowledge is a question of luck.
Being well read or knowledgable in other matters won’t save you.
Mistakes will be made by all at all levels in the coming years and many heads will hang in shame.
The physiology of loss will take care of the rest.
Whatever.
“At this point… what difference does it make?”
Just flush it and be done
Sudden kidney failure, RemDEATHivir, and hidden signals
https://coquindechien.substack.com/p/sudden-kidney-failure-remdeathivir
A healthy dude at 55 running around a basketball court chasing elite NBA players and yes he was vaxxed, which is mandatory by the NBA. Stage 4 pancreatic cancer. This is what silenced doctors have been warning about, an uptick in cancer cases from the Covid1984 shots.
“Tony Brown, veteran referee who worked NBA Finals, dies at 55”
https://nba.nbcsports.com/2022/10/20/tony-brown-veteran-referee-who-worked-nba-finals-dies-at-55/
Nobody will connect the dots… to do so would create mass anxiety in the fools who injected.
People are extremely fearful of dying… what’s the big deal? As long as there’s minimal suffering… cancer does suck – I bet there’s always a fair bit of pain involved.
Thus have we misinterpreted the mice bivalent and Boston chimera data? Are humans at vastly greater and serious risk relative to the studied mice that did not do well in the first place based on reports? The bivalent booster study and the Boston chimera study both failed and results were catastrophic, anyway you read it. But is it even far worse? Did we miss this study that will be discussed below, showing mice do tolerate the mRNA vaccine better than humans?
I am asking the question this way, implying if mice can tolerate the mRNA vaccine and the mRNA (and likely virus) much better than humans, then the results may actually indicate devastation for humans from the bivalent booster and Boston chimeric virus, above how poorly the mice responded in the studies. In other words if this is so, then the 8 mice bivalent booster findings (where the mice got sick) used to approve the EUA and the 80% mice mortality from the Boston chimera may be terrible and the tip of the iceberg.
Nothing is good about it and we may be reading the results wrong. The mice did not do well in either study, NO, the terrible performance of the mice may signal catastrophe for humans.
https://palexander.substack.com/p/of-mice-and-covid-mrna-vaccines-and/
Where’s my super fent? Just a dab on one’s arm and off to la la land
Has the CDC Finally Gone Too Far?
Mandating “Vaccines” for All Children is Suicide
https://markmcdonaldmd.substack.com/p/has-the-cdc-finally-gone-too-far
I expect that it will be local communities and started that mandate “vaccines” for all children. The CDC just adds the vaccines to their list of recommended vaccines.
Ron DeSantis says NO to mandatory Covid shots for school children in Florida. I also expect to see parents home schooling their kids. I guess the Drag Queens might be out of a job.
I’ve read that if they are not injected they cannot play sports etc… I suspect a lot of kids will be getting injected .. because life will be more convenient for them.
Do we any rumbling of a mass revolt from the parents… not so far.
Oh yeah, EV’s definitely have a future
“Very Difficult’: Electric Vehicle Owner Took 15 Hours To Drive 175 Miles“
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/very-difficult-electric-vehicle-owner-took-15-hours-drive-175-miles
The Green Groopies don’t mind — `they turn it into a game by betting to see if they’ll run out of juice before they make it to their destination … so much fun!
EVs – stooopidest idea ever!
What will be even funnier is when said moreons have to rely on intermittent solar and wind power to charge up their EeeVee’s. I can’t wait for that to happen.
It’s like owning a 2 and a half ton cell phone.
Yaay, 15 hours of virtue signaling! Make it longer Elon.
63k People Died Within 48 Days of Receiving a COVID Booster in England
Between January and March 2022
According to the O.N.S. In the UK, between January and March 2022, 62,801 people had sadly died within an average of 48 days after receiving a booster dose of the Covid-19 injection no later than 31st December 2021,
UK YELLOW CARD REPORTS
52,615 INJURIES (to include death) AFTER RECEIVING A BOOSTER SHOT MHRA LINK (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-vaccine-adverse-reactions/coronavirus-vaccine-summary-of-yellow-card-reporting)
SOURCE (https://expose-news.com/2022/10/20/63k-dead-7-weeks-covid-booster-england/)
Don’t take the shots. Got it. Now move on.
