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There is a reason for raising interest rates to try to fight inflation. This approach tends to squeeze out the most marginal players in the economy. Such businesses and governments tend to collapse, as interest rates rise, leaving less “demand” for oil and other energy products. The institutions that are squeezed out range from small businesses to financial institutions to governmental organizations. The lower demand tends to reduce inflationary pressure.
The amount of goods and services that the world’s economy can produce is largely determined by fossil fuel supplies, plus our ability to use “complexity” in many forms to produce the items that the world’s growing population requires. Adding debt helps add complexity of various types, such as more international trade, more advanced education, and more specialized tools. For a while, the combination of growing energy supplies and growing complexity have helped pull economies along.
Unfortunately, the world’s oil supply is no longer growing. Without an adequate oil supply, it becomes difficult to maintain complexity because complex solutions, such as international trade, require adequate oil supplies. Inasmuch as we seem to be reaching energy and complexity limits, nothing the regulators try to do to change the debt and money supplies–even reeling them back in–can fix the underlying oil (and total energy) problem.
I expect that the rich parts of the world, including the US, Europe, and Japan, are in line to be adversely affected by high interest rates this time. With their high levels of complexity, they are among the most vulnerable to disruption when there is not enough oil to go around.
The problem I see is that rich countries expect to maintain service economies that are fed by huge streams of manufactured goods and raw materials from poorer countries. This pattern appears unsustainable to me, in a world with falling exports because of energy problems.
I expect a significant change in the trading of goods and services, starting as soon as the next few months. Major financial changes may be ahead, fairly soon, as well. In this post, I will try to explain these and related ideas.
[1] Growing debt is a temporary substitute for growing energy supply of the right kinds.
Economists seem to believe that the economy grows because of an invisible hand. I believe that the economy grows because of a growing supply of energy products of the right kinds, together with a growing supply of other raw materials, and a growing supply of human labor. The economy grows in keeping with the laws of physics.
Debt does help provide an extra pull, however, because it enables growing “complexity.” Even in the days of hunters and gathers, it was helpful for people to work together and share the benefit of their labor. A type of short-term debt results from the delayed benefit of working together, even if the delay is only a few hours.
In modern times, debt can help build a factory. The factory can provide more/better output than individual people working by themselves using available resources. There needs to be a way of paying for the delayed benefit of the human labor involved in the whole chain of events that leads to the finished output. Growing debt can help pay workers, long before the benefit of the factory becomes available.
Debt can also make high-priced goods more affordable. A car, or a home, or a college education is more affordable if it can be paid for in installments, as income becomes available to pay for it.
[2] Diminishing returns on added complexity is one issue that puts an end to the ability to grow debt.
As an example, we are slowly discovering that it doesn’t make sense to provide everyone with a university education. Yes, advanced education is of benefit to a percentage of the population, but, in general, there are not enough jobs that pay sufficiently well for it to make economic sense to provide advanced education for everyone who would like to attend college. If debt is provided to finance everyone who applies for advanced education, there are likely to be many loans that can’t be repaid.
As another example, long supply lines can provide cost savings for a manufacturer, but if there is a disruption in any necessary raw material, the whole manufacturing operation may need to be temporarily suspended. The high cost of such a suspension may encourage shorter supply lines or the provision of more stored inventory.
[3] US total debt as a percentage of GDP already seems to be hitting a limit, quite possibly related to diminishing returns on added complexity.
Figure 2 shows that the US ratio of debt to GDP started increasing shortly after 1980. This was about the time that Ronald Reagan became President in the United States, and Margaret Thatcher became Prime Minister in the UK. There was a need to get energy costs down, and growing debt was one of the tools used to accomplish this. With added debt, new types of hopefully less expensive electricity generation could be added, using debt. Electricity producers were encouraged to compete with each other. The new approach led to less concern about providing adequate upkeep for transmission lines. California is one state where this approach is starting to catch up with the electricity system. Costs are rising, and reliability is falling.
Figure 2 shows that the ratio of US debt to GDP hit a maximum in 2008. An even loftier level was reached in 2020 because of the debt added at the time of Covid-related shutdowns. Now, however, the system doesn’t seem to be able to maintain the high debt level. The quarterly analysis used in Figure 2 highlights how quickly the added debt rolled off.
Analyzing US debt to GDP ratios by sector provides some insight regarding the reason for the fall in the ratio of debt to GDP since 2008 in Figure 2. (The amounts used in Figure 3 are on an annual basis, rather than a quarterly basis, so the shape of the graph is a little different from that in Figure 2.)
Figure 3 shows that the category I call Financial+ Debt has played an amazingly large role in the growth of total debt. One of the issues bringing about the 2008-2009 Great Recession was defaults related to Collateralized Debt Obligations (CDOs) and Collateralized Debt Swaps (CDSs), involving debt that had been cut into layers and resold. Various tranches of this debt would then default, as the economy slowed. It became clear that this approach to adding debt is very risky. The elimination of some of this type of debt is likely one of the reasons for the drop-off in Financial+ debt after 2008.
It also becomes clear that there are interactions among the different types of debt. Back in 1947, Federal Debt related to World War II had begun dropping off. To provide civilian jobs for all the people who had served in the war effort, it was helpful to add other debt. More recently, the big run-up in debt of the Federal Government seems to have taken place partly to try to offset the huge loss of debt in the Financial+ category.
Figure 4 shows the gross debt of the Federal Government, relative to GDP, on an annual basis.
The gross debt of the Federal Government is now at a higher level than it was when the Federal Government borrowed money to fight World War II! Part of the rise may very well be the need to keep total indebtedness high, to prop up the economic system in general, and energy prices in particular.
[4] In previous posts, I have shown that oil prices seem to be very sensitive to manipulations of the Federal Reserve.
In Figure 5, below, I also make the point that the popping of a debt bubble can cause oil prices to fall precipitously. With the high level of debt that the world economy has today, major defaults are a worry. Because of this concern, central banks today seem willing to bend over backwards to prop up failing banks. If a substantial number of banks are propped up, this will add to inflationary pressure.
Another point that Figure 5 makes is the importance of high oil prices for producers, and the importance of low oil prices for customers. A big part of today’s conflict with respect to oil supply has to do with the affordability of the oil supply, and the fact that such affordable prices for consumers tend to be too low for producers. For example, the European union has attempted to pay Russia for oil at $60 per barrel, partly to hurt Russia, but also to try to bring costs down to a more affordable level. Oil producers tend to cut back supply, as OPEC has recently agreed to do, when prices fall too low.
[5] One thing that people forget in trying to find substitutes for oil is that any substitute must be inexpensive if it is to be affordable. They also forget that they need to consider the cost of required changes to the entire system in any cost estimate.
We often see cost estimates for wind energy and solar energy that consider only the cost of the generation of intermittent electricity. Unfortunately, an economy cannot operate on intermittent electricity. At this point, there isn’t even a single island that can operate its electricity system solely on renewables (including hydroelectric energy, in addition to wind and solar).
In theory, a very high-cost electricity system could be put together using some combination of long-distance transmission lines, batteries, and overbuilding, to try to have enough electricity available for periods of long periods of low electricity generation. But even this would not fix the problem that arises because the world’s agricultural system is mostly powered by oil, not electricity. We cannot get along without food.
If electricity were to be used for the agricultural system, at a minimum, we would need to figure out how to transition all the machines used in fields to use electricity, rather than oil. We would also need to figure out what to do about products that are manufactured using the chemical products that we get from oil, such as herbicides and pesticides. Natural gas or coal is often used to produce ammonia fertilizer. If all fossil fuels are eliminated, a new approach to ammonia production would be needed, as well.
[6] Natural gas cannot be counted on as an inexpensive fuel for a transition to renewables.
Some people hope that a ramp up in natural gas production can be used to help substitute for oil, and thus aid in any transition. A problem that many people are not aware of is the fact that shipping natural gas over long distances as liquified natural gas (LNG) is very expensive. A calculation I saw a few years ago indicated that when LNG was shipped from the US to Europe, adding shipping costs roughly tripled the cost of the natural gas.
Part of the high-cost problem is the need for a huge amount of infrastructure. Natural gas sold as LNG must be compressed, transported at very low temperatures in specially made ships, and then brought back to a gaseous state at the other end. Pipelines are needed at both ends. There is also a need for inter-seasonal natural gas storage because natural gas is often used for heating in winter.
With this huge amount of infrastructure, there is a need for debt to finance all the pieces. When interest rates increase, the result is particularly expensive for those planning to produce LNG for overseas shipment. Such high overhead costs are likely to discourage the building of new LNG export facilities unless long-term contracts at high prices can be obtained in advance.
[7] A huge amount of today’s debt relates to plans to transition to renewables. If these plans cannot work, many debt defaults are certain.
Almost certainly, massive amounts of debt obligations are destined for default if the transition to renewable energy is not successful. The very existence of such liabilities can be expected to lead to widespread problems. Some of this debt will be held by banks; other debt has been issued as bonds or by derivative financial instruments. Pension funds would be badly affected by bond defaults. Derivative financial instruments are likely of many types. Some seem to back exchange traded funds (ETFs).
Young people who have spent thousands of dollars to pursue specialized degrees in fields directly or indirectly related to renewable energy will find that their investment has mostly been wasted. They will not be able to repay their student loans, a large proportion of which is owed to the US Federal Government.
[8] In fact, student loans in general are likely to be a problem for repayment.
The problem with student debt extends beyond students who obtained their training planning to go into the field of renewable energy. In fact, many former students in fields other than renewable energy are already finding that they cannot repay their student loans because there are not enough jobs available that pay sufficiently high compensation. Also, some individuals who took out the loans were not able to finish their courses of study, so they did not gain the skills needed to secure higher-paying jobs. These individuals, in particular, have problems with repayment.
Figure 6 shows that, in total, the amount of student loans debts owed to the Federal Government is about equal to the debt outstanding on motor vehicle loans. Since Covid began, there has been forbearance in debt repayment, but this is likely to end later in 2023. There seems to be a significant chance of defaults starting when this forbearance ends.
It might be noted that there are more student loans outstanding than shown on Figure 6. Besides loans made by the Federal Government, there are also bank loans, amounting to a smaller total.
[9] Falling interest rates since 1980 seem to have played a major role in allowing the US economy to stay on the growth track it has been on.
Up until about 1979, the US economy grew about as quickly as oil consumption, and, in fact, as growth in total energy consumption. Since 1979, the US economy seems to have grown a little more quickly than consumption of oil or of energy of all types combined.
The strange thing that happened around 1979-1981 was a peaking of interest rates on US Treasuries. As I will explain, it was these falling interest rates that indirectly allowed inflation-adjusted GDP to grow faster than oil or total energy consumption.
