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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.
Prepping us:
What are we looking at right now?
Not so much the steep crest of a clearly towering wave, but the foggy foot of a hill we don’t yet know the height of.
We do know that cases began to track upwards from about the start of October – climbing from fewer than 1000 to around 3000 now – and that these represent just a fraction of what’s spreading about our communities.
We also know that the make-up of Omicron subvariants helping drive transmission is changing, with detections of the emergent BA2.75 – nicknamed Centaurus – creeping up alongside a still-dominant BA.5, which fuelled our winter wave.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/covid-19-the-two-peak-scenarios-modellers-are-anticipating/IEM6DO3KU6EEAZOYP4KG3G7MB4/
The nickname ‘Centaurus’ is hilarious.
Analogy with storms, I suppose? So ‘serious’ it merits a name?
But really, are the morons of NZ still falling for this nonsense?
Let’s let a sum of moo-ore cruse ships into Picton (NZ), and the likes; full of active covi-transmitting-post-in-jecti-ists. History never repeats. In Picton you can literally get a voluntary job, ‘to be a smiling welcome ambassador’ greeting the hordes of incubators being released from their floating battery cages into the community, Welcome, Wonderful to greet you, Thank you for bringing all you’re friends. Yes the pharmacy ist in der Nahe, da drüben ober da, Oh, but the last boat load used up all the flu treatments, just make your way to the next town… Hello welcome to New Zealand, Good morning..
Nz Economy will die without you and your contributions, we’re running out of horse apples for our great leader to munch on.
…..even though it’s possible, it’s hard to (want to be) Buddist about it 🤣
That’s what opening the borders is all about — now that the MORE-ONS are jacked up on the mutation juice… you want them spreading those variants … far and wide.
As we attempt to create the Demon Covid.
Fed and BOE Prepare 75 Basis-Point Salvos on Inflation: Eco Week
US jobs data may show weakening; euro-area GDP seen slowing
Central banks from Australia to Norway likely to keep hiking
The Federal Reserve and the Bank of England may both unleash 75 basis-point interest-rate hikes in the coming days in a show of aggression toward inflation, even in the face of mounting recession risks.
The transatlantic double act illustrates the trade-off confronting central banks as evidence of an impending global economic contraction becomes harder to ignore, even as inflation lingers.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-29/fed-and-boe-prepare-75-basis-point-salvos-on-inflation-eco-week?srnd=premium-asia
This is like pushing on a sleeping deadly snake… then it wakes up pissed off and strikes you on the arm.
https://worldstopinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/SNAKES.jpg
There is an awfully long lead time before the effect of a rate increase becomes fully evident. Central banks can easily tighten for far too long.
Wolf Richter speaks to this issue regularly. Here’s a pertinent thread that shows his thinking re: potential ‘chaos’.
Wolf Richter
Oct 28, 2022 at 4:07 pm
It’s now rumors of a pause at 5% that is sparking a rally?? Hahahahaha. oh my how far we have come! A few months ago, it was rumors of a pause at 1.0% that sparked a rally. Blew right through that one with a 75 bpt hike. 5% is high. That is higher than I expected them to go. But yes, there are now quite a few observers out there that say that’s where the Fed will pause. A little while ago, I elevated my range for a pause, that I’ve had for a year, from 4% to a range between 4% and 5%.
Jackson Y
Oct 28, 2022 at 4:21 pm
Federal funds futures are currently projecting a peak FFR between 4.75-5.25% in Q1 2023, holding for a bit, then cutting rates by second-half 2023. I actually don’t have any issue with this policy path. 5.25% was the peak FFR before the 2007 financial crisis. It’s just unhealthy how the markets operate these days – it’s 100% dependent on the direction of Federal Reserve policy actions, rather than the underlying economy.
Depth Charge
Oct 28, 2022 at 6:46 pm
“5% is high.” With CPI running at close to 9%?
SocalJimObjects
Oct 28, 2022 at 7:13 pm
Wolf will be proven wrong. The Fed stopping at around 4 to 5 will only be true if there’s a major crash, say starting in Europe. What’s up with the SNB propping up Credit Suisse with swaps? Are they just priming for UBS to take over CS?
Wolf Richter
Oct 28, 2022 at 8:24 pm
You’re pointing at exactly the problem: it’s low compared to inflation; but it’s high compared to the debt that’s out there that was financed at very low rates and needs to be refinanced in the near future at much higher rates, and it’s high considering that these high prices are impossible with these higher rates. Markets are pretty good about sorting this kind of stuff out over time. But when it happens all at once, you have chaos. The idea is to hike without creating chaos. If there is chaos, the Fed is just going to start the insanity all over again.
There is really no good stopping point for raising interest rates. The economy needs zero or below interest rates to function, now.
Yes, yes…Let’s be saved by Zero!
The Fixx…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JOiZP8FS5Ww
The 1980s what a decade….
According to Moderna themselves: “serious adverse events” affected 1 in 200 toddlers. But they still concluded the mRNA vaccine was “safe in children.”
https://live2fightanotherday.substack.com/p/absence-of-myocarditis-surveilance/
norm — what would be considered unsafe… or downright dangerous?
Would it be 1 in 50? 1 in 10? 1 in 2?
Asking for mike
And do we have any long term studies? Babies tend to have many years ahead of them.. well they did.
If the AE’s can be treated and the poor little sods don’t die immediately, they call it ‘safe’ even if not ‘mild.’
All safety limits have seemingly been abolished, just what Fauci and his masters in DARPA dreamed of.
Perhaps children will be better of out of this satanic world which is being created? To be an experimental subject from birth…..
Xavier, that’s my sentiment 💯 exactly.
It is an obvious intentional deception and the corruption is across all aspects of societal avenues.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Om1qo8TEUOA&t=313s
It’s rather trying to tolerate it all..
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_UJyf8jCqJU
Makes one feel like these souls
CV19 Vax Destroys Hearts & Brains of Billions of People – Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi
https://usawatchdog.com/cv19-vax-destroys-hearts-brains-of-billions-of-people-dr-sucharit-bhakdi/
“World renowned microbiologist and virologist professor Sucharit Bhakdi MD has won many medical and scientific awards and has more than 300 peer reviewed research papers. Dr. Bhakdi was one of the first top global doctors to warn about the deadly and debilitating effects of the CV19 vax. He was right. Dr. Bhakdi says there is proof that if the injections reach the heart or the brain, they will be damaged beyond repair. Dr. Bhakdi brings up one autopsy that found this and explains, “In multiple parts of the brain in this deceased man, the doctor found the same thing. . . . He found the damned spike proteins in the smallest capillaries of the brain. . . There is no repair because what the doctor found was these small vessels were attacked by the immune system and destroyed.”
ya but given most people are not destroyed I don’t think the purpose of the injections is this … this is likely a side effect that impacts some people
Don’t get me wrong – I’d like to see a lot more people getting wrecked to feed my inner (and outer) Schadenfreude…
The first years of vaxxing have been, in many respects, one vast, cynical data-trawl.
As well as setting large numbers of people up with weakened hearts and damaged general health: the deaths are mere incidentals, which can also be spun as ‘Covid’ or ‘Long Covid’ and turned to advantage.
As I have suggested before, the real killing will start with CBDC’s and the closing of the digital control grid.
Sounds pretty awful!
Near the end of the video Greg asks the doctor if he has paid a price for speaking out….the doctor mentions that the German authorities have accused/charged him with anti-semitism….trial expected in March 2023…
Can any OFWers on the European mainland shed any further light on this?
So, Dr Bakhdi is due to stand trial for ‘anti-semitism’ in Germany in 2023.
I have watched – probably – all of his videos, and I cannot recall one word in them which could be so construed.
In my 70s I have no children of my own, but I depend on the children of others for deliveries and physically demanding tasks.
Well, slowly at first, maybe you could pursuade someone to lift you on to an immigrant, diversity and guilt and so on. There are programs for that you know, even carbon neutral. For the the carbon neutral there’s a minimal 3 pushups requirement though.
“All sentient beings are my children.”
—The Buddha
Hot Mic… hmmm… I wonder who came up with that strategy to control what people think – it’s very effective
https://t.me/TommyRobinsonNews/41166
Russia says that the UK did the terrorist attack today in the Black Sea, and the ‘grain deal’ to export grain out of UKR ports seems to be off. Food prices will likely shoot up around the world.
Also says that UK was also behind the terrorist attack on NS 1/2. NATO will obviously claim that Russia blew up its own pipes. Russia ought to show the world the evidence.
> Crimea attack. Russia MoD claims UK behind Nord Stream. Pirate cash for Serbia. EU warns Elon.
The British government seem to be really bad people. They appear to be puppets whose real purpose is to draw attention away from the shadow government that really run the place from behind the scenes. Britain is controlled by a kind of real life Specter, with men like George Soros and Lord Levy pulling it’s strings like puppet masters beyond the eye of the public. The real British government hates the British people. It is doing everything it can to undermine their rights. It has used terror legislation to create a secret police force. It has criminalised speech. And it has created one of the most sophisticated surveilance systems in the world to root out and bully anyone that does swallow woke multicultural values. The people that run Britain are not British. They hate the British people.
Do I believe that a shadow government that does all of this, could sabotage Europe’s energy supply and deliberately aggrevate global food shortages just to put more pressure on the Russians? In a heart beat. Britain is run by a globalist and largely Jewish deep state shadow government. These people got into the position they hold by being utterly ruthless and without conscience. Their interest is in bringing the goyim to heel. And if they have to freeze and starve a few hundred million of them to bring the Russian goyim to heel, so be it so far as they are concerned.
/////Britain is run by a globalist and largely Jewish deep state shadow government./////
eye rolling time again
Your eye rolling is a trained Pavlovian response.
i drool too
When you see SSS?
I barf.
standard obsession eddy?
I like my certainties regularly reinforced
it helps me a lot
norm doesn’t have a dog … that says a lot.
A portuguese saying:
Casa sem cão nem gato, casa de velhaco
(Home without a cat or dog, home of a rogue)
Home without a pet makes one a nasty old fool (NOF).
yep
i took up roguery after my dog and 2 cats died a few years ago
makes old age more interesting
but of course—it might be the thought that one might eventually leave pets to be looked after, which is not a good idea.
do try to think in a broader perspective—you do yourself no favours by such (amusing) shallowness, wallowing in the wake of others.
You sure you didn’t off them cuz you read on the BBC that they could spread covid?
one doesn’t read ON the BBC
one listens TO the BBC eddy
Do try to get it right.
this week the BBC are running a daily prog about conspironuts, pity you can’t listen to it, all about nutcases insisting this or that ‘never happened’.. all about your fave people–crisis actors.
you’d love it
“but of course—it might be the thought that one might eventually leave pets to be looked after, which is not a good idea.”
Quite true Norman. Dogs come with responsibility. Plus it is a expense if things are tight. Perishing because one is a pauper is bearable ones dog perishing because you are a pauper is not. A good solution is to volunteer at the shelter. You get doggy time. You have not one dog but 50.
if there’s one aspect of OFW i do enjoy, it’s watching a fellow inmate leap eagerly into the abyss of conclusion.
however
I can see one benefit of working at the dog shelter, the necessary shit stirring there would be of more benefit to the incumbents, than the same activity which seems to be an essential part of the doings on OFW Why, I cannot imagine, other than to further to logic of the conspiratorium.
(check the OFW archives, pre 2015.)
“I can see one benefit of working at the dog shelter, the necessary shit stirring there would be of more benefit to the incumbents, than the same activity which seems to be an essential part of the doings on OFW Why, I cannot imagine, other than to further to logic of the conspiratorium.
(check the OFW archives, pre 2015.)”
Jeez Norman loosen up. If you havnt noticed things change.
SING! SING! For your supper!
“Largely Jewish”?
And there was me thinking they were largely shape-shifting reptilians from the Planet Saturn.
The UK does have quite a few problems, but I doubt that this is a good summary of them. The laws of physics seem to allow/encourage things to work together in strange ways, when there aren’t enough goods and services to go around. It is always tempting to find scapegoats, but I believe that it is the underlying problem of too many people for resources that is causing the basic problem.
Like many other Ape’nations, the UK is running out of energy, resources and services, while having lots of debt and un-needed consumers, which makes their leaders desperate. (especially the cat at 10 Downing, who’s more experienced than most) Their elites do have a habit of starting wars, then ‘partitioning things’ afterwards, during scarcity events. Wars are a bit risky when there’s energy scarcity, it’s easier to downsize.
Anyway, at times like ours, (on the cusps of a civilisational architectural, paradigm shift or collapse) delinquents act to insure the world burns. When they’re not benefiting themselves, and because they’re not (benefiting) right now, we see this behaviour from many groups.
Not every human being on the face of the planet that happens to be Jewish or British is involved in some evil plan to take over the world, it’s more a scrap over resources, who gets to remain, and who gets the blame. It’s a human club effort. We’re dependent on FF and so we’re all contributing to the current Ape shit underway.
I am pretty sure, there’d be more Jews, Brits and Other people, particularly younger, who’d rather be part of a secret society going around organising parties if you want to start a club and we had the resources.
Law of the jungle for Apes. I like to think of chimps for this.
