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Many people believe that installing more wind turbines and solar panels and manufacturing more electric vehicles can solve our energy problem, but I don’t agree with them. These devices, plus the batteries, charging stations, transmission lines and many other structures necessary to make them work represent a high level of complexity.
A relatively low level of complexity, such as the complexity embodied in a new hydroelectric dam, can sometimes be used to solve energy problems, but we cannot expect ever-higher levels of complexity to always be achievable.
According to the anthropologist Joseph Tainter, in his well-known book, The Collapse of Complex Societies, there are diminishing returns to added complexity. In other words, the most beneficial innovations tend to be found first. Later innovations tend to be less helpful. Eventually the energy cost of added complexity becomes too high, relative to the benefit provided.
In this post, I will discuss complexity further. I will also present evidence that the world economy may already have hit complexity limits. Furthermore, the popular measure, “Energy Return on Energy Investment” (EROEI) pertains to direct use of energy, rather than energy embodied in added complexity. As a result, EROEI indications tend to suggest that innovations such as wind turbines, solar panels and EVs are more helpful than they really are. Other measures similar to EROEI make a similar mistake.
[1] In this video with Nate Hagens, Joseph Tainter explains how energy and complexity tend to grow simultaneously, in what Tainter calls the Energy-Complexity Spiral.
According to Tainter, energy and complexity build on each other. At first, growing complexity can be helpful to a growing economy by encouraging the uptake of available energy products. Unfortunately, this growing complexity reaches diminishing returns because the easiest, most beneficial solutions are found first. When the benefit of added complexity becomes too small relative to the additional energy required, the overall economy tends to collapse–something he says is equivalent to “rapidly losing complexity.”
Growing complexity can make goods and services less expensive in several ways:
- Economies of scale arise due to larger businesses.
- Globalization allows use of alternative raw materials, cheaper labor and energy products.
- Higher education and more specialization allow more innovation.
- Improved technology allows goods to be less expensive to manufacture.
- Improved technology may allow fuel savings for vehicles, allowing ongoing fuel savings.
Strangely enough, in practice, growing complexity tends to lead to more fuel use, rather than less. This is known as Jevons’ Paradox. If products are less expensive, more people can afford to buy and operate them, so that total energy consumption tends to be greater.
[2] In the above linked video, one way Professor Tainter describes complexity is that it is something that adds structure and organization to a system.
The reason I consider electricity from wind turbines and solar panels to be much more complex than, say, electricity from hydroelectric plants, or from fossil fuel plants, is because the output from the devices is further from what is needed to fill the demands of the electricity system we currently have operating. Wind and solar generation need complexity to fix their intermittency problems.
With hydroelectric generation, water is easily captured behind a dam. Often, some of the water can be stored for later use when demand is high. The water captured behind the dam can be run through a turbine, so that the electrical output matches the pattern of alternating current used in the local area. The electricity from a hydroelectric dam can be quickly added to other available electricity generation to match the pattern of electricity consumption users would prefer.
On the other hand, the output of wind turbines and solar panels requires a great deal more assistance (“complexity”) to match the electricity consumption pattern of consumers. Electricity from wind turbines tends to be very disorganized. It comes and goes according to its own schedule. Electricity from solar panels is organized, but the organization is not well aligned with the pattern of consumers prefer.
A major issue is that electricity for heating is required in winter, but solar electricity is disproportionately available in the summer; wind availability is irregular. Batteries can be added, but these mostly mitigate wrong “time-of-day” problems. Wrong “time-of-year” problems need to be mitigated with a lightly used parallel system. The most popular backup system seems to be natural gas, but backup systems with oil or coal can also be used.
This double system has a higher cost than either system would have if operated alone, on a full-time basis. For example, a natural gas system with pipelines and storage needs to be put in place, even if electricity from natural gas is only used for part of the year. The combined system needs experts in all areas, including electricity transmission, natural gas generation, repair of wind turbines and solar panels, and battery manufacture and maintenance. All of this requires educational systems and international trade, sometimes with unfriendly countries.
I also consider electric vehicles to be complex. One major problem is that the economy will require a double system, (for internal combustion engines and electric vehicles) for many, many years. Electric vehicles require batteries made using elements from around the world. They also need a whole system of charging stations to fill their need for frequent recharging.
[3] Professor Tainter makes the point that complexity has an energy cost, but this cost is virtually impossible to measure.
Energy needs are hidden in many areas. For example, to have a complex system, we need a financial system. The cost of this system cannot be added back in. We need modern roads and a system of laws. The cost of a government providing these services cannot be easily discerned. An increasingly complex system needs education to support it, but this cost is also hard to measure. Also, as we note elsewhere, having double systems adds other costs that are hard to measure or predict.
[3] The energy-complexity spiral cannot continue forever in an economy.
The energy-complexity spiral can reach limits in at least three ways:
[a] Extraction of minerals of all kinds is placed in the best locations first. Oil wells are first placed in areas where oil is easy to extract and close to population areas. Coal mines are first placed in locations where coal is easy to extract and transportation costs to users will be low. Mines for lithium, nickel, copper, and other minerals are put in the best-yielding locations first.
Eventually, the cost of energy production rises, rather than falls, due to diminishing returns. Oil, coal, and energy products become more expensive. Wind turbines, solar panels, and batteries for electric vehicles also tend to become more expensive because the cost of the minerals to manufacture them rises. All kinds of energy goods, including “renewables,” tend to become less affordable. In fact, there are many reports that the cost of producing wind turbines and solar panels rose in 2022, making the manufacture of these devices unprofitable. Either higher prices of finished devices or lower profitability for those producing the devices could stop the rise in usage.
[b] Human population tends to keep rising if food and other supplies are adequate, but the supply of arable land stays close to constant. This combination puts pressure on society to produce a continuous stream of innovations that will allow greater food supply per acre. These innovations eventually reach diminishing returns, making it more difficult for food production to keep up with population growth. Sometimes adverse fluctuations in weather patterns make it clear that food supplies have been too close to the minimum level for many years. The growth spiral is pushed down by spiking food prices and the poor health of workers who can only afford an inadequate diet.
[c] Growth in complexity reaches limits. The earliest innovations tend to be most productive. For example, electricity can be invented only once, as can the light bulb. Globalization can only go so far before a maximum level is reached. I think of debt as part of complexity. At some point, debt cannot be repaid with interest. Higher education (needed for specialization) reaches limits when workers cannot find jobs with sufficiently high wages to repay educational loans, besides covering living costs.
[4] One point Professor Tainter makes is that if the available energy supply is reduced, the system will need to simplify.
Typically, an economy grows for well over one hundred years, reaches energy-complexity limits, and then collapses over a period of years. This collapse can occur in different ways. A layer of government can collapse. I think of the collapse of the central government of the Soviet Union in 1991 as a form of collapse to a lower level of simplicity. Or one country conquers another country (with energy-complexity problems), taking over the government and resources of the other country. Or a financial collapse occurs.
Tainter says that simplification usually doesn’t happen voluntarily. One example he gives of voluntary simplification involves the Byzantine Empire in the 7th century. With less funding available for the military, it abandoned some of its distant posts, and it used a less costly approach to operating its remaining posts.
[5] In my opinion, it is easy for EROEI calculations (and similar calculations) to overstate the benefit of complex types of energy supply.
A major point that Professor Tainter makes in the talk linked above is that complexity has an energy cost, but the energy cost of this complexity is virtually impossible to measure. He also makes the point that growing complexity is seductive; the overall cost of complexity tends to grow over time. Models tend to miss necessary parts of the overall system needed to support a highly complex new source of energy supply.
Because the energy required for complexity is hard to measure, EROEI calculations with respect to complex systems will tend to make complex forms of electricity generation, such as wind and solar, look like they use less energy (have a higher EROEI) than they actually do. The problem is that EROEI calculations consider only direct “energy investment” costs. For example, the calculations are not designed to collect information regarding the higher energy cost of a dual system, with parts of the system under-utilized for portions of the year. Annual costs will not necessarily be reduced proportionately.
In the linked video, Professor Tainter talks about the EROEI of oil over the years. I don’t have a problem with this type of comparison, especially if it stops before the recent change to greater use of fracking, since the level of complexity is similar. In fact, such a comparison omitting fracking seems to be the one that Tainter makes. Comparison among different energy types, with different complexity levels, is what is easily distorted.
[6] The current world economy already seems to be trending in the direction of simplification, suggesting that the tendency toward greater complexity is already past its maximum level, given the lack of availability of inexpensive energy products.
I wonder if we are already starting to see simplification in trade, especially international trade, because shipping (generally using oil products) is becoming high-priced. This might be considered a type of simplification, in response to a lack of sufficient inexpensive energy supply.
Based on Figure 2, trade as a percentage of GDP hit a peak in 2008. There has been a generally downward trend in trade since then, giving an indication that the world economy has tended to shrink back, at least in some ways, as it has hit high-price limits.
Another example of a trend toward lower complexity is the drop in US undergraduate college and university enrollment since 2010. Other data shows that undergraduate enrollment nearly tripled between 1950 and 2010, so the shift to a downtrend after 2010 presents a major turning point.
The reason why the shift in enrollment is a problem is because colleges and universities have a huge amount of fixed expenses. These include buildings and grounds that must be maintained. Often debt needs to be repaid, as well. Educational systems also have tenured faculty members that they are obligated to keep on their staff, under most circumstances. They may have pension obligations that are not fully funded, adding another cost pressure.
According to the college faculty members whom I have talked to, in recent years there has been pressure to improve the retention rate of students who have been admitted. In other words, they feel that they are being encouraged to keep current students from dropping out, even if it means lowering their standards a little. At the same time, faculty wages are not keeping pace with inflation.
Other information suggests that colleges and universities have recently put a great deal of emphasis on achieving a more diverse student body. Students who might not have been admitted in the past because of low high school grades are increasingly being admitted in order to keep the enrollment from dropping further.
From the students’ point of view, the problem is that jobs that pay a sufficiently high wage to justify the high cost of a college education are increasingly unavailable. This seems to be the reason for both the US student debt crisis and the drop in undergraduate enrollment.
Of course, if colleges are at least somewhat lowering their admission standards and perhaps lowering standards for graduation, as well, there is a need to “sell” these increasingly diverse graduates with somewhat lower undergraduate achievement records to governments and businesses who might hire them. It seems to me that this is a further sign of the loss of complexity.
[7] In 2022, the total energy costs for most OECD countries started spiking to high levels, relative to GDP. When we analyze the situation, electricity prices are spiking, as are the prices of coal and natural gas–the two types of fuel used most frequently to produce electricity.
The OECD is an intergovernmental organization of mostly rich countries that was formed to stimulate economic progress and foster world growth. It includes the US, most European countries, Japan, Australia, and Canada, among other countries. Figure 4, with the caption “Periods of high energy expenditures are often associated with recession” is has been prepared by two economists working for OECD. The gray bars indicate recession.
Figure 4 shows that in 2021, prices for practically every cost segment associated with energy consumption tended to spike. Electricity, coal, and natural gas prices were all very high relative to prior years. The only segment of energy costs that was not very out of line relative to costs in prior years was oil. Coal and natural gas are both used to make electricity, so high electricity costs should not be surprising.
In Figure 4, the caption by the economists from OECD is pointing out what should be obvious to economists everywhere: High energy prices often push an economy into recession. Citizens are forced to cut back on non-essentials, reducing demand and pushing their economies into recession.
[8] The world seems to be up against extraction limits for coal. This, together with the high cost of shipping coal over long distances, is leading to very high prices for coal.
World coal production has been close to flat since 2011. Growth in electricity generation from coal has been almost as flat as world coal production. Indirectly, this lack of growth in coal production is forcing utilities around the world to move to other types of electricity generation.
[9] Natural gas is now also in short supply when growing demand of many types is considered.
While natural gas production has been growing, in recent years it hasn’t been growing quickly enough to keep up with the world’s rising demand for natural gas imports. World natural gas production in 2021 was only 1.7% higher than production in 2019.
Growth in the demand for natural gas imports comes from several directions, simultaneously:
- With coal supply flat and imports not sufficiently available, countries are seeking to substitute natural gas generation for coal generation of electricity. China is the world’s largest importer of natural gas partly for this reason.
- Countries with electricity from wind or solar find that electricity from natural gas can ramp up quickly and fill in when wind and solar aren’t available.
- There are several countries, including Indonesia, India and Pakistan, whose natural gas production is declining.