Figure 7 shows that during the period 1952 to 1979, consumption of both oil and total energy were (with short interruptions) growing rapidly. The extra oil and other energy could be used to leverage human labor. Thus, productivity could be expected to grow. In fact, the Fed chose to raise interest rates to slow the economy during this period, based on Figure 8.
Higher interest rates on debt would be expected to make monthly payments for buying a home or car more expensive. They would also tend to hold down prices of assets, such as homes or shares of stock, discouraging speculators from trying to make money by investing in homes or shares of stock.
Most of the time since 1980, interest rates have tended to fall. Falling interest rates can be expected to have the opposite effect: They reduce monthly payments for items bought on credit. Because they make homes and factories more affordable, they tend to raise asset values. Also, the existence of more debt encourages more complexity, such as in cases where a large company purchases a smaller one, using debt. Also, as asset prices rise (for example, a rising home price), leaving more equity, there is the temptation to borrow against the newly available equity to buy something else (for example, home furnishings or a boat). Thus, falling interest rates tend to pull the economy forward.
I believe that the indirect impacts of falling interest rates are behind the huge growth in debt, especially in the Financial+ category, seen in Figure 3. This debt looks likely to hit even worse default problems than happened in the 2008 era, if interest rates remain high, or rise to even higher levels.
Furthermore, without the support of growing debt, GDP growth is likely to fall back to being equal to the growth in energy or oil supply. If a loss of complexity starts occurring, GDP growth could even start to be smaller than growth in energy or oil supply. Of course, if shrinkage of energy consumption occurs, economies can be expected to contract.
[10] Poorer nations will be able to consume much more oil for themselves if they can push down the consumption in areas that use oil heavily, such as the US, Europe, and Japan.
With their high per capita oil consumption, the combined oil consumption of Europe, Japan, and the United States amounted to almost 38% of total oil consumption in 2021. This can be seen on Figure 1. If this consumption could be brought to zero, the rest of the world could consume about 60% more than they would otherwise.
Of course, the US currently produces most of its own oil, so its oil cannot be obtained unless the US economy collapses to such an extent that it cannot access the oil that it now extracts and refines. As indicated in the introduction to this post, the US is very dependent upon imported goods. Even goods used in the extraction of oil, such as steel pipe used to drill wells, and computers, are imported. Furthermore, whether or not problems with imported goods occur, financial problems seem likely in the near future, either caused by collapsing debt, or by the issuance of excessive new governmental debt to try to offset the problem of collapsing debt. Such financial problems are likely to make imports of required foreign goods difficult. Problems such as these might be one way the US loses access to its own oil.
A loss in a “hot” war could also reduce the ability of the US to access its own oil. Poor countries most likely covet the US’s oil resources. In my opinion, the more oil the US leaves in the ground related to climate concerns, the more vulnerable the US becomes to other countries’ trying to access its resources. For most of the world, adequate food supply has priority over climate concerns.
If total world oil supply is shrinking, as seems likely with OPEC cutting its output, poorer countries around the world are now becoming concerned about finding workarounds for this expected oil supply shortfall. One workaround would be for oil exporting countries to reduce their exports to countries that are not their close allies. Another approach would be for the poorer nations of the world to reduce the quantity of oil now used for international transport by cutting back on exports of all types of goods to richer counties.
Changes to the international financial system may be very near. There are now stories about greater cooperation among countries of the Middle East and China. There are also stories about moving away from the US dollar for trade.
[11] I have written in the past about the world self-organizing economy being built up in layers and being hollow inside. We can imagine the loss of Europe, and perhaps the United States and Japan, as being rather like an avalanche, removing some unsustainable parts of the system.
Our economy is a physics-based self-organizing system that looks as if it could keep growing forever.
As the economy grows, new businesses are added. We can envision them as new layers, added on top of existing businesses. The growing consumer (and worker) base helps push this growth along. At the same time, unneeded products and businesses tend to fall away, making the center of the structure hollow. For example, the world economy no longer makes many buggy whips, since horses and buggies are no longer the primary means of transportation.
Built into this system are financial and regulatory structures, operated by banks and governments. When the rate of growth of the energy supply is constrained, the system starts encountering more debt defaults and banking crises. I think that this is where we are today.
In a way, the economy with all its debt is like a Ponzi Scheme. It depends on a growing supply of energy and other resources to continue to be able to pay back its debt with interest. The higher the interest rate, the more difficult it is to keep the whole arrangement operating.
Something will have to “give,” as the growth in oil supply turns to shrinkage. In theory, what is lost could be the operation of the whole world economy, but the system does seem to hold together, to the extent that it can, if adequate energy supply exists for even part of the global economy. That is why I think that the near-term result may be more of an avalanche than a complete collapse.
We don’t know exactly what lies ahead, but the situation does look worrying.
Mister Hoolio – fresh kill.
He’s trotting around with that in his mouth having his own little pride day
Bravo Mister Hoolio… Bravo!!!
https://i.postimg.cc/JzsLkHBL/a-kill.png
That photo is as fake as hell. The perspective of the rabbit is all wrong. Was it taken on the moon or something?
Photo shop … Mister Hoolio could never catch a rabbit… I shot it and placed it there.
(maybe)
Gloomy companions,
leaving the oil age won’t be all bad, look what people achieved 1000 years ago:
https://sagastad.no/en/the-history/the-myklebust-ship/
Besides, it’s spring in Donbass:
https://t.me/Slavyangrad/43232
a great acheivement Jarle, certainly
but it still couldnt move faster than sail and human muscle, and dependent on invasion of other regions for sustainability
It’s the engine that makes all the difference
A wooden ship has physical limits on its size
The U.S. is very young. NYC or New Amsterdam is a bit older. I suggest the movies The Gangs of New York and Sleepy Hollow. The first to see immigrants are not new and are a known quantity even if the unschooled politicians are unaware. The second has a brief look at policing practice in New Amsterdam again immigrants and poverty are not new news.
Over time the violent criminal gangs make money and become the next generations politicians. They KNOW how to deal with violent criminal gangs. For now we have to deal with the spectacle of welfare grifters trying to deal with real violence and crime. Humorous when viewed from a distance.
Some houses here, still in use, are 600 years old, the church 700. We don’t have to talk about Athens or Cairo. Concrete buildings will never keep as long.
Have you ever heard of Garath Jones, the Welsh journalist who first broke the story of the Holodomor centred in Ukraine and ho was said to have been murdered by Chinese bandits in Manchuria?
Kulm possibly knows of him. He’s brand new to me. This is a website devoted to his memory and his writing.
Gareth Richard Vaughan Jones
Hero of Ukraine
(1905 -1935)
A Man Who Knew Too Much…
“That part of the world is a cauldron of conflicting intrigue and one or other interests concerned probably knew that Mr Gareth Jones knew too much of what was going on… He had a passion for finding out what was happening in foreign lands wherever there was trouble, and in pursuit of his investigations he shrank from no risk… I had always been afraid that he would take one risk too many. Nothing escaped his observation, and he allowed no obstacle to turn from his course when he thought that there was some fact, which he could obtain. He had the almost unfailing knack of getting at things that mattered.”
London Evening Standard, quoting former British Prime Minister David Lloyd George, 26th August 1935.
https://www.garethjones.org/
the full movie Mr jones is available to watch online
i highlt recommend it
i’ve watched half of it—its a tough one to watch, i’ve yet to summon up the courage to watch the rest.
to say it pulls no punches is an understatement at the very least…the Uknraine starving to death in the 1930s, easy to see where animosity comes from now
When will we see shortages of something, anything, anywhere?
You are not in agriculture waiting on machine parts obviously.
in the Inner Core, where you live, probably not until the later 2020s.
Excellent, it is the last Wednesday of the month Grateful Dead dance night at the pub. Party on. In inflation adjusted terms gasoline is cheap, no issue getting to the pub.
When I needed repairs to my concrete driveway, I was told that no one wanted to do small jobs anymore. I would need to replace a larger piece than really was necessary. I would also need to wait longer and to pay a higher price per cubic foot than had been required in the past.
I don’t know if this is better now or not.
Oil drillers have complained about broken supply lines being one of their problems in drilling new wells.
The humans are insatiable digestive tubes, connected to the digestive tubes of animals, to various pipes etc. that are fed by the machines.
yes!
it is truly awesome.
machined bAU tonight, baby!
I do not think that BAU continues, finally, the ageing hits everywhere.
Yesterday, I was told by my friend that my nearest pharmacy is closed for 2 weeks, because of the sickness leave of the personnel. Obviously, there is no substitute.
Another version of the “empty shelf” problem.
They should instead be talking in terms of life expectancy. Average life expectancy.
Ted began his comment with the sentence: “What Was the Life Expectancy of Ancient Humans?
And the article he quoted began: “The oldest verified human to walk the Earth was a French woman named Jeanne Louise Clement, who nearly spent time in three centuries over her 122 years from 1875 to 1997, according to the Guinness World Records.
Most of us won’t be that lucky, but life expectancy has increased greatly in just a few decades due to modern health practices, sanitation and other factors. But what was the life expectancy of ancient humans?”
I would like to point out that there is a difference between “life expectancy” and “average life expectancy.”
Life expectancy refers to the average number of years a person is expected to live based on current mortality rates and other demographic factors such as age, sex, and socioeconomic status. It is a statistical measure that provides an estimate of how long a person might be expected to live if the current mortality rates remain constant. Life insurance companies use these rates to work out your premiums based on age, sex, smoking habits, pre-existing medical conditions, etc.
Average life expectancy, on the other hand, refers to the average lifespan of a group of people. It is calculated by adding up the ages at death of all the individuals in the group and dividing by the total number of individuals. Average life expectancy is not the same as life expectancy because it takes into account the ages at which people actually die, rather than just the expected number of years they might live based on current mortality rates.
This was in reply to Reante’s earlier comment on “life expectancy”. Somehow it appeared here, rather than there.
So, I’ll add this to the pot for Reante..
Medieval Sex: The Rampant Outbreak of Sexually Transmitted Diseases During The Middle Ages…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=88Sg5IeHtPc&t=509s&pp=ygUZbWVkaWV2YWwgbWFkbmVzcyBzeWZhbGxpcw%3D%3D
MedievalMadness
Throughout human history one thing has remained constant, namely the enjoyment of having sex, but by the late Middle Ages both gonorrhoea and syphilis were widespread. Although the poor could only make do with superstition and herbal remedies, the rich could rely on their expensive physicians. Without antibiotics though the success of any treatment was mostly based on luck. Especially when you consider that one popular medication, for those who could afford it, was mercury ointment, which we now know to be toxic and would end up fatally poisoning the patient anyway.
