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The problem is hitting limits in the extraction of fossil fuels
We know that historically, many economies around the world have collapsed. We also know that there is a physics reason why this happens. Growing economies require a growing supply of energy to keep up with a growing population. At some point, the energy supply and other resource needs cannot grow rapidly enough to keep up with population growth. When this happens, economies tend to collapse.
In their book Secular Cycles, researchers Peter Turchin and Sergey Nefedov found that economies tend go through four distinct phases in each cycle, with each stage lasting for quite a few years:
- Growth
- Stagflation
- Crisis
- Inter-cycle
Based on my own analysis, the world economy was in the Growth Stage for much of the time between the Industrial Revolution and 1973. In late 1973, oil prices spiked, and the world was put on notice that the energy supply could not continue rising as rapidly as in the past. Between 1973 and 2018, the world economy was in the Stagflation Stage. Based on current data, the world economy seems to have entered the Crisis Stage about 2018. This is the reason for saying that headwinds are beginning to hold the economy back in the title of this article .
When the Crisis Stage occurs, there are fewer goods and services per capita to go around, so some participants in the world economy must come out behind. Conflict of all kinds becomes more likely. Political leaders, if they happen to discover the predicament the world economy is in, have little interest in making the predicament known to voters, since doing so would likely lead them to lose the next election.
Instead, the way the physics-based self-organizing economic system works is that alternative narratives that frame the situation in a less frightening way gain popularity. Political leaders may not even be aware of how dependent today’s economy is on fossil fuels. Researchers may not be aware that their “scientific” models are misleading because they look at too small a portion of the overall system and make unwarranted assumptions.
In this post, I show evidence that the economy is reaching energy limits. In the last section, I explain how my view differs from the standard narrative, which says that there is almost an unlimited amount of fossil fuels available to burn, if we choose to utilize these fossil fuels. According to this view, humans can prevent climate change by voluntarily moving away from fossil fuels.
The standard narrative proposes a reasonable plan for citizens of parts of the world without adequate fossil fuels (cut back on buying fossil fuels), but without telling citizens what the real problem is. The standard narrative also gives the impression that there is a near-term clean energy alternative. In my opinion, this is wishful thinking for the reasons I describe in Sections [6] and [7]. Section [2] also sheds light on the reasonableness of moving to renewable energy.
[1] The world has been warned, at least twice, that collapse might occur about now.
Back in the 1950s, several physicists, including M. King Hubbert, became interested in the limits that the world was up against. The military became interested in the problem, as well. In 1957, Admiral Hyman Rickover of the US Navy gave a very insightful speech. One thing Admiral Rickover said was, “With high energy consumption goes a high standard of living.” Another thing he said was, “A reduction of per capita energy consumption has always in the past led to a decline in civilization and a reversion to a more primitive way of life.”
Regarding the future, he said,
For it is an unpleasant fact that according to our best estimates, total fossil fuel reserves recoverable at not over twice today’s unit cost are likely to run out at some time between the years 2000 and 2050, if present standards of living and population growth rates are taken into account.
The issue Admiral Rickover is pointing out is that as extraction costs rise, fossil fuels become increasingly unaffordable. If citizens cannot afford food, housing, and other basic goods made with high-cost fossil fuels, those fossil fuels will be left in the ground. If politicians try to pass the high cost of extraction on to consumers, it will cause inflation. Citizens will become unhappy with politicians and will vote them out of office. This is basically our problem today.
A second analysis that pointed to the current time frame for the world hitting fossil fuel limits is given in the 1972 book, The Limits To Growth by Donella Meadows and others. This analysis used computer modeling to look at several alternative future scenarios, considering resources available and population trends. The base scenario showed resource limits in general hitting sometime around 2020. The economy would collapse over a period of years after resource limits were hit.
[2] The Industrial Revolution in England is an example of how an economy changes for the better when fossil fuel energy is added.
Figure 1 shows a chart E. A. Wrigley shows in his book, Energy and the English Industrial Revolution:
Wrigley observes that when coal was added to the economy, it was possible to make far more metal tools than had been made in the past. With the use of metal tools instead of wood tools, farmers could be three times as productive. Thus, there didn’t need to be as many farmers, freeing some farmers for other occupations. Also, roads to coal mines were paved, in an era when few roads were paved. These paved roads were beneficial to other businesses and to the economy as a whole.
Another reason for coal to be of interest was because of increased deforestation near cities, as the population grew. This deforestation led to a need to transport firewood over long distances. Coal was more compact, and so easier to transport. Furthermore, the use of coal prevented having to cut down as many trees, helping the environment.
Figure 1 shows that energy from wind and water were only a tiny part of the economy, both before and after coal was added. They did not directly provide heat energy, which was a significant share of what the economy needed at that time.
[3] The period between the end of World War II and 1973 was another period when energy consumption per capita was rising rapidly. We might say the economy then had an “energy tailwind.”
Figure 2 shows that US energy consumption per capita was rising rapidly in the 1949 to 1973 period. Growing oil, coal and natural gas consumption all contributed to the overall rise in fossil fuel use.
In fact, BP data (only available from 1965 onward) shows energy consumption per capita rising for most parts of the world between 1965 and 1973. During this period, oil, coal and natural gas consumption per capita were all rising.
A major thing that pushed oil consumption along was its low price (Figure 4). According to BP data, the inflation-adjusted price was only $11.99 per barrel in 1970. In 1971, it averaged $14.30 per barrel. The comparable price today is about $79 per barrel.
The average price for 1973 rose to the equivalent of $19.73 per barrel, which is still incredibly low relative to today’s prices. It is an annual average price, reflecting a low price at the beginning of the year and a much higher price toward the end of the year.
There were multiple issues behind the rise in oil prices, starting at the end of 1973. Part of the problem was the fact that US oil production began to fall in 1971, necessitating the use of more imported oil, year after year. Another issue was that world oil production could not keep up with the high demand, given the low price that oil was selling for. The Office of the Historian of the US writes the following:
By 1973, OPEC had demanded that foreign oil corporations increase prices and cede greater shares of revenue to their local subsidiaries. In April, the Nixon administration announced a new energy strategy to boost domestic production to reduce U.S. vulnerability to oil imports and ease the strain of nationwide fuel shortages. That vulnerability would become overtly clear in the fall of that year.
Without higher oil prices, it would be hard for local producers to make the investments needed to ramp up production. Also, taxes for governments in the areas where the oil was produced were falling too low, given the low prices that oil was selling for on the international market. Indirectly because of these problems, but supposedly also because of support for Israel by certain countries in the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, the Arab members of OPEC initiated an oil embargo. This embargo cut off exports to the US, Netherlands, Portugal, and South Africa from November 1973 until March 1974. It was at that time that world oil prices rose to a much higher level, and oil consumption per capita began to fall.
One thing that is striking about the period between World War II and 1973 is the huge advances in wages made by both the bottom 90% and the top 10% (Figure 5).
Between 1948 and 1968, inflation-adjusted income of both the bottom 90% and the top 10% increased by roughly 80%. This meant that many people in the bottom 90% could afford to buy cars and their own homes for the first time. Even in the period between 1968 and 1982, inflation-adjusted incomes kept up with inflation, something that low-income earners today have difficulty with. It was not until after about 1982 that wage disparity started to increase.
Most people remember the 1950s and 1960s as a favorable period for ordinary workers. Because of the higher wages of ordinary citizens and growing US manufacturing capabilities, the number of cars registered in the US rose from 25.8 million in 1945 to 75.3 million in 1965. The US initiated the 41,000 mile Interstate Highway System in 1956, so that auto owners would have multilane, limited access roads to travel on.
Electricity was sold in a conservative way, called the Utility Pricing System, which would hopefully assure that the whole system would be properly maintained. Utilities were typically owners of electricity generation units, plus all other local infrastructure, including transmission lines. Each utility would compute a total required rate for all its needs, including enough funds to install new generating capacity, provide fuel, and install and maintain transmission lines. A government regulator would approve the rates, but there was no real competition.
[4] In the period between 1973 and 2018, many changes were to increase energy efficiency and to lower the perceived cost to users. Unfortunately, some of these changes, when taken to the extremes they were taken to later in the period, tended to make the economy brittle and thus more subject to collapse.
Up until 1973, oil was being put to uses for which substitution could easily be made. One of these was electricity generation; another was home heating. An easy change in electricity generation was to build new generating facilities using an alternate fuel (coal, natural gas, or nuclear). Home heating could often be changed to natural gas or electricity.
Also, Japan already had automobiles that were smaller and more fuel efficient than American automobiles. These could be substituted for some of the large cars produced in the US.
Especially with the Reagan and Thatcher administrations starting shortly after 1980, there was more interest in cutting costs in electricity generation. “Competitive rating” instead of utility rating became popular in places where electricity prices were high. Utilities were broken up, and the various parts were encouraged to compete.
Of course, competitive rating, when taken to its extreme, can lead to the neglect of infrastructure. It was recently reported that California’s utility company, Pacific Gas and Electric, now finds that it must raise $50 billion for wildfire prevention, after years of neglecting maintenance on the long distance transmission lines used for hydroelectric generation and other long distance transmission. Now it needs to raise money to bury many of these lines underground.
It has long been known that added complexity can be helpful in working around problems of inadequate energy supply. Complexity involves many things including using more advanced technology and international trade. It involves bigger organizations to take advantage of economies of scale. It tends to require higher education for at least some of its workers.
One major disadvantage of growing complexity is the increasing wage disparity it tends to produce. Wages for less educated workers often fall quite low. Work in whole industries may disappear overseas, leaving workers to start over, in new lines of work, at lower pay scales.
Unfortunately, having many workers at low wages tends to push an economy toward collapse. The big issue is that these workers cannot afford goods like cars and new homes. Their lack of purchasing power tends to hold down commodity prices, such as the price of fossil fuels. Prices don’t rise high enough to justify new investment to raise production, so production slows down and eventually stops.
Another approach that gained popularity starting about 1981 was the increased use of debt and more exotic financial approaches. Interest rates were very high in 1981. Central banks could make monthly payments for goods such as homes and cars more affordable by lowering interest rates. This approach works for a while, but it reaches limits when interest rates fall too low relative to inflation rates. Furthermore, if an economy slows down, a major increase in debt defaults becomes likely, as became clear in 2008. With the high level of debt in the world economy today, the default problem could become even worse in 2023 or 2024 than it was in 2008, if the economy slows again.
[5] Since 2015, oil and natural gas investments have remained at low levels because oil prices have not been high enough to justify drilling in the remaining places.
In my opinion, oil companies really need quite high oil prices, probably $120 per barrel or higher, on a consistent basis, to justify drilling in sufficient new locations to ramp up oil production. Since 2014, prices have generally remained far below that level. There was a major drop in oil prices in 2014 and 2015. In response to the lower oil prices, oil and gas companies cut back on investment in “Exploration and Production” (E&P). (Figure 7)
After a drop in E&P investments, oil production does not drop immediately. Instead, 2018 was the single highest year of oil production. Production looks likely to drop further because of the continued lack of investment (Figure 8).
[6] If we look across the major types of energy supply, we discover that “Wind and Solar” is the only category rising significantly faster than world population. Others tend to be flat or falling, on a per capita basis.
In Figure 9, the star performer is the category “Wind + Solar.” The main attraction of wind and solar today is the subsidies they get, and the mandates that require utilities to move away from fossil fuels. Unfortunately, wind and solar really aren’t terribly helpful as far as I can see, except from the point of view of the benefit of the subsidies they provide.