- Europe chose to end its pipeline imports of natural gas from Russia and now needs more LNG instead.
[10] Prices for natural gas are extremely variable, depending on whether the natural gas is locally produced, and depending on how it is shipped and the type of contract it is under. Generally, locally produced natural gas is the least expensive. Coal has somewhat similar issues, with locally produced coal being the least expensive.
This is a chart from a recent Japanese publication (IEEJ).
The low Henry Hub price at the bottom is the US price, available only locally. If supplies are high within the US, its price tends to be low. The next higher price is Japan’s price for imported liquefied natural gas (LNG), arranged under long-term contracts, over a period of years. The top price is the price that Europe is paying for LNG based on “spot market” prices. Spot market LNG is the only type of LNG available to those who did not plan ahead.
In recent years, Europe has been taking its chances on getting low spot market prices, but this approach can backfire badly when there is not enough to go around. Note that the high price of European imported LNG was already evident in January 2013, before the Ukraine invasion began.
A major issue is that shipping natural gas is extremely expensive, tending to at least double or triple the price to the user. Producers need to be guaranteed a high price for LNG over the long term to make all of the infrastructure needed to produce and ship natural gas as LNG profitable. The extremely variable prices for LNG have been a problem for natural gas producers.
The very high recent prices for LNG in Europe have made the price of natural gas too high for industrial users who need natural gas for processes other than making electricity, such as making nitrogen fertilizer. These high prices cause distress from the lack of inexpensive natural gas to spill over into the farming sector.
Most people are “energy blind,” especially when it comes to coal and natural gas. They assume that there is plenty of both fuels to be cheaply extracted, essentially forever. Unfortunately, for both coal and natural gas, the cost of shipping tends to be very high. This is something that modelers miss. It is the high delivered cost of natural gas and coal that makes it impossible for companies to actually extract the amounts of coal and natural gas that seem to be available based on reserve estimates.
[10] When we analyze electricity consumption in recent years, we discover that OECD and non-OECD countries have had amazingly different patterns of electricity consumption growth since 2001.
OECD electricity consumption has been close to flat, especially since 2008. Even before 2008, its electricity consumption was not growing rapidly.
The proposal now is to increase the use of electricity in OECD countries. Electricity will be used to a greater extent for fueling vehicles and heating homes. It will also to be used more for local manufacturing, especially for batteries and semiconductor chips. I wonder how OECD countries will be able to ramp up electricity production sufficiently to cover both current uses of electricity and planned new uses, if past electricity production has been essentially flat.
Figure 7 shows that coal’s share of electricity production has been falling for OECD countries, especially since 2008. “Other” has been rising, but only enough to keep overall production flat. Other is comprised of renewables, including wind and solar, plus electricity from oil and from burning of trash. The latter categories are small.
The pattern of recent energy production for non-OECD countries is very different:
Figure 8 shows that non-OECD countries have been rapidly ramping up electricity production from coal. Other major sources of fuel are natural gas and electricity produced by hydroelectric dams. All these energy sources are relatively non-complex. Electricity from locally produced coal, locally produced natural gas, and hydroelectric generation all tend to be quite inexpensive. With these inexpensive sources of electricity, non-OECD countries have been able to dominate the world’s heavy industry and much of its manufacturing.
In fact, if we look at the local production of fuels generally used to produce electricity (that is, all fuels except oil), we can see a pattern emerge.
With respect to extraction of fuels often associated with electricity, production has been closed to flat, even with “renewables” (wind, solar, geothermal, and wood chips) included. Coal production is down. The decline in coal production is likely a big part of the lack of growth in OECD’s electricity supply. Electricity from locally produced coal has historically been very inexpensive, bringing the average price of electricity down.
A very different pattern emerges when the production of fuels used to generate electricity for non-OECD countries is viewed. Note that the same scale has been used on both Figures 9 and 10. Thus, in 2001, the production of these fuels was about equal for OECD and non-OECD countries. Production of these fuels has about doubled since 2001 for non-OECD countries, while OECD production has remained close to flat.
Figure 10. Energy production of fuels often used for electricity production for non-OECD countries, based on data from BP’s 2022 Statistical Review of World Energy.
One item of interest on Figure 10 is coal production for non-OECD countries, shown in blue at the bottom. It has been barely increasing since 2011. This is part of what is now tightening world coal supplies. I am doubtful that spiking coal prices will add very much to long-term coal production because truly local supplies are becoming depleted, even in non-OECD countries. The spiking prices are much more likely to lead to recession, debt defaults, lower commodity prices, and lower coal supply.
[11] I am afraid that the world economy has hit complexity limits as well as energy production limits.
The world economy seems likely to collapse over a period of years. In the near term, the result may look like a bad recession, or it may look like war, or possibly both. So far, the economies using fuels that are not very complex for electricity (locally produced coal and natural gas, plus hydroelectric generation) seem to be doing better than others. But the overall world economy is stressed by inadequate cheap-to-produce local energy supplies.
In physics terms, the world economy, as well as all of the individual economies within it, are dissipative structures. As such, growth followed by collapse is a usual pattern. At the same time, new versions of dissipative structures can be expected to form, some of which may be better adapted to changing conditions. Thus, approaches for economic growth that seem impossible today may be possible over a longer timeframe.
For example, if climate change opens up access to more coal supplies in very cold areas, the Maximum Power Principle would suggest that some economy will eventually access such deposits. Thus, while we seem to be reaching an end now, over the long-term, self-organizing systems can be expected to find ways to utilize (“dissipate”) any energy supply that can be inexpensively accessed, considering both complexity and direct fuel use.
(Eventiavversinews)
”Coincidentally a Marburg virus outbreak breaks out in Equatorial Guinea and again “coincidentally” WHO hopes to test an experimental vaccine against the virus there.”
https://www.eventiavversinews.it/casualmente-scoppia-un-focolaio-di-virus-marburg-in-guinea-equatoriale-e-sempre-casualmente-loms-spera-di-testarci-un-vaccino-sperimentale-contro-il-virus/
Did WHO start the outbreak on purpose? Will the vaccine work any better than that to prevent Covid?
(Eventiavversinews)
”Another drama in the world of soccer. In the past few hours, AEK Athens fullback Oleg Danchenko, 28, on loan to Zarya Lugansk has collapsed during training for stroke. Saved by defibrillator, he is now in intensive care. Danchenko, a Ukrainian footballer who also played in the Champions League with Shakhtar Donetsk, was in training camp with his team in Turkey.”
(incredible, in a single news covid jab adverse event, Ukraine and Turkey. Sincronicity)
https://www.eventiavversinews.it/calcio-sotto-shock-c-rolla-in-allenamento-per-i-nfarto-f-ulminante-era-clinicamente-m-orto/
(sincronicity, in case of leisure)
When you mention *synchronicity, do you assume the Jung theory ?
The latter is basically our subconscious picking up and processing information, then pushing the findings into our consciousness, giving the impression that it came out of nowhere: magic, psychic powers, etc.
For example you meet someone at a bar and talk a little bit. You have a weird feeling but nothing much. Next morning you wake up and the first thought that springs to your mind is “That guy is evil, because of this and that”.
Thank you Art Lepic, I know Jung Theory, but I was just kidding about words, if we want to be precise it should be better named as an episode of synchronism (Turkey, Ucraine and Covid-jab… just that. It is anyway curious)
Basically what the world system was, from 1989 till mid-2022, the whole world system depended upon whether USA was able to get the resources it needed on an ‘affordable’ price.
To make all the wonderful tech and advance to the next level of civilization, it is necessary for USA to monopolize the world’s resources, with no quarters for anyone else not living in the richer part of USA.
But the resource producing countries of the world are now demanding their cuts, which will probably derail civilization. There is no backup plan – the moment US hegemony, which is now being seriously challenged with not too many recourse remaining barring a direct thermonuclear war (which USA might have no guarantee of winning now), the entire system might indeed collapse .
All these apparatuses built to advance civilization will fall into disrepair in a very quick succession once the US dominance falls.
kul,
Dennis has a backup plan.
1. Fusion may be possible.
2. Starship if it works, mine the solar system, smelt with sunlight(get close to sun).
Earth is seemingly a very unique spaceship/experiment. The powers that bee willl think of something, they have so far.
Dennis L.
suppose
just suppose—there are no powers that be
just us, rampaging over the earth to grab what we can—while we can?
The things you have mentioned ‘might’ be possible, but might not be either.
There was half a century to burn and nothing was done and now we are at the final stretch.
If the aim was development, why bring in a bunch of people from cultures without a history and culture of innovation?
The US controllers destroyed the country on purpose. The question wasn’t one of sufficient resources, but of organization and intent.
YES!!! The open immigration started by government law starting in the early 1960s.
To make all the wonderful tech and advance to the next level of civilization, it is necessary for USA to monopolize the world’s resources, with no quarters for anyone else not living in the richer part of USA.
What wonderful tech?
Remind me, Kulm, what was exactly the USA producing between 1989 and 2022. It seems that the biggest ‘production item’ was H2B.
Agreed.
The sky is weird today. It is a diffuse white horizon to horizon. I just hope the Ohio poison blows through before the rain expect tomorrow.
Hopefully there are some hills or mountains in the way .. as we know … they will present an impenetrable barrier to toxins including that stuff that spews out of the spent fuel ponds.
MacGregor (who YT comments on the war) says Taiwan has two political parties one aligned with Japan and the other willing to reunite with China. He expects that in the next election the reuniters will win and a peace settlement will be negotiated. Clearly the DC one world government folks will be pushing hard for a war before that election.
I had heard about fact that there are people in Taiwan who are interested in reuniting with China before. This would agree with that.
Ironically the KMT is led by Chiang Kaishek’s great-grandson now and it is the party which wants to reunite. The other party, now ruled by the current president, is led by the native Taiwanese who want independence.
Taiwan is a bad joke. It is the FYROM of the APAC region. How can anyone perceive it as more than a joke given that they call themselves Taiwan. FFS, even Formosa would have been more appropriate.
A new study (retracted by the editor) estimates the number of deaths from Covid vaccines worldwide at 13 mio people.
https://correlation-canada.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/2023-02-09-Correlation-Age-stratified-vaccine-dose-fatality-Israel-Australia.pdf
Sometimes what appears to be a problem is a feature. Demographics, always demographics.
Dennis L.
You can bet that this is a hot topic.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/12/world/asia/japan-elderly-mass-suicide.html
“I can’t sleep because of the pain”: Eric Clapton speaks more truth about his injuries (and calls for kindness all around), while Springsteen limps across the country, key bandmates down with “COVID”
https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/i-cant-sleep-because-of-the-pain
Eric is not a Shad target cuz he speaks up
You’re getting soft Fast Eddy. 🙂
Fast runs into the postman here in Toronto … having a chat and Fast says … you ever get any crazy stuff turn up … one time he had 2k in cash in an unmarked envelope … turned it in to the cops – 3 months later it was unclaimed so he got to keep it..
Oh ya says Fast .. cool… you ever get any bricks of cocaine with a Colombia post mark? Never he says…
You ever find something like that you know where to bring it… for an all cash deal.
I’ll keep that in mind he says… I’ll keep that in mind
http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2023/02/a-world-without-finance.html?m=1
CHS jumping on the national socialisms train of thought, with a formal prediction of it, though his ideas still need developing. The end of finance, and without a transition to Marxism, means public banking national socialism by definition.
hahaha https://t.me/downtherabbitholewegofolks/64907
Musk the saviour … with .,,, hmmmm… https://t.me/downtherabbitholewegofolks/64924
Shad Time!
Captain of Boys’ Soccer Team Rescued in Thailand Cave in 2018 Dies Aged 17
His death is not be classified as suspicious
Duangpetch ‘Dom’ Promthep, rescued from flooded Thailand cave, was attending soccer academy in England
Promthep, 17, was found unconscious in his dorm room at the soccer academy he was attending in Leicestershire since late 2022, the BBC reports. He later died at a local hospital.
https://www.foxnews.com/world/captain-boys-soccer-team-rescued-thailand-cave-2018-dead-17
Dead at 17? That’s awesome!
Never even had the chance for a VIP Room lap dance .. how sad boo hoo.
Going to a Leafs game later — with some boosted folks — how cool would it be to see a player drop… I suppose I’d be the only person in the entire arena smiling (can’t laugh… bad form)
Shame he never got to meet pedo norm
Shedding?