I know FE is preaching to the choir here.
In the real world I actually am disappointed because the true believers stopped taking the shots – I want them to keep doing until they get their reward in Heaven (praise Fauci!).
Here is wishing Norm and all the other “norms” out there a safe trip to the pharmacy for all their future shots – asap.
Ya – if someone tells me their not taking any more boosters I feel a twinge of disappointment…. it saps my Schadenfreude…
I need to start thinking of arguments to seed the ground with to push them to boost…
What we need is another fat round of PR with photos and videos of people dying from Covid… then I can say – did you hear about x… huge deaths.. seems their booster rates were way down … we can’t be complacent.. it’s not over
Would you like a ride to the clinic?
Why Are Some People Injured Or Killed By The C-19 Shot, While Others Seem To Be OK?
Sources:
Alexandra Latypova’s full presentation:
https://rumble.com/v1ooehm-alexandra-latypova-very-bad-manufacturing-processes-what-we-know-to-date.html
Liz Gunn’s interview with Lynda Wharton:
https://odysee.com/@FreeNZ:d/lynda-wharton:5
I doubt this idea. Perhaps it is controlled opposition. There are probably multiple risky ingredients in varying dosis. But we should always assume that the so called vaccines contain the ability to induce the spike-protein in the endothelial cells. And these create dangerous damages of the vessels. Now according to chance and individual differences the damage leads to sudden death or can be compensated. But that does not mean that longtime risks could be excluded. As Arne Burkhard has shown around some clusters of vaccination induced spike-proteins develop aneurysma. And these may lead to death within the next years. They are hard to diagnose and won’t show up in most death certificates.
It is a statistical problem. You cannot correlate damage and batch if you don’t have a tool to measure damage.
Of course I have all understanding for production problems. But this is failure by design. The spike-protein is the central idea of the concept. We cannot say hopefully the jab does not contain any damaging substances because it was not well produced or overheated during transport. Production problems do not make rat poison safer! The central idea is deadly, so deployment has to be stopped immediately. Unfortunately the majority has a masochist devotion. They say, Kill Bill wants to kill me because I am unworthy? Rip out my eye, tear my liver, cut out my heard! I can understand the fun but this has to stop or our states become failed states.
Aneurysms can be treated. We need screening programs and research. We need to get active and not say, hopefully there was nothing in my batch. Ask your doctor and your local politician to pay! Avoid a national desaster in some years!
We cannot compare these vaccination induced aneurysms to the usual ones. But those have a letality of 50%. Imagine 50% of the vaccinated population dies. Fun and coquetry is over!
I agree that it could be ‘controlled opposition’.
If one says like that it is better than lose everything:
”ok, we made mistakes in production,
but it happened for a good cause.
Because we were in a hurry.
Now we agree to compensate with money for that mistake (and then very little money will be given to people and there is no money to compensate for losing your life).
But now trust us !
The mRNA vaccines are safe !
Now you can take them !
We are producing them carefully !
Take them !
Enjoy !
…’Alexandra Latypova, a Ukrainian-born entrepreneur living in the United States’…
https://seemorerocks.is/latypova-dod-using-100s-of-pharma-to-scale-up-mass-genocide-against-americans/
One way to end the plague of “vaccine” injuries: delete the records—as they’re doing in Alberta!
Just as Canada’s “free press” has largely stopped reporting people “dying suddenly” (unless they’re famous), Alberta’s “health service” is now erasing ER records of the “vaccine”-injured
https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/one-way-to-end-the-plague-of-vaccine
https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa7d4cfc4-0639-4cf2-ba82-f3f11058901a_750x1624.jpeg
Watch: Bear attacks climber on mountain in Japan
1,883,351 views · 2 days ago
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=K6cr6M29zBE
Looking forward to forging in the forest with the other animals I come across after BAU ends…should be thrilling!
SITUATION CRITICAL: BofA WARNS Of Systemic “BREAKDOWN” Of Financial System.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XkZrCdUlEw4&t=17s
Gregory Mannarino is very alarmed and points out what he’s been warning about for a long, long time….be careful on what you for see in the future…it may come true!