One of the problems with intermittent wind and solar is that they tend to drive nuclear electricity providers out of business because of the favorable rates they receive when wind and solar are allowed to go first, in competitive rating schemes. With this arrangement, the wholesale rates that nuclear providers receive often fall to negative amounts. Nuclear providers cannot close down for short periods with negative rates, so they tend to need subsidies to remain open. Figure 9 shows that the supply of nuclear electricity has been dropping since at least 2001. In fact, of all the energy types shown on Figure 9, nuclear’s production (relative to population) is dropping fastest.
In my opinion, our primary energy concern should be food production and transport. Diesel, made from oil, is the major fuel for agriculture. It will be decades before farming machinery and transport of food can be changed over to electricity, assuming this can be done at all. Until this happens, electricity’s role in getting food to the shelves of grocery stores will be limited.
Solar energy comes primarily in the summer but, unfortunately, in many places, the big need for heat energy is in the winter. People in Europe, with their many wind turbines and solar panels, are worried about possibly freezing in the dark this winter if natural gas supplies prove inadequate. We don’t have batteries for storing solar or wind energy for months on end, so they cannot be counted on for winter heat.
When homeowners put solar panels on their roofs, the electricity they sell to the utility is often “net metered” (credited with the full retail value of electricity that this home would pay). This is a huge subsidy to the owners of the solar panels because the value of the intermittent electricity to the utility is far less than this, probably closer to the cost of the natural gas or other fuel saved.
To make up for the loss of revenue caused by the overly generous compensation to solar panel owners, the utility is forced to raise rates for those without solar panels. Studies show that homeowners with solar panels tend to be wealthier than the renters and others who do not have the opportunity to add these subsidized solar panels. Thus, this is an example of a benefit for rich homeowners being paid for by less wealthy buyers of electricity.
I would also argue that the BP data I used to produce Figure 9 tends to give an overly optimistic view of the value of wind and solar. The approach used indirectly assumes that they fully replace the entire system of dispatchable electricity used today, rather than providing only intermittent electricity. The less generous approach (giving a little less than half as much credit) is used by the International Energy Association and by many researchers.
Furthermore, solar panels tend to pollute ground water when they are disposed of, so they are not very clean. Wind turbines are noisy, take up farmland, and kill bats and birds, so they have serious drawbacks as well.
Wind and solar are made and transported using fossil fuels. They cannot last any longer than today’s fossil fuel industry. In fact, roads and transmission lines require fossil fuels to continue. The whole system is likely to go down at approximately the same time.
It seems to me that the main reason why we hear so much about intermittent wind and solar is because there needs to be a hopeful narrative for politicians to provide to voters, and for educators to provide to students. Otherwise, the situation shown on Figure 9 looks grim. The fact that fossil fuel prices have been spiking in 2022 and regulators are trying to get these prices back down again is testimony to the fact that we are running short of cheap-to-produce fossil fuel energy.
[7] The incorrect narrative provided by mainstream media (MSM) is that climate change is our worst problem. To lessen this problem, citizens need to move quickly away from fossil fuels and transition to renewables. The real narrative is that we are running short of fossil fuels that can be profitably extracted, and renewables are not adequate substitutes. However, this narrative is too worrisome for most people to handle.
I expect most readers will say, your view can’t be right. We don’t read this story in the news. All we hear about is climate change and the need to reduce fossil fuel usage to prevent climate change.
In many ways, the narrative presented by MSM is less frightening to the public than a narrative in which fuels are already being stretched too thin. The MSM narrative sounds like a situation that we can perhaps live with and work around. It sounds like careers that people study for today will be useful in the future. It also sounds like homes, cars and factories built today will be useful in the future.
One major difference in the MSM view, relative to my view, is with respect to the amounts of fossil fuels that can be extracted. The standard narrative says we will extract all the fossil fuels that we have the technology to extract unless we make a concerted effort not to extract these fuels. For this to happen, demand (a favorite word of economists) must keep rising to keep prices high enough for businesses to want to continue extraction from fields plagued by depletion.
History shows that when an economy approaches limits, what tends to happen is that demand tends to fall too low. This happens because the physics of the way the economy works: Wage and wealth disparities tend to spike as energy resources are increasingly stretched thin. In fact, the great wealth of the top 1%, relative to that of the remaining 99%, is a major problem in the world today. When increasing wage and wealth disparity occurs, a growing number of poor workers find themselves with inadequate wages to buy food, homes, cars and other goods made with commodities, including oil.
There are so many of these poor workers that their lack of demand tends to bring down commodity prices without government intervention. If these low wages are not sufficient to hold down commodity prices, politicians will raise interest rates to try to get commodity prices down, so they can be re-elected. It is low fossil fuel prices that will drive fossil fuel providers out of business.
Of course, another part of the MSM narrative is the view that renewables can save the system. I explained in Section [6] why this cannot be the case for wind and solar. I didn’t say much about hydroelectricity, but it is already built out in most of the developed world. Electricity from hydroelectric plants tends to be intermittent, with the greatest supply coming in the spring, when snow melts. Like wind and solar, hydroelectric generation plants are built and repaired using fossil fuels. These facilities, and their transmission lines, will last only until parts break that cannot be repaired.
WRONG! Don’t do this – we need 6B to be Culled to get us our 30 yrs of BAU Lite
https://t.me/downtherabbitholewegofolks/61496
https://t.me/downtherabbitholewegofolks/61509
Notice how countries are stoking the fear by making it difficult for the chinese to enter… as we know China is no different than any other country — they are not overwhelmed with Covid nor are they dying in big numbers … yet ‘50% off of one flight were covid +’
They are preparing us for the next phase… and China will be blamed (again)
When BAU goes … this is who the Doomies will be facing https://t.me/leaklive/11089
Heartbreaking 💔 Lyndsey’s first symptoms of Vaccine injury were hypertension ( high blood pressure) and tachycardia ( high heart rate along with anxiety brought on by any triggers or events and muscle tremors with hot flashes January of 2022 just two weeks after her booster of Pfizer.
She also noticed a sudden decrease in focus and cognition. She seemed medical care for the first time and was diagnosed with severe anxiety ocd adhd ptsd and depression on Jan 31,2022.
Her symptoms then progressed each month. She didn’t know she was injured until March.
https://twitter.com/Sgtnewsnetwork/status/1608105038022426626?t=u1MXTpLCJ_ODi5A5qFerpg&s=19
Donating???? hahahaha … what about all the people these frontline workers INJECTED with Rat Juice????? I donate 0. Absolute 0.
Scott Ritter has a few comments on Rep Adam Kinzingers R IL tweet that NATO would conquer Russia in three days. Mr Ritter is a bit aggressive for my taste but jarheads gonna jar. Ukraine has fought Russia for 10 months and held their own. But NATO “would end it in three days”. Not only beyond rude to the Ukrainians but leaves one pondering about the health of his analytic process considering he is a LT Col. Im sure his comment endears him to the Ukrainians on the front line. Of course since any full scale NATO military involvement would lead to a strategic nuclear exchange and I definitely feel that fits in the “end” category perhaps Scott has misjudged him? Sly like a fox?
https://www.scottritterextra.com/
“United States has fought Russia for 10 months and held their own. But NATO “would end it in three days”.
There fixed it. The US has been at war with Russia and is just using Ukraine as it’s pawn. The MSM in the US never mentions that nor that they house Neo-Nazi’s.
“Ukraine has fought Russia for 10 months and held their own.”
Hardly. Their losses to-date are horrendous and they’re continuing to be decimated along with most of their equipment.
Russia doesn’t care about territory per se in the short term. Their focus is on “demilitarisation” i.e. killing as many brainwashed N-zis as possible, whilst minimising their own losses.
Berletic, MacGregor, Mercouris et al cover this in detail.
Agreed!
Someone needs to censor these people!
https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/the-vaccine-itself-is-our-best-convincer
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Hey norm … but the headlines say China is overwhelmed with Covid… WTF???
Remember how the hospitals in New York City were all “overcrowded” (not) in early 2020? Shanghai’s fever clinics are all “overcrowded” (not) like that today!
Just as people throughout China were NOT “dropping dead of COVID in the streets” at the beginning of this nightmare, so are they NOT “overrunning” fever clinics now, despite this “new” Big Lie
https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/remember-how-the-hospitals-in-new
Camilla
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My neighbour’s 14 year old daughter has a friend on her (Calgary) swim team who became ‘suddenly paralyzed’. Turns out to have ‘idiopathic’ brain stem encephalitis. Yes, vaccinated. Parents and doctors baffled.
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‘Bafflement’: a novel pathology afflicting trusted medical professionals.
The spinal column is usually found to have disintegrated, together with any ethical standards – possible incubation over years of training cannot be discounted.
Transmission via bank account also likely.
Prognosis: the condition will continue as long as they can get way with it; or until they encounter a short, sharp drop……..
A “short sharp drop” is the prescription needed en masse for most of what ails humanity. Unfortunately there is a distinct shortage of strong males needed to administer such a drastic medical procedure.
All the weaklings have joined police forces, governmental organizations and other woke movements.
But I have hope, the night is long and full of terrors.
When the imagery of a cop dying on a pine pole spit or a judge urinating himself as an executioners axe cleaves his head off …. when these images are met by a crowds roar of approval.
Well then, the veil is fully open, the gods of war can gorge themselves
Maybe then I can get some sleep.
hmmm https://sheldonyakiwchuk.substack.com/p/not-saying-that-it-was-the-vaccinejust
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They really cannot connect the dots… or don’t want to?
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I have a close and dear friend who was unable to wake from his vaccine slumber even after his eldest kid (27) had a whole bunch of stents put in following various pulmonary embolisms a couple of weeks after a recent booster.
Naturally the hospital had no interest in double checking why. Anyway: the point of the story is my friend is still asleep, presumably because he has too much socially at stake to dare to wake up…This will be common unfortunately.
Liberal go-getters have trusted their own social peers to a dangerous degree and it not very different to when everyone in a church gets conned by a member of their own congregation.
Most simply aren’t intellectually flexible enough. I am not, even if I was right about most things Covid.
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How to blame a vax injury on the flu hahaha
The report starts off with this:
Take your child’s flu-like symptoms very seriously — because they can become life-altering in a matter of hours.
And…if you are the parent of a sick child…you already know to do this. Watch their symptoms, keep eye on their fevers, plenty of fluids and bed-rest.
All of these stories that keep popping up failing to address that these ‘Rare’ conditions are only now being talked about as a way to blame them on ‘anything but the jabs’, which will command ZERO attention as people just want to move on with their lives…
Abagale — who is currently in an unresponsive state at the Children’s Hospital in London — has been diagnosed with Acute Necrotizing Encephalopathy of Childhood.
Casey described her daughter as “perfectly healthy” before the sudden illness. “She’s a pretty high-energy kid. Crazy, hilarious, thoughtful, kind — very outgoing.”
Doctors believe the encephalopathy was triggered by an infection of H1N1 influenza.
https://sheldonyakiwchuk.substack.com/p/not-saying-that-it-was-the-vaccinejust
It is impossible to defeat the PR Team
hahaha https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/msnbc-host-shocked-and-appalled-because
This calls for this
https://i.insider.com/5e748ab6c4854031151665e2?width=1200&format=jpeg
IgG4 and cancer – a mechanism of action for cancer relapse and onset
Class switching and tumor promotion…
Now I don’t want to scare everyone, but persistent re-injection of a messenger RNA that encodes a foreign, highly immunogenic protein, is NOT a good idea in this context. This is precisely continuous antigen stimulation by spike protein. Not only that, since we know that both the mRNA and the spike protein are long-lasting in the body, you mightn’t even have to re-inject yourself repeatedly qualify as undergoing continuous antigen stimulation.