“Nano Tech Findings PART TWO Reveals Terrifying Findings In Global Extermination Agenda”?
https://www.stewpeters.com/video/2023/02/nano-tech-findings-part-two-reveals-terrifying-findings-in-global-extermination-agenda/
There is now an update to the Pipeline Bombing story available:
https://www.eugyppius.com/p/nord-stream-update-in-lengthy-interview
NORD STREAM UPDATE: In lengthy interview with the Berliner Zeitung, Seymour Hersh offers more intriguing details about his source’s account of the attack
Wow!
totally different genre
i wouldnt want to intrude into tim’s reality
what was it someone said a week or so ago eddy?
something about a one stringed guitar?
One string … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8H-67ILaqc
you know the rule eddy
never open an eddylink
It was actually pretty cool. Guy with a one string guitar.
thanks withnail
eddy has a habit of posting clickbait links—so i never open them
Wazza matter norm ,,, you think Fast is gonna click bait you into a hard core animal scene with Super Snatch? HE wouldn’t do that…
same old obsessions and fixations eddy?
tells us all so much more than we really need to know about you
You lend such an air of culture to OFW
You are what you are norm… we see you (NOF)
I know these inventories of WTI crude bounce up and down and there’s a difference between crude supply vs refined (distilled) gasoline supplies depending on refining capacity and switches from winter to summer blends. But why did Biden make a recent draw down on the SPR of crude if there is a crude build? (Demand destruction offsetting deminishing supply?) Or could be that retail prices of gasoline may be on the way back up and he might be wanting to head this off? And I get it that a SPR draw is peanuts compared to the amount of oil that is consumed daily and shouldn’t affect price and is only a very short lived nudge in the scheme of things.
But if there is a crude build, shouldn’t he be trying to refill the SPR, especially if it could be filled at lower cost, assuming that a crude “build” should result in lower prices?
This SPR draw last week would only make “sense” if Biden, or rather, his handlers, was deliberately trying to starve the consumers of future gasoline availability by setting up this trap. Kind of like this EV push with a woefully inadequate power grid, and the ability for the govt to have “kill switch” control of the grid.
It seems to me that the citizens are being set up to be screwed on all fronts. Higher interest rates with non survivable debt loads, steering toward squeezing off future oil availability as the SPR is quietly drained, all while spewing these phony tropes of climate change, carbon credit and green energy.
Meawhile, LNG ships are reportedly (Steve S Angelo SRSroccoreport.com (paywall) idling off the Texas coast now that the production is back on line. The loading ports are not fully occupied on the Google earth map, and some fully loaded LNG tankers are still “awaiting orders” where to head to deliver their supply. Same for LNG loading docks in Qatar. Are they playing the short term price arbitrage game because of developments in Europe vs a mild winter, the sobering reality of Ukraine War outcome (Ukraine is and has been losing), or the monetary/debt/derivatives situation?
https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/wti-extends-losses-after-massive-crude-inventory-build
. But why did Biden make a recent draw down on the SPR of crude if there is a crude build?
We worked that one out a while back here on OFW. The crude building up will be too light to make diesel.
I have been trying to see what is happening, but it is less than obvious. Clearly, not enough of something is being purchased, somewhere in the world. Or a statistical adjustment is being made, and we are not being told about it. We have seen this with employment figures.
These are some links that should be helpful:
https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/pet_sum_sndw_dcus_nus_w.htm
https://www.eia.gov/petroleum/supply/weekly/
This Week in Petroleum is not out yet, but it should be this afternoon.
https://www.eia.gov/petroleum/weekly/
One thing I notice is that Gross Refiner Inputs have been down since the week ended 12/30/2022.
https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=WGIRIUS2&f=W
US Product Supplied (“Consumption”) has been down since the wee ended 12/30/2022.
https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=WRPUPUS2&f=W
Gasoline prices are up a little from what they were in late December:
https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=EMM_EPM0_PTE_NUS_DPG&f=W
On-road diesel prices tend to be down a little recently:
https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=EMD_EPD2D_PTE_NUS_DPG&f=W
I know that Georgia temporarily discontinued its gasoline tax in 2022, but now it is back. This could contribute to the higher recent price, for example.
Yes all seems very strange.. keep everyone confused…. And in the dark … I fear that facism or communism is just around the corner…then massive war
This is serious…
BEIJING (AP) — China said Wednesday it will take measures against U.S. entities related to the downing of a suspected Chinese spy balloon off the American East Coast.
At a daily briefing, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin gave no details and did not identify the targets of the measures.
China says the balloon was a unmanned weather airship that was accidentally blown off course and accuses the U.S. of overreacting in bringing it down with a missile fired from an F-22 fighter jet.
Since the Feb. 4 downing of the balloon, the United States has sanctioned six Chinese entities it said are linked to Beijing’s aerospace programs.
Why not released phoney weather balloons over the United States in droves and let them shoot them down with their expensive hi tech missiles..cost benefit ..
Should be fun..
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hiwgOWo7mDc
They can have them play this song as they enter US airspace!
Conflict possibilities with the Chinese seem to be ramping up. These balloons seem to have been around for a decade, but now, with not enough resources for the world as a whole, we start getting a new, more war-like narrative.
As Brian Berletic has stated or alluded in his You Tube New Atlas podcast, cost benefit ratio is quietly gaining more significance in war strategy as weapons/missiles/munitions become scarce on the Ukarinian side. Russia, he argued, had already figured this out, wisely not wasting men or munitions on low value targets, based on a cost benefit analysis. Also, not electing to defend areas that were of no strategic importance, like western Kherson. It isn’t worth it to use an expensive missile just to take out an armored personnel carrier. It is good strategy to make the enemy waste precious costly anti-ballistic defense missiles on low cost expendible drones like Iran had been producing.
It is really impressive how Russia is handling things. It speaks well for the future of their society. They are capable of acting like adults and habitually making rational decisions under immense pressure.
The West meanwhile projects ridiculous fantasy narratives about what is going on and why. Europe looks to come the worst out of this, but societies get what they ‘deserve’? They make decisions and they live with them.
Wars can get boring – but Russia is managing its conflict in rational ways, and it is not supposed to be some entertainment or some instant gratification for them. It is a serious matter, not some 2 hour movie.
More proper gander from the meow trait or s.
“The West meanwhile projects ridiculous fantasy narratives about what is going on and why. Russia is managing its conflict in rational ways.”
Hmm. What about the Russian leader’s fantasy about a “special military operation” that would last 2 weeks before the Ukrainian government collapsed? Reminds of AH’s invasion of the USSR – “It’ll be like kicking in a rotten barn door”, he said. Wrong! This is not a winnable war. Both sides have suffered massive losses of men and materiel. Both are losers. Whichever side the West picked, it was backing a loser and wasting precious resources.
The war has though exposed the potential traitors in our midst – naming no Meows. 🙂
Hmm. What about the Russian leader’s fantasy about a “special military operation” that would last 2 weeks before the Ukrainian government collapsed?
But where did you get this story about what Putin supposedly thought?
The media just makes it all up.
Hubbs… what sort of symptoms could I report to a GP in order to get a prescription for Fent or ideally Super Fent?
I am good at acting and faking illness.
I once feigned mental retardation and disability as I j-walked in Shanghai… and avoided a fine — I was with M Fast and not married yet so she could have taken that as a signal to bail .. but she didn’t… must have been intrugued
hazmat suits
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjBo–1n8lI
They cheer when she sniffs her ruckus hole wtf ya
Primates.
Aside from the floors going up and down, the choreography is actually very unpleasant.
I found myself hoping she’d have a vax injury… collapse … and fall to the ground
How about next time we put her on the field and get this guy to hit her like this?
How bad isn’t that bloated tripe?
Now back to some real edu-tainment.
https://youtu.be/zVhQOhxb1Mc
I’m expecting the app “u r my bomb” to be launched any day soon.
The rapacious primate clearly wants it.
They shouldn’t be denied that under any circumstances.
In the mean time:
“YOLO!
Hypers gonna hyper!
MOARons gonna moaron!
Tryhards gonna tryhard!
All retch and no vomit!
In perpetuity!
Amen.”
— Oat Jesus
Ahh. Come now…
There’s a new inflation warning for consumers coming from the supply chain
UPDATED MON, FEB 13 2023 5:57 PM EST
Lori Ann LaRocco CNBC
https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2023/02/13/a-new-inflation-warning-for-consumers-coming-from-the-supply-chain-.html
Warehouses and distribution centers are pushing rates higher, with U.S. storage prices up 1.4% month-over-month and nearly 11% year-over-year.
An inventory glut will impact consumer prices, with the latest consumer price index data due out Tuesday.
Charges to use cargo containers as temporary warehouse space are going to explode in the coming quarters, according to one port and intermodal expert.
From construction to retail, key sectors of the economy expect pricing pressure to remain.
….While many sources of supply chain inflation that stoked higher goods prices have come down sharply — including ocean freight rates and transportation fuels — bloated inventories due to a lack of consumer demand are sustaining upward pressure on warehouse rates.
…Phillip Ross, accounting and audit practice leader of Anchin’s architecture and engineering group, said supply chain inflation has made it more difficult for companies to manage completion times for projects.
“In some cases, we are looking at six to eight months before materials will be available,” Ross said. “Construction, as one of the largest industries in the U.S., is uniquely impacted by the supply chain, which led to construction companies experiencing not only delays in their work but also increased prices for materials.”
Some inflationary elements stemming from Covid-related supply chain disruptions remain, according to Jim Monkmeyer, president of transportation at DHL Supply Chain. These include higher costs related to diversion of containers to East Coast ports, production disruptions and shortages in China and elsewhere, and intermodal constraints forcing higher cost alternatives, such as air freight and expedited truck.
Even with the rate of inflation slowing, higher consumer prices are expected to remain for a variety of other reasons, from contract terms set with suppliers before recent disinflation and company desire to maintain profit margins.
Steve Lamar, CEO of the American Apparel and Footwear Association, tells CNBC that shippers are also finding it harder to absorb extra costs as a result of the Trump-Biden tariffs on China. “These tariffs are now hitting $170 billion and are baked into the cost of goods and, hence, higher prices at the register,” Lamar said. “The tariffs make it harder for companies to absorb other inflationary costs.”
Other reason cited in the article for inflation …not a mention of any generation, imagine that…
I am afraid that there is nothing that can get prices permanently down. Producers have high costs. Complexity builds in high distribution costs. The whole economy has to be shifted, so that far more people are involved with food production and energy product production, and far fewer are involved in education/medicine/entertainment/financial services. The cost of shipping goods will again become very high. Trade will become regional.
Fusion, space mining would work well.
Dennis L.
As you have said before, it may not become high in price, but high in value.
If the economy goes into deep recession or depression than the price will be low…relatively speaking…cheap oil but we won’t be able to afford it
They are so stooopid … that https://t.me/TheHealthForumNZch/3111
Damar https://twitter.com/thechiefnerd/status/1625350340663992320
“Sudden Adult Death Syndrome is now the most common cause of death in Alberta on a death certificate” ~ Dr Roger Hodkinson
https://brightlightnews.com/interview-medical-colleges-out-of-control-dr-hodkinson-alexander/
A Brief Analysis of DMED Data
Excess Symptoms in 2021
U.S Military Personnel Since Rollout of Covid Shots
Cancer ~ Excess = 74,000
Nervous ~ Excess = 780,000
Cardio vascular ~Excess = 87,943
Infertility and Reproductive Dysfunction ~Excess =12,124
RESULTS
• Excess cancer alone effected 3.5% of the entire military population
• Excess diseases of the nervous system effected 37% of the entire military population
• Excess cardiac and blood disorders effected 4.1% of the entire military population
Given that some of these symptoms may overlap with some people suffering more than one symptom, it is conservative to say that 5% of the entire military force has just been taken out by cancer and cardiac alone.
Up to one third may have been weakened by diseases of the nervous system – the majority of which involve destruction of the myelin sheath surrounding nerve fibers
Craig Paardekooper
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@childcovidvacvineinjuriesuk
Why poison the military?
Governments have always used soldiers as cannon fodder or guinea pigs, knowing that low ranking personel (that is, the children of the poor) can be easily replaced. And as i suppose you know, US military personnel are regularly injected, at least since WWI, with all sorts of poisons. To the point that people more knowledgeable than me attribute the origin of the so-called “influenza pandemic” to the meningitis vaccine.
not meningitis of course, but typhoide and tetanus vaxes.