Of course, this is not a surprise here at OFW where Gail also has pointed out that she expects a breakdown in the financial system to be the first crack…thank you Gail
I think that this is a major issue.
This is a link to the story ‘Fragile’ Treasury market is at risk of ‘large scale forced selling’ or surprise that leads to breakdown, BofA says
One paragraph of this article is
The policy of QT is pushing the system badly, in my opinion (but not in the article). There are pension plans around the world that cannot really be funded. (Also not mentioned in the article.) Raising interest rates tends to push down asset prices and lead to debt that cannot be repaid. Lots of things that can go wrong.
Good points….thank you
UKR’s energy system is collapsing – which is no surprise if it all gets bombed! Ask Germany about NS 1/2. Maybe Europe needs to blow up all of its energy infrastructure? Great plan – a bit like ‘sanctioning’ its major energy supplier.
EU is now complaining that US LNG is 4X the price of Russian gas and of limited supply. Go figure! The de-industrialisation of Europe is proceeding at pace, and winter #1 is coming.
The survival of UKR as an independent state may seem like a detail as time goes on. Harsh but, Europe makes its bed and it is going to have to lie in it.
> Ukraine Badly Defeated in Kherson, Russia Advances Kharkov; Putin Mobilises Russian Economy for War
It seems like Europe would have figured out long ago that there is little chance of getting a good supply of LNG at a low price from the US, or from anywhere else.
The war in Ukraine now is tipping in the direction of the Russian’s winning and the energy infrastructure being badly damaged. This won’t be a good outcome for the Ukrainians. NATO will be blamed for not doing enough, I suppose.
Gail, I have been following Military Summary Channel every single day for the past 210 days. Why? Once-in-a-lifetime chance to follow a WWii style conflict with modern communications. Something NATO has not allowed us for thirty years or so.
My Summary of the summary? This was meant to be over almost before it started..it was an economic war and NATO lost control. Bigtime.
IMO, Russia has enough materials and energy at hand to fight a fairly intensive war for the immediate and intermediate term, say 3-6 months, far more and longer than NATO and Ukraine can muster. As long as Russia gets revenues from its sale of NG and oil it won’t get too stressed on the home front. It needs this revenue to keep its economy stable. If it diverts too much to the Ukraine War, then it may back slide economically after 6 months or so. This could then result in a long protracted trench war of attrition.
So playing this rope-a-dope with Ukraine the past month or so, by withdawing when it realizes there will be a great cost at defending certain positions for the time being, thereby saving men and equipment while it extracts a 5 to 1 kill ratio of Ukranians, has set the Ukranians up for a swift defeat once the elections are over, the ground has frozen in Ukraine, and the 300,000 or so reservists are situated, rested, and well provisioned with ample munitions.
Meanwhile Ukraine through its NATO support, it appears, from several sources has depleted its best soldiers and equipment by fighting an offensive war for political reasons when Ukraine’s military strategy should have been to withdraw to defensible positons instead of wasting countless lives and equipment on banzai like attacks. NATO and the US are having difficulty keeping up with supplies of 155mm howitzers, HIMARS, planes etc. They have punched themselevs out. Kind of like Hitler’s last gasp Battle of the Bulge in the Ardennes. Once that failed, the exhausted depleted German army was powerless to stop the allied advance, and the Allies were in Berlin in 4 months.
‘Which is why my head hit the desk in despair when I read that the G7 are trying to impose a price cap on Russian Oil to “significantly reduce Russia’s main source of funding for its illegal war”.
It won’t because it isn’t the source of funding.
Let me explain.
From the point of view of a nation, the purpose of exports is to obtain imports. The West is refusing to supply Russia, and therefore the only reason Russia is continuing to export oil and gas is for political reasons – to curry and maintain favour in OPEC and the East. Again as I said back in February
[Russia] can demand that its exports are settled in roubles or simply stop exporting – since there is no longer anything on the other side worth importing.’?
https://new-wayland.com/blog/madness-of-clowns/
Pentagon knows all that too. There is a plan. They are not going to let Russia mop up and establish a perimeter. The games outcome is not desirable so game changer dead ahead.