In fact, I would bet that this would be a given. Furthermore, I would bet that due to this continuous antigen stimulation, the IgG1:IgG4 subclass ratio is inverted in people who are persistently making spike, and that these people would be subject to cancer promotion, rather than suppression.
My take home message: This is why people are experiencing relapses of cancers previously in remission and this is why new and rare cancers are appearing as well.
https://jessicar.substack.com/p/igg4-and-cancer-a-mechanism-of-action
Oh goodie – no need to boost to ensure you get cancer… a single shot does the trick.. but please do keep boosting as it increases the odds
Nice presentation https://metatron.substack.com/p/europe-deaths-march
Blood clots in lungs haha
I can’t breathe!!!!
https://palexander.substack.com/p/colunga-biancatelli-et-al-the-sars
When you see all the mayham around you and your ageing perspective, it is easy to reject the healthcare: why prolonging this suffering?
You rather accept the painful death than the painkillers, as you have completely lost the belief in the power of this world.
How can any heaven be deserved by doing good deeds, when you are helpless, without the power. That is how the notion of the Gods grace originated and was highlighted by the protestantism.
The other world must be a complete opposite of this hell on Earth, where you are always late, paying not enough, going into debt…
I am afraid an awfully lot of people are in a situation of never having enough, going deeper into debt, and worrying about where the next meal is coming from. The poor children in this environment end up moving from school to school, as parent (s) move to try to avoid becoming homeless. Or, they go to school, while their parents are homeless.
Ah, the irony of wanting moar leading to having less.
It is as if life is trying to teach something, something about less is moar (on a finite planet) perhaps?
What we have now is a civilization shift.
From around 1815, financiers and investors had the edge on civilization and since they had to pay interest they had to innovate and civilization grew in leaps and bound.
But from mid-2022, the landowners/oil well owners/building owners/(fill in the blank) owners have the edge.
The initiative passed from those who owned the debt to those who actually own the stuff.
All these money , stock, bond, etc floating around are just pieces of paper without the necessary resources, and the resource owners are not going to honor all these digits which will become no more relevant than the zimbabwean trillion dollar bills.
We will maintain some modicum of modern civ, like sanitation, some alternative method of electricity generation and so forth, but we will never reach the heights of 2018.
In a way you are right. As the economy was constantly growing from 1760s forward, the constant growth made possible many of our institutions.
As we move in to a constantly declining economy (or constantly crashing economy), we wont have room for
1. Democracy
2. Free Markets (the financiers you mentioned)
3. Individual rights and freedoms
These are systems that encourage growth, and distributes resources to the one growing the fastest. Hence needed in an era of constant growth
As our economy will be next constantly diminishing, we wont have any room for these growth-systems anymore. The financiers are going away
Also our Global Managerial Class will be redundant with constantly less and less. This class of people, will be as usefull going forwards, as the catholic scholars were for industrialists. Just before the Enlightenment our universities were ripe with usefull discussions, like how many angels fit in a pinhead. Just as these catholic scholars were bypassed in the age of enlightenment and industrial revolution, so will our Global Managerial Class be bypassed in the coming descent. This entire class is going byebye
the growth surge from the 1700s onwards was entirely due to the industrial revolution and the invention of the steam engine
Entirely?
Surely that growth surge would not have happened without many other factors, such as capital to finance the growth surge, labor to do the required work, consumers to raise demand, a work ethic, a profit motive, double-entry bookkeeping, will to power (that’s for you, Mirror), mercantilism? — In the 1700, the Swiss were selling a lot of fancy clocks to the Chinese, for instance. Nodaloda people know that!
energy comes before capital.
without energy–or the promise of it, capital could not have moved the growth surge.
No one would have invested ‘capital’ without the certainty of energy return on it.
labour for the mines and factories was sucked in from the land, (better wages)—that was why wages started to rise.
The steam engine (and the coal fed into it) was the prime mover in it all. Without it, mines and factories could not exist.
output and consumers were part of the ‘leapfrog’ of the economic system.
this is why, when the leapfrogging stops, we all go down.
The introduction of potatoes to Europe was also very important. A lot of calories could be produced without much farming skill and potatoes did not need to be processed like grain before eating them.
Also the importation of guano fertiliser really took off in the 19th century and greatly boosted crop yields. Peak guano was reached more or less at the beginning of the 20th century.
they were also important factors
Postcard From Japan, Where the Population Still Lives in Mortal Fear of Catching Covid
https://dailysceptic.org/2022/12/29/postcard-from-japan-where-the-population-still-lives-in-mortal-fear-of-catching-covid/
All it would take — is CNNBBC to run some stories about overwhelmed hospitals — filled with VAIDS patients who are dying from Covid (cuz no immune system)….
And the CovIDIOTS will re-embrace lockdowns masks and additional boosters.
I heard today that two of my sisters (who were together over Christmas) both have Covid. They were both very pro-vaccine and hid away from people for quite a while. The sister I talked to on the phone said she is taking Paxlovid and isn’t very sick at all.
Maybe if these folks in Japan start catching Covid, the mortal fear will go away.
Fear works… it can work in other countries if the PR Teams wants it to.
Japan Records 420 New Covid Cases, 4% Rise In Fatality
Japan on thursday recorded 420 COVID-19 deaths, the highest-ever count for a single day, Japan’s health ministry data showed. Japan on Thursday reported 192,063 new coronavirus cases, down 24,146 from Wednesday. Tokyo reported 18,372 new cases, down 1,871 from Wednesday.
https://www.ndtv.com/video/news/news/japan-records-420-new-covid-cases-4-rise-in-fatality-674077
Any thoughts on why? You are children of an MD, science based. Perhaps biased towards treatment? No sarcasm, criticism.
I saw it in an MD friend, Mayo retired, who was afraid to meet friends, definitely first in line for vaccine. Hid in her home for perhaps a year; a year gone from life.
Within the limits of the law never stopped going out, when masks were no longer required, dropped them. Multiple pcr tests, multiple antibody tests, never could catch the damn thing and get natural immunity.
Weird times, hard to understand.
Dennis L.
Some people seem to be very germ-phobic, especially if this is encouraged by the powers that be. They don’t seem to be very confident of their body’s own power to fight off illness.
First half talks about how mRNA is created and how it can be … done incorrectly. The consequence of that follows in the second half. It gets horrific once all the pieces are put together. For example, we were told that it needed to be stored at -80c right up to use. Well, they dont really do that anymore, and so it breaks down… and people seem to die more often for it. Just one example of several evil findings in this presentation.
Hmm.. This was supposed to go on the Chris Martensen video response
Interesting point. I will have to find time to watch the rest.
Right now genetic therapy is in a transition stage. Fear was neccesary for the new manufacturing process to be installed but take it or your gonna die attraction is limited. On the horizon is much more sexy theater where some desirable changed are obtained by the hooman getting coded not just the coder. In the long run perceived benefits are really not necessary because the code can do that too. Where we are now is the equivalent to when you could buy a TRS 80 at radio shack that was proud of its 64K of RAM and had a cassette tape back up. Look at the assets applied toward this new revolution/warfare, progress will be made losses and setbacks are expected.. Right now there are significant difficulties coding without effecting code in unitended ways. Certainly a huge flaw in these self procreating biological organisms all over the place from a machine perspective. Whether a patch can be created remains to be seen. Once we proceed a bit perhaps a small genetic change that effects appearance will be inserted along with more pragmatic code. At that point self policing boil that dust speck manifests as a compliance effect that dwarfs the primitive compliance mechanisms we observe now.
Observing and publisizing the unintended injuries of the injected serves several purpouses. It demonstrates the deception of the narrative. Unfortunatly it also demonstrates less noble characteristics schadenfreude and glee.
Our species as we know it has been earmarked for a action. That action could be considered by things we consider by the words “war” “intervention” “modification. IMO the source of the action is different from the source of our previous modifications -our interactions with the thing we know and abuse as the planet. Our abuse is a justification for the modification.
There are a lot of questions. Is there even a chance that the new source change we observe will not continue and expand or is it more like observing a chain reaction? Do we truly have effect and control of the future in this matter? Did we ever?
Philosipically I have a belief if the species is to assert any will in a bid to remain unchanged it must appreciate its own characteristics. The primary way it would be expressed is in the quality we regard as unity. If we despise the characterstics and qualities we exhibit we are certainly not going to exert will contrary to the modification in a significant fashion. If we regard the majority of the population as morons to what extent do we have a argument against the new source modification? Can we really claim ownership of qualities we deem appropriate if we claim they are not posessed by the whole.
Myself i have a strong faith in continuing our historical modification from its historical source interaction with the planet is preferable to modification from this new source. I believe that because I experience beuty in the planet and dont see the same quality of beuty in the machine world. I certainly appreciate the machine world and am very competant in some of its aspects. Not to get all hippy dippy but IMO the thing we call conciousness is not a insignificant thing. In fact I believe it MAY be really the only thing that has effect in this particular matter. IMO the other two sources of modification we witness have imense power and probably outcome will be determined by that.
I enjoy the shadenfreude as much as anyone. I have a very sarcastic personality in many ways. F***** morons. Inject yourself with a experimental gene therapy? Conduct gain of function research? One of the biggest way I pretend is to pretend that I can judge and that judgment does not apply to myself. I think it is very common. It is our biggest secret. We think them morons and secretly regard ourselves as morons too. WE separate ourselves from the beauty of the planet not just with actions but with judgment. Actions are very important but judgment MAY be important also.
WE have historically regarded the planet as our enemy. We have to extract food and shelter from it or we die. If we fail it can be regarded as cruel. We die. That can also be regarded as unfair and cruel. IMO we are part of the planet. The planet sees our beauty even if we do not. We could give it a little help in this matter by how we focus our consciousness. IMO this is possibly the only way we exert will in this matter for actions source from consciousness.
I would like to put our fate in the planets hands. That means appreciating our species beauty as we are a integral part of the planet. Even loving our species. As I write that last sentence there is part of my essence that strongly negates it. I am very unskilled in this matter. I am old i will probably not have time to develop skill in this matter. But im going to try. Im quite sure it will be painful and my success will be limited. Perhaps the planet can appreciate what degree of skill I cultivate even if I can not. Perhaps the planet can see its beauty in me even if i can not. I can see beauty in some other humans but not myself. This is a function of judgment that I have cultivated. I regard it as me. I know not what I am without it.
Is it the planet that is behind our fate, or is it the self-organizing system that is behind our fate? Or is our fate in the hands of a Higher Power that put the whole system in place.
Our planet is governed by laws we can kind of discern, but we don’t fully understand. When there is not enough to go around, there has to be conflict between different sets of people. To a significant extent, the self-organizing system sets up this conflict. There is beauty in this system, but some people have to be left out of our existence on this world.
Dearest,
Self
Organizing
System
Ideologues are attempting to centrally organize resource management and distribution within your domain. Are you cool with this? Are you working with them? Or do you have them right where you want them. That’s my guess. Anyway, I just thought you should know. Happy New Year. Auld Lang Syne.