(Jerusalem Post)
”Israeli security expert behind worldwide election manipulation efforts – report
Israeli security expert and founder of Demomam International Tal Hanan found to head a team working to manipulate global politics.
A team of Israeli contractors is responsible for having manipulated more than 30 elections around the world through hacking, sabotage and automated misinformation, The Guardian has revealed after an in-depth investigation.
In an article published early Wednesday morning, The Guardian reported that a team of Israeli operatives has been working under Israeli security expert Tal Hanan, a 50-year-old former special forces operative and CEO of Demomam International, to manipulate election outcomes in dozens of countries over the last two decades.
Working under the codename “Team Jorge,” the operatives offer their services to those looking to meddle in elections worldwide, as well as to corporate clients, the investigation revealed.
[…] According to the investigation, the software known as Advanced Impact Media Solutions (AIMS) controls over 30,000 fake social media profiles all of which can be used to spread disinformation or propaganda far and wide at extraordinary speed.
[…] The services have been used across Africa, South and Central America, the US and Europe. […] According to the investigation, much of the work conducted by the team in the arena of political manipulation centers around disrupting or sabotaging election campaigns. […] They also state that they have been involved in consulting for government agencies around the world, including in Israel, North and South America, Europe, Africa and Southeast Asia. […] Hanan claimed that Team Jorge has completed “33 presidential level campaigns, 27 of which were successful.”
https://www.jpost.com/business-and-innovation/article-731636
“Team Jorge has completed “33 presidential level campaigns, 27 of which were successful.”
So much for ‘Russiagate’ and the hysteria around supposed Russian interference in elections, which has been discredited.
Meanwhile everyone will basically just ignore this.
People will try to weaponize myths for partisan advantage while they completely ignore reality.
Arguably societies that behave in that way are radically incompetent and they ‘deserve’ whatever they get?
It is difficult to sympathise with societies that habitually act like that; it is just a surprise that they have lasted this long?
This is disturbing. The whole world lives on false narratives of various kinds.
Maybe it always has; 80/20 rule. If the universe needs iron to make a biological space ship, it super novas a star; the greater good.
The universe does not appear deterministic. The information is all out there, one needs to pick the correct pieces.
Dennis L.
The Universe does not seem to be working towards the direction you want to take
Why is this info being released now?
Elections don’t matter.
It is incredible, it is a news that should stop the world for a week, but as Mirror said, no other newspaper will report it and basically everyone will ignore that.
I’m anyway grateful to Jerusalem Post and Guardian (original article) to report the news. Although JP, in my view, wrote a better and more clear title for the article.
Again, I can note that israeli readers have good reports on their newspapers and can be better informed that us, on average, in Europe (and maybe also in US).
Having said that, they have their serious problems to deal with anyway.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/15/aims-software-avatars-team-jorge-disinformation-fake-profiles
It’s not OUR Fault!
Inflation will remain ‘sticky’ for a decade—and Gen Z and millennials are to blame, an investment chief says
Will young Americans’ spending habits be what causes inflation to stick around longer?
BY TRISTAN BOVE
https://fortune.com/2023/02/14/smead-sticky-inflation-decade-millennials-gen-z-spending/amp/
February 14, 2023 6:12 PM EST
Part of what’s behind the expected buying boom and “sticky” inflation is demographics. Nearly 100 million Americans are at an age when they tend to spend big, according to Bill Smead, chief investment officer at investment firm Smead Capital Management.
“We have 92 million people between 22 and 42, and they’re all going to spend their money on necessities the next 10 years, whether the stock markets are good or bad,” Smead said in an interview Tuesday with CNBC.
With all the big purchases such as homes over the next decade, the economy will continue to run hot, making the Fed’s long-term goal of reducing inflation much harder to achieve, Smead said.
Young Americans’ spending
Smead’s argument is largely backed up by recent survey data. In 2021, nearly 70 million Americans were between the ages of 19 and 35, and around 150 million, or almost half the U.S. population, was between 19 and 54. These are prime spending years, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, as expenses for almost every category—including food, housing, clothing, and transport—increase the most between ages 25 to 54, when incomes tend to peak and people make most of their big purchases.
Millennials and most members of Generation X are still in their spending prime, and many will continue to be so over the next decade. The older members of Generation Z, who are now in their mid-20s and relatively early in their careers, are also expected to join the big spending club in the next few years.
Millennials, who surpassed baby boomers as the largest age group in the U.S. in 2020, will likely make up most of the spending as they age into homebuying. The number of Americans aged 18 to 44 and responsible for the most spending is forecasted to grow by almost 5% between 2020 and 2030, according to the Census Bureau, which is good news for the economy, but not so much for reducing inflation.
Not that printing up a sh#t load of worthless fiat currency and massive borrowing by the Boomer Generation in Power had nothing to do with it..OK Boomers 😉
At least I can sleep better, it’s not my fault
These young people are at an age when a person would expect spending to be high, but these young people disproportionately have a lot of student debt. There are a lot of single parents in this group, thanks to a high divorce rate and some mothers giving birth out of marriage. Wages are not nearly as high now as when their parents and grandparents were this age.
I don’t think that these young people are able to ramp up spending much. If they are ones who plan, they have one or zero children. With few children, they don’t need to spend as much. The asset price inflation that was possible in years past, as interest rates fell, is no longer available. This cuts off a source of funds the older generations had.
Mothers out of marriage are >50% in the US.
My dad made $5K/year in the fifties, a Cadillac maybe $3K. A cop today perhaps $60k/year, so 12x makes a cadillac $36K. A Camry hybird is about that all in, taxes, etc. It is a much better car, the Cadillacs of the fifties were not very good and at 100K miles were pretty well finished, maintenance, maintenance, maintenance. A detective friend of my father started out with a basement house – tar paper on what would be the floor for a roof; they “boys” helped out and eventually he had a fairly nice home.
YouTube suggested a site on NY Hasidic Jews, very interesting. Woman being interviewed had about seven children as I recall, attractive, claimed to be happy being a woman. They have a set of rules, Torah and communal; women dress with high neck lines, elbows covered, knees covered and were shown shopping in a two row woman’s clothing store. On the surface this appears to work.
We have lost our educational system to ideas which babysit only at best, we have sexualized everything including football. We choose our mates poorly, our children suffer and our economy suffers.
We have strong hints fusion may be possible, space may be accessible in an economic manner, and perhaps we get a helping hand understanding with AI. They are thinking of a number of things, they have thought of something. We are not the creators, that is arrogance.
Dennis L.
Hasids are group oriented. It is good for them not so good for the rest of the society.
My favorite Hasid story they were buy two tractor trailer trucks of bluejeans to export to eastern Europe. The trucks arrive and they arrive with 50 people who proceed to count each and every one of the jeans. After the count they pay with cash.
I do love the Hasids who hold protests against Israel because it is man’s Israel not G_d’s Israel.
We have strong hints fusion may be possible
No we don’t.
steve wants your money https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/about-my-new-hedge-fund
and matt wants your money to release his take on why you shouldn’t give steve your money
https://roundingtheearth.substack.com/p/kirsch-capital-equities-fund-buyer
They are finding against ‘the greatest evil of all time’… yet they want your money.
My understanding is that both of them are extremely wealthy.
FE, you know how to light my fuse! LOL.
No one is seriously interested in solving problems because that requires sacrifice. Instead, everyone out there is exploiting the situation for their own financial gain. I get it that everyone deserves to make a living, but not by living off the useful productive workers.
In my former career, even the medical malpractice defense lawyers loved the system of torts, where doctors were expected to be sued. You can’t sue a lawyer for legal malpractice. Because lawyers are the only ones who are entitled to sue other professions, just as big bankers are entitled to make big profits. Because that is what banks are entitled. It doesn’t matter if they are lousy businessmen, lousy planners or analysts. They are entitled to make a killing. Because they are bankers. But we have all these useless parasites especially in government and finance.
Even those who preach religion in the realm of finance reform are quite the hypocrites. Like locusts. Ignore them all and visit a fortune teller instead. Economics is the “dismal science.” Glorified coin tossing.
Mike Maloney, Chris Martenson, Jim Rickards, Martin Armstrong, John Rubino, Alasdair Macleod , Buffet, and even little mooching twerps like Manaco 64 who has done nothing his entire life but sell bonds in the London and Swiss banks -all part of the perpetual scam, now preaches financial religion. He plays golf, hires pet groomers, other workers to paint or remodel his house- never has done a damn thing with his own hands. I heard his dog Billie died.
Everyone wants your money. No one wants to do any useful productive value added work or provide any useful skills or services. Just wealth transfer money changers. The creation of this fractional reserve fiat debt based central bank system of “money” is the core enabler of this,
As a banker once said to me:
‘We make so much because we’re worth it!’ and then burst out laughing at the absurdity of the proposition.
Molnupiravir (Lageviro) antiviral treatment lead to the rapid accrual of hundreds of SARS-CoV-2 mutations; study demonstrates that Molnupiravir can ‘supercharge’ viral evolution potentially generating
https://palexander.substack.com/p/molnupiravir-lageviro-antiviral-treatment
This references a not-yet-peer reviewed report out of Australia. The abstract says:
It sounds like the problem is especially with immunocompromised patients taking the antiviral Molnupiravir.
Yes – like the billions who have VAIDS.
Nicola has walked, which is shocking if not entirely surprising.
The Tories have collapsed in the polls, and Labour is resurgent, with up to a 30 point lead in England, and their share of the vote has doubled in Scotland from 15% a year ago to 30%, which is eating into SNP support. The possibility of that scenario was always foreseeable. Labour is likely to have a majority of 100s of MPs in Westminster, so they would not need a deal with SNP to prop them up, and they likely plan to do regional reforms before any independence vote.
And the trans debacle was just…. welllll.
So, it is a time for SNP to consolidate. It has done amazingly well to keep support for independence around 50% following the Indy1 referendum in 2014.
So now, the Unionists can throw a dance party, but it is just a matter now of consolidation and awaiting more favourable circumstances. Tbh, the age demographics of independence support suggests that it probably would be best to wait for a few more years anyway. The loss of Indy2 would have been a hard blow, so maybe a wait is for the best anyway.
It is all good lol.
https://inews.co.uk/opinion/polls-nicola-sturgeon-resigned-2150070
Take one look at the polls and it’s no surprise that Nicola Sturgeon has resigned
Nicola Sturgeon as Westminster’s kingmaker has looked increasingly unlikely over recent months
Nicola Sturgeon, frankly, is no ordinary politician. Under her leadership the SNP won, convincingly, the popular vote in Scotland in three consecutive General Elections, two consecutive Scottish parliamentary elections, and led the way in Scotland at the European Parliament elections in 2019.
Her popularity – albeit among a singular but large group of voters – gives her a rockstar-like status north of the border; polling in 2015 found her more popular in Scotland than Andy Murray and Billy Connolly. While there had been some murmurings of her possibly losing her appetite for the top job, her resignation will come as a huge shock for people and politicos across the UK (and, indeed, the world, given her position as leader of a popular separatist movement).
But her legacy, election victories aside, will be much debated. She did not deliver independence. She did not even deliver an independence vote, and her attempts to force one, through continual pressure on weak Conservative-led governments in Westminster, as well as an attempt to subvert Westminster by going through the Supreme Court, all fell short. What we’re left with, then, is this incredibly divisive leader, looked upon like a deity to a vast proportion of the electorate, but an enemy to many others, who leaves huge shoes to fill for her successor but whose ultimate goal remains unfulfilled. The state she leaves Scottish politics in is a position of relative strength, but with endless question marks about what comes next for her party, the independence movement, and Scotland more broadly.
Some of those questions will be answered, in part, by how much personality really trumps policy when it comes down to independence and the future of the SNP. The independence vote is, much like the unionist one, deeply entrenched and it feels unlikely that one leader stepping down will make a huge difference to that.
Indeed, Sturgeon’s predecessor, Alex Salmond, was very popular when he left office too, and the transition from him to Sturgeon appeared to galvanise support for independence, rather than diminish it. There is, however, nothing saying that the SNP’s next leader will have the same impact Sturgeon had. While yes, it will be a firm prerequisite of any new SNP leader to be staunch supporter of independence, there are some divisions in the party about the means upon which independence can be achieved and what it would mean for Scotland long-term. If the new leader cannot get the whole party singing from the same hymn sheet – which is likely to include Sturgeon’s husband, who is currently the SNP’s CEO – they may not have the impact Sturgeon did and therefore support for independence could fall away slightly, especially among that small pool of floating voters.