101rst deploys to Romania. Im not saying thats the “game changer”. The game changer will be not something we probably dont even know about. 101rst deploying indicates this is far from over. Ala troop build ups in Saudi and Kuwait prior to Iraq. Troop build ups happen for a reason. Why do you think we left Afghanistan? Washington is smug. Theres a reason. Its not a bluff. Washington is going to up the ante. Its the bear hunt theyve wanted forever. They are happy.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/PQkceETCx4aA/
Some friends have the idea that Putin could use nuclear weapons on the annected territory to minimize the Ukrainian troups and create a “natural” barrier to protect Crimea. That would not be a threat to NATO if you accept the referendum. It would end the war immediately. Civilians are already evcuated.
The European industry does not have enough energy to produce heavy weapons for a longer war against Russia or China.
WIth the fall of Ukraine we will most probably see the end of NATO.
I think that in order to see some first signs from Europe to accept a negotiation with Russia, we will have to wait for people freezing in winter, difficulties in paying or even finding food in supermarkets, industries closing and people losing jobs.
Because EU politicians are even more stubbornly convinced now to go on with the current plan to face Russia with sanctions.
Unfortunately I’m on this side, but I think that the above could happen in 2/3 months.
Of course if no rabbit will come out from the hat (whatever hat…)
As it seems Saudi-Arabia has applied to become member of the BRICS. The BRICS want an own world currency.
We dont have to mention the danger for the financial system if the volume of business in dollar halfens? The rise in energy cost due to the revaluation of currency?
It means the European business model is over. What can Europe provide that the new BRICSS cannot? Eventually the European industry migrates to the BRICSS itself.
Europe cannot lead a large war, they don’t have enough energy. But how will the USA react?
Part of the building set-up for the deposing of the House of Saud. Russia gets Ukraine, US ‘gets’ Saudis Arabia (just a technicality really). NOPEC is in the works also. Here’s some background:
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/NOPEC-Bill-Would-Mean-The-End-Of-Aramco-And-OPEC-As-We-Know-Them.html
Next friday is Gheluvelt day, the day the greatest fuckup of history occurred, although it might be less bad than the fuckup Leopold Lojka committed (by delivering the Archduke in front of Princip – for which Lojka was awarded a pension by the Czech government, although every single relative of his was shot up after the incorporation of Czechia into Germany.)
https://warriors.co.uk/2014/10/28/gheluvelt-the-day-the-worcesters-saved-civilisation/
IT is not remembered too much outside of Worcester, England (not Worcester, MA, \) since by end of the war even the British high command realized Chucky Fitzclarence and his 200 (or 400, depending what sources are used) Worcestershires fucked up badly. No posthumous honors were given to Chucky’s descendants whose male line died out in early 2000s. His fuckup bankrupted the British Empire, led to wonderful people like Hussain Onyango Obama, who would have lived quietly in his village if he had not been conscripted into the Kings African Legion (a unit created to catch a rogue German general, Lettow Vorbeck, who was no more than a bandit by the end of 1914 but the Brits raised 500,000 Africans to catch him , creating 500,000 natives who tasted modern weaponry, organization and civilization, and eventually failed to accomplish its object – Lettow Vorbeck only showed up after the war ended).
the late Dr. Robert Firth praised them for ‘doing their duty’. And I said several times that if they didn’t do their duty and ran, we would have 6 billion less Third Worlders now, and we would not see people like Sunak, Kwarteng or Braverman aiming for 10 Downing Street.
The Worcesters actually built a park to commemorate these fuckups. Apparently they think commuting the most stupid act in history is something they are proud of. Well, honor their moronic ancestors until Worcestershire is renamed into some Hindu deity’s name.
Perhaps you are right, Kulm. But perhaps you are wrong. For historical accuracy the Sunaks and the Kwartengs or the Bravermans are way more capable and clever that the 100% british Truss. Perhaps if the Empire didn’t dabble with local genomes we’d have seen the evolutinary end of the brit high clases way back in late 18 or early 19 century.
“we would have 6 billion less Third Worlders now, and we would not see people like Sunak, Kwarteng or Braverman aiming for 10 Downing Street”.
Yep, if we had more white, visionary leaders like Liz Truss (recently outlasted by a 60p lettuce – https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/breaking-daily-star-lettuce-celebrates-28282527) we’d be in a much better place.