Your pal,
Magic 8 ball
“Right now genetic therapy is in a transition stage […] Where we are now is the equivalent to when you could buy a TRS 80 at radio shack that was proud of its 64K of RAM”
Yes. So, the question then becomes: can we keep all the requisite industries alive long enough to see the fruits (better humans) of this new engineering discipline?
Most on this site would answer no. However, I think they miss the “different collapse timelines for different countries” point I brought up earlier. Combined USA+Canada and Russia both have enough resources to last a while longer than the rest and also have a culture of engineering. There is a chance.
We will find out real soon I think. 2024 year of the dragon.
@Cromagnon
The Comanche were not landowners but then they were not part of Civilization.
Technically their chiefs owned their own turf of land, like the nomads, and their herd of bisons were kind of their land like the patriarchs during biblical times.
But, in the end, they were destroyed by the landowners, who would show no mercy over the tribes and made sure they would never threaten the owners’ land ownership.
THe word deed has two meanings. A action. a legal document. Take the word indeed. Its meaning- I affirm existence. The immaterial is made material by belief and of course force.
Legal deeds are written in blood. The blood is a bit redder here in the USA. Pun intended.
Kulm. You own your existence. You. No one else.
Happy New Year to All!
May 2023 be better than 2022 which was all in all a pretty good year.
“That struts and frets his hour upon the stage. And then is heard no more: it is a tale. Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.”
We are part of the fabric of the universe, all is as it should be.
Dennis L.
Thanks! I hope everyone has a good year!
I appreciate your post Dennis.
nothing like macbeth to cheer us up for new year
is this eddy i see before me?
Happy New Year, Everyone!
Fossil Fuel Power Fell Up to 68% as Blackouts Hit US South
Duke Energy, Tennessee Valley Authority instituted blackouts
Blackouts were latest example of failure in the US grid
ByJosh Saul, Naureen S Malik, and Mark Chediak
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-29/fossil-fuel-power-plunged-up-to-68-as-blackouts-hit-us-south?leadSource=uverify%20wall
December 29, 2022 at 5:55 PM ESTUpdated onDecember 30, 2022 at 9:28 AM EST
Power plants that burn coal and natural gas to produce electricity had significant drops in generation as a winter storm hit the US Southeast, forcing blackouts that left hundreds of thousands in the dark.
Duke Energy Corp. and the Tennessee Valley Authority cut power to homes and businesses during the holiday season as an extreme winter storm pummeled the region. Duke instituted rotating outages Dec. 24 that interrupted service to about 500,000 customers, while TVA for the first time in its history had rotating blackouts Dec. 23 and Dec. 24.
The disruption was the latest instance of a major failure to generate electricity in the US following a storm or natural disaster, a trend that’s brought attention to the state of the nation’s energy infrastructure and its dependence on fossil fuels to keep the lights on even as the Biden administration advocates for a transition to renewable energy.
The failure of coal and gas highlights how even the power sources that have long served as the backbone of the US electrical grid can still falter, especially as the South sees its population increase and relies more on electric heat.
Hahaha…get the blankets out and huddle together folks..the future is NOW
I think of the Tennessee Valley Authority as relying significantly on hydroelectric. I cannot imagine that hydroelectric production was very high, if the temperature was far below freezing. I am wondering if the system was relying more on natural gas and coal, without the capacity really being there.
Dumping a lot of electric heat demand on the grid in winter is a recipe for disaster. It isn’t very efficient, compared to burning natural gas directly. Also, any solar contribution is close to zero. Batteries don’t fix this problem, either.
Here’s to the Ancient Ones…
https://www.openculture.com/2022/12/how-to-make-roman-concrete-one-of-human-civilizations-longest-lasting-building-materials.html
The fact of the matter is that, despite possessing technologies the Romans could hardly have imagined, their concrete lasts longer than ours. Why that should be the case comes down, in large part, to water: we put a great deal more of it into our concrete than the Romans did, in order to pour it more cheaply and easily. But this makes it more fragile and subject to deterioration over time (as seen in the early dilapidation of certain Brutalist buildings), even despite our use of chemical additives and steel reinforcement. Romans concrete was also mixed with seawater, which caused the formation of crystals within the material that actually strengthened it as it aged — thus cementing, as one wag in the comments puts it, the Romans’ place in history.
Still, the fact that anything remains at all of the structures built by the Romans tells us that they were doing something right: specifically, they were doing concrete right. Just how they made that astonishingly durable building material has been a subject of research even in recent years, and we even featured it here on Open Culture back in 2017. But could we make Roman concrete today?
Such is the task of Shawn Kelly, host of the Youtube channel Corporal’s Corner, in the video above. Using materials like volcanic ash, pumice and limestone, he makes a brick that looks more than solid enough to go up against any modern concrete.
The main reason it lasts longer is that the Romans did not have enough energy to create steel reinforced concrete. It’s the rebar in today’s concrete that rusts and causes the structure to eventually fail. Nothing special about Roman cement really.
As always, great insightful comment afterwards..
Next time I mix concrete, I’ll use seawater and less water future generations will thank me
If you want to make something really strong use thin flat bricks like they did.
https://youtu.be/knORMDHU8Sk?t=84
Gotcha…Oh, visited Treveri ,modern German city of Trier and saw the Roman bridge still in service with concrete foundations…the Palace Hall building and Amphitheater there are impressive structures too, along with the Museum. Trier was the center of government for Gaul during the Tetrarchy of the Diocletian and his Caesar, Constantius , father of Constantine the Great.
Yes, Roman concrete is much superior to our modern version.
Like a number of inventions created by people of the past, they valued quality to quantity..
One example is the craft of Windsor Chair making…many still in service after hundreds of years of service..
https://www.woodworkingnetwork.com/video/video-master-class-windsor-chairs
brief history of Windsor chairs. Along with their elegant design, the construction lends itself to comfort and durability. We will discuss the dynamic engineering of this classically American chair. Optimal wood selections will be reviewed, as well as the gallery of styles within this enduring chair style.
I have heard that the rebar in concrete tends to be a problem, over time. Maybe we are trying to make concrete do more than it was intended to do, using the rebar. There are an awfully lot of high rise apartment buildings in China, made out of concrete.
For Eddy eyes…make his day…
So, just what did the Freedom Flyers (USFF) accomplish this past year?
We were the first organization to file suit against the federal contractor mandate. You know…the mandate that strong-armed your employer into forcing an experimental jab into you?
Thankfully, the Attorney General of Georgia took the Biden Administration to task and was able to achieve a stay. On December 19th, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals struck down the mandate in a 2-1 decision that upholds the lower court decision. Federal mandates, it turns out, are unconstitutional and illegal. The Federal government, any state/local government, and any corporation that pushed these mandates broke the law.
We assembled a large team of doctors and scientists who volunteer their efforts to develop protocols and solutions for USFF’s vaccine-injured members. Many of you are currently being treated by this world-class team of professionals.
We assembled a phenomenal legal team, lead by Special Counsel Deana Pollard Sacks, that is capable of bringing our complex legal challenges to the finish line.
We were instrumental in the formation of the Global Aviation Advocacy Coalition (GAAC). GAAC is a unification of groups like ours across the world. In concert, we have built an international research team to study the failures of aviation regulators worldwide (including the FAA) in preparation for litigation. We are also working with an international team to prevent the vaccine passport mandate that was announced at November’s G-20 meeting in Bali.
We partnered with FAA whistleblowers (see FAA Inspector Bruce McGray’s sworn declaration) to uncover the abject disregard those responsible for our nation’s airspace system have for the numerous men and women who have experienced life-changing after-effects from COVID-19 vaccines. Sadly, the FAA has chosen to ignore their constituents and their employees’ personal tragedies—and their safety concerns. This includes a well-documented concern letter co-authored by USFF in partnership with prominent medical and legal professionals to the FAA Administrator, DOT, DOJ, 5 major airline CEO’s, and all of the largest aviation insurance firms. To date, there has been no response—but we will not give up until we get one.
We were privileged to gain the willing ear of the Idaho state legislature about the issues surrounding COVID vaccines and mandates. Josh Yoder was invited to Boise to speak to Idaho lawmakers and it appears to have made an impact. Lawmakers are crafting legislation to ensure emergency use authorizations are never again used as an excuse to mandate experimental drugs.
Earlier this month, we gained formal 501(c)(3) tax-exempt charity/non-profit status. To do this properly was a monumental effort. Thanks to the many hours Deana Pollard Sacks and Executive Director Joni Dunn devoted to that effort, we are now there. This was an important step in solidifying our mission to overturn vaccine mandates and advocate for and educate the airline community.
We have built multiple alliances with like-minded organizations, most recently a partnership with Moms Across America, to raise awareness of our issues among the flying public and inspire them to take action. It is critical that the public knows the danger that COVID-19 vaccines present to airline personnel, and part of our mission is to ensure that they do. As one partner recently said, “This was started by airline employees, but it will be finished by the passengers.”
USFF and its affiliates have earned substantial media coverage, which has been instrumental in garnering public awareness and support. Below are two recent (and insightful) videos you can watch. The first is Dr. Kevin Stillwagon, a retired Delta Air Lines pilot, discussing five reasons why some people experience adverse reactions to COVID vaccines while others do not
In the second spot, Josh Yoder explains why vaccine mandates are unequivocally illegal. Below that is the code Josh refers to in the interview.
21 USC Sec360bbb-3(e).1(A).(ii).(lll)
(ii) Appropriate conditions designed to ensure that individuals to whom the product is administered are informed—
(I)that the Secretary has authorized the emergency use of the product;
(II)of the significant known and potential benefits and risks of such use, and of the extent to which such benefits and risks are unknown; and
(III)of the option to accept or refuse administration of the product, of the consequences, if any, of refusing administration of the product, and of the alternatives to the product that are available and of their benefits and risks.
Lastly, what lies ahead for us?
In concert with FAA whistleblowers and vaccine-injured pilots, we are knee-deep in preparations for our upcoming lawsuit against the FAA. Key aspects of this effort are still in development, However, we cannot disclose details at this time. Just know that this case is a key part of our strategy for 2023. Hopefully we will have news to report to you soon.
Unique efforts are also underway to establish specialized medical treatments and modalities for those of you who are experiencing COVID vaccine injuries. This is especially important for individuals who must maintain aeromedical standards. Stay tuned for more news on this development.
Again, we are so thankful to each of you for being a part of our organization and for your continued support.
https://usfreedomflyers.org/
They accomplished nothing.
It is hard to get anyone to look at these things.
Hats off to the Scots, at least they show a plurality for a republic. Monarchy is just daft and embarrassing in the modern world. Cringe Charles?
https://www.heraldscotland.com/politics/23219191.poll-scots-favour-republic-king-charles-yes-vote/
> Poll: Scots favour republic to King Charles after Yes vote
A MAJORITY of Scots would prefer an independent Scotland to be a republic rather than keep King Charles as head of state, a new poll has found.
The Panelbase survey found 55 per cent would prefer to have an elected head of state rather than have the current monarch when “don’t knows” were excluded.
In contrast 45 per cent said they would want to keep King Charles as Scotland’s head of state.
The online poll was carried out from December 12 to 16 with 1004 over 16s taking part in the research commissioned by Alex Salmond’s Alba Party.
Neale Hanvey, the party’s Westminster leader, welcomed the poll and said Scotland should have an elected head of state similar to the one in the Republic of Ireland.