Other parties may also sense an opportunity. Savanta’s last poll in Scotland showed the SNP down three points in both the Westminster and Holyrood constituency voting intentions, with Labour hanging around 30 per cent in each, significantly higher than where they were 12 months before. The independence vote and support for the SNP are intrinsically linked, of course, but while views around independence are highly entrenched, party support is perhaps a little less so. Unionist parties, as well as independence supporting ones like the Scottish Greens and Alba, may well be looking to capitalise on a period of uncertainty for the SNP.
Nationally, the move is significant too. It wasn’t that long ago where Labour were not far enough ahead in the polls for it to seem likely that they’d be able to command a majority in the House of Commons. There was always a question mark over whether Labour would need to promise a second independence referendum in exchange for SNP support in Westminster to pass key votes if they were unable to govern alone. Nicola Sturgeon as Westminster’s kingmaker, however, has looked increasingly unlikely over recent months, with current polling suggesting Labour could stroll to a sizable Westminster majority without needing anything whatsoever from the SNP.
So perhaps, then, this is the right time for Sturgeon to bow out. There were some indications that her popularity was waning, too. When Savanta began tracking in Scotland in December 2020, Sturgeon’s net favourability was +28; in December 2022, it was +6. In the same period, she’s seen an 11 point drop in the proportion of those who view her as genuine, a nine point drop in those who see her as honest, and a six point drop in those who view her as trustworthy.
But these drops, as significant as they may be, hide the fact that on pure numbers, her popularity was still incredibly high – Rishi Sunak would dream of a positive favourability rating and half of the electorate viewing him as genuine. In many respects this further reinforces the fact that her replacement – whoever they may be – has an incredibly difficult job on their hands to emulate Nicola Sturgeon’s popularity and keep the independence movement progressing as she has.
https://www.wind-watch.org/news/2023/02/06/dozens-of-giant-turbines-at-scots-windfarms-powered-by-diesel-generators/
Round and round they go. Not the windmills themselves, but the accelerated death spiral of energy production. Wind is like a fractional reserve banking system. Just as there is not enough gold ( or tangible asset) backing our currency, there is not enough oil backing our “fractional reserve” wind and solar.
And now it’s Buffalo, NY ( where I grew up) being used again. Wasn’t the Solyndra government loan guarantee under Obama for solar panels in Buffalo a big enough flop? Now these charging stations for Elon’s EVs to be built in Buffalo will be the second round of a double tap.
Dozens of giant turbines at Scots windfarms powered by diesel generators
A spokesman for Scottish Power said,
“All turbines across the entire energy industry use a small amount of electricity for their systems. Every wind turbine includes safety and monitoring systems that automatically detect any faults, including hydraulic systems.”
I would presume that since the wind doesn’t blow all of the time, this electricity must come from outside sources. I saw an article saying that an electricity hook-up was not necessary for home installation of a wind turbine. But once the complexity of the big commercial installation is involved, it must be different. The big offshore wind turbines would presumably need electricity from the grid as well.
Reading between the lines of the article my impression is that the power company can’t really afford the costs of keeping all these wind turbines operating.
https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/gma-video-provides-new-evidence-that
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Notice how despite the huge spike in deaths from Covid (Vaids) and Vax injuries… that the rabble thinks there is nothing out of order…
That’s cuz CNNBBCHUFF — tell them to think there is nothing abnormal going on … it’s all Super Bowl and Dancing with Stars
If it’s not on CNNBBCHUFF — it didn’t happen 🙂
It’s at least CNN-BBC-HUFF-GDN-FT-IND-NYT-WP-FB-YT-TW-AP-REU. The ‘Trusted News Initiative’ is huge.
Plus some UK papers that aren’t part of TNI, e.g. Mail and Telegraph, get BMGF money. Even the Spectator, which has had the best/least bad coverage of the UK MSM, had a full-page Pfizer ad. last month. The Spec. has the same owners as the Telegraph.
So Sturgeon, never an original politician, has copied Ardern and resigned as SNP leader, even using some of Ardern’s words to explain why she has done so.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/feb/15/who-will-replace-nicola-sturgeon-scottish-leadership-john-swinney-kate-forbes-humza-yousaf
Most English people found Nicola so annoying that she was one of the prime reasons they wanted to chuck Scotland out of the UK. So the SNP has lost an asset, in a way.
After the Supreme Court ruled against her referendum and independence vote bids, there was nowhere for her to go. We English will have to suffer Scotland for a while longer. 🙁
I have always said that it is up to Scots what they do, which I think is a reasonable position to take. I have no personal animosity toward Scots whatsoever, and I would never single them out and diss them as a group.
The ‘we English against those Scots’ perspective comes across as a bit of an outdated sentiment. Approaching 40% of the under-19s in England are of other backgrounds now, and that trend is only liable to continue as birth stats indicate.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_England#/media/File:White_British_school_children_within_England.svg
So, I am not sure that the future English will view the UK in stark binary ethnic terms of ‘we English’ and ‘those Scots’, although it is not surprising that some older cohort may still ‘think’ on those tracks.
I am totally cool with Scotland staying if that is what they want to do.
Here is to the future! 🙂
Meow taking a reasonable position? Well, that would be a first.
The old Japanese dish Natto (fermented cooked soybeans), that contain Nattokinase, apparently seems to contain the spike-protein, even after vaxx and, what is more, in case the artificial spike-protein stays longer active than assumed. Natto can easily be homemade, though a pressure cooker is recommended for sterilisation. It does not look too tasty to me, but it seems to have quite some more beneficial effects, like beautiful skin.
“When cell lysates transfected with S protein were incubated with nattokinase, the S protein was degraded in a dose- and time-dependent manner. Immunofluorescence analysis showed that S protein on the cell surface was degraded when nattokinase was added to the culture medium. Thus, our findings suggest that nattokinase exhibits potential for the inhibition of SARS-CoV-2 infection via S protein degradation.”
https://www.mdpi.com/1420-3049/27/17/5405
Excellent. If you are an expert fermenter, you can harvest bacillus subtilis from the wild and make natto at home. I don’t do it here but I have done it for over ten years. I am the first to say that there are many home remedies for the vaccine, starting with fasting.
Yep, starting with a prolonged water fast, maybe with a similar length nutrient loading phase beforehand, which would be another kind of fast (bone broth, juices).
Thanks for the tip, Jan..
This traditional Japanese superfood has high nutritional value, said to protect against strokes and cardiac infarcts, and is known for helping with both diets and stress relief. It goes great with rice and is incredibly cheap, two reasons why so many Japanese are utterly in love with nattō.
https://livejapan.com › article-a000…
Natto Beans: All About Japan’s Weird Fermented Soy Superfood! …
When I lived in the Boston area there was a Japanese community around Porter Square in Cambridge that had an authentic Japanese mini food store for the residence that I enjoyed browsing…wonder if it’s still there?
It is also supposed to be helpful for osteoporosis,
https://www.nyrture.com/blog/natto-k2-bones
Yes, if you are into it look for mixed nattos on patent sites (the patents are generally expired). Basically a 3 way natto (soybeans or black beans, plus oats or wheat, plus sweet potatoes or beets) increases both nattokinase and vitamin K2 (the one that helps with calcium fixing) by a factor of ten. I don’t think there is a food with more useful enzymes, since for example your immune system will use the nattokinase to eat cancer cells and virus fragments. I have done it three ways for about 4 years, you can see visually that more goo is produced.
Thanks, I will try slowly. I have a problem with rice straw in the Alps but beets grow like crazy. Another strange project, omg!
You can use any straw to harvest it from the wild.
Thanks for the information.
Pumped Storage
Sounds simple doesn’t it? Just move water uphill and voila, the panacea to renewable energy storage problems. My greenie friends waffle on about it.
Read up on Snowy II, which is an extension to the Snowy Hydro scheme where they plan to move water between 2 existing reservoirs.
The budget and timeline has gone to hell. I’ve lost track of it all, but it’s somewhere out there in the bright green future, years and $billions behind plan – 2028 maybe?
Latest story about the stuck tunnel boring machine: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-02-12/snowy-2-0-this-hole-is-above-a-stuck-tunnel-boring-machine/101957418
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-08-26/snowy-hydro-boss-paul-broad-quits-project-delays/101376896
Pumping water uphill, through a tunnel, between two existing water reservoirs, is difficult to do. It looks like it might be easy, but it really isn’t.
Requires a lot of FF energy to do I would think and the energy return must be less than 100%.
One solution, of course, is to carry the water manually up the gradient in buckets. Food grows nutrients free with the sun. You would need thousands of people and thousands of buckets but the process would be FF free (except buckets and plant propagation).
Food could be grown next to the reservoirs which people could munch raw for energy; carrots and such.
In sad new zealand this activity could be performed by the female hogs for slimming side-benefits.
If they refuse… whip them… beat them….
The UK did it 50 years ago at Dinorwig, Wales. Except for other tiny schemes that modified existing ones, the UK has only done it once. Most people admitted after the event that peaking gas turbines would be a lot cheaper, almost regardless of the price of fuel.
Dinorwig really aimed at being relevant to a nuclear future. In this situation, it would pump uphill regularly every night, 365 days/year and then generate electricity for the peaks next day … also it could be called on if a large power station suddenly failed.
Due to costs, safety and complexity – not to mention EROEI and U shortages – this nuclear future now seems unlikely. In 1980, the UK Atomic Energy Authority foresaw that 425 GW(e) of nuclear generating capacity would be in use by 2025 (!)
It looks like this scheme will end up being abandoned. The tunnel boring machine has barely moved and its stuck already.
“How to store excess wind power underwater” ?
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-60066690?xtor=AL-72-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Bmicrosoft%5D-%5Blink%5D-%5Bnews%5D-%5Bbizdev%5D-%5Bisapi%5D
Dutch startup, Ocean Grazer, has developed the Ocean Battery, which stores energy below the wind farm.
When there is excess electricity the system pumps water from an underground reservoir into tough, flexible bladders that sit on the sea bed. You could think of them like big bicycle inner tubes.
Garbage.
Essentially this way the energy is stored into giant, stretched rubber bands (in bladder forms) that will stretch and relax many times in an unforgiving saline solution. I am with withnail.
The more ridiculous and expensive the idea the better as it guarantees nobody else will be able to try it and demonstrate that it doesn’t work.
It appears this team has been subsidy/seed money farming for at least 8 years.
Ocean Grazer is the name of their previous contraption now presumably abandoned.
Tonights theautomaticearth.com has a good breakdown of news stories on the Ohio disaster.
BAU forever
https://greyenlightenment.com/2023/02/14/on-the-sustainability-of-the-western-democratic-hegemony/
>Now why the WDH has proven so successful is another matter. It possibly represents some optimum of many variables, such as sustainability, decentralization vs centralization, redundancy of leadership, separation of powers, market incentive structures, rule of law, etc. Also, the end of the Second World War saw huge vacuums of power and leadership that were filled by democratic forms of government, imposed by the winners. The collapse of the USSR saw similar voids open up. Sure, liberal democracy is far from perfect, but it has to only be better than the competitors to succeed.
I disagree with you. It takes energy to have a government. The Western Democratic Hegemony (WDH) probably takes more energy than most.
In order to sustain the WDH, there needs to be enough inexpensive energy per capita to keep the overall economic system going. If not, the whole system will collapse, taking WDH with it. In fact, this is the problem we seem to be encountering now.
Another problem is that the ever increasing BS and bureaucracy wastes more and more energy to achieve less and less.
The West is losing the ability to achieve, build or manufacture many things with any reasonable competence and/or it’s building the wrong stuff for the wrong reasons e.g. all the green energy and EV bollox.
All at a time when critical resources esp. energy are getting scarcer.
This is called entropy. Seems to increase very rapidly in the west at this point. I even get the impression that its the entropy that will cause the failure of the west rather than the energy supplies.
It so goes hand in hand really – all the well known empires had bureaucratic sprawl until the whole affair became more and more energy intensive, inflexible and ultimately fragile.
No difference here.
And history has shown (taking from John Michale Greer and Dmitry Orlov) how the collapse of complex societies leaving less complex sub-units has been a relief for the people – but of course populations collapsed in the process before it got better for the remaining(at times: resettling) people.