Rule 1: ‘Food seems to magically appears in the jungle’
Rule 2: There are no rules’
Rule 3: ‘Never go full ape, you might stand on one and..,
Rule 4: ‘There are no rules’
Rule 5: ‘Who dares wins’
Rule 6: ‘Stand on an Ape, you never know you’re luck’
Rule 7: ‘Blame another Ape’
Rule 8: ‘Never burn the Jungle’
Rule 9: When there’s too many Apes, burn down the Jungle’
Rule 10: Not getting your way? Do random stuff’ be an Ape’
Ape Options:
Option 1: Dominate by physical power, aggression, numbers.
Option 2: Be submissive, but remain in a troop
Option 3: Run away (outcast usually means death)
Option 4: Gang up on weak (kill and eat other apes /troops)
Option 5: Use technology (sticks and rocks)
Option 6: Passive aggression (pee in drinking water)
Option 7: Get accepted by a bigger troop (or get killed)
Option 8: Store/Hide food (good idea)
Option 9: Plant trees (not many think of it)
Option 10: Become A Buddhist Ape (Highly recommended)
The rot in Britain started in WW1, with the creation of an all-powerful bureaucracy ruling through propaganda and enjoying unlimited war powers, and it’s never been the same since.
Until then, government was small.
Jews have nothing much to do with it. They are much more powerful in the US.
The UK hit peak coal in 1914
Good analysis from Diima.
https://rumble.com/v1qibdl-ukraine.-military-summary-and-analysis-29.10.2022.html
@ 20:30 the reporter indicates that there is a blood drive and Russia is soliciting blood donors. That is an alert that an escalation is imminent. Meanwhile, my daughter is actively and relentlessly being requested to donate blood at NC State to alleviate blood “shortages” here domestically in the state. Offering $70.00. Last time she donated, she passed out afterwards. As I am sure they keep records, they are aware she has never been vaxxed, has a confirmed PCR test and more telling has presence of COVID antibodies still in her blood after contracting COVID in August 2021. And apparently, they don’t screen for presence of spike proteins or specifically for those donors who have been vaxxed although I would think they have records of this for donors, but they may be intentionally not making this an official screening requirement precluding donation to enable this medical Ponzi scheme of spreading the spike protein disease through repeated vaccinations through tainted blood donations. Yeah, I am that cynical. Something is not quite right. Speaking of donating blood….
One of my favorite songs was broken down by Simon Philips: “Give Blood” My comments are under my name H Zilla.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZmWj_HetZ4
“Give love and keep blood between brothers.”
H Zilla
1 day ago
Fantastic song. Thanks ever so much for posting this. Pete has the unique blend of cynicism, anger, disgust for politics and the music industry, yet a hidden corner of humanity tucked away beneath our notice, and too complicated for us to appreciate. Just my gut impression. This is an intense song, one that I have longed to see broken down on the drum kit. And Pino Paladino’s fretless bass guitar work really came together made this an outstanding song. Oh yeah, the base double drum and the double flam off “Rocket.” Loved it, but didn’t know its origin. And just to be able to finish the song with alternating kicks makes learning them all worthwhile.
Imagine the billions FE could make from selling HIS blood… and don’t get me going about FE sperm bank… I’ve been on him about this but the thing is HE does not care about $$$… I keep saying ya but what about me? What about me????
i imagine they would sell your sperm one at a time
Fast Eddy Sperm bank. You must be making money hand over fist.
sorry Peter
but the visual of hand over fist linked to eddys sperm bank, splattered my screen with laughter debris.
I don’t think Freud ever made such a perfect slip
(Rai news)
”Kiev: 4 Russian warships hit in Sevastopol.
Russian Defense Ministry: British specialists involved in Sevastopol attack.
Moscow suspends agreement on grain exports.”
https://www.rainews.it/maratona/2022/10/live-guerra-in-ucraina-la-cronaca-minuto-per-minuto-giorno-248-31cc155f-a1c0-4250-a06d-6c67e77f525b.html
Doesn’t sound good!
(Il messaggero)
‘Seoul, 50 people in cardiac arrest on Halloween night’
(and 81 people with difficulty of breathing)
https://www.ilmessaggero.it/mondo/halloween_arresto_cardiaco_seul_corea_del_sud_festa_folla_cosa_e_successo-7020427.html
One has to wonder if this was a test run for 7G.
I guess the excitement was too much for their vax damaged hearts…
It’s an CPR orgy!
https://t.me/leaklive/10001
https://t.me/leaklive/10006
The “bodies” looked mannequins. No bruises or blood. Photos looked photoshopped
Hmmm… look at the first video last 10 seconds – the guy with black mask pulled down…
He is doing CPR…. on the person’s thighs….
https://wmcresearch.substack.com/p/absolute-bafflement-great-concern
Only whom Reante calls “Made Men”, those with a stake in society (land, mansions, sizable stakes in companies) will be treated as humans, the rest back to treated like dirt. However, a lot of the ‘Made Men’ will not be what the Made Man meant in 1913. IT will include a lot of faces who would have not been allowed to walk around in public spaces in the West back then.
The Brits and Americans thought colored rulers were easier to deal with than the pesky European monarchs who were seasoned in the way of diplomacy. So all the control of resources fell into the local rulers who were indeed easy to deal with at first.
But their scions attended Western Universities where they never felt they belonged there, and these type of elites, which few Western intellectuals had paid attention to, became uppity and are now demanding their share.
Xi Jinping, who was nobody back then, spent 2 weeks in Iowa to learn about ‘Real’ America, which left a big, big impression on him. Ho Chi Minh had swept snow in New York back in 1912. A lot of leaders who are now becoming uppity to the West now had studied in USA , UK and Canada.
And now they want to become like the Western elites.
Sending Lawrence of Arabia to meet the local Sheik eventually led to the Oil Shocks. He was homosexual and left no descendants, but he is one of the great criminals against civilization. If he failed we would have had no oil shocks in 1970s and the sheiks’ descendants will still be driving camels, instead of building a bullshit city in the middle of desert.
This colossal Western failure to see the future and limit the growth of Third World Power is the greatest mistake of Western foreign policy. It always seemed to be a good idea, but…
Some morons say “Hindsight is 20/20”. But if they ever had any ability to learn from past trends, such as Herman who studied in Rome and inflicting its greatest defeat at Teutoberg , they would have thought twice before arming the local rulers who had ambitions.
Massive Protest By Czechs Targets Russia Sanctions, High Prices
Fed up with soaring food, energy and housing costs, tens of thousands of Czech protestors railed against their government on Friday, demanding the resignation of conservative Prime Minister Petr Fiala’s government, withdrawal from NATO and the negotiation of gas purchases from Russia.
“This is a new national revival and its goal is for the Czech Republic to be independent,” said organizer Ladislav Vrabel. “When I see a full square, no one can stop this.”
The protests occurred both in the capital city of Prague as well as the second-largest Czech city of Brno. Organized under the slogan of “Czech Republic First,” the demonstrations drew their strength from both the left and right wings of Czech politics.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/massive-protest-czechs-targets-russia-sanctions-high-prices
The Czechs are far enough away from the centers of influence in Europe that they can say what they really think. They also have some coal deposits, I believe. The current “punish Russia” story doesn’t really hold up very well, if a country stops to think through the real situation.
Warmongers, another protester was quoted as saying. Whose word is that? 🙂
Darkest Days of Winter Have Finland Bracing for Blackouts
(Bloomberg) — In the dead of winter, Finland can be a miserable place. Temperatures often dip below -20C, and in the darkest months of the year, Helsinki gets less than six hours of light a day.
To fight the elements, Finland has become the most energy-intensive economy in the EU. But with winter approaching, the country is bracing for rolling blackouts, planned in response to Russian energy cuts. Although Russian energy only made up a small fraction of Finland’s total supply, its loss threatens to have a huge impact, and Finns are being forced to choose between bad options.
If the planned outages don’t take place, said Arto Pahkin, a network operations manager at Fingrid Oyj, which oversees the country’s electricity grid, there would a national large-scale disruption and “people could die.”
Finland is at the sharp end of Europe’s energy crisis. In May, Russia stopped selling the country electricity and gas as evident retaliation for its opposition to the war in Ukraine and decision to join NATO. While countries across the region are bracing for a difficult winter, Finland is especially at risk as a loss of energy could expose residents to threatening conditions in a matter of hours.
At the same time, perhaps no country is better prepared to deal with the consequences if the power stays off.
For years, the defense ministry has published booklets about what to do in the event of a power failure, advising people to keep battery-operated radios at home, along with enough food, water and medical supplies to last 72 hours. Even before the war in Ukraine, an estimated third of Finnish citizens had these supplies on hand.
Mervi Pirttikoski-Takala, an accountant who lives in the Helsinki metropolitan area, said she is already cutting back on electricity use by turning off her underfloor heating when it isn’t needed.
“We have added extra carpets on the floors and purchased flashlights,” said the 53-year-old, noting that the cold is “a small trouble” compared to what Ukrainians are going through.
What’s happening now is the culmination of years of planning. In September 2014, officials cut power to 70,000 people in the Arctic town of Rovaniemi to see how an abrupt, large-scale power failures would play out in real life. The exercise was designed to let authorities practice a so-called blackstart, in which the power system is brought back up without any help from imported energy. According to Pahkin, who participated in the activity, it was a wake-up call, prompting authorities to overhaul their approach.
Had that not happened, “we’d be in dire straits,” he said. Training exercises have been regularly scheduled ever since, with the most recent held this September in Helsinki.
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/darkest-days-of-winter-have-finland-bracing-for-blackouts-1.1839014
I need to see proof that Russia is not providing electricity to Finland… It’s just that I’ve caught Bloomberg lying so many times in the past I can’t help it.
Guya and girls (2 genders only please), I have one really morenoic question.. I thought Finland is supposed to be one of the best supplied country in terms on electricity (nuclear powered).now they have black outs? How about other European countries that are not that well supplied?
Everything is a lie so how does one find the truth? Hint – not possible – you have to guess
Finland is not having blackouts due to the energycrisis.
Finland has electricity use of 81 TWh
10% of that electricity was bought earlier from Russia.
But that slice of the pie was already lost due to “payment difficulties” during the summer. That slice is no longer there..
Olkiluoto3 nuclear will be 1600MWh when it finally comes online without further delays and difficulties.
The other nuclears are 2800MWh combined.
When all nuclears are up and running, they will be producing about 40% of all electricity use. Nuclear is a good electricity provider, because it is reliably online 24/7.
Now the problems in the electricity markets are the intermittent wind and solar. Wind max. 3300MWh. But historically provides only about 10% of all electricity use. The problem is.. that the wind isnt blowing all the time. Therefore when wind isnt blowing (if cheap electricity cant be bought abroads) all other electricity use in the country must be dialled down. The main way of dialling down electricity use, is to have factories schedule their production times accordingly. Factories constitute a whopping 40-45% of all electricity use. But due to inflation pressures, all factories can not shift dayshifts in to nightshifts as fast as these adjustments are needed (read: final product is +30% more expensive), and the missing few percentages, must be filled in from private households..
Earlier.. electricity was cheap and abundant.
Not the case any longer
Now a baseload of electricity is there, for sure.. but adjustments need to be made..
factories must plan their workschedules..
Inflation pressures, of the final products, needs to through all the way to the end consumers
And for good measure.. private households need to be thought how to save electricity..
But blackouts.. nope..
The reason Finland had high imports of energyrelated goods from Russia, was raw oil imports. Finland has big oil refineries that provide Germany, among others, with finnished petroleum products. Now the refineries must find a way to buy Norwegian oil for continued exports of finished goods to Germany. But these imports have nothing to do with energy-electricity..
Finland has a lot of problems waiting to become apparent. Winter is the time when energy shortages are most likely to manifest themselves. Electricity is much more tightly linked to fossil fuel supply than most people would expect. The intermittency of wind is something that cannot be worked around in today’s modern economy. Factories cannot open for an hour or two at a time, when wind is available. People cannot suddenly change their child care arrangements.
Y’all will!
Official UK-wide winter energy blackout times pinpointed in worse case scenario
According to the emergency code from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: “If a prolonged electricity shortage affects a specific region, or the whole country, electricity rationing may be necessary.
“The Electricity Supply Emergency Code (ESEC) outlines the process for ensuring fair distribution nationally while still protecting those who require special treatment, using a process known as ‘rota disconnections’.”
The emergency code explains that each of the UK’s 14 electricity distribution networks are divided into 18 load blocks — each of which is given an alphabetical identifier (A, B, C, etc.).
Accordingly, every household on the network is given a block letter based on their relevant point of connection into the power grid. This information can often be found on your electricity bill — if not, your energy supplier should be able to tell you on request.
In the event of a planned blackout, each block will take it in turns to be temporarily disconnected from the grid, reducing the overall load on our power networks.
Your household’s letter will therefore determine at what times you might expect to experience temporary blackouts, should such become necessary.
Were blackouts needed to be orchestrated, households would be notified at least a day in advance of the planned disruption to their electricity supply.
According to the documents, each day of the week is split into eight three-hour periods in which a localised blackout might be planned — with the first running from 12.30am through to 3.30am.