“This is a very welcome poll result and it shows that Alba Party are very much in tune with the people of Scotland.”
The question put to voters taking part in the poll was: “If Scotland votes to become an independent country should Scotland be a republic with an elected head of state or should Scotland keep King Charles as Head of State?”
Excluding “don’t knows” overall 55 per cent favoured an independent Scotland being a republic with an elected head.
The result was considerably higher among independence supporters and younger voters, aged 16 to 34, with 79 per cent and 68 per cent respectively backing a republic.
Some 73 per cent of Scots who voted for the SNP in the constituency part of last year’s Holyrood election were in favour as were 52 per cent of those who voted for Scottish Labour.
Among pro-Union voters, there was considerably higher support for King Charles remaining head of state in an independent Scotland with just 21 per cent preferring a republic.
The Scots are farting in the wind, ruminating about such matters. They might as well wonder how many angels can dance on a pinhead.
The days when Scottish independence was a possibility are gone. Notice how the UK is going slowly more authoritarian since Boris. In the future, Scotland will be to the UK as Ukraine is to Russia. The English will not tolerate losing their oil to the Scots. There will be no more pussyfooting around. Russia has shown the way. After all, the Scots are mainly just dole-wallahs and crofters. It was English expertise and technology that developed the North Sea oil fields. We certainly won’t let the Scots get above themselves and try to put one over on us. No way can they outgun us.
So keep watching the sky, Mirror-on-the-Wall. There may just be a missile heading for your house in the not too distant future.
Those who lost their limbs sometimes ‘feel’ they still have it and feel pain to their now nonexistent appendages.
The English still think they have their Empire.
We don’t, but what we have, we hold, and Scotland is going nowhere. England: elephant. Scotland: flea to be stamped on.
The English were too timid to put a bullet to the noggin of Gina Miller, who is responsible for messing up the Brexit more than anyone else.
Independence for Scotland make no sense if they just go on to hand it over to the EU. Why let your 3 year old out if you know your dodgy neighbour will nab them, abuse them and use them against you. Simple realpolitik. UK also needs a military fort on Erin’s isle, to avoid those piss poor clowns getting in with whoever buys then a drink , to surround and starve the UK. Hence putting up with those bowler hat nobheads. Hardly rocket science.
scottish oil has pretty much gone already
King Charles acting all genteel in his first public performance.
“What day is it…. Oh God, I hate this…. I can’t bear this bloody thing…. every stinking time….”
It is actually quite impressive that Brits should be so realistic about the coming year.
https://www.thenational.scot/news/23219891.brits-bleak-outlook-life-uk-2023-poll-shows/
> Brits have bleak outlook for life in UK in 2023, poll shows
Seven in 10 Brits have no confidence that Rishi Sunak’s Tories will be able to tackle the cost of living crisis, polling has found
BLEAK, worrying, f***ed. The words Brits would use to describe the year ahead do not paint a rosy picture for the UK.
And, new polling has shown, just one per cent of the UK public say they are “completely confident” in the Tory government to handle the cost of living crisis which is making the outlook so dire.
In contrast, a massive 70% of people said they were “not confident at all” that Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives would be able to reduce the cost of living in 2023.
The survey, run by People’s Polling for GB News, gave respondents four positive answers to choose from in that question but only one negative – completely, fairly, somewhat, and slightly confident against not confident at all.
In total, less than one in five people (18%) opted for a positive answer.
Asked if they thought their family would be better or worse off in 2023 than they had been during 2022, a significant majority (60%) of people said they thought next year would be harder.
In contrast, just 6% of respondents said they believed they would be better off financially in 2023.
People’s Polling also asked the survey’s 1169 respondents which word or phrase came to mind when they thought about the year ahead.
The most popular, said 51 times, was “difficult”. “Tough” was said 49 times, and “challenging” 42. The words bleak, worrying, uncertain, f***ed, s**t, hard, and expensive made up the top 10.
The polling also suggested that a few people might have laid their hopes elsewhere, as three respondents said 2023 would hold “independence”.
Overall though, people’s perceptions of the year may go some way to explaining the poll’s other key finding, that the Tories are staring down the barrel of a crippling General Election defeat.
Sunak’s party polled at just 19%, down three points on where they had been in People Polling’s survey of the week prior.
The story is becoming pretty obvious in Britain. There is no way of fixing the energy problem. Blue and green hydrogen are supposed hopes, but they are way off in the future. What is available now doesn’t work.
But do they know 2024 will be worse?
Nah, OFW already decided only for
“The next quarter will be worse”.
Hopefully 2023 is the year it all ends… these animals in the gulags are impatient
RISE OF THE ROBOTS Artificial intelligence can replace humans in four key industries and leave billions without jobs, expert reveals
Jona Jaupi
Published: 10:57 ET, Dec 27 2022Updated: 15:20 ET, Dec 27 2022
ARTIFICIAL intelligence could one day replace human workers in four major industries, experts have claimed.
In a new opinion piece for CNN, Peter Bergen says that for a while experts have speculated AI will replace humans in fields such as customer service, insurance underwriting, and manufacturing.
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But now, Bergen has expressed concern that AI may also overtake writers.
“For the past several days, I have been hearing about the AI chatbot ChatGPT,” Bergen writes.
“Users of the tool claim to be able to write coherent essays and op-eds in seconds.”
“So, I signed up to give it a try and asked it to perform a task that I had hitherto believed required at least some level of skill. I asked ChatGPT to ‘Write an op-ed in the style of Peter Bergen.'”
Yet my writing career could still go the way of the grocery checkout jobs eliminated by automation.”
He noted that Al tools will keep getting smarter, and telling apart AI-written op-eds from ‘real’ human ones will also get harder over time.
The Ancient Romans invented the steam engine and used it for amusement purposes…
Once approached about it doing “work”, the Emperor Vespasian retorted..
“Nah. I don’t think so…what will all the little people do?”
It’s fun to read such articles now that we still have access to the black goo that makes the world go round in our imaginations…the reality of when it disappears will bring us back to Earth
Experts? Oh boy… experts are the ones getting us into trouble. I do not even want to read an article that has headlines screaming from “experts”.
AI – if they are so good, why do we still have captcha?
In case you have not notices, those moreons whom you cannot have a decent conversions are probably bots with first version AI. Talking to them will only get you frustrated.
CTG, don’t flatter Norman, our star non-answerer: he’s simply not that advanced……
I encountered a captcha the other day that asked – how many sides are there to a square.
Seems AI can’t figure that out….
Not too knowledgeable!
Huge industry recruiting heretic trolls to false identify objects in picture in attempt to prevent the advent of (A)nt(I)christ.
Happy New Year CTG!
Of course, what the world needs is jobs that pay well. AI is perhaps providing a few of these now to programmers. But there is no way that the jobs that are taken away can be replaced with ones that pay better. The system won’t be a whole lot more efficient. There are diminishing returns to increased complexity. We seem to have already hit that limit.
It would suffice to flood OFW with 10.000 “reasonable looking” comments per day, and we will of course end in mental grey goo.
Musk says: if we can make the world a better place with AI, we should do it.
Hm, what about “should have done …”?
It is what it is.
The American dream is not a dream it is an illusion which will be a nightmare . Tesla shares go down by 74 % from peak but no margin calls for Mr Musk . Copy /paste from TAE >
“The $208bn wiped from Mr Musk’s net worth is roughly equivalent to the GDP of Greece.”
Goes to show it was never real to begin with. The symbolic wealth “name” I wrote on paper isn’t real wealth in the world. Musk knows that but clearly some other people don’t. Speaking of: enduring mystery, $1T in Tesla, $1T in Amazon (which they don’t mention, as it’s pile-Elon time), $1T in crypto, $12T lost elsewhere, no nothin. No bank collapse, no stock collapse, no margin call, no emerging market rush, nothing. No nothing nowhere. Wait: I thought in ‘01 and ‘08 that reversing the inflation wealth effect, servicing of compounding debts mattered? Now it no longer matters anymore? So Tesla can go to $1 market cap and nothing happens? Amazon can be worth $10,000 for their HQ building and nobody calls their debts? Debt-to-assets?
Yup. I guess so now. We’re in a post-reality world. Capitalism where money has no value, is a unit accounting nothing.
A person hopes that there are not debt bubbles holding up the high prices of all of these shares and crypto. If there are, there could be a substantial debt bubble collapse.
Also, I understand that quite a bit of the crypto investments goes to support “stranded electricity” in various places of the world. Thus, if a coal mine is too far away from cities to be helpful for actually running industry, it can be used to produce electricity which is burned near where it is mined, and sold as crypto currency. (This might be a Chinese version, for example.) Or wind or solar energy available when it is not needed.
The collapse of crypto currency would seem to potentially harmful to the revenue streams of stranded electricity producers.
If GW is really caused by man – then why are the crypto operations … not declared illegal … and shut down?
Much easier than trying to force people to take cold showers (except Al Gore of course … he takes 30 minute hot showers then jumps on his private jet to fly to Malaysia to buy durian)
cyrpto mining is called free enterprise
which is exactly what cause GW in the first place
But norm … I have a big empty paddock here … what do you think would happen if I engaged in free enterprise and purchased 100 tonnes of coal … and incinerated it in the paddock?
Crypto is doing exactly that — on a business model that promises to usurp the Fed’s reserve currency…
And nobody stops this.
I don’t expect you to understand the logic here.
dont underestimate my logic
burning 100 tons of coal in your paddock would piss off your neighbours
in theory i could dig out 100 tons of coal from under my paddock (i know its there) and burn it, but that would seriously annoy my neighbours, who i would rather like to keep on side.
heat dissipation from colossal crypto mining pisses off everybody ( at least those who stop to think about it) but nobody sees it happen.
your comparison eddy—has no comparison.
as usual.
none of this make crypto the ‘right’ thing to do—it is bonkers.
If I set that much coal alight … it would do much more than piss off my neighbours…
I cannot find a doc covering the specifics of burning coal — because obviously only someone who is mentally ill would spend tens of thousands of dollars on coal and burn it in a paddock (likewise spending on crypto ‘mining’ fuelled by coal… mental illness)
But as we can see — burning tyres — will bring the police … and the fines… and if I said f789 your fines I will continue… they would bankrupt me .. and eventually jail me
Burning tyres, even just one tyre to get a fire going, is illegal. It is nationally prohibited under the National Environmental Standard for Air Quality (2004). In Canterbury, the burning of all rubber (which includes tyres) is prohibited under the Proposed Canterbury Air Regional Plan (PCARP) rule 7.7(a). The burning of tyres can result in an….
https://www.ecan.govt.nz/document/download?uri=3306272
How about this for free market — Fast Eddy contacts all the tyre replacement shops … offers to buy their old tyres at half price of any other disposal company… instead of disposing of them properly (shipping them to Bangladesh and burning them)… Fast Eddy instead saves the shipping costs… under bids the competition … and burns them non stop in the paddock…
This is better than the coal example cuz this fits your model of being a viable economic enterprise — like crypto right?
Tyre burning and crypto both result in massive amounts of carbon being burned.
And if we are to believe the green MORE-ONS… both activities broil the planet.
We stop tyre burning (which is actually serving a purpose – it keeps the tyres from being tossed in the ocean)… so why don’t we simply ban crypto mining?
All that is required is a law — like the one banning burning tyres.