Welcome to Medieval Madness.
0:00 Introduction
0:47 Epidemic
3:14 Columbus
3:42 Medieval Myths
6:22 Cures
And we complain about a little bitty iffy batch of “rat juice”,
Bunch of whiny pussycat privileged prima Donna’s
Tuffin it up
Whatever doesn’t kill ya, makes you stronger, Ha!
You are not wearing your handle well at all. It’s a stoopid look.
See my latest reply on the other page.
Hey norm.. it’s 3am… Merry Christmas!
Dropped Dead immediately after the shot!!!
https://t.me/downtherabbitholewegofolks/75115
True https://t.me/downtherabbitholewegofolks/75064
haha burn the child https://t.me/downtherabbitholewegofolks/75055
Get ready for same-sex figure skating, maybe add some trans figure skating as well. Yee-ha! 🌈 norm likes that kind of stuff.
https://slate.com/culture/2023/04/figure-skating-2023-same-sex-gender-pairs-rules.html?utm_source=pocket-newtab
I cringe a the thought of a tranny skater in this position
https://cdn.acidcow.com/pics/20100226/acid_picdump_61.jpg
surely eddy—you would have a set of numbers for that?
parroting your mentor again Rodster?
Norman, these cheeky young rascals just don’t know when to stop, I’m afraid. And they feel absolutely no shame.
You can tell society is going to the dogs when people gratuitously pick on retired Post Office workers like a pack of feral Chihuahuas.
Fortunately, you are tall enough that they can only bite your ankles.
thank you for your support Tim—I shall always wear it
my PO career was just one year, after that i got a grovelling letter (signed in lipstick and rows of X’s) from HM Queen who was in desperate need of my military skill to protect her royal personage—how could I refuse?
I was also dating the post inspector’s daughter at the time—that was an offer i couldn’t refuse either.
(Though she wasn’t the one into martial arts))
hahaha… fake war .. funny https://t.me/downtherabbitholewegofolks/74999
Insurance analyst Josh Sterling drops a bombshell analysis.
theflstandard.com/top-insurance-…
https://www.theflstandard.com/top-insurance-analyst-600-000-americans-per-year-are-dying-from-covid-shots/
@DowdEdward
The Florida Standard (https://www.theflstandard.com/top-insurance-analyst-600-000-americans-per-year-are-dying-from-covid-shots/)
600,000 Americans Per Year Are Dying From COVID Shots Says Top Insurance Analyst
Former Bernstein senior analyst Josh Stirling draws a shocking conclusion from UK government health data.
This is the third time for this comment. First from you, then Ed repeated it, and now again from you. We have seen it enough.
Repetition required for norm to tune in — so we can save his life
911 https://t.me/downtherabbitholewegofolks/30014
I’d like to see some doctors and nurses die suddenly in Queenstown!
I am sure there are some vax injured .. but so far no deaths
The doctor who told me to vax our two munchkins cuz they were at risk from covid — and sa
https://t.me/TommyRobinsonNews/47163
80 youngish doctors in Canada who had taken their 3rd and 4th Covid shots died in the last 60 days.
A lawyer of my acquaintance told me he had received 3 Pfizer specials. I told him he should be proud that he was so accommodating to Shakespeare’s memory.
It took him a while to clue in.
Just imagine a world without those creatures…….I do….all the time.
i thought your friend robbo was back in jail eddy
In a consequentialist view, USA and US Dollar exploiting the entire global civilization is jutified.
USA exploited the entire Latin American for 2 centuries and the rest of the world for half a century.
But that is justified, since , in a utilitarian view, that made civilization advance much farther than what would have happened if the resources not taken from these countries stayed at the origin countries.
What USA did bad is it failed to convince that the sacrifices of these people were making were worthwhile and needed in order to reach a type I civilization.
Instead it was seen as a greedy vulture only benefiting the fat cats, and the useless population often seen in youtube and other channels.
Without USA being able to exploit Latin America, civilization cannot advance so in a consequential view USA should be allowed to exploit the world for nothing.
Relative to your own argument, I remain skeptical. Artificial Intelligence places a significant gap between “Oh, oh, I know the answer” and “I deserve future benefits because I have been known to answer rightly before.” I reason that the AI can steal the better answer from someone or the AI can prevent someone from benefiting from answers at all, thus wedging the gap wider for humans.
When a collection of people can figure out how to juggle the interdependencies between those two statements, the artifice becomes an optimization to hunt potential alternatives to a question or a pernicious answer.
There is no requirement to exploit simply because the exploiter believes “Previous right answerers ought to give right answers again.” Exploitation solves the inherent Gambler’s Ruin of expecting benefits for giving a future Right answer.
Definitions again—because I know that 90% of readers will not know theses and will just read past them in blah, blah, blah fashion.
In ethical philosophy, consequentialism is a class of normative, teleological ethical theories that holds that the consequences of one’s conduct are the ultimate basis for judgment about the rightness or wrongness of that conduct.
On that basis, “whoops, we made a mistake” doesn’t cut it. It’s immoral to mess up, and unethical to fail. Someone had better send a Bill Kristol memo to that effect.
Under the Kardashev scale, a measure proposed by Soviet astronomer Nikolai Kardashev in 1964 of classifying a civilization’s level of technological advancement based on the amount of energy it is able to use, a type I civilization is able to access all the energy available on its planet and store it for consumption.
Why reaching the status of type 1 civilization should be judged as desirable or as a positive consequence is beyond me. Imagine making all the effort required to reach that state, covering the entire surface of the planet with sola panels, only to find that our Creator, in His infinite wisdom, intended our principal purpose in life to be smelling and appreciating the roses? Or each others’ arm pits? In that case, becoming type 1 might be the ultimate folly.
Kardashev…??? You meant Kardashian right?
one of the more aggressive gangs here seems to reside at tufts university and cluster around the grants and goodies that funded their horrendous “food compass” system whose output is so bad that a lot of people mistook it for parody.
a set of researchers applied this model and published the results in the journal of nutrition.
it recommended frosted mini wheats, sweet potato fries, nonfat frozen yogurt (generally loaded with sugar), and chocolate covered almonds while calling things like almond M+M’s and lucky charms cereal healthier than ground beef or cheese.
this looks like a pretty surreal pile of advice.
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/red-meat-for-debate
https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_2912,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F490aa6ac-5c72-4e1e-a4b3-28dbfa32674f_1584x1233.png
Fosters the perception that CNNBBC is not run by a Ministry of Truth and that the actors .. uh I mean .. journalists… control what they read off of the teleprompter…
They will resurrect him with a Youtube channel… and continue to pay him
https://www.nbcnews.com/media/tucker-carlson-leaving-fox-news-rcna81146
https://mattiasdesmet.substack.com/p/why-robert-malone-didnt-make-up-the
Keep in mind mass formation assumes there is no reason for the ‘illogical’ behaviour of the crowd.
Hannah Arendt has this all wrong — the ‘evil’ of the Nazi regime was not at all banal — it was extremely well thought through.
If one reads history one understands that real or not real — Hitler believed that the Jewish bankers sold out the German war effort and ‘stabbed them in the back’
The loss of the war resulted in the complete decimation of a proud nation — complete with starvation for most of its people.
Hitler came to power on the back of this horrific situation by promising to Make Germany Great Again.
And he did exactly what he promised. The people of Germany – understandably — supported him. It was not some mindless cult — the average person looked at the prosperity he delivered and they were completely behind him.
Again the stab in the back was very real to the Germans — and they wanted revenge. So again – when Hitler vilified the Jews the average German was on board with murdering them.
A parallel would be the US at present — should the financial system collapse (it is on the precipice) and the world be thrown into a brutal depression (it will collapse actually but that’s another topic)… and the masses were thrown into a situation where they are starving…
It’s not difficult to imagine a Hitlerian-like individual spewing vitriol at the bankers and blaming them for the predicament. One could easily argue that they would be responsible for the disaster… real or not real does NOT matter. Perception matters.
And we could easily see a repeat of WW2… with Americans murdering Jews by the millions… not gas ovens… rather them being hunted down and shot.
This is NOT banality … these actions would be thought through — and those committing the atrocities would believe they are 100% justified.
Those doing the killing would believe it is deserved… one of the motivations would be to remove those who they believe destroyed their country — so that they cannot repeat their actions.
On another note — we are experiencing Mass Demoralization … the folks in charge are purposely destroying the foundations of our society — promoting transgenderism (the Bud Lite thing was no mistake – and that VP of marketing is a psyop plant – that decision was made on high and if you look at her online presence she did not exist until recently) – mutilating children who think it might be fun to swap genders — flooding countries with illegal immigrants — not prosecuting the Bidens — etc etc etc… that is about crushing human spirit – so that when they extinct us (coming soon) — we will go willingly from the shit show.
https://www.headsupster.com/forumthread?shortId=220
spot on
“that is about crushing human spirit “
Hannah Ardern is an apologist for the J- leadership (which we know as The Elders).
Nothing wrong with stabbing in the back… see The Prince
Young people are especially demoralized.
China Memo to oil peakers : have you ever heard of our slow water torture?
Dubbed the “Seagull”, BYD’s latest electric vehicle (EV) made its debut at the event this week, stunning visitors not so much for its look or its features, but the fact it will sell from just 78,000 yuan ($11,300) – around half the price of the cheapest new energy vehicles available elsewhere.
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/shanghai-auto-show-crowds-flock-byds-seagull-2023-04-19/
But it uses lithium;
Not to worry sodium ion is here:
https://www.chasingcars.com.au/news/car-technology/why-sodium-ion-batteries-could-make-new-evs-cheaper/
This complicates the energy analysis but alas, don’t get too excited; there’s still that durn GSM.
https://spaceweatherarchive.com/2023/04/23/an-earth-directed-explosion-on-the-sun/
Unless a vehicle is cheap, it is really difficult to sell many of them.
It sounds like a huge cutback in the availability of debt is already beginning to take place in the US.
According to Zerohedge,
https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/i-had-find-out-if-was-true
It then talks about several dealerships of used cars “temporarily” shutting down.
It also says,
This is another part of underwriters of loans becoming much more selective. The post connects to this article:
https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/credit-crunch-us-bank-crisis-stock-corporate-earnings-recession-svb-2023-4
‘A credit crunch has started’ as banks tighten lending by the most on record, Morgan Stanley CIO says
This is more than loans on autos. Loans to small businesses are mentioned too. Probably other loans as well.
Lend to gentiles at interest but not to ourselves is ending by working its way from the bottom up. When it reaches the primary dealers to the Fed it will effectively End the Fed. Goodbye OT Capitalism.