“It is only a matter of time before we get the first run on a bank, after which we will find ourselves in a new credit crunch as banks cease lending to each other.”?
https://consciousnessofsheep.co.uk/2023/02/13/a-not-so-soft-landing/?fbclid=IwAR1xDfFaDG-tQ14JZMB2UywGSX-ViazJdVe-e-Y1dXZhYXo1o2FwGRPOgkA
This is an excellent article about why the soft landing for the economy narrative now being handed out is nonsense. Instead, the economy is headed for A not-so-soft Landing, which is the title of the article.
Tim Watkins explains the issue this way:
He explains why this is the case. For one thing, China’s growth may not be in a way that benefits the West. Europe’s energy security is an illusion, because it is too soon to see the effect of losing metal foundries and fertilizer industries, and inadequate natural gas for winter heat. The US jobs data seems that seems to be behind the hope that employment is doing well is a fabricated number, based on changes to seasonal adjustments and other variable inputs. Also, it takes a long time for layoff numbers to filter through to employment numbers.
There are lots of real problems, including a spike in energy costs that are behind what is happening.
bread and circuses is only better than the competitors with sufficient grain and wild animals/christians
WDH is only better than the competitors with sufficient energy to expand credit
Now why the WDH has proven so successful is another matter. It possibly represents some optimum of many variables, such as sustainability, decentralization vs centralization, redundancy of leadership, separation of powers, market incentive structures, rule of law, etc.
I don’t think we really have those things, they are just lies.
World War II was not caused by lack of democracy nor was it won due to democracy.
as a prelude for those who may not know their Sports, in Soccer when a goalie makes a save on a penalty kick, it is a rare and excellent feat.
https://www.yahoo.com/sports/belgian-goalkeeper-dies-after-reportedly-collapsing-on-field-following-penalty-save-151153685.html
he makes the save!
uh…
and next he’s dead!
gave his very life for his team!
well played!
Hahaha, awesome news. Why didn’t something like this happen during the superbowl?
Super disappointing
Hahaha, I love this Tweet, it is SO cliche. Sure, but we all know it wasn’t the vaccines……hahahaha.
“This weekend, Arne Espeel (25) had just saved a penalty and then shortly after he collapsed and passed away. He died doing what he loved. Every day can be your last so try to enjoy life while you can.”
My favourite response when I mention stuff like this to a Vaxxy MOREON is usually …
Oh that is so terrible .. you never know when it could happen to you …
They truly believe this is unusual but that it does happen to people. This gets you membership in the Stooopid Club… and an invite to the Booster Shot Ball.
F789ing fools
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/sudden-narrative-shift-pentagon-admits-mystery-objects-probably-private-craft-not-tied
In Sudden Narrative Shift, Pentagon Admits Mystery Objects ‘Probably’ Private Craft Not Tied To Spying
If they actually say the object is extraterrestrial, the entire theology of the world basically shakes down.
On youtube it was claimed that back-calculation of the flight path based on wind currents indicates that they originate from (or at least cross?) US weather stations.
So maybe apart from the original Chinese balloon, we’ve been shooting down our own weather balloons. If so, would that be distraction or incompetence?
There are several competing ‘narrative’ departments. At least two for sure. Sort of like there are different marketing departments in the same company.
– Come on get out with the Ufo story!
– okay!
– Ehy, guys, come on, what the h%ll are you thinking with the Ufo bull%hit ? Do you think this cr%p stands up?
– But it’s full of enthusiasts, believe me, Ufo rocks !
– Okay, Ufo rocks, but it stands up just a couple of hours!
– Ugh, you are a party crasher!
biden short-circuit
https://www.laverita.info/cortocircuito-biden-sui-palloni-abbattuti-2659412713.html
The WSJ has an article on the Ohio train derailment:
Norfolk Southern Comes Under Scrutiny After Ohio Train Derailment
Air, water and soil tests in East Palestine cleanup look for chemicals including vinyl chloride
Some of the derailed, breached or burned rail cars carried other chemicals that can present health hazards, such as isobutylene, a flammable gas, and butyl acrylate, which is used to make coatings and sealants, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Neither the EPA nor Norfolk Southern have shared details on the total amount of chemicals that were released after the derailment and controlled burn. The agency has said the company might be responsible for site cleanup costs under federal law.
Air testing inside 291 homes detected no vinyl chloride or hydrogen chloride, the EPA said Monday. A further 181 homes will still need to be screened.
Norfolk Southern said water samples from wells have been gathered for testing, and results will be out next week. Soil sampling from the derailment site will be done before the soil is removed, the company added.
It does look like some clean up and investigation is being done. The article also says, “JPMorgan analysts estimate that Norfolk Southern faces costs from the East Palestine derailment of roughly $2.7 billion and said that bill could rise based on the results of water-quality tests.”
Surprised there isn’t more press about this.
Eye popping images here
globaltimes.cn/page/202302/1285450.shtml
Good photos thanks. Reassuring to know that China’s always out there, eco-friendly and ready to defend the little guy. Zambia comes to mind, too. 🙂
sorry to pop your delusion, but the chinese are no more free of schad than we are
globaltimes.cn/page/202302/1285419.shtml
Ah I see, then, it’s just a little evolutionary peccadillo. Nothing to see here.
I just think the CCP is wonderful don’t you? (Inevitable peccadilloes aside.) Did you see the part of the article about the enlightened Chinese policy on vinyl chloride transportation? I bet you did! Here it is again, just for old time’s sake:
“Andy Boreham, a New Zealand journalist based in China, pointed out that the transportation of vinyl chloride in general is an anomaly that indicates a lack of essential regulations. He notes that in China, for example, this disaster could not have happened. According to him, the chemical is not transported at all “because China has implemented a system whereby vinyl chloride is made LOCALLY from calcium carbide, which is much safer to transport.”
“That means that in China, vinyl chloride – the substance which has caused the massive environmental disaster in Ohio, USA – is not transported. It has been known for many years that vinyl chloride is extremely dangerous, not just to humans and animals, but also the wider environment,” he concluded.”
But wait – what’s this? What’s that? What? China exports vinyl chloride to places like Malawi? Who said that? That can’t be true! Then they must do it without using transportation! NON-LOCALLY!
Friend, imo it’s better to stick with antiestablishmentarian independent blogs than it is cut-rate CCP propaganda. Because there’s still some level of accountability there. 🙂
This article says:
It also says that the “Ohio Incident” is being followed closely by many in China. It may be in response to this pressure that we are starting to hear more about it.
As resources dwindle, people who have a stake in the society will kick out those who don’t have stakes on it.
The revenge of the owners, shareholders and basically anyone who own a title, maybe 10% of all overall population.
They won’t save everyone else. They might save their immediate relatives and maybe a few friends, but the rest will perish in the outside, out of the gene pool.
Better be a landowner than be a genius who could not find anyone decent to mate, and in case of Michael Faraday, Jim Maxwell and Wilhelm Roentgen, the only women who would marry them were barren women. (Roentgen’s wife adopted a girl, but an adopted child, like an adopted pet, ultimately belongs to the birth parent since the child carries the birth parents’ genes and no amount of love and affectoin changes that. I always found adoption silly, and always called some adopted kids around me with their real names if I knew what that was.)
They could become geniuses as they had no brats to run after!
Do you know, if those with stakes are vaxxed?
There would be a critical mass of them not vaxxed, since they don’t have to have jobs and can live with passive income
I remember reading that reproduction follows a bell curve, with the highest- and lowest-IQ individuals producing the fewest children.
seems about right
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https://summit.news/2023/02/13/french-historian-world-war-iii-has-already-begun/
(Also on Zerohedge)
French Historian: World War III Has Already Begun
“We are now in an endless war.”
Thucydides trap has been sprung!
I find it hard to get any info out of this article. It is vague.
You cannot predict war with a whole lot of precision, I am afraid. This author seems to have predicted the collapse of the central government of the Soviet Union many years in advance, but I expect he did not give many details.
There was a mathematical or theoretical law, unfortunately I don’t remember the name to that –
the more *general* a model or hypothesis is, there easier verifiable / more precise in its predictions it is.
The more detail, the less accuracy.
One book author likened it to a steam tank: you can easily calculate the pressure within the tank as the sum of all particles moving within, but you cannot really predict the *individual* movements of a single particle therein.
He predicted the collapse of Soviet Union mostly based on a rise in child mortality.
He is observing the same for the US right now where child mortality is higher than in Russia!
Interesting!
synchronicity
one of my present reads is Todd’s After the Empire, pub 2002. Two points have been striking me – it’s prescience with respect to Ukraine being the Saracuse for the US, though he does focus on Brzezinski rather than Thucydides (if only Brzezinski coulda seen whaere it’d lead …) and secondly the parallels to Sergei Glazev’s The Last World War – The US to Move and Lose.
If they can see it all this clearly, with our five eyes, why can’t we?
Because history is bunk. It talks about individuals and policies and politics as though those things matter.
Only energy matters and energy creates history.
I find Clif High to be more informative
https://www.bitchute.com/video/LLYi809N32yb/
second half
https://www.bitchute.com/video/cs6fKEGsTbYR/
What does he have to say. I am afraid I don’t have time for most videos.
He thinks the bioweapons labs in Ukraine and Taiwan are the motivation from the attack of Russia on Ukraine and China on Taiwan.
The bioweapons labs certainly could have been part of the motivation for Russia attacking Ukraine. I didn’t realize that there were bioweapons labs in Taiwan as well.
(Politico)
The New York Times is taking the European Commission to court over the executive institution’s failure to release text messages between its president Ursula von der Leyen and Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla.
https://www.politico.eu/article/new-york-times-sue-european-union-ursula-von-der-leyen-pfizer-texts/
The New York Times is normally pretty liberal. Why would it sue the EC over the failure to release text messages between Ursula von der Leyen and Albert Burl?
They talk of the same issue also here:
https://www.byoblu.com/2023/02/14/von-der-leyen-nei-guai-sugli-sms-con-bourla-il-nyt-intenta-causa/
I have no answer to your question.
Maybe we will understand better something in the next days/week (?)
Money?
🙂
Not clear to me either. Ursula has been carrying water for the global elites like the most faithful servant. Why attack her? They should praise her and give her a treat.
Do a bit of research on her, interesting woman.
Dennis L.
I see that she (or he, I don’t know) threatened the Italian voters when it became clear they were leaning a certain way, before the elections. That’s interesting but honestly is run of the mill western diplomacy. anyone can do it.
I have an hypothesis.
The objective of taking to court EU Commission is not to attack Bourla, but to attack von der Leyen.
In case the messages will be released actually I think they will not show anything in particular against the vaccines or Pfizer (or just ‘quisquilie’), but they will demonstrate a not professional management by Ursula about the delicate issue.
The objective might be a replacement of Ursula in the same line of a possible replace of Zelensky.
In case they will have come to terms with Russia on Ukraine (and accept ‘the territories’ or suspend the matter), it will be necessary to remove someone.
…’Yes, we accepted the main Russian requests, but we are in this terrible situation because the crisis has been managed like a mess”…
A sort of new EU Qatar-gate not to attack Qatar, but to get rid off unnecessary people and give a message to those who are allowed to stay.
The Ohio incident is a lot worse than the media are saying. It’s a catastrophe.
https://substack.com/inbox/post/102783318
https://twitter.com/cagrown5/status/1624992422387396609
WEAR A MASK!
Problem solved.
Activated carbon respirator, and an air purifier at home.
Really, one tires of sch reckless misinformation; it should be:
Social Distance!
Get vaxxed with the new mRNA anti-cancer vaxx!
Wear a mask!
Do you want to harm people or something?
What’s norm’s view on masks?
Very funny, laughing quietly.
Dennis L.
The twitter link seems to say that polyvinyl, which is very toxic, boiled off from the train. It has now been turned into hydrochloric acid in the atmosphere and, I suppose, lakes.
Wouldn’t this hydrochloric acid disburse pretty quickly? Or react with something that wound neutralize it? I don’t know much about the subject. Why would there be a long term impact? Or is it the impact in, say, the next two weeks, the problem.
The real problem is the dioxin.
https://www.2ndsmartestguyintheworld.com/p/palestine-ohio-train-wreck-its-the?utm_medium=reader2
This is what the EPA has to say about dioxin.
https://www.epa.gov/dioxin/learn-about-dioxin
These are the key facts:
–Dioxins are called persistent organic pollutants (POPs), meaning they take a long time to break down once they are in the environment.