Logic norm…
you started out burning coal–just as an example obviously
then wandered off
i can only bow out and leave you to it, having tried civilised discussion
Now we see why norm generally refuses to answer any questions….
https://i.makeagif.com/media/5-05-2015/BXwuZQ.gif
Data as unit of value is much better than money.
Data can be used “to get things done” as in Skinner-boxing you with your smart phone. Money is very complicated to steer and command them hoomans.
How about India? If USA is not doing well why all these techies from India want to move to USA?
Kulm , what has India got to do with my original post ? Did I say India is doing better than USA ? Please compare apples to apples and oranges to oranges . Do you have info about how India became a tech hub ? Obviously not . Ask , and I will give you a story which very few know . Not being combative just clearing the muddy waters . Be well .
>> Do you have info about how India became a tech hub? Ask, and I will give you a story which very few know
Please do.
Ivan , here goes . India had a socialist government till 1984 led by Ms Indira Gandhi . She was assassinated and her son Rajiv Gandhi took reins of power . He was a Cambridge University graduate and a licensed commercial pilot and started the move from socialism to capitalism , He was Prime Minister from 1984 -89 . Till about 1990 there was only one company in India doing computer software Tata Consultancy (TCS ) in collaboration with IBM . They were doing work for the Central Bank , space research , nuclear power plants and all software updates and maintained all IBM mainframe . The PC revolution was still in it’s infancy . Then in 1990-91 something happened . It was the Y2K problem . The issue with Y2K was that it was written in old computer language ( Cobol , Fortran etc ) but the west had already moved to DOS . In the west there were no Cobol / Fortran coders . In India during 1990-91 computer education had just started (thanks to Mr Gandhi) and they were teaching Cobol / Fortran in the universities. The west turned to India to repair the Y2K issue . India has the largest workforce of English speaking mathematicians in the world . In 1990-91 the internet was also launched making it easier to communicate . Voila , for 10 years 1990 to 2000 Indian companies ruled the roost and got the western companies hooked on to the Indian software devolpers .Cheap and English speaking . One success led to another and with the end of Y2K started the call centre business and new assignments like back office services etc . . Again a large English speaking population available . In 30 years the industry built itself as a reliable supplier of software . The boom led to large corporates , TCS , Infosys , Wipro ,IIT etc to open their own university campuses to educate the new generation and have a continuous supply of fresh engineers . In 1990 the export of software from India was zero . Today it is about $ 157 billion . It has taken 30 years to be where the industry is today . So that is the story . Small acorns into big trees grow .
Thanks for your take on the subject.
PS, the part about a large English-speaking population being important seems logical. I’m not so sure about Y2K being a leading factor.
Please refer to kulm as the Shoe Shine Boy
So Fast decides to take Hoolio camping this afternoon …
Hoolio almost never leaves the Goat Ranch and is not keen on vehicles… so he usually hides on the floor in the back seat…
M Fast says – you better get him a harness and bring a rope cuz he might run away in the bush (he did that once when I took him biking – he saw the truck on the way back and bolted… I had to go back up a huge hill 2km long to fetch him…)
So Fast stops at the shop to buy a harness – had to bring him in to fit it – he hides under a shelf… then when I get him out he pisses on the floor… lady says no problem happens all the time..
Get the harness and we drive out to the bush…. tie the rope on … he won’t come out of the ute… never mind run for the hills…
https://i.postimg.cc/6Qy5mYnp/Hoo-Camp-1.jpg
Finally Fast gets him out and he hides underneath the ute and refuses to budge even when offered treats…
Fast has to drag him out … here he is back in the ute… not a happy camper….
https://i.postimg.cc/SNf6SN5z/Hool-Camp-2.jpg
Fast loaded back up and drove the 90 minutes back to the goat ranch…. this will end Hoolio’s camping career
Norman has clearly managed to turn Hoolio against you. That dog must be reading the blog comments.
i just dont want hooloio frightened out of his wits when eddy leaps out of bed at 2 am with a sudden urge to pen a line of abuse he’s just thought of.
now me—i keep a pad and pen by the bed, and just write it down and go back to sleep.
by morning it has always matured into something better
or thrown out as irrelevant—usually because eddy has topped last nights daftness
He fears the unknown… he was back to his normal happy self once we returned to the Goat Ranch
He must be great comfort though when you post all those heartbreaking stories.
The last three years have revealed yet another virtue of dogs and their superiority to most humans: they may well try to steal your last sausage, but they’ll never attempt to inject you with a poison labelled ‘medicine’……
only because they dont have opposing thumbs
—–that part is critical to medical care and intervention
but would they inject you, if the sausage was on the balance? We see Hoolio openly disrespecting Eddy, who is probably not as alpha as he lets on. where does it end?
Hoolio will not do … what he does not want to do … this is nothing new
If only he was more like norm … I could just pretend to be a CNNBBC presenter and tell him what to do … and he’d do it…
He’s too clever for that
if you can not control your dog you don’t have to invoke mainstream media.
After BAU, FE is going to be sleeping on top of Hoolio to keep warm in winter.
Hoolio will be on top of straw hay, which is on top of composting cow manure…creating warmth.
Give that creature some love. You have exceeded his capabilities. Get a Rhodesian Ridgeback for camping. A female Alpha to cavort with Hoolio. A theta like him can experience no life without a Alpha. She may not even eat him. Hoolio may even follow the both of you into the wild emboldened and entranced.
I have a question for Gail and of course open also to all those who want express their opinion about it.
According to this newspaper:
‘Beijing terror strategy (that is: opening all of a sudden) has the objective to get things back on track for China. China can only rely on one good tactic to make up lost ground to western economies, namely, a return to lockdowns. This is why one should not take a leap of faith on the catastrophic data it disseminates.’
https://www.laverita.info/la-strategia-del-terrore-di-pechino-serve-a-rimettere-in-volo-il-dragone-2659040770.html
(article for subscribers, but the first lines explain the concept)
Actually I’m not so convinced by this explanation, but at the same time I cannot understand completely why they opened immediately both internally and externally travels for their citizens.
It seems to me a mistake which gives again a bad reputation to China and I don’t see why they chose to do like that. I seems self-destructive.
They could actually have made it in a more gradual way, with a couple of weeks for internal travels and then later also for external travels.
But, in this way, they created a chaos which is useful for those who propose lockdowns, pcr tests, vaccinations, masks and so on, repeating the music.
Only one explanation that I see plausible is that they were in such bad conditions with chaos with tests, people worried and people to get treatments (few drugs available) that they preferred to throw up the problem on others.
A sort of: ‘get some yourself, I’m in deep 6h/t’.
I’d like to know your opinion why China made it so quickly.
Many thanks
I think that they ran out of testing capacity to keep up the lockdowns. They also ran out of manpower to keep the whole system of maintaining food supply and keeping people in their apartments going. They could see sentiment was against this as well.
Allowing people to go abroad was a way of sending their Covid problem to the rest of the world.
There will be a residual effect from any lockdown. I still see a whole lot of people wearing masks in stores. Some older people have decided that they don’t really need to go out as much as in the past: have food delivered; watch church services on TV; go on fewer trips. The equivalent thing will happen everywhere, keeping demand down somewhat.
When Gail speaks, words of wisdom from a world of connections.
Thanks,
Dennis L.
Yes, Dennis, I completely agree.
Thanks Gail 🙂
The diseased hordes from China are coming!!!
Hmmm.. I wonder what happens next.
“China is flooding the world with the brain-dead-variant!” Eeek!
“Nah, I am vaccinated, it is safe & effective. Wait a second….”
Head explodes.
“See, told you so, brain-dead-variant”.
https://rumble.com/v230jdk-australian-covid-released.html
Chris Martenson is channeling JikkyLeaks with their FOI requests for batch testing. It’s all very revealing. It covers the complete breakdown of processing of the mRNA vaccines. 50 minutes… worth a watch to follow how some batches can be identified as obviously deadly, and yet nothing much is being done about it.
I haven’t watched the entire video yet, but the release of some Australian data seems to indicate that some mRNA vaccine batches are substantially different from other. (We saw some indications of that earlier, as well.) I expect the Martenson will come to the conclusion that the bad batches contribute to some people having such adverse reactions to the “vaccine.”
First half talks about how mRNA is created and how it can be … done incorrectly. The consequence of that follows in the second half. It gets horrific once all the pieces are put together. For example, we were told that it needed to be stored at -80c right up to use. Well, they dont really do that anymore, and so it breaks down… and people seem to die more often for it. Just one example of several evil findings in this presentation.
It also sounds like allowing batches to be used for many months longer than had originally been planned is part of the problem.
We have known for a long time that some batches seem to have much higher death rates than others.
Whale Beached!
James Whale, James Whale, what can I say?
He abused all who refused the Jab in his day.
https://twitter.com/THEJamesWhale/status/1433154541038542854?
“I’m really excited about being able to get another shot pretty soon, so all you anti-vaxxers, all you idiots, all you lunatics who keep trolling me, you know what you can do? You can get the vaccine. ”
But James, after getting all those shots,
Has just been hospitalized with “lungs full of blood clots”.
https://twitter.com/THEJamesWhale/status/1604431279470034944?
https://twitter.com/belfastcityfan/status/1605189859798294528
https://twitter.com/belfastcityfan
Fast Eddy, is this your twitter (would explain the “fast”)?
** Vaccine refusenik and proud 👍🇬🇧 🦧🐒🐵
** I identify as a conspiracy theorist. My pronouns are…Told/You/So 😁
no Fast Eddy is Fast Eddy — and he’s posted on James Whales twitter a series of mocking comments F789 James – hope he is gasping for air cuz he is a sun of a bitch scumbag
Pick of the day.
Prick of the times.
I was disappointed to see nobody trolling him re the blood clots… I’d do it but dont have a twatter account
Actually scroll down – there are plenty of trollers haha
FE has an account now
I hope he has a stroke or cardiac arrest next … but I don’t want him to die… oh no … he can’t get off so easily…
We want James to stew in his juices hahaha
Remember the Irish Curse:
‘May you live long! ‘
Long enough to realise how wrong they were in getting injected and abusing others as ‘anti-vaxxers’ etc.
They deserve it: if mandates are imposed again they would be screaming for our punishment, we can be in no doubt about that.
I know a husband and wife who operate an events business. Husband jabbed many times – wife refuses. Wife cannot enter the event venues – making things difficult for their business.
Husband is not at all happy and expressed this using some choice words to a mutual friend. Mutual friend multi jabbed – wife and kids multi jabbed.
I said to the mutual friend — well maybe he should save his choice words for the govt – because what purpose does it serve to have her jabbed when the govt admits and we know – the jabs are NOT effective.
Mutual friend scoffs and takes the husband’s side. Offers no rationale … but she is to blame – not the husband – not the govt.
These rabid beasts are poised to attack anyone who refuses the rat juice… they are brainless zombies… immune to logic and facts…. they are dangerous … if the govt invited them to stone the unvaxxed they would do so gleefully.
Therefore — it is perfectly fine to enjoy their suffering from vax injuries and VAIDS related diseases. F789 them and their f789ed immune systems
They are as vile as it gets.
This is on James Whales Twitter feed hahaha
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E-RCAMOWEAEYrnO?format=jpg&name=medium
I sympathize with you presenting all these high karma cases, but in the end it is all slicing a distribution of casualties. Just random occurrences. Other puppets are alive and well. no trend anywhere to be seen. useless eaters are people too, and they distribute like other segments of the populace. Only Fast Eddy can get excited by watching a random number generator spit out another number.