Kulm, have a little sympathy for the 200M Pakistani Third Worlders stranded on a flood pain and dependent upon imported gas. Shouldn’t we encourage them all to join their families in the UK and enjoy the bounteous welfare state there?
With Britain shitting on itself, I think it is time for the British govt to revoke a lot of useless noble titles and , as I have said a few times, demolish the statues of Nelson, Wellington, Arthur Harris, etc and dump them in some trash pit.
The Brits still revere these piece of shits who helped to destroy other Europeans and harm Western Civilization, and indirectly helped peoples from other continents who flooded United Kingdom and changed it into a bad way.
Getting lid of these trash would be the first stop for UK to enter modern age, and stop remaining in the Victorian Times.
The people you are talking about are long dead. Mother nature assasinated them for us. A nation needs its heros, even if those men were not always all that they are made out to be.
UK does not need ‘heroes’ who became famous for killing other Europeans anymore
Destroying their status and renaming Waterloo Bridge as Friendship Bridge, Trafalgar Square as something like Naval Memorial Square, etc is the first step of UK stopping to become a menace to Western Unity and entering a period of cooperation.
Kulmgoeswoke!
Your first idea would ruin both of these well-loved pop songs.
I would gladly barter Singularity for these two stupid songs.
The unanimous recommendation to add the vaccine to the annual schedule does not mandate the shots or preclude unvaccinated kids from attending school.
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/kids-covid-vaccine-cdc-group-says-add-vaccine-routine-immunization-sch-rcna53129
Look like the state calls it. Will blue states mandate? If so the migration south will continue with those that have means. I can tell you that once a shot gets added to the list its a big deal constituting not only a denial of the child to attend school but it is considered grounds for being a unfit parent. Desantis speaks.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/22OHWK0G1ejd/
At this point, a denial of the child to attend school seems like a mercy for the child. But of course, the unenlightened state will not stop at that. It will be suffer the little children and suffer the parents too.
I expect many potential parents are going to mark this down as just one more reason not to have any. If continued, this policy would lead over time to the steady elimination of many undesired human traits from the population—such as independence of mind, skepticism, health awareness, etc.—and the corresponding strengthening of dependence, conformism, mindlessness, and gullibility. So its obviously a winner for the authoritarians in charge.
And there was me thinking that mandates were romantic encounters for guys who are attracted to other guys.
It all comes down to the states surgeon general. Which is appointed by the governor. We will see. after the election. I think CA is a given for child injection.
Everyone I know with money already left for Florida. Shut down the business put the Ferrari in the moving van and bought some bathing suits.
Most will comply. I have a friend in this eternal parent court thing. She and her ex can only text through the court app and its all recorded. They have to go to court once a month and first thing judge Judy does is pull up the record see what they have been texting each other. Father three years behind on child support, unemployed- multiple arrests but she as a someone who hadnt injected her child with all the required substances she was worse. The father told the judge and then his stuff didnt matter. So she complied. Crazy yes? And this was pre covid. If your states surgeon general say your munchkin has to be injected with whatever and you dont they will make it hard. Those who are informed and have the means— Some of those will leave. There will be very few that dont comply or dont leave. Home school is just the start. Your not out of the woods with home school. Not even.
The article says:
People will home school their children, if they think that the vaccine mandate is too onerous. I expect that it will be mostly the Northeast and West that mandates the vaccine.
I notice this recent article:
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/pfizer-expects-price-covid-vaccine-110-130-per-dose-2022-10-20/
Pfizer expects to hike U.S. COVID vaccine price to $110-$130 per dose
I am guessing that that will cut back on usage of the vaccine.
Dear Gail,
Thank you for another well researched and well written piece. With all due respect, but I disagree with your conclusion – financial approaches CAN indeed fix the worlds economic problems!
How?
Simple. It has been done thousands of times in known history. It is actually the standard development path most economic systems follows: When debts get to big – just abandon them. Default. Bankruptcy. Game Over. New game.
The old “Debt Jubilee” every 50 years is just an illustration of what will happen anyhow trough self-organizing forces. Bernard Lietaer noted that the average life-cycle of currency systems is between 30-40 years before a “reset” of some kind happen by itself.