On top of this, the emergency code also defines 18 different planned levels of severity, with level one being the least disruptive and level 18 the point where all supplies are cut off.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1688370/official-uk-wide-winter-energy-crisis-blackout-times-government-documents-science-news-la
Prepping for the Global Holodomor … they worked out that the misery of cold homes makes the mob docile… they cover up with blankets and watch the bbc for updates on when the food vans will finally call at their location.
Freeze ’em – Starve ’em. Then hit them with Super Fent.
They say nah I’m no gonna off myself.. I’m a fighter… I’ll deal with it… false bravado… and delusion.
That will all change when reality arrives
How ‘Blitz’!
Tuning in on our battery radios to get reassuring bulletins from the ‘trusted’ BBC, or a national address by some idiot of the Windsor family.
Excess deaths from cold and depression will cover up vaxx-deaths and strokes rather nicely, too. Strokes do go up in low temperatures, after all…..
Bye by granny, can’t save you this time around!
My response in that situation would be to buy about 6 Kwh of battery storage and a 2Kw inverter.
Charge the batteries when the grid is up.
Sell tickets to your neighbours (#) to use the internet or charge their phone.
The teenagers and woketsers will be clamouring.
Disclaimers;
# some neighbourhoods may not be appropriate venues.
This is merely a gimmick.
Consult your local authorities for permision.o\
Lastcall does not give out prepping advice.
Everyone should be aware the blackouts are safe and effective cos your Govt knows best.
Crime wave anyone?
We would well served to throw out the term “inflation” as it no longer has any meaning and probably never did.
There are two main reasons for the price of things to go up and they are diametrically opposed to each other.
1 – The general economy has too much money. Everyone in the economy has tons of money. This triggers a bidding up of prices or competition to acquire goods and services which there are plenty of. This what used to be called inflation and is “fixed” by taking money out of the economy by all means.
2 – There are constraints/shortages of energy, goods, and services, occasionally none are available even. This triggers competitive scrambling for what little is available. It also triggers unemployment, poverty, and business closures, which triggers more shortages, unemployment, poverty and so on. TPTB “fix” this problem using the only tools they have by taking money out of the economy by all means.
TPTB can print trillions a day but unless it goes to the 99% of the people of the general economy it does not produce “inflation”. IMO the thinking was that giving trillions to the 1% would cover for the fact that energy and therefor everything was getting more expensive. This would cover that extra expense and keep the economy humming along. But as we all know you can’t print energy.
#2 can be solved by reducing the number of people trying to acquire the remaining energy, goods, and services which is exactly what is happening they just can say that out loud so they call it “fixing inflation”. We call it CEP!
This is still when we had a half honest society. Now you are not allowed to goo against what TPTB want you to do and say.
https://www.history.com/news/extra-strength-tylenol-poisonings-1982?utm_source=pocket-newtab
“How the 1982 Tylenol Poisonings Nearly Canceled Halloween”
Wow! That was 40 years ago. There have been other scares in between as well. Now, kids are increasingly being told to do their trick or treating only in settings like church parking lots or other places that have been temporarily set up to provide candy to children in costumes. Sometimes stores will give out candy to children for a brief period.
Priests think exposing themselves to young boys is a good trick though
https://www.tno.nl/en/newsroom/2022/10/breakthrough-electrolyser-development/
We’ve shown that the technology works in the lab, but we need to continue developing it to improve its lifespan, efficiency, and our capacity to produce it at scale.
With limited fossil fuels, any type of technology becomes more expensive/difficult to implement. Supply chains from around are almost always required. People don’t understand this when they set up their analyses.
They have developed a way to stretch supplies of the rare metal iridium further in electrolysers used for production of hydrogen.
However the new versions with low iridium are only one third as effective as the old ones. It sounds a bit like Tesla’s new battery which had twice the capacity of the old ones but was also twice the size.
I wonder what will happen if all those in Twitter jail are released. …… (especially so just before midterms)
We will find out. A lot of people have already voted, however, either through “early voting” or absentee ballots. These folks cannot be affected.
NY Harbor ULSD (diesel) ends the week at 4.4598 a 20 year high
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FgPPJg1XoAAPEjL?format=jpg&name=large
I have noticed that diesel prices are far higher than gasoline prices in the Atlanta area. I expect that this is the case up and down the East Coast. Voters notice the gasoline prices more than the diesel prices, so they are less alarmed by high diesel prices than high diesel prices.
Except diesel is what makes the supply chain work. I don’t see too many gas powered big rig trucks on the road.
I’ll keep on repeating yada yada yada…
this is good news; high priced diesel is far better than no diesel.
high prices in theeeeory should bring in more supply to NY harbor.
When I wrote a check last week for my heating fuel, the retail price was $5.53. By the time they delivered it yesterday, it was $5.60!
US diesel spreads:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FgO_kSaXgAAjyjK?format=jpg&name=medium
ICE Gasoil in Europe is not far behind:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FgO_ns2XEAY1DIT?format=jpg&name=medium
A crack spread is the spread created in commodity markets by purchasing oil futures and offsetting the position by selling gasoline and heating oil futures.
Thus, the high diesel and high gasohol prices mean that customers really want more diesel (or a similar product, gasoil) more than crude oil itself. It encourages refiners to find more diesel supply somehow, perhaps by importing more heavy oil to refine to get diesel.
“We have recently covered how this winter is not the issue for Europe. Russian gas flows since the Ukrainian invasion have actually been decent, which allowed Europe to partly frontload the supply. This will save the winter of 2022, but what about next year and the year after? A semi-permanent GDP shock is likely due to the lack of energy resources, . . .
The increase in energy costs from 2019 to 2022 is around 5-7% of GDP depending on the country. This is not sustainable without a loss of private sector wealth. It is as simple as that. We are going to get poorer in Europe due to this energy crisis.“
https://andreassteno.substack.com/p/steno-signals-16-a-semi-permanent
Exactly! Less energy supply makes a poorer economy, one way or another.
Have you tried the following mantras? They help some people feel better about the future:
* More people means more creativity and ability to solve global problems.
* We don’t need to grow energy production to grow the economy.
* Efficiency gains will allow everyone to live like the first world.
* Despite the news hysteria, war and violence are at the lowest levels they’ve ever been on a per-capita basis.
* Humanity always rises to the occasion when time get tough.
I wonder what war footage (that which is neither censored nor outright propaganda) we will see of the Russian and Ukraine war if goes on through the winter. Poor bastards on both sides being played so badly by NATO and US. God help them.
I guess I’ve been watching too msny of the Russian-Finnish Winter War of 1939 or Stalingrad videos.
“* Humanity always rises to the occasion when time get tough.”
People often repeat this mantra, but Jared Diamond in his book Collapse talks about how historically society has collapsed 26 times already…so obviously humanity doesn’t always rise to the occasion..
The more inane the mantra, the more fun it is to bleat it
“* More people means more creativity and ability to solve global problems.”
Wasn’t that ‘first mentioned’ in Mary Poppins?
Hahaha… seems to me … innovation by the MOREONS got us to where we are.. on the verge of extinction.
“The quantity of metal required to make just one generation of renewable tech units to replace fossil fuels, is much larger than first thought. Current mining production of these metals is not even close to meeting demand. Current reported mineral reserves are also not enough in size.”?
The video by Simon Michaux is good.
Simon has wasted so much time and effort on this report — the thing is … They know that there will be no transition … this is all about convincing the mob that there will be a transition ..
It’s about feeding the mob hopium to drown out despair that would go along with the realization that we are f789ed.
Surely the new laws banning all non EV vehicles by 2035 would tip Simon off?
You have to wonder when the incompetence v. malfeasance verdict becomes self evident.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pY3_jAubHeI
Has this been published here yet?
(A vote for incompetence, at least at the mid-to-upper-mid-level)
“Lauren Gray Gilstrap, MD, MPH (Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH), an advanced heart disease and cardiac transplant physician and researcher, died October 21, 2022, at age 38. …on top of being the consummate clinician[, s]he went on to become a top-notch health services investigator and heart failure expert”(!!!)
https://www.tctmd.com/news/lauren-gray-gilstrap-heart-failure-and-transplant-expert-dies-38
You have to be jabbed to work at this hospital.
If this former expert did not take out a million-dollar insurance policy before the jab, I venture to say she wasn’t a real expert. And so good riddance. Death to all impostors!
Does anyone know anyone who died or was hospitalized with covid? Anyone under 75?
I don’t.
I know plenty who have been damaged by the vax though.
Malone says;
The whole thing covid and injection is owned by the CIA.
The understanding of Biowarfare is so rudimentary now its inevitable.
They are desperate to be able to protect the military so they are experimenting to find solutions.
This was a terrible solution.
So the threat really doesnt need to match the solution. The whole thing was about the solution. And as long as youve got the mother of all test groups might as well get some trans humanism research done? (me not malone) Malone knows a lot. They compartmentalize knowledge for a reason. I like Malone. He is quite brave. His understanding is of course one of the true insights we have on what is occurring. He may not know the whole picture only the part of the research that is his specialty. I am somewhat confident that trans humanism is part of this. Malone says the injections are a terrible solution. A terrible solution for a generic biowarfare antidote. Not such a terrible solution for other types of research. They are not incompetent. Every single honest person in the field has questioned why such a inappropriate technology as a counter to biowarfare was deployed. To my caveman mind its simple. The technology rolled out was not soley for bioweapon antidote. I even question if Malone is correct at all, that bioweapon research was not the goal but transhumanism.
Norm aside there going to need to release a bad mofo now to get people to participate in further experimentation. I even question if Norm is getting his jabs. Hes not all that stupid. Still the loyal will line up for the next phase. Even if they get 10% participation of phase 1 its still a hell of a experimental research group. Im doing my part as a control group participant! They call that human group zero. HAH!
i am touched by your concern
rant not
87—and I seem to be outliving my doctors. Not that I know who they are these days. They certainly don’t know me.
The nurses at the booster clinic know you – ‘here he comes again’
well—at least they dont barricade the doors and call security
Pelosi and the male prostitute hahaha https://t.me/TexasLindsay/632
NEW ZEALAND COVID DEATHS BY VACCINATION STATUS…
The latest MoH data on Covid deaths shows that 53% of the New Zealand population are boosted but account for 71% of Covid deaths, whereas 16% are unvaccinated and account for just 12% of deaths.
https://hatchardreport.com/open-letter-to-new-zealand-mps-october-29-2022/
YALE ANNOUNCES A NEW VAX INITIATIVE…. “PRIME AND SPIKE”
This time it’s up your nose
https://news.yale.edu/2022/10/27/prime-and-spike-nasal-vaccine-strategy-helps-combat-covid
An expert technical specialist, but neither a good physician nor, sadly for her, and her family, a wise, or even just cautious, person.
Medicine is stuffed with them.
Just obeying mandates and following protocols: all cut to one obedient pattern in medical school.
I see that Dr Mc Cullough has finally been struck off and disabled from exercising his profession.
Ya and good for her – I hope she suffered
Michaux makes the point, in a glancing way, the system will need to be smaller. His data also makes the point that mining can not be a part of any permanent system. Great talk.
So he’s aligned with Tim Morgan?
Both are wrong. A smaller system is not possible.
A smaller, simpler system may very well be possible. Going back to hunting-gathering in parts of the world would be smaller, simpler systems.
I don’t think that’s what they have in mind…
And even if they did… spent fuel ponds put an end to those dreams
Tim Morgan appears to think that a ‘simplified’ and ‘de-layered’ industrial system is feasible, wisely guided by politicians if only they’d wake up and realise that growth is dead.
Rapid, indeed imminent, financial decline, but somehow a slow infrastructure collapse, with renewables partly making up for diminished oil flows.
Mere wishful-thinking.
Guided by politicians?
I recommend David Blunkett for that gig.
https://www.private-eye.co.uk/pictures/covers/full/1113_big.jpg
Tim Morgan basically believes the EROEI story. He doesn’t understand the physics based story that the economy is really based on. They are not the same. The EROEI folks do not understand how the system works.
Yes but by 2035 all vehicles will be EV. It’s the LAW!
And the bbc says so.. norm you trust the bbc – do you believe this?
(Eventi avversi news)
”TSUNAMI is mounting: ‘Covid is the result of a lab leak’
https://www.eventiavversinews.it/lo-tsunami-sta-montando-il-covid-e-il-risultato-di-una-fuga-di-laboratorio-afferma-il-senato-degli-stati-uniti/
(Telegraph)
‘Covid ‘more likely than not’ the result of a laboratory incident, says US Senate.’
‘Committee report said the theory the virus emerged naturally ‘no longer deserves the benefit of the doubt’ and a leak was more plausible.
The Covid-19 pandemic was ‘more likely than not’ the result of a laboratory accident, a US Senate Committee has concluded’
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/10/28/covid-likely-not-result-laboratory-incident-says-us-senate/
Luckily (for the moment) this last article is visible using printfriendly website which generates a sort of .pdf file https://www.printfriendly.com/
Once the lab origin will be clear, it will be also clear that the action chosen by authorities has been ‘reply with dual-purpose’ protocol.
Virus – Antidote.
The point is that the ‘antidote’ was not adequately tested.
I think it is time to debate about these international Labs, instead of discussing how to speed time to create new vaccines…
Some reference can be found in this article: https://www.army-technology.com/analysis/featurebiological-weapons-warfare-dual-use-dilemma/
Dr Malone has recently published a definitive article on defence bio-weapon research, the DARPA love affair with mRNA, and the mentality of these people on his SS, Student.