Yes, the banks need to buy US Treasuries. If they have a problem, the US cannot sell the bonds it needs to fund its debt.
Primary dealers are national socialism
“Epidemic of 15-19 Year Olds Dropping Dead in Schools and Dorms Across USA and Canada in April 2023”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/epidemic-15-19-year-olds-dropping-dead-schools-dorms-across-usa-canada-april-2023/5816841
The MOREONS never see lists like this … they may here about one or two… but hey this happens … sometimes… nothing out of the ordinary.
They are not concerned.
norm just had a 7th shot… he is our barometer
eddy
i only said i’d had an invite
am very wary since i got a flat tyre on the way back from the clinic
but at least the girls there didn’t try out their martial arts skills on me, like your lot
First it was Jacinda Ardern, then Liz Truss. Next up was Nicola Sturgeon, but she too has already fallen under suspicion. Could it be Gail’s turn now to fall from grace?
When Ms. Tverberg was recently away on a visit, the paparazzi managed to get their hands on some photos of the interior of her abode. If you wondered why you haven’t seen Wile E Coyote recently, wonder no more. Here he is, so it seems, killed, stuffed, and displayed as a grotesque ornament in the Tverberg home. Coyote envy is known to be one of the top psychological disorders in Gail’s neighborhood.
Could our Gail really have carried out the vile deed? Or is she rather the victim of a dirty trick by the Deep State? There are those, after all, who suspect her of being a Russian sympathizer and would like nothing more than to see her canceled. Nor are many keen on her message of imminent economic doom.
Only time will tell. Many of us will remember how Steven Spielberg was reviled on world social media after having his photo taken with the body of a rare triceratops that he had killed during a trophy hunt. His career never recovered.
Meanwhile, fans of Wile E are gathering outside Gail’s home, demanding a Christian burial and a Hollywood-style funeral for their hero. The Viscount de Pomegranate, Betty Boop and Cardi B are among those who have offered their condolences.
https://scontent.flhr2-4.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/342621880_197566709713029_1905519616114075170_n.jpg?_nc_cat=109&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=5cd70e&_nc_ohc=4v6Ebb9cUeYAX8p9BZ-&_nc_ht=scontent.flhr2-4.fna&oh=00_AfDNdHqURCkRZWZ_OJN0hNqu7riIQVS9HpsCdIzpWF_mpw&oe=644B530C
Who killed Wile E Coyote? Come on, Gail. Fess up and spill the beans.
Lay off the cheese.
I am alive and well in the Atlanta, GA area. A Our neighborhood has lots of trees and quite a few wild animals. There may very well be a few coyotes around here.
Mentions self but says nothing specific about Wile E.
The expected denial is absent. This is one for Peter Hyatt, the statement analyst:
http://statement-analysis.blogspot.com/
The ADE thing is a BIG misunderstanding. The cytokine storm of ‘ADE’ is really just Cytokine Release Syndrome which is exactly the same thing as a cytokine storm but is just the term used outside the context of ‘germs.’ It’s used in the context of inflammation and cancer formation. Cytokines are really just inflammation-related exosomes; they are cell-secreted intercellular genetic signalings wrapped up in a lipid membrane; that’s the definition of an exosome. A whole class of cytokines are growth factors (signals) for fibrin formation and tumor cell and tissue growth.
Abstract
Relationship between inflammation and cancer is now well-established and represents a paradigm that our immune response does not necessarily serves solely to protect us from infections and cancer. Many specific mechanisms that link chronic inflammation to cancer promotion and metastasis have been uncovered in the recent years. Here we are focusing on the effects that tumors may exert on inflammatory cascades, tuning the immune system ability to cause tumor promotion or regression. In particular, we discuss the contributions of chemokines, cytokines and exosomes to the processes such as induction of inflammation and tumorigenesis. Overall, tumor-elicited inflammation is a key driver of tumor progression and an essential component of tumor microenvironment.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S016372581630167X
Likewise cardio disease … inflammation of the arteries caused by consuming toxic processed food results in scarring and clogging…
ADE is national socialism.
throwing a combo this morning. I’m ok it missed the mark. you ok Cheese?
Cheese is national socialism
Lay off the cheese. 🙂
How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
JUST IN – Tucker Carlson to leave Fox News. Last show was last Friday.
NOBODY CROSSESS THE ELDERS!!!
That’s big-time Degrowth Agenda Theater (DAT). It’ll give him major street cred with the OAN Trump stronghold that hates Fox News. OAN is a Trump stronghold but by no means monolithic. And it’ll give him time to join Tulsi on the campaign trail. He’s on the record as saying he hates Trump with a passion.
The WSJ is reporting:
“Network to rely on rotation of hosts until successor is named for 8 p.m. slot”
“Mr. Carlson’s departure comes less than a week after Fox News parent Fox Corp. agreed to pay $787.5 million to settle its legal battle with Dominion Voting Systems, which had accused Fox’s news networks of airing false claims by hosts and guests that Dominion helped rig the outcome of the 2020 U.S. presidential election in favor of Joe Biden.”
So, this is being tied to the Dominion Voting System settlement.
Zerohedge is reporting:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/tucker-carlson-out-fox
Also
“Shares of 21st Century Fox dropped like a rock on the news, and is now sitting at January lows (the drop in FOXA’s market cap is around the same as the settlement with Dominion).”
This is one of Tucker Carlson’s last monologs. It relates to the end of the First Amendment:
https://youtu.be/Z5T1pVKfJ9M
Great clip Gail. That is national socialism in a nutshell: Tucker, an anti-imperialist traditional conservative republicanist/nationalist defending the free speech rights of anti-imperialist Leftist Black Nationalists. And both also obviously opposed to plutocracy. The political space between those two groups is enormous, which is why NS is a Unity politics; it just requires a big nuclear scare or some similar piece of DAT to get us there.
NS or not, totalitarianism is unavoidable in order to stave off collapse
kulm long time no speak. civilization itself is the root totalitarianism. global fascism (peak plutocracy) is peak totalitarianism, NS is post-peak totalitarianism (as in less totalitarian), because the causal mechanism for totalitarianism is increased complexity, and NS is adapted to lower levels of complexity than is Global Fascism. Hence, the most simplified political characterization of NS being that of Conservative Left Libertarianism.
Do you agree?
“Conservative left libertarianism”
This label reminds me a little of the aristocratic libertarianism of Ernst Jünger. Are you by any chance familiar with his “Eumeswill”?
Teaser :
“The anarch is oriented to facts, not ideas. He fights alone, as a free man, and would never dream of sacrificing himself to having one inadequacy supplant another and a new regime triumph over the old one. In this sense, he is closer to the philistine; the baker whose chief concern is to bake good bread; the peasant, who works his plow while armies march across his fields.”
No I’ve never heard of Junger. As you know there are degrees of libertarianism. Furthest from the political center, an agrarian libertarianism abuts the anarchs as that quote describes. The libertarianism of industrial national socialism, however, comes nowhere near that by simple ‘virtue’ of the fact that industrialism is far more totalitarian/powerful. The coming NS libertarianism will be a function of government having to get smaller, simpler, and more efficient. That doesn’t seek to micromanage peoples’lives but instead seeks to deliver the essentials while letting people be more self-organizing (free), but responsibly so.
Definitions again. Under the rules, you get to make your own up as you go, but I get to call you on them when I think you are infringing on established usage. and when I can be bothered. Because frankly, I don’t have a big enough shovel to clean up all the BS you are excreting in these comments.
Nazism, also spelled Naziism, in full National Socialism, German Nationalsozialismus, totalitarian movement led by Adolf Hitler as head of the Nazi Party in Germany. In its intense nationalism, mass appeal, and dictatorial rule, Nazism shared many elements with Italian fascism. However, Nazism was far more extreme both in its ideas and in its practice. In almost every respect it was an anti-intellectual and atheoretical movement, emphasizing the will of the charismatic dictator as the sole source of inspiration of a people and a nation, as well as a vision of the annihilation of all enemies of the Aryan volk as the one and only goal of Nazi policy. — Encyclopedia Britannica.
How conventional of you, Tim. ‘Nazi’ was a Elders’-coopted double-entendre. Yes, it was a homonymic slang for the German spelling and pronunciation of national socialism but it was also a preexisting derogatory term in Germany meaning ‘country idiot.’ So Nazi was originally a political insult fomented by the urban capitalist media.
National Socialism itself is just an anticapitalist socioeconomic politics that believes in nationalist public banking system without the use of interest. It shares that in common with traditional Islamic banking.
You are the BS merchant, not me.
I was both surprised and amazed when he was left on the Air following his expose of the Dominion voting machine fraud and the fraudulent Jan 6th insurrection where he showed unedited videos of the Capitol Police escorting the so-called insurrectionists throughout the Capitol building.
WOW.
Actually I have been wondering lately how they let him speak so long.
Sorry for that
(Jerusalem Post)
Russia to host new round of Turkey, Iran talks on Syria
Russia has been hosting these talks in the hope of achieving normalization between Syria and Turkey. […] The situation is complex. (but) […] Iran, Turkey, Russia and the Syrian regime all oppose the US presence in eastern Syria.
It is a very complicated situation, but (sorry for US OFW readers, they are just reports) it seems that they all agree that US forces in Syria have not been invited by anyone. And no one want US forces in Syria anymore.
https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-740124
When civilization is restored, albeit in a mostly reduced form somewhat akin to 1930s, lots of blood will have to be shed.
Ruthless, merciless and efficient people, like Alvaro Obregon (O’Brien) who destroyed Pancho Villa, will launch massive slaughter of entire populations.
Smarter and ambitious people will side with the side of what is remaining of TPTB, to try to restore what has been lost.
All the bullshit countries made independent after 1918 will disappear , as if they never existed. Anglo-American interests created these bullshit countries, and wasted a lot of resources. They will have no places post-restoration.
i fear it will be more like the 1030s
Norm is correct…..again….thank you.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=v-HgU5Z2o-c
It has been argued that during the Middle Ages, up to 85% of the population were peasants. Their working day was long, hard, and extremely difficult. For some their day of backbreaking labour could begin as early as three o’clock in the morning during the summer. If you were lucky or unlucky enough (depending on your point of view) to avoid the high rate of infant mortality and the constant threat of deadly disease then as a medieval peasant farmer you had an exhausting, cruel, and short life to look forward to. Welcome to Medieval Madness.