There are many examples of shifts from debt-based to gold-based when debt expansion collapses.
‘When debts get too big – just abandon them. Default. Bankruptcy. Game Over. New game.’
Yep, Hunger game. Eat the rich?
There is no surplus energy for a new game until humans get back nearer Net Zero; perhaps 500 million minions?
Yeah!
We abandon all debt because there is no future energy to repay the debt.
And then we will still have no future energy.
“The crisis now unfolding, however, is entirely different to the 1970s in one crucial respect… The 1970s crisis was largely artificial. When all is said and done, the oil shock was nothing more than the emerging OPEC cartel asserting its newfound leverage following the peak of continental US oil production. There was no shortage of oil any more than the three-day-week had been caused by coal shortages. What they did, perhaps, give us a glimpse of was what might happen in the event that our economies depleted our fossil fuel reserves before we had found a more versatile and energy-dense alternative. . . . That system has been on the life-support of quantitative easing and near zero interest rates ever since. Indeed, so perilous a state has the system been in since 2008, it was essential that the people who claim to be our leaders avoid doing anything so foolish as to lockdown the economy or launch an undeclared economic war on one of the world’s biggest commodity exporters . . .
And this is why the crisis we are beginning to experience will make the 1970s look like a golden age of peace and tranquility. . . . The sad reality though, is that our leaders – at least within the western empire – have bought into a vision of the future which cannot work without some new and yet-to-be-discovered high-density energy source (which rules out all of the so-called green technologies whose main purpose is to concentrate relatively weak and diffuse energy sources). . . . Even as we struggle to reimagine the 1970s in an attempt to understand the current situation, the only people on Earth today who can even begin to imagine the economic and social horrors that await western populations are the survivors of the 1980s famine in Ethiopia, the hyperinflation in 1990s Zimbabwe, or, ironically, the Russians who survived the collapse of the Soviet Union.”
https://consciousnessofsheep.co.uk/2022/07/01/bigger-than-you-can-imagine/
The way I see the 1970s, there was an excess of demand relative to the world oil supply available. US production started heading downward in 1971. Women were entering the workforce in large numbers, adding to the demand for cars and for fancier homes. Wages of US workers were being raised, so that people could keep up with the rising prices of fuel and food.
I am not sure about the situation in Europe at that time, but my impression was that it was doing pretty well, too. Russia and Cuba were also doing pretty well at that time.
World oil demand was rising, but with US production down, prices were spiking. I am doubtful that the OPEC cartel was all that important in the whole scenario.
It wasn’t until Federal Reserve Chairman Peter Volker raised interest rates in the period leading up to 1981 that demand was squeezed way back.
No time to find a link at the moment, but Jeff Snider and Emil Kalinowski have a video out suggesting that interest rates started coming down prior to Volker raising rates. The premise of their argument, I believe, is that the Fed isn’t as all-powerful as everyone likes to believe…
If I can find the link I’ll try to post it when I have a chance
Cheers,
-GBV
Emil Kalinowski has intriguing ideas on how the system really works. The map is not the territory.
Here is quite a dense video from a Russian intellectual about the topic of:
“Destroying the efficiency of capitalism”
https://www.bitchute.com/video/UvNDNb4o6MKh/
Capital aka means of production will morph into behaviroral management of the population. Call it rationing or social credit or whatever.
You can be sure that the conference mentioned in 2018 has no relevance here because the main topic “we” know of is much older…
“We just needed more consumers until we didn’t”
Back in the good old days, it was the local King or other local ruler that advanced the debt. The debt was not the basis of the financial system, so forgiving it did not cause a huge problem.
Also, I understand that in the case of the early Jewish people, the debt that was forgiving was only a subset of the total debt. It was the debt the agricultural debt that families owed. It wasn’t business-related debt.
Now, banks, pensions and insurance companies all depend upon debt to pay obligations that they have. If the debt is dissolved, so is the ability of the insurance companies to pay out the amounts it owes to claimants; the pension plans owe to pensioners; and the amounts that banks owe to depositors. Today’s whole system revolves around debt. If debt is dissolved, asset prices likely fall virtually to zero, because no one will be able to buy high-priced goods and services.
Oddys, one man’s debt is another man’s asset.