Worth reading, or listening to the slide presentation.
Buried in it is a detail which I hadn’t come across before that the contracts for the vaxxes explicitly forbid the regulators to test the contents of random vials, as they would normally do for quality assurance.
Quite literally anything at all could be in them….
Moreover, about 50 or so ‘vaccines’ are in development, and a 100 other drugs using this technology platform.
They intend to stuff this inside us whether we like it or not, and not just during phoney pandemics. !
Please add link about Malone. Thanks!
Sorry, I don’t save links, but just look at his SS and subscribe. It’s a constant stream of good information.
this one?
https://www.bitchute.com/video/YdK2vk5GFHGo/
mRNA is the template source material for the countless cellular polymerase chain reactions that are the evolutionary mechanism within us. The cellular PCRs are the 24/7/365 biogenetic (biogenesis) drivers of horizontal gene transfer. HGT is ’99pc’ of evolution.
DARPA loves mRNA because we are heading into an evolutionary bottleneck and they want to be able to mechanically control the opening, so that they can stay ahead of events. Managing collapse ultimately means managing the bottleneck. They’ve read their Thoreau and they are striking at the root, with synthetic exosome bombs of such unnatural magnitude that, given the results, in some people are capable of achieving criticality and setting off an exosomal chain reaction in the body that won’t stop. If an ‘immune system’ existed, which it doesn’t (anything unwanted in the body the body regards as a toxin, so what we have is a detoxification transport-filter system), then this criticality could be regarded as an acute, chronic autoimmunity – these vials could be regarded as autoimmunity in a bottle. But in truth these exosome bombs are received by the incredibly intelligent but truly innocent body as an ecological/evolutionary Black Swan. And this is just the short-term effects we’re only just moving out of now. The medium-term and long-term effects might start to approach CroMagnon territory that makes black swans look like rubber duckies, whether via mortality rates or via infertility. We’ll just have to wait and see. Hopefully not. Hopefully they did vary the megatonnage of the bombs by batch, so that they could increase the plausible deniability. Hopefully people are going and getting their d-dimer test and that other one, what is it, begins with a T doesn’t it?
Google “Miyake Solar Event”
“Science” is starting to worry about the true nature of our reality.
Cataclysm IS the norm. Genetic bottlenecks frequent.
You want DNA changes little apes,….. ok, the Similacrum will deliver,…. multi year long incoming solar flares….you are returning to the age of stone.
Be afraid of the sky
Your betters surely are lol.
You are returning to the age of stone…stone… stone.
You telling me all the spring steel and railroad spikes are gonna get buried but humans will survive? How does that work? 🙂
You notice how when you fumigate a house for cockroaches, you never quite get them all? Yeah, it’s like that..
A couple here and there hiding in a cave or top of a mountain and the next thing you know you got 8 billion of them eating everything in sight…
try fumigating with spent fuel pond gases
Well that’s what animism is for. The narrative I subscribe to, until an alternative narrative makes more sense according to Reason, is that animism has been our universal human cultural heritage for 99+PC of our existence. It’s only lost animism that brings out the cockroach and cancer metaphors.
Was lost animism an inevitability? Fo sho. Is lost animism our true evolutionary nature? Absolutely, 99+PC true. We are the 99+PC, under the 1pc thumb. Knowing that is half the battle. Owning might take three generations. It starts with us.
Animism lacks a good sales pitch… Jesus hit the jackpot with the offer of eternal life… but only if you followed his rules
Troponin, I believe.
I bet most people would prefer not to take those tests and so remain in semi- ignorance.
That’s it. Thanks Cynic. Yeah I’d like to think that the Rogan and Brand fans, alternative athletes, organic foodies, butter/mct in their coffee folks, etc, who reluctantly complied or whatever might wanna suck it up and tackle it head-on if their results are bad.
It is not clear how much of the lab leak stories that the media will be willing to write about, however. Citizens seem to like the “natural occurrence” media version better.
Yes, I agree.
With the ‘natural occurence’ story the need about vaccines can be ‘sold’ more easily.
On the contrary, if one says that vaccines were necessary to react against this lab leak and also to react against other future leaks, people could say: ‘ehy! Just stop with labs, please’…
1/ Suppress the fact that it was created by deliberate human endeavour and promote the meme of New Age of Viruses.
2/ Mis-name the novel genetic therapies as harmless-sounding ‘vaccines’.
Very good point, I never thought of it in so simple a way for some reason. All the folks working on this crap have an interest in lying.
Moreover, most of the people being deceived by these people’s lies have an interested in being and remaining deceived.
There comes a point beyond which ignorance is no longer a defense, and I think we’ve passed that point with the Covid and the jabs. The ignorance is willful, ingrained and in some cases pathological. Apparently, most people love being bamboozled. They are addicted to the Blue Pill.
Go Woke and Go Broke”
PayPal shows it might be the other way around.
Careful what we wish for..
LOL 🙂
Going woke means governments handing out a lot of money to anyone and everyone, regardless of whether they have made a contribution to the overall good of society. As a result people have less incentive to work. Governments, for a while, can pay for all of these programs with debt.
The only connection with PayPal that I can see is that if people try to finance their shortfall of funds with deferred payments through PayPal, then PayPal will make money on this. In fact, banks and lenders of other kinds can often make money at the expense of the poor. This always seems to be the case, but the more people borrow (and can really pay back), the better.
In the case of PayPal, they have included in their terms-of-service the “right” to extract $2500 from people’s accounts, as a “fine”, if a user has been found to’ve engaged in hatespeech/wrongthink/mis-dis-mal-information (anywhere, not just in PayPal space).
Here’s a discussion of this:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/22/10/27/2113259/did-paypal-just-reintroduce-its-2500-misinformation-fine-hoping-we-wouldnt-notice
They could invoke this against pretty much anyone (depending on their home country’s reg.s), since they don’t need to nor do they claim to be able to define the wrongthink. They could do a mass “bail in” if they so chose, maybe just for some overnight liquidity, or…?
I’ve terminated my account
@hillcountry, you`re welcome. Chris Clugston nailed it all those years ago.
https://undervaluedequity.com/increasing-global-non-renewable-natural-resource-scarcity-prelude-to-global-societal-collapse/
Other great resources are Alice Friedemann
https://energyskeptic.com/2019/net-energy-cliff-collapse-by-2030/
And Rob Mielcarski
https://un-denial.com/2022/06/29/the-great-reset-an-alternate-theory/
BTW
Nate Hagens asked Tainter in an You Tube interview
Hagens: Are you aware of any civilization that decided to consume less than all available resources?
Tainter: No
Hagens: Are you aware of any civilizations that voluntarily decided to simplify?
Tainter: No
What’s coming is coming, no two ways about it..
This got me thinking..
about banks.
Or rather how would one go about, if we were in an “Bosnian War Survivor” type of situation.. black markets.. small whiskey bottles for trade.. shortages of everything..
How to create a currency and how to create a bank, in that type of situation..
Take a dozen people. They start prepairing lunch at the local school premises every day. Attending the lunch they distribute cupongs in the neighbourhood. Cupong “one lunch at the local school building”..
One week from the first “free lunch” they end giving the cupongs for free. Now they ask for one can of food in exchange of the cupong..the lunch is still the better deal, than the measily one can of food. But the main point is to introduce the concept of trading these cupons for someting tangible.
But they still prepare lunch every day. And everybody with a cupong.. gets the lunch. All you can eat buffett lunch.. just one Cupong..
On the third week.. they start printing 10 Cupong.. and 20 Cupong bills.. and introduce them as a possibility of exchanging more than one can of food at a time.. exchanging a lot more.. because the Cupong will still be worth.. “one lunch at the local school building” also in the future
By fourth week the neighbourhood is used to a new currency called a Cupong.. and the neighbourhood is used to 10 and 20 Cupong bills..
By fifth week, if someone comes in and wants.. say to build a house..
The guy with the house on his wishlist, must deposit silvers or valuables, or some other tanginble insurance of his down payment on a “loan”.
If the insurance is large enough..
Well.. then dozens of 20 Cupong bills can be printed.. in turn.. these Cupongs can be used by the man with a house on his wishlist to buy manhours.. men working to build this house..
Voila.. a bank.. and a currency
Two months in.. well just start prepairing lunch at the next town in exchange for one Cupong.. as well..
Thanks for the links and suggestions. I was going to order thousands of wood or plastic tokens with a custom design for our neighborhood to organize labor and resources. There is a 10-acre fenced soccer field across the street that would be great as a secure location for intensive gardening. I found some relief in Peter Cassidy’s explanation of the long term dangers of spent fuel rods. I mentioned before that I visited Ithaca, NY and got some info on the Hours system founded from Peter Glover.
I might have taken comfort in Peter’s one-dimensional claim on spent fuel pools if he had addressed all of the objections to my satisfaction. As it happened he bowed-out and fell back on what he knows, in antisemitism. Chicken soup for the soul lol.
I think he said they could be dry casked after a year… when it’s actually 5 years minimum
I say I will be the first like centre on the Toronto Maple Leafs from next November (they sent scouts to check out my calibre in the Queenstown Beer League… needless to say – they were impressed and offered a USD15M per year contract). I leave next Friday
Depends upon the burnup and decay heat generation. The higher the burnup, the more decay heat there is, because there are more decaying fission products in the fuel. More of the heat will be generated by longer lived fission products in high burnup fuel. So a longer residency in fuel ponds is required, because the decay heat declines more slowly. So there is no simple answer as to how long it takes for spent fuel to transition to dry cask storage.
One of the problems that prevented development of fast breeder reactors was the cool off period of high burnup discharged fuel. The fuel had to sit in fuel ponds for years before decay heat dropped low enough to allow reprocessing. This increased the doubling time of the plutonium fuel to several decades.
Add in security staff for your bank and its hoard of food and cans……
Van Kent
Thanks for the Mielcarski link. Enjoyed that a lot. The antidote plot narrative misses the mark imo. Offering an antidote on a lottery basis to people you’ve intentionally fucked up would be the dumbest farming practice, in terms of crowd control, in the history of ranching.
I would strongly advise people not to entertain local currency/scrip exhanges. That would be the proverbial definition of insanity, ie do the same thing over and over and expecting different results. Besides, even a local token exchange requires year on year surpluses. And who gets to keep the silver that was exchanged for the tokens lol. If square people want to formalize work trades because they’re incapable of mutual aid by feel, then just keep track of the hours. But don’t expect metered relationships to be the most trustworthy ones.
We don’t stop to think that any financial system is something that tends to grow endlessly, even more than the resources supporting the system. Thus, it too acts like a dissipative structure. Hence, the statement, “All fiat currencies eventually collapse.”
Thanks reante.
Only problem is there won’t be any lunch or cans of food or building supplies or bottles of whiskey.
People could still trade Cupongs for dollars or bitcoins or gold, of course. One thing we won’t be short of is currencies.
Bills will be useful to start fires to boil the body parts of children for dinner… however the children will soon be starving so there won’t be much meat on the bone…
Super Fent is ideal. Just a little will do
chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://powersfirearmstraining.com/resources/Words%20from%20a%20Bosnian%20Survivalist.pdf
This is actually utopia … compared to a post BAU scenario.
We have a lot of plastic bottles lying around on in the forest.
New England Utility Urges Biden to Declare Emergency to Avoid Fuel Shortage
(Bloomberg) — New England’s largest utility is imploring President Joe Biden to start preparing emergency measures to prevent a potential wintertime natural gas shortage.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has “acknowledged for many months that New England will not have sufficient natural gas to meet power supply needs for the region in the event of a severe cold spell this winter,” Joseph Nolan, chief executive officer of Springfield, Massachusetts-based Eversource Energy, wrote in a letter to Biden. “This represents a serious public health and safety threat.”
The White House didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
Eversource’s appeal comes amid growing worries about widespread energy shortages in some of the most populated parts of the US. Heating oil already is being rationed in the New York City area as the coldest months of the year approach — and diesel supplies essential to trucking are precariously low in the Northeast.
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/new-england-utility-urges-biden-to-declare-emergency-to-avoid-fuel-shortage-1.1838972
I have low confidence that our woketard so-called “leaders” will do the right thing to mitigate this problem.
but there surely are some billionaires in NY and Boston who easily could make phone contact with their elected representatives and let them know what they think about this approaching problem.
money talks, so I hope that pushes some solutions forward.
Or, more likely, they will winter in some warmer places of the earth while these states freeze?
Somehow I don’t think their situation will comparable to Shackleton’s crew of the Endeavor who overwintered in Antarctica.
‘Heating oil already is being rationed in the New York City area as the coldest months of the year approach — and diesel supplies essential to trucking are precariously low in the Northeast.’
The ultimate rationing system is the end of the financial system; now thats a lockdown of services, products, and information.This is the lockdown coming to a town near you, including yours.
This is another story talked about a potential natural gas shortage in the Northeast this winter. That part of the US depends on imported LNG, coming from non-US sources, just as Europe does. If the supply is short, there will be a problem. Pipelines to the Northeast have limited capacity. Recent shutdowns of nuclear plants and coal fired plants lead to a need for more natural gas to substitute. No one stopped to think through the fact that imported LNG may not be available in adequate quantity at a reasonable prices. Added wind and solar aren’t enough to even slightly offset the problem.