Human beings like stories about other human beings. Comedies, tragedies, adventures, legends, fables, family dramas, detective stories, and especially something with a moral twist, like where virtue is rewarded, sin is punished or Hubris begets Nemesis. We like it when the protagonist, be they a hero or a villain, gets their just desserts or hoist by their own petard.
A million vaccidents is a statistic, but a single anecdotal vaccident is a work of art and often a morality play in two, three or four acts as well.
but that is the problem affecting the vast majority of the populace, their seeing everything through an ideological lens. Ideology always follows resources. I think it is slightly sinful to push this point of view. It promotes ignorance, and in the end it is nothing better than morality stories I can find on zerohedge.
Sometimes one person is more worth than an entire population.
Mustafa Kemal deserved a bullet for the death of Henry Moseley, probably more worth than the entire population of Turkey now.
For which , Orhan Pamuk, Turkey’s only Nobel laureate (there is a Turkish born physicist who won a nobel but he is an Arab and does not identify as a Turk) needs to get the John Lennon treatment to atone for Kemal’s sins.
I’ve mentioned previously that half a dozen injected zombies have told me that they don’t feel right since their second jab… some say they keep getting sick… a couple of said they don’t have the same energy
I suspect that there are huge numbers of Vaxxies who have simmering issues related to the jabs… not severe enough to seek medical treatment .. but that most of them will never admit to these symptoms…. for obvious reasons. They just hope that they will go away …
The thing is …. they have VAIDS… and VAIDS is permanent… eventually some opportunistic disease is going to break through their weakened immune systems…
They are slowly rotting from the inside…
https://c8.alamy.com/comp/XB1GY9/cut-apple-rotten-inside-XB1GY9.jpg
2012 this all started https://t.me/downtherabbitholewegofolks/61440
DARPA Gain of Function research started in 2012.
Actually the trainwreck was set in motion with the “Anthrax Attack” on 9/21.
The Telegraph (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/12/10/police-called-abusive-reaction-oxford-councils-climate-lockdown/)
Police called in over abusive reaction to council’s ‘climate lockdown’ traffic scheme
Plans to introduce permits for drivers to travel between six areas of Oxford have been likened to the Berlin Wall
Oh hey – do ya think they faked GW — so that they could use it as an excuse to ration heavily depleted energy resources???? Asking for OFW Green Groopies like Herbie and norm
Any approach other than mentioning that there is a shortage of oil that is likely to get worse, not better.
The truth is so precious it has to be accompanied by a bodyguard of lies…..
well it certainly finds its praetorian guard on ofw
Gail you’re the only person saying this that I know of….
It’s the 6 zones in Oxford, and a congestion charge here: trialling both models to see how the public respond I suppose.
Although Oxford is part of the ‘Covenant of Mayors’: mayors across the world quietly entering into international agreements, for which they have no electoral mandate, and imposing them on their citizen slaves.
Some might term that a conspiracy of sorts: but it can’t be, can it?!
When spring comes,
If I’ve already died,
The flowers will bloom in the same way
And the trees won’t be less green than they were last Spring.
Reality doesn’t need me.
I feel incredibly happy
When I think my death has absolutely no importance.
If I knew I was going to die tomorrow,
And Spring came the day after tomorrow,
I would die peacefully, because it came the day after tomorrow.
If that’s its time, when else should it come?
I like it that everything is real and everything is right;
And I like that it would be like this even if I didn’t like it.
And so, if I die now, I die peacefully
Because everything is real and everything is right.
They can pray in Latin over my coffin if they want to.
It’s alright with me if they dance and sing all around it.
I don’t have any preferences about when I won’t even be able to have preferences.
What comes, when it comes, will be what it is.
https://alberto-caeiro.blogspot.com/2006/03/complete-poems.html
The good thing … is that everyone else dies!
About that I’m not sure. “Everyone” is a lot of people, and humans are known to be more sturdy than rats or cockroaches.
The ponds will finish off the survivors of Global Holodomor + Bossche Mutation
Safe Among the Family
by Susan Shore
She never had it easy
All of the toil and tears
That took their toll for so many years
Have gone in a whisper
Now she presses close to her beloved flowers
She would so love the colors of the carpet where she lies
Now the nights go on without her
And the days of pouring rain
Doing what they’ve always done
As if she never mattered
She was in my blood but absent
A torn-out page
From my book of days
Our father kept her close
So she wouldn’t run away
To Paris or Spain
To be a painter
So she put all of her passions into a broken vase
Covered up shades of gray with crimson and violet
So look out of her window
Down to the city streets
Where the bums and the painters
Were familiar as the back of her hand
Like the hags and hawkers
Out on Washington Square
She felt she belonged there
Someone’s missing daughter
Now she presses close
To her beloved flowers
She would so love the colors of the carpet where she lies
Now she stays safe among the family
Now she’s safe
Safe among the family
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=Zlp5h2gZr60
The husband knew what would happen if he gave her too much freedom and acted accordingly
Civilization is born from broken aspirations.
If everybody did according to whatever they pleased, there is n civilization
Hey norm – I get that you are old and that life is not worth much at that point … so you agree to inject the experimental Rat Juice…
But if you are going to experiment on your carcass – why not at least take jabs that pay?
Some good money to be made here https://skintdad.co.uk/highest-paid-clinical-trials-uk/
I notice “hydration therapy” businesses popping up next to the happy ending massage parlors and vape shops. One could use the extra cash from the clinical trials and blood banks to get a soothing injection hydration therapy every day. Its truly a fantastic new world for the injection connoisseur.
I don’t know FE, it could be dangerous for poor old Norm to branch out like that.
Reckless, even.
We need him as our exclusive Covid multi-vaxx trial subject, the safe and effective ones.
And he has so much poetry still in him, and wordsmithing to do – no, I can’t bear the thought of the loss should he take something truly dangerous and experimental.
xabier
i have a lecture planned for early next year—on evolution, so i can’t die yet.
gf says its too soon to die too. seems i’m past my sellby date–but not use by.
you and your mentor give me so much subject matter–its hard to sift through it
We beg of you norm … stop boosting …
i havent boosted for months
i feel like a new man
funniliy enough–my gf said that only last week
Seen this? It’s video of empty covid treatment clinics in Shanghai
https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/remember-how-the-hospitals-in-new
eddylinks??
sorry
once bitten etc etc
Pele is dead rip he was provax so he was probably boosted.
Pele’ had been in poor health for a long time. Diego surely would have been anti vax and he died a lot younger.
Ha – check it out — DIY vax patch — they must be really desperate to bring on the Bossche Mutation https://t.me/c/1588731774/16057
and this! https://t.me/c/1588731774/16059
I keep seeing the same DARPA 2012 video lasting 2:55. It is quite good. Points out the DARPA funded Moderna. Claim was made that vaccine could stop any epidemic in 60 days.
Thank you. I will have a look to that.
Purveyors of Death these presenters… good for her
An ABC News Australia reporter has decided to let the public know that she has been suffering with a heart condition since receiving the Covid vaccination. Eleni Roussos, who is a journalist in the Darwin ABC newsroom broke her silence to reveal that she developed pericarditis after receiving her first dose of Pfizer Covid vaccine. She described the vaccine injury as “a living hell.”
https://newspunch.com/abc-news-journalist-speaks-out-describes-her-covid-jab-injury-as-a-living-hell/
But, did she get the 2nd jab to confirm her IQ is about room temperature?
Actually, just taking part in the fear campaign and taking a PCR test would be sufficient to confirm a low IQ…..
‘ a German study found clear evidence that if discrete nanometer diameter particles were deposited in the nasal region (in rodents in this case), they completely circumvented the blood/brain barrier, and travelled up the olfactory nerves straight into the brain (GRAPHENE-BASED “PCR test”: https://particleandfibretoxicology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12989-016-0168-y
Nice move by the nano ninja’s.’ Its just a test, not the jab’.
What could have caused this? Duh… I only have a 50IQ can someone help me?
Mara Sander on the left picture before her illness: A happy girl on her way to high school. The 18-year-old can no longer hold her head up and eat by herself. (kreiszeitung.de-Montage) © Private
That 18-year-old Mara gets well again and the happy girl she was a year ago: That would be the best conceivable Christmas present for her parents Stephanie and Stefan Sander from Twistringen, just like for Mara’s sister Jette (12). But the fear for Mara is great: she has suddenly become a nursing case. Their symptoms are similar to those that are often reported by long-Covid sufferers, in part they agree with what people who suffer from chronic fatigue syndrome have to endure, and there are also similarities in the clinical picture with post-vac syndrome:
Morbid weakness or exhaustion, exercise intolerance, speech disorders. Today she is in a wheelchair and can no longer eat by herself. But so far it is not clear what Mara has. No medical treatment in various hospitals has worked so far. The fact that her difficulties began before the first confirmed illness speaks against Long-Covid. She was freshly vaccinated when the problems started.
https://tinyurl.com/5ets2k9t
F789… ya…
Usually, 19-year-old Madeline Perrein stresses over everything, analyzing every detail of every situation. She sleeps little, her brain is spinning. But on December 17, 2021, at 2:20 p.m., she went on autopilot. Romane, her roommate and friend, who is following the same object design studies at Jean-Monnet high school, in Yzeure, has just collapsed in the neighboring classroom.
Madeline understands very quickly that it is not a simple discomfort: “I saw her dead.”
While the firefighters have already been notified, she takes stock with a regulating doctor and launches into a cardiac massage Madeline no longer feels the pain in her arm, she can’t see the time passing. She massages her friend for ten minutes. Romane is helicoptered to the CHU Gabriel-Montpied, in Clermont-Ferrand, the firefighters shock her 60 times. She is in a coma.
Madeline, she stayed in her establishment, a psychologist prepares her for the worst. Romane could die: “It would be a miracle if she lived. Madeline is aware of this, she can’t speak anymore, she is in tears. She is afraid of having done something wrong, feels responsible. Her parents come to pick her up and in the car, she asks them: “Can we go to her funeral?” The outcome is happy. Her responsiveness saved Romane. A few days later, she is allowed to visit her while she is in intensive care at the hospital.
She meets for the first time the parents of Romane who takes her in their arms. “We can’t thank you enough,” Romane whispers. After a stay in rehabilitation and the installation of a defibrillator, Romane returned to the roommate and in class. She will never be able to play sports again, but she is alive. Madeline still doesn’t realize it’s thanks to her. The two young girls, who only have brothers, now refer to themselves as sisters. Their parents have become friends.
https://www.lamontagne.fr/moulins-03000/actualites/madeline-a-sauve-la-vie-de-sa-camarade-et-amie-romane_14235104/
Not the jab – he’ll be fine
Midfielder Carlos Sánchez, 38, Santos’ most experienced player, is temporarily away from work at CT Rei Pelé. The result of the player’s pre-season cardiological exams showed alterations in the coronary arteries. Until the tests are redone by the medical department, the Uruguayan will not be able to train with the rest of the group. The club has scheduled a new battery of exams for next Monday and is waiting for the new results to find out if it can reinstate the athlete to the squad commanded by Odair Hellmann.
https://tinyurl.com/5ee4mtpj
F789 Ya – I almost passed out due to excess endorphins reading this one … reminiscent of that 3 way back in 2003 with the SI models after a few lines of blow….