0:00 Introduction
1:09 The Majority
Does Not Rule
1:58 Oh Lordy
4:48 Interior Design
5:36 Man’s Work
6:42 Women’s Work
8:00 Dangerous times
A number of great YouTube channels about Medieval existence….it was just awful for just about everyone,
it was the ultimate fascism
you obeyed your lord of the manor—or died
mind you—if you were the seigneur, then life was ok
especially to droit de seigneur bit, except that in the 1030s, the village maidens didnt look or smell much different than the livestock
I argued that before but I do see that it won’t fall down that fast at once
Apparently, the Seneca Cliff has a ways to go.
Back in circa 2008, thought that was the end for your precious advancement of human civilization.
For myself, glad it’s not very fast all at once…for some others it already has happened.
I’ve, been on OFW for a decade now…
Believe me, not at all disappointed that collapse has not occurred in my neck if the woods…
Rule of thumb… if CNNBBC tell you it’s bad — it’s completely under control … as things were in 2008…
The time to be concerned .. is when they say nothing … like now.
Most of the pundits on the Oil Drum in those days did say that we would flatline in production globally for 10-15 years and then begin the descent in per capita energy availability.
I left the southern USA for the Canadian oil patch then expecting a huge boom up here,….it came…..
It is in the descent phase (now here in spades) that all hell will be unleashed,…both by man’s hand and by “others”
I lost friends who could not grasp what I was telling them in 2020 that we were now in a true Seneca collapse event……because their power was still on.
We are in one right now…..history will prove it…….and then a solar event will wipe the slate and reset the whole game…..and most will play again.
Losing friends who are MOREONS … is no great loss
we perhaps view the term fast in terms of human awareness
we should instead think of ‘fast’ as relative to human existence instead.
humans have existed for 1 million years, give or take.
the current catastrophic situation has developed/accellerated over the last 2/300 years.
measure that against 1 m years, and it’s happened in an historical blink of an eye.
we burned the earth to turn it into profitable property, there is now nothing left to burn, but we still believe the BS that growth is forever.
Perhaps….
Though, it has been argued that much of Medieval history was rewritten during the Renaissance period to make it appear as if those before it were nothing but peasants, and that nothing was really achieved to move humanity forward.
Certainly peasants did not own any land, and certainly they had to work exceptionally hard at times of the year. But, without citations (which are not provided by Lisa E Rawcliffe and for most YouTube videos), it is easy to imagine that, as mentioned in the above video, life was merry at times as there was plenty of ale and socializing to be done.
Perhaps people then had more free time than they do today, and in reality, does anyone really own anything?
life was ”merry” only in the sense that there was no awareness of anything better
we cannot ”backdate” our current existence to medeieval times, because knowledge cannot be unlearned
if we go over wile coyotes cliff in the next 50 years, the collective memory of ”what used to be” will remain,
human nature being what it is, we will seek to blame ”others” for our misfortune, and take appropriate action.
MAGA?
The Don’s ranting was already playing on that (AS did Hitler)
Their target audience was the people who felt they had ‘lost out’—and who were prepared to blame others for their misfortunes.
The USA would have turned fascist in the 1930s but for one thing—a colossal surplus of fossil fuels, which Roosevelt used the create jobs. (The new deal)
That surplus has now gone—we can’t use it to create jobs and ‘stuff’ anymore.
Simple energy-economics folks. There will be no new ‘new deal’.
Perhaps we will retain most of our network technologies for entertainment and collaboration so that we can still achieve complex solutions.
Hopefully we can all relearn to grow food, but also retain some automation for large crop production.
We won’t be able to take far away vacations for much longer I suspect. But, trips to the seaside, lake or the mountains in shared vehicles could give us at least a little of what we once had.
Its a good point about comparing your life against others. This is once again becoming a great source of frustration.
But, could a happy life be as simple as living locally with very little movement elsewhere, yet with enough time to be social and be one with the community you live in? So long as this notion isnt being rammed down our throats, perhaps it will eventually feel like the correct way of living on a finite world.
Vern
I’ll try again
Without surplus energy, you cannot, repeat cannot, have any technology more sophisticated than the cartwheel, the sail or the bow and arrow, plus maybe the blacksmiths forge on a limited scale.
I am afraid that Norman is correct. It is possible to get a little surplus energy from burning wood or peat moss, but to get enough surplus energy to start creating more than a few nails and other products, it is really necessary to have fossil fuels. Complexity is very much limited by a lack of energy supply of the right kinds.
yup
Agreed!
A totalitarian govt, commandeering all of the world’s resources and leaving nothing, N-O-T-H-I-N-G, for the rest and using them to advance civilization is inevitable.
Those not in the ‘loop’ will not enjoy even an inkling of the benefits gained by the advancement of civilization.
A horror for those out of loop which will make Axis Europe look like a theme park gone wrong will await.
It is the only way for humans to reach Type I civ so it will take place.
>> Those not in the ‘loop’ will not enjoy even an inkling of the benefits gained by the advancement of civilization.
In your opinion, is there anyway for us plebs to get in the loop if we’re here and know what’s coming?
Short answer : No.
Long answer – the whole struggle against TPTB over the last century is to avoid this conclusion, which led the world to the edge.
If TPTB loses that is the end of civilization
sorry kulm
civilisations dont work like that—other than maybe in the very very short term.
civilisations exist relative to the rate at which one energy form can be converted into another—sorry, there is no other way.
if by some means, all the worlds resourses were commandeered by an ‘elite group’—what would you suggest they do with them?
you are one of the ‘elite’—fine—you ‘take’ an oilfield as your personal possession—-it is ‘worth’ 100bn$
so what do you do with it?
because if the means does not exist to convert that oil into another energy form, it is worth literally nothing.
Same applies to everything else.
Civilisation cannot ‘advance’ unless resources are converted and consumed—and that requires people. It cannot be done with a million or so ‘elite’ individuals.
civilisation will not advance, it will regress
My premise includes the Elites controlling all available resources for exploitation
500 years ago, the elites controlled everything that could be exploited—basically that meant grains meats furs./wool and forests.
there was nothing else, so we used nothing else
the world supported less than 1 bn people.
now there’s 8 billion, but only because we collectively exploited more resources. since 1700
if ‘elites’ control resources with the idea of conserving them for themselves, we go back to the economy of the 1500s
‘resources’ are useless unless they are used
I agree with Gail, more likely more War ….
https://medium.com/yardcouch-com/its-over-saudi-arabia-just-broke-the-us-dollar-9b1d12a19871
It’s Over: Saudi Arabia Just Broke The US Dollar
Crown prince is no longer interested in “pleasing” the U.S.
The first lesson you learn in economics is there are always tradeoffs.
For instance, if your country announces it’s banning gas by 2035 it will force oil-producing countries to scramble in search of new alternative revenue streams.
Enter Saudi Arabia: they are breaking ties with the U.S. dollar and joining the China-led Shanghai Cooperation Organization, a massive trade bloc that trades in yuan.
Here’s the score if you aren’t keeping track:
Crafting connections with China, a superpower rival to the U.S. ✅
Creating a new financial system away from the dollar ✅
As their Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman recently told associates last year, “[we] are no longer interested in pleasing the United States.”
This is the biggest story of the year.
Yes. Of course.
The free ride of the dollar is over. The world can’t sustain it.
Since 1933, the U.S. dollar has lost 92% of its domestic purchasing power. It doesn’t help that almost half of global trade is based on this volatile gumshoes system.
It’s led to events like the British pound flash crashing against the dollar and now fucking the UK economy beyond repair:
Rampant inflation (10.4%), which the central bank is not controlling
Daily strikes in the UK as people aren’t getting paid enough
Real estate is overpriced for mostly everyone forcing them to rent for the rest of their lives
Lost access to the EU economy through Brexit
But it wasn’t just Biden; the entire U.S. financial system — that led to the crashes of 2008, 2020, and 2023 — was ignored by both parties.
Americans think in quarter-long windows and take military and economic supremacy for granted. Countries like Saudi Arabia, India, China, and Russia are looking at the long-term picture, figuring out ways to reduce their reliance on U.S. dollars.
Was it self-sabotage or hubris that got America to its current state?
I don’t know, mate. But we’ve squandered our advantage, and now?
Let’s see, running a yearly trillion dollar budget deficit along with a trillion dollar trade imbalance and continuing to falsely promise to fix it…
No, other folks won’t mind and sit by and do nothing…because they have a big gun to their heads….
Well, now we are seeing this ain’t so…somebody moved the cheese
Ted, I think that you have hit a lot of nails on the head there.
…. One of the first things that Biden did was to publicly declare a key USA energy partner, Saudi, as a ‘pariah’. Who on earth put him up to that, and to what purpose?
SBL is like ‘OK, if that is how you want it, the world is a bigger place than USA, and we will see who ends up as a ‘pariah’ in the coming years.’
And do not even start on the UKR debacle (and the entire exclusionary attitude toward Russia since 1990) – and the ‘sanctions’.
USA blew up dollar dominance with the antics of freezing Russia’s dollars and excluding it from SWIFT. And the world is like, ‘OK…..’
Massive blunders.
And look at the Afghanistan debacle.
The whole world saw the USA helicopters desperately flying out with Afghan allies dropping to their deaths off the things. The Taliban defeated USA on the battlefield and took province after province. 20 years of USA occupation ended with the scenes that the entire world saw.
And remember Syria. The USA attempt to depose Assad ended in abject failure, with a massive civil war, the expansion of ISIS, repeated terror attacks across the west, and Russia had to intervene to support Assad and restore a semblance of order and sanity.
The entire world saw that. One massive USA geopolitical debacle after another.
And the world sees Biden, demented, without rose-tinted glasses. And before him, the USA establishment and MSM completely trashed Trump in the eyes of the world. It ended with the ‘vote count’ debacle, and the ‘storming’ of the WH. And now Biden totters in, when he can remember the way, and does not fall over. USA democracy, the USA state, is a total joke before the world now.
The entire world outside of Europe is jumping ship now on USA. Geopolitically, USA makes the worst mistakes imaginable, follows one fiasco with another, one blunder with a worse. And now it has installed Biden, and blown up the dollar.
The world sees China, Russia, India, Indonesia all rising, BRICS, SCO, ASEAN. The world is moving on, and it can see what the USA has become and where the future lies – and it is not with USA.
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It is debatable where USA blunders started. USA has favoured ‘globalization’ since WWII, and it has expanded development throughout the world. Now it is struggling to maintain its position in the very world that it developed. Its whole post-WWII ideology of global development is now catching up with it.
And USA basically built China in recent decades, shifting all of its industry to China and helping it to develop as a bigger economy than USA, with all of the technological and military advancement that implies. China has now surpassed USA militarily, and USA basically did that.
We could go on all day, and all the way back, about USA blunders.