Fuel company issues diesel shortage alert in Southeast U.S., including NC and SC
RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) — A major company that tracks the availability of fuel on Friday issued an alert for a diesel fuel shortage in the Southeastern United States, including North and South Carolina.
The alert from Mansfield Energy on Friday also includes Virginia, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama and Maryland. The fuel supply and logistics company noted “extremely high prices in the Northeast along with supply outages along the Southeast.”
The alert also said conditions are “rapidly devolving” with economics changing “significantly” daily.
“At times, carriers are having to visit multiple terminals to find supply, which delays deliveries and strains local trucking capacity,” the alert from Mansfield Energy said.
https://www.cbs17.com/news/north-carolina-news/fuel-company-issues-diesel-shortage-alert-in-southeast-u-s-including-nc-and-sc/
I would like to understant better.
I kindly ask Gail or who wants to contribute, an article about the difficulty or the impossibility to produce diesel from shale oil.
Many thanks.
I mean any article already written about that issue…
Each kind of oil is a mixture of hydrocarbons of different lengths and configurations. Some ore chains. There are also rings and mixtures. The shortest chains are gases. The longest chains are asphalt and similar materials. Refineries separate these hydrocarbons by heating them. The lightest weight hydrocarbons boil off with no added heat. As more and more heat is added, the longer hydrocarbons boil off.
Diesel and jet fuel are made up of quite long/heavy hydrocarbons. They represent very concentrated sources of energy. The are very energy dense.
The shale oil mixture tends to be very light, with only a small fraction that might be used as diesel. It often has quite a bit of gasoline in it, which is lighter. As the wells deplete, they seem to have a higher and higher proportion of natural gas–something that sells for very little, generally, compared to diesel.
Some refineries have the ability to “crack” long hydrocarbons into short hydrocarbons. Thus, even if the oil sands of Canada and the heavy oil of Venezuela have hydrocarbons that are too long, they can be cracked in to shorter hydrocarbons, including more diesel. But, it is not economic to convert natural gas or gasoline to longer, more energy dense molecules. This is why the US imports heavy oil and exports the tight oil from shale.
Many thanks, Gail.
I found this article that, in my view, is perfectly in line with your explanation:
‘Shale oil has a refining problem, and Morgan Stanley thinks investors can profit’.
[…] ”U.S. shale oil output is surging, but American refineries can’t process much more of the LIGHT CRUDE, according to Morgan Stanley.
Refiners have compensated by blending the super light shale oil with gunkier grades, but those HEAVY CRUDES are in short supply, says Morgan Stanley. Output from heavy crude producers Venezuela and Mexico is falling, and pipeline bottlenecks are keeping it from being shipped from Canada.
That means more shale barrels will have to be exported, but Morgan Stanley sees trouble here, too.”
From what I’ve understood in order to produce more Diesel and jet fuel, HEAVY CRUDE coming from Saudi Arabia or from Russia are necessary.
Therefore, the ban of Russian oil should mean that Europe could have a great problem about Diesel (in addition to gas scarcity) in the next months.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/17/shale-oil-has-a-refining-problem-and-morgan-stanley-smells-opportunity.html
Thanks Gail great to know.
Growing Pile of Distressed Debt Signals Coming US Default Wave
(Bloomberg) — A heap of distressed debt is expanding in the US corporate bond market and investors worry that a burst of defaults will follow.
The amount of dollar-denominated bonds and loans trading at levels indicating distress is the largest since September 2020, reaching $271.3 billion last week after five straight weeks of growth, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
Companies that binged on low-cost borrowing in recent years are facing the prospect of refinancing at exorbitant yields — if they can find any investors — as the Federal Reserve raises rates to battle persistent inflation, threatening to push the economy into recession. Some market participants see distress leading to default, and for some companies, bankruptcy.
“You’re going to see a lot more distressed companies borrowing at a much higher rate,” said Jordana Renert, a restructuring lawyer with Lowenstein Sandler. “I don’t think it’s going to be everybody falling off a cliff — I think it’s going to sort of be a slow movement, an uptick in the bankruptcy cycle.”
The growing volume of troubled debt — defined as bonds trading at yields at least 10 percentage points above Treasuries, or loans changing hands at less than 80 cents on the dollar — shows investors are demanding a higher return for holding on to the debt of risky enterprises.
https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/growing-pile-distressed-debt-signals-110000432.html
Not surprising that there is more and more distressed debt. The example given is Carnival Corporation, which I expect is the company operating big cruise ships, Business has been down because of Covid, fear of Covid, and vaccine requirements. It is easy to see that if ships have been financed with debt, and fuel for ships (diesel) is in increasingly short supply, their business will soon have even more problems. Somehow, the situation cannot resolve well.
It is the non-essentials that tend to disappear first. But also oil and gas companies can go bankrupt as well, or stop doing reinvestment, so that they slowly go out of business.
The bigger group wins. Ten defenders against one attacker win. Ten attackers against one defender win. One hundred defenders against ten attackers win. etc… The trick is to grow your group faster than the opponents. Survival is a team sport.
Existing groups cop precinct, state troop barracks, military schools (i.e. West Point), military bases,10,000 shooters. They will quickly use their emergency powers to take food from any smaller group when they get hungry.
Fast you are right one family of preppers can not win a stand up fight against a large group attacking. Their only chance is to hide and stay hidden. No cook fire to be seen by the IR camera in the military drone searching for food.
Peasants always left their villages when marauders appeared, they didn’t fight!
For example, the mountain Basques only attacked the rear of Charlemagne’s retreating army at Roncesvalles, killing Count Roland and his men.
Aircraft carriers as the new castles to secure farm land. One for the state of Georgia. What are the most productive states for farming that are on or near the coast?
Maybe an aircraft carrier to New Zealand to harvest tribute.
Ed. assuming energy distributions are equal. Two with a heavy machine gun with 1000 rounds of ammunition against 500 most likely win, one 50 cal bullet can pass through several in the large group. If it is really bad, ten people against a thousand can win with an appropriately loaded A10 overhead.
It is always energy.
Dennis L.
Ya but when the machine gunner has to go into the garden to pull weeds or harvest the food… and the sniper blows his head off.. what then?
And what if the team of ex military have machine guns too? And rocket propelled grenades and mortars?
Remember there are huge arsenals of weapons in America – the active military will be armed with them — when they form their raiding gangs post BAU.
Also choose defendable territory. Build castles with moats, or something equivalent. Have lookouts, and workers trained to look for intruders.
You have traveled, on islands it is common to have forts; someone once said, “Only a fool attacks a fort with a ship.” Castles appear to have been built with defense in mind. Now, where do we get the rocks to start a castle?
Dennis L.
Take down concrete structures, and somehow use the pieces to build forts.
Those darn ponds… who thought nuclear energy was a good idea to start with?
The best alarm system money can buy is geese.
It was geese that saved Rome from Gauls sneaking in to open the gates in the late 4th century BC.
Not a good idea in an urban area, however.
As the Third World takeover of the world and end of all technical progress are around us, despite of some optimism of some cornucopians whose fate will resemble Hypatia’s, I would like to ask all these British patriots who now have to suffer a Hindu Prime Minister, although probably not for too long.
What were you, your fathers, grandfathers, great-grandfathers from the Armada to now thinking ? Was defending British ‘pride’ that important enough to kill of such many Europeans and probably ended all possibilities of Singularity?
I think it is over. Humanity’s final chance was gone long ago. All these new techs are all too little, too late. There is no advancing to next civ now the Third World has gained the initiative.
I agree, it is over and done.
fini.
kaput.
reaching the Singularity would have been so incredibly amazing for so many rea… well, at least for one reason, though I can’t think of what that would be.
anyway, let’s cry some tears of eternal sadness that our species will not reach the Singularity.
perhaps long after human extinction, maybe within a few hundred million years after humans are gone, the next Earth species to attain consciousness will go on to reach the Singularity.
ever think of that possibility?
In a puddle somewhere near you exists the blueprint of a future singularity. True!
Its raining Zen!
bears, rabbits, skunks, possums, racoons, squirrels, chipmunks, moles, voles, mice, who knows.
a few hundred MILLION years of evolution could lead to many possibilities.
do you get to pick your nose when you reach the singularity, or is it more like Mohamed’s trip to 7th heaven?
We know that humans (or pre-humans) made it through the bottleneck of ice ages. Whatever is ahead, it is quite certain some forms of life will make it through, including quite possibly humans. Regardless, the process of “survival of the best adapted” will assure that more and more life forms will take advantage of (and dissipate) any kind of energy that is available.
The tendency toward increased energy consumption and increased complexity will resume, even if the people of today are reduced to a very small subset of those living today. Even if they end up as hunter-gatherers, the system can be expected to continue. This is the way the Universe as a whole has been made to operate. The system will likely again reach local bottlenecks, and eventually more widespread bottlenecks. This is the way the Universe seems to operate.
Yup.
The evidence for cannibalism by the Magdalenians who arrived on Britain ~16,000 BP is pretty unambiguous with clear butchery and human teeth marks on human remains. It seems that the Magdalenians were ritualistic about their funerary cannibalism and that the process included the engraving of markings on the bones. The authors of the latest paper about the Magdalenians may have been ‘polite’ when citing evidence of cannibalism at Gough’s Cave.
The Villabruna who replaced the Magdalenians on Britain ~14,000 BP do not seem to have engaged in cannibalism. Likely they thought that the Magdalenians were laughable, seeing them chasing after reindeer and eating their own dead. ‘There they go again, all chasing after that reindeer lol, look at them go! Oh my, they are eating their sister now, yes it is their sister, the crazies!’
The Villabruna were fishermen who seem to have expanded from the Near East as Europe warmed, and who did not chase reindeer or eat each other, and we are all partly descended from them (WHG) rather than from the Magdalenians. All humans have cannibalistic ancestors and gene adaptations anyway, which is why the Magdalenians were able to do it, the only question is how far back they stopped and why some may have continued or restarted it.
> More evidence of ritual cannibalism at Gough’s Cave
Analysis of one of the cannibalised human bones from Gough’s Cave has revealed evidence for possible Palaeolithic ritual activity. This right radius was engraved with a zig-zag pattern before it was snapped to access the marrow within.
It has long been known that the early humans who inhabited Gough’s Cave, Somerset, around 15,000 years ago practised cannibalism and modified certain human remains (such as turning skulls into cups for possibly ceremonial purposes). Now a newly published study focusing on an arm bone from the same assemblage has described evidence for what may be further ritual activity.
The Gough’s Cave bones represent one of the largest groups of human remains associated with the Magdalenian culture (who lived c.17,000-12,000 years ago – see CA 330). They comprise the remains of at least six individuals – a child of around three years old, a young adolescent (aged around 12-14), an older adolescent (around 14-16), and three adults, one of whom was more elderly – and all show extensive evidence for cannibalism. Some 65 per cent of the bones bear clear butchery marks testifying to disarticulation, scalping, and the filleting of soft tissues, while 42 per cent preserve human toothmarks.
What is less clear is why these acts were carried out. It has previously been suggested that this could be the desperate last resort of a community in the grips of starvation or – with reference to the enigmatic ‘skull cups’ – that the remains could have been eaten for symbolic reasons, perhaps as part of some kind of funerary rite.
The new study, published in the journal PLoS ONE, argues for the latter interpretation. Researchers – from the Natural History Museum in London and UCL – examined a human arm bone (a right radius), which had been deliberately carved with a zig-zag pattern of incisions. The arm had been cannibalised – the bone was cracked open to access the marrow, and is marked by human teeth – but it comes from a part of the arm without muscle attachments, meaning that the incisions are unlikely to be related to filleting, the team comments. Rather, having compared the cuts with 332 butchery marks on human and non-human remains, as well as with incisions on two engraved artefacts from Gough’s Cave (a horse rib and a hare tibia), they concluded that the zig-zags were more likely artistic than having to do with preparing the limb for consumption.
Most strikingly, however, the decorative pattern seems to have been applied in the middle of this process: the break where the bone was snapped to extract marrow cuts across the zig-zag. It seems that the arm’s flesh had been removed, but then the butchery was paused while someone engraved the bone, and only then was it broken to get at its contents.
‘The sequence of the manipulation can only imply that the engraving was a purposeful component of the cannibalistic ritual at the site, with the act of engraving itself as significant as the finished motif, suggesting a complex funerary cannibalistic behaviour that has never been recognised before for the Palaeolithic period,’ the team writes. The full research paper can be accessed for free at https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0182127
https://archaeology.co.uk/articles/news/evidence-ritual-cannibalism-goughs-cave.htm
tastes like chicken.
Long Pork.
Mirror
Thanks for the additional info. It sounds like their conclusion, then, is that the Magdalenians were only eating their dead which is consistent with their ecological struggle. Perhaps it also served to help with cultural cohesion during such hard times; eating your deceased kinfolk would reinforce collective identity; your dead kin as the gift that keeps on giving; maybe eating your dead keeps you from eating your living in more ways than one.
I wonder how they ruled out war. Just because of the engravings?
I am glad that there is some “good” form of cannibalism.
The bad ones are just around the corner.
Well done Doug RIP https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/bodybuilder-doug-brignole-died-less
Du.nce!