Pro-Vax British radio presenter “excited” about 3rd shot – Hospitalized with “lungs full of blood clots”
A pro-vax radio presenter in the UK who has constantly railed against anti-vaxxers reported being hospitalized last week because of a “lungs full of blood clots,” a common side effect of the Covid-19 mRNA jabs, reports Adan Salazar. According to tweets from James Whale, talk show host of the same name, he received a blood transfusion, but it “didn’t help”. “Apparently I have lungs full of blood clots so they keep me inside to clear them and hopefully it won’t take too long,” Whale wrote in an update Monday.
https://tinyurl.com/bdhkyy49
Whale ranting against “anti-vaxxers” (47 seconds):
“I’m really excited about being able to get another shot pretty soon, so all you anti-vaxxers, all you idiots, all you lunatics who keep trolling me, you know what you can do? You can get the vaccine. ”
https://tinyurl.com/4rzd446e
More really good news
Italian singer cancels show; Spanish MP rushed to hospital with “vision problems”; German wrestler, 18, can’t hold her head up (“doctors at a loss”); Aussie TV reporter has pericarditis
https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/italian-singer-cancels-show-spanish
hahaha this is what they told both my mates — shows nothing …. but it never goes away… of course she wants to believe it’s nothing … everyone does
Actress Mel Maia was in the hospital last Friday, 12/16, after feeling pain in her stomach. On social media, she posted about going to the doctor and left fans and friends apprehensive, as the day before she had vented about being suffering from anxiety attacks. Debora Maia, the actress’s mother, spoke to gshow about her daughter’s trip to the hospital and reassured fans.
“Mel went to the hospital because she had been feeling pain below her rib, on the right side, for a few days now”, she commented. “Then she had an X-ray, and D-dimer, which came back positive for something that scared us. But we did Angiotomography and it was found that there was nothing. Thank God. This pain must really be muscular, as the doctor said”, stated Debora.
https://tinyurl.com/yc6vv2bt
I enjoy these. You have raise these reports to an art form.
As HIV progressively destroys T-cells, is the Spike Protein doing the same to Endothelial Cells?
Our findings show the presence of viral elements within endothelial cells and an accumulation of inflammatory cells, with evidence of endothelial and inflammatory cell death.
Endothelial cell infection and endotheliitis in COVID-19
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30937-5/fulltext?a=true
https://wmcresearch.substack.com/p/game-changer-is-long-covid-an-endothelial
Metabolic Derangement – that’s a new one!
https://wmcresearch.substack.com/p/game-changer-is-long-covid-an-endothelial
Main headlines SCMP.com
Coronavirus in China: drugs and medical devices – the hottest tickets online
Amid health scares and scarcity, oximeters and oxygen generators are must-haves
Residents scour the internet for supplies fearing they won’t have them when they need them
norm can we get your reaction to this
But was he vaxxed and boosted?
“22 year old Wycombe forward Tjay De Barr ‘in a good condition’ after collapsing at Plymouth”
https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11095/12776530/wycombe-forward-tjay-de-barr-receives-urgent-medical-care-after-collapsing-at-plymouth
It was just a medical incident … no big deal…
He’ll retire – CNNBBC will say nothing .. and everyone will forget this medical incident ever happened.
The current Beijing variant passes in nine days with just vitamin C and D. If the Chinese need oxygen generators they must be in terrible health to start with. I guess a life time of severe air pollution is a serious comorbidity.
Heavy air pollution, health eroded by lock-downs, continual stress, poor diet again exacerbated by the Covid restrictions.
Like sticking people in a vast internment camp and expressing surprise when they prove to be sickly and die like flies: if they are actually dying, that is.
I listened to a lot of radio and thus COVID commercials as I traveled for the holidays. The ads are targeted to at-risk populations as they mention diabetes, heart disease, and excessive weight as risk factors.
So, which conspiracy is it – do we have a policy that targets everyone? Or do we have a eugenic conspiracy (i.e. targets the weak and unhealthy)?
i dont suppose you’ve considered a third option?
or is some kind of conspiracy essential to the support of your existence?
Ah yes, the third option: it could be both! You and @houtskool corrected my mistake.
Has anyone on this blog been conspiring against you Norm?…just asking
nope
i spend most of my ofw time debunking conspiracies
unfortununatly they operate on the whack a mole principle
You must be busy keeping the “safe and effective” narrative afloat Norm.
the archive of ofw is open to all
ive never said anything is safe and effective
ive never advised anyone to get vaxxed or otherwise
get your head out of the echo chamber fred
Oh so it’s not safe nor effective?
Have you stopped injecting the Rat Juice?
We are curious.
mike what about you? I recall mike hinting that he’d stopped.
It’s ok to tell us — in this case changing your mind might keep you alive. Although if you are into the boosters — the ship of death has already sailed… just a matter of time now
That stitch in your side that doesn’t go away — well ya… that’s stage 3 cancer
norm should be invited onto BBCCNN as a guest to discuss how he’s been keeping safe and has so far not been killed by the effective vaccines…
You’d luv that wounnit cha normie.
I pitched BBCCNN an idea for a documentary about the Life and Times of Super Snatch – waiting to hear back
We only have radio in our automobiles and I haven’t got the impression that the vaxx ads are implicitly dissuading anyone from getting them. And the DJs are all solemnly bound to promoting them in their ‘soft’ advertisements for anything not nailed down.
What kind of music were you listening to?
We got a big card mailing in our box before Xmas, from the county, encouraging everyone to get boosted and mask up indoors and wash your hands as much as possible.
I like to sample the local flavors when passing through. In rural areas you’ve got religious sermons and country music, rock/alternative in the outskirts, and NPR/propaganda in cities.
Sounds like you came to that impression, then, after a broad sampling. I was wondering if you were listening to classic rock or NPR or whatever, where the demographic might be older to where the metrics were telling them they’ll reel in more overall fish by emphasizing the marketing to sick people. Maybe that’s where they’re at overall, now. Booster uptake is supposed to be pretty low isn’t it?
Both, ivanislav. Both. As in triple jabbed.
To cull or not to cull that is the question? The elders would have thought long and hard on the question.yes most definitely a conspiracy.
ivan,
I don’t think modern diets are good for us, tastes great, goes down easily, rots the body.
Dennis L.
Such people would be high on the Cull list — they are diseased and therefore a burden on the BAU Lite civilization that is imminent.
Encourage all people who are obese and diseased to get boosted. They are worse than useless eaters.
Just picking up a few stragglers.
This show is over. The new DOD contract manufacturing process is installed thats the important thing. Next show cancer vaccines.
Eternal covid emergency status needed for the legals. More people dieing from stubbed toes but covid emergency status stands.
Puzzling that.
Say 2024 with the new high tech op warp speed development processes? They are in the “clinical trials” now.
How far are the new wave of mRNA drugs from us? mRNA product current perspective and future development
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36172353/
Nazi eugenics via Darwinian natural selection.
Think “Hunger Games”
And this will create a beautiful world of the smartest and strongest. (The way it should be)
Don’t forget Mark Middleton (Bill Clinton’s “special advisor”) got Jeffrey Epstein into the White House at least 17 times.
He was found 30 miles from his home hanging from a tree…. With a shotgun blast to his chest.
Cause of death….SUICIDE!!!!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10882101/Family-late-Clinton-advisor-Mark-Middleton-block-release-files-relating-suicide.html
eddy
promise me you wont leap out of bed tomorrow morning and start kb bashing norm norm norm at 7am
i realise i fill the shallow spaces of your restless night—but i wish you wouldn’t do it. Its not good for you.
and i find the idea truly vomitworthy.
and you are frightening the dog—who is innocent in all this.
I’m not completely innocent Norman. No one is.
feel free to reinforce your own inadequacies eddy
you are describing your own fakery—not mine
‘Dr Chin had to stay at a friend’s place because he was so concerned for his safety and there have been sleepless nights for fellow GPs, the practice manager and the other members of the practice team.
‘[This] shows you how reckless anti-vaxxers can be,’ Dr Price added.
‘Facts, reason, and rationality don’t matter – only their twisted agenda.’
On Wednesday, Pacific Pines MedCentres director Deon Raju confirmed Dr Chin had passed away.
He told the Gold Coast Bulletin the cause was a medical issue and ‘not mental health related’.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11578455/Wilson-Chin-Gold-Coast-doctor-received-death-threats-anti-vaxxers-dies-suddenly.html
So that rules out suicide hahahahahaha…. heart attack? he looks fit
Although he was mentally ill – all pro vaxxers are hahahahah
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2022/12/28/05/65981727-11578455-image-a-58_1672207005332.jpg
Perhaps the secret police bumped Dr Chin off, in order to build their case against anti-vaxxers as dangerous?
Some people might think what I say is offensive and it makes them uncomfortable.
But that was the reality before the Great War.
Those running things had no time for the poor, who were fully subject to social darwinism. No mercy, no quarter given.
All the resources were used by those who run Civilization. Nothing for the rest, and the colonials as well.
Only landowners or the equivalent in the city reproduced, the children of the poor dying out after one or two generations at most. I cited the survival rate of Petersburg’s founding hospital was one in 20 around 1890 ; I think Hubbs commented that modern St Petersburg’s orphans are not that much better than back then, and I am sure quite a lot of its alumni are now fighting in Ukraine under the Wagner group or something similar to it.
I have read a library of books about how things were before 1914. I can go on and on and on, but I think that’s enough for me today.
Kulm, yes, managing resources well is important if one does not want all to devolve to wallowing in the mud.
For those without Telegram
Pro vax doctor dies suddenly from a medical (not mental) health issue.
RIP Dr Wilson Chin 🙏🏻
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11578455/Wilson-Chin-Gold-Coast-doctor-received-death-threats-anti-vaxxers-dies-suddenly.html
Oh boo hoo Dr Chin… booo f789ing hoooo…
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2022/12/28/05/65981733-11578455-image-a-56_1672206968050.jpg
Dr Chin made headlines in January, 2022 when he described the impact of a false rumour, spread on social media, that two girls who fainted after treatment at Pacific Pines MedCentres, had in fact died.
The rumour claimed two girls collapsed and began screaming. But Dr Chin told 9News at the time the episode was simply ‘a fainting episode’ unrelated to the vaccine.
But the centre became the target of a campaign of abuse, forcing it to opt out of an under-12 vaccination program and report calls and online threats to Gold Coast police.
‘The death threats and threats from those out there are not worth us jeopardizing the safety of our staff,’ Dr Chin told 9News.
The abuse included threats such as claims the centre was ‘poisoning kids’ and ‘kid killers’ worked there, according to the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners.
Furious RACGP president Karen Price said the abuse was ‘unacceptable’.
To quote Harry Vox – doctors are f789ing scum bags….
I suspect there are a lot of happy people out there celebrating his Vax Death… a lot.
norm – how do you feel? I feel …. very pleased… very +++++++++++++++
The best vax deaths are the ones involving those who inject the Rat Juice… that’s Pure Karma that is…
F789 Dr Chin? yes… yes… f789 him… I hope his family is in deep despair — like all the families of the folks he injected and wrecked…
He is what is known as a son of a bitch.. and deserves to die
He should have stayed at Hong Kong
Enough of whipping norm …
It’s time for … Daily Schadenfreude!
And today’s dose of Schad involves a Pro Vax doctor – who SADSed at Christmas hahaha
https://t.me/TommyRobinsonNews/43532
All together now …. repeat after Fast ‘F789 Him’
Louder ‘F789 HIM’
Now laugh
hahahahahahahaha
norm? Thank Tommy for that 30 seconds of pure joy