As Thucydides might say, a state is either up to it or it is not, either it acts expediently or it does not, in which case, it is only a matter of time. Likely, ideologically the USA was simply not up to it from the get go, it failed to study the classics, and was largely bogged down in 18th c. imaginary nonsense about ‘inalienable rights’ &c. and then went for the global development thing. It worked well for a time, but that is no basis on which to maintain position.
When historians ponder why the USA Empire fell, it is liable to be a matter of ‘well, where to start…. let’s start at the beginning?’
Mirror on the Wall, very well written overtake on the rapid events we are in the midst of leading to all out war…IMO
More pieces of US hegemony keep falling.
Maybe the shift in trade will be as much toward the China-led Shanghai Cooperation Organization as it is toward the BRICS.
More fake news
Why?
William Casey, CIA Director 1981-1987 “We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.”
I operate off of that premise now.
Also – the men who run the show think of humans as cockroaches (FE calls them barnyard and circus animals) … so why bother to tell them the truth – ever? To what purpose?
It’s a farm — the animals have ZERO say in how it is run. The animals are stooopid … and they can be dangerous … therefore they need to be controlled. There thoughts need to be controlled. Their behaviour needs to be controlled.
How do you control them? The Ministry of Truth >>> the PR Team >>>> CNNBBC…
We need to stop assuming they respect the animals. They absolutely do not.
They are farming us … they are only interested in productivity.
Oh and as we know — nobody wants the truth… they’d unhinge if the Ministry of Truth gave it to them,
So assume this story is fake … cuz just about everything else is
Lame Eddy, how about keeping your mouth shut once in a while?
Eddy is right about the People Farm and about the theatrical noise surrounding Saudi Arabia going off the rez. Here’s a map of US military bases’ proximity to the Saudi oil industry in the Eastern part of the country. Until that changes, it’s US oil under Saudi Arabian feet. Of course, US military hegemony there is Elder hardware on Arabian Peninsula sand. The Elders won’t let the petrodollar collapse because that would be bad for the Elders.
The map:
https://www.americansecurityproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/usmiddleeastbases.jpg
Trust me .. nobody here wants that
lololol—eddy
always the motivation of the bar stool philosopher and market square soapboxer
The only difference between you and the above is, that their words, once uttered, cannot be deleted.
Yours can—and often are.
you were saying, about nobody wants to shut you up???
—anybody normal would take the hint, instead of remaining convinced that everyone is hanging on your every (obs cene) word
UKR estimates that it would need 10 X as much weaponry to stand a chance against Russia.
Russia just blows up western weapons as they arrive to the field.
Western armouries have emptied anyway. Many NATO members have consistently failed to meet their yearly spending commitments.
NATO is not serious, and UKR has resorted to fire sales of its state assets to try to fund its war budget, despite USA promises that it would be funded.
This is what a farce looks like. UKR were fools to ever listen to the west.
Russia’s onslaught of western weapons forces Ukraine to plead for arms | ‘Need 10 Times More’
What a mess, and US papers don’t report on the situation, except to suggest that things are going fairly well.
A woman in Norway cleaned her parents’ home, she found 32 iron ingots dating to the Viking or early Middle Ages.
https://arkeonews.net/a-woman-in-norway-found-viking-age-1000-year-old-hoard-in-basement/
Grete Margot Sørum was cleaning her parents’ Valdres home. She discovered dozens of Viking-age artifacts while sorting through items in the basement, according to an April 19 news release from the Innlandet County Municipality
This is the first find of such iron ingots in a hundred years in Valdres.
According to the press release, archaeologists determined that the artifacts were iron ingots from the Viking or early Middle Ages. The objects have a hole in one end and resemble long-handled spatulas in shape.
The metal objects all had roughly the same size and weight (about 50 grams), leading experts to believe they might have been a form of payment.
Archaeologists say the hole at the end of the artifacts shows they were tied together in a bundle.
The release said the artifacts had been around the house since the 1980s. Experts think someone might have buried the thousand years of artifacts to hide them for later but never returned, the release said.
The Bergen royal road (the old royal road between Oslo and Bergen) runs just below where Grete Margot Sørum’s father found the iron bars in Aurdal in Valdres.
Iron was a very important commodity in the Viking Age, used for weapons and for travel caps and rivets for boat building. In all the large valleys in southern Norway and in areas in Trøndelag, people took iron from the bogs in the Iron Age and the Middle Ages.
Hope Gail likes this article..from Norway…
It seems like iron was often very important, back when it was available in very limited quantities. I know that iron is mentioned several times in the Old Testament of the Bible. This is an article I found about iron in ancient Israel.
https://www.thetorah.com/article/the-history-of-iron-in-ancient-israel
iron is the basic tool with which we can do everything else
without iron, civilisation in any modern context could not exist
before we had iron, the only ‘civilisations” existed in the tropical /equatorial zones of the earth—ie the sun provided the necessary surplus energy
My bronze age Scandanavian proto viking ancestors beg to differ. Give us tin and copper some charcoal and a little time and we will give you a really bad day…..
Oh wait, you said civilization? What kind of idiot wants that?
cro
iron is the 4th most common element on earth
getting hold of enough copper and tin to make ito the everyday objects we have now would be impossible
What about the bronze age cultures in Europe and especially in the mediterrenean…?
I think Norman has used a variation the “no true Scotsman” fallacy, the appeal to purity, suggesting that civilization in a modern context, utilizing iron, is the only true civilization, and any that civilizations falling outside of that rubric—such ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, the Indus Valley and Bronze Age China are looked down on as “civilization” in inverted commas, indicating that they are quite a different thing.
”no true civilisation” is wrong Tim. Try not to use words that we not in the original.
what i said, >>>>without iron, civilisation in any modern context could not exist
before we had iron, the only ‘civilisations” existed in the tropical /equatorial zones of the earth—ie the sun provided the necessary surplus energy<<<<<<
there was certainly no aspect in that of 'looking down on'.
modern civilisation cannot function without access to cheap iron, alongside access to cheap surplus fuels.
Civilisations cannot exist without access to cheap surplus energy
the ancient civilisations came into existence around the equatorial/tropical zones of the world.—in other words the sources of their surplus energy was sunshine.
you cannot expend vast resources of muscle energy building pyramids, if by doing so would result in insufficient food being produced to feed the builders. Sunlight (and the Nile) made up the difference.
Our civilisation is supported by surplus energy economics–we use that to build iron goods and sell them to each other. We build capital to provide ''life insurance''.–for ourselves and our descendants.
The Egyptians also had a surplus energy economic system, they used it to build for ''an afterlife'' People bought tombs (capital) as 'life insurance'' they too were trying to insure their future.
The motivation in the context of both civilisations was/is the same.
Both were wrong. Ultimately it isn't possible to consume ''excess'' now, to provide ''future certainty.''—you can do it for a while, but collapse is certain.
Which is what is happening to us——right now.
If none of the above makes sense—ask yourself why the Inuit never built cities.
I would point out that equatorial regions don’t need much infrastructure. Crops can grow year around. There is no need for heat in winter. People can get along without warm clothes. Homes can be built very inexpensively out of local biomass, if desired. People can carry water in clay jugs on their heads, rather the having pipelines. Thus, the energy gained from the sun, together with the additional energy gained from burning biomass to cook food, is sufficient to keep some sort of civilization operating.
It is only when antibiotics and other modern medicine act to reduce death rates that such civilizations run into huge problems. Modern hygiene, introduced by missionaries and kept going to do-good organizations, may be as important as modern medicine in reducing death rates.
i agree about modern medicines
my point about civilisations and infrastructure, was that when a group of people reach some kind of critical mass, and the have a surplus of energy, they seem to follow the path of building seemingly pointless temples—pyramids—aztecs, aghor wat—and so on
part of a belief system, it seems to me, that is intended to reinforce the certainties that building temples to god, will please the gods and guarantee future prosperity–afterlife etc etc
it also gives a purpose to surplus manpower
white missionaries messed things up
I agree with, “It gives a purpose to surplus manpower.”
Weather is highly variable. It is not necessary to work on these projects when there is plenty of work available in the field. Excess workers can also store up grain, at least for a while, but this is hard to keep from predators.
the Egyptian currency for paying tomb builders was grain i believe
”no true civilisation” is wrong Norman. Try not to use words that we not in the original.
I wrote “no true Scotsman” and “the only true civilization”, but I didn’t write “no true civilisation”. So I plead Not Guilty, Your Honour.
I can follow and nod in approval at the rest of your reasoning. I can grasp that iron is necessary for industrialized societies and that bronze wouldn’t cut it.
Curt
bronze age cultures remained fundamentally agrarian
Spoke to brother today… he replaced a boiler — last year’s price $12,000 … one year later $18,000.
Inflation is out of control and we are being lied to
Of course we are all being lied to and not just on inflation. In the US, economist John Williams who runs the website Shadowstats.com has the real inflation rate between 25-30%. He uses the method used in the 70’s and 80’s.
Today, so much is thrown into calculating inflation, that it causes it to drop to unrealistic levels, such as 5.6% inflation.
Yeah but it’s about to crash hard … meaning deflation…that’s the new normal. Get ready for depression 4.0…all that money that governments put in economies is evaporating very fast now. We will then have low oil prices followed by lack of investment. Then spiking oil prices and inflation again. Whip saw until it breaks
If he is vaxxed he will not need the money anyway soon. Tell him to follow Fast Eddy on OFW to put the new furnace in perspective.
if he moved in with eddy—he could just just use the infinite source of hot air
😂 maybe he could create a pipeline! Wait by then biden would blow it up!!
He is rabidly anti-vax… he is aware to a certain extent of the predicament with regards to energy … but does not want to face that dark place.
Most of the cost increases are due to labor… look at what a plumber makes today versus 4 years ago…. The reverse will happen when there is no work. Of course your brother probably has no workable skills or connections with tradesmen so he also paid full price plus popcorn 😛. AI will soon come for the office jobs. Gail is lucky she got in and out when she did statistical work and accounting etc 🥲🙃 poof! I would say that 90 percent of medical could go but they will keep them on
He is an architect and he has very strong relationships with tradesmen … he general contracted his house as well…and did much of the work himself.
He gets the best possible prices and he knows when someone is trying to f789 him over.
You try to f789 him and it will come back to bite you in the ass when big jobs get tendered.
He also shopped this around when he received this massive increase in the quote. They all came in with similar numbers.
This is the new normal.