Hahaha, died less than a week after taking his booster.
yes it is a very uplifting story… justice has been served hahaha f789 doug .. f789 celine and beebsie hahaha
Actually what would been better if he was a pro-vaxxer who made fun and mocked those who decided not to take these BS drugs. That would have been serious Karma.
yes to this
Elon Musk is quite literally a CIA creation. He made all of his money from the taxpayers. When he sells his inflated stock that was made possible by ZEV credits, grants, tax breaks, and other corporate welfare fraud he is laundering the money stolen from taxes that was then inflated by a rigged stock market.
https://2ndsmartestguyintheworld.substack.com/p/elon-musk-officially-takes-over-twitter
People with the right connections figure out where the subsidies are going next.
So; the plebes should abandon their power base (fiat currencies) and should slowly and very carefully adopt monetary permaculture?
Moeney grows on bushes or trees.
Some people are awed by him.
But he is nothing more than a fast talking swindler who separates gullible investors’ monies from their portfolio while having all the fun in the world
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(Jerusalem Post)
”Current common COVID-19 symptoms are harder to distinguish from colds
While the symptoms are similar for most people all over the world, there are some subtle differences between vaccinated and unvaccinated people.”
But going into details of the article the symptoms are just the same, only reported in a different order.
If we want to be precise the difference between vaccinated and unvaccinated seems to be only ‘sneezing’.
This of course without mentioning adverse events of the vaccines, the original antigenic sin effect, the ADE effect, the weaking of the immune system and others…
Again from the article:
”The most commonly reported symptoms of COVID-19 among vaccinated people are sore throat, runny nose, stuffy nose, persistent cough and headaches.
For people who have received only one dose of the vaccine, the most commonly reported symptoms are:Headache, runny nose, sore throat, sneezing and persistent cough. For unvaccinated people: Headache, sore throat, runny nose, fever and a persistent cough.”
https://www.jpost.com/health-and-wellness/article-720911
It is hard to see a difference, I agree. What is the point in vaccination?
That what happens Larry, if you turn jit into shit.
They are publishing this to humiliate us.
I see so it’s like having a cold … and I can get this injection that doesn’t stop me from getting the cold … but lots of people are getting severely damaged or killed by the injections.
Hmmm… If I was mentally ill + re tar ded + dumb and stooopid… and had a death wish …. f789 ya – inject me!
Yeah, it’s a cold, but don’t forget:
Long Cold Kills!
They are pumping hard on the brakes… but the train is not slowing down!!!
Last, Most Important Inflation Measure before the Fed’s Meeting Next Week, “Core PCE,” Worsened for 2nd Month in a Row
No signs of inflation slowing down, as measured by the yardstick for the Fed’s 2% inflation target.
https://wolfstreet.com/2022/10/28/last-most-important-inflation-measure-for-the-feds-meeting-next-week-core-pce-worsened-for-2nd-month-in-a-row/
It is monetary inflation but the deeper truth is that it’s energy deflation.’monetary inflation’ is analogous to ‘democracy’ and energy deflation is analogous to the plutocratic truth of the matter.
Because it just lost its highest gear, the train is slowing down even though the throttle is a lot closer to the hare than the turtle. What’s the train analogy for the Fed raising rates?
It is not even close to monetary inflation. The vast majority of the population even of the wealthy west is out of savings, maxed credit cards, flat wages, unemployed or underemployed, living paycheck to paycheck, couldn’t pull $600 together in an emergency. These are all regular headline stories for years now. Then 2.5 years of shutdown global economy, small businesses closing for good by the hundreds of thousands.
A couple of paltry relief/stimulus checks did less than nothing to change all that.
It is trade wars, sanctions, embargos, tariffs, lockdowns/shutdowns, trucking strikes, longshore strikes and lockdowns, rail, oh…yeah…lets not forget resource shortages and production expense increases, all making for shortages of almost everything.
Shortages make the price of things go up. ZERO to do with everyone having so much money they are bidding up the prices.
TPTB will lie and tell everyone that it is purely a monetary issue and we need to pull money out of the economy, drive down wages further, slow, stop or even reverse employment.
IN other words they are telling the population to consume feces and cease to exist.
They are adding artificial shortages on top (imo to crash the system harder).
I was just listening to a report about housing in California, particularly LA county, Alameda county, SF.. places where they still have open-ended “emergency” eviction moratoria and rent deferral. After two solid years of no rental income, landlords are going bankrupt (ownership gets transferred to banksters and WEF types) or they are taking properties off the market, since that’s cheaper than having people live in them rent-free, and so rents continue to rise. The “solutions” exacerbated the problem.
There is some federal funding being handed out to renters, but—surprise!—they don’t always use that money to pay landlords. Nobody could have predicted!
It’s the “you will own nothing” formula, for increasing values of ‘you’.
Lidia17,
Property is extremely difficult to maintain and depreciates rapidly without investment. Housing was an “investment” when prices were juiced with low interest rates – it was the change which made increases in wealth possible.
That is over now, a used house is a used house and the price reverts to the value of the land which is a negative due to taxes.
Dennis L.
“The worse the better” has always sounded delightful to those working to undermine a given system and implement another.
All revolutionaries know that 1) to build back better you need ruins, and an awful lot of egg breaking, and 2) that the eggshell and rubble associations are just “denialist fascists” that must be eliminated.
Jef
(monetary) inflation is an increase in the amount of the money supply relative to available goods and services. goods and services require energy. energy production has been declining for four years. The OECD M3 money supply has been growing for three of those years and is on an undulating plateau this year while energy production continues to decline, hence the fundamental reason for the transitory inflation as we transit into deflation. All of those political disruptions you listed are second-order effects of energy deflation in a surplus society.
we are experiencing inflation, which is a monetary phenomenon. but it is transitory. we might further identify it as material-cost-push inflation.
Unstoppable Sia
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YaEG2aWJnZ8
All smiles, I know what it takes to fool this town
I’ll do it ’til the sun goes down and all through the night time
Oh yeah
Oh yeah, I’ll tell you what you wanna hear
Leave my sunglasses on while I shed a tear
It’s never the right time
Yeah, yeah
I put my armor on, show you how strong how I am
I put my armor on, I’ll show you that I am
I’m unstoppable
I’m a Porsche with no brakes
I’m invincible
Yeah, I win every single game
I’m so powerful
I don’t need batteries to play
I’m so confident
Yeah, I’m unstoppable today
Unstoppable today
Unstoppable today
Unstoppable today
I’m unstoppable today
Break down, only alone I will cry on out
You’ll never see what’s hiding out
Hiding out deep down
Yeah, yeah
I know, I’ve heard that to let your feelings go
Is the only way to make friendships grow
But I’m too afraid now
Yeah, yeah
I put my armor on, show you how strong how I am
I put my armor on, I’ll show you that I am
I’m unstoppable
I’m a Porsche with no breaks
I’m invincible
Yeah, I win every single game
I’m so powerful
I don’t need batteries to play
I’m so confident
Yeah, I’m unstoppable today
Unstoppable today
Unstoppable today
Unstoppable today
I’m unstoppable today
Unstoppable today
Unstoppable today
Unstoppable today
I’m unstoppable today
I put my arm around, show you how strong I am
I put my arm around, I’ll show you that I am
I’m unstoppable
I’m a Porsche with no breaks
I’m invincible
Yeah, I win every single game
I’m so powerful
I don’t need batteries to play
I’m so confident
Yeah, I’m unstoppable today
Unstoppable today
Unstoppable today
Unstoppable today
I’m unstoppable today
Unstoppable today
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be warned bobby
there’s only room for one eddy on OFW
he doesn’t like usurpers
So the next lockdown looms as the eCONomy staggers to its final reckoning. So so many businesses/countries are entering freefall, or are on the edge of a precipice waiting for that final nudge. It is obviously tense times amongst the in-siders judging from the level of distraction and more about what is kept out of the news than what is in.
Narative control is shaky but holding.
This lockdown will be to ‘repair’ the economy by introducing CBDC.
It will also enable testing of the new 5G network. One thing that hasn’t missed a beat during this entire convid episode has been the build out of new towers in NZ.
Its a race against time as the digital platforms are prepared; must it occur before the mid-terms, or meet the new muppets, same as the old muppets?
the lefftist fascsist woketards tried lockdowns and it didn’t work.
I think that ship has sailed, except in China, which has a unique “government” to say the least.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonya_Harding
as of now, there is no evidence that David DePape broke into the home of Paul Pelosi.
it sounds like they might have been gaay lovvers, or perhaps it was a drrug deal?
but this was 2 or 3 am, and the guy was wearing nothing but his underwear.
NORM, who is so interested in TRUTH, will surely update us tomorrow on what really happened.
because if this VIOLLLENCE was some kind of lovver’s quarrrel, or for some other reason, NORM is so interested in exposing the TRUTH that I am SURE and CERTAIN that he will update us TOMORROW.
Take a look at Nancy Pelosi – that’s one hell of a freak show … then look at Macron and his botoxed old hag of a wife… HRC with those seizures (video been disappeared)…
Let’s not forget bidet showering with his daughter… and hunter ramming his niece…
And on and on … and on.
All the devils are here.
The Elders tolerate this – they encourage this — such people are easily controlled…
The clowns have always been the circus masters.
Probably explains why Nance is drunk all the time….hard to get to sleep while the hubby is getting “dominated” by some commie-sadist in the room next door…
Old, wealthy, gays often get done in by their younger ‘rough trade’ companions of the night….
PSA: Rush hour on I-95 begins at 3:30 AM. Please plan accordingly.
sleeping in until 10am should do it.
Karl Denninger has some eye-popping numbers on Medicare.
“As I’ve pointed out Social Security is, while underfunded, only modestly so (by about 18%.) That is, lifting the cap (in part) and increasing the rate (by about 1%) would balance income with outflow. It’s a solvable problem.
Medicare and Medicaid combined, on the other hand, are 80% unfunded. That is, to close that gap you’d have to increase the tax rate on Medicare (which is already not-capped) by five times.
That won’t happen.
Never mind that the Medicaid portion on the federal side is only part of it — the rest falls on the States, all of it unfunded as there is no Medicaid tax.
As I’ve repeatedly pointed out that’s where the entire problem is going all the way back to before the “Great Financial Crisis” and, in fact, all the way back to the 1990s! I don’t have the MTS for the end of Fiscal 2022 year (September’s report is not yet out, but it will be within days) but if you look at August’s report (11 of the 12 months) you see the problem: $1.834 trillion spent by CMS with one month left, or roughly 34% of the total government spend.
How much was taken in by the commensurate tax? $307 billion, or 16.7% of that which was spent.
This is worse than it was a couple of years ago when it was about 20%.
In other words the deficit in these programs alone is $1.527 trillion or more than the entire budget deficit — by about 150%!
The entire problem is there. Not some of it, all of it.
It is not Social Security; Social Security took in $972.4 billion thus far and has spent $1.168 trillion, which is a 17% operating deficit. That can be closed exactly as it has been able to be closed repeatedly on an every-year basis, and as I’ve been pointed out.
The solution must thus be in Medicare and Medicaid because that’s where the problem is. Politicians who want to try to combine the two are lying and they know.
There are solutions to this problem but threatening to screw Granny’s Social Security check isn’t one of them.
This, for example, is one path that will WORK and do so immediately.
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=231949
If we don’t do it the Federal Government or worse, our entire society will ultimately collapse.”
collapse is too strong a word. if medicare disappears many people’s health will actually improve. we can do without medicare. I, for one, tell my employer that I am covered by the insurance of my domestic partner and save myself some bucks (no one checks). collapse is when the trucks that refill supermarkets stop running.
yesterdays attack on Pelosi was what the start of societal breakdown looks like.
Violence becomes contagious. Fear enters the political arena, fear for personal and family safety. When that happens, government starts to disintegrate, because those in government are just ordinary people—good, bad or whatever.
Political existence can no longer be tolerated—your/my opinion is paramount, those who do not agree must be silenced with violence. Or blizzards of mindless abuse. (Violence is preferable)
And if that sounds familiar, check every fascist regime anywhere in the world, past or present.
They all function by the same means
That pelosi thing was very amusing … I’d like to see people spitting at bidet… biggest loser of all time… clown .. jerk off.. wanker… and then there’s the son .. his bad man – the junkie
more ”silliness” eddy?
no need to draw a picture
too bad he didn’t smash nancy’s skull in …. another grifting politician that deserves the worst
yes the Berkley potthead raddical SF waccko who smashhed Mr. Pelosi is a clear sign of the societal breakdown in places with large Demoncrat populations such as the big cities of the USA.
Check every fascsist regime anywhere and you will see that one of their first steps is total control of media.
Kind of like the USA where 90+% of so-called “journalists” are lefttwing Ds.
gee, I wonder which politicians they coverup the crimes and corrrruption for?
gee, what a surprise that the growing fascsism in the USA is happening in the left with its near total control of the media.
hey the leffty D guy who mowed down 50+ people in the Christmas parade was just found guilty of the murder of 6 conservatives.
did you see that in your lefftist fascsist news feed that you indulge in daily?
Or finally they are realizing that politicians are grifting pcs of shit … and deserve to have their faces smashed in.
We are not talking about a few bad apples – every single one of them is rotten.