–Dioxins are highly toxic and can cause cancer, reproductive and developmental problems, damage to the immune system, and can interfere with hormones.
–Dioxins are found throughout the world in the environment, and they accumulate in food chains, concentrating mainly in the fatty tissue of animals.
–More than 90% of typical human exposure is estimated by EPA to be through the intake of animal fats, mainly meat, dairy products, fish, and shellfish.
Much more is available at this and other sites.
Seveso, Italy, is fully inhabited now, 55 years after the original dioxin disaster, and has been for 45 years or so. Dioxins degrade with a half life of order 1 year.
Do note how the community was the set for a movie much like that which transpired?
Some surmise that the Demiurge takes note of these things.
Now,…. How many global cataclysm movies have aired planet wide in past say 50 years?
Just an observation of course.
This is the new Zerohedge article on the subject of the Ohio train crash:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/buttigieg-breaks-silence-ohio-train-derailment-after-backlash
I just ordered a “smart weight scale” that tracks your weight/BMI and everything. Let me go out on a limb and say, eventually everyone will be given one (free of course).
And then everyone will be mandated to weigh yourself daily. And if you’re overweight you won’t be able to spend money/ or do anything.
*10 calories of FF for everyone 1 calorie of food!
With the majority of the population overweight, I have a hard time seeing this happen. In fact, probably a majority of politicians are overweight.
Am I the only one who finds this disturbing? This seems to be a huge public health issue. Here Michael Obama gets a “well done,” she made efforts to reform the school lunch program, probably to little effect.
How in the heck do physicians even dx these people? Organs are now so very far from the surface.
Dennis L.
I don’t know once BAU is gone fat people will be able to last a long time without food. Skinny people will be first to go
Skinny people will be the first to go eat the fat people.
Hard to believe, Sam, read a detail account if the battle for Stalingrad.
I remember those German captives that were sent to the Gulags which survived were
The runts that did not need much calories to survive. Those prime husky blonde@
Aryans were among the first to succumb for lack of food.
Ah yes but thats only in artificial conditions where everyone got the same.
In survival of the fittest conditions, the strong take the food of the weak and the weak die.
Sorry, but in preindustrial era humans were pretty much diminutive in statue..
The artificial condition we have here now is modern global economy enabling societes, like Japan.z to bulk up in size and weight.
Those will surely be the first to go
How tall was the average Samurai? : r/Anthropology – reddit
According to this chart, the average Japanese man born in the mid 19th century was 5’5″. So probably somewhere around there. A quick googling says 5’3″ ish which I would believe. The idea has been tossed around that agricultural societies have worse diets than hunter gatherers, which is why, until recently, agriculturalists tend to be shorter.
Vicious little bastards!
(Arte)
The French-German television network ARTE has released a documentary on Covid mRNA vaccine damage.
People whose lives have been destroyed by severe and disabling diseases that has became chronic (the documentary focus only on the people who remained alive).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahbWtVru4lw
(Byoblu)
Italian television BYOBLU had previously released a documentary on the same argument entitled ‘the Invisibles’.
https://www.byoblu.com/2022/12/19/invisibili-il-documentario-sui-danneggiati-da-vaccino-che-vogliono-censurare/
It would be hard to imagine US news networks releasing such documentaries.
On Mediaset the tv program ‘Fuori dal Coro’ has been presented last week a documentary about the mistery of the sudden deaths in Europe and the incredible increase of all-causes mortality after the mRNA-Covid-jab mass vaccination.
https://mediasetinfinity.mediaset.it/video/fuoridalcoro20222023/il-mistero-delle-morti-improvvise-dopo-i-vaccini_F312336201005C14
But concerning your consideration, I think that it is maybe true that something is coming out about this issue on sparse European tv channels, but my impression is that nothing will happen anyway on the legal or the political side.
And also newspapers do not and will not raise the issue.
My opinion of the EU has gone up.
Is this the US’s Chernobyl moment? “Yes” according John Paul, and from the mushroom cloud drone shot taken at the scene, he could be right.
Although this time, the pollutant is not nuclear but chemical, in the form of dioxins. As in whoops, there goes the continent’s largest watershed!
https://hiddencomplexity.substack.com/p/the-us-chernobyl-moment?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=597993&post_id=102729910&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email
I went to NPR.org and searched Ohio. Nothing came up on the main page. Doesn’t seem like a problem. The main article is about depression in LGBTQ+ teens, a shooting at a school, and election fraud investigation in Georgia. If it was important it would be on their main page.
please desist from spreading real news to cover up fake news
I see. If it wasn’t on the BBC, it’s fake news. Got it!
My prediction is that within a month, the BBC will be blaming this disaster on Vlad the Impaler Putin and Dr. Fu Man Xi.
https://twitter.com/RaleighFam/status/1622948184476483585?cxt=HHwWgoCwic2x74UtAAAA
BBCCNNHUFF… can be trusted, said our resident NOF norm
Anyone who trusts the MSM is ……
Mentally…. Ill
‘Real news’? That tripe?!
D. Stevens specialize in satire, irony and sarcasm.
Poor old Norm, it passed you by didn’t it…..
👂🎵 *Woosh*
norm = NOF…
norm supports the right to be a pedo … why?
yup
just like those millions of dead and maimed babies
I’m not sure anymore. It’s hard to tell what’s serious and what’s satire these days. Maybe this is a big release of forever chemicals which will be causing problems for a longtime or maybe it’s nothing? I can’t tell. The blogdoomisphere has run with this story but it will be forgotten soon. Even C19 has mostly died out leaving substackers with nothing to write about. Thankfully as a Peak-Oiler I’ll always have something to hold onto through all these doom-fads we’re living through. Happy Valentines day everyone! Wishing you all a wonderful day of BAU. <3
Do keep doing it. I find it hilarious and we need a bit of fun.
Yes, enjoy BAU each day we have it, as we probably won’t in a couple of years.
Has anyone seen notices from U.S, France and others telling their citizens to leave Russia and Belarus immediately?
Seen some chatter on the subject earlier, but haven’t had the time or will to verify.
If true, enjoy the rest of the month everyone 😔
There are plenty of vax injuries happening … to provide Schad and indulge the doom
Well, if I was an LGBTQ+ teen living downwind or downstream of this sucker, I’d be depressed too. There were a lot of gender-bending chemicals on that train.
https://twitter.com/MorePerfectUS/status/1623854130375847936
I hear there are a lot of independent family farms in that part of the world.
All that farmland and drinking water for millions of people will be contaminated.
Also, it’s strange that all the media coverage has been about some stupid balloons and not this mini Chernobyl.
Whether the food is contaminated or not, I would expect that farmers will continue to grow food there and sell it to US and world markets. Mostly animals will eat the crops. The food supply will be further contaminated.
Ohio region is one of the best places on the planet for year-round holistic grazing.
Yes…. I am always amazed that folks living there cannot make a fortune with grass cattle. It is not rocket science.
I worked on a project in central Ohio in another life that raises white rhino for conservation purposes.
If you can over winter an 3-5 ton African white rhino there,….. a beef steer is a cakewalk.
No shit! The legend of the Cro continues. See much ‘god’ pasture out there? Peak natural fertility ommon bluegrass-white clover? I got two fields dominated by it now. Learned about that from Ohioan Gene Logsdon who learned about that from Ohioan FW Owen, both dead now but Owen’s website is still up last I checked.
F789 seeding pastures. If you build it the pasture gods will come.
The day I saw a clump of big blue stem growing one of my pasture/ hayfields I did stop and commune with it a while.
I am at the northern extent of what was formerly the tallgrass prairie. It blue stem was entirely gone by my time.
When I enthusiastically mentioned the event to a very very old timer he said oh yeah, that’s “ thatch grass” it used to grow everywhere here in huge meadows. Made great hay.
In high rainfall years I will cut hay in meadows with various grass species ( mostly Eurasian invaders) over 8 feet tall. I can’t even see the equipment I am pulling.
When my family homesteaded they plowed up areas full of bison bones, stone mallet heads and petrified pemmican bundles.
The Stone Age was just yesterday here….. quite literally.
I am hoping to remain in this incarnation long enough to see exactly how it returns…. Because it’s return is a sure thing.
“I hear there are a lot of independent family farms in that part of the world.”
Yes and that’s problematic. The last 3 years have not been about a virus, but about bringing in ‘the new normal’ and what a raging success it’s proved so far. How many people know about all the law changes in their respective country and what that means given the new direction we’re being forcefully taken in?
These people are blocking that implementation and will be continuously ‘encouraged’ to move to a heavily surveilled city.
Encouragement can be as simple as letting things fall into disrepair, like a rail line maybe.
The process has been long planned.
https://youtu.be/L1FQiGw3-b4
As we all know, when you want to convince people to believe BS, you pay for a study and just like covid, you get the level that you deserve(do read the comments).
https://studyfinds.org/city-living-rural-heart-failure/
But Rachel Koire at the first link doesn’t understand that Agenda 21 can’t be finalized because of energy collapse. Fascism public-private crony capitalism) doesn’t do Degrowth for long because fascism needs to consistently service debts. The coming national socialisms that will replace fascism will also have to focus on maximizing the efficiency of keeping humans fed, clothed, sheltered, and more or less controlled (less being the operative word) so there’s some managerial overlap, such as concentrating populations for efficiency purposes, but it won’t be a technofeudal dystopian extrapolation from current appearances because we can’t get there from here due to the energy cliff.
Agree, we can’t get there. Although that’s never stopped them trying before and looking at their actions over the last few decades, particularly the acceleration of the past 3 years, it looks odds on.
Anyone that doubts that, I have one word for you to ponder.
RENEWABLES
Bring on the aliens 😁
Walking down the street in Toronto after a shoot around at the ice rink and hark … who cometh from the opposite direction … two freaks….
Is that a man with breasts? T’is…. a man in need of a shave with breasts…
Canadians are loggers, hockey players, and fisherMEN. Are you sure it was not a tourist from the US? Canada is doing tourism ads telling us to take a Maple Leave. The spokes person in the ad is a obese woman.
Mentally ill former lumberjack…
I forgot to mention that I passed along norm’s contact details. Cuz I am always thinking about norm’s well being
FE, the student trannies here – of which there are more each year – are generally big beefy types.
Saw one yesterday, about 6ft 4, speaking in that ridiculous high voice which is, of course, nothing like a woman.
I dread the summer Term, when they will be clad in summer frocks……
But then, isn’t this perfect and appropriate for the End of the World?
self revelations/fixations again eddy?
you keep bringing up the ‘subject’—not me
seems to be always on your mind—i look at the occasional ‘eddy’ for amusement—and there you are, still obsessing.
you can see why i wipe most of them without reading
OFW’ers must draw their own conclusions.
You are the one who despises Tommy cuz he outs the pedos … so assumptions will be assumed
eddy
you must try to stop your compulsive lying, it does you no favours and amuses everyone else. It reveals your desperation to be noticed.
Your pedo obsession is becoming somewhat obvious.
Robinson facts:
https://metro.co.uk/2022/08/01/tommy-robinson-loses-in-court-again-and-is-fined-900-17108063/
Robinson is also a convicted, compulsive liar. It’s all on record. He does it to get attention.
As do you
you keep championing Robinson’s cause eddy
all i do is point out the court cases against him
I know a guy in RL who does the same thing—insignificant useless id iot who does it just to get attention.
if you find disagreement—then obviously the person pointing out your nonsense must be a pedo (50 shades of Musk??)
you’ve been peddling your ob scenities for years, not just towards me, but anyone else who points out your lack of clothing.
but carry on
self revelations are always illuminating, and amusing,
your facility with numbers never ceases to amaze me. Wish I was good at rude arithmetic.
You may have noticed, I can use the English language as it is meant to be used.
Try it.
It really and truly is. They where present in late Roman frescoes as the empire was tearing itself apart as well.
Cats and dogs living together…….
Fortunately very soon the trap door will close and this reality will be flat lined into the Stone Age.
The light is green and the trap is clean.
According to the twitter feed, the accident could easily be foreseen because of too much corner-cutting in many different directions in recent years. Some of us might recognize the symptoms as being related to not enough inexpensive energy to go around, and more and more complexity being added to try to disguise the problem.
Also, someone notes. “The health effects are unknown.” News writers don’t write about unknown things. In fact, modelers don’t put unknown things in their models either. Both groups are inclined to believe that “unknown = 0.”