New Zealand and Europe are of course not experiencing anything like this … inflation is only 5% here.
four number words are obviously a family trait
Mayor Eric Adams says NYC is under threat being destroyed by the illegals, the migrants from the Southern border; say thanks to Biden, Eric, and more is coming your way; rapes, murders coming Eric & illegals are being put in front of the line over black Americans, I have seen with my own eyes, Biden et al. decides illegal Latin vote is worth more than the black vote now as blacks vote for Trump
https://palexander.substack.com/p/mayor-eric-adams-says-nyc-is-under
He doesn’t get it – the idea is to destroy the very foundations of society – Mass D
“He doesn’t get it – the idea is to destroy the very foundations of society”
Exactly
Miscarriages and Dead Infants Were Described in a Secret FDA Review, but Hidden from The Public
https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/miscarriages-and-dead-infants-were
General Alarm System in UK
I remembered that someone talked about this in OFW.
I think that:
1) It is the perfect way to outsource the alert system: it means that it is not necessary anymore to build poles where to put electronic sirens.
It was the same think for ‘green-pass’, it is not necessary anymore to build a plastic card for citizens, ‘you are the one buying the expenses of producing a (virtual) card, as you have bought a smart phone’ 😀
It is also like to ask a prisoner to build his own prison with his own expenses: ‘go to the hardware store, buy concrete, bars etc. and go to build your prison. By the way: make it quickly’ 😀
2) And it is the perfect way to know where people is located and control them. ‘Always keep your smart phone connected with 3,4,5,6 G or wireless, don’t be dis-connected!’ 😀
Anyway, I also think that – after all what UK has done against Russia lately – now they fear they could be attacked.
Or maybe, UK is planning something that as a ‘natural’ consequence will receive a counter attack from Russia.
“After all that the UK has done against Russia lately”.
And what might that be, Student? What can the lickle UK do against the big bear? UK politicians like to talk big – and Boris was no different – but that’s just the post-imperial complex. We still have a kind of doll’s house empire (Falklands, Gibraltar, Bermuda, etc.), as well as the Commonwealth hangers-on – but what does that amount to? It’s all done with smoke and mirrors. The once mighty empire is just Wizard of Oz bluster these days. And look at our late Queen’s final video. The only star she could persuade to appear with her in it was Paddington Bear, and he’s not even a real person. Do try to keep up with the real world, Student.
There is the little matter of Nord Stream 1 and 2.
I’m afraid that it is more in your dream than in reality Cheese.
UK intelligence is alive and well.
It has been the most powerful tool in Ukraine so far for Western forces.
Additionally many so called UK ‘volunteers’ have been fighting in Ukraine so far, who are actually (let’s say probably to be fair) very good and well trained UK officials and not volunteers in the sense they would like us to believe.
UK is also training Ukraine soldiers.
UK is then also sending many weapons to Ukraine forces.
I think that the list is probably longer, but that it is what can read on newspapers, so I’m afraid it would probably be just enough for Russian to be ‘ben incazzati’ with UK.
Having said that, I’m not fan of anyone and I only hope for some more quiet situation to stay alive with my business.
End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration.
by Peter Turchin (06.13.23)
https://www.amazon.com/End-Times-Counter-Elites-Political-Disintegration-ebook/dp/B0BF8PBQK9
Thanks! It sounds like an interesting book.
According to the blurb:
(Financial Times + Israel National News)
Subject: wars and preparations of war
1) US war games touch nerve in northern Philippine backwater. Remote islands could become front line in possible future conflict over Taiwan.
https://www.ft.com/content/08820f14-22d8-4e1a-8e91-139a47285624
https://archive.is/QCPFD
2) Australia overhauls defence strategy to respond to China’s build-up.
Government to strengthen northern bases and long-range strike capabilities for ‘missile age’ threats. Australia has unveiled the biggest strategic shift in its military posture since the second world war to adapt to China’s military build-up in the region and the “rise of the missile age”.
https://www.ft.com/content/cf8d6271-3008-46e6-ba55-66fb2deae115
https://archive.is/thUoS
3) Reports in Syria: Israel struck Hezbollah facility in Quneitra. Syrian media report that Israel attacked a military facility in Quneitra using artillery fire. […] The Syrian Ministry of Defense said that two people were killed in the attack.
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/370403
It seems like everyone is concerned about war.
The Covid Jabs Have Created Millions of Zombies
And I now believe that the millions who were jabbed are already showing signs of serious brain damage; their behaviour is often quite abnormal.
The other day, for example, I saw hundreds of people sitting on a sandy beach on a cloudy, windy, freezing cold day. The people were all wearing winter coats, hats and scarves and they were just sitting there, staring into space and doing nothing. Honest. It was scary. It was like something out of the Twilight Zone.
Look around and you too will see strange behaviour among those who were jabbed. Their brains have definitely been affected.
I believe that the promoters of the covid jabs knew that this would happen. The jabs have created millions of modern day, real life zombies.
https://vernoncoleman.org/articles/covid-jabs-have-created-millions-zombies
Technically speaking… a zombie is a reanimated corpse… but maybe we’re skipping the part where they have to die first and jumping straight to the shuffling corpse part… will they be eating brainz too?
A friend said, you don’t have to assume that! Hehehe!
The elites are satanists…they are followers of AIx, the demiurge, the God of this realm.
They can do to you what they wish as long as they tell you so first.
Why do you think there was a plethora of “Zombie” movies, series etc in the past decades?……
why do you think there has been a plethora of “Asteriod impact” movies
Best of all….the “Alien Invasion” movies
All the worlds a stage……..it really is
MESSAGE TO THE UNVACCINATED:
“Even if I were pollinated and fully vaccinated, I would admire the unvaccinated for withstanding the greatest pressure I have ever seen, even from partners, parents, children, friends, colleagues and doctors. People who were capable of such personality, courage and critical ability are undoubtedly the best of humanity.
They are everywhere, in all ages, levels of education, status and ideas. They are of a special kind; they are the soldiers that every army of light wants to have in its ranks. They are the parents that every child wants to have and the children that every parent dreams of having. They are beings above the average of their societies, they are the essence of the people who have built all cultures and conquered horizons. They are there, next to you, they look normal, but they are superheroes.
They did what others could not, they were the tree that withstood the hurricane of insults, discrimination and social exclusion. And they did it because they thought they were alone, and believed they were the only ones.
Banned from their families’ tables at Christmas, they never saw anything so cruel. They lost their jobs, let their careers sink, had no more money … but they didn’t care. They suffered immeasurable discrimination, denunciation, betrayal and humiliation … but they kept going.
Never before in humanity has there been such a “casting”, now we know who are the best on planet Earth. Women, men, old, young, rich, poor, of all races or religions, the unvaccinated, the chosen of the invisible ark, the only ones who managed to resist when everything collapsed.
That’s you, you passed an unimaginable test that many of the toughest Marines, Commandos, Green Berets, astronauts and geniuses could not withstand.
You are made of the stuff of the greatest who ever lived, those heroes born among ordinary men who glow in the dark.”
-Author unknown
I’m still confused as to why the head honchos would want to eliminate the most slavish human work units the world has ever seen leaving behind the most stubborn, independent types who are mostly onto their game.
Unless of course… their main objective was to reduce population by any means while adhering to one simple rule… the suckers had to offer themselves up voluntarily.
The stragglers will be dealt with later on by making them an offer they will not be able to refuse once their ability to survive and thrive on their own is severely impacted.
Having made the right choice won’t be much of an advantage in the end. They hold all the cards. They can turn off the power. They can starve the majority of people that remain… if they so wish.
There have been published some esoteric worries, that modern times led to a selection process that favoured the obedient, faint hearted. The honchos know that their superiour genes can only survive with the stubborn, querimonious kind.
I think, there are some sects, that are acting like the medicine man pretending to have the power to blackout the sun. The predicament is natural law as explained very convinvingly by Gail. Some people are abusing it by saying: Can you see, how powerful I am? Reenactment of the Revelation. One shouldn’t take that too seriously.
I am still not convinced the vaxx really caused massive harm. If Eddy’s Binary poison becones reality, that would be something!
In the end the vaxx is nothing compared to the challenges in front of us, if Gail is right!
Maybe not ‘massive harm’?
These spike proteins cross the blood brain barrier. . . . They have prion disease effects. We are going to see this in about a year and a half.
39:50: the outcomes of these prion diseases.
The data shows that it is a problem for both {the virus and particular the vaccine} ?
https://www.flemingmethod.com/select-videos
Sars covid2 and the vaccine have been shown to cause prion diseases: 0:27 in.
https://ceflix.org/videos/watch/1868362/2nd-highlight-the-dr-richard-fleming-interviews-covid-19-is-a-bioweapon
“We are ahead of schedule” {prion diseases etc}: 40 min. in. ?
https://rumble.com/v28wwqy-dr.-fleming-gain-of-function-should-be-our-focus-cancer-and-other-treatment.html
The odds gotta be on the binary poison theory … it ties together everything
In fact the past one thousand year of life in western Europe pacified in large part, the Caucasian populations. Medieval Manoralism was tailor made to shut down/minimize behavioural traits of disagreeableness and group traits like tribal cohesion. It also provided privileged position to certain middle eastern groups who helped with financial matters.
It is obvious everywhere in the western world….every excuse in the book not to do the obvious….which is to drape the intestines of the woke and the weak on every tree limb available.
The vacc just made it obvious….a great exposer of sheepleness.
Revelations merely shows that this has happened before.
The lack of action on the part of the attacked is remarkable.
I think because they want to create a new world order or (system) and they want to keep the rebels who reject the current system. (the reason they didn’t trust the officials)
I have thought deeply about this question.
just my .02
Correct. It’s common sense.
Your paragraph starting with “unless” offers the real explanation. No need to discuss it in detail, they have a simple and limited playbook. High school football teams have a much more complicated playbook. What you miss is the fact that numerous depopulation programs are pushed all at once, each contributing several percent or more. Veganism, feminist, and pederasty to name 3.
Jan offers useful pointers related to natural selection in agricultural societies. I add that the selection is aided by forcing certain foods on the population that makes them more docile. At the time of the Assyrian and Romans that was wheat, which releases opioid like peptides once digested. Already then it was forced on the population. Alcohol of course. In the last 200 years, sugar, an addictive substance. And in the last 100 years, seed oils. Official medicine lends a hand, promoting grain consumption, while also making a segment of the populace terrified of the idea of livinig without allopathic drugs.
I have not found it such a big deal … the only impact on me was not being able to go to restaurants — who gives a f789 about that.
I was unable to play summer hockey — but again who gives a f789.
As for being ostracized.. nah… I am the ostracizer… I seldom interact with MOREONS outside of the standard how’s it going … it’s difficult to have true friends when you have HP1500… that said Fast’s very good friend out of HK is arriving tomorrow… we see eye to eye on the injections.