Oh .. and when BAU goes the mob is gonna seek out the rich and powerful… and skin them alive.
Look, look, over here, it’s the ‘wicked’ Russians/Chinese or the W.E.F. or the “journalists” [that] are lefttwing Ds.
Don’t look over there at the plutocrats and the M.I.C., there’s nothing to see.
The man who attacked Paul Pelosi seems to have been mentally ill, according to the Zerohedge account of the story.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/nancy-pelosis-husband-violently-assaulted-sf-home-invasion
One Twitter entry says: “Reportedly Paul Pelosi attacker is David Depape — a Castro supporting nudist transient from Berkeley CA (he’s on the far LEFT literally and figuratively)”
An MD writes on Twitter, “People are rushing to describe the suspect in the Pelosi attack as politically motivated, but the evidence so far suggests that he suffered from serious mental illness and drug addiction and lacked any coherent political ideology.”
Lefty turns on Lefty… with a hammer – ban hammers?
But the hammer and sickle are lefty icons. On special at a hardware store near you.
I knew that you would inevitably mention fascism….you forgot to blame Trump though.
I can’t remember, did you write something similar when a leftist tried to kill the Republican Representatives baseball team?
In the five years since Mr. Trump was elected in 2016, the number of recorded threats against members of Congress increased more than tenfold, to 9,625 in 2021, according to the Capitol Police.
(New York Times)
If you can manage an unmentored comment on the above tripe Xabier, I’d like to read it.
And hunter and The Big Guy don’t grift. right norm
nor does hunter pay ho-okers and sniff all sorts of drugs.
Biggest joke to ever enter the whitehouse… by far
off at a tangent—true to form eddy
My guess is this freak was the peculiar madman that only hotel California seems to churn out one in a while ala charlie m. Psychedelic drug abuse. Every locality has their flavor and like all things California their flavor is unique. The rough trade lover guess is a good one. It answers how he got past security. Gag order on this guy is probably already in place. (pun not intended)
Its not a false flag. If it was you can be assured there would have been a MAGA ballcap wearing redneck involved not a flipped out Berkeley freak. There are madmen about. This is just flavor California. In the freak world there is competition to see who can be the freakiest freak. Lifetime incarceration is a dis qualifier. Its a rather rigid society and while the whole thing could be consider freaky in a heavy way there is zero tolerance for freak creativity. The whole point of freakiness is you disrespect everything in the rudest way possible. Its convenient belief system to a certain way of selfishness. That lasts about a micro second in prison. Part of the freak craft is to keep their disrespect light to float on the surface. This guy not only doesn’t make the freak hall of fame but gets his freak association membership revoked.
This is not left or right. This is not political. It falls squarely in category freak gone bad. Like they say… Never trust a prankster! Or a junkie…
no civil war? i wish i was the only one saying it.
a fully armed population in what we agree is a collapsing industrial/economic system, in a god and guns society?
i envy you your optimism–.
You never talk about your domestic politics Norman. Never! You propagate divisiveness in the USA. You piss people off and you dig it.
whether you/we/I like it or not usa politics affects the rest of the world, the dollar being the prime currency at this moment in time.
The world is locked into a surplus energy economic system, created and sustained by the USA. This has been a freak of geology and geography and expansion of the human race over the last 300 years or so.
It is unsustainable
When the US political/economic system goes down. (not if), it will affect me, you and everybody else.
You have a fully armed population, in a nation that (because of its size) cannot be governed without access to cheap fuels. It will therefore devolve into six or seven autonomous states, who will be at war with each other.
(much cleverer people than me are pointing that out)
uk politics is boring by comparison. My political views are of no consequence.
my observations might piss you off, –getting annoyed with me won’t change reality I’m afraid.
If any of my observations are in serious error—feel free to point them out. I dont like it any more than you do.
Great analysis! Medicaid is for all purposes free “health” services funded by “free” money. Price discovery is deemed immoral in “health services”. You get what a billionaire gets is the theory. I have no problem with health services. But this needs to be honest. They need people to practice on. They can not perfect their techniques without practice.
Since medicaid is in effect “free” health services funded by “free” money there is no price discovery. Price discovery for health services is considered immoral. This creates the completely unsustainable system we see. It isnt meant to be sustainable. Its meant to usher in the age of health technologies as god.
For the health technologies I myself choose I would be far better in Uruguay. Pennies for medicine. $20 for a doctor visit. Doctors that didnt pay a million for their education. Walk in-get seen. Thats what price discovery looks like. But no MRI. No techs making $$$ for tests the doctor says they need to keep the corporation above water. No new titanium hips. In fairness I have lived in countries that had completely incompetent doctors. Incompetence is a relative term with doctors. There are different kinds of incompetence. A doctor may be sure about this or that. Its still your body. If a doctor considers me a bug on a microscope slide I consider that incompetence. To some extent their profession requires a detached attitude. To some extent being the key term. Who decides that? The patient. HAH! In a medical system funded by free money the patient decides nothing.
People participate in this high tech medicine scam for “free” because they have been trained to do so. It also yields considerable benefits. New knees new hips ecetera. Its not for free. It amounts to forced payment via a inflation sales tax as we just start to see. Sales tax is the fairest tax. Inflation sales tax from “free” money is without the peoples consent. When people decide whether the goverment should provide this or that as a function of sales tax they pay attention. The medicaid inflation tax may be the equal of the military industrial inflation sales tax- all just starting. Is it any wonder that they have started to interact in a symbiotic manner? All paid for with “free” money. Inflation has very little to do with interest rates. Interest rates can certainly cut off oxygen to a economy however. What they wont do is cut off the free money. Free money can continue indefinitely. Lets say the USAs tax income only covered the 10% of the interest on the debt. Why would this be different from 31 trillion in debt with a trillion or more of new debt a year? Its just a matter of degree. The current situation is this (from memory). 5 trillion income. 31 trillion in debt. a trillion more debt each year. lets say its a individual. $50k income $300k in debt $10k more debt a year. $50k income $3000K in debt $100k more debt a year. No difference. None. Except a loaf of bread is $1000. If money has stopped entering the economy via loans with high interest no one has a $1000. With infinite free money trying to moderate inflation by cutting off money to only the economy not the “government” is like trying to dry the ocean by not watering your lawn. These organisms that exist off free money are self governing.
An economy needs control over resources, it needs predictability. They must be sure their resources won’t stop tomorrow. They must avoid to be susceptible to blackmail. That is an inevitable precondition in times of resources limiting economic growth. The little amount that is available must be available for sure.
Before peak oil this necessity did not occur because we saw an oversupply. Cuts could easily be compensated by another deliverer who would sell gladly. This was a consequence of the so called ‘free market’ that producers were forced to sell to by US dominance. In times of undersupply there is need of controllable fixed bilateral contracts. This contains the aspect that the last with access to energy could easily dominate those without. Putin could produce weapons currently, Europe could not, they cannot even heat their children’s rooms.
The association of the BRICSS including Saudi-Arabia shows that the end of the former regimen is in sight.
This all is of course a teaching from the current energy restrictions. But looking to the Ukrainian situation, that took a long way to escalate, one could get the idea that the problem of resource control was known to some decision makers beforehand. And that we see a calculated escalation to establish the new regimen.
You could say that the old normal guys sitting on FF want to have a say in the new normal. meaning: my chest is not as full as yours.
Alberta, Russia, MBS, China sort of, even as their FF base is shaky.
Also in the USA you have a substantial fraction of the FF guys versus the silicon guys wanting to export LNG versus exporting apps.
Maybe Biden hedges both sides…
The silicon guys have already made up their mind that behavioral management by data saves the day.
That does not mean that the FF guys are not also eyeing the social score thing.
And all of them sit on the CBDC train.
The “battle” is not over yet, even if the last chair is at play here….
Nice comment, Jan.
“This contains the aspect that the last with access to energy could easily dominate those without.”
This fundamental point speaks to Eddy’s glaring inability/refusal to understand the axiomatic advantage that the prepared have over the unprepared.
More importantly, your point speaks to my expectation that maybe 90pc of the oil will be allocated to the nuclear weaponized and powered countries, otherwise there will be uncontainable threats to chaotic collapse. All the nuclear countries are made men. Exing a made man comes as an existential risk to the whole Family and only ever happens as a last resort. Exing a made man is the flip side of bandits breaking a stronghold. Exing a made man is the equivalent of the local leaders deciding to eliminate a local stronghold whose careless actions are putting them all at risk while at the same time knowing that the carelessness is coming out of desperation, out of scarcity, and that the structural scarcity for all of them is only going to get worse. Exing a made man opens up Pandora’s box, raises the specter of who’s next?
Uncontainable threats to CONTROLLED collapse
Been there done that realized how utterly ridiculous and futile it is …
All I can say is .. if they distribute the Super Fent… don’t throw your allotment down the toilet. You will need it – you will want it
In the UK in 1940-1, when invasion seemed highly likely, everyone who was on the German ‘Arrest List’ obtained a suicide pill from a friendly doctor, or was issued one by the government,
They were gong to fight only as long as it made sense: imprisonment and torture were to be avoided at all costs.
The common people, of course, knew nothing of this.
Men with starving children who are denied food… will get very nasty … extremely nasty…
I would not deny anyone food post BAU… big mistake.
All that will matter to them is obtaining food… they will do anything for food.
Idea! Give them food – laced with Super Fent hahahaha…
This is choice…”Wind Farm in Germany Is Being Taken Down for Expansion of Coal Mine” on Zerohedge.
Today is Gheluvelt day, a day the people of Worcestershire celebrate for the most idiotic act of human history which probably cost humanity the chance to advance to the next stage of civilization.
I have beaten Chucky FItzclarence and the 200 Worcestershires (who are equally guilty) enough so I will beat the Glocestershires today.
On April 22, 1951, about 600 Glocestershires , led by a James Carne, met 30,000 Chinese forces at a place called Seolmari (Snow horse village), which had been the battlefields between various Korean factions for many years. It is about 60 km NW of Seoul. The English called it “Castle Hill” since there was an old castle, built long ago in one of the battles there, and the Koreans now call it “Gloster Hill”.
Long story short, after a 4 days battle they were eliminated (most of them were killed or spent 2 years in a Chinese prison camp) but they delayed the Chinese long enough to build a defense line at Seoul.
The late Dr. Robert Firth would have said that they ‘did their duty’ while I say they ‘f**ked up again’.
For the harbinger of civilization, it would have been better if the Glocestershires ran, just like Chucky and the Worcestershires, and let the Chinese have Seoul and most of South Korea, which would have denied the world a huge source of inspiration among the Third World.
With most of South Korea run over by the Chinese and the remaining slivers hanging like useless limbs in a paralyzed soldier, there is no Korean Netflix series, no Korean music and no Samsung and Hyundai to be sold in the Third World.
Granted, there would be no ‘Arsenal for the Woke’ now, but Japan would probably have performed the deed because SK would be unavailable and Japan would have to deal with China sooner or later.
In other words, we would be closer to the Singularity without South Korea, and the Glocestershires helped to mess it up.
In short, the British spirit has to be broken, once for all, like Lady Chatterley’s husband. Its actions ultimately helped countries who should never have belonged to the 21st centuries to begin with and the blood is on the denizens of United Kingdom.
Democrat Congressman Claims Arming Ukraine Is About Protecting Woke Values.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/dem-congressman-claims-arming-ukraine-about-protecting-woke-values
Raskin. A very Jewish name.
I can tell you that I’ve been reading Israeli newspapers starting from pandemic and they are interesting.
The positions inside the Country among Jews are quite articulated and have many differents among themselves on these issues, but also on other issue.
And my impression is that maybe the prevailing positions are actually more in what we could call a ‘conservative’ field than the other one.
I mean about family, nation, roles etc.
I don’t know in U.S. but maybe the positions in your Country for that specific group of people are vivecersa for not clear reasons to me.
But I don’t know, I’m not expert.
Anyway we surely cannot say that those ones indicated in the link are the Jews’ opinions in general.
The argument is more complex.
I find it interesting that blaming the jewish people go hand-in-hand with a lot of naivete (to put it nicely) regarding history, human nature and physics. People like this never seem to understand that humans are not special and cannot change the laws of nature (including human nature).
Jewish people are not special despite the efforts of a lot of people to portray them as super-intelligent powerful tight clan of behind-the-curtain leaders.
Just look at the SS division specializing in hunting jews – most of its members were jewish! So there was no special treatment there.
Or I might be just sore because they never shared the millions and the fame with me, despite the fact that I am a member of the tribe.
The Chinese economy may be 60% smaller than official figures suggest.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=A5A5Eu0ra3I
If this is true, it would be closer in size to that of Japan and only around 1/3 the size of the US economy. Its debt-GDP ratio would be much larger than presently assumed. Given China’s unfolding debt crisis, shrinking demographics, dependance on imports of energy and food and it’s problems with Peak Coal; there would appear to be no possibility of China overtaking the US as the world’s dominant power. To be frank, western countries don’t need to pick a fight with the Chinese. They aren’t going to be around much longer. With the world’s fastest ageing demography, they are literally disappearing as a people.
I’ve sometimes wondered if population numbers are inaccurate and based off old models/estimates/extrapolation. Looked up the list of cities in China on Wikipedia. They have a table of the top 50 Chinese cities. Pasted that into Excel. The 2010 census says 228 million combined in the top 50. The latest estimate adds up to 317 million.