This is how we get a lot of false models of the future. If we don’t understand the problem, modelers just leave it out. We are told not to worry about the problem, because no one else is worrying about it.
Never attribute complexity as the root cause when simple incompetence is the superior explanation.
You see, it is more about the statuses and prestiges than train and track maintenance.
I see it all the time; incompetents and simpletons crafting complications and conveniently omitting how these complications shall be produced and maintained.
The rapacious primate got Will to Power mixed up with Power to Will.
It is just a matter of time before nature cancels the produce from these Hypers. And the Wheel of Folly ratchets forward another step from Kali Yuga to Krita Yuga, or was it back to Dvapara Yuga. It really doesn’t matter. The same tired tropes over and over and over again.
The eternal recurrence of the Hyper Dupeds.
I suppose it is what it is, rite MotW? In the mean time:
(etc.)
🤣👍👍
East Palestine, Ohio seems to be right on the eastern border of the state, next to Pennsylvania. I would expect Pennsylvania might be hit harder than Ohio, because of the prevailing winds from the west. Pittsburg, Pennsylvania seems to be the nearest big city.
After Pennsylvania comes NYC and me. We have been having absolutely blue skies without a trace of clouds is it related?
This disaster looks like a good way to help crash the livestock industry, which is in line with national socialist vegan ideology.
Margaret and I went to open mike night at Colony Woodstock. Colony is located right next to the grave yard. Believe or not there just over the grave stones were thirty of your new friends. They glow softly in the night in a variety of colors and patterns. They reminded me of deep sea creatures and they way they use bio-luminescence to interact. they were slowly moving. They were dancing. It was slow and majestic group expression. With they was a local Becky who is superb dancers. She was dancing with them. She had a deeper sense of the dance then I could follow.
It seems our new friends are offering us a chance to have a global dance party celebrating the good both human and extraterrestrial.
To quote Hendrix
“500,000 halos outshined the mud and history. We washed and drank in God’s tears of joy. And for once, and for everyone, the truth was not still a mystery.”
Purple haze all in my brain
Lately things, they don’t seem the same
Acting funny, but I don’t know why
‘Scuse me while I kiss the sky
(commonly heard as “excuse me while I kiss this guy”).
there’s a bad moon on the rise
(there’s a bathroom on the right).
now, if these alien arrivals could speak English…
“now, if these alien arrivals could speak English…”
Aliens speaking to Hyper Doopers? What, exactly, would the point of that be? Sure won’t happen.
In the mean time:
YOLO!
Hypers gonna hyper!
MOARons gonna moaron!
Andddd it’s all GONE!
(etc.)
Just send it.
✨✨✨✨
✨✨🛸💨💨💨🌏💥☄️☄️☄️🌞
✨✨✨✨
(It’s the only way to be sure)
https://youtu.be/nnHmUk_J6xQ
🤣👍👍
Anyway, christian ‘morality’ is no use to anyone apart from the hypocrites.
Tra la la, la la la la
What goes around come around?
What is to be elderly?
The culture of the elderly is disappearing, replaced by the culture of some implants driven Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s aggressive zombie seniors.
https://vladdumitrescu.ro/?fbclid=IwAR0pFrP5h5CLVZG4DEFq4xeXWszIbnbPMddPOk2A1JwiunEECjLbqorvAEQ
Photographic stories of times past in Romania.
Beautiful people, country, photos. Thanks MG.
It was recommended to me by my friend, who is a photographer of the Carpathian Mountains here in Slovakia.
https://www.facebook.com/marianfilipekphotography/
It reminds me my childhood and the time 40 years ago.
Slovakia suffered a lot from the communist farm collectivization: unlike Romania, the countriside lost ist owners, so without the subsidiey for mulching by the machines from the EU, all becomes a forest. There are no more big herbivores like in the past that could keep the countryside from becoming overgrown by forest, as my friend photographer and biologist says.
In MIC and DoD land we’re always free to keep on sending it as old farts.
https://images.fineartamerica.com/images/artworkimages/mediumlarge/3/never-underestimate-an-old-man-with-a-mountain-bike-funny-gift-art-frikiland.jpg
https://youtu.be/mzOUgwsQ_hM
👍
“Earth Has Plenty of Raw Materials to Meet Future Wind and Solar Power Needs, Study Finds”
Summary article
https://singularityhub.com/2023/02/06/earth-has-plenty-of-raw-materials-to-meet-future-wind-and-solar-power-needs-study-finds/
Source article
https://www.cell.com/joule/fulltext/S2542-4351(23)00001-6
Party on for a month or a year or a decade!
“The analysis does miss out on a key source of future demand for many of these materials: batteries. Given the expected worldwide transition to electric vehicles and probable need for grid-scale storage, that could change the math considerably.”
They didn’t include batteries in the assessment. Smart dudes. I don’t know why I didn’t think of that: we only need to figure out an electric world without batteries and presto – problem solved.
Any study that is designed narrowly enough will come to a favorable conclusion. Models are great for this purpose!!!
wooooooo!!
though the 2030s are going to be brutal.
💔💔💔💔💔✅✅✅✅✅🛴🛴🛴🛴🛴🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄😎😎😎😎😎😍😍😍😍😍😛😛😛😛😛☢☢☢☢☢
As long as the Hyper Doopers are squirming and twitching, while churning and turning.
“Within temptation is truth”
— Samyaza
“Hope is for suckers”
—A raging alcoholic
https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0535/6917/products/despairdemotivator.jpeg
Hmm is this why Siemens is going forward?
https://www.energyglobal.com/wind/14022023/siemens-gamesa-intends-to-establish-an-offshore-wind-turbine-nacelle-facility-in-new-york/
There was that article about them cutting their losses which really pointed out the difficulties.
Building alts has the upside in that it will no longer be theoretical whether it’s net negative or not.
Rise up, rise up Br. Lazarus today.
Rise up, rise up Br. Lazarus with me.
Rise up, rise up Br. Lazarus with me.
If you are looking for Saturday night party music, this version is more danceable.
Also, this song, called The Unquiet Grave, borrows the same melody as Dives and Lazarus. I really like this one. Unless you are as soulless as Norman, It will definitely make you cry.
Cold blows the wind to my true love
And gently drops the rain
I only had but one true love
And in Greenwood she lies slain
I’ll do as much for my true love
As any young man may
I’ll sit and mourn along her grave
For a twelve-month and a day
When the twelve months and one day was past
The ghost began to speak:
“Why sit thou’st here along my grave
And will not let me sleep?”
“There’s one thing that I want, sweetheart
There’s one thing that I crave
And that is a kiss from your lily white lips
Then I’ll go from your grave”
“My lips they are as cold as clay
My breath smells earthy strong
And if you kiss my cold clay lips
Your days they won’t be long”
Go fetch me water from the desert
And blood from out of stone
Go fetch me milk from a fair maid’s breast
That a young man never had known”
‘Twas down in Cupid’s Garden
Where you and I would walk
The finest flower that ever I saw
Is withered to a stalk
“The stalk is withered and dry, sweetheart
The flower will never return
And since I lost my one true love
What can I do but mourn?”
“When shall we meet again, sweetheart?
When shall we meet again?”
“Where the oaken leaves that fall from the trees
Are green and spring up again”
I often whistle that as I make my jolly way back with the axe on my shoulder and the bill-hook in my belt.
Nothing like the folk wisdom of the ages, is there?
Don’t try to kiss a long-buried corpse, even if she was your true love!
A guide to happiness in life if ever I heard one. Many a youth has been saved from that fatal error by that very song.
Tim
have you ever written poetry where someone has said–“that moved me to tears” ?
try it sometime
(no doubt my comment will engender witless wit—i can live with the latter, having achieved the former)
Hey norm .. Andrew Dice Clay wrote a poem about Super Snatch…
Google videos: Andrew Dice Clay Hickory Dickory Dock — turn off safe search for best results
> have you ever written poetry where someone has said–“that moved me to tears” ?
Selbstlob stinkt.
Dives was merely a ‘rich man’, some wealthy merchant or banker, and not a feudal lord: if he had been, Lazarus would have got some ale, bread and maybe a slice of old mutton at the kitchen door of the great house.
Take that, Kulm!
The only Lazarus I know is Lazarus Long, a common staple in Robert Heinlein’s books.
Chart listing the various diseases throughout history. Guess where Covid slots in?
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/All-the-Plagues-Disease.png
Definitely not first!
That comparison is Apr 2020 with 27k deaths.
Latest (per Worldometer) 6.7m which puts it somewhere between the Third Plague and the Antonine Plague
As a percentage of world population, Covid is low compared to quite a few of the others.
If They hadn’t told us about the Terrible IT, we wouldn’t have noticed…..
norm?
“There’s a website called our finite world dot com” — he waved his hand from side to side, & walked away.
I had just told him that no power grid in the world runs on such as wind/solar, though they’ve tried that repeatedly, in places like Hawaii; he said, “Batteries”, I said, “That’s exactly what they tried”, & the conversation ended, as above.
It seems that if people say what they believe, about something they’re in denial about, they tend to say it quickly, & to quickly end any conversation about information which conflicts with it.
The situation with 8 billion people’s needs colliding with resource depletion seems to be beyond many peoples’ willingness to deal with.
Never, ever, ever start with: there is a website..!
That was my last statement, at which he ended the conversation.
It seems that saying such things can be a conversation-killer.
My latest fiasco started/ended with: Jan, if I were afraid of an energy driven crash, I would still plant a tree! – Great idea..!
My favourite is: No worries! Free energy harvesters have already been developed. Big Oil just blocks the patents!
It is not so easy. It causes sudden panic attacks and arrhythmias! I am secretly suspicious, that a fraction of the ‘sudden death’ events were neither caused by Long C nor the vaxx but by reading a beforementioned webpage…
We have never been promised eternal life on Earth, only in the Heavens… There is no right to live 100 years on Earth, it can only be granted. The only chance we have is to see the Glory of the Saviour: unconditional love! The animals know it, the crown (corona) of all creation, though, runs to pay the next rent/mortgage. That reminds me that the birds have despised my widely glowing fat balls in the snow, they have better delicacies, what a misery! The digital answer to the promise of Heaven, of course, will be a graveyard on facebook. The devil betrays even his most devoted followers.
Who cares? Why do people have to be convinced? Most people won’t listen anyway….they are programed to continue shopping no matter what.
J.J Watt was a fan-favorite defensive end of the NFL. After the player retired last year, his fans were left in tears and wanted him to make a comeback. His return to the NFL is very unlikely as he now clarifies why he initially called to retire.
The major reasons for his retirement are tied to his family and health issues which are both interconnected. Even if he played with his severe health condition, it would not make much difference. Rather, it would just risk his chances of survival.
Earlier this week, Pardon My Take featured the former star defensive end on the show, where J.J Watt revealed the truth behind his retirement.
In the show, J.J expressed that he learned about his health condition after attending a meeting just after practice. He was feeling light-headed and had some sensations in his heart.
When it repeatedly happened on the second day, he became concerned and went to see the team trainer. After checking his heart pulse, the trainer suggested the defensive end see a doctor, which “scared the sh*t out of” Watt, J.J said.
Afterward, it became a staircase routine for the 33-year-old as getting sent to the team doctor, Watt was further suggested [sic] to see a cardiologist. The cardiologist viewed the condition of J.J, and he did not have good news and wanted to send him to a specialist. With so many suggestions from the health team, Watt became even more frightened. The specialist could not help him much and sent the athlete to another doctor.
Even though the final results were not much concerning, Watt chose to retire since he is a “professional athlete,” and has more chances of risking his life than others. Thinking about his family and wanting to spend time with his son Koa, J.J chose to retire.
https://www.sportszion.com/i-had-a-heart-scare-ex-cardinals-de-j-j-watt-drops-bombshell-truth-behind-his-retirement-decision/
Too bad he can’t sue Pfizer for loss of future wages since they have immunity.
About this same argument, I think that Christian Eriksen’s hearth collapse at European games in 2021 was one of the best-hidden and manipulated event of the history.
A young athlete in perfect health collapsed after his (not communicated) mRNA vaccination in front of million of people and people were perfectly manipulated to think that mRNA vaccination was not involved in that event (it happened right during the start of the mass vaccination campaign…).
Mass hypnosis at the highest level.
https://www.the-sun.com/sport/3067922/christian-eriksen-collapse-euro-2021-denmark-finland/