A couple of friends pressured Fast to get on Team Vax and create herd immunity — HE told them to get f789ed. Friendships done — who gives a f789 about that
If you live life not giving much in the way of f789s… you’ll be a happy camper
The loans provided by China to other countries become a problem for China
https://www.trend.sk/nazory-a-komentare/najvacsi-veritel-sveta-chcel-ziskat-politicku-moc-ostalo-mu-mnozstvo-skysnutych-uverov
Everyone who has made loans will likely have problems with them. This includes the IMF as well as China.
SEVERE GEOMAGNETIC STORM IN PROGRESS: Arriving earlier than expected, a CME hit Earth’s magnetic field today, April 23rd, at 1737 UT. The impact sparked a severe G4-class geomagnetic storm with auroras in Europe sighted as far south as France. The storm is still going on and could produce auroras over the USA after nightfall.
https://spaceweather.com/
Spaceship earth doing its job.
Dennis L.
The report says that the storm is now subsiding.
that was not a severe anything……
it was m class
X class to be taken seriously
Carrington level X 40,…would destroy all modern grids
Charlemagne level (1800 times greater magnitude than Carrington……forget even wires surviving, but biology keeps ticking along
Micro nova dust shell impact……..beyond biblical,…..and extinction level for many biosphere components
These websites love to exaggerate.
Interestingly, I caught a cold at around the time the space weather event was impacting the atmosphere. I was working outside in the fresh air at the time. And that cold is subsiding now too.
And since I wasn’t close enough to anybody catch a cold from coughs and sneezes, I can’t help wondering where it was a reaction to getting zapped.
Or did my body just decide it was time to flush out some exosomes?
Would an intelligent species do this
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/hamilton-youth-huffing-deodorant-in-laundromat-machines/LVTYV75FOJGQXPDG43FXMMDWBA/
Turbo Cancer Update:
Friend of my brother – 54 year old – no health issues — pancreatic cancer spread to liver – 4 months to live. While getting chemo – hit by a series of strokes… doctor shocked as he’s never seen anything like this in a healthy person.
Yes – but he’s had all the boosters… so he’s not healthy is he.
He’s F789ed. He’ll fester for a few months then gonzo’ed.
Bye bye… at least he won’t starve
Try this norm – you might be granted fame https://t.me/downtherabbitholewegofolks/74954
Pre-Mad Max https://t.me/leaklive/13770
Impressive!
https://twitter.com/abridgen/status/1650114574614511617
Response:
Tony Kerridge
@KerridgeTony
Covid. Known to cause blood clots. Many young people caught Covid, and were also back of the queue for vaccines.
Gina
@Saffiya_Khan1
No, it’s primarily repeated SARSCoV2 infections
We know repeated infections can increase the risk of heart attacks, strokes & blood clots
John Bush
@abazoo_
I would say COVID but it doesn’t start until after vaccination started, so it can’t be COVID.
MORE BOOSTERS!!! Right norm?
I wish them all great harm… stooopid people deserve great harm
A gift for norm (who hates tommy for some reason) https://t.me/TommyRobinsonNews/47162
hate consumes the hater–most adults know that.
thats why i dont do it
robbo has a violent criminal record, and has done jailtime to prove it.
admiring him reveals only yourself eddy—not me
A COMMUNITY CATCH UP….
Dear friends
as we almost come to the end of April 2023, over 3 years since the start of the “covid pandemic”…
You are invited to share where your life is at now
Is Covid madness a thing of the past for you?
Have you shelved it all and just moved on and back into your pre pandemic life?
Are you changed forever?
Are you living with vaccine injury or jobless due to mandates (yes we still have them)?
Do you feel strenthened and more resilient from the horrors you have endured?
Or are you living with PTSD like symptoms and wondering if you will ever be the same again ?
This is your space to share honestly and to support each other
Should I inform them that the global economy is about to collapse and that Phase Two is going exterminate 6B – and the unvaxxed starve (will leave out the ponds)
And that I am thrilled…
Sudan https://t.me/TommyRobinsonNews/47161
Yes, the Kazari mafia trying to drive a Russian naval base out of Sudan.
Fast Eddy, my impression is that the commentator of the video is correct.
The only newspaper talking about this I found was Jerusalem Post
(in Sudan) ”Western powers fear the potential for a Russian base on the Red Sea, which Sudanese military leaders have expressed openness to.”
https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-739511
(ABC)
”Sudan military finishes review of Russian Red Sea base deal
Two officials say Sudan’s ruling military has concluded a review of an agreement with Russia to build a navy base on the Red Sea in the African country”
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/sudan-military-finishes-review-russian-red-sea-base-97055665
Mass D
https://t.me/downtherabbitholewegofolks/74917
https://t.me/downtherabbitholewegofolks/74931
https://t.me/downtherabbitholewegofolks/74943
Trying to get a Green Grooopie to understand this … is like trying to explain to norm that he is poisoning himself with no upside
https://t.me/c/1588731774/17438
I was discussing the vaxx with a Ukrainian on our hobbyist forum. He lives in Zaporizhzhia. He messaged me:
“For me, there are certain facts. The first is that the financial crisis in the world has led to the invention of a fantastic scam called “coronavirus” and this is global finance of the highest level and not medicine. In addition, this is the study of experiments on managing people and countries. Technologies of population and depopulation. My friend in Germany, after being vaccinated with “modern”, received bleeding that did not stop for three months in the form of menstruation. She lost weight and weakened, and turned to a German doctor, who directly told her – this is after an injection with a vaccine and you are not the first.”
The Rat Juice is formulated to weaken the MOREONS…the spike enters the cells and sucks up all the key elements leaving the body in a fragile state https://hiddencomplexity.substack.com/p/galectin-3-causes-cd8-dysfunction
It also causes ADE – so that when they will hit the MOREONS with Phase Two of the Binary Poison (contained in the cannisters)… the defences of the MOREONS do not function …
And that deadly Covid virus (which was essentially the flu) that everyone was told was going to kill all of us – but didn’t… and was used to convince 6B to inject the rat juice….
Well … that’s gonna come true…
The MOREONS will be dying in droves — and saying SEE! We told you so… it was deadly …too many people refused to get the boosters or vaxxed… and SEE what has happened!!!
And the vaxxers will look at these pathetic dying MOREONS and say ….
I feel great! (this is before they realize that they are about to starve to death)
eddy
i notice that your recent particularly obscene comment (quite rightly) has been quickly deleted.
9.10 am NZ time I think
you really got your lav atory wall pen out for that outburst—but i suppose you imagine it will impress a certain class of reader?
As i said in my reply—god help your RL situation, if you only possess the intellect for that level of garbage
You mean the one detailing how you first hooked up with SSS?
Why would that be deleted? Is SSS real? Did she complain?
I always intended her to be metaphorical… if ya know what I mean
sufficient to say it was quickly deleted
But it was such a romantic tale… glad you had the opportunity to enjoy it before the deletion
oh i did—i did eddy
nothing like a revelatory comment to confirm what i already know about you
mine don’t get deleted—my writing can be found in places other than la vatory walls
lol—is that your quickest bit of wit eddy?
Another skoolyard wall word? poo???—wow—how original. lololololol.
needs more work if i may say so. Most children grow out of writing words like that on walls (most—not all)
you havent mentioned your criminal hero robbo lately—or has he gone back inside?
(for trying to save the children—lol)
ADE = Adverse drug event?
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34656289/
Antibody dependent excitement!
I’ve changed my mind on supplements. I do have a supplement to recommend. Excess fibrin production in the uterus causes the uterine fibroids that often (always?) are the cause of menstrual bleeding that doesn’t stop. Nevermind the product placement Ivan:
https://www.endovan.com/fibroids/overview
I’ll tell my Ukrainian friend.
I didn’t look at all at the product itself and I don’t know how broad of an application it might have beyond the uterine lining but it might be an avenue worth exploring for the vaxxed if these kinds of supplements aren’t hard on the system.
So to be clear I was being facetious about the recommendation. Just referencing me and Timmy’s apparent norm and Eddy routine. But I am serious about fibrotic disease clearly being central to the panoply of systemic vaxx reactions. And let’s not forget the role that 5G has in fibrotic disease as we discovered in the literature a few months ago. Lots of young women carry their phones in the front and back pockets or waistbands of their skintight pants. Airplane mode is their forgotten friend.
postkey out in the heavy brush. good man(?). I have my doubts that a 60-something man could last ten minutes in a fight in the hallway with a six foot seven contract killer. And have my doubts that a contract killer on assignment would have hair hanging down to his waist. FWIW. That said, having tried and failed to break up a fight between two full-grown Anatolian Shepherds and come away with some nice puncture wounds, sometimes what’s probably more like one minute can feel like ten. The fight only ended when the mellower male got ahold of the back of the female’s collar and choked her out with all three of us dogpiledbon top of each other.
I actually started the fight. They were still young adults and it was the first time I killed a sheep in front of them. Felt like she was ready for it but I was wrong. She couldn’t attack me of course so she attacked her brother and the sheep was flailing around with a cut throat while the three of us went to war. Now she doesn’t bat an eye when I kill a sheep because she understands the operation now. I did ease her back into it!
sorry that was meant to be under postkey’s comment below regarding SVB.
FE supplementation regime:
– zinc
– C
– D
– various organic powders containing (kelp chlorella LSP + P berries etc) mixed in with Chia in the morning + coconut water + mixed unsalted nuts + a sliced up organic apple/banana + protein powder
– lunch >>> veg/salad with some from of protein (usually chicken or fish) –
– dinner same — once/twice per week portion of red meat — heavy heavy heavy on organic salads during growing season
– organic organic organic where possible – if not soaked in baking soda + water to remove the poison
– 2 coffees per day 5g of sugar each
– average two alcoholic drinks/week
– no sugared drinks no fruit juice – ever. no junk food – ever. dessert – maybe once/month
– restaurant food – never fast food (never) – maybe twice per month
– snack.. no need just a sniff of Bolivian Blow — very effective in cancelling hunger.
Eddy you poor fellow. Red meat yum yum yum. Alcoholic drinks good and good for you. Cut the sugar in the coffee. Sugar is cancer fertilizer.
Almost forgot .. no Rat Juice. Never
I am worried about norm shedding on OFW though
Excess fibrin is easily dealt with some prolonged fasting. If you really want to help your body, high nattokinase natto (easily produced at home, ten times the NK of commercial natto) is the best homemade supplement, but anything containing protease enzymes (pineapple for example) will do.
Yeah I imagine the extra can be mopped up as is created but the sensitive dynamical tissues that have already been structurally compromised (myocardium, uterine lining, subretinal tissue,etc) by a months-long or years-long runaway CAF complex (cancer-associated fibroblastic tissue complexes) are going to be more intractable. My feeling is that’s going to be a longer process requiring more than one prolonged water fast and some serious nutrient loading in between.