I thought recently developed nations don’t have many suburbs. Most people move into the city. I’m not sure where the other 1 billion people are. They’re not in the 50 largest cities. Things don’t add up. I must be missing something. The CIA world fact book says they have well over 1 billion so it must be so.
Whenever in doubt, I like to trust the CIA.
It makes me feel safer, somehow, to have faith in an organisation of undoubted integrity and long-time service to humanity.
Yes I myself breathed a sigh of relief. Russia is nothing, a gas station. Somehow China got overcounted. Actually BRICS only has a combined economy the size of Lithuania!
To the CIA Chinese faces look all alike, so they count double!
A Chinese girl once told me that she found it hard to recognise her own father in a crowd after not seeing him for some time, because ‘Little Chinese men all look the same’…..
So the pundits “rising dragon” “economic powerhouse” is poof just like that?
No one needs manufactured goods?
The huge amount of fossil fuels China consumes have led me to believe that their GDP is, in some sense, quite high relative to the US GDP. The US has an incredibly large health care sector, in part because of the incredible wages doctors and hospital administrators earn. But the true “value” of this system is questionable.
The US also has an education system that now provides incredibly luxurious dorms and food facilities for these students. Unfortunately, their wages are not high enough after they graduate to pay back the huge debt. Also, woke values demand that practically every live body that applies be accepted and be graduated. This high-cost system contributes to GDP, but actually has far less value than seems.
Every country everywhere is financing the system with debt. Japan led the way, in giving jobs to everyone, often doing practically nothing.
Trying to compare which is worst is difficult, in my opinion. China at least is producing goods that people want to buy (even if they are only solar panels and electric cars, mandated by law). It becomes difficult to compare one country to another with the strange things that make up GDP today.
“China is able to provide enough food which includes foods other than just plain rice or wheat. The variety of foods offered on the Chinese table is much more diverse and cheaper than within most developed places in the world.”
https://www.quora.com/Does-China-produce-enough-food-to-feed-its-populace-or-does-it-have-to-import-food/answer/Janus-Dongye-Qimeng
Interesting! China is basically able to use high tech methods to produce lots of food. Unfortunately, high tech is energy dependent. It works, until something goes wrong, such as materials for a greenhouse not being available, or electricity for monitoring not being available.
I know that when I visited China in 2015, I saw a huge variety of seafood, both at restaurants and in grocery stores. India, as the link says, has not taken all of these high-tech approaches.
Do they import the fossil fuels used in the feedstock to make the pesticides and fertilizers?
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WTF 2.0 Kanye bro https://t.me/downtherabbitholewegofolks/53172
WTF 3.0 kids can off themselves in Canada with state approval https://t.me/downtherabbitholewegofolks/53181
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The Devil owns the world
The British Parliament has debated vaccine safety and determined that they are safe!
There is no evidence that the vaccines have killed anyone, they have saved well over 100,000 lives, and are safe, so no investigation is necessary!
https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/the-british-parliament-has-debated
Consider The Prince…
Essentially the message is do whatever it takes to win… slaughter children… rape your enemies… put their heads on stakes… torturer them… defile them…
The most cunning, nasty and vicious will always win. Always. Stab your enemy in the back.
There is a devil. He lurks inside every human.
We must be exterminated.
All that is happening in Parliament is that a small committee is assessing possible state payments for the officially ‘rare’ injuries.
The chairman, Sir Christopher Chope, fully understands the level of injuries and deaths, but can’t get anywhere with it. He has stated he would never take another shot himself. He has been fact-checked and ridiculed.
It’s my belief that the MP’s have been told that the vaxxes are ‘essential’ to national security against Russian/Chinese/terrorist bio-threats, and also the key to the exciting Bio-tech industry in which the UK can aspire to be a leader – despite the pathetic failure of the Oxford-AZ vaxx which killed about a thousand here and injured many more (including the wife of a friend who almost died).
Framing it in national security terms, and making it party policy, would ensure full compliance, and, as Mike Yeadon said, the MP’s are mostly too thick to understand the issues anyway. He was very disappointed in their general level of intelligence. Even the better-educated from Oxford and Cambridge are at best just lawyers, and they are al career conformists.
Officially in the UK the MHRA regulators maintain that only a handful of people might have died of the vaxxes – but those are just reports, not verified by autopsies (not carried out) – whereas perhaps millions were ‘saved’.
My mate is a senior guy at a big US I-bank… went to Cambridge on a science scholarship then followed with a law degree… he has told me that he’s encountered perhaps 3 people within that business who exhibit any true intelligence…
Circus animals… barnyard animals.
4 Cambridge degrees, and I’d concur!
A mere historian myself, but I mixed a lot with medics and mathmos: specialist training does not foster general intelligence, and they are also often very poorly-read.
ALL my old Cambridge friends rushed to get vaxxed, ditto my educated customers.
PS the ‘4 degrees is a joke’, as one of them is honorary – all you need to do is turn up for a dinner in funny clothes to get it. I do like old traditions……
It would be useful if someone created an online learning prompt combining a range of courses on history including Audible Great Courses + literature + a series of crucial sources e.g. American Moon aimed as smashing the propaganda machine’s message…
Compared to this – university learning is worse than useless. Unless of course you want to fit in.
To a great extent OFW is a university… I’ve learned more on here in 10 years than in the 47 years prior to that…
norm has learned 0. norm still trusts the BBC and takes boosters hahahaha… WTF
I assumed we’d been to the moon pre OFW… norm insists we’ve been to the moon despite obvious evidence otherwise… hahaha… poor sad norm the NOF… (nasty old fool). I learned that here too
Of course, technically they are correct that there is no scientific proof re vaxx deaths: there are only the Yellow Card reports of deaths, and without autopsies there can be no proof.
Let’s look the other way, say that vaxxing is the Proud Brit thing to do (what an argument!) and that we have the highest safety standards in the world……
There are several death certificates which list Astra Zeneca jab as the cause of death. Autopsies in Germany have also confirmed the same thing. The evidence is out there, just that no one wants to look.
I was in my local Tesco’s this morning. There was a photograph of an Employee paying tribute to her. She died suddenly this week. She was 48.
But it’s all ‘rare’ you see.
Hilariously only about 18 deaths are officially admitted to in the UK.
Tough luck of the draw……
This is gaslighting 101:
People die from or with c9/11 as not proven.
People can not die from vaxx as not proven either.
It is perfectly clear that globomind has been successfully shut down on each and every aspect.
Ever been into a data centre? Listen to the machines humming… the cooling systems are immense… the Matrix generates a lot of heat…
The insanity is building … can you sense it… can you feel it?
The Matrix is going to break. Everything is going to break.
Hoolio has killed another rabbit. 3 in two days. This is an ominous sign.
The Devil is near…
https://youtu.be/bntsfiAXMEE
Remember HRC’s seizure from a few years back… it’s gone …
Now it’s a conspiracy theory from the Russians
https://www.google.com/search?q=clinton+seizure&rlz=1C1CHBF_enNZ946NZ946&sxsrf=ALiCzsYLhS5V9eW0HWaRQyteDnaE5xOx3A:1666951015688&source=lnms&tbm=vid&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjhnJe51IL7AhU4umMGHeMMCvIQ_AUoAnoECAIQBA&cshid=1666951085809992&biw=1270&bih=559&dpr=1.5
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=clinton+seizure&t=hg&iax=videos&ia=videos
https://rumble.com/search/video?q=clinton%20seizure
The fact that Hoolio killed three rabbits in two days is a good sign, it means you can buy a bigger freezer!
Here’s a poem to cheer you up
OMENS
If you meet a chair,
that is good, you will go to Heaven.
If you meet a mountain,
that is bad, you’ll go to the chair.
If you meet the Great Bear,
that is good, you will go to heaven.
If you meet a snail,
that is bad, you’ll go to the snail.
If you meet a woman,
that is good, you will go to Heaven.
If you meet a tablecloth,
that is bad, you’ll go to the cupboard.
If you meet a snake,
that is good, it will die and you’ll go to Heaven.
If the snake meets you,
that is bad, you will die and the snake go to Heaven.
If you die,
that’s bad, bad.
Beware of this omen,
and of all the others.
Marin Sorecu, translated by Michael Hamburger
Blood in the morning! I wish my hound Sir Sancho could catch rabbits, he’s just not fast enough.
But he can sniff out any pheasant in a wheat field, which is what he was bred to do, and obeys signals perfectly. Except when he doesn’t want to……
My brave Pirata runs from goatlings, and couldn’t kill a rabbit even if the rabbit was already seasoned and begging for a coup de grace. But chickens? That’s another story. He is extremely valiant with chickens, even the biggest ones.
Let’s all post dog photos? Notice how dogs don’t take selfies? That’s cuz they are not MORE-ONS.
https://postimages.org/
That’s the best idea of the month.
Pirata gorging on bad poetry
https://i.postimg.cc/HL47y79j/pirata-ago-14-009.jpg
Splendid!
Alas, I have no i-phone. You will have to imagine Sir Sancho’s nobleness, strength and high intelligence. And smell.
Just like his master……
(La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno)
Just an example of sudden myocarditis teenager death that is often happening here lately:
”Brindisi, 15-year-old girl dies at Perrino hospital: she had arrived with a severe headache”
https://www.lagazzettadelmezzogiorno.it/news/brindisi/1364532/brindisi-ragazza-di-15-anni-muore-all-ospedale-perrino-era-arrivata-per-un-forte-mal-di-testa.html
Other examples are avialable here:
https://www.eventiavversinews.it/
In case first link doesn’t work (it is the second similar case in few days in that hospital):
https://www.eventiavversinews.it/ragazzina-di-15-anni-muore-allospedale-perrino-era-arrivata-con-un-forte-mal-di-testa-miocardite-fulminante/
My medical Prof friend told me about a consultant at his hospital who suffered terrible headaches immediately after being boosted: he actually refused to consider that it might be serious, to get scanned etc.
They merely took paracetamol Luckily, the headaches went way after nearly 2 weeks, so they are still a believer in the Safe Vaxx Cult!
People like them will just not look at what is obvious.
Not evil, just brainwashed and institutionalised.
Really, the awful fact here in the UK is that the docs are voluntarily doing to themselves what they do to the public.
This is hard for a rational person to grasp,but so it is.
Insane.
Monty Python’s highly-trained suicide squad…….
It was like that also here.
The doctor of a friend of mine, who argued with my friend about the experimental jab, because she (my friend) didn’t want to take it, he had a serious heart attack (he had three jabs..)
My friend didn’t take any jab, had Covid without any serious effect (she is 58) and she didn’t have any long Covid after.
Following the so called ‘alternative’ treatments, she took standard antinfiammatory non steroid, antibiotic Zitromax, vitaminc C, D, and Zync, all for one week (antibiotic is a three pill).
Vitamins and Zync she was already taking and she went on anyway a little bit after recovery.
Maybe I’m too optimistic, but I’ve the impression that something is changing.
Let’s see.
Any doctor has been carefully conditioned to trust blindly the pharmaceutical products he is going to promote, and their manufacturers. So when a doctor prescribes something, s/he does it in good faith, as a true believer. In this respect they resemble most priests, with the difference of course that priests kill far fewer people.
It would be even more awful if the Doctors DID NOT take the medicine they administered to others. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander. Only consequences and pain will wake them up.
The more it hurts, the more it is proof that it works!
Haha ya — if you want to mess with a CovIDIOT… ask him if he had any side effects… if he says no then tell him that apparently because they made billions of these shots there’s some QC issues and some don’t have any mrna…
Let them ponder that then tell them that this is why so many boosted people are dying or getting very sick from covid … they got the blanks…
If you didn’t have any side effects you likely got a blank so you are unprotected…
OMG they will think…
Then offer to bring them to the clinic for a booster ..
Scare them to death with a blank.
That sounds funny!
anyone disagreeing with eddy is mentally ill
that says it all folks
“Spreads are significantly stronger in line with what you’d expect given the Cushing depletion. While we may not have super-backwardation yet, we certainly have spreads obeying the supply side fundamentals more than the SPR oil “printing” side.”
“If you feel spreads are sticky, then here is your proof. Spreads are mirroring Cushing still, not SPR info. That is indicative of a market not quite comfortable with Cushing inventories, even if many analysts continue to focus on SPR graphs with eye-popping slopes headed to zero, but still just measure known events. The unknown remains Cushing and the day to day when this drawdown is all over.”
“Strong relative spreads are a real measure of the uncertainty that some participants feel in getting their oil 30-60-90 days from now, and reflects their willingness to pay for that convenience premium to run their businesses. These participants aren’t looking at how much oil is being released; they are looking at how much they can get their hands on.”
These are the futures prices that the EIA gives.
https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/pet_pri_fut_s1_d.htm
I certainly don’t see any fear of the SPR oil printing ability going away built in to future prices.
Oh come on … can it not be more obvious????
Fantastic theatre though … really good stuff from the PR Team here
https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/firings-begin-twitter-ceo-cfo-top-censor-escorted-out
The SSs and Telegram will be lit with this — this is a blow against tyranny they’ll insist hahaha… just like they insist that almost no one is getting boosted… which is pure bull. Sh.it.