F789 ya! Exterminate! Exterminate! I don’t much like kids cuz they are nothing more than smaller versions of adult MORE-ONS usually with behavioural problems.
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/kids-covid-vaccine-cdc-group-says-add-vaccine-routine-immunization-sch-rcna53129
Purely to lock in indemnity against future prosecutions; hence the haste.
From Bossche
https://news.yahoo.com/the-next-us-covid-wave-is-coming-why-it-will-be-much-weirder-than-before-200044795.html
“Antiviral drugs largely retained potency but antibody sensitivity varied depending on several key BA.2.75-specific substitutions. TheBA.2.75 spike exhibited a profoundly higher affinity for its human receptor,ACE2. Additionally, the fusogenicity, growth efficiency in human alveolar epithelial cells, and intrinsic pathogenicity in hamsters of BA.2.75 were greater than those of BA.2. Our multilevel investigations suggest that BA.2.75acquired virological properties independent of BA.5, and the potential risk ofBA.2.75 to global health is greater than that of BA.5.”
https://www.cell.com/cell-host-microbe/fulltext/S1931-3128(22)00516-9?dgcid=raven_jbs_aip_email#relatedArticles
With Fall Migration, Bird Flu Flies Back into Town
But by all other measures, this year’s outbreak is “radically different than what we’ve seen before,” said Bryan Richards, the emerging disease coordinator at the National Wildlife Health Center, which is part of the U.S. GeologicalSurvey.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/11/health/avian-flu-birds-migration.html
Posts Mislead on Pfizer COVID Vaccine’s Impact on Transmission
“WhileRoos and many others framed this as a new revelation, Pfizer never claimed that its clinical trial, upon which the vaccine was authorized for use, evaluated the shot’s effect on transmission. In fact, shortly before the vaccine’s release, the company’s CEO emphasized that this was still being evaluated.”
https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-pfizer-transmission-european-parliament-950413863226
The first link says,
I don’t see anything from Bossche.
the article was on his newsletter
Billions of Crabs Disappear off the Face of The Earth | Food Shortage
Remarkable…..
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rVLK5Nz6j8E
Shocking report..another nail in BAU….and 2022 ain’t over…
Sounds disturbing!
Dr. Lee Merritt and Kate Dalley Expose the Rise of the Medical Technocracy
Dr. Lee Merritt breaks down the lies surounding our health issues.
She covers many of the misunderstandings that people have about contagion, viruses and lays out the true causes of disease.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/XSTmaLprdYVW/
Tim Morgan just recently wrote a very similar piece. We are definitely reaching the inflection point where reality has gotten too big to paper over. Great article Gail!
https://surplusenergyeconomics.wordpress.com/2022/10/19/242-the-dynamics-of-global-re-pricing/
‘But transactional activity can be inflated using monetary policies, and it’s perfectly possible for transactions to take place which add no economic value at all. This makes GDP a particularly poor metric for the measurement of prosperity in the economy.’
Ain’t that the truth; Govts have been masters of destroying value let alone adding no value.
Very good to read and thank you for the link…will share with a select few others!
Based on the principles outlined earlier, there are three things that we need to know. First, how much energy supply can we expect in the future?
Followed by lots of mumbo jumbo and graphs… ignore all that …
The answer is : ZERO.
Because humans will no longer exist.
There certainly is a lot of overlap between what Tim Morgan wrote and I wrote.
I can see some things that I wouldn’t say, such as:
“Transition to renewables is imperative, but there’s no guarantee that an economy based on wind-turbines, solar panels and batteries can be as large as the fossil-based economy of today. The probabilities are that it will be smaller.”
The situation is a lot worse that that. And he comes up with percentage changes by 2040 that don’t sound too bad.
But he can see a problem ahead too.
Tim is chronically over optimistic. I think he hopes to get mainstream acceptance and perhaps some sort of research commission, or think tank role.
Collapse? No way, it’s BAU or bust baby!
When you truly grasp how reliant everything is on diesel, you too tend to see how bad it is going to get, and that renewables can’t do much
ya but Tim thinks there is life after death …
Hopefully he is correct — humpty can be put back together — the injections are meant to cull the MORE-ONS… and Deagle nailed it.